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The David Knight Show - 02/02/2024

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	yeah it's groundhog day Bye!
	We got a lot of crazy stuff coming up.
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	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Groundhog Day, 2nd of February, Year of Our Lord 2024.
	And of course, Groundhog Day means what?
	Well, another executive warder from Joe Biden.
	This one about gun control, of course, because it's always about gun control with Joe Biden.
	We also have Gates talking to his successor, Sam Altman, on how they can obtain unity and global peace through, of course, AI. Through deception, through propaganda, through the technocracy.
	Isn't it funny how things really haven't changed over the last century?
	The technocrats deciding that they're going to impose global peace on us.
	Well, they've run into a little bit of a hitch with their artificial intelligence scraping and theft of intellectual property from other people.
	There's now a program out called Nightshade.
	And we'll talk about what's going to happen with that.
	And the NIH has abruptly halted research on the harmful effects of cell phone radiation.
	Because they weren't getting the answer they wanted.
	We'll be right back.
	Yeah, we've got, is that another executive order from Biden?
	the Trump precedent, of course.
	We're going to do gun control by executive order.
	And this is about universally mandating background checks for all gun sales.
	And it has now been reported by multiple outlets based on a watchdog group.
	So they had ATF whistleblowers who contacted them and said, you better understand what's going on with this.
	So they've now filed a FOIA request to get all information that was involved between The ATF, the Department of Justice, and the Biden administration.
	And this guy who is involved with spearheading this regulation has a history going back to the gunwalker program, Fast and Furious and other things like that, a false flag attack.
	And so this Trump bump precedent is coming around yet again.
	Wonderful tool for the gun control people.
	As I just pointed out yesterday, yet another piece of legislation yesterday, besides this, of course, and all of the big gun control organizations, Bloomberg's, Giffords, all the rest of these things, they all love the idea that with the stroke of a pen, a president can suspend the Second Amendment.
	And why not? He suspended all of the Bill of Rights in 2020.
	That was another Trump president.
	So, you know, we've had taxation without representation.
	We have regulation with representation, and that's what this is.
	That's the bureaucratic rule.
	You know, the deep state is 100% under the executive branch.
	100%. So the guy who was the head of the deep state didn't do anything to restrain the deep state.
	Instead, he gave it new precedence, new extension.
	Everybody was fine with that because, you know, he's playing 40 chess.
	He's really on our side.
	I know how it looks. I know how it looks.
	I keep thinking back to, I think it was Working Girl.
	This guy is in bed with another woman and his wife or girlfriend or whatever comes in.
	He says, it's not the way it looks.
	And that's the story of the Trump administration.
	It's not the way that it looks.
	He may be in bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
	He may be in bed with Davos and Klaus.
	But it's not the way it looks.
	So this watchdog group is in power oversight.
	They cited two unnamed whistleblowers at the ATF. They said they're working on regulations that would go all the way, purporting to require background checks for all private gun sales.
	Now Reason Magazine says, well, it's hard to see how the ATF can do that without having any additional legislation.
	We've got the precedent, don't we?
	Under current federal law, background checks are required only for sales by federally licensed dealers.
	A rule that the ATF proposed last September would expand the definition of dealer.
	See? It's all how you define the words.
	It's why they play the games that they do with language.
	It's why they play the games with pronouns and all the rest of the stuff.
	How do you define the term dealer?
	What is a woman?
	If that's open to discussion Certainly a dealer is open to discussion. That's what they have prepared us for with their post-modern You know, no reality. No objectivity. Nothing is grounded It's all up for flux and we can redefine the language and the terms as we wish. What is a dealer?
	Well, they're gonna redefine a dealer They said expand the definition of dealer to encompass some but not all occasional gun sellers.
	But even that controversial proposal does not go as far as the plan described by Empower America Sources.
	That was one that they did last September.
	They already changed the definition of dealer and expanded it.
	But now, under this new proposal, according to Empower America, they said, quote, the ATF has drafted a 1,300-page document in support of a rule that would effectively ban private sales of firearms from one citizen to another by requiring background checks for every sale.
	Now, we've talked about things like, you know, that's even more than Barbra Streisand's self-obsessed, narcissistic...
	Autobiography. And I pointed out that her autobiography was about the length of most printed Bibles.
	Of course, it varies based on text size.
	But, you know, they came in.
	Barbara Streisand and her self-worship came in at about 1,200 pages, about like a Bible.
	But here's the ATF, just so they can do all gun control, a 1,300-page document.
	Well, I didn't look to see how many words it is in the Second Amendment, but the key of the Second Amendment is only two words, or three words.
	Shall not infringe.
	Shall not infringe.
	That should be sufficient to get rid of the ATF as well as their 1,300-page document.
	Shall not infringe.
	What is it about that you don't understand, as the T-shirt says, right?
	Well, evidently, even reason doesn't understand that.
	Because they're looking at this and saying, well, how in the world could they do this?
	Well, I know there's a precedent out there, but, you know, golly.
	to require persons who buy and sell and resell firearms repetitively for profit to be licensed federally as gun dealers even if they do not do so with the principal objective of livelihood. According to the amendment supporters there is confusion about whether the definition of a dealer as people engaged in the business of selling firearms, whether that covered individuals who bought and
	sold firearms repetitively for profit but possibly not as the principal source of their livelihood. Well let's be clear about this.
	Shall not infringe.
	How about that? The art of the dealer is what these people are trying to impose on you.
	And it's a term of art.
	The proposed rule that the ATF published back in September addresses what it means to be engaged in a business as a firearm dealer.
	Hey, I can get you some more of these.
	If he spends more money on it, or its equivalent, on the purchases of firearms for the purpose of resale, then the person's reported taxable gross income during the applicable period of time.
	Let's get the IRS involved in this, too.
	Everybody needs to have a place at the table, make this thing go through.
	Come on, there's plenty of room for us.
	We can help you with your claims that you need.
	80,000 new IRS agents there.
	Or if they repetitively sell or offer for sale firearms within 30 days after buying them.
	And repetitively sell guns that are new or like new in the original packaging.
	Or repetitively sell guns of the same or similar kind and type.
	Now, some of these categories, especially the last one, could conflict with a statutory exclusion of collectors and hobbyists.
	What they're saying is... The Congress has gone in, and for the longest time we've accepted the fact that Congress can go in and infringe the Second Amendment.
	But, you know, nobody else.
	Well, and then, of course, there's Supreme Court cases, and they can infringe the Second Amendment.
	And now we've got the third branch of government.
	The executive branch, with all of its bureaucracies, is going to do it.
	And so that's the problem that reason has with it.
	My problem with it is...
	Shall not infringe.
	That's my problem with it.
	The Independent Institute's gun policy expert, David Capel, says the ATF is purporting to require anyone who sells a license for a profit ever, ever, to get a dealer's license.
	The plan that Empower Oversight describes would go even further than what I just read to you.
	It would, in fact, cover every sale.
	And it would not matter whether the sailor made money, let alone whether that was his predominant intent.
	And David Coppell with the Independent Institute says, well, it seems like something that is legally impossible.
	Well, we've seen the legally impossible dreams of bureaucracy come true, haven't we?
	What happened in 2020?
	They locked down every person.
	They told people to put cloth masks on their faces as an act of humiliation and shame, and shamed people who didn't engage in the act of self-gagging.
	They've done all this. If they can do that, and if they can get away with it, and the guys who did it, Trump and Biden, are now the two guys that we've got a choice as to who's going to be president.
	That's it. That's it.
	And, of course, a bunch of other flunkies who would have also done the same thing.
	That's it. No apologies.
	No changes to anything.
	If these people can do that, folks, anything is quote-unquote legally possible.
	They can brainwash, scare the public to do anything.
	And they can call it legal.
	And that's why when we were talking yesterday about the revelation of how treaties, international treaties, We're supposedly backstopping any effort from Democrats to change marijuana prohibition.
	Yeah, we got foreign treaties that say we can't do that.
	We got foreign treaties that tell us that we got to ban dishwashers and whatever else they say.
	See, this is global governance and it's already here.
	Global governance isn't coming.
	It's here. It's here.
	And Trump was one of their apparatchiks, and everybody knows that Biden is.
	It's just Trump. People can't bring themselves to understand.
	That's why I harp on Trump. Everybody knows where Biden is.
	He doesn't make any bones about it.
	Neither does Trudeau or Macron or any of these other people or Ruta in the Netherlands.
	Everybody knows that they're on that side.
	People mistakenly don't want to look at Trump based on what he did.
	And so the reality is that when we look at this, even in Russia, as a matter of fact, there's several different things.
	They're just now, just now, Russia just got rid of their vaccine mandates.
	And they roll their vaccine mandates out for nurses first and medical personnel first, just like we did here, like they did everywhere.
	Everyone, everywhere.
	It doesn't matter whether it's the U.S., the EU, or Russia.
	Everybody is following the global governance.
	Who's writing these rules for them?
	Well, these are international treaties, and it's almost like they meet in secret somewhere, you know?
	And come up with this agenda.
	And then they just all enact it all at the same time.
	I don't know where they get these plans.
	Is it Davos? Is it Bilderberg?
	Where is it? Now they get this stuff.
	Mar-a-Lago? Where did they go to get all of these plans here?
	But they're all doing the same thing at exactly the same time.
	And Russia's got its own 15-minute city.
	Trump's got his freedom cities that he wants to do.
	Russia is confiscating property from people if they criticize the regime or its agendas in terms of war.
	How different are they from us?
	Like I said yesterday, you know, well, at least in Russia, they pretend that there's some kind of a legal process, right?
	Or accuse you of a crime before they take your property.
	You don't even get accused of a crime here in the United States.
	They just take your property under civil asset forfeiture.
	Why are these people fighting each other?
	You would think. Since they act so much alike, since there's no difference between Trump, Biden, or Putin, you'd think they'd get along better.
	No, they all want to be the top dog, but they all want the same thing.
	They all want population control.
	Population control has two components in it.
	Depopulation, killing people, and then being able to control the people who survive.
	That's what the IDs are for.
	That's what the vaccine mandates are for.
	We kill you if you survive this.
	Because, you know, these things, if it killed everybody, people, even Democrats, would start to catch on.
	Even the Democrats.
	And if it killed everybody, maybe even the Republicans who caught on to this and know that this is poison, would stop giving Trump an excuse.
	You think? I don't know. Maybe not.
	Maybe they'd still give Trump an excuse.
	I mean, this MAGA has turned into a Jim Jones cult.
	No doubt about it.
	And I've got an email here from one of the cult members that I'll give you in a minute.
	But anyway, I harp on this because they got away with all this stuff.
	And not only is there no reckoning, not only is there no reform, but we're going to repeat it.
	It's Groundhog Day.
	2024 is one great big Groundhog Day when it comes to elections and politics.
	Empower Oversight's description of the ATF's purported plan only adds to the puzzle.
	Because remember, we've got this thing, 1,300 pages, bigger than the Bible.
	And yet, when they talk about, what is a dealer?
	That's only 35 pages.
	I'm sorry, 31 pages.
	That's pretty amazing that you'd have to have 31 pages to define a word.
	But I guess, you know, maybe there's a lot of words in the regulation, so it multiplies out to being the size of a Bible.
	This is how they get away with stuff.
	A law that is sufficiently complex, folks, is the same as having no law at all.
	The IRS learned that lesson a long time ago.
	We're not telling you what's in the law, because I'm not going to be held responsible for that, and I don't really know.
	It's just going to be up to whoever's auditing you at the time, and whether or not they like you and your politics...
	Whether or not the administration, the regime, likes you or your politics.
	And I just got to say, you know, when we look at this, clearly the Biden administration, they are still years after they have admitted that the vaccines don't do anything, nothing, in terms of preventing the spread of their imaginary pandemic.
	Years after that's happened, The Biden administration, just like they never let it go with the January 6th thing, they're still going after January 6th, still going after his enemies, January 6th.
	He's also still going after the people who are the enemies of his narrative, enemies of his plan.
	He's going after, still charging, people who were in a position of authority and helped people to write up fake vaccine passports.
	Fake certificates saying, I've had this poison and I don't need it again.
	He's got the Department of Justice still arresting people.
	Years, years after they admitted that there was no point in terms of the vaccine being able to prevent a spread of an imaginary pandemic.
	They couldn't even, nobody could imagine a scenario where they could even defend that anymore a couple of years ago, but they're still doing it.
	And so when you look at the fact that Biden is absolutely bulldog-ish on his revenge against people, And so all the MAGA people say, yeah, we've got to have Trump in.
	We've got to get revenge from him. See how similar they are?
	The two? There's no difference.
	There's no difference in the different groups either, right?
	They both want revenge.
	And so we've got two groups.
	This is why I say this is the essence of what is, I believe, going to be turned into a civil war.
	Already is a civil war when you act this way.
	Civil War, a feud of recriminations and that type of thing.
	No rule of law.
	No, no, no. We've got to get even those guys did that.
	We're going to do it to them and worse.
	And that is a prescription for civil war.
	Not for the rule of law.
	Not for a civil society.
	No. It's like, if I'm in power, I'm going to get these other guys.
	Both of them have adopted that to their shame.
	That's one of the key motivators, not just for Trump, but for his supporters to get revenge.
	Well, that certainly is what is motivating Biden and his supporters as well, isn't it?
	I'm not in either one of those camps.
	I hope you're not either. We should reject this idea because this is an idea that's going to destroy our country.
	It's an idea that's sold to us by people who want chaos, who want division, who want civil war.
	So, 31 pages to define what it means to be engaged in the business.
	And also for their legal rationale for that.
	That's only 31 pages. And so Reason says, what in the world could be in the other, you know, 1269 pages?
	What could that be?
	So, on Wednesday, the group's president, the group of Empower Oversight, He sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and to ATF Director Stephen Dettelbach and a FOIA request for records to the Justice Department, including any emails to or from Epstein.
	Of course, Epstein is...
	Epstein emails are back in the news again, or will be, right?
	Not the same one.
	But this is the guy that was involved in the gun-walking programs and stuff.
	Communications, he also wants communications amongst the ATF. Amongst the Justice Department and the White House and all the communications back and forth between these different organizations, anything, any communications regarding, quote, regulating or banning the sale of firearms between private individuals, something that they've never regulated.
	But see, again, we come back to the shall not infringe.
	Once you go into that, you're now on a slippery slope.
	Once you say, we're going to regulate sales of firearms between a business and an individual.
	Oh, okay, well, let's define what a business is.
	You know, you get into that thing.
	And then you get to the point where, well, if we're going to regulate, what's the justification for regulating firearms sales from a business?
	It's the same justification that they would have for doing it for individuals.
	It makes perfectly good sense.
	That it would end up here.
	People have to understand the precedents that are being set.
	And the precedent being set, even going back to the Supreme Court decision about a guy using a sawed-off shotgun and the National Firearms Act and several of them, a key one in the 1960s after you had politicians shot with rifles, they They banned pistols, you know, that type of rationale.
	Pretty clear what they were up to.
	Even with that early court case in the 1930s during FDR. It was a guy who was a criminal.
	He committed a crime with a sawed-off shotgun.
	The argument was that that was not a military weapon.
	Therefore, it was not protected under the Second Amendment because the Second Amendment was about equipping and training the citizenry to defend our country so that we didn't have a standing army.
	And yet, the reality was that it had recently been used in trench warfare, sawed-off shotguns in World War I. It had been used before that in the Civil War, very effectively in cavalry charges.
	It was a military weapon.
	But that was their rationale.
	And, of course, they wanted to put that out there.
	And they continued the case, even though the defendant, who had a criminal record before that, Even though he died, they continued the case.
	There was nobody to argue the other side.
	It was a sham.
	Like most of the stuff during the FDR administration.
	And current administrations as well.
	So, um... Such an expansive rule, they say in the letter to Garland Dettelbach, Levitt, who is the CEO of Empower Oversight, says, such an expansive rule that treats all private citizens the same as federal firearms licensees would circumvent the separation of powers in the Constitution, which grants all legislative powers to Congress while requiring that the President take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
	And everybody's upset about this because Biden is doing it.
	And I said, as soon as Trump did it with a bump stock, we had the Trump Bump Act, right?
	That's what you should call it, I guess.
	I said, well, you know, the Democrats are going to pick up on this right away.
	And as I said yesterday when I talked about it, Lala Harris said, well, I'll put out my gun control regulations if they don't, if Congress doesn't do it in 100 days, then I'll do it by executive order.
	But see, Congress, nor the president, has the authority to Shall not infringe.
	It means what it says.
	It means taking it away around the edges.
	And that's the way they always knew it would happen.
	You know, gradually cutting it off little by little in an iterative process.
	And so nobody in this, you know, anywhere talking about this wants to bring up Trump.
	And yet, Trump not only did the Bump Act, the Trump Bump, he also did pistol braces.
	He did Trump Bump in 2018.
	And the NRA said, oh, we don't care about bump stocks.
	And nobody does care about bump stocks.
	But you should have cared about the precedent that it was setting.
	And so since they didn't care, then he does another one.
	Because Trump's a New York Democrat who doesn't like guns.
	Get that through your thick skull if you think that he's on your side with the Second Amendment.
	So... His sons do trophy hunts.
	Big deal. That's not what the Second Amendment's about.
	And so he got away with it in 2018 with the Trump bump.
	And so the next year, 2019, he does a pistol brace thing and leaves it there until December 2020.
	Takes it off. Biden begins doing it.
	And now everybody says, oh, the pistol brace, that's Biden doing that.
	No, Trump did it.
	He didn't finish it. The reason he pulled it off was because at that point in time, the NRA says, wait a minute.
	That's something useful. We don't want you banning that.
	The NRA couldn't understand the precedent.
	Gun owners of America did.
	And they fought both of them.
	Biden has not been shy about trying to rewrite the law in pursuit of his gun control agenda, says Reason, as illustrated by ATF rules dealing with pistol braces, And ghost guns, which take a page from the Trump administration's unilateral ban on bump stocks.
	That's the only time they mention that.
	Isn't that nice? It takes a page from it.
	No, it does exactly the same thing.
	It's more than that. Trump began the process.
	Of gun control by executive order.
	Like Biden's student debt bailout plan, such a sweeping rule seems almost certain to be struck down in the courts.
	So the guy who released the information that he said whistleblowers had given to him.
	It's thus hard to view it as anything other than a cynical play to energize his base in a presidential election year.
	Well, again, all of this is about energizing your base and also keeping them loyal.
	So loyal that they won't pay attention to what you actually do.
	The senior policy counsel involved in this is a guy named Eric Epstein.
	He previously worked at the Phoenix Field Offices Division.
	And the precursor to Fast and Furious, that would be Gunwalker.
	You see, we have Bush, George W. Bush, the Republican who loves guns.
	The ATF under his regime, and it's under his administration.
	He is responsible for it.
	Started Gunwalker program.
	The ATF selling guns illegally across the border.
	As the New York Times pointed out, it was a false flag.
	It was a gunwalker under Bush.
	It continued under Obama.
	They called it Fast and Furious.
	And it blew up in their face when you had a law enforcement officer get killed with it.
	And then you have this type of thing.
	Gun control by executive order.
	It begins with a Republican who's on our side.
	We don't have to worry about it, right?
	Trump. And then it is extended by Biden.
	So on Rumble, North American House Depot, thank you very much for the tip.
	He said, good morning, David. When my wife voted for Trump and Rubio last year, forget about holding her nose.
	She had to cut the thing off.
	Still has the scars. I can't vote.
	Not that it makes any difference.
	That's the way I feel about it.
	Sitting local levels, there might be somebody that you want to support.
	The federal level, we got to, that's the key thing, look for people who are going to stand and interpose against this federal tyranny.
	Because they're not federal now, they're globalists in Washington.
	As an example of this, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
	As a matter of fact, Bipartisan is even in the title.
	They call it the BSCA, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
	Safety, communism, bipartisanship.
	That's what this is really about.
	Amended the definition of engaging in the business of dealing in firearms to include all persons who devote time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business to predominantly earn a profit through the repetitive purchase and sale of firearms.
	And so this act is going to...
	Change all that. And again, this is a bipartisan plan to infringe.
	The ATS mere presence is an infringement.
	And all these definitions about who can sell without doing background checks, that's all infringements as well.
	The lessons of Ruby Ridge and Waco standoffs should make it clear that attempting to enforce such an expansive regulation could endanger countless ATF field agents who are forced to serve as the face of the Biden administration going after private firearm owners for constitutionally protected firearm sales.
	Poor bureaucrats. You mean if they pull up in military gear and invade people like they did at Waco and then eventually wind up burning men, women, and children alive?
	I should feel sorry for them?
	Poor bureaucrats.
	You know, let's always, you know, lessons of this are that you guys should not do this kind of thing.
	Or at Ruby Ridge, we're at point-blank range.
	FBI hostage rescue team, hostage rescue team sniper, Lon Horiuchi, shot the mother who was holding her child, shot her at point blank, right in the head.
	And he got a medal for doing it from our government.
	Don't talk to me about endangering those people.
	And so, social media, Has revived this clip.
	Going back to 2015, nine years ago.
	I remember when this happened. Kurt Russell, a pro-gun argument that he had.
	And it was just the audio from it.
	It was part of an interview that he was having.
	And he got up and he walked out because the guy wanted to argue gun control with him.
	What had happened, this was in the aftermath of a shooting.
	The one that was in San Bernardino.
	And I'll play it for you.
	The reality is that Kurt Russell got a lot of attention.
	Everybody was applauding him.
	And it scared him.
	He wanted to keep working in Hollywood.
	So he backed off of this after he said it.
	But here's what he said in 2015.
	It is...
	Talk about Groundhog Day.
	We hear this kind of arguments from the people that he's engaged in.
	We hear this after every one of the shootings, don't we?
	And so here was Kurt Russell responding to the Groundhog Day reaction we hear after every one of these shootings.
	Yeah, I don't understand the concepts of conversation of the gun culture.
	We've lived with guns since, what, the 7th century or something?
	I don't know. We all know that right now, guns is a trope.
	I mean, it's not a trope.
	It's a totem. It's a metaphor.
	You can say what you want.
	I don't agree with that. It's not my thing.
	If you think gun control or something like that is going to change a terrorist point of view, I think you're out of your mind.
	I think anybody is.
	I think it's absolutely insane.
	The problem we're having right now is that we don't have the concepts of how to turn it around and say, you know, You may think you've got me worried about what you're going to do.
	Dude, you're about to find out what I'm going to do.
	And that's going to worry you a lot more.
	And that's what we need.
	That will change the concept of gun culture, as you call it, to something of reality, which is, if I'm a hockey team, And I got a guy bearing down on me as a goaltender.
	I'm not concerned about what he's going to do.
	I'm going to make him concerned about what I'm going to do.
	I get that. To stop him.
	That's when things change.
	Obama's point was that the guys who are on the no-fly list, no-fly list because of terrorist connections, can get a gun pretty easily.
	They can also make a bomb pretty easily.
	Yeah. So what? They can also get knives and stab you.
	What are you going to do about that? They can get cars and run you over with them.
	What are you going to do about that? What are you going to do about that?
	They didn't kill the people in San Bernardino.
	Oh, they've killed others that way.
	Haven't they? Yeah.
	So what are you going to do? Outlaw everything?
	That isn't the answer. Just put some controls.
	Put some controls?
	What? So the people who want to defend themselves can't?
	No, not so you can't.
	Just so the idiots can't get a hold of them.
	Do you really believe they're not going to?
	Are you serious about that?
	Are you seriously? What good will that?
	Oh my God.
	You and I just disagree. Okay.
	You and I just disagree. I understand that you think that you can control the behavior of people that are dead set on taking your way of life away from you.
	I think you think you can control that.
	And there's only one thing you can do with that and say, no, dude, that's not going to happen.
	That's just not good to speak with you, man.
	Good talking with you. Unlike most revolutions where the people rise against a real economic oppression, in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
	It is, however, not nearly so abstract as a young gentleman supposes.
	The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
	Today the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
	Tomorrow it will be something else.
	I'm going to be a hero!
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	Find it now at Well, I said it was Groundhog Day, so let me give you another Groundhog thing.
	We keep fighting these same fights over and over again, don't we?
	Whether it's executive orders taking over our country, for whatever the pretense, you know, guns, pandemics, climate, you name it, right?
	A pandemic treaty that's coming.
	People pretending that they've got an international treaty that constricts them when the treaty's never been ratified constitutionally.
	Constitution to these people means nothing.
	It's a piece of paper that they use for toilet paper or to light their fires with.
	By the way, let me just say before we go any further, as we look at the unrest that's happening everywhere, let me just remind you about the Civil Defense Manual, Jack Lawson.
	I've had him on many times talking to him.
	CivilDefenseManual.com.
	It's got great instruction about how you can prepare for yourself for water, for food, medical issues, as well as how do you organize yourself and some of the things that you're going to have to confront when you start to try to organize people.
	Because trying to organize people is like herding cats.
	They don't like to be organized.
	Especially, it seems like people were focused on individual liberty.
	They're so hyper-individualistic that they can't come together for the common good in many cases.
	So we see this with a lot of different organizations, and so he has even some psychological stuff there.
	He's got great advice from people who are Special Forces soldiers that he's known for quite some time, writing about their area of expertise, and of course he has a great deal of expertise as well.
	Again, CivilDefenseManual.com.
	So... As I've said before, not a day goes by that I get multiple messages like this on email, and I don't even bother to look at social media anymore, because social media is always about this.
	And so I got this, and I wasn't really going to talk about this until the guy did a follow-up, but he sent this to me a couple of days ago.
	An exclamation point screaming, Trump didn't order any lockdowns, the states did!
	And I told Karen at the time, I said, you know what we need to do?
	We need to set up a toll-free number for people to call instead, be a little bit more direct for them.
	They can leave a message after they hear my message.
	Because these are a lot of people who don't listen to the program, obviously.
	And so you can call up and say, if you think, hello, thank you for calling the David Knight line.
	If you would like to understand how Trump did the lockdown, press 1.
	If you'd like to understand how Trump would have forced and already had the plan to do it for the military, vaccine mandates, press 2.
	If you'd like to see how Trump destroyed the economy in just a couple of months, press 3.
	And on and on. And then you can leave a message after you've heard our message.
	Because he hasn't heard the message.
	He hasn't gotten the message. Trump didn't order any lockdowns.
	The states did. And he gives me two articles about it.
	And these are articles from six months after he ordered the lockdown.
	Yes, he did. He paid for it.
	He's picking up the check, folks, at the restaurant.
	Maybe he told everybody, you know, do what you want and I'll pay for it, right?
	There you go to the restaurant. I'm treating everybody.
	You know, here's the menu. And we gave you the menu back in 2001 when we first did the training for this and rehearsed it in dark winter, two months before 9-11.
	Then we had the false flag anthrax attack one week after.
	And then two months after that, we gave a menu to all of the governors in all the different states, model legislation, and Go through here, pick one from column A, one from column B, or just pick all of them and make them state law so that when we pick up the check, when the president pays for the bill, everybody gets to order, right?
	Everybody gets to order.
	You see, we have a fiat government.
	We always talk about fiat currency.
	What is a fiat currency, ultimately?
	Well, it means that there's no intrinsic value to it.
	But more than that, it's what they're looking at in terms of CBDC versus crypto, right, in general.
	Bitcoin and these other cryptocurrencies, there's a proof of work.
	You have to go through and quote-unquote mine it, okay?
	You have to do something, and that keeps it honest, right?
	Keeps it from just expanding endlessly in terms of the number of units.
	But now they want to go to CBDC, and CBDC, they call a proof of stake, proof of ownership, right?
	In other words, I don't need to have any proof.
	It's worth what it's worth because I say it's worth that.
	This is the same thing they do with a fiat currency.
	Ultimately, fiat is not a small Italian car.
	A fiat is a decree.
	I decree what this is worth.
	And I rule by decree.
	I rule by fiat.
	And you see, what makes it possible for the federal government to rule by decree and to get around the Tenth Amendment that prohibits that It's this idea that they're going to use their fiat currency to get people to do their fiats, their decrees.
	And when the law is in the leader's mouth, what do we call that?
	A dictatorship. Because he's dictating this stuff.
	When he tells people with a decree what to do, and then he gives them money to do it, And then his useful idiots say, he didn't do that.
	Oh, yes, he did. Because you don't know anything about government if you don't understand that.
	Obama says, well, we're going to take the money we gave to the schools away if they don't put boys in the girls' bathroom and dressing rooms.
	That's how everything works.
	You even saw DeSantis do that to get rid of a lot of these public health dictates.
	He said, we're going to take the money away from your city and your county if you do this kind of stuff.
	Trump said, you need to do this kind of stuff and I'll give you money.
	And he sends me this article where Trump says nationwide lockdown would ultimately inflict more harm than it would prevent.
	Six months after this has gone on.
	And yet, two weeks after the lockdown, he scoriated Kemp, the governor of Georgia, and DeSantis in Florida.
	And of course, this came up again because Trump had the audacity to criticize DeSantis for doing lockdowns when he was criticizing them for stopping the lockdowns two weeks after.
	I was like, wait a minute, didn't I pay you?
	Did I not pay you enough?
	All these governors had more money than the state budget.
	All of them. Gavin Newsom got tens of billions of dollars.
	Of course, they ran through that surplus after a couple of years, but it bailed them out of debt big time.
	And you had Republican governors like Brad Little who told the Republican legislature that was going to pull back some of his executive orders, go home.
	Why? Because he had two or three times what the state budget was at his own personal discretion.
	That's a very powerful thing.
	You hold that money in front of people.
	And you get people to do whatever you want.
	And so the governors know that.
	The governors were using that.
	Trump was using that.
	The orders were coming from him.
	The orders were coming from Fauci.
	People, these same people who say Trump didn't do it, Fauci did it.
	Fauci was using, he's part of the same regime.
	He was the one who was running all of this.
	Trump put him on the platform and then gave money to people if they did what Fauci did.
	That's the reality. How can people not see that?
	So, anyway, he does that.
	And then, follows up today, this morning.
	And he says, assuming it's a guy, listen to this.
	This person is really off the rails.
	I'll just read it verbatim here.
	I'll take out the curse words that he's yelling at me.
	Every week or even every day, your stupid mob announces the end of me and brag about the pledge money you don't have that I'm going to miss out on.
	When are you going to get the F out of my life once and for all and take that electronic excrement you illegally implanted in our heads and home out?
	Home out. And don't come back.
	When? I'm tired to watch this on, off, and out show of your stupid sick people being played around me.
	And then he's got a few more choice.
	This is why we have the Second Amendment for people like this.
	There's some crazy people out there like this.
	And I'm telling you, the MAGA crowd, the QAnon crowd, the people that are out there saying, you know, this whole Super Bowl is rigged, and who got in front of that clown show?
	Vivek the Snake, Ramaswami.
	Jumped out in front of that and said, yeah, yeah, they're going to rig the Super Bowl so that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, are going to look fantastic and endorse Trump.
	This is, you know, Ramaswamy knows better than that.
	He's not stupid like that.
	But he'll get out there and he'll, it's the Pied Piper of these idiots of this MAGA cult.
	The MAGA cult.
	A QAnon MAGA cult.
	It's just, it's crazy.
	This is another one of these guys.
	And so, and it's not just that Groundhog Day that we fight every day.
	I do get some encouragement from a lot of people as well.
	This one's from John.
	He said, Hi David, I wanted to tell you I fully support your frustration with the fools and their ignorance with Trump.
	I understand it must be frustrating for you to get letters from these ignorant people who don't have the discernment to judge character.
	Yeah, and then there's the people like this who think that I've implanted something in their head.
	They've got voices in their head.
	Certifiably insane.
	I've learned so much this last year from people who I thought were pretty smart anyway, but now they're obsessed with Tucker and Trump.
	So, thank you, John.
	Appreciate that. He gives me some more advice about potassium.
	I'm taking a lot of potassium. The jury is still out on that, but thank you.
	And then this was from Harry Hound, who had sent me the stuff about the pipeline.
	That was very important, very interesting.
	And they tried to share what I said about it.
	About the Trump-Burgham-Nome pipeline and the eminent domain, the crony capitalism and the corporation that supports these two governors and President Trump.
	And he wants to have a pipeline to pump CO2 across the country.
	If anybody would have said any of this stuff, even...
	15 years ago, maybe less than that, everybody would have rolled their eyes and thought we're making it up, right?
	My... When I was a...
	When I was young, my parents would have heard something like this.
	They would have, first of all, never believed that anybody could be that stupid to think they've got to pump CO2 across the country and then stick it into the ground.
	Now, they would have believed that powerful politicians and corporations would get together to steal people's land.
	That they would have believed. They would not have believed that anybody could be that stupid to do it for CO2. CO2. But anyway, I said, X is not letting me post about the Trump-Burgham-Gnome pipeline.
	Who has the power to stop the posts at X? Also, I posted something in regard to Loomer that wouldn't go through either.
	I tried to retry and put that post up, and it sent me a screenshot.
	So I'll just show it to you real quickly here.
	You know, post not sent. Whoops, you already sent.
	You already said that or something.
	And they wouldn't let the thing go up.
	They said, well, it looks like it's already been sent when it hadn't been sent.
	So that's the type of thing we deal with all the time.
	You know, the shadow banning, which is still there everywhere.
	The debanking, which is still there, and escalating.
	And the censorship that is to come.
	And when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about that and what Bill Gates and Sam Altman are conspiring to do with the help of the government.
	You know, because Sam Altman with OpenAI said, well, the government needs to be doing this kind of stuff.
	And so they're out there presenting themselves as how they can be partners.
	For the government and this technocracy.
	We've already got a technocracy.
	We've already got global governance.
	I just want to make it even more so that way.
	Some comments on Rock Van IRS Machine Gun.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	He said, we won't have to worry about the groundhog seeing his shadow next year.
	I will keep him in his hole, working from home under the lockdown, Trump 2024.
	There we go. That should be the campaign pledge for today.
	We'll lock Plexitane Phil down.
	That's what Peter wanted to do, replace him with a coin toss, because he's not accurate enough.
	I said, well, as long as you replace Al Gore, John Kerry, and all the rest of these climate alarmists, because they're 0% right.
	OM61, Ramaswamy will pardon Julian Assange on his last day in office.
	Alex Jones told me so.
	Yeah, he told us that about Trump too, didn't he?
	SolarCat, 1980. Magnesium deficiency is more likely than potassium for heart attack risk.
	Well, good, because I'm also taking magnesium.
	I'll look it up and I'll see if maybe I need to take more of it.
	I have my levels checked.
	I appreciate that tip.
	Thank you very much. We're going to take a quick break, and like I said, when we come back, we're going to take a look at what is going on with the AI globalists.
	But I think before we do that, I think I'm going to go to Trash World.
	This is just some things that just show how far down, how much of a dumpster fire this trash world has become.
	We'll be right back.
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	It's the David Knight Show.
	Well, here we are in Trash World, and the Capitol Police yesterday, the U.S. Capitol Police...
	Said that they are not going to charge anybody in this sex video that was filmed.
	These two guys having sex in the Senate hearing room.
	It's a good thing he didn't put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
	Because you do that, you're going to go to jail for four and a half years.
	That's what they did to Richard Barnett.
	The guy who went in and put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk, four and a half years.
	Guys go in and do this in the Senate hearing room.
	I can't think of any crime involved here, said the Capitol Police.
	Interesting choice of words from NBC. The Capitol Police closed their probe.
	Well, yeah, interesting choice of words.
	We can see no elements of any of the possible crimes.
	I know nothing.
	They've gone full Schultz on us.
	When the Schultz hits the fan is what we've got right now in Trash World.
	Video of people having sex inside a Senate hearing room and there's no crime.
	And this is a statement from the Capitol Police.
	After consulting with political hacks...
	And pervs here in Washington.
	No, they said consulting with federal and local prosecutors.
	But, yeah, political hacks.
	After consulting with political hacks and pervs.
	As well as doing a comprehensive investigation and review of possible charges, it was determined that despite a likely violation of congressional policy, they have violated the decorum, I would imagine.
	There is currently no evidence that a crime was committed.
	And they said, you know, it was unfortunate because we just couldn't get these two guys involved to cooperate with us.
	Is that necessary in order to do an investigation, a prosecution or something?
	Conservative outlets have identified the staffer in the video.
	He put up a post after that on LinkedIn saying that while he had shown poor judgment in the past, he said, I would never disrespect my workplace.
	I have been attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda.
	I love my job, and I would never disrespect my workplace.
	Well, here's the thing. It's okay to love your job.
	Not to love your job, okay?
	This is Rome on the Potomac.
	I mean, would you expect this from Caligula?
	Of course you would. But as I pointed out before, yesterday, even Cato the elder threw a guy out of the Senate because he kissed his wife in public.
	What's this? What's this?
	Are we worse than the Roman Bacchanal is?
	And then we have a diaper spa that has popped up in New Hampshire, where adults role-play as babies.
	Well, I don't know. I think we see a lot of adults role-playing as babies.
	You know, the people who are triggered and all the rest of this stuff, the kind of role-playing as babies.
	They may not be wearing diapers at the time, but who knows?
	I guess it depends.
	A new spa catering to diaper-wearing adults who want to role-play as young children, the diaper spa in Atkinson, New Hampshire, says that it is age-friendly.
	And you can go there to, quote, nurture and pamper.
	Interesting choice of words.
	To nurture and pamper all diaper lovers.
	The spa, they said, is, quote, safe and judgment-free zone.
	That's right. Don't judge me, bro.
	That's the first thing we always hear. You know, God said not to do that.
	Don't judge me. Always, you know, judgment-free zone.
	The whole world has become a judgment-free zone, unless they don't like you for your skin color or your gender or something like that, because you have a gender.
	So it is a judgment-free zone for visitors to pamper themselves with snacks, with playtime, with storytime, with nap time, with cuddle time, with changing time, with coloring, with nursery rhymes, and sing-alongs.
	And so... When you look at this, I don't really understand what's going through these people's heads.
	I mean, do they want to go back to a time where they felt safe or something like that?
	You know, we do that, don't we?
	And kind of just veg out on the couch and watch old movies or something.
	We can all be guilty of that.
	But this goes away beyond that.
	And it brings up concerns about pedophilia.
	The nursery spa, you can go there as an adult baby diaper lover, an ABDL, they've even got an acronym for it, for $300 an hour.
	You can set up virtual playdates at $200 an hour.
	And if you want an all-day premier spa experience for the little one inside of you, well, that's going to cost you $1,500.
	Some residents in the area are not happy about this new business.
	They said that it sits on the border of Massachusetts with a population of 7,000, according to the 2020 census.
	And mother of three said, well, this is very close to the children's park that we have here in this small town of 7,000.
	And she fears that it caters to clients with a sexual fetish.
	Certainly sounds like it, doesn't it?
	She said, that is something that I will never be willing to expose my kids to, so now we will no longer be able to use that park.
	And by the way, you may want to make that school there off-limits to the kids, because it's likely that there will also be people who imagine that they're furries and being enabled by the ones who are running that institution that we call a school.
	Or they may be grooming your kids sexually.
	You ought to be just as concerned about the school.
	As you are about this adult diaper thing.
	Seriously. Everywhere.
	People who are looking at children or being children by wearing diapers and being treated like a baby, said another person, that kind of concerns me.
	Who knows where that leads?
	Well, I think we got an idea.
	The spa owner is a person who says she is a board certified integrative medicine physician and a sexologist.
	A sexologist.
	So, of course, this doesn't have anything to do with sex.
	Well, yeah, it has some weird sexual overtone thing of adults trying to be babies.
	So people should be concerned about that.
	It has come to our attentions as a petition that this business is advertised to individuals whose sexual fetish involves childlike behaviors.
	Their sexual fetish will involve the town park where our children play.
	In light of these concerns, we urgently request the town reject any business and zoning licenses and applications for this business.
	The person running it denied that her services would include trips to the park and said she She took steps to clear up any confusion on her website.
	Policies on the SPA's website say absolutely no sexual interaction.
	And yet, she is a sexologist here.
	No sexual interaction is allowed and clients are subject to screening on the National Sex Offender Database.
	Prior to booking appointments.
	So, you know, no problem, says the sexologist who's setting this thing up.
	Nothing to be concerned about.
	I've had people, and the guy, come on the show and say, well, you know, I just, I think that we shouldn't be concerned about people, you know, getting, you know, childlike sex dolls and stuff like that.
	It's like, what? What?
	What do you think they're doing that for?
	And where does this eventually lead?
	What are they feeding, you know?
	There are many different things inside our minds, and it all comes down to what we feed.
	And when somebody is feeding that kind of perverse desire, it will bear fruit.
	What we wind up being comes out of our heart.
	Out of the heart proceeds all kinds of wickedness.
	And if we're feeding that wickedness, whatever it is, it's going to manifest itself.
	Somebody else that's very delusional is Ayanna Pressley.
	She's very angry because Walgreens is closing some stores.
	She said this is racial and economic discrimination.
	They should be forced to remain open even if they can't make a profit.
	She's accused Walgreens of divesting from black and brown communities.
	Well, now, this is in Massachusetts.
	I don't know if where they're shutting down these stores, if they've got a looting problem like the Soros district attorneys have cultivated in many towns in San Francisco where none of them, where all the stores are shutting down because they're having everything taken from the shelves.
	But they're divesting from black and brown communities.
	Is that in response to the black and brown communities divesting the store shelves of merchandise to the extent that they're bankrupting big box retail chains?
	And even if it's not happening in Massachusetts...
	These Democrat Soros district attorneys in California, that's having an impact on them across the board, even if it's not happening in this particular community.
	She said, these are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination.
	Well, I think they should be thankful if they get some of these drug places.
	I mean, you go by, I drive down the road, and I see all these signs up from, you know, all of these different drugstores.
	It can be the big chains and even some of the independent ones.
	You know, get this shot, get that shot, get the rest of it.
	I mean, these are poison dispensaries.
	You ought to be happy that they're out of your community, frankly.
	In 2021, the University of Southern California published a study that found that black and Latino neighborhoods across 30 U.S. cities had fewer pharmacies than white and diverse neighborhoods from 2007 to 2015.
	Well, you should be thankful for that, frankly.
	As a result of the current operating environment, said Walgreens, and of our financial performance, we've had to make difficult decisions across our business, including corporate headcount reductions, as well as store closures like this.
	It doesn't specifically reference the California looting that has played a big part with a lot of other people.
	But, of course...
	Everything in our society is being torn down.
	A deliberate plan of chaos by Soros and other people like him.
	It is a Marxist plan.
	On LifeSite News, I like this comment from Jonathan Van Maron, who has a commentary on there.
	He says, I think there's a very good reason that a lot of people were sort of viscerally shaken by all these statues that were being torn down everywhere.
	Because it was a direct attack on our traditions.
	It was a direct attack on our culture.
	And I think more so, it indicated a replacement of our culture.
	It indicated a replacement of the founding fathers of our civilization.
	They go after statues of everybody.
	Everybody. All the founding fathers.
	People who were abolitionists, even.
	People who were on both sides on the Civil War, if you think that it was principally about slavery, even.
	Both sides are coming after.
	Even statues of abolitionists, as he points out.
	And we know what this is about.
	Again, this is a communist agenda.
	This is nothing new. And that's the key thing.
	I mention it almost every day.
	Shivan Fleet's book, Mao's America, A Survivor's Warning, where she lays it out.
	She says, I grew up.
	Under these purges, these communist purges, and this is exactly what they did.
	This is nothing at all new.
	It's being inculcated in the society by these seminaries of Marx and Satan that we call universities, and they've recycled this filth now through several different generations.
	Now you've got teachers who have experienced this stuff while they were being educated, indoctrinated, From kindergarten through 12th grade, go into college, they come back out, they teach the next generation, and every time they recycle this stuff, it gets more and more concentrated, more and more virulent.
	Who do we choose to honor?
	Well, we choose to honor somebody who is spearheading, advocating a system by which the desperate and the impoverished Canadians, for example, opt for state-sanctioned, state-facilitated suicide.
	Yeah, their values that they have there are not anything that we want to adopt, but they want to take out everything that we have.
	Again, you... Get rid of the bones and keep the chicken.
	You know, when you look at anybody's life historically, there's nobody out there that's perfect.
	The big mistake we can make with people is to hate them too much or like them too much, right?
	That's always the problem.
	They're human beings just like we are.
	They've got their faults. Some of them, though, that we make statues to may have done something, even just a little bit of something, in their life that stands out.
	James Carville had a comment about this Taylor Swift conspiracy that Ramaswamy has jumped in front of to ride the wave.
	And I thought it was very funny because I think I've always had this...
	Yeah, James Carville was the campaign guy for, for, uh, Bill Clinton.
	He had no problem with any of the stuff that Bill Clinton did, just like all the people who are hanging around Trump have no problem with what he did either.
	But James Carville, uh, with his heavy new Orleans accent or Louisiana accent.
	And, uh, and the things that he would have to say was always pretty amazing, very coarse guy and always thought it was such a strange thing that he married Mary Madeline, who is this Republican commentator and worked on the other side.
	And yet, you know, they've had one of the few stable marriages out there.
	They've been married for decades.
	They've got a family. And it's like, you can't imagine two more opposite people that are out there.
	And so as James Carville, not too long ago, was commenting about Trump, you know, put his hand up and there were some red spots on it.
	Some people said it was sores.
	Other people said, well, I think that's maybe red ink smearing or something.
	Who knows what it was?
	I don't think it appeared anywhere except in that photograph, so maybe it's some red ink stains.
	But James Carville jumped on it immediately and said, well, I think that's syphilis.
	I think he's got the clap, is what he said.
	I had to look that up. It's like, those are two different things.
	I don't know. But being in the...
	Being in the Clinton camp, I guess you have to be up on all your sexually transmitted diseases.
	You've got to be on the lookout.
	Who knows what's going to be passing around here in the Clinton camp.
	And so that's where he's coming from.
	But he was asked by John Berman, so if you're Donald Trump or part of the far right and you're having trouble with women voters, is there a worse strategy than attacking Taylor Swift?
	Because... You know, she's like a god to these women voters.
	And Carville says, well, I don't think there's anything strategic about it.
	I think most of these people are sexually inadequate.
	Again, he's coming from the Clinton camp, okay?
	Nobody ever claimed that about Clinton.
	As a matter of fact, they seem to have the opposite problem.
	They go for all this crazy stuff.
	I don't think there's nothing strategic about something that stupid.
	It's just real stupidity to believe something like that.
	And she seems to me, I'm not very familiar with her generation.
	She seems like she's really a nice person.
	Kind of well raised.
	And you know, gives people that work for her something like $100,000 bonuses.
	Now what's not to like about Miss Swift?
	I have no idea.
	I didn't get the memo, he said.
	So then Berman says, well you think this is going to blow up in their face?
	Well I don't know if their face is blown up-able.
	But it's massively entertaining to watch people this stupid go public.
	Honestly, John, I can't get enough of it.
	I mean, come on. You can't be that dumb, can you?
	Well, yes, you can.
	And you can always find somebody like Ramaswamy who is smarter than the mob and is going to lead them into this stuff.
	Before we go to break, I want to do a follow-up.
	You know, I was talking about all these politicians who are getting swatted as a prank, you know.
	Nikki Haley, I think it was Emmer, who's the House Whip.
	And many, many Republicans getting the police called on them, and they go to their house, and look, they know when they show up that this is the house of, you know, Nikki Haley's relatives or Emmer or whatever.
	And they don't do a no-knock raid.
	But the fact that these people, you've got a large group of guys showing up with weapons, and, you know, they knock on the doorbell or whatever.
	Oh, they just thought that was outrageous.
	And I think it is, quite frankly, that somebody would do that.
	But the reprehensible part of this, the most reprehensible thing, is that none of these politicians care about the SWAT team raids.
	And so John Whitehead...
	He writes an op-ed piece about this.
	He calls it Terror by Night.
	The growth of botched SWAT team raids.
	And of course, yet another child has had a flashbang grenade thrown on them.
	As of January the 10th, as one of the listeners pointed out the other day when I talked about this.
	He writes this. He says, sometimes 10 seconds is all the warning you get.
	Sometimes you don't get a warning at all before hell breaks loose.
	Imagine, if you will.
	It's the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness, your household is asleep, and suddenly you're awakened by a loud noise.
	And it's not Santa Claus on the lawn.
	I added that. Barely ten seconds later, he says, someone or an army of someones has crashed through your front door.
	The intruders are now in your home.
	Desperate to protect yourself and your loved ones from whatever threat has invaded your home, you scramble to lay hold of something, anything, that you might use in self-defense.
	It might be a flashlight, a baseball bat.
	It might be that licensed and registered gun that you thought you'd never need.
	Shadowy figures appear at the doorway, screaming order, threatening violence, launching flashbang grenades.
	Chaos reigns.
	He says, you stand frozen.
	Your hands gripping whatever means of self-defense you could find.
	And just that simple act of standing frozen in fear and in self-defense is enough to spell your doom.
	The assailants open fire, sending a hail of bullets in your direction.
	In your final moments, you get a good look at your assassins.
	And it's the police.
	And as I've said, that was the first time I saw one of these things back in the early 90s.
	I can't remember the guy's name.
	I think his last name was Scott.
	I think his first name was Donald, but I'm not sure.
	And it was exactly like that.
	You know, they kick in the door and he thinks it's a house invasion.
	He comes down the steps with a gun in his hand and they murdered him.
	And I call it murder because it is.
	He says, brace yourself.
	Because this account of a SWAT team raid is what passes for court-sanctioned policing in America today.
	And it could happen to any one of us or to our loved ones because it happens frequently to innocent people.
	Nationwide, SWAT teams are routinely invading homes, breaking down doors, killing family pets.
	They always shoot the dogs first.
	Damage furnishings, terrorize families, and wound or kill those lucky enough to be present during a raid.
	Unlucky enough. And that's what these politicians are freaking out.
	Not that any of this stuff happened to them.
	And they don't care if it happens to you.
	And they won't do anything to rein this in.
	They'll complain about it and they'll pass a bill saying if you do this as a prank to somebody or as a way to get even with them, then we will have severe penalties.
	So SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for relatively routine police matters such as serving a warrant.
	With more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out per year, They're often done for routine law enforcement tasks.
	SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of so-called criminal activity or mere community nuisances.
	Angry dogs, and he's got links to these cases where this has been done.
	He's not just throwing these things out.
	Each one of these has got links to it.
	Domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and a misdemeanor marijuana possession to give a brief sampling.
	So you're an orchid farmer and you don't file your paperwork, right?
	You get a SWAT team sent to your house.
	But the politicians don't care about that.
	Only about themselves.
	These raids, which might be more aptly referred to as knock-and-shoot policing, have become thinly veiled court sanctions means of heavily armed police, giving these heavily armed police the green light to crash through doors in the middle of the night.
	And then there's the no-knock raids, a subset of the violent terror-inducing raids, that differ in one significant respect.
	They are carried out without police even having to announce themselves.
	Whether or not you get a warning, there is no way of distinguishing between a home invasion by criminals as opposed to a police mob.
	While the Fourth Amendment requires the police obtain a warrant, SWAT teams are granted no-knock warrants at such high rates that the warrants themselves are rendered practically meaningless.
	And that appears to be the case in Ohio, which the listener mentioned the other day, January 10, when a botched SWAT team raid in pursuit of stolen guns at a home where the suspects no longer resided resulted in a 17-month-old baby with a heart defect and a breathing disorder ending up in intensive care with burns around the eyes, chest, and neck.
	In that January the 10th 2024 raid, police waited all of six seconds after knocking on the door before using a battering ram to break in, and simultaneously launched two flashbang grenades into the house.
	The baby's mother, having lived in the house for one week, barely had time to approach the door before she was grabbed at gunpoint, handcuffed, and hustled outside.
	Only later did police allow her to enter the home to check on the baby, who had been hooked up to a ventilator near the window that police shattered before they deployed the flash grenades.
	The horror stories that have become legion in which homeowners are injured and killed simply because they mistook a SWAT team raid by police for a home invasion by criminals.
	These incidents underscore a dangerous mindset in which the citizenry not only have less rights than the militarized police, but also one in which the safety of the citizenry is treated as a low priority.
	A lower priority than the safety of the police counterparts or the politicians.
	And this is why I said before, when the people who looked at this Biden...
	Executive order for gun control and then they wrote a letter to the Department of Justice and the ATF saying, you know, you might be concerned because something might happen to your officers as they are going around confiscating guns like that.
	It's like, is that really what our concern is?
	Is that really what our concern is?
	Well, if that's our concern, we'll just have them suit up with more armor, more bulletproof this, and more bulletproof that, and shoot even faster.
	Anybody who's there, just change the rules of engagement, the way these guys are outfitted.
	We'll protect the law enforcement, and all the rest of you are disposable.
	And we can kill you on sight if we want.
	And the politicians are just fine with that.
	As long as somebody doesn't call them on their house, on their family, but they don't care what happens to your family.
	John Whitehead said there was a time in America where a person's home was a sanctuary, safe and secure from the threat of invasion by government agents, who were held at bay by the dictates of the Fourth Amendment, which protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
	See, that's, again, we're talking about, well, what is in a word, right?
	What does it mean for somebody to be a firearms dealer?
	And that's the way they prevaricate around this.
	Well, what does it mean for a search to be unreasonable?
	I don't think it's unreasonable.
	Do you? Oh, no, I don't think so.
	Let's go do it. Oh, it's perfectly reasonable for us to kick the door in at the middle of the night and throw flash grenades at anything that moves and shoot anything that moves.
	That's perfectly reasonable. And that's the way they play with the terminology.
	The Fourth Amendment, in turn, was added to the Constitution.
	By colonists who were still smarting from the abuses that they'd been forced to endure while under British rule.
	Among these were home invasions by the military under the guise of what they called writs of assistance.
	What's in a name?
	Doesn't really matter, does it?
	Be warned, as I make clear in my book, Battlefield America, The War on the American People, and in its fictional counterpart, the Eric Blair Diaries, the American police state has become a powder keg waiting for a lit match.
	And again, that's John Whitehead with the Rutherford Institute.
	We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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	And now, The David Knight Show.
	Well, they've already got a food fight that is going on in the EU, and although it's getting very little attention from mainstream media, it is getting a little bit now.
	We have Reuters talking about the fact that farmers have set fire and attacked barriers near the EU summit.
	As the anger is increasing, here's a picture of the, uh, look at that.
	You've got tractors spread out all the way across and blocking traffic there.
	Of course, that's been going on for quite some time, these trucks on the road.
	And, um... They have now gone to what is different is that now in Brussels, which is where the EU is headquartered, farmers have thrown eggs and stones at the European Parliament on Thursday.
	They started fires near the building, and they have set off fireworks amid protests to press a summit of European Union leaders to do more to help them.
	I guess they don't really understand that the European Union leaders are not going to help them.
	They are not on their side.
	As a matter of fact, when you look at this, this is some of the unrest there.
	As you see the fires that have been set.
	And in response, the police responded with water cannons as well as other things.
	They've got, look at this, it's getting very medieval, isn't it?
	Hand-to-hand combat people arranged in phalanxes there.
	They said thoroughfares in Brussels were blocked by around 1,300 tractors.
	According to police estimates, if you see how many people we are here today, they said, and if you see that it's all over Europe, so you must have hope, said one farmer from just outside of Brussels.
	He said, you need us.
	You need the farmers. Help us.
	And that's it. People need to stand together for that.
	They're moving not just from Brussels, but in many different areas.
	In France, farmers headed toward the lower house of parliament in Paris, while drone footage showed a huge convey of tractors on a motorway near another town as officers blocked highways around the French capital as well.
	And When you look at the fight here at the EU headquarters, they'll pull the camera over there and you'll see there's the EU. Yeah, use your vote.
	Yeah, voting hasn't really worked for these people so far.
	Protests may not be working either, but look at this.
	They've got a barricade as they're being shot with water hoses, and of course they've lit fires there at the Brussels headquarters.
	So they've got fires running through the night.
	You know what's happening? European elections are coming, and politicians are super nervous, and also the European Commission.
	And I think this is the best moment that together all the European farmers go to the street.
	Well, they get it because it is their livelihood.
	But the other people who need what they produce don't seem to get it.
	And we've got people in this country that don't seem to understand what has happened in the last four years either.
	Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in a disagreement with the other EU leaders on many issues, made a point of meeting with the farmers overnight.
	He said, we need to find new leaders who truly represent the interests of the people.
	Well, that is exactly right.
	And that's what we have not found in so many different ways here in America.
	America we don't have any leaders that are on the ballot.
	Our political situation here is so much more corrupt and controlled. We don't have any groups that have risen to shut this thing down. Americans are just completely anesthetized. It truly is amazing and you can thank Donald Trump for that. We'll be right back.
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	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Thank you.
	Alright, welcome back. Thank you on Rumble, Overcoming the World.
	Thank you for the tip. Good morning all, he says.
	And on Rock Van, Denver Attaway says, if cops can't get a warrant somewhere they want to toss, all it takes is a reported 911 call from a, quote, concerned citizen to initiate the SWAT process.
	So SWATing kind of benefits the cops, really, he says.
	Yeah, it does. And, um...
	The swatting is what the politicians have a concern with.
	They should be concerned with this whole approach.
	This is not something, as I pointed out before, this started coming into effect in the late 1980s.
	Even in 1984, it was not prevalent.
	It began with Daryl Gates in LA, the chief of police there.
	Let's talk about pharmaceuticals and the prosecution for Americans who had forged COVID vaccine cards for other people.
	At the same time, this is a Children's Health Defense article, The Defender.
	At the same time, these politicians are demanding that they have pandemic amnesty for what they have done.
	But not for the midwives, for the plastic surgeons in Utah, for the people who didn't close schools, who didn't shutter businesses, who didn't add trillions of dollars to the national debt.
	They are the primary targets of the Biden administration's Department of Justice and their COVID-19 persecution that continues in different form now.
	The Department of Justice has dedicated hundreds of thousands of dollars and resources to prosecuting Americans who forged vaccination status cards.
	The feds have used undercover agents to take down midwives and local doctors who forged vaccine cards.
	Many of the criminals quote-unquote had no profit motive.
	They did it because they objected to the mandates based on ideological principles or on medical concerns and they needed cards to participate in society.
	I said the very beginning of this before it even happened.
	I said Thank you.
	I would have no trouble, ethical trouble, doing it.
	The only concern I would have would be if I got caught.
	You know, if I had paper cards as they were doing in the early days, I would have no trouble forging it myself if I wanted to live a life.
	They have no authority to do any of that stuff.
	And I think that it is up to us to push back against that.
	But these are doctors who understand the concept of informed consent.
	They understand that these things are dangerous, that they've not been taken.
	They understand that people have ethical concerns.
	And so they were helping people and the Biden administration is hell bent to destroy those people while they give a pass to the people who were hell bent on destroying our lives.
	As late as spring 2022, long after it was widely known that the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission, which the defender says was the only ethical and logistical justification.
	There was no ethical justification for this.
	And more importantly, I don't care about logistics.
	More importantly, there was no legal or constitutional justification for this.
	It was unjustified, ethically, legally, constitutionally.
	It should have been imposed, broadly, by everyone.
	Politics like Gavin Newsom, politicians I should say who celebrated their acquisition of dictatorial powers in 2020, demand forgiveness for what they did against the Bill of Rights.
	But don't ever forget this foundation was laid back in 2001 with the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act.
	And it was activated by With the executive order of Trump releasing the money, just like you say, well, there's been a hurricane, so here's all your money.
	And Fauci will tell you what you must do.
	And they did it to get the money.
	In the Atlantic, Professor Emily Oster has called for, quote, pandemic amnesty, unquote.
	After advocating for vaccine mandates for employees and students, for school closures, for full lockdowns over the holidays and universal masking, she says, let's focus on the future.
	Let's not talk about that, okay?
	Let's just have pandemic amnesty.
	Our guess is all the Fauci's would say, hey, forget about it, right?
	The Biden White House has largely adapted this strategy, substituting foreign conflicts as its new justification for exorbitant foreign spending and widespread domestic censorship.
	And this is coming from Children's Health Defense, Robert Kennedy's organization.
	They portray him as the only person who's going to look at this stuff.
	I have no confidence that he would do it either.
	I don't think he's going...
	He might do a Jim Jordan and have a hearing to talk about it.
	He's not going to make any reforms if he were president.
	With the presumptive nomination of Trump and the Republican Party, both parties will work to ensure that this will happen again and again.
	And that nothing is going to change.
	That there will be amnesty for all of their actions.
	Because they were all in it.
	In fact, the powerful have already enjoyed a pandemic amnesty.
	And of course, who is granting that amnesty?
	The public. You've got half of the country that naively thinks it was all necessary and that it somehow saved lives.
	Hopelessly ignorant and controlled by the mainstream media.
	And then you've got the rest of the population who hate it.
	But they're also hopelessly controlled by the alternative right mainstream media.
	And they don't want to see any of this as having anything to do with Trump.
	They hate it, but they fully excuse him.
	And I think that's not just ignorant.
	It's evil. Evil.
	It was murder on the Warp Speed Express, and they all took a shot.
	Republican and Democrat.
	They all had a hand in it.
	All of them. Not just the presidents who were at top.
	But also all the senators and the congressmen who didn't do anything, all the governors, all of the unelected officials, they all had a hand in it.
	And there's amnesty for all of them.
	And of course they're going to excuse themselves.
	And who I blame for the amnesty of the voting public who don't demand that something be done, but are still going to fight over which one of these people who ran this is going to be the leader.
	They all had a hand in it.
	So, again, they pocketed billions of dollars from federal, state, and local mandates.
	They pocketed tens of billions of dollars from Trump.
	Focus on the future does not extend to those who resisted the COVID-19 martial law, however.
	The mandates were so feared and loathed by significant and diverse numbers of citizens that they were willing to become criminals rather than comply.
	Says the person who is talking about these prosecutions.
	And so that's where we are right now.
	Biden is not going to let any of this stuff go.
	He's got a personal vendetta for revenge against anybody that opposes his regime and his orders.
	And Trump and his people have a personal vendetta, again, against the other side as well.
	Everybody wants revenge. Nobody wants the rule of law.
	Nobody wants reform either, right?
	There's no call for reform.
	It'd be different if there was a call for punishment and reform, but it's just to get even with those other guys.
	We just want to own the libs and we want to own the country.
	This article here from, it's on the Brownstone Institute, but it's actually from the Washington Examiner.
	The writer is Daniel Nussio.
	And his headline is, our leaders learned nothing from their COVID failures.
	If you believe that, then you learned nothing in the last three years.
	They learned a great deal about us.
	They learned what they could get away with.
	And if you think that, it was a failure.
	It wasn't a failure.
	It was exactly what these people had rehearsed for 20 years.
	They got exactly what they wanted, and they got away with it.
	Don't talk about this as if they were duped about this.
	You know, they learned who resisted and they learned who didn't.
	They learned that the vast majority of people are going to go along like sheep.
	They learned that they can scare people with fear and that they will never have to suffer any consequences for it.
	They learned that they can play partisan politics in order to get amnesty.
	They learned all of those lessons.
	And we're the ones who think that they didn't learn?
	We're the ones who think that they failed?
	It's like school.
	Do you really think that school's not working?
	That's not doing a good job?
	School is designed to do exactly what it is doing.
	It's designed to be an indoctrination system.
	It's designed to deliberately dumb the kids down.
	Are you that naive that you don't understand how well the schools are working?
	They're working very well.
	So he says, what are you doing to prepare for Disease X? If you were like most people, probably nothing.
	This is likely the first you're hearing of Disease X. No, we hear about it all the time, I'm afraid.
	However, if you spent mid-January in Davos, your answer may be included improving healthcare infrastructure, investing in vaccines, promoting a pandemic treaty that may or may not threaten state sovereignty around the globe.
	He doesn't even realize...
	How dangerous the pandemic treaty is, or even before that, the rules that they changed.
	He really doesn't understand.
	He says, on January the 17th, Nancy Brown, the CEO of the American Heart Association, led a panel discussion that included the World Health Organization director, Tedros, as well as representatives from AstraZeneca.
	This is at the World Economic Forum.
	We've got myocarditis, pericarditis, that now become household words.
	And you've got the person who is the CEO of the American Heart Association.
	Folks, if I die of a heart attack, don't give them a penny.
	You see people, well, you know, so-and-so died of cancer.
	Send money to the cancer funds or something, or send money to the Heart Association.
	Don't give these people a penny.
	She's going to pal around at the World Economic Forum with the head of the World Health Organization and one of the vaccine manufacturers.
	And she's head of the American Heart Association.
	She doesn't care about how myocarditis and pericarditis have now become household words.
	She doesn't see this as an epidemic.
	This is the epidemic.
	This is the pandemic.
	Well, I tell you, these people are hopelessly bought off.
	Truly is amazing. The goal of the discussion, she said, was to talk about what we can and should be doing to make sure that our health systems are prepared for any future crisis that might come along that requires global collaboration and participation and how we can be sure that we learn from the past in order to strengthen the systems for the future.
	And yet, she doesn't care that we've got school kids that are dropping dead of heart attacks?
	That they're now saying in many schools you've got to be heart-screened before we'll allow you to participate in sports.
	She doesn't care about that? Of course she doesn't, because it's all about money for her.
	There was also a lot of talk about the rapid development and global deployment of vaccines as if the COVID shots were an overwhelming success.
	Well, Trump says they were.
	He says he saved millions of lives.
	He didn't kill tens of millions.
	He saved millions of lives.
	Vote for him again. I do not mean to imply that vaccines are inherently bad, he says.
	This is the Washington Examiner.
	However, if part of the goal is that we learn from the past, there should be some acknowledgement that the COVID vaccines serve more as a cautionary tale than anything else.
	Are you kidding me?
	He said a lot of this kind of garbage in conservative press.
	It's amazing. He says, the CDC platform was used and the WHO was used to push the pandemic agreement.
	Critics have warned that the agreement may lead to, quote, the elimination of our national and our personal sovereignty by allowing the World Health Organization to dictate how its member nations respond to future pandemics and other things like vaccination and the handling of misinformation.
	But that's not his opinion.
	This person has zero discernment about what has gone on in the last four years, about what is going on with the World Health Organization.
	He says, on a practical level, it seems hard to imagine the WHO being able to enforce such an agreement in any meaningful way.
	And that's why I talked about it yesterday, and I cut out that as a report.
	To get people to understand, even when you look at the drug war, And again, you know, forget about what you think about marijuana, pro or con or whatever, or even medical marijuana.
	The point being is that you've got these Democrats who want to change it, and they said you can't change it because we've got international treaty agreements over the drug war, and you can't change it.
	You understand? Global governance is here.
	It's been here for a while. They snuck it in.
	Through the back door. Through these treaties that they never voted on.
	These treaties that were self-ratified by people from the executive branch as they claim to have done.
	And that's just as true of the climate treaty as it is of the drug treaty.
	And as it will be of any health treaty.
	You have to understand what their mechanisms are.
	I can't even get people to understand what Trump did in 2020.
	How do I get people to understand what these people are doing with these treaties and all of these existential areas?
	And they don't even want to talk about this.
	If they even had debates, they wouldn't have asked them any questions about any of this kind of stuff.
	No questions about what they did.
	Not going to question their lockdowns, who's responsible, how do we stop it from happening again, the masking, the vaccines, the mandates, none of this.
	They're going to ask any questions of this guy.
	Well, it's hard to imagine that the WHO would be able to enforce this in any meaningful way.
	Well, you got people, even Reason Magazine, That agrees with the Democrats and wants to change the scheduling of marijuana.
	Says, well, we can't do it because our hands are tied with this international agreement here.
	It should raise questions about whether the people positioning themselves to serve as our leaders in the next pandemic have really learned anything from the previous one.
	Well, I don't think Daniel at the Washington Examiner learned a single thing.
	A single thing.
	From the last one. He hasn't learned from the drug war.
	He hasn't learned from the climate accords.
	And he certainly doesn't understand what the pandemic treaty is going to be about.
	And then you have in the UK, they're doing an inquiry, a COVID inquiry about the leaders.
	Now that sounds on the surface like a good thing.
	But you need to understand that the inquiries, as Jeremy Corbyn, I had him on briefly.
	It was difficult with us on the connection.
	As he pointed out, these inquiries are nothing other than a cover-up.
	People know that this is bad.
	People know that these people, at the very best case scenario for them, they were unbelievably incompetent.
	But maybe there was some maliciousness there.
	So people have got this uneasy feeling in general.
	So what do they do? They have an inquiry.
	And they get people to come in and they do their little presentations like Jim Jordan does in Congress and that type of thing.
	And then at the end of it, they say, well, it's all okay.
	It's all okay. It's what they did to cover up ClimateGate.
	People saw the emails and it's like, what?
	They're rigging the data?
	They're admitting that their models don't work?
	They've got to hide the decline in temperature and all this other kind of stuff?
	What's going on? Well, they have a A big inquiry about it, and then people don't pay any attention, really, to what's happening in the inquiry, except for the decision.
	You know, it's like the investigation of the JFK assassination.
	You get the Warren report, and...
	Oh, okay. Well, that's good.
	Yeah. I'm reassured now.
	The government was telling me the truth all along.
	They don't have... Nothing sinister is going on here.
	We're all done now. And that's the purpose of these so-called inquiries.
	So the former Scottish...
	First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had her moment to testify, and they asked her some questions, and she backed this up with tears and doublespeak.
	Amazing. So the Daily Skeptic reports on it.
	Certainly her tears, they said, caught the attention of the headline writers.
	Not that that was the plan, of course.
	It just happened.
	It was completely honest.
	At the root of her appearance in Edinburgh today is the allegation explicitly confirmed, though excused by Sturgeon, that in 2021, when she gave an undertaking to the media to hand over all her WhatsApp messages to a future public inquiry, she already knew they'd been deleted.
	She justified this deliberate act of misleading the public.
	Was that misinformation? Disinformation?
	Well, yeah, it was.
	She deliberately misled the public and the media and the bereaved families.
	She followed it up with an unapologetic apology and a baffling word salad that sounded far better than it reads.
	Here's what she said.
	And I, you know, as will have been the case on many occasions over the course of not just the COVID pandemic, but in my many years in politics, when you're answering questions, you're trying to answer the substance of the question.
	And when you look back at this literal terms of the answer, it can be put to you in that way.
	So I accept that.
	And then the punchline, they said.
	And I apologize if that answer was not clear.
	These are why these people are so successful as politicians.
	Very, very slippery.
	Russia, as I pointed out, has just changed their mandatory COVID vaccination rules.
	And again, what is it?
	You know, if they invade countries, we invade countries.
	If they confiscate people's property and we do the same thing with civil asset forfeiture, if they jail and assassinate their rivals, What is it that Biden doesn't like about them?
	Really? I mean, isn't Putin just like Biden, or vice versa?
	Tyrants of a feather. They should be flocking together.
	And they do flock together when it comes to the global agendas, like the vaccines.
	They do the same thing that Trump did.
	Now, they have just pulled back the mandates that have been there since 2021.
	Those mandates demanded almost everyone undergo a mandatory vaccination, with health workers and teachers given top priority on the list, along with those suffering from chronic disease, the elderly, anybody living in cities with a population exceeding 1 million.
	Yes, population control.
	Under the new rules, only those who have been vaccinated against COVID or have contracted the disease itself will have to get a mandatory shot.
	So yeah, Russia is even worse.
	Vaccination should be done once a year, whereas previously you had to go twice.
	In Russia, there is no need for mass vaccination any longer, said the media.
	The country's health care officials believe that they've now got a high level of immunity.
	But the most interesting thing about this is that the person who was at the center of all of this is someone who was involved with the World Economic Forum and someone who has a commercial interest in these vaccines.
	is admitting that there is an unusual spike in deaths?
	With middle-aged people in the UK, and they're looking at insurance data.
	We knew this from One America in early 2022.
	But now they're seeing it over and over again.
	It's like Groundhog Day, over and over again.
	But we should always mention that this is the case.
	The CDC, meanwhile, is trying to tell us that they've got some updated information.
	Trump shots. And these updated Trump shots are now 54% effective against symptomatic cases.
	I don't know if when they say it's effective, are they talking about their poison or are they talking about their lies?
	It's kind of hard to tell, isn't it?
	But we do have in Australia some good news that an employer, actually even a government employer, Who pushed mandatory vaccines has now been ruled to be liable for the injury.
	And that's the thing you need to understand.
	Here in the United States where we've got the PrEP Act that's put in by George W. Bush to give immunity to any vaccines that came out to address a so-called pandemic, the people who forced you to do this, the people who coerced you into doing this, if you get injured, they have liability.
	And so let the lawsuits begin.
	Seriously. Australia's Department of Child Protection Services.
	This is where this person worked.
	Worked for CPS. And they required that Daniel Shepard have a vaccine.
	And he got pericarditis.
	I wonder if the CEO of the American Heart Association cares about that.
	She doesn't, of course.
	Anyway, he did it to keep his job, and now he is incapable of working.
	So many people who are coerced into doing this and they became disabled and couldn't work.
	It would have been better off to get fired and do something else, find a real employer that they would want to work for.
	They wouldn't treat them like that.
	So he got his COVID booster in February 2022 as a requirement for his ongoing work with him.
	And they admitted that That his disability was due to the jab.
	That his pericarditis was due to it.
	But then they said, but we don't have to pay you anything.
	And now he's taken it to court.
	Fortunately, they have now ruled that they must pay for that.
	And this from State of the Nation.
	The virology racket.
	And he quotes General Smedley Butler, who said, you know, war is a racket.
	Well, you know, this is a war against us.
	He doesn't mention it in that way.
	But he says, when you look at war, war is used to sell weapons that we don't need, and just about in all cases to destroy and devastate people who have done us no harm.
	Viruses are used to sell vaccines that we don't need and to give government power over our lives that they should never have.
	As is the case with war, virology makes a lot of money.
	For some at the expense of the rest of us.
	Well, as I've said many times, the pandemic was not a pandemic.
	It was not a virus.
	It was war against us.
	And so as we look at Russia and the fact that they've kept these...
	Vaccine mandates up until just now.
	They've just now stopped them.
	They've had vaccine mandates for three years.
	And when we talked about disease X earlier, the things being pushed by the World Health Organization, again, look at how everyone everywhere, it doesn't matter if it's Russia, it doesn't matter if it's a Democrat or Republican, if it's Trudeau, it doesn't matter if it's, you know, who it is. Trudeau, Bojo, all of them.
	Now Russia's version of Fauci says that in order to protect against disease X, the unknown disease, that we don't know what it's going to be, but we know it's going to be really, really bad because we're working on something and we'll let you know when we get it finished.
	So they need to have an arsenal of genetic vaccines.
	This is coming from Off Guardian.
	They say to avoid another COVID-like pandemic, it is necessary to create a national collection of vaccine preparations designed to counter the characteristics of possible pandemic pathogens.
	They have always done this with the flu shots.
	Well, we're going to create a flu shot, and we're going to mass manufacture that.
	And they do this mass manufacturing.
	They have it ready for flu season that would come every year, every year.
	And people would die every year from flu.
	And every year, they didn't know what strain of flu it was going to be.
	And so why would you bother to even take these shots knowing that?
	And then, of course, the shots themselves are not safe and effective.
	I've known many people who have been hospitalized with Guillain-Barre syndrome after getting their flu shot.
	I've known two. And everybody that I know gets the flu after they take the flu shot.
	But they don't know what strain it's going to be.
	And so they're saying, here, now we've got to develop a whole wide range of genetic shots and have them ready.
	So that whenever Disease X comes out, we can pick one off the shelf and start putting this out there.
	Developed and created using certified and tested technology.
	Currently in our country, such technology is a technology that we use to make Sputnik V. Or maybe that's pronounced Sputnik V for a virus or a vaccine.
	That's what they call their shot.
	The technology of genetically engineered adenoviral vectors.
	And so the lead scientist behind Sputnik V told TASS, the news agency there, that the COVID pandemic had demonstrated how safe and effective vaccines could be created in decades.
	Now it could be done in as little as five months.
	See, Trump showed us how to do this.
	Trump, Putin, all of them, Trudeau, all on the same page.
	Ideally, now this is a kicker, ideally these vaccines should be administered to the public one to one and a half months in advance.
	So we should just take these things even before anything shows up, you see.
	And the key thing, as I pointed out, is that this guy who's head of their vaccine stuff, as people are trying to get information about it, they say, well, we can't give this to you.
	It's a commercial secret.
	It's a commercial secret. We can't show this.
	The same argument that Michael Mann was using when people asked to see his data.
	It's like, you're working at a government institution.
	You've published the data. It's been used for public policy.
	Show us your data. Doesn't want to show it because he knows that it is garbage.
	But here's the key thing. This guy's name is Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
	You know, he's the kind of guy like Ramaswamy.
	He is there not as a scientist, but as a person who's going to pull this stuff together and make money off of it.
	An investment guy.
	He's the main financier of Sputnik V, and he said RDIF, his fund, is ready to produce and distribute new versions of the vaccine within two to three months after the appearance of new mutations.
	Now, what's this guy's background?
	World Economic Forum, he was a young global leader in the class of 2009.
	He worked for Goldman Sachs before he took the reins of this company in 2011.
	Isn't that interesting? How similar this is in every country.
	In all the Five-Eye countries, in Europe, in Russia, we have global governance, folks.
	Let me get some of the comments here.
	AGK810 on DiseaseX.
	Made me think of Paul speaking of the unknown God.
	The Romans had that unknown God, just in case we missed one.
	DiseaseX is like that.
	Yes. Guard Goldsmith.
	Hey, Guard, good to see you there.
	Liberty Conspiracy on Rockfin and elsewhere.
	Thank you for the tip, too.
	He says, I wonder how many of us are tempted to contribute more than once with a repeated message in honor of Groundhog Day.
	Well, thank you. And he does it a second time.
	Thank you for the two tips and the two comments.
	Yes, I wonder how many of us are tempted to contribute.
	And he writes the same thing again.
	On Rock Fan Handy, he says, Burl says his purchase of the Turbo Cancer Treatment Company, Sagan...
	It was like buying the goose that lays the golden eggs.
	That's right. And no matter how many eggs Trump or these politicians lay, they will always play the Hegelian card Vote for me.
	I'm not the other guy. Yeah, I may be bad, but I'm not the other guy.
	So you need to be afraid of him and vote for me.
	Let's see. It was Borla.
	Sorry. It was a typo error that Travis fixed.
	So Borla's buying another company there.
	I hadn't seen that. Denver Attaway.
	Another heart attack out of nowhere among my circle here.
	Second, I've heard about this week among my friends and I barely socialize.
	On Rock Fan, Gard Goldsmith, responding to Denver, he says, it's been about strokes here.
	I've got many friends whose folks are having strokes.
	Handy said, we see it too, Gard.
	A lot of strokes. It's in the blood.
	It's in the blood. It's amazing.
	You know, that was really the blood and blood clots and things like that.
	It's the first thing to show up.
	Of course, people were dropping dead right away with the shots.
	That was a real red flag that they didn't do anything about.
	And then the myocarditis and pericarditis became household words.
	And they have come up with every excuse that they can imagine, haven't they?
	Grammy forgot. My sister keeps getting sick after two shots and thinks it's because she hasn't had her flu shot.
	So she's getting the flu shot now.
	That's so sad. I hate to see people taken advantage of.
	Eric Peters is ready, and I've got a lot to talk to him about since the last time we've spoken about what is happening with transportation, with automobiles, with classic cars.
	We've got a lot to talk about. So we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back with Eric Peters.
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	Always great to talk to Eric.
	He shares my love of liberty as well as of cars and transportation and the freedom that comes with that mobility.
	But, of course, now these car manufacturers a couple years ago decided that...
	It was more important for them to follow the ESG guidelines and to become mobility companies than to focus on selling cars.
	I guess they thought the payoff for being a stakeholder was going to be the rent-it-by-the-ride thing, as Eric and I have talked about so many times.
	Always good to have you on, Eric.
	Thanks for joining us. Oh, thanks, David.
	And maybe they didn't realize just how bad it was going to get.
	I know. Before we get into cars, I was listening to your program earlier, and you were talking about these anticipatory vaccines that they're talking about now.
	Well, that's a really, really interesting idea.
	Maybe I should go out and buy a set of new tires for my truck just in case it needs a tune-up a couple of months from now.
	Yeah, they'll hold a gun to your head and make you buy some stuff.
	That's the thing that bothers me. It's bad enough that they're going to put out all these things as genetic things and say, yeah, we've demonstrated that we don't have to do any testing now.
	And then not only that, but, you know, we've got a whole bunch of these things out, but, you know...
	They're really only effective if we start them a couple months before disease X happens.
	So we don't know what the disease is.
	It hasn't affected anybody.
	But we're going to have you come in for a mandatory vaccine.
	And isn't that what 2020 was really like?
	Nobody had died when they declared the emergencies.
	We had one declared at the end of January by Trump's big pharma HHS head, Alex Azar.
	And then even when Trump did it in the middle of March, nobody had really died of any of this stuff, right?
	It was nothing. It certainly wasn't an epidemic anywhere, let alone a pandemic.
	It was a pandemic of global governance, is what it was.
	The intellectual, philosophical pirouetting that was done, too, is just astounding to behold.
	You know, on one hand, as long as it was Trump's vaccine, it was bad.
	But when it became Biden's vaccine, all of a sudden it became good.
	Eurasia, we're at war with Eurasia.
	We've always been at war with Eurasia.
	And then it flipped the other way.
	As soon as Biden gets in, all the conservative commentators hit it.
	Mark Levin was pretty slow catching on, though.
	At the beginning of 2021, in January, he was telling Trump, you ought to take a ticker tape parade for this.
	It's your accomplishment. Don't let Biden take this from you.
	And it took him a very long time to start calling it evil after we had to have a sufficient amount of time for Trump to be gone before he could start calling it evil.
	But they still won't lay it at his feet.
	You know, this thing that he continues to brag about.
	It is amazing how both sides are like that.
	You know, you can't take that. That's Trump's vaccine.
	Or now it's a, you know, it's a bad thing, but it's Biden's vaccine.
	And that's why it's bad. It makes me want to jump in my old muscle car and just go for a very long, long drive.
	That's right. Yeah, let's talk about what's happening with these companies again.
	You know, last time we spoke, you know, Ford was having second thoughts about this and shutting things down, many of them GM. First, it began with their autonomous self-driving issues.
	I started shutting those things down.
	Then it began with, nobody wants to buy my product.
	I'm going to be out of business before I can cash in on this selling people retail.
	You know, by the ride, transportation.
	They're not going to make it to that point if they don't change.
	Yeah, it turns out that if you build it, they won't necessarily come.
	One of the more interesting data points that's come out over the last couple of weeks is that in California, of all places, the epicenter of EV fever, EV sales generally, not just Tesla, but across the board, have been down now for two consecutive quarters.
	And I think that that is a very fascinating bellwether because again the majority of EVs that have been registered, a bulk of them, probably about 2 of the 6% total at least are in California.
	And there are reasons for that.
	California is generally speaking an optimal place for an EV because generally speaking it doesn't get too hot, it doesn't get too cold, so you don't suffer the range depletion issue that you tend to suffer if you live in Chicago or Maine or any other place that has winter.
	And of course it skews heavily to the left and for leftists the electric car is a lot like wearing a face diaper.
	It's a symbol of their virtue.
	So a lot of early adoption.
	But even there, things are starting to dial back.
	And I think it's in part because people are beginning to find out, you know, this EV thing isn't all that it was advertised to be.
	But I think more fundamentally is that electric cars are fundamentally luxury cars.
	And what I mean by that is that they're priced at the same level as a luxury car.
	The typical transaction price on an electric car is approaching $50,000.
	There are only so many people who can buy a $50,000 car.
	Period. End of discussion. It doesn't matter what you think about electric cars.
	There's a reason why we have brands like Chevy, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and so on, which comprise roughly about 80% of the new car market.
	And then you've got brands like Mercedes and BMW and Audi and Lexus, which are much, much smaller players if you look at the number of vehicles that they sell.
	And what do you suppose the reason for that is?
	Well, the reason is that those are luxury cars, and luxury cars cost thousands, if not tens of thousands more than a Chevy or a Honda, period.
	That's why we're not all driving Mercedes and BMWs, because not all of us have the money to buy a car like that.
	And so I think what's happened in California is that the bulk of the people who want an EV in the first place and in the second place can afford one have already bought one.
	And now that's it.
	And the really fun part is going to happen over the next couple of months because normally in a market, if there were a slowdown of buying, there would be a slowdown of building.
	The manufacturers would respond to the decrease in demand with a decrease in production.
	But because they bought into this, this whole shibboleth, this whole idea of just making as many EVs as the government tells them to, they're going to churn these things out like Ford has been doing with the Lightning.
	And nobody's buying them, and they're just stacking up.
	And then what then? And it's going to be very interesting to see what then.
	Well, I think what's going to happen is the government that they've been trying to serve, it's going to have their back.
	The government will bail them out.
	They'll say they're too big to fail.
	And they've bailed out the auto industry before, and especially would bail them out if they're trying to be good citizens and take away our choices to have anything except a battery-operated car.
	Yeah. It was interesting to see, and you referenced it in your article, as you point out, you know, a lot of these things are, you know, even non-luxury brands like Honda, because Honda's got a luxury brand that they sell out there.
	But even their non-luxury items costing $50,000 or so.
	But Toyota taking the lead and saying, no, it's never going to be the majority.
	We have to have other ways to do this.
	And, of course, even if you want to have an electric car, there's other ways to do an electric car, right?
	Fuel cells, hydrogen, other things like that, that you can have zero emission.
	And I think as you and I have talked about for the longest time, the real agenda is very naked here because they've got to have the battery grid operated car.
	They don't want people to be able to fuel up independent of their control grid.
	And that's the key thing. The electric grid is their opportunity for control.
	That's why they are so dogmatic about this, just like they were the vaccines.
	No, you can't have any other treatment.
	And once you start doing that, people start waking up.
	It's like going back to the vaccine again.
	You had a lot of people who, at the beginning of this, people like Steve Kirsch, he's working with him.
	He's coming up with different things that he thinks are solutions.
	He believed in it enough that he got the vaccine and...
	But he's also trying to come up with different approaches.
	And if you're saying that it's really a pandemic and he bought into that, then wouldn't you try everything that you could if it's a really serious threat?
	And when they said, no, we're not going to try these other things.
	You can't do that. And it's like, what's going on with that?
	That doesn't make any sense.
	And so I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying, if you're telling me that this is some kind of a climate emergency, and you're not telling me that we can try everything to stop it, but we've got to do one thing and only that thing.
	It's the same approach.
	It's always the same MacGuffin every time you turn around.
	I wrote an article about this the other day.
	On the one hand, you've got the government effectively mandating electric cars, but on the other hand, you've got the government effectively prohibiting affordable or practical electric cars.
	What do I mean by that? It is essentially impossible to offer in this country the kinds of city car EVs that you can get in, of all places, the People's Republic of China.
	And a number of other countries like that, where you can get a little EV that's kind of analogous to a moped.
	A lot of people will get themselves a moped or a scooter because all they're doing is knocking around their neighborhood or the city.
	They don't need to go out on the highway, so why would they go out and spend all that money on a vehicle with capability that they don't need?
	Well, there are a lot of people who would be able to make great use of a little city car.
	The problem is in most states you can't get a vehicle like that because it's illegal to operate it on the public roads.
	It has to meet all of all these cars, one size fit all, have to meet the same standards.
	So again, to get you to point about their motives, if these people really believe there was a great climate crisis and we've just got to get people as quickly as possible into these EVs, you'd think that they would do everything that they could to encourage people to be driving efficient, affordable little cars like that that actually have a very small carbon footprint, to use their terminology, as opposed to these obscene 6,000 plus pound cars.
	$100,000, ultra luxury, ultra performance, gigantosaurus trucks like the Cybertruck, you know?
	And And the Rivian R1T and the Ford Lightning, just gratuitously, disgustingly wasteful of resources and energy and money.
	But, you know, it just tells you what they're really all about.
	Those things are a crime against thermodynamics, aren't they?
	They truly really are.
	And also another point against safety, a very interesting crash test study came out just the other day.
	It was done by the University of Nebraska and they featured a really Yes. You pulled up the video that's on your site on the article that just hit today.
	Go ahead. Tell us about it. The Rivian.
	There you go. It's a Rivian R1T, which is an electric pickup truck.
	It's similar to the Ford Lightning, and it's similar to the Lightning in that both of these things weigh well over 6,000 pounds, in part because they're carrying around 2,000 pounds of battery pack with them.
	Anyway, the study subjected one of these things to a crash test.
	They drove it into a guardrail, and it went through it like it was made out of tissue paper.
	Yeah. And two layers, two different rows of concrete barriers as well.
	When you think about the kinetic energy that a 6,200-pound vehicle has when it's going down the road at 50, 60, 70 miles an hour, and it's not just the guardrail.
	It's going to hit you or me, potentially, in our vehicles.
	That's right.
	The rubber hits the road when these actuaries look at what they're paying out or what they're potentially going to be paying out in the future.
	And they understand that the cost of these things is going to be enormous.
	And somebody's got to pay for it.
	And that means you and me, even if we don't own an EV. Yeah, that's right.
	Well, you know, I guess they'll probably handle it, Eric, like One America handled the massive rise in deaths in third and fourth quarter of 2021, where they started really pushing out these vaccines.
	They said this is like more than three standard deviations away from the mean.
	This is like a once-in-every-200-year event.
	And the CEO says, well, even though they say that these people who died, these excess deaths, were not from COVID, I know better.
	I know they were from COVID. He knows better.
	And he says, and furthermore, I know that you don't get COVID if you get the vaccine.
	So what we're looking at here really is deaths of unvaccinated people.
	So we're going to raise the rates on the unvaccinated people because they're the ones who are causing this.
	I mean, the logic that they will come through to excuse all of this stuff, and we'll see it with this stuff as well, because again, you know, the climate MacGuffin or the pandemic MacGuffin, they've got their endgame that they're going to do whatever they want.
	Need to scare you with.
	It doesn't matter. They just pull up a different MacGuffin to get to where they want to get, which is more money, more control.
	can also be seen in their feigned and pretended concern about safety.
	We've been hearing them warble about safety for as long as I've been alive, for 50 plus years.
	And yet, when we find out things about EVs that are demonstrably not safe, like their tendency to spontaneously combust, for example, or the fact that if you get hit by one, you're probably more likely to get killed than you would have been if you'd gotten hit by a car that weighed 2,000 pounds less.
	They're silent. They're mute.
	You know, there's no expression of great concern about that, which, again, it's interesting because it shows it's not about safety.
	Safety, just like health, has always been just the MacGuffin, the excuse, the thing that they use to kind of lay a guilt trip on people.
	Well, you don't want people to die.
	You want things to be safe, you know, and therefore, you know, you should accept this.
	Here's our solution to keep you safe, to keep you healthy.
	Mm-hmm. Yeah, as you pointed out before, if they really do believe that we're all going to die because of CO2, then they would waive some of these mandates.
	You and I have been talking about this for years, since we first started talking.
	The Takata airbags.
	More of these things are now standing out there.
	But at the beginning of this, when they first started putting the airbags out, they...
	Adamantly refused to allow people to turn these things off for years, even though it was admitted by them that it was very, very dangerous for smaller women and especially for children if they're in the front seat.
	But you're not going to be able to turn this thing off.
	I mean, it's all about their agenda and their control, and now their agenda is to control everything.
	I have a friend, I can't mention his name, but this person worked for one of the major car companies, and at the time he was involved in the development of the airbag to comply with the SRS supplemental restraint mandate.
	This is back in the 90s.
	And he's told me personally about how the engineers went to NHTSA and explained that the standard as it existed for the unbuckled adult male passenger was going to result in women, old people, and children getting killed.
	And here's why. And they just explained the whole thing to them.
	The regulators did not care.
	They just went in bed with the mandate knowing they had been apprised of the dangers.
	They were told this is going to happen.
	They didn't care. And so it happened.
	And so, you know, they're just that flippant with people's lives.
	They're just that determined to pursue whatever their ideological end goal happens to be.
	Yeah. Oh, absolutely.
	Volvo is backing off now.
	They're the latest ones. And that just came out yesterday.
	And you had an interesting name for...
	Their electric car.
	Tell people what that is.
	The polecat? The polecat.
	The skunk? Yeah, of course.
	Volvo, which is no longer Swedish, except in name only.
	Volvo is a Gili, which is a Chinese conglomerate.
	They had been hemorrhaging money on this Polestar spinoff that they were trying to launch, which was going to be their...
	Their electric car, their high-end electric car division.
	And they've just not been able to make, not only have they not been able to make a go of it, they have been losing a tremendous amount of money.
	And so they finally had to pull the plug on this, just as Ford has had to shut down two out of the three production lines on the Lightning, because it's...
	At a certain point, you just can't keep doing this.
	The money runs out.
	And I think that these car industries are beginning to realize this is an existential threat to them, just on an economic level, that this is not going to pan out.
	It's not going to work out well.
	Yeah. Another one hit the dust yesterday as well.
	This is a company called Arrival, and they were cranking out vans for the likes of UPS. They had special cars that they had contracted to do for Uber, and they just had to lay off half of their workforce.
	They got delisted from NASDAQ this week.
	That's out of the UK. I mean, these things are dropping like flies everywhere.
	Truly, it's amazing. Yeah, well, here's something that I think is going to also not end well.
	Honda is just now bringing to market its first electric car.
	It's called the Prologue.
	And it's essentially a rebadged GM electric car.
	They're buying it from General Motors.
	It's the Blazer. It's the Blazer electric car with a Honda badge on it that they're going to try to sell through their brand.
	Bad timing. Yeah. Well, the thing of it is, it's almost $50,000 to start.
	Once again, I think its base price is $48,900, something like that.
	For a Honda! Yeah.
	$48,900 for...
	And what is it? It's another mid-sized crossover SUV. And if you look at the non-batteries-powered versions of those kinds of things, you can pick up one for $25,000.
	So who is going to go out and buy a $48,000, $49,000 electric version of the same thing?
	Who does that? Mm-hmm.
	Maybe Pete Buttigieg can do it because he's a government worker and he makes an astounding amount of money, but the average American family cannot do that.
	It's not sustainable, and I think it's going to be a disaster for Honda.
	You know, it's interesting because it seems like they've pulled in pretty much every automaker, major automaker except for Toyota.
	And, you know, maybe Mazda.
	Mazda hasn't really been doing anything with it.
	But they pulled in pretty much everybody in all of this.
	And they may wind up, Toyota may wind up, they're the biggest in terms of sales right now, right?
	I'm not sure at the moment, Volkswagen Group.
	May have asked them.
	I don't know. They're right up there.
	It's one of the top.
	And it wasn't that long ago that we were seeing all these pronouncements, probably about a year ago, one after another, these car companies were saying that by such and such a date, we're going to be 100% electric.
	And now a lot of these car companies are pulling back as part of the Volkswagen group.
	Audi is pulling back from that.
	They're having to. You can't keep stuffing this under the rug, almost literally.
	The case of the Lightning is illustrative.
	You had Ford shipping these things out to dealers, and the dealers were putting them on the lot, and they're just sitting there.
	Just fleets of F-150 Lightning's Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I'm sure that God was laughing when this...
	When the snowstorm went through and stayed for the longest time throughout the United States, especially in places like Chicago.
	That was a godsend. It really helped to put in stark relief the reality of dealing with an electric vehicle and what you're signing up for when you buy one of these things.
	It's a lot like the vaccines.
	I've drawn parallels with that.
	People were... We're relentlessly lied to about the true nature of these things, not told about the downsides, the deficits.
	And it's just the same thing.
	It's tracking in exactly the same way.
	And the truth finally, just like with the vaccines, begins to leak out.
	And after a while, you reach kind of a critical mass point, I think, where it just sorts, it gels and people get it.
	And they realize, you know, I want no part of this, whether it's, you know, whether it's a beautiful vaccine or an EV. Right.
	Well, and we look at how things are just being forced down our throat.
	We understand how the government and the corporations have colluded to lie to us and to manipulate us.
	And so I think it is really – some people are starting to catch on.
	A lot of people are still blinded by the partisan Hegelian dialectic that's going out there, as we talked about before.
	But talk a little bit about precious metals.
	Yeah, I talk frequently about gold and silver here.
	We got one of our best sponsors is Tony Arterman with Wise Wolf Gold, and he set up David Knight.gold.
	But you're talking about a different kind of precious metal.
	You said the kind that rolls.
	Yeah, exactly. There was a time when I bought my Trans Am, I bought it because I just liked it.
	I liked the idea of owning a cool muscle car.
	But as it turns out, it was actually a very good investment.
	When I bought the thing way back in the early 90s, I think I paid $5,400 for it.
	Good luck even adjusted for inflation, trying to find a car like my Trans Am today in that condition for anything remotely approximating that amount of money.
	Even adjusted for Biden bucks.
	So I've had the fun of owning the car for all these years, but I haven't lost any money on owning a car.
	Not that I want to sell it. But hypothetically, if I were to sell it, I'd more than make my money back on it.
	And it's not just these antique cars like my Trans-Am.
	It's older cars that were made during what I like to call the sweet spot of vehicular design, which I consider to be the apotheosis, the moment at which cars had reached a level that they had been declining from ever since, which is roughly the mid-late 90s through...
	roughly about 2010. Vehicles made during that time are incredibly durable, incredibly reliable, they're relatively easy to maintain, they don't need much maintenance, and they don't have touchscreens, they don't have over-the-top elaborate technology, they don't spy on you, they're not connected to anything.
	And the value of those cars is increasing because people are getting it and they're not wanting a new car, which is in and of itself kind of It used to be the case people wanted a new car because the new car was improvement.
	It was better than what you had before.
	Now it's worse.
	It's not only more expensive, it's filled with glitchy technology, creepy technology that's watching and listening to what you do in your car and monetizing you.
	You've become a product of Who wants that?
	Well, a lot of people don't.
	And so that's driving the cost of this precious metal.
	These older cars pop.
	And I think it's a really good time to invest in it yourself for all these reasons.
	Yeah, and of course, talking and nagging you about things.
	And that's going...
	A couple of weeks ago, I talked about an article where they were saying, well, we're going to put chat GPT in the car.
	It's like, no, no, no, not that.
	Anything but that. I actually heard about that, too.
	And, yeah, a number of automates. Volkswagen is the leading edge of that particular sphere.
	They announced about two or three weeks ago that they were going to include that in all their vehicles.
	It won't be optional. So, when you buy a Volkswagen vehicle, you're going to have a Chinese AI chatbot driving shotgun with you.
	A front seat driver, as I say.
	That's way worse than a backseat driver nagging you.
	And then, of course, we had, in the wonderful jurisdiction of San Francisco, we had State Rep Wiener there, you know, Wiener and he came up with the idea of having the governors on the car.
	So, you could have a governor in there with you as well.
	You know, ordinarily, I would dismiss that as the ravings of a San Francisco leftist lunatic.
	The problem is that that kind of thing, it's going to get traction nationally, and what people should understand is that the technology is already embedded in most new cars, one degree or another.
	It's just a matter of enabling it, of fully enabling it, I should say.
	For example, the speed limiter thing.
	Most new cars have something called speed It's a speed limit assist technology, and it's marketed as a helpful assistant.
	You know, a little light comes on on the instrument cluster to let you know that you're driving faster than whatever the speed limit is, and then it chimes and sheeps at you.
	Well, that technology could be kicked up to prevent you from driving any faster, or to let the appropriate authorities, whether it be the government or the insurance mafia, know that you happen to have been driving faster than the speed limit at such and such a time and date, and then done you accordingly.
	And people should understand that this stuff is not coming.
	It's already here.
	Yes, they have all the technology they need.
	I talked about that the other day. I said, you know, whenever you look at your map app, if you're using one of those things, it knows exactly what the speed limit is where you are.
	And as you point out, it's already embedded in the car.
	They have, you know, they're connected to the cloud in most of these cases now.
	And so I always did expect that what they were going to do was just to give you a ticket.
	You know, here's the ticket. You're over the speed limit.
	And... If you don't reduce this, if you're still over the speed limit in another five minutes, we'll give you another ticket, that type of thing.
	But by doing it this way, I guess, by saying it's going to limit you to 10 miles over the speed limit, then they can still have the police force, the police union is not going to fight them for five minutes.
	And so they can still have their cake and eat it, too.
	And so I guess that's maybe what they're looking at.
	But, you know, that's what we've seen from California, just as they said, well, we're going to stop the sale of any non-electric cars by such and such a date.
	And you've already got like another, what is it, seven, eight, nine, ten states that have piggybacked onto this.
	We had Virginia just get off of the train.
	But you've got all these other ones that said, well, whatever California does, we'll follow them as well.
	Yeah. And there's an interesting aspect to this sort of facet of it, I should say, that's kind of got a schadenfreude quality to it.
	If they do decree that vehicles shall travel no faster than the speed limit or 10 miles an hour over the speed limit, well, what have they done?
	They've taken away what is probably the only thing that's appealing about electric cars.
	You hear it about how quick they are, how fast they are.
	Well, boy, oh boy, I really want to line up to spend $80,000 on a ludicrous speed Tesla that can't go any faster than an 84 Yugo.
	But it gets you there so quickly.
	You can get to 25 miles an hour.
	Ask a commercial trucker about this.
	They'll say that you're accelerating aggressively.
	Oh, yes. And that, too, will be verboten or become the pretext for issuing you either an adjustment of your insurance or a ticket.
	Count on it. Oh, yeah.
	You're accelerating too quickly.
	You're braking too quickly.
	You're taking the corner too quickly.
	All the rest of that stuff.
	Turn without signaling.
	I mean, anything and everything, it will be without limit.
	And that's why it's so important to never give these people an inch of ground.
	When you're dealing with malignant people, never give them an inch of ground or a moment's grace because they don't deserve it.
	Oh, yeah. As a matter of fact, I'll never forget the ticket that I got for not using my turn signal.
	And I know exactly what happened with it.
	I was working late at night at TI, and I'm going home in the wee hours of the morning before everybody's come in to work yet.
	And I was the only one on the road except for one car that was over to the right, and I saw the light turning yellow, and I was speeded up to go through it.
	And then I looked at that car more closely, and I saw it was a cop car.
	Uh-oh. And I put my brakes on and it was a control stop, you know, and I stopped and I looked over at him and I smiled like you thought you had me, you know.
	The next morning when I came in at 8 o'clock, he was waiting for me.
	And he followed me and he gave me a ticket for not using my turn signal.
	And there was no traffic there or anything, you know, to make it to change the lane and everything.
	So, you know, they're another way of getting even with you, don't they?
	Yeah, well, you know, a jerk, but, you know, the thing is, at least that was sort of a random and incidental jerk.
	What's going to happen now is that these jerks will become electronicized and ubiquitous, and you will not be able to get away from them.
	And you can imagine this kind of panopticon that they want to direct on.
	A digital panopticon where everything that we do is constantly scrutinized and any deviation from what they say is acceptable or allowed is immediately punished.
	That's the kind of world they want to create for us.
	That's right. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't get to it today, but, you know, as people are starting to push back against artificial intelligence, right now it's the artist community that says, you know, you're stealing our artwork, you know, for these graphic programs that AI is putting the stuff together.
	And so they've come up with a program.
	They call it Nightshade.
	And they're just getting millions of downloads with that and the one before it.
	Because what it does is it puts in random stuff that messes up the artificial intelligence for now.
	It messes it up so that it thinks it's a picture of something completely different than it is.
	And people don't see it, though.
	So it's a clever way.
	It's kind of like we've seen over the years with, you know, Technology and counter-technology, you know, the radar detectors, and then you have the, in response to the radar guns, and then they ramp it up to detect the detectors, you know, that type of...
	Spy versus spy, remember that?
	Yeah, measure and countermeasure and all that kind of stuff, you know?
	And so now they're doing this with artificial intelligence and artwork, and yet, you know, they look at, even when Travis does thumbnails and stuff like that, if he puts something in there about President Xi, it won't do anything with that.
	And even with ChatGPT, I had my other son looking at how we could do the outline for the, since the show's three hours, we try to get people an idea of the topics in it.
	And so he gave it a transcript that came out of Premiere, and it really wasn't working with it.
	So he said, well, here is an example of the transcript.
	Do it like this. And when he gave it an example of what I cover, it just stopped working with him completely.
	It doesn't like the topics that I'm talking about.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	It's amazing the biases that are built into these things.
	And that's what AI is going to be.
	It's going to be the thing that's going to run this panopticon that's going to look at everything that we do.
	It's going to be able to mine all of this information that they've collected about us, all the cameras that are out there.
	It's going to be able to make sense of it in a way that they just don't have the manpower to do.
	Right. And if they can tie this into digital money, the CBDC thing, then it's game over for us at that point.
	And hopefully we'll be spared that.
	Hopefully enough people will awaken in enough time that there will be sufficient pushback to prevent that from happening.
	But if not, you won't be able to buy a can of pop out of a vending machine if you posted some mean tweet.
	That's right. Yeah, I just had an interview earlier this week.
	It was on Wednesday, I think. I talked to Aaron Day, who had been a libertarian activist up in New Hampshire.
	He ran for office because he was so concerned about CBDC. That was his only thing.
	And it allowed him to get in and talk to some candidates and talk to some other people about it.
	But he wrote a book, exactly what you're talking about, a fictional account of life under CBDC, is the first part of it.
	And then the second part of the book, He talks about what people need to do as individuals because, you know, the politicians, for the most part, aren't going to do anything about it.
	They're already on board with all this stuff.
	And they've been laying the foundation, the groundwork of this stuff for years, just like they did with the vaccine.
	And so they're ready to roll this stuff out.
	So he's talking about, you know, what do you do with gold, silver, and crypto in order to try to have, you know, some way to opt out a part of this thing that is coming towards us?
	I think part of it is having things that you can barter, and that includes, of course, your skill set, things that you can do that other people might need that could become valuable in a scenario like that.
	If you're fortunate enough to live in a close-knit, smaller kind of a community where people know one another, that sort of a system becomes much more practicable because a lot of it is based on trust.
	We used to have, generally speaking, a high-trust society where it was assumed that The person that you were dealing with was probably honest and probably competent.
	You went along with it. You can't assume that anymore.
	But outside of your small community, that is, in a small community where you know people, I mean, I know my neighbors, they know me.
	I know people in the community.
	And that's bankable.
	That's something that's of inestimable value, in my opinion.
	How do you trade in that currency?
	It's not something that... We're good to go.
	You got an article, are old cars practical as daily drivers?
	I think that's a great idea.
	And as you were pointing out, you know, the cars that were pre-2010, there was a lot to be said for them in terms of what they don't have.
	Things that are going to encumber you, things that are going to break and be expensive.
	Talk a little bit about that.
	Well, first of all, let's define old car.
	Generally, I find when you hear that term bandied about, most people will instinctively think you're talking about a car like my Trans Am, something that was made in the distant past.
	And I don't necessarily mean cars like that.
	I actually mean more like the cars that you and I were just talking about.
	Cars that are fully modern, they just happen to be older.
	You know, my truck is 22 years old, but unlike a car from the 50s or the 60s or the 70s, it has electronic fuel injection.
	It's got modern brakes.
	In fact, it's easier to drive in a lot of ways than anything that's brand new because it doesn't constantly bark at me because I'm doing something that the programming doesn't like.
	So I can concentrate on my driving.
	The point being, a car like that is absolutely practical to drive every day.
	I drive my truck almost every day.
	I have no problem driving it every day.
	And there are all kinds of vehicles, practically any vehicle that was made from circa the late 90s all the way through up about 2010 or so, those are immensely reliable vehicles.
	And there's no reason at all, if you're not hung up about driving an older vehicle, that you couldn't go out and buy one of those things and make it your everyday car.
	Mm-hmm. Yeah, and of course, even the people who are hung up on the appearance of something, the older cars are a lot more interesting in the way they look, even if it's quirky, isn't it?
	Sure, and they're also not as monstrous.
	I'll give you a good example. I saw a Toyota Tundra, a Circa 2000 model Tundra the other day, and it's a full-size truck.
	It's a half-ton pickup with a V8 engine.
	And yet it looks about the same size as a current midsize truck, something like a Chevy Colorado, for example, or a GMC Canyon.
	And I like the idea of driving something that's not as monstrous as the current half tons, which are preposterous.
	They're just, they're behemoths.
	I'm a pretty big guy.
	And like, even a guy my height, I'm 6'3", you know, I can't, I can't literally not touch the floor of the bed in these trucks without standing on something.
	You know, guy my height.
	And you can't get in and out of the things without, you know, crawling.
	And they literally are so jacked up and high off the ground now, they have ladders and things built into their tailgates.
	That's how silly it's gotten.
	It is. It is crazy.
	And, you know, and the front, when you walk in front of one of these cars, I mean, they got the grill that goes up to like seven feet tall, you know?
	Yeah, and it's all made out of plastic.
	You know, this big, rugged He-Man truck, you know, you take it and you bump into something inadvertently, and now you've got $5,000 worth of damage to the front end.
	You know, that makes me think, well, one thing that surprised me about that video we showed of the Rivian, busting through like it was paper, that metal guard rail, and then smashing to bits the first row of concrete that it got.
	I was surprised that it didn't burst into flames.
	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was actually quite remarkable.
	But the thing is, you never know.
	You know, the fence might not have erupted immediately.
	That's another thing. Getting back to the safety thing with these EVs.
	You know, over time, things degrade.
	Anything that is a machine, anything that moves, eventually it's going to suffer deterioration.
	Our bodies suffer deterioration over time.
	So you've got this battery case and all the stuff that's inside the battery, those thousands of individual cells.
	Inevitably, over time, they are going to deteriorate.
	And as they deteriorate, the increased risk of fire attends that.
	Now, we won't know yet because they haven't been in mass circulation yet.
	Give it time, though, and I think we're going to start to see even more fires.
	And one of the reasons, to get back to your point about the Rivian, one of the reasons why EVs are often totaled after a much less serious impact than the one that we see in that video is because there's really no practical way to determine whether the battery case was damaged.
	That's right. You'd have to remove it, disassemble it, and inspect it.
	And rather than do that, because it's cost prohibitive, the insurance company will simply total the vehicle, cut a check, and of course, you and I get to pay for that, because these costs end up being distributed across everybody who has to pay for insurance.
	Oh, yeah. It's like the guy who was driving his Tesla by himself.
	He said, normally, you know, I would have had...
	My kid in a car seat my wife in there, but all of a sudden the thing just started, you know Caught fire and he pulls it over. He jumps out and just in time He said if I'd had my wife and if I'd had the kid in the back They they wouldn't have been able to get out and so, you know, it can be very unpredictable It was it something that was it damaged? Was it a factory?
	Defect did he have a situation where he ran over something that was on the road and maybe it you know dinged something because the batteries are underneath the car Maybe it dinged something down there and it just took a while for that to propagate out.
	Who knows? There's really little bit the owner can do to mitigate these risks with the electric cars, which stands in stark contrast to what you or I could do to mitigate the risks of a fire with our vehicle.
	You check and see, well, I noticed a gas leak.
	Well, I better do something about that.
	These things are physical and visible, and you can see them.
	And if you're not a complete idiot, you know not to light a match to have a look under the hood to see whether there's a leak there.
	These are the ways that you prevent the non-electric car from going up in smoke.
	But when it comes to a battery-powered vehicle, you just assume.
	You have to kind of take it as an article of faith.
	Well, I hope today it doesn't burn up, and I hope today it doesn't take out my garage and my house along with it and kill me and my family in our sleep.
	You've got an interesting article.
	I love when you do this, again, going back to some of the old cars.
	Is it practical to have an old car as a daily driver?
	Precious metals, the fact that some of them retain their value and actually go up significantly if it's an unusual car.
	You also have one called How Times Have Changed.
	You began with that other electric thing that used to start fires.
	Yeah. And that's a cigarette lighter in the car, and we don't have those anymore, pretty much, because people aren't smoking cigarettes, I guess, anymore.
	More like burns. You know, it used to be, you know, when shopping for a used car back in the day, you'd sometimes see a little burn on the plastic center console where somebody's cigarette ash dropped.
	But it was common for cars to have not one, but several ashtrays, plus the cigarette lighter itself.
	Now they have PowerPoints, you know, because it's politically incorrect to smoke now, so, you know, you don't have that in cars any longer.
	And I try not to be a Luddite about this stuff.
	I just also think, though, that sometimes progress is not necessarily for the best.
	And some of the other examples that I put in there are the shift away from sealed beam glass headlights to these plastic headlight assemblies.
	Plastic is cheap until it breaks, and then it's really expensive to replace it.
	Whereas those sealed beam lights never yellowed, and they would only crack if you hit it Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	So, you know, they gave you a space saver, one of these little mini spare donut things in place of a spare.
	But at least you could kind of limp on down the road on one of those things and get you where, you know, you might get some help.
	Now they're taking that away.
	Now you don't even get the space saver tire anymore.
	What you get is an inflator kit.
	And the problem with the player kit is if there's damage to the sidewall, which happens a lot nowadays because of the short sidewalls that they have and the high inflation pressures and the big wheels.
	And so you hit a pothole and it ruptures the sidewall.
	Well, that's not going to fix your sidewall.
	So now you're stuck.
	And if you've experienced the wonders of roadside service lately, you'll know that sometimes you'll be sitting there for two or three hours waiting for the truck to show up.
	So what's been gained?
	Yeah, yeah. That's interesting.
	Yeah, they did that, and the first call I had with that was my Miata, and of course, there wasn't any room relief for the tire much, and so it was an inflator kit with that, and I guess more useful than that is having a AAA number that you could call.
	Just wait. Yeah, I tell people, particularly, and this is going to be a patriarchal, sexist comment, but if you have a daughter or if your wife is going to be driving by herself, I encourage people to consider getting a full-size spare from the vehicle that they have and keeping that thing in the trunk for just in case, as opposed to the inflator kit, as opposed to the space saver tire.
	Because you can actually get back on the road then, as opposed to being stuck by the side of the road in a potentially What we don't do anymore.
	What we don't do anymore with our cars.
	What do you have in mind with that?
	You know, you're going to have to remind me.
	Most of us don't do anymore.
	And you've got, the other day I used my old muscle car.
	It's something that we never did, which was the choke.
	And that's what got my attention.
	Because I had, my second car was a 1974 Triumph Spitfire.
	And it had a choke. And I thought that was the most hysterical thing.
	I mean, even in 1974, you really didn't see chokes there, except on like a lawnmower.
	And it's like, was the thing got a lawnmower engine?
	No, but you did see them.
	You just didn't have them in general.
	You didn't have to pull them out mechanically.
	You remember it until the 80s.
	it was cold was you push down on the gas pedal and that set the choke on the car.
	It might have been mechanical or electrical, but you still had a choke.
	You know, you didn't just, if you just got in like with a modern car, you just get in and turn the key or rather with most modern cars, you push a button, you know, to start the car.
	Well, back in the day, you, the first thing that you would do is pump the gas pedal, which did two things actually.
	First is set the choke and shot a little bit of gas into the engine.
	If you didn't do either of those things, you just turn the key and nothing, it would just spin, it wouldn't start because chokes off and there's not enough gas to get the engine going.
	So that's, that's one of the things that we don't do anymore in new cars.
	Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember that.
	I remember pumping the gas and, you know, my mom pumping it too much, for example, flying the thing so that you could smell the gas and it wouldn't start that way either.
	I just thought it was funny on my Spitfire because it had – and, of course, you know, being a British Leyland car, the choke itself was a plastic thing that was flimsy, felt like it was going to break off in your hand as you pulled it out, you know, so it was – It really was an interesting experience because everything in it was really pretty primitive and pretty raw, and that kind of made it fun.
	It had this one layer of top on it that when it rained, and it would rain every afternoon pretty heavily in Tampa where I lived at the time.
	When it would rain, I mean, you were like you were in a tent, and it even leaked a bit like a tent would.
	Speaking of things that are quaint and British, do you know what, here's a phrase for you, tickling the Amos.
	Do you know what that is? The what?
	Say again? Tickling the Amos.
	No, no, I don't know what that is.
	What is that? If you had an old Triumph motorcycle, they had Amos carburetors, and the process was called tickling the carburetor, which was essentially, you're pushing this little button to shoot some gas into the thing so it'll start when you kick it.
	That's funny. Speaking of motorcycles, this is another one of your articles.
	You're talking about next they're going to come for the motorcycles.
	And of course, I certainly see that happening.
	They just came as of January the 1st in California.
	They came after the gasoline lawn blowers and blowers and all the rest of the stuff.
	Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, if motorcycles were a new technology, they would never allow them on the roads.
	You know, they would say they're unsafe.
	And they're going to go after them.
	They already are going after them.
	It's just a lag time built into them relative to cars with regard to emissions.
	You know, they had managed to, quote unquote, get away with it.
	Up until now, because motorcycles are a relatively small proportion of the nation's vehicle fleet, and of course motorcycle engines are smaller than car engines, generally speaking.
	Though that's not so much true anymore.
	Engines get smaller and smaller in cars.
	They haven't been as scrutinized as car engines have.
	But all the stuff that happened to cars is happening to bikes.
	They've now got catalytic converters and O2 sensors and fuel injection and electronic controls and all this stuff that's making them more expensive and more complicated, just like cars.
	And inevitably, they're going to push air-cooled engines off the market, just like they did with cars.
	It's harder to dial in an air-cooled engine.
	There's more temperature variation.
	And so the result of that is that emissions aren't as compliant as they need to be for the federal standards.
	So you're going to end up with water-cooled bikes only that's going to get rid of a lot of Harley-Davidson type bikes, for example.
	And they're just going to end up with this same kind of dynamic that they have had with cars where pretty much they're going to push electric power onto motorcycles.
	They're trying to do that. They're trying to get people acclimated to the idea of getting on this thing that looks like a motorcycle and But it is a motorcycle.
	It has no transmission.
	You don't shift. You sit there on it.
	You rotate the grip, and it moves.
	And then it runs out of range after a while, and then you wait.
	And that's what they've got in mind for that, too.
	It is interesting, too, because as I go to electric bikes, maybe they haven't noticed what's happening to all these e-bikes in the cities and all the fires that they're having in New York City and people that have been killed by that.
	Again, same problem.
	We just keep seeing it scaled up, whether it's a bike or whether it's a bus.
	And of course, the big bus, electric bus companies, the cities that have bought into that, to Virtue Signal are seeing that 50% or more of their fleet are out, even though they paid many times what they would for a diesel bus.
	So, you know, this is happening everywhere.
	Canada, they can't get them to work because it's too cold.
	And so they're going back to diesel there.
	But in Germany, they had some that just spontaneously combusted, took out everything, everything in the Stuttgart place.
	So, you know, as you scale this thing, we've seen it with the Samsung phones.
	They had problems with lithium batteries.
	But you just scale it up from that to a scooter, to a motorcycle, to a car, to a bus, to a semi-truck.
	You know, I mean, it just... There is no...
	And finally now, the reality is setting in on people, as I said.
	They're starting to pull back on it.
	But there just seems to be this full-speed-ahead, damn-the-torpedoes attitude.
	Yeah, I hope people begin to see a common thread, which is an anti-personal mobility, anti-driving, anti-vehicle ownership thread.
	That is how you understand what's going on.
	And if you take that as the premise that you're thinking, everything begins to make sense.
	Otherwise, it doesn't.
	Otherwise, it's really baffling and puzzling.
	You look at it and go, well, why in the world would they do this?
	It's We're good to go.
	That's right. And government-controlled transportation.
	Before you came on, I was just talking about an article that I saw at the Washington Examiner where the writer was saying, well, I hope that, you know, it seems like, I don't know, these people learn their lesson, these leaders who put us into this lockdown, all the rest of the stuff, it's like, are you kidding me?
	It worked out perfectly fine for them.
	They didn't. This is exactly what they wanted.
	It's just like the products of the school system are exactly what they want.
	And that's the crazy thing, is that people still don't understand, even though we went through all that, they don't understand what the end goal is here.
	And so they obviously don't see that all these different things that they're trying to scare us about all have the same end goal.
	I think they don't understand it precisely because they're sane and normal.
	And I think it's very difficult.
	It's funny, but it's also alarming.
	I think that the average person has a really difficult time.
	I know it took me a long time to understand these malignant people, to understand what you're dealing with.
	That it's not about good intentions going awry.
	It's not about, well, they're just incompetent.
	These people are consciously, deliberately malignant people.
	And that's a difficult thing for most people to really come to terms with and understand.
	And I think you combine that, and I've said this in the past.
	I said, because we're normal, we can't understand these people's mindset.
	And because we haven't seen the technology, we don't understand how powerful that technology is.
	And that's a really explosive binary bomb.
	When you take these psychopaths and you give them unlimited amounts of money and technology that can do things that we can't even imagine, we still think it's sci-fi stuff.
	That's what's really, we're looking at it, and that's what makes us so dangerous.
	But just pulling back, yeah, go ahead.
	Oh, I was going to say, you know, excuse me, not the cat.
	Just for people who question whether I'm me being perhaps a little hyperbolic about the malignant thing, stop to consider that all of the people behind the pandemic, Fauci, Birx, all those people, Trump...
	None of them have evinced any public shame.
	None of them have come forward and said, you know, gosh, I feel terrible.
	I wish I had done something differently.
	I meant well.
	I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
	You never hear that from any of these people ever about anything.
	They just don't care.
	Yes. And a couple of weeks ago, I did a video that I saw where Luke Wadaski was talking to Tim Poole, and he says, why can't they just admit that they did something wrong?
	You know, maybe then we could start to fix it, you know, fix some things, make sure this doesn't happen again.
	And Tim Poole just went off on him.
	I am so sick and tired of hearing this for four years.
	They did a thing four years ago.
	So what? And it's like, are you kidding me?
	These are the same people, by the way, on the right who are still talking about every little minute detail of the election.
	But they don't want to talk about the lockdowns and the vaccines or any of the rest of that stuff.
	It's four years ago. Let's just move on.
	That's the damaging thing that we see, and that's coming from a lot of the alternative media.
	They will hound some 98-year-old guy who, when he was a 16-year-old kid, worked for a month at the end of the war at Treblinka.
	You know, we're not supposed to forget that, right?
	And I'm not saying that that person should be forgiven.
	People should be held to account for what they do.
	They've done something horrific and something appalling.
	But somehow we're just supposed to pretend that all this stuff didn't happen.
	Now, me personally, if I'd been involved in something that had caused a lot of damage to people, to their livelihood, to their health, I don't think I can live with myself.
	I would want forgiveness.
	I would want to apologize and say, look, man, I was scared.
	I meant well.
	I was trying to do the right thing, and I screwed up, and I'm sorry.
	I could roll with that.
	If these people would come out and say something like that, I could roll with that, but they don't say that, so that tells me a lot about who they really are.
	That's right. They knew when they were doing it, right?
	They knew what was happening, that they knew that this was a hospital death protocol putting people on these ventilators, but they did it anyway because they were getting paid to do it by Trump's government.
	You know, that's the key thing.
	You know, as we're talking about this attack on ownership, There was something I talked about earlier this week that I think is amazing.
	You and I have talked so many times about CO2 and what a tiny percentage of the atmosphere it is.
	And during the Iowa caucus, it came up that they've got this ludicrous idea of pumping CO2 across the continent in a pipeline.
	And the only thing that compounds all that is the...
	It's compounded by the fact that they want to combine that with eminent domain to steal people's farms.
	And that you've got all these politicians that are involved in it, right?
	You've got the guy who owns Summit, which is the CO2 company.
	He's a big fan and supporter and donor of Trump at Mar-a-Lago and all the rest of the stuff.
	And then you've got Kristi Noem in South Dakota and Governor Burgum, another Republican in North Dakota, where they want to store a lot of this stuff.
	They're all on board with it as well.
	And it's amazing and disgusting to see these people who have absolutely no regard for our private property.
	But everything we've been talking about is along those lines.
	You know, you have these global elite.
	They're going to own everything. We're going to own nothing.
	And that's just another absurd aspect of it.
	And when I talked about it, I said it's like Spaceballs where the character's got Perry Air.
	You know, he's got that canned air.
	They've got a great regard for their net worth.
	You know, it's just become so Left, right, it's the same thing, ultimately.
	They are profiteers.
	These people realize that they can make as much money off of this green scam as the people on the left.
	Yeah, sure, let's have a big company that makes a pipeline and steal people's land.
	I'll get rich. I'll have my doomsday bunker somewhere in Maui because I'll have all this money.
	They just don't care.
	It's all about them, their money, and their power.
	Mm-hmm. Yeah, and it was the insanity, the lunacy of all this stuff.
	The idiocracy that we live in was compounded by the fact you had people in the areas where they're going to be putting the carbon dioxide into the ground.
	They're freaking out, said, what if that leaks out?
	It's like, what if it does?
	Who cares if it does?
	And that's why we've got to start laughing at this whole paranoia about CO2. I will say Vivek Ramaswamy was the only one of the GOP fold to come out openly and say that the whole thing is a scam.
	The whole thing is a grift.
	The only one. And all these other guys, they implicitly buy into it.
	I mean, after all, if we have to have a way to sequester carbon, then carbon must be a dangerous gas.
	Carbon dioxide, right?
	So how do you oppose the left by agreeing with the left?
	Exactly. Yeah, you've got to attack it at that point.
	You're absolutely right. And I think, you know, when you look at these people and they freak out about it, there's so much confusion with people over carbon dioxide versus carbon monoxide.
	Maybe that's what they thought, right?
	We're all going to die in our homes just like we were in a car in a garage with the motor turned on the door down, you know?
	If all this stuff gets out, we could all die.
	You know, even with regard to that, it's actually quite difficult to kill yourself with a running car in a closed garage now.
	Because they're so clean.
	So little pollution.
	You almost have to literally put your mouth on the tailpipe in order to get the lethal dose at any kind of time.
	Oh, that's funny. Yeah, I guess that's true.
	And I know that from experience.
	When I'm driving around with the top down, it used to be that...
	You know, you would, you know, get behind a car that needed to tune up or something.
	In your eyes with water.
	Yeah, but you don't have that anymore.
	Never see that anymore, even when you get behind old cars.
	I mean, it's very, very, very rare.
	It's so rare that when it happens, it's like, oh, yeah, I remember this.
	Yeah, by any objective rational standard, the pollution problem as it pertains to vehicle exhaust emissions was solved about 1998.
	That's right. That's right.
	And so, you know, we are arguing about how many angels sit on the head of a pen, but the trillions of dollars that are being spent on this, and the ability that they have to control us through these so-called treaties, and that's one of the things that bothers me, this Paris treaty never ratified, nobody in either party ever said, well, you We know how this works.
	The Senate is supposed to have a vote to have a treaty, and yet they hold that over our heads.
	And so, as I've said, we already have global governance because we have all these people in both parties have consented to allow these globalist organizations to set the agenda and then pretend that they have to obey it and march in lockstep.
	The Constitution is an effective nullity.
	Whatever happened to the constitutional requirement that Congress shall declare war when that is deemed to be necessary.
	Now we just have the decider, whether it's Bush or Biden or Trump, they just decide and they decree and they send us off to war.
	That's right. Yeah, it's all done by fiat, and we see this being done with everything.
	I began the program today talking about the fact that here we are on Groundhog Day.
	We've got yet another executive order and yet another attempt at gun control coming from Biden.
	Well, where did that get established?
	And so many, you know, Fox and all these conservative organizations that are appealing to a conservative group, they want to talk about how bad Biden is for doing gun control.
	But they don't look at the fact that Trump did it with a bump stock and even did it with a pistol brace.
	And so this is the way that they control people.
	It's, again, through this hyper-partisanship.
	And if we can't see, you know, if we are so partisan that we blind ourselves to what these people do and have done, there really isn't any hope for us at this point.
	I agree. Thoughtfulness is in narrow supply and much need these days, isn't it?
	Just thinking about it, reflecting on it, looking at the facts and coming to a judgment.
	Instead of this, as you say, reflexively knee-jerk partisan reaction.
	It's team blue and team red. We all know what to do.
	That's right. Well, that's why I like your publication, Eric Peters-Otto.
	He cuts to it. He's not partisan.
	And his focus is on liberty and mobility.
	And you can't separate those things, as I'm sure Jefferson would have said if he'd owned a car right now.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	And those are two things that you can destroy, but you cannot disjoin, I think is probably what Jefferson would have said.
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