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The David Knight Show - 12/22/2023

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	free speech to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 22nd of December, year of our Lord, 2023.
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	And we say Year of Our Lord, and this is the time we celebrate the birth of Our Lord.
	And so that's what we're going to do today.
	We're going to talk, we're going to have some news at the beginning here, but we're going to talk a lot about Christmas and culture in the context of politics and government and tradition.
	What does culture mean, really?
	We need to think about that.
	What does it mean when you have a bacteria culture or you cultivate a plant?
	It's something that you grow.
	You do it consciously.
	So we're going to talk about that and we're going to consciously talk about that.
	We'll be right back. Stay with us.
	Music Well,
	as I mentioned yesterday, Christmas time, we listened to some of the classic songs, not the ones about Rudolph and rocking around a Christmas tree or this or that, you know.
	And the nostalgia is fine.
	You know, that's, in and of itself, it's fine.
	As long as that's not your entire life.
	Maybe we stop and think about it.
	What if your entire life was just looking backwards at things that you had done?
	You don't anticipate anything in the future.
	Or what is happening now?
	You just mope about what is gone and passed.
	And at this time of year, because there's so much nostalgia in Christmas songs, we can fall into that trap.
	It can be very depressing for a lot of people because you just focus on what they've lost.
	And it is important to go back and look at what was there before and see if we can't try to sustain or even revive some of the things that have been lost.
	But we don't want to overdwell on the past.
	You know, life is about the living.
	Life is about now. And so I mentioned this yesterday.
	And we look at the Christmas carols, and we look at the fact that they're pushing this to us, that scientists create an AI that they claim can predict when you will die with 78% accuracy.
	I said this yesterday. I said, well, God knows that with accuracy, but artificial intelligence doesn't.
	These scientists don't. Your doctor doesn't.
	You probably have a story, I've got a couple of them, about somebody who gets a clean bill of health from the doctor and goes out and drops dead.
	Or maybe they got a shot from the doctor.
	You know, sugar water that Trump created for us, as Alex pointed out.
	Maybe they got the sugar water shot and they just suddenly died.
	Or it might be that they just misdiagnosed it.
	Didn't catch a heart condition that was there.
	Or maybe it's not even that.
	Maybe, you know, you're perfectly healthy.
	Maybe even jogging down or cycling down the side of the road and you get hit by a car and die.
	We've all known those types of stories as well.
	Nobody knows when you're going to die, and these scientists don't know either.
	What is concerning about this is that they think they know.
	And that is a very dangerous thing.
	Because as people...
	More and more begin to worship artificial intelligence as being omniscient and being able to predict the future.
	And as it becomes omnipresent everywhere and everything that we do, that's going to be a real danger.
	And we need to disavow that from the very beginning so we don't fall into that trap.
	Only God knows this.
	Will this type of AI, for example, be used to deny you medical care?
	But let's also remember this time of year, we celebrate Christ, as I said in the Christmas carols, you know, born so that man no more may die.
	Yeah, you're going to die, but it's not final.
	It's a difficult transition.
	Some people have said, coming into this world and going out of this world is difficult, but we know that we're going to a better world if we're Christians.
	And Christ has made that possible.
	That's why we celebrate this time of year.
	And as I said before, I'm not dogmatic at all about the religious aspects of Christmas.
	It's an opportunity to talk about the incarnation of Christ, and it's an opportunity to exercise our religion in the public space, because if you don't exercise, your freedom is just like your body will atrophy and die.
	And so it is important for us to exercise our freedoms.
	And so for all those reasons and an opportunity to talk to your children about what is really What is true?
	What isn't true? We've got a lot of traditions that have been added to it.
	I mean, even on the religious side, not just things like Santa Claus and Rudolph.
	There's a lot of things that have been added, even in the religious aspects of this, to talk to them about that.
	But when we look at this new artificial god that is being created before our eyes, this is coming from a UK paper.
	Can a doom calculator really predict when you'll die?
	Shockingly. These whiz kid scientists.
	Whiz kids. You know, last time I heard that phrase, that was used to describe Robert McNamara, who was one of the whiz kids, who was a really smart kid.
	I don't know what it was that he did as a prodigy.
	Maybe he was on a game show or something, because that's, I think, where that came from.
	But he was the guy, the really smart guy that got us mired down into Vietnam.
	Anyway, they can do it with 78% accuracy.
	Well, you know, God can do it with 100% accuracy.
	We all know the Psalm 139, don't we?
	It's not just artificial intelligence.
	Does artificial intelligence know everything about you yet?
	No. But even if it does know everything about you, it still doesn't know everything about you, and it doesn't know your future.
	David wrote, Lord, you've searched me and known me.
	You know my sitting down and my rising up.
	You understand my thoughts from afar off.
	You comprehend my path and my lying down, and you are acquainted with my ways.
	This, by the way, is the goal of geospatial intelligence, anticipatory intelligence that has been the fastest growing part of the intelligence community since the late 1990s.
	They want to have this godlike knowledge of everyone.
	But they did not create us.
	David goes on to say, to God, you formed my inward parts.
	You covered me in my mother's womb.
	I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
	Yes, we are made.
	How can you look at something as complex as a human being, or a dog, or any other animal, and say that this is an accident of random chance processes?
	What foolish rebellion that is, to common sense.
	You don't say that about any car, any building that you look at.
	Marvelous are your works.
	My soul knows that very well.
	My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
	Your eyes saw my substance yet unformed, and in your book they were all written, the day's fashion for me, when there is yet none of them.
	And so when we look at the stories that we had this last week, I gave you a couple of stories about people who had children that had trisomy 18.
	They had diagnosed this and accurately diagnosed it in a couple of these cases, and the children did not survive very long.
	But there's another part of that story.
	Part of the reason why children are not surviving very long with trisomy 18 is because of diagnosis more than anything else.
	The doctors look at them and say, oh, trisomy 18.
	There's no point in even doing anything about this.
	And yet they have found that if they actually give the kids some treatment, that their chances of survival go way, way up.
	Way, way up. But typically they'll look at it and say, oh, the kid's going to die anyway.
	We're not going to give them any health care.
	Does that sound familiar? Is that something that we've seen done to adults?
	Is that something we've seen done at the end of life?
	Is that something that we saw throughout COVID-19?
	I just put a do not resuscitate tag on them, as a matter of fact.
	You know, the story of Amazing Grace, her father, Scott, who came on and talked about it.
	And, you know, he's bringing them to trial because they said, well, she's got COVID. What's the point?
	And she's got Down syndrome anyway.
	Well, we'll just put a do not resuscitate on there.
	Give her no health care.
	You see, this is a much bigger issue than just abortion.
	This is why we talk about pro-life.
	If you're not pro-life for a baby that's sick that has a health condition, if you can take a baby that you tried to kill and did not do that successfully and just lay it over on the table and let it die and call that comfort care, they will do that to all of us at any stage of our life.
	And they'll do it with a clear conscience because artificial intelligence tells them, I'm sorry, this person doesn't have a chance.
	They've got this or they've got that or they don't have this or they don't have that.
	And so this is a story from liveaction.org.
	Very important story.
	Trisomy 18 is not an automatic death sentence.
	These children are proof. But it can be an automatic death sentence if the medical establishment treats it that way.
	I said, you know, we look at Kate Cox's story in Texas.
	She goes to court to get an abortion, and it was really about trying to overthrow that law.
	But it's much bigger than that.
	You've got Ann Coulter, and you've got Nuki Haley, and all of them jumping in on this.
	See, this is what's wrong with your attempt to try to protect life.
	You're going to be cruel to parents.
	And you're going to be, this is just dangerous and awful for women.
	And you should get rid of these pro-life laws, say people on the GOP side.
	And so this idea that there's virtually no chance of survival has been parroted by a lot of people who believe that this mother in Texas should have been allowed to kill her child because this is not compatible with life.
	Many people have been told that trisomy 18 is a fatal condition.
	Many people were told that COVID-19 was a fatal condition.
	And they justified that by putting people in comas, putting them on invasive ventilators, and killing them.
	And of course they made money doing that, just like the abortionists make money.
	And that was a Trump policy.
	Rewarding the hospitals, massively rewarding.
	You just point to somebody and say they've got COVID, $19,000.
	You get them on a ventilator, not $32,000.
	You've already got a $3,000 profit on your $53,000 machine.
	And if you can keep them breathing for a few days, oh, you can just add, you know, it's a gravy train.
	And then not only that, We'll give you a 20% bonus for everything that you do, and they already inflate the prices of everything to an absurd extreme.
	And then wait one year, and after these people have gotten addicted to these obscene, obscene profits, then Biden comes around and says, I'm going to take all those Trump bonuses away from you if you don't vaccinate yourself.
	Yeah. You'll kill yourself now.
	And so, we've seen this with COVID-19.
	Now we're seeing it with trisomy 18.
	Oh, I'm sorry, you've got a fatal condition.
	No point in even trying.
	Do not resuscitate. But a 2017 study from Stanford and the University of Arkansas revealed that children with trisomy 18 diagnosis are more likely to survive if they undergo pediatric heart surgery.
	In addition, a study two years later, in 2019, showed that 90% of children with trisomy 18 Survived after their hearts were repaired.
	But they used this to try to get all kids killed.
	Trisomy 18, or COVID-19.
	Same thing, isn't it?
	In principle. And I thought this was very interesting.
	You know, Rick Santorum, I had a lot of issues with his policies.
	But he was a family man, and he was very staunchly anti-abortion.
	And here's one of the reasons.
	He and his wife, former Senator Rick Santorum out of Pennsylvania, of course he's run for president unsuccessfully in the past as well, but he and his wife have a daughter who turned 15 years old this year who has trisomy 18.
	They refused to abort her even though she had been diagnosed with this, and they told her it was, quote, incompatible with life.
	And so, when Ann Coulter, and I read you some of what Ann Coulter said the other day, I read you what Nikki Haley said, and Ann Coulter, who, shame on her, she used to promote life, she's just a political hack now.
	Talking about how being pro-life is an albatross around our neck.
	She knows better. She knows Trump is an albatross.
	But anyway, she went after pro-life policies.
	And so when she did that, Rick Santorum responded with a tweet to Ann Coulter.
	And he said, quote, Trisomy 18 is not a condition that is incompatible with life.
	Meet my incompatible with wife, daughter, Bella.
	Her doctors put her on hospice at 10 days old.
	Other countries have much higher survival rates than the U.S. because they treat the baby and not the diagnosis.
	Every kid deserves a shot at life, not to be brutally dismembered for not being perfect.
	Well said.
	That's Rick Santorum.
	He said, other countries have much higher survival rates because we treat the diagnosis, but they treat the baby.
	And then they have in this article from Live Action, they've got several different parents.
	Here's a child, Wiley Durson.
	The parents learned about this, of course, as they all do when they're pregnant.
	They showed her to me.
	When she was born, she was awfully floppy and blue.
	She didn't look like a baby who was alive, but they let my husband hold her, and I'll never forget the moment.
	I'd just given birth, and he says, she's breathing, she's breathing.
	And she just kept breathing and living.
	And so she is now several years old.
	Verdi Jacobson. When the parents learned their pre-born child that they named Verity had trisomy 18, they were terrified.
	They were given little to no information about what the future would look like.
	The information that we were gleaning was that if she were to be born alive, the average lifespan would be 5 to 15 days.
	And so we're having conversations about where we're going to bury our baby and what the memorial service is going to be like.
	And I just grieved so much, she said.
	And of course, the stories that I had the other day, the babies did not survive.
	But the mothers, even though they were saddened by that, It was reassuring to them that they had not added to the baby's suffering by having them ripped apart limb by limb in an abortion, and the fact that they had been able to hold their child for the few moments of life that they had.
	But to her surprise, Verity did not die right after birth.
	To the mother's surprise, today she is thriving in her own special way.
	Life now is amazing, and it's not perfect, she said.
	It's not easy, but it is so much better than we could have imagined, said the mother.
	And the way that she has enriched our lives is just amazing as well.
	Same story I've always heard and seen from parents who have children with Down syndrome or any other thing, right?
	We would all like for our children to be perfect and have no health issues whatsoever.
	But isn't it great to have them anyway?
	Harper Grace. In a Special Books by Special Kids video interview, her mother said her only goal was to be able to look Harper in the eye and tell her, I love you after birth.
	To her surprise, she was able to do that, and much more, as Harper did not die, as the doctors predicted.
	Now she fights for better treatment of those with trisomy 18 diagnosis.
	Faith Smith's parents learned of it.
	The doctors encouraged them to abort.
	When they refused to abort, the doctors started going down the Planned Parenthood script.
	The doctors tried to scare them into ending their daughter's life, warning that if she was born, it would ruin their marriage, it would devastate them financially, it would make life difficult for their other children.
	All the things they tell you, Planned Parenthood.
	The couple refused to listen, instead fought for their daughter's life.
	In a Facebook post celebrating her 12th birthday in 2020, the father shared a happy message.
	He said, it's a wonderful life, and this is a special day.
	Faith is 12 years old today.
	Our fatal fetal anomaly, who is incompatible with life, just won't listen to her critics.
	We weren't lucky.
	We had help from a mighty God and from some great doctors and nurses.
	Who treated her over the years.
	A life is valuable.
	This is one of the things that you see through these people who are talking about it.
	They have faith in God.
	And they see prayers answered.
	And God does not answer every prayer to heal every illness or every person.
	He has greater purposes in our life.
	Sometimes that includes suffering and loss.
	But look at what our culture is doing.
	As I said at the top of the show, I said we need to think about culture.
	What are we cultivating here?
	Again, you know, the same word for cultivation of plants or bacteria culture.
	That's what we're doing. We're actively promoting something to grow.
	And so what is it that we're trying to grow in America?
	Or what is it that other people are trying to grow as we set passively by?
	Because you can't win a culture war without culture.
	And culture comes down to each and every one of us.
	It comes down to traditions that you set up with your friends and family.
	It comes to the things that you do.
	And instead, what we have become is a nation of voyeurs.
	We just sit back and we let other people do the culture thing for us and we just watch it.
	And watching what they want...
	And what they produce out of life.
	That becomes our culture.
	Our passive voyeur culture.
	And so you've got a college that knows this and they are launching a movie contest.
	Not to celebrate life, but to celebrate abortion.
	Maybe they could call the movie It's a Wonderful Murder.
	Barnard College wants to celebrate and support abortion stories.
	They have their annual Athena Film Festival, named after a goddess, right?
	They recently closed submissions for mentorship program.
	Winners of a script competition will be announced at the film festival scheduled for February the 29th.
	And so I guess maybe if you could come up with a script, I don't know, Away With The Manger.
	How about that? Away With The Manger.
	Maybe we could even write a song about that and get some money from these people who have a culture that they want to grow.
	And it's like a gain-of-function bacteria culture that is getting more and more deadly in our society all the time.
	Winners of this project will receive mentorship on how to better promote the direct killing of innocent pre-born babies.
	And they call the project, listen to this, it's the APP. What does that stand for?
	No, not APP. It's the Abortion Pipeline Project.
	In an annual narrative screenplay competition to feature short film scripts, Which seek to seed and source a variety of narrative film projects which center abortion.
	That's the way they describe it themselves.
	They want to center abortion.
	A cult of death.
	A culture of death.
	What are we going to do to grow the opposite?
	This is... So abortionists want parents out of their daughter's life and death decisions.
	And this is going to Massachusetts.
	Seems to be the epicenter of evil anymore.
	Elizabeth Warren and people associated with Elizabeth Warren.
	Massachusetts doesn't have very many protections for babies.
	And I'm sure if you look at these screenplays, they'll probably portray the parents as hopelessly out of touch.
	That's become a meme for Hollywood, hasn't it?
	Since the middle of the 20th century, maybe earlier than that, parents are just always hopelessly out of touch.
	You don't need to listen to them.
	Well, they've got very few pro-life protections.
	As a matter of fact, you can kill children up through 24 weeks.
	France is only 12 weeks.
	France is only 12 weeks.
	And they recently extended that because it used to be like 10 weeks or something like that.
	But Massachusetts, 24 weeks, twice as long as France.
	Planned Parenthood's Massachusetts CEO says that her number one priority is making abortion more accessible.
	Oh, I imagine it is. I mean, that's how she makes money.
	That's where they make their money. They're not about women's health.
	They're about killing babies. The parental consent requirement, she said, was reduced from the age of 18 to 16.
	But she said even 16 is still too high.
	There's no evidence that it is medically necessary.
	No, it's not medically necessary to kill a baby to have parental consent.
	It's not necessarily necessary to have parental consent if you want to mutilate a child sexually.
	Groom them and mutilate them in chemicals and surgery.
	Not medically necessary.
	It just delays this anywhere from 5 to 21 days.
	So she says she's going to be focusing on, quote, reducing all of the unnecessary burdens and barriers that stand in the way of killing babies.
	Things like eliminating parental involvement are at the top of her list as she talks to the press.
	The desire to remove parental notification laws places young girls in greater danger of being trafficked, of being forced into abortion that they don't want.
	And we've talked about this for many, many years, how Planned Parenthood, when they get a young child in who's a minor who's pregnant, this is obviously statutory rape.
	But Planned Parenthood does not report this to the police.
	They don't want anything to come of this because, you know, if they started doing that, they would discourage girls from coming there and killing babies, and that's how they make their money.
	Abortion is Planned Parenthood's biggest moneymaker.
	According to their 2020 annual report, they killed 6.5 million babies since 2000 and got $9.3 billion in taxpayer dollars.
	And then, of course, in 2020, as they were handing out the universal basic income training checks that they call stimulus checks or PPP or whatever, the Congress said, well, no, we're not going to give that to Planned Parenthood.
	But the Democrats did anyway.
	It was in the law that it wasn't supposed to go to them, but they got it anyway.
	A minor cannot undergo surgery or even receive medicine from a school nurse without a parent's approval.
	However, now we're letting them do the abortions in Massachusetts if they get what they want.
	And, of course, the other emerging profit center for Planned Parenthood is the chemicals, the puberty chemicals for the trans grooming that is happening.
	So you can groom the kids in school for transgender mutilation, and Planned Parenthood can sell that as well.
	Sell the puberty blockers and make money off of that as well.
	They've got all of this covered.
	It's a business that makes money on death.
	And so, as I said, Massachusetts is where they're trying to get rid of parental consent completely.
	And also coming out of Massachusetts, also aligned with Liz Warren, is a guy who is in charge of the Department of Education.
	And the Department of Education is going after a Christian university with massive fines.
	And it is really trivial and a false charge, but they want to shut this down.
	The headline from WND, the feds say that Christian and affordable colleges are ten times worse than hiding sex offenders.
	If you look at the fines that they're assessing here.
	They've made the accusation against this college that its motto is private, Christian, and affordable.
	And so they came up with a fine that is 10 times worse than they have given to other schools for concealing sex offenders.
	The officials who are defending them at the Goldwater Institute said they're demanding information about the Biden's Department of Education agenda against Grand Canyon University of Phoenix.
	They say a lawsuit will follow if the immediate results aren't satisfactory.
	$37.7 million fine against the organization.
	And so right now, the people at the Goldwater Institute have written a commentary about it.
	They have not filed a complaint yet, not filed a lawsuit yet.
	They basically laid out the lines of the lawsuit.
	We just saw the Biden administration, as they leave the border wide open, And are bringing in millions of people every year.
	Anybody can walk in.
	You saw them go to a great deal of trouble to try to deport German homeschool family.
	That was Christian. We don't want those kind of people here.
	To me, that says everything.
	You know, the open border, but then double down.
	That isn't a situation.
	The open border is not a situation where we just can't figure out what to do.
	We're just hopelessly incompetent.
	It's a bigger problem than we can manage.
	No, when you look at what they try to do with the German homeschooling Christian family and deport them after they've been here for quite some time, they're supporting themselves, and they are genuine political refugees, religiously persecuted because Germany persecutes anybody that has Christian convictions to homeschool their own kids.
	And so when you look at that, that tells you what this policy is about.
	It really is deliberate.
	It really is a great replacement.
	In its latest assault on institutions that failed to adhere to its ideological bent, the Biden administration just imposed the largest fine in history from the U.S. Department of Education on Grand Canyon University.
	His motto is private, Christian, and affordable.
	Ten times bigger than they levied against some of the worst sex offenders in school in history.
	By any metric, the school is a success story, says the op-ed piece.
	Having grown from a tiny school with fewer than a thousand students to one of the largest private schools in the country, offering degrees in every conceivable discipline, all that happened without raising tuition on students in over 15 years.
	And so now they're demanding that the Department of Education turn over public records, That would indicate that there's collusion.
	Collusion within the Biden administration.
	Collusion with Elizabeth Warren.
	So, they said, as this guy took power, his name is Richard Cordray, who has been tightly associated with Elizabeth Warren in the past.
	As he took over, they said he and his cronies made it their mission to destroy institutions that do not subscribe to the prevailing orthodoxy at government-run schools.
	You see, this time of year, and Naomi Wolf had an excellent op-ed piece, and I want to read parts of it to you.
	She's Jewish. She's liberal.
	She's a lesbian, I think.
	But she's looking at this and saying, what is it about this obsession about destroying all the free exercise of religion?
	She woke up with the Trump lockdowns.
	People call them the COVID lockdowns.
	COVID didn't lock down anybody.
	Trump did. Yeah, what an amazing narrative the right has created.
	The mainstream alternative media has created.
	But anyway, when you look at this, they do have an orthodoxy.
	They may not want you to have any mangers in your school, but they want you to have all of their religion.
	LGBT, Marxism, racism, all of this stuff.
	That's got to be there. And if you don't have that there, and you openly advertise that you're a Christian school in private, they start looking for a way to destroy you.
	We're not being paranoid.
	This is just, we see this over and over again.
	Biden administration's claim that the school didn't provide information about the need for graduate students to continue to take education courses.
	The department has not cited any student complaints.
	Instead, they made a number of conclusive conclusatory statements that do not appear to be supported by actual facts, said the Goldwater Institute in their op-ed piece.
	They said the school allegedly, quote, violated federal disclosure laws by insufficiently disclosing to Ph.D. students that they may have to take continuing courses while completing their doctoral dissertations.
	In other words, the allegation is that the most highly educated students at GCU can't read the brochures, which is clearly stated.
	And again, there have been no complaints from the students.
	That's the key thing. So what is the standing from the Department of Education if there's been no complaints?
	Well, you know, they're coming after Trump in New York, even though the banks didn't complain about it.
	And where's their standing in this?
	Well, we know where they're standing.
	This is just political persecution of their enemies.
	And you know I don't support Trump, but that's what this Manhattan thing is.
	The commentary from the people, again, I said it's not a commentary right now, it's not a complaint, it's not a lawsuit that's been filed, noted that the Department's conclusory statements would in any other context be considered to be defamation.
	They said even if they can't prove the allegations against their allegations, not even student allegations.
	The Biden Department of Education has allegations and no student complaints.
	Even if they can't prove this, they intend for the process to be punishment.
	They said in their commentary, this is a school that has found innovative solutions for everything from the nationwide nursing shortage to graduating students into high demand and high paying trade jobs.
	They have a thriving campus life with students dedicated to serving the surrounding neighborhood, which is economically distressed but substantially improving because of this university's presence.
	His students graduate with less debt than an average student nationwide.
	And by way of comparison, public universities nationwide have raised tuition on resident students by an average of more than 150% over the past two decades, despite benefiting from taxpayer-funded subsidies that GCU does not receive.
	So they don't get taxpayer money like these other places.
	And they don't get big donors like Harvard, who's now starting to lose their big donors.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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	On Zelle, I don't have any way to respond to people, just like I don't really have a way to respond to people who send us support by mail, and I got a lot of Christmas cards.
	Thank you so much for the Christmas cards.
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	Let's talk a little bit about crime and punishment.
	There is an amazing story that just came out yesterday, and I haven't seen people pick this up much in the media yet.
	But as a lead up to it, there are some other punishments that are rolling around.
	I've talked for the longest time about civil asset forfeiture.
	If you know this program, you know about civil asset forfeiture.
	When Megyn Kelly came to InfoWars to interview people, I brought that up.
	She'd never heard of it. She's a lawyer.
	And a journalist. She'd never heard of it.
	And still doesn't care.
	After she heard about it, she still doesn't care.
	Because it's about her, right?
	But this is a sentencing commission that is again proposed restricting judges' use of acquitted conduct.
	You see, this is not only do we have people with civil asset forfeiture, They say, well, it's not a law.
	It's a rule passed by the bureaucracy.
	So you don't get any of the protections under the Constitution.
	You don't get the presumption of innocence.
	You don't get due process. You don't get protection against excessive fines.
	Because this is a rule. It's not a law.
	Isn't that odd? Right?
	The very fact that we are regulated without representation It's an abomination.
	And yet they use that very abomination of regulation without representation then to deny us all the due process outlined in the Constitution.
	It's an outrage.
	It's an outrage.
	I don't understand why people are not outraged about civil asset forfeiture, but here's another aspect of this.
	And they're looking at possibly reforming this, but maybe not.
	I don't know. This is picked up by reason.
	A government panel could soon limit a little-known but outrageous practice that allows federal judges to enhance defendants' sentence based on conduct that they have been acquitted of.
	What? You've been acquitted of it, but the judge can still enhance your sentence as if You have been convicted of that?
	Yes. That's been going on.
	And so they look at this as, well, maybe we should stop this.
	By the way, you know, maybe we should call this the Ross Ulbricht Clause.
	Because it was even worse with Ross Ulbricht.
	You know, just as we talk about the fact they can steal your property, your cash, your car, your home, your business, anything like that.
	They can steal it. Without a conviction, without even indicting you for anything.
	Well, Ross Ulbrich, who was running Silk Road, and of course you also had FBI agents who were dipping into that and stole a million dollars out of it.
	And they were on trial for that at the same time that Ross Ulbrich was.
	But they would not allow Ross Ulbrich's defense to even mention that.
	Because if he was allowed to mention that, then people might not believe the government's narrative that Ross Ulbricht was solely responsible for anything that happened on this website.
	And, of course, there was some illegal activity that was happening on this website, just like there's illegal activity that happens everywhere on the Internet.
	They had a big problem because he was an early adopter and promoter of Bitcoin.
	He put his website on what they like to call the dark web.
	Why do they call it the dark web? Is it any darker than the rest of the web?
	No, it's not. It's simply that they can't see it.
	And Goatree and I have talked about that many times.
	But for Ross Ulbrich, As these FBI agents have the keys to it, as they're stealing a million dollars out of the website, and then subsequently getting convicted themselves.
	But don't tell the jury that.
	But what they did after they convicted him of, you know, having the website, there were allegations, but never an indictment, that there had been something put on the website, murder for hire.
	And again, these are allegations that were made in the press.
	You had a district attorney who made these allegations in the press, but he never did an indictment.
	I wonder why. And yet, when they convicted Ross, and I forget what it was that they convicted him of, the key thing about the enhancement for this, they gave him, this young man, they gave three consecutive life sentences to, which means that he can never get parole.
	I've interviewed his mother multiple times when I was at Infowars, and I've lost contact with her, but I have to try to get contact with her.
	We talked about it at the time, and I had her on at the time, because there was a hope at the time that perhaps some of the people in the Trump administration would get Trump to pardon him.
	And that was really when I was talking to his mother at the time.
	Now there's not any hope of that because Biden is such an authoritarian.
	And because they're so adamantly opposed to crypto and that type of thing.
	But that was one of the things that really disturbed me at the end of the Trump first administration.
	The fact that he didn't pardon the January of the Sixth people.
	The fact that he didn't pardon Ross Ulbricht.
	The fact they didn't pardon Marty Gosfeld, who subsequently got out serving his time.
	And many, many others.
	You know, they're there. Francis Schaefer Cox and others that he should have pardoned.
	Instead, Trump pardoned some of the biggest white-collar criminals and frauds and friends of Jared Kushner.
	And we know why.
	Money. That corruption.
	It just made me sick on top of everything else that he had been doing for the last year.
	On top of the lockdowns, on top of the masks, on top of the warp speed, on top of the vote-by-mail election, then pushing people into January 6th, and then he doesn't pardon people who have been abused by the system like Ross Ulbricht.
	Three consecutive life sentences.
	You know, the Bible tells us Gives us the character of God and describes him as defender of widows, father to fatherless, who sets the prisoners free.
	Those are prisoners who were held unjustly.
	I don't see any of that character in this character who's running for office.
	Just amazing.
	Anyway, so what they're doing, so with Ross Ulbrich, they use the The allegations in the press, even though he was never indicted and certainly wasn't convicted, because that's why I brought up civil asset forfeiture.
	They use that to enhance the sentence to three consecutive life sentences.
	But they're doing it to a lesser degree for a lot more people as well.
	At the sentencing phase of a trial, federal judges can enhance the defendant's sentences for conduct that they were acquitted of.
	Again, Ross was not even indicted or tried for this.
	But even if somebody has gone to trial and been acquitted, the judge can pretend as if they were convicted of that and use that to enhance their sentence.
	If the judge decides that it's more likely than not that the defendant committed those offenses, so he doesn't really care what the jury said.
	The judge thinks, they say he's innocent, I think he's guilty, so I'm going to charge him and punish him as if he was guilty.
	So is that trial by jury?
	Or is that trial by opinion?
	What is happening with that?
	That is simply opinion and prejudice of the judge.
	It's not a trial. And we've seen judges essentially shut down juries in every aspect.
	You're here... To judge the facts of the case, they say.
	Not whether or not you like this law.
	Not whether or not you agree with the punishment that is attached to this, because that's what jury nullification is about.
	Again, going back to the case of William Penn when he was still in England.
	They outlawed the Quaker Church.
	The people decided they were going to meet anyway.
	So then they padlocked the church building doors and they met on the steps of the church building.
	And so then they arrested William Penn.
	When they took him to trial, the foreman and the assistant foreman Foreman's name was Edward Bushnell.
	Threw it out. And it was clear what the law was, and it was clear what the penalty was.
	And they said, no, we're going to say he's innocent because we don't agree with the law.
	That's called jury nullification.
	And so then the judge threw Edward Bushnell and the other guy, his name I don't recall, into jail.
	Oh, yeah? Well, you don't want to put him in jail for making it a crime to belong to a particular church like our ally Zelensky is doing in Ukraine?
	Well, then we will throw you into jail.
	You can take his place then.
	And so then their lawyer said, show me the law that they violated.
	Habeas corpus.
	Show me the law that they violated when they nullified these laws as a jury.
	It's not against the law for a jury to nullify this.
	And so the judge let him go.
	Established habeas corpus, but it also established jury nullification, clearly.
	And we follow that tradition in the United States, and it is explicitly protected in many state constitutions.
	But judges will tell people, you're not here to judge the law.
	Or the penalty. You're here to judge the facts of the case.
	That's a lie. But even when they judge the facts of the case and they say, no, I don't think they proved their case, the judge says, well, I think they did.
	He overrides that as well. Isn't it amazing what an authoritarian dictatorship is?
	America has become at every level of government, whether you're talking about a lot of these courts and judges or these other government officials.
	And we saw that in 2020 in spades.
	Here's another example of over-punishment.
	This is a 10-year-old kid.
	And he was arrested because somebody complained about...
	Well, let me just tell you the facts of the case here.
	This is in Mississippi.
	A 10-year-old has been sentenced to three months probation.
	For urinating behind his mother's car.
	But the boy's mother is refusing to sign the probation agreement.
	It's a regular probation.
	I thought it was something that would be for a juvenile, but it's the same terms an adult criminal would have, said the family's attorney.
	We cannot in good conscience accept a probation agreement that treats a 10-year-old child as a criminal.
	So what was his crime?
	Well, in August, this third grader, whose name is Quantavius Eason, Quantavius, they have aspirations of Roman Empire for him, I guess.
	Quantavius was seen urinating behind his mother's car while she went inside an attorney's office.
	Police saw Quantavius arrested him, arrested the 10-year-old, and took him to a local police station.
	According to the boy's mother, Latonya Eason, her son was even placed inside a jail cell, despite posing no threat to the officers.
	Quantavius was charged with, quote, child in need of supervision.
	They charged him with that, not the mother.
	And a youth court judge sentenced him last week to three months of probation, as well as a two-page report on the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.
	Was Kobe Bryant know how to use a restroom or something?
	Kobe Bryant, did you know that about him?
	He's evidently not only a master at playing basketball, but he really knows how to use the restroom.
	The connection with that.
	Just pure arbitrary nonsense.
	But this is the case that I wanted to give you the background for.
	This is a situation where you now have an 18-year-old Being sentenced to life in a hospital prison for something they did when he was 16.
	And you won't believe what he did.
	It's kind of like, you know, urinating behind his mother's car, in a sense.
	And I'm going to make light of this, even though they said, well, this cost the company $5 million and thousands of hours in employee shifts.
	The company is Rockstar Games.
	The makers of this reprehensible but famous and successful game called Grand Theft Auto.
	Version 6 is about to come out in 2025.
	The previous version, 5, came out in 2013.
	They've been working on this for quite some time.
	So what did this 18-year-old do to these people who promote every kind of reprehensible, violent, sexual assault, mass murder shooting, cop killing, flying planes into buildings, all the rest of the stuff that's in Grand Theft Auto?
	What was it that was the crime of this person who was going to actually get life in prison?
	Was it anything like they model and they have kids playing all the time?
	No, nothing at all like that.
	What this guy did was he hacked into the company and did he destroy their code?
	No. What he did was he released 90 clips of the upcoming video game for people to watch on YouTube.
	What? He put out early trailer material?
	And they got millions, hundreds of millions of views in a couple of days.
	Lawyers argued, well, he actually promoted your game.
	People have been desperate for information about this for 10 years, and so he showed people some clips of the game.
	And that got these people who are very powerful and connected to the government angry.
	And if you get somebody who's very powerful and connected to the government angry with you, and the government is corrupt like our government is, they can send you to jail for life.
	He is in the UK, I believe.
	This story is covered by the BBC. He'll only be released if medical professionals judge him to be no longer dangerous.
	Well, what is the medical angle of this?
	Well, this kid is a genius, but he's got autism.
	And so he is an amazing hacker.
	He has been affiliated with a black hat group.
	That has broken into a lot of different things in the past.
	And as a matter of fact, he'd broken into NVIDIA, a company that makes very fast GPUs that are used for crypto mining and other things like that.
	So he'd broken into some of these places with these other people.
	They had him in custody. And they had taken away his computer.
	But listen to this.
	Despite having his computer taken away...
	He broke into Rockstar Games, the developer of Grand Theft Auto 6.
	What did he use after they took his computer away?
	He used an Amazon Fire Stick, a hotel TV, and a mobile phone, and he was able to break into their system and grab trailer shots of what the game's going to look like.
	Isn't that amazing? Perhaps they're going to keep him in prison because they want to put him on some kind of a Mission Impossible team.
	He takes an Amazon Fire Stick, his phone, and the hotel TV and does this.
	A mental health review showed that he, quote, continued to express intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible.
	Prior to his September 2022 arrest, he had been a member of an international cybercrime group called Lapsus Dollar.
	I haven't talked to Goatree about this.
	I'll have to get his opinion on this.
	He's on the other side.
	He's doing the cybersecurity protection against people like this.
	He was on bail for hacking NVIDIA and BT slash EE. I don't know who that is.
	Is that a game company, Travis?
	Do you know? I don't know.
	And he's placed under police protection at a hotel.
	But again, you know, he just uses a fire stick, a hotel TV, and a mobile phone, and he gets into GTA 6, and he releases all this stuff.
	His legal team claimed that the trailer that he put out, that he got from them, got 128 million views on YouTube in just its first four days.
	Suggesting that the hack did not harm Rockstar Games.
	But according to them, it cost them $5 million in thousands of hours in employee shifts.
	They come after people who are hackers.
	They catch them like this. They come after them with draconian measures.
	Aaron Schwartz, who was not a hacker, but he was an activist who resisted CISPA, SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, and then they finally got CISA through after they killed Aaron Schwartz.
	I believe they killed him. They started coming after him.
	They said, well, he logged on to the computer at MIT and he didn't have the credentials and everything.
	So they got a woman who was a federal prosecutor up in Massachusetts.
	They were grooming her to become governor, Carmine Ortiz.
	And at first, you know, she's talking about how she's going to come after him with a lot of, you know, penalties and things like that.
	Then he supposedly committed suicide.
	And people got really angry with her, driving this guy who had become a hero to a lot of people because he had worked against government censorship and surveillance.
	And her husband tweeted out a thing and said, no, she just offered him, if he confessed, she just offered him, you know, like a short sentence with a suspended on probation and that type of thing.
	He said she didn't drive him to suicide.
	And then he took that down.
	Because they didn't want people to realize that maybe he'd been killed.
	But it's been 10 years since the previous version of Grand Theft Auto.
	And when you think about his crime versus what Grand Theft Auto portrays...
	You know, we just had somebody...
	I don't know the story of this guy.
	Somebody in Prague who went on a mass shooting spree.
	Why is it that we see this kind of stuff that we didn't used to see?
	Well, if you go back to 2013...
	When the previous version of Grand Theft Auto was released, this publication called TheGamer.com talked about the 15 most despicable acts that you can commit in Grand Theft Auto.
	And after these other acts, they would say, and we love them.
	Yeah, we love doing this, and we love it.
	And of course, they make it clear.
	They can understand the difference between somebody playing a game and what real life is.
	They say, we understand that difference.
	Well, you know, you've got a lot of people who don't understand that difference.
	Because you've got a lot of people like the Nashville Killer, probably like this person who just shot all these people in Prague.
	They don't understand the difference.
	I understand that there's MKUltra programs and all that.
	You don't have to remind me of that.
	You don't have to think that I don't understand what that is.
	But there's other aspects of this stuff that's out there as well.
	As I've said, I think the reason they won't release the manifesto of this trainee killer, it just shows you what these people are capable of in terms of driving some people over the edge.
	Yeah, you look at MKUltra, but you know, you can do that to people with this transgender stuff, as I've said before.
	Make them hate themselves.
	Hate your skin color.
	Hate your sex.
	Your gender. And then hate everybody.
	And go and kill them. You know, let's not miss the clear forest that is in front of us because we're studying the tree of MKUltra.
	Yes, they've used that. But take a look at what they're doing in a blanket way.
	Through the schools, through the entertainment, through the games, through the films, and all the rest of this stuff.
	And so here's an example.
	The gamer was saying this in 2013 when the last Grand Theft Auto came out.
	Even among the violent video games out there, Grand Theft Auto stands in a class all its own, says the gamer.
	Nobody can beat the original crime-themed open-world masterpiece series.
	There will always be GTA. Every other game of this kind is just an imitator.
	This magical franchise tends to bring a new set of controversies with it everywhere it goes.
	They've continued the trend with Grand Theft GTA V. They've continued the trend of increasing the violence and becoming more and more controversial to keep up with how sick and maniacal mainstream society continues to become.
	And you say, what a time to be alive.
	Well, again, cause or effect?
	Which one is the cause? Which one is the effect?
	We always have this argument when we talk about content.
	And, you know, I know I'm sounding like Tipper Gore here, but, you know, occasionally liberals can get something right.
	But when we look at this, is it a cause or effect?
	Or are they just reinforcing each other?
	Is it an echo chamber?
	I think that's what is happening here.
	I think it's an echo chamber that amplifies, and both of these things amplify each other.
	Of course, they said about GTA V in 2013, Of course, beating people with baseball bats and shooting them with small arms and driving full speed into them with vehicles is one thing.
	But part of the beauty of this series is that they've sold over 250 million games by allowing the player to get more creative than that.
	While it may be in poor taste and while it may be borderline obscene, we know the difference between real life and a video game.
	So we're going to count down 15 of the most despicable acts a player can commit in Grand Theft Auto.
	And we're going for more than just shooting people, vehicular homicide, and brutal assaults with weapons here.
	Those are not a big deal in this series.
	So again, are we causing mass killers?
	Are we amplifying the effect of that?
	Are we generating feedback effect for that as well?
	So, first one, I'll just show a little bit of this.
	I'm not going to go over every one of these in detail.
	But, again, this is Grand Theft Auto.
	And this is how you can kill people by drowning them.
	Or, you know, shooting them.
	So here's a guy. He's running down a dock.
	And now he pulls out a gun.
	And now he's just going to start shooting at people.
	And some of the people he shoots and some of the people he scares off the dock, they jump into the water.
	And then as he gets to the end of the dock and looks down, he sees people who are floating in the water dead, not moving.
	There we go. Killed those people.
	Now let's shoot some people. Yeah, isn't that great?
	Isn't that fun? I mean, what a way to entertain yourself.
	Feel free to drop in if you disagree with us, Travis, as somebody who plays games.
	Another thing you can do is killing ladies of the night, as they say, to get your money back.
	Shooting prostitutes.
	Targeting cops. Yeah, that's another thing that you can do.
	Or you can fly planes into buildings and reenact 9-11.
	They let you do that in Grand Theft Auto.
	You can put somebody in the trunk of your car and then push them off a cliff.
	Isn't this fun? Don't you love games?
	Games? This is a sick society.
	And it's getting sicker.
	And this is one of the reasons why.
	As I said, it's this feedback amplification.
	Blowing somebody up on national TV. Or you can play a fetch with a dog using a hand grenade.
	Oh, that's loads of laughs, isn't it?
	You know, people think that these things don't have any effect on them.
	Do you realize when they want to sell you their brand of margarine, why do these people spend millions of dollars on it?
	Edward Bernays knew that that got people into World War I and other things like that, propaganda for Woodrow Wilson.
	He goes to Madison Avenue.
	You may think that you're not susceptible to this stuff, but when you go to the grocery store, you're going to be more likely to grab the thing that you're familiar with and all these other things.
	They have a way to provide this.
	That's why I say, we always talk about things like MKUltra.
	But we don't talk about how the culture is being dragged to hell, not just by drag queen story time hours, which I understand the influence that that has.
	And these things have influence on young people.
	They harden them to violence.
	It's no longer shocking.
	You get accustomed to it.
	It's one of the reasons why the games and the movies become more and more violent all the time.
	Well, because it's all there to shock you.
	And so whether you look at a horror film, or you look at something that's got a lot of sexual content in it, it's got to continually go to the next thing, just like a drug.
	Right? Got to get something harder.
	That's not getting me the fix anymore.
	And so that's why you see this kind of stuff.
	And you can do sexual assault of people in Grand Theft Auto.
	And you can also torture people.
	You can waterboard people and all the rest of this stuff.
	That's what they put in in 2013.
	So, again, this guy, his crime was not any of this, although he probably, you know, loves his stuff and he doesn't, well, why shouldn't I be able to just hack in and show people this wonderful program that we all love?
	But, no, he just, he showed what they were working on.
	He showed their trailers. And so he gets a life in prison in a mental institution.
	Because if you mess with these rich perverbs who produce this garbage like this, you get life in prison.
	Not them. They get rich.
	You know, the Rockstar Games would just say, it's just a game.
	It's just for minors.
	Well, you know, they're the people who are going to take it more seriously, aren't they?
	But because he shows their trailer, something's going to come out in 2025.
	I saw one article said that he'd gotten some code, even if he released their code.
	I'm sorry. That's not worth a life in prison.
	What if he did some of the other stuff?
	What if he shot up the people at Rockstar Games like they portray being done everywhere?
	Would that be a serious crime?
	I don't know. What is the standard that we have anymore?
	We can just make this stuff up, can't we?
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about some other news.
	I want to talk a little bit about war in the context of Christmas and a time that we talk about peace on earth.
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	Well, as we talk about excessive penalties and punishment, in Australia, their e-safety commissioner...
	Has initiated civil penalty proceedings against Elon Musk's Twitter now called X. $780,000 fine per day.
	Is that excessive?
	Well, it would be for pretty much anybody but the world's richest man.
	Quite frankly, nearly three quarters of a million dollars.
	And that could bankrupt Elon Musk in 800 years.
	That's how much money he's got.
	I mean, it's like, we saw the same thing happen in Texas as we were moving out.
	We didn't know it, but Elon Musk was moving into the county where he lived.
	And he was doing all kinds of things with, you know, he's got...
	His boring company and he had SpaceX had a headquarters there and everything.
	So he was expanding this stuff out and building kind of a complex there.
	He was going to have some housing for some of his employees and stuff like that.
	But, you know, the people who said, well, we've got, we want you to, you've got to have your sewer connection.
	He says, nah, I'm not going to bother with that.
	I'm just going to dump it into the Colorado River.
	What? And then, this is what we would like you to do in terms of your curb cuts into the road.
	It's like, I'm not going to bother with that.
	I'm going to do it the way I want to do it.
	And so they started fining him.
	And he said, I don't care what these fines are.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	We'll pay the fines. I don't care.
	To the extent that the people in that county said, well, what are we going to do?
	Do we raise these fines? I mean, the fines are already really high for...
	Ordinary people, but for Elon Musk, he just blows it off.
	And I'm telling you, you know, when people get this, this has just happened in Australia.
	And then, of course, there's going to be the European Union that's going to do the same thing.
	And you're going to see an echo chamber from the mainstream alternative media, MAGA Bird Press.
	Look at this. Look at our billionaire savior, how they're coming after him.
	Poor guy. You know, he's going to...
	They're going to bankrupt him in a thousand years.
	He knows what he's doing.
	He'll probably take these fines and keep going.
	And I'm glad that he's going to keep something open that is supposedly free speech, but it's not free speech if you don't.
	If you're critical of Elon Musk, he'll let you be critical of other people, but not of him, that type of thing.
	So again, keep that in mind when you look at this.
	Yes, it is horrible.
	The EU and these other governments in Australia and the United States especially don't want to have any free speech.
	And that is reprehensible.
	I'm not excusing that whatsoever, but I'm just saying that he can afford to do this, and he's not even going to feel it.
	It's nothing to him.
	But we've got this article on Nature that came out on Wednesday.
	It said, if you're doing your own research, you hear all this stuff, do your own research.
	I say that, other people say that.
	Do your own research.
	Here's what I'm telling you, but look it up.
	See if that's true. Look it up yourself.
	Don't simply believe it because Fauci tells you.
	Don't simply believe that the vaccine is harmless because Alex wants to promote Trump and says, Trump's not giving you the bad stuff.
	He's giving you sugar water.
	They're taking this COVID virus, which has not been isolated, and they're going to kill and weaken it.
	Well, you know, a virus is, if there are viruses, they've never claimed that a virus was alive.
	Like bacteria. Something you can't see.
	So again, it's a model, it's a representation, like our different representations of the universe, you know, and planetary movement, or the atom itself.
	These things are always changing all the time, you know, going from the Niels Bohr model of the atom to quantum physics and stuff like that.
	I don't know if there's a virus or not.
	I don't know if that's the correct way to explain the disease that's out there.
	We're seeing pathogens or what we're seeing.
	But, you know, if you were going to inoculate somebody with something that's caused by bacteria, which you can see, you would weaken or kill it.
	That's not what that was about.
	Alex knew that it was an MRA code that was going to come in and reprogram your DNA and be self-replicating.
	Why is he telling people that it's going to be weakened or attenuated and it's like sugar water?
	But if you're getting bad information like that, you need to do your own research.
	You know, and understand where people are coming from.
	That's why I mentioned it. You need to understand that they're going to lie to you to further their agenda.
	Fauci's going to lie to you to further his agenda.
	Trump is going to lie to you to further his agenda.
	Alex is going to lie to you to further his agenda.
	They've got an agenda, and they don't care what happens to you, you see.
	And so these people who are running it, this article on Nature, said, we did an experiment.
	We got 3,000 Americans and showed people who had been nudged.
	That's their term, nudged, because that's what they're constantly doing.
	They're constantly nudging you in a direction.
	Very subtle propaganda is what they call nudging.
	People who've been nudged to do research online were 19% more likely to believe a false or misleading article over those who only looked at reputable sources.
	And you know what they're saying here.
	If you've got people who do their own research, 19% of them realize that we're selling them a bill of goods and lying to them about a government or an official narrative.
	They portray, well, you know, people do their own research, they're going to get involved in misinformation.
	No. They're going to find information that they missed, information that the government didn't want them to see.
	And then they're not going to believe the government's lies, which the government says, well, that's misinformation then.
	And so, in this context, by the way, You have Donald Tusk, who is part of the EU, part of their censorship, one of the core globalists.
	They just had an election in Poland.
	In Poland, the conservatives lost.
	And they put Donald Tusk in.
	He immediately sees the major TV station there, the government TV station.
	It's one of the reasons why you don't want to have government TV. But you can imagine what would happen here If, for example, Trump gets in, what if he arrests the people who are running PBS and NPR? I know, I know.
	You'd like to see that happen.
	I would not be too upset to see that either, except for the precedent that it sets, right?
	Because the next time, you know, every time you have a change of election, you know, the people like Zelensky or the people like Donald Tusk that are allied with the Biden administration and our government, they want to throw their opponents into jail.
	We don't want to have a system like that.
	But that's what is happening in Poland right now.
	So, yes, do not believe any narrative except what we give you.
	And that is essentially what all these corrupted institutions are saying.
	The National Sex Ed Conference has a webinar to explain to people that children are in danger if parents have any kind of a say in sex education.
	No. No.
	The people who are in danger if parents have a say in sex education, if parents understand what's being taught to their kids, the people who are in danger are these sex educators, these groomers, with what they're doing today.
	But they portray it as the parents would give false information to these kids and endanger them.
	No, they're being endangered by groomers who pretend that minors have the maturity to mutilate themselves sexually because of the gaslighting that is being done to them by these so-called educators that are there.
	You know, it is...
	It is kind of interesting, and I'm not going to take the time to talk about it today.
	I might talk about it at another point.
	But there is, in the UK, the institution that was at the forefront of all this gender gaslighting that's happening to minor kids was Tavistock.
	And a guy who worked there for over a decade...
	has now left and they're going to close it down at the beginning of this next year because it's such an outrage in the UK. One of the guys who was working there has written a book exposing all this stuff as well.
	That's all come out. And even in the UK, they're shutting this thing down.
	And he talked about how there was, he called it Transhausen by proxy.
	In other words, like Munchhausen by proxy.
	He said the parents are bringing these kids in and saying, here's my three-year-old, and they identify as being a different gender.
	And we're preparing him and all this other kind of stuff.
	We all know that's not coming from the kid.
	It's coming from the parents, and they're doing this in the same way.
	When people talk about Munchausen by proxy, that's the psychiatrist saying, well, the parents are doing this to the kid simply because they want attention or because they want everybody to focus on them.
	And so Mary Ellen Moore of Free Mind Films sent this to us.
	And I want to thank her for that.
	Thank her for supporting the show.
	She said, I'm in the UK for a few days.
	And she said, look at these headlines that are here.
	Maybe the people here are starting to wake up.
	And here's the headline from the Daily Telegraph.
	Schools told to presume that children cannot change their gender.
	Again, the worm has turned in the UK. They're shutting down Tavistock.
	This guy's got a book that has just been released.
	He's blowing the whistle on all this stuff.
	And now they're starting to switch.
	And sent me the article talking about what they're doing there.
	But I'm going to talk about that at another time.
	I have a couple more things that I want to say here in the context of culture.
	But I don't really want to get into this stuff today.
	I'm really kind of sick of it, frankly.
	And I'll just quickly mention, this is what a lot of people are talking about with this kids' program.
	Cocomelon, I guess is the way.
	Cocomelon? Is the way you pronounce it?
	Okay, Travis is nodding his head to you.
	How do you know about this thing?
	This is a Netflix kid that they show that they're using to groom toddlers.
	It's crazy. Especially because it's not even...
	The latest thing that has gotten the attention is this kid who's got two dads, little boy, and they put him in a tutu and he dances and you've got your little toddlers who are watching this.
	You want to talk about grooming? You want to talk about sex education?
	I mean, Disney and Netflix will groom your kids.
	Are you going to let these people have access to your kids?
	Are you going to set your kids in front of the TV set?
	And let these perverts babysit your kids?
	Because that's what you're really doing. You're letting perverts babysit your kids.
	And so long before this happened, as Breitbart points out, there's been accusations long before they were promoting this cross-dressing and all the rest of this stuff.
	There were other accusations that About how it was creating anger issues, ADHD, autism, speech delays, all kinds of behavioral issues, and how it was addicting the kids.
	One mother said, I'd put my kids there and start watching this thing and they became like zombies.
	They were mesmerized by what they saw.
	She said, she told Newsweek, I knew it was affecting him because he would be in a daze while watching it.
	You could wave your hand right in front of his face and he wouldn't move.
	It was almost scary.
	Almost scary? Almost scary?
	But it didn't scare you, did it?
	It didn't scare you enough to cancel your Netflix subscription.
	And I gotta say, you know, there's a lot of different ways, if you want to watch movies, there's a lot of different ways that you can do it without feeding that monster.
	Because even if you're not putting your kids or grandkids in front of Cocomelon, you're feeding the people that put that stuff out.
	The people who give Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to create propaganda garbage for adults.
	Stop feeding that thing.
	One commenter described the show as baby cocaine.
	He said, taking the kids away from the cartoon...
	Can lead to, quote, very real symptoms of withdrawal because they're addicted to it.
	The phenomenon says Breitbart appeared to be linked to the spike in the cartoons' popularity during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020.
	No, it wasn't a COVID lockdown.
	It wasn't COVID-19 lockdowns, Breitbart.
	It was Trump lockdowns.
	During the Trump lockdowns of 2020.
	One popular TikTok account claimed that the show is addictive.
	Because it is edited in a way that it creates overstimulation for kids.
	Do you think they know that?
	I think they know that.
	I think they know exactly what they are doing.
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	APSradio.com All right, let's talk about war at this time when people talk about peace on earth.
	And this is a story that was on Zero Hedge and somebody's already responded to it.
	So, well, there may be a different way that Trump might want to take a look at this.
	But as Trump is talking about how He is the Prince of Peace.
	He is going to bring peace to the earth in just a single day.
	Besides the sheer demagoguery of this, saying he'll do it in 24 hours, Some of the other things that he said were what caused this retired lieutenant general, Keith Kellogg, and Dan Negreya to write this article on the national interest.
	They said, far from abandoning Ukraine, a second Trump administration would lift restrictions on Ukrainian military and aid in order to force a peace settlement.
	Donald Trump has vowed that in a second presidential term he'll end the war in 24 hours.
	But again, you remember, you know, we talk about this and somebody ending the war right away.
	Makes me think about when Ronald Reagan became president, right?
	As soon as he was sworn in, they released the hostages in Iran.
	And many people believe, you know, most Americans' perception of what's going on in Iran does not begin in the 1950s with our coup there.
	Against a leftist who was going to nationalize oil industries.
	The CIA led a coup against him.
	Put in the Shah of Iran, who worked with American oil companies.
	And as part of that, the CIA then subsequently trained the Shah of Iran to have a group of ruthless secret police who would torture and kill anybody who was even moderately opposed to him.
	They called it the Savak.
	And then that all blew up eventually, that kind of horrific repression.
	And I knew that background because, again, there was a lot of Iranian students who had come to America that were in the engineering classes that I was taking at the time.
	And they were protesting with ski masks on their face and things like that.
	And I talked to them about it. It's like, what's going on?
	What's this about? Anyway, that was the context for what happened with the blowback that put in somebody that was equally horrible in a different way, the Ayatollah, of course, and the blowback for them taking over the U.S. Embassy and imprisoning all these people.
	But the reason that they released all that stuff on day one was not because they were necessarily afraid of Ronald Reagan.
	is because Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, Bill Casey, was one of the founders of the CIA.
	He'd been very active in World War II with the OSS, which was the predecessor to the CIA.
	They called him Wild Bill Casey.
	He was very aggressive with the things that he did.
	And as Reagan's campaign manager, he saw an opportunity.
	I'm just assuming that they didn't have anything to do with the takeover of the embassy and the installation of the Ayatollah.
	Nobody suggested that yet, but I wouldn't put anything past any of these people.
	But he went secretly to Iran and began the Iran-Contra thing before Reagan got elected.
	You keep these hostages.
	Do not release them to Jimmy Carter until after we are elected.
	And then we'll let you continue to buy parts for the state-of-the-art U.S. jets that you have here.
	And then after the election, they did that.
	You know, Oliver North and the rest of these people.
	And then they took that money that they made selling these parts to Iran that Iran was not supposed to have, that it was illegal to sell that to them.
	And the Reagan administration, people like Oliver North, used that for their secret wars.
	They'd also done illegally.
	And so when you look at this, I wonder if anything like that is in the making here.
	Just asking for a friend, you know.
	Putin invaded Ukraine under both Obama and under Biden, but he did not attack while Trump was president.
	And there's a lesson in that.
	I mean, don't we want to have detente anymore?
	Isn't it a win to pause aggression?
	I think it was.
	That should be the lesson.
	But, you know, Trump is going to be completely different this time around.
	I'm telling you, he's going to be playing to a different audience.
	He wants to be remembered.
	He wants to be liked by people like Maggie Halberman at the New York Times and by people like Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post, even though they can they always despise him.
	He gives them the premier access to him and and talks, frankly, to them.
	And he thinks they're going to love him.
	But he's going to continue to do that kind of stuff, just like he did his gun control by executive order with a bump stock.
	And then all he started the the gun control by executive order against pistol braces.
	And it was continued by Biden.
	Anyway, the Trump doctrine for Ukrainians argued that he would use his personal relationship with Zelensky and Putin to negotiate a settlement on the first day.
	In just one day. Both sides appear to believe that they can still prevail on the battlefield, but Trump's proposed approach, says this retired lieutenant general, could change that calculation.
	Trump said, and this is what they're basing this whole article and analysis off of, Trump said, I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give him a lot.
	And we're going to give Ukraine more than they ever got, if we have to.
	Sounds kind of like Nixon and Kissinger deciding that they're going to win in Vietnam by secret bombing campaign or something.
	I don't know. We should pay attention to history.
	Sometimes it tells us things that we could learn.
	Some Republicans argue that the Ukraine conflict is a European matter and it has no consequence to the United States.
	So, just stop feeding this coup and war machine.
	Do what you did the first time if you become president.
	Just pause it.
	As a matter of fact, you know, Trump might understand that Ukraine and the people in Ukraine, not the people of Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government that was put in by Obama is, you know, a core part of his problem.
	It was all the way through all this Russiagate stuff.
	You had people who were Ukrainian, like Vindman.
	What was it? It's lieutenant colonel to you, right?
	No, Vindman. Vindman.
	Whatever his title is.
	I don't care. Other people I used to always talk about.
	Alexandria Chalupa. I interviewed people from Ukraine.
	So they saw the DNC there.
	Alexandria Chalupa and other people working and conspiring with Ukrainian government officials.
	And of course, you know, Victoria Nuland, State Department official who kicked all this stuff off.
	But they said, well, you know, strategically, this author, as his public comments reinforce, Trump disagrees with this idea of just leaving Ukraine alone.
	Even though these people are his enemies, he's going to supposedly support them.
	He sees ending the war as a major foreign policy issue, one that he plans to accomplish on day one.
	Because, you see, even if Zelensky and all these other people are a bunch of ruthless Obama-Biden co-conspirators against him, he still wants the perception of being the great peacemaker, peace through strength.
	But what happens if we just give peace a chance?
	Right? All these stupid wars of empire that never end.
	And so, just to give you another reminder, we see this every year, that over a couple of days of Christmas, as the war began, the World War I began in 1914, it was only a few months old, people had not been hardened yet in their hatred of the other side.
	And you had peace break out.
	And this was, we've had so many movies about this.
	We've had operas and plays about this.
	And now we've got a candy commercial about it.
	They went to a great deal to produce this in the UK. Here's a part of it.
	Christmas Eve, 1914.
	He's holding their product, by the way.
	Nice product placement there.
	He's in the trench.
	He's looking at the pictures and the letters and the chocolate bar that he gets from home.
	Shiver not, holy night.
	All is God, all is God.
	Who does trout a whole hiding apart?
	Holy infant so standing in love.
	Sleep in heaven's hallways.
	Sleep in heaven's hallways.
	Singing Silent Night in both German and English.
	And this is what happened.
	See movement on the other side.
	Everybody gets their arms up.
	I think it's gonna be a charge, but it's not.
	Guy's got his hands up. My name is Jim.
	My name is Otto.
	Pleased to meet you, Otto. Like me.
	Close. She's calm.
	Soon. Soon.
	They got together.
	They exchanged cards, gifts, played football.
	Did this for a couple of days.
	And it became very extensive.
	is not just in one area.
	Okay.
	Happy Christmas.
	Happy Christmas.
	Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas. And they exchange gifts.
	One of them gives a biscuit, the other one gives a cookie, whatever that was, and the other one gives a chocolate bar, because that's the sponsor.
	But here's a real sponsor of peace, right?
	You heard them playing, leaning on the everlasting arms.
	What was the purpose of World War I? You know, what caused it?
	Oh, Archduke, what caused it?
	No, it wasn't an assassination of an Archduke.
	It was the geopolitical aspirations of people who wanted to build and extend their empire, politicians who are willing to kill those people.
	And after this went on for a few days and it spread all up and down the line, the generals on both sides got wind of it and they punished some people for fraternizing with the enemy and had to watch that very closely.
	But of course, it wasn't too much longer after that that the killing became so ruthless that the people on the front lines would no longer try to reach out to the other side.
	You see? That's what we have to be careful of.
	You can see that in the Hamas Israeli thing, right?
	That just the ruthless murder that doesn't end, and how it spreads, and how your own people are killed.
	And the leaders don't care.
	And the longer it gets, the more people get hardened into their hatred.
	But, you know, what was that war all about?
	World War I. What was their goal?
	How were they going to end it?
	Well, it essentially ended because people just couldn't put up with the slaughter anymore.
	And again, it was the leadership there.
	It was certainly not our war.
	Certainly wasn't America's war.
	We certainly did not have an interest there.
	But of course, Woodrow Wilson, being a globalist, wanted to be involved in that.
	Trying to lay, after the war, the foundation for a global government through the League of Nations and all these other things.
	But it made no sense for any country to be involved in that.
	But you heard in that commercial, I thought it was interesting, they put in there...
	Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, an old hymn, which would have been around at that time.
	That goes back to the 1800s.
	But it made me think of Sergeant York.
	And this is another story.
	That goes back to World War I. And of course, Sergeant York, Alvin York, is celebrated here in Tennessee.
	Tennessee native. They got a big statue of him down at the state capitol.
	Much larger than life.
	I mean, it's like a nine-foot-tall statue that's at ground level.
	Kind of interesting. But, you know, Sergeant York...
	It was a movie that was done with Gary Cooper.
	It was done in the middle of, you know, as we were getting into World War II, or we were already in it.
	I don't remember the exact.
	I think we were already in it or about to get in it.
	It wasn't just a story of bravery and of accomplishment, because it truly was amazing what he was able to do.
	It was also a story that they could use to shut down opposition to World War II because people remembered World War I, the war to end all wars, hopefully, the futility of it, the slaughter of it.
	Americans didn't want to have anything to do with it, so they told Sergeant York's story.
	And in it, you see his conversion from a peace-loving Christian to somebody who will go fight their war for them.
	You applied for exemption, I believe, as a conscientious objector.
	Yes, sir. Well, I think we can disregard that.
	York, Sergeant Parsons recommends your promotion to the rank of corporal with special detail as instructor in target practice.
	Captain Danforth and I heartily approve.
	I congratulate you, York.
	Well, I'm much obliged to you, Major Buxton and Captain Danforth.
	Well, I learned them fellas to shoot the best I can, like I already done, Pusher and Bert.
	I mean, privates Ross and Thomas.
	But, well, I don't want to be no corporal.
	What's that? I said I don't want to be no corporal.
	Why not? Wait a minute, Captain.
	Let him talk. Well, you see, I... Is it because of your religious convictions, York?
	Yes, sir. That's it.
	You see, I believe in the Bible.
	And I'm believing that this here life we're living is something the Lord done give us.
	And we got to be living it the best we can.
	And I'm figuring that killing other folks ain't no part of what he was intending for us to be a-doing here.
	Well, yes, in a way, I agree with you.
	York, with your permission, Major.
	Certainly, Captain. Sit down, York.
	You say you believe in the Bible.
	Yes, sir. Well, I do too.
	But do you believe that the Bible means that a man shouldn't fight for what he believes to be right?
	Well, it doesn't say it.
	Blessed are the peacemakers.
	Yes, I know. But you remember that verse, I think it's in Luke, where he says, He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one?
	He said that to Peter. But he done stopped Peter from using the sword.
	He said, them that lives by the sword will be a perishing by the sword.
	That, er, further on.
	Yes, I remember, but...
	Now, go ahead, Captain.
	But according to St.
	John, he said, my kingdom is not of this world.
	If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servant fight?
	Well, that's just the point, Captain.
	He done said his kingdom were not of this world.
	And that, uh, that a different.
	Yes, but, uh, New York, have you ever read this history of the United States?
	Sure is a lot of writing.
	Sure is a lot of writing and it's a history book.
	And I don't know, you know, they gave him that book and the way it proceeds in the story.
	So he tells him, well, you know, you take this book with you about American history.
	You take it home with you. Take some leave.
	Think about this and come back.
	And if you still don't want to fight, I'll give you leave to go.
	Or, you know, you can, since you're an excellent marksman, you can train other people about this.
	It won't promote you. But the thing is, I wonder in that history book, do they talk about George Washington?
	Do they talk about the guy who was president at the time, Woodrow Wilson?
	You know, when we look at George Washington, it wasn't just the Bible that was again killing.
	It was George Washington that was again getting involved in foreign entanglements and that type of thing.
	And if he wants to go back and look at other Christian thoughts, that's why we talk about justified war.
	I don't think that Sergeant York would have had any qualms whatsoever if America had been invaded to defend innocent life, but that was not our war.
	I don't know that World War I was anybody's war, except for the politicians.
	And so we have to think about this.
	It comes down to him reading in the Bible, Render to Caesar what is due to Caesar.
	Well, if the government wants to get involved in preemptive warfare, if the government wants to just have continuous war without any regard for human life, without any regard for any kind of justification, Then I don't think we need to follow that kind of a Caesar.
	I think that we resist that, frankly.
	That's true American history, not the phony American history that they portray with us.
	And to give you an example of this, getting back to Ukraine, we've got a former U.S. general says that in order to win the war between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine needs to mimic 1944 Nazi Germany.
	Does he know anything about history?
	How did that work out for the Nazis when they went to war with Russia?
	That's what we've been saying from the very beginning.
	I said it. Gerald Slenty said it.
	Napoleon got defeated when he went after Russia.
	It's a giant country with a lot of people.
	People were saying that about Russia.
	They said, you know, it's going to be tough for Russia to conquer the Ukraine because it's such a large area.
	People say that about Iran as well.
	If we get into a fight there.
	Very large area.
	Lots of people. Lots of moving parts that you've got to kill.
	And so it's difficult to win a war like that.
	But, you know, Russia, one of the biggest countries, not in population necessarily, but in landmass, and they do have a lot of people.
	And they have a history of taking blow after blow after blow and persisting when they are attacked.
	And so... If this general knows anything about why in the world would he say we have to do what the Nazis did in 1944?
	That didn't work out for them.
	We got idiots like this that we're getting advice from?
	Not only do they not have any Christian principles about justified war, but they don't even know what they're talking about when it comes to military history.
	But there's more to it than that.
	If you read between the lines of what this guy is saying, Ben Hodges, former commander of the U.S. Army Forces based in Europe and longtime Ukraine, as they call him, a supporter.
	But he's a longtime Ukraine instigator.
	Instigator. Because let's understand who the aggressor is here.
	It's the Obama administration and people of that ilk.
	He said the Ukrainian government has to consider what Germany did in the Second World War to stand a chance against Russia.
	And so as you're scratching your head, here's where it makes sense.
	He says they're going to have to increase production of ammunition and weapons in Ukraine.
	Oh, you see? This is what these generals are.
	They don't care about winning.
	They don't care who dies, how many people die, what happens to the country.
	No, it's about building weapons.
	It's about the military-industrial complex.
	And he's saying they've got to become like the Nazis.
	And they've got to ramp up their weapon production, which still didn't win the war for the Nazis.
	And the way we're going to do that is we're going to take some of our military industrial corporations and we're going to set up weapons manufacturing facilities in Ukraine.
	Money. Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
	Always about the money for these people.
	They will kill you for money.
	They will kill our country for money.
	They will drag us down into a war for money.
	That's what this is about.
	He says, think about what Germany did in 1944.
	Aircraft production for the Luftwaffe peaked in 1944.
	That's after more than two years of steady bombing by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Corps bombing German cities to nothing.
	And yet, the German aircraft production increased.
	So I think that Ukraine can do that with some improving efficiencies.
	And we've got some Western companies that are already there helping and making money.
	How transparent is their agenda?
	These people who want continuous war everywhere so they can make money.
	Nothing could be plainer.
	Yeah, instead of handing them an American history book, why don't you hand them the balance sheets of these four or five military industrial complex giants that are there making money, sacrificing the lives of Ukrainians or Americans or anybody.
	Anybody. The U.S. and its allies have recommended boosting Kiev's domestic military industry.
	Of course they would. Moscow has constantly slammed the government in Kiev as a Nazi regime, they said.
	And of course it is.
	Literal Nazis. They have the symbols, they have the names, all the rest of the stuff.
	Why would we not believe that they're Nazis?
	Isn't it funny how the press in the United States...
	We'll bend over backwards to ignore all of the obvious Nazi connections and expressions that are being done by Ukraine.
	They will ignore all of that, and yet, you know, they're like ferreting out with a white glove anything that might possibly be Nazi-ish about their opposition everywhere.
	And in Ukraine, what they do is they put a Jew up front as a beard.
	That's what Zelensky is.
	He's a beard for their Nazi government.
	It is a Nazi government.
	Yeah, so let's be like the Nazis.
	Let's even be more like the Nazis.
	Let's have a massive arms build up and we can make the money.
	American and British curators recommend that the Ukrainian leadership lower the minimum draft age to 17 years.
	And increase the maximum draft age to 70.
	They want people like me to fight their war.
	And you've seen the things like I said, this is about, I can't do this.
	This is not in my age, I can't do this.
	They use people as cannon fodder.
	And they're going to, as cannon fodder, they're going to get grandfather out there.
	Hello, mutter. Hello, fodder.
	Here we are at Camp Granada.
	Yeah, they're going to throw the old people into the hopper here, and women to the front lines as well.
	Throw everything there. We literally are going to fight them to the last Ukrainian, and what we need are more weapons manufacturing going on right there in Ukraine.
	Well, what about Germany?
	Well, only 17% of Germans are ready to defend even their own country.
	Even their own country.
	You know, when you look at what has happened after World War II, and certainly the Nazis were not worth fighting for.
	They learned that lesson.
	But I think it's gotten to the point where when you look at, you know, what was the Nazis' crime of aggression against other people?
	We do preemptive war now with everybody, you know.
	Japanese, it was a day of infamy.
	We were told, and you know, we find out that FDR was included in that, knew about that, let it happen.
	And we've had preemptive war ever since then.
	So, Hans, are we the bad guys here with this?
	But since then, Germany has become the symbol of evil.
	Everybody can understand, if they want to demonize your opponent, of course you call them Nazis.
	And so this has been such a pervasive meme for all of entertainment and Western civilization that they've made the Germans hate their own country to the extent that only 17% would even defend themselves if they're attacked.
	This is what they do to kids today.
	You're white. You're evil.
	You're in the wrong body.
	And now you need to attack other people as well.
	This trans killer.
	So propagandized that she could look a nine-year-old in the face and shoot them.
	And so you've got 17% of Germans only would defend their nation.
	Because propaganda post-war has been to hate all things German.
	You know, it had to be this blanket propaganda.
	Yeah, they certainly hate what Hitler did, hate what the Nazis did.
	But they've made this so pervasive that people hate all things German.
	And, you know, that same type of thing is being done against us as well.
	We look at them tearing down the Civil War monuments and monuments to both sides of the Civil War, Union as well as Confederate.
	Tearing down monuments to the people who founded this country.
	Tearing down monuments of Teddy Roosevelt.
	Tearing down monuments of Christopher Columbus.
	Everybody. All of it being erased.
	Because you have to hate America.
	And they've created this narrative of we're to be hated because at some point in time we had slavery.
	That we ended. Don't hate the countries where it is ongoing.
	But again, understand, this is the game that's being played in America.
	We're being lied to by our own government.
	They want to use us as cannon fodder.
	And just as the Germans have been pacified with this, self-loathing, hating themselves, America is being pacified in the same way.
	All white people are evil.
	It's not okay to be white.
	Racism celebrated in the institutions.
	And one of the things that bothers me, and it's one of the reasons why I've not really talked about this plagiarizing black woman that's the head of Harvard.
	Did nobody notice the fact that for years they have been hating white people, racist towards white people?
	But when it happens to Jewish people, oh, you've got to get rid of them.
	And all the donors leave.
	And Congress says, we're not going to give any more money to them.
	Well, I don't think they ought to get money.
	And I think that it's wrong to be anti-Semitic, but I also think it's wrong to be anti-white.
	Why is it that it was not a problem for Congress?
	It was not a problem for these donors?
	It wasn't a problem for the press, for anybody.
	When they hated white people with a vitriol that they now show to Jews, why is that the case?
	Well, we know why it's the case.
	We know what is happening to America.
	You have to hate all things American.
	You have to hate American people.
	And guess what? American people are going to get to the point where they won't even fight to defend themselves.
	That is what these people want.
	In mid-December, Germany's Build tabloid reported...
	That the German army was still losing staffing despite the government's pledges to increase the army ranks.
	The number of armed forces personnel dropped from 183,000 in the summer to 181,000 at the end of October, with thousands of vacancies unfilled, the paper reported at the time, adding that only 0.4% of the total German population was in the military.
	And so, the same thing is being done here in America.
	It isn't just the abuse of the soldiers through the vaccine mandates.
	That was a big deal. But it also showed the utter contempt for the Constitution, the utter contempt for the free exercise of religion, the utter contempt for religion itself, and especially Christianity.
	And so people are not joining the military, but people in the universities, universities like Harvard, are being taught to hate all things American.
	And if we don't change this, it's going to, you know, we're going to turn into Germany, a former superpower.
	Not that we care about being a superpower.
	But we want to have prosperity and we want to have peace.
	And so when we come back, we're going to talk, as a matter of fact, as we talk about this Jewish versus Christian thing, there was a very interesting op-ed piece from Naomi Wolf, who is a liberal.
	I think she's a lesbian. She's Jewish.
	And she talks about Christmas and how things have been turned upside down from when she was young.
	And she gets it.
	She really gets it.
	I don't know. I didn't know anything about her.
	I saw that... As she started pushing back against what Trump was doing with the lockdowns and other things like that, she truly understands what is happening now.
	And it's a great take on it.
	We're going to be right back.
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	Yes, and of course, that's the German version of Silent Night.
	But on Rumble, Michael DeSilvio says, I'm convinced that war is just an excuse to demolish all the beautiful ancient buildings.
	Well, that is unfortunately what happens.
	You know, when I saw this mass shooting was happening in Prague, killed, according to the count yesterday, I don't know if more people have died, killed 14, shot an additional 29.
	So, it truly is amazing, the body count that is there.
	But I saw it was in Prague, and you know, I've We used to travel, but I'm not going to do that anymore because of what the airports of airplanes have become.
	TSA and all the rest of this stuff in the crazy countries.
	But that was one place I never did get to go, that I wanted to go.
	And I've wanted to go there ever since the movie Amadeus was made, which, again, I was not a big fan of the way they portrayed Mozart.
	I thought it was kind of stupid.
	You know, try to portray him like a contemporary rock star.
	But if you can kind of ignore that part of it, the central character.
	The rest of it was very interesting.
	And it was very interesting the way that it was beautifully filmed.
	Very interesting the way it was filmed.
	And so they wanted to show the time very accurately, and they did a great job of that, but they couldn't really show it so much in Vienna.
	They shot some things in Vienna, but a lot of the stuff that they shot, they had to go to Prague because Vienna was destroyed, just like you're saying there, Michael.
	So many buildings in Vienna, historical buildings of the time of Mozart, were destroyed.
	But there was still a lot in Prague.
	And so there are places like that that I wanted to see because I like the architecture.
	I like the buildings. I never got to see them.
	But anyway, on Rockfin, Jason Barker.
	Good to see you, Jason.
	I hope you're feeling good here. We don't seek monsters to destroy anymore.
	We create them. Yeah, yeah, exactly right.
	Again, talking about John Adams, he said, we don't go abroad seeking monsters to destroy.
	Jason says, we don't do that.
	We create the monsters abroad.
	And then, of course, we bring the tools that we use to fight those monsters abroad.
	We bring them home as instruments of tyranny, as James Madison said.
	So, in terms of, let's talk the rest of the program here about Christmas.
	I've got a lot of stuff about Christmas.
	And I had mentioned earlier in the week, I said, hey, if any of you know where I can find this guy, who I knew his first name was Don, but I couldn't find him on YouTube.
	And I knew that, you know, he had done a...
	I had just come across it by accident years ago when I was doing the show at InfoWars, and I could play licensed music there on the air.
	I'm going to give it a try here.
	But... I found his song, and I really liked it.
	It was kind of a jazz version of, you know, jazz, small jazz group version, not a big band jazz thing, but a small version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
	But what I liked about it and what I played on the show was the fact that they changed it from If the Fates Allow...
	To If the Lord Allows.
	I thought that was a great change.
	It made all the difference in the world. One thing I always kind of graded with me with that song, you know, that the secular songwriters who wrote that, I think it was written for Meet Me in St.
	Louis. That's the first place I remember it being sung by Judy Garland.
	And so whoever was doing it for Hollywood wanted to get the Lord out.
	And it's like, so who are the fates that they're talking about?
	Whoever the fates are, they've got a will and a purpose, don't they?
	But we can't say that it's God.
	It's kind of like, you know, what Crick and Watson would say when they discovered DNA. Well, okay, can't be God.
	Can't be the God of the Bible.
	It's got to be like space aliens.
	Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket.
	It's panspermia, we'll call it.
	So space aliens came here.
	We know that DNA tells us that it's intelligent design, and we can't deny that.
	It's a very complicated code, air-detecting code, and all the rest of the stuff.
	But we can't say that it was God who did this.
	So we'll invent something.
	And that's what they did in Hollywood for that song, If the Fates Allow.
	I'll just give you a little bit of a sample of it.
	But I like that. And I asked people, I said, hey, if you know where this is, because I saw him when I spoke at Gerald's Occupy Peace thing in 2021.
	But I said, I can't find the song.
	I wanted to play it. And so thank you to Aaron who found this.
	He said, you mentioned on the Monday show, have yourself a merry little Christmas song that you couldn't find.
	Funny enough, I shazammed that song on my iPhone years ago, and it's still on my list.
	And it's by Don Miller.
	And so here's Don Miller's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
	And so I hope Don is doing well.
	And whether he has found the show or not, some people did not find it.
	But here is the song, and thank you, Aaron, for sending it to me.
	Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the yuletide gay From now on
	our troubles will be miles Faithful
	friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more through the years
	we all will be together if the Lord allows that you saw there that is Don and so if you want to pick that up now you know his name Don Miller Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
	The picture on the album is Don because he produced that album.
	He put the whole thing together. Plays upright jazz bass.
	And he's a Christian and a freedom lover.
	So, you know, support Don if you can find him.
	Don Miller. I got this email from a listener, Robert, talking about his daughter, Catherine, 22 years old.
	He says she's autistic.
	By the age of seven, she would still not talk.
	Over those years, we went through five speech therapists at $300 an hour, but no progress.
	So I told the wife, that's it, we're done.
	I bought her a microphone and plugged in my guitar amp.
	He said I would make her sing along with the stereo.
	She had to overcome all this, and all I could do was just to pray and act like Sergeant Carter.
	Today she performs at Center Court at Lake Square Mall regularly, plus every other opportunity that we can get for her.
	She is no longer nonverbal, praise the Lord, and that was the goal.
	Also, she's been playing guitar for eight years.
	I insist on three hours a day practice minimum.
	She attended private school grades, four through 12, to be around kids of her age.
	She can read music.
	She has the ear and perfect pitch.
	She and my wife raise butterflies.
	He said, we plant the seed and God gives the increase.
	He makes it grow.
	At the time of his choosing, I'm sure he's not done with her yet, so I continue to pray.
	And so he gave me that, and then he sent me a little clip of her singing, and I'll play a brief part of that.
	This is Catherine singing, O Holy Night.
	O night divine, O night, O night divine, Thank you, and Merry Christmas, Mr.
	Well, Merry Christmas to you, Catherine, and to your dad and to your mom.
	So, yes, we plant.
	Pfft.
	That's what culture is.
	It's cultivation. God gives the increase, but we plant, we water, we cultivate.
	And if we don't do that, we're not going to have a culture.
	This is also from another listener.
	He said, God bless.
	He said, X-mas means Christmas.
	He said, the X means Christ in the ancient Greek.
	He said, I believe it represents the cross.
	And I have seen other people say that as well.
	I've heard one person preach a sermon on that.
	You know...
	Other people, it depends on who's there.
	Other people will try to use it just to get rid of Christ.
	I think that's the way many people look at it.
	It's just like you're trying to X out Jesus out of history, out of culture.
	But I think that it is, you know, there's an argument to be made for that, historically, anyway.
	That it isn't just trying to purge religion, purge Jesus, more importantly, out of everything.
	But I also saw a meme where they had X Musk.
	And they showed a picture of Elon Musk because he's so infatuated with X. So thank you, Chris.
	I just thought I'd pass that along.
	And then this was sent to me by Alan, who is actually the op-ed piece that I was talking about with Naomi Wolf.
	And she just wrote this, Dr.
	Naomi Wolf. And again, as I said, she is in the past before she was activated by Trump's lockdown and also by the jab killing people.
	She was a liberal. I think she's a lesbian like Rosa Corey was.
	And Rosa Corey was activated by finding out what was going on with this UN Agenda 20, which then became the Agenda 2030.
	And it was actually Agenda 21, I'm sorry.
	UN Agenda 21, about the 21st century.
	Then they made it more specific around 2015.
	They said, yes, 2030 is what we're going to shoot for.
	Not just nebulous.
	Sometime in the 21st century.
	Anyway, that activated Rosa Corey, who has passed on now.
	But Dr.
	Naomi Wolf says, the thing is, I remember Christmas.
	She said, I mean, real Christmas.
	She said, I was born in 1962.
	That means that by 1966 or 67 or so, I was aware that something magical happened to the world, at least in our world in America, in the middle of winter.
	By the time I was in kindergarten, I had some names for what was happening all around me at these wonderful times.
	I grasped the basic story outline.
	All at once, it seemed that drab interiors, whether it's a grocery store with its beige linoleum flooring and its sad walls, or the institutional green halls of my elementary school, or the butcher shop window, which previously only had sausages and veal chops on bland display, the windows of the hardware store Which has till then showcased just unremarkable containers of grout and drill bits and cans of paint.
	Indeed, even the intersections themselves of the road.
	Which before then could not have been less interesting.
	Suddenly all these erupted in a three-dimensional froth of sparkle and shine and joyous images and radiant color.
	So do you remember all these displays?
	You know, we were watching The Bishop's Wife, the original one.
	The other day. And it opens up and everybody's looking at these department store windows.
	And Karen said, yeah, you know, remember how that was?
	People go to such...
	In New York City, especially.
	She lived on Long Island, so they were traveling to New York and had all these different stores, these really elaborate window displays.
	I don't know if that all got killed by Trump's lockdowns in 2020 or not, if that's still going.
	I knew that even in Tampa, which was pretty small at the time, Not at all like it is today.
	As a matter of fact, they had one department store.
	They had Moss Brothers, and it was a big department store like you'd find in a big city, and several stories and escalators and all the rest of this stuff.
	And they had displays in the windows, and there were no shopping centers in the urban area, so we would drive, and there was no interstate to get you downtown, so we'd drive like 40 minutes to go downtown.
	My mom would shop when I was very young, and I remember those displays.
	As a matter of fact, one year around Christmas time, Because it was Florida and kids didn't see snow, they brought in a truckload of snow for kids to play in.
	And they had an appearance by James Garner, who had a new TV show called Gunsmoke, where he played Marshall Dillon.
	I don't remember meeting him.
	I remember the snow. But he was there.
	My mom said he'd pick me up and she couldn't believe how tall he was.
	I mean, he was super tall.
	Before he became Marshall Dillon, he was in the original Thing, Thing from Another Planet.
	And they had him there in costume.
	They brought him in because he was so tall to play the monster in that science fiction movie.
	But then, you know, they brought him down there.
	I don't remember anything about that except the snow.
	But they would do all kinds of crazy stuff around Christmas time.
	She said thus, in a heartbeat you had giant smiling Santa, not a scary one, not an ironic one, not a drunk one, just Santa.
	With the red cheeks and the big grin and the fluffy white beard.
	You had waving fronds of yellow golden tinsel, bright green tinsel.
	You had red tinsel that was always the color of a candy apple or a fire truck.
	You had gigantic sleigh bells.
	Two of them, always.
	Friendly, collegial, tied with a plaid bow, you had cutouts of red sleighs piled with gifts.
	She's a good writer. And then she says, and then there were creches.
	I loved them. I loved them, she emphasizes.
	These were also called, once upon a time, nativity scenes.
	And this is kind of where we get to the crux of what she's talking about here.
	She said, crushes abounded at Christmas time in the 1960s, yes, even in California.
	Now, I guess in California, they have Away With The Manger.
	Away with that! Away with that!
	That would probably be a top song if somebody were to write that.
	Away With The Manger.
	Get it out of here.
	I don't want to have any of that stuff around here.
	Christmas world in the 1960s was also made transcendental by the sudden presence of Christmas carols everywhere.
	They were mostly religious, though I didn't think of them as religious Christmas carols, but rather as Christmas carols, because the holiday itself was obviously religious.
	O come, all ye faithful angels we've heard on high, joy to the world, we three kings of Orianor.
	The music was played everywhere with all kinds of instrumentation, but you heard it in drugstores and department stores and the homes of your friends.
	It elevated the mood, the vibration, if you will, she says, of everywhere all at once.
	Because all at once, sacred thoughts were being thought by thousands of people going about their otherwise ordinary days.
	And there was everywhere that warm glow that you still feel sometimes in crowds on Valentine's Day or Mother's Day as groups of humans together all think of someone they love.
	Also transformational was that the modern world that usually listened to 1960s music was listening to and even caroling and singing melodies and words from the 17th and 18th century.
	This gave a In 19th century, she said, this gave a sense of otherness and of continuity and excitement to everything that was all around us, since our history was rich and extended long into the past.
	Boy, they're trying to destroy that, aren't they?
	Ripping it out by the roots.
	That's what radicals do.
	They get to the root.
	As you try to grow this culture, as you try to cultivate this culture like you are cultivating and growing a plant, the radicals come along and try to rip it out by the root.
	That's what they do.
	And she's on to that game.
	Continue with what she had to say.
	Our history was rich and extended long into the past.
	And since we were experiencing openings into the sounds of other times, whose worship and joys extended to that very day.
	But eventually, the nativity scenes and the nativity plays and the carols even became, quote, controversial.
	Yeah, because we have to push Christ out of that.
	In the 1960s through to the 1970s and into the early 1980s, Christmas movies still had messages about home and family and togetherness and redemption and things like that.
	And again, gradually, even as you're looking, she starts to describe things like that and the movies, Charlie Brown Christmas and things like that.
	And there's a strong current, as I pointed out before, of nostalgia throughout Christmas music.
	And there's nothing wrong with that.
	And there's nothing wrong with having a good time, and there's nothing wrong with any of this stuff per se, until that becomes the thing, until that becomes the only thing.
	She said, I noticed in the 1980s, when I was a young college and graduate student, that Christmas still carried that high elevating energy, that sacred quality.
	But over time, I felt the Christmas spirit eroding and dying down.
	I noticed that the pop culture was adding a whole new cast of personalities to Christmas.
	. . .
	Peanuts, the cartoon series, had been openly spiritually oriented in its treatment of the season, a Charlie Brown Christmas that debuted in 1965.
	Remember, they talk about all the current stuff and everything, but at the core of it, they get down to Linus saying, well, I'll tell you what Christmas is about, Charlie Brown.
	He reads the account from Luke.
	But she said, in the 1980s, As it unfolded, Peanuts became less and less culturally central, replaced by Dr.
	Seuss's Grinch, who stole Christmas 1966.
	That was a fairly new character, but it started to get more and more traction, she said.
	And then when you looked at what the lyrics were about, she said, you know, the carol that they sing in Whoville, it almost sounds like it's Latin.
	Fahu fores, dahu dores, welcome all who's far and near.
	Welcome Christmas, fahu ramus, welcome Christmas, dahu damus.
	She says, well, that's sweet, but it doesn't have any discernible meaning.
	What about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
	That had been a minor character launched in 1939 in a song, but now it became the central and super important character, you know, along with elves and a Expand in an 1823 poem, The Night Before Christmas, all this was building, and a lot of this was done, again, through the music.
	As the music became increasingly either nostalgic or focused on Santa and elves and Rudolph, all these characters and side narratives are fun, but they're not actually about Christmas, about the birth of the Christ child, she says.
	And then in 1989, an important lawsuit deconstructed Christmas, And Hanukkah, for that matter, in America.
	It was a lawsuit.
	The County of Allegheny versus the ACLU, according to that organization's website.
	And they're very proud of that.
	Two public-sponsored holiday displays in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were challenged by the ACLU. The first display involved a Christian nativity scene inside the Allegheny County Courthouse.
	The second display was a large Hanukkah menorah erected each year by the Shabbat Jewish organization outside the City County building.
	The ACLU claimed that both displays constituted state endorsement of religion, and the case was decided to Together with, you know, well, both of these different ones, they had two aspects of it, the menorah aspect and the nativity scene.
	She said, I was surprised to read this because in the yawning, ever-hungry abyss where national memories that don't fit the narrative go to die, the fact that the ACLU took aim at this famous case against the display of a public menorah as well as against a public Christian creche has been the fact that the ACLU took aim at this famous case against the display
	Those who want to share their nativity scenes openly in public with their neighbors are depicted in this narrative as thug-like Christian white supremacists.
	It's been entirely erased from American history that the people of Allegheny got in trouble with the ACLU for inviting their Jewish neighbors to share with the larger community the joy, the pride, and the symbolism of their minority religion, Hanukkah.
	Indeed, this case that changed America is an odd one.
	As weirdly decided, she says, as Roe v.
	Wade. According to the ACLU, the central question of the case was whether or not the two displays, one, remember, was Christian and one was Jewish, whether these two displays violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
	The court said that one symbol did And one did not.
	Isn't that interesting?
	In a 5-4 decision, the court held that the nativity scene inside the courthouse unmistakably endorsed Christianity in violation of the Establishment Clause.
	It had on it, glory to God for the birth of Jesus Christ.
	The county, they said, sent a clear message with that, that it supported and promoted Christian orthodoxy.
	Six of the justices concluded that the display involving the menorah was constitutionally legitimate, given its particular physical setting.
	She says, As a Jew, I find the reasoning in Allegheny v.
	ACLU to be odd.
	How is it that a menorah outside the courthouse is not establishing religion, but a nativity scene inside the courthouse is?
	Why not move both of them outside the courthouse and invite other religious displays?
	Well, here's the thing.
	And she does get this.
	There's a difference between establishment and exercise.
	And this is how they got it wrong.
	They equate the two.
	And the ACLU has done this over and over again.
	Free exercise of religion is not establishment.
	We've had this victory in that case, as a matter of fact, with Hal Shurtleff.
	They had a place where anybody could fly a flag and a regulation for that, and he decided he would fly a Christian flag.
	And they said, nope, can't do it.
	Once they found out, they approved it.
	And then once he said, well, this is a Christian flag, they said, no, then you can't put it out.
	He took it to the Supreme Court and he won.
	And so that's viewpoint discrimination.
	You're not endorsing this religion.
	You're just giving him access to the same stuff that everybody else has.
	And so our understanding of this is starting to turn around.
	But it all hinges, really, on understanding that to allow people...
	To freely exercise their religion, like the coach who, after the game, would go to the 50-yard line and kneel and silently pray, allowing people to exercise their religion, even if it is on some sacred government property, which they think is sacred, that is not an establishment.
	She says, is it China that is at war with our religious freedom, our freedom to worship?
	Is it China? Are they our enemies?
	Or is it, I don't know, maybe, you know, the American government?
	As we met the enemy and they as us?
	Or more accurately, they as U.S.? She said, I would say the people of Allegheny actually had it mostly right.
	She said, paradoxically, the people of Allegheny's openness to America's multiple free and open expression of worship is exactly what the Establishment Clause is meant to protect.
	Our Constitution does not say anywhere, and certainly not in the Establishment Clause, that we have to hide symbols of our various religious expressions.
	It says just the opposite.
	And you know, you see these groups that push this now.
	It's not just the ACLU.
	You've got a lot of groups that decided that they can make a lot of money doing this.
	And they do it.
	They make a lot of money with their lawsuits.
	There's one organization called the Freedom From Religion.
	And you see them all over the place.
	But that's not what the First Amendment says.
	The First Amendment says the freedom of religion makes all the difference in the world.
	It's like the difference between a song that says away in the manger and a song that says away with the manger.
	It is freedom of religion, not from religion.
	And they want to put religion in the closet.
	They want to banish it entirely.
	She said, I remember the media coverage of this case.
	Newsweeklies reported it as if, thank God, the ACLU has finally saved America from being ravished by screaming Bible thumpers.
	There was little questioning of what this decision would do to us, or even if it was a correct interpretation by the court.
	So overnight, she said, it seemed to me people reacted, understandably enough, by scrubbing the religious expressions of the holidays.
	The playlists in Christmas time changed.
	All the religious carols vanished like melted snow.
	In came poppy bouncy tunes that have become quote-unquote classics, but they are also not actually about Christmas.
	Things like Baby It's Cold Outside made a big comeback from 1944.
	I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus.
	Or now we've got as the number one hit, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.
	Took it 65 years, I think, to get to number one, but finally got there for Brenda Lee.
	Written, by the way, by the same Tin Pan Alley songwriter that wrote Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
	Where you got all I want for Christmas is?
	Jesus. No, it's you.
	It's you. Mariah Carey's thing.
	The 1957 Jingle Bell Rock, by the way, also written by the same songwriter who wrote Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
	So that's about dancing, right?
	So you've got Jack Frost nipping at your nose, a Christmas song, all these things, winter, nostalgia, some of them about family, a lot of them about reindeer and elves and Santa and everything, but again, moving Christ out of it.
	And so the Daily Mail reported in 2020 that half of Britain's schools had canceled nativity plays.
	Surely the breaking of the chain of memory among generations of British school children.
	This breaking of the chain between generations of children was one goal of the Trump lockdowns.
	And she doesn't put Trump in there.
	I always put Trump in there with the lockdowns because that was his policy.
	Well, it wasn't his policy.
	It was the World Economic Forum and the UN's policy, but he executed for them.
	She said, this is a point that I made generally in my book, The Bodies of Others.
	She said, alarmingly, when I searched Daily Mail and nativity plays no more, I saw stories about schools banning nativity plays or barring parents from attending their own children's nativity plays.
	Go back to 2012.
	That's when they started doing this stuff.
	Not 2020, necessarily.
	I just picked up there.
	She said, there was a drumbeat of escalation in recent years.
	This is the drip, drip, drip of water.
	Intentionally set to slowly boil of deliberate cultural change.
	Yeah. You do it from the inside, you do it chaos, and you do it iteratively, as Fauci said.
	So, of course, you know where this is going, because Marxists do not like families, just as they don't like religion.
	Schools in England now ban parents from attending their own children's nativity plays due to colds, flus, and supposedly COVID.
	The state has finally taken your child and taken away Christmas.
	So what else debuted by the 20 teens?
	You had a range of new Christmas movies that depicted cherished Christmas symbols as tawdry, drunk, or sexually licentious, such as the 2014 film Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton.
	And she's got a picture of that there in the article of Billy Bob Thornton.
	And the picture that she put up was for their unrated version that they put out.
	There is 2022's It's a Wonderful Binge, a send-up of Christmas classics.
	But in this holiday movie...
	St. Nick is inebriated and the setting is a world in which all alcohol is banned.
	So Christmas represents the one time to binge on intoxicants.
	Isn't that great? Well, you know, have you had enough?
	Think about this.
	Think about what you can do to cultivate things that are good, things that are pure with your family.
	Think about what you can do to cultivate the relationship with Christ.
	Because liberty and family are great, and we've got a lot of songs and traditions and movies that celebrate those things.
	But those are simply the blessings.
	And we don't want to grab just the gift and forget the giver.
	We don't want to look at the trappings of the blessings that God has given us and forget the source of those blessings.
	And that's one of the reasons why this is happening.
	You know, culture is downstream from religion, and religion is downstream from your relationship with God.
	That's where it really starts.
	So reflect on those blessings that we've lost and see if we can't turn this thing around at least for yourself and for your family.
	One of the things that I like to play every year is something from, it looks like it was a small family production company called Shark Bite Productions.
	I just came across it a few years ago, and I've been playing it, you know, when I was at Infowars, playing it every year with this show as well.
	I looked to see if I could find them anywhere, and they seem to have gone out of business, even though the video is still there on YouTube.
	They said when they put it together, and again, there was an older guy who they did a video talking about their production company.
	And so they had some young kids, and it's kind of some of the stuff that we used to do with our family.
	And they had an older guy, and he had worked with the estate of Bobby Darin.
	That's why they call it Shark Bite Productions.
	And he was putting together a lot of archives for their stuff and managing it for them.
	And they decided that they wanted to do this kind of a nostalgic production and feature Bobby Darin's song, Christmas Auld Lang Syne.
	And they gave him the permission to do that.
	And so even though the production company, the family, is no longer around, evidently, at least we still have the video.
	This is what it looks like. And as I read to you all the different things that Naomi Wolf was talking about that she enjoyed, this is the family, the nostalgia that they really did a great job of capturing in this video.
	Ladies and gentlemen, here is Bobby Darin.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	voices all combine In sweet accord To thank the Lord For a Christmas auld lang syne When slave bells ring and choirs sing And the children's faces shine With
	each new toy we share their joy With a Christmas au lang syne We'll all be near to share the
	the cheer of a Christmas auld lang syne.
	Merry Christmas, everybody, and a Happy New Year.
	In sweet accord we thank the Lord for our Christmas full as I Thank
	The End
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	I live close to Lake Square Mall and would like to see Catherine.
	The website doesn't show her in upcoming events.
	Any info for the future concerts would be appreciated.
	Hopefully her parents hear this and maybe they can tell us about that.
	People are talking about how difficult housing has become and how expensive it has become.
	You got Babylon Bee, this gingerbread house in California, listed on Zillow for $1.9 million.
	It's very much like the house I was describing the other day back in the 80s.
	It was $1.5 million or something like that.
	This custom-built gingerbread house, as they describe it on Zillow, is truly one-of-a-kind, featuring frosted windows, Well-established icing trees and gumdrop roofline.
	You will feel the upscale nature of the gingerbread home from the moment you see it.
	Welcome to your next home.
	Sources report that over a dozen offers have already been made, including from local newlyweds.
	We've been desperately waiting for a more affordable home to come on the market, he said.
	But we're still trying to negotiate a couple of things, like, you know, cleaning up the icing drips on the windowsills.
	But this is the best option that we've seen in L.A. for years.
	That's pretty true.
	$1.9 million gingerbread house.
	And then there's this article from Zero Hedge rocking around the plastic tree.
	This is another one of the traditions that seems to have gone by the wayside, you know?
	It used to be... That was something that even when I lived in Tampa, that was, you know, as hot as it was there, we would get Christmas trees, real Christmas trees every year.
	And that was a big part of it.
	We always enjoyed it. It's a big part of a lot of the Christmas movies, you know, like Christmas Vacation or Christmas Story, going to Christmas tree lots, or in the extreme case for comedy, the...
	I think some people would go out to the Christmas tree farms and get it, but, you know, Christmas vacation.
	Around here, you know, we looked last year, because I thought it'd be nice to get something, because I love the way they smell.
	But I didn't see anywhere around here where they were selling them.
	I guess there is somewhere.
	We used to get them from western North Carolina.
	That's where they used to bring them down from, to Tampa.
	And it was always, we'd go around our thing in Florida because it was always so hot.
	You'd make the people, the guy who's showing you around trying to sell you the Christmas tree, would have to open the thing up and bang at the trunk on the ground and see if all the needles would stay on.
	Let's see if it was not dead yet.
	And that was a prerequisite to actually buying the thing.
	But yeah, Karen and I, our first house, our first Christmas tree, we both wanted it really badly, and it was super expensive for us in Houston.
	But we got this big, tall tree because we had a small house.
	It was probably about 1,300 square feet or 1,400.
	It was just the two of us.
	And it had a vaulted ceiling in the living room.
	But the living room was very small, in spite of the fact that it had a 20-foot ceiling.
	But, you know, we looked at this thing.
	It's like, oh, we got a 20-foot ceiling.
	We can get a really tall tree.
	We got a really tall tree, really tall tree that we could not have fit in the houses of our parents.
	But when we opened it up, even though it wasn't a really fat tree, it filled up the entire room.
	And we could not sit on our couch.
	It just opens up into everything.
	It was a joke. Everybody was laughing at us when they came over to the house.
	Couldn't see the TV set.
	It was crazy.
	And of course, by the time we took it down, it didn't have a single needle left on it.
	And I had to cut that thing up with a chainsaw in the living room to get it out of the house because the limbs then were very, very stiff.
	But right now, you know, it looks like, and again, I don't see any evidence of Christmas tree lots around here.
	Yeah. So most people are going plastic now.
	Fitting epithet, isn't it?
	Not to say that the plastic trees are fine, but it is something that has gone away.
	And then, of course, there's the tradition of the nutcracker.
	Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone wrote an op-ed piece about this, about the nutcracker.
	And, you know, it is at the same time that it is something of a tradition, and I like the music, and I've got a couple of songs from the Nutcracker in the album that I put in, you know, the Russian dance that I modified, and then the Sugar Plum Fairy, which I just basically did it the way it was done and did an abbreviated version of it.
	But I liked what this a cappella group did.
	Straight No Chaser did about the Nutcracker.
	They did a parody of it from a man's perspective about how much he dreads the annual occurrence of this ballet.
	Here's a little bit of what they did.
	Hooray, it's Christmas time, but there's one lousy tradition.
	There's a certain show that you will see.
	That is all that many would agree.
	It is time to find another show to stop the two more than a cracker.
	I'm watching the game, but something's wrong.
	Staring at my wife, her face looks long.
	I know that look, it must be me.
	It's not our anniversary.
	I shrug, no clue, what did I do?
	She sends a disbelief.
	What this holiday scene?
	Yeah, that pretty much sums it up from our perspective.
	Yeah, I like the music so much, and occasionally you forget just how cringy ballets are.
	First Christmas, after we brought our daughter back, We took her to build a bear and let her build a bear and got her all dressed up and we got all dressed up.
	And Karen and I, because the boys knew better than to go, knew better than me to go to the Nutcracker.
	And we took her to the Nutcracker and she's looking at it like, this place is really strange.
	Even she thought it was really strange.
	But Jeffrey Tucker, in terms of talking about it, he says this most implausible American tradition you can imagine, bringing Russia straight to your hometown, along with the men in tights.
	It's no wonder why the music is brilliant, elegant, and vaguely familiar to everyone.
	It's now out of copyright.
	The melodies are filled with magic, fantasy, mystery, love, strange sounds that you never otherwise hear.
	And an unrelenting spectacle.
	No matter how classical old world ballet is, it never ceases to amaze us to watch this highly specialized combination of athleticism and art in action.
	Well, he lost me there, but, you know, I do like the music.
	Anyway, he says, but think about this.
	This ballet debuted in 1892.
	The generation of Russians living in St.
	Petersburg that saw it for the first time was experiencing a level of prosperity that had never before been seen in history.
	And it was the same all over Europe.
	This was a time of the full maturation of the Industrial Revolution.
	Income was growing and growing dramatically.
	Lives were longer. Infant mortality was plummeting.
	The middle class could live in security and in comfortable homes.
	The practical arts, and then things like electricity, lighting, telephones, universal medicine, indoor plumbing, these were in a boom phase.
	And so he says, We're good to go.
	A protector, a well-dressed person of discipline and dignity who made the peace possible.
	He was an extension of regular society, someone who was performing a light duty deserving of extra respect.
	Well, he really nailed it there.
	Jeffrey Tucker really nailed it there.
	Think about that. A time began to emerge, though, that has haunted me ever since.
	A theme, rather, began to emerge.
	He says, what do all these works that we see done in the 1800s, what do they all have in common?
	He says, once you see it, you can't unsee it in literature.
	He said, none of these writers, and this goes for Tchaikovsky himself, could have imagined the horror that was going to be unleashed again, going back to the First World War.
	He said the killing fields, 38 million people ended up dead, wounded, missing.
	That was inconceivable.
	The concept of a total war that did not exclude civilian population but rather made everyone a part of the army was not in their field of vision.
	Many historians describe World War I as a calamity that no one in particular intended.
	It was a result of states that were pushing out the boundaries of their belligerence and their power, a consequence of leaders who imagined that the more they pushed, the more they could create a globe of justice, freedom, and peace.
	But look at the reality.
	Look at the mess they made.
	It was not only the direct carnage, it was the ghastly possibilities that this war opened up.
	It inaugurated a century of central planning, statism, communism, fascism, and war.
	How could they have known?
	Nothing like this had ever happened.
	And you know, when you look at this, you have to think, are we on the cusp of something like this?
	I have a feeling that we are, quite frankly.
	We should be concerned about it.
	We should plan for it. We should pray about it.
	We don't have to fear it if we are Christians.
	That's the gift that Christ has given to us.
	But think about how their society was radically altered by these wars.
	And think about what these people in the Pentagon, same people who want to put their weapons facilities in Ukraine, because we can never have enough weapons being built to kill people.
	They're now on the path to creating autonomous killer robots, autonomous killer drones, and Who knows what in terms of biological and chemical warfare, not even to mention the nuclear warfare.
	And so we may be in this particular situation, this fourth turning.
	This is a situation where we need to be aware, and we need to strengthen the foundations and the principles that are going to help us to have an orderly, peaceful, and a Christian society.
	Because if we don't, it is all going to get swept away in a moment, just as they did there.
	Well, before we run out of time, I want to play for you another tradition that we have.
	And that is the story about the creation of the Federal Reserve.
	Tony and I talked about this a little bit yesterday.
	It's a wonderful lie.
	I thought it was very interesting, the connections between the creation of the Federal Reserve, if you look at the way they engineered the banking runs and other things like that to create the Federal Reserve, and the way the villain who they patterned after J.P. Morgan in the story, the way he tries to engineer runs to drive his competitor out of business.
	And so I talked about that, as I've mentioned before, when I did this 10 years ago.
	The 100th anniversary of what they pushed together on that December the 23rd.
	Tomorrow will be the 110th anniversary of that.
	As many people who were opposing it, who did not want it, were out, they snuck that thing in.
	And the Federal Reserve has been sneaking things to our detriment ever since.
	Again, one of the ways that you can prepare for the machinations and the deprivations of the fiat currency.
	The DavidKnight.gold will take you to Tony Arterman's Wise Wolf Gold, and we really do appreciate Tony's support and friendship, and he'll be here next week, some along with Guard Goldsmith.
	But here's the first thing that ever got censored by...
	On Infowars. It was in 2013 and didn't get any more censorship until 2018 where they purged everything.
	But here's what they didn't want you to think about with the Federal Reserve for some reason on YouTube.
	Over the last 100 years, the Federal Reserve has created bubbles and burst them, enslaved us with debt, and destroyed our purchasing power through inflation.
	Yes, it's been a wonderful lie for the bankers.
	There are striking parallels in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life to the Lies and Tricks that real bankers use to create the Federal Reserve.
	Human nature doesn't change, and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look and act a lot like Potter, the banker in the movie.
	And many Americans are left like George Bailey, staring into the abyss as their dreams collapse and they face financial ruin.
	Do we live in a country that looks a lot more like Pottersville than Bedford Falls?
	What does Frank Capra's film show us about how we got here and how we can get out?
	When the Federal Reserve was created two days before Christmas a hundred years ago, it was a culmination of six years of fraud, fear, and manipulation.
	I've never really seen one, but that's got all the earmarks of being a run.
	The Panic of 1907 was used to shape public support for the Fed.
	The Panic was triggered by rumors that two major banks were about to become insolvent, just as we see in the movie.
	George, there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors.
	Is that true? I am going all out to help in this crisis.
	I have just guaranteed the banks sufficient funds to meet their needs.
	They will close up for a week and then reopen.
	Just took over the bank.
	I may lose a fortune, but I am willing to guarantee your people, too.
	Just tell them to bring their shares over here, and I will pay 50 cents on the dollar.
	Boy, you never miss a trick, do you, Potter?
	Unfortunately, J.P. Morgan got away with the deception, and was able to shut down competitors and snapped up assets at fire cell prices.
	Now, take during the Depression, for instance.
	You and I were the only ones that kept our heads.
	You saved the building alone, I saved all the rest.
	Yes, well, most people say you stole all the rest.
	The envious ones say that, George?
	The suckers. Charles Lindbergh Sr.
	warned people at the time of the creation of the Federal Reserve that it would not stop booming bus cycles, but would actually create them in order to benefit its private owners.
	Here's what he said. To cause high prices, all the Federal Reserve Board will do will be to lower the re-discount rate.
	Producing an expansion of credit and a rising stock market.
	Then, when businessmen are adjusted to these conditions, it can check prosperity in mid-career by arbitrarily raising the rate of interest.
	It can cause a pendulum of rising and falling market to swing gently back and forth, or cause violent fluctuations by a greater rate variation.
	And in either case, it will possess inside information as to the financial conditions and advanced knowledge of the coming change, either up or down.
	This is the strangest, most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special privilege class by any government that ever existed.
	The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
	They know in advance when to create panics to their advantage, and they know when to stop panic.
	Inflation and deflation work equally well for them when they control the finance.
	As we see in the movie, not all lending institutions have the same motivations.
	Now you take this loan here to Ernie Bishop, you know, Fellow that sits around all day on his brains in his taxi, you know.
	I happen to know the bank turned down this loan.
	But he comes here, and we're building him a house worth $5,000.
	Why? Well, I handled that, Mr.
	Potter. You have all the papers there, his salary, insurance.
	I can personally vouch for his character.
	Friend of yours? Yes, sir.
	You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money.
	What does that get us?
	A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.
	As a former FDIC chair said, all too often the large banks use their models and their algorithms, and if you don't fit in their boxes, you don't get the loan.
	And Dodd-Frank legislation is tying the hands of small lenders, shutting out buyers and shutting down lenders.
	Today there are fewer lenders than at any time the government has kept records.
	10,000 banks disappeared between 1984 and 2011.
	This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling the potter.
	In the movie, George gets to see what happens to the small town if Potter didn't have competition from credit unions and smaller lenders.
	If it hadn't been for you...
	Yeah, if it hadn't been for me, everybody would be a lot better off.
	My wife and my kids and my friends.
	Look, little fella, go off and haunt somebody else.
	Yeah, so you still think killing yourself would make everyone feel happier, eh?
	Oh, I don't know. I guess you're right.
	I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.
	In Watersville, the only businesses thriving are Vice.
	People are angry. The town is filled with signs like, keep moving, keep off the grass.
	Bert the cop actually shoots at George when he's running away and is no threat to anyone.
	Stand back! Everyone is a renter.
	No one has a stake.
	Now, you're Ernie Bishop, and you live in Bailey Park with your wife and kids.
	Look, bud, what's the idea?
	I live in a shack in Pottersville.
	My wife ran away three years ago and took the kid, and I ain't never seen you before in my life, see?
	Private property and everyone having a stake is the antidote to Pottersville.
	Here, you're all businessmen here.
	Doesn't make them better citizens, doesn't make them better customers.
	But whether it's the Trans-Pacific Partnership or a global carbon tax, the global elite don't see you as a stakeholder.
	They want to turn us all into serfs and treat us like cattle.
	Just remember this, Mr.
	Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.
	Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?
	Anyway, my father didn't think so.
	People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle.
	Well, in my book, he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.
	I'm not interested in your book.
	I'm talking about the building and loans.
	I know very well what you're talking about.
	You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on.
	Speaking of riches, do you find the salary amounts amusing when Potter tries to buy George off?
	Let's look at your side.
	Young man, 27, 28, married, making, say, 40 a week.
	45. 45. 45.
	George, I'll start you out at $20,000 a year.
	$20,000 a year?
	You wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town, buying your wife a lot of fine clothes, a couple of business trips to New York a year, maybe once in a while Europe.
	You wouldn't mind that, would you, George?
	Would I? Even if George had saved a lot of his $20,000 salary, would it have bought much a couple of decades later?
	By even the government's very conservative estimate of inflation, the dollar has lost 90% of its value since 1947, when the movie was made.
	The Fed's deliberate inflation is devastating to anyone trying to accumulate wealth through hard work and saving.
	So what is the answer to all the George Baileys out there a hundred years after the government gave control of our money supply to private bankers like Potter?
	Well, Potter had more money than he could spend.
	But would any of you want to be Potter?
	You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money.
	Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter.
	In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
	George Bailey finally sees how rich his own life is, as he sees the fruits of relationship, honesty, and compassion.
	Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr.
	Potter! Happy New Year to you!
	In jail! Go on home, they're waiting for you!
	And if the public can awaken to the lies of the Federal Reserve, if it could even be audited, it would be a huge step to breaking the chains that enslave all of us.
	But ultimately, it is God that changes minds and changes hearts.
	God hates oppression, and we can and should confidently pray that he will stop it.
	I owe everything to George Bailey.
	Help him, dear father.
	Joseph, Jesus, and Mary.
	Help my friend, Mr.
	Bailey. Help my son, George, tonight.
	He never thinks about himself, God.
	That's why he's in trouble. George is a good guy.
	Give him a break, God.
	I love him, dear Lord.
	Watch over him tonight.
	Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy.
	Please bring Daddy back.
	Dear Father in Heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me...
	For old and dry, my dear, for old and dry, we'll bring our heart from high to heaven,
	our old and God and the gospel kind and yet more than God well that was 10 years ago on the 100th anniversary of the Now they're 110 years old.
	All the problems that we talked about have now gotten worse.
	As a matter of fact, censorship has now gotten worse.
	As I said, they claimed they took the video down because they claimed a copyright infringement.
	But of course, where did I get those few clips that I used protected under fair use?
	I got them from the full movie that had been up for a decade, had a million views at the time, for free.
	This is before they paid anybody for anything.
	Before they ran the ads.
	But of course, I had their number, didn't I? I had the number of these people and what the system was there.
	And of course, they got my number as well.
	They censor me now.
	I can't even put up Christmas songs.
	My Christmas album got taken down.
	They banned me instantly.
	But that's fine.
	I really do appreciate the people who have stood with us.
	I cannot tell you how grateful we are.
	Comment here from Little John, who says, this goes out to Karen because she's from New York.
	The Yule Log on TV. I think it was Channel 11.
	I don't know what channel it was, but I know that Karen has mentioned this in the past to me, so I know that she will remember that.
	And on Rock Fan Andromeda, thank you very much for the tip.
	Merry Christmas, they say.
	Well, Merry Christmas to all of you, and...
	Again, since we are taking the week off next week, and have a happy new year.
	We hope that this new year will be happy.
	And maybe that's not the right word.
	Maybe we need to use the word joyful new year.
	Happiness is dependent on circumstances, and none of us know what the circumstances are going to be, but if we have a connection to Christ, the reason for this season, then we can have joy even under the worst of circumstances.
	So I'm going to close, and we'll go out with another favorite of mine.
	I just played just a little bit of it.
	Kenny Rogers, Till the Season Comes Round Again.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's to you all.
	May the new year be blessed with good tidings Till the next time I see you again And we'll all join hands And remember this moment And we'll love and we'll laugh In the time that we have Till the season If
	we must say goodbye Let the Spirit go with you Till the season comes round again I'm
	delighted to present something born from my love for music and the Christmas season.
	Christmas night is a perfect accompaniment for anything from family gatherings to moments of peaceful reflection.
	I hope us to provide a fresh take to the soundtrack of Christmas.
	This collection of 20 instrumental songs brings new life to timeless Christmas classics.
	With original orchestrations alongside lesser-known yet equally enchanting carols.
	Music For the listeners of The David Knight Show, this is more than music.
	It's part of our shared journey.
	Christmas Night is available at thedavidknightshow.com.
	May it bring a little extra joy and peace to your Christmas season.
	Thank you for your unwavering support and for joining me in this new musical adventure.

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