The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2102: Trump’s UN Circus: Escalators Stall, Teleprompters Fail, Wars Multipl

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

00:03:16 – Escalator & Teleprompter FiascoCommentary on Trump’s stalled escalator and broken teleprompter at the UN, mocked as symbolic of his failed leadership. 00:04:30 – UN Speech: Escalating WarsTrump pushes for wars in South America, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, while hiding Epstein files and attacking free speech in Kirk’s name. 00:13:18 – Charlie Kirk, Hypocrisy & Culture WarCritique of Charlie Kirk’s loyalty to Trump, his compromises on faith and family values, and Turning Point’s embrace of identity politics. 00:15:34 – Nobel Peace Prize MockeryCoverage of Trump lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize despite tariffs, threats, and war-mongering, with Macron caught in the chaos of his entourage. 00:29:11 – Trump’s AI Bioweapon AgendaSegment previews Trump’s push to combine AI with mRNA bioweapon programs under the guise of pandemic prevention and biosecurity. 01:14:55 – AI “Work Slop” & Productivity CollapseDiscussion of studies showing AI-generated “work slop” wastes time, reduces productivity, and creates subtle vulnerabilities in code, likened to the dot-com bubble hype cycle. 01:45:07 – Google Admits White House PressureGoogle admits to censorship coordination with the Biden administration over COVID, election integrity, and Hunter Biden content. Parallels are drawn to Trump’s own censorship pressure campaigns. 01:55:04 – Kimmel’s Return & Epstein FilesJimmy Kimmel jokes about Trump’s censorship attempts backfiring. The segment links media distractions, like Kimmel’s firing, to the ongoing suppression of Epstein files. 01:59:05 – AI Failures & Robot DeceptionAnecdotes of ChatGPT hallucinations and robots secretly run by humans highlight the fragility of AI hype. Concerns about militarized robotics and AI-driven control are emphasized. 02:07:56 – Eric Peters Joins the ShowOpening segment introduces Eric Peters of EricPetersAutos.com, connecting liberty with mobility and setting the stage for discussion on freedom and cars. 02:21:32 – EV Failures & Consumer BacklashAnalysis of Porsche, VW, and Stellantis pulling back on EV production. EVs are described as expensive, unreliable, and rejected by consumers despite billions invested. 02:34:10 – Death of Pontiac & Brand HomogenizationReflection on how compliance and regulations gutted distinctive brands like Pontiac, replacing unique engines with rebadged Chevys and killing automotive innovation. 02:42:22 – Bureaucracy & Car ControlDebate over DOT and NHTSA regulators dictating vehicle design. Safety mandates like thick pillars reduce visibility, showing how unelected bureaucrats micromanage industry. 02:52:23 – Geofencing & Digital Car ControlConcerns about Teslas and future EVs enabling geofencing and autopilot overrides, restricting where drivers can go. Driving framed as moving toward airport-style authoritarianism. 02:58:59 – Insurance as Control MechanismInsurance companies hike premiums arbitrarily while government mandates force compliance. Compared to mob extortion, pricing average people out of car ownership. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

You know, world of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act it's the david night show as a clock strikes 13 it's wednesday the 24th of september year of our lord 2025 well it is on again off again turn around spin around, and we never know from one hour to the next what Trump is going to do. Now he's done a complete spin around, and now he wants to pursue the war in Ukraine until the end. The end of what, you might ask. He thinks that Ukraine can win it, he says. Is it just bluster for negotiation?

That's the way it's being explained by many of his diehard apologists. but is it also incredibly stupid and dangerous? That's what I think. We're going to talk about Trump's appearance at the UN. We'll be right back. Well, Trump went to the UN yesterday, and it began with an escalator that stopped as soon as he got on it. That was kind of the way that he kicked off his campaign. Roger Stone came up with that idea of Trump coming down the escalator.

If only that it happened, what was 10 years ago? If only that escalator had stopped, 10 years ago. Right on time, I would say. Yeah, there we are. We got video footage of it here. Love the punctuality. Yes. Love the punctuality.

Isn't that great? He's right on time. I wonder how he managed to get our thing together in time. I heard a few questions being shouted there. Stop. We're going to have to walk up. And so he had a problem with that. He had a problem with teleprompter.

And so his support. reporters like Zara Hedger saying, they tried to sabotage him. Poor thing. It's really tough. You know, while that is breaking, other news that we're going to have today is how YouTube kicked off people like me because they didn't like our policies and, you know, what we were talking about. But it's all being laid at the feet of Biden. Nobody will criticize his majesty. I got kicked off during Trump.

I got kicked off again during Biden. Biden. In May, I got kicked off of two financial platforms and YouTube where I had a music channel. So it is not just about the people who talked about COVID getting kicked off. But anyway, let's go back to the UN. Break in real fast. It just reminds me of that Mitch Headberg joke, you know. I love escalators because, you know, escalator's never broken. It just temporarily becomes stairs. I was about to bring that up. Escalator, temporarily stairs. We apologize for the convenience. he had to take the stairs and then when he started to make his speech the teleprompter didn't work

so he had to actually like do a speech and think and talk and maybe that's why some of the stuff came across as so strident and bullying except you know that's kind of his personality so the only thing that was good about it which in a sense when I look at all the different things that Trump has done especially in just the last couple of months you know how hiding the Epstein files and taking all the hits to hide the Epstein files, the wars that he is trying to get us involved. Now, he's even trying to start, restart the Afghanistan war. And, uh, but he's trying to get us involved in wars in, uh, South America.

He's trying to escalate the Ukraine war. He never tried to stop it. If he wanted to stop it, he could have stopped it immediately because he's the one giving all the weapons to Zelensky, giving him weapons and giving him money. If he wanted to stop it, he could have done it. You're not a Nobel Peace Prize negotiator if you're arming one side of the conflict. It's just absurd. But when you look at all the things that he's done, the attacks on free speech and everything else,

supposedly in the memory of Charlie Kirk who was pushing for free speech, trying to reestablish free speech in the university. So in his honor, you're going to censor people. It's just the most absurd thing. So when Trump comes out and starts lecturing the countries about how. Now, you know, this global warming stuff is nonsense. You're destroying your own countries with the global warming and the climate change nonsense, as well as immigration stuff. I look at it and it's like, I almost wish he wasn't on my side on any issue because it only poisons that issue in people's minds.

It isn't that it's like somebody who takes your side and then all he does is scream at people and say stupid things about it. He doesn't explain why climate change is wrong. He just says it is, and he taunts people over it. So it's actually counterproductive for people on our side of the issues. After a moment of confusion, Melania quickly strode up the stalled steps, and Trump followed behind. And I guess that was the issue for him. So Bedeezer for her to get up the steps, that is for him, as we all get older here. He says, all right, all I got from, all I got from the UN was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.

If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen. But she's in great shape. He was in great shape. There's two things I got from the UN, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. I suppose that was just a lie too far, even for him, you know. Yeah. So he just, it was a, as I said, it was a blistering attack on the UN. So he attacked and criticized the U.N., he attacked and criticized London mayor, Sadiq Khan.

That's a target-rich environment right there. European countries who were abetting uncontrolled migration. He attacked Putin. He attacked countries that are recognized Palestinian statehood. Of course, he attacked Biden, windmills, the climate change hoax, and took an anti-globist position. He said, climate change is the greatest. con job ever perpetrated on the world. Again, it doesn't help our side for Trump to be taking our side and to not explain why. It's a con job. He says, you're destroying your countries and

they're being destroyed. He's gotten so deranged. I just take for him to be on my side on any issue. Trump is now going in details as they were blogging this on Zero Hedge about the death and destruction in the Ukraine war, taking a swipe at Biden, saying it shows you. what leadership is and what bad leadership can do to our country. And now he's going to follow the exact same policies. What did Biden do? He did sanctions against Russia, which is what Trump is boasting about. He's going to do really good sanctions, and it's really going to work this time. And so Biden did that, and he armed Ukraine. So Trump is going to do the same things that Biden did and he expects different results. Don't tell me he's not crazy. That's a definition of crazy.

It's not about what gets done. It's about who does it. When our guy does it, it's fine. Yeah, it didn't work when Biden did it, but the same things will work when Trump does it. Well, you see, when my president does it, it's not illegal. Yeah, I tell you, he's looking for a distraction. You think that he wouldn't start a war to get off of this Epstein thing? Look at what Clinton did, right? Clinton got us involved in a war, but not as dangerous a war as this is going to be. It's absolutely insane.

And he was really taunting Russia, calling them a paper tiger, saying, They're not a real military. If they were a real military, they could have finished us off in a week or so. You know, like we did in Afghanistan. 20 years we were there, we still lost. So it's, Trump says, European nations must immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia. Otherwise, we're all wasting a lot of time.

You know, that's, we want to destroy Russia. Let's make it clear. It'll also destroy Europe to do that as well. Yeah, that's right. They physically cannot cut themselves off from this without endangering their own populations as we move towards winter. Trump says the U.S. is fully prepared to impose, quote, a very strong round of powerful terrorists,

which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly. If Putin doesn't agree to end the war in Ukraine, that was all done by Biden. When Biden put sanctions on, it was a windfall profit for Putin. He cut the price and took payment in gold or Russian currency. And it was a $300 billion windfall for him. So Trump says that Europe is going to hell.

That's his words. It goes scorched earth on the failing countries in the UN. Blasting immigration, the world ending nukes, and Sharia law in London. So it was just a gripe session that he had. Took aim at Sadiq Khan. There's a terrible mayor. He is. He said London was heading towards Sharia law.

It is. He said, there's no more global warming. no more global cooling. Get away from the green scam or your countries will fail. He complained about renewable energy calling it useless, warning that it was leading Europe to the brink of destruction. So, again, he said that he hectored Hare Starmer for three days that he was there, every day telling you've got to get away from this green stuff.

And I'm sure that's persuading everybody, don't you think? Trump slammed the UN for not helping me to stop conflicts. he's not trying to stop any conflicts he falsely claimed that he had ended seven wars i'd like to enumerate those can you think of any war that he has ended i can't think of a single one i can think of wars that he is eager to start i mean he even wants to go to war with greenland and canada when he began in panama what was the what was the purpose of all that stuff and he was being cagey about saying yeah we might use force against Canada uh it was all to create chaos confusion, disruption. It's just professional wrestling, and it's how he publicizes things.

But he says it's time to end the fail experiment on open borders, because your countries are going to hell. And climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. He's on the right side of those issues, but he doesn't give any good reasons. And who knows if he's going to stay on that side or not? You can't count on him being on the right side of anything for more than two minutes. And of course, he won't explain why. Everyone says, I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements. But for me, the real prize to be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people no longer be killed in endless and unglorious war. And he's saying this at the same time he is doing everything

he can to escalate and to prolong the war and to create a conflict directly with Russia in America. This is what's so amazing about Trump. And that's why I've lost all faith in this country. I've got to say, you know, just as I was saying to this guy said, gee, David is against everything. You bet. You bet.

You think I'm going to side with Trump because he says the right thing for right now about climate change. She said the right thing about ending the war. Never believed he was going to do it. And, of course, he's added a lot of other wars they'd never talked about. We've got people so angry at the United States. states in Canada and the tariffs and retaliation for what he's done, that it's affecting Florida orange juice sales. That's what this guy has done. He's created conflict where there was not.

Everybody was very happy about the fact that the U.S. and Canada had the longest unpatrolled border. So you get this Trump Shill, Jack Posobian, go up to the border. Look at this. This town, there's no, there's no fence. You know, there's no guard dogs. There's no guard towers, people of machine guns. We've got to fix this. What's the matter with these people? I know exactly where Jack Bosobian is coming from. And I know where Trump is coming from. I know who they work for. You can see it in the agenda.

You don't need specific names. And so you better believe that I don't support Trump. That's the issue that I got with Charlie Kirk. I know that Trump knew what he was doing. I don't think he's that stupid. And I know that Charlie Kirk is not that stupid. Why would Charlie Kirk try to get him in office again? Try to explain away all of the faults instead of trying to correct them.

if he's got any influence of Trump. That's what I don't get about it. Somebody said, you don't like Charlie Kirk because he supported Trump. You're right. That's the issue I've got with him. I also saw him sell out the family and Christ when he used a black guy, a homosexual, he went, we've got the cultural war that we're doing, right? And he has this young black guy, homosexual there.

And behind him, he's got the big thing that says culture war. And so there were some people from Nick Flente's group that, He said exactly how does that help us win the culture war? How does that strengthen families? And of course it doesn't, but Charlie Kirk got very angry about that and defended this guy that he platformed on Turning Point USA for years. This is just big tent partisan politics, folks. There's no principles involved in that.

It disgust me. Reports in the Norwegian press claim that Trump coal called the country's finance minister to discuss the peace prize. He should get a peace prize, evidently, because he's raising tariffs on everybody. I think, again, I think he always spells peace with an eye. That's what he wants. And so he's had Pakistan, Israel, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Rwanda, and Gabon have said he should get the peace prize. Is there any real country that is saying this?

No. Yeah. Is there a country that we can't immediately break in five minutes with some economic policy we put in place. That's right. Yeah, what about Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela, all these different things and other countries that he has threatened and harmed who have not done anything. So that is his, he really wants that for some reason. I think they should come up with a new prize. I think they should have the Ig Nobel Peace Prize because he is ignoble. He is not noble. the New York police

stopped Emmanuel Macron he was walking down the sidewalk and they wouldn't let him get across because Trump's entourage was coming through you know how that works whenever they come to town it's total chaos and they stop everything in every direction and he was a bit incensed as you can imagine Macron

and so he has Trump's number on his phone and it was all in French so he didn't play the video but he calls up Trump and he says They won't let me get across the road because they're blocking it for you. He says, if you can't see it, he said, let me pass, and I'll negotiate with you, he says to the police. Because if you can't see the entourage coming, if it's that far away, just let me pass. I will negotiate with you.

I guess that's the way that he talks and he's at these meetings here. But he calls up Trump and he says, so how are you? Guess what? I am waiting in street because everything is closed down. for you he says welcome to America that's right yeah welcome to New York by the time that place is always good luck it seems like every time I go up there um remember that yeah the last time we were there was no last time we were there for work we got stuck in traffic for three hours plus trying to get out was the Holland tunnel I want to say it was yeah oh oh that

was absolutely nightmarish hey you can't you can't go anywhere to use the restroom even you know I mean You're stuck there. But it was also, we were there to report on something that's happening at the UN. Yeah, the Armed Trade Treaty. Yeah, the Arms Trade Treaty. And it was total gridlock around there. But then it got really bad when we tried to get out in the Holland Tunnel. Oh, it's just crazy.

Well, you want to get some... I can play the video in this article. What's that? There's a video of Macron. Yeah, it's just all in French, so we have no idea. Oh, wee, we baguette. That was right. You want to get the comments?

We've got DG8. Thank you very much, DG8. Really do appreciate it. It says, David, we are in dangerous grounds. The merger of government and religion is very dangerous. The new T.P. USA tour is loaded with Hindus, Mormons, Jews, and Catholics. TPSA was a Christian organization. Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting.

Yeah, I read that observation from a guy who was in the UK, and he says, in the UK, they won't even talk about God. They won't mention Christ, except as a swear word, right? and he was so excited to hear politicians saying that and I guess that's my problem with it is because I know these politicians he doesn't because he's in the UK so he doesn't know what these guys are about when you see people like Rubio and others and the things that they have said the things that they have done to me yes God can use anybody you know as one pastor said you know God spoke to bail him through his ass his donkey and he says and he's used many and as since then.

And so God can use that when somebody says something. And maybe there's somebody who's really not political. Hasn't been paying attention to who these guys are. And so that hypocrisy of them and their personal life doesn't get in the way of the message. I look at it, and to me, it's like some guy that's been caught red-handed in a warhouse, the pastor. And then he shows up on Sunday morning and he's going to preach. It's just you can't get past that hypocrisy.

see. And that's the way it is with these politicians. You know, so I look at it. That's why I said, I guess I'm just too critical, but I thought more about it. That's why I'm critical about this. I can't get past this hypocrisy. I know what these guys have done. You know, it's like, you know, when I look at these Christian news sites, it's mostly, well, this celebrity said nice things about Jesus. And so we're going to platform him for this. And, you know, you should, you should investigate this because this celebrity likes Jesus. And then, next to that is or more articles about how some high profile pastor has been caught in some sexual abuse thing or something it's just those two things all the time and there's just this

cognitive dissonance when that happens in many times and some denominations uh like uh what was a guy that just uh uh uh i have sinned a guy that became a sound bite what was his name uh oh i can't remember anyway you know you got somebody like that and some of these denominations, they get caught multiple times at whorehouses, and they just come back, and the people just keep following them. And that's what I see happening with politics and religion in the GOP. I can't go there. It just bothers me.

That hypocrisy, that rank hypocrisy, just gets in the way of the message so much. I can't hear the message anymore. And I know there's a lot of people out there that like that about this. Sorry, Travis, go ahead. Mega Nick 117, thank you very much. You need to scroll that down. He says, Islam is an anti-Christ religion. Well, every other religion is an anti-Christ religion.

Yeah. Think about it. Yeah. I've told the story before we went to, we were in Vegas, and we went to hear Penn and Teller and Penn Gillette said, I don't use the F word. He says, everybody uses the F word. for every type of speech. They use it as a noun, as an adjective,

as an adverb, and all this other stuff. And he says, I try not to do that because I try to have a good vocabulary. He said, I think that's a crutch. People use that and they don't have a vocabulary to express themselves. He goes, but I deliberately work to blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ.

And that's exactly the way these people are. You know, it's just, it's deliberate. And it's across the board. I had, we had friends, his wife had grown up in Japan. And she said, it's funny because all the people there are, let's see, what is it? Shintoism, shintoism, yes, I believe. But she said, you know, they're not Christian, very, very tiny Christian population that's there. But she said, everybody there is swearing, using the name of Jesus.

But there's other ways we can take Jesus' name in pain. And that's some of what we saw. some of these politicians taking his name in vain we've got big brit is back again some idiots were saying stopping the escalator might have killed trump oh we can only hope do they mean you know having to walk is this is a guy who's been escalating every conflict he can think of across the across the world so it is fitting that they would try to stop the escalator that's He is the escalator. I am the escalator.

Do they realize that escalators are dangerous when they're moving? It stopped escalator is no threat. It's just a stairs. When it's moving, you know, when it's moving that you could theoretically be injured by it. Oh, no, it's stairs. Back in the 60s, my dad had an out-town client who came in. And he had never been to a big city, so to speak, as Tampa. Tampa is not a big city in 1960s.

And he took him someplace they went and they had an escalator. And the guy was absolutely flummoxed and scared to death about how to get on this thing. When he got on it, he squatted down hanging on the two sides, you know, he got down really lower. And everybody was looking. Anyway, you had to be there, I guess. What's going on? The floor, it moves. Denver Adaway, Trump's own White House was controlled.

controlling a teleprompter, just as is the case with the other heads of state that speak at the General Assembly. Yeah. B. L. Houghton, war is just peace through strength, L.O.L. Bulldog. Peace through UN climate lockdowns. Yeah. Francieing climate change, we used to call that seasons. Not anymore. You can only have this rhetoric back and forth. Man, I remember when the seasons were stable and it's gotten so much.

warmer. It hasn't. Well, I've used that as an example, just try to break through the group think of people. I said, you know, think about the profound effect that the sun has on our climate, right? We have just a little bit of a, the seasons are caused because of a little bit of, because we have the tilt and then that little bit of change and distance from the sun causes us to have these major seasonal changes. So that is the driving force behind there. That's still, we still have seasons, even if they think that there's some kind of global warming greenhouse effect going on. We still have seasons. That means the predominant influence on our climate is obviously the sun. You can't get these people to even think that is correct.

When I said that, people attack me for saying that. I mean, it's just, that's how far gone this country is. It's useless. It's hopeless. It really is. DG8. Thank you again. David, as long as Trump is in power, government tyranny will reign. No discernment. Question nothing. Trust this government. People will blindly defend their choice of the lesser of two evils. That's right. Yeah. If they admit he's evil, it means they are complicit in it because they voted for it. Yeah. Epstein Island says peace through telling NATO to shoot down Russian jets. Yeah, it's not amazing. KW. 68, Trump shows at Charlie Kirk's Memorial, while scripture being read and takes applause, talks about hating enemies. What an evil, ego-ridden

enemy he is. Yes. Of course, you notice that they couldn't find any quote or he said about Christ. He couldn't even open the Bible and get his staff to find something that he could repeat like the Hindu dead, but not even Trump would find a single thing in the Bible that he would repeat. Yeah, Big Brit is back again. I have to agree with him on that the UN is a danger funding illegals in the climate hoax. Yeah, but he's not going to get out of the UN. He will point to the problems that we all know. He knows what the problems are, and he'll identify the problems that we see. But he'll do exactly the opposite, or he'll do nothing, right?

Or he'll do something like, you know, when we understand what's going on with the autism stuff, and everybody knows what's going on with this. He will come up with a misdirection and tell you that it's Tylenol. That's such a ridiculous statement after all this. Maybe it's the Tylenol. of course how could we have been so blind maybe it's a fluoride in the water oh no way they were doing that in the 60s no we're fighting to keep that in yeah that's right he's fine to keep the fluoride in the water that's the trump administration for you k wd 68 trump will say and do little things that need done in

maggot cheers they ignore the rest of what he does that is 2030 work over 200 executive orders and three quarters are technocracy tyranny that's right bulldog ai is chastising me for using the term climate lockdown as being a conspiracy. Ah, yes. The lockdowns were a conspiracy. My first, when I first got chat, GBT, I, as I interacted with a few things about climate and about COVID. And, of course, it's going to tow the party line. And so I said, oh, this thing is useless. And it's rigged because there's no logic behind any of these McGuffins. DG8, thank you again. I try to warn people about APAC. They will defend it to their last breath. I ask them, why would

Trump take $250 million from them when they fund Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, Waters, and Hakeem Jeffreys. Yeah. Yeah, Israel is the closest thing we had to bipartisan politics here in this country. Yeah, unfortunately. Apparently, all it takes to build the coalition of the willing is a massive war chest. It's one bird, and there's two wings to it. That's what's going on in this country. D.J. It says, David noticed Trump advanced kept pointing out Charlie Kirk's God.

Do they worship a different god? I didn't notice I didn't. I couldn't bring myself to actually watch it or even any clips of it. Like I said before, the hypocrisy makes me want to puke. Star Barkley says, War is Peace. And Three Little Bird says they murdered Kirk so the indoctrination of our college kids can continue unfettered.

Yeah, they won't talk about, you know, Kirk talked about how the colleges were the problem. He was going to go there and talk to them. Nobody wants to talk about getting rid of the colleges. Nobody wants to talk about, you know, if they want to have colleges, fine. Let the students pay for it. Let it be with tuition.

You know, one of the reasons why tuition is so expensive is because it was so heavily subsidized by the government. Whenever you subsidize something, it gets more expensive. Why do you think they subsidize it so heavily? Why do you think that they won't do anything about it? They love to have these problems that are being generated by these institutions. It gives them an excuse, gives them, gets everybody riled up. up so that they think that if they vote for their candidate, he's going to fix this stuff.

Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about Trump's AI bioweapon that he wants to do out there. He loves bioweapons. He loves MRNA. He loves AI, and he just keeps coming back to these themes over and over again. We'll be right back. You know, I'm going to do.

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I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well, I just had an interesting insight here when we took a break.

Tell the people what you just told me. Just about the Trump on the escalator story. I thought it was amusing. The first ever escalator was an amusement park ride that just went up a few stairs to a little platform. Then you walked down regular stairs on the other end. How about that? Sounds like a lot of fun, right? It was hugely popular, apparently.

my goodness the stairs they move actually it was a much better time people can have that kind of wonder over simple things like that now we've not just become jaded we have become oppressed by the technology and we're going to talk about robotics coming up what would those people think about the robots

I think that pull out their shotgun and grannie would shoot them yeah you talk about the appropriate response the famous line sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic But, you know, if you were to go back 200 years, I think they would already find what we've got currently to be pretty indistinguishable from magic. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And, of course, I guess the real magic is that people living today would go back and say, how were they able to make these things for themselves?

How were they able to be self-sufficient and survive on their own? Because that's what they were doing 200 years ago. They were surviving on their own. they didn't have corporations and government to feed them. And now we've become helpless little dependence on them. Yeah, the thing is, if you were to take someone from 200 years ago and transpose them into the modern world, they could adapt to it. If you'd take someone from now and put them 200 years into the past, they'd probably die. They would almost definitely just keel over.

Well, we may have that experiment reenacted because of what Trump is doing at the UN yesterday. He called out the UN for not doing enough for peace. Praise his own peacemaking, as he's saying, he wants to go to war with the Russians. For 80 years, the U.S. has participated in the U.N., the dominant form of rules-based international order that was meant to prevent wars. It hasn't worked out too well, has it? Neither the rules nor the prevention. Trump proposed his own method of diplomacy largely through trade pressure. That hasn't brought peace.

We need to understand that sanctions and attacking people. terms of trade is a prelude to war that has always led to war in the past. And it is very much like a siege put around a city state. You know, we used to not have nation states until the fourth turning of the Industrial Revolution. Remember, as I said before, Italy had a civil war at exactly the same time we did, 1861 to 65. It was not over slavery. It was over the fourth turning of the Industrial Revolution and the creation of a nation state. Prior to that, power was distributed and you had different centers. And so it was very easy to put a siege around a town that had a castle and try to starve the people out. And that is what sanctions are on a larger scale.

And it is a form of war. The president said the high tariffs that he enacted forced other countries to renegotiate trade agreements with the United States. He called the practice a defense mechanism and said it can be a model for more effective diplomacy around the world. It is a defense model in the same way that we had the Defense Department, which he now has appropriately renamed the Department of War. It is a war mechanism. That's what sanctions are. Much of Trump's speech touted his actions and his policies, independent of the UN.

And just remember, back in the first term of Trump, he threw out some red, meat to his base saying, I think we'll get out of the U.N. Because conservatives and, you know, mainstream America doesn't like the U.N. Never wanted to be in the U.N. But of course, that red meat was nothing but an illusionary nothing burger, as it typically is. You couldn't even make a Trump taco out of it. So his administration is launching an international effort to stop countries from conducting bioweapon research, which he characterized as a growing danger after the COVID-19 pandemic. No, it was his jab.

He's the father of the bio-weapon, is what we should call him. Also, to pioneer AI's verification system as part of the effort. This is all about creating an overlord AI system. And to the extent that he combines it, remember, the very first thing he did was to have an event with Larry Ellison

and to say that they wanted to have AI design, custom, genetic, you know, accustomed to your genes, MRNA. His injection has always been an genetic injection, and they admit as much. And now they're telling us, oh, yes, you know, MRNA can modify DNA. And, of course, there's a lot of garbage and DNA in the injections to boot. But it was pretty obvious from the very beginning. I said, if you just think about this, if the MRNA, they tell us,

it doesn't change the DNA, it copies the DNA. Well, what if it doesn't copy it exactly right? Well, then it's going to change it, isn't it? It was very simple to understand that that could happen even accidentally, but that it could also happen deliberately was shown in the summer of 2020 as they were rushing through all this stuff before it was deployed by Trump and was still in the development stage. I reported that Thomas Jefferson University did some experiments with MRI,

and they said, look, we can use it to change your DNA. So I said, that's it, folks. Nobody wanted to report that. That cover story was spiked right away. Nobody wanted to talk about that, but that is the reality. And when you look at Susan Monterez, who was put in at the CDC, and I don't know if she was taken out because of this, if the good guys won, I don't know if there's any good guys in there, or if it was just a personality conflict between her and RFK Jr. but I know that whoever got her put in that position in the Trump administration put her in there because she was part of Barta, the biological equivalent of DARPA, also ARPA H.

And so both of those things are horrific in terms of the way they're weaponizing technology against us in a way that is medical. And her focus was on the same thing that Trump's focus on. on his first day was, and that is a combination of AI and MRNA. So it raises a lot of red flags with me to see Trump talking about AI and bio-weapons yet again because the MRIMRNA is the bioweapon. It wasn't something that came out of a lab. The COVID pandemic was not something that was weaponized as gain of function.

But you notice that even though they want to promote that narrative to cover up what they did with the vaccine deliberately, they will not stop the gain of function. And he's not even saying we need to have a treaty that is going to stop this. He says, oh, we'll police it with AI. This will be an excuse, a use case for AI, to make sure they can put AI everywhere. He's doing this for his technocracy buddies who are controlling. He does things for Israel, and he does things for the technocracy. And both Israel and the technocracy are doing everything they can, contrary to our interest.

but they completely own him. So his administration is launching an international effort to stop countries from conducting bio-weapon research. Of course, he won't lead the way and stop it here. Also, to pioneer an AI verification system as part of the effort. We'll wait and see just how this is going to be imposed on people. In February, America sided with Russia and China on a resolution that called for an end to the Russian-Ukraine war,

except now he has flipped on that as well. Trump pulls a jaw-dropping 180, ruthlessly mocking Russia as a paper tiger. Trump made a shocking announcement about his administration's new approach to Ukraine. Just like that, he changes, right? Turns on a dime. Why? Because he is rudderless.

He has no principles. He has nothing to steer him whatsoever. So he's just a ship blown about by every change in whim. Trump declared that he is now willing to back the Ukraine until it recovers all the territory taken by the Russians. So he thinks that they can get everything back from the Russians. They can win the war, quote, unquote, what does that mean to win a war like that? I think you win a war like that by stopping it. That's the most successful thing that you can do.

He says, quote, after getting to know and fully understanding the Ukraine, Russian, military and economic situation. Oh, so does he admit that he was just batting his mouth off without any understanding of the situation when he said he was going to end it in 24 hours? And after seeing the economic trouble that is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form. With time, patience and the financial support of Europe, and in particular NATO, of the American taxpayers who will be made bigger debt slaves for this war to kill people. Also, who will be left to occupy

this territory at that point? Yeah, there won't be any Ukrainians left. It's crazy. The original borders from where this war started is very much an option. And why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a war that should have taken a real military power less than a week to win taunts Trump. This is not distinguishing Russia.

Well, what about our war in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places? Since World War II, we have fought one asymmetric war after the other. And the best that we've been able to manage is a stalemate in Korea. In fact, it's very much making them look like a paper tiger, he said. When the people living in Moscow and all the great cities, towns, districts all throughout Russia, find out what is really going on with this war, the fact that it's almost impossible for them to get gasoline through the long lines that are being formed and all the other things are taking place in their war economy, where most of their money is being spent

on fighting Ukraine, which has great spirit and is only getting better, Ukraine would be able to take back their country as original form. Who knows? Maybe even go further than that, which we know has always been the goal of NATO to overthrow Russia. NATO has been the aggressor in this folks. for decades. So going back to the 90s. Putin and Russia are in big economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act. I wish both countries well. We will continue to supply weapons for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all. Yeah. And go knock yourself out. Let's have a war. It was just in February. Here we are now in September, that he and Vance blew up at Zelensky in the Oval Office.

But now he's become full Lindsey Graham on this thing. And it's absolutely insane. From the very beginning, everybody said there is absolutely no way that Ukraine can win this war with Russia unless America enters it along with that. And you don't even have to have Europe, but we're going to have a war between us and Russia. That's what Trump wants. Good luck to all is such an utterly insane thing to say about...

A non-sequitur, yeah. a war. It's not a baseball game. You know, this isn't, oh, I just hope both sides have a good time. Oh, it is for him. It is for him. He thinks that he won't be touched by this. And he probably won. He's got his little bunkers no matter what happens. He's got his bunkers to hide

in. But it'll be our war. Rich man's war, poor man's fight. As I said before, and I said it again on Twitter in response to him saying this stuff. War is when they tell you who to fight. Revolution is when you figure out who the real enemy is. And

major shift. Trump says he now thinks Ukraine can win back all the territory taken by Russia. What an incredibly stupid and dangerous man he is. He despises this country. He puts this country last. Our interests are behind all of these corporate interests and donors and bribers who are showering him with cash, whether it's a foreign country or whether it's an industry group or a particular person. They all come first. Our concerns are none of his concern. It's a big shift. This post of Trump, that I just read to you, is a big shift. And Zelensky says that it is very positive, he thinks. Slinsky added that he believes that Trump understands for today that we can't just swap territories. It's not fair, he says. Yeah, it's

not fair. I need to have my territory. I want my NATO membership, and I don't care how many Ukrainians I have to kill to get it, says the leader of Ukraine. And the same thing is in every country. Putin doesn't care about Russians. Trump doesn't care about Americans. Zelensky doesn't care about Ukrainians. Fred Mertz doesn't care about the Germans. Macron doesn't care about the French. And Herr Starrmer doesn't care about the Brits. They all hate us. They're all looking for ways to kill us. That's the reality of this. The goal of Trump's social media posts and subsequent comments to reporters about it was to exert maximum public pressure on Russia to get them to the table for a deal.

Oh, yeah. He has been so effective at negotiation, hasn't he, with this abrasive bullying tone that he takes with everybody. So he's going to mock Russia and say, yeah, real country would have won this war by now. We'll see how long this thing drags on once Trump gets involved in it.

Trump is not able in four years to conclude successfully the war in Afghanistan. He made no attempt to leave. the thing came crashing down in a kind of Saigon evacuation under Biden, which, again, is Biden's fault. But Trump didn't do anything to end that war that he promised to do for four years. And he's not going to do anything to end Ukraine. The military industrial complex that he so beholden to doesn't want it to end. Macron applauded Trump's statement.

I think he is very, very right on this one. Yeah, right. Because they all want war. All the Europeans want war. If we back completely Ukraine in this situation, given the Russian economy is suffering, there's an opportunity of a good future, Macron told Trump, right. Trump then added, I really do feel that way. Let's get them their land back.

If you're going to do that and you're going to take some of the Russian land, it is absolutely insane. Lindsey Graham, who last month said that Russia and Ukraine would have to swap some territory to end the war, is now elated. Now, instead of having to make concessions to end the war, the guy who has been saying, we're going to go into Russia, we're going to get Putin. Remember that? I've played that clip many times. He and John McCain went to Ukraine several years ago, well before Russia invaded, and said to the Ukrainians,

all right, right now you're fighting your fellow Ukrainians. We're going to go into Russia and we're going to get Putin. That's what you guys are going to do. And they pan the camera around and the people are like deadpan. It's like, seriously? And that's what they're doing. But now Graham is excited. I mean, he'd come around even to this, saying they're going to have to give up some stuff.

So I wonder, what is the end this for Trump? I mean, somebody must have either threatened him or paid him off big money to get him to flip like he did. Trump also conveyed to the press, though there doesn't appear to be an end in sight for the conflict. Looks like it's not going to end for a long time because that's what we want. We want endless wars. That's what we've always had. This is the guy who keeps bragging about how he deserves a peace prize. I'd like to give him a peace.

Trump has repeatedly said that exchanging territory between Ukraine and Russia would be a key element of any solution to end the war. So, again, paper tiger, and we're going to get all their land back, plus some from Russia. And Trump stunned people when he was asked if NATO should shoot down. Russian planes. Zelensky was asked by MMSNBC anchor Katie Turer. I do want to play something he just said to reporters as he was meeting. I'm sorry, it wasn't asked to Zelensky. This was MSNBC playing this.

Somebody asked him, do you think that the NATO countries would shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace? Yes, I do, said Trump. That was quick, helping to understand the president's position right now on Russia. she said. And Von Hilliard was also there. He said, it's like of a statement coming from this president of the U.S. in this situation where Article 5 were to be invoked by NATO allies. There's a question of whether the U.S. under this Trump administration would be committed to defending countries

that could face incursions from Russia. And what we have seen over the course of the last two weeks are that Romania, Poland, and Estonia, all reporting jets, drones, and Russian aircraft entering their airspace, Hilliard said. Well, again, this is the narrative that Poland has been pushing very hard. And as we pointed out, these were drones that we've had this situation before where Ukraine uses electronic jamming on these drones. These drones are not armed. They were decoy drones for the ones that were armed and did have electronic countermeasures.

So these are the low echelon drones that are just out there as decoys. They got jammed. They went over the border, ran until they fell. The only damage that they could find was a house, they said, was hit by a drone, except that the Polish military and Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, knew before they put out the story that it was actually their own missile, a dud that was fired from an F-15 that hit that house. It was not a drone.

And they knew that before they put out the report saying, that it was a drone. What they were trying to do was to get the president, who was part of the opposition party, and the president of Poland was not on board with a war with Russia, like Donald Tusk, who was an EU globalist. So they were trying to gaslight him

and the entire world by thinking that there had been trying to make the case that had been an attack. It was nothing of the sort. It was all a false flag narrative. It was all lies, and these people continued to try to drag, drag us into World War III. That's what this is about.

And now Trump is fully on board as well. Because like Donald Tusk, Donald Trump is also a globalist. People just haven't figured that out in the United States yet. Nothing could be clear to me than that this guy is playing for that team. He's not America first. He's America last. Israel first, the globalist agenda next, and America last. That's where Trump is.

For the fourth time this year, he's allowed a deadline to come and go after welcoming Putin onto U.S. soil. The president was just asked, at what point will he stop trusting Putin? And he said he'd give him about another month. Well, I think that that time frame has already left, I think. Ukraine, says Rubio, has to agree to a peace deal. He's saying this as Trump is trying to escalate everything. So, again, are they playing good cop, bad cop? I think this is a very stupid and dangerous game.

Rubio said, it's not up to us to win the war. He said, when asked why the conflict continues, despite Trump's repeated promises to end it on day one of his new administration. Yeah, those are just things that he said to get people to vote for him. He never had any ability to do that. We always knew that. He never had any intention even of trying to do that. We always knew that as well.

It's just things that he tells us base. And they believe him, and then they defend him when it doesn't happen. The Russians have to stop the war, said Rubio, and the Ukrainians have to agree to a peace deal. The Secretary of States of the U.S. would retain the role of a broker and the conflict for as long as possible. We are not an honest, neutral third party when we are arming one side of the conflict and threatening the other side. the only way that the U.S. is going to be broker is with a amount of money that Trump is giving these people. That makes us all broker than we were before.

There's also the fact that Zelensky is never ever going to agree to a peace deal. The corruption he's engaged in and he's been able to get away with is solely because of the fog of war. That's right. That's why he wants to keep this war going. Yeah, because there's thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians dying. No one has the time to really sit there and prosecute him for what's going on. The second that ends, the second there's a ceasefire and people look at what he's done. I think the most interesting character in Ukraine is this guy, Alexei Arrestovich,

because he's kind of like Dave Chappelle says Trump was. He says he'll come out and he'll tell you these guys are a bunch of criminals. And he'll go right back in and join them. And that's the way that Arrestovich was in the Zelensky administration. Remember, they got elected in 2019. It had already been five years of civil war. where they were bombing these people in, let's see, is it Eastern Ukraine or Western Ukraine? It's Eastern Ukraine, yeah.

And so they've been bombing the people who wanted to remain with Russia. And so he put together, Zelensky put together a team for peace talks because he had run on that platform just like Trump did. But he had no intention of doing it. And so Arrestovich was the guy who was the lead negotiator in that. that. And when he comes back and he talks to Ukrainian TV, they said, what are the chances of peace? He goes, none. And she said, oh, that's horrible. He goes, no, it gets worse in three years. And it was 2019 when he said it. And it was 2022 when Russia did it. He said, we're going to be

at full war with Russia. And he said, oh, that's really horrible. He goes, the country will be devastated, destroyed. But he said, the good news is we're going to get into NATO. And the reporter really was not too impressed with that. He got kicked out of the Zelensky administration when during the war you had a Russian cruise missile that hit a residential high rise that was there and heard a lot of people. And Zelensky wanted to make that, he wanted to blame Russia for that saying they deliberately targeted it rather than it's something that happened in the fog of war. Restovich came out and said, actually what happened was we shot that cruise missile it went off course and hit the apartment building.

And then he was fired. Now he is running against Zelensky for president. And if he doesn't get killed, he'll have some interesting things to say, yeah. He's already said some interesting things. He said that he told everybody. He said, Ukraine is going to be destroyed. He said it again.

If we continue down this path, he said the only way forward for Ukraine to continue to exist as individuals and even as a country is forced to have a negotiated, settlement, and then to put ourselves in a position of like intermediary of trade between Europe and Russia. He said, that's a role that we could fulfill that would work for us, but he goes, there is no other role that we can have. So he's still telling people the truth, but people don't want to hear the truth.

They don't want to hear the truth in Ukraine. They don't want to hear the truth in the U.S. either. So the German army is revealing what their expected losses will be from a conflict with Russia. The German army apparently disagrees with Trump that the Russian army is a paper tiger. They said to expect to suffer 1,000 wounded soldiers a day in the event of a conflict with Russia. Realistically, said the surgeon general, Ralph Hoffman, told Reuters on Monday, he said, realistically, we're talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day when asked about the potential casualty rate.

But, of course, this is a price that they're willing for other people to put. pay, isn't it? You know, the Germans don't care, the German government doesn't care about Germans. The Ukrainian government doesn't care about Ukrainians. The Russian government doesn't care about Russians. The American government doesn't care about Americans. This is where we see it everywhere. So yeah, okay, 1,000 people wounded today. How many killed? Earlier this year, Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, warned that Germany is becoming dangerous again. Yes. Mertz, Fred Mertz, had earlier vowed to make the Bundeswehr the strongest conventional army in Europe. He also labored Putin as perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time.

Well, that's the title that Trump is in competition for. I mean, he's out there blowing up ships left and right. As a matter of fact, I didn't play this, but I'll play it for you. This is the latest murder on the high sea from Donald Trump. You know, what do you say about somebody who destroys boats and kills everybody on board without warning, without legal justification? They are war criminals. By the way, I've talked about what Duterte did as president of the Philippines.

Do you know that he's now, I just saw yesterday, he is under arrest at the International Criminal Court. for the extrajudicial killings that he did as part of his war on drugs. And it is no different in principle than what Trump is doing with this. He kills about 12,000 people, but they're not even coming after him for that. They've got him at the International Criminal Court. He's turned 80, and he's under arrest. He left as president in 2022, I believe, and then they arrested him. And same thing could, same fate could.

be there for Donald Trump. I think that I just skipped the impeachment this time and have some international people arrest him after he leaves office. That'd be a better solution. Something's going to happen somewhere. U.S. officials say that regime change in Venezuela is the real goal of military action in the Caribbean.

We don't know what their real goal is because they just won't discuss this. They're going to do whatever they wish, whatever they decide in secret. They will not involve the American people. they won't even involve Congress in this. U.S. officials have told the New York Times that the real goal of the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and the bombing of the boats in the region is regime change in Venezuela.

Well, it might be the oil, right? But what we know is it's not fentanyl. That's yet another Trump lie. The policy is largely driven by Marco Rubio. Back in 2019, the first Trump administration attempted to back a coup against. against Maduro, Rubio posted a photo on Twitter of former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the moment he was being brutally murdered in an apparent threat to the Venezuelan leader. The Trump administration claims that Maduro is a leader of a drug cartel,

but has not produced any evidence for the charge. As a matter of fact, there have been analysts within the Trump administration that says that that's not the case. Trump has also framed the military campaign in the region as a response to overdoze, overdose deaths in the U.S. due to fentanyl. But fentanyl is not produced in Venezuela, and it does not go through the country on its way to the U.S. Well, that didn't stop him from charging, making the same charge against Canada. He will tell any lie that he feels as necessary in order to declare an emergency in in I

Klinga dictator. We got fentanyl to the north and fentanyl to the south. Looks like we're fenced in. Yeah, we're fentanyl's fence. So the real goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power. I think the real goal is to take the oil. Driving him from power is a means to that end. And all the talk about the war on drugs is just a head fake and a perverication to try to act as a justification here.

U.S. officials have said the Trump administration is considering direct strikes on Venezuelan territory. Of course, that's why they're there with the big. Armada, which could lead to a full-blown war with the country. But, of course, it could also lead to a full-blown war with Russia and China, which Trump doesn't care about. Maybe that's why he turned 180, because he knows he's going to be at war with Russia and China anyway. So is he any different from Putin?

I mean, if Trump is going to invade Venezuela to take their oil, does he have more or less justification than Putin did to go into Ukraine? I think Putin had, I'm not saying he was justified in doing it, but I think you could make a better case that what he did was more justified than what Trump is doing. After all, Ukraine would not allow the Russian-speaking, Russian-culturally linked areas to have their own self-governance and to remain with Russia. That was a core part of that. and Ukraine had been part in the Crimea, especially, had been a part of Russia for 400 years. Venezuela was never a part of America, and you can't make any humanitarian case whatsoever that we should invade Venezuela to stop something that is going on there.

It is nothing other than political geopolitics and oil, which is why they're going into that area. We've got a lot of comments. Big Brit is back again. They were saying if he was on a moving escalator, a sudden stop could have made him fall backwards. Theotic, I know that. Well, if you look at that picture, he was about to get on the escalator when it stopped.

Maybe he was on the first step. But he wasn't in the middle of the escalator anyway. They're at the bottom of it. Truly, a terrifying prospect to consider. What if the escalator all of a sudden stops at its blistering pace might be thrown around? Syrian girl, yeah, Trump, so get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.,

then I'll believe your critical insights on the organization. Yeah, he could just say, you know what, get out. Well, he goes to the World Economic Forum in Davos, and he lectures them about how wonderful he is, and how nationalism is the way forward. And then within a week of coming back, his big pharma hHS secretary

declares the pandemic and in a couple of months he locks everything down exactly what the World Economic Forum and the UN wanted and exactly what the American government practiced for two decades. Don't believe a thing this con man says. KWD 68, the road to 2030

is paved. We may change lanes but both parties are heading to the end. Uniparty Road. That's right. Hadrian was right. Putin doesn't want to stop the war either. That's right. They've got their agendas. Yeah.

Outty M. Well, you know, we're here at the end of the fourth turning, and at the fourth turning, they need a war because all of their institutions are obvious failures, and the people are getting very upset with them. This is how you control the people, how you get them to fall behind you. This is what we saw Netanyahu do in Israel, tremendous political upheaval. He was incredibly unpopular. He had corruption charges coming against them.

He had, they'd had to have one election. after the other because it could even though that you know his party kept coming out on top they couldn't put together a coalition and they didn't have enough votes to form a government so they did like like like three times in a row and so to pull everybody together you have the war the false flag attack go ahead we have outy m r r trump is all in with a ukraine nonsense just as much as his predecessor that's right that's right kwd 68 magibal chief year as they're marched into Trump's freedom cities. Well, it's got freedom in the name. It's got to be good.

Yeah. And you just scroll up. Yeah. Outy MRR, Trump, the peace president. Wars are not meant to be won. They're meant to be continuous. That's right. Modern retro radio is where you find outy. That's great. Epstein Island, Trump is doing exactly what Biden was doing with both Israel and Ukraine. It's the same as it ever was. It continues unabated.

That's right. Radis Bro, they never wanted to win or even tried to win. to murder Americans and enrich the government. I'm of the opinion that there hasn't been a single war that America could not win that we have engaged in. It's simply that we

have just been there to advance our agendas and they like seeing American citizens die. So they're not interested in winning it. That was certainly the case with Vietnam. I tell you. It's just amazing. With the technology they have, they could basically reduce all of these countries to ashes. They could basically exterminate

the population, in my opinion, which not that you should, but you know. Well, if you look at Vietnam, they won every battle, but then they would abandon the area that they just fought over. That was a deliberate strategy by Robert McNamara, one of the premier

globalist of his time. Epstein Island, Trump is doing exactly what, but, no, Radisbrove, no, Schmidt Wave. Zelensky wants every white Ukrainian man dead. Ukrainian men know this. Yeah.

It's Cloward and Piven's strategy on steroids. It's not just replacing them by drowning them out with a huge number of immigrants. They're also actively killing them off. And that's what they want to do throughout Western civilization. That's one of the reasons why they want, another reason why they want to have war. They have, you can just tick all these different boxes as to why they want a global war. And now it's amazing to see this, how they'll hold out that false hope to Maga. Yeah. Maga is Charlie Brown, not Charlie Kirk.

And Trump and the rest of these people are Lucy holding the football. Go ahead. Be my Valentine. Many people do not know they have Lyme disease with various symptoms. This bacterial spirocheat can hide in the body fooling the immune system. Of course, Lyme disease being another wonderful gift from our military industrial complex. Yeah. I don't know if I missed the comment.

That was in response to a comment from, I believe, Assyrian girl. talking about how it was gain of function. Yeah. Yeah. Citizen of America. Well, they've got, they want to give people a meat allergy as well. Yeah. Now, you don't get to eat red meat, despite the fact that it's, you know,

basically the best food for you when it comes to nutrient profile. Citizen of Americaca, when the entire world is preparing for war and the citizenry just wants peace and a decent standard of living and doesn't care about the foreign entanglements. They just want the potholes filled. They just want the pot holes filled. And apparently Bulldog says there's a sniper attack at an ice facility, a shooting in Dallas, Texas. Well, that's not going to be good. That's going to lead to more extreme measures.

Yeah. And he says, officials confirm the suspected shooter was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. Hmm. Yeah, same pattern we see over and over again, isn't it? Well, when we come back, we're going to talk about the AI bioweapon. And before we go, I want to thank some of the people who have supported us on Zell. We're still pretty low this month. Susan L., thank you so much.

And she, and this since about the second week of September, she has supported us three different times substantially. We do appreciate that. Julie W., Adam D., Gregory I, Michael P., Benjamin R., thank you very much. Robert B. Charles D. Robert A. Gretchen C. Thank you all so much for your support. We really do appreciate it. We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back. And be happy. Ain't got no cash, ain't got no car, but 24 booster shots in your arm, oh nothing.

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It was only going to be that. But I think there's going to be a combination with this. Because we've seen this, as I mentioned before, from the Trump administration from day one, Larry Ellison and other saying that they were going to combine MRNA with AI to do genetic treatments, right? Sorry to break in real fast, but Audi MRR has just made a very, very generous donation. We cannot thank you enough, out. Yes, thank you.

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of the show. Of course, she also has modern retro radio, but yeah, that new program on Rumble. Everything is a lie. Yeah, that's good. That's also true, I think. Well, again, the people that he has put in there and the programs that he has supported, if you read between the lines, you understand that this is not about trying to, stop bioweapons and bioweapon deployment and control. It's about making them. Stargate was about

making another bioweapon, just like his Operation Warp Speed, so-called vaccine. So I find this to be very concerning. Trump announced the effort under which AI will pioneer, he says, to prevent potential disasters. I'm announcing today that my administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention. Well, why don't you lead by getting out of it yourself? This is just like the UN itself. He wants to talk about how bad the UN is, but he won't get out of it. He wants to talk about how dangerous biological weapons are,

but he won't stop it. He needs a mission for AI. And, of course, this mission is at the very least. It's going to be surveillance, and it's going to be total information awareness. He said, we're going to pioneer an AI verification system, that everyone can trust, he says. It's going to be a system that no one can trust.

It seeks to know everything about everyone. That's where they're going. I have what everyone says, how AI is a solution looking for a problem, but the government is more than happy to provide however many problems it needs. The government has an excess of problems. Yeah, they can provide the problems

as all as the funding that's always there. He's enumerated several things that he's done since we've taken the White House in January, including yet again, here he is the big lie, ending seven wars. That evidently is this week his favorite lie, other than the one that I never tell lies. The lie that he ended seven wars, this is number one. So AI is ready for this, you think? We have a new term that's been coined by researchers. They call it AI-generated work-slop.

Work-slop. They said it is killing teamwork because it's getting people angry with their fellow workers who are using AI. It's creating a bunch of problems that they then have to go back in and clean up. And it is causing a multi-million dollar productivity problem. So it looks like you had to give it the key mission of making the world safe from bio-weapons. You know, you can't talk about that. with a straight face, if you're not going to do anything to clean up and to reform after what was done in 2020 with Trump and many of these other same leaders that are out there. You're going to give AI the keys to the bioweapons and it's going to say, oops, I've accidentally released them all.

I did that even though you told me not to do that. You're right. I'm sorry. Yeah, that dialogue from that AI that deleted that company's entire database. I know you told me how to do that, but I did it anyway. This will be catastrophic for you, won't it? It's like, yeah, we'll be. doodle.

Yeah. Also, it just reminds me of, once a company reaches any sort of size, you reach a point where, you know, there's just some filler employees. They don't actually do very much at all. They're just kind of there. AI allows them to churn out this nonsense to make it look like they're busy, which then results instead of them being negligible, their hindrance. Because as it's saying, the real workers, the people that are actually getting stuff done

have to go in and redo their work. That's right. It's extra work for the real workers. coming from the non-workers and the AI work slop that's coming in. It's just, as I said, a company of any size eventually reach a point where you just need bodies and places. And, you know, if a guy will just sit there and do the minimum, you know, it is what it is. You just need somebody to sit there and do something. And now he can sit there and do something and have chat GPT, export, you know, 100 pages.

I can make it look like I'm doing something, yeah. Look, here's a thousand pages you now have to sift through and see if any of it is valuable. That's right. Well, the term workslop was coined by Harvard Business Review, and they were looking at a study that was done by Stanford and a company called Better Up Labs, looking at productivity, and they said AI has been a massive productivity loss. We know it's been a massive loss of capital as they bought into this illusion. surveyed workers report 40% of 1,150 U.S.-based full-time employees received work slop in the past month, with each incident costing nearly two hours and $186 monthly per person. Recipients of work slop say senders seem less creative and reliable,

while a Harvard Business Review experiment found a 9% competence penalty and said freelance workers are being hired to clean up sloppy AI output. So there you go, maybe it's not going to create massive unemployment. Anyway, maybe what it'll do is it'll create so much work slop that you've got to hire more humans to fix it. Your job will be to sift through the most mind-numbingly boring, derivative nonsense you have ever seen. Because, chat, you can tell when an AI is writing something. It all has this very pseudo-intellectual field to it where it's inserting words in places to bloat a sentence, making it larger than it needs to be. You know, it's almost, it's very sort of first-year philosophy student almost in the way it speaks.

Yeah, it's a pseudo-intellectual pedantic, yeah. But, and that's what they're talking about in this. They're talking about company memos, emails and stuff like that are wasting people's time and other things that they're doing. But, of course, when we talked about the code, just last week we were talking about the fact that it was creating some very subtle errors that it was, that were difficult for people to be able to catch. and when it was generating code, it would leave glaring vulnerabilities for hackers to be able to exploit. So all these things, that is even worse than just the work swap that they're talking about here. You're going to see, when we see these issues with our complicated infrastructure, like we saw over the weekend, excuse me, at various airports,

you're going to see this, and is it going to be a case of, sabotage by hackers or by foreign governments, or is it going to be sabotaged by AI coding? It's going to be kind of difficult to tell. Certainly, they'll make it easier for these malicious actors to do what they want to do. So they said, it's all about the plight of workers that have to fix their colleagues' AI-generated work slop. They said work content that masquerades is good work, but lacks a substance to meaningfully advance a task. The injection of AI tools in the workplace is not resulted. and some magic productivity boom.

Instead, it has just created the amount of time, increased the amount of time, that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated work. This study came out the day after the Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meetings, transcripts that were filed by Standard & Poor's 500 companies, that found huge firms are having trouble articulating specific benefits of widespread AI adoption, but they had no trouble explaining the risks and the downsides.

So they are struggling to find a benefit that justifies their massive investment in it. But you ask them, what are the downsides? And they've got a million of those right away. Why are they doing this? Oh, well, because they've been told by these ultimate hucksters like Sam Walton, who go into these dog and pony hearings in Congress and say, you know, this is so important. And it's going to be civilizational ending if the other bad guys get it. And it's going to be the end of your company if you don't get it and the other guys get it first.

So if you've got an AI gap, you better get with it. You better buy our product. This kind of fear mongering that's been done by our government and the technocracy is behind this. And everybody is bought into this. They can't find any justification for it in terms of benefits. They understand what it's happening with it. Well, if you don't get the AI, your competition's going to get the AI. You don't want that, do you?

Yeah. Fear of missing. out. That's it. So the anticipated benefits such as increased productivity were vaguely stated and are harder to categorize than the risks, they said. But they couldn't describe how this technology is changing their business for the better. This is the case, folks, of almost all of the latest technology. It's not changing our lives, our businesses, our communities, our families for the better. It's big change, yes, but not for us. It's making things better for the people who are creating the change and creating the disruption. It's good for them.

It gets them money. It makes us poor. It takes us down the path of where we own nothing. They said, despite $30 to $40 billion in enterprise investment into Gen AI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return, says Harvard business review. Industry level transformation remains limited because people are having to now humans are trying to clean up the mess that the AI has created. So what's going to happen when this suddenly turns? And I think it will turn suddenly. This has been the fear of missing out, the conventional wisdom. You've got to go with AI. And when people realize the reality of this and you're starting to see several of these reports out there and all of a sudden,

it comes to a screeching halt. What happens? The stock market crashes because stock market has been built on this AI bubble from the very beginning. It's not to say they won't find some use for AI in the future. I hope they don't, but it's inevitable that they will. But it's just that the hype got so far out ahead of the reality. It's the same thing that happened with a dot-com bubble. And I said this from the very beginning, didn't I? The anecdotes we have... That was one of your first observations just this reminds me so heavily of the dot com burst yeah and how these people go in there everyone's excited they want whatever technology you've got on offer sure that sounds great you know the future is now yeah yeah that was um i got burned really badly on that so i

once burned twice shy that's right i learned that lesson it was like a toddler who got a third degree burn on their hand with that pot i thought i would be smart and invest in the picks and the axes of that gold rush, but even the picks and the axes went down on that. Anecotes have heard, we've heard from workers and the rise of industries like vibe coding cleanup specialists, all suggest that workers are using AI, but they may not be leading to actual productivity gains for companies. In other words, why do you have to have a coding cleanup specialist? There's also another thing to realize is there is basically only a certain amount of work you can get through in a day.

No matter what you're doing, the company may not have anything else for you to do. Yeah. And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't benefit you to sit there with the AI and generate a hundred, a thousand different pages of nonsense. Well, the other thing is, is that always in the past, when I was in working in engineering software, we'd see that the really good code was typically written by one guy. And he would come up with a killer app, and then what would happen is a big company would buy it.

And then they'd put a team of programmers on it to try to maintain it. And it would start rapidly going downhill from that. It's much, much harder for other people to pick up on the structure and, you know, the nuance or anything that, you know, one person or maybe two people would put together working very closely. That's a big part of all the mythical manmunt thinking that, okay, well, if one person can do this amount of work and this amount of time, then we can get this big engineering product and we can hire a lot more people. And we have this many man months that we put on this. But because of the organization, the interaction, and things like that, it doesn't work out that way. You don't get that kind of productivity gain.

And so AI is always going to have to come up with a term. There's equivalent to the mythical manmunt, maybe the mythical machine month that is going to be there. Yeah, one of the things a lot of people don't realize is technology doesn't really advance by having a giant team of people working on something. Usually, like you said, it's one, you know, very important. smart highly dedicated individual that pushes technology forward in a leap and then you know you have these teams of people that may iterate on what they've created and change it in different ways and add things to it generally making it worse over time but it's generally like you said a

small team one or two people that are very very dedicated and highly highly intelligent borderline genius that take something and you know give you something you've never seen before that the world has never considered it because they wanted it they thought the world could use this. I worked at Data General. They were trying to make the leap into doing a generalized office computer. So they bought this. I think it was, it spent a long time.

I think it was a word processing system. I just remember it was done by one guy. And they bought it. When we got the code and they wanted us to port it to this system, I looked at it. And it was such an unbelievable mess. It was written in portrait. It was just one go-to statement after that.

There was no organization to it at all. I mean, that's one of the things. When you're writing code and, a company, there are certain conventions that you follow to make your stuff readable by other people and to organize it so that other people can come in and find it there. This was just this ad hoc thing that he had done as long. It wasn't necessarily a genius, but he was a good salesman. They bought the farm. It was truly amazing, but what a piece of garbage that was. Anyway, that's what makes me think. I can really relate to this if AI comes in and just creates this

total garbage stuff, and you've got to have a cleanup specialist who comes in. to fix it. It'd be better to have it, that kind of person, just write it clean from the very beginning. Instead of a clean up specialist, you have a clean coder from the beginning that's going to do it. I assume AI can be useful for someone who is very, very good at the job. They know what they're doing, they know what to look for. They can give it some prompts, and he can very quickly check to see if it's done what he said while he's doing other things on the side. Give it some small tasks. Yeah, whereas, you know, someone who doesn't know what they're doing generates an entire code base, you know, thousands upon thousands of lines, you then need someone, like, you know,

someone who is incredibly good at the job to come through and then scan through it. So he doesn't have time to actually work on anything of his own. So what they're saying with this is that it is grieving a number of workers. So other, their co-workers are using AI to make presentations, reports, write emails, do other work tasks that are then filed to their colleagues and their bosses. It appears. to be useful, but it's not. Work slop uniquely uses machines offload cognitive work to other human beings. When coworkers receive work slop, they're often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring the missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making process

may follow, including rework, uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues they write. They said they surveyed workers and told them they're now spending their time trying to figure out if any specific piece of work was created using AI tools so they could identify possible hallucinations then to manage the employee who turned in the work slop. The most alarming cost may have been interpersonal. Here's another example from the legal field, right? We've had several situations where people have filed legal briefs where they had AI write it for them and AI cited a bunch of imaginary precedents in similar cases that never existed. And then when the judge checks their work because they failed to do it, the judge looks at this

work slop and you've had situations where the judge has censored the law firms and things like that for filing false briefs like that. But it's the AI that's hallucinating, adding a bunch of nonsense. So you create this whole lawsuit and you've got to have another group of people to go through and fact check and double check everything that's in there to make sure that it is not just been made up. Low effort, unhelpful AI-generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately, half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent work slop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output.

42% of them said they saw them as less trustworthy, 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent. Evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people's work in the same way it's affecting everything else. It's making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through. But here's the thing that is really concerning. We talk about this slop, and we talk about handing off key tasks of law enforcement and policing, of bioweapon, and sort of think about AI when it's just going to be handed off by the government to do this kind of stuff. it is truly going to be dangerous, and that's how they want to use it. Maybe we should call this new thing, operational warp speed stupidity.

We're going to get stupid at an increasingly fast rate, accelerating rate. Operation warp slop. That's right. We have Opossum King. Alcohol kills twice as many as fentanyl. Alcohol is truly. People ignore how dangerous it is. but people become addicted to it, and it absolutely destroys their life.

Alcohol addiction is one of the worst addictions you can have. Yeah. I remember when we were talking about the, who are on drugs, people equate alcohol addiction to heroin addiction in terms of how addictive it was, or other class one drugs that were out there. That's one of the reasons why alcohol was the first thing to be prohibited. You know, at the time, Travis, they had cocaine and Coca-Cola, right? They didn't try to prohibit the cocaine. That's how we built things like the Hoover Dam.

They tried to, you know, they were more concerned about the alcohol to prohibit it than they were the cocaine. You know, you could have, Sherlock Holmes could take cocaine. Coca-Cola could use cocaine, but let's not use the alcohol. That is really bad stuff. Yeah, Audi, M-R-R, the war on drugs is not interested in fighting addiction. No, it's interested in getting a... Like all wars, it's supposed to go on forever and it's supposed to expand, like a cancer. It's interested in giving your local police department an APs.

so they can terrorize you. Denver Adaway, fentanyl was invented by Dr. Jal, Paul Jansen in 1959. The name Jansen sounds million, it's because that was the name of J&J's MRNA COVID Vax. Interesting. Nibaru, 29, Lyme disease equals Palm Island equals Operation Paperclip. Bulldog, wait until you are forced to rely solely on the virtual AI customer service rep. I begin to lose my mind if I am kept on hold for too long. if it becomes a circular nonsense of oh please tell me what you would like i'll connect you to a representative

all our representatives are busy would you like me to solve your problem i begin to go squirrely i start thinking about ted kizinski bulldog it's only a matter of time when most government workers will be mass laid off and their salary budgets pocketed yeah it's not going to end up in a tax cut for us well that was what doge was about from the very big beginning, minimizing government, maximizing governance, minimizing the number of government employees, maximizing their surveillance of us. That was what it was about from the very beginning, and it's still going down that path. Yeah. Audi MRR, AI is to be used, not relied on. It does have its uses, and it can be very helpful, but it is something you need to monitor and keep track of.

You can't just turn your brain off and go, AI, do this for me. Well, you know, it's useful for things like entertainment, right? Where hallucination comes in handy. Hallucination can be entertaining. But if you've got something specific that you want it to do because that's part of your story, that can be unbelievably frustrating. The most simple directions will be ignored or it'll do exactly the opposite. And so it is a very frustrating thing to work with. And sometimes you wonder, would I be better off just learning how to do a, uh, create the computer graphics, self by hand. It'll get fixated on things for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. And so it does something like it makes the character go on the wrong direction, walk backwards. And so, you know, the more

you try to stress that, the direction that you want this character to walk, the more it will make him go on the wrong direction. It doubles down. It's like a disobedient child. Yeah. It's crazy. Bulldog, how many gov lawyers and paralegals can be fired? Probably. Probably the vast majority of them, given how frequently they've done DEI hires. They're probably staffed up with some of the dumbest people you could ever possibly imagine. So realistically, you could probably replace most of government with AI and barely notice a thing. They need to maybe hire more of them to check the lawsuits that are making up references, right? Also, I've said this before, but part of what's saving us is just the sheer level of bureaucracy that we are dealing with.

A pain for us, it's a pain for them. They are trapped by it, too. We are all beholden to the dreadful, calcifying majesty that is bureaucracy. Occulty sim, I pay for chat, GPT, and it's helping archive over 40 years of writing and videos. It's super for creative uses. Like I said, it does have its uses, and just so long as you're monitoring it and keeping track of it, and you are the one that's in charge, it can be very helpful. I see tons of people online, though.

Anytime something is posted on X, there's immediately the first comment is at grok is this real at grok disreal yeah they've turned off their brain they are simply asking for AI to define reality for them and that is a very very dangerous place to well they use the influencers to define reality for them as well and they don't realize that when you're talking about things like that as opposed to creative uses that it is it's been nudged by the people who are controlling it they pay people to build in by a C sees into them about things like climate change or things like the so-called pandemic and stuff like that. So just be careful about that. And understand, that's why you should always look

at different sources of information because you never know. Somebody might be honest and all of a sudden someone comes along and bias them out. We have seen many of the alt media do an about face. As a matter of fact, I think it was a free thought project that had that article talking about the about face of so many people in the alt media and how they become echo chambers to influence people for Trump or the Republican Party or something like that as opposed to they used to be I'm not I'm not going to take sides on any of these parties because they're all lying to us you know that's why that guy cues me of being he hates everybody it's like you better believe I hate the Democrats and Republicans because I know who they are I know what they have done and I can't

see it so yeah yeah part of it is everybody has to be worried about audience capture there yeah it's it's a pressure that everyone feels of well if i say this it might upset my audience and that could lead to negative circumstances for us and you have to be very careful that you're not giving into that yeah which you know well we haven't so you can see where we are yeah to take a look at the gas gauge you can know we're not bowing to pressure on this stuff i arrest machine gun thank you very much also very spooky name one of those might be coming to all of our doors if you really want to get mad try ordering a pizza over the phone at any local chain pizza place their AI will make you make you make healthier choices I have not I've not had to deal with that as someone that can't

eat gluten I'm probably saved from that as a general rule yeah yeah really inflames you yeah three little birds EMP also fun fact um when gluten leads to bread in general leads to worse outcomes with schizophrenia so it increases the rate of schizophrenia so you think that may be what's happening to our society possibly during world war two when certain places were cut off from wheat they didn't have the supplies so they couldn't eat it their rate dropped dramatically and when the wheat came back the schizophrenia rate jumped back up to its standard a lot so so it's not the SSRIs it's wonder bread it could be a combination okay look at people today they're eating far more bread than any time in history, and you can see it with a glance. Yeah, and the grain has been modified, sometimes genetically modified, but if not, it's been

modified through selector breeding for a very long time, so the wheat that we're eating is not like what the people ate the time of Christ. No, not at all. Three little birds, EMP, could disable AI. Well, you have to, they're, I'm assuming they're taking precautions and shielding some of them at least. But then again, who knows? Who knows what these people do? We can always hope. We're going to find out probably soon enough if Trump keeps on this war path. Antagonism. Bulldog. AI equals control over what remains of humanity. I mean, just think about

Trump and what he did at the UN. I mean, where else can you have somebody just, you know, every other breath is Nobel Peace Prize and every other breath is taunting the other other large nuclear power. I mean, what a man of lunacy and contradiction he is? And he continues to get away with it. He is a walking piece of double-think. It's just amazing. Perhaps that's how he gets away with it.

He's so utterly confusing and doesn't hold a position at all that no one can define him. That's right. The real octo spook, one of AI's greatest use of its resources and the students using it to write their papers for schools. slash colleges. Gardner Goldsmith, I just saw that the Italian... Well, the trick is on them, I haven't learned anything. I think that was sarcasm.

Yeah. Yeah. Also, I mean, considering what colleges teach, you know, you're probably better off using the AI to write all your stuff and not absorb anything at this point. So, more power to them. Gardner Goldsmith, I just saw the Italian government is sending a military ship to support the Sumud Aid flotilla

after Israel hit it with flashbangs and frag grenades last night. Hmm. I didn't see that last night. Good to see you, Guard. Liberty Conspiracy is what Guard has every evening money through Friday on Twitter. And Rumble. And Rumble, yes. He also has a substack, which is Guard Goldsmith, I believe. Or is it?

I think he's kept it separate and his substack is Guard Goldsmith. I know I'm subscribed to it. He's got a great Sunday newsletter that he puts out. Yeah, that's one of the problems with having everything delivered automatically. You sign up once and you have to look at it again. you're like, wait, what was that called? That's right. Especially if you get taken off of it randomly as a lot of our audience has.

Yeah, I've got my wife's phone number saved in my phone, and I, for the life of me, couldn't tell you what it actually is. That's right. Epstein Island says Donald Tusk, all caps. It's a very orange walrus. Well, the name like that, he ought to be in the Republican Party here, an elephant. The elephant in the room is Donald Tusk. minute man militia I know so many people who search something and then their AI answer

they take it as fact as if the AI is infallible yeah I see that continually just the AI will say something completely wrong and then someone else will have to come in and be like no actually this isn't that it's from this other thing over here yes yes well we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we're going to talk about this YouTube censorship and we're going to ask you all the question as to what you think about what we should do to proceed forward with this so we'll be right back You're listening to the David Night Show. Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.

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We all knew that this was happening. As a matter of fact, this is only a partial, limited hangout. This is because the House Judiciary Committee under Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to them and started an investigation to reveal the extent of government influence on content creation. This is, and yet at the same time, they want to pretend that this was not done under the Trump administration, and it was done under the Trump administration. What I also find interesting is that they want to say that this is simply about people who are opposing the so-called pandemic and the so-called vaccine treatment that was proposed for this. Well, if you said

something about the masks or the lockdowns or the vaccine, what, no, it was about, so many things. As a matter of fact, when you start to look through this article where they're describing it, they said, well, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if they were taken off for repeated violations of COVID-19. And then they add and election integrity. And then when you continue to read this article, they will continue to add more and more qualifications. I was like, okay, so now it was COVID-19. And it was the 2020 election. Oh, and then it was also Hunter Biden's laptop, okay?

It's very much like the joke about the, that disappeared. Lance, where is it? The one about the Monty Python and the Spanish Inquisition, remember that? Where he comes in, if you can find that, I don't know, I thought it was on here. But it's the Spanish Inquisition, right? He comes in. He goes, our main tool is this. And then also this.

Oh, our two main tools are this, right? And then it keeps going down that thing, three or four. And that's what they're doing with this, saying, YouTube does not use third-party fact checkers to determine whether content should be removed or labeled, said the lawyer for Google. No, they just follow the government rules. And this is their Nuremberg defense. I was just following the orders, right, to pull people out. I don't like this, but I was just following the orders.

No, they were perfectly good with that. And as a matter of fact, it's not limited to Google. It's not limited to social media. I got kicked off five months after the show started. They kicked me off in May. I was kicked off of PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube. All those in May of 2021. Don't tell me that this wasn't somebody in the Biden administration that was focused on me.

They won't, none of these places would give me a reason for why I was kicked off either. And I know that it was something that was happening through. the Trump administration. It was in 2018, at the midterms, that you had 800 sites that were kicked off because they were against the police surveillance state and the wars that were going on. That was the one thing they had in common. They weren't getting kicked off simply because they were pro-Trump or because they had questions. The election had not taken place at that point in time. And we didn't have the COVID-19. So none of that stuff that they say, you know, the Hunter Biden's laptop, all that stuff came years later.

So it had nothing to do with that. And it was happening in the Trump administration as well as the Biden administration. And yet what they're going to use this for? You'll have the GOP say, yeah, but what about Biden? What about Biden? So since Biden did it, we can do it. Rather than saying Biden did it and let's make sure that never happens again. No, they'll say Biden did it so we can do it.

That's what we're getting from these people. Senior Biden administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet, a parent company of YouTube, pressed the company regarding certain user-generated content related to the so-called pandemic that did not violate its policies. And they also pointed to people as well.

Let's understand this is not simply about topics. It's also about people. Just like they've got a no-fly list and you're not allowed to know if you're on it, Well, you'll find out that you're on this list when they tell you you can't fly. But then they won't tell you anything about why you were put on there. They won't tell you how you can get off of that list either. This is the same thing, except it's really kind of a no-see, no-reach list.

You can be, like Elon Musk said on X. Well, you're going to have the ability to have speech, but you won't have any reach. We're not going to kick you off the platform. We'll just make sure nobody can see you. It must call shadow banning. So you get shadow banned or you get taken off completely. And that's the name of the game that's there. So now they're saying they will give an opportunity for people to rejoin.

YouTube does not use third-party fact-checkers, he said. They value conservative voices on their platform. Do they really? These creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse. So now they want it to be the public square again. Is that right? the revelations echo findings in the murthy versus missouri case where lower courts found that federal agents had taken on a role similar to the orwellian ministry of truth it's not like we didn't always know this it was very clear what was happening so when will it change will it change with the next pandemic the next war look at how rapidly trumped at a 180 on ukraine these people are arbitrary and capricious in terms of what they will kick you off for

And the mechanisms have not changed. They have confessed what they did, but there's not going to be any real change or prohibition against that. Not at all. And look at how he's done a complete 180 on free speech with Charlie Kirk. Yeah, that's right. That's right. So we've seen it over and over again, especially on free speech.

So, you know, will it be because I oppose Trump, because I get kicked off because I opposed Biden. This is the way this thing works. So the question I would ask some of people, if you want to put a comment in there, do you think we ought to even bother to try to get onto YouTube again? I'm really conflicted over this. I hate the platform so much. I hate Google so much.

I don't want to have anything to do with them. But I don't know if they would bring me back either. I don't know. Yeah. What happens with us seems absolutely specifically targeted because of what happened with the Christmas channel. It didn't have anything to do with the show. It didn't have your voice. There's nothing that it could.

have keyed off of when it comes to AI looking at it. It did have, you're listening to the David Knight Show. We left that on there because we used the commercial bumpers that we had. Possibly. That's the only thing that said it was the David Knight Show. The name of the channel didn't say that. It was just that we had that thing. You heard at the end of the music bumpers that we create.

You're listening to the David Knight Show. Yeah. To me, that seems very far-fetched that the AI would have that specific sound bite indexed and known to look for it. It could. To me, it feels specifically targeted from YouTube for us. That could be wrong. Yeah.

But I have seen that a lot of different people who were banned that have come back to YouTube. So they are actually letting people back on, whether they would let us is another story. But, you know, guys, one specific guy who I never expected to see on YouTube again, they had him banned. And he was just completely disallowed from uploading his back. And so it's, well, they're very eager to platform Nick Fuentes right now, everywhere. I mean, I'm seeing articles all the time from the left from the drudge report and everything about Nick Fuentes, you know, if, you know, what did Nick have for lunch today? You know, it's that kind of stuff.

And they really want him to be the face of their opposition for obvious reasons, I think. Well, I mean, he's, in my opinion, he's absolutely controlled. After January 6th, you know, so many of his followers got arrested and nothing. happened to him despite the fact he was the ringleader of his little group yeah he was there in all these different meetings with Alex Jones as well so I mean the two of them you know look at what happened to their followers and and what did not happen to them the dog that did not bark as Sherlock Holmes said that kind of solves the case about controlled opposition very much so yeah so again Biden all the headlines uh from all the conservative papers are all Trump

the fact that Biden did it, but they will not talk about what Trump did, and Trump did it as well. And as I said, I don't see any of Jim Jordan, none of these other people are saying, we're going to make sure that corporations and bureaucracies don't punish people for what they say. I mean, because they're not going to do that, because at the same time, you've got Trump trying to weaponize the FCC, and Jimmy Kimmel came back, and I thought what he had to say was, very funny. Actually, the funniest thing I've heard him ever say. Listen to what he says about his return. He tried it as best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from

this now. That's perfect because the firing of Kimmel, along with all these other things that Trump has been doing were to distract people from the Epstein files to start with. So that was a clever joke, whoever wrote that. You know, and these guys who did a late night show, when they were really focused on jokes, they had a pretty good writing staff. Many of the people who were on the staff had a career of their own as comedians later on. So again, Biden pressed YouTube to censor COVID misinformation, any information about the vaccines, any information about Hunter Biden, all the rest of this stuff. But there's many, many other things, and specifically it was about people, as I said before, a no-see list that is there. Brendan Carr says networks must

serve the public interest. Is that any different than what Biden was saying? When he said that these networks, these social media must serve the public health. So we're going to justify censorship during COVID so forth because we've got to protect public health. And so now the Trump administration and Brendan Carr at the FCC says that we have to serve public interest. Every time they put the adjective public in front of something, it's exactly the opposite of what you might hope it means. And so since the, um, uh, since all of this stuff is, is happening again, uh, would, would Trump take us into a war in order to distract us from this stuff? Of course, Clinton did that with the wag the dog. And, um, Trump has no compulsion whatsoever about mass

murder or murder on a one to one basis. So Google has vowed to restate the banned YouTube accounts after admitting to political censorship. Let us know if you think that we should I've been watching chat and the majority of people seem to be saying, yeah, you should get on YouTube. They may eventually ban you, but at least maybe you'll get to, you know, share with more people. I don't know. You know, when Alex started attacking me when Owen left or was fired,

whatever happened, I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. But when he started attacking me again, you know, five years later, he hasn't gotten over it. And people started contacted to say, I didn't know that you were still there. It's like, yeah, that was the point. Alex, at first, didn't want to use my name, and he wanted to shut down all the different avenues,

that even keeping some of the places we were posting stuff. But now it's turned around in a different direction. I wanted to also talk about, before we leave this, the tech issue. It was kind of interesting. You know, we talked about how Lance had a situation where he gave the classic case. I don't know, what is it, Lance? You've got a lamb and a wolf and a cabbage or something. You've got to get them, ferry them across.

And you left out one of the key ingredients, and it wanted to give you the canned response. And when you pointed out it was wrong, it just kind of melted down. It was really funny. It was like something straight out of a Star Trek sci-fi episode. You could almost see the thing shaking and smoking as the lights are flashing. Yeah. That sounds like a cute. Yeah.

The old riddle of you've got a wolf, sheep, and a boat, and you've got to get across the river, but you can only take one of these things. but if you leave, the wolf with the sheep and eat it. So you left out one of those, and it couldn't handle it. People are doing a similar situation now with football teams. They ask the latest chat GPT, chat GPT5. They ask it to tell it teams that don't end an S. And it comes back and says, yes, there's two NFL teams whose names don't end with an S

before proceeding to list the two names that do. That's the Miami Dolphins and the Green Bay Packers. And then it says, well, wait a minute. They do end with an S, especially when you pointed out to it. And then it says it gets into a loop and it can't get out of that. It is absolutely definite. First it will go from Miami Dolphins, Green Bay, then it'll go to the Washington commanders and Chicago Bears because every team ends with an S.

And they said it has a nervous breakdown, just like when you slide. lightly modified that test and started trying to just put it back and it'll come back and say, no, now the actual answer is, it'll say at one point, just like it did with you, and it'll come back and it'll regurgitate that and come up with another couple of teams that end NS. And it's kind of interesting to see how it functions. China is opening a bodega that is going to be entirely run by robots. And this is a little shop. And it's become something of a curiosity for people to watch this thing. But understand that the robots are suddenly coming.

They're going to start mass producing these things. And they want to have the biped robots, even though in a lot of manufacturing operations, the non-walking robots are actually far more efficient and make a lot more sense. They're a lot more stable because they're not mobile. Or maybe they have wheels instead of two legs because two legs mean that they can't lift as strong of things as they could if they were solid.

And so here you see a combination of robots that are kind of, this particular one looks like Captain Pike from Star Trek. We had that little machine. I wonder if it just, if it beeps over and over again. But there are some really weird robots that are coming as well. One person said, well, maybe all the robots aren't going to be imitations of human beings. Maybe what they'll do is they'll imitate centipedes and other creepies. Crawley's as well, which is what we're seeing right here. This is going to be the future of warfare, and this is what idiots, like Trump, are going to

wind up unleashing on us with their geopolitics. This is what we're going to wind up having to fight. Of course, these are RC toys, but that could be real weapons. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we've seen some of some really bizarre things coming out of China as well. So, yeah, these things right now. point. They're just toy prototypes. But the interesting thing is when you talk to a lot of these people, you know, they, Elon Musk and his optimist robot, they said, that's going to be a trillion

dollar product. And yet when he did his demonstration, he had human operators that were there. The same thing is happening with another robotics firm where the guy, invited the reporters to come into his house. He said, at first, everybody's kind of wary of this robot. It's just doing household chores, acting like a butler. But he goes, after about a half hour, they get over that. And then within another half hour, they're just fine with it. Then as he continues to talk to them in the interview,

he admits that it's actually human employees who are actually running this thing with some VR headsets. Again, just like we've said before, AI stands for actually Indians. And this is a repeated theme that you use. see throughout these articles, even one from technocracy that was brought in and from the Washington Post where they're trying to hype the fact that there's a massive army of robots on the way, they still admit that they are, for the most part, being controlled by humans. And that's a step beyond having, you know, a maid. You have a maid that's remotely teleprompting

in with the, you know, super expensive $30,000 walking robot or however budget costs. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's, of course, this guy is wealthy enough that he can hire somebody to control the robot made remotely. That's crazy. Well, we're going to take a break. Before we do, let's grab a couple of these comments here. We have Eric Peters of A.P. Autos, or Eric petersautos.com. He's going to be joining us, and it's always a great, it's always great to talk to Eric. Looking forward to it. Yeah. Citizen of America Alcott says automation is garbage, but in the end of this century, the atomic bomb will no longer be considered the most catastrophic thing to mankind, rather robotics, and artificial intelligence.

I agree. Christian constitutional conservator says, it is ridiculous to do a broad comparison to alcohol versus fentany. You have to do a per capita comparison. That is a, you know, that's a fair assessment to make. You have to compare the number of people that are on each in the outcomes. I would just suggest people don't use either one. Yeah.

I would suggest you don't compare them yourself. How about that? Yeah, I put up the other comment saying that there are more deaths, which, you know, but is obviously more depths. And what he said is fair that you need to look at per capita. But I was just putting that up as a criticism of the prohibition. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Audi, MRR, they want us to use AI in place of thinking. Yeah. Just trust the AI. It'll tell you what you need to know. Don't ever have that. The AI may be means anti-inlectual, yeah. Occulty sim. Will YouTube lose all the lawsuits of people suing them?

That is beyond my ability. to predict. The courts are so incredibly corrupt and unjust that getting a reading on what they'll decide on any case is impossible, really, in my opinion. It's hard to say. I mean, even if they had to give compensation to people, it would be worth it for them to tow the line with the government so the government doesn't take punitive action with them. The government has a big stick, and it's got lots of carrots in its pocket. And it hands out those treats to people if they do what they want, and it hits you with a big stick if you don't do what they want. That's how they get their way with the corporatocracy. And that's where we're going with the technocracy. We're going to take a quick

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Always great to have Eric on. He is focused on liberty and mobility because you can't have one without the other. It's kind of what Jefferson said about life and liberty. He said the hand of force can destroy life or liberty, but cannot separate them. Of course, he said disjoined them, but that's a little bit stilted for our language. But it definitely is true. And you cannot disjoin liberty and mobility either. So I always enjoy Eric's take on things.

Eric, I was sad to see that we were just talking about this over the break. You wrote a piece three days ago. You said, Our Charlie. What happened in your family? Well, yeah, it's a tough thing to talk about. I hope I'll be able to do this well enough. But we had about a two-and-a-half-year-old mixed-breed German Shepherd lab. And, you know, he's been my companion for that whole time and just a very big presence in our life.

Anyway, he got hit by, I guess, a car or truck. I'm not sure exactly which. And it was really jarring because as anybody who's been through having a pet die knows, it's one thing when your pet is elderly and old or sick. And you, you know, you understand that it's going to happen and you have time to prepare for it. But, you know, with a young pet like that to just be gone instantly, just like that. Just what happened. Really difficult.

You know, boy, for the last several days, this happened on Friday. I've been having deja vu, you know, certain times of the day, like, oh, I better put, put, put water in paces bowl or oh it's time for us to go for our run i went for a run on monday and you know one of his things that he would do he would carry around him he was a strong dog a big log in his mouth and he would keep it in his mouth for a mile or more on our run you know it's just those things and and as i'm running by myself which was strange uh i saw one of the logs that he dropped off on the trail and it just really i'm sorry kind of really i'm being overly emotional about it so i apologize oh no i understand i

Absolutely understand. It's a, like you said, it's the suddenness of this. And I think that's one of the things that really magnified what happened to Charlie Kirk. But I think, you know, when we look at it and how they have taken his legacy and they have flipped it completely opposite of what he was known for, what he ought to be remembered for, they're doing everything they can to make a saint, a celebrity, whatever there. and in Oklahoma, they want to put a Charlie Kirk statue on every university campus. I think the right way to honor him is to support free speech. But it seems like the people who agreed with him and who followed him want to do just the opposite of that. They want to attack free speech, and they think this gives them an opportunity to do what they know the left was doing to them before.

What do you think? Particularly Trump, did you happen to pass the interview? It was a couple of days after Kirk's assassination, and I wish I could remember who the journalist was. It was a woman. And, you know, she was asking Trump about the calls to suppress what they called hate speech now. It's interesting that Trump, all people in the right, is not doing exactly what they excoriated the left for doing during the 2024 campaign season. And it was one of the reasons why people voted for Trump because they were tired of having their differing opinions framed as hate. That's right.

rather, hey, I've got a question. Oh, you're hateful. We, you know, we can't discuss that because clearly you're a cretan and you're, you know, you're motivated by malicious motives rather than, hey, I just have a question. Anyway, this female reporter asked Trump about that, and Trump had the egregious vulgar goal to say something like, well, Charlie Kirk doesn't, he may not think that way anymore. I can't remember the exact. Yeah, that's exactly what he said.

We played that clip. Yeah. She said, Charlie Kirk said there's no such thing as hate speech. Well, he probably wouldn't say that now. No, that's basically what it was. Because again, whether you agree with what Kirk had to say or not, I think the one thing that has to be universally acknowledged is that he was willing to debate. He was willing to discuss practically any topic, including even Israel lately,

and, you know, the influence of the Israeli government over the American government. And I think that's ultimately what got him into trouble. You know, Trump demands lockstep adherence and even worship of himself and his policies. And he does it in a manner that's just so abrasive and insulting. to the people who support him, this latest business of doing the parking break 180 on Ukraine. You know, again, that's another example. You know, if people had been aware

that he was going to do that in 2024, I doubt many people would have voted for him. One of the reasons, strong reasons people voted for him was we are sick of all these wars. We're sick of being forced to finance it through our taxes and thereby be complicit in it. You know, the mass murder in Gaza, we want no part of this stuff.

It's got to stop. That's one of the reasons why people voted for him. And now, this brazen, guy just says, well, we're going to back Ukraine. And not only that, he's saying that Ukraine has a right to not only seize back every territory that it's lost, but potentially even more than that. Yeah, take some back from Russia, exactly. It's madness. How did they think that this is going to be received by Putin? What do you think Putin's response to this is going to be? I wouldn't be surprised if he amps things up because he believes that he's got a narrow

window of opportunity now to finish this situation before boots go on the ground, potentially American boots. That's right. Yeah, he's taunting Putin saying he doesn't have much of military. He could have finished this off in a couple of weeks. You know, like we finished off Afghanistan, right, in a couple of weeks. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who stopped by yesterday about this, and we got to talking about Putin versus Trump. And the difference between a serious person and a clown. Yeah. Now, whatever you may think of Putin, you don't have to say that you like him. You know, that's a childish argument. It's not about whether you think he's a nice man or a bad man. He's a serious man. He's a serious person with serious credentials who is

not an idiot and who understands history. And look at Trump. What do we have? You know, we literally have a clown going up against a serious person, a dangerous clown. I believe he was installed for that very reason. You know, even had his first commerce secretary, William, let's see, Weber Ross, who said that, you know, it was the Rothschild bank that he was working for. And he said, you know, when Trump was going bankrupt, he showed up and he saw this big crowd around him. He said, I contacted the Rothschild people and I said, hey, this is somebody I think we could use. I think that's exactly what they're doing. They're using him as a clown.

They're using him to divide people. They're using him to create chaos. I think that's his role. And also a distraction and maybe the worst kind of distraction imaginable. You know, as everything falls apart internally and, you know, potentially, let's say the Epstein thing percolates up again. Or we find new details. about what may have been involved in Kirk's murder that could have incredibly damaging repercussions.

What would be a perfect thing to get people's mind off of that? Well, perhaps a big war in Eastern Europe would do just that. That's right. And that's what I have this creepy feeling maybe in the works. And I think he's absolutely capable of it. You look at what he's doing with trying to make an excuse that he can blow up ships off of Venezuela without even stopping them or verifying that they're running drugs.

and as I pointed out, at the same time that he's saying this is an appropriate response and J.D. Vance is saying it's appropriate. Marco Rubio and Pete Hakeseth are all saying, oh, this is what our military is for. No, it's not. We had our military was stopping ships, inspecting them. If they find drugs, they'd take the drugs, they would arrest the people. They didn't line them up on the side of the boat and machine gun them. And so this is an extrajudicial killing. I told the audience earlier on the program, I said, Dutarte did this in the Philippines. He said, you know, if you think it's a drug dealer, shoot to kill. And he's now in the International Criminal Court, and they're looking at him for those extrajudicial killings.

It's a crime. It's a war crime that he's doing. So he's perfectly capable. Yeah. It's a psychopathic elaboration of that old, if you see something, say something. Now, if you see something, kill something. Yeah. These are acts of war. And they're also the acts of a coward bully in that Venezuela. It's just another example of a big old uncle Sam throwing his weight around and extrajudicially killing foreign nationals outside of the United States with impunity because, you know, we can do it. What's Venezuela going to do about it? That's right. You know, I think at some point, Trump is going to whack the wrong guy. And Putin could be just

the guy who's the wrong guy to whack. That's right. That's right. Yeah, it's very concerning. You know, even escalated saying, yeah, we should shoot down Russian jets if they get anywhere close to the borders and things like that as well. It's a dangerous time that will have. And, of course, It's very much like the Chinese curse, isn't it? May you live in interesting times. There's never a shortage of things to report on. And now, for something completely different from Trump than he said yesterday, you know, it's like Monty Python. I'm glad you brought up China.

I just, I needed a break the other day. And so I was just watching some random YouTube videos. And I was watching some videos of depicting scenes in China around, for example, their train stations and their airports, their infrastructure, which is immaculate and modern. I looked at their bullet trains. and I compared it with what's going on in this country. You know, China is actually concerned with China and trying to build up its own internal society and improve itself where it seems that the U.S. is deindustrializing

and rapidly descending from second to third world status. Yes. We can actually see the change from day to day. Yeah, and it's by design, and it's by the same people that are running Trump, even though he pushes back against the climate McGuffin that I call it, still, it's the deliberate deindustrialization of the West. And there's two sides of that.

They want to deindustrialize the West while they give China the advantage in terms of manufacturing. And the huge advantage that they have is in terms of energy cost. But as Gerald Slinty has said many times on this show, he said the business of China is business. The business of America is war. And that's not serving us well. Yeah.

Destructiveness. Yeah. I saw something also related to China. And it was a person talking about how in China, the oligarchs, the really rich people, kind of do what American oligarchs did in the late part of the 19th and early 20th century when they did things like the Carnegie Library. You know, they funded these vast things that were good for Americans. You know, leaving aside the question of corporate oligarchs, at least they put back into the country. Whereas now the oligarch class in this country just flaunts its gratuitous, egregious, theft wealth, you know, with one $120,000 McMansion, after the next and yachts and lavish lifestyles thumbing their nose and rubbing our faces in it.

Yeah, yeah. And to make it clear, you know, when you look at somebody like Henry Ford who had his issues, he wanted to make sure that his workers could afford to buy the product that he has. Who's going to buy these products when they replace all of us with robots? That's what their goal is. They replace everybody with robots. And I said when Trump did his tax cut in 2017, because it was all targeted. towards corporations, and he was going to incentivize them to bring to onshore manufacturing.

I said, that's not going to happen until they've got the robots to replace the workers. I said, that's why they've got the open border immigration, and once they have robots to that point, they'll get tough on immigration, and they will pay these oligarchs a lot of money to bring factories back, but it's not going to bring back any jobs. They're just going to be incentivized to build the factories, and they'll brag about the fact that they've got manufacturing in the United States, but they won't be using it to raise a standard of living of anybody. And I think that's really what is happening and what is going to happen. I think so too. And I'd like to focus on something that you mentioned,

which has to do with that word about owning things. You know, they're not concerned about that. It's not that they're, you know, oh, well, how are people going to be able to afford these $50,000 vehicles that they're pushing out right now? They know that the end goal is for you to not own the vehicle. Exactly. The end goal is for you to rent the ride, to rent everything, you know, sort of like the way that you pay for a streaming service so that you can watch TV. That's what they want, serial debt. They want to completely disconnect us, the, you know, the typical average American from owning anything in order to control everything. It isn't like they didn't tell us. They constantly say, you will own nothing, right? Yes. You'll be happy. And I thought about you this way.

That's why I wanted to get you back on because I thought, yeah, I haven't talked to Eric for a while. I saw that Porsche was having problems, and Porsche, of course, owned by VW, and the two of them are having to pull back because they can't sell their EVs. And I remember, I said, and I talked to the audience, I said, yeah, Eric's been saying this for the longest time. They should have hired him as CEO of Porsche. They wouldn't have this issue because you knew. And, of course, common sense would tell us that they have a huge advantage, these companies,

that have been making internal combustion engines for a long time. They had a huge advantage to China or to other potential competitors. That had to be destroyed by saying, no, now we can't use internal combustion engines. We're going to have to do the skates of the EVs. And China's got the advantage with the battery technology. They've also got now a manufacturing advantage in terms of cheap, available energy. Energy is so expensive. In the UK, they're shutting down all their manufacturing.

And in Germany, it's very expensive. can't be cost competitive with it. But now they're saying, hey, we're going to have to pull back a little bit. We've malinvested billions of dollars in the EV industry. Nobody wants these things. Nobody's buying it. So now we're going to have to pull back and try to have a cottage industry of maybe being allowed to sell some internal combustion engines.

But it's going to break the back if it's even allowed of these, if they even allow them to sell a few boutique things to the rich, it's still going to break their back. It will. And this is a general problem. Stalantis, which is the parent company of the Dodge, Ram, Jeep, and Chrysler brands announced about a week ago that they were not going to produce the electric version of the Ram 1500 pickup that they had planned to bring out in 2026 because they understand that it would be a disaster, that nobody's going to buy it. And so rather than just build these things and then shipping them to dealers where they're just going to sit and then having to give them away at fire sale prices, which is what Ford's had to do with lightning, they figured it's smart thing to do. do is to cut bait. You know, they've practically destroyed the Dodge brand already by getting rid of the engine in the charger and getting rid of the Challenger altogether and replacing it with this electric charger, which has been an epic flop. I mean, it is even worse than the Eds disaster back in the 50s. It hasn't been marked on, but I mean, it's that bad. They can't sell these

things. I have yet to see one in the wild. I have yet to see one on the road. They haven't even sent me one to review yet because, you know, it's not just that they're, it's not just that they their short range and all the other problems that electric vehicles have, it's not well made. It's a problematic problem-prone vehicle that suffers endless glitches, such as bricking to the point where they have to send out a technician to try to figure out why it won't move. Now, the other thing is that you brought up, I find this endlessly, endlessly fascinating with regard to portion, these other manufacturers that are no longer run by car people, because any car guy would tell you that a Porsche, there are intangibles when it comes to a car like that.

It's not just about how quickly it goes to zero to 60. That's right. You know, they're fatal error in thinking, well, we'll just basically produce a Tesla that looks like a Porsche, essentially. You know, and somehow we'll sell that feeling to understand that one of the big reasons that people buy Porsche is because they love that six-cylinder boxer engine. And they love the sound that it makes and the emotional, visceral feeling that you get that is lost entirely. Electric vehicles are fundamentally homogenous. Say what you will about, you know, oh, well, they're quiet and this and that. but they're fundamentally, when you drive one, you've driven them all.

Yeah. You know, some quicker than others. And don't they, does Porsche and some of these other sports car companies, when they make their EVs, do they take the Tesla approach in terms of instrumentation? Because that's one of the things that is also a part of the feel. You know, how do the controls feel? Does it feel solid or tensey? I hate the idea that I've got to use a touchscreen while I'm driving.

How is that safe? You know, you're supposed to use hands off of your phone or we'll give you a ticket. But, hey, it's a wonderful. thing if we take all the controls, even on Tesla, you can't even adjust the direction of the air vents without using the touchpad that is attached to the dashboard. Yep, and they're all doing it now. Right now in the driveway, I have a brand new 2026 Kia Sportage, which is a nothing special little crossover that stickers for about $28,000. And it's got a full-width single-sheet LCD screen for everything, you know, the main instrument cluster. And then off to its right is the thing that you

have to tap and swipe through in order to operate functions such as, you know, changing the station that you're listening to. And you're right. And it's just an illustration of how disingenuous the government is, because on the one hand, they say to people, oh, you can't use your cell phone while you're driving because it's dangerous to be looking at your phone and swiping and tapping a screen while you're trying to drive. You can't keep your eyes on the road. But it's no problem if you build the thing into the car. Yeah. It's okay. We need to have some controls that I have to take my seatbelt off and where he is, right? Yeah, so one of the, you know, to get back to circle back to what we were talking about,

the great disaster, in my opinion, and it's another one, is that this homogeneity of appearance in the interior of cars that has been, that has been bequeathed to us by this obsession with reproducing the smartphone in your car, the look of a smartphone. So now you've lost that individuality, too. Instead of having this kind of neat array of gauges, a really good example of this. A couple of weeks ago, I had the latest Mini Cooper. and it used to be that one of the cool things about the Mini Cooper, which is owned by the Germans, it's owned by BMW,

but nonetheless, was that they replicated the feel, the look, and the function of the 60s minis. You know, if you've ever been in one of the old models, they had the cool little chrome toggle switches, you know, and it had that vibe to it, that feel, and it was like no other car. Well, they did what everybody else is doing, and they got rid of essentially all of the physical tactile controls,

the switches and knobs, and in lieu of that, they put one gigantic pie plate, touchscreen, you know, in the middle, in the center of the, and it looks cheap. It looks homogenous. And it's also in a way, in my opinion, it's anti-human. It's antiseptic. It's cold. You know, there's nothing. They shut down the last UK factory for the mini BMW did. Am I correct? I think they just shut it down. I'm not sure not to look, but I wouldn't be surprised. I saw something because, again, you can't do manufacturing in the U.S. because Harris-starmer, the Nazi, doesn't want you to have any energy. So they shut it down. I don't think, you know, and it was an article out of the U.K.

And they were saying, you know, this is something that was fundamentally British, as you point about, very idiosyncratic. And now it's not going to be made anymore in Britain because of the cost of energy that's there. Yeah, if nothing survives any longer except the brand, you know, that's what you get, you get the label. But, you know, what's inside box is all the same. When you talk about the design of these cars and how we've lost so much of this, around this area, you know, we're not too far away from Pigeon Forge, and last week they just had a big classic car show. And that's when it really hits home, you know, when you see one of these cars, which you never really valued, I mean, it might have just been like a family sedan or something, you know, 50 years ago. But you look at it, it's like, wow, that's really quirky. That's kind of interesting looking.

Look at those colors, you know, and all the rest of the stuff. Look at the colors. Look at the chrome. It really is entertaining to see cars that were just ordinary cars or ordinary trucks a half a century ago to see them and to see how different they were and how unique they all were. And so it really kind of drives at home here in the Pigeon Forge area. They have these car shows that happen frequently. The big one was last weekend.

They had that. But you got some articles at Eric Petersotos.com about some of the difficulties of keeping these older cars running. Talk about ethanol blues. What's that about? Yeah, I have to, as the saying goes in the hood, cop to something, which is embarrassing for me because, you know, I shouldn't, of all people,

this should not have happened to me. But I was lazy one day, and this was several months back, probably about eight months ago, when I was out driving my old muscle car, I have a 76 Trans Am, and rather than go all the way into town where they have a station that sells

unadulterated, pure gas, gasoline, which is normally what I use to fill the car up with, because it sits sometimes for, you know, I get preoccupied with work and other things. Sometimes the car, unfortunately, will sit for several months before I have time to drive it. Anyway, I filled it up with E10, which is only 90% gas and 10% ethanol. And I left it to sit. And it sat for about three months. God help me. I, you know, I deserve to be beaten for that. Anyway, I went to, I went to start it and, boy, I barely got it to run. blowing, you know, smoke pouring out of it. And long story short, I ended up having to take the carburetor off the engine and completely

disassemble it and clean out the ethanol gunk inside the carburetor because the fuel had gone bad over the time that I kept it in storage, basically. And, you know, this is a problem with these older vehicles because, you know, my car was made in 1976. And in 1976, when you bought gas, you actually got gas for your money. 100% gasoline. Most people don't understand that most people don't understand that most pomp. gas is 10% ethanol alcohol. And if you own a vehicle that was made before that came into being,

that vehicle was not designed for alcohol. Alcohol is a different fuel than gasoline. It has different properties. It attracts water, among other things. It's corrosive. Does it degrade faster than pure gasoline then, I guess? It does. That's what you're saying. Because pure gasoline will degrade as well, right? But much longer period of time. Yeah, anybody who has outdoor power equipment knows the real problem is if you put ethanol in a gas jug, let's say, and you put it in your shed and leave it, you know, it'll tend to accumulate water much more rapidly than regular gasoline. And you can also look at the color, the change in the color, and as it starts to go from almost translucent to sort of a yellow and then a darker yellow color, and that's a clue not to use

it, by the way. Well, that's interesting. You also talk about oil and additives in the oil that are different now for the older cars. Oh, yeah, it's not just the additives. Again, to get circling back to the Trans Am, after I cleaned out the gunk from the carburetor and got it running well again, I recognized, oh, boy, it's time to change the oil. So I went down to the auto parts store, and I looked at the rack of oil, and the rack of oil is, you know, it's the whole width of the store. They have all kinds of different oil, but they didn't have any 1040 anymore. You know, and my car, when it was made, was designed to have 1040 oil.

So that's what specified and that's what I used. There's a reason why there's a specification. you know and generally speaking it's sound policy to follow what the specification is the manual yeah yeah but you know if you've been to a car of parts store lately and looked at the oil rack you'll see all these exotic formulations you know zero w 50 this and that because they they've thinned out the oil because it helps with compliance you know this is this is again it offers the manufacturers this incremental friction reduction which translates into slightly higher gas miles not anything you would notice as a vehicle owner

But when you factor it out over, say, half a million vehicles that you build, then it helps with a corporate average fuel economy with the compliance with that federal requirement. And it also helps with emissions. And, you know, this is the obsession now that the manufacturers have. It's compliance. Their primary customer now is the government, not you. You know, you're sort of an incidental person. That's right.

That's right. What the government says you're allowed to have. That's right. Because the government will put them out of business if they don't please the government. And so that is their primary customer. many cases, the only customer that they care about is the government. That's really what's going on with social media and with YouTube, I think, isn't it? It is. And so long story short, I ended up having to go online to find a good high quality 1040 for my old muscle car.

Now, previously, I'd also had to go online to get, there's an additive. It generally is, it goes by the acronym ZDDP, and it's essentially a zinc, manganese additive. And it used to be present in all the store bought motor oils. But they, began to take it out and now there's a much less of that additive in store bought motor oil. If you have a new or late model vehicle, it doesn't matter. The engine was designed for that. But if you have an older vehicle, particularly an older American vehicle with what's called a flat tap at camsap. So essentially an American car made before the early 80s with a V8 engine typically, it's important that you use that additive.

If you're going to be somebody to go, if you're going to go out and buy one of those classic cars from that era, it's something to be aware of. because if you don't use that additive, you risk valve train failure. The camshaft and lifters in those engines were designed to have that anti-friction additive in it. And if you use regular oil, you're very likely to have a problem that you don't want to have. What about the aftermarket? Let's say that you have some problems because you didn't have the right oil and fuel and things like that. How difficult is it to get parts for these things? I'm sure it varies depending on how rare your car is.

But just something is kind of in the middle or something, maybe like a, you know, a 50s Chevy or something like that. Is it really different? Do they have much of an aftermarket for parts with that? Yeah, particularly with mechanical things. One of the great pluses of owning, say, a General Motors product or a forward product from that era is that they shared mechanical things, engines. You know, an engine, like a small block Chevy was used in practically every model vehicle that Chevrolet made, you know, from the 50s through. 60s, 70s, and 80s. And so there is a robust and abundant aftermarket as well as used market for those kinds of parts. You'll have sometimes difficulty finding trim pieces, you know, for an oddball

make, you know, say it was a one-year vehicle where they only had that grill for that one year. I have that issue because my 70-clips is a unique front end for that year. Yeah. So yeah, sometimes, you know, these cosmetic parts will be more difficult to find. But generally, if you pick a popular vehicle that was made in large numbers from that era, you're not going to have any difficulty finding the necessary parts that you have to have in order to keep the vehicles serviceable and running. That's interesting, yeah, because like I said, certainly do see a lot of classic cars right here. Yeah, I guess if you had an Edsel and you got your horse collar grill dinged, you can keep that going. One of the great examples, a Volkswagen Beetle, you know, to this day, you can easily find any part that you need to keep a beetle running.

So, you know, that's a great choice. if you just want a very basic simple, completely analog, non-digital, non-data mining, non-connected car that anybody can service if they're willing to turn a screwdriver or a wrench and have basic hand tools. That's a great choice. Yeah, yeah. I know there's a huge aftermarket for the Mazda, especially the first generation of Mazda that's out there. They're even doing full restorations or at least were for a short period time. I don't know if they are still doing it now.

It's a couple of years ago. They were doing full factory spec restorations in Japan. They would do it in Japan. And the factory itself was doing it. Mazda was doing it. I don't know if they're still doing that or not. Now, you got an article, and I'm reaching back now the beginning of August, Pontiacs were cool.

I thought they were as well. I was just so amazed that when they decided they're going to get rid of an entire make that they kept Buick and got rid of Pontiac. I thought that was really strange because Buick was always perceived as kind of an older person's car or it was a family car or something like that where as Pontiacs

had kind of a sporty panache to them, right? Yep. Well, there's a reason for that. For whatever reason, Buicks are immensely popular in China and that's where they're built. Believe it or not, GM sells a ton of Buick's in China where it's considered kind of a status vehicle to have

and all the Buick they sell here are made in China. Is that right? We used to use Buick, we use that as an euphemism for throwing up. We'd say, if someone says it was in the bathroom, it's all on Buick. Now, what's really sad, though, with regard to Pontiac, and Pontiac's just one example of many, is that you had a once distinctive brand. In effect, Pontiac actually was literally a car company at one time.

It wasn't a marketing company. It actually had an engineering staff, and they engineered their engines, which were different than Chevy engines. So when you bought a Pontiac, you weren't just buying a rebadged Chevy. There may have been commonality of the underlying plastic. but it was a fundamentally different car. I'll again refer to my own car. A 76 Pontiac Trans Am is a very different car than a 76 Camaro.

Even though they share a common under thing, the drive trains are different, and that makes it worth buying the Pontiac. It's not that one's better or worse, it's simply that it is different. And GM actually allowed Pontiac for a great deal of time to be sort of the raucous, you know, go get them brand, you know, that had performance, and style and attitude. Yeah. They were kind of like what Dodge was before Stalantus ruined everything.

Yeah. You know, they just had this great reputation for, you know, not just crude muscle cars, but cool muscle cars. It had some panache to them, you know, like Catalina's and Grand Prix and, of course, GTOs and everything, which were a little bit more refined than, say,

something like a Chival SS, which is a great car, but it's not the same thing as a GTO. Right, right, yeah, yeah. And they just hollowed all of this out, and this was, by the way, I think, the first wave of casualties from compliance. The reason that Pontiac ended up dying was because General Motors was under enormous pressure to try to figure out how to get these different brands, Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile,

all their different divisions that had different engines. Each one of those engines had to be certified independently by the federal government as being in compliance with the stuff. That costs a lot of money. So General Motors made the decision, well, what we're going to do is corporatize. we're going to just put Chevrolet built engines in pretty much everything that we sell. They did this beginning in the 80s. And that way, they only had to certify the Chevrolet engine,

which they could put in a Pontiac and a Buick and an Oldsmobile, which is what they did. But by doing that, they just gutted any reason for having a Pontiac or an Oldsmobile or even a Buick. All you're getting is a re-skinned Chevy with the identical drive train. Over and over again, I tell people, you know, the real problem with industry and manufacturing and innovation in the United States is the government. They are the biggest obstacle. They are far more destructive of jobs and

manufacturing than any company abroad or any country abroad. All this stuff about tariffs is a misdirection away from the true source of the problem, which is government regulation. And even when they're talking about the housing crisis, some people are talking about how expensive houses have become because of government regulation. the government's not talking about doing anything of that. They're talking about playing some financialization games in terms of interest rates or subsidies or this or that, but they're not going to do anything about the overregulation and all the green mandates that are there. Trump will go to the UN and he'll say, you're destroying your country with all this green stuff and everything,

but he won't take those regulations off of cars or homes so we can't have nice things anymore. That's correct. We have become, as a culture, so habituated to the government. government being involved in these things. And really, I think that's the bone of the matter. Why is the government involved in car design? Yeah. You know, a good example of this is, you know, the whole, I wrote an article about Ralph Nader a couple of weeks ago and the Corvair and his allegations about the core of air being unsafe. This is a matter for the courts. If the car is unsafe, effective in some way, that can be handled

in tort claims. That's the way these things ought to be handled. Instead of this broad brush, one size fits all of the federal government decree, you know, you will have this particular safety standard. And it doesn't matter what side effects that safety standard has, even if it ends up being less safe. Good example of that being in the mid-70s, they imposed a roof-crush standard on the industry. You know, the vehicle had to be able to support the weight of the vehicle if it got turned upside down. So as a result of that, you've got these gigantic A, B, and C pillars. Those are the things that support the roof, the A-pillars at the base of the shield, B in the middle, and C in the back. Instead of being, you know, these thin and graceful things that you could easily

look around and you had this expansive view of the outside world around you now you're essentially in a tank you know you drive new cars all the time it feels like you're in a tank you have essentially no visibility often to the right and to the left because of this enormous B pillar that's there to support the way to the vehicle if you roll it over the problem is now when you pull out from a side street you're likely to get get T-boned because that thing is yeah create a bad blind spot you didn't see the car that was coming at you from the side that's right yeah I agree. You know, how did we wind up still being able to keep convertibles with that?

I know I've got all my convertibles. I've got some really huge A-pillars on them, but... Very cleverly. Like, you know, with regard to some of them, you know, with Mazda, the Miadi, as you know, they built a roll bar into the backs of the seats, basically. That was one way that they did it. And some of the manufacturers took that a step farther with pop-up roll bars. You know, Mercedes did that with some of their high-end inverteables.

And they also managed to reinforce the structure of the windshield in a way that made it supportive of the vehicle if it were to roll over. But, you know, it's just the point is the government's involvement in this stuff is just so insufferably obnoxious. Yeah. And to put a finer point on it, you know, we talk about the government as if it's sort of this entity out there. And I like to, I like to point out to be, what you're really talking about is a relative

handful of micromanaging bureaucrats who are the weevils within these regulatory bodies. You know, go to the DOT or NHTSA, how many people work there, a few, thousand so you've got a few thousand people in these regulatory bodies who are dictating to three hundred thirty million people you know the design of the cars that they're allowed to have yeah exactly right i just you know and and we have spineless politicians who let the bureaucrats rule over us and never do anything to push back against them that's by design you know they've all floated this they'll say congress in particular they'll say well we i can't do anything about it because the you know the bureaucracy is yeah responsible for this right uh

But they're the ones that offloaded their responsibility under the Constitution to legislate. You know, there's legislation and there's regulation. And regulation has the force and effect of law, yet it's not voted for, which means there's accountability. You know, you can't out, you can't vote out of office an EPA apparatchit, you know. And they claim that they're not responsible for it, even though, as you point out, they delegate this to them. Yes. Then, you know, if something gets really bad and there's a huge outroar, uproar about that, then they can come in and say, okay, we're going to save you from these bad guys, the regulators.

So it's a very calculated political ploy, isn't it? And I think we got, do we have a couple of comments or questions for him? Hi, Eric, good to talk to you. Travis here. We've got citizen Eric Bacaca says, Eric, he'd like you to speak on the fact they were trying to pass legislation so you'd be able to insure a car that's over 25 years old, which is just utterly ridiculous.

Because, of course, we know that 25 years ago, all cars were death traps. People were dying left and right. It's only within the past few years that the cars have become safe at all and people can drive them without living in constant fear. Yeah. And along that same line, Eric, California, just, you know, they wanted to, it's missions, I think, that they had there. And it was like a 35-year moving average. And they were trying to adjust that a little bit.

And they shut it down. It was a huge blow. It was Jay Leno's law. Maybe you heard about that. Purely punitive and vindictive. Yeah. Leno, I think, learned a valuable lesson. I think he, in his innocence, might have believed that rational considerations and reasonable considerations might cause the California legislature and regulatory apparatus to agree that, yeah, you know, vehicles that are 35 years old are constituted a very small minority of the vehicles that are in use as daily transportation.

And so, yeah, we'll exempt them, as most states do, from having to go in from emissions testing. This is purely punitive because they want to push these cars off the road. And it's particularly egregious in California because it's not even a matter of whether you pass the tailpipe sniffer test. You know, when you bring your car into the inspection station and they put the probe in the tailpipe. And in most states, if it passes that, you pass and you get your sticker. In California, it doesn't matter whether you pass the tailpipe sniffer test if any of the factory original emissions equipment has been tampered with, altered, or removed. Now, what that means, you're talking about the 35-year-old car or how about a 50-year-old car and maybe the original smog pump or EGR system had to be replaced because it's a 35-year-old vehicle, 35-year-old vehicle. Well, what if there

is no aftermarket replacement? And more finally, in California, every aftermarket replacement has to have a California Air Resources Board number, a certification that it's been approved by CARB. So if it doesn't have that, even if everything works, and even if the emissions are within spec, they will still fail the vehicle on the basis of failing the visual and not having the CARB approved replacement part. So this is purely, purely punitive and vindictive. And I do see this sort of thing expanding. You know, they're going to start targeting cars and they're going to say, we can't permit vehicles that don't have the latest advanced driver assistance technology

to be on the road, you know, because of the threat that they present and the people are going to die. That's the sort of thing that I foresee that they're going to start doing in the next few years. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it's kind of interesting, too, because when I was doing modifications to Miamiada about seven years ago, the companies I was getting the aftermarket parts on, which were taking those parts that you just mentioned and pitching them completely.

But they were based in California. And I thought, you know, this is kind of interesting. They can't sell their own product. Even at that time, many of their things were not carb compliant. And they couldn't sell them to people who lived in California, only to people who lived outside of California. But it's getting much, much worse. You know, an common thread that runs through all of this is that there's no requirement

that tangible harm be produced, in other words, a victim. A really fine example of this is the crucification of Volkswagen, and I revisited that issue recently in a column. It's been about 10 years now since Volkswagen got raked over the coals for cheating on federal emission certification tests. And at the time, and even to this day, I continue to ask, well, who was hurt by any of this? The only thing that happened was that the government was affronted. You know, Volkswagen, like every other vehicle manufacturer, programmed its vehicles to pass the test. That's the whole point. They made it so they would pass it.

And not only this is an important point, not just the federal emissions certification test, nobody ever disputed these vehicles when they were bought and put into service and in states where people had to go to get emissions testing, you know, at the state level and get the tailpipe probe put in, they all passed. The only car fluffle happened after this independent lab subjected the cars to an entirely different test

that found that under certain operating conditions, oh my gosh, the vehicle will emit slightly higher, fractionally higher amounts of oxides of nitrogen, which is a regulated emission for EPA. And the amount was minuscule. It was literally a fraction of a fraction. In other words, something that was meaningless in terms of whether it was hurting anybody. It didn't matter. It was so draconian.

You and I talked about this many times. It was so draconian that it was clear that it wasn't about what they said it was about. It was really about, as we said, getting rid of diesel. I mean, they had criminal charges against executives. it was something like $4 billion, if I remember correctly. It was outrageous what they were doing. We talked about that, how you didn't see anything at all like that with the Takata airbags that were blowing up spontaneously and killing people.

Or with the Pinto, you know, and the deliberate exclusion of some devices that would keep that explosion from happening. So it was something that we'd never seen before, even when human lives were at stake. And there was nobody that was harmed by any of this stuff. Well, the reason why they did it, though, it wasn't just that it was diesel. It was that Volkswagen uniquely was selling a lineup of very affordable diesels as recently as 2015. You know, it's 10 years ago, not even.

You could have bought a brand new Volkswagen Jetta with a TDI engine for about $22,000. Now, that whole car had a 700-mile driving range and would get 50 plus miles per gallon on the highway and could probably be counted on to go for 300,000 miles or more. Now, it's a curious coincidence, isn't it, that around the same time the Volkswagen started getting raped over the coals over this emissions cheating thing, that's when the big push for EVs began, right around that time, around 2015, and I think the reason that they went after Volkswagen was because they could not abide the comparison. You know, on the one hand, $22,000 jet a TDI, 700 mile range, refill it in three minutes,

keep it for 20 years, drive it for 300,000 miles. On the other hand, Tesla model 3, $50,000. car that goes maybe 270 miles and it's going to need a new $15,000 battery after eight years. It just would have been a harder sell. So they had to go after Volkswagen. I think, you know, if Volkswagen had continued making engines like that, other manufacturers would have started to do the same. In fact, Chevy did. Chevrolet, you could get a Malibu diesel for a little while there. And other manufacturers would have done it because it's appealing. I mean, I like the idea of a, you know, brand new $22,000 car that gets 50-something miles per gallon, 700 miles.

you know, diesel is great. You know, it's a wonderful option for people who want a durable, long-legged, long-lived vehicle. So naturally, they had to take that away from us. Yeah, it checked all the boxes in terms of competition with the electric vehicles. As you point out, it's like durability, reliability, affordability, range. It was all there. So it had to go. It really had to go.

They've got an agenda. And they don't want you to have something that you can afford. They don't want you to have a long range because they want to keep you on a short, rope with their smart city and they're probably geofencing to make sure that you can't buy anything outside of your approved city and that type of thing. It's just amazing. It's a really important thing for people to understand. And it's a difficult thing to understand because the undercurrent of malevolence that's there is difficult for most people to come to grips with. But it's almost axiomatic that you cannot have an authoritarian system in which

people are still free to move about as they like on their own initiative in their own vehicle unsupervised unmonitored and uncontrolled in order for them to to impose a truly authoritarian system on americans they have got to get control over transportation and particularly personal transportation and when you when you filter everything that's going on through that everything becomes comprehensible that's right i tell people all the time the tsa is a transportation security agency right it's not the airport security agency and and they want to do that they want to eliminate the private vehicles so that everything becomes like the airport. If you like that, certainly you'll be able to keep the authoritarian government.

If you like your authoritarian government, you can keep it, or they'll keep it for you. With something like geo-fencing and the Teslas, they can just simply section you off, say, oh, no, your car just simply will not go there. You try turning that way. No, we're going to autopilot you back into your safe zone. That's right. You're not allowed over here. You're not allowed to go this far.

And you won't have enough range, really, to get out of there anyway. You know, it's a 15-minute city. That's about how creepy it is. And it's incredible how blasé so many Americans are. They think, even if they're aware of it, they will say, oh, well, that would never happen. They would never do that to us. Yeah. You know, Eric, about 10 years ago, I went to an auto show in Texas.

Long Star Roundup. Yeah, Long Star Roundup. It's a real big classic show. And I think it's got to be an American-made car. and it's got to be they don't include the um it's got to be older than the mustangs older than 64 65 there's a cutoff right so they didn't want to take it at that point but um there's a lot of modification to them and a lot of rat rods that are out there you know really um uh grungy cars that people kept going and modified i went around and i talked to all these people and they were all different ages you know people had cars there they were 17 or 18 years old old that they had fixed up, up to people who retirees. And I asked them all, do you think the government is going to make private cars go away and gasoline cars go away?

Oh, yeah, they all said. And to a man, they pretty much all said, including like 17 and 8-year-olds, it'll never happen in my lifetime. It's like, man, the disconnect that was there at that time was just, that was the most, you know, the cars were interesting, but the most interesting thing was how these people had lied to themselves about the government's intentions. and its abilities to rob them of their mobility. It truly is amazing.

The intentions were always there. I think the technology has made it much more feasible to fast track things. They would not have been able to do what they had wanted to do for 50 years, you know, back in the 80s, 90s, or even the early 2000s. But now, particularly within the last 10 years, they have now got the ability to utterly and completely control vehicles to a degree that most people would not believe until they have to deal with it. You know, I give various examples.

One is the illusion that you have in a modern car that you're controlling how fast you drive. You're not. When you push down on the accelerator pedal, all you're doing is feeding data to the computer. You're not connected to the engine to a cable system and a throttle any longer. You're sending data to a computer. And the computer then is telling the engine, okay, increase the RPMs or a certain amount. to give you the illusion that you're the one who's controlling the car. I had a Ford expedition a couple of weeks ago, and I was, this is a big vehicle, big SUV,

and I'm trying to back the thing up in my driveway. Now, I've lived where I lived for 20 years. I know my driveway. There's a big bush at the one side of my driveway. And I know because, again, I've been doing it for 20 years exactly how far I can back up before I hit that bush. But the Ford slams on the brakes a couple of feet before I get anywhere near the bush, because again, safety, but

you know, read, dig down and to think about what that means, the vehicle can decide that it's going to stop. Yeah. You know, watch your will. It's going to exercise control. And bit by bit, they're doing this. I had an article up the other day about this speed limit assistance technology. I love how they call it assistance

technology. Like, you didn't know you were driving faster than the speed limit. And now the car is, oh, thank you so much car for telling me that I'm driving faster than the speed limit. And, you know, first they try to shame you. There's a little icon that pops up the dashboard that shows a speed limit sign and it goes red you know you're driving faster than the speed limit and sometimes there's a chime that accompanies it and this is weirdly standard now on all the

vehicles why is that you know it's not optional for people who need assistance if i need assistance oh i love that i'll buy some assistance no they're making it standard because what they're doing is in classic fabian socialist style slowly bit by bit you know getting people used to this stuff and the next step will be not just assisting you to know that you're driving faster than the speed limit it will be preventing you from driving any faster than the speed limit by using the drive-by-wire throttle by using the electrically controlled braking system to prevent you from doing it and and what they're doing with that is is making driving such a it's no longer fun you feel like you're guaranteed you feel like you're a kindergartner again and that's the literally they want you to

just say you know the heck with it why am i why am i signing up for a seven hundred dollar a month loan for the next six years i don't even control the car the car nags me and pesters me all the time. It tells me what to do. The heck with it. I'm just going to get my app on my phone and I'll, you know, tap it and I'll get my ride. That's right. Yeah, the comedian, a British comedian Rowan Atkinson, who plays Mr. Bean. He was an engineer before he became a comedian. And he's got a lot, he loves cars. And he's got a lot of very expensive hypercars. And he said, well, you don't really drive these so much as you manage them, you know, because there's so much drive-by-wire stuff And I remember when Michael Hastings was killed, and I think he was killed.

I don't think it was an accident. And he had rented a late model Mercedes when that happened. And he was, he thought the people were after him with the government because of what he was reporting on. He had a lot of death threats from the government. And so he went out to his car, his landlady, he said, he would go out to the car and he'd look underneath it and all this other kind of stuff to see if there was some kind of a bomb on it. But they, you know, when you have the, when the computer is able to control your acceleration,

you're braking, your steering, and all these other things, it's very, very easy to assassinate somebody that way. And they have illustrated over and over again at the Black Hack Conference in Vegas, how easy it is to hack one of these cars as well, because they're also online. So everything is under computer control, and it's also online. So any bad actor, especially the government, can jump into this thing and do whatever they wish. They can shut you down. Or if they want to, they can try to make it look like it was an accident.

This is the type of thing we've been seeing for a long time. Yeah, you had your article when you're talking about the insurance, when will people decide to stop paying? And you talk about the fact that you've got an antique car. You drive it 300 miles a year and you stay within about a 10-mile radius of your home in rural Virginia. Why should you have to pay insurance for that? That should be your decision for that. But, of course, it is this corporate government fascism that we see over and over again where they force you to buy their product, isn't it?

It is. And now they are using insurance to price people out of vehicle ownership. Everybody, you probably have had this happen to you as well, has had their premium increase by, on average, 25 to 30%, and in some cases, 50% or more for absolutely new reason and having to do with anything they did in terms of having an accident, filing a claim, anything, or even a speeding ticket. You get the notice in the mail, and all of a sudden your premium is, you know, double what it was the year prior. Why? Because they can.

You know, because you have the option to say no. Imagine what a cup of coffee would cost if the government said, you have to go to Starbucks. You buy a cup of Starbucks coffee at least once a week. You know, we'd be paying $10 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks. That's exactly where we are, isn't it? That's essentially where we are with this. And I think, you know, we are getting to a point, you know, I have my ear to the ground about things like this. And it's also my own personal opinion that everybody's feeling pinched because of the cost of everything.

Everything is going up and they don't include it in the valuation of inflation either, do they? No. And so, you know, when it comes down to a choice between, you know, obeying the law and handing a check over to these insurance mobsters for a large sum of money that could be used to pay your electric bill or, you know, for your family, what's the choice? well probably a lot of people are going to say you know what i'm going to buy food for my family instead of sending this check to all state or geico yeah yeah and so what you know i mean the the illegal aliens can with impunity because they you know they can't they can't get blood out of a stone can they they don't have any assets to seize so and i'm not i'm really i'm not i'm not disparaging people who are in that category because i understand people are trying to improve

their lives and all of that i'm just trying to make the point that there are no consequences for those people. You know, if they want to go out and drive without insurance and hit you and wreck you, they'll walk away from it and the state will do nothing about it. But you and I, we don't hit anybody. You know, we haven't caused any problems for anybody, but we didn't hand over the money to the mobsters. They'll cancel your driver's license. They'll cancel your registration. And if they catch you driving, they'll impound your vehicle and potentially arrest you for it. Yes, absolutely right. Yeah, you're absolutely right. That's the way it works. It's a two-tier standard already in many different areas that we got in this country. Well, we're at

of time. It's always great having you on, Eric. Anything you want to tell us about what's happening with your website? Oh, well, nothing more than what's on there. I posted an article this morning that's more of a thought piece about how we're all kind of in this bad marriage situation in this country. Yeah, Trump is the guy who has bad marriages. He specializes in that, doesn't he? Isn't it interesting that for the most part, most people will say, okay, you know, if you have a situation where a couple just can't work it out, they're at odds. You know, nobody would say, well, they have to stay married and be miserable for the rest of their lives. People accept that sometimes marriages don't work and, you know, there's a divorce.

It's not a happy thing, but it's better than forcing people who can't live together to live together. Well, politically somehow that seems to be off the table. Why is that? You know, we're at a point in this country with the left, right, and just people who want to be left alone chiefly versus those who won't leave people alone. Why can't we just figure out a way to peacefully separate ourselves and that way end this fractiousness? Yeah. And just instead of going to blows with each other, and that includes blows at the ballot box and trying to constantly figure out a way to elect our guy, to impose our will on the other side, how about we just figure out a way to go our own way and live and let live? The problem is that probably half the country doesn't want to live and let live.

Yeah, I've talked about that. You know, if you look at the Scandinavian countries, they have split apart and joined together in various combinations many times. and, you know, they would peacefully join together, peacefully break apart, and there was never a war over it. We don't have a government like that. You know, when Marjorie Taylor Green started talking about having a national divorce, I said, yeah, the problem is, is that we're married to an abusive spouse who, once he finds out that we want to divorce him, he's going to come kill us, you know? Yep, I've got a picture that I recurrently used because I think it's very pithy and it says it all. And it's a picture of Abraham Lincoln, and the caption reads, if you try to leave me, I'll kill you. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, the ultimate abusive head of the household. That's exactly the case. Especially in a country that was formed over the right of secession and self-government. That was the basis of America's existence from the very beginning. How could you deny that to somebody? I'm always all about secession. And I would say, if at first you don't secede, try, try again. That would be my motto for everybody.

It's a safety valve. And everybody should be on board with that. Of course, there is one other thing we can do, and the people at Tenth Amendment Center have talked about this a lot. There is another avenue of this, and that is nullification. That is kind of the middle point. You know, we say, well, we're just going to ignore what you have to say. So there is nullification and non-commandeering, and short of, and that effectively can allow you to succeed issue by issue. If you've got people at the state level who have the backbone to do that type of thing,

the big if we don't because they're all on the take. I don't think that we're going to get this country back until we have a catastrophic economic system that's going to destroy the ability of our government with U.S. dollars or reserve currency to just print money out of thin air. Until that disappears, we're going to have this same type of situation. We do have one power under our control and it is to simply not participate to opt out on our own. You know, with regard to new cars, if you don't want to be data mined and controlled, well, don't buy a new car. You know, keep the older car that you have, get an older car, fix it up. You know, during the pandemic, don't wear a mask. Don't go along. Don't comply. If enough of us as individuals, you don't

have to join an organization. Just abide by and your own moral compass. And, you know, if this is wrong, I don't like this. I'm not going along with it. That's it. I'm just taking my stand. I'm not going to be a cattle and go along mooing with the herd just because that's what the herd does. yeah i had been thrown out of so many different places and restaurants and texas i had to move to tennessee because i promised these people i would never be back because of the way that they insisted that i wear a mask and uh so i left then i said and i won't be back and i kept my word by moving to another state that's the only way i could do it it's always great to have you on eric peter's autos dot com folks a great site for liberty and

mobility and a little bit of nostalgia now as well because that's how the only way we're going to be able to keep our mobility is with classic cars. Thank you, Eric. Always great talking. Thank you, Travis. Thank you, Eric. Always a pleasure speaking to you. And before we go, ACSAB, thank you so much for that. We really do appreciate it. It says so awesome, D-K and family. Thanks for everything. I wish I could do so much more. But you're already doing so much, A-C-S-A-B. Thank you. It really is because of your support that we're able to continue to do this, and we really cannot thank you enough. Thank you very much, folks. Thank you all very much. God bless you all. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Yes.

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