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The David Knight Show - 06/28/2023

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	Using free speech to free minds.
	Music You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 28th of June, year of our Lord, 2023. .
	Well, the Trump tapes have hit, and you've got both Democrats and GOP are fighting over it.
	I think both of them are missing the bigger picture.
	I see this as about something other than just the felony or the unequal protection under the law, and we'll talk about that.
	There's also a major Supreme Court decision Their opinions about the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment that I think are very significant.
	We'll find out that climate is the cause of inflation.
	Not the central banks, not their economic policy.
	It's climate.
	We'll talk about that.
	We'll also have coming up in the third hour an interview with the man who founded Brave Books, the book company that His fighting with the libraries, and it was Kirk Cameron taking this around.
	He was actually an ophthalmologist who, as a Christian, decided he was going to put a positive vision out there and stopped his practice of ophthalmology.
	I'm very interested in talking to him about the entire spectrum of what is happening and the competition in the libraries.
	Let's begin with election news.
	And it's kind of interesting, you know, we've got this new candidate who has jumped in the race.
	Did you know we've got three people running for president from Florida?
	And I kind of wonder why he's getting in.
	Because, as a third one, usually you've got a minor candidate like this coming in.
	They're trying to become vice president.
	They don't have a chance of winning.
	And this mayor from Miami doesn't either.
	Which means that you can't have the president and the vice president from the same state.
	So that means that he's betting on somebody other than Trump And other than the distant number two DeSantis to win in order to become the vice president, which in and of itself is kind of strange.
	I don't really understand what's going on with it.
	But he had a back and forth with Hugh Hewitt, where Hugh Hewitt asked him about what he thought about the Uyghurs.
	And so he responded, Suarez responded by saying, the what?
	It says the Uyghurs.
	It reminded me very much of, you remember, when MSNBC had Gary Johnson on, and they had everybody there to ask him questions, and they asked him this question about Aleppo.
	What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?
	About Aleppo.
	And what is Aleppo?
	You're kidding. No.
	Aleppo is in Syria.
	It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
	Okay, got it. Well, with regard to Syria, I do think that it's a mess.
	There you go. That covers it.
	It is a mess. Alright, you got it.
	Syria is a mess.
	Aleppo? Aleppo?
	And of course everybody had been talking constantly about Aleppo and the bombing campaign and the rest of this stuff.
	And that was actually more interesting than the back and forth about the Uyghurs.
	But he says, what is a Uyghur?
	For double jeopardy question, right?
	And I, you know, I can understand if maybe he's seen the term somewhere before because For the longest time, I looked at this and I thought it was Uyghur, but Travis explained to me that it's pronounced Uyghur.
	So Hewitt told the mayor, you've got to be smart on this.
	You've got to be kidding. The same thing as that, right?
	They have these little gotcha questions.
	And why is Hugh Hewitt asking him about this?
	What difference does it make?
	Are you going to give them a tongue lashing?
	You have absolutely no control over what the Chinese do to people in their country, number one.
	Number two, they're only talking about the Uyghurs because they're Muslims.
	Nobody talks about what they're doing to the Christians.
	Nobody talks about what they're doing to the Falun Gong.
	You know, I had the guy from the Falun Gong who was talking about how they're taking prisoners in.
	They take prisoners of all the different religions.
	And, you know, you're going to have to have an app and report it, you know, the religion app, before you can attend an above-ground church service.
	Well, same thing with Muslims, right?
	The mosque, they have to do it as well.
	If you don't tell them that you're going so they can put you in their database and start tracking you based on your religious database, when they come around, if you don't have your cell phone and you don't have that app and you haven't reported it, well, now you're in big trouble.
	Get taken to prison. While you're in prison, maybe they'll decide they need to make some money by taking out your organs.
	But nobody wants to talk about that, do they?
	Isn't that kind of interesting? Nobody wants to talk about the organs being removed by Planned Parenthood from babies sold to our own government?
	Why don't you take out the log in your eye before you worry about the splinter in China's eye?
	But of course, this is about building up the competition with China.
	That's why they focus on this stuff.
	And so Hugh Hewitt said the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group, he doesn't even mention that they're Muslims.
	But of course that's the key thing.
	That's why the mainstream media, that's why Hugh Hewitt and other people like that are focusing on them, is because they have to virtue signal about Muslims to show that they're not Islamophobic.
	Just like their virtue signal about all things LGBT. To show they're not transphobic or homophobic or anything else like that.
	And so he says, well, look at what was it?
	What did you call it? A weeble?
	He said with a laugh.
	And Hugh Hewitt sternly tells him, the Uyghurs, you really need to know about the Uyghurs, mayor.
	You've got to talk about it every day, okay?
	Okay. Why?
	Why? Again, there's nothing that can be done.
	But we want to talk about their problems so we don't have to fix our problems.
	We don't want to talk about anything that our government is doing.
	We don't want to fix anything that our government is doing.
	Oh, let's talk about China. Let's talk about Wuhan.
	Let's not talk about the vaccine.
	You see the same pattern here.
	That's what I talk about, the Trump shots.
	As soon as you start talking about the Trump shots, you know, they had this weapon lab there, and Fauci spent a lot of money on this, and that's the problem.
	It's the Chinese flu, the Wu flu, all the rest of this stuff.
	I hope you understand this tactic, and that's what I'm talking about.
	I don't really care about Suarez as a candidate, but do you understand the media tactics here, how they change the discussion?
	That's the key thing. That's the key thing.
	So, he said, what is a Uyghur is not what I expected from people who were running for president to say when asked about an ongoing genocide in China.
	Well, guess what, Hugh?
	They want to kill all the Christians as well.
	Not just all the Muslims.
	They want to kill all the Falun Gong.
	They want to kill anybody who opposes them politically, even if you don't have religious beliefs.
	They're communists. What about the communism that's being taught in our schools?
	What about how our schools have been taken over?
	The communists have marched through our institutions.
	They've weaponized these institutions.
	And they're now coming after us with our institutions, our own institutions.
	You don't want to focus on our police state.
	You don't want to focus on the surveillance state.
	And if you were to talk about 2030 or the Great Reset, oh, Hugh Hewitt's not interested in that.
	That's merely a conspiracy theory.
	Let's talk about China.
	It tells you a great deal about Hugh Hewitt, doesn't it?
	Where he is. And of course, he's not unusual with all these guys.
	So, as a matter of fact, Fox News was the one who picked this up.
	And they go on to tsk, tsk about the fact, well, this is a 48-page report that was produced by our government.
	And cited patterns of torture, pointed to credible allegations of torture or ill-treatment.
	Did you say any of that when Gina Haspel was being appointed?
	Fox News? Hugh Hewitt?
	No. Did you say anything about the live organs being removed from children?
	No. They're not serious about humanitarian issues.
	They're virtue signaling to Muslims.
	They are pushing the government, the real government, not the president, not the president, the real government, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence community, that's the real government and their agenda to come after China and have a world war.
	That's what Hugh Hewitt is pushing with this stuff, and he's playing these silly games.
	All right, let's talk about the Trump tape.
	Like I said, the top You've got Democrats very angry that Trump committed felonies.
	And they're right. And you've got Republicans very angry that Trump's felonies are being rigorously prosecuted while nothing that the Biden family does is even being looked at.
	As a matter of fact, they're covering up.
	And the Republicans are right about that as well.
	That's why I say, lock them all up.
	But there's another issue.
	Another issue involved in this that is much bigger in terms of Trump that neither side are really talking about in terms of this tape.
	And I think what this tape tells you is his character.
	Now his character shows that he's not a serious person.
	He's not a serious person.
	He doesn't know how the system works.
	And as Ty Cobb said, he's a deeply wounded narcissist.
	He was incapable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest.
	He perceived that it was his self-interest to get the boxes and to keep the boxes and to have these documents that were going to prove that he's winning his case.
	Ironically, he said that.
	And so, that's his personality.
	And he's incapable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest, which many times his perception is very wrong, as you see in this particular case, this tape, or out of revenge.
	He's a petty, childish person.
	That's what this Trump tape shows.
	So, here's Trump winning his case.
	By the way, the context... He is in Bedminster, New Jersey, and interestingly enough, this tape was not part of the indictment, 37 charges down in Florida.
	You have a judge there who's been very friendly to Trump, appointed by Trump.
	You have a conservative area there that would be friendly to Trump.
	They have not Put this in the indictment.
	Speculation is they're waiting to see how this other one goes, or maybe they're really going to drop the hammer by putting it in New Jersey, where you'd have a New Jersey jury over the most serious of any of these charges and most easily proven because of this tape.
	So he is talking to a writer who is working on Mark Meadows' memoir, the publisher of the memoir.
	And two of his staff members.
	Here's the conversation. These are bad, sick people.
	That was your coup, you know, against you.
	Well, it started right at the beginning.
	Like when Millie's talking about, oh, we're going to try to do a coup.
	No, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in.
	That's right. Trying to overthrow your election.
	Well, with Millie, let me see that.
	I'll show you an example.
	He said that I wanted to attack Iran.
	Isn't it amazing? I have a big pile of papers.
	This thing just came up. Look.
	This was him. They presented me this.
	This is off the record, but they presented me this.
	This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.
	Wow. We looked at them.
	This was him. This wasn't done by me.
	This was him. All sorts of stuff.
	Pages long. Wait a minute.
	Let's see here. Look at that.
	Isn't that amazing?
	This totally wins my case, you know.
	Except it is a highly controversial secret.
	Look at this.
	You attack. Hillary would print that out all the time.
	No, she'd send it to Anthony Wieners, the pervert.
	By the way, isn't that incredible?
	Yeah. I was just saying, because we were talking about it.
	And he said, he wanted to attack Iran.
	These are the papers.
	This was done by the military, given to me.
	I think we can probably...
	We'll have to see.
	Yeah, we'll have to try to figure out a...
	See, as President, I could have de-clessed, but now I can't.
	But this is... Now we have a problem.
	Isn't that interesting? Yeah.
	It's so cool. Look, here and I have a...
	And you probably almost didn't believe me, but now you believe me.
	No, I believe you. It's incredible, right?
	No. Hey, bring some Cokes in, please.
	Yeah, let's celebrate with some American champagne.
	That's what the people in Europe always call Coca-Cola.
	Totally wins my case.
	And as one of the other staffers said when he said, well, I could have declassified it, but I can't now.
	Yeah, you know, that's a problem.
	Yeah, it's going to be a big problem.
	But look, I don't really care about the national security state.
	It's become a joke. Everything is classified.
	Everything is classified.
	You know, it used to be a reason for it.
	We don't want our adversaries to get the nuclear bomb.
	But of course, that was leaked out anyway.
	They were able to obtain it.
	But this national security thing has become a bit of a joke, frankly.
	And... I hear everybody looking at Millie's plans.
	We got Millie's plans here.
	Do you really think that these two staff members, the publisher or the writer, do you think they're going to tell Iran what the battle plans were?
	Am I to understand the Russian ambassador is to be admitted entrance to the war room?
	That is correct.
	Correct.
	He is here on my orders.
	I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be?
	I mean, you'll see everything.
	You'll see the big board.
	That is precisely the idea, General.
	That is precisely the idea.
	You'll see the big board.
	laughter I told them they're going to see the big board because Trump showed these papers to somebody out of his childish, clueless narcissism.
	See, it's a character issue.
	It's a character issue.
	Fundamentally flawed. And of course, he's now trying to make excuses saying, well, that wasn't the actual papers.
	I was responding to articles out there.
	Now, if you hear that tape, you understand that's the papers.
	So he's doubling down on the lying, another character issue.
	But when you look at the national security stuff, they have over-applied this.
	But he's absolutely clueless about the laws that he's breaking.
	Absolutely careless about the documents that he vilified Hillary Clinton for.
	What was all that about?
	You wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton and now you don't know how this whole thing works?
	But again, you know, the narcissism totally wins my case.
	He knows that he's being recorded.
	Think about this as well. He knows he's being recorded.
	How many times has he had that interview with the New York Times reporter?
	I think it's Maggie Halberman, if I remember correctly.
	There's this one New York Times reporter.
	She always rips him up one side and down the other, and he keeps coming back to do interviews with her.
	Why? Why does he do that, people ask?
	Well, because it's the New York Times.
	I want to get in the New York Times, you see.
	He is drawn to self-destructive behavior by his own narcissism.
	If I can get my picture and my name in the New York Times, I'll do it.
	It's very childish.
	Big character flaw.
	All he cares about is his fame.
	Even... When it's going to be used against him.
	He's got to get in the New York Times.
	He's got to have this interview with Maggie Halberman.
	So, another part of this.
	As president, why didn't he lock up Hillary Clinton for these crimes?
	He could have, he should have.
	If he wanted to have honest government.
	But he looks at it as, well, okay.
	I'm in the club now.
	And one of the rules of Fight Club...
	Is that you don't talk about or lock up the other person's stuff once you're in there, right?
	Now that I'm president, I'm not going to lock up Hillary Clinton.
	Because we don't want to start that going around.
	Because if you do, you might get everybody locked up.
	Because they've all got criminal backgrounds, as you see with Biden.
	That's the big issue. Biden's got this criminal background, but he's not getting locked up, and it's infuriating people.
	He's playing a very dangerous game.
	Trump decided he would play it safe.
	I'm not going to lock up Hillary.
	The Biden administration, when they've got crimes that people really care about, and they're hanging out there in Clearview, never denied that that was Hunter's laptop, never denied any of this other stuff.
	I mean, the other things that are coming out, the incestuous relationships that he filmed and published on there, all the rest of this stuff, they have absolutely no shame.
	For what they do and for what they continue to do in public in terms of embracing this corruption.
	And so when you look at all these different things, yeah, the big problem is unequal treatment and corruption.
	I understand that. But it's also a big problem when you know what the laws are, even if you don't agree with the laws, you know what the laws are and you flaunt those laws.
	But, you know, Trump is not the only one who is flaunting the law right now.
	As a matter of fact, how was this leaked to CNN? Is the Justice Department flaunting the rules by leaking this information?
	And of course, as some people pointed out, they have leaked everything about Trump at every stage of all of this stuff.
	They leaked information out about Mar-a-Lago.
	They leaked out the Manhattan DA's stuff, Alvin Bragg.
	They leaked this out.
	They leaked out stuff from the FBI. A lot of it false when they were coming after him at the very beginning.
	But he's absolutely incapable of handling these criminals in Washington, D.C. So why would you send him back?
	Even if you don't think that he betrayed us.
	Do you see the incompetence?
	He can't protect himself.
	He won't protect the Constitution or you either.
	Because he doesn't care about the Constitution or the rule of law.
	If he disagrees with the classification stuff like I do, he could easily do something to declassify.
	But he failed to do so.
	And he willingly admits in that tape, well, I could have declassified it, but I didn't do it.
	Now it's a bit of a problem.
	That's a big problem. 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act in 1917, via willful retention of classified records, and 6 charges related to false statements or obstruction of justice.
	And I always said, this is his big issue.
	If you make false statements to the FBI, or you are accused of obstructing justice, and again, this is a very...
	They can misapply this in a lot of different ways.
	Misconstrue this. Magnify this.
	But that's where the real jeopardy is on most of these things.
	And especially for Trump.
	Because he'll just make stuff up.
	And so of course it's a perjury trap for him.
	But these 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 don't include what you just heard there.
	And that's the bigger thing.
	Well, like you said, this is highly confidential.
	This is secret information.
	Do you see how Trump is absolutely no different than that teenager who was in the military and they gave access to the documents about Ukraine and he put them out to his friends on Discord?
	Why did he do that?
	You know, you look at this and you say, that kid is just, you know, I feel sorry for him because he's so naive.
	He's putting this stuff out and saying, see, what I told you is right.
	This proves that I'm right.
	This proves that I have access to classified documents.
	Aren't you impressed with me? And do you understand?
	That's the same thing that Trump did.
	Trump acted exactly like this teenager on the Discord gaming group who put all of that information out there about Ukraine.
	Why would you want somebody like that as president?
	That's why. All this bad stuff happened in his administration.
	To him and then to us in 2020.
	Trump has claimed that he declassified endocuments that were in his possession.
	He said, I could declassify them even by thinking about it.
	Well, he admits here, though, that this isn't declassified and I can't do it.
	Now. See, as president, I could have declassified it, but now I can't.
	He denied that he was showing the classified document to anybody.
	He said, we were talking about newspaper stories and magazine stories and articles, but you can hear him saying, look, it's secret.
	It's highly, it's like highly confidential and all the rest of this stuff.
	So, um, if he continues to make those kinds of statements, they'll get him from perjury as well.
	So, he was showing his guests the Pentagon's plan to attack Iran.
	This was the same month that Milley, in July 2021, same month that Milley told the New Yorker that he spent the last four months of the Trump administration trying to make sure that Trump didn't start a war with Iran as part of a scheme to remain in power after his term was set to end.
	Trump is very determined to prove that that was not the case.
	Let me show you the secret documents that Milley had.
	See, this totally wins my case.
	Well, it totally wins the case to lock him up.
	Trump portrays, and by the way, I don't think they're going to lock him up.
	They have different designs for this.
	They want to make sure, they know that the more they come after him, especially with an unequal process, the more popular he becomes, that he'll win the Republican nomination, that he'll lose the general election because they'll be able to portray him accurately as a bumbling criminal, and he'll lose the independent vote, and he'll lose the election.
	So they want him. As candidate.
	And they also want the Civil War that will erupt win or lose for him.
	Unless Trump loses and the primaries, they're going to use this to escalate and to push us towards the Civil War in a big way.
	Both sides will. If he wins the nomination in the Republican Party, then win or lose the general election is going to push us to Civil War.
	So, anyway, as he's talking about, they presented me with this.
	And this is off the record, he said.
	But they presented me with this.
	This was the Department of Defense in him, Millie.
	Incapable of acting, except deeply wounded narcissist, right here.
	Incapable of acting, except in his own perceived self-interest.
	See, I can show you this. It wasn't me.
	It was him. And then out of revenge.
	I'm going to get my revenge on him.
	That's why I'm going to keep these things in the boxes, even though they're not declassified.
	See, this president, I could have declassified it, but now I can't, you know.
	This is still a secret.
	The person says, yeah. Now we have a problem.
	And he goes on to say, Hillary Clinton would print that out all the time, you know.
	She'd send it to Anthony Weiner, the pervert.
	Now this is the Weiner pervert in New York, not the Weiner pervert in San Francisco.
	Who is trying to protect pedophiles in the California legal code.
	Now this is Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's close, close friend, who was doing, Anthony was doing all kinds of sexting to people.
	As Zero Hedge points out, it's kind of interesting that the New York Times, New York Post, Say that Weiner was discussed, but they don't say what Trump said about him.
	That he's a disgusting pervert.
	And that, you know, Hillary Clinton would have sent this stuff to him.
	And again, he's still talking about Hillary Clinton.
	Violating national security laws.
	While he's doing it. He doesn't know.
	He doesn't understand. He doesn't care.
	He thinks he's above the law. What is it about this guy?
	But Zero Hedge says it's as if the major outlets feel duty-bound to protect the non-existent dignity of the utterly disgraced former New York Democratic congressman and ex-husband of Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.
	While married and in Congress, he couldn't stop sending sexual photos of himself to a series of women.
	Finally, he did it to an underage woman, and that got him kicked out.
	But again... Another aspect of this, as U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman says, help me with this.
	The Department of Justice is prosecuting Trump for sharing information with a reporter.
	Then the Department of Justice itself shared the same information with CNN. This is why I talked yesterday about Kevin McCarthy and George Santos and Merrick Garland.
	Now, Merrick Garland, it looks like they caught him dead to rights in a lie, in political persecution.
	Not political persecution so much as in covering up for Hunter Biden.
	Covering up for Hunter Biden, obstructing justice, I guess you could say, right?
	And then committing perjury, saying that, no, I didn't have that capability.
	So they've got the IRS agents memorialize that.
	They show that to Congress.
	Now Congress is talking about impeaching him.
	But they won't kick out or discipline George Santos.
	The best that Kevin McCarthy will say was, well, you know, people elected him.
	That's going to be their determination in the next election.
	He said that from the very beginning.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene is like, well, he may be a crook, but he's our crook type of attitude.
	She didn't exactly say that.
	That's their attitude. And so, if you're not going to go after ethics violations against George Santos, but you're going to try to impeach Merrick Garland, and you should impeach Merrick Garland, but you should go after Santos as well, you see.
	And that's the problem all of them have.
	What we're seeing, and this is why I say all this stuff is pushing us more and more towards the Civil War, everybody wants to see the corruption in the other party, but not in their own party.
	This hyper-partisanship that we have, especially because of the presidential election, that runs throughout the country, is blinding us to this corruption, and it is accelerating the corruption, because we will excuse the crimes of our people.
	And this is why I said yesterday when people asked me about who I support for president.
	I don't support people for president.
	I report on what they do, and I critique what they're pushing out there.
	And you make your own decisions.
	But when you make your decision, don't live by their lies.
	It's exactly what Solzhenitsyn was trying to get people.
	Look, if you have to work in this system, fine.
	But don't believe it like it's true.
	Don't believe in these people.
	Don't even believe what they say.
	They may say all the right stuff, but don't believe that they're going to actually put it in there because you're going to wind up being very disappointed.
	I can tell you after watching this all my life.
	And so, you know, don't become a true believer.
	Don't live by their lies.
	All these politicians do is lie.
	Don't buy into that.
	Don't buy into the person.
	Don't buy into the party.
	Look at the principles involved and the policies involved and hold their feet to the fire.
	Because if you don't, they're going to play us into a civil war.
	And this is why I point out what these guys are doing.
	Don't invest yourself in these guys, monetarily, mentally, any of the rest of this stuff.
	So, anyway, I see people defending this.
	First thing they began is with clearly the fact that the Department of Justice has violated the law by releasing this to CNN. But then they will go in and say, well, second place, these documents are already declassified.
	That's not true.
	That's not true. And you can hear that in the tape if you listen to the tape.
	He admits it, that they're not declassified.
	He admits that he can't show this to other people.
	It's got to be off the record. So that argument does not work.
	He didn't even declassify it in his mind.
	You understand? Just by thinking about it, I can declassify.
	Well, I guess by thinking about it, he classified them again, right?
	According to that dialogue that was there.
	And then to say, well, he legally held on to the documents to prove the corruption of the deep state.
	No, he held on to it to win his case as a deeply wounded narcissist.
	And that is going to win their case against him.
	So... As all this is happening, Trump is positioning himself as he thinks he can to be on the side of parents.
	He's not really comfortable in terms of taking the side of parents against LGBT because he is very attached to the LGBT people.
	And so he doesn't want to take sides on that.
	So he's coming up, how can I do this?
	As people came up with an idea, parents should be able to fire principals.
	We should have elections.
	How do the elections work?
	I don't know. You know, you got that election thing figured out what works now, Trump?
	He did more than anybody to break our elections with his lockdown elections.
	But this should be a local issue.
	Why do we have to federalize everything?
	And this is, again, making a federal case out of everything.
	It used to be a joke when I was a kid.
	You know, people say, well, it's a free country.
	Nobody says that anymore. Don't make a federal case out of it.
	Well, nobody says that anymore because everybody wants to make a federal case out of everything.
	If they think it's the slightest bit important, let's do it with the federal government.
	And it's got to be one size fits all.
	One thing imposed on everybody.
	Well, the control of schools ought to be local.
	I don't even think it ought to be state level, certainly not federal.
	And I don't agree with putting this, making a federal issue out of this.
	And he doesn't have any power to make the school boards elected.
	This is just sheer demagoguery.
	And it is also an authoritarian urge to centralize everything.
	But let me just say this.
	You can vote your principal out at any time.
	Because you can walk out of the school.
	And we should thank God that we have that freedom in this country.
	As I pointed out yesterday, a listener had to move from Sweden in order to have that freedom.
	You can homeschool your kids.
	You can take your kids out of the government school you don't like it.
	You can take them out of that. You can put them in a private school if you want.
	Vote with your feet.
	You know, if you vote for a principal, you're never going to get all that you want in that person.
	But if you take control of your children's education, And get out of the school system.
	Well, that's a very different thing.
	Can I vote in all this?
	According to him, he wants the parents to be able to vote.
	But as somebody who has to pay for these schools, I don't get a vote as to what the principal is going to be teaching kids who are going to be the majority of society.
	I don't get a chance to say, well, if they're going to teach critical race theory, I don't want that principle there.
	And I don't want my taxes being used for that.
	You know, that was one of the core things when Thomas Jefferson talked about religious liberty.
	He said, I think it is criminal to compel people to fund opinions and ideas that they disagree with adamantly.
	Because that was what established religion was.
	Some of the states still required people to have compulsory attendance to the churches, like we used to have compulsory attendance to the schools.
	But that was moving away, and most of them did not have compulsory attendance requirements.
	But you were compelled to pay taxes to support that official state church, just like I'm compelled to pay taxes to To support these seminaries of secular humanism, Marxist racism, and every kind of perversion, sexual perversion.
	I'm required to pay taxes for that.
	I don't get to vote that out.
	But I guess, you know, we talk about you can't stop funding the school system altogether.
	I guess now that plank of the Communist Party has been so thoroughly embedded in our culture that even Republicans don't want to think about getting rid of compulsory state-funded education.
	Meanwhile, the schools have made sure that the Constitution is forgotten.
	He said, To cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender activism, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
	Well, why are you going to keep any federal funding of education?
	Because if you keep federal funding of education, the federal government's going to be directing it.
	Why don't you cut the Department of Education?
	No, no, no. That's also become set in concrete now.
	You don't even have...
	As bad as this has become, and as we understand, this has come about because of the purse strings coming out of the Department of Education in Washington.
	They're setting the curriculum.
	They're setting the critical race theory.
	They're setting the grooming theory.
	No, we're not going to cut federal funding, unless in these particular areas.
	We'll cut it, but we're going to keep the Department of Education there.
	Well, guess what's going to happen? The Department of Education is going to restore all of that when the Democrats come back in.
	Trump said, we're going to not cut the funding.
	We're going to allow schools to ban boys' and girls' bathrooms and showers.
	And the Obama administration said, we're going to cut the funding.
	He says, we're not going to cut the funding for that.
	And then Biden comes back in.
	They cut the funding for that.
	It's going to be this constant back and forth.
	Get government Out of education.
	Stop bribing, blackmailing, and coercing people with federal funds.
	He says, I refuse to abandon our public school system to these lunatics.
	No, abandon the public school system.
	At least abandon the Department of Education.
	But he wants to maintain all of this stuff.
	A good example of how, quote-unquote, conservatives, Republican Party in general, is a ratcheting effect to all the stuff that the left does.
	Look at how all this stuff is now.
	State-funded, compulsory education, all the rest of this, and federal Department of Education, that is now...
	Something that Republicans will go to bat for, as if this was in the Constitution, as if this was always what our country did, and as if it were a good thing.
	I will fight for the direct election of school principals by the parents, the parents of the school.
	Again, why as a taxpayer should I be disenfranchised from that since I'm paying for it?
	This is pure demagoguery.
	And then he also announced plans to establish a new organization that will provide prestigious teacher certifications across the globe.
	What is this about? Is he running to become president of the World Economic Forum to replace Klaus Schwab or something?
	He wants a global teacher certification?
	Is he going to set up Trump University again?
	He's just off the rails.
	He's absolutely clueless about how to protect himself.
	He's clueless and careless, could not care less about the Constitution, but he's careless about how he even acts himself.
	And he's coming up with all these off-the-shelf things to try to pander to people because he doesn't want to get to the core issues of any of these things.
	Look, you can't have freedom of religion or freedom of speech or freedom of thought, anything that's in the First Amendment.
	You can't have any of those freedoms if you don't have freedom of education.
	That never occurred to the founders to put that in because they'd never seen that kind of persecution.
	It should be occurring to you right now that that's the real issue.
	We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, I've got something to say about Chris Christie, also the back-and-forth with RFK Jr.
	and Bill Maurer.
	Very interesting. So stay with us.
	Well, this will be right back.
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	RFK Jr. on with Bill Maurer.
	And Bill Maurer was absolutely right.
	It truly is amazing to see how arrogant the press is.
	And I think this is going to backfire on them as they are editorializing instead of covering RFK Jr.
	And I said that from the very beginning.
	I covered it when he did the announcement.
	I said, look at how they have skewed this.
	How much they hate him for big pharmaceutical companies.
	And I think it's very important that that be brought into the public discussion.
	So that part of his campaign I absolutely am excited about.
	What he has to say about big pharmaceutical companies, about CIA, about war, and other things.
	There are a lot of issues that he's talking about that other people won't talk about.
	If they do talk about it, they've got the wrong take on it.
	But there's also a lot of issues that he's very wrong on.
	But let's talk about the way he's being covered first.
	So Bill Maurer told Kennedy, he says, I want to take issue with the media because it incenses me how they write about you.
	He said, look at this New York Times headline.
	In a chat with Musk, Kennedy pushes right-wing ideas and misinformation.
	And he goes, right away, I'm angry about this, he said.
	Because misinformation? How about you're the newspaper?
	Just tell me what he said.
	I'll decide what is misinformation.
	The arrogance of, we know what the misinformation is about science.
	And then Maurer read from the piece, quote, Mr.
	Kennedy is a longtime amplifier and propagator of baseless theories.
	Again, he says, this is not even the editorial page.
	This is the regular newspaper, but they're editorializing about all the rest of this stuff.
	And as he went on talking about this, he said, you know, but you do have a problem with the vaccines.
	And RFK Jr.
	did a great job of explaining to him The fact that, do you realize that they're not doing adequate testing for vaccines?
	They do for anything else?
	And I think he won Bill Maurer over.
	Bill Maurer was like, well, you know, vaccines are great, they're life-saving.
	He says, but they're not tested.
	Shouldn't they be tested? And he says, you've got to test them for a longer period of time.
	As a matter of fact, before all this stuff happened, There was an international meeting of people who were in the pharmaceutical industry, and some of them were talking about how, you know, we're just not testing these things long enough.
	That happened well before the Milken Institute had Fauci on, and they were saying, how can we get these things out without 10 years of testing?
	And these other people were saying, 10 years isn't enough, because a lot of these things are very slow to show up.
	And so they just wiped all that out.
	That's what Trump is so proud of, by the way.
	Let's talk a little bit about Chris Christie and what he had to say.
	He went on an interview on Fox News and said, Chris Christie had this to say about mutilating children over this transgender issue.
	Already making an impact.
	Governor, your thoughts about the push in Florida and Arkansas to make it illegal to do it for kids under 18.
	Brian, you know, I just don't want to see our government getting more intrusive in everybody's life, getting bigger.
	I don't think anything can replace parents when you're talking about major decisions that need to be made by our children.
	And I would say this, I want all parents out there to think about something.
	How many other decisions do you want the government making for you in your home regarding your kids?
	I don't want any of those decisions made by the government.
	Parents are the ones who love their children the most, who care about their children the most, who understand their children the most.
	And parents should be the ones making these decisions.
	So if a 14-year-old comes home and says, I really want to start switching genders, that's the parent's decision?
	Absolutely. I tell you, it's more of a parent's decision than it is a governor's decision, for goodness sakes, Brian.
	You really think that Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be making this decision for children in Arkansas?
	I love Sarah. I think she's a great person and a really good governor.
	But I don't think she would ever allow the government to substitute her judgment as a mother for their judgment.
	And that's what I'm saying.
	I would want any government official coming in and telling me what decisions I can help my child through and how I should do it.
	And I want those decisions to be made by parents, not by the government.
	All right.
	So where has Chris Christie been for the last couple of years?
	He's all about everybody makes these decisions about their health care, right?
	Wasn't he the one who was out there pushing masks and shaming people about that?
	Wasn't he the one who was out there pushing jabs and all the rest of this stuff?
	Where was he when people were being locked down, people who were not sick?
	Being locked down, all of us, for example?
	Where was Mr. Freedom with all that stuff?
	I just don't want to see our government getting more and more intrusive in everybody's life.
	Oh, yeah, I don't either.
	I've had enough of that.
	2020, I didn't like that before 2020.
	Boy, I really hate it now.
	I really hate it.
	That's why I hate Trump so much.
	He funded all that stuff.
	He provided all the money for that stuff and kept it going.
	Kept it going with rhetoric, with his bully pulpit, with his funding and all the rest of the stuff.
	But Christie says, I don't think anything can replace parents when you're talking about major decisions that need to be made by our children.
	Wait a minute. Who's making the decision here?
	The parents or the children?
	Are the parents in an advisory role or are they in a parental role?
	Who's in charge here? And I get it that he's pushing back against this idea that children don't belong to the parents that the Democrats are trying to sell.
	But he's not pushing back enough.
	So think about what he's saying here.
	If the parents agree that the child should be mutilated for life, chemically sterilized, surgically mutilated, any of this stuff, well, that's between the parents and the kid.
	Really? Okay, Christy, what about if the parents want the kids to drink?
	What about if they want the kids to go gamble in a casino?
	Is that their decision?
	Government doesn't have anything to say about that.
	What about the parents if they want to have sex with their children?
	Or if they want to take their kids to a strip joint?
	Or if they want to give their kids to somebody at a strip joint?
	Should the government have anything to say about that?
	You see, when the parents violate their protective role...
	You should keep the government out of the sphere of the family.
	That's absolutely true.
	Unless the person in that sphere violates their role.
	You've got a husband who's beating the wife.
	You've got parents who are sexually abusing their children.
	Well, then it is appropriate for people in other spheres to come in because that is a broken sphere and to try to minimize the damage that's being done to people there.
	That's the purpose of this.
	completely broken, then there's a role for families and for churches and for individuals to come in and alter or abolish that government.
	So when the family is harming their kids, there's a role for the government to come in and alter or abolish that family unit because it's broken.
	It's harming people.
	That's the principle here.
	So, what do we do about these people who, as we see with one pride parade after the other, men bicycling or parading down the street naked in public, And not just in front of kids.
	Is it okay as long as there were no kids there?
	Is it okay for them to parade naked in public?
	Is that where we're going to be as a country?
	Or do we need to stop that?
	You know, it used to be something.
	It wasn't that long ago. It was back in the 90s.
	I remember in Raleigh there was a party and there was a judge who was attending the party.
	He got very drunk and he just wanders out the door and relieves himself in the garden.
	And they charged him for indecent exposure.
	And they kicked him off of the bench.
	Why don't we do that anymore?
	What's the deal with all these people in all these different cities who are parading around naked?
	Is it a problem just only if there's kids involved?
	It's a much bigger problem, I think, if there are kids involved.
	But look, it's a problem, period.
	And it should be more than an issue just when kids are involved.
	So this is why I don't understand what Chris Christie is even talking about.
	He's absolutely clueless because he has no moral compass.
	I don't know what his morality is based on.
	Trump is promising a nationwide ban on these child sex mutilations.
	And again, as I said before, when he's talking about, oh, let's have elections for parents, and he doesn't have the ability to do that.
	At a local level. And I don't want to see government control of schools.
	I want to see less government control of schools.
	But when we talk about this, I don't think this is in the same category.
	And interestingly enough, he's not talking about a nationwide ban on child sex mutilations as an executive order here.
	He says, if they put it up as a bill, I will sign it.
	Well, they have to put it up as a bill.
	And I see this also as a different category than trying to set up federal prohibition of abortion as a law.
	Because as I said before, I think that will backfire.
	Because as soon as the Democrats come in, they will raise the age, and they will probably raise it far higher than it was with Roe v.
	Wade. And then the second part of this is that you know if you come in and you say, well, we're not going to allow the murder of babies at this age or older, you know that the Democrat states are going to nullify that.
	They're going to ignore that. They're going to continue with their abortion stuff.
	And you're not going to be able to do anything about it, really.
	They're going to be able to nullify that law.
	However, when the Democrats take charge and they say, well, we want to have abortions up to or beyond birth, the Republicans will sheepishly say, oh, okay, all right, we'll allow that, you know, we'll follow whatever you say.
	It's going to be unequal, and it's going to be a tug-of-war, and it's why you have these demagogues who are running for federal office who want to have the federal government draw that line and constantly be redrawing that line.
	But this is a different thing, because this would be an outright ban on child sex mutilations.
	Now, when the Democrats come back in, they could remove that ban.
	But this would have a positive response in terms of protecting kids.
	And we do protect kids from child trafficking and things like that.
	But that is clearly a federal case because in child trafficking, you're crossing state lines.
	And it does bother me that we want to make a federal case out of everything.
	Not everything that is a crime should be a federal crime.
	We don't want to so eviscerate the local government, local law enforcement, that we wind up with a centralized dictatorship.
	And that's the problem with that approach, is a centralized dictatorship approach.
	Well, let's talk a little bit about this Pride Month stuff, and let's talk a little bit about the pride that conservatives have and their homosexuals.
	People like Rick Grinnell.
	I tweeted out yesterday that I just...
	Could not believe that everybody, you know, and Jack Basoviet, Red State, all these people are coming to the defense of Rick Grinnell.
	Why? Well, he was going to be honored in California by the Republicans in the California State Legislature because he was the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet.
	And so the Republicans wanted to honor their gay guy, For Pride Month.
	The Virtue Signal about all of that stuff.
	You notice that they're not honoring him because he did something in his position as ambassador or as temporary DNI or something like that.
	They didn't honor him for what he'd actually done, but for his identity politics.
	And this is a game that he was playing, and this is a game that the Trump campaign was playing in 2020.
	And so when you look at this, the Democrats are honoring their people.
	Of course, the Democrats had prior to this had their Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, those degenerate, hateful, that hateful group.
	They brought them in to honor them in the California legislature.
	And when that happened, the Republicans got up and walked out.
	And Republicans said, well, we didn't walk out because they're homosexual.
	We got up and walked out because they were mocking the Catholic religion.
	Do you understand?
	Sodomy is a mockery of God's religion, God's law.
	That is an even bigger thing.
	And it is a mockery of the religion in and of itself right there.
	Not just because they dress up as nuns and things like that.
	I don't know. I haven't seen any nuns dress up for a very long time.
	I haven't seen anybody walking around dressed up.
	I used to see that when I was a child.
	I don't know if nuns even use those outfits anymore.
	This is a way of celebrating pride.
	By bringing in a guy who is truly a self-hating gay man who takes tons of anti-LGBTQ positions, said Weiner, Scott Weiner, in California.
	The guy who's pushing pedophile stuff.
	See, the problem is you'll never be able to beat the Democrats at pride pandering.
	You'll never be able to beat them At degeneracy.
	But of course, Republicans are going to try.
	They're going to do their best to try.
	And so Grinnell said to Weiner, It's an honor to be your enemy.
	You are a radical voice against common sense, decency, and parental rights.
	You are an apologist for pedophilia and child abuse, and you undermine American values, he said.
	And again, the pedophilia reference had to do with a law that Weiner has authored.
	To reduce penalties for statutory rape involving gay men.
	Statutory rape means rape of a minor.
	But is Rick Grinnell really who Republicans want to rally behind as a standard of common sense, decency, and parental rights?
	Here's what he was saying in 2020 for Trump.
	President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history.
	I can prove it. My name is Rick Grinnell.
	I'm America's first openly gay cabinet member.
	As a 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.
	He's done more to advance the rights of gays and lesbians in three years My administration is working with other nations to stop criminalizing homosexuality.
	There are millions of patriotic gay Americans who are sick of being told to sit down and shut up by those who want to control us.
	Those who are afraid of our voice.
	Those who want to keep equality a partisan issue.
	They tell us our opinions don't matter because we don't subscribe to their groupthink.
	They try and bully us into silence.
	But in my experience, proud gay people don't like to be silent.
	They like to be loud.
	Gay people don't have to vote Democrat because Donald Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history.
	Yeah, he's got his Trump rainbow hat there.
	That Trump was selling on his website.
	Look. Yeah.
	Sit down and shut up, Rick.
	I'll tell you to sit down and shut up.
	Look. You don't...
	You're pushing this stuff around.
	You're not pushing your credentials.
	You're pushing your sexuality.
	In our face.
	In the street. Get back in your bedroom and do whatever you want.
	Go back to don't ask, don't tell.
	I don't want people telling me about what they do sexually.
	Heterosexual or otherwise. People who are obsessed by this stuff are not qualified for office.
	You need to be focusing on something else.
	It's what we said about Sam Britton.
	Here's a guy who's dressing up in his pup suits and his bondage stuff and all the rest of this stuff.
	Then we find out he's stealing women's baggage at the airport.
	He's got felony charges on him. But look, this guy was totally obsessed with that stuff.
	Get somebody who's serious.
	Get somebody who's going to focus on the nuclear program.
	Instead of on his wardrobe.
	I'm sick and tired about hearing about this stuff.
	Keep it in your bedroom.
	Don't tell us about it.
	And I won't ask you about it.
	Let's get back to merit instead of this identity politics.
	And it disgusts me to see Republicans playing identity politics with perversion.
	And that's what happened yesterday.
	As I said, you got Red State, you got Jack Bosobio.
	It was everywhere. Oh, the Republicans are so incensed.
	Look, we've got our gay guy up here.
	We want to give him a medal.
	And you Democrats walked out on our gay guy.
	Aren't we all supposed to worship gay people this month?
	So I put that out.
	Retweeted that. I said, hey, Christians, watch this man who's being celebrated today by the alternative right media.
	This is not about tolerance.
	This is about demanding celebration.
	They demand that you celebrate their sin and will not tolerate you if you don't.
	I said, Trump has done far more to promote LGBT than Bud Light or Target.
	Forget about Biden.
	Take a look at Bud Light or Target that you're boycotting.
	Why won't you boycott the guy who pushes this stuff out?
	I said, choose who you will follow, Christians.
	Christ or Trump. And I address that to Christians.
	I understand other people don't have any moral standards that we have about this.
	Yeah, Jews and Muslims don't embrace this either in their religion.
	But, you know, I'm speaking to Christians here about this.
	Choose who you're going to follow.
	I just don't understand.
	Trump is pushing LGBT stuff at the U.N.? Why are we even in the UN? These people are phony conservatives.
	They're phony about everything that they're doing.
	So when you look at them walking out on him, he's very angry.
	In 1993, he marched in Washington, D.C. for pride stuff.
	And this is what he said as these people walked out.
	He said, tolerance is the foundation to tolerate.
	That means that you don't get up and walk out when somebody's being honored.
	I said this from the very beginning.
	This is not about tolerance.
	This is not about somebody doing something like, all right, well, I disagree with that, but that's your private life, and you're keeping it private.
	You're doing whatever you want. I'm not going to try to punish you.
	I'm not going to try to ferret out what you're doing.
	But if you start demanding that I celebrate, if you start telling me, I've got to use your pronouns, I've got to fly your rainbow flag, no, we're not doing that.
	Not going to ever do that.
	This is not about celebration.
	It's not about toleration.
	This is about celebration.
	And he just said it right here.
	And he said, we are everywhere.
	We are Christians and tolerant.
	Rick, seriously, don't deceive yourself.
	And I say this to a lot of people who are, this is going throughout all the different denominations right now.
	Southern Baptists, Methodists, you know, mainstream Christian churches like Presbyterians.
	This is going through all of them right now.
	Why do you call Jesus Lord and not do what he says?
	That's what he said to people.
	The scariest thing is for people to think that the self-deception, to think, oh, I'm a Christian, And then, at some point, when you stand in judgment, and Christ says, depart from me, I never knew you.
	Those of you who practice iniquity, never knew you.
	How do you know that you know him?
	How do you know that you are following Christ?
	Well, he said, if you love me, keep my commandments.
	And so if you don't treat him as Lord, how can you call yourself a Christian?
	And people should think about this.
	The people who are going to these churches should think about that as well.
	They're self-deceived.
	The most dangerous thing to be in.
	The media called out the Republican Assembly members for being childish, claimed that they walked out on an LGBTQ celebration.
	But the Republicans, and this is, again...
	Conservative press. The Republicans did not walk out on the LGBTQ ceremony.
	They stayed there until Sister Roma was acknowledged, and only because the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence mock Catholicism.
	So I guess degeneracy and depravity will be tolerated and honored, but not the mockery of the clothes that Catholics wear.
	Is that it? Is that what our standard is?
	How absurd that is.
	Do they not understand what the real principles involved here are more important than that?
	Of course the Republicans don't understand that.
	And they're going to live by identity politics, and they will die by identity politics.
	Die politically, die spiritually.
	It's disgusting to see what is happening in our country right now.
	I'm fed up with it. This Pride Month and all of its flaunting, everything has gotten to a whole new level this year.
	And it's going to continue to get worse and worse every year.
	They're normalizing pedophilia and all these parades and all these drag queen story time hours.
	They're going to be normalizing every form of perversion.
	They're going to be satisfied with this.
	It'll be something new next year.
	We have to oppose this stuff.
	But one of the reasons I wanted to get Trent Talbot on, who has Brave Books, is we do have to oppose this.
	But we also have to show our positive vision.
	And we have to show that to kids.
	I grew up, when I grew up, that was being modeled to us all the time.
	You know, when I grew up, Walt Disney was modeling positive virtues to people.
	He was doing films like Davy Crockett and Johnny Tremaine and things like that when I grew up.
	We don't have that anymore.
	That's why we need to have things like brave books.
	We need to have a positive image of what people's roles should look like, what their relationship to God should look like.
	A conservative author and LGBT commentator, Chad Felix Green.
	Again, this is the alt-right who thinks that the only thing that matters Is that your politics are correct.
	So this person, Chad Felix Green, said, Rick Grinnell made history in advancing LGBT equality and defending gay people globally.
	Well, isn't that what Trump did?
	Why does MAGA follow Trump?
	It's another one of these things like the vaccine.
	Red States, and this is a Red State article here, Again, this is an article from Red State, the people who are so clueless that if you tell them, we're going to let you wear the color that Marxists wear everywhere else in the world and throughout history, you're going to be red now.
	Oh, okay, we're red.
	We're red. We're team red.
	We're Red State. And so Red State's own Brittany Sheehan, also a blasted wiener, how dare you call Rick Grinnell self-hating?
	When you degrade into fetishism and disrespect religious faiths, again, isn't sodomy a disrespect of Christianity, a disrespect of Judaism, of Islam, all the rest of this stuff?
	And, you know, fetishism, that's not a good thing this year, but wait until next year.
	Next year's Pride Parade. As a matter of fact, I saw a lot of displays of fetishism in the Pride Parades and other things like that.
	Jack Posobiec. Rick Grinnell reveals removal of U.S.-backed NATO forces in Kosovo was on the table before Jack Smith's actions at The Hague derailed negotiations and robbed Trump of a massive victory for peace.
	See, it doesn't matter whether we stop murders or not.
	It's just something that Trump could have put out there.
	Look, you can make the argument that he was doing something good.
	That's fine. Talk about that.
	Why does Grinnell and Jack Posobiec need to parade his sex life to everybody?
	Don't ask, don't tell.
	Talk about what you're doing in Kosovo.
	Talk about your other accomplishments.
	Talk about your credentials. I don't want to know about your sex life, Rick.
	Or the rest of you Republicans that are out there.
	That applies to everybody.
	It applies to the heterosexuals as well.
	But you get a pass...
	If you're gay, you get a pass to engage in pedophilia now.
	And public nudity and all the rest of this stuff.
	Just amazing. This is an article from Breitbart.
	Upset that the Army Special Ops Command posted an intersex inclusive progress pride flag on social media.
	Have they not noticed that the Pentagon has been celebrating Pride Month since 2013?
	Did they not notice that General Michael Flynn celebrated Chris Beck, who was going by the name of Kristen Beck at the time, for becoming a transgender?
	Now Chris Beck says, I was pushed in it.
	I only had one consultation.
	They started giving me chemicals and other things like that.
	He says, I'm an adult, and they do that.
	Well, you've got to stop this with kids.
	No, they don't talk about that.
	They don't talk about Michael Flynn pushing this.
	They don't talk about Trump pushing this.
	See, the Republicans are pushing this as much as the Democrats are.
	It's just the Democrats are more in-your-face with a nudity and that type of stuff.
	The Republicans are normalizing this.
	The Republicans, again, the ratcheting effect.
	They're locking in what the Democrats have done.
	The Democrats are the shock troops.
	And then the Republicans come around and they set it in concrete.
	U.S. Army Special Operations Command posted the intersex-inclusive pride flag on all of its social media.
	And a lot of former Green Berets are very upset about this.
	Again, why are we doing this?
	Well, you know, the Republicans are out there bragging about Rick Grinnell, and Trump is bragging about Rick Grinnell.
	Isn't that the same thing? Michael Flynn is doing it.
	Isn't it all the same thing that Biden did with Sam Britton that he's doing with this guy, Richard Levine, who dresses up like a woman?
	The only difference is in the degrees.
	The only difference is that Rick Grinnell doesn't wear a dress, right?
	But they're moving the Overton window so that people look at that as being normalized.
	If you think that this is intolerant, what I'm saying, these people don't tolerate us.
	You've got 250 Hollywood stars who now put together a letter...
	And send it to all the social media companies that have already banned me.
	Well, not Twitter yet.
	But Twitter, Facebook has banned me.
	YouTube has banned me. Punish everybody who promotes biological sex.
	How tolerant is that?
	Right? They don't celebrate biological sex.
	They don't even tolerate it.
	And they demand that people be purged out of the public square.
	This is Hollywood. 250 celebrities in film, music, and other industries sign this.
	People like Alyssa Milano, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, many others signed this and sent the letter to the CEOs of Meta, that's Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.
	They want to censor and punish anybody that does things like misgendering.
	If I don't use their pronouns, well, they want me punished.
	Or dead naming.
	You know, if I say something like Bruce Gender or Pete Buttigieg, well, that's actually not...
	I'm not actually, that was not his original name, but that's what I've always called him.
	If he wants to parade being gay, well, let's call him Boutier.
	The letter calls out YouTube for not taking down videos that misgender.
	You've got to do more censorship.
	These are the people in Hollywood demanding censorship.
	Maybe we should censor their movies.
	And of course, people are censoring their movies.
	Disney has lost, with eight films, they've lost nearly a billion dollars of their last big eight films.
	65% of teenagers are targets of sextortion schemes.
	See, this is the fruit of a perverted culture.
	We now have kids...
	Who are engaged on their phones and, you know, taking pictures and then those pictures, the photos, the videos are being used to threaten and blackmail them.
	And that is where we are with this.
	Because the kids look at things like the Barbie movie where you've got star Kate McKinnon saying, this is sending powerful messages about gender roles.
	Do we really want to learn about gender quote-unquote roles?
	Yeah, it's not a role.
	It's a biological thing.
	It's not what you're playing at.
	Oh, well, now I'm going to be a boy.
	Now I'm going to be a girl. No, it's not a role.
	It is biological, but of course that'd get me kicked off of all these places I've already been kicked off.
	So guess what? I don't care.
	I didn't care before they kicked me off.
	I knew what the rules was.
	It wasn't like I said, oh, oh, let me take that back.
	Will you put me back on if I take that back?
	No, I knew exactly how they felt.
	And I wasn't going to censor myself about this stuff.
	But they want to censor us.
	And they want to use something like the Barbie movie now.
	To illustrate to kids how they should act, how they should live their life.
	Isn't that sick? I mean, we always looked at, you know, at Barbie as being this bizarre distortion of reality, even for girls.
	But now they're distorting reality in many different ways.
	So we had a big pride parade in Nashville.
	Jill Biden was there.
	But we also had some listeners who were there.
	They sent me pictures of what they did.
	They have a channel on Rumble called Open Air Preaching, and that's what they were there, Jay and Jessica listeners.
	This is a picture of them at the event.
	And here is one of the people at the Nashville Pride event.
	Uh, meth mouth, among other things, uh, there, this guy's got some serious issues.
	But Jill Biden is there, and she says to these people, like this guy, uh, you belong, you are beautiful, and you are loved.
	Well, he does need a lot of love, and, um, I'm sad to see him in that kind of a situation.
	I don't know what his background is, but, uh, that is, we, we should look at someone like that and realize, uh, What a terrible situation they're in and try to help them.
	These people are starving spiritually.
	They're starving mentally, emotionally.
	They need help just as much as if somebody was starving on the sidewalk without any food.
	Why would we not say something about it?
	Like I said, Disney has lost a billion dollars nearly in the last eight movies, and so they want to keep that streak going.
	So now they're going to introduce their first major transgender actor and a major role in the upcoming Star Wars.
	I guess we're going to have Chewbacca coming out as a furry or something.
	No, this is going to be some kind of man that's a woman or woman that's a man or something like that.
	Most likely a man dressing up like a woman.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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	All right. Thank you, Frank Neeb.
	I appreciate the tip on rumble.
	And he put in quotes 25.
	I don't know what that means.
	But thank you anyway for the tip.
	And I want to talk about the Supreme Court.
	As I said, I think this decision about districting in North Carolina is very important for a number of reasons.
	And a lot of people thought it was very important because they said this is a conservative legal theory about the independent state legislature theory.
	And they said, look at this.
	You had Chief Justice Roberts and some other conservatives who have shut down this conservative theory of the independent state legislature.
	And Reason Magazine talks about it.
	And let's talk about Eric Bone's take on this.
	I think he's totally wrong, and I'll tell you why.
	Both the history of gerrymandering and the history of this particular case in North Carolina, what's happening in North Carolina.
	It's been a while since I've talked about it, but this has been going on for some time.
	You had, in 2008, North Carolina voted for Barack Obama.
	In 2010, They had buyer's remorse, and Republicans won everything in the state, everything in the state except for Congress.
	They won every statewide election.
	They got control of the legislature for the first time since Reconstruction.
	Democrats had had control of it all of that time.
	But nothing changed in congressional races.
	There wasn't a single race that was flipped.
	Why is that? Well, that's the power of gerrymandering.
	And the Democrats have been doing gerrymandering for about 150-60 years.
	And, you know, that's just the way we do it.
	We pick the voters.
	We can run these districts however we want to pick the voters.
	And where does that come from?
	Well, it was going back.
	To a Massachusetts governor, Eldridge Jerry, who later became the Vice President of the United States, and he drew districting lines.
	Instead of them being contiguous, he drew these things that were going all over the place to pull in different areas.
	Of course, he didn't have computers helping him, where they could go in and pick an individual house and skip across the street and down the way and pull in another one, which is what they do today.
	But, you know, he drew this, and people said, well, That looks kind of like a salamander.
	Since his last name was Jerry, they called it gerrymandering, and it's been there ever since.
	And both parties have done this.
	It's always been that way. And so historically, there's nothing unique about this.
	This is not a new theory that is there.
	But this was, the Democrats had a fit.
	They didn't like the fact that the Republicans got the power to draw the congressional districts and then drew them to their favor as the Democrats had been doing for 160 years.
	And so lawsuits were filed.
	And this has been running through the courts.
	Now it goes to the Supreme Court.
	And the Supreme Court says, well, it got to the point where they lost and a judge went in and said, no, I'm going to redraw them the way I want them drawn.
	And redrew them to favor the Democrats again.
	And so they continued to sue, and they said, you can't do that.
	It's the legislature that's supposed to draw the maps, not the judiciary.
	Guess what happened?
	When it got to the Supreme Court, they want to support judicial supremacy.
	So they said, yeah, we can redraw this stuff.
	And so in this Reason article, the guy who writes this, It says the crux of the case rested on a novel theory.
	It's not novel, and it's not a theory.
	Oh, it's a conspiracy theory.
	Oh, it's a novel theory. No, it's neither one of those things.
	A novel theory bouncing around conservative legal circles, quote, the independent state legislature theory.
	Now, this is not novel, and it's not a conservative idea.
	It's a constitutional idea.
	It's called federalism, and it's called the Tenth Amendment.
	Now, in the Constitution, he's right that it grants state legislatures control over certain things and, you know, The states created the federal government, and they have given it explicit powers.
	But since we're talking about congressmen that are going to be elected to the federal government, the federal government has something to say about the manner in which they will be elected.
	And so the Constitution is not silent on that.
	In Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, it explicitly grants state legislatures control over, quote, the times, The places and the manner of holding elections for senators and representatives.
	Well, it seems to me like that's pretty inclusive.
	The manner in which you hold these elections?
	That would include the districts.
	Always has included the districts.
	They argue, these crazy conservatives, it says Reason, Argue that the Constitution places those decisions, including the drawing of congressional districts, solely in the hands of state lawmakers with no space for courts to intervene.
	Well, it does. They set the manner, the time, the place of the elections.
	We just had a situation as I was moving here last year.
	There was an open congressional seat here in Tennessee.
	And so you had several people moved here.
	To run for that congressional seat.
	Carpetbaggers, really. And one of them was a lifelong Democrat who was a friend of Trump.
	And Trump gave her, she's a beautiful celebrity Democrat, had worked with and for the Obama administration, but was friendly with Trump.
	And because she was a beauty queen type of looks, Trump endorsed her for this thing.
	The people in Tennessee, the legislators, said, well, no, we're going to enact a rule that you have to live in Tennessee for three years before you can run for office.
	And that's the same rule that they have for the state legislature.
	So you can't become a state legislator or a state senator if you haven't lived in the area for three years.
	So they said, well, let's apply that same thing because we've got a lot of people that are moving in and they're trying to buy their way into this.
	With their celebrity status, with their celebrity endorsements, these people aren't from Tennessee.
	They don't represent us.
	They haven't invested in this, and I think that's perfectly legitimate.
	I mean, you don't become a citizen in Switzerland unless you've lived there for like a decade, and you have to have references from people who knew you over that period of time, and then they'll think about giving you citizenship.
	We don't have anything like an anchor baby or anything like that.
	And so, you know, we don't want anchor baby legislators, congresspeople, and the state.
	But that's something that's another example of how they set the time, the place, the manner of these elections.
	The state can set the qualifications for, you know, running for office.
	They have to have a three-year residency, for example.
	That's legitimate. Just as the gerrymandering has always been legitimate.
	It's not a good thing. I don't know a better way to do it.
	But the theory is that whoever has the most votes to control the legislature, well then that legislature...
	It doesn't have to necessarily be a partisan thing.
	It's typically going to be a partisan thing.
	But, you know, the legislature then is going to set the times, the places, and the manner of holding the elections.
	But the Supreme Court doesn't like that.
	Why? Because this is a fight between a legislature, a state legislature, and a court.
	And they want the courts to be supreme.
	They have usurped judicial supremacy.
	And I've talked about this for the longest time.
	That's why I was absolutely amazed and flabbergasted.
	When the Dobbs decision came down that shut down Roe v.
	Wade, I'd always said that that would not happen.
	I really was surprised when it did.
	Because it was my opinion that that was as vital to their power as Marbury v.
	Madison. They had, with the Roe v.
	Wade decision, they had set this precedent that, well, whatever we say is law.
	You've heard of that, right? About Roe v.
	Wade. Oh, it's the law of the land, everybody used to say.
	How did it become a law of the land?
	It was never passed by the legislature.
	Now they're talking about passing a law about abortion at the federal level, which again, as I said before, I don't support that.
	But it was not the law of the land.
	It was the Supreme Court decision.
	Supreme Court decisions change all the time.
	And as we have seen throughout history, Supreme Court decisions because we have federalism, because we have a division of power within each branch of government.
	You have power divided between executive, legislature, and judiciary, and then we also have power divided between the federal government and the states and the people.
	And the Supreme Court doesn't like that.
	That's why it really surprised me that they gave up that judicial supremacy.
	I really think it was a God thing, frankly.
	I don't think they were acting in their own best interest.
	But anyway, they come around with this, and I think that is the fundamental issue here.
	They don't offer an argument as to why the state legislature setting up all the rules about how the elections are going to be held for congressmen and for senators.
	They don't offer a justification here as to why that would be exclusive of the districting.
	Instead, what the Supreme Court is talking about is this clash of power.
	Between the judiciary and the legislature, state legislature, and they're going to come down on the side of the state legislature.
	And they did, effectively, a 6-3 decision.
	Roberts wrote the majority opinion.
	I think he was, you know, he was pushing to, on Roe v.
	Wade, it was clear that there was this, you know, moving momentum to strike that down because...
	Everybody knew that it drew the line way beyond the point at which babies could survive.
	But he was saying, well, let's keep our power here.
	And so he's writing this thing to keep his power.
	But in this, he was joined by Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh and the liberals.
	And Robert says, the importance of judicial review is one of the most fundamental principles of America's constitutional system.
	So he talks about the judicial review.
	He talks about, essentially, the power that they had with Marbury v.
	Madison, rather than saying, well, what does it mean when it says in the Constitution that the state legislatures are going to determine how the elections for Congress and Senate are going to be run?
	Oh, no, we don't care about that.
	that let's talk about our competition in power and that's exactly what they did which is another example you look at these are you know this is barrett and kavanaugh appointed by trump which is why i always say this about supreme court appointments my mom always said life was like a box of chocolates Yes.
	You never know what you're going to get.
	Yeah, and these justices in their black robes are just like a box of chocolate.
	You never know what you're going to get with these people when you pick them up.
	And every time you take a bite, it's going to be something different.
	You never know what you're going to get with it.
	And so Reason writes this, and I totally disagree.
	He says, the real winner in Tuesday's ruling is the constitutional system itself and its insistence on the separation of powers.
	No, you just ignored that.
	You have pushed for judicial supremacy.
	Roberts notes that the courts also do not have unchecked authority and may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures.
	Exactly where in the Constitution does it say that states, the legislatures can determine all the manner of how the Congress, Congressional and Senate elections are going to be held?
	Unless a judge disagrees, and in that case, the judge can set all of that stuff.
	Where does it say that?
	I don't see that anywhere.
	So this is not a victory for originalism.
	They also had another decision that kind of touched on the First Amendment, kind of on speech issues, on hate issues.
	They sided with a man who made extensive online threats to a singer.
	They ruled 7-2 that the prosecutors must prove that a person making said threats is aware of the threatening nature of their communications.
	Well, that sounds really good, right?
	You know, I didn't mean to.
	I didn't intend to.
	I wasn't aware of this being a threat.
	Well, that's reasonable. Except that when you look at the decision that was written by Kagan, She says, but it only has to be shown that the speaker was reckless with her comments rather than intending them to be harmful.
	Seriously? So, they're reckless with her comments, but they didn't know that it was a threat.
	That's the new standard?
	We talk about confusion with this stuff.
	Wide open. Dissenting.
	Where Justices Clarence Thomas and Barrett, again, you know, like a box of chocolate.
	You never know what you're going to get, especially with Amy Coney Barrett.
	But with Clarence Thomas, you do pretty much know what you're going to get.
	He's almost always right on the constitutional issues.
	He was right about this. And everybody else was in la-la land.
	The idea that you, if you're reckless with your comments, they can lock you up.
	They can lock you up. They locked up this guy for that.
	It's absolutely amazing to see some of the stuff that is coming out of this.
	And just as a brief follow-up, the court case that I was talking about yesterday, I did not realize that that was a Supreme Court case.
	It was the one about wearing skirts at a charter school.
	The Supreme Court refused to hear it, which meant that the lower court decision would stand.
	And the lower court decision said that even though they had a charter school where the values, whether you agree with the values or not, is not the issue.
	To me, the issue is that it's a charter school, which means that you voluntarily go there.
	They've got a charter and they say, here's what we're going to set a school up for.
	And he set this up. He says, I want to have a dress code where girls have to wear skirts.
	That was a dress code the entire time I was in school.
	It was only in high school they started pulling back from girls having to wear skirts.
	They had to wear skirts and they couldn't be too short.
	And so this guy sets up a charter school and whether or not you agree with his reasoning for having that, This is a voluntary association.
	I don't understand how a judge overrules that.
	I don't understand how the Supreme Court lets that stand.
	These parents knew what the charter school was about.
	They chose to go there voluntarily, and then they decided that they're going to change the rules.
	Start your own charter school, or go to a charter school that you agree with.
	I just really don't understand that, but that's where we are now.
	Everybody wants to coerce other people and force other people.
	Voluntary association is not going to be allowed, especially if it violates the new orthodox religion that has to do with feminism all the way down to LGBT. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
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	Well, we've got vaccines are the next big thing.
	Are they? And cancer treatment, scientists say.
	CBS says.
	The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine.
	Cancer vaccines, like other immunotherapies, boost the immune system.
	Define and kill cancer cells.
	Do they? No, the reality is it does exactly the opposite.
	Dr. Ryan Cole was saying at the very beginning of this, a pathologist, he was looking at this and saying these new Trump shots, of course that's my term, it's Trump's term as well.
	That's one thing we both agree on.
	They're his shots. I agree with Trump on that.
	But he was saying these new Trump shots, they're killing the killer T-cells.
	And he said, I suspect that we're going to see very fast operating cancers coming up in the future because these killer T-cells are your body's defense against that.
	And when they go bad, that's when people get cancer.
	So, are they traveling anywhere in the body to hunt down danger?
	And they said, we're going to use our cancer vaccines to train them.
	But be careful about this.
	As I said, so far, and this is in the CBS article, All of these trials have failed, but it's allowing us to learn so much.
	Yeah. So now we can do it at warp speed.
	As a result, this doctor who says, well, they've all failed.
	You know, we've been doing this stuff now since 2010.
	None of this stuff has worked. Didn't we hear that about Moderna?
	We've done this mRNA stuff and, you know, we've had one happy story after another about how we're going to cure some disease and we get all this money from Wall Street when we give this story out about our new product that's coming out.
	But they never took anything to market.
	Never took anything to market until Fauci and Trump supported them and put their stuff out.
	That was their first product ever.
	And so this person's been working on these cancer vaccines since 2010.
	All the trials failed, they said, but we've learned so much.
	As a result, she's now focusing on patients who have earlier disease, since the experimental vaccines didn't help much with the more advanced patients, says CBS. Oh, so let's just retreat, redirect, and declare victory. Since we can't cure the real cancer, let's look at this stuff at the early stage and say, well, we had a victory there.
	And then we can cash in.
	They said vaccines are probably the next big thing in the quest to save lives.
	Oh, really? I don't think that's really what's going to happen here.
	As a matter of fact, this article about CRISPR is very concerning.
	Genetic modification.
	It could help us to cure diseases, they said, but it could also cause cancer.
	You already know about the promise of CRISPR-Cas9.
	It might revolutionize fuels from medicine to agriculture.
	This is the... The way that you can use this as a carrier, essentially, it's not like they're going in with some kind of a microscope like you see with Jurassic Park, depicted in Jurassic Park, where they go in and they're like surgically editing something.
	As a matter of fact, it's not like a scalpel at all.
	People have used CRISPR-Cas9 to make modifications in cattle, Texas, have said it's more like a chainsaw than it is a scalpel.
	It causes a lot of damage to the DNA chain, so you've got to be careful with this stuff.
	You know, kind of like a box of chocolate.
	You never know really what you're going to get.
	CRISPR-Cas9 is like that, too.
	It's not just the Supreme Court.
	So they said, yeah, it might revolutionize all these different fields, but it might also cause tumors.
	I had the clip from Schwarzenegger.
	Not a tumor! That's the takeaway from these two new studies published Monday in Nature Medicine.
	Both studies, one by Novartis and the other one by Karolinska Institute, focus on a gene named P53. P53 is known to play a major role in tumor prevention by killing cells that have damaged DNA. You see, it's a code. It's a very, very complex code, which argues for intelligence.
	As a matter of fact, it's so complex that it is self-replicating and error-correcting.
	And so, part of the error-correcting mechanism that God, the designer, put in there is P53. If you've got damaged DNA, it's like, okay, get rid of this one.
	It kills it, purges it.
	But according to past research, most human tumors simply can't form if P53 is working properly.
	And so some researchers refer to it as the guardian of the genome.
	It is a thing that keeps the copying errors from happening.
	Unfortunately, P53 is also something of a natural defense against the kinds of changes to the genome made by CRISPR-Cas9.
	Oh. So when researchers use CRISPR-Cas9 to snip and replace some DNA, P53 jumps into action, causing the edited cells to self-destruct, and this renders the CRISPR-Edit essentially moot, which could explain why CRISPR isn't terribly efficient.
	When CRISPR-Cas9-Edit does stick, That could mean that the P53 cell, cell P53, isn't functioning the way it's supposed to.
	And a dysfunctional P53 may be a precursor to a host of cancers.
	So the researcher in the Karolinska study said, by picking cells that have successfully repaired the damaged gene we intended to fix, we might inadvertently also pick cells that don't have functional p53.
	And if the p53 is not functioning to remove damaged DNA, That is going to enable cancer.
	She said, if transplanted into a patient, as in gene therapy for inherited diseases, such cells could give rise to cancer, raising concerns for the safety of CRISPR-based gene therapies.
	Well, that's just one of many things that we're messing with new stuff at a very low level.
	We don't really know what the result of that is going to be.
	But, you know, hey, we don't want to wait for this.
	We don't want to do the studies on 5G. We don't want to do the studies on mRNA vaccines.
	As a matter of fact, we don't even want to do the studies on regular vaccines and the kind of adjuvants that we put in them or the kind of preservatives that we put in them.
	We don't have the time to do any of that stuff.
	So let's just rush ahead with this.
	This is going to be really cool. We can make a lot of money, make billions of dollars.
	You know, there's a lot of people out there who will kill you to make billions of dollars.
	They'll kill you and your family.
	It's called pharmaceutical companies.
	There's other industries that'll do that as well.
	But that is a core value for the pharmaceutical industry.
	We will kill you for money.
	We'll kill for money. Have these guys...
	If we could do some criminal prosecutions, instead of putting them in stocks, you would have people like Albert Borla have to be put in the stocks with a sign, We'll Kill for Money.
	A 28-year-old rising MMA star who was in peak physical condition, 28 years old, MMA fighter, sent to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest.
	See the died suddenly stuff?
	Still happening.
	Still happening from the Trump shots.
	Even as Trump continues to boast about it.
	The poisoner in chief.
	And then we have a basketball player who blamed the COVID vax for a heart condition, dies of a heart attack at 28.
	This was sent to me by Handy, who has a substack iHandy.
	Appreciate that, Handy.
	Dominican professional basketball player named Oscar Cabrera Adames has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 28.
	All these athletes still dying of heart disease.
	And, of course, myocarditis is now a household word.
	Just happened real quickly, you know, just a few months after they started putting these vaccines out.
	Had that become a household word?
	Yeah, nothing to see there.
	I'm sure there's absolutely no correlation or connection to any of this stuff.
	We'll be right back. You're
	listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, as a reminder, an ECB, European Central Bank official, has labeled crypto as, quote, deleterious.
	I guess, you know, we are...
	We're the despicables, we're the non-essentials, we're the deplorables.
	Our crypto is deleterious, but of course, they're digital crypto.
	Oh, that's essential. That's essential.
	The ECB official says that crypto has no societal benefits, but theirs does.
	Theirs does. That's based on proof of authority rather than proof of work.
	Crypto is the number one target of the central banks because they want a global CBDC. This is Fabio Panetta, executive board member of the European Central Bank, suggested a dark future for cryptocurrencies in which digital assets could be used for a little more than gambling.
	And written remarks for the panel for the Bank of International Settlements annual conference, and of course this is the Central Bank of Central Banks, On June 23rd, Panetta said crypto's perception among investors as a robust store of value began to dissipate in late 2021 and into 2022.
	What happened then? Well, that was when they started their moves against crypto.
	Market manipulations, manipulations of prosecutions, and that type of thing.
	He said policymakers should be wary of supporting an industry that has so far produced no societal benefits.
	Wait a minute. Should we use that same standard for what the central banks do?
	What benefits have the central banks given to anybody?
	You know, we didn't always have a central bank in America.
	We did much better without one.
	We had Andrew Jackson fought it and won when it was imposed.
	Thomas Jefferson was opposed to it.
	So where's the societal benefits for a central bank?
	Do they benefit anybody except themselves?
	Anybody except the government?
	It's basically a giant Ponzi scheme.
	It's fraudulent. It is, and I'm not supporting crypto.
	I mean, again, I think gold and silver, Tony Arterman at Weiswolf Gold, and you can get there with davidknight.gold that he set up.
	Get outside the system.
	Prepare in case the system crashes.
	Prepare in case something happens with runaway inflation or de-dollarization and all these other things that are happening, but also prepare for Because these people want to track and surveil and control preemptively everything that you do, everything that you buy, all of that activity.
	And that is the short circuit to CVDC. And they have to get crypto out of the way.
	That's what this is about as well.
	They claim the security, scalability, and decentralization of crypto transactions was not achievable.
	But they are decentralized.
	They're decentralized versus they're centralized digital currency.
	That's what they don't like about it.
	It's a flat out lie about this.
	And then, of course, he said it also has an excessive ecological footprint.
	See? They're not worried about artificial intelligence.
	They're not worried about the big learning machine, you know, learning language models and all the rest of this stuff.
	They're not worried about that. They're not worried about the computational requirements of their surveillance state, their biometric surveillance, their anticipatory intelligence, all the rest of this.
	No, no, no. But crypto, that's going to destroy the planet.
	It's just so ridiculous.
	Nevertheless, Bitcoin hit a one-year high in this past week.
	It was up to $31,000.
	I don't track it, so I wasn't aware of that.
	But what I find interesting about this, as I said, the reason that it jumped up in price was even though you have all this political targeting of crypto, By the central bankers that I just read you, by the Biden administration, all these other, trying to criminalize the exchanges, trying to shut down the on-ramps and the off-ramps of this stuff.
	Even as all that is happening, why did it go up?
	Well, because BlackRock, listen to this, BlackRock applied to register a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund, an ETF. So they want to create...
	All these people are talking, well, the problem with crypto is it's just too speculative.
	Do you think they're going to say that about BlackRock creating a derivative so that you can gamble on crypto values without actually owning any crypto?
	I mean, this is like what silver, you know, paper gold and paper silver is.
	You don't actually own any gold.
	You don't actually own any silver.
	But it allows you to...
	Trade on the value of that.
	It doesn't really track it.
	As a matter of fact, paper gold and paper silver are ways that they can manipulate the value of real gold and real silver.
	And so now when you look at this, if BlackRock is going to be creating a derivative to buy and sell Bitcoin, if they're going to create an ETF, an exchange-traded fund, maybe they're going to use that to manipulate the value of Bitcoin.
	I mean, I would see this as a major negative.
	Not a positive, and yet the markets saw this as a positive.
	Even though, at the same time, you have the Security and Exchange Commission, the SEC, coming after Coinbase and Binance and trying to make, you know, getting into and getting out of crypto impossible,
	illegal. Industry experts believe that a Bitcoin ETF is Well, you know, if BlackRock does it, then we'll be okay.
	Except... Would BlackRock manipulate the market, just as we've seen with the ETFs for gold and silver?
	The Bank for International Settlements publishes its blueprint for CBDC, praises programmable money.
	That's what they really like about it.
	Programmable money means that they can make it expire.
	They can program it to not work when you own it.
	They can program it to not work to buy certain things from certain people.
	Or to allow certain people to hold it?
	They love that programmable aspect of it.
	It's almost like talking about censorship on social media as programmable speech.
	Programmable money is the same way.
	It's censorship money.
	That's what we should call it. It's money controls down to the individual level.
	That's the level of tyranny that we've gotten to now.
	So the proposal is to turn into what is referred to as a unified ledger and to make it a programmable platform.
	So they're going to program you Out of the things that you want to buy, they're going to make it a universal global ledger because they want to have a global currency to control people.
	And then as all this is happening, the Mises Institute, Ryan Macon, points out that money supply has fallen severely.
	You know, we went through these periods of what they call quantitative easing, where they just, you know, increased the money supply by a massive amount.
	And now they're restricting the money supply very, very rapidly.
	This is the other part that's really dangerous about this.
	Just as you saw them rapidly raise interest rates, you know, three-quarters of a basis point at a time, just leaping.
	Interest rate increases all the time.
	Now they are doing quantitative tightening very, very rapidly, even more rapidly than they did the quantitative easing.
	So we've seen the money supply repeatedly contracting year over year for six months in a row, says the Mises Institute, with negative growth now falling near or below 10%, negative 10%, for the second month in a row.
	And this is the key takeaway.
	The money supply contraction is the largest that we've seen since the Great Depression.
	That's very concerning, what they're setting up here.
	We have a tip from Jason Barker.
	Thank you, Jason, on Rumble.
	He says, David, please interview John Adam Klesek, author of School World Order.
	That sounds like a good book. I've not heard of the author before.
	Yeah, I will. I definitely will.
	Also on Rockfin, Jay Gold.
	Thank you for the tip. He says, Bill Maher is pronounced Maher as in car.
	Okay. I don't like him.
	I like the David Knight show.
	Well, thanks. I never know how to pronounce it.
	I don't watch him, actually.
	I wasn't sure how to pronounce it.
	So, Mar as in car.
	Thank you for correcting me. That's the problem.
	I read more than I watch TV, so sometimes I get name pronunciations wrong.
	But anyway, the money supply contracting, as they point out, it's now falling about 12%.
	And that's what happened in the lead-up to the Great Depression.
	The money supply fell by 12%.
	And the Mises Institute is using the measurement of the money supply that was put together by Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises.
	And so, you know, they've got their own metric that is different from the one that the central bank publishes.
	By that metric, It is dropping in a way that we did not see since the beginning of the lead-in into the Great Depression.
	From 1989 to 2009, they said there has been a drop in total monetary supply over that 20-year period that is down at 22%.
	But recently, it's down by 12%.
	And it has been a large part of what is weakening the economy.
	And what you need to understand, as we've said time and again, is that the Federal Reserve, in order to preserve their monopoly status, in order to preserve their institution, in order to preserve their fiat dollar, they will take this country into a Great Depression if they need to, to defend their hegemony of their dollar.
	Now, of course, they have...
	They've done a great deal to damage it in the way that they have used it for political purposes and sanctions and all the rest of this stuff.
	But anyway, go to davidknight.gold.
	I'll take it to Tony if you want to make sure that you've got a hedge against this crazy, manipulated system.
	You don't want to have...
	Paper Bitcoin, paper gold, paper silver.
	You want to have the real thing, and Tony can help you with that.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to be joined by our guest, Trent Talbot.
	I'm really excited to talk to him because, as I said before, I think it's key for us to rebuild our culture.
	We've got to have some positive things, especially rebuilding it from the children up.
	We need to understand that that is our future.
	Certainly the other side understands that, and they've been trying to tear that future down.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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	Joining us now is Trent Talbot, and I'm real excited to talk and I'm real excited to talk to him.
	I really admire what he's doing.
	He is the president and founder of Brave Books.
	And if you listen to their, here's their mission statement.
	Honoring God by shaping a future generation of Americans who will fight for a nation defined by freedom, truth, humility, bravery, and compassion.
	Helping parents instill a love of truth in their children so that the children will withstand.
	good to go.
	Trent is somebody who was a practicing ophthalmologist.
	And because of his convictions, he stopped that and started this book company.
	And this is the book company you've seen, and we've talked about Kurt Cameron going around having these library events, and there's some updates about that.
	There's a major event that is coming up on August 5th, and there's a major pushback by the American Library Association.
	And I said when I talked about what Kurt Cameron was doing with his book, I said it's necessary for us to have a positive vision for our children and for their future.
	It's not enough just to oppose evil.
	We've got to have a positive vision of what we want there.
	And that's really what Trent is doing with Brave Books.
	Bravebooks.com is the website where you can find this.
	And we're going to talk about the other books that he's got as well.
	Kurt's got that one book that he started taking around, and he's got a second book that is coming out.
	But there's a lot of books that he has at the site, and they actually even have a monthly book club that you can sign up for.
	So we're going to talk about all that stuff coming up.
	So welcome, Trent.
	Great to have you on. I really do admire what you're doing.
	Yeah, thanks for having me, David.
	Really appreciate it. Tell us a little bit about, fill in with people, the Kirk Cameron story.
	I know it started in just one place, and he had some issues with that.
	They actually had all kinds of opposition from the librarians who do not want to have these types of books.
	Well, they scream bloody murder if you take out a pornographic book directed to kids, but they don't want to have a book about positive...
	Character and positive Christian values and that type of thing.
	So tell us a little bit about Kirk and how this all came about with this library project.
	Yeah, so Kirk's book, As You Grow, which is a kid's book on teaching biblical wisdom and the fruit of the spirit, it launched in December of 2022.
	And we were chatting with Kirk about, all right, how are we going to get the word out on this book?
	And, you know, Kirk's got a heart for communities that...
	Don't know the Lord. And so he was like, well, you know, drag queen story hours are a big thing.
	What if we reached out to libraries and we went into those communities that are being exposed to things like drag queen story hours?
	And we did a book reading, you know, talking about my book on the vocalism.
	And so it was like, all right, great idea.
	So we found 54 libraries that have sponsored libraries.
	There's a difference between hosting and sponsoring.
	Sponsoring means that the library actively endorses it.
	They pay the drag queens to come.
	They pay to promote it.
	They really can order it out.
	We didn't ask for that.
	We figured that they definitely wouldn't sponsor us.
	So we reached out to 54 libraries asking to And in some instances, we'd have to pay for the space, and we were happy to do that.
	And every single one turned them down.
	They turned us down, which was shocking.
	We were not expecting that to happen.
	And so we let the press know, and it became a big national story.
	Kirk eventually threatened a lawsuit with First Liberty Institute.
	You know, because his free speech was being violated.
	And they started to back down, and he started this, what we call the Brave Book story hour tour, where we're going around from city to city hosting story hours.
	And it sort of became this big thing.
	But, well, yeah.
	And in August, we're doing a new take on See You at the Pole.
	You know, See You at the Pole is the popular...
	Annual event where kids around the country would go gather at the flagpole and pray.
	We had this idea of encouraging families across the country to go host their own story hours at their local libraries.
	And so that's going to be the culmination of the whole library dramas on August the 5th.
	Well, it seems like this, I was surprised that it was as recent as December 2022, because there's been so many different incidents with this, you know, in terms of resistance that they've put up.
	I remember there was a promotion that you guys were going to film in one library, and these people were making...
	We're doing everything they could to disrupt you, you know, making all kinds of noise and other issues like that.
	It truly is amazing to see how, as these people say, well, we embrace, you know, books of all types and we want to have freedom of speech and all the rest of the stuff, but they don't.
	They have a very narrow view of what they want out there.
	They have an agenda.
	And if you're not part of that agenda, boy, they want to eradicate you in the worst way.
	And that's the amazing thing to see happening now in the American Library Association.
	These are the people, and it's taxpayer-funded, the American Library Association.
	Tell us a little bit about that and what is going on with the American Library Association, how they're pushing back against this event that you've got coming up on August the 5th.
	Yeah, so we started to get feedback from families across the country that were trying to host their own story hours on August the 5th at their local libraries.
	And they started to say, hey, my library is saying that there's no space, that all of the rooms are booked up.
	And we were like, typically, because typically that doesn't happen like two months in advance.
	We've dealt with libraries a lot.
	Very rarely are they booked up two months in advance.
	But everybody was saying that.
	So we did some digging and we found that the director of the ALA Intellectual Freedom I think that's her title Deborah Caldwell Stone gave a speech to basically all the libraries across the country in their virtual annual meeting and said basically gave libraries a guidebook on how to block The August 5th, see you at the library event.
	And they said, all right, so you can change your policies to where they have to have a library card.
	There's a bunch of ways to make it difficult.
	Or, if you want, you could say that the rooms are already taken.
	And you could basically just go ahead and book events that you put on today, book them for August the 5th.
	And then you have the benefit of saying that there's no room in the end.
	Wow. How did you guys find that out, that they were doing this?
	Was it an open meeting that somebody recorded and gave to you?
	No, it was sort of a whistleblower.
	This woman snuck into the meeting, recorded it all, and then sent it to us.
	That's good. So, yeah, the intellectual freedom person was doing this.
	Let's shut down alternative viewpoints.
	We don't want to have them there. Yeah, and her reasoning was that, you know, because they believe in diversity.
	Yeah. We believe in diversity.
	That means that only our opinion is going to go out there.
	I think they need to change their name from the American Library Association to the Fahrenheit 451 Library Association.
	They don't want to see any opinions out there at all.
	So where is this standing right now?
	I mean, if they say that they're going to play this game and say that it's booked and they've got it booked with a phony reservation, I mean, what is there, if anything, that you can do about it?
	Or have you guys got a strategy about this?
	Yeah, we've got a strategy.
	We're going to sort of let this story get out.
	But yeah, next week, I think we're going to play our next card.
	That's good. Yeah.
	And we'll see some news reports about that.
	Let me know when you release that.
	Send me a press release on it.
	Let's talk a little bit about the book, As You Grow, that Kirk Cameron did.
	Tell us a little bit about that.
	You said it's Christian values, but can you give us a bit more information about it than that?
	Yeah. So, what we're doing at Brave is a little unique.
	We're not doing... All of our books can stand alone, but they're all part of what we call the Freedom Island Book Club.
	And every story takes place in Freedom Island with our cast of characters, and it's part of an overarching saga.
	So, I don't know if this is going to be video, but...
	Yeah, cool. Well, I'll show you.
	This is a mural that a fan painted of Freedom Island behind me.
	And so, if you see that big tree right there, that's called Sky Tree.
	It's the largest tree on all of Freedom Island.
	And... As You Grow is about Skytree.
	It starts as an acorn, just as all trees do, and then grows from a little tiny tree into the biggest tree on Freedom Island.
	It undergoes different seasons.
	It undergoes challenges.
	It's a classic style children's book that That talks about the different seasons of life, the fruits of the Spirit, and yeah.
	So it's kind of a metaphor for growing up and how things are going to change throughout your life, as told by that tree.
	But that's just kind of the beginning of this bigger universe that you've got of all different types of stories that are going to touch on different types of issues for the kids.
	Tell us a little bit about some of the other ones.
	Yeah, so, well, our first book is called Elephants Are Not Birds, and it covers the topic of gender reality, where there's Kevin the elephant.
	He comes across this vulture named Culture, and Culture tries to convince Kevin that he's a bird because Kevin loves to sing.
	And Kevin...
	Kevin eventually, culture gives him a beak and some wings and Kevin tries to become a bird for a while.
	Has a really hard go of it.
	He tries to fly and it doesn't go so well.
	But eventually Kevin saves the day whenever he sort of embraces his inner elephant-ness and puts out a fire and sort of saves the town.
	And then he realizes he's perfect the way that he was So that's a popular book.
	Little Lives Matter is on the sanctity of life.
	It's where you've got the island of free ice cream that covers the dangers of communism.
	Every book teaches a traditional value, pro-God, pro-American value.
	Some are political.
	We've covered the freedom of speech, Second Amendment, But a lot of them are really just wholesome, traditional values that build their character.
	I think we have to be deliberate about it.
	And that's the key thing. You know, we've been very passive about, you know, even creating any entertainment or creating any kind of books like you're talking about.
	We've let other people do it.
	And that's how we have gotten in the situation that we're in right now.
	These other people create this entertainment.
	And it was fine when I was growing up, like I said earlier in the program.
	You had Disney creating stuff like Johnny Tremaine and Davy Crockett and things like that, and embodying the kinds of traditional values that are going to be good for kids, good for families, good for cultures and societies.
	But now it's become very destructive, and we've just kind of taken a backseat and passively watched what other people are producing because in many cases, you know, the movies, they've gotten so technically proficient That it's turned into eye candy.
	So we just kind of passively sat there.
	But I think what you're doing is very important.
	You've got to deliberately portray these values for the kids.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Our prayer is that we just think there needs to be a brand that parents can trust with their children's imaginations to not only...
	Enthrall them, but build their character while doing so.
	And so our strategy is, you know, kids love a world.
	They love the idea of world building and they love seeing storylines progress and characters progress.
	So that's what we did.
	We built this world, Freedom Island.
	We built the cast of characters, Team Brave, the good guys, villains like Culture of the Vulture, Blackheart, all these really fun characters.
	And then just have some really great stories.
	And so our first priority, whenever we're making any book, And this will be the case whenever the anime and television shows come and all that.
	We want it to be just top-notch entertainment because we want it to be gripping for the kids, for them to absolutely fall in love with it.
	But then, while they're being entertained, we...
	We communicate these lessons that build their character as opposed to leave them confused and demoralized, which is basically the status quo out there right now.
	That's right. Yeah, it is a very powerful thing to be able to do that in entertainment.
	And people are kind of disarmed with that, and so they're open to both good and bad as it's being portrayed in that.
	You know, I think about if you tell somebody something in the form of a documentary or something, that can be powerful, and it can be more powerful than if you write, you know, from my perspective, if I were to write an op-ed piece or something, if I were to do some kind of a mini-documentary, To make it visual for people, that gets it across to more people.
	If you do something that is a work of fiction, like a drama, that becomes even more powerful for people.
	And so I think that's an important progression.
	It sounds like you're going to be going in that direction as well.
	But we need to understand that kids are like sponges.
	And they pick this stuff up.
	And of course, Disney understands that.
	That is the key issue.
	And they don't even really care whether they're going to make money.
	They've lost a billion dollars on these last eight movies, but they continue to go down this path because they're on a mission.
	But you're on a mission in a different way, aren't you?
	Tell us a little bit about that transition as you were an ophthalmologist and you decided that you wanted to do something positive.
	Yeah, so I was a happily practicing ophthalmologist, and I was saved in early 2019, and then, so that changed my life completely.
	Right after I was saved, I met the woman who's now my wife, and we got married very quickly after that, and then a year later, we had our first daughter, and The summer of 2020.
	And so when she was born, it's sort of like whenever you get a new car, you start to notice that car everywhere on the road because it's increased in your level of awareness.
	I had no idea that there was this war for our kids' hearts and minds.
	It's just something I never paid attention to.
	But after she was born, I started to see this war everywhere.
	You walk into Barnes& Noble, the first thing you see is the genderqueer stuff targeted for kids.
	You see it Netflix and Nickelodeon.
	Anyway, I was seeing it everywhere and it just...
	It stuck with me.
	For whatever reason, I couldn't get it out of my head as far as like...
	I thought it was just so wrong.
	And... And slowly, you know, enough sort of sleepless nights thinking about it, this idea for Brave Books and Freedom Island started to crystallize in my mind.
	And then the draw of how fun that would be to go on this journey started to outweigh the risk.
	It was a big risk, you know, with a newly married baby.
	And you've got a lot of time and money and training involved in being an ophthalmologist.
	That's very serious. And, you know, of course, that's a full MD. That's not an optician.
	That's a full MD. And, you know, so that's a medical school plus a specialty and all the rest of this stuff.
	And you're just going to leave that Well, I think.
	Well, yeah. The Lord's definitely done a lot in my life, for sure, but He's also done a lot for Brave Books.
	I didn't know what I was doing whenever we started Brave Books.
	I didn't know how to make a good story.
	I didn't know anything.
	I didn't know how to make an e-com store because...
	Yeah, we wanted to do the subscription, which means we couldn't sell books through Amazon.
	We had to do it through our own store and fulfill our own books.
	So there's a lot of stuff that I didn't know how to do, but the Lord just, every single step along the way, found the perfect person to bring into the team, and it's been incredible.
	How'd you get connected with Kirk Cameron?
	Um... We wanted to do a vote very bad with Kirk Hammer because we just think he stands for everything our brand believes in.
	He's Christian first, but he's not afraid to talk about what he thinks politically.
	To us, it was a perfect fit and just sent enough emails to enough people and finally got a hold of his...
	I guess his manager, his assistant, who then connected us and gave Kirk the vision.
	And we were really small back then whenever we first had talked to Kirk.
	But he believed in what we were doing and took a chance on us.
	And it's been a great partnership.
	Yeah, that's great. It really has worked out well.
	And you've gotten a lot of press and deservedly so.
	And... I think when you look at this and you see this as rapidly as it is advancing, as you point out, you go into the Barnes& Noble or whatever, and you see all these books trying to groom the kids.
	I think it's probably the best way to approach this, but it is really a spiritual war, a mental war, taking every thought captive, and that's really where you are right now.
	You're really at the front line of this with the kids.
	I know how when I was a kid, it was such a big deal for me.
	It's very exciting when they would have the bookmobile come by to the store and we would have the book of the month club.
	And I think it's great that you're setting this up as like a monthly thing.
	It really gives the kids something to look forward to.
	And of course, you've got the bigger pictures.
	You point out these things are all being put together to create a larger world for these kids.
	What is the age group that you're really targeting this for?
	Sounds like they're kind of early elementary school.
	Yeah, yeah. I mean, right now we're doing picture books, so that's in that four to nine range.
	You know, it's probably ideal. Our vision is for the next 50 to 100 years when Christian conservative parents or grandparents, when their kids or grandkids hit three years old, three to four, they start their subscription and they get a picture book every single month for the next four plus years.
	It'll be 50 books, four years and two months.
	Mm-hmm. And kids love getting stuff in the mail, especially on a monthly basis.
	Anyway, they love it.
	But, you know, they're going to outgrow the picture books, you know, when they hit about eight, nine.
	And so the subscription will change to two chapter books a month.
	But they keep growing in this world that we've built with the characters.
	And the topics sort of age with the kids, you know.
	So once you get into the chapter books, you may start to hit some of those heavier topics, you know, that aren't really appropriate for kids or...
	Anyway, yeah, and by the time that they're done with picture books, chapter books, potentially some middle grade young adult novels, and then, you know, live action, animated television, you know, they'll have grown up in this world where every single thing that we put out builds them up, you know, lets them know a little bit more about how the world works, about...
	You know, about good morality, good character, and yeah, we're...
	That's really something that's very needed.
	I know my son, who's producing my show here, we got started with him with some books that were for older kids and written back in the Victorian England time.
	G.A. Hinty was the author.
	And he would do these historical books, and my son loved history.
	And each one of them would kind of follow a pattern.
	You'd have some young man It was a central character protagonist and he would be in some kind of historical situation.
	It could be a lot of them were battles that we didn't know anything about that people in Victorian England would have known about but then there were other things that were pretty well known.
	One of them was about the battle of the Romans versus the Jews in terms of destroying the temple.
	It was called For the Temple. And so that got him, I started out reading that stuff to him, and he learned to read, reading those, and then went through all of them himself.
	And that's the key thing.
	It's like an adventure. And one of the things that I really liked about those books, which I think you're doing in yours as well, is the characters, the character of the characters.
	And even the bad guys, even the villains, had a better character than you usually see in heroes today in the books.
	We got to the point where Disney just wants to do villain stories now, right?
	Because that's a lot more interesting to them.
	And they like to put a dark angle on the protagonist, but it was very different going back into Victorian England.
	They had even the guys who were, again, they're going to have initiated a war with somebody and they're attacking them, but they had a code of honor that you would see in the book.
	And that's the type of stuff that I grew up with, the type of stuff that I try to get my kids to grow up with, and I think that's something that is really needed.
	You have to model those things for the kids.
	They have to be shown how that works.
	You can't just tell them.
	It's not powerful enough. They have to see it acted out in a work of fiction or something like that in order to be able to really grab those values.
	That's what I think is really important about what you're doing.
	They need to see it in art, and they need to see it at home.
	I can write as many good books that build a character as possible, but if they're not seeing good morality, good relationships between moms and dads at home,
	then Then these books probably won't have a strong effect as if it was otherwise.
	So, you know, I'm a big believer that change doesn't start in the White House.
	It starts in our house. And, you know, as parents, we need to always be thinking, you know, How are my children going to take, you know, what I just said to my wife or how I treated them and just always try to be modeling great behavior?
	It's a challenge. I fall short a lot.
	That's right. Yeah, that is the challenge, and it's part of the growth for us as adults, I think, to have kids that are looking at us and looking up to us.
	That makes a change in the way that we interact, the way we see ourselves as well, and we want to do the best to model that for them.
	Now, Freedom Island Book Club, the monthly subscription thing, is that there now?
	Yeah. I know it's going to be growing, but it's already there now at this point, right?
	Yeah, you know, my creative team has a tough job.
	They have to write a new book every single month to make sure our subscribers get their book every month.
	Yeah, but no, it's there.
	You can go to bravebooks.com, and if you sign up today, you get Kirk Cameron's latest book, Pride Comes Before the Fall, for free.
	Tell us a little bit about that, because this is Pride Month.
	Yeah, yeah. Pride comes before the fall.
	Comes in June, right? What is that book about?
	It's actually not about the LGBT movement.
	It really is just talking about the dangers of pride.
	One of our characters gets a little prideful about his athletic ability and ends up Ends up sort of making a fool of himself, lashing out in anger, and ends up learning the lesson that it's much better to be humble and put others first as opposed to puff yourself up and be self-focused.
	Yeah, it's a great book.
	Kirk really did a great job with that book.
	I think really nailed the lesson.
	For our kids.
	Yeah, it surprises me.
	You know, I understand that it's good to have accomplishments and you can take...
	As we say, pride in the accomplishment, but the sin of pride, when you start thinking about yourself and elevating yourself, that's something God has always condemned and punished severely.
	And so it always kind of surprised me to see them having a month of pride, you know, and pride in what?
	Pride in what God condemns, which I thought was always kind of a strange thing.
	But you've got other authors besides Kirk Cameron.
	Tell us a little bit about some of the other authors that we might know.
	Yeah, Missy Robertson of Duck Dynasty.
	She wrote a book on the importance of family, did a book with Bethany Hamilton on overcoming fear.
	So she's the woman whose arm got bit off by a shark and ended up continuing her career.
	The surfer? Yes.
	And she ended up winning the national championship a few years later.
	So her story is incredible.
	But yeah, at this point we've done 24 books, so over 20 authors, some really great people.
	Those are the ones that stick out top of mind.
	You've got Dinesh D'Souza and I guess his wife.
	What did they write a book about?
	They wrote a book about socialism and the importance of the free market.
	Cool. Yeah, that was a great book as well.
	And you've got the lady who does Libs of TikTok.
	What was her book about?
	Yeah. So, that was a book.
	It was called No More Secrets, The Candy Cavern, and it was about...
	It was sort of a take on Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, where this wolf in sheep's clothing...
	Tries to get all the kids to eat candy all semester and fattens them up.
	And he tells them, don't tell your parents, don't tell your parents.
	And then he tries to eat them, eat them all.
	But she ends up telling her parents and parents save the day.
	So, yeah, it's sort of like an anti-grooming, you know, just it teaches kids the lessons of Not keep a secret from your parents.
	And if anybody tells you to keep a secret from your parents, you definitely need to tell your parents.
	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
	That's absolutely true. John Solomon.
	You got a book by John Solomon, who's an investigative journalist.
	What did he write about? Yeah, he wrote a book called Hidden Headlines that's on the importance or, yeah, the harmful effects of censorship and the importance of free speech.
	And it's a fun little mystery style book.
	Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, it sounds like you've got a real wide variety of things.
	I like the idea that you've got a monthly Book of the Month Club.
	And then, of course, this whole thing going on back and forth with the American Library Association.
	I think one of the things that people need to understand about that is that it gets federal funding, doesn't it?
	Tell us a little bit about that and its connection to the federal government and the amount of money that it gets.
	I mean, it gets quite a bit of money, doesn't it?
	Yeah, it gets over $200 million a year.
	Wow. Really, I mean, they don't do that much.
	It's not like that money goes to all the libraries.
	The libraries get their own funding.
	It's just a bunch of bureaucrats and ideologues at this point.
	It's another institution that's been captured.
	Yeah. And, yeah, they do not like brave books.
	We've given them a lot of headaches.
	So I guess it's understandable, but it's really not, because they have a duty, you know, to help the libraries, you know, be a resource for all American citizens.
	And And for whatever reason, a lot of our government institutions have just viewed Christians as the enemy.
	And anybody who doesn't go along with this woke, progressive agenda as enemies that need to be silenced.
	And it's really unfortunate.
	But we felt that...
	We didn't want to sit back and just take it.
	We wanted to bring awareness to another institution that's been captured, and then we've got some things up our sleeve that we hope can change the ALA for the better.
	And, you know, there really isn't even a reason for the ALA. It's another one of these examples of creating this overarching bureaucracy, massively funding it so that it can influence the people who are actually doing the real work at the local level.
	You know, de Tocqueville talked about democracy in America.
	He said, yeah, if the people need a library or something, just come together.
	They need a volunteer fire department.
	You know, if they need a fire department, they all volunteer and they create one or they create a library, that type of thing.
	That's the way it used to always be, but now by the unlimited amounts of money that the federal government has, it can take over these institutions from the top down, and that's just another example of this type of corruption.
	But it's something that is very much a communist tactic, this march through the institutions, and it's very much tied into people like Pete Buttigieg, that his father, who has studied the life of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist came up with that strategy.
	He said, this is the way we're going to win in modern society.
	We're going to take over all the institutions.
	And that's what we see happening.
	And it's typically done with massive amounts of federal funding, either taking over, creating new institutions that can then bribe people.
	I think that's a big part of the problem, even with the Department of Education, but certainly with the American Library Association.
	I think most people did not have that on their radar and understand what was really happening and how much they can control if they control what people see, read, and think.
	That's the key thing about all these totalitarian agendas, isn't it?
	Yeah, I think that's a great point.
	And I think that we do have to fight the corruption of our institutions, but I also think that we need to build our own institutions.
	And that's what I'm not seeing enough of From the Christians and the conservatives.
	Just not enough creativity, boldness, and gusto to go build new things.
	There's so many things that we could be building right now.
	We could build our own schools, our own school systems.
	There's such a need for that.
	And the list goes on and on.
	And, and, you know, Well, look at what happened in the last couple of years and the people, you know, and the way the hospitals have now been taken over by a few very large corporations and look at how ruthless they were in terms of their healthcare, you know, hospitals were originally a Christian thing.
	Schools were originally a Christian thing.
	Why is it that Christians don't want to create this type of stuff anymore?
	And talking about those types of institutions, but also entertainment.
	We're now starting to see that happen.
	We're having some really top-notch Christian films that are coming out.
	The one about George Foreman, we just saw that recently.
	That was an excellent film.
	And so, you know, there's some good films that are being made out there, finally, and people are stepping up to the plate.
	That's what you're doing with Brave Books.
	It's very important to have that because you've got to have that model of what this should look like.
	You know, you can't just sit on the sidelines and say, no, that's not right.
	You've got to show people what the right way is, I think.
	Yeah, exactly. You can't just have something that you're running from.
	You have to have something that you're running to.
	And yeah, our forefathers, they built all sorts of institutions.
	Whether it was Christian churches building all sorts of philanthropic endeavors like hospitals.
	Yeah, that was a Christian thing.
	And now... There's too much of just sitting on the sidelines and complaining and not enough, getting our hands dirty, rolling up our sleeves and building stuff.
	And the world needs it.
	Yes, absolutely. Well, I certainly take off my hat to you.
	You have... Put your life on the line and you're building something that I think is going to have a lot of positive influence for kids and getting them at an early age.
	Everybody understands. At least we should understand because the other side understands how important it is to get kids at an early age and to instill their values.
	And so parents need to be instilling their values, instilling their faith and their values.
	That's a great tool, what you've set up there with Brave Books.
	Again, it's bravebooks.com.
	And you've got information there about the August 5th event, I guess.
	Then people can keep an eye out for that to see what your next move is going to be as the American Library Association is trying to shut down books.
	Right, right.
	We've got information on our site, bravebooks.com, to help people host their own story hours, And so a lot of resources that you can use at bravebooks.com.
	And yeah, but if you're not going to host your own story hour, a great way to support that, what we're doing to fight for our libraries is to go and subscribe to our Freedom Island Book Club.
	Yes, yes. Looks like a great program.
	And again, you know, think about that if you're a grandparent.
	Get it for your grandkids. You know, always can chip in on that.
	Trent, it's great talking to you.
	I really love what you're doing.
	There are brave books, and you're right.
	More people need to step up and take the initiative.
	We had a wonderful country here at one point in time because we had the founders who did step up and they put their life on the line and their fortune on the line, and that's what you've done.
	And you're founding something that I think is going to be very important.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	Thanks for having me, David. Thank you.
	All right, folks, we're going to be right back.
	Stay with us. Joe, we've got a problem.
	What? Who are you?
	It's the new mug they're selling at the DavidKnightShow.com, right?
	So basically, a mug is something that holds liquid, right?
	Right, because basically you can't hold coffee with your hands, right?
	I'm a scat and leave, but anyone tries to mug me, I'm being ready for it.
	You dog-faced pony soldier.
	They say the mug can help patriots drink coffee, then save the world.
	This could be bad for us.
	Save the world? But we owe the world.
	These people, they're supporting free speech with every month they buy.
	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Welcome back. I really do like what Trent is doing.
	I really admire him for stepping out, stepping out in faith and trying to do something that is We're good to go.
	You're also now going to have to pay an additional fee to go into New York City.
	We've seen this already modeled in London and many other cities where you have a congestion fee.
	The next thing will be that they will not allow people to come into New York City just like they don't allow them in certain zones in the UK unless you have a zero emission vehicle.
	And the idea that a wood-fired pizza is going to be some threat to the environment is just beyond parody.
	It's just beyond stupidity.
	And so this guy goes to City Hall and takes a slice of pizza.
	Well, takes a pizza and throws it over slice by slice.
	And shouts, give us pizza or give us death.
	I think that is probably the appropriate response to this absurd law.
	But now they have come after him with a summons.
	I guess he should reply and say it was mostly peaceful.
	Several pieces, as a matter of fact.
	The protest. But I don't know.
	They must really hate pizza now in New York.
	I don't know. It used to be a big thing to be able to have, you know, the New York pizza was like Chicago pizza.
	They had their own style. I like, when we're talking about climate, I liked what Robert Malone put out.
	I thought this was a great response to all of this Freaking out about cattle.
	And we've got to get rid of cattle.
	He points out in the U.S. we had 60 million buffalo and 10 million elk roamed at any one time until they were almost wiped out.
	Other continents had other undulates who were numbered in the millions and they all farted and burped throughout millennium.
	Pretty sure they didn't cause climate change.
	It's time to think about it.
	Now, if they believe that it's methane gas and farts and burps and things like that are causing the climate change, Then I guess we don't need to, this whole idea that they've been pushing for a long time, that there was, the dinosaurs died out when an asteroid hit the earth.
	You know, that's their theory that they've been pushing for a long time.
	Maybe the thing that caused it all to happen was all the massive burps and farts of these gigantic dinosaurs.
	You know, a bunch of them as well.
	Anyway, when you look at this stuff, it is just one absurdity on top of another, but it's also a lot of dishonesty.
	Take a look. Somebody put up this graphic out of the UK that took a couple of screenshots and said, look at this, 1998, look at a weather map, and look at the numbers.
	Right? They're actually higher on the left side, where you've got the landmass is in green, and then you've got sunny and cloudy stuff there, but you've got temperatures that are in the 23 to 25 range.
	You've got some that are up north in the 18 range.
	And then when you look at 2023, even though the temperatures are lower, There's a lot of them that are, instead of around 22 to 25, they're around 20 to 22.
	Even though they're lower, the map is all red.
	As if it's a heat map.
	They just never give up on the propaganda.
	And it extends to every aspect of life.
	As I said, the central banks are focused on trying to take out their competition crypto.
	And so they will be the only crypto, the ones that they put out.
	But any other crypto is going to burn the planet up.
	Adding to that absurdity, we just had this statement about how climate change is causing inflation and all these other economic issues that have actually been caused by the central banks and the politicians.
	Climate change affects inflation.
	And inflation is the beast that all central bankers, whether they wear a green jacket or not, want to tame and discipline.
	Number two, because it affects our balance sheets.
	Whether it's a 3 trillion or a 7 trillion balance sheet, it is affected by climate change.
	Yeah, well, what affects the climate change is that they're using it, they're spending trillions of dollars, tens of trillions of dollars worldwide.
	And they're the ones who are going to be making money off of this.
	It's a massive grift.
	It's a massive transfer of wealth.
	This is one of the things I don't understand about RFK Jr.'s position.
	You know, he's clear in terms of telling everybody that this whole vaccine pandemic stuff was a massive transfer of wealth.
	And it was. Tremendous.
	But of course, the climate MacGuffin is the same thing.
	Tens of trillions of dollars, and it's going to go on and on and on.
	Instead of it being a massive spike, it is this relentless, persistent grift.
	And that's the thing that is, you know, spending and taxes and interest rates, that's causing inflation.
	But no, they will tell you that it is climate change, and the solution to that is to have a central bank digital currency.
	No other cryptos allowed.
	As a matter of fact, we look at the Audi CEO who has now been sentenced over the emissions scandal.
	This has been clicking around for quite some time.
	Eric Peters and I talked about this quite a bit.
	The fact that they said as Volkswagen was coming out with super efficient, super clean diesel engines, they had to shut that down.
	And the way they shut it down was to say, you cheated on your emissions test.
	Nobody died. Nobody was harmed by this.
	And of course, you know, they can't prove and will not even bother to prove that climate change is caused by any of this stuff.
	But again, this whole thing about coming after diesel engines is akin to the reason that they're coming after the wood-fired pizza.
	They say, well, this is fine particulate matter and we've got to shut this stuff down.
	It's not an issue. It's as phony as what they were saying, kids getting sick from gas with gas stoves and things like that.
	No. They add stuff to the gas so that you can smell if it's got a leak.
	You know what's happening with this stuff.
	But at the same time that Takata had been having a multi-year recall because their airbags blew up and killed people, killed about 17 people or so, they did not get the kind of punishment That Volkswagen got over cheating on an emissions test.
	And they got them to shut down their diesel stuff, and nobody has been more adamant supporter of all things electric now than Volkswagen.
	They learned their lesson.
	They came after the executives.
	And by the way, while we're talking about the Takata thing, Tesla's self-driving autonomous car, whatever he wants to call it, That has killed as many people as these Takata airbags in a shorter period of time.
	They're not shutting him down.
	He's not getting any fines for that.
	They're going to come after him and fine him for free speech, probably, if he doesn't start censoring people on Twitter very soon.
	It'll be coming from the Europeans as well as from the U.S., I'm sure.
	But the Europeans are the first ones in line to push the censorship requirements.
	But they're not going to do anything about This dangerous, fraudulent, self-driving issue.
	And again, no jail sentences for anybody in the Takata airbag thing, but you had Rupert Statler got a suspended jail sentence but ordered to pay a $1.2 million fine in connection to this diesel emissions scandal going back to 2015, eight years ago. That's how long Eric Peters and I have been talking about this issue.
	And again, what is scandalous about it is that they would impose these types of penalties.
	You also had in Munich...
	On Tuesday, the former head of engineering Wolfgang Hatz and an unnamed former Audi engineer were given suspended prison sentences and fines as well.
	This thing has been over their heads for the longest time.
	Why? Because they cheated on the unicorn farts.
	They don't make any difference at all.
	But as Robert Malone said, hey, you know what?
	Look at all the Buffalo we used to have.
	Ford is laying off hundreds of engineers.
	Why? Because Ford's not a car company anymore, and they have made this very clear.
	They changed themselves to a mobility company.
	And even though they were making a lot of money selling the most popular pickup truck and all the rest of this stuff, you had Wall Street was not happy with them.
	People like BlackRock pressured them.
	And they fired the guy who had made them very profitable and then changed the company from a car company to a mobility company because they don't want to sell cars.
	They don't want people to have private cars.
	They want to be a mobility company that is going to have a monopoly or at least more practically an oligarchy.
	It will be like three of them that will provide transportation to people We rent it by the ride.
	That's what they want. They're on board with the government and like all these corporations, they do what BlackRock says, they do what the government says, and they have nothing but contempt for what we want because they know where they're going to be able to make their money.
	Finally, in Ohio, We've got yet another green company that has been heavily subsidized, has now been shut down.
	Ohio, the EV manufacturer, Lordtown Motors, got $24.5 million to operate an Ohio factory.
	The previous owner was GM, and they got $60 million before they shuttered it.
	And so, in spite of all these taxpayer subsidies...
	It looks like the people running government, people running the bureaucracies are not very good at picking the winners and losers.
	And so I'm concerned we're going to see the same type of thing happening because in Tennessee and North Carolina, you've got battery companies, you've got a Vietnamese car company, electric car company.
	They're getting massive subsidies.
	And typically you see this type of thing happening over and over again, just like Solyndra.
	That's one of the reasons why...
	RFK Jr.'s argument, he says, well, here's a way that we handle the environmental issue that he cares so much about.
	He said, we got way too much subsidies for the oil companies, and I would say, if they get any subsidies, it's way too much.
	I don't want subsidies for anybody.
	I don't want subsidies for baseball teams.
	You know, that's something that's happening here locally.
	There's a minor league baseball team that is getting millions of dollars to build a stadium.
	Why do we give big corporations and billionaires free capital to set up their business?
	We shouldn't be doing that.
	And so we ought to shut down all these subsidies.
	But there isn't anything that is more heavily subsidized.
	Then all of these green imaginary products.
	And it has one thing.
	All these things have one thing in common.
	And that is where they want to take us.
	And let me just remind you of how this whole thing began and where they see it ending.
	And that is with depopulation.
	Here is Paul Ehrlich, to remind you of that.
	This is the guy who wrote The Population Bomb.
	He was the guy who was kicking off Earth Day with a congressman.
	Paul Ehrlich. We had formed an organization called Zero Population Growth, and then Johnny took me on The Tonight Show.
	Would you welcome Dr. Paul Ehrlich?
	You have to get the death rate and birth rate in balance, and there's only two ways to do it.
	One is to bring the birth rate down, the other is to push the death rate up.
	I did the show maybe 20 times, and we went from six chapters and 600 members to 600 chapters and 60,000 members.
	We're starting in now.
	This is the first step. The Bagley's belong to a growing number of young marrieds who favor ZPG, zero population growth.
	How many children do you have?
	Two. I have two children.
	Ehrlich's views on how to bring the birth rate down were concrete.
	Compulsion if voluntary methods fail.
	Creating a blacklist of people, companies, and organizations impeding population control in the U.S. Responsibility prizes for childless marriages.
	A tax on children.
	And a luxury tax on diapers and cribs.
	The concerns about population became misanthropic, and it was taken with so much seriousness that Paul Ehrlich could recommend things like putting stuff in public water that would make people not as fertile.
	Panic is not too strong a word to use for some of the advocates that I referred to as true believers.
	It was a zeitgeist that was taking shape.
	Attention, all citizens.
	Childbearing is herewith forbidden.
	No! One of the things about Zeitgeist is they have astonishing durability.
	It appears that large families are on the way out and ZPG may be possible.
	The idea also took hold in the developing world, where governments like India's had already begun to embrace population control.
	The core message of the book, Population Growth Outstripping Food Supply, resonated quite a bit.
	With India's elites, with the middle classes, they much preferred to believe that the poor were poor because of too many children, rather than being poor because of an unfair and unequal economic system.
	If you start with that problem definition, then it's almost inevitable that there will be circumstances where governments and other actors We'll act in a way that is coercive.
	In the mid-1970s, the Indian government began a controversial effort to encourage mass sterilization.
	We do want to create an atmosphere in which people realize the importance of this program.
	It led to abuses. Access to food aid and housing were sometimes used as coercion.
	Others weren't even given a choice.
	More than 8 million sterilizations were performed, many forcibly.
	The people, in the words of one family planning expert, were treated like cattle.
	Several days ago, crowds formed to protest being sterilized.
	The police opened fire and killed at least 50 of them.
	Zero population growth is a tragic frame in the sense that it was assumed that there was no way out, that people would just go on reproducing until there really was a desperate circumstance in the world.
	Ehrlich's message could be summed up in a dramatic prediction.
	Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.
	And by the end, I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.
	And of course, he said that 50 years ago.
	More than 50 years ago.
	He did the population bomb before they did the first Earth Day.
	And you notice the timing there.
	You notice how all these things converge together.
	It's no coincidence in my mind that all this zero population growth, depopulation, kicking out first Earth Day in 1970.
	By 1973, you had Roe v.
	Wade. We're going to reduce the number of kids, however we can do it.
	And the false prophecies of this guy.
	For 50 years now, just like the rest of these clowns in the environmental movement, everything they've been saying has been proven to be a lie.
	The burden of proof is on them.
	The burden of proof is on them to prove that climate is changing.
	The burden of proof is on them to prove that it's being changed by human beings and our activities.
	But the reality is that they have proven themselves wrong with their false prophecies over the last 50 years.
	And you can talk about The forced sterilization of people and authoritarian governments in India and that type of thing.
	But understand, that's not the way the American government operates.
	The way the American government operates is through psychological operations, through indoctrination, through education, through entertainment.
	All of these things that we have seen used to control us, the control of information.
	It's a very sophisticated...
	Very subtle, very seductive method.
	And it is a mind war.
	And they've always pointed that out, that it is a mind war, a propaganda war.
	And now what do we see today?
	Well, I think that the fruit of all this stuff, whether you're talking about telling women they don't want to have babies, they don't want to have families, they want to have careers, To, you know, from careers to queers, we have gone.
	And now we're going to the mutilation and sterilization of children.
	And what is that based on?
	Are they coming to your house and saying, well, we're going to sterilize, give us one of your kids, we're going to sterilize them.
	No, they're doing it with psychological operations, doing it through entertainment, doing it through educational institutions.
	It's the same objective, and it is the same tactics that they use for these MacGuffins.
	That's why when you look at situations, I understand how RFK Jr.
	is touching base, especially with a lot of conservatives, talking about issues that need to be talked about and saying the right things about many of those issues, but the issues that he's not talking about are very concerning.
	The issues of climate, the issue of abortion, for example.
	This article from LifeSite News...
	Presidential hopeful, Kennedy, says he'll support abortion, yet he also supports the Catholic Church.
	And you see, again, he is all about free speech.
	He's a free speech absolutist, and yet he wants his opponents jailed, and he still hasn't addressed that.
	These types of contradictions...
	Are very concerning, and we need to understand as we look at these politicians how they all have them.
	Yeah, absolutely. Have them out there as a spokesperson against Big Pharma, but understand the other issues as well.
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