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The David Knight Show - 07/11/2024
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As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 11th of July, year of our Lord 2024.
Well, we have some very interesting stories today.
It's amazing how our society is falling apart, especially when it comes to air travel.
The tyranny, the DEI, is really having an effect, and we better pay attention because it's spreading to all aspects of our society.
Fortunately, we've had some good moves to distance people from these kinds of mandates coming from Newsom.
You know he's going to add $20,000 to the price of a car?
That was his plan, and Virginia was in lockstep with it, but they're going to move away from that.
We're also going to talk about George Clooney making a very interesting move.
And is it connected to the Obamas?
It is kind of interesting to watch this pageant play out.
But we're going to begin with the news today, so we'll be right back.
Stay with us. Well,
let me begin with a correction, and this was pointed out to me by a listener, and I've been calling Lawrence O'Donnell Chris O'Donnell.
Well, you know, I don't know who these people are, quite frankly.
I've only paid attention to this guy.
I'm not sure, but I think he's on MSNBC. I've only paid attention to him when he's done something stupid like he did this week or when in the past he did the stop the hammering thing.
So I won't be hammering on his...
Maybe I'll just refer to him as O'Donnell, but...
I would just point out we all make mistakes.
Steve, when you sent this to me, you spelled his last name in the top as O'Dommel with two M's.
So we all make mistakes.
It's understandable. These are not very important.
None of these people are.
Unless they do something like say, well, we should have the entire staff supporting Biden when he's in a debate because you can't expect him to know anything.
Nearly 10 billion passwords have been leaked.
And what may be the biggest of these datasets ever?
I mean, they've leaked. They've hacked everything.
This is one of the reasons why we're going to have Tony on.
I know that he's not as skeptical of cryptocurrency as I am.
And I don't wish them ill.
I mean, fine. Go ahead and do it.
If you want to do it, that's fine.
I just am concerned about anything that's online.
Because it opens you up to all of the clever thieves in the world.
And there's a lot of really clever people out there that are focused on how they can rip you off.
They can watch to see what you're doing, and they can steal passwords.
They've stolen the hacking software from the CIA NSA, Vault 7, that they used to disguise themselves to look like other countries.
They've gotten Pentagon data, and they've hacked into the various...
Financial rating companies over and over again.
So they can get the most sensitive data, whether it's from a corporation, whether it's from a government.
Don't know where this came from.
But they called it leaked.
Actually, it was hacked, then leaked.
And it was put up on an online hacking forum.
They just put it out there for everybody to take a look at it.
10 billion passwords.
That's more than we have people on this earth.
And of course, a lot of people in a lot of poor countries don't have passwords.
That means that many of us have multiple passwords, and you should have multiple passwords.
Don't use the same password for every site that you go to.
Use a different one in case that site gets hacked.
But the bottom line, they're telling people, you need to use strong passwords for each of these accounts.
Well, that wasn't the issue here.
There might have been a strong password that was needed for the people that got hacked, but it was probably something that they found going in a backdoor, and these backdoors are always set up there.
Now, the lesson to come away from with this is, first of all, remember to regularly change your password, especially since if it's 10 billion passwords, they've probably got all of our passwords.
Out there to pretty much everything.
They just have to have the time to go through it.
So make sure you change your passwords.
We have, as we're talking about surveillance, an interesting story from Breitbart.
And they say the self-driving cars are rolling surveillance devices.
And it's a concern if they're Chinese.
They don't talk about the concern that you should have from these rolling surveillance devices if it's made by an American company.
Or if it's snitching about you to the government here in America.
Which is really kind of strange.
This whole article is about how we have to hide this stuff from China.
China is creating these self-driving cars, using all the cameras and everything else to do surveillance.
It's like they were telling during the Trump administration, oh, we've got to get rid of Huawei.
They're going to use 5G to surveil on everything.
When they have 5G, they'll be able to get everything about everybody.
And it's like, well, that means that you will too.
The American government will be able to do that.
And what was really amazing to me was that the mainstream media would tell people that your concerns about 5G being used for surveillance, as well as your health concerns about 5G. They were all unfounded.
They were all a conspiracy theory.
Well, there's been a lot of research about the health stuff, and of course the government doesn't want to do any research about that.
Roll it out. No time. So that's real.
And then as far as the conspiracy theory that's going to be used to surveil you, that was being talked about at the same time as a concern about China.
Oh, we should never worry about the American government surveilling us.
Are you kidding me? I'd much rather have the Chinese government surveilling me than the American government, for obvious reasons.
They're closer to you.
The Chinese aren't going to send a SWAT team to your house under some presumed violation.
But the American government might.
And so, it's not just the self-driving cars either.
They're so heavily laden with tech, as well as any car that has some kind of online connection can constantly spy on you, report that information.
They can report it to the local police in terms of how you drive, to your insurance company, to the government, about where you're going.
Everything is there.
And yet... Breitbart makes it all about the Chinese.
That's the only thing you should be concerned about.
As Chinese companies test their autonomous vehicles on American roads, concerns are growing about the vast amount of data these, quote, rolling surveillance devices are collecting and the potential national security implications.
Yeah. See, the problem is, is that our national security state...
Doesn't care about your security.
Doesn't care about your safety.
Doesn't care about your privacy.
It cares about their security.
And they keep everything from us while they demand to know everything about us.
Fortune magazine reports that in recent years, Chinese-owned companies have been quietly testing their self-driving cars on American roads, particularly in California.
These vehicles, equipped with advanced cameras, sensors, mapping technology, are capable of collecting massive amounts of data about their surroundings, including detailed video footage and precise geospatial information.
Never talk about geospatial intelligence, right?
These people will not talk about that.
Why is that?
Fastest-growing part of the intelligence community for the last 25 years.
And it's where James Clapper rose through the ranks and so forth.
But no, this is only a problem if China does it.
Because, you know, if James Clapper does it, it wasn't intentional, Senator.
Not intentionally. We're not spying on Americans' intentions.
Oh, yeah, that's very intentional.
Some Chinese self-driving car companies appear to store U.S. data in China.
This leaves the data accessible to the Chinese government.
And of course, these large corporations that work hand in glove with the government and have contracts with them would never turn over your information to the American government, would they?
Despite these concerns, there's a surprising lack of scrutiny and regulation.
We've got to have more regulation, but not of the American government, not of the American companies.
As I said at the top of the hour, it is a good thing that Virginia was one of many states that had linked themselves to California's arbitrary and excessive regulations about cars.
And they have now broken that link.
That link was put in, by the way, by Ralph Nolvum, the Ku Klux Klan guy, the doctor, who explained to people how, yeah, if a baby survives the abortion, you just leave it over on the table and let it die.
Call that comfort care.
Yeah, that's right. Well, Virginia has now decoupled from California's mandate, requiring all new vehicles sold in Virginia to be electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2035.
This regulation, a ban on sales of new gas, diesel, and traditional hybrid vehicles, was put out by the California Air Resources Board, CARB. It would have taken effect as soon as next year when 35% Of all model year, 2026 cars sold would be required to meet California's definition of zero emission.
So, beginning next year with the 2026 model, because they leapfrog it by one year, they'd have to have 35% of them, but by 2035, it would have to be 100%.
This all stems from a 2021 bill championed by then-Governor Naldom and his allies in the California Assembly, directing the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulations tying Virginia law to California's vehicle emission standards.
And I've said many times that the fight is local, isn't it?
The EPA is trying to shut down power plants with emissions.
They're trying to shut down farms.
They're trying to shut down cars and all the rest of the stuff.
But you can make it even worse by doing what California is doing.
They're moving even faster and harder than the federal government is doing.
Or you can say, no thanks, and we're going to nullify that.
The previous administration, Richmond, put Virginia vehicle policy in the hands of California.
And what did Newsom do with it?
Again, this is coming back to Newsom.
The guy that a lot of these people are having the Civil War in the Democrat Party.
A lot of them want to put him on the ticket.
In the one or two spot.
Under the new California policy, selling any new gas, diesel, flex fuel, or traditional hybrid cars and trucks would be unlawful.
And subject to severe penalties.
It would be devastating, and will be devastating, for drivers, for small businesses.
It'll damage U.S. national security.
Consumers will be paying in these states where it remains, but it's not going to happen now in Virginia, unless they put a Democrat governor in, and he'll just do what Northern did, put him back on that standard again.
But they'll have higher costs for new and used cars.
Any compliance penalties levied on automakers, and they go up to $20,000 per vehicle, would also be passed on to Virginia consumers.
That's Newsom. That's Newsom.
Well, you talk about somebody that is really dangerous.
And, of course...
When you look at the bench of the Democrats, it's hard to rank them as one being better than the other.
They're all pretty bad.
Staying on cars here for a moment, Volkswagen's shares stock prices have dropped.
As there's talk that they're going to close a plant in Brussels.
This will be the first time they've closed a plant since 1988, when they closed a plant in Pennsylvania.
This one in Brussels was manufacturing an electric Audi.
About 3,000 people lose their jobs.
And when you look at what is happening to Volkswagen, they're really kind of getting an EV whiplash, aren't they?
First of all, they were the ones that took it on the chin really hard.
The EPA claimed that they had cheated on their mission scandals.
As I've talked about this many times with Eric Peters of ericpetersautos.com.
We talked about this years and years ago when it was happening.
Nobody was harmed. And it was a really harmless thing.
They said, no, you cheated on your emissions standards, so we're going to hit you with $4 billion, with a B, $4 billion fine.
And they brought criminal charges against the executives and all the rest of the stuff to make an example out of them.
Why? Well, Volkswagen had come up with a very, very efficient diesel, and they had to shut down diesel.
And Volkswagen got the message.
And they became one of the biggest advocates of electric cars.
And now, they're getting the EV whiplash.
$4 billion, and you better start making electric cars.
Well, they started making electric cars, and now they're going to have to drop, you know, shut down a factory.
It could lead to a loss of nearly $3 billion.
$7 billion because of political bureaucratic tyranny from the U.S. government against a corporation.
It's a German corporation, but still, this is a good example of what the federal bureaucracy costs us.
And it's going to cost us everything if we don't stop it.
Analysts have labeled Audi as Volkswagen's biggest problem.
Because they have an aging design of cars that they haven't updated in a number of years.
So they decided that they would put Audi up front and have them be a leader in this move to EVs.
And now nobody wants the EV. And the question is, is that going to happen?
Is the EV bubble, the EV jumping the shark, is that going to happen with artificial intelligence?
I talked about this earlier this week.
And here's yet another...
Analyst saying the same thing.
So he's very concerned that this fascination that the stock market has with artificial intelligence and pumping so much money into just a few companies, he believes it's going to be a massive bubble.
And of course, the stock market hasn't really done that well, except for the AI-connected companies.
So that AI is effectively useless.
It's created a fake it till you make it bubble.
That could end in disaster.
James Ferguson, founding partner of the UK-based macroeconomic research firm Macro Strategy Partnership, says that the AI exuberance has created a concentrated market bubble reminiscent of the dot-com era.
Or you can say error.
E-R-R-O-R. These historically end badly.
He said, anybody who's of a certain age has seen this whole thing happen before.
He said, AI still remains, I would argue, completely unproven.
And to fake it till you make it work in Silicon Valley.
But for the rest of us, I think once bitten, twice shy, may be more appropriate for AI. Oh, it actually rhymes.
If AI cannot be trusted, then AI is effectively, in my mind, useless.
In other words, if it's going to hallucinate about things.
And that's the issue. Wait until the effect of cannibalism is seen.
And it's been talked about, it's been documented by a couple of researchers in different places have come up with the same result, that as AI continues to generate more and more content on the internet, they said that as AI starts consuming AI content rather than consuming human content, It starts to get radically dumber.
So the hallucination is going to get even worse.
Far worse. When it starts consuming synthetic AI data rather than human data, it's very equivalent to what happens with cannibalism.
When people start eating other people, they wind up with things like mad cow disease.
There was just an article on Drudge yesterday about a remote tribe And they engaged in cannibalism until very recently, just a couple of decades ago.
What they got, rather than mad cow disease, was they went blind.
And finally the people convinced them to stop eating their dead relatives.
Whenever somebody would die, they would eat that person.
And so they got them to stop doing that.
But that's what artificial intelligence is doing.
Once it starts eating itself, eating its own data, cannibalizing it, things are going to go downhill very rapidly.
I look forward to that day.
Because the killer app for artificial intelligence is what I spent time on yesterday.
And that is surveillance, assassination, all of these dystopian, Orwellian, tyrannical things that they have come up with.
That's what it's used for.
One of the reasons why the military has been developing this.
And it's going to continue. That's the one thing, I think, that these people who are looking at the AI being a bubble, maybe not factoring in the fact that the government, which has funded this thing from the very beginning, Wants to continue to fund it because it becomes this automated Stasi.
It becomes using these swarms like I was talking about or just using individual drones.
They can use them for assassination, use it for war.
It's going to be very important for that, unfortunately.
So forget NVIDIA charging more and more and more for its chips.
You also have to pay more and more and more to run those chips on your servers.
Therefore, you end up with something that is very expensive and has yet to prove anywhere really outside some narrow applications that it is actually paying for itself.
Well, that's the problem.
It's not really there to help us.
It's there to be weaponized against us.
But they may have a great app.
This is artificial intelligence scientists are developing tools to decode what your dog's barks mean.
Boy, hey look, he's trained.
Shake. Uh-huh.
Speak. Hi there.
Did that dog just say hi there?
Oh, yes. My name is Doug.
I have just met you, and I love you.
Yeah, Pixar's up.
Now, we finally make that come true.
You know, we always have this predictive programming.
Well, finally, it's going to be something that's not Orwellian, right?
Well, the issue is, as many people point out in the comments of this story, Anybody that's owned a dog knows that the communication is every bit as much body language as it is barking.
They wag more and bark less sometimes.
And sometimes you get no warning when they throw up at 2 a.m.
And they won't explain it to you, even with an AI chip, what they ate.
But, you know, they're always asking for bacon.
You know that. So you don't have to ask them what they want to eat.
They want to gather more information from the dog's vocalizations, such as its age, its breed, its sex.
So I guess, you know, AI can speak Cantonese.
Will it be speaking Pekingese?
No. No, anytime soon.
This is a good example of the silliness of this.
This is being reported by the New York Post.
Yeah, developing AI to analyze vocalizations in animals is hindered by the lack of publicly available data.
Yeah, they don't have anything to copy.
That makes it a real problem for AI when they don't have anything to copy out there.
Well, from dog whistles to whistleblowers, we have a whistleblower saying that the FBI is abusing security clearance processes to purge out conservative agents.
We didn't know.
Did you know that the FBI is actually politicized?
Wow. Not a new story, but just some more whistleblowers.
We've known this for a long time.
I've interviewed Steve Friend.
This is kind of a Dog Bites Man story.
I'm just surprised there's any conservative agents left to purge.
That's right. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. This might have been the last one out the door.
He's going to talk to the press about it.
The security division of the FBI is abusing security clearance approval to oust agents believed to be politically conservative, according to a whistleblower complaint received by the New York Post.
They reported that the unidentified whistleblower alleges that the nation's top law enforcement agency...
Who would that be? Are they talking about the FBI? Oh, yeah, I guess they are.
Suspends or evokes clearances of agents on the basis of their political affiliations.
Or their lack of a Trump shot.
An MRA vaccine.
How about that? Why is that so important?
Well, I think the vaccine is a test.
I think the vaccine is a test, is a test of your discernment.
If you have no discernment, that's even better.
But if you do have discernment, are you servile?
Will you do something that you know is not in your best interest that may inflict self-harm?
Will you do that in order to keep your job?
If an FBI employee fits a certain profile as a political conservative, they're viewed as security concerns and unworthy to work at the FBI, says the whistleblower.
The outcomes of clearance investigations were often predetermined by the division's acting deputy assistant director and the acting section chief responsible for security clearance investigations.
They often overruled the line staff.
This is coming from above.
From political appointees, because the FBI has been completely politicized, and has been from its inception.
It's just that it's so politicized, they don't even care anymore.
So, they overruled the line staff.
They even dictated the wording of documents in the clearance process.
What you're going to say about somebody.
That's pretty amazing.
On Rumble, DGA says, David, imagine these lunatics on the left claiming that their dog is LGBT. That's right.
Well, actually, we had some.
The BBC, I think, did some kind of a documentary talking about homosexuality in nature or something.
They'll never stop.
Some of them already claim their dogs are vegan.
That's right. Yeah.
Nothing too insane for these people.
They are utterly detached from reality.
They don't live on the same planet.
No. No, they don't.
Yeah, I didn't have it down here to talk, but it made me think when you're talking about the people who think that their dogs are vegan.
The sad story of...
Oh, what's the guy's name?
Played Batman.
Dating Jennifer Lopez.
I don't keep up with Hollywood anymore.
Anyway, his daughters, one of them, and it's made a round of a lot of different...
Ben Affleck. Yeah, Affleck, Affleck, Affleck.
Didn't he sell insurance or something somewhere?
Ben Affleck. His daughters are like college, just getting out of high school and going to college.
And one of them will not take the mask off now.
She has become OCD about this mask.
Won't take it off. And she went down and lectured LA City Council or something wanting mask mandates back.
And then the other one.
The other daughter transitioned to a male at the funeral of her grandfather because it was all about her.
The insanity in Hollywood that comes out of this.
Again, don't envy people because they are beautiful or rich or famous or whatever.
Those are snares.
They take... People who do have talent and it just enslaves them to this insanity and even worse for their family.
Well, getting back to the FBI, the FBI has used the clearance process as a means to force employees out of the FBI by inflicting severe financial distress, suspending their clearance, suspending them from duty without pay, requiring them to obtain permission to take any other job while stuck in this unpaid limbo, and delaying their final clearance adjudication indefinitely, even years.
Same stuff they're doing to the military.
Who wants to work for the federal government anymore after the way they treat people?
It truly is amazing.
And of course, the people are going to be left behind after they've purged everybody out of the FBI and the military that have any self-respect.
And it's not even conservative.
Well, look at this. The conservatives are out there talking about how harmful the vaccine is, and yet they support the father of the vaccine.
And when you look, this is all coming out, again, at the House Judiciary Committee, run by Jim Jordan, who will continue to vote for bills to build a, give massive amounts of money to the FBI to build a brand new headquarters and all the rest of this.
They keep funding them and giving them record amounts of money.
And at the same time, they hold these hearings and talk about how horrible this agency is, but they never even restrict the amount of money they give them.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk more about DEI. I saw a great acronym explanation for what DEI stands for.
It doesn't stand for diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
It stands for didn't earn it.
That's... That's the way that you need to remember that.
That's the best acronym I've seen yet for DEI. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back back.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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It's negatively impacting the U.S. military.
It says a study coming out of Arizona State University.
Well, we all knew that as well, didn't we?
Wait, you mean a military comprised of gay guys and women isn't an optimal fighting force?
You could have seen that coming.
I would say that if they prioritize everything to sex, if sex is the preoccupation of their life and everything revolves around that, I would say that they really aren't focused on their job.
And that's what I would say about all of these people and all of these different positions that Biden has put them in.
You know, Sam Britton, is he really focused on nuclear waste or is he focused on what that lady over there is wearing and can I steal her luggage and get one of these other dresses?
That looks really good. I bet she's got some great stuff in her luggage.
It's crazy. It's crazy to make that the number one thing in your life.
It's just as disqualifying as if, I don't know, somebody that was addicted to crack cocaine or something.
Oh wait, Hunter, you mean?
These kinds of addictions are disqualifying.
And as they focused on...
The DEI. This has been a long time coming.
They started rolling this stuff out, talking about unconscious bias.
Remember that? Oh yeah, you don't even realize just how racist you are.
But I realize, because of your skin color, that you have unconscious bias.
And then intersectionality, where they would look at immutable characteristics of people, as a matter of fact.
You know, what your sex is or your gender because they're the same thing.
And, you know, they would look at that and they would look at your skin color and all these other things.
And, of course, your sexual orientation and these things could be positive or negative.
And so they would check these boxes and then they would rank people by how many of the quote unquote good boxes were checked and how many of the bad boxes.
That was intersectionality.
Arizona State says the massive DEI bureaucracy, its training, its pseudoscientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time and resources.
At worst, they communicate the opposite of the military ethos.
For example, that individual demographic differences come before team and mission.
Well, it's even worse than that because it's about people who didn't earn it.
It's about removing merit, the idea of merit, out of our society.
Equal opportunity is a good thing.
We should have equal opportunity, but that's not what they're talking about.
They're talking about equity, and it's a very different thing.
Equity means that they're going to force results based on their intersectionality and these other metrics, but not based on people's performance.
And that's why the wheels are literally coming off of everything in our society now.
They said at Arizona State's report, the founders of our nation understood and feared a politicized military.
Well, actually, they feared a standing army.
Now, standing army will become politicized.
That's the key.
But a permanent standing army is the problem.
History has shown them that a politicized army easily becomes a tool of tyranny.
The armed forces of the U.S. have proudly upheld this long tradition of separating mission from politics, they said.
But the surest way to eliminate the concerning trends that we have identified and the growth of race and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping in the U.S. military is to altogether end the DEI bureaucracy there.
However, until such a time as the executive...
Didn't happen with Trump.
Or the legislative branches didn't happen with Republican majorities under any of these speakers, including the one that's there right now, Machiavelli and Mike.
So until such a time as these Republicans, because the Democrats love this stuff, do anything about it, choose to end it, we are going to have to advocate for change, they said.
Well, just to give you an idea of how insane this is.
In Germany, they just had a SWAT team, multiple SWAT teams, do multiple raids at homes of individuals because they said they had made misogynistic comments on social media.
Comments that were critical of women in general, I guess.
But they raided them with SWAT teams.
And we got a clip of one of those raids here.
The meeting is now in order.
We all know there's McGillicuddy girls doing a party that day.
And not one of us was invited.
Now what do you say if we form a new club and call it the He-Man Woman-Haters Club?
He-Man Woman-Haters Club!
Spot Team!
He-Man Woman-Haters Club!
Oh, we've got to get these guys right now.
Now we go from Little Rascals to Brazil.
That's where you are here right now.
This is the society we're talking about.
Going from a joke about the He-Man Women Haters Club to...
Don't make a joke about that.
Don't talk about the He-Man Woman Haters Club on social media.
You'll get raided by the Nazis that are still in Germany, evidently.
Isn't that insane? And yet, we look at the effects of did not earn it, didn't earn it.
We have just this last week.
Here's a recap of just this last week.
We've had a Boeing 757 losing its wheels as it takes off.
Another one, a boarding takeoff due to a tire failure.
And then we had a near miss in Syracuse.
That's just in one week.
Now, the Boeing stuff, the CEO made it very clear that his number one mission, his top priority, was DEI. Didn't earn it.
And maybe that's because Boeing is a military contractor.
But the wheels are literally coming off because merit doesn't matter.
But then when you look at the air traffic control, here's what happened with the, I call it a near hit.
I don't know why people say a near miss.
It seems like the wrong way to look at it.
Oh, they nearly missed. Oh, you mean they hit?
No, this is really kind of, I think it's better described as a near hit.
You know, there's certain things like that.
When my daughter was learning English, She'd grown up in China, and instead of saying, my nose is dripping, she'd say, my nose is dropping.
It's like, oh, okay, well, that kind of makes sense.
So you have these different things, near hit, near miss, who knows?
But here's what happened in Syracuse, and it was, wait, before we get to that, well, yeah, we'll show that first.
This is what happened up in Syracuse.
This is somebody who has footage.
Look at that! Looks like they hit each other, but they didn't, fortunately.
And they zoomed in on that.
Somebody has this going in their car.
Look at that. It's amazing.
Amazing how close they got.
And then they did a special report about it as well.
There it is one more time.
Well, I guess it doesn't go into that report.
Maybe I gave you the wrong one.
Yeah, that's just repeating here.
There was an explanation in a computer animation that was in a clip, and I think I put the wrong one in there.
But it's not even that.
It's just getting on a plane.
That's a big issue. Take a look at what is happening now with TSA. Adamant and insisting that they're going to get a face scan.
You know, it was all voluntary. And we'll just make it go quicker for you.
It'd be great. So you can volunteer to get a face scan.
Now they're trying to browbeat people into getting it at all times.
And this woman has an organization that Where she tells people how to opt out of this and what you can do if you've got a TSA agent who is going to try to force you to do this.
She's got a mask on.
Mike, did you go through Blue Country?
Yeah. Well, you have to take a photo through Blue Country.
It says that I don't have to.
There's a poster right there.
I'm not going to talk to somebody.
I know the procedure. If you want me to talk to somebody, I should.
All right. All right, one, two.
Thank you. It's me opting out of biometric theft and facial recognition technique.
At the U.S. border with a U.S. passport entering from a different country into the U.S. For those of you who don't know, my name is Y.K. Hong.
I do anti-oppression and liberatory work, but also I do tech justice work.
And I talk a lot about consent and opting out of biometric theft and facial recognition tech.
Now, I have global entry, but this applies also if you just have regular re-entry into the United States as a U.S. passport holder.
In this video, I encountered an agent who flat out lied and said, you have global entry.
You have to have your photo taken.
That is not true. In past videos, I've talked about how a lot of the times agents will make it difficult.
This is one of the taxes they use is they will just lie.
Now, at this link, I've created a downloadable wallet card that you can print out and carry with you to the airport that has all of the policies of not only CBP, but also TSA. And in this case, the CBP regulations were printed and in a poster format right in front of that agent's desk.
So while he was lying to me, I said, actually, no, it says right here that I don't need to take a photo.
And I had to keep going a little bit.
You can hear that. To which he replied, and I quote, sweet Jesus.
And then once he realized that I knew my rights, He went along with what he was supposed to do with the script, which is they have to get a reason about why you want to opt out.
And I just try to tell them as little as possible because you shouldn't have to tell them more than you want to.
So again, what does this tell me?
It tells me that we should try to opt out as much as possible because they are making it intentionally difficult for us not to.
The more of us that opt out as many times as possible, we alert them and let them know that we are not going to just accept biometric theft.
So as always, if and when you can, opt out, opt out, opt out.
Cancel number two.
Yeah, pretty amazing. And so, again, she comes into the airport, she's got a mask on, using it, not because she's afraid of the germs, but because she doesn't like the German tactics here, the Stasi police.
The website is keepbeyond.com, and she's got information there.
But isn't that interesting that he is so adamant that he's got to have her face scanned?
Telling her that she's got to.
And she said, you know, it's not always the case.
But right next to him was a poster saying, you don't have to do this.
So he got very angry.
And he says, well, I have to put down a reason why you're not doing it.
So he knew. He knew.
He knew that it was optional.
And he says, well, I've got to put down a reason.
Well, put down because I don't want to.
So yeah, I always say opt out.
And quite frankly, I opted out of the scanners.
I wanted to make it as difficult for them as possible when I had to fly.
I don't have to fly anymore.
I mean, it would be good if I went to events and things like that.
But I have decided that I'm going to opt out of the airline industry in its entirety.
I have absolutely no plans to fly ever again.
Oh, except for one.
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Well, we have had George Clooney step into this in a big way.
And it's interesting because Hollywood, like Clooney, like Katzenberg, people are very angry with him.
They've been covering for Biden.
They've been telling us that there's not really anything wrong when everybody could see that there was something wrong.
And it was just a few weeks ago that George Clooney was doing a fundraiser.
Here he is with his pals. There he is standing right next to Biden because, you know, you have to get behind somebody before you can stick a knife in their back.
So there's Biden flanked on either side.
George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and there's Obama.
Now, Julia Roberts hasn't weighed in on this, but the other two have quite a bit.
And as people are saying, George Clooney has now put out an op-ed piece talking about how, yeah, you know, that guy that was there a few weeks ago when we had that fundraiser, and they raised $30 million, $30 million for him.
And he says, yeah, that guy, that was the same guy that we saw at the debate.
And he really needs to step down.
I really love him. He's a great guy, you know.
As Mark Anthony said, Brutus is an honorable man, right?
He stuck the knife in.
But, yeah, this is the pals of Joe Biden.
As people said, if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Even if he doesn't have the collar that speaks in English, you'd want to get a dog if you want a friend in Washington.
And so... He has come out, as I said, he wrote an op-ed piece.
And remember, again, it was just a few weeks ago, we talked about it, how he had to be helped off of the stage.
Here he is, as he doesn't know to leave, as you see this happening in so many different events.
And so Obama waves quite a bit, and then he says, okay, it's time to go.
He's just kind of frozen there on the stage.
He grabs him by the arm, leads him off, as we've seen the Easter Bunny, Jill, the Italian Prime Minister, and now this is Obama leading him off, putting his arm around him, helping him to get off the stage and find his way.
Well, they were asked, the press secretary, Jean-Pierre, KJP, let's say, What's the matter with him?
She said, that's just a cheap fake.
The people are manipulating that.
They're taking that clip out of context and everything.
Well, no, we can see what it is.
Now, he says that Biden is the same man at the debate that he was at that fundraiser.
And so now he's admitting it.
And he actually said as part of his op-ed piece that he put out, he said that Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe Big Deal Biden of 2010.
He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020.
But he was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Wow. You mean it was this bite?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
I'm going to have to get a new one.
Okay, so Hollywood, a lot of people in Hollywood, a lot of these big financial backers are out there saying, well, you know, we didn't know any of this stuff, and of course they all did.
And then Jon Favreau said, Who is one of the kind of inner circle of Barack Obama.
They call him the Obama bros.
He confirmed what George Clooney said in his op-ed piece about Biden's physical condition and mental condition.
Former Obama advisor Jon Favreau broke his silence concerning Biden's mental fitness on Tuesday.
Isn't this interesting? The Obama connection.
I mean, is this kind of the way they maneuver this stuff so they can get Big Mike in?
There may be some truth to that.
The question though is, will they be able to do this?
Because, you know, Biden still has the levers of power, or whoever it is that is controlling him.
But this is what Favreau said.
He said, it was not surprising to any of us who were at the fundraiser.
He said, I was there.
Clooney was exactly right, and every single person I talked to at the fundraiser thought the same thing, except for the people working for Biden.
Or at least they didn't say that.
And you know, every single person in the Democrat Party and the American public might think that, but guess what?
If the people who are part of this Biden collective don't want to go...
It's going to be pretty hard to get them out of office.
I mean, what are they going to do? Are they going to do like a protest in Washington and maybe march through the Capitol building?
We know how that video ends, don't we?
Jon Favreau, a member of the group, often referred to as the Obama Bros during his tenure in the White House, said this during an appearance at CNN. Well, they have to have a charismatic star to sell all this stuff.
They needed charismatic stars to sell you Biden.
And now they need a charismatic star that's going to sell you the next step.
Somebody put together this video, which is excellent.
So although I wish I were here with better news, the fact is that you and I are sitting here today because this will be your last week of employment.
This is not an assessment of your productivity.
Try not to take this personally.
Well, I just had a bad night.
Yeah, just...
He's doing that blank stare that he's got there.
I don't remember the name of that movie.
It was a movie that George Clooney was...
He was...
This person they brought in to fire a lot of people, right?
That's his job. He goes from place to place when they're having mass layoffs, and he brings the people in one by one.
So they masterfully put that through.
Well, you know, you might lose your job if you say something negative about Biden.
George Stephanopoulos, who was very highly connected in the Clinton administration, and the White House there, and then went to ABC News and has been there since he left since the Clinton White House.
There's reports that he was threatened that if he didn't take back an off the mark off the cuff remark about Biden, that he might be fired.
That's pretty amazing.
George Stephanopoulos is one of their key people.
Threatened with being taken off the air if he didn't clarify his position on Biden's ability to serve another four years, they might bring in George Clooney and have George Clooney have that talk with George Stephanopoulos.
heh heh heh heh heh.
I just had a bad night.
The ABC host gave his blunt assessment of the president's performance in a brief interview when he was ambushed on Tuesday.
He was asked on the street in Manhattan if Biden should step down.
He responded, I don't think he can serve for more years.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Because, you see, he had just had that interview that aired over the weekend.
He had the first interview with Biden after the debate.
And it was a recorded interview.
It was not a live interview.
He should have known, I guess, that ABC wanted to make Biden look as good as possible.
That was the whole point of not doing it live.
And then somebody asked him on the street, and he just made the mistake of telling them the truth.
You're not supposed to do that as a mainstream media journalist.
You're supposed to sell the agenda or whatever.
Don't tell people the truth. Stephanopoulos appeared to quickly regret his off-the-cuff remark.
He offered a statement of regret after he was allegedly issued an ultimatum.
He said, earlier today I responded to a question from a passerby I shouldn't have.
ABC News issued their own statement and said George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News.
But, as the Daily Mail says, what the two statements didn't reveal was the alleged crisis that Stephanopoulos' nine words kicked off at the highest level of ABC. News Division President Deborah O'Connell called a panicked meeting with advisors and executives on Tuesday night, including public relations consultants, it was reported.
An insider said to Radar Online, this was a full-fledged crisis and it exploded with far-reaching reverberations.
She is then said to have hauled Stephanopoulos into a private meeting where she gave him an ultimatum.
Apologize or be yanked off the air.
Now, why is this important?
I mean, this is internal politics of these mainstream media organizations that are based on lying.
I think it's important because it shows the power that still is possessed by Biden.
And as I said from the very beginning, I think that certainly there is a movement within the Democrat Party, and it was there from the very beginning because they scheduled this first debate so incredibly early.
As I said after the debate, I said normally these debates don't happen before the convention, because normally you have a primary, and normally if it's a contested primary, you have one person beside you, you've got somebody that's out front pretty far, and you've got somebody else who's in a second place, and there's questions as to whether or not he might be able to do something or she at the convention.
And so they keep that tension there, if for no other reason than to get people to watch the convention.
But that didn't happen this time.
This time they did it several weeks before the very late Democrat convention.
The Democrat convention was set up so late that they had to make special arrangements with Ohio and some other states to make sure that Biden would be on the ballot because they're supposed to have an officially inaugurated candidate by a certain date.
And the convention wasn't even going to take place by that date.
Typically what happens is the convention is earlier, the debates are later.
You usually have the convention, and then you have, and that's sometime in late July or early August for both of the parties, then you'll have the first debate at the end of September, then a second debate in the middle of October, and a third debate at the end of October, just a few days before the election.
That's not happening this time.
So there's something going on within the Democrat Party.
There is some move to try to muscle him out some way to do this kind of mini primary, this primary blitz and stuff like that.
But I stick to what I said.
I'm still convinced that there's enough power there in the White House where they can intimidate ABC News and get them to threaten to fire Stephanopoulos for a comment that he made on the sidewalk.
There's a lot of power there.
There's a lot of power that can be wielded against the media.
A lot of power that can be wielded, especially within the Democrat Party.
And I think they know that.
They're trying this new novel way to do this, but I don't think they're going to pull it off, quite frankly.
You can expect the Trump campaign and the GOP to seize on this.
You can also expect the White House to avoid ABC News moving forward, see?
Biden will never sit down with Stephanopoulos ever again.
That's one of the people who talked to Daily Mail.
Biden made it through the 22-minute ABC News interview on Friday without any major blunders.
Well, what the Daily Mail doesn't tell the readers is that it was recorded and edited to make sure that they minimized the blunders.
He did have blunders.
He didn't have any major blunders because it was not live.
And so, as Real Clear Politics says, and I agree, Joe Biden's cognitive issues are destined for the memory hole.
I think that's right. I think he's staying.
There will be no reckoning among Democrats and their media lapdogs regarding their years-long effort to hide President Biden's mental decline.
No one is going to lose their job precisely because that is their job.
To cover up, to spend false narratives, to lie to people.
That's one of the most interesting things about this.
When you see people like Fetterman say, well, at least he's not a liar.
You know, he may be mentally impaired or whatever, but he's not a liar.
Well, you're lying about his mental impairment.
You've been lying to people about that.
You finally admitted the truth of that.
But anyway, they're going to keep doing it.
And if it becomes clear that Joe's not going to go, the party and the propaganda outlets will quickly pivot.
They will discuss his physical, discussions about his physical mental capacities will be shoved down the memory hole.
And of course, I think you see this already happening with ABC News.
They've already done that.
They've already made that pivot. He said voters, they'll tell people, well, you know, voters already know about his limitations.
So what's the point of continuing to talk about it?
He said late-night comics, such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, will probably try to make his ramblings kind of lovable.
That's exactly what I said.
Just like Wag the Dog, he's going to be Old Shoe.
The lovable Old Shoe.
The affable underdog, even though this guy is one of the most authoritarian dictators I've ever seen in my life, all of his life.
He absolutely, absolutely despises the idea of natural rights.
He got into a fight with Clarence Thomas over that when Clarence Thomas was in his confirmation hearings.
He hates the Bill of Rights.
He hates natural rights. He hates the Declaration of Independence.
He hates all that stuff. The guy has had, he is the person who is responsible more than anybody.
For having things like civil asset forfeiture, mandatory minimums, for gun bans, and all the rest of this stuff.
One of the most tyrannical dictatorial politicians I've seen in my life.
And yet they're going to portray him as this kindly old man.
People are making fun of him.
They're going to pull the sympathy card.
Because we all have had relatives who have had dementia of some sort as part of aging.
And so they're going to make him the sentimental favorite.
He'll be kind of lovable.
You know, Joe says the darndest things, doesn't he?
News coverage instead will seek to make the contest about Trump and his fitness for office.
And he will oblige them by being his usual vicious, narcissistic self.
And so, you know, he's going to be out there throwing insults at people.
You know, poor old Joe. We know that he's got these aging issues, and they will use that, the vicious narcissism of Trump, to tell everybody that he's the authoritarian.
And he is. They both are.
A good example of this, as I pointed out in Real Clear Politics, Joy Reid, who said, if it's Biden in a coma, I'm going to vote for Biden in a coma to keep Hitler out of the White House.
We've already seen Whoopi Goldberg say, I don't care if he poops his pants, I'll still vote for him.
So, Poopi Goldberg is going to support him no matter what.
The real mystery going forward, what other tricks do Democrats and the establishment media have up their sleeves to turn things around?
And who is it that's trying to benefit from this?
Is this the Obamas?
Let me look at this. Well, I don't know about that.
We'll have to see. I mean, there is a tremendous amount of power.
If you don't think they've got a lot of power, just take a look at Ben Affleck's daughter.
Take a look at many people that you know that are still scared and hiding behind a mask and want to demand that from other people. The power of propaganda is absolutely astounding. Yeah, feel free to give me some comments about what you think is going to happen with us and what is behind this. But one last thing here before we take a break.
Biden's costliest publicity stunt yet is going to be dismantled permanently.
Yeah, that's that Gaza Pier thing.
You know, Biden truly is without Pier.
That thing has had so many problems.
Well, they put it back together again one more time.
To show that they can take it down instead of it being taken down by a storm or just falling apart.
But it is the perfect metaphor, isn't it?
Of not just the Biden administration, but of course of the whole federal government.
The bureaucratic failure.
The unnecessary complications and expenses to try to achieve a goal that maybe wasn't even something that we should be involved in.
The pier built by the U.S. military to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
And again, one of the biggest Rube Goldberg pieces of nonsense we've ever seen.
A military veteran who was in logistics talking about how silly the whole idea was.
We're unloading it on another pier, putting it on a boat and trucks and that type of thing, and then coming to this thing and then driving several football fields to put it on there.
Because we can't use, we're not going to be allowed by our supposed allies, Israel, to actually park the stuff there and get people food, or even to just drive through the road that they blocked.
Why don't you use your political clout to tell your political friends to let us give food to people?
That's your mission. Oh, well, we'll build this peer thing.
Weakness, complicated bureaucracy, and the inability to do anything at all.
It'll be reinstalled. Actually, it was reinstalled yesterday.
They'll use it for several days and then pull it out completely.
So they don't get embarrassed anymore.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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♪♪ Well before we leave politics, I have to show you this clip.
And it is a visual clip.
Maybe you've seen it.
This clip of Maxine Waters.
And she's being interviewed, and she doesn't realize that she's on screen.
So it's a two-up shot, right?
The person who's talking to her, and Maxine is sitting there.
What I think is funny, actually, that most people have not talked about.
It's why they didn't cut away when they saw it.
I guess somebody in the control room was having a good time watching her start to adjust her wig.
And so if you're listening on audio, check it out somewhere.
But I just had to show this.
This is Maxine Waters.
And I don't know how this woman...
I mean, first of all, I look at it, it's like, why didn't they cut away from her in the control room?
Secondly, kudos to this woman who is interviewing her, who just keeps talking as if there's nothing unusual happening.
She's watching Maxine wig out.
They've seen President Biden.
They've lived through his presidency.
They've also seen former President Trump.
They've lived through his presidency.
They've heard these arguments about democracy, about the fate of the election, and yet Trump is not only winning, but winning increasingly by a larger margin.
So what is the plan among Democrats to change that trajectory?
It sounds like you're talking about saying and doing all the same things, but do you believe that something needs to change?
I think we need to keep working.
Well, that one B had the perfect response to it.
They said, Maxine Waters announces that she's leaving the Democrats.
To join the wig party.
Something in her headspace really shifted, said an aide, that the old party was no longer the right fit.
After trying to make repeated adjustments to make her old party work, Waters decided that it was time to give up and to join the wigs so she could put her fresh look on an old party.
Ha ha ha!
They said it's no secret that she's been on Team Whigs for years.
And I said a congressman on condition of anonymity.
She's just waiting for the right moment to make her parting move.
It really looks good for her.
Well, you know, we can laugh about that.
And yet, the big discussion as we come up into the veep stakes for Trump and, you know, the party, the Republican National Convention, I guess we should say the Trump National Convention.
He's replaced the party now.
That's going to begin on Monday.
And the question is whether he's going to announce the...
He said he's going to announce his VP choice before it, just before it.
But now he's made some indications that he might wait until the convention itself to make it more dramatic to try to get people to watch it, I guess.
But as they're talking about the three rumored top candidates, and it's been for quite some time, everybody's been saying, well, he's going to pick either Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, or Marco Rubio, or J.D. Vance.
And so...
You're seeing stuff in mainstream media about how, well, you know, he likes the way that Burgum looks.
He looks very rugged and everything, you know, and he looks very presidential.
I guess you could see him on Mount Rushmore.
So maybe he'd go with a Burgum.
Well, if he goes with Burgum, it's going to be because Burgum's been participating in this Summit CO2 pipeline, one of the most absurd boondoggles, crony capitalism nonsense I've ever seen in my life.
And the Summit CEO has been at Mar-a-Lago, along with the North and South Dakota governors.
They're going to pump CO2 across the country.
So they can insert it into the ground in North and South Dakota.
Well, you talk about wasteful green projects, greenwashing corruption.
The Democrats don't have anything that's any better than that.
You know, that's as ridiculous as anything goes.
So, you know, Bergam is also a billionaire, so he can bring money to the campaign.
But they don't talk about that. They talk about his looks.
Maybe he could get a wig.
You know, who knows? And then they talk about, well, I don't know.
This is the article going around.
Multiple mainstream media sites yesterday picked up by the Drudge Report and everything.
I don't know if he's going to pick J.D. Vance because he doesn't like beards.
And so then you have Brian Kilmey.
That's the way I pronounce his name.
Brian is the reason that I'm doing an early morning show.
I'm not an early morning person, you know.
When it came time to pick what time we're going to do the show, I was driving in one morning, and I heard Brian on the radio.
And I was going to be on a lot of different radio stations and said, that's the guy I want to compete against.
He hasn't got anything to say.
So he gets an opportunity to talk to Trump.
What does he ask him about? Does he ask him about the vaccines or the lockdowns or the gun control by executive order?
No, he doesn't ask about any of that stuff.
Instead, what he does, he asks him, I've heard you don't like beards.
Are you going to pass over J.D. Vance because of that?
He goes, oh, no, I like beards.
I think it makes him look like a young Lincoln.
Young Lincoln. Well, maybe if he was about 100 pounds lighter and a couple of feet taller, he might look like a young Lincoln.
And so then the third one.
Oh, before we leave J.D. Vance, the left and mainstream media is going back and finding comments that they all have made about Trump that were negative.
And they found a comment from J.D. Vance, where he was on an interview, and it was about, I think she was a stewardess, a woman on a plane, I think she was a stewardess, claimed that Trump had groped her and that type of thing.
And so they asked him, and he said, well, I don't know.
He said, he said, she said.
He goes, who are you going to believe, the woman or the guy who always tells the truth?
Very sarcastic remark. So it remains to be seen if I mean Trump would have known that it's not that he didn't know any of this stuff.
So, you know, when you look at these, these issues, they've all said things, especially Rubio, because he was running against Trump back in 2016.
But then, of course, there's also the issue that many people pointed out that you if you follow the Constitution, which I don't know, are we going to start following the Constitution again in this country?
this country? Why would we do that?
I don't know. But if you say that we're going to follow the Constitution, well then you can't have both the President and the Vice President be from the same state.
And both Rubio's Florida and now Trump's residence is there.
So that kind of knocks Rubio out.
So it takes it back to really, I guess, Burgum and J.D. Vance.
My guess is, since there's been so much written about J.D. Vance, that that's probably who he's going to pick.
The other thing is, he's also picked his son, Trump Jr., is supposedly really good friends with J.D. Vance.
And, of course, Trump Jr.
has a beard as well.
I don't know. So, you know, maybe that'll be what happens.
Who knows? I think maybe when it comes to this Veepstake, he might be playing J.D. chess.
Who knows? Instead of 3D or 4D chess.
But we're going to take a quick break and...
We'll be right back. Tony's having some internet issues.
He may not be able to join us, but I've got a lot to talk about here.
So we're gonna take a quick break and we hope that Tony can come in but we'll be right back
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Well, let's talk a little bit about fines and fires.
We have, as I said earlier, Volkswagen is now going to possibly lose another $3 billion because they decided that they would bow to the pressure of the U.S. government after they got hit with $4 billion in fines.
Now they got hit with $4 billion because the government didn't like what they're doing, $3 billion because consumers don't like what they're doing, don't want the EV. So GM is going to have to pay $146 million in penalties.
For emission violations on 6 million older vehicles.
They're not getting hit with a $4 billion fine, but it's $146 million.
This week it was reported that GM will have to fork over $146 million in penalties due to $6 million of its older vehicles not complying with emissions and fuel standards, according to the AP. The report said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
By the way, these are the same bureaucrats that are giving passes to these...
Self-driving cars that keep having crashes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that these model years failed to meet federal fuel economy standards The EPA found that GM pickup trucks emit over 10% more CO2 than initially claimed.
And this is exactly what they had come after VW for, for $4 billion.
These vehicles consume more than 10% stated on the window stickers, but will not be repaired or have their MPG ratings adjusted.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said, our investigation has achieved accountability and upholds an important program that is reducing air pollution and protecting communities across the country.
Now, actually, that same guy has appeared in statements and denied that the EPA is banning vehicles at all.
In the same way, The Biden administration, even with their mandates, was denying that they mandated the vaccine.
Well, I didn't force anybody to get it.
I just told them that if they didn't, gave them a choice.
You know, you get it or you lose your job, that type of thing.
But I didn't force anybody.
Well, the EPA is not forcing anybody either, right?
Handing out hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars in fines to companies.
And then making clear that they're going to put them out of business if they don't restrict their choices of the consumers.
The issue arose from a testing procedure change that was implemented by the EPA in 2016.
In other words, it's an issue that would have just gone away on its own, but the government needed to take its bureaucratic pound of flesh first, writes Zero Hedge.
The EPA's enforcement action affects about 6 million GM vehicles, including Chevy Tahoe, Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Silverado.
GM will forfeit credits that were used to meet emission standards with an estimated resolution cost of $490 million.
So with the losing credits as well as the additional fines, nearly half a billion dollars.
But they're still getting off cheap compared to Volkswagen.
And again, this is all not about anybody being endangered, just as CO2 is not endangering the world.
These emissions have been cleaned up in the same way that you can clean up emissions from a coal-powered plant.
They've got their own agenda, and we should be very concerned about what these people want to do to us.
Rivian, meanwhile, has become the provider for Amazon.
They had a deal with Rivian, the electric truck company, and they came up with customized Amazon delivery vans.
Unfortunately, the Rivian delivery vans keep catching fire.
At Amazon distribution centers while they are being charged.
They've had quite a few of these.
What is still unclear is whether professionally installed chargers like these Rivian units are prone to the same issues as Level 2 chargers that are plugged into home outlets.
They put them into the dryer outlets, the 220s.
But again, this is the same government that has spent over $7 billion to do seven charging stations.
And then as you see what is happening at Amazon, as they charge them, they're bursting into fire.
So it is a, as we've seen with EVs, these people are going to force this stuff through.
This is part of the Biden agenda.
Actually, it's the Democrat agenda in general.
It is not simply Biden or Newsom.
This is the entire Democrat Party that is trying to push this through.
And the Republicans will not lift a finger to stop it.
If we want to stop this, it's going to have to be stopped at the state level.
We'll be right back.
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Alright, welcome back. We've talked a lot about the shifting sand under our feet of the petrodollar and how the Saudis are moving away from supporting that.
Recently, we had at the G7 a lot of talk about confiscation of about $300 billion of Russian assets.
And there was a disagreement amongst those that were at G7. The United States wanted to just steal all of it.
And some people in Europe said, well, let's just take the interest.
And they had a compromise.
And yet it turns out that there was more to it than that.
Bloomberg reports that the Saudis were threatening to sell European bonds if the Russian assets were going to be confiscated.
And so what we've got right now is exactly the opposite of the petrodollar geopolitical power that we used to have.
Now we've become just these petty thieves and blackmailers, and everybody sees U.S. government for what it is.
In May, the EU had approved a US-backed plan to use profits and interest generated from Russian assets to help arm Ukraine.
However, that was a sharp reversal from the previously proposed plan, one that was heavily promoted by Zelensky in Ukraine to confiscate all of the $300 billion in Russian assets that were in Western banks.
And many people were wondering, what prompted that reversal?
Well, now we know, and as Bloomberg notes, the kingdom's finance ministry said some G7 counterparts of its opposition to the idea which was meant to support Ukraine, with one person describing it as a veiled threat.
Most of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets were held in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, and Belgium.
What makes today's report from Bloomberg even more interesting from a geopolitical fissures perspective, it means that as a result of its ability to spark a liquidation panic in Europe's unstable bond market, Saudi Arabia has far more leverage than Ukraine or the virtue signaling Western media.
It's just kind of interesting because part of this is because of their vast wealth that they got from selling the oil that we discovered, we pumped, we refined, we gave them the money.
We created the machines that need the oil and all the rest of this stuff.
But nevertheless, they have that power that is there and a tremendous amount of accumulated wealth.
But I think oil is still very important.
Everybody pretends that we don't need it anymore, that it's on its way out and all the rest of this stuff.
I don't believe that's the case.
Not at all. I think that...
They tried to move too quickly.
Their plans to switch to these other more expensive renewables aren't working well.
And they have to continue with oil, or at least until they get some technical issues ironed out.
Then they can fleece us.
But the technical issues are so bad that they have to stay with oil.
That means the Saudis still have a great deal of leverage, especially with their accumulated wealth.
It's clear that when Putin comes to shove, actually they said when Putin comes to shove, but it was actually when Putin comes to shove, that the crown prince is firmly in Vladimir's corner.
Back in April of 2016, the New York Times reported that Saudi Arabia had threatened Obama, when he was president at that time, had threatened to liquidate the $750 billion in U.S. treasuries that it owned at the time.
That would have spawned a bond market crash.
They threatened to sell all of that, all at once, if Obama found them responsible for the September 11th attacks.
Well, now you know why they haven't released these documents.
Not that I believe that the Saudis pulled this thing off.
They may have been accomplices to it.
But that's probably what they have in the 9-11 papers that Obama didn't declassify.
Trump didn't want to declassify.
Biden doesn't want to declassify.
And so momentum was building to follow through.
They'd made the Saudis the fall guys for this stuff.
I think it was an inside job.
I always have. They wanted to make the Saudis the fall guys for this.
And you had a lot of families, 9-11 families, who wanted compensation from the Saudis and so forth.
They said, if you do that, if you continue down that road, we're just going to dump all of our U.S. bonds.
It will crash the market and the rest of this stuff.
So they have done this type of thing before.
And it says here in the article, it said, well, there's two points to pull out of this that are bigger.
Number one, while the petrodollar may or may not be dead, its leverage is a pale shadow of its former self.
In fact, the only leverage goes to those who still own U.S. paper and can threaten to dump it at will.
So if you hold a lot of bonds, like the Saudis, it's worked out the other way.
They've got the leverage against us.
And it's only going to get worse as we go further and further into this massive debt, as we add a trillion dollars every hundred days as Trump and Biden have established this.
Number two, weaponizing the U.S. dollar, as irrelevant as it now may be, Weaponizing it against Russia was a catastrophic decision that will reverberate for years.
It is what Biden will be remembered for, quite frankly, I think.
It is going to be the biggest failure of his administration.
I mean, we've seen visible things like the chaos and the incompetence with the Afghanistan pullout or the pier that we were just talking about.
But it's going to be the financial collapse of the petrodollar and the other things that he's going to be remembered for.
Goldman Sachs, by the way.
Goldman Sachs has failed the Fed's stress test.
And there are some other banks that are on shaky ground as well.
So, Goldman Sachs actually failed the Fed's stress test that they put back in 2008.
They came up with an annual stress test that looks at the bank's books and runs a series of simulated possibilities.
And the test is different for each one of the banks depending on their different portfolios And Goldman Sachs failed miserably fine data from this year's results can be reviewed on the Fed's website By the way this article you can find this article with the links to that website at wine press News.com if you want to get into the details over they got a chart there But most of it you can find by clicking on the link
By coincidence the Financial Times wrote an important piece just last week Talking about the results for Goldman Sachs, they suggested that Goldman Sachs was attempting to change the stress test results that the Federal Reserve had done Wine Press reminded readers, I said in our last article about this,
that Goldman Sachs continues to have the worst credit performance of the group of banks, the big ones, the too-big-to-fail banks.
If you page through the individual bank stress test results, you'll see Goldman Sachs is clearly the outlier in the group in terms of assumed credit and counterparty risk losses through first quarter of 2026.
Now you know why they get involved in the Trump administration, for example.
The previous CEO left, Cohen.
They gave him an advance on his golden parachute, gave him a quarter of a billion dollars, so that he could become, I think he was, what was he, chief of...
I forget what he was. It was a high position in the Trump administration.
Chief of Staff, I think.
Anyway, that's why they had so much political involvement in the Trump administration.
That's how you make a lot of money.
So they had people like Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs guy.
You had Cohen, many others.
And, of course, Bannon himself, a former Goldman Sachs banker.
Goldman, in some ways, fared better on the Fed's stress test than it did on its own, which is interesting.
They run their own test.
Their own test looked even worse than the Federal Reserve's stress test.
They said, and they had to disclose that last week because they're a publicly run company.
Financial Times said its internally run stress test predicted a bigger drop in revenue and larger trading losses and an economic downturn than the one run by the central bank.
Other large banks like Citigroup were able to negotiate the stressed scenario losses imposed by the Fed's test.
Goldman missed the target completely and ended up below the minimum capital level for the bank.
So they look at their investments.
They run them through simulated scenarios to see if, following those scenarios, if they'll still be solvent.
And Goldman wasn't.
Each test is different for each bank.
That's where test results suggest how the Fed views a given bank's business model.
Morgan Stanley has a slightly bigger derivatives book than does Goldman, but rarely reports a significant credit loss.
Goldman, however, under the new CEO David Solomon, is shoveling money into the furnace in terms of credit losses, even with an 11% gross loan spread.
And so it's not just the big banks that are there.
We also have the risk, as if you have seen the documentary, The Great Taking.
This is talked about in that documentary.
The fact that your stocks and bonds Have been put in jeopardy by some very manipulative maneuvers that have not been made public That's a key thing to understand and I think one of the key things To understand about it. And of course, it's a documentary that's done by a former hedge fund manager and investment banker David Rogers Webb And he talks about the things that were put in in order to
be able to legally confiscate All of your stocks and bonds if there is another financial collapse or crisis Peace.
And the remedy for this is actually at the state level.
Imagine that. Here we are again.
We've got a global problem.
We've got a massive problem.
You're not going to get anybody in Washington to fix this.
But we already have some states that are moving to stop this.
The Great Taking film is an effort to raise awareness about what is happening with this, and the document, the efforts that are underway to stop it.
The largest financial crime story in history?
A global scheme to seize all of the world's securities in a financial collapse.
Are they incompetent, or are they trying to create a financial collapse?
Um, So this scheme is made possible by the fact that everyone's stocks and bonds have been secretly used as collateral on financial contracts called derivatives.
Not once, but ten times over.
When you go back and you look at the big real estate bubble that happened in 2008, of course it was derivatives.
Did people realize that their mortgages had been securitized and mixed together?
No, nobody knew what was happening with that.
They did it without people's permission.
Well, they've done it in a much, much bigger way.
It's always these derivatives.
That's one of the reasons why when you look at things like gold and silver ETF or even Bitcoin ETF, you know, why make a derivative out of something?
I think it is always so that they can play these kinds of dishonest games that we're seeing here.
The covert use of the client assets collateral enabled the creation of a financial bubble the likes of which the world has never seen.
And this has been done without anyone's permission and without paying anybody a fee for using your stocks as collateral on other people's trades.
This was all discovered by David Rogers, a former investment banker, hedge fund manager.
He discovered the legal mechanisms put in place to allow the two big-to-fail banks to originate derivative contracts, to have priority to your stocks ahead of you in a bankruptcy hearing during the event of a system-wide collapse.
He has uncovered a legal structure, legal structures rather, that have been put in place to achieve the goal of owning nothing and being happy.
All securities that everyone owns are being legally encumbered, putting them at risk of being lost during the next market downturn.
All done without the knowledge and consent of the clients.
In the 1990s, this fraud was legalized by the 1994 revision of Article 8 of the UCC, the Universal, the Commercial Code, in the United States.
Later harmonized into law in European countries, EU countries, between 2005 and 2014.
So it's the U.S. and Europe.
A new legal construction was created with this 1994 UCC revision called a securities entitlement.
So instead of outright owning stocks, now we are just a contractual claimant upon securities called securities entitlement holders.
And the two big to fail banks that utilize our securities as collateral on derivative contracts are considered to be secured creditors to our securities.
So they've maneuvered this around using the UCC to make themselves secured creditors and us not.
That's the bottom line.
And they did it through the UCC. Now, there's something that can be done.
In response to his book, efforts are underway in states throughout the United States to correct the problem by striking problematic lines of the 1994 UCC revision.
It's very similar to what's happening with CBDC, for example.
In an underhanded way, they put out model legislation.
Seen that before, right? With the pandemic.
After 9-11, they put out model legislation.
Give your public health bureaucracies all these different powers.
And they quietly did.
And so they put out some more model legislation to prepare for this financial takedown.
And they said, you know, they made some changes to support a central bank digital currency and to ban crypto that they see as a competitor to it.
And, um, Christy Noem said, um, she had vetoed it.
She said, I saw this thing coming up and she said, and it's out there with another two dozen states.
They have pushed this through another couple of dozen states.
But then you had DeSantis in Florida say, well, we're going to do the opposite.
We're going to change the UCC code, but rather than legalizing CBDC and criminalizing and banning crypto, we're going to do just the opposite.
We're going to recognize crypto and ban CBDC. So you can change the UCC code at the state level, and you can shut down some of these financial tricks that That they're trying to pull on people.
This financial trick of creating this new legal thing they call a securities entitlement Which is basically to give them a superior position when everything hits the fan.
When they pull down the pillars of the temple, then they are the ones who have standing over you.
Well, that was done through the UCC, a revision of the UCC, so it can be undone through a revision of the UCC. And again, I come back to the fact that you have to understand what the global agenda is.
And then you have to fight it at the local level.
That's what these people said.
Plan, think, globally, act locally.
Well, if we understand what they're doing globally, we can stop it locally.
You're not going to stop it in Washington.
Do any of these people care?
No, they don't.
They won't do anything about anything.
They'll hold hearings, maybe.
They'll make some campaign promises when they're running for office, and they will do nothing at all.
Democrats are full-on to all of this stuff.
The Republicans will make you some empty promises and do absolutely nothing.
Well, I've just been told that Tony can't make it.
He can't get his internet to work, so I've got a lot of economic news I still want to cover.
I'm not finished yet. Some comments and questions.
Let's see. Solid Sender says, Has David written a funeral dirge?
Well, actually, funny you should ask.
Something kind of like that.
I don't know. I don't know why you would ask that.
On Rumble, Georgia Boy says, if you speak of chemtrails, you're labeled a nut, but think back to your childhood and seeing planes without a smoke grid behind them in all directions.
Yeah, I'm the nut. And, of course, we've seen closer pictures of Of this stuff not coming out of the engines, but coming in other places.
So we've got a lot of pictures showing it being sprayed out.
On Rumble, Moonhawk.
I say we drill our own oil and buy from other countries only to build up our reserve.
Deplete their supply and have friendly commerce.
We have, and I'll just grab it here.
I've talked about this many times.
You know, these magazines, Time Magazine and Newsweek.
Let's see, pull it in this way.
Back in 1979, you know, we're running out of oil and we've got an energy crisis.
And as they were saying, we're going to be out of oil and natural gas by the mid-1980s because it was the end of 1979.
But even then, they said we have 666 years of coal.
I guess they're trying to demonize it even then.
666. Yeah, we've got more coal than the Saudis have got oil.
And we've got a lot of oil as well.
But they're just trying to gaslight people.
Isn't that interesting how that phrase fits there?
Gaslight us in the thinking that we can't use it.
We're all going to die.
No, we're going to have to get past this lie, this climate MacGuffin.
Rockfin, Dustin Helm, thank you very much for the tip.
I appreciate that. And on Rockfin, Jason Barker says, going back to the password breach, 8 billion of them, this is bound to happen intentionally to push biometrics instead of passwords.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll use it for us.
Good point, Jason.
Those are compromised as well.
So a physical thing, a mark, We're good to go.
And they only backed off because it was a tech bottleneck nightmare.
Nobody could actually get access to it.
So they're going to work on it, get some of the tech bugs.
But that's where they're going.
You're absolutely right. Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm.
On Rumble, Princess Wrong Think, we already lost our homeland.
I live in a red, mostly rural state.
It's unreal how many illegals are here, working in factories, etc.
And tons of people from Africa.
Yeah. And tons of people from the Middle East.
Tons of people from China.
It's everywhere.
Everywhere. Last time I met.
I was in an airport and we were waiting for our flight.
This migrant manager and his group of migrants came up and two of the guys were just Africans in brand new track suits, brand new cell phones, brand new shoes, brand new hat, all designer.
They're just like, cool.
Yeah, and a lot of people have engaged them.
Oh, what is your group?
And I've seen a lot of clips of people engaging this.
That's happening all the time.
Because I've seen several engagements where people are talking to them.
And, you know, they, well, I'm not going to talk to you about this.
Yeah, that's our government that's doing it.
It's secret. It's national security.
Yeah, you're undermining our country for your job security, is what this is.
Selling us out. The fifth column.
Rock fan. Amos Poole.
Thank you very much for the tip.
I appreciate that. The legal definition of reset.
Reset is the dishonest possession of goods obtained by another by way of theft, robbery, fraud, embezzlement, and the knowledge that they were obtained that way.
Absolutely right. I'm going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about the great monetary pivot of 2024.
We'll be right back.
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In the place they named after me?
Good thing I have the David Knight Show to keep me informed on the plots of these traders.
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Yeah, the great monetary pivot of 2024.
What is happening with this?
Well, this is coming from International Man.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed brought interest rates down to 0%, held them there for years.
Then, in late 2015, they started a rate hiking cycle that lasted until the repo market turmoil in late 2019.
If you can get this chart up, pull this up, Travis, a great monetary pivot of 2024.
Because it truly is amazing to see how they have manipulated the market.
Inflation subsequently hit a 40-year high.
In 2022, forcing the Fed into another rate-hiking cycle, one of the steepest in history.
In just 18 months, they hiked rates from about 0% to over 5%, where they remain today.
And that's what it looks like there, folks.
Look at that. Go straight down.
And as a matter of fact, they smoothed out the curve.
When you look at what they did, and they don't show what they did back in 2006...
Where they started creating this.
They were raising interest rates by a quarter of a point every month, I believe it was.
And so it's just a stair step going straight up until they got to the top and then collapsed everything.
And then when everything collapsed, they immediately take it back down to zero.
Leave it there for years, then move it up very rapidly, then drop it down to zero again, and then move it up even faster at three quarters of a percentage point each time they reevaluate it.
It's unbelievable how they have created this rollercoaster for our economy.
And as he points out, gold has called their bluff.
When you look at that rollercoaster that has been set up, It truly is amazing how gold has been stable and gradually increasing.
That is the key thing, is that it has...
Withstood that war, as Tony calls it, that war against the Fed and their fiat currency, that war with gold.
One of them has to be established.
And so, it's not just the fact that they have changed the UCC code.
They have also, it's come out, one of the banks that recently collapsed, $109 million in customer deposits vanished.
Now, this is not what...
It was what Webb was talking about in the Great Taking and using that.
That's what they're going to use when they collapse everything.
This is a story that's about three weeks old.
Not only are the accounts locked, but users are unable to withdraw any of their cash.
A total nightmare scenario.
The company is claiming it's a problem between two middlemen providers, but it's extremely concerning whenever you can't get your money out of a bank or out of a savings app.
I'm absolutely not claiming that they're insolvent or that they're going under.
In fact, they claim that they're not, but they will say this, but I'll say this.
I saw the very same thing happen before a crypto brokerage Celsius went under.
And, um...
The company claimed all was safe, all was good, then just hours later, they'd collapsed.
Is the same scenario happening here?
I don't know. I hope not, he says.
But sadly, it looks as though my initial gut reaction was right.
CNBC said, Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman, Synapse, show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta...
Yotta, I guess, Y-O-T-T-A, went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved.
A network of eight banks held $109 million in deposits for Yotta customers as of April 11th.
Evolve Bank& Trust said the bankruptcy court letters filed late Thursday.
About a month later, the ledger showed just $1.4 million in Yotta funds held at one of the banks, Evolve said.
These irregularities in Synapse's ledgering of Yotta end-user funds are just one example of the many discrepancies that Evolve had observed.
The CEO of Yotta and the co-founder said in response to the article that Synapse has said in court filings that Evolve held nearly all Yotta customer deposits.
Evolve and Synapse disagree over who holds the funds and who is responsible for the frozen accounts.
So, again, this has been going on back and forth.
Who owns it? Where did the money go?
And this is what happens when they create these multi-levels.
You know, sometimes they'll do it with securitization.
Sometimes they have these new financial tech instruments that are out there.
According to the SNAPS trial balance report provided on May 17th, there are $112 million worth of customer funds held at Evolve.
Well, again, one of the things he says, we never imagined a scenario like this.
We never imagined that no regulator would step in and help it.
So I said this is a fight between Synapse and Evolve, but you got all these customers, 85,000 of them are locked out of their accounts, over $100 million of stuff, and none of these financial tech companies are FDIC insured, for example.
This is all the risk.
This is one of the reasons why when we look at what is on the horizon, and we know this is already happening, it began with Saudi Arabia and the fact that the petrodollar is now being leveraged against us, essentially.
All of those chickens have come home to roost.
We said, okay, well, you support us by buying bonds.
Well, now all these bonds that they've bought...
Have become this sort of Damocles that is hanging over our heads.
As the government, the federal government, in its...
Devious plans decided that they could use the dollar as a weapon.
Well, it turns out that weapon is now being used against us.
So that's one aspect, our entire financial system.
The fact that they had planned this for a very long time, going back to the mid-1990s, they secretly put into the UCC code measures that would allow them to get ahead of everybody else and to confiscate everything when they deliberately took it down.
Yeah, you'd have to look at this and say, are these people that stupid?
Or is this deliberate?
And then, finally, you have these...
Online tech companies, we don't actually physically hold anything, and a lot of finger-pointing going on, but what is really going to happen with it?
You've got three parties involved here, and they're all blaming each other, and still, everybody is locked out of this, because it's not a bank, it's not anything else.
That's why, when you look at it, I think that the way that you should think of this is as wealth insurance.
And when you look at gold and silver, that is something that you hold.
It is something that once you get it, it's private.
They don't have any knowledge about that.
And unlike even cash, which is great, the cash can also be manipulated and other things can happen with it.
So it's a hedge against all that.
It's a hedge against all of these conspiracies to steal everything.
I think it's very important to have that there.
And of course, Tony sets up...
Wise Wolf, you can find it, David Knight died gold.
He's got the wolfpack so you can do this on a gradual basis and you can gradually accumulate gold and silver You can get the advantage of group buying by being in wolfpack But of course Tony can handle any transactions large or small gold or silver. He can handle those at wolfpack he can also help you with a Gold or metal IRA gold or silver IRA. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back
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Well, we have a California bill that was set up to curb child sex trafficking.
But the legislators in California said that this is going to be unfair to LGBTQ people.
Really? What is that?
What is that about? I guess the response would be, okay, groomers, have they declared what they're really about?
And, of course, we see this happening in the schools all the time.
It is absolutely grooming.
California bill that would increase penalties for child sex trafficking and solicitation of sex from minors has received backlash from activists claiming that it would unfairly target the LGBT community.
It also might target the government schools where a lot of these people will operate.
The bill was authored by one Republican and two Democrats in the California State Senate.
It would make it a felony offense for adults who are 18 years of age or older to solicit or pay for sex from a minor.
We believe that this bill takes an overly punitive approach to those who oppose this.
They said, we are particularly concerned that the harsher penalties proposed in this bill will disproportionately impact marginalized communities, especially members of the LGBT community.
In its original form, they attempted to make the act of soliciting or engaging in any act of commercial sex with a minor a felony.
However, amendments forced on the bill earlier this year by Democrats in the Senate watered down the language.
They excluded 16- and 17-year-old children from the bill's additional protections.
And of course, we've seen a lot of individuals like Alan Dershowitz arguing for lowering the age of consent.
If you look at everything that is happening in the schools, I've argued from the very beginning, this idea that kids have the maturity to decide that they want to mutilate themselves sexually.
Well, then, of course, if these kids can decide that, if they can decide what gender they are, even before they can read or write, you know, when they're in kindergarten, we've had a lot of people, some parents claim, oh, yeah, my child has already chosen their gender, even though they can barely talk.
How absurd that is.
But if you're going to maintain that fiction, then of course you can say that kids who are very young can also consent to sex.
So I said from the very beginning that this transgender agenda applied to kids and all this gender grooming and gaslighting that is happening in the schools is really ultimately about pushing towards pedophilia.
Here we have Democrats in the Senate Saying that if you were going to put in bills, now this is about prostitution, or trafficking we should say, but there's not anything in here about consensual, quote-unquote consensual sex with minors.
We've always held the position as a society that minors cannot consent to sex.
Just like they don't have the maturity to drive a car or to have alcohol or tobacco or guns or many other things or vote.
But no, we're going to try to remove that away for sex.
Pretty clear what people want, isn't it?
What the purpose of this is?
In July 2023, the Public Safety Committee blocked SB 14, a bill that was introduced that would have made the trafficking of children in the state a serious felony.
No, that shouldn't be a felony at all, should it?
Folks, one of the things that they said was it's not just that it's going to come after LGBT. They mentioned that.
But they also said poor and minorities will be punished and so forth.
And we do know that when you have rich people like Epstein, like Trump, who are engaged in pedophilia, that they never get punished.
None of the clients of Epstein, nobody wants to look at that.
And so, that part of it, the Democrats are right.
But it is an effort to legitimize and to cover up for pedophilia.
And the other part of the transgender grooming of kids is to push them towards virtual reality.
Towards this furry thing.
That's the other path.
It's got multiple purposes.
So they're right about saying that only the poor will be punished for this because the rich people are going to go right through.
Well, when we talk about abortion, and this can be talked about a great deal with the Republican convention, this has become a fight, as well as the fact that they have taken a very, very soft position on gun rights.
Who would have thought that when Trump was the very first president to do gun control by executive order?
Who would have thought that the Trump National Convention would take a soft line towards protecting the Second Amendment?
But of course they do. So, when you talk about abortion, the question is, how should we handle this?
I think that it is legitimate for us to use government to stop people from committing murder.
But I think that murder is also, and that kind of law enforcement, is also a state issue.
And as I said, from a pragmatic standpoint, as well as a constitutional standpoint, there is no authority for the federal government to get involved.
And if they do get involved and prohibit it, the Democrat states will ignore that prohibition.
And then when the Democrats get in and legalize it at any age, the Republican states will go along with it.
So that's why I oppose any federalization of abortion at all.
But it ultimately comes down to a one-on-one.
It ultimately comes down to getting people to understand what it really is.
I've said in the past that I had not ever thought about it personally, and most people don't think about it until maybe it is something that They find themselves unexpectedly expecting.
And never had that situation.
But what happened to me was when I was running for Congress, I was asked that question over and over again.
And I had the standard libertarian line.
Well, I don't think the government needs to be involved in people's personal lives.
Let everybody determine this for themselves.
But at that time, they began partial birth abortion.
And when I saw what partial birth abortion was, I started to realize they've been lying to me all this time.
These people are okay with murdering a full-term baby.
Perhaps they've got another agenda.
And so I started looking at that.
And to me, that was the thing that came out of my little run for Congress, was it really opened my eyes up to this whole abortion thing.
And so, the people with live action have filmed themselves going on the street and doing men on the street interviews with people, asking them what their position is on abortion, recording that, and then showing them a short video that is about four or five minutes long.
Now, I'm not going to show you the video.
If you want to see what this video is that changed their minds, You can see the video at whatisabortion.com.
When you go there, there's tabs, and they have an OBGYN who will explain in clinical terms what the abortion is.
And it is horrific.
But I still think that the most effective one of these is the procedure, that cartoon one that I did.
There's one of them right there. And as you can see, that lady there is an OBGYN. And so they have the D&E abortion.
Then you can click and they've got another doctor who explains suction DNC abortion.
Another one that talks about abortion pills.
Another one that talks about induction and so forth.
But I still think that the procedure, which was narrated by the actor who played Hercules, Kevin Sorbo, and it was based on the experiences of an ultrasound technician who went in.
He didn't know that this was an abortion.
And it was the first time he saw it, and he saw what was happening inside the womb.
And he described it, the baby's efforts to pull away as the baby's limbs are being ripped off one by one.
Just horrific. And it was quick.
It was animated. And very, very powerful.
I played that a couple of times on the show.
I'm not going to play that, and I'm not going to play one of the whatisabortion.com videos.
But I want you to see the reactions of the people on the street.
Because, folks, if you want to stop the murder...
You've got to educate people, first of all, to the fact that it is murder.
They've been lied to by the government.
And so, I think it's very important that they be shown the truth.
And that really is going to free them up.
Let me find this here.
Where is the video?
Let's see. Do we not have it?
After all that lead-up here?
Yeah, here we go. Okay.
This is how their minds were changed.
Ultimately, I'm more towards my body, my choice.
Everybody has a choice.
I think if it's what you need to do, then do it.
It's the woman's right to choose.
Be the choice of the woman.
I do believe in women's rights.
I think that women should have the right to choose whether or not they want to abort their children.
Certain circumstances, you know, make you have to do that.
Until childbirth.
I believe all the way up until birth.
Probably the first six months.
Especially for abortion, if a woman's been raped or there's incest or something like that, I think that they should have the right to make decisions about their body, their own body, absolutely.
Here's a video I'd love your thoughts on.
Oh shit.
You don't want to see this.
No.
That's the end of the video.
I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.
That's pretty horrific. I didn't think they did it like that.
I didn't know any of that.
I never saw a video like that about how the procedure was performed.
I don't agree with that.
I don't think it's right that they have to go through all that because someone didn't want them.
I changed my mind about the time frame there.
Do you consider yourself strongly pro-life now?
Yes, after watching that video, like, my opinion changed 100%.
I always kind of thought it was just like a little seed that they kind of scoped out.
Say that your original stance on abortion has changed?
Yes, after seeing that video, 100%.
I will be against abortion, for sure, 100%.
That stage, I didn't know the child was, like, fully developed, so that's definitely not a good stage to have an abortion.
Yeah, but the baby is always alive after conception, and that's why abortion does kill an innocent human being.
Well, after seeing that video, yeah.
You went from thinking abortion should be available till birth to maybe being banned at month three.
I mean, to be completely blunt, I was kind of thrown for a loop.
So the video changed your mind about abortion?
Yes, it did. I'm sorry, you all right?
I've been playing. I'm playing.
My mom went through five abortions.
Before she decided to keep me.
That's crazy, like, pulling off the limbs and stuff.
Because my sister, like, just had a baby.
Everybody was forcing her to have an abortion, and she held her ground.
And now, of course, everybody loves the baby.
She had the baby. It could have been me, you, you, and anybody else walking around through you.
It's not like a designer handbag.
Oh, maybe I'll keep it or not.
It's a life. Now I'm going to educate my friends and...
Whoever's asking about abortion, every life deserves a life.
Life is no important. You never know what that child may become.
And don't just kind of take a life that hasn't got the chance to develop yet.
I hope you guys watch the video if it's linked or anything.
Should the video help change your minds all about abortion?
100%. Text me or whatever a link to that video.
I'm a high school principal. That's a life in there that they're destroying and they haven't even got a chance to the baby to see what's life all about.
Like they have no choice.
Alright, whatisabortion.com.
And you can see that video.
That changed their minds, that put that one woman in tears.
But again, also the procedure.
I want to shift gears here and talk about the power of prayer.
It's a very powerful video that I saw.
A man who suddenly had a tumor and he had stage 4 melanoma.
He had a tumor on the side of his face that had grown so huge that he couldn't see out of his right eye.
He could barely eat.
And the doctors said there was nothing they could do for him.
So many times we say, well, this person hasn't even got a prayer.
You know, the last thing that we try so many times.
And... This story is very, very amazing, and I want to talk about this after it, but I'll just let them tell the story.
This is his wife.
They have pictures of him before and after the people who were praying for him in many different churches around that town.
This is, again, chemo wasn't an option.
They couldn't operate on him.
He was at stage 4.
And you won't believe how large this tumor got.
When you're going to the doctor and you hear nothing encouraging that's when your faith is gonna have to stand.
In November 2020, Gerilyn Baker's husband David started having constant nosebleeds.
Doctors removed a polyp from his sinus cavity, but soon after, things got worse.
When his face began to swell, I thought he's got an infection, and I told him we need to contact the doctor quickly.
The results of a CT scan shocked the family.
David's brother-in-law, Chuck Denny, was there.
They told him he had stage 4 nasal cavity melanoma.
The options they gave him, they said surgery wasn't an option because the facial disfigurement would be too massive.
They told us that there was really nothing that they could do.
Chemo wasn't for that type that he had.
I'd never seen anybody healed of cancer.
Every time I heard the word cancer, it was a death sentence.
And I feel like unless God moved, I feel like David wouldn't, you know, he wasn't going to make it.
You know, my first thought was in my teaching is that we need to move into a fast.
And seek God, and seek God heal him.
David's face rapidly swelled to the point where he couldn't eat or see out of his right eye.
Pastor Mark Gilbert remembers the many prayers from multiple church locations and beyond.
Both church families was praying for David, and there was a multitude of other people.
It wasn't just our churches.
David used to be a pastor himself, so there's a lot of people that he knows that was praying for him in different areas of the country, just believing God for the turnaround in his life.
Several times a day we would pray together and there was times that you felt like you were just lost for words.
You felt like that you were only repeating yourself because you were worn out, you were worn down from this sickness.
His condition just kept getting worse but the prayers at that point We didn't see much.
This was swelling inside of his mouth as fast as it was on the outside, and he couldn't hardly eat.
It was just terrible, and we knew that we were facing a horrible storm in life.
On Easter morning, Dr.
Tom Renfro and his wife, Cyd, were visiting their church for a special prayer service.
Remembering her husband's own miraculous healing from cancer, Cyd was moved with compassion to pray for David.
When I prayed for David, I don't touch people's head.
I normally just touch their shoulders.
But I did touch his face because I wanted to be very specific and very direct.
I remember standing there and I thought, it's going to come off in her hand.
Because you could feel such a presence of God's Spirit.
I prayed a prayer that my dad had prayed.
By this time, tomorrow, this side of your face will look like this side of your face.
Because that prayer had worked for my dad.
The day after Easter, something amazing happened.
He said, there's a change in my face.
Do you see it? I said, I've already seen it.
I looked at my wife and I said, I see a change in my face.
She said, I do too, but I was afraid to say anything.
So we decided to go eat with her family again.
We said, well, let's just see what they have to say.
And they all see me.
They said, that thing's shrinking.
And it was just a matter of days.
It was gone. David's tumor vanished, and doctors later confirmed he is now cancer-free.
The Bakers are forever thankful to God for answering their prayers.
There's many people that has got a diagnosis like David, and I feel like they saw death.
Maybe they prepared for death.
But I'd say don't give up.
I'd say take His Word into your spirit.
And I'd say believe it with everything you've got.
Because that's what we've done.
What I witnessed with David up close and personal with him, I mean, it just boosted my faith.
I mean, I know that God can do anything, big, little.
He don't matter. He can move in anything.
I felt jubilant when I saw the picture and the tumor was gone and he had a normal face.
When I see David now, I think about the benevolence of God, the mercy of God, that God in this state of David's life in his older years, that God has proven his faithfulness to him.
Well, I'm thankful. That, you know, what happened, that God healed me.
I'm thankful for that.
I've never doubted what God was capable of doing.
I've always believed that He's the healer, that He can heal cancer, He can heal heart attacks, He can heal anything that's affected man.
He can take care of it if we'll just believe Him and walk in His Word and not let doubt and unbelief, because that stops the hand of God.
But I'm very thankful.
Well, I have a commenter on Rumble M. Sellers.
Prayers are powerful. I'm relying on prayer right now in my life.
Thank you, David, for this encouragement.
I needed it. And that's the thing, you know, when you look at this, so many times people will pray about something and we don't necessarily get what we want because that's not what prayer is.
Prayer is not a demand that we make on God.
But as you heard them talk about that, you heard his brothers say, it really boosted my faith to see this go away as people were praying for it.
And another person said, every time I see him, I think about the mercy of God.
His face swollen way out to the side.
Unbelievable. Couldn't even eat.
And so, what is the purpose of God's miracles?
Because, again, David Baker is going to die.
I mean, his life has been spared, but eventually he's going to die.
It is about a God that we can trust, and his word that we can trust to know that we are going to live forever.
That it'll be a better life, that it'll last forever, a better life forever.
And we can trust that.
And God gives us these signs to build our faith, to build our trust.
And I hope you've had a situation like that.
If you haven't, you should trust in that.
You should ask God for things.
Even small things can build your faith.
And that's why when we were facing all of these mandates, people were looking at losing their jobs, their careers because of vaccine mandates.
So I wanted to talk to people about the diary of George Mueller, who had an amazing number of prayers for major things, for minor things.
He would see God provide something that he would not have any food for the orphanage that he was running.
And all of a sudden, there's a knock on the door.
The guy says, yeah, my milk wagon broke down here in the street.
It's all going to spoil. Let me give it to you.
It's like wow then another knock on the door and a guy's there with bread, you know, and so it's just But I've seen that and I know that you have too if you've been praying You will see that in ways that cannot be explained as a coincidence.
And certainly that can't.
There is a really good book, if you would like to look at this, that I would recommend, besides George Mueller.
Again, he kept a very detailed diary of his entire life.
He began just as a pastor.
He was concerned for the kids that were on the street.
He was in Victorian England in the middle of the 1800s, the time that Charles Dickens writes about.
We had a lot of kids who were just roaming the streets because of the poverty.
because of the poverty. And he started taking some of them in and providing for them. And he didn't have any money. He just stepped out in faith and did it. And God kept bringing more people in. And it was an amazing story and a lot of things that happened. And he kept a detailed diary of it. And when he died, there were thousands of people in that town. Again, population of towns was smaller than in Bristol, England.
And he started taking some of them in and providing for them.
And he didn't have any money.
He just stepped out in faith and did it.
And they all turned out because his life was a testimony that God is present and still acting in our lives. It wasn't something that happened millennia ago. It wasn't made up stories. It's real. And when you see these types of prayers answered, that's the importance of that. And that's why God does these types of things.
Lee Strobel had an interesting book that's called The Case for Miracles. And in it, he talked about how the more educated people were and the more money they had, the less likely they were to believe in miracles, with one exception, and that was physicians.
He said in that book, he said in a 2004 survey, they found that 55% of physicians believed in miracles.
Because when people get desperate and they reach out, that's when God will many times work and show people the reality of His presence.
And I'll just tell you a little bit about the book.
It's set up in different parts, A Case for Miracles.
First of all, he begins by giving the case against miracles.
And he goes to somebody who doesn't believe any of it.
And he makes his case.
And part two... He talks with a guy who was the author of a two-volume book called Miracles, The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts and Miracles Today.
This is a guy who came from a church tradition, one of the mainline churches.
I think it was Presbyterian.
Well, they didn't believe in signs and wonders and any of that kind of stuff.
He took a very academic approach to it.
And he would only put in things that he could validate from physicians and from witnesses and other things like that.
And he filled two large volumes.
I've got those books.
I forgot to bring them and show them to you.
But it is pretty amazing.
It is case history after case history and references of that.
And, again, he's not coming from a, you know, signs and wonders type of thing, which a lot of people are familiar with as a TV evangelist.
You know, really showy stuff.
You'll see Benny Hinn take his jacket off and whisk it around and have people fall on the floor.
When I look at that, I honestly think that that is a...
It's a satanic trick to make people, to get people to be cynical and jaded and to think that none of this stuff is real.
Phony stuff like that.
But there's real stuff that is out there.
Verified stuff.
And again, that book is Miracles, The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts and Miracles Today.
And then he goes to a doctor.
And a missionary, they talk about dreams and visions, ways that God is moving in areas of the Muslim world, for example, where maybe they can't get access to a Bible.
I had, you know, we had the pastor from South Africa who had had the encounter with Nelson Mandela, Peter Hammond, and he goes into areas where there is Marxist governments, very authoritarian Marxist governments, or radical Muslim governments, and he said, you know, he's coming from a traditional reform tradition that, he said, that was never a part of it, but he said, I've seen amazing stuff.
That is done there as a testimony of God, just to open people's eyes and open their hearts.
The next part, he talks about the most spectacular miracles.
He said, you know, when you stop and think about it, creation that is there that we all see every day.
One of the most miraculous things, and as science finds out more about our universe, about our planet, about our bodies, that miracle is documented more and more.
The miracle of Jesus' resurrection, and then he has some interviews on how many mainline Christians are embarrassed to recognize miracles.
They don't want to go there, because to them, they have been raised on an Enlightenment view that it's all about rationalism and science and all the rest of the stuff, and they feel that they're going to look stupid if they talk about the supernatural.
And then finally, he talks about the problem of miracles that are prayed for but don't happen.
Like I said, God's purpose is not our intended purpose.
We may be looking for something that is going to help us, and of course we always are.
We're told to ask for that.
But we also know that this life is just preparation and a witness, a training ground, if you will, to understand and to connect with God.
And that's really what the purpose of these answered prayers are.
You know, I think it's very sad when we look at Politicians like Trump, who says he doesn't need any forgiveness, or we look at scientists like Ray Kurzweil I'm going to talk about here in just a second.
These people who love this world, who fight for every scrap they can get in this junkyard, And they miss the real beauty of what God has prepared for them.
And they will miss the real beauty of what God has prepared for our immortal souls.
And so let's talk a little bit about Kurzweil.
Because Kurzweil is seeking his own form of immortality.
This is an article that is on Daily Mail.
They call him a tech prophet.
Because he predicted the iPhone years in advance.
And he makes alarming forecasts for coming years.
Well, you know, I mean, there's other people.
George Gilder had predicted the iPhone.
It was kind of a, you know, you could put the pieces together and you could look at the trajectory of technology and you can make predictions like that.
Kurzweil's predictions are way out there because Kurzweil embraces the technocracy and this whole idea of Immortality through science before I get into that let me catch up with some of the comments so that people have made here On rock fan Rahul Mitro, where can I find that video on abortion? I need to share that What I just showed was on
live action and it was Let me go back and find this here The website was what is abortion calm I Don't remember where the procedure was but you might be able to find the procedure on YouTube in terms of Hang on a second here the
in a different document.
I'll look it up and I'll tell you in a minute when we come back because I'm going to lose my place here.
I'll try to tell you where the, I think it's liveaction.org.
It's where they had the article about people who had their minds changed about abortion.
But the actual videos that they were showing them about the different abortion procedures, that you can find at whatisabortion.com.
Moonhawk says, women who don't want to kill their own babies.
Amazing. Yeah, it is.
Isn't it amazing the power of propaganda and the power of the media and the social media and the entertainment industry and the politicians?
We underestimate just how influential that is.
Many people would always look at Madison, oh, I'm not affected by these TV commercials.
They're so silly. You got the Jolly Green Giant and Mr.
Clean and all these other things like that.
That's silly. That's not going to influence my purchasing.
And yet it does.
They do it because it works.
And they do it because they repeat this over and over again.
Way before there was the propaganda of Goebbels, there was the propaganda of Edward Bernays, who helped Woodrow Wilson get us into a war.
And after World War I, Edward Bernays really helped Madison Avenue create the advertising So yeah, they can get us to inject ourselves, to put a mask on our face, even when it's absurd.
We know that that's not going to retain the air.
They tell us that the viruses are smaller than air and so forth.
None of that made any logical sense.
Your mask doesn't protect you.
It protects other people. All of that stuff.
None of it made any sense.
The six-foot distance and all the rest of that.
Many of us were laughing about that, but they kept repeating it.
And look at how many people, the vast majority of people, bought into that.
Buy into that kind of stuff, even to the extent of killing their own children.
On Rumble, AP Rumble seat.
And they also need to know the satanic and business end of the prophet that is attached to killing these babies.
That's absolutely right. But of course, if you expose that, as David Lydon did with the Center for Medical Progress, you get Lala Harris.
Kamala Harris came after the whistleblower.
That seems to be a continuing pattern in our society, doesn't it?
If you expose torture by the CIA that lies us into the Iraq war, well, you're the one who goes to jail.
Not the people who lied us into a war.
Not the people who did the torture or covered up the torture.
No, Gina Haspel, who did all that, gets promoted by Trump to be the head of the CIA. So, yeah, they always come after the whistleblowers.
They fire the whistleblowers, put them in prison, just as they did David Lydon.
They're trying to, and they have been after him since he first did that about eight or nine years ago when he showed them doing murder for hire.
And as part of the discovery, we found out that it was Fauci, the NIH, That was a customer of a lot of that murder for hire.
It was our own government paying for that.
And then creating these humanized mice that they could experiment on after they got the parts of the babies.
It's really horrendous.
Yeah, it is. And I think that is one of the most important things.
So, Lala Harris, when she was Attorney General, she came after David Lydon in the Center for Medical Progress.
And then she got elected as Senator for...
Javier Becerra took her place.
Now he is head of HHS. Head of the very organization that was buying the baby parts that were a product of murder.
And of course, they were...
It wasn't that there was an abortion, and then, oh, well, we've had an abortion, so let's put these body parts to good use.
No, they were looking for specific ages of these children, and they would make arrangements so that they were ready to move those organs right away.
And they would induce labor and kill these babies by vivisection, by removing the organs.
So that if they were to pull the baby apart, as they typically do, or use chemicals or something like that, they would damage what they're trying to extract.
So they would have the baby born and then killed by vivisection.
It really is horrendous.
It's truly amazing. Um, Rational Lampooner.
I wish David had a working webpage where he would post links to all resources and references and videos present daily.
So many more could share God's truth.
Uh, yeah, we probably should try to put that up on Substack or something.
It's just, it takes me a long time to put this stuff together.
It takes me a long time to do the, um, The description just to go through and say, well, here at this point, we start talking about this.
But yeah, we probably could put that up and give people the links to that.
It's already a 16-hour day.
On Rockfan, Jason Barker responding to Rational Lampooner.
I set up a form to do just that.
Nobody uses it. Oh, okay.
Well, here we go.
And... Where is that?
Well, tell us where that is, Jason, and maybe we can get some people to use it.
On Rumble, M. Sellers, I already read that one about prayer.
Let's go to Ray Kurzweil.
And he is somebody who's been talking about the singularity.
He has heels as probably not through the lockdown, but in general, they would have annual conventions where people talk about the singularity.
What is a singularity?
Well, that's when he thinks we're going to merge with machines.
And of course, he's not the only one.
Most of these powerful people in the technocracy, he's been brought into Google, but most of the people who are in the technocracy, people like Peter Thiel, he's very much involved in the singularity movement, as is Elon Musk.
They're a very unique group.
You know, they're not easily pigeonholed.
They have some aspects of Marxism and some aspects of fascism and things like that, but it is its own thing.
Technocracy is its own thing.
And we're going to talk more about that, but we're going to take really a quick break here, and we'll be right back.
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All right, Ray Kurzweil, a successful inventor and technologist, but now he has...
Made a true idol out of technology.
The singularity, as I mentioned, this is where they think man and machine are going to merge.
They see knowledge, technology, and science as the things that are going to give us eternal life.
They worship that as a religion.
He's now got a new book called The Singularity is Near.
He said, humans are gonna fully merge with AI now, becoming immortal cyborgs by 2045.
He also predicts that advancements in AI will make it possible to resurrect loved ones and to connect our brains to cloud technology, in which he calls the fifth epoch of human intelligence.
Well, his claim to fame is that he predicted that a computer would beat somebody at chess by 1998.
Of course, I think what is meant by that, they don't, in the Daily Mail, it's not just that it beats somebody.
I'm sure that computers beat a lot of people before 1998 because a lot of people are not very good chess players.
I'm one of them. And I used to have a computer chess game that could beat me much earlier than that.
But I think he's talking about one of the chess masters.
What he says is that babies born today will be just graduating college when the singularity happens.
Well, there you go, Travis.
We've got a lot of work to do, don't we?
That old guy's going to have a fight on his hands, isn't he?
Nanotechnology will enable these trends to culminate in directly expanding our brains with layers of virtual neurons in the cloud.
I see just the opposite happening.
I see not a singularity, but an idiocracy that's happening here as we merge ourselves with the technology.
We're getting dumber and dumber.
We've merged ourselves with our phones, and we've merged ourselves right out of society.
He says, in this way, we will merge with AI. These are the most exciting years in all of history, he said.
Well, if true, it reminds me of the Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times.
And of course, their character for crisis consists of two characters.
One character that represents danger, and the other one that represents opportunity.
And that really is where we are.
We are in a crisis.
So, as I said, he's predicting that the dead will come back to life.
Think about what this guy is talking about.
He says, at first, in the form of simulations which will replicate a person, and then we will physically bring them back to life.
Again, what do these people who are pushing transhumanism and the singularity, what do they think they are?
What are you? Well, Christians believe that we are body, that we're soul, that we're spirit.
Soul be the mind and the emotions.
But what do they think that we are?
Because they are 100% materialistic, they don't believe in anything that is immaterial, and yet those are the most important parts of us.
He wants to bring back his father, he said, who died when he was 22 years old.
And so he began using AI to try to bring back his father.
Well, that's an interesting term.
Why would he use that?
Where is his father now?
If he's going to bring him back, where is he?
He doesn't think that his father is a soul or a spirit.
How is he going to bring him back?
Well, he created what he calls a replicant of his father by feeding an artificial intelligence system with his father's letters, essays, and musical compositions.
Well, it's not really any different than somebody having an audio or video recording of somebody.
I mean, we can all go back and look at old movies, and we don't usually think about the fact that everybody there is dead, but we watch classic movies all the time.
It seems very much alive to us, don't they?
Always there, and that's...
He's not doing anything that's any different than watching an old Jimmy Stewart movie or something, right?
Probably not as detailed as that.
But that's not Jimmy Stewart.
I remember our daughter when she came back.
She was about five years old when we adopted her.
Karen likes White Christmas and a lot of Bing Crosby movies.
She was watching Bing Crosby movies.
At some point she asked, where is he or something?
She said, well, he's dead.
I was like, oh... Oh, you know, she was, and then she asked about somebody else who was in the movie.
Of course, these movies, 50, 60 years old, even at the time, maybe older.
And, you know, after about two or three of these, she'd go, all dead, all dead.
And that's the way it is.
And yet the reality is they seem very alive to her.
Probably more alive than Kurzweil's replicant of his father.
He says we're already creating them through digital activities, enormously rich records of how we think and of what we feel.
But he said we're going to do it with more realistic living bodies.
He said we're going to take DNA and we're going to grow them back.
And then... We will merge that biological body with technology.
He said, by the end of the 2020s, he expects highly realistic non-biological recreations of people, and then living bodies.
As a matter of fact, you know, when he talks about creating these non-realistic non-biological recreations of people, He said, we're creating enormously rich records of what we think and what we feel.
So is he going to go back and scrape social media and recreate a replicant of somebody from social media posts?
Yeah. Are we going to have some really mean zombies walking around?
Because that's what happens to people on social media.
When you start posting anonymously, it brings out the worst in people.
Imagine creating zombies from social media postings.
He says, eventually, the replicants may even be housed in cybernetically augmented biological bodies grown from DNA of the original person.
And by the 2040s, he says, it'll be possible to make a copy of a person.
Well, again, it isn't going to be that person.
And who knows how accurate that copy is going to be.
By the way, Jason Barker says the link is knightsofthestorm.com forward slash form.
And again, a lot of good resources at Knights of the Storm that Jason and Angry Tiger have put together.
They've got a They've got a schedule of a lot of different talk shows that are there When they are what day they are what time they are so it's a great resource for a lot of different things so there's the forum on nights of the storm and And you can see the different archives that are there on Rock fan rational rational lampooner says David. I know you're working at capacity I'm thankful for you might scale daily show back to one or
two hours three hours of content daily is too much for a small Outfit, but you do God's work Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
If I did scale it back, I think I would probably...
Once I go through and have to...
I go through so many different websites, I wind up with so much content that I'd be throwing away a lot of stuff every day if I only did two hours.
And I kind of have to go through that many different websites.
I could edit it down.
But going through and just collecting them is very time-consuming.
And so I think it would be better to do like a four-day workweek.
So I don't know. We might start doing like an open mic Friday and ask me anything questions on Friday.
I think that would be something that would...
See, the real move is we're going to do gaming streams and we're going to make you play video games.
We're going to turn you into a real Twitch streamer here.
Yeah, yeah. I'm sure everybody will turn in to watch those epic fails.
Yeah. Why does this old guy play video games?
I had a reaction speed of Joe Biden, something like that.
So getting back to this imagined immortality here.
Backed up by huge leaps forward in health treatment.
You see how Pollyanna he is about all this stuff?
Yeah, medicine has worked so great for us.
I wonder if this guy's gotten all jabbed up.
Yeah, if we look at vaccines, he says, by the way, he said, by 2030, we will have AI biological simulators that will do all the clinical testing in just hours, rather than years.
Well, this problem has already been solved by Fauci.
You know, you don't have to do years' worth of testing.
You just do disruption from the inside, and you do it iteratively, and then you're done, right?
Oh, we haven't done any tests.
Where's this guy been? Leading to new drugs and to longevity treatments.
Well, you know, we've had these biological simulators around for a while.
That's part of the problem. You hear people talk about doing something in vitro.
Well, that's doing it in the glass.
So they do some tests of drugs and stuff like that.
They might do them in a vial, you know.
You've got a bacteria or something.
You want to see if this stuff kills a bacteria?
That's fine. Then you take it to another level.
You can do it inside the person's body.
That would be in vivo.
See if whatever you're giving them kills the bad stuff and leaves you alone, that type of thing.
Then they call it in silica, right?
And what that means is that they're just in a computer model.
How well did computer models work out for us during the lockdown?
Oh, I've got these two really smart people and they showed me this simulation and so I'm locking everybody down.
what Trump did. You know we had that simulation from the Imperial College of London and they couldn't get the same answer twice with the same input but they just picked which one of the outputs that they liked and they went with that. Yeah so we'll do all the drug testing with this.
So that's one of the reasons why Hugo de Garis wrote his book The Artilike Wars because he said Kurzweil is just too Pollyanna about this stuff.
He thinks that all this stuff is going to work out.
It's going to work out for good.
And Hugo de Garris is not even a Christian, but he looked at this and said, it seems to me like a lot of things could go wrong with this.
I think what is going to go wrong with it is really what he titled his book, Artilek Wars.
Artificial Intelligence Wars.
That as people realize what these elites are doing, what Klaus Schwab and others are planning to do, that people are going to push back.
And perhaps it'll be a violent thing.
He thought that it would be a violent thing, and he thought that the technical elites with their superior weapons would fight back, that it would be a giga death.
That may be what is in the future.
Who knows? Either way, what these people are trying to do is build a Tower of Babel GPT. Because that's really what this thing is.
He says, freed from the enclosure of our skulls and processing on a substrate that is millions of times faster than biological tissue, our minds will be empowered to grow exponentially, ultimately expanding our intelligence millions fold.
Well, you know, they've got a lot of work to do because when he talks about how This substrate could be millions of times faster than our biological tissue.
It's one of the amazing miracles about what God has built and created.
And that is the fact that so many calculations can be done by the human brain and not generate the kind of heat that they're looking at.
Sometimes as they try to model this, it becomes even more astounding what God has created.
But... Let me just, before we run out of time here, there was an interesting article on Dissenter.
Thoughts about the idolatry of American politics.
And he said, you know, when you look at what is happening in politics, he says, I don't know how God can make it any clearer that he's cursing his people.
Or their idolatrous trust in pagan politicians, no matter what party they're from.
He says, we now have the two parties, really, he says the party, but it's actually two parties, that openly celebrate and promote sexual perversion and death, and the party that at best tolerates this perversion and death.
Nobody with actually biblical worldview has any chance whatsoever of getting elected to any high office in this country.
Again, another reason is why you focus on local elections.
You do have a chance of getting people with character in at the local level.
And just like I mentioned before, you can do things like change the UCC code at the state level and other things like that to block this globalist elitist plan.
He said there might be a district here or there scattered around, but it's 99.5%.
He said it's not mysterious.
It's exactly what God has always done to weed out the pretenders, to purify his true children and said, that's the part that kills me.
When I talk like this, people act like I'm speaking some sort of alien language.
He said, professing American Christians are far more American than they are Christian.
He says it's all a product of our ease and comfort.
And let's face it, the American dream is about ease and comfort.
Comfort, convenience, choice.
Comfort being the lack of hardship.
Convenience meaning that everything we need is available right away.
And an endless variety of things to choose from.
Many people called it affluenza.
He said God's people are showing that when presented with this ease and comfort, It will displace Christ as Lord of their life.
And again, it was a much bigger challenge for Solomon to face prosperity.
Tons and tons of wives.
So again, it is always wealth, sex, power.
And it was more than the wisest man could handle.
Most Christians throughout history, including biblical history, had no comfort, no convenience, no choice about anything.
And yet, they were towering giants of the faith.
Just look at George Miller that I was talking about.
He was always dirt poor.
He gave away everything that he ever got.
I mean, even when he was a pastor, all he did was stick a box in the back of the church, never talked to anybody, never passed a plate, never asked for money.
He just put it back there.
So we're true worshipers of Christ.
None of this is about politics.
None of this is even about the United States.
It's all about God cleansing his son's church as a body and as individuals.
And this is not some radical new teaching.
It only sounds that way.
To Americanized Christians who have only ever known ease and comfort.
The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are noble documents.
They represent a system of government that most closely aligns with biblical principles, more so than any other government in history.
Yet the trouble is that they rely entirely on the private conscience of those under its rule in order to function.
And if you don't have men of character, they are not going to follow that.
On Rumble, ProAlpha says, Mr.
Knight, please rename your show.
Drop any affiliation you had with the Infowars theme.
The Chess Knight could be seen as a symbol for the New World Order.
Go back and restream on YouTube also.
Well, no, that's possible.
If you've been watching this program, you know that I've been kicked off of YouTube multiple times.
I even had my channel that was just Christian music kicked off.
No explanation. So getting on YouTube is not a problem.
I didn't choose not to be on YouTube.
They chose not to have me on YouTube.
What I chose was not to tailor what I talk about to what they demand.
And so as a result, we're on different platforms.
In terms of my name and the chess piece, you know, people can, if they look hard enough, they can probably find whatever good or bad symbolism they want to find in anything.
It's a play on my name.
It's a chess piece. That's all it is.
Not really. If people want to read something else into it, that's their problem.
Let's talk about Christian nationalism, though, because, you know, yesterday...
The A in David kind of looks like a pyramid, so we might be in trouble there, too.
You may just have to change your name.
And the V is an upside-down pyramid, so that has to go as well.
That's right, yeah. If we merge those two over, it makes like some kind of a Masonic thing, you know.
Pyramid up, pyramid down.
Anyway, let's talk a little bit about a speech that Josh Hawley gave at the Heritage Foundation.
They had something they called the National Conservative Conference, NATCON. And it was about Christian nationalism.
You know, when I look at it, you know, are we trying to use Christianity, or are we fighting against the efforts to, you know, are we trying to use Christianity to get what we want?
In other words, it's kind of a politicized prosperity gospel, right?
Yeah. Well, you know, it works really good if we have a Christian society.
We've had a lot of people who said that.
Most recently, we've had Richard Dawkins who said that.
He said, yeah, you know, I would definitely, as they're filling up the country with Muslims, he said, I would pick Christianity any day of the year, you know, any day of the week or whatever, over...
I really like the church cathedrals and the Christmas stuff and all the rest of the stuff.
He likes a lot of the fruit of Christianity, but I didn't like the tree.
As Doug Wilson pointed out, he says, yeah, I love those apples, but I don't like that orchard.
Let's cut down those trees.
You can't have the fruit of Christianity without the root of Christianity, which is Christ.
You can't have the fruit of Christianity if you make this all about materialism and you don't have the supernatural power that is behind it for the Christians.
And so like Dawkins, you've got a lot of people who, from a political standpoint, Just like you've got Joel Osteen out there telling people, well, you give me a lot of money and God's going to give you back even more money.
The prosperity gospel.
It makes it all about material money and wealth and the typical American stuff about ease and comfort.
Affluence and that type of thing.
And then you've got the politicians like Josh Hawley who look at this and say, well, we would like to have an orderly society where everybody is behaving nicely and cooperating together and all that kind of stuff.
So I'd like to have that fruit.
And so let's make that the thing that we're going to strive for.
And throughout this long speech that they reprinted, that's really what he's talking about.
He's talking about how wonderful it is to live in a society where people are faithfully following Christ and His guidelines, but he doesn't want to talk about God.
And so it really is a political version of the prosperity gospel that you see from people like Joel Osteen.
And he begins talking about it by talking about Augustine and his city of God.
I've mentioned that briefly other times.
As Rome was destroyed, Augustine was in North Africa.
And he said, you know, and a lot of people were saying, well, that's it, you know, Rome got soft because of all these Christians, and look at what's happened now.
It's just collapsed in and of itself.
It's Christianity is the fault.
And so he said, no, that's not the case.
And so he wrote The City of God, and he contrasted The City of God with The City of Man.
He said, in the city of man, you're going to have people going to be focused on love of self.
Are we like that? They're going to have a lot of division and conflict.
They're going to have temporal concerns.
They're going to be focused on the here and now.
And they're going to have contempt for God.
So do we sound like the city on the hill, the shining city on the hill, or do we sound like the city of man?
When you look at those four things there, I think we check all of those boxes.
And he gets it wrong, because he says, you know, the city of man, these problems that we have of society, they come from human desires, from human reason, the destructive nature of ambition, how we pursue power.
He said, while Augustine said all nations are constituted by what they love, his philosophizing actually described an entirely new idea of a nation, unknown to the ancient world, a new kind of nationalism, if you like, a Christian nationalism organized around Christian ideals, a nationalism driven not by conquest, but by common purpose, united not by fear, but by common love, a nation made not for the rich or for the strong, but for the poor in spirit, for the common man.
Where's Christ in that?
You notice he doesn't talk about it throughout this.
Instead, we are a nation that is forged from Augustine's vision.
And he says, some people will say, I'm calling America a Christian nation, and so I am.
And some will say, I'm advocating for Christian nationalism, and so I do.
Is there any other kind that is worth having?
The truth is, he said, Christian nationalism is not a threat to American democracy.
Christian nationalism founded American democracy, and it is the best form of democracy yet devised by men, the most just, the most free, the most humane, praiseworthy, and so forth.
Everything that he is focused on is secular.
It's just that instead of your money or your house or your new car or whatever leads you to with the prosperity gospel, what he's looking at is a political affluenza, political peace and that type of thing.
Nowhere does he talk about how lives were changed.
Nowhere. Yeah, the city of man and the city of God, said Augustine, are going to be intertwined.
They're not going to be separated until judgment.
The wheat will grow up amongst the tares.
But we have to ask ourselves what we personally are rooted in.
Is it in politics?
Is it in this world?
Or is it in Christ? Thank you for joining us.
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