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Episode Date: December 4, 2024

(0:00) Leigh Brown (GiveSendGo @weloveWNC)  joins with an update on the people in Western NC after the devastation of hurricane HeleneHow it began, what it's like nowProperty ownership issues, insura...nce claimsWhat you need to think about in terms of preppingA network of volunteers vs the centralized bureaucracy that desires to control, not help(0:44) Dr. Jane Ruby, @RealDrJaneRuby drjaneruby.com What did the Republican Convention memory-hole that is not only still in place, but quietly building?  The Trump shootingHidden dangers in PaxlovidTechnocracy's hook into TrumpWhere do solutions lie?(1:36) Ken Block  was hired by the Trump campaign to audit the 2020 election for fraud. The Trump campaign also  hired its own exit polling company — what did they discover?  Block's book examines the flawed system from 2020 that will still be with us for 2024 and drastic changes he believes should be done to reform and protect election integrity.  "Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows why He Lost, and How We can Improve Our Elections"(2:30) Lisa Hansen , a business owner of over 30 years was  jailed  by Gov Tim Walz's government.  Only a few businesses agreed to defy the lockdown orders after 8 months of lockdown and 95% of them caved. Lisa stayed the course,  lost her business,  and was  given a 90 day sentence for staying open.   Her story has been ignored but must NOT be forgotten.  If we lay down, they will walk all over us again!Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver Follow The David Knight Show on Rumble and watch the show live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST: https://rumble.com/c/TheDavidKnightShow For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Happiness. We all know what it feels like, but sometimes it doesn't come easy. I'm Garvey Bailey, the host of Happy Enough, a new podcast from The Globe and Mail about our pursuit of happiness. We know people want to live more fulfilling and positive lives, but how do we actually do that? Is there a happiness code to crack? From our relationship with technology to whether money can really buy you happiness, we'll hear from both real people and experts to demystify this thing we're all searching for and hopefully find ways to be happy enough. You can find Happy Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, welcome back.
Starting point is 00:00:55 And joining us now is Lee Brown. She put together a relief organization that is still going on. And as she points out, this is not over yet. People's attention span is very short. And they move on to the next story or the next hurricane or whatever right but this is still going on and it's going to go on for a long time and uh so we need to keep people's attention focused on this and and fight against that and there's also a concerted effort to keep this quiet uh i want to begin by telling you where you can go. The official donation page is on GiveSendGo and it is at
Starting point is 00:01:31 WeLoveWNC for Western North Carolina. WeLoveWNC. That's on GiveSendGo. We'll give that at the end of the broadcast as well. But thank you for joining us, Lee Brown. Thank you very much for coming on. Well, thank you for having me. It's an honor to be on your show. Well, thank you. I want to, you know, let's talk about what is going on and the ongoing need here. But I think a lot of people are just curious as to what it looks like on the ground. But maybe we could start with how this all began and how you got involved in this what was it like what you saw by being there on the spot well just to be very clear i'm located about an hour outside of the
Starting point is 00:02:13 impact zone but being a native north carolinian and having a lot of friends and family in the affected area it just it hit home for me and so when the storm hit and we're watching the flooding and the the very early coverage which there was a little coverage at the beginning I could see where this was headed and I have helped with natural disasters in the past because North Carolina does happen to get hurricanes on a regular basis. And being in real estate, I think real estate agents often don't get the credit they're due for the way realtors just love to dig in and help their communities. Well, my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary on September 27th. And this is the third year that we've spent our anniversary doing relief efforts.
Starting point is 00:03:02 So I don't know how we got lucky like that, but I knew it was coming. I said, told my husband, I said, well, let's load the real estate company move-in truck up and we'll let our clients bring donations and we'll be prepared to help, not knowing how bad it was gonna be, but knowing there was gonna be a need. So I put the word out that we would let people come help us
Starting point is 00:03:23 fill the truck up. And then as the news hit of the breadth of the disaster and the gravity of what was going on, it turned into an accidental grassroots effort that has been embraced across the, well, actually it's international at this point, because my videos talking about it had gone viral. And it's hard to put into words what it looks like in western North Carolina because it's truly war zone kind of conditions in many areas where the roads have collapsed I-40 between North Carolina and Tennessee collapsed with vehicles stranded on the highway you have the city of Asheville, which is a decent-sized small
Starting point is 00:04:07 city, 14 feet of water over the water treatment station, so no water in the city, and towns gone, chimney rock is gone. That's one of the few situations you can actually find evidence of on the social networks. Swannanoa went underwater. Montreat, the home of Billy Graham, just virtually destroyed. And all I can describe it as is that the flood of biblical proportions, it's the highest amount of flooding we've ever seen in the state. It was four feet higher than the previous generational flood in 1916. So it was, and was, and it is, because we're still right now on day 13, I guess,
Starting point is 00:04:57 we're still doing rescue efforts for people who were in their homes, and then the driveways washed away, and the roads washed away, and the only way you can access these people is with atvs and unfortunately there's a as many well there's probably at this point more that have perished than have survived in those survival situations just because of where the geography had it located and it's it's staggering um it's just it's just staggering i've never seen anything like it uh quite frankly you know you you see wind damage i grew up in florida saw hurricanes all the time and to see homes demolished with tornadoes and hurricanes that's one thing but i've never seen the kind of force that we saw with this water just washing away you know not only homes but highways and the
Starting point is 00:05:41 foundations of where the the highways were i mean it just, it's like a nuclear bomb went off. It is truly amazing what has happened there. What about when you got there, what did you see? I mean, you drive up to, you didn't know how bad this was going to be. And what was the situation there? I guess at that point in time, people were doing rescue work. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, I think the rescue work was actually slightly delayed because of the breadth of the disaster. I mean, you're talking
Starting point is 00:06:10 a geographic area that's the size of other states. So there's a shock factor involved. And I have some friends that are mayors of small towns because I'm fairly politically active and I talked to a friend of mine in one of the small city large town status just to check in and see what was going on and he told me his town had no water that their water station had gone out and of course my immediate reaction was let me get you some water so I talked to a friend of mine who had a horse trailer. And so we called Lowe's to see if we could get a hold of some pallets of water. And this was on the first day. So we chased down the water. We get the water into her truck and head west.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Well, while we're heading west, they're closing down access points. And I-40 is the primary interstate going, obviously, from east to west. And it was shut down down so we had to go on 70 and then when we got on 70 there were only certain ways you could get into this town because of the road washouts but also because of the blockades that had been put up to restrict traffic because of the uncertainty of the roads and it was a and what would normally be a drive of a little over an hour took three and a half hours to drive like this to get to the town just to give some water because there was no water i mean municipal system is out and i i don't know that
Starting point is 00:07:40 any of us really understand how much we take for granted our clean and safe drinking water. I mean, unless you traveled in the third world, it's hard to understand how spoiled we are as Americans. And when that water supply is gone, people on a well would normally be all right, but their electricity is out. And if they have a generator, did they have fuel for it? Because not everybody is thinking ahead all the time. Most folks don't have a stockpile of water. So we got there with this pallet of water and the people came over and got it immediately,
Starting point is 00:08:15 just sheer gratitude. And it was the beauty of it was nobody was grabbing more than they should have. There was a very big desire to make it go as far as it could. And that was day one. And so looking at the road closures, it was very unsettling to think you could no longer travel freely because of all the blockades. If you could travel freely, the roads may not be accessible. And if the roads aren't accessible accessible how do you get to your neighbors with life-saving things like clean water and then that was day one by day three there's the smell of decomposition
Starting point is 00:08:56 and that's a it's not nothing anybody ever wants to experience, but that's, if you remember the temperatures when this hit, it was still Indian summer, so still warm enough, and the human body is not made for lying around in the sun, and that's continuing to go on, because we still have not gathered all of our neighbors who perished, they have not all had a decent burial, of course, because we haven't we
Starting point is 00:09:26 haven't located everybody and so it's it yeah it's just it's hard and so when you see it now the news is already showing the parts of towns that are intact their messaging being it wasn't that bad but it is it's just devastation And the example I can give you of a town called Rollins is a very tiny Hamlet in the North Carolina mountains had about 15 homes prior to the, the great flood, I guess. There's four houses left. And that's one of the lucky little Hamlets. The rest of the houses are gone because it primarily sat on the banks of a river and when you see what's left it's just things are gone it's hard to get your mind around it and for me as a north carolina
Starting point is 00:10:18 native who's gone to the mountains for years for vacations and for going out hiking and church retreats i mean every church i've ever gone to the retreat places are up in the mountains your geography has changed forever so you have the loss of life we've lost humans the geography is different towns are gone and so there's a grief over what the state was prior to 2024 and what it is now because it won't ever be the same and that's it's just it really makes the bible come to life when you look at the way that things went in the Torah and what happened with these towns as they they warred with each other and they would wipe them out and salt the earth and you can't help but feel that there's obviously a visual of the spiritual battle that we're in yeah oh it's
Starting point is 00:11:12 amazing and so at this point now um as you said all the roads are closed there weren't any roads in many cases so they would block people off from that um in terms of logistics of trying to get stuff in that's got to be so incredibly challenging and we've had all kinds of reports that we've talked about over the last week about people trying to come in with helicopters and evacuate people out other people pulling rank on them and stopping that uh organizations like the one that was in bat cave and they've done a great job logistically of putting stuff in and getting things distributed um how are you uh operating with this and who are you partnering with
Starting point is 00:11:46 in order to get these supplies in when there's not a clear path or a road to get there? Well, when my video went viral, I got calls from people with trucks and trailers literally all over the country who are patriots, who are not afraid of figuring it out. And we have had this ragtag group of people who never knew each other, but responded to a call who have come in, found their way through, truckers who had the right permits and knew how to navigate road closures better than a regular person,
Starting point is 00:12:20 local people with an SUV or a pickup truck or a four by four. And that's my group has just kind of filled gaps wherever we've been called upon. The organized groups have helped us to know where are the Polaris guys needed? Where can we get an ATV up? We need totes to put food in to go up the side of the hill to get to a family. So it's none of the the big groups I will give good credit to Samaritan's Purse Franklin Graham's organization they were in Boone as of day one with their organization they were set up and distributing and my goodness a super well oil
Starting point is 00:12:58 machine very impressed with the work that they've done and the Baptist churches the Baptist Coalition got busy on day one as well and they've been spreading out through the church network to some of the smaller areas but other than that we've operated with people we find on facebook or people that have been referred to us as reputable and kind thoughtful people who are looking out for their neighbors and so it's just what happens when people decide to pitch in together. It's not a 501c3 and we're not any true organization. And in fact, those of us that swung into action a few days ago are now trying to figure out, all right,
Starting point is 00:13:37 we still have jobs to do because we're not relief workers and there are professionals available, but they're still overwhelmed. So how do we continue to help while we manage our own lives so that we can continue to support? But the way people have pitched in is it's the spirit of what America was founded on. And it's encouraging to see that it's still there. It is. And, you know, just before he came on, I finished off with Alexis de Tocqueville, who came to the U.S. Basically, look at the prison system. But he was just amazed at how people in America would come together to solve a common problem voluntarily as a community. And it is wonderful from the perspective of where I am.
Starting point is 00:14:18 It's wonderful to see that happening again, to see that that's not dead, that when people see that there's a need, they can organize themselves and people come together and offer their services. I've seen this in the past when there's been localized stuff. It's not many times when it's really big. Then you get FEMA or you get the military. Other people come in and they essentially shut that down and take it over. Whether they do a good job or not, they don't allow people to participate. They shut that down. And so that's why I think it's so important about this. And part of what you're doing, I think you're kind
Starting point is 00:14:48 of focused on trying to get supplies. And as I look at the site that you set up, you got an Amazon wishlist. And in that wishlist, you put in things that people, you know, that people need, medical supplies, general needs, wishlist and other things like that. And I guess you're then handing that off to some of these other organizations that are there? No, we're taking it in ourselves because we have had three scenarios where my teams have been interrupted by FEMA, and FEMA has a plan to inventory everything that they can get their hands on. We choose not to let them inventory it because there's a need. And I don't think they fully grasp how geographically challenging an area like this is because you're not talking a city, an urban center, a flat area.
Starting point is 00:15:41 You're talking 15 houses here, 68 houses there. And the centralized information tends to be the volunteer fire department. So we've reached out to many of the volunteer fire departments because they know who in their community needs insulin. Well, I probably don't have insulin, but I may have a contact who can help get the prescriptions and handle all the details on that. And so we're moving more quickly because we're not trying to follow the red tape of the government. And we understand that FEMA wants to have a central supply hub. But if you have a central supply hub in a huge geographical area, then how are you going to deploy that in a timeframe that makes sense, especially with frost warnings now, because now we've moved into winter.
Starting point is 00:16:26 So our job today, we moved another, well, we moved 30 generators up today to give to 30 different homes so they could keep the heat on. We moved another dozen propane portable heaters into some other homes for elderly who don't want to leave, can't leave. And I just, I don't know that FEMA is interested in dropping generators at people's houses so that they can stay put. They would rather put you through a red tape nightmare to get a little
Starting point is 00:16:55 bit of cash, but the little bit of cash they're offering doesn't even cover the cost of a generator that I got at wholesale price and they're not going to deliver it. So if you're elderly and you apply for this little bit of money on FEMA online, so you have to have internet access. They want receipts. They want a doctor's note. If it's say a breathing machine, we also got tanks of oxygen delivered up today as well. They want a doctor's note for your oxygen. Okay. So FEMA is only going to give you money if you prove your power was out while you're on the internet. And if you prove that you have a doctor's note for what you need, and if you have receipts and then you'll get this $750. Well, I have found that if the donations I've received are going to buy 30 generators, I called my guy at Lowe's and Lowe's has been amazing by
Starting point is 00:17:42 the way, they were so quick to help us with hunting down what we needed giving us wholesale pricing even though I'm not a builder and Lowe's helped us hunt them down we talked to a guy with a trailer and the guy with the trailer who's not working today put the generators on and ran them up so that they could be distributed from a church to these 30 homes if FEMA's in charge what's that a month process and in that month process how many health issues occur because somebody's cold in their home in the mountains in the winter in north carolina so um yeah we're we're circumventing but not because we're you know breaking any laws we're just doing it a better way and well it's all this idea how the communities were built though
Starting point is 00:18:25 we took care of each other churches used to be the center churches knew who was hungry and we fed them and we knew who was sick and we took care of them because the bible says you take care of aliens widows and orphans and so that's what we're looking at here is how do we take care of those that are passed out those that are alone and those that are unable to care for themselves. That's right. And, you know, the bureaucracies have their own agenda. But the other part of it is the centralization that you're talking about. If you've got a decentralized thing that is happening, it can happen so much more effectively and quickly than the centralized bureaucracy.
Starting point is 00:19:02 It took them a long time, from I've seen to even show up. And then when they do, they're obstructionists because of their imposed procedures, because of centralized planning and distribution and all the rest of the stuff. So that is what is so essential. And that is also, that's why we need to talk about this for everybody. It shows the power of community. It shows the power of community. It shows the power of volunteerism. And it shows just at the same time that the callousness and the ineffectiveness of a distant centralized
Starting point is 00:19:32 bureaucracy. And that's the key story, I think, here. And as you're pointing out, this is going to go on for quite some time. I mean, I've seen some of the organizations. There was some Mennonite organization that has a history of going, and they spent two and a half years at an Indian reservation. FEMA wouldn't do anything to help them, but they were wiped out with a storm. And I don't know why it didn't fall into their bureaucratic checklist of something they would help with. But this group went there, and they stayed there for like two and a half years.
Starting point is 00:20:00 And they said, we're going to be here for several years because we're going to be here helping people rebuild. I guess at this point right now, the rescue operation is really more recovery of bodies. But the people that are there, they need a constant resupply of things because they really can't help themselves. It's really reliant on outside help, would you say? Absolutely, because the infrastructure has just experienced catastrophic damage. The city of Asheville is not expected to have water back for another three weeks, is the optimistic estimate. And that's a city.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Wow. Now, if you go to some of the outlying areas, there is some return of power, but there has not been a return yet of water services because being mountainous you've also got some groundwater concerns now with the way that the flooding occurred so even if you're on a well the newest thing we're adding to our wish list are well water testing kits we are begging people to test the water before you use it because you don't know what has come into your water source now and part of what we received from our donations from around the country and and obviously i am just one of the many many voices that has been a voice to cry out
Starting point is 00:21:12 for western north carolina but the water that has come in has just been astonishing we actually have had to hold some back in storage because there's nowhere else to put it and it's what about provided let me ask you this while we're talking about water this is a comment from somebody on it mcguin fan thank you for that says uh make sure you have a gravity filter uh a non-electric distiller to make sure it's as pure as possible i imagine that would really be a priority rather than bringing in the water bringing in something that's going to be able to, you know, water filters that are gravity feed that don't have to have power. I'm sure that's on your list as well, right? Oh, yes. And we have folks that have sent us some very good
Starting point is 00:21:52 explainer videos for how people can get those set up. And what we're doing right now, we're in triage phase right now. And when you're in triage, it's pallets of water. And how do we manage it for this moment? And as we get the systems in place and we figure out how to get people through roads, we have these, I guess you could call them hillbilly road repairs where you have a bunch of guys that show up and put a road back together during the night, old school style. As we get those things fixed, then we can look at more of the bigger picture because we have people that would like to take a shower. And I don't like those gravity filters. If you do it big enough and put it up a little bit, you can actually clean with it. We're still in triage phase. It's the hardest thing to explain to folks that we want things to be fixed. Our whole society is an immediate gratification
Starting point is 00:22:44 society. We want itification society we want it fixed we want it better and when we took up the generators we took up some dehumidifiers because if you think about this a lot of the houses have water intrusion as somebody in real estate i want to save those houses so we have to get dehumidifiers in get the moisture out so they don't wind up with the mold problem when we invariably hit a little warm streak which is north carolina it's going to do warm cold warm cold warm cold for a while and we want to make sure these people's houses are still safe to live in so yes there's lots of things we can do and for those of y'all that are curious one of our best prepper communities and
Starting point is 00:23:21 that that i've never known is in one of the affected counties. They're doing pretty all right. Now, they've actually been able to take what they had prepared, and they are helping their neighbors. In fact, one of my dear friends in that community was frustrated with the distribution, so she put a pop-up tent in her yard and put out some supplies that we brought to her house just in the back of a trailer, and the neighbors all came right out and were served. And that's a blessing to be prepared enough that you can serve. And I don't know that we talk about that enough with people who are organically just taking care of the future and thinking ahead. It's not just a selfish desire to take care of yourself, if you're taken care of you have the bandwidth
Starting point is 00:24:05 to help other people so just a reminder that prepping is not selfish oh yeah oh yeah and it's not crazy either as we see they like to portray that as a crazy thing it's like i'm sorry we've seen too many things happen in the last few years for people ever think that prepping is crazy it's crazy not to prep uh a question. This is from someone here. People, they said a lot of people, the government is already telling people they can't rebuild in certain places because it's not safe, says M Sellers. Is that something that you're seeing? Of course, Lee, you're a realtor, and her website is LeeSells, and she spells her name L-E-I-G-H, LeeSells.com, and you'll find information about this relief effort. But, of course, you can also find that at GiveSendGo.
Starting point is 00:24:54 And at GiveSendGo, you look for We Love WNC for Western North Carolina. We Love WNC. That'll give you that information. I'm sure it'll probably link back to the other thing as well. But as a realtor, what are you hearing about that? Because that's been a concern of a lot of people. It's that, you know, we've got these situations with a couple of different mines,
Starting point is 00:25:15 a very rare quartz mine, a big lithium mine. The people didn't really want to see that come in. Are they going to shove people out? Are we hearing any of that kind of stuff? Well, it's a valid concern when we see what happened in Maui, and that's a situation that I don't think will ever be adequately explained, although a lot of us have our theories. North Carolina is fortunate, though. We have a very strong state constitution that is very much protective of private property rights so when all of the when all of this stuff went down the lithium vein that gets referenced runs from ashville all the
Starting point is 00:25:52 way down through gaston county and it's been there obviously since the lord created it but it became very valuable as we've moved more towards these electronic vehicles that are being forced on us and that gaston county is where we saw the first mining operations really kick in and that's generally you've got a lot of black rock stakeholders so there's a lot of i would say nefarious actors afoot but this storm unless the cloud seeding situation really is what happened. And even if it were, I don't know that the bad actors can get ahold of the land unless the property owners sell. Cause our state constitution protects illegal takings by the government.
Starting point is 00:26:36 And if something were to happen, it would be that a phone call comes in to Bob from some little shyster investor who says, your land ain't worth nothing. I'll give you cash, take it off your hands. So if our neighbors can't give in to bad sales pitches, then there could be some takings going on. But as of right now, and I talked to the Speaker of the House in North Carolina. He's a very savvy lawyer. And he told me there's no legislation needed at this point because the Constitution is strong. But he did ask the real estate community to please get the word out to people. Don't sell cheap.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Don't give in to what you read on the internet because that's the risk the risk is that the chatter on x and instagram and facebook scares people enough that they go ahead and sell i will point out there's a a lot of chatter about a town hall meeting that happened in chimney rock that that did not happen that's an internet urban myth and so it's important to be alert because our government is full of bad actors who do value money more than they value life because they serve the wrong god and as we look at what they do on a general basis it is possible to believe it but in north carolina what i don't think they counted on at black Rock is the absolute stubbornness of mountain people who are not going anywhere and there was a lady that we spoke with on Sunday of last week and she
Starting point is 00:28:12 had basically moved herself up under what was left of her lean-to house is pretty much gone and there's a flagpole in the yard she said I ain't going anywhere and so we said all right we're going to get you a heated tent so you can stay put but you know they might be thinking that the attitudes are more of the people they encounter in the in the ashevilles the urban areas that go to the breweries and our university kids but mountain people are generational hardscrabble folks they're used to pulling a living out of very unforgiving land. They have made home sites on mountainsides. And I think they're going to prove to be a tougher sell than anybody realizes.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Good. Well, along those lines, what about insurance? Because we're seeing a lot of stuff about how insurance companies are trying to weasel out of the, this kind of thing. And,
Starting point is 00:29:04 um, what, you you know as a realtor again what do you hear in terms of people dealing with their insurance companies well now that is a concern because the property values have gone up so much since the covet era started in 2020 and for most people if you owned a property and you had insurance on it it's probably surely unlikely that you called the insurance company and said hey my property went up from 250,000 to 500,000 please increase my coverage most people don't do that because they don't want to pay the increased premium however if you did not increase your coverage, then your insurance policy may be
Starting point is 00:29:45 enforced and you may have paid on it dutifully. But if the value of your house exceeds the policy, that's not even the fault of the insurance company. That is the challenge of a rising market. And when you're in a home that's in good shape or you're selling it, you love the rising market. When you're buying, you hate the rising market. When you're a homeowner who's enjoying your 3% interest rate that you got seven years ago, it doesn't bother you until something like this hits. And so what I would say is what we have been saying on the real estate side for some time is please check your policies and make sure that you have the appropriate amount of coverage because what you paid $250,000 for six years ago cannot be built for that now. Even if you had the money, labor is high, materials are high, and the biggest cost we
Starting point is 00:30:37 have is permits and regulations trying to get something built. So we should all be paying attention to our policies. Now, that being said, if you are watching this or listening to this and you're in an affected area, don't tell the insurance company that you experienced a flood. You got to tell them it was high water and rain because you're more likely to get covered if you don't use the word flood. And I'd also point this out. There's a lot of experts on the internet i love internet experts in the comments and they keep telling us that these people should have had flood insurance really
Starting point is 00:31:09 really you put a house on a mountainside no they didn't have flood insurance and and that's it's normal because again we're in an inflationary environment where people are trying to pay the bills they're not going to add on flood insurance for the side of the mountain where it's not necessary because you're not in a flood zone and you don't think it's ever going to happen but i i can't blame an insurance company for being nervous about a generational not even generational i think this is a it's a century long era we've been dealing with here they can't anticipate it and they're not made out of money either the only crowd that's made out of money is the government who keeps printing it and taking it out of our pockets where nobody can afford anything so that's that's a challenge too but
Starting point is 00:31:55 the other thing people don't know about flood insurance is even if you had it even if you got your claim approved it's a max payout of 250250,000. And the way the markets have changed, that's not even going to buy you a nice double wide when you consider all of the foundation things that have to be reset. We've got to redo septic tanks. We're going to have to redo wells. We're going to have to redo water and sewer taps if it's on the infrastructure lines. It's going to be interesting. And I don't know what the answer is, but as I said in the video a couple of days ago, I sure hope that the banks
Starting point is 00:32:31 like JP Morgan and Bank of America who make a lot of money off of homeowners, I hope they'll forgive these mortgages because I do worry about the people who no longer have a collateral. They have no house left, but they still have a mortgage. And so what's going to happen there? Are they going to get foreclosed on no house, or is the bank going to forgive it? I don't know the answer, but I just, it's, what everybody has to do is pray for the affected people
Starting point is 00:33:01 because they're going to need strength and resilience to process all of these things while they find water and food while they do without a hot shower in their house and now they got to think about mortgages for houses that don't exist and it's um it's untenable for a lot of people so the and then how do they how do they work you know how they work the roads are washed out i mean what happens to their income? That's the other part of it as well. Well, the stores are gone.
Starting point is 00:33:29 A lot of our employers have lost their businesses. I mean, I look at my real estate people, and we don't get a lot of sympathy because we have a terrible perception of us that's been created by the mainstream media and by Hollywood. But I think most of your viewers and listeners, when you've engaged with a realtor, they're very hardworking, thoughtful people. Well, what are they going to sell? There's no inventory for them to sell. They live on commission.
Starting point is 00:33:58 And I've talked to several who are in a panic right now because they did have something under contract, but now the house and things are gone or damaged. Buyer can't buy, buyer can't buy, seller can't sell, house isn't going to receive a loan. So you've got a whole profession that's out of work unless they relocate. Well, if a real estate agent relocates to work for me an hour away, I'd be glad to have them, but they don't know anybody where I am and real estate's relationship based and it's competitive. And then you have to learn a new county and you learn a new market. So it's challenge on top of challenge. But I'm hopeful that because North Carolina has had so many employers come in with Eli Lilly and Toyota and BoomSonic, that we'll see those new big employers
Starting point is 00:34:41 rise up and make a concerted effort to provide employment to people even if it's a one-year contract to give them a chance to get started again it's it's so multi-faceted but i just thought about it you know how do you get to work and is the place that you worked at even still there i mean that that's the cars because cars are gone. I think the car's flooded too. That's right. Yeah, no car. But you know, I talked to a guy, so he's an asphalt trucker. And of course, I told you trucks and trailers have come in from around the country.
Starting point is 00:35:14 This wonderful gentleman has a new dump truck. He works for an asphalt company out of Tennessee, and it's one of our largest asphalt companies in the southeast. They got a bid to come fix some roads, but the main facility was gone because of the floods. And so this company received a bid. He lost 59 pieces of equipment. And then you have to ask yourself, my gracious, how crazy is the volume and force of the water
Starting point is 00:35:41 that 59 pieces of asphalt lay in equipment could get destroyed so i look at that and in a normal time he'd be glad to have that kind of job that's a huge job it's a huge bid but here he gets a bid no equipment to serve it and even if he could his men can't get to and from work right now wow yeah it's going to be a real litigious situation that the difference between a rain and a flood you know uh as you pointed out don't use the word flood you know use don't use the word flood yeah rain and wind and everything but they're going to say that it's a flood that's where the fight is going to be i can see that being really litigious uh so it's it's such a
Starting point is 00:36:20 bad situation and and again it's important to have you on so that people know this is an ongoing situation. It's going to go on for a very long time as we're talking about all these different aspects that are here. But it's going to pass out of the news cycle. Everybody's going to get interested in politics and all the rest of the stuff and there'll be another storm, another
Starting point is 00:36:40 hurricane somewhere just as we see. A lot of the attention was redirected away from north carolina because of milton coming in this last week and so that type of thing is going to be there but the needs continue on there and again if people want to help uh it is we love w n c as in western north carolina we love w n c Send, Go. And I guess there's links there to your page there under LeeSells.com. You've got a page, and I guess you've got a link back to that from probably the easiest way for them to find it is going to Give, Send, Go and look at We Love WNC. It is so
Starting point is 00:37:21 wonderful to see people helping other people. And it's tragic that this has happened. But I think that is a silver lining that is there. And it's an important lesson for everybody to see throughout the country. And anything else that you would like to say? I mean, we've got a little bit more time. What would you like to stress to people? Well, one thing I would just like to say is that it was disturbing to me as somebody who I read a lot, I follow a lot of the information trails. And I didn't realize how deep the overall distrust is of not just our government, but of our traditional organizations like the Red Cross.
Starting point is 00:38:00 I mean, I watched the Red Cross drag their feet coming to town because they said it was too dangerous to get here. But then I saw the leaked emails from the current administration that said they were going to delay their response because it was not safe. So I wonder if the Red Cross was following the government. But that would explain why nobody trusts them. And it's just it's a shame that we fall into that as a society that we no longer trust our government i certainly don't trust big pharma i don't trust the school system as you mentioned in your your piece before i came on i don't trust most of these relief organizations and and i thought that by opening up you know chance for people to give me their donations that I could fill my truck up with some supplies. I did not anticipate that so many people said, Hey lady, I saw on the internet in a video,
Starting point is 00:38:51 you seem more trustworthy than big organizations and FEMA. And so when they've sent me these gifts, they've, they've thanked me. They know that I'm directing the dollars to actual neighbors and all of them have said, just please keep going around FEMA because they understand that the speed is for the need. And it's encouraging and discouraging at the same time. But then I remember how much my grandmother, oh, she longed for the end times. And I remind myself it's a privilege to get to live in them. And so all I can do is be a laborer in the harvest.
Starting point is 00:39:25 And I'm grateful for everybody that's laboring as well those that are doing the the helicopter lifts and the atv search and rescues and cutting logs to get people out of driveways and you you really do see the best in people and hopefully we as a people will decide that we've had enough of the corrupt elites that diminish us. And we will either put this back to rights, like happened with the people of Israel so long ago, or God's going to, he's going to have his way.
Starting point is 00:39:54 So I hope everybody in the sound of my voice chooses Jesus and chooses to repent before you miss your chance. I have to talk that in there. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's the key thing.
Starting point is 00:40:04 You know, it used to be that it was all about the community, about helping neighbors. And as you pointed out, we knew who needed help. So, you know, once you institutionalize this stuff, what you're doing is you're institutionalizing inefficiencies and graft and corruption and that type of stuff. And it is at the point now where everybody sees these established institutions and we don't trust them. That's why it is so important for individuals like you to step up and to do the right thing. And it is great to see that. And you've gotten a good deal of support there on Give, Send, Go. And so again, it is We Love WNC is how you can keep track of what is happening there. And we've been talking to Lee Brown.
Starting point is 00:40:48 Thank you so much for what you're doing, for stepping up with that, coming into that area. It truly is amazing. And I know that it is very challenging, but it's also very blessing to be able to help other people. We don't ever want to be in a situation where we need the help, but it is wonderful to be able to offer the help. And so thank you for what you're doing. Thank you for stepping up. And we really do appreciate the example that is being set there by all the people voluntarily stepping in and helping their neighbor.
Starting point is 00:41:16 It's great to see that that has not died out in America. It hasn't been smothered by this massive bureaucracy of these corrupt institutions that we see, both public and private. It's great to see people just stepping up on the spur of the moment and doing this type of thing. Thank you so much for what you do. Appreciate it. Well, I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you to you and your listeners and viewers.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Thank you. Thank you, Lee. We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back. Stay with us. ¶¶ © BF-WATCH TV 2021 Liberty. It's your move. And now, The David Knight Show. 🎵 🎵 © transcript Emily Beynon Sous-titrage FR? Succes! so so all right joining us now is dr jane ruby i've had a lot of people who've contacted me and said you guys are on the same page you need to get her on and talk and uh i'm always happy to get people who
Starting point is 00:45:41 um you know when we're looking either at politics or at the pandemic, because the pandemic was politics, I was happy to have them on. And Dr. Jane Ruby has a lot of medical experience as well as political experience. She is a licensed nurse practitioner. She actually ran clinical sites for quite some time and then took a sabbatical and went to Washington and worked there. So she knows both the politics and the medical stuff. So it's great to have her.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Thank you for joining us. It's good to talk to you. You too, David. I have to say you are definitely one of my go-to people every day. Oh, thank you. It's not just the echo chamber. You bring such a great new perspective to this. So I'm really thrilled to be with you today.
Starting point is 00:46:23 And yeah, I really appreciate it tell people what you think about the last four years is that broad enough um you know i mean you know i'm looking at this and like yesterday i said i saw this article well what would you have done in germany in the 1930s i said you don't even have to think about that what did you do in america or in the uk or canada in the last four years? You know, what have you done in the 2020s? Because that's really the point of testing, you know, to see if you really get this. And what did you do? Do you go along with it, even if you understood it? Or did they completely fool you or did they get you to comply with it, even though you knew it was wrong? You know, take a look at that. So what do you think about these last four years and what we just saw just saw the republican convention where they just kind of seemed to ignore uh what happened in 2020 except
Starting point is 00:47:08 for the election of course yeah yeah absolutely i mean there was a huge huge elephant in that auditorium at the rnc and i just can't believe the american people i shouldn't even preface it by saying i can't believe because after what i saw in 2020 and the caving to all of this, the masks, those shots, the whole bit by so many Americans really stunned me at the time. And it shouldn't surprise me anymore that they're allowing themselves to be, you know, memory hold. And and they're just so many people are just going forward. Here's the thing, David, when I say to people, you know, this is crazy. I point out things about Trump. He's hiring all the wrong people again. You know, we saw it in D.C. in the first term. You know, people say to me, well, what are you going to do, Dr. Jane? You know,
Starting point is 00:47:55 go vote for Biden. They're missing the whole point. They're missing the whole point because you don't have elections. And actually, there's a third choice between trump biden and and the third choice is how about holding trump accountable how about making him a better candidate right i'm sure you you agree with that oh nobody wants to criticize him if you criticize you see what happens i mean even the the guy in the virginia who was head of the freedom caucus simply for endorsing desantis he was excommunicated from the Republican Party. Right. So much for freedom of thought and freedom of speech.
Starting point is 00:48:36 But to get back to your original question, I mean, you actually touched on, I was fascinated again by your first segment. You touched on two of my favorite topics. If you don't mind, I'll go into those a little bit, maybe from additional angles. The PCR test, many people have forgotten. First of all, let me take a broader stand. There is no validated test on the planet to diagnose any flu or differentiate one flu from another. So people go, yes, but, and I say, whoa, whoa, whoa. Bring yourself back to the beginning.
Starting point is 00:49:04 Let me repeat what I just said and try to grasp what I just said. When I try to educate people to validate an instrument, if I hold up my pen and I say, this is going to make your eggs tomorrow morning, David, I have to test it for validity. Does it make eggs, right? I know I'm being a little silly, but you get the point across. But the second part of validity studies is reliability. Okay, let's say this pen magically gets up tomorrow morning and makes David Knight's eggs. But does it do it every morning or the majority of mornings?
Starting point is 00:49:33 That's your reliability. There's none of that testing on this in addition to the inventor, Kerry Mullis, as we all know by now, who said it's not diagnostic. And you did a great job of explaining why you can get down to those molecular levels and you're really not seeing anything, which is what he was trying to say. But the CDC itself, in a sleight of hand kind of, in 2021, July, recalled the PCR. And people call me to this day, you know, hey, I got sick over the weekend and I got a COVID test.
Starting point is 00:50:04 It was positive. What about, oh my God, David, my head wants to explode. Yeah, I know. I know. It's crazy. It's just like, it's as ridiculous as a mask once you understand what it's about. Exactly. I tried to tell people early on, the only time, I did work in a hospital.
Starting point is 00:50:20 I did take care of patients independently. I have assisted in surgeries. My specialty was cardiology. I assisted in bypass grafts. The only time we wore a mask were two times in a hospital. If you're in the OR, so in case you have a reflexive sneeze, you don't spit into somebody's open gut. Or if they were on medications to suppress their immune capabilities because they got an organ transplant. Those are the only two times we ever wore a mask because we knew that it had no other purpose.
Starting point is 00:50:51 So anyway, to the PCR, and it's the gift that keeps giving because like you said, without the PCR, you don't have cases. You can't gen up H5N1. You can't gen up COVID 2.3 or whatever it's going to be and so that's my little spiel on the pcr and you know let me just add to you know fauci you know coming from that field uh he knew that he had a problem in terms of show me this or show me that doing the real science and it was the perfect answer for that uh You know, using it to push HIV, which is where the big fight was between him and Mollis. But it gave this veneer that you could actually observe and do real science with it.
Starting point is 00:51:34 And that's the fundamental lie that he was able to exploit from AIDS to COVID. And he built his career and he built all of these deceptions on the PCR test. It truly is amazing. Yes, yes, he did. And a lot of innocent animals and millions of innocent people died, especially in third world countries, but all over, including in the United States. was that there was no touching on the COVID-19 shots as biological weapons, which has been proven over and over again by countless analysts and scientists. The role of the DOD, you know, in my question, I put out a tweet a while ago, David, and I said, think about this.
Starting point is 00:52:18 Why don't you ask Trump, when they gin up H5N1 and they throw it in your face and you create your new panel, what are you going to do differently? Because if he says nothing, you know you've got your deep state guy. He's just picking all the wrong people. I know we'll get into that in a minute, but I want to touch on my second favorite topic that you covered, if I could, earlier. And that was McCullough.
Starting point is 00:52:42 I've been on to Peter McCullough for over two years. And here's, you know, my dubious distinction is no one, they can come after me, David, they can call me names, they can call me fake, they can disparage my credentials, but they've never proven me wrong. And I called him out two, two and a half years ago, because I was in a private telegram chat, C19 expert group that he created himself. And in that chat, David, one day to my astounding, he posted a communication to us with some data on Novavax when Novavax first came out, right? It's also a biological weapon. It gets to the mRNA in your body, but through a different mechanism, different story. And I questioned in front of everyone, well, how, why are you promoting?
Starting point is 00:53:25 It's not a vaccine and it's another weapon. And boom, I was blocked from that group shortly after that. You have to understand we were doing each other's podcasts. We were friendly. We were colleagues. So it really was a huge red flag for me. There are three problems I have with him. First of all, he's taken, if you look at Chuck Grassley's Sunshine Act, the website is openpayments.cms.gov, the government's repository for money. Every time I took a physician out in my pharmaceutical role, I was in the industry for 20 years, as you probably know, we had to file some paperwork with the CMS.
Starting point is 00:54:02 If I took out Dr. Jim Smith and it was a $200 bill, I had to file that. So they keep those accumulated. He has taken, since 2015, $5.5 million. And that's in addition to research grants. Now, by comparison, the late Dr. Zelenko, just as a comparator, in that same five-year period, took about $600 from pharma over seven or eight years. That's like a sandwich a year. Right? Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:54:33 That's number one. And they expect something for that money, as you know, David. So what has he done? He's pushed a very dangerous supposed antiviral called Paxxlovid paxlovid is two antivirals nirmatrelvir and ritnovir ritnovir has a black box warning and has had it for years by the fda its highest warning level for a drug before they pull it right and and so it's very dangerous and you have albert borla coming on promoting off, yeah, if it doesn't work the first time, take another round of it. Where are your studies for that?
Starting point is 00:55:10 Keep filling that scrap. You'll be fine. And that's against the law, by the way. That's off-label promotion by a commercial agent of a company. In contrast to how I knew there was a problem in 2020, I'm a prescriber as a nurse practitioner. So I understood the lie right away when they said, well, I got sick myself. And I said to my doctor in March of 2020, okay, just phone in the hydroxychloroquine. You know, we weren't aware of ivermectin at the time and its effectiveness. And he said to me, I can't do that that i'll lose my license what there's no law
Starting point is 00:55:47 that prohibits a prescriber from prescribing off-label if the illegality comes in of course when a company uh whether you're on the medical side or the commercial side promoting something other than that for which the drug was approved it can't companies can't do that right so he pushes pax he's got a protocol david for for covid right like you said in your first segment he loves that narrative that vaccine virus narrative so he uh promotes um and then the natokinase story it's associated with fibrin there aren't there's no proof and by the, David, like you mentioned in the first segment, when he throws those studies at you, I want to tell the general public, please don't be
Starting point is 00:56:30 intimidated by that. Because half of what he throws at you, if you really read beyond the title, is like you said, a facsimile of a segment or a sequence. It has nothing to do. And where's your instrument? I said to him, where's the instrument? Remember good science? You measure before, then you give your onion powder, then you measure after, right? Where's your instrument that you're using, Peter, to measure your pre and post spike proteins? And I'll land my plane here. If they've never proven that this virus exists, and I'm all about that, I have not seen it proven to me in its whole and pure form from an ill individual then how do you believe in the spike protein how do you believe in a portion of something for which the whole has never been demonstrated oh yeah yeah it absolutely is amazing
Starting point is 00:57:15 you know when i looked at the way they were describing the mrna at the very beginning and it's like oh okay so it's going to go in here and it's going to start replicating itself and where's the off switch it sounds awful lot like cancer you know and what is this thing that is making in your body but that was their whole narrative you know that's the way moderna described it it's like yeah we're gonna we can do this really fast uh president trump because we'll turn people's bodies into manufacturing facilities it's like okay it'll stop right there that's enough for me and here's the most egregious thing his latest stunt promoting another rna synthetic lab in silico created god knows what it is to go in after the next the the previous one and people are saying what is that
Starting point is 00:58:00 what is that that is uh the the other mRNA that he's promoting? It's called SIRNA, and it stands for, sit down, everybody, small interfering. Isn't that convenient? And it's so genius that the first one was not genius. And it was able, this one, though, David, is able to go target what the first one did and then reverse the damage that's a fairy tale there's no science behind that and where are the double blind placebo controlled uh trials uh before and after for this s-i-r-n-a he is so in the thick of pharma's grip it's not even funny well i had a big problem with him and anybody who is promoting this um leak theory, you know, or deliberately leaking it out, scaring people to gain a function stuff.
Starting point is 00:58:49 Because as far as I'm concerned, that is a red herring to keep people away from looking at the effects of the vaccine. What do you think about that? I think it's 100% true. There are actually two biological weapons. One is used intermittently, and that was what was created, I believe, from the paperwork and the documentation at Fort Detrick by the DOD. And they use it to drop, I don't know, in an aerosol way or something to show pockets of illness.
Starting point is 00:59:15 Then they create these cases and everything. But the major biological weapon, if you look at the work of Catherine Watt, Sasha Latapova, and by the way, Dr. Mike Eden is a mentor of mine as well. He's the head of their investigative group called Team Enigma. Pfizer even admitted it in the motion to dismiss argument in the Brooke Jackson whistleblower case. Hey, we weren't making a pharmaceutical product. We were making a military prototype. So there's no lab leak. Your federal government, your DOD, which is a
Starting point is 00:59:45 RICO operation, just laundering and laundering and laundering money, is actually produced these shots and the material. And here's the scary part, David. We have more than just H5N1. You had Albert Borla a year and a half ago, I tried to warn the public, admitting in a Davos interview that the fall of 2023 would have seasonal flu shots made entirely of this mRNA poison and god knows what else it's in in injection form botox ladies fillers um childhood schedule they don't even hide it it's in the childhood schedule multiple multiple times so this is a very frightening time for people not to be paying attention it surely is you know and when you look at it everything is going into uh everything is going into to drugs to uh to control people all
Starting point is 01:00:32 the stuff about olympic and everything and wegovy and and you know well you can't control our hunger so let's come up with an injection well what's in that you know it's it's absolutely amazing to see how trusting people are they They trust the government. They trust the press. They trust the science, which is what you're supposed to do, right? Just trust the science. Yeah. And let me bring it back to President Trump and J.D. Vance really quickly.
Starting point is 01:00:57 The guy is entrenched in numerous companies, by the way, with his buddy, Vivek, Vivek and his brother Shankar, Ramaswami's, his mommy, Ramaswami, provided them with all these opportunities. And you have, they're all in together, and they're making millions right now in companies that are going to generate more mRNA. David, where are we going? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's really, it really concerns me when you look at Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are really excellent at manipulating the conservatives. You know, you had Thiel come out and say, yeah, I don't like those people at Davos. And yet he's a permanent fixture at Bilderberg. You know, he, Alex Karp and these other people like that. They're always there. And
Starting point is 01:01:40 when you look at what they want to do in terms of technocracy i think one of the key things is people just don't understand what the technocracy is they want to try to pigeonhole people into some categories political categories that they already know about oh well um they're conservative or they're socialist or they're marxist or this or that or populist but the technocracy thing is a completely different deal and what confuses them i think is that it's got you know it's got a little bit of this and it's got a little bit of that but it's got its own thing and you know these people seek to rule the world through their technological prowess and their their inventions and that type of thing and it is a very dangerous i would say satanic move to think they're going to
Starting point is 01:02:22 become like god they're going to live forever they're going to become like God. They're going to live forever. They're going to transfer themselves in machines. I mean, that's where they ultimately go. Peter Thiel is right there with singularity. It is absolutely amazing to see J.D. Vance is now this acolyte of this guy who really put him into
Starting point is 01:02:38 politics, put him into venture capital and all this other kind of stuff. And Peter Thiel is the guy who created the Singularity Foundation. It's just amazing. It is amazing that people, even though we've tried to make the connections for them, that the American people, it is true. Trump was truly right in 2015 or 2016 when he said, I could step out in Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and they'd still love me and they'd defend me.
Starting point is 01:03:04 And you know what? He's been proven right over and over and over again. They just can't get off the sycophant to look. And I've said, what is he going to do differently if he won't address the issue now of the way warp speed went? And by the way, I don't know if people know this, David, but warp speed is in full operation. It has offices and resources and budgets, and it's humming along. Where do you think it's going? Yeah, all this stuff.
Starting point is 01:03:29 All this stuff, they put it in place, and it continues. If you don't root it out, it's like this weed, and it's putting down deeper and deeper roots, and it's going to just sprout up in a big way. And that's the way all of these bureaucratic programs are once you put something in you know it's going back to reagan when he got in he's he's the the department of education was created during the election year of 1980. well i'm going to get rid of that he didn't get rid of it and by the time he left it was gigantic and so we're going to see that with these guys they just handed off to each other and kind of a professional wrestling tag team match isn't it yeah when you think about it i
Starting point is 01:04:09 mean we currently have i have military intelligence friends that are on our side that have said to me for a year now jane there are people inside the west wing the executive office building which is on the white house grounds and in the white House, that literally have offices that are from the CCP. The domestic enemies are just as dangerous, the Peter Thiel's in my estimation. And one other thought I had about Elon Musk, I don't know if you've thought about this, but the fact that Starlink is so available and cheap and everybody wants it in their house. And I'm thinking to myself, guys, Starlink, Neuralink, maybe if you put this thing in your house, what's the thing? Maybe it does something with your wife. Why would you want to take the?
Starting point is 01:04:52 It's funny when I saw that and saw the links and everything, it made me think, I haven't talked about it, but it is like a predictive program. What was it called, Travis? Was it the Kingsmen or something? Where at one point they flip the switch on the satellite thing and everybody flips out and goes nuts and starts killing each other. And, of course, they begin all of this stuff when they're in a church so that the hero has to fight off and kill these people in church. They just instantly, the switch is flipped and they start attacking him. Yeah, it's funny how they come up with this crazy stuff, but I tell people all the time, I said, the big mistake that we make is that we, I guess we'd say if we were George W. Bush, we'd say we misunderstand the technology these people have and how evil they are.
Starting point is 01:05:39 They are morally capable of anything, and they're pretty close to technologically capable of anything. And so that's the, that's really what we're up against, I think. Yeah, I totally agree with you. It's difficult to strike a balance between thinking, look, they had the military had the internet years before we even knew it existed. So there's kind of a fear factor of, oh my gosh, what do they have now that we don't even know about? But I want to balance that with maybe they have less than we think they do. And maybe they confabulate it with the fear factor. We've seen so much, but it just concerns me. And going into this election, I don't believe, I've said many times in my social media, we don't have elections anymore. And here's one of the key features.
Starting point is 01:06:29 You know, Trump got taken out by three things, right? Technically. Internet-connected voting machines, two weeks of early voting, and those 2,000-meal drop boxes. He never said a word about them, right? In this election cycle, the three things that took him out. And those three things are right in this in this election cycle the three things that took them out and those three things are still in place in most counties we have 20,000 drop boxes in Palm Beach County alone sitting in front of DMVs and other public buildings I'm looking at these things going why is this still here oh yeah all the stuff is still there and what do you think I
Starting point is 01:07:01 mean I'm looking at this and and the passions are being escalated on both sides now, especially after there was the shooting of the Trump rally. I don't know what to call it. But after there was a shooting of the Trump rally, everybody is like, OK, that's it. And they are just ready to have a war if they lose. And that's why I've been describing Trump as kind of the Mason-Dixon line for a new civil war. Both sides want to fight over him if he doesn't win. I'm concerned about, what do you think about that? I mean, you know, they could easily manipulate us
Starting point is 01:07:35 into a civil war just by manipulating the election, which is a very concerning thing because we know how they manipulate the election. And a civil war, you know, massive civil unrest gives them exactly the excuse they need for a more blatant i say more blatant martial law and lockdown hey they're not going to get us to do it for a virus again they know we're not going to go for it uh even people that are not completely aware but uh so they have to go about it in a different way we have no excuse or we have no other option you're riding in the streets we have to protect people you know again it's always
Starting point is 01:08:10 under protecting people but you know david i gotta bring up that ear bandage can i just say a word about it yeah i've got my doubts as well what do you think about the ear bandage first of all if your ear got grazed there's two stories it gotzed, then there was so much blood that it was all over. But if it got grazed, what do you need that giant patch for? You need the patch because there's nothing wrong with your ear. Exactly. But you got people out there in the audience, they're wearing the patch and on it, it says fight, fight, fight.
Starting point is 01:08:40 They wrote that, they put a piece of paper on their ear and it says fight, fight, fight. I look at it, there was. They put a piece of paper on their ear and says, fight, fight, fight. I look at it. There was somebody who did a test. And these guys were all about Trump. And they were not trying to debunk Trump at all. But what they had was a head that had this gel-like material that was like human flesh. They would use it for ballistics and stuff like that. And a skeleton that you could see inside the head.
Starting point is 01:09:07 And they put a red MAGA cap on it. And so they've got this. And they get a little bit closer range so they can actually make this shot. And they get a shot in the ear. And they come back and they go, wow, I was surprised. Because they had a very, very fast camera that was on it. So you could see this bullet in slow motion going through it. And it opened up a big hole.
Starting point is 01:09:30 And I'm surprised at the damage that it did. And it's like, yeah, I'm looking at these pictures and I see red, but I don't see any hole or anything torn or anything missing. The bullet hitting his ear. It really, you know, like I said said i don't know what to call this thing we got a lot of different theories out there about a lot of different things but uh i got my doubts about all of it i'm just concerned about how it's going to be used and and how it's being used is to really again ramp up everybody around trump for and against and things like that you know and and it's uh and so this whole election, when
Starting point is 01:10:05 we talk about election corruption, I used to be involved in third party politics. And so I know about the ballot when everybody was talking about it. So, well, look, you know, he put the vote by mail stuff in and, you know, we we knew about the vulnerabilities with machines and the Internet. We could have done something about it. We didn't. And then we add this new thing about that. But I said all the election corruption
Starting point is 01:10:26 begins with the ballot and now look at what is happening with the ballot all these people who voted in the primaries and of course they did anything they could to shut down the primaries now they're just going to overturn all that and they're going to do their own thing in a couple weeks and just hand select candidates because it is a selection it's not an election not at all and i mean um if anybody thinks there are real elections since what you witnessed in 2020 um you you just aren't paying attention and i i knew something was very wrong i've been very devoted to trump as a candidate as a president in the prior and i knew something was wrong on the five o'clock on January 6th, and I'll tell you why.
Starting point is 01:11:08 He came out, I call it the ISIS speech. You know, when they got caught by ISIS, they threw an American in like a jumpsuit and the person would stand there and say, I'm Jim Smith and I hate America. And I'm, you know, they were under duress. He just looked, he had that black coat on. He was in front of the Rose Garden and he said, look, we know it was stolen, but you got to go home now. And I'm thinking, got to go home now? Our country was just stolen in a coup. Why would we go home? I'm not saying violence, I'm saying whatever, but have a different solution. And if you thought, if you believed you won, David,
Starting point is 01:11:39 if you believed you won from the people, we the people in the United States, the presidency, would you have ever walked out of that building? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And I'll tell you the other thing that made me suspicious about this event with the ear shooting is, look, he's been attacked before. And you've seen him taken off stage. They immediately surround. He didn't come back on after that one time where they took him off the back of the stage.
Starting point is 01:12:04 He didn't come back and, yeah, rah, rah. No, they whisked him away and that was the end of it. This one, so strange. You're going to raise your arm Reagan style and expose your trunk in your underarm where they can get into your heart with a shot? I don't think so. They knew he wasn't in danger, David. So I just wanted to mention that to him. Yeah, it was kind of funny watching Bill Maher saying, you know, wow, look at that. think so they knew he wasn't in danger david so i just wanted to mention that to him yeah yeah it
Starting point is 01:12:25 was kind of funny watching uh bill maher is saying you know wow look at that he's the luckiest guy in the world and he was serious about he wasn't really being cynical about it but but he says yeah he gets up there and he does this you know fight fight fight and he goes that's amazing he goes take one we got it you know it's almost like they were and i said yeah that's my thought exactly it was almost like they rehearsed it uh take one we're done you know it was amazing yeah truly to your point i absolutely agree i'm concerned about how it's being used and going to be used going forward they've got them locked up those sycophants yeah yeah it is it is strange and they cannot it's the you know when all this stuff started back in 2020 i said you know the entire country
Starting point is 01:13:12 has become ocd they've scared everybody to death nobody wanted to touch uh a uh you know the the pump at the gas uh you know put the gas in their car you know everybody's afraid to even do that i said the entire nation has become psychotic with this ocd stuff and we have this situation with the people um who are so focused on trump and and they uh cannot make these connections you know they absolutely hate the vaccine but they can't and won't connect it to him it's's an amazing double think, isn't it? It is an incredible double think. The excuses that people come out actually show the pathology of their inability to make the connections.
Starting point is 01:13:52 Like, for example, when people say, oh, he was not telling you to take the shots when he told you to take the shots. He was telling you to think, look between the lines and don't take the shots go take ivermectin well that's like four leaps i don't even know how you get there but it is such as an incessant uh just burning desire to cover for this man even when he starts to talk about making larry fink the ceo of blackrock? Well, you know, he was going to be Hillary's Treasury Secretary.
Starting point is 01:14:28 You know, when she was so far out in front in 2016, they said, you know, they were talking about how they're going to fill out her cabinet. And it was going to be Larry Fink was going to be Treasury Secretary, just like for Trump. That's why I say there's no difference between these people. You're going to get the same government because the government is going to be, the personnel are going to be the policy. And you put these people in, you're going to get the policy of BlackRock and Larry Fink, whether it's Trump up front or whether it's Hillary.
Starting point is 01:14:58 It just makes it easier for them to control people. I've told these people that when we talk about the ivermectin thing well you know he tried to tell us about ivermectin i said well why didn't he manufacture it look at all the trouble they went to to manufacture the ventilators and they were killing people he could have ivermectin was cheap to make and they could you know and it's it's not patented anymore he could have uh first of all could have used his power say nobody's gonna stop you from getting a prescription filled from a doctor didn't do that but if he wants to take this proactive approach and make remedies from the federal government i don't know where you find
Starting point is 01:15:34 that in the constitution but if he wants to do that then do it with ivermectin but he didn't he didn't do it with hcq either no very Very disappointing. And in terms of surrounding himself with the wrong people, we saw this in 2017. It was such a disappointment after his inauguration. I wrote an article. I remember the website greatagain.gov where everybody was so thrilled he was in. They said, President Trump wants to use all of the loyalists to come in. And a lot of these people got appointments in the administration. And then they started contacting me because I had a little podcast in DC. And they said, Dr. Jane, the holdovers are the Obama managers. They're still here and they're writing us up and firing us. So I wrote an article. And then they said, oh, we lost the database. Remember that? The Sean Spicer database? I mean, I wrote a second article saying, hey, loyalists, you're fired because really anybody who was loyal to him when i was in the office of presidential correspondence in his in his in his administration i would say oh my gosh isn't this great president trump he we got somebody in
Starting point is 01:16:34 the way and a lot of them were from the bush you know era and the obama era and they just looked at me these were republicans and whatever and they looked at me and they said, yeah, yeah, that's great. And they like walked down the hall. I used to, I worked in the EEOB and I thought, why aren't they happy like me? Yeah, because they realized that we got taxation without representation and regulation without representation. That's what's happening in Washington with the bureaucracy. It's permanently there.
Starting point is 01:17:01 Yeah. You know, when you, when you look at all this stuff and people, you know, he's trying to warn us. He's trying to get us the good stuff. I mean, that was the issues that I had in Infowars, why things blew up there. You know, I was going to tell people that Trump's got another shot, you know, and it's the good shot and all this other kind of stuff. It's crazy. And then when you look at January the 6th, you know, it was December the 14th. They'd already had the electoral college votes sent in
Starting point is 01:17:27 and at that point you know they could have done something as i've said many times the audience they could have done something at the state legislatures but they didn't and so at that point it really was um it really was too late but the whole thing the whole genesis of this was just based on such incredible lies you know just a couple of days after the election and even see bannon talking about it to that group of people with the chinese billionaire guo telling them yeah on october 31st he said yeah when it happens we're just going to tell everybody we won and and so that's the kind of thing that i'm concerned about is that this election is going to be used to push us into more open conflict because they know the season that we're in.
Starting point is 01:18:09 And most people don't. Everybody talks about millennial this and boomer that and all the rest of the stuff. But the people who came up with the term millennial and Gen Z and Gen X and everything, they had a very good theory about every 80 years everything turns around. And we're in the center of that, right? And we've only got about another four or five years for this stuff to be finished and um they're they're looking at all the institutions being changed and i think that's why we're seeing so much chaos and why everything is being thrown out there they they understand as fauci did when he said in october
Starting point is 01:18:39 2019 how are we going to get everybody to take a vaccine he was asked at milken institute and he said we do it from the inside. We do it with chaos and we do it iteratively. That's everything that they're doing right now. They're deliberately creating chaos from the inside and they're continually escalating that chaos. Yeah. You know, you've often talked about the lockstep nature of this and that it goes across everything. One of the most most the things i've
Starting point is 01:19:05 been most outspoken about and i've been unequivocal about it it is the congress and i when i say all 535 i don't care who has an affection for thomas massey i've already tussled with him and i've because he's still in the position anybody who stays there it's like the nurses who stayed in the hospitals and the doctors you are enabling this big gigantic system to continue to kill people whether you're doing it yourself physically or not you are enabling the system and even though a few of them rah rah and i've gotten into private email tussles with senator ron johnson happy to show those because they're actually public um information in my opinion it It was an official email by a government official where he feigned indignation.
Starting point is 01:19:49 And I said, you're only using this for your next reelection campaign. You may talk and have all these hearings like Marjorie Trader Green and some of these other people who likes to stand in her bikini, but you're not going to do anything. You could have hauled this company, Pfizer, Moderna, all these companies in.
Starting point is 01:20:04 You could tie them up in discovery. There's a lot you can do, going to do anything you could have hauled this company pfizer moderna all these companies in you could tie them up in discovery there's a lot you can do even as one you know senator or representative david i tell people don't even look to congress i've told brad miller the military accountability project friends of mine i love my military it's one of the reasons i came out in this whole thing four years ago i've said said, stop getting gaslighted by Congress, because they're going to take you to a few parties on the Hill. I've been there, done that. Selfies with famous people.
Starting point is 01:20:31 And you're going to go home, and they're not going to do a damn thing about the military that are still under mandates in many areas of the military. And you know all that. But this is a big concern. And yeah. Yeah, we saw that with Trey Gowdy. It's like, OK, so he's got all this. so we have ample evidence about what happened with benghazi's that they do nothing about it but he gets all this he gets grandstands with all this stuff and then he gets a talk show
Starting point is 01:20:55 gig at fox news and and you know jim jordan another one of these oh let's hold a hearing about that and they'll never do anything as you point out they could tie them up in a lot of different ways they could uh cut the money to these people but they don't that's their key weapon and they keep funding everything including you know the foreign wars and all the rest of the stuff that they complain about all they do is show these have these hearings the argument that you made in terms of enabling them as uh one that i've actually made about schools for example, you know, it's like, yeah, we got good teachers. And unfortunately, many times what happens is these these, you know, when you have a
Starting point is 01:21:32 good teacher in school that gets people let their guard down. It's like, well, you know, yeah, but and maybe they are really an excellent teacher, but they can't really change that institution that's there. Instead, what it does is it builds people's confidence in something that is really going to rip their kids apart. And so I understand what your argument is there about even... No excuse. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:56 No excuse. You stay in Congress, you're enabling it. Every Congress before them, the disillusionment has been so real, David. Reagan was a beloved, we'll just take him as an example such a beloved president but like you say he blowed it up you know government just like the rest of them he gave us in pharma immunity he gave us he put that burden of compensation on the back of the american people despicable because he caved to the pharma you know trump i mean it just goes on and on and on it's every president it's every congress but we're living with this congress right now and i just
Starting point is 01:22:29 can't stand people like you know just not realizing i mean you know it's trey gowdy's i used to say all hearings no action right like texas you got all all hat no cattle you look rich but you're not really doing anything you don't have any cattle And this is going to go on and on. And, you know, David, I take the slings and arrows every day. You're this, you're fake, you're that. Okay. And then eventually, when they see that Congress has allowed this, and they've been, you know, by the way, they should be incensed that Congress exempted themselves from these shots.
Starting point is 01:23:01 Hello? And there are 3,000 staffers. And 800, what is it, 800,000 Chinese exchange students. How interesting. Well, I didn't know that. I didn't know about the Chinese exchange students. Yep. Well, that's interesting.
Starting point is 01:23:16 There you go. Wow, wow. Crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's a smoking gun right there. So what do you tell people? You know, where do you, you know, we don't want to leave people hopeless with all this stuff. So what do you tell people? You know, where do you, you know, we don't want to leave people hopeless with all this stuff. So what do you tell people to focus on? I tell people, well, I'll let you tell people what you focus on.
Starting point is 01:23:34 No, I mean, like I said, you're my go-to person. And everything I share with the public is literally a composite of people like you uh good patriots good americans and and people who are intelligent enough to figure this out uh and you're right i don't want to leave people with doom and gloom i i i passion up the negative the negative the scary stuff because because people need to wake up yeah they need to really stop going to johnny's soccer game and not giving this more thought but But here's what I tell people, okay, then this. None of us is going to change anything at the federal level. It's such a behemoth. It's such a dangerous monster. We are being run by foreign and domestic enemies. There's every bit of evidence to show this. It's all out there if you just take the time to do it.
Starting point is 01:24:22 So what does that mean? We all need to stay healthy mentally, physically, keep our families going, because we need to survive in order to thrive on the other side of this. I am hopeful, David. Hope is not a plan. I'm very much focused on what I'm doing in my spheres. I have military intelligence. I have military intelligence. I have political intelligence. I have all kinds of resources that I put together every day. And what we are all doing and talking about is, yes, I'm still going to help educate the
Starting point is 01:24:54 public and do my thing a little bit, but I'm going to focus more on the solutions. And for me, the solutions start local. I've said to people, it's very basic. And I don't like when people throw out meat and say, oh, it's local. Start there. So, let me give a couple of pieces of that. Look around you now. I know it sounds silly. Who's got an American flag on their home or apartment in your neighborhood? Who is of like mind that you already know in your family? You have people who hate you now because of this and people who are of like mind your neighbors your family get your community get your barriers set up not necessarily a fence
Starting point is 01:25:30 but hey look if if stuff goes south uh look i'm a nurse practitioner you're a carpenter you're an elect okay we're going to support each other and create an infrastructure parallel so that we can stay off of their grid as much as possible off the grid is independent that's right and you can protect yourselves maybe we won't see it in our lifetime um i don't think i'll see it i'm way too old but i do believe that in it'll take a generation or two and people will look back and say boy they were they were right. They understood what we're doing. I'm glad we followed their lead. Because you need to survive this oncoming thing that's happening in our government, in our country, in order to get to the other side. That's right.
Starting point is 01:26:14 So, yes, you need to ask yourselves and your family, if we couldn't get to an on-grid store for 12 months, let's go the worst possible that you could think of. What would we eat? Where would we get the intermittent power, electricity? What do we have to protect our resources that we were smart enough, right? So you better have some firearms, you better have some perimeter, and those kinds of things. That gives people working things to do that will come back to serve them. And then just don't send any money please don't send money the rnc or to anybody in congress please don't yeah for years i when they would send me a fundraising thing because of my registration whatever i would take all the paperwork and i would wrap it up in their postage paid return envelope and send it back to them
Starting point is 01:27:00 without putting anything on it so they didn't know what was coming from it's like you pay for the postage to send this thing but um yeah i i absolutely agree with that you know we got to do this locally it begins with us and uh we need to have um you know we need to have alliances with people we need to to learn that real prepping is really about skills it's not just about accumulating stuff and uh so and and that's what i want people that's why i say you know when we look at the the elections you know it is a big distraction it is a big reality tv show and i think it's there to distract us and to move us away from the things that we could do that would really make a difference and uh and that is all local uh all the things that are
Starting point is 01:27:42 going to make a difference and we still have an opportunity to do some things individually, as well as even in some areas, you might have some ability to do things that local government because we saw a big difference. And what was happening in 2020 with those lockdowns was a big difference from place to place. I traveled across the country and so that really hammered home the point to me that, you know, we need to focus a little bit more on the local area. There can be a lot of corruption anywhere that you go. I mean, we're dealing with people. There can be corruption. But there's also more of an opportunity to do something at the local level. Even Elon Musk tried to explain that to people that Soros was smart because he was leveraging his money on local district attorneys.
Starting point is 01:28:23 And, you know, that is a very cynical thing that he's doing, but it is a good strategy because all politics is local. But your life is really local. And if you don't have this kind of relationship with other people, and I would also say a relationship with God, because when I look at hope, I'm looking at that as a confident expectation. That's my grounding. That's what I know that i can trust on and
Starting point is 01:28:46 there ain't anybody's going to take that away from me no matter what happens life or death and so you got to have a foundation you got to have relationships and you got to start building from the ground up instead of from the top down everybody that's the thing that's so annoying to me is to see the conservatives have bought into this idea of top-down solutions from government they want the government they want the president to do everything it's just amazing savior savior complex and and i i like i do want to spend a few minutes talking about uh you know the lord and your spirituality and how important that is right now because for those people, David, who did
Starting point is 01:29:25 unfortunately make the wrong choice under duress, but it's clearly the wrong choice and took the shots, that's not a judgment. I tell them, you must acknowledge that you made the wrong or a very bad choice, because otherwise you will fall for it again if you don't believe you had the power to really choose. And then you can start to forgive yourself. I made a mistake. That was wrong. I knew I was trying to do something good and protect my family. But then you can then start to heal spiritually and ask God for comfort and support and miracles of healing and for forgiveness.
Starting point is 01:29:59 For forgiveness for not recognizing the delusion that he had sent so many of us. That's what our relationship with Christ is all about. It's about a new beginning. And it's always about that new beginning starts with not trying to just put it away and ignore that it ever happened as they did at the RNC about 2020. It's about confronting that and acknowledging, as you point out, mistakes so you don't make them again. But it's also that is absolutely necessary that we come to grips with the uncomfortable realities that we have in life. And that includes our own uncomfortable realities. So that is absolutely important.
Starting point is 01:30:38 And that is what is missing from so many different things. People just run from these problems and you've got to confront them. Yeah. And he's waiting, I think, for more people to realize what this is about and to come to him. Ultimately, he wins and he knows what's going to happen and why we're all here. I think, you know, one time I heard, I was backstage and I watched Dr. Zelenko go out. I was speaking after him. And he went out on stage and after the crowd calmed down, he said something really shocking. He said, we are living in the greatest time in history. And I thought, oh my God, Dr. Z, how could you say that? You know, people are dying, the shots, the whole bit. And there was a pause. And then he said, because we are, the enemy has revealed himself and we are about to see the light overcome the darkness.
Starting point is 01:31:22 Now, unfortunately, about a month later, he passed away from his cancer, which I have theories about. That's another topic. But I realized we're all here at this time, in God's time for this purpose. So everybody should try to find that purpose and look around you and see who you and what you can protect
Starting point is 01:31:41 to help as many people of God's children to get to the other side. That's my whole feeling about it. Yeah, it is an interesting time that we're living in. That's the old Chinese curse, you know, may you live in interesting times. But that means that there are opportunities for us in this type of situation. It is a time of testing. We always have tests that are being given to us.
Starting point is 01:32:04 We don't know what the purpose of it is, but really the purpose of the test is really to find out what you know about yourself. It's to teach you about yourself. You know, God knows everything about us. He doesn't, we need to know about ourselves. And that's really what kind of comes out of these tests. So it is, it is a very difficult time. It's an important time for people who are going to just do their best. Anybody can be mistaken. But we just have to do our best to tell people what is true.
Starting point is 01:32:30 If we see something that is out there, we need to warn them about it. That's what I appreciate you doing that and telling people honestly, regardless of how it's going to be received. You know, the truth is the truth. And we have to tell people about that. Yeah. And I just want to say one last thing in terms of warning, big, big,
Starting point is 01:32:50 big warning, everybody, please. This MRNA, you've got, you've got Vance, you know, invested with Ramaswamy,
Starting point is 01:32:56 you know, Vivek, you know, and Teal and all the hundreds and thousands of people investing billions into MRNA. It's not going anywhere. So get off of the pharmaceutical grid. Get off of the notion, the old-fashioned.
Starting point is 01:33:09 It's coming at us in a lot of different ways. And so we've got to be aware so we know what to protect ourselves from. And that's a whole other topic, I know. And of course, Ramaswamy was there in the Ohio with DeWine, one of the worst of the governors, and he was there trying to put in surveillance and tracking and things like that. So that's a whole nother aspect of it that dovetails with all of this pandemic thing is the surveillance and tracking. And that all goes back to Peter Thiel and Palantir and all the rest of the stuff. It's about surveillance, tracking, anticipating what people are going to do, manipulating them, punishing them in advance because they, you know, kind of this pre-crime thing.
Starting point is 01:33:45 They called it anticipatory intelligence. It's been around for a while, but they're making it real. And the people who have made it real and made a fortune off of it are the ones who are supporting J.D. Vance. It's very concerning. I'm very concerned. And Donald Trump. Don't leave him out because he's bringing them all together like he brought them all together in 2020. Operational warp speed consolidating all
Starting point is 01:34:05 the alphabet agencies that created this nightmare that's right yeah yeah second term is going to be pretty amazing uh tell people where they can find you uh dr ruby uh well i'm uh i have my own show and coffee chats which are not as benign as they sound they get a little deep into information on my rumble channel it's rumble.com forward slash dr jane ruby and i'm pretty active over on twitter and telegram just trying to get the word out get conversations going and things like that so really thank you so much david it's been an honor you are one of my absolute favorites and go-tos and it's been great being with you thank you very much it's an honor to have you on. And great information. And thanks for sticking your neck out there, even if you're going to get people throwing stuff at you.
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Starting point is 01:35:55 values the truth. Because independent, listener-funded news, untouched by corporate, globalist agendas, is extremely important to our liberties. Thank you. © transcript Emily Beynon Thank you. The L'Occitane Thank you. All right, welcome back. And our guest is Ken Block. And the book is Disproven, My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud in the Trump Campaign, the data that shows why he lost, and how we can improve our elections. And we're going to spend a lot of time on election reform, not so much about litigating 2020. He's got a lot to say. How did he get involved in this?
Starting point is 01:40:00 Well, he is president of a software systems company, Simpatico. A software engineer and entrepreneur. Specializes in database technologies and groundbreaking projects, such as the country's first statewide debit card benefit system. And in Texas, he saved them a billion dollars off of the fraud and waste and their SNAP programs. But as he said, he wasn't really interested in getting involved in politics. But, you know, sometimes we find that politics is interested in us. In the past decade, he's analyzed voter data from more than 40 states. The few that he has yet to analyze do not provide their data to the public. He has served as an expert in legal challenges that involve voting data, voter fraud, and election integrity. So we'll talk to him about
Starting point is 01:40:51 all of these things and about what he has learned as he investigates this. What can we do to make sure that we have honest elections that are not going to be contested? Thank you for joining us, sir. Thanks for having me. It's very important because we've got a lot of people are very concerned about this, and rightfully so. A lot of people are ready to have a revolution if the candidate that they think should win does not win. And in an equally divided country like this, half the people are pretty much feeling that way. I saw that your foreword was written by Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, that, you know, again, over the weekend, I talked about this at the beginning of the program. Trump was furious at Governor Kemp.
Starting point is 01:41:34 He didn't talk about Raffensperger, but they have in the past. And, you know, he is, and I said this about him, I said, it's unfortunate that he is so focused on revenge that he can't be focused on even winning, let alone on reform. And so I want to talk about that. But before we get into what we can do for reform, tell us a little bit about your take on what happened in Georgia where you investigated. Yeah, it's the idea that in states that are whisker close, and we have a bunch of them, we have Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan is not really whisker close, but close enough, Nevada. the election goes one way as opposed to another that the only explanation for it must have been fraud uh is a not an accurate way to depict what happened in these elections and in georgia in 2020 uh there are there's a ready explanation for what happened and georgia is maybe in a lot of ways the closest state uh that we have in terms of being evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
Starting point is 01:42:51 The results of the 2020 election have been gone up and down and backwards and forwards and sideways, and there really hasn't surfaced any credible claim of voter fraud that could be proven. And in my work for the Trump campaign, I was hired very specifically to do data analytics that would stand up in a court of law. My job was to find enough voter fraud to matter in one of the swing states, document it, and have it be so rock solid that when it got taken to court the other side's experts wouldn't be able to tear it apart that's that's sort of the gold standard when you're dealing with legal challenges to elections you have to have a foundation of fact in which to to be successful in court and the simple fact of the matter is, whether it was Georgia or any of the other swing states, while we found some voter fraud, we didn't find nearly enough to cover the margin of victory. And the margin of victory in Georgia was roughly 12,000 votes. It was roughly 11,000 votes in
Starting point is 01:43:58 Arizona, roughly 90,000 votes in Pennsylvania. And in none of those states did we find enough voter fraud to cover what those margins were. And that's just a plain statement of fact, and there were so many election challenges that failed in the court system because the nature of their proof wasn't acceptable proof in courts of law, right? And that's just sort of a... Was there ever any talk about them taking uh their findings i know that you were there to prepare the findings that they would use to argue the case
Starting point is 01:44:29 but did they ever talk about uh taking the case instead of to a court to uh the legislature because i know four of these razor thin uh margin of victory for biden for these states had republican legislatures were they ever talking about presenting a case to the legislature to get them to acknowledge a Republican slate of electors officially? And then you would have had, as Thomas Massey talked about, as Pence talked about, as J.D. Vance recently talked about, to have then a court case as to who gets to decide who the electors are. Is it going to be the governor and the executive branch,
Starting point is 01:45:06 or is it going to be the legislative branch? Was there ever any talk about taking the case to the legislatures? So I wasn't part of any strategy meetings inside the campaign. My job was incredibly focused, and I had 30 days to do what amounted to about a year's worth of work. So I was highly occupied and segmented away from everything else that was swirling around the campaign at the time. What I would say in general is that legislatures probably are not the best body to try to ascertain
Starting point is 01:45:42 a very technical determination, which was did fraud occur and how did it occur? Many members of legislators don't have that in their background. So it would be my preference that if it's going to be contested, that it gets contested in a venue where they can handle highly technical uh presentations and digest the facts and our court system does that all the time legislatures typically don't uh so that's just from a process perspective that's kind of where i'm at sure uh in in georgia uh there are three different data points that really help document what really happened in georgia and i know that in a lot of conservative circles uh secretary raffensperger is not well liked uh but the data that he brought forward and and can document has documented and it's hard proof uh he showed that
Starting point is 01:46:41 about 30 000 gop presidential primary voters in ge in Georgia in 2020 took a pass on the general election. Those are lost presidential votes for President Trump, and he lost by fewer than 12,000 votes. were probably moderate Republicans, call them rhinos, whatever you want to call them, who probably voted against Trump in the primary and then decided they couldn't bear to vote in the general election. And there was another 30,000 votes that Raffensperger brought forward and has the proof for that showed that the presidential selection was left blank, but all the down-ticket Republicans received votes. And again, that's a sort of symbolic protest votes by very likely middle-of-the-road Republicans who liked to down-ticket GOPs but didn't like what was at the top of the ticket. And that's hard evidence to overcome. And there's really no credible fraud that you can look at that comes close to having the solidity of the numbers that Raffensperger brought forward. That matches with what my nationwide findings are.
Starting point is 01:47:57 And those are basically that Trump lost about two and a half percent support across the board everywhere in 2020 relative to 2016. And those are the rhinos. I'm pretty sure those are the rhinos who took a hike and left. It's not a lot of voters, but in a whisker close election, it was enough. Most probably people who were not too happy with what had happened the first part of 2020. Let me ask you, you know, with the lockdowns and things like that, that kind of soured a lot of us on what was going on. But let me ask you about the vote by mail thing, because that was a function of the lockdown as well. And we'd never done that before. How did you audit or how did you view the vote by mail stuff so uh we looked at the the mail ballots uh not so much from uh the process of mail ballots were there changes to uh rules made to allow mail ballots to be changed how mail
Starting point is 01:48:57 ballots were used uh my role in looking at them was, were dead votes cast by mail? Did people who voted by mail vote twice in two different places? It was the nature of what I was looking at was those sorts of things. You know, it was really a remarkable period of time in a lot of different ways. And honestly, I think maybe had we not had COVID, I actually believe there was a better than even money chance that President Trump would still be President Trump right now. I think COVID cost him dearly in this election. Did mail ballot use tip the balance? I don't think so, because I think anybody who was motivated to vote would have figured out how to vote one way or the other. The presumption is, were mail ballots used in some nefarious way?
Starting point is 01:49:52 Was massive mail ballot fraud happening? And I didn't see evidence of that. I mean, to commit mail ballot fraud, you're either going to steal someone's identity and vote as somebody else, or you're going to steal a someone's identity uh and vote as somebody else or you're going to steal a deceased person's identity and do that and we found a couple a dozen dead votes in in most of the swing states uh we found a couple a hundred duplicate votes uh across the swing states and and the the campaign spared no expense on this we we exhaustively looked at uh every single mail ballot to ensure that the person whose name that mail ballot was cast was among the living so what do they do to
Starting point is 01:50:32 to cast about do they have to request it and is it mailed to them at an address or something they just pick it up and then mail it in themselves how did that so uh what's really frustrating is it's different from state to state to state we're going to get into that down the line uh in many states you have to fill out a mail ballot application mail it in they verify your signature and then when the time is right they'll mail you a ballot that you then return that's like the absentee ballot process that we've had for a very long time right right yeah a few states and this goes this happened before covid states like california and oregon uh and colorado interestingly have moved to uh entirely conducting their elections by mail uh they send out mail ballots to everybody and if you don't want to vote by mail you have to take extraordinary actions to opt out of voting by mail and instead to vote in a different way.
Starting point is 01:51:29 So we had a mix of those different things. Many states made voting by mail easier in 2020. is uh i believe it's louisiana uh that has a very strict usage in terms of who can use it under and under what circumstances so it's all over the map uh i didn't see any artisan uh slant to the mail ballot fraud that we did find uh it was pretty evenly divided by Democrats, Republicans, Independents. And that's been the case of all the voter fraud I've documented over the years. I have yet to find a form of voter fraud where when it happens, it's just sort of a bipartisan activity. How would you audit a situation to find out if somebody was voting for a dead person? And I ask because I, a friend of my brother-in-law's in 2012 in North Carolina,
Starting point is 01:52:33 they have, at least at that time, they had the longest voting period of any state and there was no picture ID. So you could just walk in and give them, you could vote early. And when you went to vote, you just give them a name and address. And there was no validation of that with even a driver's license. And so on election day, this friend of my brother's brother-in-law goes in and to register, he gives him his name and address. And he said, you've already voted. And so is this other person at your address? And he said, well, well that's my mom she's been dead for several years so how do you how do you uh audit that uh to to know if that is happening um you know in georgia for example well so uh in 2020 the trump campaign had us process every single
Starting point is 01:53:22 male ballot voter in the swing states there was about 31 million of them wow we process them uh through a data vendor who matches up the voter with their social security number and then using the social security number you can look at something called the social security death master file which is the social security administration tracks everybody who dies uh so we use that mechanism uh 31 million times for every mail ballot that was cast what did you find election uh like i said you know we found a couple at most a couple of dozen in each swing state uh not nearly enough to matter uh i did predict because i had done an analysis in pennsylvania about a month before the election i found a couple of recently registered dead voters
Starting point is 01:54:12 uh and i predicted that those would become mail ballot fraud and and they did yeah yeah now you you uh did your research uh you presented your findings to the Trump campaign and who had hired you to their attorneys. And you also reported to Mark Meadows all of your results. Is that correct? Yeah. So I didn't speak directly to Mark Meadows, the lawyer who hired me and who basically was my point person throughout this whole thing. Alex Cannon. He.
Starting point is 01:54:48 The basic premise of what I did were two different things. I looked for duplicate votes. I looked for dead voters. And then the campaign used my company to help vet every claim of voter fraud that came their way. There were a lot of them from outside of the campaign. He asked us to vet them, determine whether they were true or not, before they would consider taking those claims into court. So they were operating in a very
Starting point is 01:55:11 careful, methodical way. They asked us to review about 20 different claims of fraud. Some of them came in through folks like Sidney Powell and John Eastman. Others came through academics, just random people out there who did their own research. And every one of the 20 different claims that we looked at, we were able to show why it was wrong. When we wrapped things up towards the end of November, Cannon took the summation of everything that we had done and went to Mark Meadows and told Meadows that when it came to voter fraud, we looked pretty exhaustively at it. All the claims we looked at were false and we couldn't find enough voter fraud to have changed the outcome in any election. And when did, when was that presented? What was the date that roughly that you presented that stuff?
Starting point is 01:56:02 Well, so I didn't do a presentation to anybody every one of the claims i looked at had its own email and documentation and all that landed on canon's desk canon took that all together and went and talked to meadows i believe right at the end of november and gave him gave him the summation of everything okay Okay. All right. And so it was December the 14th that the electoral colleges, you know, the people that were selected, the elector, the slate of electors from each party that had won, submitted their votes on December 14th. January the 6th was a formal acceptance of all that stuff. But everybody presented that stuff on december the 14th so they knew um the end of november they knew a couple of weeks before the electoral college voted uh and then again uh about another uh about i guess um six weeks or so before um uh the january the sixth thing they had those results in uh what did you think about the stop the steel stuff you you mentioned that uh that you debunked fraud claims or those advancing the stop the steel initiative
Starting point is 01:57:11 tell us a little bit about that yeah i mean so uh as i looked at everything i wasn't aware usually of where the claims came from i was able to piece a lot of it together afterwards so uh you know for the from the sydney powell john eastman perspective i didn't know that the claims that i found were false that they brought forward came from them until uh about a year ago really yeah so uh it's the you know the whole problem problem with Stop the Steal and with a lot of so many people believe firmly that the election was stolen. But that belief is based upon a set of facts that's at best really, really squishy. facts on which the claims are being made that everybody's grabbing onto and says it was stolen can't possibly ever stand up in court usually for a really basic reason because that reason is it's more usually it's hearsay evidence so what i mean by that hearsay is is uh often defined as he said she said type stuff right and our courts don't allow that kind of evidence on which to uh convict
Starting point is 01:58:26 somebody because someone can easily be lying about that right the court systems want to see fact-based evidence that uh can be double and triple checked uh you know hard facts sure and most of most of the evidence that people are being presented as evidence that the election was stolen is squishy evidence. It's not the kind of evidence that you could take to court and win. And that to me is really something that I have a problem with because I'm a data guy. I take data to court and my data survives legal scrutiny right so uh if you can't find data that survives legal scrutiny i think it's sketchy to start bringing forward data that can't and then using that information to really get people amped up about what happened in our election i do not believe that the election
Starting point is 01:59:21 was stolen i believe that the election in 2020 was lost. I was very skeptical of it from the very beginning, actually. You know, when I worked at Infowars, I had a show there. And two days after the election, Steve Pachinik came on and said that it was a sting, that they had blockchain watermark ballots that had somehow come out of the federal government at some central location. But the key thing that was obviously disprovable was he said two days after the election so we got 20,000 national guard that are out there arresting these people who rigged the election now that obviously
Starting point is 01:59:55 was not true that wasn't going to go down that path uh so we had all kinds of stuff but it was so many people even weeks after that uh when there was absolutely no evidence of any national guard troops or any arrests or whatever they were still pushing that so i can imagine that somebody's saying yeah we got pictures of i know personally about somebody's stuff in a ballot box uh that's going to be much more believable than the other stuff that that people were fighting about and and willing to go to the mat to say, yes, there is some secret war that is going on, maybe in Germany, maybe some places in the United States where people are actually fighting and going to war over this.
Starting point is 02:00:34 It really was a strange situation. One more thing I'd like to talk about before we start talking about how to reform this stuff, and that is the exit polls, which have kind of come in to play again with this Venezuelan election. The State Department has always used Edison Research, which is the exit polling organization here in the United States. And they say that, and they use them in other countries as well. And they say that if the difference between Edison Research's exit polls and the official results are more than five points away from each other, that it looks like it's a rigged election.
Starting point is 02:01:11 Now it's just one particular company, and of course that company can be rigged as well. We don't know about their integrity, but it is the company that is used for the exit polls by all of the media organizations in the United States. They typically don't give us i've never seen them give us a total and say well here's what they say the total is uh and compare that to what the reported votes were they'll give you demographic cross tabulations you know how many men or how many women or this or that uh voted for this candidate but um was there ever any talk about uh looking at the exit polls? Anything about that?
Starting point is 02:01:51 So I didn't know it at the time, but I learned of this about a year and a half ago. The Trump campaign commissioned their top pollster to conduct exit polls in the 2020 election in the swing states. That pollster's name is Tony Fabrizio. And just to be fully transparent, I'm a two-time candidate for governor here in Rhode Island. And in my run in 2014 as a Republican, Fabrizio was my pollster as well. So I just like to put that out there because I'm talking about him. And I just didn't want to do that without disclosing that uh fabrizio conducted a 30 000 interview exit poll across all the swing states uh and he created an internal campaign document that leaked uh and that document made its way to politico.com so anyone can find it there but what he determined was that one out of six votes, voters that they spoke with were disaffected Republicans who chose to vote against Trump in that 2020 race.
Starting point is 02:02:51 Another one out of six voters were brand new had identified were strongly against Trump for different sets of reasons. So exit polls are typically take it to the bank type things, right? They're usually considered to be pretty accurate. And I've not ever heard of somebody manipulating the results of an exit poll. I don't know much, hardly anything at all about what's going on down in Venezuela right now, other than it's a mess. So, you know. It's another one of these things, right? And so that kind of gets us a lead into some of the things that we do about how to uh how to fix this based on your insights but i think that's very important i think it's very interesting that the trump campaign did its own exit polls and and they
Starting point is 02:03:52 didn't present that data so presumably that data was not favorable to them didn't you uh am i mistaken did you uh debate uh uh lindell on this mike lindell? I did. He and I appeared on a YouTube channel about a month ago with a host named David Pakman. And yeah, we had about a 45-minute conversation about voter fraud and what is there, what's not there, and even we got into a little bit the things that we need to do to fix things. And I know that he held a press conference at one point in time, and Steve Bannon was there, and a whole bunch of people, and Steve Bannon was just fed up. He said, well, we were told
Starting point is 02:04:33 that he had receipts, and he goes, he doesn't have any receipts. He was really upset about it. Does he have any receipts yet? No. It's evidence-free, right? that's very interesting it really is sad to see but let's let's talk about what we can do to uh to fix the election uh system uh based on what you have seen and your opinions about it yeah so i think this is the most important thing to talk about i mean 2020 is long gone and it's in the rear mirror uh there's nothing that we can do at this point to alter the course of what's going to happen in 2024 uh it's going to be very very similar i believe to what we experienced in 2020 uh it may be almost virtually identical i wouldn't be surprised if the outcome is exactly the same because the basic same uh setup is there that we had uh four years ago uh
Starting point is 02:05:27 the way we conduct our elections in this country is the way we've done it for hundreds of years and it no longer makes any sense and it causes us some real problems and the biggest set of problems that we have is that different states and many times different counties in the same state conduct the same election differently. They have different rules, they have different regulations, they have different hardware. And I'll give you just a simple example of how these differences can actually affect the outcome of a specific vote. What do you think happens if you vote early but then die before Election Day? Does your vote count or does your vote not count? I would think that it would count.
Starting point is 02:06:14 Depends on where you live. There you go. It depends. Yeah. Yeah. So in Michigan, it does not count. And in 2020, the state of Michigan invalidated about 3,500 votes by voters who voted early and then passed away before Election Day. In Pennsylvania, if you vote early and then pass away before the election, your vote does count.
Starting point is 02:06:38 So some of the votes that people identified as deceased votes actually counted because in pennsylvania that's not an illegal situation as long as you cast the vote while you're alive if you happen to then pass away before election day in pennsylvania the vote still counts so it becomes you can see how just that one scenario causes a a voter that we imagine is in this situation to have a very different experience as a dead voter in Michigan as it does opposed to Pennsylvania. an early vote by mail ballot to know that this person voted that ballot and voted it at that date. You know, if they're going to count it, if the person is now dead, but they, you know, to know that the person made this vote before they died. How do you audit that? What kind of information do they have in terms of auditability? Do they know the postmarked date and the person's name on the ballot? So they have postmarked dates. They have names and addresses on the ballot application,
Starting point is 02:07:54 which also goes on to the envelope that your mail ballot gets put into as you mail it back in. The trick is getting that information and being able to determine with certainty whether or not that voter is dead and alive or alive. And most people who do these analysis don't aren't able to arrive at an answer that is rock solid for sure. Yeah. It's a big problem in Pennsylvania, you know, where it's that it's OK if they did it and then died. How do you determine that? That's that's tough, right? Right. Well, I pointed out to the state of Pennsylvania through lawyers I was doing some work for in October of 2020. Two registered voters who were dead, clearly deceased, identified them. And because they had registered in the last month, back in September
Starting point is 02:08:47 of 2020, I said, these will become very likely fraudulent votes. The state didn't do anything about those voters. They did, in fact, vote by mail as deceased voters. And it was only after the election that the people behind those votes were contacted arrested uh and uh they pled guilty to election crimes for casting fraudulent votes uh it's really hard uh in fact it's so hard to identify whether or not someone is living or dead uh i think that that the only reasonable thing to do is to probably allow the votes as long as you're alive when you cast the vote i think that the vote should count because it's just so hard for states to determine otherwise inside a crazy window of time where they're trying to do a lot of other things you know and again we only were able to do we what we did in terms of identifying deceased registered voters because the trump campaign basically provided an unlimited pile
Starting point is 02:09:50 of money that we were able to spend to do so accurately i guess the real that's really the issue you know in terms of how do you validate that and i guess uh the key issue is that people have to have trust in the election. And so it seems to me like there needs to be different ways that they can have either transparency and have the ballots retained. I know that in Texas, it was kind of a standard procedure, even though it was in the Constitution that a facsimile image of the ballot had to be retained uh you had the the the guy who was in charge of the board of elections would send out a statement to all of the counties saying you don't have to retain it and they would not retain it in a lot of these counties and so it made the auditing process really difficult but i think maybe you know a
Starting point is 02:10:42 lot of people are looking at let's just go simple let's go to hand counted ballots. We know that people can always stuff stuff, but if you got hand counted ballots and you got observers from both sides, it seems to me like you need to have something like that where people can have some confidence that, you know, the fraud has been kept to a minimum, that there's been eyes on this, that they have done that. What do you think about that? What are your recommendations in terms of paper ballots i know that's a big paper chase but but what would you say about that well i think for sure when you vote the vote should be on a paper ballot so that you have a physical representation of what happened so that you can go back and analyze any machine that allows you to vote electronically without
Starting point is 02:11:25 paper ballot backup i think is a terrible idea and we shouldn't be there for sure uh let's use maricopa county arizona as uh sort of a proving ground for whether or not it's reasonable to count by hand all the ballots so maricopa has roughly one and a half million voters that vote in its elections. On your typical Maricopa County ballot, there's anywhere between 20 and 30 different races on that ballot. It just depends on the year
Starting point is 02:11:58 and where you are in the cycle of different things, which means that in your typical election year in Maricopa, if you're going to count by hand, you have to tally up 20 to 30 million different distinct votes across all the different races that are there. That is a phenomenally large amount of votes. And no human counting effort will ever be anywhere near as accurate as a machine count can be the problem and the the the worry about the machines is that they can be hacked that they can uh be programmed maliciously before the election that kind of thing and uh i look at what the casino industry
Starting point is 02:12:46 does and in my background i've done a lot of work in the gaming industry over the years many many many casino management systems have defensive software built into every one of those slot machines so that they know if the software deviates from what it should be. And I won't get into the technical details of it, but it's something that you can absolutely do. And it's something that you can absolutely bring forward into the election machine software. We have the ability to know with confidence what software is running on those machines. And we should be using it. And as I said to, you know, Mike Lindell is one of the big, big pushers of we need to be counting by hand.
Starting point is 02:13:31 We need to be counting by hand. And what I'll say is, first of all, there's just no way that you can count 30 million votes accurately by hand. First of all, it would take forever to do that, right? You would need an army of people conducting the count. And then human beings make mistakes in that whole thing something that is an actual risk that's happened that they're running has been vetted and is working the way it needs to and all that kind of thing. That's technology that's already in place. I just don't see how, I mean, if you or I were to sit down and start tallying votes on a ballot maybe we could tally if we're
Starting point is 02:14:46 working really fast 500 votes an hour right maybe i mean you know and now think about 30 getting to 30 million votes 500 votes an hour at a time yeah this tells you how big the number is like the number is probably 60 000 hours of work to get that done in maricopa and i don't think going back to the stone age for how we count votes uh is a going to be a workable answer for us in this modern age yeah it's uh again you know when when we look at the electronic stuff, and I always talk about, and I've shown several times, an example going back to the late 1990s, early 2000s. We have local college professors bring some kids in. They say, well, let's take over this machine here. And they put a virus on there that tilts everything according to their predetermined ratios and then erases itself and so you know the vulnerability there i guess is um whether or not it's connected to the
Starting point is 02:15:53 internet uh and uh whether or not um somebody can reprogram it with uh you know by putting a thumb drive on there and installing some software how do you guard against that type of thing that kind of custody of the machine for example so you know the physical the in the same way that slot machines have tremendous physical security around them in terms of surveillance uh both uh electronic and and people watching uh it's the same thing with with voting machines the the sensitive areas of the voting machine should be in uh on the back of the machine where nobody is allowed right so i mean if you're putting a usb key in the front of the machine and someone can close the the you know they can close the curtains and and something in. I mean, that's a violated Rule 101 of physical security. You know, it's, there are, for those who understand machine security
Starting point is 02:16:55 and how to make sure that the software that should be in there is in there, it's all, that's all a solvable problem. It really is. And as part of your auditing did you have uh videotapes of the physical security situation no no we were strictly focused on the data okay uh the uh they wanted me on the hard data that was going uh that they were hoping was going to be able to go to court uh i didn't get involved in any one specific local issue. And for sure, I didn't get into any hearsay claims of any kind. There wasn't the time to get into that.
Starting point is 02:17:32 You know, look, there are, you hear a lot of people talk about election integrity, and I am a huge proponent of election integrity and making sure that the data for our elections is as clean as it can be. And one of the problems with having the states do their own voter registration, maintaining their voter rolls differently from each other, is you end up with some states that do a really good job at it. And you have some states that do an absolutely terrible job at it. And the terrible side side of things i'm going to offer up two states uh new jersey and new york uh in new jersey in 2020 there were roughly 25 000 voters registered who had a year of birth of 1800 which if you do the math, you realize that there's just no way that any human being in 2020 had a birth date of 1800.
Starting point is 02:18:29 And of those 25,000 registered voters with a birth date of 1800, 8,000 cast votes in 2020. Now, some of your listeners are going to be like, holy moly, that's voter fraud. It's probably not. What happens in a lot of different computer systems, and this is happening in New Jersey system, if they don't have a date of birth for a voter, they stick 1800 in there as a placeholder. They didn't have anything else. So 8,000 voters in New Jersey cast votes in 2020 that state election officials don't know when those voters were born okay now that's a problem all by itself and it's one that election officials in new jersey still haven't fixed they have really really dirty data right and you see all kinds of different ways that dirty data can
Starting point is 02:19:19 impact uh registered voters and ultimately can even impact whether people should be voting or not, right? I think in New Jersey, you might find maybe some of those 8,000 voters shouldn't have been voting for some reason, but the state can't identify who those voters are. You have to know someone's date of birth to be able to identify them using data. And New Jersey can't do that. New York has a very similar problem and some worse ones. And I don't want to get too far into it, but there are millions of votes that happened in New York state in 2020 by voters that they cannot identify because those voters don't have a social security number or driver's license on file with election.
Starting point is 02:20:01 That's an extraordinary thing. And it's a huge problem for New York election officials because they can't possibly maintain the data in their system without having that information. That's just two examples. When you move from one state to another, some states are able to track down the movement and cancel the registration for when somebody moves from state to state. A lot of other states cannot. And so we end up with people with duplicate registrations. We end up sometimes with people with four or five duplicated registrations. There's all a manner of stuff like that that's happening. And for me as a technology professional, I can't stand the fact that our elections depend
Starting point is 02:20:42 on data that at times can be extraordinarily dirty and we have the technology and the means to fix this and i think it's criminal that we don't and of course we got a lot of jurisdictions where they want to give the vote to even non-citizens so i mean that's like the there's just there's just this whole spectrum of what is out there so uh in your opinion how do we what's the best way to fix this? I mean, do you have to have some kind of a national standard and some kind of inspectors? I mean, I think one of the reasons we have the kind of system that we've got is because there was an aversion to centralizing things. Because if you centralize things, now you've got one point that you can corrupt or you can infiltrate, now uh you've got one point uh that you can corrupt
Starting point is 02:21:26 or you can infiltrate and now you've got the entire system so there's a danger in centralization as well how would this work out so leaving any ideology out of my answer as a technologist the only sane way to conduct our federal elections is with a federal voter registration database. If we got rid of the 50 different implementations of voter registration that we have right now, in fact, it's way more than 50. Most large states make the responsibility of elections the the at the county level uh and so in many ways we have as many as 4 000 or 5 000 different election systems that all do things a bit differently from each other uh technologically speaking the right answer and we would eliminate most of the voter integrity issues that we suffer from if we had a federalized voter registry. I understand with states' rights and a whole bunch of either ideological arguments or even the
Starting point is 02:22:34 security argument of, well, you know, if you have just one, you know, what happens? I don't believe that the voting should happen on a federal level with just one system, but I do believe that the voter registration should be done that way. So if somebody hacks a voter registration system, and by the way, how many counties do you know that have high quality data employees working for them, technologists, right? The lower down we push the conduct of our elections, I believe the more likely it is that those the county level is where it's most likely that you can see successful hacking because they just don't have the technological
Starting point is 02:23:19 expertise that you need as you would as you move your way up the chain to state level technologists and ultimately federal level technologists uh yeah we've also seen we've also seen the cia and the nsa and the fbi and military hacked as well so from the top to the bottom it is vulnerable so you know it's a real quite it's a real quandary so you know voter registration in a lot of ways is less uh the the danger of a hack there is lower than the danger of a hack to an actual election system that conducts the process of our election right right so uh i don't believe i believe it would be wrong to have federalized voting i only talk about the voter
Starting point is 02:24:05 registration with an eye towards the cleanest data that we can have uh you know we live we live in it we live in a in a society in an age where there probably isn't a computer system anywhere that's hardened well enough to prevent someone who's really determined to get at it to get at it uh you have to watch it really carefully and you have to see what you have to have the surveillance systems in place to know when it's happening and to to stop it before it goes uh you can put that sort of stuff in front of a system like the if we were to do a federalized voter registration system i think that that system should also have biometrics on it uh you know we use social security numbers as the most sensitive identifier we have right you if you're working at a job you have to
Starting point is 02:24:57 supply your social security number it's how you file your taxes all this stuff you have to give a social security number to any banks that you want to open up bank accounts with. And the problem is hackers have every one of our social security numbers, all of them, right? They've been hacked so many times, it's no longer secure. I think we should replace social security numbers with a new identifier. We're the only first world country that doesn't have a national identifier. Well, what happens if you do a biometric and somebody steals your database? Now they've stolen your face.
Starting point is 02:25:31 What do you do? I mean, if they steal your passcode or something, you get a new one to go get plastic surgery to order or to vote again. What do you do with that? To me, that's that's a big issue and of course you know when we look at um creating you know a lot of us have very very strong concerns about um you know creating a centralized uh state where we have to have some kind of a centralized id you know that kind of flows into a cbdc type of scenario and other other concerns about a global ID. And so that, that gets a lot of people to take the safety off their gun. When you start talking about that type of thing.
Starting point is 02:26:12 I get it. I get it. But if your concern is election integrity, the biggest threat to integrity is the way we currently conduct the election. I mean, that's, that's just a, a simple statement of fact. Well, I mean, as unwieldy as it is you know when um they ran elections in iraq what they did was they did it on one day and uh you know they couldn't tell these people were legitimate if they'd walked across the border but they could keep them from voting multiple times and so you would go in and you'd vote on paper and then you would get this indelible stain on your thumb that's going to be there for the rest of the day so you couldn't vote again uh if we if we go ultra crude like that i know it's a big uh hassle to to count this stuff but i mean if people really wanted uh
Starting point is 02:26:55 a um a a a system they would invest the time in terms of maybe volunteering or something like that i know that's idealistic uh but i mean why not go ultra low tech one day and the purple thumb i mean how many how many elections that way do you hear stories about a whole bunch of ballots being stuffed anyway right even even people have ink stained hands that doesn that doesn't handle the physical security of the actual ballot box sitting there. You know, look, I live in a state where it wasn't all that long ago where some elected officials were arrested driving around with a bunch of absentee ballots in the trunks of their cars. Yeah, and we saw that going back to the 1960s, the reports of people driving around with voting machines in the back of their car and that type of thing. You're always going to have that. I guess the thing for me personally, and I've talked about this, I said, well, because what scares me about the computerized voting is that if you're able to hack the actual voting system, you know, different a remote area to be able to manipulate things across the
Starting point is 02:28:07 country or you can manipulate from the top of the ballot to the bottom of the ballot i mean once you get if you get in there the payoff is so incredibly large that it really is a big honeypot you know for people in terms of the allure i think no uh no differently than casino systems right and in a lot of ways the you know rigging a casino machine to walk out the door with a million dollars in cash in a lot of ways is probably a bigger prize with the threat of the hacking and the cyber attacks on election systems. We really can. It really comes down to a question of will and money. But I don't know how we don't insist that the same protections that go into slot machines aren't already in most of the machines that conduct our elections. I know some of the machines that conduct our elections do have this in there.
Starting point is 02:29:15 They all should have it. And if we have that, I think we can all rest a bit easier about it. Well, that is a good analogy. I guess we'll end on that. I think there's many analogies that could be drawn between the electoral system and a casino. The house always wins, I think, in both cases. But that is very interesting. And I'm sure I haven't had a chance to read your book.
Starting point is 02:29:37 I didn't get a copy of it yet because I wanted to get you on quickly. But I'm sure it is very interesting. I think people will be interested to see what you found in 2020 that people are still talking about. And more importantly, what does that portend for the election that's coming up now? And I guess maybe about 90 days or something like that. And what can we do? Certainly, there's not going to be anything that we can do to fix it between now and then. But it gives us some idea of what we can still expect. But then we really do need to take, I think one thing everybody agrees,
Starting point is 02:30:11 that we need to do something to make the electoral system more trustworthy, that people have confidence that their vote is counted and counted accurately. I think that is of paramount importance. And so it's very, I'm glad to see that you wrote a book about your experience with that. And again, the book is Disproven, My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign and the Data that Shows Why He Lost and How We Can Improve Our Elections. And by the way, you can find this at KenBlock.com. There's a link there to buy the book, and you can get information about it there. Anything else you'd like to tell us about the book before we run out of time? Yeah, I mean, look, the back of the book is the most important part of the book.
Starting point is 02:30:56 Fixing our elections is patriotic. It's mission critical. It's the most important thing. Mike Lindell and I disagreed about the outcome of the elections, but we were in sync on the need to make changes to make things happen better. I've spoken to Republican secretaries of state. I've spoken to Democratic secretaries of state. There is a lot of over agreement, overlapping agreement on some of the things that we should be doing to make our elections better. And we need to move beyond where we're at in terms of our discussions of elections and looking backwards and dealing with whatever happens here in November to move forward. We need to have an adult conversation about making our elections better and getting to
Starting point is 02:31:41 it and taking this moment in time to really improve things. Yeah, I agree. And it's not just that we would like to get the right answers. But I mean, in this time of polarization, if we don't have trustworthy elections, I'm very concerned that they, you know, be civil war over it or something like that. A lot of talk about that on both sides. And so it's having something that you trust, that you can audit, that is really key. So again, you've got the second half of your book is about your recommendations for how to do that from somebody who is an expert on auditing it.
Starting point is 02:32:16 And you've seen the tricks that can be pulled. And so that is no system is going to be perfect. Any system can be infiltrated and has its own flaws. And so the question is, what do we do to try to minimize that and mitigate those risks? So thank you so much for the work that you do. And again, you can find this at KenBlock.com. And the book is Disproven. Thank you so much, sir.
Starting point is 02:32:40 Appreciate it. Thanks, Ken. False news has become all too common on social media. sir appreciate it This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Starting point is 02:33:17 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. And if you found our show helpful, please consider donating and becoming a part of a community that values the truth. Because independent, listener-funded news, untouched by corporate globalist agendas, is extremely important to our liberties. Thank you. © transcript Emily Beynon I am the king of the world. Succes! All right, we're back. And I wanted to talk to Lisa Hansen, who was kind enough to come on and tell us her story about what happened to her as a small business person during the lockdown. Under a kind of medical martial law and a governor who was one of the worst tyrants there the vice presidential candidate for the democrats now tim walls and um i want people to remember what happened during this they want to flush this down the memory hole but they want to do that
Starting point is 02:36:37 because they want to bring it back we have to remember what happened and and say never again lisa is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She married her high school sweetheart at the young age of 18 and never looked back, she says. Lisa and her husband have eight beautiful children. And by the end of the year, they will have 18 grandchildren. Oh, congratulations. That's wonderful. They've owned and operated businesses for well over 30 years.
Starting point is 02:37:02 They know what they're doing. Most businesses, if they're going to fail, they fail within the first five years. You've done this for 30 years. They know what they're doing. Most businesses, if they're going to fail, they fail within the first five years. You've done this for 30 years. So thank you for joining us, Lisa. I appreciate you coming on and telling us your story. Thank you so much. Tell us a little bit about your business.
Starting point is 02:37:16 Well, thank you. And thank you for what you're doing. And thank you for coming on and talking to people because it's important we don't forget this. Tell people a little bit about what your business was like before the so-called pandemic. Oh, man, it was a thriving business. It was located right in the heart of the historical downtown part of Albert Lee, Minnesota.
Starting point is 02:37:36 And a thriving business. I say that because it was a well-loved business, not only by the locals of the area but uh we did a specialty coffee we did specialty uh sandwiches pastries specialty even i would say specialty wine because we had some great selection of wine and beers and a lot of fun we had uh you know a little nightlife going on we had live music we just had the whole gamut of a really great vibe and a great experience for people just to kind of come in, turn it off and just sit and enjoy. Great business. I know that it was a well-loved business. And I know that it is missed only because I have people still stop me on the street saying, we really miss your restaurant. So
Starting point is 02:38:22 it was kind of always a dream of mine and my husband's, and we kind of modeled our business after some of the European bistros that we had visited as we had the opportunity to travel. So great little business. A lot of fun. That's great. A lot of hard work. A lot of hard work, but a lot of fun.
Starting point is 02:38:39 And you poured a lot of work, poured a lot of money into it. You knew the people that were there, and that's characteristic of small mom and pop businesses. That's the way we ran our business as well. And we got to know the customers on a regular basis that would come in. And, of course, you were in an area that was a tourist area. So you had a lot of people who would pass through there. And then all of a sudden, you're declared non-essential.
Starting point is 02:39:00 And that was one of the things that really bothered me. That happened to us once during a major storm. They allowed Walmart to open up, but they declared us to be non-essential, and they sent the police around to shut us down when we opened up. And to me, one of the key things that really bothered me about this whole lockdown is how they would say that the big Wall Street companies, the big box companies that trade their stock on wall street, they're essential like the Walmarts,
Starting point is 02:39:29 but all the mom and pops are not essential because most of the mom and pops are going to be involved in service businesses. And so they came after the restaurants and they came after the nail salons and the barber shops and all the rest of this stuff that were in service businesses and said, you're not essential. And we're going to shut you down. They came after main street while they protected Wall Street and they called us non-essential. So what was it like when this all rolled out?
Starting point is 02:39:51 What happened? And in contrast, Governor Walz shut down all those businesses that you just mentioned. And in contrast, he allowed the big box stores to stay open, the liquor stores, and the strip clubs because they were essential. I know all of these businesses are essential. Churches are not essential. No.
Starting point is 02:40:13 Oh, no. He shut the churches down. He shut the schools down. Yeah. Went on and on. And it was what was it like? Of course, it was shocking. You know, we've never been through anything like this in our, in, in our time in this country, which has been from birth. Um, so we've never seen anything like this. Uh, it was
Starting point is 02:40:30 shocking. Um, the state of Minnesota, I think took the path, uh, of, uh, you know, communism. There's no doubt about that. The governor had no right or authority, I should say, to do what, what he did, but yet he did it and he got away with it. It still has gotten away with it. There's been no accountability for that. And there should have be, there was a lot of, I believe that he has acted criminally. The governor has acted criminally and he should be, he should be prosecuted. I agree. Yeah. I agree. And the problem is that they're not doing it because everybody was on board with it. You know, everybody was like, well, it's the Democratic governors. And yet I look at what happened with DeWine in Ohio.
Starting point is 02:41:12 He was one of the worst ones as well. He's a Republican. And they had practiced this for 20 years, the first one of these germ games, two months before 9-11. Then they put out the model state legislation for the states to enact to give themselves the power because they didn't want to directly order it from washington instead they you know trump financed the money and when people were really up against it and had lost jobs and lost were losing businesses and everything he tries to paper it over and assuage their anger by putting out the ppp and the cares act how did that help did that help you We were hanging on by a thread and we had really used up all of our resources as
Starting point is 02:41:51 owners. And the second shutdown came along in March of 2020. Then the second shutdown came around 2020. Now keep in mind, we were never fully opened by the Governor Dictator Walz's word Now, keep in mind, we were never fully opened by the governor's governor dictator walls is word 100 percent. So in all the while from March all the way up to November of the second full shutdown on these particular non-essential businesses, we we we realize this is not right um he does not have the authority as we started digging in and learning because um david unlike you i have just started learning and becoming aware my eyes opening in really being opened in the last you know four four years or so um and uh shocking experience trying to wrap our heads around everything that we believed almost
Starting point is 02:42:46 everything that we believed was a lie yes um so so that it just your eyes continue to be open and at the time um what do you do with that you know when we were going through this in 2020 um we we did consent because we didn't know what else to do, to be honest with you, until the second full shutdown came for dine-in restaurants being one of the businesses that was shut down. Ours was a 90-95% dine-in company, and there's no way that we could have survived. We didn't really survive. We were hanging on by a thread and not even really that i told my husband i said if we if he does this again if he goes if he shuts us down completely if he shuts us down at all any more than what we already are um and we're almost done anyway we're almost out of business because we've exhausted everything we've got right right
Starting point is 02:43:34 you know you know how that works you've got to have revenue coming in to be able to you know pay your bills pay your employees and um advance the business right so let's talk about how it rolled out um you know because did he roll this out kind of gradually and and iteratively uh at the beginning of this or how did he roll yeah it was it was two weeks shut down 100 nobody can come in your business right two weeks but the two weeks turned into two and one half months. And then he back started backing off. Okay. You can be 75% open. Okay. You can be 50% open, um, 25%. And then when November came, then it was cool, full board. You know, you're, you're a hundred percent shut down again. Um, you can do takeout, uh out delivery right all of those but you can't do
Starting point is 02:44:26 any dine-in and again for most businesses that and none of it made any sense no no it did not even with their with their you know if you completely buy into their pandemic narrative their virus narratives or all none of it made any sense internally and uh you know when you talk about a business like a restaurant um and it was similar to the type of business we were in, you know that most of your business is going to happen like Friday nights and Saturdays and stuff like that. So if they cut you down to 50% at your peak hours, you still can't cover what is happening. You know, it isn't evenly distributed. It's all clumped into, you know into the weekends and things like that so if they limit your maximum capacity they can put you out of business pretty easily right and think about it back in uh in november of the of 2020 pretty much
Starting point is 02:45:16 the rest of the country was opened up and uh walls was still shutting us down obviously there were other places that were still dealing with shutdowns as well lockdowns but um minnesota we we we were completely done with this and i i told my husband i said we have two choices we can um we either choice number one would be to uh shut down or close our business excuse me for us to close our our dream business and uh and to walk away done and figure out how to pay off the debt you know even though we were not turning any revenue uh so close our doors forever or option number two was to open up fully because why not we have that right we there was no i did not violate any laws i'm a law-abiding i'm a law abiding citizen, a law abiding grandma. And so no laws were broken.
Starting point is 02:46:08 And so we decided we took option number two with the help of an organization in Minnesota that put together a plan of action. I thought it was a very solid plan. They invited all businesses that wanted to to open up together on the same day. I thought it was a great plan. And here's what, how, you know, they gave suggestions on how this would, how we would orchestrate this. And if you get the call from the state, which you likely will, you're going to, here's what we suggest that you say. And so anyway, the plan rolled out. We got on board. I forget the exact date, December.
Starting point is 02:46:46 I apologize. I should remember that. Did other businesses join with you? Good, good. Did they? Yeah, tell us what happened then when you opened up. Right, right. So just a bit of a backstory.
Starting point is 02:46:59 There was about 200 other businesses that said, yeah, we want to do this. There should have been 2000. But there was 200. We all opened up. It was marketed, for lack of a better term, that we were opening. So people, if you are in favor of supporting these businesses, here they are. Go support them. Go patronize them.
Starting point is 02:47:23 Which was amazing. We had so much so much support coming from all over the state and other states as well there to support us on that first day and that whole week after and then it just continued so what happened though david and and this was the fail 200 businesses approximately 200 give or take signed up to get on board about within 24 hours after there were only 10 of us that were still open everybody else had consented to close down really oh that's the thing people aren't willing to stand up for their freedom like you said it should have
Starting point is 02:47:55 been 2 000 or more 20 000 or whatever and you know of of the ones who sign up only five percent hung with it that's amazing it is amazing and very sad it was very so because now basically and i know that it wasn't you know again i have some grace for for these folks and for people that don't understand because i was really forced into a position to become educated and understand more than what i had ever anticipated and and it just continued my education continues you know here we are four years later and i'm still learning um so so we we there was only about 10 of us left open and uh you know the state can handle that the state can come if it had been 200 the state wouldn't have been able to handle it and that was the whole um
Starting point is 02:48:42 you know point of doing this but let's show the state we were not uh we're not consenting to their tyrannical orders which carry no weight of law um so unfortunately as franklin said we either hang together or we hang separately uh because they wouldn't hang together you all hung separately so what what did they do when they came after you yeah when they came after me of course they every they used every resource they have as the state and of course as the state they have a lot of resources no end to their resources so i was uh issued a cease and desist immediately within 24 hours i believe it was and of course i did not cease and desist and then they
Starting point is 02:49:20 started throwing lawsuits at me so i believe i had in total five civil cases against me and two criminal cases against me wow wow yeah and so then what happened with these cases so we went to court and we fought everything we appealed everything all the way up to the supreme i shouldn't say everything but most uh of these cases most of the decisions we objected, there was no due process for myself. That was completely denied through and through. I don't even think these judicials, these judges actually even read my document all the way through, or the countless documents, you know, that I submitted to the court. So what happened, long story short, is we went to trial on one of the criminal cases uh in uh 2021 and um yes it was 2021 uh december and uh i i went in front of a jury of six
Starting point is 02:50:17 um pre-trial determined a very terrible thing um that is again i can't believe it still i i just can't believe in an american court of law it was determined that i would not be allowed to present my defense my defense being constitutional statutory and case law all relevant of course to the case all relevant to this mandate uh that the governor had considered and a lot of people considered law. It was not law. So we fought that. We objected to that stipulation, of course, because I should have been allowed to present my defense to the jury. But it was, and of course, we objected to that decision that the judge had made. Didn't matter. The judge is in lockstep with all the other judges that I faced all the way up to the Supreme Court. They're all in this together.
Starting point is 02:51:09 They're in it with the governor and attorney. Let's not forget Attorney General Keith Ellison. Oh, yeah. A very wicked, evil man. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, Soros guy. He's one of the state attorneys general that Soros was able to get into office.
Starting point is 02:51:23 Oh, yeah. Right, right. Terrible, terrible man. So they say you can't argue your case. your case are going to shut down I've seen that by the way and politicized cases I've seen it over and over again whether it's Ross uh Ulbricht with Silk Road or whether it was the Bundys and I could go on and on and on uh Marty Gottesfeld they will shut down uh your presenting a defense. Did you have legal counsel? You had a lawyer representing you?
Starting point is 02:51:48 Or did you represent yourself? I handled my own case as a suitor. Did you? I don't know how you want to say it. Yeah, did you? What about jury nullification? Do they have that on the books or in the Constitution? Or did you look at that?
Starting point is 02:52:02 They do, and we did look at it um and we decided not to go that route i have a a case of one that somebody interviewed about a decade ago uh he called himself new jersey weed man and uh he was a heavy marijuana user and he had a lot of it and so when they came after him they were going to get him for trafficking. It's like, no, man, I just use all that myself for my own personal use. When I interviewed him later on, as we're doing the interview, I believe it because he lights up a joint while we're doing the interview live. He decided, he looked at it and he said, they're going to send me to jail for a very long time. He said, I want a jury nullification. He couldn't find a lawyer that was going to do it.
Starting point is 02:52:48 He said, I figured that there were probably going to be some people on board. I looked at public opinion and I realized that, you know, a little bit more than half the people were not really on board with marijuana prohibition in New Jersey. So I thought I could get some sympathy about that and try jury nullification in his first trial it is explicitly mentioned in the new jersey constitution that you that a jury's duty is to judge not just the facts of the case but whether or not they agree with the law and the punishment and so he put that he had that printed and he put it up on the desk there where he was sitting and the judge said take that down right now i'm gonna put you in jail for contempt. And so he put it down, but he said the jury had already seen it and they voted seven to
Starting point is 02:53:30 12 to acquit him. So it was a hung jury. And so then the, uh, the district attorney came after him a second time. And in the second trial, he did the same thing, but that judge let it stay up. And, um, what was in the the the constitution there and um they acquitted him 12 to nothing so there's nothing they could do about it and that's why i had him on to talk about jury nullification but uh that's a very powerful thing if it's there but again you know and these politicized cases these judges rig everything i've seen it over and over again oh
Starting point is 02:54:03 it was it was rigged and i've not seen it i and over again. Oh, it was rigged. And I've not seen it. I mean, this was my first experience. It was my first experience to be in trouble with the law, if you will, to be in a court of law. I had never been through anything. I was extremely ignorant as to how all of this rolls out. And boy, did I get an education. What a way to get an education but i got an education and and actually i'm thankful for that today but so right so we were going on
Starting point is 02:54:31 the um premise we had some there were so many levels that we were hitting as far as this is unconstitutional um this is uh even not when when emergency executive order that governor walls issued actually the emergency executive order doesn't speak to the people directly to the people or control over the people or to dictate the people's lives. Emergency executive order applied to the executive branch, applied to those that worked in the executive branch. And we proved that on paper using all the resources that we needed to use. And it was ignored. It was absolutely ignored. Anything that should have caused this case to be absolutely dismissed, thrown out, they just ignored.
Starting point is 02:55:20 They did not answer any of our objections or any of our facts to the situation. They didn't answer any of our documents at all. And again, every level, every court was in lockstep with the previous court. Yeah, I've seen that over and over again. Okay, so you are much more familiar with the situation. Well, you know, going back 30 years ago uh when i was involved with third party politics i knew people who were also getting involved in third party politics who had been to prison because they were tax protesters or because they were sovereign citizens or whatever and they
Starting point is 02:55:54 had they would talk to me about they would say yeah i came in here's my case here's what i said to them and i i made the legal point and the judge looks at me and says next point we're not going to talk about that. And I've heard that story over and over again. Same thing they did to you. Railroading people. This is why I say to people, be very careful if you're going to become a tax protester or a sovereign citizen because you're not going to get a fair trial. You can be right.
Starting point is 02:56:16 You can be 100% right. And you're not going to get a fair trial if this is a political issue. And again, I've seen it on these other things like with Silk Road. They wanted to come after the quote unquote dark web and bitcoin and things like that so if they've got a political agenda and they certainly got a political agenda when it comes to the income tax stuff uh they will just the word goes out they know what they're doing and they're gonna they're gonna shut you down uh peter schiff's father erwin schiff. I met him. He was at a convention, and he was standing there like Lenny Bruce after his trials for speech and everything. And he was up on a box, like a soapbox, and he's talking about his trial and going through the transcript and everything.
Starting point is 02:56:56 So I said this, and then they just threw that out and all the rest of the stuff. But this is what the law says. And so I've seen that over and over again, how crooked and dishonest our courts are. And that's why the jury nullification thing is so important. But most people don't have the courage and the conviction to do what you did, which is to defy this tyranny. And that's what's necessary. Because if you don't have people who are going to stand up to it again,
Starting point is 02:57:22 like you said, if they'd had 200 businesses or even more, they could have stopped this. But if it's only a couple of people they will hammer you down yeah right exactly and that's then that is what happened there was a handful of us that were you know destroyed uh our livelihood our businesses were destroyed and uh it and i've had the opportunity to meet these other people in the state and mostly women, by the way, because that's who these tyrants, you know, they go after the women. They love to, I mean, Attorney General Keith Ellison, you know, has a history of, you know, being a woman beater.
Starting point is 02:57:58 That's what he's known for. So anyway. Maybe he could get a medal at the Olympics for that. I understand you're giving them away for that. There was a similar case in Dallas, for example. Clay Jenkins was the chief elected official in Dallas County. They call them judges in Texas. And Shelly Luther, you may remember her.
Starting point is 02:58:17 She had a nail salon or something. And he came after her and wanted to throw her in jail. And of course, some other people, I think the governor may have intervened in that particular case, Governor Abbott. But this guy, Clay Jenkins, a couple of years prior to that, they had an illegal immigrant who had come into the country and he had Ebola. And Clay Jenkins was coming in and telling everybody, it's no big deal. It's no big deal. Look, you know, we got football games coming up. We got Dallas and Houston are playing.
Starting point is 02:58:44 Go to the football game. It's not anything to worry about. We got all these hospitals. They can treat you with anything. And they took this guy, and this guy did not, this guy did die, and he got two nurses sick. They had Fauci come in, Francis Collins come in. Everybody's saying, oh, it's great.
Starting point is 02:59:00 It's no problem. But then when Shelly Luther, and this is, you know, Ebola was serious, and they killed that guy. Shelly Luther says, I'm not going to shut down. And the same guy who was telling everybody, go ahead and do everything, comes after her, and I'm going to put her in jail. I mean, it's amazing how inconsistent and hypocritical they are and how they will focus this. It was totally political. It was psychological what
Starting point is 02:59:26 they were doing now did they put you in jail they did put you in jail right they sure did put me in jail my first time ever in jail hopefully the last and it was 90 days right yeah yeah i was sentenced to the full the maximum penalty and uh as the jury found me guilty on all um i believe it was six charts six charges um so right it was uh they sentenced me to 90 um i served 60 and uh it was yeah it was quite the experience um the whole thing the whole thing was quite the experience um wow hopefully never to have to repeat it again but here we are and uh was it local or was it state you mentioned keith elephant so is this a state prosecution where they came after you yeah yeah it was it was it was uh state but of course now in in in the criminal case um cases they had to get somebody in the county or city to prosecute the state could not prosecute me
Starting point is 03:00:25 on the criminal charges directly so they had to prosecute they ended up uh i i believe um that the county attorney uh he he did not take the case i don't know if he refused i don't know any of the details there um i could probably submit a foia and find out but i have not done that the it was the prosecutor ended up being the city attorney of albert lee minnesota and um albert lee just you know here here we raised our family in the area for at that point for about 30 years whatever it was um big family all of our children lived in the area at that time, almost all of them. We had another business, which was my husband's company that we had built a 30-year business. But that was right there in Albert Lee. And yet I was treated as an actual criminal.
Starting point is 03:01:25 We had churched in the area. I had volunteered and worked in children's ministries for decades um so you put all this together and then the city just you know uh allows you to be prosecuted and persecuted it's it was shameful for albert lee to allow this yes they didn't have to allow it but nobody stood up i i had uh conversations my husband i had conversations with the sheriff at the time with the chief of police we'd invite him in sit down and have a cup of coffee in our in our restaurant and uh they were there they were with me they were with me until push came to shove and uh then they hands off they don't want to have anything to do with me because the judge got involved and the judge signed for uh signed the arrest warrant and and the judge was prosecuting and persecuting and you're right david it was a sham the whole thing uh was a sham and and my heart goes out to all those other folks
Starting point is 03:02:13 that have been through these types of situations and i know some have been through a lot worse you know mine was a 90-day sentence you mentioned you know prison sentences that are years years yeah and you know it's interesting that shelly luther's case and they tried to send her to jail but they didn't send her to jail but it made national news you went to jail and it didn't make national news and i guess it's because it's coming from minnesota and well minnesota they can you know but you know i i tell people all the time focus on what is happening at the local level, because the people at the local level can make it better or they can make it worse. We know what the Washington agenda is. We need to pay attention to what Trump did, what Biden did.
Starting point is 03:02:53 And we need to understand what they did and understand they're not going to change anything about it. And that it made a big difference depending on your locality, the local people that were there, the local people that were there the state people that were there and so again in your situation uh the the best thing to do is to just get out of minnesota because it's so hopelessly corrupt and slavish and you now live in i think it is wisconsin is that correct iowa yeah oh iowa okay iowa so yeah we've stayed we've stayed we've stayed fairly close. We have, because of all, most all of our children are in Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa. So a lot more conservative in Iowa. That's for sure. That is for sure. Yeah. So the Iowa still needs a lot of work, just probably like about every other state in, in the union. But, uh, um, no, this is a better place to be,
Starting point is 03:03:42 uh, in Iowa. It took us, it took us quite a while to say, okay, we need to be out of the state. I think the last straw for us, the convincing situation, event, let's call it an event because it was an event that took place was when certain law enforcement showed up at our door unannounced and continued to, I really can't talk about that yet because it's still under investigation, has been for way too long. But let's just put it this way. We know when they want you to shut up, when they want you to get out,
Starting point is 03:04:18 they know they have ways, they have ways. And so persecution continued. After I got out of jail, I immediately hit the ground running and campaigned for state Senate. And so obviously the state said, okay, we didn't get her to shut up by putting her in jail for 60 days. So now we're going to use other means to come after her and her family. And it was absolutely bogus. And this is is all a lot of it was perpetuated on the local level i hate to say oh yeah um new sheriff at that time um and that more um persecution i'm just going to call it happened um against us and um i what do you do what do you do when you have when you have elected public servants that are not doing their duty to the people, protecting the people, guarding the people, upholding their constitutionally protected God-given rights. And that's their duty. And they're not performing their duties any longer. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:05:17 I know what you mean about having the law enforcement show up and kind of have a show of strength. We had a situation with that. We had one of our particular locations we'd had some video stores and so people would pull up and double park and run in and hand us the videotape sometimes and we did have a drop box that we could use but you know if they're doing that we would just take that from them well some guy decided one of the police officers decided he's going to get a bunch of tickets. So he parked down in our parking lot. Every time somebody would do that, he'd pull up behind him and give him a parking ticket.
Starting point is 03:05:49 And it's like, what's going on with this? After he did that two or three times, I went out there, and while he was giving them a ticket, I said, how much is that ticket going to be? All right, I'm going to give you more than that in store credits. And so I directly, and after I did that a couple of times, he went away. And then he came back with the fire department and um and they got a ladder truck and they parked it in the parking lot in front of our store and the firemen started taking the police officers up in the ladder truck and we had customers who come in and say what's going on here and it's like well
Starting point is 03:06:22 let me tell you about this i mean mean, I know what that's like. You know, they will do that kind of stuff. And so my heart really goes out to you with that. Tell me about, did anybody else go to jail other than you? Not that I'm aware of. No, as far as I know, I'm the only one that received criminal charges. And a good friend of mine who also did a similar thing had um uh the state coming against her uh she lives in a town uh quite north and west of
Starting point is 03:06:53 where I live in the southern part of the state or lived and uh she she uh their town is too small for a police department but they do have a sheriff's office that governs their town and, or protects their town supposedly. And actually I think her, her sheriff was a pretty good sheriff. He came to her one day and said, you know, I got,
Starting point is 03:07:13 the state got ahold of me and they've asked me to prosecute you. I've told them, no, I will not prosecute you. Good for him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:07:20 But she did not receive criminal. Oh, but you know, I got to tell you this, David, it was a real interesting story. You can, you can look it up at Larvita Mc did not receive criminal... Oh, but you know, I got to tell you this, David. It's a real interesting story. You can look it up. Larvita McFarquhar.
Starting point is 03:07:29 She... So this is just an interesting point to... Larvita is a colored woman and an amazing gal she is. And our attorney general is also colored. And our attorney general made the statement it's in it's in the press um something to the effect of that he was going to send her to a work farm if she didn't obey wow wow and and we're thinking we're scratching our heads thinking what in the world well if that did not happen if lala wins and Tim Walls wins, Keith Ellison's probably going to get some.
Starting point is 03:08:09 He'll be attorney general or something of the U.S. I mean, that's a frightening idea, isn't it? Oh, yeah, exactly. You know, what about the churches? You said at the beginning that Walls did not shut down the strip clubs, but he shut down the churches. How did that play out unfortunately as far as i understand in my local area most of the churches shut down they consented and when did he when did he let them open up again do you know oh goodness that's a real that's a good question i'm sorry i cannot give you the date on that or the it must have been sometime. I'm thinking it was in the fall or during that November, that second shutdown that he I think it was around that time or a little before that time.
Starting point is 03:08:54 And then it wasn't it after the first of the year, I think maybe in 2022 that he kind of cleared everybody to open up again. But please don't quote me on that. I apologize. Yeah, my memory. I think I've tried to stuff some things away because they're so very unpleasant. And as we're talking and interviewing and, you know, because of this VP being walls, it's all really starting to kind of come back. And talking about it is good. So sharing the story is an important story to share.
Starting point is 03:09:23 And if we look at it, you know, we had a similar situation in vegas they would let the casinos open up but they wouldn't let the churches open up so you had some people go in there and hold a church service inside of the casino to show the absurdity of that and the supreme court signed on to that as well the u.s supreme court absolutely insane i remember in the spring of 2020 after a couple of weeks of this stuff or whatever uh there was a guy that I interviewed out of Illinois. And of course, Illinois, very Pritzker, very dictatorial, just like walls. And but he had a small church in a small town and he never closed it.
Starting point is 03:09:58 And the sheriff that was there was a member of that church. And so the governor was making threatening gestures and statements about all this kind of stuff. And the sheriff, as you had stories coming back from all over the country about some police departments showing up and taking down the license plate numbers of people who had violated the orders and gone to church and all that kind of stuff the sheriff was there at their church and with his deputies surrounding the church to protect them from the state police and so that's why i tell people that story because again even in a situation like illinois a kind of a worst case state scenario you can still have some good local officials and people you can make a
Starting point is 03:10:46 difference not at the federal level the bipartisan agreement about all this stuff and they you know they've worked this thing up but at the local level uh you can make some things better if you get the right people there it's very important that's right that's right and you know we did our very best we meaning myself uh my my family uh supporters other people who really cared the current the sheriff at the at the time uh was sheriff uh freitag and we we did our best to inform him and educate him and and i mean that with all respect i i'm not belittling him by saying that he told me to my face um when we were talking about the constitution that uh he says you know i i know the first and second amendment but i really don't know the rest
Starting point is 03:11:29 of the constitution well at all and and we thought that he should probably understand the rest of the constitution and he should understand the first and second amendment a little better somebody offered uh an all expense paid a trip to uh sheriff max's uh sheriff seminar i believe those were going on in texas at the time like a two or three day seminar for these sheriffs uh educating them in constitution and how to protect the people that you're serving etc he denied that he turned it down we also uh two different parties uh handed him a sheriff max booklet or book on what every sheriff should know. And, um,
Starting point is 03:12:08 yet when push came to shove, my sheriff was not there for me. He was not there to protect me. So that was really unfortunate. I'm very sad to see. So yeah, it's important. Right. I believe there are.
Starting point is 03:12:19 Yeah, that's right. It's important that we know, you know, when these elections are coming up, these local elections, you know, uh, kind of get a scope as to where your sheriff is on that. I think that's right. It's important that we know, you know, when these elections are coming up, these local elections, you know, kind of get a scope as to where your sheriff is on that.
Starting point is 03:12:28 I think that's interesting. His name was Freitag, which is like Friday. It's like Dragnet, you know, my partner. Here's my partner Friday, you know, Freitag. But there's another good resource out there as well as Sheriff Mack and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. Of course, you can support that with being a part of the posse. You don't have to be somebody who works in law enforcement. You can support that effort as a posse member. Also, Matt Trujillo has a great book that has been very effective. A short book, but packed, a very easy read. A lot of information. It's called The Doctrine of the doctrine of the lesser magistrate and it takes
Starting point is 03:13:05 it from a historical perspective and and that's also something that has been known to open the eyes of people who are in law enforcement so a couple of good resources there well it sounds like you really know your stuff and thank you so much for taking a stand on that if people would have stood up it would not have happened and when people finally just started quietly walking away and not complying that's when it ended and it hasn't officially ended because we haven't taken away any of these usurped powers and we haven't seen anybody pay any price for any of this none of the people from the sheriffs up to uh fauci or either trump or biden nobody has paid a penalty for any of this stuff and that's why it's going to happen again and and hopefully this
Starting point is 03:13:53 next time when it happens again people aren't going to quietly and sheepishly go along with it they will resist it and they'll resist it in sufficient numbers to stop it but thank you for standing uh alone essentially against this stuff it's a it's a horrific thing your your prison as you pointed out when you were in prison uh tell people what you missed when you were in prison uh those yeah yeah definitely i missed christmas with my my family the birth of one of my granddaughters i was supposed to be there in attendance i missed that i missed my wedding anniversary as well as a host of other you know events of life happenings but yeah it was a tough time um i'll tell you what though david the lord the lord saw me through good good did they make you wear a mask in prison
Starting point is 03:14:34 things like that yes they did yes they did oh man i decided not to fight that even though i'd never worn you know a mask outside of prison then other than court because they required actually a face shield is what they let me get away with in prison or excuse me, in court. So, yeah, it was the whole thing. So ridiculous. It is just all the Simon says nonsense. It's just a joke. And it was a joke to start with. I'm so sorry that happened to you.
Starting point is 03:15:02 But now you're in Iowa. And have you started? I think you've started another business. Is that correct? Oh, well'm so sorry that happened to you. But now you're in Iowa, and I think you've started another business. Is that correct? Oh, well, no. Actually, we are retired. Oh, okay. All right, you're retired.
Starting point is 03:15:13 Yeah. We are retired, at least for the time being. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, thank you so much for what you did. And again, if we'd had more people like you, this charade would have not gone on. It would have ended right away. People, if you don't stand up, they're going to walk all over you.
Starting point is 03:15:30 It's just that simple. That is right. They walked all over us through those periods of time. And now we're cheering those people. And now we're supposed to believe that if we don't get idiot A or idiot B, America is over. I'm sorry, America ended in 2020. You just haven't noticed it if you're cheering for these people.
Starting point is 03:15:50 It's time that everybody catches up, right? Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much for what you did and thank you for coming on. It's great talking to you. Good luck to you. Thank you, David. It was a real honor. Thank you so much. God bless. ...of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarmingly, some media outlets have published policies that we think are true without checking facts first.
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