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We're going to talk today about how the media is portraying FEMA as a victim.
They flipped the script on Katrina, of course, for political purposes.
You know, the government wasn't doing enough in Katrina, and they weren't.
But now it's all about poor FEMA. They are the victims.
And we're going to show you what people on the ground are saying.
We also have some interesting developments in the Trump campaign.
Elon Musk evidently is investing for the future with a big return on investment.
And we had Lala go head-to-head with Bayer.
And the left is just furious about how that turned out.
And we've got some very entertaining clips.
And Joel Skousen will be joining us, World Affairs Brief.
He's running for president.
So, we'll find out how you can write him in.
We'll be right back.
Well, the headlines are FEMA workers are threatened in Carter County.
That's right.
There are some tense moments on Saturday when volunteers say they witnessed an armed group of people on side-by-sides confronting and threatening FEMA workers in the Elk Mills community of Carter County.
Now, this is in Tennessee.
We've had reports that there were false reports.
That there were two truckloads of armed militia hunting FEMA. Well, that didn't happen.
And that was eventually retracted by the people spreading those unfounded lies and conspiracy theories.
You know, the Washington Post, the standard people, that type of thing.
And if you get past the headline on this, you find that it is not nearly as threatening as the headline suggests.
Tracy Elder is president and founder of the International Alliance of Community Chaplains.
Her group has been working in disaster relief for more than 20 years.
They're in Carter County at the request of the Elk Mills Volunteer Fire Department to help run the command center there.
She told News Channel 11, this is WJHL, that she found herself between FEMA workers and a group of armed citizens criticizing the work of the government agency.
She was able to defuse the situation.
She was the one who called the police, frankly.
But this goes back to January the 6th, right?
Do we have the right anymore to redress our grievances and peacefully assemble and protest?
Can we speak up?
Well, evidently, no.
And unlike January the 6th, these people had firearms.
They kept them holstered.
They didn't pull them out.
But, you know, just the mere presence of a firearm was enough to scare this woman who was part of the community chaplains group.
She says they were all armed.
Open carry, but they didn't draw their guns.
Everybody is carrying.
It's legal to open carry in Tennessee.
And as Handy said in the areas that he got into, he said everybody is carrying weapons for their own protection.
And so open carry, not guns drawn, but say they like to present this as a threat.
It is not a threat to have a gun, legally.
It's not a threat to open carry, where it's legal in Tennessee.
But she said, nobody had any guns drawn, but they surrounded them.
And there was a lady there that was yelling and threatening them.
So, I'm not sure, I guess there was a lady who was threatening the group of FEMA people when I was supposed to say anything, and they felt scared by a woman yelling at them.
She listened to their grievances about FEMA. Oh, they had grievances.
Why is it that nobody in media, like Channel 11, nobody ever asks what the grievances are of these people.
We're going to show you some of these grievances.
Nobody cares about Americans.
It's only our blessed government and the media that propagandizes for them.
Is there any wonder why people are angry about this?
Nobody asks why.
Well, we're going to show you why in a minute here.
One great example of FEMA high-handedness that puts a lie to everything that the media has been feeding you.
And so she explained her organization was not associated with FEMA to the people.
She felt the group was frustrated.
Why would they be frustrated?
Why would they have grievances?
Did you ask them why?
Does the News Channel 11 care?
WJHL? Shame on you people for giving such a lopsided presentation on what's going on.
You don't care at all about the people who have had this happen to them.
Look at this.
This is how quickly it came.
This is somebody taking a picture.
Look at that, how fast it comes.
That's how fast the disaster comes.
Wipes out everything.
A wall of water and mud that raged down a hill, Sugar Grove, North Carolina.
The force knocked part of the home off of its foundation where these people were filming it.
Destroyed homes further down.
A car ended up on the roof of the home that was split in two.
It comes and just like that, it's done.
But then you can wait for a couple of weeks for FEMA to show up.
And then they start bossing everybody around.
They start confiscating businesses, material.
We're in charge here.
You're not supposed to say anything to them.
Because then the media will get on to you and try to portray you as a terrorist.
Who's the terrorist here?
She said she felt the group was frustrated and she was able to hear them out.
But she was firm that their behavior wasn't appropriate.
What was not appropriate?
These people lost everything.
They don't have a right to yell at the government.
I think they have an obligation, a duty to yell at the government.
And that is protected under the Constitution.
The Biden administration has done everything it can to criminalize the First Amendment.
And we need to make a distinction between people who got violent and people who showed up peacefully to protest.
And many of the people who were not even really protesting or saying anything, but they just happened to step foot into the sacred building of the Congress.
Even when told by the police, a couple of elderly guys and one of their sons asked the police, the door was open, they said, where's the restroom?
That's right in here.
They go in and use the restroom.
And they leave.
One of the Capitol guards tried to direct them into the Capitol building.
They didn't want to go in there.
They just wanted to go in and use the restroom.
So, no, we're not going to go in there.
They left.
Now they're facing years in jail.
These are guys in their 70s.
It could be a life sentence for them.
I am sick and tired of the attacks on the First Amendment.
And it's coming from Trump as well.
He should have set an example.
He should have stood with the Constitution.
He should have stood with his supporters instead of stabbing in the back, as I said many times.
Just pardon them.
You don't have to wait until they're charged.
You don't have to wait until they're convicted.
And we've seen that over and over again.
Gerald Ford with Richard Nixon.
We saw it with President Johnson, who took over after Lincoln.
He pardoned all of the people in the Confederacy.
That's why they passed the Insurrection Act.
They wanted to put them in jail.
He said, no, I'm going to pardon them before you do anything.
So, he himself wants to shut down news media that he doesn't like.
I'm wondering how long it's going to take before all the people on the left start screaming that Fox News needs to be shut down because of that disaster that we're going to show you some clips of, of Lala.
Brad Baird showed why he makes the big bucks last night.
It's pretty amazing.
He did a bang-up job.
It was interesting to watch.
I'm not taking sides in this election, but...
Just to try to nail her down.
She is real slippery and squirmy and always trying to steer you over into something else.
And he wasn't having it.
And it was so bad the other people, her staff, is over there frantically waving, stop the interview, stop the interview.
We'll talk about that coming up.
Anyway, getting back to the real world here.
People just need to be hurt, she said.
And then some of that does take a skill, but it doesn't take confrontation.
Well, it's not just being hurt.
How about if they do something about it?
Right?
What if they did something about it?
Why are these people frustrated?
Why do they have grievances?
Possessions of guns, open carry, holstered in Tennessee is not a threat.
It's not a threat.
It's not assault.
By the way, the government does that all the time.
The government's always showing up with guns on their hips, aren't they?
Is that a threat?
Yeah.
From them it is.
Elder said once the group realized that FEMA wasn't taking those donations and that the command center was run by volunteers, they left.
And surprisingly, they returned later with supplies to donate.
Why is that a surprise?
You see, this is how stilted this Channel 11 news account is, and it's picked up by mainstream media, put out all over the place.
Why is it surprising that these people want to help their neighbor?
Why is it surprising that they're frustrated that they have grievances?
Why is it surprising that they didn't get violent, that they didn't threaten anybody, that they had guns for their protection, and they brought donations for their neighbors?
During the confrontation, she called 9-11 because she said they weren't being rational.
Who's not being rational?
This woman?
Some lefty person who thinks she's a chaplain.
Just amazing.
Anyway, so one person said he suspected the group's from North Carolina.
I don't think so.
And I'll tell you why.
Okay?
So this is the sheriff, the Carter County Sheriff.
Well, I think these are people from North Carolina.
We wouldn't have anybody like that in Tennessee.
He said, the problem is the roads are out.
I just can't get sheriff deputies up here quickly enough, so we're going to have some of them permanently stationed up here.
Well, if the road is out so that you can't get in there, what makes you think these people come all the way from North Carolina to chew out FEMA people?
What ridiculous nonsense!
Can't anybody think critically?
You look at this article, and it is the most blatant, nonsensical pack of lies put out by mainstream media.
I don't know what network they're affiliated with at Channel 11.
What a bunch of garbage.
Well, let me show you why people are frustrated with this stuff.
This is a North Carolina man who lost his home.
He does still have his business in his warehouse.
And so he wanted to help.
And he contacted FEMA and said, you can use my warehouse.
Well, after they saw the warehouse, they decided they're going to take it for themselves and they're evicting him.
How are they different from this Venezuelan gang?
The FEMA squatters, right?
How are they different?
From a gang of thugs and thieves.
Our government has been fostering and practicing highway robbery with civil asset forfeiture in the name of the war on drugs for the longest time.
They've had a lot of practice at stealing, haven't they?
And I'm not even talking about the stuff they do with a pen.
But hey, don't complain.
This is FEMA. You need to bow to your almighty government.
After losing his home in North Carolina, J. Robert Watson, and you can find him on Twitter, at J. Robert Watson, because he could certainly use some help.
He could use legal help.
He could use donations.
J. Robert Watson offered FEMA space inside of his place of business.
FEMA has now served him with an eviction notice, and all he has left is his warehouse.
His home is gone.
And so here is his story as he tells it.
If I look tired, that's because I am.
I've been volunteering with the distribution of food and supplies with FEMA here, luckily at the same building where the portal is, my business.
On Friday I found out companies have been sending these products That are not going to be distributed to the public because they don't meet certain health requirements.
See, FEMA's blocking it.
And they're going to store them in suite 1400, the big room, which is where I have events.
They're shutting down aid people, and they're going to steal his warehouse so they can put the stuff there.
...of my business model.
For the next 90 days, they have to store all these hazardous food products, basically...
He's being sarcastic.
...pallets and pallets of prime.
I can't make this shit up.
So that's a big hit.
I'm like, okay, no events for 90 days.
I can work with that.
I still have other spaces.
I still have this room, gallery hall, as well as another room on the other side of that wall.
And then back here I have My office.
Which I call the utility room.
Because it was a utility room and out here the courtyard.
Finally getting cleaned up.
Big mess out here.
But I just got a phone call today saying they need the courtyard to put two dumpsters in it.
I said, okay.
For how long?
And they said, well, why won't you put the dumpsters in the back with all the other dumpsters?
Basically, and yeah, I can't make this shit up.
Basically, they said, well, we don't want the dumpsters to be seen by people driving by.
You hear that?
What are they throwing away?
As a matter of fact, we just emailed you your lease termination paperwork.
So, you're telling me that FEMA and National Guard have just commandeered my space while I'm looking for a new place to live.
Volunteer It's still work to get some income whenever I can.
Now it's all gone.
It's not, we'll relocate you or compensate you for 90 days.
It's straight.
We need your space.
You have 30 days to leave.
I don't know.
I don't know what to do.
I just, I've been searching for a place like this for three years.
I just put everything into this all my time.
You know, you know how it goes.
The portal to me is not just my art studio and where I make a living.
It was everything to me.
I would get another studio space before I find a place to live.
All the time.
Every time.
I'm still in shock.
I don't know.
I really don't know what I'm going to do.
Here we go again. - Thank you.
Support me if you want to.
I really appreciate everybody.
I'm just...
I didn't get wiped out by the hurricane itself.
But the company that's doing the hurricane relief.
Yeah.
I mean, there's enough space for everybody.
Nope, they gotta have everything.
Put the dumpsters in the, you know?
Shitty companies don't send shitty products for your tax break.
I don't know.
I'm just gonna stop bitching.
I don't know.
It's just so crazy.
I don't know.
I'm gonna document the next Month or so process of what I'm doing, when I know what I'm doing, just telling y'all updates, I guess.
I can't believe I got pushed out by FEMA. Yeah, well, I can believe it, because I've been following what they do for a very long time.
I didn't get wiped out by the storm.
I got wiped out by FEMA. This is a guy who, as you heard him say, he lost his home.
But fortunately he had his business and he wanted to help.
And so FEMA decides that they're going to use his warehouse to take the stuff that they're not going to let people have, that has been donated by volunteers.
And then they're going to take even more of his space because they need to throw this stuff away without the public being able to see it.
Don't want anybody taking videos of that.
And they're going to evict him as well.
So he doesn't have a business.
That's all that he's got.
And from the government, I'm here to help you.
Now, he was not yelling, screaming, threatening anybody.
Maybe this chaplain, female, needs to go over and see what she can do to help him.
Right?
She doesn't care.
News Channel 11 doesn't care.
They're not going to go over there and do a report about him.
As one person in response to that said, well, you know, the sheriff could deputize all these volunteers.
Problem solved.
Yeah, that's exactly what a sheriff did.
I was talking about that when he had the state government decided that they wanted to shut down a church.
Well, the sheriff was told that.
The sheriff said, well, I'll just deputize all of you, and they can't do that.
Tell them, sheriff's deputies, you know, take their orders.
And that is exactly what could be done.
I mean, this sounds like an extreme, but it's been done, and it's successful.
But it depends on you having the right kind of sheriff.
You see?
You've got to have a sheriff that stands for the people who elected him.
You're not going to get a police chief who's going to do that.
They're not elected.
They answered.
They're employed by the city managers and all the rest of the stuff.
This is just like, you know, these city managers.
Well, I'll put fluoride in the water.
Nobody's going to do anything to me about that.
You know, that was from Parks and Rec, but that's exactly the way these people think.
I wasn't elected.
Nobody can fire me.
We're putting that stuff in there.
I can make a case.
I was just doing my job.
You can't find me.
And so, yeah, you need a sheriff that's going to take your side.
But just understand this.
You're not allowed to criticize the feds.
You're not allowed to criticize FEMA, no matter what they do.
Well, this is another post.
And this person put up pictures of what FEMA has been busy doing when they're not giving aid.
What are they doing?
They're building a massive encampment there.
A FEMA camp, right?
For themselves, I guess.
Maybe for other people.
Don't know.
They're building this massive thing.
They're not interested in helping people.
They're not going to distribute aid.
They're not going to rebuild homes, rebuild roads.
No, they're going to build this massive camp.
It says, this is a FEMA camp located in Nashville, North Carolina.
Locals living immediately in the vicinity told us, quote, it popped up overnight.
They can do something really fast when they want to, can't they?
It looks like it's been built for a long-term presence.
That would be a good thing if you believe that FEMA was bringing the full weight of the federal government assistance to the local community, but the evidence on the ground doesn't support that.
FEMA was trying to put their personnel out of Rutherford County less than two days ago due to, quote, reports of militia hunting down FEMA personnel, which was a lie, a conspiracy theory from the Washington Post.
Amplified by the Drudge Report and all the left-string media.
That report has since been completely debunked, but it didn't stop FEMA from running with a half-baked intel to plant the idea that they were at war with local citizens.
And now, if you do that as a local channel like this, you get national press exposure to push this narrative that FEMA is the victim.
They don't care about any of the people on the ground.
They only care about FEMA. Despite the calls to evacuate the area, camps like these are being stood up with a permanent presence in mind.
Look at that.
That is pretty amazing.
Locals are reporting on social media and in the news that they've seen few, if any, FEMA personnel.
So how do they justify a camp with this kind of footprint?
Are the locals simply uninformed?
I've spoken to locals all over the Tri-County area and they've said the same thing to my face.
From my own personal interactions, I've seen federal agents, military, hundreds of volunteers from many different organizations, but I've yet to see one person wearing a FEMA shirt.
Maybe they're incognito, or maybe I just haven't been to the right areas.
There are plenty of them walking around in the camp, though, wearing their shirts.
Here's another picture of that camp.
I spoke to a soldier from the North Carolina Army Reserve National Guard, an engineer unit this morning, who told me, quote, initially we were told that we were going to aid and assist with CSAR.
I don't know what that is.
But it turned out to be a lie.
They have told us folding clothing.
They have us, rather, folding clothing and stacking pallets.
Apparently, they don't have enough FEMA workers to do this.
He says?
Because that's a pretty big camp.
I haven't seen anything at all that rivals the accommodations that a camp this size offers.
So where are the FEMA personnel to help people?
He says, one other person he references, M-O-L-S James reported that 15 people died of hypothermia last night.
And I can understand that.
We've had some cold weather.
It's gotten down to the low 30s the last couple of nights.
So I can certainly understand that.
15 people died of hypothermia last night.
Her medical team is stationed in Avery County Airport, and I've interacted with them numerous times.
I wonder how many people slept in the sub-freezing temperatures last night while these trailers were occupied with federal personnel from FEMA. Poor FEMA. Poor FEMA. One person pointing out why they're stealing supplies, putting them in his warehouse and stealing his business, evicting him from his business in his warehouse.
One person said they do this because they get kickbacks and other things from the companies who are on their preferred vendor list.
You get on their preferred vendor list, you pay the right people, you get on the preferred vendor list.
If you're on the preferred vendor list, you can sell stuff at many, many, many times.
Well, you can sell it retail when you sell it to the federal government.
That's what this is all about, folks.
It's all about corruption.
It's all about going to war with the American people.
That's what the federal government is.
You don't need to look for enemies abroad.
We got them loaded up in Washington, D.C. They hate us.
They have done everything to steal from us, to murder us with their shots.
They steal billions, trillions of dollars from us, shut our businesses down, shut our churches down, inject us with this stuff.
And you've got these idiots showing up at these rallies to cheer the Republicans and Democrats who did this to us.
Angiocinida.
It's funny how FEMA says the stuff donated doesn't meet nutritional requirements.
But that same food and drinks are FDA approved.
That's right.
Well, you talk about nutritional requirements.
FDA food and drugs?
Well, you are free to do anything if you pay the right people.
I mean, you look at the quality of our food that is FDA approved.
And you look at where they want to take this.
Even lower than you can imagine.
We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
Well, let's have a little bit of comic relief.
Let's look at some politicians here.
We've talked about the serious real-world stuff.
And we'll talk about war and other issues at the back end of the show with Joel Skousen.
Donald Trump once proposed the biggest tax hike ever.
And I tell you, Drudge is all over this in the anti-Trump media.
But it is kind of interesting to take a look at what he said when he was going to run for president in 1999.
Remember that?
Before he did it, 2016 is one of the reasons why they said, well, I don't think he's serious in 2016.
I don't know if he was serious in 1999 to run for the 2000 election.
Trump takes a lot of flack for failing to offer specific policy proposals, says ABC News.
But there was a time when he offered a very specific tax plan, one that raised taxes on the wealthy so much that it would have made Bernie Sanders blush.
Well, that's true.
And it's a wealth tax, actually.
Not just an income tax, a wealth tax.
In classic Trump fashion, the plan was big and bold.
If enacted, Trump's plan would have been the biggest tax hike in total raw dollars in history.
In a word, it would have been huge.
Huge.
See, the issue is that Forrest Trump is kind of like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're going to get with this guy.
They've got headlines on drudge, you know, from socialist to fascist and things like that.
He's been all over the place.
This was put out there, by the way, when he was running as a Democrat in New York.
I told you that Trump is a New York Democrat.
Always has been, always will be.
And so, you know, the year was 1999, and Trump was toying with the idea of running for president as a third-party candidate.
The idea, which Trump says he no longer supports, was to impose a one-time tax of 14.25% on every American...
Worth more than $10 million and to raise exactly enough money to pay off the debt.
Trump himself would have had to pay more than $700 million, but he didn't care.
He didn't care because he was never going to do this.
And this is just a publicity stunt, right?
For the Democrats, when he's running as a Democrat.
When he's running as a Democrat, he wants to soak the rich, tax the rich, right?
When he's a Republican, he tells you he's going to do all the Republican things.
And he doesn't do anything on either side.
Here's how he described this on Good Morning America, November 10th, 1999.
This would be a one-time tax, 14.25%.
Against people with a net worth of over 10 million, 10 million dollars or more, it would pay off in its entirety the national debt of 5.7 trillion dollars.
You'd save 200 billion dollars a year, so taxes for the middle class would go way down, the estate and inheritance tax totally wiped out, and the social security system would be saved.
So this would be very positive for everybody, including the rich, the 1% that really are paying the tax.
In fact, by our estimates, you would pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 million or more.
That's correct.
I've never known Donald Trump to willingly give up $700 million.
I think it would be great for the country.
I think it's a proposal that will be very strongly looked at and considered.
And ultimately, I really expect to get it back.
People who have a net worth of $10 million, including yourself, generally don't have huge cash reserves.
Where would they come up with this money?
It's a very fair question and a very good question.
It's been thought of in great detail.
Some people would be able to sell things off easily, pay the tax, and ultimately get it back manyfold by the booming And you will have a boom like you literally have never had before, and by the saving of the inheritance tax.
But where do they get the money from, is my point.
Well, they'd sell off assets.
You'd sell off assets.
In your case, it would be real estate, right?
Well, in my case, it could be some real estate.
We wouldn't sell everything.
You'd sell some assets.
And the other is that we'd do it over an installment of 10 years.
Do you really expect this to be embraced on Capitol Hill?
I think if I were president, it would be passed.
I think if somebody else was president, it probably can't be.
This is a tax that's paid by 1%, but the 1% will be very big beneficiaries with what's going to happen and the positive forces that would take place in the economy.
Just one last thought, and that is, what are economists saying about this idea?
It's certainly a radical approach to trying to solve a few problems, and maybe not that realistic, but What are they saying?
I know lots of very great and talented economists, and the ones I've spoken to and consulted with, and I'll be announcing who they are at a later date if I decide to run.
Such a BS artist.
Brilliant.
I don't want to take total credit, but they have said it.
I would never do that.
But they said it's a great plan, and it's certainly a plan to reduce taxes, and especially for the middle class.
Soak the rich plan.
That was the way it was reported in the Daily News, right?
So, $5.7 trillion to pay off the debt.
After a Trump presidency, where are we now?
It's exploded, right?
He set it on a completely new trajectory in 2020, and Biden has maintained that trajectory.
So here we are 25 years later, and the debt is $35 trillion, not $5.7 trillion.
Have you heard him even talking about the debt?
I haven't.
Maybe I don't listen to him that much.
But he also wrote about the plan in his 2000 book, The America we deserve.
He said the plan is, quote, bold, radical, realistic, and doable.
Some will say my plan is unfair to the extremely wealthy.
I say it's the only reasonable to shift the burden to those who are most able to pay.
Sounds just like AOC, doesn't he?
Occasional cortex.
He portrayed the tax hikes on the rich as patriotic.
In a precursor to Occupy Wall Street movement, Trump argued that soaking the top 1% is only fair.
He said the ritual scream he wrote in his book.
Only the top 1% of the people, those with a net worth of $10 million or more, would be affected by my plan.
The other 99% would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes.
You know, this is how the income tax began, by the way.
The income tax is going to be like a 1% tax on the less than 1% of the people.
And it was only going to be on their investments.
It wasn't going to be on an earned income because those people typically don't have jobs, wages, that type of thing.
They made it wages in World War II. You see how these things metastasize.
And you see how he's not talking about getting rid of the income tax.
He's going to institute a new precedent of a wealth tax with that.
Now, that was 25 years ago.
But, you know, we need to hear from people when RFK Jr.
says that he wants to jail his opponents who are climate deniers.
Well, we need to hear what changed his mind about that.
If he got his mind changed about it because he got censored because of his views about vaccines and stuff like that, well, fine.
Legit.
But you got to own it and explain it.
At the time, Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who was less than five feet tall, told Good Morning America, immediately after Trump's interview, that the plan would have as much chance of passing Congress as he would have of getting recruited to play basketball for the New York Knicks.
Less than five feet tall.
Maybe he could join the dwarf-tossing league as a...
Trump acknowledged it would be tough to pass for anybody, of course, except him.
Again, a New York Democrat, friend of Bill and Hillary, supporter of Hillary Clinton, friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
Folks, this is who the guy is.
You never know what you're going to get with this guy.
By the way, you go back to the 2000 presidential campaign.
What happened with that?
Well, Trump announced his exploratory committee on October the 7th, 1999.
October the 7th.
He did it on CNN with Larry King.
And for the 2000 campaign, it was Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura who was pushing him to seek the presidential nomination of the Reform Party.
So he announces that he's going to run as a New York Democrat.
Jesse Ventura wants him to run on the Reform Party because after Ross Perot, there was a fight as to who was going to have it.
Ultimately, it was Buchanan who got that.
So he changes over to the Reform Party.
By the way, his campaign director was Roger Stone.
And that 2000, which lasted from October to February.
What happened was that in...
In January, Jesse Ventura hadn't had enough.
He just drops it.
But by the time that Trump releases his book.
So he gets Trump to switch from the Democrat Party to the Reform Party.
And then Jesse Ventura says, ah, not interested anymore.
And Pat Buchanan gets it.
But Trump focuses his campaign on issues of fair trade, eliminating the national debt, which he doesn't care about anymore.
And listen to this.
Achieving universal health care.
Like his friend Hillary had tried to do.
Six years earlier.
So, yeah.
It's a New York Clinton Democrat.
Right there.
What is it that caused him to change his mind?
Right?
It's just puts on a new suit because it's just, you know, it's just about appearances.
It's about facades.
It's not about anything he believes.
He said that Oprah Winfrey would be his ideal running mate.
And he promised that he was going to marry his girlfriend, Melania, so she could be first lady.
They were not married at the time.
She was still collecting checks, I guess.
Critics questioned the seriousness of Trump's campaign, speculated that it was a tactic to strengthen his brand.
He said, no, it's very serious.
And then he drops out.
You can always trust this guy, can't you?
So, anyway, you wind up having George Bush and Al Gore.
And as I've said many times, George Bush spent $100 million in his campaign.
Al Gore spent $70 million, and he said he's trying to buy the election.
And look at what Lala has gotten dumped in her lap in just a couple months.
A billion dollars.
A billion dollars has been given to her.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back...
Oh, oh, no.
Actually, I got this.
I want to talk about this.
That was what he was saying in 1999.
He's going to put a 14.25% tax on everybody that's got a net worth of $10 million.
It's going to be a wealth tax.
He's going to give you 10 years to liquidate assets and to pay this.
But, you know, we've got to do it because we've got to eliminate the deficit, right?
Well, he's not too worried about the deficit anymore, is he?
And, of course, what he's doing now is he's throwing out little favors.
You know, this is like somebody going down a parade and throwing candy out to this group or to that group.
The way he and Lala are approaching their so-called economic policies, it's just giveaways.
You know, Lala's got all these different giveaways that she wants to give to people, and Trump is doing the same thing.
Oh, let's take the taxes away for waitresses and everything, but not the people who are cooking in the kitchen, not the people who are running the cashier, whatever, anybody else, right?
And Lala is now doing everything she can to try to pander to the black community, now talking about reparations and all the rest of this stuff.
And so it's a competition as to who can give away, you know, the little trinkets, who can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
You want a better seat?
I'll give you a better seat on the Titanic.
How about that?
As it goes down, we'll move you up here.
Isn't that nice?
Now you got a better view.
You got a little bit more money on this sinking ship.
And so what Trump is now talking about is getting rid, or letting people deduct their car loans.
Today I am also announcing that as part of our tax cuts, we will make interest on car loans fully deductible.
Oh, wow!
Wow!
That's the economic plan we need right there.
So, a man who's...
A lot of you people are in the car industry.
Actually, I met a lot of them backstage.
What do you do?
I'm in the car industry.
He's saying this because he's in Detroit.
But a lot of them...
And I told him about it.
He's a very knowledgeable person.
He said...
Here's a guy who's done it all his life.
He's sitting right over there.
I don't want to embarrass him.
But he said...
Where did you come up with that idea?
That's the coolest thing.
It's like the paperclip again, right?
It's like the paperclip.
Operation Paperclip?
Somebody comes up with the paperclip and everybody says, why the hell didn't I think of that, right?
Why didn't I think of Operation Paperclip?
Somebody came up with the paperclip, I guess, made a lot of money.
And other people said, gee.
But he said, you know, I've been in the car industry all my life.
I've never...
I thought about that.
So we're going to make it fully deductible, the interest payments.
That's going to revolutionize your industry.
This will stimulate massive domestic auto production and make car ownership dramatically more affordable for millions and millions of working Americans.
Why don't you get rid of the EPA? Then we can afford a car and we don't need your deductions.
You know, as Eric Peters has been talking to me, he says, look at how they've made this so expensive.
Now people have got to get car loans.
They've got to go to seven years, eight years, whatever.
And so, yeah, it is a tremendous expense.
Because the government has artificially inflated the price with useless regulations, with climate fear and the rest of this.
They're going to ban our cars.
They're going to ban our cars de facto economically if we don't stop the EPA. Why do we need the EPA? Get rid of the EPA. And by the way, if you want to talk about tax relief, Get rid of the 80 IRS agents that are on their way, like the War of the Clones or something coming on.
Okay?
Why do they talk about this?
Oh, we won't tax waitresses and we won't tax car interest loans and stuff.
Get rid of...
Stop growing the IRS budget to be seven times what it is now.
And that's a bipartisan agreement of the Uni Party.
Why, Trump represents the Union Party better than anybody.
He's been a Democrat.
He's been a Reform Party candidate.
He's been a Republican candidate.
He has absolutely no principles.
He has no solutions for anything.
And he will make a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth mistake rather than address the initial mistake, which is the EPA. You want people to be able to own cars?
Get rid of the EPA. You want people to be able to charge your electric cars?
Get rid of the EPA. Same solution.
Whether you're talking about internal combustion engines or electric cars, you're not going to have power plants because the EPA is busy shutting them down while China bills whatever they want.
He doesn't address that.
He didn't address the Paris Climate Accord.
He pretended that it was in effect and he couldn't do anything about it for four years.
What a phony he is!
Why do you think the UN put that clause in there?
Well, if you want to get out of it, you can get out of it, but you've got to wait four years to get out of it.
After you declare you're going to get out of it.
You think that was set up for the United States government to give them an alibi that they couldn't get out?
Of course it was.
So Drudge called out Elon Musk, because on the same day, this is being picked up by the press, Elon Musk says, well, he's going to give $75 million to the Trump campaign.
And that's pretty significant when you stop and think about it.
In his first campaign, Trump funded about 70% or so of his first campaign.
He spent...
$66 million of his own money.
Now, he didn't do that in the second campaign or the third campaign at all.
At all.
But, you know, tax cuts for the wealthy that he had implemented in the first administration, these measures spurred the economy, but they also led to massive debt.
You know, kind of like he did when he ran corporations in his casinos.
He loaded them up with debt.
It's not a surprise he's doing that when he was president.
I think they should change.
When we look at what happened with his casinos, they should rename the art of the deal to the art of the debt.
It was all debt leverage that he used in his dealings with the banks.
It's like, well, you want to shut down my banks?
It'll take your bank down.
You want to shut down my casinos?
It'll take your bank down with it.
So you better give me even more money.
Yeah, that was his art of the deal.
So, again, Drudge rarely puts anything up on Twitter.
But he posted those attacks that he had put on the Drudge Report.
He posted that on his Twitter account and referenced it to Elon Musk, who had just donated $75 million.
Now, he is not only donating $75 million, but Musk is going to be touring Pennsylvania with speeches each night from now until Monday when voter registration ends in Pennsylvania.
Tomorrow night through Monday, I'll be giving a series of talks throughout Pennsylvania, he wrote.
He said, if you'd like to attend one of my talks, there's no attendance fee.
You just need to have signed our petition supporting free speech and the right to bear arms and have voted in this election.
And then he says, well, to clarify, you need to have voted in Pennsylvania.
So you need to have voted once before.
So this is his America PAC that donated $75 million to Trump.
There's only one donor in this political action committee.
You see, this is how these people can donate so much.
You or I, you know, just like Dinesh D'Souza found out, if you or I were to give more than $2,500 to a candidate, we'd go to jail.
Well, if you're a Republican.
Democrats can do it all the time.
When people have been found to have done that, Typically, before Dinesh D'Souza, they had to refund the donation.
And the person who had made the donation, the campaign would refund the donation.
The person who had made the donation would have to pay a penalty.
But they sent Dinesh D'Souza to jail for that.
Nothing political at all to say about that, right?
Well, he didn't understand that if you have a lot of money and you want to donate, I think he donated instead of $2,500, he donated $25,000 to his friend, I think she was from college or something.
But you can donate as much money as you want.
You know, how does Miriam Adelson donate $100 million to Trump?
How does Elon Musk donate $75 million?
Well, they just create a phony political action committee, and they're the only person who puts money in it.
These political action committees, it shows why, folks, that the rules don't apply to the rich.
The rules apply for the little people.
They really don't apply to the super rich.
Because they're the ones who are writing the rules.
The PAC has set a goal to get a million voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina to sign the petition.
Sign our petition in defense of your constitutional rights to free speech.
And I'll give you some money, you know.
You get $47.
He says it's easy money.
Well, Musk is the world's wealthiest person.
He has a net worth of $246.8 billion.
That's $247 billion.
I thought, well, how does that compare with the average American?
You know what?
If you normalize his contribution...
To what the median income, because again, median is a much better measure of income because you've got people like Elon Musk that skew the mean, the average, way out of line, right?
Because of Elon Musk and a few uber-rich people, the average net worth in America is a million dollars.
So we're all millionaires, right?
No.
That wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people.
If you look at the median net worth, the median net worth, that means that half of the people make more than this, and half the people make less than this.
That's a much better measure.
That's why they use median when they're looking at income measures, because it is so skewed by a few people.
The median net worth of Americans is $192,000.
And that's more in line based on, you know, people's equity in their homes and things like that.
That's probably where most of that is.
And so, think about that.
He makes more than a million Americans combined.
Elon Musk.
Or his net worth is, right?
You have to have a million Americans at the median income level.
And you still wouldn't be where he is.
That would be $192 billion.
He has $247 billion.
But let's just take that ratio of a million.
So if he's got a million times more money than the average American, and he gives $75 million to Trump, that'd be like the average American giving $75 to Trump.
Not a real big commitment when you normalize it to how absurdly wealthy this guy is.
So that was what Matt Dredge was saying.
So we're going to do a 14% hit on Elon Musk?
That'd be pretty big.
The pro-Trump super PAC Make America Great Again has spent $254 million this election cycle.
The Pro-Harris Super PAC, Fast Forward USA, has spent $263 million, according to the nonprofit.
But she's got a lot of money in reserve.
As a matter of fact, Saturday Night Live was even joking about it.
We got two political rivals.
on this side is the Democrats led by Vice President Kamala Harris.
It's wonderful to be here, Steve.
I love to see a man getting paid millions of dollars at his black job.
And I'd like to say a black thank you.
You have been out there this week.
I saw you on Univision and Stephen Colbert.
Yeah, Steve, it's been a hell of a week.
I went on Howard Stern to reach the horny cab drivers.
I went on The View for the Horny Moms.
And I also went on the podcast Call Her Daddy because I have a message.
I have a message for young women, okay?
You need to go to the ballot box if you want the government out your ballot box.
Okay, I see what you did there.
I see what you did there.
Yeah, yeah, and it's working.
My campaign has raised a billion dollars.
Oh, my Lord.
How are you not winning by a landslide?
Yeah, that's a question I scream into my pillow every morning.
Oh, they eviscerated her on Saturday Night Live.
Always good to see.
They had a lot of fun with Trump in that skit as well in their opening.
A billion dollars in just a couple of months.
How are you not winning?
Well, that's a question I scream into my pillow every morning.
That's right.
Guard Goldsmith says, good to see you, Guard.
Hey, if people in the flood-ravaged areas got donations that were the same as the food in the U.S. school lunch program, would FEMA ban it as inedible?
Yeah, let's put it to the test.
Yeah.
Let's send them all Greek yogurt from Kobani, right?
That's what the Democrats love.
They love Greek yogurt from Kobani.
I won't buy that stuff.
MZEZ. The game makers will get what they want with Trump or Lala.
They're just testing the collective mass's IQ to see how ludicrous a candidate they will elect.
Yeah, we're going to talk about that coming up here.
By the way, Guard Goldsmith...
Don't want to forget Jim Ketch's broadcast, Liberty Conspiracy.
Evenings on Rockfin, on Twitter.
And, of course, he's also on Substack.
Good presence there.
Then he puts out a weekly Sunday summary that you need to take a look at.
He's a hard-working guy.
So is Jason Barker.
I tell you, these guys are really on top of things.
Octo spook, Trump is chomping at the bit for when he is inserted into office, says immediately he'll increase tariffs, which will result in everyone's cost of living skyrocketing.
Exactly right.
Now, of course, he's saying that, well, that's just, I'm just bluffing with this.
I'm just telling these people that, you know, I'm telling the corporations, you know, you're not going to be able to sell anything.
I'm going to charge you 100,000%.
So you better move your factory here.
That's the way he explains it when he's questioned on this thing.
But it is a questionable strategy at the least.
He's just, look, he's just a con artist.
He's a con artist.
He's a celebrity.
She is a sex worker.
You know, this is what we get as leadership here, because we're under a curse from God, if you look at what's happening to our society.
I'm serious.
I'm serious.
You look at the quality of leadership in a country, that shows you whether God is blessing or cursing this country.
There's not anything in between, actually.
You're either blessed or cursed in your life and in your country.
This country is under a curse.
It's called Washington.
How about not taxing property owners?
There you go!
Yeah!
Who don't really own their property and rent it from the government.
Well, that is really something that we should address at the local level.
And that is why, you know, when you look at the situations with the sheriffs and other things like that, it's at the local level where it really is important.
N-Max says, interesting that Trump filed on $4 billion in one bankruptcy, ruined many goyim companies.
Then Wilbur Ross came up, that's right, from the Ross Chiles, came behind him and bought them up for cheap for the Ross Chiles, his bankers.
Yeah, he even said, yeah, I saw all the people lined up with this guy and I thought, we could use him.
Yeah, we could use him.
A lot of people realize how useful Trump can be for selling stuff.
So...
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Well, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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By the way, let's talk a little bit more about money.
We had...
If you look at pharmaceutical contributions, for example, Joe Biden...
He is the all-time record holder for pharmaceutical money.
Did you know that?
A little trivia here for you.
He got $8.5 million.
And you can say, well, okay, he was in Congress for 35 years.
Maybe they were supporting him all that time because you have some people like Orrin Hatch, former senator from Utah.
He got a tremendous amount of pharmaceutical money.
He got something like $2 or $3 million or something like that of his career.
I don't remember the exact amount, but it was a lot.
But the interesting thing about Joe Biden is that he got 99% of that $8.5 million when he ran for president.
1% of it was in the 35 years he was in Congress.
And then when he went to president, Big Pharma started channeling the money to him like a fire hose.
Trump, by the way, got $3.2 million worth of pharmaceutical money.
That's not really counting the money that was donated by Pfizer for the inauguration committee.
That doesn't count as a campaign donation, you know.
Pfizer gave him a million dollars.
Other pharmaceutical companies gave him a million dollars, and he put the CEO of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies, Eli Lilly, in as head of HHS, Alex Azar.
And then when you look at Trump and the money that he has put in, as I said, he put in $66 million in the In the 2016 campaign.
Didn't do that in 2020.
Didn't do it this time either.
As a matter of fact, Hillary spent $450 million running against him in 2016.
He only spent $239 million.
So she almost doubled what he spent, and he still beat her.
And then when you look at how much money Hillary Clinton took in, she took in $623 million.
So what happened to that other $170 million?
Did it roll over into the Clinton Foundation or whatever?
You see, this is why these people get into politics.
$170 million.
Where did that go?
Who knows?
You know, they can always save it to run for office again in the future.
Or they can just take it out for their own personal use later on.
Now, Trump, in 2020, most of the money that he raised, $500 million, was raised after the election for his so-called Save America pact.
And then, of course, Alex was raising money for Stop the Steal and all the rest of this stuff.
Where'd that money go?
And then we talk about Lala.
She actually has more billionaires supporting her than Donald Trump does.
But of course, she is a middle-class woman.
She'll always remind you how middle-class she is.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Well, let's talk a little bit about some of the policies here.
Trump says, we're going to end all sanctuary cities immediately.
Well, look, I don't like sanctuary cities.
I think they're horrible.
I think it's a betrayal of the citizens for the sheriff in a county to release criminals, as I talked about it the other day.
You know, you got all these criminals that were being released by the sheriff who is in Mecklenburg County, which is where Charlotte, North Carolina is.
And it just goes on and on.
As a matter of fact, one organization has put up a website about all the people that he's released.
Murderers, pedophiles, child rapists, all that.
Over and over again, he just turns these people out on the street.
When they are illegal immigrants, and ICE has got a retainer, detainer, I don't know what it's called, but ICE has got essentially a warrant out for them.
Give them over to...
They don't give them over to ICE, right?
So how does this Sanctuary City thing work?
Well, it works that way, quite frankly.
A good example of this...
Is Texas, where Abbott put in Operation Lone Star.
He said, we're going to start protecting the border here.
So they put concertina wire in some of the places.
A lot of the stuff was just for show.
You know, one of the photo ops he did, he had about a dozen police cars go down and park, you know, bumper to bumper in a line.
And they took a picture of it.
It's like, how many police cars would it take to cover the Texas border...
It was a joke.
I mean, it was a joke.
You could even see where the line started and stopped there.
But some of the stuff that he did, putting concertina wire, then Joe Biden comes in with the big dump trucks and everything and lifts the concertina wire out of the way.
And they have sued Abbott to try to stop Operation Long Star.
Biden has made it very clear that not even a token effort will be allowed to protect the border.
And so Trump says we're going to end all sanctuary cities immediately.
Okay, so Abbott has Operation Lone Star, and he wants to end it.
And so this brings up an interesting question.
Should, in terms of how federalism works, right?
Should we consolidate everything into Washington, which is what Trump is saying here?
Now, this is the border, which is a constitutional responsibility for the federal government.
It's different than some of the sanctuary cities who say we're going to be sanctuary cities for transgender stuff.
You know, that's where your local elections are important and your state elections are important.
But the federal government does have the authority to protect the border.
But then so does, I believe, the state government.
And they said, you know, hey, if there's an emergency, and this is an emergency, and the federal government hasn't acted, we can act.
And of course, that's just common sense.
But it's also protected in the code.
But then when it comes to sanctuary cities, for example, in Austin, in Austin, the sheriff there, proudly defiant, Of any restrictions about immigration.
And so, what happens there?
You know, Austin is a sanctuary city.
Right there where you've got the governor, Abbott.
How does that work?
Especially because the state of Texas in 2017 outlawed sanctuary cities.
So how can they outlaw sanctuary cities?
And then you've got a sheriff and a city council in Austin.
So we are going to be a sheriff.
Well, they haven't officially declared themselves a sanctuary city.
What is essentially happening is the sheriff is nullifying the state law.
By not complying.
There's no way that even though they can say, well, you can't call yourself a sanctuary city.
It's like, well, I'm not going to comply with that, and I'm not going to turn these people over.
The sheriff is in control of the jail, and the sheriff wants to turn these people looser than anything the governor can do about it, quite frankly.
They can try to remove the sheriff, something like that, but this is the way...
Federalism works.
This is the way nullification works.
This is why I say stop focusing on the federal government.
Your problem is not going to be fixed in Washington.
Your problem is going to be fixed with your sheriff and maybe with your state government.
So maybe you ought to know who these people are.
Maybe you ought to focus on that instead of every little tiny detail and every little gotcha about the presidential show that's there.
But that's why they don't want you to look at all this stuff.
That's why they want you focused on the presidential pageant.
Because they don't want you looking, actually doing something about it.
Well, you know, if we get President Trump in, he's going to stop the Sanctuary City Sheriff in Austin.
No, he won't.
He won't.
They didn't have the authority to do it.
So when he said this on Fox News, Faulkner said, how are you going to do that?
With an executive order?
He says, I can do it with an executive order.
I'll have to do it with an executive order.
You can do it with the Aliens Act of 1798, and we can do things in terms of moving people out.
We can move them out of the sanctuary cities.
Well, okay, I think it'd be more likely that he would combine an executive order with money.
Money in the form of a bribe or a blackmail to take away federal funding.
Because that's exactly the way that he operated during the fake pandemic and the emergency executive orders and the money that he released in 2020 for the lockdown and all the rest of the stuff.
Do we really want to continue to consolidate everything in Washington?
Nothing is going to happen there.
But we don't want to continue to give dictatorial powers to these people.
You need to focus on what's happening locally.
So, then we get to Harris versus Brett Baer.
You could tell this really didn't go well.
When I saw that, I thought, well, I don't know, maybe this guy's going to just roll over for her.
Well, he did not roll over.
Brett was loaded for Baer, and he came after her.
He had the facts in his hands, and he was ready.
So much so that they called an early end to this interview.
And so much so that you see all over the left, everybody, this is insufferable.
This is horrible what he did.
How rude he was and everything.
It's the kind of whining and bellyaching that Trump did after his failed debate with Lala.
And so Brett Baer knew what her tactics are, just to whine on and on and to filibuster and to misdirect and to bring up all kinds of irrelevant stuff and never answer the question.
And so he was ready to combat her on that.
That's how she beat Trump, you know.
But, you know, in terms of, again, you know, it's not based on policies or anything.
It's just this talent show, you know.
She's got a talent for obfuscating things.
Raw story.
Very anti-Trump.
This was insufferable.
Critics penned obnoxious Fox News host who repeatedly talked over Harris.
Because she wouldn't shut up and she wouldn't answer the question.
And he wouldn't let her get away with it.
So they write, Raw Story says, well, Harris set for a tense, confrontational interview with Fox News host Brett Baer, during which they clashed on topics including immigration, President Biden's fitness for office, and former President Trump's threats against his political opponents.
It was her first interview on Fox News.
She will not be back, I can guarantee you.
The interview generated a strong reaction from commenters on social media.
And they go to social media and find all the people who are angry about this.
The right is doing a happy dance now.
Lala Harris is on Fox News at Bret Baier right now.
And getting feisty, calling out his BS, wrote an investigative documentarian, Lauren Windsor.
I seem to remember people saying that she was afraid of the media.
And yet here she is in the lion's den.
Well, I think the lions ripped their head off.
So here's an example where he comes after.
Actually, he could have been a little bit rougher when he says the vast majority of Americans are not happy with the way things are going.
It's like 70% or something like that.
He could have added...
You are very proud of your record there.
You have said that you wouldn't do anything any differently from President Biden.
Biden says that you were involved in everything that happened there.
And yet, 70% of the people are not happy with it.
More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track.
They say the country is on the wrong track.
If it's on the wrong track, that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president and President Biden being president.
That is what they're saying, 79% of them.
Why are they saying that?
If you're turning the page, you've been in office for three and a half years.
And Donald Trump has been running for office.
But you've been the person holding the office, Madam Vice President.
You and I both know what I'm talking about.
You and I both know what I'm talking about.
I actually don't.
What are you talking about?
What I'm talking about is that over the last decade, people have become...
But you're the lever of power.
But listen, over the last decade, it is clear to me, and certainly the Republicans who are on stage with me...
Yeah, on stage with me.
Because, you know, it's a performance.
It's a show, right?
Well, you know, after three and a half years of what you and Joe have been doing, 79% actually of the people are unhappy.
It's like 80-20.
And so then he comes after her with immigration.
How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?
Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you.
It is a...
She doesn't know.
She doesn't care the number.
...people want to rightly have.
She doesn't know or care the number.
You know what I'm going to talk about right now.
Yeah, but just a number.
Do you think it's one million, three million?
Brett, let's just get to the point.
The point is, we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.
So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85% of apprehensions...
I'm not finished.
We have an immigration system that needs to be...
It's a rough estimate of 6 million people have been released into the country.
And let me just finish.
I'll get to the question, I promise you.
I was beginning to answer.
And when you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies.
Most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation, either in the U.S. or in Mexico.
And you switched that policy.
They were released from custody awaiting trial.
So instead, included in those were a large number of single men, adult men, who went on to commit heinous crimes.
So, looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration?
At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress...
She'll never answer a question.
Never, just filibuster.
...before the Inflation Reduction Act, before the Chips and Science Act, before the bipartisan Safe Communities Act...
I just thought of something else.
...the first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, Was a bill to fix our immigration system.
Yes, ma'am.
It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
He's loaded.
May I finish responding, please?
You're not responding.
You had the White House and the House and the Senate, and they didn't bring up that bill.
I'm in the middle of responding to the point you're raising, and I'd like to finish.
We worked.
On supporting what was a bipartisan effort, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress, to actually strengthen the border.
Yeah.
You had the House, you had the Senate and the White House, and you didn't do anything about it.
Well, then he asks her about Joe Biden.
And when did she first notice that he wasn't there?
Wait.
Let's not diminish the significance of that.
You call Donald Trump, he's misguided.
You say now he's unstable.
He is unstable, but...
He's not well.
You say he's mentally not stable.
He's not stable.
Let me ask you this.
You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff.
When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
Joe Biden...
I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room.
And he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.
There were no concerns raised.
Joe Biden is not on the ballot.
I understand.
And Donald Trump is.
But you talked about it.
After George Clooney said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage.
Donald Trump is on the ballot.
I understand.
Yeah, well, you know, this is what Brett Baer said after the event, talking about how they seem to be very reluctant to do this.
You know, when the kicker in football, they call a timeout right before he's going to kick the field goal.
They're icing the kicker.
So we were supposed to start at 5 p.m.
This was the time they gave us.
Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes.
They came in and said, well, maybe 20.
So it was already getting whittled down.
And then the vice president showed up about 5.15.
We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6 o'clock.
So that's how it started.
And I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to...
To, you know, redirect without me trying to interrupt.
I did this with President Obama.
At one point I just said, Mr.
President, I know you like the filibuster.
I just didn't even have the chance to sometimes redirect in those ways.
I had a lot of other questions.
Yeah, a lot of other questions.
And she wouldn't answer the ones that he asked her.
And then he said this.
Dana, you've been on the other side.
You've been on the rapper as a press secretary interviewing a president.
And, you know, I'm talking like four people waving their hands like it's got to stop.
So, Martha, final.
Yeah, I had to dismount there at the end.
There's so many things and she maybe should do more of these.
Madam Vice President, they're giving me a hard wrap here.
Well, I thank you for the time.
I thank you for the time.
It's good to meet you.
Yeah, let's get out of here.
He said he got four people, her staff, they're all over there.
Cut, cut, cut!
This is a disaster.
Because, you know, we all knew that she really wasn't up to this.
So when we think about what's at stake in this election...
Yeah, what's at stake, huh?
Whoa, it's packed with some stuff!
It's packed with some...
Yeah.
I say rather articulately.
Oh yeah, please applaud.
Yeah.
What a joke this all is.
Look, I like what he did.
I wish that that would happen more often.
What happens typically is that you get all these softball interviews.
Because the Democrats will only go on the Democrat networks.
Well, that's all of them, essentially, except for Fox.
And Fox is partisan with Republicans, but they've got their own things that they're going to push.
But, you know, you've got Fox associated with Republicans, all the rest of them associated with the Democrats, and they typically don't cross over into another network.
When that happens, you see the kind of fireworks like you did with J.D. Vance and Martha Raddatz over the weekend.
She was out of her league.
It is interesting to watch this stuff happen.
And again, it doesn't have anything to do with what's going to happen in this country.
It doesn't have anything to do with the election.
It's going to be a selection.
They're going to choose who the next occupant is.
And they're going to choose somebody.
That will be most useful for them to weaponize things against us.
And so we've got a couple of comments on here.
Could you pull that up to the front?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah, so I can see the comment.
Thank you.
RCF 2020.
Trump's new car tax proposal will only be for EVs.
That's probably how Elon Musk got into the picture.
I had not seen that.
Yeah, well, if it's only for EVs, that's absolutely it.
But even if it's not just for EVs.
They're the most expensive cars.
I have the biggest write-off right there.
JT, thank you very much for the tip.
I appreciate that.
And Amos Poole, thank you as well.
He said, David, please tell us again how we can help that guy who is losing the warehouse.
Let me find his information here, and I'll pull that up.
Meanwhile, Audi Modern Retro Radio says she's running the clock out.
That's exactly it.
Yeah, there's your football analogy, right?
Calling a timeout to ice the kicker.
She's trying to run the clock out.
It's because it's all about a safety, isn't it?
And Dougalug, thank you very much for the tip.
He says, thank you, David and crew.
Yesterday's segment on abortion was powerful.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Let's get the name of that guy who needs the help.
His name is Jay, J-A-Y, Robert Watson.
And you can find him on Twitter, at J-A-Y-R-O-B-E-R-T-W-A-T-S-O-N. That's how you can find him.
We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
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And now, The David Knight Show.
Let's talk a little bit about what is happening with free speech.
Why is it that we have the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the free exercise of religion?
Why were those all combined in the First Amendment by the founders of this country?
country because they understood the history of governments and they understood human nature.
They understood that all those things have to be interconnected.
If you remove one of those, you don't have any freedom of speech or press or religion or anything.
So we now have a British court that has found a British veteran of the Afghanistan war guilty of silently praying to God.
And I had one woman, and she's standing right there with him, who has been arrested three times, but they have shut it down three times.
They arrested her because she was praying silently.
Thought police, of course.
This is the first time, though, anybody has been convicted, but folks, it will not be the last.
Hello.
We've just received the verdict from the judge in the case of Adam Smith-Connor.
She has found Adam guilty for his silent prayers.
This is a shocking verdict.
Silent prayers.
What would you like to say on receiving this verdict?
Well, I just want to thank everyone for the support over the last two years, since I was first accused of this thought crime on the 24th of November, 2022.
Psalm 22, verse 10 says, I served our great nation for 20 years as an army reservist.
I continue to serve my local community as a physiotherapist and a church volunteer.
I never imagined that the nation I love and has been so good to me in the past could turn on me for doing nothing more than offer up a prayer for my deceased son.
I felt like my government had forsaken me.
But the Lord has taken care of me, surrounded me with prayer and provided me with an excellent legal team with ADF UK. I want to thank everyone who's been praying for justice in this court case.
I've received messages of support from across Britain, America, Italy and even in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ.
I'm extremely saddened that the judge has found me guilty.
This marks a dark and dangerous day for our nation, setting a legal precedence that thought crimes can occur in England.
Two years ago, when this case started, a Christian friend of mine said that we are now at a time where Christians can be persecuted for prayer.
But there would come a time when you could be persecuted and the knock at the door could happen in your own home.
If you live in Scotland, that time has now come.
In Scotland, the buffer zones, you can be persecuted for discussing abortion in your garden if you are overheard by someone.
If you think I'm being paranoid, This is only going to happen outside abortion clinics.
Think again.
If the government can create thought crimes somewhere, it's only a matter of time before they create them anywhere.
Yeah, he's exactly right.
By the way, Tom McDawg says, David J. Robert Watson is not on X. He's only on TikTok and Instagram.
Those are alternative universes that I don't participate in, so I'd...
But if you can get on there, you can contact him.
So, again, he's not on X. He's not on Twitter.
Getting back to this case, the court gave him a conditional discharge, meaning, in other words, a suspended sentence, they will say here.
Meaning that he will only be sentenced if convicted of doing this again.
If he has another thought crime within the next two years, then they're going to put him in jail.
This particular time, though, they're going to hit him with court costs of equivalent to $11,700.
Court costs.
Today the court has decided that certain thoughts, silent thoughts, can be illegal in the UK. That cannot be right.
All I did was pray to God in the privacy of my own mind, and yet I stand convicted as a criminal.
The court also ordered the father of two children to pay the $11,700 for court costs, but of course the court itself, the legal firm, had pointed out that Bournemouth Christ Church and Pool Council had spent $116,999 to prosecute the former soldier for praying.
It carried a maximum penalty of $1,300.
So they spent over $100,000, $116,000, $117,000 to convict him of something for which there would be a penalty of $1,300.
But then they charged him court costs of $11,700.
A man has been convicted today because of the content of his thoughts, his prayers to God on the public streets of England.
We can hardly sink any lower in our neglect of basic fundamental freedoms of free speech and thought.
And Sir Edward Lay, who is the most senior member of Parliament, and because he's the most senior member, they call him the father of the House of Commons.
He expressed outrage at the outcome.
He says it's disgraceful that in Britain in 2024, someone can be put on trial for praying silently in his head.
Unfortunately, we've seen repeated cases of free speech under threat in the UK, especially when it comes to the expression of Christian beliefs.
To offer a prayer silently in the depths of your heart cannot be an offense.
The government must clarify urgently that freedom of thought is protected as a basic human right, says the most senior member of the House of Commons.
But of course, younger people don't care about these hard-fought liberties.
That form the basis of our civilization.
They're demanding censorship.
Why?
Well, because that's what they've been taught in school.
They've grown up that way.
As a matter of fact, there's a school where the students have demanded that the heat be turned off because of global warming in England, right?
This is how they have brainwashed these kids.
They brainwashed them.
No, we don't want to be fed.
We don't want to have heat.
We don't want to have freedom.
We want a totalitarian government, and they're going to get it good and hard.
And we're not talking about authoritarian.
We're talking totalitarian.
Taking over everything in your life.
Because, as these people said, can you imagine the fact that they spend this much resources, $117,000, to get a guy for an offense that could have a maximum fine of $1,300, and then hit him with like 10% of the costs of it?
I said, five UK councils have implemented buffer zones near abortion clinics, and so they're not going to move back on this.
The labor government wants them everywhere.
They want to expand this.
The person talking about the amount of money, they said, it's outrageous that the local council is pouring taxpayer funding into prosecuting a thought crime at a time when resources are stretched so thin.
Well, that's because they want to have poverty, not prosperity.
Poverty and austerity are means of control, and control is the ultimate goal.
We all influence each other's decisions all the time, be it through the advice of a parent, the concern of a friend, or the information made available through a charitable volunteer, he said.
But the Public Order Act is written so vaguely that these everyday, peaceful, caring conversations could be made illegal on certain streets of England when it comes to discussing abortion.
If your neighbor overhears you and is offended by anything that you have to say, whether it's abortion or whether it is something else, well, they want to throw you in jail.
As a matter of fact, even to the extent that...
To show how this is being weaponized against us in the universities.
The University of England has placed a trigger warning on the Canterbury Tales due to expressions of the Christian faith.
That's what it was all about.
It was about these different people and different walks of life.
They were on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.
And so it was kind of a character study.
It was a...
It was a major work because it was a transition in writing style from Old English to Middle English.
And I remember my sister got an Old English sheepdog, trying to figure out what to name it.
And I said, Old English?
You should call him Chaucer.
And she did.
But this is the absurdity of this, that you have to get a trigger warning if you're even going to talk about historical Christian faith.
They have a lot of medieval authors that are there in that, and they said as a part of this, they're talking about, they said, here's a warning, there's violence, there's mental illness, and there's expressions of the Christian faith.
That's what the university told these people.
I'll just finish with this because we've got Tony ready.
Historian Jeremy Black said this Nottingham nonsense, because it is coming from the University of Nottingham.
I wonder if the sheriff had something to do with that.
Anyway, this Nottingham nonsense is simultaneously sad, funny, and demeaning of education.
Well, the only thing I would add is quotation marks around the word education.
Although that is the purpose of indoctrination.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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Well, welcome back, and how are we going to keep the American dream alive?
How are you going to defend what you own?
Well, I think one of the best ways to do that is with gold and silver, to get out of the fiat currency.
To get out of the way of the hyperinflation bust and the debt bust that are headed towards us, our guest now is Tony Arderman of Wise Wolf Gold.
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Thanks for joining us, Tony.
It's great to be here, David.
Yeah, don't let fiat currency throw you under the debt bus.
You're going to get run over by the debt bus.
We were talking about that off air.
And, of course, gold hit its all-time high again.
This is sounding very repetitive, isn't it?
I feel like Bill Murray on Groundhog Day.
It's hit its all-time high again.
You say Gold Hog Day.
Yeah, we got...
It's funny because I was telling a customer a couple of days ago, I said, well, the time between all-time highs for gold for me was 2011, when it hit almost 2000, and 2020, when I was hosting your show in Austin.
And that's the difference.
That's the difference between all-time highs.
So 2011 and 2020, gold has broken its all-time high 30 times in the last nine months.
Wow.
Wow.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it's on quite a streak.
So now it is, where is it today?
It's a little while ago?
We're frozen.
Okay.
Hey, Karen, we're frozen.
Well, we've got a technical problem here.
I don't know if it's on our end or if it's on Tony's end, but we're going to take a quick break, and we'll try to reestablish this, and we'll be right back, folks.
Sorry about this.
Are you back, Tony?
Okay, good.
Thanks for a moment there.
Okay, we're back.
Okay.
I forget what we're saying.
We're talking about gold.
We're talking about gold's all-time high.
That's right.
It froze up again.
I don't know if we've got a bandwidth issue or what's going on with this.
Can you hear me, Tony?
I don't know what's happening here.
Well, I'm going to do what I threatened to do before.
We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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you Okay, I think we're back.
Okay, we just got cut off there.
It's been an interesting day.
You had some connection issues this morning?
Yeah, you were talking here, and we had some connection issues at the very beginning of the show.
We had some computer problems.
I don't know if it's on our side or if it's on your side.
We've never had a problem with it freezing up before.
But we were just talking about gold.
Let's talk a little bit about silver.
Because I've seen, you've been talking about silver for quite a while, that it is poised, there's a lot of reasons for it to break out.
Now you see a lot of people in the financial press talking about silver, and they are saying that it is, one person in particular said, well, I'm looking at about a $32 price.
Once it gets to that point and stays there a little bit, I think it's going to jump to $50 pretty quickly.
What do you think is going to happen with silver?
I think there's some wisdom in that.
I think the higher that it goes just being pushed naturally right now for supply and demand, and it's nowhere near what the price should actually be.
If you look at the amount of deficits every year, as I've mentioned before, it's around 200 million ounces a year that we're just short.
So for all the mining that's done, everything that's accumulated around the world, all the refining, there's still 200 million ounces that are short every year from demand.
And that demand is continuing to go up, but mining is not increasing, supply is not increasing.
The reason I think you have so much disparity in the price and why it's so strange is because of the contracts that are held by these bullion houses.
And you kind of look back and you kind of see you reverse engineer the price and you see that JPMorgan Chase was convicted of suppressing the silver price and then you dig a little further and you realize that JPMorgan Chase is the largest private holder of silver in the world.
You wonder, why would they do that?
Why would they continue to suppress the price?
Well, I mean, they're accumulating.
That's what the super wealthy have been quietly doing over many decades, have been acquiring silver.
It's been cheap, as you know.
You go back to the price chart, look at 1980, it was $52.50 an ounce.
It was driven up mainly by the Hunt family in Texas that were buying it and buying physical silver, getting physical delivery.
Other people started buying, it drove the price up.
The Hunt family, I believe, was deep-stated in a way.
They were taken out and bankrupted because they were exposing the weakness of the dollar.
It was cheap all through the 1980s into the 1990s and even the 2000s.
But right now, I think what's happened is you can no longer, with world demand, with things like solar, EVs, the need for silver, the military-industrial complex demand for silver is Massive, as we've discussed before, is 500 ounces of silver in a Tomahawk Missile, which was basically what you call a monster box in the gold and silver industry.
A monster box is 500 ounces of silver.
So there's just a huge demand, not enough supply.
And I think a lot of these contracts and things with the bullion houses and paper silver, I think that will be exposed as the price continues to climb because more and more, We're good to go.
I think mid-30s, David, all bets are off.
It goes to mid-30s and I think we'll easily scoot to $40 and $50 an ounce.
There's no reason in this economic climate with everything around us, being like inside this...
This psychological experiment, whatever this is, is called an election.
This whole thing with our country, the entire thing.
It's a patch.
Yeah, it's some kind of psy-op that we're all in.
It's amazing to me that silver isn't, you know, more expensive.
I'm glad that it's not right now because it gives people the ability to...
Let's look at the price right now.
Let's look at silver price compared to gold price.
Now, gold price is at an all-time high, so $26.92.
It just went up $3 since we started the conversation.
Another new all-time high.
Another new all-time high, so we'll put that on the list.
I've got to get that song from one of the James Bond movies.
It's an all-time high.
You know, just put that on a loop.
Yeah, well, I think that would be a good Bond film.
Who's suppressing the gold price?
It's kind of like a follow-up to Goldfinger.
Yeah, he's got his gold finger on the price there.
And then we're going to divide that by $31.89.
So it takes 84.4 ounces of silver to make one ounce of gold per this chart, which is ridiculous.
Because if you read history, that's never been that way.
Ever, ever.
Not even close.
It's usually 10 to 20 to 1, between 10 and 20.
Alexander Hamilton and the founding file, they set it up at 16 to 1 in this country, and that was 16 ounces of silver to make one ounce of gold.
That stayed from the founding of the United States until 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt said, turn in your gold, use one of those executive orders, and they raised the price to $35 an ounce.
But still...
That ratio would be, you know, basically 35 to 1.
Well, 84.4 doesn't make any sense, especially when you're looking at geologically, it's 17 to 1 in the ground.
That's what it's supposedly, so 17 ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold in the ground.
And the big tell that I've never heard anybody else bring up, but I thought was, you know, pretty much glaring, is the market cap.
If you look at the market cap for gold, it's $16.4 trillion, and the market cap for silver is $1.4 trillion.
So they're 16 to 1.
I think that's probably more accurate.
So if we do that math, David, let's see where we'd be if we were just in line with what the Founding Fathers set up for silver.
If you divide that...
Yeah, $168 an ounce.
That's where we would be.
Which seems to me, I think, just logically, silver at $100 an ounce, I think, is probably a good indicator that something's stabilized and the repricing has worked.
Because we...
We're not watching something go up.
We're watching the inversion.
We're watching the dollar lose purchasing power.
That's what I think we kind of...
I have to remind myself of that all the time.
It's not that silver got more valuable.
It's just that when we're repricing commodities, which is what's happening right now, the BRICS meeting is in three days, and that's what they're trying to do.
They want to reset commodities.
They want to reset the way that they structure trade and get away from the dollar system.
And a lot of that's going to have an impact on the price of commodities because they don't want to price anything the way the West does anymore, the way that it's denominated in dollars.
I think this is what the big news out of all this.
It was last week, I think, that I covered an article some guy went through and he looked at the price of dollar in a lot of different currencies and what the trend was in a lot of different currencies.
And he said, we've been seeing it steadily going up in all these other currencies and everything, and even more so a steady trend up than with the American dollar.
And he said, and yet, you know, Switzerland was kind of the odd man out, and he says now they've caught up, and now it's on a trajectory like that as well in Switzerland.
So all these other currencies, you know, the U.S. dollar is heavily manipulated, but looking at it in these other basket of currencies, it's pretty consistent in the way that it's going.
I look at silver as, because my main interest in gold is...
Not getting rich and trying to play markets and time them and all the rest of this stuff.
But my main thing is I'm just concerned about hyperinflation.
I'm concerned about CBDC and other things like that.
So all of this stuff is there.
It's really as kind of a wealth insurance to make sure that what you have isn't just going to be eviscerated because the dollar just goes to zero.
So that's part of it.
But it's also the fact that they want to completely restructure the financial system.
That was part of Biden's move in the spring of 2022.
Four different things that he wanted every part of the deep state, every part of the swamp, every part of the bureaucracy to look into.
Number one thing was changing the financial system, completely restructuring it as part of implementing CBDC.
So when I look at silver, I think about it in terms of having something that is a lower unit value so that you can actually use it more in transactions than you'd be able to do with gold.
It's a little hard to do that with gold because of that multiple that's there.
Now it's a big multiple.
Yeah, it's more like gold is savings and silver is cash.
You could use it that way.
And it's a lot more divisible.
It's structured in a way for it to be spendable.
That's why the silver dollar was so ubiquitous here in the United States.
Especially after the comp stock load in the 1870s, there's this major push to make the Morgan silver dollar.
That's why it's so famous.
It was used all the time.
There was a gold dollar.
I think I've brought one on the show.
It's a little tiny...
You'll lose it.
It's easy to lose.
A little tiny bit of gold.
I forget how much it weighs, but it's just a really small coin, and I think it's worth about $200 today, so go figure.
That's what happens when you decouple the dollar from gold.
But yeah, you're right.
Silver and gold are a great way to be outside of the digitized system, and the more that I think about it, the more I read history and look into the monetary system, the history of money, CBDC is a massive threat and I think probably the number one thing that we need to have on our radar to oppose, to speak out on, to push back against and set up systems to get around it.
And I think that's That is going to happen.
I think states, like we've talked about before, a lot of the states decentralizing, making gold and silver legal tender, you know, passing laws against central bank digital currency.
This is great.
This is great news, especially because we've been talking about it for years.
I thought I was going to be alone on this for a while, but it's finally reached a little bit of popular discourse.
More and more people will have physical precious metals.
This is a wonderful thing.
And outside of the system, history is on our side.
The digitized stuff is new.
Is it going to completely supplant the way that we transact?
I don't believe so.
I think that it'll look a lot like...
Well, I mean, it's surveillance disguises money, first of all.
It's not really meant to be an efficient monetary system, because really the most efficient monetary system is a mixture of cash and currency backed by something that's stable so you can save it.
Fiat, this experiment, has failed.
It's a god that failed, and I think, you know, we were talking off-air about We're good to go.
It's going to end well.
And that's why they know that, and I think that's why they throw out the great reset term a lot to kind of get you used to a monetary reset.
It's going to benefit them.
But gold and silver are part of this story, which is my point, is that human nature, human history, whatever it is with these metals, you can go back in the Bible, it's biblical.
It's part of our story, and I don't think it's going to go away.
You know, Rod Serling had an episode of The Twilight Zone.
I don't know if you remember this episode, David, but there's these bank robbers.
They robbed a bank or something.
Maybe it was a train that was carrying the gold from the Federal Reserve.
And they had a scientist, and he was able to cryogenically, like, suspended animation for 100 years or something.
And they woke up, and they tried to go cash this gold in.
And so anyway, the episode ends with somebody from 100 years in the future pulling up in a car and saying, what's he got with them?
And then somebody says, is that gold?
People used to use that as money?
Like it was kind of meant to be that ironic consequence of wanting something that has value then and it doesn't have it in the future.
That's an interesting concept, but my reading of history, I don't think that's ever going away.
I don't think that, for whatever reason, I don't think that mankind will ever not want the precious metals or not want to have some sort of access or use them for something.
They'll never be at zero.
But fiat currencies will.
I think that episode was written by...
Who was the person who said gold is a barbaric relic?
John Maynard Keynes.
Yeah, Keynes.
Yeah, as a barbarous relic.
It's an interesting concept.
Yeah, that's funny.
Well, you know, when you're talking about, you know...
That gold coin, the $1 coin, and now it's worth $200.
But it was a small coin to start with.
Imagine if you created a $1 coin today out of gold.
You'd have to get a magnifying glass out to find it.
It'd be like, honey, I shrunk the coin.
Yeah.
Rick, what was his name?
Rick Morano or something?
Huh?
Yeah, yeah.
And he's looking at, he's got his big helmet there with all the magnifying glass.
Where did I put that gold coin?
That's what we'd have because of inflation.
But, yeah, it's the, you know, that, That's another part of it.
You know, the historical aspects of hyperinflation of fiat currency and all the rest of that is the same way that we've seen the historical effects of gold.
I've got one guy here.
He's saying five reasons that he thinks that gold prices are going to keep rising and will hit $4,800 by 2030.
That's Incrementum is the company he works for.
That was on Kitco News.
That's actually kind of a conservative valuation, I think.
Very conservative.
When you look at 4,800 by 2030, I mean, we're talking another, you know, six years or something.
I mean, that's very conservative, I think.
Well, I mean, yeah, I think it's extremely conservative.
My projections would be over that.
I was short of where we are now, though.
I didn't think we'd be seeing $2,700-an-ounce gold.
I mean, we can go back to our interviews.
I wasn't projecting that.
I didn't think that it would break that fast.
But something is giving way, and there's something in the underlying current here.
It has to do with de-dollarization.
It has to do with the BRICS alliances.
If you recall, there was this ominous exchange between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin about, was it 18 months ago or so, David, when they had a face-to-face meeting and said, we're going to be part of the greatest change that's happened in 100 years, I'm paraphrasing, and that's going to be us.
There's this alliance that they're creating, these economic alliances after the sanctions, massive sanctions in 2022 by the U.S. and Russia pushing back on that.
This is, I think, really accelerating.
And then we look at the loss of the petrodollar.
A lot of open questions there.
That used to be the big thing.
How did we lose mainland China in 1949?
Truman and Dean Acheson were called communists.
That was...
Major fiasco for the Truman administration.
But how do we lose the petrodollar?
Nobody even brings that up.
I mean, literally just lost.
Yeah, I saw her the other day.
Somebody was talking about, well, all these people are saying, well, this candidate is going to be horrible for the economy and will wreck it and all the rest of the stuff.
He goes, you don't know who wrecked it.
It was Janet Yellen.
She's behind all this policy and Biden administration in terms of weaponizing the dollar.
They were driving people away from the dollar more than anything.
Yeah, they're continuing to drive people away from the dollar, making it unsafe for countries to park any of their denominated currencies in dollars.
We're making that apparent.
Like, if you do something that crosses the line, we'll repatriate your currency to whatever cause du jour we feel like.
I mean, look at what happened to the Russians.
Their own funds were used...
To give to the t-shirt man in Ukraine to send rockets and other things, offensive weapons into Russia.
It's absolutely amazing.
Yeah, the thing about that, we spent a couple hundred billion dollars and all we got for that was a Zelensky t-shirt.
Yeah.
That's all I got was his lousy t-shirt, man.
That's all he's got, just a shirt on his back.
Yeah, people are getting pretty tired of that.
Well, I think another part of it, when we're talking about Zelensky, I think another part of this, of course, is the concern about war, as this is escalating.
And we're going to be talking about that coming up at the top of the hour with Joel Skousen.
But you've got the...
The Israeli government expanding the war.
America is pushing it as well.
I mean, they're chomping at the bit.
The warmongers to go after Iran have been for a long time.
But Israel is even saying, I think it was the finance minister who said, yeah, we're on our way to Damascus.
I guess they're on the road to Damascus.
They're going to have a road to Damascus experience.
But, I mean, you know, it's big-time war.
And it's going to be very disruptive of the economy in addition to what happens with the war stuff.
So I think that that's maybe part of it as well.
But you're right.
$2,700.
It was just a couple of months ago that people said, J.P. Morgan or some of these people, well, I think we're going to see $2,700 gold in January of 2025.
That really is kind of, we're almost already there.
You know, $2,692.
We're almost at $2,700 gold.
And it was a big escalation when they said that at that point in time, a couple of months ago, to say, well, look, it's going to get a $2,700.
It's like, yeah, you can kind of see that happening.
Well, now we're the middle of October, and it's there.
Yeah, I don't think you can compare this time to any other time in history, really.
It's never really happened this way.
I mean, it doesn't repeat itself.
It often rhymes.
But you can look at the 1970s, David.
I mean, they raised interest rates to the teens, had the Nixon shock and inflation.
Jimmy Carter called it malaise.
But what happened, there was a decline in the price of gold.
Gold was $800 an ounce around the time I was born, at the end of the 70s.
And then it dropped into the $200 and $300 an ounce and stayed that way.
It was pretty flat through the 80s and into the 90s.
That's because they raised interest rates.
Well, Jerome Powell raised interest rates faster than any other time in history after 2020, 2021, and gold went up.
It's at its all-time high.
Something happened that didn't work, and they did the same thing.
They did this back in 2011, and really just a word from Ben Bernanke back in 2011 said, look, we had TARP funds, we bailed out some of these banks that are too big to fail, and we won't do that again, because gold was going up close to $2,000 an ounce, and silver, $50 an ounce.
But they...
We reeled that in with that statement.
And so people started dumping their silver and gold holdings and got out of that.
And so that's why gold and silver went down and stayed that way.
Again, there was a 2011 to 2020 was the gap of gold's all-time high.
And now we've done it.
Well, we've done it since we've been on air again.
So it's 31 times, 32 times in the last nine months.
Well, I think, you know, as you're pointing out, raising the rates didn't work.
And I think we're going to be seeing that about a lot of different things financially.
These people that are pulling the levers, they really don't know what they're doing.
And they're kind of, as we were saying off air before we came on, I said, yeah, we're reaching this Looney Tunes moment.
Where everybody's run off the cliff, and like Wile E. Coyote, we don't really realize that there's nothing under us yet.
But when that happens globally, and people look at this massive debt and phony currencies and everything that we got, we're going to drop like a rock.
And then what happens is somebody drops the Acme anvil on you as well.
That's the next thing to fall right on top of us as we hit rock bottom there.
Tell us a little bit about what's going on at Wise Wolf Gold.
Well, yesterday I was announcing on social media that I redid my personal website, which is a good start because I've been saying this for about two years.
I was going to update this.
I finally got most of it done, and I was going to ask people to go and sign up for the newsletter.
We have a free newsletter we're going to do there.
I'm going to have a shop set up.
For some of my stuff and t-shirts and things I haven't done yet for my podcast and the Arterburn Radio Transmission.
But it's arterburn.gold.
I even came up with my own logo for it.
So go check out arterburn.gold and sign up for the free newsletter.
Tell me what you think, guys, on the website.
I put that out yesterday.
And your broadcast is immediately following this one on Twitter, as well as, is it Rockfin that you're on?
I'll be on Rockfin on the America Unplugged channel, on Rumble America Unplugged, and my Twitter at Tony Arterburn.
You can follow me there for the live stream, and feel free to join us.
It'll be at 11 a.m.
Central Time, 12 Eastern.
Great, right.
Immediately after this program, yeah.
Yes, sir.
Anything else that's going on?
You got your new website, Arterburn Gold, and redesigned that.
What else has happened?
Redesigned that, Arterburn.gold.
We've still got the program.
There was a big push last week.
I talked to you about Wolf Picks, and we're setting the price in the morning.
We're still working on that.
It's been...
That's going to be hard with it, jumping up and hitting all the times.
It's been crazy.
Yeah, that's what we...
We set it and then we'll have to take it down because I don't know if I can fill that order.
So go check out WolfPix over on wolfpack.gold and go to davidknight.gold and we're just trying to come up with innovative ways to get people the best deal and you know take advantage of knowing us.
We buy a lot of stuff at the shops so WolfPix is a good way to do that and WolfPix.
Well it's crazy times that we're living in right now and I think things are only going to accelerate even quicker.
Always great talking to you, Tony.
Thank you so much for supporting this program.
And again, go to davidknight.gold.
That'll let Tony know that you're coming through us.
That'll take you to Wise Wolf Gold.
Get gold, silver.
You can join the wolf pack, and he's got the wolf picks that are there as well.
A lot of different things.
Tony's always innovating and changing things.
Thank you so much, Tony.
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Dave.
Appreciate it.
Folks, we're going to take a quick break, and hopefully when we come back, we're going to connect with Joel Skousen.
I haven't talked to him for a while, but with all the war and everything else that is on the horizon here, I wanted to talk to Joel.
And he's also running for president, and we're going to talk to him about his presidential campaign.
So stay with us.
with us we'll be right back
Thank you.
Liberty.
It's your move.
And now, The David Knight Show.
Alright, welcome back.
And we're trying to establish contact with Joel Skousen, but he says his internet is down.
So we're going to keep trying to do that.
Maybe we can get him on the program.
But we've got plenty to talk about.
And I want to begin, before we get back into the news, I want to begin by thanking some listeners who sent this very nice book and a nice note to Travis and to his wife, as we pointed out yesterday.
They're back in Texas.
Where she has an obstetrician or gynecologist or both.
I don't know which is which.
But what is a gynecologist?
That is an open question, I guess, other than what is a woman.
I do know what a woman is.
But...
They sent this along.
This is from Scott and Samantha.
Love you guys.
Praying for your wife and baby's health.
We are Christian Organic Farmers in Wisconsin with two kids.
If your wife ever wants to talk about babies or farming, I'd love to.
Thank you so much.
And that's very kind.
A lot of information there.
Important information.
And thank all the people that have sent tips.
Not just financial tips, but tips for them to do.
Like, you know, watch out for the vitamin K shot.
I passed that on to Travis yesterday.
He said, yeah, I know.
I know.
I know.
He's good.
But you never know.
You know, I mean, we always want to keep reminding each other of how the hospitals are laying in wait for us in the medical community and the pharmaceutical community.
They're like trying to ambush us with poison all the time.
That's what we have seen in our family.
So I want to talk while we're trying to still establish contact.
The people who want to talk about late abortion don't want to talk about late abortion.
That's the article from Live Action.
And it's true.
You know, there was The Atlantic, which is kind of unusual because The Atlantic is not a conservative pro-life organization.
They published an article calling out the Democrat Party for brushing off the questions about whether or not late abortion should be restricted.
The person who wrote about it on The Atlantic, Emma Kemp, Who is an assistant editor at Reason.
And she said, Democrats have considered abortion a winning issue, and they've been eager to talk about it, except, of course, when it comes to those that occur in the final months of pregnancy.
She notes two recent situations in which this desire to completely avoid the issue is made obvious.
It happened with Tim Waltz.
In the vice presidential debate, when he brushed aside a question on the pro-abortion pro-act that he signed into law in Minnesota, in the presidential debate, Lala Harris could only say, well, that's not true, when Donald Trump argued that Roe v.
Wade allowed for abortion throughout pregnancy, which it did, thanks to a loophole in his partner decision, Doe v.
Bolton.
I said from the very beginning, I said if he knew or cared about any of this stuff, You would understand that Roe v.
Wade didn't legalize abortion in all cases.
All it did was it prohibited states from making abortion illegal earlier than a date that they picked arbitrarily.
So it said, at this level, X number of weeks, you cannot prohibit an abortion earlier than that.
Now, you can allow it or you can prohibit it after that line.
We're not going to make a statement about that.
So they left it up to the states to decide when or if they were going to restrict abortion.
But they said you cannot restrict abortion earlier than X, X number of weeks.
And so he doesn't really care even what Roe v.
Wade was about.
And of course, it was blatantly unconstitutional, which I always said, and which is what the Dobbs decision said.
It was unconstitutional.
But anyway, she goes on to say, the claim is made...
That women don't choose late abortions lightly, and that something must have gone terribly wrong for them to seek it so late.
This has been repeated so often that a lot of people think it's fact, but it isn't.
It is a complete myth.
There are plenty of facilities, he says.
This is Emma Camp.
He says there's plenty of facilities that are committing late abortions.
It is legal up to birth in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Colorado, which is home to clinics that perform third trimester abortions, recorded 137 third trimester abortions in 2023.
Eight other states plus Washington, D.C., have no restriction on third trimester abortions.
Just a few minutes from my office, she said, in Washington, D.C., a clinic offers abortions up to nearly 32 weeks.
And in Bethesda, Maryland, a clinic performs abortions up to 35 weeks gestation.
The D.C. facility, she said, commits, I'll just call it what it is, infanticide, the murder of a baby, Through 32 weeks for any reason.
Any reason.
You don't have to have a reason.
It's estimated that there are more than 11,000 abortions committed every year at 21 weeks or later in the U.S. That is the gestational age at which preemies have been able to survive with medical assistance.
So at least 11,000.
Probably a lot higher than that.
And so, in the midst of all this, there's another interesting aspect, and that is how they use push polls.
I've said for the longest time, many times polls are used not to find out what you think.
That's what they tell you.
I mean, you can see when you go to a website, a lot of times they'll say, well, are you voting for Trump or are you voting for Lala?
Give us your email address and we'll let you see what other people are saying, that type of thing.
It's total nonsense.
They're just trying to get your email address.
So what are people trying to do when they do these polls?
In many cases, what they're trying to do is push you to a point of view.
Not that they want to know what your point of view is.
And here's an example of it.
Reuters.
May 2024.
They did a poll and they found that 57% of respondents feel that abortion should be, quote, legal in all or most cases, unquote.
However, When you pursue this and you ask about support or opposition to a national law that will allow abortion through viability defined as 24 to 28 weeks, only 27% of the original 57% who said that abortion should be legal in most cases, only 27% of those indicated support for a law that allowed abortion up to 24 weeks.
71% opposed it.
So it radically turns the other direction if you give them a little bit more detail, or if you phrase it in a different way.
Now, the reality is that these people don't even know what a late-term abortion is.
They haven't seen a picture of it.
Why?
Well, because Republicans won't show them.
They don't want to show what the abortion is.
And I've pointed this out many times.
Democrats keep dancing around the fact that under Roe v.
Wade, states were not required to restrict later abortions.
That's what I just pointed out.
Under Dobbs, which superseded Roe, they still aren't.
They can choose to ban the procedure or they can allow it without any limits at all.
So you can have some people who say we're going to stop it at six weeks or when there's a detectable heartbeat or when there's brain waves or whatever.
You can have other states that will say there's not going to be any restrictions like Wisconsin.
And you can do that and then say, and we're also not going to report when babies survive an abortion and are left on the table to die.
That's what Tim Walz did.
I realized this about Roe v.
Wade when, again, I was running for Congress in 1996.
They were all talking about partial birth abortion.
And so my point at that point in time, I was just, well, you know, let people make their own decisions about what things are.
People have different ideas about when life begins or whatever, which is not my position at all today.
My position today is that God knew our lives and the days of our life before He knit us together in the womb.
But the thing that really opened my eyes initially about the fraud of saying, well, everybody's got a different idea about when this, that was kind of the official Libertarian Party standard majority opinion there.
There were some people who were pro-life in the Libertarian Party.
But the thing that really opened my eyes about all this stuff and the fraud and the lies that had been accompanying it was when they started pushing partial birth abortions.
I'm running for Congress and all these people are asking me about partial birth abortions.
I'm like, what is that?
When I found out they're letting the babies go full-term and then, you know, keeping a foot inside the mother or something like that and murdering the baby on the outside.
Now, that was not restricted under Roe v.
Wade, you see.
Roe v.
Wade just said you cannot prohibit abortion at this date or earlier.
But you had a lot of states that were letting full-term babies be murdered and pretending that it was a partial birth.
We're either birthed or you're not birthed, okay?
So first of all, even the language was the kind of stuff that we now see on a regular basis from the Democrats.
But that got me to understand exactly what was happening.
But it was a thing that got me dead set against it.
Was I started to look at God's, the way God perceives children and the way that he decrees children and nets them together in their mother's womb.
Yes, third trimester abortions are happening in America.
That's right.
And that was the title of her article.
It is truly demonic.
And it's state governments.
It's not just the President and Congress that are involved in all this.
Meanwhile, Tim Walz is facing a lawsuit for banning Christian counseling to treat gender confusion.
I'd say gender propaganda.
And, you know, this is when they talk about you can't have conversion counseling.
They're not talking about trying to convert a kid into thinking that they're in the wrong body or something.
No, that's allowed.
That's being done by the schools.
No, if you want to talk about it going another way, that's going to be excluded.
And of course, they want to eventually get to the point where they stop any conversation about Christ.
That's why they bring in conversion.
that's why they're using that word psychologists don't use that word So, Christian counseling has been proven to heal gender dysphoria and unwanted desires, often born of childhood abuse.
Waltz banned this life-saving practice because so many of these children, when they have the surgery, it's so radical.
It destroys their life.
Why would we do that?
Why would we sterilize young kids who don't know?
So...
He's pandering to the LGBT cult.
That ban has shut down an important part of Christian counseling practice.
This is coming from Liberty Council.
It's a legal firm that is suing him.
But let's understand that Christians, yeah, you can do a little bit of counseling, but it's really about the conversion that they're concerned about.
And I think use of the term conversion shows where this is ultimately headed.
We see it in Europe.
We see it especially in the UK. Thanks to Tim Walz's ban, it's now illegal for Christian counselors to use their skills to treat gender dysphoria, which is what they call it.
He's about to go ahead to head with Liberty Council attorneys.
They're going to sue him over this.
Meanwhile, in the military, men who claim that their women in the U.S. military may have gotten a sex change drug That is increasing cancer.
Now, when we look at how our government honors the people who have put their life on the line to serve their country, I think it's kind of amazing because we can look at this and say, well, you see this massive increase in cancers.
Is that coming from the sex change drug?
Or is that coming from the mandated vaccine, the mandated Trump shot?
And of course, as Jason Barker knows, because he fought against this mandate when he was in the military, he pointed out that Trump had already put the order in that as soon as the FDA gave their blessing on this stuff, it was going to be mandated for the military.
So you got turbo cancer there, but I imagine that this is a study that is looking at people who have had this sex change drug, looking at their incidence of cancer.
So it's just another way that the people that you serve in the military honor you, isn't it?
Just amazing.
The contempt that they have for the people.
How they get us involved in one war after the other with absolute total disregard for the lives of their soldiers.
Or for the benefit of the country.
And that's what we're looking at.
A new report published at Science Direct revealed that there are three veterans of America's military, all men who decided that they were women, and they all got cancer.
That may have been the result of the chemicals that they ingested as part of their so-called transition.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
Well, getting back to politics, a man who was wrongly convicted for murder by Lala Harris when she was a district attorney demands that she face questions about men who have been framed for murder under her watch.
This is a story from the Tennessee Star.
And he was convicted of murder in San Francisco.
Well, she was the city's district attorney, given that job by her sugar daddy there, Willie Brown.
He issued a call for the presidential candidate to face questions about those, quote, framed for murder under her watch.
This is during an interview that she had with a radio host that calls himself Charlemagne.
Jamal Trulove is his name.
He was wrongly convicted of murder in 2008, but by 2015, he was freed and he later secured a $13 million settlement from the city of San Francisco over his wrongful conviction by Lala Harris.
I guess he just laughed it off, probably, right?
After previously endorsing the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, True Love, this August, announced that he was endorsing Trump.
In his video, True Love noted that he had previously been interviewed by Charlemagne ahead of the 2020 election when he appeared to publicly forgive Harris for her role in his wrongful conviction on a 2008 murder.
He said, four years ago, I did an interview and I remember you saying, he addresses this to Charlemagne, he says, I remember you saying that you believed 100% That Lala should give me an apology for what had happened to me under her administration.
I would love for you to ask her this question, even though he didn't now.
Does she have any remorse for the people like myself and others who were wrongfully convicted under her administration in San Francisco?
If she does, does she have any reason to why something like this could have happened not only to me but to other people as well?
And where does she stand on people that are wrongfully convicted under her administration?
So he asked him to ask her that, but of course, that's not going to be asked.
He said, she's the head of it.
She oversees it.
She had to.
It was a murder case, right?
At the end of my paperwork, it was stamped and sealed with the office of Lala Harris.
True enough.
Now, why don't...
We have somebody ask her, and this would be the easiest thing in the world for the GOP, if they don't want to shock people with the horrific truth of abortion, if they don't want to show the pictures of aborted babies, If they don't want to celebrate life and show the pictures of babies who are alive in the womb, if they won't do any of that, why don't they just come after Lala Harris like this?
Because it's not just this guy who was wrongfully convicted of murder, but it's also David Daleiden who was wrongfully persecuted, and I mean persecuted, not prosecuted, for blowing the whistle on murder for hire being done by Planned Parenthood.
Well, if you want to expose the evil of both Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry, and Lala Harris at the same time, talk about this persecution of David Daleiden.
He is a whistleblower exposing these crimes, and she comes after him, and then so did her successor as state attorney general, Javier Becerra, who is now head of HHS. Okay, when you look at the GOP, they're struggling with abortion.
They don't know what to do.
They're running away from it.
And you mean to tell me that there's not a single consultant in the GOP that can figure this out?
Pretty obvious to me.
How they could shut all of this stuff down.
How they could show her as part of a murdering criminal cabal.
Why don't they do it?
Well, they don't do it because they're controlled opposition.
It's just that simple.
On that issue, and on many, many others.
Well, as we look at the endgame of this election, as I said, I don't really think any of this pageant, and that's what it is, It's a wag the dog.
It's the tail wagging the dog, trying to move the massive group of Americans out there in one way or the other and doing it through this wag the dog pageant that we call a presidential election.
And what they're trying to do is to get us to fight ourselves, to bite our own tail.
And evidence of this is that they're looking at, the feds began fortifying Washington, D.C. with security barriers and fencing about three months ahead of Inauguration Day.
They've already started.
It's more than three months.
So, the federal government this week began fortifying Washington, D.C. for Inauguration Day.
crews erecting fencing around the White House and all the rest of the stuff, in addition to putting up the stands that they always do.
They are adding a lot of additional fencing around the White House and other places.
Such efforts historically began November the 1st, but the Park Service says it needs two weeks more to accommodate additional time needed for a safer and more secure environment.
Related closures will stay in place until February 2025.
5.
Well, it's because I've got everybody whipped up into this frenzy.
You know, we look at Eric Adams, for example.
Now, Eric Adams, he's got a lot of legal issues coming after him, for sure.
But he's trying to, in New York, you've got both the Yankees and the Mets in New York.
And so, you know, when you look at what is happening with the Republicans and Democrats, they break us into these different groups, these different clubs, these different cults or whatever.
And so he shows up, and he's got this cap that you can see there.
And on one side of the cap, he's got the logo for the Yankees, and on the other side, he's got the logo for the Mets, and he's got like an X between, you know, like a times signal there.
I support everybody, right?
I'm on both sides.
But he got hammered for that.
People were more upset with him over that than they were over the allegations of bribery and scandals and corruption and all the rest of this stuff that are being brought by the FBI. Because, you see, that's what the sports stuff is really about.
It's about training us for the politics stuff and everything, the bread and circuses.
And I can really relate to that.
We've got a relative, an in-law.
That she is a fanatic about the Yankees.
She lives in New York.
And just as I've talked about before, we don't really follow sports, never dead, especially when the boys are young.
They still don't follow it.
I don't either.
But...
She got them some Yankees presents.
They didn't even know who the Yankees were.
And she was so offended.
She came after these young kids who were like in first grade.
And just, you know, you don't know who the Yankees are.
It's like...
I mean, that's what these people have done to Eric Adams.
We went when it was a race car driver.
I don't even remember his name.
Daryl is a big name.
If I could remember it, you would all recognize it.
Maybe you know who I'm talking about.
He died in a car crash.
His son is racing and everything.
Anyway, we were in Orlando.
We went to a place that...
We had NASCAR cars and everything all up in the ceiling.
And it was a place where you could eat.
And we walked in.
And they had this big area there where there are race cars, models and toys and things like that.
So the boys were looking at that.
And they were doing a live remote from that place because this guy had just died.
And so they walk up to the boys.
They figure the boys were there because they'd heard about this.
And they stuck the microphone in their face and said, are you here because of Daryl so-and-so?
And they go, who's he?
They looked at him and they looked at me and was like, I don't know who he is either.
Still don't know.
But people get so involved in the sports.
That's what this is all about.
This is not simply about manufacturing consensus.
This is about manufacturing conflict.
That's what this election is really about.
And that's the thing that I'm really concerned about.
I'm concerned about this election for about two things.
Number one, I see it as a distraction away from the things that are really important in your life.
Your relationship with God, your relationship with your family, your relationship with your community.
If you want to get involved in politics, and you should pay attention to it, get involved in local politics.
But, you know, they want to distract you into something that you have absolutely no control over.
Because that's pretty safe for them.
And the other thing they want to do is they want to get us fighting each other.
Divide and conquer.
And there's a lot of people who are participating in this and pushing this left-right narrative.
We're seeing this happening a lot, and they're escalating this as we get closer and closer to the election, as I've said so many times.
Neither side are going to believe that their guy could have possibly lost.
And this is a message directly to every single person on the deep state target list.
My assessment, Ivan Raikland's assessment, that if you assassinate any political presidential candidate, whether it's RFK, whether it's Trump, guess what?
America will do the following immediately.
They will respond in kind.
And they know who you are because we've created the list.
And that's amazing.
Major Rubicon.
They should know that.
Immediately.
You're going to see immediate response, and there are only a few buildings in Washington, D.C. that they will probably do that.
Well, I hope that's not the case, but these people are crazy.
And having said that, if they do that...
Option two behind Trump is going to be so much better for us and so much worse for them.
I was about to say, if they kill him, that's best case scenario, from a sick level.
From a sick level beating him, oh, please kill him, which I don't, I mean, but it's so good after that.
Oh, it's going to be the best cleansing and the fastest cleansing that we've ever seen in my lifetime.
Yeah, you guys will make so much money.
I assess with almost certainty, with the highest level of confidence, that if they assassinate Trump, it is so game over for them.
And it's going to be so fast.
Yeah, yeah.
Boy, that's how it works, isn't it?
These guys are going to ramp you up for a fight.
And they're going to say, see you later.
Head out the back door.
Just like they did on January the 6th.
Just like Trump did.
Just like Alex Jones did.
Alex Jones went to the other side of town.
Had one reporter, Sam, who actually did his job and reported.
He got arrested.
All the rest of them, the other side of town.
Trump, the other side of town, he doesn't know who you guys are.
I don't know who these are.
I know nothing, said Trump.
He's not going to pardon anybody there for January 6th.
He's going to let them twist in the wind.
Don't fall for this garbage.
They'll keep running this play over and over again.
For some people, keep falling for it over and over again.
Just like the people who keep putting the mask back on.
You've got a lot of people who are going to keep putting on the red cap and go to war for Trump.
Never learn.
We'll never learn.
Well, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
you you you We said earlier in the broadcast, Trump out there saying, hey, I'll let you write off the interest, the massive interest charges on your very expensive cars, especially the EVs.
Well, that might be a necessary thing because there is a downward spiral, a dire spiral, of course, in used EV prices, as we've mentioned before.
Automakers offering a flood of price cuts.
We shouldn't use that term, flood, around EVs, should we?
On new models and a bid to prop up sales amid lower-than-expected demand, the discounts have caused EV resale values to plummet, with the average selling price of a three-year-old EV falling to $28,400.
That is a 25% decrease from the start of 2023, a lower price than that of an internal combustion vehicle of the same age.
So, the internal combustion vehicles are...
Significantly cheaper, $10,000 to $20,000 per car cheaper than the EVs, and yet, a couple years down the road, they have a higher price.
As a result, as of August, EV owners owed roughly $10,000 more on their car loans than their vehicle was worth.
Up from $8,000 at the beginning of 2023, said the Wall Street Journal again.
We're talking EVs underwater, so to speak.
And we all know what happens when that happens.
But these are people, they can't get out of their car loan because their car is worth less.
Then the outstanding balance.
But hey, it's tax deductible.
Which means that whatever your tax bracket is, you get that percentage of it.
If you're in a 25% tax bracket, you're going to save 25% of the interest.
But you're going to pay the other 75%.
They kept reducing the price of the cars, said one person.
And that killed the used EV market.
Now the price of something of a price war.
On the new EVs.
But it's not just that.
It's the concerns that people have over range and other issues.
He saw his vehicle's value decline by $10,000 relative to what he owed on his loan following the price cuts of 2023.
Says it's a race to the bottom, said Barry Crampton.
But yeah, EVs are selling just fine.
And if you think that, you're an idiot.
You're maybe like Lala.
But it's not polite to call people idiots.
Call them LaLa instead.
Average discounts on EVs are now almost double what they are on internal combustion engine vehicles.
So I'd imagine that Elon Musk is very desperate.
For some kind of a lifeline to be thrown.
I think that explains what is happening, whether it's exclusively for EVs or not.
It'd probably be one of the biggest benefactors of that.
The progress report.
Thank you very much for the tip.
So sports are essential to their plans.
Our regional metropolitan planning organization is looking to use pro sports to deliver us regional government.
I'll have to take a look at that.
He's got a piece, Common Sense Advocate on Substack.
I'll take a look at that.
I've talked for the longest time as well.
Look at all the money that they pour into these professional sports stadiums.
We have now billions of dollars being spent on stadiums.
When I was talking about it, it was hundreds of millions.
Now it's several billion that are being spent.
And that's coming from other businesses.
It's coming from individual taxpayers.
That's where it's coming from at the state level.
It's very important for them to have these.
It's a big ego booster for them to have their own professional sports teams.
But why is it that these billionaires who own the sports teams get their place of business remodeled, expanded, luxurious accommodations And all the mom and pop stores are having to pay for this.
You know, they could create jobs as well.
Oh, it's to create jobs.
Well, they could all create jobs.
It is all about a big Pied Piper parade.
They love that aspect of it.
The ego and the manipulation of the crowds there.
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I appreciate that.
The true range of EVs is about 50% lower than advertised.
This is coming from the Daily Skeptic in the UK. This is a true typical motorway range of the latest electric vehicles is up to 50% lower than the advertised figures new research has revealed.
Neil Winton, who carried out the research, has written this up for Forbes magazine.
Now, think about this.
We had several billion dollars that the EPA hit, I think it was, yeah, it was the EPA, because it was emissions fraud, they said, by Volkswagen.
And as Eric Peters and I have talked about this many, many times, I believe, and he believes as well, they were trying to punish Volkswagen for producing a very efficient, low-emission diesel engine that, of course, is going to last forever.
They wanted them to stop that, and they wanted them to get into electric vehicles, which Volkswagen then did to their ruin.
They're now feeling the brunt of that.
They're going to be shutting down German factories for the first time in their over 80 years of existence because of that.
It is a massive, massive suicidal move that was forced on them by the government there.
But the American government was coming after them.
I think it was $4 billion.
They put criminal charges against one of the executives and said, you cheated on your emissions test, your mileage test, and that type of thing.
Well, what about the electric vehicle companies that are overstating by 50%?
You know, they're getting half.
They're doubling it, I should say.
They're overstating typically twice as much a range that they actually get.
Isn't that fraught?
We don't even care.
There's no government agency that's worried about this.
This is something that's just being done by people that are looking at independent investigation by this writer for Forbes.
He said, current range data rarely mentions speed, but it assumes about a 55 mile an hour average.
Where'd that come from?
Oh, yeah, that was Richard Nixon, right?
Richard Nixon and his EPA. So, 55 mile an hour average.
Musk admitted this to me at a Geneva car show press conference in 2016.
He says at this speed, EVs are very efficient.
It's only when high speeds are held for long distances that is a big problem, particularly for buyers in mainland Europe, where the auto route speed limit is often 81 miles per hour.
In the U.S., it's typically about 70 miles.
On the interstate, unless you're in Texas, it's like 80 or 85.
The Lexus RZ300E, the range is 39% lower than they report.
The Peugeot 380E is 50% lower.
The Kia EV9 is 50% lower.
The Hyundai Ioniq 6, 38% lower, and on and on.
He's got a website talking about this.
He said part of it is the drag and everything, but it's also these other issues.
He said range falls off a cliff at high speed.
For an electric car, the extra energy required to get from 60 to 75 is astonishing.
Some of that is the weight and the mass as well as the wind resistance, but it's the type of thing that we see when the range drops off dramatically for this, when you've got extra resistance or extra load on it.
Same thing they're seeing with the EV semi-trucks.
Right?
Not semi-trucks, but the pickup trucks.
You load them up, and once you've got them underweight, it really radically takes the range down.
And I'm sure that's going to be that way with the EV semis.
Nobody's really done any real-world testing with that stuff yet.
China, meanwhile, is overproducing lithium in order to crowd out any potential rivals.
This is interesting because you see that the Pentagon Department of Defense is involved in this large lithium mine here in North Carolina.
Perhaps they're trying to strong-arm and push past that.
And you have to ask yourself, why in the world...
With all of the real-world limitations of batteries, right?
I mean, why is the military trying to get lithium batteries to power things?
Well, they're not going to be powering trucks and tanks and things like that with lithium batteries.
I mean, how are they going to get these things charged in a reasonable amount of time?
How are they going to, with all the weight that they have to carry around, how is that going to work?
It's not for that, I don't think, at all.
What does this obsession mean?
With the Department of Defense being partners in this lithium mine that is in North Carolina, I think that is simply about the fact that the nature of warfare is going to change.
It's going to be about drones.
It's going to be about autonomous killer robots and things like that.
It's not going to be about tanks.
And of course, those drones, those autonomous killer robots, they will be operating.
Off of lithium batteries.
So it's not going to be these big lithium batteries on this big heavy equipment, for the most part.
They are going to be, you know, the defense industry is looking at this, and it's an indication of the direction of where they're going with warfare.
Johnny Gospelseed said, we had a tax deduction for all kinds of interest back in the 80s, and then they eliminated the interest on car loans.
Eliminate usury fees from the Federal Reserve, and you'd have it better.
Well, absolutely.
And you know, when you look at getting rid of tax deductions, that was a big part of Donald Trump's initial tax reform, right?
You know, we're going to get rid of your state and local taxes.
That type of thing.
Or severely limited, anyway.
So that type of thing is...
There's so many different things that could be done.
When you look at it, I think the individual before who said that it was only for EVs, whether or not that's the case, I think it is definitely to benefit Elon Musk.
Jason Barker.
Good to see you there, Jason.
Nights of the storm.
I should start a business driving around with a generator to charge EVs.
I could charge a premium price because it'd be less than a tow.
That's right.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
No anxiety or something.
And to have people, that's a great idea.
You know, Elon Musk kind of did that when he went to the Nürburgring in Germany, the place where people like to go and test their cars to the max.
It's this interesting racetrack that's there, and people, individuals can go there.
And then periodically what they'll do is they'll shut it down.
It'll be rented, you know, for a period of time.
It's not open to the public.
It'll be rented by some car company.
They'll use it to test their cars out or use it for bragging purposes.
And so when Porsche came in with their EVs, Musk had to go there and try to show them up.
But instead, he kind of beclowned himself.
They were literally running circles around him because he ran out.
And he had to, because of the charging mechanisms, his, I think it was a plaid version or something like that, he brought his charging station with the right kind of ports and voltage.
I guess it was set up on the U.S. system at that point in time.
He had to bring a diesel charging system, and everybody was laughing about that and complaining about it.
The neighbor said, it's incredibly noisy.
And, you know, what is he?
He brings his diesel generator so he can charge his electric car.
That's exactly right, Jason.
You're right there.
You're right on board with the thinking of Elon Musk.
You could be a billionaire with that.
Moark, Wild Woman, that's a good idea, Jason.
There are no charging stations around here.
But I see Cybertrucks everywhere.
Wow.
Thank you for the tip.
Well, he's actually already got a running mate.
And I really want to talk to Joel.
I had to try to reschedule this.
He had internet issues.
I don't know what's happening.
But...
I thought that he was going to be on the Constitution Party ticket.
And last time I talked to him, that was about to happen.
Their convention was about to happen.
And I thought, oh yeah, I'm sure they would love to have Joel Skousen on there.
Instead, they went with Randall Terry, who has a history being with Operation Rescue and doing some real in-your-face protests of abortion.
He said he was going to use his political campaign to run his ability to put up ads that would not be censored.
He said, I'm going to show people what an abortion is.
We reached out to him, tried to get him on, haven't been able to get any information back from them.
They're not even on the Tennessee ballot, the Constitution Party.
It doesn't take a whole lot to get on the ballot in Tennessee.
It's like 350 signatures or something.
So I don't know what's going on with the Constitution Party.
And so I guess Joel looked at this and said, well, I'm going to run anyway.
So he's running as an independent.
So it's good.
I mean, we talked to Ashiva Ayadure in the past, and we will again in the future, and Joel Skousen.
You know, I guess these guys, you probably can write them in.
I don't know what it takes to be a write-in candidate to get your votes counted, but at least it's a great way to protest what the situation is.
AP Rumble Seat.
I think EVs are so dangerous and non-functional, it's just another Trojan horse destined for destruction.
Well, the purpose of it is as an intermediate, the way I see it, it's an intermediate step to ban all private cars, including the EVs.
So for the longest time, whenever you see something like, you know, they got an imaginary problem, whether it's climate or whether it's the pandemic, right?
They've got an imaginary problem and there was no pandemic.
You had people who were getting sick, and some people, many people have told me, hey, I got something that was really different.
I've never had a cold like that before.
Well, fine.
Nevertheless, we didn't have people dying in droves, except in the hospitals.
Because what the hospitals were doing to people, with the ventilators, with remdesivir, by withholding care, and all the rest of the stuff.
And they were financially incentivized to murder people by the Trump administration.
And they handed out medals to all those people.
On his very last day in office.
Don't tell me that he didn't know what was going on.
But they will always tell you that you must have this one thing, which is the vaccine.
Or they'll tell you that you must have this one thing, which is a battery electric car.
It can't be an electric car by any other technology, right?
We're not going to take a look at anything else.
And if somebody's got some idea that they want to experiment with a fuel cell car or hydrogen or whatever, no, no.
It's got to be a lithium battery car.
That's the only solution that's allowed.
When they're channeling you to a predetermined solution, when they come up with a crisis that is phony, and they channel you to a predetermined solution, there's another agenda going on here.
And the agenda, I believe, is that the EV, the battery EV, that they want everybody to have, they want to channel you onto that.
And at the same time, we always said this, they're going to shut down the power plants.
Well, that began with the EPA earlier this year.
They started out with their mission stuff, and they said, well, we're going to close down this plant.
And one thing after the other.
And that's what they're doing.
As a matter of fact, they were able to, they took this before the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court is upholding these rules by the EPA. They had some challenges for it.
So much for overturning the Chevron decision.
They're deferring to the EPA. They're going to let the EPA shut down, continue to shut down power plants on this.
So they're telling everybody to have all electric everything.
Electric heat, electric air conditioning, cooking, transportation, everything.
It's got to be powered off the grid while they shut the grid down.
It's just that simple.
Johnny Gospelseed says, exactly, on the Second Amendment, you should assume everybody is armed at all times, and then everybody would respect each other better.
You teach children how to operate weapons.
I was taught it's safer.
Yeah.
Well, again, that goes back to Robert Heinlein's science fiction thing.
I think it's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is where the quote came from.
And he said, An armed society is a polite society.
Well, before that, it had been said by Colonel Arthur Freemantle of the Coldstream Guards during the American Revolution.
He came to, he put in in Texas, and it's an amazing book if you go back and read it.
It's just astounding.
We stop and think that in the middle of a civil war, This guy could walk into the camp and he could meet Sam Houston and Robert E. Lee and, you know, he met the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.
He could just walk in and meet everybody and talk to them.
You know, it wasn't all these armed guards and secret stuff and everything.
The same way that when you go back and you look at the HBO series about Sam Adams, not Sam Adams, John Adams, you have John Adams, the president and vice president, Thomas Jefferson, different parties, different philosophies.
They oppose each other.
But at one point they're walking down the street talking about policy and Washington.
Nobody's paying any attention to them.
That was the kind of world that America was born into.
That's the kind of world it still was at the time of the Civil War.
And so he comes in.
It's an excellent book.
It's called Three Months in the Southern States.
And he came to look at the warfare, which...
It was a real evolution.
What happened with the Civil War was a precursor, really, of the trench warfare of World War I in many ways.
Anyway, there's a military advisor looking at him, but he's just able to walk in and talk to people.
The reason I mention that was because he said, I've never seen a society before where everyone is carrying a firearm in the South.
And he says, I've never seen a more polite society.
So, you know, if you get a lot of people standing around arguing about something and they're armed, you'd be very polite about it.
You'd be very diplomatic about it.
But, you know, Heinlein made that a little bit more succinct.
Audi, modern retro radio.
He says, the fact that mainstream media completely ignores the issues with the EVs, particularly Tesla's, Tells you whose side they're on.
Yeah, they're on the side of that agenda.
They absolutely are.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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There is going to be a Christmas coming up.
Netflix is going to do a movie about the nativity.
They're going to call it Mary.
That's original.
And they're going to have the great Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins, playing the role of Herod.
But what I thought was interesting about this, besides, I don't know, I don't think I'd be very interested in seeing Netflix's version of The Nativity, especially since it's got some production credits by Joel Osteen.
I'm surprised that when Joel Osteen got involved here, that he didn't decide to call it Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh.
Because he is, after all, a guy who is notorious for talking about prosperity and not Christ.
I would expect that that would be the focus of his thing.
But again, it's going to have Anthony Hopkins, who is going to be the villain in it.
He's pretty good at that.
And so, this was the comment...
From the producer, one of the other producers said, Well, I hope that they're inspired to find out more about the Bible and ask to learn more about it on their own.
Well, I would suggest that you could do a detailed Bible study and the amount of time it's going to take you to watch this film.
And just think about the fact, you know, we see all this stuff and we see the Chosen and all these other things.
I am not a fan of those things at all.
I mean, the Chosen, this last season I saw written up, I didn't see it.
I saw it written up.
They said, well, there's a backstory here.
They're going to do a thing showing the backstory of Judas.
It's like, oh, okay, so you've got this story here that's going to glorify Judas.
Is that right?
It's kind of like, you know, all the superhero films now.
They're not about heroes.
They're about villains, right?
So that's where they want to camp out, with the Chosen.
And they're going to make it all up.
That's the other thing.
Don't you want the real thing?
Don't accept any substitutes.
Go for the real stuff.
Truth is a lot more interesting than fiction, and that is especially true with this.
She said, I hope that this makes Mary and Joseph relatable to people.
Relatable to people.
Well, that is always a big red flag, isn't it?
When people in the Christian church start talking about being relatable.
Not that that's wrong.
It's just that that's what their focus is on.
That means that they're going to kind of throw the truth out and just try to reflect where the culture is alone.
And let's talk about where the culture is.
When I saw this headline, I thought, what did they write?
The John Money Cult.
The John Money Cult.
I thought, what is this?
And then I saw, oh, there's some guy by the name of John Money.
And the subtitle here is, So You Think You're a Woman?
Well, it turns out that this guy, which I had never heard of him before, maybe you have.
I mean, I've always heard of McKenzie, who did all of the perverted studies and everything.
That was at a university, by the way, in Indiana.
But John Money was somebody who's had a big influence on us, and he has...
He has really destroyed the culture in a lot of ways.
He sounds like a porn star, but he's a lot more dangerous and influential than any porn star that ever lived.
So, when people say, well, I don't know if I'm a woman or not, how do we determine it's a woman?
It was John Money, who was a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in the field of human sexual behavior.
You see, we have John Hopkins at the center of that, just like they were the center of Dark Winter.
Like Alfred Kinsey, his research was plagued with falsification, gross ethical violations, and more than the usual nonsense for secular intellectual, as well as I don't know if he was involved in pedophilia like Alfred Kinsey was.
But he is perhaps best known for having destroyed the Reimer family with no consequences from his peers, and he went before the Lord for judgment in 2006, says American Reformer.
But what did he give us that was so devastating?
He made it so the kindergartners can no longer answer the question, who is a boy or who is a girl?
Because he invented the terms sexual orientation.
I don't know what happened with that.
He invented the terms sexual orientation, sexual preference, gender roles.
This was all created by a guy who was John Money.
These are now terms around which entire university departments are built.
At my university, Arizona State, and at my school, we have gender studies programs and all the rest of the stuff.
And it came from a guy by the name of John Money.
Gregory Dyer, thank you for the tip.
He says, David, are you trying to buy Infowars and then hire Alex Jones as your main journalist?
No.
I don't want that moniker around my neck at all.
No, thank you.
Not after what I've seen there.
I don't know what's going to happen with that.
I imagine Alex is going to buy it himself.
He's got more than enough money stashed offshore and in crypto accounts to be able to do that.
I don't think they've found all of his resources by any means at all.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
I'm not really too concerned about Alex.
I know he's going to be on the air.
I don't know if the other people there are going to have a job.
I am concerned for them.
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