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The David Knight Show - 06/13/2023

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13...
	It's the 13th of June, year of our Lord 2023.
	Pride Month is ramping up.
	We'll talk about that coming up.
	And of course it has enveloped this program.
	And I'll explain that to you in a moment here.
	We're also going to take a look at the comments from Judge Napolitano.
	This is something that I was...
	Wondering about his lawyers, Trump's lawyers, testifying against him.
	I guess that's one of the reasons why he's shopping around in Miami for lawyers right now.
	Testifying against him.
	How is that possible with the client privilege, lawyer client privilege that you have?
	And Judge Impolitano explains why that disappeared in this case.
	So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the obsession with all things pride as we come back.
	Stay with us. By the way, we're also going to be joined in the third hour by candidate for office in Indiana, Libertarian.
	Rainwater ran for governor in 2020, and it came to my attention because he was the only person I saw, any political figure at all, that was pushing back in the summer of 2020 against the lockdown.
	And all these...
	This new high-tech slavery that Trump had imagined for himself.
	Flooding all of these governors with money, both Democrats and Republican, and they were all in lockstep on the agenda, locking us down.
	He was the only one who spoke out about it.
	Not even the Libertarian presidential candidate, Joe Jorgensen, who I knew years ago when she was running as the vice presidential running mate for the Libertarian Party, and she was a presidential candidate.
	She was focused... On supporting Black Lives Matter during the summer riots.
	I just couldn't believe it. You people have lost the plot.
	Used to be whenever I'd tell people I was a libertarian back in the 80s, they thought I was a liberal.
	Well, they'd be right now in most cases.
	I think Rainwater's got his head on straight, so we're going to talk to him about what he's trying to do in Indiana.
	Again, you know, he shot up in the polls when he did that.
	It was absolutely amazing to me.
	And so I wanted to get him on at that time, but he couldn't do it.
	And so I wanted to get him on now.
	And so he's going to be joining us in the third hour.
	A libertarian who understands liberty.
	Who would have thought that this would be a novel thing?
	Yesterday was the anniversary of the Committee of Five.
	You know, today we have the squad, right, in Congress?
	So what was the Committee of Five?
	Well, these are the five people who got together to write the Declaration of Independence in 1776 on June the 12th.
	And there was an article about it on the New American.
	I missed that anniversary, but it's still not too late to talk about it.
	On this day in history, the drafting of the formal Declaration of Independence got underway.
	After having approved Richard Henry Lee's resolution calling for declaring independence from Great Britain, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a formal declaration.
	They called it the Committee of Five.
	Had a very interesting composition.
	Names, for the most part, that you understand.
	John Adams, of course.
	Thomas Jefferson, of course.
	Ben Franklin. A couple of other people that you may not have heard of.
	Roger Sherman. Robert Livingston.
	And the resolution that created the committee was this.
	So this is the Declaration of Independence that presided the Declaration of Independence.
	Resolved that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.
	That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown.
	And that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved.
	That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances.
	That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation.
	Thank you.
	And so in this article they describe Thomas Jefferson, rightly so, as laconic.
	I think of him as, you know, when you think of laconic, probably the best example in our time is Clint Eastwood's characters.
	Right? That's kind of the way I see Thomas Jefferson.
	But whereas Clint Eastwood speaks with action, Jefferson speaks with his pen instead of his sword or his gun, right?
	And so he was the one who did most of the writing.
	As they point out here, it was Adams who did a lot of the motivating.
	He was a real firebrand who was pushing back against this.
	As they write in the New American, his fiery rhetoric, his unwavering commitment to the cause made him an influential figure.
	Even among many patriots, And other men of renown and reputation.
	He played a pivotal role in convincing his fellow delegates of the urgency to break away from British rule.
	He set the stage for the secession of the American colonies from the British Empire.
	Adams refused to carry on petitioning the powers that be in Britain, begging the crown for recognition of rights that God had granted them.
	Are we not at that time again?
	Where are the people like this?
	Jefferson.
	Drawing on Cicero.
	John Locke.
	Meticulously composed a document that elegantly and eloquently proclaimed the principles of natural rights, civil equality, and the right to self-government enjoyed by all mankind as a divine inheritance.
	sentence.
	It's the essence of being created in his image, right?
	That dominion that we have.
	Dominion over ourselves, first of all.
	Dominion over our family.
	These other things, these other aspects.
	Each of us, there is a hierarchy.
	But each of us has, in God's image, the right of dominion over aspects of our life.
	And so, it's interesting, you know, when they talk about civil equality.
	Equality is getting a bad name.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	And what they mean by that is their reimagined idea of equality is equity.
	It is not equality at all.
	It is privileged by the numbers, if you will.
	And saying that somebody is privileged just because there's more people who look like you.
	Or whatever. No, they're talking about civil equality.
	That means equality before the law.
	And we don't have much of that, do we?
	There's not much interest in that either, is there?
	And we're going to talk about what's going on with Trump.
	But the glaring thing, the burr under the saddle, if you will, about this whole thing, and it looks like he's committed crimes, and as one person pointed out, there's like 37, 38 different felony charges against him.
	If they only get one of those through, That'd be a life sentence for somebody Trump's age.
	He's not that young. I mean, just take a look at that video of him on the golf course.
	That was, well, you know, without the makeup and all the rest of the stuff, you know, you see his true age and condition.
	But, yeah, one conviction would be a life sentence.
	And the only person that I've seen anywhere, on any side of the political divisions, That says that this is not, that these charges could be beat is Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz. And even Alan Dershowitz says, but there's one thing, the thing that I read to you yesterday about the recording that they had of him.
	And he had to do that because he's a deeply wounded narcissist.
	That's why he took those documents.
	It is like a Greek tragedy, isn't it?
	You know, where a character flaw takes someone down.
	And that is his central character flaw, his narcissism.
	It's what motivated him to keep those records.
	It's what motivated him to show them to other people who are recording him.
	And it is what's going to put him in prison.
	Now the question is, what are we going to do about this?
	These people, this committee of five, Went to war over principles.
	They went to war for themselves.
	And not just for themselves.
	One of the things that was different about the American Revolution, different from all other revolutions that I've seen, is that these people did not fight a revolution so that they could become the king.
	They fought a revolution to make the law the king.
	To put it over everyone else.
	They did not want to live under despotism.
	They had a view towards their children and their grandchildren that would come after them.
	They did not want them to live in slavery either.
	So they fought this revolution.
	They risked and they had a lot of money.
	They were very wealthy. Oh, the squad hates people like that.
	But they put all that fortune up in order to not be slaves.
	Their freedom was worth more to them than their money.
	Their freedom was worth more to them than their lives.
	They would have been executed in the most heinous ways if they'd been caught or captured by the British, if they had lost.
	And so they put all that on the line.
	Again, not for their own personal power and wealth, but to fight for the principle of freedom over slavery, over tyranny.
	And yet, we have people like Charlie Kirk.
	Charlie Kirk.
	What a pathetic, grifting kid he is.
	I am absolutely disgusted with this guy.
	And it scares me to see him running pastor conferences.
	What are these pastors thinking to go set under this kid?
	It's unbelievable to me.
	He has no discernment.
	He has no principles. He is a grifting sacrifice on the Trump whale.
	And he's out there telling everybody after his pastor's conference, well, that's it.
	All these other Republican candidates, you all need to resign, and you need to go to Florida and stand with President Trump today as he goes for his arraignment.
	Really? Really?
	See, this is worse.
	Then a slavish devotion to a party, which, you know, that's what he's talking about, right?
	Oh, the Republican Party.
	We've got to elevate that above all things.
	And then within the Republican Party, we elevate Trump above everything else.
	You really want to have that kind of hierarchy?
	You really want to have that kind of king?
	It's absolutely amazing to me.
	And that is the kind of mindset that will enslave us, not liberate us.
	So, when we look at this, after passing through several rounds of revision, the core principles penned by Jefferson remained intact, except for the slavery part.
	They cut a lot of the slavery stuff out of there.
	Well, tomorrow is Flag Day.
	And as I noticed that, and it was kind of interesting what the stunt that Biden was pulling with his pride flag at the White House.
	He's got two large American flags hanging down and a large pride flag, same size as those two American flags, hanging down in the center of them at the entrance into the White House.
	And I thought, with all the back and forth about this particular flag that is happening, and his virtue signaling about this, I thought, is this the reason?
	There's the picture. Is this the reason that they picked June?
	Because Flag Day falls right smack in the middle of it, that they picked June for their Pride Month.
	It's all about the flag, isn't it?
	Oh, it's very important to them.
	And it keeps changing every year, doesn't it?
	Because as I pointed out yesterday, one thing that the Unabomber got right that he understood was the mindset of liberals, because he had taught at Berkeley.
	And he said, no matter what you do, you know, they tell you, oh, we got these problems and you got to bow down to me and you got to do what I say about these problems.
	He says, if you did everything that they wanted, they would still come back with something else.
	Because it's about the power to bend your will to theirs.
	That's what they want. If you say 2 plus 2 equals 5, then they're going to come back and they're going to say, okay, now I've got a new equation.
	I want you to tell me.
	What is 1 plus 1 plus 2?
	No, it's not. No, it's not.
	It's always going to be something, isn't it?
	And so, I think it has something to do with why they picked June for Pride Month.
	And also, What was June always known for?
	As I was growing up, the month for marriages.
	June was the month of brides, right?
	We've got to shut both of those things down, don't we?
	And that's what they're working on.
	The White House, Biden's White House.
	Many people are saying he's violated federal law by doing his pride promotion.
	I think he flew his flag a long time ago, didn't he?
	I mean, they've made it clear from the very beginning that this is a core value for them.
	And they're saying that even as they began this war in Ukraine.
	And I say they began it because they did.
	I mean, this doesn't even go back to the coup that they engineered in 2014.
	This really goes back to their determination that they were going to take out Russia back in the late 1990s.
	But anyway, Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton, said, To advance revolutionary transgender agenda targeting children, Biden violates the basic tenet of the U.S. flag code.
	And then he disrespects every American service member buried under its colors.
	It was a stark contrast to the mood in the rest of America where the fury over pride displays has reached a deafening roar.
	And so...
	The spokesperson for the White House correspondent for PBS News coordinated her exchange with Biden and she was blasted for parroting the ideology talking points.
	This is what she asked President Biden.
	Softball question.
	Since he can't think on the fly and he can't compose this stuff on his own.
	She gets up from PBS, their White House news correspondent, put the news in air quotes there.
	Yeah. Anyway, she says, all over the country, Republican-led states are passing laws, passing anti-LGBT, anti-transgender laws that restrict rights and medical care.
	Intimidation is on the rise.
	This week, anti-LGBTQ protesters turned violent in California.
	She claimed there are parents that are moving out of the U.S. because local governments are adopting limits on the procedures and which child's body parts are being mutilated.
	And so she said, why do you think this is all happening?
	What do you say to parents like the ones I spoke to, those families who are contemplating leaving the country because they don't feel safe anymore?
	And so that was the softball question.
	He said, these are our kids.
	They're not your kids. They're not your kids.
	By the way, you want to see the kind of kids that Biden raises?
	Take a look at Hunter, right?
	You want him raising your kid?
	Look at Hunter and ask if you want Biden raising your kid.
	These are our kids, he said.
	These are our neighbors. It's cruel.
	It's callous. They're not somebody else's kids.
	They're our kids. They're the kids, and our children are the kite strings that hold our national ambitions aloft.
	And it matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country.
	Yes. They get the kids at an early age.
	You institutionalize your kids in their schools.
	And they turn this country into what we've seen decades of that kind of control from the government has produced the kind of country that we have now.
	The 21st century America.
	Not the 18th century America.
	A representative, a Republican from Georgia, Rich McCormick, said, well, contrary to President Biden, the nation's children do not belong to him.
	And it's good to oppose unnecessary and irreversible medical procedures for kids.
	If Biden wants to see an extremist, there are mirrors all over the White House.
	DeSantis has explained to these people who are, many of them, and you see the articles that are put up by Drudge pushing this, all these parents say they want to get out of Florida.
	I imagine there are child molesters that would prefer to live in San Francisco as well.
	Whether they're parents or they're unrelated to the kids.
	Because, you know, that kind of stuff is just fine with them in San Francisco.
	DeSantis says it's wrong for physicians to perform sex operations on minors.
	That is mutilation.
	And physicians who commit such acts in Florida not only lose their medical license, they go to jail.
	And rightfully so, in my opinion.
	Well, talking about the flag, I'm going to play for you what one man in uniform, who probably will be kicked out for saying this, but good for him for saying it.
	Here's what he had to say about the pride flag.
	Alright, I just want to say a couple things about this abomination that was put along the same level as our Stars and Stripes, the American flag.
	I want to say this, not only is this a cult and it has taken over our entire country, not one veteran fought for this flag.
	Not one person bled for this flag.
	Not one person died for this flag.
	This flag does not represent equality, love, freedom for all.
	This flag is a cult, a religion that is taking over our country like a pandemic.
	We already had one. The red, the white, the blue.
	It represented equality for everyone.
	It represented everything this country actually stands for.
	And this is a slap in the face to all Americans.
	This is a slap in the face to anyone who ever wore the uniform.
	And this is a cult.
	And it is a sickness in America.
	He's absolutely right.
	Absolutely right. So, Biden makes that the centerpiece of the White House.
	And he tweeted out, he said, Today the people's house, your house, sends a clear message to the country and the world.
	America is a nation of pride, and he puts that picture up of the White House with a big pride flag at the center.
	And they made it clear that it is their core value.
	Over and over again they have said that.
	And so Eugypius has a great article.
	I would highly recommend the entire thing.
	I'm not going to read all of it to you.
	But he puts this in a bigger perspective.
	That's why I began with the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.
	And the idea of rights coming from God, not being granted by government.
	That's a privilege if the government grants it to you, of course.
	And so he talks about the meaning of the Rainbow Revolution.
	And he says, begins by saying this, Across all of human politics, the Western liberal tradition, and that means liberal as in liberty, classic liberalism, right?
	Western, because they stole that word as well.
	They steal everything. They're Marxists.
	They steal labels.
	They steal your car, your food, your freedom, everything from you, right?
	But especially labels.
	Oh, liberal. Everybody liked liberal at one point in time.
	Because it was about being liberated.
	It was about liberty. The purpose of a liberal education was to liberate your mind, to give you the tools of learning so that you could follow the path yourself.
	That type of thing. But this has been turned against us.
	He says, across all human politics, a Western liberal tradition stands out for its ambitions to circumscribe state power.
	The people in this tradition are held to be the locus of sovereignty, and most Western governments are bound by elaborate constitutions which purport to constrain their jurisdiction over citizens and which many regard as bearing a nearly religious authority.
	Well, yes. I think these two things are connected.
	God ordains government.
	He does ordain tyrants from time to time to punish rebellious people.
	But God ordains government, and the purpose of government is to protect people and to punish evil.
	Now, if your government is not doing that, you may be under judgment, right?
	Which is what we see in this country.
	And this abomination of Biden sitting in the White House.
	He said, it has a nearly religious authority because it does get its authority from God.
	Anyway, Western liberal states in the modern era, however, do not behave like limited systems which derive their sovereignty from the people.
	Every day, they more and more resemble the kinds of unchecked totalitarian regimes that That we remember from the Soviet period.
	And of course, it's the corporatocracy.
	The coming global governance, not necessarily a government, they will keep, in my opinion, they will keep the remnants of these countries around.
	In the same way that after we consolidated all power into Washington after the Civil War, We kept the states around.
	They have some jurisdictional powers and they've got some things that they're allowed to do by this completely consolidated central government that we have.
	They stick around and we propagate this idea that they're independent states.
	And we're going to have a global governance that is going to still maintain that facade, if you will, to keep people happy.
	Oh, yeah, we still have the German government, and we still have France, and we still have England and everything, but it's going to be a global governance, and it's going to be a corporate global governance.
	Public-private partnership.
	For global governance. And so we see this arrogance of the corporations.
	And you see this arrogance of the states.
	And you saw it going back very clearly in 2020.
	If you hadn't seen it before then, you couldn't escape it.
	Every government in every country, no matter what their claimed political philosophy was, was locking us down and demanding that we take an injection that we knew was harmful, that we knew was untested.
	For either safety or efficacy.
	They demanded that we take it.
	They demanded that we take it over our religious objections and all the rest of this stuff.
	That arrogance is the same arrogance that you see in all the corporations with Pride Month.
	They don't care.
	Bud Light doesn't care.
	Target doesn't care.
	They really don't have to.
	You know, they're printing their phony money And they're getting that phony money from the government, from Wall Street, from BlackRock, and all the rest of these places.
	And so this, in your face, defiance by tyrants of we the people is what we're looking at here.
	And we have to defy tyranny.
	That's coming up. That's our job.
	It's going to come to a head within the next seven years.
	Before then, actually. They expect to have their system in place by 2030.
	And they're going to do everything they can to accelerate it to keep to that timeline.
	These people, whatever else they may be, they're good at what they do.
	And so they're going to do everything in their power.
	They have a lot of power.
	They have nearly 100% power.
	And they have zero authority.
	Because they have violated the constitution that gives them their authority.
	State power says Eugypius wants to be free in the same way that water wishes to flow downhill.
	The mutual checks and balances imposed on the state by its competing branches, for example, have merely incentivized the political establishment to develop and to enforce among its members a uniform elite outlook.
	Isn't that what we saw in 2020?
	Oh, but Trump, Trump is the anti-globalist.
	Trump was leading the globalist agenda in 2020.
	He was leading with all of this stuff.
	He wasn't following, he was leading.
	The vaccine, the lockdowns, the rest of the stuff, yes, it began in China.
	It began in China.
	It's the Wuhan thing, right?
	No. No, that's a beard of it as well.
	Forget about where it began.
	This was their plan.
	It didn't begin in China.
	It didn't begin in Wuhan in 2020, in 2019, any of the rest of the stuff.
	It began in 2001 with Dark Winter.
	Because it was political.
	It wasn't a virus.
	It wasn't a pandemic.
	It was tyranny.
	Global tyranny.
	And Trump did it more than anybody else did.
	And he created the poison.
	And he's proud of it.
	Put him in jail for that.
	Anyway, so it says this is created, instead of checks and balances, what it has done is it's purged out people in the system who have a different approach to anything.
	And now they have a uniform, elite outlook.
	The uni party. On core issues.
	You'll find virtually no disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats, and you can repeat that in any other country that you want to look at, on the core issues.
	The core issues are not even discussed in a debate, if there is a debate.
	And Biden and Trump don't want to have a debate.
	And it's not just out of their perceived self-interests.
	There frankly isn't anything for them to debate, because they won't talk about any of the central issues.
	Rights and individual sovereignty, says Eugypius, have required a different, even more insidious solution to get rid of.
	How do you get rid of rights and individual sovereignty?
	Well, he says, rather than undermining or qualifying these prerogatives, state ideologies have leaned into them instead.
	In other words, instead of saying, well, we're not going to have Any individual sovereignty or any individual rights.
	Instead, what they do is they undermine your real rights by inventing phony rights.
	The right, for example, to kill your child.
	Right? The right to have things provided to you by the state.
	Obama understood this when he was teaching school that he did for a while.
	He taught about the Constitution.
	He talked about the different types of rights and the different perspectives of rights.
	Now, of course, since they create the labels, he talked about positive rights as being, you know, the right to welfare, the right to housing, the right to an education, the right to healthcare, and all the rest of these stuff, right?
	Those are not rights. God didn't give you those things.
	God gives us rights.
	Those are things that the government gives you by taking stuff from other people.
	And so he said, those are positive rights though.
	That's a good idea.
	It's positive rights. We're going to give you stuff.
	Well, they give you stuff to make you dependent upon them.
	They give you stuff to make you a trained pet.
	To make you a slave.
	Existing on a handout.
	That's what universal basic income is headed towards.
	It is to make you passive and dependent.
	And now...
	Our real rights, he referred to, as negative rights.
	He said the Bill of Rights is about prohibiting the government from doing stuff, right?
	It's about prohibiting the government from interfering with the rights that God gave you.
	Oh, that's bad. That's negative.
	The positive stuff is that an all-powerful, omnipotent God-verment can give you all of these rights.
	And that's what they've been trying to sell to people.
	And so Eugypius says, rights in the liberal conception, Are pre-political.
	Men are endowed with them by their creator.
	And they are therefore inalienable.
	But the state has worked vigorously to expand the concept of rights with a vast new palette of novel rights.
	And of course that makes the LGBT aspect of this so powerful.
	And this explains why it is one of their core values.
	As Eugipius says, nowhere do novel liberal rights metastasize so rapidly, or he says rabidly, but it's also rapid, as in the discourse surrounding sexual and gender minorities.
	The ever-growing Rainbow Coalition, symbolized by a flag that every year gains new colors and a puzzling initialism that is forever acquiring new letters.
	LGBTQQIP2SA appears to be the latest version.
	This is the cutting edge of state power.
	You want to know why they're pushing this so hard on kids at an early age?
	Yes, there is a satanic Pedophilia here.
	Yes, there is obsession with sex in this country that they've been training us with media and entertainment and all the rest of this stuff throughout the entire 20th century.
	They've been pushing for this licentiousness, this degeneracy, and it has continued to go downhill.
	So yes, there's an aspect of that to it, for sure.
	There's also an aspect of this to push people into transhumanism.
	Which is this great technological lie that will enslave people, not liberate them.
	You're not going to get combined with a machine.
	But that's the lie that they tell you.
	But it's also about state power.
	As Eugipia said, the cutting edge of state power.
	Each of the identities subsumed into this LGBT juggernaut abounds with utility for the administrative state.
	It opens all manner of avenues for government bureaucrats to define and to regulate the most intimate aspects of human culture, behavior, and sexual expression.
	It is no accident that the pride flag has become the most pervasive and probably the most sacred political symbol in the Western world.
	And we need to understand what these principles are.
	You know, I myself, when I started seeing some of these things, I remember the first time I heard about this transgender stuff.
	Back in 2014.
	And I said, come on.
	That's a clickbait thing.
	You don't have to wallow in that.
	That's nonsense. It's absolute nonsense.
	At first I didn't realize how they were going to push this.
	Now this is just this prurient headline clickbait stuff.
	Don't go there. But then you can see how they're using it.
	I mean, it's just beyond my imagination that this could become mainstream as it has.
	But it has become mainstream.
	And this is a political reason why.
	And we need to understand that.
	There are very powerful political forces, very powerful spiritual forces.
	We don't wrestle against flesh and blood.
	But against spiritual wickedness in high places.
	Higher places than Washington, D.C. And so we need to understand what this is fundamentally about.
	We need to understand how these people are benefiting from it.
	Yes, they may have, you know, their dark, secret, occultic ceremonies, many of them.
	But a lot of them are just in this for, what do I get out of this right now?
	And you always need to look for that motivation as well.
	What's in it for them right now?
	Well, political power.
	And lots of it.
	So, it is...
	One way that they can control society, that they can remake society, that they can destroy society for the great reset, that they can do depopulation, all the rest of this stuff.
	But it has immediate fulfillment for them as well.
	There has to be something there.
	You know, you can get people onto these dark agendas and everything, but, you know, you've got to pay them.
	And their price is different.
	I remember years ago, we'd get together in our 20s and play board games with friends, and scruples was one of them.
	And we started noticing this pattern of similar types of questions being asked to people, with the dollar amounts being changed.
	I said, what they're trying to do is just see what our price is with this thing, with all these scruple amounts.
	You know, what is your price? What will you sell your principles out for?
	So it has become the most sacred symbol in the Western world.
	It will increasingly displace national symbols and prominence and moral significance, as we see this week.
	Modern states are powerful things, says Eugypius.
	Vast machines built of human components that act according to their own logic and toward their own ends.
	But understand that there is a purpose behind it.
	And many of these people who think that they're in charge...
	Who think that they're pulling the strings are in fact themselves being manipulated by unseen forces that they don't acknowledge even exist.
	They don't understand how they're being controlled, how they are cogs in this machine that they think they're driving.
	Technology and the rise of mass society following industrialization have expanded their reach as never before.
	They don't need liberalism to be terrifying or perverse, but it's increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that liberalism has made many modern states much more terrifying and perverse than they otherwise would be.
	And their depredations are much more difficult to oppose, even as they're all the harder to recognize.
	And so as we look at this, We have in New York, in the capital, Albany, the City Hall in Albany, they had a statue of General Philip Shiler, who served during the Revolutionary War, has now been removed from Albany City Hall in New York, under the pretense that he owned slaves at some point.
	And again, this is...
	Slaves were owned, not just in the South, but also in the North.
	And so, because he owned slaves, they have decided to take down his statue.
	A Revolutionary War general who had owned slaves.
	And the response to this, one person says, in my personal opinion, I don't think it should be down because it's a statue, and yes, he did bad things, but there's so many other statues of people that did many worse things.
	Oh, but if it is something, if it's someone who produced something good, if it's somebody who helped lay a brick into the foundation of our country, and if we can find something else that they did over there, well, then we can move that brick.
	And we can move that cornerstone.
	And we can knock down the foundation of this country.
	Because we found something that somebody did wrong somewhere.
	And guess what? You can find that about anybody if you look hard enough.
	But they don't look hard at their icons.
	They don't look at Nelson Mandela, for example, right?
	They don't look at Lenin or Stalin.
	They don't try to tear down their statues.
	Same people who are tearing down all these other statues of American figures are putting up statues of Lenin in Portland, I think is where it was.
	Big statue of Lenin. No, they had no faults at all.
	They're absolutely perfect.
	Anyway, the person says, well, I understand why they did it, because slavery was bad.
	I'm not saying it's a good thing, obviously, but my point is that this is a part of history.
	Well, you know what you don't understand?
	Why do they have you focused on slavery?
	Slavery during the Civil War period.
	Slavery during the Revolutionary War period.
	Why are they doing that? Well, because they're enslaving you right now and you don't even understand it.
	They've got you looking at something that happened 200 years ago and you're not looking at what is happening now.
	U.S. spy agencies are buying vast quantities of Americans' personal data.
	They're buying it. Where'd they get it?
	From the net that they created.
	The net to entrap us.
	The net to collect us.
	That long rope-a-dope.
	The internet.
	Slavery now.
	Commercially available data from cars, phones, web browsers, rivals, the results that they can get from wiretaps, from cyber espionage, from physical surveillance, and it's just for sale, says the Washington, no, no, the Wall Street Journal.
	The Wall Street Journal.
	Big report on that.
	That's been going on for quite some time.
	They don't want you to focus on that.
	They want you fighting amongst yourselves.
	They want you destroying the foundations of Western civilization because they've got a new form of slavery that they don't want you to see being hardened around your hands, your ankles, your neck, and everything else.
	They'll have a chain that'll let you walk within a 15-minute radius.
	It'll be a geofence.
	It'll be invisible. And they don't want you to see what they're doing.
	Secret government unit broke its own rules by flagging opinions as disinformation out of the UK. The Telegraph reported last week the...
	Telegraph disclosed that the Counter-Disinformation Unit collected social media posts that were critical of government COVID policies, including the decision to close schools and debate over the mass vaccination of children.
	It can now be revealed that this unit ignored official Cabinet Office guidance created for civil servants in communications when it classified legitimate opinions as disinformation.
	Now, we knew that they were doing this, right?
	This is not news.
	It's news to the Telegraph.
	And they've got the receipts now.
	They've got a manual that was entitled, the title was Resist 2, Countering Disinformation.
	You see, this is our government, our tyrants, who want to resist us.
	And we don't want to resist them.
	In a section that seeks to explain how to spot disinformation, readers are warned that opinions should not be considered as disinformation.
	But despite this, it appears that social media posts where people express concerns about government COVID policies were monitored by the secretive unit and then flagged because they don't like your opinions.
	In Texas, we have taxpayer-funded child ID kits.
	They came up with millions of dollars for this, and actually...
	Less than a month after the investigation by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune found no evidence that these fingerprinting kits, just the beginning of it, right?
	They would go with digital ID. They found no evidence that the fingerprinting kits would help to locate missing children.
	As a matter of fact, the whole thing was a big grift.
	And this guy that put together, a former NFL player, got a lot of criminal charges against him as well.
	Greg Abbott said, Took some of the astronomical sums of money that Trump was helicoptering cash dumps on everybody.
	He took some of that money.
	One of the very first things that was done in Texas.
	Greg Abbott gave $300 million.
	This is chicken feed.
	This is like $5 million.
	He gave $300 million to a company that had one little office in Frisco, Texas.
	And one citizen journalist went by there to talk to the people.
	If I know what's going on, it's completely empty.
	This guy who he gave the money to said that he was going to do contact tracing.
	And so then the question was, is this a grift?
	Is this corruption?
	Is Greg Abbott giving $300 million to a shell corporation that's not going to do anything?
	Or is it even worse?
	Are these people really going to do something?
	Certainly, it revealed the motivations of the Texas government, whether it was Greg Abbott or whoever was in charge of that, to want to surveil everyone in Texas.
	We'll spend $300 million to track all of you.
	Why? Because, you know, it's coming up, but nobody had died at that point, right?
	And we got this pandemic that we've been told is going to be coming.
	And so we have to start tracking you now.
	And that's what the World Health Organization is talking about doing right now.
	They have kept these chains of slavery in place.
	And they're adding new ones as these harden.
	And so I was not surprised to see that at all.
	I was surprised that there was absolutely no reaction in Texas.
	And no matter what I said about it, it was not going to be talked about.
	Because, you know, Trump was giving him the money.
	So, and for worse, not going to talk about that.
	Not going to criticize Greg Abbott, right?
	You don't poop where you live.
	Kind of the principle that Alex Jones would take.
	Not going to criticize the governor of Texas.
	No, no, no, no. We'll talk about Newsom or something like that.
	Finally, before we take a break, I like this op-ed piece from the New American.
	Raise your sons to be dangerous men.
	Understanding that those who seek tyrannical control of the masses would rather deal with docile men than those who are willing to fight back.
	For transgenderism, from transgenderism to feminism to the promotion of sedentary lifestyles, a lot of things that are being inculcated in people, particularly men.
	I mean, stop and think about, you know, from Homer Simpson and all the rest.
	Used to be father knows best.
	That's been replaced by Homer Simpson.
	Father doesn't know anything.
	Father is like, oh, you know, I don't know anything.
	Nowadays, they are specifically designed to neuter.
	Their ability to pose a viable challenge to the ambitions of Marxist globalists.
	The ultimate enemies of freedom, the ones at the top of the food chain, pulling the strings of many underlings, that is the Democrats, the left-wing activists, etc., and the useful idiots, are globalist oligarchs who want to destroy Christian civilization and replace it with a satanic, feudalistic system in which they anticipate themselves to become the supreme overlords.
	As I previously wrote about the importance of the middle class and the unique role as a bulwark against tyranny, as I explained in that article, the presence of a strong middle class has throughout history served as a check on the power of the elites.
	In fact, the counterweight of nobles and middle classmen against the royalty was, in medieval European society, one of the factors that contributed to the rise of republican institutions, such as parliaments.
	Similarly, having a pool of strong, capable men is itself an important deterrent to the accumulation of power in the hands of any one individual.
	Just as the globalists want to keep us all poor so that we're too dependent on them and busy eking out a living to effectively rise up against them, they likewise want to socially engineer a populace of submissive serfs lacking in the character, the physical they likewise want to socially engineer a populace of submissive serfs lacking in the character, the physical strength, and the intellectual vigor necessary Let me tell you one of the key ways to do this.
	It's to pacify them by making their world a computer screen.
	If your world is not bigger than your computer screen, if your world is not bigger than that visor that you put on your head, you're part of the problem.
	You're part of the problem. You are dependent on them.
	You're dependent on them for a little fantasy life that they're going to feed you, like a drug.
	Yuval Harari knows that so well, and he's talked about how that will be a tool of control.
	Virtual reality.
	That kind of transhumanism.
	That kind of transhumanism is how they control you.
	And this kind of transgenderism is just laying the groundwork for people to live a fantasy lie.
	And make that be their entire life.
	How sad to look back on your life and see that you wasted it all playing games.
	And that you did nothing of any real value.
	That's what they want for all of us.
	That's how they control us.
	As they sterilize us.
	Sterilize us with surgeries.
	Sterilize us with chemicals.
	Sterilize us with the food.
	Sterilize us with the 5G. And then sterilize our minds So that we don't want to have any contact with other people.
	And we can't imagine a future.
	Whether they take that future away from us with fears of climate change or if they turn us inward into a virtual reality.
	A nation's strength is in its institutions.
	This is, again, it's New American.
	Luis Miguel is the writer.
	A nation's strength is in its institutions.
	It's true. But it's also in the people.
	Well, it is more than that.
	A nation's strength is in God.
	And that's where we find our purpose, our direction, our compass.
	We're going to take a break.
	And before we take a break...
	I want to show you this picture.
	I had a listener send this to me.
	And he said, there's ads for this running on your podcast.
	Look at this.
	Can't Cancel Pride.
	It's an event that's coming up on June the 15th.
	It is co-sponsored by Procter& Gamble and by iHeartRadio.
	iHeartRadio owns Spreaker.
	Spreaker is where my podcast is hosted.
	Spreaker puts the ads on.
	I have no say-so over the ads.
	When I first turned on the ads back in December of 2021, I think it was, maybe, they had Pfizer was advertising heavily on my channel.
	That went for a couple of months.
	I'm sorry, a couple of weeks, actually.
	But people thought that was funny.
	And I thought, well, that's fine.
	I say everything that I can to push back against Pfizer, to warn people that it's a poison, to warn people about the religious implications, the political implications of all that stuff.
	And they quit advertising with me.
	I don't get them advertising anymore from what I've heard from people.
	I don't take a look at the ads.
	I don't really know what the ads are.
	But a person sent that to me and said, this is running on your show.
	And he said, funny. I don't think it's funny.
	I think it's disgusting.
	And I'm not going to be bought out by this.
	I'm going to turn the ads off on the podcast.
	That's been a big part of our budget.
	And we're down this month only 29%.
	It's been falling the last couple of months.
	But right now, even including the ad revenue from Spreaker, we're at 29%.
	So I'm going to turn that off.
	I'm not going to be bought.
	I'm not going to sell out to Alex over the fear porn that he was doing to lock everybody down.
	I'm not going to sell out over telling people that Trump was producing, you know, this is not the bad vaccine.
	He's playing 4D chess with these people.
	He's going to fix it. I'm not going to sell out over January the 6th or the lies about the election, any of that stuff.
	I'm not going to sell out to Spreaker.
	You know, we cannot accept this.
	This is fundamental, what is happening here with this pride stuff.
	I'm not going to be a part of this.
	So we're turning those things off.
	We'll be right back. The Common Man.
	They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
	They created Common Past to track and control us.
	Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
	They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
	It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hire.
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	TheDavidKnightShow.com Alright, welcome back. I appreciate that, conservative thinker.
	Thank you. Appreciate that tip on Rumble.
	I have another listener.
	Nick says, don't turn the ads off.
	Your listeners know you have no control over them.
	Well, I'm not going to be paid for by those people.
	I'll turn them off for Pride Month.
	You know, that's the thing. I went to look at it.
	I spent a lot of time last night trying to figure out if I could turn them off anywhere in a particular category.
	Because I found an area there where it shows me...
	The ads that are running and, you know, you get this percentage of your ads were in this particular category, right?
	You know, food or automobiles or something like that.
	They had a new category I'd never seen before.
	It was called gay life.
	And for the last two weeks, it has been the highest advertising category on my channel.
	Now, this is iHeart.
	These are the people who own this.
	The people who own Spreaker...
	Are paying me to run ads to push their gay agenda.
	I'm not going to take it. It's just, it's disgusting to me.
	And I'm not going to sell my soul for a bowl of porridge.
	So, there's no way to turn it off.
	You can just look at it and see what percentage is coming from different quote-unquote industries.
	And so now they've got an industry that's called gay life.
	I wish I could get...
	But the problem is, this is the problem with ads.
	You've got a few corporations, BlackRock and the ESG and the Wall Street and the government.
	They are controlling all this stuff.
	And they're pushing this agenda.
	And so you can't...
	It's the big corporations that are advertising through these things.
	And the big corporations are going to be pushing this stuff.
	So, anyway.
	Thank you for the tip, Nick.
	Appreciate it.
	And Aaron Moss, thank you.
	Mother jail for taking abortion pills.
	After the time limit.
	Now, she's lucky that she survived, quite frankly.
	It created an emergency they had to send.
	That's how they found out about it.
	Because if you try to...
	Induce labor through an abortion.
	That creates big issues because the baby is bigger.
	In this particular case, this woman was 44.
	She already had three children.
	And this is in the UK, in West Midlands, UK. And she's going to be jailed for this because this is the same category, folks, as having a baby and throwing it in the dumpster.
	This baby was between the people who got there, found the baby, was between 32 and 34 weeks.
	This is a full-term baby.
	There's absolutely no way that this baby could not have survived on its own.
	They call it, instead of abortion by mail, they call it pills by post.
	We talked yesterday about the Unabomber.
	He was doing abortions by mail, wasn't he?
	A guy who had absolutely no regard for human life, he had no compassion for anybody else, and he's going to kill people that he doesn't like them.
	You know, they're key in technology areas or something, and he's anti-technology, so let's take these people out.
	Same kind of ethics that you see from, quote-unquote, Peter Singer, his bioethics, quote-unquote.
	Oh, well, if you have a disabled toddler, we should be able to kill them at any age, he said.
	Or disabled person.
	And he calls himself a bioethicist.
	Well, Unabomber was doing death by mail.
	And so Carla Foster, 44, did the same thing.
	Abortion in the UK is legal up to 24 weeks.
	However, after 10 weeks, the procedure has to be carried out in a clinic.
	For the health of the woman.
	And so, because she told him, she said, well, the baby is, I'm about seven weeks pregnant.
	She knew what it was. She lied about it.
	And she was nearly full term.
	She took the abortion pills.
	They had to call the emergency services afterwards.
	A post-mortem examination recorded the baby girl's cause of death.
	As stillbirth, she was born without breathing.
	Maternal use of abortion drugs, and she was estimated to be between 32 and 34 weeks again.
	What about that baby woman's health?
	That's a baby woman.
	Women's health? Oh, well.
	Killed a woman right there. The sentencing judge...
	Said it was a tragic case, adding that if she had pled guilty earlier, he would have been able to consider suspending her jail sentence.
	But he said she did not seem to be, you know, she didn't want to plead guilty.
	He said even though she seemed wracked by guilt and had suffered depression and was a good mother to three, one of whom was special needs, who would suffer from her imprisonment, he said the law is the law.
	There was a large letter that was sent, co-signed by a lot of women's quote-unquote health organizations.
	And he said, well, I see this as political lobbying because I don't invent the law on the books.
	Because if you want to lobby somebody, you know, send your letters to Parliament.
	But this is what the law is.
	He says, I'm no more open to this than if this was a special pleading by those who want more restrictive laws.
	This is coming from groups that want no restriction on abortion.
	So he's sending her to jail for that.
	And just so that we understand what this is about, Peter Singer was given a chance.
	He's talked many times in the past about euthanizing.
	And he said, he was given another interview with Vice Magazine.
	And he said in the past that we should be able to kill infants and adults if they have disabilities.
	And he calls himself a bioethicist.
	He's promoting murder.
	Given the opportunity to acknowledge the problem, He doubled down instead.
	He said, well, I still think there are cases where parents should have the option of ending the life of their severely disabled infant.
	And I continue to think that there's no real ethical difference between bringing about a child's death by turning off life support than by giving the child a lethal injection.
	Well, he's right about that.
	It's murder in both cases.
	It's murder in both cases.
	He doesn't care about that.
	His argument was subjective.
	The idea of the quality of life.
	Who gets to decide what the quality of life standard is going to be?
	But you see, this is just indicative of what is happening with abortion in the first place.
	You're talking about, well, at what point do we say in terms of timeline that we can kill a baby?
	Do we kill them at 24 weeks?
	Do we kill them at 6 weeks or 7 weeks or 5 weeks or whatever?
	Do we kill them at 32, 34 weeks?
	Do we wait until they're born?
	And if we look at them, they've got a disability.
	I think they've got autism or something.
	Well, let's kill the baby now.
	Where is that? It's very subjective, isn't it?
	An Oxford study has found that the more educated families are having fewer children.
	I think it's because they're being miseducated.
	I think they're being given a set of priorities that are the priorities of the government And the other institutions who are following a depopulation agenda, they give them a million reasons why they should not want to have children.
	They give them a million reasons to focus on themselves selfishly and to not want to have kids.
	And, of course, that's the instinct of this culture.
	And you have to be countercultural enough, and once you are countercultural enough, if you invest in your kids, you will see that.
	I like what the Babylon Bee said about Pride Month.
	The official state religion is entering its high holy days.
	The official state religion in the U.S. entered its high holy days today with worshipers around the nation being called to rededicate themselves in submission and obedience to its holy teachings.
	I'm urging all Americans to publicly bend the knee before our sacred rainbow symbol.
	Let us all take the time to pray and feast before our God of prideful human flesh and before its sacred messengers, the genitals.
	We are a nation of pride.
	Blessings be upon its name.
	Just celebrate it, folks.
	Not a joke, okay? That was Joe Biden.
	So they followed up on the Babylon Bee with, can I have my snack now?
	And then others.
	Holy prophets in the public schools.
	The corporate DEI departments and the target supermarkets.
	One spokesman there says, blasphemy will not be tolerated.
	We are the eyes and the ears of pride and we are watching you.
	The High Holy Days of Pride will conclude this weekend with 1,000 abortions and 1,000 gender surgeries performed publicly on the steps of the White House.
	Well, we're just about there, aren't we?
	But lest you think that this is something that is simply a Democrat problem or simply a Biden problem, I've talked in the past and I've played you the videos of Melania talking about Trump's LGBT credentials in 2020 when he was running for re-election, of Tiffany doing the same thing, his daughter.
	You know, if it wasn't enough, the gun control by executive order, the lockdown, the universal basic income training of the stimulus check, the bankruptcy, financial as well as moral of the Trump administration, and then the vaccine.
	Well, you know, you got all the LGBT stuff.
	And going back to 2020, it wasn't just Melania, and it wasn't just Tiffany, and it wasn't just the log cabin Republicans.
	It was his Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grinnell, who cut this commercial just in case you think that Trump is different than Biden.
	Here you go. President Trump has done more to advance the rights of gays and lesbians in three years than Joe Biden did in 40 plus years in Washington.
	For four decades, Joe Biden has attacked the LGBT community.
	As a U.S. Senator, Biden supported Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.
	Biden voted to cut off federal funds to any school that teaches acceptance of homosexuality.
	Biden said again and again that he was against marriage equality.
	Senator, do you support gay marriage?
	No. Marriage is between a man and a woman.
	The United States Senator Joe Biden said gay people couldn't receive security clearances because we would be a security risk.
	Joe must have been terrified when Donald Trump appointed me as Acting Director of National Intelligence.
	The fact that I'm gay didn't even faze Donald Trump.
	Yeah, didn't even faze him.
	As a matter of fact, Michael Flynn, going back to 2014, on the second Pride month of the Pentagon, the anniversary, the first one was 2013, they had declared Pride month.
	2014 for Pride month, as I've talked many times, the pictures that we see of Michael Flynn, and he was handing, you know, celebrating Chris Beck, who was going by the name of Kristen Beck at the time, a Navy SEAL who was transgender and has now said, I don't know what, how they got me into that thing.
	He says, I'm an adult, I'm responsible for it, but it's very deceptive.
	And I was given like one hour of consultation with a psychologist and they started putting me on drugs.
	Anyway, he's come out of it and he's saying, I can't believe they're doing this to kids.
	You know, they did this to me as an adult, as a SEAL. And he goes, look what they're doing to kids.
	Michael Flynn hasn't said anything about that.
	Michael Flynn is going around with his phony religious revivals, Reawaken America.
	A bunch of phony pastors, a bunch of false prophets like Julie Green.
	And he's out there, you know, wrapping himself in Jesus.
	What a hypocrite.
	What a disgusting hypocrite he is.
	And that's what Christian nationalism is going to become.
	You want to have people like Michael Flynn, who one day he's celebrating transgenderism, the next day without any explanation whatsoever.
	He's out there, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
	Yeah. Many people will call me Lord in that day, he said.
	I never knew you.
	You better know who this guy is.
	You better know who these people are, like him.
	And these Charlie Kirk characters.
	Carrie Lake is another one of them.
	Look at those snakes in the grass.
	What a bunch of grifting demagogues they are.
	And so, you've got a bill in California.
	We're getting to the point now where if you are a parent...
	Who doesn't support transitioning your child, if the school that you send them to wants to transition them, and you push back against that, they're going to come after you for child abuse.
	And you know where this bill is coming from?
	State Senator Scott Weiner, appropriately named.
	This degenerate is a state rep from San Francisco, of course.
	A degenerate pervert from San Francisco.
	And he's just defecating all over the law and the Constitution in California.
	And defecating over families.
	Just disgusting.
	Any parent who doesn't affirm transgenderism for their child will be considered guilty of abuse under California state law.
	This passed the California State Assembly on May the 3rd.
	But a co-sponsor amended it after hours in the California State Senate on June the 6th.
	So we'll have to see what happens with this.
	Wiener's amendment completely rewrites California's standard of child care, says the Daily Signal.
	Daily Signal is the Heritage Foundation's news organization.
	This would include a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child.
	By changing the definition of what constitutes the health, safety, and welfare of a child, schools, churches, and hospitals, any other organization interacting with the children, as well as parents, would be required to affirm gender transitions in minors by default or risk being charged with child abuse.
	The bill makes no distinction regarding the age of a child, how long a child has identified as transgender, or the affirmation of social transition versus medical issues.
	Look, how long has the child identified as a transgender?
	Are you kidding me? Child identified as.
	Where'd they get this idea?
	Well, there's some dark person who's been feeding them that kind of stuff.
	As Jason Barker says, the toys we got, the kids, they're all these bright colors.
	It's deliberate. All this rainbow stuff is absolutely deliberate.
	I was putting away my grandson's toys yesterday, he said, and they're all the same bright colors as a flag.
	Not a coincidence. I need to get Jason on and talk to him about how his retirement is coming and talk about his experience as they tried to force the jab on him.
	That's why he retired from the military.
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	Yeah, yeah. You know, that's the other thing about all this, and that's one of the things.
	There's a lot of people who look at, you talk about flags, right?
	When we talk about the different groups and how these things are coming, we have gays against groomers.
	I talked about that. When we talked about Soros and how any criticism of Soros is now considered to be anti-Semitism, I said, well, the Jews need to stop owning this guy as their own.
	They need to push him out, just like the gays need to push out the groomers, and many of them have been outspoken about that.
	A lot of them said, well, I never thought that this was going to be directed toward the kids.
	Well, you know, we had the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir, That said, we're coming after your kids a couple of years ago.
	Remember that? Wink, wink.
	Oh, we're just joking. That's what you think, isn't it?
	But we're not really going to do that.
	Well, yes, they have. They are doing that.
	They were telling us that and telling us it was a joke.
	It was not a joke. So we saw this coming, but some of them did not see it coming.
	We see what George Soros is, and now there are some Jews who say, we're starting this organization.
	One of them was a candidate for district attorney.
	He says, I want to separate myself from George Soros as much as possible.
	And I forget what the other person was, but they started that.
	They said they've had thousands of people come in.
	And see, I think that about the Confederate flag as well.
	There's a lot of people who look at it as heritage, not hate.
	I think it's important for us to push back against that kind of stuff when it's done by the Klan and say, that has nothing to do with us.
	That's not what this history is about.
	That's not what this heritage is about.
	The Klan also grabbed the cross.
	You have to push back against that kind of stuff.
	Do you want the cross to become a symbol of their racism and hatred instead of a symbol of the love and sacrifice of Jesus?
	You have to push back against that.
	You know, when I look at the cross, I don't see the Ku Klux Klan.
	When I look at the Confederate flag, I see people like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
	I see people who are defending their homeland against an invasion by the federal government.
	I see people who were in the tradition of the founding fathers who understood that government has to be decentralized and that the greatest evil that we could have would be a centralized government, you know, after the Civil War.
	It became the United States is.
	Before that, it was the United States are.
	And that tells you everything you need to know about that rapid consolidation, which was antithetical to everything that the American Revolution was about.
	Anyway... Continuing on with this, if my thing will work here.
	There we go. Finally woke up.
	Gavin Newsom, understand, wants to run for president.
	He wants to amend the Constitution and get rid of the Second Amendment as well.
	And he wants to amend the definition of a family as well.
	But the real issue is not with the politicians.
	The real issue is what is going on with the so-called church.
	I talked about how with the German Protestant Congress that is happening in Germany, and guess where?
	Nuremberg. Oh, the irony of this.
	They're putting this on in Nuremberg, and I talked yesterday about how these liberal Protestant governments They call themselves so-called Christians by name.
	They had AI preaching a sermon to them.
	And then they had this guy get up telling them that God is queer.
	Now is the time to say...
	We are the last generation.
	Yeah, because we're not going to have any babies if we're all homosexual.
	Now is the time to say...
	Black lives always matter.
	Now it's time to say, God is queer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is the time.
	This is the time, he says.
	Well, this is the time we're living in.
	This is the time that you've been called to.
	The question that people have to ask, these so-called Christians by name.
	So are you going to follow LGBT or L-O-R-D? Right?
	Look, there is forgiveness for anything that anybody's done.
	I talked about the woman who is going to jail.
	He said, why didn't she just admit that she was guilty?
	Said the judge. I would have eased her, you know, I would not have sent her to jail.
	And one day you're going to stand before a judge, and the judge is going to say, why wouldn't you admit that you were a sinner?
	Your fine has already been paid.
	But you decided that you weren't a sinner.
	And there is no grace or mercy for those who rebel against Jesus.
	The name above all other names.
	And that's not Jesus. That's Lord.
	That's the name above other names.
	But they have thrown out Lord.
	And they've gone with LGBT. How sad.
	One person responded to that video and said, The Protestant Church in Germany is seeing record resignations.
	In 2022 alone, nearly 400,000 members resign.
	And it wasn't that big before that.
	So, you know, when you look at this and how this has infiltrated the churches, you know, this is an institution, not just politics and schools and entertainment and corporations, but the key thing that's been taken in this war, because it is a spiritual war, is the churches.
	Some churches are embracing Pride Month with drag queens and queer proms and gay concerts.
	This article from Daily Caller.
	And they said the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Maryland, is hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour on June 11th with a drag queen, Mama Bella.
	And that's not all of it, actually.
	Trinity Church on Wall Street in New York City is going to have a youth queer program.
	All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, hosted a Somewhere Over the Rainbow queer prom.
	I'll just shorten it up.
	Just call it Some Queer Over the Rainbow.
	You could fit that on a banner.
	You could fit that on your pride flag.
	You know, Some Queer Over the Rainbow.
	Somewhere Over the Rainbow Queer Prom is what they're going to have.
	And then they're going to follow up and they have an event that is titled But the Bible Says.
	Right? But the Bible Says.
	And they're going to liberate the people who attend this from the Bible.
	This is a church, and they're going to have an event to liberate you from the Bible.
	Because the Bible, they said, is a weapon of exclusion.
	That's right. There's going to be a dividing time between the people who listen to God and accept His forgiveness and mercy and then follow Him If you don't follow him, you never were his disciples.
	So if you love me, keep my commandments.
	So these people who want to separate this thing, it's amazing to me how they reiterate the Bible.
	You know, Satan in the garden.
	Has God not said such and such?
	That is always the way they come at you.
	Isn't that the way the devil tempted Christ?
	But it's written, right?
	That you can do this, and you can do that.
	Taking it out of context, and presenting it in a way to get you to rebel.
	That was the case in the Garden of Eden.
	That was the case with what Satan was saying to Christ.
	And the desert, and the temptation.
	Rebel against God.
	Because see, here's what the book says.
	And then twisting it.
	So you have to have that discernment.
	And as much as they were pushing this, there is some good news.
	This was, somebody videotaped this and then put it up on social media, some student in the classroom.
	The teacher was showing them all this rainbow stuff, and they were jeering and booing.
	And listen to this, then the teacher says, all right, You want to go to Saturday school?
	Yeah, you keep this up. Threatens them, essentially, with prison.
	Yeah, they're showing all these rainbow colors on the fly.
	Why are you showing this to kids?
	Why are you showing this to kids, I guess?
	I'll warn you guys now.
	If you're going to be inappropriate, I will have supervision down and give all of you a Saturday school for next year.
	So knock it off. Okay.
	Yeah. I'm going to warn you right now.
	If you're going to be inappropriate, you're going to be going to a Saturday detention.
	So you better knock this off right now.
	You know, when we look at what is happening in schools, it is a big dividing line.
	LGBT or L-O-R-D. And you've got the United Methodists, more than 5,000 congregations are leaving the United Methodists.
	You know, you have the two big denominations, I think, in the U.S. The Methodists and the Baptists, at least historically it was.
	And so now, you've got 5,000 of them leaving the United Methodist Church because the United Methodist Church decides that it wants to follow LGBT. 5,000 of them said, no, we're not going to follow that.
	And this has been something that's been percolating since 2019, is that it's the second largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. I think the biggest one is the Baptists.
	And, of course, the Southern Baptists are having a big fight over this stuff, too.
	Southern Baptists are not a denomination.
	It's a convention. So you've got independent, autonomous churches that come together in a conference, and they're supposed to be coordinating with each other and working together to do missions and things like that.
	But when you have a denomination like the United Methodists, they actually own the property.
	They own the church building.
	And that's a big club to hold over people's head, right?
	So you're going to follow God?
	If you do, I'm going to take away what you've got, right?
	You're not going to have a church building to meet in.
	You're going to start from scratch.
	You're not going to have any income.
	You know, it's a big issue, right?
	Who do you trust? What are you going to do?
	Well, they decided in 2019 a couple of different things.
	First of all, they had changed in 2019.
	They allowed the churches to leave, and if they left, they could keep their church property.
	So that was one thing. Then the other thing was they voted to uphold the church's ban on having LGBT clergy.
	Clergy. I think they would still do same-sex weddings at the United Methodist or something like that.
	I don't know. But they could not have LGBT clergy.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	They could not officiate at or host a same-sex wedding.
	So in 2019, they say, all right, we're not going to do LGBT clergy.
	We're not going to do same-sex weddings.
	If you leave, you can keep your church property.
	Well, the reason these people are leaving is because they ignored that.
	And you've got a lot of United Methodist churches that are commissioning LGBT clergy and are doing same-sex weddings anyway.
	So they don't really care.
	So they said, all right, we're going to take that other escape clause and take our property and our church and head out.
	But it's not just, and of course, when you look at the Southern Baptist Conference, you now got Rick Warren who wrote, you know, made who knows how many millions of dollars writing his book, The Purpose Driven Life.
	And I saw it everywhere.
	It was really just Babylon.
	It's like, I don't need Rick Warren.
	I got the Bible. But, you know, he thinks that you need, and a lot of people, you know, oh, let me get a self-help program.
	Here's 10 steps to a better life.
	That type of thing. Well, you got the Ten Commandments.
	That's a start, you know?
	But let's not talk about that.
	We all know about that. I want to know what the real answer to life is.
	So let me go to Rick Warren. Well, Rick Warren is now fighting with the Southern Baptist Conference.
	This is how it all begins.
	He's trying to bring in feminism and whatever the culture agrees with right now.
	He just retired from this mega church they'd had in California.
	And then he discovered what he didn't know the entire time.
	He was a pastor and best-selling author for many decades.
	And he never realized that women should be pastors that entire time.
	And then after he retires, he figures it out.
	And he's not content just to go his own way.
	No, he wants everybody else in the Southern Baptist Conference to do it his way, or they're bad people, right?
	If you don't do it his way, it's very different than what's happening even in the United Methodist Church.
	You've got these people saying, well, we disagree on this issue, so we're going to go our way.
	No, he's going to make sure that everybody does it his way, the way that he never saw for decades.
	Let's take a look at Kanye West.
	I remember when he started, because, you know, Alex, whenever Alex would see somebody who was a billionaire, see somebody who was, you know, popular, he likes to attach himself to that.
	You know, he doesn't criticize these entertainers and these billionaires.
	He latches on to them for all it's worth.
	You know, he's hosted Kanye West now since I left and other things like that.
	But he always wanted, you know, to snuggle up to Kanye.
	And Kanye, even before he divorced Kim Kardashian, was holding these so-called Sunday service shows.
	And I call them shows.
	You look at these things and it was really kind of scary.
	Who and what is being worshipped here?
	Well, the who that's being worshipped was Kanye.
	And if you want to know what was being worshipped, you take a look at his life of debauchery.
	With his wife and the rest of this stuff.
	And nothing has changed. He still has this going.
	As a matter of fact, they said that he's been doing this every week since he started this back in, I think it is 2019 when he started this thing.
	And yeah, January 2019.
	And was he doing this during the lockdown?
	I don't recall that.
	Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't.
	But he's got his Sunday service going, and he's dressing people up in white hooded outfits.
	And then he's laying out food for them to eat with their hands on, they said, what looks like an autopsy table.
	No utensils were in sight, so it appeared that the guests ate with their bare hands.
	And, you know, it said these robes look like the handmaid's tale.
	You know, I think he really illustrates the absurdity of these new churches and this cult of personality and stars and all the rest of this stuff.
	It really was, he was the one who was being worshipped when you look at these different Sunday services that were there.
	He's also celebrated his 46th birthday.
	So he wasn't there on this last one.
	He skipped his Sunday service to celebrate his 46th birthday.
	And to celebrate his 46th birthday, he put a naked woman on a table and then covered her with sushi for people to eat off of.
	And then he had his daughter, whose name is North, Northwest, get it?
	Ah, I think this guy's lost his moral compass.
	Anyway, so he had his little girl there with him, as they had a naked woman on a table, people eating food off of her body.
	And so the people were writing on social media, while his daughter was present?
	That don't make sense to me.
	I mean, you know, if his daughter was not there, that'd be fine, right?
	Another one says, so what exactly is this?
	Where's the fun here?
	So tomorrow he's going to be preaching about Jesus Christ and morals.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	I don't know if he preaches or not.
	But, you know, there's absolutely no sense in the church of following Christ.
	You just live your life however you want.
	You just name him.
	And claim him. And that ain't the way it works, folks.
	We'll be right back. The Common Man.
	They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
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	Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
	They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
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	TheDavidKnightShow.com TheDavidKnightShow.com A comment from Jason Barker when I played that ad from Rick Grinnell.
	He says, is this a Trump or a Biden ad?
	I guess it depends on the audience.
	I guess it depends on the fact that there's two sides of the same coin.
	By the way, Jason Barker was the one who did this great coin, David Knight coin.
	We just can't do it justice showing it.
	It's got a radio microphone on the back.
	It's got the chest head on the front.
	I really do appreciate that.
	That's a great design, Jason.
	But Beth Baldwin, thank you for the tip.
	Harps, thank you very much for the tip.
	He says, thanks, David, and for all the prayers and well wishes, feeling about 60% better.
	Good. So he broke some ribs.
	Harps is in Australia, so keep him in your prayers.
	As a matter of fact, we had a person at church who had a heart attack.
	It often happens with a heart attack when they do CPR, they break your ribs.
	And he's got broken ribs now from the CPR. I mean, he lost consciousness with a heart attack.
	And broke his ribs.
	They kept him alive. And actually, they broke him ribs because they broke him.
	They kept having to do the chest compression.
	And so, you know, they pierced his lung as well.
	So he's in a lot of pain going through that.
	And I know Karen broke some ribs a few years ago, slipping on some steps and fell backwards.
	Yeah. It took a long time, so I know it's a very painful thing.
	Steve Swan said when I was talking about abortion pills, he said, my daughter just had to deliver her baby at 29 weeks.
	She's getting stronger every day.
	This baby was like 34 weeks old.
	Truly amazing. So, yeah, Jason Barker says, think about all the money being poured into this.
	If you think there's not a larger agenda, you need to wipe the sleep out of your eyes.
	And pride is coming before this fall.
	Of course, it's also an aspect of our fall, I think, that we have this pride.
	People just, except for the longest time, you know, the Bible says a lot about pride.
	It's not really too happy about that.
	It considers that to be a separate sin all of its own.
	But, you know, your pride about your sin that is specifically condemned, Any, you know, any of this.
	Anyway, filling kinds.
	Governor Pritzker just signed two bills in Illinois to affirm LGBT gender care in foster homes and legal LGBT marriage.
	Yeah, well, you know, you look at his, I think it's his cousin, and the two of them are doppelgangers.
	Except that now his cousin is dressing up as a woman.
	And, you know, transgender guy.
	And, uh, whenever I look at the two of them side by side, it always makes me think of the Beverly Hillbillies and Jethro and Jethreen, you know, he looks like, uh, you know, the governor is Jethro.
	And then the other part of the Pritzker family, which is the Hyatt hotel fortune is, uh, you know, um, the transgender.
	So look at 1980, the Confederate flag represents separation from tyranny.
	It does in my mind, it does in my mind.
	Um, About the Godist Queer video.
	Audi MRR. Why do these groomers always look like circus freaks?
	Well, because they are.
	They are. It's just people don't want to pay to watch them.
	And Jason Barker on the school video says, Wow, the presumption of authority.
	I would have walked out.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Definitely. It is such a shame, especially since we have the opportunity to get our kids out of school now.
	So John John says, Methodists have been woke for quite some time.
	Years ago when I heard George W. Bush was a Methodist, I was not surprised.
	Yeah. And we people, books and schools and libraries promoted homosexuality before we ever got into this stage of transsexual insanity.
	Not hating on anyone, but we got here because we normalized things that were not normal.
	And you know, it really did happen very quickly.
	I haven't told this story for a while.
	I had, we bought a giant, unabridged Webster's Dictionary from the 1950s.
	Small print, and the thing was like, you know, if you stand up this tall, okay, and like this.
	And you lay it down, it was like this thick.
	You know, talking about six, seven inches thick.
	And so, I got curious one day.
	You know, this is the 1950s.
	This thing was put out.
	And I thought, how did they define gay?
	You know, at that point, well, it wasn't there.
	So that wasn't a surprise.
	I thought that came around, like, during the 1970s.
	And so then I looked to see homosexuality, and to my surprise, in that unabridged Webster's Dictionary that had about 650,000 words, the word homosexual was not there.
	I thought, wow. In a very short period of time, the one that they did have there was, of course, sodomy.
	And so for a very short period of time, you went from a pejorative term to a neutral term.
	And right after they went neutral, it went positive with the gay term.
	So, yeah, Audi MRR asked myself, Were people really that naive to think that Kanye West's church was a legit honoring of the Almighty?
	The answer is yes. Yes, they were.
	I know. Yeah, they were.
	I remember all the people saying, oh, this is great.
	Yeah, okay, it's a little bit weird, you know, but he's moving in the right direction, you know?
	And I understand that, you know, everybody always on the sidelines cheering celebrities.
	It looks like, you know, well, maybe they're going to, you know, Maybe they're awakening to God, or God is working in their life.
	Think of Jordan Peterson, for example.
	He says some of the stuff that he says, and people are like, oh, yes, he's waking up.
	It's like, I don't know.
	Babylon Bee had a funny take on that not too long ago, Jordan Peterson.
	Now he can't get all around it, but he can't get there.
	It's just never quite get to the point with all that.
	Let's talk a little bit about what is going on Financially, because it was an interesting video that I came across.
	While we're talking about CBDC, and we're talking about, you know, the control grid, and we're also talking about how they're trying to outlaw crypto.
	And a big part of this is to come after it again by demonizing it, demonizing crypto because it uses a lot of power.
	So we're going to talk about what's going to be using a lot of power.
	And the fact that we now have quantum computing on the horizon, where they'll be able to...
	I don't know what they're going to do with CBDC once they get quantum computing.
	Maybe the quantum computing will allow them to do better encoding or something, but we'll get to that in a moment.
	First of all, the debt ceiling crisis.
	It's now over. And what that means is that the debt ceiling is going to rise from $31 trillion today, To $50 trillion by 2030 in seven years.
	That's how they get us to where we own nothing and we're bankrupt, right?
	Is to create this kind of debt.
	We averted an economic crisis and an economic collapse, said Biden.
	How did we do that?
	Oh, we just went into more debt.
	We just got a bigger line of credit.
	So we avoided an economic collapse or an economic crisis by giving ourselves...
	A bigger line of credit.
	Well, that makes perfectly good sense, doesn't it?
	Nothing, he said. Nothing would have been more irresponsible.
	Nothing would have been more catastrophic.
	Well, no, actually, this blank-checked aspect is.
	And so, at Zero Hedge, they say, we in the private sector are now commissioned to somehow in some way chart a miraculous path out of this through ingenuity and innovation.
	We're going to have to spark a historic productivity boom.
	Because if you look at this, $31 trillion today, $50 trillion in 2030, and then the slope really takes off.
	And they don't know the half of it.
	Because as part of this so-called Inflation Reduction Act, as I pointed out before, Brian Deese, who used to be one of Biden's economic advisors, is now saying, you know, we've set up these programs for people to invest and get money to invest in green projects.
	And there's no limit to how much money people can sign up for.
	You want to talk about corporate welfare?
	You want to talk about corporate entitlement program?
	That's what this so-called Inflation Reduction Act is.
	Unlimited amounts of money to anybody who can put together a business proposal that sounds green enough.
	Well, Americans don't want a central bank digital currency.
	They got a new poll from the Cato Institute and they found that about half of Americans don't have an opinion.
	They don't even know what this is.
	But of the half who do, they found that among those with an opinion over it, 34% oppose the prospect, 16% support it.
	And then half of them don't know anything about it.
	They said, I don't know.
	Well, it's kind of interesting to see where this is going to go.
	We have to educate people about this.
	If they understand that this is a grid for total control.
	And when they started asking them a little bit more granularly about this, first they had just asked CBDC. Do you know what CBDC is?
	Do you oppose that or support it?
	16% said I like it.
	34% said I don't like it.
	And then 50% said I don't even know what it is.
	So then they said, started asking them questions about different features of CBDC. And so they said, what if it meant that the government could control what people spend their money on?
	74% said no.
	What if the government could monitor their spending?
	68% said no.
	What if we abolish all U.S. cash?
	68% said no.
	What if we did something that's going to attract cyber attacks?
	Because CBDC will.
	65% said no.
	What if the government could charge a tax on those who don't spend money during recessions?
	64% didn't like that idea.
	What if the government could freeze the digital bank accounts of political protesters?
	Like we saw with the Freedom Convoy.
	59% didn't like that.
	Americans were only marginally opposed, 52%, if a CBDC Could cause some people to stop using private banks, resulting in the banks going out of business, because that's going to be another aspect of this.
	The banks don't really understand that.
	The way that you fight that is with a state bank or a state reserve system, which is really what we're talking about here.
	It's not a bank that's going to be competing with the small banks.
	It would be there as an alternative to help them, as we've already seen in North Dakota.
	Turner nicely calls it the Tennessee Reserve System.
	But the banks... The small, medium-sized banks don't realize that, you know, to use an analogy, it's like walking out after a bank robbery or whatever, and you've got all these red dots over your body and your head.
	It's that you're in the sights of the snipers that are out there.
	But, you know, there's all these red dots all over them.
	They don't even know, well, what's these red dots on my hand here and my body?
	The IMF has got a plan.
	The IMF put out their plan back in April.
	But I want to jump to this because we don't have a lot of time.
	The bottom line is that they want to combine this with a digital ID. And that is the key thing.
	Once they combine that with a digital ID, and of course that is the fundamental underpinning with this.
	And Zuckerberg did this from the very beginning.
	He wanted to, he got the jump start on all these central banks and said, well, we'll do something.
	I'll call it Libra. And when he put out his white paper and presented it to all these different governments, he said, look, we could have a one-world currency.
	And this one-world currency, this digital currency that I will run for you, will be a de facto global ID. And I said, well, thanks, but no thanks.
	We can do it ourselves. The Bank of Russia, talking about as well, Alexei Zabotkin, deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, said, well, this digital ruble will permit better traceability of payments and money flow, and we can set conditions on permitted use of this.
	He said, for imagine that you're a parent, and you give your kids some money in digital rubles, and then you restrict their use of purchasing junk food, for example.
	They give them some digital money, but they can't buy junk food.
	That would be a useful functionality for a customer.
	And of course, you can come up with hundreds of other similar use cases.
	Well, that's not what the nanny state is going to use it for.
	The nanny state is designing the junk food for us.
	Chris Lane Lagarde says the digital currency will never be as anonymous.
	And as protecting of privacy in many aspects as cash is, which is why, she said, cash will always be around.
	But we saw, when she thought she was talking to Zelensky, those Russian comedians got her to admit, well, we're getting rid of cash.
	There are going to be people who are going to use it.
	It's going to be a gray area for now, but we're going to make it illegal to use cash.
	That's where she's headed with this.
	Yeah, we died into crisis by printing money.
	What could possibly go wrong, says my son.
	Yeah. So, before we go to our guest, at the top of the hour here, let me just talk about what is happening with computers.
	And there's been a big breakthrough in terms of speed.
	These NVIDIA processors that everybody is using for mining, and they're also using it for the large language models, the artificial intelligence, they have to...
	It's a long, repetitive process.
	They put labels on these things, and then they show them, and it scans the Internet, and it's got to collect all this data.
	It's got to have huge amounts of data.
	It's got to scan huge amounts of data before it can come up with its...
	Crazy stuff, right?
	But its power is based on the size of its database.
	And so it's very computationally intensive.
	And they use these GPUs, these graphic processing units, very specialized, very powerful processors that are hooked up in a neural net.
	And they have lots and lots of them.
	And they're very expensive.
	And so, a bank of these things, it's not unusual for them to cost $10 million.
	You know, a lot of these boards are like $10,000 a piece, and they get a thousand of them that they put together, right?
	And so, just yesterday, we had NVIDIA come out and say, we've now got something that is 44 times faster and uses one-third the amount of energy.
	And what he was also saying was, he said, so now we're going to use this as kind of an iterative process and kind of a feedback loop.
	Now that we've got faster and smaller, and of course that's a relative term, still uses an unbelievably large amount of energy, astronomical amount of energy, saying we're going to put this in a feedback loop and we're going to use this to assist us in designing newer ones with artificial intelligence.
	And as you look at all of this, People are talking about, well, how is quantum computing going to affect the internet?
	Will it break the internet?
	Will it break all encryption on the internet?
	Well, right now, this is a presentation.
	Let's see, who did this presentation?
	I forgot to write down who this is from.
	But they said in a presentation, right now some nation states and individual actors are intercepting and storing lots of encrypted data, like passwords, like bank decals, like social security numbers, but they can't open these files.
	So why are they doing it?
	Because they believe that within the next 10 to 20 years, they will have access to quantum computers that can break the encryption in minutes.
	This procedure is known now as StoreNow, Decrypt Later.
	They even have an acronym for it.
	SNDL. StoreNow, Decrypt Later.
	You see, everything that is on the internet that is hidden will be exposed.
	And these people will have access.
	The people with quantum computers will be able to read anything and everything that is out there.
	You know, there's a very interesting biography of, there's an audio book about Samuel Pepys.
	He was back in the 1600s.
	As a matter of fact, he was around when they had the Great Fire of London.
	And Samuel Pepys was a guy who was a very successful bureaucrat.
	He became very wealthy.
	But he kept a very, very detailed diary.
	And he rose up through the bureaucracy of the government at that point in time.
	So it's an interesting diary because he's got statements in there about famous people that he knew in government and that type of thing.
	He encrypted it.
	And they couldn't break that encryption for several centuries.
	And he encrypted stuff about sexual affairs.
	He had all kinds of secret things that had happened.
	And things that he said about powerful people and stuff like that.
	When they broke that encryption, I remember I had an audio book that Ken Branagh read it.
	And it was interesting.
	I think the big takeaway from that is that, you know, everything is going to be open and exposed.
	And it's not just because somebody's going to figure out your encryption code in your diary.
	It's not just because the computers are going to go in and be able to read all of your passwords and all your social security numbers and everything else.
	But everything is going to be open and exposed when we stand before God.
	Open and exposed to everybody.
	But these people who are giving themselves godlike power, that's going to happen to anything that's online in the next 10 years.
	But of course, many of us are looking at this whole thing happening within the next 10 years or so anyway.
	We're getting to the term limit time in our lives.
	It works, I said, because there's information around today that will still be valuable in a decade.
	Things like industrial and pharmaceutical research, top secret government intelligence.
	Everyone is aware of the threat.
	The National Security Agency, NSA, no such agency, says that a sufficiently large quantum computer, if built, would be capable of undermining all widely deployed public key algorithms in five or ten year time frame.
	It will break encryption as we know today.
	Even though sufficiently powerful quantum computers are still years away, they're already a threat because of the store now decrypt later.
	Which is why the US Congress just passed legislation mandating that all agencies start transitioning right now to new methods of cryptography that cannot be broken by quantum computers.
	You know, our current encryption schemes have been remarkably successful, working effectively for over 40 years.
	So the rest of this video that I got the transcription from is talking about different methods of encryption.
	Because this presents a big problem.
	For central bank digital currencies and other things, maybe even for crypto stuff.
	I'm not an expert in that, so I don't know.
	But just to give you an idea of what is happening, I'll show you this real short excerpt from what NVIDIA said.
	If I can find it, here it is. This is accelerated computing used for large language models.
	Basically, the core of generative AI. This example is a $10 million server.
	And so $10 million gets you nearly 1,000 CPU servers.
	And to train, to process this large language model takes 11 gigawatt hours.
	11 gigawatt hours.
	Okay? And this is what happens when you accelerate...
	This workload with accelerated computing.
	And so with $10 million, for a $10 million server, you buy 48 GPU servers.
	It's the reason why people say that GPU servers are so expensive.
	So for $10 million, you buy 48 GPU servers.
	It only consumes 3.2 gigawatt hours and 44 times the performance.
	Let me just show it to you one more time.
	This is before, and this is after, and this is...
	It's almost like Jeb Bush.
	Please applaud. He paused there for that applause.
	No, it's a big accomplishment. Get a 44 times increase in performance and then cut the energy usage down by like 75%.
	Pretty big.
	But to kind of put that in perspective, right?
	He's talking about gigawatt hours.
	What's a gigawatt hour?
	Whoa, this is it. This is the part coming up, Doc.
	This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
	What did I just say? The flux capacity stores...
	This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
	1.21 gigawatts!
	1.21 gigawatts!
	What the hell is a gigawatt?!
	How could I have been so careless 1.21 gigawatts?
	Tom, how am I going to generate that kind of power?
	It can't be done. Can it?
	Look, all we need is a little plutonium.
	I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium was available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.
	Marty, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you're stuck here.
	Yeah, yeah. I need 1.21 gigawatts, he said.
	Gigawatts is the way we've always said it.
	But anyway, yeah. So what would he say about one of these large language models, these LLMs, needing 3.2 gigawatts?
	And that's new and improved.
	I mean, prior to that, it was 11 gigawatts that they needed.
	And that's just astronomical, that amount of power.
	To give you an idea of how much that is, I looked up to see what the average American household uses over a year.
	And the average American household uses 10.5 kilowatts in a year, for the entire year.
	Let's just call it 11, right?
	Okay, gigawatts is a billion watts.
	Kilawatts is a thousand watts.
	And of course, you know, kilowatt hours is what the time is.
	But it's a million times more than you would use.
	So in other words, it's the equivalent, what they're going to use for one of these units, and Elon Musk just bought one of them, that uses 11 gigawatt hours.
	That would be equivalent to the entire annual usage of one million homes.
	One million homes.
	And I mention this, and now they've reduced it to, you know, a third of that.
	So, you know, only 333,000 homes for an entire year for one of these things.
	I mention that because the way that they have focused exclusively, like a laser beam, on crypto, And ignored the power requirements of these large language models and artificial intelligence.
	And even now, while they're talking about quantum computing coming on and changing the requirements of everything, you know, years ago I interviewed William Benny, who was the former global technical head of the NSA. And I said, so what do we do to protect our privacy?
	And he said, well...
	If you're somebody that they're interested in right now, there's nothing you can do.
	So we can find out anything about anybody.
	It'll take a lot of devoted resources, but we can give that information about anybody.
	There's not really anything you can do. There's not any encryption programs for email and all the rest of the stuff if we're interested in you.
	You know, Michael Hayden said, well, we're interested in interesting people, right?
	So if they take an interest in you, there's not any way that you're going to be able to hide from these people.
	But they use this idea that Bitcoin mining or crypto mining in general is going to destroy the earth and we've got to get rid of it.
	As they're out there with their large language models, as they're out there with their surveillance state doing store now, decode later stuff, right?
	And they're storing everything, everything that's out there on everybody.
	As I said before, they're creating a massive plan to enslave us and to target us.
	And people simply don't see it.
	So in Nigeria, you want to know how these things are rolling out?
	It was in 2021, and I've talked about how Nigeria has tried.
	They said, well, you know, we've got a lot of people who like crypto.
	Nigeria is a large country.
	Let's use them as a test case.
	So they've been trying to outlaw cash and push people into their CBDC, their central bank digital currency.
	In 2021, they barred local banks and financial institutions from dealing or facilitating transactions in virtual currencies.
	So they cut off the entrance ramps and the off-ramps, as they're doing now.
	It's not, you know, they've not completely dropped the hammer, but they won't approve any new banks coming into the system.
	And they are increasing that.
	So Nigeria has now just banned Binance.
	And the U.S. is talking about doing that.
	We're just a little step behind them, and this is the progression.
	First, they ban the entrance ramps and the off-ramps to their competition, and then they shut everything down.
	This is why I say, when we look at the inflation that may be coming from the massive debt, that's one thing to try to get out of their financial system.
	But I think that the most important thing That we can do in terms of financial preparedness is to try to get out of their system that they control in terms of having gold and silver.
	I really do appreciate Tony supporting the show.
	He doesn't make me run any rainbow ads or anything.
	So I appreciate that.
	He set up DavidKnight.gold.
	Just understand that gold is real money and gold is real privacy.
	And you need money and you need privacy in order to have political freedom.
	And so you can find that at davidknight.gold.
	I'll take you to Tony Ardvin at Wise Wolf Gold.
	Just a little encore here from Christopher Lloyd doing his gigawatts.
	Everybody loves it.
	1.21 gigawatts!
	We'll be right back with our guest.
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	TheDavidKnightShow.com All right, welcome back, and joining us now is Donald Rainwater.
	He's running for governor in Indiana, and I appreciate the introduction from Carl Niemoller.
	He's actually descended from Pastor Martin Niemoller, the guy who said, you know, first they came for this group, and I didn't do anything about it.
	And he has a couple of radio stations there in Indiana, K-A-R-L and K-A-R-L.2.
	And I wanted to talk to Mr.
	Rainwater back in 2020.
	When he was running for governor then, I really liked what he was doing.
	He was taking the lead in terms of opposing all this lockdown tyranny and the masks and all the rest of the stuff.
	I really liked what he was doing, so it's great to have him on.
	His website, by the way, is rainwaterforindiana.com.
	Thank you for joining us, sir. Oh, well, thank you so much for having me, David.
	I really appreciate the opportunity.
	It's great to have you on.
	I appreciate you getting into this fight.
	I know it's a difficult thing being in third parties.
	I've been there, done that myself.
	So tell us a little bit about what you're trying to accomplish there.
	I know that when you started talking about freedom in the midst of all this lockdown and everything, you shot sky high in the polls there for a bit, and you were ahead of the curve with everybody.
	Even the people in the Libertarian Party in terms of recognizing that for the tyranny that it was.
	What are you trying to tell us how it's going in Indiana while you're running for governor and how it's going?
	Well, let's start with why I ran in 2020.
	Obviously, with the pandemic came a lot of government overreach.
	And my philosophy of government really stems from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, where Thomas Jefferson said that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.
	And I really take the position that other than the responsibility to secure our rights and to adjudicate infringements upon our rights, if you will, government shouldn't have a whole lot more authority or responsibility than that.
	And I believe in the world we live in today, we have allowed government To become our surrogate parents, our big brother, if you will.
	And we need to get the message out to the citizens of the United States, really around the globe, and I'm focused on Indiana, that We have unalienable rights as human beings, and unalienable means not only can they not be taken away from us, but we can't forfeit them.
	Even if we temporarily decide to allow someone to infringe on them, they still belong to us, and we should at any time be able to stand up and say, okay, enough's enough.
	I'm not allowing this infringement on my unalienable rights moving forward.
	I believe that's the purpose of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution.
	And so, therefore, when we saw what was going on in 2020, quite frankly, we said, hey, hold on there just a minute.
	We've got a problem here.
	Houston, we've got a problem.
	We've got a big problem, don't we, Houston?
	Yeah, absolutely. And so, you know, fast forward to today.
	And just like in 2020, I quoted Ronald Reagan when he said that, you know, in this present crisis, government is not the solution to the problem.
	Government is the problem.
	And then we were talking about lockdowns and infringing upon the religious liberties of people to worship as they see fit.
	In Indiana, the governor said, hey, we're going to close down the churches, the places of worship.
	I believe that's unconstitutional for any government agency to do that.
	And so today we can say the same thing, only it's a different crisis.
	Government loves a good crisis.
	They never let one go to waste.
	And in 2020, they utilized that crisis to create the one we're currently in, which is runaway inflation, runaway taxation in Indiana and We have real concerns with our property taxes.
	Several administrations ago, there was a state constitutional amendment to quote-unquote cap property taxes at 1% of the assessed value of your property.
	The problem is that they can come out and reassess the property every year, and they do so.
	And they have inflated the property values in order to continue to raise taxes.
	And that is not a tax cap, and that is an infringement, in my opinion, on people's rights.
	You should not be taxed on your property.
	You should not be taxed on your income.
	I'm a big proponent of abolishing the income tax, the state income tax here in Indiana.
	And of course, if I could snap my fingers and make something go away, I'd snap my fingers and make the IRS and the federal income tax go away as well.
	And when people ask me, Well, how would you pay for all of the things that government does?
	I say, I wouldn't.
	I would start cutting back what government does.
	And here in Indiana, I think there's an argument to be made that we can continue to fund the entitlements that government in Indiana has promised people And still cut enough budget and unnecessary bloat and waste and probably a lot of fraud in order to eliminate the state income tax and at the very least My
	proposal in 2020 was let's abolish the state property tax on your primary residence.
	People have been a little reticent to embrace that.
	So I've said, okay, as a first step, let's just change the 1% cap to a 1% cap on a maximum of the purchase price of your property.
	So instead of them being able to reassess every year and inflate your taxes that way, if we set a true hard cap on whatever you paid for the property, that means that as long as you own that piece of property, you never have to worry about, well, is it going to go up?
	And then I want to take it a step further, and eventually I'd like to see us say, you know, Indiana has a 7% sales tax, so let's put a permanent cap on property taxes of 1% of the purchase price up to a total of 7%.
	So you can pay 7% when you close on your home, and you're done with property taxes for the rest of the time you own that property.
	You can pay 1% a year for seven years.
	And be done.
	That way we get rid of the real unethical issue, which is asset forfeiture.
	We have way too many senior citizens in Indiana on fixed incomes whose assessment keeps going up, and they're being taxed out of their home.
	And we need to stop that in Indiana.
	And I'll stop there and apologize.
	I don't know. It's great to leave you. No, I love that.
	You've got some great ideas.
	And that's really the value of a third-party candidacy.
	Because, you know, the Republicans and Democrats are going to keep coming up with the same stuff.
	Typically, what we see in each state is you've got one party that is dominant.
	In Indiana, it's the Republican Party.
	And even though they're dominant, they have 7%.
	I don't know what your sales tax is, but did you say 7% for sales tax?
	Yes, sir. 7% for sales tax.
	You've got a 7% sales tax.
	You know, here in Tennessee, I moved.
	They used to have a sales tax.
	They got rid of the sales tax.
	They have reduced property taxes and stuff.
	And they've got a surplus. They got rid of several major taxes like that.
	It is doable. And I think it's important for people.
	You've got some great ideas there.
	I love the idea. We're good to go.
	And so they keep playing this thing, and it's this ratcheting effect that's happening there.
	So that's a great idea.
	I love the, you know, you can pay it out over, you know, 7% right up front, or you can pay it over a seven-year period.
	That's kind of like the year of Jubilee, you know, after seven years, you go burn the tax bills for your property.
	That's a wonderful idea.
	And see, it's those types of things, if they would allow an open ballot, if they would allow open debates, Those are the types of ideas that need to come out.
	And I've got to say the people in Indiana, if you've got somebody like Donald Rainwater who is running...
	If he gets your support, if he gets your vote, the Republicans are going to look at this stuff and say, what's going on with this?
	Maybe we should do that.
	I've seen that, a third-party effect.
	I've seen that in North Carolina when I was involved with the third party.
	We started talking about eliminating the sales tax on food that they had.
	And before you knew it, the Democrats who were in control of the House were talking about doing that.
	But, of course, they won in a landslide election, and so then they never did it.
	But they talked about that during the election.
	But you can put pressure on your politicians by supporting somebody who is going to do the kind of policies that you want to see happening there.
	You know, policies like those types of things.
	And of course, when we talk about civil asset forfeiture, Don, we've seen a lot of Supreme Court cases that back up what you say.
	They just had a unanimous case where some jurisdiction came in and you had an elderly widow who was behind her taxes, a couple of thousand dollars.
	They took the house, sold the house, kept all the additional over the taxes they They kept all of the money instead of just selling the house and giving her everything else.
	She had a lot of equity in the house because she was elderly and been paying on it for a long time.
	They didn't give her any of the equity, and we've seen that type of thing.
	But there's other ways that civil asset forfeiture is there as well, right, in Indiana.
	Talk about that civil asset forfeiture and the drug laws.
	I'm sure that you're aware of that as a libertarian, right?
	Well, absolutely.
	And here again, for things such as simple possession, they can take your vehicle.
	If you're driving down the road and they pull you over for a moving violation, and they search your vehicle, and they find cannabis or what they would consider contraband, They can then implement asset forfeiture and take your vehicle.
	These are things here again, you know, my belief and I believe our forefathers believed that one of the key foundational truths of liberty is Is property ownership.
	And I believe that one of the ways that government strips us of our citizenship and converts us to subjects is to tax and threaten the forfeiture of our properties.
	I agree. I agree.
	We got some comments.
	Let me interject these comments here for some listeners on Rumble.
	One of them says, property should be taxed at the last sale price if it has to be taxed at all.
	And that's your plan. That's a great idea.
	You've got a lot of people who are going to like that idea, and that idea needs to be adopted.
	By anybody, in case you don't win the election, that ought to be adopted.
	That's a very strong point.
	Another listener, White Knight 29, says property tax is nothing but rent.
	And that's absolutely right as well.
	You never get rid of it.
	You never own anything.
	You know, it's just a way of taking away your ownership, as you just said, and taking us away that they shove us out.
	And they've already declared that their intention is to make sure that we own nothing.
	Right. There are a lot of ways that they can skin that cat to make sure that we own nothing.
	But I find it interesting, you know, in Indiana, I find it interesting that you've got so many taxes there.
	You know, sales tax as well as income tax and all the rest of this stuff.
	People need to start holding these Republicans' feet to the fire on this.
	That's one of the obvious things every election that they run on.
	You know, the things that were not so obvious were the types of things that were happening during 2020 with those new powers that they gave themselves.
	Let's talk a little bit about that.
	What, if anything, do you think the government should do in terms of Modifying the bureaucratic state, the public health bureaucracies and things like that.
	What, if anything, should be done at the state level to rein in those powers?
	Because we've seen the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act.
	Congress said, we'd like for you all to put this stuff into legislation.
	They sent that out two months after the anthrax attack, which happened one week after 9-11.
	And then they put out a slate of legislative agenda that they wanted the states to enact.
	And that's what they all operated off of in 2020.
	What types of broad principles could we enact at the state level to keep that from happening?
	Because the mechanism of all that was that the federal government would incentivize it with funding, but then the boots on the ground would be the state and local public health officials.
	What do we do to shut that type of thing down?
	Well, I think one of the first things that we have to do is understand that here again the federal government, as well as the state government, is really overreaching their constitutional authority.
	One of the things that I strongly believe is that the governor and the state legislature need to be Telling the federal government to back off.
	And here in Indiana, you're exactly right, we have a governor and a state legislature that is easily bought off.
	When the federal government says, do as we say, and we'll give you a big pot of money to spend...
	Don't do as we say, and we'll withhold that money.
	First of all, to me, that's extortion.
	It is. Obviously, if a private entity did that, they'd be under indictment.
	But we as citizens allow our government to do that because we evidently, in many cases, feel powerless to change it.
	That's why I believe, and you refer to the value of a third party, I think that's the value of ordinary citizens such as myself.
	I don't have a law degree.
	I don't have a large bank account.
	I sit down every day and have to figure out how I'm going to meet all the expenses of having a home and a family in the state of Indiana and in the United States of America with everything that the government...
	Is screwing up.
	Yeah. Kind of created a fence, if you will, around the federal government.
	And at some point, the states, which are those 50 slats that make up that fence, all just fell down.
	And the federal government has been allowed to wander aimlessly or actually with very focused aim all over the place outside of where they were supposed to be fenced in by the states.
	And so until we prop the states back up as that fence around the federal government and our state governments start telling the federal government no You're not doing this anymore.
	And I think one of the big mistakes that we made as a nation was converting our Senate seats to publicly elected instead of appointed by General Assembly.
	Because the states lost their power to influence what the federal government does.
	And I think that's somewhere where we really need to reverse that And we need to give the power back to the states.
	Here again, you know, they say all government is local, but what we've done in our society is we've put all the emphasis on the level of government furthest away from us.
	Definitely. Everybody knows who the president is, but they don't know the name of their own city councilors.
	That's right. And that's something that we need to change.
	And one of the great ways I believe that we can change that is to encourage everyday citizens such as myself to get involved in government, run for office, give people a choice other than the Republicans.
	And the Democrats and the Demopublicans, because that's where we've gone wrong.
	People in Indiana, we have a straight ticket voting option.
	We need to abolish that because it destroys the requirement for people to know who their candidates are.
	They just go in and they say, I'm a Republican or I'm a Democrat.
	They hit that straight ticket button and then they walk away.
	And they think they've done their job, their civic duty, and in reality what they've done is they've abdicated their citizenship and their decision-making capabilities as a citizen to I find it funny that Republicans and Democrats tend to refer to libertarians,
	at least in Indiana, as independents.
	Yeah, that is interesting.
	And I find that humorous, but also troubling.
	Well, and of course, one of the reasons that you run as a third party candidate is for ballot access issues.
	And what is the ballot issue there in Indiana?
	How do you get on the ballot?
	How do you stay on the ballot as a political party?
	That's what makes it so difficult to have an independent.
	I mean, as an independent, you got to be independently wealthy, right?
	Yeah. In order to be able to get on the ballot, because you've got to get all these signatures and all the rest of this stuff.
	Are the ballot access rules in Indiana pretty rigid for the party to be able to get on?
	Well, it's an interesting conundrum, if you will.
	In Indiana, for a third party to gain ballot access, you have to either go out and get signatures or...
	Run a candidate that gets 2% of the total vote in the statewide Secretary of State's race in the off-year elections.
	So back in 1994, the Libertarian Party gained ballot access by getting, I believe, the appropriate number of signatures.
	And since then, we have maintained at least 2% in order to get on the ballot.
	Now, the real hurdle is that in order to participate in taxpayer-funded primaries alongside the Republicans and the Democrats, we have to achieve 10% of the vote in the Secretary of State's race we have to achieve 10% of the vote in the Secretary of State's race And needless to say, that is a steep hill to climb.
	And they know it.
	Yeah, absolutely. When we were in North Carolina, I remember they had 10% that you had to get to stay on the ballot.
	There was a tremendous amount of signatures that we had to get and then pay for them to get validated and all the rest of this stuff.
	And then to stay on the ballot, you had to get 10% of the vote for governor or for president.
	So they take the two highest profile races.
	And then, you know, if you didn't get that, then you would have to get, I think it was equivalent to 2% of the vote for president or governor or something like that.
	on the next time.
	We took that to court and said, this is kind of ridiculous because, you know, if more than 2% voted, why would you have this 10% vote thing and make me go out and collect signatures?
	It should be 2%.
	If 2% is going to be the threshold to collect signatures to get on, it ought to be 2% for retention in terms of the votes.
	And they won that fight there.
	But they play all kinds of games.
	That's why I say, you know, people want to complain about how the elections are rigged.
	The elections are rigged starting with ballot access.
	And the next place they rig it is getting into the debates.
	And the debates are typically run by Democrats or Republicans and they don't want anybody else in there.
	What is the situation in Indiana?
	Well, we're very fortunate in Indiana.
	We have an independent debate commission.
	It was originally constructed with the participation of several libertarian party individuals.
	And so we are always included in the debates.
	I wish we had that luxury at the federal level.
	Yeah, absolutely. There were some questions that people had.
	Can you pull up those questions that people had of Mr.
	Rainwater? Let's see.
	One of the questions is, can you ask Mr.
	Rainwater what he would do about the Indiana toll road debacle and its foreign ownership?
	That's a big issue here in Tennessee that's coming up.
	We are one of 14 states that doesn't have toll roads, and now we've got a governor who wants to put the toll roads in.
	I'm assuming, well, tell us what your position would be.
	I think there's a couple of different things there.
	First of all, I believe that if you're going to privatize something, such as the toll road, first of all, it shouldn't be owned by a foreign corporation.
	Secondly, I'm not sure that I would necessarily consider a toll road something that should be privately owned.
	If you're going to implement a user fee, which I consider a toll a user fee, then The government needs to be accountable for what that fee is and where it's used.
	And the decoupling of that fee from the accountability of the citizens...
	To me, it's very troubling.
	I would probably seek to get that contract revoked.
	And here again, if we're going to have...
	In a perfect world, from a libertarian standpoint...
	All funding of government would be voluntary.
	We like to say that good ideas don't require force.
	And it's only when you have a bad idea that you force the citizens to comply.
	And I feel we have a state lottery that they did very much the same thing.
	They implemented a state lottery.
	They told everybody we're going to Implement the state lottery.
	It's going to pay for education.
	Yeah, it can be kind of an education in math when you play the lottery and gamble, right?
	Absolutely. And a few short years after implementing the lottery, they privatized it.
	And so here again, there's a private corporation making lots of money.
	The government gets a percentage cut.
	And there's no accountability.
	That's right. And these are things that if we're going to have government raising money voluntarily...
	Whether it be on a toll road, because you can use other roads.
	You don't have to use the toll road.
	You don't have to buy lottery tickets.
	If we're going to implement these things, then the citizens should be able to hold government accountable for how they're run and how that money is used.
	And what we've found is that neither of those things are the case in the way that...
	David, the reality is our government is a mess because we let it get this way.
	Yeah, that's right. It is not somebody else's fault that my government...
	Has created mass dependency.
	It's our fault for preferring dependency over independence and accountability.
	So that's the answer to that question.
	I agree. I agree. You talk about, you said before, the coercion and the blackmail that we see happening with the states and how they have to turn, you know, have to refuse that in order to be able to have Exercise the kind of independent state power that the Constitution recognizes under the 10th Amendment.
	But, you know, that is that kind of coercion and blackmail that we've seen for the longest time at the state level.
	You know, do what I say about this particular policy and we will give you all kinds of federal money that we have unlimited amounts of.
	We just print more of it if we need more of it, right?
	Go further into debt. We have no ceiling on the debt, anything.
	And so they're able to bribe people.
	They're able to blackmail people to say, well, we're going to pull that funding away from you.
	And because we accepted that for such a long time, because we wanted the goodies that came with that, we essentially sold our souls.
	And we saw in 2020 that they took that coercion and that blackmail down to the individual.
	And that's the way I see this.
	You know, well, if we can blackmail the states, we'll blackmail you over your job.
	You take this jab or we're not going to let you have a job and all the rest of this stuff.
	DeSantis has taken on some of the ideas that, well, a corporation can coerce you to take the jab that the government, that the federal government wants you to take.
	He took a different position on that.
	That's been kind of controversial within libertarian circles.
	What's your position on that?
	Is that something that do corporations have the – should they have the ability – Well, there is a slippery slope there.
	Because here again, we don't want government overreaching and telling business owners what they can and cannot do.
	We have probably more of that today than we should.
	But we also need to understand that here again, from my perspective, corporations...
	Don't have an alienable rights, and people do.
	Yes, absolutely. And the reality is that we, and I believe this goes for education as well, David, if you don't like what your employer is forcing you to do, It may not be the best answer.
	It may not be the answer we want to hear.
	But sometimes you have to say, I am not going to allow someone else the inch that becomes the mile.
	I'm not going to become dependent upon an employer.
	I've told people we live in a time now...
	Where what we really need to do as individuals and as citizens and as households is find ways to diversify our income so that if government or a corporation or any employer says to me, Don, you have to do this or you will lose your job.
	That I have the flexibility to go, let me save you some time and energy.
	I'm leaving today.
	That's right. Yeah, we need to work on our flexibility.
	If you don't like what your kids are being taught in the government schools, or what we call public schools, and they're not, they're government education institutions, then Take your kids out of the public schools.
	We need to find innovative ways and if your state government does not facilitate the ease of implementation of a privately accredited Educational environment that you need to get control of your state government and make sure that you have the ability as a parent to make the choices as to how
	your child is educated.
	In Indiana, they have what they call...
	A voucher program that's supposed to allow parents choice.
	It's school choice, but it's not because they can only use the voucher in a state-accredited school.
	Yeah, and that's how they get their control in.
	Absolutely. And this is wrong.
	These are things, but here again, I believe that we as citizens have allowed government to do this to us.
	And that standing at the gates with our pitchforks and our torches and yelling at the gate just isn't going to get it done.
	What we have to do is we have to acknowledge that the way to make change happen is to walk away from the institutions that are being utilized to create that dependency.
	We need to walk away from public education.
	We need to walk away from government single-payer health care.
	We need to say, I'm going to take care of myself.
	Yes, it's going to be a hard road.
	Yes, I don't look forward to the challenges and the difficulties, but I prefer it to having be subservient to government.
	And when people say, well, I'm a Republican or I'm a Democrat, you're being subservient to an organization, a private organization, that you are not a member of.
	But you call yourself a member.
	And that's the biggest problem that we have today.
	dues to the Republican or Democrat parties who don't vote at their private conventions consider themselves to be a Republican or a Democrat when in fact they're not, which means they can be controlled and told what to do and how to think by which means they can be controlled and told what to do and how to think I agree. And they have a very powerful way of controlling who gets on the ballot at the state parties.
	That's one of the reasons why people run as independents or as third parties with that.
	that.
	You know, we were talking about before the bondage of property tax.
	And yet, how do we get into that bondage of property tax?
	Most of that money is going to support the schools, the government run schools that they run them very inefficiently.
	And, and yet people look at that and they say, well, if we have a government school, a public school, that's going to relieve me.
	They're going to pay for everything.
	They'll do all the work for me.
	And so I'll just abdicate my responsibility over what I bought it for.
	So that's what's happening.
	We get into that trap because we want the goodies.
	And we don't realize that on the back end it's going to get us.
	And on the back end it's going to get us whether it's in debt or it's in taxes or if it's in both of these things.
	Absolutely. I'm glad to
	to see that you understand that and I'm glad to see that you understand the key difference between human beings and corporations and that is that human beings have rights, corporations are a creature of the government and they don't have those same rights and And so I really do...
	I'm glad that you see that.
	That's something that blinds a lot of people Reason and Cato, looking at that, could not really understand what was happening with censorship, for example.
	Because it's like, well, you know, I don't like the fact that I'm being censored, but these guys, they own that platform so they can do it.
	But it really is a digital public square.
	And they said it was a digital public square.
	And they give them legal protections for it being a digital public square.
	So I'm glad that you understand that.
	Let me ask you about another way that they're coming at us.
	And this is kind of a new issue this time around.
	Central bank digital currencies.
	Now this is a real weapon coming out of the federal government and we had Kristi Noem talk about the fact that many states, I don't know if Indiana was one of those, had been given sample legislation We're good to go.
	out there with a lot of other states and again i don't know maybe you do if indiana was one of those desantis on the other hand went the other way and he said in the ucc code which is what they were recognizing this uniform you know the inner uh the uniform commercial code i think is what it stands for and and so uh they said we're going to uh say that uh central bank digital currency from the u.s government or any other government is not going to be recognizable as currency but we will recognize crypto.
	Where do you stand on CBDC? Do you think that's going to be an issue that is something that you want to focus on or bring attention to?
	And what would you, if anything, do about that?
	Well, I personally have a lot of concerns and am very displeased with the idea of a federal digital currency.
	I... I was listening before I came on and you were talking about gold and silver, and I believe that that's the monetary system that we were founded under.
	It's the monetary system that we should still be under.
	I personally would love to see us get rid of the Fed and the IRS and get the government out of our transactions altogether.
	And I think that a federal...
	Digital currency is going in the wrong direction.
	I don't want my government being able to tell me that I can only spend my money at government-approved stores or on government-approved merchandise.
	I shudder every time I see a mother...
	Trying to spend food stamps in Indiana and being told, I'm sorry, but you're not allowed to buy that on food stamps.
	Because here again, government is determining what someone can and cannot do.
	When I turned 18, I no longer had to do as my parents dictated, and I didn't want someone to take their place.
	If I want someone to tell me what I should or shouldn't do, I can pick up the phone and call my mother again.
	And she'll be more than happy to be my mother.
	I don't need government to do it for me.
	And so I would say vehemently against digital currencies implemented and run by the government.
	If you and I want to trade, In whatever means we decide to trade in, that's a private transaction, and it should remain that way.
	I would say that here again, if I could get rid of the 7% sales tax in Indiana, I'd do that too.
	It really gets frustrating to think about just how often the government Has their hand in my pocket.
	And I want to know what they're doing in there.
	I think we do know what they're doing in there.
	Absolutely. It's called theft.
	I'm glad to see that you are a pro-life libertarian.
	There were not too many of us when I was involved with the party, so I'm glad to see that you're pro-life on that.
	And you reference the non-aggression principle in that, and I think that's a key thing.
	We have a question here from one of the listeners, but how do you prevent a third party from turning into a cult like every other movement?
	Would you think that the non-aggression principle is a part of that?
	How would you answer that question?
	I do, but I also think that here again, it really, pardon me, we really have to speak to personal responsibility.
	Because I wouldn't say that the other parties are cults as much as they are a replacement for our own responsibility.
	One of the things, as painful as it is, that my parents taught me is that I can go out here and do whatever I want as long as I'm willing to pay the consequences for my actions.
	And I think what we have done as human beings, and I think it's part of human nature, is we're always looking for somebody else to blame.
	when things don't go our way.
	When things are good, we don't want to give credit to whether it be God Almighty or to God.
	We want to take that credit.
	But when things go bad, we've always got that one finger pointed somewhere.
	And I think that that is the problem.
	And so I think that the way that we ensure that That a third party doesn't become just a third head on the monster of government, is that we, first of all,
	take responsibility ourselves to make sure that the people that we're voting for and electing are actually, honestly, Looking to be public servants and not leaders.
	It always frustrates me when someone says, we need a leader we can trust.
	No, we don't.
	That's our own.
	We are supposed to control our own destiny.
	That's right. I don't need a leader.
	I need a servant.
	I need someone. I need a security guard who will stand at the door and protect my individual rights.
	That's what I want.
	I want somebody who may not agree with me.
	Or may not agree with my life choices but respects the fact that I am allowed to make those and that I have to deal with the consequences.
	The idea that We should control government so we can tell other people how to live their lives is what got us in this mess in the first place.
	Oh, I think you're absolutely right.
	Yeah, everybody is looking for not even just a benevolent dictator, but a dictator that's part of their club, you know, part of their party.
	That's what they're looking for. I absolutely agree with you, and I think that it really is key for us to understand that without responsibility, there is no freedom.
	And if you're not willing to do that, if you want to be a ward of the state, you're going to live under slavery, you're going to make yourself a serf, you don't want to put that little pin in your ear and identify yourself as a slave for the rest of your life, you know?
	You can do that, but I don't want to be a part of that.
	But the alternative is you've got to go on your own.
	It always reminds me of...
	Funny thing happened on the way of the forum where he's talking about getting his freedom and he's, you know, singing a song.
	I would be free to do this.
	I'd be free. And he goes, wait a minute. He stops cold turkey.
	He goes, but if I were free, nothing would be free.
	I would Provide for everything.
	For a moment, he's got this crisis.
	But do I really want my freedom?
	And then he comes out of it. He goes, no, I really do want to be free.
	But he realizes, which most people don't realize, they think they can be provided for and still be free at the same time.
	No, you're either going to be a slave or you're going to be free.
	And that means that you're either going to provide for yourself.
	If somebody else provides for you, they're going to call all the shots.
	That's exactly right. Let's talk a little bit about education.
	I like what you have to say about minimizing the size of the state board of elections.
	I've seen this progression throughout my life, and I'm sure you have as well.
	We've gone from my parents where they had a one-room schoolhouse.
	We get local community school districts and all this kind of stuff, and then it goes to the state, and then rapidly from the state to the federal government.
	We've got to start going in the other direction.
	What would you do in Indiana? Well, the current governor, prior to 2020, convinced the Indiana General Assembly to convert the elected position of Superintendent of Public Instruction to a governor-appointed Secretary of Education.
	So, one of the first things that I would do as governor is go and try to get the Indiana General Assembly to give the power back to the people of the state of Indiana.
	I believe that the power grab of let's make elected positions appointed by the governor is going in the wrong direction.
	I would make that position...
	An elected position again.
	I would like to see us get rid of the State Department of Education altogether and allow local school districts to be autonomous.
	I remember going to school.
	Now, of course, I'm an old guy.
	But I remember going to school, coming home, and my mother saying...
	We're getting you a babysitter because your dad and I are going to the PTA meeting tonight.
	Parent Teacher Association.
	And it was a place where parents held teachers accountable for what their kids were being taught.
	And teachers could hold parents accountable for whether or not they were supporting their child's education at home.
	And we don't do that anymore.
	That's right. And so I think we need, first of all, and the problem is, is in Indiana, we have a section of our, an article in our constitution, our state constitution, that gives the state the authority to create funding for what they call common schools.
	And that, of course, is the root of all evil.
	Yeah. The love of the control of the money.
	That's right. And so it's a long, hard road, but what we've got to do is we've got to convince people that 150...
	People who've been elected to the Indiana General Assembly really aren't qualified to decide what type of education your children should have.
	That's what your parents are for, or parent, and that's where that responsibility should lie.
	I like to fish.
	I'm not very good at it, but I like to fish.
	And every once in a while, you'll get your fishing line all caught up in a big, knotted mess.
	Mangled. And no matter how hard you try, you can't get it straightened out.
	I believe the education system, at least in the state of Indiana, is in that mangled mess.
	And I don't know that we can straighten it out.
	I think that people have to take here again the personal responsibility to say, I'm going to pull my kids out of government schools and I'm going to find non-government accredited Privately accredited or non-accredited.
	Homeschool. Lots of folks can't homeschool.
	Both parents work.
	I understand that.
	There are hybrid homeschools.
	There are opportunities for innovation where we can provide a means that parents can send their children somewhere during the day where they can be supervised, but they can receive an education that is determined and driven by the parents, not by government.
	And these are there's no I'll be honest, I don't have all the answers, But I am certainly smart enough to know that there are people smarter than me out there that we should be getting together and talking about how do we decouple education from government.
	I agree.
	And that really is the key thing.
	You know, we can talk about the different parental rights bills and things like that and approaches that have been taken in Florida and other things like that.
	But the real key thing is the fact that the government thinks that the kids belong to them.
	And they keep saying it over and over again.
	So I think we ought to believe them when they say, you know, The kids belong to all of us, and if that becomes their repeated mantra, I think we should take them at their word and believe that it really does.
	You talked about the PTA.
	That used to be a big part of it.
	But now I guess PTA means Parental Terrorist Association because that's what the Federal Department of Justice, so-called, treats any parents who speak up who don't agree with what's being done and want to have something that's different than the critical race theory or the LGBT issues that are there. treats any parents who speak up who don't agree with And, of course, that's going to be a big part when you talk about these issues.
	But I sense a trend there in terms of what you're saying.
	Personal responsibility is how we get our power of the people.
	And the Tenth Amendment, as you focus on your website, the Tenth Amendment is how we start to get the power of the states in terms of nullifying things.
	And, of course, we have a situation right now.
	I don't know where we stand, for example, in a conservative state like Indiana.
	I don't imagine you've got medical marijuana or regular marijuana legalized.
	But I know that for gun usage, A good example of the 10th Amendment, I think, that's something to really hang on is probably the pistol brace issue.
	What is being done in the state of Indiana about this arbitrary gun control by executive order, by the bureaucracy under the president, to ban something like pistol braces?
	Because once you accept that principle, there's no stopping them on anything.
	What is being done in Indiana with that?
	Right now, absolutely nothing.
	Wow. And I'll take that a step further, David, and tell you that in Indiana we have red flag laws, and I am not a proponent of red flag laws.
	I believe that the concept that government can determine me to be tin hat crazy, if you will, is And then come and take my guns is a dangerous,
	slippery slope. Yes, there are people who have mental illness and should not necessarily be able to walk around unsupervised with sharp objects or firearms.
	I get that.
	But a law that allows government to decide...
	When you are sane enough to possess firearms, in my opinion, is unconstitutional.
	It does not say in the Second Amendment, shall not be infringed unless someone determines you to be mentally deficient.
	And of course, if you are mentally deficient, as we saw with the Unabomber, you know, you didn't need to use a gun.
	And if you take away somebody's gun, they can still kill somebody with their bare hands or with an automobile, as we've seen over and over again.
	Absolutely. And the worst aspect of this...
	Was the fact that Trump said, we're going to take the guns and do the due process later.
	If this person is dangerous, that's the issue.
	And you need to have due process to determine if that person is dangerous.
	We need to double down on that due process instead of getting rid of it.
	That is the key issue, I think.
	We've talked about a lot of things, and it really is great to see you running for office.
	Again, you sorted this out back in the summer of 2020.
	You understood what a threat was.
	All of these masks and social distancing and lockdown rules were to our liberty.
	Many of those things are still embedded there.
	We need somebody with the kind of common sense that you have, Donald, to step up, speak out.
	I appreciate that you are doing that in this election.
	So good luck to you. Anybody wants to go to his site and help him, it is rainwater4, that's F-O-R, Rainwater4Indiana.com.
	Rainwater4Indiana.com.
	Thank you so much for what you're doing, Donald.
	Great talking to you, and good luck.
	And this is the 2024 cycle, right?
	You're just in it early.
	Yes, sir. Absolutely.
	Good. And I do want to real quick here just interject one other thing.
	Sure. If we in Indiana want to see a third-party candidate really make a difference...
	I've determined that we really need to raise about $2 million.
	And if we can raise $2 million, we can put the fear of libertarianism...
	In the state of Indiana, as you talked about earlier.
	And so, you know, I encourage people, if you want to see libertarianism come to the forefront in Indiana for the next 18 months, I really need people's financial support.
	And that again is rainwaterforindiana.com.
	Click that donate button and I guarantee you we will get the message of libertarianism out to the four corners of Indiana and every square inch in between.
	And you got a great message. It's about personal responsibility so that you can have liberty.
	And that's the key. Localism and individual liberty working that way.
	People collectively working for individual liberty.
	Thank you, Donald.
	Thank you, sir.
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	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
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	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
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