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The David Knight Show - 05/17/2023

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	Transcription by CastingWords You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday the 17th of May, year of our Lord 2023.
	Well, today I'm going to begin with talking about this Durham report.
	I didn't think there was going to ever be anything there, and of course, there wasn't anything there, actually.
	I've seen by some as of indications.
	I want to cover the reactions to this.
	Trump's reactions, Fox News' reactions, the FBI's reactions.
	All of these are far more important than the actual report.
	Because, again, we knew this stuff from the very beginning.
	We'll talk about that. We've got some very important Second Amendment news that's coming up, as well as...
	I have...
	Something to tell you about civil asset forfeiture that I've not talked about before.
	I talk about it a lot, and a lot of people don't pay much attention to it.
	But I want to go back to the history of it, because it ties in a great deal into Joe Biden's agenda, and it tells us a great deal about his character and his contempt for the Constitution.
	We'll be right back. Again, as I said yesterday, I mentioned at the beginning of the program, I said I'm not going to cover it.
	I changed my mind because there's been so many reactions, and I think it's important to talk about that.
	Of course, the first reaction was from the Babylon Bee.
	Media admits that they lied about the Russian collusion thing, but they're totally telling the truth about everything else.
	CNN just keeps going further down and further down.
	Why isn't MSNBC thinking as well?
	And all the rest of them. New York Times, Washington Post, all the rest of them.
	As Babylon Bee says, after John Durham's newly released report confirmed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was entirely fabricated, several notable media figures admitted that they lied to the American people for three years.
	But they promised that they're totally telling the truth about everything else now.
	I would never lie to the American people, says CBS News anchor Scott Paley.
	Except for that one time, and that doesn't count.
	Just like in how serious and trustworthy my face is.
	Look at my sincere gaze as I stare soulfully into the camera.
	Well, teleprompter. He's reading.
	And deliver my prepared lines with the gravitas of a real truth teller.
	Come on. CNN anchor and part-time anonymous message board foot model Jake Tapper.
	I don't know what that was a reference to.
	He says, you can still trust us even though we divided the country in hatred and anger for three years and tried to destroy Trump over a false narrative and then continued to do so even after we found out it was fake, then insulted the intelligence of everyone who was skeptical about what we're saying.
	It doesn't mean we would ever lie to you about anything.
	Well, exactly. And here's the thing.
	I was saying it from the very beginning.
	All this Trump-Russia collusion...
	It was put out by Hillary Clinton.
	It's very obvious what it was.
	I said it's a red herring because it came out just as the DNC convention was beginning.
	I was covering the DNC convention.
	I was there. I was walking around sticking a microphone in the face of a lot of Democrats asking them about the Hillary stuff.
	They didn't want to talk about that. They only wanted to talk about the Russia stuff.
	We knew exactly what that was.
	And it was, you know, sort of thing.
	Don't look at my email scandal.
	Here's a scandal that I created.
	Let's pay attention to that.
	Classic case of a red herring.
	You know, you got a fox hunt.
	To throw the hounds off of the fox hunt, the anti-hunting people in the UK would take out a smelly fish, preferably a red herring.
	And as the fox went by, they would drag it across the trail to make sure that the fox, that the hounds lost the fox trail.
	That's exactly what this was.
	Knew it from the very beginning.
	Totally fabricated and just a misdirection.
	And then we had the Durham report.
	And Rush Limbaugh, before he died, I remember tuning in to him a couple times because as I was driving home, I would see what he was talking about at the top of the hour.
	But, you know, he was getting so frustrated with all this germ report long before he died.
	He said, oh, look, all these people say the germ report, the germ report, it's never going to land.
	He says he's never going to do anything of any substance.
	If he ever releases it, it's going to be of no consequence whatsoever.
	Nothing will be done. And of course, nothing is going to be done.
	What the Durham report has been is a whitewash for the FBI. They said they meant well.
	You know, it wasn't any malice, no corruption, no politicized coup, no attempt.
	No, this was simply confirmation bias.
	They wanted to believe this, and they did believe it, even though He's got documents showing that they admit that there was nothing there, but they kept going.
	How could that be confirmation bias?
	If you've got documents that show that they've investigated this and they're talking to each other and say, there's nothing here.
	There's nothing here. And yet they keep going.
	And yet they tell lies on television.
	How is that confirmation bias?
	No, that is malice.
	That is malice in the same way when you're talking about defamation cases with Dominion and other things like that.
	You know, if you've got the private texts and emails of people within Fox News, they say, well, we don't believe this stuff, but we're going to tell the public that anyway.
	This is the same thing.
	Well, the FBI did.
	But, of course, we have a justice system that is so incredibly politicized and biased now.
	That's where the bias is.
	It's not a confirmation bias.
	It's a biased media, biased Justice Department.
	After four years of dragging his feet, this is Information Liberation's characterization, John Durham released his much-hyped report, largely confirms what we already knew, but it attributes malice on the part of the FBI to incompetence or to bias, effectively shielding the agency.
	From any culpability for criminal actions.
	And so, again, Chris Minahan at Information Liberation says, My theory that William Barr and Durham were just stringing everybody along with this, promises that the FBI deep state would be held accountable for their crimes.
	But wait a minute. I agree with that.
	And I always thought that, and I criticize Barr personally, When Trump put him in.
	So what's he doing? Putting in this guy that rebuilt the CIA with George H.W. Bush after it was thoroughly discredited with the church committee hearings and everything.
	Why is he putting that guy in as his attorney general?
	Do you really think that William Barr is going to do anything to defend Trump or to make anything right?
	This guy has been corrupt from the get-go.
	He was his number two at the CIA, and then when George H.W. Bush became president, he made him one of the youngest ever attorney general of the U.S. And so I never thought there was going to be anything about that.
	But who hired him?
	Who put him in there? Who could have fired him and replaced him with somebody who was real?
	Trump. Very bad appointments.
	So bad... It's almost hard to believe that they were genuine.
	Anyway, I was incredulous when he put in Barr in the first place.
	The Durham report is 306 pages.
	It revealed little, says the New York Times, little substantial new information about the inquiry known as Crossfire Hurricane.
	It failed to produce any kind of blockbuster revelations.
	Accusing the Bureau of politically motivated misconduct against Trump and his allies had suggested that Durham would uncover that.
	Instead, the report was concluding that the FBI suffered from confirmation bias and, quote, a lack of analytical rigor as it pursued leads about Trump's ties to Russia.
	This is the same type of thing.
	That we saw with Ken Starr covering up for Bill Clinton and that impeachment thing.
	Very credible charges of economic corruption like we see with Biden now.
	Very credible charges of sexual predation like we see with Trump now.
	And of course, Ken Starr just swept it away.
	Well, he lied about a consensual affair.
	An objective and honest assessment of these strands of information should have caused the FBI to question not only the predication for a crossfire hurricane, but also to reflect on whether the FBI was being manipulated for political purposes.
	But it did not, says the New York Times.
	Even they're a bit surprised by this.
	Durham said he's not recommending any wholesale changes to the FBI. It's really just fine.
	You know, they just messed up this one time.
	Just like the media. Media lied to you for three years.
	The FBI lied for more than three years.
	And they're all just fine now.
	It was just an isolated incidence of confirmation bias.
	I don't know how this happened, but, you know, let's just move on.
	There's nothing to see here. And as Chris Minahan points out, compare this to the standard for the Proud Boys.
	They were found guilty of seditious conspiracy with little to no evidence whatsoever.
	But the FBI, launching a political investigation into Trump's campaign to sabotage him and to dig up dirt on all of his allies so they could be thrown into prison, was somehow just a product of confirmation bias.
	They got out of hand.
	Now, if ever there was a...
	You want to apply this standard of seditious conspiracy, apply it to the FBI. Send them to jail.
	But of course, I don't see that being proposed by anybody.
	Ten takeaways. This is a summary from just the news.
	They didn't care. They didn't ask them.
	Right? They didn't ask the Russian analysts.
	They had their own agenda.
	They were making this up with Steele dossier and the rest of this stuff.
	This is pure fiction.
	It wasn't an investigation.
	Again. The FBI is actually the FIB. All they do is lie and instigate.
	It's the federal instigation bureaucrats.
	That's what they are. And that's what they did.
	Why are we surprised? And why are we surprised that Durham did nothing?
	That he waited for some...
	Here's the other thing that I don't see anybody saying.
	And that is that this whole label...
	Of Trump being a puppet of Putin has now taken such a firm hold in the mind of Democrats and probably a lot of independents.
	So there isn't anything that could come out now at this point that is going to dislodge that.
	There's not going to be any retraction that could possibly be done by CNN or New York Times or Washington Post.
	None of these people could do enough to pull this back.
	This is baked into what they believe.
	You want to talk about bias?
	Confirmation bias is the public's confirmation bias.
	It's criminal action by the FBI, but it's the public's confirmation bias that they fed.
	I say this stuff all the time.
	Orange Man and the puppet of Putin and all the rest of this stuff.
	Look, Trump is dancing to a tune.
	He's promoting himself, but he's also dancing to somebody else's tune, but it's not Putin.
	And that's the really sad thing.
	You need to see who he is to pop it up.
	No new charges.
	Durham did not recommend any additional people face charges stemming from his investigation.
	He had a couple of people that he had pursued charges against that were unsuccessful.
	U.S. foreign allies refused to aid in the effort.
	U.K. intelligence services.
	No, we're not getting involved in that.
	They all knew it was fake.
	The FBI knew it was fake.
	They all knew it was fake. Former intelligence officials.
	Promoted the narrative despite knowing that there was absolutely no evidence.
	Good example of this. First one mentioned by Just the News.
	John Brennan came into Durham's crosshairs for his repeated public remarks supporting the narrative that Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
	For example, Brennan saying in an op-ed for the New York Times in 2018, Brennan said, Of information and intelligence that revealed contracts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign.
	I'm sorry, that was not.
	Yeah, and he said he told that to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017.
	So he wrote for the New York Times a piece that said Trump's claims of no collusion or hogwash.
	But if he testified, and he did, before these House Intelligence Committees, if he committed perjury, and he did, they ought to come after him.
	Why doesn't the House come after him?
	And of course, nobody ever came after James Clapper when he lied to the American public about spying on us.
	They will not come after Brennan either, because that's the real government.
	That's who they're the real puppet of, the intelligence community.
	And it's not monolithic.
	There is division within the intelligence community.
	Anyway, key foreign affair officials saw no evidence.
	Even Victoria Nuland said that.
	She told Durham's team that, quote, she never saw any U.S. government proof of the allegations contained in the Steele reporting regarding Trump and Russian officials.
	She advised that she had received a two-page summary of the Steele allegations from Jonathan Weiner The Steele dossier has been thoroughly discredited, of course.
	The Clinton campaign was behind the whole thing.
	We knew this from the very beginning.
	As I said, it was a red herring.
	FBI's actions with respect to other highly significant intelligence received from a trusted foreign source pointing to the Clinton campaign planned to vilify Trump by tying him to Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.
	Don't look at what I did.
	Who released this?
	And look, Trump is a Putin puppet.
	That's exactly what this is all about for years.
	Everybody chasing that.
	There were double standards for Trump, double standards for Clinton.
	The FBI headquarters and department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates.
	Who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference.
	In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its long-time valuable sources went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated.
	You know, when they went to Clinton, the FBI went to Clinton and said, we'd like to see your service.
	She said, go away, go away. And they did.
	They did. And then when people had Hunter's laptop, the FBI intervened for that.
	Clinton opposition research firm Fusion GPS went to the media before the FBI. Articles written by the New York Times, Slate, Mother Jones, regarding the Trump-Russia collusion narrative were cited by the report for inaccurate information that they published.
	Well, there you go. Fake news.
	But there will be no consequences for any of this stuff.
	By the way, the Technofog did a good job of summarizing this on Twitter.
	It's a legal account.
	He said, the FBI and Department of Justice restricted two investigations into Hillary during the 2016 election.
	They restricted a Clinton Foundation investigation.
	And I've talked to Charles Ortel, who does kind of financial investigations and everything.
	He said, you know, the Clinton Foundation has never required, as a charity, as a 501 or whatever, they've never filed the required paperwork.
	And, you know, Trump never investigated them.
	His Department of Justice, his IRS, never did it.
	I mean, that's not even looking at the details.
	It just bothered a file.
	And yet they're still operating as a donation.
	They don't. They skate with everything.
	Number two, illegal foreign contributions to the Clinton campaign were shut down by the FBI and the Department of Justice.
	And then Crossfire Hurricane was opened as a full investigation while that was being done.
	According to the FBI, CHS, in early 2016, the Clinton campaign was fully aware of And okay with a foreign contribution.
	It was in violation of federal law, as I just reported.
	The FBI agent did not get receipts and asked the source to stay away from the Clinton campaign effort.
	Even as they opened up Crossfire Hurricane as a full investigation, days after it was opened, Peter Strzok, Told a London FBI employee, quote, there is nothing to this.
	Now, how could that be confirmation bias?
	He says there's nothing to this, but we're going to do a full investigation.
	So, Comey also knew.
	Comey said to McCabe, where is the Pfizer?
	Where is the Pfizer? Over and over again.
	I need to... Do you have any authorization to do this stuff?
	No? We're just, you know, thumbing our nose at everything.
	FBI leadership was so concerned...
	About these steel memos.
	They said, no more memos are to be written.
	Do not document any recommendations, context, or analysis.
	And yet they paid the steel primary subsource, Igor Danchenko, $220,000.
	And then after they learned that he had lied to them during the Durham investigation, they proposed a further payment of $300,000.
	Double down on it. It's just absolutely amazing to see this organization.
	And of course, John Durham, who did nothing, but he did spend six and a half million dollars on all this to delay it, to slow walk it, and to whitewash it.
	And so that's what reason has a problem with.
	Look at the amount of money that he spent.
	They said, for libertarians, there's something psychically satisfying about seeing anyone in power criticize the FBI. Oh, yeah, we've had stinging criticism of the FBI with all this stuff.
	But there'll be nothing done.
	Nobody will pay a price.
	There will be no changes made in the FBI. Nothing.
	Nothing. They'll get away with it as well.
	Stinging criticism here.
	Certainly the hype over Trump-Russia collusion was misguided.
	However, Durham's lengthy and expensive investigation was also misguided.
	He did 480 interviews, more than 1 million documents, consisting of more than 6 million pages.
	They served more than 190 subpoenas under the auspices of grand juries.
	This is what we get for our money.
	After four years of investigation, $6.5 million in taxpayer money, Durham failed to uncover any evidence of major wrongdoing.
	The only successful criminal charges were against an FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to altering an email used to get a surveillance warrant on a Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
	And he got 12 months of probation.
	Don't do it again.
	Ha ha! The two criminal trials this investigation yielded against Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman and Igor Danchenko both ended with not guilty findings.
	And so what is the reaction from the press?
	Well, we've got Laura Ingram at Fox News saying it's worse than Watergate.
	Well, with Watergate, there was a crime at the center of it.
	The only crime with this is the crimes of the FBI. There's nothing at all there other than that.
	It's the crimes of Hillary Clinton and the crimes of the FBI. So I guess it is worse than Watergate.
	At least Watergate had a burglary.
	Who knew what? When did they know it?
	That type of thing. Gutfeld says that this report lays the basis for questioning the 2020 election results.
	That's a silly take on this.
	That's a really silly take on this.
	Look. There's plenty of circumstantial evidence about 2020.
	Are we going to continue to keep going back to that?
	Nothing. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence.
	There hasn't been any receipts for this stuff.
	And if you understand what really messed up that election, it was Trump.
	It was a lockdown election.
	And it was a lockdown election because of him.
	And it was the new rules under lockdown election.
	That were the major issue with corruption.
	So I'm really not interested at all in hearing any more about this 2020 election.
	But Gutfeld goes there, because that's what his base wants to hear.
	And he says, so we know these people are biased, and we know that they're trying to push him out.
	So shouldn't a hero try to fix the election?
	Oh, okay. So now Trump, instead of being the villain that caused the lockdown election, is now the hero trying to fix it.
	How did he try to fix it? He collected $250 million.
	What did he do with that money?
	Why doesn't MAGA ask what he did with the money?
	They weren't doing anything with the money.
	He and Rudy were out there selling pardons for $2 million.
	And that's why I said yesterday, if she's got tapes of this stuff with Rudy Giuliani, and she can prove those allegations, that is a substantial crime by Trump.
	And of course, he's not going to skate.
	If it was Hillary Clinton doing it, we don't really care.
	But with Trump, they will prosecute that.
	Shouldn't a hero try to fix the election, said Gutfeld?
	That's where we ended up. And you can't go and condemn people for so-called conspiracy theories when you're going around telling everybody this guy was worse than Hitler.
	Well, I tell you, nobody...
	I never thought that we would ever see the kinds of abuses of government power that we saw in 2020 and then continuing on into the Biden administration.
	But it began under Trump.
	And that was bad enough. I never thought I would live to see that in America.
	And yet, it worked simply because it was Trump.
	Because it was Trump, the people who still value freedom, or at least say they do, the conservatives, didn't value it enough.
	To defend it against their guy.
	Especially because they were being told by the influencers, by the alternative media, by the conservative media, by people like Alex.
	It's 4D chess.
	He's got it. Don't worry. He knows what he's doing.
	He's going to expose these guys.
	All that election stuff, yeah.
	It was all a sting.
	We're already arresting people, they said, two days after the election.
	It wasn't just CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times who lied to you about all this stuff.
	You're being lied to by everybody about this election.
	As corrupt as it could possibly be.
	Now, Mark Levin says the FBI needs to have its budget slashed.
	Yeah, let's go with a net zero for FBI. Yeah, we've got to cut some corners somewhere.
	Let's get rid of this corrupt criminal organization.
	That has failed us so extensively, so politicized.
	Let's just get rid of it. No, but he says it needs to be broken down and rebuilt.
	There you go. We need a great reset of the FBI. No, don't rebuild it.
	It should never exist.
	You can have a consulting lab that doesn't have any law enforcement or investigatory powers, but, you know, you don't even need that.
	Pretty much every state has got its own Bureau of Investigation.
	I don't think there's a single one that doesn't have it.
	Not one that I've lived in, anyway.
	Trump calls it treason?
	Well, no, it's actually seditious conspiracy.
	Call it that. Call it seditious conspiracy.
	Because that's what they're trying to build up to charge him with.
	That's why they, you know, have sacrificed...
	The lives of 14 people so far and getting convictions with them for seditious conspiracy so they can come after Trump.
	So Trump should call it seditious conspiracy.
	With an honest media, he said, we are looking at the crime of the century.
	No, I'm sorry. The crime of the century were the millions of people that you have crippled, Sterilized and killed with your damn shot.
	That's the crime of the century.
	That's the crime, global crime, that you need to be prosecuted for.
	None of this election garbage.
	This is nonsense.
	All this Russian collusion and all the rest of this seditious conspiracy.
	He needs to be charged for the vaccine and so does Biden and the rest of these people.
	That's the real crime. And that's why it won't happen.
	Because they're all guilty of sin.
	The crime of the century.
	Yeah, it was. No, the crime of the century was the pandemic, the lockdowns, the mass, the kill shot that you did.
	That was the crime of the century.
	And you brag about it.
	You brag about it.
	You son of a gun.
	He is now, I saw this headline, he's like, wait, is this an old story?
	Trump vows to release remaining JFK assassination files, says Steve Watson.
	InfoWars. He's like, seriously?
	You're going to recycle this stuff?
	Trump's going to recycle it?
	InfoWars are going to recycle it?
	Look, we'll finally find out what happened to JFK if we elect him again.
	Well, that was a promise when he first got elected.
	He didn't do anything, really, right?
	He released some, but now even Biden released a few, I think.
	He says, I will release everything this time.
	Yeah, and he's going to build a wall this time, too.
	And he's going to do this and that and all the rest of these things that he didn't do before.
	Why not? He's going to stop wars.
	And this is deja vu all over again.
	4,300 files that are still redacted would become available.
	Yeah, so vote for me again, and I'll really do it this time.
	How many times are you going to sucker these people into it?
	And then you've got people like Darren Beatty at Revolver, who's always sucking on Trump.
	He says, after a long pause, Trump admits that Pompeo blocked release of the JFK files in an interview.
	Well, wait a minute. Who was Mike Pompeo's boss?
	Who was William Barr's boss?
	Who was Mike Pompeo's boss?
	The buck stops with Trump, doesn't it?
	Shouldn't it? So, you know, maybe Trump didn't want the files released.
	Trump reportedly told Judge Napolitano, quote, if you saw what I saw in the files, you wouldn't want to release it either.
	So maybe he didn't want it released.
	Maybe he won't do it this time either, if he gets elected.
	RFK Jr., as openly said, he believes the CIA was involved in the murder of his uncle and his father.
	But, you know, they don't want to disprove that or put it to rest.
	Trump made some other statements about this as well because of the Russiagate stuff.
	You know, the first guy that was sacrificed with all this stuff was Michael Flynn.
	You know that I have absolutely no respect for Flynn with all this Reawaken America stuff.
	I mean, he's become full-on evil.
	There were other things that I found out about Trump as well with his dirty dealings with Turkey.
	But at the beginning of this, I defended him because Trump threw him under the bus to save his sorry behind.
	And he paid severely for that.
	But now he's running around with a tour cheering Trump.
	Leading fake prayers to ascended masters, these pagan prayers from Elizabeth Clare Prophet that he has 100% plagiarized.
	And doing it, as they tell everybody, they're promoting Christian nationalism.
	Michael Flynn makes me want to throw up.
	But Trump vows that he'll return him after throwing him under the bus.
	Again, I have no respect for Flynn.
	But I absolutely could not believe what Trump was doing.
	I said at the time, you know, he has absolutely no loyalty to anybody, but he demands absolute loyalty to himself.
	And that's what he gets from Michael Flynn.
	And that's what Michael Flynn gets.
	Maybe he deserved if he's going to put himself in that kind of a position.
	Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the conversations, but then in January of 2020 he withdrew the plea, citing alleged FBI efforts to entrap and persecute him, but later he reneged amid crushing legal fees and threats by the FBI to prosecute his son.
	And we've seen these types of cases where, you know, because of all the pressure and the additional charges, people will go ahead and plead guilty to something.
	Trump gave Flynn a full pardon, evidently because he pleaded guilty, because the Justice Department eventually dropped the case against Flynn.
	They had nothing against Flynn from the very beginning.
	But, you know, he was twisting in the wind for three years without any help from Trump.
	Federal appeals court then dismissed the charges a month later.
	That was in May. The Department of Justice dropped the charges.
	And so Trump gave him a pardon, I guess, for what he had pled guilty to.
	But again, he abandoned him, just as he abandoned America.
	Trump did. So DeSantis, as we're looking at other election news, DeSantis hit back at what I talked about yesterday with Trump saying that DeSantis and others had been too harsh on abortion.
	The Florida governor signed the Heartbeat Protection Act April the 13th, and of course that stopped abortion at the time the heart begins at six weeks.
	And he doubled down on his legislation and criticized Trump for keeping quiet on whether or not Trump had signed the bill.
	DeSantis said, protecting an unborn child when there is a detectable heartbeat is something that almost probably 99% of pro-lifers support.
	It's something that other states like Iowa, under Governor Kim Reynolds, have enacted.
	And I think that as a Florida resident...
	He didn't give an answer about it.
	Would you have signed the heartbeat bill that Florida did?
	Trump is a Florida resident.
	Does he not know what the bill is?
	It had all the exceptions that people talk about.
	The legislature put it in.
	He said, I signed the bill. I was proud to do it.
	But Trump won't answer whether he would sign it or not.
	Because he's a shape-shifting, lying politician.
	Well, we'll see. I'll negotiate it.
	That gets us to the table.
	We can make a deal. Two weeks, three weeks, five weeks, six weeks, three months, whatever, nine months, we'll see.
	Just give me federal control again of this.
	Just give me federal control.
	And as I said yesterday, that's a trap.
	These people... And the Family Research Council and the Susan B. Anthony people who have joined him in this and joined with Lindsey Graham, let's federalize this again.
	Well, these people actually support Roe v.
	Wade. So Trump supports Roe v.
	Wade, even though he brags about how he ended it.
	And I say that he supports Roe v.
	Wade because if you put it back under federal control, then all you're doing now is haggling constantly.
	Every election will be about, where do we draw the line when life begins, right?
	Vote for me and I'll move it up or I'll move it down or whatever.
	And that'll be what the election becomes.
	That's what they want. They want to be empowered by that.
	Send me money. Send me money and we'll help you to fight these politicians.
	That's what Family Research Council and Susan B. Anthony want.
	They don't want to end it.
	Trump doesn't want to end it.
	Lindsey Graham doesn't want to end it.
	They want it to be something they can raise money over.
	They want it to be a wedge issue between them and the other party because they agree on pretty much everything.
	They've got to have some important wedge issues, like abortion.
	Taylor Marshall is a guy who's got a podcast.
	He's a Catholic commentator.
	He says he's going to run for president.
	He hasn't filed his paperwork yet.
	I don't know what party he's in, but LifeSite News picked up a statement, he said.
	And I totally agree with him.
	He said, murder is murder.
	Murder is murder. And as I constantly say, if we're going to allow babies to be murdered for whatever reason, they're going to come after each and every one of us at some point in our life.
	He said, the only meaningful and consistent position on the sanctity of human life is a total ban on abortion from conception through birth.
	Trump claimed that, quote, many people within the pro-life movement think that the law was too harsh and But Taylor Marshall said, as I run for president of the U.S. in 2024, I suggest that the only meaningful and consistent position on the sanctity of human life is a total ban on abortion from conception to birth.
	And that would include also things like a ban on euthanasia, all the rest of this stuff that is now being pushed so hard by Canada, by other people that will come here.
	Trump has not committed to a position on federal abortion ban, says LifeSite News, and they're right.
	Asked on April 27th about a proposed federal ban on abortions at 15 weeks.
	Trump said, we're going to look at it.
	We're looking at a lot of different options.
	So let's just imagine, you know, murder is murder.
	I'm sure you're all familiar with the basic premise of The Purge, the film that was put out.
	I don't watch that stuff, but I know about it.
	And so what the premise was is one day every year that let people get off their steam and it was open season.
	You could kill anybody you wanted to, right?
	So what if you have a situation where you say, well, we're not going to do that for just a day.
	Maybe we'll do it for two days or three days.
	Maybe we'll do it for a week or a month, right?
	You know, that's what we're talking about here with this federalizing of abortion.
	Let's set the level of different areas here.
	It's either murder or it isn't.
	And the question is, up to what age are you going to kill people?
	And how long will it go?
	Marshall confirmed that he's serious about running for president, but he's yet to file any paperwork, so I'm not really sure.
	We'll see what happens.
	We'll be right back. You're
	listening to The David Knight Show.
	All right, I want to thank somebody on Rumble, but I can't even come close to making sense out of that name.
	G-R-A-T-R-U-P-E-G-A-T-U-7366.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that on Rumble.
	By the way, I have not updated the...
	Uh, the, uh, gas gauge based on what we received at the beginning of this weekend.
	And, um, but I have also putting this stuff together because Karen will write down the stuff that's mailed in.
	And, um, you know, it's one of these things where when you take something and you set it aside, uh, because in a special place, cause you don't want to lose it.
	And then you forget, uh, because you don't usually look at that special place.
	And that's what I did with a lot of things.
	Uh, some of the, uh, The contributions that we got by mail at the beginning of the month, I mean, we did count them.
	Those were counted in the gas gauge, but I didn't thank people, so I have that here as well.
	But I did want to pass on a couple of things that I got in the mail before we get into the Second Amendment.
	That's what I want to talk about right now.
	Yesterday I had on Jack Lawson, and we talked about his book series, CivilDefenseManual.com.
	And this came in the mail.
	This is from a listener who said, I purchased Jack Lawson's Civil Defense Manual.
	Just thought I'd give a quick synopsis of it.
	he says, whatever it cost me, he said, with shipping and everything, it was maybe $116 for the two volumes.
	He says, it's worth 20 times more.
	The information is vast, knowledgeable, sometimes entertaining.
	Everybody should have it.
	And I agree.
	And that's one of the reasons why I've had him on so many times and, and tell you about the book.
	Anyway, he says, I've noticed that you mentioned the movie Brazil a few times.
	One of my favorites...
	And of the buttle-tuttle errant fly that's the beginning of it, he says, I own it.
	Every seven to ten years, I do.
	I watch it again.
	Always get more understanding.
	And it becomes more prophetic each time you watch it.
	Yes, it does. It's just amazing.
	And it's not a surprise, because we know what totalitarian governments look like.
	And so it's very easy to predict the path that we're going to take with this stuff.
	But I think even the thing that I enjoyed about it, which made it funny, but also was another aspect of it that we see happening, was how they didn't quite get the technology right.
	Technology was constantly being used, constantly in the way, but it was really quirky, odd, and failing a lot of the time.
	And yet it didn't stop.
	These tyrants. Because you never needed to have technology in order to do the kinds of dark things that tyrants do to people throughout history.
	Anyway, he said it's time to reread 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 again.
	Absolutely. And I'll just mention one other thing.
	This is from some supporters that we've had for a long time, Tom and Nancy.
	And I mention it because I'd like to pass this on to you.
	A prayer request to you.
	He said, we're scheduled to move to Indiana in June, and the reason they're moving is for homeschooling.
	He's got two young children, and he wants to have the educational freedom that he doesn't have in the Northeast.
	And so he's going to change his job, move the entire family across the country for homeschooling.
	You see, he's got the right priorities.
	Your children are first.
	Their education is first.
	Protecting them. Putting them in what we used to call it in North Carolina, we called it the Greenhouse Report.
	The homeschooling organization there.
	Because that's the way you should think of this.
	You have these tender children.
	You protect them like you would protect tender plants at the early stage.
	Eventually you're going to put the plants outside.
	They're going to have to, you know, be out there in the real world and fend for themselves.
	But at the beginning, your job is to protect and nurture them.
	That's what homeschooling is about.
	It's about being a greenhouse.
	And Tom and Nancy are going to move across the country.
	And so they asked for you to pray, especially for the kids.
	He said the oldest one, Abby, just read an advanced sentence earlier today.
	She can read and do math very well.
	The other day... She was so happy to sit with Mommy for drawing, we will move for her so that she will have educational freedom.
	Please pray for her especially.
	So I'll put that out if you pray for Tom, Nancy, Abby, and their younger son.
	Very important. They've got their priorities right.
	In Serbia, they have a massive disarmament happening because of a couple of mass shootings.
	Sounds like it's being run by Democrats.
	Serbian president has commended citizens for turning in more than 10,000 guns in the first week of a month-long drive aimed at rounding up unlicensed firearms.
	He also promises, quote, repressive measures for anybody who is found with an illegal weapon after the amnesty's end.
	Well, this is what the Democrats want here.
	Repressive measures for anybody who is going to be caught with a firearm.
	As a matter of fact, We go back and we look at Thomas Massey interrogating this bureaucrat who doesn't know the first thing about firearms and admits it, who has now become the head of the ATF, about the pistol brace.
	We've just declared the pistol braces are illegal.
	Illegal. Are you a congressman writing the laws?
	No, you're a bureaucrat setting the rules.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Chairman. Mr. Director, in 2012, John Spencer, Chief of Firearms Technology Branch, I am aware of the letter,
	yes. Between this letter being issued to Mr.
	Bosco and the production and distribution of 10 to 40 million of these braces and the implementation of your rule, did Congress pass a law?
	What changed? Congress did not pass a law, but something did change.
	What changed is that that item that was submitted was not produced and was not the item that was marketed.
	And Mr. Bosco, I think, before this committee said that people were using stabilizing braces in ways that he hadn't anticipated.
	Okay, let me challenge that assertion.
	So you say that the brace changed, and so you had to implement this rule.
	Well, I've got here the actual original brace that this letter was responsive to.
	Are you telling me that this brace is exempt from your rule?
	What I'm saying is that people have products that are not designed...
	Is this brace exempt from your rule?
	I can't sit here and classify.
	This is the brace you wrote the letter to.
	And if it's not ruled to be attached as a short-barreled rifle, it will not be subject to the rule.
	Would you please quit telling this committee that the brace has changed and that's why you did the rule when in fact you're not exempting the same brace that you gave this letter to?
	If the brace is submitted, we'll classify it.
	Do you still have the same agreement that this brace, that the ATF agreed to?
	In 2012 should not be under the jurisdiction of your rule?
	If that brace is submitted with a firearm, we will examine and classify it.
	Okay, reclaiming my time because it's pretty obvious you're misleading people here when you say that the brace has changed because your rule affects the braces that didn't change.
	How many days have passed?
	How many days do people have to comply with this rule?
	So they can always comply, but the initial period, I believe, ends at the end of May.
	And it was 120 days, is that correct?
	People are only felons if they intentionally violate the law.
	I believe it's 120 days. So we've got 36 days left in the 120-day grace period.
	Can you tell us here today how many people have complied by registering this product?
	I am not sure of the exact number.
	I can check, though, and get back to you.
	There are people who are making applications.
	Well, anyway, you get the idea.
	We got a little grace period here.
	You can register these things or whatever, and we've...
	I didn't play it, but you may have seen it.
	One individual who is a very long video, that's why I didn't play it.
	And, of course, this one goes on for quite some time as well.
	But in the other video...
	The guy recorded it. He's got an FBI, an ATF agent.
	I think the guy was the FBI. I think it was local police.
	They show up in the winter and interrogate him about his brace.
	He says, I'm not telling you anything.
	And he's actually got a company that he produces a firearm.
	I think it's components for special forces.
	And he says, I have a company that does this kind of work.
	And he said, I understand what you're doing, but I also understand that you're just following orders and these are not valid orders.
	This is not a law. This is not...
	You're telling me that I'm...
	And they keep saying, well, if you have one of these things, you're going to be in violation of the law.
	He goes, there is no law. There is no law.
	And that's essentially what Thomas Massey gets into as well.
	But again, they're going to have repressive measures.
	A felony. A felony for violating this law.
	But there is no law. There's an executive order from Biden.
	Where did he get that idea?
	Well, because Trump did it with a bump stock.
	I'm just going to ban bumps.
	Okay, well, then I'll ban a pistol brace.
	And then if that stands, they'll go for something more substantial.
	So going back to Serbia, the president of Serbia inspected a warehouse with rows of rifles and pistols and automatic weapons, as well as hand grenades, landmines, even rocket launchers brought in by citizens.
	Why do they have that? Well, because they had a war.
	And they were using that for self-defense in Serbia.
	You know, the Yugoslavian war after Yugoslavia broke up.
	And the president said, what does anyone need an automatic weapon for?
	Or all these guns? Well, they need it, pal, in defense for the next war that you start.
	They just went through a civil war 30 years ago.
	And so he says, after June 8th, the president added, the government will be cruel.
	Quote-unquote, cruel, he said.
	When it comes to prosecuting illegal gun possession with steep fines and, quote, repressive measures.
	So, I wonder how these people who have used hand grenades, landmines, rocket launchers, as well as fully automatic rifles in defense of their lives and their country...
	Many of them still alive?
	All this in living memory?
	I wonder how they're going to react to his cruel and repressive measures to come for the rest of the firearms.
	I wonder if it's going to be another Concord and Lexington where they came for the rifles and the cannons.
	Or will it be another Goliad where they came for the rifles and the cannons?
	The military weapons of that day.
	They may be ready to erupt into a civil war yet again.
	He launched the weapons drive after two mass shootings.
	On May the 3rd, a 13-year-old went to an elementary school, fatally shot eight of his classmates and a security guard, wounded six more students.
	Okay, again, it is tragic, but why is the response to remove the guns?
	If they've got that many guns, and by the way, we talked about the guns in Serbia.
	Serbia ranks third in the world per capita private gun ownership.
	The only countries that are ahead are U.S. and Yemen.
	And this is per capita gun ownership.
	That's why I say, he's got a warehouse full of guns.
	How many guns are still out there as he's going to begin his confiscation program?
	How many guns are out there in the hands of people who have used them to fight a war?
	To defend themselves. And that was back in the 1990s when Yugoslavia collapsed.
	And that's why these civilians have state-of-the-art military weapons in their hands right now.
	And they said, well, you know, just the first day of the current drive, citizens handed in 1,500 firearms.
	Oh, really? Is that it?
	Is that it? They've gotten about 10,000 firearms.
	Is that it? You're going to have to do a lot better than that.
	You have to do a lot better than that.
	But, you know, it is a tragedy when something like this happens.
	But again, we're talking about eight people, maybe nine.
	I don't know if it was eight. I think it was eight classmates and security guards.
	That would be nine. Keep going back to the Waukesha Christmas parade.
	A guy used an SUV. He targeted people.
	He wasn't out of control.
	He wasn't angry. He was deliberately targeting people.
	Specific groups. It was a hate crime.
	It was murder. Mass murder.
	It was a terrorist event.
	And yet nobody called for the confiscation of cars or especially SUVs, right?
	Why is it that we focus on the tool rather than on the murderer?
	What is the matter in Serbia?
	What is the problem when you have a child doing this?
	For 30 years, military weapons have been in the hands of people.
	Why is it now that this is happening?
	Are we giving them money to push this kind of gender pressure on kids?
	Messing with their minds at a time when they're trying to figure out what's going on with their body?
	Is that what we're doing? Maybe pharmaceutical companies have come in with some SSRIs or whatever.
	I don't know what it is, but it sounds to me Like, the problem's not the firearms.
	If it's a 13-year-old kid doing this.
	Covenant School, there in Nashville, where the shooting is, that school where the shooting happened by that woman who's a trans, lawyers for that school have filed motions to intervene in the release of that manifesto that is being so carefully controlled by the police.
	They don't want that out.
	They said that we have an interest in stopping this from going out, and they're concerned that it's going to have blueprints, it's going to have information about the Covenant Church, including but not limited to schematics of church facilities or confidential information pertaining to employees there of the school.
	But the newspaper there in Nashville, the Tennessee Star, that filed the lawsuit to get the information, said in these cases, they said they requested autopsy, toxicology information.
	They should also get the history, the psychological history, and the treatment history of this person.
	Because if she was put on SSRIs, And if she was not taking the SSRIs, I don't know how long it takes for it to get out of the blood system, but it's getting off of these drugs that can frequently cause the issue.
	You know, the drugs can cause a myriad of adverse effects, and so sometimes people stop taking them, and that's when you have the murder-suicide event happen.
	Anyway, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Has rejected the newspaper's request.
	The Tennessee Star is the paper.
	And so the company that owns them, Star News Digital Media, said, We are not seeking schematics of the school, nor are we asking for any personnel information that would violate employee privacy expectations.
	We are seeking the relevant writings of a killer who shook the public's sense of safety to its core.
	Our hearts go out to the church, the school, the families, the victims of this heinous crime.
	But the public has a right to know what motivated this monster to carry out her violent crime spree so the public can protect itself from such murders in the future.
	Informing the public is the most crucial role of a free press, and we are committed to that journalistic duty.
	They've also sued the FBI. The FBI is hanging on to this stuff as well.
	As I point out, the FBI has routinely quickly released writings in other mass shooting cases, but not in this one.
	And it has now been seven weeks as of Monday for this, since that has happened.
	You know, as we're talking about the churches, and we're talking about the responses, a prominent Texas pastor, Dwight McKissick, Senior pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Allen, Texas, is calling for a ban of AR-15s.
	He said, the silence of the church is sinful.
	Well, I think it is sinful.
	To take the approach that the church does not have a duty to protect innocent lives.
	I wish this pastor would take a look at the experiences of Charles von Vick that I talked about.
	You know, you say, well, with AR-15s there's nothing we can do to protect anybody.
	Seriously? Seriously?
	You had a church of 1,000 people.
	Four people with fully automatic weapons came in and hand grenades.
	Threw the hand grenades in, started spraying the crowd, killing people.
	Killed about 50 people right away.
	And then Charles Von Vick, who had a snub-nosed.38 with five shots, ran him off.
	That's why I've talked to him multiple times.
	It isn't about you've got some super weapon that nobody can defend themselves against.
	Snub Nose 38 is not for shooting at a distance.
	It's typically for self-defense up close.
	It was not the super weapon.
	And so in New York, even though they passed Bruin, they're essentially pricing people's ability to own guns for self-defense.
	They're pricing that out of the market.
	They have added so much regulatory requirements for you to be able to carry a gun.
	That it's become too expensive for people to do the classes and you can't find any classes anyway.
	They're booked months in advance because now they have special extra requirements for having to do that.
	The interesting thing is when we're talking about AR-15 and banning that, before I get to that, in New York and Monroe County, applications are down 71% with city residents.
	59% among suburbanites.
	They said in Wyoming County in New York, they typically have 300 permits issued per year, but with these new regulations, this year they've only had 25 applications, down 92%.
	Of course, the year is only halfway through, so still.
	They've essentially stopped it because people can't We're good to go.
	You've got Nashville, Memphis, and you've got Knoxville.
	Knoxville is a big city, not completely controlled by Democrats, but one of the three, when they had the Tennessee Three, they were representatives from each of those cities.
	And the two guys that got kicked out, the older woman who got kicked out was from Knoxville, and the two guys who got kicked out were from Nashville and Memphis.
	Memphis is moving to defy state law.
	And put their own gun control requirements there in defiance of Tennessee state law.
	A councilman there in Memphis, Dr.
	Jeff Warren says that he hopes this will help to ban the future sale of assault weapons and restrict the use of the ones that are already owned.
	If the measure gets on the ballot and passes, it will challenge state law on open carry in Memphis city limits.
	We have constitutional carry here.
	It will require a license for open and concealed carry, and it will create a red flag law.
	But state law is clear and unambiguous in its language, barring cities like Memphis from enacting any regulations of, and this is a quote out of the, any regulations of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms or ammunition,
	or combinations thereof, including but not limited to the use, or combinations thereof, including but not limited to the use, the purchase, the transfer, the taxation, the manufacture, the ownership, the possession, the carrying, the sale, the acquisition, the gifting, the devising, the licensing, the registration, the storage and transportation.
	I think that pretty much covers it.
	You can't do any of that.
	Keep your hands off of the Second Amendment, says Tennessee state law.
	Memphis is going to challenge that.
	So that would cover each and every local infringement that gun prohibitionists like Warren want to put in place, says Bearing Arms.
	But it is likely that he and other anti-gun politicians on the city council see this as a vehicle To challenge the preemption law itself, as well as a tool that they can use to tell their constituents, hey, we're doing something.
	But then they point out something else I think that's very important in this Bearing Arms article.
	They said if you take a look at the practical effects of prohibiting quote-unquote assault rifles, modern sporting rifles, AR-15s, whatever you want to call them, It said that states that have previously enacted bans on assault weapons, and then the bans come off or whatever, they tend to report higher rates of ownership for those types of firearms in states where modern sporting rifles are not subject to prohibition.
	For example, in California, 37.5% of California gun owners say they own or have owned an AR-15.
	It is 37.8% in New York.
	But in Montana, where there has never been a prohibition of AR-15s, and there's no talk about prohibiting AR-15s, instead of nearly 38%, as you see in California and New York, It's 27% that own them in Montana.
	The Streisand effect.
	But it's not even really the Streisand effect.
	It's really the prohibition effect.
	If you want to make something more dangerous and more prolific, because you're going to turn it over to an unregulated free market, even though it's a black market, well, then prohibit it.
	Take a look at drugs.
	Take a look at alcohol during alcohol prohibition.
	And if you do this with guns...
	You're going to wind up with some very capable, amazingly ingenious and destructive firearms that nobody ever imagined before.
	Just like nobody ever imagined when they started doing the war on drugs that you would ever have something like fentanyl, for example.
	And yet, there it is.
	We'll be right back.
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	Let's talk a little bit about money and about debt.
	Voters would solve the debt ceiling standoff, they say, by just stop printing money.
	Everybody understands what's going on with the central banks.
	We know what the real problem is.
	I said one Republican that they talked to, and this is from Wall Street Journal, 63-year-old Republican who lives near Phoenix.
	Says he doesn't want the U.S. to ruin its credit by failing to pay its bills, but he worries that cutting the military could threaten border security.
	Which border is he talking about?
	Which country? We defend a lot of borders except for our own, right?
	I mean, how is that going to affect us?
	Is it going to affect the border security of Ukraine?
	Iraq, whatever. I mean, Yemen, if we stopped doing that.
	Anyway, he says, I want them to stop printing money.
	He said, should the country default?
	No. Well, and yet, when we look at this, James Bovard, I saw this a couple of days ago, Did you realize that as they're having this debt standoff, the House just very quietly gave themselves a $34,000 tax-free raise.
	And so, in his article that he's got here, he shows in the pictures, you see that you've got Democrats holding up signs, we'll legislate for food.
	Yeah, I'm desperate.
	I will create new laws and obstacles for you, because I just need to have more money.
	Can't make ends meet.
	So as we look at this default impasse that they have, some people asked some pointed questions to the White House press secretary.
	This is what she had to say.
	She said, you've got to pay for tax cuts.
	If you buy a car, you are expected to pay the monthly payments.
	If you buy a home, you are expected to pay the mortgage every month.
	That is the expectation.
	That is the spending that you put forth or spending that you may have done before.
	And now you're paying every month.
	If you do not pay your car payment, if you do not pay your mortgage payment, then your credit is going to be bad.
	It's going to hurt your credit.
	So let's look at Congress for a second.
	This is spending that they've already done.
	They've already spent.
	Let's not forget the $2 trillion Trump tax cuts that they were willing and happy to...
	For the rich. So we're telling them or saying to them, do your job.
	Pay for something that you've already spent on.
	That's it. This is spending that has already occurred.
	They need to do the right thing that has been done.
	78 times since 1960.
	It's that simple. It is very, very simple.
	It is... Yeah, they keep playing this debt ceiling game 78 times since 1960.
	Well, that's the problem.
	The tax cuts are not something that you've already spent.
	You see, this is the mindset that is so ingrained into people like her, people like Bernie Sanders.
	Remember when they were talking about a tax cut?
	Bernie Sanders says, they're looting the treasury.
	Well, Bernie, that's not your money.
	And she needs to understand that's not their money either.
	They think that everything that you have, everything that you produce, every penny that you earn already belongs to them.
	And if they allow you to keep a little bit more of it, they think that they're spending money.
	Now, they spend money when they build weapons and they start wars.
	They spend money when they give themselves raises quietly at night, $34,000.
	But that's spending money.
	But giving you a tax cut, that's the only thing where she wants to draw the line.
	And yet these are the same people who have, for the longest time, said deficits don't matter.
	You know, the Keynesian line.
	And then they got even worse.
	They came up with something that was even more absurd.
	The modern monetary theory, MMT, I call it the magic money tree, saying that deficits absolutely don't matter.
	None whatsoever. Never matters at all.
	So if they don't matter, why are we still being taxed at all, Janine?
	Now, why are we being taxed?
	If the deficits don't matter, why are you taxing us?
	Well, we know why they're taxing us.
	It's to make sure that we don't own anything.
	It's to control us.
	To keep us from being able to accumulate wealth.
	In California, they're facing a $32 billion deficit.
	Gavin Newsom says this was not an easy budget.
	You see, he got a big reprieve.
	They were bankrupting themselves before the garbage pandemic that Trump did.
	And then as he started handing out money, he handed out so much money.
	California, one of the biggest states, to get a lot of money.
	You know, you don't like what these Democrat governors did?
	Well, Trump was paying them to do that, paying them to do it.
	And he gave Gavin Newsom tremendous amounts of money, kept giving it to him as he was doing all of the repressive things that they were doing.
	Kept printing the COVID cash and shipping it to California.
	CCC, California COVID cash just kept exploding.
	And so now they have spent very loosely all of this money and they've worked themselves back into a hole in just three years.
	All gone. That's why we're looking at the kind of stuff that's there.
	It isn't the tax cut.
	That was there, you know, in the middle of the Trump administration.
	A tax cut that predominantly went to the Wall Street people, as we pointed out many times in the past.
	The U.S. is now spending more servicing its debt than it is spending on national defense.
	Why is this? Well, because we went so far into debt and everybody said, whoa, you know, this is the interest rates are at zero.
	When they start pulling the interest rates up, as they're doing now, this is what happens.
	If you want to start about these debt ceiling negotiations, make them harder to conclude, yet more important for markets, this is probably it.
	The estimated annualized debt servicing costs are 90% higher than what they were back in 2011.
	Due to two things.
	The exploding debt pile and raising the interest rates.
	This is not rocket science.
	It's not calculus. Although these people are very calculating.
	This is simply math.
	Thanks to rising interest rates, the U.S. government now has to spend more each year on servicing the immense debt burden, and they spend more than they will spend on national defense in 2022.
	In 2022, based on how the Treasury breaks down the line items, the U.S. government only spent more money on Social Security and on health.
	With income security in line with today's debt servicing costs at $813 billion.
	And as one person who has a business that sells gold, Von Greerz, he has a goldswitcherland.com.
	There's an article on Zero Hedge.
	And he says, tech-tronic shifts are lying ahead.
	And you're going to see a very disorderly financial reset, and you're going to see gold revalued by multiples.
	Now, right now, it's dropped a little bit.
	You know, it's up over 2,000.
	It's now just under 2,000.
	It's kind of interesting how the psychology is.
	Everybody scrambles to buy gold when it gets really high, gets up to a record price or right at it.
	And then if it backs off a little bit, oh, well, I'm not interested in buying.
	Yeah, I don't know if that's the case with Tony.
	I'll talk to him tomorrow. But now it's down just to 1987.
	You know, as it's retraced a little bit, that's a wise person would look at that as a buying opportunity.
	Why? Well, he lays this out.
	He said the next phase of the fall of the West is here and will soon accelerate.
	It's been both precipitated and aggravated by the absurd sanctions of Russia.
	But he says, with the imminent death of the petrodollar, because the way it's been weaponized, and the explosion of U.S. debt, there's only one solution for the funding requirements of the U.S. government, the Fed, which will stand as the sole buyer of U.S. treasuries.
	He said the U.S. debt ceiling farce belongs on Broadway rather than on Wall Street.
	The debt ceiling was created in 1917 as a means of restricting reckless spending by the U.S. government.
	But this travesty has gone on for over 106 years.
	You just heard her say, what was it, 78 times since 1960?
	During that time, there's been a total disdain for budget discipline by the ruling administration in Congress, and this is a bipartisan problem, of course.
	The problem is not just the debt, but it's the cost of financing it.
	The annualized cost of financing the federal debt is currently $1.1 trillion.
	And if we assume conservatively that the debt grows to $40 trillion within two years, And that is very conservative.
	At the rate that they're adding it, that's only adding another $10 trillion in two years.
	They've been spending it. They've been increasing it since the pandemic.
	They've continued doing this about $6 trillion a year.
	So another two years, you would expect that they would add another $12 trillion.
	So if it goes to $40 trillion within two years, with an interest cost at 5%, That would be $2 trillion in terms of interest paid on the federal debt.
	$40 trillion and you're going at 5% interest, you're going to pay $2 trillion.
	Nearly double what it is right now.
	He said that would be 43% of current tax revenue.
	But of course you don't really care, do we?
	According to the modern monetary theory, We don't really care about the deficit.
	Only now do they care about it, because they've got this thing called the debt ceiling that they've got to pretend to obey.
	The monetary system always ends in a debt explosion.
	In 1913, total U.S. debt was negligible.
	And in 1950, it had grown to $406 billion.
	By the time Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, debt was $1.7 trillion.
	Thereafter, the curve has become ever steeper, as the graph shows.
	From September 2019, when the U.S. banking system started to crack, the repo crisis told us that there were real problems, although nobody wanted to admit it.
	Remember that? If you were following this program in the fall of 2019, I was talking about that all the time.
	I said, look at this. They just added this thing called the repo market.
	I wasn't even really sure what it was.
	But phenomenal amounts of money were being dumped into it.
	You know, one week they dump in an amount that is equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Puerto Rico.
	Then in a couple weeks, they're still doing it, and they dump in what is equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Switzerland.
	It is truly amazing.
	So, if you look at the chart, I don't know if you can pull this chart up, Travis.
	This is the one on gold.
	The U.S. Road to Perdition is what he titles the chart.
	Total debt from 1950 to 2023, and it is a classic hockey stick exponential thing.
	Al Gore said to everybody, oh, got to be very afraid.
	As CO2 goes up, we're going to get an exponential rise in temperature, right?
	Well, that didn't happen.
	But this is historical.
	This is not a projection.
	This is not a model. What he's showing here is that it's already gone up exponentially.
	And what we know about these exponential things is...
	Yeah, this is it. Scroll down a little bit.
	Keep going. As we look at these...
	Keep going. As we look at these...
	It's a little bit further down.
	As we look at these charts...
	That is...
	That's not... Keep going. One more.
	Okay, right there. As we look at these charts, you can see that he's got it going up at the same rate that it's currently going up now.
	But that's not the way these exponential things work.
	The whole thing about the slope of the line isn't going to stay where it is.
	The rate of increase isn't going to stay.
	It's going to increase. That's the nature of exponential stuff.
	So he's being very, very conservative with his projections here.
	The final stages of hyperinflation, he says, are exponential.
	And of course, then we have the bank failures.
	The Hoover Institute report calculates that more than 2,315 U.S. banks currently have assets that are worth less than their liabilities.
	That's the definition of being bankrupt.
	The market value of their loan portfolios are $2 trillion lower than the book value.
	And remember, this is before the real fall of asset values, which is still to come.
	In other words, this is just the rope-a-dope trap It was laid for them by the Federal Reserve.
	They kept the interest rates low at 0%.
	They had to invest money into that in order to keep solvent.
	But then what they did was they pulled the rug out from under them by raising interest rates like 75 basis points Every month, every quarter, whatever the frequency was, but it's the fastest that they've ever raised interest rates.
	These people are scrambling to find somebody to buy their rapidly depreciating assets because they've got to sell them at a big discount to their face value in order to match the new interest rates that's going to be out there.
	Remember, they bought these things essentially at a very, very low interest rate, and now the interest rate jumps up.
	And they've got to slash the price, the face value of this thing, take a cut on their assets to try to get rid of it.
	That's what's causing these bankruptcies that started, and of course that is still there.
	And so the banking system is very fragile, and it was started by the Federal Reserve.
	Everyone, instead, depositors should be given an offer that they can't refuse, which is compulsory purchase of U.S. Treasuries equal to their credit balance.
	That's what they expect that they will do once this thing collapses.
	The European banking sector, he said, is an even worse state than the U.S. This is the next one up from Trillion.
	You want to talk about Exponential?
	If we add the unfunded liabilities and the total outstanding derivatives to the global debt, we arrive at about $3 quadrillion.
	And the financial system is terminally broken.
	And he said, so what is supporting this $3 quadrillion worth of liabilities and derivatives and all the rest of this stuff?
	Well, there's only $2 trillion worth of gold out there.
	And so what he shows is a giant inverted pyramid that comes down to a point.
	And it's got a little spot down there, you know, three quadrillion only supported by two trillion.
	This is an old video, but it is still true today.
	Well, uh... Commissioner, Mr.
	President, I rise again, I'm afraid, to make the same old hoary speech that I've been making here for several years, and that is, it is my opinion that you do not really understand the concept of banking.
	All the banks are broke.
	Bank Santander, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, they're all broke.
	And why are they broke? It isn't an act of God.
	It isn't some sort of tsunami.
	They're broke because we have a system called fractional reserve banking, which means that banks can lend money that they don't actually have.
	It's a criminal scandal and it's been going on for too long.
	To add to that problem, you have moral hazard, a very significant moral hazard from the political sphere.
	And most of the problem starts in politics and central banks, which are part of the same political system.
	We have counterfeiting, sometimes called quantitative easing, but counterfeiting by any other name.
	The artificial printing of money.
	Which if any ordinary person did, they'd go to prison for a very long time.
	And yet governments and central banks do it all the time.
	Central banks repress the amount of interest that rates are, so we don't have the real cost of money.
	And yet we blame the real retail banks for manipulating LIBOR. The sheer effrontery of this is quite astonishing.
	It's central banks.
	It's central banks that manipulate interest rates, Commissioner.
	And plus, underneath all this, we talk loosely, in a rather cavalier fashion, do we not, about deposit guarantees.
	So when banks go broke through their own incompetence and chicanery, the taxpayer picks up the tab.
	It's theft from the taxpayer.
	And until we start sending bankers, and I include central bankers and politicians, to prison for this outrage, it will continue.
	And of course it is continuing, and that was an older speech, but we see it today.
	Gold will be substantially revalued.
	It's the bottom line. He says, measured against the only money which has survived in history gold, the dollar has lost 99% of its value.
	For example, a Roman toga cost one ounce of gold 2,000 years ago, and today that's about the price of a high-quality man's suit.
	And I guess you don't have the little Greek tailor around anymore, Euripides, that was making the togas for the Romans.
	But I guess you can go to Savile Row.
	Anyway, you would have thought...
	That losing 99% of its value for the reserve currency of the world would be a disaster.
	Well, it is, of course, within the U.S. as well as most of the Western world.
	They've adjusted by increasing the debt exponentially.
	What is even more interesting is that gold is up 8 to 10 times this century against most currencies.
	That is superior performance to virtually any other major asset class, and yet nobody owns gold.
	Which is only 0.5% of global financial assets.
	All the rest is stuff.
	Derivatives built on top of it.
	It's like an inverted pyramid scheme, isn't it?
	Gold's rise over time is always guaranteed as governments and central banks without fail destroy the currency by creating virtually unlimited fake money.
	This has been going on for thousands of years.
	History tells us this trend of constantly debasing fiat currency It's unbreakable due to the greed and mismanagement of governments.
	But now that it is accelerating, gold prices are going to go up.
	So he's made some pretty amazing predictions here.
	Luke Groman, who he quotes here, has a very interesting point and a discussion that he had with Grant Williams.
	Luke suggests that although the dollar will not yet die as a transactional currency, That is likely to be replaced by gold as a reserve asset currency.
	In order for gold to function as a reserve asset, it will need to be revalued with a zero at the end and a bigger figure at the beginning, says Luke.
	The whole idea would be that gold would become a neutral reserve asset which floats in all currencies.
	And we're already starting to see this.
	We've had Texas say, well, we're going to do a digital currency.
	But we're going to make it redeemable in gold because they've got to, for credibility, go back to gold.
	And something that you can theoretically redeem it in.
	Zimbabwe doing the same thing. We're going to come up with a digital coin, but it's going to be based on gold and that type of thing.
	Already you see the new instruments that are coming out.
	You only had two of them, both of them going back and referencing to gold.
	So, anyway, again, we'll talk to Tony tomorrow about it, but if you want to go to davidknight.gold, that'll take you to Tony Arterburn's wisewolf.gold.
	The central banks are not going to do anything to reform themselves.
	The government's not going to do anything to reform itself.
	You have to make some preparations yourself.
	And I'll just give you this final prediction that is coming from this Swiss gold company.
	I think you'll find the article in Zero Hedge.
	It says the consequence... Therefore, gold becoming a reserve asset, as we see happening in Texas and in Zimbabwe, could be a rise of 25-fold or 50-fold the current level.
	He says that's not improbable.
	It truly is amazing. I mean, who would have thought that we're over $30 trillion, that we'd be over $30 trillion in just the federal government's debt at this point in time?
	It truly is amazing to see how this thing is playing out.
	He said, gold is now in its acceleration stage.
	And again, part of the exponential thing.
	We're likely to see much higher levels however long it takes and for whatever reason for the rise.
	The 1980 gold price of $850, if it were adjusted for real inflation today, would be $28,300.
	That's why he's saying you're going to put an extra zero at the end and some different numbers at the front.
	But I think one of the key things that is concerning about looking at the financial situation that hasn't been talked about before came out on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal, and it was picked up by healthimpact.com, Brian Shulhavi.
	The Wall Street Journal sent shockwaves throughout the financial world Saturday night when they reported that the FDIC seized nearly $14 billion of foreign deposits at Silicon Valley Bank in the Cayman Islands last March.
	Mostly from Chinese investment firms that have been waiting to gain access to their funds since that point in time.
	Remember, as they shut down these banks, and we've now had three of them that failed, and one of them that was shut down because, again, the crypto stuff, they were solvent, but the entire regulatory apparatus of the U.S. government is now targeting crypto.
	So they shut down one of those banks just because of that.
	But as they shut that stuff down, it was on a Friday by Monday, they paid everybody off, and they said, not only that, and we're not going to just cover your now $200,000 per account in a bank, but we're going to make you completely whole.
	And so you had all of these big Silicon Valley businesses that had, you know, billions, tens of billions or whatever in the bank, and they were going to be made whole by the FDIC, but not the foreign bank accounts.
	And this is going to cause a big run, another pressure point on the financial system.
	And the interesting thing about it is this bank, because the money was being held in a branch of Silicon Valley Bank and the Cayman Islands, the FDIC is now saying, we're not going to cover that.
	Two months after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the lenders, depositors, and the Cayman Islands have been left in the coal.
	That branch in the Cayman Islands was left out of the first citizens deal and placed under FDIC receivership.
	The FDIC's notice surprised customers who had thought an earlier statement from the U.S. regulators that all SVB depositors would be made whole applied to them.
	But no, it applies only to the big tech companies.
	And the domestic ones.
	This will most certainly cause a bank run on unsecured foreign deposits, writes Brian.
	And that is over $1 trillion in just two banks.
	J.P. Morgan and Citibank.
	There were gasps of shock on Saturday evening around 5.30pm when the Wall Street Journal published the stunning news that depositors in the Cayman Islands branch of Silicon Valley Bank had their deposits seized by the FDIC that they are unlikely to ever see again.
	As Wall Street on Parade has previously reported under statute, the FDIC cannot ensure deposits held on foreign soil, even if it's held by US banks.
	If it's on foreign soil, they will not respond to that.
	Now, the Wall Street Journal has opened up a Pandora's box with this report because there's a lot of money That fits with that.
	A lot of money that is in US banks, but is in US banks that are on foreign soil.
	JP Morgan, Citibank, as I said, none of their deposits now are going to be covered by the FDIC. Nobody realized that before.
	It further raises questions as to why the banking regulators of these two Wall Street megabanks have allowed this dangerous situation to occur.
	So how big is the exposure? Well, Citibank has $623 billion of deposits in their foreign branches, their foreign offices.
	$623 billion.
	JP Morgan has $426 billion in these foreign offices.
	So together... They're over a trillion dollars in deposits on foreign soil, and now the people who have that money in those banks realize there's absolutely no insurance at all for that.
	Mike Shedlock of Mishtalk.com.
	Said the clear message by the FDIC is don't bank in the U.S. If you do, it'll be at one of the giant too-big-to-fail banks.
	But if you are a foreign depositor at any small or mid-sized bank, the FDIC is affirming that you better get your money out now.
	So let the foreign deposit run begin.
	Are we going to see a trillion dollars coming out of J.P. Morgan, the biggest bank that is out there?
	You know, it's very interesting. I don't know if they are too big to fail.
	They've got $500 billion at risk.
	The Citibank has got $600 billion at risk to be pulled out.
	You know, J.P. Morgan, just amazing how evil that bank is.
	You know, these are the people who had a very close relationship with Epstein, and there's trials that are going on with that as well.
	One of the things that got Elon Musk very upset was he's now been subpoenaed to talk, and he says, I didn't have anything to do with this guy.
	But J.P. Morgan and Jamie Dimon are also involved in canceling, left and right, canceling conservative accounts.
	You know, telling people, get your money out.
	We're not going to do business with you anymore.
	We're not going to accept any payments for you.
	So much so that you had a group that is wanting to fight that, said, well, we would like to talk about this at the stockholders meeting.
	And of course, J.P. Morgan says they don't like conservatives talking about their politics or their religion or any other things like that.
	And they will shut your account for that, just like PayPal will.
	They said, no, you're not going to speak at our...
	The stockholders meeting.
	Of course they would. I mean, they're censors, right?
	And they had to even go to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the SEC, and say, tell them that they have to let us, because we're stockholders, they have to let us speak at the stockholders meeting.
	And the SEC said, yeah, you've got to let them speak at the stockholders meeting.
	But they're purging people left and right.
	And now people who have their money in foreign accounts, they've got a big reason to just pull all that money out as fast as they can.
	And this is something that happened on Saturday.
	Alleged political posturing that is going on right now over whether or not Congress is going to raise the U.S. debt limit or default on some government obligations.
	It's just that. It is nothing more than posturing.
	We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, I want to move on to some things that are happening with the climate MacGuffin.
	So we will be right back.
	Joe, we've got a problem.
	What? Who are you?
	It's the new mug they're selling at thedavidknightshow.com, right?
	So basically, a mug is something that holds liquid, right?
	Right, because basically you can't hold coffee with your hands, right?
	I'm a scat and a, but anyone tries to mug me, I'm being ready for it.
	You dog-faced pony soldier.
	They say the mug can help patriots drink coffee, then save the world.
	This could be bad for us.
	Save the world?
	But we owe the world.
	These people, they're supporting free speech with every month they buy.
	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, it's not just that we're running out of money or headed toward a financial crisis.
	We're headed towards an energy crisis as well, also designed by the federal government.
	And it is a power grid reliability crisis.
	Energy Commissioner warns there were approximately 10,000 energy projects in April designed to produce more than 2,000 gigawatts.
	I guess we're talking about back to the future gigawatts, Marty.
	2,000 gigawatts of collective power waiting for permits.
	From federal and state agencies to connect to the electric grids across the United States.
	The problem is that that is nearly twice the collective energy output of the 1250 gigawatts now being produced by all of the nation's power plants.
	Why don't they want them to connect?
	Well, you know, they're disconnecting power plants, especially the ones that have any fossil fuels.
	So these two bottlenecks are looming over the entire power grid.
	And that's the point. They consolidate everything into some control point, some control grid, so they can then proceed to shut it down.
	I had a very interesting letter that was sent to me at the beginning of the month.
	I did not get around to it.
	And he titled this, Toss Your Rod in the Fission Pool.
	F-I-S-S-I-O-N.
	He said, I used to own a precision metal factory in Brownsville, Brooklyn, called Knight Industries.
	He said, now retired.
	You can imagine how I felt when my buyers complained that my product was too high quality and never broke.
	I was ruining their market.
	They made more money buying foreign crude that broke after a year.
	But two of my old engineering brothers, frat brothers in the energy field, told me of a recent fission breakthrough that will save us.
	Room temperature liquid fluoride salt pools into which we toss our old nuclear fission waste rods.
	And this really would be a great technological solution.
	Here's the problem.
	The problem is that It isn't that we don't have technology that can solve the issue.
	We've seen this over and over again on the automotive side.
	On the automotive side, you have companies that have come up with very novel ways to continue to increase their fuel economy as they continue to make these regulatory demands on people.
	You've got to get your emissions down.
	You've got to get your fuel economy up.
	You've got to add more weight with all the safety stuff.
	All right, all right, we can do that. We can solve that problem.
	So it's like, darn, they solved the problem.
	Let's ramp it up again.
	Let's do it faster at a rate that they can't do it.
	And you have other things that say, all right, no emissions.
	Well, you know, you've got some companies that zero emissions, right?
	We're even going to get rid of the hybrids.
	So you've got some companies like Toyota.
	First company out there with a hybrid, you know, the Prius, I think was the first one.
	If it wasn't the absolute first one, it was the first one that was really big.
	And so they're looking at this and saying, well, how can we solve this problem?
	Oh, I know. Well, you know, one thing that we can do, because battery is going to be an issue in terms of how long it takes for people to fill this up, we could get around that problem if we have hydrogen fuel.
	Of course, you have to have an infrastructure for that.
	Federal government's not interested in helping with that infrastructure.
	They say that they will help with the infrastructure for charging, but we've seen just the opposite happening in the UK. They're actually shutting down the charging stations that were there, some of them already.
	And of course, unless you put the power on the grid, Nobody can charge with that as well.
	Then you have the bottleneck of all the material that is used for the lithium batteries and other things like that.
	But they don't want another alternative.
	Because if you were to...
	It's not really about the emissions.
	There's a lot of different ways that you could solve that.
	But it's not about that.
	That's just an excuse.
	That's not a real problem anyway.
	And if you start going around chasing these windmills that they throw at you, I'm not talking about the actual windmills, but I'm just saying, you know, if you're going around this quixotic quest to try to satisfy their demands, you have to realize that their demands were intended to be impossible to satisfy.
	They were intended to shut us down.
	So it's not a good-faith demand that can be solved with technology.
	They're not really interested in that kind of a solution.
	They'll always come up with some other way to push you into something where it is centrally controlled, just as we saw with the pandemic.
	You know, If you had a real pandemic, everybody would be looking for all kinds of solutions.
	No, no, no. We are going to lock everybody down until we've got this untested vaccine manufacturing in quantity that we can start killing everybody with it.
	That was the agenda.
	They want to kill our society by starving us of energy.
	Anyway, he talks about this.
	He said the Navy cannot afford to change their nuclear reactors, and so they want to hush up this system.
	The oil companies, too.
	However, China and India, with whom we somehow share all of our new tech with, are already using them.
	We have to keep up with the Joneses.
	So if this really works, electricity would be cheap, clean, and plentiful.
	But see, that's the issue.
	China is allowed, and India is allowed, to do these new types of power supplies, you know, generation.
	They can do it, just as they can build any fossil fuel plants, and they can build them as cheap and dirty as they want, and they can build as many of them as they want.
	They're given the exception because the issue is not about the technology.
	It is certainly not about the emissions and not about global warming.
	It is simply about destroying the U.S. and the West by starving us of energy.
	That's the real issue.
	Yeah, you do have people who have a vested interest and are going to make money off of this intentional takedown.
	But it's a level above that, in my opinion.
	It's not just the oil companies, it's not just the Navy, and it's not just these other competing industries.
	They purposely want to take us down.
	They want to consolidate, control, and take to zero everything.
	I mean, they're telling us. It's net zero.
	They don't want us to have any of this stuff.
	And so, you know, going back to 2020, he sent me a link to an article, Molten Salt Reactors are Nuclear's Future.
	And again, one of the big issues with nuclear reactors is what do you do with the spent fuel?
	That was a big problem at Fukushima.
	You know, you had the earthquake and the massive tsunami that happened after that flooded the storage areas where they had spent nuclear weapons.
	That is a big problem. It has to be watched for.
	So if you could convert that into energy and clean it up at the same time, that would be the ideal solution.
	But again, they're not looking for technological solutions.
	This is about politics.
	It's about depopulation.
	It's about tyranny.
	That's what this is really about.
	They're not looking for any real solutions to this.
	So they had some even back in 2020 that they were modeling, but they don't want that.
	I'd also talked about the food as the other aspect of this.
	Again, part of the green MacGuffin.
	Maybe we should call it the gangrene MacGuffin.
	The Ed Appeal coding that Bill Gates is pushing out there.
	That's the economic side of it as well.
	Having control of the politicians to ban your competitors and then at the same time force them...
	To use your product that you're just now creating.
	So we're going to shut down the old way of doing things because it's dirty.
	It's going to destroy the planet.
	But Bill Gates has got a new process for fill-in-the-blank.
	He's got them all over the place.
	And you will be required to use that.
	The coating, they said, slows down water loss and oxidation, keeping the fruit and vegetable fresher for up to two times longer.
	You can see lemons that are 60 days old looking almost as fresh as the day that they were picked.
	They look great, just like those McDonald fries that I showed you the other day in the hamburger that were 25, 30 years old.
	Yeah. Hey, we could just make all of our food out of plastic, except that your body doesn't really like that type of thing.
	And what do we know about Bill Gates' new coating?
	He calls it Apeel.
	Is it appealing?
	Will it get the FDA's approval?
	Of course it will. Do they care whether it's healthy or not?
	No, they don't. And this is not just one political party, not just one country.
	This is across all these different countries.
	As you can see now, the war against the farmers in the Netherlands expanding now as the EU is backing the scheme to steal their land and to shut them down.
	It was unclear before this week whether the EU would permit such a scheme, but now they have jumped onto it with both feet, and they've jumped onto the farmers with both feet as well.
	So, as we look here domestically, we see that Albany Democrats, again in New York, where they are banning even gas ranges and things like that, are now signing onto a cap-and-invest plan And that will increase the cost of gasoline by 62 cents per gallon.
	Gasoline prices could increase by 62 cents per gallon, while natural gas costs might skyrocket by 80%.
	And so they're going to squeeze people in every direction.
	You're not going to be able to buy any new gas stoves, but if you do want to keep your gas stove, we're going to make the gas prohibitively expensive.
	They'll do the same things with ammunition.
	This has been the way that they operate, and they do it in every area that they want to push this through.
	Cap and invest initiatives, they said, are a way for us to generate billions of dollars for our tax base.
	And where's that coming from? Well, that's coming from the ordinary people that are out there.
	We will be right back.
	We will be right back.
	We will be right back.
	We will be right back.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	I have a couple of comments from people about what I was talking about before, when I was talking about the Second Amendment.
	On RockFan, Aaron Moss said, anytime these dummies pass a law or a rule, All we've got to do is show up and break the rule in sufficient numbers to nullify it.
	Simple compliance is acceptance.
	I agree. And that's why it was good for that guy to not comply with these people who were showing up trying to intimidate him.
	Show us your pistol brace.
	Confirm with us that you've got it. I'm not talking to you about any of this stuff.
	And this isn't a law.
	This is your rule.
	And we can see how this worked.
	With the lockdown and the masks and all the rest of the stuff, the pandemic was fake.
	And when people stopped complying with the mask, they rolled it back.
	And we saw this from the very beginning as well.
	In Texas, when you had Governor Abbott and the public health dictators and the medical martial law said, we're going to shut down everything.
	We're going to shut down the churches. And people said, no, we're not going to shut down the churches.
	And so he made exceptions for the churches.
	But we're going to shut down everything else.
	And then when people stopped complying with everything else, then they magically found out that, oh, well, you know, I think it's getting better, and I don't think we need to have the masks.
	They're just testing you.
	Testing you for compliance.
	Probing and seeing if you'll put those pinwheels on your head.
	If they tell you to put the pinwheels on your head.
	On Rockfin. Billy Gumbo said, sadly, all the questions posed by congressmen, yes, are as much consequence as Trey Gowdy and all his Benghazi theatrics.
	It's all for nothing. I agree.
	We're going to see hearing after hearing after hearing.
	It's just like this Durham thing, right?
	A lot of noise about nothing.
	And they never do anything about it.
	I think one of the worst offenders of it is Jim Jordan now.
	It used to be Trey Gowdy. Now he's got his show on Fox News.
	Jim Jordan loves to hold one hearing after the other.
	And they never do anything to rein in any of these rogue agencies.
	They never make any reforms.
	None of it. Nothing ever changes with these guys.
	So Elon Musk, as you know, I don't think that he is on our side.
	I don't think he's on the side of free speech.
	But I thought it was interesting the way that they attacked him after he went after George Soros on Twitter.
	And here's the headline from MSN.com.
	Musk says George Soros, quote, hates humanity and compares him to a Jewish supervillain.
	What? What? I saw the tweet.
	He didn't compare him to a Jewish supervillain.
	You know, they're making...
	Elon Musk made a series of attacks on George Soros overnight, tweeting that the Jewish-born investor and liberal philanthropist...
	Oh, he's a great guy.
	He's an investor. And he's a philanthropist.
	He has your best interests at heart.
	He has the money behind that Yogyakarta thing pushing the LGBTs.
	Every agenda, the open borders, all this stuff.
	Who is often subject to virulent, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories?
	Elon Musk said he hates humanity and wants, quote, to erode the very fabric of civilization.
	They always shield George Soros from any criticism of his political activism and using his vast fortune to get these things done through his NGOs.
	They always shield him from criticism by claiming that any criticism of him is anti-Semitic.
	And this is one of the best examples of that I've seen.
	How absurd this is.
	So, you know, especially when you say that George Soros, oh, you've got to shield him from this because, you know, he's Jewish.
	He was a concentration camp traitor to his own people.
	By his own admission, George Soros was.
	So, Musk seems to specifically reference the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor.
	Yeah, how did he survive? By betraying his fellow people.
	His reference to the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor's background by comparing Soros to Magneto.
	That's what I saw.
	And they say, Magneto is a Jewish supervillain.
	Did you know that, Travis?
	I didn't know that.
	I'm familiar with Magneto, not because I read the comic books, but because of the movies.
	Soros reminds me of Magneto, said Musk at 10 p.m.
	And then a left-wing commentator, Brian Krasenstein, replied to Musk and says, well, Magneto is a Holocaust survivor in Marvel, you know, just like George Soros.
	Really? Did Magneto betray his other survivors there, as George Soros has admitted?
	Is that similar as well?
	So Soros is a Holocaust survivor as well.
	He gets attacked nonstop for his good intentions.
	Which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with his political affiliations.
	I guess, you know, the problem that we have is, you know, some uber-wealthy person Who has decided that they are going to just take over our government with their money because that's what Soros is doing.
	It doesn't really matter how you vote.
	Soros is going to buy the politicians.
	He's going to use the NGOs to push back against anything that the governments in the EU or the U.S. are doing in terms of borders and other things.
	Many instances you can talk about this.
	Musk replied to Krasenstein five minutes later.
	He said, you assume they're good intentions.
	They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization.
	Soros hates humanity.
	Well, I think that is true.
	And yet, it wasn't just that he was coming after him for anti-Semitism.
	I think Musk was really having a bad day.
	Because there was a lot of talk about the Epstein subpoena.
	And so that was the other thing that he pushed back on, on Twitter.
	He said, that cretin, meaning Epstein, never advised me on anything whatsoever.
	Is that one of the reasons why he started attacking Soros?
	I don't know. He said, this is idiotic on so many levels.
	That cretin never advised me on anything whatsoever.
	The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook It's absurd.
	And so, he also said, JPM, JP Morgan, let Tesla down 10 years ago, despite having Tesla's global commercial banking.
	And he was just issued a subpoena by the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the lawsuit against J.P. Morgan over the bank's alleged facilitation of Epstein's sex trafficking ring.
	According to the filing, the Virgin Islands has attempted to serve Musk since late April because Epstein, quote, may have referred or attempted to refer Musk as a client to J.P. Morgan.
	So really, they don't have anything to That is kind of a fishing expedition.
	But as I pointed out before, J.P. Morgan.
	What a corrupt bank.
	Jamie Demon. J.P. Morgan is accused of servicing approximately 55 Epstein accounts between 1988 and 2013, years after his 2006 arrest for soliciting minors in Florida.
	But of course, as I mentioned before, they purge any conservative religious accounts that they don't like.
	And then they say, well, you can't even talk about that at a stockholder meeting.
	The U.S. Virgin Islands has also been unable to subpoena Google co-founder Larry Page with this as well.
	What they're trying to find out is if he's had any dealings with high net worth individuals.
	So they're just casting the net.
	Very broadly. Jamie Demon in an interview on Thursday said he was so sad that the bank had any business relationship with Epstein, but he denied that the firm legally is liable for the dead predators' sex trafficking.
	Demon also said, I like that better than Diamond.
	He also said in the televised interview with Bloomberg that if J.P. Morgan had known everything that has now become public about Epstein, quote, we would have done things differently.
	Well, as Zero Hedge writes, what sad propaganda.
	If anybody believes that a multinational banker like Jamie Demon is psychologically capable of regret over facilitating immoral and illegal activities on behalf of the clientele, I have an oceanfront property in Montana to sell you.
	And, of course, that is the issue, is that they will...
	They'll do anything for money, and they have done anything for money.
	They've been convicted multiple times, just like HSBC has been convicted.
	And then on Twitter, things got a little bit worse.
	Elon Musk has already suspended a right-wing account for a harmless joke about the new Twitter CEO. This woman, Linda, I don't know if you pronounce her name, I haven't listened to it yet, Yaccarino.
	If that's her name. Interestingly enough, my wife and her twin brother, as they keep up with schoolmates of the high school they went to in Long Island, it turns out that she went to the same high school they did.
	At a different time, of course.
	She's younger than we are. But that's the only thing people are talking about.
	They're so excited. Oh, look, somebody from our high school was like...
	Seriously? Yeah, she's from your high school, but she's also from the World Economic Forum.
	Even Elon Musk has criticized the World Economic Forum, saying the WEF is increasingly becoming an unelected world government that people never asked for and don't want.
	And yet she's very comfortable with it.
	She's deeply embedded in it and has held many important positions and does still in the World Economic Forum.
	But when somebody joked about it, Elon Musk permanently suspended the account of a conservative account, a top T-O-P-L-O-B-T-S-A for simply cracking a joke about the new CEO. And talking about launching her into space.
	Maybe that would be a better thing for Elon Musk to do.
	Put her on a SpaceX and launch her into space.
	So Vivek Ramaswamy...
	Said the tongue-in-cheek joke tweet is basis for suspending somebody from Twitter now.
	And so he sent this to Elon Musk.
	He said, if this is true, it's not a good look for the free speech platform.
	To censor somebody making an innocent joke about the new CEO of that free speech platform.
	Assuming this is accurate, this strikes me as an unforced error that Elon Musk can and should easily fix.
	But of course, there's been no comment from Elon Musk about that.
	While we're on speech and before our guest comes on, I just want to say, you know, when you look at the things that are happening now with TikTok, Look, TikTok is evil, like most of the social media stuff.
	Absolutely evil, very dark.
	You don't want your kids on there.
	It's weaponized against us.
	But look, banning sites sets a very dangerous precedent.
	We just had the French police take down Telegram last week, all of it.
	They said, oh, it was an accident.
	We were looking for just to shut down just a couple of accounts, but we took down all of it by mistake, and we restored it.
	But the French Parliament has given them the authority to take down websites, and they're expanding that authority, expanding the reasons for which they can take down websites.
	They're taking a bad example, TikTok, in the United States, and they're using that to set up a precedent.
	And if you allow that to happen, they're going to take down each and every website that they disagree with.
	We've already seen this happening on social media.
	Now they want to take it to the next level, which is the websites, and they've been talking about that as well.
	And even deregistering domain names.
	And they can easily do that.
	And that is ultimately where this is going.
	Okay, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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	And joining us now is Julie Wentz of Freedom Healthcare.
	And I've talked to her a couple of times before.
	I want to give people as many options that are out there.
	And I'm happy to see that we've got entrepreneurs that are out there trying to come up with alternatives to this corrupt and dangerous healthcare system that we've now seen the...
	The underbelly of these last few years.
	They have a conference that is coming up, an international healthcare conference that's coming up on June 9th and 10th.
	So we want to talk a little bit about that conference, get an update as to what is happening with Freedom Healthcare.
	And so joining us now is Julie Wentz.
	Thank you for joining us, Julie. Good morning, David.
	Thank you for having me back.
	I appreciate it. Well, thank you.
	Tell us a little bit about the conferences coming up, the first week of June, June 9th and June 10th.
	Do 9th and 10th. Yeah, we're really excited.
	I mean, we've watched the last three years what's happened and understanding that our current six system really is A corrupt sick system as well, like all the rest.
	So we're looking at, even though there's been a lot of people talking about things that have been happening the last three years, we have to bring solutions.
	We have to bring solutions to the people to actually help them heal.
	So that's all about what the conference is.
	So it's a virtual conference.
	Anyone, anywhere in the world can watch the conference.
	It's going to be June 9th and 10th.
	And it's called Spirit Mind Body Healing.
	And food as a prescription.
	And we have day one is all focused on spirit and mind healing.
	And day two is body.
	We have some great speakers and presenters.
	We have 15 global presenters from all over the world.
	I'll tell you about who they are in each day.
	But anyone can get a ticket.
	And even if they can't watch the entire day on June 9th and 10th, when they get a ticket, they'll have access to watch it for 90 days.
	Right now, we actually have a lower price advance ticket for folks right now as we start going through May and closer to the conference.
	So they can find the tickets to the conference at freedom-healthcare.us forward slash conference or just go to our website, freedom-healthcare.us.
	There's a banner at the top of the button that says, you know, find out more information here about the conference.
	All the speakers are there, all their presentation topics.
	All the information.
	And we are co-hosting this with Healthcare of the Future, who is out of Zanzibar in Tanzania.
	So this is a joint effort to bring people from around the world and information on healing.
	So just some of the presenters.
	So day one, we have Dr.
	Henry Ely. He's going to be talking about the emotional challenges of natural healing and why faith.
	It's a key factor. He's going to go into the stages that he's been working on to heal from the mRNA shots and the turbo cancer that's been happening.
	We have Dr. Robert Young.
	He's going to be talking about healing the core, which is the small intestine, as well as healing type 1 diabetes and autism.
	We have Dr. Avery Jackson, which he's going to be talking about tripart health, which is spirit, soul, and body.
	We have Pastor Adrian Shales.
	Her history is actually Dr.
	Henry Wright and the Be in Health series from A More Excellent Way, all about that spiritual healing and where disease really comes from spiritually, as well as Health Freedom Defense Fund founder Leslie Mnookian.
	She's going to be talking about homeopathy and emotional healing.
	We also have Cindy Renard of A Course in Miracles, and then we have Jasmine Bertle from the UK, Talking about the science of Christian healing.
	So that's just day one.
	So we have some amazing people.
	Taking us out of day one and into day two is Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation.
	So she has a lot of information on natural fats and healthy diets.
	We also have Professor Colin Campbell, who was the one that created the whole food plant-based diet.
	So we've added a fun piece to this, is because both of them have opposite views on, quote, diets, we're actually going to have a dialogue.
	After Colin presents on day two, we're going to have a side-by-side dialogue with both of them to discuss the science, the data, the information around both types of diet.
	We have Dr. Mark Serkis coming on.
	He's going to be talking about healing cancer.
	Dr. Sarah Myhill from the UK talking about healing the thyroid.
	We also have Dr.
	Eshwar Nkoli-Hafis.
	He's from the UK and treating fibromyalgia.
	Dr. Thomas Lewis, who talks about the health disease continuum, where you stand on that continuum and how the chronic diseases and the blood tests today are not accurate.
	He'll talk about why they're not accurate.
	And then we have Dr.
	Patricia Berube, who's actually a functional periodontist in understanding all of the health issues that can come from the mouth.
	And then we have Attorney Anna Garner and I taking out the second day talking about Freedom Healthcare, why it's a 5081CA, where we're going in the future with this new healthcare system.
	So it's a very passionate A conference with information for people on healing.
	It is healing solutions to things that people are dealing with now.
	Instead of talking about it, we need to bring solutions.
	That's right. Yeah. Try some things.
	Give us an idea of your vision for Freedom Healthcare.
	We've talked about this before, but tell us what the approach is and tell us where you are in this approach.
	Yeah. Well, it's God's vision.
	I just got put into this to be the hands and feet.
	But it's a four-part process.
	We're actually in a pre-core phase right now as we build membership and raise the donations to launch phase one, phase two, phase three.
	So we are a strictly donation-based ministry.
	We run on donations.
	So that, as people give, that will go towards the launch of each piece.
	So right now, we have the PRECOR membership, and there's a whole bunch of things on the website.
	People can see what they get to be a member, including being part of Pure Blood Ministry.
	We've started a private database and are collaborating with the other five groups around the country, gathering folks that are, you know, in all singular private databases that have not taken the shot.
	There's other things as well.
	And let me interject here. That's how we first started talking about that was the pure blood ministry, people being concerned about contamination of the blood supply with these jabs.
	And I'm sure you noticed that just this last week, I talked about earlier this week, you had the FDA pull off the restrictions against homosexual men making blood donations.
	They had stopped that for decades because they were concerned that it would be a transmission of disease.
	And I know that AIDS is a very controversial subject.
	There's a lot of different things that people looked at.
	I know that Fauci tried to focus this on a virus, the HIV virus.
	Kerry Mullins was saying, you're misusing my PCR test.
	You can't prove that AIDS is caused by a virus by using my test, but that's precisely what Fauci presumed to do.
	So there's a lot of different ideas as to what actually caused this immune system disease that we identify as AIDS. But it had concentrated within the homosexual community, and so they had banned them from donating blood, and they've now lifted that restriction.
	And I find it curious that they're doing this at the same time we're seeing this massive destruction of the immune system.
	Many people are identifying this and saying, you know, we've got this skyrocketing number of cases of AIDS. I think it was 338 times as many cases of AIDS as it had in the past exploding.
	And so as that is happening...
	It looks to me like they're getting ready to provide an alibi for the vaccine by saying, well, now we're going to allow this group that we've identified as being at risk, we're going to allow them to donate blood.
	So I think it's taken on a new urgency in terms of this pure blood ministry.
	Yeah, I think it is too.
	But even when you go to the Red Cross website, they do not If you're vaccinated or unvaccinated, they take all blood.
	So they've already made it clear they don't care who donates.
	So then you know the blood supply is tainted, whether it is with HIV or the other immune things that they put in the shots for years that have been poisonous.
	They don't care.
	So that's why this is so important for multiple phases is not only even the folks that have been unvaccinated.
	That may have gotten the flu, COVID, and created their antibodies.
	We don't even know if us getting it from someone else, if those spike proteins or any sort of shedding is in our blood.
	So we don't even know because there have been tests done now in people that have been vaccinated, unvaccinated, and it's showing up in both.
	So we need to get to a point where not only knowing our best shot is going to be folks that are I'm vaccinated with anything from 2020 forward because we know the mRNA or at least the majority of this stuff came in through the Pfizer, Moderna and J&J shots.
	But the second thing is finding out exactly everything that is in the blood, which we don't even know the long-term effects of the mRNA changing the DNA. We don't know that yet.
	And then finding cost-effective tests to do that, and then it's going to be cleaning the blood.
	So I know a couple people that are actually working on that, but if we don't even know yet everything that has damaged the blood, then creating the test, then cleaning it, there's a few steps we have to go to.
	And then here's the other thing.
	We've already seen hospitals and people that needed an organ transplant be denied because they weren't, quote, vaccinated.
	Right. Hospitals are now turning tail that you used to be able to get an autologous donation, which means putting your blood on file in the hospital before surgery, or have a directed donation, which means you bring in a family member or a friend and you can hold their blood.
	Well, hospitals are now denying that.
	Number one, they're part of the agenda.
	Number two, they're saying, well, we don't want to set a precedent.
	So we have that issue in place now, people wanting to bring in a donor, and they can't.
	So there's multiple phases of this.
	So this is why we shifted, our advocacy team shifted some of their work.
	We created an advocacy toolkit and it's on our website for our members to utilize.
	I think there's 12 or 15 documents.
	But one of the main documents that's in there is literally an affidavit lining out what a patient member is going to tell their physician or hospital before they go in.
	If I'm going in the hospital and paying for a service, like if I'm going into the grocery store and buying my groceries, I expect something when I pay for my service.
	This is laying the groundwork for that patient to go into the hospital and go, this is what I want.
	You will do this for me, or I will take alternative steps.
	And these documents go into the hospital.
	So we're trying to empower people Before they walk into their doctors or hospitals to have the paperwork to stand up until we can get the micro-hospitals going.
	Because once, and people ask, like, which phase do you want going first?
	We need all of them.
	We need the telehealth across the country going for everybody to actually get care based on a spiritual, emotional, physical perspective.
	But then also the clinic, so people have a place to go.
	But the hospitals, we're going to need a place for people to have surgeries.
	Yes.
	Yes. And, of course, what we've seen in Europe, and I've talked to an individual who is in Europe and trying to push back against this.
	In Europe, they're trying to shut it down so that, you know, you can't do this at all.
	Here, they're working. There they do it through the government and through edicts and regulations and fiat orders and that type of thing.
	Here are the way that this is all done.
	is by bribing the hospitals, the big corporations that control the hospitals, and that's what we saw throughout the pandemic.
	They incentivized them financially to lie to people.
	They incentivized them to use things like the invasive ventilators, and now we find that most of the people that they were As they did a test case and did autopsies, they said, well, you put down these people died of COVID, but actually they died of a bacterial infection that they got from your ventilators, you know? So we're starting to see how they were complicit in all this because they were being paid phenomenal amounts of money to do that type of stuff.
	And so when the hospitals that have typically allowed that start pulling back, you know, there's a hidden hand there from the government.
	That is incentivizing this.
	It was a big red flag for me when I saw the FDA say, well, you know, we at least made this one little thing here to try to preserve the purity of the blood supply from a group that we know has a big issue with immune disease.
	But now we're going to pull that off.
	Because we know that they weren't testing for people who have been vaccinated, and I think that is all just, as this is exploding, they want to have an alibi so that the one thing that never gets blamed for any of this stuff is going to be the vaccine.
	That's their only motivation, is that their control mechanism for depopulation is going to continue without anything being attributed to it in a negative way.
	Just like Fauci saying, I never told anybody to shut down.
	He made his offers we couldn't refuse.
	The drug father.
	He's out there. All the lies.
	All the lies. It really is like the Nuremberg alibi turned upside down, right?
	All the people would say, well, I was just following orders when I killed all those people.
	And he says, I didn't give any orders.
	They did it on their own. I just suggested that they do it.
	Yeah, that's right. Exactly.
	And it's funny you say upside down because it really does feel like every single thing in our world right now is upside down.
	And I really feel like this direction and what God has laid out for us to do is turning things right side up, including when we look at healing modalities and healing people.
	All we've seen ever since, you know, Rockefeller Rothschild's, you know, birth the beast system is there's something wrong with you.
	Here's a drug. And then here's another drug to counteract what's wrong with you.
	No one has addressed the things that we should be addressing first, which is our relationship with our Creator and the healing that comes with that.
	When we look at healing someone spiritually and internally, that affects your mind, that affects your body.
	We have to turn things right side up to help people understand they need to be healed fully.
	Not just their body.
	There's more levels to this.
	So we're going to turn things back right side up to where they should be, which is nature.
	Everything comes from nature that we need.
	God provides all of that.
	And we need to help people get back there.
	And the damage that's been done from the shot and the long-term effects that we don't even know and all of this stuff that is just flying faster than we can even keep our thumb on, We just have to focus on we need to help people find their way back to healing.
	It is amazing when you look at even the basic things, and we said this for the longest time, you know, locking people inside, isolating them from any human contact, the effect that that has on people's health in so many different ways.
	It's well documented by people.
	Whether or not they believe in God, that has been very well documented, the deleterious effects of that.
	Putting a mask over your face so that you are continually breathing in what your body is trying to get rid of and restricting your oxygen intake.
	Keeping you inside so that you can't get any vitamin D. Psychologically abusing you and everything that they have done.
	For a long time, they've been messing with the food supply.
	And other things like that.
	And we've had the Greek physicians long ago, and I forget which one of them it was.
	I don't know if it was Galen or Hippocrates or whatever.
	They said, let food be your medicine.
	They understood how important it was to have good food and to eat right.
	But, of course, that is completely disregarded.
	When they give us any advice about what to eat, it is the upside down opposite of what you really should be eating.
	And then they just give a green light to anything that Bill Gates wants to do, whether it's coating your food with some new novel coating.
	The new appeal.
	Yeah, that coating appeal that's on there.
	And you're right.
	And things shifted when they shifted the food pyramid in the 60s.
	When they took out fats and the taste just disappeared.
	It tasted like cardboard.
	They added sugar to every food to give it taste.
	And you can look at every ingredient in the grocery store.
	Sugar is going to be at least the first, second, or third ingredient in every food that's out there.
	Sugar creates inflammation.
	Inflammation creates disease.
	We have this nice evil symbiotic relationship between big food and big pharma.
	We're going to make you sick and here's a drug for you.
	We're just little money-making petri dishes for big pharma.
	People have to step out and get back to nature and overall health.
	We're going to create a new standard of health.
	No more sick system.
	We're creating a truly health-based system.
	And that's the key thing. You know, when you talk about the Rockefeller and the pharmaceutical push with all this stuff, the other aspect of that is, you know, not really looking at what we need to be healthy, but looking at attacking the diseases that are there.
	And as I pointed out, and they've been very upfront about it, even before this stuff happened, it was back in 2018, I believe it was, in the spring, you had Goldman Sachs lecturing the pharmaceutical companies and saying, look, we just had Gilead Cure one strain of hepatitis.
	We don't want to have that happen again.
	Please don't. That's not our business model.
	They made a lot of money the first couple of years, but it exponentially decreased until now.
	They're not making any money off of this.
	We need to have chronic disease, and we need to have ongoing treatments.
	And that's what you see with everything that they do.
	When they give you a drug, typically...
	Can exacerbate what you're taking it for, and then it creates all these other things for which you start taking even more medication.
	It's just a multiplying effect.
	So we need to pull back, and that's why what you're talking about here is important for us to get out of this system, to have some alternatives to the system, but also some education about things that we can do that can make us healthy, not just how to attack the disease.
	And so that's Freedom Healthcare.
	Freedom-healthcare.us is the website.
	And you've got things, as you point out, your goal is to set up a network of telehealth to eventually to have, as it grows, to have some physical presence in different places as well.
	But right now, with this conference coming up, you've got a lot of good advice from a lot of different people.
	Some of them will agree or disagree with each other, as you pointed out.
	So they're going to talk about where they agree or disagree, and that teleconference is coming up June 9th and 10th, and people can get information about that at freedomhealthcare.us.
	Is there anything that you want to tell us in terms of the overall vision about Freedom Healthcare that we've not covered here?
	Yeah, and something else, the way that people can get involved, I mean, number one, we're looking for volunteers in every state that want to have the clinics or hospitals in their city or state.
	Our goal is not to be big, huge system, but just be Everywhere to help people at a small scale everywhere, but then also having the volunteers in each city and state get those going.
	We're going to have two kinds of clinics under Freedom Healthcare.
	One will be Freedom Healthcare specific clinics, but we also have folks out there that want to start their own ministry, private membership associations, and those are supportive clinics.
	We have a couple of those actually starting to be put together by some folks in New York as well as Arizona.
	They will come under the Freedom Healthcare umbrella.
	They will also be a private membership association, but they will be autonomous.
	They have the same vision, they have the same mindset, they have the same ideas, but they run the clinic themselves.
	Those are supportive clinics that can come under Freedom Healthcare.
	If there's like-minded practitioners out there, providers, physicians, naturopaths, functional medicine, whatever, that are staying in the system as an LLC or an S-Corp, we can promote them through our website.
	We're starting to bring on like-minded practitioners so people can find them in their state until we have our clinics and hospitals up and going.
	So there's a couple ways that people can get involved and be promoted through what we're doing.
	Our biggest thing is You know, we are a non-profit ministry that we need donations to launch each of the phases.
	That's the biggest thing. That's part of why we're doing this conference.
	All of these amazing speakers are speaking pro bono for us.
	So folks can get a ticket, freedom-healthcare.us, go to the conference.
	Right now they're a little bit less expensive, but it's getting the word out.
	Get online, become a member to see what's actually involved right now.
	We've just launched one Education platform going through Freedom Healthcare that has a discount for our members.
	We're partnering and collaborating with another group that has CMEs.
	Our members will have a discount through that as well.
	So we're bringing together a lot of different things around healing, information, education.
	So folks can go on and become a member right now.
	It's $33 a month.
	It's very little.
	But there's a lot that they can access.
	We have a library of information.
	We have Wellness Wednesdays.
	We have an amazing lady named Wendy who does Wellness Wednesdays every Wednesday.
	This month we're taking off because we have all the focus on the conference.
	But does information and videos on wellness every single Wednesday.
	We're all over social media.
	People can find us on Twitter and Twitter.
	Instagram and Facebook and True Social and Gab and CloudHub.
	Share the information.
	Go find us. Share the information.
	Because we can only do this with everyone that's out there.
	And we're working to help everybody else.
	This is the whole goal is we're here to help people.
	That's great. And it's a great source of information, as you point out.
	If you've got practitioners out there who have been purged out of the system because they wanted to actually try to help people, we've seen so much of that.
	If they're independent, they can use you as a way to reach out to people.
	I just saw where a third of the nurses Are saying that they're going to quit or retire.
	Or they're either going to go work for somebody else or they're going to quit.
	And so there's a lot of dissatisfaction from the people who are inside the system.
	A lot of them have been purged out of the system.
	And what we are missing is a way to bring this all back together again.
	Everybody understands how corrupt and how broken this system is.
	And we have to have a way to pull this back.
	And a key part of it is even just sharing information.
	You know, people out there who are willing to Put together something in their community and start up something that is not associated with these giant corporations, the pharmaceutical companies.
	It's a very important thing that you're doing there.
	Again, the website is freedom-healthcare.us.
	Okay, all right. Take a look at that, and again, they're having a big international healthcare conference coming up on June 9th and 10th.
	You can see the speakers and the topics that are going to be there on individual days.
	If you go to their main website, freedom-healthcare.us, they'll have a banner there that'll take you to the website that has been set up for the conference on June 9th and 10th.
	Thank you so much, Julie, for what you're doing.
	Appreciate it. Julie Wentz of Freedom Healthcare.
	We'll be right back, folks.
	Stay with us.
	Thanks.
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	Welcome back. Let's talk a little bit about cars, because it is such an essential ingredient to our freedom.
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	Let's talk about cars. Average age of US vehicles reaches a record high as the price of new vehicles are soaring as well.
	The average price of a new vehicle has approached $48,000.
	Of course, the EVs are more expensive.
	A 24% increase.
	And so I look at this and I think, how long is this kind of stuff going to go on?
	How long are we going to let the feds artificially inflate the price of everything with unnecessary fiat regulations?
	And their fiat currency that they're inflating.
	That's what's going on here. They're going to continue if we let them continue to do this.
	And I'm not really sure how we stop it.
	Part of it is it is so pervasive everywhere.
	Part of it is we've got to get over this mindset that all of our problems are solved in Washington.
	And everybody is suffering from that today.
	There was an article from Michael Schneider.
	Talking about, well, do you think life is better today in 2023 than it was in 1973?
	Would you go back 50 years?
	I was like, well, you know, more than half the people said yes to that question.
	I would definitely say yes to that question, I guess.
	Because I know what life was like in 1973.
	It isn't a guess as to what was better then.
	But on the other hand, that would be a year before I met Karen.
	I don't think I'd want to do that.
	So we've known each other for 49 years.
	But when I looked at that, I thought, well, you know, here's the real issue of what has happened to life in America.
	That is, it used to be a joke when we'd say to somebody, hey, come on, don't make a federal case out of it.
	Everything is a federal case.
	And, you know, everything that we see, every problem, we want to make a law, and we want it to be a federal law.
	And that's even true, again, with the pro-life movement.
	And these are institutions that I think they're doing it to keep themselves in the game.
	But we can't solve every problem at the federal level.
	And we have to understand that if we centralize control of everything, Guess who's going to be running everything?
	We've already seen the left take over all of the institutions, whether we're talking about education or entertainment or government or whatever.
	Why would you want to centrally control and define anything like that?
	You know they're going to take this over.
	It's a trap. Why would we fall into that trap?
	Anyway, centralizing everything until we own nothing.
	Until we're slaves on the continent that our forefathers conquered.
	That's really what we're looking at here.
	Americans are keeping their cars longer than ever.
	The average age of a passenger vehicle on the road hit a record 12 and a half years this year.
	Well, I'm right on target.
	I'm average. So they're blaming this, says Fox in the Business News.
	They said, blame it on the pandemic.
	That's Fox for you.
	Yeah, blame it on the pandemic. The pandemic did it to us.
	They don't even blame it on the Chinese.
	And again, it's not the Wu flu.
	It was the Chinese lockdown that we implemented that did it.
	That's what you can blame it on.
	You can blame it on Trump. You can blame it on both parties that have done this stuff to us.
	But no, let's blame it on something that, you know, the pandemic, this nebulous thing that's out there.
	Since the pandemic struck, says Fox News, three years ago, the average new vehicle has rocketed 24% to nearly $48,000 as of April.
	And loan rates on new car purchases have ballooned to 7%.
	Well, thank you to the Federal Reserve.
	But I guess that was the pandemic that did it?
	Was that the pandemic that raised the interest rates?
	Yeah, the pandemic did everything.
	It raised the interest rates.
	It locked us down. It broke the supply chains.
	It cost people jobs and businesses that they'd worked all their lives for.
	The national average monthly auto loan payment now is $729.
	Well, okay, well, I just get a used car.
	Well, used cars have gone up even more.
	Since the fake pandemic, And the Marxist lockdown, 40% increase in used car prices, up to nearly $29,000 for a used car.
	And the average loan rates are even higher, because instead of 7% for a new car, you're getting charged 11% for a used car.
	And so a used vehicle payment is now $563,000, almost as much as a $729,000.
	Pretty amazing. So what's the bottom line?
	Well, you got these... Repair services, that's going to be a business for the future, folks.
	Keep these cars running until they actually come around and confiscate them at the point of a gun.
	That is the big boom right now.
	You see cars all the time coming in here with 250,000, 300,000 miles.
	They haven't really been having major work or anything.
	They've just been doing the routine service, keeping up with it preventatively.
	I remember, as I've said in the past, I used to read my father's Business Week magazines when I was in high school, and I remember seeing Volvo talking about that.
	I think they even ran ads about it as well.
	Oh, look, the average car in Sweden, the average age is over 12 years old.
	See how well Swedish cars are made?
	And it's like, well, actually, no, the Volvos were not all that well made.
	It's just that People in Sweden have been made poor by socialism and they couldn't afford a new car.
	That was what the real answer was to all that.
	But it is a boom for the auto repair industry.
	We're now at the point where vehicle owners have to decide whether or not to pay for repair costs that cost more than their vehicle is worth.
	Well, that depends on how you define worth.
	Do you want something that is independent of their control structure, their control grid, that you don't have to charge on the grid?
	How much is that worth to you?
	I know what they're talking about is it means that if you have a wreck, the insurance company's not going to pay you for the money that you put into it to repair it.
	But I've been going down that road for a long time anyway with modifications that I made to my car anyway.
	I looked at it, it's like, well, you know, I'm not going to get paid for this if I wreck it, but I can make my car actually better than it was brand new, and I did.
	So it actually is, this is from the UK, from Spiked.
	The classist war on the car.
	It's not a war. Well, it is a war on the classic car as well.
	But no, what they're talking about are people who are part of this class warfare type of thing.
	And they're saying it's really these people who the elites or the upper middle class who are really still bourgeois, but they've got their rich bourgeois, I guess you could say.
	So back in the early 80s, two things revolutionized my mother's life.
	The first was the appearance in the UK of a vast supermarket, which evidently didn't get to the UK before that.
	A gleaming metal and glass citadel of cheap, fresh produce.
	Imagine bread, milk, fish, meat.
	Fruit, vegetables, and treats all under one roof.
	It was the stuff of a housewife's dream.
	The second thing was her first car, so she could drive to it.
	These are things that we took for granted in the United States for a very long time before the 1980s.
	But in the UK, what would happen, as he points out in this, he said, prior to that, he says, I remember it because my mom would take us in tow and we would make a circuit to all these different shops.
	We'd have to go to the butcher shop.
	We'd have to go to the fishmonger.
	Then we'd have to go to the green grocers.
	Then we'd have to go to the bakers.
	And you'd be lugging all this stuff by hand as you're walking around with the kids in tow.
	That's what they want us to go back to.
	That's their idea of a 15-minute city.
	You'll walk from every place, and you'll carry everything, and there won't be any car.
	No, the car was a freeing thing.
	As he says, it was a great liberator.
	And even though his mother had a very old second-hand Ford Cortina, he said, it's unimaginable to people today what life was like before that and the modern grocery store with everything under one roof.
	But that's what they want to take us back to.
	They imagine it.
	And they imagine something that's even more restrictive than that.
	He said, fast forward a few decades, and what do today's bourgeois radicals loathe the most?
	Supermarkets and cars. Supermarkets are evil, they cry.
	They've got revolting wastefulness.
	They have cheap food and easy fashion to horrify the well-off.
	They lament that supermarkets are white bread.
	Yes, why won't you little people buy a loaf of seven-seated sourdough from Whole Foods?
	Celebrated novelist Jeanette Winterson says she doesn't go anywhere near supermarkets because she wants passion, commitment, and conscience from her shopping experience.
	He says, okay, but other people just want a pint of milk and some ham.
	As for cars, nothing gets up the noses of the eco-orthodox middle class as much as a sight of these four-wheel machines trundling through their neighborhoods.
	Motor phobia, he calls it, is rife among the bourgeois left.
	As cars clog our streets, we are struggling to breathe, writes a writer for The Guardian, of course, conjuring up a beautiful image of metropolitan types going about like Edwardian ladies with a hanky to their nose to protect them from the fumes of the little people's vehicles.
	Get rid of your car, barks one of The Guardian's environmental correspondents.
	And, of course, I've been hearing this since 1970, not even 1973.
	The motorphobes might finally be getting their way, these high-status citizens who can't comprehend why everyone doesn't do what they do.
	Why don't we all work from home and cycle to the artisan baker for some organic rye and only drive a car when it's absolutely essential during the summer jaunt in Tuscany?
	Across England, policies are being introduced to discourage or to outright render impossible the driving of cars in local areas, from low-traffic neighborhoods to 15-minute cities, from ugly bollards to gates that only allow public buses to pass through, the car is being grounded to a halt.
	We cannot let the liberty of driving be snuffed out so cavalierly and so undemocratically.
	And all the stuff that you see happening there, That's all being pushed in America as well.
	You can see it being implemented there first, then it's going to go to California, then it's going to go to the rest of the country.
	We even got Trump selling his freedom cities.
	It's just a trumpetized version of the 15-minute city of the smart city.
	Again, remember how he pushed 5G in the early years of his administration.
	Remove all obstacles. We've got to have that at all costs.
	That is the foundation for this whole thing as well.
	The Telegraph in the UK has the latest on the bureaucratic war in the car.
	Bristol Council is planning to bring in a massive low-traffic neighborhood, LTN, that will virtually take cars off the road, they brag.
	As part of a six-million-pound initiative called the East Bristol Livable Neighborhood, they will severely clamp down on traffic several key roads in the city's east.
	Bollards and planters will be used to block cars from these roads.
	There will also be the installation of gates that private cars won't be able to go through, only buses.
	You see, they're destroying the roads, narrowing the roads, putting speed bumps on them, or completely blocking them off.
	We're in the case of Booty Gay, spending vast sums of money to tear down overpasses to allow people to travel without disturbing pedestrians.
	They say that's their goal, right?
	We want to have zero traffic deaths.
	So, you know, we've got to slow down the cars, ban the cars from our neighborhoods.
	Well, you know, tearing down these overpasses, that was to get people out of the areas where they would hit pedestrians, but no, they want the traffic there.
	So, when you look at where we're going, restrictions on car use are being enforced everywhere, they said.
	The London Borough of Southwark has raised the price of parking permits by an eye-watering 400% in order to reduce cars.
	So, if you are filthy rich, you can still drive to Southwark.
	If you're poor, forget about it.
	Oh, they love this because they won't have any other cars on the road.
	It'll be so nice for them.
	They may actually fall in love with a car again, but they want to block that to you.
	We see this over and over again.
	The CEO of Lyft, years ago, wrote an op-ed piece.
	And his fundamental premise that he explicitly stated was that cities are the best invention of man.
	No, they're not.
	Even Jefferson understood that.
	Spoke against it. A threat to the health, the wealth, and the liberty of man.
	But cities, he said, were the best invention of mankind, and cars were the worst thing.
	This is the CEO of Lyft.
	Very self-serving, of course, because he wants to get rid of the cars.
	Nobody will own a car except him, and he will own all the cars and charge you to rent them by the ride.
	That's what's behind all this.
	The guy was an urban planner.
	That's how he was trained.
	That's what his degree is in.
	The adjective, livable, is always thrown around by the eco-elites who hate cars, but who exactly will find their cities to be livable under today's anti-car hysteria?
	Disabled people won't find it that way, that's for sure.
	Indeed, equalities campaigners in Oxford and Bristol have said it could become very difficult for some disabled people to access streets if the low-traffic neighborhoods are ruthlessly enforced.
	Busy mothers won't find it to be livable either, and not elderly people who probably don't fancy lugging their shopping onto a bus.
	The workmen and the deliverymen need to have tools, and so car-free streets are all well and good for the graphic designers who only carry a slimline MacBook as they stroll to a nearby barista bar.
	But they're not so good for the people who plumb the barista bar, or the people who fix their coffee machines, or who mend their shelves.
	These people need real stuff and they need cars.
	In the warped narrative of the motorphobes, car owners are part of the privileged.
	This is nonsense. It is not prohibitively expensive to own a car in the 2020s.
	No, the true privileged in this class are the pajama classes.
	The upper middle class movers and shakers who can work from their plush apartments and who are so time rich that they'll happily do what people like my mother hated doing.
	Walking from one small shop to another small shop, buying artisan loaves here and sausages there.
	The car is unique, said the CEO of Volvo, who was the CEO of Volvo from 1970 to 1994.
	He said the car is unique.
	It gives human beings a mandate to go wherever they want, whenever they want.
	But under the banner of saving the planet, a smug, anti-modern, classist layer of society is denying the unique liberty of car driving to more and more people.
	And that is intolerable.
	Every assault on the car should be understood as an assault on our autonomy and should be resisted as such.
	Absolutely right. And so, you know, we mentioned this the other day, the removal of AM radios from cars.
	And this is, again, it's going to affect talk radio, conservative talk radio.
	But what the people need to understand, people like Mark Levin, who are very upset about that, You need to understand that they're not just removing the AM radio.
	They're removing the car out of our life.
	You can see the big picture here.
	Just as they're removing free speech out of our life, they're removing the car.
	That part of our freedom as well.
	So it's not just the automakers shutting this thing down for their own purposes.
	It's the entire car going.
	Ferrari has said no to EV only.
	First manufacturer to push back against this.
	And remember, Ferrari and Porsche said, no, we're going to come up with this e-fuel thing.
	And of course, it's so ridiculously expensive and bespoke that only the Uber rich are going to be able to afford it, just like only the Uber rich will be able to afford the Ferraris.
	But they know what works and what is good.
	And even if the rest of us, they want to deny it to us, Ferrari is saying that they're going to stick to traditional combustion engines.
	They have no intention of phasing out combustion engines and going full electric or hybrid anytime soon.
	Promising on Sunday to keep making the 8 and 12 cylinder engines that it's made that have been its trademark.
	And they're going to do it through at least the end of the 2030s, they said.
	The chief of Ferrari told the BBC in an interview that it would be arrogant to dictate to customers what they can buy while at the same time walking away from the company's heritage.
	Well, that's what our politicians are.
	They're arrogant. They want to demand and tell all of us what we can and cannot buy.
	Ferrari said that electric cars and hybrids would make up an increasing proportion of its range by the end of the decade, but would not totally take over the manufacturing output.
	You know, if people want to buy an internal combustion engine with 8 to 12 cylinders and pay $2 million or $3 million, they'll be happy to sell that to you.
	It's the client who must choose if they want an internal combustion engine, or a hybrid, or an electric.
	Well, it'd be good if we made this guy president and not just CEO of Ferrari, right?
	I don't see that happening, even that kind of strong language, even that strong, from the Republicans, do you?
	Any of them, have any of them come out to oppose climate change?
	I haven't seen any of that.
	You know, that's one of my concerns about RFKJ, is that he supports all that nonsense.
	But, and again, the thing that, well, this is only happening because of crony capitalism.
	That's absolute nonsense. You won't find any more crony capitalism than you do in the greenwashed environmental agenda.
	These companies that are getting money thrown at them left and right, Bipartisan cash being thrown at these people.
	That is the biggest crony capitalism on earth.
	So to say, well, if we end crony capitalism, we'll all be green, that's an absolute lie.
	But you don't see any of the Republicans pushing back against this stuff.
	They're afraid to challenge that orthodoxy, as false as it is.
	Ferrari has overtaken Stellantis, the parent company of 14 different car companies, Including Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall.
	They make more money than that giant conglomerate, Stellantis, even though they build fewer than 14,000 vehicles in 2022.
	But this is the future that they envision, that only the elites will have cars.
	It'll be something like private jets, because they're going to price or prohibit the rest of us out of the market.
	They're currently in eighth position of head of Stellantis, and head of Ford, head of Honda, GM, and Hyundai, they said.
	So, it is interesting how much money they're making with it.
	But again, it is elitism.
	There is, as I mentioned in the UK, an electric car fiasco.
	It said, scarcely a day passes without a story appearing in the Telegraph about just how terrible EVs are, and not just if you want to get from A to B. We learned last week that some electric cars are losing their value twice as quickly as petrol alternatives, as they put it, or what we'd say internal combustion engines.
	You see, they're not holding their resale value just like they're not holding their charge in many cases.
	Drivers have been pushed toward electric cars by a string of government initiatives.
	Well, it's been bribes and prohibitions, but mostly prohibitions.
	A little bit of subsidies.
	Drivers going green risk losing thousands of pounds, however, more than those who stick with petrol.
	For example, they take a BMW in 2020, 3 Series.
	A driver who bought an electric BMW i3 in 2020 would have a depreciation of 64% on the resale value today.
	However, the petrol equivalent has maintained much more of its original value.
	It's only dropped by 30%, whereas the electric car dropped 64%.
	And they said, now there's even more bad news.
	First, we discovered that thousands of free electric car chargers have been pulled from Britain's roads over the past year as soaring energy costs make them unaffordable.
	The number of chargers offering free electricity has fallen by 40%.
	Now they make up less than 10% of the public chargers on Britain's Road compared to 20% a year ago.
	Then we learned that because electric cars can weigh 33% more than internal combustion engines, the infrastructure may well collapse under their additional weight.
	And we're not just talking about the electric grid.
	We're talking about actual car parks, multi-level car parks.
	One person went through an engineer, or actually a chair of the British Parking Association's Structures Group, told the Telegraph that he had carried out inspections of multi-story car parks in the UK over the last six months, and he said they're not going to be able to hold electric cars.
	If you put electric cars in all those parking spaces, they'll collapse because they're so much heavier.
	Electric vehicles are much heavier than the petrol counterparts because of the weight of the batteries.
	And oh, by the way, If you've got something that is extremely heavy, we all know that that means that it is by definition not energy efficient as a lighter car is.
	So that is one of the fundamental lies about all this green stuff.
	You know, energy is energy.
	You're going to have to generate it somehow.
	And if you're going to be generating this energy inefficiently, that's not green.
	So who knew that virtue signaling would prove to be so costly as they're taking a hit on all these different fronts?
	Even Biden is having some problems because auto unions...
	Are now withholding their support, their political support from him because he's pushing EVs so much.
	And they know that it isn't going to take nearly as many of them.
	It's not as complicated to make an EV. So they're going to be closing down their facilities and the new facilities that they're opening up are going to be in non-union areas.
	But I want to talk a little bit before we run out of time about Biden.
	We had James Madison, who was father of the Bill of Rights.
	I guess we could say that Joe Biden was the father of the Bill of Wrongs.
	Because he was the person who was behind civil asset forfeiture more than anybody else, quite frankly, when you look at how this all came together.
	And even as Reason is saying, Congress is trying again to reform civil asset forfeiture abuses.
	Biden is out there. He's trying to forfeiture, trying to confiscate everything in our lives.
	But civil asset forfeiture that we struggle with, that foundation has been laid by Biden.
	It's become synonymous in many minds with legalized theft, and there's a reason for that.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And so now you have yet another attempt...
	This one, even at the federal level, to try to roll back some of this.
	Because it has, as I said, he's not the father of the Bill of Wrongs, he's the father of the Bill of, not the Bill of Rights, but the Bill of Wrongs, because they have, with civil asset forfeiture, they've removed our due process, they've removed the protections against excessive fines and all the rest of this.
	Since 2000, States and federal governments have stolen at least $68.8 billion that we know of, said the Institute of Justice.
	They use the term forfeiture.
	It's theft.
	They haven't convicted anybody.
	As a matter of fact, in most of these cases, they haven't even charged anybody.
	You will see when they do the theft...
	They will essentially charge the inanimate object.
	They'll put the name of the inanimate object on there.
	So how did we get this?
	This is an excellent article from Fee.org.
	Fee, the Foundation for Economic Education.
	How a young Joe Biden became the architect of the government's asset forfeiture program.
	Yeah, it was part of the war on drugs, but it included Joe Biden.
	It even included Bill Weld.
	The guy who was one of the vice presidential candidates, he was a vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party with the governor, I can't remember his name now, the guy that ran twice recently.
	But that was a real low mark in the Libertarian Party when Bill Weld was put on the ballot.
	In 1991, Maui police officers showed up at the home of Francis and Joseph Lopez.
	This is a good example to show you how this works.
	One officer showed his badge and said, let's go into the house and we'll explain things to you.
	Once inside, he said, we're taking the house.
	That's the explanation.
	The Lopez's were far from wealthy.
	They worked on a sugar plantation for nearly 50 years.
	They lived in camp housing so they could save up money to buy a modest middle-class home.
	But in 1987, their son Thomas was caught with marijuana.
	He was 28, and he suffered from mental health issues.
	He grew marijuana in the backyard of his parents' home, but every time they tried to cut it down, he threatened suicide.
	When he was arrested, he pled guilty and was given probation since it was his first and only offense.
	He was ordered to see a psychologist once a week.
	The parents were elated.
	Their son got better.
	He stopped smoking marijuana, and they thought it was all behind them.
	But when the police showed up, they told them that their house was being seized.
	They said it was because of your son and his marijuana conviction.
	The statute of limitations for civil asset forfeiture was five years, and it had only been four years since he had been arrested.
	Legally, the police could seize any property that was connected to the marijuana plant from 1987.
	They had resurrected the Lopez's case during a department-wide search through old cases that Looking for property they could steal.
	Legally. That's what it was.
	We got these old cases. Let's see.
	Oh, here's one. The kid had a marijuana plant.
	And the parents have a home.
	That they worked all their life to save up money for.
	So where did this come from?
	The roots of the law that allowed the police to take their home ran all the way back to 1970.
	Prior forfeiture laws that only applied to goods that could be considered to be a danger to society.
	Things like weapons.
	So they would confiscate things like that.
	But with the war on drugs, they wanted something that had more teeth.
	And so you had Prosecutor Robert Blakely, who had worked under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
	And so he started to provide the teeth.
	He said, we need to have criminal forfeiture that allow the police to seize illegally acquired profits of a convicted criminal.
	In 1970, the targets were wealthy crime bosses, and so to appease those who were worried about the abuse of power, Blakely assured them that prosecutors would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the criminal was guilty of a crime before the assets were taken.
	So they passed this as part of the RICO Act, the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act.
	Blakely was a fan of the 1931 movie Little Caesar, and that's why he created that RICO thing.
	That was Edward G. Robinson.
	Yeah, you listen to me, see?
	You're going to do what I say, see?
	The RICO Act wasn't actually designed as part of the war on drugs, but then when Richard Nixon took office, he made it a part of that.
	And they still had that pesky requirement to convict somebody of something.
	That was in the way of the law.
	So they started looking at things they could do.
	In 1978, Jimmy Carter created a drug czar office.
	And so Peter Bourne decided that the law needed to be changed.
	He learned of an incident in which a suitcase in Miami had been left on a baggage carousel for three hours.
	The police picked it up and found three million in it.
	So I said, well... Let's change the RICO Act to allow the DEA to confiscate assets now without a conviction.
	Even with that, they still had real estate that was off limits.
	Until Joe Biden came along.
	While Blakely was going around holding conferences trying to tell everybody how we needed to do this RICO Act and extend it, young Senator Joe Biden jumped on board.
	And he created the impetus for adding property and everything after they'd removed the requirement of a conviction.
	It was Joe Biden who put it in there.
	In the war on narcotics, we have met the enemy, and he is the U.S. code.
	In other words, the enemy is the law, so let's get rid of the law.
	And that's what they did. So you had William Weld, who was working at the time for Ed Meese, who was Ronald Reagan's attorney general.
	And all of them got together.
	Joe Biden was the one who wrote the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, fixed all these problems.
	And we've been living with a problem that he created ever since.
	A man who hates natural rights, who hates the Bill of Rights, that's what he had typed Clarence Thomas for.
	Thank you so much, Unrockfan.
	Thank you, Mark Daroba, for the tip.
	I appreciate that. And Unrockfan, thank you for the tip.
	Audi MMRI says, my good friend who's known as Fake Mike Real News on YouTube brought to my attention that several predator-catcher channels were terminated en masse.
	A lot of these channels have busted many men in law enforcement attempting to meet up with their decoys.
	Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with that.
	We'll follow up on that tomorrow.
	Thank you for joining us.
	Have a good day.
	Joe, we've got a problem.
	Who are you?
	It's the new mug they're selling at the David Knight show.com.
	Right.
	So basically a mug is something that holds liquid.
	Right.
	Because basically you can't hold coffee with your hands.
	Right.
	I'm a scat and a, but anyone tries to mug me.
	I, I'm being ready for it.
	You, you dog faced pony soldier.
	They say the mug can help Patriots drink coffee, then save the world.
	This could be bad for us.
	Save the world? But we owe the world.
	These people, they're supporting free speech with every month they buy.
	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.

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