using free speech to free minds You're listening to The David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 11th of April, Year of Our Lord 2024.
Well, we're going to begin today, actually, with the back-and-forth outrage about this Arizona Supreme Court decision that really has the left angry.
It's amazing how angry they get if you don't go along with them on their agenda of abortion, injection, mutilation.
Ha ha! And so we're going to begin with that, and we're going to look at the spineless, feckless GOP and the candidates with that.
But we're also going to talk right after that about the fight over FISA and the GOP. This is a very important issue that's been there for quite some time.
And we'll also take a look at how the pandemic began.
An excellent summary of the nonsense with all this stuff.
As well as a movie that is out, Climate the Movie.
I'm going to give you a little bit of a taste of that.
Try to encourage you to take a look at this or share it.
It's excellent production values for this film.
We'll be right back. As I was saying, the production values for the climate, very good, very good sources.
I talked to a lot of scientists who have been there and done that.
People who are part of the UN IPCC. People who have been on the inside.
To tell you just how politicized and untrue and unscientific the whole thing is.
It's put together by a guy that's done a lot of National Geographic documentaries and things.
He's got a lot of experience and it shows.
One thing here that does not have very good production values or content of any sort is The View.
Host Whoopi Goldberg.
Makes a bizarre claim about the Ten Commandments when she's talking about abortion.
And she turns it into the Nine Commandments, and you can guess which one she gets rid of.
Because they demand abortion.
They demand, as I said, injection and mutilation of kids.
They want to kill kids before they're born.
They want to mutilate kids afterwards to satisfy their sexual depravity.
And then they want to sterilize and kill people and injure people with the injections.
And they demand, your body, your choice.
Oh no, we forgot about all that four years ago, didn't we?
It wasn't about your choice.
It wasn't about your informed consent.
It wasn't about you and your doctor deciding what to do.
No, you must do this.
And you are a pariah.
You are a sociopath.
You are a psychopath.
If you don't wear a mask, if you don't stay six feet apart from me, I love how they call that social distancing.
I said at the time, it's anti-social distancing, isn't it?
Very anti-social.
But she said...
On social media on Monday that abortion is not included under the biblical mandate, thou shalt not kill.
And of course, she makes the rookie mistake to think that it's killing of any sort.
No, that really is about murder, which is different from killing that happens in self-defense, isn't it?
If somebody breaks into your home and you defend yourself and you kill them because they're a threat to your life, people are not even charged with that.
Someone died, but it wasn't murder.
And if someone breaks into your country and you defend yourself with the military, you have a justified war.
To defend yourself and to kill those invaders if necessary.
I'm not a pacifist, but we're so far away from any justification for war anymore.
She said, I want to make sure that if you decide that this is what you want to do, I'm going to get behind you because I don't know your life.
And if you say this is what you need, that's what I'm going to do.
In other words, you have a truth.
God doesn't have any absolute values.
There is no objective truth.
And there is no objective standard for anything.
She said, and that means, you know, hey, 50 weeks, I don't care.
Well, if you've got a baby for 50 weeks, you've got a problem.
You've got a real problem.
50 weeks, 75,000 weeks, whatever.
How many weeks? It's nobody's business.
Well, God made it his business.
And she's the one who brings God into this.
She argued that abortion is a matter between you and your doctor and God, she said.
She said abortion isn't mentioned in the Big Ten, meaning the Ten Commandments.
Yeah, it is. Actually, it doesn't take a great deal of critical thinking to understand that.
But you can rationalize anything if you wish.
Goldberg began lecturing about God's rules and regulations.
She said God was pretty clear.
Here's the stuff that will make your life better on earth.
And so, you know, that's what that's all about, right?
You know, certainly if you follow God's commandments, they are things that are good for you.
And I've made that analogy in the past before.
I made it to my kids.
I said, you know, look, you are old enough to know that if the stove is glowing red, it's really pretty, right?
But you don't want to touch it.
That's our rules here.
We're doing that for your own good, but it's our rules.
And you need to just trust us, and we've got rules, that those rules are for your own good, or just obey, right?
But she doesn't like that.
Sonny Hostin said, well, some Christians are going to say, thou shalt not kill, would include abortion.
And she said, well, here's the thing.
I think, thou shalt not kill cannot be used as a block.
Because we allow wars all the time, again.
It's not, thou shalt not murder.
And it's not murder if somebody breaks into your home.
It's somebody that breaks into your country.
Now, if we go into another country, and we break into that country, and we start a war preemptively, that is murder.
That is unjust. She said the Crusades were all about these things.
The Crusades. She jumps into the Crusades.
I mean, her mind is a mess here.
It is amazing. So there's some conversation we had there.
Thou shalt not kill for everybody and everything, or we have to talk about the things that you and I need to do.
You know, sometimes we need to kill babies.
And so it's just a relative term.
Sometimes it applies, and sometimes it doesn't.
They are the ten suggestions, but Whoopi will give you a pass.
Not that God will give you a pass, because God says that these babies are human.
Not only that, but he knows them.
As he says in Jeremiah, Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
Before you were born, I set you apart.
I pointed you. To what he was going to do.
In this particular case for Jeremiah, it was to be a prophet to the nations.
In Psalm, for you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb, as all my days were known to you before a single one had occurred.
Well, they are really, really angry about this 1864 law.
Conservatives no longer care about freedom.
It says Ella Whelan.
This is from the Telegraph in the UK. Again, freedom?
How dare you talk about freedom?
You people who are demanding jabs, masks, lockdowns, social distancing, all the rest of this stuff, how dare you talk about freedom?
How dare you talk about my body, my choice?
You lost that altogether.
And it's those same people.
Same people. Democrats.
To a man. And to a woman.
Legislation is now in effect in Arizona because they said, look, the prohibition, the thing that changed everything was Roe v.
Wade. This is the Arizona Supreme Court's logic, and they're right.
Roe v. Wade pretended that the federal courts had the authority and the power to define life.
And to set limits for abortion.
They did not. The Supreme Court has finally admitted.
They did not. Ever.
The last 50 years.
50 plus. And so that's gone.
So what we do is we revert back to the law.
Now in the interim, they had set up a law that was, when Roe v.
Wade was in effect, The legislature said, well, if that's removed, we're going to ban abortions in 15 weeks.
And they said, well, no, the real law that's on the books goes back to 1864.
And so if you're going to remove the Supreme Court interference in our state laws, then we revert back to the 1864 law.
That 1864 law bans all abortions in all conditions except when the life of the mother is at risk.
And if a physician does that, the physician commits a felony and can get up to five years.
I 100% agree with that.
That's what I would have put in.
I think this was a better country 150 years ago or 60 years ago, whenever it was.
People understood what was going on.
We have less of an excuse today, don't we?
You know, we can look at ultrasound.
We can look at 4D ultrasound.
We can understand and see that this is a child.
They didn't have that advantage.
What they saw was in the Bible.
Oh, well, these are human beings being knit together by God in their mother's womb.
And they saw more clearly than we do with all of our scientific methods and tools what the real issue is.
And so you have many people in the GOP, like Mike Pence, Lindsey Graham.
They want to federalize this.
And you have...
It's interesting to me that there's a lot of people who are very pro-life, and they're completely oblivious to the fact...
That if you federalize this and set a limit at 15 weeks, which is what Pence and Graham have both talked about, then you are going to have a lot of children murdered in GOP states that would not otherwise be murdered.
They're looking at this and saying, well, this problem has to be, we have to impose this on places like New York and California.
You're not going to be able to impose that on them any more than you could impose marijuana prohibition on them.
Because there is no federal authority for that.
The powers not delegated to the central government are retained by the states and the people.
Tenth Amendment. That includes things like prohibiting marijuana.
You want to prohibit marijuana? You've got to do the same thing you did with alcohol.
You've got to have a constitutional amendment.
And if you want to prohibit abortion, a law ain't going to do it, first of all.
It's going to take you back to the court.
Now, would these political judges change their mind?
Probably. Can they change the judges?
Definitely they will. So they could possibly do something like that.
But under the Dobbs decision that they just put out there, that's not just about the Supreme Court.
That's about the federal government making these types of decisions.
And so Pence and Graham and a lot of these pro-life organizations are defying the Supreme Court, as well as the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
And from a pragmatic standpoint, it's going to cost lives.
As they pointed out in one of these articles, the 15-week number that they're talking about, that these people want to nationalize it, and you understand why they want to nationalize it.
You know that Lindsey Graham doesn't care about life at any age, right?
He's a warmonger.
The 15 weeks that they're throwing out there, that's more a longer term than most of the European countries have.
France was 12 weeks.
And as they're talking about it, they said, you know, if you look at where the levels were set in most states, including GOP states, it was way beyond the European countries in many cases.
Many, many cases. And so, from a pragmatic standpoint, it's going to be a disaster.
From a constitutional standpoint, it's a disaster.
Now, I understand, you know, Trump took this position because he didn't want to take a position.
Not my job. I just leave it to the states.
And actually for once that was right.
And yet the conservatives have become so enamored of central control of everything.
And this is a path to civil war.
They've become so enamored of central control of everything that they demand that something be done about this at the federal level.
And of course there are some individuals like Lindsey Graham and even some of the pro-life organizations that want this As a political football.
They're very sad that was taken away from them.
And they love to talk about how they're pro-life until it actually happens and they run as far away from it as they can.
Now, this is also correct when The Telegraph talks about the fact that it is not a popular position.
You know, it was not a popular position to say, I don't have to wear a mask.
It was not a popular position to say, I don't want to take the jab.
It was a minority of people.
And this is what's wrong with democracy.
It's the treading on individual rights on both our life and our liberty.
In October 2023, the New York Times found that 59% of registered voters in Arizona believe that abortion should always be legal or mostly legal.
As opposed to 34% who thought it should be mostly illegal or always illegal.
And so I said the problem for these Republicans is that they're out of touch with the voters there.
Well, the problem with the Republicans is that they won't show it for what it is, which is murder, which takes us back to where we started with Whoopi.
You show Whoopi a picture of an aborted baby and let her explain that to you.
Talk to me about the morality of that while you're looking at that picture.
They need to shove those pictures down people's throats, right through their eyes, into their throats.
So Carrie Lake doesn't know what to do.
That's the headline from Reason, and they're right.
Because she doesn't have any principles, but she's flush with cash from her Mar-a-Lago fundraiser.
But she doesn't know what to do at this point in time.
She's at a loss.
You see, this is somebody who is a media personality.
She always had somebody write out everything she was supposed to say on the teleprompter.
And she doesn't have somebody writing this out on the teleprompter for.
She just doesn't know what to say and what to do.
And in that regard, she's exactly like the previous celebrity candidate that Trump supported.
I am so sick of his new reality show.
Celebrity Congress. You know, we got people running for Senate.
Dr. Oz, Blake Masters.
You got somebody running for a House.
There was a Democrat, long-term Democrat, but she was a beautiful actress or whatever.
She came to Tennessee. She was going to run for an open seat, and the Tennessee legislature here fixed it.
They said, no, you can't run for office until you've lived in the state for three years.
You can't run for state office.
And we're going to apply those conditions to federal office as well.
So you're not going to come in here like a carpetbagger, a carpetbagging Democrat endorsed by another Democrat, Donald Trump, New York Democrat.
You're not going to come in here and just because you're a celebrity and your model look like a model, Donald Trump supports you just like he supported Dr.
Oz. He's supporting these people who have no principles.
Dr. Oz was not even an American citizen exclusively.
He's still retaining his Turkish citizenship.
And he stays here for the money, but his real heart and loyalty is to Turkey.
He was in the military there.
He's still heavily involved in Turkey.
He said, if you elect me to Congress, I'll get rid of my Turkish citizenship so that I can get in on some secrets and Senate committees.
Well, thanks a lot, Oz.
But no thanks.
So, the court...
Has now put its ruling on hold.
So with all this stuff that everybody's getting upset about, they're still doing abortions as always in Arizona.
And they're going to continue to do that until the court makes a decision.
They think that's going to be at least through the month of May.
Previous abortions had been legally set up to 15 weeks in the state.
That is past the first trimester, says Reason.
And Reason Magazine points out what I was just saying earlier.
That's several weeks into the second trimester, which makes it more permissive than most European countries.
And before the Dobbs decision, you had dozens of American states that were more liberal and more permissive on abortion than most European countries.
Including a lot of states that you would never expect they said.
So, Carrie Lake is running like mad, just like Blake Masters did after Dobbs came out.
Now, after this Arizona Supreme Court case, you know, when the federal Supreme Court case came out, Blake Masters started scrubbing his website and all of his other, you know.
She's doing the same thing now with the state Supreme Court there in Arizona.
And Reason points out, two years ago, Lake called abortion the ultimate sin.
Well, it's not, but it is a sin, nevertheless.
While noting that it should be determined at the state level.
And then she completely changed everything yesterday.
And so there is a palpable rhetoric shift for the Republicans, said reason.
These celebrity Congress candidates, these celebrity frauds.
Lala Harris is going to go to Arizona this week, capitalize on this.
She blamed the impending state ban on Trump.
Because Roe v.
Wade was removed?
He said, well, actually, Reason says the Supreme Court appointees that he had voted to eliminate the federally guaranteed right to abortion.
No, no.
Reason should know better than that.
Government doesn't create rights.
If government creates them, they're privileges.
If government creates them, they can go away.
You have rights, as the Declaration of Independence explained.
Maybe this writer at Reason has not read the Declaration of Independence, but we have rights because we're created in the image of God.
And because God gives us those rights, the government can't take them away.
If they're quote-unquote rights from government, They're never secure.
So there was never a right to an abortion.
God did not give anybody that option.
And it's not a right.
It wasn't even the law of the land.
It was an unconstitutional power grab by the Supreme Court.
And I've got to say, it really took me by surprise.
Because they always talked about it's the law of the land.
I thought that Roe v.
Wade was being used as a real linchpin to judicial supremacy of the Supreme Court.
And I think that many people believed that, and they got very concerned about the fact that Alito, in his decision, Dobbs' decision, said, well, you know, this could affect a lot of things.
For instance, I don't think we have the authority to define what marriage is and all the rest of these things that they have jumped into.
And he was right about that.
Trump opposes the Arizona Supreme Abortion ruling, just like Carrie Lake.
He's scrambling around to try to disassociate himself from it.
He said they did go too far, and that'll be straightened out.
Who's going to straighten it out? Donnie, you're going to do it?
Actually, they got it right.
Only for the life of the mother is it an option, and it is a felony for the doctor.
So, who is going to straighten this out?
He said, when asked about it, yeah, they did go too far.
That'll be straightened out. I do know that it's all about states' rights.
Again, states do not have rights.
States have powers.
And as the 10th Amendment points out, a lot of these powers have not been delegated to the central government, and they remain the powers, not the rights, but the powers of the state.
He says, that'll be straightened out and I'm sure that the governor, the governor, this radical Democrat governor is going to fix it.
Well, you know, he is a New York Democrat.
So maybe, you know, the radical Democrat governor will do something that'll be more in line with his own personal preferences.
He said, we're going to bring back reason.
This radical Democrat governor will bring back reason.
She will straighten it out.
He said Florida's probably maybe going to change also.
It's just too sanctimonious.
It's too harsh.
He says it's all the will of the people.
And that's what I've been saying.
It's a perfect system.
See, he's somebody that doesn't believe in the Constitution or individual rights.
He doesn't believe that our country is a republic.
He believes that it is a democracy with two wolves and a sheep.
In this particular case, a baby sheep.
And the wolves are deciding what is for dinner.
Ron DeSantis has predicted that the abortion amendment will fail once voters figure out how radical it is.
There's one there in Florida as well as in Arizona.
He says the Arizona and also the Arizona Freedom Caucus, which declared, quote, protecting the lives of Arizona's most vulnerable children, is not a political football, Donnie.
They didn't say Donnie.
To be kicked around for partisan gain.
He's just playing 40 chess.
Come on, cut him some slack, right?
It may look like a betrayal of principles.
It may look like he's out there flip-flopping like a fish you just pulled out of the water.
But it's fine because it's Trump.
And the Arizona Freedom Caucus lamented that some of the GOP, quote, are choosing to reject Trump.
The fundamental core principle of protecting life.
Well, that's because people like Donald Trump and Carrie Lake have no fundamental core principles.
None. Whatsoever.
They said today the Supreme Court of Arizona made the correct ruling, upheld the intent of the legislature, and preserved the rule of law because that was the law that was on the books.
It was preemptive.
Preempted, supposedly, by this Supreme Court decision until the Supreme Court itself.
I said, no, that's wrong.
Preserve the rule of law today by ruling that the pre-Roe law will remain effective.
And as LifeSite News says, all of this cuts against Trump defenders who interpreted his remarks as a mere tactical focus, you know, 4D chess, on advancing life at the state level until public opinion is more conducive to federal action.
Why do you change public opinion?
Do you show them pictures of developing babies, or do you show them pictures of babies that have been ripped apart?
That's the question. Actually, the Republicans won't do either, will they?
They'll take their polls, they'll wet their finger, they'll stick it in the air.
RFK Jr. recently confirmed that, like Biden, he would also sign legislation to codify a national right to abortion.
And so he's a radical Democrat, just like Biden.
RFK Jr. is a radical Democrat, just like Donald Trump.
These radical Northeastern liberals will all act the same way when it comes to killing babies.
Well, what do we say about babies?
Do they really make women happier in marriage?
Well, there's a lot of studies that indicate yes.
As a matter of fact, this person here wrote this long article.
As a sociologist, references a lot of studies, studies from Gallup, polls from Gallup, studies from Harvard.
Studies suggest that around a third of all adult women suffer some sort of mental health problem compared to a fifth of men.
And now, in the Gen Z group, the 18 to 25-year-olds, right?
We've talked about this before.
They have a large number of them.
About 30% or so identify as LGBT and feminist and that type of thing.
So in that 18 to 25 age group of Gen Z, 41% are said to suffer anxiety, according to Harvard University.
And over the last six years, everything's gotten a lot worse.
It's increased 10% from 26% in 2017 to 36.7% in 2023, according to Gallup's poll of 5,000 U.S. adults.
So that's not just the Gen Z people.
They're slightly worse than everybody else.
This person says, with 20 years under my belt as a sociologist, studying the lifestyle patterns of Americans as well as their fulfillment over time, I believe I've stumbled on one possible explanation for this sea of sadness.
It might appear to be a controversial take.
She said it's too few women are getting married.
Hmm. Well, you don't hear that from the culture, do you?
Marriage rates reached an all-time low in 2021.
Research from the University of Bowling Green State, with only 28 out of every 1,000 women getting married each year, down from 76 in the 1970s.
So that's the third, lower, roughly.
There are myriad reasons for this.
More career focus, less disposable income, a change in societal norms.
That's just a few of them. But the uncomfortable truth is that women who aren't married are worse off, health-wise, compared to their married counterparts.
The mental health benefits of marriage and having a family of your own have also been well proven in scientific studies Some 40% of married mothers under 55 reported that they were very happy with their lives as 40% very happy compared with 22% of single child free women and only 13% of divorced women said they'd reached this level of happiness Said and this is actually a woman Wendy Wang. She says
however, it's worth saying that many divorced couples We marry up to 64% studies show this improves self-reported happiness Those who find themselves irritated by their partners infuriating habits might find this to be surprising But it is true she says. Studies have consistently shown that strong social relationships are the key to happiness.
That's why they locked us down.
That's why they told us to stay six feet apart.
That's why they said don't talk to anybody, don't go anywhere.
They want to harm us psychologically, physically, everything.
Despite the scientific data, Social media is doing its part to malign marriage.
On TikTok, videos are jokingly depict marriage as a fast route to domestic chores, like washing dishes and caring for a newborn baby.
And of course, this has been the case my entire life, and that's one of the reasons why my entire life we've seen marriage sliding.
It's been the brunt of jokes.
It's very easy to make jokes about that.
Mother-in-law jokes, all the rest of this stuff.
It's a low-hanging fruit, frankly.
But she says, the truth is, sharing your life with another person does have unique benefits for your emotional health.
Perhaps, she said, this is because married people are known to be markedly less lonely than their peers.
The CDC has identified loneliness as a contributor to a host of diseases, from dementia to stroke as well as earlier death.
That's why the CDC wanted us to be lonely.
They want to kill us.
It's just amazing. Yeah, we knew that.
But, you know, when I saw this, it made me think of a song from Guys and Dolls.
Karen used to do this.
She was in a group that did Broadway shows and stuff.
And she did this song, Adelaide's Lament, where she's talking about this very thing.
And she's actually all dolled up.
Like some kind of a trad wife, because this was done in the 1950s.
It says here, the average unmarried female, basically insecure, due to some long frustration, may react with psychosomatic symptoms.
Difficult to endure.
Affecting the upper respiratory tract.
In other ways, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold, a patient could develop a cold.
There we go, it all ties together, right?
The CDC knows that being lonely is going to harm your health in so many different ways.
And maybe it'll even give you a cold, right?
We can call it COVID. Yeah, that's...
On Rumble, Beyond Hell says, reason is a leftist think tank that poses as libertarian.
I really agree with that, yeah.
I remember when we were in the Libertarian Party, it's like, eh, they come up with that.
Yeah, that's not the libertarian position.
Problem is, the Libertarian Party has now...
And again, he's got a lowercase l.
The Libertarian Party has now become like Reason and become like Cato as well, moving to the left and getting rid of things like the non-aggression principle.
On Rockfin, Dougalug, thank you very much for the tip.
I really appreciate that. A faithful contributor.
I really do appreciate that.
On Rockfin, Psalm 144, thank you for the tip.
I thought about yesterday's episode, and I think if Botswana...
That's where they're going to go. Oh, yeah, you don't like us having trophy hunts, you know, because we're using that to care for the animals and to keep this under control.
You don't like that, Germany?
Well, we'll send you 20,000 elephants.
How about that? And they were really getting angry and serious about it.
So Psalm 144 says, I thought about yesterday's episode, and I think if Botswana can just get the elephants across our southern border, Abbott will get them to Germany for them.
That could very well be the case.
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And now, The David Knight Show.
Well, let's talk about what's going on with Pfizer.
This is something that, and again, let's go back to a real quick review of how we got Pfizer.
In the 1970s, you had the famous Church Committee hearing in the Senate.
Frank Church was the senator who ran it.
It was not so famous that there was, at the same time, another committee in the House run by Congressman Pike.
The Church Committee hearings focused on the CIA. Pike focused on the NSA. Didn't really get too far.
I mean, it was the—and that's one of the reasons why they didn't talk about it, was because you didn't talk about the NSA in those days.
The joke was it stood for no such agency.
And even when I began at Texas Instruments, one of the guys, one of the older programmers that was there had worked for the NSA. And he wouldn't talk about it at all.
He'd just say, no such agency.
That's what it stands for.
Okay. But the reason they had these hearings was because they knew that the CIA and the NSA were spying on Americans without a warrant.
What the mainstream media did for the CIA that controls them was that they completely ignored the fact that there was any inquiry into the No Such Agency.
And then they shifted this over to the CIA's campaigns of assassination and heart attack guns and all the rest of the stuff and coups, that type of thing.
And everybody was curious about that because it wasn't that long, you know, a decade or so since the Kennedy assassination that everybody believed was done by the CIA as well.
So everybody's looking at their killing devices and everything, but nobody really paid much attention to it.
But out of that hearing, those hearings, came the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, prohibiting surveillance of American citizens unless they...
Unless they had a search warrant.
And you could not spy on American citizens in foreign countries unless you had a search warrant.
And you couldn't spy on foreign citizens in America unless you had a search warrant.
But you could spy on foreign citizens in foreign countries.
End of story. Now, they then watered that down with a Section 702.
Which allowed them to, which is what we've been under, allowing them to have some prevarications, some loopholes to continue to do what they want to do.
But of course, they also have the loopholes, I've pointed out many times, that since they partner with other intelligence services, especially the Five Eyes, where you have the five English-speaking countries, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, what they do for each other, just as a courtesy, It's to violate the restrictions on surveilling their own citizens without a search warrant.
So if they really want to do a search on somebody, what they say is, well, you know, I'd like for you at MI5 or MI6 or whichever MI it is, oh my.
I would like for you to do some surveillance on David Knight, for example.
And, you know, we're not allowed to do that.
But you can do it, and you can tell us.
You can exchange intelligence with us.
We're not the ones doing the surveillance.
You understand? That's the same kind of logic that they do for censorship.
We'd like for you guys on social media or Google or whatever, censor so-and-so.
But, you know, we're not the ones doing it.
But you can do it for us.
They do that with everything.
As a matter of fact, that's what they had been doing prior to the FISA committee hearings.
They would ask AT&T to get some information on people and do PIN number surveillance and stuff like that.
And it's like, oh, well, they're allowed to do that because they're a private company.
They can do whatever they want. If they would like to do something as a favor to us, they are allowed to do it.
They don't have to do it.
And we see that same kind of cynical lies when it comes to Trump and the lockdown.
Oh, Trump didn't do it.
Fauci says he didn't do it.
They just made recommendations and then they let other people do it.
They always do that.
And it amazes me that people can't wake up to that game.
It infuriates me, as a matter of fact, really when it comes to this lockdown.
I about lose it when people start talking about that.
It's like, are you that stupid and uninformed that you don't understand how they're doing this and claiming that it's not coming from them?
We've even got the emails now that show all this stuff.
So part of the 702 is to say, well, if this is, we can only spy on foreign people in other countries, but we can expand this to a couple of hops.
So, you know, this is like the six degrees of separation of Kevin Bacon.
And they go two or three degrees of separation to expand it out.
But they don't even need to do that.
But even that principle, that they should have to have a search warrant, is something that is now splitting the Republican Party.
The Republican Party is splitting between two factions.
One faction, which is loyal to the CIA, and it's the House Intelligence Committee, and then the other faction, the House Judiciary Committee, it says, hey, wait a minute, we've got a constitution.
We've got to have a search warrant and that type of stuff.
Those two factions are fighting each other.
And unfortunately, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, used to be somebody who was not in favor of the Ukraine war.
He used to be somebody who was not in favor of the FISA-702 either.
And interestingly enough, neither was his Democrat counterpart, Hakeem Jeffries.
The guy who is the minority leader now, if the Democrats have more members in Congress, he would become the Speaker of the House.
So both of these guys had in the past, before they got into the leadership position of their party, or in the case of Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, when they were not in the leadership position, they opposed this FISA warrantless searching.
But now, this is one of the things, is he blackmailed?
Is he bribed? With power, perhaps.
These people will do anything.
This is the problem with trying to fix our country at the top.
First of all, there should be no top.
That's not the way the government was designed.
It was designed with checks and balances.
It wasn't designed as a hierarchical pyramid.
And so that entire perception that is shared now by the rank and file of the parties, Democrats and Republicans, Believe that it should be a hierarchical, top-down structure.
It's not. That's not the way it was designed.
But if you think you're going to fix it, the problems we have in this country, by fixing Washington politically, you're on a fool's errand.
You don't know anything about what's been going on for the last century in terms of politics and history, and you can't see what's going on right now in front of your face, if you think that.
Late last year, Congress elected to punt the issue of FISA renewal.
And has since been horrendously abused by the U.S. intelligence community to continue to target Americans.
This is an article from Zero Hedge.
And this has become, and they said, including former President Trump.
That's the only person anybody cares about.
They don't care about, you know, no-knock SWAT team raids in the middle of the night for you and I. But look at this.
They went into Mar-a-Lago and they searched his mansion.
Or whatever you call that thing.
Ha, ha, ha. This show mansion.
They went in and said, how dare them do that to Trump?
Well, they didn't throw any flashbangs.
They didn't shoot anybody on sight.
It wasn't a no-knock SWAT team raid.
Yeah, it was a show raid for the press.
But they didn't want to show you how brutal their SWAT team was.
And nobody cares about the SWAT stuff.
Nobody cares about civil asset forfeiture for the rest of us.
Nobody cares about due process for the rest of us.
Nobody cares about surveillance for the rest of us.
But it's Trump.
It's poor Trump. Poor Trump.
So, this is becoming a big issue now.
Because there was a sunset clause on it for April the 19th.
That's eight days from now.
That'll be next Friday.
And if they haven't got this fixed, it goes away.
CIA's not going to be very happy.
CIA is probably the person that Mike Johnson is reporting, the group that he's reporting to.
So now they've got to come up with a permanent replacement.
They've only got eight days now.
Mike Johnson put forth something called RISA, R-I-S-A-A, a bill backed by Ohio Representative Mike Turner and the Intelligence Committee, this is the Intelligence Committee, that just passed through the House Rules Committee, where a final floor vote would likely take place today.
Privacy hawks, however, point out that it is a steaming pile of Bolshevik, With no meaningful language to protect privacy rights, except for members of Congress.
That's the interesting thing.
And that's what I talked about yesterday.
Thomas Massey, he said, look at this.
They're trying to buy us off.
They're saying, you're going to have to have, there's a carve-out for members of Congress.
Not even for Trump. Not even for Trump.
Maybe that's what Marjorie Taylor Greene's angry about.
But it required the FBI to notify a member of Congress and to seek consent from a member of Congress before they did surveillance of that member of Congress.
It's not going to last too long.
The FBI won't abide by that either.
What's more, critics say that the RISAA essentially codifies surveillance abuses into law.
You know, this special section that they put in there with the sunset clause of April the 19th, eight days from now?
Well, they would make it permanent law, and so you've got a joint statement put out by a lot of different privacy groups.
You've got the Electronic Privacy Information Center, EPIC, there on the left, Brennan Center on the left, and FreedomWorks on the right.
They said in a joint statement this bill is not a compromise, and its 56 quote-unquote reforms codify the unacceptable status quo.
It's like, you're not reforming anything.
You're just, you know, cementing it in.
The bill also has caused a rift within the Republican Party over privacy rights.
As I said, the GOP is divided into two broad camps.
You have the one camp, which is the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
And they don't want to change anything.
They want to give more carte blanche to the CIA and these people.
And then on the other hand, you have the Judiciary Committee.
Which is at least virtue signaling as pro-Constitution.
According to FreedomWorks, of the 56 RISAA reforms, Speaker Johnson highlights, Johnson says, we have 56 reforms in there.
They said, oh yeah? Well, of the 56 you say?
At least 13 either codify existing practice and procedures, meaning they make no changes, they emphasize that in uppercase, they make no changes to the warrantless surveillance status quo, or they actively weaken existing protections.
It is a sham reform, says Representative Mike Lee.
And as I pointed out before, both Speaker Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries, before they were put into a leadership position, and before they were corrupted by the power of the ring, the Boromir seat, they were against all of this.
But now they support it.
Jim Bovard, a good columnist, has been on several times.
I've had him on once or twice, but Gard Goldsmith has had him on several times, knows him.
Jim Bovard had a great comment.
He told the Daily Caller, any member of Congress who supports extending FISA without radical reforms...
Should receive a deep state-approved logo to burnish for their re-election campaign.
If Congress cannot yank in the reins on the FBI and the NSA after millions of confirmed violations of Americans' rights, only a fool would expect Congress to ever give a damn about the Constitution.
I don't expect them to...
I didn't care about it ever.
Buried in Section 702 is the new reformed version, according to Johnson.
It's a provision that could result in the permanent reauthorization of this deeply flawed authority without a single reform.
That's the comment from the Brennan Center for Justice.
FISA currently includes a sunset date of April 19th, eight days from now, which is why they are in a frenzy to do this, because we can't go, folks, one day without the ability of our government to do complete warrantless surveillance on each and every one of us,
can we? Politico says that the beleaguered Speaker suffered a fresh defeat as Conservatives chaffed at his opposition to a plan for requiring warrants Didn't this SOB take an oath to the Constitution?
What's the problem with all these congressional people, Republicans and Democrats, who don't like warrants now?
They took an oath to the Constitution.
Maybe they've just invalidated their position as a congressman.
Republicans brought down their own speaker's third attempt to reauthorize a controversial spy power on Wednesday.
And as a matter of fact, let me play for you what Thomas Massey had to say about this.
I gave you the general comments yesterday.
Here's Thomas Massey with his three-minute speech.
Today we're voting on a resolution that will bring forward reauthorization of a program that's been abused for decades, the FISA 702 surveillance program.
Before we vote on that program, though, this resolution that we're voting on now prescribes that we will bring forward an amendment to require warrants.
If you want to spy on Americans, if you want to use this database as a backdoor to look at the privacy, the private information of Americans, you would need a warrant if this amendment passes.
Now, there's some people who say, oh, getting a warrant is too hard.
It'll slow us down.
You'll put America in danger.
Listen, I've been in the SCIF, the classified area, where they're supposed to tell us the problems with requiring a warrant, and they never have told us.
An example, a single example of where getting a warrant would be a problem to national security.
In fact, we've got a provision in the warrant amendment that says, in exigent circumstances, you can skip that step.
You'll hear today that, oh, everything's fine.
We don't need the Warren Amendment.
We've got 53 reforms in this package.
Here's the problem with those reforms.
We rely on the same people that abused the system to enforce those reforms.
And they still don't go to the constitutional level that is required in this country.
Who doesn't trust those 53 reforms?
Congress doesn't trust those 53 reforms.
The authors of this bill, you know how I know?
Because they put an exemption, two exemptions for themselves in this bill.
That's right. If the FBI is going to use 702 FISA to spy on congressmen, they have to tell Congress.
They even have to get permission from the congressman they're spying on if they say it's for the congressman's own good.
Why do we have a provision in there that exempts congressmen but not all of America?
Americans deserve the protections that are enshrined in the Constitution.
Nothing less should pass this House.
This is an enormous database.
They're going to tell you, oh, we're just looking at intelligence that was gathered on foreigners.
The problem is they're collecting this intelligence in the United States, using service providers in the United States, using internet connections in the United States.
Do you think the NSA employee who did a FISA search on a Tinder date was looking for information about Hamas?
No! There's all kinds of information in there.
And that's why it's being abused.
That's why we need the warrant provision.
I urge folks to vote for this rule so that you can vote for the warrant provision amendment.
And if that amendment doesn't pass, you shouldn't vote to reauthorize FISA. And with that, I yield back.
Reserve. Yeah.
He's good. He's good.
They don't believe this works because they went to the absurd position of bribing themselves, which is where we started.
Giving themselves an exception.
Oh, yeah, we've got it all protected.
No problem. Let's put something in there to protect ourselves.
Specifically, just Congress.
Truly is amazing.
On Rockfin, Denver Attaway says it probably grants retroactive legal legitimacy to illegal actions taken for years.
That's the key thing. They do this stuff surreptitiously.
They do it through surrogates, surreptitiously, secretly.
They pretend that they don't have it there, and then, you know, they legalize it.
So what's the big deal? What's the big deal?
It's legal. Are you going to come after me now for something that is now legal?
I agree. On Rockfin, Gard Goldsmith.
Thank you, Gard, for the tip. Thank you.
He says, David, I was just thinking of your great speech at Gerald's event a couple of years ago.
Your presentation here reminds me that the 14th Amendment requires all states protect human beings equally.
So already is a form of national abortion ban for states that have laws forbidding murder.
Yeah. The thing is, you know, if we put the 14th Amendment in there, and it should be, The problem is that Washington is just so broken.
That is what a lot of people who are saying at the federal level, this is a 14th Amendment issue.
And the statement has been made a long time because the 14th Amendment was in there.
Why? It wasn't to create anchor babies.
They were taking that down this rabbit hole, which it was never intended to do.
But it was intended after the Civil War, it was there to say that the freed slaves are fully citizens of the United States.
And so a lot of people have said, you know, that was the key argument, personhood.
Personhood. Personhood was denied to the slaves before they were freed.
And what you're denying is the personhood of babies when you abort them.
You're saying, that's not a person. And I've covered over the years, many people, there was a black abortionist, a man in Washington, D.C., Who said, oh yeah, they're not persons.
They're not persons. And people would make the argument, well, what do you think that baby's going to become?
It's not going to become a human?
Oh, yeah, but it's not a person now.
It's like, well, what makes that happen?
You know, at what point? That's why when Christians talk about you knit me together in my mother's womb, and that's actually in the Jewish scriptures in the Old Testament, you know, God recognized them as persons as he was knitting them together.
He saw them as persons from eternity past.
He knew what he was going to do with them and for them.
And so all of that is true.
It's just that when we look at this from a practical standpoint, you could say 14th Amendment protecting people would apply to all murder cases.
So we ought to make all murder cases a federal case.
And that's what the FBI is, you know, trying to constantly expand their agency and take over every different aspect.
But I think basic crime has not been delegated as a category of things to the federal government, and it needs to remain at the state level.
And, you know, the...
Murder trials and how the different states would define first degree, second degree murder, things like that, or manslaughter.
Those are state definitions.
There are slight differences in state laws from place to place.
And that type of crime, murder...
Belongs at the state level.
And from a functional standpoint, we know that the feds are going to mess it up.
They are going to do anything they can to ignore the Constitution, even though they will talk about the 14th Amendment, I think.
But getting back to this, you know, It was just a couple of weeks ago, there was a movie that we'd never seen that I liked the soundtrack for.
It was not a good movie.
I won't tell you the name of it because I would not recommend it for anybody.
But, you know, it didn't have, we looked it up and it didn't have a lot of, it didn't have any of the usual Hollywood gratuitous sex and things like that.
Or even the violence was not all that bad, but it had a good soundtrack.
Didn't care much for the movie, but a lot of it took place in Venice.
And so, as we're watching it, I made a couple of comments.
And Karen didn't realize that I'd been to Venice with that high school group that I went with.
And I said, you know, I don't really have good memories of Venice.
It's got some beautiful places that are there, but what I remembered from Venice was the discussions about the Medicis and the totalitarian society that they had, the Bridge of Sighs.
I believe, I'm not sure, I believe that was where the Star Chamber was, but I'm not sure about that.
But yeah, it was. Travis is nodding his head, yes.
But the Bridge of Sighs.
People could be heard going through this covered bridge sighing because they knew that they were being taken to a place where they were not going to have any due process.
And so that really left a bad taste in my mouth about Venice.
And yet, that's where we're headed.
We're already there, as a matter of fact.
They're just normalizing it and legalizing it in their minds.
And we can't allow them to do that.
So the GOP is raging with itself, says the Hill, as the FISA deadline inches closer.
We must preserve the And notice what's happened with this.
As I pointed out before, FISA was there to restrict actions by the CIA and the NSA, specifically restrict their actions about surveilling us.
Now it has become a tool of surveillance.
And this is, again, the way the government always perverts and subverts and inverts everything in the Constitution, the same way they'll do it with abortion.
You know, the very thing that was set up To restrain them from surveilling Americans without a search warrant has now become their tool.
They can go in, as Rand Paul said, he was right about it, he said they can get a search warrant on Mr.
and Mrs. Verizon. Just everybody.
It is so easy for them to get a search warrant, but they don't want to be bothered.
They go before a single judge.
There's nobody arguing on the other side.
It's a secret procedure, a Star Chamber-like procedure.
I'd like to spy on so-and-so specifically, or a whole group of people, and they're allowed to do it.
So FISA has now become a very important thing for the real government to have seen as legitimate.
It has now become a tool of surveillance, when its design was exactly the opposite.
FISA was to restrain surveillance, and now, instead, it has become a tool of surveillance.
The tanked procedural vote that happened yesterday sent House Republicans to a hasty conference meeting behind closed doors in the Capitol basement.
They're second of the day.
For a huddle that lawmakers described as, quote, an airing of grievances.
Oh, wow, this is...
What is the Seinfeld thing that Rand Paul always does?
An airing of grievances. Anyway, I guess that's what they had yesterday.
Festivus. Festivus, yeah.
They celebrated Festivus a little bit late in the house.
They aired their grievances.
Did they have a poll in there that they nailed their grievances to or something?
One that seemed to heighten the internal tensions.
Max Miller from Ohio, a Republican, said it was pure chaos.
It wasn't productive at all.
Kelly Armstrong, a Republican from North Dakota, said it was a conference that could have been done as an email.
Minus the yelling.
They just do it in uppercase like Trump.
I think it's cathartic to some degree or another, but we've got to figure out something.
I don't know what this looks like.
Well, we know what it looks like.
It's very clear. You get a warrant.
No exceptions. No exceptions.
You get a warrant. None of this, you know, two degrees or three degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon stuff either.
That's the key. That's their little wedge in there.
And when I talked to William Binney years ago, he said, that lets them get anybody they want.
You know, they play that game.
The speaker did not lay out a path forward on the contentious question of how to reauthorize Section 702.
And see, you notice, even in the Hill.
So how do we reauthorize this?
It's not even a question to the Hill as to whether we should reauthorize it.
It's how do we reauthorize it?
Well, Section 702 does not permit the government to spy on American citizens who communicate with foreigners who are being surveilled, have their interactions swept up in the process, information that can be later viewed by law enforcement.
Again, there's essentially no restriction.
And they've already got The nonsense of the Five Eyes thing.
They would just like to be able to do it without as...
They've got the FISA court where they can do anything they want.
They've got their agreements with Foreign Intelligence Services who will spy on us for them and tell them anything they want to know.
They just want to make it more expeditious.
This is not about even whether they're going to do this kind of warrantless surveillance, but just how can we make it more easy for them to do it, you see?
So, should we have...
It's now the position in our society where these things that we had protections put in, because there were things like the Star Chamber and stuff like that, we had these things put in, and now we are questioning all the foundations of Western society.
You see, it's not just Antifa and BLM that are tearing down statues.
And tearing down the foundation of our society.
It's Republicans, even, who are doing it.
Certainly the Democrats unanimously on this.
But it's the vast majority of Republicans.
There's only 19 that are really pushing against this.
It's only a small number of Republicans.
It's only because they've got a very narrow majority that they've been paying attention to it.
But the vast number of Republicans are just, let's get this over with.
How can we make this easier for the CIA to spy on us?
And so, you know, warrants for searches?
We don't care about that anymore. Free speech?
We don't care about that anymore. Due process?
We don't care about that anymore.
Everything is up for grabs because they want to tear down the foundations of our society.
Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene met privately with Mike Johnson and she said there was no deal.
Well, on this, I'm with her.
I think you ought to get rid of this guy.
He's obviously sold us out.
He's obviously been bought, blackmailed, or corrupted by power.
He looks at power over principle now, which is what seems to happen whenever anybody gets elevated to this position.
He had a voting record that was very good.
He had a very good resume.
He had a very good voting record, and he just did a complete 180 right away.
Oh, money for Ukraine. He'd always been against money for Ukraine.
A roughly hour-long meeting between Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene to get her to drop her threat of forcing a vote that could end his speakership.
She said, I got a lot of excuses, but we didn't walk out with a deal.
She said the meeting was direct and passionate.
She threatened to force a vote to strip Johnson from the gavel after he relied on Democrats to push through a $1.2 trillion spending bill.
Yeah, there's that as well, right?
That he plays the Nancy Pelosi card.
Here you go. You got, what was it, 4872 hours to read this 1,000-plus page bill, and we're going to add another $1.2 trillion, and we're going to give all the money that Biden wants for this army of IRS agents, and on and on and on.
Since then, she's openly criticized his leadership in media interviews and on social media, warning him that passing Ukraine aid or reauthorizing FISA would put his position in peril.
And in a blistering letter to her Republican colleagues on Tuesday, she argued that Johnson has failed to live up to his promises by negotiating with Democrats and by breaking procedural rules to pass major legislation.
But she has not laid out a timeline for forcing a vote.
Because as they go through this and they talk to other people, they're not on board with this.
Most Republicans just want to go along with it.
They don't want to fight for principle because they don't have any principles.
She said, I didn't give him a red line.
I'm watching what happens on Ukraine funding and the reauthorization of FISA, a powerful and controversial spy authority.
So, again, that's where we are with this.
On Rumble, I'm Marty.
Hey, Marty. Good to see you there.
Thank you for that tip. He says, no rant, just something for your necktie budget.
Thank you. Maybe I get a better necktie.
As a matter of fact, we talk about wardrobe budgets coming up here.
You won't believe...
What happened on Easter with this church that I was talking about that said, well, you know, we want to get people to come on Easter.
We got two shots to get them, you know, Christmas and Easter.
So we don't want to talk about resurrection or the cross or Calvary or blood or anything like that, you know.
And you won't believe what they talked about, and you won't believe what this guy wore.
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And we're back. I hit the wrong button there.
Okay, so let's talk a little bit about a Democrat senator who, and I said this yesterday, this is old news here.
I'm pushing everything As the wrong button here.
This is yesterday's news that I forgot to get rid of.
I want to talk about the NCAA women's coach who just won the title.
And I thought it was interesting.
I don't follow sports, but, you know, I see these articles that are put up in Main Street, just like I don't follow Taylor Swift, but I see all this stuff about her.
I know a great deal about Taylor Swift that I don't really want to know just from seeing the headlines go past.
And so I saw all this stuff about the women's NCAA championship.
And didn't see anything at all about the Final Four.
It got me curious because you used to hear all that stuff about the men's Final Four and everything.
Zip! Nothing about that.
And one of the people who's at the controversy center of this is the coach, Dawn Staley.
And she has gotten into controversies with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
They said, well, we don't like you praying as a coach and things like that.
So she got involved in that.
She said, well, I'm a Christian.
That's what I'm going to do anyway.
But she's also talking about how she wants to have men who identify as women, they call them trans athletes, in women's basketball, which I thought was really a strange combination of things.
So she's going to stand firmly on her faith in terms of praying.
But what is her faith in?
Really? No. She has game day devotionals that she leads with the team, and also in pre- and post-game interviews.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is trying to, you know, they kind of misread the Constitution.
That's freedom of religion.
You know, freedom to express your religion, to exercise your religion.
It's not to suppress it.
But they got that completely wrong.
That has been the way that the Constitution has been interpreted since the middle of the 20th century.
Freedom from religion.
But that's not what it says.
They sent multiple letters to her to complain about this.
And... In a post-game interview, she said, if you don't believe in God, there's something wrong with you.
Seriously, she said, I'm a believer.
I'm a believer because he makes things.
He makes things come true.
When you're at your worst, he's at his best.
But then she doesn't seem to care what he has to say.
She doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
So, you know, let the men play women's sports.
That not only hurts the feelings of the women who get skunked, but it also, in many cases, hurts them physically.
I just don't understand that.
There's a lot of this stuff out there.
I think it's what Jesus was talking about.
He said, why do you call me Lord, Lord, and you don't do what I say?
Which is what's happening with the PCUSA, the Presbyterian Church USA. This is the original Presbyterian Church.
There's been three splits.
But they've been working on their apostasy now for over 100 years, and they're getting pretty good at it.
They just went down the hill and the slippery slope, and there's picking up speed.
And so, you have the PCUSA, you know, first there was a split-off, there was Orthodox, PC, Presbyterian Church, and then I think at some time, that was in the early 20th century, like 1920s or something like that, and then there was in the 1950s, there was a second split off from them, and it was the Presbyterian Church of America.
But the PCUSA, as one person described, the testament to their final capitulation to the zeitgeist, forsaking the foundation of God's word for the ever-evolving whims of contemporary moral relativism.
The legislative proposal for them, they have very hierarchically structured things, kind of like some church government thing that they've got.
I don't know how it works. You can't find it in the Bible.
That's one of the reasons why this happens.
You know, it's not just the Marxists who have a long march to the institution.
It's also Satan and his minions who have a long march to the institution.
Masquerading is an exercise in inclusivity and compassion.
They ostracize clergy and members who adhere to the biblical convictions on human sexuality and the sanctity of marriage.
They frame traditional biblical teachings as discriminatory, and they outright reject the gospel's call to repentance and a new life in Christ.
And so what they said in this...
This new document to change their governing rules.
They said, God unites persons through baptism regardless of race, ethnicity, age, sex.
So far, so good. Then they add gender identity or sexual orientation or theological conviction.
Ooh, wait a minute. All three of those there.
So, God unites us except for those whose theological convictions include repentance from what God calls sin.
That's how I would rephrase this for them.
There is therefore no place in the life of the church for discrimination against any person.
So, they have no place for you if you adhere to the biblical definition of these relationships.
The Mayo Clinic, by the way, has looked at the damage from puberty blockers.
And as part of their study, one of their subjects was a two-year-old transgender.
You understand the problem with that, don't you?
Can this child even talk?
But this child who can't even talk knows that they are in the wrong body.
So the Mayo Clinic saw a two-year-old that they claim had gender dysphoria.
This is a story from LifeSite News.
And the average age of puberty blocker initiation, said the Mayo Clinic, was 12 years old.
You see, that is equally unable to consent.
A 12-year-old cannot consent to doing something like this.
They don't have the judgments. And we don't allow them to do anything that is permanently disabling.
We don't allow them to drive cars.
We don't allow them to own guns, drink alcohol, vote, all these other things at 12 years old.
They don't have that kind of maturity.
We all understand that in everything, except they sweep that aside because they want to elevate this degeneracy, because they want to elevate this targeting of children, this pedophilia.
The Mayo Clinic team found, quote, mild to severe sex gland atrophy in the cells of boys who had taken puberty blockers.
A 12-year-old boy in the study had 59% of sex glands fully atrophied with the appearance of microlithiasis, which is a condition in which small clusters of calcium form in the testicles.
They said over 90% of the cells responsible for sperm production in this patient were unable to progress further.
This is not only sexual abuse, psychological abuse, mental abuse.
This is sterilization as well.
So, how did we get to this point?
Well, it's because we got... Nothing but a silly church in most cases.
We've got Anthony Hopkins who's going to be portraying King Herod in an upcoming biblical thriller called Mary.
How could it be a biblical thriller?
We already know the ending.
Oh, but wait, they're going to change the ending.
And there is Joel Osteen joining in the marketing campaign.
Isn't that nice? Maybe they'll even give him a cameo role.
He could play Judas. Or maybe just the Judas goat, right?
Joel Osteen. At this time in my life, said Anthony Hopkins, I'm drawn to the challenge of a complex script.
Well, this time in your life, you ought to be thinking about judgment.
Seriously. As well as the level of the detail given to this production with extraordinary sets, props, and costumes.
And it makes me proud to be a part of this.
The screenplay, here's where the thriller part comes in.
We really don't know how this story is going to work out.
Because they're not going to follow the Bible.
This screenwriter has consulted, he said, with priests, bishops, Baptist pastors, rabbis, Mormons, and Muslims.
That sounds like the chosen, doesn't it?
In other words, they're just going to make this stuff up.
How can we make this more entertaining?
I don't care what's true or not.
It's like all the rest of this stuff.
And then we have, as I pointed out, Stephen Furtick, the guy who is pastor of this megachurch in North Carolina, Elevation Church, take a look at this.
He was, first of all, I'm not so sure about his fashion taste, but he's got this large pink sweater with a design on it, and it is really striking and outstanding, I guess. It stands out, we'll put it that way.
And so I guess somebody was curious about that.
Such an odd fashion choice here.
Somebody looked it up, and they found that it is sold by Neiman Marcus, who we always used to call Needless Markup.
It is a $2,000 sweater!
This is a church that didn't want to mention for Easter and their invitations to the community. They didn't want to say anything about the resurrection, about blood, about Calvary, any of that stuff. No, no, let's not do that.
They got a pastor who for Easter got a pink sweater and it's got...
and it cost $2,000.
But, you know, here's a close-up of it and the name of it so you can see it better.
This is a men's oversized, because it's really big, oversized holy sweater.
There you go. That's what it was.
It was holy sweater for holy week, except they spell it H-O-L-E-Y because they're talking about the holes that they punched through on this thing.
He was able to get from Needless Markup for only $2,000.
And when he did his Easter sermon, he kept to that promise.
I don't want to offend anybody with anything about Jesus.
So let's be completely non-offensive.
Let's not talk about the resurrection.
Or if we do, we can make it about the prosperity gospel.
Listen to what he did. His resurrection narrative was, quote, where his grave represents your depression and failure.
And Galilee represents a better life you want to live.
Wow. Wow.
So it's not about the fact that we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
And how are we going to get that removed?
Because God cannot accept even our good works if we are in a state of war against him.
How do we take that away?
Well, God loved the world so much, John 3.16, that he sent his son to do that.
And also because he had to have justice, he can't just say, well, forget about it, like these people would.
Forget about it. Here's the sweater for you, right?
No, he covered us with the acts of his son, who came to take that away.
If you've got a fine...
Somebody can pay your fine and you can walk free, but that's justice.
It isn't that the judge sets up there and says, well, I don't care about the fine.
Forget about it. Next.
No, the fine has to be paid.
And that's what Christ did.
And that's what Easter was about.
And the resurrection was to show that that was acceptable.
So all of that is lost on these people, and they've got their holy sweaters.
And their theology that is full of holes.
And we're not having any impact whatsoever on the society because that is a secondary, tertiary effect down from having a relationship with God.
You're not going to have any effect on society if you're going to start out by focusing on some of the blessings that may or may not come when you're following God.
Again, God is not about Making our life the most prosperous life, it's not about having your best life now.
It's about having your best relationship with Christ.
And that means that for many of us, we have to go through difficult times in our life.
We all do, as a matter of fact.
Difficult things, so we can learn that we can trust God.
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All the unvaccinated are still alive.
A little bit of Pfizer in my arm.
A little bit of BioNTech does no harm.
A little Johnson& Johnson does the trick.
A little AstraZeneca so you don't get sick.
It's booster number five.
Yeah, yeah, booster number five.
Yeah, so the CDC knew all along that this stuff was really bad.
They knew all along about 780,000 side effects that were logged into their system, but they didn't bother to tell anybody.
And it kind of reminded me, I saw this on Twitter, I thought, you know, that's a pretty good analogy of what was going on with all these vaccines.
This is a guy from the 1950s, you know, Mr.
Science type of guy, who shows us, look at this, I've got radioactive uranium and I'm just going to swallow it.
You pour it out in the hand, and that's radioactive contamination.
Is it radioactive? Yeah, it is.
Very radioactive. Do I qualify as a controlled drain?
Yeah, no the Geiger counter up doesn't mount that material that I just ate Is not soluble in body fluids Yeah, that's great.
Nuclear energy is your friend.
And of course, they'll give you barium minimus and things like that so they can trace it through your body.
I'm sure it's a little bit, maybe it's less than what he had.
But yeah, the miracles of modern technology, energy production, and science.
The US Center for Disease Control, the CDC, has released previously hidden reports of facial paralysis and other adverse events following the Trump shots.
780,000 reports were received shortly after these Trump shots were rolled out, and they show that people experienced a wide range of post-vaccination problems, including heart inflammation, miscarriages, seizure, loss of consciousness, seizure immediately following injection, many went to the ER by ambulance.
Another was diagnosed with Bell's palsy, so forth.
You know, it's just, we knew all of this stuff.
We knew it from the very beginning.
We knew it when, you know, they had everybody running around, let's keep Trump in the White House and all the rest of the stuff.
I said, let him go. Let him rot.
And of course, he's been pushing the fact this is all okay.
Biden then pushed the vaccine as well.
But we knew all of this stuff from the very beginning.
We started seeing this stuff in December, late December.
Of 2020. And it really escalated in January.
And it was all about January the 6th, wasn't it?
People lodged the reports with V-safe created by the CDC to monitor these possible effects.
CDC for years declined to make the V-safe data public.
Instead, publishing studies that describe the reports as providing reassurance.
As a matter of fact, when they...
What they were telling people, what you need to know, the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and they're effective.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. received COVID-19 vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in history.
The CDC recommends everyone ages six months and older get an updated COVID vaccine to protect against serious illness.
And of course, it was also recommended by Alex Jones for everybody to do this for Trump's 4D chess.
Very weak, attenuated classic viruses with a very low amount of adjuvant in it.
Trump's looking at basically sugar water for folks.
Yeah. Take a little bit of an attenuated, microwaved or radiated...
Choking on his lies as he's doing it right there.
Yeah, it's just sugar water, you know?
It's like that Kool-Aid that Jim Jones had.
Yeah, Jim Jones. My relative.
It's for Trump. Come on, you can take that stuff.
It's just sugar water?
Is that any better than what the FDA was saying and CDC? Oh yeah, safe and effective.
We've done all the testing.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, we've done all the testing. Basically, sugar water.
Yeah. Pfizer was fined only 35,000 pounds for promoting a vaccine before it was authorized.
And so, Expose News says, why is this not surprising?
How did they get away with this?
Pfizer's penalty of only 35,000 pounds, UK pounds, equates to 0.00005% of their revenues that they made off of this shot.
In other words, five one hundred thousandths of one percent of their revenue as a fine.
That's even better than the big banks.
That's even better than the deals that they cut with HSBC and J.P. Morgan and these other places when they got caught red-handed committing felonies.
It's not even a slap on the wrist.
Since 2009, Pfizer has been found guilty of numerous offenses and fraudulent practices, including corruption, blackmail, spinning negative data to place it in a more positive light, Negligence.
Failing to warn about drug risks.
Acting fraudulently with a blatant disregard of human lives and the law.
Stalking. Terrorizing whistleblowers and their families.
Yeah. And of course, big media did the same thing.
Big conservative media did the same thing as well.
Alex Tucker Carlson, they all did that kind of stuff as well.
Telling people, yeah, it's just sugar white.
It's fine. Fine.
No problem. It's amazing to me that there is no penalty or punishment for this stuff.
The Japanese know what's going on.
The Japanese, they had a couple different batches.
Each time, one of them was like a million.
The other one was like 1.2 million.
They threw them away.
They'd already paid Pfizer for this stuff, of course.
Couldn't back it up. They probably had to have the same kind of agreement that Pfizer had blackmailed many sovereign nations with in Latin America.
It was reported by Stat News, a pharmaceutical publication.
That they were blackmailing Brazil and Argentina and a third Latin American country that they did not name because that Latin American country said, don't say anything because we reached to deal with them.
And we don't want to not be able to get our vaccines.
Because, see, we were talking yesterday with James Roguski about this World Health Organization and their pandemic treaty and things like that.
There is the people...
As we saw during 2020, people were scrambling for the shots.
Netanyahu offered up Israelis as lab rats, and they were pressuring these Latin American countries and saying, well, we're not going to give you the vaccine unless you extend Our legal immunity to things like negligence, manufacturing errors, shipping errors and things like that.
And we also want you to put financial resources outside of your country as collateral guarantee for us.
And so I'm sure this happened with Japan as well.
They didn't talk a whole deal, you know, well, you know, make good on these two million, two and a quarter million jabs we had to throw away.
But they did research also on biodistribution that came out of Japan.
And when that was reported by a Canadian doctor, he was severely punished for telling the truth about that.
And so, by the way, these two and a quarter million jabs that they had to throw away, why did they throw them away?
Well, because they had some kind of a black substance precipitated out, and it interacted with magnets.
Oh, but that's okay.
Nothing to worry about. It's just sugar water.
Let's just move on. So now the Japanese have a preprint study that's calling for the mRNA vaccines to be suspended because they said it is contaminating their blood bank.
And they're worried about all kinds of blood diseases from transfusions.
With a blood bank that is contaminated with mRNA.
Receiving blood transfusion from vaccinated individuals could pose a medical risk to the unvaccinated recipients, since numerous adverse events are being reported amongst vaccinated people worldwide, according to a recent study from Japan.
The preprint, published on March 15, examined whether receiving blood from a COVID-vaccinated individual is safe or poses a health risk.
Many nations have reported that the mRNA usage has resulted in, quote, post-vaccination thrombosis, blood clots, yeah, and subsequent cardiovascular damage, as well as a wide variety of diseases involving all organs, all systems, including the nervous system.
Well, we've known this for the longest time.
Of course, it can also make you more vulnerable to COVID-19 as well.
So, Daily Skeptic out of the UK, How do we estimate the scale of harm from the Pfizer vaccine?
Because, you know, it's still developing.
And yet, as it's still developing, we have our two candidates for President, Biden and Trump, who keep telling us how they have saved the world with this very stuff, at the same time that this is all escalating, and the very same organizations that will come out and talk about these dangerous, metastasizing poisons, We'll get in line and cheer Trump.
The left doesn't want to talk about how this stuff is poison.
But the right will talk about they know that it's poison.
But they will still support the guy who brags and pushes his poison.
It just never ceases to amaze me.
It is absolutely insane.
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us now is Tony Arterman of Wise Wolf Gold, and Tony has set up davidknight.gold, which will take you there and let him know that you're coming through us.
Always good to have Tony, and he has been incredibly busy the last couple of weeks because of what is happening in the gold market.
I've talked a little bit about this, how it has really shot up.
It's like up 19%, if I remember, over the last month or something like that, but a tremendous jump in the price of gold.
Thanks for joining us, Tony.
Well, thanks for having me, David.
It's good to see you. Good to see you.
The price of gold, it keeps hitting its all-time high.
It's hitting it so often, I'm not even keeping up with it anymore.
I think it's hit its all-time high like four times in the last 30 days.
That's right. Yeah, you look at it, it's like, is this a new article or what is this?
So much so that the Mises Institute is asking, so is gold overpriced or can its price go even higher?
And I thought that was interesting because, you know, the Mises Institute is a financial think tank, economic think tank, looking at the writings.
And, of course, you know, just a general free market libertarian perspective of Ludwig von Mises.
And they're not selling gold, but they're looking at this stuff.
And they thought, well, you know, it...
Expensive? Compared to what?
Was their question. Well, that's right.
I mean, what you're actually watching is not gold reaching its all-time high.
It's the dollar reaching its all-time low.
It's an inversion. Yeah.
Because as you know, if you go back to our original system here in the United States, the bimetallic system, there was no inflation in the 19th century.
So a pair of shoes in 1800 would cost you the same in 1900.
There was no inflation because we had a gold standard and we had a silver dollar.
And of course that changed it pretty much in 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt did his executive order for you to turn the gold in, he raised the price of gold at $35 an ounce once all the Americans that complied.
There's a lot of Americans that didn't comply, David, because I buy those coins all the time, those pre-1933 American coins, but they raised the price of gold to $35 an ounce.
That was a banker's ploy to shift the gold away from the United States to the Bank of International Settlements.
You can go back and read the history.
But again, after 1944, Bretton Woods, $35 an ounce.
And it stayed that way until 1971.
and Richard Nixon, because of all the debasement of our currency that the countries, other countries noticed, we took the silver out of our coinage, that we were writing checks beyond our capacity for guns and butter in Vietnam and the great society on the Mekong like LBJ said. And so Richard Nixon knew that we couldn't continue to keep the gold window open and they went off the On August 15, 1971, gold went up 2,000%.
But that doesn't mean that gold went up.
It just means that we have a revaluation of fiat currency.
And now every country on Earth has a fiat currency.
They all followed the United States after 1971.
The United States now has the oldest surviving fiat currency in the world.
The average lifespan is about 26 years, so we doubled that.
And so I think you're just going to continue to see these price shifts because of the BRICS nations primarily.
And I don't, I honestly, David, I don't think we would see these prices in gold this fast the way it's doing without the war in Ukraine with sanctions that were placed on Russia after NATO provoked, in my opinion, NATO wanted that incursion.
But they put the sanctions, we put the sanctions on Russia.
And the Russian finance minister months later said, well, the dollars are candy wrappers to us and got off of the system.
Other countries took notice.
We have 40 different sanctions on 36 different countries weaponized the dollar.
I think what you're watching really.
It's not so much that gold is having its moment.
It's that the dollar is losing ground, losing ground rapidly.
The world is taking notice.
They want a revaluation of commodities.
That's what Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, now Saudi Arabia are all about.
It's the re-evaluation, in my opinion, of all commodities.
And I was looking just before we went live.
Other countries like India, record numbers of silver being or record numbers of gold in China.
China had a major ETF, had to stop trading because people were buying so much paper stock gold.
There wasn't enough gold to back it up.
At least that's what I'm looking at.
Yeah. And this is going to be a problem, I think, in the West, too.
We're just at the beginning of this.
If you think you missed the boat on gold and precious metals, especially with silver still being under $30 an ounce, you are mistaken because there's a lot of room left here, but it's not looking good for king dollar.
And, of course, I talked about this earlier in the week, and they talked about the inverse relationship between the Federal Reserve, fiat currency, and gold, and how they go up and down in an inverse relationship with each other.
And they said, so always these Western institutions, under certain circumstances, they would start selling their gold, and the East would buy it up and that type of thing.
But that all got broken, they said, with these sanctions and other things that are happening.
It also got broken with this ETF stuff that is out there, because they have used that to essentially create a fiat gold system that has gotten so out of whack that they can't even make a credible case for it, as you pointed out.
They had to suspend trading on it.
But as Forbes looked at it, it was tremendously, I forget what the ratio was.
I'll look it up here as we're talking.
But the ratio that was there was absurd.
And they said, well, that's even a conservative one.
A lot of people estimate that the ratio of ETFs that are out there trading about gold are much, much higher than the actual physical gold that's there.
But we're saying a lot of the same things that you've said in the past, where what was interesting earlier in this year was the fact that the Federal Reserve was making these different moves, like hiking the interest rate up and things like that, that normally would cause gold go down and it was holding its own.
And they said that's because everybody has lost so much faith in the dollar that they are still accumulating the gold.
And as the institutions want to sell off their gold, there's still more demand keeping the price high.
And so I think that's really what the Mises Institute was talking about.
They said, you know, if you are we late on all of this in terms of getting into gold?
Well, not unless you think that they've somehow figured out what they're going to do with the fiat currency.
And if they can somehow fix this stagflation or this dragflation, the salinity calls it, you know, like a recession, not just stagnant, but a real recession along with inflation.
If you think they've got that solved, then, yeah, you'd be late.
But they've got some so many built in problems and things have shifted underneath them that a lot of people are saying this is just the beginning.
And so that's where you've been, I guess, just kind of running around trying to keep track of demand.
Oh, absolutely. And the rules of the game are changing.
Jerome Powell first said that inflation was transitory, along with Janet Yellen.
This was all transitory and nothing to worry about, nothing to see here.
And then they became very hawkish, and they're going to whip inflation.
No problem. We got this.
And they raised rates faster than any time in history to curtail that inflation.
Then they felt like they were really confident this last six months or so.
We're going to talk about lowering rates because the economy could sure use a goose before the election.
Not that they're political or anything, David.
The Federal Reserve is way above that.
They're not playing politics.
They're not going to intervene.
But they've got a problem because the latest data that's out, inflation continues.
The economy is roaring along.
Inflation continues.
And what are they going to do?
They've promised these rate lowerings.
The European Central Bank has just backed off of a rate lowering.
So they're going to hold rates.
So we're not going to see, I don't think we're going to see any rate lowering for a minute or two.
It may be going to right before the election.
They're going to do it this year.
I think they've promised too much.
There's too much built into the system.
It's all rigged. As you know, this isn't your father's stock market.
Wall Street's not based on profit anymore.
It's based on environmental social governance and your relationship to the central bank.
It's not really entrepreneurship anymore.
So I think you're going to see some intervention.
There'll be some rate lowerings, but it's hard to do that in the face of the data that's coming out.
And a lot of this has to do with the energy sector.
As a matter of fact, the White House is not going to be buying back food off the open market to replace the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Yeah. That's insane.
I know. I mean, we're not replacing our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the face of all this geopolitical upheaval.
Honestly, I think this is them not wanting to drive the market up or do something to increase the price because...
That's where you're seeing inflation.
It's in the items that people need.
He sold off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower the price before the election.
Not even Obama did that.
Always in the past, they would hold that until there was a storm that came through and took refineries offline in Louisiana or something like that.
Some kind of real disaster, that's what they would use it for.
Biden used it...
To make himself look good.
To temporarily lower the price of gas.
And of course if he goes out there and replaces it at this point in time.
That is going to mitigate against reducing the price of gas.
Because he's going to be out there buying stuff.
So it'll bid the price up.
So the only thing he can do now is just to set it out.
And not refill that.
It really shows how he has absolutely no interest in what is good for this country.
It's all about his own personal political gain.
In that regard, he's just like Trump.
It's almost like it's a plan, David, like a controlled demolition.
Yeah, like the calls are coming from inside the house.
I mean, all these decisions that are made are not strengthening our economy.
They're not strengthening our readiness as far as national security.
Obviously, this is all part of a plan.
It's an inside job. And you see this.
This is the consequences. You want to intervene unnaturally in the market?
You want to release... Crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower the price temporarily.
Well, guess what? If the price goes back up and you have to replace that, when you buy it again, it drives the price up.
So your intervention backfired on you again.
It's the same thing with these...
Can you imagine going back in 100 years and saying, well, I don't know what's going to happen to the economy.
The Federal Reserve hasn't told me what to do yet.
I mean, nobody... Nobody was looking to the Fed to figure out, what's the next move?
What should I do? What should I invest in?
This has become so ubiquitous.
It's permeated all of our culture, what the Federal Reserve is doing.
And frankly, what they're doing is they're ruining our currency faster than really, I think, is natural.
I mean, I think we had a little bit more time left on the dollar, honestly, but just the amount of hubris and the sanctions that are placed, I think everything's accelerating.
And the... The teleprompter reader hairdo people on these financial networks, they just don't get it, David.
They keep saying, well, gold is up, and that's crazy.
Gold is way up, and they keep looking at the price, and I wonder why that is.
You know, inflation data is not that bad.
I mean, they keep going, but again, it's the central banks around the world buying gold, and as you mentioned earlier, these ETFs and this paper gold that's out there all around the world, You can't really back that up.
I don't have any faith in that.
It's kind of like the silver market.
I know, because of the data, and I've interviewed the experts, if you had a whale come in, like an Elon Musk or some big buyer, you could corner the silver market right now, just like the hunts did in the 1970s.
But see, the deep state got rid of the hunts.
They made sure that nobody exposed that.
Because what you're exposing if you can corner a monetary metal and get the physical supply is you show that the currency that it's shown in value of is actually fake.
And that's what the Hunts did in the 1970s. 1980, $52.50 an ounce for silver.
That's crazy if you think about what $52.50 would do now for your purchasing power.
In the 1980 terms, that's like $300 today. So I don't have any faith in these markets.
I think that the supply is a lot thinner than people realize, and that's what's really driving the price.
When people are demanding physical gold, especially places like India, We're good to go.
But I would say that it is thinner than you think that it is.
And I'm not going to overpromise and say I can get any variety of anything because I really would watch that.
As people start to wake up and demand precious metals, this price that we're looking at now is going to be quaint.
That's right. And, you know, we're talking about the paper gold thing.
A lot of people who look at this and say, well, I don't like the dollar.
We need to go with gold. They'll go with the paper gold, and they don't realize.
This RT article that I was talking about the other day gave the figures that Forbes came up with.
And Forbes said, well, according to our calculations, there's about $200 to $300 trillion worth of paper gold out there, but there's only $11 trillion worth of gold.
So in other words, they're selling 20 to 30 times the amount of paper ETFs.
We're going to give you a share of the gold.
They're selling 20 to 30 times what they actually have.
And they said, we think that that's very conservative, that it's actually much worse than that.
And as you pointed out earlier, China had to suspend trading because there was so much demand that it was getting out to a level that nobody would believe.
I mean if people believe that there's 20 to 30 times the paper gold out there that there is known physical gold reserves, you know, they're not going to believe it at some point.
If it gets up to 50 or 60 or 100 times or something, at that point it becomes unbelievable and the bubble bursts.
But that realization is going to come around at some point and there will be a reckoning.
And so all the people who are interested in collecting gold are saying, well, I want the real thing instead of paper.
That's when another type of gold rush will happen, because that's another competition to physical gold, that paper gold.
I like what Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, said a couple of weeks ago about people in countries like India and China and emerging markets.
He said, you're not helping when you're buying gold.
You're not helping anything. You're not helping the market.
It doesn't do anything. And I thought, oh, there's the rub.
There's the tell. Because he's been pushing the Bitcoin ETF. And people are just scratching their heads like, what is he doing?
In my opinion, I think the Bitcoin ETF for entities like BlackRock is a lifeline to a dying system.
It at least gives them some finite.
They can put their clients into that.
But if they start putting their clients into physical gold, it does bankrupt the entire system a lot faster.
Because people start to realize as physical gold demand goes up, The price goes up.
It doesn't really go up when you put them into paper.
It doesn't. I've not seen that.
I only see the price rise really when I see central bank demand and I see these reports coming out of people, you know, the average person.
Like China, they're buying gold beans, just like a bean, the size of a coffee bean, and gold just as much as they can.
It's not even coined. It's not even put into bars.
People are hoarding it.
And I think I've talked about this before, but China has like 60,000 gold mines.
And they're not a net exporter.
And China and Russia, they're talking right now about a new financial system.
The BRICS want to back a new system with gold, a digital system.
Zimbabwe, David.
Remember Zimbabwe that had the trillion dollar notes?
They've got a new gold-backed currency that's emerging.
The monetary system around the world is going through a transformation.
And as you notice, the central bank's buying gold.
And what you have to watch is while they're buying gold, they're also putting together the plans for the rollouts of their own central bank digital currencies.
That's the danger.
They're going to build this control.
They are building this control grid for all of us.
It's going to lead back to the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF and other things.
They're going to consolidate these clearinghouses.
We have to watch that here.
I think we're good to go.
Mm-hmm.
Always just a little bit more, as they say.
Just a little bit more. Well, and that's the thing, you know, about Bitcoin.
If you want to buy Bitcoin, get Bitcoin.
But why would you get an ETF? You know, whenever I look at these ETF things, based on the experiences that we've had with derivatives, with the real estate derivatives that they did, you know, I mean, there's nothing.
They're not making any more land, you know, as they always pointed out.
And these were real physical assets and all the rest of the stuff.
But they crashed it. With an ETF, you know, essentially with derivatives that they were putting through.
To me, I look at this and you understand there's a couple different things going on, I think, when they create these derivatives, these ETFs.
Of course, they're going to make a lot of money off of it.
They've got a way that they can make money off of that.
But I think they typically do that and they usually wind up Crashing the market, no matter how solid or real it is, just like they did with real estate.
So you believe in Bitcoin, you want to get into Bitcoin, still be careful of these ETF things.
I wouldn't want to own them, but it would make me scared and does make me afraid, you know, even for the Bitcoin thing, because how are they going to manipulate that?
Are they going to get... People into the Bitcoin thing and then crash it and then try to push them into CBDC. We know they want to crash the financial system so they can establish this new system.
And so that's another thing that makes me suspicious about why they would do these ETFs.
So I'm very suspicious of both the ETFs for paper and silver and also for Bitcoin.
I think, you know, if you want to get something, get the real thing.
Don't get this. Don't buy the phony stuff from Jamie Demon or JP Morgan or any of these people.
I'm with you on that.
And I've been in Bitcoin since 2016.
I had some of the first Bitcoin ATMs we've discussed many times.
But I'm skeptical of the ETFs.
And I like Bitcoin. I'm not saying it's going to zero.
I'm not Peter Schiff.
I don't think it's a bad thing to own it.
You shouldn't own the ETFs.
Because Bitcoin is just easy to get by itself, and you should have your own wallet, your own keys, and understand what that means.
I mean, really, knowledge. In the coming years, the most important thing, somebody asked me the other day, what's the most important thing?
What kind of equity? I said knowledge, knowing how to use something.
And go back to counterparty risk.
If I have a gold coin in my hand right now, that's mine.
I don't have to worry about a bank.
I don't have to worry about an institution or a CEO or embezzlement or anything like that or fraud.
I've got it in my hand. And if I bought it from a reputable dealer, then I've got value.
And that's gold has been money and silver has been money for thousands of years.
And it will continue to have value as long as I think it's their civilization.
I've bought some coins from the Roman era and kept them here at the shop.
They're valuable because there's gold in them.
Some of the ones that are debased, the old Roman coins, have a little bit of value, but not much.
It's the metal that made them valuable throughout the years.
You can still use them as money.
In the coming years, I think it's going to be more important for...
Cut out the middleman.
You don't need ETFs.
You don't need an institution.
Learn how to own things yourself.
And that's one of the reasons I'm in the physical precious metals business, and we have things like the membership program like Wolfpack, where even if you don't have a lot of money and you just got a little bit, you want to put some savings in, let us do it.
Let my team go find value for you even if it's as little as $50.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's why, you know, earlier this week I talked about, you know, what's happened in recent history with the Bretton Woods 2 and on and what is happening with that.
But when you look at these today, the articles that I kind of focused on, We're things from Mises Institute and other people were talking about the economics of inflation, because that's not going to go away.
You know, we talk about how you've got paper gold, paper silver, paper Bitcoin, and all the rest of the stuff.
Well, there's still the paper dollar, which is the worst of these derivatives, the most easily manipulated, because they're printing more of it all the time, as you pointed out.
You know, people look at Bitcoin and say, well, they're not making any more of this, or it's getting more scarce.
So... That's where we want to be because that's the printing, what they called quantitative easing.
It's the manipulation of the interest rates.
They have so many different ways that they can manipulate the value of the paper dollar that it's just not a store of value at all.
And then, of course, besides their direct manipulation...
We've seen it many times in our lifetime, get out of hand, and we're at one of those moments right now where these guys who are pulling the levers, you know, the guy behind the, the man behind the curtain, like the Wizard of Oz, once he gets into that balloon, it's like, come back. I don't know. I don't know how it works.
You know, once he inflates that balloon, he's just heading off, and we've seen that happen with the Federal Reserve Wizards many times, haven't we?
They don't know how it works.
They can't come back to where they were.
No, and all fiat currencies go to zero, so they're just playing a game in the interim.
I think that the dollar is going to digital.
That's their plan. I think all these plans have been accelerated.
I don't think that we're supposed to be seeing right now the swift decline that there is.
But you know, even go back to the allegory of The Wizard of Oz.
This is, L. Frank Baum wrote that in the late 19th century.
It was, the cowardly lying was William Jennings Bryan, you know, the cross of gold speech.
And what was William Jennings Bryan talking about?
He's talking about free silver because we had such a strong currency.
The farmers wanted some relief and they hit the Comstock load we had in the 1870s out in Nevada.
And they wanted to release that silver into the market to help ease the debts, to increase the money supply.
Now, it wasn't fake.
They didn't want to dump fake money into it.
They wanted to dump silver in there.
And that was a populist move, to give the farmer some relief.
I think there's going to be an argument for that.
But the banksters ran with that.
And, of course, you end up getting the Federal Reserve because they kept pushing that as a way to help stave off crashes and things like that.
But that's where... All of that, the Yellow Brick Road, the Emerald Palace, the Greenback, all that stuff in the Wizard of Oz.
And it's wizardry.
It's economic alchemy.
And it's really insane to watch, David.
I got in this business years ago, and every year, now every month, and we're seeing some change in the monetary system and the market.
We were talking about it a couple weeks ago, and I still can't get over it.
It took us from the founding of our country to the time I was born to go a trillion dollars into debt.
And now we do it every 90 days.
Yeah. I mean, just let that sink in.
Once you let that sink in, you realize we've passed some sort of boundary where we're never going to be...
I mean, we're not even talking about fiscal responsibility anymore.
Nobody's running on that politically.
So I think we've crossed some sort of boundary.
So it's time to start thinking about...
How do you thrive and survive?
How do you weather the storm of what's coming?
It doesn't matter. You and I can't stop it.
Whatever's down the road, all we can do is prepare and try to use history as our guide.
What happens in times of hyperinflation?
What happens in times of economic uncertainty or currency shifts?
You know, you don't want to get left holding the bag.
I saw that in Iraq, and that was a microcosm of those things, but I watched the currency go to zero in real time.
Nobody wanted people running out of the banks with boxes of Iraqi dinar that no one wanted.
Yeah, yeah. Think about that.
Money that no one wants.
Wow. Well, yeah, we're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
We're in Davos or something, or Baghdad or something like that.
I mean, we're in some alien territory.
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Always great talking to you, Tony.
We're in really interesting times, and I know it gets really difficult for you as everybody sees the price going up.
That gets their attention. And everybody starts investing in it, fear of missing out.
But I don't think that people have missed out at this point.
Neither do the people who are writing about the financial and economic standpoint.
They think there's a lot left in this because they're going to continue to try to feed the inflation beast for this election, at the very least.
And that's assuming that they know how this balloon they inflated actually works and they can control it.
I don't think they can.
I've seen this get away far too many times.
That's one of the best analogies, I think, out of The Wizard of Oz.
Thank you so much for joining us again.
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Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it.
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Alright, I'll just remind everybody that right after this show, Tony will be live with his radio show also, so check that out.
Let's talk a little bit about the pandemic.
I saw a very good video that really laid out how this fraud began.
And I thought it's time for us to go back and look at how deliberate this was, because it's concerning me.
I'm seeing one article after the other in big conservative media, interviews with Rand Paul, who is still trying to focus exclusively on Wuhan, Wuhan, Wuhan, Fauci, Fauci, Fauci.
Folks, that is a red herring.
As a matter of fact, we look at it at this point, I think we need to start calling Rand Paul out on this, call him Red Herring Rand, because he has focused on this relentlessly.
When he should have, as a medical doctor who knows better, he should have pushed back against all these restrictions, and instead, what he did was he focused on Fauci and Wuhan.
To take people's minds away from the jab, take it away from these phony prescriptions for everybody, masks, social distancing and everything, while don't touch the ivermectin, don't touch the HCQ. Rand Paul was focused, just like the people I worked with at InfoWars, he was focused on Wuhan, selling the bat flu stuff.
And that is not the issue.
The origin really was not in Wuhan.
The origin really goes back to 9-11.
It's not about gain of function.
It's about the Patriot Act.
It's about the germ games that they practiced even two months before 9-11.
That's what it's really about.
And when somebody starts redirecting you relentlessly, and he's been doing this now for four years, he's been misdirecting people away from the real bioweapon, the vaccine.
He's been redirecting people away from our real enemy, which is the CIA and this medical biological warfare state that's been practicing to do all this stuff.
For 20 years before they actually pulled it off.
And they're still practicing their germ games.
It's the germ games. It's not the gain of function.
And he's still misdirecting people.
You remember when he had Fauci on the stand?
He said, Dr. Fauci, you're going to, with this vaccine, you're going to create vaccine hesitancy.
Well, good. Good.
And you know better than that, Rand.
It's just amazing to me to see that this is happening.
So... I say that as a preface to this guy's remarks.
We need to understand from the very beginning how fraudulent this was.
And this guy I'm going to play here for talks about the origins of it.
And of course, he doesn't even include the hokey stuff where people were falling down on the streets in China.
Yeah, it was a big sham.
And it wasn't just China.
It was every government on earth.
And people like Rand Paul and most of the conservative media are redirecting your attention back to Wuhan.
Why? Because that takes the heat off of them.
They played along with this.
They were as guilty of this as Trump or Biden.
So how did this pandemic begin?
The first thing that happens is we have a very strange phenomenon in China, an eye doctor spots, a case of supposedly atypical pneumonia.
That event is a very strange event to start with.
There's lots of pneumonia all the time in China.
Okay. But this one's very strange.
So that's 30th of December.
And then supposedly we have the emergence of, according to the World Health Organization already, on January the 5th, they're telling us that they have identified 44 cases out of a population of 8 million people of atypical pneumonia of unknown cause.
So that's taken them five days from We're good to go.
To test for this thing is already shipping them.
So let's just recap. We've gone from the identification of the first patient to the shipping of the first kits in 11 days.
On the same day when they ship the kits, the first gene sequence is published.
Two days after that, the World Health Organization has already accepted Christian Drosten's PCR protocol as what they call the gold standard for testing for this new disease.
And a few more gene sequences are published in that time.
Nine days after that, the famous Corman-Drosten protocol is published, is submitted for review, And 27 hours later, it's peer-reviewed and published in a journal that Drosten is an editor of.
Two days after that, there's a Chinese study about the specific clinical symptoms that supposedly relate to COVID. And that's published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
We're still only 25 days from the beginning of this whole thing.
And then five days after that, the first study is published also in the NEJM about asymptomatic transmission.
We've established in a compressed time frame of just 26 days, there's a new clinical manifestation.
It's caused by this virus.
This virus has the following sequence.
Here's a test, which is the gold standard in identifying that sequence, and the research identifying the primers that we're going to use all over the world has been submitted for peer review and published, and we've described the clinical features of this so-called new disease.
I would submit to you that every single one of those steps was A, complete and utter bullshit, and B, premeditated.
Yeah, it was all complete and utter Bolshevik, and it was all premeditated, and it was practiced for 20 years.
It truly is amazing.
And people that I worked with knew about this and decided to lie to you.
Politicians that you vote for and think that your future depends on lied to you.
Complete and utter Bolshevik.
Look, it is...
The Patriot Act, the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act, that's what you need to be focused on.
This is a misdirection to continue to talk about gain-of-function.
Yes, it's a tremendous waste of money, and yes, they could actually release something and get people sick.
They've had so many accidents, and here's the interesting thing.
They shut this stuff down in 2014 because Allison Young, who was a writer at USA Today, was talking about all the different accidents that they'd had.
One of them in particular, the Burkholderia pseudomolei at the National Primate Center down in Tulane University.
Oh, well, we got this thing we brought in, and it's pretty dangerous, but it's only a couple of different areas in the world.
So we brought it in, and we thought we'd try to make it more dangerous and more easily spread.
And somehow, it gets out of that biosafety level 3 lab, and you start seeing monkeys who are getting sick with it out in the 500 or so acres that they've got outside of that lab.
And they bring in some people from the CDC, and one of them comes down with it, but they say, oh, she must have gotten it somewhere else.
This is something that's only in a couple of areas on Earth.
And so it's been one lie after the other.
Yes, you can have some accidents with it, but when you look at all of the documented accidents that Allison Young had, and it was presented to Congress, and Congress at the time in 2014 said, stop it, we don't want any more of this.
And that's when Fauci took this stuff to Wuhan.
He and Francis Collins continued what they were doing at the University of North Carolina, and they were called out on it when they released their stuff.
But in 2017, under Trump, they said, okay, you can go back and do gain-of-function again.
But with hundreds of these accidents and workers exposed and all the rest of the stuff, we didn't have any outbreaks with any of this stuff.
You don't need to worry that much about the gain of function.
There is some risk there.
It's a tremendous waste of money.
But folks, this is a misdirection to get people to focus on this.
And so what you're seeing everywhere, the article's 15 U.S. agencies knew the Wuhan lab was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19, says Rand Paul.
Well, guess what? These are the same 15 agencies that were practicing on an annual basis for 20 years what we went through.
Oh, we got something here.
Lock everybody down until we got a novel untested virus that we're going to require them, a vaccine that we're going to require them to take before we let them out again.
Yeah, those 15 agencies all knew about that.
There's even more than 15 agencies that were involved in these annual germ games.
Then we're going to talk about the timeline.
Complete and utter Bolshevik Just like how they held the so-called panacea, the shot, until right after the election.
As a matter of fact, they held it up to the point that they declared Biden the winner on a Saturday after the election on Tuesday.
The very next day on 60 Minutes, they roll out their thing.
Look, here's Operation Warp, so we're ready to roll this out as soon as the companies tell us they're ready to go the very next day.
Pfizer says, yeah, we're 90% effective.
And then within one week, you know, Russia comes out, oh, we're 93.
Then a week later, you have Moderna, we're 94.
The next day, Pfizer says we're 94.5% effective.
And they continued to bid that up to 100% effective until it continues to go down to essentially zero.
The whole thing was a lie.
The whole thing was a scam. And yet, to narrowly focus everybody...
On Wuhan, as Rand Paul is doing, is a misdirection of the worst kind.
And it really bothers me to see him continue to focus on this.
You know, you look at people, it's not just Mike Johnson who's gone native with a power.
I think it is Rand Paul as well.
And it's everywhere. I'm seeing this on one conservative media site after the other.
From Fox News to Zero Hedge to all the smaller ones, the great COVID cover-up, shocking truth about Wuhan and the 15 federal agencies.
He's putting this out just like Hillary Clinton said.
Well, you know, we've got this Russian conspiracy to get Trump in, and we've got these 15 or 17, whatever it was, intelligence agencies that all assess that the Russians are running Donald Trump.
It was complete and utter Bolshevik, and so is this stuff from Rand Paul.
There's a real concern. Oh, let's not make people vaccine hesitancy because, you know, these are our masters, our financial masters of pharmaceutical companies.
Chicago has been slammed with 57 cases of measles in migrant shelters.
Now, this is Breitbart, and Breitbart has continued to push the panic button on measles as well.
Again, trying to do this for the pharmaceutical companies and also tying this in with the open borders.
That's a common strategy of Breitbart.
Yes, if they're going to go to extreme measures about pandemics and all the rest of this stuff, it is utter and complete hypocrisy for the Biden administration, for the CDC, and all the rest of them to look the other way.
We don't know what is coming across the borders, and they frankly don't care.
They don't care about any of these people, and they didn't even in the midst of all this stuff.
They didn't really care about people who were coming in.
They'd ship them around. They wouldn't make them wear masks.
They wouldn't inject them as they brought them in, giving them all their goodies, you know, the credit cards, the cell phones, and all the rest of the stuff.
They wouldn't give them a shot. They didn't care about that.
And so for, you know, Breitbart to hang out on this, and Breitbart was a real vaccine cheerleader, if you remember, especially John Nolte.
He used to be the general editor, but, you know, he started specializing on entertainment.
And I remember that he just got ratioed in the comments on Breitbart.
People say, go back to movies and something you know about.
You're lying to people about this stuff.
And yet those same people are the ones who are Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump all the way.
Don't want to hear anything negative about Trump.
He's going to save this country even though he was the one who was pushing this stuff out and gave him the green light to do all this stuff and he said he pushed them harder than they wanted to go even.
And so Breitbart is continuing to push this panic about measles.
And they're doing it to tie it in with their open border stuff.
And again, the border is a problem.
Measles are not a problem.
And we all know that. That's why I've played that stuff from Donald Trump so many times.
I've got to get the shots. It's really going around.
They didn't have a measles vaccine when he was a kid.
He probably had measles.
We all did. And he's older than I am.
He knows better than that.
He knows you don't have to have that.
And I think he also knows that autism is an issue, but he doesn't care about that either.
Chicago says Breitbart has been slammed with nearly as many cases of measles in its migrant shelters this year than the whole country had in 2023.
So what? Nobody died, Breitbart.
Nobody died. It's a childhood disease.
I've covered this before.
Well, you know, they may call it a childhood disease, but that doesn't mean it's not serious.
It's not serious.
Anybody can die from anything.
And people have died from complications from measles.
But that was something that, to borrow a phrase from Fauci, was rare.
It really was rare, right?
It really was rare.
So rare that we'd never heard of it happening.
And, you know, the question is, you know, measles may be rarer now, but autism isn't.
Do you care about that?
No, they don't. I would rather have measles, especially as a childhood disease.
Why are they called it a childhood disease?
I pointed out at the time because you get it as a child, you're immune for life.
Not so with these vaccines.
We've had outbreaks that said, well, you got 57 cases.
So usually we have about 57 cases throughout the whole country.
And yet, these are usually people who have been vaccinated.
As a matter of fact, the outbreak that we had in California that got Trump saying that everybody had to get the shot, they'd been all vaccinated.
We've had outbreaks before that that I'd covered in New York where they were all vaccinated, many of them multiple times.
The vaccines do not convey immunity.
And they come with very, very debilitating side effects for us, as we can see what has happened to our society with autism.
According to city officials, 33 cases of measles are migrant children up to the age of four.
Seven are from five to 17 years of age.
Sixteen are adults between the ages of 18 and 24.
And one is over 50 years of age.
These are people coming in from other countries.
Well, they don't get the MMR shot.
And they're getting measles.
And they're not dying either.
These 57 cases are mostly among illegal border crossers.
Mostly? Does that mean that some Americans who got the MMR shot still got measles?
Because we have seen this, as I've pointed out, California, New York, other places all the time.
This year, the outbreak has exploded.
Hey, get on the phone, Breitbart, and call the WHO. Yeah, the WHO. Don't get fooled again, folks.
As of February the 29th, a total of 41 measles cases were reported in 16 U.S. states.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
These numbers do not include the new cases in Chicago.
The CDC has issued a warning about the disease and issued an alert titled, quote, increase in global and domestic measles cases and outbreaks.
But again, it's not anything that you need to be concerned about.
And the question is, why are they pushing this that hard?
Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone, did lockdowns set a global revolt in motion?
Well, I certainly hope so.
He's got misgivings about it.
I do as well.
Some people think that it has.
He said, my first article on the coming backlash admittedly was wildly optimistic.
It went to print on April 24, 2020.
I was very pessimistic about it.
I thought people are never going to wake up.
Because two weeks, you know, we're already, at that point, April 24th, we were six weeks into it.
And we had churches that were afraid to open up for Easter service and things like that.
And this is insane. This is insane.
After six weeks of lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker says, I confidently predicted a political revolt.
A movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand to reject social distancing, quote-unquote, and streaming-only life, plus a widespread disgust at everything and everyone involved.
Well, that was certainly what he was feeling, and it was what I was feeling, but it continued to go on.
I'll never forget, by June, we're never going to stop this stuff.
People are never going to wake up.
And they were able to do that because you could cover up people's voices so well.
Later on, I found out, yeah, there's other people who felt that way as well.
He said, I was off for four years.
Well, I'm still pessimistic about this, frankly.
He said, I assumed that people were smarter than they proved to be.
I also did not anticipate just how devastating the effects of lockdown would be.
Things like economic chaos and cultural shock and the population-wide demoralization and the loss of trust.
It doesn't even mention the training for universal basic income.
Just stay at home. We'll cut you a check.
How about that? That's what the stimulus checks and the CARES Act and PPP and the trillions of dollars that Trump spent that he didn't have.
Well, he calls it complicity.
I call it conspiracy. None dare call it conspiracy, right?
That dirty word. That's why I was happy to see...
Joel Skousen, who said he's going to run as the Constitution Party candidate.
I was glad to see him identify himself as a conspiracy theorist.
And he said, then that's my advantage in running the race.
Because I will tell people, he says, you know, I'm not going to win.
Trump's not going to, they're going to steal it from Trump.
So your vote for Trump is a wasted vote.
But if you vote for me, you tell them that you buy into these conspiracy theories because they're not theories.
And so I hope he does get some approach, because people need to hear that.
People need to hear it. So he says, is the backlash finally here?
If so, it's about time. New literature is starting to emerge to document it all.
The new book, which I talked about before, White Rural Rage.
The threat to American democracy is white rural rage.
He said, it's a viciously partisan, histrionic, and gravely inaccurate account that That's a good way to characterize it.
That gets nearly everything wrong except for one thing, and that is vast swaths of the public are fed up, not with democracy, but with its opposite, ruling class hegemony.
The revolt, however, is not racial.
It is not geographically determined.
It's not even about left and right.
It is class-based in part because it's more precisely about the rulers versus the ruled.
With more precision, new voices are emerging among people who detect a change in vibes, he says, with a population.
One of those is Elizabeth Nixon's article, Strongholds Falling, Populists Seize the Culture.
She argues that the lessons of COVID are profound.
The most important lesson of COVID is that without knowing the game, we outfoxed them and their narrative collapsed.
The revolution is happening all over the socials, especially in videos.
And the disgust is palpable.
Well, I would like to see, this is why I am pessimistic.
Simply because of Trump and MAGA. The people who know better.
Continue to cheer him on and see him as their only hope.
And that is the problem with it.
They have this disgust, but they believe that everything needs to be fixed by taking over the all-powerful central government.
There should not be an all-powerful central government.
And if you want to have an all-powerful central government, as I said, it's going to result in a civil war where everybody is trying to get that lever.
Everybody wants the ultimate ring of power.
Rather than decentralizing things and letting different states handle the problems however they see fit or different areas.
No, we have to have one approach.
And everybody's got to fight over that.
Just like they did. You're going to have that jab.
You're not going to have ivermectin.
You're not going to have HCQ. You're not going to have anything else.
And if you even talk about that, you're going to jail.
Or we're going to kill your profession or whatever.
That's the thing that causes me to be pessimistic about this.
And hopefully we can change that.
That's why I do this program, because I want people to understand that you don't want to fight over one individual and be ready to fight a civil war if he doesn't win a rigged election.
Second article, he says, is Vibe Shift by Santiago Pilego.
I'm talking about the give you feel when the walls of propaganda and bureaucracy start to move as you push.
The very visible dust that's kicked up in the air as experts and fact-checkers scramble to hold on to decaying institutions.
The cautious but electric rush of energy when dictatorial edifices designed to stifle innovation, enterprise, and thought are exposed or toppled.
Fundamentally, the vibe shift is a return to a championing of reality, a rejection of the bureaucratic, the cowardly, the guilt-driven.
That's one of their big things, the guilt.
A return to greatness, courage, and joyous ambition.
So Jeffrey Tucker says we truly want to believe that this is true.
And this much is certainly correct.
The battle lines are incredibly clear these days.
The media that uncritically echoes the deep state line are known.
Places like Slate, Wired, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, New Republic, New Yorker, things like that.
So he says, so now we know who these people are.
But again, this is what causes me to be a pessimist, because I know that there's a lot of so-called counter-media, conservative media, and David Icke has talked about this, big con media, big conservative media, the alt media that is selling useful narratives for the establishment, you know, like the Wuhan lab, and people like Red Herring Rand when it comes to that.
The liberalism that once questioned authority and demanded free speech seems to be extinct.
And I think that certainly is the case.
When you look at Rand Paul, for example.
It is the case when you look at the Trump cult.
Although, we have to remember, that most of the people in the Trump cult have never really paid attention to politics in the past.
The transmogrified and captured liberalism now demands compliance with authority, and it calls for further restrictions on free speech.
Now anyone who makes a basic demand for normal freedom to speak or to choose one's own medical treatment or to decline to wear a mask...
Can reliably anticipate being denounced as right-wing, even when it makes absolutely no sense to put it into some kind of a political breakdown with that.
And so he's not the only one talking about this.
Daily Skeptic says we must not forget lockdown.
And that's my other concern, that we are forgetting it.
That people are just ready to move on.
As I've talked about in the past, you know, when we went to the UK in 2001, spring, took the kids there, and it hadn't been there when Karen and I had been there 40 years earlier.
But they had their White Hall, they had, didn't even know about it really when we went in the 80s, but they had found the place where Churchill and all the other, you know, the War Center Command, as it was under White Hall, and they had a special place where they were running the war.
And as soon as the war ended, they just walked out and never came back.
They were sick of the place.
And it wasn't for decades until many decades later.
Again, you know, we were there in the 80s.
So that was 40 years after the war ended.
They didn't know about it. And so sometime between the 1980s and, you know, the late 1990s that they found this, you know, maybe, you know, 50 years after the war ended.
They find this.
Nobody talked about it. Nobody wanted to go back.
Let's just forget about it.
It's just done. And we've walked away from the lockdowns in the same way.
All these people, the upper brass and the British government that were fighting the war and Churchill and all the rest of them, they just walked away and somebody walked in 50 years later and they look at this stuff and it's like all the papers are there.
It's just an amazing find.
The maps are up there with the pens stuck in them.
Everything. Just the way it was left.
And so then they turn it into a museum, and they give you the little things to listen to as you're walking through, explaining the stuff that's there.
But we've got to not forget the lockdown.
And unfortunately, most of us have just walked away.
We're sick of this thing that was happening to us for years.
We just walk away, don't want to talk about it, don't want to revisit it, don't want to learn any lessons from it.
And so the Daily Skeptic...
They're showing some pictures of some things up there.
One of them, coronavirus, stay home, save lives.
If you go out, you can spread it.
People will die. That's it.
That's what it says. That's the sign.
A couple weeks into that first balmy lockdown, a bedsheet appeared on the hedge of a house along our lane.
There was a message painted in red, or was it black?
My husband remembers it, stating, F off, cyclists.
She said, I remember it as go-home joggers.
But it only remained on the hedge for a day or so and disappeared.
I often think of this bedsheet when contemplating our collective response to lockdowns.
Did another neighbor take it down?
Or did a cyclist or jogger or did the people who put it up consider the words to be a bit much and remove it in embarrassment?
So where is that sheet now?
Has it been washed, returned to the cupboard?
Was it burned? Was it used as a dust sheet?
We don't know. But before we all forget the lockdown episodes, is it now time to officially record Ordinary Life in 2020 and 2021?
Let me just say this.
You know, I've talked about, and I tried to explain to people, many times as people are facing losing their job, And that uncertainty, because they wouldn't get a vaccine and many other things, I said, you know, go back and take a look at the prayers and the autobiography and the diary of George Mueller.
That will help you to see that God is still active in our life.
And we all need to keep a diary.
I'm guilty of not doing it nearly as much as I should.
If you keep a diary, it gives you a whole different perspective on, especially if you talk about what was happening in your life, what you prayed about, and what God did in your life in response to that.
It truly is amazing.
And I know this, and yet I still don't do it enough.
And so I would say, don't just write down the crazy, bad stuff.
But take a moment and go back and talk about how God brought you through this.
Because if you think about it, I'm sure you've got something to be really grateful for.
You've probably got a lot of things that you could be really grateful for.
And you could look at the dark moments of despair and see how God brought you out of it.
But going back to this article, it said, I'm thinking of a dinner party that we attended at a greenhouse, whitewashed so that no one saw, and muggy beyond belief, and our terrified friend who decided not to visit his father in the hospital so he could be on the safe side, only to desperately regret the decision when the old man died alone.
Or the bunch of flowers that we ordered that was misdelivered to neighbors, left in their garage for three days to decontaminate, and then died.
Locktails and quarantinis in the woods.
Sourdough. An alarming post on WhatsApp where someone requested a new mother as his had ended up in the dishwasher.
Green tape pasted onto Victorian tiles in church to ensure social distancing as if the church had ever been crowded.
Yeah, into these churches that are now empty.
Putting green tape on the floor, which they had never done in the history of those churches before, no matter what the sickness was that was going on at the time.
Or the chap who videoed children climbing into the taped-off empty playground and threatening to call the police.
Well, it's not so funny now, he says.
According to the UK's National Police Chiefs Council, 525,738 of us Made calls to the police about lockdown infractions.
Is it any wonder then, after they passed this new hate speech law in Scotland, that you've got 8,000 complaints of people getting their Stasi on?
Complaining and informing about their neighbor?
8,000 of those?
That's nothing. This is a half a million of these.
About lockdown infractions.
Half a million. If there was a historical endeavor to record people's activities in lockdown, would anybody actually admit to how they had behaved?
Very much like East Germany after it collapsed and some people got the files and started to see how their neighbors were informing on them.
Truly amazing. Future generations are going to look at the stuff that we did, this ridiculous stuff that our society did.
They are going to ridicule us, laugh at us, and despise us for being such craven, ignorant cowards.
And so we should make a point of all this.
And we should stop letting people like Rand Paul misdirect us and scare us.
The issue was and is the bioweapon is the vaccine.
Always was. And these people want us to still be misdirected.
And they're still working very hard at it.
CDC has now quietly admitted to its COVID policy failures.
In so many words and data, the CDC has quietly admitted that all the indignities of the pandemic management have failed.
The masks failed, the distancing failed, the lockdowns, the closures, especially the vaccines, all failed.
It's not like we didn't know that they were going to fail.
We really did. You know, they tried to make us feel like we were the only ones who knew, but we knew.
That's what I like about Richmond north of Richmond.
You think we don't know?
But we do. COVID-19 starts as an annoying, intense, uncomfortable flu-like illness, and for most people it ends uneventfully two to three weeks later.
That is, unless you get the fiat orders backed up by fiat cash from Trump, from Fauci, from Biden, and all the rest of these people.
Bribing... Blackmailing, cajoling the greedy hospitals and others who are doing this.
It was a COVID cabal.
And again, as we look at this, I think I'm going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and we're going to talk about climate because I think that that is actually an even more pressing thing.
This is important. They set a precedent.
They practice their psychological stuff, and they were able to achieve more in a shorter period of time than they've been able to do with the Climate MacGuffin.
But the Climate MacGuffin has been this relentless push, and it has been a slow-moving, as opposed to a quick panic, the Climate MacGuffin has been a slow-moving propaganda campaign that has affected multiple generations.
They were pushing this stuff out when I was in high school.
And it has really been inculcated in a large part of the population, and they're going to push this thing on us very hard.
So we're going to take a look at that when we come back.
We'll be right back.
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He said, I always found it interesting that the PCR test, quote-unquote, had never before been used to mass diagnose viral illness before, yet it was suddenly called the gold standard.
Well, yeah, you know, history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
And it did rhyme with what Fauci had pulled off with AIDS. What caused AIDS? Well, Fauci said it was HIV, and he said the proof of it was the PCR test.
And yet the guy who won a Nobel Prize for it, Kerry Mullis, said, no, you can't prove that with my test.
You're magnifying this.
He said you can find anything if you magnified enough.
And, of course, these PCR tests are being enough cycles that they magnified it 1.1 trillion times.
And what is also interesting is that Kerry Mullis and many other scientists fought Fauci really hard on that connection between AIDS and a virus, HIV. And, of course, Fauci never came up with any kind of a vaccine or anything like that, but they challenged him. He challenged him to a debate.
He went on other places and he said, he's a bureaucrat.
He's not a scientist. He won't debate me.
I've called him out time and again.
And Kerry Mullis died just before this stuff rolled out.
Interesting coincidence, isn't it?
I don't think there's coincidences.
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Tony sent me a Nevada Goldback.
It's awesome. I like those as well.
I want more, but do not understand what it is, actually.
Get Tony to talk about What a gold back actually is.
So this is probably sent earlier and I missed it, but we'll talk about it next time.
I'll tell you a little bit about it. It does have a small amount of physical gold in it.
You know, they have the capability now.
They put all kinds of stuff and money to try to thwart the counterfeiters.
And so when you look at currency coming from the U.S. and from other places as well, it's really amazing what they can do in terms of putting things in it.
And, of course, they can put in some kind of electronic tracking type of stuff on some of the newer currency.
But what they do with these goldbacks is they put in an intrinsic amount of gold.
So it actually is a particular amount of actual gold.
But in a paper format that people can kind of relate to.
It looks like a Federal Reserve note or something like that.
So it is very interesting.
And it's a very pretty thing as well.
Let me just say thank you to a couple of people.
I've got some cards that were sent to me, very nice cards.
And I'm getting behind and thanking people for this.
So I just wanted to say this real quick.
I like this. This is a nice card.
I spent days on end trying to find you the most perfect gift ever.
And realized it was in my heart the whole time.
I thought that was really nice. Thank you, Mary.
I appreciate that. And Sue sent this card and a very nice quote.
Sue and Mary have both been very faithful and regular supporters.
She said, I found this quote.
I think it's so appropriate to today, said Sue.
And here's a quote. We're occupying a front-row seat to the fall of a nation to see exactly how the abandonment of principles rots a society so badly that the vast majority just wilt.
That is absolutely true.
And I don't know who did that quote.
I'll look it up and see. But that is a great quote.
So I really do appreciate all of you who have, and these are from the end of March.
I'm a couple of weeks late on that.
We have moved the gas gauge up to a quarter.
But it's slightly below a quarter, but it's closer to that than it is to an eighth.
So things have been going a little bit slow.
We really have our core supporters have been amazingly generous and faithful to us, and I thank all of you who do that.
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And I wanted to respond, too, to something that somebody left in terms of they were said, it's taking a long time for the videos to get up, and I think we're going to change that today.
For the love of the road, I kind of stepped in and tried to assuage them that, yeah, this is really happening.
But what's taking me a while to do it is I have to wait for the transcript.
I have to go through the transcript and find places that are there.
I think I can go through and give a rough description or maybe even no description and try to get this stuff up right away after the show and then say that a description is coming.
And then when we have that description ready three or four hours later, we'll put that up.
And so I think that is what we're going to start doing, at least for our Subscribestar supporters.
We'll try to get that up right away and just say, hey, if you want to have the outline, the index of topics, it's coming, but it's not here yet, but here's the file.
Because, you know, people will listen to the full show.
They don't know what's coming up. And so, you know, a lot of people may be interested in doing it that way as well.
So I think we're going to try to roll it out that way beginning today.
As I said earlier, I think that the climate thing has been rolling very slowly, slowly but surely, affecting people's minds and the way that they think of things.
And we really do have to push back and debunk this.
And I came across this at the website, Watt's Up With That, and that's not watt, but it's watt, as in electrical watt, W-A-T-T. We're good to go.
Many of them are Nobel Prize winners and or people who have been working in the climate science industry.
They're now retired.
And they say, well, you know, the reason people aren't saying this is because they get kicked out and they lose their career if they say it.
But we're out now, so we're going to tell you what is going on with this.
And it's time that we do.
This is, like I said, a very well-made film done by Martin Durkin, who has produced, directed, and executive produced hundreds of hours of documentaries, things like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, many others.
And so I want to give you just a little taste of this at the beginning.
It's like an hour and a half, two hour long thing.
So here's about five minutes at the very beginning of the climate movie.
People are dying.
Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
How dare you? This is the story of how an eccentric environmental scare grew into a powerful global industry.
It's a wonderful business opportunity, okay?
You want climate, we'll give you climate.
There's a huge amount of money involved, and this is a huge big money scam.
There are not just now billions, but there are trillions of dollars at stake.
It's a story of self-interest and big government funding.
People like me, our careers depend on funding of climate research.
This is what I've been doing just about my whole career.
This is what the other climate researchers are doing with their whole career.
They don't want this to end.
If CO2 isn't having the huge negative impacts that we claimed it was having originally, how are we going to stay in business?
A lot of people's livelihoods depend on it.
They're not going to give that up.
This is a story of the corruption of science.
There's no such thing as a climate emergency happening on this planet now.
There's no evidence of one.
The climate alarm is nonsense, you know.
It's a hoax. I've never liked hoax.
I think scam is a better word, but I'm willing to live with hoax.
It's a story about the bullying and intimidation of anyone who dares to challenge the climate alarm.
To speak up against or about climate change in any sort of skeptical way was essentially career suicide.
Activists are even calling for any skepticism to be criminalized.
It's the story of an assault on individual freedom.
It's a wonderful way to increase government power.
If there's an existential threat out there that's worldwide, well, you need a powerful worldwide government, you know, to cope with it.
We see all these kind of authoritarian measures being adopted in the name of saving the planet.
You've suddenly got the population under control all over the world.
We called it industrial progress.
Since the Industrial Revolution, the development of free market capitalist mass production has made ever more goods, ever more affordable, to ever larger numbers of people.
Mass production marched hand in hand with mass consumption.
In the modern age, ordinary people enjoy a level of prosperity never before achieved in human history.
But all the while we're told we were destroying the planet.
Computers have calculated what is in store for us.
As we produce and consume evermore, the weather will get worse.
The planet will boil.
We greedy humans must accept limits on our lifestyle.
Consume less. Travel less.
Those who deny the climate crisis are not just wrong, they're dangerous.
Spreading the poison of doubt among a gullible population.
These deniers should be shunned and shamed and censored.
For these climate deniers are flat earthers.
They are anti-science.
Teaching at New York University is one of these climate deniers.
Professor Stephen Koonin is one of America's leading physicists.
He was a science advisor to President Obama and both Vice President and Provost of Caltech, one of the most prestigious scientific institutes in the world.
I teach climate science to my students at NYU. And I always tell them, check the data or the papers yourself.
And they all come out of that course with their eyes wide open.
Professor Kunin's best-selling book, Unsettled, argues that mainstream scientific studies, accepted by official agencies, do not support the notion that there is any kind of climate crisis at all.
Because I've been called a denier.
And my response is, tell me what I'm denying, because I'm quoting from you directly from the official UN scientific reports.
Dick Lindzen also dismisses the claims of climate alarmists.
He's one of the world's leading meteorologists, was professor of meteorology at both Harvard University and MIT, and has served on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if you go to their section of Working One, Group One, which is the science, they don't support any of these claims.
And I assure you, having served on it, it's biased.
But you couldn't get any real scientists to agree some of the nonsense that's being promoted.
Will Happer is also a denier and is another of America's leading physicists.
He has been science advisor to three presidents and professor of physics at both Columbia and Princeton University.
There's this mischievous idea that's promoted that scientific truth is determined by consensus.
In real science, you know, there are always arguments.
No science is ever settled.
You know, it just is absurd when people say the science of climate is settled.
There's no such thing as settled science, especially climate.
Dr. John Clauser is one of the most respected scientists in the world.
In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
The science that's being done is appallingly bad, in my opinion.
There are a large number of scientists who are in violent disagreement.
They refer to themselves as skeptics.
Since I am no longer worried about losing funding or a job, whatever, I call myself a climate change denier.
These very eminent and respected scientists, and others like them, are not flat-earthers.
They do not deny science.
So what's the evidence that has caused them to dismiss the climate alarm as nonsense?
Okay, you can get a taste of that.
What he was saying is what I've been saying from the very beginning, and way before we had the pandemic MacGuffin.
It's like, look, science is not determined by a vote.
It's not determined by consensus.
Every time science has advanced, it's been one person who has challenged the consensus.
That's the way it advances.
And the scientific method is one of skepticism, of proof, of validation of models.
And you can't even validate these climate models.
They're making prophecies about things that are going to happen decades in the future.
Now we are 50 plus years into this nonsense.
We're 54. And the first Earth Day was 1970.
So we are so far into this, we have seen one failed prediction prophecy after the other.
It is a joke. But it's great production values.
I want you to see that because you ought to check that out.
If you already know all this stuff, pass it on to somebody else who is struggling with this because they make a great case for it.
And again, it's entertaining to watch.
I thought it was funny that as I come into that one, scientists who's, they do a J-cut in there where he's playing piano and he's playing Our Love Is Here To Say, you know, Gibraltar may tumble, the Rockies may crumble.
They're only made of clay.
But God's love is here to stay.
And he created all this stuff.
And he's going to keep all that clay there as long as he wants to.
We ought to be faithful stewards of this stuff.
But we're not desperate like the people who don't understand what is happening.
People, unfortunately, like Greta.
But again, it's about the power.
It's about the money. It's about a global totalitarianism.
And the way they want to get to the goal, the things, the mechanisms, the control points that they want for this global totalitarianism are the same for the climate as they are for the pandemic.
That's why I call it a MacGuffin as we approach that.
By the way, I just saw this.
This is from a listener who said, I just checked.
My subscribe star and found that they had suspended my contribution to David.
This isn't the first time it's happened.
And I know that is the case as well.
I've had many times people have told me that.
They don't send you a notification if they suspend it or if your credit card has changed or been updated or something like that and it's an old credit card for whatever reason.
I mean, they may just take it off.
They've gone through periods of time where they have just flushed a whole bunch of people Off of Subscribestar.
So, if you think you're a supporter, check again.
But we will be putting up the show before we have the full transcript there, because that takes me a while.
We'll put it up, and then we will do an update to it later, at a later date, so we can try to get that up earlier.
UN Climate Chief says, we only have two years to save the planet.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
And they've been doing this kind of nonsense for 54 years.
And the person says, That more money is needed.
Because that's what this is about.
It's about a money scam. It's about a transference of wealth.
Oh, and we are in an emergency with only two years left.
And so what we need is more gender equality.
How are you going to make a case that this is some kind of existential emergency when you're going to play the DEI stuff?
We got to have increased gender equality to help curb climate change.
You know, if this is a no half measures, they said, there's no room for half measures, but we got to have more gender equality.
Well, if this is a true existential emergency, you're not going to be playing those kind of games, right?
You're going to get the best people you got out there and you're going to roll it right out.
That's exactly what we saw with the pandemic stuff.
Well, you know, in two months, we're going to do this.
We told you two months ago, we're going to do this.
And they just gradually roll it out step by step.
And it's supposed to be an emergency.
And we're supposed to believe that they're not going to take any half measures, but they don't necessarily want the best people.
Maybe what they need is maybe somebody, since it's all about politics, maybe they could get some woman of color who is also political.
You know, somebody like Sheila Jackson Lee, who just went to a high school in Houston and And told the kids there that you've heard the word full moon.
Well, sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon.
It is a complete rounded circle.
Wow, she noticed that? Which is made up mostly of gases, she said.
Did you realize that the full moon is not made of green cheese, but it's made of gases?
This is the brilliant insight of Sheila Jackson Lee.
A congresswoman. And she said, and that's the reason, is why or how we as humans live on the moon.
Are the gases such that we could do that?
And then she starts talking about the sun.
She said, the sun is a mighty powerful heat.
Wow, she realized that too.
The moon is more manageable.
As you see in a couple years, NASA is going to go back to the moon, she said.
I don't think we've been on the moon the last 50 years, she said, so we will be landing on the moon.
What you'll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been for the last 20 years.
Which means, that's why they'll shut the lights down, because they will be close to the Earth.
Wow! That's amazing, isn't it?
And it makes me ask, when we look at this, how did she get so wise in the ways of science?
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
Yeah, well, she is a congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee.
So wise in the ways of science.
And she tried to walk that back after everybody just ridiculed her to death.
Oh, I was talking about the sun. You heard what I was talking about.
She's talking about the moon.
She's talking about the moon. How do we land there when it's all gas?
I don't know. Maybe they didn't go.
I don't know. But she used to be the top Democrat on the House Science Committee's Space Subcommittee.
I think what they were talking about was the area between her ears.
If we get enough people up there on the moon, we might just flip it over or something.
I don't know if they could even stay there.
Babylon Bee had fun with it.
They said Sheila Jackson Lee asked why Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars, since it's just a giant ball of spaghetti sauce.
Texas Congresswoman and astronomy expert Sheila Jackson Lee has come out in opposition to SpaceX founder Elon Musk's vision to establish human settlements on other planets and asked why he would want to colonize Mars since it's just a giant ball of spaghetti sauce.
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So, maybe that's why that has dropped so much.
We've been noticing how much it had dropped.
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