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The David Knight Show - 08/27/2024

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	You're listening to The David Night Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday the 27th of August.
	Year of Our Lord, 2020.
	Well, we're going to take a quick look at free speech and free speech in the United States, and we're going to take a look at what it takes to really win this war.
	And guess what?
	It begins at home.
	It begins with our children.
	We have to start taking a longer view of this, and we need to take back our society.
	We take it back from the ground up, and that means from our children first.
	We're going to take a look at the pandemic.
	They're ramping this thing up again.
	Little measures that are being taken in various places.
	You know, we have a, they're going to enforce a voluntary Lockdown?
	Up in Massachusetts?
	What does that mean?
	A voluntary lockdown?
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Well, we now have the charges that are being brought against the CEO of Hologram.
	And as Alam Bakari says, a couple of thoughts, he says, based on this criteria, any CEO of any social media or encrypted messaging platform can be arrested.
	It's similar to what they do with cryptocurrency.
	Remember the narrative being put out by all the people wanting to ban Bitcoin, all cryptocurrencies, so that they could push through their CVDC.
	Well, part of it, part of the narrative that was going to be the official narrative was power consumption.
	But then AI large language models kind of blew that out of the water.
	But then the other part of it was going to be, well, you know, cryptocurrency is used for crime.
	So is the internet.
	So are telephones.
	So is everything.
	Cash is used for crime.
	Remember?
	When they started doing that, we said, well, you know, all these arguments that you're making about how people, you know, deal anonymously, that's the crime they're after.
	They want to get rid of anonymity and privacy.
	That's what this is all about.
	This is not about the other crimes.
	The crimes have always been there and will always be there.
	There'll be one way to exchange this, whether or not they have cash, whether or not they have cryptocurrency.
	And of course the cash is more anonymous than the cryptocurrency is.
	There's only two cryptocurrencies that are anonymous.
	That's Monero and PirateCoin.
	All the rest of them are far more visible in terms of transactions than cash is.
	Or gold and silver, right?
	But, you know, when you make these arguments and you say, well, because some people committed a crime and they did it by passing messages back and forth, or they did it because there was cash available, or because there was cryptocurrency available, anybody can be arrested for that.
	It's a total nonsense justification.
	And Alam Bakari, I have a lot of respect for him.
	I used to work for Breitbart.
	I don't think he does anymore.
	I think he's doing something else.
	I should get him on.
	He was the one, by the way, who, when the social media censorship began, he pointed out the Marsh versus Alabama court case of 1946 that I've referred to so many times, where somebody was handing out religious tracts in the public square.
	That was privately owned, and the Supreme Court in 1946 says even if the public square is privately owned, it's still the public square, and you can't censor that speech.
	This person took it all the way to the Supreme Court and won.
	And they were right.
	And social media is the digital public square.
	And they should be given protection against this with Section 230.
	I mean, the whole idea of Section 230 Was that these people are not publishers.
	They're simply a digital public square.
	And if somebody's putting something up that they don't like, if it's criminal, or if it's hate speech, they say, or speech that they hate, the person running the platform is not going to be held responsible.
	But they twist that, you know, they twisted section 230, just like they twisted FISA.
	FISA was supposed to say, you're not going to spy on Americans.
	And you're not even going to spy on foreign citizens in America without a search warrant.
	So get a warrant.
	Oh, well, we need to be able to do that in foreign countries, foreigners in foreign countries.
	So let's create a FISA court.
	And then they use the FISA court to get a search warrant for Mr. and Mrs. Verizon.
	A blanket warrant, a general warrant, which was exactly the reason why we have the fourth amendment.
	But anyway, Lama Bakari says, based on this criteria, what has been published, You could charge any CEO of any social media company or any encrypted messaging platform, and I would add also any crypto.
	Duroff left Russia because the government tried to control his platform and spy on his users.
	France is loudly telling the world that it is no better.
	And now there's the United States.
	Now there's any country in Europe.
	And so these are the charges that are brought against him from the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, right?
	Has a certain Jacobin ring to it, doesn't it?
	This judicial investigation was open against a person unnamed on charges of complicity.
	Complicity?
	Web mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction.
	An organized group.
	This is Silk Road Part 2.
	I'm surprised nobody else has made that connection.
	I haven't seen anybody making that connection.
	This is precisely what they did about, to Ross Ulbricht.
	You're running a website and people are using it to do criminal activity.
	Well, you could say that about... and you're using Bitcoin.
	Again, you could say that about cash.
	You could say that about anything in our society.
	Anything is pretty much co-opted for criminal use.
	Especially the government.
	You know, we created the government for this and it's being hijacked by a bunch of criminals?
	They're running the worst crimes in history.
	You're talking about running drugs and trafficking kids.
	They're trafficking kids at the border.
	They're running drugs to fund their secret wars.
	They've started wars.
	They've run coups and assassinations and everything.
	So don't talk to me about criminal organizations.
	Refusal to communicate at the request of competent authorities, they said.
	Well, they actually were working with them, they thought.
	Complicity.
	Possessing pornographic images of minors.
	Complicity.
	In distributing, offering, or making available pornographic images.
	Complicity.
	Acquiring, transporting, possessing.
	Every one of these is prefaced with complicity.
	I think they're overusing that word.
	By the way, you keep using that word.
	I don't think you know what it means.
	Just like they constantly throw the charges out of conspiracy.
	Conspiracy is the most heavily alleged crime.
	They use it to pad things up.
	So people will confess to the, uh, what they really wanted to get them for in the first place.
	They'll do a plea bargain complicity of offering selling or making available without legitimate reason.
	Equipment, tools, programs, or data designed or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system.
	So it's okay if you got a legitimate reason.
	In other words, it's okay if the government does all that stuff.
	Complicity.
	Organized fraud.
	And then criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by five or more years of imprisonment.
	Laundering of the proceeds derived from the organized group's offenses and crimes.
	Providing cryptology services aimed to ensure confidentiality.
	Providing a cryptology tool.
	And on and on.
	I mean, this is what they're coming after the CEO of Telegram for.
	Is it any better in the United States?
	Let's take it from that really high level, the international level of this large platform.
	It has around a billion users.
	I mean, there's 900 million active users and 1.5 billion total users.
	So let's take it from that, from the international global perspective.
	Let's take it down to the city council level.
	And we have a recording.
	of a person who is in Arizona.
	The town is called Surprise, Arizona.
	And surprise, free speech isn't allowed there either.
	Title 39.
	There are numerous public records requests that I have open right now that are quote pending legal review that I am entitled to request.
	I've got to interrupt you here because.
	OK, are you going to stop the timer?
	This is the public meeting forum that you agree to when you speak.
	And I want to read this to you.
	That there are oral communications during the city council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the city.
	Or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by the name or by any other reference that tends to identify him or her.
	What about redressing grievances?
	Violation of my First Amendment rights.
	So that's, well, this is your warning, okay?
	Warning for what?
	Warning for attacking the city attorney personally.
	And this is all factual information.
	It doesn't matter.
	You're violating my first amendment rights.
	This is what you agreed to when you first speaking.
	This is the form.
	It is unconstitutional, Mayor Hall.
	Well, it's not unconstitutional.
	It is.
	And if you're going to Supreme Court, I could get up here and I could swear at you for three straight minutes and it is protected speech by the Supreme Court.
	It is.
	Why don't you look at case law?
	No, you can't.
	I can't.
	So I say you can't.
	Do you want to be escorted out of here?
	Do you want to be escorted out?
	Let's get some goon that'll do whatever I tell him to do.
	You're violating my First Amendment rights.
	That's your opinion.
	It's not a matter of opinion.
	Do you want to be escorted out, Ms.
	Massey?
	Because that's what's going to happen.
	And it's going to happen in the future also.
	Any time you attack any staff member... That's why you changed the rules.
	That's why you changed the rules.
	This has been on the back of this form all the time.
	I understand, Mayor Hall, but that is completely unconstitutional.
	No, it's not.
	You're also engaging in debate, and so you should actually be yielding the floor to somebody else managing.
	Chief, could you have somebody come down here and escort Ms.
	Masiak?
	Really?
	Is that necessary?
	Yes, I think it is.
	In front of my 10-year-old daughter, you're going to escort me out for expressing my First Amendment rights?
	She can go with you.
	I'm not leaving.
	Well.
	Um, I'm, no, I'm expressing my fear.
	Do not touch me.
	Do not put your hands on me.
	Throw her there with the rest of the Jane and wait a six prisoners.
	Yeah.
	Now we're addressing her grievances.
	What do I need to say? Under what charges?
	Under what charges?
	Okay, so I'll...
	I have personal property!
	I have... You cannot talk back to me!
	Yeah, yeah. She can go out there.
	Okay.
	Yeah. Isn't that great?
	There's America, right?
	Now, you know, we can have CEOs of global social media, or we can have an individual who says, I have questions about how much money is being paid to this attorney, and I filed all of these
	These documents to try to get some information and she's being stonewalled about it and so then the mayor of surprise Arizona Says you can't talk about this anymore Well, you know specifically the First Amendment which she should have quoted is we have a right to peacefully redress our grievances now as an elected official He took office, as all elected officials do in the United States.
	He swore to uphold the Constitution as a condition of office.
	And he has already had a lawsuit filed against him and the city.
	A report at the Arizona Sun-Times said a lawsuit has been filed over the events of that day.
	As one person commented, he's warned her from attacking the city attorney personally, orders the police to remove her, an appalling disregard for the First Amendment.
	How dare you criticize your superiors here?
	She said, I have concerns with allocating more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons.
	Her public requests for records are under review, according to them, and have been for quite some time.
	He is already this lawyer that she's talking about there, city attorney, Robert Wingo, already is one of the highest paid city officials in the Phoenix region at $265,000, said the report.
	The mayor says, you're not allowed to make those kind of statements.
	And you saw what happened after that.
	So this is a fight for free speech.
	And good for her for not yielding.
	She's going to get muscled out of there by some goon who will do anything that he's told.
	By the way, that goon, just following orders.
	Come on, just doing my job.
	That's not your job.
	Your job is to enforce the Constitution.
	You swore to uphold the Constitution just like that corrupt mayor did.
	Shame on you.
	So, the organization filing the lawsuit said, City of Surprise, we'll see you in court.
	This is from FIRE.
	I forget what the acronym is for FIRE.
	But it's an organization that focuses on free speech issues and things like that.
	City of Surprise, we'll see you in court.
	The First Amendment protects Americans' right to criticize public officials without being arrested.
	We need to fight this at every instance.
	And we need to fight it from the bottom up, not just from the top down, but at the top in the UK.
	Yvette Cooper, who is the new Home Secretary for the Labour Marxist Party, right, says we've been too lax on free speech.
	Gotta find some other things we can lock people up for talking about.
	And so she adds misogyny, hate speech, and extremist words, and of course they will decide where the parameters of those things are.
	Jonathan Turley says, in my book, The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage, I discuss how difficult it is to get a free people to give up freedoms.
	They have to be afraid, very afraid.
	And for that reason, governments tend to attack free speech during periods of public anger or fear.
	That's right.
	Be afraid.
	Be very afraid.
	Yeah, whether it is a virus or whether it is, be afraid of me, because I'm going to be coming after you.
	Whatever it is, they got to strike fear into your heart.
	So the pattern is playing out yet again in the UK.
	The recent anti-immigration riots have given officials a renewed opportunity to use anti-free speech laws to target those with opposing views.
	But he says this is nothing new.
	He said for years, I've written about the decline of free speech and to give some examples.
	In the UK, a man convicted for sending a tweet while drunk, referring to dead soldiers.
	Convicted.
	Sent to jail.
	Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt.
	Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a leprechaun.
	Prejudice against his height, I guess.
	People under two feet.
	Yet another was arrested for singing Kung Fu Fighting.
	A teenager was arrested for protesting outside a Scientology Center with a sign that called the religion a cult.
	So truth is no defense, I guess.
	But I played for you yesterday.
	That judge with his white powdered wig.
	So I was seeing a guy two years in jail for a Facebook post.
	I remember, and I've played it again recently, Rowan Atkinson.
	And it was about eight or nine years ago.
	And they were trying to get some free speech back.
	And he had a sign behind him that says, go ahead, insult me.
	I don't want to start locking everybody up because somebody has hurt feelings.
	We can't do that.
	Hate speech, in other words.
	And in it, he was joking about how in the past he had comedy routines where a policeman would just make up rules to put people in jail.
	I think you're walking about at night in a shirt that's too loud.
	You know, that type of stuff.
	And they were able to get that inserted.
	But, you know, we have some pretty good laws protecting free speech as well in the Constitution.
	It doesn't stop mayors or cops from doing whatever they wish, though, right?
	It's a constant fight.
	It's not okay anymore to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred toward women, said the Home Secretary.
	Oh, so does that mean that she's going to do something about the LGBT attacks on JK Rowling?
	No, no.
	They call her a TERF, Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
	In other words, this woman who says, wait a minute, we're being trampled on by the trans crowd.
	Oh, well, then you're a TERF.
	And so they've come after J.K.
	Rowling.
	The Home Secretary's not going to do anything to protect her.
	And the Public Order Act of 1986 prohibits any expression of racial hatred Define his hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group's color, race, or nationality, or ethnic or national origins.
	Isn't that what the Scottish Prime Minister himself did?
	Whomza Yusuf?
	There was so much backlash against him that he resigned, but you know, he was complaining about the fact, this is a guy who was an immigrant from some Middle Eastern country, and he was complaining about the fact that all the people in Scotland, in Scottish government, were white people.
	What do you think?
	If you don't like white people, don't move to Scotland.
	And again, is that an expression of racial hatred?
	Yes, it is.
	Is that hatred because of people's skin color?
	Yes.
	Because of their nationality?
	I hate these Scottish people, says the Scottish National Party leader.
	They hate us.
	It's one of the reasons why they bring in people like Humza Yousaf, to rule over us.
	About the people who are in charge of the governments.
	I absolutely hate anyone who puts the interest of their own country first.
	Which every national leader should be doing.
	And so the Off-Guardian talks about Feudalism 2.0.
	Because it's part of this fascism that is out there.
	How our closed and controlled social media services are now processing every post with a large language model.
	So they have to shut down things like Telegram.
	He said, my hope is that you'll start to see our newspapers only carry the stories which support narratives furthering the globalist desire to fix policy-driven markets.
	Never the stories that contradict them.
	And social media, similarly, down-regulates posts when they are critical of the policies that are being sought.
	And so he gives a couple of examples.
	Again, talking about Europe and the farmers and the fertilizer taxes to shut them down.
	But the down-regulating of posts, he says, well, less so on X now.
	No, I haven't noticed any difference at all.
	None whatsoever.
	Twitter, it's interesting to see that the mainstream alternative media, and we know who that is, it's a lot of these people who are being promoted, on social media.
	People with a lot of ties, interestingly enough, even though they're supposed to be alternative media, they have tremendous amount of ties to the CIA, including family and friends and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's just a coincidence, I'm sure.
	But the mainstream alternative media, heavily promoted on Twitter, it truly is amazing to see it.
	While others are banned.
	Jason Barker, given multiple examples, I could tell you about my story yet again, but I won't bore you with the details.
	But again, as he talks about the deliberate attempt to shut down farmers with fertilizer taxes and other things like that, so the globalists can buy up their land.
	He said the Amazon series Clarkson's Farm.
	Jeremy Clarkson used to be a Top Gear.
	Now he's got a series on Amazon talking about his farm.
	He just bought a pub as well and opened it up.
	He says everything here, except for a couple of liquor things that he sells, everything would be from locally sourced from the UK.
	And it's an ongoing narrative about the regulatory and obstacles that are put in his way and other things like that.
	The difficulty of running a farm, the difficulty of running a pub.
	But he says it's fertilizer tax alone.
	Threats to put many farmers out of business.
	Well, that's the purpose of it.
	It's not something that was planned.
	It is all excused by the climate fear.
	The fear.
	I would suggest that instead of it being used as a tool to take everything that the farmers got.
	Well, of course, that is exactly the purpose.
	So the Twitter files have conclusively shown that dissenters were rounded on, subject to de-boosting, shadow banned, outright banned.
	He says, I'm a lifelong conservative and yet The paper in the UK, the UK Telegraph, I have been banned from commenting on the Telegraph because I continually, politely but firmly, pointed out their hypocrisy in relation to the mRNA vaccines and the fact that the Telegraph were receiving sponsorship from the Gates Foundation.
	They've consistently dragged their feet on publishing verified truths about vaccine harms, despite the fact such stories are the very height of public interest.
	Ah, but they're not interested.
	They get money from the Gates Foundation.
	I hope people, he said, will become aware that we have for some time, in fact, been living in an age of global fascism 2.0.
	And unlike fascism, as it was earlier in the 20th century, fascism 2.0 is pushed by corporate interests co-opting national government rather than national government co-opting corporate interest.
	I think that's a distinction without a difference.
	Fascism was and is, that's the reason he calls it fascism 2.0, it was and it is a merger between corporations and government.
	And many people are blind to it because they think fascism is nothing but nationalism.
	There's nothing wrong with nationalism per se.
	Unless it becomes this kind of fascism.
	And the left wants to demonize all corporations, all business, including small mom-and-pop business.
	They believe that corporations can do nothing right and can do nothing and always do wrong.
	And of course the conservatives believe that about government.
	That it can do nothing right and only do wrong.
	I think I lean more towards that view.
	But both of those views are wrong because neither of them take into consideration the merger of the corporations and the businesses.
	And that brings out the absolute worst of both of them.
	So the battle we're in right now, he says, is to stop fascism 2.0 before it brings us a new age of feudalism 2.0.
	Because that's where we're headed, and rather quickly.
	In this article I refer to how large language models are used by social media firms to police content and how the monitoring capacity of large language models is ripe for integration with external agencies.
	That's where the enslavement comes.
	The surveillance and police state.
	Enabled by artificial intelligence.
	Because that's its superpower.
	Its superpower is matching patterns and putting those things together.
	It doesn't think.
	What appears to be thinking is matching patterns, but what it can do is match us to our biometric data.
	It can match our patterns of behavior to things that have been proscribed to be punished by the government.
	It is the perfect tool of tyranny, artificial intelligence.
	And of course, as they use it to remove jobs as well, it is a perfect tool of another kind of slavery, universal basic income.
	There can be little doubt that plans are afoot for this kind of feudalism.
	and you're dependent on them for a handout.
	There can be little doubt that plans are afoot for this kind of feudalism.
	You can be sure these plans will be dressed up in nice language, he says.
	They'll be filled with caring words.
	We're worried for you because your thoughts are wrong and they're harming you.
	In an article in the British Medical Journal published this January on how large language models can be used to combat vaccine hesitancy, the article is set in the context of the WHO having designated such vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 global health threats.
	Vaccine hesitancy, a global health threat.
	The vaccines are the number one global health threat that we understand.
	But this is what they said.
	Vaccine hesitancy is a state of indecision before accepting or refusing a vaccination.
	Good!
	That means I'm not vaccine hesitant.
	I'm not in a state of indecision.
	I decided long ago that I would have no more vaccines and neither would my family.
	And I said before, this is literally a hill to die on.
	You want to stab me with something?
	Well, I'll shoot you if you do something like that, in self-defense.
	And I'll feel absolutely, 100% justified defending my life.
	I view the vaccines as deadlier than being stabbed with a knife, quite frankly.
	It is a dynamic and context-specific challenge that varies across time and place.
	It is challenging to predict.
	It is harder to tackle.
	Talking about vaccine hesitancy.
	Additionally, the emergence of misinformation in public health, notably during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for rapid data-driven response.
	Well, if you don't show me your data, don't talk to me about data-driven responses.
	It's all BS and PCR.
	The PCR was designed to give it a scientific veneer when there's no data at all, when it's not at all real.
	So, we should not be conspiratorial, he says, in response to that.
	No, we should be conspiratorial, because it is a conspiracy.
	It's not a theory.
	It is a conspiracy.
	Again, conspiracy is the number one charge, unless we're going to replace it with complicity now.
	As the French are doing.
	Indeed, I'm sure there's nothing sinister about the authors, although I fear that they may be a little blind to the real threat.
	Stupid is as stupid does, okay?
	Sinister is as sinister does.
	Let's not try to make excuses for these people.
	Let's stop them.
	Stop making excuses for these people.
	Stop making excuses for Trump.
	Stop making excuses for the WHO.
	Stop making excuses for the IRS or the police or the people who do this stuff.
	Stop making excuses for people like that mayor in Surprise, Arizona.
	They make enough excuses for themselves.
	We don't need to give them any excuses.
	They need to be held accountable.
	We're talking about government here.
	Government is not about mercy.
	Government is about justice.
	And there needs to be some justice about this stuff.
	He says, but for me, it's illustrative of the role that large language models will increasingly shape our communication and on and on.
	This is what they really want to do.
	They really want to Stick us into complete monitoring and surveillance.
	And part of it is a digital ID.
	Tech giants and AI researchers propose digital ID requirements to use the Internet.
	But they admit that it restricts liberties.
	This is from Wine Press News.
	Look.
	OK, so you look at the digital ID thing.
	Is this being driven by corporations or is it being driven by the government?
	The government is paying these corporations.
	Quite frankly, that's the one thing I disagree with him on.
	The fact that, you know, we don't need to make this conspiratorial.
	And the fact that, you know, some people are going to lean towards criticizing one group or the other.
	And again, as a conservative, I lean towards criticizing government.
	I admit my bias.
	However, understand that the internet was a government idea.
	It was a DARPA idea, even worse.
	J.C.R.
	Leclerc in the 1960s, a psychologist, and when it became practical with the switching, the state of the electronics with the switching equipment, things like that.
	When it became practical in the late 1990s, The CIA, the NSA, DARPA, all these guys, put all their people on these venture capital boards.
	They even created In-Q-Tel, a CIA venture capital firm, to create these companies.
	These companies are creations of government.
	Social media companies, Google, all of them, they're creatures of government.
	And I think it is coming from government.
	We look at Microsoft, right?
	Bill Gates is just interested in stealing a lot of money and becoming ridiculously rich and stealing ideas from digital research and Apple and other people like that.
	Then they called him in on monopoly charges.
	Did you see anything change?
	Did they open up the markets?
	No, no.
	Instead, what he did was he became complicit, to use the French term, he became complicit With the government, in terms of helping them.
	And so now, you know, Microsoft is not just Bill Gates being behind vaccines and everything.
	Bill Gates was behind ID2020.
	Not just the Immunization Agenda 2030, IA2030.
	And Bill Gates has been at the center of all these things.
	When we talk about IDs, things like that.
	Coalition for Content Provenance and Authentication.
	They go to Microsoft to organize this thing.
	Organize hardware, uh, and software companies, the CPU companies, as well as like, you know, the, uh, the companies like Adobe that you use to create video and audio and things like that to mark and to identify you.
	And they go to Microsoft to run it.
	When they go to elect when they create election guard and news guard, they go to Microsoft to organize it and run it.
	And so they either, uh, create these companies or they blackmail them.
	Yeah.
	It's a nice business.
	You got their gates.
	It'd be a shame if you were to lose it.
	But you know, on the other hand, you could become one of the biggest companies, our partner, you want partner with us, or we'll put you out of business, put you in jail.
	Maybe who knows.
	This is the way these guys operate.
	It's a criminal.
	The government is criminal, especially the American government.
	We are the globalist Washington, DC.
	A number of technology-based academics, including MIT and Oxford, and then representatives from big tech companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft, contend that implementing a universal digital ID system should be put in place in order to use the Internet and social media which they claim Would be used to stop fraud and phishing and guarantee one's identity and protection.
	And of course, it's going to protect the kids too.
	You know, conservatives are doing this as well.
	Oh, we don't want kids getting pornography online.
	Well, then, you know, as a parent, do something about it.
	But now what they'll do is they'll use that as justification to have an ID to get on the internet.
	Anonymity is an important principle online.
	However, we have malicious actors out there.
	And we've even got people like Jordan Peterson.
	He doesn't like trolls, anonymous trolls.
	And so he said, there ought to be some ID out there for people to use this.
	We need to know who these people are.
	Well, guess what, Peterson?
	Then the government's going to be coming after people for what they say.
	Because that's the kind of government we've got.
	And if you're calling for the end of anonymity, you're calling for people to be punished because of their speech.
	That's the purpose of this, when Jordan Peterson is doing that.
	Those people are saying bad things about me, and I want them wished into the cornfield, and I want them punished.
	And so they're coming up with this new thing called personhood credentials, P-H-C.
	Digital credentials that empower users to demonstrate that they're real people.
	I don't need to be empowered by government, and to put a number on me is a mark of slavery, not empowerment.
	Boy, you talk about these organizations, how they turn everything upside down, inside out.
	But I guess you're not a person if the government doesn't recognize you, right?
	Is that right?
	So now I'm going to get personhood credentials.
	Well, the reality is that when you do that, as we go to government more and more to beg permission to do this or to do that, to ask for privileges to be granted to us, we become more and more creatures of the state, rather than
	People who are created in the image of God, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, know if you have to get personhood credentials, you now have made yourself a slave.
	A slave to the state.
	Personhood credentials give people a way to signal their trustworthiness.
	Don't trust me.
	Don't trust anybody.
	Think for yourself.
	Seriously.
	So, and I would tell the government and the corporate fascists, maybe you need to signal your trustworthiness.
	Maybe you need to do that first, before you demand that from me.
	So, the State Department has colluded with social media to censor content, and there's more Twitter files that have come out.
	But again, they're going to focus on the Biden administration.
	These are the new ones.
	And Paul Thacker released the latest batch of Twitter files showing that Biden is doing this.
	We know that.
	Uh, what people don't know, but should know is that Donald Trump was doing this as well.
	It was a Trump administration.
	I mean, if you're going to blame Biden, Biden is just a, Biden doesn't know where he is or what time of day it is, but you know, it is the administration that, uh, everybody has.
	Focus on.
	So we call it the Biden administration.
	But Trump has responsibility for what's done in his administration, doesn't he?
	I guess not, right?
	We'll be right back.
	Bye bye.
	you They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
	They created Common Past to track and control us.
	Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
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	TheDavidNightShow.com While we have major school district will not allow students to opt out of the LGP propaganda Oh, lessons, they mean.
	Regardless of whether or not the parents wish to do so.
	And I'm going to schooling right now because, folks, as I said at the beginning, this really is what is going to determine the kind of society we live in.
	Every problem that we have with all this Marxism and the struggle sessions and all the rest of this stuff is because of indoctrination by the so-called education system.
	It's not a system of education.
	It's a system of indoctrination.
	And it's going to be a fight.
	To keep homeschooling going.
	Because if they're coming after the parents of those who are in school to this degree, you know they're going to be coming after homeschooling.
	And it's not safe.
	It was a major fight about the time that we started.
	It started to ease up.
	But there have been a lot of people who had died resisting their children being taken away from them because they wanted to homeschool.
	We have a family that Biden tried to deport, a family of white Germans, Christians, who had escaped Germany because they were going to have their kids taken away from them.
	They're going to be put in jail simply because they homeschooled.
	And they were given asylum in America and had been here for many, many years, 10 or 15 years or something.
	And yet Biden wanted to send them back.
	There was a big outcry about that and they backed off.
	But of all the illegal immigrants coming in, these people were actually political refugees.
	Recognized, I think, by the Obama administration even.
	And yet they wanted to throw them out.
	Illegal aliens, people with criminal records, pedophiles, you name it.
	Oh, just open up the gates, let all these people come in.
	We don't care about that.
	These are people who actually followed a process and were legitimate refugees.
	A family.
	That it's self-supporting.
	They want to send them back.
	Their crime?
	Well, I don't know.
	White Christian homeschoolers.
	There's three strikes against them.
	I mean, that's, you know, you're out.
	Three strikes and you're out.
	But this is really about the village taking our kids.
	Every time I hear the village and all these, the people from Hillary Clinton and all the rest of them.
	About how it takes a village to raise a kid.
	I always think of the prisoner.
	Where am I?
	You're in the village.
	What do you want?
	Your children.
	And information.
	Right?
	That's what they want.
	They want your children.
	That's enough reason.
	Let's fight them over this.
	A Colorado school district is implementing an LGBT toolkit that will force students to attend lessons on related topics, even if their parents disapprove.
	The toolkit was created by the Denver School District and updated in July, prohibiting students from opting out of LGBT lessons and curriculum, no matter if a student or their parents have different beliefs.
	Again, because the LGBT stuff is something of religion, being handled as a religion by the schools.
	There is no parental permission required for teaching these topics, and the only possible way to opt out is for sex ed lessons. The Denver Public Schools also offer several books on LGBT topics. The document states, the toolkit notes, that age-appropriate LGBT topics being taught will be allowed for every grade level. Well, I've talked about this for the longest time and
	somebody asked me about the court case. I tried to find it, but it's so old it's not in, I can't find it on the internet.
	It was late 80s, early 90s, and it was in Massachusetts.
	And the father had an eight-year-old daughter, and they were going to put the daughter in a sex education class.
	He says, I don't think that's age-appropriate for my daughter.
	And it wasn't transgender, gender-swapping and all that kind of stuff, no.
	This is just straight-up mechanics of sex in that time.
	He says, my eight-year-old daughter doesn't need to know that, and I don't want her in that class.
	I said, no, she can't get out.
	So he knew what time the class was going to be.
	He went there at that point in time and was going to remove her.
	Since they would not remove her, he was going to take her out of school at that point in time.
	They arrested him for trespassing and the judge upheld that and said, when you drop your kid off at the school, you are surrendering them to the state.
	And we will operate in place of the parents.
	And they even had a Latin term for it.
	In loco parentis.
	In place of the parents.
	And that's what they're doing with all of this stuff.
	The LGBT topics are part of the school district's commitment to equity and inclusion.
	Except that they exclude parents.
	Except that they exclude religion.
	Except that they exclude biology.
	Right?
	We need to not allow them to use these kinds of languages.
	Call them out when they talk about inclusivity and equity and diversity.
	They don't believe in any of those values.
	They don't want a diverse society.
	They want, I mean, when you look at what is happening in Europe, right?
	Europe used to be very diverse.
	You had all these different languages, different currencies, different cultures, different architecture, different styles of dressing and all that kind of stuff.
	That's one of the things I thought was so amazing about it when I was able to go there as a student in 1973.
	The fact that you had these tiny little countries compared to the way things are in the United States.
	They drive just a little distance and, you know, you're in a completely different environment.
	Everything has changed.
	The money, the language, you name it.
	But now what they're trying to do is impose this bland, gray mediocrity.
	They want to erase culture and everything else and dumb everything down into this commonality.
	Parents in Maryland have had similar issues regarding school laws keeping parents in the dark when it comes to gender transitions.
	And in May, the Supreme Court denied hearing a case about this.
	Washington is not going to come to your rescue.
	This is the Supreme Court that is now so conservative, we're told.
	So conservative that the liberals want to pack it with their people.
	The Supreme Court denied hearing a case about a school in Maryland that hid students' gender identity from their parents.
	There will be no help coming for you in Washington.
	You have to do this at the local level.
	What would be the appropriate response?
	So you've got a school district here that decides that they are going to, whether you like it or not, they're going to take the children that you've given to them You drop them off at school, you have surrendered them to the state.
	And they're going to operate in place of you.
	And so, what is your option?
	Should you start fighting for that school district?
	Should you try to shut down the school system?
	Should you take your kids out?
	Start homeschooling them?
	I mean, that'd be the most obvious first step, right?
	Take your kids out of that school and homeschool them.
	Or we could just leave them there and hope that we're going to get somebody in the Supreme Court to fix it.
	This is what the media wants you to believe.
	And what the media is saying about homeschooling, this is an article on Mises.org.
	The National Home Education Research Institute shows a staggering increase in the number of homeschool students since the 1970s.
	238 times the number of homeschoolers that were there in the 1970s.
	And of course, a lot of that happened with a surge in homeschooling during COVID lockdown.
	You can see that in that chart there.
	Scroll that up a little bit, Travis, so people can see the full chart.
	No, no, no.
	Show them the chart.
	There you go.
	And so you see, it's basically negligible.
	In 1973, 13,000 homeschoolers in all the United States.
	But now it is up to tens of millions.
	I'm sorry, millions.
	3.7 million was the peak that was set in 2021.
	Fell back a little bit, but that number, when it fell back in 2022, is still above the trend.
	It's still above the trend. So it's still high. The data shows there's already a long-term pre-COVID trend of growth in homeschooling from 13,000 to two and a half million in 2019 and got all the way up to 3.7 million at the height of the pandemic lockdown.
	But then you have the Washington Post, the mainstream media, now starting to take notice of this.
	And the Washington Post quotes a Harvard law professor who says, policymakers should think, wow, this is a lot of kids.
	We should worry about whether they're learning anything.
	Well, why don't you look at your government-run schools and ask if the kids are learning anything?
	They aren't.
	They're being indoctrinated.
	They're being told that they're in the wrong body.
	That seems to be the main concern of our schools now.
	So, look at your own government school.
	But even the Washington Post, says Mises, can't avoid mentioning what parents say about the reasons for rejecting public schools.
	They cite violence, exposure to explicit photos, videos on other students' phones, and the intrusion of politics into public education.
	The Washington Post article goes completely tone-deaf.
	When it says that homeschool groups quote often cluster by shared ideology.
	You mean like the reporters of the Washington Post?
	You mean like the reporters and all the mainstream media?
	How they cluster together with a shared radical leftist ideology?
	See folks, we're not going to win unless we win the hearts and minds.
	You're not going to have free speech if you can't have free thought.
	You're not going to have freedom of religion if you don't have freedom of education.
	If we want to take this back, it's real simple.
	You start with the kids.
	That's how they got to where we are today.
	They came after the kids and been coming after the kids for decades.
	If we don't wise up to this and come after the kids ourselves, after our own kids, if we don't take the responsibility that God gave us for our children, if we abandon them to the state as the state says we are, If we continue to do that, we have abandoned everything about our own future.
	It used to be a time when we had the people who built the society that we inherited, the society that created the good things that we enjoy.
	And I'm not talking about the material stuff.
	I'm talking about the freedoms and things like that.
	And again, the opportunity that was there.
	The people who created that society We're looking for future generations.
	They were not self-serving, self-interested, greedy people like Ayn Rand libertarians look at.
	Okay?
	It was not about that.
	It was about people doing things for other people, especially their children.
	They took an interest in their children.
	They were more interested in their children than they were in themselves.
	And if we don't do that, we don't deserve to have a society, and we won't have a society.
	We'll be reaping what we sow.
	It also means that children are in danger of not learning basic academic skills, said The Week.
	They also published an article attacking homeschooling.
	They're not learning basic academic skills or learning about the most basic democratic values of our society.
	Are they learning that?
	In school?
	Are they learning basic academic skills?
	Are they being taught about how government can work?
	How it should work?
	The theories of that?
	Of course not.
	We're getting the kind of exposure to alternative views that enables them to exercise meaningful choice about their future lives.
	Said child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet.
	You can't possibly do worse, parents.
	You can't possibly do worse than government school by any metric.
	By any metric of academic achievement, by any metric of critical thinking, and all the rest of the stuff.
	These people are not exposing your kids to alternative views.
	They're exposing them to some very narrowly designed agenda.
	You learn about democratic values in a rigid, you know, authoritarian, prison-like environment, of course.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's like a combination of this dictator up in front of the class and the Lord of the Flies, you know?
	Your peers are going to socialize you, along with the dictator at the front of the school.
	We can distill the media's view of homeschooling down to one sentence, says Mises.
	Homeschooling is a threat because every child should learn and internalize the state-approved narratives and doctrines regarding history, politics, sex, democracy, COVID, economics, nutrition, social and emotional health, and everything else under the sun.
	In 1979, 45 years ago, Murray Rothbard wrote Education, Free and Compulsory.
	And I want to read you what he wrote 45 years ago.
	We shall see that since the state began to control education, its evident tendency has been more and more to act in such a manner as to promote repression and hindrance of education rather than the true development of the individual.
	Its tendency has been for compulsion, for enforced equality at the lowest level, for the watering down of the subject and even the abandonment of all formal teaching, for the inculcation of obedience to the state and to the group, whatever the group may be at a given moment.
	Rather than the development of self-independence for the deprecation of intellectual subjects, And finally, it is the drive of the state and its minions for power that explains the modern education creed of, quote, education of the whole child and making the school a slice of life.
	They always talk about the whole of government or the whole of society.
	That's the whole idea, the whole idea of public health.
	We don't care about the health of the individual.
	We care about this nebulous thing called the public health.
	Well, the public is made up of individuals.
	And if you don't care about the individual, you don't care about the health of anybody.
	You certainly don't care about the health of the collective.
	And they never did.
	He says, since no one will accept outright state communization of children, even in communist Russia, he wrote this in 1979, It is obvious that the state control has to be achieved silently and subtly.
	Yes, Satan was the most subtle of all, wasn't he?
	Well, I'll finish this up with just one thing, which I think is kind of interesting in a general topic.
	But you may find it interesting from an individual perspective If you're educating your kids.
	And then it sounds like, well, you know, in my day, we used to do handwriting, all the rest of the stuff, but there's a real reason behind that.
	It really does help you to engage your mind.
	It helps you to collect your thoughts.
	Um, and so they said, save handwriting, uh, from extinction.
	IQs began to fall for the first time ever as teachers are warning that some 20 year olds can't sign checks anymore.
	Well, they're going to say, well, that's why you need to have CBDC, right?
	You don't need to sign checks.
	You just let it scan your eye and it'll deduct the credits, you know, from your account.
	If you're allowed to purchase what you want to purchase, it will also determine that maybe you're not allowed to purchase that because it's going to destroy the planet.
	Previous studies have revealed that IQ scores have dropped for the first time in a century and they've indicated that technology could be to blame.
	Well, again, I think it is a symptom of what is going on.
	I don't think it is, um, Uh, you know, it, it contributes to it because, um, the fundamental issue here is attention span.
	You know, one of the reasons why now I got this thing here that I use super note.
	Um, I got this, um, because I had a very specific application.
	I just wanted to have PDFs and be able to annotate them and write notes as I was reading them.
	But a lot of people would get this because they said if I use some kind of there's a lot of different tablets out there that are full-on computers.
	This doesn't have any computer functions at all.
	It is focused strictly on a device that you can Right with and they try to make it more and more the feel of paper and things like that, but also has handwriting recognition, which is something that has helped me to try to work on my legibility.
	But, you know, it has ways to organize that.
	But one of the key selling features from these people was they said that this is not a general purpose computer because the general purpose computer is always distracting you with different things.
	Right?
	Oh, here's a new email.
	Here's a new text.
	Here's a this or that.
	What time is it?
	Can I, oh, let me just pop over to the internet and see what's going on at such and such a place.
	Right?
	Now you can't do that with this.
	And its purpose is to avoid those types of distractions.
	And that's what they're really saying about the handwriting thing.
	Last year, researchers at the university of Oregon and Northwestern reported that IQ scores had dropped because technology shortens attention spans.
	And it decreases the need to think deeply.
	You know, John Williams, the composer of, you know, so many movie scores and everything, still working in his 90s.
	And he doesn't use computers.
	He still does it the way that he always did it.
	Pen and paper.
	All that stuff is pen and paper.
	He lets other people put it into computers if they're going to print out scores and stuff for the orchestra.
	But it's all pen and paper, and he does it because it helps him to concentrate.
	He sits down at a piano with paper and pen and starts writing this wonderful stuff that he does.
	And it helps him to think.
	And so, a new study published in February by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that handwriting is linked to increased cognitive brain function, to motor skills, and to memory.
	And I gotta say, that absolutely is the case with me.
	I'm really bad at remembering people's names when I meet them.
	And I try to do that, but the way that I can remember somebody's name, or anything, is to write it down.
	If I want to memorize something, I write it out.
	And if I want to learn somebody's name, I write it down.
	And that has always worked for me.
	Now, you know, I thought, well, maybe that's just the way I'm wired.
	But they're saying that actually handwriting is linked to increased cognitive brain function.
	So I'm mentioning this for parents who may be homeschooling.
	Don't neglect that.
	It's important to realize that the brain follows the principle of use it or lose it.
	And of course, we've seen this with the London taxi drivers.
	They could even measure the London taxi drivers who had to do the knowledge, who had to memorize all these little fractional streets and everything for the longest time.
	You know, before there was GPS or computers to do it for them.
	They had to memorize where all these different streets were.
	And so they would ride bicycles.
	And do the knowledge, you know, actually ride these roads, and, you know, they're in three-dimensional space, and they're looking at the names of the roads, and it's making a connection with them.
	And they could actually see that they had a particular part of their brain that got larger, significantly larger than the general population.
	And so these guys get this very complicated map, you could say, the final test for them to become a London taxi driver, somebody gets in the car and say, take me to such and such a place.
	And they'd have to do that from knowledge.
	So the brain does follow the principle of use it or lose it.
	When writing by hand, most of the brain is active, and this requires the brain to communicate between the active parts.
	What is that?
	So handwriting, particularly cursive, presents the idea of what's called embodied cognition, meaning that it acts as a switch to lock in your memory.
	So maybe it's not just me.
	Maybe it's other people as well.
	Writing by hand and learning cursive work because they are essentially tactile and sensory, and it helps you to take in the world through engagement.
	Same way as the taxi drivers riding their bicycles through the street, all the sensory and tactile stuff and helping them to memorize those street names as they're doing it.
	Well, that's the tip for the day.
	Now, when we come back, we're going to take a look at what happens when we throw all that stuff away, because that is being thrown away.
	Science is disappearing, and so are the scientists.
	We'll be right back.
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	Yeah, what's going on with our astronauts?
	Are they going to be able to come down or not?
	Yeah, it's, uh, nothing seems to be working too well anymore.
	Especially the stuff from NASA.
	I mean, we're able to get to the moon, right?
	If they could go to the moon, why can't they get somebody to the International Space Station and back?
	Yeah, it's looking more and more fake.
	Isn't the moon launch and the moon shot and everything, isn't that looking more and more fake?
	I mean, there have been at least two movies.
	Done about how they faked it.
	But of course, then they pull back and say, well, no, we didn't really need to fake it.
	It was just a fallback position.
	We're making all the plans to do it, but we really didn't need to because it happened for real.
	Okay.
	Well, NASA has decided to keep two astronauts in space until February.
	There's going to be a two weeks to flatten the curve, but, uh, flatten the curvature of the earth.
	Yeah.
	Flat, flat earth here.
	Uh, two astronauts in space until February.
	Mixing the return on the troubled Boeing capsule.
	And you know, I began with a schooling thing because it really is about deliberately dumbing us down.
	Charlotte Isserby said that in 1980.
	She went to Washington as Reagan became president in 1980.
	Well, she went in 1981.
	But in 1980, when the presidential campaign of the election was, it was Jimmy Carter, And Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education in 1980.
	And Reagan, as part of the campaign, said, I'm going to get rid of it.
	But he didn't get rid of it.
	She went there to help get rid of it.
	But instead, what they did was they kept growing it.
	So she got out and she wrote a book about it.
	Charlotte Azubi deliberately dumbing us down.
	And that's exactly the purpose of the Department of Education.
	And so now that we've had 45 years of this dumbing down, what does it look like?
	Well, it looks like astronauts who are stuck in space.
	I, you know, the thing is, is that I don't believe anymore that the moon shot was real.
	I mean, I was watching all that stuff when I was in school and that looks pretty fake, but you know, we could say that's difficult to get cameras that are going to give a good picture and to transmit it and all the rest of this stuff.
	But.
	You know, as you look at this over the years, and as you realize, they destroyed not only the engines, but they destroyed all the plans.
	Why would you do that?
	Why would you do that?
	And so, and besides other issues in terms of photographs and shadows and things like that that are there, but why would you destroy even the plans of this stuff?
	Uh, but, um, now NASA has decided, um, that it's too risky to bring two astronauts back to earth and Boeing's space capsule, which was the first time it was used.
	And it has been an unqualified disaster.
	They'll have to wait until next year for a ride home and get it from SpaceX from Elon.
	What should have been a week long test flight will now last more than eight months, you know, because of science.
	Okay.
	Because we can't do science anymore.
	Because we've turned it all over to government.
	And I'll show you what that looks like.
	What has happened to NASA?
	It's not just Boeing.
	Everybody talked about how Boeing was, you know, everything is, again, Boeing is the sound that the parts make when they fall off of their planes and space capsules now.
	But Boeing is a poster child.
	For what happens when the company becomes focused on DEI, did not earn it.
	We're going to put people in because of, because we're going to discriminate based on race and skin color and sex and all the rest of the stuff.
	They've been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June.
	Again, it was going to be a week-long test flight.
	A cascade of vexing thruster failures and helium leaks in the new capsule marred their trip to the space station.
	They ended up in a holding pattern as engineers conducted tests on the ground to see what they could do.
	And as they were doing some tests on the ground, they found some more concerns.
	The RAND Corporation, senior engineer who specializes in aerospace and defense, said the U.S.
	is still left with egg on its face.
	Due to the Starliner design issues that should have been caught earlier.
	A SpaceX capsule currently parked at the space station is reserved for four residents.
	So, it's an international space station.
	And it's not just this Boeing capsule that these two came up on.
	There's also a space X capsule that is there.
	And four people have were brought up on that space X capsule and they've been there since March.
	And so, you know, they're not going to make them wait.
	Uh, they're going to let them go back.
	NASA said it would be unsafe to squeeze two more people on the capsule, except in an emergency.
	And then there's also at the space station, a Russian Soyuz capsule.
	And it's capable of flying only three people.
	And, uh, they sent up two Russians who are just finishing up a year at the space station.
	So these two who went up back in February, uh, Wilmore and Williams will wait for SpaceX next taxi flight.
	Due to launch in late September with two astronauts instead of the usual four, NASA is yanking two of them to make room for Wilmore and Williams on the return flight in late February.
	Starliner's woes began long before its latest flight.
	Bad software fouled the test flight without a crew in 2019, prompting an entire do-over three years later, 2022.
	Then parachuting other issues, including a helium leak in the capsule's propellant system that nixed a launch attempt in May.
	The leak eventually was deemed to be isolated and small enough to pose no problem, but more leaks happened after liftoff.
	And then five thrusters also failed.
	Five out of 28.
	In other words, I got about a fifth of these things failing.
	All but one of those small thrusters restarted in flight, but engineers were perplexed when they ran tests on the ground that showed a thruster seal swelling and obstructing a propellant line.
	They theorized, this is their conspiracy theories, right?
	Yeah, they theorized.
	That's the way you solve problems.
	You theorize it and then you test it.
	They theorized the seals in orbit may have expanded and then reverted back to their normal size, which is all very troubling because if you remember the Challenger disaster, what a disaster that was.
	We're told that that happened because of an O-ring issue causing a leak.
	That's why I looked at this stuff and they kept delaying it and delaying it.
	I thought, man, are we going to have another one of those things?
	What a horrific disaster that was.
	They didn't want to comment on the fact that the astronauts survived that long, long, long fall to the ground that happened and knew everything that was happening.
	But after they recovered it, there's been a lot of talk that they even survived crashing into the sea.
	So, they were trapped in that thing, knowing that they were going to die.
	What a horrific thing.
	With all uncertainty about how the thrusters might perform, there was just too much risk for the crew, they said.
	So, these thrusters are vital, besides being needed to rendezvous with the space station, and they're concerned because if they send back the Boeing disaster on autopilot, which is what the plan is, That if the thrusters are not working properly the thing could crash into the International Space Station where you not only have these two astronauts but you got a lot of other people there as well.
	So the thrusters will also keep the capsule pointed in the right direction at the flight's end as the bigger engines steer the craft out of orbit.
	If it comes in crooked it could result in catastrophe.
	It would, depending on exactly how the thing comes in, Probably, you know, could be deflected off in a weird angle, or it could come down and it could burn up the occupants inside if it's in the wrong position, because they have so much more shielding on one side of it.
	I don't know exactly the details of this particular one, but to say that it'd be catastrophic is absolutely sure, regardless of what mode the failure would be.
	NASA went into its commercial crew program a decade ago.
	They wanted two competing U.S.
	companies to take astronauts back and forth after the shuttle program ended.
	Boeing got the biggest part of the slice.
	They got a $4 billion contract.
	SpaceX got $2.6 billion.
	And SpaceX has been going back and forth All this time at Boeing, not so much.
	This is their first flight and it's a disaster.
	They got bogged down in design flaws that set the company back more than a billion dollars.
	Again, DEI.
	People who did not earn it.
	And so they're going to send the Boeing capsule back on its own and then send up the SpaceX later.
	Babylon B commented on it said, study shows 9 out of 10 astronauts choose to be stranded in space rather than get on board a craft built by Boeing.
	They supposedly quote these two that are there now.
	We both agreed that we'd much rather roll the dice and live in space for another six months than climb aboard another one of those Boeing death traps.
	No, thank you, Boeing.
	We'll wait here for Elon.
	That's what he says with it.
	But it's not just Boeing.
	The DEI stuff has thoroughly affected NASA as well.
	NASA's DEI training includes engineers vocalizing that they, quote, feel shame for being white and for taking part in, quote, white supremacy culture.
	Here's a part of one of their struggle sessions that they run now.
	And in doing this work of examining my own intentions and my own actions and their impact, I can see that there's so much more that I could have done to make the projects I've led equally welcoming to Black, Indigenous, and people of color as the white people they have engaged.
	I feel a lot of shame and regret about that.
	And I know that without looking head on at what I've done and not done, I won't be able to do better.
	So I'm looking forward to today's event and to this whole series as steps in my personal and professional journey to make my work more anti-racist and therefore more effective in reaching my aspiration.
	And this may be a review for many of you, but these are those different characteristics that you probably see coming up a lot in our workspaces, especially in the practice of science.
	Perfectionism, a sense of urgency.
	I'm sure all of us are feeling a sense of urgency about some of the deadlines that we maybe have.
	Yeah, just let it slide.
	The idea of power hoarding, the idea of individualism over collectivism.
	Collectivism.
	That's the key value, right?
	Communists.
	Objectivity.
	That's bad.
	Yeah.
	Either or thinking.
	Objectivity.
	That's bad.
	We talk about doing our work and they can really limit the way we are able to connect with communities that come from different cultural backgrounds that don't value these things the same way that white supremacy culture values them.
	Yeah, either or thinking, objectivity, valuing the written word.
	Yeah, these people completely come unmoored from the things that are necessary to do science and engineering.
	So is it any surprise that we're there?
	Yeah, I would say it's one giant step backward for mankind and a major leap into Marxist struggle sessions.
	That's really what these people are about.
	That's nothing other than a Marxist struggle session.
	You can call it woke.
	You can say, well, I have to, it's anti-racism.
	And we're calling out our unconscious bias and everything.
	No, it's a struggle session.
	That's what the Marxists did in China.
	There, it was class-based, economic education-based.
	Here, they have pulled this in to make it about race and gender, meaning sex.
	I don't see those as two different things.
	But that's what they've done in America.
	Deliberately.
	White skin privilege, you know, sold by the weather underground.
	People like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn that got into educational establishment helped to popularize this idea.
	But that's what it's become.
	Objectivity is bad.
	Either or.
	You know, should we do this or that?
	Now, which one of them is going to blow up our space station?
	Well, I don't know.
	I just think we can do everything.
	Let's just paint a pretty teepee on the side or something like that.
	And then this person, here's another one of these struggle sessions.
	I thought the pathway to the space program was science or engineering.
	Little did she realize that the way to get into the space program is with DEI.
	It doesn't have anything to do with math or any of that kind of stuff.
	You know, math, that's either-or thinking.
	That's the idea that there's some right answer to any of this stuff.
	I think one of the things from my own past that has enabled me to share stories in those DEI environments is that I thought back then when I was a kid that the pathway to the space program was science or engineering.
	And now I look at the environment that I'm in and it takes a village.
	It takes a village.
	What I'm really excited about is that our leadership, and not just in heliophysics, not just in my division, but as a center, they want to make a difference and they want to make a change.
	And they know because I mentioned to them, a lot of conversations we have are going to be uncomfortable.
	And if we're not uncomfortable, we're not talking about diversity.
	As NASA continues to collaborate and partner with a lot of these organizations, it lets them know that we're here, right?
	And you're talking about internship opportunities, early career hire opportunities, mid-career, so on and so forth.
	So is there any education for the white people?
	That's a great question.
	So the people that work at Goddard specifically, the white people if you will, they have been amazing to say, we're not here to say that we're going to make all these necessary changes.
	We're here to listen.
	What is it that we can do to be a better ally for you?
	We're not going to work on this, but we're just here to listen to your concerns.
	Yeah.
	How do you feel about this?
	Travis is over there going, shoot myself in the head.
	Yeah.
	If you're an engineer or scientist, you should just shut up and listen.
	It's also important to remember that technology is never advanced by a group of 100 IQ, normal people sitting in a room.
	It's normally one, you know, ultra genius that comes in and advances things.
	Yeah.
	It's never advanced because you're going to pick people who aren't the best at what they do.
	Right?
	And that's the issue.
	Right?
	You want to get rid of discrimination, open it up, but keep the merit.
	Right?
	It should be about merit.
	It shouldn't be about shutting things down based on skin color.
	But these people have totally rejected merit.
	They've totally rejected objectivity.
	They've rejected math.
	We see that all the time.
	You know, math, that's so white.
	You know, we don't want to have any of that stuff.
	So if you're a white engineer, scientist, you just need to shut up.
	Or if you're an engineer and scientist, you just need to shut up and just go with the flow of DEI.
	That's how we get people stuck in space.
	Here's the good news.
	These people who seek to rule over us can't do anything.
	They really are pathetic, but they think that they know better than you because of DEI, but they can't get the thrusters to work.
	I get the whole thrust of their failed argument, don't you?
	And then we have, um, Polaris Dawn mission launches delayed 24 hours due to groundside helium leak, says SpaceX.
	Now, I think that this is not a problem, reading this, it does not appear to be a problem with a SpaceX craft.
	This appears to be a problem with a NASA support system.
	The delay is due to a ground-side helium leak on the Quick Connect umbilical SpaceX.
	That could be under the control of SpaceX, or it could be under the control of NASA.
	I'm not really sure, because this is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
	And nevertheless, this is why nothing is happening.
	These people can't get things off the ground, or they can't get them back.
	It is a total clown show.
	And we're not focused when we focus on politicians and we ignore their tyranny, right?
	We're just focused on their personality stuff.
	Let me just say, it's not just Lala Harris who's out there saying, oh, vote for me because I'm a black female.
	Uh, no, we're really focused.
	Uh, and I'm not saying that, you know, people are voting for Trump or voting for him because he's white.
	I'm saying that they're focused on personality.
	They're focused on his celebrity.
	They're focused on whether they like him or whether they hate him.
	It's all about some kind of a celebrity apprentice game.
	And it is a form, if you will, of DEI.
	Because it's not about objective issues.
	What do you think about this?
	What are you going to do about this?
	What did you do when you were in office about that?
	It's not about any of that stuff.
	And we have ourselves to blame.
	We've abandoned our kids to the state, and we've abandoned reason and objectivity out of politics.
	We don't want to hear it if somebody betrayed us.
	And I see it all the time.
	Anytime somebody criticizes Trump, says, when is he going to talk about what he did to us in 2020?
	When is he going to walk back any of that stuff?
	Well, never.
	He never will.
	Because it's all about him.
	We just had H.R.
	McMaster has just put out a book about his time in the Trump administration.
	And it's one of these classic things.
	He said it was the meetings that he would attend with Trump and the people around him.
	He said it was a competition in sycophancy.
	Oh, Mr. President, they're treating you so unfair.
	Oh, you're absolutely right, Mr. President.
	A bunch of yes men.
	And it's one of these quotes that really distills what's going on, just like Ty Cobb, his former lawyer, said, Trump is a deeply wounded narcissist incapable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest or out of revenge.
	And the fact is that he's surrounded himself with this group of sycophants And we're surrounded with a group of people who say that they care about conservative issues, and yet all they really care about is being a Trump sycophant.
	And that is especially true of the media, of the conservative media.
	They've all become Trump sycophants.
	It disgusts me to see this.
	And I'll name the sites.
	It's not just InfoWars.
	Obviously it's InfoWars, but it's also Breitbart.
	It's also WND.
	It's pretty much every one of these, even the New American.
	It's pretty much every one of these conservative sites that I go to anymore.
	And the media has become so polarized.
	You got Matt Drudge.
	Who is coming up with every kind of crazy dig that he can come up with at Trump.
	And then the other side, making every excuse that they possibly can for him.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	On Rockfan, IRS machine gun.
	Now the machine gun has been declared illegal by a judge, so there you go.
	If we could only get the IRS declared to be illegal, we'd have something there.
	Thank you for the tip.
	Please pray for me, David.
	I just quit my job today to finally come home and be with my wife and children.
	I've turned my life completely over to God.
	I don't know what job He has for me, but I know He will provide for me.
	Thank you for being a great influence in my life over all these years.
	I've listened to you.
	It took a long time for me to put God first in my life, but thanks to you and my pastor, I have.
	Well, God bless you.
	Seriously, and God will bless you.
	You may have some difficult times, but when we go through things, if our intention is to honor God, And we rely on that.
	You can be assured that God will follow through on His promises, and He will bless those and honor those who honor Him.
	And I've got to say, I've seen that, we trust that to be true, and I think you're in for some of the best times of your life, and some of the worst times.
	A tale of two cities.
	City of God, the city of man.
	It's going to be the best of times and worst of times.
	It was in my life, as well.
	When we decided that we were going to trust God and shut down our video stores.
	And really, we didn't intend to do it completely.
	We thought, well, let's sell it, right?
	And then that whole thing blew up, and so it got really rough for us and for the family.
	But God always provided what we needed.
	And, you know, we would have liked to have had more, but God always provided what we needed.
	And it was an amazing time to be able to see God's provision in our life.
	The best time we've ever had, and I mean it.
	You know, it was living hand-to-mouth was great because God was providing that, and it was happening because, you know, we were following Him.
	And when bad things happen, sometimes it can be because God is disciplining you.
	But remember, when things are bad that are happening to you, sometimes it's just training.
	And the Bible tells us that as God's children, He's going to discipline us.
	And it's not a pleasant thing many times.
	And we are always tempted to say, you know, He doesn't love me.
	Why is He doing this?
	Why is this happening?
	This is horrible.
	Why is He letting this happen to me?
	Doesn't he love me?
	Am I on the outs with him?
	And that type of thing.
	It's kind of like the person who's doing basic training in the Marines.
	It's like, this drill sergeant must really hate me.
	He's making me do another force march with a big pack on or whatever.
	No, he's trying to train you for something better that's coming.
	And he's trying to train you so that you don't die in battle.
	And that's what God is trying to do with us as well.
	So God bless you.
	I know that He will.
	You're in for some real interesting times.
	And I mean that in a good way.
	You're going to see God at work because God will bless those who bless Him.
	That's a promise that you can keep coming back to.
	We're going to take a quick break.
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	I think we have to look at these politicians and not get stars in our eyes about their Their personality.
	We need to be focused on issues and not on people.
	But that puts me at odds with a lot of people and it's going to continue to get worse.
	So we really do need your support.
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	And as they do that, as we get closer and closer to the election, first people make the decision to coalesce around the lesser of two evils.
	And then after they have made that decision, they get really prickly about anybody criticizing the person they've decided on.
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	Liberty, it's your move.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	you Yeah, I'll just say one more thing.
	The IRS machine gun, you know, when you say you're doing this because you want to be a better father, better husband, spend more time with your family, God wants that as well, and He really is going to honor that.
	Let's talk about the pandemic stuff.
	And this is ramping up.
	I meant to get to this yesterday.
	I've had several people send this to me.
	This one had the headline and the comment that I liked the best.
	This is from Handy.
	And he says, um, how can you enforce something that is voluntary?
	Here's the headline.
	Massachusetts mosquitoes locked down Massachusetts towns, enforce voluntary curfew to combat deadly EEE outbreak.
	So he says, not the politicians are doing it.
	Um, it's the mosquitoes are locking the town down.
	If you go outside, the mosquitoes are going to sting you.
	It isn't that you're going to be beaten or accosted by cops, but yes, you will be.
	Yes, you will be.
	They say that it's voluntary, but it's not voluntary.
	If you read down to the bottom of the third paragraph here, it says, while the curfew is voluntary and not enforced by law, they didn't bother to pass a law, it's just an edict.
	From some guy who swore to uphold the Constitution and now he's decided that he's going to ignore it.
	While the curfew is voluntary and not enforced by law, means they didn't have a law, the town encourages compliance to protect public health.
	Ah, but it doesn't stop just there.
	Here's how they enforce it, because they do enforce it.
	Residents who wish to use town fields during curfew hours must provide proof of insurance and sign an indemnification form.
	Do you have a law for that?
	No, they don't either.
	They're just going to intimidate people with that.
	What happens if you don't provide proof of insurance?
	What happens if you don't sign their form?
	Who says that they're responsible for you being outdoors anyway, right?
	But I have to show proof of insurance to be outside?
	That sounds like what they do to us with cars.
	Now walking outside has now been turned into a government-granted privilege, like they claim to have done in terms of cars.
	So the, uh, it's an evening curfew and you will have to stay indoors after 6 p.m.
	until September 30th.
	And then on October the 1st, they're going to ramp it up.
	You have to stay indoors beginning at 5 p.m.
	This is a hallmark of what we saw the incrementalism or as Fauci said, You do it with chaos.
	You do it from the inside and you do it iteratively.
	That's how you get people do what you want here.
	And so they're going to start out with 6 p.m.
	because if they started at 5 p.m.
	That'd be more of an irritant.
	I mean, this is all this as well before it gets dark.
	And so if they were to start at 5 p.m.
	Well then, you know, people will be more likely to push back against this thing.
	So let's get them accustomed.
	We'll start with a later date and then we'll, later time, and then we'll move the time up into the afternoon where people have to go inside and stay.
	Because of mosquitoes.
	You know, why change?
	Well, because this is behavioral science.
	It's not medical science.
	And they're doing this incrementally.
	And I just gotta say, you know, when When I grew up in Florida, that's one thing Florida's got, and that is mosquitoes.
	We have lots of mosquitoes, had lots of mosquitoes, still do, I guess, in Florida.
	And so we would have these trucks that would go around spraying stuff.
	This is why they're saying to people, you got to go indoors because we're going to spray aerial stuff.
	Well, when I was a kid, they would come around with these mosquito foggers.
	I mean, we actually lived on a small lake.
	And they would come around, especially around the lake area, with the mosquito foggers.
	And of course, we stayed outside most of the time after we got out of school, which people don't do anymore.
	And maybe that's one of the ways they're going to get this through in Massachusetts, I guess.
	Is there anybody outdoors anyway?
	I usually don't see anybody outdoors.
	But we'd get out of school and we'd go outside and play.
	We'd get driven out by our mothers to go outside and play.
	And then when it was dinner time, they'd ring a big bell and we'd all go back to our homes to eat dinner and that type of thing.
	It was very common.
	But then when the mosquito fogger came around, we'd all get out of the house and we would follow the mosquito fogger.
	Uh, which was spraying out, um, all kinds of stuff.
	DDT, chlordane, lindane.
	Go back and look at this stuff.
	It's amazing that we're still alive, isn't it?
	Uh, we took the vaccines.
	We followed the mosquitoes, fucking trucks and all the rest of this stuff.
	Um, so, uh, they're worried about the Eastern equine encephalitis.
	Uh, so this is, uh, uh, horse brain stuff.
	Maybe Ivermectin works on it, right?
	It's for horses, y'all.
	Well, this is equine.
	Equine encephalitis.
	So, it's a recommendation, says this article, but the other one made it clear that they're going to harass you and require things of you if you're outside.
	So, Massachusetts is kind of, this is a test, right?
	The PCR is not a test, but this is the test.
	This is a test of your critical thinking.
	This is a test of your will to be free and a test of your compliance to their arbitrary and capricious orders.
	So far this year, Massachusetts, there's only been one human case of this.
	And you notice that the person didn't die or they would have said that the person had died.
	They would have pushed all the panic buttons and this person died.
	No, he didn't die.
	It's only been one human case of this.
	How do they know that it was a case of that?
	Well, they probably did a PCR test.
	Who knows if the person even had it.
	But they've had mosquitoes that have tested positive for EEE.
	The infected person who lives in Oxford remains hospitalized and is courageously battling this virus.
	Or battling whatever they're sick from, along with a PCR test identifying the virus.
	The lockdowns are considered to be recommendations and there will be no enforcement if residents do not comply, said a town spokesman.
	Except that you have to show proof of insurance and sign a paper saying that you are outside at your own risk.
	Imagine that.
	Schools are working to reschedule and to adjust their sports schedules.
	So practices and games occur before these evening times and on weekends, they said.
	So be afraid.
	Be very afraid.
	And I'm surprised because, you know, why don't they just make a waiver there and say, you know, we can play football or whatever because the mosquitoes aren't going to bother us with that.
	Fauci, by the way, is also battling something exotic.
	He's supposedly in the hospital with West Nile virus, or was.
	He's now at home.
	He's alive!
	I feel like it was John Adams.
	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies.
	They did make up in the latter years, but they've been opponents.
	Adams was president and Jefferson was vice president, and they had very different ideas about America.
	But they became friends later in life, corresponded a lot, and as John Adams was dying, he lamented, Jefferson lives!
	Jefferson had just died.
	They both died on the 4th of July.
	I think it was 25 years after the Declaration of Independence.
	Would that be right now?
	No, I don't think so.
	May 50 or something.
	Um, but, um, anyway, um, I feel that way.
	Fauci lives.
	Uh, but, uh, send him to West Nile.
	I'd like to, I'd like to actually have this guy be sent to West, not the West Nile and never come back.
	Uh, just to stay there.
	An Iowa man has now been arrested because he distributed videos, sadistic videos.
	Showing monkeys being tortured.
	This is not Fauci, by the way.
	Fauci tortures beagles.
	This person was torturing monkeys.
	And it's okay for Fauci to torture beagles.
	Not a problem.
	And as I've said many times, nobody's concerned about Fauci working with Planned Parenthood to harvest organs from living babies so he can create human mice, humanized mice, and then torture those humanized mice.
	Nobody cares about that.
	They don't care about the trafficking in body parts from that psychopath.
	And it is sick to have torture videos of animals.
	Torturing animals is a hallmark of psychopaths.
	You know, mass murderers.
	Ted Bundy and stuff like that.
	Or Fauci.
	Torturing animals is always something that psychopaths do.
	So if people had been more concerned about Fauci torturing beagles, perhaps we could have stopped him before he committed his mass murder on a global scale.
	This man, 41 years old, charged in U.S.
	District Court in Cincinnati with conspiracy.
	There's that word again.
	Conspiracy to create and distribute the videos and with actually distributing the videos themselves, right?
	But again, we don't care about what Fauci did with any of this stuff.
	He actually went to Indonesia and he paid children to crush animals and have it filmed.
	These are sick people.
	But I think it's a big sickness in our society that we don't care when that happens to babies.
	This election, this Democrat Party, is making this their number one issue.
	The fact that they want to crush babies.
	Crush their skulls.
	And we vote for these people, right?
	We hold this up as a virtue.
	It's kind of mass murder.
	Or make it a virtue as to what was done with the vaccines.
	The world's first lung cancer vaccine trials.
	Didn't we already do that with the Trump and Fauci mRNA?
	Didn't we already put out some cancer vaccines?
	Oh no, this is not... These vaccines are supposed to stop cancer, not cause it.
	Yeah, the world's First mRNA lung cancer vaccine.
	Well, actually, it's probably about the fifth one of the mRNA lung cancer vaccines.
	Cancer causing vaccines.
	The new jab will instruct the body to hunt down and kill cancer cells.
	That sounds like a therapeutic.
	Are they going to change the definition of their vaccine again?
	That's all a problem and solution, isn't it?
	So, uh, We have in Nashville, the leftist mayor there is now having to adjust the face mask restrictions in public policy.
	Why are they doing this?
	Well, for the same reason that you've got a lot of these liberal places are saying, well, we're going to stop the mask requirements.
	And we're not even going to, they stopped the requirements, but now they're going to prohibit masks.
	So first she had to do the mask.
	Then it's like, it's up to you.
	And now you can't do the masks.
	Because it's all about Simon Says.
	And they did it in the Northeast because they wanted to stop the protesters that were getting violent and destructive, the Palestinian supporters that were doing that.
	In Nashville, they're claiming that this is to stop white supremacists.
	And as the Tennessee Star says, these parades that they've had, where there hasn't been any violence by the way, supposedly white supremacist groups, they said there's been a lot of questions as to whether or not that was a false flag.
	But nevertheless, they were peaceful.
	Not even mostly peaceful, completely peaceful.
	This new legislation is to boost public safety.
	Of course.
	Wearing a mask is about public safety.
	Prohibiting wearing of a mask is also about public safety.
	It's all about compliance.
	Uh, so it's going to boost public safety, um, and, uh, political tensions they said are high.
	This legislation will help to discourage behavior that can spark violence.
	The mask restriction is aimed at preventing groups like Patriot Front from concealing their identities while marching in Nashville.
	Previous demonstrations have included marchers with faces obscured by masks as they carried Nazi icons, but nobody was harmed with it.
	The mayor additionally submitted proposals he said would create buffer zones to maintain public safety around public buildings and parking lots.
	These are speech restrictions, in other words.
	That would ban distracting signs on highways.
	Or prevent distribution of handbills on private property before sunrise or after sunset.
	Because the mosquitoes are out, you know.
	No, this is all about controlling speech.
	And the interesting thing is, is that Nashville was one of the places where one of the Tennessee Three came from.
	Remember the Tennessee Three?
	These were radicals and a giant mob who occupied the legislative building there in Nashville.
	Shut down the process.
	Took over the floor of the house.
	Screaming with a bullhorn, refusing to leave.
	A mob of people that were pushing and shoving legislators and the state police who tried to escort them in.
	The state police did not come out with armored riot gear and start beating people.
	They just used their bodies to shield the legislators.
	I mean, they were very controlled and respectful in the way they did it.
	But as a response to that, the legislature said we're kicking those three out of the legislature.
	And then you had communities like Nashville, where this mayor is, reinstate them and put them right back in.
	They didn't care about that.
	But they care about this other group, and so they have to pass some regulations saying that you can't say this or put up billboards that we think are distracting.
	Very subjective.
	So despite questions and rumors regarding whether or not Patriot Front is a false flag group, the media there in Nashville is repeating the claim that the marchers were part of a white nationalist group.
	And then, when we look at the pandemic, I think this is interesting.
	I said from the very beginning, and I remember having John Rapoport on, we were two weeks into it, Easter was coming up, And we were both saying, the way we can stop this, Christians have it within their power to show this whole thing as a fraud.
	Just go back to church on Easter and just do what you normally do.
	And eventually churches started doing that.
	And churches that have demographics that are highly skewed towards the elderly people, who were supposed to be the most vulnerable ones, churches were showing that it was a total fraud.
	That's why they arrested those pastors in Canada.
	Because you can't have the churches meeting, it shows that there is no pandemic, that there is no contagion out there.
	And so the Orthodox churches have boomed in attendance because they didn't comply with this stuff.
	For almost half of the U.S.
	Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions and incense and kissing icons and crosses, and receiving communion from a shared spoon and a shared chalice.
	They're all drinking out of the same cup, not just the masks and things like that.
	Well, you want to show that this whole theory about pandemic and a contagion is false, you have a bunch of old people get around on a weekly basis and start drinking out of the same cup.
	Liturgical services continued for anyone wanting to attend in person, according to a new study of how the denomination weathered the pandemic.
	Orthodox churches overall were reluctant to embrace virtual worship compared to all religious congregations.
	By spring of 2023, 75% of all U.S.
	In 2023, 75% of all U.S. congregations provided remote options, but only 53% of Orthodox churches did.
	other US.
	congregations that are on average 8% below their pre-COVID attendance, Orthodox churches have recovered their in-person attendance on average by the spring of 2023.
	Using data survey from 2020 through 2023, they found that 44% of Orthodox churches remained open throughout the pandemic, compared to only 12% of all U.S.
	through 2023, they found that 44% of Orthodox churches remained open throughout the pandemic, compared to only 12% of all U.S. congregations. Only 31% of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get vaccinated, compared to 62% of all clergy telling people to get a jab.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Many Orthodox parishes combine several different immigrant groups and their descendants, from Russians and Ukrainians to Arabs and to Greeks, as well as to converts from other faiths and denominations.
	One Orthodox priest said, well, I figured people are going to make their own medical decisions about the vaccine, so I don't have to hector them about this.
	And he said, besides, I'm a priest.
	What do I know about that stuff?
	You can see why people are coming back, right?
	He said his church, by the way, has grown from about 80 people from before the pandemic to 180 people today.
	Oh, there you go.
	It's more than doubled.
	Because of that attitude.
	In 2020, the church moved services to its outdoor courtyard with an amplified sound system, but then in August, smoke from a major wildfire pushed them back inside.
	And guess what?
	They don't say here, nobody died.
	Nobody died.
	Because there was no contagion.
	There was no pandemic.
	It was fear and panic.
	Again, the most vulnerable people Skewed demographics to the elderly.
	All-cause deaths are surging amongst the COVID vaccinated, says a study that just came out.
	This is the real pandemic, the bioweapon that Trump shot.
	An alarming new study has revealed that deaths from all causes are soaring dramatically.
	This one coming out of Italy.
	And in Italy, they looked at the data that was being cut short.
	So what they like to do, they like to play games with their studies and do it for a very short period of time or whatever.
	And so they looked at a longer timeline in this Italian study and what they found, they collected data that was around this town of Pescara, a population of about 320,000 people.
	And they focused on large cohorts and had large follow-ups.
	A lot of people for a longer period of time.
	Their goal was to verify the real impact of the mRNA shot campaign by comparing the risk of all-cause death between the vaccinated population and the unvaccinated population.
	And they said even though in Europe they had a lot of people who complied with that, they said they still had about 10 to 40 percent of the people in various areas that were not vaccinated.
	That became their control group.
	And we've had people who have made that comment and had t-shirts, I'm the vaccine control group because I'm not getting it.
	And so that was the control group for them.
	What did they find?
	Bottom line, 2.4 times as many deaths from all causes among those who received at least one mRNA shot.
	And if they got two, it was 1.98 times.
	So pretty close with both of those.
	The Italian researchers noted the persistence of significant excesses of all-cause deaths after the deployment of the vaccines, not before.
	And so we have seen this over and over again.
	As a matter of fact, Slay News, who just has this article, Slay News says there was also a study from out of Jordan that showed this and they said there was a study that's also published in Informatics and Medicine Unlocked.
	We've had a lot of these different studies.
	That particular one found that 2.9% of people who received the shots were killed by the vaccine and they said if you take this lower number with an estimated 230 million Americans deemed to be fully vaccinated That would mean that 6.67 million were killed by injections in the United States.
	Over six million killed.
	Could we call it a holocaust?
	Because folks, that's what it was.
	That's exactly what it was.
	Yet another article on Children's Health Defense about a man who died after the vaccine.
	They call it a catalyst, is what the official statement from the hospital officials said.
	Yeah, I agree that the COVID vaccine was at least a catalyst to it.
	Not going to say it was the cause.
	Say that it's the catalyst.
	This is a 34-year-old healthy man.
	His mother is the one who is tracking this down because he died suddenly 16 days after his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
	By the way, according to the statistics in VAERS, he wasn't vaccinated.
	You would not be counted as a vaccinated individual for the so-called pandemic.
	In other words, his death would have been filed statistically as an unvaccinated person who died.
	Because they don't count you as vaccinated until two weeks after your second shot.
	He died two weeks after his first shot.
	He died suddenly.
	Sudden adult death syndrome, which we'd never had before.
	But when they started pushing that, I've shown it many times, the sad story of that mother who realized, wait a minute, uh, they always talked about sudden infant death syndrome and my son died.
	Shortly after he was vaccinated and they called it sudden infant death syndrome.
	Now this is happening to adults who are dying and they call it sudden adult death syndrome.
	And she cried and said, I killed my kid.
	I just, I just realized that.
	No, you didn't.
	It's the people and the politicians and the institutions who deceived you.
	And they're the ones who killed your child.
	And so 226 million people vaccinated in the United States.
	Here's Lala Harris talking about how we had 226 million people dead.
	About two-thirds of the population, she thinks, died from the pandemic.
	She was saying this as the vaccine.
	She's not getting these two numbers confused.
	She said this to encourage people to get vaccinated.
	We're in the middle of a crisis caused by this pandemic that is a public health crisis.
	We're looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died.
	We are in the midst of a public health epidemic that has taken the lives of over 220 million Americans in just the last... See?
	Saying it multiple times.
	Multiple times.
	She just keeps repeating that.
	You keep saying that.
	You just keep lying.
	But of course, she's not the only one lying about that.
	The problem is, you know, we saved tens of millions of lives all over the world, but I can't talk about it because our base, our beautiful base of which some of you are there.
	If you look at the Pfizer vaccine, there were 22,000 people in the placebo group, 22,000 people who got the actual vaccine.
	And the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate.
	From all causes.
	You get angry when we mention the word vaccine.
	Don't get angry.
	How do we stop them?
	And it just seems like it's obviously killing people.
	Like, people are dying, you know?
	It's like, what do we have to do that our own government won't help us?
	Well, you have to stop listening to lobbyists.
	You know, I was not a big person for lobbyists.
	Minister Fairbairn has asked me to address the issue of vaccines and African-American and vaccine safety.
	I want to start out by saying this, and I want to say it emphatically.
	I am pro-vaccine.
	I have always been fiercely pro-vaccine.
	I had all six of my children vaccinated, and I believe that we ought to have policies that encourage full vaccination for all Americans.
	And by the way, he said the other night that vaccines are fine.
	He said it on a show, a television show, that vaccines are fine.
	He's all for them.
	And that's what he said.
	And look, I guess in a certain way, I'm the father of the vaccine because I was the one that pushed it.
	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.
	Yeah.
	Well, we can't admit that we made any mistakes, right, about any of that stuff.
	Because it wasn't a mistake.
	It was full-on deliberate, folks.
	Well, I was going to talk about how we can rebuild American science, but we'll leave that for another day.
	I want to respond to some of the people who have left tips here on Rockfin, Kariusrex, thank you very much, and on Rumble.
	Jeff Weiss, thank you so much.
	That's very generous.
	He says, thank you for your tireless work.
	Blessings from Pastor Jeff Weiss, and wing and a prayer.
	And I was on their program.
	I really enjoyed talking to Jeff and found out that he lives in this area.
	And I apologize, Jeff, for not having got back to you sooner to set up a time because I really would like to meet you and we need to get together.
	I really want to do that.
	I'll try to get that out to you soon.
	So, on Rumble, things were, as I mentioned yesterday, we had some health issues over the weekend.
	On Rumble, that is SynC1M.
	Thank you for the tips, and I highly recommend you getting on Derek Bro's on soon.
	You've been reading some of his articles on Last American Vagabond lately, and I believe it'd be a constructive, interesting conversation.
	I talked to Ryan at Last American Vagabond and vice versa, and we did have interesting conversations when he was on this show and when I was on his show, I think.
	So yeah, I'll look into that.
	A good source for information.
	I've added it to my list.
	Last American Vagabond, that's why I've been covering some of their articles lately.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to be joined with our guest, Donald, I think I got the first name right, Donald Rainwater, who is running as a libertarian, as a third-party candidate in Indiana.
	And I wanted to get him back on, because he was one of the very few people Of any political party, even the Libertarian Party, who was pushing against the lockdowns and all the rest of the stuff in 2020.
	And so he's back now running for governor.
	I want to talk to him about what is happening because I think it is very important that we not put all of our hope on Washington.
	I think it's important what we do at the state and local level.
	I've harped on that many, many times and it is very important.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	Mr. Rainwater, who again is running for office in Indiana, running for governor.
	We'll be right back.
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	You're listening to the David Knight Show.
	All right, folks, and if you want to defend the American Dream, you better start locally.
	And that's why we're going to talk local and state government.
	That's why I was open to I interviewed Donald Rainwater, who had run for governor in 2020.
	We've talked about what was happening during that period of time, and he Got national attention because he jumped up so high in the polls because he's about the only politician in any party that was really tackling this pandemic nonsense.
	And he did a great job of doing that.
	And so he is back and he is running for governor yet again.
	Therainwaterforindiana.com.
	Rainwater and it's F-O-R.
	Indiana.com is his website.
	But we're going to talk about why he's running, what the issues are.
	So thank you for joining us, Donald Rainwater.
	Appreciate it.
	Oh, well, David, thank you so much for having me.
	I really appreciate the opportunity.
	Well, I'm glad to have you on.
	And I think I want to talk about issues because we have everything focused on the two parties and everybody is so focused on just the two parties, focused on personalities and not focused on issues.
	And it's killing us.
	I mean, these agendas that are out there and everything else, nobody is paying attention to that.
	They're so distracted.
	And this personality competition, it's like it's some kind of a beauty contest or talent show or something.
	So let's talk about issues.
	Tell us, first of all, why you're running in Indiana.
	You know, what are the important issues for you?
	Well, you know, first of all, first and foremost, as a libertarian, I believe in limited, very limited government.
	Safeguarding, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, you know, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.
	And so I believe that we need to refocus our government at every level.
	on safeguarding every individual's rights equally and reducing the size and scope of government it is much more difficult for someone with ill intent to utilize government in an inappropriate way if government isn't strong enough to be used in that way.
	So I'm very intent on Reducing the size and scope of government and I heard you talk about the federal government and the importance of state government as well and one of the things that I tell folks in Indiana is that I believe that the Constitution of the United States
	is a fence around the federal government intended to keep it within its intended purpose.
	The slats in that fence are the 50 states.
	The problem is that we've allowed the slats to fall down on the job.
	Our states are not holding the federal government accountable.
	Instead, they're standing there with their hand out Asking for more money, much like Oliver Twist.
	And so the federal government now has the upper hand and that's how things get out of whack.
	So I am running for governor of the state of Indiana because I want to reduce the size and scope of government.
	And I also want to grab the Ninth Amendment with one hand and the Tenth Amendment with the other and tell the federal government to back off.
	Good, good.
	Yeah, I just read an op-ed piece the other day.
	I think it was from Brownstone.
	I'm not sure.
	It might have been from Mises.
	They said, every one of these candidates for president, or be any office actually, should be asked these two questions.
	What is the purpose of government?
	What is the purpose of government?
	You know, and what is its rightful role in our lives?
	And nobody ever asked them something like that.
	That would be so telling.
	I imagine most of them would say the purpose of government is to keep us safe, right?
	You know, I've heard that.
	I've also heard one of my opponents made the comment here a while back that conservativism is government not spending more than it takes in.
	And I think that that's an atrocious assumption.
	Government conservatism is government doesn't take in more than it needs to do its job.
	That's how Calvin Coolidge defined it.
	He said that when government takes in more than it needs, that's legalized robbery, and I agree with him.
	Yeah, and it really needs to come from the standpoint of understanding what the proper role of government is.
	You know, we absolutely need to make government small enough to fit in the Constitution.
	And if it gets that small, we're not going to really worry about how it is financed.
	I mean, it'd be such a small tax.
	I think it was Ron Paul who said that.
	If we got the government to fit inside the Constitution, The way that we raise the taxes wouldn't really matter because it would be so small that we wouldn't notice it.
	Yeah, the problem is that it's gotten so large and so the problem that we see in Washington, one of the reasons why a solution I believe is not going to come out of Washington, the solution is being to keep Washington in Washington and far away from us, but the problem is all of the money.
	And when you look at the fact that Lala Harris got $500 million, half a billion dollars in one month, that was five times the amount that George W. Bush got in 2020, in 2000 I should say, and he was accused of trying to buy the election by Al Gore, who only got $70 million.
	But she gets $500 million in one month.
	Why is that there?
	Well, it's because an election is an advance auction of stolen goods.
	And these people know they're not donating, they're investing.
	And they're going to get more than they put in, a lot more.
	And so that's one of the reasons I think it's growing.
	And I think it's growing at the state level.
	And so let me ask you, you know, when you look at this at the state level, What is typical for your opponents, Republicans and Democrats, to be spending on their campaign?
	What kind of money are they talking about, roughly, when you're a gubernatorial competition, Democrat and Republican?
	I'm sure your budget is not anywhere close to that.
	You're out there doing this as a citizen, but what are they taking in?
	Well, I know that they're taking in Millions of dollars.
	And I'll be honest with you, I am much more concerned with what our General Assembly is taking in and how they're spending it.
	To give you a good example of that, at the beginning of 2023, we had a $4.5 billion surplus in Indiana.
	we had a $4.5 billion surplus in Indiana. So the General Assembly found a way to spend $25 billion, spend that $4.5 billion surplus down, so that then for 2024 and 2025 budgets,
	they made sure that they spent in the budget the money they thought they were going to be able to to We'll see you next time.
	receive so that there would not be a surplus that they had to give back to the citizens.
	And that, I think, is an example of this idea that, well, it's conservative for me to say that we don't spend more than we take in.
	And that assumption is that we can figure out how to get it out of your pocket.
	We're going to spend it and we don't care whether you need it or not.
	And I think that's both unethical and immoral.
	Yes.
	And I think that this is part of the problem that we have in Indiana.
	One of our big issues right now, most all citizens are frustrated with property taxes because even though we have a constitutional amendment in Indiana that says that residential property tax is 1% of the assessed value of the property, they reassess every year and they keep making that assessment go higher and higher,
	which means that people's property taxes go up.
	And if their property taxes are escrowed into their mortgage, that means their mortgage payment goes up every year.
	We've got senior citizens who've had their forever homes where all their memories of raising their children and all of their other significant events through their life have taken place and now they've paid off their mortgage but they can't keep their home because they're on a fixed income and they can't afford their property taxes anymore. And our state government doesn't seem to care.
	They're more worried about funneling money to economic development emissions at both local and at the state level.
	We have an Indiana Economic Development Corporation that was just given a 50 million dollar budget increase to go out and attract large corporations to come to Indiana, build
	create new jobs that because we are at the lowest unemployment in the history of the state right now and the U.S.
	Chamber of Commerce says that we actually have a worker shortage for every 100 available jobs we are missing 25 people to fill those 100 jobs and so instead of making Cost of living lower in Indiana.
	We're bringing in all these new jobs and then having those jobs filled by Hoosiers who are leaving small businesses and then the small businesses, the Hoosier entrepreneurs that have been trying to build and invest in Indiana
	Their whole lives are not able to staff their businesses, and so we now in Indiana, over the last decade, have a net loss in small businesses and individual franchisees.
	And this to me, along with our loss of family farming, is causing an economic Crisis in Indiana, and the state government doesn't care because what they're looking for is this corporatist style of government.
	Yes.
	And I vehemently oppose that.
	Yes, and we saw that in 2020, and you were speaking to that issue when you were running in 2020.
	The fact that mom-and-pop stores on Main Street were non-essential, but the big box stores from Wall Street, they were essential.
	They could stay open, but the small mom-and-pop service businesses couldn't stay open.
	So they're coming after the small mom-and-pop service businesses, they're coming after the farms, the family farms and things like that.
	They're coming after every kind of business that is, you know, done by individuals.
	It's the big corporations that are declared essential, and it is what the government at every level really is serving, that interest to drive out their competition and to make sure that we don't have any businesses.
	That's the key thing.
	Now, you said that you've got more jobs than you've got people to fill them in Indiana.
	What was the outcome from the lockdown?
	that you see there.
	I guess you don't have a big city.
	You probably don't have the kind of commercial real estate problems that we're seeing on the coasts in California and New York, I guess, right?
	Well, I don't think to the same extent.
	What we are seeing, because I believe that the way that the Indiana State government handled the pandemic, we saw a lot of folks who had to innovate and create new means of income.
	I think that the gig economy It was a place where folks found a lot of that.
	And so a lot of this worker shortage is actually a result of folks who were told they couldn't go to work during the pandemic.
	Finding other ways to make income.
	And when the state opened back up, those folks said, oh no, fool me once, shame on you.
	Fool me twice, shame on me.
	I'm not coming back.
	No, I'm going to make sure that I have the means to take care of my household and my family.
	And I'm not going to get, which is here again, why I think we have such a problem With this attitude that government should be force-feeding a large corporate economy to the state of Indiana.
	Because what we're really doing is we're saying we have a limited number of people, we're going to flood the state with jobs, And it's going to force small businesses either out of the market or they're going to have to raise their level of salary, wages, and benefits to match what we're bringing in.
	Well, you know, I hear a lot of Republicans complain about Democrats trying to increase the minimum wage.
	Well, When Republicans are bringing in all of these high-paying jobs and basically enticing workers away from small businesses, you're really doing the same thing.
	What you're saying is, if you want to compete, you're going to have to raise your wages to match these big corporations.
	This is picking winners and losers once again, and I think it is abhorrent that our government takes it upon themselves to manipulate the economy in that way.
	That is not free market principles.
	The free market principle is if we encourage people to come here, And there are plenty of people who fill the jobs, then the jobs will come on their own.
	And then all of that can be done in a very organic way.
	But when you're giving corporations 35 or 50 year sales and use tax exemptions, as they're doing with Amazon Web Services in the South Bend area and Meta down in the Jeffersonville area.
	What you get are these huge corporations who are getting, you know, they're not even, it's not just the sales tax exemption for 35 or 50 years on the equipment for these data centers, which is a lot of money.
	But it's also that they get a 35 or 50 year use tax or sales tax exemption on their electric bill for a data center.
	Those data centers are going to really put such a burden on the infrastructure.
	We've got here in Tennessee, we've got the TVA is going to jump up the electricity prices by five and a half percent.
	Part of that It's the fact that they want to go to renewables, which means that they've then got to buy these very expensive battery energy storage sites, which are a massive fire hazard.
	So it's an extremely expensive form of energy that's being imposed on us because of climate fear.
	And as you point out, they're going to bring these companies in, give them heavy subsidies on energy usage, which is going to drive the price of energy up sky high for everybody else if they can even get it.
	That's the issue.
	Absolutely.
	Well, and the reality is when I go around the state of Indiana and I talk to people and I ask people, how many of you are small business owners and you get 10 or 15 folks raising their hand and you look at them and say, has the state of Indiana ever offered you a sales tax exemption on your electric bill?
	And they look at you and go, no, of course not.
	Because in their mind, you're not big enough to worry about.
	And I find it terribly offensive.
	That in our state constitution, we have, in our state constitution's Bill of Rights, a clause that says that the state government will not provide any privilege to any citizen or group of citizens that is not provided to all.
	Now, what they do is they say, well, you know, anybody who invests $800 billion in the state of Indiana can get this privilege.
	That, to me, is, again, immoral and unethical.
	It is deciding that some groups are essential and others are not essential, and it is violating the market principles.
	Look, I've seen this type of thing forever.
	We used to see it predominantly at the state level, local level.
	We'd usually see it with big professional stadiums.
	And those things kept going up and up, you know, first it's a couple hundred million, then it's up to a billion dollars for a stadium, and now, you know, to infinity and beyond with this stuff.
	But, you know, that was that kind of subsidy for certain businesses is, again, the government picking winners and losers.
	And usually they pick those winners and losers based on who's putting money in their pockets.
	Politicians are some of the best investments that anybody can ever make.
	And they're not donating stuff, but they're making investments.
	I've got what we're talking about money here.
	And you talked about the surplus that Indiana had.
	I don't know if that's coming from some of the covid cash that they got.
	know that California was looking before all this COVID nonsense, they were looking at a deficit of tens of billions. I forget what the exact numbers were.
	Then all of a sudden they got so much money out of Washington, out of the Trump administration, that they had you know like a hundred billion dollar excess and they quickly ran through that with all kinds of new spending programs. Now they're looking at deficits of tens of billions again.
	So they just ran through all that cash.
	But I've got a question here from a listener, DGA on Rumble, and thank you for the tip.
	Appreciate that.
	Said, David, could you please ask Mr. Rainwater about how much power and funding to violate the state's constitution, the federal emergency order Trump signed on March the 13th, 2020, gave to these governors?
	What kind of largesse did they get?
	I mean, of course, we all know this is what the federal government does.
	It hands out a lot of money, whether it's the Department of Education or something else, to get the policies done that they want.
	They bribe them, and then later on, after the people, after they get hooked on this money, they can use that to blackmail them and say, you know, it'd be a shame if you lost all that money that you've gotten used to.
	What happened in terms of COVID cash in 2020 in Indiana that you can speak to?
	Well, I don't know specifically as far as COVID cash, but I will tell you, here's what we know.
	In the state of Indiana in 2019, the year before the pandemic started, the state budget was around $16 billion.
	For the general fund and about 26 billion with federal money.
	In the four years since, we now have a state budget spending last year of about 26 billion.
	And that's for the general fund, so that's about a $10 billion increase.
	And with federal funds, it's a $20 billion increase.
	So we've added a significant amount of money to our state spending, to our state budget, because of the increased funding From the federal government.
	And the problem that we have with this, of course, is that once again, if government is flush with cash, then people are desperate to do whatever they can to get control of that money.
	Which is why what we see in politics is the, you know, why are Republicans and Democrats able to raise millions of dollars but Donald Rainwater can't?
	Because Donald Rainwater is not for sale.
	As you mentioned earlier, these folks that put money into campaigns Do so as an investment because they know they're going to get a lot out.
	And when I go out here and I say I want to reduce spending, I want to reduce taxation, I want to reduce the budget, that does not make me attractive to those folks who want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars investing In their ability to manipulate the government for their benefit.
	That's right.
	Which is why my, uh, you know, my campaign, we've, we've raised a little over a hundred thousand dollars.
	Uh, and, uh, the vast majority of that has come in the, uh, 20, 50, a hundred dollar, uh, amounts from citizens.
	Who are tired of state government and local government taking advantage of them.
	Yes.
	And so we've got a lot of that now.
	If any of your listeners are genuinely concerned about better government, not bigger government, as you told them, they can go to rainwaterforindiana.com.
	And I've got a donate button there for PayPal, and I've got a separate one for debit credit.
	And if they want to make a big donation, I'd be more than happy to take it.
	That's right.
	But you're not for sale, and that's the key thing.
	That's right.
	Not even for rent!
	I'll rent for four years.
	We'll work for subsidies.
	When we talk about that, I mentioned many times, I know I talked to people in Idaho at the time this stuff was happening in 2020.
	Brad Little, the governor there, the Republican governor there, Was given several times what the entire state budget was out of Washington, and it was money that he could spend at his discretion.
	And so, of course, that's a big, powerful political plum that you've got there, big political leverage that you have that can help you get elected, help you do all kinds of things for yourself personally.
	When we see somebody getting a massive endowment, Like they did with Pete Buttigieg, giving him control of like 200 billion dollars for infrastructure.
	That's something he could use to feather his nest politically with a lot of people and make friends with them.
	And so essentially that's what was happening with a lot of these governors, both Republican and Democrat, during the During the lockdown, with that kind of money.
	And when we look at the corporations, when they invest in these politicians, it's a regular fee.
	If you go back and you look at what that corporation later gets and look at how much they donated, usually they're getting a couple of thousand percent return on investment.
	I mean, it just isn't any better investment you can make than a politician.
	So we were talking Earlier, and you have some very specific ideas about what you would do to help people on property tax, for example.
	Talk about that, because this is something that affects all Americans in every state.
	And, you know, this is something people could start to push their politicians and their state to do something about.
	Talk a little bit about your ideas about property tax relief, because nobody can own property in the United States as long as we've got these high property taxes.
	Absolutely.
	And of course, I tell people as a libertarian, in a perfect world, I would abolish property taxes entirely.
	When I suggested that four years ago, a lot of folks had their heads explode.
	So, what we've done is we've said, okay, let's kind of give people a pragmatic approach.
	First of all, we need to make sure that property taxes never go up.
	Nobody should be scared to find out that their property taxes are increasing.
	So what I've proposed is that property taxes in the state of Indiana should be based on 1% of the purchase price of your property.
	Because I believe that the only true value of any item Is what you paid for it until someone else pays you to buy it from you then you have a true value at that time based on what they paid you for it.
	Yes.
	So in between and this is something that I you know I find very ironic and a little hypocritical is here again when I hear folks talk about The current vice president's idea of taxing unrealized gains...
	And they throw a fit about that.
	And then in the state of Indiana, we have Republicans and Democrats who want to tax the unrealized gains of property.
	And I think that's wrong.
	So here again, first we want to make it 1% of the purchase price of your property.
	It never goes up.
	And then as you pointed out, I believe that You can never truly own your property if you are under the threat that the government can take it from you because you fall behind on your semi-annual rent payment to them they call property taxes.
	That's right.
	So I believe that we need to do away with this tax in perpetuity.
	So I've said in Indiana we have a seven percent sales tax So let's make it 7 years.
	1% of the purchase price for 7 years maximum.
	Now if you can pay that at closing, either in cash or by rolling it into your mortgage and amortizing it over a 30 year period, then we're done!
	If you can't, you pay 1% escrowed into your mortgage like you're doing now.
	And at the end of seven years, you're done.
	One of the things that I keep pointing out to people is that if you pay 1% of the purchase price or 1% of the assessed value over a period of 30 years, you will have given your State and local government, over a 30-year period, over 30% of the equity in your home.
	Wow.
	You have given them 30% of the investment that you made in your home.
	Now, the government hasn't done anything to earn That money.
	And when we talk about one of the things that I hear a lot is, oh, well, you just want to defund the police.
	And I say, no, absolutely not.
	We have tax increment financing all over the state of Indiana that has been dealing Property taxes from local governments for decades.
	We have 10-year tax abatements that our local governments can give to commercial and industrial businesses so that they don't have to pay property taxes for 7 or 8 years, depending upon how much their Quote-unquote investment is how many jobs they create.
	And so what you're talking about is really kind of a, you know, having a go for seven years or whatever, 1% a year.
	You're talking about giving a property tax abatement on the back end for homeowners.
	That's one way to look at it.
	But I really like the way that you explained this.
	And your perspective of looking at this, because typically we talk about the injustice of the property taxes, and it is an injustice.
	We are being taxed on government-created inflation, because they say that the price of your home is going up.
	You know, you get a home and you have it for 30 years, and maybe you're going to sell it for 10 times what you paid for.
	That home is not worth 10 times as much as it was.
	It's 30 years old now, maybe, you know.
	And so it is not worth more.
	It's just that your money is worthless.
	And so that's a tax on the inflation that's there when you have these property taxes that are being re-evaluated all the time.
	But I love what you're talking about in terms of the fact that people need to look at it.
	Since this is all being talked about now by the Democrats, it's great to talk about this as people refer to it as an unrealized gain.
	to think about this and saying, well, what if we looked at your stocks and we say that you had in your investment portfolio, you had $100,000 in stocks and now your stocks have gone up in value and they're $150,000, so we're going to tax you on that $50,000, but you're still holding it.
	That could go down and it could become a loss and that type of thing.
	Same thing is actually true of your home.
	Your home can actually go down in value.
	We've seen that happen.
	It surprised a lot of people, you know, in the Great Recession, and it may happen again.
	But that really is, when you really evaluate this, I like talking about it in terms of being taxed on a gain that you haven't taken, as opposed to talking about it in terms of an inflationary tax.
	And it causes people to lose their homes.
	If they're on a fixed income and yet the price of their home is not fixed.
	That's a great way to look at it.
	That's a very important issue and I'm glad that you're talking about that.
	People need to think about this in every state.
	That is something everybody ought to be making an argument for in terms of property tax and I also like your idea about the 7% thing up front or paying 1% for seven years and then you're done.
	That is also very important.
	The home is, in many cases, not only the biggest, but sometimes the only investment that people in the middle class have.
	And this is the government trying to take that away from people.
	And they do it.
	Absolutely.
	Talk a little bit about your perspective on the gasoline tax as well, because that's... Oh, yes.
	Well, and there's, you know, there's constantly talk about gasoline prices and how high they are, and how that unfairly impacts lower and middle income users.
	And in the state of Indiana, We actually paid two separate state taxes on gasoline.
	We have a 7% use or sales tax, which is calculated on the average price across the state of Indiana of a gallon of gas for the previous month.
	So, for the month of August, the use tax was 20.3 cents per gallon.
	But then we also have a gasoline excise tax that our General Assembly back in 2017 decided to index for inflation.
	They added 10 cents and then made it indexed for inflation so it goes up a penny a year minimum.
	It currently sits at 35 cents per gallon.
	So for every gallon of gas that a Hoosier buys, They are paying 20.3 cents in sales tax, 35 cents in excise tax, which is a 55.3 cent per gallon tax on gasoline just for the state.
	I believe the federal tax is currently 18 cents a gallon.
	18 cents versus 55.3 cents seems to be a lot to me, and I personally don't believe that anyone should have to pay two taxes to the state of Indiana for the same product.
	So I am advocating for the abolition the state excise tax on gasoline. I'll take that a little further. We also pay 7% sales tax when we purchase a car and then we are charged an excise tax every year to renew our license plates. I want to do away with the excise tax.
	On vehicles, all vehicles in the state of Indiana, you shouldn't have to pay two separate taxes to the same government agency for the same product.
	Yes, good.
	And so, you know, when you start to cut the taxes, what would you do to cut government spending?
	Well, that's a great question.
	I'm so glad you asked that.
	You got a long list, right?
	I bet you got a long list.
	Well, you know, there's a real simple formula that I learned during the pandemic because our governor during the pandemic was concerned that they might not Raise all the revenue they were hoping for.
	So he sent out a memo, issued a directive to all state agencies, all 50 plus state bureaucracies in the state of Indiana, instructing them to cut their spending level, but their budget by 10 to 15%.
	When they did that, we ended up with a $6 billion surplus.
	So, and that's just out of the general fund spending.
	That doesn't include the federal government money.
	So, my proposal is that on the first day that Donald Rainwater's administration is in the governor's office, we will issue a memo that says We're not in a pandemic, but we are in a financial crisis in the state of Indiana.
	People are suffering.
	People are hurting.
	Hoosiers are having to make decisions about how they will fill their gas tank, pay their mortgage, feed their kids, float their kids.
	And so we're going to cut across the board 10 to 15% No cuts in entitlements.
	I will tell you that even as a libertarian, I believe that entitlements are the last things we touch.
	That's right.
	They usually come after that first.
	Well, first you need to shut down a park, you know, because that's what... Right, it's the threat, right?
	Exactly.
	Absolutely.
	Here, let me show you what we're going to do if you try to take my money away from me.
	That's right.
	And it's not their money.
	It's our money.
	We gave it to them.
	Actually, they took it from us.
	So my plan is, during the first four years of my governorship, my first term, we will instruct all state agencies to cut their budget 10 to 15 percent each year of the four years.
	I also know, as I mentioned earlier, that there's about a $10 billion vote in the state budget over the last four years.
	So I'm also going to go to the General Assembly and say, first of all, I would like you to freeze the budget.
	Secondly, I would like you to rewrite the budget.
	to be equivalent to what it was in 2019.
	Let's reduce our state spending by 10 billion dollars that it has blown up, ballooned in the last four years.
	Go back to 2019 spending levels and then take that 10 billion dollars and eliminate our state income tax.
	Because they say that if we got rid of the personal income tax in Indiana it would cost $8 billion in revenue.
	So if I cut spending back to 2019 levels and reduce the budget by $10 billion, and if I reduce the revenue by $8 billion, That means I'll still have a $2 million surplus as a result of cutting the budget and eliminating the state income tax.
	Because here again, you know, I believe firmly that the government should not have a claim, financial claim to our property.
	And when we allow them to take money from our paychecks, we are giving them a first right to our earned income.
	And I believe, here again, that that's immoral and unethical.
	and I want to do it. So you'll notice I'm big on the idea that the government doesn't need all this money and that they're spending too much and I've learned from being a little bit overweight that if I want to reduce my weight I have to reduce the food I put in my mouth.
	Because I am not going to be able to continue to cram food in my face and lose weight.
	So we have to reduce the taxes.
	You know, it'd be great if we could say, well, we're going to reduce all this spending, then we'll give people their money back.
	The reality is that our government at every level, local, county, state, federal, they are addicted to spending other people's money.
	Yes.
	And the good news is that, as you point out, since the pandemic, they illustrate that they can do that.
	It's not a theory.
	They actually, the governor comes out and says, we're going to cut across the board.
	Everybody cut your budget by this amount.
	They can all go find something that they can reduce their spending on.
	They've already done it in that state.
	And so it's been demonstrated, it's been done, and they could do it again.
	And that's the key thing.
	It's good to hear somebody finally Who focuses on the problems of the people, of the middle class.
	It's good to hear somebody who is focused on just offering the opportunity for you to actually own property.
	That'd be the only state in the union where you could actually own property.
	And imagine the number of people that would move to Indiana Yeah.
	And we wouldn't have a worker shortage anymore.
	That's right.
	Our small business owners and individual franchisees would have plenty of opportunity to staff their businesses.
	Well, it's very important and it's important for people to hear this everywhere because you know that if When you propose this and you couch it in those terms where people can easily understand it, I think that that's an important thing that could be taken to other places as well.
	Because when you're talking about getting rid of the income tax, that was done here in Tennessee and they wound up with a budget surplus.
	Even after they cut the state income tax.
	So, we're not talking about theoreticals.
	These are things that have already been done.
	The question is, does anybody really care to try to do this?
	Or do they want to, you know, just fall into the trap of voting for the big parties and never can think about voting for any independents or third parties?
	That's the real challenge for you, isn't it?
	Because, as I've said, they play the games of ballot access and they play the game of debate access.
	If they had a debate that included you and the people of Indiana were able to hear what you want to do with property taxes, that would be huge.
	I would think that they will be.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We are, there are three debates scheduled.
	We are guaranteed to be in two of the three.
	And the third one we are waiting for, um, the, the company is next door.
	They own our Fox affiliate and our CBS affiliate.
	First they said I had to raise $100,000.
	So we got out there and raised our $100,000 and now I think they're trying to wait to see if there's a poll that comes out where I have to poll over 10% on a poll if it comes out or they can exclude me.
	But I'm definitely in two of the three debates.
	We debated four years ago in two debates and you're absolutely right.
	The number of people who have told me that they did not vote for me in 2020 because they didn't know who I was until they saw me in the debate after early voting started.
	And that now they are committed to voting for me this year because of exactly what you're talking about.
	The fact that people understand and believe that there are common sense simple solutions to big government and that we need to be shrinking the size and scope of government if we want, for example, to fix our economy.
	The bald-faced truth is that the inflation that we currently That's right.
	That's absolutely right.
	Yeah, you're going to have to put that in there because they're not going to ask any questions about that.
	You're going to have to put that in there and say, here's why I'm running.
	I know that you want to ask me about that.
	That's absolutely right. Yeah, you're gonna have to put that in there because they're not gonna ask any questions about that.
	You're gonna have to put that in there and say, here's why I'm running.
	I know that you want to ask me about that.
	Here's why I'm running because I want people to be able to own their homes and you can't own your home now.
	You know, if you put something in there like that, would that be a killer?
	I'm glad that you're going to be in the debates.
	I really am surprised, because we've had situations when I was with the Libertarian Party in North Carolina.
	You know, we'd work so hard to get on the ballot there, and then they would always exclude us from the debates.
	And the debates at that point in time, back in the early 90s, were being run by the Press Association, the Statewide Press Association.
	They said, we don't want you on.
	You know, same thing that Fox is doing now, trying to move the goalposts on you.
	And all the rest of this stuff it truly is despicable and when I you know in 2020 is everybody oh what about this election it's like yeah of course there's always they're always messing with the vote totals and anything but the rigging of the election really begins with the media and the excluding people from the debates and with the excluding of people off of the ballots that you don't even have a choice that's the key thing so I'm glad you're gonna be in two debates
	That's excellent news, and we've talked a lot about money, but you also have some other issues, and it kind of is the center of an event that you're going to be doing.
	In September, September the 14th, you've got an event coming up.
	People can go to rainwater4indiana.com and they can get information about this event.
	You're also doing that with a candidate for Congress, and this is about the Second Amendment.
	Tell people a little bit about that event.
	Well, we have in Terre Haute, Indiana, we have a small business owner who owns a gun shop and range.
	And he is throwing an event for us to fundraise.
	Actually, the state party, the Libertarian Party of Indiana, is sponsoring the fundraising event there.
	And, you know, one of the things that is very important to me is the fact that I believe that the Second Amendment says, shall not be infringed.
	And there's a period after that.
	There are no qualifications.
	It's not shall not be infringed unless you have a medical marijuana card or shall not be infringed unless we exercise our red flag laws against you.
	It says shall not be infringed.
	And so we are very fortunate after we ran in 2020, the Indiana General Assembly saw fit to pass constitutional carry in Indiana.
	Even though they had summarily for about a decade denied constitutional carry to Hoosiers, but after I spoke out fervently about it in 2020, they decided to go ahead and pass constitutional carry.
	Unfortunately, we do have red flag laws in the state of Indiana, which means that at any time the government can say, well, you're a member of this organization, We've determined that you all are brainwashed and have a mental defect and we're going to take your guns and then you have to go to court to get them back.
	I don't like red flag laws for that reason.
	I believe here again the second amendment gives us what we need to make sure that all of the other amendments are upheld.
	You don't have The first amendment without the second.
	And so I believe that enforcing our right to keep and bear arms, period, end of sentence, is extremely important to our continued fight for freedom.
	And I do want to add, David, that When I say that, I think it is something that we as Americans, as Hoosiers, need to take very seriously.
	Our government is too big, it is too powerful, and we are in a daily ...fight to maintain and regain our freedoms.
	I agree.
	We are not a free people, as you said.
	Madison said if you can't own property, you are not free.
	And therefore, if we pay property taxes, with the threat of it being taken away from us, if we get behind, we are not truly free.
	When the only schools That we are able to send our children to, because we can't afford private school, is the public school, and the government enforces that by making us pay taxes to fund the public school, whether we want to send our children there or not, we're not truly free.
	That's true.
	Yeah, when you talk about the red flag law, you know, it is really a form of civil asset forfeiture, another abomination from our government.
	Absolutely.
	To take something from you, you have no presumption of innocence, you have to prove that you're innocent to get this back and so forth.
	That's right.
	We have taxation without representation, really, and we have regulation, certainly, without representation.
	The important thing, folks, when we talk about third-party access and opening up the ballot, is so that people can hear the types of things that you just heard from Donald Rainwater, talking about a different way to fund the government, talking about actually being able to own our homes and not be forced out of them.
	That is so important.
	And if, as he talked about the gun issues in 2020 and brought them around to some of these issues, that's the importance of actually having additional people on the ballot so that you can actually talk about issues.
	And so that if they see support and if the people in Indiana support Donald Rainwater because he wants you to be able to own a home, that's going to put, even if he doesn't win, that's going to put a lot of pressure on these people to actually do something like this.
	Why is this guy so popular?
	Was it because of what he said about property taxes or whatever?
	Well, then maybe we should do something about that so we don't lose our position.
	It can be a very effective way to bring pressure.
	And if you don't do anything at all, they're going to continue to do what they've always done.
	And that is to steal from you and make it a career for themselves.
	So good talking to you and thank you for what you did in 2020.
	Thank you for doing this again.
	I'm very excited to hear that you're going to be in two debates.
	That's great.
	Nail them with that property tax.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	Thank you.
	And again, you go to Rainwater4Indiana, that's F-O-R-I-N-D-I-A-N-A dot com, and you can find out about that.
	You can find out about the events that they've got coming up.
	You can actually, you can get some meet and greet tickets where you can shoot guns with Donald and the other candidate there, Richard Fitzloff, who's running for Congress there.
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