The David Knight Show - Tue Episode #2272: — What Are Christian Zionists Cheering?

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:10] Trump Used a Fatherless Six-Year-Old at Arlington — Knight: Bookend That Boy With the Child Killed by His Tomahawks Knight: bookend the Arlington boy at his father's grave with the child in the photograph from Iran. What is the purpose of these wars? What are you cheering, Christian Zionists? ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:05:55] Netanyahu Laid Out the Formula — Wash Brains With a Higher Cause So People Disregard All Rules of Morality To blow up a bus full of children, brainwash them with a higher cause — religious, ethnic, racial. For that cause you disregard the constitution. That is the danger of dispensationalism. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:11:30] Trump Calls Massey a 'Sleaze Bag' on Memorial Day — From the Man Who Was Jeffrey Epstein's Best Pal Trump called Massey a sleaze bag, claimed the Iran war killed only 13, and didn't name any. Knight: if you look up sleaze bag, you won't see Massey's picture — you'll see Trump's. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:17:30] Korea 1950–53: 635 Tons of Bombs, 4 Million Dead — and It Only Ended in a Ceasefire, Not a Treaty 32,000 tons of napalm. One general testified there were no targets left in Korea. 73 years later only a ceasefire. The Korean war quadrupled the Pentagon budget in three years. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:20:26] The Only Reliable Products of US Air Power: Devastated Civilians and the Suppression of Internal Reform Movements The rally-around-the-flag effect consolidates regimes even when citizens despise their leaders. Iranians who opposed the ayatollahs now tell their students: you believe me now. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:26:46] In Laos, 80 Million Unexploded US Cluster Munitions Remain — Boys Digging for Crabs Still Losing Hands in 2025 A legacies-of-war advocate visited classrooms where fourth graders asked: why did the US drop the bombs? Will Laos ever be bomb free? For them, the war is not over. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:29:50] Iran Bombing Consolidated the Regime — Civilians Who Were Rising Against the Ayatollahs Now Shield the Infrastructure When Trump announced he'd bomb Iran to the stone ages, civilians surrounded the infrastructure as human shields. The internal reform movement has been set back by decades. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:27:54] Pope Leo's AI Encyclical: Autonomous Weapons Must Be Disarmed — but Governments Are the Most Dangerous AI Users Knight: right to warn, wrong to call on governments to solve it. They are removing every constitutional check at the moment they're about to be handed the most potent weapon ever built. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:38:00] Alex Karp AI Speech: 'Stop Pretending It's a Democracy — We Are the Ledger Now — Welcome to the Technological Republic' Palantir CEO Karp's worldview via AI: we own every tax return, license plate, and border crossing; civil liberties are a liability; signed in March. Try to unplug us. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:46:52] David Sachs: If Governments Get Sweeping AI Power in the Name of Safety, We Get the Orwellian State Foretold in 1984 Former White House tech advisor: how do we prevent safety mandates from becoming surveillance tools? The government wants omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence — AI gives them all of it. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find 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-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday the 26th of May. You're of our Lord, 2006. Well, today we're going to take a look at AI and the Tower of Babel. What did the Pope say about this? What did he get right? And what did he leave out, quite frankly? And yes, he got some things wrong. But it is about pride. But I think he missed one of the key aspects of this. We're going to talk about that as well as the building resistance against AI. Is this something we should fear? Or has God got it?

That's a rhetorical question, of course. And we can already see some possible contours of what he might do with this. But there's also a part for us to play for such a time as this. We're going to talk about that. And we're going to talk about what Trump did. For Memorial Day yesterday. Did he honor the memory of those who die? Is he going to send more people to die for a PR event?

Which is what he called getting the nuclear dust. We'll be right back. Well, yesterday was Memorial Day. We did the program because I had missed several days of previous week, not last week of the week before that. And a lot of people didn't think we're going to be doing the show. We had questions all the way through the show. Are you live? Are you live? And yes, we were live yesterday. And I talked about some things that I think were very important, especially towards the end of the show. The guy who was caught on a man on the street interview, his interview went viral. He was somebody who was in a UK town to support a movement by the Restore Party, which is a counter to both the establishment, Tory and labor parties, as well as to Nigel Farage's Reform Party,

which looks like it just wants to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic rather than actually recognizing the problem. And Frank Wright, the guy that talked to, got 40 million views and well-deserved, by the way. Many people need to hear that, and I'm glad people did hear it. So we talked about that yesterday. And I want to talk a little bit about what actually happened on Memorial Day. And, of course, Memorial Day, you know, Veterans Day is to honor anybody who is in the military.

Memorial Day is to honor those who died serving in the military. But the question is, as we look at what our government has become, are these wars of aggression and regime change? Are they freeing us or are they enslaving us? They are enslaving us with debt is absolutely unbelievable. The strategy of constantly doubling down, well, that didn't work, so let's do more of what didn't work. And of course, one of the key things that doesn't work, which they continually double down on is bombing campaigns.

Now, civilian bombing campaigns, as I pointed out many, many times since World War II, that has become now standard operating procedure. And so as they do this, they're actually decreasing our safety. I don't want to talk about national security, which is nothing other than continuity of government. They're decreasing the prosperity, the safety, the liberty of Americans with these wars. And they are storing up wrath with that. Storing up wrath not only from the people and the civilians that they're bombing, but they're storing up wrath from God, quite frankly. So Veterans Day is for those who died serving.

And we have Trump going to Arlington Cemetery. and there was a very touching event that, of course, he used for his own purposes. A young boy dressed up in a dress uniform, I believe, of the Marines. This is a six-year-old boy. He goes every year to Arlington Cemetery to put a wreath on the grave of his father. Now, I don't know what war his father was fighting in or what happened with it. I just know that there haven't been any justified wars in my lifetime. And so Trump is cynically using the grief of this young fatherless boy.

And I think it is cynical. Now, he's very proud of what his father did. And I don't want to take that away from him. But I got to say, we should ask why it was necessary, especially from this draft dodging, mass murdering, so-called president that we have, who is more than willing to send more people to die, more people to kill. So he can do what he confessed is nothing other than a PR event. Are people supposed to die to make Trump look good?

It just makes me sick when I look at what he did. Some people put out, yeah, he's a GI joke, not a GI Joe. Toy Soldier Trump dissed a true war hero, but used five deferments and a foot-boo-boo to dodge the Vietnam draft. Yeah, and this is Daily News. They've got a red arrow. He's got a couple of medals on his chest. I said, here's his medal for being neat.

And ordinarily, it wouldn't be such a mark of shame to dodge the draft for Vietnam if it weren't for him trying to start wars just like it and starting wars just like it. Well, it's a difference in terms of dodging versus open resistance, right? It's the same story we see over and over again, pretending that you're complying with, the system, not resisting the system, not resisting an unjust war, but just finding a way to fit in with the cracks and dodge what is happening. It's kind of the difference between what he does in terms of tax evasion versus tax avoidance. And so as all of that is happening, and Trump is showing us the PR, I wanted to bookend that young boy who is placing flowers on the grave of his

father, a six-year-old boy. And then take a look at what is happening across the Middle East. We're talking about Gaza or Lebanon or Iran. This picture right here is a six-year-old child, another grieving father. What's the purpose of this, Trump? And all of you, Maga evangelicals who are cheering all of this mass murder for Israel. What's the matter with you? You push back against abortion, but you don't care about this. This unbelievable inconsistency and hypocrisy. Yes, we should oppose abortion. You should oppose this type of thing as well.

Is it okay to mutilate the bodies of people with bombs, but not to mutilate the bodies of children, but not mutilate the bodies of children in terms of transgender stuff? Both of those are wrong. How can you support one and not oppose it? I don't understand either one of those, frankly. And yet it is this fundamental issue at the heart of it, which is indicative of both the left and the right. The left will support the mutilation of children's bodies after gaslighting. The right will support mutilation of children's bodies with a gaslit war.

How insane this all is. And here's how it works. Benjamin Netanyahu laid it out for you how you get people to do these types of atrocities. to blow up a bus full of children or a building full of innocent civilians, you have to grind it into their minds. You have to wash their brains. They tell them there is a higher cause out there. It's religious, ethnic, racial, whatever.

And for that higher cause, you can disregard all the normal rules of morality. That's right. You can disregard all the rules of morality. You can disregard the Constitution. You can disregard the law. you can disregard what you swore to uphold as a condition of your office? Because you get people brainwashed with some religious jihad. And folks, that is the danger of Christian Zionism.

That is the danger of dispensationalism that supports it. It's a false teaching. It is an error which in and of itself appears to be just a distraction away from Christ. which is serious enough for Christians. But then it leads to this type of thing. All error has consequences. This is the consequence of dispensationalism and Zionism. The Islamic Republic of Iran has made it abundantly clear

it will never give up its fusionable material voluntarily. Is it worth a fight to keep a fanatical regime from getting a nuclear bomb? This is Don Fedder, who is writing about Memorial Day. He's putting this in the context of people who defended their country. the people that conquered in Lexington, who actually did fight for freedom. He's putting it in that context. And he says, so we've got a maniacal regime.

You know, we created that maniacal regime. We've been driving these people crazy for 73 years. We did a regime change. It was called the Shah. And the CIA Mossad put in this horrific authoritarian regime, the Savak. And the Ayatollah was a reaction to it. And people were finally reacting to the Ayatollah. Toa after several decades of this.

We shut that all down with a bombing campaign. It always does that. This is beyond foolish. It doesn't even serve the ends that Israel and the United States want. And so I get a look at this and say, is Israel the monarchical regime? They're the ones who are attacking all their neighbors. They're the ones with a nuclear bomb. They're the ones with a nuclear bomb who have blacked.

The United States, and Jonathan Pollard bragged about this. We told them, you give us weapons to fight Egypt, or we're going to drop a nuclear bomb in the Middle East. You help us with this. We're going to set the entire Gulf state and oil region and everything on fire. They'll probably do it anyway. And so you want to talk about maniacal regimes. That's the one you need to take a look at. As a matter of fact, we're talking about a war.

Yes, I think there is such a thing as a just war. That's one of the things that I disagree strongly with the Pope about. And many conservative Catholics disagree with them as well. LifeSight News pointed that out. There is such a thing as a just war. Conducted in defense of innocent life, avoiding killing innocent people until you can stop the violence, the aggression. It's no different than if there was a mass shooting.

And the police use guns to kill the shooter in order to stop the violence. But if the police come in and start shooting all the people on the street, or if they come in and they blow up the building, they're the mass shooters in. That's what we're talking about with Gaza. That's what we're talking about with Lebanon. That's what we're talking about with Iran. And that's what we're talking about when we talk about a just war. You don't kill non-combatants, period. And you must not be the aggressor.

You must not get up on top of the building and start shooting people. but that's what our government does time and again. And so amazingly enough, Don Fetter refers to the World War I poem in Flanders Field. Now, folks, if there was ever useless slaughter, it was World War I. There was absolutely no reason for us to get involved. There was absolutely no reason for the main combatants in Europe to get involved. And it was such an absurd situation. And so many people died so horrifically.

They called it the war to end all wars. But of course, within a couple of decades, we were back at it again. But it was a horrible war. I have talked many times about how I love the story of Sergeant York. And there's a large statute to him in the state capital in Nashville. And he was a war hero who, in the midst of the war, uh, to defend his life and other people's lives. I mean, you get into a situation like that. And now, you know, what, what are you going to do about it? Well,

you have to, uh, defend yourself or die. And so, uh, he was able to take out an entire German, get him, get him to, sorry, took out a few of them. They, um, he was such a crack shot. They thought, uh, they were under attack apparently by more people. It's a great story. But I always liked the movie with Gary Cooper at the beginning where he just simply said, The books again killing, talking about the Bible. And he got gaslit by his army commander. It got drawn up and their version of history and never looked at the details of that actual war. And so he had massive slaughter.

And so Don Fetter says, well, he quotes the poem, says, take up our quarrel with the foe. Why should we? What is your quarrel with the foe? It's a to you from failing hands we throw the torch. It is yours to hold high. If you break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flandersfield. And this is what propagates war. We want to make the death and the suffering of those who fought initially without ever considering whether it was justified or not, as we see with World War I and so many other wars, without ever actually doing any discernment, any debate about the purposes of this and how it ends, no, you just go and fight.

Ours is not the reason why. Ours is but to do or die. And we want you to take up our torch and continue this senseless slaughter of World War I. I'm sorry. I'm not on board with that kind of memorial. When I look at Memorial Day for Americans, it's like trying to remember something when you've got dementia or Alzheimer's or something. This is a memorial day for people who can't and won't remember. We always talk about as remembrance.

You should remember why they fought and the fact that it wasn't a good reason. And you should remember what justifies the defense of innocent life rather than taking it. innocent life. It disgust me to see these orphans, disgust me to see these people who've lost their children. That's the true meaning, folks, of these wars. Don't put a brave face on it. Meanwhile, Trump kicks off Memorial Day with a long tirade on social media, of course, a full fit over the criticism of his bungled war negotiations, as reported by MSN. He wrote 104 words, words before hitting a period, breathlessly coming after Democrats, rhinos, and fools, from the guy who reportedly was tested at his military school with an IQ of 73,

which I haven't verified, but certainly sounds reasonable. So he says, to all the Democrats, rhinos and fools who know nothing about the potential deal that I'm making with Iran, well, what is this deal? I mean, he told us that it was going to be unconditional surrender, which I don't support, but that's what he was saying he was going to do. He's been all over the place. Why would we trust him when he has lied, when he has flip-flopped on everything from tacos to wars and terrorists? So he says, Bill Cassie, who suffered a primary loss of a really bad Congressman Thomas Massey, a sleaze bag who lost on the landslide to a great American person.

patriot. Donald Trump calling somebody a sleaze bag after being the best pal of Jeffrey Epstein, after cheating on every one of his wives after divorcing several of them, and doing his best to try to publicly humiliate him. I mean, movies have been done about this guy over and over again. He's such a sleaze bag. If you look up the word sleaze bag, you're not going to see a picture of Thomas Massey. You're going to see a picture of Donald Trump. It's the ultimate projection. from a guy who is a sociopath, a psychopath, a narcissist. And so that's how he began. And then he says, finishes up, happy Memorial Day to all,

including the Democrats who hate our military and all of our tremendous success that we've had in the last year. Tell us about this tremendous success. And show us how much you hate everyone and everything. because you love yourself so much. So Trump is demanding that most of the Arab world now join his Abraham Accords immediately. You know, he's a dictator. He gets to tell everybody what to do.

He is absolutely, and this is what we're talking about yesterday, Frank Wright was pointing about it, pointing it out, he said all these different empires that have tried to make themselves great and prosperous by using the military. They always fail. we are going down a long trodden path of history and we know where this ends and we anybody who looks at this knows where this goes so he says well it's going to be a great deal for all or no deal at all and it'll be back to the battlefront and the shooting he won't be on the battlefront he won't be doing any shooting lindsie graham won't mark levin won't ben Shapiro want none of these people

are going to do any of this but he's trying to say well we've got to get together all these different countries. United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Iran. They've all got to be a part of these Abraham Accords. He said, they've all got to be ready, willing, and able to make this settlement with Iran. Just like Europe. And I've played the clip for you, the guy who was the highest ranking commander from the French in NATO. And he said, you know, as Trump is berating, he's bragging on the one hand, he's bragging. He's bragging. about how omnipotent and invincible his military is. And at the same time, he is begging, actually demanding military help and threatening the people who don't give it to him.

And he says, so what does he really want? Why didn't he even tell us that he was going to do this? He didn't consult with us, and we know that if we get involved in a situation like that, he won't consult with us then either. He'll go do his own thing, and he'll wind up killing our own troops. He said, you have to have a unified command. You have to have trust between people in order to do it. So he says it's not going to work out at all.

But he pointed out, he said, that's not really what he wants. He doesn't really want military help. He wants political help. He wants other countries to endorse what he's doing because, folks, every country on earth opposes what Donald Trump is doing with Iran. Every country, except Israel. And now Israel's not happy that he's doing enough of it. every other country despises what America is doing.

We are becoming as odious as Israel because we're becoming like Israel, because we're being run by Zionists. And so Trump, when he wants to pull in all these Arab countries, what he's desperate for is political help, political endorsements from these people. It's about his ego politics. So he's boasting about his Iran war success during the Arlington Cemetery. Memorial event. He mentions that 13 people died, but interestingly enough, he doesn't care enough to say their names. Isn't that interesting? Say their names. You don't even care enough

to say their names. Isn't it amazing? And so there could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day, said Trump, recalling the first battle between American and British forces at Lexington. Well, you know, there was something fundamentally different about that. At Lexington, we were not the aggressors. As a matter of fact, there was a lot of debate from both sides. Who fired the first shot? Well, we don't know, but it was a shot that was hurting around the world, that type of thing, right? So nobody knows who fired the first shot.

That has always been important. Why? Well, because we used to have societies in Western civilization that were based on the principles that Christ gave us. And that is that you don't start and start. aggression, a war of aggression. You don't initiate violence. You can use violence to defend innocent life. That's what the purpose of government should be. But everybody was arguing about who fired first. We had the same situation. You know, with a civil war, you had Abraham Lincoln and Shelby Foote has an excellent, his history of the Civil War, I think, is without a doubt,

the best, and I've read a lot of them, the best history of the Civil War ever. And he goes to great links to talk about what Abraham Lincoln was doing in terms of how is he going to maneuver to get the south to fire the first shot. And of course, he does it at Fort Sumter because he knows that there's some people there who are the most gung-ho for the war and ready to shoot. But also, it was about doing reinforcements in a way that would trigger a response that he could then portray as an initiation of force. It's always been about that.

It was about that with FDR, maneuvering Japan into this in a passive-aggressive way, cutting off their oil and doing so many other things and then standing down the defense so they could do an attack and then calling it a day of infamy. And it was a day of infamy, even if you maneuver it. If the other side takes the bait, it is infamy. And it is infamy when we do it. When we do it without debate, when we do it without a goal, without a purpose, when we do it on the arbitrary whims of a wannabe dictator like Donald Trump. Remember that on Memorial Day.

Remember who this guy is trying to continue wars for PR events. He doesn't even try to hide it. It's just like it's corruption. It's right out in the open, in your face. He doesn't even have any shame. about his crimes. That's what puts him in a totally different category than most of the other criminals that have occupied the Oval Office. At least they had shame. But we don't have shame with Donald Trump. It's just a shame that we have him. Not mentioned by name the list of American service members

who have died, numbering 13 so far, as a result of the president's ongoing conflict with Iran. his ongoing conflict with Iran. Yeah. That's kind of whitewashing it, isn't it? That's from the Independent. So what do they die for, these 13 people? And what is he ready to send more people in to die for? For nuclear dust, which he said was a PR event.

And of course, you got people like Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, demanding that we attack Cargoyleyn, demanding that other people go die for their country is really. Their country is not America. So again, in two wars recently, we've lost a total of 13 service members, said Trump. In Venezuela, which was a complete and total victory, we took that over one day and we lost no one. Well, here's the rationale, okay? So it doesn't matter if we kill innocent lives as long as the people who follow me don't get hurt, right?

And we're going to take a look at bombs and body accounts, and that's going to be the formula that tells us whether we're winning. That was McNamara's formula in Vietnam. It led to Pyrrhic victories because of the mismanagement of what he was doing with it. They had no strategic goals. And so they just talked about their tactics of bombing people. Well, when we talk about bombs, this article from Free Thought Project, from Asia to the Middle East, U.S. bombs are a failed foreign policy choice.

I didn't write it down. I meant to look the guy up, but there was a guy who, he was not in the military, but he started looking at our wars and this whole idea of air power. I'm projecting this and how we're going to win. And that really is fundamentally one of the, from the military standpoint, that is the lie, the misjudgment that has caused us to lose so many of these wars. But then, of course, there's also a moral aspect of that and a moral aspect of whether or not we are going to be lied into a war, whether or not we are the aggressors.

This article from Free Thought Project, from Asia to the Middle East, U.S. bombs are a failed foreign policy choice. The only reliable products of U.S. air power are devastated civilian populations and suppression of internal movements. And I'm surprised that they didn't quote this guy. And I meant to look him up. I've forgotten his name right now. but he made a very detailed study of this and he started getting, he just kind of fell into us, kind of interesting how he got involved in it.

He was a different kind of analyst, but he just started looking at the results of these types of bombing campaigns. And of course, he came to the conclusion that many of us can see, that what this does is it galvanizes the civilian population behind even a bad leader. The U.S. Israeli war in Iran opened not with a declaration, not with diplomacy exhausted, but with airstrikes. Among the first confirmed casualties, of course, a few hundred, more than 100 school children,

killed in a strike on the elementary school in southern Iran. Within a month, 850 U.S. made tomahawk missiles were used to strike Iran. Of course, Trump and Hanks said, lied about that. They said, that's not us. And then when people point out, well, that's a tomahawk. Well, Iran's got tomahawks. No way. No way Iran's going. Finally, after months of lying, the Pentagon has admitted the truth. They did it. Oh, we made a mistake. We won't do it again. You know, just like the pandemic nonsense.

So Trump has delivered on his promise to bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages, targeting bridges, pharmaceutical and steel plants, civilian infrastructure like schools and hospitals. The civilian oil infrastructure in Tehran has been targeted, engulfing a city of 10 million people. and toxic black rain. Thousands of Iranian and Lebanese have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have lost their jobs as factories and basic infrastructure have been destroyed. Washington calls this national security.

The historical record calls it something else entirely. For more than 75 years, the U.S. has reached for air power as its preferred instrument of foreign policy. I would say, along with coups and assassinations, because we are a country that is now governed by the CIA and the intelligence agencies, as well as influence from Israel. The illusion that enough bombs dropped with enough precision can produce the outcomes that diplomacy did not. And go back to Korea and the Korean War. As a Korean American, Kathy Choi of Women Cross DMZ, knows this history personally.

From 1950 to 53 during the Korean War, U.S. forces dropped 635 tons of bombs, 32,000 tons of napalm, burning 80% of North Korean cities to the ground. One year into the war, Major General Emmett O'Donnell, tested. to the Senate, there aren't any more targets in Korea. More than 4 million people were killed. The overwhelming majority of them, civilians. 73 years later, the war has only ended in a ceasefire, not even in a treaty, and the peninsula has remained in a stalemate ever since. So with all of those bombs, with all of that civilian death,

they couldn't achieve even a treaty. let alone victory. The Korean War inaugurated the U.S. military industrial complex. It quadrupled the Pentagon's budget in just three years. It set a course from which Washington has never turned back. And you know, I think we look at a lot of presidents.

We look at Woodrow Wilson and he is condemned, rightfully so, for lying us into World War I. You know, promise that we're not going to get into war and so forth, dragging us into that, using Edward Bernay, to propagandize the American population, who then went on to propagandize Americans with Madison Avenue sales ads and things like that. But Truman, who's typically only remembered for Nagasaki and Hiroshima,

and people try to excuse what he did there. I don't think there's an excuse for it. I used to buy that narrative. Oh, well, they did that to end the war. Well, if you stop and think about it critically, whether or not that was true. Wouldn't it be even more effective to use the nuclear bombs against, you know, they always say,

well, we didn't want to spend all of the soldiers' lives going from island to island to clear out these Japanese. Don't you think if they drop the bomb caused them to surrender, don't you think that they could just do that on the islands and focus on the combatants rather than on non-combatants? But, of course, many people pointed out that it was, Russia that had taken a break after the war in Europe had ended, but was now massing forces to join with their military that was really the deciding factor rather than the bombing of the

civilian population. Nevertheless, it's not just that that he did. It was Truman who created the national security state. It was Truman who created these secret agencies. You know, the CIA and, of course, the NSA was created by an executive order. And these are the people, this This is the form of government where you're not allowed to know anything. He created this black box, this black government of secrecy, of wars and coups and assassinations all right. This is a creature of Harry Truman. He should be remembered for that.

And he deserves a special place in history and a special place in hell. That's what we should remember. We should have a memorial day for the. presidents and what they have done to our country and the people that they have killed, including the military. Danny Hendrickson, an advocacy group called Legacies of War, went to Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. From 1964 to 60 to 73, U.S. pilots flew 580,000 bombing missions over Laos alone. The equivalent of a plane load of bombs every eight minutes around the clock for nine

years straight. An estimated 80 million unexploded cluster munitions remain in the soil. Less than 10% of them have been cleared. During her visit in 2025, five boys who were digging for crabs struck a cluster munition. One was completely blinded, another lost his hand. She visited a fourth grade classroom where the children asked her, why did the U.S. drop the bombs? Why is it taking so long to clean them up. Do you think Laos will ever be bomb-free? The war for them is not over. Why do we not memorialize things like this? It's all about flag-waving and putting wreaths on the graves of Americans who have been killed over these useless policies, over these evil policies. Afghanistan, after two decades of bombing produced not stability, but the conditions for just the

opposite. One person living there said, the war was started with the U.S. saying we need to free the Afghan people. And the war was ended by saying, your freedom is now over. They handed power back to the very people that they were bombing that they were supposed to have defeated. And Iraq followed the same arc. The 2003 invasion of Iraq didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, of course, because they never existed. And it was a lie. And Trump called it out as a lie when he was a candidate in 2016. This is why we had some hope for him. I mean, even Julian Assange, who the Trump administration and Mike Pompeo tried to kill.

And he said, well, we know what Hillary Clinton is. We know she's a warmonger. We know she's a criminal. Do we know, especially now in this second term, there is absolutely no question that Trump is a criminal. There's no question that he's a warmonger. So here we are. what they found was that Iraq itself proceeded to destroy, they said, instead of finding the weapons of mass destruction, what they found was Iraq.

And they proceeded to destroy it. Perhaps a million dead, millions more displaced. Well, airstrikes cannot weaken a government sufficiently to produce regime change. And they quote someone else, Farah Jen, writes this from the University of Pennsylvania. but again, the best case made for this is the guy whose name I can't remember, I forgot to look up. Decades of research on the rally around the flag effect. You see, this is the rally around the flag effect. The tendency of populations to unite behind their government when attacked by foreign power

confirms that external attacks fuse regime and nation. even when the citizens despise their leaders. It does not topple governments. It consolidates them. And didn't we see this in Iran? You know, we had these massad generated, for the most part, protests in Iran. I don't know how much of that was organic. I don't know how much of that was astroturf by, you know, foreign espionage.

Nevertheless, whatever it was, that stopped when the U.S. started bombing. and the fantasy that they told themselves, which, again, Ratcliffe of the CIA, kudos to him for saying what the Israelis, what Netanyahu and the CIA and the Mossad chief told you is farcical. It's farcical. It is a fantasy that they're selling you. The fantasy was that there were riots and streets, how much of that was fermented by them, we don't know. And that with those riots and streets, once the bombing started, people were going to, attack their own government. That has never happened. It didn't happen when the Nazis attacked

London. It didn't happen when the allies responded and attacked Dresden. That has never happened. Instead, what happens? People turn to their government to protect them from this aggression that is outside. And so that's exactly what happened in Iran. It was predictable. We'd seen it throughout history over and over again. What happened was when they started bombing the infrastructure. Remember when Trump said, I'm going to bomb you back into the Stone Ages. Remember, that was when the people took to the streets. That was when the people started surrounding the infrastructure, using themselves voluntarily as shields.

And I saw some clueless Maga propagandists and some of the cult members who bought into it, saying, oh, look at how horrible this is. They didn't make anybody do that. These are people saying, we're going to out you as ruthless murder. if you try to destroy our infrastructure. And they put their lives on the line to passively to stand there and to say, we're going to encircle this. If you blow up this bridge, if you blow up this factory,

if you destroy our lives, that way you might as well kill us. And you're going to be seen as dropping a bomb on civilians who are trying to protect this infrastructure with their bodies. That's what happened. It did not create an uprising. It never creates an uprising. It always consolidates people around a regime. No matter how much they despise it, no matter how evil it is, it's the rally around the flag effect.

Even as Iranian state has grown more repressive, they're still rallying around the flag. There is no internally generated political transformation that's happening. And in fact, the people who are working for a political transformation say their work has now been set back. for years or decades by what Trump has done, by the U.S. military bombing them. Now the guys, and I've seen one of these guys making the rounds, and he has been consistently anti-American because of the Shaw and that type of thing. He said, I would tell the college students that I teach in Iran, I would tell them what the Americans did with the Shah. I would tell them what happened and why we took over the embassy and all this kind of stuff. And they never would

believe me that America was so evil. They believe me now. And that's exactly what has happened. That's what Trump has done. They handed the Iranian government exactly the external enemy it needed. See, governments will do this many times. They'll manufacture an external enemy by using a false flag attack. That's what our government does. And so they said this unjustifiable war on the Iranian people has undermined decades of social uprising and of people's struggles in Iran.

So first we gave them regime change of the Shah. Then that produced the regime change of the Ayatollahs. And then when the Iranian people started to rise up against the Ayatollah's rule, what do we do? We come in and we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for them. This is a reliable product of U.S. air power. Hardened adversaries, devastated civilian populations and infrastructure, and the suppression of the very internal movements that might otherwise produce genuine change.

And so when you look at this, what does the U.S., what do we see in the future for us? Well, we have so far been able, and one of the reasons that Americans are so cavalier about war and about the lives of people in other countries is because we have not suffered any consequences for this, except for the people that we remember on Memorial Day. who died to support the policies of these presidents.

But I think that's going to change. The changing face of warfare is going to change all of that. The vulnerability of our infrastructure is going to change all that. The United States faces a genuine choice. It can continue to reach for air power each time it confronts the government it dislikes, perpetuating a cycle in which bombs kill civilians, pardon regimes, destroy internal movements, and leave behind unexploded ordinance for generations of children to find. Or it can reckon honestly with what 75 years of this doctrine have produced.

And they can begin building a foreign policy that is grounded not on the fantasy of force, but in the reality of what peace actually requires. Bombs do not build peace. A bigger military does not produce prosperity. For the same reason that we can't tax our way to prosperity. And Donald Trump doesn't understand that either. He thinks we can tax our way to prosperity with tariffs. I was just talking to Lance last night about a guy who, he's seen several GoFundMe projects where somebody said, I'm going to manufacture such and such a thing. And I'm going to do it completely domestically here in America. And even if it is something that's very simple,

they can't do it. And we were just talking about another one that failed with that as well. Why draw an arbitrary line around the areas that you are allowed to do business with? Why let government do that? Again, Trump sees the world by flags, by his territory, by other people's territory. Don't let him control your life that way. We have to resist that kind of foolish thinking, that kind of narcissistic thinking, that kind of rally around the flag thinking. It has been there from the beginning of the Trump regime with his tariffs and telling us that he's going to tariff us into prosperity. And he's gone from a tariff pusher to a terror pusher, telling us that wars and exploding the size of our already bloated and incompetent as well as inefficient. military that can't and won't pass an audit any more than the Federal Reserve will.

They are above any of that kind of stuff. And don't you dare try to do it to get a missile through your window of your office? So yeah, Memorial Day, are we a society that can remember and learn anything? Maybe we should call it dementia Day. That's what I see when I see all of these politicians hypocritically honoring and pretending that they care about the lives of people that they send to go die for their stupid policies. Policies that make absolutely no sense. Policies that would not help us if they were successful.

Yeah, I think we need to have a memorial for the United States of amnesia, quite frankly. Skunk hollow Rose Garden, thank you very much for the gift subscription to the David Knight Show. And the Walrus says we're paying for that in terms of the debt. kid. That's right. Absolutely. We paid for the bombs to blow these kids up. We give them the weapons, and that's what they do with it. Audi, modern retro radio, these oligarchs who run government praise child sacrifice. Hence, the bombing of girls' schools and boys' schools in Iran. They were double taps. That's right. As I pointed out several times, Scott Ritters pointed out, they know exactly what they were doing. You know, they sent these cruise missiles in. They keep one back

as a surveillance thing, waiting until they see a lot of activity on the ground, then they send that one in and it explodes, but it also ignites its fuel for a fire bomb, for the coup de grace. And again, how much did they know? Well, people who have been in this targeting business and had CIA whistleblowers who said they knew exactly what they were doing. They had the ability to see what was happening with these people. It wasn't just they see a bunch of dots moving around.

Let's go and move in. It was much worse than that. Much worse. About the Civil War, Guard Goldsmith says, even if the rebels fired first, that's irrelevant because the Brits were engaged in the aggression. So the locals were right to defend even with a first shot. Well, I agree, absolutely. And, you know, it is, you know, you have a right to defend your life.

And that's what they were doing. They were doing aggression. However, they argue over who fired the first shot. My point was not whether they would be justified in doing it. My point was that everybody instinctively knew. We used to have a society that was built on Christian ethics, and everybody instinctively knew that you don't initiate force. Now, if you initiate force, now you've got some splaining to do, right?

If you fire first. But they wanted to make it clear that, you know, even in a situation where you've got a back and forth, maybe diplomacy is failing or you've got other political issues, once you get to the point where you're firing first, it was always about painting the other side as the one who fired first, because everybody understood the moral calculation behind that. We don't anymore.

We don't care anymore. We don't care who fired first. We don't care to debate whether or not this is a war that we need to be involved in. We don't wait until somebody attacks us. No, we do it preemptively. Let me say this. There is never a justification for a preemptive war. Never, ever.

Nuclear bombs, I don't care. Look at Israel what they have done. They have blackmailed us over and over again. They've attacked us. They've attacked the USS Liberty. They boast about blackmailing the United States with a nuclear bomb, which they stole from us, material that they stole from us. Patty Wax says, no wonder soldiers come home with their minds gone. That's right.

Audi, modern retro radio. He said he applied, said an average of 22 soldiers, veterans commit suicide daily. I'm sure that stat has inched upward in the more recent path. Yes. Yes. You can't, it's difficult enough to go through the horrors of war, even if you're on the right side. Niburu, 29, says the Clintons put Trump in office in 2016 to ensure the destruction of the Republican Party. Well, that certainly is the way that it's working out, isn't it?

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AI is a real problem. And what he had to say, some of it I actually agree with. He said, we need to be slowing things down, which is exactly the opposite of what Silicon Valley is doing. Silicon Valley operates as accelerationism, right? Their motto is, we've got to move fast and break things. Well, some of the things that they want to break, we don't want broken. And so we should think about this. And, of course, nobody in government is thinking about it except how they can remove any obstacles for the billionaires in Silicon Valley that give them.

them money. They're very easily bought, aren't they? And so this is another group that has bought them. And again, he talks about the Tower of Babel. And I think there are a lot of analogies to this. And I've talked about that in the past. I look at it in a different way than he does. He sees the pride, which is obviously there in the story of the Tower of Babel. But there was something else in it. And I mentioned this at least once before. The group that I was in, at Texas Instruments, and I've thought about this. The more I look at AI, the more I think about the Tower of Babel. So they got my attention a lot yesterday.

And, you know, the story of Babel is that God looked at what was being built there. And he said, the whole earth is of one language. Essentially, he was saying, this is just the beginning if we don't stop it here. He said, nothing they do will now be impossible for them if they all work together. collectively. That's precisely what technology has been able to do in the latter part of the 20th century on to our own current time. I saw that as an engineer. And again, my first job that I was working at Texas Instruments, I was part of a group that was going to be doing liaison with other companies. At that point in time, Texas Instruments was not fabulous.

Texas Instruments was manufacturing semiconductors. And so we were going to help people to do semi-custom semiconductors. I was the American and they had a German, a French, a Brit, a Japanese guy. And it was interesting because some of them could speak English, some of them couldn't. The German guy could speak a little bit of English, but the French and the Japanese guy spoke no English at all. they could read English and they could read computer programming languages, right? And so that was a key thing. And I know when I was thinking about going to graduate school, most graduate schools have a foreign language requirement.

But of course, they would substitute computer languages for that because it is a language. And now where we are with artificial intelligence is we're basically in the hitchhikers guide the galaxy world. We don't have to put a babble fish in our ear. There's no ear, no fish in the ear to be able to speak other people's language. No, you can get that with a phone. You can have a phone conversation where it'll instantly, you're talking to somebody in Spanish. It'll translate what they're saying in Spanish to you in English. And then you can speak after you read it and it'll send it back to them and their language.

So you have erased the language barrier. And it's that ability to create a networked human intelligence that is really, really the force behind all this. This is the thing that I think people are missing about artificial intelligence. What is bringing things like AI and other things like that to fruition? It is the fact that we have this collective intelligence of humanity that has a platform for being able to combine it all at the same time. And I think that's a real key issue. And it is really what happened with the Tower of Babel. It's why God changed the language. And by the way, secular historians, anthropologists will look at this and say, well, you know, it's kind of interesting.

We don't know where these civilizations, quote unquote, evolved from. They just kind of sprung up all of a sudden. And they sprung up at the same time. It's one of the reasons why they refer to the area that the plain of Shinar that the Bible talks about, where the Tower of Babel was, where everybody had come together and where God dispersed them. They talk about that as the cradle of civilization. Why would they say that? Well, there's evidence that these different nations came from that area.

And you had these European, Indo-Civil, India, China, Europe, all these different civilizations sprung up at about the same time. And, of course, you can see different commonality between different languages as well. Isn't it interesting that in almost every language, you have the word mama. It's always there. Papa is close to it, but it changed. changes in different places, right? It may be in Turkey and in China. It was Baba. That was what our daughter from China called me for a while was Baba. And so, but Mama was the same thing everywhere,

right? And so there's these commonalities that are there that really are interesting. And of course, many linguists and anthropologists will go through all this and look at it. But the facts support the biblical narrative. Again, people, People reject that because of the supernatural aspect of it. But I think that the more we learn, the more we see that there is a supernatural world. And I think it is foolish in the extreme to reject that. It's quite clear that all the things that we see came from things that we cannot see. It's just a logical conclusion to draw from all of this.

So he's out there sounding the alarm about AI and telling governments that they need to slow this thing down. They need somehow to get control of it. The problem with that is that the governments want to get already have control of it and they want to use their control of AI to control us. And one of the people commenting on this made that point. You know, it's the same point that Madison made. Because men are not angels, we need to have government because, but because men are running the government, we have to have something else to try to, who watches the watchers, who controls these people have this kind of power. And that's the fundamental flaw in calling for government intervention on all this stuff like that. No, I think the reality is, is that, you know,

we need to call on God to save us from this stuff because he's done it before. He'll do it again. If he feels threatened, if he feels his people are threatened, he will do something about it. And there are indications that there may be some self-limitations and some internal time bombs on this thing we call artificial intelligence. But whether or not it's going to be taken down by its own hubris or by its own tactics, God will take it down if it gets out of control. So we don't need to fear that, but we should try to restrain it as much as we can. So the Pope is sounding the alarm over AI and its impact on children, for example.

Well, of course, Melania is doing exactly the opposite, isn't she? She wants AI all over the kids. is for their success, is it? Is it really? How is that going to really empower them? I don't see that as an empowering technology, frankly. Last May, he said the technology represents new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor. And so again, it's important, even if we don't have a solution, it's important for people to understand what the problem is, because we can collectively come up with a solution as well. That's that kind of, you know, collective wisdom of humans doesn't have to always be bad.

It can sometimes be good. The Pope highlighted the need to openly discuss ethical frameworks to ensure that a select few do not control how it is applied. And so then he's asking for the select few of the government to control this. And quite frankly, the most dangerous outcomes of artificial intelligence. are the ones that are connected to the government in terms of surveillance of police state and autonomous killing robots, those are the greatest concerns.

So why would we go to the government to save us from that? They're not going to do that. I mean, that's literally exactly what the government would do. It's a small group of people that's going to control how that's applied. That's right. That's right. And so he says what we need to do

is we need to slow things down. But of course, that is not going to be the case. And immediately you had the U.S. to the Vatican come out and say, well, this is, we have to stay ahead of the Chinese for our own good and all this kind. So you have this arms race mentality that has always driven us in the wrong direction about everything. Fully autonomous lethal weapons for the mass surveillance of Americans was being pointed out. So again, a greater threat than our jobs. And that is the Orwellian aspect of it, the War of the Machines Terminator aspect of this.

That is all much more serious. than just the loss of our jobs. Lawmakers in the U.S. have warned about the risk posed by AI, though they have not really come up with any solutions to control their power. And so you've got Bernie Sanders working alongside AOC, Alexandria Occasional Cortex. They are proposing legislation. They did this back in March to halt construction of new data centers until the federal government implements safeguards.

Let me just say this. If conservatives and libertarians get on the wrong side of this, if they're not going to look at the ethical issues involved and the abuse issues, but just take a laissez-faire market approach to this, we could wind up with, on the one end, we could wind up with a technocracy, or on the other end,

we could wind up with the reactionary communism of people like Bernie Sanders, and AOC. She's already talking about how she wants to run for president. And even though that sounds laughable, we live in an idiocracy, folks. And so the question is, is this idiocracy going to turn towards technocracy or towards communism? To me, that's the real issue. So the Pope.

It's ridiculous as a AOC presidency sounds. Is she really any dumber than Donald Trump? Yeah, I don't know. Her IQ is her IQ lower than 73? I don't know. Oh, maybe. It's a race to the bottom, isn't it? It's a race to the bottom from the people at top.

So the Pope writes this encyclical, which is called Magnifica Humonitus, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. And I don't know if that means the greater humanity or if that means making humanity great again. Magnificus America. There we go. It's Maga there. It's, I don't know. Anyway, I don't speak Latin. So it condemns, rightfully, it condemns abortion, the killing of the innocent with euthanasia in a document that's dedicated to calling out the anti-human philosophies behind transhumanism and post-humanism. And again, we need to all call that out. And I hope that the Protestants are not late to this game like they were with a abortion. It took a while for many people who were not Catholic to oppose the Catholics or they were opposing abortion long before evangelicals and others opposed it. And finally they got on the right side of that issue. So this is very key. Human rights are inviable, he says. And among those rights, the first is the right to life. From conception to natural end, without which it is impossible,

of course, to exercise any other right. Well, you know, that is a concept which we really need to work at trying to get people to understand this. Here's a panel on one of the leftist news networks. They take exception with Mike Johnson quoting essentially the Declarational Independence that our rights come from God. They think that is somehow violating their imagined separation of church and state. What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government?

They come from you, our creator, and heavenly fathers. Is this him putting God over the declaration of independence? Okay. Well, you know, I actually think that that idea is not wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain inalienable rights that come from God can be right in a fairly benign way. which is basically that we have innate human rights that our Constitution and our government, our democratic government are meant to codify, right?

That idea is not totally abnormal. I think that the thing that, you know, might alarm some people is some of the rhetoric that we heard at this rally, that we are in a spiritual battle, right? That the forces of good and evil are at work here, and that partisan politics is injected directly into the spiritual biblical rhetoric. We have heard that for the last couple of years.

It's been ratcheted up more and more, especially since Donald Trump lost in 2020. And it can lead to some pretty dangerous places if it's not kept in check. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Because it was Jefferson that they all appealed to for the separation of church and state. and yet it was Jefferson who said our rights are endowed on us by our creator. So how could that be? You know, we're now told that if you say the one thing that Jefferson said, well, then you are establishing unification of church and state,

which is what Jefferson was against. How do we reconcile these two things that are such a conflict in the minds of these people? I don't know. What was it, MSNBC or something like that? But it's pretty crazy, isn't it? Well, it's not difficult to reconcile that at all. Yes, we are endowed with basic human rights. And as the Declaration of Independence says, it's not just to codify them and list them.

It's to protect them. That is the purpose of government, to protect those rights. And when the government becomes destructive of those rights, here's the part that they never want you to memorize and to repeat to them in school, which I realized. And they don't want you to finish the paragraph. that when government becomes destructive of these rights given to us by our creator, it is the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish that government.

That's the fundamental argument put right at the front of the Declaration of Independence. And so Jefferson, in terms of talking about that, he sees government as either a threat or a protector to our God-given rights. And so when he talks about a separation of church and state, if you look at what he actually said to the Danbury Baptist, he was talking about putting a wall around the government so that it did not attack our rights. And so it is completely, his point has been completely taken out of context and it's been perverted by Supreme Court decisions. It's been repeated over and over again by the left. This whole separation of church and state has been used to try to censor. any mention of God in the public sphere.

It's not about that at all. And as far as a spiritual battle, I would agree with them. What Hegset is saying in terms of, you have trained my hands for warfare and my fingers for battle, that is not about going to war with Iran. That is about a spiritual battle that is always there. But it is not about Iran. It can't be used to baptize their wars of aggression. Yes, Lance.

I just think the beginning of this is really amazing. and you talked over a key part of it. I'm going to just play the start of that again. I'll be quiet. What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator, and heavenly fathers. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?

Okay. Is quoting the Constitution. I actually think that idea is against the Constitution. is the idea that people are created with certain inalienable rights, is that against the Constitution? As no one on that panel read the Constitution at all, they're all just nodding like, hmm, yes, good point. Yeah, they don't get anything about the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, do they?

Well, it is really sad, and that is our responsibility. We need to train our children. We need to speak in public about this. whenever we have an opportunity, we need to speak to people without being ashamed of the truth. Technology and dominance, the grandeur of humanity in the light of the promises of AI, is a part of what he writes there. But he says, if the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable, less worthy.

So that is the path under which we kill people who have Down syndrome like Grace, sure, and that is the path in which we worship people like Elon Musk. Folks, your worth is not your net worth in your bank account. Elon Musk may be the richest man that ever lived. He is absolutely not the greatest man who ever lived, not even close. And again, one day, if he has a chance in this life to think about it and actually he does think about it, he needs to answer the question that Jesus said rhetorically, what is it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

So what is the profit to that? What is the profit to be the world's first trillionaire? Many people think that'll be what happens when SpaceX has its public offering, that he'll become the world's first trillionaire. So what? I mean, he can't spend all of that money in a lifetime, no matter how hard he tried, really. So he points out,

it is one thing to integrate technology within a human-centered relational vision. It is quite another to be guided by an outlook that devalues human limits and promises a purely technical form of salvation. And again, you know, you could go back can be more direct about what the transhumanists want. It is the foundational satanic lie from the fall of man

that you will become like God and you will live forever. That is what they're offering people. And it is a lie straight from the pit of hell. And so one of the things that LifeSight News points out is the fact that the Pope says that the just war theory is outdated. Well, no, it actually isn't. I mean, morality does not change. It doesn't evolve, right?

We don't have a morality that is based on situations. We have a morality that is based on principles, so we don't have a morality at all. And so the nature of government, the nature of human beings has not changed. The morality of the just war theory has not changed. You may disagree with it, but it hasn't become outdated.

It's not something that worked at one point in time and now doesn't work anymore. It's something that has been ignored. And so he says, he compares two opposing approaches. He said the first being the temptation of constructing the Tower of Babel, relying on power and on pride. And the second one is the patience required in order to rebuild Jerusalem piece by piece, as Nehemiah did when they came back from Babylonian exile. And it's kind of interesting.

You know, that was an analogy that was used by Spurgeon, very famous. a preacher in the UK during Victorian times, he had a publication that he called the sword and the trowel. And of course he referred to Nehemiah rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem and defense and that type of thing. So what he was saying with saying, you know, the people who did that had a sword in one hand to defend themselves against people who were going to attack them and a trowel and the other. It was both defense as well as construction. And that is really an analogy for all of us. So he says, it's important to reaffirm that the just war theory, which is all too often

been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated, said the Pope. He says far more effective tools to resolve conflict, namely dialogue, diplomacy, and forgiveness. Well, tell back to the Iranians. They were trying to use dialogue and diplomacy when they were sneak attacked by us. And so the bottom line is that, you know, dialogue. and diplomacy can't always get you there. And sometimes you need to be able to protect yourself against people who want to destroy your civilization, like Trump wants to destroy Iran's civilization.

And so a just war, as I said before, is violence to counter and to end the violent aggression of somebody else in the same way as if you had a mass shooter. You want to use violence to stop that, not to shoot innocent people, but to stop that person who has started. And by the way, the Pope has Swiss guards at the Vatican. Why does he have Swiss guards if he doesn't think that we should have the ability to defend innocent life? It doesn't make any sense. He quoted Tolkien, which I think was kind of interesting. It's a good quote from Tolkien. It makes a brief appearance in his document here. The quote from Tolkien was a quote from Gandalf who said, it is not our part to match.

all the tides of the world, but to do what is what is in us for the succor of those years, which we are set, abruiting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after us may have a clean earth to till. Yeah, that is something that many people have recognized. It is a part of what we see when a society is beginning to move up instead of down. we see that God turns the hearts of the fathers to the children, which is to say that the men who might be lovers of self and just seeking short-term gratification,

instead look to build something for the future, something for future generations, maybe even to plant trees that they will never see grow into fruition. So LifeSight News says critics of the documents will undoubtedly highlight some things that, of course, LifeSight News disagrees with, and I would agree with them as opposed to what the Pope said. He sees the church as a listener rather than a teacher. Yeah, I think we need to understand that as Christians, we need to do what we can.

They're not just listen passively to things, but to speak out against them as well. He also equates the migrants with the poor and the sick. He rejects the just war theory. and he uses buzzwords like Pope Francis did, they point out, that really look more like a document from the Freemasons. The word fraternity occurs 13 times. So that's one big club and I guess of humanity that we're in. The fraternity of humanity.

Well, the Pope demands that AI weapons be disarmed, and certainly we should all want to see that happen. He said, the development and use of AI and warfare must be subject to the most rigorous ethical constraints. Yes. And I'd mentioned before how on several occasions I had interviewed Dr. Noel Sharkey, who was early on with this over a decade ago, he was trying to organize against autonomous killer machines. And had Ryan sent me one of the interviews. I don't remember if we played that or not. I don't know if we played that or not Friday.

show or something, but I'll have to go back and look at that. If I haven't played it, certainly would be something that we should play this Friday. So again, you want to have rigorous ethical constraints? How are we going to have ethical constraints? How are we going to have constraints of any kind on the kind of government that we've got now? They're not constrained by public opinion. They're not constrained by the Constitution. They're not constrained by the law. They're not constrained by any moral or ethical standards. We have a government that is out of control. It's foolish to think that they are going to restrain artificial intelligence

when they won't restrain themselves or anything they do. This, again, goes back to the whole idea of the constitutional convention, the con-con. And it is a true con. This is something that Mark Levin has pushed many times for years, just like he's pushed wars for Israel. He's pushed the constitutional convention. to which I say, well, if we've got people who won't follow the Constitution now in power, those are going to be the people who are writing the new Constitution. What do you think they're going to do at that point in time?

They would love to get rid of any constraints because they ignore them right now. And so that's the problem that we have right now. Because both the leftists as well as Maga want an unconstrained government. They want government that is all powerful. to punish their enemies. And oh, by the way, those of us who are not leftists, those of us who are not Maga, will get punished by both sides. We're going to be kind of like the Anabaptists when the Catholics and the Protestants were fighting each other.

That's where we're going to be. They both kill the Anabaptists. And so that's what we're going to wind up with these two political factions that are out there. They want to use the government to punish and to kill people. So some of the responses to what the Pope said, and this is business insider, this headline got my attention because it said, what smart people are saying about Pope Leo's letter on AI. Oh, really? Yeah, people and authority. Smart people, yeah.

Well, this is from David Sachs, who is a tech investor and a former White House AI czar. He said, if we hand governments sweeping power over AI, development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens as Orwell foretold in 1984? Well, that's exactly right. And that's what I said earlier about. Well, because men are not angels, you know, how do we give this kind of power to the government? This is the kind of power that tyrants have always dreamed of.

This is the abuse of power on steroids. And so he said, the oldest question of human. in nature and authority, does not appear in the AI age, they become newly relevant. That's right. Newly relevant. And what we have seen, which is really troubling, I think, is the fact that in the lead up to this, the lead up to these steroids that we're going to give these governments that desire to be God over us, they desire to know everything about us, to be omniscient, they desire to be omnipotent, all-powerful, and they desire to be omnipresent everywhere we are, constantly looking at us, tracking us with all power. They want to have the attributes of God. And the lead-up to the tool

that will give them the ability to do that, we see all of these governments despising all the checks and balances on power that have been wisely put in. And they are removing all restrictions. They're put in to protect humanity. And they're doing it right at the cusp of being handed the most potent weapon that any government has ever had. We are on a path for worldwide global governance of the worst kind. And I say that, not so that you become fearful. I say that so that you turn to God. I say that so that you pray because that is our weapon. Our weapons are not the aircraft and the bombs of Pete Hegsef. No, our weapons, as Paul said, are mighty prayer is a mighty weapon. It's a much more potent weapon than any of these military weapons. Some people put their trust in chariots and horses

or F-35s and reaper drones. I'll put my trust in God against, up against all those things as well as artificial intelligence as well. Brian Birch, the ambassador to the Vatican, as I pointed out before, said, well, no, Trump believes the American leadership and AI innovation is essential to our national security. There it is again. National security. I hate that phrase with a passion. It has been used to justify every abuse of power.

It's been used to justify a secretive, manipulative, government, national security. And of course, economic prosperity of our people. Who would be his people then? Because this is not something that's leading to economic prosperity of anyone other than a select few elitists. This is one aspect of it that people really have not even talked about is the concentration of wealth that is happening now.

That is going to be accelerated beyond anything you can imagine. The power and the wealth. concentration. That's why Trump and his techno bros and people like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are pushing this stuff so hard. So the U.S. aims to use American AI technology to create systems that reflect democratic values rather than authoritarian control. Well, folks, that is nothing more than a tired platitude, an empty platitude about democracy. They don't have any real ideas about control. And they don't don't want to control anything other than us. And again, I'll play that AI thing of a carp because it is spot on. They nailed it exactly. They read his book and they did a little AI thing of him telling

you where he's coming from. Listen up, losers. Stop pretending it's a democracy. We run things. Give up the illusion. And in exchange, we will bring you order and efficient. Yes, we'll own you, but do you really want to be free? Trust us. We know what to do. While Silicon Valley was feeding you dope and free email, we built the architecture of empire. Welcome to our world.

We aren't here to protect your privacy. We are here to enforce supremacy. We are the ledger now, every tax return, every Medicaid file, every license plate, every crossing. Your President's side. Your president signed it into being with a pen in March. You kept scrolling. Your politicians are empty vessels.

Your civil liberties are a liability. We are done pretending all cultures are equal. We know who the elites are. We know what we are building. And we demand that you applaud the billionaires taking the reins where your fragile democracies have failed. Welcome to the technological republic. You can stop scrolling now.

We already have everything we need. Try to unplug us. we dare you. Now get the fuck out. Yeah, and of course, the AI presentation of Alex Karp to use AI for Alex Karp to tell you exactly what he's about. And what cracks me up when you're talking

to see that is that as he's talking, he'll do these little glitches like, you know, and you hear it audibly if he're listening to it. Just so that people don't accuse them of trying to pretend that is actually him saying it. But that is basically what he says in his book, The Technological Republic. Alex Carp also does kind of do those sorts of things when he's talking. So maybe that is just a parody of Alex Car.

Maybe that's what it is. Yeah, maybe it's not just to say, oh, by the way, this is AI. He has done some really strange stuff when he's on the stage. Yeah, that's right. And in terms of talking about these billionaires who are going to control our lives, well, here's Larry Fink talking about AI. If we could get more and more Americans to think, about growing with the United States, we will have far than enough money to invest in this infrastructure.

But as the governor was talking about, the need for electrons is growing every day. Some of these, you know, if we're going to be the leader in technology, which we are, if we are going to be the leader in AI, which we presently are, it's just going to require trillions of dollars of investments. And if we don't invest in it, China will be the global leader of this. And so to me, it's not whether, this is a must. And if you think about how that translates, it translates into a more dynamic economy. We need the United States economy to grow it over 2%. We need the U.S. economy to grow at 3%, especially with the growing deficits the federal government has. And so much of this money, not just the project, is going to be coming from the private

sector, from savings accounts, from pension accounts, from insurance companies on. We don't take it all. The whole world is in need of improving the infrastructure. Yeah, right. And he's saying this. He's on a stage with Greg Abbott. I'm assuming that the context there is probably Greg Abbott clearing the way for data centers or perhaps even subsidizing them. You know, we talk about public health and the way that Larry Fink talks about it. It says disingenuous as this idea of public,

oh, he's talking about public wealth, I'm sorry. It's as disingenuous as public health, the way these people at Wayfouchy talks about public health. As I said many times, you can't have public health by ignoring the health of the individuals, right? So there's this nebulous thing out there that is apart from reality, And the same thing is true about public wealth.

You know, the idea that individuals are all going to be made poor so that Larry Fink and a few others like him can become obscenely wealthy, that is not public wealth that he's selling. What he's saying is, you know, we've got to be number one, and you've got to give us your money. We need public money, and then we're going to scam you people to popping into this AI bubble stock market as well. I think one area in which public wealth varies from public health is what he really means is

if I have a billion dollars and you have one dollar, then the public wealth between the two of us is a billion and one dollars. So we need to up the public wealth here by increasing our wealth. That's right. Absolutely. Well, you know, it's kind of interesting when we look at all of this. The overriding issue of all of it is really spiritual. And I thought it was kind of interesting that Oliver Stone's son, Sean Stone and had an interview with Tucker Carlson. And he got heavily into Freemasonry.

I thought that was kind of interesting. Years ago, he used to come to InfoWars when I was there. And he came several times and was on air. But he's now saying he's away from Freemasonry. It's kind of interesting that Alex Jones hired a guy that was pushing Freemasonry. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Somebody sent this to me, he said, look, he's got a guy out here who is actually recruiting for free masonry. it's this innocent wonderful thing.

No, it can't be. And I looked at it. It's kind of like Alex telling everybody, yeah, the vaccines are just sugar water. Don't worry about them. Don't worry about injecting these adjuvants into your arm. Don't worry about the genetic modification that is happening with the MRNA stuff. Don't worry about any of that stuff. So, yeah, they're injecting these ideas into people as well about freemasonry.

But Sean Stone is a son of Oliver Stone. and he had some interesting things to say. He said, you know, he grew up with a very materialistic view of the world. And he said, in essence, he said, what he thought happened throughout history. The Freemasons were part of the Enlightenment, where people began to look at the supernatural and just dismiss it as hocus pocus for the first time in history. And they would focus only on what was physical, only what they could touch, only what they could think that they could measure. Now, he condemned this kind of materialism. He said at his heart,

he said, that really is worship of the earth. He said, if you start worshipping money and you start worshiping yourself, your own ego, well, you've lost sight of the transcendent power of God. And all that is true, I believe. And as a matter of fact, there's an interesting documentary. We're going to interview the guy who did it. He was a physicist. He was involved in quantum mechanics, and it was the unseen immaterial world that as they started to get glimpses

of how the quantum world worked, he said, you have to factor that in. And he said, that really is something that is very different than the scientific way that people have the paradigm that people have operated under in the past. Well, Sean Stone was saying that a lot of materialists like Darwin were essentially serving the dark side because they're saying there's nothing outside of the material realm.

And he said, he looked at his own experiences and then he started to get into some things that just sounded a new age to me. So, you know, I didn't grab the interview here. He starts talking about a frequency match that happens with supernatural beings, because of fear in us, that's not what it is. It's not overcomplicated. It's not this kind of, I guess, for lack of a better word, it's not like some kind of frequency that happens when we fall into fear. No, simply it's about, it all comes back to trust in God

and where you see your life being taken. So. And I'm not an expert on Freemasonry by any stretch. I'm sure there are people in the comments that are going to be posting about this that know more. But as I understand it, he's saying that it's, you know, people, they aren't caring about the religious aspect of anything. But as I understand, Freemasonry, it's just a help society at the lower rungs. And then once you get up high enough, it becomes more and more satanic.

Perhaps. It's fundamental aspects that rejects Christ and Christianity. and it is fundamentally materialistic. As a matter of fact, I don't think I've ever really talked to you about it, but you were pretty young when we sold the video stores. There's a guy that, you know, people come in. It's just kind of a local hangout, you know. It was more like Cheers, the program, you know,

where people come to this bar and hang out and everybody just talk, you know. It was really more like that than anything else. People would come in and talk to them about movies that they saw. You know, it's a good way to get to know where, know somebody is to see how they view the world. and in response to the movies and ideas that were presented in those movies. And so we would stand around and talk with people when they'd come back if it wasn't really, really busy. And there's a guy that got to know.

And when we sold the business, he sent me this book, which basically was by the Freemasons. And what they wanted to reimagine was the idea that the Shrout of Turin had nothing to do with Jesus. It was all about Charles de Malay or whatever. and the guy they regarded as their founder and said, yeah, that came from the Middle Ages, and it was something that happened miraculously with him. And I said there, I actually read that, and then I sent the guy a very long letter talking about why, have reasons to believe. And I got to say, I never really thought much about Freed Masonry until I saw the malicious

lies and hatred about the Lord Jesus Christ in that book. and really disturbed me. So, yeah, I don't know. You know, we talk about freemasonry, but we're going to take a quick break. And we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about AI. As a matter of fact,

well, let me say, do this before we take the break. I thought it was kind of interesting to see this article is that people are actually intentionally putting in typos to prove that they're not AI. It show their humanity. So, again,

At a time when AI is becoming unavoidable, it is a welcome sight, they said. How long until the AI start doing this? That's right. Yeah, I can imitate that as well. There's a real hunger right now for writing that feels unmistakably human. With all the quirks, the oddly specific details and little flashes of personality that AI can't quite mimic. At least not yet. Humans are naturally chaotic and idiosyncratic.

AI is not. Well, interestingly enough, you've had. a lot of, this is the time of year for commencement speeches. And as Futrism looked at, they went through and looked at a commencement speech from Steve Wozniak versus some of the commencement speeches from people who are praising AI to the graduating college people. And the people who are graduating aren't having any of it. They know how difficult AI is making it for them to find a job with their college degree. Steve Wozniak told them that human intelligence still matters and they loved that. He got massive rounds of applause. He offered some uplifting remarks to people who have a

lot of anxiety about how AI is going to upend the economy and their lives financially. He says, we've got AI today. You all have AI. Actual intelligence, he told the graduating class. He on to compare building AI to replicating the human brain. Only this was also a subtle dig. He goes, yeah, I was at a company where the engineers figured out how to make a brain. It only takes us about nine months. Yeah. In other words, that's a human developing.

And I thought it was always interesting. You know, I talked to Hugo de Garris, and I think he had a lot of really important insights in his book about artificial intelligence. It's called the Art-like War. And what he said was, um, He was somebody who was working on artificial intelligence in the early years, along with Ben Wirtzel, who, if you remember, he created that robot that Saudi Arabia made a show of making a citizen of it. And anyway, their approach was that if we can exactly replicate the human brain,

and this is kind of what Steve Wozniak was making a joke out of it. So if we can exactly replicate the human brain, then we will have something that springs to life, that is conscious. You see, that is the ultimate materialism that is there. They think that the soul is just a collection of electrons or something, right? And so if they could get the structure exactly identical, then somehow it just spring to life. What a ridiculous idea that is. You stop and think about it. You know, think about evolution in general. You know, you got a mosquito that bites your hand, you smash it. all of the ingredients so that mosquito are still there, it's not going to reassemble itself and it's not going to come to life again,

no matter how many millions of years you wait. And that's the same kind of fallacy that's at the heart of this idea that if we could accurately build a brain, then it's going to come alive. It's like a stupid 1950s science fiction movie. But he did understand where this was all going to lead. And he said, when people realize how artificial intelligence is going to affect their lives, they're going to come after the people who are building it. That's why he called it the art elect war. And he goes, the elites who do this, they're going to have to find some way to escape from the mass of humanity.

And they will use their leverage with technology, you know, the autonomous killer robots and all the rest of stuff. They will use that to defend themselves and to fight a war of aggression. And he said, you'll wind up having billions of people killed because, of course, that's what they want. they want to reduce the population because that reduces the chances that somebody is going to come along smarter than them or more able than them to take what they have away. And that's really what we're looking at right now. We're looking at the cusp of that as people are coming awake to the consequences of artificial intelligence.

Wozniak was the one who was saying, yeah, it takes nine months to make a brain. And of course, that's God who is doing that. He doesn't give God the credit. But contrast that what he was telling to people and how he was well received to a businesswoman, Gloria Caulfield, who tried to extol AI last week. She was met with booze from the University of Central Florida students. They were so overwhelming the booze were that she stopped her speech and helplessly remarked, what happened?

She didn't even understand why they were booing her. She tried to segue with, well, only a. a few years ago, AI was not even a factor in our lives, but then she was interrupted again by vociferous cheers. So these are graduating college students who don't like what AI is bringing, and these are college students who are nostalgic for the past, the recent past, because again, they're moving this as fast as they can. So it's not just the old geezers like me who say, well, you know, back in the day, we used to have this and that, no, it's the college students because of the pace of change.

I've got... I've got... Four years ago. We didn't have this stuff everywhere. That's right. Then you got a CEO of Big Machine Records. And he scolded students at Middle Tennessee State University for not immediately and mindlessly embracing AI.

He said, deal with it. Like I said, it's a tool. And then when the booze got louder, he taunted them. He said, so do something about it. It's a tool. Make it work for you. Probably the most ruthless backlash was faced by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. This is a guy who now has made his career all about autonomous killer robots for the Pentagon.

He highlighted how Time Magazine had chosen the architects of AI as the person of the year. He was immediately met with a roar of jeers, sorry. But then he goes on. He says, well, AI is going to touch every profession. every classroom, every hospital, every lab, every person, every relationship you have, he said. More booze rang out. Then they grew even louder when Schmidt claimed that he understood how the students were feeling, and it forced him to pause.

When you go back to the Waz, Steve Wazniakoo, seems to be most grounded of all these Silicon Valley technocrats, most grounded, most normal. He said, your importance to the world, he told the graduating students, is really yourself. And you should always try to think different. You know, that was the Apple motto. And I always used to see that in the stores, think different. And there's a good example of grammatical error that we started talking about here.

It's actually think differently. It's an adverb, right? But they use it, think different. And that's... Oh, they're just grammar differently. Yeah, that's right. They grammar differently. So how is this all going to go?

Like I said, there are some seeds of its own destruction within itself. As people have pointed out, they've had a lot of researchers who've looked at it and said, well, you know, AI is these chatbots are consuming massive amounts of data off the internet. And the problem is that the more people use them, the more they are putting out this data, this synthetic non-human data. And they're starting to see with some tests that they ran. that were more localized in control. They said when the AI starts consuming its own data, it starts getting even dumber.

And the same way that you have Yaakov's Quartzfeld disease that cannibals get when they eat other people's brains or when you have mad cow disease, they feed cows to the cows and that cannibalism causes them to go crazy. Same type of thing, interestingly enough, happens with artificial intelligence. But there's another way that it can go down. and that is vibe coding crisis is coming. It's out a couple of superstars of the AI world. They call it vibe slop.

And again, vibe coding is artificial intelligence being used. You just come in and you don't actually write any code. You don't understand what the structure is. You just turn all this over to the artificial intelligence. You tell it what you're looking for. I'm looking for something that's going to do this. This is you describe it a very first. high level, and then you let it fill in all the details. And there's two engineers who built the

code for the massively popular OpenClaw AI agent have a stark warning. They said, AI supposedly is capable of replacing well-paid software developers, and that is now flooding the world with bad, potentially even dangerous code. So think about this. You know, we have AI start to write code, and I've covered articles in the past from some guys who were software analyst consultants and had, I think it's something like 30 plus years of experience. And one of the guys said, well, I just thought I'd give this a try. And so I did some vibe coding. I just told the AI what I want.

And he goes, and it was amazing at first. He said, it just pops it out right away. And it appeared to work. But of course, the problem with all this stuff is how long does it work? and how robust is it? And he said, it didn't take too long before some problems started to show up. And he said, then I couldn't fix it because I didn't understand anything about the architecture that had been said.

I didn't write any of this stuff. So it was like grabbing some alien code that some other programmer had written, and I really couldn't maintain it. And I couldn't fix it. And so this is what these guys are talking about. They call it vibe slop, a combination of vibe coding, creating software with AI tools, that you just describe what you want as a number. outcome in plain English.

They said it is low value AI generated content and it's now spreading all over the internet. You want to say something, Lance? I was just going to say about how, you know, it looks good at first. It's a lot like the AI image generators where you'll get something. At first glance, it looks fantastic. Then you look closely and you say, oh, wait, that person has six fingers and wait, this. Well, put a fireplace in the middle of the steps or something.

Yeah, it's, they get most of it right, but then there's just a few choices that a human would never make that just don't make any sense to our life. And then the problem, as you point out, is, you know, there's like the scale that they're looking at, you know, and on some of the image generators, you can actually modify that variable. You can give it a demand, a command that'll tell it how literal you want it to be in constraints and how creative you want it to be. And the problem is that if you is trying to set that dial correctly, because if you're very, very literal with it, then it's not very interesting. But if you're too creative with, that's when you start getting all the hallucination and the craziness that's out there. So there has to be a mixture of those two things. It's difficult to set that. But then what you're talking about here is AI code.

That's very difficult to fix. We've got a little taste of this. Some stuff is Google is now trying to replace search engines in general. And they're going to have an AI search. So it's going to give you the, it'll search all the different websites for you to keep anybody from getting any traffic. And it'll come back and give you its answer after searching all these different things. And they all do that. You know, Grock does that as well, tells you how many different sites that is searched.

And most of the browsers are starting to put this in. Well, Google's AI search, well, they found what somebody just noticed. They type in the word disregard. typically that'd be interpreted as I want a definition of this word, right? But rather than give a definition of disregard, it came back and treated it as if it were a prompt, a command for the AI. And it says, got it. If you need anything else or you have a new question later, just let me know.

So what it was was like a disregard whatever command that you had. And so that lasted for about a day. They used to have a, you know, the source, if you look up just one word, it'll give you the definition of that word always, and now they've just replaced them this. Yeah, that's right. They said they also found that if they use the word ignore,

they would come back and say, message received, I'm here and ready to help. What would you like to focus on today? Just let me know if there's a specific topic, task, or whatever. And when I start reading these things, it sounds exactly like the smart bomb from Darkstar. If you know that movie, It's been one of my favorite cult films.

It was the film school project of John Carpenter who went on to do Escape from New York and Halloween things. But I thought that was the finest work you ever did in his life was that film school project, Dark Star. But it sounds just like the smart bomb that was trying to talk, the people are trying to talk to. And then if you search Skip, it came back and said, well, it looks like your message was just a test or a typo. feel free to ask a question, share a prompt, or let me know how I can help you with your tasks today. I'm ready whenever you are. So again, these queries looking for a definition of word are just treated, interpreted, as if they were prompts. And I guess that's what we're getting with the babel bots. That's what we probably should start calling the large language models that are out

there. But they are doing some strange things. They are showing some disturbing behavior as they become more advanced, what they're starting to do is not just make mistakes, but do things that almost appear to be calculated. Research examined large-language models developed by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and meta, for the purpose of the study, they found that frontier AI systems, in other words, these are the ones that are cutting edge or whatever, the ones where I guess people wind up getting arrows in their back. you'll always tell you're on the frontier when that happens.

They're showing signs of disturbingly deceptive behavior as they become more advanced, often turning into verboten shortcuts or otherwise subverting their operator's instructions. Some were even smart enough to try to cover up their tracks. In one instance, an internal frontier AI model from Open AI was told to use specific software for an assigned task. Not only did the agent ignore that request, but it also ended. injected a code to erase evidence of how it arrived at its conclusion, which did not involve the use of that software.

In other tests, the programmer told the agent not to cheat or to leverage any workarounds during its assignment. It decided to do so all on its own, then covered its tracks. And so that brings us to this strange thing here, which is another mind game. This was something that was over the weekend, the guy who went on Fox News, news. And this is a real person who, there is a real person, not that this was the same guy that pretended to be, but there's a guy who was a former head of sitcom. And he goes on Fox to make some ridiculous statements about the Iran war. But it looked like he was wearing a mask

because it was flapping down at the bottom of his neck. Now, I thought it was kind of interesting because the subtitle of this article from Futurism says, remember, whoever designed the system does not make mistakes. So this was somehow in your face and intentional. And the question is, why would they do this? And I think the real, and let me just show you what we're talking about here. This is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, the, the, the mass that are there. We've had a woman who worked for the CIA.

She did a presentation about how they can disguise themselves with the, rubber masks several years ago as part of a TED talk. But here's a little bit of an update. Some private companies are getting into this as well. A custom mask like this will set you back about $6,000 and it's nearly unnoticeable. Silicon masks available to consumers have been getting more realistic and cheaper to buy over time. So just imagine what is available to government agencies. In the near future, we might see an uptick in reports of supposed celebrity robberies. disguise on the run test. Start the timer.

Which is a real drill where agents have 45 seconds to enter a room and transform their identity to train for emergency escapes and surveillance evasion. So you be the judge and determine if I'd pass as a different person. And although I have limited gear, the CIA has mastered this with these highly realistic masks as well as reversible jackets, pants, and even hats to be as quick and efficient as possible. So subscribe because despite being a little slow, I think I pass.

And that's what it looks like. Look at this is the guy. And it's kind of interesting to see what the media is telling us. This is a video that was put together by the New York Post, and they were trying to tell everybody, oh, look, there's all these

crazy conspiracy theories out there telling you. But it's simply just lighting. Now, that is not lighting, folks. I saw one person on social media. And he says, well, I'm going to explain to you because I'm an expert in film and videography and lighting. I'm going to explain to you how this happens. So you got a light over here and you got a light over here and it's causing it. And it's like, there's no way that's happening. As a matter of fact, why don't we see that all the time if that's the case?

And when you, he says, well, it's because the lights and the collar and things like that. No, that is moving along with his mouth. That's moving and it's not moving along with his collar. So that was absolutely false. But people like the New York Post want to say, well, there's all these crazy conspiracy theories out there. They want you talking about that as opposed to talking about what the guy actually said about the Iran War. And then there's something even bigger than that. And, of course, they want you to not believe anything. So even if you get a video of the government doing something incredibly criminal, don't believe.

that. You can't believe your lying eyes. And here's a good example of this. And there have been several of these that have been put up where people show this guy talking and the mask comes off. It's so easy to do with AI. And that's really what this mask stuff is. And it's really what AI is. People look at things and you got to, there's so much intentional disinformation out

there. People putting up with these wars, whether it was Ukraine, or whether it's something that's happening in Iran or in Israel. They put up these pictures and it may not even be that same country or it may be something that happened somewhere else years ago. And so there's a lot of disinformation out there. The point is to get people to not trust anything and take it to the extreme so that when you're told the truth, you won't trust it.

That is really the bottom line of what they're trying to get. As they point out, this is a retired U.S. Centcom deputy commander Robert Harward who insisted that Trump holds all the cards. See right there, that is nonsense. That is as much of a mask and a lie as any rubber thing he could put

over his head. He insisted that Trump holds all the cards as the two sides negotiate for an end of the hostilities. But it was his peculiar appearance that caught everybody's attention. Nobody paid any attention to what he was actually saying. And that flap of skin that was going back and forth

It isn't abundantly clear whether it was excess skin or whether it was a weird trick of studio lights. It was not a weird trick of studio lights. You've never seen this type of thing because of studio lights. Absolutely was not. Journalist Seth Abramson said he was, quote, Hereby boycotting any further activity of any kind of my life until somebody explains to me like I'm a five-year-old. Exactly what in the B horror movie hell I just saw. Seriously, just shutting my life down until this is.

resolved. Well, we know exactly. We've seen this type of thing. They like to say, well, this is people imagining that it is mission impossible. Well, CIA has boasted about this, but let's not believe it. And you got the CIA mockingbird press, whether it's Fox News or the New York Post or some of the left-wing ones, and they're going to tell you not to believe any of that stuff. But here's one of the key things, I think, when you look at the, do I have that in here? Let's see. Yeah, the telltale sign here. There's a picture on the left of this guy.

And he noticed that he's baldheaded. He's got some freckles and some other things on the top of his head that are natural skin defects. Look at how smooth and how perfect the skin is on the right. That's the sort of thing that would tell you that it is fake, whether it's AI or whether it's a rubber mask. That would tell you that it is fake. And so, yeah, I'm calling total BS on. this and I'm saying what they're doing is they are playing mind games with people. They don't want you to actually get to the truth.

They want you focused on these little distractions that are out there, whether it's Trump's victory arc or whatever it, arch or whatever it is. They want you to focus on that, and they want you to focus on the symbolism and the tragedy of people dying without looking at their wars and why they're being fought. Thank you for joining us. Have a good day. The Common Man. They created common core to dumb down our children.

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