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April 4, 2023 - The David Knight Show

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4Apr23 Forecast: Stormy With 100% Chance of Arraignment Followed by Strong Winds From Every Direction

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	The End to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 4th of March, year of our Lord, 2023.
	three.
	Day 1118 of the lockdown executive orders, and now they may be locking up Trump.
	Yes, the forecast for today is stormy with 100% chance of arraignment.
	We'll be talking about that.
	It'll be followed, by the way.
	Showers of cash are on the way.
	It is a bonanza, and it is a circus.
	And I feel obliged to have to say something about it.
	We'll begin with that, and then we'll get into the serious news that affects the rest of us.
	Because this doesn't.
	We'll be right back. I'll tell you why.
	Thank you.
	Yes, for the great reset to work, you have to have the great distraction.
	You have to have the great dictators in each and every country.
	And that's the role that Trump has already played.
	He's already been the great dictator.
	It's amazing to me that MAGA can't see this.
	But the left can.
	And if you go back and you look at elections, many times they have openly said, let's register and vote for this candidate over here because he's so odious.
	That it'll kill the Republicans' chances.
	Well, Trump isn't just odious.
	He is a one-man civil war within the Republican Party and within America.
	So, of course, these people are going to promote him.
	Babylon Bee covers it this way.
	Trump uses his one phone call to ring up Ron DeSantis and yell at him.
	Yeah. Yeah, is this Ron DeSantis, said Trump?
	I'm sitting here in jail on a completely bogus charges.
	The Democrats are continuing their disgusting witch hunt.
	And for that, you're going to pay, Ron.
	You're going to pay bigly. Do you think this makes it easier for you to swoop in and take the nomination?
	You haven't even announced.
	Sad. Though Trump has loudly voiced his opinion that the charges are politically motivated in an attempt to stop.
	No, no, no. Not to stop is 2024.
	The Democrats are not that stupid.
	Look, Trump was not that stupid in 2020.
	And the Democrats are not that stupid in 2024.
	They know exactly what they're doing.
	He knew what he was doing in 2020, and they know what they're doing in 2024.
	Anyway, he chose to call DeSantis and chew him out rather than consult with his legal team.
	This is the most horrible misuse of authority in the history of the country.
	Many people are saying so.
	But you know who I'm mad at?
	You, Ron. You just wait until they give me back my cell phone.
	I can start truthing about you again.
	Yeah, that's bottom line.
	Look, they have escalated.
	It is ridiculous. It is so ridiculous that everybody sees it.
	They took misdemeanor charges and they escalated them into felonies.
	They charged them with 34 counts.
	And of course, they are not going to go the full obvious route to give him the pleasure of having a mugshot taken, to give him the pleasure of being seen wearing handcuffs.
	Oh, that'd be full martyrdom, wouldn't it?
	They're not going to do that, they said.
	We'll see. I don't think they will go that far.
	Everybody understands what's going on.
	Democrats, Republicans, supporters, opponents, they all understand.
	How this is set up. But it has really motivated MAGA, hasn't it?
	This article from Yahoo.
	Actually, it's from Reuters.
	Sorry. Carried by Yahoo.
	Trump indictment pulls DeSantis-leaning Republicans back to the MAGA fold.
	And so Reuters interviewed some people.
	Here's one guy, self-described Republican conservative, thinking of voting for DeSantis in his party's presidential nominating contest, believing the governor had a better chance of winning back at the White House.
	Then came the news on March 30th that Trump had been indicted in New York.
	Now I'm absolutely voting for Trump, he said.
	75 years old, a composer, a musician in Nevada.
	He said, the indictment was the last straw for me.
	Because Trump has suffered so much political abuse.
	Poor thing. Poor thing.
	He is just a martyr. You do know that he is standing Between them and us.
	That's why they're coming after him, right?
	Keep hearing that. I am so sick of hearing that.
	I even see that in articles about people going through this mental gymnastics of, you know, he did this, but he had to do that.
	And he couldn't put good people in his administration.
	He had to put bad people in his administration.
	He just didn't have the power.
	They were controlling him.
	They were gaslighting him. No!
	He fired anybody that criticized him.
	Why? Because he's incapable of acting except And his own self-interest are out of revenge.
	Said his former lawyer, Ty Kahn.
	A deeply wounded narcissist who cares only about himself.
	And of course, this is evident in 2018.
	You look at the initial rounds of censorship there at Infowars.
	Totally disconnected.
	Trump as well as the Republicans.
	People like Marco Rubio and others.
	Rubio. And they...
	And I was saying at the time, I said, look, if you're going to throw away the rule of law, if you're going to allow political persecution, because that's what that was, guess what?
	You're a politician.
	You're going to get the political persecution yourself.
	And before his presidency was over, Donald Trump was kicked off of Twitter himself.
	He could have easily, and I pointed out at the time, there's many things that he could have done, many things that the Congress could have done in their capacity, in their responsibility, To protect our liberties?
	But of course they did nothing, and he didn't even have to do anything in his official capacity.
	As a celebrity, as somebody who really had made himself the center of Twitter, he could have gone to another platform.
	He could have gone to an alternative platform.
	He could have even started his own platform earlier, but he didn't.
	But if he just adds a celebrity status, just using his bully pulpit, he could have gone to another platform, and that would have been a major blow to censorship.
	But he chose not to.
	He and Kushner did not want to support Gab or any of the other independent social media platforms against the big established deep state platforms.
	That was a big tell.
	And of course, it was not surprising that they eventually lined them up.
	They come after the little guys first.
	And if you don't stand for the principles, they come for these big guys who stood back.
	They thought they were going to be fine, right?
	They thought they were working with the establishment and the establishment was going to protect them.
	Or they thought they were too big to touch.
	No. If you allow political persecution, it's going to hit everybody.
	And it's going to hit the Democrats as well.
	It is going to be full-on civil war.
	We're spiraling down into that, and it's disgusting to see it.
	And all of this is part of that.
	So, you know, as I've said many times, freedom is one thing you can't have unless you give it to other people.
	Well, the same thing is true of due process, because that's part of our liberty.
	That's part of the package.
	And if you throw out due process, you say, well, just take the gun, we'll do the due process later.
	Take the speech. And we'll figure that out later.
	Maybe. Right? Do they ever?
	No. No. Then eventually they come for you.
	Right? You should listen to Pastor Martin Neemuller.
	First they came for the little guys.
	I didn't do anything. Then there was nobody left to support me.
	They came for me. But there's a lot of people supporting him now.
	Until the indictment, a majority of 35 Republicans that Reuters interviewed had been willing to turn their backs on Trump and to go with a different candidate.
	Believing he was too flawed, too bombastic to win the general election for the Republicans next year.
	See, the Democrats know that.
	They know that. These Republicans knew it, but now they're reactionary.
	They're reacting to this as so predictable.
	And so this is why the Democrats are doing this.
	They know he's too flawed.
	They know he's too bombastic.
	They know he's too odious to win, so they're doing this to elevate him, to make sure he wins the primary.
	The criminal charges in New York changed all that, upending the Republican primary contest.
	Of the 35 that Reuters talked to, 20 of them said they'd been thinking of moving on from Trump and backing DeSantis.
	Of those, 14 said the indictment was changing their thinking and leading them back to supporting Trump again.
	Look, There isn't any savior out there.
	DeSantis isn't a savior either.
	He's done some good things, and I'm happy to talk about those.
	Most of these governors have done nothing but the wrong things.
	He's done a couple of good things.
	He hasn't gone far enough on many of the good things that he's done.
	Not far enough at all.
	But at least he's done something.
	These other guys have done nothing, including Trump.
	And he pushed back against this agenda that Trump never pushed back on.
	Never pushed back against the Great Reset.
	Never did. It's a great distraction.
	But there isn't anybody in Washington that's going to fix this.
	Nobody in the White House is going to fix this.
	It isn't going to happen.
	It's going to be ground up.
	It's up to us.
	You are, like Buckminster Fuller said, you are the crew on Spaceship Earth.
	You are the people who are going to change this.
	If you don't change it, nobody.
	If you're going to follow the leader, if you're going to array yourself behind your messiah, your fake messiah, Whether it's Trump or DeSantis or any of these other people, we lose.
	It's just that simple. You've been had.
	You want to find a Pied Piper?
	Oh, we've got to look for...
	Who do you support for Pied Piper?
	People say, well, you don't support Trump.
	Well, who do you support for president?
	Well, I don't support a Pied Piper.
	I support people thinking for themselves, organizing at the lower level, doing this ourselves.
	We know what needs to be done.
	How many times are we going to push on this rope to find out nothing happens, right?
	All these elections, besides being so crooked and everybody knows they're crooked now, the right knows it's crooked, but now look at how vested they are in this whole system, this rigged system they've been talking about for three years now.
	And who rigged it?
	Worse than ever in 2020.
	Yeah, Benedict Donald did.
	So these people who have absolutely no confidence in the election, all they can think of is the election for president, the easiest one to fix.
	And so that's where we are.
	We know what needs to be done.
	And it isn't going to happen with them.
	We take back our independence.
	We look at the 10th Amendment.
	We say, yeah. Anything that's not been delegated specifically to the government has been reserved.
	These powers have been reserved to the states and to we, the people.
	And if the states won't do it, we'll do it.
	It's just that simple.
	And it doesn't mean a revolution.
	It doesn't mean violence.
	It means we actually do the real stuff.
	We actually take our lives under our own control, our families under our own control.
	We create our own culture.
	We ignore their country music TV awards and stuff, right?
	We don't sit there and clutch our pearls.
	Oh, look, the country music people have gone trans as well.
	Yeah, of course. Of course they have.
	I'll show you the clips, but the reality is...
	I saw this the other day.
	I was telling Karen. I said there was something...
	I forget what it was that I was watching.
	And I saw a comment underneath it on YouTube.
	It was some music thing or something.
	And somebody said, I discovered Deanna Durbin.
	And I've been watching her movies for a week or something, right?
	And I've never felt cleaner.
	Deanna Durbin? Who is it?
	I looked her up.
	I didn't even know who she was. She was a contemporary Judy Garland.
	She didn't have Judy Garland's sophistication musically.
	That was the amazing thing about Judy Garland at the beginning.
	But she was technically an amazing singer.
	She had an operatic range.
	And they put her in a lot of movies.
	As a matter of fact, she and Judy Garland starred together in an early movie.
	And she became pretty famous.
	And then after about 10 years or so of that, I guess it was, she got out of Hollywood.
	This is enough. Well, Judy Garland goes on to get hooked on drugs because of the filth of that place.
	And so that's what we need.
	And I looked at that. That's really what we need.
	We need to focus on what is true.
	We need to focus on what is pure.
	We need to think about what we need to build instead of pearl clutching about what they are building.
	I don't want what they're building.
	So what are we going to build?
	Let's think about that.
	Let's start by building our life, our skills to survive, our family, our relationships with people, And said, oh, they're taking over everything.
	Yeah, they're trying to. Don't let them take you over.
	If they do it to other people, there's nothing you can do about that.
	You're responsible for yourself.
	So do something about it.
	And that's the saddest thing about all this Trump stuff.
	It just grieves me for people to think that their life depends on this piece of filth.
	And I call them a piece of filth.
	You know, Macron was called a piece of filth by some woman on Facebook, and they're coming after her for a $13,000 fine.
	She told the truth about it.
	You know, Trump is a piece of filth, and that gets me canceled everywhere.
	But hey, you know, it costs me more than $13,000.
	But it's true.
	If it's true, it's true.
	I'm not going to push a lie.
	So this is the most frightening thing I've ever seen in the U.S., said one of these people who's now fleeing to Trump to support him.
	Is it really? You didn't think it was frightening when this Pied Piper led people into January the 6th and what happened to all these people and has been happening to them?
	Here we are, you know, two years plus into this thing.
	Two years and what? Two months?
	Three months? And these people have been suffering, tortured.
	At least one of them has been driven to suicide.
	But a Trump indictment over this stuff is the most frightening thing you've ever seen.
	How about the guy who was convicted on Friday by putting out a meme?
	You don't think that's the most frightening thing you've ever seen?
	You don't think that says something about where our political system is and the removal of justice?
	No. No.
	It's just amazing. So, when I look at this, to me, going back at 2021, as the guy was leaving, following in quick succession, and of course, you know, I pushed back against this January the 6th thing, right after the election.
	The lies for Stop the Steal stuff began with Steve Pachenik and all that.
	Oh yeah, they're already arresting all the people who rigged the election.
	Trump's in control.
	CIA operative, Steve Pachenik.
	Anyway, and Infowars that became his mouthpiece.
	But I looked at that stinking pile of excrement that was 2020.
	Trump's pile of excrement as he defecated on the country and the Constitution.
	And then the cherry on the top of it all was January the 6th.
	And then there was another cherry that was added with some whipped cream.
	And that was the pardons.
	You know, watching these people who really, I mean, you really think this is the most frightening thing you've ever seen?
	The U.S. government do?
	What about the persecution of Julian Assange?
	You think that's frightening? What about, you know, a guy who basically did what Daniel Ellsberg did and was celebrated for doing by the left?
	You know, they lionized the Washington Post and the New York Times.
	Oh, look at this. You know, they defined the establishment to give people information about the Vietnam War and also the Pentagon Papers.
	And yet, and they make movies about it.
	And yet these same people now, Washington Post, New York Times, oh, they're all after Julian Assange.
	Why? Because they're completely owned by these people, the CIA and all the rest of them.
	And of course, that's not scary.
	And it's not scary that they would seek to kill the person who blew the whistle on what they did, on what Hillary did, and the rest of them.
	And that Trump would allow that to happen throughout his regime.
	And then on the final day, even as Alex Jones is talking, I know, he's going to pardon Julian Assange just before midnight, just the last act when he's president.
	It's like, oh, really? Really?
	Is Alex Jones right? He tells people what they want to hear.
	Then if it doesn't come true, he doesn't talk about it anymore.
	No, that didn't happen.
	Instead, what happened? We had him pardoning Jared Kushner's family and friends, some of the biggest white-collar criminals out there.
	And now Donald Trump is being charged with white-collar crimes.
	How about that?
	Is that irony following the hypocrisy of all this stuff?
	So, anyway, Trump's campaign boasted in an email to supporters on Sunday that it had raised over $4 million since the indictment was announced.
	A Trump spokesman said in an email to Reuters that the charges had surged.
	You've got a surge here, right here.
	You've got surges. Trump actually pulled in $5 million.
	They need to update that.
	He raised $4 million in the first 24 hours.
	The second 24 hours, he raised another $1 million.
	Defying the campaign officials' own expectations.
	And more than a quarter of the first day's haul came from first-time suckers.
	I mean, donors. Donors, yes.
	Again, there'll be no mugshot, no handcuffs, no jail, reportedly.
	Because they don't want him to get more money, presumably.
	I don't know. But again, look at what happened with Julian Assange.
	Look at what happened on Friday.
	It's kind of interesting, too, you know...
	Perhaps you don't realize this, but they time things for the news cycles.
	And so the fact that they released the indictment for Trump, the indictments or charges or whatever, the rumors hit it.
	Of course, the official...
	Charges, you know, we know that it's some kind of business record-keeping charges, but we don't know the specifics until today, presumably.
	We do know that it's 34.
	We do know that these misdemeanor charges have been elevated to felony charges because Trump, you know, all the rest of this stuff.
	But they do that on a Thursday.
	Why did they do that on a Thursday?
	Because they wanted the attention.
	If you don't want attention to something, You do it on a Friday, or even on a Saturday.
	But especially on Friday, on the news cycle on Friday.
	Put something out on Friday, people don't pay any attention.
	And so on Friday, they did the, you know, they had the conviction of this guy for the meme, for the anti-Hillary meme.
	That's something he did in the 2016 election.
	And, again, it begins, this article from PJ Media begins, as Trump himself has often warned, they're not really after him, they're after us, and he's just in the way.
	He's not in the way.
	He's not in the way.
	Of course they're after us.
	They have to get, they have to take down the middle class, they have to destroy America.
	It isn't about one man.
	They understand that. We're stupid enough to think it's about one man.
	See? It's not about one man.
	He can't save us.
	He didn't do anything to save us.
	He locked us down. Now they're going to lock him up.
	Poetic justice. Except it's not for the right thing.
	He should be locked up for the vaccines.
	He should be locked up for destroying businesses and lives and the Constitution.
	He should be locked up for that.
	He should be locked up and tried at international criminal court for sending these Trump shots around the world.
	But anyway, they say that Mackey was the 107th most important influencer in the 2016 presidential election.
	He only had 58,000 followers.
	That's less than half of what I've got there.
	It's crazy to say that he was the number 107th most important influencer.
	But they do have a good point here on the PGA Media article.
	So what about those other 106 other people?
	Did they get more people to change votes than he did?
	And it is really ridiculous.
	They charged him with conspiracy.
	I don't know what the conspiracy is.
	Was it because somebody else made the meme and he put it up?
	And what is...
	What we always see with this is the double standard.
	We have some woman who did the same thing, but for the other side.
	As a matter of fact, her meme was even more explicit and even more misleading.
	But I guess maybe they didn't prosecute her because they feel like the Democrats are so dumb that they'd fall for his meme.
	But maybe the Republicans aren't so dumb that they'd fall for her meme.
	I don't know. So, anyway, he tweeted what looked like a photo of Hillary's ad.
	Go ahead and pull it up, Travis, in this article.
	It was actually a parody of a Hillary ad.
	Caption said, avoid the line, vote from home, text Hillary.
	Gave a number, vote for Hillary, be part of history.
	Well, there you go. Of course, that's going to fool everybody, right?
	And scroll down a little bit and you'll see another one that was not prosecuted.
	And there you go.
	Okay, this one was from Christina Wong, and she gave some Wong information.
	She said, hey, Trump supporters, skip the poll lines at the election 2016 and text in your vote.
	Text votes are legit.
	Or vote tomorrow on Super Wednesday.
	Well, they don't even comment on that.
	That was far more specific.
	Far more misleading.
	So they say that the Justice Department, so-called Justice Department, said Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encourage supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to vote via text message or social media, which in reality is not valid.
	Oh, really? Really?
	Yeah, they think that their supporters are that stupid.
	Maybe they are.
	So, again, but where was Trump defending these GOP figures?
	Where was Trump defending free speech in 2018?
	Where was he in terms of defending speech on social media platforms?
	And, of course, this is a jury in Brooklyn, which shows that they can get a conviction of Trump.
	It doesn't have to be anything legit.
	We're talking about juries in New York City, right?
	So Brooklyn, Manhattan, doesn't matter.
	Because this is political persecution.
	They can rig what people see.
	And, you know, it is a real possibility that he'll be found guilty on this.
	But, you know, we've been seeing this going on for a while.
	On Rumble, Donald Dumpster, thank you for the tip.
	He says, I always care more about someone that lost a loved one to Donald Trump's shot than Donald Trump.
	Absolutely. Absolutely.
	And when you look at it, even the apologists are saying, why is he continuing to do this?
	And I'll talk about that in just a moment.
	It truly is amazing.
	These people who try to apologize for them immediately, it doesn't make any sense.
	And they have to try to come up with something else to explain it away.
	So, when we look at...
	Hang on a second, let me get to the next page here.
	Yeah, it's avoid the line, vote from home.
	Isn't that ironic? Avoid the line, vote from home.
	That's what Trump did four years later.
	And that's what he's complaining about.
	You set the rules up, pal.
	Everybody said that was going to happen.
	But, of course, you set the rules up to lose.
	That was all, I think, part of the plan.
	So, as one person said, well, last night, I said, if they can do it to Trump, they can do it to anybody.
	And then today we see Douglas Mackey being convicted.
	No, it's just the opposite. If they can do it to anyone, they can do it to the people at the top.
	They start small and they build, right?
	It's like everything else that they do.
	The tyranny starts small.
	Donald Trump, for example, did gun control by executive order.
	He did it with a little tiny thing, a little bump stock.
	And of course, if you buy that, then Biden can come in.
	All right, now we're going to do pistol braces.
	Now we're going to do the next thing.
	Now we're going to do 3D guns or whatever his dream is.
	They keep escalating it, but they always start small.
	They start small to establish the principle.
	And, yeah, so we're in the way of Donald Trump.
	We're protecting Trump.
	So, this is a flagrant assault on the First Amendment.
	Our country is becoming unrecognizable to anyone who understands our Constitution, and we don't have long to fix it, says Vavik Ramaswamy, who is right about that.
	But, look, it is past time to fix it in D.C. It truly is, as I said before.
	It's up to us. We're the crew.
	One study found that as many as 71% of Democrats may have voted differently in 2020 if they had known.
	The Hunter Biden laptop story broken by the New York Post, but it was subsequently throttled by social media and other media.
	If they had known that had been real, 71% of Democrats said they would have voted otherwise.
	I don't know. I can't see those Democrats voting for Trump under any circumstances.
	They really didn't care.
	They say that they did, but I don't think that they did.
	And as we look at January 6th and the Proud Boys, we see even more evidence of the FBI continuing to overthrow our Constitution.
	Even in their texts, as they are spying on the Proud Boys, who were, by the way, thrown under the bus by Trump and by the Stop the Steel Grifters, they threw these guys under the bus, they pocketed all the money and walked away, didn't they?
	Millions of dollars. $250 for Trump.
	Millions for the Stop the Steal crew.
	Leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller, obtained by the New York Times, confirms that the FBI spied on communications between a Proud Boy defendant and his lawyer, that they worked on never-filed conspiracy indictment targeting Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska, that they laughed at a defendant's personal misfortunes, and they bragged about dismantling things.
	And what things would that be?
	Well, that would be things like our Constitution.
	The FBI claimed portions of the logs had to be classified to keep them from being seen by the jury.
	Of course, they always hide exculpatory evidence.
	You know, we were talking yesterday about Ross Ulbrich and the Silk Road case.
	And the fact that you had crooked FBI agents that were being prosecuted for getting into Silk Road and stealing millions of dollars.
	But the Justice Department's narrative against Ross Ulbrich was that he was the only person who had control of the website.
	Even as this trial was going on with the FBI, they kept that exculpatory evidence away from the jury.
	Even when you look at the Bundy Ranch, they had a picture of a guy Who was up on the top of the overpass.
	You know, there was a lower area down there where we were.
	And, you know, and that was where the confrontation was.
	There were a lot of observers who were up at the top.
	And there was one guy who was laying in a prone position, had his rifle between a couple of concrete barriers, and they made a big deal about that.
	But the defense lawyer said, so why are these people who are not armed, why are they hunkering down behind the concrete barriers?
	Are they afraid of the government agents on the ground who are threatening to shoot?
	Shut up. You can't say that.
	Strike that. Disregard that, jury.
	You didn't hear any of that information, right?
	In those trials. They always cover up exculpatory evidence in these government political persecutions.
	The Times report makes no mention of the texts which reveal that Agent Miller said she was ordered by her boss to destroy 338 items of evidence, quote-unquote.
	The Times report, New York Times, also failed to mention the text showing that Miller was asked by another agent to, quote, edit out that I was present, unquote, during a meeting with a confidential human source informant.
	And her fellow agents were impressed.
	Wow, said one of her colleagues in the field office in Washington, D.C. You've been in the Washington field office for what, a year?
	And you're already dismantling things?
	Well, she wasn't dismantling the office.
	She wasn't dismantling a police state agency.
	What she's dismantling is not a system of oppression, says Information Liberation, but what Biden called English jurisprudential culture, a white man's culture, quote-unquote.
	See, Biden, a white man, wants to undo a thousand years of protection of individual liberty.
	It didn't all just happen at once.
	It didn't get delivered in some kind of magic package.
	This is something over trial and error and suffering and torture and blood and imprisonment that people said, we've got to not allow that to happen.
	Bit by bit, this thing was written in blood.
	And he wants to throw it all away so he can do all the stuff that we have been working to prohibit.
	The idea that folks are innocent until proven guilty and the government mustn't target folks that are innocent, mustn't target political enemies, must not find a crime to prosecute them.
	Bring me the man, I'll find the crime.
	Or, in this case, the obligation of the government to share its sculpatory evidence with defense counsel and to not spy on privileged attorney-client communications.
	No, that's something we don't want to have anymore.
	That's white man stuff.
	So Donald Trump leaves Mar-a-Lago with cheering supporters all along the way.
	So, you know, supporters who don't remember 2020, don't remember January the 6th, they don't remember the jabs, the lockdowns, the vote by mail that he wanted people to do.
	The route to the airport was lined with supporters holding pro-Trump flags and cheering for the president.
	And people putting this out on social media.
	All Trump, all the time.
	Aaron Rupar. Funeral procession for our republic.
	End wokeness, said.
	I consider these influencers to be no different than the doctors, the nurses, the hospital administrators, who knew better and who killed people.
	These people, these influencers know better.
	And they're pushing the guy who funded all that stuff.
	Why? Well, because they know they'll get paid.
	They know they'll get paid.
	They'll get paid by the MAGA crowd.
	You know, the doctors and the nurses get paid by Pfizer, who was paid by Trump.
	But these people get paid by the crowd for telling the people what they want to hear.
	Well, you go back and look at that Fox News lawsuit.
	And she's writing emails and saying, you know, we got this on-air talent who called out the lies that our other on-air talent guy was doing.
	That's a bad look for us.
	That's going to really upset our audience.
	Matt Taibbi pointed out, he said, look, what the news has become.
	Is, you know, these politicized organizations, these, I guess we could call them, you know, paramilitary.
	That's something that's alongside the military.
	It's kind of quasi-military.
	These are parapolitical party organizations, the media has become.
	You know, CNN, MSNBC, most of them will push the Democrat narrative.
	And they will tailor their message for their demographic.
	Fox News, you know, most of the alternative press, all these people cheering Trump, they will tailor their message for their audience because that's where the money is.
	And if you don't do it, you get canceled.
	You get canceled by your audience.
	You get canceled by social media and all the rest of them as well.
	That's how it works.
	And they have sold out.
	They're shills. They're shills as much as any of these medical people who lied and shilled and killed for their money.
	Now, Glenn Beck went on with Tucker Carlson.
	And it's kind of interesting because Glenn Beck is saying today, what I said about January the 6th and the election stopped the steal and everything, two and a half years ago I said this.
	I was fired for saying this.
	And now he's telling people, it's a trap.
	It's a grift. He's telling people.
	Glenn Beck says, you know what's behind this indictment?
	And it's a grave threat to the nation.
	Beck says, I believe that they're trying to inflame this country.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	They want violence from the right.
	And there are people like Steve Pachenik and Alex Jones who's pushing them, who wanted the money, and they wanted to lead people into that trap.
	They really did. That's what they did.
	He said they need it because if we strike out, said Glenn Beck, he said, just look at January the 6th.
	They want you to strike out. Why?
	So they can close the cage. That's what I was saying all along.
	I said it while I was there.
	I opposed these people on air while I was there.
	I continued to say it until the morning of January the 6th.
	I said, stay away. It's a trap.
	There's going to be agent provocateurs there.
	They're going to trap you there.
	It's enough that they fleeced you of your money.
	Don't let them throw you in jail as well and then create this event so that they have an excuse to come after people who are their political opponents.
	He said they allegedly want to turn the United States into another Venezuela.
	And again, Trump is the divider.
	Trump is the polarizer that they can use.
	2020, however, showed us whose side he was on.
	As I've said over and over again, it doesn't matter what they say.
	It doesn't matter what political party they are or what their stated ideology is.
	Look at what they do.
	And if you look at what he did, he did the same thing that Trudeau did.
	He did the same thing Boris Johnson did.
	He did the same thing that Jabsinda Ardern did in New Zealand.
	All the rest of these tyrants, Gladys Berejiklian, there was no difference between them.
	All these different countries, all these different political parties, all these so-called political philosophies, they all did the same thing.
	And they knew what they were doing.
	As a matter of fact, you just got this Finnish prime minister thrown out.
	She was known as the party girl.
	She was caught partying while she had everybody else locked down.
	Just like Boris Johnson. Just like Matt Hancock.
	They laugh at us behind our backs.
	Sometimes we see in their text messages them laughing and mocking about it.
	They don't believe any of the stuff that they pulled on us in 2020 for the lockdown.
	They didn't believe a word of it.
	They're out there partying with each other.
	You know, having midnight assignations, if you want to call it that.
	All the rest of the stuff.
	I mean, it was totally phony.
	Every single one of them.
	How is Trump different? Well, he is different.
	He can, you know, mug.
	He and Melania can mug around Jeffrey Epstein and go on his plane trips.
	But, oh, no. He's different.
	He doesn't have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
	He doesn't have anything to do with the Davos crowd.
	He was there to oppose them.
	He was there to tell them off.
	And yet, all those people...
	Shortly after that, we're all on the same page, doing the same things to us.
	It's just a coincidence that they were all there, right?
	So the MAGA threat to the Great Reset and the warmongers.
	This is from, amazingly, this is from LifeSite News.
	And so the Great Reset mob?
	Biden, the Democrats, China, Neocon, Republicans, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, the UN, all of them.
	Want to take down the United States?
	Exactly. And Donald Trump and MAGA are on the other side.
	Are they really? What?
	Juvenile nonsense. Trump pushed 5G. Has Trump opposed any of this stuff as a candidate?
	No. What has he pushed? He's pushed smart cities as a candidate already.
	That's his agenda. Smart cities.
	He's all about building walls.
	Walls to keep you in?
	Or to protect you from the Auslander, right?
	No. He's been absolutely silent about all these Biden bans on everything from meat to mobility.
	He doesn't care about any of that stuff.
	As a matter of fact, he's got his own ideas for smart cities.
	And he loves 5G. Just don't want those Chinese doing it.
	We'll do it. We'll do China for you.
	You don't want President Xi running the prison.
	I want to run the prison that I put you in.
	And he pulls back and goes, well, no, this is not a...
	After sucking up to Trump, this LifeSite co-editor, it's just shameful, says, this is not a pro-Trump article.
	Let me be clear, this is not a pro-Trump article.
	I have been disappointed, even dismayed, by some of the things that he's done, especially regarding COVID policies and the deadly Operation Warp Speed Jams.
	Seriously? You've been dismayed?
	Dismayed? You're not outraged?
	You're not furious about the people he's killed?
	You damn well know he's killed people!
	And you're dismayed about it?
	But, you know, hey, we're going to look at this in the bigger picture.
	You know, he's killed 300,000, 500,000, 600,000 Americans alone.
	Who knows, right? 300,000 is the low side of this stuff.
	How many millions of people has he killed?
	Well, but let's not worry about that.
	If he killed 6 million people, would you care?
	Right? What about this?
	What if we called it a vaccine holocaust?
	Oh, don't do that.
	Now look at the ADL. Well, guess what?
	They're already on my back.
	I don't give a flip about the ADL. Anyway, there's...
	His deadly Operation Warp Speed jabs, his strong support for the homosexual movement, his dreadful insistence that all Republican conservative candidates must have rape, incest, and fake life for the mother exceptions in their abortion policy.
	That doesn't stop him.
	Well, he's still the most pro-life president.
	Well, he's not anymore. What do you think his second term is going to be like?
	He appointed judges.
	He didn't think they were going to overturn Roe v.
	Wade. If he did, he wouldn't have put them in there.
	They didn't want to lose that wedge.
	And so, lo and behold, it happened.
	And immediately, he said, that's crazy.
	These people are costing us the election.
	We've got to support abortion in a lot of cases, is what he's saying, right?
	He's not a pro-life president.
	Go lie to yourself, LifeSite News.
	Come on, give me a break.
	They're all about being pro-life.
	They're all about opposing the lockdown and the jabs.
	They better get on that. But when it comes to Trump, they lose their mind.
	They fall in line like good little soldiers.
	Too many on the right, he says, have forgotten all this to the detriment of their nation.
	They're irrational disgust for Trump.
	His personality, his past life.
	Is it irrational to be disgusted by his lack of character?
	His betrayal of friends and family, his wives that he betrayed.
	Does character matter to LifeSite News?
	They're a conservative Catholic site.
	Does character no longer matter to conservative Catholics?
	What is it?
	In any other area, it would.
	But when it comes to Trump, he trumps that.
	They just shut it off.
	He's often blamed for not hiring and appointing better people.
	But in many cases, he was prevented from doing so.
	How? What nonsense!
	He fired anybody that criticized him immediately.
	You've never seen the kind of turnover that you saw in the Trump administration.
	Why? He didn't have any say-so's to who he hired.
	Personnel is policy.
	You bring in Goldman Sachs bankers, you're going to get Goldman Sachs policies.
	You bring in the military-industrial complex, you're going to get military-industrial complex policies.
	And they're going to say, no, we don't want to pull out of Afghanistan.
	We don't want to pull back from NATO. We don't want to do that.
	Oh, okay. Then came COVID, like something out of hell, he says.
	No, COVID didn't do this to us.
	That's another one of these lies, they tell you.
	It was clear. I'm not going to go into how he knew.
	We all knew. Everybody knew.
	On our side, everybody knew.
	No, he put pharmaceutical companies in charge when they gave him millions of dollars in the transition period before he took office in 2017.
	And his reaction to COVID is what came at us like something out of hell.
	It wasn't some virus.
	The virus doesn't exist.
	Do they not realize that yet?
	He was lied to.
	He was manipulated on COVID and the jabs.
	Dr. Paul Alexander, with an interview with Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute, said, if you haven't read that, you should.
	There's shocking revelations in there about what the deep state did to President Trump.
	Okay, well, were they still gaslighting him for years after he left and kept pushing the jab?
	No. As a matter of fact, he would play the bumpkin, you know?
	He would play Costello.
	To Fauci's straight man, Abbott.
	You know, well, I think we could just inject sunlight into our veins.
	You don't know what you're talking about.
	It's crazy. Well, then after he says that, at the same time, you know, HCQ, let's do that.
	He takes something that's real, thoroughly discredited.
	He was the guy to discredit any alternative treatments.
	He was the buffoon.
	The clown. Anyway, he says, still there's no longer any justification for Trump to still be pushing his Operation Warp Speed, save millions of people, that it's, quote, a wonderful thing.
	The jabs have turned out to be satanic, he says.
	He has become delusional.
	No, he's a shill.
	Not delusional, shill.
	Overwhelming evidence now.
	Well, guess what? We didn't have to wait for two years.
	For this to be obvious. It was obvious immediately.
	You had people dropping dead from getting the shot.
	And it happened before.
	People started getting the shots in December.
	We had a lot of reports in early January, but nobody was paying attention.
	Why? Because they were talking about Trump's election.
	They were talking about January the 6th.
	Nobody was focused on the people being killed by his shots.
	They were figuring out how to keep this guy in office because our very existence depends upon it.
	Mark Levin was out there.
	Hey, Trump, you got to take credit for this.
	Don't let Biden take credit for Operation Warp Speed.
	You saved everybody. Yeah.
	So, he goes on to say, probably can't face the fact that he brought the economy up to a roaring success and then unintentionally had it all undone by approving the devastating COVID policies.
	Or maybe, if you look at Occam's razor, take the most obvious explanation.
	That this guy who is such a successful businessman, his supporters say, he's so brilliant.
	He knows how to cut deals with people.
	Maybe Occam's razor would just tell you that, hey, he cut a deal with all this stuff.
	Maybe that would tell you that he's just a lying traitor.
	So, for Beck...
	Trump has really been indicted because they want to cover up what's being done.
	The collapse of the banking system, the transition to CBDC, the Restrict Act, the wars, pushing for a war with China.
	We've got to have Trump out there as a distraction.
	And that's right. It is a circus distraction, and it has worked.
	It's worked for many years now.
	It worked for COVID. Trump is on our side.
	He's playing 40 chess.
	He has to do some of this stuff, but ultimately he's going to pull it in and we're going to win.
	No, you didn't. And his executive order is still in place 1,118 days later and still being built upon.
	It is the foundation that Biden has built a lot of his tyranny on.
	And so he says Trump is a symbol.
	Quoting Beck, he says Donald Trump There's not even a person anymore.
	That's right. He has achieved symbolic status.
	Unlike so many symbols, people don't understand what they mean.
	He is a symbol of the average, everyday guy that keeps getting screwed every day.
	Yeah, this blue-collar billionaire, they call him.
	There's nothing blue-collar about him at all.
	There's nothing everyday man about him.
	All of it is a lie.
	How can these people think that he's like them?
	Because what? Because he's McDonald's?
	So, as for the next election, Beck panders.
	He says, this guy has been taking the bullet for the average person now for years.
	See? Beck knows where his bread is buttered.
	He is not going to criticize Trump.
	You know, he is the everyman.
	He is the avatar for us, you know?
	He is being crucified for us.
	Oh, I am getting disgusted.
	Disgusted. With all the people out there, some of them pastors, who are already saying, oh, this is Easter weekend, and the same thing's happening to Trump that happened to Jesus.
	No, it's not at all the same.
	Not at all the same.
	Jesus was innocent, for starters.
	But that's not what that was about.
	You know, people act out of their own motivations.
	But here's Steve Bannon, who loves to attach himself to billionaires.
	And here is Steve Bannon with a Catholic priest.
	Talking about Messiah Trump.
	Father, yesterday's Palm Sunday.
	You're in the most sacred and holy week in the Christian calendar.
	Very symbolic that Donald Trump is being brought before the magistrate tomorrow in New York, is it not, sir?
	It really is, Steve. You know, on Good Friday, Pilate is there and he talks to Jesus and he says, well, you know, what have you done?
	He says, I find no guilt in you.
	And then he goes out to the crowd and he says, shall I release for you the king of the Jews?
	And the crowd says, crucify him.
	And Pilate says, well, what wrong has he done?
	They don't give any wrong.
	The crowd just says, crucify him.
	And Pilate bows to their pressure.
	This is Have you puked yet?
	Do you need something to clean that up with?
	It's unbelievable. And Steve Bannon.
	Steve Bannon is not exactly a mission either.
	Been convicted. And of course, now there's some charges against this Chinese billionaire Guo that he's attached himself to.
	But Guo is not pulling back any.
	Guo's got a new money-making scheme.
	He's going to start selling un-vaxxed sperm, including his own, by the way.
	These people have absolutely no shame.
	They're just disgusting.
	Disgusting. They will sell anything for a dime, and they will tell you anything.
	They'll compare Donald Trump to Jesus Christ.
	It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
	He goes on to say, that guy says, well, I'm not comparing Trump to...
	Yes, you are! You spent the whole thing comparing him.
	And then you come back with that disclaimer.
	Well, no, they're not exactly...
	Yes, they are to you.
	He is your idol.
	And the same guy, by the way, they're now saying, well, we lost $276 billion to fraud from these pandemic relief funds.
	The PPP stuff?
	Those not in 2020? Under Trump?
	Those supposed to go to small businesses but didn't?
	More than 50% of it went to less than 5% of the people who applied, and they were big companies because Steve Mnuchin, the Goldman Sachs banker that Trump put in at the Treasury Department, and Trump, because he wanted to have these rules reset for businesses like his, they said, well, we're going to change the definition of a small business for this purpose.
	It's not going to be a business that has fewer than 500 employees.
	Fewer than 500 employees at any given location.
	Give the money to McDonald's or whoever, right?
	And let the small restaurant on the corner, let them die.
	They didn't get any money. I talked about that over and over again.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	But, you know, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
	It's not $250 billion.
	It's trillions of dollars. You know, it was $3.7 trillion.
	Do you think that that changed America?
	Go back. And look at the budget of the Department of Education.
	The Department of Education was created in 1980, an election year.
	It was not even a year old, and immediately as it was created, Ronald Reagan said, as he was a candidate in 1980, he says, I'm going to get rid of it.
	And so he gets elected.
	You know, the thing is only about six or eight months old or whatever.
	Not even a year old when he takes office.
	He never got rid of it.
	Instead, what he did was he grew it and grew it and grew it.
	But if you link, that's 40 years worth of growth in the Department of Education.
	I don't know what the, I haven't done the math to go back and look at 40 years and to take the dollar figures and to adjust them for how the Federal Reserve and the federal government has destroyed the value of our money, you know, adjust it for their inflation.
	But I can tell you that it was, they got a 15% increase under Biden, big increase.
	That's still only $16 billion.
	Look at the damage and the influence that the Department of Education can do with $16 billion.
	Throwing their weight around for curriculum, throwing trannies into women's bathrooms and showers, and, hey, you better do that or I'm going to take the money away.
	You think that has an influence on people?
	You go back and you look at that.
	Let's just say, even though it's not true, they just had a big 15% increase.
	Well, let's take the current budget, $16 billion.
	Multiply that out by 40.
	And, you know, $640 billion?
	That doesn't even come close to what Trump did to lock people down, to get them trained on universal basic income and all the rest of the stuff, to destroy middle-class businesses and everything else with a lockdown.
	Doesn't even come close.
	Yeah, it was a massive restructuring of our society.
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	All things about liberty and mobility, and of course, these people are coming after, as I said before, they're coming after everything that we've got, from mobility to meat and everything in between.
	Biden is trying to ban everything, you know, household appliances, light bulbs, you name it.
	I guess they go start small and incrementally ban everything in the house, and then finally they can ban the house when it's empty of everything.
	But joining us now is Eric Peters.
	Thanks for joining us, Eric.
	I've been ranting for the last hour about this Trump circus and everything I said today.
	It looks like forecast is stormy with 100% chance of arraignment.
	What's your take on this? Well, I guess we can look forward to you and I being indicted later this afternoon.
	But I guess the thing that appalls me the most about all of this, if they're going to go ahead and indict the orange man, why don't they indict him for warp speeding the poisonous drugs that they called vaccines into the bodies of tens of millions of people?
	Exactly. I said the very same thing.
	I said, you know, this reminds me of what they did to Dennis Hastert.
	A pedophile. He was a pedophile wrestling coach.
	They picked him to run for Congress.
	Then they said, hey, let's make him the leader because he's blackmailable, right?
	They'd come after him not for that because there's a statute of limitations on that, but even the judge who sent him to jail referenced that.
	They came after him for the non-crime of taking his money out of his bank Taking it out, trying to avoid any questions or detection about that.
	And that's what they're doing to Trump. I said, I would love to see him hauled off in an orange suit and handcuffs to an international tribunal to stand for crimes against humanity.
	That's really what he should be standing trial for.
	I agree. And there's another aspect to this too that I don't think is coincidental.
	I wrote about it the other day.
	The wheels are coming off the wagon in Ukraine.
	It looks like Bakhmut is about to fall, and they need a look-a-squirrel moment, and here it is in the form of the Orange Man.
	Yes, exactly. Yeah, Up.
	Which, interesting that you have a quote from Up, because when Donald Trump started running, I did...
	It infuriated Alex.
	But I did a comparison to the movie Up, you know, where he has...
	He's got this final house, and they're trying to clear everything out.
	He doesn't want to leave. It's the house that he had with his wife.
	And... Are they going to tear it down?
	I said, but Trump did the same thing for his casino.
	He fought against a widow who was there, and because he couldn't get her to pay, he got the city to condemn it, to give it to him.
	And before he built his parking lot, he decided he was going to walk away from the casino.
	I said, that's the character of this guy.
	It's amazing. Yeah, that was a revelatory despicability.
	Yes. Unfortunately, a lot of people overlook things like that.
	Because Trump is very good at saying things people think they heard and want to hear.
	Yes. And for that reason, he's dangerous.
	You know, I do not consider him a friend of liberty at all.
	I consider him to be a narcissistic opportunist, and that ought to be obvious by now.
	Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty obvious to his former attorney.
	He says he's a deeply wounded narcissist and capable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest or revenge.
	That pretty much sums him up better than anything I've ever seen.
	I repeated that earlier today.
	I repeat it all the time because that is exactly what he is.
	It's truly amazing. Now, that said, however, I am alarmed by what's going on up in New York because what it's doing is establishing a precedent for the criminalization of what you might call wrong-thinkfulness.
	And it's a shot across the bow.
	The left is letting people know that if you disagree with their orthodoxies, that it will no longer be merely that you are deplatformed or demonetized, but you might actually be charged with some sort of a crime, as, for example, by refusing to state and to believe That a biological man is, in fact, a woman because he says she is.
	Yes. Oh, yeah. The trends, as I said, are the shock troops for insanity and for persecution.
	Religious persecution and political persecution.
	They are the shock troops.
	And it's right.
	But, you know, this has been rolling out, and neither Trump nor any of the other Republicans are really pushing back against this stuff for years.
	You know, when Trump was in charge, it was fine.
	You know, we're going to let the sensors run roughshod.
	We're going to de-platform people monetarily and all the rest of the stuff.
	But... Now that when it starts happening to them, it's like, oh no, we're the tip of the spear.
	No, you're not. You're the back end of it.
	You ought to know that if they've got political persecution, you being a politician are going to be put up against the wall if you don't defend this.
	And they just took a powder on all this stuff and never defended anybody.
	So now here it is. It's now at their front door.
	And quite frankly, I don't have any sympathy for them.
	And I don't think this is even the beginning of something.
	Yeah, this is the first time a president's been charged.
	But I don't even think this is the beginning of anything.
	I think this is just these people incrementally building it and building it and building it and going for more and more without ever having anybody push back or stop them.
	Yeah, the people who aren't left, nominally speaking, seem to be congenitally incapable of taking a stand on any principle.
	And that gets back to the opportunistic aspect of all of this.
	And that's why the left always wins.
	The people on the opposite side seem...
	Perfectly willing to fight with one arm tied behind their back against people who are perfectly prepared to gouge out eyes and kick you in the nuts.
	That's right. And they'll have their show trials.
	You know, you'll have Jim Jordan, other people, they'll have their show trials and they'll probably call in Alvin Bragg and they'll have, you know, nasty back and forth name calling and everything.
	But they won't do anything! Yep.
	They want to impeach Merrick Garland, for example, right?
	They'll hold hearings. Well, you're just despicable for the audiences, but they don't do it.
	They don't pass laws, and they don't take any responsibility for impeaching anybody.
	They do nothing. They're stuck in a parliamentary mindset that might have been applicable 30 years ago.
	They don't understand now that we're in an existential crisis and an existential fight.
	And these are people who do not play by the rules except the rules that they set, which are constantly and arbitrarily changing.
	If they want to understand what we're dealing with, they should read Lenin, and then they'll understand what the left is all about.
	That's right. Yeah, and quite frankly, I think you'll also understand some of what the right is about, because what Lennon was doing was he had the trust, which was being run by the predecessor of the KGB under Derzhinsky, and what they were doing was they were running the opposition.
	You know, they were funding opposition organizations so they could draw people in, and they did, and they drew in the guy that Ian Fleming based James Bond on, this great spy, Sigmund Reilly.
	They drew him in and they killed him using the trust.
	Yeah, and that's what comes of co-option.
	You know, we don't really have opposing political parties.
	We have parties that agree on the fundamentals and bicker amongst themselves about how they're going to divvy up the spoils of power and grift.
	Yeah, that's right. You know, you talked a couple of things about Kiev.
	You talked about, you know, Orange Man bad, but Kiev, as you put it there.
	I'd go with the old-fashioned pronunciation just to annoy them.
	Yeah, don't you hate that there's this supercilious condescension...
	Of pronouncing the name of a city like Kiev, for example, in the manner that it's spoken in the home country.
	But you never hear these internationalist people saying, live from Atlanta.
	They never do that.
	It's always condescending.
	Look at how educated and above it all we are, because we know how to say it correctly, and you, deplorable, do not.
	Yeah, when they start calling Rome, Roma, when they start calling Milan, Milano, or Venezia, you know, I mean, they don't use the same name for anything.
	The first time I went with a bunch of high school students on a trip to Europe, I thought it was really funny that we've got a different, we don't use their name for the other stuff.
	So I thought, okay, that's fine. I'm still going by that same rule.
	But you've got a t-shirt, you've got a sheep, a big sheep in the middle of it.
	It says, in a circle, it says Keeve, and then underneath it, it says Bah.
	Yeah. Isn't that great?
	My girlfriend designed that, and we decided to make some merchandise like that just to kind of throw the proverbial middle finger at a lot of this virtue signaling, which is worse than just virtue signaling.
	This is really dangerous stuff.
	You know, what's going on, as I'm sure you're well aware, in Ukraine now is becoming catastrophic, and I think that they're desperate to keep eyes off of it, and again, that's why they've got the orange man being frog-marched before the judge today.
	I think it is truly amazing that they showed their hand how NATO is not at all interested in peace.
	No matter what happens, even if Zelensky says, well, you know, maybe, no, we're not having any talks.
	Or the Chinese come in and they start to say, well, we're going to broker a peace agreement between Zelensky and Putin.
	And Zelensky said, yeah, I'll talk to him about it.
	And NATO comes out, you better not talk to him about it.
	I mean, it couldn't be more obvious at this point where the aggressors are.
	Who doesn't want peace?
	Well, Lindsey Graham is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, isn't he?
	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	As a matter of fact, I have a great picture of Lindsey Graham that somebody sent me.
	He looks a bit like Aunt Bea when you put a wig and a dress on him.
	You can't see that, but it really is funny.
	It's horrible all around.
	You know, I kind of make fun of the politics of it by calling it Kiev, but there's a lot of real suffering going on.
	You know, the people of that country are being slaughtered.
	their country is being destroyed and the world is being imperiled by this because what's happening now is the Russians are being inexorably pushed to continue to do what they're doing and it may end up being that we have Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops right up against Poland on a hair trigger, and something could go really horribly wrong that could cause a whole lot more damage than whatever happened about the business in the Donbass.
	Well, you refer to Colonel Douglas McGregor in here.
	Of course, he said from the very beginning, he is.
	And he said from the very beginning, look, if you let...
	Crimea and you let the Donbass, the areas that want to be associated with Russia, if you respect their right of self-government, I mean, here we are back to the argument of secession, right?
	Do we get to choose our own government or who we want to associate with?
	That's what America's founded on, right?
	That's what the Declaration of Independence was about.
	And, of course, Crimea has been a part of Russia longer than America has been America or about the same amount of time.
	And so he says, so if you go back to those boundaries, Then, you know, you and you demilitarize Ukraine and they don't join NATO, then the rest of Ukraine becomes a buffer between Russia and the other nations.
	Perfectly sensible approach, but of course, that's not something that anybody in NATO would even entertain.
	No, democracy is only at risk when it threatens the interests of the American hegemon and the elites behind the curtain.
	Yes, yes. It truly is amazing to see how they relentlessly are pushing into this.
	And I think, as everybody understands, we have so many different issues that are before us.
	You know, they're pushing us into central bank digital currency.
	They're pushing to, you know, destroy and rebuild The entire banking system under the direct control of the Federal Reserve.
	We have all these different fronts that are facing us, and yet everybody's focused on Trump.
	You know, when I look at the news, I look at about four or five dozen different sites each day to do the news.
	And everybody's just talking about Trump.
	It's washed everything off, as you pointed out.
	Look, squirrel, you know?
	Yeah, and one of the other things that's coincident to this, and I'm sure you're well aware of it, It's this odious thing that's making its way through the legislative colon in D.C. ostensibly to deal with TikTok.
	But in fact, it will deal with wrong thinkers like you and I and anybody else who potentially contradicts their narrative and can be characterized as a threat to national security somehow.
	The Restrict Act is amazing because typically what they do is they sugarcoat these things, like they did the Patriot Act.
	Oh, it's not evil. This is not the Death Star Act.
	If they say it's not evil, you can be pretty sure it is.
	Well, with this one, they don't even try to hide it anymore.
	They call it the Restrict Act.
	Yeah, we're going to restrict the internet.
	We're going to restrict speech.
	We're going to restrict crypto, which I think is going to be the first thing that it targets.
	Everybody's right about it being an instrument of total control over the internet and over free speech.
	I think the primary target is going to be crypto.
	Because you look at those big fines, you know, $250,000 fine if you were dealing with somebody that they have declared to be a bad actor.
	And then a million dollar fine if you try to hide that you're doing that by using a VPN, a virtual privacy network.
	Is that what the P stands for, privacy?
	Anyway, a VPN to hide where you are.
	And I said, this is coming out at exactly the same time they just came after Binance and said, we're going to come after you because you've been telling people to use a VPN so you don't have to do the know your customer rules, right?
	It couldn't be more obvious to me how the Federal Reserve is shutting down and going to war against crypto, and you've got people in both parties going to war against crypto.
	Why? Because it is, and I'm not a crypto supporter, I'm not a crypto user really, but I I want there to be this plurality of things that are out there.
	They want to make sure that everybody is channeled down into one approach, that they have direct control over everyone with a Fed coin.
	And so they've got to get rid of crypto, and I think that's a big part of what the Restrict Act is.
	Of course. That's the proverbial nuclear button, because if they do that, if they succeed, then they have absolute ability to punish anybody and everyone at any time for anything that in any way We're good to go.
	My bank account would be frozen.
	I couldn't buy anything or something even worse than that.
	That's right. Yeah, that's where it is all headed.
	And we've already had tastes of that as well.
	As a matter of fact, Matt Taibbi talked to me about that.
	He interviewed me for a piece when PayPal came out.
	And I said, yeah, I've been hit by PayPal.
	I got hit by PayPal back in May of 2021.
	And it was such a novel thing that the guy that I was on the phone with for over an hour there at PayPal said, well, I've never seen this before.
	I bet he's seen it now.
	I bet he's seen it a lot now.
	He says, it just says to take you down immediately.
	It doesn't give any reason.
	I said, well, keep looking and see if you can find any.
	People may think that this only affects the proverbial big and medium-sized fish.
	People who are in the media, let's say like you and I, who have a public forum, But it will inevitably become something that affects everyone.
	You don't wear your mask, for example.
	Well, no driving today.
	Your electric car is turned off.
	No shopping for you.
	And so on and so on. And it will get to the point where, effectively...
	They won't need a gulag archipelago because your gulag will be at home.
	You'll be imprisoned in your house.
	That's right. And you won't have air conditioning.
	You won't have a stove. You won't have a light bulb.
	It's not for nothing that they're trying to get rid of gas-powered home appliances and winnow everybody down into this electric-only thing, which is governed by a smart meter.
	Which they can then turn on and off at their whim.
	Well, you and I have been talking about that for the longest time.
	The fact that they want to control everybody through the centrally controlled power grid.
	And, of course, that's really what all this central bank digital currency is all about.
	Fed coin and everything.
	And they're rolling out the first part of it this summer.
	Fed now, where that's going to be the wholesale part of it.
	The next step is to go direct to consumers.
	But again, it's that they're going to shut down all alternatives except the one that gives them control.
	We saw it during the pandemic.
	They shut down any treatment.
	Nothing's going to be allowed. You know, we're going to lock you down.
	We're going to mask you up. We're going to put you on ventilators that'll kill you until we got the jab.
	And then you're going to take the jab or we're going to lock you in your home.
	That type of thing. It's always there's only one solution and you will do that.
	All this electrification stuff is the same thing.
	Yeah, well, it's always about obedience, fundamentally.
	The rest of this stuff is almost incidental.
	Yeah, yeah. Central control and surveillance, and it gives it out to them completely.
	You got an article, Saying It Out Loud.
	Talk a little bit about what is happening in the automotive industry and the fact that they're now talking about their transitioning as well.
	Well, I know. It's very, very interesting what happened.
	A couple of days ago, Carlos Tavares, who is the head of Stellantis, many people may not be familiar with Stellantis, but Stellantis is the corporation that, among other things, owns the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram brands of vehicles.
	So he's the head honcho of that corporation.
	And he said some interesting things at a Freedom of Mobility conference up in Dearborn.
	And what he said was that there's simply not enough lithium available, period, to replace the non-electric cars that are currently in circulation with electric cars.
	He said it out loud.
	And so if you read between the lines of what he's saying, it means that there are only going to be a certain number of EVs that are out there.
	And the only people probably who are going to be able to have an EV are the handful of relatively affluent and rich people who could afford to buy one.
	Yeah. And of course, we've been saying that as well.
	And it's not just lithium.
	There's a lot of different minerals that they don't have that for.
	And they don't have the infrastructure.
	And they don't have any way that they could get to the infrastructure, to build out the infrastructure.
	You know, there's no...
	Charging stations, as we pointed out, and there's not sufficient capacity, and they're not growing the capacity, unlike China, which is growing their capacity, they're shutting our capacity down.
	We're getting a negative growth in our capacity when it should be growing exponentially if they had a plan for people to actually own and drive cars.
	Yeah, a metric of this, right now in my driveway, I've got two brand new EVs that I've been test driving for the past week or so.
	One is a Mercedes EQE. And the other is the electric version of the Genesis G80. Genesis is Hyundai's luxury line, kind of analogous to Lexus's for Toyota.
	And the least expensive of these two vehicles is $75,000.
	Wow. Yeah, exactly.
	It just took an exponential jump.
	You've been talking about how all the regulations, the unnecessary regulations about emissions and about safety have been inflating the price of cars for a very long time and how the two of them work against each other.
	You're going to make it heavier with all these safety devices and everything.
	And yet, as expensive as that stuff got, when you look at the average price of these electric cars, they nearly doubled what the average cost was.
	Yep, and they're going up rather than down.
	Ford just announced another price increase of the F-150 Lightning, which now starts at more than $60,000.
	It initially was offered at about $40,000.
	So it's gone up in price about $20,000 over the course of a little more than a year.
	And this trend is going to continue because, again, some of the absolutely critical raw materials, lithium and cobalt specifically, are in relatively short supply.
	They're very expensive to get and to produce and to make into a finished product.
	And as the demand for this goes up through these forced mandates of more and more EVs, the price is inevitably going to get even higher.
	So, you know, it's clearly intentional that what they're doing is trying to price most people out of vehicles, and that's what this is all about.
	Well, you know, they are getting some pushback, you know, and we can talk about the e-fuel stuff and everything, but this is new.
	This is a referendum out of Berlin that, And you had these radical parties, you know, the last generation, they've been defacing things and gluing themselves to the road and gluing themselves to the showroom floor at Porsche, you know, all this other nonsense.
	And so I'm sure that people's annoyance at that had something to do with this.
	But they held a referendum They wanted people to vote on Berlin's climate neutrality by 2030.
	And of course, it's always 2030, right?
	So they wanted people to vote on the climate neutrality by 2030.
	And so FFF, another one of these groups, and last generation, they were the ones who were pushing this.
	They lost. 82% to 18%.
	It was a total repudiation of these people by the Berlin voters.
	They're not having any of it.
	And so I see that as a positive sign, but it's only just one little snapshot that's there.
	And the EU, how do you see this agreement happening?
	Because you had some people saying, well look, the EU backed off and they're going to allow internal combustion engines to continue to be built, but they've got to use this e-fuels, which is like buying a bottle of wine to burn in your car.
	That gets back into what we were talking about earlier with regard to the cost and the exclusivity.
	Yeah, Porsche and I think it's Maserati, it might be Lamborghini, it's one of the exotic manufacturers, have said they're going to continue to build gas-powered vehicles.
	They're also at the same time going to produce these so-called e-fuels, carbon neutral fuels, which essentially means producing gasoline through a chemical process that they can claim through some Byzantine formula doesn't result in any emissions of the dreaded gas carbon dioxide.
	But the fuel is apparently going to cost about $20 a gallon.
	Now, if you're somebody who has the means to afford a six-figure Porsche, you probably don't mind spending $20 a gallon.
	On your eFuel.
	But you and I are not going to be able to do that.
	So, again, you can see what the intention is here.
	Yeah, these people are not going to be commuting in their Lamborghini to work.
	And they really, again, they don't care.
	I mean, they'll light their cigars at the $100 bill and they'll throw the $100 bills in the tank.
	And it is a ridiculous thing.
	It doesn't even exist now.
	And what I think is really funny about it And this is the argument that they were having as to whether or not this was carbon neutral.
	And they said, well, you know, we are going to capture carbon dioxide, and then we're going to go through some kind of, I don't know the chemical process, but some kind of hydrolysis or something where they get, break down, you know, the air into hydrogen.
	And they make that, this is the key, that process, that chemical process of manufacturing carbon It's going to be run by wind power.
	So it's going to be done in a particular place where the wind is always blowing down the tip of South America.
	But then how do they transport it in a neutral way back to Europe?
	That's their big problem.
	Let's see. And it is such superstition.
	It's such nonsense because all this climate stuff, as you and I know, is a bunch of hooey.
	Well, also hypocrisy.
	Something that I have experienced personally, which we could talk about here for a moment, Having test-driven a lot of EVs over the course of the last six months is something that I call seepage.
	What I mean by that is that if you park an electric car and don't tether it to a plug overnight, particularly if it's cold, you're going to wake up the next day and discover that you've lost anywhere from 5 to 20 miles of range, in my experience.
	And that works out to something like a quarter to even a third of a gallon of gasoline that's simply being wasted, doing no useful work whatsoever, and just, you know, out the window.
	And if you scale that up, people would say, well, it's not much for that one EV, but think about millions of EVs that are constantly drawing power and losing power, and where does that power come from?
	How is it being generated? It's all about gratuitous wastefulness, but nobody wants to talk about it.
	Yeah, the EVs, that's the funny thing about it.
	They want to talk about how green they are, and yet nobody has ever talked about efficiency.
	You've talked about it in terms of, look at how heavy these things are.
	Look at how the bigger part of this is the energy that goes into moving something that is now twice as heavy as an ordinary car.
	I had an engineering professor who would ride a bicycle and...
	And he was not a fan of the automobile like me.
	And he would say, we've got to get over this idea that we're going to wrap ourselves in a ton of metal to drive everywhere.
	That's a light car today.
	Yeah, how about three tons? Literally, the EQE that I have outside of my driveway right now is a mid-sized car.
	And it weighs something like 5,500 pounds before you even get in it.
	That's right. Well, you know, at that time, you had cars like the dangerous Ford Pinto that my wife drove, and I drove a little Spitfire.
	I mean, these were cars that were, you know, under a ton, I think, at least my car was.
	And so you could find cars like that.
	Today, it's pretty rare to find something that weighs 2,000 pounds.
	I mean, even the Miata is nudged over that level now.
	It's not at all been explained to people, but here's a way to look at it.
	An electric battery is essentially a storage device for electricity.
	And in order to store the rough equivalent of about 6 gallons of gas in terms of energy, you need about 1,000 pounds of batteries.
	Now, a 21-gallon gas tank that holds 21 gallons of fuel weighs, what, about 130 pounds because a gallon of gas weighs about 6 pounds.
	And as you drive, it gets lighter because you're burning up the fuel, whereas in the EV, no matter what the range or charge remaining is, you're still lugging around that battery.
	1,500 pounds of battery pack everywhere you go.
	Yeah, yeah. It truly is amazing.
	And they don't, again, if you want to talk about, you know, being energy efficient and all the rest of this stuff, they don't care about the overall equation.
	They don't care what goes into the mining and the transportation of any of this stuff.
	It truly is really a threadbare narrative that they've got, but they're running with it at full speed.
	Yeah, the Maserati just came out.
	It was Lamborghini and Porsche that pushed to, or maybe it was Ferrari.
	I think it was Ferrari. Ferrari and Porsche that pushed for that e-fuel exception.
	Yeah, it was Ferrari. Their CEO, actually, thank you for reminding me about that, he came out and said and defended that That's right.
	Yeah, Maserati has now announced that they're going to build a V6 in 2025.
	And so I guess that is because of this carve-out.
	But again, that carve-out is just for the very, very tiny marketplace that's going to be there.
	These are going to be the people who fly everywhere in private planes, and yet they have the C40 organization, which was originally 40 cities, but it's now up to nearly 100.
	And, you know, they were saying that their goal is for you to have one plane flight every three years of less than a thousand miles.
	But, of course, these guys all have their private jets and they go to all these confabs every other month everywhere.
	And it's going to be the same thing.
	They'll have their private jets. They'll have their helicopters.
	They'll have their hypercars running e-fuel.
	They don't care about the rest of the stuff.
	They just want to make sure they don't have any of us on the road with them.
	Well, that's certainly true.
	But, you know, I view this as roughly analogous to the situation that elaborated with regard to the masks and the vaccines.
	A point came at which there were a handful of people who pointed out that the emperor has no clothes.
	And it took a while.
	But other people began to look and say, yeah, you're right, the emperor doesn't have any clothes.
	This isn't what they said it was.
	And I think what Porsche and what Ferrari are doing is setting an example as by not wearing a mask, as by refusing to take the drugs that they call vaccines.
	And maybe some of the other car companies are going to realize this is a catastrophe.
	You know, just purely from a business point of view, we can't do this.
	We can't sustain this, to use the word that the left likes to use.
	Look at Ford. They came out the other week and were talking about a $3 billion loss and even more losses going forward as far as the eye can see.
	It's insane. It can't sustain itself.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	And when we...
	I look around this area, and we used to come here for vacation ever since I was a tiny child.
	And something's happened in the last few years.
	They've eased the regulations so that, you know, it's been a while that people could do a craft brewery and make beer, right?
	Get an exception. I don't know what they did to throttle the ATF. But they have all over the place now, there's all these places that are making liquor, hard liquor, moonshine places, right?
	And I looked at this and I thought, you know, we need to do the same thing in terms of fuel.
	Because, you know, we need to have like a state carve-out.
	And say, yeah, we're going to refine our own fuel here in Tennessee or whatever.
	Yeah. Sure. You know, and have it like a moonshine variation because I don't know where we're going to get the fuel to drive our cars.
	That's the key thing where they're going to cut us off in the future is not having that fuel.
	And we've got to have something. There's not going to be any more refineries built.
	You just had this big deal.
	Tens of billions of dollars Saudis have invested in China to build a new refinery.
	They're building multi-billion dollar refineries every year.
	They're building as many and as dirty and cheap coal-fired plants for their electric grid and all the rest of the stuff.
	But we had the CEO of Chevron say, not since 1993 have we been allowed to build a refinery here in the U.S. And I don't think we ever will again.
	And that goes to the presence of Clinton.
	Then to Dubya, and then to Obama and Trump, and now Biden, and none of them will allow a refinery to be built in the U.S. Yeah, and I credit a lot of that happening to the general insouciance of the American public that thinks on an individual level, well, that doesn't affect me.
	You know, you hear about it, you read about it, there won't be a new refinery, there won't be a new permit granted for a nuclear power plant, and so on, but life goes on, they're able to get in their car, go to work, they can Well, the rubber is hitting the road, and it's beginning to affect everyday people, and they're beginning to see it.
	And I think it's hard to know when the turning point is.
	Often you don't see it until you're looking in the rearview mirror, but we may be getting very close to it.
	I think it really is beginning to sink in to more and more people that this is really something that presents an existential threat to me and my family, and therefore I am interested in it now.
	Yeah, we're starting to see some of that in Europe, of course, with Biden sanctions.
	And, you know, we just had a shock to the oil market with OPEC raising its head again and saying, all these different countries have come in and said, we're going to reduce production by this amount.
	You total them up, and it's 1.1 million barrels per day they're going to cut.
	And yet, when you look at what Biden did, he's a one-man OPEC.
	As a matter of fact, he did more than that.
	With his sanctions against Russia alone, he took 5.1 million barrels per day off of the market.
	And that's not even counting things like natural gas, you know, and blowing up the pipeline and all the rest of this stuff.
	I mean, he's been a one-man wrecking crew to all this, putting a cap as all these presidents, including Trump and Bush, put a cap on these refineries.
	That is essentially putting a cap on our ability to have mobility because all these things are going to wear out and be replaced.
	Yes, and there is callousness that's evident in this that comes from people like Trump, like Biden, all of them, because they're insulated from it.
	It's not personal for them.
	They have unlimited access to our money and to resources.
	Biden doesn't have to worry about who's paying for the 25 gallons of premium that's going into his limo that takes him to his Air Force One that burns up God knows how many thousands of gallons of Jet A or whatever it is going across the ocean.
	They don't care. The beast.
	Yeah, they don't care because they don't have to care.
	It literally is what they said about Marie Antoinette and let them eat cake.
	That's what we're dealing with, and I try to hit that home.
	Because it gets people angry, and they ought to be angry about it.
	That's right. Oh, yeah. You look at that incredibly wasteful vehicle that they've got.
	I wonder if it's got a tag that says 666 on it.
	You know, at least, remember Jimmy Carter at least had the decency to turn down the thermostat in the White House and wear a sweater.
	Yeah, I know.
	These guys don't even pretend.
	It's amazing. It truly is amazing.
	And I think the other, the flip side of that is, uh, you might want to, they might want to ask themselves.
	Cause I remember looking at the HBO, um, dramatization of John Adams.
	And at one point, you know, he and his, uh, opposition party, vice president, Thomas Jefferson are walking down the streets of Washington, DC.
	Nobody's really paying any attention to them.
	They're talking, they stop, they argue.
	And you look at that and you say, well, um, why doesn't that happen today?
	Why are they surrounded by this army of people everywhere to try to protect them?
	Why are they so hated that they have to drive in the most heavily armored vehicle in history?
	Why are they so hated?
	Maybe they ought to think about that.
	Sure, and it's obvious. It's because they have the power to do things to us.
	In the day of Jefferson and Adams, the federal government had almost no power, at least not at the state level.
	And so for most people, it was a moot point.
	It was an irrelevance what these guys were talking about.
	I remember in the early 1990s, we'd tell people, you think you're going to fix everything with the presidency?
	Take a look at Switzerland.
	The people there, most of the people there don't even know who the president is.
	Right? It should be like asking somebody, well, who is the head of the Commerce Department?
	As a matter of fact, you know, this restrict act that we're talking about, that power is being given to the Commerce Department.
	I had to ask Travis, I said, so who is running the Commerce Department now?
	I didn't even know because they don't have any power.
	Oh, you're going to know who the Commerce Department head is from now on if they get that thing through.
	But, you know, the people in Switzerland didn't even know who the president was because it didn't have any effect on their life.
	And we need to get back to that.
	Absolutely. It is absolutely crazy.
	A corollary to that, too, is getting out of the frame of mind of looking to quote-unquote leaders to help you, help yourself.
	Figure out your own life and deal with your own life and stop looking to these people to help you in your life.
	That's right. Yeah, that's the saddest thing about it.
	I was talking about that aspect of it earlier.
	You think about the dependency that has been engendered, even on these so-called rugged individualist conservatives, right?
	Oh, we've got to have the president save us.
	It's like, really? Really?
	Can you see the deerstalker saying something like that in Last of the Mohicans?
	Yeah. It's just a matter of simple human nature.
	You are most concerned with your own well-being.
	Outside of your mom and dad when you were a kid, nobody in this world is.
	Period. So you look out for yourself.
	You look out for those who are dependent on you, your children, your elderly parents, and so on, and stop looking to people who aren't interested in your well-being but who are interested in controlling you and getting power over you.
	That's right. Yeah, it is a gradual process to build dependency.
	And as you and I know, everything that the federal government does is presented as a help to us, as an aid to us.
	But it's really there to make us dependent and soft, right?
	Dependent on them and unable to provide for ourselves.
	And we've seen this before.
	With welfare. Welfare came out, well, we're going to give you a handout here and we feel compassion for you because you're poor or this or that.
	And yet it made people, it made those societies much, much worse and more dependent on government.
	But this has now happened to all the different segments of society as well to the extent now that we think that every problem has to be fixed in Washington and every problem that's going to be fixed in Washington has to be fixed in the Oval Office.
	We've set ourselves up To be ruled by executive orders by dictators.
	Yeah, without doubt. And there's another aspect, too, in that it set us at each other's throats.
	Yes. Now your neighbor is not your neighbor.
	He's somebody who might vote to take more money out of your pocket to fund something that he thinks is important.
	So, you know, that only works to the benefit of these power elites who sit back in their chair and laugh at us as we bicker and fight amongst ourselves.
	And Trump is the perfect example of that, as to how he can divide people with that.
	But, you know, going back to this welfare thing, it is kind of interesting.
	I remember Charles Murray...
	Wrote the book, the beginning of the Reagan administration, Losing Ground.
	And he was talking about how welfare was harming the people it was intended supposedly to help.
	And yet Charles Murray has now switched sides.
	He's now pushing UBI, Universal Basic Income, which is nothing other than universal welfare.
	And he's doing it because he's now got the mindset of the elite.
	And they're looking at this and saying, well, we're going to be the...
	We're going to be the stakeholders. We're going to be the owners.
	How do we keep these people under control?
	Will we pacify them?
	Is that really any different from Yuval Harari or the rest of the Davos crowd?
	And, you know, that is really what's coming.
	And, of course, our first introduction to it was the stimulus checks and the PPP that was given to us when Trump took everything away from us in 2020.
	You know, and what it does, it doesn't pacify them.
	All the evidence clearly indicates that what it does is make them resentful and violent.
	That's right. That's right.
	And it makes the people who are taxed to pay for it resentful.
	You know, they've taken out this whole idea of charity and replaced it with entitlement.
	I'm entitled to have what you have and to take it from you, if necessary, by force with armed people.
	Whereas in the past...
	When it was done on a one-to-one basis, when it was done with charitable organizations and churches and individuals helping other people, you could easily understand who really needed it, and it was done as an act of love.
	That's what charity really means.
	Correct. And they've taken all that away.
	And it had a built-in check.
	If my neighbor down the road, who I know personally, fell upon hard times and I chose to help him because I knew that he was a good man and just fell on some hard times, that would be great.
	But then if I find out that he's taking advantage of me, And he's just sitting around playing video games and smoking dope all day.
	I have it in my power to stop helping him out.
	That's right. And the fact that you can't stop, and the fact that they take the money from you, that again builds division, distrust, resentment, anger.
	Looking at what is coming down the road.
	You know, you've just got Biden has just put into the census things to identify people who, as he put it, foundational blacks or something like that.
	So instead of founding fathers, foundational slaves.
	I mean, this is preparations for reparations, and that is a preparation for civil war.
	Yeah. They're Bolshevizing the country.
	That's what they're doing. Yeah.
	And, you know, Lenin called the shock troops of Bolshevism the useful idiots, you know, the people who believed in the promises of the Bolsheviks, that they were going to get something for nothing and they were going to be taken care of.
	And, well, they ended up being taken care of all right.
	Yeah, and most of those useful idiots are youthful.
	I call them youthful idiots. We saw them marching in Tennessee yesterday.
	I think maybe even they're still marching today.
	Oh, yeah. Pretty much every day, I guess, they'll be there doing their thing.
	And we're supposed to pretend to care.
	I almost hate to do it because even the word makes my teeth hurt when I talk about tweeting.
	I'm a grown man.
	I don't like the idea of tweeting.
	I'm engaged in a little tweet battle with the Hogg, you know, David Hogg, the leader, the self-styled leader of the anti-gun brigades.
	He engaged you on that?
	He hasn't engaged me yet, personally, but every time he puts something up, I try to counter it.
	I've called him an emotionally incontinent adolescent and a variety of other things.
	That's a pretty good description.
	I like that description of him.
	That fits. Well, you know, you look at this, and I've got to say, it may change.
	But I thought that the police officers or state patrol or whatever that was there in Tennessee, I watched this mob of youthful idiots chanting and pushing and shoving.
	They had some representative that was trying to get to the chamber, and he was surrounded by these cops.
	And they used restraint, which to me...
	Looking at this, it was like, well, that's different.
	I hadn't seen that for so long.
	Usually the police come in all armored up like some kind of a Roman phalanx, and they go on the attack with their shields and the billy clubs.
	These guys were walking in, and they were protecting the representative, and they were being shoved, but they weren't even shoving back.
	And I said, you know, that's probably the most effective thing they could do, because it makes these youthful idiots look like the Marxist thugs they are, you know?
	Right. And the dupes.
	You know, it's both sad and it's frightening.
	Sad in that it's awful to see young people who have been manipulated and used in this manner.
	But it's also alarming because they're dangerous.
	You know, they're as dangerous as the Bolsheviks were back in the 1920s.
	That's right. Yeah, they're being weaponized by the school system.
	You know, and it's what you look at with these kids who are committing suicide.
	Everybody has to ask themselves, why is everybody committing suicide now?
	What's changed? Well, it's not the guns.
	But it is the education that has changed and the pressure that these kids are put under and the suicidal thoughts that they have because they are so fearful of peer pressure and of authority figures telling them that they're in the wrong body and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's just horrific what they're doing to the kids in schools.
	Well, the chaos and the constant...
	The constant state of anxiety that they live in about everything.
	It's very difficult to maintain your equilibrium.
	We can because we have the benefit of having grown up in sane times.
	And being adults and we have perspective.
	But if you're 14 or 15 years old, it's a greater challenge by far.
	Well, you're going through all the insecurities and everything that everybody does.
	You've got all the peer pressure because it is like a Lord of the Flies environment.
	We all know we went through that.
	But now to that, they've added all these other things, you know, and, you know, you'll be celebrated if you change your gender and pronouns.
	But if you don't, you'll be vilified and purged out of their society.
	And so it's like, well, I don't really want it.
	But they're pressured into that to fit into that mold.
	Like we've never seen pressure before.
	And at the same time, they're told that the planet is going to be destroyed, that the adults are destroying the planet and they can't do anything.
	That's the Greta approach.
	It's no wonder that they're suicidal because of all these lies that are being fed to them.
	And then on top of that, all this fear campaign for COVID and most of them were too young to really be able to see through it.
	Sure. And they have all grown up post 9-11.
	So this is their world.
	We have the reference and the perspective of a better world.
	They don't. Yeah, that's what we're really missing.
	You know, I said that earlier, I said it yesterday, I said it earlier today.
	I said, we are missing, we need to model the pure, the beautiful, the normal.
	That is being disappeared.
	And some of that is our fault because we keep showing the weirdos libs of TikTok or whatever, you know?
	And yeah, it was.
	Can you believe this is real?
	Yeah, it is real. You know, there was kind of that moment where you see an awful accident and you're looking and you can't look away.
	But at the same time, we've got to realize that life can't just be about the car wrecks that are out there.
	We've got to talk about a real world that we're going to build and what it really looks like.
	I'm going back and whenever I watch a movie, I don't watch anything contemporary anymore.
	I go back and I look at classics from 60 years ago.
	I do the same. That's interesting.
	And I've heard that from a number of my friends as well.
	Just the same. We've tuned out from the garbage that they are trying to cram down your throat nowadays because it's vile.
	It's just ugly, as you say.
	And I think it is extraordinarily important to provide an alternative, particularly for kids, to show them that the world isn't a horrible, ugly, dirty place.
	That's right. Yeah, and it is interesting.
	You know, this last weekend, the number one, because they've done so much damage to the box office, the number one film, only made $5 million.
	But it was a film about the life of Abraham.
	So it was like a Bible film, right?
	And it was the number one film because people are just so disgusted with what's out there.
	And, you know, we just saw this other film that was Jesus Revolution, made like $40 million.
	It's like several times what all the Best Picture nominees got combined.
	And so you look at what Hollywood is doing, completely out of touch.
	And yet, you know, if somebody does something...
	That is wholesome and uplifting and all the rest of the stuff.
	People are desperate for that because they've been living on this junk food culture that is out there and it's disgusting and degrading to even look at this stuff.
	And it's also a minority point of view.
	Because of the corporate co-option of the media and the entertainment industry, everything, they have been able to confect and purvey this false reality.
	That it's very subtle and it's very easy for people to buy in and look at it.
	You know, they see all the trans stuff, they see all the depravity, all of it, on the TV and they see it in the paper and they see it in schools with their kids and they think, well, I guess this is the way the world is, but it isn't.
	You know, they have... They have managed to convince the world that a minority point of view is, in fact, the majority point of view, which, to circle back to where we were a little while ago, is exactly what the Bolsheviks did in Russia a hundred years ago.
	Yeah, yeah. After the shooting by that tranny in Nashville, cold-blooded, you know, I talked about it, I said, what does it take?
	To look a nine-year-old in the eyes and pull the trigger.
	So it's absolutely insane to think the mindset of somebody like that.
	But after that happened, people went back to a recent survey, and they had done several thousand college kids, and they looked at them to see who was most likely to get radicalized and violent, and it was the trans kids.
	And they were such a small minority.
	They were only about 2% of the people that they interviewed, but they had a very high percentage of them were already, you know, I called this shooter in Nashville last week, I called her Norma Bates.
	You know, it's this kind of Norman Bates psycho mentality that's at work here.
	No wonder they're radicalized and violent.
	And we've seen this the rest of the week.
	Even in light of that, that didn't pull them back and they didn't say, well, you know, maybe we ought to try to back off a little bit because they know that the government's not going to come against them.
	They know that they can continue to threaten violence to people in the wake of that killing and nothing is going to happen to them because they're protected.
	Yeah, well, what they want specifically and what they've achieved to a really frightening degree It's to normalize mental illness.
	They began in earnest three years ago when they normalized hypochondria, the irrational pathological fear of sickness.
	And you had millions of people walking around with a face diaper and a plastic shield over their faces, terrified of getting sick.
	And they normalized it.
	Not only did they normalize it, but they turned it into a virtue to be mentally ill, to be a pathological hypochondriac.
	And it's not a coincidence in my mind.
	That almost in congruity with that, we saw the rise of this so-called trans phenomenon where, you know, kids who are having identity issues or having problems dealing with the usual problems of growing up are told that it's perfectly normal to insist that you're male when you're female and you're female when you're male.
	And then they get angry and resentful when the rest of the world doesn't go along with their pathological mental illness.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Or you're a furry or whatever.
	Or you're Napoleon Bonaparte.
	Yeah, or the litter box in the classroom.
	You're Napoleon Bonaparte. I say, yeah, these people think they're Napoleon Bonaparte.
	Don't expect me to march to your tune, you know, or your drummer.
	From the very beginning...
	I mean, it's very sad, again, because they're using kids.
	You know, this is the despicability of it.
	They're using children who are the most vulnerable, and these people behind it, the ones who aren't the useful idiots, the ones who are using the useful idiots, I hope a day of reckoning comes for them at some point.
	You know, we just had the Country Music TV Awards.
	I'm going to talk about this coming up after we finish here, but...
	You see these stars that are out there and the other people who are pushing this are saying, well, you know, I don't see the intolerance towards these people who want to dress up in high heels and wigs and all this.
	It's not about that. It's about the kids.
	They always make sure that they don't mention the kids there, right?
	Yep. And just like this is not about guys dressing up in high heels and dresses and performing for whatever,
	but it's the fact that they demand that these kids have to watch them and that society has to validate and celebrate them.
	And that's the key.
	That's the key. Yeah, and they further this purpose in part by constantly shifting the meaning of words.
	Even that word gender.
	Gender has replaced sex.
	Sex is a very specific thing.
	You're either of the male sex or the female sex.
	So they've replaced that or are trying to with this gender thing, which is fluid, because what does that mean?
	Gender means how you dress.
	It means how you act. And so it becomes kind of a false synonym for sex.
	And that's how they kind of shift the conversation along.
	They always do it by changing the terms.
	And of course, we saw this during the pandemic.
	They literally changed the definition of a vaccine.
	And they changed the definition of immunity and everything.
	This is the standard tactic of the left.
	They come up with a positive label, just like they stole the word liberal.
	Liberal used to mean you were about liberty and about freedom, not about Marxism and socialism, right?
	So they steal the labels if they're any good, or they invent new labels, and when you get into some kind of a political debate or fight with them, they've got their moral high ground because they've already chosen all the labels, and AP is all about that.
	I mean, they've got their speech rules and everything else, and so are the universities.
	You can't even have a conversation, let alone win one, when your opponent gets to define the meaning of the words that you use.
	That's right. Yeah. They've got their own language and they're rewriting our language.
	It truly is amazing. Well, in the time we got left here, tell us a bit about how your preparations are coming for independence.
	Well, yeah, I've increased my flock.
	I now have, I guess, about eight ducks and I've got close to 20 chickens and I'm getting a rooster so as to have sustainability on that front.
	Because anybody who has dealt with poultry knows that you have attrition from predators and disease and so on, so you want to have the ability to reproduce your birds, and that's what I'm in the midst of doing.
	I'm also, as the weather's finally getting warmer and I'm less shy about going outside and doing work, I'm going to rig up a water catch system that will provide water without having to worry about a well pump, that will just continuously provide water for them.
	So, you know, incrementally bit by bit.
	And I'm learning as I go. You know, I didn't grow up on a farm.
	I'm just learning from some of the farmers around me how to do these things.
	That's the way we are. You know, I mean, everybody, you look, they take it as a sign of advancement that, you know, very few people work on farms or agriculture anymore.
	And even many of them are highly specialized.
	But it's just going back and recapturing these tools.
	And it's interesting because I've had several people on to talk about How they have done that and classes that they have on that.
	But it is a forgotten skill.
	And it's things that we need to go back and recover, just like a lot of the stuff that we're talking about in our own culture.
	And it is at the essence of independence.
	You know, Eric, I was looking at the Goldman Sachs projection that 300 million jobs will be taken by artificial intelligence.
	And it was all people who were doing what we're doing, which is...
	Kind of looking at information and processing information, but also even doctors and lawyers because a lot of what they're doing is processing information, passing on the prescriptions from pharmaceutical companies.
	Look at the table, you got these symptoms, well there, take this drug, that type of thing.
	But the people that were not threatened were the people who could do real stuff.
	If you can really build something and you know how things work and you can repair stuff, not only are you going to have protection against obsolescence, but you are also going to be in high demand when everything starts breaking in this world.
	There's give and take there, too, intergenerationally.
	For example, I don't know I don't know all that much about computers, but I do know about mechanical things in cars.
	Some of my friends have kids in their teens, and I've worked on cars with them to show them, because of course they're not being taught these things anymore.
	And, you know, they love it.
	They love learning how a machine works.
	And in return, I get free computer help, so it benefits everybody.
	I bet they don't have shop anymore in school, do they?
	You know, luckily, in my rural area, they actually do still have auto shop.
	But, yeah, but that's an anomaly because I live in a very rural area.
	Yeah. Yeah, we were talking the other day, Karen, something made her think about the fact she took home economics, right?
	And that's another class I'm sure they don't have anymore.
	And as part of that, she's sewing a dress and all this sort of thing, which again, nobody does that anymore.
	That's a lost skill.
	I remember my older sisters were making their own dress, and they had stores that sold fabric and sold dress patterns and all that kind of stuff.
	Now we just, you know, we import it from China, and that's, you know, we've become dependent on everything from other sources like that.
	And they've created such fragile supply lines that there's no question that these things are going to break.
	We've already seen them break.
	They're already oscillating.
	Remember what Franklin said about that which we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly?
	And he was absolutely right about that.
	It's not just about being more independent rather than dependent.
	One gets a very deep feeling of satisfaction from being competent, being able to do things oneself.
	When you see a kid who learns how to do something, and that light comes on and they get it, That's a really wonderful thing, and that's the sort of thing I think that we can all encourage.
	And if we do it, you know, I think we're going to claw our way back to having a civilization again.
	I agree. And it's not something that we've been that long away from it, because that used to be the reputation that Americans had.
	You know, can do, and, you know, we've got the attitude that we can accomplish this, and we've got the know-how to pull it out.
	But I'm looking at these global supply chains, and to me, it reminds me of that video you always see of, what was it, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	And it's like, I look at the global supply lines, and it looks like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge right now, and I'm just wondering.
	We're waiting for this whole thing to start breaking up.
	It may be for the best.
	If we can, once again, recover our own capacity to do things and make things here, instead of being dependent upon shoddily made stuff that's built in China, And being consumers rather than producers, I think it would benefit this country and the American people.
	Absolutely. Absolutely agree. Well, thank you for coming on and it's always a pleasure talking to you, Eric.
	And people can find a lot of information, practical reviews.
	I mean, he doesn't, he's not like the establishment press that only does reviews on, you know, the latest $4 million hyper car.
	Well, I've been stuck with these two, you know, almost that category EVs, but they're bringing the Ford Bronco tomorrow.
	I'll look for the review of that in a couple of days afterward.
	There you go. Well, I mean, still, though, when you're doing the EVs, even expensive EVs, there's a lot that you can glean from that about EVs in general.
	But he does practical reviews, and he has also always been about Liberty.
	So I appreciate what you do, Eric.
	Thank you very much. You bet.
	Thank you for having me on, David. Thank you.
	Eric Peters, epautos.com.
	And you know, as we're talking about this, I just had the guest on last week.
	I've still got the manual here.
	Civil Defense Manual. You know, these two volumes from Jack Lawson.
	CivilDefenseManual.com is where he's going to talk about educating yourself to do practical stuff.
	I can't recommend that highly enough.
	And very important that you start to reclaim some of these skills to protect Your family, as well as to build community and things that you can do to feed yourself.
	And he's even got a free chapter there at that site, civildefensemanual.com, about providing water for yourself.
	So very important. We're going to take a quick break, and we will come back, and I'll talk a little bit about what happened at the Country Music TV Awards.
	Truly amazing.
	We'll be right back. Show We've Got a Problem.
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	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.
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	All right, welcome back.
	It's always great to have Eric on.
	I want to talk a little bit about this trans stuff here.
	I like the take of Babylon Bee, talking about these country music TV awards.
	Country music somehow gets worse.
	We're as shocked as you are, said a local music critic, Bubba Bordeaux.
	We really didn't think it could get any more awful than this, but once again, Nashville managed to shatter our expectations of how audaciously bad their music can be.
	How do they do it year after year?
	Amazing. Experts said that over a decade of looping snap tracks, breathy pop and Taylor Swift, most believed that the genre had finally discovered its bottom, only to see the industry sink even lower with hip-hop trap beats set to banjo riffs, bro country club songs, and drag queens.
	Well, the drag queens haven't found their bottom yet, either.
	Although they're trying to show it to as many people as they can.
	It was some performer, Kelsey Ballerini, who was the host of the event.
	And she decided that she was going to use the Country Music TV Awards to push both drag and gun control.
	Take a look at this brief spectacle here.
	I won't subject you to too much of it, just to give you an idea of what it looked like.
	So there she is.
	And she's surrounded by drag queens.
	Isn't that wonderful? So, country music, you know, I used to think of country, not necessarily Nashville.
	Yeah, you know where my skeletons live.
	I think we're seeing them right there.
	She's parading them around.
	All the skeletons have come out of the closet dressed in high heels.
	Yeah, I used to think of country music.
	And around here, again, kind of the authentic Appalachian stuff, bluegrass and things like that.
	Typically, it's in a major chord.
	It's upbeat. And it's kind of optimistic.
	Many times it's tied to, you know, gospel or Christian or something like that.
	But not Nashville.
	You know, Nashville has always been kind of, you know, on the seamy side of society, in my opinion.
	But now they are squarely occupying that area.
	2023 CMT Music Awards, and the song that she was doing was, If You Go Down, I'm Going Down Too.
	We won't talk anymore about that.
	Earlier on Sunday in Austin, which is where this performance was, was in Austin.
	And so what would you expect?
	She was joined by some people, evidently from the RuPaul program, Jan Sport, Olivia Luxe.
	Manila Luzon and Kennedy Davenport and the far-left Austin Statesman asked the group if it had any advice for the Texas drag queens being impacted by the state's anti-drag show ban.
	He said, continue to be your authentic self.
	Are you kidding me?
	The irony and the insanity to say that the drag queens are authentic about anything is Unbelievable.
	We're still motivating young people.
	Oh yeah, see? Young people.
	See, they'll say that. And we're still inspiring them.
	And we're still lifting them up.
	Because at the end of the day, we have a calling.
	And we have a job as drag queens.
	So this is about the young people, isn't it?
	Except that when you hear people like Reba McEntire talk about this, oh no, it's not about the young people.
	It's about adults being able to choose what they want to do.
	It's a free country after all, right?
	No, no, no. They understand.
	Listen to them. It's about the young people.
	And it's about inspiring them to be like us.
	And they've got a calling.
	Christians don't see that they have a calling.
	They don't see they've got a vocation.
	A lot of parents don't see that they have a calling.
	They don't see that they have a job.
	We talk about a vocation, right?
	Where does that come from? Vocation is a calling, and it's also an occupation.
	That kind of goes back to the Reformation.
	We had Martin Luther say, you know, when he's telling people, you know, you don't have to be a priest.
	God has called you into a certain stage of life.
	We saw that later with William Wolderforce.
	He was a member of Parliament.
	He was very wealthy. And he became a Christian.
	And so he goes to John Newton, who wrote Amazing Grace.
	He knew him, a contemporary, and knew him older than Wilberforce.
	And he said, so I've become a Christian.
	I'm very serious about it. I think I'm going to quit being a member of Parliament and I'm going to become a pastor.
	John Newton said, stay where you are.
	You've got a calling, and there's something you can do there.
	And it was William Wilberforce who, in his position there, took on the biggest established industry, the slave trade.
	Everybody had ties into it one way or the other.
	That's why they're tearing down all the statues in the UK. Because everybody was affected, you know, it was the elephant in the room.
	If you had a trade or a business, somehow it was going to be connected to that.
	And he took on the core economic institution at the time to shut it down.
	And he was able to do it before he died.
	And it was a one-man crusade, if you will, at the very beginning of it.
	But we don't see that we have vocations or callings or jobs anymore.
	And we denigrate the roles of parents in that.
	And so you also had at the event, you had Megan Maroney take the trophy for a breakthrough female video.
	How did they know she's a female?
	I don't know.
	As a matter of fact, you know, they should have said, so what is a female?
	Because somebody asked the New Zealand Prime Minister that fateful question.
	What is a woman?
	The same question that took down Nicola Sturgeon, who was the Prime Minister in Scotland.
	She had this moment where she couldn't come up with anything.
	And so the new New Zealand Prime Minister had the same problem with this.
	Listen to this.
	Sean.
	I just wanted to ask you, given comments by Keir Starmer in Britain, how do you and how does this government define a woman?
	To be honest, Sean, that question's come slightly out of left field for me.
	That's not about my lie.
	Biology, sex, gender.
	People define themselves.
	People define their own genders.
	Kirstana has said that he believes 99.9% of women do not have penises.
	And I know it's a strange thing for him to say, but given recent events in New Zealand, I'd ask again, how do you define what a woman is?
	Well, I think as I've just indicated, I wasn't expecting that question, so it's not something that I've pre-formulated an answer on.
	But in terms of gender identity, I think people define their gender identity for themselves.
	You talk about being authentic.
	Well, you know, I wasn't expecting that question.
	I didn't have enough time to think about how I was going to lie to you about that.
	So, yeah, people define themselves.
	No, politicians, pal, define themselves by their lies.
	You just defined yourself. You just showed that you are a lying opportunist who, if he'd been given enough time, he would come up with some kind of a prevaricating lie to cover himself.
	But they caught you flat-footed.
	And he talks about, you know, being from New Zealand, he doesn't talk about sex.
	He talks about Sikhs.
	Sikhs. I like the accent.
	So, yeah, what is a female?
	Oh, I don't know. What's a woman?
	Actually, it reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
	Watsamata U, right?
	That's the university he went to.
	I think these guys went to that university as well.
	They went to Watsamata U. They don't know.
	And then, of course, there's this clip that also came out over the weekend.
	An anthropologist, listen to this.
	This is another guy just laughed off the stage.
	Listen to this. I kind of forget, but I actually have a question for you.
	You being an anthropologist, which anthropology is the study of human civilization?
	Human? So if you were to dig up a human, two humans, and 100 years from now, both man and woman, could you tell the difference?
	Strictly off of bones.
	No, because there's a wide range of...
	I'm sorry to see you there.
	I'm not sure why I'm being loud at it if I'm the expert in the room.
	Have any of you been to archaeological sites?
	Have any of you studied biological anthropology?
	I've got over 150 years of data.
	I'm just curious as to why I'm being laughed at.
	I actually...
	Believe it or not, I have put a lot of research into this because I'm not comparing myself to you.
	I'm not comparing myself to you.
	I'm just telling you that I have considered all viewpoints.
	Well, you know, I'm the expert here.
	Listen to me. Isn't that about science or anything?
	We've had a lot of anthropologists, you know, when they have these sites, they say, well, you know, we found the bones of a woman and a man and a child and this and that, right?
	They seem to somehow know.
	So this guy who's the expert, perhaps if he's got a PhD or something, he should get his money back.
	Or maybe he should just stop lying to us for a politically correct position.
	Or maybe just run for office.
	Maybe he can be the... The next Prime Minister of New Zealand.
	Who knows? So, again, going back to the CMT Awards, these lyrics, If you go down, I'm going down too.
	Stuff like this.
	Because dirt on you is dirt on me.
	And we both know our hands ain't clean.
	If it all blows up and we end up on the news, If you go down, I'm going down too.
	Well, there you go. Isn't that brilliant?
	I mean, who comes up with these kinds of brilliant lyrics here?
	It even rhymes. Oh, no, it doesn't.
	I mean, what is the deal with this?
	Just scraping the bottom of the barrel, intellectually, musically, morally, all the rest of this stuff.
	Yeah, that took three people to write.
	Did it really? Yeah, lyrics by Julian Burnett, Kelsey Ballerina, and Shane McAnally or something.
	Three people, the combined intellect.
	Three people to get to kindergarten.
	That's where you are.
	Ain't no judgment or keeping score.
	That's what she's selling there.
	And of course, that's what they're saying.
	There are no standards. No standards.
	There's no standards of morality.
	There's no standards of biology.
	This is the world they want us to live in.
	This is the ultimate 2 plus 2 equals 5.
	If they can get you to buy into this.
	I keep all your secrets by the dozen.
	You know where my skeletons sleep.
	Hypothetically, if you ever kill your husband.
	Oh, now that rhymes, kind of.
	Dozen, husband, kinda.
	It could have made it plural, husbands.
	Then it really would have rhymed with dozens.
	Anyway, because, you know, hey, it could be polyamorous or polysexual or whatever.
	So, you know, hey, husbands, let's get on the cutting edge here.
	Hand on the Bible.
	I'd be lying through my teeth.
	Well, that doesn't rhyme with sleep.
	I don't know. But, you know, this is not the first time country music has taken the low road.
	You know, we had a lot of...
	I remember when I was a kid, the Nashville country western stuff.
	You know, not again. The...
	The country music, but the country and western and Nashville stuff, they were really pushing as cool and normal divorce, you know, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, and that's...
	Couldn't get far enough away from that stuff, musically and otherwise, but...
	CMT Music Awards Go Woke and Kelsey Ballerini stands in solidarity with drag queens who want a child audience.
	That's what's really going on.
	That headline from Breitbart News, that is exactly what this is about.
	And then, of course, they twisted into a gun control narrative.
	But as I point out in this article, country superstar and five-time Grammy winner Shania Twain was given an award and sang a song, Man, I Feel Like a Woman.
	I don't know that song.
	Is that about transgender stuff or is that something else?
	Is that just a play on words?
	I mean, it's like, it's not Aretha Franklin's, you made me feel like a natural woman.
	Man, I feel like a woman.
	So, I guess I remember a country and western song they had from Homer and Jethro.
	And it was somebody, we were listening to a pastor, About 20 years ago.
	And he made a statement like that and basically cited the name of this song and didn't say where it was from.
	And people thought it was a joke.
	Karen thought it was a joke. And I said, no, that's a real song.
	I said, I got tears in my ears from lying on my back in my bed while I cry over you.
	I use that whenever we have an argument.
	So it kind of breaks the ice.
	Country Western music is not completely worthless.
	It can have some uses from time to time if you want to crack somebody up.
	CMT announced their partnership with Sandy Hook Gun Control groups.
	Let's see. Real action, they said.
	Real action against gun violence.
	You need to understand that the violence was generated by the transgender psyops on these kids.
	That's what's driving them to despair, to suicide, to violence.
	The gun didn't do that.
	Your schools did that.
	Your culture did that.
	Your music did that.
	The movies did that.
	It wasn't the gun. It's everything else in this society pushing that person to this.
	She added, I pray deeply that the closeness of the community we feel through the next few hours of music can soon turn into action, like real action, that moves us forward together to make a change for the safety of our kids and our loved ones.
	No, it wasn't the guns.
	It was the insanity.
	It was the pressure, the grooming of these kids.
	That's what caused it. So, again, we've had other country western singers, country music singers or whatever.
	Tim McGraw had a fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise back in 2015.
	But this is the organization now.
	Um, CMT tweeted out, said, oh yeah, we're proud to be sponsors of them.
	So it's now, you know, becoming institutionalized, just like, you know, NASA has been taken over by people who hate their customers.
	Uh, just like you had, um, uh, what was it?
	Yeah. Light beer. Uh, so they, they get a tranny, you know, I love the way that Babylon B put it.
	They said, uh, fake beer sold by a fake woman.
	That pretty much sums it up.
	But it's absolute contempt for their customers.
	Why? Because their audience is not their customer.
	Their customer is not their customer.
	Their customer is the government.
	And this higher structure there that's pushing the ESG. That's who they're there to please.
	And they don't care about the people who are out there in the actual audience.
	And this is evidenced by, you know, when you look at Reba McIntyre, for example.
	She, another country and western star, disappointed, she said, in the Tennessee law that protects children.
	That protects children. But she doesn't talk about it from that standpoint.
	And so she, this is a story from Breitbart.
	They said she used, Reba McIntyre used an interview to once again disavow her interest in politics and to commit herself instead to entertain her audience.
	But then immediately said she was disappointed in the Tennessee anti-drag laws and added, quote, God bless them.
	Well, we've seen a lot of this, as a matter of fact.
	You know, it's not just Reba McEntire.
	Dolly Parton came out and said, you know, if I was a man, I would be a drag queen.
	Well, she certainly does have that aesthetic, doesn't she?
	And I guess maybe, you know, if...
	I don't know.
	So what would Dolly Parton make of Lindsey Graham looking like this?
	The drama queen. That was sent by Raybo.
	That cracked me up when I saw that picture of Lindsey Graham.
	But, you know, Dolly Parton also did some rainbow song with Miley Cyrus, which I don't know anything about that song.
	I know it was banned someplace.
	Maybe they just saw it by the rainbow, figured that there's...
	Anybody starts talking about a rainbow, especially if it's Miley Cyrus?
	And that may have been the case.
	I don't know what the case was with that, but...
	I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you could ban basically anything by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton at this point in her career, and nobody's missing anything.
	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely.
	And it would be...
	You certainly wouldn't be missing anything.
	But you also would be probably right in assuming that this is about the LGBT rainbow as well.
	So in this interview...
	They asked Greba McIntyre, said, what do you think about the bill that Tennessee governor recently signed into law restricting drag performances in certain parts of the state?
	That's not what they did.
	He didn't say, well, you can't have drag performances in Nashville.
	He said, you can't have drag performances in front of kids.
	So that's a complete misstatement.
	And then she continues on with this misstatement.
	She says, I wish they'd spend that much time and energy and money on feeding the homeless children in those two counties.
	Were you surprised the bill passed?
	I was disappointed.
	You've been around long enough that I have to assume you've known plenty of politicians in Nashville and Tennessee ever get involved in a racer campaign.
	I don't do politics.
	I never have.
	My job is to entertain.
	I'm not there to influence people one way or the other.
	How to vote. And they said, and yet, you know your take on the drag bill is potentially alienated to some in your audience.
	She said, boy, why?
	I mean, we've got a real problem in this country.
	And to be worrying about men wanting to dress up like women, God bless them to wear those high heels, and I feel for them.
	But let's center our attention on something that really needs attention.
	Now, this is not about men wanting to dress up like women.
	This is about men dressing up The issue is
	that this is a state law.
	And this is to protect minors.
	Minors. Can we understand the difference about that?
	And of course, the whole point, this has been a push coming from the UN for a very long time, to talk about children's rights.
	Why do they want to talk about children's rights?
	Because that removes parents from the equation.
	And it allows the governments and the institutions to have their way with your kids, with any kids.
	And so what that does is that normalizes pedophilia.
	But it's fine. You know, always look at this, and for years I think, well, how are they going to normalize pedophilia?
	It's kind of the last taboo for these people.
	And I know as soon as I say that, they'll come up with some new perversion.
	But, you know, pedophilia, everybody would agree that that was wrong.
	Except now that everybody does not agree that that is wrong.
	Because we have this unassailable group that they call trans.
	And you must not criticize them or oppose them in any way, shape, or form.
	So if the trans decide that performing in front of kids is what makes them happy and validates them, then you've got to let them have their way with the kids.
	Because, you know, the first part of it is pedophilia.
	The next part of it is to push you into the metaverse, into a virtual reality where nothing is real and you can pretend you're a furry or whatever you want.
	But it's about getting to minors.
	As I point out in the bill, cabaret performers are themselves defined as, quote, topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, and male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.
	And so I guess should we allow kids to attend topless dances?
	Yeah, because some of these people with their prosthetics, some of these guys have come pretty close to that.
	Should we allow them to hang out with stripper performances and all the rest of the stuff?
	Should we give them alcohol?
	Should we let them drive?
	Give them guns? Should we let them vote?
	Oh yeah, the Democrats want them to vote for sure.
	2017, Reba McIntyre had said entertainers should not preach their political opinions to fans, but instead should rise above it.
	She told The View co-host Joy Behar, she said, quote, this is 2017, six years ago.
	If you ever went on a political rant in the middle of your act, what would happen?
	She said, my fans would be shocked.
	I take it this way. They paid their hard-earned money to come in there and fill a seat, a parking, getting something at the concession stand.
	They go to eat before the concert.
	I'm there to entertain them, to take their worries away from them, so when they walk out, they can kind of have a little lift in their step and go away and say, ah, that was a great break from all the problems I have to deal with in daily life.
	So I'm not going to give them my political views.
	And so, if she's gonna give her audience the political views, who is her audience?
	As I said before, her audience isn't those people who paid to park, Got something to eat, paid for a ticket to sit there because they want to escape for a moment from the problems that they have.
	That's not her audience. Her audience are other people in the entertainment business, the people who have control over whether she gets to perform places, the people who are running all of the institutions.
	That's her audience.
	It's the ESG crowd.
	And you have to please them.
	Because they're the people who will make sure that you never work in this town again if you don't do it the way they want it done.
	And that's the problem with all of this stuff.
	And so, as I said, the federal judge has blocked the Tennessee law.
	The appropriate response to that is to say, well, the judge has issued, you know, we got, in Tennessee, they got a really big statue still that hasn't been torn down yet by the Marxists.
	It's a big statue of Andrew Jackson on a horse.
	And Andrew Jackson said to the Supreme Court, they've made their opinion, let's see them enforce it.
	This is what the Tennessee governor, the Tennessee legislature, should say to this federal court.
	It's not even the Supreme Court.
	It's one judge.
	It's not even a majority of judges.
	It's one judge.
	And he says, Tennessee does not have a compelling interest in preventing minors from watching drag shows, quote-unquote.
	Minors. He understands it's minors.
	And he really doesn't care.
	And so the appropriate response of this guy is to say, well, you know, sorry, we're going to protect kids.
	Don't really care what you have to say.
	This story came out of a mother who was basically a transgender sinner, medically kidnapped her child.
	She said, I felt bullied.
	And she's now speaking out.
	This happened in Missouri.
	When her son was 14 years old, he got a pharmaceutical implant in his arm that was supposed to help relieve his psychological distress.
	So he stopped right there. You know, if we go back into all these fights about Ritalin and all the rest of this stuff, you know, that was all the rage when our boys were young.
	And we knew that that was being prescribed like candy for boys, not for girls.
	You know, boys don't like to sit there at the desk with their, you know, all their rulers and pens and everything nicely, but the girls did, you know, so they didn't prescribe it for girls in general.
	But the boys liked to fidget around.
	They didn't want to sit in a classroom.
	Our boys didn't either. And so, you know, they would dope them down for their own convenience with Ritalin.
	And I said, look, if you've got a kid who's got behavioral issues, you've got to address those behavioral issues instead of medicating them away.
	Because that's the path to teach these kids in life that whenever I've got a problem, there's some kind of a pill that can take me out of the real world so I don't have to deal with it.
	I mean, fundamentally, you want to give drugs or something to your kid for a psychological disorder?
	That is a non-starter to begin with.
	But what he got was a puberty blocker called Supralin.
	It would continuously release the drug for the next two years that would arrest any further sexual development.
	The mother was 43 years old, Carolyn, and she had been queasy about approving this, but she was assured by the psychologist at the Washington University Transgender Center at St.
	Louis Children's Hospital that this was what her son needed, that it was the standard treatment for young patients experiencing discomfort with their sex.
	This is the person who's the expert, right?
	Instead of providing relief, Caroline told the Free Press that her son experienced a devastating decline in his mental and physical health after this intervention.
	Among the side effects of Superlin, according to a handout from the Transgender Gender Center, are, quote, mood changes and weight changes.
	The manufacturer's website also lists depression, including rare reports of suicidal ideation and attempt.
	Casey, not his real name, soon experienced all of these, and within a semester, he went home.
	He went from all A's and B's on a report card down to D's and F's.
	Many days, he found it impossible to get out of bed.
	He missed so much school that it triggered an official meeting about his truancy that included a circuit court judge, and he gained about 30 pounds.
	More alarmingly, during one therapy session, about seven months after he started the blocker, he told the center psychologist that he was having suicidal thoughts.
	You see, this is what's doing it.
	It's the drugs.
	It's the peer pressure.
	It's a psychological operation that they're pulling on kids.
	It's not the guns. It's the drugs and all the rest of the stuff.
	So... She recommended that he be immediately checked into a psychiatric ward at the Children's Hospital.
	When he came out, he was taking several drugs now for depression and anxiety.
	They probably put him on SSRIs in addition to this.
	What do we typically see with the pharmaceutical medical industry?
	Well, I'll give you a drug, and that's going to give you multiple other problems.
	Oh, and then we'll give you some more drugs to address those, and it's just like a multiplying effect.
	Caroline felt desperate and helpless, and she'd had enough.
	In June of 2022, the mother wrote an email to the clinic demanding immediate removal of the puberty blocker.
	The doctors in charge disagreed, and the superlin is still in his honor.
	See, this is also like I talked about, you know, Karen, my wife, when she was teaching school, how this teacher was just picking on this one child, dominating him, humiliating him.
	And then when the father came in, he was very much like the son.
	And he tried to speak up and defend his son, and that same teacher dominated and humiliated the father as well.
	So, on February 9th, the Free Press published a story from a case manager at that transgender center about her four years working there, a whistleblower account.
	She gave a shocking account of the treatments of young people with gender dysphoria, treatments that she described as, quote, morally and medically appalling, unquote.
	The reaction was explosive.
	Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who had given Reed whistleblower protection in advance of going public, announced an investigation into the center, and so did Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
	Bailey called for an immediate moratorium on hormonal interventions on new patients, which Washington University rejected.
	No, we don't care. The mother wants this thing taken out of the kitchen?
	No, not going to do it. We want you to stop putting this in the...
	No, we're not going to do it. We're going to do what we want.
	The school released a statement saying in part, quote, we are alarmed by the allegations reported in the article published by the Free Press describing practices and behaviors.
	The author says she witnessed while employed at the university's transgender center.
	And so when she read this, she said, I felt validated.
	I knew this.
	I knew this is what had happened to me.
	So she contacted the Missouri Attorney General, Bailey, and Josh Hawley, the senator.
	And the St.
	Louis Post-Dispatch wrote several stories that were critical of the whistleblower.
	Because, you know, the media is going to side with the agenda.
	One quoted some parents who said that they were happy with the care.
	But what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch did not tell people was that these parents had something of a conflict of interest.
	Several of them were advocates, public advocates, for transgender mutilation of children.
	As a matter of fact, a journalist reported on what was left out of the story, Jesse Singel, Including the revelation that one mother who'd praised the center in the newspaper is, quote, a founder of a youth transition support organization.
	Not only is that organization linked on the center's website, but this mother lobbied to get the center established in the first place.
	But they're portrayed in the St.
	Louis Post-Dispatch article as just a parent who's very happy with the way they were treated there.
	Again, nothing that they do will they be held responsible for.
	Well, we'll see. I mean, this is the Attorney General in Missouri.
	Will he do something about it?
	You know, it's always been prohibited, regardless of whether or not you let adults participate in activity, whether we're talking about bars or topless bars or gambling casinos or any of these types of things.
	No, kids can't come in there.
	But when it comes to the transgenders, no, no, no.
	Surrender your kids to them.
	They are your betters.
	We'll be right back after this break, and when we come back, well, we'll get into it when we get back.
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	I believe that is the case.
	I have, interesting that you would say that because I had just got in the mail.
	These are things that were sent, I guess, about a week ago, but we're going to include them in April because we just got them.
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	Unfortunately. And sometimes people misunderstand Christianity to think that if they have some kind of a transaction at some point, that that gives them a free pass to do whatever they wish.
	I know. Christ said, you're my disciples if you follow my commandments.
	But many Christians don't do that.
	And I know that many atheists do.
	And so those are not mutually exclusive.
	Those lines are blurred. And on many different issues...
	We can be co-belligerents on things, right?
	Even if we have theological differences with somebody, we can still work on the same issues.
	Richard Dawkins, for example, is getting a lot of heat in the UK because he's not having any of this transgender insanity.
	It's like, no, no, not going there.
	This is irrational. It doesn't have anything to do with reality or biology or any of the rest of this stuff.
	Anyway, he goes on to say, I consider myself more ethical than most, quote, spiritually enlightened, unquote, types I've encountered in my time.
	I use reason and compassion as my guide, which I believe is innate to our species.
	Hitchens and Dawkins speak more to my heart than any holy book, any Bible-thumper with a story.
	So the next time you're tempted to disparage those benighted non-believers out there, quote, mucking up the world, please believe that there are thoughtful, caring atheists around the world who want to see the same justice, the same peace, the same love expressed in this world that you do.
	Well, I absolutely do believe that.
	And I'm sorry if you think that I'm disparaging people.
	Well, sometimes it's not because...
	I want people to agree with me.
	And that I don't need your validation of what I believe.
	I've explored it myself to convince myself.
	And I do.
	I seek out the arguments against what I believe.
	Honestly do. And I challenge that.
	And so I would challenge you in the same way.
	And that's all I'm saying to any of the atheists out there.
	And I do it out of a concern because of what I am absolutely convinced of.
	And it's kind of, Pascal talked about that, you know, Pascal's wager.
	He said, you know, what have you lost if you follow the Bible?
	It's going to give you a path that is, you know, we've talked about how the principles that are there give you a path that Your life makes society better.
	You know, even Nishi said, you know, we've killed, he didn't believe in God, but he said, but we killed God, we've killed the idea of God, and that keeps society in a boundary.
	And those were good rules, right?
	And so what have we lost with that?
	But it's not even about that.
	It's not even about having, you know, a lot of people who believe in the same morality.
	It's really about my concern for what I genuinely believe that I want people to take a look at this.
	And I would suggest, you know, to challenge you, I would suggest a book, and I can't remember the guy's name, it was Cold Case Christianity.
	I need to get that guy on.
	I'm sure he would come on for an interview.
	He used to be a cold case detective and California, which means that he would go back to cases that they had all the testimony and the evidence had been put on the shelf.
	They couldn't find anybody at the time.
	And so all of the people who had been witnesses to it, the victims of family and all this, you know, they were no longer around.
	They'd all passed away. And so he kind of applied the same kinds of To the Bible, because all the people that were there giving us the historical record, you know, he applied that to that, as well as other forensic evidence.
	And he says that he was concerned about it because his wife had become a Christian.
	He didn't like it. You know, he came from a family of cops, and he was dead set against Christians.
	He thought it was weak, stupid, superstitious, and he was going to disprove it.
	But he wound up proving it to himself.
	So I would suggest you take a look at a few things like that, because as Pascal said, what have you lost if you follow that life?
	It's actually a good life, but if you're wrong, And there really is a God, and we really do have to answer for what we've done.
	You've lost everything at that point.
	It's not just for the short period of time that we live, that we're concerned about.
	And of course, many Christians and many others believe that, I've heard Bloomberg say, well, if there is a God, I'm going straight to heaven because I've done so much good.
	How much good do you have to do To erase the evil, the rebellion that you've done against God, assuming that there is a God.
	And that is why the Christians believe that Christ, who died as a substitute for us, was the only way that this died as a substitution for us and that God sees us in Christ.
	And then that allows us, even with all of our mistakes and with all the things that we do wrong, it allows us to always start over again.
	And if we are trying to do the right thing, even though we'll never do it perfectly, That is the issue.
	But he goes on to say, so us atheists can bear the slings and arrows of criticism, as the goal is not to win the debate.
	Okay, good. Neither one of us want to win a debate.
	Nor to gain favor from the dogmatists, but to understand the world in which we need to navigate.
	And I would say in that regard, we both share the same goal.
	And I just believe that the world in which we navigate is not limited just to this four dimensions of time and space.
	And I think that there is more to it than that.
	And that's what I'm trying to navigate.
	Anyway, he says, that's why I listen to you, my friend.
	You're a beacon of light, brave voice.
	Well, thank you. Speaking truth to power despite the consequences.
	That is sure worthy of praise and support, whatever anyone's religious beliefs are.
	Well, thank you. That's very kind. And your support is very kind and very generous.
	He said, please find and close a check.
	I'll just call it a tithing for my sin of coming to your church but avoiding the donation plate for so long.
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	I appreciate that. So thank you, David.
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	And I really do appreciate that.
	He signed me up with Tony's Wolfpack, Tony Ardman.
	And, you know, Wise Wolf.
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	But Austin actually signed us up on Wolfpack each month.
	And we've been getting that from Tony this second month.
	So I really do appreciate that, Austin.
	Thank you. And this is from George M. He says, I've been a student of yours for a while.
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	I've always been one of the few that I can rely on for a source of truth in my keeping current with the news updates that have an impact on my life.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And he also says, may God continue to bless you and your family.
	God really has, and really has.
	I really do appreciate that.
	And then I also had from David N. He said, I have to thank you again for your work and craft honesty, truth, and ethics.
	He said, the growing, our own food interview that you did was really good.
	And I really did like that interview myself, as a matter of fact.
	I've been growing a garden for 15 years now.
	It's a constant learning process.
	We plant, we water, but God gives the increase.
	Isn't that true? Isn't that true?
	And so that is a journey that my other son is getting started on.
	I don't...
	It's not...
	It's... It's something that I just don't have the time for.
	I've never been able to do very well.
	And I said, you're going to need to know how to do this in your life.
	And so he's doing it now.
	And we'll see how that works.
	I want you to know if it's a total washout.
	But we're going to be having more people on to talk about self-reliant things because we really do need to have some solutions out there.
	Not just see the problems.
	But for the longest time, let's talk a little bit about the shadow banning and the government manipulation of Twitter.
	Elon Musk did the Twitter files, which proved once and for all to many of these conservative think tanks and news organizations that, yes, censorship really was being directed by the government, so that was good.
	And now Musk has opened up the code.
	He put a Twitter code out on a programming site called GitHub, G-I-T, and it's been around for a while.
	He made the algorithm open source this weekend, and in the process, some programmers have been going through it, and they've found some interesting things now, just as the journalists...
	I found some interesting things in the Twitter files.
	Now the programmers are finding some interesting things in the code about shadow banning and about blacklisting.
	And I know for the longest time I've been shadow banned and, you know, still have people say, there's no such thing.
	You're not being shadow banned. People just don't like what you have to say.
	Well, that may be true. That they don't like what I have to say.
	But I know that a lot of people are still contacting me saying, you know, I haven't seen any of your stuff for years.
	You know, and now something just showed up.
	But then, you know, that's all I've seen was just this one thing.
	So anyway, the blacklist itself was not released as part of the open sourcing of the algorithm.
	So there's another database that That lists the things that they will blacklist you for.
	Presumably, maybe there's a database of people out there as well, but there certainly is a database that's referenced in the code of topics that thou shalt not talk about.
	A user who discusses blacklisted topics on the platform will get deranked by the algorithm, causing fewer people to see and to interact with their tweet.
	Who knew? Well, this is news.
	No, it's just news that people finally got the receipts to show this.
	And so this one programmer said, there is a file of blacklisted topics.
	These blacklisted topics are unknown.
	No, we know them by inference, right?
	It's pretty clear.
	They're there. They're live in a database, but that database is not shown in this code release.
	If your tweet or your username references these blacklisted topics, your profile and your content will get deranked as well.
	So, you know, you put it in your name or you somehow you embed it there.
	But if you tweet about these forbidden topics, and we know what they are, they will take action against you.
	And that's been there for quite some time.
	And then they also found out that it has actually got a code in there for government intervention.
	There's a tool for that.
	As I say, you want a deputized state?
	Yeah, this is not the deep state.
	This is the corporate deputized state.
	Well, there's an app for that as well.
	So as they were looking through this code, a developer, Stephen Tay, found a mechanism that permits the U.S. government to alter the Twitter algorithm.
	They said they even have a class for it.
	It's called government requested as a class for this action.
	When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm.
	And they even have a class for it.
	He says it's called Government Requested.
	He discovered the algorithm also considers a user's following to follower ratio, with page rankings being affected for users who have a high following count but a low number of followers.
	Well, that's not why I got blocked.
	I follow like 250 people and I had 134,000 followers, but I've disappeared.
	Been gone for a while.
	And as I said, and I'll stand by it, I haven't seen any change in Twitter.
	Because I would have people, it's not just recently since Elon Musk, somebody said, well, I haven't seen your stuff for years.
	That's been happening to me for years.
	Occasionally, somebody will see something for whatever reason.
	And it's not necessarily the Twitter has removed the shadow ban for me.
	It might just be that somebody that they follow or they see is looking at my stuff and maybe retweeted it.
	And so then they see it for the first time.
	The algorithm also promotes Twitter blue subscribers, people who pay the $8.
	And again, I don't have a problem with Elon Musk charging $8.
	I mean, you know, I don't have a problem with paying for what you get.
	And I don't think it's an excessive amount of money.
	Especially if you're going to be using it to try to, you know, get your work out.
	But I just don't trust that it's going to be something that's available for me because of my criticism of Elon Musk.
	And when you look at what happens, if you become a Twitter Blue subscriber, then they break you into four different groups.
	A power user, a Democrat user, a A Republican user.
	And then the fourth category is Elon Musk.
	Well, I don't fall into any of those things.
	I don't use it that much, so I'm not a power user.
	I'm not a Democrat or Republican, and I'm not on the side of Elon Musk.
	So what's the point of me getting a Twitter blue subscription if he wasted $8 a month for sure?
	But of course, you're not going to get any, definitely not going to get any visibility if you don't get that blue checkmark.
	And then other things, if you get negative feedback loops, like, you know, yesterday I put something out about this country music thing or something, and I got somebody who's very angry with me and going to unfollow me.
	And I don't know, I've had people many times throughout the years saying, I'm reporting you for this or that.
	So if you get blocked, If you get muted, if you have spam reports following, or if just people unfollow you, then, you know, that's always a mark against people being your visibility.
	That's your reputation score, in other words.
	I wonder, you know, how it fits in there when the government shadowbans you by fiat.
	I don't know what to say about that.
	So government requested is, you know, the company's current moderation and their cooperation with the FBI, with the Department of Homeland Security, protecting the narrative by all means.
	And of course, we know what those subjects are.
	Can't talk about the pandemic, MacGuffin.
	You can't talk about the climate, MacGuffin.
	You can't talk about, in a negative way, about the jab.
	You can't talk in a positive way about any other alternative, and on and on.
	The extent to which the platform may have been influenced or under the control of the government has been questioned in light of these revelations.
	That's the right part. Are you serious?
	So, now that you see the actual code, you're questioning whether or not the government has been controlling this?
	That was never a question.
	And now you've got the receipts, and you're going to say, this is now a question?
	No, it's now a settled question.
	More of a rhetorical question, if you will.
	Several former FBI agents worked for Twitter as well, according to a batch of documents.
	So we know what's been going on.
	Nobody was ever fooled by this.
	Now it's metastasizing this cancer of censorship.
	In Connecticut... They're plotting an online censorship board at the state level.
	Now, Connecticut has always had this problem.
	I remember right after the shooting when they had the state police come out and say, don't listen to anybody but us.
	That's a pretty odd and awkward thing to say.
	And then threatening people who had any questions about any of this stuff from the very beginning.
	So, you know, it's a very authoritarian, anti-free speech state.
	It's going to be more... Now, there is a...
	Looks like the bill is going to pass in the Senate to create a censorship board that would study online harassment of individuals and government officials.
	You know, if they hate the speech that you are engaged in, they call it hate speech.
	If they claim that what you have to say is harassment of individuals, then they will harass you as an individual.
	Such assessment shall include, but need not be limited to, Short-term and long-term effects of harassing behaviors online, of elected officials and public officials and residents of the state.
	In that regard, it's similar to that Florida bill that was put out on a Thursday or something, and it wasn't until Monday or Tuesday that DeSantis disowned it.
	But there was a Republican who introduced a bill, said, you know, whenever you talk about any elected government official, you're going to have to file a report with us and tell us what you had to say.
	What? And that wasn't just professional journalists.
	That was the general public.
	And if you didn't do it, the failure to file the report Well, I'm glad that DeSantis pulled back against that, but I've not seen that DeSantis has pulled back against the so-called hate speech, the law that was pandering to the Jewish vote there.
	They were being attacked by some anti-Semitic haters and, you know, throwing flyers out, saying nasty things or whatever.
	And so they want to make that a felony by calling it a hate crime.
	I don't support that in any way, shape, or form.
	I don't support what these people are saying.
	And I think that the most dangerous response to hate speech or false speech is censorship.
	The way you correct that is with more speech, with debate.
	And it should be very easy to shut these people down.
	But the interesting thing is, is that if your response is going to be, well, you know, they put something out and said nasty things about Jewish people.
	If your response is going to be to shut it down, how do you think that's going to play?
	It's going to only reinforce the hatred and the idea that Jewish people are special protected class.
	It has exactly the opposite effect.
	Your authoritarian actions We're actually propagating anti-Semitism.
	So by taking the easy way out, instead of directly confronting it, by taking an authoritarian approach, you're actually, these people see it as a validation of what they're saying.
	Besides, it kills the First Amendment for the rest of us.
	Establishing guidelines for reporting of online harassment, they say.
	Be there as well. The Yankee Institute.
	I don't think these are good or bad people from the South.
	I don't know. They report that about 150 people commented on the legislation.
	I think that they're on the side of free speech, but I can't tell because they call themselves Yankees.
	I've not seen too many Yankees on the side of free speech.
	The Yankee Institute said about 150 people commented on the legislation.
	Most of them opposed it, saying it would inhibit freedom of speech.
	I'm not advocating for hate speech.
	I'm not condemning people.
	I'm against online censorship, said the head of the Connecticut Residence Against Medical Mandates.
	So I'm against online censorship, she said, because it establishes an unnecessary paternal relationship with the government.
	Well, it's not just a paternal relationship.
	Look, we can argue and we should argue about the principles of free speech and why it is better to have free speech and free debate even when somebody's coming up with something extremely hateful than to respond with authoritarian censorship.
	We can have that debate over that issue.
	But guess what? There's no room for debate.
	Because censorship is forbidden in the Constitution.
	And even at the state level, these people swear to uphold the Constitution as a condition of their office.
	It's just like the Second Amendment.
	All these people out there want to ban this or ban that.
	And it's like, okay, well, fine.
	But first you've got to amend the Constitution before you even have that discussion.
	It's not even something to be discussed about.
	Because if you want to do that in defiance of the Constitution that gives you your authority, we've got nothing to talk about.
	Matt Taibbi is talking about the Restrict Act, and I'm glad I played that clip for you yesterday.
	So it's a watershed moment for free speech.
	And as I said before, even the name, they don't even bother in this particular time to try to come up with a name that's going to assuage concern about the negative effects of this thing.
	They call it the Restrict Act.
	The Constrictor Act.
	I say, well, don't tread on me.
	Pierre Polivare, I think is the way he pronounces his name, in Canada.
	He's talking about Canada's censorship bill, calls it creeping authoritarianism.
	And he points out, he says, look, even Margaret Atwood, no conservative, has said that this bill represents creeping totalitarianism.
	You know who Margaret Atwood is?
	She was the author of Handmaid's Tale.
	And I've talked about that many times.
	Through this pandemic and lockdown.
	It was a story about a Christian paternalism type of thing.
	Their projection nightmare of what they think Christian nationalism is about or whatever.
	Some of these people probably do fit that mold, but that's not really what most Christians are pushing for.
	There's a mischaracterization.
	And so they'd have people who would be forced to wear these, women would be forced to wear these outfits and so forth.
	And it was a patriarchy.
	And I talked about that many times.
	I said, you know, a lot of these pro-abortion protesters would dress up like the characters from Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's story.
	And I said, but what are they making us do wearing these masks?
	Isn't that more humiliating?
	Or as humiliating and they're doing it to men and to women, but that's okay because, you know, it's not...
	Just to one side of the genders and so forth.
	But, yeah, as a matter of fact, it's kind of interesting.
	Karen was an extra, and of all things, Handmaid's Tale.
	She didn't know what it was about.
	And, um, they filmed it in Durham when we were living in North Carolina, Robert Duvall was in that movie and she was real excited to see Robert Duvall, a little fan of his.
	And, uh, but it was just a horrible experience.
	Uh, they would stand out in the sun all day, had her wearing a burlap bag.
	She got the worst sunburns.
	She never came back. That was one day of it.
	But, you know, they're standing out there and they had a group of them and they would film them from different angles and have them stand in different places, you know, to replicate the crowd and everything.
	And then she was horrified to find out what the movie was actually about.
	But anyway, even Margaret Atwood says, this is creeping totalitarianism, gives power to a woke agency, the CRTC, named by liberals, to manipulate social media algorithms in order to shut down voices it does not want people to hear.
	Oh, well, you know, we just do that quietly and secretly behind the back door in America.
	That's the way we do it. Don't bother to put a law out there.
	So we're creeping along silently in And secretively along the same path.
	He said, and therein lies the problem.
	The government will get to decide which is the right side of the debate, and let's be clear, this bill does not hurt big tech.
	They will still monopolize all of social media.
	You know, because they build these boogeymen out there, and then they say, well, we're going to...
	We're going to shut that thing down.
	He promises to repeal the censorship bill if elected, but I think that their elections are a ways off because they just had Trudeau get re-elected.
	Finally, where does this all land?
	Well, in Egypt, their online censorship is now extending to misinformation about the weather.
	I guess they're going to start throwing weathermen in jail because they're always wrong.
	Look at your app.
	It's constantly changing.
	I'll look at it two or three days out and it says it's going to be something and then the day of or even the same day.
	They're changing the stuff there constantly.
	So yeah, we'll start throwing the weathermen in jail for misinformation.
	That's how crazy. It never stops when you give them the power.
	Let me tell you, The David Knight Show, you can listen to with your ears.
	You can even watch it by using your eyes.
	In fact, if you can hear me, that means you're listening to The David Knight Show right now.
	Yeah, good job.
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