The Highwire with Del Bigtree - Episode 380: LIVE FROM FREEDOM FEST ‘24

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Episode 380: LIVE FROM FREEDOM FEST ‘24Del Reflects on a Recent Historic Congressional Hearing for the Medical Freedom Movement; Jefferey Jaxen Reports on Increasing Opposition to Transitionig Children, and The Free Speech Recession; Is Biden’s Decline Linked to the Shots? The Science Is Compelling; The Unexpected Key to Success and the future of the dollar; Fox News Star and FreedomFest MC Joins Del; Historic Admission From Top Vaccine Scientists Bring ICAN’s Fight Full Circle. Guests: Lisa Kennedy, Robert Kiyosaki, Jefferey JaxenBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

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All right, everyone, we're ready? Action. Hey, everybody, we're live in the blazing sun of Las Vegas, and it's the third year we're broadcasting live from Freedom Fest. And the theme this year, a brave new world. Boy, it sure is. So my team thought it would be a great idea to have me prove I'm brave by jumping off the top of the Statsphere. Let's do this.

The things I do for this show. The top of the strat, ain't to 55 feet above the Las Vegas trip. Tell us about a jump off the tower today, everyone. You want to say anything before you jump? I hope this all goes well. There you go, there you go. I'm going to show in the beautiful city of Las Vegas. Three, two, one, go.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are out there in the world, It's time to step out onto the high wire. We're here right in the middle of Freedom Fest. It's year three of broadcasting live. We're really excited to be here. I have to say, you know, I was actually a rock climber back in like my college years. So like 30 years ago, it seems.

So I was wondering, do I still have it in me? And when I stepped to the edge of that platform, I can honestly tell you that I have apparently grown a fear of heights since I was a kid. A lot harder to do that than I had expected. Anyway, just really excited about today's show. We have a gigantic show ahead of us a little bit later coming up. It's really the heart of Freedom Fest. The MC of Freedom Fest, Kennedy is going to be joining me to be talking about how, you know,

she got into the middle of all this libertarian views, once conservative, but that journey. We're also going to be bringing you breaking news, perhaps one of the biggest achievements so far for IK and the informant. Consent Action Network. We've been working at this since the beginning of 2017, and now we have victory. I'm going to tell you what we've achieved at the end of the show. But first, why don't we get started with talking about where we're at? When you think about Freedom Fest, we think the fact that we're in the middle of an election year now, probably one of the craziest election years we've ever seen. We're going to get into some of the details about that. But at the heart of the conversation of America and politics and voting is always the biggest question.

right? Economy, economy, economy. When you see headlines, you see things like this that talk about where we're at. Americans are carrying record household debt in 2024. U.S. household debt grew by $800 million from 2022 to 2023, including a 16.6% growth in credit debt. I know that you know that we all know we're in debt, baby. How are we going to get out of it? Is a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Well, in order to get into that conversation, how about we just bring in the master of all masters when it comes to talking about finances and debt? Of course, I'm talking about Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Robert Kiyosaki.

The one and only Robert Kiyosaki. Author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the famous book that changed, I think so many Americans' lives. Translated into more than 50 languages and is the number one personal finance book in the history of the world. The book that launched a thousand careers. Rich Dad Poor Dad, I came out in 1997 and I said, your house is not an asset. And it drove people nuts. It just went crazy on me.

They need to be very much more correct than you even thought. If you think the government's here to help you, I think you're badly mistaken. The middle class is not getting ahead. The rich are increasing. Tax laws are written against the middle class. I learned finance on the streets where he learned that at Wharton. So it's still possible to learn.

There is a lot of people are not rich. They think mistakes make you stupid. A baby cannot learn to walk unless they fall down. Can't learn to ride a bicycle until you fall off the bicycle. So I love the military because they taught us to make mistake after mistake. I went down three times in Vietnam. If not for practicing, prashing, I wouldn't be here today. I had no money for years.

Yeah, I didn't have a paycheck. But that's what my rich dad encouraged me to do. When you don't have this paycheck, you get hungier, smarter, and it's a test of your character. That's the benefit of becoming an entrepreneur. You really find out who you are when you don't have anything. You have to go to school to be a doctoral lawyer and engineer, but you don't have to go to school to be rich. Money has a language, but it's not taught in school.

Our education system, it has been my rant forever. Why don't we teach people about money? Why is it? We all use money, but we don't teach people about it. What most financial books say to you is live below your means, you know, don't have a cappuccino. When you say to somebody, live below your means, means you wipe the spirit out. I wanted to strive to do better every day. I want to do better every day.

I like the good life. Robert Kiyosaki, it's really an honor to have you here on the high wire. Can you believe it? Well, you guys are big time. We are big time. We really love it here. Wow. Got an amazing team, as you can see, making all this possible here today. So let me ask you. I mean, we have America seems to be in debt. Obviously, the country itself is in just, just, unbelievable amounts of debt that's mirrored in our society. You know, household debt is the highest it's ever been. Is that the recipe for a disaster or are we right where we should be? I think we're at a very serious problem.

Today, America's adding one trillion in debt every 90 days. Wow. So it can't sustain. Throughout history, any time a country has done this, bad things happen. Like, when the Germans did it back in 1918, Hitler came to power. You know, Zimbabwe crashed because of too much debt. So Rome crashed, China crashed because of debt. So it's a very serious problem, which is why I started speaking out.

Yeah. What do we do about it? I mean, it seems like in America we're so used to hearing, you know, every, it doesn't matter who is in office, whether it's a Republican or Democrat, They always blame the last one for getting us deeper in debt. These last two presidents between them, I think they're both racking up. Trump racked up about an $8 billion debt. It looks like Biden is on course, which prior to that, I think, was every president up until Trump.

That was about the amount. So literally doubled the debt that's ever been achieved. Biden's doing the same thing. It's almost like they don't believe that it's fake money. They don't believe it's going to have a consequence. Is there going to be a consequence? Oh, this definitely is. Like I said, historically, first thing it happens is you have currency war, then you have trade war,

then you have real war. And as you can tell, the war is building all over the world right now. They are. But I think you asked the most important question is, what can I do? What can an individual do? Because to expect our government to do it is a waste of time. Okay. They're out of control, right?

They are out of control. seem to know no matter who's in there. So what can we do personally to prepare for it? Well, that's why I wrote Rich Dad Cordadette about 30-something years ago. And it was what could an individual do? You know, ask people, what does school teach you about money? Answer is nothing. Nothing. And you wonder why? And probably even less today than when you wrote that book, I would say. Why don't we teach kids about money? So I don't think it's a mistake. But they do. They do. So the most important thing right now, there's good debt and bad debt. Okay.

Good debt makes you rich. Bad debt makes you poor. Okay. And the Treasury, the federal government, all producing is bad debt. So the individual needs to get smarter and counter our own government. So I've been a gold bug, a silver bug, and now Bitcoin. I want money that's not within the U.S. system. wants to outside the system.

Okay. So gold, silver, Bitcoin are outside the U.S. system. Are you, my understanding is you're somewhat new to Bitcoin. It originally, have you jumped on the Bitcoin from the beginning or is it something that's grown on you? No, I watch, you know, like everything else, like today, AI is the big thing. I don't jump into. I watch and observe the, I observe the trends. So with Bitcoin, I watch you go up to 20,000 and then it dropped down to 1,000.

came back to three as well is it gonna is it gonna go is gonna hit six and i uh i bought 60 bitcoin at 6 000 so today is trading around 60 000 right so i'm in the money yeah but i don't recommend just jumping in you should study like a i today i would study it before i jumped in on okay do you think that the fact that you know governments around the world are actually now starting to talk about getting into cryptocurrencies centralized digital currencies is that going to affect the crypto market and investment well the problem with bitcoin and all the cryptos you're stepping on superman's cape do you i mean yeah printing money is the government's game right and when bitcoin came out there they're they're saying well so the government doesn't like that so i'm concerned about

what the government might, hopefully they do nothing, but what might they do? Like China's already outlawed Bitcoin, but they keep buying more of it anyway. Right. So something's going to happen, and I don't think it's going to be pretty, because, like I said, we're printing a trillion dollars every 90 days. This is unsustainable. So when we look at then at personal finance, you said good debt and bad debt. What is the bad debt?

Because, I mean, I feel like every part of my life has some form. of debt around it. So what are the things that I should be, you know, staying with and the other parts I should be cleaning up? What is my bad debt? Well, I practice what I preach. I'm a billion two in good debt. Okay. So I borrow money to buy apartment houses. Okay. So I have all, I have apartment houses. I have, I have, I have, I have, 600 rental units. Wow. Okay. And every month, they send me a check. That's good debt. Okay. Bad debt is when I go out to dinner and I eat and I pay for that dinner for the next 20 years. Got it. So put it on a credit card

and just having it sit there. All the champagne and it's a great time. But you pay for that good time for 20 years. What about home ownership? I see this quote, you said, is it that a home is not an asset? Is that what are you correctly? My rich dad

was my best friend's father. I grew up in Hawaii. My rich dad made it very, very simple. He says, assets, put money in your pocket. and liabilities take money from the pocket. So just as simple as financial literacy, what's the definition of a word?

So most people are calling assets, assets when they're really liabilities. So they buy a house, oh, I have an asset, but it's a liability. I have a new car. It's an asset. That's really a liability. The worst type of debt today is student loans, thanks to not to get political, but Barack Obama.

Yeah. Student loan debt is, as a professional investor, I wouldn't touch student loan debt. It's the most onerous, nastiest, vicious, worst type of debt possible invented by the, that side of the, you know, the limits. Why is it? What makes it so much worse than other forms of credit debt or home loans? Why is it a student loan is such a bad form of debt? Well, because I'm a billion to in debt. If I say I quit, I declare bank.

bankruptcy, I'm out. With a student loan, so let's say I'm an 18-year-old child, I go to school, I have 50,000 student loan debt, I can't bankrupt out of it. It stays with me for the rest of my life. So it becomes the albatrosser on your neck. It was designed that way, which is why when I studied the student loan problem, again, it was Barack Obama, you know, probably in good faith, saying everybody should have a college education. But you go to college together. They teach you about transgender sex and why boys should be girls. And what are they teaching kids today?

And then the kid walks out of there in debt. And they haven't learned anything about money. Why? Yeah. Do you feel like you need a college education in order to be good with money? Do you feel like that sort of education or what is the best education for it? I have a 10-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old son, AI scares me when I look at the workforce out there, how many jobs are going to be available.

I'm already telling my kids, you know, watch the video game playing. You're going to have to get serious probably earlier than I did because I think competition is going to be really steep. What do I want, where do I want them to learn or study? How do I get them to understand money earlier than any school system is going to give it to them? What do I do as a parent? You drink the best thing you're talking to you. You're letting know they're concerned. And a lot of families I found out, they don't talk about money because it's a volatile subject,

especially if you're broke. So in poor families, they don't talk about money. They use some kind of religious connotation, plus the love of money is a root of all evil and these, that things, rather than discuss it. So you're discussing it's number one. But number two, it's not that hard. An asset will put money in your pocket, the ability will take it. Okay. So, like, if the, I have a friend, he's a multi-millionaire, but when he was a kid, his father gave him some chickens.

And those chickens started to lay eggs. Those eggs became assets, do you know what I mean? Right. And so he started raising these chickens, and he reinvested the profits made from his eggs. And I think today he sells 18 million eggs a day. I mean, he has these massive farms full of chickens. Yeah. It's not rocket science.

Right. You just has to raise chickens. Or you could have a garden or, you know, you can plant an apple tree. As long as producing something that we need, my friend and I invest in cattle, a Japanese wagu cattle. Okay. Yep. And the reason for that is the rich will always spend more money for expensive meat.

But we don't kill our animals. We sell the seed meat. So the bulls breed. We don't kill the animals. And every month, the bulls are breeding. So I call it semen flow or cattle flow or cattle flow. It's not that hard. You just say, what will somebody pay me money for?

Are there things about the economy that, I mean, when we watch the news and we see unemployment rates, they're saying they're at a record low, you know, that inflation is really coming down. Are we being told the truth from your perspective? The reason in unemployment is many people have three jobs. Right. And then this is my biggest concern for it to tell this. What they don't tell you about money is when you, it started being printed in 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard.

Every time you print money, two things happen. The rich get richer and the poor get poor. So the more money we print more homelessness. And the reason of that is is because, so you print money, the ribs get richer, they buy my chickens, they buy my eggs, I have oil wells. Yeah. You know, they buy what I produce. So assets get more expensive. But also when you print money, liabilities get more expensive.

So houses go up, you know, eating those up, carrots go up. Right. And so every time we print money, the rich get richer and the poor get poor. So when I tell you people, we're printing a trillion dollars every 90 days, you can see homeless that skyrocket. It's a matter of economics, but they don't teach you that. What do you think is, you know, how much time do we have before it becomes calamitous here in America? I mean, you've been watching this for some time. You know, we've been on this track with, you know, overspending all the time.

But it really does feel like we're hitting up precipice. We have, you know, the oil and the, you know, the dollar, you know, looks like it's, you know, oil is not going to be traded in American dollars anymore. How big a deal is that? Well, you have to look. There's so much. You're asking a very interesting question. Yeah. But you saw a picture of my helicopter going in the water.

I went to Vietnam twice. I was a marine helicopter pilot. I fought for the U.S., you know, because American brought my back and all this stuff. But in Vietnam, we were fighting for oil. They don't tell you about it. So this is why I'll say it again. My concern is versus currency wars, trade wars, shooting wars. That's my concern.

So you can see the tensions building, you know, China, Russia. Do you feel like Ukraine, Russia? Is that an energy war? Yes. And then you have, you know, Middle East. Yep. So war is one way of defaulting out. They create this, I hope it doesn't happen.

But historically, it's always happened. They cause a war. So we can print more money to build, you know, it becomes emergencies. they built factories and all that. The reason America is the richest country in the world was after World War II. We still out our factories, but Germany had no factories neither Japan. So war is very profitable if you're on the winning cycle. Do you feel like as we, I mean, look, it appears that we are ramping up.

I just saw, I think in Denmark, the leader there said, everyone has to recognize this is no longer Ukraine war, this is a war in Europe, which means you have NATO saying that they're moving into Europe. Ukraine, which is going to drag us into this. So as we sort of push in this war, it seems like one of the things that may be different from other moments of war is what you just said, manufacturing. We used to be really at the top of our manufacturing game. That's why World War II was very effective in building our economy.

We could produce the tanks, the airplanes, the bullets, all of it. We don't really have that manufacturing anymore, do we? No, because it was exporter to China. Right. So China has a factories today. So is a war even going to be lucrative the same way it once was? If we don't, or do you think we will turn and start figuring out how to manufacture, should we get into that situation? Well, it goes back again.

I went to Vietnam twice, you know, 1966 and 1972. And it was fought for oil. Look at Russia today. Russia, they call the gas station of the world. Yeah. Russia has oil. It's now become a high-income country. Russia has.

War is profitable. And if I understand that, it goes boom and it goes busts and all this. So that's my concern. Hitler came to power because they printed too much money, the Myanmar Republic. So that's my concern. As a veteran, two times. It goes back to energy. So there was a Nord Stream pipeline that was blown up.

And so there's oil, you know, people who's buying it from? Germany is now buying oil from Russia. And Saudi Arabia just said, we're not called, we're no longer going to take the U.S. dollar. Yeah. We're going to take Chinese you want. So it's money, currency, and energy. Civilization runs on energy. And one last, I don't mean to be political.

No, that's right. What was Biden's first act when he came to office? I mean, he, I, this first act seemed to be signing a stack of things. So which one in the stack that we were referring to? His first act was to cut the Keystone Exile Pipeline. Right, yeah. So they were shipping oil from Canada through the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah.

I have oil wells. I went to school. I drove tankers for standard oil. I'm an oil man. Okay. So I have oil wells throughout the same. Under Trump, I was selling oil for $30 a barrel. Those are the facts.

The day Biden cut that pipeline, my oil went from 30 to 130. I knew exactly what he was doing. He's going to crush the middle class because when oil goes that high, food goes up, transportation, everything goes up. That was his very first act. I actually liked the guy because I was making $30. Making $30 a barrel, numbs off $130.

But I suspect his intention is to crush our middle class. Watch what a person does, not what they say. It's the rule of the US Marine Corps. Watch what a person says, does. Not what they say. He cut the pipeline. That was the first thing I noticed. Oh, my God.

I knew exactly what's going to happen next. Inflation would go through the roof. And then you see homeless let's go through the roof. You see housing prices go through the roof. Stock market goes up. Everything goes up. And the rich get richer. Poor metal class, not getting poor.

So now we have it to divide, and we're bordering on a second civil war. America's second civil war is brewing, but it's the same war that Stalin faced was rich in the... Wow. That's my concern, and that's what is no financial education in school, because people like my poor dad, you know, academic types, think that the love of money is the root of all evil. Right. It's not the love of money, it's the lack of money. I agree with that. I agree with that.

To wrap it all up, obviously you're here, you speak out, you want people to listen to you. Where is your hope? Do you have a sense of hope in how we get through this in the future? Where's the light? Well, the beautiful thing about Freedom Fest, I spoke here for a number of years. When I first spoke at it, well, it's got interested. Now this event, Freedom Fest, is more important than ever before. And there's a lot of people who are, the scientific term, is pissed off. Yeah.

You know, a lot of exhibitors here, they're bordering on extreme. I like it. Yeah. I like it because they're pushing, they're angry, they're fighting back. Because if we don't stand up, they'll just keep taking it from us. Like last night, I was cracking up. They had a comedian up there who was complaining that comedians can't even tell jokes anymore. Right, yeah, Rob Schneider, I think.

It's tragic. You can't tell a joke anymore. Absolutely. And you go to school and they're talking about boys becoming girls. I'm going, And what are we talking about? Yeah. Why are we doing this?

Why are we just teaching them a lot of money? Right. So we have a war, a civil war, between academics and the capitalists. I'm a capitalist. My poor dad was the Marxist. They're Marxists. They believe in taxation, labor unions, and those. We read Karl Marxist's book, The Communist Manifesto.

Number one thing is a take away private property. It's labor unions and taxation. Mark said, taxation is essential for the spread of communism. America was founded on a tax revolt. It was called the Boston Tea Party. Remember that? Yeah.

We fought. We fought against England taxing us. And then what happens, Marx comes in, and he says, we have to tax so we can spread communism. Read the communist manifest. It's only about 50 pages. I was required to read it because I went to military school. Military officers are required to read Marx just so we know who I enemies.

And when I read Marx, the Communist Manifesto, I realized my father and most of the school teachers' friends are Marxists. They just don't know it. Wow. They never read the book. Why don't you read the book? So Marx said that communism would take up over America in two stages. stages. Stage one happened in 1930. They would take off our schools. So in 1930, Columbia University's Teachers College imported Marxist teachers from Germany to start teaching communism or Marxism to teachers. That was 1930. By 1960, when I was in college, the military school, rioting was

breaking up. When I returned from Vietnam, I got hit. I didn't get welcome home. I got hit by rotten eggs and spit on by these hippies from the Woodstock generation. So I could see why my school, military school, had us read marks because they come at us from education. So my father was a very good man, poor dad. But he thought he was doing the right thing.

We should pay taxes, we should do the labor union, and the rich or even. in the richer even. Right. So that's why today that saying is, someday you'll loan nothing and you'll be happy. We defund the police, are we nuts? Right.

Defund the police? Are we nuts? Yeah. What's going on? And we say nothing. That's what everyone in my audience is asking all the time. What's going to? And what about COVID?

You know what I mean? Absolutely. Well, I appreciate you ask you the questions and giving us some advice. Let's fight back. We are fighting back. Yeah, this is the Civil War. All right.

Let's fight back. it happens. Thank you. It's a great having you want. You take care. Thank you. All right. Well, it's that time of the day live here, Freedom Fest, the Jackson Report, coming right up. We got it, you got to get on the other side. We should have practiced this. See, this is what happens when you go live in front of an audience. All right, Jeffrey. It's good to see you in person. We do this so often, you know, via the Skype, the Internet. But just an amazing event here as always. It's great. Our third year here. And just so much is changing in the world. We're just standing on an escalator together, you know, riding down and just talking about how

much we've achieved a huge announcement coming the end of the show. I don't want to give that away. But in some ways, you know, looking at this small team that makes us happen, it really is true. A few dedicated people can actually really make changes in the world. Yeah, I think you mentioned it as taking a small piece of sandpaper and just continuing to go against this prison wall. Yeah. We've really made some change. Yeah.

And we're going to keep moving along with that, too. I want to talk about some really breaking news in the, in the space of the transgender movements. There's people that identify as this as a way of being. And we, the issue that we entered this on was we have a medical industrial complex that had created a cottage industry on the backs of these people, of this group. And at the same time, eliminating age groups for certain types of surgeries and drugs that don't really have the backing of science behind them.

Right. And remember, Dr. Hillary, Kass, she basically was one of the top British pediatricians in the UK, and she had the Kass report. And that came out just a couple months ago and said, puberty blockers are not supported by science.

This is a bad idea. We really need to pump the brakes on this. The NHS in the UK stopped them, and now Scotland is stopping them as well. They're being advised. Scottish government advised to halt puberty blockers. And why are they doing that? Well, we actually have studies now coming out showing what is happening here. One of the studies, puberty blocker and aging impact of testicular testicular cell states and functions. So this

report was the largest clinical report of juvenile testicular. They call it biorepository. So they actually looked, they actually looked at what was happening, whatever the changes of these children's testicular changes under a microscope and looking at the data and the tissue. And they said this. They said, in all children with gender dysphoria on crime. puberty blocker treatment highlighting shift in pediatric patient demography in the U.S. at the tissue level, we report mild to severe sex gland atrophy in puberty blocker treated children. So what are they saying there? They're saying their sex glands are atrophying. Now, why is it a big deal? Because when doctors are talking to these kids, they're saying,

look, this is just the first step. We're going to block your normal puberty. We're going to put you then on cross sex hormones and then finally surgery. And there's no more back after that. But They're saying, we'll put you on these, and if you change your mind, you can go back. Everything will go back. But this study says this. This combined with the noted gland atrophy and abnormalities from the histology data raise a potential concern regarding the complete reversibility and reproductive fitness of spomatogenial stem cells.

That's basically the seat of life for your sperm cells. So they're saying this is looking like it may not be reversible for a lot of people. So this is one of the big studies that's coming out now that is showing that this isn't really the case. So what happened now in the United States? Because the United States is becoming an outlier, still going full steam ahead here with these type of medications. You just had Robert Kiyosaki. You know, here's a comedian. He's like, what's going on in school? It's a really good question, especially in the United States of America. It does feel like, you know, we're pushing the envelope further and harder and faster than anyone else. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And how is that,

is coming from the top down here in the United States. So this isn't something that's coming from the bottom up in the medical community. So we have the New York Times actually doing some reporting here. So this is one of them. We have Biden officials pushed to remove age limits for trans surgery documents show. So these are internal emails that were produced part of discovery for a legal case. And what are they talking about here? Well, it says in the draft, in the United States, setting age limits was controversial from the start. The draft guidelines released in late 2021 recommended lowering the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomy.

17. And they're talking about the draft guidelines were from the World Professional Associations of Transgender Health. So that's W-Path. This is this professional organization. It's a nonprofit, but they set a lot of the standards that the medical community goes by. And they're known to be pretty liberal. We talked about that group being a lot of activists in this community that sort of got in there. So there's questions on, is it capable of being objective,

up to handle this very sort of, you know, brand new medical space, if you will. Absolutely. So they released the draft guidelines. And all these ages are saying recommendations here, here, here. When the final guidelines came out in 2022, no age limits. And so the New York Times goes back and says this about that. It says the proposed age limits were eliminated in the final guidelines outlining standards of care, spurring concerns with the international group and with outside experts

as to why the age proposals had vanished. where did they go? There was this robust conversation going on between medical professionals within this group, and all of a sudden they said, here's our standards of care, no more age limits. So that brings us to Rachel Levine. She started as an activist,

but she's also the United States Assistant Secretary for Health, and she's the one that really guides a lot of this for the Biden administration. And released emails now show this. I'm going to read directly from New York Times reporting on this. It says one excerpt from an unnamed member of the W-Path guideline development, group, recall the conversation where Sarah Boutang, then serving as Admiral Levine's

chief of staff, saying, quote, she is confident based on the rhetoric she's hearing in D.C. And from what we've already seen, that there's specific listings of ages under 18 will result in devastating legislation for trans care. She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out. So there's a smoking gun. But now they go even further. Another email stated that Admiral Levine, quote, was very concerned that having ages mainly for surgery.

Remember, that's the last step. affect access to care for trans youth and maybe adults too. Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and she and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse. She asked us to remove them. Wow. These are really smoking guns for people. Totally. Yeah. I mean, have this group that as we said is filled with activists, but even they said there should be some age limits it looks like. Yeah. So we stepped in, you know, we've got Levine stepping in and just saying get rid of all those age lists. Just if someone wants the surgery,

they should be able to get it at any age. Right. And so you have this W-Path organization that is known to be liberal for how they go about these recommendations. And it also caused infighting within them. It was even too much for them. So we have these internal emails.

I'll go back to New York Times, and it says this. In other emails released this week, some W-Path members voice their disagreement with the proposed changes, saying, quote, If our concern is with legislation, which I don't think it should be, we should be basing this on science and an expert consensus. If we're being ethical, wouldn't including the ages be helpful?

One member wrote, another said, I need someone to explain to me how taking out ages will help in a fight against the conservative anti-trans agenda. People are going, you're making it so extreme. It's going to get blocked by everybody that's, you know, you're trying to open up a pathway, I guess, for this conversation. Yeah. And when you go that far, you just make it difficult for everybody. It seems like they've passed the rational mind piece with even people in the organization. Right. And so what are they talking about?

There's a lot of, there's a lot of court cases going on. Over 20 states have moved to ban these type of surgeries and puberty blockers for children. Texas did in 2023 just about a year ago in August. And that went into effect that bill. That was contested as most of these states are. They contest these bills right away, the parents and the doctors that want these surgeries. Yeah. Well, that was actually challenged in.

Supreme Court and it's it they they had lost so this is the headline here Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on transition related care for minors so that's going to be a precedent probably moving forward in the United States to use that but let's go back to Rachel Levine so she was on camera and her transition wasn't rushed it wasn't something that she did under doctor's supervision it very quickly within a couple months or a year well let's be clear it didn't happen when she was 17 years old yeah yeah which is why you you're trying to take away age groups. Yes.

Right? And it didn't happen under this umbrella of expediency and speed that we're seeing right now. And so let's hear it from her mouth directly. We have some tape and she was basically talking about this freely at a conversation. My transition was very different because for many reasons, professional and mostly personal reasons, I transitioned over 10 years. Most people don't take that long to transition. First of all, young people are not willing to do that anymore.

And, you know, I mean, I don't. I don't know if I was 15 now. I don't know if I would have taken so long. But again, when I was 15, what were you going to say and who would you tell and how would you possibly express that? So the language started about, you know, that was now 20 years ago when I started, when I kind of started this journey. And it was starting to become more in culture, in the Internet and support groups, etc.

So I took a long time. I don't regret any of that. I have no regrets, because if I transition with it, I was young and I wouldn't have my children. I can't imagine a life without my children. And so every experience led me to here. And so how could I regret that? It's amazing that she doesn't seem to see that she's making our point for us. I can't imagine life without having had children. Having been robbed of that experience, I'm so glad that my transition happened after all that. Yet all she does is to try to make sure that kids can

make this decision so that they'll never be able to have kids. It's the biggest issue why we get. I want to be clear. We've said it time and time again, especially here at Freedom Fest, live and let live. If you're an adult after the age of 18, do your body, what you will, you know, whatever your experience. But it's about children.

It's about literally we're talking about castrating them. Making sure that they can never have the life, the dream that Levine is talking about right there. It's just amazing. She kind of was like, I mean, I just came. Like the disconnect is unbelievable. Right. And for people out there watching,

what percentage of kids won't be able to reverse that? We don't know. Because the studies really aren't, the robust studies aren't really being done. They're not really done, and we don't know. So those leaked emails forced the Biden administration,

it forced their hand to actually come out on this. And this is go back in New York Times. It's about a week after that. Biden administration opposes surgery for transgender minors. Wow. It says the Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date

on the subject from a president. who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. I mean, this is what I was saying right at the beginning. People will say they've written into the show, why are you getting this issue? You've already, you know, you're controversial enough with vaccines. We've been saying from the beginning because it's about children. As I said, adults do what you will,

but we really want the safety of children. It's because we talk about these things that now you see, you know, that was just a litmus test. I'm sure they went out and polled and said, well, are we going to be okay being at the cutting edge of like anyone can get surgery. And obviously when they looked out America, this energy has changed. We've been talking about this. This conversation is not going the direction that they wanted to go. And now you see that that headline. That headline doesn't exist. If people like you and I and all of the

podcasters, all of the people that have covered this issue, if we're not talking about it, America's at sleep. No one, they don't have a pulse. Then we are stuck with these crazy decisions. It's when we talk about it that we actually make a difference. I think that's proof of the pudding right there. Right. It's the end, it really is now the independent media that's having a large part in shape in the culture here in the United States. Yeah. And we just came from, let's talk about the government interfering with the children interfering with that conversation to the government, what they did during COVID,

how they interfere with our lives there. So we were told, if we watch anything and you look at some of the history books trying to be written right now, they'll say because the government stepped in and did what they did during COVID, school closures, masking, contact tracing, vaccine mandates, because that, they saved a lot of people's lives. If they didn't do that, this pandemic may still be going on. We were under emergency. We didn't have all the information.

But what we did helped save lives. I mean, let's be clear. It doesn't matter what country you're in, what political party you come from. They all said exactly that. Donald Trump said, I saved you from millions of people dying. Joe Biden has said, we saved you with all these measures. Thank God we did this. And Tony Fauci, of course, you know, I was doing the best thing.

We saved millions of lives. We hear it over and over again, but all around the world have been saying, we've been rewarding on Australia, England, everybody defending what they did there. So why is this important now? Well, it's important now because the largest study has come out, looking at all of those measures and seeing if they really did what they said they did. And so let's look at this study. Anybody can pull this up here.

It's called epidemic outcomes following government responses to COVID-19, insights from nearly 100,000 models. 100,000 models they looked at over 180. 181 countries. So 181 countries, 100,000 models, they looked at all of it, modeling. What effect did all these measures have? Yep. So what did they look at? They looked at containment enclosures. So the school closures, masking, business closures. They also looked at the medical response. So they looked at contact tracing. They did not look at vaccine mandates. Wow. They did look at the economic relief as well. So trying to keep these businesses afloat by giving

them loans and trying to make sure they didn't go. wonder. And what did they find? They concluded this. In this study, we found no clear pattern in the overall set of analysis or any subset of analysis. We are left to conclude that strong claims about the impact of government responses on the COVID-19 burdened lack empirical support. So that's science. So now if you have Tony Fauci going in front of Congress and saying, we save lives, that can be fact-checked with this. They can't find it. We cannot find, sort of like our vaccine issue, We can't find a study that says what you're saying publicly. They're saying we looked at 180 countries, 100 models that have looked at this,

and we find no evidence that any of the measures that you did had any effect on COVID, the deaths, the spread, any of it. It was all a waste of time, energy, destroyed economies, destroyed lives. So then you look at, they're not even talking about the negative consequences. They're not talking about the rise in depression, the rise in drug abuse, in household abuse, you know, all of the issues. side levels going through the roof. Education, our children have dropped back. A generation has fallen out of the education system, falling behind. I mean, just disastrous consequences. You know, our economy shot, millions of jobs lost. And that's all in the face of what they're saying for no reason. No way we can find out that there's empirical evidence to say that this did something.

Wow. Yes. And so why are we bringing this up right now? Well, we are facing down the of a bird flu potential epidemic. It started in 2022 in this country, and it's been raging, and it's in the headlines everywhere. They're developing vaccines for them. We have something on the horizon in Washington, D.C. in October, called the Bird flu summit. And this is, you know, it's kind of like event 201.

Right. Which, if people don't remember that, that was a kind of like a war-gaming scenario for a fictitious coronavirus that came out of China, and, you know, strangely enough, just a couple of months later, it actually happened. So when I'm seeing BirdFlewomen flu summit and they're starting to war game a bird flu pandemic. This is when we really start

to pay attention in Washington, D.C. I'm sure paying attention because as you said, the last time we ran event 201, which was a, well, what if a coronavirus swept the planet? We didn't have a vaccine. We'd have to force people to wear masks. We'd have to maybe even lock them down. They literally said and tried all those things. And as you're pointing out, months later, it actually happened. And this has been our concern. When you start seeing patterns. Yeah, yeah. like this, now they are basically rehearsing the war game. The bird flu, the war with bird flu, they're going to go rehearse that in October.

Just prior to our election, just prior to, you know, cold and flu season. It's something to put on the calendar, and let's look at the brochure for this. They actually have a brochure and they have breakout sessions. So, you know, when I'm looking at these stills, these slides from these breakout sessions, I'm seeing something interesting.

I'm seeing regulatory framework being looked at. They're going to try jujibis. committee's role in the bird flu pandemic, political responses, their war gaming political responses, vaccine development, of course. And so that's all something that they're probably learning what they did wrong during COVID. I mean, all the wins that I can't had for the vaccine mandates, they're probably looking at those and going, how do we avoid that this time if we have to push this vaccine and mandate it? This is what everyone needs to be looking at here. But the overall picture, what really took a hit during COVID was free speech. And there's an

organization titled The Future of Free Speech.org, and they're calling it a free speech recession hits home. They looked at 14 countries and produced some graphs from this. I'm just going to show a couple of them, but just to show the gravity, it's not just the United States. You know, you would think if one country was a little more vocal and the government clamped down, we would look at that and say, wow, that, you know, that's interesting. They're doing that. But as we've reported on, across all the countries, it's the same response everywhere. They're doing this. This is a coordinator response. And it shows you that you now have. have a globalist system in play.

You have some sort of global governance when you see countries that can't even really communicate with each other, maybe on the verge of war with each other, but somehow treat their citizens and information exactly the same. Yeah, and so looking at some of the slides compiled by this organization, we have looking at the developments, just from 2015, you can see basically a complete rise

in what they're calling speech restrictive developments. And you can see some speech protective developments tried to come in here in 20. So these are basically like the different policies or legislative things that are actions that are happening, the pink ones are all that are happening that are taking away free speech. And then the blue ones are the ones that came about where people trying to protect free speech. Right, right, exactly. And looking at this next slide here, some of the reasons that governments were using to take away our speech. And you can see they fall into very distinct categories. So you have, you see there in the middle of COVID-19, you have election integrity,

of public safety, disinformation prevention, national security, hate speech like we saw in Scotland, they hate speech laws. So they're all using similar kind of overlays to push this agenda forward. So it's very, it's very mathematical almost. Yeah. But in the United States here, we had big tech companies that were using the coercion from the United States government to censor people. And we have Murthy v. Missouri.

And that was being heard. That was a court case being heard saying that the government cannot coerce big tech. to censor private citizens. This is the case that we've been following where essentially the Biden administration went to the social media companies and said to them, you need to start pulling down these different sites.

We fell afraid of that. We lost our YouTube channel. We lost our Facebook channel. So sort of right in the middle of all of that. And so this case, we've been following at what's the latest development? Yeah, the conclusion of this case, I'm going to go to Reason Magazine.

They have a headline, the Supreme Court's Dangerous Standing Ruling in Murthy v. Missouri. So what they did was it says it certainly did not rule that what the government did here was illegal, but the restrictive approach to standing adopted by the majority might make it very difficult for victims of the indirect government coercion to get their free speech claims heard in court. So what they did was they said there's no standing for the plaintiffs in this. Who were the plaintiffs again? Like what's the specific?

Batcharya. We had U.S. right to know several individuals as well. And basically what they're saying was we're not even going to bring this to a level where we're going to, we're going to face this and have this conversation, does this violate free speech? Because it doesn't have standing. It doesn't even going to get up to that level. Meaning I'm not the one that could bring the case.

The wrong people brought the case. This is something that we don't talk a lot about. Yeah. And all the vaccine work we do with Aaron, Siri, huge announcement coming up later in the show. But when you're bringing a case, one of the hardest things to figure out is how do we get standing? How do we,

we can't just say where I can and we're pissed off that you forced us to get the COVID vaccine in Texas or whatever. Yeah. We don't, we're a nonprofit. We don't have standing. We can't show that the assault hurt us. Right. Right. You've got to sort of find who is the actual person is claiming this law or this thing that was illegal hurt me personally. Right. That's where standing comes in. Right. And so the Supreme Court is saying that the people that brought this case don't really aren't

able to show that they were actually hurt by what may be legal or not illegal. That is not what we're decided. What we're saying is you don't have, you're not the people that can bring this case. Right. Exactly. And it's terrible. It is. It is. And it's not the door shut on that, but it's probably won't help future litigation. But there'll be more.

This isn't going to end here because the censorship did not stop with COVID-19, as we know. Yeah. And so why is all this a big deal? Well, it may not, they may not be able to find injuries to people, but it has hurt our country. It has hurt the discourse. It has hurt the open debate, which is a steam valve for all of these issues going on right now. Well, when you talk about, when you saw the reasons for bringing the end of free speech is missing. misinformation, malinformation, disinformation, all of this stuff that we're trying to defend ourselves

against. If I can't get in a courtroom and say you can't, first of all, prove its disinformation, prove its malinformation. We can't get to a standing place if the Supreme Court just keeps making the bar too high to, you know, get over. Right. And so the reason this is a big deal, COVID's over, and a lot of people will say, well, that was, you know, that was a time where we had to censor people, but now we can speak again. That's not really the case because we have, you know, a issue that's just as large as COVID. We have a president in the White House right now that a lot of people have pointed out has cognitive issues and that they're accelerating. They pointed that out for years. And people have talked about that on social media. People have been censored for talking

about that on social media. Right. And so because that's disinformation, information that hurts the government to point out that your government may not be capable of doing the job they're doing, you can be censored for those reasons. Right. And the bigger picture to point out, there may be other people that are controlling our country than the president. And so the everyday people are left to watch the CNNs and the MSNBCs and listen to people like Joe Scarborough, who in just in March of this year had this to say about President Biden. Take a listen. Okay. Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth. this version of Biden intellectually,

analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Prasinski's have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. Obviously a fan. And he says he knows them. Like it sounds like the family's been known for 50 years.

Sounds like they go to dinner together. So, you know, he clearly thought he was in good shape, certainly telling us you should trust. this man more than you ever did before. Yeah, and not objective journalism there. Not saying, you know, I know him, but I'm going to put that aside. And let's talk about some relationships. We're not getting that, but a majority of the country will get that.

And so something happened that a lot of people have already seen. He had a debate with Donald Trump. And the debate went something like this. Let's take a look. Okay. Yep. You'd be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system,

making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare. Thank you, President Biden. Yeah, and so. I watched it. Literally overnight, literally overnight,

whatever's left of the power centers, of corporate media all turned and started sounding like independent media. And here's Joe Scarborough, just several months after that clip we watch. Right. I know him. I love him. He's smarter than he's ever been, more coherent than he's ever been before. Yeah. And we have, I think we have a clip of that. Now he's saying this. Listen to Joe. I think we have to ask the same questions of him that we have asked of Donald Trump since 2016. And that is, if he were CEO and he turned into performance like that.

Would any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America, keep him on his CEO? If this were Donald Trump time and time again, we talked about the Goldwater, where is the Barry Goldwater, to walk over and tell Richard Nixon it was over, to tell Donald Trump it was over. And now the question is, do Democrats need to do the same thing of Joe Biden? It's obviously a huge shift.

I was watching this, and I, you know, we complain about mainstream media all the time. We've been calling it propaganda. It is no longer news. But to watch CNN, MSNBC, all of these networks that have been propping this up, covering up for the fact that we have a president that isn't doing, you know,

any press conferences. is basically helping hide him from the world, calling it fake news every time an independent journalist puts out a video of a stumble, of a stutter, of everything saying, oh, it's being taken out of context. Finally, the whole world watched, and we saw what was happening there.

And you're right, it is censorship, because censorship is not just blocking a person's ability to speak. It's blocking those of us from being able to hear and see the truth.