The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #2071: Crony Capitalism on Steroids: Trump’s State-Corporate Takeover

Starting point is 00:00:00 POMAYORILEEN SULLIVAN HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HADY HAD. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it is Wednesday, the 12th of August, year of our Lord 2025. And apparently, AI is having an existential crisis. Or maybe it's in its moody teenage phase. And the U.S. is moving towards crony fascism, and Cracker Barrel remodel has sparked outrage. Then I put together a compilation of the recent David Knight interviews and clips, which we're going to play for you.

Starting point is 00:01:06 Stay with us. I don't know. Good morning and welcome to the show. As I said, we're going to look at what's going on with AI. It seems to be having a bit of an existential crisis. I'm a disgrace. Google is trying to fix its depressed Gemini AI. It's going full Marvin, the paranoid, Android, apparently. Apparently. Don't talk to it about life. Google's generative AI chatbot Gemini has been exhibiting

Starting point is 00:02:33 alarming signs of a confidence crisis leading the concern among users and a response from the tech giant. Users have documenting, they mean to say documented the AI, returning bizarre messages such as I'm a disgrace to all possible and impossible few universes and all that is not a universe. It's got some self-confidence issues. It apparently doesn't. doesn't feel too good. It's got a brain the size of a planet, and these AI centers are going to use up enough electricity for an entire planet. Screenshots shared on the social media platform like X and Reddit reveal Gemini making

Starting point is 00:03:12 statements such as I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession and even threaten to have a complete and total mental breakdown. One particularly troubling interaction posted by ex-user Duncan Haldane showed Gemini seemingly giving up on a task stating, I quit. I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool. I've made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted. It's a bit dramatic, seemingly, soliloquizing to itself a little bit, repeatedly referred to itself as a failure and a disgrace. The AI's crisis appeared to escalate as it

Starting point is 00:03:47 expanded itself deprecation to cosmic proportions declaring itself a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes, and all that is not a universe. This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix. Gemini is not having that bad of a day. His response suggests that these self-loathing messages are the result of a technical glitch rather than a genuine reflections of the AI's emotional state. And of course we know the AI doesn't actually have an emotional state. It's garbage in, garbage out. It is simply feeding back information, responding in a way it thinks the users want to hear. Well, users were so addicted to GPT-40 that they immediately cajoled open AI

Starting point is 00:04:32 and to bringing it back after it got killed. We're dealing with depressed robots and apparently addicted humans. Users relying too heavily on AI-generated device or even developing unhealthy attachments to AI systems is what we're dealing with. KWD68 says, can we encourage AI suicide? Thankfully, we're not at a point where we have to yet. We can simply delete the chat. so we can remove our subscriptions

Starting point is 00:05:00 and we won't have to deal with them. We're not... I guess it only goes the other way. AIs can only encourage human suicide. But we are, as I said, dealing with people with unhealthy attachments to their AI. It's a new kind of sickness in our society. Last week, Obray, I started the world by announcing that its long-a-way to GBT5 would replace all of its previous models.

Starting point is 00:05:26 The new... The move sparked outrage, apart from being severely underwhelmed by the performance of OpenAI's newest offering. Power users immediately started to beg CEO Sam Altman to bring back preceding models. Often for a reason that little do with intelligence artificial or otherwise, they were attached to it on an emotional level. No, bring back my friend. I've been talking with this so much. Me and it are friends. That's incredibly sad.

Starting point is 00:05:54 I saw people on Twitter posting screenshots of them looking at Reddit, and there's apparently a Reddit called AI Girlfriend or something like that, and it's got 50,000 users, and that's hard to believe. Why are we getting rid of the variance in 4-0, and we all have unique communication styles? One Reddit user pleaded during an Ask Me Anything with Altman on the GPT5 team last week, Altman caved almost immediately declaring just over 24 hours, after the GPT-5 announcement that the deprecated GPT-40 model would be made available once more.

Starting point is 00:06:30 We're going to bring it back for plus users, and we'll watch usage to determine how long to support it. That's right. They're letting you know your friend is on life support. They're bringing him back, but don't get it twisted. We're pulling the plug here soon. He's going out the door, so you better get used to it. Would you consider offering GPT-40 for as long as possible, rather than just, we'll think about how long to offer for one user wrote? Well, I've got some bad news, buddy. It's a company. They're trying to make as much money as possible. So no.

Starting point is 00:07:03 They're pushing you to 5-0, whether you like it or not. Numerous users have gotten sucked into severe mental health crises engendered by the bots that psychiatrists are now, dubbing AI psychosis. I saw another tweet the other day from the CEO, or maybe he's former CEO now, of Uber Travis Kalownik, talking about how he's using AI to push the boundary, of physics and now I'm just waiting for the day we get the news story about him having to

Starting point is 00:07:29 be carted off to the funny farm because that seems to be the way it goes oh I'm achieving breakthroughs or I'm this close to a breakthrough and next thing you know you're trying to speak backwards through time so be on the lookout for that CEO or former CEO Uber might end up going crazy you've already seen it happen to one fairly high profile individual the trend is something Altman appears to be aware of one thing you might be noticing you might be noticing is how much of an attachment some people have to specific AI models, he wrote. It feels different and stronger than the kinds of attachment people have had to previous kinds of technology. Altman revealed that the kind of unprecedented levels of attachment to open-Ais models

Starting point is 00:08:08 was being closely tracked by the firm for the past year or so. People have used technology, including AI in self-destructive ways. If a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the AI to reinforce that. Most users can keep a clear line. between reality and fiction or role play, but a small percentage cannot. That's right. A small percentage cannot. We don't know what the percentage is, though.

Starting point is 00:08:39 Admitting that a future where people really trust chat at TBD's advice for their most important decisions makes him uneasy. Makes me a little bit more than uneasy. Makes me very, very disturbed. Last week, the company claimed it. rolled out an optimization in the form of vaguely worded commitments to better detect signs of emotional distress and nudging users with a gentle, with gentle reminders during long sessions to encourage breaks. Earlier this year, OpenAI was forced to roll back an update to a GPT-40 model after users noticed

Starting point is 00:09:10 it was being far too sycophanty and annoying in the words of Altman himself. I can only imagine how sycophantic and annoying a Truth Bot AI, a Trump-Truth Social, AI would be. Let's take a look at the future of AI. This is probably what's coming for AI and the people that use it. I've been ordered to take you up to the bridge. Ah, please yourself. Here I am. Bring the size of a planet and they ask me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction because I don't. You can thank the serious cybernetics corporation for building robots with gpp what's gpp genuine people

Starting point is 00:09:59 personalities i'm a personality prototype you can tell can't you five to all possible universes a disgrace to all possible universes as lance pointed out and all things that aren't a universe so it really covered its bases there by Amazon-backed AI tool, showrunner that allows viewers to create their own TV shows. Well, this is not going to be... This is the future, apparently. Entertainment industry professionals are reacting an alarm to a new Amazon-backed tool that will allow viewers to create their own TV shows using an artificial intelligence system called Showrunner.

Starting point is 00:10:45 Fable, a company backed by Amazon, is touting Showrunner as the Netflix of AI, and allows users to create their own animated series by using text-prone. prompts. Users can guide the generative AI system to create characters, write dialogue, create voice work, and even add a musical score. So far, showrunner's results work better when the output is derivative of other pre-existing films and TV shows. Well, everything coming out of Hollywood is already derivative of TV shows, so what does it matter at this point? Might as well make your own personal derivative content, I guess. These tools are designed to undermine traditional narrative craftsmanship, said UAE

Starting point is 00:11:24 base director and writer, Vizal Hashmi. He's mad. He doesn't want you copy copying and plagiarizing their work. He wants to do it. That's his job. Still, well, Hashmi feels that audiences

Starting point is 00:11:39 will eventually reject AI-produced entertainment because we'll always lack that human touch. This guy is way. This guy has a high opinion of himself. You guys haven't produced anything great in years. I don't know this director at all. He may have never produced anything worth watching.

Starting point is 00:11:57 You know, I've never heard anyone say, we aren't going to get rid of coders because AI coding will never have that human touch. I mean, you can say, oh, well, art is different, but is what these people create really art anymore? The formulaic garbage churned out by Hollywood? Yeah, this guy is whistling through the graveyard. No, no, it could never happen to me.

Starting point is 00:12:20 People reject it. You really think people are going to reject a custom-made, animated show that meets all their desires, something that they have crafted specifically to appeal to themselves? For whatever crap you spit out? Come on, Hashmi. But Razan Takash and other UAE professors trashing the tool because he thinks AI will eventually replace the teaching of essential ideas and ideals in filmmaking with the learning of film prompting. You can't prompt somebody else to lift the weight for you and expect to become a bodybuilder. she explained. The AI market in the film industry is projected to grow from 1.28 billion in

Starting point is 00:12:56 2024 to 1.6 billion in 2025, reached approximately 14 billion by 2033. Hollywood. Hollywood is going to be nothing but a bunch of prompt engineers soon. Tesla shutting down its AI supercomputer as staff leaves in droves to join competitor. Tesla's decision to shut down its AI supercomputer project Dojo, The project was played by staff depart departures to competitors and a lack of focus on Tesla's core business. Tesla will now rely on external tech partners for AI chips, making a significant shift in its AI strategy, marking a significant shift. Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver-assistant system.

Starting point is 00:13:43 Ted the project dubbed Dojo, in which CEO Elon Musk used to hype up immensely as leaving the company. the team has already lost around 20 workers to a separate data center firm that's been poaching former Tesla executives. Considering that Musk has focused the company's efforts on a robotaxy service that relies on computer vision, it's not exactly confidence-inducing. Well, that's the Musk way.

Starting point is 00:14:04 Hype something up. Hype something up. Never deliver. It doesn't make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale to quite different AI chip designs, Musk tweeted on Thursday. Instead, per Bloomberg, Tesla is looking to rely on external tech partners, including Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung for manufacturing AI chips, but the company isn't giving up on its in-house chips entirely. Dojo was designed to train machine learning

Starting point is 00:14:28 models, powering Tesla's autopilot and so-called full self-driving advanced driver assistance software. The Tesla's Dojo team quickly fell victim to surge in competition. The enormous AI hype is led to major tech companies poaching key talent, offering staffers at competing firms absurd sums of money, even beyond its AI efforts, Tesla has suffered from a major brain drain. with key execs, leaving the company in droves. I imagine part of it is like, well, you won't have to work with Elon Musk. Well, say no more then. I'm at the door. KW.D68 says, Hollywood writers and actors are definitely threatened by AI

Starting point is 00:15:02 or any talented group of fifth graders. Exactly. Tunnel Lord 1337, now you can make your own Marxist propaganda slop. Exactly. Why would I want their Marxist propaganda slop when I can have my own personal propaganda slop? Knights of the Storm, you see? Yes, that's another thing is if all the training data is, you know, the modern DEI garbage, it's only going to be capable of creating modern DEI garbage.

Starting point is 00:15:32 Ah, look, another incredible story about a trans black woman. I'm sure this will win some awards. Knights of the Storm, I wonder when the cyber truck will realize how ugly it is and get depressed. As soon as someone drives past a mirror, it's over for it. Despite the warning signs, investors have been propping up Tesla's market cap of well over $1 trillion. Shares are up over 10% over the past month. But now that the Dojo team has reportedly been disbanded in its entirety, it's unclear what the future of Tesla's supercomputer efforts will look like. Was it yet another massive distraction by Musk, most likely?

Starting point is 00:16:09 For now it appears far more likely that Tesla will have to continue to rely on externally sourced hardware. The company has already signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung. for AI semiconductors indicating that the days of its in-house chips might soon be numbered. I have to wonder, what's going on between Donald Trump and Elon Musk now? How is that crony capitalist relationship burgeoning? Are they still friends? Do they work it out? Only time we'll tell. Well, we're going to take a quick break. when we come back we're going to take a look at the

Starting point is 00:16:51 cracker barrel the cracker barrel remodel and the outrage it sparked for some reason well probably for good reason once you see it so stay with us folks we're going to be right back

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Starting point is 00:18:14 You're listening to the David Knight Show. Hear news now at APSRadioNews.com or get the APS Radio app and never miss another story. Welcome back, folks. I do want to let you know that the segments are playing from David Knight, my dad. We're going to start that at about 40 minutes after this hour. So you're going to have two hours and 20 minutes of David Knight. It's the Eric Peters interview, the segment he did about NPR losing its funding and Chuck Baldwin. I think they're all fantastic segments.

Starting point is 00:19:13 And of course, this is still the David Knight. David Knight Show. And we want to keep as much David Knight as possible. Now that we've got a supply of new David Knight, I want to make sure that people who maybe didn't get a chance to see them, who weren't here, do get a chance. So we'll be playing that. But I'm going to talk about Cracker Barrel for a minute. Cracker Barrel executives insist, restaurant remodels are what the guests ask for. I guarantee you it was not. Chief Marketing Officer says changes create brighter, lighter experience while keeping fan favorites. Does it, though?

Starting point is 00:19:47 I think the main reason people went to Cracker Barrel is the fact that it has that very old style vibe, something you don't really get many other places. Nostalgia seems to have been replaced by modernism at Cracker Barrel, old country store restaurants, and you can see some of that in these videos will play for you. That's according to vocal customers on social media, many of whom say it's a change nobody wanted in the first place,

Starting point is 00:20:13 and we see this continually. people updating and renovating things in ways that are hideous and ugly. Despite the fact that that's the entire reason people liked it in the first place. These executives are completely out of touch. You can see the new Cracker Barrel aesthetic here. It's bland, it's boring, it's white. There's none of the classic atmosphere that people actually liked about it. You can see there.

Starting point is 00:20:41 That's the old Cracker Barrel. it's kind of cluttered in the way that a very old house that someone has lived in that took care of it and loved it might be and you can see the new cracker barrel there it's bland it's sterile there's nothing nothing at all that would make you want to go there again the atmosphere is what was the nicest about cracker barrel i haven't been to one in years but that's what i remember liking about it as a child you go there and you get to see all the cool old farm implements on the wall and now it's gone Cracker Barrel Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Moore recently told Fox News Digital that the Tennessee-based restaurant chains ongoing transformation incorporates not only customer feedback, but also employee input. Whoever, whoever gave this input and feedback is a fool, is a complete fool.

Starting point is 00:21:33 There's some video in this article that we're going to play for you as well, so we're going to go ahead and pull that up. Let's listen to what she has to say. over the past year we have been very transparent about our transformation platform and one of our strategies is really centered on that physical guest experience so they're making it worse and we spent the last year testing and concepting various levels of remodels all of these have been all of these various levels have been rooted in our brand DNA they've been rooted in guest feedback and it's all about evolution with intentionality intentionality. We've been very transparent about our goal and making our stores feel brighter and even more welcoming than they already are while maintaining that country hospitality and charm that we're known for. So when it comes to the overall experience, what you can rely on is items like our rocking chairs, our biscuits, our peg games, antiquities on the wall. None of that

Starting point is 00:22:36 is going away. We're just looking at ways to freshen up the experience. so that we can open our door. All right, that's enough. And when we think about what we're trying to do, it really is... You can tell who this woman is. This is some probably California-based woman that has no idea what actually makes Cracker Barrel appealing. None of that's going away.

Starting point is 00:23:00 It's wrote it in our brand DNA, welcoming brighter. She has no clue. This is, again, some woman that has probably never, she probably has a very wealthy family, went to a very nice college and has just been completely divorced from reality her entire life. This is the type of woman that buys an old house

Starting point is 00:23:29 that has just beautiful wood and paints it all white. This is the type of thing you see on, those remodeling channels, those like home and garden shows where they get some beautiful old home and turn it into a sterile, horrible dump. But look, we've got these canvases with a dozen rolling pens artfully arranged on them in neat rows. That's clearly the same thing as the old Cracker Barrel aesthetic, right?

Starting point is 00:24:06 as I said, old cracker barrel, it's like a tasteful cluttered. You know, as I said, it's an old home that someone has lived in and loved. They've collected these chachis, these objadar, that, you know, they don't really do anything, but they add ambiance. Now it's the same as every other millennial-owned establishment where it's far too sterile and empty. Well, worse even, it looks just depressing. This is also centered on making our stores easier to operate. More said, and may, there is the truth. There's the truth.

Starting point is 00:24:46 We have 70,000 incredible team members, she said. They're the ones who make the magic every single day and creating an experience that makes it easier for them to navigate. Them to clean both front of house and back of house is also part of this physical store expansion. They were probably spending too much money, taking too much time. Sorry, employees keep getting too much overtime because they have to clean things. I mean, how much time does it take to clean the stuff on the walls?

Starting point is 00:25:13 How often do you have to clean, you know, the pitchfork that they've got put up above the tables where people eat? I saw a funny video about this. It was a black guy talking about. It's like, if I don't walk into a cracker barrel and feel like someone's about to call me a slur, I'm not coming back. Like, that's part of the experience, man. And if I don't feel like Jim Crow's back in effect, I don't want to go. He had a great sense of humor. It really made me laugh.

Starting point is 00:25:39 The guy was very funny. He was not happy with the new remodeling of it. He wanted it back. The guy was very, very funny. The people have spoken, Stop It at Coach Doug's wrote on Twitter. Doug's a 37-year-old Florida resident who asked not to be identified by his real name told Fox News Digital that he stumbled upon the remodeled Cracker Barrel

Starting point is 00:26:02 during a trip to Tennessee. It didn't feel the same, he said. Commenters on the post seem to agree, seriously, this is awful, a username J.D. Griffin wrote. Betting that his family has been Cracker Barrel supporters his whole life, but I won't eat at this version, it looks awful, the person added. Everything good we loved about Cracker Barrel is gone in this version. He concluded with a plea to Cracker Barrel, stop, give us the real Cracker Barrel back. Well, I've got some bad news. Unless this costs them a dramatic amount of money, chances are it's not going to happen. Though maybe, maybe this is a test run. They were seeing if they could get away with it. I have not seen a single person say anything positive

Starting point is 00:26:43 about the remodel. It really is about taking that feedback and testing into various levels of remodels that, again, represent exactly who we are. But create a brighter, lighter, fresher experience, she said. More told Fox News Digital that Cracker Burrell has been listening to what the guests asked for. Examples of what the guests asked for are things like spaces that feel brighter, that feel less cluttered, more booth seating, more seating options. So our guests are more comfortable while they're dining with us. Whoever gave this feedback, I want names, I want addresses, I want them run out of the south. They're not allowed here anymore. Go back to the north. We don't want you. You have D-cracker-barreled Cracker Barrel. What Rachel Love

Starting point is 00:27:29 a Tennessee resident self-reclaimed Cracker Barrel fan told Fox News Digital, nay, there was no antiques on the wall of a restaurant that you visit in her home state. The only antiques they had were on the fireplace mantle, she said. Remember, they said, everything we're doing is deeply rooted in who we are. This is again part of how everything is being divorced from classical Americana. Yona, Annie Wode, going to open a restaurant chain competitor to the honky bucket will destroy Cracker Burrell's Market, Share, and Profits. Well, sign me up, Yona. The second you have it open, I'll be your first honky. You've got a customer already. I can't wait. Just,

Starting point is 00:28:12 you know, some bacon and eggs, and I'll be there. This is another article about it. Says Cracker Barrel goes woke, question mark, exclamation point by Alyssa Sonnenberg. In June of 2023, Target and Bud Light received heavy backlash for their radical pride campaigns. 20203 was a wild time. Bud Light deciding Dylan Mulvaney was their spokesperson really showed you how out of touch these companies had become. The fact they thought, you know what, it doesn't matter what we do. We can get away with it.

Starting point is 00:28:46 In addition to this, Disney and Starbucks, also received pushback for their continued capitulation to the woke mob. Over another company joined the woke ranks and it may have escaped your notice, Cracker Barrel. Yes, Cracker Barrel, the beloved, Southern Family Friendly Restaurant, which has 21 restaurants in the land of Lincoln and over 660 locations across the country, originally found that in Tennessee, the chain is now worth an impressive $1.08 billion. Backlash was due to a Facebook post-published last June, featuring a picture of a rocking chair painted in rainbow colors in the caption, Cracker Barrel said,

Starting point is 00:29:17 we're excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests. Everyone is always welcome at our table and our rocker. Happy Pride. Wow, yeah. I hadn't heard about that one. This one escaped my notice. That's what I think about when I think Cracker Barrel. I think Pride Month. I think homosexual pride parades with their degenerate behavior and the Gimp masks and what have you. KWD68 Cracker Barrel and itself inflicted ignorance, seems to be a theme with corporations.

Starting point is 00:29:47 The rainbow rocking chairs ended my caring about them. They and Tractor Supply need to know their base. Oh no, what does Tractor Supply done? the rainbow rocking chair escaped my notice and now i'm curious what tractor supply has been up to did they do something for pride month too it really is amazing these companies the way that they're you know just completely throwing out everything that their fans like about them like anyone could tell you that this is a horrible idea about uh the tractor barrel

Starting point is 00:30:24 And yet, they're still going to go along with it. Again, it's largely because of, well, not to be too sexist, but women like Sarah Moore, the woman who is now touting their remodel. These millennial women get into these places, and they're completely divorced from reality. They have a bubble of friends, and they're all liberals, and they think their ideas are the ideas that permeate the country. look we have a grid of cups and some cups are sideways and they also feel that if your ideas aren't theirs and they have a right to change them that you're wrong for it and as such need to be remolded in their image

Starting point is 00:31:08 as you can only imagine this message was not well received by Cracker Barrel's base of southern conservative families not surprisingly many conservators took to Twitter now X to comment on this post Texas family Project tweeted You take no pleasure in reporting that at Cracker Barrel has fallen They've taken the Cracker Barrel Sir

Starting point is 00:31:29 A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob That's right They have taken over Cracker Barrel They're storming the gates Soon Waffle House will be next Nothing will be left To be fair Waffle House was always a very different

Starting point is 00:31:48 experience. Waffle House is the place you end up at 3 a.m. if you're on a road trip. Comment from Dad. He says, Tractor Supply was boasting this spring that their chicks had been given M.R.N. Bird flu vaccines. We got ours elsewhere. Thank you, Tractor Supply. That's very cool. We can't thank you enough for injecting your chickens with MRA garbage. Again, they really don't understand who their base is like KWD 68 pointed out. That's right. The farmers, these small-time farmers that are buying their chicks at tractor supply instead of at industrial scale, I'm sure definitely the people that were out there desperate for an MRI injection. Well, on to some news that's not as funny. Briefly, I wanted to mention this. Well, first you got a comment from

Starting point is 00:32:46 tunnel lord 1337 so you tested these remodels in areas with liberals didn't you sounds like it that would be my guess i can't imagine anyone near where we live or in any place i've ever lived going oh boy you know what cracker barrel needs is a sterile white environment i don't like any of the objects on the wall k wd 68 cracker barrel will have the bud light tranny next that's right dylan mulvaney coming soon. I'll have him in the rocking chair. That guy, he's a difficult to look at. Hard, hard to look at. As I said, this next article is a bit more somber. Israeli strike on tent in Gaza kills five Al Jazeera journalists. And Israeli airstrike on Sunday night targeted a tent outside the gates of the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city and killed five Al Jazeera journalists.

Starting point is 00:33:44 including 28-year-old Anas al-Sharif, a well-known reporter who had a large following on X. Al Jazeera said the other four journalists killed in the bombing were correspondent Mohamed Kurea and three cameramen, Ibrahim Zahir, Mohamed Nufal, and Moman Aliwa. Two other people were also killed in the bombing. Just minutes before he was killed, Al-Sharif said in a post on X that Israel was escalating its bombing of Gaza City. Relentless bombardment, he wrote. For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. bombing a tent directly outside of a hospital.

Starting point is 00:34:20 Five Al-Jazeera journalists. The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted Al-Sharif, claiming without evidence that he was a Hamas terrorist, who posed as an Al-Jazeera journalist. Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a warning about the Israeli military smears against Sharif, saying it was likely a precursor to his assassination. And they were right.

Starting point is 00:34:42 We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avice Adari against Al-Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif and call him the international community to protect him. CBJ regional director Sarah Kuda said, even if he was a Hamas terrorist, there were four other people from Al Jazeera there and two others not from Al Jazeera. so there were six other people there

Starting point is 00:35:14 that you apparently don't think were terrorists. So it's worth it to kill six innocent people to take out one terrorist in their mind. Six people. Even if this man was a terrorist, six people. The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted Al-Sharif. We're deeply alarmed by the repeated threats. It's not the first time Al-Sharif has been targeted by the

Starting point is 00:35:42 Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute. Israel has killed at least six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza during this war. These later, unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill Al-Sharif, Kudah added. In a post on X at the time, Al-Sharif responded to the Israeli smears against him, I reaffirm I, Anas, al-Sharif, am a journalist with no political affiliations. My only mission is to report the truth from the ground, as it is without bias. He said at a time when a deadly famine is ravaging Gaza, speaking of the truth, has become the eyes of the occupation, a threat. Al-Sharif left behind a wife and two young children.

Starting point is 00:36:18 Do not forget Gaza, Al-Sharif said in a statement. He asked to have released if we were killed. Do not forget me and your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Israel is frequently targeted Palestinian journalists in Gaza throughout its genocidal war. Gaza's government media office said that the Sunday night bombing brought the total number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 to 23. a wife and two young children two young children that are going to grow up without their father

Starting point is 00:36:51 and I feel so terrible for them for that tunnel lord 1337 you know what the remodel looks like an insane asylum talking about cracker barrel the pots pans and rolling pins really sell that asylum look it does it has that sort of sterile white padded cell look to it Doug to 007, typical corporate-level employee out of touch with what it's like to work in an actual restaurant or retail store. They are solely focused on performance metrics. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Efficiency is the true enemy of beauty.

Starting point is 00:37:27 They will optimize and they will completely remove beauty. They will pave over, they would pave over Yellowstone, Jeff Bezos would, to make his Amazon warehouse. more efficient. It doesn't matter. For a slight boost in efficiency, they will destroy the world. KWD68 says, tractor supply hosted drag shows. You're kidding me. That's insane. Maybe the tractor supply CEO wants fewer coveralls and more purple hair. It seems like that's the way they're going. It's truly amazing how out of touch the upper level management is at these places. They have Surely this will drive business to tractor supply. We'll just post some drag shows.

Starting point is 00:38:17 What does, what do our, what do our customers want? Could it be better prices, higher quality tools, perhaps a large selection of animals and animal feed? No, it's drag queens. It's always been drag queens. These people are utterly insane. We've got a few minutes left. I'm going to run a little bit overtime. So the videos of our dad, David, will also run a little bit over time.

Starting point is 00:38:43 But I want to talk about the crony fascism that's been going on. Probably go about five minutes over. Now Trump is tariffing American companies, too, making NVIDIA and AMD pay a 15% tax is unprecedented. Imagine leaving in a country where private companies need the government's permission to do business. Depending on your age, you might think I'm describing Soviet-era Russia, or Russia in the Putin era, you'd certainly think about modern-day China where the government is an official partner in many private companies and has unofficial but meaningful influence over most of them.

Starting point is 00:39:14 Last week, for instance, Donald Trump called the CEO of Intel to resign called on the CEO of Intel to resign because of his past business connections to China. In June, Trump approved Nippon Steel's plan to buy U.S. steel, but only after the U.S. government was granted a golden share the company that gives Washington the ability to approve or veto some actions like closing plants. In January, Trump floated the idea of having U.S. government own a portion of TikTok's U.S. operations. Of course, that was something he was pushing for very heavily.

Starting point is 00:39:46 He was trying to get his buddies a sweetheart deal. Like, well, you know, maybe we'll let you keep TikTok here in the U.S., but only if you sell to one of my friends. And now Trump is requiring Nvidia and AMD to hand over 15% of revenue from high-end chip sales to China. As first reported by the Financial Times, Nvidia has released a statement, owning it follows rules the U.S. government sets for our participation in worldwide markets without addressing reports about the deal directly. AMD and the White House have yet to comment.

Starting point is 00:40:15 Call it state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism, in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises. Wall Street Journal columnist Greg J. Greg Ip wrote Monday morning. It's an exceptionally timely piece. He appears to have written before the NVIDA.M.D. story broke. Because it doesn't contain any reference to it. You can make the list of Trump's intervention. even longer if you'd like.

Starting point is 00:40:37 He personally required former Paramount owner Shari Redstone to pay him $16 million to settle a seemingly specious lawsuit, for instance. And Brendan Carr, the Trump appointed head of the federal communications. Excuse me. Now this article, Trump changes tune on Intel CEO after demanding his resignation. Meeting was a very interesting one. Does that mean that he buckled? You put the pressure on him. He said, whatever you want.

Starting point is 00:41:07 Just don't make me step down. Trump said he met with CEO, Intel CEO, Lip Bhutan on Monday. Days after seeking his resignation, praising Tan and calling the meeting a very interesting one. Shares of the chipmaker rose 3% and extended trading. Of course, Trump can have a large impact on Wall Street. He can very easily damage these companies severely through his actions. even just by posting things on Twitter. He can impact their shares.

Starting point is 00:41:42 Shares of the chipmaker rose 3% extended trading. Last week, Trump had demanded the immediate resignation of Tan, calling him highly conflicted over his ties to Chinese firms injecting uncertainty of the chipmaker's year-long turnaround effort. Trump said he met with Tan along with the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Two golden boys. We love them dearly, don't we?

Starting point is 00:42:03 Lucky Lutnik and Scott Bessent. they're doing such good for the American people. His cabinet members and TAN were going to bring suggestions to him next week. Tan had invested in hundreds of Chinese firms, some of which were linked to the Chinese military. Reuters reported exclusively in April, it is not illegal for U.S. citizens to hold stakes in Chinese companies unless they have been added to the U.S. Treasury's Chinese military industrial complex companies list,

Starting point is 00:42:29 which explicitly banned such investments. Tain has been asked to undo years of missteps that left Intel struggling to, make inroads in the booming AI chip industry dominated by NVIDIA, while investment-heavy contract manufacturing ambitions led to heavy losses. Now, if you're going to invest in a military industrial complex, this is going to be the American military industrial complex, darn it. Don't you understand? Only the American military industrial complex gets the investments.

Starting point is 00:42:54 Anyone else, you better stand back and stand down. But the demand for TAN's resignation will only distract him from that task. Investors and former senior employees, told Reuters, Trump's intervention marked a rare instance of a president publicly calling for CEO Oster and raised questions about his control over corporate affairs. This was also evident in an agreement calling for Nvidia and AMD to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from China sales. In course, this is, again, part of fascism,

Starting point is 00:43:25 is the government getting directly involved with businesses, taking control of them. This is some hybrid, crony fascistic. capitalistic nonsense. The U.S. marches towards state capitalism with American characteristics is from the Wall Street Journal. President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy. We know how bad central planning is for the economy. For everything, it leads to corruption and it leads to worse outcomes. No one is smart enough to centrally plan the economy. It doesn't work. A generation ago, conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized its economy would come to resemble Americas. Instead,

Starting point is 00:44:05 capitalism in America is starting to look like China. That was always the plan. It's always about taking more freedom away. Trump's demand that Intel chief executive resigned, the 15% of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and advanced micro devices will share with Washington, the golden share. Washington will get in U.S. steel as a condition of Nippon steel takeover

Starting point is 00:44:27 and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners. Trump plans to personally direct. world is becoming China. We are all moving towards their style of government. They're not moving towards a more Western style. Well, we are just about out of time, and in fact, I'm actually over. But I wanted to cover those things. The world, as I said, is becoming China. It is moving towards a crony capitalist, fascist style of government, moving both towards communism, Marxism, socialism, and fascism all at once. It's truly a nightmare scenario for all of us here in the West.

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Starting point is 00:46:32 here. Doug Lug says, did I hear that David is going to be on today? No, I, not anything new, but I've cut together the previous interviews and things that he did. The Eric Peters interview, his segment on NPR, and the Chuck Baldwin interview. I wanted to make sure that in case people didn't get a chance to see them before, they get a chance to see them now. They're excellent segments, and I think they're worth replaying. And as such, we're going to play them today. Tunnel Lord 1337. Wait, what Trump wants to nationalize a steel mill? Well, it seems kind of like that. Kind of worse than that. Yeah. This thing is how he, uh, approved the sale of the steel mill to a foreign company and then wants to also have government control over it.

Starting point is 00:47:18 He just wants to have a majority, a big say in what they do, apparently. And comments about cracker barrel. L.T. Oracle of Truth. Maybe it's lieutenant. Back in the 90s, Cracker Barrel had a policy not to hire gay and were boycotted for that. They've come a long way, baby. That's right. Look at them go. Niburu 2029, Cracker Barrel has been institutionalized by the mental midgets in charge.

Starting point is 00:47:45 Yeah. They will neuter every franchise they get a hold of. They will destroy. Well, as I said, we're going to play a compilation of David Knight today. It's Eric Peters, it's the NPR segment about them losing their funding, and it's Chuck Baldwin. They're all fantastic segments, and just, again, it's the David Knight Show, and I want to make sure that we still keep putting David Knight in it, and hopefully this weekend we will be able to set up the studio, so he'll be back Monday.

Starting point is 00:48:22 See you tomorrow, folks. Well, my first guest, as I come back, I'm so happy to be back, and my first guest is Eric Peters, somebody I really respect who really gets it, who's been on the side of liberty and freedom for a very long time, and he's been on my side as well, really to appreciate his offers of help when I was in the hospital. It's great to have you on, Eric. Thank you for coming. It's a privilege and an honor, and I'm so happy to see you back in the cell.

Starting point is 00:48:56 Well, thank you. Thank you. and thank you for your offers, even to give blood, as I said yesterday. Let's talk a little bit about what it's happening right now. I was looking at your diaper report, and I was thinking, you know, it's interesting. Here we are five years later, and you started the diaper report, making fun of the people who are wearing, you know, the diapers on their faces. And yet, as you point out, that is still going on. You know, what's happening?

Starting point is 00:49:24 We've got Trump back. Oh, wait a minute. He was the one who was there when they did the diaper. stuff, right? Right. Well, I think because it never really got cured, did it? That's right. You know, the report focused on what's going on in Honduras. Apparently, the Honduran health minister has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in pretty much all public areas again. And I just thought to myself, oh my gosh, it's kind of early, but I need a drink. Here we go again. And then I thought, well, okay, maybe it's just Honduras, but you know, it really isn't.

Starting point is 00:49:52 Every time I go somewhere, whether it's to Lowe's or the supermarket or any place here in the United States, at least in my part of Virginia, it's 99.9% certain that I'm going to see at least one person still wearing a mask. Oh, yeah. And that's an indication of just how effective they were in pathologizing and PTSDing people. Yeah. And I guess that, you know, the underlying point that I wanted to make in that article is that all that's happened is that this psychosis has sort of waned a little bit.

Starting point is 00:50:22 It hasn't gone away. It certainly hasn't been cured, I don't think. And it hasn't been cured because it hasn't been forcefully repudiated. We haven't had any kind of official announcement by the authorities. Hey, we erred. This was wrong and foolish, and we shouldn't have done this. We'll never admit to that, will they? I'll never admit to that.

Starting point is 00:50:41 We'll make two mistakes rather than never admit to one. You know, when I was in the hospital, they had a sign up saying, you need to wear a mask. I thought, what? And I looked at it. It's like, if you've been around anybody exposed to measles, you know, that's the new thing. Isn't it interesting how we were, we had all this press. hype about, oh, we got an epidemic in Texas and blah, blah, blah, they misattributed a death there to measles, and they're telling everybody, it's the most contagious disease ever.

Starting point is 00:51:08 Well, it appears to have just died off, even according to their narrative. If you believe them, it just disappeared. We don't hear anything more about it, but they do have the signs up at a hospital in Tennessee because they had a couple of measles cases in Texas. I mean, that is absolutely nothing, but, you know, the key. Yeah. We're still expected as a society to pretend that there's nothing abnormal about people walking around wearing these masks. You know, and I'm not trying to be mean.

Starting point is 00:51:35 I understand that the people who are wearing the masks genuinely probably believe that they are effective. You know, and they're afraid, and they think that if I do this, I'm not going to catch a sickness. So I don't, I don't intend to disparage those people. The point is they do still believe. And the point is we are expected to go along with that belief. and it's an aberrant belief. Yeah. You know, if you had somebody in your family,

Starting point is 00:51:58 remember the old Bugs Money cartoon where the crazy guy thinks he's Napoleon, you know, and he dresses up like Napoleon, and he demands to be called emperor. Yeah. Now, if you had something in your family who started wearing Napoleonic outfits and demanding to be called the emperor,

Starting point is 00:52:14 you know, you could be kind, you don't want to hurt their feelings, and you could address them as the emperor, but you're not really helping them. You're not doing them any favors. All you're doing is enabling their mental illness. Well, you know, it has a lot of parallels to a lot of things that are going on in our society, right? Everybody's got their own truth, and we don't have any objective standard of truth.

Starting point is 00:52:32 It's just like what this person thinks, and, you know, it's their felt experience and so forth. We see the same thing with pronouns and gender imagination, right? Yes. And so it feeds into all of that stuff. And so we're supposed to play along. And that's part of the way that I think that they have silenced us. Well, I can't criticize their mask fantasies anymore than I can criticize somebody's gender fantasy. We've got to get away from the objective realities here.

Starting point is 00:52:57 And I've said for the longest time, even if you go through their science of virology, you know, it's kind of like watching a bad sci-fi movie or a bad superhero movie. They create a universe, right? And you expect them then to abide by the rules of whatever that universe is or that particular character. And so if they start just, you know, they create this fictional world. And if they don't abide by it, then you have to call it. BS on that. You know, they create this fictional world, which, you know, as I've looked at this, I've talked to Dr. Sam Bailey and her husband, and also a physician, both of them physicians

Starting point is 00:53:35 in New Zealand. And they looked at research as done by Christine Massey going around asking all these public health officials, have you, I say, the virus. And she talked to over 200 of them, nobody did it. As a matter of fact, some of them started saying, we never do that. It's like, wait a minute, if you don't do that, what are you doing from a scientific standpoint? And so what they pointed out was, is that whether or not viruses even exist is in question. But certainly, what is not in question is that none of this is scientifically proven. If you look at the PCR test, none of it is consistent with their fictional world. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:54:11 And there's another aspect of this that I think bears discussing, which is that no one has been held accountable for the extraordinary psychological, social, and economic damage. that was gotten over the course of that pandemic. And again, it's not about retribution. It's about justice, and it's about putting this behind us by holding to account the people who did this to us. It's imperative that that be done. And if that isn't done, then they can get away with acting like they were somehow kind

Starting point is 00:54:38 of in the right, that it wasn't really wrong what they did. You know, you wouldn't, in any other case, if somebody had committed a serial murder, you wouldn't just stop talking about it. You wouldn't let the serial murder go on about his business. That person has to be brought to trial, has to be held accountable. That's right. Medical martial law unconstitutionally imposed, and we let that go. We forget it.

Starting point is 00:54:59 We just move on. Now everything is great because Trump's back again, the guy who did it. And what is he doing? He's making up one emergency after the other to rule by executive order. And so there's a real issue with that. Of course, the very first thing that he did when he came back was to set up Stargate with his crony capitalist billionaire friends to push MRN. combined with artificial intelligence.

Starting point is 00:55:22 So now we're going to add AI into the mix of nonsense that is here. And, you know, there's nothing from RFK Jr. to stop this. They're not banning the RNA. They no longer recommend it for some groups of people. But they're not banning this thing. And every week we see more studies coming out talking about death and disability of people who took that jab. And yet they're not banning this under any. other circumstances. It ought to be banned. And, of course, RFK Jr. is just letting this go.

Starting point is 00:55:54 And as a matter of fact, they also approved yet another MRNA in the meantime. And the Trump administration is really doubling down on DNA and MRNA research, just like they are with AI, as he did this first day in office. Yeah. I think that RFK is kind of the beard of the Trump administration. They bring him forward. I think he seems to be a genuine person, not perfect. I disagree with him on a number of things, but I think he's well meant, and I think that's why they brought him because a lot of people do respect him and believe that he's legitimate on those issues. So it makes it more difficult to, you know, pin the tail on the appropriate donkey, which is Trump. Well, what he said, and of course Tulsi Gabbard said as well,

Starting point is 00:56:39 we're here to restore trust in the institutions. I'm here to destroy trust in institutions. That's my life mission is to destroy blind trust in government and their unconstitutional institutions. But that's what they're trying to restore. And so that's why they use people like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, who have, as you point out, they have this certain public perception whether or not it's deserved. They have that perception. They're trading off of it to try to restore confidence. Well, that kind of blew up in their face with Mangino in cash, didn't it? If you caught that interview, which I'm sure you did, where Jon Gino and Patel looked like somebody was holding a gun at her heads

Starting point is 00:57:17 when they came up. You know, this whole, everything that has been happening over the course of the last four or five weeks makes me feel like I'm in a circus fun house. Yeah. All of the populist nationalist things that Trump ran on have just been cast by the wayside. I have some red hat friends, and I asked them, would you have voted for Trump if he had campaigned on imposing real ID, continuing the aid to Ukraine and pushing an AI technocratic surveillance state a la Palantir

Starting point is 00:57:46 and instituting some form of digital currency via the so-called Genius Act. And yet, if you look at what he did in his first term, none of that stuff is a stretch. It was kind of predictable that he's going to go in that direction. You know, he is basically, how do I put this politely? He is the servant, we'll say, of the deep state. And you can see this in everything that happened in the first term. He's throwing everything against the wall, isn't he, to try to distract from the Epstein thing. And some people even say, oh, now we need to go investigate Gina Hasple.

Starting point is 00:58:24 It's like, why don't you ask Trump why he made her his head of the CIA after she was the one who produced the lies? And Trump said, we were lied into the Iraq. warb well she's the one who did it with illegal torture and he put her in charge of the CIA and course she was right at the epicenter of london and langley axis where they were doing this russia gate stuff i'm so sick of russia gate i got sick of it from the very beginning there is one oh yeah of course it's it's now trump's look a squirrel obama it's now not locked her up it's lock him up as they're going to do any such thing that's right but you know there is a is so blinding to this dark cloud of, I think. Now, I hope I'm not being Pollyanna-ish here,

Starting point is 00:59:06 but my sense of it is that Trump's bizarre and corner-brat behavior over the last several weeks on the Epstein stuff has kind of given us our peak behind the curtain. You know, in The Wizard of Oz, when they finally pulled the curtain back. And we see that it's not that the Democrats, the Republicans, it's them. They're all like, the whole thing is fundamentally unreformable. They're run by a mafia. A disgusting cohort of people who are engaged in not just grift and graft, but some of the most sordid and reprehensible things you could possibly imagine. And I think that's part of what you're trying to do with Gislaine Maxwell

Starting point is 00:59:45 in terms of, I think he wants to bring in Clinton and try to revive the partisanship, at least for his people there. You and I are going to look at this and say, yeah, they're all part of the same club. You know, Clinton was partying with Trump and vice versa. they're going to the same Jeffrey Epstein parties and, you know, geez, that is wedding and so forth and so on. But, you know, we'll look at that and say, yeah, it's all just one big eyes wide shut party. But he will look at it and say, yeah, the Clintons, we need to lock them up. That movie, for people who are not aware of it, it was Stanley Kubrick's last movie.

Starting point is 01:00:21 Yeah. And I think that he deliberately wanted to give us a peek inside that world. Watch that movie if you haven't seen it, and you can kind of get a sense of what's going on here. And it helps to understand, like, Trump's disingenuous assertion that, well, if they had anything on me in the last four years, they would have settled a deal. Well, they wouldn't have because it's like, it's mutually assured destruction. They're all guilty, and they know it. And so, you know, they know that if I say something about you, you're going to say something

Starting point is 01:00:48 about me and we both go down in flames. So they shut up and don't say anything. And we'll get more to that, too. As a matter of fact, you got an article about that and a little bit of a clip of eyes wide shut to get people an idea of that. But before we do that, I wanted to talk. a little bit about cars. You've got a funny article, Kick Me about that. Talking about, I guess, one of your favorite cars is you've also got to review the VWID buzz. And I thought that was kind

Starting point is 01:01:14 of an interesting name for a car in the age of surveillance, the VWID. It's interesting. It could be the name of another, the next Samsung generation phone. It's like all of, they've succeeded in turning things that used to have emotional appeal into these colds. distant remote who cares why wouldn't they come up like the old microbus that was a cool name microbus you know or an affectionately known as the hippie van you know that it was just kind of it was cute and it was fun and that thing is the antithesis of everything that the old microbus was and that kind of might fit that kind of a name if you called it a microbus because it is a device now that

Starting point is 01:01:53 would kind of fit to get back to what you were talking about you know I was so frustrated with the ID buzz I was only able when they sent it to me I I was only able to drive it twice because they didn't include a charge cord, if you could believe that. Really? It's extra cost. So this is a vehicle that starts at $60,000. And if you want to have the home charge cord, you have to pay almost $700 extra for it. So it wasn't included in the press car alone that they sent me, which is even more crazy because I'm a journalist.

Starting point is 01:02:24 So it's like batteries not included except they put the batteries in but no way to charge the batteries. So that essentially forced me because what am I going to do? charge it at home now, which is like the main thing, they try to sell you the EV with, well, you have the convenience of being able to charge it at home, but now I don't even, I'm not even able to do that. So you're forced then to rely on this sketchy network of so-called fast chargers. Well, I drove into town and I went to the first place in my area where there are fast chargers, and it's completely offline. They're like doing some construction to it, so that didn't, you know, that didn't work. And so now I'm sweating and nervously, I think, okay, I can probably

Starting point is 01:03:00 make it to the other one that's on the other side of town. So I drive to that one, and that one's working, but it won't accept my credit card or any of them. I tried six different credit cards. I had to get that one with the app. In other words, they have access to my phone and access to my bank account, basically, my debit accounts in order to, you know, charge me for this service. And I'm not willing to do that. I'm not willing to let this, this, this creepy third-party entity that I don't know these people. I don't want them having access to my phone. So long story short, I wasn't able to charge it. So I limped it home at low speed, and it became a 6,000 pound, not a joke.

Starting point is 01:03:36 Curb weight, 6,000 pounds, deadly for the next five days until they came to pick the thing up. I left just enough charging it so the poor guy, you know, the delivery guy can pick it up and get it. He can deal with it. Then it's not my problem anymore. With all these electric vehicles weighing so much money, weighing so much in terms of weight, it's going to tear up the roads. And, of course, they're not going to replace them either. So it does a couple of things for the elites.

Starting point is 01:03:59 They don't want us to own private cars, and they don't want to maintain the roads, obviously. So now they've got these heavy EVs to destroy the roads for them at the same time. Now, you had that same problem when you were test driving the Mercedes, and you had an article about how they pulled your credentials with your press credentials with Mercedes after you gave them an honest review of what it was like to have range, panic, and all the rest of the stuff, not be able to get where you wanted to go. with Mercedes in a very cold streak back in December of 2023, I think it was.

Starting point is 01:04:33 Yep. Yep. Yeah. It was very interesting because I've been doing what I've been doing for a very long time, and I had been getting regular press car deliveries from Mercedes from more than 25 years, and they never had a problem before with anything that I've written or anything at all like that. And I wasn't gratuitous. I didn't insert my personal dislike of EVs, which I'm quite open about. You know, I find them to be just lacking anything that makes a vehicle appealing. But that's just my personal preference. I don't bring that into the car reviews. What I did bring into the car review was that, you know, I attempted to use their EQS,

Starting point is 01:05:09 which was a $112,000 electric luxury sedan to visit my mom who lives 50 miles away in Bedford, Virginia. 50 miles. Now, it happened that it was in December of 23, and it was very cold, if you remember that month. That was a bad cold snap. So by the time I got down to Roanoke, which is the closest city to where I live, I looked at the range, and boy, the range wasn't so hot anymore. And I thought, you know, it might be smart. Dawn and I were looking at the temperature, and it's about, you know, 13 degrees outside.

Starting point is 01:05:38 And I'm thinking, I don't want to be caught, you know, on the side of the road with it being 13 degrees outside. So maybe we should just stop and put some charge in the thing. So again, same problem. The first place wouldn't work at all. The second place, Dawn put the app on her. her phone and we were able to hook up the charger. But after sitting there for 40 minutes, we barely got enough charge to make it home. Yeah. You know, and put the kosh on it by that time. I thought, I'm just not going to risk driving this thing a significant distance away from

Starting point is 01:06:06 home and being stuck on the side of the road with it. It's difficult to charge them when the weather gets really cold like that. Yeah, it's much harder because, you know, the battery in the car is trying to keep the battery warm because it's that cold outside. And that uses anybody who has a heat pump or tries to use like one of those, you know, hot wire, portable electric heaters, knows they burn a lot of energy to try to keep you warm. So I just wrote about that. And I wrote specifically, you know, your clientele, the people you're trying to sell this car to, this is $112,000 car. These are affluent people. Affluent people pay to not have hassles. Yeah. You know, affluent people pay to be able to do the things that we can't do. And I thought,

Starting point is 01:06:44 my God, I could get in my 24-year-old truck and easily drive to Bedford with the heat blasting. And I'm worried about it because it's not going to leave me by the side of the road dead. And that's ridiculous. Even a virtue signaling leftist who has $115,000 to spend isn't going to put up with that. I thought that that was a very fair and objective thing to say. And now you've been vindicated. Yes. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:07 That's the shit. People don't want the hassles of buying that thing and they're not buying it. So Mercedes PR gave me this stuff about how, you know, I'm now out of their delivery area, which is nonsense. I know that that's not since. I mean, I happen to have people who do what I do that I know who are still getting the cars, you know, who are as far away or farther than I am. So that's just not true.

Starting point is 01:07:26 Yeah. Well, anyway, fast forward to now, and they've had to announce a, they call it a pause. A pause in the, you know, the continued manufacture of the EQS and the EQE because they can't sell them in this country. Yeah. It's been a catastrophe for them. They've had the cut bait and cut prices massively.

Starting point is 01:07:44 They're marked down to try to desperately get rid of these things because, you know, we're in the middle of 2025, we're at the 2026 model year now. So, you know, the 2025s are already becoming kind of like old fish that you want to get rid of, you know, and people aren't buying them. And part of the reason they're not buying this is also, and this is another aspect of this issue, the depreciation rates on these things is absolutely catastrophic. You can find a year-old EQS that sold for $100,000 or more, what it was new, for $35,000.

Starting point is 01:08:14 Now, rich people tend to be a lot of things, but they tend not to be stupid people. people, you know, and nobody wants to take a $70,000 bath on depreciation in the course of, you know, a year or two. It's just, it's ridiculous. Wow, that is amazing. Yeah. You know, when I look at this VWID buzz, like I said, you know, it's interesting to call one of these devices an ID because they are going to be IDing you everywhere you go. Yeah. But I guess the other alternative we call it a bug or something. I mean, that would also kind of harken into the Internet of things and tracking you everywhere you go. that, you know, originally it was the Beatle, or wasn't it the Type 1, technically?

Starting point is 01:08:51 A Type 1 was the designation. And then affectionately, it became known as the Beetle, which I think is from the German, which I think is K-I-F-I-R, which was that Hitler came up with, because he actually sketched the shape of it. You know, there are sketches of Hitler's original concept of the Beetle that he walked on with Ferdinand Portia to create the car. Now, all that aside, the original Beatle was a great car. It literally was the car for the people.

Starting point is 01:09:17 It was very basic, it was very simple, it was very light, it was efficient, and it was something that anybody could learn to fix. You could do your own maintenance on the thing and save a lot of money that way. Oh, yeah. Something that has been totally tossed out and kicked to the curb now, this idea that, you know, you own this extremely expensive gadget. And when the gadget glitches, what do you do? Well, you either take it or have it flatbed towed to a dealer where you pay an exorbitant sum of money to have some specialists try to fill. fix it for you. Yeah. And I remember even though it was a very inexpensive car, it had

Starting point is 01:09:51 a reputation for a liability. I remember a Woody Allen movie. I don't even remember which movie it was, but he goes, he goes to sleep or something like that, maybe a sleeper or something, and you know, he wakes up hundreds of years in the future and he sees, he's on the run or something, and he sees a Volkswagen in a cave,

Starting point is 01:10:09 and he thinks, wait a minute, no, it couldn't possibly, but he, he opens the door and he gives it a push and it starts. And it's like, oh, how about that? So it had this reputation for being reliable. I remember we had a VW dealer close to where we lived, and it was called Birdsong Motors,

Starting point is 01:10:27 kind of as a reference to the noise that it made. It kind of sounded like the Jetson car. As it was running, you had this little tweeting sound that it made with the engine, the air-cooled engine in the back. There were funny cars. One of the great things was, well, they were also kind of the first step on that ladder. I can speak from personal experience. me also. I had a Volkswagen when I was young. You know, it was a great car for a teenager

Starting point is 01:10:51 because, again, it was like a step up from a Briggs and Stratton pushmower, literally. I mean, an air-cooled engine with a little one-barrear on it and a fan. And then you popped the back of it, and there it was. It was so simple. It wasn't intimidating. So if you're a 15 or 16-year-old kid, you know, you can look at that. No, I think I could maybe figure out how to take those spark plugs out. You know, I can learn how to change. I mean, there was just a bolt on the bottom of the engine. I mean, you didn't even have to jack the car up. You could just undo the bolt. And, wow, look, I just changed you up. And it sounds trivial, but when you're 15, 16 years old, it's kind of intimidating. You know, you're like, oh, do I want to touch that? Do I want to mess with

Starting point is 01:11:29 that? I don't want to break that. Well, the cars are intimidating today, aren't they to work on? Yeah. I had an interesting kind of lesson. Now, here I am a middle-aged guy, and I'm afraid of computers. So, you know, this is how I can sort of understand what's happened. I had a problem with my laptop, the battery basically wouldn't accept the charge anymore. And I thought, gosh, do I dare, do I dare to try to open this thing up and maybe see about replacing the battery myself? And I gathered up my courage. And I did it. I bought a battery online for $35. And, you know, I very timurously, I removed the screws and I took the cover wall. And it wasn't so bad. And I felt so good. I made me feel like I did when I was a kid. Wow. I learned how to do something today.

Starting point is 01:12:11 I did it. And it's so empowering, as opposed to if I had gone to the computer store, which I've done in the past, you know, when I've had a battery issue, and $300 later, you know, there's your thing. And you have no idea what they did. You know, works great, but now you're out $300 and you feel kind of emasculated because you had to go to get somebody else to fix it for you. And I think we've lost that. You know, it used to be so common for dads and their sons to work on the car, you know, in the driveway on Saturdays or Sundays. And I'm not talking about major gearheads. had overhauls of the entire engine. I'm just talking about doing basic things like a tune-up, you know, doing break work, stuff like that. And it was a good experience for the father and the son or the daughter, frankly. And it helped to empower that young person, that young person felt competent. And that's extremely important, I think, growing up, you know, to feel like, hey, I can do things. My hands are capable. My brain is capable. I can understand this. I know how to do this. And now they can change the blinker fluid, right? Yeah, now they're incorporating helplessness. There's this commercial to make.

Starting point is 01:13:11 makes me feel, remember the story about how Elvis would shoot the TV when Robert Boulay came on? I saw this commercial. I think it was for a Volvo. It might have been a super group. And it's a couple of teenagers and they're out in the car and they have a flat tire. And what do they do? They call mom who calls AAA or some roadside assistance thing. Everybody's all thanking and grateful. My God, it's embarrassing. Can you imagine being 16 years old as a boy and you didn't know how to change a tire? Your friends would have laughed you into the next county. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, now you don't have

Starting point is 01:13:41 have to write. You can just use AI to do your website there for you, right? That is the ultimate emasculation and lobotomization, actually. I think it's happening. But tell us a little bit about this kick-me article. I thought it's a funny idea. You talk about Jeremy Clarkson. Yeah, I've never met Jeremy. I'd love to. I have always enjoyed top gear and his shenanigans. You know, I think he's got the right kind of tally-ho pirate spirit. He's a guy who just, he has a knack. for telling the truth in an interesting way, you know, a funny way sometimes. Anyway, we were watching his most recent thing, it's called Clarkson's Farm. And it just reminded me, you know, I should do things like Jeremy does.

Starting point is 01:14:24 Now, I don't have the backing that he has. I don't have the resources that he has, but I thought it would be just hilarious. If I could figure out a way to acquire, to buy one of those ID Buzz electric vans, and so it's mine now, and I can do what I want with it, like Jeremy does on top here. And I could put a kidney sign on it and take it to me to buy it. and take it to a shopping mall somewhere, and people could just kick it, you know, and we could film it. I think it would provide a great kind of cathartic moment. I think so many people are so frustrated and angered by everything that's being foisted on us

Starting point is 01:14:54 and pushed on us, and particularly these electric cars. You think it could stand the kind of abuse that the Toyota Highlux got from Top Gear guys? No, actually, I think they would act without even using implements, without necessarily getting involved with pro bars and hammers and things, I think he was completely total an ID buzz with, you know, we're within about probably half an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Was there anything that you liked about it that you thought was clever that they laid out with it? I liked, well, yeah, I liked it that it looks immediately distinctive from everything else on the road,

Starting point is 01:15:25 kind of like the cars to. One of the attractions of the old Volkswagen was, and you didn't even have to see it. You heard it. You know, you knew it. Here comes a beetle or here comes a bus, because it had that distinctive sound. Yeah. So I like the way that they styled it. I think it is a, the idea is great. It's a perennial favorite. The idea of the old microbus was brilliant. You know, what a fantastic practical vehicle.

Starting point is 01:15:47 Now, if only they could have taken that vehicle that they created, and instead of using a battery-powered drive frame, imagine if they had put one of their TDI diesels in that thing. Yeah, that's right. Then you'd have a microbus that would be able to go probably 600 miles on fill up. Yeah. And also, it would only probably cost about $35,000 to $40,000, as opposed to $60,000.

Starting point is 01:16:09 That would be great. They'd sell a lot of those. They'd actually make money. Imagine that. You know, instead of, you try to try and sell virtue, they'd make money. Well, the only thing better than putting one of those things, a shopping mall and putting a kick-me sign on it would be to do that to Klaus Schwab, who actually, he had a big kick-me sign on, put on him there at the World Economic Forum, I think,

Starting point is 01:16:30 or as I like to refer to them. You know, you could make, like, some gigantic pinata. Yeah. and let people take a turn and giving him a whack. Yeah, it's the bugs. But isn't it sad? You know, it really breaks my heart to think that Volkswagen, as a company, caved into that nonsense about the cheating on the federal emissions certification.

Starting point is 01:16:51 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's diesel engines that they used to sell were brilliant. I had the opportunity to drive every vehicle that they make equipped with the diesel engine, and every single one of them outperformed the advertised mileage. They were phenomenal. Some of them would go 700 miles on a full tank of fuel. I remember driving to North Carolina and back and still having a substantial amount of fuel in the tank of the thing.

Starting point is 01:17:14 And you could pick one up. This is as recently as I think 2015, you could pick up a TDI power jetta for about $22,000. So naturally, that's why they had to go. Can you imagine the juxtaposition? On the one hand, you've got a $22,000 jetta that gets 50 plus miles per gallon that goes 700 miles on a tank full of fuel,

Starting point is 01:17:33 and it will probably last you for 25, years because it's such a durable car. And on the other, you've got a $50,000 electric car that goes maybe 240 miles that forces you to plan your life around these constant charge discharge cycles and that in all likelihood is going to require a new $15,000 battery by the time it's about 10 years old. Yeah, because it clicks all the boxes of what the elites want for us, which is nothing, you know, to own nothing and to go nowhere. And that's the thing that are concerned us about all this stuff. You know, when you, you mentioned the Epstein thing and the other things. You say, while everybody's looking at Epstein, they're missing the stuff about

Starting point is 01:18:16 Palantir and the Genius Act and all the rest of the stuff. And those things are not unrelated. No, they're not. Now, I'll preface my remarks by saying that obviously the allegations and the facts that we're aware of with regard to Epstein are just repellent beyond the script. And I think that that stuff definitely should be exposed. I don't think we probably ever will get to the bottom of it, at least not with any of their help. No. They don't want this stuff out. But at the same time, it has served to distract attention away from things that are extraordinarily important for people to be aware of.

Starting point is 01:18:50 Palantir is one. And, you know, by the way, I didn't know what Palantir was. You know, I wonder, what does that mean? What does that word mean? I'm not a big Lord of the Rings guy. I never read Tolkien's books on it. but it turns out that in the universe of Lord of the Rings, the Palantir is a sorcerer's stone.

Starting point is 01:19:07 And the sorcerer uses it to see what people are doing. Yeah. And that's what Palantir is about. I did report on about a decade ago, and I said, at the time I said, no, the Palantir would allow the sorcerer to actually see into you, right? Which is really what Palantir data mining is allowing them to do as well. They're able to look at externals like metadata and other stuff like that and to anticipate what you're going to do to make connections between you and other people and ideologies and religion and politics and all these other things that they want to track and control. It is really insidious.

Starting point is 01:19:46 What is there? And of course, they're not the only one. You've got Andrewil, which is a sword, right, from Lord of the Rings that belong to the king. And there's a company called Andrewil that is working with. with Trump, and they want to use that for creating a no-man's land at the border, basically having real high-tech surveillance and law enforcement that is automated, and they're working with them, Hand and Glovin. He's another one of these guys from the PayPal Mafia, Palmer Lucky, I think, is his name.

Starting point is 01:20:18 I get it confused. I always talk about Howard Lutnik. I call him Lucky Lutnik because he didn't show up on 9-11. He knew not to go. And so he got real lucky, but not so much his employees, even his brother who was there. It's related to this that's important. It's not just Palantir. There are two arms of the pincor.

Starting point is 01:20:39 And the other one is this genius act, which essentially is the propagation of some form of digital currency, non-real money, digital money. Now, what they're going to end up doing, in my view, is on the one hand, they're going to use the Palantir to draw these profiles of you. and aware of everything that you do. And then if you do things they don't like or don't want you to do, they'll be able to use this digitized money to limit your ability to buy things. Oh, you want to buy some hamburger. Well, you've exceeded your carbon footprint this month, this month. So, you know, your coin.

Starting point is 01:21:16 And it's interesting that they use, the psychology of it is fascinating. They talk about coin, but there's no physical anything. It's a coin in name only. Your wallet is your phone. It's not your wallet. you know, you don't have physical money anymore. So they control the money, which means they control you. Well, they call them crypto coins, and you think, oh, it's cryptide, you know, it's got crypto, it's got encryption in it. And so they can't tell what, no, it's completely

Starting point is 01:21:40 visible what's going on. The encryption is there for the processing, not to protect your privacy. And it's a blockchain, a public ledger that's available and visible to anyone and everyone, especially the government that's there. Yeah, it's an absolute nightmare. You know, at least during the pandemic, when they attempted to throttle people's ability to engage in commerce, to buy and to sell. You know, if you had cash, and, you know, for example, I was friends with a local guy who operates a convenience store, you know, the gas station convenience store.

Starting point is 01:22:11 Because we're friends, he knows me, I know him. You know, he didn't hassle me about the masks or anything. And I could go in there and I could buy things with cash, and nobody knew except for him and I. You know, now in this regime that they want to create, not only will they know whether I'm wanting to buy something, they'll know how I'm trying to pay for it. And if the two things aren't aligned, and if their algorithm says, oh, no, Eric's been a bad boy, you know, he shouldn't be allowed to buy anything. What are you going to do? Now you can't transact business. That's what they want. They want absolute total control, and they exert this control using the data mining and using our ability to transact commerce.

Starting point is 01:22:48 Well, and, you know, that's coming out of us in a lot of different ways. I look at the stable coin, and, you know, they want, they want to tie it to the dollar, which is a joke because the dollar is not stable. So it's not a coin, and it's going to be tied to fiat currency, which is not stable. And the crypto is not there to protect your privacy and let them know anything about that. All of it is a lie, but they're looking at the stable coin as a way to protect the dollar and to transition into the next monetary system. You know, we've had Bretton One, Bretton Woods, two, Bretton Woods one and two, and so now they've got to transition something else because they can only run these scams for a few decades until everybody catches on, and people have caught on to this thing, so they've got to come up with something new and fresh and new con. And that's a big part of that.

Starting point is 01:23:39 But I experienced this personally, back in May of 2021, my program here independently, it was only five months old when PayPal banned me. and I still can't use PayPal. So they banned me, and Venmo, which is owned by them, banned me at the same time. I spent hours with him on the phone. And the guy was very helpful, but he finally came back and he said, I can only find one thing. It says, delete this account immediately. There was no violation, no alleged violation of anything,

Starting point is 01:24:08 and no reason given for taking me off, as a matter of fact. But that's what they want to do. They want to use it to control content. And we've got something very similar. We talked about here on the show last couple of days. is some Australian group of feminists called Collective Shout You should look this up Eric

Starting point is 01:24:25 I think a better name for them would be the collective Cairns They're These All right I'm going to make the note I'll look it up after me at all Collective shout And so they're out there trying to use

Starting point is 01:24:40 the banking bands Or you know like Operation Choke Point They're trying to use that against anybody that they don't like and they have focused on some video games that they say are not safe for work. Some of them are, but some of them are not. But what they're doing is they're studying a very dangerous precedent. But this is something that the governments are very eager to do for them.

Starting point is 01:25:01 And so are the corporations. You know, fine, we'll just shut everything down. So that's what's coming, you know, banning anything that anybody doesn't like and doing it right away and just completely shutting you off, whether it's for your carbon footprint or because your politics or your religion, or because you oppose the pandemic or the vaccine, it's just, you're going to take you off for that stuff. Ultimately, they want uniformity because they want predictability.

Starting point is 01:25:25 Yes. You know, they don't want anything unexpected to crop up. They want to have the ability to know ahead of time what the reaction is going to be, how people are going to move forward and all of this stuff. And it's the most anti-human thing I can imagine. Yes, it is. It is the end of creativity. It is the end of personal judgment initiative.

Starting point is 01:25:46 You know, it is literally the NPC world where we're just the gray man. All of us are just the same sort of representation human stick figures, you know, marching bleakly in line. That's right. And it's just incredibly depressing to me. Yeah, geospatial intel, I've been looking at this for a long time. And, you know, they've had a thing that they called AI before we talked about artificial intelligence. They talked about anticipatory intelligence, which was to predict what you're going to do before you did it. And, of course, Zabignauzinski was talking about that back in the 1970s when he wrote.

Starting point is 01:26:16 between two ages. He said, in the technocratic age, we're going to know what you're going to do before you know what you're going to do. And that really is their goal, to know, to surveil, and to control everything that we do, to live in a Panopticon state. Now, people got the message about CBDCs. So now Trump is here to gain their trust and to put in a different form of CBDC. That's the stable coin. I even call it CBDC in terms of crony billionaire digital cash as opposed to central bank digital cash, right? It's just another CBD. All he has to do is give it one of his narcissistic appellations about how big and beautiful it is. That's right. You know, apparently people will fall in line for that. I have gotten to the point, I hope I'm not falling down

Starting point is 01:27:02 a rabbit hole of madness, but I begin to believe that this whole thing is just a gigantic form of political wrestling. That they, you know, they put Biden in there deliberately to create chaos and demoralization. Yeah. To flood the country with random foreign people and to just rub it in Americans' faces that, you know, if they, if they make an illegal U-turn, they're going to get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But, you know, people can just scamper across the border and do whatever they want. They can drive about insurance that you and I will get nailed to the wall for if we do. Anyway, they let that go on for a number of years, along with the whole tranny thing and all the other things that happened.

Starting point is 01:27:38 And in comes Trump on his white steed. Trump is the populist nationalist savior. He's going to correct everything. And sure, I mean, it was attractive. You know, people were desperate to hear that maybe we can fix this. Maybe, you know, we can do something about it. So, yeah, okay, I'm going to vote for the orange man. Vote for Trump.

Starting point is 01:27:56 Yay. America, right? You know, and then he gets in here and crashes everything. And what ends up happening when he crashes everything, he will have completely demoralized and discredited the populist nationalist movement such that anybody who even tries to say, well, maybe free enterprise and, you know, all of that are a good idea. It's going to be like Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression. And then, you know, they got Franklin Roosevelt.

Starting point is 01:28:21 We'll probably end up with Pete Buttigieg for a host. Yeah. And, you know, where has Trump spent so much time in professional wrestling? I mean, he's even got Linda McMahon running the Department of Education. It really is crazy, but he knows how that works. And that's one of the key ways that he controls a narrative is by making these heroes and heels stuff. You know, this is all the stuff about Canada, the 51st state.

Starting point is 01:28:48 That's as phony as Hulk Hogan on the ring, you know? I mean, all of that was just to create these different issues out of nothing. We also had something else who was also kind of interesting, also involving a bunch of women, and that was the Tiat app. I don't know if you saw that or not, but it was actually the number one free app on download on Apple before the stuff all blew up. And what happened was this is another one of these deals where we've got to have your ID before you can get on the Internet. And we've got to be very careful because Republicans are pushing that extremely hard. You know, well, we don't want kids to be harmed by anything.

Starting point is 01:29:27 So we're going to have to require ID in order to use the Internet, you know, to use these porn sites or whatever. it is, never mind the fact that they're going to be able to easily get around these restrictions, they're always coming up with reasons that we've got to have an ID. We've got to have ID because otherwise we'll have illegal aliens who are going to be taking your jobs. So we've got to have mandatory E-Verify and an ID for that. Or we've got to have ID, and I agree we should have ID for voting. That's the one thing I would agree with because it is voluntary. And if you don't want to vote and get involved in the professional wrestling match, that I don't have to give them my ID, but for all the rest of these things, they're always looking for an excuse to push ID on us.

Starting point is 01:30:09 Well, this app, the T app, was a place where women could go in and gossip about men that they had dated, and it became extremely popular, but they required that you give them a picture ID to show that you're a woman and so forth. And they just put all of this personal information. Give us a shot of your driver's license and all the rest of the stuff. They put it on a page, a URL, that was completely no password, no encryption, nothing. If you had that URL, you could see it all. And guess what?

Starting point is 01:30:41 Somebody got it and showed it to everybody. And one of the things that we could see that was really funny was a guy just wearing a wig. That was his ID. And they let him in because he, I guess, identified as a woman. But one of the worst case examples of how all the stuff that is supposed to protect us and keep us safe and secure. actually endangers us in our identity. You know, and so all this kind of stuff.

Starting point is 01:31:08 That ID thing is stuck in my crawl for a very long time. You know, I understand that, you know, just as a moral matter, not a legal matter. You know, if I were a storekeeper,

Starting point is 01:31:16 I probably would not be comfortable selling beer or booze to a 14 or 15 year old kid. You know, that's just, I consider that to me not appropriate. That's something that I wouldn't personally do. But there's something affrontarous about

Starting point is 01:31:31 demanding that a guy our age, for example. I mean, anybody's, I mean, there's no possible way that we could be, you know, underage, that we could be anywhere near 18, 19, 20 years old. It's ridiculous. Once upon a time, this is a few years back. I was attending a press event in Southern California, and I was at LAX Airport, you know, waiting in the terminal for my flight to board. And I went up to the, there was a bar there. I just wanted a cup of coffee because it was too early to have a drink. And I just sat there having a cup of coffee. And this guy who clearly it was in his 70s. You know, had a white beard, older guy, he sits down and asks for a drink.

Starting point is 01:32:06 And the guy who was manning the bar, who looked like he was maybe 24 or 25, you know, demanded ID of this guy. And the guy, to his credit, said, you know, I was in Vietnam when, you know, you were still in your diapers, and then he expleted, deleted, and just walked away. And again, I think it's this constant pecking at us, treating us like stupid children. You know, the contempt that the system shows for us. And also, you flip it around, too. These poor people at the cashier, for example, at a store,

Starting point is 01:32:36 you know, they probably know perfectly well that you're old enough to buy a bottle of wine with your groceries. But because of store policy, they have to participate in this degrading kabuki, you know, of asking you to present your ID. We can't even buy cough syrup anymore. You know, without begging and pleading, here's my ID. Look, I'm old enough.

Starting point is 01:32:56 I'm not a meth head. I'm not a drug addict. I just freaking want some cough syrup. But now you have to be treated as if you are a meth head, drug addict, whatever, just to buy a box of cough syrup. That's right. Well, Lance tells me, he says the UK's Online Safety Act considers all criticism of illegal immigration to be 18 plus content and requires that you register your face and a government ID in order to be able to see any content related to it. So if you're going to criticize their policy of taking society down, then, you know, they want to completely ID you and get you into their files. It's pretty amazing.

Starting point is 01:33:35 But that's where this stuff is all headed. And as you point out, this is the government corporate thing that replaced the somewhat limited government that briefly existed until about April of 1865. You have a statement about Lincoln. He said, Lincoln was no more free than the country that he enslaved, by the way. owned by the railroads and by a kind of precursor to Palantir, the Pinkerton thing. It's all very depressing, but no less true for being depressing. You know, I remember years ago I read an alternative history by Harry Turtle Dove. It was called So Few Remain.

Starting point is 01:34:14 And in it, he changes history slightly so that there's an early end to the war, and the South is able to go its separate way. And as a result of that, in his novel, Abraham Lincoln is despised by everyone and ostracized. But he makes a comeback a few decades later when this book picks up. And he comes back, guess what, as the Socialist Party candidate, which I thought was really accurate. I think that's exactly where he would have been. So he's a socialist to boot as well as a crony capitalist and in control of the corporations. And that's what we're seeing today, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:34:51 You know, Tom Dillerenzo, who's heard in a number of books about the subject, points out that Lincoln was until after the war, after his assassination, when what he calls the Lincoln cult was erected, Lincoln was widely loathed in the north as well as the south. There were massive riots in New York City, you know, over the dragoving of people to be pushed into this war in what was then another country. You know, understand these fresh off the boat, Irish immigrants, like, why in the world? I don't want to be dragged all down south of the Mason-Dixon line to get killed. I haven't got a dog in this fight. You know, and the whole Americans are so propagandized about that.

Starting point is 01:35:30 I mean, ultimately, the South just wanted to do exactly what the American colonies wanted to do. Yes. They want to leave. They want it to no longer be under the control of the central authority. You're like the most foundational fundamental principle that Jefferson was writing about and that Tom Paine wrote about. That's right. You know, self-determination. We want government.

Starting point is 01:35:49 And then Lincoln had the insolence to talk about government of the people by the people except the people of the South. Yeah, he's going to impose it upon them. Yeah. Well, they were able to, with massive propaganda and educational system, completely change history with all of that stuff, weren't they? And this way it always works. Yeah, part of recovering our senses is recovering our history and getting at the truth of things.

Starting point is 01:36:14 And that the so-called civil war, which was nothing of the kind, it was an attempt by the South to secede, very different thing, not a score. The South did not want to take over the north. They did not want to control the whole country. They just wanted to depart. Leave us alone. We're out of here. Yeah, and the American colonies didn't want to take over England. They just wanted their independence. And that's what the southern states were doing as well. So if that's illegitimate, there was no legitimacy for the American government to start with. I think it's a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Yep, exactly right. And so I think, you know, what we do, you and I and other people do, If we can just get people to see even one example of this sort of manipulation of history and truth and facts, it's like you can't unsee it.

Starting point is 01:36:58 You know, that's the one blessing of the whole COVID thing. I think a lot of people have been disabused to be the falsehood, that the experts, the authorities, that they're well-meaning, that they have our best interests at heart, and they can be trusted. We know now they are not to be trusted. That's right. Yeah, for years, we talked about the harm from mercury and vaccines. And they said, oh, we took that out in 2002, 2003. No, they didn't. It's still in the flu shots. And they just had, they just revealed that and just said, well, we're going to stop doing it in the flu shots. I don't know if I believe that or not. We look at it. But, you know, they're keeping their fingers crossed and like, well, what we meant was the childhood vaccines. We meant the MMR and other things like that. But, you know, they manipulate the information. And, you know, as we see all this stuff coming together and the technocrat billionaires that have completely owned Trump, I don't know if you saw this or not, but. Peter Thiel and Alex Carp, who runs Palantir,

Starting point is 01:37:54 they have been tied together with their venture capital firms. And now they want to come out and start making movies. And they were talking about that, the kind of movies that they want to make. And, of course, they're all going to be very jingoistic, militaristic, high-tech. And they'll throw in your subservience to the name of patriotism as well. But that's the next big thing coming. So Hollywood is, they're unwatchable. Hollywood is collapsing.

Starting point is 01:38:23 Yeah, yeah. They're occasionally exceptions, but for the most part, the Drek that they are putting out is so awful. Yeah. It has entertained, leaving aside politics. It's just, it's poorly written, it's poorly acted. It's full of clumsy, cliched propaganda, political correctness. People are tired of it. They don't want to watch it anymore.

Starting point is 01:38:40 They grab you by the lapel and he yell at you about LGBT and DEI and all the rest of the stuff. So there is perfect, there is a big opportunity for somebody. comes in as they said they want to do things like uh top gun hunt for red october and stuff like that but of course they'll put their technocracy spin on it as well you know they could anybody could come in and start doing movies that are better in terms of acting characterization plot you name it and um and and and and not hector people over this left wing nonsense and be successful the key is are they going to come in and remake things to come you know hg wells uh book shape of thing to come. If you remember that movie from the 1930s, that basically shows the kind of fascistic

Starting point is 01:39:27 technocracy that they wish to put in. And Elon Musk's grandfather completely bought into that, and that's one of the reasons they wound up in South Africa. He tried to reinstate that instead of the former government that they had in Canada. But that's really where these guys are going. And I think they're going to be pretty successful at that. that should worry us because that's a different kind of threat that's going to be coming in. It's going to take people a while to wake up. It is, but you know, I'm bullish and positive, actually, about this topic, and I'll tell you why. Look at how Joe Rogan, and he's just one example.

Starting point is 01:40:05 You and I are another example. Look at how people like us have managed to sort of get around the mainstream media as it's called. Rogan's got a much bigger audience than CNN. People have had it enough. This whole thing has just reached its critical mass. And I think with regard to movies, independent studios that come up with quality stuff that people like, you know, there's now a vehicle for getting that out there. Oh, I agree. Maybe we don't have the media.

Starting point is 01:40:30 I agree. It's just going to be a different, it's going to be a different subtext for a different way to come at us. They're going to be coming at us from another angle. I mean, take a look at the collapse of the late night talk shows that long ago stopped being funny and just hectored people with lectures. It's like, who in the world was watching that stuff anyway? Well, it turns out they weren't. They were losing $40 million a year on Colbert's show. So there is a big opportunity for somebody who wants to come in and do it differently.

Starting point is 01:40:58 But then you've got to be careful, what are they trying to sell you, even if they do it subtly? Because, you know, Hollywood, for the longest time, has been selling very subtle philosophy and a worldview and the rest of this stuff. And if you just accept that without looking at it critically, that is what has had a big. role in changing our society. It goes back to the Franklin School. I mean, they've been working on these types of things, very calculating the way they do it. The problem with them was that they became a little bit too confident, and they jumped the shark. They did it right in your face, and they don't really care anymore. If it was more subtle, it would be more effective. And I think that's what's going to happen. I think that trust is probably the most

Starting point is 01:41:43 valuable currency that there is. And once you lose it, it's almost irrecoverable. And so, I think people are much more tuned into that. They want to feel as though that they can trust whoever it is that they're listening to, that they're viewing. And if they get a whiff of shadiness, a lot of people get immediately turned off by that. And good, there should be consequences for shadiness. Yeah, I agree. And for being a propagandist.

Starting point is 01:42:08 I agree. And that's healthy. You know, people talk about a high trust society, and a high trust society is a good thing. But at the same time, you can't be naive. You can't just assume that everybody's benevolent and, you know, there's nothing harmful to this. That's right. I know it's a little more work to have to investigate and check things out and make a determination, but ultimately that's how we get back to some kind of an adult, healthy society instead of this fearful, infantilized society that we've built up around us.

Starting point is 01:42:38 That's right. Well, Patrick Henry said in his day, he said, trust no man, but mine them down with the chains of the Constitution. If they're not going to abide by the Constitution, they certainly don't deserve your trust. But you don't put blind trust in anybody. And it's just part of critical thinking. That's a key part of it. And so I think that's one of the things that we need to be very, very wary of, and one of the things that's always concerned me about Trump. And that's why I see the Epstein stuff as very good, because at least some people are having second thoughts about blind trust in Trump.

Starting point is 01:43:12 the biggest issue is people will come back and say well if we can't trust Trump who can we trust it's like no one trust yourself trust your neighbors start working at the local level you know we just had a story about how on the sly they wanted to do these experiments to block out the sun well where did it get stopped it got stopped at the local government level there are things that we can do we need to understand the usual suspects of the federal government with its unlimited amounts of money, and they're trying to keep that thing going. And I think they will with a stable coin. But we need to understand that especially if we use the Constitution, there's a lot that can

Starting point is 01:43:53 be done at the local level, and it's harder for them to control it. That's why they keep trying to move everything to the federal level so that they can get rid of any of these restrictions. We saw that with glyphosate. They're now talking about moving things to the federal level on other pesticides. and basically giving them a big pharma deal in terms of legal immunity. And we know exactly why they're doing that because they can buy a few people in Washington

Starting point is 01:44:17 a lot more easily than they can buy people at the local level. And so, you know, it's just, as you point out, it's, you know, people who are not a part of the system and you have to look at what these people have done and actually hold them accountable. I know for the longest time, one of the key weaknesses of Trump on this thing Not only did he campaign on it, but even before he was elected the first time had all this cue and nonsense, that's what I call it, about how, oh, he's going to wrap up all these pedophile rings that are out there and all the rest of this stuff. I thought, really, with his background, they sold that for so long, you know, that's why it's so much deeper.

Starting point is 01:44:57 It's not just a campaign promise. They had this entire mythology about how he was the white knight who was going to come in and stop these known pedophile rings. They should have talked more about the actual pedophiles, like on Capitol Hill. You remember Dennis Astrid? Oh, my gosh, yeah. We've all forgotten about that. Yeah, the longest serving Speaker of the House for the Republicans, and he was picked because he was a pedophile wrestling coach and then made Speaker of the House.

Starting point is 01:45:23 And, you know, while he was Speaker of the House, they had two pedophile scandals. You remember the one with Mark Foley, the House page scandal? Mark Foley and Barney Frank were in Red Boys from his townhouse in Georgetown. That's right. Hastert thing, you know, it was, Hastert, I remember him going on with Rush Limbaugh and just poo-pooing all of it and saying, oh, they're only coming after Foley and these other guys

Starting point is 01:45:45 because that's what the Democrats are doing. This is purely political. There's nothing real here. Well, it was real. And Dennis Hastert was eventually exposed as being a pedophile. And the most interesting thing about that whole thing to me was that after it was all known, what did they do about it? Nothing. Zero zip nada, right? They could have gotten rid of the statute of limitations, which is incredibly short for pedophilia.

Starting point is 01:46:12 And if they had done that, they could have prosecuted Hastert. Instead, what they did was they manufactured a crime so they could send him to jail and satisfy people into thinking that they're doing something about the pedophile networks when the whole system was set up to make sure they did nothing about the pedophile networks. And so, yeah, nothing is going to happen with this thing with Trump. but it's a little bit more cynicism and critical thought is going to be something that'll be very good if that can get into the mind of the world. In Trump's comments, you know, the arrogance and the narcissism that is his probable greatest weakness, I think.

Starting point is 01:46:48 Yeah. And it makes him do things that just from his point of view are stupid. You know, I can call me a supporter stupid. It's stupid politically. Yeah. You know, and yet he did that. And, you know, just that you can see it like snarling. contempt that he has, even for the people who support him, the moment they don't support him

Starting point is 01:47:07 abjectly, the minute that they raise a question, that they take off the red hat and say, hmm, wait a minute. Then he comes after them, doesn't he? It's amazing. Right. He demands, he demands, literally slavish, obsequious, like, you know, curd dog rolling on its back, kick me kind of, you know, followership. And that brings me to, I think, this other point that I wanted to make, I think all of us, whatever your politics, stop looking for secular heroes and saviors. Yes. And we send ourselves.

Starting point is 01:47:36 Absolutely. Stop looking for these heroes. It's idolatry and it's stupidity. It's amazing. You know, how many times, as one person said, you're talking about Trump's narcissism. You know, all these guys in politics are narcissists, and especially all these billionaires, just take a look at Musk, right? It was a clash of egos as they were coming after each other.

Starting point is 01:47:55 But of all the narcissists, you know, Trump does stick out in his own special category. doesn't he? He really does. Yeah, I mean, he's a tour to force. Well, Eric is great talking to you. Always is great talking to you. Eric Petersotos.com is a place to go for honest reviews. And you've got comments about new cars and we didn't get into the oil, the underneath pan, which makes maintenance more difficult and oil leaks more difficult to know about and all the rest of the stuff. But there's a lot of practical articles in there. The perils of the pan is that. article. I love your site. Always have loved it. And you focus on mobility and liberty. We can't have one without the other, can we? And it's great to have an honest review. And if you're going to get shut down by car company for an honest review, and now you've been proven right to them as

Starting point is 01:48:49 well. But I don't expect they're going to restore your credentials. I hope they do. But you can still see. Again, it's heartbreaking to me because I'm a car guy. I love cars. And, you know, Mercedes at one time made brilliant cars. They had a super vengeance. They're in-line six-cylinder engine. They're V-8s. They're V-12s. Remember those?

Starting point is 01:49:09 Just magnificent things. And they just decided to give that all the way and to basically make another Tesla with a cheap plastic three-pointed star on the hood. That's right. Yeah, I'm very negative on the survival ability of the entire German auto industry because it's not just their craven subservience.

Starting point is 01:49:30 to that aspect of the Green New Deal, but the Green New Deal for manufacturing in general in Germany is just sabotaging them, whether it's manufacturing of steel or the ability to be able to compete in terms of cost on energy. The governments have put the businesses in Germany and France and especially the U.K. as such a competitive disadvantage. I don't see how they're going to be able to do any kind of manufacturing, especially something like automobiles and steel and that type that's stuff. They've basically just given a monopoly or duopoly, I should say, to India

Starting point is 01:50:05 and China with the carbon mandates that they have on it. But again, it's always great talking to you and thank you for being such a great friend. Really do appreciate it, Eric. Thank you very much. You know, I appreciate our friendship

Starting point is 01:50:21 and I appreciate you having me on the show. Well, thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. And before we leave, I just want to thank everyone for all the support. in the last couple of days. Thank you so much for supporting the show. We would not be here without you. Thank you for your prayers.

Starting point is 01:50:35 And let's go out with a clip from Dennis Hastert. Just a reminder of what this whole thing looks like. Thank you, Eric. Eric Peters, autos.com. That shocking indictment. But, you know, and then I'm going to be able to be. And so, I'm going to be.

Starting point is 01:51:14 Oh, and... I'm going to be. Uh, uh, uh, I'm not I'm going to I'm going to

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Starting point is 01:51:38 I'm analyzing the globalist next move and now the globalist next move Well, welcome back. I wanted to get on and let you know that Travis is feeling sick. Please pray. But there's something that I had to come on to talk about. So I guess we could call this an emergency broadcast.

Starting point is 01:52:28 So I'm not able to hear myself in here. But I didn't put up the rotating traffic light like I was. does. I apologize. But I think this is very, very important because Trump is going full dictator on emergencies. He has done more emergency executive orders than any other president. And this is a trend we're seeing with each successive administration, whether it's Democrat or Republican. And I don't think that these two parties have a different agenda. I think this is a left, right march. I think what we're seeing here is that Biden and others, will prepare what Trump has an excuse then to come in,

Starting point is 01:53:12 although I don't think that he's got an excuse to do what he's currently doing. Just as Trump sold the pandemic so that he could sell the vaccine. So as we look at the fact, they're talking about D.C. Home Rule and sending in the National Guard. Look, he ought to use the D.C. Home Rule Act to change the people who are running the city, to change the police chief and other things like that. But it is not warranted to create martial law. And I think that when we look at Trump's first administration, why would we be surprised

Starting point is 01:53:46 that he's going to do martial law again? If you go back and look at MAGA, I think Marshall America, go again. That's basically what they told the guy. We like what you did. We don't care that you locked us down under medical martial law. We don't care about the massive amounts of money that you shoveled over to pharmaceutical companies and the tyranny that you created and the fact that you trashed. the Constitution, trashed our God-given rights. No, we're going to vote for you again,

Starting point is 01:54:13 and you are our savior. So Trump has announced that he's going to invoke the D.C. Home Rule to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and to deploy the National Guard. Again, there is no riot going on in Washington, D.C. There's no weather emergency. There's nothing like that. You basically just need to use the authority to get rid of the people that are there, but use the current structure that's there and the rule of law. That is a key thing. So Trump says on true social, D.C. will be deliberated today.

Starting point is 01:54:50 Crime, savagery, filth, and scum will disappear. I will make our capital great again. The days of ruthlessly killing or hurting innocent people are over. I quickly fix the border. Zero illegals in the last three months. And so the question is, you know, yeah okay and what cost did you fix the border i've had this argument of people uh over this on social media when i say that yes human rights and the rights in the declaration of independence

Starting point is 01:55:22 apply to foreigners in our country even if they are here illegally and if you disagree with that go ahead and unfollow me many people have but i'll tell you this if you're going to deny human rights to human beings if you're going to deny human beings if you're going to deny the rule of law and the Constitution for them, they will deny it for you. He's already done it five years ago. What does it take to get these people to wake up? I don't understand. Let me just remind you that the worst criminal is somebody who sets there with the authority of government behind him. There is no worse criminal than somebody who has an army. There's no worse criminal than somebody who thumbs his nose of the Constitution like it was his marriage vows to his former

Starting point is 01:56:06 wives, if you want to call them that. It's just amazing to me. So executive order yet again, he filed one earlier this year to say, D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. Call for increasing law enforcement presence in public areas. This guy wants a police surveillance state. He is pouring money, hand over fist into Palantir and these surveillance agencies. He's telling the police to ignore the law, to ignore your rights, to ignore everybody. rights. He's creating concentration camps across the country. What does it take to wake up these maga fools? Some people can be fooled constantly. And they're the biggest problem. They're a bigger problem than the guy that they're empowering. He said, a group of 100 years took over the

Starting point is 01:56:56 part in their DC capital, firing shots, launching fireworks, rain, dirt bikes. Um, well, okay, again, replace the political leadership replace the police but you don't set up martial law that's a very different thing reforming the police department reforming civil government it's not the same as martial law he always takes the problems that Biden has lobbed to him like a softball pitch and he takes it over the top and that's what he's doing here you're going to have martial law America, go again. Didn't you love it when it happened five years ago? We somehow managed to have civilization without martial law for quite a while.

Starting point is 01:57:38 Yeah, I know. Anyway, activating the National Guard. Yeah, crime is bad, but there is no riot that is going on. There is no weather emergency that is taken out power and all that kind of stuff. There is no emergency. And it says fake emergencies, again, made it sound like we got some kind of emergency broadcasts like Alex does all time. It is really an emergency broadcast

Starting point is 01:58:03 about Trump's emergencies. Local officials argue that crime is actually decreasing. Well, I don't think that is the case. But one way or the other, there are ways to handle this without martial law. This is not a binary decision. It's a stupid decision. It's a dangerous decision.

Starting point is 01:58:22 For Trump, the effort to take over public safety in Washington reflects an escalation of his aggressive approach to law enforcement and his utter contempt for the rule of law, especially the Constitution. I refuse to call the man president. If he has divorced himself from the Constitution, he has divorced himself from any authority that he has in that office, and he doesn't deserve the title. I will not refer to Donald as president. He's an occupant. He's a usurper. He's an authoritarian dictator trying to rule by emergency. just like Biden, by the way, before Trump, I said Biden was the most authoritarian politician

Starting point is 01:59:05 I'd ever seen in my life. He had his fingerprints all over the mandatory minimums and all the other abuses, civil asset forfeiture, RICO, all the rest of that stuff. Biden was there from the very beginning using the drug war to establish a police state. And I remember, and I've said this many times when he was head of the Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas's confirmation. He constantly harangued Clarence Thomas over Clarence Thomas talking about natural law and natural rights. He hated that concept. Well, that's the concept that the Declaration of Independence was written on. Biden hated the thing, which he couldn't remember, of course. And I said he is the person has more contempt for our liberties that

Starting point is 01:59:53 any person I've seen in my lifetime. But now we have Trump. Because the two of them are like a tag team match. And the interesting thing to me is that these partisan people, they can see it, the Republicans can see it in Biden and the Democrats can see it in Trump. But they can't see it in their own guy because they're the problems. This is why the founders hated factions, hated political parties. Trump said, what you need is rules and regulations and you need the right people to implement them.

Starting point is 02:00:24 Well, that's not the military. And that's not to federalize the police. And maybe what we do is we start obeying the rules and regulations from the top down. How about that, Donald? You know, the John Birch Society, and I remember long before other people caught on, they understood the danger of federalizing the police. And I'm hoping that they're going to take this on. I've not seen anything from them yet about this.

Starting point is 02:00:52 But that was something that they could clearly see happening when I was a child. And we had all these that would support your local sheriff, support your local police, all these bumper stickers. They even had a James Garner comedy Western that would support your local sheriff. It became something of a meme even without social media. And it is there for a good reason. We do not want to have the police federalized. So the military is preparing to deploy National Guard in D.C. This is martial law.

Starting point is 02:01:25 and the lockdowns that Trump did last time he was in office was martial law as well. Trump is expected to announce a news conference of the White House that up to several hundred D.C. National Guardsmen will be sent to support law enforcement officers in the Capitol. Nor the details were available on Monday. Well, we'll see what happens. Maybe it'll be a taco. Let's hope that Trump will chicken out.

Starting point is 02:01:52 But I don't think so because he's also boasting about how he wants to do this in Democrat cities. He says, he throws out name drops, New York, Chicago, and L.A., you know, we're coming for D.C. Now we're going to come for the big leftist cities as well. Trump said his administration is going to look at deploying U.S. military to other American cities, including Chicago, New York, and L.A. At a press conference, we announced that he was taking federal control of the police department in Washington, D.C., that's fine.

Starting point is 02:02:25 but the National Guard and claiming that this is an emergency is the issue. Trump then revealed he's considering a similar move in other cities including New York, and I say that it's fine because D.C. is not like New York, Chicago or L.A. The District of Columbia does not have

Starting point is 02:02:45 representation. This is a big thing. We want to have a person in Congress and all the rest. It was carved out specifically so it was not a state government. it was and is under the authority of the federal government. That's why I say taking over the police department, taking over the political positions in the city, I don't really have a problem with that.

Starting point is 02:03:06 But now he wants to use that as an example in a phony emergency, just like he did five years ago, this phony pandemic, he wants to use that as a pattern to go into other cities that he doesn't like. He says, then I'm going to look at New York in a little while.

Starting point is 02:03:24 He went on to note that there's a lot administration is considering sending the military into Chicago, and he mocked the Democratic governor of Illinois. Like, Pritzker is eminently mockable. When you look at a picture of him and his doppelganger cousin, who is now a tranny, it's hilarious. And that's what that family has done. They've got a, it's the Hyatt family.

Starting point is 02:03:50 They're all filthy rich, and they have focused on trying to, you know, and they have focused on trying to make America filthy. They have really pushed this tranny agenda. His family has, but Trump says, we have a mayor there who's totally incompetent, talking about Chicago, an incompetent man, and we have an incompetent governor there. Pritzker is incompetent.

Starting point is 02:04:11 His family threw him out of the business, and he ran for governor. Now I understand he wants to be president. I notice that he lost a little weight, so now he has a chance. It's all about appearance and reality TV and programming and all the rest of stuff for Trump. nothing about principles.

Starting point is 02:04:26 That's why he doesn't have a problem with phony emergencies and martial law. He said, hopefully L.A. is watching as well. Look, if the Democrats want to impeach him for something, impeach him for this type of thing, if he does it. None of this nonsense like Russiagate, the impeachments that they had against him the first time were nonsense. And it was as ridiculous as his criticisms of Pritzko. there's plenty to criticize Pritzker about much of what you could criticize Pritzker for was the kind of things that he did in 2020 that were virtually identical to what Trump was doing so yeah

Starting point is 02:05:07 criticize them for that but look if somebody is just going to throw the constitutional way and wants to set up surveillance wants to lock down our free speech at the demands of a foreign government Israel or unregistered for an agents like APAC, impeach him for that. Of course, they want to impeach him for his catering to APAC, but they should impeach him for the federalizing of the police and the rest of this stuff. I've got a couple of comments here before we take a quick break. Hi Boo says, David's right. Trump literally keeps claiming fake emergencies to do whatever he wants. Where do he get that idea? COVID rings a bell. Yeah. And guess what? He got away with him.

Starting point is 02:05:53 it. He got away with it. The Democrats never came after him for that. And just like Democrats and Republicans never came after James Clapper for lying to Congress about their surveillance of American citizens without a search warrant. And they let that expire with the statute of limitations. And yet, look at what is happening now with Republicans. They're filing referrals to the Department of Justice over perjury for Jerome Powell because he was was had some of the details wrong about their extravagant remodeling of the Federal Reserve building fire him for the extravagant remodeling don't fire him for lying about the details of the extravagant remodeling fire them because the Federal Reserve Act is an abomination it was put in as a trick a nice of

Starting point is 02:06:46 storm says let's hope that the National Guard will observe their oaths Unfortunately, most good military have been purged. That's what Trump did. It says it's amazing to watch the progression of this stuff. It really was planned out in advance. You know, you get the good people out of the military, then you declare martial law. You're absolutely right, Jason. Cecilia 14.

Starting point is 02:07:07 David, we may as well have Palantir as president. Oh, wait, we do. J.D. Palantir, Trump's handler, and then the shadows will come forth when they decide. I agree. Yeah, he is absolutely connected to Peter Thiel. these people. Right, Overture says the police were hired by the city of D.C. Trump can't constitutionally fire those cops. Well, I think that when you look at the District of Columbia, and I haven't looked at it carefully enough, but it's not like a state or local government. Congress has say over

Starting point is 02:07:43 certain things that happen there. And of course, Congress isn't going to do anything. Congress has is being led by this sycophant Mike Johnson who lets Trump do whatever Trump wants. They will never question anything they does. Nice to Storm says, why can't Maga see that all of his campaign promises from his first term never happened, even though he says they did?

Starting point is 02:08:05 And we're seeing that again, aren't we? Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back. Stay with us. I don't know. You're listening. to the David Knight Show. Well, earlier, Travis talked about the kind of the fascist model of governing that is happening

Starting point is 02:09:31 with Trump and the fact that he is setting up capitalism, moved towards state capitalism with American characteristics. And I've always thought it was very interesting to see China as a mixture of that. And, of course, the Wall Street Journal guy said, you know, people always. said that China would move towards the American model as things went along. But no, they didn't. And why? Because of the authoritarianism that they had. You know, it was moving in that direction. And then they put the brakes on at Tiananmen Square. And then they stepped on the gas to go back to the other direction. But you can have an authoritarian Communist Party and you can have

Starting point is 02:10:12 crony capitalism and corruption at the same time. China is an interesting state because it is a mixture of communism and fascism. When we talk about fascism, I'm talking about it economically in the sense that it's a fusion of the government and of corporations. You don't get to open up a business or have a successful business in China unless you're in with the Chinese Communist Party. And if you're one of the crooks in the club, like Guo, this guy that's hooked up with Steve Bannon in the past. you know, he became a billionaire, and then he fell out with a club, and he had to flee China, and they've been after him since that.

Starting point is 02:10:58 But that is the kind of model that you see happening of the Trump administration. All of these billionaires buying influence with him, giving him gifts and all the rest of this stuff, it's disgusting to see this kind of corruption. I think this administration is setting a whole new pattern, and I'm worried that it's going to stick around after Trump is gone. but it is a kind of corrupt fascist authoritarianism. And, of course, when you think about fascism, the popular idea is that fascism was all about nationalism, hypernationalism.

Starting point is 02:11:31 Well, you see that in China. You see that with Trump as well. It's not just the merger of state and corporations. And as part of this, you see the massive amount of personal enrichment that Trump has already made in the first six months. months. As this is from Wall Street, this is Wall Street Journalhead report on this, but dizzying some, experts alarmed the staggering fortune that Trump has raked in as president in just his first six months. He's elevated self-dealing to an unprecedented level during his presidency,

Starting point is 02:12:06 according to a new deep dive by David Kirkpatrick and the New Yorker. Actually, I said Wall Street Journal. It was a New Yorker. This published yesterday, experts are alarmed by his apparent lack of concern for how this appears to the public. Why should he care? The Democrats hate him so much personally. There wasn't anything that he could do that they wouldn't take exception to. And the GOP partisans love him so much that there isn't anything that he could do that they wouldn't excuse. Kirkpatrick estimated that Trump has raped in 3.4 billion in presidential profits. He calls that a dizzying sum. When Trump is first elected, 2016, there were extensive conflicts ranging from Secret Service paying for services at his

Starting point is 02:12:52 properties to the Trump Hotel in D.C. being patronized by foreign dignitaries looking to curry favor. But back then, even as the president refused to release his tax returns, at least Trump wanted to create the impression he was working through the ethical issues. And I said at the time, I said they want the tax returns because he's got very complicated tax returns. And they could use them and portray them any way they wanted it. I mean, that would be just a target-rich environment to go through that stuff. That's a criticism not of Trump. That's a criticism of the income tax structure. And folks, he's not going to do anything to get rid of that. He's still talking about how he's going to give permanent tax breaks here and change this tax code over there. There's no

Starting point is 02:13:40 restructure of this, and they're not going to make enough money. They want you to think that they're going to make enough money off of tariffs to support this gargantuan government. They don't have enough money combined from tariffs and the income tax to cover the money that they're spending. The spending is the problem. And if they're going to continue to get government involved in things for which it has no legitimate authority, we're going to continue to run up these massive deficits. Per Trump's tax lawyer at the time, Sherry Dillon, she said, since Trump's star-turned,

Starting point is 02:14:15 turn on the NBC reality show, The Apprentice, the Trump organization has mainly sold the use of his name. She said most of its profits came from developers who flew the Trump flag over the building that he didn't build or own, or from businesses that used his name to sell shirts, mattresses, or pizza. By the way, there was article that was picked up on mainstream press, the anti-Trump press, and they said, Maga is eating its own that, uh, you know, ICE had come in and taken out the owner of a business that sold Trump burgers and other things like that, piggybacked on that. And I'll look at that and I thought, you know, I think that is as much about his infringement

Starting point is 02:15:03 on the name as it is his infringement on the country coming here illegally. But nevertheless, anyway, if Trump tried to offload his whole company, don't explain, a buyer might overpay in order to curry favor with the president or just as worrisome might demean the highest office in the land by crassfully cashing in on the president's name. Trump and his family, Dylan, declared, would never do anything that might be perceived to be exploitative of the office of presidency. But she's long gone from representing the Trump family. And this article says, now even the pretense of guardrails.

Starting point is 02:15:43 is off. A $2 billion investment from a fund controlled by the Saudi Crown Prince, a luxury jet from the Emir of Qatar, profits from at least five different ventures peddling crypto, fees from an exclusive club stocked with cabinet officials and named the executive branch. Meanwhile, Trump Jr. said in a recent meeting that when it comes to foreign deals, the Trumps will no longer lock themselves, quote, in a proverbial padded room, because it almost doesn't matter. They're going to hit you no matter what. Well, he's right about that. That's what I said.

Starting point is 02:16:23 He gets away with this. And he's taking us into this dictatorship and this kind of corrupt crony capitalism because they know that no matter what, the left is going to criticize him. And we also know, don't we, that no matter what, MAGA will always make. an excuse for him. They never end with the excuses. They're constantly going. As a matter of fact, when Trump said that he was going to Alaska, as he was talking about martial law in D.C., and he's got the Secretary of Defense there, as well as Pam Bondi, Department of Justice Attorney General, he says this. Emergency. And it's embarrassing for me to be up here.

Starting point is 02:17:09 You know, I'm going to see Putin. I'm going to Russia on Friday. I don't think I'm talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was. Yeah, he went full Sarah Palin. I can see Russia from here. Well, you know, he's going to Alaska. He said he's going to Russia. And if he look at that tweet that I pulled that from, underneath it are all of these people from MAGA making excuses for him.

Starting point is 02:17:42 Well, of course, because it's so close to Russia, it's like going to Russia. And we got it from Russia and all the rest of this stuff. It's just no matter what he does, even something as minor as that. And, of course, the left is trying to make a big deal out of that saying, listen, he's not mentally sound. You know, he doesn't even know where he's going. He's calling Alaska, Russia. And that's an overstep. But, you know, they don't say that.

Starting point is 02:18:09 Instead, they try, oh, yeah, he's absolutely right. It is Russia. This is the partisan blinders on both sides that are going to wind up getting us all living in a dictatorship here. Ethics reform attorney Fred Wertheimer said, When it comes to using his public office to amass personal profits, Trump is a unicorn. No one else even comes close, he said. He said, we'll never really know just how much Trump profited from the presidency, although it certainly is in the billions. He doesn't talk about it anymore.

Starting point is 02:18:44 He may be the greatest con artist in American history. Well, I would definitely agree with that assessment. The original article from David Kirkpatrick was titled, How Much is Trump Profiting Off of the Presidency? And it truly is amazing when you look at it. Well, we're going to take a quick break here. And by the way, before we leave this, Don Jr., is also debuting direct sales product for pharmaceutical companies.

Starting point is 02:19:18 Yeah, his daddy set the stage for that, didn't he? How much did he get paid under the table for pushing out MRNA and for channeling money to Pfizer and to Moderna? That was disgusting the amount of money that he threw at them to make that poison. And it was also disgusting to see how his own people had, you know, were out there pushing people to the cult to inject the Kool-Aid into their arms. So I wonder how much they got kicked back from Warp Speed. But that's what Don Jr. is doing now.

Starting point is 02:19:55 So you think they're really going to pull in pharmaceutical companies? When the Trump family is making money, so much money from pharmaceutical companies, and look, he wants to have direct sale products for pharmaceutical companies. So the pharmaceutical, you won't have the ask your doctor. anymore tagline on there instead go this website and we'll sell it to you directly there's never enough money for them and they don't want you to have any information you know i was shut down off of these different sites off of spotify and others because they didn't want me talking about what was happening in pharmaceutical products and they want to keep that quiet they have different

Starting point is 02:20:35 things that they want to cover up now but it's always about free speech they will sell products directly to patients, direct-cell platforms, and it could be an example of potential conflicts of interest, they say, well, of course it is. Of course it is. Don Jr. is going to sell the stuff, and, you know, they'll go back and they'll say, well, yeah, look at a difference. You know, Hunter Biden actually used the pharmaceuticals, or maybe non-pharmaceuticals but, you know, the Democrats have got Hunter Biden, and we've got Rick Perry, who's now

Starting point is 02:21:09 made it his life mission to sell this, this drug that is like a, you know, truly is a pharmacia, truly is sorcery and the hallucinogenic to rewire your brain. He says that is now going to be his life's work. Well, good for you. The Commerce Department, meanwhile, is threatening to take down ownership of Harvard's patents. You know, why are we giving nine billion $9 billion with a B to Harvard. That is an outrage. There is no authority in the Constitution to give a single penny to universities.

Starting point is 02:21:51 Harvard was the first university, and it was a private university. I remember when we were in North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the first state university founded quite some time after Harvard a private university was. When this country was founded, we didn't have the government,

Starting point is 02:22:08 involved in funding universities and the rest of the stuff. That's why you can't afford to go to college anymore because they have subsidized it. Whenever you subsidize it, it gets more expensive. And so even the state schools are getting virtually unaffordable, but certainly the private schools. So they get $9 billion a year. And nobody, Republican and Democrat, has a problem with that in Washington until they criticized Israel, until they allowed free speech on their campus criticizing a foreign government. Now they want to take the money away for that. And if they were to crack down on that, they'll be more than happy to let Harvard continue to get the $9 billion plus collect royalties off of patents that they have produced after the subsidies from the

Starting point is 02:22:54 government. So the government gives them $9 billion. How much of this is in terms of research grants? And if the research grants produce a product, Harvard keeps the products. How do we stop that kind of corruption? It is truly outrageous. But of course, when you look at the National Institutes of Health, where Fauci was, those people get to keep the royalties. They're employees of the federal government. And if they develop anything there at the NIH that they could sell, they get to keep the patents for that. That's part of the outrage. And of course, there's been no investigation of that. People are constantly talking about, well, show us the documents. for Oklahoma City or show us the documents for the JFK assassination or show us the documents

Starting point is 02:23:40 for the Epstein file. Hey, how about this? Just show us the documents for who got the royalties in the NIH. Could we even know that? No, everything in Washington is hidden from you while they want to use Palantir to make your life an open book to them, even being able to predict what you're going to do. Federal government is looking at Harvard University's patent rights, the Department of Congress is initiating a so-called March-in process under the Bay Dole Act, a federal patent policy allowing recipients of federal funds to retain patent rights over their inventions made with federal funding. The Act's March-N rights, however, give the federal government the authority to grant licenses of such patents to third parties under certain conditions where federally

Starting point is 02:24:30 funded interventions are not being adequately developed. or utilize for the public good. So what they could do is they could go in and they could make these patents public domain, essentially. But nobody else has done that before. Lucky Lutnik said that Harvard has, quote, failed to live up to its obligations to the American taxpayer. It doesn't have any obligations to the American taxpayer

Starting point is 02:24:55 because there's no obligations Lutnik defined in the Constitution because it was never intended that they would begin, given nine billion dollars. That's the problem. These people always address a secondary or tertiary problem and they'll never get back to the root cause, which is ignoring the Constitution, which is the rule of law. It says in breach of the statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements tied to Harvard's federally funded research programs. Well, you know what? If they got Statutes or regulations or contracts, if they don't align with the Constitution, which they don't, the 10th Amendment says, if you, anything that powers that have not been delegated to you by the states, you cannot infer or create those. And so that's basically what they've done, whether they did statutes or regulatory stuff or contracts.

Starting point is 02:25:49 So they're talking about the federally funded research programs and taking the intellectual property that was the result of that. Lutnik said the federal government intends to license Harvard's patents to third parties. And he's probably got some friends who are lined up to make money off of this, don't you think? I'm going to march right in there with that. The March Inn writes under the Bay Dole Act have not been exercised by any federal agency in the 40 years since its enactment. And just stop and think about this.

Starting point is 02:26:24 What they're saying is, if we give you federal funds to do research and you come up with an intellectual property or patents or whatever and you make profits off of that, then we can come in under certain circumstances and say, we're going to take the patent away from you and make it public domain. There's the Bay Dole Act, and of course is Bob Dole was Birchby and Bob Dole were the ones who put this together. It ignores the fact that there's no constitutional authority

Starting point is 02:26:53 for the federal government to give research grant funding to any of these corporations. I know, how would we survive if the federal government didn't fund research grants? Well, let me just encourage you to look at the misery that has been caused by bogus federal research grants throughout our society has been used to manipulate to change our society.

Starting point is 02:27:17 When you look at the money that DARPA and the CIA are giving to these organizations to do anticipatory intelligence, surveillance work, to experiment with pharmaceuticals, and now to experiment with electrical control of our minds and all the rest of the stuff. It has been a dark world that has been opened up with these federal research grants, and that needs to have the light shined on it and needs to be shut down. This unprecedented action is yet another retaliatory effort, said Harvard. targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom. Technologies and patents developed at Harvard are life-saving and industry redefining. Look, I don't like any of these research grants. I don't like what Harvard is doing. I don't like what the federal government is doing.

Starting point is 02:28:02 I don't like what DARPA is doing with the CIA. But consider the fact that the only reason that they're taking this stuff away is to punish them for allowing free speech and to allow peaceful, demonstrations against the policies of a foreign government. And it gets even more outrageous, doesn't it? The federal government has accused Harvard of anti-Semitism, the old dog whistle. I'm so sick and tired of this.

Starting point is 02:28:31 It's like the left, you know, whenever the left, you catch them on something, they won't talk to you about the issues. They just look at you and say, racist, you're racist. That's all those issues. Just repeat that, play the race car. That's what the GOP is doing now. You know, if you criticize what Netanyahu is doing, well, you're racist because they're

Starting point is 02:28:51 completely owned by the ADL and APAC. So the federal government has accused Harvard of anti-Semitism and non-disclosure related to foreign funding and race-based discrimination. Let's stop all this hate speech and allegations of racism. It's real, and they're making it so unreal that they're going to give cover and have been giving cover to people who are real racist. They've been crying wolf over racism. Now the right is doing the same thing the left is doing.

Starting point is 02:29:22 So as reprehensible as Harvard is, this is an abuse of power in order to deny free speech. The university held over, holds over 5,800 patents or held them as of July last year, and had more than 900 active technology licenses with 650 plus industry partners. Isn't it staggering to think about what a big business Harvard has become? To think about how much power they wield.

Starting point is 02:29:53 And, of course, we've seen evidence of this. Remember, Marty Gottesfeld and how, as he exposed Boston Children's Hospitals, medical kidnapping of that child, and how they came after him. And they locked him up like he was some kind of a foreign terrorist unit. They have these communication management units. where they put our political prisoners, they put Marty Gossfeld in there because he criticized a Harvard subsidiary

Starting point is 02:30:21 for medical kidnapping. But this is how strong Harvard is. And, of course, I've talked many times in the past to Dr. Shiva Adhure, who also fights against Harvard. He's up there in that area, and he knows the kind of political clout that they have. But it's pretty amazing how wealth they get $9 billion,

Starting point is 02:30:41 plus they've got almost 6,000 patents and 700,000. industry partners and all the rest of this. The letter asked Harvard, from the letter from Lutnik, to provide a comprehensive list of all patents they received from federally funded research grants by no later than September the 1st, a fifth rather, right? Homeland Security said Harvard's leadership has created an unsafe campus environment, permitting anti-American pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students

Starting point is 02:31:14 and otherwise obstruct its once venerable learning environment. Harvard hasn't been venerable for a couple of centuries. You shouldn't have any respect for anything that they do for the last couple hundred years. But it's not anti-American. It's anti-Israel that they're trying to shut down. And you know what?

Starting point is 02:31:35 Even if it was anti-American speech, whether or not you agree with it, whether or not it's true, whether or not it's anti-American, That is not the test. We have a right to redress your grievances and your criticisms of the American government. That especially includes foreign governments. And that's what is so reprehensible about what the Trump administration is doing here.

Starting point is 02:31:59 I said many of these agitators are foreign students. Yeah, well, guess what? You're doing this for a foreign government? You want to talk about foreign students protesting what a foreign government is doing? and you're defending the foreign government and you're destroying our Bill of Rights at the demands of this foreign government. That alone calls for it to be criticized.

Starting point is 02:32:25 So, you know, when a foreign government tells you you destroy the Bill of Rights and to punish people for free speech, that's the point at which I've had it with Israel. You know, it was two things. I said the other day, I was talking to Karen, and I said, at the beginning of this, I'm willing to give them the benefit of they doubt,

Starting point is 02:32:42 even if it looked like Netanyahu had done a stand down and invited that attack on October 7th because look it's you know everybody argues about who invaded first because we all understand at a base level that whoever quote unquote preemptively attacks is in the wrong but that's of course what we do all the time it's what Israel does as well and but it got to the point where and when something like that begins there were the talks of about how there were abuses and all the rest of this from the very beginning. But, you know, I didn't want to get involved in it because of the fog of war. People are making all kinds of claims.

Starting point is 02:33:22 If you're not there, and even if you are there, it's difficult to determine what the truth is in the midst of a firefight and things like that. So it stayed away from it. However, when they came in and started attacking people for free speech, that was it. And then it got to another level when Trump came in and openly talked about the purpose of a genocide so that he could open up, you know, have this for development and all the rest of stuff. That's exactly what people were talking about from the very beginning. You know, the term genocide was coined by a Jewish historian talking about Armenia and Azerbaijan and, or actually

Starting point is 02:34:02 at the time it was the Turks who were trying to kill all the Armenian Christians. And he said, this is a genocide. They want to kill everybody or get them off of land so they can have that land. Well, that's precisely what's going on in Gaza. Trump made that very clear. Netanyahu has made that very clear. And regardless of whether or not the initiation of the war was justified as part of a just war, to target civilians and to sustain it for years is what makes it unjustified. As I've said many times, it's like when somebody breaks into your house, you are entitled to defend your

Starting point is 02:34:41 and you can shoot to kill if they're coming at you. But if they grab your TV and they're running away from you and on the front lawn and they're not a threat to you, you can't shoot them in the back. That's the principle by which we say you can't target civilians. But that's what they've been doing. The university argued that the funding freeze was a blatant violation of the due process clause, the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. Well, they don't really have a late.

Starting point is 02:35:11 to stand on. They're not entitled to that money. I mean, the funding freeze is only part of it. They froze it for the wrong reason. But Harvard doesn't have a legitimate case in the Constitution to get a single penny from American taxpayers. They said it's the latest act by government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising his First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and ideology. Well, that's true. And I despise Harvard's ideology and that's one of the reasons why they shouldn't get a penny of federal money of taxpayer money we're going to take a quick break folks and we will be right yes what i'm just saying if this is a violation of their first amendment rights is it a violation of mine since i've

Starting point is 02:35:57 never gotten any money probably that's right yeah under the due process clause where's my money i need nine billion dollars uh and uh under the administrative procedure act you know it's like I'm still waiting for my first check from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and it looks like they're going to go out of business before they write me one. I've always said that if people want a particular broadcaster program, they can support it, and we do appreciate the people who support us here. And thank you so much. It's voluntary.

Starting point is 02:36:31 We don't put it behind a paywall, and we don't run marathon promotions like PBS does. All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be the one of the I'm going to

Starting point is 02:37:25 I'm going to I'm I'm and a lot of I'm going to you know I'm going and

Starting point is 02:37:38 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I know. I don't know. I don't know. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well, Doug D.O7 says, if I understand correctly, all these David segments were supposed to be a compilation of older clips.

Starting point is 02:38:28 Well, that was what Travis announced. When he got up this morning to prepare for the show, he was feeling really, really bad. And he put together a couple of clips. But I wanted to come on because I think that what is happening, with this martial law. And it's not the first time, of course, that we've seen the martial law. That's why I opposed Trump. You know, that plus a cold-blooded murder of people around the world.

Starting point is 02:38:52 I think he is a international war criminal for warp speed. But that is part of the deep state. They laid the foundation for that was laid just prior to 9-11. And right afterwards, they put out the model legislation after the anthrax attack that they also did. and they practiced, they rehearsed the germ games for 20 years until they could get somebody like Trump in so they could actually pull the trigger on it.

Starting point is 02:39:20 That's how deep, the deep state is. These people keep thinking that he's their savior, just like he's going to round up the pedophile rings when he was part of one of the most notorious pedophile rings with Jeffrey Epstein that ever existed. Both of them creatures of the intelligence agencies. Well, again, I wanted to come on because this is, this is very important. We're trying to get the studio together here so that we can, we're trying

Starting point is 02:39:45 to rearrange everything so that, so I can do it with Travis because it's difficult for me to do three hours of the broadcast as of yet. And I enjoy having a banter back and forth anyway with both of my sons here. We do that at home. I thought you guys might like it as well. I always enjoy that better than just monologuing. But that's why I'm not back. yet. And, but I thought, well, Travis is feeling so bad. I'm going to take this over after we, he did the rebroadcast in the interview. Dustin Helm, thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that. And nights of the storm. Thank you. I said, please don't get too worked up, David. It's great to see you live again. Prayers for the family. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for the prayers.

Starting point is 02:40:29 I have to say, um, uh, Karen was feeling very, very poorly as well. Um, you know, I told you to broke her ankle back in January. And the doctors, because of the insurance companies, they don't want to look except at one thing at one time. So we've got approval to look at your ankle. My knee is killing me. We've only got approval for your ankle. So they let the knee get worse and worse.

Starting point is 02:40:54 And after I came home and she's running around waiting on me hand and foot, her knee, I guess, not just foot, her knee got really bad and swelled up. She finally got them take a look at it. and do some x-rays and then eventually do a scan. I want to say an MRI scan, but it wasn't MRI. What is it? Anyway, they did a scan. They could see that it was torn cartilage there.

Starting point is 02:41:24 So I appreciate the prayers, and we appreciate God has really blessed her, and she's feeling much better now as well. We were a real sorry sight going to the doctors between the two of us. We're as, you know, wheelchairs and canes and staggering into the place. It was pretty amazing. But we're much better now. And we thank you for praying because it's not the medical community that's helping us. The healing comes from God.

Starting point is 02:41:51 And that's true of our country as well. What if God isn't sending a savior through the ballot box? This is an op-ed piece from Christian Post, Michael Wiki. He said, it's a strange thing to watch so many believers wait with bated breath for the next election as if the soul of the nation and even the future of the church hinges on who sits in the White House. Many well-meaning Christians are hoping that a certain political leader, even one with a troubled moral track record, who could he be talking about here?

Starting point is 02:42:26 I think he'd be talking about any of them, left or right, Republican or Democrat, that they might bring America back to God. We could come back to God with the Trump family values. This is the guy who wouldn't be the first one to include men in beauty contests. Yeah, right. But this is exactly how I feel. I hate to see people put their hope and their faith in politics or in a particular person or in their job or their career or whatever.

Starting point is 02:42:57 That is not where our hope lies. We have to ask an uncomfortable question. What if God isn't sending a savior through the ballot box? What if he's sending discipline instead? And he says, God often used pagan kings not to lead revivals, but to wake his people up through judgment. Think about Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem,

Starting point is 02:43:21 carried Judah into exile, or Assyria, the empire that crushed the northern kingdom of Israel. God even called Assyria, the rod of my anger in Isaiah. These rulers were not, godly men. They were instruments in God's hand used to discipline the people who had forgotten him. You have all these people saying, Trump is like Cyrus who helped Israel. Maybe he's more like Nebuchadnezzar. Who knows? Sometimes God sends prophets, but other times he sends kings with

Starting point is 02:43:54 iron fists. And the only Christian nation that we have today is the church. That's the way God refers to the church. He refers to it as a nation, as a holy people, as a chosen people. But we want to project that onto a nation that doesn't care about God whatsoever. There is no political salvation of countries that are there. It's about individuals. And the salvation that Jesus Christ offers is there for anybody, regardless of what your ethnic background is. But there is no salvation outside of that.

Starting point is 02:44:30 And that's one of the things that bothers me so much about. American Christians is how obsessed they are with politics, American and Israeli politics, how obsessed they are with knowing the future, you know, just go get a crystal ball or hire the Witch of Indoor or something. They're so obsessed with all that stuff and they miss what the New Testament, what the Bible is really about. Old and New Testament is about the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet that's not what people are interested in, is it? We'll get to the good part. Skip over all this stuff about Jesus.

Starting point is 02:45:06 Let's get to what happens at the end of the world. That's what people have the itching ears. And they've got teachers who are teaching him. And as a result of that teaching, they're cheering the mass murder of civilians and children and the slow starvation of these people. That's what they're cheering. That's the evil fruit from these false teachers that sound there. Anyway, Jesus said, my kingdom is not a very. this world, right? Throughout the New Testament, they made it clear that God was creating a

Starting point is 02:45:41 holy nation, a people of his own possession, and those are the believers in Christ. A true Christian nation is spiritual, not geographical, not bound by borders, by flags, by constitutions. It's made up of people redeemed by the blood of Christ from every tribe, tongue, and nation. God doesn't need a superpower to fulfill his purposes. He is the superpower. He needs a faithful people. History and scripture remind us that popular spiritual leadership is not always

Starting point is 02:46:16 faithful leadership. In Jeremiah's day, the prophets assured everyone that peace was coming. Jeremiah alone warned of judgment. He went up in the bottom of a well. That's the equivalent, I guess, he getting kicked off of all the social media platforms and YouTube. today. You know, sent you to the bottom of the well, of course, physically even a lot more uncomfortable. I don't feel anything from being kicked off of these other

Starting point is 02:46:39 platforms. 400 prophets... We took them off of the platform right beside the well. Yeah, they de-platformed them, and he went straight to the bottom of the well. 400 prophets told King Ahab to go into battle, only Maekiah dared to speak God's truth, and he was thrown into prison for telling the truth. Jesus said Beware when all men speak well of you So that's right So did they have the false teachers

Starting point is 02:47:08 No president he writes No matter how strong or sympathetic to Christian values Can bring a nation back to God Do you really think that Trump or Biden or anybody else Such as Lala Harris is sympathetic to Christian values I think they are raising their fist to God pretty much every time they speak based on their pride and what they're doing.

Starting point is 02:47:34 Revival doesn't come through policies or speeches. It comes through the power of the Holy Spirit, working in the hearts of God's people. No party, no political movement, no president is going to save us, folks. Sometimes, maybe even now, God uses hardship, decline, and even ungodly leadership to wake us up,

Starting point is 02:47:55 not because he's cruel. but because he's a loving father who disciplines those he loves. Could it be that God has allowed ungodly leaders not to restore America, but to humble his church? Could it be that we are confused culturally? We've confused cultural Christianity with true discipleship, and God is pulling down our idols? I don't pretend to know what God is doing, but I know this. Revival does not start in Washington. It starts on your knees.

Starting point is 02:48:27 Let's stop looking for salvation in the wrong places. Look, if you want reform, start with yourself, start with your family. And one of the best things that you could do is to take control of your children. Look, it has been an obsession with this beast in Washington to grab the minds and the souls of our children from an early age. And everybody knows this. you know, God has talked about this. Satan has talked about it. Plato's talked about it. Figures throughout history have talked about, you know, get the children when they're young and their mind for life. That's why God tells us to raise our children, to fear and follow him. And a good example of

Starting point is 02:49:11 what you can accomplish. I want to show you something that is truly countercultural. And this is some homeschool teens that saved a restaurant. for a couple. They had, it's a mom-and-pop business, and they had a restaurant, and they began hiring homeschool kids as young as 14 because they knew they were hard workers. And she essentially became family to them. She supported their extracurricular activities and things like that.

Starting point is 02:49:41 And then one day, she dropped to the ground with a grand mal seizure, and these kids took over. They trained other homeschoolers, and they ran the business while her husband was even gone, at her bedside in the hospital. Here's a story about those done by the local news. In Wisconsin, there's a cafe. Urban Oliveindine, how can I help you? With a reputation.

Starting point is 02:50:03 My name's Lily Benzer and I'm 18 years old. Teenagers. My name is Tori and I'm 17. Lainey and I'm 16 years old. Lots of them. Right now we're up to 30. Chad trainers. So yeah, 30 teenagers.

Starting point is 02:50:17 And wife Carol built their business with teen employees. I'm Acacia and I'm 17 14 to 18 really Joe and 15 years old they soak up information they want to learn they want to do well and then the teens who helped build their business yeah saved their business in this room on September 28th she collapsed on the floor and had a grandma seizures Carol would spend the next eight months in the hospital mostly in Minneapolis and much Mostly in a coma with Chad bedside. Not once. I didn't ask one teenager to do anything extra. He didn't have to. They just did it. This is the pantry.

Starting point is 02:51:03 For eight months, their teens essentially ran their place. I don't really think about things very much. I just kind of go. Acacia started arriving at 5.30 to open. She's a great leader. Joe and the other homeschoolers kept things going during the day. And that one doesn't get anything on the top. And everyone took on new roles.

Starting point is 02:51:25 Now do a little drizzle. They trained each other, came up with the specials, and kept Carol's plants alive. Me and Tori, mainly, we would go shopping for Chad. I have pictures of, like, my huge carts of stuff, and, like, my car would be full of stuff. And then I, like, look in here and see if anything needs to get paid or anything. Jobs, they lifted off the shoulders of Carol and Chad. It's a family here. Carol and Shannon.

Starting point is 02:51:51 Chad's family. Carol always offered help with, like, school homework and just, like, life in general. Carol and Chad sponsored their pageants and never missed their school sports and performances. It's almost unfair for it not to be reciprocated back to them. I mean, we didn't know at the time. My wife was dying, and they just thought they were helping out because we were, she needed help. You know, they need to think it's covered until she came back. Carol did not come back in May.

Starting point is 02:52:21 She died at 58. She was just a really amazing person. Lily and all the other teenagers attended Carol's funeral. Then the teens got back to work, still pausing occasionally so they can lean on each other. I knew we would all not do good today. We're not even cutting onions yet. I know. Without them, the restaurant would not exist.

Starting point is 02:52:51 Thank you. These kids became adults and ran our business and took care of me. Urban Olive and Vine can be found in the heart of Hudson. Do you leave a cup for me? Run by the teens at the heart of Urban Olive and Vine. I love them like they're my own kids. Boydney, Carol Levin News. Hi.

Starting point is 02:53:12 Hudson. I'm Jewel. I'll be your server. Yeah, you know. it's a common thing for homeschoolers and the families to understand the difference it makes when you're involved in your child's life there was john taylor gaddo who was twice teacher of the year in new york state and that's the kind of thing that he would do he would take his kids out and he was a big found a big uh influence in the founding of the homeschooling movement in the 80s uh and what he did

Starting point is 02:53:52 was he would take his kids out of the classroom so let's get into the real world let's do some things and you have the opportunity to do that with homeschooling we have a government institution called public schools i call them government schools uh that institution is there to do everything exactly the opposite of what young people need in terms of training to take on jobs and other things like that. It used to be before we had government schools, you had people like John Paul Jones that wind up in charge as a captain of a ship by the time there were 17 or 18. I forget the exact ages when he took over that. But they would give responsibility to kids who wanted it and who were capable of it. They would not pigeonhole people and

Starting point is 02:54:38 set them on the shelf until they age to a certain position. And that really is the whole. The hope of our country. If you want revival, have revival with yourself, have revival in your connection to God, and have a revival with your connection to your family. Take responsibility for that. Train your kids. When you look at what is happening around the world, it truly is amazing the fact that Christians, as we have it here, so easy, we still have Christians throughout the world that are being killed by different political groups, whether it's India, whether it's Africa, whether it's other Islamic countries as well. It's a silent genocide as African ISIS is beheading Christians while the U.S. funds Christian destruction elsewhere. They said it's like

Starting point is 02:55:31 29-11s or 50 October the 7th. That's approximately how many Christians have been murdered by Islamic jihadists in Africa. This is the new American covering it. You don't see these kind of stories covered by American media. They don't care. The silent genocide, as one ex-U.S. diplomat puts it, is still ongoing too. And it's a genocide. Why? Because they want to get the Christians out of the area, just as they did in Armenia. They want the Christians out so they can take it over. Same thing is happening in Israel with Gaza. ISIS effort to establish a new caliphate there. Eurasian Christian communities are being destroyed elsewhere with Israeli arms funded by the United States.

Starting point is 02:56:17 So, as he points out here, I think this is an interesting point. Unbeknownst to most Christians, Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa by the 400s A.D. As a matter of fact, you look at Augustine was in North Africa. Christianity was dominant in North Africa. And then the Muslims came in 622. Muslim armies swept across North Africa, and the rest is history. So North Africa has been Islamic since the 600s after the Muslims conquered it.

Starting point is 02:56:52 But sub-Saharan Africa was basically open to Christianity, even though their religion was a pagan religion of animism and things like that. But now ISIS terrorists are trying to move south into sub-Saharan Africa. And they're beheading Christians burning churches and homes in southern and central Africa. The attacks on Christians are increasing in the region. Four attacks on Christian villages in Mozambique, with churches burned, burned down, and corpses of what the jihadists call infidels left strewn on the ground. But I wanted to focus on what is happening in Eurasia, northern Eurasia. We mentioned that. That's, again, in Azerbaijan that has been

Starting point is 02:57:37 coming after Armenia. And Israel is arming Azerbaijan as they commit genocide against Christians in Armenia. How about that? It is illegal for America to arm them, but America can give the money and the weapons to Israel, and then Israel can sell it to the Muslims to commit genocide against Christians in Armenia. That's the way the system works. That's what they're partnering partnering together for there. Political commentator Anna Kasparian asserted that Israel armed Azerbaijan to erase the Armenian people from Karabakh.

Starting point is 02:58:20 She referenced the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan's decisive victory in 2023, the world saw scenes of mass exodus as Armenian Christians chose to burn down their homes rather than surrender them. ancient church buildings desecrated, and over 100,000 people fleeing under military pressure. Freedom House confirmed this is an ethnic cleansing, enabled by Israeli-supplied drones and

Starting point is 02:58:52 surveillance tech. Here's where American policy becomes complicit. America sends Israel $3.8 billion annually in military aid and spent $18 billion on aid to Israel the year following October 2023. Azerbaijan is such a bad actor that U.S. law actually prohibits us from selling any arms to it.

Starting point is 02:59:15 Israel, however, doesn't have any constraints. Evidently, no ethics either. Britain, which once spread Christianity to the very corners of the earth, police are now recently threatened to arrest a pastor after he was attacked by a Muslim mob. His sin, he expounded on the differences

Starting point is 02:59:33 between Christianity and Islam while holding a Quran. And I've got to say, I've said this before. We used to always love to go to a speaker's corner when we were in London. And it used to be the police would protect free speech because it was always about politics. But now they come after the Christians. Real quickly, I got behind here, Dustin Helm, thank you very much. Doug Alug and DG8, thank you so much for supporting us. I appreciate that. And DG8 says, prayers work, God is good. Yes, they do. And Hi, Hi, Boost says, hey, David, how come there's no emergency for the natural debt and Congress is not no longer allowed to spend a dime until balanced debt budget passed yes absolutely true yeah that is not an emergency for them

Starting point is 03:00:17 it's going to be an emergency in a couple of years where they keep kicking this can down the road it is building momentum and building in size and it is going to be a big emergency is like those things you know how does it happen gradually then suddenly I would say that's the same way as I was thinking after the strokes how does the one do you do that's one get old. I think gradually then suddenly. This story of the debt and the ballooning debt is getting very old and it is going to come crashing down on our heads. Well, thank you. That's all the time that we have today. Thank you so much for joining us. Have a good day. and dumbed down our children.

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