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The David Knight Show - 03/14/2024

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	You're listening to The David Night Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 14th of March, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well, today we're going to talk again by talking about what's going on with TikTok.
	We've now had a bill passing the House.
	It looks like it's going to make it all the way through.
	What does this really mean?
	What is the issue here?
	Well, of course, the issue, as usual, is what they're not talking about.
	So we're going to talk about that.
	We're also going to take a look at our changing values.
	West Point has removed duty, honor, country.
	No longer a part of the motto.
	And this has a lot more implications than you can imagine as well.
	It's now going to be army values.
	Army values. What's that?
	I'm afraid I think we know.
	But big implications for that.
	we'll be right back
	well the house has passed the tick-tock divestment or ban bill and it is only 15 Republicans voted against it and only 50 Democrats vote against it So the vast majority of them think that the First Amendment and control of the Internet, you know, First Amendment's dead, control of the Internet is just perfectly fine.
	And that's really what is going on here, I believe.
	The top two senators on the Senate Intel Committee are now supporting the TikTok bill as well.
	So as it's gone through the House, you've got Mark Warner and Marco Rubio are going to be pushing it in the Senate.
	Biden wants it as well.
	As usual, Thomas Massey has the right take, I believe.
	He said some of us are concerned. There are First Amendment implications here.
	It's not implications.
	It's putting it mildly.
	Here's what he said in total.
	The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized.
	Mr. Speaker, I know the sponsors of this bill are sincere in their concerns and in their effort to protect Americans.
	They've described the TikTok application as a Trojan horse, but there are some of us who feel that either Intentionally or unintentionally, this legislation to ban TikTok is actually a Trojan horse.
	Some of us are concerned that there are First Amendment implications here.
	Americans have the right to view information.
	We don't need to be protected by the government from information.
	Some of us just don't want the President picking which apps we can put on our phones or which websites that we can visit.
	We don't think that's appropriate.
	We also think it's dangerous to give the president that kind of power, to give him the power to decide what Americans can see on their phones and their computers.
	To give him that sort of discretion, we also think is dangerous.
	Now, people say that this TikTok ban will only apply to TikTok or maybe another company that pops up just like TikTok, but the bill is written so broadly That the president could abuse that discretion and include other companies that aren't just social media companies and that aren't, you know, as some people would believe, controlled by foreign adversaries.
	Again, we're giving the president that discretion to decide whether it is controlled by a foreign adversary.
	There were some people who were legitimately concerned that this was an overly broad bill, and they got an exclusion written into the bill that I want to read.
	It says, the term covered company does not include an entity that operates a website or application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.
	Why is this exception in the bill?
	Why did somebody feel like they needed this exception if the bill itself only covers social media applications that foreign adversaries are running?
	These and other questions we hope to answer in the course of this debate, and I reserve the balance of my time.
	The gentleman from Kentucky reserves the...
	Okay, and so it's spot on.
	Spot on as usual.
	He was one who talked about the reckless spending, said, no, we're going to come back here if you're going to try to spend nearly $4 trillion of giveaway money, universal basic income, and all the rest of the stuff.
	Come back here and get on record.
	And we know what that is doing.
	As a matter of fact, we're going to take a look.
	At the escalating commercial real estate crisis, and the fact now that there's been repeated talk by Powell and many others about massive bank failures, over 500.
	But don't worry, it's not the big banks.
	They're the only ones we really care about.
	Seriously, that's what they're saying.
	It won't be the big banks, so we're fine.
	And it would just be the small, medium-sized banks, which they don't want to have anyway.
	They want consolidation.
	But you heard what he had to say.
	Other people were concerned about this, and so they got a writer put in there.
	This is not going to apply to websites or applications that do product reviews or business reviews or travel reviews.
	That's it. That's the only thing that's protected now on the Internet.
	Anything else is up for grabs and can be banned just like that.
	It's always been obvious from the very beginning, hasn't it, that the censorship is coming from the government?
	And you see governments around the world now escalating this.
	And we'll get to it.
	But, you know, the Canadian bill, just amazing.
	But it's not the only place.
	We just had a guy in the Netherlands, a political opponent of the establishment, Being sentenced to seven years in prison.
	In Finland, the prosecutor there is trying to establish this against a person who was a long-time parliamentarian there.
	By the way, the guy getting the seven years was a former parliamentarian.
	This is political strong-arming.
	This is Stalinist tactics, folks.
	The Marxists are flying their red flag.
	Oh, but red is our color, right?
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	Well, in this particular case, yes, I guess.
	The majority of this push to ban TikTok is coming from Republicans, but of course the Democrats are right on board with it as well.
	And the fact that Trump is backing off doesn't tell you anything.
	He's not doing that for principles.
	He's doing it because he's been bought off and Steve Bannon even said so.
	It's so obvious.
	But it got out of committee with a unanimous vote.
	Unanimous vote from the House Commerce Committee.
	Talk about commerce. You see, commerce is where they're using, again, everything in the Constitution turned upside down.
	Just as Ken Buck talked about the bill where he wanted to rename the...
	The bill, foreign interference or something, surveillance, or federal interference and surveillance of Americans Act or something.
	It's really what they ought to call the FISA Act.
	It was set up to stop it.
	It was then turned around to facilitate it.
	Commerce Department was set up to stop any attempts to ban the free flow of information, and now it's become the instrument that they presume gives them the authority to prohibit any drug under the drug war and many other things.
	And now they're going after the First Amendment as well.
	You see, when you leave these issues in, and again, as I've said many times, I've had to explain it many times to people, I don't support the use of marijuana anymore.
	I don't use it personally. I think it's a very harmful thing.
	I would discourage people from using it, just like I would discourage people from using alcohol.
	But alcohol prohibition was a failure.
	Marijuana prohibition was a failure as well.
	There's other ways that we have to approach this.
	That is a spiritual, medical, psychological issue.
	It is not a government issue.
	People don't like anything, and whether they're liberals or conservatives, they want to use the government as a club to hit other people over the head with.
	And we make them in their image, good or bad.
	Whether you're talking about banning alcohol or banning heterosexual relationships and two genders and the rest of the stuff, they want to use government for these purposes.
	And that's a trap for people to buy into this and say, we ought to have a law and it ought to be federal.
	Let's make a federal case out of everything.
	And now you have them using the Commerce Committee, not to facilitate commerce, But to shut it down, in violation, by the way, of the First Amendment.
	He says, I don't want the president deciding what apps I can have.
	We're perfectly capable of doing that ourselves.
	And TikTok, yeah, it's awful.
	All social media is awful.
	But there's one distinction, one thing that really makes TikTok different.
	And nobody has talked about that.
	I'll talk about that. But do you really want to have the president...
	Or whoever it is that is running him, that's the key thing.
	Here is Biden on the campaign trail, and he just announced his run for Congress.
	Pennsylvania, I have a message for you.
	Send me to Congress so I can support this right.
	I promise you, if we take back Congress, we will restore Roe v.
	Wade as the law of the land.
	Thank you. Yeah.
	Morally corrupt. Mentally corrupted.
	Who is running this country?
	It's not that guy. He doesn't even know what office he's running for.
	Send me to Congress!
	So, yeah, we're going to give him or whoever is running the government the authority to ban whatever they want.
	Who's running TikTok?
	Who do they want to run TikTok?
	You see, that's the key.
	All of our social media is run by whom?
	It's run by the intelligence community, by the CIA and these other people.
	They're the ones who funded it from the very beginning.
	They gave it the money. They gave you free access to it because it was always a surveillance thing.
	And they want to be the ones who are going to run TikTok.
	They don't want it shut down.
	They want to run it themselves. That's the key thing.
	A foreign adversary controlled application is defined as a website or an app that is operated directly or indirectly by a foreign adversary by which the president or the attorney general determines is a threat to the national security of the United States.
	Look, anything is a threat to the national security, according to them.
	But the question is, under that definition, is Biden a foreign adversary?
	Because he's like some kind of a puppet or an app or a website, right?
	He is operated directly or indirectly by a foreign adversary, China.
	Just like Trump, Congress itself, owned by Israel, right?
	So if we're owned and operated by China, owned and operated by Israel, isn't the Congress and the presidency, aren't they exactly what we're talking about with TikTok?
	And you need to understand they are.
	They are. That's why I say, the federal government is gone.
	It's a foreign government.
	The Federalist Sean Davis said, deep state toadies are taking advantage of anti-China sentiments to transfer TikTok surveillance apparatus from China and their evil surveillance state to the U.S. government and its evil surveillance state.
	As I said before, Social media, just like 5G. Why was Trump freaking out over Huawei?
	We can't let those Chinese people surveil us.
	That's America's job, surveilling Americans.
	That's the federal government's job, surveilling Americans.
	Can't let China do that.
	TikTok is going to be banned, he says, because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans.
	A tool for poisoning the minds of their children.
	Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok.
	And all of social media, as they have from the beginning.
	Like I said, In-Q-Tel and these other things.
	And, you know, if you don't think that the CIA and the intelligence communities are there to poison the minds of Americans, you haven't been paying attention for the last 70 years.
	It is... They have been coming after everything, from art and architecture to morality.
	And that's been coming from the CIA. They've been the hidden hand behind feminism and all of the stuff that's taken down our society.
	They have been the driving force, pushing it out.
	Through entertainment, they have their tentacles in everything, but some of them very, very directly, like education, universities, media, television, entertainment, all that is very direct.
	He goes on to say, Sean at The Federalist goes on to say, only a handful of U.S. companies are capable of buying and managing TikTok.
	And that handful of companies already function as appendages of the deep state surveillance apparatus.
	They were created by the deep state surveillance apparatus to do surveillance, like I said many times in the 1990s.
	The entire internet was designed by the concept...
	A DARPA psychologist, J.C.R. Licklider, in the 1960s when it was on the cusp of becoming practical, they started buying people.
	They created their venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, the CIA did, but they put people from the NSA, CIA, all these different agencies on these venture capital firms that picked the competitors and They wanted them to compete.
	Some of them didn't make it.
	They wanted the survival of the fittest.
	But they picked the people that were going to do their bidding.
	It's not that the U.S. government wants to protect you from spying and data theft and manipulation.
	That says the Federalist.
	If only. No, the people behind the Russian collusion hoax, behind the Kavanaugh hoax, behind the natural origin COVID hoax, people I would add behind the lab leak COVID hoax as well, and the illegal warrantless spying, and the forced transing of your children, They want to be the ones spying on you and stealing your data and poisoning the minds of your children.
	Should a spying and subversion tool used by our communist enemies to destroy us be banned?
	Yeah, obviously. But that's not what is happening here.
	Think about what our government does to protect us from China.
	They're so concerned about protecting us from China.
	Are they really? Your government won't even prevent Chinese Communist government from gobbling up your farmland, or stopping the Communist Chinese government from stealing the products that you make, dumping them into your market at below market prices, and then driving you out of business.
	When the literal Chinese spy chief bought off the Biden family by funneling a million dollars to Hunter Biden, DOJ didn't even bat an eyelash.
	But now they're worried about TikTok?
	This is so transparent, what they're doing here, isn't it?
	There's no evidence anywhere that the regime that currently controls America has any interest in fighting off China's attempts to cripple our country economically, to cripple us militarily, to cripple us diplomatically.
	I would add, morally, spiritually...
	But suddenly, they want you to believe that they're deeply concerned about TikTok.
	While TikTok has long been accused of curating degenerate content to feed the minds of Western youth, what all social media platforms have been doing this for years.
	And again, that's why the CIA was behind it.
	And when you look at Trump, the fact that he...
	Has a meeting with a guy who has a 15% stake in ByteDance.
	Jeff Yass.
	Who has a fortune of $33 billion.
	And all of a sudden, he flip-flops.
	And Bannon says, he's been bought.
	Yass coin. Trump desperately needs money right now.
	So watch who he's meeting with.
	Elon Musk said he wasn't hit up by Trump for money when he was asked that by Don Lemon.
	And by the way, he got upset with Don Lemon.
	Don Lemon focused on CNN type of topics.
	Let's talk about your drug use.
	Let's talk about Trump and if you're giving him money and that kind of stuff.
	And so he's not going to allow Don Lemon to make money on TikTok.
	I mean, on TikTok, on Twitter.
	You know, what's the difference, really? As a matter of fact, look at what I retweeted, if you can find me, about Jason Barker.
	I mean, they're coming after the Knights of the Storm and shadow banning them on Twitter.
	It's just pervasive.
	And, you know, there isn't anybody...
	Large or small, that isn't going to get shut down.
	They've already got the tools there, and it's going to get much, much faster and more precise as they bring in artificial intelligence, as I talked about yesterday.
	And so you have to ask yourself, if somebody is given a gift of a big platform, They've been given lots of money to speak by Elon Musk or the government.
	You know somebody's controlling them, right?
	You know they're selling the narrative.
	You know they're selling the agenda.
	As soon as they push back against it, in a slight way, even if they come after, like Lemon did, wants to do some gossipy personal stuff about Musk, they'll shut them down immediately.
	And so, Trump is sold out, and of course, Kellyanne Conway.
	She's for sale. Quite frankly, everywhere.
	Corrupt, for sale. There's only Massey and a few other people who will even speak out against this stuff, and there's too few of them to get anything done.
	And it's going to stay that way.
	They're not going to stand on principle.
	As a matter of fact, This is both a free speech principle as well as whether Congress even has the authority to do something like that.
	Legislative overreach. Where do they get the authority to shut down?
	Just go out and say, okay, you're out of business.
	Have we ever seen that before?
	I mean, forget about the fact that this is about free speech and should be protected.
	Congress shall make no law.
	Oh, they just did that yesterday.
	They don't care about the Constitution. Forget about their oath.
	And you forget about the oath of the people of West Point, too, where they turn that into a mercenary bureaucracy.
	To support this mercenary bureaucratic government that has been bought out and controlled by foreigners, running a foreign agenda out of the UN and all the rest of this stuff.
	But look, just going out and saying, well, we're going to shut down this particular business.
	We're going to shut it down. Think about the Rubicon that we've just crossed here.
	Very, very big precedent.
	The... Reason says TikTok's opponents want Chinese-style censorship in America.
	They've all talked about it, haven't they?
	From George W. Bush to Trudeau, many of them have openly said, oh, if only I could just order people to do what the Chinese, like the Chinese government does.
	They just tell people what to do and they do it.
	I could save the environment.
	I could do this. I could do all these wonderful things if I was just a dictator.
	Well, they've been working on being the dictators for quite some time.
	This is another big step toward that.
	Reason says the vote moved America a little bit closer to Chinese-style online censorship.
	The TikTok's opponents decry.
	Whether they acknowledge it or not, TikTok's opponents are using the same arguments that Chinese and Iranian censors can and do use to justify cracking down on social media in their own countries.
	Chinese authorities have long maintained a great firewall over the country's Internet, driven by the idea that the success of American tech companies is a threat to their cyber sovereignty, as they call it.
	The Iranian government, too, has begun to embrace the idea of Internet sovereignty, banning foreign social media networks in favor of Iranian-controlled platforms.
	It's appropriate to talk about China because this is, you know, we've got to do this with TikTok because of China.
	And so it's appropriate to talk about their hypocrisy, but it's not limited to China.
	It's not limited to Iran.
	This is the values that we see being put in all Western governments, all Western governments, whether you're looking at Ireland or Canada or France or you're looking at, you know, Holland or Netherlands, I should say.
	All of these different countries are doing the same thing at exactly the same time because there's a globalist agenda to do this.
	The UN, the World Economic Forum, and all these people who locked us down are no different from the Chinese.
	None whatsoever. Because all of them, including the Chinese, are heavily controlled by the globalists in many ways.
	And just look at how the globalists have favored China.
	You don't think they control China?
	You think the Chinese are doing this stuff?
	No. The globalists are out there with things like the Paris Climate Accord saying, none of you can have any energy production that is going to be affordable, except for China and India.
	So they're favoring China and India.
	That's a globalist thing.
	And look, we already have global governance, folks.
	It's not coming. It's here.
	We have global governance.
	It's not like you're going to say, oh look, it's there, or it's there.
	It is everywhere.
	It's pervasive.
	We have global governance with mega multinational corporations and these governments all working together.
	And they meet very frequently.
	That's why you have all these different organizations, you know, from Bilderberg to Davos, all these different, Club of Rome, they're constantly going around and touching base with each other.
	They don't meet at some parliamentary building somewhere.
	But they're constantly in communication with each other.
	They don't have to physically meet.
	But when they physically meet, they can get right down there to the nuts and bolts of it, just as we have seen with Bilderberg, for example.
	Denying even that they're meeting, and yet meeting with all these different government heads, with multinational corporations, with massive media in all these different places.
	And they said, no, we're just getting together.
	It's just a personal, informal meeting, and there's no business being done there, except Karen got a picture of Ed Ball coming into the side, fumbling through his luggage, trying to find his badge, and there was nothing in his luggage but papers.
	It's nothing but work.
	It's like he's going to a parliamentary meeting because that's what these things are.
	It's where the global governance creeps our meeting all the time.
	Yeah, they don't go to Washington or they don't go to, you know, Brussels or wherever.
	But they're going to all these little meetings all the time.
	And, of course, they're constantly in contact with each other in other ways as well.
	Global governance is here.
	You better understand that our government, our federal government, is heavily involved in something that's not going to be any honest elections.
	Get over it. Start doing other things.
	Focus on other things besides presidential elections.
	That's what they want you focused on.
	That's all they talk about because that's what they want you distracted and focused on.
	Competition is the strongest force keeping the internet free, says Reason.
	Whenever users find a topic banned on TikTok, they can escape to Twitter or Instagram to discuss the censored content.
	And when Twitter or Instagram enforce politically motivated censorship on a different topic, users can continue that discussion on TikTok.
	Reason really still doesn't get what's going on.
	It's like, I'm sorry, I was banned everywhere.
	Which one of these platforms could you go to talk about the COVID lies?
	To talk about the medical martial law.
	Which one of these? Oh, I can't talk about it on Twitter, so I'll go to Facebook.
	Good luck with that!
	So, you know, it just...
	Again, they are incredibly naive when it comes to censorship.
	They don't like it, but they don't understand how big and how deep and how established this is.
	It's kind of interesting to see even a, you know, hardcore feminist leftist radical pro-abortionist Margaret Atwood characterizing Trudeau's online harms act to Orwell's 1984.
	Isn't that interesting? Online harms.
	Isn't that what these people are saying about TikTok?
	Are they describing it as online harm?
	You see? In this particular case, just like we had before, Trump and Trudeau in lockstep doing the same things.
	Of course, labeling it slightly differently.
	But as I've said, it doesn't matter what country, doesn't matter what party, doesn't matter what stated political philosophy, they're on the same page.
	And here we've got an online harms act and a TikTok ban running through at the same time.
	And even Margaret Atwood.
	We did The Handmaid's Tale.
	You know, these radical feminists and pro-abortionists and everything.
	They're always out there dressing up in these outfits and everything.
	It's a funny story is that Karen didn't know what this novel was about.
	I didn't either. But I saw that there was going to be a movie filmed in the Research Triangle Park area where we were.
	And I was like, oh, and they had a call out there for extras.
	Oh, I'm going to go be an extra in the movie.
	It's like, okay, fine. It was a horrible experience.
	She didn't go back the second day.
	But I mean, it was a movie.
	It had Robert Duvall in it.
	And she didn't... It's this radical pro-abortion thing.
	But they put her in as an extra, as a Martha or something.
	And it was a lynching scene that they had there.
	We've never even bothered to look at the movie to try to see if we could see Karen in it.
	I mean, it's...
	Once we found out what it was.
	But even Atwood...
	Handmade tale author warned that this bill in Canada would punish people for thought crimes.
	She said this is totalitarian.
	It's like the Soviet Union.
	And it's like France before the revolution.
	She even said if this account of the bill is true...
	It's letters they cachet all over again, referring to secret letters sent by the king of France, authorizing citizens to be imprisoned without a trial.
	Folks, that's what's been done with social media for the longest time.
	Put you in Twitter jail, put you in shadow ban, or ban you overtly.
	Secret letters that have now been shown with the Twitter files.
	Secret letters being passed between people in the Trump administration and people in the Biden administration to take us down in many different ways.
	Yes, it is bipartisan.
	And it is both of these creeps.
	45 and 46.
	Deep six of them both.
	The possibilities for revenge, false accusations, and thought crime are so inviting, she said sarcastically.
	And that's how it will be used.
	Adelby is false accusations, revenge, thought crimes.
	This is not the first time that Atwood has called out Trudeau for restricting free speech.
	In April of last year, she cautioned against Trudeau's internet censorship legislation bill at the time, C-11, comparing it to censorship in the Soviet Union.
	Following her comments online, one of the ministers trying to run this through said, well, our definition of hate speech, there should be no such thing as hate speech.
	You can't have a First Amendment with hate speech.
	You can't hate speech.
	It has to be defined as, and this is his phrase, interestingly enough, awful but lawful.
	I think it's great. We need to remember that.
	Awful but lawful. If you don't tolerate awful speech as lawful speech, there will be no free speech whatsoever.
	He said, no, instead it includes expressions of detestation and vilification.
	Well, that's pretty wide, right?
	That's open to interpretation.
	It does not include, he said, insults, offensive comments, or jokes that are not very polite.
	But that's what this Dutch politician, head of a party, is going to jail for seven years.
	We'll get to that in just a second.
	He's going to jail for jokes that were made in a private social media group.
	This is happening everywhere.
	The idea that someone on their smartphone on an afternoon while they're watching a football game, if they insult anyone...
	Could be condemned in a court or caught by a peace bond is ridiculous, he said, in my opinion.
	Now, he says that's in my opinion.
	In other words, my opinion is that's not what this says.
	Well, you know what? My opinion is that that's exactly what it says.
	And anybody who supports free speech understands, that's exactly what it says.
	And it is ridiculous, but that's what these bills that they're putting out in Canada and elsewhere are really about.
	It conveniently neglected to say what would be considered to be hate speech.
	They don't define it. I'll know it when I see it.
	I'll know it when I see the mouth moving of somebody that I hate.
	When I hear something that I disagree with, that's hate speech.
	Just put that down.
	That's really what it is. Anything that opposes the government's narrative is hate speech.
	It's racism, too.
	So, he said, penalties, by the way, for this new one here, this new bill.
	You could get up to $20,000 fine, but you could get life in prison.
	Life in prison for saying something they believe is hateful.
	Subjectively determining it as hateful.
	Like I said before, these Marxist globalists are not hiding behind, you know, they're calling themselves politically correct or then changing it and saying, now we're woke.
	No, they're just totalitarians.
	They're just Stalinists.
	And they're flying their flag.
	Their red communist flag is what they're flying at this point.
	They're not even trying to pretend anything other than that.
	And not only can you get life in prison, but they can come after you if they believe that you are thinking about doing this, in pre-crime, essentially.
	Here's what it says, if you're suspected that you might commit hate speech in the future.
	From the bill, a person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit an offense, and then it references these bills to define what are offenses.
	So if they feel like you might commit their undefined hate speech in the future, Well, they can send you to jail.
	You see, we're back to star chambers and convicting people for who you are in advance.
	And, you know, LifeSite News, many others are talking about this because, of course, we already see the point of contention between the transgenders and Christians.
	Christians say there's two sexes, two genders.
	You know, sex and gender are the same.
	God created us male and female.
	Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	There's an infinite number of genders and so forth.
	And if you say that, you're hateful.
	If you call what the Bible calls sin, I mean, you can talk about theft, and you can talk about lying, you can talk about adultery, all these other things.
	But if you talk about their sins, their sins, Which are also named.
	Okay? Talk about homosexuality.
	And the Bible doesn't even talk about transgender stuff.
	That's how crazy it is.
	But, you know, you talk about their sins.
	Then you are hating them and you have to be put in jail.
	And since you're a Christian, since maybe you go to this church, and we've noticed that because we track your political and religious behaviors and beliefs, we know where you're going.
	So you attend this church where they hold these beliefs that are in the Bible.
	So, I think you might be somebody who would do this.
	So, we have to shut you down from the internet, maybe put you in prison, and do that before you do anything hateful.
	Campaign for Life Coalition recently warned that this Canadian bill will stifle free speech and will crush pro-life activism.
	Well, it'll do religion in general, of course.
	But there's all these people who are so concerned.
	They'll send you to jail for the rest of your life if they think that you've insulted somebody or hurt their feelings in a hateful way.
	But they don't really seem to care about the hate that they are inculcating everywhere else in our schools, in our systems, you know.
	Black lives matter, but it is not okay to be white.
	And so we see this story that has come out of Missouri.
	It's been there for a couple of days.
	I'm not going to show you the video.
	It's very sickening. To see it, but this is a mob, and it is racial, and its connection is a black mob attacking a white girl.
	And one of the thugs in particular, a woman, well, a girl, she's young, but much bigger than the white girl, gets her down on the ground and repeatedly smashes her head in the concrete floor.
	And she has skull fractures, brain damage, and A white Missouri teen who was beaten unconscious in high school is fighting for her life with severe brain damage.
	She has major brain bleeding and swelling and is in critical conditions in her family.
	She's fighting to stay alive and to heal, but this is only the beginning of a very uphill battle for Kaylee and her family.
	We will not know the extent of the brain damage that has occurred until she wakes up But the path to recovery will be extremely hard on the family, not just mentally but also financially.
	A mob of black teens beat this 15-year-old girl unconscious as a large group of bystanders watched and filmed.
	This is America.
	Additional fights then broke out between other groups.
	This kind of hate for white people, we've become the scapegoat for all the ills of society.
	All white history has to be purged.
	And we'll talk about that.
	Duty, honor, country coming up.
	All of that has to be purged because this is not, folks, about skin color or race or anything else.
	This is a Marxist agenda.
	And every time these people do a revolution, they've got to have some scapegoat.
	But especially the people that the middle class that needs to be taken down and the history that needs to be wiped out.
	And this kind of hatred is manifesting itself in violent physical attacks in a lot of different places.
	We've seen this for quite some time in New York City.
	Or somebody, an elderly white person, would just get sucker punched by somebody and many of them seriously injured as they hit their head on the concrete just because of their skin color.
	That is the hate that's being inculcated by our institutions, by our government institutions, because our government institutions...
	Paid for by the federal government, just like Trump paid for the lockdowns.
	You pay for what you want.
	That's the money string that gets this taken care of.
	So they attach those strings, and they're pulling those strings, and they're getting exactly what they want.
	They want a race war, and they want hate, and yet, they talk about hate, and they talk about bullying.
	Oh, well, we can't have anybody bullied.
	Because of the grooming that we've done with them and the mind games that we've played with them.
	And then if they start to believe this stuff, you can't bully them.
	And we're going to really watch that carefully.
	And we've got to be able to groom kids.
	Because there's all this bullying and stuff going on out there.
	But when it's real bullying like this, and you get somebody brain damaged for life or killed, They don't care.
	They don't care. There's no talk about this really inside the school.
	No talk about it within the educational system.
	You have the Missouri Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, talks about it.
	But, you know, because he's elected.
	But the rest of this school of bureaucracy is educational.
	This is what it was designed for, folks.
	This is what it was designed for.
	They're perfectly fine with this.
	He says, there has to be some accountability in our juvenile system.
	Well, that's really strong language, right?
	The evil and complete disregard for human life has no place in Missouri or anywhere.
	I'm praying for the victim, he said.
	Well, again, they don't care about bullying.
	Instead, they use bullying as an excuse to do the grooming of kids and to then try to mutilate them with chemicals and surgery.
	So... As I said before, we got a guy in the Netherlands.
	I'm sorry, not the Netherlands, in Belgium.
	But, you know, there's people in the Netherlands that are talking about it.
	He's an ex-parliamentarian, and he's a young guy.
	They have a new party.
	Now, look. They could be sympathetic to Nazi ideology.
	I can't really tell, quite frankly, because the establishment has cried wolf so much that you can't identify the real racist.
	You can't identify the real Nazis in most cases anymore.
	It's difficult. And quite frankly, I'm very skeptical when I see those labels put out because they're pointing that finger at everybody.
	I've been called racist and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
	You know, this is their favorite tactic.
	And that's part of the problem.
	There's real racists out there.
	They need to be identified. These people have cried wolf, so you can't do it.
	So this is a guy who was a parliamentarian.
	And just like the woman in Finland who was a parliamentarian and then became a minister through a couple of different administrations, they came after her.
	For hate, right?
	And because she made some comments about the church that she was in was going to sponsor a pride event.
	And she said, well, first of all, pride is a sin.
	This other is a sin. Why are we celebrating that?
	Here's the definition. Here's what the Bible says about, you know, what are sins.
	So they came after her, and she won the court case, and then the prosecutor has appealed it.
	She won that appeal.
	Now he's taking it all the way to their Supreme Court because they want to establish a precedent across Europe that they can punish and censor Christian beliefs.
	Now, in light of all this, is this guy, as they say, infatuated with Nazi ideas?
	Or is there something else?
	They have sentenced him, I said seven years, sentenced him to a year in prison, barring him from holding public office for ten years, and giving him a fine of $17,000.
	Oh. Let's see.
	It's $20,000 for Trudeau, right?
	Pretty similar. A founder and leader of the Flemish Nationalist Youth Organization, which advocates for independence for the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.
	And this is why there's people in the Netherlands who are weighing in on this as well.
	Belgium, like many countries in Europe, has criminal penalties for denying or for celebrating the Holocaust.
	During his trial, his legal team argued that many of the messages shared in the group were merely jokes and that the court was not convinced by this argument.
	You see, this is what the people in Canada are saying.
	Well, you know, we're not going to put people in jail for jokes.
	Oh, really? Really?
	Who decides whether it's a joke or not?
	Who decides whether it's true? Who decides whether it's hate or racism?
	They will decide all these things.
	If you're going to let them have the last say in what is true, what is hateful, what is racist, what is this, then you don't have protection against jokes.
	The forums repeatedly and systematically mocked groups of the population on the basis of so-called race, skin color, nationality, national or ethnic origin or descent, and presented a negative image of these groups and communities and insulted them, said the court. Well, that doesn't sound too bad to me.
	It sounds like they would send somebody like Rodney Dangerfield or Henny Youngman...
	They'd send them to jail, too.
	Probably for life, based on the quantity of jokes that they did about all these different things.
	That is, can you imagine Don Rickles?
	Look, all these guys I just mentioned are all Jewish, right?
	Are we going to not be able to make jokes about anything?
	And yeah, you know, maybe I, quite frankly, I didn't like Don Rickles' stuff.
	I thought it was a little bit too mean-spirited.
	And a little bit too bigoted and too stereotyped to really be funny.
	But hey, a lot of people did.
	And they did this roasting stuff and all that kind of stuff, which I never liked.
	But send somebody to jail for that?
	What you do is you just turn the channel.
	Turn them off. Watch something else.
	So a former member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives argued that because the messages were shared in a private group, The head of the political party that he was a member of...
	It said, Belgian justice is rotten through and through.
	If you rape children between the ages of 13 and 15, you get one year.
	If you want to share distasteful memes, you get one year.
	This has been a political process from day one.
	And we've already seen that type of thing.
	Look at the guy who made a joke about the election.
	All you Hillary supporters, don't forget to vote on Wednesday.
	And there was exactly an identical thing done by a Hillary supporter.
	All you Trump supporters, don't forget to vote on Wednesday.
	They did nothing to her.
	They wanted to send him to jail.
	So the Dutch political activist Ava Vlardingerbroek, I don't know if I'm pronouncing her name properly, but you've seen her with a lot of the Dutch farmer videos.
	She said, this is the absolute state of freedom of speech in Europe.
	They're jailing patriotic dissidents.
	Next time they'll do this to me, to you, or to anyone who goes against the globalist regime.
	All of our governments in the West have been taken over by these globalist regime, globalist puppets, who meet together in all these different organizations on a regular basis.
	She said, I'm seriously lost for words here.
	This is full-blown tyranny, and we should fight it with all of our might.
	Others, however, expressed glee, including the Green Party co-chair.
	And, as I said, the Green Party is a watermelon.
	It's got a thin veneer of green, and it's completely red.
	Communist, not MAGA, not Trump.
	Completely red on the inside.
	So, again, racism is what they throw at their enemies.
	They do it too frequently to be taken seriously.
	I haven't read his actual comments.
	But when we come back, we're going to talk about duty, honor, country.
	That old idea that we've just removed.
	Same people that were just taking down all references to Robert E. Lee at West Point.
	One of the most honorable people West Point's ever had.
	West Point, I forget what they call him there, but he's commander of West Point.
	But now they're going after duty on our country.
	We'll talk about that when we come back.
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	All right, on Rumble, DG8 says, Trump is backing an open border gun-grabbing candidate for senator in Ohio for the primary this coming Tuesday.
	The Ohio Senator candidate is Bernie Marino.
	I've not looked at that, but I certainly have no problem believing that Trump would back somebody like that.
	I mean, he was working with Dianne Feinstein.
	Whatever you guys want, we can do that.
	You know, just let me know.
	We can ban guns. They're not going to like that.
	We can change the age.
	We can do all these different things.
	Now, don't worry about the bump stock.
	Don't clutter the bill with that. I can do that myself.
	All the rest of the stuff. You've seen the meeting.
	And when you look at the open border, it's wide open.
	It has walls, got doors all over the place.
	And it's got a, it's only about 25% of the thing's even got a wall.
	But there's doors even where there's a wall.
	Open doors. I think we're going to see in a second term, I think we're going to see somebody that is going to be every bit as radical and as bought as And as open to tyranny as Hillary Clinton when Donald Trump takes office, if he does.
	And of course, we know that'll be the case with Biden.
	That's the worst prospect of this.
	The fact that it's going to be the second term for either one of these guys.
	And presidents always get worse in the second term.
	You're going to have a worse version of Trump and a worse version of Biden.
	Whichever one gets in.
	North American House Hippo, good to see you there.
	He says, the economic collapse is so bad now, the mailman isn't even bringing me pre-approved credit card and loan offers anymore.
	But I have been pre-approved for a new phone by Verizon.
	That's right. Go buy your big brother listening device.
	Speaking of which, Sergey, and I retweeted this when I saw this on my Twitter account.
	If you happen to look it up, if you follow me, you're probably not going to see it.
	But he's under the same type of thing.
	He's going to be releasing the full video today.
	And he put together a short clip of him asking people on the street, What do they think about CBDC? Essentially, you have a cashless society.
	Any thoughts on that? Do you like cash?
	I like cash.
	So that's why we're out here spreading awareness today about CBDC? So stay away from it?
	Well, there is no really staying away from it because it is kind of inevitable.
	But the more people know, maybe there will be some pushback.
	This thing will happen. And then you're a slave.
	No, it's backed by the Federal Reserve.
	Do you know what the Federal Reserve is?
	Yeah. That's what it's backed by.
	The Reserve's not backed by anything anymore.
	They control the money supply, sir.
	You're creating fake currency.
	Correct. Yeah, but they're rolling this out in digital format to get rid of cash.
	Do you have any thoughts on that? It's a way to track everybody.
	The only thing I possibly can is vote against it.
	Central Bank Digital Currency.
	Never heard of it. Crypto backed by the Federal Reserve.
	No thank you. It happens.
	You go to a 9 to 5.
	You don't watch the news.
	And then you are misinformed.
	You never heard of some of this stuff.
	You want to try to avoid being misinformed.
	Or you will be a victim of society.
	But like I said, people go to their 9 to 5s.
	They got things they're doing.
	They don't want to think about this stuff.
	There was a time that people had some deep intellectual thoughts and spiritual thoughts about the world.
	Where they provoked critical thinking.
	Unfortunately, I think in our TikTok 15-second video clip society, we have lost our knack to be able to critically think about things.
	That's very true. You heard the one guy say, well, I'll vote against it.
	You're not going to have a vote. Your vote, you're not going to have a vote about this in Washington.
	And, of course, they're not going to stop it in Washington either.
	It'll be done by bureaucrats.
	The best that you can do is you can vote for state legislators who see what is coming and are trying to make preparation for it at the state level.
	For example, here in Tennessee, Senator Nicely...
	It says, well, we've got to have something that is going to support the small and medium-sized banks so we don't wind up with a consolidated banking system.
	And we need to have the state government getting involved in buying gold so that they're not completely dependent on this fiat currency from the Federal Reserve and so they can keep things moving.
	We saw that type of thing happening.
	You know, having a state bank, and of course the banks don't really understand what's going on, so they think that's competition for them, but it's not.
	And he described it as a Tennessee reserve system.
	He said, you know what the federal reserve system is?
	Well, this would be a Tennessee reserve system that would, you know, help you and you would help the state with this.
	And we saw how this worked out in North Dakota, where they had what they call a state bank, And it was able to make loans to the state government and things like that.
	And it was able to keep the small and medium-sized banks alive.
	And they have more than twice as many small and medium-sized banks as the number two state.
	And it's because of that type of thing.
	And they were able to make payroll for the schools and things like that in the Great Depression.
	Other states could not pay their teachers, but they were able to pay their teachers in North Dakota.
	I'm not such a great fan of state government that I want to make sure that they've got the payable.
	But if they can get paid, they can pay other people.
	I mean, if you put a stopgap against the economic collapse, that's an important thing to do.
	That's essentially what North Dakota was able to do during the Depression with that.
	So very important for people to understand what CBDC is.
	They instinctively don't want it.
	And most people don't understand what it is.
	They don't know the term, but if you start telling them what the different components of it are, they don't want to have anything to do with it.
	They don't want anything that's going to track and surveil their every move, and even more importantly, to prevent them from buying things that they want, prevent them from buying things outside of the little area that they've been locked into.
	You know, it is the handmade thing.
	To the 15-minute city, the open-air prisons that they want to impose on people.
	So many different aspects of that.
	By the way, while we're talking about some email that we have here, this was sent to me by Noel.
	Actually, last week when I was talking about Matt Taibbi, and he said, I don't want to throw out the tabby with the bathwater.
	But he said, you know, he's not the same as journalists like Whitney Webb and James Corbett and others who are going to analyze this and be honest with him.
	He sent me a clip of Whitney Webb and James Corbett talking about...
	The fact that Matt Taibbi, you know, going back to about 2005, 2006, he was still mocking people who did not believe the government's official story about 9-11, comparing them to dangerous people that, you know, supported supposedly the Oklahoma City bombing.
	So he was not just...
	Refraining from talking about it, as Whitney Webb and Jim Corbett said, you know, when you look at Glenn Greenwald, very similar to Matt Taibbi, both of them hard, very well respected by the left, had big platforms.
	But as they left that and they've changed, Glenn Greenwald says, well, there's certain things like 9-11 you don't want to talk about if you want to be taken seriously.
	So it's not that he doesn't I understand what it is, but he just wants to put it away.
	And that's basically where Tucker is.
	And Tucker, like Taibbi, has openly mocked and tried to suppress and subvert the truth about that.
	I've played the clip for you a couple of times of one engineer who he had come on, and the engineer said, can I just play the video of this building collapse?
	Tucker didn't want people to see it, just falling into its footprint.
	So, you know, he's covering up, he's mocking the other guy.
	What are you talking about? You're always asking me questions like, what is the melting point of steel?
	And, you know, what is the temperature that jet fuel burns at?
	What's your point? It's like, oh, you know what the point is.
	Now, Matt Taibbi has done that in the past.
	But, you know, I think there's been a big transition in some of the stuff they talk about.
	As I said, I think he's done some really good work, and that's what Whitney Webb and Jim Corbett said as well.
	They've done some good work.
	As I said, Matt Taibbi did some great work in terms of talking about the corruption in the Obama Department of Justice, saying that HSBC was not only one of these too-big-to-fail banks, but also too big to jail.
	He talked about their connections with the drug cartels and things like that.
	And I think he has migrated, and both he and Glenn Greenwald have changed their political positions a lot.
	I don't think, though, that they fully embraced or will talk about this stuff.
	I'm just saying, when I talked about it, I said I think it's important that when somebody starts to make some moves in the right direction, that we support them.
	And that's really what Corbett and Whitney were saying as far as I could tell from the interview.
	Their position was, well, I'm not saying that you don't listen to anything they say.
	They do some good work. I'm just saying don't trust them.
	And I would say that about everybody.
	I'd say that about me. I would say that about Corbett.
	I'd say that about Whitney Webb.
	Because, you know, look at what we say and test it to see if it's true.
	I have people do that just this last week.
	You know, some guy went back and he said, no, I looked up what you were saying.
	About the American Hospital Association paying the 20% bonus.
	He says, here's a letter from August of 2020 that you've talked about so much.
	It's exactly as you said. So yeah, look me up.
	And if I get something wrong, let me know.
	I'm not going to lie to you, but you shouldn't trust anybody.
	And that's a big part of the problem.
	People will trust news organizations and people will trust reporters.
	And that's one of the reasons why I get critical about individuals.
	Sometimes people say I'm too critical about individuals.
	I just don't want you to trust anybody.
	And I want you to see if somebody is...
	Someone who has said some good things in the past and people might be inclined to trust them, you need to understand they can still make a mistake or they can still deliberately lie to you.
	And if I think somebody is deliberately lying, I'll call them out on it.
	As I have done this last week when I think you've got people who are shills for Trump deliberately lying to you when the vaccines are being made, when the vaccines are being sent out, when the pandemic, so-called pandemic that wasn't a pandemic, was being put out.
	These people are lying to you to make money, many of them grifting off of the fear that they were engendering in their listeners.
	And now these same people are out there.
	They thought that Trump was finally going to shut up about this stuff.
	But he's not. He was bragging or boasting about what he had done with the lockdown and the vaccine and everything.
	He was talking about that on Super Tuesday.
	He was boasting about what he had done in his acceptance speech.
	And then he comes back a couple of days later when Biden does the State of the Union.
	And he starts boasting about that as well.
	He's going to continue to boast about it because he's a narcissist.
	And it embarrasses people like Alex who have lied to people telling them that it's sugar water.
	It embarrasses him.
	I don't know. He better shape up.
	How many times is Alex going to do that?
	He's done that at least 12 times.
	I'm just estimating here.
	But he's been doing that.
	He's on and off and on and off and on and off with that.
	And as we talk about the theater...
	Sam sent this thing and said, you know, it really is, as you said, World Wrestling Federation, because now we've got Jesse Ventura being put out there as a possible VP candidate, along with Aaron Rodgers for RFK Jr.
	What is the point of all that?
	I mean, is it...
	You know, we've seen the shirtless pictures of RFK Jr.
	Oh, he's ripped.
	He really is. I mean, he's got a lot of time and a lot of money to work out, I guess.
	I don't have time. I don't have time to do anything.
	You don't want to see a shirtless picture of me.
	But, you know, he looks very impressive with his shirtless picture.
	And I guess maybe, you know, if he had a running mate of Aaron Rodgers or Jesse Ventura, Maybe they could go on stage dressed as John Cena at the Oscars.
	We're just holding a little card in front of them, strategically placed.
	We could have our beefcake ticket.
	Vote for these guys.
	Because they're exactly the opposite of these old guys, Trump and Biden.
	And because it's all just about people, I mean, that's what we're going to do.
	Look, I think that they would, it would be good to have them in a debate, but they're not going to let him in the debate.
	They've worked so hard to keep him off the ballots, they will make sure that he's not in the debates.
	The debates are being run by the mainstream media.
	They're being run by an organization that was created by the Republicans and Democrats.
	We're going to create a private organization.
	They were not happy because the League of Women Voters was letting people like Ross Perot on.
	So we're going to create a private organization.
	And the two parties that own it are going to be the Democrats and Republicans.
	And that private organization will then decide who's going to be on.
	And so, guess what?
	The private organization created by the Republicans and Democrats will not allow people who are third parties or independents to participate in the debates.
	It's just that simple. I've seen it at the state level.
	I've seen it at the national level since Ross Perot.
	And this is exactly, and I mention this to people over and over again, When we were talking about social media, I said, you know, it's the same argument now, reason and heritage you're making, like Cato Institute, they're all making this argument saying, well, these are private organizations, and if they want to not allow you to speak, they can do that.
	So, see, that's exactly what they did with the debates.
	There is no understanding or concern about the public square and the public's right to know.
	But speaking about how this is entertainment, you know, last week, and it was a week ago tonight, that I had the State of the Union.
	And in the response to the State of the Union, they had Katie Britt, who's a young mother, a senator from Alabama.
	So I guess they thought that it would be a nice...
	So they had her give the reply, and I want you to take a look at this video where they show her talking normally.
	And then she tried to give a very dramatic reading, because you know, this is about theater, right?
	So she's going to give the reply to the State of the Union.
	It was a very dramatic reading.
	Look at this. I am looking forward to delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union.
	That's her naturally. President Biden's border policies are a disgrace.
	This crisis is despicable.
	And the truth is, it is almost entirely preventable.
	And thank you to all the gentlemen behind me who continue to work diligently to actually secure our border.
	That's what the American people deserve, but unfortunately Joe Biden refuses to give that to them.
	Mr. President, enough is enough.
	Innocent Americans are dying, and you only have yourself to blame.
	Everything that we put forth that would actually secure and close the border, the Democrats don't want.
	This is yet another prong of the failed Bidenomics.
	This is the definition of America last.
	The American people are scraping by while President Biden proudly proclaims that Bidenomics is working.
	Goodness, y'all. Bless his heart.
	Bless his heart. Yeah, that's your old southern sign-off there for it.
	It's like the equivalent of the New York A, you know?
	F you type of thing. Bless your heart.
	And it was so funny that on Saturday Night Live, as a cold opening, they had Scarlett Johansson basically making fun of what she was doing.
	Did a wonderful job. You want to talk about politics as entertainment?
	This is as good as it gets.
	America, my name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the great people of Alabama.
	But tonight, I'll be auditioning for the part of Scary Mom.
	And I'll be performing an original monologue called, This Country is Hell.
	You see, I'm not just a senator.
	I'm a wife, a mother, and the craziest bitch in the Target parking lot.
	I'm worried about the future of our children.
	And this is why I've invited you into this strange, empty kitchen.
	Because Republicans wanted me to appeal to woman voters.
	And women love kitchen.
	Seriously, my husband, Wesley, and I just watched President Biden's speech, and what I saw was the performance of a permanent politician.
	But me, I'm not performing.
	I'm not. I'm not.
	But... First and foremost, I'm a mom.
	And like any mom, I'm going to do a pivot out of nowhere into a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking.
	And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened.
	And tonight, I am not just responding to the State of the Union.
	I am also selling these gorgeous bejeweled cross necklaces.
	This affinity diamond necklace goes with anything, and you can wear it from da church to da club.
	And now, I'm gonna get weirdly seductive for no apparent reason.
	As I was saying.
	The American dream has turned into a nightmare.
	You know, my husband Wesley and I spend a lot of time in this kitchen worrying.
	Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations.
	Like the one we'll have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country.
	But y'all, Biden's the one who is destroying our country.
	Just ask yourself, are you better off today than you were four years ago, back in the good old days of 2020, the year that nothing bad happened?
	Yeah, yeah. That's the appeal to MAGA, right?
	Oh, if only we could get back to 2020 when Trump was president.
	Yeah, right. Well, anyway, that's where we are.
	It's politics, it's theater, and they basically called her.
	And she had the gracious reply to say, I thought that Scarlett Johansson did a great job with impersonation.
	I mean, I think she did as well.
	I mean, that's a pretty impressive acting work there.
	The Metropolitan Opera.
	Has now slapped a trigger warning on Puccini's Turandot.
	Now, opera's not my thing, but even I know some of the songs from this.
	What I did not know, since I've never watched it, is that it is, as Italian as it sounds, it's actually set in China.
	I can't imagine what they will do with, if they think that this is triggering, I can't imagine what they will do with Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, right?
	But the Metropolitan Opera, even though it is going down the drain rapidly, I mean, they're taking massive amounts of money out of their endowment, which means they're bleeding red ink on a regular basis.
	They put a trigger warning on Puccini's Turandot.
	They said it is rife with racial stereotypes.
	Has a Metropolitan Opera ever seen an opera that isn't rife with stereotypes, especially racial?
	And they said Breitbart was covering this.
	They said the production is currently running using the staging that was done by Franco Zeffirelli, the guy who did Romeo and Juliet.
	He's now deceased.
	But when they opened up the...
	The opportunity for, you know, took away the statute of limitations temporarily.
	They came after the two actors who did Romeo and Juliet came after Paramount because they said that Franco Zeffirelli had pressured and deceived them in many ways to get them to do a nude scene when they were minors.
	But, of course, he does stage things pretty opulently, and they've been doing this now on and off rotation for decades, the set that he did, because his design went back for many, many decades.
	But, you know, when you go back and you look at this, they say, well, you know, this is using motifs, and it's stereotypical, and they're mixing it in with their, you know, Puccini mixed it in with his stuff.
	Took themes and then misappropriated this stuff, right?
	So, you know, you go back and look at Tchaikovsky.
	He did Capriccio Italiano.
	You had Rimsky-Korsakov did a Capriccio Espanol.
	You know, I mean, this has been a thing.
	Mozart, Beethoven did stuff like that.
	He had Dvorak, his famous New World Symphony, or from the New World.
	You know, Going Home is...
	Theme that a lot of people don't.
	But this guy's a Hungarian.
	What's he doing taking American music themes, specifically Negro spirituals, as they call them, right?
	And incorporating them as themes into his symphonic stuff.
	How dare him do that?
	All of this is based on mixing stuff together.
	And if you look at what we've typically done, especially in America, but, you know, even in Europe, but just in America.
	You know, we got... Tex-Mex cuisine.
	A mixture of Americanized Mexican cuisine.
	Or even take a look at what we've done to pizza.
	We stole that from the Italians and we adulterated it in a lot of different ways.
	Spiced it up or whatever. I remember when I went with a high school group, Coral and Band members, we went to Europe when I was in high school, my senior year.
	And had pizza in Rome, and it was the blandest stuff I've ever had.
	And I said, oh yeah, we don't spice this stuff up here.
	That's you Americans do that.
	Anyway, they said it's thrilling, yet a problematic masterpiece.
	A Western projection of the East.
	Again, it's always been adapting and changing different stuff and using some of other culture as inspiration for what they want to do.
	They said it's rife with contradictions, distortions, and racial stereotypes.
	We must also consider the criticisms that Turandot and Puccini's appropriation, reconfiguration, and reharmonization of Chinese music has received in recent years.
	As Breitbart points out, they don't mention what these criticisms are or who made them.
	And you want to talk about appropriation?
	What about Hamilton?
	Hamilton? That everybody loves, right?
	They completely misappropriated and changed with distortion, racial distortion, racial stereotypes that they put into Hamilton, but everybody's celebrating that.
	No, it's not that it's a Western projection of the East.
	It's just that these people hate everything about Western civilization.
	Everything about Western civilization.
	It shouldn't be surprising...
	That many audience members of Chinese descent find it difficult to watch as their own heritage is co-opted, fetishized, painted as savage, bloodthirsty, or backward.
	Well, again, what about Hamilton?
	And then what about the fact that, and this is, many of you may be scratching your head about, well, what is this all about?
	Why is this such a famous thing?
	Imagine everybody, even if you don't know opera, you know this song.
	And the guy that they've got singing it is Asian.
	And that freaked me out because I thought, wait a minute, he's not Italian.
	Who would make a mistake of thinking this isn't Italian, that this is somehow supposed to be an Asian thing?
	I mean, this is quintessential Italian, isn't it?
	Well, again, at least the guy can hack it.
	It's not completely DEI. But by the way, you know, the other day they were talking about Oscars and I saw some of the things that were, the one that caught my attention was one about John Williams.
	He's 92 now.
	And he has had, let's see, here's the number, 54, 54 Oscar nominations.
	More than anybody except for Walt Disney.
	And yet Walt Disney was getting nominations, sometimes multiple nominations for a single picture, because he'd be maybe the director, the producer, other things like that.
	So Walt Disney got 59.
	One of those was given to him posthumously, so during his lifetime, and based on individual works, he got 58.
	John Williams has had 54.
	We talk about it.
	And when you look at his music, the thing I thought was most interesting about the interview was the fact that he said, you know, you would never have a serious orchestra when he first started.
	A serious orchestra would never play film music, even though there was some really good film music going back to the late 30s, early 40s.
	Korngold and others, you know, they had some great soundtracks, but it was really beneath them to do that.
	And that all changed with John Williams.
	At first, it started being adapted by some pop orchestras, He became the conductor of the Boston Pops for a while.
	But now you've got Berlin Philharmonic and a lot of other, you know, the most established orchestras out there regularly doing his work because it is so amazing.
	And really his soundtracks are much better than Spielberg and Lucas' films, quite frankly.
	They don't even come close.
	He's the one who deserved the Oscar.
	But yeah, it is absolutely crazy.
	And the Met Opera is now, of course, failing, big time.
	This is an organization that is rejecting the very culture that they pretend to represent.
	They hate it. It's too Western.
	They hate Western culture, and yet they are kind of set up as a repository of it.
	And so they have spent about 22% of their endowment over the last two years.
	They've had to tap into it.
	For example, last year they withdrew $40 million.
	They've now got $255 million left.
	The year before that, they had taken out $30 million.
	As Breitbart points out, if you take money out of your endowment, that's often seen as a last resort for some non-profit arts company.
	In other words, they are circling the drain, and rightfully so.
	Like a number of performing art institutions, the Met embraced identity politics during the Black Lives Matter issue, of course.
	Which then brings us to one of the key things about Western culture, and that is the great men that we've honored.
	And regardless of what you think about Douglas MacArthur and various issues there, he was a great general.
	He was a great man, and there's not any great men that don't have their flaws or their mistakes.
	But he popularized the duty, honor, and country.
	Here he is making a speech, I think he's about 82 or something, 81, 82 or something.
	It was just two years before he died, back in 1962.
	But he was, I think he was 82.
	I think he was actually a year older than Joe Biden when he gave this speech.
	Duty, honor, and country.
	Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
	They are your rallying points.
	To build courage when courage seems to fail.
	To regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith.
	To create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
	Well, the West Point superintendent, that was a word I couldn't think of earlier, what they call the guy who is the head of West Point.
	The West Point superintendent, Galland, on Monday announced a new mission statement for West Point.
	They're getting rid of duty, honor, and country.
	And they're going to replace it with army values.
	What a joke they become.
	Look, this is serious, though.
	Because what they're becoming is a standing army of bureaucrats who embrace these Marxist globalist values.
	And we have seen that in every regard in West Point recently.
	Without any honor.
	Without any patriotism.
	Because they despise this country.
	They despise this constitution.
	And... So what is their duty?
	Well, their duty is simply to follow Army values, Army values, whatever those are, these constantly shifting and declining values.
	So they said this is what it used to be, what they would have the cadets, their mission statement would be.
	It used to be to educate, to train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of duty, honor, country, and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer of the United States Army.
	The new statement says to build, educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to Army values and ready for a lifetime of professional excellence and service to the Army and nation.
	So not only do they put the Army first, but it's service to the Army, not service to the nation.
	Notice that, even, that's as significant, I think, as striking duty, honor, country.
	Because in the original, it said, and service to the nation as an officer in the army.
	This one says, service to the army.
	And, you know, nation, whatever.
	Right? Very significant.
	They elaborate on this and said, we believe our mission binds the academy to the army.
	Again, It's a self-reverential bureaucracy.
	They're creating a little bureaucratic fiefdom here of a bunch of hired mercenaries who don't embrace any values beyond those of the shape-shifting bureaucracy.
	Both the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff approved this recommendation, he said.
	The words duty on our country appeared in MacArthur's speech to the Corps of Cadets in 1922.
	He served as superintendent of West Point from 1919 to 1922 after returning from service in World War I. Very similar, again, to Robert E. Lee, who did that after the Spanish War.
	New cadets during basic training at West Point had to memorize a portion of the speech.
	This is what they had them memorize previously.
	Duty, honor, country.
	Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
	They are your rallying points to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
	We heard him say that as an old man.
	Well, that's the America that was.
	You've got to understand that we don't live in that America.
	Our government now is a foreign government with foreign values that is at war with the world and especially with American citizens.
	This is not the America of Douglas MacArthur or Robert E. Lee or any of these people.
	It's not the America of 100 years ago.
	This is not America.
	This is an organization that is at war with America.
	He elaborated on that in many different ways.
	He says, for example, duty, honor, country, the code with which those words perpetrate embraces the highest moral laws that will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies promulgated for the uplifting of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right and its restraints are from the things that are wrong.
	Do people who go to West Point even understand or care about what's right or wrong anymore?
	Do they know? Sacrifice.
	In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his maker gave him when he created man in his own image.
	No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the divine help which alone can sustain him.
	Is this guy like a Christian nationalist or something?
	And again, I'm not saying we adapt that we grab that label because they're using that label.
	To try to shame and silence people.
	And, yeah, don't be shamed.
	Don't be silenced. But also don't use their labels.
	They picked these terms for weaponized purposes just the same way as they picked woke.
	These people are not awake.
	They're completely asleep.
	They don't know the left hand from the right.
	They don't know right from wrong.
	MacArthur told West Point Cadets in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point.
	Always there, echoes and re-echos, duty, honor, country.
	Not anymore.
	Not anymore.
	Will Thibault, an Army Ranger veteran director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute, gave a statement to Breitbart.
	He said, the West Point mission statement is the cornerstone of everything that And he says, army, civilian, and military leaders' decision to expunge this timeless principles of duty-honored country from that motto in favor of a reference to army values?
	He said, on the surface, this change is a benign semantic tweak from leadership.
	No. Their semantic tweets are never benign, and they're never insignificant, folks.
	They pick their terms very carefully.
	And the fact that duty, honor, and country would be an offense to them should really concern you about this standing army.
	West Point was there to train an officer corps, and the officer corps would remain.
	The army would be raised in times of need.
	But now we have a permanent standing army, and they're taking the officer corps away from the values of duty, honor, and country.
	He says they are foundational commitments instilled by MacArthur that transcend time and culture.
	Army values, now in the mission statement, have undergone constant revisions since 1986, only formally codified in 2012.
	So-called values, referred to in this, are subjective cultural preferences, he said.
	For the Army, while important concepts were the product of corporate consulting, an endless bureaucratic revision.
	He says, we should not be surprised, however.
	At West Point, a cadet can get a degree in diversity and inclusion studies.
	The admission office bills the Corps of Cadets based on class composition goals that are based on race and sex-based quotas.
	He concluded, he said, the change to the motto is legitimately concerning, and Americans should ignore the military's efforts to sanitize this moment in which we find ourselves.
	And I think back to 2018, remember that cadet, the commie cadet?
	Who at graduation posed and he took off his cap and on the inside of his cap he had written, Communism Will Win.
	And then he opened up his jacket and he was wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt.
	Well this guy, when he was, because of that and because of the public outcry, they discharged him out of the army.
	However, when he was talking about it, he said, no, I was a radical communist before I ever went to West Point.
	Oh, that's kind of interesting.
	And he was able to go to school there for four years, and nobody noticed any of that or cared?
	I mean, this guy's not trying to hide anything.
	See, the problem was not that he, West Point didn't have a problem with this guy, thinking that communism is going to win.
	They graduated him. You went there for four years and they graduated.
	And they didn't have a problem with it.
	The public had a problem with it.
	The public ought to have a problem with the removal of duty, honor, and country as well, quite frankly.
	We need to understand that they have been pushing towards this very hard.
	Not only with the diversity and inclusivity, but how many people they pushed out with these vaccine mandates, pushing people out who cared about their duty to uphold the Constitution.
	And part of your duty to uphold the Constitution is to fight against your government when it subverts that Constitution.
	And people who had religious, strongly held religious beliefs that were not being honored as well.
	They wanted to push those people out.
	And why is that? Do we have a government that is really about defending this country?
	No, not at all. An Army veteran gives a passionate speech about what the U.S. military is really about and why people need to resist it.
	His name is Prisoner.
	P-R-Y-S-N-E-R. I don't know if he was number six or not, but he is a veteran who served in Iraq, and he works with a group called Veterans for Peace.
	And he said, they're not going to end the wars.
	They're not going to do it because it's not our government.
	It's their government.
	And it's the government of the rich.
	It's the government of Wall Street, of the oil giants, of the defense contractors.
	It's their government.
	It's the globalist government, in other words.
	The only language that they understand is shutting down business as usual, and that's what we're doing here today.
	We're going to continue to do this until the wars are over.
	We're going to continue to fight until there's not one more bomb dropped, not one more bullet fired, not one more soldier coming home in a wheelchair, not one more family slaughtered, not one more day of U.S. imperialism.
	And, of course, let me go back and look at what Smedley Butler said, right?
	As he said, I spent 33 years and 4 months in active military service.
	During that period, I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business, Wall Street, and the bankers.
	In short, I was a racketeer.
	I was a gangster for capitalism.
	I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914.
	I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue.
	I helped in the raping of a half-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.
	I helped to purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of the Brown Brothers, 1902 to 1912.
	I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interest in 1916.
	I helped to make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903, and China in 1927.
	I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
	Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints.
	The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts, but I operated it on three continents.
	All wars are bankers' wars, or as I said, during the Civil War.
	Rich man's war, poor man's fight.
	That's why I said I'm not going to defend everything that MacArthur did, Douglas MacArthur.
	But he saw it as doing his duty.
	And he saw it as an act of honor.
	It's important that we have people who think those are important values, who think that their country is important.
	And the fact that they would wipe out that aspect of it should make this all the more concerning.
	When we look at these wars that were going on even in Douglas MacArthur's time, these wars for the benefit of corporations and banks.
	Wesley Clark said the purpose of the U.S. military is to start wars and to change governments.
	Well, what does that tell you?
	Essentially, they are the ones who are, the government then is the CIA. We're a little bit over time.
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	you All right, Tony Ardeman is going to be joining us hopefully in a moment.
	It's our mistake in terms of making contact with him on this end, but while we're waiting for him to come on, I want to lay down what I was talking about earlier, what the Federal Reserve board members are saying now about bank failures.
	And this is something that Gerald Salenti has talked about since they locked everybody down.
	It's going to cause a crash.
	We now see that coming through.
	And of course, a crash in commercial real estate is going to crash the banking system.
	500 or more banks in the USA will fail.
	The FDIC says 52 are on the danger shortlist.
	Now, the person who said that 500 or more banks in the USA are going to fail is Scott Reckler, an active member of the Federal Reserve of New York chairman and chief executive officer, one of the largest developers of commercial real estate and infrastructure in New York.
	So we got Tony on with us.
	So let's go straight to Tony and get his take on all this.
	Thank you for joining us, Tony.
	Sorry about the connection delay there.
	But thank you for joining us again.
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	So joining us now is Tony Arterman.
	Thank you for joining us, Tony. Thanks for having me back, David.
	I was enjoying the show.
	No worries at all on the delay.
	Sorry about that. I mean, they're now openly talking about this.
	We've got a guy who is on the Federal Reserve Board in New York saying, I think we're probably going to have 500 banks fail this year.
	You've got the FDIC saying, I think it'll be at least 52.
	But then they assuage everybody's fears and say, don't worry, it's not going to be the big banks.
	It's going to be the small, medium-sized banks.
	Well, that's right. I mean, it's the small and medium-sized banks.
	We saw that really spill over from FTX. And, of course, they were able to plug that leak.
	Janet Yellett stepped in and, of course, the Federal Reserve.
	And then when she was asked by Congress if she would step in and save all banks, if all banks had the ability to be saved by the Federal Reserve or the Treasury, she said no.
	And she wasn't going to leave that on the table.
	So I think that's what you're seeing.
	Small and medium-sized regional banks, those are going to be in the chopping block first for the consolidation.
	The bigger banks are going to want to buy up those assets.
	We saw that in 2008 with TARP funds in 2009 and so on and so forth.
	So I think what we're seeing, David, is really the chessboard is being set up to bring in these bank failures, and the bigger banks are going to be poised to buy up All of them.
	And that's really, really, we've been talking about this for a couple of years now.
	That's the backbone of the central bank digital currency.
	Yeah. Yeah. When you go back and you look at what kicked all this stuff off, you know, everybody talked about the removal of Glass-Steagall so that banks could get into speculative things and they create all these derivatives and the real estate properties.
	Derivatives that, you know, and the mergers that happened to create the really big banks.
	And so all this stuff happened, but it was really the mergers that really kicked all this stuff off.
	And both the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the mergers happened with Bill Clinton.
	And it only took about 10 years for all this stuff to blow up.
	But then the aftermath of that we saw for several years.
	I remember Matt Drudge, when he was doing conservative news, he would talk about how many banks had failed every year.
	And it would be between 150 to 200 banks failing every year for several years in a row.
	After they had bailed out the big banks, they let these other banks twist in the wind and fail.
	And now we're seeing here now, another decade later, they're getting ready to rinse and repeat.
	And as they're talking about it, this guy who has, first of all, he's on the Federal Reserve Board of New York, but he's also got a large commercial real estate organization And he says, I don't think this is going to be a systemic problem for real estate, he said.
	And he says, and for the large, systemically important, too-big-to-fail banks.
	Yeah. They're going to protect these guys.
	However, for the regional banks around the country, they have a significant allocation of their loans to commercial real estate, a lot of it to multifamily developers that are going to go have loans that are upside down.
	And, of course, this is... What we've been talking about for quite some time, and now it's coming to fruition.
	They're saying these banks are going to fail, and they're just fine with that because it fits their long-term plan.
	Again, this is 30 years now.
	They've been working on creating just a handful of banks, and then they're going to be their partners to centralize the central bank digital currency, I think.
	Well, let's not forget Glass-Steagall was a remnant of the 1930s.
	That was a bill passed in the 1930s after the Great Depression or during the height of the Great Depression.
	You have massive bank failures.
	And a lot of these regulations were used to keep these other banks from consolidating and buying them up and then making the problem worse.
	And that's what was in the 1990s.
	That was the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
	And so you had what ran up to the dot-com bust.
	And we just see more and more consolidation.
	And let's not forget, too, these regional banks, smaller banks, are the ones that lend.
	Those are the banks that lend to real people, which are the backbone of the U.S. economy, small business, all of that.
	The non-essentials out there.
	That's what's... Those of us who are non-essential during the lockdowns.
	And so that's who they're going after.
	All the stress tests and all the mistakes that have been made by the central bank and the debt.
	David, I just read earlier today, the U.S. debt increases $1 trillion now every 90 days.
	Yes. Okay, so all of that, the fiscal irresponsibility.
	Okay. We're good to go.
	Of this unlimited money printing and everything they've done for the last many years, and especially in the last four years, that's who's going to feel the pain first.
	So I think what you're watching really is a plan to dump it in the laps of those who have the most leverage or the most exposed.
	Look at the cash positions of these banks.
	Remember after TARP, and this was unprecedented, Ben Bernanke came out And that was 2011.
	If you look at the price for precious metals, you can go back and see that gold was reaching $2,000 back in 2011.
	It was really close.
	It was a high 19, the hundreds.
	And then silver hit $50.
	Ben Bernanke came in and calmed everybody down and said, you don't have to go into precious metals.
	The Federal Reserve bailed out these banks.
	It's unprecedented. We won't do that again.
	Yeah. Well... What was the debt of the U.S. in 2010?
	It was $10 trillion. So now we're at $35 trillion and climbing.
	Again, every 90 days, the U.S. government adds $1 trillion to the debt balance.
	So this is all unsustainable.
	I think they're just clearing the path for more consolidation by the multinationals.
	And this is ESG. Those who are close to the central banking hub, the multinationals, the consortiums, and that is what's going to be, you know, again, that's the protected class.
	But the bank balances of those who took part in the bailouts in 2008 and 2009, they just hoarded cash.
	They didn't lend that money out.
	That's right. That's right.
	And they were able to... They said, oh, we paid it all back.
	You paid it back with a zero interest.
	You know, I mean, it's like you held it for a while, you made a lot of money off of it, and then you gave some of it back.
	You didn't have to pay any interest on it at all.
	Yeah, what you're talking about, these small and medium-sized banks, as you mentioned, they're the ones that are lending the individuals and small businesses the money.
	And that's the real concern here, because what they're going to do is they're going to freeze up the financial machinery.
	And that's one of the reasons why Nicely is looking at this and saying, you know, what if anything can we do about this at the state level?
	Looked at what happened in North Dakota and keeping those small and medium-sized banks alive during the Great Depression and things like that.
	So that's why they're looking at things and saying, even at the state level, you know, we got to get into gold, because we don't want to be completely dependent on the fiat currency coming out of Washington.
	So the state needs to have some gold so the state can keep machinery going.
	They need to be able to backstop some of these banks, and we got to be able to keep this flowing.
	But these people are looking at throwing one monkey wrench in the machinery after the other to shut everything down, to lock everything up.
	That's really what they're trying to do, I believe.
	Well, you played that clip earlier of a man on the street and asking people about central bank digital currency and those who even had some clue of it.
	Well, I'll vote my way out of it.
	I'll vote against it.
	That's not how you stand up to central bank digital currency because it is a fait accompli.
	They're going to bring it into existence.
	The question is, do you have another system outside of it?
	That's right. And that's why it's so important, these state and regional banks looking into bullion houses and how to set up gold and silver as legal tender through the legislation.
	This is imperative.
	We have to do that. The parallel system is the way to stand up to central bank digital currency because you're not going to be given a choice.
	This isn't going to be on a ballot.
	Remember, Jared Kushner is the one pushing central bank digital currency.
	Do you think Jared Kushner is no longer part of the Trump, going to not be a part of the Trump administration if he's selected?
	They're going to have this, and Biden.
	I mean, Biden's pushing the central bank digital.
	These are the same masters.
	Yes. And central bank digital currency is just the future.
	You have to look to the future, and what we have to do is plan around it.
	And that's the parallel system, the state banks, things outside of the systems we talk about every week.
	And of course, it would be great if we have states that are going to do that.
	But again, that may not happen at the state level, but you can still prepare at the individual level.
	That's why I mentioned it. What is China doing?
	Well, they're getting gold.
	What do we have the forward-looking people at state government looking at?
	Well, let's get some gold for our state organization.
	Well, as an individual, you need to start looking ahead at how you're going to prepare for yourself.
	Because it may not happen at the state level.
	It may not happen at the state that you live in either.
	But you can still prepare as an individual for this stuff.
	Well, the Chinese people certainly are.
	People in India are.
	Massive gold reserves being sent to India.
	China's keeping its gold.
	Not a net exporter.
	And like I said, I think a couple weeks ago we talked about China.
	60,000 gold mines.
	So they're ramping up their gold.
	And I think There's something interesting going on in the global economy.
	And David, it's crazy. We talked about gold and Bitcoin hitting their all-time high together last week.
	Bitcoin just surpassed silver in market cap yesterday.
	So it actually surpassed silver in market cap, I think, $1.4 trillion.
	So a lot of people are going to look at this and say, well, I need to get into Bitcoin.
	It's like, well, silver's on sale right now.
	It's on absolute. So the headline on Kitco is silver surpassed by Bitcoin in market cap, but the gray metal has begun its long-awaited move.
	And there's a lot of things going on because it's not just one thing.
	You're talking about a complete revaluation of currency.
	And as the dollar loses the world's reserve currency status, and you see all these reports coming out, inflation's worse than they thought.
	They try to paper over this as best they can.
	But the world is moving away from the dollar.
	Shrinking demand, which is shrinking value.
	Again, it's psychological, but people around the world are starting to dump dollars and they're going into other areas.
	But the dollar represents our markets.
	It represents the stock exchange.
	All that fake and all that tied to...
	That's political. Everything around Wall Street.
	And so the dollar itself, King Dollar, represents that.
	And people are moving away.
	The Bitcoin ETFs, David...
	I'm not a fan of the ETFs.
	I'm not pushing for that.
	Yesterday, 1 billion inflows in the ETFs and the Bitcoin.
	All that money moving in there.
	Why is that? That's because the dollar is losing purchasing power and that reflects all of the uncertainty in every market.
	So this is a complete revaluation of things.
	So when you say, well, is it going to be gold?
	Is it going to be Bitcoin? Is it silver?
	My answer is yes, it's all those things.
	People are looking for something that's not going to be unlimited.
	There's some checks to it.
	There's going to be some way to hedge against the loss of purchasing power and the loss of, not only that, but the loss of value in these markets that are so tied to it.
	And yeah, they're going to cut rates.
	We know that they're going to do QE. They're signaling that.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, well, they're political, so they have to do it.
	It doesn't really matter. I mean, they can manipulate the inflation stuff as much as they want.
	And even after they manipulate the inflation rate and bump it down so dramatically, it's still twice what their target rate is, but they're going to raise rates anyway.
	But it's still much higher than what they're saying it is.
	But, you know, when you look at this...
	You know, Powell is saying the same kind of stuff.
	He says, yeah, there's going to be a lot of disruption and there's going to be a lot of failures, but don't worry.
	It's just the small banks and regional banks, and so it's manageable, is what he said.
	And we don't have to worry about the big banks, because that's all they're worried about.
	But when you look at, and I think the trigger for this, and I think this is what...
	A lot of people are seeing, which is why they're moving into Bitcoin and ETF or anything that is away from the dollar.
	They see this whole thing as just freezing up, and we've got to get something that is outside of this.
	We just had on Monday, on the 11th, this program that they had put together to help some of these banks that were in trouble.
	They just brought it to an abrupt end.
	And so, interestingly enough, on the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a global pandemic when there wasn't one, these people are pulling out the rug that these banks have been relying on.
	That's one of the reasons why they know there's going to be 500 banks failing, because they're ending that program.
	They're not worried about it, but it's going to create massive unrest.
	As you point out, people are looking for any kind of a haven outside of the dollar, though.
	Well, you know, I looked at some of that intel and we discussed last week there might be an issue on the 11th because that program was ending.
	And I woke up early on the 11th and I wired out every single invoice that I needed to pay.
	Everybody who paid me, I got to the trading floor.
	I got it off my balance sheets by 9 a.m.
	I wasn't taking any time.
	I'm not going to be left holding the bag, especially for my customers.
	I've sent everything out to the trading floor, paid every single invoice and got it to zero.
	Because we don't know.
	These are very uncertain times.
	And so building something outside of the system, absolutely imperative.
	And of course, they're going to blame this on everyday, you know, the small business, the regional banks.
	And they're going to say, well, we need more regulation.
	And the more regulation is just, we need to help these bigger banks.
	They're your friend. You know, they're not lending to people.
	And that's the thing. The way to control is more and more consolidation.
	They're going to continue to back these big banks and leave these smaller and regional banks out to dry.
	Yes. Yeah, absolutely. As a matter of fact, there was one article I saw where they're talking about Javier Malay in Argentina said, okay, so...
	He says he's tying it all to the dollar he had said when he was running.
	He said, yeah, I understand the problem with the American Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, but he said our central bank is even worse, and this is just a pivot move, a temporary move, or something like that.
	But they said, so what is everybody else going to do?
	What are Americans going to do?
	When there's no other currency that we can go to to prop it up that's a bigger thing, and he said that's why everybody's moving into the ETF, Bitcoin ETFs and Bitcoin and gold and silver and things like that, because everybody is getting very afraid of this system that is teetering on collapse and is imminent, even according to the people who are running the system and pulling the levers. But you know it's also interesting I think to see how all of
	this is focusing people towards the CBDC. In New South Wales where we had Gladys Berejiklian, one of the worst of the COVID tyrants, and her party, to remind everybody, her party presented itself as a libertarian party.
	They call them liberals, but we use the term libertarian here because the liberals stole that word.
	But they were the liberal party, and so they were supposed to be about individual liberty, and they were the ones who were some of the worst tyrants.
	Now they're pushing to consolidate payments even more so in New South Wales into a central currency.
	And in Nigeria, where they've been struggling to impose this CBDC thing as one of the The first countries you and I have talked about that many times.
	They're now really leaning on Binance, and they're saying, you've got to give us all the information on your top 100 customers, and we want you to turn over all the transactions from the last six months.
	What do you think is going to happen with this army of IRS agents that Biden and the Republicans want to send against us in the next couple of years?
	Well, they're building an army for a war.
	That's right. I mean, it's a war on the American people.
	It's a war on people all around the world from their governments.
	They want to control all financial transactions.
	Don't look at what BlackRock's doing or these multinationals or Any of these Wall Street criminals, don't look at what they're doing.
	We don't follow the money there.
	We only follow your $600 Venmo transactions.
	That's what that army of IRS... The income tax was never about a fair share or anything.
	It was built by the wealthy.
	I don't know. When you know history, it's like living in the twilight zone.
	You realize as a progressive that the world's richest people, they made their foundations and they exempted themselves and they gave you the 16th Amendment, which is the income tax.
	And it's a way for the rich, the most powerful, to control you.
	So they use, and you know, it's funny, the same way they built these platforms for speech, David, like, you know, you've been kicked off YouTube, I've been kicked off YouTube, you know, you go to, but it used to be websites, or Facebook, you know, you go, same thing, Facebook, Twitter, all that, it used to be websites, and they draw you into these things, And it's all free and it looks like it's working really well and you're connecting.
	And all of a sudden, no, you're curated.
	You know, like Tim Cook says, you know, we're a curator system for podcasts.
	And so they curate.
	But they're doing the same thing with crypto in a lot of ways.
	I love the crypto space.
	But, you know, when it becomes more mainstream, when these websites start, you know, bowing down and we're going to be regulated and we're going to look at the SEC and whatever regulatory agency, and they're not standing up for freedom because this is a, you know, a token system is...
	It's just meant to be peer-to-peer.
	It has nothing to do with the government.
	It has nothing to do. Well, that's what they're being built to bring you in there, and then they're going to bring the hammer down if you don't comply.
	And so not everything in crypto is equal.
	Not everything is built on the same system or the same philosophy of the cypherpunks and the cryptography that was built to make things like Bitcoin.
	So again, it's not all the same ecosystem, but they're going to use that.
	And I think the same thing with FTX and all that.
	It was a test balloon to see how people would react.
	They shut down the Silvergate Bank.
	There was nothing wrong with it.
	We talked about that. There was nothing wrong with it.
	I used to wire Silvergate for my Bitcoin.
	And they were completely solvent.
	They were completely solvent. There was nothing wrong with it.
	But they touched. It touched something.
	And if you look at it, the same Sam Bankman fried stuff.
	It just looks so much like a setup.
	How did that guy ever have the amount of funds that he supposedly have?
	And it all funnels back to Ukraine and all these things.
	But they used that.
	I think that's the same thing with some of these larger crypto exchanges and when they have political ties.
	Again, people get involved with it.
	It crashes.
	This is a problem in the crypto space right now.
	There's mean coins that are going up.
	I mean, they have Joe Bowden, the coin.
	They have Trump coin is up 400% or some crazy thing, which is a mean coin.
	They have a coin based on Elizabeth Warren that I won't say what the name of it is on air, but they have a whole bunch of these things.
	And they don't mean anything.
	But people are excited because of the Bitcoin ETFs.
	It appears, if you watch the financial networks, that everything's great and there's lots of liquidity.
	But watch out.
	When they pull the plug, who gets blamed?
	Especially if Bitcoin's driving up, and I'm a believer in Bitcoin, but if Bitcoin keeps driving up, if people get hurt, if there is a collapse in some way, and all this inflow and outside these retirement funds, if this is a collapse of the total crypto ecosystem, which it could be, even in the short run, Well, there's going to be a blame, and the blame will be on crypto.
	And how do we fix that? How do we fix all your money problems?
	Well, we give you a central bank digital currency.
	We need the adults in charge.
	You know, we need somebody with a regulatory mind to come in and fix all this, and we'll make up for it.
	That's what I'm afraid of.
	Whether it's a banking crisis or a crypto crisis or economically, they'll fuse it together.
	And they've trained people with that.
	You know, it's like, remember when the Wu flu hit us and how we helped you out with the stimulus checks?
	That's just what this is now.
	Except it's going to be a little bit easier for us to get you this money.
	We can do it faster with a CBDC and all that.
	So just take the number. They got everybody accustomed to all of that stuff.
	And, you know, when we look at, like you said, you know, Bitcoin can crash regardless of whether or not that's real.
	Look at the dot-com bust, right?
	All of that stuff was, you know, the internet was a real thing.
	And just as we see now also with AI. You know, we've got AI, we've got Bitcoin.
	Those are things that people are going to be able to leverage.
	You know, Bitcoin is going to be there, and people can make a lot of money from AI, whatever.
	But... But the bottom line is that that was all there with dot-com.
	You knew that the internet was coming, that it was going to be big, but it got out ahead of itself, turned into a bubble, and they used that to get people afraid of it and to all jump out of the market at the same time.
	Well, that's what I'm afraid of.
	Yeah, exactly. I'm afraid it because it brings in regulation.
	It allows those who have innovated and put their lives and fortunes on the line to to bring something to market who truly believed in something.
	They're going to be vulnerable and they're going to be vulnerable to be bought up.
	That's what happened with the dotcom revolution and the Internet.
	And again, it got consolidated into what we see now, which is kind of a hellscape, a dystopia that we're, you know, slowly the gears turning down speech, throttling anybody that can be seen that wants to just have, you know, have their own opinion. Again, curating, like Tim Cook says, that's the same thing.
	I I'm a firm believer in the crypto space.
	I've been in it since 2016.
	I'm also a gold and silver guy.
	I'm precious metals first, but I think in technology and where we're headed, if you wanted to have any innovation at all, the energy is in crypto.
	It's the future. It's the future if.
	And there's a question mark hanging over all of this, and that's why I'm not a pessimist per se, but I am skeptical when there's so much going on and things that don't make sense, I call attention to it.
	I don't want to just be an outright cheerleader and say, all of it's good.
	There's that phrase in the crypto space.
	It's just, number go up. Number go up.
	That's what people look to.
	I'm not sure that's really the purpose of it.
	It's not really number go up. The purpose of it is to build something outside of the corrupt fiat system.
	That was the goal from the beginning.
	It's the same thing that gold bugs have always talked about or silver bugs.
	We don't want to be part of this.
	If If Richard Nixon hadn't taken us off the gold standard in 1971, would there be a Bitcoin?
	Would that really be a thing?
	I mean, I wouldn't have a business.
	What would gold be doing?
	It would be $35 an ounce.
	And we'd have a completely different looking country.
	We'd have a different world.
	It's a thought experiment.
	I'd love to see what it would look like, you know, just for curiosity's sake.
	But none of these things would exist if we had any semblance of real money.
	And we do not. I agree.
	Yeah, I talked to Aaron Day about his, you know, he ran briefly for president so he could try to bring attention to the CBDC issue.
	And he says, you know, get into gold and silver and Bitcoin and other things like that.
	But he said, you know, with Bitcoin, he was early adopter of it.
	He said, we turned that corner at one point.
	It was all set up to be what you were just talking about, an alternative system, an alternative payment system.
	And then he said it turned into a speculative asset.
	And, you know, the big banks and other people like that had a big part to play in that.
	Now they're doing that on steroids.
	I mean, when you look at this ETF thing, that's turning it into a speculative asset on steroids.
	And I don't know what happens with it in terms of, you know, some kind of an alternative currency.
	But going forward with all this, looking at the debt, you know, there's an article this week.
	This was from Reason Magazine.
	The White House says they're going to borrow $16 trillion over the next decade.
	Yeah, isn't that ridiculous? As you point out, they're going up every 90 days by a trillion dollars.
	And you're talking about over the next decade?
	Are you serious? That is, it's going to be way, way more than that.
	It's going to explode and implode long before that happens.
	But they really don't care.
	And just take a look at the IRS. The fact that they're going up a trillion dollars in the cumulative debt every 90 days, they're not anywhere close to funding the government with taxes of any sort, including the income tax.
	It's simply there to keep us from being able to accumulate any wealth.
	To keep us in our place.
	That's why the income tax is there.
	It's not there to fund the government, as most people think.
	It's there to saw off the rungs of the ladder that you can't climb up.
	It's the curse of 1913.
	You had to put the 16th Amendment in place, which is the income tax, completely outside of our heritage, our Constitution, the intent of our founding fathers.
	I mean, and it's ridiculous.
	It doesn't make sense.
	The income tax is there just to punish you.
	It's just to make sure that you cannot compete with the world's richest people who really run everything.
	You know, you look at Paul Warburg.
	They based the character Daddy Warbucks off in Little Orphan Annie, you know.
	And if you watch the movie or watch the play, you know, he calls up Franklin Roosevelt and tells him what to do.
	And that was, you know, people back in that time frame, they really knew things, didn't they?
	They really understood who these people were.
	You know, the Warburgs, his brother, Max Warburg, was the head of the Central Bank in Germany at the same time we're supposed to be mortal enemies in World War I. They put these things in place.
	Max gave Vladimir Lenin $10 million in gold and put him on a steel train to start the Russian Revolution.
	That's exactly right. Same thing in this country.
	We had Leon Trotsky was a newspaper reporter in New York and they loaded him down with gold and Woodrow Wilson, as a matter of fact, Pushed his passport, make sure he got out of Canada.
	He was able to get through and get on to Russia to start the revolution.
	This is because he had a banker handler, you know, Colonel Mandel House, who lived with him in the White House, kind of like Harry Hopkins did with Franklin Roosevelt.
	So, no, they built these.
	This is a system built by the world's most powerful richest people to make sure that you're a debt slave.
	The 16th Amendment was there to make sure that you never are able to compete with them.
	Again, who has reached the pinnacles of anybody like a Warburg?
	In this country?
	I can't think of anybody that's...
	Who's our J.P. Morgan?
	It's not Elon Musk.
	Who is it?
	There's been nobody that reached these heights of wealth and power like they did in that time frame.
	Those who met at Jekyll Island, the Rockefellers.
	Who's our Rockefeller? Nobody.
	We just have these puppets like Bill Gates and Elon Musk and others.
	Nobody reaches these types of wealth because that's what this income tax was designed to do.
	It's just slow you down, grind you down.
	The regulation, who understands it?
	What's taxable, what's not?
	They don't even...
	They'll admit they don't understand it.
	So we're all... It's one of the reasons I have my...
	One of my sponsors in my show is LegalShield.
	I've been with them for 20 plus years.
	They've got audit protection built into their membership.
	You get audited, you got a law firm on your side.
	But again, not...
	This is coming with 87,000.
	Did the Republicans slow that down at all?
	I forgot, David. I know they're busy banning TikTok.
	That's right. You can ban TikTok, but not that, right?
	That's right. In and of itself. I mean, that's a very dangerous thing.
	You know, we've had, this is a new thing for Congress to essentially go out and ban some application or website or business or whatever, over and above the free speech issues that are there.
	But so what is on your purview in terms of, you know, last week we were talking about record highs and we're still seeing some record highs, I guess, for Bitcoin.
	Things kept pushing up with gold, got close to 2200, didn't it, before it fell back?
	It did.
	And I think we might see a dip and some sell off in both metals, you know, in the short But in the long run, we're moving to a revaluation of commodities.
	The BRICS nations, they're pushing for new pricing and commodities because they get that there's suppression in the precious metals markets because the dollar has been at war with gold since we went off the gold standard in 1971. I mean, it's a natural enemy. Gold was up 2000% in the 70s, not because it went up in value, but because the dollar lost purchasing power.
	Again, when you reach the end of a currency, and I'm not sure we've ever seen anything quite like what we're watching right now.
	We talk about, you know, every 90 days, the debt going up a trillion dollars.
	It reminds me of something that the speechwriter for Nixon, Herbert Stein, they call it Herbert Stein's Law.
	He said, when something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
	Well, this will stop because it cannot go on forever.
	So I think we're going to see more and more And again, when I go to the Bitcoin ETF, and I listen to a lot of podcasts, and those are in the crypto space that are really excited.
	I don't want to rain on your parade because I'm early adoption of Bitcoin for me in my life.
	I've been a fan. I just have a problem when Larry Fink of BlackRock comes out.
	There's only one or two possibilities. Either he's giving it its blessing to kill it and he wants you to just take this thing like we because that's where our mind naturally goes with these type of people. It's like, is it a poison pill? We want to wreck the whole thing so we can replace it with something else, kind of a creative destruction. Like we bless it, it blows up and now we give you the central bank digital currency because those who control the money supply like Mayor the state of South Dakota. I'm you know, I care not who sits on the British throne.
	The person who controls the British Empire is the person who controls the British money supply.
	I control the British money supply.
	That was in the 19th century.
	So you wonder, you know, with the BlackRock's ties to the Fed because of Trump, this was, I mean, the reality is these big banks have ties to the Federal Reserve and help manage it and all the intricacies of it.
	So you wonder, why would they be for something that's outside of that?
	I have questions.
	Either the possibility he's trying to blow it up or he's a true believer.
	I don't know. Color me skeptical.
	I'm going to be skeptical on that forever.
	And so I'm never going to truly believe that these people have seen the light and they believe in sound money or even just having a finite-based commodity system for payments.
	I don't really buy it because they're born out of fiat.
	Everything that's created these new markets and these megabanks, David, it's all fiat fake currency.
	That's why if you look at the consolidation by the wealthy since the 1970s, it's massive.
	And the working class in this country and the middle class is shrinking and declining in wealth.
	So there's something inherently wrong with it.
	So I'm watching that very closely.
	I'm also seeing things like, you know, we talked about I'm not concerned about that at all because when you see more and more of the outflows and things coming from people just around the world getting out of their own currencies and getting into commodities and getting into things like gold and silver, There's a place at the table for all commodities.
	You know, copper, land.
	In this whole era that we're in, or you could call it an era like you usually do, it's an era.
	All of this is fiat, and it's fake, and it's coming to an end.
	It's not going to be tomorrow, but I think you're going to see more and more consolidation in the commodities market.
	So I'm just preparing on my side of the business is just to have supply.
	locations. I needed a supply chain. What's going to happen to my membership program when I call like the first quarter of 2020 after March, if you called and locked in silver with me, it was six weeks out.
	Wow. And people I'm like, well, I can't help that.
	That's just all the resources that I have.
	Everywhere in wholesalers, it would be four to six weeks out for most products.
	So luckily, we're not in that time frame anymore, and you can still get supply.
	It's not as great as it was before all of this happened, before 2019 or so.
	But that's the key is going to be supply.
	I know that the metal dealers that I respect that are in this business, that's their number one priority is to make sure people have supply.
	So I've asked that question, you know, what happens to my Wolfpack members when I have delays?
	You know, will I even be able to continue that program?
	I hope so. We're working on that right now because I do see it just takes a little push.
	I mean, we're just right on the edge of something really historic, and some of it can be good, some of it can be bad.
	You know, we're watching the banking issues, and I tell you that story.
	Like, I woke up early in the morning on the 11th.
	I had my wire set on both banks, and I emptied both bank accounts.
	And I think there was going to be a banking crisis.
	I just have a question.
	It's not that I know.
	I just have a question and I'm not going to be hopefully not caught flat footed because I have responsibilities to people who are my customers or my clients.
	So that's what I'm looking towards right now, David.
	It's just having supply.
	I like your... You've got a lot of experience.
	You've got a lot of insight into all this, as people can hear.
	And when we go back and we look at it, as everybody says, history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, of course, right?
	And it just seems to me like we saw this massive wealth destruction with real estate that so many of the middle class had in terms of wealth destruction because of this pump and dump That they did in the mid-2000s.
	And a large component of that that allowed them to do it was this derivative instrument that they created.
	And so I look at this and I've seen for the longest time people saying, well, you know, the younger generations, they find it difficult to get into real estate and housing and get the capital to get started in that.
	A lot of them are building wealth on crypto, especially Bitcoin.
	Oh, okay, so we're going to do a derivative on Bitcoin now.
	I don't know if that's what that's about or not, but it's just, you know, I look at it, it's like, so they're going to try to, is this a big rope-a-dope thing to destroy people's wealth, you know, by bringing in this derivative stuff?
	Because that just allows them to manipulate things to, you know, an amazing degree, as you and I have talked about for the longest time.
	The ETFs for gold and silver, allowing them to manipulate prices for that, bringing in this massive rush into Bitcoin with these ETFs.
	That really just, I don't know, my spidey senses are tingling.
	Mine too. Yeah, yeah.
	And I think you feed the old system by doing it.
	I mean, you go look at something R. Buckminster Fuller talked about.
	He said, don't fight the old system.
	You just give it energy. Just go build the new one.
	And that's a lot of the innovators and the futurists and people that want to create a better tomorrow.
	That's the people that have followed R. Buckminster Fuller.
	You know, the... We'll have to talk about him sometime.
	He's an interesting figure.
	He created the Buckyball, the geodesic dome, and all that.
	He's a genius. But he talked a lot about finances, and he wrote a book right before he passed away in the 80s called Grunch of Giants, and it was the gross universal cash heist.
	And he talked about how the richest people were stealing the wealth through the money supply.
	This guy was a genius.
	He was talking about concepts, trying to explain it to the everyday person because you can't see it.
	You can't see your slavery that's built by these same people.
	So when you're absolutely right, my spidey sense is when you know history and you have some of these same people saying, well, Bitcoin's great.
	We're going to make an ETF out of it.
	And I say, well, that's interesting.
	This should be your—like, why would you feed it?
	And so I have questions.
	And, you know, again, not always right with our pessimism, but it is something to be cautious about.
	And I would be absolutely—because this really tracks back to something that could be a controlled demolition.
	We know that they like to control—demolish things, don't they, David?
	Yeah. That's what it looks like they are hell-meant to do everything in our society.
	It's always great talking to you, Tony, and as you're pointing out, you know, in terms of supply, that is going to really, I think you're right, it's going to be the key thing.
	It's good that you are on top of that.
	Any specials or anything like that you want to talk about at Wise Wolf?
	Well, we got the 1776 promo over on wolfpack.gold, but go to davidknight.gold and click the link so you can support David through there.
	We always support David through Wise Wolf and Wolfpack and 1776 promo for free silver.
	I have some announcements here in the next couple of weeks.
	We've got some great stuff going on at Wolfpack and some new specials.
	We added a new tier.
	It's called Zen Wolf.
	I don't think I've announced that over here.
	Zen Wolf is the highest level.
	I'm not making any more wolves.
	I thought Sage Wolf would be the last tier, which was $1,000 a month.
	And people started buying multiple sages.
	And I'm like, well, okay, well, I'll go to another tier up.
	And so what we do is we have Zenwolf.
	It's treated a little bit differently.
	Sometimes if, you know, people can select, we've made it to where they can select all gold, all silver.
	It's not as, we have to create these other invoices in bulk.
	But Zenwolf's interesting.
	If you're interested, if you've got, you know, if you're looking at a dollar cost average over the next, Two or three months or six months, you should check out Zenwolf because you can go all the way up to $5,000.
	It doesn't mean you have to make it automatic.
	You can do one-time purchases.
	But if you just want to have me go buy it for you, then that's one way to do it.
	And so we're just trying to make it easier for people over on Wolfpack.
	And you can do direct purchases all the way down to, even if you want to buy somebody a gift and buy them a Wolf Cup at $35, you can do one-time.
	You don't have to do a membership. That's great.
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	The seed in our homeland, boys, let it grow where all can see.
	Feed it with our devotion, boys, call it the Liberty Tree.
	It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree.
	And we are the sons, yes we are the sons, the sons of liberty.
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	Well, we have nearly 30% of Gen Z women are identifying as LGBT, according to a Gallup survey.
	And I think this is just beginning, because I think what is happening with us, and we all know it, if you look at their survey, you can see an exponential rise in terms of generations.
	And just to insert here, where does Gen X and Gen Z and the boomers and the silver generation, where's that terminology coming from?
	It's coming from Strauss and Howe, their book back in the early 90s, Generations, and then the one that they did next, which was Fourth Turning.
	And I find it interesting that as they talk all around this, this is NBC, of course.
	This is NBC. It's the Gallup organization.
	But nobody there will talk about the fourth turning.
	They use all the terminology and all the generational aspect and how these different generations are different from each other, but they don't talk about the cycle of generations because they don't want to talk about the time.
	That we are in. And so when you look at their charts, you see that it's basically, you know, the generation before the boomers, the silver generation.
	That is, I'm not sorry, silver, silent generation.
	But these are all the terms of, again, Strauss and Howe.
	The silent generation, generation X, generation Z, the millennials, they coined those terms.
	But don't pay attention to the fact that we're in a fourth turning.
	They had a big survey.
	12,000 people, 18 and older, across the country.
	It had an all-time record overall of 7.6% of the population identifying as LGBT. However, the biggest group are Gen Z women, nearly 30%.
	And that's the Gen Z of people that right now are between 12 and 27.
	They are asking people from 18 up, so it would be 18 to 27 percent.
	And why is this exploding?
	Well, because it's being pushed to them in schools and entertainment and media, and every institution is being pushed to them.
	And, folks, it's not going to stop there.
	It's going to at least double.
	And I say that because what you see being done, basically it's like 1% of the silent generation, the generation before the boomers.
	Only 1%. And it goes up just a little bit with the boomers and then it starts to explode.
	Because they started pushing it as a psychological experiment.
	And if you go back and you look at the Milgram experiment, you look at the Ash experiment, those two that I talk about frequently, the Milgram experiment, Where they used authority figures to get people to harm other people, for example.
	And they found that two-thirds of the people would do that.
	Or the Ash experiment, where they have a large group, you know, kind of like a classroom or something, and everybody is giving, everybody's in on the gag except for the test subject.
	And they're giving obviously wrong answers, even about things like, which line is the longest?
	And it's pretty obvious which one is the longest.
	And the person there gives the correct answer, because they make it very obvious what the correct answer is.
	But they look around and they see everybody else is giving the wrong answer.
	And after a while, two-thirds of the people will give the wrong answer.
	So two-thirds of the people in the authority experiment, the Milgram experiment, two-thirds of the people in the ASH experiment, the peer pressure experiment, And guess what?
	Social media and mainstream media and entertainment and especially schools, they're all about that.
	So you're going to see that go up to at least two-thirds.
	At least two-thirds.
	Because it is psychological pressure.
	And it's going up exponentially with these different generations because of all of that.
	Only 1% of the silent generation, the youngest of whom are in their late 70s, Only less than 1% of them identified as LGBT. So, as I said, well, it's going to go up.
	You know, right now the overall is 7.5 or something.
	It's going to go up to 10% as the older generation goes off because they are suppressing that.
	But it is engineered.
	And it is by design.
	It's another one of these things pushing narratives.
	Even in Spain... They have soldiers who are changing their genders so they can get increased benefit and increased pay.
	They're paying them to do this.
	I mean, this is exactly the opposite of Corporal Klinger, right, from MASH. The West has been taken over by those who want to destroy it.
	Under Spain's self-ID law, approved in February of last year, despite objections from the conservative opposition, You had feminist groups and elements of Spain's ruling leftist coalition.
	And by the way, feminist groups, why is it so much more so there's a bigger difference with women of Gen Z than there is with men?
	A big difference between the different ones.
	And much more likely than men.
	And this is, especially in these latter generations, well, I think that all harkens back to school.
	School is really set up to appeal to women.
	They can get their pencils and a paper, and they can sit there and all their stuff in a row.
	And the pencil and paper are there, and they love to just sit there and feedback what they're being told, right?
	The guys are sitting there kind of antsy, like, when do we get done with this?
	I want to get outside and do something, you know?
	So they give them Ritalin. That's the way it was in the...
	You know, 30 years ago when we were starting to teach our kids.
	So I'm going to put my boys in that kind of an environment.
	It's not really geared towards guys.
	And when we teach them, you know, they'd kind of like bump around as I'm talking to them and everything.
	And I just had to put up with a distraction because they really were listening.
	And if I said, this is so frustrating, I can't get them to pay attention.
	Because I want them to sit still, you know, listen to me.
	Karen said, ask him what you just said.
	And so I did, and he fed it back to me verbatim, what I just said.
	He was getting it, and he understood it, but he couldn't sit still.
	He didn't want to sit still. And if I had made him set sail, he wouldn't have been able to pick up any of it.
	It's just a difference.
	But it appeals to them.
	It appeals to women.
	So feminists in Spain, others are pushing this through, the leftists there.
	Anybody over the age of 16 can change their legal gender without psychiatric or medical evaluation.
	And so soldiers in Spain's North African enclave of Sueta, I guess, are taking advantage of the loopholes.
	Forty-one soldiers in this one area they're all catching on have switched their legal gender to female.
	Four of them have also changed their names because they get increased pensions and increased salaries as well as other fringe benefits.
	It allows children as young as 12 to legally change their gender.
	But in that case, it has to be approved by a judge.
	But again, parents don't get a say.
	We remove parental rights.
	We make the government the family.
	We make the government the arbiter of this so that they can have their way with the kids.
	This one guy wrote about it.
	He said, for changing my gender, one of the soldiers, for changing my gender, I've been told that my pension has gone up because women get more compensation for inequality.
	I also get 15% more salary for being a mother.
	I even have a private room in the barracks all to myself with a private bathroom because I cannot be with men as I am a woman now, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them, of course.
	You see how this works?
	How these people are gaming the system?
	Do you see how the system is gaming us, as a matter of fact?
	Take a look at the Illinois governor, and I've shown this picture of Pritzker before.
	The one on the right is the governor of Illinois.
	The one on the left is a guy who goes by the name of Jennifer.
	It looks like they look like identical twins.
	And as I put this up in the past, I said, this reminds me of the Beverly Hillbillies where you had Jethro and Jethreen, you know, where they...
	They would dress him up like his cousin or whatever.
	And this guy, the cross-dressing tranny, he's identified as a philanthropist because they give so much money, the Pritzker family, very wealthy.
	They're the heirs of the Hyatt fortune.
	And so, you know, this other guy, the Illinois governor, they're the one who is dressed as a man as opposed to the man who's dressed as a woman.
	They have, they give many millions of dollars to these transgender organizations and have been pushing this from the very beginning.
	They have, as a matter of fact, pushed what they call synthetic sex identities, SSIs.
	And give lots of money to that.
	But of course, Governor Pritzker As part of this, this is all kind of folded together because he just had a speech where he said he's very proud of abortionists.
	He thinks that they are heroic.
	LifeSite News says Illinois Democrat Governor Pritzker said he is proud of those who kill pre-born babies for a living in a video that was released over the weekend to celebrate Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.
	Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.
	Abortion Pride, I guess.
	Take pride in your murdering of babies.
	Pritzker also has an organization that he's put together called Think Big America.
	Well, you know, both he and his, I think that's his cousin or something.
	Both of them are pretty big, actually.
	He says, we offer a thank you to doctors, nurses, clinic, staff, and volunteers involved in abortions for their, quote, compassion.
	You are on the front lines of this fight.
	And your sacrifices and your work make me proud, he said, of those who destroy innocent life.
	Yeah, those babies, boy, they really put up a fight and we're ripping them apart piece by piece.
	So you're right on the front lines of that.
	With Think Big America, we're going state by state across the nation to protect a woman's right to an abortion, he said.
	So he's just like Bloomberg who had his Everytown organization to push gun control everywhere.
	So he's pushing abortion everywhere.
	The Scottish government.
	Hate crime bill.
	Just like we got Canada.
	We got Belgium.
	We have these bills everywhere.
	Well, here's Scotland's bill.
	For three years, Scotland's hate crime and public order bill has been lurking in the shadows.
	It is now going to come into effect on April 1st, meaning that, quote, misogyny, unquote, or stirring up hatred will become a criminal offense.
	Everywhere. Everywhere.
	All at once. It has taken 40 years longer than Orwell predicted, said the Scottish Daily Express.
	But we have finally arrived at the totalitarian nightmare that Orwell feared.
	Again, not 1984, but 2024 is the year that everybody is instituting these Orwellian hate speech laws.
	And as I said earlier, the excuse for a lot of this stuff and the excuse for destroying parental rights and for grooming directly children Well, these poor kids are being bullied, and they're going to commit suicide as well.
	Well, they don't care about the bullying, as we see, and if it's gangs that are doing it for the racial hatred that they have instilled.
	But they also don't care about suicide.
	Trans women's—and what I mean by this is that this is a man who says now they want to become a woman— These are people who have gone through bottom surgery, or what they call vaginoplasty.
	And I'm not going to go into the horrific details of this, but they found that their suicide rates doubled.
	And many people have talked about how horrific that surgery has been.
	Remember the old days when Dr.
	Dean Adele, who was one of the Pioneers, one of the first really successful talk show hosts, he used to have a, his hobby horse, his pet grievance was circumcision.
	He was Jewish and he hated circumcision.
	And, you know, we essentially got tired of hearing him hammer that hobby horse all the time.
	And so I wonder what he would say.
	About vaginoplasty.
	I mean, circumcision doesn't even come close to what that is.
	But it's horrific. And it has doubled their suicide rate.
	As all this is happening, as we look at all these different bills that are criminalizing and coming with jail sentences now for speech, you know, we're getting beyond the canceling thing.
	We're getting beyond Twitter jail.
	We've got actual jail that these people want to put out there.
	We know where this is headed.
	It's headed towards religious persecution.
	Your religious and your political beliefs have been the principal concern of geospatial intelligence and the surveillance state, and their monitoring and lurking in the shadows of social media from its inception.
	And so, if we want to look at what this is going to be like, it is really becoming appropriate for us to go back and look at the writings of people like Solzhenitsyn, to look at current Christians who have been jailed in China.
	And now a Protestant pastor who just spent seven years in Chinese prison.
	This is why I said seven years earlier.
	I had that in my mind.
	It's one year for the right now.
	For the political figure that they said had some jokes that were hateful, so they're going to send him to jail for a year.
	This Christian pastor got seven years in a Chinese prison.
	This kind of Chinese style persecution is on the way in the West.
	That's what they intend to do.
	They're copying it in the same way they copied this ridiculous, tyrannical lockdown stuff, and the social credits, you know, they even had the traffic light thing, red, yellow, and green, that China had put in with social credits, they applied all that during the so-called pandemic.
	A Chinese Christian pastor just published his first testimony after seven years of suffering in prison for his faith in China.
	What sustained him, he said, was his long isolation, during his long isolation was the power of prayer.
	And consider the fact that, you know, now Trudeau, if you say things that they consider to be hateful, which again, they've made it very clear, they think that many Christian beliefs are hateful, they could give you a lifetime sentence in Canada under Trudeau.
	He's flown his flag.
	This guy's always been a Marxist.
	This pastor's name is John Chow, a permanent resident of North Carolina and a husband to an American citizen, Jamie Powell, spent time serving as a missionary in Myanmar, which borders China.
	He worked among poor minority children, building 16 schools that reached more than 2,000 children.
	I wonder what would happen if we started building Christian schools here in the United States to get people outside of this heinous system that runs on Federal Reserve money.
	Well, you know what would happen here?
	We've already seen it.
	People in various states are fighting for funding for these private schools.
	They don't want to have independence.
	They want to be dependent on cash.
	They love the money.
	And that's the root of the evil.
	They come to the government and they say, well, we want to set up the school.
	What do we have to do to get some federal funding or state funding or whatever?
	Rather than doing this independently.
	You know, he's not getting any money for setting these things up.
	He's getting people to privately fund this.
	Why don't we do this in America?
	Why don't we start setting up our own schools to instill our values?
	You can't win a culture war if you don't have a culture.
	And you can't have a critical thinking, moral future generation if you don't give them an education that is that way, if you don't lay that foundation.
	He would often cross the border into China because of his work, and he was left unhindered for three years by Chinese authorities until they decided to arrest him in 2017 on allegations of illegal border crossing.
	And they didn't give him a ticket further into China or give him a lot of fringe benefits and cash cards like we do here.
	No, they put him in jail for illegally crossing the border, they said.
	Gave him a seven-year prison sentence for crossing the border.
	Upon examining the evidence of the case in September 2019, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that his detention was indeed arbitrary and demanded the Chinese government release him at once.
	They said, eh, we don't care.
	I said, let's see him enforce it.
	The religious nature of the persecution to which the Protestant pastor was being subjected was evident throughout the years of his imprisonment.
	And by the way, they mention Protestant because it's coming from LifeSite News.
	He was refused a Bible when requested.
	Letters from his own mother were confiscated if they contained too many verses of Scripture.
	And at the mention of prayers from certain persons...
	Visits from his mother would be abruptly ended.
	He said, again, that what sustained him was prayer.
	He said, I wake up every morning at 5 a.m., automatically waking up.
	There are no clocks inside the prison, but I always wake up at 5 o'clock, sometimes even earlier, at 4 a.m.
	The surveillance personnel that were there with him don't allow me to pray, so I pray by turning sideways because I can still pray while lying on my side.
	You know, the bottom line is, they can't chain your prayers.
	But he looks at this and he says, why are they so concerned about my prayers?
	Why does that scare them so much?
	Now, why does it scare the police in the UK to have a woman silently standing in front of an abortion clinic, silently praying?
	What are they afraid of?
	Every day there are three people with me during the day around me and they don't allow me to talk to anyone.
	At night, one person is standing beside me, watching me sleep, afraid that I might get up at night to pray.
	So there's always somebody with me 24 hours a day.
	It is not allowed. If someone greets me when I go out, they will be punished.
	But of course, they don't punish me.
	They punish the three people who are in charge of me and they say that they're not doing a good job of monitoring me.
	That really sounds like going back to the Roman Empire, right?
	They would do that. They would put guards in with the prisoners like they would with Paul.
	And, you know, when they had an earthquake and they'd start to get out, they're going to kill the guard, you know, for not stopping them.
	In this very lonely and isolated situation, he said, however, I have never lost my joy.
	He didn't say happiness, right?
	Because happiness is something that happens to you.
	And what was happening to him was not a happy thing.
	But he still had joy.
	He said, I've never felt lonely.
	I know that behind me the Holy Spirit provides me with strength.
	I have brothers and sisters from all over the country and the world with me, praying for me, he said.
	On May 7, 2023, my mother came to visit me for the first time after the pandemic.
	She couldn't visit me during the pandemic.
	She said, Pastor Yuan is praying for you, and the monitoring center was listening in, and as soon as they heard that, they cut off my call.
	The visit was interrupted.
	My mother took a train from Changsha and traveled for 20 hours and could only see me for three Why? Because she mentioned that a pastor was praying for me and that these people are very afraid of the word prayer.
	He says, I don't know why.
	My mother started to cry because we hadn't seen each other for so long.
	We used to chat, but now we can meet face to face, of course, separated by a window.
	Some people are so afraid of prayer, it shows that it's effective.
	Otherwise, why would they be so afraid of it?
	He says, the greatest joy of God's children, he said in this world, the only hope, the meaning of our lives, our greatest hope is not in this world.
	Every morning when I wake up, all I can do is pray.
	The first thing I did when I entered prison was to say to them, would you please give me a Bible?
	They laughed contemptuously.
	How could you possibly make such a request?
	As if it's unthinkable, you have no rights in our prison.
	And I said, okay, so I rely on my mother's letters.
	She writes a few sentences of the Bible to me each time, but if she writes too much, they won't give me the letter.
	If it's just two or three sentences, it's okay.
	In the end, I received 90 letters, but was not allowed to take them with me when I was released.
	I said, are these not my things?
	The letters are from my mother.
	The envelopes were bought with my mother's money.
	The things are for me, and when I want to take them with me, I'm not allowed to.
	These are my most precious things, but they wouldn't let me take them.
	During the seven years in prison, every day was filled with joy.
	I woke up at 5 o'clock to pray and sing hymns, and God would speak to me, they said.
	This is what we need to understand.
	Like I said, somebody like this pastor who is focused on God, they don't have any power over him, even if they were to kill him.
	He's not afraid of them.
	Why did we lock down our churches during the so-called pandemic?
	What were we afraid of?
	Did they have a guard that was standing there to tell us that we couldn't meet?
	No. No.
	We did it to ourselves in most cases.
	Now, Joe Rogan has had a couple of things that have gone pretty viral.
	They always do on Twitter.
	He's always promoted and paid tens of millions of dollars to put this stuff out.
	He had recent episodes that I see on Twitter with Riley Gaines, the swimmer who has been engaged with this back and forth fight over men and women's sports.
	But the Christians are very excited about the fact that she brought up Christian ideas.
	But I'm not so sure, you know, looks like Joe is kind of moving in that direction.
	I don't think so.
	And here's really what happened.
	She said to him, she said, the Bible tells us that we reach a point, Paul says it in Acts and Romans in different places, he tells us that we reach a point where bitter is seen as sweet, where dark is seen as light.
	Where evil is seen as moral.
	It's undeniable that that's not what we're seeing now.
	In other words, it's what we are seeing.
	She says, I'm not saying that people who identify as trans are evil.
	I don't necessarily think like that.
	But what is evil is deception.
	Manipulation is evil. Temptation is evil.
	Well, of course, and it also is evil if you do exactly the opposite of what God says to do.
	Let's not lose sight of that.
	But let's also not lose sight of the hope that is there as well.
	There's still God's grace and mercy for those who turn from that.
	But Rogan agreed.
	He said, it can start to sound loony when we talk about Satan and evil and good and biblical stories, he said.
	He said, I think that what the Bible is, is I think at one point in time, there was a very sophisticated society that got wiped out by some sort of massive natural disaster.
	I don't think he's talking about the flood.
	This is just something he's making up.
	And then over time, they told the stories that they had learned since they stopped writing things down.
	They probably had to live like barbarians for thousands of years, but they always had the stories.
	And he said these narratives, including those of Adam and Eve and creation, he said, not just religious texts, but also cautionary tales about the dangers of moral corruption and societal decline.
	It's like this is a map of civilization, he said.
	It's just so old. It's been translated so many times from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic and all these different languages down to Greek and Latin and English, finally.
	And he says, what was really said?
	What was really going on?
	Because a lot of it seems to be on the money.
	Like, if you wanted to try to put this through some sort of logical filter or figure out, is someone really trying to warn us about the natural progression that all societies and all civilizations go down?
	If you don't have a moral compass, if you don't follow and adhere to the rules of God, He's just, you know, he sounds like Chad GPT. He's just kind of hallucinating over the stuff.
	Well, I think there was some, you know, advanced civilization, and they had to go to an oral history, and we got a lot of stuff wrong, but there's some good stuff in there, you know?
	Jesus is a good moral man, and all this kind of stuff.
	Well... That's always been an approach.
	That's not anything new. C.S. Lewis' response to that was either, you can't say that Jesus was just a great moral teacher because he said he was God.
	And so he's either a liar, a lunatic, or he is Lord.
	Which is it? Same thing is true about the people around them.
	So you've got all these people engaged in lies and conspiracies, and yet they gave us this high moral code.
	How does that make any sense?
	But again, that's why they like to have Rogan there.
	He says, yeah, Jesus on the White House lawn.
	Wow, that would be a game-changer.
	Well, I think MAGA believes that's about to happen.
	So Gaines says, God bless Elon Musk.
	I really think he has single-handedly almost turned this culture around.
	So God bless him.
	Bless his heart.
	Well, actually, you know what?
	God can use a transhumanist technocrat.
	But if God is using a transhumanist technocrat like Elon Musk, make sure you give God the glory, not the transhumanist technocrat.
	God can use anybody to accomplish his purposes.
	The question is, you know, do we understand yet as a society, I don't think we do, what the founders of this country did, and that is that liberty is a blessing from God.
	It isn't something we achieve on our own.
	It isn't something that is handed down to us by some benevolent billionaire, the richest man on earth.
	It's not what that is.
	It's a blessing from God.
	And that happens when we get on God's side, as he defines it.
	Again, only anybody can look At the world around us, and we have more evidence of intelligent design than anybody in the history of Western civilization.
	The amount of information we have about things like DNA and all the rest of this to see that there was an intelligent design.
	Then it becomes, has God spoken and how did he speak to us?
	And there's ample evidence for that that we have.
	We are without excuse if we do not pay attention to what God has given us in the Bible.
	But anyway, he says, he finishes it up by saying, it's really like the universe puts you in this position.
	You're the right person in this position.
	It's like the universe puts you in that position because most people wouldn't be as uniquely disciplined about chasing this down as you are.
	So this impersonal universe cannot have a person, right?
	Can't have a God who is in charge of this.
	He imagines that this is some kind of an impersonal force.
	He also started when he got in with Ray Kurzweil, who works for Google.
	He's one of Google's chief scientists.
	And he's pretty old now.
	He's in his early 80s.
	And so they were talking about the nature of society.
	They also talked about artificial intelligence and whether or not the government could surveil your phone.
	That was actually pretty comical.
	I'm not going to play that for you, but let me play you this clip where Rogan talks about his ideas about metamorphosis and his cosmology, I guess we could say.
	Yeah. What do you mean by create life?
	What I think is that human beings are some sort of a biological caterpillar that makes a cocoon that gives birth to an electronic butterfly.
	I think we are creating a life form and that we're merely conduits for this thing.
	We have our instincts and ego and emotions and all these things feed into it.
	Materialism feeds into it.
	We keep buying and keep innovating and technology keeps increasing exponentially and eventually it's going to be artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence is going to create better artificial intelligence and a form of being that has no limitations in terms of what's capable of doing.
	And capable of traveling anywhere, not having any biological limitations in terms of...
	But that's going to be ourselves.
	I mean, we're going to be able to create life that is like humans, but far greater than we are today.
	With an integration of technology.
	Yeah. If we choose to go that route.
	Yeah, see, his religion is technology.
	Scientism, all the rest of this.
	And that really is, that form of secular humanism is really where we are.
	Adam Singer had an article, The Rise of AI Nihilism.
	You know, this whole idea that we're going to...
	We are gods, you know.
	We're going to create this godlike intelligence.
	I've talked about that many times, but you hear that.
	They're all selling that. Ray Kurzweil.
	Hugo de Garis was talking about it.
	Joe Rogan has bought into it.
	You know, we're actually like, you know, this is metamorphosis, and we're like the cocoon, and coming out of us is going to be some kind of machine-like intelligence and all this other nonsense.
	But he doesn't realize... It's the oldest lie that humanity has been deceived with.
	You will become like God.
	And so, the rise of AI nihilism.
	Adam Singer says, let's put the future of creative fields into the hands of individuals who don't even know what creativity is.
	So, what could possibly go wrong?
	You know, we look at technology like this.
	It always reminds me of what Arthur C. Clarke said.
	He said, the quote, technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
	That's always fascinated me as I looked at technology.
	But, you know, it's also indistinguishable, I guess we could say, from sorcery, from pharmakia, from hallucinations, and all the rest of this stuff.
	And so that really is where we are.
	These technocrats should be regarded as a bunch of would-be magicians and sorcerers, another thing that is strongly condemned by God.
	Why? Because they always present themselves as gods.
	And they always seem to set themselves up in opposition to God.
	Adam Singer says, Optimize?
	Optimize what? For whom?
	For what purpose? Why?
	He said, you know, when we look at what is being done with AI, we keep hearing from these people, well, you know, we're accelerating change.
	And he says, and it's really kind of a, you know, Silicon Valley version of gain of function, except for creative work, except for mental models.
	He says, we just slap Moore's law graphs up without understanding just how efficient it already is to build cool, creative things.
	And, you know, and as he and Kurzweil are talking about artificial intelligence, he says, well, I've got this chart, you know, and look at, and it's essentially, you know, Look at how everything is increasing in speed and all the rest of this stuff.
	And Joe's like, oh, yeah, let's get that.
	Let's find that on the web and let's show that.
	Or show me the paper, you know.
	And so they focus on that, and that's what they talk about.
	They just throw up Moore's Law, as if because things are getting faster and faster, then, you know, it's great.
	He says, after all, humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA, but it turns out that that small percentage matters a lot.
	And he goes, so judging by that, he goes, doesn't it kind of feel that way with AI? Yeah, there's a lot of stuff.
	Just like, you know, the chimps have 98.8% DNA of humans, but there's a big difference.
	He said it kind of feels that way with artificial intelligence, doesn't it?
	I think it does. He says, meanwhile, we've been giving artists fantastic ways to be more efficient with their creative work for decades.
	Many who have been commenting on AI creatives have clearly never used existing creative software, technological tools, to make anything.
	It's devastatingly obvious when you read people's thoughts if you already create digital art of any sort.
	The current wave of AI of course hopes to leapfrog software packages and tools and simply work on spitting out the final output of audio or video or text files, patterned after existing work.
	It's all been done at this point, so we might as well let the machines take the wheel.
	Our pesky, fleshly humans have done enough.
	He says, you know, it's never enough, and so let's just turn it over.
	It's all been done.
	You know, which kind of makes me think when I was talking earlier about John Williams.
	It becomes increasingly harder to be creative when you're way down the list of what people have been doing with a particular art format.
	You've got to keep some kind of a connection to what they're familiar with or it just seems like random garbage.
	And in the early 20th century, you had a lot of composers who's like, you know, we just got to completely change all the rules and do something completely different.
	So we're going to do atonal stuff, and it's not going to have any connection at all to chord progressions or any of that stuff, and it just sounded like a bunch of random garbage.
	And yet, you still had people come along, people like John Williams, who could use those existing formats that had been around for centuries.
	And create something that was as fresh and as original as the people who started to invent those new forms, people like Mozart and Beethoven.
	He could create something that was fresh and original even using those old formats.
	But he goes on to say that when we look at what is being offered to us, he said, we're told that general intelligence is just around the corner, so why should I do this or why should I do that?
	He said this kind of mindset will produce people who are sitting in a perpetual waiting room.
	When is the tech going to get here?
	He said it is a waiting for Godot scenario of creative pursuits, with their motivation always being just a day in the future.
	They, just like certain engineers here, always miss the point of developing a craft, which is the ultimate goal of any creative process, whether you're talking about art or something else.
	You've got to choose a path.
	If you don't start now, it doesn't matter what technology develops later on.
	He said, take a look at the cheap, chintzy CGI movies versus the kind of stuff that Christopher Nolan does when he actually builds sets and things like that.
	And that's what it's doing.
	It's breeding a dependency.
	It's breeding a passivity.
	There's enough copycat stuff going on, whether you're talking about art or you're talking about technology.
	What we need are people who do the work to make it original.
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