The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2307: How Endless War Destroys a Republic

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

────────────────────────────────────────[00:02:15]US Strikes Iran for the Fourth Straight Day — Trump Backs Off 20% Hormuz Toll Hours Before EscalatingWall Street jokes: Trump always "chickens out taco." He threatened to destroy bridges and power plants next week while saying he's not interested in negotiating.────────────────────────────────────────[00:04:40]Threatening Civilian Infrastructure Is Not a Legitimate Military Target — Brigadier General Confirms It on CNNKimmett: bridges used primarily by civilians aren't legitimate targets; what Trump is threatening is a war crime under every legal framework.────────────────────────────────────────[00:13:00]Rubio Wants to Dismantle the ICC "Brick by Brick" — To Protect War Criminals in This AdministrationThey don't object to UN climate panels or parental rights destruction — only to the court that could issue arrest warrants for Trump, Rubio, and Hegseth.────────────────────────────────────────[00:29:02]Democrat Socialists Plan to Abolish the Senate and Subordinate President and Courts to a Single CongressMadison: accumulation of all powers in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny; the DSA model is the Soviet Politburo.────────────────────────────────────────[00:51:21]ICE Committed Two Murders in One Week — Houston and Maine — Masked Agents With No IdentificationA witness heard the Maine victim say "I tried to stop" after being shot through the windshield; experienced agents blew the whistle on 2,000-arrest-per-day quotas.────────────────────────────────────────[00:56:24]121+ Ex-Israeli Operatives Serving as ICE Agents in Chicago Alone — IDF Training Atlanta Police at Cop CityKnight: we don't want IDF tactics brought here — they have no respect for human rights or civil liberties.────────────────────────────────────────[01:01:42]Celente: Trends Journal Predicted No Peace Deal — War Escalates Because People Are in a Summer State of MindTwo months ago the Trends Journal said Trump would escalate during summer when people are "lazy, hazy, crazy"; Iran says ships are legally in their waters.────────────────────────────────────────[01:12:40]Celente: AI Bust Coming Around October — Shiller P/E Above 41, More Overvalued Than the Great Depression BubbleAI is still infant-stage like the internet in 1999; China's DeepSeek wiped out $800B of US AI value in one day with a model costing $6M to build.────────────────────────────────────────[01:19:36]Celente: A False Flag Will Unite People to Fight Iran — and It Will Go NuclearWhen all else fails they take you to war; the Ukraine war is also ramping up; not a single voice for peace is allowed in mainstream media.────────────────────────────────────────[01:28:16]Real US Debt Is $126 Trillion When Entitlements Are Included — Fortune Magazine Confirmed ItUnfunded Social Security and Medicare obligations bring the actual figure to $126-160 trillion; Celente: this will be the Greatest Depression, not just a recession. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's 15th of July, year of our Lord, 2006. Well, today we're going to be talking about surveillance, among other things. The war is continue, and Trump is escalating this, and I'm sure that Lindsay Goheim is looking up from hell, smiling at the continuing war, but we also have a continuing war domestically as we see the same federal law enforcement overreach tactics forgetting about any kind of civil engagement in terms of enforcing law and look folks that is vital it doesn't matter whether they're doing the right thing or not if they do it the wrong way that is the key thing and as we have people pushing back against the flock cameras

we have a literal flock of cameras. They're now going to police, they're now going to aerial drone surveillance. Yeah, that kind of flock. And so it just keeps metastasizing, even though there is some pushback in some areas. It's too little, and we have to step this up. We're going to talk about that,

as well as the AI bubble economy. Gerald Slynti is going to be joining us in the second hour. Stay with us. Well, we've had U.S. military strikes in Iran for the fourth straight day. And again, he starts with strikes just a couple of hours after he backs off of his proposal for a 20% toll on all cargo that would be passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Again, as the Wall Street joked about this, Trump always chickens out, Taco.

And not a chance that Hormuz opens, nacho. And he just rang the Taco Bell again, didn't he? So it's almost funny, except that it's not funny. People are dying, and massive amounts of money are being created and added to the federal debt. Next week, it gets really bad, he said. Next week, come the bridges. And we're going to knock out all their power planes. We're going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.

But he just said he's not going to negotiate anymore. I said, I'm not interested in negotiating with these people. They're scum. Remember that? What is this scum? about the most dangerous thing we have is unpredictability. That is what gets us into very dangerous wars. And of course, this guy is absolutely unpredictable.

Whether you're talking about tariffs or whether you're talking about campaign promises, you can't count on anything that Donald Trump says. It's not the first time that Trump has threatened to strike power plants and bridges in Iran. He's frequently used aggressive, blustery threats as negotiating tactic without following through. And everybody knows this. It's not fooling anybody anymore, as a matter of fact. And when you look at the whole idea of, well, we're going to change the regime, so we got people who want to rise up against the Ayatollahs. And certainly there are a lot of people who want to rise up against us. It's a horrible regime. Nevertheless, what Trump did was he drove the people into the arms of the Ayatollahs.

You saw people circling the power plants and standing on the bridges the first time he threatened this? How many times is he going to threaten to wipe out their civilization, to wipe out their infrastructure? And this is also, by the way, not a justified war when you start to do that. A retired brigadier General Mark Kemet was on CNN, he said bridges and infrastructure that are primarily used to support military forces are legitimate military targets, which then implies that the ones that are not used by the military are not military targets. They are civilian targets, and it's not a legitimate target. This is why when Lindsey Graham kept saying,

wow, we dropped nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and it was justified. No, it wasn't. Not on civilians, it's not justified. If you want to end the war early, then drop the nuclear bombs on these islands rather than doing another Iwo Jima. But that is not a justification.

As a matter of fact, it's not the way to win a war either. and there have been an excellent book. It was written, bombing to win. And he pointed out the failure of American wars since World War II has been predicated really on this idea, this overestimation of air power. And the idea that if we drop enough bombs are going to win a war. Well, that didn't work in Korea.

It didn't work in Vietnam. It hasn't worked in any of these wars. And primarily it's because they don't even pick their targets to be military targets. the picking civilian targets. What that does is that galvanizes the population against you. So we saw that happening with roads and bridges, them protecting it. Then we saw them mourning the leader that was assassinated. And so Trump's response to the people who are mourning the leader who was assassinated,

of course they put up signs and pictures, you know, you're next and so forth. You know, we are exceptional. We should be able to assassinate individuals and never have anybody even threatened to assassinate us. So he says, if they touch me, destroy the entire country. And they probably will. But they will destroy this country as well in terms of bankrupting us. House Republicans are going to meet with Exceith at the Pentagon for a $350 billion request as an increase. It wasn't that long ago.

Of course, I know that they've devalued the dollar significantly, but it wasn't that long ago before when the entire budget was $350 billion. Now, they want that as an increase. increase. And we just hit a trillion dollars for the first time in this last budget, a record amount. Now we've got to increase that by another 35%. And that's not really even where they want to go. That's not even including where they want to be in terms of the standard budget. Trump and War Pete want a one and a half trillion dollar budget. They started talking about that immediately after they got their record one trillion dollar budget. They wanted to go to one and a half trillion.

I think that we just can't throw fiat money at wars and win them. This is something that is a clear indication of a late-stage empire. The debt, the paranoia, the constant wars, and this is exactly what is happening here. This is a dying empire, and the emperor has no clothes, and he has no means to pay back this crushing debt that he is putting on this country. The empire in its dying throws. They're expected to combine a funding boost for the Pentagon with a grant program to encourage states to adopt voter ID. More money thrown out. And that is the way that both Republicans and Democrats have operated.

They bribe state and local governments by grants and money. So they bribe them. They blackmail them and say, you know all that money that you're getting from us? We're going to take that away now, unless you do this. and so I think we ought to have voter ID. I don't think we ought to have bribery from the federal government. I don't think the federal government ought to be setting the rules for elections. I think that is a violation of state sovereignty.

But of course, that's what happened with the first, fourth turning after the revolution, with Lincoln's War. They decided that they would break the power of the states that had created the federal government. And so you had things like the change. of the appointment of senators to make them directly elected. The Constitution amended for that and many other things. And those are now escalating. We're now seeing the Democrat Socialist and they've got a new platform out there.

They want to get rid of the Senate entirely. They want to have one legislative body, Congress, which is going to be the entire government. Get rid of the judicial branch. Get rid of the executive branch. Get rid of the Senate. Actually, they would keep the executive and judicial branches. but they would be subordinate to the Congress, or should we call it the Politburo?

Because that's exactly what their model is. Their model is the Soviet Union. That's where the Democrats are now. As I said for the longest time, if you listen to this program, you heard me say, the Democrats of today are the Marxist of my youth. And the Republicans are the Democrats of my youth. They are the socialists of my youth,

because they have accepted as a given the whole idea the welfare state and all the rest of the tenants, the taxpayer supported government schools and all the rest of this. They were part of the planks of the communist party. They've accepted all that. And I understand that the difference between socialism and Marxism, as the reason parody pointed out the other day

that we played for you, the only difference between the two of them is that socialism polls better than communism. But you heard the president talk about how much he wants to effectively double the funding, for the national defense, said Mike Johnson. So it's not just they want to go from a record trillion dollars to one and a half trillion. That'd be a 50% increase.

No, they want to go to two trillion. That's what they've got their mark on. This is the rapid acceleration of debt. Folks, we're going to go into hyperinflation with this kind of stuff. They can't sustain this. It's not sustainable. It's such a fraud. He says, and look, it's because we live in dangerous times, said Mike Johnson.

We're fighting evil terrorists and tyrants around the world, and we have to be able to protect our national security. Yeah, well, we live in dangerous times because we are starting wars, because we're attacking civilian populations, and because we're acting like literal pirates, as Trump has said. He said, yeah, kind of acting like pirates. And yeah, you are. I called you a pirate before you called yourself a pirate.

And when you talk about national security, folks, we have to be able to protect our national. security. Do you notice that he didn't say we have to be able to protect the American people? That is not what Mike Johnson is interested in. He doesn't care a fig about you or your family. This is just like the American government has been. Once they created the national security state and all the rest of this after World War II with Truman. He created the NSA with an executive order. He started pushing all this national security state, the idea that we're going to operate as a world's policeman. Once I went to all of that, started talking about

national security this and national security that, it really was the plan to save themselves and let the rest of us die. That is really what they mean by national security. Protect the politicians, protect the bureaucrats, keep a continuity of government, and the rest of us can burn, literally when they start a nuclear war. This is what it has always been about my entire life, and that's exactly what it's about. So you will be forced into tax, slavery, and debt to pay for this empire, to pay for the military industrial complex products that they want to sell so that they can pursue their geopolitical games. And if they don't blow us up, they will push us into poverty.

Cernard 10 Kane and the Democrats are pushing back on this now because they're out of power, but they have no problem pushing for debt and pushing for a bigger military. He says, we're looking at not only the, supplemental, but the fact that Trump is trying to get over one and a half trillion defense budget. Well, you may want to talk to Mike Johnson because Mike Johnson is saying, no, we've got to get to $2 trillion. We've got to double where it is right now.

And so he said, this is a supplemental that is supplemental on top of the presidential budget request that increases the Pentagon's budget by 40% in just one year. Actually, it's 50% if we're talking about the same thing. Well, meanwhile, the U.S. wants to tear down the international criminal court. And look, I'm not a proponent of the UN, and this is an excellent article from the New American attacking the agenda of the UN, attacking the agenda and the honesty and the integrity of the International Criminal Court. And we need to always consider that.

But think about how many things that we do with the UN. And we're still giving money to the UN. We're still members of the UN. I think we should get out of the UN. So I do not support any of this stuff. However, why now? And why only the ICC? Did they have a problem with the climate change stuff and the IPCC,

the international panel on climate change and all the rest of this stuff? No, they don't have a problem with that. Do they have a problem with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to destroy parental rights and to make children, to say children have rights so they can be the advocate for the children and they can take the children away from the parents, a village can raise the child? They have a problem with that? No. do we understand that the drug war is actually from the UN the schedule of the four different levels,

the four tiers of drugs that they prohibited, and which drugs go into those four tiers? That all came from the UN. That was a UN agenda. And it was the UN that jumped out and said, hey, you can't legalize this even for medical use. You can't legalize marijuana. When that happened, and I thought, why is the UN doing? complaining about that. That's when I realized that they had actually created the war on drugs, not Richard Nixon. He just turned in his homework and did it for them. So we have all these

problems with the UN. Why are we focusing then on the international criminal court? 250 years Americans have governed ourselves as a free and sovereign people. Really? We choose our own leaders. We determine our own laws. And when we're accused of a crime, we stand for judgment before a jury of our own peers. This is the essential. and indispensable feature of our form of government. It is the foundation of our shared way of life. But today, powerful people in faraway places want to take that away from us.

They believe that they should be in charge of your laws, of your country, your life, and they don't care whether or not you agree. So does he say that about Israel? When Israel says we're going to purge anybody that criticizes us, you will be banned, as they did with that one UN-N. individual who said, talked about the genocide.

They said, well, they boasted about it. We got her ban. She can't even come in the United States. And we even got her husband demoted at his job. She can't use the banking system. We'll show you that we control everything. Don't criticize us. We will not only call you racist, but we will ban you from travel.

We will ban you from the banking system and all the rest of the stuff. Don't talk to me, Rubio, about that. You were the one who said that we went to this Iran war because, because Israel forced us. So now they're talking about getting rid of the in ICC, the international criminal court. Why might that be? Well, let's just consider the fact that the controlling interests of our government, the people that Rubio and the rest of this crowd has sold out to, these Zionists who want to destroy

free speech and who want to ban people that disagree with them politically, disagree with this foreign government, that these, the same. foreign government of Netanyahu and Galant and other people who have admitted that they not only want to wipe out everybody in Gaza when they call them Amalek, that's what they're talking about. That is basically code for genocide. Because if you remember, they're referring back to the Old Testament where the Amalekites were to be eliminated. And of course, go back and think about how their first interaction began with the Amaleks.

Amalek was that they were, they took. their name from. He was the descendant of Esau, the twin brother of Jacob, who became Israel. And it was the Amaleks who attacked Israel when they got close. I mean, there wasn't any conflict there. They were the ones who initiated it. Folks were back to who started the war. What is justified? Is it justified to act as an aggressor? And so because of that, there was bad blood between them forever. And they both tried to wipe each other out. And so when they talk about the Amalekites, and they call call some nation Amalek,

they're talking about wiping them out. And again, it goes to the story of Esther and Purim that they celebrate on an annual basis. He talked about genocide. And when you look at Galant, Galant killed his own people in order to get some of the people in Gaza. And as John Kiriaku pointed out, this is the ethics of Israel, that if there's somebody in an apartment complex that they want to get, that's a leader of some group that they want to wipe out, they'll kill everybody in the block in order to try to kill that one person. And they'll do it without remorse.

And they did it to their own citizens on October the 7th. Massive amount of destruction. I just played for you this week. The video of all the melted cars on the road. And, of course, the people who came over the walls on the walls on the... October 7th, didn't have the kind of weaponry to do that. Israelis did. But Galant has even admitted that they would sacrifice.

Yeah, in this building alone, we had 18 Israelis that we had to kill to try to get these terrorists or so forth. And so they are war criminals. They're genocidal. And that is what the ICC is really focused on. That's its mission statement. Now, the New American points out that like everything else in the UN, you can't really trust them to be honest brokers. but they do focus on war crimes and on genocide. And so because we are allied, and I would argue, controlled by Israel at this point,

something's got to be done to protect Benjamin Netanyahu and Galant and these other people and the Americans who have been complicit with him. But we've got our own issues as well. If you just look at Venezuela, what was done in Venezuela to these so-called drug boats that we never bothered to check to see if they really were running drugs. and if they were, that has never been a capital offense under our law, and it is not something that they have a legal right or a moral right to execute people without even verifying that they're running drugs. But again, it's not a capital offense, but they just started blowing boats up. And the worst case was the very first one where they shot the ship up and people were still surviving in the water and they circled back and executed the people who were shipwrecked.

That is a crime under every rulebook. It's a crime under the Pentagon's rulebooks. It's a crime under the Geneva Convention. It is a heinous act. And so people like Trump, Rubio, Hegsseth, and other officials in the U.S. government have an exposure to having somebody come after them for war crimes and genocides. And how does that look? you had that kind of indictment against Henry Kistinger for a very long time.

He always dodged being arrested. Nevertheless, in the Philippines, Robert Duterte, who Trump loved when Duterte was the president in the Philippines, I think that's the title, not prime minister, I think it was president. And he had his people who were fighting the war on drugs. He told them just due extrajudicial killings. You can, you suspect somebody's a drug dealer? Kill him. well his after he was out of power the philippine government handed him over to the iCC the international

criminal court and he is there awaiting trial for war crimes and other high crimes so there is a justification and this is something that quite frankly with the enemies and the the way that the the trump regime is attacking everyone this is something that could be the way for the future for some of these Trump administration officials. And so it's for their own interest as well as for the interests of the Israelis that they want to go after this. But they're not going to cut the ties to the UN. So they don't mind all the rest of this stuff. And to me, that is the dog that did not bark.

The fact they don't have a problem with all the rest of the things that the UN is doing. And it's pretty much everything that it does. But if you've got a court that is going to call out. people for war crimes and for genocide. Oh, we got to get rid of that. So, they issued some prosecutions, says the new American. However, the U.S. military looked into incidents of facilities in Afghanistan after they tried to charge people with war crimes in Afghanistan. Some lower level soldiers did face court martial and a handful were convicted on various charges. Do you think that would have happened if the ICC had not pushed against that?

And, of course, they certainly aren't perfect. But, of course, neither are the American courts either. And when you look at the investigation about war crimes in Afghanistan, think about the fact that they never talked about prosecuting Gina Haspel. She was the one who presided over the torture that produced lies about weapons of mass destruction. She covered up the torture program. Of course, John Kyayaku was a whistleblower. He went to jail. Nobody else went to jail.

The people who did the torture didn't go to jail. The psychologists who got paid massive amounts of money to train the CIA on how to torture people, they didn't go to jail. And as for Gina Haskell, even though Trump, when he was running, said the Iraq war was based on lies about weapons of mass destruction. They were just outright lies. he promoted the woman who produced those lies using torture. He promoted her to the head of the CIA. Yeah, and they did not come after her with the ICC either. According to Rubio, the Afghanistan investigation was only the opening move

and an assault against American self-government. Well, if you're going to have self-government, you need to have some justice. So it's on you if you don't hold people responsible when they commit war crimes. If instead you promote them to the head of the CIA or other issues, then that is where these people actually serve a useful purpose. They don't have the power to come into America and arrest anybody. But if you want to do business internationally, if you're traveling around, you've got a possibility that you might get arrested and take into their court. And I say more power to them. There's credible evidence, says the New American, to support the ICC's investigation to lay.

alleged war crimes committed by U.S. soldiers and CIA operators. Accusations of war crimes leveled against Netanyahu and Putin may also be aligned with objective principles of justice, but the ICC has traditionally been biased and unjust. Tell me any court that is not biased and unjust. I don't know of a single one. His prosecution is overwhelmingly target leaders from nations that resist globalist influence, most notably in Africa. Nearly every major prosecution, the ICC is undertaken, involves African leaders.

This, to me, is an echo of what we see in terms of people saying, well, the American justice system is skewed because it focuses more on blacks committing crimes than on other groups statistically or whatever. And we've talked about this in the past. It's a higher percentage of blacks, but it's actually more whites than blacks who get caught up in the least. legal system. So we can argue about the demographics of all this stuff. But let me just say this. You know, many people say, well, are they actually committing the crimes? If the crimes are more relevant in a black community, then, of course, you should have more black people arrested if that is something that is endemic to the community. Just like we see the gang rape is endemic to the Muslim Pakistani community in the UK. What do you think about the African nations? I know that the

African nations are some of the most corrupt governments we've ever seen. They're mostly Marxist and they're horrific. What they do, their own people is horrific. I'm not surprised at all that there's more prosecutions of African nations. You can try to make a sinister motive out of all this, but I think is more than likely justified. So he goes on to say, we will dismantle the ICC brick by brick if necessary. And I would say it's because, just like Kissinger before them, they deserve to be labeled war criminals, and they deserve to be subject to arrest when they're traveling,

and they may be subject to sanctions and other issues as well. And I think it would be justified to do that. As a matter of fact, you know, when we look at all this, the real issue before us is did Israel bring us in to this, latest war where they are actually still committing genocide and war crimes in Lebanon. And they drug us into this and now they want to merge with the Israelis. And it's this administration. They're trying to get rid of the International Criminal Court because they're international criminals themselves.

We are Americans. We are a sovereign nation. We don't take military orders from Israel. resist like at 1776. Tell your senators to oppose MDAA Section 219, U.S. Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. Call your senators 202-224-3121. Yeah, folks, this is the fight we can win.

There's not that much support for it in Congress. And if you call and put pressure on them, look, I've seen this before. I've mentioned this case before as well. In North Carolina, as homeschoolers, we were a targeted minority, very small minority back in the late 80s. And the Democrats were in control of all the government. They had the governorship as well as both houses of the state house, the state congress. And so they had the teachers union, big, powerful, and connected to the Democrat Party. They wanted to eliminate homeschooling entirely. And what happened was this small active minority of homeschooling parents started calling the representatives.

And even in a Democrat-controlled state that was beholden to the teachers' union, we stopped these rules that would have shut down homeschooling. you can do that. So few people ever call, but when you do call, and if you call en masse as a group, even if you're a small group, the perception is that there's overwhelming move against this, and they back off. And we can get this to back off as well. I am absolutely certainly can. Make sure that you call and make sure that you call the Senate. It's before the Senate right now. And that number that you just saw up there, I don't have it to repeat it. but it's very important.

We'll post that on our social media account today. Meanwhile, the Democrats are going full communist. And their plan, as I mentioned, the top of the hour, is to abolish the Senate and to create a Politburo form of government. They will have the Congress appoint the president and will control the judiciary. And they have many other things down their wish list. They want amnesty for all illegal aliens, and, of course, wiping out any student debt and all the rest of this.

That is, we'll talk about this when we come back. We're going to take a break. We're at the bottom of the hour here, and we will be right back, folks. Stay with us. Unlike most revolutions, whether people rise against a real economic oppression, in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle. It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young, gentlemen supposes. The issue involved here is one of monopoly.

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We have Zell. And so we also have SubscribeStar. And we appreciate the people who support us there on a regular basis. And we just had a few people who have signed up recently for that this month as well. Let's get back to the DSA. According to a source familiar with the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to the organization. its long-term vision for the U.S. policy platform. And folks, this is a good example of why the Democrats,

the elected Democrats, are pushing the panic button. This is so far out of the mainstream and so radical, they know that this is going to harm them as much, if not more so, than the trainee stuff that is out there. So they want to eliminate the Senate, replace the president and the Supreme court with the executive branch and judiciary that is chosen and subordinate to Congress, would enable a one chamber Congress, no Senate, to appoint a president and judges who are rubber stamps for its agenda. And just think about it. Why did we have two different legislative branches?

I always used to wonder about that when I was a kid. I didn't realize that the Senate was there to represent the power of the states. States don't have rights, by the way, but they do have powers. and they retained those powers unless they are specifically delegated to the federal government. That's what the 10th Amendment says. And so to break that, you had in the early part of the 20th century is you had people who had been in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War. And the Civil War is all about breaking the power of the states. And folks, that is essential because you have to have that division of power between the people and between the states and between the federal government.

otherwise all power is going to be consolidated. And this is exactly what these people are trying to do, is consolidate all power into one spot. Now, Madison addressed that. He said, and this is a quote that was put in with the New American article talking about this, Madison said, the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may just, be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. And that is exactly what they want to do. But all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, and the hands of Congress, and the

hands of a Politburo. It is the Soviet model. It is antithetical to the Constitution. But of course, this all began. We had the constitutional amendment that had the direct election of senators and people cheered that. So, hey, democracy. No, people already had representation in the House of Representatives.

that was what that was about. They wanted to divide the federal government into competing powers, checks and balances. And they wanted to divide the power of government between the federal government, between the states and the people. And what they did was they broke the power of the states. That was the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, who were under Lincoln. And I think it's kind of interesting. You can look at Lincoln. There was an alternative history book, I thought was excellent by Harry Turtle Dove. It's called How Few Remain. And what he does in it is he has a,

there's so many things that happen in the Civil War that the history is so amazing and interesting just in terms of what happened in the battles and little issues like that at one point. At before I think it was in Teatum, some orders are dropped and they don't realize it. And the Union Army gets those orders and it changes. the battle, and it's still a very bloody battle, but it would have been a very bloody loss. And according to his alternative history, would have ended the war early. So you still have all these people, many of them who died during the war right after,

like Lincoln, survive. And Lincoln, because he lost the war, is drummed out of public life. But he makes a comeback at the point where this book begins. And he comes back as a leader of the socialist party, because that's what you wind up with when you consolidate all power. And I thought that was spot on in terms of, when we look at his rhetoric, it does really line up with the socialists as well. A single chamber, quote unquote, Congress, by definition, a one-party body that will rubber-stamp policies of the party. And the model for this is the Soviet Union, the USSR's Politburo, the Political Bureau.

Understand that, in a sense, we almost have that in terms of what the Congress has done. The Congress, everybody talks about a do-nothing Congress. And they point out here, they said, well, you know, gridlock. can be a good thing many times, and I agree it can be. We don't necessarily want to accelerate change. But understand that the Congress really does do nothing. They have abdicated their authority to the bureaucracy. So we really do have a political bureaucracy. You want to call it a Politburo? Go ahead. I'm fine with that. The updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants. It would defund the Department of War. It would extend full voting rights to people with criminal convictions

and people who are not citizens. It also advocates establishing a 32-hour workweek with no reduction in payer benefits, Medicare for all canceling all-student loan debt, the elimination of cash bail, and universal rent control. You can see why this has got politicians and the Democrat Party who want to keep their position running scared, trying to distance themselves from it.

It is full-on Marxism. Even as the GOP is accepting the world, welfare state and government schools and all these other aspects of socialism, they're going on to full-on Marxism. So again, Cliff Connolly, the DSA's Marxist Unity Group caucus, said, we're never going to have democracy or socialism in the United States as long as the president and the Supreme Court exist in their current form. The whole point of having a Supreme Court, the president and the Supreme Court, is so that if popular legislation passes through the House of Representatives, is the ruling class has these other levels that they can levers they can pull to stop it from

happening, he said. And so he pointed to the blocking of Biden's student debt relief as an example of this dynamic. They always see everything in terms of the class struggle, in terms of different classes, levels of people. But we have to understand that it was really about, you. You know, using the fallen nature. This is what the Christian understanding at the time of our founding was about. They understand that man is fallen, that we have an evil sin nature. So how do we control that? As Madison said, because men are not angels, we need to have government.

But because the government will be run by men, how do we control that? Well, the answer was, divide the power. Set these people who are ambitious against each other in terms of checks and in terms of balances. That is the essential issue. It's not about a class struggle, which the Marxists always see, or as they've tried to cast this most recently, as a struggle of racism. But let me just say that as the Democrats are running to this model of centralized authority,

is it a good thing for us to have all power centralized into the executive branch? Look at what Trump has done in terms of executive orders. He does executive orders constantly, constantly declares an emergency does an executive order, and then does things that are antithetical to the Constitution, as opposite to the Constitution, things that are prohibited in the Constitution, he just does them by fiat and by executive order. So there is a danger, an equal danger,

coming from the Republican Party that we see from the Democrat Party as well. They are both drunk with power. And unfortunately, what has happened is we have lost most of the checks and balances at this point, and nobody is holding anyone accountable, just like we were talking about before. Were you talking about war crimes or genocide? Nobody's held accountable. It doesn't matter how many people they kill. They could lock us down in a medical martial law.

They could then inject people with what they knew was a poison, a genetic code injection. I called it the GCI in 2020, and I've been calling it that ever since. They can do all of that, and there is no justice for them. Yeah, we know what happens. when we consolidate all power. I want to talk to the Trump's support for a minute. I don't know who you are, and I don't know why you like this guy. Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else up to it.

The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level, I don't think this country's ever seen. Ted Cruz. And my concern is that he would grab up that power and really treat the country as sort of his little bully fife Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten. He's been exploiting working Americans for 40 years. He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious, big. He says he's for the little guy, but he's actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy.

Collianne Conway. Yeah. She knows what he's about. Donald Trump the other day said that if he tells a soldier to commit a war crime, the soldier will just go to it. And they're doing it right now. That's Mike Pompey. I don't think Donald Trump. has even read the Constitution, knows what's in the Constitution.

Yeah, Glenn Beck likes him now. A toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense. Yeah, Rick Perry took a position. I just cannot support Donald Trump. Susan Collins. Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist in an orange-faced windbag. Donald Trump is a con artist. He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies.

He lies. practically every word that comes out of his mouth. I think he's a cook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office. Yeah, they all knew then. They all know now. We all know now.

We also know what Lindsay Glym is really about. Now, Trump has demanded, basically, that Lindsay's sister replace him in his Senate seat until they have the elections. And so that happened because Trump gets what Trump wants. As Kentucky statesman put out on X, he said, no experience necessary. The only job requirement in the U.S. Senate is the ability to follow orders from APEC. That's absolutely right. You know, I've talked about the wars that Lindsay Graham has done through his entire life.

I mean, he lied us into one war after the other. To his dying day, he was pushing war, and he was talking about how this is great. Look at, we spent all that money in Ukraine, but look at how many Russians we got to kill. I mean, it was all about bloodshed and money. That's what it was about. But of course, Ben Shapiro loved that. We can judge a man by his enemies. You know who was happy when Lindsay Graham died?

Iran was very happy. Russia was very happy. You know who else was really, really happy? The Echo Chamber of Evil. So who is that Echo Chamber of Evil? The Dirtbag left and the two online right, they hug each other, they help each other, they maximize each other, they collab on destroying America. So what you have here is a closed loop, an echo chamber.

where the same it doesn't... He's not an echo chamber of the Zionist, is he? And, of course, if we criticize their wars, their genocides, the way they conduct their wars, the way they start their wars of aggression, if we criticize their assassinations and their coups, we're the bad guys, right? We're the evil ones.

Well, meanwhile, we're still waiting to see what's going to happen with Mitch McConnell, but I thought this is really funny. Somebody put this meme up, and when she's it, you cannot unsee it. This is Mitch McConnell. Of course, if you're listening on radio, You can't see this.

But it's Mitch McConnell next to Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. They are spot on dead ringers here. And the person put this up, said, Little did we know that Granny Clampett had another son they never told us about. She left him behind in Tennessee when they moved to Beverly Hills. But again, when you look at the whole Mitch McConnell thing, the fact that they were able to keep this quiet and not have anybody to talk about it for nearly a month. And now it's been over a month. And they still haven't, as many people

are saying, can't the governor of Kentucky, this Democrat who is looking at this, now he doesn't have the power to appoint a successor? Republicans took that away from him, I think, in an anticipation of what would happen to Mitch McConnell. They did that in 2024. They have a supermajority of Republicans in the state of Kentucky. And so they took away the power for. the governor to appoint a successor from Mitch. But they have to only stall this until August the 3rd, which is only another couple of weeks. And we're looking at how long they've been able to run. They've been going with this thing now for about six weeks.

So they can keep it up for another two weeks. Then there won't be a special election. And that's, they're willing to lie and to shame themselves in public to keep that from happening. It's the same kind of thing that we saw with Mike Johnson. delaying and delaying and delaying what was happening with the Epstein files and, you know, shutting down Congress and refusing to seat someone during the election because they did not want to have those released. Meanwhile, when you look at lies and the vanity of Trump, this whole thing about the reflecting pond truly is a reflection. It's reflection really on both sides that are

obsessed with this pond, but it's also a reflection on Trump, who when things did not work out very well with his no bid contract with a person who had been convicted multiple times of bribing politicians, then he started casting the blame on people who didn't like him. People say, well, show us the video of these people who put a 300 foot gash in the pool. Well, they have now drained it and now you can see what it looks like. And you can see just as reporters who went there, we're telling us, Now, I can see it for your own stuff. There is no 300-foot gash. That line down the middle is for drainage.

It was there before. And as many people are pointing out, perhaps it was Trump and his entourage. They thought there'd be a great idea and a lot of fun if they were to drive down this thing. And they did that before it got filled up. They did that while it was still being worked on. If there is any gash, which, again, there's not really much evidence of any of that, but if there is a gash, it's in a line that looks like it's a little bit worn, they would kind of correspond to their tire print.

And there's a picture of the motorcade that he decided he would drive down the center of the pool. So it is kind of interesting how he projects that onto other people. So we're going to take a quick break here. And when we come back, I want to talk. about what is happening in terms of the ice, so-called law enforcement. Look, I am all about protecting the borders. And I think the people should be sent back if they came here illegally. But I've always said that I think the right way to approach this is to, first of all,

turn off the welfare magnet. If people want to work here, I don't really have that much of a problem with it. They should not be allowed to vote. But I have a problem with people working here if they're supporting themselves. but no welfare for people, no magnet to bring people, no free education for this. No, absolutely not. But when you look at what Trump is doing the way that he is enforcing this, it is actually making it much worse. And so he is going to destroy any consensus to say that we need to control our borders just by the over-the-top way that they are operating with people. But we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.

You're listening to the David Knight Show. We've had two murders by the people in ICE. And I say murders because I really do believe they were not justified. These people are not threatened. We have in both of these cases, apparently, people who were afraid. Why would they be afraid? Well, you've got these guys who are wearing masks who don't identify themselves who glory and their intimidation and their confrontation.

Again, wearing masks. You don't know who they are, but there's a reputation about this. And people foolishly run, then they see that as a license to kill. And so there was one that happened in Houston last week, one that just happened a couple of days ago in Maine. And the situation in Maine, the guy appeared to be confused. And as he had been shot, the person shot him through the windshield as they pulled him out. He said, I tried to stop. But he died.

Eyewitness heard that. and they come out with our own stories about what happened. Oh, they rammed us. So they tried to run us down. We've heard this story before. And we've seen them lie before about this. And I've got to say, I don't like the massive waves of illegal immigration. I understand what that's about.

I understand that that is to divide and conquer a country. We see it happening throughout Europe. We know exactly what that agenda is about. And, of course, it comes through the UN and a lot of the NGOs that are globalist in terms of their orientation. but let's not make the mistake of giving carte blanche to the people say, do whatever you need to do to throw these people out. If you do that, if you give that kind of power to government, that is the very worst thing that can happen.

The very worst criminal you can have is a criminal who's wearing the badge. And that's the thing that we need to fear the most. Far more than somebody who's been here for 34, 35 years, never had any issues with law enforcement, was working and supporting himself. and his family, that is not nearly an issue, if it is an issue at all. That is not the issue if you, the dangerous existential issue to us, that if we have law enforcement that is not trained and is not trying to do a measured, reasonable response, they have to be held to a higher

standard because they have so much power. It is a very dangerous thing to give that kind of unrestrained power to people. So, yeah, Again, people are trying to get evidence from the federal government. They do not want to give the evidence. As a matter of fact, we've seen this type of thing in the past before. I remember when it was an InfoWorse. And there was a situation there. There was a bank that had just been robbed.

The police were there in the bank investigating the robbery. And a black guy comes up to go into the bank and the door is locked. He pulls on it and won't open. And then a policeman starts coming after him. He got very scared when he saw a cop there. He started running. Now, the cop took that. as an admission of guilt for some reason.

Chased him down the road. He eventually caught the guy under a bridge. They had a struggle, and he wound up killing the guy who ran away. And you look at this and say, well, you know, why would they run when they see the police if they hadn't done something? Well, because the black community looks at this and says, well, I know how this is likely going to happen if I don't get away from this guy. So it propagates. And I remember that Art Acevedo, who was the police chief in Austin at the time, he was. Big pals with Alex Jones.

And he later became police chief in Austin, Houston, I should say. But he was there at the time. And Jacari Jackson rightfully confronted him. Alex wouldn't do it. But Chikari did over that. And boy, did Alex get mad that he confronted Art Acevedo. But it was not justified. And Acevedo just instinctively sided with the police.

There was absolutely no reason for them to get into a fight and a struggle. As many people pointed out, the more experienced people at ICE, have blown the whistle on this. They said, only the reason this is happening is because we've got quotas. We've got quotas. We've got to have 2,000 arrests per day.

And if your department is not doing that, people are getting fired for not meeting these quotas from the Trump administration. Not only that, but they made 80% of them work on 4th of July, even. And as one guy was saying, look, who is more experienced,

he said, look, if somebody's going to run, let them run. We'll find them later. You know, we've got their information. and arrest them later. Don't put yourself in a bad situation. In other words, just like this Renee Good situation, don't jump in front of the car,

then pull out your gun and shoot them if they don't immediately or can't stop. Oh, you're going to run me down. Well, you jumped in front of the car. Don't put yourself in a bad way, he said. Just let them run and we can catch them later. Many police have wised up about this in terms of stopping high-speed pursuit of people as well.

You can find them later. Don't put a lot of lives at risk, including your own. And so Maine was a new recruit, the guy that was there, and he was obviously not that well trained. But we also need to take a look at perhaps who's doing the training. When you look at Chicago, for example, it has now been shown that you have more than 120, 121 ex-Israeli operatives. are now serving as ICE agents in Chicago alone. Is that a problem? I think that really is a problem, especially when you look at how they typically engage people in Israel.

We don't want those tactics brought here. One thing that most mainstream outlets don't talk about is that the Israelis are already in the United States training local police departments. We know, for example, that the Israelis are training the Atlanta police, that this area now called Cop City is the site. of Israeli police and Israeli IDF training our own police. I don't want the Israelis training American police departments. The Israelis have no respect for human rights or civil rights or civil liberty. That's right. And neither does the federal government either.

As a matter of fact, I remember one of the first really heinous body camera footage of a guy who was needlessly killed, is on the outskirts, I believe, of Phoenix at the time. He's a homeless guy. He's up in the hills. police wanted him to come down. And it was a very prolonged situation. They eventually wound up shooting the guy who was no threat to them or to anybody else and sticking the dogs on him after they had shot him.

And there was a guy who taught at the state police academy and he said, I'm done with this. This is coming from the federal government. This is a shoot-first curriculum that they're teaching people in the police academy. And this was over a decade ago. This type of attitude coming from, the federal government, now also perhaps coming from the IDF being brought in to train people in Cop City. This is the attitude that they have towards people, and this is why we do not want to have the, do not want to have the federalization of the police. When you look at this,

I pointed out yesterday, the LA Police Department is pulling back on their flock cameras. But they're pulling back, not because they're concerned about individual liberty, but they're concerned about the fact they want to protect particular groups. It's this leftist groupism that is out there. San Francisco doing the same thing, Portland doing the same thing, Oakland doing the same thing. They said in Oakland, what we tried to do was to tie it to surveillance transparency, which is basically the idea that the public deserves to know what kind of spying the government is doing on the populace and it deserves regular and transparent reporting.

I don't want transparent surveillance, folks. I want to end surveillance. The government should not be spying on us. especially without a warrant. And so a lot of people are pushing back against the flock cameras, however, for the right reason. Here's a good example of it, what is happening in both Houston as well as in New Mexico. According to a crowdsourcing map, this is a flock camera. Well, it used to be.

If you take a little bit of a closer look, you can tell it looks like it's been cut down. And the camera itself, it's nowhere to be found. Growing distaste for flock cameras is manifesting in Harris County two ways. through public means. Having flock in Harris County makes us less safe. It puts all our county's residents, lives at risk of mass surveillance. And vandalism. That there was no rhyme or reason to where these cameras were placed.

The county essentially allowed flock to take over our streets by placing ARPRs anywhere they please. Eyewitness news has found at least half a dozen flock cameras cut down across Harris County. Houston police saying so far no one has been arrested, but they are investigating. The destruction comes as county commissioners voted unanimously Thursday. to amend their contract with flock, not to restrict flock, but to ensure the device is available for use countywide. The cameras collect information and can be accessed by agencies who have contracts with the company, like law enforcement. Experts tell ABC13, public distaste for the cameras is growing nationwide. Yeah, it is growing nationwide, but their response there in Houston is to

double down and extend it. We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going talking to Gerald Selendi of Trendsjournal.com. Stay with us. We've got some very important things to talk about in terms of what's going on with the economy, as well as with war and peace. We will be right back, folks. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Joining us now is Gerald Salenty of Trendsjournal.com.

Gerald has always been ahead of the curve in terms of trends for decades. An excellent publication. And of course, you can get 10% off if you use the country. code night at trendsjournal.com. Thank you for joining us, Gerald. Thank you. And by the way, you put the code in, of course, you're the grand total of $2.50 a week. You know, here's a cover. This is from the Trends Journal. This is when, when, what's my glasses here? I love your cover this week. Instead of Uncle Sam, you've got Benjamin Netanyahu there, and I want you. And I want you. He does want us, and they want to merge with us.

I've been playing a thing about that, the number to call to stop that. You're spot on. They want to control us. To show you the way I feel about the political system, this is the election back in running for election, 2012. There's Obama and that other clown running against them, lesser two evils. But anyway, yeah. Yeah, this is 2012, right?

Mm-hmm. This is, you talked about, you talked about the. cover of the magazine. Some warmongering little low life, Milikowski. Oh, I changed my name. It's Netanyahu now. Oh, and my kid that's not fighting over there. He's over there in Florida. He changed his name too. So people don't know who he is. Yeah. That's right. This is, Netanyahu. Could you see that? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's his Acme, Warner Brothers cartoon bomb that he had that everybody trolls him about. Two weeks. weeks away.

2012 saying that, and now you got Trump saying that, you know, there were two weeks away. I mean, he's just reading the script from this guy. Does he not realize how discredited those lies are for 30 plus years? He's been telling us that they're two weeks away with their nuclear bomb. Did you hear what Trump said? He said, well, they wouldn't have a nuclear bomb in two weeks if we hadn't used nuclear with them. And this is what he's saying here. Yeah.

This is 2012 selling this damn lie. Oh, but being that Israel is the chosen people, they could have nuclear weapons. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or they have between the numbers between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads. Wow.

What Israel is doing is one of the most disgusting, disgusting, murderous acts in modern history. You see these pictures coming out of how they've been. torturing these Palestinians that they arrested? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And now they own, they stole 70% of Gaza. Wow. Bombed a place into ruins. Doing it in Lebanon as well. Same process of Lebanon. They've thrown out 1.2 million people out of Lebanon. Mm-hmm. Bombing the hell out of it.

And as we said, go back to your trends journal. We said, there's not going to be a peace deal. This is all Trump crap. I can't use the word because I don't want to get your blacklisted, but it's not BS, it's Trump S, you know, and about, oh, we've got a piece deal, all right? We're going to live 9060 days, right, all right? And again, oh, they bombed, they hit a ship in a straight-all-moose.

Oh, yeah. Iran is saying that these ships are legally going through their waters, and they told them not to go through, and the United States is pushing them through. This war is serious. And you go back to your trends journal For two months We've been saying that there's not going to be a peace deal

And that Trump is going to ramp up the war During the summer Because the people are in a summer state of mind They're totally out of tune They're out of tune when it's already anytime Yeah But now they're out of tune and what's going on They have no idea

So lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer As the song goes, right? And everybody's feeling kind of lazy and hazy. So he's going to use that opportunity to move it. I thought it was great. Did you see that the people who trolled him with Epstein put up a trophy on the National Mall won and they called it the Trump Participation Trophy. And they said, here's your trophy for showing up for the war.

You're not winning it, but here's your trophy for showing up. And they also designated it as a trophy drop-off point. They said, perhaps if Trump gets enough trophies, he'll leave everything. alone and go do something else. He's desperate to get a peace trophy, isn't it? And it wasn't it funny? The fact that FIFA, the international soccer

affiliation, of course, they call it football, but I'll let them name it since it's their game. So the Football Association gave him a Peace Prize. Their inaugural Peace Prize, they'd never given anybody a Peace Prize before. And he stole the one that

was given by the Nobel Committee to the Venezuelan politician. He'd basically brow beat her into handing it over to him. It's amazing how he is obsessed with us and how he is obsessed with war. Yep. And again, all this crap about nuclear, and this is from your Trans Journal, third March that Trump said that, you see, we're having, no, I might, no, I might have forced their hand.

you see we were having negotiations with these lunatics and it was my opinion they were going to attack first they were going to attack I felt strongly about that and based on the way negotiations are going I think they were

going to attack first and I didn't want that to happen so if anything I might have forced Israel's hand but Israel was ready and we're ready and we've had a very very powerful impact you ready?

Because virtually everything they have has been knocked out. That was March 3rd. Everything about that was a lie, isn't it? Yeah, because going back, he's selling the crap. Hey, they're going to undeclion weapons, all right? No, hey, hey, liar,

you said they were going to attack first, and that's why you attacked them. Right out of your fat mouth. Yeah. That's what you said. No, a word about nuclear. Yeah. Yeah, I thought they were going to attack us, so we initiated the war.

Yeah, exactly. And again, as a close combat guy, the first, you only attacked the attacker. So I can't stand the guy across the street. Hey, I thought he was going to attack me, so I blew his brains out, all right? Oh, that's okay. Yeah, let him out of jail. That's fine. Hey, I thought that other guy was going to hit me.

I blew his brain up. That's fine. You thought he was going to attack you. You have every right to do it. No, you know. Yeah. President. Right.

I could do that way I want. Yeah. Did you see the way he looked at me? You know, if looks could kill, it would have been me instead of him. But I got him first, you know? Yeah, that's right. That's one of the reasons why I said earlier in the program. I think that's why Marco Rubio is saying,

we're going to take apart the international criminal court brick by brick. Because they know that they are international criminals, just like Netanyahu and Galant. So are the Trump administration people. They'd be doing it at the behest of Israel alone, but they know they've also committed international war crimes as well. Yep. When you look at what's going on in Venezuela, you know, what they're doing in terms of blowing up ships, they can't do that.

Cuba. How about Cuba? Cuba, yeah. Oh, and that little hegg shit comes out, they're a terrorist threat to us. What the hell you're talking about? Yeah. A tiny little nothing of a country. Yeah.

What are you talking about? Yeah. It was before he was born that there were something of a threat. But that was the Cuban missile crisis. That happened when I was. was eight years old. And it's way before his time. So, yeah, they're not a threat to the United States.

The United States is a threat to most other countries. They're a threat to peace. What we're doing? Look at the wars. Look at the people, the money that we've spent to kill people. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they want another $350 billion over this record, one trillion dollar budget. But that's not even where it ends.

You have Mike Johnson saying Trump wants to double the defense budget. So as they hit a trillion dollars for the first time, Now we're going for $2 trillion. This is the kind of rapid acceleration of the national debt that we have seen in the first Trump administration and continuing into the second Trump administration. He put us on a whole new slope in his first administration. And now he is going to accelerate that again. And he's going to increase the slope even more. Yeah, but the richer getting richer.

His big, beautiful bill gives the corporations all the deals they want. they can make more money. The rich, look at all the money his family's making. You know, so again, we wrote when his bill in 2017, his, again, according to the tax policy center, the top 1% got 64% of the benefits. That's right. And he spews out the crap,

hey, we're going to give them this money so they could, we invest in the country. No, they're buying back stock. 2018 was one of the biggest years of stock buybacks. That's all they're doing. There's no relationship between Wall Street and Main Street. Totally different place. Again, 1% on 54% of the markets.

When you look at Vanguard State Street and Black Rock, the value of the S&P 500, they own 88% of the value of it according to what you Google it in. 88%. Three companies. And when you put the 10% in, 10% own 9%. 93% of the stock markets.

And we look at the amount of money that's in the stock market right now, this AI bubble. You've got so many people who are calling it and saying, you know, this is a very dangerous situation. You have most of the stock market valuation is in very narrow, almost like a pin, you know, to burst this bubble. And there was the Schiller Index that looked at this in terms of, you know, price and evaluation.

They said in his index, he said, right now we're in the low 40s. I forget what the exact number was, 41 or something. And he said, the Great Depression, it was in the low 30s. So we're above even that bubble that happened. And he said, typically it's around 17, but we're like at 41 and a half or 42 and a half or something like that. It's just setting there, it's ready to go, and there is so much, I've got a clip here on the deck that I didn't play today yet. And the guy is talking about how there was so much more money in this than was in the dot-com bust.

And we just had IBM have its worst stock devaluation in a day that they've ever had, a record amount that came down. What do you think is going on with this? Well, you know, it's one of our top trends of this year. Dotcom plus 2.0. And by the way, this is your trends journal and it used to be quarterly. This is autumn 1999.com this. Dot com overload with short circuit many high expectations for huge profits.

in Internet Commerce, Entertainment, and wider wave.com services. Following the holiday season, many of today's high-flying Internet stocks, the hottest IPOs and newly emerging IPO will have begun their deep descent from their overvalued heights. We warned that the market would crash by the second quarter of 2000, and it did. And we're saying, and here's the other thing that has to really be very important to look at. trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age, and die. I'm going back to the dot-com bus the first one.

The internet revolution was just born in the early 1990s. And everybody started investing like crazy in all of these crazy companies. The AI revolution just began four years ago, 2022. You don't invest. all your money in the infant companies that were born. They're still in its infant stage. And of course, the Internet was something that was very useful, very real, and got to be very big. But the optimism got so far ahead of the reality that once people reacted to it,

it was an overreaction in the other direction. And that's what we're going to see with AI. I absolutely believe that. Yeah. Now, here's the most important part of it. As I say, the business of America is war. and the business of China is business. China is going to lead the world in AI.

They're investing, very, we're writing it, it's in your trans journal week after week. All the data is there. The companies are going more and more all around the world. They're going for AI from China. It's cheaper and it's better in many aspects. And again, the trend has just been born. And again, you're talking about increasing the defense budget.

Go back to February 2025. Trump. Hey, I'm going to cut the defense budget by half a billion dollars, all right? All right. How about the Trump? Hey, hey, you elect me? I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop a war.

All right, right. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you elect me. I'm going to let Ukraine war in 24 hours, all right? Hey, now that I'm elected, I'm going to let Ukraine war. It's going to end before I get inaugurated. run? How could people put up with the crap lying guy that's the dictator in this country? Yeah. And I, you know, it's my tribute to Lindsey Graham. I pointed out that he and John McCain were

there at the Ukraine Revolution. And in 2016, they were there telling these poor Ukrainian soldiers who probably are all dead at this point in time. Next year, we're going to go into Russia. 2017, you're going into Russia, and we're going to get Putin. That was six years before Putin invaded. These guys, you know, stoking these wars everywhere they go. It's just, it's insane what they were doing. But you're talking about China and how they have the edge on AI. As a matter of fact, a lot of major companies, I've got an article, DoorDash, Airbnb, Siemens, many others are moving from the American AI companies to the Chinese AI companies for a couple of different reasons.

First of all, they're cheaper. Secondly, they can even run them open weight so they can run them locally on their own machines and not be tethered to this cloud situation. All of that, I think, is going to come together, Gerald. What do you think? The massive capital expenditures that they've been doing, they can't keep that up unless they start making massively massive amounts of money to start making that happen. I see exactly the opposite thing.

People are looking at their bills and they're saying, you know, you're starting to see the rates go skyrocket on the users here on American AI companies. You're paying a lot more for a lot less time. And now you've got the Chinese competition that's there as well. If that starts to go down, that could be the thing that starts to the downward spiral on this that creates the bubble collapse. What do you think? Yes. Again, when the markets, they're going to crash. There's no question about it. It's only a matter of when, and I believe it's going to be around October. because again, the people are in a state of mind right now. And then after the holidays, reality again hits the street.

And that's when you look at the 29 crash, the 80 was the 87 crash. It's October, October of March. And yet even just as last week we had IBM stock went down, I think it's 25%. It's even more than it dropped in 1987. famously. And so, you know, what is what is going on with this? I mean, it is, again, it's just a few stocks that are very narrowly focused. Open AI as well as Anthropic pulled back their IPOs. So we're going to go public with their stock. And they pulled it back. That's not a good sign, is it? Nope. And again, you have to look at what's going on in the private credit sectors too.

People want their money out because they invest. that a lot of these private sector companies invested in software companies and other high-tech companies that AI's wiping them out. The people want their money back and they're not getting it back, they're only getting small percentages of it back. And going back onto the AI bust, the reality hits the streets when Wall Street goes down. Main Street is already suffering. All the data is there showing it.

When the reality hits the street is when the equity markets crash. And when the equity markets crash, this is not going to be the great recession or the great depression. It's going to be the greatest depression because everything has been artificially pumped up since the COVID war with all that cheap money that they pumped in there to artificially prop up the economies with money backed by nothing and printed on nothing. The original AI, the artificial investment. Yeah. Well, no, AI, AI's the future. I mean, love it. What it is. And it's going to wipe out a lot of jobs. It's already doing it. Yeah. And it's, but China's going to lead the world in it. But here's my concern.

As I say, when all else fails, they take you to war. That's right. And there's going to be a false leg event that will unite the people to fight against Iran. And it will go nuclear. That's my other fear. And the other thing is, you were talking before about Lindsay Graham going to, and John McCain, insane McCain going to Ukraine. That Ukraine war is ramping up too.

Germany just sending them another 50,000 drones. And one country after another in Europe, not all of them, but many of them sending them more and more weapons, secure and intelligence and on and on, they're actually fighting the war. And I'm concerned that that's going to go nuclear as well. Oh, yeah. And not a peep about peace. What is? The Pope got locked short now?

What did he? The Pope dressed up in his costumes? Where are all these religions? How come none of them are out there? Where are all the religions? The quakers dying in an earthquake? Where is everybody? Well, I say that frequently.

I say, you know, we have so many people who, many of them, it took them a while to come around to understanding what was really happening with abortion. When they did, they started to do the right thing. But they still will cheer what has. happening in Israel with genocide, they'll still cheer the wars and said, how is that pro-life? How can you defend an innocent baby before it's born and not defend an innocent child who's eight or nine or ten years old?

I just don't understand that. It's hypocrisy. They're crazy people. Yeah. Well, they're blinded. We got crazy people running the world in front of your eyes. Yeah. They're blinded by their thing.

If Hitler and Mussolini said the stuff coming out of Trump's mouth, we don't. be reading about it in our history books. Hey, hey, you don't do what I tell you to do. I'm going to bond you into the Stone Age, all right? That's right. That's right. I'm going to annihilate you. If Hitler and Mussolini said the things that Trump is saying, we'd be reading about it in our history books. Well, he's a very dangerous gangster, and we all knew that. You know, he's coming out of the casino world and all the rest of the other. Where does he get his money from another fellow casino crime figure? You know, people point out Miriam Adelson, who's got so much. money and he's giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump. Where'd you get that

hundreds of millions of dollars? She ripped off Americans in these casinos. And so it really is a, you know, he's hung out with these organized crime figures. He hung out with the professional wrestling people he knows how to run a fraud. He just had the two-year anniversary of his fraudulent assassination attempt. Somebody, I pointed this out yesterday. I saw a meme on social media and they said, oh, well, he thinks that Iran's going to try to assassinate him. Well, here's a tip of Iran. Don't shoot him in the ears. They grow back.

No, again, now, think about this. Suppose Iran assassinated our president, his wife, and his kids, and a grandkid. Yeah. We'd be at war like that. That's right. But it's okay for the United States. in Israel to assassinate the head of

Iran, his wife, his kids, and his grandkids. That's fine. That's fine. And a general from the last administration, last time Trump was president, he shot, you know, assassinated the general that they had there as well. Yeah, all that is fine. Yeah, we're okay with

assassinations as long as it's us doing it. But it's an absolute outrage if anybody else were to do that, right? Yep. Yeah. Well, that really is said. And there's no outrage in this country. Mm-hmm.

Nothing. Nothing. I got to tell you, I'm heartbroken that people have lost their guts and they don't fight back. Little clowns. Let me tell you a quick, Lindsey Graham's story. You've been up to my place up here. Yeah. Back in the day, I used to be on Fox all the time.

And Oprah, the Today show, HBO and everybody. And they got me off because I hate war. And yet there's nobody allowed on, there's nobody on the media talking. about peace. You won't find one person. That's right. Anyway, the Libyan conflict was breaking out with the Nobel piece of crap prize winner, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice. They were the four behind the overthrow, pushing the overthrow of Gaddafi.

And again, I'm tired of hearing this crap. If only women were charged, maybe a little more. You know, you like Madeline not all that bright, saying, you know, Leslie Stahl, yeah, the price of 500,000 people, kids under five years old that died because what Bill Clinton did in Iraq was, quote, worth the price. You could Google it up. And how about with Thatcher?

Again, good and bad, I want to make this a thousand percent clear. Comes in every race, creed and color and gender. I don't want to hear about it. Atlanta and Albright didn't even have the decency to say, we didn't kill 500,000. She just said, yeah, it's worth it. Worth the price. Yeah.

Yep. So anyway, Fox used to send up satellite trucks back then. I'm on the air with a top ex-CIA guy, and he's defending the United States attacking. And I'm going through Libya's the richest country in Africa. The people have more rights and benefits to most people in the world. A wonderful tourism place. and what do they want to do?

They want to get off the dollar and they want the people in Africa to go on a gold standard. That's where they're knocking them out. That's right. And all of a sudden I hear, Mr. Salentie, we have to take a break now. Senator Lindsey Graham's coming on.

All right? A little clown jerk. I'm hearing the crap spewing out of that. You should. rotten hell, you war-mongering little freak bastard. Yeah. I'm getting cut off for some clown from North Carolina. He's from.

Yeah. He's going to sell the war. You know, there's not a war that he wouldn't sell. I know. And, you know, I'm telling you what they did to me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's their antidote to you.

He's their antidote to peace. Yeah, he's killing all the right people, and we're getting our money's worth. looking how many Russians were calling. Let's put this all in context. All of these war mongers. What do you got that guy? What's that guy that's the head, the congressman that's the head,

what's his name, Johnson? What's his name? Mike Johnson? Yeah. Yeah. Could you imagine that little boy fighting? Can you imagine Rubio fighting? Could you imagine Lindsey Graham fighting?

Could you imagine Trump fighting? Yeah, if Mike Johnson's going to do it, they got to give him that serum they gave to the nerd, turn him into Captain America, right? Anybody that supports war, go over there and fight or shut your fat mouth. That's right. You got it. Yeah, I would absolutely say that about Ben Shapiro, for example.

He was out there singing the praises of Lindsey Graham, this guy who never saw a war that he didn't want to get us involved in. He never saw a war that he didn't want to expand and make more deadly. I am sick and tired of these warmowers. who don't even have any shame about it anymore. That's the worst aspect of it. They're shameless in their promotion of death and war. I don't understand why people aren't fed up with this. I agree with you.

I know. That's what I'm telling you. They're not upset. Yeah. They're not. It's been shit, Pierrot. You didn't say it right. Well, it's going to come back on them in dollars and cents because this stuff doesn't

make any sense and it is not sustainable. And if they're going to take it. take us up to a $2 trillion defense budget, where we're already $40 trillion in debt. This House of Cards is going to come tumbling down, isn't it? No, it's not $40 trillion. When you put in Social Security, even you go to Fortune Magazine, they even wrote about it. It's more like $126 trillion. That's right.

Yeah, what they are already obligated to pay in terms of things like Social Security is what you're talking about. Yeah, even just the direct debt of, you know, we gave this money to the Pentagon that we don't have and, you know, just piling it up that way. But when you look at all the entitlement programs and the unfunded mandates that they have, that's what you're talking about going up to $160 trillion. Yeah. Yeah.

No, it's heartbreaking what's happened to this country. Heartbreaking. And, and there's, again, there's no pushback. Very little. Very, very little. That's right. Yeah, and they really don't understand where this is all heading.

And the same thing is happening, even as they're ramping up all this stuff, they're ramping up the police state here domestically. You look at what's happening with flock, and now they've got, Gerald, I didn't get to this before you came on, but they're actually, in many different cities, they're putting up a literal flock of flying cameras

to do surveillance on people. Drone, drone surveillance against Americans. I mean, as Madison said, the instruments of defense abroad will become weapons of tyranny at home. Boy, did these guys not understand human nature or what? I mean, they understood, exactly what was happening and would happen with government because they understood the nature of man.

It's not about different classes of people fighting each other. It's about human nature. Regardless of whether they're rich or poor, they understand that this power and wealth that is there and government is an addictive drug and they just can't get enough of it. No, and again, this is just the beginning of this surveillance. What are they doing like in in the UK, if they have a picture of you and that picture says that you're a thief or whatever, they arrest you. And that's how I started here in the U.S. and the flock cameras are a big part of that as well.

You know, they're identifying people. They're using AI also to say what kind of person that you are. And if you have a criminal record, they're making, again, they're arresting people like crazy. And again, this is just the beginning of it. Again, look what ICE did. In a sense, breaking into people's homes without any warrants or anything. Wearing a mask. No outrage.

Yeah. Yeah, wearing a mask. You can't, I'm not going to show you my ID. And if you take a picture of me, there's a picture that's going around a woman who's holding up her phone and take a picture of his face. And he's spraying her in the face with pepper spray. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what happens. I remember it was an outrage when you had some, I don't even remember what the students were protesting. It really doesn't matter. They have a right to protest peacefully. So they're sitting there in a peaceful protest, and you've got this fat campus cop that is there at Berkeley. And he's just walking down the row of people spraying them right in the face with the pepper spray, like point blank. And that was outrageous, but that's now being done by ice. And they're killing people in the streets as well.

You have artificial intelligence identifying people and the police saying, well, that's it. If they were fingered by AI, it's no question about it. So they've been locking people up. People have been injured when they were arrested by the police, totally innocent. They eventually proved that they were in another state at the time. The crime that the police were investigating was in question. And that's why I think, Gerald, AI, is not going to go away. When it comes to the money, if money is an issue, the government will shower them with cash,

just like they're doing to the Pentagon now, because they want to have that weapon. that it's going to be pointed at you and I and every American. And they will do anything to keep that going, any amount of money. And so I don't, you know, when I look at that, I say, well, I wonder if that's even going to keep the, you know, keep it from having a stock market crash because maybe the government will come in and just start pouring money into the stock market to keep the AI companies going, pouring money into their coffers. China's going to wipe them out. Again, you go back to 2025.

And Deepseek, a company that nobody ever heard of, hits them, comes out, they could put out a, it doesn't cost them $100 million to do AI. It costs them $6 million. Yeah. You saw a video stock go down. They lost $800 billion in one day. It dove 17%.

Oh, it came back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm just telling you, this thing is going to hit hard. And look, again, you don't have to look at, other facts. Who's leading the world in electric vehicles? Oh, it's not Ford, not General Motors, not BMW.

Oh, Volkswagen just fired, what? They're firing 50,000 people? China. Yeah. China's leading the world. Well, it's been decided a long time ago. They're going to be given an advantage in terms of manufacturing. It's not just a China price where they could go in and steal intellectual property

or manipulate the currency or have slave labor. They went in with the client. change accord and made sure they had cheap energy. There was so much cheaper that nobody can compete with them in terms of manufacturing. Just on that basis alone. Go back. Yeah. You've seen this shirt I did.

Remember that one? Could you see it? That's right. Slic Willy. Yep. Beware Slick Willy. That's the guy that stole the, got the jobs out of here, brought him to NAFTA down in Mexico.

Oh, hey, you get cheap labor down there and brought China into the World Trade Organization 25 years ago. The manufacturers went there for cheap labor, and here's the deal. Oh, you want to come to China? Yeah, you've got to go in partners with us. You can own 49% of the company. The United States and Europe gave China all the high tech and heavy industry technology they never had.

Never had. And now they got it all. That's right. And what is Trump's response? This response is not to. to free up our markets, but to add taxes at the border and to add cost to manufacturing that we do. And he is following exactly the same plan that the Chinese Communist Party did. Yeah, we'll keep your business going, but I get a partnership in it.

You know, we're going to make the American government a partner in this. And probably his family is going to make a profit out of that, or Lutnik's family or Besson's family, is going to make a profit out of that as well. It's exactly the same model. that we have seen in communist China. No, no. No, with all due respect, it's not communism. It's fascism.

That's right. Yeah, exactly. The state and corporate powers, that's the definition by Mussolini. That's right. They use communism as an alias to confuse people, but it is economic fascism. It's fascism. It's fascism. The merger of state and corporate powers. And that's what we're having right now.

And it was an article I covered, I think, it was $30 billion that Trump has had the American government put into 27 different companies. And they're buying a stake in it. I mean, they're not just, this isn't the kind of old-fashioned malinvestment of the past when we had Republicans and Democrats say, all right, this company is failing. It's a big car company. So we're going to give you a big pile of cash. Here you go. Hope you make it. No, this is becoming a business partner with him. And as Ron Paul was pointing out, that also distorts the capital markets. Because now people, will say, well, the government has picked them as a winner.

They're not going to allow them to fail. And so I'll buy stock in them as well. That's why I say, you know, this whole AI bubble, stock bubble thing, I think that's going to be one of the things that they try to do. I don't know if it'll be successful or not. But I think they will pour massive amounts of money into these particular corporations and in the stock market in general to try to protect it from the plunge. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

No, because China, again, China is going to lead the world. world in this thing and they're going to be losing money and people are going to be pulling their stocks out again look what's going on in the private equity sector very important and again it's in your trends journal trends journal.com trendsjournal.com if you want to read history before it happens and by the way i would never thought gold and silver prices would have gone down as much as they have yeah and the primary reason they're going down is that the dollar is going up because the other currencies are going down because of this war. And they're trying to cover their debt that they're losing because of the cost of this war. Again, the cover of your trends journal a couple of weeks ago,

two warmongers start a war that's destroying the global economy that 8 billion people are paying the price for and 8 billion people can't stop two guys. Eight billion people can't stop two guys. That's right. That's what's happening with this. And you're right. You know, when you look at this, the central banks who had got it into gold in a very heavy way, and a lot of them are having to liquidate their position, and yet at the same time, we have a record number of central banks say they're going to increase their position in gold the next year. They understand it's on sale. And so if they're not in a difficult situation, as many of them are, whether they have to depend on oil for their income, or whether they have to pay higher prices because

they're importing all the oil, that's what's causing them to liquidate. And that's really one of the functions that gold serves as a store value for that kind of a liquidation. Yeah. I'm bullish on it long term. And again, I've been buying gold. My first time was $166 at house back in late 70s, you know. So I buy it and put it away. That's the way I think about it. But anyway, the, when the markets crash, gold prices are going to spike. It's beyond the belief. I agree. And again, there's going to be a market crash. Again, you talked about the Schiller Index. I saw that as. well. And he's 100% right. They're way overvalue the PE ratio. And it doesn't make any sense at all. Yeah. So thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming on.

Gerald Salenti trendsjournal.com. And again, I'll just remind you, you can save 10% off with the code night. Thank you so much, Gerald. Folks, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Making sense. Common again. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Welcome back, folks. And I want to go back and start that report that we had before. We had to go to Gerald, was the top of the hour. I think it's very important to see the people who are organized pulling back and fighting these flock cameras. Now, they don't know who is cutting them down in Houston and the police there are concerned because they said nobody will say anything to them about it. There's widespread pushback against this. And as one of our commentators said yesterday on here, leaving comment on Rumble. They said, this is the Boston Tea Party of our day. I believe it is. Jerry Alitalo says Trump and Rubio on international criminal court, they're taking our sovereignty.

Yet when you look at Trump and Rubio on Section 219 of the NDAA, merging U.S. and Israel intelligence and military, they say no comment. That's not taking our sovereignty, is it? And, ON 161, thank you very much. I appreciate the tip. Thank you. Ben Laden Bernanke, one says, Trump, the Fiat president. Trump would say to that, thank you. I'm the man who got the Fiat made in America. Actually, that's Obama, but don't let the facts get in the way. Absolutely right. Yeah. And DG8, thank you for the tip. He says,

I can't wait until the Democrats get in, L.O.L. At least the so-called right will oppose the surveillance state at that point in time. And they will oppose wasteful spending, presidential executive of orders, the police state, the MAGA has no principles. They'll only oppose it when the other people are doing it and make no mistake about it. The other people are itching to do it. Two-past trillion dollar defense budget, he says, just in time to merge our military with Israel. These demons will squeeze out every dime of the American tax cattle. I love my country, but hate my government. I absolutely agree. And here are some people who don't like the government spying on them. And there's a great couple of pieces that we got here. One of them is in Houston. The other one

is in New Mexico. I really like the New Mexico guy. He got caught, but he is unrepentant about this as well. Here's the report. According to a proud sourcing map, this is a flock camera. Well, it used to be. If you take a little bit of a closer look, you can tell it looks like it's been cut down. And the camera itself, it's nowhere to be found. Growing distaste for flock cameras is manifesting in Harris County two ways. Through public means, having flock in Harris County makes us less safe. It puts all our county's residents lives at risk at mass surveillance. And vandalism. That there was no rhyme or reason to where these cameras were placed. The county essentially allowed flock to take over our streets by placing ARPRs anywhere they please. Eyewitness news has found at least half a dozen

flock cameras cut down across Harris County. Houston police saying so far, no one has been arrested, but they are investigating. The destruction comes as county commissioners voted unanimous. anonymously Thursday to amend their contract with Flock, not to restrict Flock, but to ensure the devices available for use countywide. The cameras collect information and can be accessed by agencies who have contracts with the company, like law enforcement. Experts tell ABC13, public distaste for the cameras is growing nationwide, along with concerns for mass surveillance, privacy, and data sharing. While security cameras capture an area, Flock says their system uses machine learning to take clear photos of license plates and store it with a physical description of the cars.

After a bizarre scene in court today, a judge says she was a to an arrest warrant for the man accused of vandalizing license plate readers in Rio Rancho, but he says he has no intention to stop his actions. You have plans to continue to take down these block here? Absolutely. No, absolutely. They are clear and present threat to public safety. 44-year-old, Javan Martinez, is facing larceny property damage, and, you know, absolutely.

and tampering with evidence charges. After police, say, destroyed the three-ploc cameras, costing real rents of thousands of dollars in damage, they say, look at the signs saying, you're welcome, Republic of New Mexico. Martinez showed up to court today. But he refused to identify himself during the proceedings. The judge considered that as a failing to appear here in court.

But Martinez claims he exercised his right to remain silent. no I can't you call me but I am here I'm right here I stood up I walked up there she wanted my name but I have a right to not bear testimony against myself giving my name consults his testimony and so I just chose for me inside good for him that guy knows exactly what he's doing so does the judge she's going to pull every trick in the book against him so he shows up and she says you know give me your name and say who you are and he goes all we're testifying against myself if I say anything. And he's got witnesses that know that he was there at court, but she's coming after him for failure to appear. Yeah, that reminds me of Emin Bundy when all this mask stuff

was happening. And they wanted to pull him into court for not wearing a mask. And they told him that, you know, to go on the court, you got to put on a mask. I'm not putting on a court. I'm not putting on a mask, rather. So they got him for failure to appear. But he was there at the court and they wouldn't let him in. And he had witnesses about that as well. Regardless, of how that works out, I really do appreciate the people who have the courage to fight this. And again, his name was Levan or Javan. I'm not sure what his first name was, but last name, Martinez. Good for that guy.

He is a hero. Meanwhile, Americans are raging about autonomous police drones that are swarming the skies. Isn't it interesting? They called these cameras that they put on poles. They call them a flock. Why do you call a group swarm of drones if that's not a flock? We got to come up with a name for that, I guess. You know, you get all these different crazy things about a group of different animals.

You get a murder of ravens if you get a whole bunch of them together. But we need to come up with some name for these spy drones. People are pushing back on and saying, well, we need to have more relational work on the ground, not remote drones in the air. You're going to have a chair force of cops who are going to be surveilling people. There's a hot new phrase that's bouncing around police departments across the United States. drones as first responders. From small town Indiana to New York City, cops are embracing autonomous surveillance drones

as the latest innovation and policing. And again, if we don't stop this, stop it soon, it just keeps getting worse. It keeps metastasizing. That's why I say when you look at the only places where they push back against this, whether it's L.A. or Portland or San Francisco or Oakland, they're all doing it because they don't,

they think that the flock cameras are, targeting a particular group of people. Well, they will be targeting a particular group of people. It will be people who don't agree with the government, whether that is on their war policy or whether it's on some domestic policy or whether it is something like wearing a mask and taking a vaccine. We have seen how that works. And I don't understand for the life of me how the people are sitting still for this.

It's not like this is a, we're not projecting something and theorizing about this. We experienced it six years ago. Do you want to give these people more power to do that kind of stuff to you than they had six years ago? It said, gathering intelligence on peaceful protests, surveilling minority communities. See, again, only care if it's surveilling minority communities. What if it surveils everybody? Do you want equality and slavery? Is that what you really are holding out for?

And intimidating activists. Well, you know, Trump didn't like the reporting that was done by the New York Times. so he sent police to the doorstep of the journalist to intimidate them. He has absolutely no respect for free speech. In any way, shape, or form, don't criticize him. Don't criticize Israel. Or we'll do our best to destroy your life. We'll put you in jail.

And by the way, you know, they look at this and say, well, right now you're surveilling minority communities. You just wait. They will flip the script, just like they did in the UK. So they will flip the script, and then they'll start coming. after anybody who opposes their immigration policy, for example, like they do in the UK, that two-tier policing that we're seeing there, how prejudicial it is against the people who have always lived in Britain, the native Britons. That is a system there that absolutely despises the Native Britons and is set up to repress them. In Minneapolis, residents are speaking out against

the city's police department, planned to partner with a company called Skydeo. almost like SkyNet, isn't it? A private defense contractor that primarily manufactures drones for the military forces, but now they've got a new profit center. They're going to have the militarized police. So, yeah, it's another one of these things. They're always looking for a new profit center, aren't they? The deployment of autonomous surveillance drones rests on the presumption

that regular people unto themselves are existential threats. said one person who was protesting this. He said, but if you accept and normalize the idea that every single person could be an existential threat, then you've already stripped your own residence of their freedom and their dignity, haven't you? Wait a minute. Isn't that what TSA is really about? Isn't that the operating principle of TSA?

That every single person is a threat until they prove you innocent, you're guilty. you are a terrorist at the airport until they put their hands on you until they scan your body. Minneapolis appears to be the main battleground right now for anti-police drone sentiment at the moment. Similar concerns have been raised in Syracuse, Detroit, and Las Vegas.

One resident observed that every innovation in police technology is ripe for abuse. That's right. Power will always be abused because of human nature. And that's why we need to have these checks on that power. Instead, they're going to just keep writing checks. Every technology given to state and federal law enforcement has been abused. Absolutely no question about that. We're going to take a very short break, folks, and we'll be right back. I want to play for you the clip that I was

talking to Gerald Sinty about, and it was some people on one of the cable investment channels that were talking about how out of whack and how dangerous the current stock market is at the moment. We'll be right back. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show. Welcome back. We just had the worst day on record for IBM stock. Dropped 25% on Tuesday after they released their second quarter results.

It is the worst day on record for IBM. As a matter of fact, it was even worse than what happened with the previous record that they had. It happened on October 19, 1987, when we had the big stock market crash. And so a lot of people are talking about the index as well by one individual Schiller, who put together a metric that looks at the price to earnings ratio of a lot of different stocks. And that number was in the 30s, just as the 1929 bubble crashed. It's typically 17, but it was in the 30s during the 1929 crash. It's now in the 40s that price earnings ratio.

So I think it is highly overpriced. And these people also believe that as well. I'm not bearish on AI per se. I'm sure we're all going to use it. Many of us are using it already. The question is, what's the ROI on the AI? It starts out, the way these bubbles all start, there's a kernel of truth that captures the imagination of the individual,

whether it's a South Sea bubble or it's Dutch tulip bulbs, or it's dot com, which I've lived through. And it starts out as a good idea, but what happens is the price changes immeasurably. And the best definition, I've actually heard of a bubble. There are many definitions. The best one I've heard is something that changes human behavior, that people do things that they wouldn't do otherwise. Whether it's because of FOMO, fear of missing out, or otherwise. And I think that's kind of where we are with AI.

I mean, I'm happy to change my mind, but show me the money. Where's the ROI? And I don't see it. And I don't see it coming either. It doesn't seem to be deterring capital from flowing to that business. We've seen extraordinary amounts of equity raised. Now we're seeing tech companies and everything thought about the bond market, raising tens of billions of dollars in an investment-grade bond market.

We've got a Korean company listing its ADRs today here in the U.S. I mean, I've been on Global Wall Street for 30 years. I've never seen this amount of money flow. Again, I want to elaborate on the sheer magnitude of this. Julian Garrett of micro-strategy partners in the UK, erudite economist have known many years, has made a calculation that this bubble, this malinvestment is 17 times, 17 times what we saw in the era of dot com.

And what's allied to that, what's really important is the sums involved are so much larger relative to the real economy. The fallout from this could really be much more significant. George Noble with us, of course, definitive fidelity with Mr. Lynch. Yeah, that's the magnitude of the issue that we're looking at. And we talks about a bubble being defined as something that changes human behavior. Here's a good example of this.

You look at the SpaceX initial public offering that he had and shot up and now, you know, the rockets go up, the rockets come down. Anyway, despite being valued at almost $2 trillion, SpaceX lost nearly $5 billion last year. and yet look at its valuation. Now, it's starting to come back down to Earth. Nevertheless, when we look at this, it's also faced with some of the same reality issues in terms of competition with China.

China is just able to launch and land a rocket on a barge. Of course, there are several years behind them, but they're rapidly closing the gap, and it's not just China, it's Japan as well. So will they cover their enormous losses and start actually making some money? That's the same issue with all the dot. things as well.

As we look at this, there's a massive pushback against the AI data centers. But remember, folks, as bad as the local issues are, as bad as the cost of electricity, the pollution issues, the water usage and all the rest of this stuff, the noise and light pollution, the worst thing about it happens, you don't have to even be next door to it. It's not really a not-at-my-b backyard issue yet. Definitely you don't want it in your backyard. But this is something that's going to affect everybody where it's built. Now, in New York, they've become the first state to ban AI data centers

because now they're looking at this as a concentration of wealth. But it really is a concentration of political power and surveillance. Once they realize that, you can better believe that the Democrats will jump on board with both feet on this. And they will be cheering that left and right. You know, it's kind of interesting when we look at Marsha Blackburn. who has been at the center of pushing digital ID, digital currencies, the data centers, stopping local government from doing it. She was just on being interviewed because she's now running for a governor here in Tennessee.

She was just on a local station. And they were talking to her. And she said about a massive amount of money that she was favoring in terms of giving $30 million to some business that was going to build. And it doesn't really matter what it is. I mean, I've opposed this when you look at these sports stadiums. They give these billionaires, hundreds of millions of dollars to build the stadiums. And they always defend it the same way Marshall Blackburn defended this issue.

They always say, well, it's going to bring in a lot of money. One thing she said was, we're going to make that back in payroll taxes. It's like, sorry, you were just bragging about the fact that we got rid of the income tax here in Tennessee, and you took credit for helping that happen. Well, if you don't have an income tax, you're not going to make it back in employee taxes. And so she doesn't even keep her. lies consistent. But even if that were true, even if they were going to get revenue back, how do you justify taking money from one business over here and giving it to another?

That is not capitalism. That's not a free market. That's just corruption. And that is exactly what is happening with a lot of these tech companies as well. There was an interesting clip, and I will play it for you here. This is Sam Neal, who just recently passed away the actor. And he had something to say about America that really kind of hit as to where, well, actually, we don't have enough time to play it. So I'll play it for you tomorrow. But it was basically Sam Neal saying, well, I was working in America and he said, we were shooting this film.

He said, it's not a happy place. And the guy that's interviewing him in New Zealand said, really? Why not? And he goes, well, all these people, he said, they used to have businesses on Main Street and all these different things. He said, all of those things are shut down. Everything has been consolidated into a few. large companies and at the time he was talking about he said into malls and that is really what is

happening the lifeblood of our country you know these to talk about the strength of the UK versus Napoleon's socialist France was the fact that it was a nation of shopkeepers he thought that was an insult to them but it was actually their strength when you take away people's stake when you say only the stakeholders of the World Economic Forum are going to own anything the rest of you own nothing, guess what? We're not going to be happy. Thank you for joining us. Have a good day.

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