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Visitez Shingrix.ca. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 27th of August, year of our Lord, 2024. Well, we're going to take a quick look at free speech and free speech in the United States. And we're going to take a look at what it takes to really win this war. And guess what? It begins at home. It begins with our children. We have to start taking a longer view of this,

and we need to take back our society. We take it back from the ground up, and that means from our children first. We're going to take a look at the pandemic. They're ramping this thing up again. Little measures that are being taken in various places. You know, we have a, they're going to enforce a voluntary lockdown up in Massachusetts. What does that mean? A voluntary lockdown. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Thank you. Well, we now have the charges that are being brought against the CEO of Telegram. And as Alam Bakari says, a couple of thoughts.

He says, based on this criteria, any CEO of any social media or encrypted messaging platform can be arrested. It's similar to what they do with cryptocurrency. Remember the narrative being put out by all the people who wanted to ban Bitcoin, all cryptocurrencies, so that they could push through their CBDC. Well, part of it, part of the narrative that was going to be the official narrative was power consumption. But then ai large language models kind of blew that out of the water but then the other part of it was going to be well

you know cryptocurrencies used for crime so is the internet so are telephones so is everything cash is used for crime remember and when they started doing that we said well you know you could all these arguments that you're making about how people, you know, deal anonymously. That's the crime they're after. They want to get rid of anonymity and privacy. That's what this is all about. This is not about the other crimes. The crimes have always been there and will always be there there'll be one way to uh exchange this whether or not they have cash whether or not they have

cryptocurrency and of course the cash is more anonymous than the cryptocurrency is there's only two cryptocurrencies that are anonymous that's monero and pirate coin all the rest of them are far more visible in terms of transactions than cash is or gold and silver right but uh you know when when you make these arguments and you say well because some people committed a crime and they did it by passing messages back and forth or they did it because it was um cash available or because there was cryptocurrency available. Anybody can be arrested for that. It's a total nonsense justification. And Alam Bakari, I have a lot of respect for him.

He used to work for Breitbart. I don't think he does anymore. I think he's doing something else. I should get him on. He was the one, by the way, who, when the social media censorship began, he pointed out the Marsh v. Alabama court case of 1946 that I've referred to so many times, where somebody was handing out religious tracts in the public square that was privately owned. And the Supreme Court in 1946 says, even if the public square is privately owned, it's still the public square, and you can't cens that speech this person took it all the way to the supreme court and won and they were right and social media is the digital public square and they should be given protection against this

with section 230 i mean the whole idea of section 230 was that these people are not publishers they're simply a digital public square. And if somebody's putting something up that they don't like, if it's criminal or if it's hate speech, they say, or speech that they hate, the person running the platform is not going to be held responsible. But they twist that. They twisted Section 230 just like they twisted FISA. FISA was supposed to say,

you're not going to spy on Americans. And you're not even going to spy on foreign citizens in America without a search warrant. So get a warrant. Oh, well, we need to be able to do that in foreign countries, to foreigners in foreign countries. So let's create a FISA court. And then they use the FISA court

to get a search warrant for Mr. and Mrs. Verizon. A blanket warrant, a general warrant, which was exactly the reason why we have the Fourth Amendment. But anyway, Lama Bakari says, based on this criteria, what has been published, you could charge any CEO of any social media company or any encrypted messaging platform, and I would add also any crypto. Durov left Russia because the government tried to control his platform and i would add also any crypto uh durov left russia because the government tried to control his platform and spy on his users france is loudly telling the world

that it is no better and now there's the united states now there's any country in europe and so these are the charges that are brought against him from the tribunal judiciaire de Paris, right? And so, has a certain Jacobin ring to it, doesn't it? This judicial investigation was opened against a person unnamed on charges of complicity, complicity, web mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction, an organized group. This is Silk Road Part 2.

I'm surprised nobody else has made that connection. I haven't seen anybody making that connection. This is precisely what they did to Ross Ulbricht. You're running a website and people are using it to do criminal activity. Well, you could say that about... And you're using Bitcoin. Again, you could say that about cash. You could say that about um and you're using bitcoin again you could say that about cash you could say that about anything in our society anything is pretty much uh co-opted

for criminal use especially the government you know we created the government for this part and it's being hijacked by a bunch of criminals who are running the worst crimes in history you're talking about running drugs and trafficking kids the trafficking kids at the border they're running the worst crimes in history you talk about running drugs and trafficking kids the trafficking kids at the border they're running drugs to fund their secret wars they started wars they've run coups and assassinations and everything so don't talk to me about criminal organizations uh refusal to communicate at the request of competent authorities they said well they actually were working with them, they thought. Complicity, possessing pornographic images of minors.

Complicity in distributing, offering, or making available pornographic images. Complicity, acquiring, transporting, possessing. Every one of these is prefaced with complicity. I think they're overusing that word. By the way, you keep using that word. I don't think you know what it means. Just like they constantly throw the charges out of conspiracy.

Conspiracy is the most heavily alleged crime. They use it to pad things up so people will confess to the, what they really wanted to get them for in the first place. They'll do a plea bargain. Complicity of offering, selling, or making available without legitimate reason. Equipment, tools, programs, or data designed or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system. So it's okay if you've got a legitimate reason.

In other words, it's okay if the government does all that stuff. Complicity. Organized fraud. And then criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by five or more years of imprison laundering of the proceeds derived from the organized groups offenses and crimes providing cryptology services aimed to ensure confidentiality providing a cryptology tool and on and on i mean this is um this is what they're coming after the CEO of Telegram for.

Well, is it any better in the United States? Let's take it from that really high level, the international level of this large platform. It has around a billion users. I mean, there's 900 million active users and 1.5 billion total users so let's take it from that from the international global perspective let's take it down to the city council level and we have a um a recording of a um person who is uh um in ari. The town is called Surprise, Arizona. Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for benefits and credits

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pending legal review that I am entitled to request. I've got to interrupt you here because okay, are you going to stop the timer? This is the public meeting forum that you agree to when you speak, and I want to read this to you. That there are oral communications during the city council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the city or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by the name or by any other reference that tends to identify him or her. What about redressing grievances? I'm in violation of my First Amendment rights. So that's, well, this is your warning, okay? Warning for what? A warning for attacking the city attorney personally.

This is all factual information. It doesn't matter. You're violating my First Amendment rights. This is what you agreed to when you first speaking. This is the form. It is unconstitutional, Mayor Hall. Well, it's not unconstitutional. It is.

And if you're gonna continue- The Supreme Court is all, I could get up here and I could swear at you for three straight minutes and it is protected speech by the Supreme Court. It is. No, you can't. Why don't you look at case law? No, you can't. I can't.

So- I say you can't. Also the chair is engaged in a case law order. Do you want to be escorted out of here? Do you want to be escorted out of here? Yeah, let's get some goon that'll do whatever I tell him to do. You're violating my First Amendment rights. That's your opinion. It's not a matter of opinion. Do you want to be escorted out, Ms. Massey?

Because that's what's going to happen. And it's going to happen in the future also. Anytime you attack any staff member or any city. That's why. Anytime you attack- That's why you changed the rules. That's why you changed the rules. This has been on the back of this forum. I understand Mayor Hall, but that is completely unconstitutional. No, it's not. You're also engaging in debate and so you should actually be yielding the floor to somebody

else managing. Chief, could you have somebody come down here and escort Ms. Masiak? Really, is that necessary? Yes, I think it is. In front of my 10 year old daughter, you're gonna escort me out for expressing my First Could you have somebody come down here and escort Ms. Masiak? Really? Is that necessary? Yes, I think it is. In front of my 10-year-old daughter, you're going to escort me out for expressing my First Amendment rights? She can go with you. She can go with you. I'm not leaving.

Well. Can you just leave that with me? No. I'm expressing my first. Do not touch me. Do not put your hands on me. Can you just leave that with me? Do not put your hands on me do not put your hands on me come on out

do not put your hands on me come out with me throw her there with the rest of the jane away the six prisoners yeah are you dating me now we're dressing up grievances under what charges okay so i'll say i, I have her same property. Hold on. I have... You cannot talk to me. Yeah, I know. She can go out there.

Okay. Yeah, isn't that great? There's America, right? I'm going to eSession. Now, you know, we can have CEOs of global social media, or we can have an individual who says, I have questions about how much money is being paid to this attorney and i filed all of these uh the these documents to try to get some

information and she's being stonewalled about it and so then the mayor of surprise arizona says you can't talk about this anymore well you know specifically the first amendment which she should have quoted is we have a right to peacefully redress our grievances now as an elected official he took office as all elected officials do in the united states he swore to uphold the constitution as a condition of office and he has already had a lawsuit filed against him and the city a report at the arizona sun times that a lawsuit has been filed over the events of that day uh and um as that one person commented he's warned her from attacking the city attorney personally orders the police to remove her an appalling disregard for the first amendment how

dare you criticize your superiors here she said i have concerns with allocating the more more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons her public requests for records are under review according to them and have been for quite some time uh he is already this lawyer the uh that is she's talking about their city attorney robert wingo already is one of the highest paid city officials in the phoenix region at 265 000 of the report uh the mayor says you're not allowed to make those kind of statements and you saw what happened after that so you know, this is a fight for free speech. And good for her for not yielding. You know, she's going to get muscled out of there by some goon who will do anything that he's told.

By the way, that goon, I'm just following orders. Come on, I'm just doing my job. That's not your job. Your job is to enforce the Constitution. You swore to uphold the Constitution just like that corrupt mayor did. Shame on you. So the organization following the lawsuit said, City of Surprise, we'll see you in court.

This is from FIRE. I forget what the acronym is for FIRE. But it's an organization that focuses on free speech issues and things like that. City of Surprise, we'll see you in court. The First Amendment protects Americans' right to criticize public officials without being arrested. We need to fight this at every instance. And we need to fight it from the bottom up, not just from the top down,

but at the top in the UK. Yvette Cooper, who is the new home secretary for the Labour Marxist Party, right, says we've been too lax on free speech. Got to find some other things we can lock people up for talking about. And so she adds misogyny, hate speech and extremist words. And, of course, they will uh where the parameters of those things are jonathan turley says um in my book the indispensable right free speech in an age of rage i discuss how difficult it is to get a free people to give up freedoms they have to be afraid very afraid and for that reason governments tend to attack free speech during periods of public anger or fear that's right be afraid be very afraid

yeah whether it is a virus or whether it is be afraid of me because i'm going to be coming after you whatever it is they gotta strike fear into your heart so the pattern is playing out yet again in the uk the recent anti-immigration rights have given officials a renewed opportunity to use anti-free speech laws to target those of opposing views but he says this is nothing new he said for years i've written about the decline of free speech. And he gives some examples. In the UK, a man convicted for sending a tweet while drunk, referring to dead soldiers. Convicted.

Sent to jail. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a leprechaun. Prejudice against his height, I guess. People under two feet. Yet another was arrested for singing Kung Fu Fighting. A teenager was arrested for protesting outside a Scientology center with a sign that called the religion a cult.

So truth is no defense, I guess. But I played for you yesterday. That judge with his white powdered wig said he's seen a guy two years in jail for a Facebook post. I remember, and I played it again recently, Rowan Atkinson. And it was about eight or nine years ago.

And they were trying to get some free speech back. And he had a sign behind him that says, go ahead, insult me. I don't want to start locking everybody up because somebody has hurt feelings. We can't do that. Hate speech, in other words. And in it, he was joking about how in the past he had uh comedy routines where you know policemen would just uh make up rules to put people in jail i think you're walking about at night in a shirt that's too loud you know that type of stuff and they were able to get that inserted but you know we have some

pretty good laws protecting free speech as well in the constitution it doesn't stop mayors or cops from doing whatever they wish though right it's a constant fight uh it's not okay anymore to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred toward women, said the Home Secretary. Oh, so does that mean that she's going to do something about the LGBT attacks on J.K. Rowling? No, no. They call her a TERF, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. In other words, it's a woman who says, wait a minute,

we're being trampled on by the trans crowd. Oh, well, then you're a TERF. And so they've come after J.K. Rowling. She's not, the Home Secretary's not going to do anything to protect her. And the Public Order Act of 1986 prohibits any expression of racial hatred defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group's color, race, or nationality, or ethnic or national origins. Isn't that what the Scottish prime minister himself did?

Whom's a Yusuf. There was so much backlash against him that he resigned, but you know, he was complaining about the fact this is a guy who was an immigrant from some middle Eastern country. And he was complaining about the fact that all the people in Scotland and Scottish government were white people. What'd you think? Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for benefits

and credits like the Canada Workers Benefit, the Canada Child Benefit, the Disability Tax Credit, and the GST-HST Credit. You may also be able to get your taxes done for free. Find out if you qualify. Visit Canada.ca slash EveryDollarCounts for more information. A message from the Government of Canada. If you don't like white people, don't move to Scotland. And again, is that an expression of racial hatred? Yes, it is. Is that hatred because of people's skin color? Yes. Because of their nationality?

I hate these Scottish people, says the Scottish National Party leader. They hate us it's one of the reasons why they bring in people like humza yusuf to rule over us about the people who are in charge of the governments i absolutely hate anyone who puts the interest of their own country first which every national leader should be doing and so the off guardian talks about feudalism 2.0 because it's part of this fascism that is out there how our closed and controlled social media services are now processing every post with a large language model so they have to shut down things like telegram he said my hope is that you'll start to see our newspapers only carry the stories which support narratives furthering the globalist desire to fix policy-driven markets.

Never the stories that contradict them. And social media, similarly, down-regulates posts when they are critical of the policies that are being sought. And so he gives a couple of examples. Again, talking about Europe and the farmers and the fertilizer taxes to shut them down. But the down-regulating of posts, he says, well, less so on X now. No, I haven't noticed any difference at all. None whatsoever.

Twitter, it's interesting to see that the mainstream alternative media, and we know who that is. There's a lot of these people who are being promoted on social media. People have a lot of ties, interestingly enough. Even though they're supposed to be alternative media, they have tremendous amount of ties to the CIA, including family and friends and all the rest of this stuff. It's just a coincidence, I'm sure. supposed to be alternative media they have tremendous amount of ties to the cia including family and friends and all the rest of this stuff it's just a coincidence i'm sure but the mainstream

alternative media heavily promoted on twitter uh it truly is amazing to see it while others are are banned and jason barker given multiple examples i could tell you about my story yet again but i won't bore you with the details uh but again as he talks about the deliberate attempt to shut down farmers with fertilizer taxes and other things like that so the globalists can buy up their land uh he said um the amazon series clarkson's farm jeremy clarkson used to be a top gear now he's got a series on amazon talking about his farm he just bought a a pub as well and opened it up he says everything here except for a couple of liquor things that he sells uh everything would be from uh locally sourced from the uk and And it's an ongoing narrative about the regulatory

and obstacles that are put in his way and other things like that, the difficulty of running a farm, the difficulty of running a pub. But he says it fertilizes attacks alone, threatens to put many farmers out of business. Well, that's the purpose of it. It's not something that was planned

it is uh all excused by the climate fear the fear i would suggest that instead of it being used as a tool to take everything the farmers got no of course that is exactly the purpose so the twitter files have conclusively shown that dissenters were rounded on, subject to de-boosting, shadow banned, outright banned. He says, I'm a lifelong conservative, and yet the paper in the UK, the UK Telegraph, I have been banned from commenting on the Telegraph because I continually, politely but firmly, pointed out their hypocrisy in relation to the mRNA vaccines

and the fact that the Telegraph were receiving sponsorship from the Gates Foundation. They've consistently dragged their feet on publishing verified truths about vaccine harms, despite the fact such stories are the very height of public interest. Ah, but they're not interested. They get money from the Gates Foundation. I hope people, he said, will become aware that we have for some time, in fact, been living in an age of global fascism 2.0. And unlike fascism, as it was earlier in the 20th century,

fascism 2.0 is pushed by corporate interests co-opting national government rather than national government co-opting corporate interest. I think that's a distinction without a difference. Fascism was and is, and he calls it Fascism 2.0, it was and it is a merger between corporations and government. And many people are blind to it because they think fascism is nothing but nationalism. There's nothing wrong with nationalism per se, unless it becomes this

kind of fascism. And the left wants to demonize all corporations, all business, including small mom and pop business. They believe that corporations can do nothing right and can do nothing and always do wrong. And of course the uh conservatives believe that about uh government that it can do nothing right and only do wrong i think i lean more towards that view but both of those views are wrong because neither of them take into consideration the merger of the corporations and the businesses and that brings out the absolute worst of both of them. So the battle we're in right now, he says, is to stop fascism 2.0 before it brings us a new age of feudalism 2.0, because that's where we're headed, and rather quickly.

In this article, I refer to how large language models are used by social media firms to police content, and how the monitoring capacity of large language models is ripe for integration with external agencies that's where the enslavement comes the surveillance and police state enabled by artificial intelligence because that's its superpower its superpower is matching patterns and putting those things together that's it doesn't think what appears to be thinking is matching patterns but what it can do is match us to our biometric data it can match our patterns of behavior the things that have been proscribed to be punished by the

government it is the perfect tool of tyranny, artificial intelligence. And of course, as they use it to remove jobs as well, it is a perfect tool of another kind of slavery, universal basic income, where you have no job, therefore you own nothing, and you're dependent on them for a handout. There can be little doubt that plans are afoot for this kind of feudalism you can be sure these plans will be dressed up in nice language he says

they'll be filled filled with caring words we're worried for you because your thoughts are wrong and they're harming you in an article in the british medical journal published this january on how large language models can be used to combat vaccine hesitancy. The article is set in the context of the WHO having designated such vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 global health threats. Vaccine hesitancy, a global health threat. The vaccines are the number one global health threat that we understand but this is what they said vaccine hesitancy is a state of indecision before accepting or refusing a vaccination good that means i'm not vaccine hesitant

uh i'm uh not in a state of indecision i decided long ago that i would have no more vaccines and neither would my family and i said before this is literally a hill to die on you want to you want to stab me with something well i'll shoot you if you do something like that in self-defense and i will feel absolutely 100 justified defending my life i view the vaccines as deadlier than being stabbed with a knife quite frankly it is a dynamic and context specific challenge that varies across time and place it is challenging to predict it is harder to tackle talking about vaccine hesitancy additionally the emergence of misinformation in public health, notably during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic calls for rapid data driven response. Well, if you don't show me your data, don't talk to me about data driven responses. It's all BS and PCR.

You know, the PCR was designed to give it a scientific veneer when there's no data at all, when it's not at all real. So we should not be conspiratorial, he says, in response to that. No, we should be conspiratorial because it is a conspiracy. It's not a theory. It is a conspiracy. Again, conspiracy is the number one charge, unless we're going to replace it with complicity now, as the French are doing.

Indeed, I'm sure there's nothing sinister about the authors, although I fear that they may be a little blind to the real threat. Stupid is as stupid does, okay? Sinister is as sinister does. Let's not try to make excuses for these people Let's stop them Stop making excuses for these people Stop making excuses for Trump Stop making excuses for the WHO

Stop making excuses for the IRS or the police Or the people who do this stuff Stop making excuses for people like that mayor And surprise Arizona Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills Stop making excuses for people like that mayor. And surprise, Arizona. Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for benefits and credits

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They need to be held accountable. We're talking about government here government is not about mercy government is about justice and there needs to be some justice about this stuff uh he says but for me it's illustrative of the role that large language models will increasingly shape our communication and on and on this is is what they really want to do. They really want to. Take us into a complete monitoring and surveillance. And part of it is a digital ID tech giants and AI researchers proposed digital ID requirements to use the internet, but they admit that it restricts liberties. This is from wine press news.

Look. Okay. So you look at the digital ID thing. Is this being driven by corporations or is it being driven by the government? The government is paying these corporations. Quite frankly, that's the one thing I disagree with him on with that. The fact that, you know,

we don't need to make this conspiratorial. And the fact that, you know, some people are going to lean towards criticizing one group or the other. And again, as people are going to lean towards criticizing one group or the other. And again, as a conservative, I lean towards criticizing government. I admit my bias. However, understand that the Internet was a government idea. It was a DARPA idea, even worse.

J.C.R. Licklater in the 1960s, a psychologist. And when it became practical with the switching, the state of electronics with the switching equipment, things like that. When it became practical in the late 1990s, the CIA, the NSA, DARPA, all these guys put all their people on these venture capital boards. They even created In-Q-Tel, a CIA venture capital firm, to create these companies. These companies are creations of government. Social media companies, Google, all of them, they're creatures of government. And I think it is coming from government. When you look at Microsoft, right?

Bill Gates is just interested in stealing a lot of money and becoming ridiculously rich and stealing ideas from digital research and apple and other people like that and then they called him in on monopoly charges uh did you see anything change that they opened up the markets no no instead what he did was he became complicit to use the french term He became complicit with the government in terms of helping them. And so now, you know, Microsoft, it's not just Bill Gates being behind vaccines and everything. Bill Gates was behind

ID 2020. Not just the immunization agenda 2030, IA 2030. And Bill Gates has been at the center of all these things when we talk about ids things like that coalition for content provenance and authentication they go to microsoft to organize this thing to organize hardware uh and software companies the cpu companies as well as

like you know the uh the companies like adobe that you use to create video and audio and things like that to mark and to identify you and they go to Microsoft to run it when they go to elect, when they create election guard and news guard, they go to Microsoft to organize it and run it. And so they either, uh, create these companies or they blackmail them yeah it's a nice business you got their gates it'd be a shame if you were to lose it but you know on the other hand you could become one of the biggest companies our partner you want partner with us we'll put you out of business put you in jail maybe who knows this is the way these guys operate it's a criminal the government is criminal especially especially the American government.

We are the globalists. Washington, D.C. is the headquarter of globalism. I'm not going to push back against it. A number of technology-based academics, including MIT and Oxford, and then representatives from big tech companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft, contend that implementing a universal digital ID system should be put in place in order to use the Internet and social media, which they claim would be used to stop fraud and phishing and guarantee one's identity and protection. And of course, it's going to protect the kids, too.

You know, conservatives are doing this as well. Oh, we don't want kids getting pornography online. Well, then, you know, as a this as well oh we don't want kids um getting pornography online well then you know as a parent do something about it but now what they'll do is they'll use that as justification to have an id to get on the internet anonymity is an important principle online however we have malicious actors out there and we've even got people like jordan peterson he doesn't like trolls anonymous trolls and so he said there ought to be malicious actors out there. And we've even got people like Jordan Peterson. He doesn't like trolls, anonymous trolls. And so he said, there ought to be some ID out there for people to use this. We need to know who these people are.

Well, guess what, Peterson? Then the government's going to be coming after people for what they say. Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for benefits and credits, like the Canada Workers' Benefit, the Canada Child Benefit, the Disability Tax Credit, and the GST-HST Credit. You may also be able to get your taxes done for free. Find out if you qualify.

Visit Canada.ca slash EveryDollarC every dollar counts for more information a message from the government of canada because that's the kind of government we've got and you you don't if you're calling for the end of anonymity you're calling for people to be punished because of their speech that's the purpose of this. When Jordan Peterson is doing that, those people are saying bad things about me and I want them wished into the cornfield and I want them punished. And so they're coming up with this new thing called a personhood credentials,

P H C digital content, digital credentials that empower users to demonstrate that they're real people. I don't need to be empowered by government. And to put a number on me is a mark of slavery, not empowerment. Boy, you talk about these organizations, how they turn everything upside down, inside out. But I guess, you know, you're not a person if the government doesn't recognize you, right? Is that right? So now I'm going to get personhood credentials.

Well, the reality is, is that when you do that, as we go to government more and more to beg permission to do this or to do that, to ask for privileges to be granted to us. We become more and more creatures of the state. Rather than people who are created in the image of God. Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. No, if you have to get personhood credentials, you now have made yourself a slave. A slave to the state. Personhood credentials give people a way to signal their trustworthiness. Don't trust me.

Don't trust anybody. Think for yourself. Seriously. And I would tell the government and the corporate fascists, maybe you need to signal your trustworthiness maybe you need to do that first before you demand that from me so the state department is concluded with social media to censor content and there's more twitter files that have come out uh but again they're going to focus on the bite administration these are the new ones paul thacker released the latest batch of twitter files showing that biden is doing this we know

that uh what people don't know but should know is that donald trump was doing this as well it was a trump administration i mean if you're going to blame Biden, Biden is just a, Biden doesn't know where he is or what time of day it is. But, you know, it is the administration that everybody has focused on. So we call it the Biden administration. But Trump has responsibility for what's done in his administration, doesn't he? I guess not, right? We'll be right back.

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by the so-called education system. It's not a system of education and it's a system of indoctrination. And it's going to be a fight to keep homeschooling going because if they're coming after the parents of those who are in school to this degree you know they're going to be coming after homeschooling it is not safe uh it was a major fight about the time that we started it started to ease up but there have been a lot of people who had died resisting their children being taken away from them because they wanted to homeschool. We have a family that Biden tried to deport, a family of white Germans, Christians, who had escaped Germany because they were going to have their kids taken away from them. They're going to be put in jail simply because they homeschooled and they were given asylum in america and been here for uh many many years 10 or 15 years or

something and yet biden wanted to send them back there was a big outcry about that and they backed off but of all the illegal immigrants coming in, these people were actually political refugees recognized, I think by the Obama administration even, and yet they wanted to throw them out. Illegal aliens, people with criminal records, pedophiles, you name it.

Oh, just open up the gates. Let all these people come in. We don't care about that. These are people actually followed a process and were legitimate refugees, a family that is self-supporting. You want to send them back their crime? Well, I don't know.

White Christian homeschoolers, there's three strikes against them. I mean, that's, you know, you're out. Three strikes and you're out. But this is really about the village taking our kids. Every time I hear the village and all these people from Hillary Clinton and all the rest of them about how it takes a village to raise the kids, I always think of the prisoner. Where am I?

You're in the village. What do you want? Your children and information, information right that's what they want they want your children that's enough reason right there to fight them over this a colorado school district is implementing an lgb toolkit that will force students to attend lessons on related topics even if their parents disapprove the toolkit was created by the denver school district and updated in july prohibiting students from opting out of lgbt lessons and curriculum no matter if a student or their parents have different beliefs again because the lgbt stuff is something of religion,

being handled as a religion by the schools, there is no parental permission required for teaching these topics. And the only possible way to opt out is for sex ed lessons. The Denver Public Schools also offer several books on LGBT topics. The document states the toolkit notes that age-appropriate LGBT topics being taught will be allowed for every grade level. Well, I've talked about this for the longest time, and somebody asked me about the court case. I tried to find it, but it's so old. I can't find it on the internet it was late nine late 80s early 90s and it was in massachusetts and the father had an eight-year-old daughter and they were going to put the daughter in a sex education class he says i don't think that's age appropriate

for my daughter and it wasn't um it wasn't transgender gender swapping and all that kind of stuff no this is just straight up mechanics of sex. And he says, my eight year old daughter doesn't need to know that. And I don't want her in that class. I said, no, she can't get out. So he knew what time the class was going to be. He went there at that point in time and was going to remove her since they would not remove her. He was going to take her out of school at that point in time.

They arrested him for trespassing and the judge upheld that and said when you drop your kid off at the school you are surrendering them to the state and we will operate in place of the parents and even had a latin term for it in loco parentis in place of the parents and that's what they're doing with all of this stuff the lgbtu topics are part of the school district's commitment to equity and inclusion except that they exclude parents except that they exclude religion except that they exclude biology right we need to not allow them to use these kinds of languages. Call them out when they talk about inclusivity and equity and diversity. They don't believe in any of those values. They don't want a diverse society. Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for They want, I mean, when you look at what is happening in Europe, Dollar counts for more information. A message from the Government of Canada.

They want, I mean, when you look at what is happening in Europe, right? Europe used to be very diverse. You had all these different languages, different currencies, different cultures, different architecture, different styles of dressing and all that kind of stuff. That's one of the things I thought was so amazing about it when I was able to go there as a student in 1973. The fact that you had these tiny little countries compared to the way things are in the United States. And you drive just a little distance and, you know, you're in a completely different environment. Everything has changed.

The money, the language, you name it. But now what they're trying to do is impose this bland, gray mediocrityity they want to erase culture and everything else and dumb everything down into this commonality parents in maryland have had similar issues regarding school laws keeping parents in the dark when it comes to gender transitions and in may the supreme court denied hearing a case about this. Washington is not going to come to your rescue. This is the Supreme Court that is now so conservative, we're told. So conservative that the liberals want to pack it with their people. The Supreme Court denied hearing a case about a school in Maryland that hid students' gender

identity from their parents. There will be no help coming for you in Washington. You have to do this at the local level. What would be the appropriate response? So you've got a school district here that decides that they are going to, whether you like it or not, they're going to take the children that you've given to them. You drop them off at school. You have surrendered them to the state and they're going to operate in place of you. And so what is your option? Should you start fighting for that school district?

Should you try to shut down the school system? Should you take your kids out, start homeschooling them? I mean, that'd be the most obvious first step, right? Take your kids out of that school and homeschool them. Or we could just leave them there and hope that we're going to get somebody in the Supreme

Court to fix it. This is what the media wants you to believe. And what the media is saying about homeschooling, this is an article on Mises.org. The National Home Education Research Institute shows a staggering increase in the number homeschooling this is an article on mises.org the national home education research institute shows a staggering increase in the number of homeschool students since the 1970s 238 times the number of homeschoolers that were there in the 1970s and of course a lot of that happened with a surge in homeschooling during covid lockdown you can see that in that chart there um scroll that up a little bit travis, so people can see the full chart.

No, no, no. Show them the chart. There you go. And so you see it's basically negligible. In 1973, 13,000 homeschoolers in all the United States. But now it is up to tens of millions. I'm sorry, millions. 3.7 million was the peak that was hit in 2021.

Fell back a little bit, but that number, when it fell back in 2022, is still above the trend. So it's still high. The data shows there was already a long-term pre-COVID trend of growth in homeschooling uh from 13 000 to two and a half million in 2019 and got all the way up to 3.7 million at the height of the pandemic lockdown but then you have the washington post the mainstream media now starting to take notice of this and um the washington post quotes a harvard law professor who says policymakers should think

wow this is a lot of kids we should worry about whether they're learning anything well why don't you look at your government-run schools and ask if the kids are learning anything they aren't they're being indoctrinated they're being told that they're in the wrong body. That seems to be the main concern of our schools now. So look at your own government school. But even the Washington Post, says Mises, can't avoid mentioning what parents say about the reasons for rejecting public schools. They cite violence, exposure to explicit photos, videos on other students' phones,

and the intrusion of politics into public education. The Washington Post article goes completely tone deaf when it says that homeschool groups, quote, often cluster by shared ideology. You mean like the reporters of the Washington Post? You mean like the reporters in all the mainstream media? How they cluster together with a shared radical leftist ideology. See, folks, we're not going to win unless we win the hearts and minds. You're not going to have free speech if you can't have free thought. You're not going to have freedom of religion if you don't have freedom of education.

If we want to take this back, it's real simple. You start with the kids. That's how they got to where we are today. They came after the kids and been coming after the kids for decades. If we don't wise up to this and come after the kids ourselves, after our own kids, if we don't take the responsibility that God gave us for our children, if we abandon them to the state as the state says we are, if we

continue to do that, we have abandoned everything about our own future. It used to be a time when we had the people who built the society that we inherited, the society that created the good things that we enjoy. And I'm not talking about the material stuff. I'm talking about the freedoms and things like that. And again, the opportunity that was there. The people who created that society were looking for future generations. They were not self-serving, self-interested greedy people like ayn rand libertarians look at

okay it was not about that it was about people doing things for other people especially their children they took an interest in their children they were more interested in their children than they were in themselves and if we don't do that we don't deserve to have a society and we won't have a society. We'll be reaping what we sow. It also means that children are in danger of not learning basic academic skills, said The Week. They also published an article attacking homeschooling. They're not learning basic academic skills or learning about the most basic democratic values of our society.

Are they learning that in school? Are they learning basic academic skills? Are they being taught about how government can work, how it should work? The theories of that? Of course not. We're getting the kind of exposure to alternative views that enables them to exercise meaningful choice about their future lives. Said child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet. You can't possibly do worse, parents.

You can't possibly do worse than government school by any metric. By any metric of academic achievement, by any metric of critical thinking and all the rest of the stuff. These people are not exposing your kids to alternative views. They're exposing them to some very narrowly designed agenda. You learn about democratic values in a rigid, you know, authoritarian prison-like environment, of course. of course yeah yeah yeah it's like it's a combination of this dictator up in front of the class and the lord of the flies

you know what what are these other your peers uh are going to socialize you along with the dictator at the front of the school we can distill the media's view of homeschooling down to one sentence, says Mises. Homeschooling is a threat because every child should learn and internalize the state-approved narratives and doctrines regarding history, politics, sex, democracy, COVID, economics, nutrition, social and emotional health, and everything else under the sun. In 1979, 45 years ago,

Murray Rothbard wrote Education Free and Compulsory. And I want to read to you what he wrote 45 years ago. We shall see that since the state began to control education, its evident tendency has been more and more to act in such a manner as to promote repression and hindrance of education rather than the true development of the individual. Its tendency has been for compulsion, for enforced equality at the lowest level, for the watering down of the subject, and even the abandonment of all formal teaching, for the inculcation of obedience to the state and to the group, whatever the group may be at a given moment, rather than the development of self-independence

for the deprecation of intellectual subjects. And finally, it is the drive of the state and its minions for power that explains the modern education creed of, quote, education of the whole child and making the school a slice of life. They always talk about the whole of government or the whole of society. That's the whole idea, the whole idea of public health. We don't care about the health of the individual we care about this nebulous thing called the public health well the public is made up of individuals and if you don't care about the individual uh you don't care about the health of anybody you certainly don't care about the health of the. You certainly don't care about the health of the collective. And they never did. He says, since no one will accept outright state communization

of children, even in communist Russia, he wrote this in 1979. Every dollar counts to keep up with the bills or to help with the cost of raising a family. A little bit extra can make a difference. You might be eligible for benefits and credits, like the Canada Workers' Benefit, the Canada Child Benefit, the Disability Tax Credit, and the GST-HST Credit. You may also be able to get your taxes done for free. Find out if you qualify. Visit Canada.ca slash EveryDollarCounts for more information.

A message from the Government of Canada. It is obvious that the state control has to be achieved silently and subtly. Yes, Satan was the most subtle of all, wasn't he? Well, I'll finish this up with just one thing, which I think is kind of interesting in a general topic, but you may find it interesting from an individual topic, individual perspective if you're educating your kids. And I know this sounds like, well, you know, in my day we used to do handwriting and all the rest of the stuff, but there's a real reason behind that. It really does help you to engage your mind.

It helps you to collect your thoughts. And so they said, save handwriting from extinction. IQs began to fall for the first time ever, as teachers are warning that some 20-year-olds can't sign checks anymore. Well, they're going to say, well, that's why you need to have CBDC, right? You don't need to sign checks. You just let it scan your eye and it'll deduct the credits from your account if you're allowed to purchase what you want to purchase. It will also determine that maybe you're not allowed to purchase that

because it's going to destroy the planet. Previous studies have revealed that IQ scores have dropped for the first time in a century, and they've indicated that technology could be to blame. Well, again, I think it is a symptom of what is going on. I don't think it is, you know, it contributes to it. Because the fundamental issue here is attention span. You know, one of the reasons why,

now I got this thing here that I use, SuperNote. I got this because I had a very specific application. I just wanted to have PDFs and be able to annotate them and write notes as I was reading them. But a lot of people would get this because they said, if I use some kind of, there But a lot of people would get this because they said, if I use some kind of, there's a lot of different tablets out there that are full-on computers.

This doesn't have any computer functions at all. It is focused strictly on a device that you can write with, and they try to make it more and more the feel of paper and things like that but also has handwriting recognition which is something that has helped me to try to work on my legibility but you know it has ways to organize that but one of the key selling features from these people was they said that this is not a general purpose computer because the general purpose computer is always distracting you with different things right oh here's a new email here's a new text here's a this or that what time is it can i oh let me just pop over

the internet and see what's going on at such and such a place right now you can't do that with this and its purpose is to avoid those types of distractions. And that's what they're really saying about the handwriting thing. Last year, researchers at the University of Oregon and Northwestern reported that IQ scores had dropped because technology shortens attention spans, and it decreases the need to think deeply. You know, John Williams, the composer of, you know,

so many movie scores and things still working in his 90s and he doesn't use computers he still does it the way that he always did it pen and paper all that stuff is pen and paper he lets other people put it into computers if they're going to print out scores and stuff for the orchestra but it's all pen and paper and he does it because it helps him to concentrate he sits down at a piano with paper and pen and starts writing this wonderful stuff that he does and it helps him to think and so a new study published in february by researchers at the norwegian university of science and Technology found that handwriting is linked to increased cognitive brain function, to motor skills, and to memory. And I got to say, that absolutely is the case with me.

I'm really bad at remembering people's names when I meet them. And I try to do that, but the way that I can remember somebody's name or anything is to write it down. If I want to memorize something, I write it out. And if I want to learn somebody's name, I write it down. And that has always worked for me. Now, I, you know, I thought, well, maybe that's just the way I'm wired, but they're saying that actually handwriting is linked to increased cognitive brain function. So I'm mentioning this for parents who may be homeschooling. Don't neglect that.

It's important to realize that the brain follows the principle of use it or lose it. And of course, we've seen this with the London taxi drivers. They could even measure the London taxi drivers who had to do the knowledge, who had to memorize all these little fractional streets and everything for the longest time you know before there was gps or or computers to do it for them they had to memorize where all these different streets were and so they would ride bicycles and do the knowledge you know actually ride these roads and you know they're they're in three-dimensional space and they're looking at the names of the roads and it's making a connection with them and they could actually see that they had

a particular part of their brain that got larger significantly larger than the general population and so these guys get this very complicated map you could say the final test for them to become a london taxi driver somebody gets in the and say, take me to such and such a place. And they'd have to do that from knowledge. So the brain does follow the principle of use it or lose it. When writing by hand, most of the brain is active. And this requires the brain to communicate between the active parts. So handwriting, particularly cursive, presents the idea of what's called embodied cognition,

meaning that it acts as a switch to lock in your memory. So maybe it's not just me. Maybe it's other people as well. Writing by hand and learning cursive work because they are essentially tactile and sensory. And it helps you to take in the world through engagement same way as the taxi drivers riding their bicycles through the street all the sensory and tactile stuff and helping them to memorize those street names as they're doing it well that's the tip for the day now when we come back we're going to take a look at what happens when we throw all that stuff away uh because that is being thrown away uh science is disappearing and so are the scientists we'll be right back Thank you. Thank you. Making sense common again.

You're listening to The David Knight Show. yeah what's going on with our astronauts uh come down or not yeah it's uh nothing seems to be working too well anymore especially the stuff from nasa i mean we're able to get to the moon right if they could go to the moon why can't they get somebody to us to uh the International Space Station back yeah it's looking more and more fake isn't the moon launch and the moon shot and everything is not looking more and more fake I mean there have been at least two movies done about how they faked it but of course then they pull back and say well no we didn't really need to fake it it was just a fallback position we're making all say, well, no, we didn't really need to fake it. It was just a fallback position. We're making all the plans to do it, but we really didn't need to

because it happened for real. Okay. Well, NASA has decided to keep two astronauts in space until February. There's going to be two weeks to flatten the curve, but flatten the curvature of the earth. Yeah. Flat flat earth here. Uh, two astronauts in space until february mixing the

return on the troubled boeing capsule and you know i began with a schooling thing because um it really is about deliberately dumbing us down charlotte isabee said that in 1980 you know she went to um washington as reagan became president in 19 uh in 1980 well she went in 1981 but in 1980 when the presidential campaign the election was it was jimmy carter and ronald reagan and jimmy carter created the department of education in 1980 and reagan as part of the campaign said i'm going to get rid of it. But he didn't get rid of it. She went there to help get rid of it. But instead, what they did was they kept growing it. So she got out and she wrote a book about it. Charlotte Zerbea deliberately dumbing us down. And that's exactly the purpose of the Department of Education. And so now that we've had 45 years

of this dumbing down, what does it look like? Well, it looks like astronauts who are stuck in space. I, you know, the thing is, is that I don't believe anymore that the moonshot was real. I mean, I was watching all that stuff when I was in school and that, that looks pretty fake, but you know, make it say that's difficult to get cameras that are going to give a good picture and to transmit it and all the rest of this stuff but uh you know as you look at this over the years

and as you realize they destroyed not only the engines but they destroyed all the plans why would you do that how would you do that um and so and besides other other issues in terms of photographs and shadows and and things like that that are there but why would you destroy even the plans of this stuff but now nasa has decided that it's too risky to bring two astronauts back to earth and boeing's space capsule which is the first time it was used and it has been an unqualified disaster they'll have to wait until next year for a ride home and get it from spacex from elon what should have been a week-long test flight will now last more than eight months you know because of science because we can't do science anymore and because we've turned it all over to government and i'll show you what that looks like what has happened to nasa it's not

just boeing everybody talked about how boeing was um you know that everything is again boeing is uh the sound that the parts make when they fall off of their planes and space capsules now. But Boeing is a poster child for what happens when the company becomes focused on DEI. Did not earn it. We're going to put people in because of, because we're going to discriminate based on race and skin color and sex and all the rest of the stuff. They've been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June. Again, it was going to be a week-long test flight. A cascade of vexing thruster failures and helium leaks in the new capsule marred their trip to the space station.

They ended up in a holding pattern as engineers conducted tests on the ground to see what they could do. And as they were doing some tests on the ground, they found some more concerns. The RAND Corporation, senior engineer who specializes in aerospace and defense, said the U.S. is still left with egg on its face due to the Starliner design issues that should have been caught earlier. SpaceX capsule currently parked at the space station is reserved for four residents. So it's an international space station and it's not just this Boeing capsule that these two came up on. There's also a space X capsule that is there.

And four people have were brought up on that space X capsule and they've been there since March. And so, you know, they're not going to make them wait. They're going to let them go back. NASA said it would be unsafe to squeeze two more people in the capsule, except in an emergency. And then there's also at the space station a Russian Soyuz capsule. And it's capable of flying only three people and they sent up two russians who are just finishing up a year at the space station so these two who went up back in february uh

wilmore and williams will wait for spacex next taxi flight due to launch in late september with two astronauts instead of the usual four. NASA is yanking two of them to make room for Wilmore and Williams on the return flight in late February. Starliner's woes began long before its latest flight. Bad software fouled the test flight without a crew in 2019, prompting an entire do-over three years later, 2022. Then parachute and other issues including a helium leak in the capsule's propellant system that nixed a launch attempt in may the leak eventually was deemed to be isolated and small enough to pose no problem but more leaks happened And then five thrusters also failed. Five out of 28.

In other words, I think I had about a fifth of these things failing. All but one of those small thrusters restarted in flight, but engineers were perplexed when they ran tests on the ground that showed a thruster seal swelling and obstructing a propellant line. They theorized. This is their theory. Conspiracy theories, right? Yeah, they theorized.

That's the way you solve problems. You theorize it and then you test it. They theorized the seals in orbit may have expanded and then reverted back to their normal size, which is all very troubling because, if you remember the Challenger disaster, what a disaster that was. We're told that that happened because of an O-ring issue causing a leak.

That's why I looked at this stuff and they kept delaying it and delaying it. I thought, man, are we going to have another one of those things? What a horrific disaster that was. They didn't want to comment on the fact that the astronauts survived that long, long, long fall to the ground that happened and knew everything that was happening. But after they recovered it, there's been a lot of talk that they even survived crashing into the sea. So they were trapped in that thing, knowing that they were going to die. What a horrific thing.

With all uncertainty about how the thrusters might perform, there was just too much risk for the crew, they said. So these thrusters are vital, besides being needed to rendezvous with the space station. And they're concerned because if they send back the Boeing disaster on autopilot, which is what the plan is that if the thrusters are not working properly the thing could crash into the international space station where you not only have these two astronauts but you got a lot of other people there as well

so the thrusters will also keep the capsule pointed in the right direction at the flight's end as the bigger engines steer the craft out of orbit. If it comes in crooked, it could burn up the occupants inside if it's in the wrong position, because they have so much more shielding on one side of it. I don't know exactly the details of this particular one, but to say that it'd be catastrophic is absolutely sure, regardless of what mode the failure would be. NASA went into its commercial

crew program a decade ago they wanted two competing u.s companies to take astronauts back and forth after the shuttle program ended boeing got the biggest part of the slice they got a four billion dollar contract spacex got 2.6 billion and spacex has been going back and forth all this time at boeing not so much this is their first flight and it's a disaster they got bogged down in design flaws that set the company back more than a billion dollars again billion again dei people who did not earn it and um so they're going to send the um uh the the boeing capsule back on its own and then send up the spacex later babble and b commented on it said study shows nine out of ten astronauts choose to be stranded in space rather than get on board a craft built by boeing they supposedly quote these two that are there now we both agreed that we'd much rather roll

the dice and live in space for another six months and climb aboard another one of those boeing death traps no thank you boeing we'll wait here for elon that's what he says with it but it's not just boeing the dei stuff has thoroughly affected nasa as well nasa's dei training includes engineers vocalizing that they quote feel shame for being white and for taking part in quote white supremacy culture here's a part of one of their struggle sessions that they run now and in doing this work of examining my own intentions and my own actions and their impact i can see that there's so much more that i could have done to make the projects i've led equally welcoming to Black, Indigenous, and people of color as the white people they have engaged. I feel a lot of shame and regret about that. And I know that

without looking head-on at what I've done and not done, I won't be able to do better. So I'm looking forward to today's event and to this whole series as steps in my personal and professional journey to make my work more anti-racist and therefore more effective in reaching my aspiration. And this may be a review for many of you, but these are those different characteristics that you probably see coming up a lot in our workspaces, especially in the practice of science, perfectionism, a sense of urgency. I'm sure all of us are feeling a sense of urgency about some of the deadlines that we maybe have. Yeah, just let it slide.

The idea of power hoarding, the idea of individualism over collectivism. Collectivism, that's the key value, right? Communists. Objectivity, that's bad about doing our work and they can really limit the way we are able to connect with communities that come from different cultural backgrounds that don't value these things the same way that white supremacy culture values them yeah either or thinking objectivity valuing the written word yeah these people completely come unmoored from the things that are necessary to do science and engineering so is it any surprise that we're there yeah i would say

it's one giant step backward for mankind and a major leap into marxist struggle sessions that's really what these people are about that That's nothing other than a Marxist struggle session. You can call it woke. You can say, well, it's anti-racism. And we're calling out our unconscious bias and everything. No, it's a struggle session. That's what the Marxists did in China. There, it was class-based, economic education-based. Here, they have pulled this in to make it about race and gender,

meaning sex. I don't see those as two different things. But that's what they've done in America, deliberately. White-skin privilege sold by the weather underground. People like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn that got into educational establishment helped to popularize this idea. But that's what it's become. Objectivity is bad. Either or.

Should we do this or that? Now, which one of them is going to blow up our space station? Well, I don't know. I just think we can do everything. Let's just paint a pretty teepee on the side or something like that. And then this person. Here's another one of these struggle sessions. I thought the pathway to the space program was science or engineering. Little did she realize that the way to get into the space program is with DEI.

It doesn't have anything to do with math or any of that kind of stuff. You know, math, that's either or thinking. That's the idea that there's some right answer to any of this stuff. I think one of the things from my own past that has enabled me to share stories in those DEI environments is that I thought back then when I was a kid that I, that the pathway to the space program was science or engineering and now i look at the environment that i'm in and it takes a village it takes a village really excited about is that our leadership and not just in heliophysics not just in my division but as a center they want to make a

difference and they want to make a change and they want to make a change and they know because i mentioned to them a lot of conversations we have are going to be uncomfortable and if we're not uncomfortable we're not talking about diversity as nasa continues to collaborate and partner with a lot of these organizations and um it lets them know that we're here, right? And you're talking about internship opportunities, early career hire opportunities, mid-career, so on and so forth. So is there any education for the white people? That's a great question.

So the people that work at Goddard specifically, the white people, if you will, they have been amazing to say, we're not here to say that we're going to make all these necessary changes. We're here to listen. What is it that we can do to be a better ally for you? Yeah, we're not going to work on this, but we're just here to listen to your concerns. You know, how do you feel about this? Travis is over there going, shoot myself in the head. Yeah, if you're an engineer or a scientist, you should just shut up and listen. It's also important to remember that technology is never advanced by a group of 100 IQ normal people sitting in a room. It's normally one ultra genius that comes in and advances things yeah it's never advanced because you're going to pick people who aren't the best at what they do right and that's the issue right

you want to get rid of discrimination open it up but keep the merit right it should be about merit it shouldn't be about shutting things down based on skin color but these people have totally rejected merit they've totally rejected objectivity. They've rejected math. We see that all the time. You know, math, that's so white. You know, we don't want to have any of that stuff. So if you're a white engineer or scientist, you just need to shut up.

Or if you're an engineer and scientist, you just need to shut up and just go with the flow of DEI. That's how we get people stuck in space. Here's the good news these people who seek to rule over us can't do anything they really are pathetic but they think that they know better than you because of dei but they can't get the thrusters to work i get the whole thrust of their failed argument and then we have um polaris don mission launches delayed 24 hours due to ground side helium leak says spacex now i think that this is not um a problem reading this it does not appear to be a problem with the spacex craft this appears to be a

problem with the nasa support system the delay is due to a ground side helium leak on the quick connect umbilical space exit that could be under the control of spacex or it could be under the control of nasa i'm not really sure because this is at nasa's kennedy space center and uh nevertheless this is why nothing is happening of um you know these people can't get things off the ground or they can't get them back it is a total clown show and we're not focused when we focus on politicians and and we ignore their tyranny, right? We're just focused on their personality stuff. Let me just say, it's not just Lala Harris who's out there saying, oh, vote for me

because I'm a black female. No, we're really focused. And I'm not saying that people are voting for Trump or voting for him because he's white. I'm saying that they're focused on personality they're focused on his celebrity they're focused on whether they like him or whether they hate him it's all about some kind of a celebrity apprentice game and it is a form if you willI. Because it's not about objective issues. What do you think about this?

What are you going to do about this? What did you do when you were in office about that? It's not about any of that stuff. And we have ourselves to blame. We've abandoned our kids to the state. And we've abandoned reason and objectivity out of politics we don't want to hear it if somebody betrayed us and i see it all the time any anytime somebody criticizes trump said when is he going to talk about what he did to us in 2020 when is he going to walk back any

of that stuff well never he never will because uh it's all about him uh we just had hr mcmaster has just put out a book about his time in the trump administration and it's one of these classic uh things he said it was the meetings that he would attend with trump and the people around him he said it was a competition in sycophancy. Oh, Mr. President, they're treating you so unfair. Oh, you're absolutely right, Mr. President. A bunch of yes men. And it's one of these quotes that is going to,

that really distills what's going on, just like Ty Cobb, his former lawyer, said, Trump is a deeply wounded narcissist incapable of acting, except out of his own perceived self-interest or out of revenge. And the fact is that he's surrounded himself with this group of sycophants, and we're surrounded with a group of people

who say that they care about conservative issues. And yet, all they really care about is being a Trump sycophant. And that is especially true of the media, of the conservative media. They've all become Trump sycophants. It disgusts me to see this. And I'll name the sites. It's not just InfoWars. Obviously, it's InfoWars.

But it's also Breitbart. It's also WND. It's pretty much every one of these, even the New American. It's pretty much every one of these conservative sites that I go to anymore. And the media has become so polarized. You got Matt Drudge,

who is coming up with every kind of crazy dig that he can come up with at Trump. And then the other side making every excuse that they possibly can for him. It's absolutely disgusting. On Rockfan, IRS machine gun. Now the machine gun has been declared legal by a judge. So there you go. If we can only get the IRS declared to be illegal,

we'd have something there. But thank you for the tip. It says, please pray for me, David. I just quit my job today to finally come home and be with my wife and children. I've turned my life completely over to God. I don't know what job he has for me, but I know he will provide for me.

Thank you for being a great influence in my life over all these years I've listened to you. It took a long time for me to put God first in my life, but thanks to you and my pastor, I have. Well, God bless you. Seriously, and God will bless you. Just be, you may have some difficult times, but, you know, we have,

when we go through things, if our intention is to honor God and we rely on that, you can be assured that God will follow through on his promises and he will bless those and honor those who honor him. And I got to say, I've seen that. We trust that to be true. And I think you're in for some of the best times of your life and some of the worst times. A tale of two cities, city of God, the city of man. It's going to be the best times and worst of times. It was in my life as well. When we decided that we're going to trust God and shut down our video stores. And it really, it was, we didn't, didn't intend to do it completely. You know, we thought, well, let's sell it. Right.

And then that whole thing blew up. And so it got really rough for us and for the family, but God always provided what we needed. And, you know, we would have liked to have had more, but God always provided what we needed. And, you know, we would have liked to have had more, but God always provided what we needed. And it was an amazing time to be able to see God's provision in our life. The best time we've ever had. And I mean it. You know, it was living hand to mouth was great because God was providing that.

And it was happening because, you providing that and and it was happening uh because um you know we were following him and when bad things happen sometimes it can be because god is disciplining you but remember when things are bad that are happening to you sometimes it's just training and the and the bible tells us that as god's children he's going to discipline us. And it's not a pleasant thing many times. And we are always tempted to say, you know, he doesn't love me. Why is he doing this? Why is this happening?

This is horrible. Why is he letting this happen to me? Doesn't he love me? Am I on the outs with him and that type of thing? It's kind of like the person who's doing basic training in the Marines. It's like this drill sergeant must really hate me. He's making me do another force march with a big pack on or whatever. No, he's trying to train you for something better that's coming. And he's trying to train you so that you don't die in battle.

And that's what God is trying to do with us as well. So God bless you. I know that he will. You're in for some real interesting times. And I mean that in a good way. You're going to see God at work because God will bless those who bless him. That's a promise that you can keep coming back to. Well, we're going to take a quick break.

I just want to remind people, if will please like the broadcast uh that is something that is really needed for us to get audience and we need to grow the audience because a lot of people are highly offended by me telling them what i believe uh either about religion or about politicians uh I think we have to look at these politicians and not get stars in our eyes about their, their, their personality. We need to be focused on issues and not on people. But that's puts me at outs with a lot of people and it's going to continue to

get worse. So we really do need your support. We're just a little bit past the 50% point. And so, with a lot of people, and it's going to continue to get worse. So we really do need your support. We're just a little bit past the 50% point. And so if you are in a situation, I know things are getting tough for people financially. Things are getting tough as we are drawing close to the election. Everybody is coalescing around the lesser of two evils type of thing. And as they do that, as we get closer and closer to the election,

first people make the decision to coalesce around the lesser of two evils. And then after they have made that decision, they get really prickly about anybody criticizing the person they've decided on. I know that's going to happen. I know that it already has happened to a large degree. I've seen it in one election cycle after the other. And so it's a given. If you're one of the people who likes to keep the channels open for critical thought, and if you can handle opinions that may not be your own and think about it,

well, then we certainly would appreciate your support and really do need your support at this time. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. ¶¶ © BF-WATCH TV 2021 Liberty. It's your move. And now, The David Knight Show. Yeah, I'll just say one more thing. The IRS machine gun, you know, when you say you're doing this because you want to be a better father, better husband, spend more time with your family. God wants that as well. And he really is going to honor that. Let's talk about the pandemic stuff. And this is ramping up. I meant to get to this yesterday. I've had several people send this to me.

This one had the headline and the comment that I liked the best. This is from Handy. And he says, how can you enforce something that is voluntary here's a headline massachusetts mosquitoes lock down massachusetts towns enforce voluntary curfew to combat deadly eee outbreak so he says not the politicians who are doing it. It's the mosquitoes are locking the town down. If you go outside, the mosquitoes are going to sting you. It isn't that you're going to be beaten or accosted by cops, but yes, you will be. Yes, you will be. They say that it's voluntary, but it's not voluntary.

If you read down to the bottom of the third paragraph here, it says, while the curfew is voluntary and not enforced by law, they didn't bother to pass a law, it's just an edict from some guy who swore to uphold the Constitution and now he's decided that he's going to ignore it. While the curfew is voluntary and not enforced by law, means they didn't have a law, the town encourages compliance to protect public health. Ah, but it doesn't stop just there.

Here's how they enforce it, because they do enforce it. Residents who wish to use town fields during curfew hours must provide proof of insurance and sign an indemnification form. Do you have a law for that? No, they don't either. They're just going to intimidate people with that. What happens if you don't provide proof of insurance? What happens if you don't sign their form?

Who says that they're responsible for you being outdoors anyway, right? But I have to show proof of insurance to be honest. It sounds like what they do to us with cars. Now walking outside has now been turned into a government-granted privilege, like they claim to have done in terms of cars. So it's an evening curfew, and you will have to stay indoors after 6 p.m until september 30th and then on october the 1st they're going to ramp it up you have to stay indoors beginning at 5 p.m

this is a hallmark of what we saw the incrementalism or as fauci said you do it with chaos you do it from the inside and you do it iteratively that's how you get people do what you want here and so they're going to start out with 6 p.m because if they started at 5 p.m that'd be more of an irritant I mean this is all this as well before it gets dark and so if they were to start at 5 p.m well then um you know people will be more likely to push back against this thing so let's get them accustomed we'll start with a later date and then we'll later time and then we'll move the time up into the afternoon where people have to go inside and stay because of mosquitoes you know why change, because this is behavioral science. It's not medical science. And they're doing this incrementally.

And I've just got to say, when I grew up in Florida, that's one thing Florida's got. And that is mosquitoes. We have lots of mosquitoes. Had lots of mosquitoes. Still do, I guess, in Florida. is mosquitoes we have lots of mosquitoes had lots of mosquitoes still do i guess in florida and um so um the uh we would have these trucks that would go around spraying stuff this is why they're saying to people you got to go indoors because we're going to spray uh aerial stuff well um when um i was a kid they would come around with these mosquito foggers.

I mean, we actually lived on a small lake. And they would come around, especially around the lake area, with the mosquito foggers. And of course, we stayed outside most of the time after we got out of school, which people don't do anymore. And maybe that's one of the ways they're going to get this through in massachusetts i guess is there anybody outdoors anyway i usually don't see anybody outdoors but we get out of school and we go outside and play we get driven out by our mothers to go out go outside and play you know and then when it was dinner time they'd ring a big bell and we'd all go back to our homes to eat dinner and that type of thing is very, very common.

But, um, then when the mosquito fogger came around, we'd all get out of the house and we would follow the mosquito fogger, uh, which was spraying out, um, all kinds of stuff. DDT, Chlordane, Lindane, go back and look at this stuff. It's amazing that we're still alive, isn't it? We took the vaccines. We followed the mosquitoes, fucking trucks, and all the rest of this stuff. So they're worried about the eastern equine encephalitis. So this is horse brain stuff.

Maybe ivermectin works on it, it's for horses y'all well this is equine equine encephalitis uh so it's a recommendation says this article but the other one made it clear that uh they're going to harass you and require things of you if you're outside. So Massachusetts is kind of, this is a test, right? The PCR is not a test, but this is the test. This is the test of your critical thinking. This is a test of your will to be free and a test of your compliance to their arbitrary and capricious orders.

So far this year, Massachusetts, there's only been one human case of this. And you notice that the person didn't die or they would have said that the person had died. They would have pushed all the panic buttons and this person died. No, he didn't die. It's only been one human case of this. How do they know that it was a case of that?

Well, they probably did a PCR test. Who knows that the person even had it. But they've had mosquitoes that have tested positive for triple E. The infected person who lives in Oxford remains hospitalized and is courageously battling this virus, or battling whatever they're sick from, along with a PCR test identifying the virus. The lockdowns are considered to be recommendations and there will be no enforcement if residents

do not comply, said a town spokesman. Except that you have to show proof of insurance and sign a paper saying that you are outside at your own risk. Imagine that. Schools are working to reschedule and to adjust their sports schedules so practices and games occur before these evening times and on weekends they said so be afraid be very afraid and i'm surprised because you know why don't they just make a waiver there and say uh you know we can play football or whatever because mosquitoes aren't going to bother us

with that uh fauci by the way is also battling something exotic he's supposedly in the hospital um with west nile virus or was he's now at home he's alive i feel like thomas. It was John Adams. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies. They did make up in the latter years and everything, but they've been opponents. One of them, Adams, was president and Jefferson was vice president. And they had very different ideas about America. But they became friends later in life,

corresponded a lot. And as John Adams was dying, he lamented, Jefferson lives. Jefferson had just died. They both died on the 4th of July. I think it was 25 years after the Declaration of Independence. Would that be right now. I don't know.

Would that be right now? I don't think so. May 50 or something. But anyway, I feel that way. Fauci lives. But send him to West Nile. I'd like to actually have this guy be sent to the West Nile and never come back, just to stay there. An Iowa man has now been arrested because he distributed videos, sadistic videos, showing monkeys being tortured.

This is not Fauci, by the way. Fauci tortures beagles. This person was torturing monkeys. And it's okay for Fauci to torture beagles. This person was torturing monkeys. And it's okay for Fauci to torture beagles. Not a problem. And as I've said many times, nobody is concerned about Fauci working with Planned Parenthood to harvest organs from living babies so he can create human mice, humanized mice, and then torture those humanized mice.

Nobody cares about that. they don't care about the trafficking and body parts from that psychopath uh and it is uh it is sick to have torture videos of animals that is a hallmark of torturing animals this is a hallmark of psychopaths you know mass murderers like ted bundy and stuff like that or fauci you know torturing animals is always something that psychopaths do so if people had been more concerned about fauci torturing beagles perhaps we could have stopped him before he committed his mass murder on a global scale. This man, 41 years old, charged in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati with conspiracy. There's that word again.

Conspiracy to create and distribute the videos and with actually distributing the videos themselves, right? But again, we don't care about what Fauci did with any of this stuff. He actually went to Indonesia and he paid children to crush animals and have it filmed. These are sick people. But I think it's a big sickness in our society that we don't care when that happens to babies. This election, this Democrat Party is making this their number one issue. The fact that they want to crush babies. Crush their skulls. And we vote for these people, right? We hold this up as a virtue.

This kind of mass murder or make it a virtue as to what was done with the vaccines the world's first lung cancer vaccine trials didn't we already do that with the trump and fauci mrna didn't we already put out some cancer vaccines oh no this is not these vaccines are supposed to stop cancer not cause it yeah the world's first mrna lung lung cancer vaccine well actually it's probably about the fifth one of the mrna lung cancer vaccines cancer causing vaccines the new jab will instruct the body to hunt down and kill cancer cells that sounds like a therapeutic are they going to change the definition of their vaccine again that's all a problem and solution isn't it so uh we have in nash, the leftist mayor there is now having to adjust the face mask

restrictions, uh, in public policy. Why are they doing this? Well, for the same reason that you've got a lot of these, uh, liberal places are saying, well, we're going to stop the mask requirements and we're not even going to, they stop the requirements, but now they're going to prohibit masks so first she had to do the mask then it's like it's up to you and now you can't do the masks because it's all about simon says and they did it in the northeast because they wanted to stop the protesters that were getting violent destructive the palestinian supporters that were doing that in nashville they're claiming that this is to stop white supremacists.

And as the Tennessee Star says, these parades that they've had, where there hasn't been any violence, by the way, supposedly white supremacist groups, they said there's been a lot of questions as to whether or not that was a false flag. But nevertheless, they were peaceful peaceful not even mostly peaceful completely peaceful this new legislation is to boost public safety of course you know wearing a mask is about public safety prohibiting wearing of a mask is also about public safety it's all about compliance uh so it's going to boost public safety and political tensions they said are high this legislation will help to discourage behavior

that can spark violence the mask restriction is aimed at preventing groups like patriot front from concealing their identities while marching in Nashville. Previous demonstrations have included marchers with faces obscured by masks as they carried Nazi icons. But nobody was harmed with it. The mayor additionally submitted proposals he said would create buffer zones to maintain public safety around public buildings and parking lots. These are speech restrictions, in other words, that would ban distracting signs on highways or prevent distribution of handbills on private property before sunrise or after sunset. Because the mosquitoes are out, you know. No, this is all about controlling speech.

And the interesting thing is, is that Nashville was one of the places where one of the tennessee three came from remember the tennessee three these were radicals and a giant mob who occupied the legislative building there in nashville shut down the process took over the floor of the house screaming with a bullhorn refusing to leave a mob of people that were pushing and shoving legislators and the state police who tried to escort them in the state police did not come out with armored right gear and start beating people they just used their bodies to shield the legislators i mean they were very controlled and respectful in the way they did it.

But as a response to that, the legislature said, we're kicking those three out of the legislature. And then you had communities like Nashville, where this mayor is, reinstate them and put them right back in. They didn't care about that. But they care about this other group. And so they have to pass some regulations saying that you can't say this or put up billboards that we think are distracting, very subjective. So despite questions and rumors regarding whether or not Patriot front is a false flag group,

the media there in Nashville is repeating the claim. The marchers were part of a white nationalist group. And then when we look at the pandemic, I think this is interesting. I said from the very beginning, and I remember having John Rapoport on, we were two weeks into it, Easter was coming up, and we were both saying the way we can stop this, Christians have it within their power to show this whole thing as a fraud just go back to church on easter and just do what you normally do and eventually churches started doing

that and churches that have demographics that are highly skewed towards the elderly people who were supposed to be the most vulnerable ones um churches were showing that it was a total fraud. That's why they arrested those pastors in Canada. Because you can't have the churches meeting. It shows that there is no pandemic, that there is no contagion out there. And so the Orthodox churches have boomed in attendance because they didn't comply with this stuff. For almost half of the U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions and incense and kissing icons and crosses and receiving communion from a shared spoon and a shared

chalice, they're all drinking out of the same cup. Not just the masks and things like that. Well, you want to show that this whole theory about a pandemic and a contagion is false? You have a bunch of old people get around on a weekly basis and start drinking out of the same cup. Liturgical services continued for anyone wanting to attend in person according to a new study of how the denomination weathered the pandemic orthodox churches overall

were reluctant to embrace virtual worship compared to all religious congregations by spring of 2023 75 of all u.s congregations provided remote options, but only 53% of Orthodox churches did. Other U.S. congregations that are on average 8% below their pre-COVID attendance, but Orthodox churches have recovered their in-person attendance on average by the spring of 2023. Using data survey from 2020 through 2023, they found that 44% of Orthodox churches remained open throughout the pandemic, compared to only 12% of all U.S. congregations. Only 31% of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get vaccinated compared to 62% of all clergy telling people to get a jab. Isn't that amazing? Many Orthodox parishes combine several different immigrant groups and their descendants

from Russians and Ukrainians to Arabs and to Greeks, as well as to converts from other faiths and denominations. One Orthodox priest said, well, I figured people are going to make their own medical decisions about the vaccine, so I don't have to hector them about this. And he said, besides, I'm a priest. What do I know about that stuff? You can see why people are coming back, right? He said his church, by the way, has grown from about 80 people from before the pandemic to 180 people today. Oh, there you go.

It's more than doubled because of that attitude. In 2020, the church moved services to its outdoor courtyard with an amplified sound system. But then in August, smoke from a major wildfire pushed them back inside. And guess what? They don't say here. Nobody died. Nobody died. Because there was no contagion.

There was no pandemic. It was fear and panic. Again, the most vulnerable people skewed demographics to the elderly all cause deaths are surging amongst the covid vaccinated says a study that just came out this is the real pandemic the bioweapon the trump shot an alarming new study has revealed that deaths from all causes are soaring dramatically this one coming out of italy and in italy they um looked at the data that was being cut short so what they like to do they have to play games with their studies and do it for a very short period of time or whatever and so they looked at a longer timeline in this

italian study and um what they found they uh collected data data that was around this town of Pescara, a population of about 320,000 people. And they focused on large cohorts and had large follow-ups. A lot of people for a longer period of time. Their goal was to verify the real impact of the mRNA shot campaign by comparing the risk of all-cause death between the vaccinated population and the unvaccinated population. And they said, even though in Europe, they had a lot of people who complied with that, they said they still had about 10 to 40% of the people in various areas that were not vaccinated, that became their control group. And we've had people who have made that comment and had t-shirts. I'm the vaccine control group because I'm not getting it.

And so that was the control group for them. What did they find? Bottom line, 2.4 times as many deaths from all causes among those who received at least one mrna shot and if they got two it was 1.98 times so pretty close with both of those the italian researchers noted the persistence of significant excesses of all cause deaths after the deployment of the vaccines, not before. And so we have seen this over and over again. As a matter of fact, Slay News, which just has this article, Slay News says there was also a study from out of Jordan that showed this.

And they said there was a study that's also published in informatics and medicine unlocked. We've had a lot of these different studies. That particular one found that 2.9% of people who received the shots were killed by the vaccine. And they said, if you take this lower number with an estimated 230 million Americans deemed to be fully vaccinated,

that would mean that 6.67 million were killed by injections in the United States. Over 6 million killed. Could we call it a holocaust? Because, folks, that's what it was. That's exactly what it was. Yet another article on Children's Health defense about a man who died after the vaccine. They call it a catalyst is what they,

the official statement from the hospital officials said, yeah, I agree that the COVID vaccine was at least a catalyst to it. Not going to say it was the cause say that it's the catalyst. This is a 34 year old healthy man. His mother is the to say it was the cause. Say that it's the catalyst. This is a 34-year-old healthy man. His mother is the one who is tracking this down because he died suddenly 16 days after his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. By the way, according to the statistics in VAERS, he wasn't vaccinated.

You would not be counted as a vaccinated individual for the so-called pandemic. In other words, his death would have been filed statistically as an unvaccinated person who died. Because they don't count you as vaccinated until two weeks after your second shot. He died two weeks after his first shot. He died suddenly. Sudden adult death syndrome, which we'd never had before. But when they started pushing that, I've shown it many times, the sad

story of that mother who realized, wait a minute, they always talked about sudden infant death syndrome. And my son died shortly after he was vaccinated and they called it sudden infant death syndrome. Now this is happening to adults who are dying, and they call it sudden adult death syndrome. And she cried and said, I killed my kid. I just realized that. No, you didn't. It's the people and the politicians and the institutions who deceived you,

and they're the ones who killed your child. And so 226 million people vaccinated in the United States. Here's Lala Harris talking about how we had 226 million people dead. About two-thirds of the population, she thinks, died from the pandemic. She was saying this as the vaccine. She's not getting these two numbers confused. She said this to encourage people to get vaccinated. We're in the middle of a crisis

caused by this pandemic that is a public health crisis. We're looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died. We are in the midst of a public health epidemic that has taken the lives of over 220 million Americans in just the last... See, saying it multiple times. Multiple times. She just keeps repeating that. You keep saying that, you just keep lying.

But of course, she's not the only one lying about that. The problem is, you know, we save tens of millions of lives all over the world, but I can't talk about it because our base, our beautiful base of which some of you are there. If you look at the Pfizer vaccine, there was there were 22,000 people in the placebo group, 22,000 people who got the actual vaccine. And the people who got the vaccine had a 23 percent higher death rate from all causes. You get angry when we mention the word vaccine.

Don't get angry. How do we stop that? I mean, it just seems like it's obviously killing people. Like, people are dying, you know? It's like, what do we have to do that our own government won't help us? Well, you have to stop listening to lobbyists. You know, I was not a big person for lobbyists.

Minister Farrow has asked me to address the issue of vaccines and African-American and vaccine safety. I want to start out by saying this and I want to say it emphatically. I am pro vaccine. I am. I have always been fiercely pro vaccine. I had all six of my children vaccinated. And I believe that we ought to have policies that encourage full vaccination for all Americans. And by the way, he said the other night that vaccines are fine. He said it on a show, a television show, that vaccines are fine. He's all for them.

And that's what he said. And look, I guess in a certain way, I'm the father of the vaccine because I was the one that pushed it. The hesitation we have right now in joining forces with Trump is that he has not apologized or publicly come out and said Operation Warp Speed was my fault. It was a failure and I let it happen. I'll never let it happen again. The vaccinations. Right. I mean, all of it. Right.

The lockdowns, letting Fauci and Francis Collins run the show. Yes. letting Fauci and Francis Collins run the show, the firing of the other folks at the NIH and individuals at the CDC that were censored. I mean, there was a lot that happened under Donald Trump's watch that should not have happened and cannot happen again. Yeah, yeah. But we can't admit that we made any mistakes, right, about any of that stuff. and cannot happen again. Yeah, yeah. But we can't admit that we made any mistakes, right, about any of that stuff. Because it wasn't a mistake.

It was full-on deliberate, folks. Well, I was going to talk about how we can rebuild American science, but we'll leave that for another day. I don't want to respond to some of the people who have left tips here. Onfin, Carious Rex, thank you very much, and on Rumble. Jeff Weiss, thank you so much. That's very generous. He says, thank you for your tireless work. Blessings from Pastor Jeff Weiss, and wing and a prayer.

And I was on their program. I really enjoyed talking to Jeff and found out that he lives in this area. And I apologize, Jeff, for not having gotten back to you sooner to set up a time because I really would like to meet you, and we need to get together. this area and i apologize jeff for not having got back to you sooner to set up a time because i really would like to meet you and um uh we need to get together i really want to do that um uh i'll try to get that out to you soon so uh on rumble uh it's things were um as i mentioned yesterday we had some health issues over the weekend uh on rumble uh that is since c1m thank you for the tips and i highly recommend you getting on derrick bros on soon you've been

reading some of his articles from last american vagabond lately and i believe it'd be a constructive interesting conversation uh i talked to ryan at last american vagabond and vice versa and we did we did have interesting conversations when he was on this show and when I was on his show, I think. Uh, so yeah, I'll look into that.

Um, a good source for information. Um, I've added it to my list, uh, last American vagabonds. Why I've been covering some of their articles lately. We're going to take a quick break and we're going to be joined with our

guest. Um, uh, Donald, I think I got the first name right, Donald Rainwater, who is running as a libertarian, as a third party candidate in Indiana. And I wanted to get him back on because he was one of the very few people of any political party, even the Libertarian Party, who was pushing against the lockdowns and all the rest of the stuff in 2020. And so he's back now running for governor. I want to talk to him about what is happening, because I think it is very important that we not put all of our hope on Washington. I think it's important what we do at the state and local level. I've harped on that many, many times, and it is very important. So we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back with Mr. Rainwater, who

again is running for office in Indiana, running for governor. We'll be right back. ORGAN PLAYS © BF-WATCH TV 2021 ORGAN PLAYS ¶¶ Defending the American Dream. You're listening to The David Knight Show. All right, folks, and if you want to defend the American Dream, you better start locally. And that's why we're going to talk local and state government. That's why I was open to it. I interviewed Donald Rainwater, who had run for governor in 2020. We've talked about what was happening during that period of time. And he got national attention because he jumped up so high in the polls because he's about the only politician in any party that was really tackling this pandemic nonsense. And he did a great job of doing that.

And so he is back and he is running for governor yet again. The rainwaterforindiana.com. Rainwater and it's F-O-R. Indiana.com is his website. But we're going to talk about why he's running, what the issues are. So thank you for joining us, Donald Rainwater. Appreciate it. Oh, well, David, thank you so much for having me i really appreciate the opportunity well i'm glad to have you on and i think you know i want to talk about issues because we have

everything focused on the two parties and everybody is so uh focused on just the two parties focused on personalities and not focused on issues. And it's killing us. I mean, these agendas that are out there and, and everything else, nobody is paying attention to that. They're so distracted in this personality competition. It's like it's some kind of a beauty contest or a talent show or something.

So let's talk a little about issues. Tell us, first of all, why you're running in Indiana. You know, what are the important issues for you? Well, you know, first of all, first're running in indiana you know what are the important issues for you well you know first of all uh first and foremost as a libertarian i believe in uh limited very limited government and uh safe guarding and as thomas jefferson wrote in the declaration of independence you know to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. And so I believe that we need to refocus our government at every level on safeguarding every individual's rights equally and reducing the size and scope of government. it is much more difficult for someone with ill intent to utilize government in an inappropriate way

if government isn't strong enough to be used in that way. So I'm very intent on reducing the size and scope of government. And I heard you talk about the federal government and the importance of state government as well. And one of the things that I tell folks in Indiana is that I believe that the Constitution of the United States is a fence around the federal government intended to keep it within its intended purpose. The slats in that fence are the 50 states. The problem is that we've allowed the slats to fall down on the job. Our states are not holding the federal government accountable instead they're standing there with their hand out asking for more money much like Oliver Twist and

so the federal government now has the upper hand and that's how things get out of whack so I am running for governor of the state of Indiana because I want to reduce the size and scope of government. And I also want to grab the Ninth Amendment with one hand and the Tenth Amendment with the other and tell the federal government to back off. Good, good. Yeah, I just read an op-ed piece the other day. I think it was from Brownstone. I'm not sure. It might have been from Mises. They said every one of these candidates for president, or any office actually, should be asked these two questions.

What is the purpose of government? What is the purpose of government? And what is its rightful role in our lives? And nobody ever asked them something like that. That would be so telling. I imagine most of them would say the purpose of government is to keep us safe right you know i've heard that i've also heard one of my opponents made the comment the uh here a while back that conservatism is government not spending more than it takes in. And I think that that's an atrocious assumption.

Government conservatism is government doesn't take in more than it needs to do its job. That's how Calvin Coolidge defined it. He said that when government takes in more than it needs, that's legalized robbery. And I agree with him. Yeah. And it really needs to come from the standpoint of understanding what the proper role of government is. You know, we absolutely need to make government small enough to fit in the constitution. And if it gets that small, we're not going to really worry about how it is financed. I mean, we, it'd be such a small tax i think it was ron paul who said that if we got the government to fit inside the constitution the way that we raise the taxes wouldn't really matter because it would be so small that uh we

really wouldn't notice it but yeah the problem is that it's gotten so large and so the problem that we see in washington one of the reasons why a solution, I believe, is not going to come out of Washington. The solution is being to keep Washington in Washington and far away from us. But the problem is all of the money. And when you look at the fact that Lala Harris got five hundred million dollars, half a billion dollars in one month, that was five times the amount that George W. Bush got in 2020 and 2000 i should say and he was accused of trying to buy the election by al gore who only got 70 million but she gets 500 million in one month why is that there well it's because an election is an advanced auction

of stolen goods and these people know they're not donating they're investing and they're going to get more than they put in a lot more and so that's one of the reasons i think it's growing and i think it's growing at the state level and so let me ask you you know when you look at this at the state level what is typical for your opponents republicans and democrats to be spending uh on their campaign what kind of money are they talking about uh roughly uh when you're a gubernatorial uh competition democrat republican i'm sure your budget is uh not anywhere close to that you're out there doing this as a citizen but what are they taking in well i i you know i know that uh they're taking in millions of dollars. And I'll be honest with you, I am much more concerned with what our General Assembly is taking in and how they're spending it. To give you a good example of that, at the beginning of 2023, we had a $4.5 billion surplus in Indiana. So for 2024 and 2025 budgets they made sure that they spent

in the budget the money they thought they were going to be able to receive so that there would not be a surplus that they had to give back to the citizens. And that, I think, is an example of this idea that, well, it's conservative for me to say that we don't spend more than we take in. And that assumption is that we can figure out how to get it out of your pocket. We're going to spend it, and we don't care whether you need it or not. And I think that's both unethical and immoral. And I think that this is part of the problem that we have in Indiana. One of our big issues right now, most all citizens are frustrated with property taxes because even though we have a constitutional amendment in Indiana that says that residential property tax is 1% of the assessed value of the property, they reassess every year.

And they keep making that assessment go higher and higher, which means that people's property taxes go up. And if their property taxes are escrowed into their mortgage, that means their mortgage payment goes up every year. We've got senior citizens who've had their forever homes where all their memories of raising their children and all of their other significant events through their life have taken place and now they've paid off their mortgage but they can't keep their home because they're on a fixed income and they can't afford their property taxes anymore yes and our state government doesn't seem to care. They're more worried about funneling money to economic development commissions at both local and at the state level. We have an Indiana Economic Development Corporation that was just given a $50 million budget increase to go out and attract large

corporations to come to Indiana, build, create new jobs that because we are at the lowest unemployment in the history of the state right now and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that we actually have a worker shortage for every 100 available jobs we are missing 25 people to fill those 100 jobs and so instead of making cost of living lower in Indiana we're bringing in all these new jobs and then having those jobs filled by Hoosiers who are leaving small businesses and then the small businesses the Hoosier entrepreneurs that have been trying to build and invest in Indiana their whole lives are not able to staff their businesses. And so we now in Indiana over the last decade have a net loss in small businesses and individual franchisees. And this, to me, along with our loss of family farming, is causing an economic crisis in Indiana.

And the state government doesn't care because what they're looking for is this corporatist style of government. Yes. And I vehemently oppose that. Yes, and we saw that in 2020. And you were speaking to that issue when you were running in 2020. The fact that mom and pop stores on Main Street were non-essential. But the big box stores from Wall Street, they were essential.

They could stay open, but the small mom and pop service businesses couldn't stay open. So they're coming after the small mom and pop service businesses. They're coming after the farms, the family farms and things like that. They're coming after every kind of business that is done by individuals. It's the big corporations that are declared essential, and it is what the government at every level really is serving, that interest to drive out their competition and to make sure that we don't have any businesses.

That's the key thing. What kind of, now you said that you've got more jobs and you've got people to fill them in Indiana. What was the uh outcome from the the lockdown that you see there you i guess you don't have a big city are you having a you probably don't have the kind of commercial real estate problems that we're seeing uh on the coasts in california new york i guess right well i i don't think to the same extent. What we are seeing, because I believe that the way that the Indiana state government handled the pandemic, we saw a lot of folks who had to innovate and create new means of income.

I think that the gig economy was a place where folks found a lot of that. And so a lot of this worker shortage is actually a result of folks who were told they couldn't go to work during the pandemic, finding other ways to make income. And when the state opened back up, those folks said, oh, no, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I'm not coming back. No, I'm going to make sure that I have the means to take care of my household and my family, and I'm not going to get, which is here again, why I think we have such a problem with this attitude that government should be force-feeding a large corporate economy to the state of Indiana. Because what we're really doing is we're saying we have a limited number of people. We're going to flood the state with jobs. And it's going to force small businesses either out of the market or they're going to have to raise their level of salary, wages, and benefits to match what we're bringing in. Well, you know, I hear a lot of high-paying jobs and basically enticing workers away from small businesses, you're really doing the same thing. wages to match these big corporations this is picking winners and losers once again and i i

think it is abhorrent that our government takes it upon themselves to manipulate the economy in that way that is not free market principles the free market principle is if we encourage people to come here and there are plenty of people fulfill the jobs then the jobs will come on their own and then all of that can be done in a very organic way but when you're giving corporations 35 or 50 year sales and use tax exemptions as they're doing with amazon web services in the south bend area and meta down in the jeffersonville area what you get are these huge corporations who are getting you know they're not even it's not just the sales tax exemption for 35 or 50 years on the the equipment for these data centers which is a lot of money yeah but it's also that they get a 35 or 50-year use tax or sales tax exemption

on their electric bill for a data center. Yeah. Those data centers are going to really put such a burden on the infrastructure. We've got here in Tennessee, we've got the tva is going to jump up the electricity prices by five and a half percent part of that is the fact that they want to go to renewables which means that they've then got to buy these very expensive battery battery energy storage sites which are a massive fire hazard so it's an extremely expensive form of energy that's being imposed on us

because of climate fear. And as you point out, they're going to bring these companies in, give them heavy subsidies on energy usage, which is going to drive the price of energy up sky high for everybody else, if they can even get it. That's the issue as well. Absolutely. Well, and the reality is when I go around the state of indiana and i talk to people and i ask people how many of you are small business owners and you get 10 or 15 folks uh raising their hand and you look at them and say has the state of indiana ever offered you a sales tax exemption on your electric bill? And they look at you and go,

no, they have a car shop. Because in their mind, you're not big enough to worry about. And I find it terribly offensive that in our state constitution, we have in our state constitution's Bill of Rights, a clause that says that the state government will not provide any privilege to any citizen or group of citizens that is not provided to all. Now, what they do is they say, well, you know,

anybody who invests $800 billion in the state of Indiana can get this privilege. That to me is, again, immoral and unethical. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It is deciding that some groups are essential and others are not essential, and it is violating the market principles. Oh, yeah. It is deciding that some groups are essential and others are not essential. And it is violating the market principles. Look, I've seen this type of thing forever. We used to see it predominantly at the state level, local level. We'd usually see it with big professional stadiums. And those things kept going up and up. You know, first it's a couple hundred million. Then it's up to a billion dollars for a stadium. And now, you know, to infinity and beyond with this stuff.

But, you know, that was that kind of subsidy for certain businesses is, again, the government picking winners and losers. And usually they pick those winners and losers based on who's putting money in their pockets. Politicians are some of the best investments that anybody can ever make. And they're not donating stuff, but they're making investments. I've got what we're talking about money here and you talked about the surplus that Indiana had. I don't know if that's coming from some of the COVID cash that they got.

I know that California was looking before all this COVID nonsense, they were looking at a deficit of tens of billions. I forget what the exact numbers were. Then all of a sudden they got so much money out of Washington, out of the trump administration that they had um you know like 100 billion dollar subs uh excess and they quickly ran through that with all kinds of new spending programs and now they're looking at the assets of tens of billions again so they just ran through

all that cash but i got a question here uh from a listener dga on rumble and thank you for the tip appreciate that said david could you please ask mr rainwater about how much power and funding to violate the state's constitution the federal emergency order trump signed on march the 13th 2020 gave to these governors you know what kind of largesse did they get i mean of course we all know this is what the federal government does it It hands out a lot of money, whether it's the Department of Education or something else, to get the policies done that they want. They bribe them, and then later on, after the people, after they get hooked on this money, they can use that to blackmail them and say, you know, it'd be a shame if you lost all that money that you've gotten used to. what happened in terms of covid cash and uh in 2020 in indiana that you can speak

to well i i don't know specifically as far as covet cash um but but i will tell you here's here's what we've here's what we know uh in the state of indiana 2019, the year before the pandemic started, the state budget was around $16 billion for the general fund and about $26 billion with federal money in the four years since we now have a state budget spending uh last year of about 26 billion and with that's for the uh general funds so that's about a 10 billion dollar increase and with federal funds it's a 20 billion dollar increase so we've we've added uh a significant amount of money to our state spending, to our state budget, because of the increased

funding from the federal government. And the problem that we have with this, of course, is that, once again, if government is flush with cash, then people are desperate to Republicans and Democrats able to raise millions of dollars that Donald Rainwater can't? Because Donald Rainwater is not for sale. As you mentioned earlier, these folks that put money into campaigns do so as an investment because they know they're going to get a lot out. And when I go out here and I say I want to reduce spending, I want to reduce taxation, I want to reduce the budget, that does not make me attractive to those folks who want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in their ability to manipulate the government for their benefit. $100,000 and the vast majority of that has come in the $20,000, $50,000, $100,000 amounts

from citizens who are tired of state government and local government taking advantage of them. And so we've got a lot of that. Now, if any of your listeners are genuinely concerned about better government, not bigger government, as you told them, they can go to rainwaterforindiana.com. And I've got a donate button there for PayPal, and I've got a separate one for debit credit. And if they want to make a big donation, I'd be more than happy to take. That's right. But you're not for sale.

And that's the key thing. And that's the way that they make it. Not even for rent. Rent for all for rent for four years. Yeah. We'll work for subsidies. Yeah. The, uh, when we talk about that, I mentioned many times, I know I talked to people in Idaho at the time this stuff was happening in 2020.

Brad Little, the governor there, the Republican governor there, was given several times what the entire state budget was out of Washington. And it was money that he could spend at his discretion. And so, of course, that's a big, powerful political plum that you've got there, big political leverage that you have that can help you get elected, help you do all kinds of things for yourself personally. When we see somebody getting a massive endowment like they did with Pete Boudigie, giving him control of like $200 billion for infrastructure. That's something he could use to feather his nest politically with a lot of people and make friends with them. And so essentially that's what was happening with a lot of these governors,

both Republican and Democrat, during the lockdown with that kind of money. And when we look at the corporations, when they invest in these politicians, it's a regular fee. If you go back and you look at what that corporation later gets and look at how much they donated, usually they're getting a couple of thousand percent return on investment.

I mean, there just isn't any better investment you can make than a politician. So we were talking earlier and you have some very specific ideas about what you would do to help people on property tax, for example. Talk about that because this is something that affects all Americans in every state. And this is something people could start to push their politicians and their state to do something about. Talk a little bit about your ideas about property tax relief, because nobody can own property in the United States as long as we've got these high property taxes.

Absolutely. And, of course, I tell people as a libertarian, in a perfect world, I would abolish property taxes entirely. When I suggested that four years ago, a lot of folks had their heads explode. So what we've done is we've said, okay, let's kind of give people a pragmatic approach. First of all, we need to make sure that property taxes never go up. Nobody should be scared to find out that their property taxes are increasing. So what I've proposed is that property taxes in the state of Indiana should be based on 1% of the purchase price of your property, because I believe that the only true value of any item is what you paid for it until someone else pays you to buy it from you.

Then you have a true value at that time based on what they paid you for it. Yes. And this is something that I find very ironic and a little hypocritical. Here again, when I hear folks talk about the current vice president's idea of taxing unrealized gains, and they throw a fit about that, And then in the state of Indiana, we have Republicans and Democrats who want to tax the unrealized gains of property. And I think that's wrong. So here again,

first we want to make it 1% of the purchase price of your property. It never goes up. And then as you pointed out, I believe that you can never truly own your property it never goes up and then as you pointed out i believe that you can never truly own your property if you are under the threat that the government can take it from you because you fall behind on your semi-annual rent payment to them they call property taxes. So I believe that we need to do away with this tax in perpetuity. So I've said in Indiana, we have a 7% sales tax. So let's make it seven years, 1% of the purchase price

for seven years maximum. Now, if you can pay that at at closing either in cash or by rolling it in your mortgage and amortizing it over a 30-year period then you're done if you can't you pay it one percent escrowed into your mortgage like you're doing now, and at the end of seven years, you're done. One of the things that I keep pointing out to people is that if you pay 1% of the purchase price or 1% of the assessed value over a period of 30 years, you will have given your state and local government over a 30-year period over 30% of the equity in your home. Wow. You have given them 30% of the investment that you made in your home. Now, the government hasn't done anything to earn that money.

And when we talk about one of the things that I hear a lot is, oh, well, you just want to defund the police. And I say, no, absolutely not. We have tax increment financing all over the state of Indiana that has been stealing property taxes from local governments for decades. We have 10-year tax abatements that our local governments can give to commercial and industrial businesses so that they don't have to pay property taxes for seven or eight years, depending upon how much their quote-unquote investment is, how many jobs they create. And so what you're talking about is really kind of having it go for seven years or whatever, 1% a year.

You're talking about giving a property tax abatement on the back end. That's correct. For homeowners. That's one way for people to look at it. But I really like the way that you explained this and your perspective of looking at this because typically we talk about uh the injustice of the property taxes and it is an injustice we are being taxed on government created inflation uh because absolutely they say that the price of your home is going up you know you you get a home and you you have it for 30 years,

and maybe you're going to sell it for 10 times what you paid for. But that home is not worth 10 times as much as it was. It's 30 years old now, maybe. And so it is not worth more. It's just that your money is worthless. And so that's a tax on the inflation that's there when you have these property taxes that are being re-evaluated all the time but i love what you're talking about in terms of the fact that people need to look at it since this is all being talked about now by the democrats

it's great to talk about this as people refer to it as an unrealized gain uh to think about this and saying well what if we looked at your stocks and we say that you had in your investment portfolio, you had $100,000 in stocks, and now your stocks have gone up in value and they're $150,000, so we're going to tax you on that $50,000, but you're still holding it. That could go down and it could become a loss and that type of thing. Something is actually true of your home.

Your home can actually go down in value. We've seen that happen. It surprised a lot of people uh you know in the great recession and it may happen again but um that really is when you really evaluate this i like talking about it in terms of being taxed on a gain that you haven't taken uh as opposed to talking about it in terms of an inflationary tax and it causes people to lose their home if they're on a fixed income, and yet the price of their home is not fixed. That's a great way to look at it. That's a very important issue, and I'm glad that you're talking about that.

People need to think about this in every state. That is something everybody ought to be making an argument for in terms of property tax. And I also like your idea about the 7% thing up up front or paying one percent for seven years and then you're done uh that is also um very important uh the home is many cases not only the biggest but sometimes the only investment that people in the middle class have and this is the government trying to take that away from people and they do it absolutely yeah yeah uh talk a little bit about your uh your perspective on the gasoline tax as well because that's oh yeah yes well and there's you know um there's constantly talk about gasoline prices and high they are and how that unfairly impacts lower and middle income Hoosiers. And in the state of Indiana, we actually pay two separate state taxes on gasoline.

We have a 7% use or sales tax, which is calculated on the average price across the state of Indiana of a gallon of gas for the previous month. So for the month of August the use tax was 20.3 cents per gallon. But then we also have a gasoline excise tax that our General Assembly back in 2017 decided to index for inflation. They added 10 cents and then made it indexed for inflation so it goes up a penny a year minimum. It currently sits at $0.35 per gallon. So for every gallon of gas that a Hoosier buys, they are paying $0.203 in sales tax, $0.35 in excise tax, which is a $0.553 per gallon tax on gasoline just for the state.

I believe the federal tax is currently 18 cents a gallon. And so 18 cents versus 55.3 cents seems to be a lot to me. And I personally don't believe that anyone should have to pay two taxes to the state of Indiana for the same product. So I am advocating for the abolition of the state excise tax on gasoline. I'll take that a little further. We also pay 7% sales tax when we purchase a car, and then we are charged an excise tax every year to renew our license plates. I want to do away with the excise tax. On vehicles, all vehicles in the state of Indiana, you shouldn't have to pay two separate taxes to the same government agency for the same product.

Yes. Good. And so, you know, when you start to cut the taxes, what would you do to cut government spending? Well, that's a great question. I'm so glad you asked that. You've got a long list, right? I bet you've got a long list. Right.

Well, you know, there's a real simple formula that I learned during the pandemic because our governor during the pandemic was concerned that they might not raise

all the revenue they were hoping for, so he sent out a memo, issued a directive to all state agencies, all 50-plus state bureaucracies in the state of Indiana, instructing them to cut their spending level, cut their budget by 10% to 15%. When they did that, we ended up with a six billion dollar surplus so and that's just out of the general fund spending that doesn't include

the federal government money so my my proposal is that uh on the first day that Donald Rainwater's administration is in the governor's office, we will issue a memo that says we're not in a pandemic, but we are in a financial crisis in the state of Indiana. People are suffering. People are suffering. People are hurting. Hoosiers are having to make decisions about how they will fill their gas tank, pay their mortgage, feed their kids, clothe their kids. And so we're going to cut across the board 10% to 15%. No cuts in entitlements I will tell you that

even as a libertarian I believe that uh entitlements are the last things we touch that's right they usually come after that first usually first right well that is to shut down a park you know because that's what right it. Right, it's the threat, right? Exactly, yeah. Absolutely. It's here, let me show you what we're going to do if you try to take my money away from me. That's right. And it's not their money, it's our money.

We gave it to them. Actually, they took it from us. So my plan is during the first four years of my governorship, my first term, we will instruct all state agencies to $10 billion vote in the state budget over the last four years. So I'm also going to go to the General Assembly and say, first of all, I would like you to freeze the budget. Secondly, I would like you to rewrite the budget to be equivalent to what it was in 2019. Let's reduce our state spending by $10 billion that it has blown up, ballooned in the last four years back to 2019 spending levels

and then take that 10 billion dollars and eliminate our state income tax because they say that if we got rid of the personal income tax in indiana it would cost $8 billion in revenue. So if I cut spending back to 2019 levels and reduce the budget by $10 billion, and if I reduce the revenue by $8 billion, that means I'll still have a $2 billion surplus as a result of cutting the budget and eliminating the state income tax because here again you know i believe firmly that the government should not have claim, financial claim to our property. And when we allow them to take money from our paychecks, we are giving them a first right to our earned income.

And I believe here again that that's immoral and unethical. And I want to do it. So you'll notice I'm big on the idea that the government doesn't need all this money and that they're spending too much. And I've learned from being a little bit overweight that if I want to reduce my weight, I have to reduce the food I put in my mouth, because I am not going to be able to continue to cram food in my face and lose weight. So we have to reduce the taxes. You know, it'd be great if we could say, well, we're going to reduce all this spending, then we'll give people their money back the reality is is that our our government at every level local county state federal they are

addicted to spending other people's money yes and the good news is that you point out since the pandemic uh they illustrate that they can do that it's not a theory uh they actually the government comes out and says, we're going to cut across the board. Everybody cut your budget by this amount. They can all go find something that they can reduce their spending on. They've already done it in that state. And so it's been demonstrated, it's been done,

and they could do it again. And that's the key thing. It's good to hear somebody finally who focuses on the problems of the people, of the middle class. It's good to hear somebody who is focused on just offering the opportunity for you to actually own property. That'd be the only state union where you could actually own property. And imagine the number of people that would move to Indiana, and we wouldn't have a worker shortage anymore. That's right. Our small business owners and individual franchisees would have plenty of opportunity to staff their businesses.

Well, it's very important, and it's important for people to hear this everywhere. Because, you know, when you propose this and you couch it in those terms where people can easily understand it, I think that that's an important thing that could be taken to other places as well because when you're talking about getting rid of the income tax that was done here in tennessee and they wound up with a budget surplus even after they cut the state income tax so we're not talking about theoreticals these are things that have already been done the The question is, does anybody really care to try to do this or do they want to just fall into the trap of voting access if they had a debate that included you and the people of Indiana were able to hear what you want to do with property taxes that would be huge I would think that well they will be yeah yeah we are there are three debates scheduled we are

guaranteed to be in two of the three and the third one we are waiting for um the the company is nextar they own our fox affiliate and our cbs affiliate and uh but they have said first they said i had to raise a hundred thousand dollars uh so we got out there and raised our hundred thousand dollars and now i think they're trying to wait to see if there's a poll that comes out where i pull under 10 i have to pull over 10 percent on a poll if it comes out or they can exclude me but i'm definitely in two of the three debates we debated four years ago in two debates and you're absolutely right the number of people who have told me that they did not vote for me in 2020 because they didn't know who i was until they saw me in the

debate after early voting started and that now they are committed to voting for me this year because of exactly what you're talking about the fact that people understand and believe that there are common sense simple solutions to big government and that we need to be shrinking the size and scope of government if we want, for example, to fix our economy. The bald-faced truth is that theation that we currently are saddled with was caused by government spending and not just Democrat spending or Republican spending, just government spending, period. It's all of their faults and they all need to be held accountable. That's right. That's absolutely right. Yeah, you're going to have to put that in there because they're not going to ask any questions about that. You're going to have to put that in there and say, here's why I'm running. I know that you want to ask me, here's why I'm running because I want people to be able to own their homes. And you can't own your home now. You know, if you put something in there like that, that'd be a killer. I'm glad that you're going to be in the debates. I really am surprised because we've had situations when I was with the Liarian party in north carolina uh you know we'd work so hard

to get on the ballot there and then they would always exclude us from the debates and the debates at that point in time back in the early 90s are being run by the press association the statewide press association they said we don't want you on you know same thing that fox is doing now trying to move the goal posts and uh on you and all the rest of this stuff it truly is despicable and when i you know in 2020 is everybody oh what about this election it's like yeah of course there's always they're always messing with the vote totals and anything but the rigging of the election really begins with the media and the uh excluding people from the debates and with the uh excluding of people off of the ballots that you don't even

have a choice that's the key thing so i'm glad you're going to be in two debates that's excellent news and we've talked a lot about money but you also have some other issues and it kind of is the center of an event that you're going to be doing the in september september theth, you've got an event coming up. People can go to rainwater4, F-O-R, rainwater4indiana.com, and they can get information about this event. You're also doing that with a candidate for Congress, and this is about the Second Amendment. Tell people a little bit about that event. Well, we have a, in Terre Haute, Indiana, we have a small business owner who owns a gun shop and range.

And he is throwing an event for us to fundraise. Actually, the state party, the Libertarian Party of Indiana, is sponsoring the fundraising event there. And, you know, one of the things that is very important to me is the fact that I believe that the Second Amendment says shall not be infringed. And there's a period after that. There are no qualifications. It's not shall not be infringed unless you have a medical marijuana card or shall not be infringed unless we exercise our red flag laws against you. It says shall not be infringed. And so we are very fortunate after we ran in 2020, the Indiana General Assembly saw fit to pass constitutional carry in Indiana,

even though they had summarily for about a decade denied constitutional carry to Hoosiers. But after I spoke out fervently about it in 2020, they decided to go ahead and pass constitutional carry. Unfortunately, we do have red flag laws in the state of Indiana, which means that at any time the government can say, well, you're a member of this organization. We've determined that you all are brainwashed and have a mental defect, and we're going to take your guns. And then you have to go to court to get them back. I don't like red flag laws for that reason.

I believe, here again, the Second Amendment gives us what we need to make sure that all of the other amendments are upheld. You don't have the First Amendment without the Second. And so I believe that enforcing our right to keep and bear arms, period, end of sentence, is extremely important to our continued fight for freedom. And I do want to add, David, that when I say that, I think it is something that we as Americans, as Hoosiers, need to take very seriously. Our government is too big, it is too powerful. And we are in a daily fight to maintain and regain our freedoms. I agree. We are not a free people. As you said,

Madison said, if you can't own property, you are not free. And therefore, if we pay property taxes with the threat of it being taken away from us if we get behind we are not truly free when the only uh the only schools uh that we are able to send our children to because we can't afford private school is the public school and uh the government enforces that by making us pay taxes to fund the public school whether we want to send our children there or not yes we're not truly free that's true um yeah when you talk about the red flag law you know it is really a form of civil asset forfeiture another abomination from our government. Absolutely. To take something from you, you have no presumption of innocence.

You have to prove that you're innocent to get this back and so forth. That's right. We have taxation without representation, really, and we have regulation, certainly, without representation. The important thing, folks, when we talk about third-party access and opening up the ballot, is so that people can hear the types of things that you just heard from donald rainwater talking about a different way to fund the government talking about actually being able to own our homes and not be forced out of them that is so important and if as he talked about the the gun issues in 2020 and brought them around to some of these issues that's the importance of actually having additional people on the ballot

so that you can actually talk about issues. And so that if they see support, and if the people in Indiana support Donald Rainwater because he wants you to be able to own a home, that's going to put, even if he doesn't win, that's going to put a lot of pressure on these people to actually do something like this. Why is this guy so popular? Was it because of what he said about property taxes or whatever? Well, then maybe we should do something about that so we don't lose our position. It can be a very effective way to bring pressure.

And if you don't do anything at all, they're going to continue to do what they've always done, and that is to steal from you and make it a career for themselves. It was so good talking to you and thank you for what you did in 2020 thank you for doing this again i'm very excited to hear that you're going to be in two debates that's great uh nail them with that property tax we'll be absolutely thank you so much for having me thank you and again you go to rainwater for indiana that's for indiana.com and you can dot com. And you can find out about that. You can find out about the events that they've got coming up.

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