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The David Knight Show -12/20/2024

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 20th of December, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well, today we're going to take a look at what has transpired in the last, I guess, day or two with this Omni BS.
	I think it gives us an insight into what it's going to look like moving forward as we see these characters.
	Mike Johnson, Trump, Musk, as we see them making their moves.
	We're also going to take a look at how Powell trashed the Bitcoin market and why.
	We will, in terms of the Federal Reserve owning Bitcoin or having a Bitcoin reserve, we're also going to take a look at climate.
	We haven't visited climate for a while, and we have some interesting updates on this.
	More hysterical lies, and they are hysterically funny about climate change as they try to adulterate our food and everything else.
	And we'll take a look at freeenergy.com.
	Yeah, the controversial thing that...
	Are they trying to keep that from us while they take away our food?
	And we'll look at how they are ramping up in a lot of different places.
	The masks, the mandates, the pandemic fear with BirdFool.
	We will be right back.
	Well, the Babylon Bee looking at all this nonsense.
	you It comes up with a headline, Congress proposes a new law banning anyone from reading the spending bill until it's passed.
	And they're not that far off, are they?
	I mean, that's really what this omnibus stuff is.
	You go back, they could do this any time starting in February.
	They could put this stuff together.
	They don't.
	And after they miss their deadline in October, they could do something and just have a continuing resolution.
	Say, we're just going to continue where we are.
	But that's not the way Mike Johnson did it at all, as I pointed out yesterday, and I did it, and I talked about a lot of this.
	I'm not going to repeat all of that.
	But we know how he loaded it up with a special project, special pork, and all the rest of this, justifying it.
	And this is what is so cynical and inexcusable, justifying it by saying, well, we're going to help the people who have been harmed by the hurricane.
	That happened in September.
	And he just sat on all this stuff.
	All through the election, he just sat on it, did nothing for them.
	They could have offered a clean bill, which would have just been that alone.
	And everybody would have voted on that.
	And look, when it comes to charity, the story about what's going on in North Carolina, everybody understands at this point that when the government gets involved, the only thing that it does is harms people, right?
	Right.
	Tells people, no, you can't help.
	No, we're going to take your stuff.
	No, we're going to destroy the houses that the Amish built for you.
	All of this.
	It is volunteers that have done all of the helping.
	All of the helping.
	And government, from local people all the way up to the federal government, local, state, and federal, they've done nothing but hinder and harm.
	And they do it under pretenses that, you know, government is here to help you, right?
	Right?
	Yeah, the ultimate lie.
	And so, you know, when we look at charity and we look at what the federal government does, that is one of the worst aspects of it, I think.
	That it pushes people away in terms of helping others in so many different areas of our life.
	You know, we look at, well, here are people who are, they're drug addicts or they're homeless or this, well, the government's taking care of that.
	You know, that's what we pay taxes for, right?
	Except the government doesn't do it.
	Just like we see in North Carolina, the government takes care of itself.
	It doesn't take care of other people.
	And the government doesn't have a legitimate reason for doing this.
	This is not the way this country was designed.
	It's not what the founders understood in their wisdom.
	You know, going back to the early 1800s, that whole episode of Davy Crockett where they had a widow.
	And they wanted to...
	A widow of a military officer, very well known, very well respected.
	So they offered the resolution on Congress to give her money.
	And he said, I can't practice charity with other people's money.
	I mean, he didn't say that verbatim, but that's essentially what he was saying.
	He said, I will give my own personal money to her, and I encourage all of you to give money to her.
	But we don't have the authority or the right to force other people to do this.
	We have taken the things that should be done by us and were done by us.
	This was at a time in America where Alexis de Tocqueville came to the country and he said, look, they do everything It's just that simple.
	But they've operated on the premise that we're going to give hundreds of billions of dollars to FEMA. And then they don't do anything to help people.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	And that's what really gets me angry.
	And Johnson is at the center of this, cynically using this as a beard to pass all of his special interest stuff, ignoring what is at issue with these people, ignoring their needs.
	Not doing anything for them, and then using it to try to push through his special interest bills, paying people off.
	And I'm sure that's how he got into the position that he's in.
	They knew what kind of a person he was.
	It took us a while to see it, but it didn't take very long, did it?
	You can see what he did about Ukraine and the border and all the rest of this stuff.
	Going back to Babylon Bee, yeah, we need to pass a budget to give ourselves raises and to pay off lobbyists and to bankrupt the country.
	But people keep reading the bill and ruining everything.
	Reading is a grave threat to democracy.
	They go on to say, House Speaker Johnson says, look, I just need to pass this budget and then I can go home for Christmas and I can sit on the couch and eat ham while I watch my kids open presents.
	If banning reading is the way to do it, then so be it.
	I mean, we're certainly not going to draft a reasonable budget.
	That'd be ridiculous.
	And of course, you know, he can go home and he can enjoy Christmas.
	Except the people in North Carolina don't have a home.
	Except what volunteers have built for them.
	And then the local government comes in and takes that away from them.
	That's your government at work.
	North Carolina Congress members, as I played yesterday, one of them in Florida said, no, they're doing this to us.
	We're, you know, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't.
	Because if we push back against all this pork stuff that's in here, that eats all this garbage, then they say, you're not helping us.
	But they don't want to help them.
	Again, Hurricane Helene was three months ago.
	Three months ago.
	And they have had 11 months to work on setting up their budget.
	So North Carolina Congress members are concerned about lack of disaster relief funding in the proposed budget facing imminent deadline.
	More than $100 billion in disaster relief was promised initially, by the way.
	30% of that was going to go to FEMA. Government takes a bite, doesn't it?
	It's a bad charity, you know?
	I mean, people go through and they rate charities, and they look at how much of the money that the charity collects actually goes to the purpose that they say they're going to help.
	You should do that with the government.
	It's way down there, like Southern Poverty Law Center or something.
	They send their money to offshore bank accounts rather than getting involved even in lawsuits or causes which I think are on the wrong side.
	Nevertheless, Samaritan's Purse said the recovery is far from over despite the best efforts to help people rebuild.
	And the government comes in and tears it down.
	You'll still see a lot of debris.
	You'll still see homes that had landslides come around them.
	You'll still see cars in the river overturned from when the storm hit.
	And so you've got North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis.
	This guy's a globalist, if ever.
	But now he's virtue signaling about this stuff.
	He says, I agree with President Trump that we could do better.
	We could do better.
	Trump reaffirmed to me yesterday that he believes that disaster relief is absolutely essential before we go home.
	Yeah, you know, let's let the people freeze over Christmas, holidays, New Year's, while they take their long, extended break and come back sometime in January, you know, a few weeks off while these people are shivering in the cold.
	And yet, is Trump really concerned about this?
	You know, Mike Johnson put in a 40% raise for himself, so he can go home and have ham and watch the kids open presents while people are shivering in the cold.
	So, Trump, however, when you look at what they did, you know, he had Elon Musk put up a lot of things happened in the last 24 hours.
	They came up with a plan B, and Musk puts up a photograph of this giant stack of papers, you know, it was like 1,550 pages, I think 1,547 exactly, I think.
	And then next to it, he's got just a few pages.
	He says, yesterday's bill, today, after we got involved in it, this is what it looks like.
	Got it down to almost nothing, right?
	And yet, it failed.
	And why did it fail?
	Because Trump added his pet project in there.
	You know, Mike Johnson wants to keep the government spying on us.
	Mike Johnson wants to add more money for the government to...
	Attack opinions that they don't like and take away their advertising revenue.
	He wants to continue all of that stuff.
	He wants to give himself a raise and so forth.
	Trump wants to make sure that there's no debt ceiling because he wants to be able to blow up the deficit as he did in 2020. He wants to continue that.
	He said, let's get rid of this debt ceiling.
	And so even though, you know, Elon Musk brags about the fact that That he got rid of all of this stuff?
	Well, then Trump puts in the getting rid of the debt ceiling.
	Cynical.
	Hypocritical.
	Especially for Doge, right?
	Do you really think that Doge is going to bring fiscal responsibility?
	When they signed on, too, and their version of the bill gets rid of a lot of the pork spinning, But it says we're going to get rid of the debt ceiling for two years.
	Why are they doing that?
	Because they're going to blow it up one way or the other.
	And Trump calls abolishing the debt limit.
	He said that's the smartest thing that Congress could do.
	Is it?
	He floated the idea a day after he came out against a bipartisan spending deal to fund the government and to avert a shutdown.
	Trump told Republican lawmakers about his opposition to the 1,500-page bill put together by House Speaker Mike Johnson after, after Elon Musk.
	Elon Musk is the leader here.
	He wasn't joking.
	He was boasting when he showed a picture of himself with a kitchen sink coming in, just like he did when he bought Twitter.
	He bought the presidency.
	He shows a picture of himself with a kitchen sink walking into the Oval Office.
	Trump pushed for a clean spending bill that would increase the debt ceiling.
	So much for Hurricane 8. So much for the farm bill.
	No, no, no.
	His real priority is that.
	And that's the thing that shut it down.
	Thursday, the president-elect told NBC News that he'd be fine with ditching it altogether, saying the smartest thing Congress could do, and I would support that entirely.
	The Democrats have said they want to get rid of it.
	They want to get rid of this, and I would leave the charge.
	Talking about the debt ceiling.
	Debt ceiling.
	The debt ceiling sets a limit on how much money the U.S. government can borrow to meet its existing legal obligations.
	Increasing the debt ceiling, he said, is not great.
	But we'd rather do it on Biden's watch, they said.
	It's just politics.
	Cynical politics.
	It's going to make sure that the government still doesn't do a thing to help anybody.
	The debt ceiling was suspended in 2023 until January the 1st, 2025. They suspended it for two years.
	Trump is saying suspended another two years.
	Democrats say that would be irresponsible.
	It's all just politics.
	It's all about trying to make themselves look good and the other guy look bad.
	The Trump administration suspended it three times.
	And so, Sam said this, he says, so much for the fiscal conservative policy and for Doge.
	They want to spend whatever they want.
	Yeah, just understand, folks, that Doge is a meme coin.
	Doge is about as truthful about what they want to do as that meme coin.
	And it really is not a doge, it's a dodge.
	It's a dodge.
	And don't be taken in by this.
	So, this failed.
	And so now there is a shutdown approaching.
	And don't be worried about it.
	It's not really any big deal.
	Some of the people who work for the government will be put on furlough.
	Some of them will and they won't have to work, but then they'll get back pay.
	When it all gets settled, some of the people who are in certain areas, we'll talk about what's going to happen with one area or the other.
	Some people who are central, like active duty military, will have to continue in their jobs, but they won't get their paycheck until this is settled.
	Then they'll get their back pay.
	But it creates a cash flow issue.
	I'm not minimizing that for some of the people.
	It creates a cash flow issue.
	But it's not really going to affect anything.
	It's not going to affect people who are getting Social Security checks or anything like that.
	A Republican spending bill backed by Trump failed.
	And this is the other thing that's interesting.
	Because he had 38 Republicans push back against it.
	And I think this is a good thing.
	It shows that there's at least 38 people who put principle over kissing the ring.
	And it shows that there's 38 people who might push back against Mike Johnson for Speaker of the House.
	And so I'm encouraged by this, actually, because we need to do something about that.
	The TSA is saying it's going to slow down Christmas travel because they're going to furlough some of the people that they have.
	But it's a small amount.
	I mean, it's like 10%.
	They may do a work slowdown.
	Who knows?
	But, you know, isn't it interesting?
	And I think it was in 2012. It was the first Thanksgiving after they'd rolled out these scanners, these body scanners, or do the pat down and that type of thing.
	And there was a boycott that was organized for that Thanksgiving, busiest travel day of the year.
	And it was pretty widespread.
	People say we're going to opt out.
	Everybody's going to opt out and we're going to not go through these scanners and we're going to make them pat us down and it's going to bring everything to a close.
	Well, TSA on the busiest travel day of the year just opened up everything and said, everybody just go through.
	Just go through like it was, you know, 1999 or something.
	No problem.
	Just go through them.
	And nothing happened.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Underscoring the fact that in 2011, they had privately said, and we got the emails that showed it, there is no threat to any airports or airplanes.
	The TSA said that.
	And we know that because if there had been a legitimate threat, they wouldn't have stopped it.
	They constantly fail.
	Um...
	The numbers are so high they're afraid to tell us.
	But they hint that it's in the high 90s of their failure.
	Okay, 90 percentile.
	So we knew that it wasn't any big deal and they could just stop this and let everybody go through it.
	But this time what they'll do is they'll slow everything down.
	And of course they'll close the parks.
	That's the thing that they always do.
	They close the parks.
	Despite Trump's support, 38 Republicans voted against the package.
	Along with all but three Democrats, government funding is due to expire at midnight tonight.
	U.S. government will begin a partial shutdown that would interrupt funding for everything from border enforcement to national parks and cut off paychecks for more than 2 million federal workers.
	Trump's urging the new version would have suspended limits on the national debt for two years.
	That's what killed it.
	They didn't want to do a clean bill.
	They don't want to help.
	They're going to continue, as I said, to use these suffering people in North Carolina.
	Pass this bill so we can help them.
	Yeah, right.
	Mike Johnson told reporters a package would avoid disruption, tie up loose ends, make it easier for lawmakers to cut spending by hundreds of billions of dollars when Trump takes office.
	Democrats blasted the bill as a cover for a budget-busting tax cut that would largely benefit wealthy backers like Musk.
	And of course, it was disproportionately tax cuts that Trump did in his first term.
	Gerald Slenty and I talked about that a lot.
	He's just throwing money at corporations.
	Say, oh, we're going to get him to come back to America.
	And they use that money not to build capacity, but they used it to buy back their own stock.
	It was obscene how much money Trump gave to them, and the tax cuts for the middle class were trivial, if existent at all, depending on where you were.
	It didn't make much of a difference at all.
	It was a big middle finger to the middle class from Trump.
	And it'll be that way this time again.
	Some Republicans likewise objected that it would clear the way for more debt while failing to reduce spending.
	Chip Roy said, I'm absolutely sickened by the party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility.
	Oh, I agree with him.
	Well said.
	Even if the bill had passed the House, the White House said that Biden would not support it.
	So again, it's all storm and fury signifying nothing.
	They don't have the votes to override a White House veto, a presidential veto.
	Not in this Congress.
	Trump aims to enact tax cuts that could reduce revenue by $8 trillion over the next 10 years, they said, which would drive the debt higher without any offsetting spending cuts.
	That's right, folks.
	Doge is a dodge.
	It is a head fake.
	It's nothing but a meme that's being sold to you.
	They don't have any authority to get any of this stuff done.
	They can make an advisory thing, and I've seen these advisory committees about how to fix the government.
	I've seen them come and go over and over again.
	Unless you do big structural changes to the entitlement programs, and there's no will at all to do that.
	But unless you did that, you're not going to change anything at all.
	The last government shutdown took place in December 2018 and January of 2019 during Trump's first White House term.
	The unrest also threatens to topple Johnson, who has repeatedly had to turn to Democrats for help in passing legislation when he's been unable to deliver the votes from his own party.
	He tried doing the same thing on Thursday, but this time he fell short.
	That's why you hear all the Republicans.
	I played the reactions yesterday.
	He only talks to Democrats.
	He doesn't even talk to us.
	The guy is just a conniving politician.
	He has no principles whatsoever.
	Several Republicans said they would not vote for Johnson as Speaker when Congress returns in January, potentially setting up another tumultuous leadership battle in the weeks before Trump takes office.
	And by the way, 38 Republicans said no.
	How many of those are going to oppose him?
	It only takes one or two.
	And he doesn't make it.
	That's the silver lining in this.
	Yeah, it was essentially a vote of no confidence by 38 Republicans in Speaker Johnson.
	And the no confidence is well deserved.
	One of the Democrats said, Elon Musk is not my constituent.
	He's Trump's, you know.
	He definitely is Trump's.
	Well, I tell you, it just boggles the mind to think how much money Elon Musk is going to be handed in one way or the other, indirectly, by Trump.
	My constituents are hard-working people who work hard every day for every dime they have, and I'm sure not going to bail out on them in the final week.
	Well, Johnson, by the way, as Zero Hedge said, make no mistake, this is Johnson and Trump's mess to resolve.
	And we're inching toward a shutdown as government funding runs out at midnight Friday.
	Isn't it interesting how AWOL Biden has been?
	The Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday that from the moment he took office, he wasn't there.
	It's like, who knew?
	I mean, that's up at the top of the drug report, upper left-hand corner.
	It's like, you think that's news to anybody?
	Seriously?
	Johnson, and of course, he has absolutely, you know, he's just not even involved.
	They got some spokespersons from that cartel that they call the Biden administration.
	Johnson was mostly MIA Wednesday, holed up in his Capitol office for hours without showing his face.
	And he's canceled a MAGA event this weekend.
	He's afraid to show his...
	Can you imagine if he were to show up?
	They'd be booing and throwing stuff at him.
	I mean...
	Even the House GOP leadership team felt like they were being kept in the dark about what was happening.
	And so, Fox is trying to spin this for Trump.
	I said, Trump encouraged Republicans to block the massive stopgap funding and instead to support a streamlined package that would deliver aid to farmers and those impacted by natural disaster.
	No, he didn't.
	He could have said, do a farm bill.
	Do a hurricane bill, right?
	We didn't do that.
	He says, let's put these things together and try to push through what I want, which is to remove the debt ceiling for two years.
	I can't believe how they try to spin this stuff.
	And then you got, I think, the most despicable bootlicking I have seen in quite some time around all the talk about making Elon Musk Speaker of the House.
	Pushed out by Rand Paul.
	You know, Rand Paul lost his integrity as soon as he became a senator.
	He really did.
	I remember Luke Grodowski and, you know, Rand Paul used to be this accessible guy.
	He used to, you know, talk to anybody.
	He was kind of, you know, working with his dad, Ron Paul, and Luke Krodowski had talked to him.
	And then when Rand Paul gets elected senator, I remember that clip where Luke Krodowski is trying to talk to him and he just keeps walking.
	He won't even talk to him.
	Like, wow, who is this guy?
	You know?
	Has success spoiled Rock Hunter?
	Yeah.
	Well, it spoiled Rand Paul, that's for sure.
	And, you know, Eric Peters had an article about this as well.
	I saw it when I got onto Twitter this morning.
	I saw Eric Peters' article, The Grift.
	The grift is in.
	He's talking about how Rand Paul and the right is absolutely worshipping Elon Musk.
	The first time I ever talked to Eric Peters was about an article that he did calling Musk the king of crony capitalism.
	And the LA Times was saying essentially the same thing as well at the time.
	And so Eric has always been on top of where this agenda is.
	But yeah, it's a grift.
	And he is just playing everybody.
	Like he's played politicians, he's playing the public now.
	And he knows how to influence people through Twitter, and he knows how to see if it's working through Twitter.
	He really did leverage himself with that purchase of Twitter.
	Rand Paul suggested Elon Musk serve as Speaker of the House Thursday morning, posting it on X. I mean, the groveling that's going on is just disgusting.
	And I'll say one other thing about Rand Paul as well.
	I'll never forget the very first question, the very first debate for the 2016 election.
	And it was actually, it was in, like, September of 2015, I think, because they had the full, you know, What do you call a group of Republicans?
	Is it a gaggle?
	Is it a murder?
	What is it?
	You know, if it's Ravens, they call it a murder.
	I don't know what you call a gaggle of Republicans, Republican candidates.
	But anyway, they were all there.
	There's a big herd of them.
	And so the very first question was, Saying, raise your hand if you would not support, if you're not going to support, or would, let's see, raise your hand if you would support the Republican nominee, even if you don't win.
	And I think it was the way they went.
	But anyway, Donald Trump was the only one who went against that, and they said, you didn't raise your hand, or whatever, or you did raise your hand, whichever way it was.
	And he said, well, I'll have to see what else they do.
	It's pretty early in the thing.
	And Rand Paul, from down the row, starts yelling at him, how dare you say you wouldn't support a Republican?
	It's like, seriously, Rand?
	At that point, I lost all respect for him.
	He'd become this partisan jerk.
	Who cares about a political party?
	And of course, at that point in time, he...
	Trump stood against all the rest of them.
	And I was like, well, that's a good thing.
	And he says, well, we're going to see about issues.
	And that's a good thing.
	But he's not about any of that stuff.
	He is about himself.
	So, you know, nothing to...
	But at the time, I was impressed with his candor and his independence.
	And I was...
	I thought it was abhorrent what Rand Paul did.
	And now he's doing it again with Elon Musk.
	And he says, the Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress.
	Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Musk.
	Think about it.
	Nothing is impossible.
	Not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, the Uni Party, lose their ever-loving minds.
	Isn't that important?
	You know, no matter what happens, we've got to own the libs.
	That's the only thing that matters.
	Constitution, we don't care about any of that kind of stuff.
	And this is not a constitutional issue.
	They're right about that.
	The Constitution is silent.
	On any qualifications for the Speaker of the House, it doesn't say that they even need to be a member of Congress.
	It just says they will select a Speaker of the House.
	It could be anybody, right?
	But the Speaker of the House is in line to the presidency, second in succession.
	So if the president dies, the vice president, the president and the vice president die, the Speaker of the House is next.
	And he would not be legally qualified to become president, so that would create some issues there.
	But, you know, because you can be a member of Congress and not be a natural-born citizen, but you can't be president.
	And just as a reminder, Elon Musk is an African-American.
	This is why we need to bring back the terms black and white. - Right.
	I'm so sick and tired of all this hyphenated Americanism stuff.
	But, I mean, you know, black lives matter.
	I guess maybe, you know, black matters, doesn't it?
	They didn't say African American lives matter.
	They said black lives matter.
	But if we're going to have hyphens, I want to be an American American.
	That's what I want to be.
	But Elon Musk is an African American.
	He didn't come here until he was in his 20s.
	He's now an American citizen.
	But Marjorie Taylor Greene immediately jumps in.
	Said, I'd be open to supporting Musk for Speaker of the House.
	Doge can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency.
	Well, again, even if he was Speaker of the House, he can't just arbitrarily issue some kind of an executive order.
	To get the stuff done that he wants to do.
	And there's no place, folks, for them to cut, really.
	They're talking about $2 trillion worth of stuff?
	They can't cut that unless they want to start cutting departments.
	And I would hope that they would, but I don't think so.
	But now Rand has kind of beclowned himself.
	I talked about how Mike Johnson would follow them around.
	He'd go to the football game with them.
	He would go on the plane with them.
	He's never...
	Seated at the table, but he's always leaning in, photobombing.
	And now, Rand Paul is leaning in, trying to photobomb this stuff on Elon Musk's platform.
	So, Democrat Dan Goldman in New York said it's one thing when you have Donald Trump governing by tweets, as he did in his first term.
	But now you have Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, governing by tweets.
	This is absurd.
	And it is pretty absurd the amount of times that Musk posted.
	He posted more than 100 times on Wednesday about this spending bill.
	He called the bill criminal.
	He urged his followers to call their representatives.
	And look, that's fine.
	He's entitled to do that, and I agreed with him about that.
	I think he was absolutely right.
	It was criminal.
	And I don't think that the bill that they came up with was, it wasn't clean.
	And it was still something of, I think it was still despicable, the way that they used people who were suffering to try to pass through their political agenda, which is what it was.
	They stripped out some of the other stuff that was there.
	But Musk's vocal opposition, rather, preceded Trump's and preceded J.D. Vance speaking out against the bill.
	Yeah, he's setting the agenda.
	Many have asked if somebody can serve as House Speaker without already being a member of the House of Representatives.
	And, of course, they can.
	The only issue is presidential secession.
	As this article from Newsweek says, there's no requirement to be a natural-born citizen.
	Naturalized citizens have served in the Senate, the House, and in Cabinet positions.
	You know, we've had people like Henry Kissinger.
	Naturalized citizen who served for Nixon.
	We had the big new Brzezinski who served for Carter.
	We had Madeleine Albright for Bill Clinton.
	Does that scare you yet?
	These people weren't just natural, not natural born citizens.
	They were completely un-American at everything that they did.
	And they were the ones who were running it.
	Look, Kissinger ran Nixon.
	Brzezinski ran Carter.
	Now, I don't know if it was Madeleine Albright or who it was that was running Clinton, but this didn't work out too well for us, did it?
	Well, as House Speaker, Musk would be second in the line of succession, but he could not serve as president.
	So it looks like unless they get something done today, after midnight tonight, there's going to be a government shutdown.
	Well, what does that mean?
	As I said before, you're still going to get your Social Security check.
	A lot of government workers will be furloughed, but they'll eventually get their checks.
	A lot of people will have to continue to work.
	As I said before, it'll be people like active duty military, air traffic controllers, PSA people.
	So it's going to create a cash crunch for them.
	And like most of us that are living paycheck to paycheck, 59,000 of the TSA's 62,000 workers are considered essential and would have to continue working without pay during a shutdown.
	But TSA is trying to scare people, saying, well, you know, if we lose 3 out of 65% decrease, it's going to make the lines longer.
	Who knows?
	The Postal Service will continue to run.
	It's an independent agency.
	And so what is going to close?
	Parks.
	But in addition to parks, you'll have the EPA, the FDA, the NIH. I mean, this is looking like a good thing.
	I could have them shut down the Smokies for a couple of months if we could shut down the EPA, the FDA, the NIH. Imagine, with all of these lies about bird flu and everything, what kink that would put in their plans if we were to shut down the FDA and the NIH. So, even the IRS will, IRS workers will be shut down.
	Can't do without that.
	I mean, you know, shut down the FDA and the IRS and all the rest of it for a while.
	Give us a hiatus from these people.
	I mean, I'm willing to pay them if they don't come into work.
	Say, I'm just exactly the opposite of Elon Musk and all the rest of these people.
	If you don't come into work, we're going to fire you.
	You know, you can't work from home.
	No, I'd say just, you know, put them on welfare or something and tell them to leave us alone.
	That would be...
	A transitional improvement.
	Little Ford Schoolhouse.
	Please keep my family in prayers this weekend.
	Tomorrow is my mom's funeral.
	I'm so sorry to hear that.
	It'll be an emotionally draining day.
	I'm so sorry to hear that.
	Milutin Milankovic, thank you for the tip.
	He says, Merry Christmas.
	Wudu759 says, excellent point, David.
	They could have passed a bill specifically to help in September, and they should have.
	And I was, you know, I mean...
	You're going to take money from people, you're going to create institutions and bureaucracies and promise people that you're going to help, and then you don't do it.
	How reprehensible is that?
	But it was even worse than that, as we saw.
	They don't help, they harm, they obstruct.
	That is so sad.
	Birdhouse Blues.
	North Carolina is like Gaza.
	Look the other way, folks.
	Nothing here to see.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And I mean, the contempt that they have for America, for the borders and everything else.
	That was the thing about the border.
	Oh, no, we're going to give billions to Ukraine, but we're not going to do anything at all for the border.
	And that was where Mike Johnson went.
	M Sellers pictures show long line of RVs being brought into Western North Carolina, pulled by personal trucks, being donated by private individuals and small business owners, not by FEMA. The problem is that they're coming in and saying, you know, I don't know how they are about the RVs, but, you know, this could be another one of these deals.
	saying you can't have uh trailers and things like that in here we've now designated this as a flood zone and you're not allowed to have a trailer that's what i mean they make it harder for people and they may wind up going in and you know kicking the people out confiscating their stuff who knows i mean they've already done it several times now with the amish with the mennonites building this stuff i'm Haibu says, listen, they'll screw us, period.
	Elon will get richer.
	Oh yeah, I honestly think, and here's, I guess...
	I wonder if this is on, what is that thing where they bet on everything, on the presidency?
	They've even got a thing up there betting whether or not Elon Musk will become speaker.
	It's something that the techies do.
	But I think they're going to put a thing up as to, will Elon Musk become the world's first trillionaire during Donald Trump's thing?
	Now, that's something that if I was a betting man, I would bet.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The debt will raise, let's see, Elon will get richer, Congress will get a healthy raise, 40%.
	41%, actually.
	And the debt will raise $5 trillion.
	Book it.
	Yeah.
	Dougalog says, government shutdown?
	What?
	Who will feed me?
	Who will house me?
	What am I going to wear?
	IQ Microdot, Soros will feed you bugs.
	FEMA will house you as domestic terrorists, and you will wear stripes.
	That's absolutely true.
	Soylengoy, can you scroll it up a little bit there?
	Magatards have no principles.
	They'll violate all their own beliefs, quote-unquote, to win.
	Yeah, I'm afraid...
	I'm afraid that is the case.
	Well, when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about money before we move on, because that is also a harbinger of things to come in this next administration.
	Right now, we're not even in the honeymoon phase.
	We're in the, let's dream about a honeymoon phase, right?
	Before you get married, it's like, well, we could go here and there, and then reality starts to set in.
	But you still got the honeymoon, right?
	That's going to be coming up.
	We're going to take a look at how this honeymoon dreaming phase got a bit of a dose of reality, perhaps.
	We will be right back.
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	Well, go ahead and be bold.
	Nobody's going to bite at you.
	And if they do, Karen's got it covered.
	She's going to...
	Let's talk a little bit about this Bitcoin reserve thing.
	You know, Catherine Austin fits two days ago ahead, Ron.
	She said, well...
	I think what's happening is a big pump and dump operation.
	Well, you know, they pumped it with all of this expectation about the federal government having a, you know, Trump saying we're going to set up a Bitcoin reserve and RFK Jr. saying that.
	And as Catherine said, well, they don't have the authority to do that.
	They can't make that happen.
	A lot of stuff would have to change.
	The Department of Injustice has stolen a lot of Bitcoin from people, especially Silk Road and Ross Ulbrich.
	So they could cordon that off, but they don't have the ability to get the Federal Reserve to do that.
	And then Powell said the quiet but true part out loud.
	And it seems to have dumped the price of Bitcoin.
	You know, it had gotten up to a high of 108. It pulled back a little bit.
	And when he said that, I just kept getting one notification in the last couple of days after another on Cash App telling me price of Bitcoin has gone down by 5%.
	Price of Bitcoin has gone down by more than 5%.
	Price of Bitcoin has gone down by 5% again.
	It fell down to 92,000 was where it was this morning.
	And last night I got a message from it on my phone.
	So it's down about 15% from its high.
	And Federal Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. Central Bank has no desire to be involved in any government effort to stockpile large amounts of Bitcoin.
	He said we're not allowed to own Bitcoin.
	That's what he had to say.
	They're allowed to own gold, actually.
	He said that's kind of the thing that Congress has to consider.
	Prospects of central bank involvement in a so-called strategic Bitcoin reserve once Trump takes office is what was behind a lot of this stuff.
	Certainly, there's a lot of sea change from the Democrats who were at war with all crypto.
	And they not only just declared a truce, but they started promoting it.
	And this is a big part of the promotion.
	Powell's comments dented the value of Bitcoin, which has rallied sharply along with other crypto assets since Trump's victory on the prospects of a more hands-off government approach.
	It's not only hands-off, but it's like hands-on, you know, to flip out in the other direction.
	Trump has suggested he will create a U.S. Bitcoin strategic reserve, a concept that has been widely rejected in Europe.
	Trump has not provided details of what such a reserve would entail.
	Yeah.
	Beyond saying that its initial holdings could include Bitcoin seized from criminals, a stockpile of about 200,000 tokens worth, about $21 billion at current prices, the asset has proven volatile in its 15 years of existence, which analysts say has reduced its utility as a store of value or as a unit of exchange, which would be key attributes of a reserve currency, which is why they use gold.
	Republican Senator Cynthia Loomis, again, pushing this.
	She introduced a bill to make this part of the stockpile.
	The purchases would be funded by federal bank deposits and by gold holdings of the Federal Reserve.
	Funding a strategic Bitcoin reserve would likely require the approval of Congress and the issuance of new Treasury debt.
	According to an analysis by Barclays, here's the thing.
	This is how it's going to happen.
	Mexico's going to pay for it.
	Like Mexico paid for the wall.
	We can get Mexico to pay for the Bitcoin reserve.
	That's what we need.
	Or Venezuela.
	They got a lot of it, right?
	Yeah.
	And what happened to that wall?
	I mean, they're fighting over the scraps of the wall that was never built.
	It takes so long to put the thing together.
	They spent so much money.
	And, of course, you can go around it.
	You can go over it.
	You can go under it.
	Federal officials have been skeptical of securities like Bitcoin.
	They've backed away from their own efforts to create a fully digital dollar, the CBDC, in favor of allowing the private sector to innovate payment technologies, which is how they're going to deal with the CBDC. As Catherine Austin Fitz was saying the other day, look at the attributes.
	about the central bank digital currency that you don't want okay the digital id the ongoing surveillance and the ability to block our transactions these are the things that they need to focus on at the state level unfortunately two years on people are catching on to we don't want cbdc we got to do something about it good But don't just write bills saying we've got to stop CBDC. Write bills saying we've got to stop any
	payment system from being used as a digital ID. We've got to stop any surveillance That grows out of a payment system.
	They need legislation for that at the state level.
	And on and on.
	Stop any deplatforming of people.
	How about that?
	Based on political views or based on energy usage or anything like that.
	Stop weaponizing.
	They need to look at the attributes that are harmful of CBD and address those attributes instead of saying, you can't have a central bank digital currency.
	They say, fine, we'll do it a different way.
	There's a lot of different ways that they can make that happen.
	So it's a really stupid thing to try to stop CBDC and not pay attention to those attributes.
	So be careful about that.
	That's the real grift, and that's people, oh, we're safe because Trump is there.
	I don't need to buy a gun.
	I don't need to buy gold because Trump is there.
	He's got it covered.
	In Europe, a series of central bankers this week dismissed any suggestion of Bitcoin becoming a reserve asset.
	Outside of the Eurozone, Hungary's governor-designate of their bank said on Monday the cryptocurrencies were just too volatile.
	The Finnish central bank governor said, our view has not changed.
	Cryptos are assets, but they're not currency.
	And so then the question becomes, did Powell crash the market on purpose? .
	And to what end?
	You know, the pump and dump thing.
	And so, this was something that was put out yesterday morning at 7 in the morning.
	Did Powell's comments on Bitcoin's strategic reserve nuke the market?
	As Bitcoin at that time had fallen to $100,000 again.
	And then yesterday, again, this article was 7 o'clock in the morning.
	By the evening yesterday, it had fallen from 100,000 to 92,000.
	Just going straight down.
	And, of course, that's a rollercoaster ride.
	I mean, look, if you go back a few months, 92 is much, much higher than it was.
	But this volatility is a thing that's really dangerous, and it can cause you to lose a lot of money.
	During a Wednesday media briefing after the U.S. Central Bank's two-day policy meeting, Powell was asked about that, and he says, he paused for a few seconds for effect.
	And he says, we're not allowed to own Bitcoin.
	Everybody goes, whoa!
	Sell, sell, sell.
	Whatever.
	His comments hit Bitcoin prices hard.
	Raised all of its previous highs when it went up to 108. And so this is some of the comments from people who are crypto enthusiasts.
	CryptoSemi said there should be no panic at this time since the incoming president never proposed that the central bank hold the country's Bitcoin funds.
	He said Trump suggested...
	That the Treasury could play a role.
	The Treasury can handle it under certain circumstances, but he says we know that the Fed is not allowed to own cryptocurrency.
	One crypto user had a similar explanation, saying it was never in the plan for the federal Bitcoin to be on the balance sheet of the Fed.
	Another user said Powell knew what he was doing when he nuked the market with this statement.
	The Fed chief understood many new retail investors in Bitcoin would be frustrated by the comments and that it would trigger pessimism in the market.
	Bingo.
	Pump and dump.
	Some users are taking the hit on Bitcoin with open arms, saying Powell did a good job in making the prices plunge just in time for a Christmas by the dip spree.
	For some crypto users, Powell intentionally made such statements to allow institutional investors to buy Bitcoin in the lows.
	That's my opinion.
	Because you've got a lot of these institutions, they've set up derivatives, BlackRock and others, they're setting up these ETFs.
	And if people buy into the ETFs, they have to buy the Bitcoin, supposedly, if they're doing it honestly.
	And how do you know if they are?
	I mean, that's not even physical.
	We know that the paper gold and paper silver, they're not buying the stuff to back that up.
	It doesn't track the price of that.
	There's no auditing going on with that.
	How do you audit this stuff about their ETFs of Bitcoin?
	It's a complete absurdity.
	But the institutional investors want to be able to get it, and that's what he provided for them.
	They get it at a discount.
	Trump's inauguration may trigger a crypto sell-off, says Arthur Hayes.
	You know, this is the old thing.
	You buy on rumor.com.
	And you sell on news or you buy on, in this particular case, you buy on the rumor of a politician's promises and then you sell when that politician gets into office because people are going to realize he's not going to do what he's going to do.
	That's the type of thing.
	So what Powell did was he just moved that up a little bit, right?
	We're not going to wait until January 21st.
	We're going to set this thing up at the end of the year for institutions.
	Arthur Hayes published a truth blog on Trump's social media thing, forecasting a massive crash in crypto markets following Trump's presidential inauguration in January.
	He cautioned against the high expectations of quick crypto policy changes promised by Trump, highlighting a gap between market anticipation and the realities of policy implementation.
	This is always an issue.
	You know, thinking back to the dot-com bust.
	It wasn't that the internet wasn't going to be a big thing.
	I mean, the internet probably bigger than anybody anticipated at that point in time.
	But the rumors and the expectations got ahead of the reality.
	And that was part of the thing that caused it to crash.
	That's the thing to be concerned about with AI. And that's the thing to be concerned about with the Trump crypto bump, is that expectations get ahead of reality.
	So in his blog post on truth that he put out on December 17th, before Powell did this, He said that his investment fund, Maelstrom, plans to trim some positions early to buy later at lower prices in the first half of 2025. He doubts the U.S. and other countries will start creating national Bitcoin reserves anytime soon.
	But he said the market believes that Trump and his people can immediately achieve economic and political miracles.
	Why do they believe that?
	Because Trump keeps selling them that line.
	Oh, on day one, I'm going to stop the Ukraine war.
	On day one, I'm going to do this.
	And on day one, I'm going to...
	Everything is about day one.
	Imagine...
	Imagine the disappointed hangover with the Laga people on day two.
	When reality sets in.
	And this is just one of those realities.
	A gap between expectations...
	And a no politically acceptable solution that's available quickly.
	The enactment of any crypto policy changes would likely take significantly more time than the market might expect, said Hayes.
	And when you got a market hyped up into a mania, there's no patience with that.
	He said the market will instantly wake up to the reality that Trump has at best one year to enact any policy changes on or around January the 20th.
	This realization will lead to a vicious sell-off in crypto and in other Trump 2.0 equity trades.
	He forecasted a harrowing dump around Trump's inauguration day before crypto enters a crack-up boom phase later in 2025. I think you'll need to listen to Yukon Cornelius.
	He was talking about Trump euphoria.
	Remember that?
	He gave you some good advice, I think.
	It's an opportunity to buy gold.
	And anyway, as Hayes expects the markets to experience a sharp drop around Trump's inauguration in January, his investment fund, Maelstrom, he said, will clear some positions expecting to buy at lower prices.
	But now, Powell has moved that forward a little bit.
	He burst some of those expectation bubbles with his blunt comments.
	Maelstrom will be tightening up on certain positions in advance, hoping to rebuy some core positions at lower prices sometime in the first half of 2025. And, of course, this Trump euphoria is attached from reality.
	There's been no fundamental change in the things that matter.
	Like the deficit, which Trump has just indicated he wants to blow that up.
	Yeah, get rid of the ceiling.
	We're going to blow the ceiling off of this place for the next two years.
	He's going to get what he wants with that eventually, even if he didn't get it this time.
	So, you know, debt and inflation and quantitative easing and printing, money printing, all this stuff is just, none of that has changed.
	As a matter of fact, it may get worse.
	We'll just have to see.
	But everything has pretty much been pounded.
	It pounded the stock market, as we talked about.
	Went down 1,100 points the other day.
	It's had 10 days in a row that it lost.
	Maybe, I don't know what happened yesterday.
	I didn't look.
	Gold and silver were also pounded by it as well.
	Gold was down like 2%, recovered some of that yesterday, and is moving up again today.
	But Bitcoin down 15%.
	And again, it just shows the power of the Federal Reserve and people like Powell to manipulate the economy.
	I mean, I'll never...
	I was speechless when a friend of mine brought in his brother, who he says, well, he's a vice president of the bank.
	He was a branch manager.
	They give him the title of vice president.
	And he said, you know, because I had said some things about the Federal Reserve.
	He goes, I forget what the guy's name was.
	Let's just say Joe.
	He says, tell him, Joe, tell David that the Federal Reserve doesn't really affect anything.
	He says, yeah, that's right.
	All they do is process checks.
	Yeah, pay no attention to the markets.
	The stock market, Bitcoin, gold, silver, they've affected everything this week with just a couple of terse comments.
	Bonds have been battered as well.
	Stocks and bonds.
	Gold and Bitcoin.
	All of that hit by the Federal Reserve and just talking about what they might do.
	Well, Peter Schiff says the World Central Banks are starting inflation again.
	During the first two fiscal months of 2025, he said because we're already in that fiscal year, the budget deficit in those two months alone...
	was $624 billion, a 65% increase over the same two months a year ago.
	Up 65%, the deficit up 65% year over year.
	He said the first time the U.S. government ran a $624 billion deficit for an entire year, and not just for two months, but for an entire year, was 2009, right after the 2008 financial crisis.
	These figures clash with the official narrative that the economy is doing well.
	Of course, because the official narrative is always a lie.
	Whether they're talking to you about drones or pandemics or unemployment or inflation, they're always lying.
	If consumers are in the greatest shape ever, according to this Wall Street analyst who said that, he said they would have voted for Lala.
	He says, they're hoping that Trump is going to change things.
	He said, as an example, let's imagine that you're lying in a hospital bed, and you're plugged into all kinds of artificial life support.
	You've got tubes in your mouth, you've got tubes in your nose, you've got blood going intravenously into your body, and you ask the doctor, what's going on?
	And the doctor says, you're in great shape.
	Absolutely perfectly healthy.
	Except if we unplug anything, you're going to drop dead.
	There's artificial stimulus everywhere you look, right?
	As well as lies from the doctor.
	All these numbers confirm that the inflation is bottoming out and is heading much higher.
	And it never got anywhere near 2%.
	Especially if you look at the producer price index, which is a leading indicator for the consumer price index, because generally businesses have their prices go up first, and then they pass it on to the customer.
	Because they have to.
	If they absorb those costs, they lose their profit margin, and then you go out of business.
	Yet the Fed is going to cut rates by another 25 basis points, he said.
	And the European Central Bank just cut rates 25 basis points this week.
	And the Swiss National Bank went for a supersized 50 basis point cut.
	Inflation is going to rear its head in a big way all over the world.
	He said the Eurozone, Japan, all of these countries that are cutting rates should not be cutting rates.
	And what's going to happen with inflation?
	Well, people are going to start looking for gold.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	Trump's euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
	It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense is.
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	It says, according to one of Trump's advisors, they might use control of Bitcoin to devalue gold and silver and pay national debt.
	Sounds super dangerous to me.
	Look, everything that Trump's advisors have been talking about, And everything they have a history of doing, especially people like Lucky Lutnik.
	You know, they are working us towards tokenization, securitization, all this kind of stuff.
	There's a tremendous amount.
	It's not just gold and silver.
	They could use this to drop every asset and to seize things.
	That's what the Great Taking talks about.
	And, of course, all this tokenization stuff.
	It's very, very bad.
	And the people around Trump are the ones who have been the ringleaders of this.
	So it is a very dangerous time.
	A lot of volatility and a complete restructuring of the financial system is in the works.
	Look, let's not forget the fourth turning here.
	And Trump is their guy.
	People trust him to do this, even after what happened in 2020. And this is, it's always financial.
	Many times it goes into war.
	It usually does go into war.
	About every 80 years, everybody's fed up with institutions and these types of, and then financial things start happening.
	And Trump is going to be here for the, you know, last four years or so of the fourth turning.
	It's the people who Watch these patterns happen over 500 years.
	Strauss and Howe said sometime, they said this in like 92, sometime in the mid-2000s there's going to be a global financial crisis.
	2007-2008 happened.
	And that'll kick off the fourth turning.
	And then they said, and we think it's probably going to run up to 2029. And so, yeah, that's exactly what we're looking at here.
	Who knows what these people have in mind for us.
	That's why we need to retreat back to things.
	That's why they're coming after Local food production and other things like that, and anything that is tangible, physical.
	12 June 1776. There will be no dollar collapse.
	There will be, however, Americans drained dry of life, liberty, unalienable rights, property, and their standards of living.
	Yeah, it's, you know, don't underestimate their ability to destroy things with this derivative stuff.
	Yeah, that's the whole thing that kicked off this fourth turning, and it might be the thing that seals it up at the very end.
	Atomic Dog, Bitcoin has broken through historical high marks in the past, always retracts.
	I expected profit-taking after hitting $100,000.
	And of course, you know, there's also year-end.
	Some people are going to want to take their profits at the end of the year.
	Some people will take their profits at the beginning of the year, which makes the...
	The end of the year, the beginning of the year, very volatile with it as well.
	And I think that, you know, Powell and what he had to say, I think that had an effect as well on a lot of people that are not long-term investors in it.
	But I do think that a lot of people are going to be very disappointed.
	By what does not happen right away, right?
	Regardless of what Trump does to prop up Bitcoin.
	YouTube is a shoal.
	According to David Martin, all governments are going to collapse in 2028 due to insurance underwriters.
	Well, it's not just that.
	I mean, you look at the deficits that they've got.
	Tony talks about this all the time.
	Tony Arterman at Weiswolf Gold.
	By the way, you know, go to David Knight Gold.
	That'll take you to Tony Arterman.
	If you want to start accumulating some things, just think of it as prepping.
	That's the way I look at gold and silver.
	It's prepping.
	I'm not thinking that I'm making an investment.
	You know, it's just like when you look at these donors like Elon Musk.
	He's not making a donation.
	You make donations to politicians.
	They make investments in the politicians.
	Yeah, so I don't look at gold as an investment.
	I look at it as prepping.
	But, you know, as Tony talks about this, and we've talked about it many times, he said just look at the massive amount I mean, it's not even the insurance underwriters and stuff.
	Globally, we've got a house of cards.
	And it's just waiting for a pin to puncture it.
	And that pin could be some kind of a war that they want to get us into.
	Who knows what it's going to be.
	Corn pop, 4584. Bitcoin has never gone through a recession.
	Yeah, but it is very volatile.
	And that's the key thing for people.
	It is volatility.
	I'm not giving anybody an investment advice.
	You know, everybody can look at this and see what it is.
	I'm just concerned about the way this crew...
	It's going to use crypto in general.
	And it's not even about Bitcoin.
	It's about the tokenization and the securitization.
	That's what concerns me.
	Bitcoin is what they're having everybody look at.
	But what I'm concerned about is that tokenization and the ability for them to be able to use it as a digital ID. That's already out there, as Aaron Day said when I talked to him.
	He said, look, we've already got...
	CBDC in a sense.
	You look at what MasterCard is doing with a lot of these organizations and everything.
	And the public needs to be awakened to that.
	It needs to be awakened and address those functions.
	Not any particular instrument.
	This is not about the FedCoin or FedNow or any of that kind of stuff.
	As much as it is about these powers that they are assuming there.
	Junk Silver, thank you very much.
	That is very kind.
	I appreciate that.
	David, I've concluded that your actual goal here is to share God's glory through your beautiful music.
	The excellent news analysis and discussion just lures us in, so we'll listen.
	Merry Christmas.
	You don't even know the half of it yet.
	I've been writing songs.
	The whole reason I got into all of this stuff was for that very reason.
	Not because I got into news.
	I mean, that's just kind of things.
	God just kind of arranged the chess pieces on the board to get me into this kind of a situation.
	But, you know, going back to the late 90s, I started writing lyrics for songs.
	And I thought, how am I ever going to get these things out, you know?
	Yeah.
	And some of the things that I did, I was just frustrated with the direction that contemporary Christian music is going and how shallow it was.
	And how it said absolutely nothing.
	And when it did say something, it was usually the wrong thing.
	You know, it's about Jesus is my boyfriend type of stuff.
	You know, and it just, it's beyond cringe.
	And so we had a group that was meeting in our house that do a weekly neighborhood group that's doing a weekly Bible study.
	And we would begin, we have all the kids, a lot of homeschooling families and They would come together, and so we had this massive number of kids and everything.
	We'd get them together, and we would sing before the adults would have a Bible study and just kind of talk about what was happening in our lives.
	And I thought, yeah, I really don't like these songs.
	We'll come up with something else.
	And so I did a couple of them there, but there were some that I did that were orchestral.
	And so I started trying to do that back in the early 2000s, and the technology just wasn't there yet.
	Now, there's been a lot of progress in terms of the realism of the MIDI instruments that you play.
	But now that is quickly being overshadowed by AI just doing everything for you.
	But that's not what I do, and it's not what I'm interested in doing.
	Because I've got specific things.
	I mean, the AI, you give it a description and say, I want this genre, and I make up a song about a robot tying its shoelaces or whatever, and makes up silly lyrics like that.
	Yeah.
	And it is pretty interesting, but it's just kind of a parlor trick.
	It's not really anything of any substance.
	So we had hoped this year to have a Christmas song that we wanted to put out, but I was going to have Karen sing it, but we never got around to it.
	She was sick.
	And with Whistler being sick and all the extra work that she has to do, especially, it's fallen really more on her than it has on me.
	But we had a song that was about the Incarnation, about John 1, and I thought it would be a good time to put that out around Christmas time, to focus on that aspect of it.
	But we didn't get that done.
	So we're hoping that maybe this next year we might be able to get some of those out.
	DG8. David, the Trump cult will have no problem making excuses why he won't fulfill his statement.
	The pro-Trumpers are never Trumpers.
	It's never Trump's fault.
	Never Trump's fault.
	They'll have another excuse for it.
	They have no expectations of him really coming through, and their only response is that he's better than Lala.
	Patrick asks, thank you for the tip.
	Merry Christmas, he says.
	I always look forward to the music.
	Thank you very much.
	And Steve Swan.
	Thank you for that.
	Steve left this note yesterday.
	He said the David Knight Show is a value for value production.
	If you receive any value from it, please make a donation to it.
	Thank you, Steve.
	And by the way, I want to thank the people who did make a donation to us.
	And we have the gas gauge.
	I don't know if it's there yet or not, but it should.
	Karen said it's not been updated.
	It should be one tick past the halfway mark.
	So five-eighths is where we are.
	And I wanted to thank the people.
	These are the checks that came in the second week of December.
	I'm not sure what this first one says, Karen.
	Me from somewhere?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's right.
	That's the anonymous person who sent us some cash in the envelope.
	And on the return address there, it says me, and it says somewhere instead of an address.
	So thank you, me from somewhere.
	And also, a lovely card.
	And Karen has put the cards up here behind me, many of the cards that came in.
	So thank you very much for these.
	And Lois L, Dale L, Timothy W, Kelly and Philip M, Joe and Walter A, John R, David and Anne-Marie N, Joel B, TK, Martin K, Scott and Samantha T, William G, Scott and Samantha T, William G, Ronald C, Stephanie K, Edward C, Clinton and Bethany D, David and Deborah W, Margaret Mary T, Scott C, Jeremy W, Eric K, Aaron
	Scott C, Jeremy W, Eric K, Aaron W, Kimberly S, Ryan F Thank you very much.
	And, we don't have that here, do we?
	The sheepskin.
	Oh, my gosh.
	She forgot.
	Glenda W., thank you very much for the sheepskin for Travis's little baby.
	And Travis says thank you.
	We told him about it.
	He's still in Austin, but such a nice thing, and I'm sure the baby is going to love that.
	Thank you very much, all of you.
	Angry Tiger, thank you for the tip.
	And Dustin Helm as well.
	And Jeb Clanton, thank you.
	And he writes, Merry Christmas to everyone.
	And TGIF. I'm feeling it this week.
	I tell you, I'm ready for it to be Friday.
	Random Guy.
	Thank you very much.
	That is very generous.
	And Doug Olog.
	Thank you as well.
	Thank you all of you.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's talk a little bit about climate.
	Because this is another way that they can impoverish us.
	You know, they can mess with our money.
	They can turn it into a digital ID and tracking and control system.
	But they can also impoverish us and starve us in the name of climate.
	Newsweek.
	Is claiming that U.S. cities would be underwater by 2050. And they forget they made the same predictions in 2000 and in 2020. That's right.
	And as I like to frequently point out, this is Newsweek from July 16, 1979. I saved it because I knew it was going to be a hysterical lie.
	I never knew I was going to have a program.
	I never thought in the world I would be doing this.
	But I was going to have a good laugh with my family in the future, and we...
	Now we can all laugh at this.
	And time, the energy mess.
	And these two were in the height of the OPEC oil crisis.
	They were saying, we're going to be out of oil and gas in the mid-80s.
	And look at where we are now.
	We've got so much of it that they've got to prohibit it.
	Now, OPEC is clearly in Washington, D.C. And so, these people who have been wrong all the time keep pushing the predictions of other people who have been wrong all the time.
	They said we're going to be underwater in 2000, underwater in 2020, underwater now in 2050. A map, this is the most recent one, Newsweek, show this article here.
	A map shows U.S. cities that could be underwater in You know, the interesting thing about it is that in this map, you know, and when you look at this, there's actually a website where you can go as well.
	And you can look at the places where Obama and other people have bought seashore properties.
	You know, big-name people who are in mainstream media, you know, they buy these tens of millions of dollar properties right on the oceanfront and everything.
	All those are supposed to be underwater.
	They don't believe any of that.
	None of it, of course.
	And so, the Newsweek claims a number of major cities will be submerged beneath rising seas by 2050 if humans don't stop climate change.
	This is false.
	As false as when the same claims were made by multiple media outlets repeatedly over the preceding decades, none of those cities is even close to being underwater or even having the coastal waters lapping at their streets, their parking lots, or their buildings.
	You know, I remember Venice.
	And they showed pictures of Venice, and they said, oh, wow.
	And Venice is sinking.
	It's not that the sea is rising.
	They are slowly sinking.
	But it's like, look at this.
	It's flooding the streets that are there and so forth.
	Then a few months later, they had a drought, and the canals were empty.
	And it's like, what's going on with this?
	Anyway, but they didn't talk about that aspect of it.
	I did show the pictures at the time.
	Newsweek points to data and a map that is produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, who is lying to you again.
	According to NOAA's latest projections, they think sea levels along the U.S. coastlines are going to rise on average 10 to 12 inches by 2050. No.
	No.
	Many communities along the Atlantic...
	These are the same people telling us...
	Remember a few weeks ago?
	They're saying down in the South Pacific, look, the sea level has risen five inches here at this one island, and then another one has risen eight to ten inches.
	It's like, how does that happen?
	You know, I mean, the same ocean, the same region.
	So, many communities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts face significant risks of partial inundation in the future if current trends continue.
	So, they tell you this stuff so that Obama can get the things cheaper, maybe.
	It's like the pump and dump.
	Okay?
	They run with assets.
	Maybe that's a part of it.
	Who knows?
	Newsweek is apparently forgetting these same areas were predicted to be underwater in 2000 and in 2020. In the late 20th century, numerous media reports warned that major U.S. cities would be underwater by the year 2000. A 1989 associated...
	Press.
	Associated Propaganda.
	AP. Article reported a UN official warning that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by the year 2000 due to rising sea levels if global warming was not addressed.
	1989. Ten years after they're telling us we're going to be out of oil and gas and all the rest of this stuff.
	Similarly, in 2012...
	PBS published an interactive map projecting that certain U.S. cities and countries could experience flooding by 2020 or by 2050 due to global warming-induced storm surges.
	These past projections are based on climate models and on climate assumptions.
	That have been proven wrong over and over again, and yet we keep going back to the same experts that have been misleading us, lying to us, or duped themselves.
	People like Michael Mann.
	NOAA claims that sea levels have been rising at an approximate rate of about 1.2 inches per decade globally since 1993. Well, that would translate to approximately a foot over a century.
	This rate of change will put none of the cities discussed underwater by 2050. So there's that.
	They can't do the map and they don't know what elevation these cities are at.
	A climate realism article critiques CBS News for suggestions that New York City is on the brink of being flooded by sea level rise.
	Pointing out that such claims are not substantiated by current trends or by historical data.
	New York City is going to be flooded by illegal immigrants.
	It has been flooded by them, but not by water.
	Biden...
	And his administration, the EPA, the people who, if the government shuts down, the EPA would have to cease operating for a while.
	They're going to get their money eventually, but they wouldn't be out there harassing people.
	They're bragging about the first ever climate change arrest.
	I'm telling you, the EPA has turned into a major criminal organization.
	They want to shut down our power plants just like they're shutting down our automobiles.
	And now they're talking about arresting people.
	Michael Hart, 58, arrested in March, pleaded guilty in September to charges related to transporting refrigerants into the U.S. to peddle on Facebook Marketplace.
	How dare him?
	He brought aerosols in that are used for refrigerators.
	Yeah.
	Um, hydro chloro, fluorocarbons, HFCs, uh, And he bought this in bootlegged refrigerants.
	This is part of the absurdity of prohibition.
	It doesn't matter what you prohibit.
	It could be something that is perfectly harmless and you create a black market in this stuff.
	The U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath, who prosecuted him for the EPA, Vowed, quote, it will not be the last case of its kind.
	We've got to get rid of the EPA. I mean, I'm serious.
	What they will do, if they do anything, these doge clowns, what they'll do is they'll take the functions and they'll put them somewhere else, or restructure it or something, right?
	No.
	You've got to recognize the fact that the federal government has no authority to be doing any of this stuff, and from a pragmatic standpoint, they should not be doing it.
	But they don't have any constitutional authority to do this either.
	As a reminder, HFCs are important for refrigeration and air conditioning systems.
	They were initially produced to replace the ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons.
	So now, you know, first we were allowed to use these refrigerants, and then they said, oh, wait, we've got a hole in the ozone.
	Oh, has that always been there?
	I don't know.
	We never looked before.
	But yeah, there's a hole in the ozone.
	And in my lab experiments, I can see that these chlorofluorocarbons can deplete ozone.
	So we've got to come up with something different.
	So they mandated everybody buy the HFCs and stop using the other stuff.
	And now the HFCs are prohibited.
	Constantly doing this.
	And they're going to jail people for doing that.
	This guy, you know, running a bootlegging operation to help people get their refrigerators to run.
	Reminds me of what they were doing in the Netherlands.
	Remember?
	Mark Ruda got booted out there.
	Unfortunately, we don't get rid of any of the people who are pushing pseudoscience here.
	But he was there saying, coming after the farms, and saying, you're not going to have farm fertilizer.
	Remember, they had people who were smuggling manure over the borders.
	Same type of thing here, you know?
	Smuggle manure in for people who use this fertilizer.
	Smuggle in refrigerants?
	Oh, you've got to go to jail.
	This is the climate insanity, and it's got teeth.
	It really does.
	One person said, this reads as if some guy was arrested for smuggling air conditioners into a hot-weather state.
	This is insane.
	It is.
	And the only way we're going to stop this insanity is to stop the EPA. The leaders of this stuff ought to be arrested, and it ought to be shut down.
	But, of course, I don't think any of that is going to happen, unfortunately.
	The agency's environmental enforcement efforts also saw 1,851 civil cases, 121 criminal defendants charged, but this is the first time they've arrested somebody.
	RFK Jr. ought to be happy about that, right?
	He wanted to arrest the people who opposed his lies about climate stuff.
	Give them three hots and a cot, he said.
	And he never would say that he was wrong about arresting people for free speech or any of the rest of this stuff.
	Instead, he said, well, I was referring to the corporations.
	No, you weren't.
	You don't put corporations in jail.
	You don't give corporations a bed to sleep in or three hot meals a day.
	The results reflect a 3.4% increase in civil cases, a 17.6% increase in criminal charges compared to just last year.
	The EPA is really insane and dangerous.
	And again, as I said before, both the EPA and the Department of Energy, the Department of Energy is the ones putting out all these regulations on appliances and stuff.
	And so you had a Tennessee rep.
	Put out a bill, called it the Laundry Liberty Bill.
	Saying, you know, we're going to stop these insane requirements on washers and dryers and things like that.
	But it's everything.
	You know, it's the ranges, it's the air conditioning and all the rest of the stuff.
	And what they're doing with the Department of Energy, and the EPA is doing some of it, and the Department of Energy is doing some of it, and they're both doing it based on a congressional act that happened just before Nixon created the EPA. That gives the bureaucracy the ability to set efficiency standards and things like that.
	That needs to be removed.
	If they can't remove the EPA, if they can't remove the Department of Energy, they need to remove that piece of legislation that gave them a power that Congress didn't have and couldn't confer, right?
	Under the Ninth and Tenth Amendment, they were not given any authority to regulate things like that.
	So they don't have it.
	You'd have to amend the Constitution for that to be legal, and they didn't do it.
	And so that act needs to be repealed.
	It needs to be challenged by someone.
	Peak climate derangement syndrome.
	Listen to this.
	Japan Airlines is telling people that we've got to reduce the weight of baggage and carbon emissions.
	One of the ways we can do that is to stop having you take bags of clothes.
	So in that cartoon picture, they show people showing up at the airport in their underwear.
	I mean, this is going back to an American Carol where they were joking about the absurdity.
	Well, you've got to take this off, you've got to take this off, stripping people down as they go through security.
	Well, that...
	Pretty soon, turn from satire to reality.
	Now what Japanese Airlines is saying is, don't bring any luggage at all.
	We'll just rent you clothes when you get there.
	You'll own nothing and you'll be so happy.
	Well, you know, they're going to sell the rope that hangs them.
	That's what Lenin said.
	He said, Capos will sell the rope that we used to hang them.
	And that's what Japan Airlines and all these airlines are doing.
	Mark Morano, I need to get him on again, saying the Paris Agreement is a weapon against America.
	Boy, is it ever.
	It is a weapon to impoverish us.
	And it is a weapon to stop all manufacturing here, while they're allowing China to effectively get a monopoly.
	Because China is using about half of the world's coal for energy.
	It's very cheap, it's very effective, and they don't even have to try to clean that up at all.
	Meanwhile, everybody else's coal plants are dropping.
	We're like something like eight or ten percent or something like that.
	A former Biden climate czar apparently pushed Mayorkas to ease up on a Chinese company that was linked to slave labor.
	But look, the worst thing about the climate czars, more than slave labor, it's giving them an advantage on the cost of energy.
	It's going to be more devastating than anything else that has been a part of the China price, as we call it.
	M Sellers, thank you very much for the tip.
	He says, David, you make our day better and you help strengthen our result.
	Well, thank you.
	God bless you and your family.
	Merry Christmas.
	Thank you so much.
	I appreciate that.
	Knights of the Storm.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	Please thank Karen for all the hard work she has done for the show.
	She is an angel.
	Yes, she is.
	Absolutely.
	And she's got a lot of stuff that she's prepared and got the orders together.
	We've got to get that out today.
	She's rolling her eyes.
	It's like, yeah, I know.
	And we've got an interview that we've got scheduled coming up after the show, too.
	So it's going to be...
	That's the thing.
	It's difficult to get to the places.
	StealthPatriot.
	Thank you for the tip.
	Appreciate that.
	He says, David, what live streaming software do you use?
	I use a movie-making app to post content with and splice into.
	And it's a real pain.
	That is something I've not even been involved with.
	That's something my son's got involved with.
	But it's OBS is what they're sending it out with.
	And then it's getting, I think it's Restream, sends it out to multiple places after that.
	But that's all the detail that I know of.
	I didn't want to get involved in it at all.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the davidknightshow.com.
	And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred.
	Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. Yeah, there we go.
	Gotta help that poor guy.
	He does need a new wardrobe.
	Let's hope that he at least washes that shirt.
	Or maybe he's got a closet full of them like Vern.
	Not Vern.
	What's his name?
	He always said Vern.
	Jim Varney was his name.
	I forget his character's name.
	Anyway, before we leave the climate stuff, We have in Europe, they put out a genetically modified potato.
	Now, people in Europe frown on GM food, and rightfully so.
	They don't like their food genetically modified.
	So they decided that they would engage in a little bit of image reconstruction and say, well, we genetically modified it to make it climate change resistant.
	They counter the resistance of the genetically modified food, but it's good for the climate.
	And as they point out in this article from What's Up With That, they said potatoes are already versatile and already resilient.
	Maine potatoes grow in chilly Maine, and they grow equally well in subtropical Australia.
	So why describe high-yield potatoes as climate-resistant?
	Well, it's an obvious attempt to spin high-yield GM crops so that it's acceptable to people.
	They said almost all soy, beans, cotton, and corn now planted in the U.S. are genetically modified, often to resist pests or to deal with herbicide use, according to the FDA. And this is a big problem.
	This is why glyphosate has permeated our food supply, and it has very serious long-term effects for us all.
	And it's almost impossible to get soy or corn or many other products, even things like oats.
	It's almost impossible to get it without it being glyphosate.
	I mean, you can find it some places.
	I don't get any money from it, but Brian Shalhavi at Health Impact, he makes sure that he's got glyphosate.
	Basic staples like that you can buy now.
	They're more expensive than the glyphosate garbage that we buy in the grocery store.
	It has to be custom-grown.
	It's very difficult to get any of this stuff without that herbicide that is in everything, but you can get it at healthimpact.com.
	He's got a lot of these things that are glyphosate-free, and they have them tested.
	But in the EU and other parts of the world, They don't like GM. They don't like genetically modified stuff.
	The FDA says that's fine because the FDA says that they're free to do anything.
	Remember, that's what FDA stands for.
	They tell the corporations, well, there's Big Pharma or Big Ag, you are free to do anything.
	We don't care.
	So the EU rules require GMO foods to be labeled as such and to permit individual EU countries to ban genetically modified crops if they choose.
	Most EU countries do not grow GMO crops.
	And so, you know, we're cutting off that market for ourself as well by poisoning the food.
	But that's what the FDA is all about.
	The FDA is about poisoning food and poison drugs.
	Food and drugs for America that are all poisoned.
	That's the FDA. So they decided that they would greenwash these genetically modified potatoes.
	Many of the same British and European people who distrust government and big tech About the safety of genetically modified food, paradoxically trust government claims that we're in the midst of a climate crisis.
	So this is kind of interesting.
	You know, it's like, you know, put their gullibility on one issue on the scale and their gullibility on another issue on the scale and see how they weigh out.
	When they combined these two measures, though, they found that people weren't having it.
	So much so, the company was forced to take it off the market.
	See, that's the key thing.
	If we don't buy what they're selling, whether it's genetically modified potatoes that are climate change resistant or whether it's their so-called pandemic, if we don't buy the narrative, if we don't buy the products, we can push back on this.
	And we're seeing that now with the EVs as well.
	Wind power produces almost no energy, yet the UK energy providers still claim to deliver green energy.
	How is this working out?
	They say, well, again, they have the power to lie to people, and we look at how it's going to blow up.
	Electricity rates were kind of a little behind the UK, but I've pointed out many times this massive offshore wind farm that they're putting up there off of Long Island, it's probably going to raise rates there about four or five times more expensive than they are right now.
	The profits alone that these companies are going to make are about two and a half times what the entire cost is right now.
	And those wind farms are being built by a couple of European oil companies.
	This stuff is such a scam.
	This is how Elon Musk got to be the world's richest man.
	And Sam said this, he said, when asked why China and India were excluded from the Paris Climate Accord, Al Gore said, because their economies need to catch up to the Western economies.
	And that is exactly what it is.
	Obama called it global rebalancing, redistributive justice reform.
	Well, they now have the advantage on all manufacturing, and this is the key thing.
	Roll coal demand is at a record high in 2024. And as I pointed out last week, about half of it is being consumed by China.
	And no problem with that.
	We're supposed to believe this is a global problem, but it's not a problem if the two most populous countries, China and India, burn coal that is anathomized everywhere else.
	And they did that because we have more coal than any other country on Earth.
	Why do they do this?
	Well, coal demand continues to decline in the EU and the U.S. It's not demand that is declining.
	It's mandates from the government making this happen.
	China and India are set to see another, in 2024, another year of record high coal consumption.
	China is on track for a 1% rise to 5 billion tons, and India's coal demand is poised to increase by more than 5% to 1.3 billion tons, a level that only China had previously reached.
	And China was building, what was it, two coal plants a week?
	It was insane what they were building.
	Weather factors, particularly in China, the world's largest coal consumer, will have a major impact on short-term trends for coal demand.
	They will be allowed to heat their homes with coal, not us.
	They'll be allowed to manufacture and generate electricity, but not us.
	Coal still accounts for about 60% of China's power generation, which is why we say that most of the solar panels are being made in China.
	Your solar panels are being made with coal.
	Energy taken from coal.
	What?
	A scam this all is.
	And so with all of this here, people have mentioned this from time to time.
	I thought this was an interesting article.
	You find it on Exposé News.
	Could a magnetic motor generator be used to power our homes for free?
	This is kind of like a perpetual motion machine.
	There's a lot of people who criticize this.
	But what I find interesting about it is that You had a couple of people who demonstrated this and went public with it in 2001. They say it generates electricity using a combination of electromagnets, permanent magnets.
	It operates continuously using magnetic attraction and repulsion.
	Produces 24 kilowatts of power per day.
	A device that enables us to power our homes for free.
	Now, they demonstrated this, and I haven't looked at the science of it.
	Some people have looked at it.
	Some people have criticized it.
	But another person has, you know, for whatever reason, you know, for the last 24 years or so, It hasn't gotten to a manufacturing basis.
	You know, why might that be?
	In 2001, the paper there in Australia published an article unveiling the magnetic motor generator to the public.
	Some years later, Sky News Australia.
	And a report on this device, they called it the Lutech 1000. They said we were unable to establish when the report was first aired.
	However, the video report stated that the two inventors had been tinkering with their machine for six years.
	Six years after the unveiling would indicate Sky News Australia's report was made sometime in 2007. So why aren't we seeing this?
	Well, I said the two of them have spent years since that trying to get investors, trying to get this into the market.
	Nobody is interested in it, apparently.
	Industrial sabotage of magnetic motor devices has been going on for decades.
	It's thought to be committed by oil-dependent industry cartels.
	And, of course, you know, we heard this.
	One of the things that really boosted the electric car was that documentary that went around.
	It's like, whatever happened to the electric car?
	And they talked about GM's electric car.
	And they said, you know, this would just solve all of our problems.
	If you remember that documentary, we had a friend who gave that to us at the time.
	This thing was wonderful.
	I loved it.
	And it would solve all of our problems, except that now we see what the problems with it are.
	It was not a conspiracy to stop the electric car.
	It was a conspiracy, actually, to force us to get it with known issues and say, you will drive this or nothing.
	And that's where we are at this moment.
	And so that might be what is at play with this.
	However, when I was reading this article, the difference is that in November 2021, somebody named Thomas Hartmuth Begin a website to introduce what he called the Kryon engine.
	It uses the same principles as these people's Lutech 1000 generator.
	On the website, he has made all information and design specifications freely available.
	So, even though some critics have raised objections to the feasibility of this, he said, well, here's my plan.
	I'm going to open source it, and I'm inviting mechanical engineers to go ahead and do this and tell us what you get, right?
	The information is completely out there in the open.
	Give it a try.
	Let us know what you see.
	He's not there to profit from any of this stuff.
	You're welcome to study this information, build your own prototypes, set up your own manufacturing, start your own commercial distribution, no strings attached.
	Free energy, he says, means an enormous gain in freedom and independence and thus power for the citizen, the consumer, for the sovereign being.
	It is the reason why throughout history those in power have been trying to prevent free energy and many other revolutionary technologies from becoming available to the people.
	One tool used for this suppression has been patent and trademark offices, where many thousands of patents have been held up Under national security orders.
	Well, that sounds like a pretty big conspiracy, doesn't it?
	And yet, that's really true.
	Just earlier this week, Mark Andreessen, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who made his fortune with Netscape and everything, was always a Democrat supporter.
	And he said, when he was asked why he moved from Biden to Trump, he said, well, because they're locking people out of certain tech.
	He said, I didn't realize they were doing that.
	We had meetings in D.C. in May where we talked to them about this and the meetings were absolutely horrifying and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.
	What did you hear in those meetings?
	AI is a technology basically that the government is going to completely control.
	This is not going to be a startup thing.
	They actually said flat out to us, don't do AI startups.
	Don't fund AI startups.
	It's not something that we're going to allow to happen.
	They're not going to be allowed to exist.
	There's no point.
	They basically said, AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government, and we're going to basically wrap them in a, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon.
	We're going to protect them from competition.
	We're going to control them, and we're going to dictate what they do.
	And then I said, well, I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because the math for AI is out there and it's being taught everywhere.
	And they literally said, well, during the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics and took them out of the research community and entire branches of physics basically went dark and didn't proceed.
	And that if we decide we need to, we're going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI. Wow.
	And I said, I've just learned two very important things.
	Because I wasn't aware of the former and I wasn't aware that you were, you know, even conceiving of doing it to the latter.
	Isn't that interesting, right?
	All these people say, yeah, yeah.
	Somebody comes up with something that's going to get in the way of them, you know, getting something that's far more efficient or maybe even free energy.
	They'll shut it down.
	And they came out and told him, yeah, we've done that.
	We've taken entire areas of physics and Off limits for people to work on.
	So, yeah.
	Anybody out there, mechanical engineer, you want to look at this stuff, this information, you'll find it at expose-news.com.
	Very interesting article.
	So, if you get some free energy thing running, drop me a line.
	I'd be interested.
	Personally, I think we all would be interested in that personally.
	And I think what this guy is doing is great.
	You know, here's what we think.
	You know, we've got you do this, you build it, you test it, you tell us what you got.
	Let's have transparency.
	It's the patent stuff.
	It's the classification stuff.
	The government is always hiding everything from us, and they do that with technology as well.
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	Corn Pop 4584. Isn't it just crazy that all the people that are in Trump's cabinet were either on Epstein's list or funded the COVID-19?
	That's probably true.
	Probably true.
	Here's somebody that was involved in COVID-19, and he's trying to distance himself from it.
	This is Robert Redfield, who ran the CDC. He was part of the unholy trinity of Redfield, Fauci, and Dr. Scarf, Dr. Burks, Deborah Burks, right?
	And now he's out there trying to distance himself, and The Trump people are buying into it.
	They said that Nuremberg-style COVID accountability hearings can't come soon enough.
	Are you kidding me?
	You really think that Trump is going to do something about it?
	I mean, this is a CDC guy who was, again, one of the big three that was there.
	He got a medal for Operation Warp Speed, and now he's dumping on Fauci.
	That's an easy target to hit.
	We saw the opposite with vaccines, and I couldn't agree with Senator Moore how critical it is that we give credibility for the vaccine injury.
	I practice now two days a week, and it's mostly all long COVID, but a number of my patients never had COVID, but they had the mRNA vaccine, and they are really, really, really seriously injured.
	Well, there was a big attitude about vaccines where I don't think there was honest information.
	And I remember one story that Tony had told people that once we got to 30% immunity, we'd have herd immunity and the pandemic would be over.
	And then later he told people that it was 50%.
	And then not much later, maybe a month or two later, he said 70%.
	And I remember a reporter that was kind of with it said, Dr. Fauci, what scientific data came in between the last time when you said it was 50% and now that you said it's 70% that made you change your mind?
	And I kid you not.
	It's a matter of record.
	Tony said there is no new data.
	But when I told you 50%, I just didn't think you were ready to hear 70%.
	And this is where I come back.
	Public health leaders just have to tell the American public the truth.
	Just tell them the truth.
	And let them make the judge.
	Don't try to package the information in a way that they will decide what you want them to decide.
	And that's what happened here.
	There was a proactive decision that anything that suggested that vaccines didn't work would somehow...
	Maybe push people not to get vaccinated, so therefore we were going to oversell the vaccines.
	The vaccines clearly were oversold.
	They should have never been mandated.
	People should have never lost their jobs or livelihood.
	The senator knows.
	I feel that we really I think the intent in making no liability for vaccines when they passed those laws was well intended, but it doesn't work.
	These companies have to be held liable for their products like any other company.
	Hopefully Congress will change that.
	So that these companies that make these vaccines that do have vaccine injury, people can get compensated for the injury they've suffered, particularly in a situation which was so inappropriate, where they were mandated to get this vaccine, even if their instincts were not to get the vaccine.
	Wow.
	Looks like the rats are jumping ship, and he's one of the biggest rats on that ship.
	He was head of the CDC. And, you know, the CDC is not only the biggest pusher of vaccines, they're the biggest seller of vaccines.
	And RFK Jr. has pointed this out himself in Children's Health Defense, how they sell vaccines and they make money from it.
	But, of course, RFK Jr. has walked back his criticism of Redfield after Redfield said nice things about RFK Jr. Redfield is trying to reposition himself and, you know, turn state's evidence, I guess.
	And you've got people like this person who put this out on Twitter, saying, well, I can't wait for, you know, Trump 2.0 and the Nuremberg trials to begin.
	And it's like, really?
	That, again, is Trump delusion.
	You know, the Democrats have got Trump derangement, and the MAGA people have got Trump delusions.
	To think that this guy is not part of it.
	And when the herd immunity thing is jumping around 30, 50, 70, what is the basis for that?
	Well, you know, you just couldn't handle the truth if I told you the truth.
	You know, I've got to lie to you for a while.
	And he said the same thing about the masks and stuff like that.
	He lied about everything.
	But as he was going up on the herd immunity, the efficacy was dropping like a rock.
	But remember, at the very beginning of this, as I've talked about it so many times, you had The election on Tuesday.
	By Saturday, you had Biden declared the winner.
	The next day, 60 Minutes had it in the can, a report about how the military was going to push out Operation Warp Speed vaccines and delivered it.
	And then as soon as we got this thing okayed, the very next day, Pfizer comes out and says, you know, we're 90% effective or whatever, 91 or something.
	And then That was Monday.
	Tuesday, Russia comes out and says, our COVID vaccine is 93% effective.
	And then a week later, Moderna comes out and says, ours is 94% effective.
	And the next day, Pfizer comes out and says, ours is 94.5%.
	They just told you the week before.
	You know, that was less than that.
	The whole thing was garbage.
	Everything about it was such an obvious lie.
	And remember, that was in November of 2020, way before any of this stuff rolled out.
	And they just keep rolling with these lies.
	And yet, they knew all this stuff all the time.
	And you know what?
	Redfield knew it as well.
	He's one of these people, you know, they're in a criminal conspiracy, and they get caught, and he starts dishing on the other people.
	That's what Redfield is.
	He's not your friend.
	Sub-Zero, thank you very much.
	That's very generous.
	Thank you.
	For the tip, says, the only thing better than your ability to analyze the news might be your sense of humor.
	Still laughing at the flatulent Earth Society.
	Merry Christmas, and thanks for all you do.
	Well, thank you.
	That's...
	It's a thing.
	It's a thing.
	These people are out there doing it.
	And I think, you know, things like the Flatulent Earth Society, we need to, you know, ridicule is the most effective weapon, said Saul Alinsky.
	And he got that right.
	He said there's no defense against it.
	And that's one of the reasons why they got all these late-night TV shows.
	They're not really doing humor anymore.
	They're doing politics.
	Yeah.
	And the purpose of that is to ridicule the opposition and ridicule people like you and me.
	Who aren't going to jump in to this insane narrative that they got and roll up our sleeves and get injected with their experimental garbage.
	Octospook.
	It is what Trump has promised.
	To put RFK Jr. in and go after medical mass murders.
	No one expected to be the head mass serial murderer.
	Trump to be serious.
	Well, that's right.
	And here's the thing, too.
	As I said yesterday when I talked about How RFK Jr. is retracting and moderating his position as he goes in for scrutiny and a confirmation hearing and all the rest of the stuff.
	He said, here's really what needs to happen.
	To have a major effect on the pro-life and a positive pro-life movement, all the Supreme Court had to do was to acknowledge the Tenth Amendment.
	And all we have to do to really get this ball rolling against big pharmaceutical companies is just to acknowledge the criminality of their legal immunity for any damage that they do to people.
	There's absolutely no way to defend that.
	And if anybody wants to pick that up and run with that ball, they're going to win.
	Because there is no defense against that.
	It is absolutely absurd.
	It is an admission of That their product is too dangerous to be on the market if they have to have that.
	And that's exactly what Fauci told Reagan.
	Reagan went on with him.
	I said, well, we're not going to be able to have any vaccines if you don't protect them from liability.
	Well, then the injuries are not rare, if that's the case.
	So that and the other part of it would be to stop them from bribing Fox and CNN and MSNBC and all the mainstream media with their Ask Your Doctor commercials.
	That is a pretty recent thing.
	That only started in the 1990s.
	It used to be prohibited.
	And then Clinton allowed that.
	I'll never forget the first time we saw that.
	I mean, in 1996, we moved to a remote area, and we didn't have any broadcast TV.
	We didn't have any cable TV.
	And we took a vacation.
	We were in the motel room and turned on cable, and we saw one commercial for pharmaceutical stuff after the other.
	It's like, what is going on with this stuff?
	And they were absurd, too, as they remain absurd.
	This long, long list of incredibly serious adverse effects while they've got people running through the fields, slow motion, they're rambling this stuff off super fast.
	It's insane.
	That needs to be stopped.
	I understand the free speech issues, but I think when you get to something that is that overwhelmingly fraudulent, That needs to be stopped because of fraud.
	We're not talking about, and it is proven, you can prove that fraud very easily.
	But either way, there is a precedent for it in terms of saying you can't advertise this and you can't advertise that.
	And I think if you do those two things, those two things, You don't have to win the argument, the science argument.
	You just have to say you lose your immunity and you lose your ability to own the media.
	That would be a huge sea change.
	Coalamos says, had a great experience yesterday.
	Had a loaner car from Honda for a recall.
	Was given a new loaner, 3K miles, 3,000 miles, 24 to 25 Honda CRV hybrid.
	And the dang thing fried and came to a halt on the second day while driving 50 miles an hour.
	And, you know, Hondas in the past has had pretty good reliability with stuff, but they're rushing this stuff out, I guess.
	Had to do an emergency stop and sputter to QT gas station.
	Was enjoying the hybrid because it's faster with two engines, more or less.
	But after this, I'll never buy a hybrid or a battery car.
	Yeah.
	It's very expensive.
	And, you know, it's a lot more complicated.
	And so you've got a lot more things that can go wrong.
	Michelle Obama.
	I used to live in the vaccine vault at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg.
	Not one of those vaccines has ever been cold-chained properly, I assure you all.
	As we look at what's going on in Australia, they have now under Freedom of Information Act request, they have been able to get emails showing that the Australian FDA, if you will, it's the Australian drug regulator,
	they call it the Therapeutic Goods Administration, the TGA. The TGA is like our FDA. So the Australian version of the FDA was passing emails back and forth Saying that they knew that mRNA vaccines could enter the nucleus and integrate into genome, even as they were officially denying it.
	This is like ClimateGate, you know, where you had the top scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK talking amongst themselves and then also including Michael Mann in this.
	Our models are not working.
	The temperatures are not going up as we predicted.
	Actually, they're going down.
	How do we hide that decline?
	How do we manipulate this?
	And conspiring to come up with tricks involving tree rings and stuff like that.
	Yeah.
	And it was a tree-ring circus.
	It definitely was.
	But they got away with it.
	It was amazing, the outrage, and they came up with an inquiry commission, and the inquiry commission whitewashed it all.
	And so that's what they're trying to do in Australia.
	Internal emails from the Australian TGA, their FDA, reveal that the regulator withheld knowledge of DNA contamination risk related to the mRNA vaccines from the public, Presenting a picture of certainty on safety when there was none.
	So this is a cache of emails that high-level TGA staff knew elements could enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome.
	Personnel appear more preoccupied with, quote, allaying fears in the public than investigating the potential risk.
	You see, that was it from the very beginning.
	Every government on Earth was going to push out this bioweapon vax, and there was going to be no alternative allowed?
	Nothing.
	Nothing is going to be allowed for treatment or anything, and nothing is going to get in the way if anybody starts talking about how insane it would be that we take this radically different approach and rush it out without any testing.
	No, no, no.
	Anything like that is going to be shut down.
	Here these people see the harm.
	And they are going to cover it up.
	And the only thing they're worried about is, let's make sure that the public doesn't get afraid of these vaccines.
	I see the harm, but I don't want them to be afraid.
	I'm going to give it to them anyway.
	Isn't that amazing?
	So the TGA staff acknowledged that DNA integration into the genome was possible.
	They knew that the SV40 enhancer and promoter in the Pfizer vaccine could drag DNA into the nucleus of the cells.
	Pfizer did not disclose the SV40 sequence to the regulator, but the TGA staff was not aware of any testing for mRNA or DNA integration into the human genome.
	And so, as some of this stuff starts coming out, this article, which you'll find on dailyskeptic.org, is out of the UK. And they have the emails there with a yellow highlighter going through it, showing the back and forth and how this thing went on October the 18th this year.
	They're still lying.
	Are you surprised?
	They published a statement.
	Addressing misinformation about excessive DNA in the mRNA vaccines, a statement came after the release of a report by Canadian virologist Dr. David Spiker, who alleged the presence of synthetic plasmid DNA fragments.
	The issue gained national media attention after a vote by the Council of the Mining Town Port Hedland on October the 11th.
	Remember that?
	They came out and they said these things are contaminated.
	Same thing that was said quite some time ago in Florida.
	And they said, well, we're not going to recommend these things anymore.
	But they didn't pull it off the market.
	In this small mining town, the city council said, this is what we know.
	And we're not going to allow these things to be sold.
	And here's the information that you should have, and you should look into this in your town council.
	They started it at the lowest level possible, at the grassroots level.
	That's where the only place where any of this reform is going to come, because everybody else is fully hooked into this.
	They're bought and sold.
	And so this small town council in a mining town put this out.
	They called for immediate suspension of the vaccines pending an investigation of the DNA contamination.
	They sent the information out to all these other town councils.
	And this is back in October.
	So then the Australian TGA... Their FDA starts trying to cover up on this.
	Their statement was littered with false and misleading claims.
	Now emails that have been released under Freedom of Information reveal that their FDA, the TGA, knowingly withheld information on DNA contamination risks from the public, and they knowingly lied.
	They not only withheld information, but they lied.
	And we know that they're all lying.
	Yes, foreign DNA can integrate into chromosomal DNA. The TGA has repeatedly stated that mRNA vaccine elements cannot enter the nucleus of cells, nor can they integrate into the genome.
	Yet internal emails show that senior staff within the agency knew that this was not true.
	On October 14th, A staffer asks, Is it even biologically possible for residual DNA at a limit of no more than 10 nanograms per dose to retain enough integrity from dosing to entering a cell and being enough to be incorporated into a genome for it to induce the effects that are being speculated about?
	And the collective conclusion as they discuss it, and they've got the emails here, the collective conclusion is yes, but unlikely.
	A person said, I cannot stress enough how contrary this is to official TGA and Department of Health messaging, which has vehemently denied that genomic integration of mRNA vaccine elements is possible at all.
	And yet internally they say, yeah, it's possible.
	Not likely, but yeah, it's possible.
	You know, going back to Going back to, I think it was early 2021, Thomas Jefferson University, all these people were saying, mRNA, and we're not, you know, this is different now.
	This is not, you know, the SV40 enhancer and, you know, impurities and contamination in the manufacturing process.
	That's what they're talking about with this.
	But this is just about mRNA in general.
	Being able to modify DNA. And they all kept saying, oh no, mRNA can't modify DNA. Thomas Jefferson University, and it was reported like once and then disappeared.
	And I talked about it several times because what they were saying was, yeah, we have done an experiment here where we're able to modify DNA using mRNA.
	And why wouldn't that be the case?
	Because what they're telling us, if what they're telling us is true about how this all operates, what they're telling us is that, well, mRNA only copies DNA. It can't modify it.
	Well, if it copies it, if it doesn't do it right, it's going to be modifying it.
	But if it's going to be copying it, you could rig it so that it copies it and changes it.
	One TGA staffer Offers the argument touted by U.S. vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit.
	This is a guy who is a long-term lying shill for the vaccine industry.
	Paul Offit, one of the worst.
	And so a TGA staffer offered that argument and surly quoted by fact-checkers, including Scientific American.
	Here's the argument from Paul Offit.
	Foreign DNA and the mRNA vaccines cannot integrate with human DNA without the presence of an enzyme called integrase.
	As integrase is not present in the mammalian cells, the argument goes, there is no integration risk.
	However, TGA colleagues quickly debunked this claim, and then they deleted it from their draft memo.
	And this is what they said.
	Foreign DNA can integrate into chromosomal DNA in the absence of integrase and mammalian cells.
	This comes from the DNA damage and repair literature where breaks in DNA are repaired through processes called non-halogamous end-joining and halogamous recombination.
	And so they're saying that exogenous DNA, in other words foreign DNA, Can potentially be integrated using these processes.
	So they knew it.
	And they lied to people about it.
	And you can see all the emails going back and forth.
	They've got them highlighted and so forth in yellow.
	Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback who used to be, they say he was with the Packers or something, but I don't follow football anymore, but he was one of the outspoken athletes pushing back against this.
	And it was key.
	It was Travis Kelsey, who's Paris' – what's her name?
	No, not Paris Hilton.
	The one that is so – the most – she dresses like a majorette.
	Taylor Swift.
	Thank you.
	I'm getting old.
	I mean, this is amazing.
	No.
	Anyway, Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift's boyfriend, a big Pfizer shill, paid lots and lots of money to tell everybody to get the jab.
	Aaron Rodgers was the opposition to all of this.
	He's tired of arguing with vaccine shills.
	So he says, here's a public service announcement from me.
	He invited the haters and media.
	He said, please list...
	Your accolades, whether you've been twice vaxxed with Moderna or you got three booster shots, boom, boom, boom, then say whatever you want to say.
	He's getting really tired of these trolls who are serving big pharmaceutical companies.
	But then another aspect of this corruption, of course, is shown with Nancy Pelosi.
	It turns out that she made a lot of money off of the PPP stuff.
	The Pelosi profit payoff.
	She and her husband, of course, have been investors in a luxury Napa resort there in the wine country.
	It's about an hour's drive from San Francisco.
	The rooms there go for $2,000 a night.
	$2,000 a night.
	I don't think I could sleep if I spent that much money on the hotel room.
	I'd be thinking, what else could I spend this money on?
	And financial records show that this thing had been a money loser for them year after year after year.
	It's kind of a write-off, I guess.
	Maybe they're making so much money off of the insider stock trading system.
	That I guess they need to have something to write off against it, and then it's kind of a trophy property that they can hang out.
	Oh yeah, we're part owners of the Auberge du Soleil.
	That's what they call it.
	And hardly ever had a profit, but they said in some years they'd recorded a loss of between $50,000 to $100,000.
	But the year of the bailout money in 2021 shows that instead of losing $50,000 to $100,000, their income surged from a range of $1 million to $5 million.
	And I guess they're trying to extrapolate that from the financials there.
	It's a French Riviera-themed resort.
	It received about $9 million from a series of special taxpayer-funded emergency relief programs.
	And previously unreported windfall is among several COVID bailouts that flowed to Pelosi-backed restaurants, hotels, properties, including several courtyard Marriott hotels that she was invested in.
	Pelosi is hardly alone amongst lawmakers whose businesses reaped big rewards from pandemic-era financial programs.
	Greg Pence, the brother of Mike Pence.
	And, of course, Mike Pence was deeply involved in this scam.
	All this pandemic stuff.
	He got $80,000.
	Greg Pence did.
	He was a congressional representative.
	Another congressional representative, Democrat Dean Phillips, who briefly campaigned in the Democrat presidential primary, got two forgivable loans that totaled $373,000.
	And they just forgive that.
	Isn't that nice?
	You ever get any of that stuff?
	I didn't see any of that stuff on my way.
	And so this is being done by Zero Hedge.
	Now, go look at the Trump properties in the hotels and come back and tell us about that.
	They're not going to do that.
	It's safe to criticize the Pence family.
	It's safe to criticize Democrats.
	It's safe to criticize Pelosi.
	And they should all be criticized.
	But they're not going to criticize Trump.
	It's not clear if Pelosi violated any of the ethics rules, but of course it was not just limited to that luxury hotel.
	The Piotti Restaurant Company, a California-based pizza and Italian restaurant chain, owned in part by Pelosi, ended up receiving about $15 million in a mix of PPP and RRF grants and forgiven loans.
	Wow.
	The Pelosi household received up to a million dollars in partnership income distribution from their investments in this restaurant in 2021, the year that the company received the bulk of the government assistance.
	Yeah, it's just amazing when you look at how Trump and Biden blew up the deficit, and where did this money go?
	People like Nancy Pelosi.
	The investment return from that year from Piotti was also the highest in over a decade for the Pelosi's.
	In previous years, they typically earned less than $50,000 from their stake in the pizza chain.
	But then, when they got this PPP stuff, they made 20 times that.
	They got over a million dollars.
	Their income went up by a factor of 20 times more.
	Well, the Atlantic is saying that America's bird flu luck has officially run out.
	Boy, they are pushing this really hard now.
	And of course, you know, Drudge will pick this up and feature it as well.
	It's a pack of lies.
	Everything about this.
	I deconstructed all this stuff yesterday, so I'm not going to go into it again.
	But just to show you the headline of the Atlantic, they said it is spread so widely that it's always going to make someone seriously sick.
	Are you serious?
	Are you serious?
	Nobody has been seriously sick.
	They give you a little bit more detail about the lives of this Louisiana resident that they said has got bird flu.
	Nobody else in the family got it, but they're now in the hospital critically ill.
	They said this person is over the age of 65. Why the vagueness about the person's age?
	This was not even mentioned in the other stuff and the other articles that were out talked about yesterday, but the person is over the age of 65 and has underlying medical conditions.
	Does this sound familiar?
	This is what they did at the beginning, you know, before Trump locked everything down, Friday the 13th and March of 2020, we had two weeks' worth of reports from Italy.
	Everybody that had died was, the average age was like 80 years old both weeks, well past their life expectancy in Italy, and on average they had two and a half Comorbidities.
	Two and a half things on average that could have killed them on their own and yet they died with and maybe it wasn't even a PCR test at that time because they were saying we don't have enough of these things just do a clinical diagnosis so it might have been somebody pointed at them and said they've got it and we're doing that again now with bird flu.
	Why?
	Well because it worked.
	They're able to pull the wool over enough people's eyes that now this works.
	And so now this person is in critical condition who has a lot of underlying medical conditions.
	Nobody else caught this.
	And listen to what The Atlantic says.
	In LA, public health officials confirmed that two cats died after consuming raw milk.
	Are you kidding me?
	Prove it.
	Prove it.
	Maybe they died with a PCR test or something.
	Of the 61 people...
	Who have so far fallen ill, the majority have recovered after experiencing eye infections, says Atlantic.
	But, you know, it's spread so widely now that it's always going to make somebody seriously sick.
	You're going to get pink eye.
	In the case in Louisiana, it reveals little new information about the virus.
	It's always had the capacity to make people very sick, except it never did.
	It never did.
	These people had pink eye.
	They had no fever.
	They had no respiratory involvement.
	One person had a sore throat at the same time.
	Now, here we are, they said, with a severe case in the U.S. a little over a month later.
	Everything about the Atlantic, as usual, is a lie.
	B. Heathman, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	He says, I wish you'd stop popping my delusional bubble.
	It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
	Tornator, thank you for the tip.
	I worked with someone who worked for the Fed in Detroit.
	She told me about the one time her supervisor came out of a meeting with some higher-ups and said, quote, there's a lot of evil in this place.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, I imagine.
	I imagine.
	Well, we can only imagine.
	And that's just the thing.
	We always, I think, underestimate how evil they are, and we always underestimate the technology that they've got.
	That's what I keep coming back to whenever I look at this stuff.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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	Well, let's talk a little bit about masks.
	We've got New Jersey's largest hospital network is mandating masks yet again.
	And as Andy has pointed out, they've got signs up in all the places there in Atlanta, and the CDC is right there.
	He said they're not enforcing it on him yet, but they've got signs up.
	And this is a chain of 14 medical centers.
	It's called Barnabas Health.
	I wonder if that was originally a Christian organization that's been taken over by a corporation.
	You know, something like Barnabas.
	Anyway, all people are expected to wear appropriate masks.
	And people are asked to stay away if they're sick.
	Stay away from the hospital if you're sick.
	Stay away from there if you're well.
	Stay away from there if you're sick.
	Or if they're experiencing flu or COVID-like symptoms.
	Because if you go to a hospital and you're experiencing flu symptoms, they'll say it's COVID. And they might just kill you for the money.
	They might put you on a ventilator so they can get...
	A $39,000 fee.
	They might point at you and say that you've got COVID so they can get a $13,000 fee with that and a 20% bonus.
	So stay away.
	Stay away from these places.
	More than 100,000 people in New Jersey have tested positive for COVID-19 this year.
	Can you believe that?
	And, you know, when Karen was sick, vomiting, it was so bad and she had lost so much in terms of, you know, hydration and everything.
	We went to the doctor and they just kept pushing COVID tests, COVID tests.
	It's like...
	She's throwing up.
	She doesn't have a fever.
	She doesn't have any other symptoms.
	And she was adamant, I'm not going to get it.
	I'm not going to get it.
	But they really push this.
	So, yeah, you push this stuff.
	You magnify it by a trillion times.
	Of course, you're going to find people like that.
	And when you look at what these people are doing, there's at least some comeuppance for one person in Canada.
	She went to a drugstore in the midst of all this stuff, and she needed to get a prescription.
	She suffered from asthma, and as she's trying to get the prescription, she took the mask down so she could breathe.
	And I got to say, I watched my father struggle his entire life with asthma.
	And it could get really, really bad.
	And I had a cousin who died from asthma.
	Was out working in her garden and had an asthma attack and couldn't make it back and get the inhaler.
	And she died.
	And I had several times where I thought my dad was going to die.
	And to me, it is one of the most inexcusable things to see them forcing this on people with asthma, to see them putting it on children.
	Only in the United States did we try to put it on children at young ages like that.
	This is in Canada.
	A Canadian woman with asthma was refused service at a pharmacy because she lowered her mask Because she needed to breathe and she was asking for a prescription.
	And it was the people around her that started complaining about this.
	Because she was half wearing her mask.
	These people were so stupid to think that a mask would protect them.
	Staying within their paradigm of viruses and everything, according to what they say.
	That's like thinking that a hurricane fence is going to stop you from mosquitoes.
	That was the analogy that we used, and it was a good one.
	Just so large.
	I mean, smoke particles would put up pictures on social medias.
	Somebody breathing in smoke and putting on the mask and going through it.
	And that was an N95 mask.
	Forget about your Red Ryder bandanas.
	But these people were just completely taken in by this.
	So much so that they attacked her.
	Which led to store staff confronting her.
	There was a heated exchange.
	She claimed she wasn't being treated fairly.
	Ultimately, she was kicked out of the store and banned from ever coming back.
	Well, she took it to the Human Rights Tribunal in Mississauga, Ontario.
	The place is called Shoppers Drug Mart.
	So if you live up there, stay away from this place.
	And this Human Rights Tribunal awarded her $10,000.
	And so the pharmacy has to pay her within 30 days of the ruling.
	But it's not all good news.
	As LifeSite points out, there's been reports in the past.
	They report on the fact that a Canadian man who was not allowed to board a flight to go to a medical appointment because he wasn't masked, despite having a doctor's note saying he couldn't wear a face covering.
	Even with a note, the man was denied compensation for the damages.
	Well, if you want to see what our authoritarian future is like, just go for a plane flight, right?
	Begins with the TSA, then it continues on.
	You know, first the TSA acts like a Nazi checkpoint.
	And then if you get into the plane, you get the East German communists' treatment from the flight attendants who've got power now over you.
	And I remember that when there was a woman, an American leftist, who loved communism so much that she wanted to go to East Germany to live.
	And she went there.
	She met an East German man and got married.
	And then she was appalled to find out that the East German communists had kept these dossiers on her because they thought she was very suspicious.
	They thought she was a spy because she was an American when she was really a true believer.
	And as part of this, she said she found out that all of her friends and neighbors were spying on her.
	She was so disillusioned.
	And she said, people would be so nice to you.
	Until you went into, say, a butcher shop, and she said, the same person that you know on the outside who is incredibly nice to you, when you go into the butcher shop and you're queued up for the rations that they had there under communism, that person who is now behind the counter at the butcher shop, who is so nice as a neighbor, Now becomes this most officious, bullying person that you can imagine.
	And that's what you see on the planes, right?
	First, you've got to go through the Nazi checkpoints.
	Your identity papers piece, right?
	And then you get on the plane, and it's like the communist butcher shop.
	They start bullying you around.
	So, yeah, you want to see what an authoritarian society is like?
	Just take a trip on a plane.
	A study has linked Olympic to blindness.
	With a growing list of side effects.
	Yeah, Olympic.
	Who would think that anything would go wrong with this?
	I mean, it's only...
	It's only based on gear monster poison.
	I mean, you know.
	When you look at what...
	The semiglutide, in addition to treating diabetes and helping people lose weight, it is also...
	Increasing the risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, which means that you can have a sudden vision loss due to loss of blood flow to the optic nerve, a major cause of severe vision loss and blindness in adults.
	Second most common form of optic nerve damage after glaucoma, and if you take the semiglutide, You're a monster poison.
	It radically increases your risk of getting that.
	This is an article from a person on Real Clear Books, The Life-Affirming Vitality of Raw Milk.
	He said he'd gone to Germany where his sister was living at the time.
	And he said he was, when he found out that she was drinking raw milk, he mocked her.
	He interrogated her.
	He feigned disgust.
	He was a vegan, evidently for ethical reasons that way.
	But he said about 15 years ago, he found out she was drinking raw milk.
	And he said he had an epiphany.
	It suddenly hit him that he was the one who was being disgusting because he was rejecting local food, traditional healthy food, while he was looking all over the German supermarkets for some kind of synthetic vegan snacks that had been imported from around the globe.
	Oh, okay, so you're worried about climate change and transportation, so they're bringing your food from all over the place.
	He said, when I got back to New York City where I lived and still live now, I found a raw milk co-op Which I still use today.
	The driver, who I won't name because it is illegal to sell raw milk in New York, has become my friend.
	The milk comes from the Amish.
	So this guy's got a trade, you know, we talked about earlier.
	This is, you know, smuggling in refrigerant, you know, for heating and cooling and for cooling.
	These people are smuggling in milk from the Amish.
	This is the absurd world in which we live.
	Over these 15 years, I've only been to the doctor once for routine physical.
	I've had no major health problems or depression.
	My friends say I look young.
	I feel young.
	I play sports every weekend.
	I play fast for my age.
	I feel better, much stronger than when I was younger and vegan.
	Thus, the animus behind the Amish vote turning out for Trump, linked to events like the federal raid on Amos Miller's farm, the confiscation of his raw dairy.
	He said, that didn't surprise me.
	The Amish are representative figures for a particular kind of social and subject position.
	Their traditional practices and their resistance to modernization make them perfect symbols for a broader cultural revolt against technocratic authority.
	While it wasn't a national headline, the Fed's raid on the Millers went viral on X. And the message sent by the state health officials and the NGO activists is clear.
	No one should drink milk or slaughter animals on their own or seek non-pharmacological mediated health.
	For some, the memification of raw milk and related products like beef tallow is just a sideshow.
	But it is clearly a small, anti-bureaucrat, populist political revolt.
	He said Americans want the level of healthiness that the Amish have.
	And they're increasingly willing, like the Amish, to push back against health norms that are dictated, dictated, by bureaucrats, Big Agra, and Big Pharma.
	He says it's not just that Amish foods rooted in centuries of tradition are safe.
	It's that they taste good.
	That they're rich, fatty, nutritious.
	Foods like raw milk, pasteurized eggs, raw meat excite the senses, nourish the body, make modern life with its endless laptop work, socializing and algorithmic dating makes it feel worthwhile.
	He said, for years I had friends who were often demonstrably, obviously, very physically unwell, tell me that I'm endangering myself by drinking raw milk.
	They call it disgusting, weird, even subversive.
	These same types are shocked when I didn't wear a mask or get a vaccine, and they're just as shocked that I didn't vote for Lala.
	Obsession with safety and control isn't just conditioned by corporate food interests.
	It's embedded in a complex web of power relations that shape our very understanding of health and risk.
	The modern food safety regime, which has been internalized by cable news watching and unthinking libs as normal, demands not that compliance, not just compliance, but a cultish devotion to the status quo systems, like the food but a cultish devotion to the status quo systems, like the food and A devotion that entails a denial of our sensory experience and rejection of accumulated wisdom.
	It is a form of symbolic violence whereby what for thousands of years was considered to be a normal act, such as drinking unprocessed milk, becomes redefined by a dominant, and in this case, technocratic culture, It becomes redefined as dangerous or regressive.
	We are asked to sacrifice tradition for regulation, vitality for standardization, embodied wisdom for bureaucratic protocols.
	Raw milk isn't just about dairy or tallow or seed oils.
	It's about refusing a certain kind of bargain where useful, unofficial forms of knowledge and experience are discarded and mocked.
	And let's understand that that is at the center of what this bird flu stuff is about.
	Now coming after backyard chickens.
	And in Europe, as I pointed out before, that they rejected the GMO potatoes, even though they tried to relabel them as climate change resistant.
	Well, they've got also in Europe, and they had to take this off of the market as well, a Norwegian dairy producer, Q Myrian, I guess is how you pronounce it.
	They just go by Q for the most part.
	They put out a climate milk, a climate milk.
	They came up with a substance, Beauvair.
	I don't know if you've seen this or not.
	It's supposed to be an additive, but if you feed it to the cows, it's going to reduce their methane emissions.
	And so this is people pushing back.
	This is the flatulent Earth Society pushing back against these people.
	Telling the cattle to fart proudly.
	Because, you see, we are the cattle that are being milked here.
	This whole thing.
	They said, this is a cautionary tale.
	what happens when governments corporations and globalists push policies and products that tamper with a food supply to address a problem that may not even exist no it does not exist and i can say that with confidence bovair is said to suppress a key enzyme in the cow's digestive process reducing methane emissions by up to 30 percent 68 countries including the eu australia and the u.s have approved its use Yes.
	But when people saw it, they said, well, we need to have some testing on this.
	And they say, well, we've got to stop the methane.
	Well, prove that the methane is a significant part of any temperature changes.
	First of all, prove it.
	And secondly, so what if it were even true?
	First of all, it's not a significant part of it.
	Secondly, it's not even true.
	And it would be a so what if it were.
	Even if methane reducing claims are accurate, its actual impact on global temperatures would be so minuscule.
	It has to be undetectable.
	Who benefits from all this stuff?
	Well, certainly isn't your average consumer who ends up paying higher prices for milk.
	It is not, the beneficiaries seem to be the corporation's bureaucracies that profit from churning climate regulations, subsidies, and greenwashing schemes.
	It's all part of the greenwashing, green agenda.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
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	A Syrian girl, thank you very much for the tip.
	And she writes, Merry Christmas, David and family.
	Thank you.
	The amazing thing to me, she says, about the revelations of government agency knowledge of the potential deadliness of the jabs is that these agency ghouls are not all indicted for malice and murder.
	I guess if the number of murderers is large enough, all laws get suspended.
	As a matter of fact, the people who would enforce it and the people who vote for this, if they're all hanging together, yeah, that's right.
	It's a vast conspiracy.
	We ain't in it.
	That is the amazing thing, isn't it?
	Just how widespread it is.
	So...
	And IQ Microdot says, hey David, can you please post front and back pictures of your garments?
	Thanks.
	We do have the, if you go to thedavidnightshow.com, where they are for sale, there are pictures of the front.
	There's nothing on the back, but there are pictures there at the website that you can see.
	let's talk a little bit about what is happening with parents and we'll talk a little bit about Christmas here as well Ohio legislature passes a sweeping parental rights bill and sends it to governor DeWine to sign into law we think this guy's gonna sign it well maybe he will because it's not really about parental rights listen to this it is significantly strengthens parental control over their children's education and health care Says the Ohio Star.
	But does it really?
	You know, if you want to have parental control over your children's health care and education, homeschool them.
	Seriously.
	And this is why.
	Listen to this.
	There's a group, they quote, the Center for Christian Virtue.
	It says, this bill tells government bureaucrats across Ohio that parents are in charge of their kids' education and health care decisions.
	Don't be fooled by this.
	If you abandon your children to the state, which is what one judge said in the case, the father didn't like what they were teaching about sex education.
	They were teaching heterosexual sex education to his daughter, who was eight years old at the time, but of course that was like 30 years ago.
	And so he went to take her out.
	They arrested him for trespassing and said, when you bring your kid to the school, you have abandoned them to the state, and they will operate in place of the parents.
	This is ingrained.
	And any state bill...
	Even a school board policy is not going to be able to control the individual teachers or maybe even the principal and the administration of the school.
	So what's it going to require?
	Well, it requires enhanced notification requirements for public schools regarding the teaching of sexual content.
	They can still teach it, but they have to have enhanced notification requirements.
	Schools must notify parents in advance about sexual content being taught and provide an option for parents to opt their children out of such lessons.
	But even if you opt your child out, all the rest of the kids are going to be taught this stuff.
	And your kid's going to be picking it up from them.
	This bill also mandates that parents be notified if their child requests a change of gender recognition at school.
	Why would they do that?
	Well, because it's being taught at school.
	If not to them, to others.
	Or if a school counselor encourages a student to socially transition to the opposite sex without parental knowledge, well, now you've got to be told.
	The bill requires school districts to allow students to participate in religious release time programs like LifeWise Academy and School Ministries of Ohio.
	Folks, don't outsource the most important things in life.
	Seriously.
	You know, we talk about outsourcing everything.
	You know, the government outsources its tyranny to corporations and things like that.
	We outsource our manufacturing abroad.
	Don't outsource the raising of your children to total strangers.
	We have a responsibility to support and protect the irreplaceable position that only parents can have in their kids' lives, said one person in the state house.
	Well, not if you abandon them to the state.
	If you teach them yourself, you won't be getting a notification that your kids want to change their gender.
	This is nothing that has ever happened before.
	And it is inculcated in them by the schools and by the states.
	Even Bill Maher understands that.
	He says, why is it that all the kids in California think they're in the wrong body, but not the kids in the Midwest?
	Because they're being taught that, and they never were taught that before.
	And that won't happen to your kids if you don't put them in these schools.
	And it is absolutely abhorrent that I have to pay and you have to pay for institutions that do this to kids.
	They need to be shut down.
	We don't need to have schools.
	What we need is education.
	And schools and education are not tied together at all anymore.
	Never were, really.
	It is critical that parents have a seat at the table when it comes to their children, said one of the sponsors of this.
	Are you serious?
	Get rid of the strangers at your table.
	Get rid of the strangers that are in your TV set in your living room.
	From Disney and all the rest of this stuff.
	The bill prohibits discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity with children as young as eight.
	But hey, wait, if they're nine years old, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	Isn't that amazing?
	If they're nine years old, then they're mature enough that they can change genders.
	And don't worry, they'll let you know.
	They'll inform you about that.
	Well, we have a Christian teacher in Ohio.
	In Ohio, same place where they just passed this thing that's going to protect parental rights.
	In Ohio, you just had a Christian teacher win $450,000 settlement from an Ohio school district after being fired for refusing to use trans pronouns.
	Again, Ohio.
	So a 26-year-old English teacher lost her job, and she said she couldn't use the student's new name and pronouns due to her Christian faith.
	And nothing in the Parental Bill of Rights is going to stop this kind of stuff.
	If you've got teachers and students working together all around your child, and they're using these different pronouns, and your kid is watching all of this stuff, and it's being normalized to them, What do you think is going to happen?
	This is backdoor brainwashing that is going to continue to happen.
	This teacher resisted the unconstitutional demand, explained that her Christian faith made it unable for her to participate in students' social transition.
	That's what they call this gaslighting of these children.
	Your Christian faith ought to make you unable to have your child in this institution.
	And it ought to activate you To fight this kind of abuse being done to other kids that aren't yours, but done with your money.
	That's what's happening in these schools.
	In a statement, the Board of Education was absolutely unrepentant.
	They said the Jackson local school district is committed to cultivating a learning environment where every student feels supported, valued, and safe.
	Except for the Christian students.
	Right?
	So they said, well, we're committed to that.
	We're not going to change anything that we do.
	And that bill that they're pushing out there, that is a head fake.
	And you've got a lot of people out there for their political purposes and for the purposes of their NGO. They're going to give you a false trust in all this stuff.
	Tell you that they're making progress when they're not.
	By the way, none of this money, this $450,000, they bragged about the fact that That they said there's going to be no dollars spent by the school district.
	So the head of the local school district.
	She says, we're committed to continuing to do what we're doing, and we're not paying her a cent.
	Instead, the money is going to come from their insurance company, Liberty Mutual of Boston.
	She said there will be no policy changes at these Jackson schools as a result of this agreement.
	Nothing is changing, folks.
	It's a head fake.
	I thought this back-and-forth exchange between J.D. Vance and somebody on Twitter was pretty good.
	I'm concerned, and I've talked about his connections with the technocrats, and I don't trust the guy.
	You should never trust any of these politicians.
	But this back-and-forth was good.
	This was someone who wrote to the New York Times.
	They have a column called The Ethicist.
	And they wrote to complain about an 85-year-old neighbor who the writer called a, quote, sweet friend and a caring person.
	But despite of that, the complainer had a big problem with this 85-year-old neighbor, said that she would not stop praying.
	My issue is that she's very religious and I'm not at all.
	She prays for me and says it in person and in texts and in emails for even the most minor situations.
	And I told her my view of religion and she doesn't need to pray for me.
	But the elderly prayer warrior apparently won't take no for an answer.
	She said she has to.
	Otherwise, she's not following the Bible.
	So the person complaining says, I'm trying to ignore this, but it's really bothering me that she can't respect my wishes.
	Well, if you don't believe in God, what does it matter to you if she prays, right?
	Because this person...
	Because atheists all know that there is a God.
	They're just trying to suppress it in unrighteousness, right?
	Vance responded with some candid advice.
	He said, so what should you do?
	You should accept it as a sweet gesture and stop being a weirdo.
	I like that.
	Or consider that the woman praying for her neighbor has it more figured out than the person who's whining to the New York Times.
	Yeah.
	That was really good.
	I like that a lot.
	Well, finally, as we're starting to come to a close, this article from The Center.
	And I thought it was really good.
	Santa is competing with Christ for the worship of your children.
	You know, it's not just at the schools.
	It's the culture that we live in.
	And he says, this isn't the benevolent figure of yore, a generous bishop pointing weary sinners to Christ.
	Today's Santa is something even more sinister.
	He is a usurper, an idol, an affront to the glory of the incarnate God who is the true focus of Christmas.
	As I've said, Jesus saves, Santa sells merchandise.
	Let's start with the obvious.
	Children are practically taught to treat Santa Claus like a deity.
	They bow to him literally, figuratively.
	They sit on his throne if he allows it.
	They whisper their deepest desires into his or some weird old man's ears as if he's got the power to grant it to them.
	Yeah, because we got someone who is, as the song goes, Santa Claus coming to town, you know?
	He's omniscient.
	He's omnipresent.
	You know, he knows if you've been good or bad.
	He knows if you're sleeping.
	He knows if you're awake and all the rest of this stuff, right?
	These are all attributes of God.
	You know, and that song goes back to 1934. I looked it up today.
	That has been around for a long time.
	But they go to painstaking links many parents do to perpetuate this lie.
	And I always said that, you know, I told our kids there is no Santa Claus because I didn't want to have a situation someday where they think, well, they lied to me about Santa Claus.
	What else is he lying to me about?
	Don't lie to your kids.
	And I just, you know, always remind him every Christmas, and I said that to a whistler one year when he was little, and he said, I know that, Dad.
	If there was somebody like Santa Claus, they'd be in the Bible.
	I thought that was the best reply I've ever seen.
	But this is idolatry, says dissenter, and I agree with that.
	Santa isn't just a figure of fantasy.
	He's a competitor competing with Christ himself for the worship of children.
	And the world has been more than happy to make room for him.
	Children sing songs in his honor, songs that extol his virtues and his power.
	They sit for photo shoots with him, eager to bask in the glow of his presence.
	They leave offerings for him, milk and cookies.
	Like a pagan ritual.
	Wonderful.
	Some children even pray to him, clasping their hands and whispering requests because Santa, let's not forget, has become their benevolent giver of gifts.
	And let's not let the adults off the hook either.
	Santa doesn't just captivate children.
	He enchants grown men and women too.
	Adults perpetuate the myth with zeal, investing time, money, and creativity into the charade.
	They wear his likeness on ugly sweaters.
	They plaster his face on cards.
	The irony here is razor sharp.
	While churches lament the secularization of Christmas, they often fail to recognize that Santa has become its golden calf.
	That's it, right?
	Fox News, you know, you can't say Merry Christmas.
	But like Megyn Kelly would say, but we all know that Santa Claus is white.
	What ridiculous nonsense.
	Santa is the idol par excellence, tailor-made for a materialistic society.
	You get gifts without repentance.
	You get blessings without sacrifice.
	You get joy without the cross.
	He's everything our sinful hearts desire, generous, non-judgmental, and entirely harmless.
	Some will argue that Santa is just a bit of fun, a harmless tradition.
	And we ought to lighten up, right?
	But this is a lie that we tell to ourselves to justify our complicity.
	Idols are never harmless.
	They always distort the truth.
	And he said, a lot of this turns Christmas into a time of, you know, what can I give?
	Instead of that, you get, what can I get?
	And look, I understand.
	You know, I grew up in a household that they didn't even celebrate Christmas from a religious standpoint.
	We have to also, inside what we look at from a religious standpoint, distinguish between truth and falsity.
	I don't care about what time of year it is.
	I'm not going to die on it being December 25th.
	I don't think it was.
	There are other times of the year that I think it was.
	But I think it's an opportunity to celebrate Christ's incarnation.
	It's an opportunity for us to talk about it, and we still should.
	Civil, a place I started homeschooling this year.
	Best thing I've ever done as a parent.
	David convinced me it was possible.
	Well, thank you for giving me that information.
	Thank you.
	I wish I had the Christmas night album.
	Hot dog!
	You can get the Christmas night album at thedavidknightshow.com for just $13.99.
	It's right in the second floor there, see?
	What'd you wish, George?
	Well, not just one wish.
	A whole hat fall.
	First, I'm going to TheDavidKnightShow.com and purchase the Christmas Night album.
	Then I'm going to listen to Christmas classics, like...
	Are you going to throw it up?
	I want the Christmas Night album, too.
	Hey, that's pretty good.
	Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight?
	David's Christmas Night album includes 21 instrumental Christmas melodies like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, and as all new, I'll be home for Christmas.
	What do you want?
	You want the moon?
	Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
	I'll take it.
	Then what?
	And then I'll buy you your own download of David Knight's Christmas Night album.

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