As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday the 23rd of August, year of our Lord 2023.
Day 3.
Well, today we're going to talk a little bit about the Creed Bait show, what this reality TV show is really about, what may happen.
Looks like it's going to be an effort to de-Santisize the race.
And, of course, this de-bait.
You can spell that as B-A-I-T. They're trying to take the bait.
But we're going to focus before that...
On government arson.
What is happening now in Canada?
It is a pattern of behavior.
Of course, it's been happening in Canada before, but now it's happening again.
You actually have residents who are stealing equipment from the fire departments who don't want to use it to fight the fires in order to save their own homes.
This is their plan to literally burn us out.
And before we get to that...
We'll talk about Ukraine, because they have a plan to bring war to us, not just arson.
We'll be right back.
A very bizarre statement has been picked up by the press from Chechen fighters who claim that Ukrainian drones with claws are abducting Russian troops.
This is like straight out of The Wizard of Oz, the flying monkeys type of thing, you know, grabbing people and whisking them away.
Really strange.
But who knows? What is being done with new military equipment?
And of course, one of the reasons that we have these endless wars that we've had since the end of World War II, one of the main reasons is to use it as tests.
The military-industrial complex.
Incredibly strange. What they said essentially was that it was attacking wounded soldiers, grabbing them, you know, who could not defend themselves.
They said it was very difficult to shoot these things down.
You basically had to use an RPG, something like that, to get these things down.
We are really unleashing forces that we don't comprehend.
And it's not just new, strange implements of war.
As we have Colonel McGregor, yet again, Colonel Douglas McGregor, retired.
Warning us again, he's been one of the best voices on this thing.
He did an interview with Tucker.
He said, this is a catastrophic war.
That could easily destroy us.
It will reach us here in the U.S. if we continue to press Russia.
Because again, it's not just the drones with the claws that are picking people up, but now they're using drone warfare against Russia.
It's kind of interesting, you stop and think back to 9-11.
I thought it was always one of the interesting things about 9-11.
And of course, Ramaswamy has brought this up in a very limited hangout way.
Well, we need to know if there was any federal agents on those planes and other things like that.
Seriously, is that your issue with 9-11?
You don't have an issue with buildings that fell down and controlled demolition?
You don't have an issue with the fact that there was three buildings that fell down in New York and only two planes?
You don't have an issue with any of that?
And when you look at the planes, whether they are...
Some people say, well, you know, I think it was a Project Blue Beam illusion.
Some people say, well, perhaps they were drone-flown planes.
I thought it was kind of interesting.
We knew...
That there was some capability to remotely pilot commercial jets because there had been test crashes and things like that in the past where they would fill an airline with dummies and cameras on the inside and then pilot it and crash it into the ground.
It's not difficult to remote pilot a plane if you don't have to actually land it.
And so we'd had that type of thing before, but remember how all of a sudden It was drones, drones, drones, drones, just a couple of weeks after 9-11 when they hadn't talked about that at all.
Not at all. They didn't want to talk about that before 9-11.
And then you had the strange thing about Ken Olson's wife, who supposedly was talking to him on the phone with her cell phone.
And, you know, we...
Just so that people would not realize that that really wasn't possible.
They put in strict bans on people using cell phones on planes and tell you that you had to turn it off.
You couldn't just put it in an airplane mode.
You've got to turn it off. Well, here's a dirty little secret.
I never did. Just to prove to myself, I knew I wasn't risking anybody's lives.
If there was interference with the cell phone frequencies and the equipment on the airplane, here's a hint.
They'd never be able to take off, right?
Because where is it the strongest?
On the ground, especially in airports where everybody's basically using their phones, but it's very high there.
It's not going to interfere.
They're different frequencies.
Do people not understand how you got different radio stations?
And you have FM and AM radio stations, as well as different frequencies within those spectrums.
Do they not understand that?
That was such a total idiosyncrasy that people would think that that's going to somehow bring the plane down.
It's one of these things like masks and six-foot distancing.
You know, urban legends that were turned into regulations.
And so, getting back to Ukraine, most Americans know nothing about Ukraine, said McGregor.
If they knew anything about the history of Eastern Europe, they would say, get out.
Because the wars and the blood and the hatred that's been fought over centuries is something that we cannot sort out.
Just like the Middle East, isn't it?
Just get out. And that was what Reagan did after the terror attack in Beirut, killing a couple hundred Marines.
He said, these people are always going to be fighting each other.
Let's just get out of here. He wasn't worried about his image, his pride, and all the rest of this stuff.
He made the right decision to get out of there.
McGregor notes that President Biden has enabled combat pay.
So this implies that American forces are on the ground in Ukraine.
They're going to give them combat pay.
Or they're about to send them in.
He said it would be a mistake to think that Russian forces do not know where they are, he said.
If you think you can hide from us, if you come in here, if you cross these borders, we will annihilate you, which is a message that Russians have sent out.
He summed up the situation in Ukraine.
He said, if we press this war with Russia and Central East Asia, it will reach us here in the United States.
And he's absolutely right.
And quite frankly, I think that's the plan.
We have a government. It would be bad enough if we had know-nothing politicians who've never created anything, who've never successfully managed anything.
It would be bad enough if we had know-nothing politicians who are designing our cars and designing our electric grid and all the rest of these things, our homes, our appliances, and tell us how we're going to be allowed to do it and so forth.
And just making these edicts and say, okay, here's what you're going to do from here on.
And the engineers are going to have to figure out how to do this in the time frame that we give you.
And you're going to have to figure out how to pay the higher prices.
Because we're going to mandate such and such at such and such at the time.
It'd be bad enough if it was just stupidity and arrogance and dictates.
But these politicians today...
Have decided that they want to destroy us, destroy our country.
And it's not just the American politicians.
It's really kind of centered here.
But, you know, we've been the arsenal for democracy.
Now we are the arsenal for the global depopulation takedown with the vaccines that Trump created.
I have an excellent article, two of them, as a matter of fact, from Brownstone.
One of them is, the writer says, if only I could interview Trump.
Here are the questions that I would ask him about 2020 that Tucker will not ask.
And then there was another one that was even better by Jeffrey Tucker.
I carried it at Brownstone.
Talking about the timelines.
And what is going on behind it?
You understand, of course, that, you know, Fauci was not even really the one who was running the country.
He was the, you know, front man of Donald Trump.
You know, the presidents are run by the intelligence community, right?
We know that. We've seen that over and over again.
And Trump stepped down and let the front man be Fauci.
But the people who were really running it was the intelligence agencies.
And Jeffrey...
Jeffrey Tucker really breaks that down.
So when we look at what their plans are, burning down our country, Destroying our energy, taking away our food, even telling us we can only buy three articles of clothing a year.
That's the C40 agenda.
The 40 cities started by Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City and also London.
You know, there's two cities that are bastions of tyranny.
They created the C40 organization.
It's now spread to not 40 cities, but 100 cities.
And they want to burn down everything that we have.
They want to burn down our infrastructure.
They're not going to fix the roads, not going to fix the electrical distribution.
Instead, we're going to put in things to destroy it.
And all of these demands from Biden and from the World Economic Forum and all the rest of this is set up to destroy our infrastructure.
And they're proud of the fact that they're not maintaining it.
They're not maintaining the roads.
They don't want cars. They're not maintaining the electrical infrastructure because they don't want us to have power.
Net zero means net zero everything, including especially power.
But getting back to Ukraine, because that is a more obvious direct threat than a lot of people can see, McGregor says the smartest thing we could do is to end this war now.
The Russians will never tolerate NATO forces on Ukrainian soil.
Ukrainian forces are in a piecemeal fashion, surrendering to the Russians not because they don't want to fight.
It's because they can't fight anymore.
They have so many wounded, they can't evacuate them.
We're going to see this army that we have spent so heavily on just melt away.
When it comes to equipment being used to fight, he said, a lot of the equipment we sent over there is quite frankly obsolete.
It's very old. It's not new.
Integrated air defenses will knock virtually everything that flies out of the sky.
We will then fall back on a nuclear deterrent, a tactical nuclear weapon, that says if you keep advancing, we'll have to use a nuclear weapon.
Well, we don't want to go there, he said, because the notion that there are so-called tactical nukes, oh, well, it's just a little nuke, so that won't precipitate a nuclear war.
Any nuclear weapon and the use of any nuclear weapon is going to precipitate an escalation very rapidly.
You're not just a little bit pregnant and you're not just a little bit of a nuclear war.
And so when we talk about the weapons that they're sending over, it was said before, and I remember covering it about a month ago, the fact that they want to send them F-16 jets.
But they don't have very many pilots.
It was only, what, I think about a third of them or something.
Could even speak English.
I said, how is that going to work?
Well, guess what? It's not going to work.
You've got European countries that want to give Ukraine their F-16s, but of course the United States has a final say on that, and they have to be trained by the U.S. And the U.S. says, well, you're going to have to speak English.
Before they learn how to fly the F-16, they've got to learn how to speak English.
Otherwise, it's going to be total chaos.
It'll be the control tower of Babel.
But, you know, our military is out there rebranding itself with ads to recruit people in Spanish.
Yeah, that's right. We want to have an army, an air force that can't communicate with itself, right?
Because who cares? They're going to sit there and they're going to contemplate their genitals and, you know, what their makeup and their costume is going to be.
Are they a furry?
Or are they a fighter?
We don't know. We don't care.
Because the plan is to start wars and to lose them.
You see. So Moscow's being hit by a fresh wave of kamikaze drone attacks.
And they had one that got pretty close as they took it out.
It was close enough that the explosions from the Uh, anti-aircraft stuff that took down the drones, um, blew out windows, shattered debris on a bunch of cars and damaged them.
Uh, they had to suspend all air traffic first so that they could get the drones.
I guess that's one of the, the key, um, Things with the drones, if they can get in there and move quickly enough, it's difficult for them to take down the drones without shooting down the planes that are in the sky, the passenger planes and other things like that.
Then there was a second one that was taken down to the west of Moscow.
So, two drone attacks in just the last day.
And we think that this is not going to come to America.
We think that Putin and the rest of them are just going to put up with this forever.
Meanwhile, what are they doing to their own country?
Well, they have absolutely no concern about the massive number of casualties, as I pointed out yesterday.
As a matter of fact, we have somebody in the Pentagon saying that the Ukrainians are just too casualty-averse.
Come on, guys. Suck it up.
You don't care if you die or whatever.
For what cause, right? They're just too casualty-averse.
About a half a million of them, by one estimate.
Who knows? Nothing but lies and the fog of war coming out from both sides.
And yet we do see this from antiwar.com.
They say Ukrainian military officials suggested to the Washington Post that Ukrainian forces are not documenting where they're using the U.S.-provided cluster bombs in Ukraine despite assurances the Biden administration said it received.
The official, who would only go by his first name, Stanislav, detailed Ukraine's use of cluster bombs, which scatter small sub-munitions all over large areas and are extremely hazardous to civilians.
They don't explode.
They hang around for years, for decades.
And here's the key issue. This is why you have to keep track of where you use them.
Because so many of them are not going to explode and they become like landmines, maiming and killing people for decades.
And we've seen this everywhere they've been used.
This is why most countries have outlawed them.
But of course, Ukraine is not organized enough or doesn't care enough about their own people.
Again, you know, Restovich callously said in 2019 to a Ukrainian reporter, yeah, we're going to be at war with Russia in three years.
Oh, that's horrible. No, the country's going to be havoced.
It's going to be completely destroyed. That's really horrible, she said.
She said, no, the good thing is we get to get into NATO. They don't care.
They don't care what happens to their own country, their own people.
They're not going to keep tabs on where they put these cluster bombs everywhere.
And so they are estimating, the New York Times, because these are older cluster bombs that we're sending.
They're known as dual-purpose cluster bombs.
Maybe, you know, the dual purpose?
I don't know what the dual purpose is.
Maybe it's to destroy the area, you know, to make a landmine out of it forever.
And this is in addition to all the landmines that Russia has put.
This is why they can't make any progress.
Russia has just saturated the place with landmines, and so now they're going to saturate the place with cluster bombs as well.
It's going to be a no-go zone.
They don't have the equipment to pull all this stuff out.
People will die trying to get this stuff out of there.
Die and be mutilated.
And so the New York Times says these older, dual-purpose cluster bombs have a failure rate of about 14%.
In other words, about 14% of them do not explode.
They hang around to explode later as landmines.
And because of the high dud rate, as they point out, and it's not that it's a dud, it's just that it didn't explode on impact.
It'll explode later when somebody steps on it, when a kid plays with it.
There's a U.S. law that you can't transfer, produce, or use any cluster munitions that have a dud rate of over 1%.
The dud rate for this is 14 times that.
14%. So to get around that, He used, as the administration used, I don't know if Biden has any clue as to what's going on.
The Biden administration got around the obscure provision using the obscure provision of the Foreign Assistance Act that allows the U.S. to provide weapons regardless of export controls if the president determines doing so is a vital national security interest.
Even though continuing to fuel a proxy war against the world's largest nuclear-armed state is a huge risk to U.S. national security.
How in the world can you make a case that Ukraine is a vital interest to us?
It's not. Our vital interest is to disengage from this.
Our vital interest, our moral interest, would be to try to stop the war and stop the killing.
A pragmatic interest would be to try to stop a war that we're losing, that our surrogates are losing.
And so 120 countries have banned the use of these weapons, but the Biden administration will always find some kind of a legal prevarication to do whatever they wish.
When we come back, we're going to talk about government arson that is being directed against us and the very obvious case of what is happening in Canada.
We'll be right back. You're
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Yeah, who started the who started the fire?
We do start.
And who is not helping to put it out?
Well, that would be the Canadian government in both of these instances.
We're going to talk about what's happening in British Columbia.
We've had the Canadian fires that are famously fogging up the East Coast.
Those were on the eastern side of Canada, but now we have fires in British Columbia.
And these fires were admittedly started by their own government, and their government is not helping people to do it.
So the people are actually out there stealing fire equipment to fight the fires themselves.
To protect their homes. Folks, that's where we are right now.
That is exactly where we are.
And before we get into that, I just want to finish up one more time with what is happening, the tripwires of arson, the fire hazards being put all over our country with these BESS systems, BESS, the Battery Energy Storage Sites.
These things are an essential part of the renewable energy mandates that have been put in by all the different governments.
I played that clip for you a couple of days ago of what I was doing in 2009 to fight this.
And we didn't realize that we were actually doing firefighting.
We thought that we were fighting unreliable electricity at a much, much higher rate that was going to be forced upon us.
And unworkable energy.
Because at that time, as I showed you in that video, there was no battery storage...
And so what would happen is as the intermittent solar and the intermittent wind, especially wind is very intermittent, as that was fluctuating going up and down, as we explained in the video, it's like driving your car.
They would have to fill in the spots there with the functioning, working, traditional power plants that run off of functional fuel, not fossil fuel, functional fuel.
And so we'd have to cycle them up and down to keep the power grid at a steady state.
The power grid must be at a steady state.
That's the key thing.
If it's fluctuating up and down, you're getting brownouts, you're getting blackouts, but it's playing havoc with a lot of industrial stuff that cannot handle that.
It could shut down entire factories, have to reboot.
And so at the time...
As Colorado was doing it at the first, and that's where we had the lawsuit, was against Colorado.
A lawsuit saying state must not, cannot do renewable energy mandates.
We lost that lawsuit.
And look at where we are 14, 15 years later.
It's happening all across the country, not just in, you know, leftist, environmentalist places like Colorado.
Happening in here in Tennessee.
It happened in Arizona. And of course also places like California and New York and they've had their fires and the same thing has happened in Australia.
As I showed you, the Australian fires.
This is Tesla's Megapack fire.
Two of them on fire.
This happened after they put them in.
Look at how many of them there are.
They were fortunate that it did not spread to the other ones that were there.
And as the fireman comes on, he says, well, we're just going to have to let this thing burn out because it's not possible for us to fight this kind of a fire.
It's too difficult for us to put it down.
So this is what they want to put everywhere, what you just saw there on fire.
And we've had big fires in California, in New York, and other places like that.
It puts out toxic smoke.
In the case of Australia, they said, well, the good news is it's out here in the wilderness.
Smoke isn't going to get close to people.
But that's not what they're doing in California, Tennessee, Arizona, and New York.
They're putting it right next to heavily populated areas to burn them out.
And when you look at the cost involved and the other practical aspects, none of this makes any sense unless you view it from their agenda, which is to take everything away from us, including affordable energy.
And the energy will be taken away from us even if you can't afford it.
They're going to have rolling blackouts and that type of thing.
So to stop from having to cycle the plants up and down, which, as we pointed out in the video, is like starting and stopping traffic in the city.
You use more fuel, you have more emissions, versus just driving it at a steady state, like on the highway.
So they're misusing these reliable functional fuel plants.
We have oil, gas, coal, that type of thing.
And so they want to continue shutting those down, whether they've got anything to replace it or not, whether they've got anything that is going to be steady state.
But now, Elon Musk has come in.
To make himself the world's richest man, to make himself even richer, he's got a scheme.
He's going to put those battery packs out there, which have all the same fire hazards as, you know, an electric scooter that had burned down so many different buildings in New York over this last year.
It's unbelievable. People will bring these electric scooters and they'll put them in the lobby and they'll charge them and they catch fire overnight.
We've seen spontaneous fires of electric vehicles are banned in German garages because of that.
We've seen spontaneous fires from electric buses that have been banned.
In Germany, it burned two different stations that had massive fires.
One of them burned down in Stuttgart, burned down the entire station.
You've had one of the electric semi-companies.
Has had one of their own trucks spontaneously combust in their own place.
And so now let's keep scaling it up.
You know, we go from a scooter to a car to a bus to a semi to a power grid.
And it's a big problem. And at the time they put this out, that one that you saw burning there in Australia, that was one of the first places, if not the first place, that Elon Musk put these things in.
He went to them several years ago.
I think it was like 2015 or 16 or something like that.
Maybe it was as late as 17.
And he said, okay, so you're having problems with power distribution because this area there, South Australia, was real excited to get into the green stuff early.
And he said, I'll put this in.
He gave them some kind of a time frame.
Like, I'll get it installed in one month or three months or something like that.
And if I don't do it in that amount of time, you don't have to pay me.
That was his gimmick. Well, he knew how long they would get that put in there.
And he got paid. He got paid all the money.
And then the thing later burst into fire.
But in the video where he was talking about putting it in, this was a comment that was on it at the time.
A person said Tesla's 129-megawatt-hour battery pack at $55 million ain't going to do zip when South Australia's wind output drops 900 megawatts just when demand rises.
1,400 megawatts in the late afternoon in the middle of a heat wave, as it did in February of this year.
Pushing electricity prices above $1.30 per kilowatt-hour.
Just six hours of the lost 900 milliwatts requires 5,400 megawatt hours of storage, 42 times what Tesla's battery storage provides.
And then they were down, they were, sorry, still down 200 megawatts below the average for the next 24 hours of the heat wave.
And then he looks at the cost.
He says $8.3,000 for average kilowatt output just to cover one part of the missing wind.
During a hot spell?
Do you see all the problems with this?
We've got problems with insufficient capacity.
We've got problems with reliability.
We've got problems with affordability.
These people want to take everything from us.
They want to make everything unaffordable.
The cars are unaffordable. You've got Sadiq Khan, as I pointed out yesterday.
Well, we're going to have ultra-low emissions zones, which means only zero-emission cars.
So go out and buy a brand new electric vehicle, which is more expensive than a brand new car.
And guess what? Most people can't afford to buy a brand new car, let alone a brand new electric vehicle.
So if you move your car one inch, we're now going to put up surveillance cameras and we're going to hit you with 15 US dollars fine every day.
If you just move it just a little bit.
That's the response. It is a let-them-eat-cake kind of arrogance from these elitists who have designed to take everything from us.
Biometric scans, DNA scans, databases, surveillance, constant tracking, constant profiling.
We cannot accept this.
And one of the places that we have to stop this is the power rollout.
And this is, again, here in conservative Tennessee, you have TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which is essentially so heavily into ESG, environmental and social governance, that they can't see all of these practical issues or they don't care about them.
That's the key thing. With ESG, they don't care.
And they want to do this not just at this one site in Tennessee.
They want to do it at 20 sites in Tennessee.
The TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority.
They're your problem in Tennessee.
You've got to stop the TVA because they're going to keep doing this.
There's massive pushback.
And at this first place, which was in Dandridge area, Jefferson City area, and we have a picture of it.
Let's see. Yeah, here it is right here.
And so on Facebook, Travis started following this to see what was happening here locally.
A person put up there, Woohoo residents, thanks to Stephanie Poore and a lot of us showing up.
They denied the lithium battery plant.
Now we all just have to keep an eye on the zoning commission and our commissioners that anything like this never gets considered again.
Well, they said the lithium battery plant, but I don't think it's the plant.
I think it's the battery energy storage site, the BESS system.
They have an acronym for it, BESS, B-E-S-S. I think that's what they're talking about.
And the newspaper clippings that were sent to me by people in Tennessee said that they said, well, we're not going to allow that to be there, but they said the company, which stands to make a great deal of money, is going to sue in court.
So there's going to be a lawsuit about it, and they're going to have to stand firm on that lawsuit.
Who knows? Maybe if the county commissioners come in and they vote it down 16 to 1, and they can say, well, we did everything we could, but we lost in court.
Well, maybe they won't fight it too hard in court.
What about that? And even if they went in court, the TVA is going to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to put these things in residential areas, to put them in the middle of heavily wooded forestry areas to create a fire.
And so I'm not so sure that we won.
We've got to fight this ESGTVA. But here's Canada.
Let's talk about Canada. This was also sent to me.
This is a letter that's being put out by some people who live in British Columbia.
Shoe Swap, I guess.
S-H-U-S-W-A-P. British Columbia.
Said, we need to get this story out about what's happening in ShoeSwap.
Can you guys please post this everywhere?
Please send it to everybody you know so somebody send it to me.
And we're going to try to reach out and get in touch with them because you put a phone number there.
And we're going to try to get them on to it.
Give their account. But this is what they had to say.
She said, my name is Steph and my husband Joran and I own a home at the end of Meadow Creek Road in Solista, British Columbia.
The fire department and forestry lit a backburn around 4 p.m.
on Thursday, August the 17th, knowing that there were 30 kilometer per hour winds coming.
Now, you know, That's between 15 and 20 miles per hour winds coming.
And so they light a fire under those circumstances?
What's the matter with them?
This is the fire department that is lighting the fire.
I mean, this makes about as much sense as the firemen in Fahrenheit 451.
You know, there they were called firemen because they were lighting fires and they were burning books and libraries.
That's what these firemen apparently are.
They don't know that you don't start a fire when there's high wind conditions at 20 miles an hour coming.
They know that.
They know that.
No news outlet is talking about this.
My husband has been monitoring the winds and the Adams Creek fire for weeks.
On Tuesday, August the 15th, we knew the winds were coming.
The fire was approximately 15 kilometers away from us.
That's maybe about 8 miles away or something.
We don't know who decided to light a backburn knowing the wind forecast.
They lit a 14-kilometer backburn right up to our back door and never notified us.
My dad, who lives in Kelowna, knew about an out-of-control backburn before we did.
They didn't even come and tell us.
They just notified the locals by posting it on a piece of paper at the gas station.
You know, we've seen this type of thing.
As a matter of fact, this isn't just Canada where this is happening.
If you remember what preceded the Malheur standoff with Hammond Bundy and other people in Oregon, it was a ranching family called by the name of the Hammonds, and it was a similar situation where the federal government,
I think it was the BLM, And the Hammonds set their own backburn to protect themselves from that.
And it burnt less than one acre, less than one acre in this massive rural area, less than one acre of federal land, which was nothing but a bunch of scrubbing grass anyway.
It wasn't even any trees. And so the government came after them, charged them with arson and with terrorism.
It was outrageous. And they were going to send that family to jail.
And so Emmon Bundy and others got together and said, we're going to stand here and not let them take the Hammonds off to jail.
And the Hammonds said, no, no, don't do it.
We'll go to jail. And they went to jail for several years.
And then they were pardoned by Trump, not the very end of all of it, when Trump was mainly focused on Jared Kushner's white-collar criminal friends.
But prior to that, they pardoned the Hammonds, which was a good pardon.
It's a good thing that he did that.
And I applauded that when he did it, or whoever did it.
But... That was what was involved there.
And so the government has, in many cases, you know, this is just one acre, less than an acre, I think, of woodlands that, not even woodlands, but grasslands that were burned.
But the government does backburns all the time, and they get out of control all the time.
That's here in America as well.
But there, look at this. They do it right up to them.
They don't give anybody any notice.
They do it under high wind conditions.
She said, at 8.45 p.m., we saw the fire just over the ridge, and by 12 p.m., it had reached the Meadow Creek Road and was in the backyard.
And as a matter of fact, I've also had people send me pictures of what is happening with the British Columbia fires.
Here's one of them. They're very extensive now.
You know, you light a fire in wooded areas where it's dry and you've got 20-mile-an-hour winds, this is what you get.
Imagine our surprise. So she said, When the fire came into the valley, we watched it burn up the sides of the mountain due to the humidity dome created with all the sprinkler and water.
The fire department abandoned us.
About two hours had passed when some locals came down our valley with resources and with help.
I was notified that the fire department was sitting in a field having coffee.
So I went to get them.
When I got there, I asked them to come help us, and I told them the situation.
One of the firemen told me they wanted to help, but they had orders to sit.
I yelled at them to get in their trucks and come and help us.
They said they would.
I went back down the road to notify our own crew that they were coming.
I sat and waited, but no one came.
About 15 minutes went by, so I went back up the road and found them sitting about a kilometer away.
I told them they were assessing the situation.
I asked, how could they assess it if they couldn't see it?
I again asked them to come help.
They finally did.
Everyone ran around putting hot spots out.
We wore water packs and half masks with headlamps for the next three days, making sure our houses made it through.
And here's another picture of it from a further out distance.
In the initial days after the superfire, the locals were able to get water, gas, and supplies.
But now there is a heavy police presence.
Oh, well, I guess they've got to do something about it.
These people are protecting their homes.
So send in the police to stop that, right?
They have the roads blocked off, saying that they're there to prevent looting.
And the locals are being told to return to their homes.
They're not allowed to be helping at all.
There are spike strips on the road to blow out tires if people try to drive over them.
There are police blockades everywhere.
There are people trying to get essential supplies in, such as water, gas, and food by boat, and they are being turned away.
Police are patrolling the roads and water.
They have the gas stations blocked off.
We need to get the real story out so that we can get help.
This is war. This is war.
This is our government working to burn us up.
And in this particular case, there's no question of whether or not this is some kind of directed energy weapon or anything like this.
This is why I say, and this is why I got angry about the directed energy weapon.
It's like, fine. You want to investigate this?
That's fine. But we know what the government is doing.
The government is directly creating these situations...
By their ESG and the TVA here in Tennessee, putting in these battery energy storage sites, they're creating these situations.
They're creating disaster.
They're creating scarcity.
They're creating poverty with higher energy rates.
They're creating unreliable electric grid.
They're doing all this stuff deliberately.
And we're going to sit here arguing about directed energy weapons because Stu Peters wants to get a bigger audience?
Or Mike Adams?
That's what this is about, folks.
Look, they will give you stuff like this so that you chase your tail.
They will give you stuff like this that you can't prove, and they'll say, ah, these people are just idiots.
A bunch of conspiracy theorists.
You get focused on these sensational details and speculation that you can't prove, and you ignore all of this stuff that is happening?
And you ignore what they're doing?
Could deliberately slow motion destroy our country?
And then at times they'll come in and just light the fires themselves.
It's just that simple.
I wonder, did the Canadian crews, did they use directed energy weapons or did they just use a match to start those fires, right?
That's not the issue.
As I said from the very beginning, When you talk about what is happening on the eastern part of Canada, the issue is why can't you put the fires out?
Well, it's because of forestry mismanagement.
And that is deliberate.
That is part of their religion of environmentalism.
Don't touch the forest.
It's all natural and all the rest of this stuff.
And so they want you misdirected.
And the media is happy to misdirect you because they get all the traffic.
What I'm telling you It's not sensational, unfortunately.
It's malicious. It's criminal.
But it's not sensational enough.
We can't get excited enough about this type of situation or about the massive transfer of wealth while they set us up to be poor and to burn our homes down.
We can't get excited about that.
It's got to be directed at energy weapons or something like that.
It's their standard operating procedure to throw out nuggets like that, to misdirect people, and then to say, well, these are a bunch of deranged lunatics.
Don't pay any attention to them. There's not really any fire problems at all.
So she said, they're trying to starve us out, so they let it burn.
And that's what they're doing.
Justin Trudeau is yelling at Facebook as some of the people say, we refuse to watch things burn.
There's a picture there, Travis.
Show that article there from Breitbart.
They've got a guy there who's got some fire equipment.
He's just fighting it himself.
Government officials in British Columbia urged residents of wildfire-affected areas this weekend to stop taking hoses, sprinklers, and other firefighting gear from the government's rescue teams.
Lamenting that critical equipment is disappearing.
This is something that they want to keep in their stash or something, but hey, don't use that to put a fire out.
Residents who spoke to CTV News confirmed that civilians are taking the equipment and trying to put out the fires themselves.
They also said that in many regions, civilians are the only groups of people actively trying to put out fires.
Gordon Fable, a resident of Solista, said, we refuse to watch these things burn.
It doesn't matter if it's yours.
It doesn't matter if it's locked up.
Get it. Put it to use.
Put some fires out, he said.
That's what's going on here.
This is locals helping locals.
The desperate acts by Canadians feeling abandoned by their...
No, they are abandoned. They're worse than abandoned.
You know, the Canadian government has sent now the police in to...
To lock them up and to lock them away from supplies that could help.
It highlights, and to stop their mobility, putting things on the road to blow out their tires, these strips.
It highlights a growing tragedy, one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in Canadian history, exacerbated by a lack of government forest management.
No, they're managing it.
They're just mismanaging it.
It's like what the Bundy said about the Bureau of Land Management.
They're not trying to manage anything except to manage us off of the land.
That's one of the ways that you do it.
You burn people out. And the slow responses from government to the emergencies.
Trudeau has blamed the fires on climate change.
Rather than addressing the need for improved forest management, Going back to 2014, I reported on this.
This is at the point...
Where Obama started rolling out all of these MRAPs everywhere.
Small towns in New Hampshire and other places like that.
The mine-resistant armored personnel carriers that they had rushed to completion to fight the improvised explosive devices in Iraq.
They had a lot of issues.
These things were white elephants in terms of maintaining them.
The military wanted to get rid of them.
And in the past, what they have done is they've, ever since World War II, when the government would retire surplus equipment, they would give it, typically, to rural firefighting departments.
Because it's always the case that these rural firefighting departments, which are on the edge of large forestry areas where a fire can get out of control, especially if you have the deliberate mismanagement that these people have done, where they don't remove any deadwood or undergrowth and especially if you have the deliberate mismanagement that these people have done, where they It is a fire hazard.
And so you have these rural fire departments.
Most of them are volunteer. They don't have a lot of money.
A lot of people or equipment. And so they would typically give this stuff to the firefighters in those areas.
But what Obama did was he started giving surplus military equipment that was really for riot control.
He was giving it to local police departments.
And he wasn't really giving it to them.
They would put it there and they would say, we're retaining ownership of it, but here you have to maintain it.
And that was incredibly expensive.
And so some of the sheriffs gave that stuff back.
They said, this is a white elephant.
The whole white elephant thing was in India.
If the Raj or whoever wanted to, you know, the elephants were sacred.
And so you had to take care of them.
So if he really wanted to make somebody's life miserable, he would give them an elephant.
Then they would be responsible for feeding it and keeping it alive.
Keep them out of house and home.
That's the whole thing about a white elephant.
That's what these MRAPs became.
They became white elephants.
And so as he was doing this in an unprecedented way, giving all this stuff to these sheriffs, as I pointed out, you understand that the Pentagon is retaining ownership of this.
They're having it maintained at the expense of the local sheriff and community.
And then if they decide that they want to go to war with the American people, the Pentagon can swoop in and say, well, this belongs to us, and they're going to use that against the very people who've been maintaining this white elephant for them.
So that was one big issue right there.
And then it got even more absurd because as he was ramping up and giving surplus equipment to police departments, which they'd never done before, they cut the equipment given to fire departments, which they had been doing since World War II. Now, when that happened, the volunteer fire departments, these are guys who are very committed and active in their community.
They got together and they contacted their senators in several states, and the senators got active.
And they changed that within about a month to two months.
They completely reversed that and they resumed that program of giving surplus equipment to the rural areas.
But again, it just shows where these people are.
Their priority is a militarized police force to keep us under control while they let our homes burn.
That's the bottom line.
That is the globalist agenda, and it doesn't matter if you've got Trump or Biden or Trudeau.
They're all following that globalist agenda, just as they did throughout the so-called pandemic.
The fires have spanned almost the entirety of Canada's territory.
In June and July, much of the worst of destruction was occurring in the East, particularly Quebec, where the government bizarrely rejected firefighters from Toronto.
Oh, we don't want any firefighters in here to do this.
Let's stay there. We got it. They waited...
For imported help from South Korea, Chile, France and some other nations.
So what is going on with that?
They said gear that would protect dozens of homes is being moved to areas that are ineffective, said the British Columbia Wildfire Service in a public statement, lamenting that equipment, quote, has disappeared entirely and is suspected to be stolen.
They described hoses, pumps, and even all-terrain vehicles disappearing from the possession of firefighting crews, particularly in North Shuswap, where this lady was riding.
Where the locals said the province is not sending enough help to defend their homes, even with hundreds of firefighters battling the inferno.
How'd they battle the inferno?
Oh, they sit over and have a coffee break.
Way away from the front lines.
Authorities indicated that the thefts appear to be on the part of residents trying to fight the fires.
No evidence suggests that gear is being stolen for resale or for any other nefarious purpose.
It's just to do what they will not do.
The government of the Northwest Territories, CTV News explained, in an article on Monday, has largely focused on defensive measures.
Such as trying to protect the regional capital Yellowknife rather than offensively trying to put out the fires.
And that's the same type of thing. That's in Yellowknife.
The same type of thing happened in Yellowstone.
I remember...
Let's see. It was probably about 20 years ago, I'm guessing, when the family went out to Yellowstone and we drove around.
Oh, I know when it was. I know it was in 2004, I guess.
Oh, yes, about 20 years ago.
And we're driving along.
We've got the windows down and we're smelling the pines.
It's a really nice summer day.
Cool weather. And all of a sudden, it just, you know, there's a sign.
You're now entering federal property and it was just burned everywhere.
I said, wow, look at the difference between privately owned land, which these people were able to stop the fire, they were able to do management on their property, and the federal lands that are not managed.
What a difference. And in Yellowstone, they went to the Yellowstone Lodge, which is a historical lodge, you know, going back to the early 20th century, and made out of logs and that type of thing.
They really didn't do anything to fight the fires.
They just circled the wagons and protected that one thing.
That's what they're doing in Yellowknife, the capital in Canada, where the fires are happening there.
And so Trudeau...
It's basically a wall, except to complain that Facebook is not giving locals the news.
And they said, well, that's not an issue, said Facebook, because the locals are putting the information out and sharing information with each other.
I think what he's upset about is that the locals are sharing information on Facebook and that Facebook doesn't have the corporate media, the government corporate media, out there to tell its narrative.
Isn't that interesting? Kind of backfired, you know, because Facebook does not want to have a lot of news out there because sponsorship just put kind of essentially a news ban for the most part.
And so now what is happening is people are talking about what's going on and the government doesn't have its typical partners as part of the deputized state, the media, to push their information out there so people are sharing the real stuff and what they're seeing.
We go to Maui again.
Still in Maui. Deadly fires in Maui are still being investigated.
One culprit seems to be emerging, and that is the fact that the power company was completely preoccupied and spending all their money and their effort to match these renewable energy mandates and not doing anything to make the grid reliable and safe.
Video footage points to fallen power lines as a possible cause of deadly fires.
Hawaiian electrics bonds and stocks have been sold off this week as investors worry that they will be liable for fire damage.
And, of course, that's a real issue.
You had PG&E, the California utility, had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the 2019 fires.
They got sued for tens, I'm sorry, it was the 2018 fire, the campfire that did it, and the next year, in 2019, they got sued for billions of dollars, and PG&E had to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The 2018 campfire killed 84 people and destroyed the town of Paradise, if you remember that.
This is far, far worse than that.
Far, far worse. I mean, they're still looking for a lot of missing people, and the body count is still much higher than that.
And so, is Hawaiian Electric going to be sued into bankruptcy?
Quite possibly.
And yet, how did they get into this situation?
In 2015, Hawaiian lawmakers required that 100% of the state's electricity come from renewable resources by 2045.
This is happening at the state level.
You know, what TVA is doing, probably mandated by the state government in Tennessee.
But they're not going to worry about that.
You know, the governor wants toll roads, and the governor wants gun control.
And he's probably one of the ones pushing the TVA to do this kind of stuff.
They're not going to talk about that as they meet this week with the Tennessee 3 special session.
You know, it's interesting.
Just a quick update to that.
The... I spoke to Senator Nicely and he said, yeah, everybody that I've talked to, what I'm going to do is just sit quietly and vote no on everything.
They've got 115 bills that are being introduced there by my count.
One person put them all together and put out a memo.
I counted them up, 115 of them.
In a special session. He said, we don't have enough time to look at all this stuff and details.
We don't know what is good and bad about these things because there can be really bad stuff in the details of something that looks like a good bill.
So he said, we're going to just, I'm going to just sit there and vote no on everything.
And if they want to reintroduce it in January, when we've got time to take a good look at this and see what's really happening, then we'll do it then.
Now, that's really wise.
And he is a wise man.
And fortunately, we got a lot of wise people like him in the Tennessee legislature.
Not everybody, but a lot of them.
And so I saw yesterday that as they met the first day, the Senate in Tennessee met for 20 minutes and then adjourned.
So we've got to come. We're told that we have to come.
But hey, they can't force them to do anything.
So that's how nullification stuff works.
That's great news to hear.
I hope they don't pass anything.
I hope they do it in the usual way.
This is one of the things Governor Lee is trying to change the way business is done.
Governor Lee is trying to introduce toll roads into a state that's never had toll roads before.
And of course, the next thing is going to be hitting you by the mile, right?
The toll roads are an intermediate process for that.
So anyway, getting back to what is happening here.
They're all mandating renewable mandates.
Hawaii's mandate was especially tall order.
Since in 2015, only about 20% of its power came from renewables.
Now they've gotten it up to 40%.
And it has been a mad scramble to do that.
And what's been left behind?
Well, maintaining the power grid, maintaining the power lines, cleaning up the debris around the power lines.
We don't have any money or time to do that.
We've got to jump to this new renewable mandate.
You know, we've got a deadline from the government.
The government is redesigning our power grid, and they know nothing about it.
And I don't think they're just ignorant.
I think they're malicious in terms of what they're doing.
So, to meet this government mandate, Hawaiian Electric embarked on a rapid renewable build-out.
Which involved heavily subsidized rooftop solar and batteries and contracting for large-scale renewables at elevated prices.
I guess you could say it's a fire sale.
No, a fire sale would be lower prices, but yeah.
Pants on fire liars at the state level, lying about climate change.
So they got this problem-solution, problem-solution.
It's just amazing to watch this.
Every dollar the utility spent on subsidizing solar and connecting renewables to the grid was one less dollar available for strengthening the equipment, removing combustible brush.
Despite rising fire risk from non-native grass, Hawaiian Electric spent less than $245,000 on wildfire projects on the island of Maui between 2019 and 2022.
That's four years.
So again, everything is being dictated to us by these know-nothing politicians who never designed anything, who never built anything.
you They don't know anything.
And it would be bad enough if they were just merely incompetent.
But their design and their priority is to enslave us, to take everything from us, to burn us out, to put us in a tiny city.
Hawaiian Electric now generates 40% from renewables.
And at times it produces more solar power than the grid can handle.
You see, that's at times.
It is always variable.
It's not reliable.
Grid upgrades required to connect the renewables and to balance their intermittent flows diverts scarce capital from system improvements needed to withstand physical stress such as from heavy winds, which is what they had.
A fraying electric grid is a national problem, not just in Hawaii.
Consultants at Marsh McLennan estimate that more than $700 billion will need to be spent to replace aging transmission lines and maintain grid reliability.
60% of U.S. distribution lines have surpassed their 50-year life expectancy.
The average age of large power transformers is 40 years, twice what their planned lifespan is.
The same thing is true folks of nuclear power plants.
Nuclear power plants, they give them a license for about 25 years, and then they're supposed to start decommissioning them for safety.
But as we saw in North Carolina where we lived, they just said, well, you know, we don't have any replacement force, so we're just going to arbitrarily extend it.
We don't care. Reality doesn't matter to these people.
They're just as detached from reality as the transgenders are.
We don't know what the state of the power transmission lines are.
The transformers, they've exceeded their useful life.
Maybe they're twice their useful life.
We don't care. Just keep extending it.
As long as I give you a certificate, it's safe, right?
They say it's okay. Just like the FDA does.
Oh yeah, Pfizer? Sure, that's fine.
I approve it. And so...
Again, 60% of the distribution lines, the transmission lines are past their 50-year life expectancy.
We need $700 billion to fix this, except instead of spending $700 billion, $0.7 trillion, we're going to spend $2.5 trillion to put in these renewables.
And again, how is that going to help us if the transmission stuff is collapsing?
This is the same stuff they do with the roads and bridges.
Yeah, we've got a crumbling infrastructure.
Roads and bridges don't care.
They don't want us to have cars. We've got a crumbling infrastructure with power lines, with transformers, all the rest of us.
They don't care. They don't want you to have any electricity.
That's the reality.
Two and a half trillion dollars they want for this.
They don't want any roads because they don't want people moving.
They don't want any grid because they don't want you to have any power.
And that includes for your electric vehicle.
That's just a grift.
It's just a head fake.
And so Biden finally goes to Hawaii yesterday.
Babylon Bee had the story, their take on it, which it was about this bad.
President Biden arrived in Maui this week full of quips and folksy anecdotes to show his support for the victims of the deadly fires, pulling out some of his best material to comfort those who had lost everything.
The president said, I know just what you guys are going through.
When I was, I mean, a few years ago, or a decade or so ago, I was walking the beach in Delaware, and if you've ever been to that beach, you know just how hot that sand gets in the sun, let me tell you.
I walked all the way across the beach without sandals, and my feet felt like they were burning hotter than one of Hunter's little girlfriends in church on a Sunday, if you know what I mean.
Pause for laughter. He reads that part out, which is exactly what he would do if they had scripted that on his teleprompter.
Well, that's the satire from Babylon Bee, and the reality is not much better.
He went to Hawaii, and he told these residents about a minor fire in his house, and he elaborated it.
Yeah, you know, what about that?
It's like somebody telling you they got stage 4 cancer.
Yeah, I had a cold once.
Let me tell you about my cold. He says, well, I don't want to compare difficulties, but Jill and I know what it's like to lose a home, he said.
To lose a home?
They didn't lose a home.
They had a kitchen fire.
And they called the fire department.
The fire department said at the time it was a minor thing.
Years ago now, 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home.
Not a lake, a big pond, he said.
And it hit a wire, and it came up underneath our home into the heating ducts and air conditioning ducts.
And to make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat.
And he added, this is not a joke.
Well, his whole presidency, his whole presidency is a joke.
Yeah, that's a pause for laughter.
Yeah, exactly. The fire in this house in Wilmington, Delaware, occurred on August 2004 and has been described as insignificant by the local fire department.
Quote, unquote, insignificant.
That's how they termed it. They said then, and the AP went back and investigated it.
They said they wrote it down. They said, quote, small fire that was contained in the kitchen.
Had been taken under control by emergency services in the space of 20 minutes.
The U.S. president mentioned this incident on a few occasions previously, each time providing different accounts of the events.
Last year, he claimed that, quote, we almost lost a couple of firefighters.
They were on coffee break and they couldn't find their way back to the fire, I guess.
I don't know what it was. In 2012, he said, we, quote, had a house burned down with my wife in it.
But then he corrected himself by pointing out that, quote, she got out safely.
You know, that was 11 years ago that he was putting out that kind of stuff.
I guess this is my question.
Are his scripts being written by Chet GPT? Is that the basis of hallucinations or is it just his imagination where he's lied and prevaricated and plagiarized stuff for his entire political career?
That has characterized him.
His lies, his plagiarism, and his authoritarianism.
His utter disgust for individual liberty and personal rights and the Bill of Rights that he demonstrated in the Clarence Thomas hearings.
And so, when we look at this, we need to understand that...
The plan is to burn us out.
You look at these pictures.
There's a widow who is now suing Elon Musk because her husband died in a fiery crash.
And that particular crash was not spontaneous ignition of a failed battery.
That went into a runaway issue.
He crashed the car, and then as part of the crash, it corrupted the batteries, began a fire.
He was trapped inside because the body was, you know, evidently bent enough that he couldn't get the door open, and he burned to death inside of it.
Similar situation we talked about the other day.
You know, a guy who's going down the road, runs over some metal part that somebody dropped or fell off of another car, came up, hit the battery...
The battery caught fire. He was barely able to get out himself.
And he said, if this had happened when my wife and kids were in the car, we would have never gotten them out.
We probably would have all died trying to get the kids out of the car seat in the back because it happened so quickly.
This has been a problem from the very beginning, years and years ago.
I was talking about a test drive as they were rolling out the Teslas in Europe.
And it started smoking, and it was a Tesla employee who was driving it.
They barely got out as the car incinerated.
But that's one issue.
And we know how difficult these fires are to contain, to control.
They keep coming back like a joke birthday candle, reigniting.
And now they want to scale it up to a massive storage energy site.
And they're doing that as necessity because of these renewable energy mandates.
Folks, that's what you need to focus on.
You need to focus on this is coming to you wherever you live.
It doesn't matter. They're pushing this renewable stuff in every state.
And every state is going to be making Elon Musk richer by putting these massive fire hazards right next to your home that are going to put toxic gas out when they burn and are going to be uncontrollable fires.
And how long is it going to take for the thermal runaway?
Are they going to be able to contain it to, you know, one area of that?
Or is it going to get even bigger than that?
We're going to take a quick break.
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Trump will be pushing back against the GOP field, and Tucker Carlson will be pushing back against Fox News.
So their self-serving, narcissistic interview, which will not ask any serious questions, I guarantee you, Tucker is not going to take on Trump.
I guarantee it.
I hope I'm wrong.
If I am, we'll talk about it tomorrow.
But Tucker is not going to offend his bread and butter base as he's trying to build his profile here.
That's one of the reasons why he's cooperating with Trump on this thing.
So we're going to talk about the debate.
And we'll talk about some questions that Trump should be asked.
I have a comment here on Rumble from North American House Hippo.
My employer is buying dozens of electric buses.
This will not end well.
That's right. Will not.
Those things are incredibly expensive.
You know, just like Lala Harris.
You know, she's all excited about school buses.
Don't you just love school buses?
It'd take you there and you could brown those with the teachers and all the rest of this stuff as she's talking about.
And, you know, I just love yellow school buses.
And this is even better because it's not the diesel stuff.
It's all electric and now that company.
That's promoted by Lala Harris and by the Biden administration, heavily subsidized by the Biden administration, is going out of business.
I don't know if it's because people can't afford to spend a million dollars per bus.
It's got to come out of the taxpayers' pockets about all this stuff.
Look, you understand that they're coming to shut us down, right?
They're going to do everything they can to shut us down.
They're at war with us.
You need to prepare. One of the things that you need to look at, Civil Defense Manual.
You can find that at CivilDefenseManual.com, written by special ops soldiers and contributing people who have different areas of expertise.
Jack Lawson, who's on frequently with us, put together a lot of this stuff.
He's got a couple of chapters at CivilDefenseManual.com about preparing to have water and also preparing for nuclear war.
In the sense that if you were not taken out in the initial flash, and I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at, you know, perhaps, who knows how many they're going to drop.
I mean, they've got so many thousands of them, they could nuke everybody.
But if you survive that, and, you know, things that you can do to survive the fallout from that and other things like that.
But most of the book is focused on the planned shortages.
And things like that that they want.
The planned chaos that is all a part of this.
See, it's not just taking down the energy grid.
It's also planning chaos and many other things.
So go to CivilDefenseManual.com.
You can get an idea. A couple of important topics that are there, and you can get an idea of the depth of information that is there.
But how to prepare, how to store food and many other things, and to do it cheaply.
So take a look at that.
A lot of very good practical advice.
Two volumes. The only cells in both volumes at once and in paper form.
It's not in electronic form.
Because you're preparing for the grid to be down for one reason or the other.
It is so vulnerable.
And we'll be talking later on about what is happening with BRICS. They've begun.
It's very interesting, isn't it, that the BRICS countries are meeting and talking about how to get away from the dollar as a standard.
And at the same time, the same week, at the end of the week, you're going to have the Federal Reserve and all those people meeting in Wyoming and their luxury hotels.
They chose that, I think, because they want to respond to what comes out of the BRICS meeting.
But let's talk about the debate, which is tonight.
And I guess we could say it is the DeSantis.
They're trying to DeSantisize the GOP. Everybody's going to be coming after DeSantis.
And he is essentially the bait for it.
But there's one person that's not going to be there, and he's very upset about it.
And I think he's got a real legitimate gripe.
And that is Larry Elder.
I'd actually like to hear what Larry Elder has to say.
He's a bit different from these other guys.
And he is someone who has...
For years, been a conservative talk show host.
This is what he had to say about how the RNC has squeezed him out at the last minute from the debates.
As you can see, I'm at LAX in Ruta, Milwaukee.
I was just informed by the RNC that I'm not qualified for the debate.
Why? Even though I exceeded the 40,000 individual donations required, even though I signed the pledge to support the eventual nominee, Even though I submitted three polls where I was at least at 1%, I was informed that one of the polls is not eligible.
It's the Rasmussen poll. Even though it was the most accurate poll in predicting that Donald Trump would win in 2016, they say it is affiliated with Donald Trump and therefore it is not eligible.
And I said to Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the RNC, it's not affiliated with me.
She said any poll affiliated with any candidate is not eligible.
And no one told me that until just now.
So we're filing an emergency injunction to get me up there.
This is absolutely BS. One of the candidates, by the way, offered a $20 gift certificate for a $1 donation.
That apparently is okay.
Another one offered a free air quotes country western concert for a $1 donation.
That apparently is okay.
Another one offered a commission to prospective donors to get other prospective donors.
That apparently is okay.
But I did it the old-fashioned way, asking people to support me by going to LarryElder.com, and that is not okay.
And now all of a sudden, I'm not eligible.
It is designed, in my opinion, to make sure that Rhonda Sanders is a nominee, anybody other than Trump.
This is BS.
I will see you in Milwaukee.
Out. Well, I absolutely agree with him.
Look, I have said from the very beginning, you want to complain about corrupt elections in this country?
It begins with ballot access.
It begins with debate access.
They want to make sure that all access to the ballot is controlled through these two political parties.
That's why I have utter contempt for both of them.
I've known about this.
I've fought against this for 30-plus years.
And so, you know, they control access to the ballot.
If you want to run as an independent or a third party, they have made it almost impossible to get on the ballot in all 50 states.
And if you do get on the ballot in all 50 states, as the Libertarian Party has done many times, it essentially exhausts the financial and volunteer resources of the organization.
And so you're only going to have maybe some billionaire candidates, maybe not even then now, because the rules have changed about getting into the debates, because Ross Perot, He was able to get on the ballots, but after he got into debates, he shook things up quite a bit.
So they changed the rules at that point in time.
This is what they're doing to Larry Elder, making the rules so that he can't get into the debate.
And so he said, I said from the beginning that it appeared that the rules of the game were rigged.
Little did we know just how rigged it is.
For some reason, the establishment leaders at the RNC are afraid of having my voice on the debate stage.
Just as I had to fight to successfully be on the ballot in California recall election, I will fight to be on the debate stage because I fully met all the requirements to do so.
This whole thing about the Rasmussen poll.
The Rasmussen poll they threw out?
The Rasmussen poll has been around for quite some time, and it does have a reputation for being one of the most accurate polls out there.
With the exception of the very last election, the midterm election, they missed it by a big amount.
They had really overestimated how the Republicans are going to do, and I think everybody did.
And I think the reason that they underperformed so much was because of Trump.
I think it was especially because of Trump's endorsement.
Of celebrity candidates who had absolutely no principles.
And we saw this happening over and over again.
People who had no principles couldn't talk.
People like Dr.
Oz. Are you kidding me?
This World Economic Forum guy?
This celebrity candidate?
This Democrat? This guy who...
He would have to renounce his Turkish citizenship to become a senator and to be able to have access to documents that he would get as a senator.
And he said, well, if you elect me, I'll renounce it.
But he's not going to do it otherwise, and he hasn't done it because he didn't win.
He lost to Fetterman!
To Fetterman! This is Donald Trump's picks.
It's his issue. It's one of the reasons why everybody was so excited about DeSantis.
As the rest of the country, the Republican Party and the rest of the country was crashing and burning because of Donald Trump, you had DeSantis who just slammed it in Florida.
And so everybody said, well, maybe this is our guy.
But now they're back to tying themselves to Donald Trump.
It's going to be disastrous. You know, Donald Trump, this lifetime Democrat, And the Democrats are burning down the Republican Party, the opposition party.
There will be no opposition to this totalitarian regime of Democrats because of Trump.
But getting back to this, you know, the Rasmussen poll, with the exception of that, they've been pretty accurate.
And so this is just an arbitrary thing being done by the RNC. An excuse.
And we've seen this done over and over again.
We've seen it done, you know, once you would get on the ballot, as we did in North Carolina, they would kick you out of the debates and they would have very arbitrary criteria.
And, you know, or just say, well, I'm not even going to give you a reason.
Just kick you out. No, we can't have three candidates on debate stage.
Well, they're going to have eight tonight.
They should have nine tonight.
Because if you look at what's required, the candidate has to have 40,000 individual donors, as well as 200 individual donors from at least 20 different states.
He did more than that.
He exceeded more than that.
A candidate must poll at least 1% in three national polls or 1% in two national polls and 1% in an early state poll from two separate carve-out states, either Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and two out of those four.
So you had to have certain support in the polls, and they're just throwing out the Rasmussen poll.
And you had to have these individual donors.
And as he pointed out, these other people are playing a lot of games with the donors.
And I've talked about this.
You know, the North Dakota governor, Burgum, is a billionaire.
He's even richer than the pharmaceutical candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy.
I guess we'd call him Pharma-Swamy.
Pharma-Swamy, he's got a lot of money, but Burgum's got even more.
And so Burgum had a million dollars to give 50,000 donors.
If you give me one dollar, I'll give you back $20, he said.
Because for this first debate, you've got to have 40,000 donors.
By the next debate, you've got to have 50,000 donors.
So he just, you know, I'm going to be in the first two debates.
As long as I can get the poll numbers up there, I'm going to buy my way into getting donors.
Give them $20 for every $1 they send me.
Suarez, the mayor of Miami, who wanted to enter, did the same thing.
And I had people send that to me.
Is this a scam? I said, well, yeah, but it's not the kind of scam that you think it is.
They probably will give you the $20, but it is a scam for sure.
And the RNC is just fine with that.
And he's pointed out that one candidate was giving people tickets to an event.
I don't know what that was about.
Telling people, hey, I'll give you finder fees.
If you recommend another donor, I'll give you another kickback.
So they're just fine with that.
But they won't accept the Rasmussen poll.
Larry Elder passed all of these benchmarks except for that.
Now, I haven't followed Larry Elder.
I don't know what his position is on a lot of different issues.
I'm just saying this shows the corruption of the campaign.
And I think the debates could or should be the most important part of this because this would be where they start to iron out things that they think are important and what they're going to do for people.
It's one of the reasons why Trump has no interest in it.
Because the worst case scenario is people would ask him about things he did in his first term.
He doesn't want to have that. Secondly, they would ask him about the future.
He don't want to talk about the future.
He wants to talk about 2020.
And not about the lockdown of 2020.
About his deeply wounded narcissistic loss.
And how he can get revenge.
He wants it to be about him, personally.
Everything's about him. Nothing is about our problems.
We're not going to talk about, what are we going to do about these renewable energy mandates and the fact that you're burning the country down and you're destroying our electricity, you're letting the infrastructure crumble, and then you're going to burn us down, and you're going to make electricity so expensive and so unreliable, we won't have it for anything.
We'll have to have our cars, our appliances, our air conditioning and heating, we'll all be electrical, but then there won't be any grid to power it.
What are you going to do about that, Trump?
Well, did you see that they actually stole the election from me four years ago?
Okay. Okay.
The RNC cited alleged ties between Rasmussen and Trump, though elders said he has no knowledge about whether Trump has ever worked with Rasmussen previously.
He also added that PharmaSwami and another candidate also had issues submitting the Rasmussen polls and argued that if the RNC clarified this with a field, then they would have identified other qualifying surveys.
In other words, he goes in and he says, so here's the ones that I passed.
Well, we're going to throw that one out.
What happened? I could have given you other polls, but you won't give me a chance to do that.
So it's going to be interesting to see what happens.
I don't think it, because they did this at the very last minute, he may not be in this one.
He might be in future ones.
He said it became clear during the final days of qualifying for the debate that Larry Elder was not even listed as a candidate option on a lot of the RNC's qualifying polls.
That's another game they always did with the Libertarian Party.
They say, well, you've got a poll at a certain level.
Well, they won't even list me on the poll.
How am I going to get X percentage of votes when I'm not even listed on the poll?
And that's what they did to Larry Elder.
It's the same stuff they've been doing to everybody.
That's why I say, you want to talk about the elections?
We've got a much bigger problem than Dominion.
There are so many different ways that they can rig this thing.
And it begins with ballot access and it begins with debate access.
So he's going to hold a press conference today in Milwaukee as the show is ending, which will be at noon Eastern time.
So, you know, we'll see what he has to say about it, if there's going to be any remedy.
Again, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who also did this, you give me a dollar, I'll give you $20 back.
He's going to not make it for this.
And he has said that if there was not enough support, That he would drop out of the White House race, he said himself included, so maybe he's going to drop out.
We'll see. He says, I'm running against people who have been national figures for years.
I've been a national figure for 60 days.
So fortunately for me, you're sort of new, so you have a different threshold, a different time frame, and we're going to have to compete at the same level.
So maybe he's going to flip-flop on what he said he was going to do.
We would never expect a presidential candidate to do that, would we?
So as Vox breaks it down, they break down the candidates in an interesting way.
They said, well, we've got the donor favorite Trump rivals.
They said, well, that'd be Ron DeSantis and that'd be Tim Scott.
These are the people who've gotten a lot of big bucks from big campaign contributors.
And now they're starting to get upset with DeSantis because he's doing too much about abortion.
He's just too harsh, as Donald Trump said, about abortion.
So they're kind of pulling back from him.
Tim Scott's gotten a lot of money, especially from Larry Ellison.
Then they say, and then there's also the next group, three of them, Vox characterizes as former Trump allies who have turned critics.
And in that they put Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and Asa Hutchinson.
They say their chances at winning the nomination are slim to none.
Pence struggled to even qualify for the debate because of low fundraising numbers and low poll numbers as well.
While Christie has managed to piss off just about every demographic group in both parties, they said, according to a Fox News poll.
Mr. Grumpy, you know, he's of the seven dwarfs, or I guess we've got eight dwarfs, maybe nine.
He's grumpy. I guess that's what we should do.
Instead of breaking them down in these categories, we ought to give them nicknames from the seven dwarfs.
Of course, you know, they had to bring in Biden, who is sleepy.
Hutchinson, similarly, has little chance of winning the nomination.
He announced over the weekend that he had finally reached the 40,000 donor mark After having met the polling requirement.
But he has still yet to crack 1% of support in polling averages.
So, then it takes us to the people that they put in as rich guy vanity campaigners.
And in that category, Vox puts Vivek PharmaSwami.
I think we should call him that. Because we need to emphasize where he got his money from.
He's a big pharma guy.
As a matter of fact, there's pictures of Pharma Swami.
As he made his money, there's one picture of him a few years ago where he's smiling and he's holding a pill.
That should be the poster for Pharma Swami.
And now he's invented himself as an expert in so many different areas, but it really is a vanity campaign.
He's not going to win.
He's got some good ideas, but he's got some really strange ideas.
He's very inconsistent. As I said about the 9-11 stuff, he's really a limited hangout, but I'm very concerned about his pharmaceutical connections and how he made his money.
He was a financial supporter, and essentially he brought in, to partner with in his pharmaceutical company, he brought in the pharma bro, Martin Scarelli, that repulsive guy.
Now, when asked about him, he said, well, he's a liar, but he certainly is brilliant.
Well, okay, is that going to be how he's going to run his campaign?
Is Pharma Swami going to be a brilliant liar?
He is brilliant. He's very intelligent, no doubt about that.
It's the character issue that is the issue, again, on this.
And the fact that he's already flip-flopping all over the place with his policies, and he has no experience, except to become extremely wealthy playing the typical pharmaceutical games.
And his connections with Governor Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, are very, very troubling, the things that he proposed to do as part of that COVID response team.
He is outperforming established Republican voices like Scott, Pence, Christie, and Haley in recent national polling.
And he has no shortage of money, his own.
And even richer than him is Doug Burgum, the term-limited billionaire governor of North Dakota.
PharmaSwami, as they refer to him in Vox, they say he's prepared to spend more than $100 million.
It's not biotech, it's pharmaceutical stuff.
They say biotech to try to distance themselves from these vaccine jabs and all the rest of it.
It's the same thing, folks.
He said he's happy to go after DeSantis, but he's been defending Trump.
He has stated unorthodox opinions on America's support for Ukraine and for Taiwan.
He's eager to attack progressive culture positions around affirmative action and the LGBT agenda.
And then, again, Doug Burgum is another one of these guys who bought his way in, giving $20 for every dollar that people...
Bring in. And then that leaves just one candidate left over, Nikki Haley.
They characterize her on Vox as a, quote, promising Republican who missed her moment.
No, she is a dyed-in-the-wool woman.
Warmonger with no regard for peace or anybody's lives.
She's absolutely disgusting.
I won't even spend any time wasting talking about her.
She's a female John McCain or female Lindsey Graham.
That's redundant, isn't it?
Anyway, will Biden debate Trump?
If he is a Republican nominee, his campaign will not even commit to that.
Isn't it interesting that the two frontrunners, two people running for re-election, don't want to talk about their first term?
Isn't that a warning for people?
Isn't it a warning that neither one of these people with a horrible record of their first term and with criminal issues, both of them, that they don't want to have a debate?
How surprised are you about that?
Biden twice debated Trump in 2020.
A third debate was canceled after Trump supposedly contracted COVID. The DNC is not holding any debates ahead of their primary.
They don't want to have Biden out there debating RFK Jr.
And now they're saying, we're not going to debate Trump.
We're going to make this about personalities.
Because everybody hates what these guys have done to us.
It's more of a problem for Biden to make it about his personality than it is for Trump.
Trump's got a huge following on his personality for some reason.
But both of them have reprehensible policies.
That's the thing that I just can't understand is how the MAGA people give Trump a pass on everything that happened in 2020.
And I can't understand why they like his personality either.
A senior Biden campaign advisor said the only thing that'll be missed by not having a debate with Trump We'll miss the chaos, the disruption, the bullying, the name-calling of former President Trump.
And so they said they want to make a key part of their campaign abortion.
Well, good luck with that.
Unfortunately, we don't have people in the Republican Party who want to really make a case for life, evidently.
Certainly not Trump. He thinks protecting life is too harsh.
That's his criticism of Mr.
Sanctimonious, as he calls DeSantis.
And so, Senator Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, Biden campaign surrogate, because we're going to have to have a lot of surrogates for Biden.
So the reality is that none of these candidates in the Republican Party trust women to make these decisions for themselves because they believe they know better.
Oh, you mean like the way you didn't trust us to make decisions about masks or lockdowns or vaccines or social distancing or any of the rest of this stuff?
Yeah, see, abortion is not your body only.
There's another body that's involved there.
But all of those things that I just mentioned, the hypocrisy of these people, you know, will that be attacked?
And I'm telling you it won't be.
That line of attack will not be used.
Why? Because all of these people...
And one way or the other, signed on to all of those policies.
The masks, the lockdowns, the jabs.
DeSantis, even though he pulled back sooner than anybody else, he signed on to all that stuff.
And even though he knows that the jabs are killing people, he's still not stopping it.
I'm glad that he did more than anybody else did, and that's one of the reasons why he did so well in Florida, because he did more than anybody else to oppose that stuff, but he didn't do enough.
But none of them are going to come out and say, you want to talk about my body, my choice after what you did to people in 2020 and 2021?
Are you kidding me?
Vaccine mandates of untested, novel mRNA vaccines, all the rest of the stuff.
The Republicans are just as culpable in all that.
So Trump posted, why doesn't Fox& Friends show all the polls where I'm beating Biden by a lot?
They just won't do it. They purposely show the absolute worst pictures of me, especially the big orange one with my chin pulled back.
They think that they're getting away with something.
They're not. You understand?
This is about his vanity.
This is about his narcissism.
This is about his revenge.
He's got to get revenge. And he's got to get even.
And he's got to show people that he is a very popular president.
He's not a one-and-out like George H.W. Bush.
No, no, not Trump.
He's a two-term president.
He's got to show them. It's about him.
It's not about us.
He's going to sell us out into a globalist slavery, just as he did in his last year, if he gets back in.
So, Fox News...
They said, made several efforts to get him to go to the debate.
At one point, they even sent network officials to his golf club at Bedminster, New Jersey, to pitch him on participating in it.
But he's not going to do it.
We all know why. Doesn't want to defend that.
So, tonight you're going to have some of his surrogates and his supporters, political supporters that will be there.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Brian Donalds, Carrie Lake will all be there, along with Trump Jr.
and his girlfriend they left his wife for, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who used to shack up with grabbing nuisance.
She's, you know, Did you say she's, I guess not bisexual, she's bipartisan, right?
Politics makes very strange bedfellows, and it certainly has made Kimberly Guilfoyle very famous.
They will also promote the former president on their rumble shows, but they are not going to be allowed into the spin room where they have people doing their post-debate spin.
Well, my candidate really knocked it out of the ballpark.
Yours really sucked. It's about the entertainment value.
And I think that is absolutely reasonable, although it has really made Trump very concerned, very angry.
My surrogates can't go there and talk.
As he's decided that he's, A, not going to go.
B, I think this interview that he's got with Tucker, I think it's even pre-recorded.
So they're obviously Tucker and Trump because they're pushing back against Trump against the debate, Tucker against Fox News.
They're going to release it at the same time as that, hoping that nobody watches the debate.
The thing is, nobody has to watch any of this stuff in real time.
I won't be watching any of it in real time.
I'll be going back and looking at what they had to say after the fact.
I don't need to sit there and watch this stuff in real time.
DeSantis said, I'm the only one whose sole purpose is trying to be the 47th president, he said, of anyone who's on that stage.
Well, I would say that you could also include Trump in that.
As I said before, I think Trump's purpose is to assuage his ego, his narcissism, to get revenge.
He said, he was asked by Fox News host Martha McCallum, she said, so what about Chris Christie?
She said, he's come at you pretty hard.
Do you expect there's going to be some moments where you're going to want to put him in his place?
Yeah, let's have it. We're going to mix it up there.
Because that's what they try to do, right?
The networks who run these debates, they try to get these guys fighting with each other so they don't talk about anything of any substance.
They ask him the same old questions over and over again.
But they'll ask him, well, you know, this guy said this about you.
How do you want to respond to that?
I hate that. This is why I'm not going to watch the debate.
I'll just look to see if they said anything about any particular issue that's of any importance and then see if that is something that is completely different from what they have said or done in the past.
But DeSantis said, well, he said people can do what they want.
I can tell you this, though, Martha, of anyone on that stage, I'm the only one whose sole purpose is running to be the 47th president of the United States.
And to reverse this country's decline.
I'm not running to be vice president.
Like Nikki Haley.
Like Tim Scott. I'm not running to be in the cabinet.
I'm not running to be a contributor on cable news.
Or because I'm a deeply wounded narcissist out for revenge.
Or to pardon myself and stay out of jail.
I'm not running for any of those reasons, right?
He could have said that, but he didn't say that.
He just left it before he got to Trump.
And so... You know, as we look at what is going to happen tonight, everybody's going to be baiting DeSantis and the debate.
And there's an interesting article from, let's see, I think it is Kurt Schlichter.
Yeah, Kurt Schlichter in Town Hall.
And so he kind of goes in and he says, well, this is what DeSantis needs to do because as the guy who's been polling higher than the other people, he's going to be the frontrunner that's there on the stage tonight.
So he says, so Ron has to demonstrate dominance over each of his rivals.
He says, that's easy with Mike Pence.
Mike Pence always gives up and gives in.
He could have said, Mike Pence, you just repeat that line where he says it's not my concern.
That'd be the easiest way to come after Mike Pence.
Yeah, what about the war in Ukraine?
And the fact that everything is getting worse for people here in America.
Well, that's not my concern. I'm concerned about the war in Ukraine.
And that's true of Nikki Haley, who Kurt Schlichter refers to as Nuki Nikki.
I think that's a great nickname for her because she wants war everywhere.
She's going to eventually end up with nuclear war if she keeps getting her way.
So just call her Nuki Haley.
I used to call her and Theresa May the Valkyrie when they were pushing to get us involved with boots on the ground in Syria.
DeSantis will need to dismiss her agenda.
As they return to the tired old GOP combination of wars and tax cuts for corporations.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
She's all in on something, something, Ukraine, Putin bad, something like that.
That establishment mishmash of cliches and fuzzy, fake, tough pseudo-thinking that substitutes for an actual national strategy that supports America's interest.
Ha ha ha. They should have Kurt write the stuff.
As a matter of fact, he writes responses that DeSantis could use for these people.
He says what he should say to demonstrate his dominance over Nikki Haley.
Nikki, I've been to war, and if the voters choose me, they'll know with absolute certainty that their sons and daughters will never die in another useless one, and that I will use every bit of my power as president to fight back against big corporations that want to impose their San Francisco values on normal families.
That's what he could say. And, you know, we have concerns about where he is on the wars as well.
Tim Scott, Kurt Schlichter says, DeSantis could say to Tim, Tim, I first had my doubts about you when you supported the Democrat defund the police movement.
But I really lost respect for you when you decided to repeat what you knew were Democrat and regime media lies about Florida history standards.
Our voters do not need a candidate who joins with Lala Harris to tell the lie that Republicans like slavery.
And then there's Chris Christie.
He can say, well, I notice that you don't have a problem with Biden.
Just sign your MSNBC contract and get out of the way of those who want to become president.
With Vivek Pharma Swami.
He said, and Kirk doesn't pick up on what I think is a big vulnerability of this pharmaceutical guy.
He doesn't talk about his pharma bro, Martin Scarelli, or any of this other stuff.
He just attacks him because he's young.
I don't think that's a winning strategy.
Especially when people are just looking at Joe Biden and like, what is going on here?
I think a lot of people are going to be saying, you know, maybe we should get somebody a little bit younger.
What he's saying is that Vivek is way, way, way too young.
He says, Vivek, you're a smart guy with no experience but a bright future once you learn how the world works.
Go do a hitch in the Marines, kid.
Then maybe at least win a city council election and get a little bit salty before you try for the White House.
With Doug Burgum. He says, Doug, I turned a purple state red.
You kept a deep red state deep red.
Well, that's fine, I guess. But the last time we nominated a soft, rich guy, he got punked live on TV by Candy Crowley.
And then he says that Iran's second target is going to be Joe Biden.
First, he's got to demonstrate that he has dominance on these people.
He says he could say, I turned to purple state deep red.
My competitors have never done that.
Nikki, Tim, Doug, Mike all come from safe red states.
Chris tried to turn blue New Jersey red and failed hard.
Vivek has never even run an election before, much less won one, and the Democrats agree that I am the threat to Joe Biden stumbling his way to another term.
The Democrats are not spending their money to beat my opponents.
They are spending money to make sure that I am not on the GOP ticket, because I am the only Republican they're afraid of.
And so, you know, that's what he is, his suggestion for what DeSantis should do.
And I thought it was interesting.
And I think it's interesting what Jordan Schlachtel had to say, his preview about it.
He said, here's a rundown of these guys.
He said, you got former Vice President Mike Pence who knows that he has no chance, but he wants to elevate his profile with a ruling class.
Perhaps he's running for a board seat at Lockheed, Boeing, and or Raytheon.
He's tied with Haley is most likely to get the U.S. involved in a nuclear exchange.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
With Ron DeSantis, he said, arguably the only person on stage actually running for president, protected the freedoms of Floridians during the COVID hysteria, remains the best governor in the country, he said, and he lives there.
He says, and I love my governor.
I'm not as much in love with DeSantis.
What he doesn't mention here, Is that more than anybody else, he fought, and I think effectively, the LGBT CRT takeover of schools.
He's done some very creative things with that.
He's done more than anybody else, and I think he's done some good things with that.
I think that his pro-life stance is good.
It got him called sanctimonious by Playboy Trump.
And yet, on the downside...
His free speech, his hate speech legislation that he went to a foreign country, Israel, to sign because he wanted to get foreign donors to give him money.
That's a big red flag, quite frankly.
And while he did more to oppose the jab and the lockdowns than anybody else, he is still allowing people to get jabbed and die.
And he knows better than that.
He and his Surgeon General there, Latipo, both know better.
And they should be doing more to oppose this.
Everybody is afraid to oppose this.
It's one of the reasons why we've got two pharmaceutical candidates.
Tim Scott is one, and PharmaSwami is the other.
When you look at the influence of the pharmaceutical companies, it's right up there with the military-industrial complex and the war machine now.
Because that is a war.
That is a war against us.
It's a war to rob us.
It's a war to kill us.
He goes on to talk about Nikki Haley.
Running to be Trump's vice president tied with Pence is most likely to get us involved in nuclear exchange.
And, by the way, just remember this, as Jordan Schlechtel says, she required vaccine cards in order to go to her events.
Remember her doing that? Does that tell you something about Nikki Haley?
And then you've got PharmaMan.
Vivek Ramaswamy is the way that Jordan put it there.
We'll just call him Farmaswamy.
Running to be Trump's vice president.
He will settle for a cabinet post.
This is one of the reasons why he's not going to criticize Trump.
Trump's been very friendly to him.
Fast-talking egomaniac who has long been wanting to be famous, quote-unquote.
That's what he actually said. Made all of his money by fooling investors into believing that he possessed the cure to Alzheimer's disease.
And his company, during the pandemic, PharmaSwami's company pitched governments on efforts to install universal COVID patient record surveillance database.
Isn't that the end of it?
Isn't that where you say that's enough, okay?
What do we know about this guy?
Well, you know, if that's what his history is, And when he talks about these other positions, even though he's got some interesting positions, he's got some really horrible positions.
He wants to put us back into this globalist trade organization, which is a stepping stone for the unification of a global government.
The TPP and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the European equivalent of it, the Trans-Atlantic Partnership, That was essentially to divide the world into three different areas and then to unify those three areas with the United States essentially being the spine and Europe and the Asian areas being the wings and just bring it all together with trade unification because that's how they consolidate their government.
It's the same thing they did in Europe.
They began with a common market.
Began with trade unification.
Then they proceed to political unification.
Then they proceed to political unification and financial currency, a new currency.
This is the path of slavery.
He's bought into that. He and Elon Musk just thought that was great, especially H-1B visas.
We've got to bring in more people from foreign countries.
To take jobs from Americans, whether they're engineers or whether they're working for, you know, Disney.
Got to bring people in to work cheaply here.
That's where he is.
Chris Christie, the guy who was pushing masks during all the lockdown stuff and so many different things.
We won't even bother talking about grumpy.
Senator Tim Scott, he says he's running to be Trump's vice president.
He is in perfect standing with the D.C. Uniparty.
He is Pfizer's favorite legislator.
Again, both Tim Scott and Vivek PharmaSwami are pharmaceutical candidates.
He says, when it comes to Asa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum, I have no idea what they're trying to accomplish, he said.
And that's absolutely true.
We're going to take a break, and when we come back, I said earlier that there were two articles on Brownstone.
One of them was a lady who said, I wish I could interview Trump or give some questions to Tucker that he would pass on to Trump.
An excellent article, but even better, Jeffrey Tucker talking about, so who was it that was really running the government in 2020?
Who was it that was really running?
This is what we need to ask of Trump and what we need to ask about Trump.
We'll be right back.
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All right, let's talk about Trump.
Let's talk about 2020.
What he does not want to talk about.
This is Debbie Lerman from Brownstone Institute.
She said, if I interviewed Trump about COVID. She said, in a fantasy world, here's what I wish that Carlson would ask.
Before COVID, your presidency was going pretty well.
You had a good shot at winning another term.
Would you agree that the pandemic pretty much reversed that?
Actually, it wasn't the pandemic.
It was your government's response to the pandemic.
Democrats said the U.S. should have behaved more like China than like Sweden.
Do you agree, Mr.
Trump? I wish that you could have real journalists ask real questions.
And that means not people like Tucker Carlson, not people like Megyn Kelly, not people like Brett Baer who's going to be asking the question.
Real journalists. Real people.
A lot of Republicans now think that you should have run the pandemic more like DeSantis did in Florida.
Even though they might not have said it at the time, it seems to me that before March the 10th, 2020, you were planning to run it that way.
What was shocking to me was when you seemed to pivot 180 degrees in just a few days.
From saying that it would not be worse than a bad flu season, to announcing that we were going to throw everything we had at it, locking down the whole country, investing trillions of dollars in keeping the economy shut down.
It was especially surprising that you agreed to the economic shutdown.
So what made you change your mind, Mr.
Trump? I don't know.
She also says a lot of information has come out suggesting that you change your mind because the National Security Council and related military and intelligence operatives told you that this was a bioweapon.
It's interesting that as they were telling Trump it was a bioweapon, Alex Jones was telling his audience it was a bioweapon as well.
Is this a narrative that was being pushed out?
By the intelligence community?
By the spies? In order to justify the lockdown?
Did they use that to scare Trump?
Did Alex use that to scare the people who would have pushed back against this?
But hey, you know, Alex says it's a bioweapon and Trump is afraid of this, so I guess we should do it.
Question is, was this another CIA coup?
A CIA coup against our government?
That's a rhetorical question, by the way.
She goes on here to say, in a Time magazine article, you were quoted as saying, I can't tell you that.
When you were asked about why you thought the virus came from a lab in Wuhan, you said, I'm not allowed to tell you that.
So who is not allowing you to speak openly about the possibility that it was a lab leak?
Can you speak openly about it now, Mr.
Trump? Can you tell me who made the decision in the middle of March to invoke the Stafford Act in all 50 states at the same time, which had never been done before, and to put FEMA in charge as the lead federal agency for pandemic response when FEMA had no warning and no experience in this area at all?
Well, of course, we knew for years that FEMA was going to be rolling out the attacks against America, right?
But yeah, nothing to see there.
Just be afraid about the fact that it's coming from the Wuhan lab.
So go ahead and follow that advice.
Mask up. I'm selling you the masks.
Mike Adams was selling masks.
Alex Jones was selling masks with InfoWars on it.
I got the mask to sell you.
I got the storable food to sell you.
Hunker down. It's all good.
Trump's got this. He's going to protect us.
Did you make those decisions, or did the National Security Council or some other military or intelligence advisors tell you to do that?
That's a good question.
I wish that somebody would ask these of him.
A few months under the lockdowns, you sounded as if you had lost control of the situation.
In a tweet, May 18th, 2020.
Two months. When you wrote in all caps, REOPEN OUR COUNTRY. You'd think that if anyone could have entered the lockdowns, it would have been the president, right?
It's just like, help, I've been kidnapped by the intelligence community.
Yeah. He promoted Gina Haspel to head of the CIA, who ran the lies that got us, did the torture, produced the lies that got us involved in the Iraq War.
He took Bill Barr, deep, deep, CIA guy with George H.W. Bush.
Made him Attorney General.
All that stuff, yeah. He was a puppet.
Trump is a puppet of the intelligence community.
As the presidents typically are.
That would confirm that the response to COVID involved secret machinations of national security entities.
Can you at least confirm that?
If all these things are classified, can you at least tell us that?
Were you aware of the massive censorship and the propaganda that were happening to make people accept the lockdowns and the vaccine?
Do you feel like you were part of that campaign to convince people?
Of course it was part of it.
He was proud to be a part of it.
Or do you feel like you were somehow forced to participate in it?
No, it was absolutely necessary for the globalists to do to this country and to the world.
What they did. It was necessary for them to have a person who pretended to be a conservative, who pretended to be about America and American values, but had absolute contempt for the Constitution, as we've seen with his, you know, take the gun, do the due process later, and these other things. Oh, they've got to take the shot.
Yeah, they've got to take the shot.
He said all that before that happened.
It was necessary to have somebody who portrayed himself as an American conservative, somebody who portrayed himself as an anti-globalist, It's essential to have a pretender like that, to assuage the suspicions of the people who really were anti-globalists, who really were conservatives, the voters, the people.
Were you in touch with leaders of other allied countries to coordinate the response to the pandemic?
This is key. I've talked about this many times.
Isn't it interesting that they're all doing the same thing at exactly the same time, I've said?
That's what she says. It's pretty astonishing how all our closest allies ended up doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.
If you were not the one who was coordinating with all these foreign leaders, were you aware that that type of coordination was happening?
Especially with the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Germany, and other European allies?
As I've said many times, it would come out And it happened with Biden as well.
It continued. Oh, well, you know, we're going to do this now.
I told you two months ago we're going to do this now.
Is this an emergency? Why'd you wait for two months?
Well, today we're doing what we told you we're going to do two months ago.
And now I'm telling you today that in two months we're going to do the next thing.
Is this an emergency? Why are you rolling this out?
Two, you know, the next step, two months, I'm going to tell you what's happening, I'm going to get you used to this thing, and then in two months I'm going to do the next thing and tell you what the next thing I'm going to do in another two months is.
This is not an emergency response.
This is psychological manipulation.
This is boiling the frogs.
And this is coordinated.
And they were all doing the same thing in every country.
That's what I said. This is not just Trump and the U.S. Who is the global coordinator for Trump and everybody else?
Again, that's Deborah Lerman.
She is a fellow at Brownstone Institute.
And then I like this article a great deal.
This is from Jeffrey Tucker.
He gets into the details even more.
He says these are questions that are crying out to be answered.
The conspiracy of silence is obvious.
Both political parties like it.
The media likes it too because it was a main participant.
Academia is compromised as much as the social media companies.
So he says, we're of course speaking about the calamity that is commonly called COVID that robbed us of all of liberty and of rights and kicked off this national and global crisis.
All the major national problems that the U.S. faces today.
Inflation, learning loss, ill health, cultural confusion, demographic disruption, professional instability, tech censorship, widespread substance abuse, and loss of all trust, And the commanding heights, including the whole of government and every connected institution.
All of this traces back to the lockdowns that began.
And he says on March the 16th, 2020.
But it was actually that Friday the 13th that he put out that order.
He says it was a decision for the ages.
Shouldn't we know more about what led up to it and why it all happened?
The person who wants all questions to go away the most is the person who hopes to re-inhabit the White House, namely Donald Trump.
And of course, the other person who continued and expanded on his policies, Biden, doesn't want to talk about it either.
And these Republicans who were, even if, like Chris Christie, they were not in a position of power, they were selling this.
You know, wear your mask.
I've got COVID. Wear your mask so it doesn't happen.
Nikki Haley, you can't come to my events unless you've got a vaccine passport.
Whether or not you support his return to power, the reality is that Trump presided over the largest and fastest loss of liberty in the history of this country, and that's what I've said.
I've said, without a doubt, the worst president in my lifetime.
Nobody else even close.
And Jeffrey Tucker goes further back.
He says no other president can compare.
Not Wilson, not FDR, not LBJ, not Carter or Obama.
He said his administration, Trump's administration, particularly in the last year, embarked on a new age of censorship, administrative state control over all of our lives, astonishing levels of spending and redistribution, massive invasion of our communities and homes that attacked small business on a scale we have never seen before, and seriously compromised even our basic rights to associate.
The Biden administration was more the same.
With new mandates. Incredibly, Trump has somehow avoided questions like this.
His supporters don't want it discussed.
This is likely why he is skipping the debate, fear that DeSantis will call him out.
Neither do his opponents on the Democrat side want this discussed, because they fully approve of what he did.
They love what Trump did.
They love that he's divided, he's created a civil war inside the Republican Party.
They love that he did everything they wanted to do and got away with it.
And then they could build on his precedent.
What you call his precedency.
His opponents in the primary are compromised as well, particularly people like Mike Pence.
But again, you know, we've got the pharmaceutical candidates, Tim Scott.
Vivek Farmaswamy, Nuki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, they were all part of this.
We're not getting answers because nobody is asking the questions in hopes that mass amnesia will take hold and everybody will just forget about it.
He said Fauci is the model here.
In his deposition in Missouri versus Biden, he testified that he could hardly remember anything.
He hopes that everybody else will have amnesia as well.
We have a small window, says Jeffrey Tucker, in which to get answers during the primary season.
And he says that perhaps there will be a breakout at some point.
Let's be clear. There is not one credible study from anywhere in the world that demonstrates that lockdowns or everything associated with them were worth the astronomical cost.
Well, I'd be giving a lot stronger than that.
I would say we have study after study after study, and it happened in 2020.
We were already seeing this.
You could already see that as the, you know, places around the world, there's a French scientist who put this together, said, look at what was happening.
There was nobody sick, nobody dying in these country after country.
Mongolia is one of the best examples of it, too.
And, you know, would draw it there and say, look, this is what happened, what was happening, and then they brought in the vaccines, and it goes straight up.
And it stays up there until, in some of these countries like Mongolia, they said, okay, well, let's try ivermectin.
Let's try ivermectin.
It comes back down to nothing.
The vaccine was a bioweapon.
The intelligence community was lying to us, and they're still lying to us.
And the people who make it about that, people like Tucker, Alex, and all the rest of these people, not only are they trying to excuse themselves and present themselves as victims, like nobody wanted to talk about this, It's the same kind of whispering campaign you see with the UFOs.
You've got these people from, you know, the CIA and the intelligence community.
You know, we found these spaceships.
We even found bodies, but I can't tell you anything about it.
You know, they put this, oh, look at this bioweapon stuff out there.
Don't talk about that. Don't talk about that.
And so now they want to talk about it because they don't want you to talk about the real bioweapon and the people who really put it out there.
Trump and the intelligence community.
He said, we know about the germ games of Event 201 and Crimson Contagion.
Well, it goes all the way back to Dark Winter.
This is big. This is 9-11, but on a global scale, folks.
And Dark Winter...
As I've mentioned many times, two months, the first germ game, two months before 9-11.
One week later, you got the anthrax.
It was initially blamed on the anthrax attacks, blamed on Iraq.
Not the case. It was a CIA thing, as investigations have shown.
They were the only people that had that weaponized strain of anthrax and had that way to distribute it, was at two CIA labs.
And then two months later...
They push out the model legislation for all the states to do it, and then they practice these games for 20 years.
Event 201 and Crimson Contagion, those are just a couple of the most recent ones.
And so this is the other shoe to drop from 9-11.
And this is doing to the world what the American government used 9-11 for, and that is to establish a police and surveillance state.
The other shoe to drop.
And as I have said, We've been the arsenal of democracy, if you want to say we've also been the arsenal of World War II, then we became the arsenal of continuous war.
And we're the arsenal of this pharmaceutical war against all the people of the earth.
And it was Trump who kicked that off as well.
And he's so proud of it.
Father of the vaccine, he calls himself.
COVID was the excuse.
Did they really believe this was the killer bioweapon?
We've documented proof that everybody knew that the virus was not massively deadly.
And we've known this from January 2020.
It was in December. I said, oh, well, the Chinese are saying that they've got this bat there and they've got some new disease or something.
Well, let's understand that you do, right there, it's a coincidence that right there they have their only biosafety level 4 lab, the highest Safety Level 4 lab.
So maybe that does bear looking at, but by January we knew it was nothing.
By January you could see that as you had the fake people falling on the streets, that they were sealing people in their homes, you knew that this was about politics, and you knew it was about population control.
No question about it.
There's no reason. Then or now.
To talk about Wuhan.
And the people who talk about it don't want to talk about shutting down gain-of-function research at all.
No. They keep it very narrowly focused.
What unleashed all this mania, says Jeffrey Tucker, to end liberty as we know it?
Well, he said, Tucker Carlson visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago on March the 7th.
Oh, isn't that interesting? Tucker Carlson.
This guy whose father worked his entire working life For CIA propaganda organization, Voice of America.
Tucker Carlson, who himself wanted to be in the CIA, and they purportedly told him no.
Maybe they just told him, you can serve us better over here, right?
Maybe it's that type of thing.
His message to Trump, Tucker Carlson's message to Trump when he went down to visit with him personally, was to take the coronavirus seriously because it could be a bioweapon from China.
Tucker had heard this, he said, from a trusted source within the intelligence community, whom he has yet to name.
Tucker has since said that he very much regrets his role in doing this.
So is Tucker used by the CIA? Was he complicit in it, or was he just, you know, a patsy?
It's Tucker who admitted this, that he was told that it was a bioweapon, and that he regrets going down to push this to Trump.
Nevertheless, Trump didn't do anything until two days later and he evidently changed his mind.
Who else talked to him?
See, Tucker was just part of a campaign, supposedly, to push Trump to do this.
Whatever changed his mind is likely what happened on March the 10th as the intelligence community is pushing this to Trump.
And as Jeffrey Tucker says, Did they tell him that everybody was going to die and blame it on him?
If that was not his thinking, what precisely did he hope to achieve by locking down the entire country by an executive edict?
How did he imagine that he was personally going to stop the spread of a virus in the U.S. that was already everywhere on both coasts and likely had been there for the prior six months?
Did it ever occur to him to call up an independent expert on infectious disease?
If not, why not? I mean, remember, there were so many different aspects of this.
We even had video of somebody who had supposedly tested positive.
And they had about a dozen guys all in hazmat suits.
And there was a film, somebody filmed this from a distance.
It was all a setup. And all these guys in hazmat suits are carrying all the personal belongings of this person who's going to go into a room and be shut down.
Boy, what a psyop that was.
Everybody was like, whoa, I guess I really should stay at home.
On March the 13th, Trump's own Health and Human Services issued a document on the pandemic plans.
It was marked confidential, but it came to be released months later.
Incredibly, this policy document not only declared a national emergency, but made it very clear that the rulemaking power for pandemic management would rest with the National Security Council.
You see, these people were in charge.
It was the intelligence community who was running it all.
And as RFK Jr.
in his excellent book about Fauci pointed out in the germ games, he said, no, this is all the intelligence community from the very beginning.
And Dark Winter and all the rest of these things, they're in their hand in glove, and they're the ones who are really running it.
Fauci is the public face of it, just like in other areas, the president is the face of it.
But the government It's the intelligence community in this country.
It's important that we understand this.
It's important that we go back and we look at this timeline, this history, and we understand who's running this country.
These elections don't mean anything.
We have the intelligence community, we have the spies, and we have the bureaucrats who are running this stuff.
The elections don't really mean anything.
That's the Intelligence Committee, the National Security Council.
He says the public health agency of the CDC and the NIH were reduced in power to deal with implementation operations, but they were not in charge.
He says that weekend, Saturday, Sunday, March 14th and 15th, every report we have says that Trump huddled in the White House with Jared Kushner, with two of Jared's college buddies.
What are they there for?
With Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Mike Pence.
See? Mike Pence.
That's what should be asked of Mike Pence.
Whom else did he consult on that weekend?
At this point, national security had already been given primacy in policy.
So surely the military and the intelligence community were represented at the White House.
Who were they? And what did they say?
According to Kushner, the decisive voice in putting together the lockdown plans was Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb, who had previously headed Trump's own FDA. He is said to have been on the phone with Trump.
According to Kushner, Gottlieb told him, quote, they should go a little bit further than you are comfortable with.
When you feel like you're doing more than you should, that is a sign that you're doing it right, unquote.
And of course, that was classic of what they had practiced every year for 20 years from dark winter on.
That was essentially the motto of all these germ games run by the Intelligence Committee with the assistance of people like Fauci.
All of this really matters because on that following Monday, March the 16th, Trump held a national press conference together with Fauci and Birx, and at this event, they handed out a PDF to the press, which in turn was issued to every public health agency in the country, and it read in part, quote, And Jeffrey Tucker says, well, that certainly sounds like a federal edict.
To close churches, schools, and essentially put the entire country under house arrest.
Because that's what it was.
During the press conference, Trump waffled a bit on whether he was shutting everything down, but Fauci stepped up and clarified that yes, the Trump administration was, in fact, shutting down the whole country.
Bill of Rights be damned.
Now what do they say?
I didn't shut the country down.
The governors did it.
The Democrat governors did it.
Trump says that. Fauci says that.
The MAGA cult says that.
No, Trump said that.
Trump said shut it down. Fauci doubled down on the lockdown.
You know, it truly is amazing when you go back and look at this.
And I remember that Monday so well.
I was fit to be tied over the whole weekend after what happened on that Friday the 13th.
I have an early morning show.
That happened later in the day.
And I was just watching all this stuff happening.
I saw California and I saw New York locking things down.
And I came in that Monday morning and I talked about the situation in Britain.
At the beginning of the Battle of Britain.
Where they put out the things, keep calm and carry on.
And, you know, freedom is in peril.
Defend it with all your might.
Those are the two signs.
Liberty is in peril. Defend it with all your might.
And keep calm and carry on.
And I said, that was a real threat.
This is not a real threat.
They had people with weapons short distance across the English Channel.
They were soon going to be killing people in Britain.
Likely invading them.
And that's what they put up. Keep calm and carry on.
Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.
I said, what does it matter with us?
Our freedom is in peril.
Why isn't anybody defending this?
Why isn't anybody saying, just keep calm?
You had people, the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, who used to be a speechwriter for Reagan.
She came out over that weekend and said, if you're not panicking, you're not responding to this in the right way.
And I said, panic is never the right response to anything.
Never the right response.
You're on a wooden ship and the mast is just broken and you've got a fire on the back and everything.
Panic is not the right response.
You better get your head about you and you better do something about it.
But panic was what everybody was selling.
Mainstream media, alternative media, everybody was profiting from it.
The next day, the Trump team got busy on hospital protocols, ventilators, and remdesivir.
Who was it that told Trump that intubating people was the best way to deal with this virus?
Why did they believe that, given that people who are intubated are very likely to die from the procedure or from the secondary bacterial infection that likely will follow?
And of course, that was exactly what happened.
That's why, you know, high 80s, low 90 percentile of people who got the ventilators died from the ventilators, died from bacterial infection forced down into them.
Whatever happened to make America great again?
Trump made America a gulag.
And if he gets in a second time, he will make America a gulag again.
He did it the first time.
He'll do it the second time. You won't even have to answer to anybody to run a second time.
It's just amazing to me.
When we talk about the ventilators, I remember talking about one guy who was a pulmonary specialist.
He said, I looked at that and thought, what are we doing about that?
That doesn't make any sense. We've never done that to people who have respiratory illness.
Who came up with that idea?
Nevertheless, as Jeffrey Tucker says, Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to force companies to make more ventilators, which they did.
Today, these are mostly scrap metal.
Most hospital and doctors have abandoned the practice once it became clear that it was killing people by the thousands.
Trump. Who was advising him?
Why did it not occur to him to call anyone of thousands of people who have hands-on specialization in respiratory viruses to get a second opinion?
As of late April 30, 2020, Trump was still pushing lockdown as a solution and even criticized Sweden for not locking down.
Then he says something else happened.
As the summer approached, it seems like Trump began to wonder if he'd been hoodwinked.
If Fauci and Birx tricked him into wrecking his presidency and the country, then why wouldn't Trump just admit that?
Well, because he's a narcissist.
If he swears that he was right to greenlight lockdowns, why should voters trust that he would not do it again?
Why would he not make America a gulag again?
What does he believe the limits to government power are?
This is the key question.
This is the key question.
If I had one question to ask Trump, it would be this question.
Tell me what you believe the limits to power of the American government are, foreign and domestic.
Oh, well, none, I guess.
That's an open-ended question.
Tucker will never ask anything like that.
Nobody's going to ask him anything like that.
That is the fundamental question.
That would have changed all of this stuff.
Oh, I can't do that. I don't have the authority to do that.
No, I have the authority to do whatever I want.
I'm present. I can do anything I want.
These are my boxes.
I can do anything I want. It's a Shakespearean tragedy.
He'll be hoisted by his own petard.
He'll be hoisted by his own totalitarian instincts.
It'll be nice to see.
Can't wait to see it.
Anyway, I hope it happens.
Even as late as July 20th, Trump was still claiming that he would defeat the virus, this time with face masks.
Quote, he said, and he wrote this out, it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you can't socially distance.
Patriotic to wear a face mask.
Chris Christie said the same thing.
Moving to the fall, Trump wisely allowed himself to be schooled in the realities by Scott Atlas.
Trump seems to have been convinced, but meanwhile the whole country was in ruins.
Millions of businesses closed, kids not in school, the whole population in a state of trauma at the loss of liberty.
There were two months remaining before the November election.
During his campaign stops, he dropped the lockdowns.
He called for openings.
But he largely left the subject off the stump speech entirely, as if nothing had ever happened.
And yet his supporters didn't.
His supporters were yelling at him, Fire Fauci!
Fire Fauci! Fire Fauci! Well, we'll see.
We'll see. Elect me first.
We'll see. He gave Fauci a medal on his last day in office.
Going into the election, COVID was largely off the agenda, but for the media and the Democrats who urged further lockdowns, which they implemented once in power.
And of course, the entire election was a lockdown election.
Again, Trump has nobody to blame but himself for that vote-by-mail fraud.
And as we look at what he is facing here, And these charges against him.
We're going to take a quick look at that when we come back.
And we'll be right back.
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you Well, as I said before, Trump's biggest enemy is himself.
He has these Shakespearean character flaws.
There will be his own undoing.
His ego. His greed.
His desire for revenge.
Take a look at what is happening.
This is from Reuters. Trump has yet to help his Georgia co-defendants with their legal bills.
A very risky test of their loyalty.
He's leaving these people, and I think this is really a part of, as a matter of fact, a lawyer who listens to the program says, well, I think of this big cast of characters that have been indicted by Fannie Willis.
And I know she pronounces it Fannie.
But I think Fannie describes the way she's acted a little bit better.
But anyway, Fannie has done, she's indicting, you know, just under 20 people out there.
And I think the real purpose of that is to get somebody to turn.
Well, Trump is going to make that more likely by leaving these people twisting in the wind without any money to pay for their legal defenses, because these legal defenses are going to be incredibly expensive.
And this article from Reuters points that out.
As former President Trump and his army of lawyers prepare for his formal surrender tomorrow, a harsh new reality is emerging for the co-defendants who are charged alongside him in Georgia.
Their legal bills are about to skyrocket and they're not going to get any help from Trump.
Attorney and co-defendant Jenna Ellis said, I was reliably informed that Trump isn't funding any of us who are indicted.
She put that on Twitter.
Trump has a history of paying for at least some of his allies' legal counsel.
His entire political network, including his joint fundraising committees, spent over $70 million combined from the start of 2020 through the end of 2022 on legal fees, according to Open Secrets, which looks at campaign funding and spending.
With Trump and his millions firmly out of reach, co-defendants, alleged co-conspirators, and witnesses are turning to their own legal defense funds to pay their lawyers, hopefully. - Exactly.
Trump co-defendants can expect to pay their lawyers, quote, seven figures if it's a dollar, said Randy Zellin, a veteran attorney who specializes in white-collar crimes.
In other words, at least a million dollars.
Where are they going to get that money?
Well, they're not going to get it from Trump.
Part of the reason legal fees are so high, said Zellin, and the Trump court cases is that for an attorney representing a Trump-aligned client is potentially rife with pitfalls, including possibly having to defend the former president's false claim that he won the 2020 election.
Could they get disbarred for that?
That happened? This happened?
Are you going to get into that whole tar baby of Trump's 2020 election ego?
You have to do and say as the former president says and does, says Ellen.
Yet he says there's two ways that a client could pay less than the growing rate, which he says if it's going to be a dollar, it's going to be at least a million dollars or more.
He says there's two ways you can get out of paying that kind of money.
The first way, Is if an attorney is willing to take publicity instead of at least some of the fees.
Except this is going to be a lot of bad publicity for the most part for people.
A lot of people have been really...
A lot of these people who are co-defendants are co-defendants because they were defending Trump.
You're going to jump into that briar patch?
The second way, he says, is if the attorney's client flips...
On one or more co-defendants.
Boom! You see? That is why Fannie indicted so many people.
By hiring their own lawyers and paying for them separately from Trump, the 18 co-defendants in Georgia have also created a major new legal risk for Trump.
He long has a record of using joint defense agreements, or they call them JDAs, in which he can help choose a lawyer and pay the bill.
One of the most memorable JDAs that Trump entered into was with his 2016 presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, during the special counsel probe into Russiagate, which is total nonsense.
But as Manafort's own legal troubles mounted, so did the pressure on him to cooperate, which he ultimately did, according to the New York Times.
Zellin said, whoever's got the gold rules, if I'm paying for your attorney, I don't expect you to hurt me.
A joint defense agreement helps to take care of that, and the agreement is standard with co-defendants who are working together so that they can share information without getting stabbed in the back.
But the former president and his lawyers now appear ready to throw this away and to throw Eastman, particularly, under the bus, according to this Reuters article.
Within days of the Georgia indictment, Trump's attorneys signaled in interviews that they planned to blame Eastman for giving Trump bad legal advice about overturning the election.
They also intend to argue that when Trump pressed then-Vice President Pence to refuse to certify the 2020 results...
Trump was merely acting on Eastman's advice.
Jenna Ellis has recently drifted away from Trump and now backs DeSantis in the GOP primary.
She has evolved into a sharp critic of Trump and she has vented about her frustration over Trump's refusal to help his co-defendants in Georgia.
She wrote on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, on Friday, Michael Cohen,
Michael Cohen, you know, Trump's one-time lawyer who has already gone to jail, served his time for being involved in the payoff for Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Michael Cohen, As a vocal critic, he said on Monday, he said, Trump is taking a risk by not paying these legal fees.
He said, there's never a reason for Donald that you can actually isolate and say, why is he paying for, we know, for Don Jr., right, or for Kimberly Guilfoyle?
But we don't know why, as to why not for Jenna Ellis, and why not for Rudy Giuliani, he said.
He said, Donald is an idiot.
Let me be very clear that when it comes to paying money, he truly is an idiot.
He's not learned yet that three people that you don't want to throw under the bus, your lawyer, your doctor, or your mechanic, because one way or the other you're going to go down the hill and there'll be no breaks.
Cohen said he absolutely believes that Trump is making a mistake by not paying for legal fees of Giuliani in particular.
He said, at the end of the day, when your life is basically hanging on the line, once again, you just don't want to really throw another lawyer under the bus who is working for you.
Bill Palmer, who writes a left-wing blog, also suggested that Trump is taking a risk that Ellis is not having her legal fees covered because she began praising Trump's 2024 GOP primary rival, DeSantis. He said Trump knows that he needs to pay Jenna Ellis' legal fees so she won't flip on him.
But he's reportedly refusing to do so because she praised DeSantis.
This is why Trump is such a lock for prison.
He's willing to destroy himself just to spite those that he blames for his downfall.
You see? That's what I said. It's a Shakespearean tragedy.
His desire for revenge, his narcissistic ego, all of this is going to keep him from doing what is right for himself, just as it kept him from doing what was right for the country.
What was right for the country.
He's burned the country down, and now we get to sit here and watch him burn his own life down with all this stuff.
The legal and political calendars are aligned to conflict with each other.
This is going to be a mess.
This election is going to be about him.
It's not going to be about the country.
It's not going to be about getting our liberty back.
It's not going to be about stopping this globalist agenda.
It's going to be about his personality, about him on steroids.
And his... Yeah, the greedy alternative press and his idolatrous cult are all going to be there.
We're going to take a quick break and when we come back I'm going to take a look at some of your emails and respond to them.
We'll be right back. You're
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All right, welcome back, and I just want to thank the subscriber who left a comment on Subscribestar.
David, I just upped my monthly donation to you.
You have seen small donations from me on RockFan from time to time as well.
Like you, I work for myself, and I fully trust in God.
And like you, sometimes I just don't know where the money will come from, but God is good.
He always provides. I'm so very happy to donate to you.
Thank you for your great reporting.
Stay strong, my brother in Christ.
Well, thank you so much for that.
Appreciate that. And that is true.
You know, that's one of the things, I had a pastor before who said, it's really good to be in business for yourself.
Be independent and not have a paycheck.
He says, the guy who has a standard paycheck, he works for the post office, let's say.
He knows that check is going to be there every month.
And he starts to see that as what provides for him.
And it's something of a trap.
But he says, you know, when you're in business for yourself, you never know where the money's going to come from from time to time.
And, you know, a farmer, somebody who's working for themselves, any of those types of things where there's that kind of uncertainty, you see God as a provider.
And that is a real blessing.
It really is. As a matter of fact, handy.
Who does EMS and he's got his own substack now.
He used to contact us all the time and did again this week.
That's one of the things he had to say.
Thanking God, he said, my employer started a home health care service a few months ago providing in-home treatments, wound care, IV infusions and things like that and minor procedures.
He said, I applied and I was denied because I refused to take a flu shot.
Fast forward a few months and today I learned that my employer is selling that division off.
Had I been accepted, I would either be looking for another job or I would have lost my 15 years of seniority with my current employer.
God is good. Yeah, we don't always see what is happening even when really horrible things happen to us.
If we know God...
We know that God works that way.
And even if it is something that destroys our earthly life, we know that that is ultimately for our eternal good.
He also had this to say about the unborn and geriatrics, and you can see this post on his substack as well.
He said, I just had a 21-year-old female having her second miscarriage this year.
The child was either stillborn or had already passed prior to our arrival.
We checked, but it wasn't viable.
Of course, I always ask.
And she took two trump shots in late 2021.
It's another one of those things where I can't prove causation, but some of us here in EMS are talking about how many miscarriages we have To not encounter many miscarriages over the last couple of years, but I have several co-workers that claim that they have never seen so many since mid to late 2021 and on, when the vaccines started.
My girlfriend also has had co-workers who have had miscarriages after the jab.
Another interesting observation, where are our local nursing home residents going?
I have personally been in two nursing homes in the last week that had a noticeable lack of residents.
We used to see the residents housed two per room, sometimes three.
But I saw room after room with either just one person or none at all.
One facility had just one person living on the second floor, the one I brought back from the hospital.
I've never seen these nursing homes with this few residents.
For context, I've been visiting these specific nursing homes since 2008, 15 years.
I can't help but think back to the nursing home worker who wept as he described the aftermath of Trump's juice where he worked.
Do you remember that? Remember that?
He's a young black guy.
I would say he was in his late 20s, early 30s.
And it was in, I think, January of 2021, as these things were being rolled out first to the victims in the nursing homes and to medical professionals as well, but especially victims in the nursing homes.
And he put this up and he was crying about it.
He said, we kept these people safe this whole last year during all this COVID stuff.
We did everything to keep everything sanitized and isolated for them, and we didn't lose a single one.
And he said, and then the vaccine started.
And I forget exactly what the percentage was, but it was the majority of them.
He said we had like a dozen deaths, and a lot of people who did not die, but they're just staring into space now.
And he says, I just, you know, I can't believe that this is what has happened.
It was pretty clear. That's why I say, from the very beginning, from January, we were seeing stuff like that.
From the very beginning, we were seeing things like that.
And I was reporting and we're looking at the VAERS database and said, look at this.
Yeah, this is as many people as they've had combined from all the other vaccines for, you know, a year or two.
Then it was five years, ten years.
All 35 years.
Then it was several times the number of people that had adverse effects and deaths for all that amount of time.
And that's only just the tip of the iceberg, as we all know.
Only a tiny fraction ever reported.
Harvard study said only 10% were reported.
And yet, it was even worse with this, because with this, they were actively discouraging doctors and nurses from reporting any of this stuff.
Many times it was explicit threats.
He also says, I just want to pass this along.
One of my patients last night was a lady in her early 70s.
One of the first things we noticed when we met her was the familiar involuntary muscle movements, common in moderate to severe cases of Parkinson's.
While reviewing her medical history, I noticed that her Parkinson's disease onset was just a few months after her series of COVID jabs.
Fairly rapid onset as well.
And I know for a fact I have seen two others with similar timing between jabs and the onset of Parkinson's.
I can't prove causation, of course, but I do know abnormal when I see it.
This is why I say over and over again, yes, of course, we know that correlation is not causation, but it is a reason and it demands investigation.
You can't prove that it caused it with a correlation, but if you've got a correlation, it demands an investigation.
It really does. So, I'll say one more thing here.
He says, Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm, and I think it's a foxhole report, is keyed in on falling birth rates in the most jabbed countries.
He says, it's not something that I've looked into, but I haven't run an OB patient since the jab rollout.
Maybe coincidence, maybe not, but I'm not the only one who's noticed a lack of OB calls.
A co-worker of mine brought it up a couple weeks ago.
I hadn't really given it much thought until then.
Uh, so he says sometimes the lack of patience is as troubling as having too many.
And of course we are seeing this a collapse in birth rates.
What is that about? Um, I just want to say, and I'm going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and, um, we're going to talk when we come back a little bit about, uh, some of the pharmaceutical stuff and, and just so we get this in before the debate.
We'll talk a little bit more about PharmaSwami.
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Since we've started, it's been a voluntary thing, and we try not to put this behind a pay firewall.
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That is something that if everybody were to do that, we would not have any issues at all in terms of keeping this program going.
Before we take a break, I just want to talk about a response to constitutional sheriffs that I talked about.
And this is from a lawyer.
He says, it's kind of interesting.
I gave this to one of the AI programs.
This particular one, it was Bard AI. And I asked it about the Office of Constitutional Sheriff.
And it came back and it says, well, there is an office, the office of sheriff is in the Constitution in 43 states as of 2023.
The remaining seven states, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, well, that's sad for New Hampshire, otherwise they're with liberty, Rhode Island and Vermont do not have a constitutional office of sheriff.
And it goes on to talk about that, and the key thing, he says, is look at the way this ended up.
When he asked Bard AI, which is the Microsoft chat program, when he asked him about it, it goes on to talk about how the sheriff is the highest law enforcement official in the counties, but it says that is a misconception.
It says that sheriffs are ultimately subject to the authority of the state government.
In the event of a conflict between state law and the sheriff's interpretation of the law, the state law will prevail.
But that depends on whether or not the people stand with the sheriff.
Again, we go back to what happened in Athens, Tennessee.
That was a corrupt sheriff.
And the people ran him out.
There wasn't anything the state was doing anything about that to protect the people.
The people took care of it themselves.
And then it finishes with this last hit.
The last paragraph is a hit borrowed from Microsoft's AI. It's a hit on the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
It's a group that advocates for the idea that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement officials in the county.
However... Their views are not supported by the law.
The sheriff is an important law enforcement official, but they are not above the law.
That has never been the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association position.
They've never said that they are above the law.
What they say is that all these other officials, state officials, are not above the law.
Unelected bureaucrats at the state or federal level are not above the law.
The President is not above the law.
Congress is not above the law.
The courts are not above the law.
Nobody is above the law.
The question is, what is the law and who will stand for it?
That's the issue. That is the issue.
And that is their position.
That nobody is above the law.
That is a straw man argument put out by artificial intelligence from Microsoft.
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Okay, let's talk about the pharmaceutical control over our elections.
We've known for the longest time that the military-industrial complex has a lot of control over candidates, especially Republican candidates, but it's also true now that Big Pharma does.
And before we get to PharmaSwami, Tim Scott, Is the person who has gotten the top recipient of pharmaceutical cash in Congress.
He was the top recipient in the second half of 2021.
He got $99,000.
He's been showered with drug money.
Tim Scott has been a perennial recipient since arriving in Congress in 2011.
The latest amount is nearly twice as much as his previous highest haul.
Why Tim Scott? Well, he's widely viewed as destined for greater things during his political career.
The industry needs people like Scott who have introduced several health-related bills in recent years.
And this is a year old, this article.
This is before he ran for president.
He's destined. For bigger things, right?
But if we look back the few years prior to this, he opposed his proposals introduced in legislation backed by most Democrats in Congress to let Medicare negotiate prices.
In 2019, when the Senate Finance Committee considered a drug pricing bill crafted by Republican Chuck Grassley and Democrat Ron Wyden, Scott voted against a measure that would have amended the legislation to allow Medicare drug prices to be negotiated.
Why is it that we pay more for drugs than any other country?
Because of people like Tim Scott, who have been bought by the pharmaceutical industry.
And September is a top Republican on the Senate's Special Committee on Aging.
And just to back up a second, we're not even allowed to negotiate prices with these people.
They dictate them to us, right?
That's what Grassley and Wyden were trying to do.
Tim Scott says no.
They got their money's worth.
$99,000.
And this is coming from a lot of different pharmaceutical companies.
But $99,000 to buy a senator like Tim Scott?
When these people get tens of billions of dollars from people like Donald Trump, there is no better return on your investment than buying a politician.
And that's exactly what big pharmaceutical companies did in the transition period.
And I think Trump knew exactly what he was doing.
That's why he brought RFK Jr.
in and said, well, you know, we need to do some science about these vaccines and see if they really are safe, if they really are effective.
Boom! He gets billions of dollars, and the next thing you know, he puts CEO of Eli Lilly, Alex Azar, in his head of HHS. And then he brings in Scott Gottlieb from Pfizer to run the FDA. Well, they got what they wanted from Trump, too, didn't they? So maybe we'll have a Trump-Pim Scott big pharma team.
In September, as a top Republican on the Senate's Special Committee on Aging, September of last year, he released a report arguing that H.R. 3, a sweeping measure from House Democrats to tamp down prices, would result in shattered innovation and bankrupt businesses.
Echoing all the arguments from the pharmaceutical companies.
He's been a member of the Senate Finance Committee since 2015.
In total, 27 drug and biotech companies, or their powerful lobbying organizations in Washington, have contributed to his campaign accounts in the latter half of last year.
This is where he's building up his money.
Again, the two people who have the most money, DeSantis and Tim Scott.
Amgen, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck, AstraZeneca, BioMarin, Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, his top donors, each of them giving between $5,000 and $10,000.
It's almost a sin how cheaply they can buy a senator and how much money they can make from him.
He's also a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee, which this year is set to consider an issue of great importance to pharmaceutical companies reauthorization of user fees that the industry pays to the FDA to help expedite the drug review and approval process.
It has to be reauthorized every five years.
Well, they got their way with that, didn't they?
Other Republican senators up for re-election didn't get nearly as much money from the drug companies, and they give some of them.
We won't go into it. But his banner year prior to this one, this last one that they're talking about in 2022, where he got $99,000.
Previously, the most he got was $54,000 in the second half of 2019.
Can you imagine how much money they're giving him now that he's running for presidency?
Scott co-founded the Congressional Personalized Medicine Caucus the year after they gave him $54,000, his penultimate donation year.
Fellow pharma darling Tristan Sinema was also in there with him.
They were pushing personalized medicine, which promises to use genetics and other traits to To develop individualized treatments for patients, but at a very, very expensive price.
Johnson& Johnson, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Merck, these are his friends, his contributors, his sponsors.
If only we could get the politicians to have to wear their sponsors like a NASCAR driver.
You know, they get the jumpsuits and they got the little logos all over their suits and all over their cars.
I mean, if we've got to provide these guys a protection in a vehicle, at least it ought to be, you know, it ought to at least have a livery that you've got on a NASCAR. Don't you think?
Then you've got PharmaSwami.
And his endless flip-flops.
As the Washington Examiner points out, an ex-pharmaceutical executive who rose to prominence following the publishing of his 2021 book, Woke Incorporated.
And he has had some very interesting flip-flops.
And one of them is when you look at Taiwan and China, at first he said, no, let's...
Double down on the Second Amendment and let's give everybody in Taiwan a rifle to fight the Chinese.
The next thing you see, he's saying, well, let's just make an agreement with the Chinese that we'll turn it over to them in 2028.
And meanwhile, we can bring in all of these people who are in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan that we need.
He's all about bringing in foreign talent.
And, you know, the heck with Americans.
That's what he's about. And then when you look at Israel, right?
He said he told a voter that you were open to ending foreign aid to Israel.
Then it was reported that it was a misunderstanding.
So where is it?
Well, he said he wants to phase out most Israeli aid by 2028.
It will not require and be dependent on that same level of historical aid or commitment from the U.S. And so now Nikki Haley is trying to get some money from Israeli donors, and she attacks him over that.
But again, he's back and forth.
The key thing is this China-Taiwan thing.
But understand, too, that he has come out when he talked to Musk about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
He's a globalist.
He's a pharmaceutical billionaire.
He is somebody who has pushed replacing Americans with H-1B visas.
All the rest of this stuff.
I mean, it is...
I see so many red flags with this guy.
It's truly amazing.
Ramaswamy said in April, to stop China from invading Taiwan, just have an NRA association open a branch in Taiwan.
See, this is kind of silly stuff.
It really is silly.
Then in August, he said Xi should merely not invade Taiwan until the U.S. achieves semiconductor independence in 2028.
I'm sure they'd be happy to do that, don't you think?
He's just throwing this stuff out there.
You know, he's a glib conversationalist.
Ramaswamy probably feels like he can just sort of deflect on these things and sort of shoot the messenger just because Trump can get away with it.
And again, all he needs to do is throw out some stuff like this and see what flies.
And if it doesn't fly, he changes it.
His key thing is not to criticize Trump because otherwise, as I pointed out, he can get a, you know, if he doesn't criticize Trump...
If Trump wins, then he gets a cabinet position or a VP position or something like that.
But either way, he gets to make himself more famous, which is what he's really about.
Ramaswami Camp tries to clear the air after comments on 9-11 draw a backlash.
And he's been a real mixed bag of confusion and limited hangouts on all the 9-11 stuff.
He said, I think it's legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers.
Maybe the answer is zero.
It probably is zero for all I know.
I have no reason to think that it was anything other than zero.
You got no reason to suspect anything suspicious about 9-11?
Building 7 doesn't seem suspicious to you.
The way they collapsed doesn't seem suspicious to you.
And then he told allies that he is running in order to sabotage DeSantis.
Those watching the GOP primary race have noticed that Ramaswamy's strategy is extremely friendly and deferential to Trump, verging on sucking up.
Judging by what he reportedly told some conservative allies when he first announced his intention to run, knocking out Trump's most competitive opponent might have been motivation.
He pitched himself, said sources, as a candidate who could make serious waves in the Republican primary at the meeting.
When that was met with some skepticism, Farmaswamy argued that his candidacy could also dissuade DeSantis from entering the race, according to a source who was in on the call.
In the lead-up to his announcement, Ramaswamy would tell several other conservative activists that he believed that if he ran, he could stop DeSantis from running or he could impact his viability as a candidate if he did enter the race.
And so that's going to be a key dynamic to watch.
That will be the back and forth between Ramaswamy and, of course, Nikki Haley is going to be coming after him for the Israeli thing.
And she'll also come after him for the Taiwan thing as well.
But I'll just mention this one last thing as we're leaving here.
It is kind of interesting to watch the vanity of these public figures.
And nobody depicts that better, I think, than the The man who was formerly known as Prince, Harry.
Harry has just gotten hairier, if you haven't noticed or not.
Now he is the hair apparent to the throne.
Everybody is talking about the fact that he's gone out and gotten a hair transplant.
You know, the rich get richer, and Harry gets hairier.
It just isn't fair, is it?
I mean, look at all this stuff.
Yeah, the 38-year-old Royal serves as the chief impact officer of a company that describes him as humanitarian, military veteran, mental wellness advocate, and environmentalist.
And now he has luscious locks to boot.
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