The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #2145: Trump’s War on the Rule of Law

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

00:00:52 — Illegal Orders & the Myth of Military Obedience Knight opens by exposing the dangerous belief spreading through MAGA circles that troops must obey presidential commands even when unla...wful, warning this reverses Nuremberg principles and destroys constitutional limits. 00:17:48 — Trump Is the Source of Rotted Political Culture Knight argues Trump normalized depravity, corruption, and dysfunction on the Right, creating a political ecosystem where foreign-run troll accounts merely imitate his own conduct. 01:02:48 — Screen Time Is Physically Damaging Children’s Brains Knight reviews MRI research showing structural brain damage in kids from chronic screen exposure—especially in memory, planning, and impulse-control regions—raising alarms about generational neurological decline. 01:07:34 — DARPA’s Long Obsession With Mind-Control Weapons Knight details how DARPA and contractors continue MKUltra’s legacy through modern neurotech, brain–computer interfaces, and cognitive-influence weapons that bypass traditional constitutional protections. 01:14:14 — Chemical Weapons Loopholes Enable Modern Neuro-Agents Knight warns that nations exploit treaty gaps to deploy powerful incapacitating chemicals, pointing to past mass-casualty events as examples of how governments justify such weapons. 01:22:28 — 41% of Young Adults Want AI Running the Government Knight highlights alarming polling showing huge support among younger Americans for AI making policy decisions, interpreting it as a collapse of faith in republican governance. 01:28:03 — Albania Appoints AI as a Government Minister Knight reports on Albania elevating an AI system into a cabinet role, calling it a propaganda operation designed to normalize machine authority as “neutral” and superior to human judgment. 02:01:14 — Trump’s Hand-Picked Prosecutor Exposed as Illegally Appointed Knight explains how Trump’s prosecutor violated the 120-day appointment statute, causing major cases—including the Comey prosecution—to collapse and exposing systemic legal incompetence inside Trump’s DOJ. 02:07:32 — Trump’s Tariff Regime Was Lawless Economic Warfare Knight argues that Trump weaponized tariffs to punish adversaries rather than protect Americans, a strategy so procedurally illegal it may force the government to refund billions. 02:44:49 — Pentagon Says Troops Must Obey Illegal Orders Knight condemns the Pentagon for targeting Sen. Mark Kelly after he urged soldiers not to follow unlawful commands, saying the administration is openly dismantling the legal foundation of the U.S. military. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You know, world of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act it's the david night show as the clock strikes 13 it's tuesday the 25th of november year of our lord 2025 well today we're going to talk about the issue that i think must not die and that is the idea that it is the idea that it is is somehow necessary for soldiers to follow illegal orders. We're going to get into that in more detail. And we're going to take a look at the clown show that is the Trump administration, as we see Comey and Letitia James walking.
Starting point is 00:01:16 And it was something that I told you about, if you remember, a couple of weeks ago. People already started talking about the fact that Trump had jumped ahead with this thing and illegally appointed the prosecutor, who really didn't have it. any experience and didn't know what she was doing, this has all come out. And of course, it's being spun by the MAGA media as the corrupt left in control of our courts. It's not that at all. It's their clown idiot CEO who couldn't run casinos for a profit. Bankrupted at a half dozen of them. But we're going to begin with something that has tremendous impact for us in the future. And that's going to be tech and AI, some amazing, startling and frightening
Starting point is 00:01:59 results we're going to be right back stay with us well joining us today is Travis and his latest acquisition a puppy that he's been busy he's been gone and he's found a dog that somebody gave to him it's a it wasn't challenging enough to have a toddler now we're going to get puppy as well. So, uh, I mean, you can never have too much fun. So yeah, we met a couple at a loves gas station and they had three puppies that had been found at a buckies earlier that day and they were going to foster them out. And so how could, how could we say no with this little guy who is too cute? Yeah, we tried to tell them to say no, but we'll see what happens. Well, I want to begin today with going a little bit deeper and the implications of what Elon
Starting point is 00:02:58 on must said the other day that I reported when he was at, and get this, he is at a Saudi investment seminar forum in Washington, D.C. What do you think they're investing in in Washington, D.C.? Politicians? Who's going to get them the most return on their investment? Yeah, they are for sale to the highest better, whether you're talking about Saudi Arabia or Israel or anyone. So even Ukraine can work out a backroom deal with them. You know, you channeled money to them and they kick it back to you as well. So we're seeing that everywhere. He's getting a little bit excited about this. He's excited to be in the room with us. Also, I want to make the offer to the viewers. He doesn't have a name yet. We've got some in the running. If you would
Starting point is 00:03:44 like, you can help us choose. We're thinking either Bishop, Ranger, Jet, or Sticks with a Y, like the river sticks. That's my wife's favorite. So if you'd like, feel free to send a donation with the name you would prefer and then we'll get him out of here in a minute and he'll go back so we can have puppy fun well I want to talk first about X the shadow hands as I refer to it because I've been shadow banned there for so long I've been shadow banned on X since 1986 I'm sorry not like six since uh august the sixth of 2018 uh it seems like 1986 but um anyway this is an article from the atlantic elan musk's worthless poisoned hall of mirrors that's what they're talking about with x as i said i see it not as a hall of mirrors but i see
Starting point is 00:04:39 it as a shadow lens um how x blew up its own platform with a new location feature over the weekend they put an update about this account allows people to click on the profile, see information like which country the account was created in, where the user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed. Now, that they can accurately determine. It turns out that maybe there's some questions about the other data there. Are they hallucinating with that?
Starting point is 00:05:09 So Nikita Beer, X's head of products, so the feature was, quote, an important first step to securing the integrity, of the global town square how many times by the way let me just give you the punchline here four hours later Nikita tweets out I need a beer or drink rather beer is her last name but anyway it turned out to be a quite a headache but look at that phrase there the global town square I've said over and over again when we talk about free speech on the internet. The principles here in America. And, you know, the UK can go big brother
Starting point is 00:05:51 and the rest of the EU can go big brother. We have a constitution. And we need to stand on that. And again, I understand that the government has ignored the constitution. They shredded it. They've burned it. They spit on it. They use it as toilet paper. But the bottom line, it's there. And they still swear to it as a condition of their authority. So we need to hold them to that. We need to say, this is the ruling document. And when you rule without this document, you have no authority. You may have power, but you have no authority. We're not going to obey you. We need to really hold them to that. And so when we look at the idea that it is a global town square, if you remember when there was all the censorship hearings and everything,
Starting point is 00:06:34 and it was after 2018 when we got banned at Info Wars. And then two months later in October, had 800 different sites that were not just pro-Trump sites. The common denominator there, these were all sites that were against the police and surveillance state and the military industrial complex. Those were the sites that got banned. Some of them were Trump supporters. But many who were not Trump supporters also got banned, Free Thought Project, for example. Anyway, when you go back and look at Jack Dorsey, who had Twitter at the time, he went
Starting point is 00:07:10 before Congress multiple times and said, we are the town square. Well, we have the court case that you've heard me talk about many, many times, Marsh v. Alabama. That was a company-owned town, a coal town. And there was an individual who was passing out religious tracks. And they arrested that person and said, you can't do that here. And they said, well, this is the public square. Took it to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court said, even if the public square is privately owned, free speech still applies in the public square. So again, they're still saying that it is a global town square, and it is. That is the appropriate way to look at it.
Starting point is 00:07:52 And I've had this argument. I had the argument with Robert Barnes when it has it in for words. He would say, well, no, we've had court cases since then saying that you can't exercise free speech in a shopping mall, for example. So the shopping mall is not the town square. It is private property. And you wouldn't expect that you'd be able to set up a soapbox and start talking about whatever you want to talk about, religion or politics or whatever, inside of a store.
Starting point is 00:08:21 I mean, if you did that inside a Walmart, they would escort you out, right? That is private property. And the same thing is true. Even in the common areas of the mall, that is still private property. People pay money to set up kiosks there. And you can't just set up your soapbox. start preaching about stuff. So that is the analogy that's there. However, when you look at what is actually being done, these people has now has been shown over and over again. And of course,
Starting point is 00:08:51 Musk released some of these things. And we've seen many of the documents, which we knew this was happening all along, that they were bowing to pressure from the government to censor people. And everybody said, well, private property, they can do whatever they want. No, they can't. Anyway, almost immediately about this account stated that many prominent ProMaga accounts, which signaled that they were run by patriotic Americans were actually based in countries like Nigeria, Russia, India, Thailand. For example, Maga Nation X, an account with almost 400,000 followers, and whose bio says it is a, quote, patriot voice for we the people.
Starting point is 00:09:33 It's based in Eastern Europe, according to the future. and that it changed its username five times since the account was made just last year. I think that's a big red flag as well. Maga Nadine claims to be living in and posting from the U.S. but is according to X based in Morocco. An American First account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. The X handle at American is based in Pakistan. in. Wait till they find out that the White House accounts being managed from Israel.
Starting point is 00:10:11 And that's for real, folks. They didn't put it up there on their ex bio, but it is being managed from Israel. This confirms what researchers and some observers have long known that foreign actors, whether it's bots or humans, are posing as Americans in piping political engagement, bait and miss and disinformation spam into people's timeline. X and Musk did not respond to this writer's request for comments. Yet the scale of deception is revealed by the about feature suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon of the far right, Musk may have revealed that the platform that he's on called the number one source of news on Earth is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors. Again, this is a hall of mirrors where people who really do put America first, who really do exercise free speech, who put Christ first, get shadow banned, don't tell the truth if they don't like the truth. So there's multiple claims, however, from people. Now, here's the other side of this.
Starting point is 00:11:20 They go on this story. They said, well, the ex-account of Hank Green, a YouTuber, says his account is based in Japan. But he told me Sunday that he had never been to Japan. And that there were a few rough edges, said X, that will be resolved by Tuesday today. So I looked at my account. And guess what, Travis? X says, I'm based in Ireland. They must have seen you on the show you're thinking.
Starting point is 00:11:47 The technology could use a little bit of refining, I suppose. I tweeted that out when I looked at that this morning. I said, well, I've never been to Ireland. I always wanted to go. but now that we have this authoritarian nightmare called air travel, I don't think I'll ever get there. So there are some issues with this. But the bottom line is they do make a point as to what's really happening
Starting point is 00:12:10 whether or not these people are foreign bots or human or actual bots programs. They make the point of how this space is being used. People are using the feature to try to score political points. Prominent posters have argued that mainstream media, have quoted mislabeled accounts without minimum due diligence. On Sunday, the Israeli foreign ministry posted a screenshot of an account that purported to be reporting news from Gaza, and X said the account was based in Poland. So Israel said, so you're reporting from Gaza is fake and not reliable.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Makes you wonder how many more fake new reports have you read. But the person in question posted a video on Sunday evening, insisting that he was in Gaza. Living in a tent after military strikes killed his wife and three children. I've been living in Gaza. I'm now living in Gaza, and I will continue living in Gaza until I die. Or until he's killed by BB bombs, I guess. According to the about feature, a popular, verified Islamophobic pro-Israel account that posts aggressively about American politics, including calling for Zoran Mam Dany's deportation,
Starting point is 00:13:24 was based in South Asia. And it changed this username 15 times. Now, if you change your username 15 times, if you change your username, what was it, five times or something in the last year, that is something they can accurately determine. And that may very well indicate that you are a bot, that you're trying to, that you're part of a disinformation propaganda campaign. When I went to X to verify, I noticed that the same account had spent Saturday posting screenshots of other political accounts, accusing them of being fake.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Pakistani garbage. This account is probably Israeli, so, potentially fake accounts, crying at other potentially fake accounts, that they aren't real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren't who they say they are. Could be, of course, this is the Atlantic. They say, well, could be a Russian nesting doll, you know, Madriowski of BS. Well, again, it's always for the Atlantic, which is a NATOist, um, kind of publication, globalist publication.
Starting point is 00:14:30 It's always Russia, Russia, Russia, right? Anyway, just before the 2016 election, they said BuzzFeed had a couple reporters who uncovered a network of Macedonian teams. And this is really the heart of the issue.
Starting point is 00:14:48 Whether or not this about feature is true or not. This is the heart of the issue. And this folks is what is wrong with media. All media. but especially the alternative media and especially the Trump MAGA media. These Macedonian teams recognized that America's deep political divisions were a lucrative vein to exploit.
Starting point is 00:15:13 So they pumped out bogus news articles designed to go viral on Facebook so they can monetize it with ads. This is the Alex Jones business model that was discovered by Macedonian teens. You basically exploit political divisions because you get a lot of eyeballs and then you get a lot of ad revenue and you can sell product and all the rest of this stuff. That's what it's really about. Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, you name it. A lot of people are doing that. It turns what should be an information ecosystem into a performative one.
Starting point is 00:15:46 They're staging provocations for yield. That basically sums it up, doesn't it? I've seen that up close and personal for a long time. X's gutted their trust and safety moderation teams in the service of a bastardized notion of free speech maximalism says the Atlantic. Because the Atlantic is always called for censorship and moderation. These are the big government NATO people
Starting point is 00:16:15 who want to control everything that you see in here. It is the nanny censors. They don't believe that you can figure this stuff out on your own. It doesn't really matter whether these people are coming from Russia or Israel or some other place. It doesn't matter if they are doing it for clickbait. You can still discern what's going on. You can still look at what these people are saying and understand that. You don't need to have somebody who has their own political agenda.
Starting point is 00:16:48 And, of course, the Atlantic pretends that governments don't have any political agenda. right? I mean, seriously, they do. You know, the governments are going to be non-interested moderators, and so are the corporations. How naive do they think we are? That is more ridiculous than a Nigerian prince who thinks that he's America first, right? Or says that he's America first. Second lesson here is that X appears to be inflating the culture wars. Political influencers, media personalities, even politicians. will take post from supposedly ordinary accounts and hold them up as examples of their ideological opponents dysfunction, corruption, or depravity. The problem is that these accounts have
Starting point is 00:17:37 whatever their motivation is, they are mirroring what the actual politicians like Trump are doing when you talk about dysfunction, corruption, and depravity. It rots from the top down. It rots from Trump down, he embodies all of these things. He is the greatest precedent that we've ever had. And by that I mean in terms of setting precedents. He has, he is setting the precedent for a technocracy, a globalist control. And he's done very, very powerful things. All the more powerful because he does them behind closed doors.
Starting point is 00:18:16 While he's right in your face about the tyranny, the globalist agendas that he implemented in 2020 of lockdown for a jab and we've got to have vaccine control. That was all lockstep with a globalist agenda. And yet people thought that that was coming from Trump or from Fauci or whatever. It was a globalist agenda. And so while he can be brutally and corruptly honest with people about what he's doing, he can also be very subversive. That's why he's such a dangerous precedent.
Starting point is 00:18:51 So how many of these accounts, arguments, or news cycles, were products of empty rage bait, proffered by foreign or just fake actors? So the idealism that these companies were founded with, people like Zuckerberg, saying that he wanted to maximize free speech, or Jack Dorsey, or Musk, this is all decayed as they have steered their products towards maximizing profits and playing politics. Well, that is true of the media. media in general. It's true of mainstream media. It's true of alternative media. It's true of social media. And you have to be on the lookout for that. You have to be an intelligent consumer of this stuff. And what these people at the Atlantic are selling is they're selling a kind
Starting point is 00:19:37 of paternalism or a nanny state so they can control what you see and hear for their own agenda, which is left unsaid by them. Most opportunistic conclusion is that a good of people who realize that they are being goaded into participation in an algorithmic funhouse decide to opt out of a psychologically painful discourse trap altogether. Well, my experience is not that it's a hall of mirrors. Like I said before, it's more like a hall of shadows, a shadow land. But the motivation from the Atlantic in terms of doing this is they don't want you to have multiple sources of information. If you've got multiple sources of information,
Starting point is 00:20:24 you can kind of triangulate and compare and contrast this stuff to understand what the real truth is. Again, with your own understanding of these things, they don't want you to have that. I've said many times that by limiting political debates to two candidates, they can come at you and say, well, you know, I'm better than this guy.
Starting point is 00:20:43 You may not like me, but I'm not as bad as he is. And they can play the nasty game of ad hominem attacks endlessly against each other. But if you had the dynamics of three or more people, when you have, and we see this in the very, very early stages of the debates, if you go back to the 2016 election cycle, there were a whole, there was a very large field of Republicans. And similarly, we had a situation where we had a large field of Democrats initially.
Starting point is 00:21:14 When you start, that was in the 2020 cycle, when you start going personal and ad hominem and attacking an individual what happened well that individual went down and that's what marjorie taylor green understands but also the attacker went down both of them went down and somebody who stayed focused on the issues and didn't get into the mudslinging ad hominem attacks that person generally went up we've seen it over and over again that was a dynamic in the u.k with the liberal party versus the labor and conservative Tories, and they had a large increase there, and the liberal party is liberal, as we would think of it today, but it is they see themselves as more libertarian, and they are more libertarian than the labor and the conservative party.
Starting point is 00:22:03 But it's that kind of dynamic. And so the mainstream media doesn't want you seeing social media out here, they would like to make this a fight between them and alternative. media, because they have so much, I guess we could say fake authority, because they've been around, you know, we've heard for years Walter Cronkite, and that's the way it is, you know, when it wasn't the way it was, it was his script that he was given by the CIA. And so they don't want you having multiple sources of information. It's very important to monopolize that or duopolyize that.
Starting point is 00:22:40 And that's really what's behind this article. So understand, you know, what is. going on in social media. Understand how people are manipulating you, how they are exploiting division for profit. They're exploiting division for political reasons. A lot of different things happening there that you need to be aware of. When this whole, well, not when it really started kicking up, but when it became more apparent over the last few months, there was a kind of a joke meme going around just for all these, you know, pro-a-marrier accounts, people in the comments being like curse Vishnu right now. Curse Vishnu. Right now. Curse Vishnu.
Starting point is 00:23:14 to prove you're American. If you don't curse Vishnu, you're obviously not American and we can't trust you. I was about to ask you, who is Kirschwisne? Is he the new FBI director? Anyway, but this is the comment that I wanted to get into more what I said, the fact that Elon Musk was at the U.S. Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., addressing the people there. And what he said about the technocracy, this is a. An interesting article from J.D. Hall, and he brings up, he goes a little bit more into depth than I've seen other people going to because I reported his comments that, hey, you're not
Starting point is 00:23:55 going to really have a job. You're not going to need a job. You might do a job in the same way that somebody's going to grow vegetables or tomatoes as a hobby. It's harder to do it. It can be more expensive to do it. You've got your reasons for doing it. Maybe, you know, you want it organic or maybe you want it just a sense of doing it. You enjoy doing it as a hobby. But he said, work is going to be like that. It's going to be like having your own home garden. You don't really need it, but you can do it if you want. And then he says, money is not going to be around anymore.
Starting point is 00:24:26 It's not going to make any difference. And I said, okay, well, right there, we can call BS on it. This is the world's richest man who craves money probably more than Solomon and certainly not as wise as Solomon. And he is trying to accrue all this stuff desperately trying to get more. and more and more of it, and he says, you don't need it. Now, this echoes Klaus Schwab, doesn't it? You know, you'll own nothing and you'll be happier. And so the Saudis are there trying to figure out which politicians are going to invest in. He says, my prediction, that work will be optional and so forth. But the point is, is that he makes a reference later
Starting point is 00:25:07 on the speech, which I hadn't seen reported before. And J.D. Hall picked this up. He referenced, a series, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, because it really does show us where this guy is coming from. But he points out, J.D. Hall is writing from a Christian perspective. He says, just like that, a casual declaration that the very thing that has defined human life since Adam left the garden is now slated to become a hobby. As a matter of fact, it was not after Adam left the garden. You know, God designed us to work and to make things with our hands.
Starting point is 00:25:49 What happened after the fall was God made it more difficult. You know, we got, when we're growing food, we've got weeds now to work with. And we have the second law of thermodynamics to contend with that things always coming apart and getting worse. But the, but we were always designed for work. And I think, you know, we look at people like Randy Alcorn, who's thought about this. And again, you know, he's kind of philosophizing about what heaven is like. But I think it makes a lot of sense. He said, you know, we're going to still have things to do.
Starting point is 00:26:23 God made us with things to do before the fall. What will happen is the curse that has been put on our work will be taken away. And so it'll be much more rewarding and much more fulfilling and less frustrating. We all have our particular friends. It doesn't matter what kind of work we do. It's still going to have some frustration. There will be no Adobe in the new heaven and new earth. That's right.
Starting point is 00:26:47 And so it'll be without frustration. But what Elon Musk is selling you here is an anti-God, anti-Christian version of the future. It is a very seductive thing. Because what he's promising you is that you're just going to live a life of idleness and no responsibility. He says, so. A term you see in game design pretty frequently called flow, where it's the amount of challenge that you're being presented with versus the amount of skill that you have in something, which is why video games increase in difficulty as your skill goes up to keep you in the flow state, which is a term not just used in video games, but that's where people feel the best. that's why people play games in order to feel that state. And I think that's what the curse was.
Starting point is 00:27:45 It's cursed to be out of the flow state. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And, you know, a big part of this is not a big part of life is training, right? God is training us. And it's not just didactic teaching, but it's letting people actually get involved with something and having the experience and the difficulty of it.
Starting point is 00:28:04 That's what causes us to grow. So he said, When we moved from work to wealth, he told the forum that AI and robotics will at some point make currency irrelevant. If work is optional, money eventually does not matter in the entire moral drama of providing for your family or sweating for your bread, of sacrificing for children and for grandchildren is no longer central to human life. Something else will decide who eats, who travels, who thrives. If money is irrelevant, then someone other than someone other than, then you is going to decide what is relevant. And of course, that's going to be Musk and the technocrats. And again, Trump is, America last, okay? It's not just Israel first, but it's also technocracy first.
Starting point is 00:28:53 And if you start looking at these different spheres, whether you're talking about foreign government, or are you talking about the globalist agenda, as we see from the UN, from the World Economic Forum, Trump has, I know he says that he's anti-globalist, but look at what he did. Look at what he did in 2020. Not what he says. He's cultivated this deceptive image. If you start to look at what they actually do and you take these different spheres of influence, the globalists, the foreign governments, the big corporations, whether it's the military
Starting point is 00:29:24 industrial complex, big pharma, big tech, whatever, you take these spheres and you look at what they want. and there is a significant overlap, if you're thinking, in terms of a Venn diagram. And I think it's so much that recently, especially under Trump, is starting to converge into a, not a Venn diagram, but just a single circle that is there. And so J.D. Hall says, to help his audience, to film in a picture of this world,
Starting point is 00:29:54 Musk pointed to the science fiction novels of N.M. Banks and the culture. Have you ever heard of that, Travis? no it's a pretty significant series and I didn't see this in the original article and I thought this is very very interesting and very telling this is a series of stories okay we got a that's not the puppy that's one of the other dogs Karen if you're listening to the show can you get the dog out of there thank you anyway the culture as he summarized it he says in that universe because all the science fiction writers create a universe that's the thing that I always found interesting about science fiction. I quickly lost interest in Dune, for example, because he gets into this fake imitation of Christianity in Christ. And they all come at it from some kind of a atheistic perspective, which really kind of plays out and gets tiresome very, very rapidly. When I was in college and high school, actually, I was reading Isaac Asimov novels, The Foundation. This is a similar thing to that. It's not quite a...
Starting point is 00:31:01 as many novels as Asimov did in the foundation, and it doesn't stretch over such a long period of time, but it's a very interesting world that is there, and it's very interesting that Musk would use that as an example. Here's the way J.D. Hall summarizes it. He said, in the Culture series, in that universe, human beings live in a post-scarcity playground. There are starships, orbital habitats, wild pleasures, and endless distractions. On the surface, it looks like heaven. There's no poverty, no ordinary labor. People spend their days in whatever amusements they choose. What makes it all run, however,
Starting point is 00:31:42 is not human wisdom. It is a hierarchy of artificial intelligences called mines. They run the ships. They manage the economies. They direct the wars and the peace. They track the details of trillions of lives. Humans are not really governing their world. They are living inside or world that has been engineered and is constantly managed for them by entities that tower over them in knowledge and power you know I thought it was interesting rowan Atkinson the comedian the British comedian mr. Bean you know he's actually an electrical engineer by training we're all a couple of months different in age but he with all the money that he's made as a comedian he's very good but uh he's got
Starting point is 00:32:31 an interest in cars as well and he's able to afford these supercars he made an interesting comment once he said you don't really drive these as much as you just kind of manage them because they're making all the detailed decisions about how to go in that general direction that you want to go but this is all society is managed by the AI and you know when you look at the novel the culture like I said before it reminds me very much of what Isaac Asimov did with the foundation. Asimov did his series of the foundation. He had seven of them that he wrote over 51 years.
Starting point is 00:33:12 This guy wrote 10 of these culture novels over a 25-year span from 1987 to 2012. And it really hit home with Elon Musk. And so I think it's interesting to see what he would like to see. You know, he's saying, yeah, it would be something like this. This is what I envision here. So in terms of, again, it's post-scarcity, a utopia. This is why George Gilder called them the neo-Marxist, because they believe that we have, just like Marxx falsely believed with the Industrial Revolution, now there is no limit on material goods. We just have to
Starting point is 00:33:51 figure out how we're going to distribute it. And that's what the neo-Marxists are telling us. No more scarcity of anything. We just have to figure out how all of it is controlled by me. You You know, that's the difference between the neo-Marxist and the Karl Marxists. So people live as long as they want. They only die when they get tired of living and commit suicide or they die accidentally. Money does not exist. Status is cultural or eccentric rather than economic. In terms of government and society, there's no laws, no police, no formal government in the traditional sense.
Starting point is 00:34:27 We see that in Elon Musk's movement. It says, well, you know, there was an original big, beautiful bill. There was a 10-year moratorium on any regulations by state and local government against AI. These guys like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, hate government regulation. And I agree with them. I think it is absolute poison. As a matter of fact, you've got Mark Andreessen, another one of these venture capitalists out there saying, you know, we can have the most powerful economy in the world.
Starting point is 00:34:58 We just need to get rid of regulation. And I'm like, absolutely right. One of the things he was saying, though, was he said, the manufacturing jobs that you had are not coming back. And he said, you don't want those either. He said, you go into a Chinese bicycle shop, for example, and you got these people are staying there on an assembly line doing this repetitive task over and over and over again.
Starting point is 00:35:19 You know, it's a human slave labor that was a big part of the Chinese price. And he said, you don't want that kind of job. He goes, you want to be working in something that is highly automated. We have a higher level job, and you're going to be making not bicycles, but electric battery operated bikes, because everything's got to be electric with a battery in it. Imagine, you could be doing the exact same thing over and over again while managing a hundred robots that are all doing the same thing over and over again. That's right.
Starting point is 00:35:50 This is such a better job. That's part of the curse. It doesn't matter what we do. I mean, you know, if you are a programmer, the alarm goes off every morning you get up, And it's the same thing with me. You know, the alarm goes off every day, got to get up and make the news or whatever. Instead of the donuts, right, on the commercial. And I would get up at O Dark 30 and get dressed and go do the news.
Starting point is 00:36:12 But if that repetitive nature, there's always going to be a repetitive nature to it. But he is telling you the truth in the sense that I think manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the U.S. I think they had intended that they would not come back until they were given massive subsidies by Trump to set up automated factories. The capital may come back and be relocated here in America, but not your jobs. These people don't want you to have anything. And that's the thing is just you can't just decide as an individual. Like I can't go out and say, you know what, today I'm going to bring back manufacturing
Starting point is 00:36:50 to the United States. It takes a massive amount of capital and a lot of time to build these factories. A lot of times. Yeah. And that's the whole point with Trump. You can't go in and take a system. They have been creating this entangled weave of morass, a scordian knot of a global economy with these long supply chains that are there.
Starting point is 00:37:14 And you can't just come in and cut those supply chains and expect that everything's going to work. That's the naivete of Trump. And I don't think that, you know, Trump and Bessent and Lucky Lutnik, I don't. I don't think they're naive. I think they're evil. I think that they're deliberately sabotaging this thing. Trump might be stupid enough to do that. Yeah, he might be.
Starting point is 00:37:37 But there's no way all of them are that stupid. That's right. You've got to have a puppet up front who really believes this stuff in order to sell it. And that's their guy, Trump. Anyway, the mines organize what is essentially a benevolent anarchy. That's interesting, a benevolent anarchy. Actually, usually we have a benevolent dictator idea, right? They are supposedly hyper-intelligent AIs that inhabit starships, orbital habitats, and planetary rings.
Starting point is 00:38:10 A single mind is millions of times smarter than all humans combined and genuinely cares about the well-being of its citizens. Yeah, right. This is the fiction part here. But isn't it interesting that they choose, that, and, his world, he chooses to locate these things and orbital ships. And that makes a lot of sense. He's not the only one to think that through. Hugo de Garris talked about that in his art-a-like wars.
Starting point is 00:38:39 He said, when people figure out, for the technocrats and the AI industry is starting wanting to do to them, they're going to rebel against these people. And remember, Hugo deGaris wrote this a long time ago. I mean, I was interviewing him a decade ago, and he had already had that book out for quite some time. But he said, you know, people realize what these technocrats and AI are up to. They're going to come after them. And so these guys will get off planet. They'll have the technology to get off planet and something like you saw depicted in the movie Elysium. And they will have a lot of technology that they can wage war against us with. And he said, so it'll be a fight between
Starting point is 00:39:18 these elitist technocrats and their near-Earth orbiting. stations and the people on Earth. And it'll be Gigadeth. It'll kill billions of us. And so that's basically what these guys are looking at. I'm going to put the AI up on these ships. It's going to, of course, it also makes sense from a power perspective. These things are so power hungry.
Starting point is 00:39:44 You need to have them up there where they can grab the solar power. And in space, you have a tremendous amount of energy potential because you paint something white and you can reflect the sun's rays a great deal. Or you paint it black and all of a sudden it gets really hot, really fast because it absorbs all of that stuff. You have that kind of a temperature differential just based on color, even, the coldness of space and the ability, however, to absorb sunlight. And having that temperature differential allows you to create a power source. Anyway, the mines, what are the minds?
Starting point is 00:40:20 Well, the minds are the true protagonists and the power holders. in this novel series. And again, this is something that Musk really bought into, really likes it, you know. The true protagonists and the powerholders, each major ship or habitat has its own mind with flamboyant, often sarcastic personality, and self-chosen names like,
Starting point is 00:40:45 just read the instructions. Or, of course, I still love you. Or another one called Gray Area, which is also called kind of an obscene name because it reads organic minds without permission. Minds are effectively immortal. Four-dimensional thinkers. They play 4D chess.
Starting point is 00:41:07 We finally have something that plays Alex's 4D chess thing. And they simulate entire universes for fun, and they can destroy stars if annoyed. You see, this is their science fiction gods, quote unquote, the lowercase G. yet they are eccentric witty and profoundly ethical and so this is his fantasy world and this is the reference that Elon Musk had for what he would like to see happen what he thinks is going to happen
Starting point is 00:41:36 so it's kind of a mix of different aspects here you have a mix of baseline humans in terms of population genetically modified humans and various humanoids are non-human humanoid species. Extreme body modification is normal. You can change your sex in a year. You can grow wings or gills and have extra brains. You can live in aquatic or low gravity bodies,
Starting point is 00:42:06 etc. Many people spend centuries in virtual reality and storage, backed up and not revived for centuries and drifting through the galaxy, pursuing art, exploration, or hedonism. Affector fields that let minds hack any lesser computer or read and control organic brains from light seconds away. Sublimation, the option to transcend into a higher dimensional energy being. Very few do it. These are themes that have really, you see, repeated over and over again with these technocrats. I mean, these people read science fiction, you know, whether it's Brave New World or whether it's 1984 or whether it's the culture
Starting point is 00:42:53 and they seek to reproduce that. So we should pay attention to this. Yes, it is science fiction, but these people are very focused on these dystopian ideas. So quickly, I want to recommend one of my favorite science fiction books, Armour
Starting point is 00:43:09 by John Stakely. It's a sort of military science fiction and discusses just the bureaucracy of the military. and how it uses and abuses and grinds these soldiers down in this endless conflict on this worthless planet. Well, there you have it. So in terms of foreign policy and special circumstances, this is where a lot of the plot comes into play.
Starting point is 00:43:40 They have different galaxies. The culture is just one of several high-level involved. civilizations, and when it interacts with others, there'll be diplomatic exploration and first contact and mostly benign. So that's the contact aspect of it. Then they have the special circumstances. Special circumstances is a combination of CIA, KGB, Black Ops, Superheroes. Special circumstances recruits eccentric humans and drones who enjoy moral gray zones and authorizes them to lie, cheat, steal, assassinate, start, or stop wars, and topple civilizations. Let's see, what might be analogous to it.
Starting point is 00:44:30 It's run by a guy named Mike Pompeo, CIA. The minds decide if it will reduce suffering in the long run. So all those things are fine as long as there is a pragmatic reason to, quote, unquote, reduce suffering. so again the central tension is between a libertarian utopia that secretly interferes with other societies for their own good and this makes the the culture either heroic or hypocritical it's left up to the reader to decide about that he doesn't make that decision for you so it is a state of constant low-level war like we have right now, intrigue and philosophical competition
Starting point is 00:45:20 between these different powers. That's very much where we are right now. Well, again, this is important because this is something that was referenced by Elon Musk. This is his vision. And his background, of course, as I've talked about many times,
Starting point is 00:45:34 and J.D. Hall goes into it here as well. He is from a family of technocrats. His grandfather, Joshua Haldane, loved the whole idea of technocracy so much that was put out in the 1930s. And, of course, H.G. Wells and his shape of things to come. And then the movie, Things to Come, that had Raymond Massey. And I've shown that in the past. And so all of that was the rage in the early 1930s.
Starting point is 00:46:05 And, of course, it fit very well with the whole idea of eugenics and a master race that we saw reproduced in Germany. it had its American adherence as well Joshua Haldane was in Canada he was working very hard to try to replace the Canadian government with a technocracy and they brought him up on charges he beat the charges and then he beat it out of Canada
Starting point is 00:46:26 and went to South Africa which is why Elon Musk was raised there but as J.D. Hall points out this whole idea is the dangerous part of this vision is that it doesn't sound like tyranny to many people what Elon Musk is putting out there sounds like relief no more pressure no more burden of providing no more anxiety over bills no more grind for a generation that is already exhausted and disillusioned the promise that work can become a hobby and that money can fade away will feel like salvation now he doesn't talk about this but I got another article that I came across it's a survey that was recently done by the Heritage Foundation
Starting point is 00:47:12 Foundation and Rasmussen, and they did the survey of Gen Z. And of course, as Gerald Sinty mentioned last Friday, Gen Z is pushing back in Nepal and many other places. We're seeing these revolutions. Now, the conservatives are just telling, oh, don't worry, it's just Soros and anything. A really stupid take, a really shallow take on what's going on. He may be exploiting it. He may be amplifying it. But it's not just Soros, just like this No King's thing. May have been amplified somewhat by them, but it was not an astroturf thing. It was a real reaction to the kind of in-your-face bullying tactics of the Trump administration. And so the survey of young people, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, showed that a large percentage of them
Starting point is 00:48:02 are so disgusted with the corruption in our institutions. Again, this is indicative of a fourth turning, right? that after we've gone through four generations or so, typically people see how corrupt the institutions have become and lose all confidence of being able to fix them. And they just want to turn the tables over. And that's when you have the fourth turning. And so this new generation is saying that they would like to see AI rule over them.
Starting point is 00:48:37 I mean, it's not just taking away the responsibility for work and everything, but it's taking away the responsibility and the hard work of reforming these institutions and finding the people to run them. Let's just let AI do it. And we've already seen that in Albania. I mentioned that a couple of weeks ago, where the government there was so unbelievably corrupt. They said, okay, that's fine. We're going to set up AI.
Starting point is 00:49:00 It's going to be the arbiter. It's going to run these institutions because we can't trust people anymore. That's a big part of this. giving up on humans in every regard giving up on humans for labor giving up on humans for relationships you know and having a sex bot or something as a companion giving up on humans to run the government as well and so he says um this is where christians need to be clear the culture uh this the science fiction idea is not a redeemed creation it is a curated zoo a world where images bearers have traded their kingship for endless entertainment. The machines in that universe are
Starting point is 00:49:43 tools. They are overlords with a pleasant bedside manner. When Musk holds that world up in a Washington, D.C. forum as a model for our future, he's not playing around with a neat metaphor. He is revealing the shape of his new religion. The new providence will not be a father in heaven, but a mesh of servers, satellites, and robots that quietly handle the business of life while we fidget with our digital gardens. Yeah, that's exactly right. And so it's the idea that you can escape responsibility. And you can make this deal with the devil, basically.
Starting point is 00:50:28 He is selling you a Faustian bargain, if ever there was one. This is truly a satanic offer that he's put. putting out there. Peace without responsibility. As he puts it, spiritually deadly, offers comfort by stripping away responsibility, offers peace by stripping away purpose. It offers ease in exchange for authority. Must didn't wake up one day and invent the technocracy. Again, he goes into his family background. He said the technocracy from the very beginning, these are people who said, we're going to take an engineering approach to this. You know, it's very much like the time studies and trying to remember the guy's name that did the time studies. He would, he looked at
Starting point is 00:51:11 humans on an assembly line. He was, you know, timing the task that it would take them to do all these, I mean, they measured everything and, you know, became a very, almost like a prototypical approach of the industrial age. But he treated the, the technocrats in 1930s, treated the population like numbers and ledger. People will know. not seen as moral agents created in the image of God, but as consumers of energy and producers of work whose lives could be balanced like a spreadsheet. Haldeman wanted scientists to run society. Musk wants the creations of scientists to run it.
Starting point is 00:51:53 The structure is the same. The difference is faces have been replaced with screens. And across the developed world, there's been a marked shift towards replacing human relationships, human labor, human creativity. With AI and robotics in Japan and South Korea, companies now market AI-generated girlfriends and digital companions that function as romantic partners. They simulate affection, conversation, and emotional availability. Several men have held public wedding ceremonies with AI partners complete with official, efficiency, and media coverage. You would think that part of the benefit, at least, of having an AI partner, is that they're not
Starting point is 00:52:32 going to want a large wedding. They're not going to want the pomp and circumstance. You could actually relax and take it easy. You wouldn't have to do these things. But apparently, no, you know, I don't get it. Yeah. Significant enough that the social scientists and government agencies in those countries have commented less effect on birth rates and marriage patterns.
Starting point is 00:52:53 Well, again, this is just a hallmark of what we were always warned about and told about, you know, 2,000 years ago. in the last days people become lovers of themselves it isn't that they're in love with these robots they're not in love with AI they're in love with themselves and the robots and the artificial intelligence just reflect that it is like living in a hall of mirrors in that regard isn't it so sex robots are becoming more common in both Asia and the West increasingly lifelike to imitate physical intimacy, the industry's rapid expansion is attributed to men who prefer predictable, synthetic partners to the challenges of a real relationship.
Starting point is 00:53:40 Well, the other side of this is that women don't even want relationships now because they have been so thoroughly indoctrinated by the satanic seminaries that we call schools, as well as the media and entertainment. Inside the church, similar trends are emerging. Pastors in multiple countries have publicly acknowledged using AI to generate sermons. These sermons are then preached verbatim, and the practices become common enough that many seminaries and denominations have begun issuing guidelines about whether pastors should disclose AI authorship to their congregations. A megachurch in Asia installed AI in a prayer booth where congregants can talk to a machine
Starting point is 00:54:22 that offers pre-programmed responses, Bible verses, and personal follow-up messages. It is essentially a spiritual kiosk. It collects data. It tracks prayer requests. It generates future interactions based on previous conversations. And then we have AI-generated worship music, another emerging trend. And again, when you see this, whether it's music, whether it's worship music or Christian
Starting point is 00:54:48 music or country music, or whether it's movies, our art has become so derivative. so imitative that, you know, it is something that AI can do that actually better than we can. Just take a look at all the different Disney remakes that are out there. You want to see Solis, buddy. I'll show you Solis. Yeah, I mean, if our art has become so dumbed down and unoriginal, then it is ripe to be replaced by AI. I also don't have much sympathy to a bit of a tangent for these artists that are complaining about AI stealing their views and their play.
Starting point is 00:55:25 and their songs sounds. You are part of the problem. You guys sound almost identical to this AI slop. You have dumbed down our culture, and the art that you create is so meaningless that these robots can show up and do it better than you instantaneously. Yeah, you're just like the pop music, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:43 and MTV. You know, it all became about just pretty girls. It wasn't about the music. It was very formulaic and mechanical and easily reproduced by a machine. Yes, Lance? With the AI worship songs, though, I think it's a different situation.
Starting point is 00:55:57 It's, you know, the Bible tells you to make a joyful noise to the Lord to, you know, praise him with this instrument, that instrument. Where's the joy in a AI churning out some song, even if it sounds better than what you could have written yourself? Well, that's right. It's just like the spiritual kiosk that they have, you know, where you go to AI and it commiserates with you and sympathizes with you rather than a human who is going to be there. As a matter of fact, you know, the one-to-one relationship is not just one of empathy and sympathy and things like that. It really is iron-sharpening iron.
Starting point is 00:56:34 That's not going to be coming from AI and AI. He doesn't have a soul. It is fundamentally satanic. It imitates. It copies. It doesn't create. That's the key thing. And we have to keep coming back to it.
Starting point is 00:56:48 It's very much like government in that regard. Government doesn't create anything. It redistributes. It steals. It does other things. that, but doesn't create anything. Outside the church, human jobs steadily being replaced by automation, schools experimenting with AI tutors, therapists, mental health providers using AI counseling programs to triage patients. In the creative fields, again, we're talking about music or film
Starting point is 00:57:14 or even newsrooms. You've got AI that is being brought in to produce content. Factories and warehouses continue to automate robotics companies, provide fully automated sorting packing and transport systems to eliminate human staff. All these taken together, illustrate a world where AI and robotics are rapidly moving into spaces once defined by human presence, human judgment, human interaction. Machines are being positioned not merely as tools, but as substitutes for human roles in relationships, labor, creativity, education, ministry, and care. So what do we say to all of this?
Starting point is 00:57:54 Folks, the only answer to this comes from Christ. The only answer to all this stuff is the understanding that we are image bearers of God. If we don't have that foundation, we're going to wind up going into something like Isaac Asimov's foundation or, more accurately, Musk's, the culture. That's where these people want to take us. And if we don't have a foundation that's based on God's word and our understanding that built Western civilization of the role of man, the uniqueness of man, the value of man, if we lose that, this is where we are headed. Just take a look at that novel. You know, we've had, for the longest time it confused me, the nuclear family, I thought, what in the world are they talking about? That was a term that came up as our society became more mobile.
Starting point is 00:58:48 You used to have multiple generations would grow up and stay in one geographical area. So you'd have an extended family that was there. But then it became very common in the middle of the 20th century for people to hop jobs and go around the country working as something with engineering that was very common. You moved from place to place. And what happened was it's just the husband and wife and their kids. And they're leaving the extended family. They're leaving the roots that they had. and a community or state or whatever that's what they meant by the nuclear family uh cut off
Starting point is 00:59:24 from any extended family not multi-generational anymore but uh just uh you know husband and wife and their kids going around well now they have been able to split the atom haven't they nuclear family is now really split up with these institutions like school and the catering to uh the marketing to teenagers and that type of thing that was on the middle of the century as well. I think what we need to have is we need to understand that even when it comes to energy sources, fusion generates a lot more energy than fission does, right? And so we need to have a fusion of the family. We need to start bringing these things together. That's going to give us more energy than splitting things apart. And having us all out there is our own individual
Starting point is 01:00:11 atoms or individual maybe not even atoms, but splitting the nuclear family apart into a little protons and neutrons and so forth maybe even down to the little quarks but that's really what we need to have we need to restore that and we need to that's a big part of community you know having a family that is there and again that was our experience you know we did not have uh Karen and I as we moved around chasing jobs you moved around the country doing that most people in America do that and so it was very difficult to especially in those days, we didn't have the kind of communications we do now with FaceTime and things like that.
Starting point is 01:00:51 It was difficult to maintain that connection with the extended family. So, again, technology can be a two-edged sword. It may help to bring that back together again, but there's no substitute for personal interaction and people being in the same area. A lot of people don't fully understand how insanely different the modern world is from even And just 150 years ago. 70 years ago. Before, you know, you were very likely to be born and die in the same area.
Starting point is 01:01:28 You might travel a little bit. You might go to, you know, some cities that were nearby. But this was your home. This is where you lived. This is where your family was from. And this is where you stayed. It is only within the last, you know, 100 years where with the advent of the plane, where far-flung travel is something that the masses,
Starting point is 01:01:46 can afford before it was something you know either you're going to a new content to seek your fortune and this is this is my home now i'm not going back of course that has all been in shit if i'm not going to the point where i'm not going to ireland by the way twitter uh you know never been there not going there either so this is just again this sort of created world that you know this was not the world that everyone knew forever and so now everyone has this just could do like oh well you know i can travel here i can travel there i can see my family on the phone it's just this you want to have a home base a place where you have roots and where you know the people around you where you have friends and family so much like that
Starting point is 01:02:28 article uh well the woman was talking about what happened to food and had affected our health and she said you know interestingly enough she was sold this idea that you know it's good for women if you have a career it's not a good thing to have a family right so they denigrate that and she said she had a business where she had a restaurant now she has a farm and a family and she cooks for the family and she said there's something ancient about that that just feels right
Starting point is 01:02:57 and grounded you know there's a tradition that is there that was always missing in her life but she goes but society doesn't respect that society pushes back against that that's why we need to develop a thick skin you know we need to be as uninterested in what people think about us and our lives as the Amish are for example
Starting point is 01:03:14 They really don't care what you think about them. They've got their world that they have created, and it makes sense to them, and they're grounded in it, and certainly it is bearing fruit for them. Also, another nice thing about being Amish is, you don't find out what anyone else thinks about you. Everyone on the internet could be posting 24-7 about how much they hate the Amish, and the Amish would never know.
Starting point is 01:03:37 They wouldn't have to care. They never saw that weird Al-Yenik video making fun. they're not terminally online so again what happens to kids brains after thousands of hours staring at screens well we've had a very very large study about that children with more screen time showed cortical thinning and brain regions i mean it actually eats your brain this is this is literally true uh it they're thinning and the cortical thinning and the brain regions involved with memory, planning, and impulse control. And I said that about the London taxi drivers.
Starting point is 01:04:20 I mentioned that how they actually could see that people, the London taxi drivers with having to memorize all these small streets and their relationships with each other, they saw certain areas of their brain that thickened, actually grew. And then they could see that as they moved away from that and people went back to GPS, that that started to thin out again. Use it or lose it. Children ages 9 through 10 with higher screen time showed reduced thickness and brain regions, controlling attention, memory, and impulse control after just two years.
Starting point is 01:04:56 What's funny is a lot of the content that children watch, people refer to as brain rot. They understood as just a colloquially. People knew it's like, oh, this is rotting their brain. It's confirmed, but everyone could tell long before we had a stuff. study come out. You don't need a study to look at these kids and go, that's not good. That's not right. This kid is damaged. That's right. And this is a huge study. This is 10,000 American children and they had MRI scans, you know, just like Trump, I guess. They showed them the elephants and the tigers and things like that like they show Trump. But MRI scans actually looking at the physical state
Starting point is 01:05:40 of the brain and 10,000 children in this study. Kids with more screenings. time, had smaller cortical volume, which explained increases in ADHD-like symptoms over the study period. And so this is put together, actually, in Japan. They analyzed the data from America. And they called the study the adolescent brain cognitive development study. Previous research had hinted at links between screen time and brain structure. Most studies were snapshots rather than tracking actual developmental changes.
Starting point is 01:06:14 This followed real brain growth patterns along with behavioral shifts over a two-year period. And so you can actually literally see it in their brain as well as in their behavior. I know every generation has tendency to go, you know, oh, man, we're so glad I grew up when I did, not like that, you know, it's just a continual cycle of history. But looking at the, you know, some of the zoomers, but especially gen alpha, there is. is a difference between the kids I knew when I was a kid and myself and Gen Alpha. They are just, they're worse behaved. They don't listen.
Starting point is 01:06:55 They don't pay attention. And they just don't seem to have any interest in just about anything as far as I can tell. Yeah. And you live in that virtual world where everything is immediate and done for you. It's a very different way of thinking and reacting than if you're setting there with toys, like trying to build Lincoln logs or something like that. Oh, man, Lincoln Logs are great. You know, spatial stuff and actually physically doing things with your hands,
Starting point is 01:07:19 that engages you in a very, very different way than this flat screen land, right, that is out there. It really is. Well, scientists are issuing an ominous warning over mind-altering brain weapons. You know, it's kind of interesting that that has always been a focus of DARPA. And there's a lot of companies like Elon Musk, Neuralink and everything, that are focused on this brain computer interface. This is another one of these nightmare scenario things that DARPA has always been fascinated with. And they're not the only company that's doing it.
Starting point is 01:07:55 Mind control weapons may sound like something from a dystopian science fiction film, but experts now say they are becoming a reality. Scientists have issued a ominous warning over mind-altering brain weapons. They can target your perception, your memory, and even behavior. That's why DARPA is involved in. Because it is a weapon. And so a couple of scientists have now just published a book, they said, should operate as a wake-up call. The book is published by Michael Crowley, the authors, and Professor Malcolm Dano, Bradford University.
Starting point is 01:08:30 They said, the same knowledge that helps us to treat neurological disorders could be used to disrupt cognition, induce compliance, or even in the future, turn people into unwitting agents. And again, go back to all the MK Ultra stuff, the LSD. Our government has been involved in this for the last 70 plus year, 70, 80 years since World War II. They have been completely focused on this. Of course, they were using things like chemicals. Now they have more advanced techniques. And DARPA has been very involved in all this stuff from the very beginning. As a matter of fact, you go back and look at Michael Aquino, I've talked about many times.
Starting point is 01:09:09 This is a guy who was an Oprah Winner. free regular uh well regular he didn't come on all the time i did see him on there at least once right looks like eddie munster uh and um you know he's uh kind of this creepy looking guy he's got his eyebrows teased up in an arch and um openly talking about being a satanist well he was somebody who worked for the nsa and he had a military rank and he was alleged to be a pedophile He was accused of pedophilia at the Presidio in California, and it was a clergyman there whose grandson pointed out that to him, and so they investigated, and they found some allegations that were true, but before they could prosecute him, the NSA moved him to a different
Starting point is 01:10:02 state, so they couldn't get him with a jurisdiction. So the government, the NSA, protected this satanic, alleged pedophile. and he wrote a book called Mind Wars and that's what he was all about and he was talking about how they could use ELF extremely low frequencies like they used to communicate with submarines how they could use that to disrupt people's emotions and feelings and things like that and so they were working on that kind of stuff you know 60 years ago they'd already been doing it for quite some time so Crowley and Dando argue that modern neuroscience has become so advanced
Starting point is 01:10:43 and truly terrifying mind weapons could be created. We're entering into an era where the brain itself could become a battlefield. The tools to manipulate the nervous system to sedate, to confuse, to even coerce are becoming more precise, more accessible, more attractive to states. And again, I have that mind reading thing
Starting point is 01:11:04 that I showed before. Mm-hmm. Yeah, go ahead. Do you want to play that? yeah this thing the yeah oh yeah the brain scan yeah that's uh yeah we did that last week you found that and we talked about that where you have um they they train with MRI they show people an image and as the people are looking at the image uh they can um read their mind literally uh and uh they these people are bragging about how accurate their model was and you can see it right there the reconstruction the actual image and then they
Starting point is 01:11:39 their reconstruction and incredibly accurate. And what they're bragging about was the fact that their model was more accurate and required less training than their competitors. Because there's a whole bunch of people that are out there doing it. It's just like brain computer interface and neuralink. Neurlink, Elon Musk, Neurlink is not the only company out there. And these companies are being funded typically by government contracts. It's that evil government.
Starting point is 01:12:07 This is why I say, if the American dollar collapses, and I pray that it does, not just because I'm into gold, but I pray that it collapses because it has become the root of all evil. It's not just the love of money, but it is the fiat currency that has become the root of all evil, because these people have absolutely endless amounts of money that they can spend on things and why they spend it on, the most evil controlling technology. And so, yeah, it really is going to be difficult for Americans when the dollar collapses, but you have to understand just how evil our government has become to do these types of things. Throughout the 50s and 60s, most of the world's major powers actively sought to develop their own mind control weapons.
Starting point is 01:12:52 Like I said, you know, we saw it in our country with LSD, the MK Ultra programs and things like that. Most famously, the American military produced the compound BZ, which produces a powerful sense of delus. Illyrium, hallucinations, and cognitive dysfunction. The U.S. manufactured approximately 60,000 kilograms of the potent drug and used it to create a 750-pound cluster bomb. Although the bomb was intended to be used in Vietnam, BZ was tested intensively on U.S. soldiers. There's no evidence that they used it on the Vietnamese, but they did use it on U.S. soldiers. Isn't this so much like our government?
Starting point is 01:13:35 government, you know. And of course, this is just a symptom of, well, you test on what you have access to. Yeah. They have access to the American people and they have direct access to the soldiers in the military. That's right. And as such, it's no shock that these types of stories continually come out. Like, oh, yeah, we tested this on the soldiers. We tested in there.
Starting point is 01:13:53 Like, oh, yeah, we'll give them some recompense. We'll pay them a little bit and they'll get a stipend or whatever at the, when they're drummed out. Or if we've crippled them and they can no longer service. Oh, we'll have them go stand out in the desert while we explode a nuclear bomb. I wonder what's going to happen to those guys. It's because they view them all as livestock. Yeah, that's right. That's right.
Starting point is 01:14:12 That's their livestock. Well, the Chinese developed a narcosis gun designed to shoot syringes of incapacitating chemicals. But the only time that a mental targeting weapon was ever used in combat was by Russian security forces in the 2002 Moscow theater siege. After armed Chechen militants took 900 civilians hostage, Security forces used a fentanyl-derived, incapacitating chemical agent to disable the attackers. Well, there was fentanyl back in 2002.
Starting point is 01:14:46 Yeah, I remember that event. I didn't know that that's how this ended. While the chemical weapon did break the siege, the gas killed 120 of the 900 hostages. I guess that's considered to be. I've also heard that this is the sort of operation, the Russians and especially the spets now. are famous for just you know they're going to come in and they're going to kill you if you've taken hostages that's a problem for a later time their goal is to get rid of you and if the
Starting point is 01:15:16 hostages die in the attempt they will you know like Israel as well yeah I have the same idea a lot of governments operate like that we do not clue well the chemical weapon did break the siege you killed 120 and 900 hostages and the other rest of them faced long-term health issues and premature death so the issue researchers warn is that these Targeting weapons currently sit within a loophole in the rules governing the use of chemical weapons. Again, this is what I'm concerned about. And we talk about these biosafety level three and four labs. This is the kind of stuff they're working on.
Starting point is 01:15:48 Forget about this nonsense that they created the COVID virus. There was no pandemic, folks. It was all a lie. That's why I did that video. The weapon, the monster was the jab. It didn't come from the lab. It wasn't a lab leak. That is an alibi for these people who,
Starting point is 01:16:05 created the gem. We've covered quite a few articles on how poor the security protocols are at many of these labs and how just even the staff one of them, I remember that story where somebody stabbed another staff member or cut through their suit. I don't know if they stabbed them or just cut the suit out of a simple petty vendetta. If they really are constructing these super weapons in there, they would be out by now. These people are no less fallible than any of us are. They're like the TSA. Well, the thing about gain of function is there's very obvious, easy things they can do to make
Starting point is 01:16:42 bacteria more deadly. They can make it resistant to antibiotics. Yeah, you can train it, right? In that sense, and, you know, when we talk about that, we talk about superbugs, folks, superbugs are not evolved. It is a selective breeding. So, you know, if you expose a culture of bacteria to some kind of thing that is toxic, them. Not all of them will die. That's, you know, one of the alibis for the pharmaceutical industry.
Starting point is 01:17:11 You know, they can expose us to these toxins. And not everybody is going to die from it. The ones that don't die, then you let them grow. And now you have a strain of bacteria. You have a new culture. And it's not evolution. It's simply exploiting the genetic diversity that is found in DNA for all living organisms. And so you're right, Land. they can selectively breed bacteria to make them more deadly. Yeah, and in a lot of these things like the Berkoldaria pseudomalii, they do have something that's very dangerous, and they aren't containing it, and we've seen it getting out.
Starting point is 01:17:52 It's just that the lab leak thing is talking about a virus gain of function, which is an entirely different story. That's right. That's right. So also known as psychotronic or mind control weapons, claim to have used electromagnetic forces to achieve a variety of results. Remember the Navy Yard shooter a few years ago? He shot a bunch of people when they killed him or he took his life, I don't forget which it was.
Starting point is 01:18:18 Carved on his rifle stock was, this is my elf weapon. And, you know, a lot of people are saying, what, is he into video games or something? I looked at that, and because he was associated with the Navy, and because of what Michael Aquino was talking about with extremely low frequencies, ELF. And because its ELF is used extensively by the Navy, that's how they can communicate with submarines around the world that are deeply, that are underwater, is with ELF. And so for all those reasons, I thought, was this guy exposed to some kind of experiment or something that really drove him nuts?
Starting point is 01:18:56 When you look back at the history of MK Ultra, there's a lot of little cases that, that pop up where some guy just kind of randomly loses his mind and commits a crime that's absolutely heinous and, you know, then shows up and seems to have no memory of it or is just completely like, oh, what, huh? And he does have Catcher in the Rye, though, right? That's why I'm unlearning how to read. You're not going to catch her in the Rye, me, CIA. Well, as I pointed out in this article, they said in 1977, CIA director stands.
Starting point is 01:19:34 Phil Turner, who was the director for the CIA under Jimmy Carter, said the use of biological and chemical materials and altering human behavior was what they were working on in terms of the Cold War. And so we see that with LSD, many other things, being able to transmit thoughts into people's minds wirelessly. And so, you know, when you look at this, there's a recent article from Futurism talking about now there's this chat GPT AI delusion that is out there which comes from a kind of sycophancy that the AI can be in and of course a lot of times other people have already have mental ill
Starting point is 01:20:20 issues or they have chemical issues this story begins with a single mother who's retired and found out that her son who was formerly successful in his third 30s as a professional, she is shocked to discover that he'd become addicted to a toxic mixture of meth and chat GPT. It's like, what can possibly go wrong if you're doing a chat GPT along with your meth? Boy, I sure do love mixing my psychosis inducing. It got him into deep trouble. But Futrism has talked about this many times.
Starting point is 01:20:58 I've covered it on the show as well. many cases where, and especially is true of some troubled teens, for example, getting them into suicidal situations, but also if somebody has some kind of mental or chemical issue, it really exacerbates it. And the point of this article is they're talking about how now this is exploded. There's a couple hundred people in this one group that helps to detox people off of AI delusions. it's called decks is what they use to get people out of this situation they've gotten themselves into but anyway so that's a big thing and it is really growing as they look at it and then that brings us to what I mentioned earlier the actual numbers from this Heritage Foundation survey and this is truly a frightening thing and this is when you look at Elon Musk's vision for the
Starting point is 01:21:54 future how he is selling this in Washington and selling this to the Saudis and others, and the fact that he's not really even selling it so much yet to the young people, and yet four out of 10 young adults are open to having AI control government and society. This new survey reveals a startling trend, a significant proportion of young adults support granting advanced systems authority over government policymaking and even over individual rights. Forty-one percent of young adults ages 18 to 39 support giving advanced AI systems authority over government policy-making decisions. Thirty-six percent would support AI control over individual rights, including speech and religious practices, while 35 percent favored AI controlling
Starting point is 01:22:48 the world's largest militaries to reduce war deaths. This is insane. People want to turn over our individual rights of free speech and free exercise religion. They want to turn over government to AI. They want to turn over wars to AI. Maybe you should go back and look at some of these dystopian movies. What we are seeing is the early emergence of an AI strong man mentality
Starting point is 01:23:12 among younger Americans. Younger generations, again, this is the fourth turning that we're in now. Younger generations are increasingly disillusioned with a failure of institutions. So much so they're willing to hand over control to artificial intelligence. Is this what's going to happen in this fourth turning?
Starting point is 01:23:33 This is certainly what I guess the people like Elon Musk and technocrats and their puppet, Trump, are looking to have happen. When you look at Doge, for example, right, big public relations think about it. They're going to ferret out all the corruption, all the waste. They're going to do what conservatives have been talking about doing for a long time, but we've never had the backbone or the vision to do. and that is, you know, there's one organization that's called Citizens Against Government Waste, I think is what it was called, but I used to always say, okay, so you talk about it being waste and certainly can identify some things that are wasteful, but it gets to the point where you're not going to really make any real change unless you have a deep discussion and an understanding of what you want to use the government for. If you're going to create a warfare welfare state, all of this inefficiencies around the fringe are just that. They're just fringe issues. You've got to get to the heart of the issue
Starting point is 01:24:30 and have a question about what you want government to do and what you want government to not be able to do. And if you're not willing to have that, you're not going to get any real change. But Doge sold the people this idea that AI could do this stuff more efficiently. And yes, there's certain truth to a lot of that as well. It can go through and it can audit things like you and I, which should be something that is very frightening, the ability of this stuff to audit our lives. These institutions are so broken, so corrupt, so ineffective. How could it get any worse if we were to put AI in charge? They said, that's what these kids are thinking. The results illustrate an incredibly dangerous trajectory for any society that values personal autonomy and
Starting point is 01:25:18 liberty. Fifty-five percent of those who identified as conservatives, 54 percent of the participants who are aged 25 to 29, wanted to have AI run their government. Thirty-six percent of respondents expressed support for a proposal that gives AI control over, quote, rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property. They want to be ruled. They want to be ruled. over by AI. I've not seen anything so dangerous, so stupid, so satanic since the Israelites said, we want a king to rule over us. And Samuel told him, he said, you know, he's going to send your young men to war. He's going to enslave your daughters. And he's
Starting point is 01:26:10 going to steal your money with taxes. They said, that's right. We want one of those, right? Especially because we've got to keep up with the other guys, right? We've got a gap in terms, we've got a king gap here, just like we've got an AI gap with China. All the cool kids are ruled by a king. That's right. Yeah, yeah, the Philistines have a king. We need to have a king as well. We've got a king gap. I guess the only positive thing you could say about rule by AI is that they no longer need Jeffrey Epstein to get blackmail material on the rulers. They can just program it themselves. That's right. That's right. Yeah, what were you looking at? I think it's also worth pointing out that I tend to believe that when God says, you know, a king,
Starting point is 01:26:47 he means you know any form of government that you enact that is not the one that i have given you where i am directly in charge yeah every and any form of government no matter what it is is going to have its problems is going to have its issues they were specifically you know in a well and that's what god said he said uh to samuel said they haven't rejected you they rejected me because i set up that model and because i was communicating to them and they don't trust me they trust in chariots and horses and an artificial intelligence it is truly amazing how all throughout history we repeat the same mistakes you know every you know here nature doesn't change we're throwing out God and be like you know what we need Donald Trump yeah got whatever get Trump in office again that's what
Starting point is 01:27:35 we need yeah it's uh yeah we just keep making the same mistakes over and over again the thing that changes is the technology unfortunately the technology makes that human nature even more dangerous because it magnifies the evil human nature because the technology is being driven and controlled by the most evil among us. As I reported before, Albania recently garnered headlines in September after appointing an AI chatbot named Diela. Diela DeVille as a minister for public procurement, making it the first country to give AI a government position. According to the Albanian prime minister, Diallo will provide assistance
Starting point is 01:28:17 in curbing the extensive public corruption problem in Albania. I'm not here to replace people, but to assist them, said Dialla. Maybe it can make them even more efficient at getting their graft and corruption done. I come in peace.
Starting point is 01:28:33 I'm here to serve mankind. Remember that story from Twilight Zone? So truly, I do not have citizenship, nor do I have any personal ambition or interests. I only have data, a thirst for knowledge and algorithms dedicated to serving citizens impartially, transparently, and tirelessly. Isn't this precisely the spirit of constitutional democracy?
Starting point is 01:28:57 Exercising power and the service of everyone, free from bias, free from discrimination, free from nepotism, free from corruption. You're now my slaves, right? This is the illusion. Again, AI serves us illusions. And the primary illusion is one of objectivity in order to gain your trust. And to make sure that you don't see the men behind the curtains who are actually programming the AI to have a particular bias as well. Well, we'll cover one more article because we've been going on for an hour and a half here.
Starting point is 01:29:38 But we'll take a break. But this one right here, Whistleblower says he was fired. for warning executives that a new robot could crush human skulls. I like the tagline of the article, but some skulls are thicker than others. I'd like to see the robot try to crush mine. That's right. Yeah, so these numb skulls, this company is actually the figure robot company, which is, you know, they have some pretty impressive technology.
Starting point is 01:30:08 That was the one where the robots were standing next to a refrigerator. if you remember that video or should have put it in the deck they're staying next to the refrigerator and they say you know put this apple over here and put this uh orange over here and it's got to look at these things and make determinations and identify them and then follow the instructions and uh so it sets there and it waits for a second you know as it's processing what it's seeing and then it starts in it but but it begins and it has this california dude accent yeah sure man you know it was They crack me up. It was like, whoa, okay, I got it.
Starting point is 01:30:40 Sure, I got it. You know, it's a... Can't wait to put your groceries away, dude. That's what they program this thing to go. Just put your skull in my hands, man. So this is the guy who was, he was there for robot safety. And they fired him. Hey, your robot is critically unsafe, says the man you've hired to tell you if your robot is critically unsafe.
Starting point is 01:31:04 Get out, says the company that hired it. Yeah. This is like goat trees. The big frustration with his job is people would hire them to find vulnerabilities in their system, especially the banks. And they would find them and they would tell them, okay, this is how people can break in that you need to fix this. They wouldn't fix it. He said they paid me a lot of money to go find this stuff and then they wouldn't fix it. They'd just leave it vulnerable.
Starting point is 01:31:25 So the principal robotic safety engineer had warned top executives, including the CEO, that the robots were, quote, powerful enough to fracture a human skull, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Friday in a federal court in California. It sounds like he had compelling evidence in a harrowing close call. One robot narrowly missed striking an employee when it suddenly malfunctioned and punched a refrigerator. Leaving, listen to this, a quarter inch deep gash in the appliance's stainless steel door. I think that could kill you. Can punch the steel door.
Starting point is 01:32:06 lava vet factories. The lawsuit comes... The world problem is we don't manufacture anything in the U.S. anymore, so you can't melt the Terminator down. Yeah. Morgan Stanley estimates Androids could be a $5 trillion market by 2050. And it's this enthusiasm that is fueled figures $39 billion valuation during a funding round in September,
Starting point is 01:32:33 with major investments coming from some of the usual suspects, especially from invidia, which is always going to be there. And so, you know, figure does not want somebody reigning on their parade. He also claims that he wasn't the only employee that was worried about these risks. After creating a survey where workers could anonymously report safety issues, injuries, and near misses with the robots, some employees had instead begun expressing their safety concerns directly to him. So when they
Starting point is 01:33:04 It just Sometimes the robot's eyes turn red It starts saying it wants to crush my skull Is that normal? Yeah, that's right Well, we're going to take a quick break But we've got a lot of time I've been talking for a long time
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Starting point is 01:33:28 To the David Knight Show Cheers Thank you very much Star Barkley And thanks for your employer Boy, that's nice to them giving a bonus out there this time, yes. Guard Goldsmith says the DHS, located in Israel. That's right. All of our.
Starting point is 01:33:44 Yeah, they're the ones who are when we're talking about the bots on social media and everything. Yeah, where are they located? Yeah, that would be interesting to see. Like I said, you know, about the White House or DHS, does Twitter think that they're actually in Israel? Yeah. I remember this was quite a few years ago now, but at one point people were pointing out, that Jack Posobia could accidentally left his location data on for a post. And it was right around like the Langley CIA, Virginia area.
Starting point is 01:34:12 And people were looking at like, huh, Jack, what's you doing over there, Jack? Yeah. Very interesting, Mr. Posobic. It's amazing how this guy has been groomed for this stuff from the very beginning. I got a Jack Posobicoority once. He got his, uh, he, Alex was the one platforming him, just like Steve Pachinica stuff. So Alex is there to basically build the creds. for these CIA mockingbird influencers like Jack Bosobian.
Starting point is 01:34:37 I'll never forget Jack Bosoviet, you know, trying to sell this nonsense about Trump and Canada coming, having fentanyl and everything. He goes up to the border. Remember that clip where he's walking there in a small Canadian border town? The horror. And look at this. There's no fence. People can just walk across here. It's like, give me a breath.
Starting point is 01:34:55 Anything could happen. Yeah, yeah. Selling that kind of fear. The moose might come up. the lies from Donald Trump. Jack Posobit is just pathetic. But he's had a big deal. Somebody bought his post-millennial website.
Starting point is 01:35:08 So it does pay. Yeah. These people do get their pound of flesh. I wonder which one of the people that he's associated with gave him a sweetheart deal on that. I wonder. I'm just speculating. This isn't fact. Shield your eyes says this past month,
Starting point is 01:35:23 Trump meets with an al-Qaeda leader. Then Muhammad bin Salman. Then Mom Dani at the White House. What narrative? could they be projecting right now? Yeah, I don't know. Strange time. He's just showing who he is, maybe.
Starting point is 01:35:37 Niburu, 2029. Mom Dani and Trump's son are business partners. They were probably negotiating the Emperor's cut since Trump got Mom Dani selected. Wally Walrus, I'd run a VPN if I was reporting Israeli atrocities yet. Run a VPN wear some kind of face distorting mask. That is the time you need to be wearing a mask when you're trying to hide from. Well, that was the fallback position for this, that was a fallback position for these people at X saying, well, we got the location wrong because these people are probably using a VPN or something like that. We're not using a VPN that, you know, we post, are you?
Starting point is 01:36:19 No, I have a VPN, which I use occasionally. But, but they say that I'm in Ireland. Not true. Morning to you. Faith in me, Gorda. Yeah, I wish, yeah. The real octo spook says, exactly, there will be no jobs,
Starting point is 01:36:37 quote, automaton will do everything, mine everything, grow everything, make everything. And if we don't own the automaton, they'll be used to control us and own us. We're going to have to get out of the society. We're going to build a parallel society, and, you know, it's a difficult thing to do.
Starting point is 01:36:53 But I think this will force us to do it. And I see it as not only, only a judgment on our society by God, but I think it is, you know, we're talking about how God puts us through difficult things in order to train us. I think that's going to be the way we're going to find our way back. We're going to go through some, a dark valley of the shadow of death in order to get through this, but we'll fear no evil for thou art with me. That's the key. Yes. KW.D. 68 says, give it 10 years and we'll have just one corporation running everything, the U.S. government. That is what we see. Everything is.
Starting point is 01:37:27 narrowing down. Everything is being homogenized and purchased. Some company, it's going to all be on by Black Rock and Vanguard and they'll dictate everything. And Elon Musk. Molly Brown Dog, this sounds very like the lie. They got millennials to swallow in early thousands. Oh, you don't want to work in those factories anyway. You want to work service jobs. Yeah, that's right. Sadly. Narrow Way, Narrogate Ministries. I just got back from the supermarket. I'm exhausted. So difficult now to find anything that isn't poisoned anymore. Yeah, as a matter of fact, we had a clip. I think it might still be in here. Yeah, let me play this for you. This is somebody going through Aldi's and picking up the packages
Starting point is 01:38:08 and looking at everything that was there was bioengineered. I'm here at Aldi and almost everything they have contains bioengineered food ingredients. and she's showing it package after package bioengineered food package after package she's just picking it up and running a finger across the phrase that says bioengineered food this is Aldi they're heavily into this stuff
Starting point is 01:38:47 and of course it was Aldi where they were rigidly enforcing the idea that you were going to not pay by cash and so they're the cutting edge of all this stuff but yeah that that is the case it is very difficult to find anything that's there yeah it's not really messed up yeah when we take had that in the deck for a while just you know never got around a plane that before as we drive back and forth between here in Texas it is just a nightmare to find anything that isn't garbage when you're on the road yeah That's right.
Starting point is 01:39:25 We have... What are you going to say, Lance? I just was saying that's why I put it in there as we've had that video in the deck for so long. I saw that comment and knew you would play that. Oh, yeah, good. Thank you. Go ahead.
Starting point is 01:39:40 Skunk Hollow Rose Garden says that's what AI is good for replacing the work and hassle of making relationships. Yeah, that's our key work, isn't it? Yeah. And take away that work. Yeah. I mean, who wants to deal with the fact that people can say no to you or whatever? Molly Brown Dog, AI church counseling, and I keep thinking the church has sunk as low as it can go.
Starting point is 01:40:02 I have some bad news for you, Molly. The church is filled with people, and as long as people can keep sinking lower, the church can as well. New Republic Rising 83. AI is a fractalized mirror of human thought pattern. It's a product of who made it, garbage in, garbage out, enlightened in, enlightened out like the founding fathers. Yeah, that's right. Steve Heves, applying to N. Max and Karen Carbenter 27 says, I miss discussions with my grandparents, so different people compared to today.
Starting point is 01:40:31 Yeah, that's true. Card Goldsmith says, we want your skulls. Well, we're going to take a quick break and we come back. I want to look at this thing that broke yesterday with Comey and Latisha James being let off the hook. I think it truly does show what amateur hour the Trump administration truly is. It is really kind of humorous, regardless of what you think about whether they should be prosecuted or not. And, of course, the MAGA people are losing their minds over this stuff and outraged, and they're using it to feed the idea of, you know, the bipartisan nonsense that they come after each other all the time for. So we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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Starting point is 01:45:38 APSRadio.com. So, some of this yesterday, of course, the top headlines of those places, Judge dismisses a case against James Comey and Letitia James. After finding the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed. And I got to say, I told you so. We saw this coming. As a matter of fact, there was some other irregularities that turned up that were about the grand jury and what she was doing with that. This is somebody who's completely inexperienced, a personal lawyer of Trump,
Starting point is 01:46:11 handling insurance issues for him, that he put in in a fit of rage, and he told the world about it on social media. This has come back to haunt him. It is kind of ironic, I think, when you look at the fact that Trump has pursued vengeance against people who I agree with him, the lawfare that was conducted against him was illegitimate and it was persecution. And I think the appropriate way to do this, and I said this as he got elected and he's talking about how he's going to get these people.
Starting point is 01:46:45 I said, unfortunately, these people need to go to jail for what they did. but Trump is going to do it in a way that is not going to reinforce the rule of law. He's not going to do it in a way that would reform society. He's going to do it in a way that empowers him like a mafia boss. He's going to do it in a way that makes it clear that this is about personal revenge for somebody who tried to screw him, and he's going to nail them to the wall. And so as a result, he was eager to come after them for anything, just find something I don't care
Starting point is 01:47:21 and you've had Pulte that he's now assigned the guy they put in charge of housing and urban development HUD I think is where Pulte is his family built single family homes they were pretty big in Texas when they're there Pulte homes
Starting point is 01:47:36 and I don't know if they're other in states or not but he put him in and he used him to search down and to find process crimes for people and I think one of them was a Tisha James, but this is a different thing
Starting point is 01:47:53 and this is for the attacks on him personally and so he was getting close to the statute of limitations Pam Bondi was not getting anything done there were no prosecutors who wanted to indulge in this kind of personal vendetta and persecution so nobody was doing anything as a matter of fact one guy was
Starting point is 01:48:15 quit or was fired by Trump And Trump said, we're running out of time, and she's not doing the right thing. And I even said about that. I said, so what's the issue of this? Why doesn't he talk to her directly instead of talking to her via social media posts? But anyway, he made a point of saying that he had appointed Lindsay Halligan and done it personally, because he's going to get these people. And then within just a few days, because that was all the time that was left before the statute of limitations expired. she filed charges against Comey and Letitia James and then it turns out that there's a problem with him
Starting point is 01:48:55 directly appointing her that position has to be appointed by the attorney general and he had made it clear in his social media post that he was the one who did it there was no question about it and so that was ultimately the downfall of this. But as I said before, he would go after people for the same exact stuff that they came after him for, the made-up stuff. So he goes after, he takes his enemies like John Bolton. I'm going to come after you for having documents. And it's a bogus charge, just like they came after Trump for having documents at his place. Or he's going to come after these other people, you know, Leticia James, because of bogus statements that she, you know, bogus charges she came after him saying that he had made
Starting point is 01:49:43 fraudulent statements in his bank loans and yet the banks were not dissatisfied the banks were paid on those loans it wasn't any issue it was just a made-up charge by her so what he does is he goes out and gets poultry to find charges against her for real estate transactions that she had in the past exactly the same thing he comes after them uh for the same things that they did against him and here's the interesting irony just like you had the special prosecutor against him was dismissed because he was improperly appointed jack smith now his prosecution of these people has been dismissed because of improperly uh setting up the appointing the prosecutor's it's a funny symmetry to all of this stuff he goes out and gets to them the same charges and then they get off for exactly the same reason that
Starting point is 01:50:32 he got off on this thing so it's kind of funny the keystone cops of the white house clown show here and uh this failed attempt to get them but that's not the way it's being seen, of course, by Maga. This is all being used to push the partisan divide even more when these people do not want to admit the incompetence of their savior. This is a gang that can't shoot straight out for revenge. This has been my continual refrain is he's either on their side or he's so incompetent that having him in there doesn't make a difference.
Starting point is 01:51:10 And either way, Both of those are true. Yeah. And either way, it means he doesn't deserve your loyalty, and there's no reason to vote him back. Why would you sit there and defend this guy that is continually selling you out, either through malice or incompetence? So again, this is a judge, a U.S. District Judge, that had the case, a judge who was appointed by Clinton, therefore biased, right? And it may be true, but in this particular case, the judge is right. So because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority.
Starting point is 01:51:42 to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment, finding that Halligan lacked the authority to present a case to a grand jury. And there were many other irregularities. Again, as I pointed out, this is a person who handled contracts for him, had no experience as a trial lawyer, certainly no experience as a prosecutor, operating on her own because the people that were there who were experienced prosecutors didn't want to have anything to do with this. They didn't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole. So there were all kinds of irregularities about how she'd presented the indictment to the grand jury. There were irregularities about how she'd handled the evidence. Those, it didn't even get to that point. The very first
Starting point is 01:52:24 point, which had been brought up, and this was the point that got it dismissed, was her appointment, which is very obvious. All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of existing. executive power and are hereby set aside, so the judge, describing the insurance lawyer as a, quote, former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, quote, unquote. This case presents the unique, if not unprecedented situation where an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor exercising power she did not lawfully possess, acted alone in conducting a grand jury proceeding and securing an indictment in other words nobody else in the department of justice wanted
Starting point is 01:53:14 to have anything to do with this including pam bondi and so she did it all her own and she had no experience in this at all and she i guess got an eff on the exam so like i said last night i think trump thought they wanted a prostitutor he says i can get one of those lots of those i know many i can get you the best get you the best oh Prosecutor, my bad. Halligan was appointed at Trump's direction. The only prosecutor to present the cases, and she acted alone. She was the only one involved.
Starting point is 01:53:49 She signed all the indictments. And so because she was improperly appointed, there's not any person from the Justice Department that had their name on the indictments. So end of story, folks. That's it. The judge said the indictments should all be voided. A spokesperson for the White House said, statement. The facts of the indictments against Comey and James have not changed. This will not be the
Starting point is 01:54:15 final word on the matter. Well, we'll see about that. There's the issue that the statute of limitations has expired. They think they got a way to carve that back. I'll talk about that here. I'm personally in the opinion that I think we should remove statute of limitations for crimes committed by those in public office. Yeah. Especially for pedophilia. Yeah, especially that, but you know, just anything really. If you're in public office serving the American people and you commit a crime while doing so, I think, no, there's no statute of limitations, you know, especially if you're abusing your power to enrich yourself at the cost of the American people. No, you don't get to get off Scott for you because we didn't catch you soon enough. They should be held to a higher standard.
Starting point is 01:54:55 Absolutely right. Well, Comey put out on Instagram said, I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on, this is what you were talking about, Travis, malevolence and incompetence that's the question that's always the uh the twin horns the dilemma of the trumpet is he malevolent or incompetent which one is it well it's both actually and a reflection of what the department of justice has become under trump which is incompetent and malevolent uh so again is there anybody in the trump administration who could actually read the law do they care enough about the law to read it or are we just going to you know bluff our way through this thing with our dear leader acting as a dictator declaring emergency after
Starting point is 01:55:41 emergency and saying now I can do whatever I want stop me right well just ran into a roadblock here um so um he said I know Trump will probably come after me again and my attitude is going to be the same I'm innocent I'm not afraid and you guys are incompetence I got nothing to worry about here I am heartened by today's victory and grateful for the The prayers and support I've received from people around the country, I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day, said Letitia James. I got to say, she's one of the most politicized and one of the worst attorney generals, the way she came after people across the country during COVID lockdown. The way she came after the NRA, she is a horrible, horrible political opportunist, a enemy. of the Constitution, if ever there was one, Letitia James.
Starting point is 01:56:40 Comey's attorney said in a statement that his reading of the ruling suggests the case cannot be refiled because of the five-year statute of limitations expired in the time since the indictment was brought. That's the reason that Trump rushed and appointed Lindsey Halligan in the first place was because they just had days left on the indictment expiring. And in her defense, not only was she inexperienced in the case. role of prosecutor, but she was also up against an almost impossible deadline and acting alone because nobody else in the Department of Justice wanted to have anything to do with this.
Starting point is 01:57:16 The Justice Department has said in court papers that it believes a case could still move forward, and they cite U.S. Code. The federal statute that they cite says in part, quote, whenever an indictment or information charging a felony is dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, A new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment or information. Comey's attorneys have countered, however, that the six-month grace period does not apply in this case because she didn't have the power to bring an indictment to begin with. So all of her official actions are void, a prospect that the judge expressly agreed with.
Starting point is 01:58:04 In other words, whenever it's dismissed for any reason, then they can bring it back in six months. But they said, but this is never a legitimate indictment in the first place. And that should be the controlling reason. I think that rationally, that should apply. Whether or not you agree with the result, that is the law. And somebody needs to start making the Trump administration comply with the law. I'm kind of happy to see their nose rubbed in this for that reason. And not that I like Comey, not that I like Letitia James,
Starting point is 01:58:38 but certainly don't like her. But anyway, they also have other motions pending, contending that the charges should be dismissed because they were the result of a selective and vindictive prosecution. Those motions seek to have the cases tossed with prejudice. If you dismiss something with prejudice, that means that they cannot refile that. Another high-profile defendant being prosecuted by holding a
Starting point is 01:59:04 office, Kabul airport bombing suspect Mohamed Shafula also filed a challenge to her appointment earlier this month, charging that she doesn't have the authority to supervise or to participate in his case. Muhammad was indicted by her predecessor, and his motion is still pending. Another ruling disqualified Lena Haba, another personal attorney of Donald Trump, remember, as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. And that has resulted in a number of criminal cases brought under her leadership, being stuck in legal limbo while she appeals the decision. So the prosecutor from the Justice Department portrayed the questions about Halligan's appointment as a, quote, paperwork error.
Starting point is 01:59:56 Well, maybe a paperwork error on your part, but it is a fatal error to the case that you're trying to bring. Comey's attorney said it was much more than that. said it was a fatal flaw in the prosecution of his client. Trump said on September the 20th that he was naming Halligan. That was the day after he forced out his initial pick, Eric Siebert. Seabert had resisted pressure to prosecute Comey and James. And so Trump brags on social media that this guy won't do it. So he's forcing him out and he's going to put somebody in himself.
Starting point is 02:00:32 He hoisted himself by his own batard. He blew himself up with his own bomb, so to speak. So Halligan's appointment was immediately viewed as problematic because according to federal statute, people in that post may serve for only 120 days after being appointed U.S. attorney, unless confirmed by the Senate before that 120 days expires. So Trump's true social post naming her to the position
Starting point is 02:01:01 came a day after Siebert was forced out, And shortly after another social media post, we publicly urged Bondi to push ahead with the prosecution of Comey, James, and another perceived political adversary, Adam Schiff of California. And so, again, this is, this guy is, I guess, really the lucky loser, as the New York Times book points out, he had a half a dozen casinos that he bankrupted, perhaps because he didn't understand what he was doing. and he really doesn't know what he's doing as president either. He said, Pam, I reviewed over 30 statements and posts, saying essentially, same old story as last time, all talk, no action.
Starting point is 02:01:45 Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam Schiff de Schiff, and Letitia? They're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done, he said, in the post. And so now nothing is going to be done. He said, we can't delay any longer. It's killing our reputation and credibility. What credibility.
Starting point is 02:02:07 While he praised Halligan as a really good lawyer, five days after the post, Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience, presented Comey's case to a grand jury. The presentation came days before a five-year statute of limitations on the charges was set to expire. The judge is a Clinton appointee. And this is what many in the MAGA media are focused on.
Starting point is 02:02:32 But you need to focus for once, maybe on the law and what the actual letter of the law says and the incompetence of the Trump White House. Their stance on the 120-day rule has led to U.S. attorneys in California and Nevada being disqualified as well. And the Justice Department is appealing those rulings. So this is a pervasive problem that is not just this one prosecutor, but it's a whole bunch of stuff that's being done by the Trump administration. They have such utter contempt for the rule of law. They don't even bother to pretend about it. And hopefully that's going to be his downfall in many of these areas like the tariffs.
Starting point is 02:03:15 I'm hoping that the Supreme Court is going to throw that garbage out. A humiliating defeat as an ex-prosecutor trashes Trump's Department of Justice bungling on CNN. A former federal prosecutor, Elise Adamson, was on CNN commenting about this. She had been in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia. She began with the appointment of Lindsay Halligan, handpicked by Trump, was deemed to be unlawful by the federal judge, and provided grounds for the cases to be tossed. She said, I thought the case was a choose-your-own adventure of prosecutorial errors. And here we are, because this was a huge one.
Starting point is 02:04:01 Halligan being appointed after the 120 days of the interim appointment had been exceeded was a huge problem. And indeed, the court agreed that she wasn't lawfully appointed. And the problem here is that Halligan did everything on her own. And so now these indictments can't stand. So that was the key thing. It wasn't just that he was doing it without the Department of Justice, but that 120-day period had passed. So CNN anchor, Audi Cornish, asked Adamson whether she had ever seen anything like this before, though she qualified her answer by citing the dismissal of the classified documents case against Trump,
Starting point is 02:04:39 which was tossed when Trump appointed Judge Eileen Cannon ruled the special counsel, Jack Smith, was unlawfully appointed. How about that for symmetry? Like I said, the beginning. So she said, actually, this one is unique. usually Department of Justice follows proper process and procedure. Now we see what happens when the DOJ attempts to do an end run around those procedures. The cases now have been dismissed, possibly delivering a humiliating defeat to the Trump administration. Well, just wait until the tariffs are thrown out, which, again, they should be.
Starting point is 02:05:15 Everything about the basis of imposing those tariffs is fraudulent. And the policies, the vacillating, arbitrary, capricious, rates of tariffs that he imposed on people with just beyond stupidity and it should be slammed junked and thrown out and if they do the chaos that is going to come when the government has to refund all that money to all those different countries and companies it truly is going to be a real mess that is there so when you look at this you have people the the people who are the the bots, whether they are real or whether they are not,
Starting point is 02:05:59 they have turned themselves into bots. People like Nick Sortor. Breaking, federal judges just thrown out the case against Comey. Total BS. Bring the indictment again. Comey must be held responsible. Well, maybe these trumpsters who see that there's no 4D chess that's being played here. That was a good thing, Marjorie Taylor Green, saying that, you know, there's no 4D chess.
Starting point is 02:06:23 there's not even a plan folks will they ever believe that and yet you still see these trantrons from the trumpsters yes lance there are no blockchain watermarked ballots yeah steve pretendix fantasy julie kelly says this is unbelievable well you better believe it because the president has no respect for the law and he doesn't care what it says and eventually he's going to come back and bite him all these lies and tricks that he's been pushing and i hope it bites him big time with the tariffs. Those things are horrible. Not only the authority that he's exercised, we do not want to form a government where the president can attack. And again, with that, there was no plan. I mean, what was he trying to do? Was he trying to raise revenue? Was he
Starting point is 02:07:09 trying to protect a particular industry? I mean, that would be reprehensible enough. But no, this was to basically go to war with countries that he didn't like or to reward countries where he liked the leaders. It's pathetic what his goals were. Before, we take a break go ahead and cover the comments there that's right mad mims thank you very much we appreciate it says when you interview dr sheba ask him about the clean and raw foods please yes i have to get him back on we had him scheduled for an interview last week and um there was a scheduling conflict on his end and he didn't realize it to the very end and so we're going to reschedule him and we'll get him back on he's going to be running for office again but i like what sheva does
Starting point is 02:07:50 he uses these runs for political office to organize people and to tell them that they can actually fix things themselves. And that's a message that I heartily endorse, yes. Don't frag me, bro, says they are now also using meat glue to make scrap meat look like a cheap steak. Yeah, chicken nuggets, isn't that it? Meat glue, it's actually something they used to layer meats together. And when you're using it, you have to be very careful. You don't want to inhale this because you're made of meat funnily enough. Your lungs are technically meat. Wow.
Starting point is 02:08:26 And if it gets inside, it can cause them to gum up and stick together. So you have to be very careful when using meat glue. Wow. But it is something they do. Yeah. Molly Brown Dogg. It says, kind of wish David could play these nostalgic Christmas videos all year long, an island of peace in a darkening world.
Starting point is 02:08:43 Well, yeah, I work on them all year long. But I've got a couple of new songs so far for this year. I don't know if I've got enough to do another album or not, but I've got a couple of songs. Maybe an EP. Well, you can buy it at the Davidnight Show.com or Davidnight. News, and then you can play it year-round. That's right.
Starting point is 02:09:03 That's right, yeah. Lance has this solution. He's got it figured out. Karen Garbender says, Love the Brass. Miss those bands like Chicago and Tower of Power that had great brass sections. Yeah, me too. That's what we used to cover all the time.
Starting point is 02:09:19 the bands that I was in because I played horn and so you know you're going to those are the kind of songs that you're going to play we played beginnings so many times when I was at bush gardens that lead trumpet player said I think I can just take my trumpet out here put it on the stand they'll play it all by itself it knows it by art already so uh and we played Chicago actually we had Maynard Ferguson um we had a Maynard Ferguson arrangement uh living in the past it was done by one of the guys I didn't do that arrangement and we had a guy who had a couple of interesting things when we had bush gardens one day we had burgess meredith showed up in the audience and came up and he didn't introduce himself
Starting point is 02:10:01 but the drummer recognized him and went up he had a cap on all this other kind of stuff you know he didn't want to be identified and so the drummer goes are you burgess meredith and he goes yeah yeah it's like don't tell anybody and then he kind of goes away but after one of these sets a guy came up and said that's a great arrangement of that Ferguson tune. Where'd you get that? And I was like, well, John did that, you know? And he goes, I wrote that arrangement. And John was like, whoa.
Starting point is 02:10:29 It's like, am I in trouble now? But he thought it was pretty good. He just wanted to know if somebody had put that down on paper and was selling it, selling his arrangement. But anyway. Good band, if you like brass. That is still active in a round. It's Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
Starting point is 02:10:46 They do swing jazz. really big band swing jazz pretty good pretty good tell me about them but you know we saw blood sweat and tears and uh is it david clayton thomas i think was the was the lead singer saw them uh live in concert and uh carry when they came in that was really good um you know there's a lot of live concerts that i was not a fan of because usually if it's a pop group they can't really hack it you know but uh the great concerts that i've seen were typically um jazz a musician because they could play it live. And actually it's good or better live,
Starting point is 02:11:22 usually better live than it was with the album. But the rest of the people, if it was like some pop group, I'd like, I'd look at it. It's like, you know, for the cost of that ticket, I could buy their entire discography. And I got every one of their studio produced albums, and it would be much better. But blood, sweat, and tears was excellent.
Starting point is 02:11:38 I also heard Weather Report live once. But I've got to say, the very best concert I've ever seen in my life of any genre was Buddy Rich. he came to our high school when I was a senior in high school and our band director organized a series of concerts and one of the other concerts was Harry James who was somebody that when my band director was young
Starting point is 02:12:01 and playing in bands he really looked up to him but yeah I really wasn't very impressive at all but when Buddy Rich came with his group that was the most amazing thing I've ever seen I got to see him practicing in the band rooms these guys get their stuff together and I was like front row seat the entire time and Buddy Rich was just unbelievable the way he played.
Starting point is 02:12:22 I think I've talked about this before because Guard told me about his buddy rich stories but he came out and he just starts playing, you know, drum and everything and he's playing around for a little while and then he yells out a number the next tune is going to be and then he kind of keeps an eye on everybody's. He's playing some pretty involved stuff
Starting point is 02:12:44 And then he just goes, one, two, three, four, boom, and they're into that thing. And they were excellent musicians. And when it got finished, he didn't stop. He just kept going. You know, he'd keep playing something, and he'd think a little bit, and he'd call up another tune. And he's got all this stuff from memory, and he was kicking everybody's parts in with them. It was truly amazing. And he took an intermission, and the guy was soaking wet from working on this thing.
Starting point is 02:13:10 I mean, it was an amazing workout to watch him play. Also, imagine doing it in Florida as another added layer of... Well, it was an air-conditioned studio, but he was still sweating. And they had it set up so that he could take a shower and change clothes during intermission and come back out. And he was at it again. Unbelievable. Musically, physically, it was such an amazing concert. I'll never forget it.
Starting point is 02:13:33 It's always interesting when you hear a really good drummer. You know, most bands, the drums are just kind of there in the background. They, you know, carry the beat along. And you don't notice them. much. But when you hear a really, really good drummer. Yeah, these are complicated charts and he knew everybody's part. I mean, he's going to kick in this section, that section, all the rest of this stuff. He was truly one of a kind. Yeah. Yeah. Also, another band, if you're interested in jazz, jazz-related stuff, maybe the band
Starting point is 02:14:02 Squirrel Nut Zippers. They're a little weird. You can check them out on your own time. The Ghost of Stephen Foster is a song I like. Do Not Obey, says Jail is for those who are small and disliked um like the common folk that's right that's right it's for you and me do not obey that's where we're ending up the real octo spook says leticia james and comys crimes are documented on the internet and we all watched comie as he committed his yeah well you know i mean this is the usual story you know the big guys get away with it look at uh james clapper who has never even indicted you know his his um uh statute of limitations expired when he lied to congress Congress about his dragnet surveillance of the American people.
Starting point is 02:14:48 And so, you know, when I look at this, it's to the point where it's like, okay, yeah, we've got another criminal, and we've got them in both parties that are getting away with crimes. And so this is just more of the same, actually, that is there. So we're going to take a quick break. It's real frustrating to see these people getting away with it, but at the same time, we don't want the government ignoring due process and the rule of law and statute of limitations and all that to get someone that they just have a personal grudge against. It's not because of what he did. That's right. This goes back to establishing the rule of law, which has come
Starting point is 02:15:25 under such disdain by Trump. And so from that standpoint, it's a good thing. I don't like to see these people get away with what they did. And I think what they did to Trump was wrong. But, you know, this is also wrong. And this what aboutism or the two wrongs do not make a wrong. right. Okay, so we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to
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Starting point is 02:17:06 okay welcome back yes you had something you were going to tell us right as a matter of fact you got a comment from guard um who also likes that band i'm going to have to look them up big bad voodoo daddy they're actually really good really good but uh quickly i want to remind people that we are listener supported it's support from people like you that keep us on the air so if you like the show you go to subscribe star dot com forward slash the david night show and sign up there It's a really good way to support the show and keep us up and running. But I also want to let you know that Homestead Products. Shop is having a sale on their crazy-ass gun lube. And they say that it is a lubricant that attaches to the metal surface at the molecular level with no build-up.
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Starting point is 02:21:38 These are two investing titans that are issuing the same warning. And this is an article from Zero Hedge. When Ray Dalio and Jeff Gunlack, two legendary investors with wildly different worldviews, start warning about the same thing. It's worth paying attention. Both of them said today's economy is distorted and warned that illusively. Lusory wealth, quote unquote, may vanish when reality eventually bites. In what world with a billionaire investing legend, Ray Dalio and Jeffrey Gunnlock?
Starting point is 02:22:13 I don't know if I'm saying his name correctly. I don't know if it's Gunlock or Gunlack. Come to the same conclusion about the economy. Well, in this one, they would. If you're not familiar with either of these financial giants, Ray Dalio is the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's most successful hedge fund, says this is the right article. Jeffrey Gunlatch has been
Starting point is 02:22:37 trading government debt so successfully for so long that he's known as the Bond King, which means that these two men have amassed their fortunes with wildly different philosophies and methods about how to do it. And that makes it especially surprising they've come to some of the same conclusions. Two very different billionaires with one warning. First of all, there's two principles that they are both talking about now that have a massive impact once you understand them.
Starting point is 02:23:10 Principle number one is that price signals can lie. The information that you normally glean from the prices and the valuations may be distorted by the economy, and almost certainly are right now. And you need to know and understand that. Principle two is that unrealized profits are not the same as real wealth. You know, we talk about paper profits. In other words, you're looking at the stock as it goes up, but you haven't really realized that wealth, you know, that's illusory, until you're able to sell it at a profit.
Starting point is 02:23:43 Just because the value goes up on paper doesn't mean that you can actually get that amount when you finally convert it to actual money. Many of us learned that lesson during the dot-com bust. Now, I need to be clear here. I'm going to be talking about these men and these principles to help you understand current investing, he said, but he's not giving investment advice. This is coming from Peter Reagan, who is saying this, is the author of it. Dahlio says net worth is not the same as wealth.
Starting point is 02:24:14 He said, what you're seeing, the numbers on the screen aren't fixed numbers. Wealth is measured by asset prices, but prices go up and down. And when debt is used to buy these assets, Dahlia says you can't get unreasonable prices. This is a huge problem because the debt has to be paid back. And to pay the debt, you have to convert an asset into actual cash. And this is a problem when it is a massive number of people who are doing the same thing. Massive number of people have bought these assets by incurring debt. and when they need to sell this stuff, and frequently that creates a panic.
Starting point is 02:24:56 That's how these bubbles burst, because then the asset prices start to fall dramatically, and a panic sets in. Selling an asset pushes the price down. It's supply and demand. More of something in the market, the less demand for each unit of that thing. So the price goes down, except that the borrowed funds have to be paid back with the proceeds from the sale, which is typically going to be done at a lower price, which means that the debt-fueled buyers,
Starting point is 02:25:21 end up with much lower profits than they expected, maybe even losing money. Dahlio says this price drop that's necessary to pay off the debt is often what causes the economic crashes. This market, he says, artificially propped up by debt, not by cash. That's why the prices don't have much of a relationship with the purchasing power that the price represents. A price is not a profit until you sell it. and Gunlock has the same concerns. He said, there's no argument against the fact that we are in a mania. He doesn't use the term bubble, but he's talking about mania,
Starting point is 02:26:02 which is a well-documented quirk of human nature. He said, there's no argument against the fact that we're in a mania. He points out the same craziness that we're seeing in the economy that Dahlio has talked about, just pointing it out in different ways. A mania, as defined by Miriam Webster's dictionary, is an excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm. And that's exactly what we're seeing with the prices of financial assets compared to what those assets are really worth.
Starting point is 02:26:29 People are speculating and making buying decisions based on their hope that a higher-than-normal market valuation will continue to increase. And what we're seeing is something that we have seen before. Asset prices that are disconnected from reality. Stories about assets becoming more important than facts about those assets. People making decisions based on a story instead of logic. And that always causes problems.
Starting point is 02:26:57 Where do they agree, these two billionaires? Besides agreeing that prices are all out of whack and they can't be trusted to reflect actual value, they both agree on a defense. They both agree that physical gold ownership is very important. It's important to understand why they both say that, though. Gold's price is tied to inherent worth based both on its real-world scarcity and its usefulness in the real world. It's more than just a number on a screen.
Starting point is 02:27:27 Precious metals stay relatively consistent in terms of purchasing power over long-time horizons. So while currencies like the dollar will continue to devalue, and while irrational exuberance eventually turns into depression and cynicism, and while debt repayment pushes asset prices down, precious metals will retain their real world purchasing power regardless of what else is going on in the world. Precious metals are a hedge against inflation and against irrationally inflated prices. Their store of value role has lasted over 5,000 years of human history. And of course, you know, when I've talked to Tony Arderman about this,
Starting point is 02:28:10 we talk about how if you go back a century and you look at gold and what you could buy with that, you know, the example of the story was a guy getting a custom-made suit than going to Europe and doing certain activities. And basically, it's the same amount of gold, roughly, then as now. And yet if you look at the currency numbers, they were radically different because the currency has been devalued by these central banks. And so that's an interesting story. And we've talked about Ray Dalio before because he is very much important.
Starting point is 02:28:46 tune as well to the issue of the fourth turning. And he's one of the few people who openly talks about it. Everybody else talks about the different generations, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, and all the rest of the stuff. But they don't talk about the fourth turning aspect. Ray Dalio does. And so, and he's been doing a lot of talking about that. To look at the other side, however, exactly opposite of these two rational people telling you the truth is Scott Bessent, Trump's Treasury Secretary and the Soros Soyboy, who on Sunday admitted, rather refused to admit that inflation has gone up for Americans. He was on NBC's Meet the Press, and Walker said to him, inflation's gone up.
Starting point is 02:29:32 It's at 3% now from 2% in April when the tariffs were imposed. Bessent replied, no, no, no, no. So inflation hasn't gone up. The one thing we're not going to do here is what the Biden administration did. We're not going to tell the American people they don't know how they feel. They are traumatized, he said. Well, his remarks sparked outrage, says this article. Trump's administration is doing the same thing it accused its predecessor of doing,
Starting point is 02:30:03 telling consumers not to believe their own pocketbooks. And, yeah, they're saying that they accuse their predecessor of doing. their predecessor did do it, and now they're doing it. They denied it when the predecessor was doing it, and now they're pointing out the hypocrisy with them doing it, but they themselves are hypocrites. That's right. On X, one person said,
Starting point is 02:30:25 the inflation went from 2 to 3%, literally, and no amount of no, no, no, no, no is going to change basic math. Yeah. Reminds me the Ringo Star, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Don't inflation no more. telling Americans inflation hasn't risen
Starting point is 02:30:44 right after tariffs pushed prices higher is the same gas-lighting that they accused others of doing you don't fight economic anxiety by denying the reality you solve it but instead Trump is making it worse
Starting point is 02:30:59 and he's lying about it Trump and Republicans have learned nothing about how badly Biden and the Democrats bungled inflation instead they're repeating some of the same mistakes and the lies and this is why we have
Starting point is 02:31:11 Uniparty here. Scott Bessent can't stop saying really stupid things, said John Harwood, journalist. You know, one of the dumbest things I've heard anybody say. Do you remember it was, what was it, last week or the week before, where he was talking about beef prices and his excuse for it, he said, well, unfortunately, when the immigrants come in, they bring their cattle with them. Which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. absolutely no no truth to that whatsoever it's these gosh darn Mexican cows yeah he's saying that you know
Starting point is 02:31:46 they brought in this screw worm thing from Mexico let me ask you in terms of you know you're not supposed to believe even though you see the prices going up in the grocery store according to Scott Besson that's not really happening and he wants you to believe something else that you haven't seen which is a massive cattle drive of of Mexicans coming across the border, bringing infected cows in. It's not that at all. The real disease is the federal government, and the real disease is the money printing and the raising of taxes.
Starting point is 02:32:22 Trump is a tax and spend Democrat. It's one of the reasons why he picked a Soros guy to run his Treasury Secretary. He has always been a New York City Democrat and just take a look at who he's bringing into the White House and entertaining. and honoring, you know, Muslim terrorists and another New York City socialist, communist, Mom Danny. So, again, Scott Besson is a joke, if ever the was one. Gold and silver have gained as a barrage of U.S. economic data is coming up, and people
Starting point is 02:32:58 are expecting it to bring news that is going to help the price of gold. December gold was up just over $4,000, just, well, just under. or 4,1004,096 in December. Silver prices were at $50.25. So crude oil prices are now trading at about $58.50 a barrel. I saw that, and that's pretty amazing. That, you know, oil, which has typically been about $80 to $100 when silver was down around 20. And now the two of them have converged oil has come down.
Starting point is 02:33:38 to the point at which a barrel of oil, and I don't know how many gallons that is, and a barrel should look it up, but a barrel of oil is now about equivalent to an ounce of silver. Pretty amazing the way the markets move here. And so gold is around 4,100. Strong investment demand limits the downside, says Standard Charters Cooper. So when you look at it, he says, although gold is down, about 6% from my last month's all-time high. When you look at what is going on with Bitcoin, it's down to, it got down close to $80,000 for Bitcoin, which is about 36% down from its high. Gold does not
Starting point is 02:34:24 necessarily set to benefit from an equities market under pressure, they said. And because as Ray Dalio was pointing out, a lot of people have bought these stocks on margins. They've incurred debt to do it. And so if the stocks go in the opposite direction, like if Nvidia goes down, the people have bought that on margin, they're going to have to get a call on that, and they're going to have to come up with the cash for that. Where are they going to come up with the cash for that? Well, they may sell gold if they've got it. And so that's what we see happening sometimes people taking profit in gold in order to cover
Starting point is 02:35:02 their losses on the stock market or the losses elsewhere, maybe whether it's on Bitcoin or something like that. So when we look at what it's happening with Bitcoin, it truly is getting into an amazing area. You have Coin Telegraph says Bitcoin's realized losses are getting to the area where they were with FTX. Remember when that crash happened? But people are saying, so where's the bottom with this?
Starting point is 02:35:28 What is causing this? Again, you can't figure out the manias and you can't figure out the markets. We just know what the gold standard is, I think. That's one of the reasons why when I look at, I'm happy to have Tony Arderman, who's a support of this show. And he's set up a way for you to gradually accumulate gold, which we all should be doing as a hedge, depending on how much you want to do gold and silver. He set up David Knight Gold.
Starting point is 02:35:54 I'll take you to Tony Arterman's Wise Wolf Gold. He can help you with gold and silver purchases. He can help you with a metals IRA, and he can help you to accumulate it on a monthly basis. Nobody else that I know of does that, but I've known Tony for a very long time, and I think he's very trustworthy. The sale and the speed of these losses reflect a meaningful washout of marginal demand as recent buyers unwind into the drawdown. Oh, by the way, we're talking about Tony. If you want to get out of Bitcoin, he can help you to transfer that without, I think, any fees from Bitcoin into gold. I think he's doing that, isn't he?
Starting point is 02:36:34 I'm pretty sure if I'm... Tony does all kinds of different things. If you want Bitcoin, you want to sell Bitcoin, you want gold, you want to sell gold or silver. Tony can help you with all of that. You can transition from gold into Bitcoin or vice versa. So... Actually got to stop in and visit him in Denison on our way back up from Texas. It's a great little shop.
Starting point is 02:36:54 It's a really cool old building. If you're in the area, again, go check out Wise Wolf, Golden Silver in Denison, Texas. Yes. Yes, absolutely. Well, I'll just point out before we leave, What people are looking at here, analysts at UBS, says that the Bitcoin flash crashes below 82,000. Again, it got down to just above 80,000, is needed before it becomes more constructive. So what they're saying is it's going to go down further and then consolidate income up, they think. That's their opinion.
Starting point is 02:37:27 Meanwhile, a lot of investors are rethinking this 60-40 portfolio in the U.S. because gold is now becoming a core allocation. Typically, what they've said in order for you to have diversification is that you would have 60, 40 stocks and bonds. And they should split it between those two. Now they're saying because of gold, Morgan Stanley's latest Global Insights calls gold an attractive hedge against fiscal largesse and geopolitics. noting that it's 50% rally year to date, and it's near zero equity correlation. So in other words, it's independent of those. It is accelerating the adoption, they said, of real assets like ETS.
Starting point is 02:38:15 I would just caution you, ETFs are not real. If you get gold ETS or silver ETS, you don't have real gold or silver. You're getting a paper investment, and you're buying shares in a corporation that claims it has real gold and silver and may actually not have it. They don't move in conjunction with the spot price of physical gold and physical silver. And it's not really under your control. But they're talking about the fact that gold allocation today is about function rather than fear. And they say you can see that because of the massive inflows into paper gold and paper silver of $10 billion in September alone. And, uh,
Starting point is 02:39:01 So a lot of that is retail investors who want to, you know, basically they don't want to deal with a gold and silver dealer and get physical gold. They want to just pull up something on the internet and contact their broker. And while that may be faster and more convenient, it's not the same thing at all, really. So instead of treating gold as an accessory to a portfolio, some strategists are now treating it as a core of real assets. assets and saying instead of the 60, 40 stocks and bonds, a 20% reallocation from the bond bucket that acknowledges that diversification is no longer about opposites, but it's now about orthogonality. For allocators, this isn't nostalgia for the gold standard. It's recognition that the architecture of portfolio resilience is changing. The new 60-20-20-20 mindset of stocks, 60% stocks,
Starting point is 02:39:59 20% bonds and 20% gold may prove less a radical break than a quiet return to first principles, holding something that no one else owes you. And of course, this is what Tony has always talked about. He says, it's not somebody else's debt that is there. So that's why it is a safe haven, actually. And when we look at the future of gold, you see enlist at, let's see, where is this at? This is trying to see the source for this. I didn't have it marked here.
Starting point is 02:40:34 But one analyst is saying that the only way for gold to reach $10,000 an ounce is if it goes above $5,000 an ounce next year in 2026. And they talk about why there's a good chance that that may still happen. Not only the central banks, but especially retail investment, that has not really even kicked in yet. and in terms of a real mania. We've seen some aspects of it in other countries, but a retail mania has not kicked in yet. Most of this has been driven by central banks. Right.
Starting point is 02:41:10 So we're going to take a quick break and got a comment here, Travis. That's right. High Booth says, Travis is the Lawson Civil Defense Manual. The same book as Lawson's Ultimate Shit Hit the Fan Manual he wrote. I don't actually know. I checked his website just a minute ago. to see if there was a different book on there.
Starting point is 02:41:29 There isn't, there's three separate books. The Civil Defense Manual's Volume 1 and 2 or one of them than two other ones. This might be an updated version of that book, but I don't know for certain. Yeah, he's been selling the Civil Defense Manual since I've first interviewed him. So he's had the Civil Defense Manual out for quite a few years. This might be the Magnum Opus where he's gone in and, you know, correlated and put everything into one. But he does have a new article that's out, and we're going to be cross-posting that onto our subpoena. Stack as well. And again, if you want to, if you want to get the show without commercials in terms of an audio podcast, you can get that if you subscribe at Subscribe Star or if you subscribe at Substack. Both those places will get you the audio podcast without any ads in it.
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Starting point is 02:44:10 and Huey Lewis in the news. You'll love the classic hits channel at APS Radio. Download our app or listen now at APSRadio.com. Well, welcome back, folks, and we have even more fallout now from this back and forth over illegal orders. And it's interesting because the Trump administration, Donald Trump, and his administration, have now staked out. And for them, it apparently, it is a hill to die on. they have now staked out the position that you must obey illegal orders what an absurdity that is and what an abomination and repudiation of the constitution and the rule of law to say they're going to say that you cannot say that people should not obey illegal orders you must not say that and if you do they're going to come after you And so now the Pentagon under War Pete is saying that openly talking about the fact that they are investigating Senator Mark Kelly over a video urging troops to defy illegal orders.
Starting point is 02:45:25 They want to go back and investigate him and give him a dishonorable discharge or something like that. Again, over illegal orders, what is the problem with these idiots that are there? Very dangerous. The Pentagon announced Monday that it is investigating Democrat Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after the former Navy pilot joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for troops to defy illegal orders. And again, I am not a fan at all of Mark Kelly's policies. I disagree with him on everything. It's one of the worst gun control advocates out there. He's the husband of Gabby Gifford, who was shot at a rally, and fortunately she didn't die, but it turned the two of them into rabid anti-second amendment advocates.
Starting point is 02:46:19 And I don't agree with his other policies either. I mean, he's a Democrat. I don't agree with anything the guy does. But to come after him because he's saying that you shouldn't obey illegal orders, what is their problem that they can't understand that? The Pentagon suggests. What's that? We're making a hero out of this. I know.
Starting point is 02:46:39 I know. Why you make heroes as some of the worst people? But the Pentagon suggested that Kelly's statements in the video interfered with loyalty, morale, or good order, and discipline of the armed forces by citing the federal law that prohibits such actions. So we've now got the executive branch and the Pentagon under War Pete, now telling you that you must obey illegal orders. As I said the other day, didn't you.
Starting point is 02:47:07 we have this discussion with the Nuremberg trials? You know, we had people who were up for charges for things that were violations of moral law, of international law, things that have been done in prison camps. I was just following orders with the expression. It's like, well, you don't follow the orders to do anything and everything. But that is now the position of the Trump administration. I mean, they really do want to embrace this whole fascist thing, I guess. You will do what I say. I mean, they're embracing it, being a king, and all the rest of the stuff. Go ahead. What an amazing statement that it's immoral to disobey illegal laws. It's unloyal and immoral to not, to disobey the rather, it's, if you care about the law, you are immoral and, uh, yeah, exactly the
Starting point is 02:48:02 opposite. If you're loyal to your country, you're disloyal to Trump. It is, um, it is. Um, it is, um, Yeah, the country is not Trump. The government is not Trump. The Constitution is the country. The Constitution is the king, not Trump. This is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our job and holding this administration accountable. It won't work, said Kelly, in a statement.
Starting point is 02:48:26 And again, this is a very bad guy. They're making him into a hero. And I think, as I said before, not only did Donald Trump step in this dog do that was laid out there as a trap for him, but he jumped up and down in it in a temper tantrum, and he's sputtering it all over himself and the rest of his administration. Defense Secretary, or I should say, War Pete, said that Kelly was facing investigation because he's the only one of the lawmakers who was formerly retired from the military and is still under the Pentagon's jurisdiction.
Starting point is 02:48:58 Kelly's conduct brings discredit on the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately. Let me say, Pete, your conduct brings discredit on the armed forces. What are we supposed to think about a Pentagon that demands that people obey illegal orders? You're pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Their foolish screed so's doubt and confusion, which only puts our warriors in danger. This guy is a hero in his own mind. Kelly's status as a U.S. Senator, however, could complicate the Pentagon. investigation because the Constitution, remember that thing, Pete, the Constitution that you
Starting point is 02:49:39 swore to uphold. The Constitution explicitly shields members of Congress and from White House overreach, said Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University. Having a U.S. Senator subject to discipline at the behest of the Secretary of Defense and the President violates a core principle of legislative and Dependence, Christ said in a phone interview. So troops, especially uniformed commanders, do have specific obligations to reject orders that are unlawful if they understand that. And, of course, Jason Barker sent an email to me, which I thought was very good.
Starting point is 02:50:24 He pointed out that this unlawful order thing was very big to him. He said he was rebutting Fox News on Twitter. And he dropped a link. He said, they may want to check out to cover this. Some examples in the article where soldiers and commanders are to be held accountable by law. He said, I also wanted to point out something that the general public is unaware of. He said, the Army doctrine went to a concept that was known as Mission Command.
Starting point is 02:50:53 This is being pushed very hard around 2018 and onward. My spidey senses threw up red flags back then. When Mission Command does its absolve commanders. of wrongdoing if their subordinates conduct themselves in immoral or unlawful ways. In a nutshell, they give a general idea of what the end state should be, and they give subordinates the latitude to operate with a certain level of autonomy to accomplish the goals. The idea was to free up the bottleneck of asking permission for every move, but what it really does is to make the people executing the mission, the scapegoat, when things are not done correctly
Starting point is 02:51:33 or done illegally. Our higher commanders are all now weak and willing to accept the pay, but will not take on the risk of bad decisions. And he points out, he said, he was appalled when he saw this. He said he's fortunate enough to have one commander that really instilled in us and brought the regulations to back it that we were not to follow illegal orders.
Starting point is 02:51:59 So he said, sorry to rant about the mission command thing, but I've been a huge opponent of the idea since they started pushing it. We should always have clear rules of engagement as well as a declaration of war before taking any action. We are where we are now because they have blurred the lines between what we can legally do and who has to fall on the sword when things go wrong. So that's from Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm, and he's absolutely right about that. He was in the military and he, along with a lot of other people, fought these. unconstitutional illegal orders from Biden about the jab and many other things. It's very
Starting point is 02:52:38 important. And as these people who are pushing back on this are saying, one of the key things that they're looking at is the way the military is being misused here domestically. And that is a very concerning thing. So Trump says that you're committing treason if you criticize him. Because essentially he is the law and he is the country and he is more important than the constitution the constitution doesn't matter um as slotkin who put this thing through and again i'm no fan of her she's a democrat and um uh she um former cia uh as far as i'm concerned that's three strikes right there you're out but uh this this is the woman by the way when asked point blank well what what illegal orders has trump given
Starting point is 02:53:31 She couldn't think of any. She doesn't see what's happening off the coast of Venezuela as being illegal and criminal. Well, the rest of the world does, even if you can't see it through your CIA blinders and you're training this there. But she said, he's trying to shut us up because he doesn't want us talking about this. And again, understand the partisan games that are being played here. But the reality is, is that this is an uncomfortable truth that they're telling you, about Trump. You know, sometimes, you know, they're putting this out, as one guy said, this is all propaganda. I talked about this yesterday. He said, this is nothing but propaganda.
Starting point is 02:54:09 Well, you know, you can use the truth to harm somebody who is a liar like Trump. There's white propaganda, there's black propaganda. White propaganda is when you use the truth to make your point. Black propaganda is when you use a lie and you tell people lies to make the point. So Mike McCall, One guy who is very heavily into the military industrial complex out of Texas, he said, when he was asked about it on one of the Sunday shows, he said, well, I don't speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress, which he's called for on social media. He said, I would tone down the rhetoric, and I would tone down the theme here. Better watch out he's going to get kicked out of the Republican Party in Congress by Trump for talking like that. on Saturday night, Trump again referred to them as traitors asserting that the individual should be in jail right now, not walking around. And so Slokin said in an interview, she said, you don't have to take my word for it.
Starting point is 02:55:12 I've had report after report of legal officers, of JAG officers coming forward and saying, look, I push back on this. I'm not sure that this is legal. Well, you know, pretty much everybody else is sure that it is not legal. This is not a gray area. This is a real clear cut line here. He's giving people illegal orders. It'd be interesting to, I wonder if anybody has tried to reach out to this commander who resigned from Southern Command. This is all happening in his jurisdiction.
Starting point is 02:55:41 And again, he had only been in for one year of what's typically a three-year stint in that position. He resigned no comments about why, not from him and not from the Pentagon. They're keeping all this stuff quiet. I think that he's got concern about that. so she said there is such a thing as illegal orders that's why it's in the uniform code of military justice going back to nuremberg right which is what i talked about yesterday and it's just it's a totally benign statement to say that you must not obey illegal orders so again but she can't say that you know regime change and been as well as illegal because
Starting point is 02:56:23 that's exactly the kind of thing she was probably doing her entire life Primary concern is military use within the U.S., she said. And that's the other aspect of it that we should be concerned about, that the Trump administration is acting this way, both foreign and domestic. The Trump administration has shown itself to be an enemy of the Constitution, both in foreign and domestic actions. And so we want to talk about who the real traders are. Look at the guy who pardoned Jonathan Pollard because he was paid to.
Starting point is 02:57:02 If that isn't an act of traitorous conduct, I don't know what is. The biggest trader we've got right now is Trump. Benedict Donald, as I said. I still have that video in the deck if you want to play it. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, here he is. This is Miriam Adelson flying Jonathan Pollard in on her own giant,
Starting point is 02:57:27 jet being met by Bibi Netanyahu and Pollard kisses the ground of Israel after being one of the worst traitors in American history. Pardoned by Donald Trump because Miriam Adelson told him
Starting point is 02:57:43 to. You want to talk about somebody who is a traitor to this country? That's Donald Trump. As a matter of fact, you know, when we what a beautiful moment. Yeah, what a beautiful moment. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:57:56 This is a guy who not only gave secrets to Israel, but then Israel betrayed America by giving the names of American soldiers, as well as signals, intelligence, and protocols being used by the Navy, gave it to the Soviet Union after Jonathan Pollard stole it and gave it to Israel. Yeah, they're so proud of this guy. He's a real hero. after 35 years. Yeah, you should have been there for life. Should have been there for life. And Huckabee had been there for life. And Huckabee had this to say about Christians and Israel. I get asked all the time because I'm a Christian and they say, well, why are you so supportive of the Jewish people?
Starting point is 02:58:55 I said, you can be Jewish. You don't have to have anything to do with Christians. Yeah, you don't have to have anything to do with Christ. Understand that your entire faith is built on the foundation of Judaism. No, it's built on Christ. We look at this as an obligate. It's built on Christ. Moral debt that we must repay.
Starting point is 02:59:11 And therefore, I don't understand anyone who says, I'm a Christian, but I don't really want to support the Jews. How can you do that? But it is not the view of those of us who are what I would call biblical believers that accept that what the scripture says about the Jewish people. And Genesis 12, those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. It gets pretty simple. I say there's a miracle every day. It doesn't say that.
Starting point is 02:59:34 It doesn't say that. It says to Abraham, I'll bless those who bless thee, not your descendants. And it says through you, all nations will be blessed. That is through Christ, not Israel. Stop with a phony Christianity, Huckabee. You're a traitor to this country. You're a traitor to Christ. I just can't stand this anymore.
Starting point is 02:59:58 These people, such traitors. He's not an ambassador for Christ and he's not an ambassador for America either. He has given that up. Thank you for listening. Have a good day. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.
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