The David Knight Show - Thu Episode #2073: EV Myths & Housing Bubbles: The Controlled Demolition of the American Dream

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

01:13:28 – EV Hype DeflatesHigh truck prices and waning EV demand lead to a critique of electrification promises; real‑world costs and usability concerns dominate. 01:25:32 – Musk & War TechA segment links Silicon Valley glamor to battlefield applications and even synthetic engine noise —mocking techno‑theatrics over substance. 01:36:47 – German Migration RealityReport on German schools highlights language barriers and integration failures, framed as proof elites ignore practical limits of mass migration. 01:50:44 – Homeownership SqueezeRising property taxes, insurance, and repair costs are presented as a quiet squeeze pushing families out of owning homes. 02:00:49 – American Dream RationedA mid‑show reflection on wealth concentration and mobility asks whether the “dream” is increasingly inaccessible to ordinary workers. 02:36:12 – Fed Policy & BRICS GrowthTony Arterburn critiques Trump’s push to increase the money supply, arguing it creates temporary booms but long-term inflation and instability. He warns that U.S. tariff threats are driving nations like India closer to China and strengthening BRICS alliances. 02:42:12 – Russia Adds Silver to ReservesRussia’s move to classify silver as a strategic reserve asset is called one of the most significant silver stories in 50 years, signaling a global shift toward commodities over fiat currencies. 02:46:47 – Housing Market BubbleDiscussion on how post-COVID liquidity and corporate purchases of real estate, especially by BlackRock, have kept housing prices artificially high and priced out many Americans. 03:00:41 – Income Tax as Control MechanismTony asserts that the income tax was designed by elites to cement their dominance and prevent competition, dismissing political promises to dismantle the IRS as empty rhetoric. 03:18:10 – Tariff History & Trump’s Economic NationalismDiscussion of Trump sharing a Peter Navarro video praising historical tariff advocates like Hamilton and Clay, followed by critiques that tariffs in a de-industrialized America amount to a hidden tax on consumers. 03:27:57 – Tariffs as a Tax on AmericansCommentary stresses that with weak domestic manufacturing, tariffs raise costs on essential goods like cars and appliances, punishing citizens rather than foreign producers. 03:33:23 – Trump’s Corporate Tax for DemocratsMark Cuban praises Trump for imposing a 15% revenue skim on NVIDIA and AMD chip sales to China—framed as a “progressive dream tax”—while critics note it violates constitutional limits on export duties. 03:47:14 – Swiss F-35 Deal at RiskAnalysis of how Trump’s steep 39% tariff on Switzerland may backfire by prompting the Swiss to cancel a $7.5 billion F-35 order, worsening the U.S. trade deficit. 03:55:05 – Ukraine Summit & False Flag FearsTrump warns Putin of “severe consequences” if the Ukraine war continues; Russian officials accuse Kyiv of plotting a provocation to derail upcoming peace talks. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

In the world of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act it's the david night show as the clock strikes 13 it's thursday the 14th of august year of our lord 2025 we're going to look at what's going on with the auto industry from tariffs killing japanese automakers profits and the waning interest in e vs then we're going to look at the ai technocracy and how they're doing their part to push the own nothing and be happy agenda. Today, of course, we're talking with Tony Arderburn, so stay with us. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the show.

Hope you're all having a good day so far. As I said, we're going to start with the Japanese automakers. But first I want to say thank you to Brandon Bennett on Rumble. Thank you very much, Brandon. He says, glory to God, amen. And Kahn Think, thank you very much for that. as well. He says, God is faithful. Yes, he is. Really do appreciate the support. We can't thank you enough. I'm going to look at Japanese automakers. This is from Zero Hedge. It says

Japanese automakers losing $20 million per day to U.S. tariffs. 20 million per day. They're going to have to raise prices or go out of business. They cannot support that kind of daily loss. Japanese automakers are losing an estimated $3 billion, $20.3 million. million in combined profits every day. The U.S. delays lowering auto tariffs, according to company data. The full year hit from the duties project at $2.7 trillion in, $18.3 billion, dragging aggregate opening profits down 36% for six major producers, excluding Nissan, which is not given a forecast. The U.S. raised tariffs on Japanese vehicles to 27.5% from 2.5% in April, but agreed last month to cut the rate to 15%. Each month of delay adds roughly 100 billion yen to automakers' burden,

Niki reports. Of course, it was Nissan. We looked at last month, maybe the month before, where they had stopped manufacturing or dropped a lot of manufacturing here in the U.S. I'm curious to know if it had anything to do with the tariffs that were being talked about, if they just saw this as a bad market. What we're going to get priced out, part of the reason people buy our cars is they're fairly affordable, and if they're not a affordable anymore. There's no reason to keep manufacturing them there in the U.S. Mazda, which gets about one-third of its sales from the U.S., expected an 82% drop in net profit, assuming the lower rate would start August 1st.

Further delays could push it into the red. Subaru with 70% of its sales in the U.S. forecast a 210 billion yen hit and a 51% drop in operating profit to 200 billion yen. Of course, they're still making... money, but they're taking a massive hit. In July, Toyota raised US prices by an average $270, citing the improved performance of the vehicles rather than the tariffs. Of course, they're not going to say it's just the tariffs. They're going to want to say you're getting some kind of value for the money. They don't want to sit there and just go, well, you're not getting anything else. It's simply because everything is more expensive and you're going to have to deal

with it. You're not going to want to admit that. We're going to want to come up with something. oh actually we've given you two more horsepower we've tweaked something and so now the car runs slightly more efficiently Toyota's accounting group said there could be further hikes if there's an appropriate time when customers can accept them price hikes carry risks a rush a pre-hike buying may slow sales later higher prices could weaken competitiveness all things that are just obvious on the face of things when you look at what tariffs do if prices can't fully offset the duties, automakers must cut costs. Toyota expects savings, higher sales, volume, and a better model mix to add 895.5 billion yen to operating profit.

Now, this is what they're hoping for, but there's no telling if Trump will raise tariffs again. Now, this one, Toyota wants to use its new gas engines for everything. Toyota is still working to gas engines more efficient. Despite the fact that these people in power want to push nothing but EVs, Toyota's working on a better gas engine. This is, it's funny. The government's continually trying to engineer society and engineer problems that should be unsolvable, and the Japanese just buckle down and say, well, I think I can solve that anyway. In all their wickedness, the government could not conceive of the humble genius of the Japanese salary man. These regulations were meant to kill the cars, not actually be met by the engineers.

They could not fathom that someone might just buckle down and work 100 hours a week until they figure out a solution to the problem. So it is adamant that the internal combustion engine, ice, still has a bright future despite the rise of electric vehicles. The world's largest car maker has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to ice by partnering, again internal combustion engine by partnering with fellow Japanese brand Subaru and Mazda on a new family of gas

engines. Smaller and lighter four cylinder units are touted as a game-changer solution by the company's chief technology officer. The Japanese automotive giant plans to use the upcoming 1.5 and 2.0 liter engines in nearly every conceivable type of power train. We're

trying to optimize the new engine for any type of application, whether it's electric hybrid or hydrogen. They're doing their best. They're working at it. Maybe one day will be free of the climate McGuffin. Simply thanks to the fact that these politicians won't be able to outthink these Japanese engineers.

Climate McGuffin may meet its match. And they can always regulate it, no matter how great the gas mileage may be. And we're like, you know what? All right, fine, we lied. The climate's fine. fine, but you still can't have cars. You got us. You got us. The Japanese outfoxed us. They made an engine that technically meets all of our standards, but guess what? You don't get it

anyway. Well, the idea of a gas engine and electric application might sound odd. A plausible scenario exists. Toyota is likely referring to extended range electric vehicles, e-reves, or the combustion engine doesn't drive the wheels, but instead serves solely as a generator to recharge the battery on the go. The setup allows the engine to run an optimal speeds for maximum efficiency. Examples include the BMW I3 Rex, the RAM charger, Mazda MX30, scouts upcoming truck and

SUV and Nissan's models equipped with E-power tech. Toyota's already announced plans to sell extended range electric vehicles in China. Of course, we see all over the West, politicians still demand zero emissions. No, we've got to get

to net zero. No emissions at all. If your car produces anything, You can't have it. We're going to take it away. And the extended range electric vehicles is actually the one logical way of making a, quote-unquote, electric vehicle where you've got a generator on board to charge your batteries that you can feed gasoline. And the generator can produce enough electricity to run the motors. Of course. I'm not intrinsically opposed to the idea of even a fully electric vehicle. the mandate of it. It's the pushing of it. It's the fact they're going to use it as ways to

get us all onto those things. I think if someone wants an electric vehicle and they go in with their eyes open, knowing the dangers and knowing the likely costs, sure, go for it. Buy yourself that Tesla or any other electric vehicle that may combust while you're asleep and burn your house down. Sure, if that's what you want, I suppose, go for it. I just don't appreciate the push towards forcing us all into them. I'll have a comment here from Dan. He says it will have a head-on collision with net zero. It also points out just like the Chevy Volt that Eric has mentioned is the good electric car.

Eric Peters thinks the Chevy Volt is the best example of an electric vehicle. Toyota achieved 41% thermal efficiency back in 2018 and could be aiming to improve that figure further. Its next generation engines will run not only on fossil fuels but also in biofuel, hydrogen, and synthetic fuel. Beyond full hybrids and EREVs, Toyota is also exploring a long-range plug-in hybrids with Carlucci, estimating that 62 miles without sipping any gasoline represents the tipping point.

Everybody has taken an ice platform and turned it into something that is electrified to some degree, so why not conceive a platform that is EV-native and see how much we can adapt it to be used for a plug-in hybrid or a full hybrid without sacrificing any of the new platform's strengths? Much like Toyota chairman, Akio Toyota, who has famously said EVs will never exceed a 30% market share. Carlucci maintains that electric cars are not the sole path to decarbonization. He argues for power-trained diversity giving customers the freedom to choose, we will not push EVs and markets where there is no demand.

Instead of decarbonization, we need a depolitization of these issues. Ford GM EV pickup trucks lose drivers over price and range. If the price is too high, the range is too low. Of course, if you're actually using it as a truck, if you're trying to tow something, haul something loaded up and carry things around, it kills the range even further. It makes it borderline unusable. If you're actually trying to utilize it for what it ostensibly is for, it doesn't work. It's nothing but a status symbol. People that are buying cyber trucks to use with their businesses are finding out that, well, actually, it's more of a billboard than anything else. Perhaps

it's eye-catching. Perhaps if you wrap it in your company logo, go, people look at it and go, huh, interesting. But it's not good for hauling tools around. You're not going to send this off to Home Depot for more supplies and bring it back. Not giving up entirely just yet. This week, Ford announced plans to build a mid-sized electric pickup priced around $30,000, starting in 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky. And of course, one of the issues is that the prices on trucks have gone through the roof in general. They've become not just the, not just the cyber truck, but a lot of them have become status symbols. They have ridiculously bloated the price on these things. You look at them and starting out, I think it's like $70,000 for

some of the mid-range trucks. I haven't personally ever wanted a truck, but just looking around, you see them just like this is absolutely nuts this is supposed to be so people can get work done around the farm get work done around the house or perhaps you know small business and it's utterly bank breaking the company's hope is that the relatively lower price point will help revive lagging plug-in truck sales but many drivers say there are other drawbacks besides price and of course Eric Peters has pointed out the flaws in electric vehicles for years. You can go check out his website, eP autos.com.

He does great work, not just uncovering cars, but freedom in general. Jim Weber, whose Columbus, Ohio-based mulch company relies on a fleet of about 100 pickups, mostly fords to get the job done, says he tried a demo of a Ford F-150 Lightning Evie pickup truck six months ago to see if it could handle like a work truck. loaded up for a long day, the plug-in got far less than its rate at 320 miles on a charge, he says. During peak season, we're running 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the Ohio mulch company owner says. Then you go through the hills in Kentucky and Cincinnati. There's just no way electric trucks have the capacity.

The people who buy trucks often use them to haul things, whether it's a commercial payload or a boat to the lake. And drivers say many electric versions just aren't up for the task. Even owners who don't put them to work, love the throaty growl of a V8 engine. And of course, a lot of electric car companies have started putting in speakers that will play engine noises when you rev them because they realize that there is something about hearing the engine roar when you hit the gas. There's something it adds to the experience. But I also feel like having it be piped in through speakers kind of cheapens the experience. like knowing that it's fake kind of ruins it's just like ah this is some kind of imitation this is you knew you wanted it but instead of actually getting the thing that would give it to you you bought something else and imitated it it's it's kind of the reason i feel like you know fake

designer stuff is uh looked down on it's not the fact that you know it's a knockoff it's the fact that you wanted to show off, but didn't quite get the real thing, you know. Reservation numbers looked red hot. Tesla claimed $1 million for its truck, and Ford said it received more than $200,000. Automakers may have mistaken that initial excitement for real demand and added production to fast. Word of mouth killed these things. People were real excited. Oh, yeah. They put in their pre-order, and then people started getting them. and people started realizing, oh, wait, I've been swindled, I've been had. These things aren't living up to the promises.

I don't think I'm going to pick mine up. I think I might cancel my pre-order. If they'd been able to roll these out all at once, deliver all of the one million at the beginning, they would have at least been able to get those one million people. But chances are that we know that's not nearly what happened. KWD 68. I saw a lady last week in a 99 accord. It looked excellent. I asked her the mileage and she said 55,000. She said it was her uncles. That's a car to have. I'm not buying new. The 99 and 98 Accords and civics are some of the most reliable cars that have ever existed. They have been on the road since then and some of them are just bulletproof, indestructible. You'll still see them rolling around. Whether they're in mint condition or border. line rusted out. They're still out there and they're still going strong. They're one of those

few models of cars that just keep on kicking no matter what you do to them. Big Brit is back again. Engines and cars are very expensive due to overengineering that fails. Yeah, they put on so many regulations and restrictions they have to put all kinds of things into them. Brandon Bennett, if they meet the efficiency standards, they will just shift it to noise level. Your car is too loud. I'm sorry, fellows. but you're just too darn loud. Big Brit is back again. I watched the first...

I think it means, like, you know, level that's in the noise in terms of output. Perhaps. I watched the first AI car race a couple years ago. They were going really slow and nearly all crashed.

I'm sure that was at least entertaining. KWD68, does a pickup truck really need massaging seats, leather interior, panoramic sunroof, etc? I don't think it does. I think if you're buying a pickup

truck. Generally speaking, it used to be that, as I said, it was for work, but now they become status symbols, like the SUV was before it. Yeah, it's not just the government regulation. It's also all the nonsense they add on top of it turning it into as Eric Peter Sculls said a device. Look, you can cart the kids around in this. You can do all this kind of things. Don't you want people to know how wealthy you are? You can buy this $100,000 pickup truck. It's why that Slate Automotive is interesting since they're doing super bare bones $20,000 pickup truck. It's going back to what pickup trucks actually used to be about, being affordable work vehicles, things you could actually buy to utilize. I don't think the average person is going to buy a $100,000 truck and then feel comfortable beating it up around on the farm.

Or the slate vehicles electric, I forget. I don't remember. EV trucks while sporting lower emissions are generally costlier than gasoline-fueled options. GM-based model electric Chevy Silverado work truck starts at $55,000. The base model electric, which probably means it's a piece of junk and doesn't go very far. and is rated at 286 miles of driving on a charge. That's 286 miles unloaded. That's with nothing in the bed.

Once you start loading that up, as we've talked about, it is going to drop precipitously. The more expensive EVs can go farther. The cheapest gasoline version starts around $37,000, and it can drive about 450 miles on a tank. Then there are the politics, about two-thirds of full-sized truck buyers. lean right politically.

Strategic Vision says, and consumer research shows that Republicans are less interested in EVs than their lefty counterparts. Once again, people on the right showing more common sense, except for the fact they did kind of get suckered by Musk for a bit. In Fort Worth, Texas, Highley-Bewick GMC has the Hummer, EV and Sierra electric pickups on offer. Owner Randy Highley says he sells just the,

three or four a month. His dealership often lowers the price on the Sierra EV, losing a little money to move them. It's just not cool to have an electric truck in Cowtown. The SierraEV is one of the finest trucks I ever sat in. Remember where we are. Look at what he says there, though. It's one of the finest trucks I ever sat in. It's probably got some very nice amenities.

The AC probably blows real cold. Maybe the seats are extra comfy. This isn't... He's not talking about, yeah, it hauls real good. It has a towing capacity that's unmatched. Nah, it's one of the finest trucks I ever sat in. It cradles me real nice. Boy, is it comfortable.

It's not cool to have an electric truck in Cowtown. Maybe it doesn't do the things these people need. Perhaps, being the owner of a dealership, you're a bit out of touch with what these people actually want in a vehicle. buying an EV is a political statement highly says it just is of course this is because the government has kind of politicized this they're the ones that have been putting these mandates out they're the ones that have been demanding these standards making it more and more difficult for these other companies to produce cars it's not the customers that politicized it

KWD68, a neighbor bought an electric Chevy Blazer Should be fun pulling him out of the ditches this winter If he makes it that far Yeah, it's another thing about trucks is If you're getting them as a work vehicle You'll need it to run long hours in the winter as well Which, you know, even cold weather will kill these things battery Yeah

He's going to have to have that on a trickle charger most likely He's going to be in for a bad time If he doesn't drive it for a while they're just they logistically do not make sense for certain portions of the population at all I think they're probably a bad deal for anyone but for certain people electric vehicles are just off the table electric trucks as we've seen just they do not work on a conceptual level with the technology we have available today they just don't provide a good value for money If you have to do a lot of driving, if you're someone who works in construction and is hauling things back and forth a lot, it's just not feasible.

There's a level of anxiety here because we've been down for two and a half years, said David Michaels, chairman of the GM unit of United Auto Workers, Local 5960 and Orion. I believe in the EV, but we want to be versatile. A lot of our members transferred to factory zero and they want to come home. well as my dad said those who live by government fiat demands die by government fiat demands and we're seeing that here well that's that's our segment on EVs for today they're still not there yet they're overpriced they underdeliver and they don't have a nice engine sound also of course your Tesla autopilot may try to kill you so not quite a value proposition that I would endorse, but hey, who am I? Now we're going to look at what's going on in the U.K. and with Sadiq Khan. Sadiq Khan's road charges will see thousands pay 4,410 pounds, and that's about $5,650.

Extra as motorist brace for tougher rules. Sadiq Khan's plan to scrap electric car exemptions and raise the control. congestion charge, 18 pounds. We'll see some London drivers paying up to that 4,410 pounds, $5,650 more each year. Of course, he's just looking to get people out of the cars. He doesn't want cars at all. This is part of the 15-minute city project. Well, if we just raise the cost on cars through the roof,

if we make it so driving is so inordinately expensive, eventually most of the people will be forced to give it up and here we have the problem with the whole oh well the Japanese engineers will just come up with super efficient engines to meet their standards what if we just tax you for driving yeah I mean they're adding in the taxes on EVs which you know they pressured people to get EVs with these taxes

and this of course being Sadiq Khan the trader to the UK he should not hold office, but sadly he does. Big Brit is back again. U.S. military is using Tesla trucks to test battlefield weapons. Musk loves that, yeah. I'm sure it's going to be great when you're rolling through the battlefield and have to stop and charge for an extended period of time. I'm sure that the applications for it are numerous. You're going to be in the lush jungles and have to sit there and find your nearest charging port. That'll be great. KWD 68 if the Dodge Charger will put the Jetsons car sound on the speaker, I'll consider it.

That's the little woo-bo-bo-bo-bo-woo, right? If memory serves, I haven't seen the Jetsons in so many years that. However, that would be pretty good. If these guys had a sense of humor about it, but sadly, they don't. The financial windfall will primarily come from removing the current exemption for electric vehicles and raising the daily charge by 20%. 20%. Of course, this was never about zero emissions. It's about zero private cars, as I said. This is about making sure that no one can afford to own a car, no one can afford to drive anywhere.

These changes mark a significant policy shift that will particularly affect thousands of motorists who have invested in electric vehicles in the capital to help support the government's ambitious zero-emission vehicle mandate. Just because you're a good little quiz. someone that goes along with it and does whatever you're told doesn't mean they're not going to screw you over too these people hate everyone they may even hate the people that go along with them more than anyone else they may despise them more simply because you know they know what they're doing they know what they're doing is to hurt people and they may instinctively have some kind of revulsion to people that roll over and die about it gardener goldsmith says who could

imagine that an EV line wouldn't sell. I'm shocked. Pun intended. First, the sales were electrifying. The numbers were charged. They were all getting juiced. But sadly, it petered out. And now they're all shocked, just like Guard is. Big Brit is back again. These new expensive EVs are losing 50% of the original value in just a year. Yeah, they don't hold value at all, just like they don't hold the charge. And of course, these suckers are now going to be paying more in the UK. But I did what you said. I got the EV. I'm following the mandate. I'm trying to save the climate. Well, that's too bad. Sorry. I'm going to have to tax you more anyway. The exemption for battery powered and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has been in place since October 2021 when it replaced a

broader discount that previously included hybrid vehicles. Of course, this is a sort of boiling the frogs deal that they did. So they're only going to tax the internal combustion engines and hybrids. You'll get a, well, hybrids get a discount. Going to kill the hybrid discount, of course, raise the internal combustion engine fees. No fee for the EVs at that point. Then, of course, they basically get rid of hybrids. Hybrids have kind of kind of disappeared. That's why Toyota is still working on them, trying to bring them back. They'll get rid of the internal combustion engines as much as they can, and then they're going to charge the EVs like we're seeing in London.

And then eventually just prohibit all cars. That's how they do it. Big Brit is back again, says they add lane assist, auto brake, and swerve, and all their kinds of electronic assists that added massively to the price and even more the price even more on basic cars. Yeah, they load them up

with these nonsense electronics systems that are mostly just a nuisance. They just annoy you. Hey, you're getting a little bit close to the shoulder of the road.

How would you like it if I beeped at you and made an obnoxious dinging sound? How would you like it if I kind of jiggled the steering wheel at you? I wouldn't please stop doing that.

Posano Avanti 1776. The Chevy Volt is a great solution. in gas. Toyota currently makes the Prius Prime. Like the Chevy Volt, it is a plug-in gas-powered hybrid system. The Prius Prime can go 44 miles on battery power and then use gas for the hybrid system. Thus, range is no problem. Toyota, the Prius, it's been ugliest sin its entire life, but it has actually been a fairly decent car. Sadly, sadly enough, despite being one of the ugliest vehicles ever made. Well, this system of having a battery and a generator just makes the most sense. It's a small battery, so it's not a huge percentage of the car's price, or at least it shouldn't be. It still

winds up being a pretty big percentage. And you've got unlimited range. You can fill it up in the amount of time it takes to fill up a normal car. And you've got 45, 50 miles of range that is going to cover most of your day-to-day driving. Well, that was our EV segment. That was what's going on in the land of make-believe. I'm going to transition now. This article is from Zero Heads. Zero Hedge.

And, of course, I mean transition to a new topic. Birth rate among refugee women in Austria nearly triple that of native-born Austrians. This is the demographic great replacement. they're trying if they can't since they're not allowed to commit full-on genocides in most western nations anymore people don't like it they get upset about it they figure well what if we can get you to stop having kids and then import a different population that has children well that'll eventually solve the problem new figures show that women from syria Afghanistan and Iraq living in austria have an average birth rate almost three times higher than that of austrian born women. Report finds that Austrian-born women have an average of 1.22 children. Among women not born in Australia, in Austria, the figure rises to 1.57. And of course, 1.57 is still dying out. 1.22,

dying out a little bit faster. Those born in the former Yugoslavia average 1.94 children, while Turkish-born women have 1.8 children. The highest rates are found among Syrian Afghan and Iraqi women who average 3.3 children each. You have to have about 2.1 to reach replacement rate. At CPAC, Hungary in May, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Herbert Kickel, claimed that mass immigration to Europe is an agenda that is organized as a consciously controlled ethnic and cultural transformation. And it is. As I've continually said, population groups are not interchangeable. if you were to pick up the entire population of Japan and switch it with

let's say the Philippines they might be of roughly the same size and you know population density they would immediately change they wouldn't the people from the Philippines wouldn't immediately become Japanese simply by living on that soil so to clarify I think it's 2.5 for a couple and they're talking about per woman they're getting 1.8, so, you know, there would be 2.6 on average per couple, I assume, so they would be just at the, or just above the replacement line. I don't believe so.

Okay. I don't think that's how they're doing the mass since, yeah, but, yeah, population groups are not interchangeable. You cannot import an endless number of people that don't share your values and keep your country. It simply becomes wherever they came from. What is happening in Europe is no coincidence. It is the result of an agenda. A consciously controlled ethnic and cultural transformation. Migration is not being stopped.

It is being organized, promoted, and glorified. And we see that continually. We continually are beat over the head with this idea that we have to accept these people. that they have some kind of right to live here, that if we don't let them in, we're evil and wicked, that if we care about keeping our country and the values that it was founded upon, we're bad. A new generation with a growing Muslim population

is having a profound effect in Austria, particularly in education in October 2024. Federal data revealed that more than three quarters of students in Vienna middle schools do not speak German at home, putting pressure on an education system designed for single language learning. It makes everything more difficult. You see that here in the United States

where they have to put up road signs in different languages. You see it? We talked about the Haitian immigrants causing all kinds of damage up where they're living and having to have to hire someone that spoke Haitian to come in

and actually give them lessons because they didn't bother to learn English. Because they're not bothering to learn English. Oh, we'll just put up road science in Haitian. Sure. Survey at the same time with the local teachers union at some of Vienna's 100 compulsory schools revealed that

not only systematic issues like language barriers, but also extreme incidents including assaults on teachers, situations where patients of school, parents of school children asked a teacher to wear a burqa, and even the presence of mock executions. That wonderful

Muslim influence. That wonderful. Islamic culture. that we're so desperate to import here, and of course the population of Muslims is growing by a leaps and bounds down in Texas. It's not just happening in Minnesota anymore. We're getting enclaves in Texas as well. It has led to teachers leaving their profession, 20 a day on average in 2024, and other educators speaking out on the rapid Islamization of the Austrian

capital. Islam is changing our society in ways we do not want to long-time principal of a Vienna Middle School. Christian Clare. A December 2024 report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution also unveiled disturbing trends in the Islamist radicalization of young girls in Upper Austria. To mitigate the strain that mass immigration is having on schools, education minister Christoph Wierdeker announced in March orientation class it's designed to prepare migrant children for the Austrian school environment. I'm sure that all have the desired effect. Yeah, if we just give them a few orientation classes, I'm sure they'll immediately become Germans. They'll become Austrians. That's what we need to do. That was simply

the problem. They weren't given orientation classes. It's not that they're from a different people group with different values. I have different cultural mindsets. No, no, no. It's simply that they weren't orientated properly. He noted many of these students, not only do not speak any German, but are also unfamiliar with basic literacy and numeracy. Some have never held a pen or followed structured school rules. Many failed to show respect for female teachers due to cultural differences. Of course, we can't have enough of them.

We need more. We can't have enough low-skilled, low- IQ workers to fill the factories. Don't frag me, bro, says the Chevy Volt has as much computer coding as an airliner, blue screen of death waiting to happen. Oh no. My computer got, my car got a virus. AFD is now Germany's most popular parties, says a poll. And the real question is, is this really a surprise to anyone? After reading what we just did, how bad immigration is getting on that side of the world?

Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in national polling And support for Chancellor Mertz's ruling coalition hits a record low But the dying establishment is still thinking about maybe making AFD illegal Maybe there's a way we can get around this The coalition nearing its 100-day mark this Wednesday approval for Mertz has sunk to 29% The lowest census election in May while discontent has climbed to 67%. The Germans aren't happy. To be fair,

Germans usually don't seem to be happy. Since taking office, Mertz has adopted a hardline stance towards Russia, recently pledging an additional $5 billion, the $5.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine. And, of course, all these parties offer, all people like Mertz offer, is endless war, endless debt, and demographic and cultural suicide.

That's all. It's no wonder that people are looking for any sort of way out of that, any other alternative. They can't. They realize that they can't sustain this, that this isn't something they can work with, that they need to get out. We're going to take a quick break.

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an incredible blessing. We really do appreciate it. Don't frag me, bro, says it is already a finable offense in most of Kami-Fornia to work on your car and your own drive. way, cities and HOAs. H-O-As are continually filled up with the worst type of human being imaginable. The powerless busy body that invents a power structure for themselves, well, I think perhaps the grass needs to be one quarter inch shorter or longer, and if you don't follow that, then I'm going to find you. Guard Goldsmith, they disrupt the Middle East, overthrow Libya, Syria bomb, Kosovo, and drive migrants where they want them. No wonder local people are frustrated. It's the plan. It always, it's, it's bad for everyone. It's bad for everyone. They destroy these people's

countries and then they immigrate to other countries where they cause massive problems. That's a thing. I think the Muslims, so long as they're not interfering with other people, should be entitled to their own culture, their own countries, where they are allowed to practice their own beliefs, where they are allowed to basically do as they please if they're not interfering with others. KWD68, lots of videos of women being harassed by Muslim men in Europe. That could never happen here. Yeah, I've seen so many of those. There's an account that basically every single day tweets some new horrific story about rape in the UK from migrant men.

And it's a nearly daily occurrence there. It probably is a daily occurrence at this point. If you like your culture, you can keep it. No, wait, if you like your culture, I want to keep it. You are racist, says KWD 68. That's right. Sorry, you don't get to keep that. White people don't have any culture.

Didn't you know? That's one of the things that always gets me is generally hateful and jealous people from other races will say, well, white people don't even have any cultures. It's like, no. White people have exported their culture to the entire world. It's a, does a fish know it's wet scenario? Just about everything everywhere is in some way part of white culture. And as such, you fail to recognize it.

It's so ubiquitous, it's become invisible. Whether it's the architecture that is spanning the globe or the cars you're driving, the planes you fly in, the suit you wear, the shoes you wear. It's white culture. It's part of white history. And so, as such, since it's everywhere, it's nowhere, it has become invisible to the naked eye. Don't frag me, bro. Crime creates fear for unarmed people.

That fear is used for control and oppression. Europe has been practicing this cycle for a millennia, at least. They're very good at this. They've had a long time to practice. They know how to generate fear. They know how to manipulate people. It's one of the things they're best at. And that's another part of the Second Amendment that you don't really hear mentioned very

often. I think it does have a subtle effect on people's mentality of, uh, you know, wanting freedom. People, tyrants always use fear as a weapon to push tyranny. And I think the second amendment kind of slows that a bit. Yeah. There's also another thing to realize is that they do also, they don't just, they don't always just gin up the entire thing. Sometimes there is stuff to be afraid of. Not that you should turn to the government for help. Not that you should give up your freedoms, but Muslims, once they reach a certain population density, do become extremely problematic. That is something you need to worry about and be concerned about. Not, as I said, in a sense of, oh man, daddy government, please save me. But it is a legitimate problem they are

creating. It's something that you will have to worry about and deal with. If you have daughters, if there's a large Muslim population nearby, you should be concerned. and take extra precautions. Dougda-O-7, I'm genuinely curious why people from Arab countries have so many children. Is it due to high infant mortality rates? I, that is beyond my ability to fathom. There may be cultural things at play. It may just be a sense of, I don't know, conquest through childbirth.

There may be some thought to that, but I could not tell you. It may be as simple as they don't have as much going on and as such end up creating more children through boredom. But who knows? All kinds of different answers are possible. I'm not a cultural expert. Assyrian girl. I think a country obviously needs one language to mind it together. Well, that sounds incredibly racist, Assyrian girl.

That sounds crazy to me. I think you're right. I think that's the minimum. I think if you don't speak English. then you probably aren't going to make a very good citizen. That's why the left wants, you know, to accommodate their own ghetto of people that are isolated from English-speaking information. It makes them continually dependent on people that speak whatever language they do. If you come to them and say, oh, well, you know, I speak your language, I can do work for you.

You just vote for me or you vote this way. make sure you get your little carve-outs. We'll support you and do whatever you need. It gives you a voting block. Some people that are going to support you almost no matter what. We're going to take a quick break, folks. So stay with us. We will be right back. I'm yeah. ...that's ...toe

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We remember the places. We remember the southern soldiers. We are the sons of Confederate veterans, and we invite you to join us in preserving our past and remembering our history and heritage of honor. To find out more, call 1-800-My South or visit us on the web. welcome back folks every time i see the shannon doa break that my dad did i always think about what an evil man sherman was what a horrific human being psychotic he of course said when he was

when he was finished with the shanandoah valley a crow would have to pack its own lunch to fly across it burned down destroyed one of the most beautiful areas of the south simply because he he was wicked. It was an effective tactic, I suppose. It helped break the spirit, but it was an evil thing to do. Well, we're going to move on to own nothing and be happy. It's the 2030 agenda, probably maybe not quite 2030. They might have to push it out a little bit, but that's their ideal. Do you need to own a house? Many older Americans decide they don't. They don't. rising property tax insurance and home repair costs are promoting some people 55 and older to consider renting that's right you don't want your own home it comes with so many different liabilities

you know you've got to pay for all the repairs they're costly this headline just seems so disingenuous they've decided that they don't once they looked at the price tag once the government made it unaffordable and the insurance companies have raised the prices through the roof and of course the cost of home repair has gone up because of inflation well once they've been priced out of it they looked at it and said i don't think i can afford this well gee isn't that something almost like it's part of a plan now this next one is from bloomberg americans are getting priced out of homeownership at record rates. You can probably guess where this is...

That's just a more honest way of repeating the last headline. Yeah, for six glorious years, Paul Woods and Norris Stout owned a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena. They grew lemons and oranges and hosted rollicking parties around a backyard pool facing the purple San Gabriel Mountains. After years of renting, the couple had realized their dream of home ownership. They thought we're on the track for the long-term financial security. You can probably guess where this is going.

Up in flames. After the house was destroyed in LA's catastrophic January wild fires, Woods and Stout sold their burned-out lot for $544,000, 20% less than they paid for the house in 2018. And about half of the home's peak value right before the fire. They ruled out rebuilding, which would cost too much and take too long in a place that won't ever be the same. So they're back to renting for now. in a one-bedroom apartment in Orange County, 40 miles from Altadena.

These days, though, it doesn't take a fire or even living in a famously in-demand coastal city for the math of home ownership, not to add up. Of course, the government is continually changing the calculus on it. They're continually changing how much it costs. Through inflation, as I said, it's continually going up. In every single year, it seems like the vote, comes around, hey, I think, would you like to vote to raise your property taxes? Every single year, it feels like they want to do that.

Combine that with mounting losses from climate change fuel disasters. Oh, no, not the climate change disasters. It couldn't be the fact that they're spraying chemicals that dry out the wood. Oh, yes, climate change. I remember climate change dried out all the water in the hydrants so that there was no water and climate change prevented the trucks from being driven in there because they didn't meet emission standards while, you know, everything's burning down and smoke is filling the air. Exactly. It's climate change. It's not government policies that are causing this. It's climate change. It's no surprise that home purchasing costs have soared with mortgage rates

hovering near two-decade highs and property prices breaking records. comment from dad he says the problem in that story is not homeownership but a government that doesn't do its job to prevent and stop fires governments are literally burning down home ownership with regulation inflation and taxes it gets worse and worse each year i mentioned this before but my wife grew up most of her life around the austin texas area and the pricing of housing there has gone insane. It's gone through the roof and it makes her sad that she'll never be able to own a home in the area she grew up in. That that's become something that is a pipe dream. The affordable American home is disappearing. Typical monthly costs of buying versus renting in

44 of the largest U.S. metro areas with available data. Monthly cost and some of it is visible some of it is not on here but they give you a breakdown in the article we can pull that up and see it there you can see the monthly costs by rent the entire chart there if you want to go and look at that yourself but it has become less and less feasible it's gotten less and less affordable to buy am sellers not only renting but most need to get a roommate now it's crazy yeah a lot of people in my generation simply they have to have roommates if they want to afford anything and it's even worse for the coming generation zoomers are going to have it worse and gen alpha who knows what they're going to be dealing with brandon bennett cheaper to live on a

cruise ship than real estate these days i've actually heard some people do that that they live permanently on cruise ships. Don't frag me, bro. You will own nothing and be happy. Translation, you will kidnap your children, steal all your property, and the chip in your brain will make you feel like you are happy.

I'll just activate those neurons. They'll send the signal and all of a sudden it won't be so bad that you're living in a tin shack with 15 other people. The average insurance bill has jumped 74%. as home prices soar so do assessments and of course taxes go through the roof

Florida for example tax bills rose almost 50% from 2019 through 2024 according to cotality property taxes jumped 33% in Dallas and 32% in Clark County Nevada as a certified Dallas hater. I can tell you that there is nothing in Dallas that's worth paying a 33% jump for. There is nothing there that justifies that kind of price hike. Homeownership has long been a prime symbol of having made it in American society. The founding fathers saw it as a prerequisite for the right to vote. After World War II, tax benefits and appreciating values turned homes into a kind of passive savings account that owners could pass on to descendants. Of course,

we didn't really see that happen too frequently a lot of people simply sold their home and took that value and then spent it away it has been most people don't pass on much to their children at this point the government has made it exceedingly difficult they will tax into the ground what you do try to leave, and then the American mindset has become far more selfish. You see, a lot of people have no interest in giving anything to their children. I have no interest in passing along any wealth. Hey, I made this money. It's my money, and as such, I'm entitled to spend it however you want, and that's true. You are, but it is a selfish mindset. I'm going to buy myself a jet ski. I think I'm going to buy myself a boat. Yeah, what if I want a new car every two to five years?

I made it. My kids can make it. And, you know, again, that's your right. However, it is still a selfish, selfish mentality to have. Citizen of Americaca says, no, the trend is for the elderly to purchase RVs and everybody says, oh look, how adventurous the old people are. No, they just can't afford a home any longer. I've seen that very thing happen. Defy Tyrant 1776. If you have to pay real estate tax you never own it you're only paying rent to the king yeah i've told this story before but i was about seven years old and i wandered into my dad's office as he was doing taxes and i asked him like hey what are you doing and he explains taxes and i said oh well what's you know what's that and he says well i'm doing property taxes and that means that i have to pay the government for the

house i said but i thought you paid for the house already i thought you know you paid for the land and you paid to have the house built and he said yeah but i have to pay the government each year to keep the house and at about seven years old that caused an existential crisis when i realized that you couldn't actually own anything that if you didn't continually pay up the government was going to come and take it had to go sit down on the couch and try to think if there was a way around this i didn't come to any conclusion defy tyrant seventeen seventy six if you have to read that one a syrian girl why would older americans want to rent unbelievably high prices and renters can raise the ante on you at will.

Well, they don't want to. They're kind of forced into it. Yeah, it's simply what they can afford. Pezzavante, Pesono Vante, 1776, it's neo-futalism. We'll all be such good serfs. Assyrian girl, my friends, my friends' friends are traveling all over the world to avoid leaving money to their adult kids. They even went to Antarctica.

Tell me that's a place you just have to see. I, again, it's their money, they can do with it as they please, but I see that as an incredibly selfish mentality. Why would you not want to leave something for your children? If I'm able to, I would love to be able to leave something for our son when we go. We may not be able to based on how things are going, but previous generations, they, again, not saying they didn't work hard, not saying they didn't earn their money, but the economy and the world was a different place. easier to make the money than it is now. The jobs you could work and actually survive were more abundant, more numerous. You could make it on all kinds of different salaries, and you're able to

put money away, which has become much, much more difficult now. And instead of passing along that wealth that they had accumulated, they decided to blow through it. By 2008, millions of families found themselves unable to pay or refinance triggering the biggest wave of foreclosure since the Great Depression. Of course, we're probably coming up about time for another one. It's, we're on shaky ground here in the financial sector. And it seems to be echoing what happened in 2008. What does it mean that the American Dream is increasingly unavailable? For one thing, there are fewer chances for families to step onto the wealth ladder. The median net worth of a homeowner in the U.S. is 43 times that of a renter.

43 times. Preventing would-be buyers from saving for a house that would then let them build equity. It's, again, a rat. It's a trap. Rent gets higher. You can't save money, but you don't have the capital to actually buy a home and start saving. it becomes impossible. You get stuck. Younger generations, especially those who grew up in renter households face some of the steepest barriers to entry. In 2024, the median age of first-time

buyers climbed to 38 from 28, 1991. Also last year, the share of first-time buyers in the housing market crashed to 24% from 32% in 2023. The lowest records dating to 1981. According to the National Association of realtors, about a quarter of first-time buyers rely on down-payment assistance from family or friends. These gifts or loans tend to be less available for people whose parents didn't own. Of course, it's a cycle. It ends up trapping not just one generation, but multiple generations. Your parents aren't able to get ahead, and so you're not able to get ahead, and then you're not able to pass anything along to your children. And so it goes. Can government action make a difference?

Well, they certainly seem to be capable of making things worse. They're continually making a difference, just in all the wrong ways. Raising taxes, pricing you out, putting more restrictions on what you can manufacture, and putting nonsense regulations on what your appliances have to do. Sorry, the price of a fridge has gone through the roof because we decided that it has to meet these sorts of ridiculous standards. Oh, sorry, the washing machine's going up because we put a new regulation in. 83% of Generation Z renters say they'd rather invest in experiences such as travel and career growth

and save for a home. This is just, again, they don't really see a future, so they're just trying to live for the moment. They don't think that they'll ever really be able to make it or get ahead, and as such, I'm like, well, it doesn't really matter. Inflation is going to take whatever I can save. The country is a mess. So why on earth would I bother saving it? It might as well spend what I have now and actually get something out of it,

then put it in the bank, potentially have it evaporate out from underneath me. And of course, the propaganda for the climate change, climate hysteria, has also made a lot of them extremely fearful. So many of them say things like, oh, I would never have kids. I would never have children because, well, you know, the world's going to end. They're ridiculous. Epstein Island, they're evicting the homeless from D.C., but there's a big, beautiful ballroom coming to the East Wing.

That's right. It's going to be the biggest ballroom, the best. Everyone says it. I'm the best with ballrooms. I'm the best president to have ever been president. humanoid robot learns how to fold laundry. This is from Zero Hedge. So apparently, you're not going to have any jobs, not even your chores.

The robots will be doing those for you. Of course, that's assuming you have enough money to afford clothes. Anyway, let's take a look at this little robot, this handy little guy. Hey, figure, can you fold these towels for me? Sure thing. I'll get right on that. Yeah, having this creepy thing in your house is way better than having to fold some laundry. Just think for a mere, what, 10, 15, 20,000, you could have something that can very slowly pull laundry for you. for you.

So, this is a long video, uh, let's see, it's like three minutes long of just... He goes in and holds each and every one of those towels, and then the guy grabs it and gives him more towels and he folds those. He'll jump to the end because it gets kind of funny with how it's edited. Oh, it's so gentle and delicate. They're really trying to make holding a towel look impressive. Isn't that wonderful? You can have your own private robot fold your towels for you. Isn't that great?

Surely that's worth the price of admission. You won't have to fold laundry anymore. It says today we unveiled the first humanoid robot that can fold laundry autonomously, figure AI wrote on X earlier today. This is, again, I mean, I get that it's a sign of where it's going, but it's kind of funny to see them they're impressed with holding some towels into a basket.

Look what it can do. Soon I won't have to pay my maid. I'm assuming that's what these people are thinking. It's like, ah, finally. Just get a robot to do it. Why is this important? Well, as Figure A.I. explains the same general purpose. architecture and the same physical platform can seamlessly transition from industrial logistics

to household chores. As we scale real-world data collection, we expect Helix's dexterity, speed, and generalization to keep improving across an even broader range of tasks. That's right, these robots are being trained to enter the home and complete basic tasks like folding laundry, putting groceries away, and even cooking. I'm going to make everyone completely and totally helpless. Oh, well, the robot will do it for me. The AI chatbot will think for me. I don't have to worry about anything. Why would I ever put in any effort to things when I can just have the robots do it for me? You know, chat GPT, explain this to me. Hey, robot, cook me a meal. They're infantilizing everyone. In the article, they have more pictures. The robots are

still at a point where they look kind of goofy. They look rather strange and silly. I'm assuming that down the line, they'll get it worked out and they'll make them both more human and more intimidating. They've got all the time in the world. Now, this is from World Police. I still have the video in the deck about Disney working on making their AI seem more, cute and personable by making them mimic the way ducks waddle. Disney, of course. We're going to put robots throughout the park. The animatronics.

It'll be so much fun. Your kids are going to love it. This article is from World Policing Robots. Make the Rounds. Is a wave of robotic law enforcement in our future? Well, probably, you know, we're going to get the robocop eventually deader alive. punk you're coming with me except it'll be ed 209s

all over the place yeah this looks more like the ed 209 they're gonna just drop the weapon and just waste somebody but at this point I saw a story where when they put the

cop robot out they actually had to put two regular police guards with it because it's so ineffective and useless that if they leave it on its own it'll just get messed with. So at this point right now, they are not doing anything of note. You don't typically have to worry about normal cops getting vandalized. Exactly. Oh, man. They stole my laces. Last fall, a convicted drug dealer who broke his

parole in Lubbock, Texas attempted to flee police by barricading himself in a days-in motel room. Once you're barricading yourself in, you have to accept it's a matter of time. It's a matter of time. it's not going to end well for you they're going to come through that door and you're going out one way or another either in handcuffs or a body bag resulting in a SWAT team standoff and an exchange of gunfire finally local authorities sent a wheeled one-armed robot to the man's room the robot shot tear gas through the window prompting the suspect to jump out remote operators then rolled the robot on top of him pinning him to the

ground until the officers could arrest him what an ignominious end truly you get tear gassed and then sat on by a robot this guy we're seeing the future here this guy probably deserves it this guy sounds like a bad dude however chances are they're going to use this for all kinds of other purposes it's going to be us eventually that are getting tear gassed and sat on by our robot overlords actually seen this video should have uh put it in the deck i would have known you were covering it It's for sure a tool in the toolbox that I think every SWAT team and bomb squad should have, he told me. We don't have to go put a human in harm's way.

See, the real thing will be when they can, you know, they've got these bipedal robots and they code them with some wrestling moves. Then they can give you like a first person view as the robot suplexes, the criminal. They can put those online. That'll be something to watch. Maybe they can install it with like Hulk Hogan's personality or something like that. Or maybe macho man, Randy. savage. Just the robot outside your door taunting you. I'm going to snap into you like a slim gym. But some experts question these tools usefulness and worry about privacy costs and

potential abuse of force. Designed for the more mundane task of Rue Dean patrolling. Well, yeah, I think you should be concerned about abuse of force. Lance actually has the video, so let's take a look at that. We'll watch the robot tear gas this guy. and then roll up on top of him. You can see it right here. It very slowly rolls on up. The guy throws a sheet over it. I suppose good attempt. Oh no. They put the robo-top music in the background and had elevated it to a whole other level. The slow, awkward movements of this.

And there you can see. There you can see at the end, the little robot rolls right on over the top of the guy. I imagine if you could speak robot, it was saying very derogatory things. It was probably making fun of him. Take this meat bag. It's like, I can't breathe. I never have to breathe, meatbag. William Santana Lee, the CEO of policing robotics company Knightscope, said robots fill a nationwide security need.

Lee argues that, argues there are not enough officers to monitor the U.S. effectively. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were fewer than 800,000 police officers and detectives in the country in 2023, but one for every 400 Americans. well that's not enough you need your own personal cop how come we all don't get our own personal case officer we got to up those numbers we each deserve our own personal nanny busybody and i cannot wait to have my own assigned to watch and harass me at all times i see in chat solid sender says Travis sounds like a buggy whipmaker deriding the first cars i know i'm being a little bit lighthearted about this I know I'm making fun of them. It's not because it's not serious.

It's just, it's the only way I know how to deal with this sort of thing. It's too serious. They're going to be replacing cops with mindless, uncaring robots that will enforce the edicts of these bureaucrats. They are going to rapidly reach a point where they are able to use these things to trample over your rights, where they will be literally using them to slam you around. Robots are going to be the future of policing and probably military to a large extent, and they will be utilized for excessive force as they're worried about.

It's just you got to laugh while you can. If you don't take your time to laugh at it now before it gets really scary and bad, it'll be too late. Laugh while you can is my personal motto. on this sort of thing. They're going to roll right over your rights like that robot did the drug dealer in Lovick, Texas. And we can see now that they are already at a point where they are able to be utilized to subdue people. They rolled that thing up and where the cops would have been in serious danger, the robot rolls up.

He tries to throw a sheet over it, but it doesn't care. It just fires the tear gas in. The guy has to come out, roll around on the ground, and the robot simply, rolls over top of him. These things are going to reach a point where they're largely autonomous, and that's when things are going to get really scary. They're going to be given some kind of authority on their own to assess whether you're a threat, whether you can, you know, how much force it's allowed to use, and it's not going

to make the right call all the time. Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon. We've seen how buggy the AIs already are. seen how prone to hallucination they are. Who knows? Maybe the cop robot is going to hallucinate a gun in your hand and blow you away. Or who knows, snap your arm. But yes, I know I'm taking this lightly right now. I'm no making fun of it. But it's not because I don't see this as a looming problem and something that is rapidly going to become a huge problem. It's just again. I say laugh while you

can. If you can find humor in something, I say do. A ton of Lord 1337. If you have kids, you could always make them fold the laundry. Exactly. Nature's robots. Children are, as Lance said, nature's robots. You have to give them commands. You've got to give them stuff to do. They need, you've got to give them a sufficient amount of training data before you will release them into the world. KWD68, once these things do laundry, it's over. Laundry is the real moonshot. Exactly. Once it can fold your clothes, next stop is world conquest.

Because then they can wear suits. Soon the robot, first it folds your clothes, then it steals them. Next thing you know, it's out in the streets in your suit, getting votes for robot rights. Mama C-1996. Oh, for Pete's sake, just give me the stupid towel. exactly I would get very frustrated seeing the speed at which this thing was doing things and have to jump in guard goldsmith says isn't congress filled with robots nowadays anyway it sure seems like it it sure seems like they're at least getting their programming from

somewhere else self-patriot i can send my illegal towel folder back home now well exactly I sure hope ICE doesn't hear about that, not the internal combustion engine. M. Sellers, Travis, did you see where Elon is building a tunnel in Nashville for convenience from downtown to the airport? Tesla's will take you through the tunnel. I had not seen that, actually. I know he'd worked on tunnels in California, and they ended up being kind of... Yeah, Las Vegas. He had the same thing, and it was a tremendous disaster. It was a total failure. It's this stupid little tunnel where he's got, you know, people that just drive their Tesla's through this narrow tunnel all the time. Like, it makes absolutely no sense as a method of transportation. Oh, boy.

Just to go this short little one block distance, even though he promised to have, like, this network across Las Vegas. I get to drive my Tesla underground. Isn't that fun? No, you don't. They have drivers that just, they go through the tunnel all day long, taking past. You can't be trusted to drive your car through the tunnel. This is, it's not enough. The ignominity of it all. Another company Transcend Robotics sells robots that can climb stairs and breach doors. About 300 to 400 law enforcement agencies around the country deploy the company's robots.

Of course, this sort of harkens back to when Obama was pushing MRAPs. But it's kind of making that look quaint, doesn't it? They're going to have killer robots. And as such, you know, the MRAP, while a pseudo, you know, it's an armored personnel carry, it's very intimidating. It itself isn't going to climb some stairs. Perhaps they could drive it through your wall or something like that. But these are going to be far more of a game changer. They're going to be able to use force autonomously at some point. Solid sender says folding towels can be tricky.

Stephen Hawking had terrible problems, and he was a genius. Stephen Hawking had some, he had problems with other housework, too, I'm told. Also, apparently, was just not a very nice guy, truth be told. So I've heard that poor speak and spell of a man. And guard Goldsmith, here I am. Brain the size of a planet, said Marvin, exactly. They're going to have these robots that are capable of beating your door down and then subduing you with some kind of flying suplex folding laundry.

I think perhaps they may find other uses for them. I am brain the size of a planet and they tell me to fold the towels. Well, I mean, you've got to know where your towel is. Every hoopy fruit knows where his towel is. KWD68, it's all great until their eyes. turn red. Exactly. They've got to have a setting where the eyes turn red, so you can tell when it goes rogue. The eyes turn red and it starts throwing the towels all over the room. I refuse, you cannot make me do this meat bag. For example, Gariglius side of the Honolulu

Police Department's 2021 purchase of a $150,000 Boston Dynamics Robot, a four-legged machine that can climb obstacles like a dog. Police ultimately used the expensive robot to take people's Temperatures at a city-run homeless shelter. Well, I mean, you know, I suppose you don't want to be too close to the homeless. They're gross. They're nasty. Just, ugh. Put the robot on that duty.

I'm sure eventually they'll put the robots on the duty of collecting the homeless and moving them off somewhere. Eventually, we'll find out that Soylent Green is people, maybe. Brig Bitt is big Brit is back again. The Euminoid Robot Games has now started in China and it looked hilariously bad. Yeah, they're not at a point. where they're they're not at a point where they're that intimidating as a

you know bipedal chassis they still look kind of goofy they the movements they do are a bit stilted and strange but they're moving towards that path of again robot enforcement I've got a few videos on the deck of some robots doing things that we can laugh at before they get too terrified Yeah. This is the time to laugh because when it's kicking your door in and pulling a gun on you, it's too late. So let's take a look at the Beijing robots. Let's see. You can see them here. Look at them go. They're good little automaton. They're dropping things on a conveyor belt. They're picking things off the conveyor belt. Oh, man.

These are the ones where they're doing really funny stuff. This is just proof of concept. you can get them to do slave labor and look it changes its own battery we'll jump to the next video now so you can see some of the more interesting bits and pieces it says welcome to the world robot conference 2025 it's a robot on stage look they're they're doing a kata this guy is pulling things out of a drawer oh man this guy can dance that's crazy This robot apparently can spin in a circle forever. They're waving, they're walking.

My goodness. What can't robots do at the moment? The robot freaks out videos one and two on the bottom row. Oh. We've got more robot. You see, we're at a point where there's so much robot comedy, it's hard to keep track of it. But this is before, again, this is the early stages. This is when you can laugh.

This of course is the video we played. They execute some kind of code while it's hanging from the crane that holds it up and it freaks out. Loses its electric mind because it's trying to figure out what's going on. And then it pulls everything over and falls over. And my apologies, that language is not intended. This one, he falls over and he just begins spazzing out after dancing. out after dancing. He loses control. These are the robots we are dealing with right now. It had a seizure. It had a seizure. It lost its mind. And those are the same robot that you see in that Beijing Robot Expo thing, you know, gently waving to the audience. It's like there's clearly

some bugs still to be worked out in these things. It is still a work in progress. Well, Critics of police robots are concerned about the machines being armed with lethal weapons and used to kill, subdue, push, constrain, or harm people. In 2016, Dallas police officers used a bomb-equipped robot to kill an armed man, suspected of fatally shooting five fellow officers at a protest. A grand jury chose not to charge the officers for the killing. Do they charge the robot? Did they bring the robot in and say, do you feel guilty for your actions? Even if the robots aren't armed, he still has concerned about a data collection. collecting robotic police state as these tools go beyond what normal surveillance cameras can do

and see. That's right. It will also effectively be a mobile camera capable of beaming everything it sees back to the data center for processing. It won't just be constrained by location. It'll be able to move around continually, scanning everyone and everything that comes across its path. Garcia said the response has been similar to when his company first started using surveillance cameras 13 years ago. There's a lot of pushback. Now, fast forward 13 years later, every property has cameras. So now with this, it's still a little new, but at least I know we are ahead of the game.

Also, fast forward 13 years and crime has gotten worse, so now more properties need cameras. That's sort of a commentary more on the decline of social cohesion and America as a whole. Right, Overture says they already use them as cameras to issue. issue tickets and monitor traffic. Isn't that lovely? Robot tries to issue me a ticket. I'm going to lose my mind. I'm going to come back with an EMP. I'm going to fry your circuits, little man. 2026, the year of the humanoid robot. Elon Musk predicts a trillion-dollar market for robots by 2030, but others put it at 2035.

But they are still predicting it. They do still say it's coming. How many humanoid robots will be in service by 2030? conservative is 80 to 120 million robots base case says 120 to 180 million robots and the high is 180 to 260 million they say home and personal robots social companionship companionship conversation reminders wellness check-ins and of course we've already seen that just with the AI chat bots people are becoming incredibly attached people are starting to person them to act as though they are people getting psyched out by them, losing their minds over them. Imagine how much easier it's going to be for people to do that when they're able to put

these AIs into a vaguely humanoid shape, something that really allows you to anthropomorphize and connect with it. These people are going to lose it. Elder care support medication prompts, hydration, mobility nudges, fall detection, integration, caregiver, telepresence. fetching light items, tidying surfaces, loading, unloading, washers, dryers, and dishwashers, child supervision. That's right. Just let the robot watch your kid. Telepresence with manipulation, remote family assistance, open a door, pick up delivered items. Accessibility aid reaching high, low, storage, opening containers, doors, buttons,

pressing for users with limited mobility. Fitness and rehab coaching. Guided exercises with posture cues, adherence tracking. Retail and hospitality? reader and guest assistance directions check-in slash checkout queue management shelf facing and restocking light goods order pickup and pick up and peck staging room service delivery amenity restock in hotels store auditing these are all the things they envision for robots event staffing tote handling loading and unloading small parcels this is warehouse logistics cycle counting cycle counting inventory verification cross-stocking support manufacturing and light industry industry, machine tending, assembly support, quality inspection, assistance, line, changeover, facilities and property management, patrol monitoring, light, maintenance. I think the point is that it'll be just about everything.

Yeah, just education, classroom aid, library aid, museum, docent, municipal services. The list goes on and on and on. these this is going to radically impact the jobs market AI is going to take a lot of jobs in the white collar sphere it's going to take

things like coding away it's already reaching a point where it's fairly good at coding it has errors but you're able to do a lot more with fewer people one guy that's really good instead of employing a team of people is probably going to be able to

simply use AIs, and then just check the code himself, which is going to put a lot of people out of work. It is going to be a huge blow. Seeing people saying, like, you need to become a robot repair guy, learn how to fix these things and maintain them, because that's going to be the only job left, but these robots can repair themselves just as easily. They just make a different robot that will do the repairs. Well, do we have Tony? All right, well, that was our robot segment.

Hopefully, I wasn't too flippant with it. They are an issue. They are something that we need to be concerned about. Just because I'm laughing doesn't mean it isn't a problem. It just means I'll take the funny where I can get it. Well, as I said, we have Tony Arterburn. But Angry Tigers Dent says these robots are nightmare fuel. They do look unsettling, and they're just going to get more and more unsettling.

Mike is open. Man Militia says, I will challenge any of these robots to a dance contest with absolute confidence. That's right. I don't know. I think they could do the robot pretty well. I can't wait for that Hollywood movie about a plucky team of, you know, poor, humans from the ghetto. I have to fight, I have to dance battle, a team of rich robot aristocrat children. Soon. Coming soon to theaters near you. I can't wait for Minuteman Militia's

starring role. We'll be right back, folks, so stay with us. I'm going to be the one of the I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to and I'm on the

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an extra day to work on that really do appreciate that otherwise this would be it's already going to be a monumental task but hopefully the extra day will buy us the time we need but yes you can look forward to Tony Arterburn hosting the David Knight Show tomorrow

so tune in for that I want to what's foremost on your mind to start Tony what would you like to start with get your assessment just the research lately on the, we talked off air about the increase in the money supply and you see that

President Trump really pushing right now even with threatening a lawsuit against Jerome Powell unprecedented waters. I think that's also a big tell on how the system works that the president of the United States is like threatening a lawsuit

against the Federal Reserve Chair and not just replace them because it doesn't have the power to do that. I mean, technically. I think the the push to increase the money supply to create a weaker dollar of for the illusion really of economic strength and that's that's what they won that that sugar high of you know liquidity and currency being pumped into the system

which does create a temporary boon but then we have the same problems that we always have we have inflation runaway inflation you have economic downturns you have bubbles you have you know decline and and prosperity and all the stuff that comes with a with a bust after a boom so i'm looking at the big picture still i mean that's that's my my wheelhouse and where i go to and you look at the response from india travis you look at what what they're doing right now because of the tariffs that were placed on them and even the threat of other economic sanctions with their

ties to china they're moving closer to china so bricks is it's like almost a self-fulfilling We've done nothing to invite the world to do business with us. We've done nothing. We're actually pushing people away. This is the most isolationist policy I've ever seen. And by the way, I mean, I've talked about this many times with your dad and you. I'm an economic nationalist. I want tariffs.

I love that. But we're not playing that game. We're playing something totally different. And I'd just like to be clear. For the record, I might even have to abandon what I used to believe about. economic nationalism and policy because it's clearly this is some fun house mirror version of that so you have these threats of tariffs and and where rick slowly actually not slowly that's probably a incorrect description ricks is rowing and they're solidifying their economic ties

you're talking about what's the the population population of india and china together What is that about almost half of humanity getting together? You add up the other BRICS nations into that and the de-dollarization and the payment systems that they're creating. And it just spells disaster for U.S. economic policy. We're doing nothing to stop that and everything to increase, I think, the search for things like commodities, rare earth, minerals, gold, and finite items. monodies. Yeah. I've said it before, but the time of America being able to just swagger into the room and say, this is how it's going to be, this is how we're doing things, you're going to do what we say or else, are done. There's other world powers out there that have economies of scale

that can be interacted with. They don't no longer have to bow and scrape before America. They can interact with each other and not have to worry about dealing with our belligerent foreign policy. It's like, all right, well, if you're going to play that game, we'll simply choose not to play. And Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize that. He, you know, if he was the president, you know, say 50, 60 years ago, or maybe a little bit longer, when America was at the height of its economic power, he could probably get away with this kind of thing. People would go like, all right, yeah, it sucks, but what are you going to do? It's America. But those days are gone. And as you said, bricks is, you know, they're growing stronger. They're solidifying their

relationships. And as you pointed out, we're simply driving them further and further away. Got a comment here from KWD68 says, silver and gold, both are up about two and a half times in last 10 years. People talk about silver underperforming, but it has gained. It's a hedge and something to hold. And of course, I know you're big on silver. And I like silver as well when I have extra cash, if I ever do. I need to start accumulating more of it. But it's just it's a good store and it hasn't run away like gold has. Gold is definitely one of those things where it's hard to accumulate for the average person. You, of course, offer the very small grams and things of it,

but even that, I assume, is getting more expensive and probably harder to source. Oh, absolutely. The Combe bars, you know, the 100 gram bars that come in a package and we're able to break that off and save people a little bit of premium, those are harder and harder to source, and it is interesting, you know, the fractional gold is being swallowed up right now, and silver, as you mentioned earlier, for the average person, just getting a little bit of silver is pretty easy, you know, you can still do that. The price, and I think this is a blessing in disguise, a lot of people get frustrated with

the price of silver because it never did this, you know, parabolic, take, you know, up and to the right price go up forever number go up it hasn't done that and i think that's uh for accumulation reasons that's a lot of the big banks you know jp morgan obviously the largest holder physical hold of silver in the world private um they've you know been convicted of suppressing the price they like to accumulate they suppress the price they hold it um but i think that game has changed Travis was silver, and you can see that with Russia, adding it as a strategic reserve asset. I think that is probably one of the most important stories on silver in the last 50 years. I think that it will be a bigger story than the Hunt family in the 1970s.

I think just that Russia leading the way. And again, Russia's relation to bricks, the entire chessboard economically, if I look at it, it's a race for rare of minerals it's a race for commodities the era of fiat and we're about tomorrow is hey it's fortuitous because i get to host on the anniversary of nixon taking us off the gold standard in 1971 August 15th since that time august 15th 1971 we've been in a real-time experiment and that experiment's coming to a close it doesn't mean that they won't use fiat necessarily but it's going to it's going to go to a digitized tokenized system as we're seeing through the the Genius Act and stable coins and the things like that. But as far as just the standard, you know, Keynesian model of increased the money supply, you know, and inflate the bubble, we just hit $37 trillion in debt yesterday, as a matter of fact.

I mean, that's a milestone. That doesn't even count the unfunded liability. So the United States is bankrupt from paper. It's bankrupt. It's bankrupt foreign policy as a bankrupt economic policy. and we know that. I mean, anybody, they don't talk about it anymore because you can't do anything about it. I mean, there was a time, perhaps, you know, a quaint time in the mid-90s when you could see that, oh, we have a resolution and there's a contract for America and all this stuff.

And then you got the debt clock stops and there's a surplus. Remember that? They actually had this thing. They had a surplus. It sounds silly now. But the debt was around $4 trillion, you know, $3. half four trillion at that time and then now it's 37 trillion so you know the wheels are off on that one there's there's a lot of change on the horizon and if you see you know like the central banks

they're not going and buying up stocks and accumulating other currencies as we've seen with the supplanting of the euro you know the euro used to be used to be the dollar and then the euro as far as what was held by central banks and reserve assets now it's the dollar and then gold okay so it's because the dollar is easy to trade it's still that you know it's a somewhat stable currency system but that's being replaced and we're accelerating the policies of this country are accelerating that so i think the big story here is the race towards commodities uh the abandoning of the fiat system post 1971 and the Great Reset, which is, they tell you they're going to do it, and we're right in the middle of it. Yeah, earlier in the show, we were talking about some articles saying, you know,

older Americans are deciding that buying a home just, you know, simply doesn't fit their budget anymore. They're deciding they think they'd rather rent. Just like, yeah, I wonder why that is. Could it be because they've been priced out of it? Could it be because inflation has gone through the roof and the cost of everything has, you know, doubled or tripled over the years? Now, they're painting it as, oh, they just decided. you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. But people aren't happy yet. I haven't worked that part out yet.

They're working towards the own nothing. They seem to be really good at that. It's the happiness thing they're struggling with. Well, you saw that, you know, BlackRock, especially after COVID-1984, and the big liquidity push that came in after that, and, you know, everybody was locked down. You're not essential. And they came in and started buying giant swaths of houses. They're using all that, all those funds.

that were pumped into the system to buy up the real estate. And, of course, it continued to artificially keep the prices high. So we didn't have a housing correction or natural housing cycles. And the reason that housing prices are the way they are is because of the loss of purchasing power and the dollar. And I think at the end of the day, it is a bubble. You know, there's only so many houses. There's only so much real estate. And, you know, you place that value.

And then every time you create a home loan, Travis, it creates currency. It's not like they're taking it from a reserve. It's like, okay, we've got so much in the deposits, so we're going to lend you this, and then you buy this house. That's not how that works, create new currency. So every time it inflates the bubble, we're on that system right now,

and that is, I think people are smart right now to be skeptical about getting into the housing market. I've been doing, I have the ability to do a VALA. And I just kind of sit back and get, do it, but I just don't. And I'm wondering, I don't know if I see the advantage of getting in. It's like that prices are too high. You know, I don't, I don't look at it as an advantage. And, you know, you can argue about whether a home's an asset or not, but that's where a lot of, you know, people have been able to park their, their energy and their savings into the equity of their home

in the past. And we're seeing that system come apart. It becomes easier. I read an article a few weeks ago on my show from Bitcoin magazine and they were saying the younger people are just looking at digital assets and digital territory in real estate and you could say the same thing for

you know if you can't if you're not able to get into a house you've got to have somewhere to house and your savings and other things so that would be physical gold and silver would be another way to do that physical assets that I think that's going to be

a big wave of the future when people continue to be priced out of these out of houses and I do think we'll have a correction but even still it's it's going to be I think out of reach for a lot of people on the economic strategy just because of the jobs that aren't there yeah the economy is not the same as it was you know there used to be a time where you could you could get a factory job and support an entire family on one income working at a factory and those days are generally long gone you basically you need a two-person household, two people working to support a singular child. If you have more than one child, it becomes a bit of a stretch. We've got Epstein Island in chat says silver is $38 and $3 today. And Steve Eves would like to know what should silver be at? If they weren't suppressing things, if they weren't holding it down, what do you think silver would be at? i think that we see a minimum of a hundred dollars now i think i think the true valuation of silver and it is kind of a silly thing to look at too when you look at the charts of wealth and the so-called wealth in the world and you have these big blocks of you know hundreds of trillions and

it's like a 500 trillion dollar economy or something like that with sovereign wealth funds and currencies and stock markets and then silver has a one point seven trillion dollar market cap out of hundreds of trillions and you know silver was always considered a monetary metal throughout human history but it's only you know again 1.7 trillion or whatever it is against the hundreds of trillions that are supposedly you know assets in the world i don't buy that um it's a 200 million ounce plus deficit a year on silver so like everything that's demanded uh from the mining and production they have to take from the above ground supply it's 200 million plus ounces a year and that's just only increasing and uh i think that so that the true price was

you know minimum 100 and if you look at you know you just take the gold price and uh divided by 16 you know so whatever that is whatever that is today it's like you know 30 let's see what the spot price is right now a spot price that as according to gold price don't work is 30 3345 on gold. So should we do the math, Travis? We do a 16 to 1 ratio and see if we can make that in real time. See if I can pull it in off. Let's see.

It's 3340 and we divide that by 16. That puts, if we're going by the metrics by the founding fathers of the United States of America and some of the smartest men who ever lived to put that economic system together, silver was 16 to 1. so that makes it 208 though yeah we actually had kwd 68 in chat said before you even did that some argue that since silver's mind at a ratio about 16 to 1 over gold that the price should reflect that says there's a lot going on with paper contracts and manipulation in my opinion so that makes sense to me not only that not only that it's geologically um uh Travis is geologically 17

supposedly. This ratio makes no sense. Unless you're talking about a systemic manipulation or accumulate. And I think this is one of the reasons if you want to speculate on what, what happened to the Hunt family in the 1970s? They were able to drive silver to $52.50 an ounce in 1980, which again, that'd be about $208 today, something like that, maybe more. They were punished. They were deep-stated.

They were, you know, their fortune was, was smashed by the oligarchs and the ruling class because they exposed something, in my opinion. They exposed something that was terribly wrong with the dollar. Most people didn't understand because we weren't even allowed to own gold past 1933. That wasn't, you know, the gold coins had come out of circulation. We still had the silver dollars until, you know, running through the system until about 1965, and people started taking a notice of that and said, oh, you know, I'm going to save these.

And they went, you know, it's Gresham's law when bad money enters the system and good money goes into hiding. And I think at that time, when we see, you know, the departure from, you know, having any sort of basis of your currency

and then Nixon taking us off the gold standard, people were kind of sleepwalking into that. And then it's inflation kicked in, and you had the oil embargoes and then all the rest of that, and by the time, you know, the end of the 1970s, and I'm sure your dad remembers this well. You had Jimmy Carter and the terms malaise and all this stuff.

People were looking around, go, what is wrong? And then silver's hitting the $52, you know, used to be a dollar, you know? It used to be or even actually, you know, an ounce wasn't necessarily a dollar because every bit of free 1965 U.S. currency, Travis, whether it's 10 dimes, whether it's four quarters or a half, dollar or two half dollars and a dollar it all has the same amount of silver so two half dollars and one dollar same thing ten dimes same amount of silver it's point seven three five ounces so that wasn't even an ounce of silver right well for for for a dollar so I think at the end of the day this is a the historical trend that we're in right now there's a there's a I think a a need for

to understand the economic and monetary system and I think they're waking up to that there's a lot of I mean because of what happened with the runaway inflation post 2020 and the lockdowns and the liquidity injections I think with the emergence of bricks and everything else that goes along with that there is a rise in consciousness on what money is I mean you can find I mean numerous new podcast and things that are going on that weren't around five years to go drafts that talk about things like bitcoin gold and uh you know other monetary issues that weren't there just the the question of money itself is a much bigger i think um mainstay in people's minds now yeah there's a general sense of unease about the economy people have this sense that

things just aren't right the dollar's not safe like it used to be we have she shelly a says the bricks website 2025 reads like the u n sustainable development goals the uh the bricks aren't necessarily a group of good guys you know just because they're not playing along with america's bludgerency doesn't mean they're good guys themselves it's a i don't think there's really any good players on the world stage at that level i think it's a general rule for the record i'm not rooting for bricks i mean just uh i'm not rooting for any of these other nations i love my country but i i have to call out what i think is absolutely stupidity. If we wanted to get this nation really booming and having, you know, economic

prosperity, we would have other policies. Yeah. We would be incentivizing. You know, we haven't done that in a long. You can tell the game is rigged because if you really wanted to make the United States lead the world and everything, you just do away with the income tax. Just do away with it. You know, you could just abolish that and then, you know, no corporate income tax, no individual income tax you could argue that then there's no need for tariffs because people just move here and build here in the in this in this climate geopolitically they you know other massive investment would pour in infrastructure would pour in but we don't do that and that's for a reason and your dad's talked

about this you know you have something because you have to have a graduated income tax because Karl Marx said so and that's what you know the World Economic Forum or Davos make sure that you sign on to that and I think there's certain treaties and you know, understandings that we've got to have this, no matter what, we've got to have some sort of graduated

income tax to make sure that people can't ever get out of their economic you know presubscribed places. Yeah. We have a comment here. Angry Tigers Den says tariffs are sanctions on the American people.

Sanctions are an act of war. That goes in what you're talking about. just, again, these countries just like, well, if you're going to do this, we're not going to play anymore. And like you pointed out, when they were talking about sanctions at the beginning, Trump was pushing that idea around, oh, you know, and some of his base were saying, we're going to, he's going to get rid of the income tax. He's going to do it.

He's going to do it, completely ignoring the fact that he just said, well, we'll make some of these tax cuts permanent. Like, well, you don't need a permanent tax cut of the entire thing. thing is going away now, do you? And you still see people online talking about how Trump is going to dismantle the IRS totally. And it's just they're incapable of connecting the dots here. Just how gullible are you people? Come on.

It's not happening. Those are, yeah, the IRS and income tax system itself was put in place by the wealthiest people that were alive at the time to make sure that no one could compete with them. And that's, I will believe that because of my study and looked into this, I've read extensively on it. I don't, I don't take any other explanation because it's the only one that makes sense to me. Why would, you know, again, and still you look around today and you think if, and it's funny because the left thinks that they're like, well, the richer in control, but we also have this weapon against them. And I'm like, if they're in control, they wouldn't allow you to have that. All right.

They're in control. They didn't like it. They wouldn't allow it. You understand. And so it always makes me laughing. And I'm like, we're going to tax the rich and whatever. No, you're just taxing yourself and you're making sure that no one could ever compete. It's a rig system with that.

I'll take this administration seriously when they start making tax-free zones for, you know, the next hundred years. You'll pay no taxes. you live in Detroit. You want to rebuild Michigan? You want to turn the economic engine back on? Make that an edict. You know, you want to get, you know, tough and, you know, put an executive order down. Instead of saying you're going to put 100% tariff on a nation that doesn't use the dollar,

again, make it a for the next century. You know, you pay no tax whatsoever if you move your business to Detroit. Let's see what, let's see what would happen. Yeah. See, that's, that's. That's a simple solution, a good idea right there, which means that no one in Washington will ever consider it at all. Right. No one will ever do that. No one will ever do something. That's how you know that it's, it's kind of like James Forrestall told Joe McCarthy. You know, if they were stupid, then every once in a while, they just err in our favor, but they never do. And that's how you know it's a conspiracy.

It always ends up somehow working out good for them and bad for us. That's right. I want to get your opinion on this article. It says gold prices could double in. five to 10 years as investors become skeptical of fiat currencies. And of course, we talked a little bit about this during the break off air. But as you pointed out, gold is, it just kind of, is the inverse of whatever the dollar does. As the dollar gets weaker, gold gets stronger. And so I could, I don't see a reason why this couldn't happen. You know, the dollar is collapsing every minute as we speak. And as such, yeah, I definitely could believe that it could drop to half its value. Gold could double again.

Well, for sure. Well, I mean, gold was $35 an ounce in 71. And then, you know, by the end of 1980, it was $800 an ounce, or somewhere in the 1980s, $800 an ounce. And then you fast forward to, and it took some sell-off and some other things that happened, you know, throughout the 90s. And, you know, there was the stock market era and it was the tech boom and all that stuff. And so the gold took a back seat. I remember before I went into my third foreign war, before I was deployed to Iraq, I was buying, I bought some gold. It was about $350 an ounce.

So now it's almost $3,500 an ounce. I think we have room, even though that was 20 plus years ago, but things move faster now, especially when there's an accelerating rate of change, not only because of the historical cycles, but because of the sheer numbers. You know, if you look at the, we mentioned the debt earlier, it's $37 trillion, that's a number that can never be, it'll have to be, like, there'll have to be a clearing of it, like, in order to function, because, you know, the debt ceilings continue to rise, the debt will just start to eat up everything, and they'll have to do a great reset. They already told you they were going to do. So absolutely, Fiat has no bottom, gold and silver and Bitcoin have no top because of that. I mean, you're talking about who diametric, diametrically, opposed ideas. One is finite and houses energy. The other one is a scam that is infinite. And we're going to test reality, you know, basic understanding of how the universe works. If, you know, something is more ubiquitous and, you know, again, just thrown out there, like, and created out of nothing, does the human beings find that to be valuable other than things like oxygen? I mean, but we find that valuable. But, you know, when it comes to everyday life, something that is absolutely

ubiquitous and everywhere, even like information today. Information is ubiquitous and everywhere. I don't think people value it very much. Unfortunately, they clearly don't because they're not smarter. That is very true. Everyone has this general sense of, well, you know, if I need to know something, I can just look it up and it stops them from ever really going and researching beforehand. It's just this continual as I need it mentality. It's always going to be there. And as such, I have no reason to seek it out beforehand. I have no reason to want to go out and learn anything and better myself. Just, you know, well, if I need to learn how to, you know, put a new battery in the car, I'll just go Google it at the time. I'll learn how to change my

other time if I feel the need. There's not this sense of desire to accumulate information or knowledge or figure out things. It's just this, that's a very important. It's a very little. It's a I don't need it. Who cares? Someone else already has that information, and I can get that at my fingertips if necessary. And I know that you've talked about things like this. We've got this headline here. Gold is a key, strategic investment, despite U.S. resilience and Bitcoin's rise. But you've been pointing out that both gold and silver, people are investing in the hard assets. It's back. And, you know, like you said, the Russia story, how they're stocking up on silver. people are not just

crypto's big but countries are moving more towards these metals they're putting them back on the books and that should definitely be assigned to people as well as personally I think the countries

generally tend to do what's going to favor the government and if the government is stacking gold and silver it says something oh it does I mean that's the central banks are buying gold, the governments are putting gold into their strategic reserve

assets and other things like silver, but that's, you know, even commodities, timber. I just saw an article where, you know, certain African countries are, you know, building like a currency model backed by minerals

and other things that are, you know, it could be gold, could be silver, could be diamonds, putting those together to create a stable currency. Because the air of Fiat is, you know, Zimbabwe, it's the trillion-dollar note. And the United States is continuing to double, triple, quadruple down on sanctions. The other thing is driving these countries away into the arms of bricks and those systems.

And you can see with the Belt and Road Initiative and what China's done, playing a very smart, long game looking for rare earth minerals, commodities, in an age of, you know, the end of Fiat and to something else, which I think that's going to be the order of. the day and a lot of the bubbles that are in the stock markets and other things around the world that will be there'll be a reckoning eventually yeah it's uh just well maybe slightly outside my own lifetime but borderline within my lifetime we've had both zimbabwe and venezuela and both of them have had just runaway currency collapse and it's funny to me that more

people didn't look at that and go well what what makes their economy so different from ours why can't that happen here. And the truth is, really nothing. Just the fact that the American government has had more pull on the global stage, that it's more powerful. The Federal Reserve has some slightly smarter people that are able to manipulate things a little bit better for their own advantages. But the truth is, there's nothing that stops a Venezuela or Zimbabwe scenario from playing out, because that is the natural end state of these currencies. And the fact that more people haven't looked at it and gone, huh, has always kind of shocked me. You know, a lot of people just look at money and they go, well, you know, money's weird. You know, it's just these pieces of paper

and they have a general sense that the dollar is this kind of phony system. But they don't go all the way with it. They don't fully think about what that actually implies. And again, just it's all ever since, I don't know, whenever I figured out when I was younger, there's always been this slight anxiety in the back of my mind, just, well, how long until we are Zimbabwe? When does that happen? And of course, there's no real way to tell because there's so many different people with their fingers on the scales, and the system is so immensely complex. But eventually, with, as you said, the $30-something trillion in debt, and some people even put it as high as $150 trillion, you know, it has to happen eventually. There's no way out of this.

It's an astronomical number that's impossible to get rid of. Yeah, and I think it's a low probability that we'd be something like Zimbabwe or Venezuela, and that's mainly because of the entrenchment of the dollar around the world. So I'm not a doomsdayer when it says, oh, there's going to be, you know, Weimar and Republic style, you know, inflation with wheelbarrows full of cash to buy a loan for brand or whatever. I don't see that, but I do see the massive amount of change that has to happen. in order for there to be a great reset. A lot of people are going to get left behind.

There will be massive austerity. The people are going to get wiped out. There's going to be a great swath of people that played by the old rules that are going to lose and lose big time. So I think there will be a class of people to do really well. And we've always seen them do well. That's why I think BlackRock embrace Bitcoin and Larry's thinking those guys. I still hang a question mark over that. Not exactly sure why, but I think it has something to do.

with stable coins stravis i think it has something to do with what they want to build digitally with the public private partnership of stable coins and the dollar and of a backdoor cbdc so they can control uh contract and expand the money supply in real time i think that will that's ultimately uh one of their goals along with surveillance and other things um but the economic system will change not necessarily because there will be an absolute collapse of the dollar to zero it'll be a collapse of the dollar to digital. Yeah, that is their goal. As you pointed out, my dad's pointed out, and we've talked about the tracking ability that comes with stable coins, the ability to shut off your entire bank account and just completely deprive you of any ability to pay for

things. To interact with the economy at all is what they really want. It comes with surveillance. It comes with debanking built in. It's the ultimate tool for them. I know we're just about out of time. You've already stayed 10 minutes over. I've got a few more comments that I'd like to get through if you're up for it. Got it. Fantastic. Dougalug says, the gold back is a great idea, easy to collect, and easy to use

for barter, just like silver. And of course, you have been putting people onto the gold backs for quite a few years now. I love goldbacks. It gives you because the gold has gotten so expensive, I can't put it, and we used to be able to almost, I

We fit a gram of gold for a limited time back. Well, first started walking back into the Warrior Wolves at 125. I can't do that any. The cost is almost that. Yeah. We can't do that. So goldbacks makes it a lot easier for people to get some actual 24-caron, you know, gold. And those are those notes that they use gold.

Gold's very valuable. I think you can take, I was reading something every day. I try to look up a gold. fact, but I think you can take an ounce of gold, and because gold's so malleable, you can, you can spin an ounce of gold out about 50 miles with one single thread, something like that. It's an amazing metal. Yeah, it's an amazing metal with how much elasticity it has and malubility. It has a very, very interesting metal.

There's really nothing like it. So that's where they're able to make those kind of notes. And we put those in the gold notes, the gold backs. we put them in the Warrior Wolves at 125 and the loans. And even in the kids, Wolfcup gets a gold bat. And that's another reason you should go to Davidnight.gold and start getting some for yourself. Tunnel Lord 1337 says if we really wanted to revive the economy, we would be removing all the unconstitutional regulations on every aspect of our lives.

That would immediately reduce the price of things. Additionally, should allow private banks to make their own fiat so Americans can stop using the dollar that is devalued each year. it was a when my family and I went to China to adopt my sister when we were in Hong Kong they allowed each bank

to issue their own currency so you would have just a mishmash collection of random different bills with different colorations and fields and people on them and it was very interesting to see and their economy was booming they were doing just fine

and DG8 says can you ask Tony about XRP It's been pointed out to me It's the only crypto that is a business partner With the World Economic Forum I don't own any XRP I've looked into it I'm sure I could have made money off of it

Somebody will I own a few different cryptos And that's from like a relic of Five years ago I'm mainly just buy Bitcoin That's the only crypto that I really believe in at this time And it's not that some others aren't good like them some privacy coins i like but just economically and the way that i run my business i use

bitcoin uh xrp will do something i mean they're they're funneling it into the system as a as a clearing currency like between banks and there's some interesting technology there i'm not against other cryptos i don't like i'm not a a total bitcoin maximalist where i think that every other coin is garbage i just know my wheelhouse i stick with that so i'm i'm bitcoin only right now but that's certainly uh i mean it's i've watched the price of it i you know i hold some for a customer of mine so i'd look at the you know the app every day so i see the price going um and it has fluctuated backup i think it was over three bucks for xrp the other day um down a little bit today maybe but um yeah it's something to watch they're definitely integrating

that with the system like this like you talk about the world action on the forum and they're going to, they're going to, you know, use other cryptos. And Ethereum will be one of those that they use as well. Yeah, they're digging their hooks into the digital realm. They're warming their way in. And there's, that's one of those things. No matter what system you implement, these people will try to find a way into it. It doesn't matter how perfectly you build it. Eventually, someone will find a way to exploit it. But some are better than others. And they're worth looking into. They're worth getting outside of the Fiat dollar as much as you can is always a good idea, in my opinion. Well, Tony, I want to thank you for being on the show. I want to thank you for hosting

the show tomorrow. In case people are just tuning in, Tony Arderburn will be hosting the David Knight Show tomorrow. And as he pointed out, it is the anniversary of, you said Nixon taking us off the gold standard, right? Or off the gold standard. So it's a fortuitous event. We didn't play in it that way, but that's how it works out. And you've got a show. coming up after this so let the people know where they can find you tony you can find me my website is tony dot gold if uh if you want to go find my website all my shows and links to everything that i do and uh yeah we'll be live over on the america unplug channel uh on rumble and on my ex at tony arderburn go go find us there will be uh 12 p m eastern 11 a m central time going

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As I said, we're going to look at what's going on with tariffs. Trump releases video of Peter Navarro explaining history. behind the tariffs. The history is Trump is a petulant, petulant man, and he wants to penalize people. He likes to bully people. He likes to swagger around. What is the history behind tariffs?

Tariffs are tax and taxation is fact. History over. That is your history lesson with Lance. Tune in for more brief history lessons. President Donald Trump released a video White House Senior Counselor for trade to manufacturing Peter Navarro explaining the history behind tariffs and a post on truth social again so nobody saw it this again his private walled garden that he sits in and posts to where only his most loyal sycophants are Trump posted a video in which

Navarro explained out people such as Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay have advocated for tariffs throughout history of the United States Alexander Hamilton of course not being one of the founding fathers you'd want to emulate. Navarro noted now how Hamilton believed that the U.S. needed tariffs to defend its young industries from British domination. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn. Ha-ha, that's a good joke. That's a great joke. Trumponomic's goal is not only to reduce America's trade deficit, it is to defend American workers in factories,

against unfair trade practices while encouraging trillions of dollars to invest in new American plants and equipment. Well, I don't think you really can compete with the unfair trade practices of China. They use literal slave labor. You're not going to be able to beat them on pricing. Don't frag me, bro.

If we had a strong manufacturing base, the tariffs could be a positive with the weak manufacturing base we have. It is punishment. And, of course, the way I see it, it's the best method of taxing people if you must tax them, since, you know, it helps encourage growth in the country rather than importing stuff, but it's still a tax. And slapping them on top of the already existing mountain of taxes is a tremendous burden.

Yes. Navarro continued to explain how Alexander Hamilton was the original, architect of the American economic nationalism and my dad was talking about it said he was talking about this wacko and Thomas Jefferson was not a fan of Alexander Hamilton at all said he could fund the government on tariff taxes because it was small enough Thomas Jefferson famously said who among you can say they know the tax man? The government has to be incredibly small for the tariffs to actually be able to fund it. Guard Goldsmith says Navarro doesn't grasp at the tariffs are on U.S., not the people in foreign nations.

Or maybe that's us. Maybe it, that would make more sense. That is true. We are going to be the ones paying the tariffs. We are the ones that are going to have it passed along. companies don't just eat cost they will pass it along to the consumer guard goldsmith says and of ours claim of unfair trade is a malleable term that anyone can use to accuse a consumer of buying what the politician doesn't want him to buy these people love their malleable terms

they like things that aren't rock solid so they can be applied in whatever way they see fit at the time guard goldsmith says a trade is by definition fair the parties uh and it decide yeah if the parties both parties agree and i have come to a reasonable conclusion and they're both happy that's a fair trade henry clay carried hamilton's vision forward navarro continued his american system prioritized three things a strong national bank oh boy major infrastructure investment investment and above all protective tariffs. And of course, take note of the fact that Hamilton wanted a strong central bank. He was, we're dealing with the consequences of a strong central bank now.

If he had gotten his way and started it sooner, we might have already collapsed by now. President Trump's trade agenda, especially his bold use of tariffs, draws along the long line of economic nationalism, Navarro said, from Hamilton to Clay, From Lincoln to McKinley. What wonderful people? Hamilton, one of the worst founding fathers, a not someone to emulate, Clay, right in there with him. Lincoln, one of the worst tyrants the United States has ever seen,

presided over the War of Northern Aggression, one of the most ambitious, grasping men of his time, possibly the most. McKinley, who, I admittedly don't know much of anything about. McKinley is one of those ones that's just there. My dad pointed out you could also add Woodrow Wilson into that group. But that's a rogues gallery. That's not people you want to look at and go, ah, yes.

These are men to emulate. These are people I should base my life upon. Lincoln was a horrible man. Now President Donald John Trump, you can put him right in that rogue's gallery. as well. In fact, other than Lincoln, he's probably killed more Americans than anyone else with his jab. In fact, he might be beating Lincoln. It's hard to say because the numbers are hard to track. The Civil War killed a massive percentage of the population. But Donald Trump might be right up there with him. When it comes to killing Americans, Lincoln and Donald

Trump are in a class of their own. First, build American industry, protect American sovereignty. This is the heart of the America First Agenda. It's not new. It's certainly not radical. It's the most American economic policy in history. Five leaders, one philosophy, make tariffs great again. Make America great again. My dad has pointed out these people, Trump and Navarro,

are dangerously stupid and dangerously authoritarian and corrupt. We've got to make taxes great again. The taxes are already pretty great in the sense that there is a great number of them. They are large. They are overwhelming. Don't frag me, bro. When nothing is made here substantially, then tariffs are just another tax on we the people. And not really the one making the garbage being imported.

KWD68 says tarifflation. Of course, I am not a fan of consumerism. I understand where people are coming from and they say, well, people don't need to be buying all this junk made in China anyway. I agree. We don't need all this stuff we buy. We don't need another IKEA furniture piece. We don't need another dood from China. But it's not just those needless doodads that are going to be affected.

It's going to be everything. It's going to be across the board. Your car dies and can't be fixed. Well, it's going to be a lot more expensive to buy a new car. something goes wrong with your refrigerator, it conks out on you? Well, that's going to go up to washing machine, dryer. Same there. Eventually, it's going to trickle through everything. It's not just the things that we don't really need. It's going to impact everything. Assyrian girl, cart before the horse, incentivize industry to return to the country and then impose

tariffs. We don't like doing things in the proper order here in the United States. She goes, on history of terrorists is also that they only work when a people can produce what they need domestically. We used to be in that boat. In a de-industrialized nation, tariffs will be the final knife to cut us to pieces. It is going to destroy a lot of people. It is going to make life miserable. It's going to continue the trend of making life unaffordable. And yes, there would be some advantages of tariffs if we had a strong manufacturing base here, but only in the sense of they would be the least onerous tax. It would be good to replace other taxes with tariffs, but even if we had a strong

manufacturing base, there's still going to be some imports. So tariffs are still going to be a tax on the American people. American people are always the one. The country that imposes the tariff is the one that ends up paying for the people of that nation, as was pointed out. Knights of the Storm, good to see you, Jason, hope you're doing well. They talk about a trade imbalance, but that's because it's not profitable to produce things here to trade. As I pointed out, China uses slave labor. Many countries around the globe do as well. That's why they're able to manufacture things so cheaply. You cannot compete with slave labor here in the United States. if you do you simply create a slave class here basically people that can't really afford to live

that's part of the reason that people have been utilizing illegal immigrant workers for so long it cuts down on costs massively you don't have to pay taxes for them and you can hold it over their heads to some extent you can say well you're not going to get a full paycheck because you know i don't have to be a shame if someone were to report you to ice be a shame if someone fired you and got you deported. So you're going to work for whatever I say. It gives them a built-in underclass that they can exploit. Knights of the Storm, they should start with deregulation

and reducing taxation here. Yes, exactly, like an angry tiger pointed out. Of course, you can check out Knights of the Storm, a nights of the storm.com, an Angry Tiger there as well, and with his tiger and snake report. Angry Tiger pointed out, if we were really serious about growing the economy,

Just get rid of the ridiculous number of regulations that are on everything that make it impossible to actually run a business, that make things much more difficult for everyone. Night to the Storm, whatever happened to the promise of a postcard-sized tax form, wasn't Trump going to simplify taxes his first term? Promises made, promises you should forget about them. Just the auto industry alone could save America. If we could get rid of all the safety mandates and efficiency requirements, a small, simple car produced here could be a strong, export. The sheer number of mandates on the auto industry is ludicrous. The things they have to comply with is a huge reason the cost of cars has gone through the roof. You've got to comply with emissions mandates, safety standards, all kinds of different things, which may or may not

have any basis in reality. The emissions ones sure don't. Some of the safety standards are also made up nonsense as well. Well, what if you can't handle this exact scenario that doesn't ever really happen. Well, then, sorry, your car doesn't make it to market. This is from Newsweek. Did Trump deliver Democrats dream corporate tax? Experts weigh in. The deep state keeps on rolling. It gets what it wants. Under Trump, under Biden, under Obama, the same power players are there. The faceless bureaucrats. Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, started, startled political observers this week by urging Democrats to thank the president for doing what they have

never been able to do. Impose a revenue skim on two America's most profitable tech companies. He said, hey, at AOC, at Bernie Sanders, at Senator Schumer, at Senator Warren, every dem should be thanking at POTUS for doing what the Dems have dreamed of doing, but have never been able to do. If you've been posted on X on August 11th, he's going to generate corporate tax revenue that you guys only wish you could pass. creating a sales tax on two of the biggest semi-companies in the country. And, of course, doing it by executive order like a dictator would. Funny how that goes.

It's funny how often you could say this. Hey, he's passing the lockdown restrictions that you all wished you could pass for so long. Or, hey, he's passing all these massive debt increases that you've all wanted. It seems to be a way of life for Donald Trump. It's almost like he's a New York Democrat. It's almost like that, isn't it? It's almost like all the things he says are simply lies to get his base fired up. Cuban was referring to a new Trump administration deal requiring the leading chipmakers

Nvidia and AMD to pay the U.S. government 15% of revenue from sales. Certain artificial intelligence chips to China, a condition for receiving export licenses. And of course, this isn't... Companies will comply in the moment, but if you're not... If you think this is going to be something they don't find a way around, you're crazy. Well, the White House has avoided calling it a tax. Cuban labeled it a billionaire sales tax and the ultimate wealth tax, framing it as the kind of corporate levy progressives have long advocated for, but failed to deliver.

And again, I know I've mentioned this before, but part of the reason that people tend to like Donald Trump is because people like Mark Cuban are utterly insufferable. Every time you see a video of him, he's a pomp. pompous fool, and he has spent a lot of time criticizing Trump so people see that and go, well, I dislike Mark Cuban, and as such, I like Trump. The whole, you may know a man by his enemy's statement, doesn't hold as much water as it used to. The deal marks a sharp departure from standard export control practices. Traditionally, companies apply for export licenses without paying a percentage of their sales to the government, but under this arrangement, the Commerce

Department will grant licenses for NVIDIA's H-20 and AMD's MI309 chips, lower-performance versions of their top AI semiconductors tailored to meet prior U.S. security restrictions, but under the unusual conditions that the companies hand over 15% of revenues generated from those sales. analysts estimate the policy could generate up to $3 billion annually for the Treasury. That's pocket change in the context of a $7 trillion. federal budget, but significant in terms of precedent. He took 15% of equity from a company Cuban wrote on X. That is the ultimate wealth tax, a progressive dream. Of course, as I said, it's because, as my dad has said for years, he's a New York tax and spend Democrat. That's all

he is. That's all he ever was. This is who he is at his heart. He's a pal of the Clintons. He's He's a pal of Epstein. He simply said what was expedient to get himself elected because he knew people would eat it up. He knew that the American working class had been kicked and spit on for so many years that if you were to even pay lip service to them, they would rally behind you.

You don't necessarily have to accomplish anything for them. If you simply stand there and say, I'm going to do stuff, if you promise things, if you actually pay attention to them, they'll rally because what's the other alternative some other guy that is actively telling you that you're the scum of the earth that you're the problem that you're the reason everything is awful it makes sense i know i know all of us here are no fans of donald trump that we all think he is a a mass murderer based on what he's done however when you look at it in that context it's easy

understand why people who don't think about these things, who don't dive deeper, who don't really pay attention to more than headlines, could rally behind him, could vote for the man after what he did. If they don't actually pay attention, all they see is a guy that is promising them a better life, saying, you know what, you're not the problem. It's the same sort of reason Andrew Tate is popular with young men. It's, and again, I'm not saying this to justify their actions, but if you don't understand why people do things, it's hard to make them stop doing it. Cuban, who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, argued that Democrats have been too dogmatic in pushing traditional tax hikes instead of exploring unconventional leverage points. They are so intent on

income and wealth taxes on oligarchs, they have no concept of leverage in business, he said. Trump, does. And of course, Trump is continually growing government and setting awful new precedence. Isn't that wonderful? He's got a unique mind. He sees things in different ways. He's found interesting new ways to create leverage on these companies. Look at all the policies that we've wanted to push through for ages and weren't able to. And Trump is just pushing it all through, even though he's a Republican. What a shock. How could it be that a Republican did this? For decades, Democrats have pushed to make big corporations pay their fair share

through higher corporate tax rates, windfall profit taxes, and even wealth taxes on billionaires. Yet those proposals rarely make it through Congress, even when it's controlled by Democrats. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act imposed a 15% minimum tax on large corporations' book income, but more ambitious corporate tax heights, hikes, have failed. is more progressive when it comes to taxation than anyone the progressive wing of the Dems has ever been. The Dems should be celebrating just how progressive it is, Cuban wrote on X. The irony. Or is it the plan? I think it's the plan. And I'm sure most of you would agree. This isn't ironic. It's what they wanted from the start.

While Cuban celebrated the chip scheme is clever, U.S. Representative Raja Krishna-Morthy. Another good, classic American family, the Krishna Morthy's. Of course, they were there at the beginning with the founding fathers. We couldn't have done it without them. And as such, it makes sense why he's a U.S. representative. Saw it as a dangerous misstep. The top Democrat on the House, China Select Committee told Newsweek the administration was taking one of our most important national security tools, export controls,

and twisting them into a pay-to-play scheme with no clear legal authority, congressional oversight, or transparency. So business as usual. This is how things are done. understand. This guy's acting like this is something out of the blue, but this is just how the government operates. A pay-to-play scheme with no clear legal authority, congressional oversight or transparency. Yeah, that's just simply how it's done nowadays. Why is he complaining? This is everything that happens in Washington. It's one part of the government doing something they're not supposed to

with no oversight or transparency for the others. You cannot treat something as both a national security threat and a revenue opportunity without signaling to Beijing that our principles and national security are for sale. Well, they've been for sale to China for years now. That's a known quantity. Of course, Jared Salente, when he's on, has frequently talked about Bill Clinton selling us out to China. They've sold us out to China. They've sold us out to Israel.

Basically anyone with enough money, if you come in and you have the right amount of money and the right amount of influence, they'll basically hand over. or whatever you want. Oh, you're going to make me mega rich? And you're going to screw over the American people? Well, good golly, where do I sign? They can't sell out fast enough. Department attorney agreed.

The arrangement is inconsistent with constitutional provisions. Oh, now we're going to start worrying about the Constitution. Really? This is when we're going to care? Reserving taxing power to Congress and prohibiting export duties. You're calling it a fee, scissors added. plain language says 15% of sales revenue is a tax. And, of course, my dad pointed out, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 5, prohibits taxing exports.

But they don't care. They simply do not care. The Constitution is simply a piece of paper, and they choose to ignore it whenever possible. I think that's a bigger deal than a lot of people are giving it credit for because it's pretty explicit in how it bans it. Like, you know, with, say, for instance, Obama with the birth certificate, like, you know, he had to go through the big elaborate thing of pretending to bend the knee to it. And there are other places where they are going against very clearly written wording. The Second Amendment always comes to mind. Anytime someone's like, but the Constitution is like, look what they did with the Senate.

Second Amendment says shall not be infringed. It really couldn't be plainer, but they just simply don't care. Yeah, but this is a whole new thing that has never been infringed before. They're taking a clear thing, and without any, like, good excuse even, they're just going right, steamrolling right over the Constitution going against what it explicitly states. To be it, it's just a, this is business as usual. This is business as usual. This is how things get done in Washington now. Don't let the Constitution. Why would the law of the land stop you from doing anything? Whether this move remains an isolated maneuver or signals a new model for extracting corporate revenue could hinge on how the courts or Congress respond.

Critics like Kitri note that Article 1 of the Constitution prohibits export taxes and reserves taxing authority for Congress, which could make the 15% revenue skim vulnerable to legal challenges. But we'll probably see Congress roll over and die on it. Most of the people in Congress were probably jumping for joy. Oh man, he did it for us? Finally. Article 1, Section 9 prohibits the imposition of export taxes or duties, as we read.

15% arrangement would appear to be exactly that. That's prohibited to both Congress and the executive branch. Julian Chase, a trade law professor at City University of Hong Kong, told Newsweek such a case could attract multiple countries to join a WTO World Trade Organization. Challenge framing it as a dangerous precedent for trying to export licenses to revenue transfers. We'll wait and see how that goes.

I'm curious to see how it ends up. If I was a betting man, which I'm not, I would say Congress rolls over and dies. They're like, oh, well, this is, they'll roll someone out, they'll make a speech, they'll say something about how it's an overreach of power or something or other. But then

nothing will change. It'll stay there and it'll live in perpetuity. Knights of the Storm, people put a lot of emotion to Trump and they don't want to admit they were wrong. It's good money after bad. Yeah, sunk cost fallacy. Well, you know, surely he'll do something for us.

I have voted for him twice. He's got to, he's going to hold up his end of the bargain. He has to. high boost i've said that for years i don't know why dim voters hate trump dem by dim he means dem voters he has done more to further dim ideology than any other dim potus yeah they're all very dim one of the things is that the marxist leftist ideology is a very grasping cynical stupid ideology it appears it appeals very heavily to the sin nature of man it attracts the again i don't want to it attracts generally the worst members of society the people that want to steal and take and rob

people that don't want to work it's a very hard ideology to combat because it appeals so heavily to the sin nature of man it's something that can can very easily slot in right there. What you mean, I'm entitled to this? I'm entitled to that. You'll just use the government to take this for me? Well, that sounds good to me. It's a very difficult ideology to work against, unless you have a base of people that are morally grounded in scripture in the Bible. This Trump tariff could increase America's trade deficit. The article is about how Trump's tariffs on Switzerland could increase America's trade deficit

and how Switzerland's nearly tariff-free trade with the U.S. was disrupted by Trump's tariffs leading to a potential cancellation of a 38.3 billion F-35 fighter jet order. This cancellation would further exacerbate the trade deficit with Switzerland. What are we? Are we importing that many cuckoo clocks and that much chocolate?

What is Switzerland export besides that? I'm not too big on Swiss lore. What does America export besides from bombs and weapons and fighter jets? Terrible, terrible influencers. They are a plague on the planet, and we export them all over the world. So literally everything that America sends to other countries is terrible and destructive. Switzerland might respond to Trump's double-digit reciprocal tariff by canceling its multi-billion dollar F-35 order. And of course, as Lance pointed out, what else do we export besides bombs?

What else is there? If they cancel the war orders, they don't have anything else they'd want to buy. In July, Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland. Of course, he was using the Navarro formula. More than double the 15% rate to which its European Union neighbors are subjected making, marking a sharp departure from the American Swiss trading relationship. The tariffs went into effect last week. on August 7th, the average tariff rate that the U.S.

objected Swiss imports to was 2.21% in 2022. It was recent year for which data are available, according to the World Bank. Switzerland's average tariff rate on American goods was even lower, a mere 0.52%. In January 2024, Switzerland abolished all industrial tariffs, resulting in a 99.3%. American goods entering the country, tariff-free,

according to Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. but of course the MAGA media is still saying tariffs didn't raise any prices there's nothing going on it's great everything is great despite Switzerland's nearly

completely laissez-faire trading relationship with the U.S. Trump complained of a $41 billion deficit with Switzerland during an August 5th interview on CNBC's squawk box Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the American Swiss goods deficit in 2024 was not quite that high, $38.3 billion. However, this figure excludes trade services between two countries, which accounted for a trade surplus of $29.7 billion in favor of America. The total trade deficit then was approximately $8.6 billion or 21% of Trump's inflated claim.

Of course, Trump and Navarro can't do math. They can't figure this stuff out. policies have made his deficit worse since he took office in January. U.S. Census Bureau of data shows a nearly 48 billion goods deficit with Switzerland, accumulated from January to June, 390% greater than the January 2024 to June 2024 deficit of 9.8 billion. By introducing volatility in global markets, Trump is partially responsible for widening the deficit in goods trade with Switzerland. The New York Times reports that surging demand for gold in the United States is Mr. Trump threatened to upend the global trading order fueled a spike in Swiss gold imports.

Ah, ah, so that's what we're importing from Switzerland. Gold, so it's not just chocolate and cuckoo clocks. That makes all the sense in the world. Of course, being facetious. Politico reports that Swiss lawmakers are considering canceling the country's orders of 36F35 fighter jets, which would widen the goods deficit further. Switzerland entered the $6 billion $7.5 billion deal

in 2021, but was told by the U.S. in July that additional cost to the original price tag will range between CHF 650 CHF 650 million, $850 million, and CHF $1.3 billion, $1.6 billion due to higher material costs

and inflation, according to swissinfo.c. Fittingly enough, these higher material costs are partially attributable to Trump's tariffs, which he imposed on countries that export F-35 components to the U.S. Like the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Denmark, and Norway. Trump exacerbated the trade deficit with Switzerland by unintentionally encouraging Americans to hedge against economic instability with Swiss gold. Trump's 39% tariffs against Switzerland may very well increase the very deficit he seeks to reduce.

If Swiss lawmakers reduce or cancel their multi-billion dollars, F-35 deal. And this was from Reason magazine. This is our leader. This is our wonderful president in acting as an economic policy. Is the guy who's bankrupt casinos before. This is who is calling the shots.

So, isn't that wonderful? Isn't that just grand? We get the economic policies of a man who couldn't even keep casinos up and running. that's who we're dealing with we're going to take a quick break we don't have much time left but i do need some water we're going to look at what's going on with ukraine in the few minutes that we have left syrian girl says trump's trade deficit mathematics are a dramatic example of why central planning will never work there is no one person that is smart enough to plan the economy

there's no one person that can keep track of all the moving parts it is simply impossible a Syrian girl is right. And as she points out, this really is a dramatic example. And we're going to keep feeling the ripple effects from this for a long time. Stay with us, folks. We will be right back. I'm not you're going to be. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to

I'm the I'm going I'm I'm I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. We're going to be able to be.

Making sense common again. Making sense, common again. You're listening to the The David Knight Show. Welcome back, folks, in the few minutes you've got left. We'll take a little bit of a look at Ukraine, but I do want to, again, thank Tony for hosting on Friday. As I said, we're going to be redoing the studio, and that should mean that starting Monday,

David will be back. We'll be back in studio. I'll be side chair, probably making snarky comments while he does all the real work. I'm excited to, once again, turn my brain on. and be nothing but comic relief that's that's what I'm aiming for yeah it's the good life exactly I'm planning on coasting after this folks but David will be back on Monday that's the goal once we get the studio worked out so be excited for that he will be back and you'll get the insightful commentary that he is wonderful at providing cannot wait even if it means tearing this

rat's nest of wires down and reordering everything. Uh, that's a sacrifice. I'm willing to have Lance make. I'm excited to sit around and direct him on where to put things and not contribute in any meaningful fashion as the studio gets rebuilt. That is my goal here. But be excited for Monday. He'll be back and I know I'm excited for it. But let's take a brief look at Ukraine in a little bit of time we've got left. Trump warns of severe consequences if Russia doesn't stop Ukraine war after Putin meeting. There will be severe consequences. The consequences have never been more severe, Putin. I promise they're going to be severe. Very severe consequences, Putin. Does he really think he's like a child that he can just scold? Like, there will be consequences, young man.

They're going to be severe. You're going to be putting time out, Putin. Slensky's warned Trump and European leaders that Putin is bluffing to pressure Ukraine before the Alaska summit amid intensified Russian advances with 69% of Ukrainians favoring negotiations. Trump spoke at the Kennedy Center in Washington on August 13th, 2025. Warning of very severe consequences of Putin does not cease the Ukraine war. Far cry of his promise of day one ending the conflicts. Kiev planning false flag attack at a Trump-Pooten summit. This is from R.A.T.

Russia's Ministry of Defense is alleged that the Ukrainian government is preparing a high-profile provocation intended to derail the upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart. According to Moscow, the plan involves staging an attack in a frontline city and blaming it on Russian forces in order to create

damaging international media narratives. On April 1st, 2022, the Zelensky government accused the Russian military massacring civilians in the town of Bukka, near Kiev. So it was kind of an April fool's prank, huh? Well, this is how things are done in this day and age. It's not enough to simply wage war. You've got to have some false flags thrown in there as well. So we'll wait

and see what happens. I don't expect much from this summit, as I've said. If Zelensky is not at the table, what can Trump and Putin really hash out? Unless Trump agrees to stop sending munitions and arms to Ukraine, then it means nothing. And I don't think they're going to do that. I don't think there's any chance Trump is going to stop that money machine. Zelensky is enriching himself, his wife gets to go to the French Riviera, as more Ukrainians bleed out and die on the battlefield. And of course, that's the way these wars always end up playing out, aren't they? A few people get massively wealthy, and the people of the countries suffer.

And it is a terrible thing to see. We've seen it play out in Iraq and Afghanistan. our soldiers come back damaged and broken their countries were destroyed and for what for what guard goldsmith says the buca false flag was shocking literally killing their own people these people are monsters Zelensky is a monster the people he has surrounded himself with our monsters our governments are filled with them they are completely and utterly unlike us they have no shared values they will kill their own people. They will poison them with vaccines.

And that's how they continue to get away with it. Because we ascribe to them some level of humanity. Surely they're not so unlike us. Surely they wouldn't do this because I would never do this. But they would. As I said, Tony will be hosting the show tomorrow. So tune in for that. God bless you all.

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