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The David Knight Show - 08/26/2024

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	https://www.youtube.com.com.au you You're listening to The David Night Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 26th of August, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well folks, we're going to talk about what's going on in politics.
	I know everybody wants to hear that, but there's something far more important than this reality TV show, this presidential pageant.
	When you look at the arrest of this guy who founded Telegram, This is a threat to all of us.
	It's not just a threat to Musk.
	It's a threat to all of us.
	And the West is dying.
	The West is dying spiritually.
	It's dying institutionally, constitutionally.
	We have politicians who do nothing but fiddle and pander.
	They stick their finger into the wind to see which way the wind is blowing.
	And they're not pandering to you either.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Well, over the weekend.
	We had the arrest of the founder of Telegram, 39-year-old billionaire who has citizenship He was born in Russia, citizenship in Russia, citizenship in France, also in, I think it's United Arab Emirates.
	But for some reason, he landed in France and for, you know, I guess he didn't realize what France has turned into, what Europe has turned into, what America has turned into.
	This is everywhere now.
	They're coming after our free speech.
	And what they're doing to him is very similar to what we saw done to Ross Ulbrich of Silk Road.
	Ross Ulbrich, who is still in jail.
	Ross Ulbrich, who is railroaded.
	They covered up exculpatory evidence.
	They enhanced the sentencing of Ross Ulbrich.
	Again, making these same claims.
	Well, you got a website where people are free.
	And you're also using cryptocurrency.
	Same stuff they're saying about this guy.
	You got a social media platform that's free.
	We can't have that anywhere.
	That's a crime.
	You know, it's a crime to have freedom.
	It's a crime to have privacy.
	This guy's obviously a criminal.
	You see, if you have freedom and privacy, some people are going to do bad things.
	And so, because there's some bad people, guess what?
	There's bad people in the FBI.
	There's bad people in the CIA.
	There's bad people in the Republicans and Democrats.
	There's bad people in every institution.
	There's pedophiles in schools.
	Well, you got pedophiles, maybe, on Telegram?
	Well, shut your schools down, too.
	You got people who are doing anything and everything using the telephone?
	Well, I guess we need to shut down the phone system.
	Oh, but they won't shut down the phone system.
	Why?
	Because the phone system from the mid-20th century on Has been spying on you for the government.
	That's the difference.
	There's no difference between telegram and telephone, except that one of them spies on you and is completely owned by the government.
	The other one doesn't.
	So guess which one is accused of all the crimes and anybody who uses it.
	We got, um, we got pedophiles who use the interstate system.
	We should shut that down too.
	Well, they're working on it, right?
	Don't want anybody having any cars.
	It just never ends with these people.
	And so when you look at this, this is one of the memes out there.
	France is scorched around the world for crossing a red line, arresting the CEO of Telegram over free speech.
	The incident occurred at the airport just as Durov, accompanied by a bodyguard and a woman.
	And I apologize if I'm pronouncing his name wrong.
	I think it's Durov.
	I think it's, I don't know.
	I just thought about it as a show's beginning.
	I don't know if it's Pavel or Pavel.
	I don't know which syllable to put the emphasis on.
	Yeah, I should, I should look these things up.
	Sometimes I think about doing it, but I don't watch any broadcast news.
	I haven't heard what NPR thinks about it.
	Cause I don't care.
	I haven't heard what Fox or CNN or MSNBC has said about it.
	So I don't know how to pronounce his name.
	I don't care what they have to say.
	I should care how to pronounce his name, but I don't know.
	So I'm going to go with my best guess estimate here.
	So forgive my ignorance if I get it wrong.
	Anyway, Durov, we'll call him, was accompanied by a bodyguard and a woman who disembarked from his private jet.
	He holds dual French and Russian citizenship, 39 years old, had just arrived from Azerbaijan.
	So, the warrant was issued by the National Directorate of the French Judicial Police, based on allegations of Telegram's operational policies.
	Specifically, it's lack of censorship.
	Well, that's a crime!
	Censorship's not a crime.
	Lack of censorship is a crime.
	This is the world that we live in now.
	And this is true of whatever country you live in, wherever you're hearing this broadcast.
	It's true in the United States.
	It's true in all of the English-speaking countries, the five I's.
	U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, all of them.
	None of them care anymore about fundamental human rights.
	Those English-speaking countries that took the lead in that now, they're taking the lead in shutting it down.
	And of course the EU, everywhere in the EU.
	Allegations that their operational policies specifically lacked censorship and a lack of cooperation with law enforcement's censorship demands.
	This is from Reclaim The Net.
	They're actually absolutely right here.
	Along with features such as disposable phone numbers and cryptocurrencies transactions, that they, those things indirectly support illicit activities.
	Well, they support any kind of activity.
	Anybody can do that.
	See, the crime is having privacy.
	The crime is having freedom and liberty.
	That's the crime.
	If you have freedom and liberty, people are going to say and do bad things.
	So we take the freedom and liberty away from everybody.
	That's the argument for every kind of prohibition.
	Well, you've got to prohibit alcohol because, you know, some people are going to abuse it.
	At least they pay attention to the Constitution, passed the 18th Amendment when they did that.
	They don't care about the Constitution anymore.
	Now, not with a war on drugs.
	People are going to abuse firearms, so we've got to ban all firearms.
	Because you see, you've got to be kept safe.
	Liberty is a threat to safety, they tell you.
	They keep you in a constant state of fear about safety, and yet, the people who threaten your safety the most are the very government that tells you they're going to protect your safety by taking away your liberties.
	They're the ones who are the threat to your safety!
	To the extent that you give up your liberty in exchange for safety, to that extent, you are a slave.
	As I've said many times, people who are in jail, protected from all these bad influences by the government, 24-7, 365 protection, From all kinds of bad things supposedly in prison, right?
	Well, Reclaim the Nets has potential for multiple charges to be brought against him on Sunday, including those related to terrorism, narcotics, conspiracy, fraud, money laundering.
	Every kind of activity can be conducted on a free platform.
	So let's take every criminal activity and apply those charges to him.
	So, you know, anonymity, privacy, all that's gotta go.
	We gotta have IDs for everybody.
	We have to have backdoors into every social media platform.
	We have to scrutinize everybody's, what anybody says, so that we can possibly use it as a weapon against them if we don't like their politics.
	Or if they're getting in the way of our global culling.
	Mass murder.
	Oh, well, they gotta stop that.
	People can't have Share any thoughts about our mass murder programs.
	On his platform, said the French, and again, you know, coming right after the Olympics, and all this debauchery, depravity, Marxism, all tipping their hat to pagan societies and the Jacobin Revolution, and here they are.
	On his platform he allowed countless crimes and crimes to be committed for which he does nothing to moderate or to cooperate, they said.
	Crimes of speech and opinions.
	The platforms come under intensified scrutiny and attacks from various governments and regulatory bodies alleging that it's free speech policies facilitate illegal activities.
	You know, if we have censorship, there'll still be crimes committed.
	There'll be more crimes.
	And they like crimes like that, don't they?
	Telegram's user base has surged, particularly in regions with contentious political climates.
	That would be kind of everywhere, wouldn't it, right now?
	Wouldn't that be everywhere?
	Yeah, it is surging everywhere.
	Due to its promise of secure communication.
	The arrest of Durov marks a major escalation in the global debate over the balance between privacy and security, says Reclaim the Net.
	Folks, there is no balance between privacy and security.
	There is no balance between liberty and safety.
	That's what they're really saying, right?
	Privacy, liberty, security, safety.
	There's no balance between them.
	You can't balance these things.
	You either support one or the other.
	And you're going to get security and safety and high security facility with walls all around you.
	It's George Washington who said, yeah, the British talk a lot about freedom, don't they?
	But they walk about freely, but it's between high walls.
	We still walk about freely.
	But have you noticed that the walls are getting higher and higher all the time?
	Have you noticed that the walls are moving in on us, too?
	I mean, we're trapped like we're a Star Wars crew on the ship, where the trash compactor is coming in.
	Feel like we're in a gigantic trash compactor.
	They just keep shoveling this garbage at us, and the walls are closing in.
	And so Reclaim the Net says there's several different aspects of this.
	That are very important.
	First of all, there's the legal precedent that this could set.
	Increased, excuse me, increased pressure on other companies, other tech companies.
	Then government surveillance and privacy.
	The tension between government surveillance and individual privacy rights.
	Again, there is no balance.
	You either have privacy or you have government surveillance.
	The extent that you have government surveillance, you have no privacy.
	The purpose of government is to surveil everything, which means that you have no privacy.
	They want to kill privacy and liberty.
	These are tyrannical, totalitarian governments that are in charge, and they're all in lockstep with each other.
	Our government, the American government, is the center of all of this.
	We are the ones who are funding NATO.
	We are the ones who are funding the UN.
	We are the ones who are funding the World Health Organization.
	It's America!
	We're the bad guys!
	Hey, Hans, you see that skull on our caps?
	Do you ever think we're the bad guys?
	We are the bad guys.
	You better pay attention.
	The CIA, the NSA, the deep state are the bad guys.
	They're the worst guys in the world.
	They're satanic.
	They're occultic.
	They hate freedom.
	They mass murder, coups, wars, all of it.
	It's coming from our government in America.
	And they run it over to these other places and they come back and the conservatives will say, well, you need to elect me so I can protect you from the stuff that's coming out of our government.
	The Democrats, meanwhile, just love it and own it.
	They like all of that.
	So which one are you going to go with?
	I'd rather know who my enemies are than to follow people that say they're on my side and do the rest of the stuff.
	So reclaiming that there's this tension between surveillance and individual privacy rights.
	There is, and there is no way that we're going to balance them.
	You're going to have one or the other.
	It used to be that in America, They would push full-on, constantly pushing for liberty.
	Now you have everyone pushing constantly full-on for surveillance.
	And we're on the back foot with this stuff.
	It needs to stop.
	In international relations and jurisdictions, Durov's dual citizenship and the international nature of his business highlight the complexities of jurisdiction and digital law enforcement.
	Well, that doesn't seem to deter them, does it?
	Uh, impact on business operations.
	The arrests could deter businesses and developers from creating or maintaining products that prioritize user privacy.
	If they feel like they're going to go to jail for it.
	That's the whole point of this, isn't it?
	That's a major part of it.
	Of course, there's another aspect of it, which is the fact that we'll get to that.
	Telegram is used extensively by Russian forces.
	Signal is used extensively by Ukrainians.
	So there's that aspect of it as well.
	The geopolitics.
	The push for hegemony.
	The push for global war.
	It is a part of the global war that's already started.
	A public and market reaction.
	The response from the public and market to Dhirav's arrest could influence how other companies approach privacy and encryption.
	A strong backlash from you, all of us, speaking out against this, might deter governments from similar actions.
	While a subdued reaction will embolden more crackdowns, the same thing we were talking about forever with the pandemic stuff, You push back against these tyrants, they might back down.
	And as a matter of fact, they did back down.
	We just walked away from the, all right, I've had enough of this, you know, six feet apart, wearing the mask, going one direction and the big box stores and only the big box stores can be open and all the rest of the stuff.
	People got sick of that and just finally stopped complying with it.
	If you stop complying with it, uh, they will change their tactics.
	You're not, you will always be fighting them.
	The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
	So, unfortunately, people continue to support the establishment parties, which is just fine with this stuff.
	Have you noticed what Trump said?
	About all of this?
	Yeah, me neither, because he said nothing about it.
	He said nothing about it!
	Did you notice what J.D.
	Vance said?
	Nothing.
	Notice what Lala Harris said?
	Nothing.
	Biden?
	Nothing.
	Nothing from any of these people, right?
	They're just fine with it.
	You've had Elon Musk talk about it.
	You've had Kim.com talk about it.
	You had RFK Jr.
	talk briefly about it.
	As a matter of fact, he put up this statement.
	On Twitter, not a great deal, but France just arrested Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the encrypted uncensored telegram platform.
	The need to protect free speech has never been more urgent.
	Well, you know, that's his contribution to it.
	It'd be nice if he said more, but...
	Criminal activities versus privacy advocacy.
	Another aspect of this that Reclaim the Net talks about.
	The outcomes of this case may influence public opinion on whether the benefits of encryption and high privacy standards outweigh the risks associated with providing a platform that can be used for illicit purposes.
	I think the governments are being used for illicit purposes, aren't they?
	I think our schools are being used for illicit purposes.
	I can go through every institution, because every institution has been taken over by these globalists, by Marxists, by the people who want to destroy each and every country.
	As a matter of fact, you want to be labeled a terrorist, a public enemy.
	You say, I want to do something to protect this country.
	Oh, well, we can't have people like that.
	Anybody who is nationalistic, if you're in France, or if you're in Germany, or if you're in America, or wherever, if you care about the country that you're in, and you don't seek to destroy it, you're the extremist!
	You're the terrorist!
	So, again, you know, pedophiles use it, they use the phone networks, they teach in the schools, they work in the government, all these arguments against free speech.
	The same as guns kill people, so take all the guns.
	Privacy is not evil, because evil people use it.
	Everybody benefits from privacy.
	Nobody benefits from government tyranny.
	Nobody benefits from censorship, except the government.
	Except those people who seek to control our lives.
	They benefit from it.
	So, again, the crime is the alleged lack of moderation And criminal activity that happened because he wasn't moderating.
	Again, just like Silk Road.
	Now, both Trump and RFK Jr.
	have said they would pardon Ross Ulbrich, and he should be pardoned.
	He ran a website.
	He used Bitcoin in the early days.
	That was his crime.
	And he is serving life without parole.
	They stacked up three consecutive life sentences on this young man to make an example out of him.
	They're trying to make an example out of this telegram guy as well.
	Same thing.
	Oh, you got a private website?
	You know, when they talk about the dark web.
	What they're talking about is areas that they can't see.
	Areas that they don't have eyes on.
	Areas where they're not watching everything that's going on.
	Areas where there's privacy and freedom.
	They demand that that not exist.
	These people are our enemies.
	You understand?
	The enemies of freedom are our enemies.
	They'll be coming after us.
	But you know, both Trump and RFK Jr.
	said, well, you know, Ross Ulbricht got a raw deal.
	They said it to the Bitcoin people.
	Because again, you know, his crime was Bitcoin.
	Bitcoin and a website that was private.
	They said, well, it's on the dark web.
	Is there bad stuff on the dark web?
	There's nothing any worse on the dark web than what is on the regular web.
	It's just that they don't have eyes on it.
	It's dark to them.
	It's not dark in terms of it being more evil.
	Than any other place.
	It's just that they don't have the eyes on it.
	Crimes are happening all the time, everywhere.
	But of course, they demand there be no privacy.
	And so both Trump and RFK say they want to get Russell Brick pardoned.
	Well, why are they talking about this guy?
	If they're really serious about that.
	If they really understand the principles, right?
	Why isn't Trump talking about this?
	Because he doesn't care.
	He doesn't understand the principles.
	He's just throwing out stuff that he thinks that you want to hear.
	Throw it against the wall to see if it sticks with you.
	If it doesn't, he'll change his position on policies or issues or people or whatever until something sticks on the wall that he throws.
	He doesn't care about anything or anyone except himself.
	He doesn't care about this whatsoever.
	In the same way he doesn't care about Ross Ulbricht.
	He had the opportunity to pardon Ross Ulbricht.
	It was a big move.
	A lot of people.
	Ross's mom organized that.
	A lot of people begging Trump to pardon Ross Ulbrich.
	What did he do?
	He pardoned a bunch of Israeli agents and a bunch of white-collar criminals.
	Some of the biggest white-collar criminals in history.
	Friends of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
	That's who he pardoned.
	He didn't pardon Ross Albrecht.
	He didn't pardon Julian Assange.
	He didn't pardon Ed Snowden.
	He didn't pardon, and I could go on and on and on, all these people who have been railroaded because of the, quote, weaponization of government.
	Now they've discovered that.
	You know, now the Republicans are, because Biden's in the White House.
	Well, now government is weaponized.
	Well, government was weaponized under Republicans as well, and they didn't do anything about it.
	And he didn't pardon any of these people who were railroaded.
	But now he's going to pardon Ross Albrecht after he turned a deaf ear To all the pleas to pardon him, all the letters that were written to pardon Ross Ulbricht.
	He didn't care.
	He doesn't care about the principles.
	He said that because he was talking to Bitcoin people.
	It's just that simple.
	So, Telegram was founded in 2013.
	It's based in Dubai, where Durov also lives.
	Telegram is one of the largest social media platforms in the world with more than 900 million users.
	It offers end-to-end encryption and messaging to protect users' privacy.
	I should be on it, and we have a listener for the love of the road has put a lot of content up there, but I don't really understand how it works.
	I just don't have the time.
	It's a different paradigm than most of these other ones, and I just haven't taken the time to educate myself on it.
	We're so busy here, just the day-to-day stuff, it's difficult to expand out into anything else, but it should be where we are.
	We should be there, I should say.
	Durov left Russia in 2014 when the Russian government was demanding to get into the system.
	He said, no, I'm not going to do it.
	And so he left.
	But now it's France, and the hidden hand of the United States, and NATO, and EU, and all the rest of them.
	You know, everybody's like, which one is it?
	It's all of them.
	They're all the same.
	And so Elon Musk tweeted out, he said, check out this ad for the First Amendment.
	It's very convincing.
	It wasn't an ad, but it was grok.
	It was talking about, um, his AI was talking about this particular event, what had happened to the telegram founder and the way it phrased it said he was arrested for quote lack of moderation, which allegedly facilitated criminal action, you know, like speech.
	And so, um, he had a recent interview with Tucker Carlson and, um, he had some very interesting.
	Excuse me, some very interesting things to say about the FBI.
	You know, it was Harry Truman who said the FBI, when he was president, he said, the FBI is trending towards an American Gestapo.
	Well, they're not trending anymore.
	They truly are an American Gestapo.
	Here's what he said to Tucker Carlson.
	You get too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the US.
	So to give you an example, last time I was in the U.S., I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram, and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers or agents, whatever they are called.
	The U.S.
	government should hire your engineer?
	That's my understanding.
	That's what he told me.
	To write code for them or to break into Telegram?
	They were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the Telegram's app, you know, on the client side, and they were trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into the Telegram's code that, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors.
	Would allow the U.S.
	government to spy on people who use Telegram.
	The U.S.
	government or maybe any other government.
	Because a backdoor is a backdoor regardless of who is using it.
	Yeah.
	And there's lots of backdoors that are there.
	Always.
	Parker Carlson had a comment on the arrest of Durov.
	He wrote on X on Twitter, Pavel Durov sets under French jail tonight a living warning to any platform owner.
	Who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intelligence agencies.
	Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world.
	We don't understand the foundations of our civilization.
	We don't understand why we have certain things.
	As a matter of fact, as part of these Sexually grooming, debauched, lying Marxist institutions we call schools.
	Government education.
	And it's also private schools as well because, you know, they get government money and the government money is used to dictate to them what curriculum they're going to use.
	So as a result of our so-called educational system, indoctrination, they not only don't understand the benefits of what was fought and won in Western civilization that should be preserved, But they think everything is evil.
	Categorically evil.
	There's nothing at all to preserve.
	That's what they're being taught.
	We are rotting.
	We're being moved into societal collapse from the top down.
	He pointed out that while Russia sought to gain control of Telegram, it was ultimately France, a Western country.
	Tucker says a Biden administration ally and an enthusiastic NATO member.
	Yeah, we're NATO.
	And, um, the Biden administration, the people are actually running it.
	You know, Joe Biden is an out of the loop puppet.
	He doesn't have anything to do with the running.
	Everybody understands that even Joe Rogan understands that now everybody understands it.
	Uh, so he's, he's out of the loop.
	It's not him that's running the country, but it's the same people that are there all the time.
	The same people that were there during the Trump administration.
	And it's the same people that'll be there in the next Trump administration, if there is a next Trump administration.
	It'll be the same people running the country, if it's Trump, that are running the country under Biden.
	It'll be the same people who run in the country under Lala Harris as running the country under Trump.
	And I'm not talking about the appointments to the various things.
	I'm talking about the core government.
	The military-industrial complex and the CIA ain't gonna change.
	Trump put in Gina Haspel.
	Trump would tell us, hey, we were lying into the Iraq War.
	Well, guess what?
	Everybody already knew it at that point in time.
	As I pointed out last week multiple times, you know, it was a week ago that it was reported that Phil Donahue died, and I said he was kicked off of television because he opposed the Iraq War.
	Gerald Solenti was kicked off, made persona non grata for all of the networks.
	That he had been on regularly because he opposed the war.
	Everybody knew the war by now.
	Everybody knew the war in Iraq was a lie.
	And yet, what did Trump do with a person who created the lies using illegal torture?
	Did the cover-up about it and then took those lies to the White House to be used As a justification for starting the war.
	Well, Trump put her, Gina Haspel, in charge of the CIA.
	She was in charge of the CIA his entire four years.
	The first two years, supposedly.
	You had Mike Pompous Pompeo.
	Pompous Pompeo was there.
	Well, I went to West Point.
	Aren't you proud of me?
	And we were taught not to lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.
	And then I went to the CIA.
	We got classes on all that stuff.
	And the people at Texas A&M, the conservatives, oh, they thought that was really funny.
	It's despicable.
	Not only did he lie cheat and steal, but the CIA also murders, coups, assassinations, wars, the rest of this stuff.
	And they think that's funny.
	And so he was the figurehead.
	Pompeo wasn't doing anything to control the CIA.
	The CIA, the number two, was Gina Haspel, when he was supposedly the number one.
	And then when Pompeo got moved to be Secretary of State, Then they just acknowledged that she was running the CIA, made her the official director.
	That's Trump.
	He's not going to change anything about the government.
	The government is the CIA.
	No question about it.
	The CIA, the intelligence communities, the military industrial complex.
	You can have musical chairs, these people who are pointed at the top, but guess what?
	Even in the civilian agencies like HHS and other things like that.
	The people who are put in there are going to be policy personnels.
	I pointed out last week, I think it was Jeffrey Tucker was talking about it.
	He goes, yeah, you're going to appoint hundreds of people into some agency like HHS has got a budget of $1.5 trillion.
	You're going to put a bunch of people in there.
	Well, guess who's going to really be running the show.
	It's going to be the bureaucrats who've been there for decades.
	Yeah.
	They can wait out these people.
	Uh, they know where everything is.
	And, you know, they got the keys to everything.
	They're not going to change anything.
	So, arrested in France because there isn't enough moderation.
	As I've said so many times, extremism in defense of free speech is no vice.
	Moderation of content is no virtue.
	It's not virtuous to censor people.
	They call that moderation.
	It's immoderate to censor people.
	It's intolerant.
	It's immoderate.
	Don't call it moderation.
	It's not a virtue.
	Kim.com said Durov was arrested because Western intelligence services want access to Telegram's private messages.
	Yes, we know.
	He said the crackdown against free speech escalates.
	Telegram founder has been arrested in France.
	Western intelligence services want to access Telegram's private messages.
	And according to the French media, Durov could face 20 years in jail if he doesn't cooperate.
	Well, we'll have to see what happens.
	Law enforcement believes, no, law enforcement alleges, I don't think they believe that he did anything wrong.
	They're not that stupid.
	They're just corrupt.
	Law enforcement alleges that Telegram's lack of moderation and the tools that it offers, such as cryptocurrencies, make it complicit in global drug trafficking, pedophilia, and fraud.
	Why don't we arrest the people in the CIA?
	You know, that's been proven that the people in the CIA, Bill Casey, Reagan's campaign manager.
	It's been proven, as part of the Iran-Contra stuff, that he told the Iranians to keep the Americans captive until after the election, until Reagan was sworn in.
	And then they took the money that they got from Iran, selling them spare parts for the jets we had given them.
	And they used that to set up an illegal secret war in Central America.
	And then to fund that later, they created crack cocaine.
	The CIA is one of the biggest drug organizations there are.
	Look at what they did in Afghanistan.
	The Taliban had nearly stopped.
	Uh, the, uh, the heroin, uh, the heroin, the, um, opiates and stuff, right.
	They'd nearly stopped all that.
	And then, when the American CIA goes in there, and the American military, well, they've got almost all of the world's supply.
	It was always up in the 90 percentile.
	It went from the 10 percentile to the 90 percentile.
	Bumper crop.
	Why do you think we had an opioid epidemic here?
	Gotta sell that stuff that the CIA is making.
	CIA.
	Biggest drug pushers anywhere.
	Add that to their assassinations, their coups, and their wars.
	You know, nobody is even alleging that Telegram is doing the kinds of stuff that we know the CIA is doing.
	And they're murdering the reporters who talk about it.
	Like they did Gary Webb when he exposed the crack cocaine thing and who was behind it.
	So the search warrant was only valid if he stepped on French soil.
	Why did he go there?
	Well, his former A spokesperson said, you know, Telegram had been working with these censors in Europe and he said, I can't imagine unless he didn't know that they had this out.
	But see, the equation is this, it's free speech equals pedophilia, free speech equals fraud, free speech equals drug trafficking.
	I think they mistake free speech for the CIA and the intelligence communities.
	Our government's out of control.
	And guess what?
	Your presidential saviors don't care.
	Or they're on board with it.
	They don't even care.
	They don't care.
	As a matter of fact, take a look at what's happening in the UK, for example.
	This guy's sentenced to jail for a Facebook post.
	Here's the video of what's going on in the UK.
	I mean this is like some kind of a bad satire.
	The guy's there with his powdered wig and sentencing this guy to jail for a Facebook post.
	This is coming to America.
	It's coming everywhere.
	This is what they want everywhere.
	It's just now the Labour Party It's all on board with this.
	The Marxists in the UK.
	All on board with it.
	Went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who, quote, rape our kids and get priority, end quote.
	This offence is so serious that an immediate custodial sentence is unavoidable.
	Would you stand please?
	The sentence that I pass has been reduced by one-third to reflect your guilty plea.
	The sentence is one of twenty months imprisonment.
	They're going to give him sixty months.
	They're going to give him five years.
	They're saying, I don't want my money going to support illegal aliens being bused in here by the, you know, NGOs or whatever.
	Well, I don't either.
	So what are they going to do?
	Are they going to arrest me if I travel to Europe?
	I don't like that.
	I have no problem saying that.
	20 months for a Facebook post talking about policy.
	Should we be spending our money catering to people who come here illegally and defiance of our laws?
	And this guy puts on his powdered wig.
	This is so serious.
	I'm, this is like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan.
	It's a joke.
	The British system is a joke.
	The entire, the European system and the American system are a joke.
	We had revolutions to fight against this kind of stuff.
	Durov said he fled Russia because he didn't want to take orders from the Russian government.
	Quote, I understood that I would rather be free.
	I wouldn't want to take orders from anyone.
	And I left behind probably a very comfortable life, he said.
	For me, it was never about becoming rich.
	For me, everything in my life was about becoming free to an extent it is possible.
	He said my mission in life was to allow other people to also become free.
	In 2018, Russia blocked Telegram when the app refused to comply with a court order and share its encryption keys.
	This is what they want.
	And many people have now said this.
	Ed Snowden.
	They're holding him hostage.
	Give me the keys.
	Right?
	That's what this is about.
	How disgusting these people are.
	The ban was lifted in 2020, and now, you know, Russia is using Telegram.
	Ukraine is using Signal.
	His estimated net worth is $15.5 billion, according to Forbes.
	This article from the New York Post says, Telegram emphasizes users' privacy, which has drawn criticism from many governments for allowing militants and organized criminals to discreetly communicate.
	It has also become a major source of information for the Russian-Ukraine war.
	Dorov has maintained that Telegram is a neutral social media platform and not, quote, a player in geopolitics.
	Well, see, censorship is the essence of their geopolitics.
	The police state, the surveillance state, all of that depends on censorship and propaganda.
	I think it's the best place for a neutral platform like ours to be in if we want to make sure we can defend our users' privacy and freedom of speech.
	His biggest problem is his naivete.
	His biggest problem is not that he didn't realize that there was a warrant On in France, or the fact that he didn't care that there was a warrant on in France.
	His biggest problem was he didn't understand how vital censorship and surveillance is to the kind of world that they want to create.
	You need to understand that.
	You know, your freedom is there.
	Don't be afraid to use it, but don't be stupid about it either.
	On its platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed, says the French, for which he did nothing to moderate or to cooperate.
	That's what the French police said.
	So, Telegram, his former spokesperson, said, or rather not his former, but Telegram itself now, in a statement, Said it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.
	Again, like the phones.
	But again, like the phones, the phone has always been used to spy on you by the government.
	At least since the end of World War II.
	When we became the Nazis, you see.
	Almost a billion users globally use Telegram as a means of communication and as a source of vital information.
	Telegram has also complied, they said, with the bloc's anti-Russian stuff by blocking access to Russian news agencies such as RT, but it is still heavily used by Russia.
	Durov has consistently refused to hand over user data to law enforcement agencies or to install so-called backdoors so these agencies can surveil conversations on the app.
	Speaking to RT on Sunday, his former spokesman suggested French authorities could have made the arrest on behalf of the U.S.
	after Duroff publicly accused American intelligence agencies of pressuring him into giving them access to Telegram user data.
	We're Tucker Carlson.
	Snowden says this is about taking hostages.
	He said, I'm surprised, deeply saddened, that Macron has descended to the level of taking hostages as a means for gaining access to private communications.
	He said it lowers not only France, but the world.
	Well, that's just it.
	The intention is to lower the world.
	Thoreau's arrest exposes the tyrannical face of France, says the opposition party, a opposition party in France.
	This is the leader of France's Patriots Party.
	Interesting that Le Pen is not saying anything about this.
	This guy I've not seen before, Florian Philippot, slammed the government of the French President Macron, called them lunatics.
	No, they're not lunatics.
	I know exactly what they're doing.
	They're tyrants.
	France offers its tyrannical face to the world, he said.
	We must free ourselves from these lunatics.
	They're a lunatic in the sense that they want to destroy the world with a global war.
	That they want to kill massive numbers of people.
	That is lunatic.
	It's the lunatic side of their tyranny.
	The politician also wondered if Elon Musk Would, he says, Elon Musk also thrown into jail if he sets foot in France for disobeying the European DSA, the Digital Services Act, and their censorship regulations?
	Well, this is a message being sent to Musk.
	Interestingly enough, I mean, it appears that globally, Telegram's got more users than Twitter.
	But it's a bigger threat, Twitter's a bigger threat to them, because Twitter's user base is more in the NATO countries.
	So his former spokesperson says that the U.S.
	orchestrated the Durava arrest again.
	It was the name of Pogo.
	It was the name of that comic strip.
	And they paraphrase what that general said in one of the battles.
	We have met the enemy and he is ours, right?
	Pogo said, we have met the enemy and he is us.
	In this particular case, it's U.S., as in United States.
	That's the enemy.
	His former press secretary believes that the order to detain him likely came from Washington.
	He says it's a big mystery why he disregarded his own safety and decided to land in Paris.
	He's shown throughout his history that he's a pretty cautious person in that sense.
	He's said many times, there's no point in going to jail.
	He said he must have been unaware that a warrant was prepared for his arrest, or he thought maybe given Telegram's compliance, attempts to comply with local law and sanctions, that he wouldn't be in serious trouble.
	It's kind of like when Child Protective Services comes and knocks on your door.
	Or the FBI.
	And you're like, well, I've done nothing wrong.
	Sure, come on in.
	Let's talk.
	Fatal mistake.
	Never talk to these people.
	Never.
	Wait right there, I'll get my lawyer.
	I think the attack is coming neither from the EU nor from France.
	It's most likely an attack from the United States, which has been after Pavel Durov for a long time, and Durov has always talked about it, he said.
	Again, major source of information about the Ukraine war, and it's not controlled by the Feds.
	He said, there's some kind of surveillance being conducted by the FBI.
	I think the root causes are there.
	So it doesn't make any sense to discuss the intentions of the French authorities who arrested him because they don't play any role here at all.
	You see, Washington loves surrogates.
	It gives them plausible deniability.
	David Sachs, who is part of the PayPal mafia, part of the venture capitalists, the people who made a lot of money off of PayPal.
	And then became venture capitalist and made even more money out of all that stuff.
	Well, David Sachs says using allied countries to circumvent the First Amendment protections is the new rendition, right?
	And what does he mean by that?
	Well, you know, the CIA, again, coming back to these people, they would always do rendition.
	They would capture somebody and they would not bring them back to the United States where somebody would say, well, we have laws and due processes here.
	They would send them to some foreign country, send them to Guantanamo, for example, right?
	Is Guantanamo our territory or is it Cuba's territory?
	Or is it something that's in kind of limbo?
	Well, you put them in Guantanamo, you put them in Gitmo and, um, with a rendition and then you can do anything that you want to, to them, right?
	You can torture them, you can kill them, anything.
	And as long as Gina Haspel can cover up and destroy the videos, people like Trump will promote her to being head of the CIA.
	And so these kinds of renditions, he said, this is the new rendition.
	Where they go out and they get a European country, like France, do this kind of stuff for them.
	But see, they've always used surrogates.
	It's not just a rendition for torture and things like that.
	It's also using a surrogate corporation for censorship, which is what they want, and for propaganda.
	That's what they've been doing all along.
	Or to use these corporations like Google, In order to push certain information to you, hide other information or other people from you.
	To use the banks or to use PayPal itself, the place where he got all of his money.
	They used PayPal to shut me down after I was started five months into this show.
	They shut me down on PayPal.
	And Venmo, owned by the same people, they got the same Venmo.
	Because that was where most of the money was coming into the show at that point in time, was through PayPal.
	So shut me down.
	That was in May of 2021.
	They'd like to use state and local governments as surrogates to do the lockdown.
	They'd like to use Ukraine as a surrogate to do their war against Russia.
	Everything Washington does involves using surrogates, supposedly to give them plausible deniability.
	But we know what they're doing.
	He said using allied countries is a new rendition to do the censorship that would be prohibited by the First Amendment.
	But of course, corporations as well.
	In April, Sachs denounced a U.S.
	law that would ban the video sharing platform TikTok if its China-based developer refused to sell it within 12 months.
	Most of the GOP, you remember, support that.
	Ah, because it's China.
	It's bad.
	And China is bad.
	But so is a government that sets up a firewall.
	So is the UK government.
	So is the American government.
	The American government.
	Whether you're talking about Trump or whether you're talking about Biden.
	You're talking about the Republicans or Democrats.
	I don't want to censor people.
	And so most of the GOP politicians supported the banning of TikTok, and so did Trump, until he suddenly flipped.
	Why'd he flip?
	Because he went to the Bitcoin conference and other things like that.
	He got a lot of money from one of the big investors in TikTok, Jeff Yass, even Steve Bannon.
	Steve Bannon.
	People say, why did Trump flip?
	Why is he no longer all about banning TikTok?
	He says, yes, coin.
	You see, it isn't because Trump suddenly discovered the First Amendment, or suddenly developed an affinity for it, or an admiration for it.
	It's not because he suddenly realized how important and fundamental the First Amendment is.
	No, just because he got paid to do it.
	Got paid to do it.
	His half-hearted promises to do whatever he's half-heartedly promising you to do.
	Here's what you can count on.
	You can count on him not doing it.
	He has no principles.
	He's only incapable, he's incapable of acting except in his own perceived interest.
	Worth the money.
	Right?
	And then we got this creep from yesteryear.
	Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel to you, he told the Congressman, Devin Nunes.
	Yeah.
	Mr. Vindman, it's Lieutenant Colonel to you.
	Well, it's Ukrainian to me.
	He is a dual national from another country.
	And I don't see, I see him as a traitor to this country.
	He didn't, he, he has fought against everything this country was set up on.
	So Vindman, there was a big part of the Democrats, um, you know, uh, fight against Trump is now out there with us.
	He said, um, all these free speech absolutist out there, weirdos, weirdos.
	This has become a favorite word of the weirdo crowd.
	The weirdos, you know, the debauched, corrupt, self-indulgent weirdos, whose entire life is around sex and exhibitionism and pedophilia and all the rest of this stuff.
	Those weirdos call people who have traditional American or Christian values, they call us weirdos.
	He's a prime example of foreign influence and corruption.
	But it reminds me when he says, you know, all these free speech absolutists are weirdos.
	Do you remember Scott Adams?
	The Dilbert cartoonist?
	The cartoon that is neither insightful nor funny?
	And at the beginning of all this stuff, we were two weeks into flattening the curve.
	I said, well, you know, I think we're gonna have to keep you flattened.
	I think we're gonna have to flatten you now for an indefinite period of time.
	I'll never forget that SOB.
	It's not a son of a bureaucrat, actually, but I'll never forget him putting out.
	It's becoming, he said, it's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish these freedom lovers from sociopaths.
	Scott Adams, the Trump supporter, right?
	The MAGA guy, thinks freedom lovers are sociopaths.
	He's worse than Vindman.
	Vindman just thinks we're weirdos.
	Scott Adams says we're sociopaths.
	I said it's getting harder, I replied to him, I said it's getting harder and harder to tell these pragmatists from totalitarians.
	So, Vindman is there and he, you know, he's coming after this and cheering on the totalitarians as he always does.
	This Nazi from Ukraine, Venman, he championed the move.
	And he used it, got onto Twitter, to warn Elon Musk about the, quote, growing appetite for accountability, and suggested that Elon Musk could be next.
	And so when people criticized him, he said, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter.
	There's growing intolerance for platforming disinfo and malign influence and a growing appetite for accountability.
	Musk should be nervous.
	And so people ratioed him.
	And, um, Musk said, it's dangerous times, isn't it?
	And, um, so, uh, he doubled down on that, uh, after people ratioed him for that, he called him weirdos.
	As I said, you know, Twitter is, um, I think bigger and, um, NATO countries.
	I'm not sure about that.
	But it is actually smaller than Telegram.
	Because Telegram's worldwide.
	Twitter has 336 million active users.
	Telegram has 900 million active users.
	Telegram has over 1.5 billion users.
	But just under a billion of them are active.
	They've added $500 million since April of 2020.
	What happened in April of 2020?
	Well, that's when all this garbage came down on us from people like Trump and Fauci.
	And people need to be able to talk about it freely without being kicked off a social media platform, so they would go to Telegram to talk about it.
	Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovsky said, quote, France has threatened Rumble, and now they've crossed a red line by arresting Telegram's CEO, reportedly for not censoring speech.
	Ian Miles Chung, a conservative commentator, said, this is about silencing dissent and controlling information.
	They want to turn the internet into another arm of their propaganda machine.
	We're watching freedom of speech being attacked right before our eyes.
	We're watching it being attacked right before our eyes, and we hear the deafening silence of Trump and Vance and, of course, Lala.
	I expect she'd be cackling somewhere.
	Enjoy.
	about what is happening with this.
	Vindman's warning to Musk seemingly garnered significant backlash, prompting him to double down, where he called people free speech absolutist weirdos.
	So just go home to your Nazi Ukrainians, Vindman.
	The most corrupt country on earth.
	Bill Gates said that, and Bill Gates would know, because Bill Gates buys influence with all the countries.
	I guess it's the easiest one to get there.
	Back in 2019, when he told Congressman Devin Nunes, as Lieutenant Colonel to you, well, you're a Ukrainian traitor to me.
	Okay, Vindman?
	Vindman and his twin brother, both work for the National Security Council under the Trump administration, blew the whistle on Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Zelensky, regarding first son Hunter Biden's business dealings in the nation.
	What about Biden's call?
	To the Ukrainian prosecutor, telling him to leave Biden alone.
	Was that anything that this patriot Venman was concerned about?
	Not at all.
	Not interested in the least.
	So, just in case you think that Elon Musk is a hero, because he is talking about the dangerous idea of censorship.
	Elon Musk wants millions of people to get Neuralink brain chips soon.
	If all goes well, there'll be hundreds of people in Neuralinks within a few years, he said.
	Maybe tens of thousands within five years.
	Millions within ten years.
	Well, not unless you strap me down.
	Why ever let that out?
	This guy is not a hero, folks.
	He's right on one issue.
	And we're not even certain what his motivations are for being right on that one issue.
	Elon Musk has defended free speech in general and free speech on Twitter as far as we can tell.
	I can tell you, though, that I have no free speech on Twitter.
	I remain as shadow banned as I was under the previous regime of Jack Dorsey.
	You know, Jack Dorsey is out there Supporting Noster, and again, that might be a red flag to have Jack Dorsey associated with it, but we look at it, and if it's open source, and you know, we have to see how it works out.
	Well, I've seen how Twitter works out for me, and I can tell you that it is not a free speech platform.
	There's absolutely no way.
	I'm not going to go into the details of why I've mentioned that many times, but the thing about Elon Musk is he is a transhumanist.
	Anybody who is so obsessed about putting brain chips into everybody is not someone who can be trusted.
	And so, yeah, we get the breaking news from Zero Hedge that free speech is dead in Europe.
	Did you not know that?
	Did you know that?
	It's been so long, it's been dead for so long, surely it stinketh by now.
	That's what they said about Lazarus.
	I think rigor mortis has set in in Europe.
	I remember when I was reading my dad's business week publications when I was in high school, they talked about urosclerosis.
	They talked about how it was so heavily regulated with this and that, that they, the people who wanted to start a business couldn't do it.
	It's just too many regulations.
	Well, that's now the situation in the United States.
	But Europe has gone from urosclerosis to rigor mortis.
	And rigor mortis is setting in in the U.S.
	very quietly, as they quietly killed so many people with the jabs, got away with it, and wound up being the heroes for doing it.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Telegram used by 900 million people around the world.
	Macron thinks he can bring telegram to his knees, says Patrick Wood, the technocracy news editor.
	And he says this.
	Think about this.
	Think about going to Europe.
	You might want to make sure that you have a clean social media account.
	Patrick Wood said, any U.S.
	citizen traveling in Europe who posts offensive material on any social platform Could now be arrested.
	Beware.
	You should think about that.
	I mean, you've already had the tyrants in the UK saying, we're going to arrest anybody that starts talking about what we're doing to the UK in terms of this open immigration.
	And I don't care if you're in another country, we'll get you extradited, put you in jail in the UK for having an opinion that disagrees with us.
	So, Basically, they have a hostage, and they want to get into the back door.
	One interesting angle is that the app, well known for being highly secure, is that it provides end-to-end encryption, and so it is widely used among Russian military.
	So the Ukrainian military is largely communicating via signal, and the Russian military is largely communicating via telegram.
	That adds another dimension to what's going on here.
	And it's another indication pointing to the United States, the military industrial complex, and the CIA, the intelligence community.
	The CEO of Rumble, Chris Pavlovsky, said, well, I'm a little late commenting on this, but for a good reason.
	I've just safely departed from Europe.
	In other words, he didn't want to, the CEO of Rumble, didn't want to say anything about this while he was in Europe.
	That's how bad the situation is.
	France has threatened Rumble and now they have crossed the red line by arresting Telegram's CEO, reportedly for not censoring speech, he said.
	Well, we're going to leave it at this and move on to some other issues, but just understand where this is happening.
	We've had Germany started this kind of stuff in 2021.
	But you know, before Germany, three years earlier, six years ago, not three years ago, but six years ago, 2018.
	We saw the massive platforming of all of us at InfoWars at the time.
	And we just passed the anniversary of that, August the 6th, 2018, just shy of the one year anniversary of my program.
	And then within two months, over 800 sites were shuttered because nothing was done about it by the Trump administration.
	They'll do this kind of stuff.
	They'll come after one high-profile individual, or individuals, and then they will, if nothing happens, well, then they take the next step.
	And the next step was to get rid of over 800 sites, sites like Freethought Project and others like that, that were not pro-Trump, but they were anti-police state, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, and so forth.
	And so the censors came for them.
	You know, the same way you have Frank Nicely in Tennessee.
	Pushing against out-of-state buying of elections by Democrats with deep pockets.
	That's what they do.
	The Democrats with deep pockets finance the Republican run against them.
	I'm not even voting in that election.
	I'm not going to vote for that.
	If I go to vote for somebody else, I will vote for the Democrat for the first time in my life to get that guy who is funded with outside money who took out one of the best senators I've ever seen in my lifetime.
	And he put up a bill to block outside funding from outside the state.
	And it didn't pass because the other Republicans, enough of them caved.
	And so then the outside funders came for him.
	You see this type of stuff happening all the time.
	Started doing this.
	Nazis always first with this.
	German authorities back in 2021 said Berlin's not going to put up with this refusal to cooperate from Telegram.
	Then in 2022 to 2024 you had bans and restrictions because of Ukraine, supposedly, justifying it for that.
	You had the Norwegian Justice Minister.
	Justice Minister.
	Orwellian.
	Pushing censorship.
	You had the city of Amsterdam pushing it.
	Spain's High Court ordered the country's mobile providers to block access to Telegram, while claims of copyright violations could be investigated.
	Again, coming after copyright violations.
	First time we got censorship at InfoWars is 2013.
	Supposedly copyright violations over the movie that I did about the The 100th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve.
	But it was all fair use.
	And, you know, clips from It's a Wonderful Life but They were very brief.
	I talked about, I used it to illustrate a point, talked over them, had a lot of other contact content.
	And guess what?
	Where'd I get it?
	I got the, the entire movie had been up for years on YouTube, had a million views and that stayed up.
	They took down my fair use commentary of a couple of scenes.
	They use a copyright violation and take down that commentary on the 100th anniversary of the federal reserve.
	So although Spain's high court's ruling over the copyright violations was overturned within a couple of days, they're still investigating.
	And then in 2024, the European Union added the Digital Services Act, the DSA.
	While Telegram claims to have 41 million monthly users in the EU, the law says this applies to any platform that has 45 million or more.
	And when they pointed that out, The dictator in charge of this, the European Commission's vice president for values, for values and transparency, again, Orwellian, says, well, they may not be at the legal limit, but we're going to treat them as a special case.
	Oh, so you don't care about the law, right?
	Well, law doesn't apply, does it?
	And then last week the Belgian Institute of Post and Telecommunications announced that it could still not prove that Telegram had more than 41 million users a month.
	Are they going to come after them anyway?
	In Cyprus, a five-year prison sentence if you spread fake news or post offensive comments.
	Offensive to whom?
	Fake as determined by whom?
	You see, it's not just France.
	This is throughout Western civilization.
	We're jettisoning all the things that people died to establish.
	And so this person who is defending this, he says, well, it is both straightforward and it is in line with the desire of the majority of people, says you, right?
	One of the reasons why democracy is not the desired outcome.
	Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
	This is the tyranny of this democracy, if in fact that is true.
	And then he goes on to say this.
	It sounds very much like all the things that people say when they're pushing gun control or when they're pushing abortion, right?
	Every person has the right to criticize.
	He said, well, I'm all for free speech.
	Harsh criticism even, he said.
	It is a right that has been recognized even by our country's courts that freedom of speech allows even harsh criticism of public figures.
	But, here's the but, he sticks his but in the way of free speech.
	But crossing the line with insults and threats against people, you go beyond a line that I believe needs to be legally regulated.
	So yeah, it's like saying, I love the Second Amendment.
	I even have guns myself, and I hunt myself.
	But we've got to get rid of all the guns.
	Or, I don't like abortion.
	I want to see it rare and safe.
	Well, they've stopped saying that now, haven't they?
	It's now become celebrated.
	The German secret police want the power to secretly enter and search homes.
	You know, I've said many times, everybody will say, all ten amendments to the Constitution we call the Bill of Rights, the first ten, they've all been violated except for the Third Amendment.
	And I've said over and over again, no, the Third Amendment is being violated.
	Because you're being forced, whether you know it or not, To house people from the NSA or the CIA, you allow them and their Trojan horses or whatever, the viruses that they put on your computer, to use up your cycles and slow down your machine, use your electricity to spy on you and report back, right?
	And so it's very much like what the British were doing with quartered troops.
	The troops were there.
	Yes, they were a massive inconvenience.
	You know, you got this thing on the couch.
	You got any more chips?
	You know, that type of thing.
	But it wasn't fundamentally about that.
	They were there because they were spying on you, informing on you to the government.
	Well, what is the one of these apps that the NSA is putting on our computers all the time other than quartering of troops?
	So the German paper De Spiegel obtained a draft of a law which says that the German government there will have, quote, the authority to conceal apartments, unquote, for example, to install espionage software on computers or smartphones, and the authority to concealed search of those apartments.
	You see, when the founders said that you have a right to privacy in your person and in your effects and things like that, that would include things like a computer, even though they didn't have computers.
	And so what these people are doing, they recognize that in Germany, and so they're going to pass a law to get around that violation of your God-given natural rights if we have a free society.
	People in the United States just aren't paying any attention to all this stuff.
	They pretend that we're not harboring troops in violation of the Third Amendment when they spy on us with our computers.
	So, one last thing.
	Universities In the UK, says Toby Young of dailyskeptic.org.
	He says the universities there, the government dropped the free speech law because they got lobbying from British universities.
	They said it's going to, if we have free speech in the universities, then the Chinese communists won't give us money.
	And other authoritarian regimes won't give us money.
	Because people are going to point out how bad they are.
	No, it won't be people like Tim Walz.
	He loves that kind of stuff.
	But other than weirdos like Tim Walz, who worships Mao and communist China, other people would have a problem with it.
	And if they say anything about China, well, then China would cut off the money.
	So we need you to stop a bill that would protect free speech in universities.
	Because we want to be able to censor people so we can get money.
	Now, that's exactly what is happening in all of our countries, except the money.
	Sometimes these organizations and these corporations are censoring people because they want money from the American government instead of the Chinese government, or their own government, whether it's the UK government.
	They're paying these people one way or the other.
	If they're not cutting them a check, they're giving them special privileges or allowing them to stay in business.
	You know, hey, it's nice business you got here.
	It'd be a shame if anything happened to it, that type of thing.
	And people know that.
	And it's just like the pandemic.
	You know, my first strike, when I was independent, came just a few weeks after I started.
	The beginning of 2021, and I said 2020 was the year the world became China.
	I meant it, in every sense of the word.
	And I explained that.
	And guess what?
	YouTube, that got YouTube's attention.
	That was my first strike.
	Never got back on.
	Because then they just start going through my archives.
	Oh yeah, we'll get you for this and this and this.
	But that was what got their attention.
	When I said 2020 was the year the world became China.
	Including the Trump administration.
	And YouTube proved it by shutting down my channel.
	That got their attention.
	You see, China's got its firewall.
	The UK's got its firewall.
	That's great firewall.
	U.S.
	is no different.
	None of these are any different.
	And guess what?
	Your beloved politician, vote for whoever you want.
	I don't care.
	But don't make a savior out of these people.
	Don't fight a civil war for these people.
	And if they're not on your side on these issues, why are you voting for them in the first place?
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back
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	Yes.
	Yes.
	And you know that because you're the one who puts it up there.
	Huge too.
	I love that name too, by the way, that's Utah gun exchange, but it's a great pun on YouTube and being huge.
	It's huge.
	So the Utah gun exchange, Travis puts it up there as well.
	Well, let's talk a little bit about what happened the afternoon.
	I said, you know, there's some doubt about whether or not this may happen because Trump's running mate was kind of pushing for it, but his wife, his mate, was not.
	So I questioned whether or not he was going to do it, or to what extent that RFK was going to do it.
	But he did endorse Trump, and he is going to remain.
	He suspended his campaign, he said.
	But he's going to remain on the ballot in some non-toss-up states.
	In the toss-up states, battleground states they call it, he will endorse Trump and not run against him.
	This, by the way, is the same strategy that the French used.
	Dustin Hoffman on Rockfan, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	Dustin Helm, not Hoffman.
	I said I'm tired.
	I just left Dustin H and was like, Dustin Hoffman.
	Rain Man!
	Thank you.
	Dustin Helm, I see his name there all the time.
	I don't know why I said Hoffman.
	Anyway, the French.
	We were talking about the French again.
	Those French.
	I tell ya, there's always something with them, isn't it?
	Like Steve Martin said.
	It's like they've got a different word for everything.
	But anyway, when you had Le Pen's Nationalist Party was making big gains, I mean, they shellacked Macron's ruling party in the European Parliament elections.
	So Macron, to bolster his strength there in the parliamentary system, he called an election.
	And in the election, he came in third place, and again, as expected, Le Pen's party came in first place, and Le Pen came in third, and there was a coalition of radical leftists, socialists, communists that came in in second place.
	And so then they had a runoff election, a second election, I guess.
	I don't know what the purpose of it was since you've got multi-parties, maybe that some of the smallest ones dropped out.
	But in the next election, all of a sudden Le Pen's national party goes from first place to third.
	It's like, what?
	And Macron goes to the second place and the other people move up into first place.
	Now, the interesting thing that didn't really surface for a little over a week Was that the vote totals for Le Pen's party actually went up.
	And the vote totals for Macron, which even though they dropped from first place to third place, they got more votes in the second round.
	And then Macron's party lost ground.
	Number two.
	And so did number one.
	How did that happen?
	What happened then?
	Well, again, in the parliamentary system, they're voting district by district.
	And they're selecting members of parliament district by district.
	And so what they did was they came in and said, well, they looked at it and said, OK, I'm slightly ahead of you here.
	And so rather than splitting the radical left communist vote between us, you agree to drop out here and let me keep my candidate in for our party.
	And then in another jurisdiction where you're stronger than we are, instead of us splitting this and letting The National Party, go ahead.
	I'll drop out over there.
	That type of thing.
	And so they made that agreement.
	And so the coalition basically aced that.
	I don't know if that's going to work in a two-party system.
	In a parliamentary system, that works.
	I don't really think that there's all that much benefit to an endorsement.
	I really don't.
	There's a lot of people in this two-party system who believe what I think is a fallacy of the stolen vote.
	As somebody who participated in third party politics and who talked a lot of people about that, I realized that a lot of people were voting for third party or people who would not ordinarily vote.
	It wasn't like, well, normally I'd vote for the Republicans or the Democrats, but you know, I like you a little bit better.
	No, those people who normally vote for Republicans and Democrats are going to vote for Republicans and Democrats come what may.
	They're eventually going to revert to type.
	And vote for the party that they like.
	It's other people who are on the outside who look at this and it's like, well, if I don't like either one of these guys, I'm not going to bother to show up.
	They're the ones who vote for third party.
	And so I think a lot of the, you know, what it'll make a difference in is it'll make a difference, a personal difference for RFK Jr.
	If Trump wins, he'll get something at least for a little while.
	Who knows?
	If Trump put him in charge, like I said on Friday, if Trump put him in charge of HHS, how long would that last?
	Well, it would last until the big pharmaceutical companies came in and offered him a lot of money, and then he would find some excuse to fire RFK Jr., and then he would, you know, yell at him as he's leaving, and he would be one of the stupidest people ever in the history of the United States.
	He'd throw every insult at him as he's kicking him out, which is what we saw throughout the first Four years of Trump.
	Babylon Bee has a funny take on this, I think.
	Trump adds a Kennedy in hopes that he will draw the sniper fire.
	By the Trump campaign, said one political strategist, with lingering questions about the competence of the Secret Service, Trump has decided to take matters into his own hand.
	Nothing will draw fire away from him more effectively than having a Kennedy standing next to him.
	And by the way, and one of the reasons Bablin B put this in, I think, was because the Biden mob in Washington promptly dropped all Secret Service protection.
	to Kennedy as soon as he made this statement.
	They were reluctant to give it to him in the first place.
	They were reluctant to give Secret Service protection to Trump.
	They gave more Secret Service protection to Jill Biden, Jill, than they did to Trump on the day that we had the shooting there, whatever happened with that shooting.
	I'm agnostic about that.
	I'm not really sure.
	What was going on with that?
	Yeah, it could be explained by incompetence, but it could be explained by some other things as well.
	RFK Jr.
	and Trump will end the war on small farms to save the nation's food supply, says Zero Hedge.
	Zero Hedge has turned into a Trump cheerleading organization as well.
	Is it?
	Are they really going to do that?
	RFK Jr.
	spent decades as an environmental lawyer.
	He was a radical environmentalist.
	He was a radical climate freak, weirdo, okay?
	Fighting pollution and supporting green organizations for environmental justice.
	No, he was a crazy Marxist watermelon.
	You know, thin veneer, green on the outside and all red on the inside.
	He was one of these people who said, arrest and jail the climate deniers.
	And that was all I ever needed to know about RFK Jr.
	Nobody asked him a question about that for the longest time, and finally when somebody that he consented to be on their show, he says he... I talked to everybody, and of course I mentioned that's not the case, but finally somebody asked him about it, and when they did, he lied!
	He said, I was talking about the corporations.
	You know, these corporations need to be given a death sentence.
	Well, I agree with that.
	I think that, you know, corporations like the banks, for example, that were too big to jail, too big to fail, I think they should have been given the death sentence.
	And they didn't even need to give them a death sentence.
	You know, these banks that set stuff up, they got bailed out because they were too big to fail.
	They could have just been left to expire on their own.
	And they should have been left to expire on their own.
	You know, just give them some comfort care.
	Like they would, like Ralph Northam wants to do with babies.
	You know, you set them on the side and just let them expire on their own.
	Right?
	Don't try to bail them out.
	But that was not what he's talking about.
	You don't give a corporation, you're talking about getting rid of the corporation and allowing it to go through and fail.
	You don't talk about giving the Koch brothers three huts and a cot.
	That's what he said.
	So, when you look at it, what do we have with RFK Jr.
	Trump?
	Well, we got two Northeast liberal Democrats, and they're running against a couple of Marxists.
	That's where our election is.
	Guess what?
	I don't vote for liberal Democrats, and I don't vote for Marxists, but if you want to, hey, that's fine.
	Just stop the cheerleading, okay?
	Just stop the cheerleading, stop the idol worship.
	And stop the talk about a civil war in case you don't have your guy win.
	That's my issue.
	And that's why I'm focusing on this.
	I want you to look for some real solutions instead of getting caught up in this contest between liberal Democrats and Marxists as to who's going to rule over you with an iron rod.
	You need to start looking for some real solutions in your life.
	And you've got to stop this obsession.
	With Trump and these other people.
	Jane Ruby on Twitter said, so here we have RFK Jr.
	who wrote a book about Fauci and that's what he wouldn't come on to talk about was his book about Fauci.
	He wrote a book about Fauci and now he's joining Trump who gave Fauci a medal on Trump's last day in office.
	Yeah, this is how this system works.
	It's professional wrestling.
	I just wish that The real Kamala Harris is still alive.
	He died about five years ago.
	I think the professional wrestler.
	Somebody said I'd vote for him.
	I would vote for Kamala or Kamala, Kamala, Kami, Kami, la, la.
	Anyway.
	Um, so yeah, both of these guys, they've got a lot in common, actually.
	They both were real friendly with Hillary Clinton, both Trump and RFK Jr.
	They both were friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
	They got a lot in common.
	Why is it surprising that these two people would be together?
	So Kennedy says that he wants to join the Trump campaign so he can have a shot at waging war against corrupt federal health and food agencies.
	But see, he's ignoring where a lot of this is coming from.
	A lot of the attack on small farms, as we've seen with the attacks about raw milk, meat, and dairy with all this bird flu nonsense, a lot of the attacks against small farms are coming because of the pandemic MacGuffin, or they're coming because of the climate MacGuffin.
	Oh, we got to end meat and dairy.
	And are either one of these guys, you know, they're going to talk about saving the small farmer?
	How do you do that?
	Do you do that by, you know, Thomas Massey putting it out?
	And again, it was, you know, Frank nicely working with him, putting out the right to grow your own food and to process your own meat and all that kind of stuff on your own property, the things that you own on your own property without interference from the U.S.
	Department of Agriculture?
	Or is the way to save the small farm to get yourself a nice plum political job with the HHS or the FDA or something like that.
	I think if you're not willing to put these, uh, these things out there, then I don't think you're really willing to do anything about it.
	You know, we've had both Trump and Lala as well as a Republican say, yeah, we need to stop taxing tips.
	Well, just do it!
	Shut up and do it!
	Quit talking about it and do it!
	But neither one of them are going to do it.
	I guarantee you that they'll find some, you know, they'll eviscerate it, or they won't even bother to try.
	Because they could do it now.
	But they don't want to.
	Right?
	Mike Johnson could pull this thing up, and he could say to the Democrats in charge of the Senate, but you know, Lala says it's a good thing.
	Call her bluff if you really want to do it.
	But they don't.
	What do they want to do?
	They don't want to remove the tax on tips.
	What they want to do is they want to sharpen the tip of the spear that's poking you in the back in the wallet.
	Right?
	They want to add 80,000 IRS agents, and they're not backing down from that.
	Meanwhile, they talk about, well, someday in the future, we might eliminate the tax on tips.
	They're not going to do that, or they could do it now.
	But if you're going to ignore the climate fear, which JFK does, RFK does, he does talk about the pandemic fear, but he's also pushing pandemic fear, right?
	Because after he did the Fauci book, He did another book about all the gain-of-function stuff and everything.
	He's pushing pandemic fear.
	He's pushing fear of the virus.
	The virus is going to get you.
	Watch out!
	We're all going to get the cooties and die.
	That's what RK Jr.
	is doing now.
	He's pushing pandemic fear.
	And he has not pushed back against the climate fear that he's promoted all of his life.
	And of course, Trump never got us out of the non-binding Paris climate accord.
	There was absolutely no way that he had to abide by that.
	So, well, I, you know, according to this agreement here, I can't get out until after the next election.
	Nonsense.
	That was never ratified by the Senate.
	It was self-ratified by John Kerry and Obama.
	It was not binding, and he should have just shut the thing down and said it's not binding.
	But he didn't do it.
	And so, autism rates, and part of his speech, RFK Jr., told the truth about our autism rates.
	Good for him about that.
	Autism rates, he said, used to be about 1 in 10,000 in my generation.
	But in my kids' generation, it went to 1 in 34.
	And he says, and in California it is one out of every 22 kids is autistic.
	Why are we letting this happen?
	Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?
	These are the most precious assets that we have as a country.
	How can we let this happen to them?
	And of course we have, how does it happen?
	We have a vaccine schedule.
	That is so far over the top.
	Nobody else comes close to another number of vaccines that we try to push into kids.
	And all these institutions are a part of it.
	The insurance companies are telling the pediatricians that if you don't do this, you don't get a certain compliance with your patient base, we're going to cut all your insurance payments, or at least a major part of it.
	It's the same game that CMS, people do, Medicare, Medicaid, same game that they did to the hospitals.
	If you don't inject your nurses and doctors, then we're going to just shut you off of Medicare, Medicaid, and we're going to shut you off of this bonus program that Trump Set up to push the COVID pandemic, giving you a 20% bonus after you point the finger at somebody and say, they've got COVID.
	Well, you get a cash bonus and then you get 20% in addition to everything that you do with them.
	And so, meanwhile, we got cancer rates.
	He said skyrocketing in the young and the old.
	Well, maybe that's because of the Trump shot, you think?
	And it'd be a perfect opportunity for him to say it.
	This is one of the other reasons why I was almost thinking that maybe he might pull back on his endorsement, but no, it was all about him.
	Shanahan, his running mate, had said this on Thursday, the day before.
	About stopping the race and endorsing Trump.
	She had real concerns because of the Trump shots.
	The hesitation we have right now in joining forces with Trump is that he has not apologized or publicly come out and said Operation Warp Speed was my fault, it was a failure, and I let it happen.
	I'll never let it happen again.
	The vaccinations, right.
	I mean, all of it.
	The lockdowns, letting Fauci and Francis Collins run the show, the firing of the other folks at the NIH and individuals at the CDC that were censored.
	I mean, there was a lot that happened under Donald Trump's watch that should not have happened and cannot happen again.
	And if we are going to Um, put our bet with him and we haven't, we have not confirmed anything, but we need absolute assurance that he, you know, it's, this is a tough one.
	Yeah.
	Well, again, she's absolutely right about that.
	You've heard me say that over and over again.
	On Rumble, Sam Miller, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	It's very generous.
	Thank you for the tip.
	He says, David, thank you for being faithful to your listeners.
	Thank you.
	God bless.
	Keeping it real.
	Thank you very much.
	It does help.
	And on Rockfan, Jason Barker.
	Good to see you, Jason.
	Thank you for the tip as well.
	He said, we have to start growing our own food.
	Yes.
	I just ordered some heirloom seeds from seedsforgenerations.com.
	Seedsforgenerations.com.
	You should get these people back on to talk about it.
	Yes, I should.
	You know, we've got, this is our first year doing gardening and Karen is doing a bang up job of it.
	Really is.
	We've got a bountiful harvest of stuff.
	And we've only got our first group of chickens have started laying, but they're faithfully producing every day.
	But, you know, just the basic stuff, you know, cucumbers, tomatoes and things like that are going to start with potatoes and things.
	But that is very important.
	And it's also very important that you understand how to propagate your own seeds.
	Because this has been one of the things from Monsanto from the very beginning, to poison the ground with glyphosate.
	So nothing will grow except for their GMO seeds.
	And they put small farmers, really small farmers, in India out of business left and right so bad, they had a wave of suicides because these guys were so far, they couldn't, it made farming unsustainable for the small, independent guys.
	So yeah, learn how to do some of this stuff.
	And you're right, Jason.
	SeedsforGenerations.com.
	And thank you, Jason, for the support.
	And by the way, Jason has the Foxhole Report and Nights of the Storm.
	You can follow those.
	And he's got a lot of different people there.
	They've also got on the website schedules of a lot of good shows.
	And Jason's doing some great work there.
	And thank you for curating all of these different shows that are out there where people are not part of the mainstream alternative.
	But people are just out there because they got a compassion to tell the truth.
	And he's got a lot of different shows there and schedules for a lot of different people.
	So thank you for doing that at nights of the storm.
	Um, RFK Jr.
	Drops a reality mic on the Democrats and suspends his campaign and says, who needs policy when there's Trump to hate?
	Or you could go the other direction as well.
	Who needs policy when there's Trump to love?
	Right?
	It's like that guy from Cape Fear, was it?
	Robert Mitchum, I think, in the original movie.
	They did a remake of it, I think, in the 90s.
	And he's like this ex-con.
	And these are the days when people didn't put tattoos on.
	But he had tattooed on his knuckles, love in between the knuckles on one hand and hate on the other.
	It's that one-two punch of the left, right, left, right march to tyranny that we've got, right?
	Love, hate, love, hate.
	And right now, it's Donald Trump who is at the center of it.
	Everybody that loves him or hates him and they're voting accordingly and nobody cares about policy.
	And of course, the Democrats have orchestrated this stuff.
	You want to talk about 4D chess?
	They shut down any primaries and any debates and all the rest of the stuff by their political persecution of Trump.
	And they knew what they were doing.
	They made a martyr out of him.
	So who needs policy?
	Who needs a debate when there's Trump to love?
	Because the Democrats hate him so much.
	Or, you know, when there's babies to kill.
	Because that's something else that they all agree on now.
	You know, Lala wants to make it a religious ritual, a rite.
	R.I.T.E.
	R.F.K.
	Jr.
	is all about that.
	And now Trump is as well.
	You know, right after he gets R.F.K.
	Jr.
	on, they got a Democrat fusion team going.
	New York Democrats, Northeastern liberals.
	Oh, well, it's Trump put out an interesting tweet.
	We'll talk about that coming up.
	But some of the things that RFK Jr.
	said, he said, Democrats have become the party of war, of censorship, of corruption, of big pharma, big tech, big ag, big money, wanting to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.
	He said, I left the party to run as an independent.
	The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Harris.
	Based on nothing.
	No policies, no interviews, no debates.
	Only smoke and mirror.
	A Chicago circus.
	Based on nothing.
	Who needs a policy if you hate Donald Trump?
	How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?
	We know the answer.
	They did it by weaponizing government agencies.
	They did it by abandoning democracy.
	They did it by suing the opposition and disenfranchising American voters.
	What most alarms me isn't how the Democrat Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates.
	What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and weaponization of federal agencies.
	Well, that's all true.
	That's all true.
	And it's good to have that said.
	And I said from the very beginning, I said it would be good.
	I said, I can't support RFK Jr.
	because of what I know about his climate extremism, his alarmism, his call for censorship that he hasn't disowned, that he is still not disowned.
	And because of his support for abortion and because of his character and his, you know, I had a long list of reasons that I could not vote for the guy.
	And even when it comes to some of these issues that he's right on, vaccines and things like that, he's something of a limited hangout.
	Uh, but it would have been good to have these topics at least brought up.
	He would have brought up these topics and he would have done them, uh, in a reasonable, um, reasonably intellectual way, unlike the people that we had and unlike the moderators and the mainstream media.
	So it'd been great to have him in a debate, but as I was telling everybody in 2020, When they were ready to, you know, giving money to stop the steal and giving money to save America, giving money to Alex Jones and to Trump and these two different things and getting ready to go to January the 6th, I said, uh, and, and talking about how the election was rigged.
	And I said, of course it was rigged.
	They always are rigged.
	But I said, you don't want to know where the rigging starts.
	The rigging begins with ballot access.
	What are we seeing now?
	The rigging begins with ballot access.
	And with denying access to the debates, nothing has changed about that.
	We've just seen that on steroids this time.
	And so, again, do you think that if they are this adamant, always election corruption, always begins with a collusion between the two main parties to control the ballot, to control the debates.
	And if they don't even care if you see that anymore, what do you think that says about the counting of the votes this time around?
	I mean, to me, I look at this and it's like, you better start figuring out how to grow seeds.
	Seriously.
	There could be worse things than that, you know?
	We'll get back to, uh, an Amish society or something like that.
	And it's, um, uh, who knows?
	Uh, rumble.
	Oh, and 61 says, David, you're referencing Robert Mitchum and the night of the hunter, uh, featuring.
	That's right.
	Neither the hunter wasn't Cape Fear.
	Thank you.
	Featuring Shelly winners and Lillian Gish directed by Charles Lawton.
	Oh, well, Quasimodo himself.
	Why can't I be made of stone like these, right?
	That was a classic.
	Anyway, thanks for correcting me on that.
	I'm simply suspending my campaign and not ending it.
	My name will remain on the ballot in most states.
	In about 10 battleground states where my presence will be a spoiler, I'm going to remove my name.
	Again, that's what I said at the beginning.
	A similar strategy to what?
	The left dead to fight Le Pen's rising national party.
	It worked for them, I just don't know that it's going to work here.
	It's a different dynamic completely.
	He said, I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children above all things.
	Well, if that's your goal, then you need to call for ending, not reforming, HHS, Health and Human Services.
	By the way, you know, we should remember where HHS came from.
	All of these alphabet agencies were not a part of America during its founding, not a part of America's rise to prosperity and world power and all the rest of this stuff.
	They are a drag, an anchor.
	They are pulling us down.
	They have imposed this kind of Byzantine bureaucracy on us.
	Originally, when the federal government first got involved in health, because it has no constitutional authority to get involved in health, that goes back to FDR's New Deal, his new Marxist deal.
	And it was in 1939, as part of the Reorganization Act, They created the Health, Education, and Welfare Department, or they created, I'm sorry, Health, Education, and Welfare Department was created in 1953 by the Eisenhower administration.
	But it was part of the Reorganization Act of 1939 where they started getting the government involved in things that were not constitutionally authorized to do, part of it food and drugs.
	And so that was 1939, FDR kicks it off, Starts to pull into Washington things that Washington had no authority to do.
	Prohibited by the Tenth Amendment because not expressly given, and so therefore retained by the states.
	And then Eisenhower and the Health and Educational Welfare, they created a stand-alone apartment in 1953.
	So, you know, about 20 years later.
	So, you know, about 20 years later, not quite.
	Uh, 14 years later and then, uh, 26 years later, 1979, um, Carter created, uh, kind of split these things up, you know, in 1980, he created the department of education.
	He carved that out of, um, um.
	Health, education, welfare, but in 1979 he created the HHS and then he pulled out the education department from that in 1980.
	So it's got a great legacy, doesn't it?
	You know, we should keep this bureaucracy that was created by FDR's New Deal and then keeps metastasizing and now it's a one and a half trillion dollar leviathan.
	Telling us what we can do?
	He said, following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris.
	Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me.
	He said, Democrats want nothing to do with you.
	Republicans will at least give you a seat at the table.
	Haven't given me or anybody I know a seat at the table.
	They don't want to talk to us at all about what happened to the vaccine, do they?
	You get a seat at that table?
	No, you don't.
	Give me a break.
	A seat at the table.
	Yeah.
	You're not going to have any effect on what's going on in Washington with your little vote.
	Especially if you're living in a heavily Republican state like Tennessee.
	He said, we have pushed Russia closer to China and Iran.
	We're closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962.
	And the neocons in the White House don't even seem to care at all.
	That's right, they don't.
	They're focused on their neo-civ, their new civilization that they want to create.
	Eradicating and destroying the foundations of our civilization, the neo-civs.
	Judging by her bellicose, belligerent speech last night in Chicago, RFK Jr.
	said on Friday, we can assume that a President Harris will be enthusiastic for this and other neocon military adventures.
	Well, of course she will.
	Not a surprise with that.
	And then again, as you heard Shanahan say about Trump, she was hesitant to join forces with Trump.
	Hesitation we have right now in not joining forces with Trump is that he's not apologized for Operation Warp Speed.
	He's not even publicly come out and said it was his fault.
	He doesn't have to, right?
	Why does he have to accept blame When his followers love him, you know, when you got Trump to love or Trump to hate, he doesn't have to accept any of this stuff.
	She said the vaccinations, the lockdowns, letting Fauci and Francis Collins run the show, the firing of other folks at the NIH and individuals at the CDC that were censored.
	Yeah, see Trump administration was censoring people left and right.
	Um, there was a lot that happened under Trump's watch that should not have happened.
	and cannot happen again.
	Well, she means should not.
	It will happen again if he is there.
	Benedict Donald gets in again.
	And if we're going to put our bet on him, and we haven't, she said, we have not confirmed anything, but we need absolute assurance.
	Well, I haven't seen any quotes from her.
	I wonder if she's got a seat at the table.
	What's going on with that?
	But we did have some questions that were asked J.D.
	Vance yesterday by the Sunday media about R.F.K.
	Jr.
	and about his statements in the past on Rumble.
	J.T.
	Wright, a lot of election fraud in Tennessee this year.
	The Republicans ousted all the good old boy local politicians and replaced with a new world order.
	Yeah, yeah, I agree.
	Let's take a look at the questions that this reporter had, and I find it interesting.
	She brings up three topics, and in every one of these three topics, RFK Jr.
	was right.
	And yet, not on one of them would J.D.
	Vance agree.
	Let's move on.
	Robert F. Kennedy, the big news yesterday.
	Very big news.
	He suspended his campaign, announced he's endorsing Donald Trump.
	He is also known as someone who has blamed vaccines for autism, antidepressants for school shootings, and recently said, quote, he won't take sides on what happened on 9-11.
	Do you have any hesitation about accepting his endorsement?
	No, Chris, I don't because we're going to disagree on issues, right?
	There are things that Robert Kennedy has said that I disagree with.
	I'm sure there are things that he said or that I've said, excuse me, that he's going to disagree with.
	But I think what his endorsement represents is that Donald J. Trump's Republican Party is a big tent party.
	I was raised by two grandparents who are sort of classic blue dog Democrats.
	They believed in having a border.
	They believed that, you know, you shouldn't have censorship in the United States of America.
	They believed in common-sense economic policies.
	They may have disagreed with Donald Trump about tax policy, but they believed in some fundamental American values.
	And I think what RFK's endorsement really shows is that the Kennedy Democrats are actually more at home in the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
	And unfortunately, Kamala Harris's party, higher prices, doing nothing to fight back against the Chinese, to say nothing of a wide-open border, That is not JFK's Democratic Party.
	It's not RFK's Democratic Party.
	We're thrilled to have the Kennedy Democrats where they belong.
	It's a tribe.
	Some in the Kennedy family have stepped forward to say that they sharply disagree with this endorsement.
	But let's just go back very quickly.
	It's a tribe.
	It's a tribe.
	On 9-11.
	Do you agree with that statement?
	And now, to be clear, I don't know what RFK actually said there.
	Maybe there was additional context.
	Of course, you actually have to see what people say before you agree or disagree with it.
	I certainly have taken sides in 9-11.
	I'm the pro-America side.
	I don't think that we should have been attacked.
	And I certainly think hitting back against the terrorists was justified.
	I don't know what RFK said there, but what I do know is that RFK said a lot of very interesting and important things.
	That the Democratic Party has become too pro-censorship.
	That the Democratic Party, especially in the wake of COVID, became really anti-freedom and anti-childhood.
	You had Democrats saying that we should be masking toddlers in their schools, even though we knew it caused developmental disabilities.
	I agree with RFK that that was crazy.
	Well, to be fair, there was a lot of information that scientists were grappling with as it came in and masks were perceived to stop the spread of the disease.
	Let's move on.
	Totally, totally fair.
	Yeah.
	But the one thing totally fair to say on that is there were important leaders.
	Donald Trump was among them.
	RFK was among them who were saying some of this stuff is crazy.
	And if we had listened to them, I think our kids would have been much better off in the wake of the pandemic.
	I mean, scientists did show that masks helped the spread of the disease.
	No, they didn't.
	You're a liar!
	You are a liar!
	Take that show off!
	It's false information!
	They'd shown 20 years before.
	As I mentioned many times in New South Wales, where Gladys Berejiklian ruled as a tyrant during the pandemic.
	They showed in 2002, as first time people were saying, we need to mask up.
	They did that in Asia.
	They said, we've got a pandemic and everybody needs to wear masks.
	And they passed a law Based on actual research, they said, first of all, the masks don't do anything to protect people.
	It says on the package, the masks don't do anything.
	Why is that?
	Because they don't, lady.
	Common sense would tell you that.
	But NBC, I think it's who she's with, will lie to you about it.
	Full face, look you right into the camera and lie to you.
	Just as Kerry Mullis said about Anthony Fauci, he'll look right into the camera and lie straight to your face.
	And so will she.
	Uh, they said these things don't work.
	Instead, actually, they make things worse.
	After 20 minutes, the mask become, you know, first of all, there's two different ways that you could push particles out.
	The first one is going to be through all the big holes around.
	They're telling us how these virus particles, and again, I am at the point where I don't buy the virus theory anymore, but let's just use it from their standpoint, logical.
	As I said for the longest time, they're telling us, how big are these particles?
	Well, that's kind of like saying that a hurricane fence is going to stop mosquitoes in your yard.
	It's going to go straight through it.
	Airborne particles.
	And it's going to go through the things on the side as, you know, any gaps on the side or on your nose or anything like that.
	They said, oh, but it's the spittle particles.
	Well, this person in New South Wales, Produced research and said after 20 minutes your mask becomes saturated with spittle and then the pressure from your voice puts out these particles.
	They're smaller than they would have been and they travel farther and remain airborne longer.
	So it actually exacerbates the situation.
	But experience showed us that they were wrong about the science.
	So stop talking, shut up about the science lady.
	You don't have a leg to stand on.
	And all these people who hide their data, whether they are pushing climate fear or pandemic fear or virus fear or whatever they're pushing.
	If they won't show you the data, if they won't show you the isolated virus, forget about this PCR stuff.
	The PCR is to pretend.
	That they've got data to pretend that they've isolated something that they can measure and it's all a pretense.
	It's garbage.
	It'd be garbage even if they had isolated a virus, it would still be a garbage because they're magnifying it by 1.1 trillion times.
	You can find anything.
	So the guy who invented it and got the, uh, the Nobel prize for it.
	So just stop with this science lies.
	Disgust me.
	Yeah.
	JD Vance showed that he is intelligent.
	He is articulate and he's very slippery, right?
	He did a masterful job as kind of a mainstream politician and answering all of these objections that she threw at him.
	But how about a little bit of integrity and truth?
	Would that be nice too?
	It's great to be intelligent, it's great to be articulate, you know?
	It used to be something that we had as part of our education to build character.
	Because if you have smart, articulate people, and they don't have character, that education just simply makes them more dangerous, doesn't it?
	Isn't character the key thing about an education?
	I think it is.
	I think it is everything.
	I would much rather have somebody who has character and doesn't know as much as this other guy.
	The other guy, if he's got no character.
	Uh, and so when you look at this and she says, well, you know, RFK Jr is talking about autism.
	Well, okay, lady, or JD Vance, why don't you pick up the mantle and say, please explain to me why it was one in 10,000 and now it's one in 24.
	What's going on?
	Do you not even want to look?
	You don't think it's vaccines?
	Well then, give me your theory.
	Because if you don't have a theory, and if you're not interested, that means you don't care about autism.
	And you don't care about what's happened to your kids.
	1 in 10,000.
	As I said before, when they did the movie, Rain Man.
	In the early to mid 80s, I forget the exact date of it.
	I think it's like, maybe, later 80s, maybe even.
	They had to explain to people what autism was.
	They made that, you know, the purpose, I guess, of that movie was to show somebody that they said was severely autistic, the Dustin Hoffman.
	I referred to him earlier today.
	I wasn't thinking about talking about Rain Man, but since I called Dustin Helm, Dustin Hoffman, we'll talk about the movie Rain Man.
	And again, this guy who was something of an idiot servant, you know, he's amazing with numbers and all the rest of the stuff, but he couldn't manage basic things and he had all kinds of issues.
	And they had to explain in the movie what autism was because the audience didn't know it.
	We're going to say that his condition, whether that was his condition or not, is autism.
	And so let's explain to the audience what autism was.
	It was unknown in the late 1980s.
	And so please explain to me, lady, why you don't care that this has now become so common.
	Instead of one in 10,000, it's one in every 24.
	You don't care?
	It's no longer rare, as Fauci would say, and you don't care to know.
	And when it comes to blaming the school shootings on SSRIs, well, he's exactly right about that as well.
	RFK Jr.
	has pointed out the fact that, you know, he's the same age as I am.
	We used to go to school and people would have, you know, guns in their pickup trucks and they would take their guns to school and use them for target shooting on the rifle team or on ROTC or something like that.
	So what's changed?
	The gun isn't causing this, it's the people.
	What's changed with the people?
	And we know you could go to SSRIstories.net or it might be .com, I'm not sure.
	I always get that confused.
	But you can go to SSRI Stories, and they have put together over 7,000 of these, and guess what?
	There is a very definite pattern.
	People who are having severe reactions.
	To what the SSRs are doing to them and they change their dosage and all of a sudden they don't know what's going on.
	They commit suicide or they, you know, one case, a guy, young kid grabs a rifle, he goes to his class and he sits there in front of the class pointing a rifle at them and then pointing a rifle at himself and back and forth.
	Finally, they got it away from him.
	He didn't remember any of that stuff.
	But we call them murder-suicide pills for a reason.
	And so he's absolutely right about that.
	And then this whole thing about 9-11.
	R. F. K. Jr.
	saying he wasn't going to take sides.
	Again, I don't know the context of that, but I'm kind of guessing that what he is saying is I remain skeptical about the official story, and I'm not going to take sides on that.
	J.D.
	Vance spins it to say, well, yeah, we know what really happened.
	I mean, the government told us and the government would never lie to us, right?
	And so what's he talking about?
	Well, I'm definitely on America's side.
	I'm not on the side of those men from caves who took over the planes and flew them into the side of the buildings and were able to take down three skyscrapers with only two planes.
	I'm not on those guys' side.
	They're too dangerous.
	I think what R.F.K.
	Jr.
	was saying, it was an inside job.
	Way more candid than any of these other people, even though I don't trust them.
	And I say, don't trust anybody.
	When they say the right thing, agree with them and congratulate them for telling the truth about autism or telling the truth about SSRIs to the extent that they do that tell the truth about vaccines.
	Yeah.
	Congratulate them for that.
	Support them for that.
	If they say the wrong thing, oppose them.
	Trump says my administration will be great.
	For women's rights.
	For women and their reproductive rights.
	Here it is right here.
	That's what he put out on Truth Social.
	My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.
	Well, the Wall Street Journal saw that.
	Wrote an op-ed piece, the editor did.
	Said this is Trump's abandonment of pro-lifers.
	Trump's abandonment of pro-lifers is now complete with this.
	My administration would be great for women and their reproductive rights.
	He's absolutely caved.
	As LifeSite News says, the term reproductive rights is used overwhelmingly to refer to the so-called right to kill children through abortion.
	That's what it's about.
	Yeah, he's not opposing federalization because it's against the Constitution to Take on abortion at any part of government, right?
	The president doesn't have the Supreme Court doesn't have the right to do it says this current Supreme Court and they're right.
	I've said that all along.
	And that Roe v. Wade was not the law of the land.
	It was a Supreme Court opinion and it was a Supreme Court opinion that conflicted with the Constitution.
	Because we had states all over the place that had laws that were ignored.
	by the Supreme Court so they could fix the point at which a child is quote-unquote viable and can be destroyed.
	They arbitrarily set that benchmark and they contradicted states all over the place.
	And then subsequent to that, they decided that they would define marriage.
	In defiance of every single state.
	There were referenda all over the place at the time about homosexual marriage.
	It lost everywhere, even in California, even with Tim Cook and Apple giving matching funds to people who wanted to push that.
	It lost in all the referenda.
	It lost in all the constitutions of the states.
	And the Supreme Court just ignored that.
	And so these things were clearly, according to the Constitution, it'd be kind of a good thing if the people who swear an oath to the Constitution as a condition of their office, it'd be a good thing if they were actually to abide by it and respect it.
	Like I said before, alcohol prohibition was a bad idea.
	It didn't work.
	Yeah, alcohol and drunkenness is bad.
	It destroys people's lives.
	But it wasn't going to work.
	But at least they had the At least they had respect for the Constitution, that they amended the Constitution.
	They went to a lot of trouble to do that.
	And then they realized that it wasn't working, and they had respect for the Constitution, and they amended it again.
	But now they just ignore the Constitution.
	And so it is a big constitutional issue, and the Constitution is important.
	If you're going to have a lawless government, they can do anything and everything to any of us.
	And so it violates the Constitution.
	And then, as I've said many times, there is a pragmatic reason to not have a federal law about abortion and not set some date arbitrarily as to when you can kill kids.
	And the pragmatic reason is that the If the conservatives were the ones to put it in, and they set the bar on the side of protecting innocent life, they set a very early date or, you know, just completely ban it.
	Well, it's still not going to protect life in the states where they want to have abortion.
	Because again, there's no constitutional basis for that.
	You can't enforce it.
	Just like Jeff Sessions couldn't enforce his prohibition of marijuana and never directly challenged any of these people.
	And so New York, California, all these different places would ignore that.
	And they'd continue to kill babies.
	So you haven't saved any lives.
	And then when the Democrats got control, they would just get rid of any restrictions for abortion completely.
	And the Republican states, as we've seen, would say, well, that's it.
	We can't do anything.
	We'll just have to let people kill babies.
	They wouldn't protect the babies.
	So from a pragmatic standpoint, it's a failed policy.
	From a constitutional standpoint, it's a failed policy, but that's not why Trump is doing it.
	Trump is doing it because he stuck his finger in the wind.
	He thinks it's good for him and he doesn't care.
	What happens to babies?
	He has no principles.
	Certainly no principles about protecting life.
	That's what this is about.
	That's what this tweet is about.
	My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.
	Code word for abortion.
	Some conservatives have denounced explicitly or implicitly the former president's remarks as an apparent act of homage to the abortion lobby.
	Of course it is!
	That's exactly what it is.
	Lila Rose, a pro-life person, says there is no reproductive right, quote-unquote, to kill a child.
	That's it.
	Very succinctly said.
	There is no reproductive right, Donnie, to kill a child.
	The nephew of Roger Stone, Alex Stone, I don't know who this guy is, but He got it right.
	He said, do not go down this route of supporting abortion.
	They are a death cult.
	They hate God.
	They hate America.
	They're pro killing babies.
	If you go down this route, you will alienate so many voters.
	Oh, okay.
	Pragmatic argument, um, pragmatic from the standpoint, not of saving lives, but of saving your political career.
	Uh, so, um, don't go down this road route of supporting abortion, but he did.
	And Trump showed his true colors, as he showed his true colors when he did gun control by executive order, when he pushed the shots out on people, and he paid people to do lockdowns and all the rest of the stuff, and he paid the hospitals to kill people with ventilators, and he paid for the ventilators, but he wouldn't pay for the ivermectin or anything else, right?
	And when he bragged about his Trump shots and gave Fauci his medals, he showed his true colors.
	He alienated this voter.
	No way that I would ever support that guy for anything.
	And so, as LifeSite News says, last month at its 2024 nominating convention, the GOP adopted a dramatically shortened platform, drafted and promoted by Trump surrogates.
	Marsha Blackburn, the senator from Tennessee, specifically, was basically the person who was shepherding this thing through.
	They cut the party's long-standing support for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and a federal law extending equal protection to pre-born babies in favor of leaving abortion policy to the individual states.
	Again, I think that is the right policy, constitutionally and pragmatically, but that's not why they're doing it.
	They're doing it for political, personal expediency.
	And then Vance was asked directly about abortion.
	Let's talk about another big issue that was talked about at the Democratic National Convention.
	It's being talked about on the campaign trail.
	Abortion.
	Democrats made the case this week and beyond this week that Donald Trump, if elected, will impose a federal ban on abortion if he wins.
	Now, Donald Trump says he won't, but can you commit, Senator, sitting right here with me today, But why?
	that if you and Donald Trump are elected that you will not impose a federal ban on abortion.
	I can absolutely commit that, Kristen, and Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible.
	I think it's important to step back and say, but why?
	Donald Trump actually said on the abortion question and how is it different than what Democrats have said.
	But why is he doing it?
	Donald Trump wants to end this culture war over this particular topic.
	He wants to end the fight.
	Wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio.
	Then Ohio has to respect California and California has to respect Ohio.
	Donald Trump's view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because we don't want to have a federal conflict over this issue.
	The federal government ought to be focused on getting food prices down, getting housing prices down.
	Issues, of course, where Kamala Harris has been a total disaster.
	So I think Donald Trump is right.
	So I think Donald Trump is right.
	We want the federal government to focus on these big federal conflict over this issue, the federal government ought to be focused on getting food prices down, getting housing prices down, issues of course where Kamala Harris has been a total disaster.
	We want the federal government to focus on these big economic and immigration questions.
	Save us economically.
	And let the states figure out their own abortion policy.
	Let me just follow up with you a little bit on that point because I've been talking to Republicans including Senator Lindsey Graham just last week who've made it very clear that if Donald Trump is elected, if you are elected, they will continue to press this point.
	Senator Graham said to me, I'm going to keep saying that there should be a federal ban if such a piece of legislation.
	He likes the wedge issue.
	Donald Trump's desk.
	Would he veto it?
	I think it'd be very clear he would not support it.
	I mean, he said that explicitly.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you're not supporting it as the president of the United States, you fundamentally have to veto it.
	So he would veto a federal abortion ban?
	I think he would.
	He said that explicitly that he would.
	And again, Lindsey, Lindsey.
	I don't think he's ever said explicitly he would.
	Lindsey Graham, Kristen, I would be surprised, and again I need to see the context on what Lindsey Graham said, because Lindsey Graham himself has not advocated a federal abortion ban.
	Lindsey Graham has advocated a federal minimum standard.
	Now to be clear, that is not Donald Trump's view.
	Donald Trump disagrees with Lindsey Graham on this, but no Republican, at least no Republican with any reasonable power, is saying that we should have a complete national abortion ban.
	I haven't heard that from any of my colleagues.
	So we want to stop the fighting.
	think has staked his position and made it very explicit. He wants this to be a state decision. States are gonna make this determination themselves.
	So we want to stop the fighting. Now what he wants to do is he wants this as an issue that he is unable and unwilling to defend the life of a baby. How pathetic.
	And so he wants to run away from it.
	That's what we're talking about here.
	He won't say that it's against the Constitution.
	And Lindsey Graham wants this as an issue.
	Why?
	Because Lindsey Graham needs a wedge issue.
	Lindsey Graham is horrible from a conservative standpoint.
	And South Carolina is completely conservative.
	I've had a lot of listeners say, yeah, this is the party there in South Carolina.
	But Lindsey Graham needs and wants wedge issues.
	And the people of South Carolina ought to give Lindsey Graham a wedgie.
	Real good and hard.
	But that's what he wants.
	The Constitution doesn't enter into any of this stuff.
	Neither does morality, you notice?
	It's all about political calculations.
	And I'm disgusted by these people, frankly.
	So, the Constitution is not even a consideration for J.D.
	Vance.
	Very smart, very articulate, fast thinking, immoral politician.
	Trump would not support a national ban if elected president would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.
	I can absolutely commit to that, says Vance.
	We don't want to have a non-stop federal conflict over this issue.
	Well, you should.
	It is worth fighting to stop the murder of babies.
	Because, you know, you don't stop the murder of babies, guess what?
	They get you on the back end.
	They get you when you're infirm.
	They get you when you're elderly.
	They'll kill you.
	If you're injured, you know, and you're in a wheelchair, oh, well, I don't know, your quality of life isn't all that good.
	Let's do some euthanasia here.
	We really can't afford to provide health care to all these people who have such a poor quality of life.
	We just need to help them.
	Help them commit suicide or maybe we'll kill them off ourselves.
	If you don't support the weakest and most innocent among us and protect their life, then it'll come for you, too.
	I said that when I was talking about censorship.
	I said it for Trump.
	I said it for other Republicans.
	And guess what?
	It didn't take long.
	When they turned their back On people who are getting censored and de-platformed, I said, they're going to come for you.
	And they did.
	And they're going to come for all of us if we don't support pro-life issues.
	So we don't want to have a nonstop federal conflict over the issue.
	Look, just fight them.
	And from the simple standpoint of saying, you say that you're all about women and their bodies and their medical choices.
	What did you do during the pandemic?
	It's so easy.
	Why won't they do that?
	Oh, well, because they were on the side of telling people what they had to do with their bodies.
	So they can't make that argument.
	That's why they're so useless.
	To the issues that really confront us.
	Because they were part of the problem.
	A big part of the problem.
	And for all of the MAGA people who don't believe it, just look at how afraid they are to make that argument.
	That'd be the easiest way in the world to shut down Lala and the Democrats is to say, well, what did you do when it came to people making choices about their own bodies?
	You had absolutely no respect about that.
	But they won't do it.
	They're not going to show pictures of what life is like.
	They're not going to focus on positive, affirmative issues like 4D ultrasound, showing babies in the womb as human beings.
	Or to even show the picture of baby Sam, who when Drudge showed the picture, he knew that he was going to get kicked off of Fox News back in the late 90s.
	And he showed the picture because he wanted to get out of his contract.
	And so they're not going to show positive images like that.
	And they're certainly not going to show the negative images of the ripped to pieces babies.
	They won't do a thing, folks.
	They're not going to stand for a single thing of yours.
	And I am so sick and tired of all of these preening so-called Christian leaders writing op-ed pieces saying, well, you can't vote for a Democrat.
	You got to vote for Trump if you're a Christian.
	Seriously?
	These people are pushing this stuff and they won't take the side of innocent life.
	They won't show the positive affirmation of life.
	They won't show the negative side of abortion.
	They just tell you to line up and join the cult.
	Be part of this tribe.
	And that's what she's doing.
	She's pushing this tribalism.
	Well, what about RFK and the Democrats and his family don't like him?
	Hey, what are the issues, lady?
	What are the issues?
	And so again, you know, it's not just these issues that you see Trump backing out.
	And I've said for the longest time that in the second term, all of these presidents get worse.
	Republicans especially.
	The Democrats are pretty much full-on statist, Marxist to start with, and they, you know, keep doing their thing.
	The Republicans will always have a really bad second administration.
	And we can see this as Trump is moving to support abortion, as he's moving to support immigration.
	We need more people, especially with AI coming.
	I covered this story last week, information liberation.
	Thought it was interesting.
	Drudge, anytime he can find anything negative about Trump, he puts it up.
	But look, it's the truth.
	It's the truth.
	It's very negative.
	It should be a big warning sign for all the people who have Look to him to invest their hope for the future in him to the extent that they're willing to do a civil war.
	This is my purpose.
	I have two purposes and attacking Trump and I will continue to do it.
	Number three purposes, like the Spanish inquisition.
	We have two main, now we have three main objectives.
	Well, my Trump inquisition is focused on, first of all, holding people accountable for what they did in 2020.
	Honestly, looking at what they did and holding them accountable.
	But it is also to make sure that people don't get so distracted by this pageant.
	That they don't do the things that they really need to do to protect their family.
	Because Trump isn't going to protect you.
	There's no help coming from Washington.
	There's only threats coming from Washington.
	And so that is the key reason.
	Both of those things are the key reasons why you need to not be so caught up in this.
	There are positive things that you could do and should do.
	Don't get drawn up into this.
	Don't make it all of your hope.
	Don't get fighting mad to go into a civil war over this stuff.
	Vote for whoever you want, but just don't buy into this professional wrestling match that's here.
	Because Trump is saying, hey, we're going to need to have more people of AI coming.
	He doesn't even realize that AI is there to take people's jobs.
	Michael Bloomberg realized that, and he was calculating to do that.
	Elon Musk realizes that.
	All of these technocrats.
	Trump is so full of himself.
	He doesn't even understand what AI and UBI's purpose is.
	It's to take everything from you, right?
	Maybe he hopes, maybe he does know what it is.
	He doesn't want you to know, but I think he just doesn't know.
	So he's absolutely clueless about AI and about universal basic income.
	So he's not going to be able to protect you from it, but he's absolutely betrayed his base and turned the other direction when it comes to immigration.
	Oh, we need to have more people in.
	So let's bring them in from other countries because of fill in the blank.
	And then to tell a group of tech people, um, and, um, That, uh, yeah, we need to, um, uh, we need help in this country in terms of cheap labor.
	So let's give a green card to anybody who can get any kind of a degree anywhere about anything.
	Oh yeah, these, uh, we need brilliant people, he said.
	And as Information Liberation points out, a recent study showed the average IQ of undergraduate students today is average.
	102 IQ points.
	They're not brilliant people.
	Everybody goes to school.
	Anybody can get a degree, anywhere, about anything.
	You get a junior college degree in basket weaving and you get a green card?
	Is that really what we want?
	Like I said, vote if you wish, but this is all nonsense.
	They're not going to do anything to protect you.
	They're not going to do anything to protect the borders.
	They're not going to do anything to protect innocent babies.
	And yet you've got people, mainstream alternative media, Yeah, WorldNet Daily, Breitbart.
	It's even happening with the New American.
	Infowars, of course.
	Now Zero Hedge.
	They're all pushing it.
	This is the end of the world if Trump doesn't get elected.
	This is the most important election of our lifetime and all the rest of this stuff and it's worth fighting for if you don't get it.
	No, it's not.
	It wasn't worth fighting for Trump in 2020 because he betrayed us the entire year.
	And it was pretty obvious what was going to happen to the people there.
	And I said it.
	So, you know, just don't get caught up in this.
	The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Third Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, every single one of them is under attack.
	And he's not doing anything about it.
	The borders are wide open.
	He's caved on pro-life.
	You know, don't think that this is an important election.
	There are other ways that we can fight this stuff.
	Focus on state and local.
	Focus on nullifying it.
	Focus on learning skills.
	Focus on getting independent of this system.
	That's what you need to focus on.
	We'll be right back.
	So, uh, I'm going to go ahead and start the video.
	Okay.
	And now, the David Knight Show!
	Let's talk a little bit about money and gold.
	This is an interesting metric that I saw.
	Gold just surpassed the Euro as the world's second largest reserve asset.
	That's pretty amazing.
	Everybody is focusing on it.
	And of course, especially the central banks, maybe they know something that mainstream media is not talking about.
	The mainstream media may know about it, but they're not talking about it.
	Zero hedge says, well, does it matter to the stock market?
	Who wins the White House?
	I always like it when I see these things.
	Does it matter to the market?
	You know, to them, there's only one market, and that's the stock market.
	It isn't mom-and-pop businesses competing on Main Street.
	No, no, no, no.
	The market is the stock market.
	And they said, how has the economy performed under both Democrat and Republican presidents?
	And, you know, again, You're not going to be able to predict the future based on that.
	But people like to play these games.
	And are there other issues involved?
	But it's always about, everybody's got, many of these people are just one issue voters.
	Like, am I going to make money out of this or that?
	Which one should I support?
	You don't even have to really ask.
	I mean, what happens to the market when taxes go up?
	And we know the taxes are going to go up with one of the parties.
	And we also know they're going to go up with Trump as well when he's talking about putting on tariffs.
	He's not real scrupulous about saying he's going to reduce taxes elsewhere, is he?
	And we know they both got their preferred industries that they're going to heavily subsidize.
	So, uh, you know, that's, that's the big issue right there.
	Gold does not look oversold as it ends the week above $2,500.
	Uh, this is coming from, uh, Kitco.
	Uh, and I agree, I think most people say that it's got much, much further to go, uh, for the reason that, uh, there's, it's the best alternative what's out there.
	U.S.
	Treasuries are not the safe bet that they once were, says research.
	And again, this is coming out of the Jackson Hole meeting, the Federal Reserve and a bunch of elites meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
	I think it's funny to see this constantly referred to as J-Hole.
	So you have the A-Holes at J-Hole.
	What's going on here?
	You know and reading the tea leaves and trying to figure out what these people are going to do and how do we make money and guess what it's an inside game and they're not going to tell you what's going on but we do know what is coming.
	We have the Swiss National Bank is moving towards a cashless future with instant payments Worldwide, they're going to digital IDs, they're going to digital cash, they're going to systems that are going to be nominally nationalistic, okay, but they will all be interoperable globally.
	In the same way that I said, I don't think they're going to eradicate all the borders and say, OK, now we have a new world capital and none of these political borders exist.
	They will keep those political borders.
	They will find them useful for political control.
	They will keep the the different Central banks and different countries nominally, and they will make them subordinate to the central government.
	It's the same game that they played in America with the Civil War.
	When we look at the way the country was referred to politically before the Civil War and after the Civil War, before the Civil War it was referred to as the United States are.
	After the Civil War, the United States is.
	That tells you everything that you need to know about consolidation.
	They were seen as sovereign and independent states.
	That's the way they're addressed in the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment, and elsewhere.
	But that all got subsumed, and that's exactly the plan.
	that they want to use globally.
	You know, you'll still have the boundaries and things like, just as we still have the states in America, but all of the powers, one by one, are being subsumed into this centralized Leviathan that is there.
	On ROCFIN, Fran Edwards, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	Also on ROCFIN, Assyrian Girl, thank you.
	Sorry, David, you don't have enough money to buy a seat at the Republicans' table.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I certainly don't.
	And neither do any of the voters that are out there.
	It's an advanced auction of stolen goods.
	And guess what?
	You don't have the capital to participate in that auction.
	You've got to show a certain net worth to get in and to be able to do the silent bidding, you know, hold the sign up, you know, that's what I... You don't have the ability to do that.
	That's a lie, one of the biggest lies that's been sold to you by the mainstream media and politicians.
	On Rockfin, Little John, thank you for the tip.
	Says, just wanted to say thank you to you and your family.
	Well, thank you, appreciate that.
	Dougalug, good to see you there, and thank you again for a tip.
	And he says, thank you, David and crew, and salute.
	Stealth Patriot, thank you for the tip, says, if there was a national ban on abortion, states would just nullify it anyway.
	That's my position.
	And we know that would be the way that it works, because we saw that with medical marijuana.
	It's not even, you know, well, this is what I think will happen.
	It's what we've seen happen.
	And we know that's going to happen in the future.
	Well, before we take a break, I just want to remind people, you know, when we look at what is happening with the economic system, we look at the big rush to gold, and it's not that much at the retail level here in the United States as it is in some other countries, but it is the central banks, and it is the people in India and China who are accumulating gold, but in America, most people are not paying any attention to that, and there is a way that you can do that.
	Tony Aardman, who has been a long-term supporter of this program, Set up davidknight.gold and again, you can buy gold and silver, large or small amounts.
	You can set up a monthly savings program.
	You can determine what level you want to join Wolfpack.
	Kids are at 35.
	You can go $50 and up.
	All those are there, and that gets you a way to regularly save money to get out of this system, and helps you to get a group buying discount as well.
	Wolfpack.
	All of that you can find at davidknight.gold.
	And so, check that out.
	And do what you can.
	Again, when we look at inflation, we look at the potential for gold to go up in value relative to the dollar, which is going down.
	That's really what's happening.
	Gold just keeps its, maintains its value, its wealth.
	Assure insurance.
	And, um, so it's not necessarily going up.
	It's just that if you keep your money in fiat currency, it's going down significantly.
	Uh, again, not the price of gold, but the price of things in gold, if you want to convince yourself of that.
	But then there's the new thing that's never been around before.
	And that's CVDC.
	That's why I say getting out of this system is such an important thing.
	Uh, so we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	But unlike most revolutions, where the people rise against a real economic oppression, in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
	It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
	The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
	Hey!
	Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
	Tomorrow it will be something else.
	I'm going to die!
	Liberty. It's your move.
	of a You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Some general news.
	This was sent to me by a listener.
	He said, this is what I'm working on in the public defender's office in Brevard County.
	And I find this very interesting.
	This is a case, an 18-year-old.
	Jose Eduardo Rodriguez who was given a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to one year of incarceration and up to $1,000 fine for violating a concealed carry law in Florida.
	You have to be 21 years old in order to have concealed carry and he was only 18.
	But what makes this an interesting case As they point out in this motion, they said there is a waiver for people who are military veterans between the ages of 18 and 21.
	They can carry concealed.
	Like, oh, that's interesting.
	Because now we have a double standard here.
	We don't have equal protection of the law, do we?
	And so I think that's a very, very interesting case.
	It's always been an issue of the 21-year-old age, because you can join the military at 18.
	You could get drafted into the military when I was growing up at 18.
	But, you know, you can't at 18 years old, they wouldn't let you smoke a cigarette or They wouldn't let you have, you know, purchase a gun or carry a gun concealed or whatever.
	All these long things, you couldn't drink alcohol or whatever, you had to be 21.
	But you could go fight in a war and kill people at the government's behest or whatever, whatever they wanted you to do.
	You could go to Vietnam, but you can't buy alcohol, tobacco or firearms, right?
	Good old ATF.
	Uh, so I always thought that was amazing that they would do that.
	And they actually encoded that into the Florida law when they, um, loosened the restrictions on concealed carry and other things like that.
	Because he was 18 years old at the time of the alleged crime of carrying a weapon.
	Uh, he was ineligible for concealed carry license solely because he was not 21 years old.
	The Florida judiciary is entitled to declare state statutes unconstitutional under their right to judicial review, they say.
	So you should, as a court, you should let this guy go and declare it unconstitutional.
	You should nullify this law.
	As far as gun laws currently exist, had Mr. Rodriguez been a service member or a veteran of the U.S.
	Armed Forces who was discharged under honorable conditions, then there would have been no crime as these groups of people are allowed to conceal carry at 18 to 20 years old.
	The state legislature of Florida has unconstitutionally infringed on the gun rights of millions of adult American citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 solely because they're not service members.
	Or because they're not veterans of the U.S.
	Armed Forces.
	There is no reason to restrict an 18- to 20-year-old American citizen's right to conceal, carry, and public simply because they've not served in the military.
	Fundamental rights, and rights adjacent to those rights, are cheapened when they become, in effect, a recruitment incentive for the state and federal military.
	Veteran versus non-veteran status, as well as civilian versus soldier status, should both be considered suspect classifications when equal protection and the Second Amendment are implicated.
	They're absolutely right.
	And it really kind of underscores again when we talk about when people are allowed to do particular things, okay?
	You gotta be a certain age to drive and get alcohol, tobacco or firearms or whatever.
	Why are we allowing kids to mutilate their bodies when they're not old enough to make that determination?
	Whereas I've shown that horrific press conference done by Tim Walz's governor.
	He has these parents bring in their kids and they don't know what's going on.
	You know, they're told by their parents, well, you're actually a boy, but you're really a girl, and all the rest of the stuff.
	That is so pathetic.
	They should take those kids away from the parents.
	I support that in that particular case.
	In the same way that if the parents were sexually abusing their children, somehow or the other, or turning them over to other people to be sexually abused.
	The child should be taken away.
	It's the same thing.
	They don't have the ability to make those kinds of determinations.
	That is, at essence, what these ages of 21 came about.
	People understood that your judgment is not there.
	We've thrown that out the window.
	But it's also the double standard to say, well, okay, at 18, though, you can sign up to the military.
	But we're still not going to buy alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.
	It's absolutely crazy.
	And we got another interesting Second Amendment case here.
	This is a judge dismissing machine gun charges against a Kansas woman.
	Against a machine gun mall.
	Which is really fascinating if you stop and think about it.
	I mean, that has been, that has been the key behind all this bump stock nonsense and all this irrational fear from the left that not understanding what firearms are, it's like, oh, semi-automatic, oh, that, you know, they don't understand the difference between semi-automatic and automatic.
	They don't understand any of this stuff, but it strikes fear and terror into the heart of the left if somebody's got a machine gun.
	Well, um, you know, I've never used a machine gun.
	It's just, um, I've heard many people who have, they try to discourage the use of, by soldiers, because you very quickly use up all your ammunition just spraying, you know, spray and pray type of thing.
	Those are the conditions where you, if you're being overrun, you might want to do that.
	But in general, you know, put it on individual trigger pulls to take your time, if you can, and try to pick your target.
	But when you look at machine guns, just remember The Branch Davidians at Waco, that whole thing was over the fact that they had machine guns and had not paid the tax on it.
	And so this U.S.
	judge has dismissed the charges against a woman who possessed a machine gun.
	And he cited the Supreme Court case that has shifted the framework for how courts analyze cases dealing with constitutional rights.
	The U.S.
	District Judge John Brooms found that machine guns fall under the U.S.
	Constitution's Second Amendment.
	Yep, they do.
	That means that prosecutors must show that the law barring possession of machine guns is rooted in historical firearm restrictions.
	And, you know, that would also apply to sawed-off shotguns, which is the The theoretical reason why they came after Randy Weaver, you know, was just last Wednesday, Travis's birthday, was when they kicked off the move against Randy Weaver.
	They set him up to get him to saw off a shotgun that was just slightly shorter than it was supposed to be.
	Then that was the basis on which they did all that stuff.
	Killed his son, killed his wife and everything.
	But the Branch Davidians, again, they were dealing in guns and they had many cases where people had There'd been lawsuits, fights within the group and everything.
	They'd accused him of various things, and he'd gone to court, and they'd found him not guilty, and the local sheriff would go up there and talk to him, and, you know, hey, I got this warrant here, I need to, you know, serve you with this, and never had any problems with that.
	And so they show up, guns a-blazing.
	Codeword Showtime.
	They've got the press there filming it and all the rest of the stuff.
	Just disgusting what they did.
	And in that particular case, burning men, women, and children alive because a federal tax had not been paid on these firearms.
	And so getting back to this case, the judge, Judge Broome, says in In this case, the government has not met its burden under Bruin, and under another case called Rahami, who demonstrate, through historical analogs, that regulation of the weapons at issue in this case are consistent with the nation's history of firearms regulation.
	He wrote this ruling, interestingly, on August the 21st, and as I was saying about the sawed-off shotguns, the beginning of Randy Weaver, the argument about banning sawed-off shotguns Was from the very beginning, well, this is not a military weapon.
	Oh, we never used sawed-off shotguns as military weapons.
	Well, that was a lie.
	They had used them in trench warfare in the First World War.
	Some cavalry people in the Civil War had used sawed-off shotguns, so that wasn't true.
	But the logic was that the Second Amendment was about people having military weapons.
	And yet, what do you hear from the gun controllers?
	You can't have that!
	That's a military weapon!
	Well, that was what the militia is supposed to have.
	Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority in Bruin, said that when the Second Amendment is found to apply, government officials must show that the regulation in question, quote, is consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.
	So, Judge Brooms sided with the defendant, noting that hundreds of thousands of machine guns are legally possessed because the 1986 law included a grandfather clause.
	You see, machine guns were legal to have until 1986.
	And again, think about that, you know, we're only looking at seven years after machine guns got special status and everything.
	But again, you know, it was about the tax that the Davidians had.
	But it was only seven years since they had changed the laws for machine guns.
	That was all still pretty new stuff.
	He said, even today, it's perfectly legal for a person who's not been divested of his firearm rights under some other provision of the law to acquire and to possess a machine gun so long as it was lawfully possessed by someone before the relevant date in 1986, said Grandfather Dan.
	And so long as he complies with the National Firearms Act requirements to obtain and possess the weapon.
	In that sense, machine guns are not unusual, he wrote.
	I have time to look at Grandfather Claus now.
	I think about... There was one report that I went on with Joe Biggs, and we were trying to get a shot of this one particular place, and to do that, we had to rent a boat.
	And so, we were going to rent the boat, and it was in Virginia, and they had laws that said that you needed to have a license to drive a boat.
	Like, oh, come on.
	I was driving boats when I was eight years old, and powerboats, living in Florida.
	We were living on a lake and all that kind of stuff.
	But I thought about it, and I thought, you know, my dad was driving Model As and Model Ts when he was eight years old.
	His dad gave him the keys to do it, because they didn't have heavy traffic back then.
	You're typically just driving down a dirt road or something like that.
	So he started driving cars when he was 8 years old.
	I started driving boats when I was 8 years old.
	But now, you know, you can't do that.
	But in Virginia, they had a Grandfather Clause.
	And I was old enough to be a Grandfather Clause.
	Santa Clause too, but... I didn't have to get a license for that.
	It's ridiculous how they're licensing everything now, isn't it?
	Even machine guns.
	Let's get rid of the machine gun licenses.
	Shouldn't have them.
	Somebody needs to license the government and put some controls on them.
	They're the problem.
	The necessity of making a meaningful life.
	This is really important.
	This is a free thought project.
	It's actually an article from the American Institute for Economic Research.
	And I wanted to give this to you because I think it is really insightful.
	And when we look at this time, I don't want to black pill everybody and get you depressed about all the bad news.
	You do need to know what the bad news is, and we need not run away from the bad news.
	But we also need to know, how should we live?
	What should we do?
	How should we, what should we put our hope in?
	And things like that.
	And this is again from the American Institute for Economic Research, and they say, people who lack meaningful fulfillment in their lives, Are the ones who are seeking to exercise power over others as a distraction.
	You think about that when you fall in line behind these politicians.
	Who basically are money worshippers.
	Who are looking over their shoulder because they're worried that somebody's going to take away their coveted wealth from them.
	The article says, one of my more memorable exchanges with a student came in a principles of economics class.
	Part of the assignment for that week was chapters from Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist.
	Ridley compared the living standards of an average American worker of today with those of the Sun King, Louis XIV in 1700.
	Some of my more ahistorical students were incredulous at Ridley's description of the grinding poverty of the average person just a few centuries ago.
	Yeah, we see that You know, when you look at Solomon and all of his glory, right?
	Jesus said he wasn't arrayed as well as these lilies of the field, and he wasn't exaggerating all that much, was he?
	You go back and you look at the way kings lived, but he brings it all the way up to 1700.
	Why 1700?
	Well, it's a little bit before the Industrial Revolution started changing everything.
	But you could go back and pick any king.
	You could go back thousands of years and pick a king.
	Even some of the most celebrated wealthy kings.
	With all of their gold, there were certain things of material value that they couldn't buy.
	So, this king, the Sun King, Louis XIV, had an opulent lifestyle compared to others.
	He had an astonishing 498 workers preparing each of his meals.
	Wow, I can see he's maybe overeating a little bit there.
	Yet, his standard of living was still a fraction of what we experience today.
	Ridley outlined the miracles of specialization and exchange in our time.
	An everyday cornucopia at the supermarket.
	Modern communications and transportation.
	Clothing to suit every taste.
	If we remove our blinders and we see how many individuals provide services to us, Ridley concludes we have far more than 498 servants at our immediate beck and call.
	Think about that.
	That's one of the things that changed with the Industrial Revolution.
	That kind of leverage.
	He said, then there was the memorial, the memorable exchange occurred.
	He said, one student told me that they would prefer to live in 1700 if he had more money than others and if he had power over them.
	And he said, my first reaction was amusement.
	I thought, well, a student is practicing his deadpan humor skills, but he wasn't.
	For him, having power was the defining attribute.
	He said, if only my students' mindset were an aberration.
	But it's not, he said.
	A lot of people think this way.
	And the people who think that way are the ones who are lording it over us.
	Stop and think about the people in the bureaucracies, for example.
	Are they getting really, really wealthy?
	No.
	But they've got power over other people at certain times when they're exercising their job.
	It's a very seductive thing.
	And, you know, it can be about You can arrange your life because you want sex, or because you value money, or because you value pride.
	Pride, part of that is the power that you have over other people.
	He says, during the reign of Louis XIV, French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal diagnosed why some people lust for power.
	He wrote, I've often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he doesn't know how to stay quietly in his own room.
	And that goes for those of us they tried to lock down in 2020 as well.
	I'm not going to stay quiet in that room.
	Pascal asked us to imagine a king, he said, who has all the blessings with which you could be endowed.
	A king, Pascal told us, if he has no diversions from his thinking, will ponder and reflect on what he is.
	Pascal's hypothetical king would be miserable, though, he said, because he is, quote, bound to start thinking of all the threats facing him.
	To think about possible revolts of, finally, inescapable death and disease.
	And see, this is the fears of the people who have billions of dollars, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars.
	These people, the transhumanists, they're running desperately trying to escape death and disease.
	They're constantly looking over their shoulder, thinking that somebody's going to take something away from them.
	And, of course, that's one of the reasons why they want to pursue radical depopulation.
	That helps to shift the odds in their favor.
	I mean, if there's 8 billion people out there, they couldn't stop it if everybody wanted to take it from them.
	And if there's 8 billion people out there and reproducing, who knows how many people are going to be produced that are smarter or fitter or whatever else than them and can take that from them.
	So they need to keep the number of people.
	This is where this is all coming from.
	The lust to have power over other people.
	To say that that is what gives your life meaning.
	And I mention this because you don't need to follow these politicians.
	It's not that hard to spot this in Trump or Lala or J.D.
	Vance or Biden or Hillary Clinton or any of these people.
	You can see it.
	You can smell it a mile away.
	Why follow these people?
	He said, what people want is not the easy, peaceful life that allows us to think of our unhappy condition, Pascal said.
	And this is why war and high political officers so popular.
	He argues that individuals seek to be diverted from thinking of what they really are and what reality truly is.
	Viktor Frankl, the author of the seminal Man's Search for Meaning, I observed the same thing as Pascal.
	He said, sometimes the frustrated will to meaning is vicariously compensated for by a will to power.
	In other words, you desire to have meaning in your life, you compensate for it with a desire to have power.
	Man's search for meaning.
	Well, it's also woman's search for meaning.
	I remember, I've said many times about Hillary Clinton.
	Remember, she talked about the politics of meaning.
	And I said, how pathetic that is.
	And she has to be pitied.
	Because she thinks that politics is going to bring meaning to her life.
	Power brings meaning to her life.
	He said, in other cases, a place of the frustrated will to meaning is taken by the will to pleasure.
	Again, lust, pride, money, these are the things that have always been identified.
	The will to pleasure.
	He said, similarly, the main joy of being a king, Pascal observed, is to be surrounded by people who are continually trying to divert him and procure him every kind of pleasure and to stop him from thinking about himself.
	So he said, both Pascal and Frenkel would understand why someone would reach for their phone every few minutes.
	The manipulative, the maladaptive behavior is an attempt to scratch an existential itch.
	Frankl said, ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
	For too long we have been dreaming a dream from which we are now waking up the dream that if we just improve the socio-economic situation of people, everything will be okay.
	People will become happy.
	The truth is that the struggle for survival has subsided.
	The question has emerged, survival for what?
	People will seek power, but they depend on followers.
	People making meaning in their own lives are immune to that siren's call.
	And so in the context of that, think about the power that social media may have over you, the desire to have followers, or the desire for people to pay attention to you and give meaning to your life.
	Where do you look for meaning in your life?
	Well, I can tell you that if you look for pleasure, or you look for power, or you look for money, it's not going to give you meaning.
	All those things are legitimate to some degree, but if that is the central aspect of your life, you're going to be very unhappy, and you will not find what you're looking for.
	There really is, when you get to the bottom of all of this, The thing that gives so many of us meaning in our life, and the only meaning that is truly going to last, is going to be your relationship, your relationship with Christ.
	What is going to ultimately happen to you?
	This is why I say, if you have that perspective, it also gives you the leverage to make change in your life.
	You don't do it for power, but it does give you a power over this tyranny.
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	I appreciate that.
	And so as we look at all this, America is divided on the legacy of slavery.
	Divides persist between many black and white Americans' views on the ongoing impacts of slavery in the United States.
	YouGov conducted a study last year.
	52% of U.S.
	respondents believe that the legacy of slavery still influences society today.
	Well, it certainly will if The Democrats start their reparations.
	And again, it's so ridiculous that, you know, Lala Harris, who, you know, how does she get reparations for this?
	She has a Jamaican father who's black, and he brags that his family owned slaves in Jamaica.
	So does she get reparations because she's black?
	Or did she pay it because her family owned slaves?
	Her mother is Indian.
	And then what about white people who came over, you know, massive immigrations that came over after the Civil War when there was no slavery?
	Do those white people have to pay reparations simply because of the color of their skin?
	None of it makes any sense.
	It's absolutely unenforceable.
	And of course, they're talking about trillions of dollars.
	But it's the same type of thing that they've done with the climate fear, using a particular fear or hatred to redistribute wealth from one group to the other.
	They just need to have a rationale.
	to take money for whatever purpose.
	So again, when you look at this along racial lines, it said 78% of black Americans said that the legacy of slavery still influences society today, but only 46% of white Americans.
	But even more importantly, 65% of black Americans said that America's wealth as a nation today is tied to slavery, while only 26% of white Americans held the same view.
	Think back to the article I just read where he was talking about the average, you know, typical person and the lifestyle and the conveniences that they have versus the Sun King, Louis XIV.
	What is the difference there?
	Well, a big part of this was what happened with the Industrial Revolution, and as he points out, you know, the number of people that are effectively waiting on you because we have a society where the means of production are complicated but organic.
	You know, think about Leonard Reed's The Pencil.
	You know, nobody is really, everybody's producing these different parts and it's just kind of the operation of the free market.
	It's not guided by any bureaucrat or any central planner.
	But this is the type of thing that happened with the Industrial Revolution.
	And it was after America changed from an agrarian society to an industrial society.
	That the massive amount of wealth came in.
	Now, I'm not saying that's a good thing.
	We're chasing things that really have no meaning in many regards.
	An agrarian society was much more amenable to people paying attention to individual rights and things like that, even though we had slavery.
	They identified it as something that needed to be changed.
	They weren't sure how to do it.
	They wanted to keep it because, again, they wanted to personally enrich themselves.
	How do we make this transition?
	But when we talk about material prosperity, That didn't come from slavery.
	That didn't come from the agrarian society.
	As a matter of fact, that agrarian society that was at the top, you know, the South was very wealthy before the Civil War, but that wealth was all destroyed, and then it was recreated again in a different form with the Industrial Revolution.
	Now, today they're working on what Klaus Schwab calls the Zipf-off Industrial Revolution.
	I think it's really more about the forced Industrial Revolution, because this revolution is not going to empower the individuals, but it's going to empower the technocrats, the public-private partnership.
	And so, when we look at what we have lost, as we began the show today talking about the attack on free speech, the Telegram CEO, Britain, which birthed American ideas about liberty, has now embraced despotism.
	And it's absolutely true.
	We may have, you know, the same values that ended slavery, and now we have rejected the Christian values that allowed Britain to end slavery.
	Again, largely the efforts of one man, William Wilberforce.
	He made that his life's work in Parliament to first of all stop the slave trade, and then just before he died, they freed the slaves in Jamaica and other places.
	And so, that was based upon his Christian perspectives, but now we have just as many of these other things.
	You know, the idea that as human beings we possess certain rights, that's because we all have a creator God.
	And a lot of people are starting to realize this, who are not even Christians.
	People like Richard Dawkins, who says, well, yeah, I like the values that we have in Christian society.
	I just want it without Christ.
	Well, you're not going to get that.
	And as a matter of fact, things have gotten so bad.
	I saw this article.
	I just had to talk about University of Tampa, where I met Karen 50 years ago.
	And now they have at their resident advisor training, the RA training for the dormitories.
	They're including a scenario of a student feeling threatened by a conservative roommate who has a MAGA flag.
	Or you could say a MAGA cap or something else like that.
	So the University of Tampa Resident Advisor Training featured a hypothetical scenario in which a student complained about feeling unsafe because a roommate hung a Make America Great Again flag up and was also a member of Young Americans for Freedom.
	I mean, we should be Young Americans for Censorship.
	You just returned from a class and one of your residents asked to speak with you.
	He states that he feels unsafe in his room and he needs an immediate room change.
	He goes on to state that he feels unsafe and threatened because his roommate put up a Make America Great Again flag.
	See, it never ends.
	It'll always be something else.
	And if we don't understand what free speech is, this is the hallmark to this kind of despotism, where universities who used to support free speech are now using it to punish students.
	It truly is amazing just to see this at a university that we both attended.
	It's everywhere.
	It's not just the Ivy League schools.
	It's now everywhere.
	They've completely marched through all the institutions.
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