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The David Knight Show -12/12/2024

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 12th of December, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well, we're going to take a look at an interesting update to the drone story.
	We've got a congressman from New Jersey weighing in with an interesting tale.
	We're also going to take a look, of course, at what is going on with Luigi as that has captured the imagination and all the headlines of this country.
	While we have wars escalating, while they are working to enslave us, Through the climate and the COVID MacGuffins, as a matter of fact, you've actually got scientists on a farm, not just doing PCR tests on milk, but they're also measuring the methane from cow farts.
	I guess we have the new Flatulent Earth Society, and we're going to debunk some of their conspiracy theories.
	theories.
	I'll be right back.
	Well, we have a New Jersey congressman goes on Fox News and he knows where these drones in New Jersey are coming In focus now, Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, member of the House Judiciary Committee on the Hill right now.
	How do you address this at this point?
	Well, here's the real deal, Harris.
	You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people.
	And from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources, I'm going to tell you the real deal.
	Iran launched a mothership, probably about a month ago, that contains these drones.
	That mothership is off...
	I'm going to tell you the deal.
	It's off the East Coast of the United States of America.
	They've launched drones.
	It's everything that we can see or hear.
	And again, these are from high sources.
	I don't say this lightly.
	It's the mother of all drones.
	It could have been our own government.
	We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know.
	It could have been somebody.
	Really glorified hobbyists or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable.
	They don't have the technology.
	But let's pretend that's possible.
	The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country, doing this.
	Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward.
	The sources I have are good.
	They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality.
	These drones should be shot down.
	We are not getting the full deal, and the military is on alert with this.
	Look, you've given us some pretty dire information just here, and I want to make sure that our viewers are digesting this.
	Iran has the capability to launch eastern seaboard and launch drones the size of an SUV into the skies of several states, particularly New Jersey, where we know the incoming president has a large home, also in the same county or nearby where some of these drones in New Jersey have been seen.
	Well, there you go.
	I mean, that was a congressman that told us that, so it's credible, right?
	I had this conversation.
	It caused Jake Tapper to block me.
	There was a congressman that said it was one of these shootings.
	I don't even remember which one it was, but it's always a joke.
	After every one of these things, Sam Hyde or people will, I don't know if Sam Hyde's doing it now or if it's other people, but they will put him up as the shooter, Sam Hyde.
	They might alter his name a little bit.
	They also put him up as the ghost of Kiev.
	And Kinzinger fell for that.
	That congressman fell for that.
	Godspeed.
	Samuel, they made his name sound kind of Ukrainian, as the ghost of Kiev.
	But anyway, there was a shooting and they had a congressman go on and say it was Sam Hyde.
	And it was Jake Tapper that was involved in it.
	And I said, don't you guys ever do any investigation?
	He comes back and he said, well, it was a congressman who told me that.
	It's like, oh, okay.
	So if it's somebody from government, you never investigate it, right?
	Here we have the same situation.
	This is a congressman.
	By the way, folks, there is no IQ test for becoming a congressman.
	Did you know that?
	Here's an example right here.
	He wants us to believe.
	That this is coming from, that Iran is the mother of all drones.
	To paraphrase Saddam Hussein, right?
	And he says, we only got three possibilities.
	He ruled out interstellar travel.
	He also ruled out interdimensional travel.
	But it's got to be either some mad hobbyist who's got lots and lots and lots of drones.
	He's doing this every night.
	I don't know.
	I mean, you know, somebody like Elon Musk.
	Except he's kind of busy playing video games.
	But it's got to be either some crazy hobbyist.
	Or a foreign government, or our own government, and it can't be our government because they'd tell us if it was.
	I mean, that's the scariest thing of all of this.
	With a straight face, he says, we know it's not our own government because they would have let us know.
	That's right.
	They always tell us everything, don't they?
	They tell us nothing about anything.
	They lie to us.
	If they're telling us something, it's a lie.
	And if it's something that's really important, they won't say anything.
	Or they'll come up with another lie.
	Pretty amazing.
	That guy's name is Jeff Van Drew.
	I've never seen him before.
	uh They've launched a mothership that contains these drones, and they're going back and forth to the mothership, but, you know, NORAD doesn't know anything about it.
	Nobody can do anything about it.
	That's the amazing thing.
	These drones should be shot down.
	Now, I agree with them there, right?
	You know, they're over all these different places, and they're harassing people.
	Why doesn't even law enforcement shoot it down, or the military, or whatever, or even use, as I've said many times, use the night vision to see what it is.
	The fact that they're not doing this tells you that it's our government.
	And so...
	He's not the only member of Congress from New Jersey, suggesting that drones may be coming in from the coast.
	You from Jersey?
	I'm from Jersey too, right?
	Chris Smith, the longest tenured member of Congress from New Jersey, said that he was on the beach Monday at Island Beach State Park with Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardi.
	According to Smith, one of Mastronardi's officers says, 50 drones come in off the ocean.
	Okay, so they got a mother ship out there.
	It's not going to be Iranian.
	It'll be American.
	We had a number of these, and it may not be a mother ship.
	I mean, it could literally be a ship where they're launching these things.
	That's what I would expect.
	We had a number of other people there, including a commanding officer from the Coast Guard, who said one of their 47 lifeboats was followed by between 12 and 30 of these drones right behind them.
	I'm presuming that what they're doing is they're practicing drone swarms, and they are launching them from a ship, doing it at night, under cover of darkness.
	A press conference Wednesday afternoon, the Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary said there's not any truth to his statement.
	There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there is no other so-called mother ship launching drones toward the United States.
	Well, there we go.
	The Pentagon, especially the Pentagon under Biden, would never lie to us about anything.
	So we know now that's been shut down.
	While the Pentagon is continuing to monitor the situation, no installations have been threatened, they said.
	And of course, American airspace, who cares anymore, right?
	These are not U.S. military drones.
	This is being investigated by local law enforcement.
	Said the pentagram spokesperson.
	So, again, it's a military base there.
	Does research.
	It's over critical infrastructure.
	It's over Americans.
	But, of course, you know, we don't care about any of that.
	America is not their concern.
	Their concern is elsewhere.
	Not our border.
	Not our people.
	They're not concerned about us.
	Still letting people freeze to death, literally freeze to death in western North Carolina, while they come up with more and more money to pour into wars and foreign aid and corrupt governments abroad.
	Following a meeting on Wednesday with New Jersey State Police and New Jersey Office of Homeland Security, they say the state police will soon have new technology against drones.
	It's really simple.
	I mean, anti-drone technology, just take another drone, drop a net over these things, foul up their rotors.
	Anyway, the drones are revealed to be Iranian after closer inspection, says Babylon Bee.
	Pull that up.
	They've got actually, they were the first ones to get an actual picture of the drones that are there.
	They said, as the mysterious drones are seen buzzing through New Jersey skies, they're revealed to be Iranian after closer inspection.
	Can you find that?
	They said they showed them to be outfitted with turbans, thick beards, machetes, bombs, and death-to-Israel signs, proving that they're coming from Iran, and definitely not from the Pentagon.
	The Pentagon has denied all of this narrative.
	And you've also got the interesting thing that NORTHCOM, that oversees the defense of the U.S. airspace, these are people who have nothing to do.
	You know, the U.S. Empire is not really concerned about protecting America.
	So, you know, if you're, I guess, if you're somebody who's scraping the bottom of the barrel at your class, they send you to NORTHCOM because they're not going to do anything to protect America.
	So they oversee the defense of U.S. airspace.
	And they put in their statements that, well, we're aware of this and we're monitoring the situation.
	And at the time, we have not been requested to assist.
	So they're going to be requested to assist by the Pentagon, which is what they're saying.
	We'll wait until the DOD tells us to do something.
	One person says, does anybody see a problem with this?
	Is that really how this whole thing is supposed to work?
	No wonder they're doing nothing.
	And meanwhile, you have people, this is somebody who had a, like a porch light with a motion detector.
	And this is what they captured.
	See, with night vision, you can start to get an idea of what these things are.
	As a matter of fact, when you look at it with night vision, I think that might answer some of our questions as to why they've got lights on them in the first place.
	I think the lights are there to keep you from being able to see the detail better.
	Right?
	It's going to blow it out, perhaps.
	You've got headlights on there.
	Well, then that means that when somebody tries to get something, all they're going to get is just a blur of light, like you saw there on that motion detector.
	And then someone put together a clip of a lot of different residents talking about it.
	I went outside to prove my point, and this is over my house right now.
	What is that?
	This is a video of the Morris County drones with characteristic triangle lights on the back or underneath.
	My wife and I were driving.
	We saw one right up above us.
	That was the size of our car.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	They're very fast.
	They dart around.
	But no one can figure out, like, why are they here?
	The rumors have gone from Russian spies to people stalking Trump to aliens.
	So nobody really knows what's going on.
	But it's definitely concerning.
	It's suspicious to me, obviously.
	It's creepy.
	Yeah, I mean, how would you feel about that if you lived there?
	I'd be pretty angry.
	Because I know it's the government.
	These things, it's not a hobbyist.
	They're pretty fast, they're pretty big.
	It's definitely done by a government.
	And the fact that our government is doing absolutely nothing, monitoring the situation, give me a break.
	This is all taking place in what is supposed to be one of the world's most controlled airspaces.
	Second, only to Baltimore-Washington airspace.
	So only in Washington do they have more control over it.
	This is New Jersey, just outside of New York.
	These things are moving very quickly.
	Nobody can do anything about it.
	Yeah, you want to believe that?
	I can sell you the bridge in Brooklyn as well.
	U.S. Military Research Center denies that the New Jersey drones are theirs.
	Because that's what that military base is.
	It's a research center.
	Isn't that surprising that there would be some mysterious new weapon like that close to a research center?
	Picatinny Arsenal, FAA, first received reports of these drone activities back November 18th.
	And so, it's been going on ever since.
	Well, we're going to read a couple of these and we're going to take a quick break.
	Zoxovaksas.
	Everyone focus on the drones and the CEO killing anything but their lies and their wars and their genocide and their democide.
	And just shut up and get your jab, right?
	That's right.
	That's right.
	North American House Hippo.
	Good morning, friends.
	I was surprised to see Carrie Lake named head of VOA. But that's a good thing for her, right?
	It's all about propaganda and lies.
	That's what she's excellent at.
	Filling the shoes of such giants as John Hausman and John Chancellor.
	I guess Trump is saving the press secretary job for Tucker.
	That's right.
	That's interesting.
	I didn't know that John Hausman was head of VOA, or John Chancellor for that matter.
	I know that Tucker Carlson could have done it.
	I mean, his dad could have given him some pointers.
	His dad worked for Voice of America, CIA propaganda all of his life.
	But I didn't know John Hausman.
	That was a guy that we all remember, the paper chase.
	Very professor-like type of guy.
	Anyway, Jason Barker.
	Launched from a Chinese spy balloon.
	There you go.
	Because we can never do anything about the Chinese spy balloons.
	Well, we're not going to spend any more time on this.
	I just wanted to do a quick update because I thought it was so entertaining what these congressmen are saying.
	And they do have a lot of witnesses saying it came from the sea.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	all.
	Michelle Obama, thank you very much.
	That's kind of rocking Christmas music.
	Well, thank you.
	I'm glad you like it.
	Nancy Chambers says, haven't seen any drones here in spite of a drone warning the other day.
	They do that as part of the weather now.
	Looks like it's partially cloudy and a wave of drones will be heading in.
	We've got a front of drones coming in today.
	Nancy says, I guess Iran is like the New Jersey government and ignores South Jersey.
	Yeah, that's right.
	They decided they would test these drones close to New York City.
	That's the amazing thing about it.
	Well, let's take a look at climate.
	We haven't talked about what's going on with the climate stuff for a while.
	And there's some interesting developments.
	First of all, Michael Mann is back in the news again.
	Actually, he's always at the forefront of all this alarmism.
	Michael Mann, the alleged scientist...
	He's a scam artist, folks.
	This guy is the biggest con artist you've ever seen.
	Anybody who refuses to show their data.
	I mean, he had published it.
	Again, I was told the story a million times.
	The group that I was working with sued him because of the hockey stick nonsense and because he was passing secret notes back and forth with the people at the University of East Anglia in the UK as part of the ClimateGate thing.
	Do you remember that?
	Didn't get much coverage here in the United States.
	It got quite a bit of coverage in the UK. There were whistleblower reports that these people were fudging the science.
	And then they asked for the data.
	They refused to give the data.
	Then the data suddenly appeared on a Russian server.
	There's about a thousand emails.
	And then they had an inquiry commission to cover it up and to explain away the fact these people are writing emails to each other saying our models don't work, we've got to find a way to hide the decline, and then how they decided that they were going to hide it by playing games with tree rings and stuff like that.
	It was a tree ring circus.
	But...
	Just thought of that.
	Anyway, these scam artists, mostly British, mostly in the UK, but they also had a lot of correspondence with Michael Mann.
	And Michael Mann, of course, was the guy who invented, out of thin air and no science, the hockey stick, saying that as CO2 went up...
	Temperature would go up exponentially.
	That's why they call it a hockey stick, because it goes up exponentially.
	And that was a thing that Al Gore used a great deal of fanfare to exaggerate it.
	He blew the chart up to be like, you know, two stories high.
	And he gets on a lift to go up to talk about it.
	It's just theater.
	Just theater.
	And pure imagination.
	And so the group I was with, we knew that they were fudging the data, so we'd like to see your data.
	It was done at the University of Virginia.
	It was done on the public dime.
	He was working for the government.
	He had produced his research, published it, and it had been used to craft foreign policy.
	So he said, we have a right to see your data.
	So we can do a review of it, you know, peer review, that kind of thing?
	No, no.
	And so there's a lawsuit.
	The University of Virginia was about to cave in and had a great...
	all right all right we give up we're going to give you the data then he jumps in he's now working at the university at the time he was working at the university of pennsylvania he's still there now and um or penn state whatever it is we'll get to it here in a minute uh but anyway he had moved on and um he came in said that would be a violation of him personally to show his emails and I was like, these were things that you did at work that were work-related that affect public policy, and you've published it, so there's nothing.
	But the judge sided with him.
	Just another data point in my contempt for the American so-called judicial system.
	How corrupt it is.
	Anyway, he's still been one of the key people.
	And the headline of this article from Daily Skeptic, Michael Mann's latest attempts, To support the hockey stick graph are not even convincing fellow alarmists.
	It's becoming something of a joke.
	Although, I guess if I was an attractive defendant, he'd be suing me by now.
	He went after Mark Stein, got a big judgment against Mark Stein.
	Another example of how the...
	Government puts its thumb on the scales of justice when it's their agenda.
	I mean, they let him keep his data.
	He doesn't have to show it.
	You've got to hide your data.
	You don't have science, pal.
	It's just that simple.
	And then if anybody criticizes him, like Mark Stein, they come after him.
	So go ahead and sue me for a billion dollars.
	The Atlantic hurricane season has come to an end.
	The global warming believers have been looking for records to ascribe to global warming, and according to NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or agency, I don't know what it is, the end of the season flourish of cyclone activity was, as predicted, a record for the period.
	Nothing of the sort.
	These people are absolutely lying to you.
	I grew up in Florida.
	Pretty much all the hurricane activity this year involved Florida one way or the other.
	And it was nothing that was unusual.
	As a matter of fact, it was unusual in the few numbers of hurricanes.
	And there weren't any other hurricanes really of any effect anywhere else.
	Now, the one that came up in North Carolina was devastating.
	However...
	If you remember when all that stuff happened and these climate change people, armists, were trying to claim that, I said, here's the pictures.
	I think it was 1914, Asheville, and how it was flooded with a hurricane at that time.
	Another one of the hurricanes that was cutting across Florida, the path, you know, it was supposed to go through Tampa.
	They put up exactly the same path they anticipated that one had done in the late 1800s.
	And yet, that didn't exactly happen, but it had already been done.
	All of this stuff is not unprecedented.
	There's nothing about a record, and there was not a record number of these things.
	It's all a lie.
	Everything about this is just a bold-faced lie.
	The increase in the North Atlantic sea temperature is usually considered to be a feature of something called the AMO, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
	So what they're saying is, Is that the sea temperatures are oscillating, going up and down, and does it over a period of many decades.
	It is sometimes referred to as variability.
	So sometimes it's not the AMO, but the AMV, Atlantic Multidecades, in other words, of variability.
	However, one notable climate scientist, Michael Mann, has tried to dismiss the AMO by flattening the curve.
	Wait a minute!
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	See, Michael Mann is to the climate MacGuffin what Fauci is to the COVID MacGuffin.
	And now we're talking about flattening the curve.
	I mean, these are the two seminal hucksters and con men lying to your face about all this stuff, hiding the data, misrepresenting it all, and claiming the mantle of science and shut up and do what I say.
	The two of them are exactly alike.
	Michael Mann is the big guy in the climate alarmism community.
	And now he's trying to flatten the historic curve so that the warmer ocean and the increased hurricane activity become attributable to global warming instead.
	During the 1970s, there was fears of the return of an ice age.
	As the Atlantic Ocean waters were cooling.
	And again, you know, if you look at the first decade or so of the alarmism, the alarmism was we're going into an ice age.
	And all of a sudden, it just flips.
	The narrative flips.
	Why?
	Well, because they were keying off of this AMO, the oscillation that happens there in the temperatures.
	Natural variability.
	But, you know, that was the thing that they didn't understand.
	They'd not been measuring it before.
	It's kind of like, you know, let's look at the ozone.
	Oh, wait, there's a hole there.
	That must be made by your car.
	Or maybe your air conditioning, right?
	There's a hole in the ozone, so let's ban something.
	Because it's got to be from human beings.
	Well, you never looked before.
	Maybe the hole was always there.
	Oh, it's changing.
	Yeah, things in nature always do change, don't they?
	And so the Atlantic temperature does change as well.
	So then, from the mid-1990s onward, a recovery in the Atlantic sea surface temperature was observed.
	The rise of the global warming narrative, the transition from cold to warm phase of the AMO, also occurred at a time when detailed satellite measurements of several climate parameters became available.
	And the AMO index has continued to be positive since.
	Scientific thoughts suggest...
	Oh, that's an interesting phrase there.
	Scientific thought suggests.
	Well, I guess it's settled, right?
	That changes in the AMO are associated with variability in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, AMOC. This is not to be confused with AOC, occasional cortex.
	We'll be talking about her later.
	The whole process takes about a thousand years, they said, for this thing to go through a cycle.
	And they've mapped it out here.
	Some of the recent global warming, then, is a feature of the naturally occurring AMO. The AMO is also believed to be a driver of changes to regional weather, climatic conditions in the northern hemisphere, and particularly in relation to the Atlantic hurricane activity or to droughts in Europe and North America.
	Or to the loss of sea ice in the Arctic and so forth.
	The Arctic sea ice cover has been rapidly declining in the last two decades, concurrent with a shift in the AMO to a warm phase around 1996-1997.
	But does it actually exist, they say?
	AMO was first described by scientists in the 1980s and 90s, see?
	Again, this is a model trying to understand what is going on.
	And we have so many of these models.
	Yesterday when we were talking about interstellar travel, the physicist who was talking about it, one of the things, I didn't get into it, but he talked about the nonsense of dark matter.
	Dark matter exists because they're trying to explain the fact that there's areas where they don't see anything.
	And if the Big Bang were true, then you would have a uniform distribution.
	If everything began from a single point, singularity, and then exploded for some reason, then you would have a uniform distribution throughout the universe.
	Instead, you've got these areas where there's nothing.
	And so, in order to confirm their assumption about a Big Bang, they create this thing called dark matter.
	And he says, as a physicist, it makes no sense.
	It's just there to cover up and to explain a theory that they don't want to give up.
	They've already got their conclusion there.
	And so that's what a lot of the science is really about.
	The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation was coined by Michael Mann in 2000. He, of course, is well known for having played a part in the development of the hockey stick global temperature graph showing a steady historic temperature followed by a recent precipitous rise.
	By the way, one of the big problems for Michael Mann is that CO2 went up even though it's still only 0.04% of the atmosphere.
	It went up significantly in terms of percentage and yet the temperature did not rise as he had predicted.
	If the CO2 went up as much as it did, we should have already passed the point of no return that the alarmists are always screaming about.
	The evidence of historical warm periods was removed.
	This is another thing that we see, right?
	Michael Mann and these people always cherry-picking their starting point, right?
	Again, you could have a geopolitical analogy to that.
	In terms of America's understanding of Iran and our involvement there, you know, they cherry-picked the starting point.
	For them, it doesn't go back to our CIA coup in the 1950s.
	It goes back to the blowback that exploded when the Shah was kicked out and they kidnapped people at the embassy.
	So you pick your starting point to explain your narrative.
	The evidence of historical warm periods was removed, which had the effect of making recent global warming look more worrying.
	Mann is now a professor of atmospheric science and a director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State University.
	Yes, Penn State.
	He subsequently tried to deny that AMO even exists as a natural oscillation, even though he was the one that identified it to begin with, because it's not convenient.
	See?
	This is not an inconvenient truth.
	This is a convenient manipulation of data that you hide.
	It's a convenient lie.
	Instead, man thinks the oscillation is caused by other factors, especially human.
	In 2014, he and some other colleagues produced a paper to make their case.
	His claims were criticized by Nick Lewis.
	He said, man's case is built on results that do not support his contentions.
	Further, Lewis argued that man's code doesn't produce the stated results.
	Instead, it produces different results from those shown in his accepted paper.
	Kind of like when we go back to the beginning of the alarmism about COVID. Trump came back and said, I had two very smart people tell me, and later we found out, you know, who kind of guessed it, and it was confirmed that it was Fauci and Birx.
	Two very smart people came to me with this report.
	Where did the report come from?
	Well, it came from the Imperial College of London, so you should be very impressed.
	And yet, the University of Edinburgh said, that is a garbage simulation.
	First of all, it doesn't even have a curve.
	Every person that's going to be exposed to it in their model is going to infect two or two and a half other people, forever.
	You're never going to have, you know, the bell-shaped curve.
	So first of all, the model was flawed.
	Secondly, the implementation of about 15,000 codes of FORTRAN. University of Edinburgh, a computer scientist, said, we can put the same input into this computer program, and we get a different result every time.
	This is garbage.
	So is Michael Mann's stuff.
	In 2021, Mann and his colleagues returned to the question of AMO, this time looking for the cause of multi-decadal changes during the past millennium prior to industrialization.
	The suggestion was that they were driven by volcanoes.
	So, quote, there was no compelling evidence for internal multi-decadal oscillations in the climate system.
	Mann said, my co-authors and I have shown that AMO is very likely an artifact of climate change driven by human forcing in the modern era and natural forcing in pre-industrial times.
	With a degree of sarcasm, Judith Curry replied and linked the article on her blog.
	She said, wow, in one fell swoop, the pesky problem of the grand hiatus in the mid-20th century.
	Why didn't things change there?
	Debates over the attribution of 20th century warming and the role of multi-decadal internal variability and the difficulty of attributing recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity to anthropocentric global warming, man-made, All go away.
	Brilliant.
	Almost as brilliant as his hockey stick.
	She doesn't accept his anthropogenic and natural aerosol explanation.
	As a matter of fact, look, what about the sun?
	What about variations in the sun?
	I mean, that's ultimately what's causing the changes in the temperature anyway.
	I mean, there could be other factors, but the primary driver of any of these things is going to be the sun.
	Is the sun operating as a steady state?
	No.
	It goes through solar minimums and maximums and the rest of the stuff.
	These climate frauds, these court jesters of the people who seek to destroy our lives, They always ignore the contribution of the sun, don't they?
	curry also sees the bigger picture and issues that are at stake when differences and phases of the amo are connected to such things as atlantic hurricane activity rates of greenland ice loss and droughts in europe and north america then removal of the oscillation means that the attribution falls to man-made climate change instead and yet you know the reality is is that that's not really changing that much so why are you getting changes
	so these are all attempts to flatten the amo curve Again, climate MacGuffin, the COVID MacGuffin.
	It's all about data manipulation.
	It's all about hiding data.
	So what are the consequences for us?
	I mean, that's the foundational non-scientific lie that is there.
	And so what are the consequences for us?
	Well, of course, you know, they're banning everything everywhere, especially in the Biden administration.
	Now you've had Tennessee Representative Andy Ogle got Congress to pass a bill prohibiting new energy standards on clothes washing machines.
	And it's now passed the House.
	See, it has some very, you know, this quote-unquote scientific debate, which we're not allowed to see any data on.
	The so-called scientism, you know, is what it really is.
	It has real practical, real-world experiences for us, because what it means is it's got big implications for not just your lifestyle, but your life expectancy and your liberty.
	You know, they're going to come after your mobility.
	They're going to come after your food.
	They're going to come after your liberty.
	Everything about this.
	They want to starve you.
	They want to enslave you.
	They want a new dark ages.
	And they want a kind of neo-feudalism.
	That's really what this is all about.
	It has nothing to do with global warming made by human beings.
	Nothing at all.
	So, this is a bill introduced by Andy Ogle of Tennessee and to the U.S. Congress.
	I love the name of the bill.
	Liberty and Laundry Act.
	Liberty and Laundry Act.
	Because they want to take away our liberty everywhere, even in the laundry room.
	It would prohibit the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary from prescribing or enforcing energy conservation standards for clothes washers that are not cost-effective or technologically feasible.
	And the interesting thing is, is that 200 Democrats voted against this.
	Only 8 voted for it.
	So 200 to 8 Democrats don't want you to have even a washing machine that works, that you can afford.
	And of course, they don't want you to be able to cook your food in the way that you choose, or to heat your house in the way that you choose, or to drive the car that you choose.
	These people are petty tyrants, but of course they all base it on this fear.
	My greatest fear is how effective they have been in terms of brainwashing children through their institutions because every successive generation, I've seen this ramping up, every successive generation is buying into this more and more.
	The first Earth Day happened in 1970. I was in high school.
	And I remember there was only a handful of hippie nerds, I guess you could call them, that were kind of the Venn diagram of we have hippies and you have nerds.
	They overlapped.
	These are the small number of people that were all outraged about the world is going to end and all the rest of the stuff, and all the rest of us were laughing at them.
	There they go again.
	But now that's become the majority opinion because of the relentless propaganda, the hectoring, the gaslighting that happens through the schools.
	And so the bill was filed in response to the Department of Energy's announcement earlier this year of its proposed updated standards for new washing machines and clothes dryers.
	The Department of Energy cited its authority to impose such standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the EPCA, which was created by Congress in 1975. Now, wait a minute.
	That's kind of interesting.
	You know, the timing of all of that.
	That was created in 1975. You know, what was really happening with that?
	Because, you know, the Department of Energy, I should say, Department of Energy, wasn't created until 1977. So they're claiming authority for this because it goes back to 1975. And so, you know, first of all, before I get into the timing here, I've got to say, this is great, it's clever, Liberty and Laundry Act, but it's too narrowly defined.
	Do I have Liberty and Cooking?
	Okay.
	He should have the Cooking with Gas Act.
	You know, now we're cooking with gas.
	Maybe he should have Liberty is Hot.
	Something like that, you know, some catchy thing.
	But he needs to broaden this out.
	And if you go back and you look at the foundation of this thing, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, it's kind of interesting because the way that the government has taken over both automobiles and now they want to take over our appliances that we have at home and also our heating and air conditioning.
	They want to take all that over and they want to destroy it.
	And where does that all come?
	Both of those things come from this Energy Conservation and Preservation Act.
	And here's how it came about.
	In 1973, we had the OPEC oil embargo.
	That got everybody concerned about, we're not going to have any energy.
	We've got to save it, you know, and everything.
	So you have Nixon imposes the 55 mile an hour speed limit and all the rest of this stuff.
	And in 1975...
	Two years after the OPEC oil embargo, they passed this EPCA thing.
	And what it did was that Congress gave additional power to the President to be able to restrict the export of fuel.
	They like to call it fossil fuel.
	To restrict the export of fuel, also the equipment to explore, to refine, to produce fuel, all that stuff.
	So this is a counter-OPEC move.
	And they did cut exports of oil and things like that with this.
	And then it had another couple of parts that were very specific.
	The first part is where we get our corporate average fuel economy, the dreaded cafe.
	This is the one where they average together the alleged fuel economy of all these different cars and say, when we average them all together, your cars have to achieve a certain efficiency or we're going to penalize you.
	With fees, right?
	So this is the thing that's always driving this type of thing.
	Part B was energy conservation programs that would apply to appliances.
	And now they have stretched that out to apply to 60 different product categories.
	And so even though the EPA, I'm sorry, the EPA was created by Nixon, the Department of Energy was created two years after this thing.
	They kind of took this authority of the president and put it into these deep state alphabet agencies that were created after the fact.
	And so the Department of Energy says, hey, we got this law that was there.
	Well, okay, well, we had that law.
	Now what they did was they just took it away in terms of washing machines and dryers.
	Unfortunately, that's all they did.
	What Congress really needs to do, instead of playing these narrow little games of washing machines and dryers, they need to get rid of the EPA and the Department of Energy.
	These things were creations in the 1970s.
	The Department of Energy was created by Jimmy Carter.
	The EPA was created by Richard Nixon.
	Let's get rid of those.
	We don't need them.
	They are antithetical to everything that America is about, everything the Constitution is about.
	We do not need them.
	They need to go.
	But if you're not going to get rid of the Department of Energy, if you're not going to get rid of the EPA, then at least get rid of the EPCA, this piece of regulation that gave power to the President.
	Congress created that act.
	Congress can get rid of that act.
	And so the argument that they've got here, it's like, okay, fine, you've got it, but we're going to take away your power when it comes to washing machines and dryers.
	Take it away for everything!
	If they were to get rid of the EPCA Act, maybe they'd get rid of the cafe garbage.
	That'd be a big move towards liberty and mobility.
	The Biden administration has consistently abused their authority, said Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader.
	Of course, we've seen that.
	To push a radical energy agenda on American families and consumers attempting to implement conservation standards that aren't economically justifiable or significantly more energy efficient.
	Well, they don't have any authority to do any of this stuff anyway, right?
	If you create an organization that says, we're going to do this, but you don't have the constitutional authority to do that, then that act should be ruled unconstitutional.
	That's the big elephant in the room that the Republicans don't want to look at.
	The fact is, is that there is no authority in the Constitution for the EPA or the Department of Energy to exist.
	There is no authority in the Constitution for Congress to give to the President powers that the federal government doesn't have.
	None of this stuff holds up to the scrutiny of the Constitution.
	And, of course, we've seen the horrific effects of it.
	Scalise said the Department of Energy's new energy standards would take away consumers' choice, would burden American families struggling to get by, raising costs, forcing Americans to use appliances that do not perform as well.
	Steve, that's the whole point.
	This is not an unintended consequence of this.
	That's the whole point.
	That's the agenda.
	Come on, get with it.
	He's as clueless as that New Jersey congressman who says it's the Iranian mothership.
	Yeah, I think it's the Iranians behind all this.
	It's so horrible.
	I mean, you know, could our own American government come up with something as nefarious?
	It's got to be Iranians that are doing this to us.
	They've got to be the ones who are in charge of the EPA and the Department of Energy.
	Because whoever is...
	Hates us.
	Hates us with a passion.
	Scalise said the new energy standards are part of the Biden administration's intended to shut down the use of natural gas to force electric appliances on the American people regardless of cost, performance, or availability.
	Let's be clear, he said.
	Biden and Washington bureaucrats war on everyday household appliances only hurts American families and small businesses.
	You should be able to decide what washing machine is best for you and your family, not to be forced to let the government decide for you.
	So, the reality is that it's much worse than an inconvenience.
	It's much worse than more money.
	Because when you take a look at all of these regulations, folks, it's death by a thousand cuts.
	And that's what it was intended to do.
	Now, they don't want you to use, you know, 200 to 8. The Democrats don't want you to have a washing machine.
	But, hey, artificial intelligence, clear the decks.
	What are we going to do to have more electricity for artificial intelligence?
	AI mega data centers are sending global electricity demand soaring.
	And guess what?
	With all the talk about nuclear power, none of that has been implemented and none of that will be implemented for years.
	So, how are they getting their electricity?
	Well, they're doing the kinds of stuff and using the kinds of power plants that they want to deny to us.
	And even as they demand that we electrify everything so that they can then throttle us and everything in our life, it's not even about the cost of the appliances.
	You've got to have an electric car.
	You've got to have an electric washing machine, electric dryer, electric dishwasher, electric heater, electric air conditioning, and electric, electric, you know, all things electric.
	And then they're going to say, we haven't got enough electricity because we shut down all of our coal plants.
	And that's the whole point.
	Biden has set up a plan to shut down, I've got the statistics here, we'll get into that in a minute, but I think it was about nearly 90% of existing coal power plants in five years.
	Just like a communist campaign.
	He's got a five-year plan.
	Well, what is happening in China?
	China has already got 48% of the world's coal power plants.
	The U.S. is in third place.
	India is in second place.
	India's got like 12%.
	We've got just under 9% of the coal power plants.
	China's got 48, and China is adding two of them per week.
	Per week!
	Biden is pursuing a policy.
	Everything must be electric.
	And he throttles the electric stuff.
	And we've been talking about this for the longest time.
	Eric Peters and I have been talking about this.
	But so now, you know, well, it's okay.
	We got these huge power demands.
	And as soon as somebody notices that, they start talking about nuclear.
	Except the nuclear is not there.
	It's these elitists whose emissions don't count.
	They don't play even by the same rule.
	Look, I'm not worried about anybody's emissions, frankly.
	Go ahead, emit.
	Fart freely, or proudly, or whatever, as Benjamin Franklin would say.
	That should be our motive.
	Another t-shirt there.
	Benjamin Franklin, the cow, fart proudly.
	Yeah, the Flatulent Earth Society.
	They literally are going to farms and measuring the methane in the animal's farts.
	Unbelievable.
	They're so worried about derriere, aren't they?
	Because they're trying to cover their own minds and the lies that they're telling everybody else.
	So we've got the Flatulent Earth Society worried about derriere.
	So that's what you need to be afraid of.
	Don't worry about AI. You know, these facilities that are coming up in order to spy on you, right?
	Unlimited, you know, pass for the people with their private jets, and of course, unlimited concerns about all these data centers, because while they're going to deny meat to you, while they're going to deny heat to you in a cold environment, They are going to lavish all of the electricity and money on these AI centers so they can spy on you and lie to you, right?
	That's what they want to do.
	They want to spy and lie.
	That's what AI is.
	AI, spy, lie.
	Short of a dot-com type of bust, says Technocracy News, Spending on AI data centers will continue to skyrocket with attendant energy demand.
	Utility companies should be in panic mode to increase generating capacity, but they're not.
	Instead, what they're doing is they're shutting it down.
	As he points out, he goes, they're not going to go without power.
	You will.
	And this shortage that is being created, being manufactured, we are going to be the ones.
	Private jets?
	I'm not going to talk about private jets.
	No, you will take one trip of less than 1,000 miles every three years.
	And, of course, they've got to have the AI to track you and everything that you do in order to enforce that.
	And, of course, keep the lies going.
	It's all about control.
	So the sector has already surpassed 10% of electricity consumption in at least five U.S. states, the data centers.
	Meanwhile, in Ireland, it contributes more than 20% of all electricity consumption.
	And these are things that are going to be used, for the most part, to spy on you and to completely control you.
	Electricity demand from data centers, cryptocurrencies, and AI could reach as much as 1,000 terawatt hours in 2026, roughly equivalent to the entire energy consumption of Japan.
	Japan.
	Coming online.
	This is new energy.
	And so what is our response to all this?
	Well, we're shutting power stations down left and right and prohibiting everything except solar and wind.
	Solar and wind will be allowed for us.
	Because they're still going to make money from that.
	It is about power.
	It's about electrical power, but it's really about the power to enslave us.
	There are growing fears that if left unregulated, the electricity consumption of data centers could surpass the electricity demand of some U.S. cities or even states.
	And of course, it definitely will if they force us to only have solar and wind that's on the grid.
	Like, solar and wind can be effective if it's used by you to get off of their grid.
	But, you know, it is expensive to do that.
	But when you try to use it for the grid, it simply doesn't work.
	The grid needs to be solid state, a steady state.
	Many data center developers are concerned about finding enough land to house new sites and enough clean power to run them.
	The facilities could increasingly require more than a gigawatt of power each or more.
	Again, this is the power to enslave you, to spy on you, to lie to you.
	The U.S. tech companies are in, quote, the race of a lifetime for global dominance.
	And, of course, their partner in all this is the government.
	It's a public-private partnership in all of this, and they're going to give these AI companies anything that they want because it's a global dominance, but it's also dominating us domestically.
	Governments worldwide must establish clear regulations and limits on the energy use of tech companies for advanced technologies such as AI if they hope to meet their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
	Yeah, really?
	Let's talk about the Paris Accord and what that really is.
	Many of these alarmists who were really true believers.
	We're not so stupid that they couldn't see what this was really about.
	They said, William, we're talking about global warming, and you're going to allow the biggest consumers of energy, the biggest populations, China and India, to add as many and as dirty a power plant as they wish, while everybody else has to get it?
	That's nothing.
	That's no more than a transfer of manufacturing, and that's what it is.
	Stop the green hallucinationists.
	This is an article from What's Up With That?
	Who plan to close all 200 coal power plants.
	As I said before, China's building two new coal power plants every week, and they don't have any scrubbers, anything to clean them at all.
	This is about starving us.
	They go nuclear.
	They spy on us and lie to us with AI. And then you have all...
	Manufacturing goes to China.
	This is about the de-industrialization of the West, and it's about giving an industrial monopoly to China, which is 100% on board with the technocracy and global tyranny to create a new kind of feudalism.
	Coal is the world's most abundant and reliable energy source, and the United States has the most of it.
	As I've talked about in the past, I've shown you the time in Newsweek when everybody was concerned about it.
	They said, well, we're going to be out of oil and natural gas in the mid-1980s, but we've got enough coal to last us.
	And they chose the number 666. We've got enough coal to last us for 666 years.
	I said, look at that.
	That's a real subtle dig.
	You know, a little subliminal thing to demonize coal.
	666. But we have more coal than anywhere on Earth, and this is why I believe they have focused on it.
	Coal power plants can be made clean.
	It costs more.
	might make them less efficient or whatever but they can be as clean as just like our automobile engines can be made clean um you know there's no reason to to completely demonize it and shut it all down except this is about geopolitics it's about de-industrialization of the west and especially america and transferring everything to the china Because if they've got...
	An energy cost that is a tiny fraction of everybody else, there's no way that we're going to beat that.
	That's the most devastating aspect of the China price.
	More devastating than their intellectual property privacy or other piracy thefts that they do.
	It's more devastating than their currency manipulation.
	It's more devastating even than their slave labor because energy is the thing.
	Especially as it becomes more and more automated with robots.
	Energy becomes a more important consideration than slave labor.
	Which was a big part of the reason that, as a matter of fact, I say reason, and I think of Reason Magazine.
	And all the libertarians who said, hey, you don't want to do manufacturing in the United States.
	It's dirty.
	Let these other people do it over there.
	It's dangerous.
	It's dirty.
	You know, we'll just take in each other's laundry and do each other's laundry.
	Well, not if the Department of Energy has a say-so.
	You won't have any laundry being done unless you want to wash it by hand in a stream.
	There are about 200 coal-burning power plants still operating in America, concentrated in Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Wyoming, and Montana.
	As a matter of fact, when I was in Texas, when I first moved there, they were getting rid of a coal-power plant that was nearby at the time.
	And then look at what happened with their windmills and everything during the winter.
	Worldwide, there are about 2,400 coal-fired power stations.
	And right now, China has a total of 1,142.
	They have 48% of the coal power plants.
	And they're adding two per week.
	As I said before, the USA has 210, India has 282. So India has 12% and the USA has 8.7% of the coal plants.
	But we've got to get rid of all of them, according to Biden.
	Because he hates us.
	He hates America.
	Everything that he's doing and has done.
	And it's not him.
	Yeah, he's just a figurehead.
	But everything that the Biden collective, the Biden cartel is doing.
	It's designed to kill us.
	And so what he wants, his goal is within five years, by 2030, he wants to get rid of 170 of those 210 power plants.
	In other words, he's going to, I said it was a high 80s, it's low 80. 81% of U.S. coal plants Biden wants to have closed in the next five years.
	Right now, China is building, again, two per week And they're building six times as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the world combined.
	So India's allowed to build, but nobody else is building it.
	So I guess six times as much as India is doing.
	So, is climate disobedience ahead?
	I saw this headline and I thought, well, it's about time that we revolt against this stuff.
	But no, this is actually a self-described economics and climate educator.
	He says that the Trump administration says, all you people who think that Trump's going to do something about this, all you leftists and progressives, he said there's a silver lining in this.
	There's going to be blowback, and it's going to be our day coming up soon.
	And so they're the ones talking about climate disobedience, because ordinary Americans are just going to sit back and let them take everything away from us.
	And I complain about it, right?
	He said, a silver lining of this election result, U.S. progressive-resistant movements are about to get a big boost.
	I predict it'll be a huge four years for progressive organizing and labor movement, and I think it will be a massive four years for the climate movement.
	By the next election, he said, I believe the climate movement will be a major political force in U.S. politics.
	As the Trump administration's anti-climate policies galvanize millions more people to the climate cause.
	And I predict we'll see mass protests and mobilizations beyond anything we've seen before.
	Most people don't care about this.
	But the younger they are, the more they care.
	Because the real issue that is motivating them is not going to be a Trump administration, even if Trump were to do the right things.
	And of course, Trump did not do the right thing.
	He did not get rid of the seminal issue, the Paris Climate Accord, which is not a treaty that is in effect.
	But he pretended that it was in effect.
	And if he's going to change his position on that, that means that he won't get out of it these four years either.
	Because they foresaw this coming.
	They knew that there might be an American president who would say, we've got to get out of the Paris Climate Accord.
	It makes absolutely no sense.
	And so they said, well, you can get out of it, but you've got to give us four years' notice.
	So he's going to pretend, if he's going to pretend, as he did in the first administration, that we are legitimately in that, even though the Senate never voted on it.
	Mitch McConnell.
	Everybody's talking about Mitch McConnell.
	He fell down.
	He's got Band-Aids and things all over him again.
	You know, he's...
	He should write on it, fight, fight, fight.
	Anyway, he's been fighting for the globalists against us, that's for sure.
	So if you're a progressive or someone who cares about the climate, no, if you're somebody who fears the alarmist hype, And believe the lies.
	Please take some time to grieve.
	But when you're ready, I hope you channel your anger and frustration into joining these resistance movements.
	Because if we start now, we'll have so much more momentum by the time another election rolls around.
	Three places where you can start.
	Number one, the Sunrise Movement.
	A massive coalition of young people.
	Why?
	And this is the unspoken.
	They all know it as well.
	Right?
	It's the indoctrination of the schools that is the essence of what they're doing here.
	Young people fighting to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal.
	Number two, Working Families Party is organizing to create a check against the moneyed interests that run the Democrat and Republican parties.
	We will train young progressives, working class people, to run for office and to get elected.
	All those who have been brainwashed by the critical race theory and all the rest of this Marxist claptrap that they teach them.
	We're going to have an army of occasional cortexes.
	Climate defiance is the third one.
	A climate activist group that uses direct action to disrupt the lives of powerful politicians and leaders and force them to treat the climate crisis like the urgent problem that it is.
	Well, you know, there's an idea we could adapt.
	Maybe we could make, you know, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, and a lot of these other people who refuse to address any of these fundamental issues Maybe we could make them live like Biden wants the rest of us to live.
	Without electricity.
	Without being able to travel.
	Without having a car.
	Maybe we should take away the electricity, the travel, and the cars from all these congressmen who refuse to do anything.
	Let them see what it's going to be like.
	Regarding exaggeration, none other than climate alarmist Michael Mann.
	Here he is.
	He's actually coming back and saying, you know all this stuff that they're doing in Europe, you know, where they...
	Glue themselves to the road or they glue themselves to the floor of a car dealership or something.
	Or they throw paint on paintings to face them.
	That's not really helping us.
	He's parting ways with the Extinction Rebellion people and with Scientist Rebellion.
	He calls them performative attention whores.
	And that's Michael Mann saying that.
	Takes one to know one, doesn't it, Mr. Mann?
	Hot takes, hyperbole, polarizing commentary, best generate clicks, shares, and retweets.
	I often encounter, especially on social media, individuals who are convinced that the latest extreme weather event is confirmation that climate crisis is far worse than we thought, says Michael Mann.
	He should be sending a memo to Al Gore about how Al Gore used his hockey stick to scare a lot of kids.
	Increasingly today, we see this with the climate doomists.
	This is not true, or at best, it's only partly true.
	He's going to pull it back in there.
	And then Michael Mann goes on to say, the damage done by deeply misguided individuals who, in principle, would seem to be on the side of climate action, but are instead dividing the community and playing right into the agenda of the forces of inaction.
	Maybe Michael Mann is starting to become the robosphere of this Jacobin insanity, right?
	Well, the key thing is that the agenda of the forces of inaction.
	We need more than inertia on our side, right?
	We need more than people saying, well, I just don't want to comply.
	We need to fight this on our side.
	And we need to get some leaders who aren't going to go along with the emission line.
	Well, we got this emission thing here, but this is better in emissions than the other thing is in emissions.
	If you do that, if you admit that they are right when they're not, if you accept that, it's the same thing.
	I'll draw another parallel between these MacGuffins, the COVID MacGuffin and the Climate MacGuffin.
	With a climate MacGuffin, they want you to accept the premise that CO2 is a real issue, and it's not.
	Because if you accept that CO2 is a real issue, now the question becomes, how do we minimize it?
	With a COVID MacGuffin, they want you to accept the premise that it came from the lab, and that this stuff can mutate, Naturally, or it can mutate in a laboratory.
	We don't care, just as long as you believe it's real.
	You've got to believe that it's real.
	You've got to believe that there's global warming because of the temperature changes and all the rest of the stuff.
	And then we'll get you into the man-made stuff, and then we'll tell you which things we're going to prohibit.
	If you buy into these things, if you buy into the fact that there was a virus, that there was a pandemic and all the rest of the stuff, you're done.
	It's like buying into their fart narrative.
	And you become part of the Flatulent Earth Society.
	Marky Mark, New Jersey.
	Thank you for the tip.
	Says, Congress critter Chris Smith in New Jersey, the other one, has been in office since January of 1981. I didn't realize he was there that long.
	They said he was the longest one.
	44 years.
	Wow.
	Why don't these fossils not retire and enjoy their golden years?
	Yeah, what is it that fuels these fossils?
	That's what I want to know.
	He says, there's less methane than there is CO2 in the atmosphere.
	This amount is so small that it isn't even measured in percentages.
	It's measured in parts per million, yet cow farts are a big problem.
	Sure, yeah.
	That's the thing.
	You know, we cannot accept their premises.
	There was no pandemic, folks.
	It was a lie.
	The shot was a bioweapon.
	If they get you to accept that, they not only cover up their crime of the bioweapon creation, but they lay the foundation for more panic and more emergencies in the future.
	And if you accept their premises of CO2 and methane, we're done there as well.
	The emissions don't matter.
	That's why the, you know, the cafe stuff has to go.
	It's why, you know, this EPCA has to go.
	And why, ultimately, the EPA should go and the Department of Energy should go as well.
	Teresa Andrea says, I line my laundry...
	I line dry my laundry year-round already.
	Do I get a bonus?
	You get some frozen shirts is what you get, depending on where you live.
	That's right.
	No, they're not going to give you any consideration.
	They're not going to give you any tax credits for having a laundry line.
	Marky Mark again says, many coal power plants can be converted to oil or to natural gas.
	An old coal plant in my area was repurposed for natural gas and it's still online.
	The U.S. has plenty of natural gas to fulfill our needs as well.
	See, that's the thing.
	We've got plenty of energy here.
	But they are going to scare everybody, and we're going to have a bunch of useful idiots and youthful idiots who have been brainwashed by the so-called public schools.
	It's the public schools on the climate MacGuffin, and it's the public health people on the COVID MacGuffin.
	Is there the parallel of this stuff?
	It all works.
	North American House Hippo.
	My Congress Critter is a 27-year-old bankrupt former Uber driver.
	Well, that's not AOC. She was a former coffee barrister or whatever.
	Barista barrister is a lawyer.
	She doesn't know anything about the law.
	She passed the bar on her way to making coffee.
	That's what she did.
	There was a bar there.
	A Marxist, second-generation Cuban, Max Frost said, Democrat in Florida.
	Wow, that's bad.
	That's bad.
	Yeah, I can sympathize with that.
	I had a Marxist university professor that was our congressman in North Carolina, David Price, forever.
	Forever.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Well, let's talk a little bit about Luigi.
	Because that's all anybody wants to talk about.
	And as I said before, I'm not going to spend a great deal of time on it because there are far more pressing things.
	You know, when we look at the war against us domestically, when we look at the world wars that they're trying to create, I mean, there's just so many areas that we are under direct attack.
	But I think that it is worth looking at it somewhat primarily to look at the state of our society.
	As I pointed out yesterday, you got all these people selling tremendous amounts of merchandise, making a hero out of somebody who shot an unarmed man, and not only that, shot him in the back.
	Whoever this is.
	And, you know, conservatives are questioning whether or not this is the right guy, questioning whether or not he's being framed for something else that is there.
	The left, meanwhile, says, no, he's the guy, and they want to applaud him.
	Oh, he's a hunk.
	Look at this guy.
	You know, that's what you're seeing on the left.
	And so, this video was sent to me by a listener, and listened to what this guy does in terms of drawing connections between Pelosi and the guy who was murdered.
	So there is a connection between Nancy Pelosi and Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
	So hear me out.
	On September 21, 2024, there was a cyber breach at UnitedHealthcare.
	Over 100 million data users were affected, healthcare workers and individuals.
	On that day, Nancy Pelosi purchased $4 million in a cybersecurity company called Palo Alto Networks.
	It is a specialist in cybersecurity.
	On the day of the announcement of the breach, she made that purchase.
	That company Netted her $11.9 million.
	This was going to be up for investigation.
	Now, the person who was going to be investigated by the DOJ and was going to be potentially questioned about this cannot be questioned.
	So, again...
	Is this news that Nancy Pelosi is involved in criminal insider trading?
	Look, I would imagine that if people keep digging, they're probably going to find a connection between Luigi's family and people that Pelosi knows.
	Look, they're all there in Baltimore, Maryland area.
	That's where Pelosi came from originally, before she went to California.
	Her father was involved in organized crime, most people allege.
	And so, yeah, you know, she's literal mafia.
	And not to say that Luigi's family was, but they might have, you know, being wealthy, also being Italian, they might have traveled in some of the same circles with them.
	You're going to make connections with that as well.
	And quite frankly, it's not even really news.
	That people like Pelosi or the Clintons would be making dirty money and even have other people whacked about it.
	The real interesting thing, I think, about all of this stuff is when you look at the societal implications of this.
	People's reactions to a cold-blooded murder.
	I think that's the key thing.
	And the fact that they're defending, the left is defending the murder of somebody because he's a CEO. Regardless of what was really going on here.
	Regardless of whether he's the shooter or somebody else is the shooter.
	Regardless of whether it was a contract hit and they put this guy up as a patsy.
	You know what I mean?
	The angry screaming that he did there.
	You know, it was a little bit ambiguous about what he was saying.
	But...
	I think at the very end, what he was saying kind of made it clear that he is the anti-capitalist that they portray him as being.
	But nevertheless, regardless of whether he did it, I think it's important to look at the fact that the left...
	Is cheering somebody who executed someone because he's the CEO of a company?
	A bad company?
	Yes, of course.
	But, you know, vigilante execution.
	They're cheering that.
	At the same time, they're coming after Daniel Perry.
	And both of these things are continuing to escalate.
	I mean, we're seeing this, you're going to call it this divergence from sanity and morality.
	And they're getting more and more divergent as things are going on.
	They're getting angrier and angrier about the exoneration, the rifle exoneration of Daniel Perry.
	And they're getting more and more angry about the incarceration of this guy that they believe is a murderer.
	That's the key thing.
	They believe he's a murderer and they're cheering him on.
	It's kind of interesting, you know, the people of the Tennessee Star, it's a paper here in Tennessee, they fought like crazy to get the manifesto for the tranny killer, the woman who went in and shot up those kids at that Christian school in Nashville.
	And the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI, they sat on that thing, threatened people.
	They did get some of it leaked, and they did publish it.
	And they're getting a lot of blowback, and it was a big fight for them.
	They tried to get it legitimately, legally and everything, and then evidently photos were taken of it by somebody in the police department and leaked it to them.
	But meanwhile, this manifesto is leaked right away.
	You see, there's some manifestos that they want you to see, and there's other ones that they don't want you to see.
	And so as the Tennessee Star is looking at this thing, wait a minute, after they fought for years to get that and then got threats after they published it, they said the New York Police Department, the FBI, and the Altoona Police Department up there in Pennsylvania, where they apprehended this guy, are silent on the alleged leak of a manifesto written by Luigi Mangione.
	And when that leak happened in Tennessee and the Tennessee Star reported it, boy, they were not silent.
	All kinds of threats.
	And they've got Elizabeth Warren.
	Says the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO was a warning.
	Quote, you can only push people so far.
	Unquote.
	Huh.
	Well, wasn't J6 a warning to you, Elizabeth?
	You think that that was a major pushback and rebellion against the federal government?
	Well, maybe you ought to think about some of the stuff that you're doing.
	But no, you know, some warnings are okay.
	And admirable, and other ones aren't.
	She subsequently came back and said, well, I should have been much clearer.
	There's never a justification for murder.
	Especially of elitists like her, right?
	Ha ha!
	Got to make that clear.
	You know, don't anybody try this with me, that type of thing.
	So, as we look at these double standards that are being created left and right by the left, and again, if you reject God, what is the standard by which you live, right?
	It's just who I like or what I like versus what I don't like, and I'm entitled and able to do anything I wish against the things that I don't like.
	So the feds are warning J6 rioters that the pardon will not unring the bell of conviction.
	I talked to you yesterday about how they are continuing to arrest people, escalating the arrests of people, and how you've got judges saying, well, I'm not going to give you a continuous until after Trump does it.
	Well, we're going to waste our time here in the court because there's nothing I would rather do than put you in jail, one way or the other.
	Maybe I'll put you in instantly, you know, make you not even going to wait the two months that we typically do.
	And so now there's other lectures that are coming out.
	These federal prosecutors, some of them said, a pardon at some unspecified date in the future would not unring the bell of conviction, they said.
	In fact, quite the opposite.
	The defendant would first have to accept the pardon, which necessitates a confession of guilt.
	These federal prosecutors, these corrupt, law-breaking...
	You want to see somebody broke the law?
	It's the federal prosecutors here and these judges.
	And they're lying to you about that.
	It's amazing.
	This is an article from Raw Story.
	This is put up by Drudge.
	You know, Raw Story is a Democrat publication.
	And there is no confession of guilt necessary and a pardon.
	Especially because it can be done preemptively, as what should have been done by Trump.
	You don't have to own the guilt.
	I mentioned over and over again, just take a look at Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
	Nixon didn't have to admit any guilt.
	Ford didn't have to admit any guilt.
	Nixon hadn't even been indicted for any of the stuff that Ford pardoned him for.
	It's just, I'm going to give you a pardon for anything and everything that you did while you were president.
	Whatever that is.
	Hunter was guilty and convicted of some of these things that he was pardoned for, but that pardon was far more extensive.
	It extended to a lot of things that he has not been indicted for that we know he did.
	But the Biden Department of Justice has not indicted him for, let alone found him guilty.
	And, of course, there's also the case, I mention this all the time as well, Andrew Johnson, who gave a pardon to all these Confederate soldiers when the Congress created the Insurrection Act.
	He said, no, we're not going to continue the Civil War.
	They're pardoned.
	They had not been charged.
	They had not been convicted.
	These federal prosecutors...
	Are either the most ignorant people in terms of law and history you've ever seen in your life, or they are criminal liars.
	I say the second is the case.
	The issue came up, says Raw Story, during Trump's first term after he pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who sued, saying that his pardon should erase his criminal conviction.
	He argued that accepting the pardon was not an admission of guilt, But the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.
	Furthermore, criminal convictions can still result in punishment outside of courts like in ethics boards.
	It only eliminates criminal consequences.
	Well, again, none of that is really true.
	Now, when you look at John Kiriakou, he wanted to get the pardon from Trump.
	It already served the time.
	But he wanted to have that removed so that he could get his pension.
	He was a whistleblower who exposed the fact that we had been lied into the war with Iraq using lies that were created by the person that Trump made head of the CIA. No wonder he didn't get his pardon.
	And she used torture and lies to lie us into the Iraq War.
	And Trump made her the head of the CIA for his entire four years.
	The first couple of years he had Pompeo there.
	Pompeo was just a figurehead.
	She was the one who was running it.
	Then Pompeo becomes Secretary of State.
	She becomes the official person running it.
	But nevertheless, he wanted to get his pension.
	So there's some reasons for that.
	But in the case of Sheriff Joe...
	He had been convicted.
	You can pardon people, as I said, haven't even been indicted, let alone found guilty.
	And then when we get to Daniel Perry, occasional cortex, AOC. It says, Penny is guilty, and men like him are the real subway menace.
	It's not the people that have 47 arrest warrants and who are out there.
	Right now, there's a warrant out for his arrest because he beat up a 67-year-old woman.
	It's not people like that.
	It's not people who go on board a subway and said, I'm going to kill everybody here.
	They're not the threat.
	It's the people who defend the people there.
	Why are people like that a threat to people like AOC? Because you're not supposed to be able to defend yourself.
	You're supposed to just cower in the corner and wait for the government to do whatever the government wants to do to defend you or to attack you.
	That's the real issue.
	And of course, the other part of the real issue that is at the forefront of all this is the racism of the squad.
	The racism of AOC and how much she hates white people.
	And it's on display now for everybody to see.
	She thinks the real danger in the New York City subway system isn't the crazed homicidal maniacs like Jordan Neely, who was threatening to kill people, strap hangers, as they point out, before former Marine Daniel Penny stopped him.
	This is the New American talking here.
	Rather, the real danger is men like Penny who stopped Neely.
	Neely later died of myriad causes unrelated to the chokehold, an expert witness at the manslaughter trial said.
	Yeah, you want to get him for homicide?
	He didn't kill the guy.
	The guy died later on.
	The guy died after the police and first responders came because they didn't want to give him medical aid.
	That's the most amazing thing about it.
	You know, occasional cortex, I call it that, but, you know, the occasions that her cortex are kicking in are getting fewer and far between.
	And there's absolutely no engagement of her brain in any of this.
	This is simply visceral, racist hatred on her part.
	A jury found him innocent of criminally negligent homicide and all the rest of this stuff, but she wants to say he is the problem.
	Neely was a violent career criminal.
	He got on the thing, said somebody is going to die today.
	It was him.
	He subdued, so Penny sprang into action, subdued the violent sociopath with a chokehold and held him until authorities arrived.
	Neely died later.
	More than 40 witnesses testified at the trial, one claiming that Neely was satanic.
	Others vouched for Penny, who they believe saved their lives.
	But Occasional Cortex says the verdict tells us everything.
	If we do not want violence on the subways, and the point of our justice system is a level of accountability to prevent a person who does not have remorse about taking another person's life.
	Well, again, you're not allowed to defend yourself.
	And another member of the squad, Jamal Bowman, who lost in the primary earlier this year to another Democrat because, you know, he's this joke.
	This is the guy who pulled the alarm.
	Remember that?
	Pulled the alarm to try to shut down a vote.
	Yeah.
	Fire alarm Bowman.
	He says, he writes on X, he says, Dear white people, I don't know why I feel the need to keep talking to you.
	Please don't feel the need.
	I'm not interested, really.
	Except that you just keep exposing yourself as a race baiter, a racist, and somebody who's trying to start a race war.
	Some of you, he said, are too far gone, you white people.
	But maybe enough of you aren't and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.
	Well, you can stop talking on my behalf.
	He then asked white people, how many times have you seen a white man killed in cold blood on camera over the news feeds?
	I've seen it a lot of times.
	I've seen it done by other white people.
	I've seen it done by black people to white people.
	I've seen it done by the police to white people over and over again.
	I'll never forget the situation where the cops showed up at a hotel because they got some kind of a...
	You know, SWAT teaming complaint or something like that.
	There was a family there.
	And the father, he tells him to get down on the ground and crawl towards me.
	And the guy's down on all fours, crawling towards him.
	And the cop shot him.
	He was a white man.
	That kind of stuff happens all the time.
	Let's take a look at the black cop there in Minneapolis.
	Who, trigger-happy, new rookie, hired because he was a Smalley.
	It was a DEI hire who wasn't properly trained, or he was trained to shoot first.
	And they'd had, in the previous shootings, where they had a cop that killed somebody who was black.
	The woman who got killed was somebody who protested.
	Police brutality.
	And yet they call the police.
	The police show up, freak out, and shoot her.
	And kill her.
	This kind of stuff happens all the time.
	But Jamal Bowman wants you to believe that it never happens.
	He said, ask yourself how many times you've seen a white man killed in cold blood on a camera.
	The answer is never.
	This guy is so blinded by hatred.
	And I said that when that happened in Minneapolis.
	I said, you know...
	They want to say that this whole point of this Black Lives Matter thing is to say we don't want to identify the problem.
	We don't want to have any reform.
	We don't want to change the way the police deal with anybody.
	Instead, what we want to say is that this is simply about race.
	And I said if you're really concerned about black people getting killed, you would work in common cause with white people.
	And you would say to the white people, instead of saying, this is never happening to white people.
	This is only our problem.
	You wouldn't do what Jamal Bowman is doing.
	Instead, you would say to white people, you know, hey, look, I saw this happen to white people.
	This can happen to anybody.
	It could happen to you.
	You need to join with us to change the way the police are operating.
	They don't want that kind of change.
	They want a race war.
	That's why the Black Lives Marxists are there.
	So, how Daniel Penny will get revenge on Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA who went after him.
	Penny's defense team is considered bringing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against DA Alvin Bragg and others who brought charges of second degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
	By the way, I would be negligent if I didn't talk about the murder charge that is coming against Luigi.
	You saw him laying in wait, planning this and shooting the guy in the back, right?
	If he's the guy, right?
	Which they alleged.
	Now, they alleged that he was the guy who did all of that stuff.
	Did they charge him with first degree murder?
	No.
	Second degree murder.
	Why is that?
	Because first degree is only if you kill a cop.
	You kill anybody else, it's a secondary murder.
	No matter how malicious, no matter how premeditated.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Yeah, chew on that a little bit.
	We're going to take a quick break, and Tony Arterman is going to be joining us.
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	All right, welcome back, and joining us now is Tony Arterman, the wise wolf himself, and it's great to have you on, Tony.
	What's on your radar here that's happening with money?
	You've got some breaking stories that you said.
	It's great to be here, David, as always.
	Yeah, I saw a headline on Zero Hedge just came out.
	Janet Yellen, outgoing Treasury Secretary, is sorry for her performance.
	In other words, she presided over $15 trillion in debt creation, 42%.
	Of the total debt of the United States ever created in four years.
	So she's sorry, David.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, she is one sorry Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chair, yeah.
	Absolutely unbelievable.
	We've been talking about this like it's every 90 to 100 days.
	A trillion dollars in debt creation, and a lot of people don't realize it took us 200 years plus to get there the first time, to get to $1 trillion, and now we do it every 90 to 100 days.
	These are unsustainable numbers, and if you throw them out there, it really is sobering.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, and how can that be sustained?
	It can't be sustained.
	You know, I talked the other day about Morgan Stanley saying, it's time to sell the U.S. dollar.
	It really is.
	Regardless of what you put it in, it's time to sell it.
	It's absolutely crazy.
	But there are also...
	We can talk about what people are looking at in terms of Bitcoin, in terms of gold.
	But both of them are very bullish in terms of everybody's projections.
	Why?
	Because you've got to get out of this currency that is being literally destroyed.
	When I think of Janet Yellen, I can never...
	Lose the image of this little woman who goes to China, and she just kept bowing to them after she had done all the mushrooms in that one place.
	So I guess if you do enough mushrooms, the trillion dollars don't matter.
	Something disturbed her neural pathways in some way.
	She's presided over this massive debt creation, a total failure of the U.S. dollar.
	I mean, it looks to me, you know, when you look at the conspiracy theory of history, you look at the inside job, what's going on, the controlled demolition of the American empire, this would make sense to have her at the helm, not only at the Head of the Federal Reserve as Fed Chair, but then transferred over to the Treasury to finish off the job that she did as Fed Chair.
	That's right.
	Yeah, Ray Dalio, a billionaire investor, came out and said, there's going to be a global debt crisis.
	Yeah, that's...
	It's not rocket science to undertake that.
	And so he's backing Bitcoin and gold, but then in terms of the two of them, he later came out and said, he said, stay away from bonds, stay away from, you know, government bonds and all this stuff, stay away from debt.
	And he followed up on this and said, Bitcoin is still speculative.
	He says it won't work as a reserve.
	He says, I prefer gold as a reserve.
	The Russians are talking about setting up a Bitcoin reserve now.
	That's one of the reasons why he's talking about it.
	So you've got the Trump administration talking about setting up Bitcoin as a reserve.
	You've got Russia talking about that.
	But, of course, Russia is looking for alternatives to the weaponized dollar.
	But when Trump and the Americans are talking about, well, what else can we put in here as a reserve?
	That's because they know the dollar is being destroyed.
	It absolutely is.
	And you look at the chart of finance around the world.
	Michael Saylor did a great job with this at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville in July.
	If you look at the board, if you look at the overall assets around the world, you talk about the debt ratios.
	Supposedly, there's about $350 trillion in worldwide debt.
	That's both government and private.
	But if you look at the actual projections of what wealth is, it goes up to about $400 trillion.
	And if you go in the top left-hand corner of that chart, there's gold at $16 trillion market cap or so.
	There's silver at $1.4 trillion, and now there's Bitcoin at $1.9 trillion.
	Well, there's hundreds of trillions of dollars supposedly floating around in these markets and bonds and, you know, again, stock exchanges and all the rest.
	I don't buy that.
	I think that where we're headed with...
	You know, there's 52 times more currency on Earth today than when I was born.
	The currency and the money supply continues to expand.
	And when that happens, David, as you know, the purchasing power goes down because Defying all logic, fiat currency somehow still trades with value.
	I mean, you and I look at it and go, well, I'm really skeptical of it.
	That shit doesn't have any value because it has, again, it's infinite.
	It's on demand.
	They print it whenever they have a problem.
	They run into an issue.
	They bail themselves out expanding the money supply.
	So that's what inflation is.
	It inflates the currency supply.
	And so when I look at the future, I'm seeing a lot of, again, Russia's turning to even adding silver as a strategic reserve asset.
	Platinum, palladium is another thing they're adding.
	The Bitcoin, the game theory is the Bitcoin maximalist call is where governments start utilizing Bitcoin as a reserve asset, much like Trump's discussed in Nashville in July as well, because Bitcoin is finite.
	We know how many Bitcoin there are.
	And same thing with gold.
	If you know anything about gold mining and how hard it is to obtain and how hard it is to refine and just how precious it actually is.
	I mean, there's 151,000 tons that have ever been mined in the history of mankind that we know of, and more steel is poured in one hour on this earth.
	Mm-hmm.
	Shifting back towards things that are, well, the hardest money wins, to put it that way.
	Something in the sound money and a finite resource to house value.
	I think there'll be a scramble for that in an age of fake.
	We're just seeing, I think, the end game, and it's not tomorrow, but it's coming, where a lot of these markets and bubbles start popping, as you're seeing in things like the commercial real estate market or the private banking sector as things like stocks and things start losing their value based off as you're seeing in things like the commercial real estate market or the private banking I think things will turn around in a big way for Bitcoin, gold, and silver.
	Yeah, it is.
	All this stuff, when you talk about the mining of the gold and everything, and, of course, Bitcoin adopted that in terms of talking about mining, right, as they earn Bitcoins for processing transactions and things like that.
	And when you look at the way Bitcoin is always depicted in the illustrations that accompany the articles, they'll always have, like, a gold coin with the Bitcoin, you know, the B with a $2 sign thing to it.
	Or they'll just have the B with a $2, and they'll put the B in some kind of three-dimensional gold, you know?
	But it's not physical, and that's the key thing.
	And as you're talking about the maximalists looking at this, and when are the nation-states going to jump into it, we have...
	We have a crypto custody company called CASA, as in house, I guess.
	And they've unveiled a self-custody service for nation states.
	They call it Praetorian.
	And so what they're trying to do is set up something that nation states can trust.
	And you can trust these people who are going to operate this software to keep track of all your things.
	And, you know, they're hoping that they can use that as a replacement for nation states keeping gold reserves.
	It remains to be seen, though.
	You know, Tony, it was just this last week, and I haven't covered it on the show this week yet, but Google claims they had a major breakthrough in quantum computing.
	And they talked about how they could...
	Do something in a very, I forget what it was, where there's a minute or something like that, something that would have taken a septillion number of time units to accomplish the same thing without quantum computing, saying that was that big of a leap in terms of computational power.
	Well, if that becomes implemented, if that becomes...
	You know, widespread.
	If the governments get that, it seems to me like that puts the whole issue of some kind of a blockchain or encryption thing, that puts that all at risk.
	Is it like Praetorian Guard?
	Is that the way that it's listed on the CASA? That's the way it is.
	Exactly, like Praetorian Guard.
	And we know how that worked out, don't we?
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	Something to ponder.
	Well, I've always thought of it like this.
	I think that the Bitcoin story in the network is pretty amazing.
	It's fascinating and resilient because there's nothing like it that has ever existed.
	Something that's decentralized.
	I know I get a lot of people writing me like, oh, it's an NSA creation.
	They wanted you to use Bitcoin to get used to that so you buy the CBDC. Mm-hmm.
	But that's such a terrible idea because Bitcoiners don't want a CBDC. You've woken up an entire generation of people that would otherwise probably just been more techish and not focused on currency.
	I think you've woken up millions and millions of younger people in that space that are just aware of what fiat currency is.
	And they're reading the creature from Jekyll Island, stuff that I don't think they would have done had it not been for Bitcoin.
	So it's probably going to be a mixed bag if it is a...
	A conspiracy or something out there to get me excited about a CBDC. It failed.
	But I would say that you're right.
	I mean, eventually technology catches up.
	So that's the Bitcoin network going to have to outpace anything that could disturb it or take it down.
	So when you're looking at Bitcoin, I think what you're...
	I'm bullish on Bitcoin in some ways because I look at the world a lot differently through headlines, as do you, than I think somebody that would be considered mainstream.
	We don't look at it that way because we have a different viewpoint of history and we've learned different things.
	We have different data points.
	When it comes to looking at reality.
	Part of me is optimistic about the future because I see the end game for fiat currency.
	But the danger is the Great Reset.
	The danger is Agenda 2030 and Agenda 21 and all the sustainability projects and the technocracy.
	That's the danger there.
	So if there is an opportunity, it's for decentralization.
	I think Bitcoin can play a role.
	So you're basically betting That civilization will continue or that it will be better than it is today with Bitcoin.
	And so I have a partial bet on that, but I think at the end of the day, the next level down would be gold and silver because they exist in this dimension.
	They exist and you can hold them in your hand.
	There's no counterparty risk.
	It's physical.
	And it's part, if you read anything, a lot of the Bitcoin maximalists I find it fascinating.
	They give up on precious metals.
	They're like, there's no value there.
	Bitcoin will demonetize gold.
	It'll demonetize silver.
	There's no evidence to that.
	There's plenty of room in this giant financial global market.
	For value, and you've got to think about not only just the monetary value, but, you know, the industrial value of both precious metals, gold and silver.
	I mean, was it 90%, David?
	I think of all the gold is used for things like jewelry and electronics and other things.
	It's not used, you know, it's like 10% in central banks and stored value and currency, you know, backing up the currencies of nations around the world.
	So it's not exactly...
	It's not exactly all used for monetary assets.
	And so I think that, again, there's a bet you're making with any of this stuff, because even you get past those layers and people ask me, well, you can't, what are you going to do with gold coins if There's no government and you're having to defend your home.
	Well, then you're going to need storable food and ammo.
	It's not going to help you to have gold.
	I agree with you on that.
	All these things are bets that tomorrow there will be a functioning economy at some level.
	But history is my guide and history tells me that precious metals will always exist.
	Have some relevance in the human story.
	I don't care, you know, really what the future holds for anything.
	If there is a future in their civilization, gold and silver will play a part in it.
	And, of course, you know, when you look at it, there's a whole spectrum of different results that could happen.
	I mean, we could have a complete societal collapse in which only food and ammunition matter.
	Or on the other side, we could have it so that everything continues on as it is, and they're not weaponizing any of this crypto stuff against us, and they're not...
	Creating stable coins and tokenization and everything to kind of bring in a backdoor of this.
	But when you look at it, let's say beyond those two extremes there, something in the middle, we're just concerned about privacy.
	You know, and that's why we've had a lot of stuff coming.
	In Australia, the largest bank there, just tried to charge everybody $3 fee to withdraw cash.
	And we're not talking about an ATM. You know, they've established that.
	People say, okay, I understand this is a convenience, and they got the expense of a machine here, whatever.
	Whether or not that is justified, you can argue that.
	But still, if you walked into the bank and got cash from them, they're going to charge you $3.
	And it was the biggest bank.
	And they got a huge pushback from the public, and they backed off of that.
	And so that is really, I think, you know, people wanting to keep cash.
	There is no intrinsic value in any of this fiat stuff.
	But the value for the cash is that it is private.
	And I think that's a key thing.
	And that's one of the key things that sells me on gold and silver versus some of these crypto things.
	I've had Aaron Day on.
	We've talked about, you know, he's working on this really hard.
	How do I, you know, have crypto, gold, and silver?
	He's opened all of these things.
	How do I keep this stuff?
	And how do I keep it safe?
	How do we keep it private?
	And it gets very, very complicated.
	And he's constantly...
	Having to adapt it, because they're constantly shutting things down and changing stuff.
	And so he's constantly changing.
	You know, I talked to him a couple months apart, and now everything has changed again.
	I don't have the ability to keep up with that kind of complexity.
	You know, he's made a full-time job out of it, and he's telling other people how to do it.
	And that's great, but it's that constant thing.
	Just as you're talking about, if If quantum computing comes along, well, Bitcoin is going to have to adjust to that in some way.
	Technology is not going to be necessarily static on the Bitcoin side either.
	But that's the thing, is that it gets really complicated.
	I like the simplicity of physical stuff.
	I'm starting to value it more and more all the time.
	And we saw after COVID-1984 that there was, I mean, immediately there was a war on cash.
	And they stopped the imports of the dollars that are being repatriated, which really was the tell for me that something else was going on here, much deeper in the financial sector, that they're trying to set up, trying to condition you for a cashless society.
	Because you saw after that story that, oh, we can't accept the bills that have been circulating around the world, especially U.S. currency that's come from China, because it may have the virus on it.
	Then you stop seeing deposits of coins and And people were asking me, well, Tony, there's a coin shortage.
	Do you have any idea what this means?
	I'm like, well, it's because they shut down, you know, hundreds of thousands of businesses, and those businesses aren't making daily deposits, so the banks are short on deposits.
	That's a simple explanation for that.
	But that was welcome.
	They didn't want the coins.
	They didn't want the, you know, and certain retailers stopped taking the cash-complying With the overlords, you know, trying to create this cashless society, which that's where it starts.
	The pesky, I think, for them will be, because there is a war on cash, folks, and they're going after the cash as fast as they can.
	I think a lot of it's been put on the back burner because the economy and the political backlash for everything that they did in 2020 onwards has really heated up, I think, We're good to go.
	You know, existing in the real world, I mean, crypto is one thing outside of the financial spectrum, but you're right.
	Existing in the real world, gold and silver will be left standing.
	I saw that Florida is exploring making gold and silver legal tender, as well as many other states.
	So this is the future.
	You're seeing the trends and the headlines are showing that we're going to have some sort of role for gold and silver as legal tender in this country, especially as the economic conditions continue to worsen.
	And I'll remind you, even if gold and silver aren't necessarily legal tender and coinage, We can look to examples like Venezuela after their fiat currency collapsed.
	And of course, their stock market was booming.
	So, you know, pay attention to that, folks.
	Their stock market was booming and their currency was dying.
	And they started using scrap gold and silver like I buy at my physical locations, like pieces of gold.
	Jewelry and things like that.
	People had ways to test it, or there would just be recognized things.
	Like the Chinese right now, they're not coining things.
	They're putting gold into the size of like a little bean.
	And they're having gold beans and things like that in India, China.
	You'll see stuff like that, I think, in the coming years.
	The fiat currencies have no bottom.
	And, of course, gold and silver and Bitcoin really have no top wins.
	So that's because there's two different, these are diametrically opposed things.
	You have infinite versus finite.
	And for me, in my reading of history and economics, I'm going to things that are scarce.
	I'm not going to be putting all of my effort in chasing things that are ubiquitous forever.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's like the manufactured collectibles market.
	I remember when we were much younger, my sister was like, oh, look, they got this collectible, whatever, you know, doll.
	And then later my kid's looking at Pokemon stuff.
	You know, this is really rare and it's so valuable.
	It's like, it's manufactured.
	They can make more of this stuff.
	And that's what it is.
	The fiat currency is a manufactured collectible.
	It's too little mania.
	Yeah, it's like a doll or it's like Pokemon cards, you know?
	It's...
	Beanie Babies.
	That's right.
	Beanie Babies.
	Another one.
	Yeah, another one of those.
	Well, you know, Israel is always at the forefront of all these globalist agendas, and now they're making moves towards eliminating cash.
	They are stopping the 200 shekel bill.
	And Netanyahu is saying that he's doing this to advance the fight against crime in the Arab sector.
	It's always, you know, you'll never use crypto, their central bank digital currencies.
	That'll never be used for crime.
	No, it's only the cash.
	And that's why we got to get rid of the cash.
	And, you know, you look at what he did in terms of pushing the vaccines and pushing the vaccine passports and all the rest of the stuff.
	And now he's at the forefront of pushing elimination of cash.
	But it's not just him.
	It's also BlackRock.
	They're expanding tokenized money market fund.
	I talked about this earlier this week.
	You know, this thing they got, I guess it's BUIDL.
	And so they move the L to the end.
	But, you know, they're adding more and more blockchains to start tokenizing things.
	And I think that's going to be the big trend in the Trump administration.
	When you've got Lutnik and these other people who are already into tokenization.
	And he has appointed a lot more people who are involved in that as well.
	Just this last week, you got David Sachs.
	They put on there to push this crypto stuff.
	He's surrounding himself with all these crypto billionaires, and that's what everybody's seeing.
	I think that's really what is getting everybody excited in the marketplace about crypto, because it looks like he's going to fall off the other side, and that's the danger, I think.
	That is the real danger.
	And what happens when this psychological value that we're giving to the Trump administration going into 2025, you see the bubble inflating for the crypto market.
	You see all these mean coins popping up and things that...
	Very risky.
	What value do they actually have?
	What purpose do they serve?
	There's certain coins I think that could serve a purpose outside of Bitcoin, but that's still an open question for me.
	I really only own one cryptocurrency.
	That's Bitcoin.
	That's because I understand the finality of it and it has the...
	You know, again, the 21 million built into it, the decentralized network, things like that.
	But you start talking about these other coins and the expansion of the crypto market.
	So here's the danger.
	You get to something like a dot-com bubble bursting.
	You get a housing market type situation, an 08, 09. Well, what happens?
	Well, we have to have regulation, David.
	We have to stop this.
	So much speculation that's going on.
	We have to Maybe we'll make one centralized tokenization.
	We'll make these through central banks.
	They will use a crisis to precipitate the introduction, the normalization of central bank digital currency.
	And now that we've got, you know, this is the danger too.
	This is what we saw in 2017 to 2020, 2021, is that, oh, we have Trump, so we don't have to worry about it.
	you know, any of the government tyranny.
	We're good, you know, 4D chess, all the stuff that you cover and I've covered and we understand that this is the danger of People will go to sleep.
	Well, he said he wasn't going to do the central bank digital currency, so that won't happen.
	I heard him say that in Nashville, which is kind of weird because Jared Kushner was working on that.
	During the Trump administration.
	With Steve Mnuchin, yeah.
	Yes.
	The two of them.
	They were the ones who kicked it off the first time we got any indication of the American government doing it.
	It was those criminals.
	Yeah, when you look at it, I talked about, I think the company was Smith& Wesson.
	You know, their sales are really hurting because people don't think they need guns now that Trump is president.
	You know, and so it just goes in cycles like that.
	You know, if it had been Biden boy, they would have been, you know, we got to buy a gun now because he's going to ban it, you know, and so forth.
	But now we're seeing that with the crypto stuff.
	It's like, oh, he's going to, you know, lay everything down.
	And of course, you know, Biden has been at war.
	And now you've got an SEC guy that Trump has nominated, Paul Atkins.
	He's somebody who's heavily into tokenization.
	David Sachs, I mentioned before, that billionaire, you know, he's been anointed as a new position of crypto czar.
	It's like, crypto czar?
	Doesn't that sound like centralized control?
	I mean...
	It's like what is going on with the – there's kind of a cognitive dissonance there to the term crypto czar.
	I just can't get my head around it.
	But everybody that's around Trump, if they have anything to do with anything that's part of the financial system or financial regulation, they're all crypto guys.
	It truly is amazing to see what's happening there.
	But what do you see happening with gold and silver?
	I mean, a lot of people I've seen, you know, still people are talking about, you know, Bank of America and others are still looking at their $3,000 gold, you know, next year, and that silver would actually outperform gold.
	Many are still saying that.
	So what are you reading?
	What are people projecting?
	I know you don't have any predictions about what the exact price is going to be, but there's a lot of people out there who are making those projections.
	What do you see?
	Well, when you and I talked right before the election, I felt it was pretty clear that if a Harris administration was going to happen in 2025, that gold and silver would go up.
	They'd probably see some new record highs for gold, possibly even silver, and that Bitcoin would take a temporary hit.
	Maybe fall back into the high 50s, 50-something thousand per Bitcoin because of the hill that they're going to have to climb up with the perceived regulation and the hostility that the Biden administration had towards crypto.
	And if Trump won, the opposite.
	Gold and silver would fall, Bitcoin would rise.
	And of course it has, and Bitcoin's broken its all-time high.
	It's still over 100,000.
	You know, and I anticipated that we were going to hit $100,000 probably regardless in some time frame in the next six months, but now we've done that before the end of the year.
	I really think that gold would have already crossed the $3,000 threshold had Trump lost the election, but we're in a different world.
	And so none of the fundamentals changed though, David, and the central banks are still buying gold.
	It's funny, he tweeted after the election that if countries don't use our dollar, if the BRICS nations create a competing currency, that he'll put 100% tariff on all their incoming goods they won't be able to sell in the U.S. I find that to be silly.
	One, the BRICS nations aren't creating a competing currency that I've seen.
	What they're doing is they're creating payment systems where they can use commodities across borders.
	I hate to break it to everybody, but I'm pretty sure at this point that gold is already the world's reserve currency supplanting the dollar.
	They're just using technology now To use their gold and other commodities to pay for things across borders and not use the SWIFT system and not use the U.S. dollar.
	I see that because in 2021, the Bank of International Settlements in Basel III took gold from a Tier III asset to a Tier I, which is on par with cash.
	So these central banks started, you know, and banks around the world started putting gold as a cash reserve on their reserve balances.
	And I think that's really what's changed.
	And so we're probably entering a world where this is like the endgame for Gresham's Law, which is when bad money enters a system, good money goes into hiding.
	Well, you know, we're reaching this...
	Look, the whole thing with Janet Yellen adding 42% of the total debt of the U.S. in four years, that's the endgame for the experiment that we've been in since 1971. You have a free-floating fiat currency with no fiscal responsibility.
	They don't even talk about balancing the budget anymore.
	They don't talk about deficits anymore.
	It's just a foregone conclusion that we're off the rails.
	Honestly, David, I just did a presentation for For Anarchapoco, for the dollar vigilante, they asked me for 35 minutes to just break down what's happening on gold.
	And I said, I think gold is already the world's reserve currency.
	It's just going to be used in different ways in technology for cross-border payments.
	The dollar will just start fading, and I think it won't fade overnight.
	But you're watching the de-dollarization happen in real time.
	You can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.
	I don't care what tariffs you have.
	That's right.
	Yeah, and you know, when Trump says he's going to put 100% tariffs on the BRICS nations, what he's fundamentally doing is the same thing that Biden did.
	He's weaponizing the financial system that the U.S. is dominating, and he's going to get the same results.
	It's only going to drive the dollar down, it's only going to drive the financial system down, but I think he's okay with that.
	Because I think these people really do intend to create a different type of financial system.
	It's going to be something that is going to be an Overton window that is going to be moving people towards something that is digital, whatever that's going to be.
	And it's going to be malleable.
	It'll be voluntary unto them.
	They'll make a lot of money.
	And then at some point in the future, it'll become mandatory.
	I think that's what we're looking at with this.
	And, you know, I saw some article.
	I forget who it was that wrote that.
	But it said we have...
	We're looking at the biggest change in the financial system since Nixon.
	It's like, oh, okay, so you're going to completely redesign it.
	And that was what Biden had said in March of 2022. Let's talk about how we're going to completely redesign the financial system.
	I think the Uniparty wants to completely redesign the financial system.
	And it's interesting to see how that's going.
	Yeah, that's their marching orders from Davos.
	You know, we're going to do the Great Reset.
	It's filtering down.
	Remember, Klaus Schwab said he penetrated the cabinets.
	We're certainly not doing that.
	I mean, our so-called leaders are carrying out the Agenda 2030 right before our eyes and disguising it with what we would consider our politics.
	I don't think we're truly paying attention as much as we should.
	I mean, it's nice to believe that, you know, they have our best interests, but I don't think so.
	I think you're right about that.
	I mean, it's looking at...
	It's so over the top.
	I mean, that tweet alone about 100% tariffs...
	I'm an economic nationalist.
	I like tariffs.
	I didn't think we'd be talking about tariffs 10 years ago.
	I didn't think this would even be in the national discourse, but it certainly is.
	It's pretty shocking.
	But at that point, it's just weaponization of the dollar.
	It's not smart.
	It's not strategic.
	What we ought to be doing is inviting other companies and countries to build here, to build factories, to invest here, making our tax code more friendly to investing and maybe just completely eliminating the income tax altogether, replacing making our tax code more friendly to investing and maybe just completely eliminating the You could do that.
	I mean, that's the kind of change for the 21st century that you would need to be a true competitor in the global market.
	That kind of weaponization of our currency, which, by the way, you know, it's no fault of these countries that want to get off the dollar system.
	But Russia just put out a response to the money that was seized, the U.S. dollars that were seized after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. That money was filtered back to the Ukrainians.
	They were able to use it to borrow against, and Russia said that's an act of war.
	They just responded.
	Their finance minister was calling that an act of war.
	I agree with that.
	It's like $20 billion or something, and they're taking that.
	The U.S. was holding out to just take all the money and split it up amongst ourselves, right?
	They're a bunch of pirates.
	Yeah.
	And instead, the European Union, maybe they're more afraid of Russia.
	They said, no, no, no.
	We won't touch the principle.
	We'll just freeze the principle.
	But then we'll take the interest and we'll do this.
	And so that's where this money, they're going to make them a loan.
	And, you know, they can have a line of credit that's up to $20 billion or whatever.
	But it's theft.
	It's just piracy.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	It's amazing.
	But, you know, you mentioned earlier, we got some states that are talking about...
	Making gold and silver legal tender.
	There's a bill in Missouri for that.
	We've got, and again, talking about it as a, and prohibiting the use of CBDC. Also in Michigan, a bill to do that.
	I'm just concerned.
	That's all good stuff.
	I'm just concerned that it's going to be de facto, that it's going to be a public-private partnership, that it's going to be done in a subtle way.
	And if you want to know if Trump is on the side of liberty, I mean, just look at his temper tantrums.
	It's like, eventually, it comes back what his real position is, and it's no different when he says, well, I'm going to give you 100% tariff.
	I mean, just shut it down.
	Shut down all trade with you.
	That's no different than Lala Harris saying, well, I'm going to give Congress 100 days to ban guns, and if they don't do it, I'll do it myself.
	And that's where these people are.
	It's like, well, okay, let's talk about it.
	But when push comes to shove, they're going to force you, and they're going to do the most authoritarian stuff that is out there, because that's really what they're all about.
	That's exactly right.
	And it's just, again, we have a window of opportunity, I think, here to learn about the difference between currency and money, to do your own research and to figure out, you know, again, I support things like decentralized Bitcoin wallets.
	Learning how to trade that.
	I think something outside the system, not linked to an exchange, is a good thing.
	I'll be making an announcement soon where we're going to have a website where you can buy Bitcoin just like we do with Wolfpack.
	You can put it on a monthly subscription service.
	I'm working on that.
	It's moving very slow, but I've got a lot of good things in the works.
	I think we've got a lot of good stuff.
	That should help you, too, when they get rid of some of this regulation.
	You know, I mean, as you're looking at this stuff and you're looking at tons and tons of regulation, some of it's coming from the SEC and other places, that's going to make it easier for you to get that up and running.
	And I've got a question about that here for you as well.
	DG8 says, David, can you ask Tony what he thought about the hit piece on 60 Minutes on Crypto?
	I didn't get to see that yet.
	when did it come out uh i don't know maybe it's this last weekend i didn't see it either i don't typically keep up with 60 minutes i know i imagine it's probably the same type of hit piece you know it's only the it's the it's it's only uh you know people like ross ulbrick that are using it to kill people and do illegal things on the internet that's probably that type of the same type of stuff they say about cash of course right anything they want to do i'm ignoring sun su's maxim of know your enemy by ignoring the mainstream media these days i don't i
	So many of the outlets and things that I go to from my wheelhouse, they just aren't in that sphere, so I don't see them as much as I used to.
	THX 1138 322. I don't know what the 322 is about, unless that's skull and bones.
	Anyway, the claim will be Bitcoin will be backed by gold, except it won't.
	It'll be backed by a piece of paper, and you'll never see that go.
	Kind of like the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the paper gold that we talk about all the time.
	They could come up with a Bitcoin gold, right?
	And they have other cryptos that are linked to gold.
	And the Texas Depository, they're looking at ways where they can make it to where you can fractionalize and digitize your gold.
	Use a debit card.
	Basically, it'll be in real time.
	Whatever gold you have in your holdings, you can swipe it and it'll deduct from that.
	I think there's some great technology they're working on with it.
	But again, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
	Again, know who you're dealing with and all this stuff, because there's going to be a lot of these financial products that come out in the next many years, especially if they are crypto-friendly, that you're going to be skeptical of and make sure it's tried and true before you use it.
	I agree.
	Especially because you see Lucky Lutnik is going to be a commerce secretary.
	I guess that's where...
	The Commerce Secretary seems to be where Trump puts his crooked bankers, and that's where he put the Rothschild guy, Wilbur Ross, right?
	Yes.
	So now he's put Lucky Lutnik there.
	And, of course, he's involved with Tether and other stable coins and things like that, so I would imagine these things are saying they're stable coins because they're linked to the dollar or something like that.
	It would be a lot more stable if you linked them to gold, so I can imagine we could see some stable coins that were Supposedly linked to gold as well.
	That might be the way that they will approach that.
	Nancy Chambers said I went to the bank to get $100 bills to pay a contractor and was told they didn't have many $100 bills, so I had to take it in small bills.
	That's one way to get rid of it.
	You know, you can just do it by fiat like Netanyahu, or you can just start slowing down the printing of those even as you add zeros digitally to the currency.
	You can slow down the printing of actual big bills, I guess.
	I think it's another, and this is just me, it isn't coming from anywhere else that I've read or anything I've studied, but if you look at the actual metrics of how much currency has been created in the paper in the physical realm, the majority of that's not here in the U.S. So if they wanted to stop what was Robert Triffin's dilemma for all the repatriation of We're good to
	go.
	Where I saw their currency die in real time when I was told to go to the bank after the Republican Guard fell in Mosul in May of 2003. I was able to use dollars.
	They very much welcomed that.
	But now it's illegal to trade in dollars in Iraq.
	The Iraqi parliament's made more...
	I don't know if it's on the streets, but definitely between banks and using it as a reserve asset.
	So they're already...
	And they've applied to BRICS and joining that block as well.
	So the dollar is on its way out, whether we like it or not, because of the weaponization and the arrogance.
	And I think, again, the calls are coming from inside the House.
	They're doing it to us on purpose.
	Our leadership is so-called is doing this to us.
	Yeah, when you look at the way that they do the cash.
	I remember when Obama sent pallets of cash to Iran.
	And what he did was he pretended that, well, that's not really prohibited.
	You know, you said he couldn't send him any dollars or something.
	So he does it all in foreign currency, you know?
	It's like these people, everything that they accuse everybody else of, they are just projecting all that.
	DGA came back and said, David, 60 Minutes Peace was on Sunday.
	They had XRP CEO, I think that's Ripple, right?
	Brad Darlinghouse accusing him of buying elections.
	Yeah.
	Maybe they ought to have Elon Musk on and accuse him of buying the election.
	His wealth has nearly doubled.
	There's the top of Drudge Report today.
	He's like the $400 billion man.
	I mean, he's well on his way to a trillion dollars and becoming the first trillionaire.
	And, of course, you've got Trump, who gave another gift to him this last week.
	Somebody invest a billion dollars, we're going to waive all this other stuff.
	And he's like, oh, this is wonderful.
	And it's like, yeah, wonderful for you.
	You bought the White House.
	Thank you.
	I think in this time in history, it's just an opportunity for a little bit of a window here, but we still have to be very cautious.
	I'm not buying and drinking the Kool-Aid of where we're headed into 2025 with the euphoria or anything like that, but there's some opportunity there, I think, to prepare and to make better decisions.
	Again, I think it's a blessing, but don't get too comfortable.
	I hate to be that guy, but don't get too comfortable because there's all the metrics.
	That were threatening us are still there.
	All the things financially, all the weakness of the dollar and the debt and everything else, and the geopolitical uncertainty is still there.
	Yeah, the term irrational exuberance seems to echo.
	I remember when that was put out there.
	Was it Greenspan that said that?
	Irrational exuberance?
	Well, you've got your program is coming up following this one.
	Tell us a little bit about what's happening at Wise Wolf as well.
	Yes, sir.
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	Where the album is, and we've tried to improve it this year.
	We have put everything up on a mega file folder that we give you the link to.
	So if you didn't get everything last year, or if you'd just like to get the update, we also put the new song this year, I'll Be Home for Christmas, and There's No Place Like Home for Christmas, that one that I put together.
	If you want to get that, we're going to put that up there as well.
	So just tell us that you bought it last year.
	We'll go on the honor system, and you'll have access to that.
	And the other thing we did was, besides putting up everything in one file that you can just start, and they're all in sequence and listen to them, the individual songs are there as well.
	So you can create your own playlist of what you like and don't like and put it in your own order or whatever.
	So all of that is there, and we are probably going to, when I get the time, not probably, but when I get the time, we're going to put up the visual things there in case you want to download that.
	And, of course, when you get to that mega upload folder, you can also play them online.
	You don't have to necessarily download it.
	You can play it right there.
	So if you've got some complications because you're trying to get the stuff and you typically just use your phone or an iPad, if you save that folder, you can go there and you can play them right from the folders.
	So that's a little bit different than last year.
	Last year we used WeTransfer, and they were expiring within less than a week.
	And now they've shortened it up, so you only get it for like two days.
	So it's like, no, we've got to do this in a different way.
	And because people are busy and they don't necessarily get to it.
	So if you didn't get it last year, if you had any issues with it, let us know if you have any problems so we can make it right for you and so we can fix it for other people.
	We want to make sure.
	But I think that it's a pretty good setup this year.
	So, Shay B says, your music puts me in spirit more than anything this year.
	Well, thank you.
	We'll try to play it more frequently.
	Wes Robertson said, what people don't talk about when it comes to digitization is that we won't be able to follow their money ever again outside the control that it will give the world order.
	That's absolutely true.
	Everything they do, isn't it?
	And that's going to be the money as well.
	Everything that they do is designed to see everything that we do That's what the digital money will do.
	They'll be able to see everything that we do.
	And they'll be able to hide everything that they do from us.
	That's everything that they do is based on that.
	Well, let's talk about a Christmas story here.
	And this is a wonderful Christmas story.
	This is the kind of stuff that would be a Hallmark film, except that it is true.
	Home Depot employees save Christmas by returning an envelope full of cash.
	There we go.
	Home Depot employee Adam Atkinson was going about his usual business one day when something caught his attention on aisle 22. On the ground lay a white envelope, something he could have easily dismissed, but something urged him to go back and look at it.
	Thankfully, he listened to that little voice telling him to double-check the out-of-place item, and it's a good thing that he did.
	A closer inspection revealed that this wasn't a carelessly discarded piece of trash.
	This was an envelope full of money, $700 to be exact.
	And so, somebody had an Uncle Billy moment.
	But this guy was a lot more honest than Potter.
	I mean, you go back and you look at that $8,000 and you look at what that was going to buy.
	I mean, in the movie, they talk salary and they talk house values and things like that.
	I mean, we're talking about something that was $8,000 was more than the value of the house that most of the people were living in.
	It's a tremendous amount of money that was there.
	Anyway, the Home Depot employee, Adam, could have easily pocketed the cash, considered himself $700 richer, but his kind heart would never allow such selfishness.
	You know, finders keepers.
	Boy, I tell you, I saw that attitude so much in New York and places like that where in the city, you know, people get hardened living in a city.
	And as one of the pastors that we had who used to live in New York, he said, yeah, if TV falls off the back of a truck, it says, hey, a gift!
	As long as it's still intact, right?
	But, yeah, you know, find cash.
	Oh, yeah, I don't know where this came from.
	With Christmas looming on the horizon, though, he knew that he needed to find the owner of this money, and to do that, he needed help.
	So he took the envelope full of money to his manager and explained the situation.
	And the manager was honest as well.
	She said, I was a closing manager that night, said Alyssa.
	And I noticed that it was still here.
	I thought to myself, oh my, he or she didn't know they even lost it here.
	And it was very sad at that point.
	The Home Depot employees turned to social media as a way to find the owner of the envelope.
	Naturally, Alyssa, the manager, took care in how much detail she provided about the lost item.
	Eventually, her post led her to the right person.
	She said, I got a message from a gentleman by the name of Mark.
	He claimed the envelope full of money belonged to his business partner.
	It's his money.
	He lost it.
	He is panicking, he wrote to them.
	The Home Depot manager, Alyssa, verified the truth to Mark's claims, and the man succeeded in accurately confirming details of the envelope, including what was written on the back of it.
	The money indeed did belong to Mark's business partner, Jonathan Clayton, who was carrying the $700 so he could buy a Christmas gift for his young children.
	And when the envelope full of money went missing, he most certainly was sure that it was gone forever.
	But God made sure that it fell into the right hands.
	I was stressing over it pretty badly, so I'm glad that he, Mark, as a social media guy, was able to see that post because I would have never seen it.
	Christmas was saved for this dad and for his children.
	You know, Karen, it makes me think of that time that you lost your Bible on the plane and it had cash in it.
	Well, maybe somebody will see this as a gift from God, because I guess it was, one way or the other.
	That person needed it more than we did, I guess.
	But, you know, just consider, when we look at this, and what these people have done, it is all the more important to me.
	When I look at civil asset forfeiture, and I think about the thousands, and the tens of thousands, and the hundreds of thousands, and millions of dollars that have been stolen all the time, Under this corrupt program that was pushed by Giuliani, pushed by Biden, and accepted by all these people, pushed by Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General for Trump in the first one, just to steal money from people.
	What a difference it is between the way some people operate and the way that our government does.
	Going out there literally stealing from people.
	The other day I started with this and I didn't have time to finish it.
	This is a very, very important story because, as I was saying, it's about addiction.
	And the power to get rid of it.
	And usually when we talk about addiction, we think about drugs, and that's what this story is about.
	But there's a lot of different types of addiction, aren't there?
	We can be addicted to money, we can be addicted to sex, we can be addicted to drugs, many other things.
	Anything that gets control over your life, that becomes a primary focus of your life, It's something that enslaves you.
	And in most cases, people think of it as it was originally a promise of freedom, let's say.
	And that's the way that it was with this guy.
	I started talking about this the other day, and we laughed about the fact that this guy, when he was 11 years old, started smoking pot for the first time.
	His name is Stoner.
	It was meant to be, I guess.
	Yeah.
	But he said, you know, when he was 11, it was a way that made him comfortable socially and all those things.
	And I mentioned briefly how, you know, I was in a situation when I was in bands.
	It was, you know, places playing bars, playing parties, but also with members of the band.
	You know, drugs and alcohol were around all the time.
	But again, I had grown up in a family that didn't do that.
	It was unusual behavior for me.
	It wasn't something that made me feel comfortable.
	It made me feel, you know, this is kind of strange type of thing.
	And I had, as a young child, it was even more important than what my parents did not do.
	I mean, they didn't really hammer abstinence with me with that.
	But I saw The Days of Wine and Roses, and I'll never forget that.
	And this story here reminds me of that.
	Because he was already moving into some other drugs, but then he met a girl who was into a lot harder stuff than he was.
	And the two of them got very addicted, and they fed each other as addictions.
	And so for decades, quitting or what an addiction specialist refers to as abstinence-based recovery was the goal for drug users seeking to break free from addiction.
	But then what they did was they came up with methadone and some other things, and these programs started making their way in.
	Stoner's wife lived in terror of the debilitating flu-like symptoms that would accompany opioid withdrawal, and he quickly adopted her fear.
	He had one focus securing his next high.
	He hated the lies that he told, and he hated the money that he stole in order to satisfy his obsession.
	At the time, which was primarily heroin.
	He said, The couple located a nearby methadone clinic, and they traded illegal opioids for a legal one.
	Methadone, obtained by prescription, stimulates the brain's opioid receptors, but to a lesser degree than heroin or fentanyl.
	Every day at 5 a.m., the husband and wife would rush to the clinic before loading equipment on their truck and heading to their landscaping jobs.
	Medications like methadone and others designed to blunt withdrawal cravings and to block users from getting high are now considered the gold standard for addiction treatment in the U.S. But critics warn that medication-assisted treatment is not a cure.
	Instead, it creates a lifelong patience.
	And here's the key.
	It allows the pharmaceutical companies to continue cashing in on a crisis that they helped to create because in most circumstances we're looking at things like the opioid crisis, right?
	That was something that they created.
	It wasn't even people who were looking to get high, looking to fit in in a social situation like he was.
	It was sold to a lot of people who got addicted.
	I'll never forget Chris Christie talking about drugs, and he says, yeah, well, you know, I got a friend.
	Who I knew in law school.
	The guy was excellent.
	He became a partner in the firm.
	He's making lots of money.
	He's got a wonderful family.
	Everything is intact.
	He's in great shape, unlike Chris Christie.
	He was a jogger.
	He hurt his back.
	And severely.
	And they got him addicted on opioids in the hospital.
	He wasn't out there looking for fun or a high or anything like that.
	But the doctors gave it to him, told him it wasn't going to be addictive.
	And it completely destroyed his life.
	He said it destroyed his business, his career, destroyed his marriage, and he eventually committed suicide.
	And so Chris Christie says, so don't talk to me about legalizing marijuana.
	It's like, how did that get in here?
	You know, I mean, there's just so many different ways that you can adjust this.
	And as we'll see here, it's not a law enforcement issue, right?
	There's medical aspects of this, but underlying all of that, the foundation of all of that, is really spiritual.
	And you're going to see this in this guy's story.
	One guy who worked at a clinic helping people, his name was John Wilson.
	He began doing it in 1993, just a year before Purdue Pharmaceutical parented its infamous OxyContin pill.
	The company aggressively marketed its painkillers to clinics across the country, claiming that it wasn't addictive.
	And of course, manufacturing a lot of this stuff for Purdue Pharmaceutical was Johnson& Johnson.
	And they were not treated like El Chapo.
	No, no, they didn't use civil asset forfeiture against these people.
	They even allowed them to negotiate with all the state attorneys general in terms of what they were going to do.
	And then afterwards, they realized that these people suckered them.
	Oh, they left a lot of money on the table, they said.
	Back then, his employer boasted a 15-bed treatment facility and everything was abstinence-based.
	And in John Wilson's mind, that was exactly as it should be.
	He'd grown up with just say no, and he said these medication-assisted treatment programs, they call them MATs, seemed like substituting one drug for another, because that's exactly what it is.
	He said at the time, the MAT had already been around for about three decades, ever since treatment providers started experimenting with methadone back in the 1960s.
	In 1996, researchers discovered buprenorphine, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
	And the FDA didn't approve that for addiction until 2002. So he said he was kind of skeptical when his employer first started using these MATs.
	But he said one day he sat behind the glass window at the clinic, and he watched people come in for their regular doses.
	He said they looked haggard, they looked gaunt, and many of them had abscesses covering their bodies.
	His aha moment came several months later after they began using the MAT. He noticed a change in their appearances of those who were seeking treatment.
	He said they were healthier, but most importantly, they were alive.
	And so he overheard a conversation between a patient and an attending nurse.
	The woman had just gained custody of her daughter.
	That was enough to convince him.
	He said, we're doing something right here.
	So, it is supported by more than anecdotal evidence.
	A study of over 17,000 adults in Massachusetts who survived an overdose between 2012 and 2014 found opioid deaths decreased 59% for patients who were taking methadone and 38% for patients taking other drugs.
	Those documented successes have propelled it into mainstream medical acceptance.
	In 2019, about 1,690 opioid treatment programs offered medication assistance.
	Three years later, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported that the number had grown to over 2,000.
	In 2022, about 700,000 patients regularly receive these MATs.
	So it cost them, however, $32 a day.
	And again, a lot of these people, like Stoner and his wife, they don't have a lot of money.
	He's working landscaping stuff.
	And so it was a real hardship for him.
	They said, as we talked before, we said, well, you know, the pharmaceutical companies are now profiting, in many cases, from what they have created in terms of the opioid epidemic.
	They said that it works out to be about $126 per week.
	About $6,600 per year.
	Big Pharma gets its cash, as everybody else suffers.
	And so they said eventually money got tighter, and he and his wife began to ration their doses.
	And when the budget didn't allow them to go every single day, the couple went to the clinic for two days in a row.
	Then skip today.
	But they couldn't stay away for long.
	Stoner said it's the fear of withdrawal.
	I was scared to miss a day going to the clinic because I knew I would not be able to go to work.
	Patients who abandon MAT too abruptly go through the same frightening opioid withdrawal symptoms as addicts who stop using illicit drugs like heroin and fentanyl.
	But it's risky.
	A lot of patients who quit MAT often return to illegal drugs with fatal consequences.
	And that's what happened in their lives as well.
	Not the fatal consequences, fortunately, but they did return to the drugs.
	During the pandemic...
	Medicaid became the primary payer for these prescriptions.
	They jumped from about $190 million to $888 million.
	Nearly a billion dollars.
	A five-fold increase.
	Today, it is a very lucrative industry for the pharmaceutical companies.
	Last year, Suboxone manufacturer Endivior raked in about a billion dollars in revenue.
	There's a lot of money in this.
	Methadone clinics are absurdly profitable.
	Seems like everything the pharmaceutical companies do.
	Are absurdly profitable and absurdly harmful to the rest of us.
	So getting back to Stoner's story, for about three years, he and his wife continued their crack of dawn appointments at the methadone clinic.
	But then, when the world shut down with the so-called pandemic, it crippled their landscaping business and they just couldn't come up with the cash in order to do any of this.
	With nothing to take the edge off of their cravings, the couple resorted to the much cheaper drug fentanyl.
	Much cheaper than the methadone stuff.
	The synthetic opioid is a goldmine for dealers.
	It's incredibly cheap to produce.
	It's up to 50 times more powerful than heroin, but it often kills their customers.
	Stoner's wife overdosed three times a week.
	At the height of the couple's fentanyl addiction.
	And the anti-overdose drug Narcan became a household staple.
	Think about that.
	Drug overdose three times a week.
	Should have been dead if they hadn't had that.
	Desperate to save off their deadly cravings, the couple got back in line in the methadone clinic.
	But Stoner knew that it wasn't a cure.
	Their methadone visits mirried the habits of addiction.
	Opioids still controlled their lives.
	And methadone wasn't available.
	And they always ran back to the substances that they were trying to escape.
	So he started to wean himself off the drug.
	He'd have a dose one day, he'd skip two days.
	And when the clinic's doctor noticed that he was having less frequent visits, he asked to speak to him privately.
	Stoner explained that he was trying to ease himself off the medication.
	He said, the doctor actually tried to talk me into not doing that.
	And I went against his medical advice.
	He says he just wanted to keep me buying his product.
	That's what it seemed like.
	Well, of course.
	It's absurdly profitable, right?
	It's not about your welfare at all.
	Those doctors are just like the others.
	He said the doctor didn't seem to understand that for Stoner, a life spent vacillating between deadly drugs and less risky alternatives, because there's still risk, didn't feel like recovery.
	And it certainly was not freedom.
	And that's a concern that resonates with Haley Walker.
	She is the executive director of a program called Ray of Hope.
	It's an abstinence-based women's recovery program in Charleston, West Virginia, the epicenter of the opioid epidemic.
	Walker has just celebrated 15 years of sobriety herself after graduating from Ray of Hope in 2009 and insists that she and her staff are not against M-A-T. Not against taking methadone and these other things.
	She said it does save lives and it keeps people breathing long enough to recognize the need for a change.
	But she said that Ray of Hope staff want more for women than just keeping them back from the break.
	She said our goal is not dead.
	Obviously, we want women to live.
	But past that, we want them to live free of dependency.
	Free of the chains that bind.
	So she said the rise of MAT has made it more difficult for her to get state and federal grants.
	She said when we're asking for funding, and we have to say that we do not provide clinical resources for medication-assisted treatment, it takes us out of the running.
	So the only anti-addiction programs that the government is interested in running are the ones that are going to make money for the pharmaceutical companies.
	What a surprise.
	Yet Ray of Hope data spanning nearly two decades shows that 79% of their people are still clean and sober, that 84% are working, that 90% are living in a safe place, and that almost all have no new legal problems.
	They're getting people off of this.
	It's a situation very much like Alcoholics Anonymous where they talk about a higher power.
	They recognize it as a spiritual issue.
	It's not really specific about the Bible, but they bring that into it.
	They said when you look at the results of 27 studies, they said they found 42% of people who attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings remained sober for a year, compared with 35% of people receiving other therapies.
	In 2019, a network of Christian residential rehab programs that don't allow participants to use any of these substitute drugs contacted 340 former students between 8 and 20 months after the program had completed.
	78% of them remained sober.
	So, if you do the MAT stuff, 35%.
	If you did the Alcoholics Anonymous, 42%.
	You know, we have mentoring and help, and there's some nebulous higher power.
	For the Christians, it was 78%.
	For this other lady's program, it was 79%.
	90% of them living in a safe place.
	So this is the experience of this stoner guy.
	It's one of the ways that he is finally getting free.
	And you know, of course, Jesus began his ministry by quoting from Isaiah.
	He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
	He said, He has anointed me.
	That's what Christ means.
	Christ, Messiah, means anointed.
	He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor, freedom for prisoners, What is it that is imprisoning you?
	It would be a lot of different things, isn't it?
	And he said, and recovery is sight to the blind.
	And set the oppressed free to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
	And they sat down.
	But the full passage continues.
	And the day of the vengeance of our Lord.
	That's not come yet.
	But what is there?
	It's freedom.
	Freedom for the captives.
	As a matter of fact, I'll just read you one last thing here.
	Stoner decided to join a Christian residential rehab program in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Doesn't allow any form of MAT. He says, I've seen a lot of guys come through here that I thought were absolutely hopeless, and I saw a miraculous change in their life, and I decided that that's what I wanted.
	That program is called His Way, because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
	We'll be right back.
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	you Well, High Boost says, well, David, after 20 years, the courts made Big Pharma pay for OxyContin in the early 2000s.
	Yeah, the problem is they didn't pay enough.
	The problem is they're still in business.
	The problem is that you've got companies like Johnson& Johnson, after they had to pay a little bit for that stuff, that Trump set them up to participate in this Operation Warp Speed thing.
	They produced the most unsafe of all of the vaccines, evidently.
	And the fact that when they went to the negotiating table, Purdue Pharmaceutical and these others, they lied about their assets.
	And then they found out after they'd made the agreement, the government found out, and the various, there's a whole bunch of states that were involved, the state attorneys general's part of a lawsuit, they found out that they'd been basically had.
	These people kept a lot of that money, the Sackler family, Purdue Pharmaceutical.
	He says, I had a friend who hurt his back hanging a garage door.
	Same story, got hooked on Oxy, ruined his life.
	It was sad.
	I mean, it's one thing when somebody, you know, I have sympathy for the people who think they're just having fun or whatever.
	That's, you know, that's a foolish thing to do, but I can understand how people can get involved in that.
	But, you know, when you're not even looking for that, when you're trusting your doctor and they do this to you, that is the most heinous of all.
	But they don't treat these drug companies like they treat the Sinaloa drug cartel.
	They confiscated everything from El Chapo to start with.
	The RICO statutes and civil asset forfeiture and everything, they didn't apply any of that to the Sackler family, to Johnson& Johnson.
	No, none of that stuff.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio.
	Thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Shameless self-promotion alert here.
	A rock music special will run on ModernRetroRadio.com, Saturday at 5 p.m.
	Eastern Time, called Rock and Rights, hosted by a friend and cop watcher, San Joaquin Valley Transparency.
	Well, that's great.
	Rock and rights.
	Know your rights.
	Even more so than even your rock and roll.
	That's very important.
	We had an interesting thing happen.
	You know, we've got this...
	Satanic temple, trolling people everywhere.
	And I briefly mentioned this earlier this week.
	They had put up a satanic display, one of these silly little things like they did in Iowa last year in the state capitol.
	This one they put up, see if you can pull up that picture there, the satanic display.
	Destroyed just days after being placed near Nativity in New Hampshire.
	And so they put up this creepy looking thing with like a Baphomet head or something.
	And it lasted a couple of days before somebody whacked it and destroyed it.
	Look, these people are not exercising.
	There's a picture of it.
	Pathetic.
	You know?
	They're just trolls.
	What they're doing is they're not exercising their religious beliefs.
	What they're trying to do is censor other people.
	They're trying to stop other people from exercising their religious beliefs.
	That's the whole point of all of this.
	So you can look at all of these things, like that thing last year in Iowa.
	I don't know what ever happened to that guy.
	He came from out of state.
	He went up there and he destroyed that pathetic little piece of graffiti.
	That's what it is.
	It's really like graffiti, defacing something else that somebody's got some sincere belief in.
	They're not about free speech.
	They're not about the free exercise of religion.
	They're about censorship.
	That's really what they're about.
	They're begging people.
	You know, they're putting that up there.
	Just like they do with these in-school things, they're begging the government, daring the government, to not allow them to do it.
	Trying to get the government to stop other people who have sincere beliefs.
	They're nothing but trolls.
	And people shouldn't be taken in by this.
	You have the right to free exercise of religion.
	These people don't have a religion that they believe in.
	And that's not what this is about.
	This is simply about trolling other people.
	It was reportedly up for only three days before the black Baphomet head was lopped off and other elements were shattered and scattered.
	My preference was to deny the permit and to accept the risk of the threatened lawsuit.
	Said the mayor there.
	He said, I oppose the permit because I believe the request was made not in the interest of promoting religious equity, but in order to drive an anti-religious agenda.
	He gets it.
	The mayor gets it.
	But evidently he was overruled by other people on the city council.
	He understands exactly what this is.
	This is not about promoting religious freedom.
	This is about denying religious freedom.
	It's about trolling people.
	Well, on the other side of this, you know, we talk frequently about people and the alphabet mafia, but how it has infiltrated the churches and how the churches are, oh, this is just wonderful.
	We're so loving and we're so caring.
	And I want to support this for people.
	And really, this is like, have you ever opened the Bible?
	Have you ever looked at it?
	I mean, this is such direct conflict with it.
	And here's a heterosexual version of this.
	This is a 20-year-old who is making millions, actually 43 million, in a porn career on OnlyFans.
	And she said, hey, I don't see any conflict between that and my Christianity.
	Well, where do you get your idea of Christianity?
	I mean, you're obviously not getting it from the Bible.
	Sophie Rain, 20 years old, joined OnlyFans as an adult content producer last year and is already making $43 million a year.
	And she says this hasn't affected her faith in God.
	Well, maybe she shouldn't have any.
	She says, if this wasn't meant for me, I wouldn't be here right now.
	See, we see that all the time from the LGBT. Well, you know, God just made me gender confused or whatever, you know, and I'm just, that's the way God made me.
	I had a friend from high school who, when he divorced his wife, I said, Steve, you really don't want to do this.
	You know, you got a child and all the rest of the stuff.
	No, I know that God wants me to be happy.
	And I said, no, God wants you married.
	Yeah.
	And then you'll be happy, right?
	If you take the...
	I said that, and I said, wait a minute.
	That didn't come out the way that I wanted it to be.
	But, you know, all of us knew that he was making a mistake when he married this woman, but he married her.
	He made a commitment.
	And what I was trying to tell him was that God, even when you make a mistake, if you honor your commitment, you do other things like that, God will bless you for that.
	But anyway, going back to this woman's story, before the change, she was a server, a waitress, I guess, at a local restaurant, earning minimum wage.
	She noticed her sister was making quite a bit more money on the adult content platform, and so her sister helped her to get started.
	She grew up, they said, in a Christian family.
	I don't know.
	How do you define a Christian family when the kids not only do this, but see nothing wrong with it.
	Growing up in a Christian family does not mean, as she says, attending church nearly every Sunday.
	If that's it, you're not growing up in a Christian family.
	You have to talk to your children.
	You have to establish a relationship with them.
	You have to try to help them to establish a relationship with God.
	And of course, you can't do that.
	Only God can do that.
	But you can try to direct them in that way.
	You can pray for them.
	You can do all these different things.
	But, you know, just showing up at a church on a regular basis at some meeting is not going to do it.
	That's only one day out of seven.
	She was reluctant to tell her family that she had started uploading content to OnlyFans.
	Her parents were initially upset and didn't agree with her career choice.
	But as we see over and over again with the alphabet mafia, they soon changed.
	They said, regardless of the situation, we don't care.
	She said, I'm their child and they love me.
	And they are going to excuse whatever I do.
	Well, if you love her, you might want to look for the best life for her.
	And you might want to talk to her about eternity as well.
	It's not just this short life.
	Christianity, she said, remains a substantial part of her identity.
	She said, the Lord is very forgiving and he put me on there.
	Did he really?
	Yeah, let us sin so that grace may abound.
	Well, this is not even really falling short of the mark.
	This is just full-on rebellion.
	It's iniquity.
	To look at the other side of this.
	She's doing it for the money.
	In Kenya, you've got some church leaders who said, you know what?
	We're going to stop taking payola from the corrupt politicians.
	It was actually against the law, but these corrupt politicians were buying these guys off with money.
	And they said, no, we're not going to do that.
	Completely opposite to what she's doing in her life.
	Breaking with tradition, Kenyan church leaders are refusing the cash donations from politicians.
	Two prominent churches have rejected the Kenyan president's personal donations, saying the cash challenges their independence and undermines the public's view of their integrity.
	I wonder where you got that cash.
	Was it from the Gates Foundation?
	Because this is...
	This is Kenya, where they sold Bill Gates the legal immunity thing, and gave the Gates Foundation diplomatic immunity, tax-free existence.
	I wonder how much cash they got for that, but it shows you the corruption in Kenya.
	They're taking the cash, and they're handing the cash out to these churches.
	One of them is a Catholic archbishop.
	He declined the five million Kenyan shillings, which is about $40,000.
	A week later, the Anglican Church turned down a $40,000 contribution.
	The refusals of the cash threatened to unravel a historical church-state relationship characterized by such corruption.
	Donations.
	Sorry, they said donations.
	I think returning the money is good.
	It's a way of making a statement and teaching the people The right way of giving, said one of these officials.
	In a statement, the Catholic Archbishop explained that the donations also violated the church directives and violated the country's laws on fundraising.
	He also highlighted ethical concerns and the need to safeguard the church from being used for political purposes.
	You have to actually live it, right?
	You have to set that example for other people if you're going to do it.
	And when you look at what it costs, you know, there in Kenya, to get their integrity, they had to stop taking the government cash.
	That's a lesson for all of us, isn't it?
	That's the way Trump and Biden and all of these federal agencies, that's the way they control people.
	They just conjure cash out of thin air and use it to control people.
	But here's the real cost to a lot of Christians.
	In Nigeria, where the Well, the persecution is really serious and very heavy.
	They have the Fulani tribesmen and these radical Muslims who, along with the government's approval and assistance, are slaughtering Christians.
	48 Christians reportedly slain between November 24th and December 1st, just in the last couple of weeks, with women and children included among the slaughtered.
	18 Christians were allegedly murdered on their way to church.
	30 others killed on November 25th when hundreds of herdsmen reportedly attacked residents.
	You know, that's about the time we're celebrating Thanksgiving.
	I forget now exactly what the date of Thanksgiving was.
	But, you know, what a blessing it is in this country that this country was founded by the kinds of people who founded it.
	And that it has enjoyed the blessings of God because they have acknowledged God in their ways.
	But that's not happening there.
	And as Christians, we better get serious about our faith, and we better speak out about this, because if we just let this go away...
	And we have some other kind of a country.
	We could very much end up this way.
	When you look at the migrants that are being brought in into the UK and in other places, as a matter of fact, there's a hilarious story.
	You know, the story was that Muhammad has become the number one name in the UK now.
	And so as a joke, Babylon Bee said, and I mentioned it the other day, they said, Allahu Akbar has replaced Cheerio mate in And they got fact-checked by Reuters on that.
	That's what the Daily Beast did to me when I was using the same joke that Daily Beast had.
	I read the Daily Beast article and told people about Hillary Clinton.
	It says, I'm only half space lizard DNA. And they tried to fact-check me on this.
	These humorless sensors that are out there.
	But again, when you look at the situation that we have here, if we allow this to happen, the Fulani herdsmen, armed with deadly weapons, shot sporadically on the Christians, butchered some of the victims with machetes, destroyed their crops on farmlands.
	This is the price that people are paying to follow Christ in Nigeria.
	While in America, we've got people saying, you can do whatever you wish.
	You can make millions on OnlyFans.
	You can invent any kind of sexual perversion you wish that is directly condemned by Christ.
	And you're still following Christ.
	Are we really?
	Are we really?
	When you look at what they are trying to do, this could very well happen in the West.
	You look at the massive numbers of refugees that That had been created in the downfall of Syria.
	They had about a quarter of a million people just in Aleppo that were Christians that had been there for a very long time.
	And with the war that we have with our Al-Qaeda surrogates that are there, the Mujahideen, the ISIS people, whatever, Al-Nusra, whatever you want to call them, they now got a new name.
	But it's our terrorists as surrogates and the way that they have persecuted Christians just like these Fulani herdsmen.
	They're down now to about 20,000 and they're all hiding because they're worried that they're going to be slaughtered by these people.
	Well, you know, all of these radical Islamic terrorists are welcome as refugees.
	Will any of those Syrian Christians be welcome?
	Well, you know the answer to that, don't you?
	Well, that's it for today's broadcast.
	Thank you for listening.
	Have a great day.
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