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	you You're listening to The David Night Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday the 29th of August.
	Well, today we're going to begin with politics, because we're eagerly awaiting the recorded first interview of Lala Harris, and she had to have her support dog with her, Tim Walz.
	They recorded that, so we don't have it yet.
	I guess they're still polishing that up.
	Unfortunately for her, however, With all of the policies that she's reversed herself on and copied Trump on, and as I said yesterday, he copied her on abortion, but she copied him on pretty much all the other policies except for tax policy.
	Ah, it's going to be a problem.
	And her economic advisor was on with CNBC, and we're going to begin with that.
	I think it's very interesting.
	They actually went back and talked about how property tax is really like the unrealized game.
	Exactly what Donald Rainwater was saying the other day.
	We're going to begin with that.
	We've got a lot to talk about.
	Stay with us.
	with us. We'll be right back.
	Thanks for watching.
	Bye.
	you Well, you've got Lala Harris's economic advisor.
	The guy is a full-on socialist, a Harvard-Yale guy who was working previously as an advisor for Elizabeth Warren.
	That should tell you how disastrous and authoritarian and totalitarian his economic policies are.
	As Citizen Caller tweeted out part of this interview, they said, he's the genius behind her 25% tax on unrealized capital gains, which would destroy the economy.
	Well, they're going to destroy the economy whether they have taxes like this or not.
	It's going to destroy us, not the economy, right?
	We need to start talking about the reality of where this hits home.
	You know, the economy to a lot of these politicians is nothing other than the stock market.
	That's what it is to Donald Trump.
	It's the stock market, his supporters, or him personally.
	When are you going to start looking at how this affects you?
	And it's very much like what we have with public health.
	We have this abstraction called public health.
	And in the name of public health, they can do anything they want to to your individual health, and you don't have a say about it anymore.
	Don't care what your doctor says.
	Don't care what you say.
	Don't care what your medical issues are, specifically, that are unique.
	They don't care what your religious beliefs are.
	No, it's public health.
	Surrender.
	Same thing is true of economics.
	What is happening in your life doesn't matter.
	Just surrender your home, your bank account, Your future to the economy, to the greater public good.
	You see, these people don't realize it, but even when the conservatives talk about the economy, they're actually talking and thinking like socialists.
	So he's a product of Harvard and Yale.
	As I said, he's never had a private sector job, yet somehow he feels qualified telling us how it ought to be managed.
	Remember when I played that The thing that I did for the Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged anniversary contest.
	And I read that quote.
	These people have never built anything, never done anything, never taken any risks, never, you know, never accomplished anything.
	They're gonna tell us how it should be done.
	And so this person finally says, well, it's not a surprise she's got a socialist advisor because her father was an economics professor, Lala's father, and he was a full-on Marxist.
	Just like Buttigieg's father was a full-on Marxist.
	And of course, Buttigieg's father was not an economist, but he was somebody who made it his life's work at Notre Dame.
	to write about the guy who founded the Italian Communist Party in the early 20th century, Antonio Gramsci.
	And he was the guy who came up with the idea that instead of having a violent revolution like they did in France, the Jacobins or the Russians and the Russian Revolution, instead what we're going to do is we're going to do this subtly and subversively.
	We're going to march through the institutions, which is precisely what they've done.
	And when Boudiguet went to Harvard, his Marxist-loving father made sure that he was under the tutelage, his advisor, was a guy named Sakhvan Berkovich.
	He had changed his first name to honor Sacco and Vanzetti, a couple of Italian anarchists and communists who the left has always believed were falsely executed.
	I take no position on that one way or the other.
	But he wanted to honor these Italian Marxists.
	That's for sure, they were Marxist.
	Looks to me like the evidence is pretty good, but whatever, I'm not interested in litigating that.
	They are.
	And his advisor, Sakhvan Berkovich, believed that everything that was wrong with America could be traced back to the pilgrims and to the Christian religion.
	And so that had to be deconstructed, that had to be eradicated.
	And so now, instead of us talking about the founding of this country in 1620 and Mayflower and the Mayflower Compact, it was the first time that people have voluntarily come together and drawn up a document that was going to, you know, a voluntary association creating a government.
	Let's forget all that.
	Let's go to Jamestown, because there we can tie it into slavery.
	That's where the Project 1619 came from.
	People who came over as indentured servants.
	They used a credit card.
	They came over on plastic.
	But they could eventually get out of it, and then after a while, they could work their way out.
	But everybody pretty much came over to Jamestown as a slave, essentially.
	Just like we are when we are in debt.
	But they were able to get out, so they decided they would start using the slaves that Britain was sending around, and so that's what they want to focus us on.
	And he traced everything, Sack Van Bercovich traced everything that he thought was wrong with the country, everything, to the pilgrims and to the Christian religion.
	That's the background of people like Pete Buttigieg.
	That's the background of people like Lala Harris.
	It's not a surprise to see these Marxist policies, and so what they're trying to do is to confiscate wealth.
	That's the bottom line on this.
	And so first on CNBC there was a conversation about the taxes, about increasing the taxes, because of course that's what the Democrats always want to do.
	Ultimately the plan is that you will own nothing.
	That's what communism is.
	You will own nothing.
	We take it all away from you under some pretense.
	That tax would have some exemptions for family businesses, but you are talking about taxing unrealized gains at levels that we haven't seen in the past and never seen before.
	You know, over the last 20 years, we have seen an erosion of the tax code.
	If you go back to where we were in 2000, before the Bush tax cuts, about 20% of GDP was coming in in revenue.
	Thanks to the Bush tax cuts and the Trump tax cuts, we're now closer to 16%.
	As we always say, these people hate tax cuts.
	As soon as you say tax cut, oh, they're now a fiscal hawk.
	Now they care about debts and deficits, annual deficits and cumulative debt.
	But they don't otherwise.
	They don't complain about tax increases, but they always complain about tax cuts.
	You're looting the treasury, says communist Bernie Sanders.
	And so this guy says, you look at this and look at what has happened.
	We just don't have a high enough percentage of taxes coming in, revenue.
	As he points out, we're looking at 16%, 18%, 20% that they're bringing in of what they're spending.
	So where's that other 80% come from?
	Well, some of it comes from taxes, but most of it is a debt that they don't care about because they say the debt doesn't matter.
	If inflation gets out of control, then they'll tax their enemies.
	That's what they're looking at.
	She says that there's going to be some exemptions for family businesses.
	They always, they're telling you, this is for the people who got a net worth of a hundred million dollars or more.
	No, this is, there's absolutely no way when this guy says we've got to get the overall tax rate up higher, right?
	He's not going to do that by taxing a few people with a net worth that's a hundred million dollars or whatever.
	I think it was a hundred million.
	That's just nonsense anyway.
	That's the way the income tax began.
	Are you paying an income tax now?
	Are you part of a, Uh, the people who were, is only going to be the very rich, the coupon clippers and all the rest of that's kind of demagoguery they use every time they start talking about taxes.
	Well, it's not going to affect you.
	It's going to affect the other guy.
	Oh, okay.
	I want all that free stuff from government, but I don't want to have to pay for it.
	If I can get my neighbor to pay for all that free stuff, that's good.
	So it's all based on an ethic of envy and theft.
	That's what this whole system is based on.
	So the redistribution of wealth is based on, based on envy and theft.
	First, you envy these people, and then you use that to justify theft from them.
	But it comes around to you.
	And if they're going to get the percentage of this stuff up, they're going to have to raise taxes quite a bit.
	It's not just going to be on the wealthy.
	That's the lie that you hear all the time from these people.
	And there's going to be some exemptions for family businesses, but not much.
	It's really going to fall on the family businesses.
	That's where they're going to come in with this.
	That's where they're going to come after the mom and pops.
	They're going to come after the farms.
	Can you imagine if they start doing unrealized gain on family businesses?
	Of course, it's going to hit the farms the hardest.
	Because they're going to go out there and say, oh, you know, your land is worth a lot now.
	Well, I'm not making a lot of money off of this farm.
	Well, but your land, you're going to have to pay taxes on what we imagine the new value of your land is.
	And then they'll confiscate the farm.
	This is far bigger, folks, than economic policy.
	This is about pushing us into the feudal system that they have imagined.
	This is about confiscating farms.
	It's about shutting down our food supply.
	It's about shutting down any small businesses.
	Because, you know, as Trump said, you're not essential.
	But it is essential to them to get rid of small businesses.
	So, the taxes will go up, he says.
	Gotta have taxes there.
	Why does this economist, this economic advisor to Lala Harris, again, why do we even have an income tax?
	If at best case for them, it only pays a fifth of what the government is taking in, right?
	It's only a fifth of their income.
	And their income isn't anywhere close to what they're spending.
	They're spending a trillion dollars more every three months than they take in.
	And the income tax is only one-fifth of what they take in.
	So why does it matter to them?
	It matters to them not because of fiscal reason, folks.
	It's because they want to come after, they want to take away all ownership from us.
	Remember, the people who they are appealing to, when you hear Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum and all that, they're the stakeholders.
	We're not supposed to own anything, and this is how they get it away from us.
	This is not about fiscal responsibility.
	It's not about balancing the budget.
	They don't care about that.
	And so then we get to the unrealized gains portion.
	Unrealized gains, taxing unrealized gains just doesn't seem fair in any sense of the word.
	In the very best sense, if you were taxing unrealized gains, all you're doing is pulling forward the taxes that would be paid later when someone actually sells the stock.
	I think that this reaction to unrealized gains is a little funny given that I bet that the majority of people watching right now are already paying a tax on unrealized gains.
	It's called a property tax.
	Oh, hear that?
	That's an old... It's a used tax.
	When the value of your home goes up, you pay higher taxes even if you don't sell your home.
	Your value of your home never moves the way a stock moves, the way something else moves.
	That's always the go-to answer.
	It's also property tax is a use tax.
	You're paying for school, for the schools, you're paying for emergency services.
	Those are things that make absolute sense.
	And sure, and all the revenue that comes in from- Not a use tax.
	The gains taxes and the other taxes in the tax in the Harris plan are gonna go to what creating what she calls more opportunity.
	It's to make sure that- But it's not a use tax for the people who are actually using the services.
	Well, look, you're arguing that this is some sort of foreign concept that's completely- Yeah, there's so much to talk about with that little bit there.
	First of all, that was Rebecca Quick, Joe Kernan on CNBC.
	I don't know if I said that correctly or not.
	Squawk Box.
	And so she says, well, you know, this is something that hasn't been done before.
	This is very different.
	And he says, well, no, it's not really different.
	We've been doing it for a very long time.
	We call it property tax, which is what Donald Rainwater was saying there.
	And then Joe Kernan, the other guy that was there, jumps in and says, oh, that's an old trope.
	Well, look, that doesn't mean it's not true.
	Quite frankly, I personally had not heard that argument made before.
	I think it's a perfect argument.
	It's, you know, what Donald Rainwater was saying.
	And what he was saying was not, what Donald Rainwater was saying was not that we're just going to end it.
	He says we have to have some fairness in it.
	It should have some termination point so that you actually own your property at some point.
	And so his proposal, which I thought was an excellent proposal, you should start pushing for this in your state, wherever you live.
	And if you live in Indiana, vote for him.
	He's got my endorsement for that.
	But he said, we're going to limit it at 7% of the value it was when you bought it.
	That establishes the price.
	That's the real market price.
	All the rest of this stuff is inflation, or it's the vicissitudes of whatever is happening in the housing market.
	And you want to talk about it going up or down?
	Well, we've seen housing prices go up pretty quickly and go down pretty quickly.
	Maybe not as volatile as the stock market, but still pretty volatile.
	And, uh, so, uh, Rainwater said, okay, we'll set it at 7% of the purchase price.
	That is an established market value.
	All the rest of this stuff, assessments and everything else.
	That's not real.
	Uh, the real value is what somebody is willing to pay for it.
	So you're willing to pay X for, or have a property tax of 7%.
	And you can pay that all up front and fold it into your mortgage, or you can pay it 1% a year for seven years, and then you're done.
	And then you're done.
	And they can't use a constantly rising property tax to push you out of your home.
	Now, if she says it's a use tax, the property tax is not a use tax.
	A use tax is something that users pay.
	And people pay a property tax whether or not they're using the schools.
	And that's really the issue.
	That you're driving people out of their homes when they're elderly and they don't have kids.
	When they're first moving into the home, perhaps they can afford that and pay that.
	But first of all, the schools need to be able to live within a budget.
	And they don't really care to be bothered with that.
	Secondly, I'm all for completely defunding the schools.
	So we're not going to have... I could have that argument with her, but that'd be a separate thing.
	But it's not a use tax.
	A use tax would be something like a gasoline tax that you pay when you're using your car.
	And that goes to fix the roads, that type of thing.
	That's a use tax.
	This is not a use tax.
	This is a property tax.
	And it is eternal.
	It never stops.
	Even when you stop using the schools, it doesn't stop.
	And most of it is the schools.
	That's one of the reasons why I said we have all these people being brought in, open borders, they come in, they get a free education.
	I saw it in Texas.
	They're building school after school after school.
	And nearly 100% in the area where people who were coming across the border, not citizens.
	And I said, you know, we can't keep this up.
	We can't have an American dream if we're going to have dreamers come here to get a free education at our expense that we have to pay for their education through our property taxes forever.
	It's got to stop.
	And so he comes back and he says, well, it's just an old, tired trope.
	But it is true, regardless of whether or not somebody has said it for a while.
	So, she said, well, you're arguing this, this is, he says, the economist for Lala says, you're arguing that this is some sort of foreign concept that's completely unknown.
	Well, it doesn't matter whether this is foreign or not.
	We know what this is about, and we know what the Marxists want to do.
	We know that this is ultimately a wealth tax that they're beginning to put in, and we know what they're doing in terms of the property tax that he thinks is great.
	He's actually selling this.
	He's saying, you say this is a foreign idea, but it's not.
	We're already doing this to you with the property tax.
	Isn't that interesting?
	He's being honest about it, in his argument.
	He says, just like Donald Rainwater, he says, oh, you're already taxing people on something that they haven't made any money off of, and it's not the real value of that.
	And that's the same thing Donald Rainwater is saying.
	The difference is that this Marxist Thinks that's a good thing.
	And Donald Rainwater doesn't.
	And I don't either.
	And we should stop that.
	So they go on to talk about it.
	The other guy that's there, Kernan, says, well, I don't think this is going to pass constitutional muster.
	And it's not going to happen in our lifetime.
	And then the younger woman there, Quick, Rebecca Quick, says, well, I wouldn't say that.
	And he says, not in your lifetime either.
	She's quite a bit younger than him.
	But there's the other part of this is that, you know, this wonderful plan, they want to raise taxes up to the mid forties or something percentiles and, um, uh, do this, um, wealth tax, um, start the wealth tax, you know, just for the really wealthy right at first, but it'll move it to get everybody.
	But then they say, well, we're going to give every family that has a newborn baby $6,000 on that.
	Great.
	My $6,000 will buy him a cup of coffee when he's 18 years old with inflation going the way that it's going.
	Uh, so, uh, she's going to do her first interview today.
	And, uh, actually it'll be released today after they're in the process of polishing it up.
	Uh, it was pre-recorded.
	I had to be very careful.
	You know, she goes for almost 40 days of being the presidential nominee, not a single sit down interview.
	No press conferences is absolutely unprecedented.
	And so she's got her first interview, but she's concerned enough that she has to do it pre-recorded, and she has to bring along her coach, Tim Walz, the guy they call Coach.
	She's unbelievably incompetent, and she knows it.
	And have you ever, ever seen a presidential candidate have to bring along their vice presidential candidate?
	Have you ever seen anybody dodging interviews like this?
	And part of it is that she doesn't have any policies.
	She's copied some of the things that she realizes, or at least the people who control her, have told her to copy the policies that are popular, that Trump has talked about, the policies that she has promoted, along with Biden, that are very unpopular.
	And so she's copied that.
	She's added her tax policy, very, very unpopular.
	But she doesn't really have the ability to interact with people.
	She's an empty suit.
	I guess we should say an empty pants suit is what she really is.
	And yet Sigourney Weaver held a press conference.
	You know, she's an actress.
	Typically she reads office scripts and they told her, they said, you know, Harris wouldn't be running for president if it wasn't for the strong character that you pretended to be in Alien.
	And, you know, Breitbart pointed out the irony that she was speaking in a press conference, but LaLa, the strong character, couldn't speak in a press conference.
	But Sigourney Weaver has sold this Hollywood myth of the Mary Sue.
	Uh, but it's not really Mary Sue that I think of when I think of Lala Harris.
	I think more of Annie Hall.
	Yeah.
	So Lala is going to be giving this press conference and it, it should be very interesting.
	They're going to have to do a lot of editing because it's probably sound something like this.
	If you wake up, okay.
	And don't want to smile.
	If it takes a little while, okay?
	Listen, open your eyes, okay?
	And look at the day, okay?
	You gotta look at the day!
	You do!
	And listen, you'll see things in a different light.
	That's a spot-on impersonation, isn't it?
	Babylon Bee puts it this way, a strong capable woman asks a man to come with her to a job interview in case they get any hard questions.
	Babylon Bee, that's one of the best headlines I've had.
	A strong, capable, independent girl boss, a Mary Sue, that don't need no man, has reportedly asked a man to accompany her on a job interview, in case there's hard questions, and Tim Wall says he didn't need any further explanation.
	Yeah, okay, he signed.
	I knew what I was signing up for.
	According to sources, the pair prepped for the softball interview.
	It'll be pre-recorded and edited for their advantage.
	Long into the night, Walt had hoped to prepare her enough that he wouldn't have to go, but reluctantly, he called it a night after she failed to answer a question about her favorite ice cream flavor.
	Come on, this is easy, he said.
	Well, there's just so many flavors, she said, as she laughed.
	There's chocolate, of course, always a classic, vanilla, right?
	But what is flavor?
	Flavor is what our tongue likes.
	If it likes something, right?
	Then we like it.
	You know?
	And ice cream is more expensive these days.
	It's getting harder and harder to put ice cream on the table.
	And I know, because I also have a table.
	I have a house.
	I have a car.
	But some people don't have those things.
	So basically, that's bad.
	That's what it's going to look like.
	You know, it's kind of interesting.
	She's worried, you know, you keep seeing this stuff from the press.
	Oh, she's a shoe-in and all the rest of this stuff.
	And we don't know what the polls are.
	But I think she's obviously worried because the leftist radical, who's also a Democrat, Cornel West, says he was offered a job by Lala Harris.
	You know, the way Trump called up RFK Jr., didn't he?
	And he said, she offered to pay off my debt If I dropped out.
	Oh yeah, they're going to pay off everybody's debt.
	Does he still have college debt or something?
	I mean, he's pretty old.
	He owes his campaign debt.
	I thought it was interesting, even though I think this guy's 100% wrong on every issue, he's got more integrity than RFK Jr.
	He was right on a couple of issues, but even when they're right, if they've got no integrity, what does that mean?
	So, yeah, she is, as one article put it, Lala Harris is unburdened by the Constitution.
	Yeah, that was her thing.
	We are going to be unburdened by what has been.
	And the Constitution is what has been.
	The Constitution is what has been the foundation of America.
	She's going to be unburdened by that.
	She will just cut all the ties to that.
	Let's just hope that she is a has-been.
	I can't imagine four years of covering her.
	And that, you know, we're going to be unburdened by having her there for four years.
	But then, of course, there's also Trump.
	And we'll talk about him in a moment.
	There's been an interesting development in Magalan.
	We've had this person who has They portrayed themselves as being a, you know, following all of the January the 6th trials, reporting on that, reporting on Trump's political persecution.
	And coming after anybody who doesn't support Trump, you know, she's a pitbull like Laura Loomer, but her name is Julie Kelly.
	And I've seen a lot of her.
	She was the one who was, you know, cutting the reports about what was happening in the trials.
	Always about that.
	Always pushing Trump's trials.
	And of course, it was Trump's trials that allowed him to skip any debates, any campaigning, essentially skipping the primaries.
	And she was very instrumental in that.
	Turns out that she's a big Democrat donor.
	Really big.
	Her husband is a big ag lobbyist, and some people try to explain it with that.
	We're going to talk about this in detail.
	But 90% of their donations, $143,000.
	$143,000 to politicians, folks.
	Oh, this is just your normal MAGA reporter, right?
	How does she get elevated on social media and all the rest of the stuff?
	Well, this is how.
	And it's the type of reporting that she did That helped Trump to skip all the primaries because the Democrats wanted him as the Republican candidate, and then they wanted to leave Biden there until they pull him out at the last minute.
	It was all, it was 4-D chess, folks, and you've been played by these MAGA supporters.
	We've got a lot to say about Julie Kelly.
	And Dan Bongino and the people involved and all that stuff.
	Before we go to break, I just want to thank some of the people who have given us tips.
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	Interview with Rainwater was A+.
	He said, taxes are squandered to justify sweeping societal shifting plans.
	They said, read my substack, commonsenseadvocate.substack.com to see how pro sports stadiums are Trojan horses.
	Yes, absolutely are.
	I've talked about and look at how the prices exploded with these things.
	You know, hundreds of millions of dollars, then billions of dollars.
	Oh, well, it's to help business there.
	Oh, really?
	What about the small businesses that have to pay taxes while these people get a tax break?
	Well, we give hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to these billionaires so we can have multi-millionaires play a kid's sport.
	By the way, these are from yesterday.
	I didn't get to yesterday.
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	I forgot about that.
	I didn't see these yesterday, so I wanted to begin by talking about them.
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	Rockfin, thank you very much, all of you.
	Greg Talent, thank you for that.
	And Dougalug, thank you.
	And on Rockfin, Iris Machine Gun, thank you.
	$6,000, wouldn't pay his family to take him to Disney World for a weekend.
	You're not exaggerating.
	Depends on the size of your family.
	But Travis has a friend from Texas who took his family, what was $17,000?
	For a couple of days?
	$15,000 for a weekend if memory serves.
	Isn't that amazing?
	I can't even imagine that.
	They opened up Disney World when I was in high school and you used to go there a lot because you just had to pay for parking and entrance to the park was free.
	They did that so that you would buy food at their restaurant and everything.
	If you wanted to ride the ride, you could buy a ticket book.
	And if you didn't use a ticket, you could come back the next day.
	And they had extended hours.
	It was after Michael Eisner took over that park.
	But then they had an overall, you know, fee that was there.
	They shortened the park hours.
	The lines got much, much, much longer because you could just ride as much as you wanted.
	It's a good example of, you know, if you If something is quote-unquote free, you know, once everybody got in, well, I just want to, you know, do nothing but ride all day.
	The ticket was a much better way of doing it, and you could manage that.
	But anyway, we used to go there a lot when Karen and I started dating in college, and we'd just drive over and hang out.
	It was great.
	I can't imagine somebody paying $15,000 for a weekend, or a little bit more than a week, maybe, a weekend.
	I don't know.
	It's just insane.
	I physically cringed when he told me that.
	Yeah, we pray for his discernment.
	It's good that he's got the money, but if he's spending it like that, he isn't going to have it for very long, is he?
	On Rock Fan, Eric, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, let's take a look at some things that have been sent to me by listeners, and this is a very good essay that was sent to me by someone who has a farm in California, and you have my sympathy.
	It's such a fertile area for farming, but it's also a fertile area for government control, isn't it?
	He said, I just want to say thank you.
	I'll cut your video next.
	We fight these mentally ill people daily.
	You wouldn't believe what we have to pay them a year in case we pollute the air, in case we pollute the water.
	In Sonoma County, California, there's a measure that's going to be on the ballot.
	It's called Measure J. You need to look it up and you need to help us fight against this ridiculous piece of liberal lunacy.
	I haven't looked it up yet.
	I apologize.
	Anything you can possibly do would be wonderful.
	Would put the rest of the dairy businesses in Sonoma County out of business.
	All of the chicken ranches.
	All of the duck farms.
	Probably the sheep people and the goat people.
	We're trying really hard to fight this with the Farm Bureau and other private entities trying to get the word out.
	Because if this goes down in Sonoma County, they're going to use it for a hub.
	They'll use it as a precedent, really.
	Look, that is the goal, folks.
	Whatever they may tell you.
	Oh, we've got to balance the budget.
	We've got to save the planet.
	No, the goal is to shut down the farms.
	For two reasons.
	They have to have us dependent on them for food.
	They want to sell us the soylent bugs.
	And they want to make sure that there's no independent sources of food, that there's no independent businesses.
	The farms are a perfect target for them.
	And then they will slither out in all directions after they get this in Sonoma, county by county, to destroy the agricultural industry.
	I don't care if you raise hogs.
	I don't care if you raise sheep.
	I don't care if you raise minks.
	I don't care if you raise cattle.
	They're coming after us.
	I would love it if you would study the Chevron Doctrine.
	The Supreme Court overturning the Chevron Doctrine is huge, but that also means that there's litigation, and there's no one I know in our business that could ever fight these people because it's so costly.
	And I think that's something else we need to look into.
	We should be able to defend ourselves, not defend ourselves and go broke in the meantime.
	We need liberty, liberty to defend ourselves without costing a fortune.
	Talk about double dipping.
	They bring suit against you, then you have to figure out how you're going to pay to defend yourself, when in actuality you're paying the same people that brought the suit against you.
	They're all corrupt.
	Yeah, that's right.
	By the way, the Chevron Doctrine, that goes back to a case that involved, I think it's Chevron Oil, but the bottom line was, with the Chevron Doctrine,
	The Supreme Court has overturned that, going back, I think it was in the 80s, if I remember correctly, sometime at that point, but the purpose of that court precedent, which has been overturned, and remember, we should never revere Supreme Court precedents even, because they're just the opinion as to what that particular group of politically appointed judges thought at the time.
	Doesn't mean that it's right.
	Doesn't mean that it has to be kept.
	That's why all this stuff about Roe v. Wade.
	It's the law of the land.
	I would never touch it, sir.
	Confirm me to the court.
	Well, that's a bunch of nonsense.
	But what was happening with the Chevron doctrine was the court at that time said, we are going to defer to the regulatory agencies because, you know, hey, they're the experts.
	They've got science on their side, you know, that type of thing.
	So we're not going to second-guess what they did.
	Well, the court says, no, we're not going to give that much preference to the bureaucrats.
	We're going to pay more attention to what the law is and that type of thing and what is right.
	So it's good they overturned that.
	We've seen the Congress abdicate power to the bureaucracy.
	So that, like Nancy Pelosi said, we've got to pass it to find out what's in it.
	You know, they're going to pass this, pass it over to them, and they're going to stick all the rules in, regulations, they're going to fill in the details.
	And the devil is in the details.
	And so that's been the case, and still is the case, for Congress.
	And when the Chevron doctrine was there, the Supreme Court was doing the same thing as well, deferring to the bureaucracy.
	And so it's good that they are getting rid of that.
	And then this is from Sam, a listener, about the $150,000 for home loans in California to give that to illegal aliens.
	And of course, I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but the way he put it, he said, Americans need not apply.
	And he's absolutely true.
	You know, when we look at the $150,000, what is this really about, folks?
	I've said for the longest time, forget all this nonsense about the wall, a physical restriction that's there, whatever kind of physical object you put there, even if you've got roaming drones and electrified fences and robots that are going to taser people coming or whatever you do in terms of physical intervention at the border.
	It isn't going to make one bit of difference if you give massive fiscal incentives to people to come in.
	You give them lots of money to come to this country illegally, guess what they're going to do?
	They're going to come here illegally.
	Look, $150,000 is a lot of money for any of us.
	These people are coming from extremely poor countries.
	This is like dangling a thing in front of them and saying, you know, make it across the, you know, somebody tell me that if I can make it across the border, physically get across the border, evade the authorities there, I can get a million dollars or something, right?
	Or even more for them, perhaps.
	And that's what they're doing.
	They're hanging these massive incentives, these gigantic magnets to pull people across the border.
	That's what this is all about.
	And so in California, $150,000, if you can get across the border, we'll give that to you.
	We're not going to give it to the Americans, right?
	But got to have a bigger magnet for all of that.
	And the Biden administration just got slapped down with a judge.
	Biden and the Democrats who were going to be there with Lala Harris.
	They wanted to give union protection to foreign citizens here on a visa.
	They want to give them union rights, quote-unquote, that they don't give to American citizens.
	We've seen this over and over again.
	Why are they giving superior benefits to foreigners than they give to Americans?
	We see it with the students who come, for example.
	They come and get free education, and then if they want to go to a college, they can get in-state tuition.
	Because there's no citizenship requirement.
	We don't know what state.
	They're not a citizen of any state, but we treat them as if They are, their parents have lived in a particular state, you know, and the rest of us who are Americans, the parents have had to live in a particular state for a certain amount of time before the children can get an in-state tuition discount.
	But we'll give it to foreigners who come in just like that.
	We don't care at all.
	The California dream for all.
	Well, it's going to be a dream for all people outside of America, but you can forget about it if you're an American.
	They're going to flood the schools.
	You're going to have to pay for it with your property taxes.
	And then they're going to give them up to $150,000 to have a house.
	We simply wanted to be as inclusive as possible.
	I am so sick of that word, the way they're using it.
	We want to be as inclusive as possible within our policies so that all who are paying taxes here in our state were able to qualify.
	Without the intentional law that we're introducing, we felt that there were complexities and questions that many in the immigrant community would have.
	Complexities.
	This is the way they always muddy the water.
	Remember when Dick Levine, Richard Levine, who calls himself Rachel Levine, he's like the number two at HHS, dresses up like a woman, you know, and they started asking him questions about, well, these are complex issues, Senator, and just kept repeating that.
	Oh, these are complex issues.
	No, they're not.
	We see through your obfuscations.
	It's a difficult word to pronounce, huh?
	A similar effort is going on in the state of Oregon.
	They're giving $30,000 exclusively to illegal aliens as a down payment assistance in buying new homes.
	So come to America and get a big bundle of cash.
	Free medical care, free housing, all the rest of this stuff.
	What is going on with this?
	Why don't we stop this?
	And again, the federal judge is blocking in 17 states the idea that Biden and Harris, and it's fair to say Biden and Harris, because Biden isn't running anything, Harris won't be running anything, but the Democrats who are in the White House will be running everything.
	Same people.
	Union rights for foreign workers, but not for Americans.
	And so a federal judge is blocking that in 17 different states.
	In September 2023, the Labor Department announced a federal rule, see, again, this is a bureaucracy, creating a rule that would dramatically change the H-2A visa program, which allows U.S.
	farms to import foreign workers to take American agricultural jobs.
	The visa workers would get collective bargaining rights that are not afforded to American farm workers.
	Hmm, isn't that interesting?
	Double standard, two-tier, whatever you want to call it.
	This is what they're doing with immigration everywhere.
	There's two tiers when it comes to law enforcement, two tiers when it comes to crimes committed, two tiers when it comes to benefits given.
	It's almost like they want to replace us or something.
	But, you know, we were told all the time that the replacement, the great replacement, is just a conspiracy theory.
	No, it's a conspiracy.
	It's not a theory.
	The issue before the court is whether the final rule creates a right that was not previously bestowed by Congress.
	The court finds that it does so.
	Well, I'm glad that he struck this thing down, but isn't it also kind of scary that a judge says that Congress is bestowing rights?
	Does this judge not know that rights bestowed by Congress are privileges?
	The only time that you should use the term rights is when you're talking about something that is part of our inalienable rights that we all possess as humans made in the image of God.
	But there is no such thing as states' rights.
	There's no such thing as a right to an abortion or a right to food or a right to clothing or housing or whatever.
	There's no such thing as that.
	And when we talk about rights, it's really in the context of prohibiting the government from harming us.
	But the government doesn't want to prohibit harm from us, does it?
	Let's take a look at what has happened with Venezuelans.
	They're all over the news.
	They've really taken over Aurora, Colorado, which is a suburb of Denver.
	Famous before because of the mass shooting that was there.
	But now famous because of what Venezuelan gangs are doing.
	And why are we seeing so much about Venezuela?
	Well, because they got special treatment from the Biden administration.
	First of all, we did Venezuelan sanctions, which were starving people there as if they didn't have enough problem having communist leadership in Venezuela.
	But their great gift to the world, the Venezuelans, was electronic voting machines from Smartmatic.
	The company that Hugo Chavez created, his friends created, to keep him in office, to rig the elections.
	And they've been accused of rigging elections, not just in Venezuela, but pretty much everywhere they've been.
	Philippines, we just had the co-founder and others indicted for fraud and I think money laundering and other scams.
	But it's been allegations of rigging elections in the Philippines and Brazil and many different Mexican states as well.
	But yeah, we put sanctions against Venezuela and made it even harder for the people than it was for them under a communist ruler and And now the floodgate with the open borders, the floodgates have opened up and we're getting tons of Venezuelans in.
	And so we had about 320,000 Venezuelans a couple of years ago that Biden administration said, you can stay.
	No problem.
	It's great.
	Well, here's one of them.
	A migrant Amazon driver, not from the Amazon, but from the Amazon.com, allegedly smashes a Florida mom who was walking her baby and then leaves the scene of the crime.
	This is Sarahi Pera-Ovales, a migrant from Venezuela who was granted a work permit after overstaying a tourist visa, has been accused of crashing her car into a Florida mother who's walking her baby in a stroller and then fleeing the scene.
	The mother, who's not yet been identified, had been pushing her four-month-old infant in a stroller across the street when Pera-Ovales came driving down and crashed into her, throwing the baby into the street.
	Surveillance video then allegedly showed Para Ovales, an Amazon driver, getting out of her car to put the baby back in the stroller before leaving the scene as the mother lied on the concrete bleeding from catastrophic injuries.
	The mom's attorney said that Para Ovales left the baby alone in the middle of the intersection and left the mom bleeding from her skull.
	According to the New York Post, the 45-year-old Paraovales entered the U.S.
	on a tourist visa in 2019, which expired in 2021.
	They said these were homeland security sources, told the New York Post this.
	She was granted a temporary protected status in 2021, which allowed her to apply for a work permit.
	She was later released on bond, which outraged the family lawyer, who said, she was run down in broad daylight, left for dead, and within 24 hours of getting arrested, the suspect is back out on the streets, potentially driving around.
	Where is the justice system when you need them?
	What justice system?
	This has been going on for quite some time.
	They probably have a Soros district attorney, or at least a Democrat that was there.
	In 2021, the Biden administration gave hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals temporary protected status, which is one of them.
	The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorca said the administration will allow Venezuelans and foreign nationals who last resided in Venezuela to remain in the U.S.
	under the TPS.
	Got a TPS report.
	Got to fill that out.
	The office.
	Anyway.
	Those eligible for Venezuelan TPS must be in the U.S.
	by March 8, 2021.
	Reports estimate that about 320,000 Venezuelans will benefit from the TPS designation.
	But who's counting?
	We don't care.
	Just a blanket amnesty for people from Venezuela.
	Hey, you remember the guy who was a squatter?
	Remember that nasty guy sneering and you take over their houses and all this is, you know, come here and you can live for free.
	You can take over that.
	So I started calling the illegal immigrant squatters, but he was somebody who was working for Venezuelan intelligence or at least had been supposedly he was retired now retired and moved to the U S in order to live for free.
	Or maybe he was a provocateur.
	Because Venezuela doesn't like the U.S.
	And so we've got a lot of Venezuelans who actually took his advice.
	Look at the chaos that is happening in Aurora, Colorado.
	This is, um, we cut the language here because it was pretty bad.
	This guy's walking through a parking lot.
	Look at the mass there and massive cars and trash everywhere.
	And you're going to see there are cars that are shot.
	And as he's taking this footage, he nearly gets run down by a car that's speeding through this.
	There's a target and look at how they have broken in there and looted everything.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	As one person, there's where he almost gets run over.
	Look at that.
	So, the Venezuelans are taking over.
	This is crazy, says the person who is putting out this video.
	Well, here's somebody describing what this is like.
	So, she has friends who are in that area.
	You guys keeping up with what's going on in Denver?
	Aurora, Colorado?
	I have friends there, actually, that are leaving.
	They hightailed it out of there.
	They're not taking the chance to see if it gets better.
	It only took two apartment complexes and three gun stores getting robbed and jewelry stores by these Venezuelan gangs who have now paired up with MS-13.
	And they're gone.
	They're not waiting around.
	The cop state couldn't do anything.
	The FBI couldn't do anything.
	Homeland Security didn't do anything.
	You know, one of the complexes was taken back and condemned because it's inhabitable.
	And the people, the Venezuelan gang, was collecting money, the rent money, for the landlord, but not giving it to him.
	And there was nothing he could do about it.
	They just took over.
	Squatters!
	Those are your sanctuary cities that you love so much.
	Taking the advice of that Venezuelan intelligence agent.
	You know, they did rob three gun stores and a couple jewelry stores.
	And now the new thing is, is they're dressed up like Amazon workers and they're doing home invasions.
	So guys, be very careful because the closer we get to this election, if you're expecting an Amazon delivery, just leave it outside for a little bit.
	And if you have to open the door, really check your surroundings because they're bum rushing the doors.
	Just be very, very, very, very careful.
	That's right.
	And so I mentioned, you know, that Amazon driver who ran over the mom and her baby and then fled the scene.
	But evidently, Amazon is getting a lot of cheap labor.
	From these people coming in in Venezuela.
	And this is one of the reasons why we have open borders, because the big companies like that.
	They like to get cheap labor.
	So evidently there's so many Venezuelans who have come in and been hired by Amazon, that they're now doing, as she pointed out, home invasion, wearing Amazon outfits.
	This is a door cam that caught it.
	These men, Venezuelans, force their way into a family's home after posing as Amazon delivery person.
	There we go.
	Aurora, Colorado.
	Again.
	We've always said this is what was going to happen.
	We always said this was the purpose of having the borders open.
	We only said that you could tell this was the purpose because virtually all the people coming across the border were young males.
	And now it's starting to happen.
	What we've been saying for years was the purpose of all of this.
	Here is some of the cars in the parking lot that were shot.
	Again, they robbed several gun stores and you can see other clips of them going through the apartment complex, carrying ARs, I think.
	There's another one that shot.
	There's another one.
	Look at this.
	The entire window is gone on that one.
	And this is the way one guy described it.
	If I told you this was happening in 2024, would you believe me?
	Let me tell you how crazy this is.
	In Aurora, Colorado, there's a Venezuelan gang that has taken over two apartment buildings.
	I could you not.
	The landowner has contacted the local authorities.
	They said there's nothing they can do about it.
	That's squatter laws, bro.
	I could you not.
	Look this up.
	Number two, he went to the FBI.
	They said there's nothing they can do.
	And he even went to the marshals, y'all.
	And this Venezuelan gang has taken over the apartment building.
	They're charging the tenants inside rent money, like they're the landlords.
	Meanwhile, the real landlord can't get these people evicted.
	All the people that's leaving the apartment buildings, as soon as they leave, these Venezuelan gang members are just moving in more gang members to a point where they are taking over the building with guns.
	It's no more security there.
	Like, look this up right now.
	Yeah, it's total anarchy.
	And everybody who lived there is rightfully outraged.
	But anarchy is the purpose of the border situation that has been created by Biden and by Trump.
	Because Trump never stopped it.
	He never stopped the incentives.
	He never finished the wall.
	You know, he's got, he wound up fixing up some walls and adding, what was it, about 50 miles of new wall.
	So you got maybe a 500-mile wall and a 1,500-mile door.
	They didn't make any effort to do anything.
	And again, I don't think that physical wall is the answer.
	I think we've got to stop incentivizing people to come live here for free.
	That's the Cloward and Piven strategy of the Democrats to collapse us economically.
	But there's also the violent crime aspect of this.
	The anarchy.
	Armed Venezuelan gangs occupy apartment complexes.
	The city of Aurora recently shuttered the 99-unit complex called Fitzsimmons Place.
	The Venezuelan cartel had occupied it as a headquarters for criminal activity, including kidnapping, human trafficking, and robbing stores.
	Footage shows a sprawling parking lot, that's what I began with, with trash strewn everywhere thanks to the Venezuelans quote-unquote taking over, with the cameraman almost getting hit by a runaway vehicle driven by a Venezuelan.
	The Aurora Police Department launched a task force last week in the wake of a deadly gang shootout at one of the occupied apartment complexes.
	That was the pictures of the Cars with bullet holes in them and blown out windows.
	City and county officials have been slow to address the growing violence for what they claim may be ideological.
	Many claim is ideological reasons.
	The New York Post interviewed a man, John Fabricatore, who was previously the head of ICE's office in Denver region, said that the gang has been running amok in the area and officials have been slow to react if they react at all.
	He said it's becoming increasingly clear that certain city officials, including the Aurora Police Department, have downplayed or ignored the criminal activities affecting many neighborhoods in North Aurora.
	Notably, illegal immigrant gang activities have been present in specific apartment complexes throughout Aurora, yet these issues have been understated for what appears to be ideological reasons.
	So we offered them, you know, people in other countries, $150,000 for a home in California.
	$30,000 in Oregon.
	And of course in Oregon, that's limited only to illegal aliens.
	And we wonder why this is happening.
	It's not rocket science.
	And it is a conspiracy, folks.
	Definitely a conspiracy.
	We'll be right back.
	Unlike most revolutions, where the people rise against a real economic oppression, In our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
	It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
	The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
	Hey!
	Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
	Tomorrow it will be something else.
	Yeah!
	You're not going to do it, are you?
	I'm not going to do it.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, I want to talk about what's happening on the other side of things in terms of Trumpism and some of the revelations that have come out about some of the news people.
	But before we do, I want to thank some of the people who have in the last week Donated on Zelle, Adam D, Jonathan F, Alexander W, Manny D, William W, Susan L, twice here.
	As a matter of fact, you'll hear several of these names twice.
	We have the people who support us have really been faithful and we really do appreciate that.
	Most people don't support the program that listen to it, but These people who support it are really the ones who are the producers of this program.
	We really do appreciate that.
	Michael P., David R., Lisa K., Darren M., Amy B., Manny D., Peter H., Brian P., and Scott L. Thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's talk about what is happening on the other side of the political aisle.
	With Trump.
	And more specifically, not with Trump, but with the people who are the ones who are the information providers for the MAGA people.
	January the 6th watchdog, Julie Kelly, who has gone to so many of these trials, who's gone to the Trump trials and reported on them.
	She's really kind of been the go-to person for a lot of people.
	Turns out that she and her husband donated $130,000 to Democrats.
	Donated to Joe Biden, who she was telling everybody was terrorizing, weaponizing, all this stuff.
	By the way, I saw this, Shannon Joy said, I told you so about her.
	And actually Shannon Joy was correct.
	It's interesting.
	You see the people who are telling you the truth are punished by the social media providers like Musk and others.
	And then they're attacked by bots for the, you know, the uni party, but also attacked by the MAGA crowd.
	They don't want to hear anything negative about any of this stuff.
	And so she's a hero to a lot of these people.
	Now, LifeSite News picked this up.
	They said, many readers are questioning conservative journalist and prominent MAGA personality, Julie Kelly, this week.
	Over surprising revelations that she and her husband have donated more than $130,000 to Democrat candidates, including Biden and Lala Harris, while publicly castigating them as threats to American freedom.
	Wow.
	You see, there's so many controlled opposition out there.
	And I have absolutely no qualms about saying that to somebody who is going to give $130,000.
	Are you kidding me?
	$130,000 in her defense.
	So she actually didn't make any defense.
	Just told people to F off.
	Yeah, there you go.
	$143,000 was total that they spent.
	$143,000 was total that they spent.
	90% of that $130,000 was to the people that she supposedly says are enemies of America.
	Bye.
	It's about the money, folks.
	It really is.
	She used to work for the Federalist.
	She used to write for American Greatness, which is all Trump all the time.
	American Greatness.
	What a disgusting website that is.
	She writes on X and Substack and is regularly cited and interviewed in conservative media.
	Best known for extensive coverage of the various prosecutions of Trump and the mistreatment of those arrested following January the 6th.
	Who was it that lured people into January the 6th?
	It was people exactly like her.
	They'll do anything for money.
	They don't believe anything and they won't tell you the truth about anything.
	They're there to build an audience and make money.
	And of course, we can eventually see what they're really about based on who they give donations to.
	Shaxley's written two books.
	Listen to this.
	Disloyal Opposition.
	Is this an autobiography?
	Disloyal Opposition.
	How the never-Trump right tried and failed to take down the president.
	Oh, see, that's going to be a bestseller right there.
	That's just, you know, chumming the water, you know, for the MAGA people.
	Oh, they eat that stuff up like a bunch of piranhas or something.
	Disloyal opposition.
	How the never-Trump right tried and failed.
	So, you know, if I... I'm never Trump now.
	I voted for him in 2016.
	It was an obvious choice over Hillary Clinton.
	It's like, well, let's see what he does.
	I'm never Trump again.
	I'm never again Trump, I'll put it that way.
	So, you know, people like me, I'm bad.
	But she makes so much money that she can donate $130,000 to Democrats like Biden and Harris, while telling you that the people on the right who point out the lies and the betrayals of Donald Trump, I'm the problem.
	People like me, people like Shannon Joy, we're the problem, not Julie Greene.
	I think she's the problem.
	I think people like her are the problem.
	And her other book, okay, so first one's Disloyal Opposition.
	If you don't like Trump, you're disloyal.
	And then the other book, January the 6th, How Democrats Use the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right.
	Yeah, I could have written that book.
	I could have written that book in November, two days after the election, because it wasn't the Democrats that were trapping people.
	It was Alex Jones and Steve Pachinic who were trapping people with lies about the fact that they throw a blockchain watermark ballots out there.
	It was a sting.
	And we got 20,000 National Guard out there arresting people.
	We know who padded the ballots and we're already arresting them two days after the election.
	And that was how they kicked off.
	Stop the steal.
	And I said, first of all, none of this is true.
	Secondly, you're not going to stop this.
	By the time we got to December the 14th, when they called in the electoral college votes, and there was only one slate of electors officially recognized in each state, I said, it's over.
	I said, the rest of this stuff is a grift, and it's going to entrap you personally if you go.
	And it's going to be an entrapment of the entire conservative movement.
	The political right, if you will.
	And that's what she's saying.
	But she says it was the Democrats, not Alex Jones and Steve Pichinik and people like her.
	Or Donald Trump.
	They are the ones who entrapped the right.
	They're the ones who entrapped the right.
	They're the ones who put them in on January 6th, abandoned them, ran to the other side of town.
	Donald Trump ran away, Alex Jones ran away.
	They left these people to be entrapped, to be persecuted, to be tortured.
	It doesn't justify what Biden did.
	But they were betrayed by these Judas goats.
	And who were these Judas goats working on?
	When you look at somebody like, who are they working for?
	When you look at somebody like Julie Kelly, making $130,000 of contributions to Democrats.
	I wonder who she was working for.
	But it's Democrats that she gave money to.
	That used the Capitol protests to launch a war on terror against the political right.
	And I said that was what was going to be the outcome of this.
	I said, first of all, you've been lied to.
	You've been deceived.
	You've been fleeced.
	You've been grifted.
	And these people are going to use this against you and against the political right.
	But it was a Democrat plot.
	It wasn't Trump.
	It wasn't Alex, of course, right?
	Even though they're the ones who organized it.
	It was the Democrats who did that.
	Look, J6 was pushed by the intelligence community through people like her, through people like Alex Jones, through people like Steve Pachinik.
	He's the intelligence.
	He's the operative pushing all this narrative.
	And Alex loved the views.
	He loved the money that he was making.
	He had two events in 2020 that he made record profits off of, pushing fear for lockdown and vaccines, and then pushing the fake rebellion of January the 6th.
	So, going back to the LifeSide article, it said the couple continued to donate to politicians that Kelly publicly considers to be complicit in a, quote, war on terror, unquote, against her readers.
	You look at all this stuff and it's like, how come A, she's promoted all over social media.
	How come she's still out there?
	How come they don't come after her?
	How come they don't come after Alex?
	Why is that?
	You might want to ask yourself that.
	I love how MAGA people troll me.
	Tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
	Tell me that the stuff about the vaccine thing was taken out of context.
	No, it wasn't.
	I played the full video for you.
	Here's the context.
	Look at what Alex told people for 20 years and then look at what he told people about adjuvants.
	Oh, you can take that.
	It's just a little bit of aluminum in there.
	You can do that.
	It's no problem.
	Uh, and here's another context.
	All these people that you don't know what you're talking about.
	You know, Alex is on our side and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's like, Hey pal, you don't know what you're talking about.
	I've got eight years of context where I worked there.
	I've know these people.
	Have you ever met Alex?
	You ever met him?
	I was there for eight years.
	Let's talk about context.
	Let's talk about how I don't know anything about all of this stuff.
	You got money that was, she gave money to people like Tim Kaine.
	That was Hillary Clinton's running mate.
	She gave money to the Democrat National Committee.
	$2,800 to Biden's presidential campaign.
	It's common practice, says LifeSite News and Lobbying World, to make donations to both parties, except that they made 90% of their donations to Democrats.
	If she really believes this, maybe they ought to get in a different line of work, you think?
	Right?
	Oh yeah, I think they're engaged in a war on terror, but hey, if I can make money as a big agri-lobbyist, I'll give the money to the Democrats.
	Doesn't even lobby the Republicans.
	And so, quite frankly, I'm not going to defend her.
	I'm not going to defend any lobbyist.
	Especially lobbyists who are giving money to Democrats, because that tells you if they're giving money to Democrats as part of the ag thing, I'll just make a educated guess here and say that this is for big ag to shut down family farms.
	Because that's why you would give the money to the Democrats, isn't it?
	So the person who exposed this is named, last name is Serafin.
	I'm looking to see where the first name is.
	Serafin said he was compelled to investigate Kelly's political spending due to past attacks by Julie and other conservatives.
	Who identified inaccuracies in her reporting and commentary, such as falsely insisting that Trump lacked the legal ability to pardon January the 6th detainees before leaving office.
	Ah, see, she says that, you know, you didn't have the power to do that.
	This is the type of thing that I've talked about.
	I've mentioned that.
	I've given examples.
	I was like, no, that was the Insurrection Act.
	That they're coming after the January 6th People's War.
	That was passed after the Civil War by people who wanted, Republicans who wanted to enact a vengeance on the losers.
	And Andrew Johnson, who had taken over after Lincoln was assassinated, pardoned all Confederate veterans.
	And Trump could have done the same thing.
	And then we also have the more recent example of Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon before he was charged with anything.
	And, of course, these Confederate veterans had not been charged with anything either.
	You don't have to wait until somebody is charged.
	You don't have to wait until they're convicted.
	You can pardon them up front.
	And we saw that after the Civil War, as the Insurrection Act was placed, you had Andrew Johnson essentially nullify that act.
	And then same thing with Gerald Ford.
	But it cost Gerald Ford some political capital.
	Trump is not willing to spend the political capital or to do anything that was going to put him at risk in order to help the people who have now been suffering for years.
	Tortured in jail, denied due process.
	Some of them have committed suicide.
	Trump abandoned them and left them twisting in the wind.
	But she told us that wasn't the case.
	And then she was also the source that got Dan Bongino and his panties all in a wad about the Mar-a-Lago raid.
	And look, I understand that, you know, all of this stuff was political warfare against Trump.
	And I said from the very beginning, the purpose of this is to make sure that Trump is going to be the nominee.
	It was all prima facie, absurd, unjust, but having said that.
	She is helping to push, and Dan Bongino is helping to push, Trump as a martyr.
	To make sure that he's the nominee.
	To make sure that we're not going to have anybody who's actually going to talk about policy or be a new face or anything else.
	We're not going to have a discussion even of policy.
	We're going to shut it all down because Trump is a persecuted martyr.
	And so she is the one who put out the idea that The FBI had given a special deadly force authorization in the search warrant that was there.
	And as I reported at the time, and I called out Dan Bongino because, again, he had his panties in a wad and set them on fire over this stuff.
	And I said, this is boilerplate information.
	You tout yourself as law enforcement, Dan, but you don't even bother to look at the documents.
	This is not something that you ever did.
	You worked for the Secret Service.
	He wasn't with the FBI, but this is boilerplate language on every one of the search warrants.
	Now, whether or not it's justified is another issue.
	But did Dan Bongino ever have a problem with all the people who have been raided with a shoot-first SWAT team?
	Do you ever have a problem with the flashbang grenades thrown into baby's cribs when they're even at the wrong house?
	Does he want to stop the SWAT raids?
	No.
	He just wants to make Trump a martyr.
	And I'm disgusted with people like that, so-called law enforcement people like Dan Bongino, who doesn't care about the average American.
	Americans out there all the time are having their homes raided by these out-of-control militarized police raids that we call SWAT raids.
	I come from an America where that would have been anathema, where that would have been a satire.
	And it was a satire in 1984, as I've shown many times in Brazil.
	It's an over-the-top satire of a totalitarian society, and yet now it is common.
	It happens to people all the time.
	Does he care?
	No.
	And that didn't even happen at Mar-a-Lago.
	But just because there was some boilerplate language there.
	Julie Kelly pushed this stuff out, and Dan Bongino ran with it.
	It's just absolutely amazing.
	You know, I push back against this January the 6th stuff.
	I had people telling me as late as February of 2021.
	You're lying!
	You've got Trump derangement syndrome!
	I say, show me where the 20,000 troops are that Steve Pichinik, the CIA guy, and Alex were telling everybody back two days after the election.
	Where are those?
	Where's the evidence of that arrest?
	Where are those National Guard troops?
	Where has any of the stuff that they said come to pass?
	And of course, it was a bunch of buzzwords and jargon that was being thrown out by Steve Pucinich that was nonsense.
	Utter nonsense.
	None of it could have been true.
	And so Serafin said, Julie was wrong about the language in the FD 888 used to execute the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
	Dan Bongino decided to back Julie's false information and publicly attacked a number of men who have more skin in the game and futures are on the line than either the Bonginos or the Kellys.
	He said, if you blindly follow this woman who has attacked and lists a bunch of people and others without justification, you are supporting the Democrats financially.
	As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I took Dan Bongino to task on this stuff was because he, again, lost a headline.
	Dan Bongino loses his cool over Libs who didn't agree with what he was saying, because it was boilerplate language.
	And then he said, and if you don't think that this is a weaponized attack, especially they tried to kill President Trump, he said, anybody who tells you that, like me, He says, unfollow those morons.
	Let me tell you who the moron is.
	It's somebody like Dan Bongino.
	And if he's not a moron, he's a traitor.
	It's a controlled opposition if he's not a moron.
	Moron would be the most charitable explanation for what he did.
	So far, Kelly's refused to answer questions about the story, telling both critics and concerned readers alike, I'm not responding to attacks on my family, and I owe you nothing.
	Literally, F all the way off, she said.
	OK, well.
	You know, you're a moron and you need to be unfollowed if you don't agree with Dan Bongino.
	And if you question where she gets all this money and why she's using it to buy Democrats.
	If other Democrats, well then you can just...
	Go away, let's put it politely.
	And so she had attacked Seraphim, this guy, before, called him a Desantis op.
	She had once praised DeSantis effusively, but began criticizing him when it became obvious he was going to challenge Trump.
	Alex supported DeSantis when he started.
	He left Trump for a while, went to DeSantis, then he keeps wetting his finger and sticking it in the wind, and then he comes back to Trump.
	So that's where these people are.
	But she's supported by Jeff Clark, Sebastian Gorka, Dan Bongino, Kurt Schlichter, all these people.
	By the way, Kurt Schlichter, as LifeSite News points out, I mentioned that a lot of people were coming after live action founder Lila Rose because she actually criticized Trump because he started using the code word for abortion, women's reproductive rights.
	So you're going to love what I do with women's reproductive rights.
	And so she criticized him, rightfully so with that.
	And so you had people like Kurt Schlichter, who called her a narcissist and not pro-life.
	That's the guy you're supporting.
	That's Trump.
	He's the narcissist.
	He's not pro-life.
	Just amazing.
	He said, and then he tries to be the peacemaker after he says that, calls her that.
	He says, well, it makes me sad to see people fighting each other.
	I'd like to see all of us working together again.
	That's the other bot response that I get on social media.
	Please just go back to Alex.
	You guys are so good together and you just, you need to kiss and make up and all this.
	Look, I'm not here.
	To make so much money that I can give $130,000 to Democrat politicians.
	I'm not here to inform you.
	I'm here to warn you about people like Julie Kelly, Alex Jones, Dan Bongino, Sebastian Gorka.
	These people are part of what David Icke calls the mainstream alternative media.
	They're there to deceive you.
	Either for their own individual purposes, or because they're working for some other groups.
	They make a fortune misleading people.
	And they mislead people into prison.
	Into those horrific things.
	They mislead people into lockdowns.
	Into jabs.
	I'm sorry if that offends people, but it offends me when these types of things happen.
	And then I got this from a listener.
	Nick Fuentes pledges that he and 10,000 of his Groypers will hold a rally opposite Trump.
	So he's going to put himself into opposition.
	The two issues that he's got are no more immigrants and stop the U.S.
	from funding wars.
	Well, yeah, I agree with all that stuff, but why do we need to have a repellent little neo-Nazi like Nick Fuentes to push this on the right?
	To me, he's doing more harm to these issues by his presence.
	And can this guy be trusted?
	This was also sent to me.
	Nick Fuentes was seconds away from selling his fans data to the Zionist billionaires behind Ben Shapiro when this narcissism intervened.
	It's the headline.
	Turns out that there's some very wealthy backers Who back the things that Nick Fuentes says that he doesn't back.
	Huh, isn't that interesting?
	Yeah, kind of like Julie Kelly, right?
	In October, Nick Fuentes met Jonathan Strickland from Pale Horse Strategies, a think tank funded by Texan billionaires Ferris and Dan Wilkes, who fund Zionist neoconservatives such as The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager.
	The Wilkes brothers' long-running devotion to Israel and ties to the permanent war lobby in Washington are at stark odds with what Fuentes says he wants.
	Now, he said, what are we going to stop for in wars?
	And he doesn't like Zionism.
	These people like Zionism.
	And he's going to do a deal with them.
	The meeting was thought by his allies to be his last hope of securing major backing.
	But instead of pitching himself as an American personality, he asked how much Wilkes would pay for America First's data.
	So I'll sell you the data about my fans.
	I'll sell you my mailing list and stuff.
	Six hours later, terms were agreed, but the deal fell apart dramatically when it was discovered that Fuentes secretly tipped off local newspapers in hopes of a photo op.
	There are no plans to revive these scuttled talks.
	Look, I talk about all this because I've seen most of these people.
	I've seen them up close.
	I'm very cynical and suspicious of all of these influencers, and you should be as well.
	And be cynical and suspicious of me as well.
	Don't trust anybody in this situation.
	But I tell you this because I've got personal knowledge of a lot of these people.
	And Fuentes was right there.
	He was a sidekick with Alex on all this Stop the Steal stuff.
	And he's right there with Ali Alexander.
	As a matter of fact, this guy says Ali Alexander Akbar, a close associate of Fuentes.
	Currently under active criminal investigation in three separate states for sexual conduct with male minors.
	Remains Fuente's closest confidant and professional ally.
	Nick Fuente's career-wrecking allegiance to Ali Akbar, Ali Alexander, can only be satisfactorily explained by major financial or romantic ties.
	That's what he said.
	Ali Alexander had been convicted as a criminal con man when he started hanging around InfoWars and when he was partnering with Alex and with Roger Stone and all the rest of them with this stop the steal grift.
	The Wilkes Network includes most, if not all, the people that Fuentes accuses of ruining the country.
	No, just like Julie Kelly.
	Oh yeah, you know the bad people are the Democrats and the bad people are the people who don't support Trump, who are conservative.
	Ferris and his brother Dan Wilkes are investors in the Daily Wire and Prager University and in Ben Shapiro.
	They're donors to Ted Cruz.
	To say that Fuentes would have made an awkward bedfellow with their existing properties is to put it mildly.
	And it demonstrates the desperation and possibly the cash crunch that Fuentes is in.
	And he says he's taking money from somebody who is in the permanent war lobby as he's telling everybody he's got these two issues he's going to oppose Trump on.
	Permanent war and immigration.
	He says, think of the Wilkes portfolio as a rival force commercially and politically to the populist nationalist Mercer funded ecosystem, which over the years has included Breitbart, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Trump.
	He says, Wilkes funded personalities are distinguished by what?
	By inexplicable overnight fame.
	Isn't that interesting?
	We keep seeing that over and over again.
	We start to see the system call less behind somebody and start to promote them.
	Rabid and unconditional support for Israel and warmongering considered emphatic even by Republican standards.
	And yet, he is going to be bringing his group of Groypers together to oppose all of these things that he says are exactly perfect.
	Roger Stone, meanwhile, is now making the case for RFK Jr.
	as Trump's CIA director.
	Yeah, this is from Revolver.
	Watch out for Darren Beatty as well.
	This guy is another one of these characters.
	According to Roger Stone, says Darren Beatty, it might involve cowardly rhinos doing everything they can to block RFK Jr.
	from becoming head of Health and Human Services.
	So how would he fit in?
	Well, he thinks that he would fit in as part of the CIA.
	And Caitlin Johnstone, who is, she's on the left.
	We would probably disagree about most policy issues, but we both agree about the American empire, and we both agree about free speech and some fundamental things like that.
	She wrote, and it was up on a Free Thought Project, Trumpism and anti-Trumpism are both fake decoy revolutions that serve the empire.
	We're going to talk about that later, but I just want to leave this with you.
	She opens it up with laughing about the idea that RFK Jr.
	would be put in as head of the CIA.
	She said there's a fuzz-brained narrative going around MAGA circles right now that if re-elected Trump is going to appoint RFK to the position of CIA director.
	This narrative has been extrapolated from some very vague comments made by Trump Jr.
	on a conservative podcast last week.
	It is hilarious that anyone thinks that this will happen and it says so much about how perpetually gullible and confused Trump supporters are.
	Trump's CIA directors have been Mike We lied, we cheat, we steal Pompeo and torture fetishist, bloody Gina Haspel.
	And these dopes think that he's suddenly going to give the job to RFK Jr.
	Come on, Trump isn't going to drain the swamp.
	Trump is the swamp.
	And I absolutely concur with Caitlin Johnstone on it.
	To this day, even after watching four years of evidence to the contrary, Trump supporters still believe he's going to end the wars, drain the swamp, and take the fight to the deep state.
	They believe he'll be fighting the deep state even after he imprisoned Julian Assange.
	They believe he'll be ending the wars even after he ramped up Cold War aggression against Russia.
	After he killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions, vetoed attempts to save Yemen from U.S.-backed genocide of the Saudis, worked to foment civil war in Iran using starvation sanctions and CIA ops with a stated goal of effecting regime change, Trump came inches from starting a full-scale war with Iran by assassinating General Soleimani.
	He occupied Syrian oil fields with a goal of preventing Syria's reconstruction.
	As a matter of fact, we just had another pilot shot down in Syria.
	American pilot.
	And people correctly said, what's he doing here?
	Oh, well, we're going to take the oil, said Trump.
	He greatly increased the number of troops in the Middle East and elsewhere.
	He greatly increased the number of bombs dropped per day from the previous administration, killing record numbers of civilians.
	Trump reduced military accountability for those airstrikes.
	They believe, though, that he will drain the swamp after he packed his cabinet full of neocon swamp monsters like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams.
	Trump supporters are the most gullible people on earth.
	They'll stare right at you.
	And broad daylight this stuff is that and they'll let Trump do it again.
	So we're going to talk about that when we come back, but let's skip into something that is a little bit more pleasant.
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	All right, welcome back and joining us now is Tony Aarderman.
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	Thank you for joining us, Tony.
	Always great to be here, David.
	Thanks for having me.
	Thank you.
	What's on your mind?
	I'm looking at these, should the dollar be backed by gold?
	I was just talking the other day about, you mention all the time about currency versus money and all the rest of this stuff.
	And, you know, I think that's kind of a rhetorical question that he's putting there.
	You know, what is the difference between money and a currency?
	And so that's one of the things that people need to start To get their perspective right, I think they need to understand the difference between those things.
	And, you know, we talk about backing a currency by gold.
	Some people have started doing that with cryptocurrency and some other things.
	But gold is the thing, isn't it?
	I mean, you don't really need to.
	The dollar is there.
	It's not going to be backed by anything.
	And they're not going to make it honest by even putting gold behind it, are they?
	No, we've tried that before.
	Franklin Roosevelt made it illegal for you to own gold in 1933, but we still had a quote-unquote gold standard until 1971, and the rest of the world took notice.
	They realized that we were writing checks against funds that we didn't have.
	They started cashing in their dollars at the gold window, so Richard Nixon closed the gold window.
	We took the silver out of our coinage starting in 1965.
	We debased it.
	And again, the rest of the world noticed that.
	So I don't think a gold standard is necessarily what we need.
	However, I would point to all the central banks, not ours, but all the central banks around the world buying gold right now.
	They believe, I think, that their currencies will be remonetized against their gold holdings.
	And I think that's just kind of a trend.
	They've got to run the simulation, seeing that You know, the currency creation worldwide is unsustainable.
	They inflate their way out of deficits and bubbles and crashes, and it's just going to continue to debase and devalue their own currency.
	So something's got to happen.
	You know, the Davos crowd calls it the Great Reset.
	That's what they're looking to do.
	So, you know, the dollar, the dollar is in real trouble.
	We just noticed that the Second largest reserve asset in the world is now gold.
	It's supplanted to euro.
	The first is the dollar.
	But we can see that waning.
	There was an article up in the Financial Times yesterday about cross-border payments are now at an all-time high between Russia and China.
	So the weaponization of the dollar over the past many decades, but especially in the last five years, has accelerated de-dollarization.
	See, that's the key.
	It's slow.
	I mean, we talk every week and we've mentioned the petrodollar every week.
	We're some of the few people talking about it, which is monumental.
	Uh, what happened?
	I mean, it's cataclysmic for loss of purchasing power in the dollar long term, but nobody's talking about it.
	We lost the pet.
	We're losing the petro dollar, but it's still in a shadow of itself because 80% of the energy payments still go on in dollars.
	But again, you can see the trend and the trend is to dump the dollar.
	These countries are figuring out a way to do it.
	I think the key here.
	If you're watching commodities is that gold is the world's reserve currency.
	Just figuring out a way because it is physical, like figuring out a way to use it as a cross-border payment, use it to settle debts, you know, and to do that transactionally.
	And that's what's happening.
	That's what I think people mistake, you know, the BRICS nations and they have a meeting coming out.
	I think they mistake that for them coming out with their own currency and they might come out with something.
	But the goal there will not be to supplant the U.S.
	dollar as some new reserve currency that everyone uses.
	It will be a way, in my opinion, for all of them and for countries in their periphery and who they do business with to transact outside of the dollar system.
	It won't necessarily be that it will be one currency or one thing.
	The CBDC plans that are drawn up, the World Economic Forum was crowing about that a couple of months ago, that 96% of all countries had a central bank digital currency plan in action or being implemented.
	That's what really is the future.
	It's gold and digital currencies and these cross-border payment systems.
	The dollar is getting shoved out of the way, but it's not happening so fast that the mainstream media is paying attention to it, but we certainly are.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Yeah, I think that is the goal.
	They're going to have a CBDC.
	It'll be interoperable.
	So there'll be each of the central banks will have a digital currency that'll be there, and they'll be interoperable.
	But they see a lot of unrest and chaos in the interim as we're transitioning to this stuff.
	And so they're accumulating gold to help with that chaos.
	And it kind of reminds me of, you know, we used to go to Williamsburg.
	And Colonial Williamsburg, when the kids were young, and they would have these enactors, re-enactors that would play different characters like Jefferson or whatever, and say, where are you from, sir?
	You know, I'm from North Carolina or whatever.
	Oh, well, you know, the banks there are kind of shady, you know, they don't really have the money to back the reserves that are there.
	And it used to make me think about that.
	It's like, yeah, you know, there used to not be any central bank during the time of Jefferson or any of the rest of this stuff.
	And so it really was the faith and good credit of a particular bank.
	And they would have to have, if you're going to write a check or do a draft on that bank, it had to have a good reputation.
	And it kind of was driven home when we went to Hong Kong.
	And we changed our money into the Hong Kong dollars, and I was back in the hotel looking at it, because they were very different in terms of colors and everything, and I noticed that they had radically different, same denomination, it would be radically different colors and everything, and then I looked closely, and one of them was issued by a bank there in Hong Kong, and then the other one that looked very different was issued by a different bank.
	So we started looking this up and it's like, this is the way it used to be in colonial times.
	You would have the different commercial banks, for example, would be issuing their own currencies or their own drafts or whatever, and that's the way they actually did it in Hong Kong.
	And so that's really kind of what the central banks are doing, as you're pointing out.
	They're going to be issuing their currency or their digital currency.
	And in order for people to believe that they're going to be good for it, they're going to have to show that they've got some gold there.
	And that's why they're accumulating that.
	Right, and you see countries like Zimbabwe, who used to be the laughing stock, creating the trillion-dollar notes, they're moving to a gold-backed digital currency.
	Same with Nigeria, and there's others that are popping up.
	These are the testing grounds.
	I think that's what we're really moving to.
	I think gold will become known as the world's reserve currency, if you will, but all the digitized currencies in the periphery in these nations will be used for cross-border payments and again there'll be probably a big market share of the Chinese Yuan and there still will be dollars and all the rest but I think what really needs to be emphasized is that the economic world order that was set up in 1944 at Bretton Woods is crumbling.
	This is part of the, you talk about it all the time, this is part of the fourth turning where institutions get scrapped and reset.
	And we're really watching that.
	This is going to bring a lot of economic chaos home.
	Those dollars get repatriated, something called Triffin's Dilemma.
	You know, what happens when we stocked all these central banks around the world with dollars?
	And they repatriate them back home to its origin, which is here in the United States.
	It will further devalue the dollar.
	It is interesting to watch.
	I read a lot of economic history, and you're absolutely right.
	The 19th century, we didn't have inflation.
	Now, there was problems with different banks.
	When you have decentralization and a free market, there's always going to be problems, but nothing like the corruption of controlling the money supply through the Federal Reserve.
	The life of J.P.
	Morgan He was born in 1837, which was year one of us not having a central bank.
	Andrew Jackson killed the second bank of the United States.
	He wanted that on his tombstone, by the way.
	He wanted, I killed the bank on his tombstone.
	But J.P.
	Morgan was born in 1837.
	He died in 1913.
	His life was the exact span of the United States not having a central bank.
	And again, they called it a Federal Reserve.
	They met at Jekyll Island on November 22, 1910.
	Three years later, they had the Federal Reserve enacted.
	Of course, you've talked about that many times.
	It's a wonderful lie, because it was based off the time frame going into Christmas.
	So, we really, I think taking a step back, what we're watching is the decline of the dollar, de-dollarization is real, it's happening. It's happening faster than I had anticipated. I've been talking about this for years, but especially since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions placed on that, other countries have taken notice, and they're just dumping the system altogether and moving on.
	And that's why gold right now is over $2,500 an ounce, David.
	I really didn't think I'd see these prices either.
	And I'm in this business.
	I haven't been crowing about, you know.
	$2,500 goal that I can remember.
	I thought, well, we do certainly break $2,000, $2,100, certainly, certainly.
	But these are prices that even territory that I had not anticipated.
	At least this soon.
	I still think it's cheap, by the way.
	I mean, just for all intents and purposes, I still think it's cheap.
	But really what this is a reflection of is loss of confidence in the dollar itself as a reserve asset.
	That's why Gold has now supplanted the Euro.
	I'll say again, it's supplanted the Euro as the second largest reserve asset.
	You got to remember the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland made it a Tier 1 asset a few years ago.
	Gold itself.
	It hadn't been for a long time.
	So we're really witnessing something historic here.
	Yeah, and so, you know, we've got, we had the meeting in Jackson Hole, they love to call it J-Hole, and I call them the A-Holes in J-Hole, deciding whether or not they're going to, what they're going to do with money.
	Are they going to increase the supply?
	Are they going to charge more or less for interest rates and things like that?
	And everybody's expecting they're going to change the interest rates in September.
	Then of course, in October, we have the BRICS summit.
	That'll be all about de-dollarization and having multipolar financial centers and that type of thing breaking away from the dollar.
	So yeah, at $2,500, and it's gone up and set several new all-time highs in the last couple of weeks.
	And it'll retrench, and it'll bounce around.
	But I think long term, we're looking at something, not even long term, by next year.
	And certainly after the election, I think we're looking at it going up quite a bit higher.
	And that's just really, as you point out all the time, it's really the dollar that is going down.
	And that's what we're seeing.
	We're seeing the crash of this.
	Fiat currency out of Washington, as they want to tell everybody worldwide what to do now.
	I've got a question, though.
	Did they put that I killed the bank on his tombstone?
	No.
	Unfortunately, no.
	But there's a lot of great history.
	Andrew Jackson just despised the banksters.
	He said they're a den of vipers and thieves and he's going to rout them out.
	In theory, you look at the conspiracy theory is that his would-be assassin, who he caned, by the way, he misfired, the pistol misfired, he caned the man in public.
	Supposedly that person was a Rothschild's agent.
	You never know.
	But definitely he was an enemy of international finance and the last person to really stand up to that cartel.
	And it lasted a long time.
	Because of his opposition to a central bank and talking to the people, it took that long.
	It took decades.
	It took the lifespan of J.P.
	Morgan to put a central bank back in place in the United States, and they knew not to call it that.
	That's why the language is very important.
	It's not federal, but they call it a federal reserve, and there's no reserves there.
	Yeah, it's just a scheme to control the money supply and somebody like Andrew Jackson understood that.
	Yeah, it was interesting.
	I saw an article about that pistol that had misfired.
	I don't know if it was maybe one or two pistols that the guy had or whatever, but you point out that it misfired and he caned the guy and they got the guy.
	But they put those pistols in a museum and in recent times they took them out and they fired.
	So, I don't know.
	It's kind of interesting, you know.
	God is sovereign in different things, whatever He does.
	But when we look at, speaking of misfires, we have commercial real estate issues.
	We have $557 billion worth of value.
	That is evaporated from U.S.
	offices.
	And again, when we look at the overall, when we're looking at chaos, we're looking at the decline of the dollar, the decline of the financial system, especially the banks that are in jeopardy of this.
	I mean, where did this $557 billion worth of value evaporate?
	Well, it's really kind of evaporated from the banks because these people are going to walk away and the banks are going to be holding the The empty bag that was money before we've got office buildings one of them recently sold at And it worked out to $12 a square foot.
	I mean, that's how the office crash has really Come on And it's really going to be the small and medium-sized banks that are holding the bag with all the stuff as it's all evaporated
	I think this is in direct correlation to not suffering the pain, the true pain of 08, 09, you know, the TARP funds and the injection of liquidity into the system to keep it from having a total crash.
	They just put a band-aid on a sucking chest wound and now we're going to experience, unfortunately, I don't think they can inflate their way out of it.
	I don't think they can print their way out of it.
	You're talking about a massive psychological loss of confidence as well in the market, but just we change patterns, you know, through the lockdowns and being not essential and you can't go into often into the office and these companies outsourced and did everything over zoom.
	You gotta remember, every time there's a commercial real estate loan, every time there's a residential real estate loan, that's currency creation.
	So where did it go?
	Into the ether, into the nowhere.
	It's gone.
	And you know, you look at, this is why I keep going back to, if you look at the chart of actual so-called wealth around the world, it's estimated like, what, 400 trillion?
	And you see in these big blocks of like, all these sovereign wealth funds or currencies or stock markets, And then you look at the market cap of gold and it's 16 trillion.
	How is that even possible?
	How is it possible that gold, the only thing really known as money in the history of the world, is only a 16 trillion market cap in a world where the supposed there's hundreds of trillions of assets?
	That doesn't make any sense to me.
	And I think what you're watching again, it's just something, there's a bubble of all bubbles.
	I don't think we can wrap our minds around.
	What's going to happen when that collapses because it'll be systemic.
	It'll be a malignancy that gets into everything.
	We just saw a flash crash on August 5th across the markets and people have short memories.
	They just forgot about it already, but it looked bad.
	It looked like there was going to be a greater fallout than there actually was.
	But I think that's just a stress test.
	That's just a little burp on the radar, but it's coming.
	And I think you'll see a rush to assets and there'll be revaluations everywhere.
	And it'll be, you know, to quote the Rothschilds, it'll be blood in the streets.
	Yeah.
	When that happened, I said, that's not even October yet, you know, because you see this kind of stuff happening in October, the major stock market crashes.
	Right.
	So it might just come back in October.
	But as that was happening, you saw gold go up significantly.
	And so many different banks, Bank of America, JP Morgan, many others.
	And of course, as that was happening, You had weekly reports coming out, Zero Hedge picked up a report from Goldfix and said, yeah, $3,000 gold, that's looking pretty reasonable at this point, just a few months out.
	And if you go back and look at how much it has gone up in just the last year, it truly is astounding, as you were saying before.
	It is something that is kind of a harbinger of, I think, what is going to be happening this fall and certainly after the election.
	And that's why I think we're seeing these all-time highs with gold.
	And it's not really when it pulls back.
	It always does.
	You know, you always have people taking profits with anything going up.
	It hasn't pulled back all that much.
	It's continually just slowly moving up.
	I've heard a lot of analysts say that the price in gold is a reflection on future predictions of a Harris win in November, but I disagree.
	I think the price of gold keeps moving regardless of who's elected.
	This is macro.
	This is geopolitical.
	This is about what we're talking about.
	Total debt worldwide is estimated at $350 trillion.
	So you've got a debt to gross domestic product worldwide that's rivaling itself.
	These things are unsustainable.
	And there's a sense in the market that that's coming.
	But these are still cheap prices.
	Silver's just over $30.
	I'll check goldprice.org.
	It's $29.59 on the spot price right now for the white metal.
	52.50 in 1980, David.
	Yeah.
	52.50 in 1980.
	This is cheap.
	And what do you think?
	Gold was, when I was born, gold was headed up to $800 an ounce.
	You know, beginning of the 70s, it was $35 an ounce.
	End of the 70s, it was $800 an ounce, roughly.
	So, you know, what's $800 an ounce in 1980, David?
	Is it more than $2,500?
	Gold was headed up to $800 an ounce, you know, beginning of the 70s, it was $35 an ounce, into the 70s, it was $800 an ounce, roughly.
	So what's $800 an ounce in 1980, David?
	Is it more than $2,500?
	You bet!
	You bet it is!
	You know what you could get for $800 in 1980.
	So really, we're denominating precious metals in dollars, and there will come a time when we don't.
	They'll be denominated in a different way.
	Maybe in other commodities, there'll be a different chart.
	Because the dollar in and of itself, we give psychological value to it.
	It's something I study all the time, and it is weird that we do that.
	Because that's not part of our history.
	Can you imagine if we were founded?
	America would have never made anything of itself if it was founded on a fiat currency.
	They go on decline with fiat currencies.
	That's the same thing with our trade policies.
	We weren't founded on these free trade agreements.
	We were founded on strategic manufacturing.
	And economic nationalism.
	Countries decline on free trade.
	They decline on fiat currency.
	And we can see that.
	I think, in large part, what's happening to the U.S.
	is done on purpose.
	It's done on the inside.
	It's an inside job.
	literally watching the petrodollar agreement lapse, watching these cross-border payments increase, not having anything, no intervention whatsoever to bolster the dollar, and then everybody looks to Jerome Powell to ask, please, daddy, can we have some more inflation?
	I know.
	It's just crazy.
	It's insane times.
	And you talked about the office stuff with the commercial real estate.
	Gerald Cilente is absolutely right.
	That's where it will begin.
	It won't begin in the residential market.
	This time it'll be in the commercial.
	This is something I briefly mentioned.
	I don't know if you know any more about this, but Wyoming is going to launch a stable coin next year.
	And they said they did it because they're very concerned about the Fed's policy instability, because they know that they're going to support the too-big-to-fail banks.
	We know they're going to throw the small and medium-sized banks to the wolves when this commercial real estate thing busts.
	But they will try to save the big banks and bail that out.
	And so there's a lot of different states That are looking at various ways to kind of have a fallback position, a hedge against the bad policies of the Federal Reserve and what may happen with the dollar, what may happen with the overall economic system.
	Some of the states here like Tennessee, and Senator Nicely was trying to get the state to Put more gold in you know to buy more gold and hold it because as kind of a hedge against what the Federal Reserve was going to do there's several different southern states that are looking at that and then of course there's Wyoming which is talking about doing a stable coin but the you know They're just going to put it into a crypto thing, rather than having gold that they accumulate there.
	But still, it's everybody's concern about what the Federal Reserve is going to do, what the economic system is going to be, how some banks will be saved, but everybody else is just going to be left to die.
	What have you heard about Wyoming, or have you heard anything about that?
	What are they doing with their stable coin, do you know?
	I've heard a little about it, and I think this is a trend that will just continue to increase all over the place, whether it's states doing it.
	You look into something like Tether.
	Tether did this with the U.S.
	dollar and have been quite successful with it.
	I don't own any Tether.
	But I think there's going to be more of this popping up.
	And you're absolutely right.
	The states are decentralizing, setting up their own reserves and allowing for gold and silver to be legal tender.
	I applaud all this.
	Oklahoma recently just passed some massive legislation being very friendly to crypto, very friendly to Bitcoin.
	I'd love to see it.
	That's what you need on a state and local level.
	Recognizing currency, recognizing gold and silver as legal tender.
	Anything that pops up that competes with the Fed, I love it.
	I'm a fan.
	Because decentralization promotes freedom.
	Centralization detracts from freedom.
	It's as simple as that.
	We're watching some history happen.
	When the BRICS nations continue to do what they're doing with cross-border payments and recognizing gold and commodities, the dollar continues to wane.
	There'll be less influence from the Fed, and that's great.
	That's a good thing.
	It's some pain.
	There'll be some short-term pain, but I like the idea of you being your own bank.
	I do that every week for myself, and I practice what I preach.
	I started buying I started getting some smaller gold coins. I talk about this all the time. I put them in Wolfpack.
	I buy my own and I set them aside. Even with the premiums, I'm like, well, I know that 10 years from now, this won't matter. Five years from now, this premium won't matter because psychologically I'm saying, well, I'm paying what?
	$2,600 an ounce to get this 10th ounce coin as opposed to buying an ounce.
	Well, it won't matter on a long enough timeline because I'm taking this dollar that's not backed by anything and I'm putting it against the gold.
	Get the gold.
	Have something that's yours.
	Don't rely too much on third parties, whether it's a bank, whether it's a crypto in an exchange.
	You know, learn how to do something yourself, and I would start with precious metals.
	That's where I start.
	We're still going to have Wise Wolf Bitcoin coming up very soon, and there's going to be some really neat stuff that I'm going to be able to announce on that, but it is a lot of work.
	I'm working on it.
	I'm kind of buried here in my office, been working on...
	All of this stuff, and you should see the paperwork stacked up behind me.
	I've been trying to get all this stuff in action, but yeah, it's... And of course, they've been thinking about how they can multiply the paperwork out there to make it difficult for you, which is why you're snuggling with that.
	I mean, they've been pretty successful.
	If they can produce anything, they can produce paperwork out of Washington, can't they?
	It's bad.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, that's what we're talking about in terms of the stable coin in Wyoming or, you know, adding gold to the state treasury in southern states and other places like that.
	People just understand the shaky situation that we're in with the Federal Reserve.
	And so you see, you know, Costco out there saying, well, you know, we're going to offer gold or whatever, or that reflects a general understanding Of what is the kind, you know, the value of gold and the risk that we're in right now.
	This is another one.
	This is an Idaho-based gold depository that's going to have more gold in it than Fort Knox will be able to do.
	It's called Money Metals.
	It's opening up.
	That's another example of, you know, we talk about bringing it home, and a lot of these large central banks in other countries are bringing it home.
	They're bringing it home in terms of gold.
	Divorce themselves from the dollar all at once because it'd be absolutely worthless if they did that so they got to do it in a controlled way, but they're trying to bring home wealth insurance Into their end of their country, and that's what individuals are doing you know you bring it home But you don't necessarily want to keep it in a at home.
	This is a recognition of that that so many people are starting to accumulate gold that and There's a market out there for a very large, very expensive investment.
	Somebody's made 37,000 square foot vault for people to keep gold in.
	That tells you something about the awareness of the importance of having gold by individuals and some high net worth individuals or some businesses or institutions, I guess.
	Well, to be fair, your local pawn shop might have more gold than Fort Knox.
	I don't know.
	We haven't audited it.
	That's true.
	That's just kind of a metaphor, I guess, at this point.
	Right.
	I send product to Money Medals all the time with my customers who use that depository for their IRAs, and Money Medals does a good job.
	The private accumulation of gold, and I like to see people doing that, and depositories are the way to go when you got a large amount.
	I mean, the super wealthy are not going to keep that at home.
	That's right.
	You don't want to tell people, I own a lot of gold and it's at my house.
	Might have a Venezuelan gang that shows up, you know.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	It's a good hedge.
	And if you listen to people like Robert Kiyosaki, I mean, all of his gold is in depositories.
	And so I support those.
	And I use money metals, for sure.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, their expansion, 37,000 square feet they're adding.
	And they said they can expand it up to 60,000 square feet.
	So they're very bullish on people being bullionish, I guess.
	That certainly is the zeitgeist.
	Everybody is picking up on what the risks are, and everybody kind of instinctively knows what the solution is.
	Well, anything else you want to tell us about what's going on at WiseWolf?
	I know you're working on trying to get the crypto stuff on the side.
	What else is happening there?
	Well, we're definitely working on that with the Bitcoin.
	We're working on a new master website, just because it's the confusion between the two locations, and we're working on some new projects.
	A lot of great stuff we're announcing soon.
	Wolfpack is growing, and thank you for the plug at the beginning of the show.
	And, you know, definitely a huge portion of Wolfpack are David Knight Show listeners, and we so appreciate that.
	Oh, that's great.
	I think it's such a great idea that you're doing.
	You know, nobody else does that that I know of, and I know it's a lot of work and a lot of overhead for you to do that, but it also helps for people to be able to take advantage of, you know, a group buy, and the value of just being able to set aside something on a regular, you know, monthly basis.
	And to gradually start to accumulate.
	That's the whole point of it.
	It's not a get-rich-quick thing.
	Gold is not a roller coaster, which is what I like about it.
	The race goes to the tortoise, not to the hare, necessarily.
	I get too worried when I see the prices of the stock market going up and down and the cryptocurrency going up and down.
	You can get rich quick or you can get poor quick, depending on, sometimes you're forced to get off the roller coaster, you know, and you might have to get off the roller coaster when it's down.
	Well, if anybody that knows me, and I've always been honest, but I like crypto and I do use Bitcoin and I like Bitcoin and we're going to have more to say about that very soon.
	But if you really press me and say, Tony, what are you going to, if you had, if you had to turn some fiat currency into something, what would you do?
	It would be gold and silver.
	And depending on how fast I needed to move or go somewhere or how mobile I needed to be, it would be either gold or silver.
	That would depend on what I bought.
	But at the end of the day, it's going to be precious metals because they exist in the real world.
	And you're right.
	A lot of people in the crypto space complain about gold, complain about silver.
	It really doesn't go up that fast.
	It's not parabolic.
	Well, that's because it's money.
	It's not supposed to.
	It's not these other speculative assets, especially when they're still figuring themselves out.
	What does it mean to own Bitcoin?
	What does it mean for markets?
	infancy, these are going to be swinging all over the place wild.
	Gold has been around for all of recorded history.
	We talk about this all the time.
	You can go back 100 years, it basically buys about the same amount of land, crude oil, food, clothing than it did.
	It's just that the dollar amount changed because of free-floating fiat currency and not being So, uh, I, I liked the fact that it is a more stable and I would tell people I didn't expect $2,500 an ounce goal.
	Yeah.
	I did not expect this and it's not coming from the average person wanting gold.
	Uh, there is some of that it's, it's coming from and you need to watch this closely.
	It's coming from central bankers.
	What do they know that you don't?
	What are they planning that you don't know about?
	They're planning something.
	Yeah, that really is true.
	When you look at it, I think of it as wealth insurance, and just trying to preserve what you've got.
	That's probably going to be the most important thing that we can do coming up into these turbulent times, and it's going to be very turbulent times in the next four years.
	No question about it, change is going to really be accelerating.
	And it may not be for the better, and so you need to have something that you can fall back on.
	Saving is always good, but you want to make sure that you save money and not to pieces of paper.
	And I would include that with the paper gold that we talked about so many times.
	It's one of the reasons why, or a method that they can use to manipulate the price of gold.
	And of course now they're doing derivatives on cryptocurrency as well.
	It's always the way that they can manipulate these markets with it.
	But the reality is, if you go back and you look at the price of things in gold, That really tells you how it is a store of wealth and how it is solid versus the price of gold in dollars.
	That doesn't really tell you anything at all.
	It's always great talking to you, Tony, and thank you so much for supporting the program.
	It really is important to us.
	I appreciate that.
	Appreciate you, sir.
	Thank you.
	And again, davidknight.gold will take you to Tony at wisewolf.gold and check out Wolfpack.
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	And on Rumble, Delaville writes, David, you should have Dustin Nemos on.
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	Dustin is brilliant.
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	I'll have to look at that.
	That's not somebody that I know about.
	On Rumble, Marky Mark says, what's funny is that the residents of Aurora, Colorado voted for all of this.
	Yeah.
	They got what they voted for, and now they're upset.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, certainly.
	But you know, sometimes we don't get what we vote for.
	Sometimes we vote against it and we're in the minority.
	That's one of the things, one of the problems with the political system, one of the problems with elections, is that it's almost like You know, instead of going to the grocery store where you get a choice of you can buy, you know, 25, 30 different types of soft drinks or chips or whatever, you've got your choices.
	Overwhelming sometimes for somebody that had never seen it before, like Boris Yeltsin when he went to a supermarket back in the 1980s.
	How do you handle all this choice?
	But really, the analogy that we have with the elections is certainly not a supermarket.
	You get a choice of one shopping cart or the other shopping cart.
	You've got two shopping carts.
	And they've got a bunch of stuff in both of them.
	And there's a bunch of stuff in both of them that you may like or you certainly hate.
	And it's in both of those carts.
	But you're going to have to take one of those two carts.
	And it's not even really your choice.
	Because there's going to be a vote on which cart everybody gets.
	The cart that's got all the things that you truly hate in it.
	I love what TrooperFN2525 said, MAGA, make Americans grift again.
	Yeah.
	And that's what I'm worried about.
	And that's one of the reasons why I want to talk.
	Look, If they did it to us once, if they did it to the mass number of conservatives out there who should care about issues, who should pay attention to what actually happened, and should recalibrate this, right?
	We talk about scientists all the time.
	Well, you know, they got a hypothesis.
	Well, can we measure that?
	Can we reproduce that?
	We criticize them for the lies that they tell about the climate MacGuffin and the pandemic MacGuffin because there is no data, there's no reality to it.
	But is there any data or reality to what people are voting for?
	Do they go back and recalibrate and say, well, you know, this guy said he was going to do this, but then he didn't do it.
	So, okay, so that political theory that person X is going to do anything, that's bunk.
	That's what we need to do.
	We need to do some science here.
	That's what they mean by political science.
	You look at the promised outcomes and you compare them to the reality and you actually measure this and think about it and recalibrate and it's time for some recalibration.
	Yeah, stop the steal was an obvious grift, he says.
	Yes, it was.
	And yet, as I said, people still get angry with me for saying that.
	Still.
	Still.
	And they were angry at me, you know, that those lies, which had been proven wrong, that I would say that.
	So getting back to the Caitlin Johnstone essay, which I think is excellent, she said, many rightists, and she's a leftist, she said, rightists who are discontented with the American political status quo have been herded into supporting a politician who embodies that status quo as much as any other president.
	Wrongly thinking that they're waging a battle against the establishment by doing so.
	And this is mirrored on the other side of the imaginary partisan divide in US politics with people making entire identities out of despising Trump and acting like this makes them brave revolutionaries.
	Now what Caitlin Johnstone is doing, and again I said we would disagree on a lot of different things, we agree on the wars and we agree on free speech and things like that, and we also agree on what the political Illusion is.
	And that's really what she's talking about here.
	The purpose of this article is, and my purpose in talking about this stuff, is not to support or to dump on any particular politician, per se.
	It's to tell you the truth of where they stand.
	And to try to get people to look at this objectively.
	And to try to get people to not make this the metric of their life.
	To get people to understand that this is not the most important election of your life.
	They tell you that every four years.
	Maybe you ought to learn that they're lying to you every four years about that.
	And especially not invest so much into this that you're willing to support some kind of January the 6th thing on the back end of this, because we know how that's going to be used.
	Yes, we need to resist this.
	We don't need to be passive about it.
	I'm not talking about people being passive spectators.
	I'm talking about doing things that are really going to make a difference for your family and for your community.
	Things that are going to nullify what is coming out of Washington if you can do that in your community, in your state.
	That's what you need to be focused on.
	You need to be focused on, what can I do to actually change things?
	And that means that you're going to move your focus away from Washington.
	Let's talk a little bit about what else she says about these phony elections.
	They really are a pretend revolution.
	That's her thesis here.
	People get frustrated with the system and they feel like they're changing everything when they're not changing anything.
	And that's the real illusion.
	And she does a great job of explaining it.
	She said when Trump was first elected, she had hoped that Democrats, who had fallen asleep at the wheel under Obama, would become politically engaged again and start criticizing the evils of the U.S.
	Empire like they did during the Bush years.
	What actually happened was that while Democrats did start paying attention to politics again, they were corralled like livestock by the mass media into opposing things that had no relation to actual realities of the U.S.
	Empire and how it functions.
	What they did was they focused the Democrats on Trump.
	I've said for the longest time, the way I put it, I said Trump is the Mason-Dixon line of the new Civil War, if we allow that to happen.
	That's what the mainstream media is trying to do.
	That's what the intelligence communities that run the mainstream media are trying to do.
	is to make him the focus, and that's what she picked up on as well.
	So Trump has been made the central figure in U.S.
	politics around whom everything revolves.
	And whether the election is won by those who support him or by those who oppose him, the imperial status quo is guaranteed to remain unchanged.
	As Americans become more and more discontented with the abusive nature of their nation's government, and she's writing of course as an Australian.
	She's looking at this from the outside.
	A man has shown up who leads both Democrats and Republicans to believe that the best way to stick it to the man is to take a highly emotional position either for him or against him.
	When really, whether he wins or loses couldn't matter less to those who have real power.
	Trump sucks all the oxygen out of the room for real discourse about real things.
	And that's what the purpose of the Democrats was, in terms of coming up with all the legal persecution of Trump.
	That was to suck all the oxygen out of the room for the Republican primaries.
	And they did!
	I was absolutely astounded, and I've talked about it a couple of times, the fact that DeSantis did a press conference about CBDC, and he spent over 20 minutes talking about it, and he precisely nailed what it was, and the problems behind it, and then, and he's got on the podium, you know, stop Big Brother digital money and all this rest of the stuff, and then he takes the first question.
	And the first question is, are you going to extradite Trump to Alvin Bragg in Manhattan if he wants him?
	It's like, of course not, I'm not.
	And then he got hammered by Trump and Don Jr.
	because they said he wasn't protective enough of Trump.
	He said, I'm not going to extradite him, no.
	But that wasn't enough for them, you see?
	So Trump was using it, the Democrats were using it to suck all the oxygen out of the primaries on the Republican side.
	And the Democrats knew all along that they were going to do this switch with Biden.
	That's why they set the dates the way they did.
	they were going to do this switch with Biden later on. That's why they set the dates the way they did. She goes on to say, you've got the delusion to think that you are fighting the power and whether he wins or loses could not matter less to those with real power.
	She said that's all the mainstream electoral politics ever is in the US Empire.
	It is a fake decoy revolution staged for the public every few years so that they don't have a real revolution.
	It's a pageant, right?
	A symbolic ceremony where the public pretends to cast the abusive status quo into the sea so they feel like the battle against their oppressors has been won.
	And then their oppressors just keep right on oppressing them.
	That is a perfect way to describe this election.
	It is a fake revolution so that we don't have a real one.
	That's all it is.
	Nothing changes.
	That's why these people are so aligned, the Uni Party, so aligned on the key existential issues.
	And why nothing ever gets done, even on a wedge issue like the border, for example.
	Every few years, she says, the public gets to choose between two reliable lackeys of the oligarchic empire.
	And then all the evils of that empire get pinned upon the winner.
	It's kind of like, you know, We got the scapegoat, put all of our sins on him and we push him out into the wilderness type of thing.
	The public then directs their rage at the lackey rather than the actual power structure which has been oppressing them.
	After which they have another election to rid themselves of the scoundrel once and for all.
	They hug, they cry, they celebrate, and the oppression machine continues completely uninterrupted.
	This is why it absolutely repulses me to see these conservative opinion generators out there.
	Who all they care about is owning the libs.
	They don't care about fixing any problems.
	They don't care about even addressing the existential issues.
	It's just about owning the libs.
	She quotes Gore Vidal.
	This is a good quote as well.
	And remember Gore Vidal, again a leftist, but his He was a 9-11 skeptic because, I don't know, his uncle, or I think it was, I don't think it was his father, but I think it was his uncle, had put together NORAD after World War II.
	And so he said, no, he said, 9-11 couldn't have happened the way that it's supposed to happen.
	There's just too many things that had to be shut down.
	It had to be an inside job because the way NORAD was structured.
	But Gorvidal said this about the elections.
	He said, it doesn't actually make any difference whether the president is a Republican or a Democrat.
	The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the election of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.
	A very small group controls just about everything.
	And she says that small group is a plutocratic class whose legalized bribery and propaganda machine has immense influence over U.S.
	politics.
	From this point of view, the oligarchic power cluster is essentially running its own employees against each other and having them promise to end the injustices which are inextricably baked into the oligarchic empire.
	You don't think it's an oligarchy?
	500 million dollars to Lala Harris in just one month?
	The billions of dollars that are flowing into Washington?
	It would be interesting.
	Somebody would total up all the money that is going into Washington for all of the Congressional and Senate races and the Presidential races in a given year.
	Because, again, these are the best investments you could ever make.
	Yeah, gold is great, but, you know, if you really want to get rich, you buy a politician.
	You're going to get thousands of percent return on investment, and you're going to get it right away.
	Americans live in a totalitarian state, says Caitlin Johnstone, whose most important elections are rigged from the top to the bottom, and they're fed news stories about evil dictators and other countries rigging their elections to remain in power.
	You know, as we see.
	Venezuela or whatever.
	Politicians cannot change the status quo to one which benefits ordinary people instead of their oligarchic owners.
	Because the oligarchic empire is built upon the needs for endless war, poverty, and oppression.
	Everything that they seek to set up for their 2030 society, their 2030 agenda, is really about endless war, poverty, and oppression.
	IDs for everybody.
	Vaccines for everybody.
	You will own nothing.
	You cannot have a unipolar global empire without using violent force and the threat of it to uphold that world order.
	You cannot have a plutocracy without ensuring that a few rulers have far more wealth control than the rank-and-file citizenry.
	The door to meaningful change.
	So what do we do about this, right?
	That's the problem.
	And the election in Washington is not going to change anything.
	It's a fake revolution.
	The door to meaningful change in America via electoral politics has been closed, locked, bolted, welded shut, and barricaded with a metric ton of solid steel.
	The only thing that can cause an end to the oppression and the exploitation is an end to the oligarchic empire, and the only thing that can cause an end to that is direct action by the American people.
	What should you describe with that?
	Is that like some January the 6th takeover?
	Is it going to be some kind of a violent revolution?
	No, that's not what she's talking about.
	She's talking about national strikes, about civil disobedience.
	But what she doesn't talk about, because she's a leftist and she's not American, is the fact that we have nullification.
	We still have some federalism in America.
	And so there are things that we can do at the local level.
	For example, you know, when we talk about Biden's pistol brace band.
	Okay, which was based on Trump setting a precedent of doing gun control by executive order, a clear violation of the Constitution, and eventually called out as a violation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court.
	But we know it was a violation of the Constitution.
	It was an outrageous act by Trump.
	And Biden and Lala Harris immediately jumped on it.
	Yeah, we can use that.
	The Uni Party.
	The professional wrestling tag team.
	What was the appropriate response to that?
	The bump stock thing got overturned, and in principle, the pistol brace thing, but it's still there.
	The better way to approach it was the way it was done by the Tennessee State Legislature.
	Remember when I had an ICO and he said, we've taken care of that already.
	First of all, we've said that pistol braces are legal in Tennessee.
	Secondly, we have prohibited any Tennessee law enforcement from working with the federal government to enforce that law.
	That's the key.
	There's things that you can do at the state level, at the local level, at the personal level to nullify this stuff.
	The biggest example of it is the war on drugs.
	And the biggest part of the war on drugs was always marijuana arrests.
	And yet now you've got more than half of the states have nullified that unconstitutional war on drugs.
	They needed to amend the Constitution.
	They didn't do it like they did with alcohol prohibition.
	So you've got more than half of the states have nullified that and the Feds can't do anything about it.
	See, there's ways that we can do this peacefully without having a violent war if we understand federalism, nullification, and our power to organize locally.
	We can stop them.
	And that's what has to be done.
	We've got to cut off the influence of Washington.
	Instead, when you focus on the election, what are you doing?
	You're putting everything in Washington.
	You're putting all your hopes in Washington, all your energy in the election, all your money and support in the election.
	You're fighting with people in social media over the election.
	You're not doing anything to solve any problems.
	The solutions to what is happening to us Are going to be done locally, not going to be done on social media.
	It's not going to be done in the Washington election.
	And that's the biggest part of this problem.
	You know, she's looking at it from the perspective of Australia.
	How do we stop the Americans from, you know, this American war machine?
	I want to look at it as how do we, how do we get Washington out of our lives instead of bringing it in to solve all of our problems?
	And that's what they want you to do with the election.
	Republican or Democrat, you've got to believe that Washington is the solution and you want to bring them in for more and more things.
	Good example, to have a national abortion law.
	As I said, that's a bad idea.
	It's a bad idea.
	And I say it's a bad idea because I want to protect life.
	And from a pragmatic and a constitutional perspective, that's a horrible idea.
	People like Lindsey Graham want it because he wants to keep that there as a wedge issue.
	And ask yourself, what did Lindsey Graham ever do to save a single life?
	Nothing!
	Over all these years, he's used abortion to get suckers to vote for him, and they don't even care about the votes.
	They just want your money, right?
	It's like you get these solicitations.
	We have a poll, and we would like to know what you think.
	They just want you to give them money.
	The problem is, she says, you need to get involved in mass-scale activism, national strikes, civil disobedience.
	And that's what should have happened in 2020 against Trump.
	And why didn't it happen?
	Because it was Trump.
	The left wanted that stuff.
	The right didn't want it.
	But the right was pacified because it was Trump.
	And because you had people like Alex Jones telling people, oh yeah, it's Trump.
	He's good.
	You can trust him.
	He's playing 4D chess.
	I know it looks like he's betraying you, but it's really 4D chess.
	No.
	No, it is a betrayal.
	She said, the problem is this will never happen as long as Americans are being successfully propagandized into being content with their fake decoy elections and revolutions.
	There is 0% chance of electoral politics leading to an end of the empire, but a concerted effort to spread awareness by those who understand what's going on just might.
	Making people aware that the mass media are lying to us about what's real.
	Making people aware of the horrors of war.
	Aware of the underlying dynamics of the economic injustice that is grinding Americans into the dirt that can lead to a chain reaction which sees the collective using the power of its numbers to shrug off the chains of oppression as easily as you remove a heavy coat on a warm day.
	Or as easily as you said, I've had enough, I'm taking the mask off.
	I was so disappointed that it took so long for so many people to finally walk away from that nonsense.
	But that's the metaphor.
	That's what has to happen.
	People have to finally figure out That both Republicans and Democrats.
	It's not the bad Democrat governors.
	It's the bad Republican governors and the bad Republican legislators and the bad Republican president who did this as well.
	And stop lying to yourself about this, this bipolar fantasy that you've got.
	You know, when people can't come to terms with the fact that they had a knife stuck in their back by the Republicans in 2020, while the Democrats were stabbing you in the front, until people come to that realization, we're not going to stop this.
	And the same thing is happening with the climate stuff, right?
	The green grift.
	You got Republicans are in on that as well.
	I just look at what Trump did with the Paris Climate Accord.
	Look at what he did with Rex Tillerson, bringing him in and so forth.
	And that's one of the reasons why nothing was done by.
	But really, that's the point of the broadcast.
	That's the point of this show.
	It's to get people to honestly look at what happened and say, we're not going to go along with this charade.
	We're not going to follow this decoy.
	We're not going to lie to ourselves and say that it's 4D chess.
	I know it looks like he's betraying you.
	I know it looks like he's trying to kill you with these vaccines, but he's really not.
	No, he really is.
	Let's get real about this stuff.
	Like I said, we've got very different perspectives, Caitlin Johnstone and I, but we both want the killing and the slavery and the deception and all the rest of that stuff to stop.
	Don't you?
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	Let's talk a little bit about what is happening with some very important issues.
	Again, I give everybody the bad news.
	I like to give you some good news every once in a while, because there is good news.
	There's a lot of good news that's out there.
	This is actually coming from Live Action News, which is Lila Rose.
	Again, she is a very good advocate for life.
	I disagree with her about making abortion prohibition federal, but I don't think she's a grifter, as some of the people have complained about.
	They got so angry with her because she pushed back against the language that Trump used, and I think it's absolutely reprehensible.
	It shows that he's not serious about this issue whatsoever, and it also shows he's made a calculated decision saying, well, you know, Christians are not going to go away because Even if I abandoned the babies, they're not going to go away because there's these other issues that they're afraid of.
	So he's made that calculated decision.
	But let's just understand that even if we don't federalize the abortion stuff, Planned Parenthood is in a bit of a financial panic.
	They're closing four locations in a major state.
	Planned Parenthood is grappling with financial problems on the East Coast.
	Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, that has facilities in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, both said that they were facing serious financial problems.
	And so that begs the question, You know, we're told that abortions have decreased significantly.
	Remember, I mentioned yesterday, I forget what the exact numbers were, but it was something like 51,000 abortions in Texas, and then after Roe v. Wade was declared to be unconstitutional, as it always was, and again, the governors should have said, It's unconstitutional.
	We're not going to enforce it.
	But after they stopped that, the number of abortions went from 51,000 down to I think 60-something.
	And so that makes a big difference.
	I said if we can't stop it everywhere, let's at least stop it where we live.
	About that.
	Because quite frankly, I think we all will answer to God for what happens, and I don't want to have blood on my hands or in my community, because God will judge communities that have blood on their hands.
	And so, you know, if some other community, some other state wants to do that, well, that's between them and God, but in our, in my house, in my state, we're not going to kill babies.
	That ought to be our attitude about that.
	And so we see the statistics coming from Guttmacher and a lot of these other places who say that there's actually been more abortions because people are going out of state and doing it.
	I don't think it's that much people going out of state.
	I think that's why this is happening in these locations.
	I think it's more that they're switching to the abortion pill.
	And that is something that I think can and should be handled with the federal government, because a lot of that is happening through the mail.
	And it is a big health issue for women, because they're allowing women to get this abortion pill without having seen a physician.
	And if this child is too far along, and that's something that needs to be evaluated by the physician, if the child is too far along and the woman chooses to abort the baby, that's a real threat to her health.
	And they're doing this at home where they don't necessarily even have anybody else there, let alone somebody who has some medical expertise.
	So I think that's something that ought to be done to protect women's health.
	That is something certainly in terms of doing it via the mail that the federal government would have constitutional authority to get involved in.
	But what they're seeing is fewer surgical abortions.
	The New York Planned Parenthood has made the difficult but necessary decision they say to consolidate resources and shift services to a large centrally located health centers.
	And again, they have begun to shift their focus largely due to the abortion pill.
	Being used instead of surgical abortions.
	70% of Planned Parenthood clients are now choosing to do abortion by pill.
	And again, I think we ought to focus on that because that is a real threat to their health.
	As I said, I want to talk about something that is positive.
	Yesterday, after the show, I had another interview with someone that I'd interviewed about a book that he wrote about the end of wokeness.
	He has a podcast called The Cave, and we talked about homeschooling because he's been talking about the woke culture, especially about it in the context of education.
	And so he had me on to talk about homeschooling.
	The interview has not gone out yet.
	I think it's going to be published next week or something.
	But I'll let you know when it happens.
	But we talked about homeschooling, and then I said essentially what this article is saying.
	Homeschooling your children is one of the most rewarding tasks your family can undertake.
	And that was basically what I told him.
	I said it's one of the best things we ever did as a family.
	We have great memories of it, and it did wonderful things for our relationships with our kids that I know would not have happened if we had put them in a school, even a private school.
	There are challenges along the way.
	This is from LifeSite News.
	This is written by a mom.
	She said, yeah, there's challenges along the way, but the rewards of homeschooling far outweigh the obstacles.
	She said, it's thrilling to watch children make and reach goals, and you can have a lot of joy by giving children an opportunity to explore areas that interest them.
	But the real reward of homeschooling lies in the ability to transmit your faith and your traditional values to the next generation.
	That really is the bottom line.
	She says, as each child completes a school year with their family, no matter the time of the year, we take that child out just with mom and dad for a milkshake.
	Some of my children move more slowly through school, so at times I reward them every time they finish a portion of the curriculum.
	But see, that is one of the key things.
	And it's really about putting your relationship with your children and their relationship with God.
	above the academics.
	And that is something that you're not going to get with any other school system, any other education system.
	You know, Travis, I think when we do this, when I look back on it, there's a few things that I would have done differently.
	I think this whole idea of rewards, I'll just say that to parents who are starting this, I think this whole idea of rewards, and you can keep this in mind as a prospective parent, You know, I think celebrating milestones, celebrating historical events and things like that, I think that's really, really important.
	And I think we should have done more of that.
	I guess, really, I kind of probably reacted, overreacted to My mom would just lavish me with praise.
	And she wasn't being flattering.
	I mean, she really, you know, I think, believed it.
	But it was embarrassing, even if nobody else was around.
	And so I don't like to take compliments like that.
	It bothers me.
	And so I think I kind of Went the other way and didn't give out as many compliments as I should or as many celebrations and to have special times that you celebrate.
	You know, we talked about whether or not we're going to celebrate Christmas.
	And I said, you know, I like to always celebrate Christmas and talk to the kids about what I believe is true and what I believe is made up about it.
	And to talk about the time of year that it might have happened.
	But I said, I think it's important for us, it's a good time for us to talk about certain aspects of Christ's life, about the Incarnation and what that meant and other things.
	And I said, you know, we ought to have actually more of these, not less of these.
	I said, it'd be good, you know, we have so many different holidays that are there to celebrate veterans who have fought wars and things like that.
	I said, maybe we ought to have a holiday where we celebrate the life of martyrs.
	Who were killed as part of a spiritual war.
	We never did that.
	We should do that type of thing with the upcoming grandkid.
	You know, we take them through.
	I think that'd be a good thing for us to do.
	Anyway, she says, as my children reach their goals, I'm reaching my goal of providing them with an excellent education.
	It gives my day-to-day life so much purpose and purpose is filled before my eyes every day.
	But it really is about that relationship.
	The relationship of the children to each other.
	And the relationship of the parents to the kids and the relationship of all of them to God.
	And so, she said she's learned a lot of things along with the kids.
	You know, we've learned how to cut hair and dye hair, care for dairy animals, keep bees, chickens, angora, rabbits, and sheep.
	We've mastered crochet and sewing.
	The boys have hunted for deer.
	We've butchered and wrapped the meat.
	We've built movie sets.
	We've erected our yurt.
	We've built a 90 foot long retaining wall.
	We've recorded radio tune in promos.
	Hey, we did that.
	And show liner scripts.
	And we made a dozen films.
	Yeah, there we go.
	That's some of that we've done.
	So she said, you know, even when they get together, she said, the daughters will have learned how to score wrestling matches that the boy that the brothers participate in.
	That's the whole thing.
	It's you're missing so much in terms of family life.
	If you don't have your kids with you, and just having them walk through life with you is just one of them.
	If I could, you know, pass that on to people, the experiences that we've had, and that's why I like what she talks about on LifeSite News, it really does mirror our experience.
	She said, when the days were long, so much time was spent preparing meals, folding laundry, nursing babies, I still felt that I was doing a fantastic job of homeschooling because I had always taught them She says religion, we taught them the Bible, handwriting or math no matter what, you know, and a lot of times we miss, you know, we put these goals on and a lot of times we miss.
	But just know that God has mercy and God is the ultimate parent and the ultimate tracker, and you just need to keep pointing the kids to God.
	And so, as we talk about that, In opposition to that, this is from Technocracy News.
	He has an article that came out, I guess it was Tuesday, Religion Goes Digital, Playing Gods, Becoming Gods, Building Gods.
	And that really is kind of what, you know, technocracy is doing.
	They're playing God, they think they're going to become God, they think they're building gods, right?
	He says, humanity's innate desire for religion knows no bounds.
	Indeed, every human on planet Earth will worship something, even the devout atheist.
	Yeah.
	Quote, atheists have their gods and they're fiercely worshipped as well.
	From John Calvin to Bob Dylan.
	People have always recognized this, right?
	John Calvin who said, the heart is an idol factory.
	We're always making something an idol.
	Bob Dylan said, you're going to serve someone, right?
	And that really is the case.
	You know, we always fixate on something.
	It could be an entertainer.
	It could be anything.
	We talk about political idols.
	That's why these people who say they're not making an idol out of Trump are delusional.
	They are making an idol out of Trump in the same way that people make an idol out of Taylor Swift or whatever.
	But he says, for the past three years, my tech coverage has been an elaboration on David Noble's incisive 1997 book, The Religion of Technology.
	Anything I've contributed was a mere update to his core insight that technology is religious.
	Well, pretty much everything is in one regard or the other.
	It's what we are fascinated with, what we're fixated on, what we spend our time on.
	The innate spiritual principle is so apparent you'd think that there's no reason to mention it at all, but it bears repeating.
	Technology emerged from religious culture, so naturally a lot of our ideas of technology are essentially religious, he says.
	I would not put it that way, but he does break it down into four categories, and he says, number one, we have a devout believer, somebody who worships God, who clings to techno-optimism, or we have the devout believer who thinks that the devil is in the machine.
	Or we have the atheist techno-optimist counterpart, or a pessimistic atheist who rejects technology.
	Quite frankly, I think there's a fifth category.
	I think there's a fifth category that looks at this and says, the atheist that looks at it and says, it's the devil, but I'm okay with that.
	You know, and I think back to what Hugo deGarris did with his Artillery War book, and he talked about it in the book, and he did it many, many times.
	I've talked about this before.
	He would do a lot of scientific conferences talking about artificial intelligence decades ago, and he would tell people, he said, because he was a pessimist, right?
	Ray Kurzweil is one of the atheist optimists.
	And he was an atheist pessimist, and he said, I would tell people, we may be creating a godlike intelligence that hates us and will kill us all.
	Now, if that were the case, would you still continue with your development?
	And he said, they all said yes.
	The majority, the vast majority, every time he would address a scientific community would say yes.
	I thought that was just the strangest thing.
	The only time, the first time that that did not happen was when he addressed a Christian conference that I was speaking at, and the vast majority of people said no.
	That's the first time that's ever happened.
	And you know, Musk said, I think with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
	Then he goes on to proceed with artificial intelligence, so I would assume by that that musk is okay with summoning the demon Devout techno optimists see the mind of God creating technology by way of human hands So these are these are people who are Christians, but they're optimistic about technology This would be people who like al moeller for example said you know this kovat jab. It's just a miracle from God
	So you should take it.
	You know, God gives us the ability to create things with technology, and here we are with this wonderful Trump shot, and you should take it.
	Then he says, in other words, man is to play God in a limited fashion.
	So, you know, we can block out the sun or we can blow the oceans.
	That's what God intended all along.
	We can inject people with nanotechnology.
	So he said, we see tech-friendly religiosity in the philosophizing Plato.
	Well, I don't think that Plato's all that religious.
	I mean, he's looking at how he could lord it over people.
	He says Francis Bacon, for example, because Bacon helped to set up a scientific method, but he said atheistic Techno-optimists.
	People like Ray Kurzweil.
	They embrace the technology, but they eliminate God from the equation.
	They believe the human brain is the highest intelligence in a godless cosmos.
	Assuming NASA can be trusted, they said.
	Unless there are technologically advanced aliens, that is, in which case the strongest and smartest among them are the gods, they would say.
	Yeah, see that from them all the time.
	So the modest proposal is to make humans more godlike and functionally immortal through genetic engineering, brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence.
	Ray Kurzweil says at the Singularity University, evolution creates structures and patterns that over time are more complicated, more knowledgeable, more intelligent, more creative, more capable of expressing higher sentiments.
	Do you see the problem?
	Logical fallacy of that?
	You have to have intelligence in order to create.
	You have to have intelligence.
	Obviously we have intelligent design.
	We didn't happen, when you look at a building or you look at a car, you don't think that happened because it was a tornado that went through a junkyard, right?
	There was a builder, and we all instinctively know that.
	Ray Kurzweil and people like him are following a strong self-delusion.
	But their perspective is, as far as we know, we're the only form of intelligence in the observable part of the universe, and we are going to create a superintelligence.
	And as one of them went through five levels here, he said, well, first level of ambition is to start a company.
	Second level will be to start a country.
	Third level will be to start a religion.
	That's where we are right now with these transhumanists and these technocrats.
	Level number four is don't die, and level number five is become God.
	See, that's the two lies there.
	And they don't realize that, because they don't know the Genesis story, they're not realizing that they're following the satanic deception to the letter.
	No, you won't die, and you'll become like God.
	And so he says, well, the downside of this is that when faced with armies of eugenicized super soldiers and autonomous slaughter bots, it's going to be a God-eat-God world out there.
	That is really black-pilled.
	I mean, these people are looking at, they may be, they may think that they are optimists, but that is, they have no reason at all for that kind of optimism.
	And then there's the atheistic techno-pessimists.
	For them, modern techno-religions are more disastrous than the old versions.
	In their eyes, the traditional gods have no power beyond manipulative priests and zealous believers, but they believe that they are creating a god that's going to destroy them.
	And so that's kind of where Hugo de Garis would be, but then they persist anyway.
	And then there's the final category, those of us who believe that this technology is the devil's work.
	That's the category that I'm in, at the very least.
	And we see humans overstepping divinely ordained bounds.
	Technologists are grasping at the apple of Eden all over again.
	They are recreating the cross and the temple in silicon, and they're building up a beast system to try to subject the rest of us.
	As a matter of fact, he says on December 4th of 2021, he said, usually you see this with a lot of Christians who are Orthodox or Protestant or whatever.
	He said there's an abbot of the Slovutsky Monastery in Russia issued a dire warning.
	He said, global elites are planning to wipe out most of humanity, six billion people.
	to leave only a small part of us.
	But not only that, they're planning and are held back only by the current limits of science to violate man himself, to desecrate the innermost part of man, the image of God within us, and to destroy that image in order to turn human beings into a cross between biological, technical, and digital beings.
	They call this post-human, he said, and they call it a convergence.
	And these powerful world leaders are marching under the banner of transhumanism and post-humanism.
	And so Technocracy News says, well, you take apart, setting aside the six billion number, which we don't know, you pretty much got it right.
	I think so.
	He says the bishop spoke God's honest truth.
	The West is consumed by transhuman dreams and post-human nightmares, including the nominal left and right, both operating under a corporate umbrella.
	We have to flaunt this blasphemy for the world to see.
	Anyone with half a soul should be appalled.
	And we are appalled, and we don't put our hope and our ability to push back against this thing.
	That's the key thing.
	We know that God is in control.
	And we leave the results to him.
	We know what we are to do, and we need to warn other people about it, but we don't need to fall prey to that.
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