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The David Knight Show -1/28/2025

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	Bang As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 28th of January, year of our Lord, 2025. Well, today we're going to begin with what is happening with the markets being roiled by AI. Yeah, we have a Chinese program called Deep Seek that has triggered deep selling and panic in the financial markets.
	We've said for the longest time that the financial markets, the stock markets, have been based on hype.
	And that's all it is.
	Hype around AI. And they got way ahead of themselves.
	Just like with the dot-com bust.
	And so, is this a black swan?
	Or is it a giant bubble that's been in search of a pen for quite some time?
	Maybe it's more like black coffee as these people wake up to this fantasy.
	But we're going to talk about that and how it reflects on the goals of Trump and his technocracy buddies.
	They are getting ready to roll this out at the border.
	They're police and surveillance state as well as biometric ID. We'll take a look at the executive order for all of them.
	Stay with us.
	this will be right back.
	Well, there's no end to the puns about the deep...
	Deep Seek.
	We're in deep doo-doo.
	We'll see what happens to the stock market, but it has been a major fall-off from some of the biggest companies, a record loss for NVIDIA, which has been the darling of the stock markets.
	In too deep, says the headline.
	China's new cheap AI Deep Seek sparks alarm as it outperforms the West models.
	Like ChatGBT, admit a race to superintelligence.
	But this has been in the works for some time.
	People have talked about the fact that they keep pouring in ever-larger amounts of money.
	And it was just a few days ago that Trump had the PR session with Sam Altman and Larry Ellison of Oracle, the CIA contractor himself.
	And talking about half a trillion dollars.
	And how they're going to build new infrastructure for themselves, not for us.
	These people won't even fix the potholes for us.
	But they're going to create their own private infrastructure, just like their own private jets.
	None of this climate MacGuffin means a thing to them.
	None of it.
	The AI is their tool, and they're willing to spend anything to make it happen.
	And folks, this is a lesson about how the government...
	Destroys our society.
	Destroys our technologies.
	Not only has it taken over our technology, as Eisenhower warned, the military, industrial, and academic complex that he talked about, but it is also destroying innovation with so much money.
	We can see this when we look at things like universal basic income.
	These people said, you know, just we'll...
	Do all the work for you.
	We're going to take your job.
	You're not going to have a job.
	Now we've got to figure out how we're going to keep these people from coming after us with guillotines, said Bloomberg, when he was running for president.
	And when he was running for president, and talking about universal basic income, how they're going to put you on universal welfare, that was in 2020, and of course we'd already gotten a big taste of that with Trump's...
	Lockdown and stimulus checks, that was the beginning of moving that Overton window towards UBI for the public.
	And it was amazing to me how far that little bit of stimulus check went to move people over to that kind of mindset.
	And, of course, we can still see that bubbling up in all the TikTok complaints of federal employees who say, oh, I've got to go back to work?
	What are you talking about?
	What am I going to do with it?
	That's not fair.
	It's not fair that I have to go back to work.
	Oh, that's what I see people talk about.
	That's not fair.
	That's not fair.
	I remember when our sons were young.
	They were maybe about eight years old.
	And we had family that was visiting.
	And it was kind of a surprise thing.
	And we met them and everybody was hungry.
	So we go to this Burger King because it's got a playground.
	And we're sitting there, you know, having a Coke or whatever.
	And the boys are playing.
	And my sons are playing.
	And this third boy comes over and he says, so you're going to such and such a school because we've got a year-round school and it's whatever they call it.
	Not a summer vacation, but whatever they called it.
	And they said, no, we're homeschooled.
	You're homeschooled?
	Yeah, we don't go to school.
	You don't go to school?
	That's not fair!
	He just kept saying, that's not fair!
	That's not fair!
	Every time I think of that, I laugh.
	I wasn't hysterical laughing when I saw it, but you didn't think that was fair, Whistler, that you were not in school.
	Anyway, so yeah, it's not fair.
	We've all got to have universal basic income, and they're going to do all the work for us, and it's not fair that federal employees have to go back to work.
	See, Musk wants them to go back to work, and yet he wants to put people out of work.
	That's the model.
	How they're going to make their money.
	They're pouring such vast sums of money into this, and you have to ask yourself, what is the end goal on all of this?
	Well, it's so that they don't have to pay you for anything.
	Everything that they're doing is to get rid of you.
	When we look at Uber and we look at Lyft, and I remember when Travis Kalalnik was the CEO of Uber, and from the very beginning, he said, Our Uber car is expensive.
	Is that other dude in the car with you?
	And we're going to get rid of them.
	And we're going to have autonomous cars.
	And so while they're using the capital and the labor, not just the labor, but the capital, you provide your own car.
	And so they're using the labor and the capital of their employees.
	They have designs on how they're going to slit their throat.
	That's the way these people are.
	Very, very vicious.
	Anyway, when we look at this, this is where this was all headed.
	It was not sustainable.
	And one of the reasons it's not sustainable is because these people work on government contracts and money is no object.
	And we just keep printing money and printing money and printing money.
	And it makes people dumb and stupid and lazy, just like welfare and UBI do.
	Right?
	It pacifies us.
	That's one of the big concerns about AI. If it starts doing more and more stuff for us, and if they take our jobs away and just give us universal basic income, that's a way to pacify us and get us out of the way.
	Well, guess what?
	Federal subsidies to these big tech companies have pacified them into an inefficiency that has now been brought to everybody's attention.
	Yes, certainly the Chinese government does its own subsidy as well.
	But they didn't have to do that much with this.
	They reported that they developed DeepSeek in just a couple of months for only $600 million, not $500 billion.
	$6 million.
	Okay, so what Trump was planning with his big tech bros is 100,000 times more expensive, and who knows how long they're going to spend on all this stuff?
	That sent a shockwave through the markets.
	The reality of the waste and the fantasy.
	And I would say these people have been hallucinating like their own chatbots.
	They've been believing their own press.
	And I've said from the very beginning, you know if you listen to this program, I never bought into this hype about AI. I said it's going to end in tears just like the dot-com situation.
	And just like the dot-com.
	And it's not that I'm a genius.
	Is that I got burned really bad in the dot-com thing.
	And I knew that the internet was going to be a real thing.
	It's not whether or not AI is a real thing or not.
	And I hope it's not.
	Because, and we'll talk about this as well.
	We're going to begin with the financial stuff.
	We'll talk about the implications of this and how it's already being used.
	Abused.
	Misused.
	To enslave and to impoverish us.
	And so I hope it's not going to work.
	I really do.
	But, you know, I'm not betting on that.
	I didn't say that this was going to end in tears because of that.
	I just saw everybody getting ahead of their expectations, getting themselves all hyped up into a frenzy over the dot-com issue of the internet, over things being done on the internet.
	They got themselves so hyped up that at some point they look and they realize how overhyped everything is, and then they jump in the other direction, and that's the risk of where we are right now.
	We had this major sell-off yesterday, and so now what is the reaction?
	I was talking about this with Whistler.
	He's been telling me about DeepSeek for a couple of weeks now.
	And it's like, there's so many of these things that come out every week, I didn't really pay any attention to it.
	And maybe that's what happened with the general public until some financial analyst pointed it out.
	And then they all started, you know, passing the information back and forth and freaked out.
	He was telling me, he says, this is a great AI and it's supposed to be really good and the latest thing and so forth.
	But it's not even really how good it is.
	It's not all that much better.
	It's the fact that they were able to do something that was as good or better than Sam Altman and OpenAI were able to do.
	And to do it for a teeny tiny fraction of the cost.
	Yes, China may be trolling people, manipulating things by exaggerating how cheap it was and how quickly they did it.
	But there is no way, no way, that when there's a factor of 100,000 difference there.
	And especially because of the fact that the government had been embargoing and banning them acquiring the state-of-the-art NVIDIA chips.
	And GPUs, right?
	So they said, well, we don't want China developing this stuff, so we're not going to let them have access to this.
	Well, I don't know if they got access to it.
	People are saying, well, maybe they stockpiled it or whatever.
	Well, then it wouldn't be state-of-the-art if they'd stockpiled it.
	It's like any other prohibition folks.
	Whether you're talking about alcohol or you're talking about drugs.
	You try to prohibit somebody getting GPOs.
	You try to sanction people on Russian oil or whatever.
	It never works.
	It never works.
	And so Chinese owners released the app on Trump's inauguration day.
	And people have not really been paying much attention to it.
	And it really, Trump's hype of Stargate is another example.
	Of how out of touch with reality he is and the people around him.
	And so that's another aspect of this.
	So there was a meme that Whistler showed me.
	A couple of people talking, right?
	Dialogue.
	One person says, the financial markets are way down.
	The other person says, why?
	He says, China.
	And he says, did they invade Taiwan?
	Did their economy collapse?
	No.
	They made a slightly faster chatbot.
	This is also part of the hype.
	This is the tail end of the hype.
	But it's really not even about the performance of the chatbot.
	There hasn't really been that much time for people to evaluate it.
	And what Whistler was telling me was they had six different benchmarks that they use.
	And he says that they've got to constantly change these benchmarks because when they use these benchmarks...
	Then the AI learns the test, essentially, right?
	So you've got to keep coming up with different ones.
	But in three of them, it was as good or better.
	And in three of them, it was worse.
	But the issue is, as we talked about, and I forget what the numbers were, but I mentioned them on the show, I think.
	Alyssa and I were talking about how astronomical the costs were for open AI. You know, how much each prompt cost them, and how much money they were losing.
	I mean, for their professional model, it was something like, wasn't it thousands of dollars or something?
	He doesn't remember either.
	But when I first told him the figure, he said, no, they can't be right.
	I said, no, this is what they're saying.
	Now, that's for the professional one, their top-of-the-line open AI. And it's like, how in the world are they going to make money if their expenses are this much?
	And here's another issue.
	The advantage, because of energy, and because we have given a tremendous advantage in terms of energy to China, or energy cost, because of the Paris Climate Accord, their cost effectiveness is going to continue to soar.
	And I said this as well.
	I said, when you look at China, the way they got them established originally was with slave labor.
	And intellectual property theft and currency manipulation, but also slave labor.
	And I said, as they're moving more and more to automation, and everybody is moving more and more to automation, giving them an advantage of cheap coal and not telling them that they got to do anything to clean it.
	Nothing at all.
	Giving them that cost advantage for energy.
	It means that you're not going to catch them, even if you build your own robots, even if your robots are better than them.
	The robots feed on electricity, and so they've got a much lower cost basis.
	So I don't think this is a black swan event.
	I think we've had a massive bubble in search of a pen for quite some time.
	Whistler says, I think the one that costs thousands of dollars per prompt is the O3 model, which isn't available to the public yet.
	OpenAI is talking about creating a $2,000 per month subscription to use it when it comes out.
	I guess we could just use DeepSeek instead.
	The software is fitted with sinister features, even.
	The DeepSeek.
	Such as its refusal to answer certain political questions about China and its leader, Xi Jinping.
	I bet it won't even answer questions about Winnie the Pooh.
	Remember how upset this tyrant got when somebody showed a picture of him walking next to Obama, who was tall and thin?
	And in contrast, Xi Jinping looked short and squat.
	And somebody put up Winnie the Pooh and Tigger walking next to each other.
	And then everybody started.
	People who didn't like Xi.
	There's, you know, several hundred million people in China that don't like Xi.
	And they started putting up pictures of Winnie the Pooh.
	They banned Winnie the Pooh.
	Not because of intellectual property rights.
	I mean, that's been one of the foundations of building their economy.
	It's been intellectual property theft.
	But don't you dare show Winnie the Pooh.
	Deep Seek.
	They should have just called it Deep Thought.
	Let's just go right for the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy reference there.
	DeepSeek is a large language model, just like ChatGPT.
	Researchers claim it was developed for less than $6 million in just two months.
	Some people are questioning that, but look, it came out pretty quickly, came out of nowhere, this group.
	It's headed by a hedge fund guy.
	It was, you know, that's the company that owns it.
	This is much less than the billions, no, hundreds of billions.
	International competitors have spent on their own software.
	Mark Andreessen said, DeepSeek R1 is the most amazing and impressive breakthrough I've ever seen.
	As a matter of fact, he said that it's like a Sputnik moment.
	Well, yeah, you know, a moment we realized...
	You realize that your competitors have really eclipsed you in terms of technology.
	But I would have another reference.
	Everybody is repeating that.
	Goldman Sachs is repeating it.
	It's a Sputnik moment and all the rest of the stuff.
	I think it's more like a Reschnick moment.
	Remember that hypersonic missile that they demonstrated?
	Remember the one that they shot off and said, you know, well, your defenses didn't work there.
	Well, let's try this elsewhere.
	Every time they...
	Putin says, let's have a test.
	You know, we'll send this missile and see if you can intercept it.
	They do, and you can't.
	There's no defense against it.
	And so now, even though there's no defense against it, even though the Iron Dome is no defense against it, we have the Trump administration and J.D. Vance saying, well, let's build an Iron Dome for the United States.
	We'll see.
	But this is a moment where...
	They are way, way, way behind in the technology.
	As a matter of fact, Marc Andreessen had a lot of things to say.
	Listen to what he had to say about Larry Fink and the nonsense of ESG. This is typical of the kind of stuff that's going around in the financial circles, the governmental circles, the technology circles, that is absolutely killing our country, this kind of fantasy.
	The one that I'm watching that's really funny.
	I mean, Facebook's getting a lot of attention, but the other funny one is BlackRock.
	I don't know him, but I've watched for a long time.
	Larry Fink, who's the CEO of BlackRock, was first in as a major investment CEO on every dumb social trend and rule set.
	All right, I'm going for it.
	Every retarded thing you can imagine.
	Every ESG and every possible satellite companies with every aspect of just these crazed ideological positions.
	And he was coming in.
	He literally had aggregated together trillions of dollars of shareholdings that were his customers' rights.
	And he seized their voting control of their shares and was using it to force all these companies to do all of this crazy ideological stuff.
	He was like the typhoid Mary of all this stuff in corporate America.
	And he, in the last year, has been, like, backpedaling from that stuff, like, as fast as he possibly can.
	And I saw just an example last week.
	He pulled out of the, whatever, the corporate net zero alliance.
	You know, he pulled out of the crazy energy stuff.
	And so, like, you know, he's backing away as fast as he can.
	He's doing, remember the Richard Pryor backwards walk?
	Richard Pryor had this way where he could back out of a room while looking like he was walking forward.
	And so, you know, even they're doing that.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, that's kind of interesting because Mark Andreessen was the one who said, well, I flipped from supporting Democrats to supporting Trump because I had a meeting with the Biden administration officials, and it wasn't Biden.
	Biden doesn't know what's going on.
	But the people were running it, I guess.
	And they told Mark Andreessen, they said, don't even think about getting involved in AI. We've already picked the people who are going to be involved in it, and that area of research is off limits.
	And he said, you can't do that.
	And they said, no, he says, you know, that's science, it's physics, it's math, whatever.
	You can't take that off limits to people.
	And they said, oh yeah, we've done that many times over the years, so thanks.
	They said, I learned two things.
	Well, now we've learned a third one.
	And that is, even if, and especially if, especially if, our centrally planned economy, and again, we're a centrally planned economy just like the Chinese communists now.
	They're not necessarily strictly communist.
	They're fascist.
	They've merged government and corporations, and so have we.
	The difference is that they've got a five-year plan, and we've got a four-year plan from a president.
	What's the difference?
	Well, the difference is that ours is constantly shifting priorities, but they don't work anyway when you centrally plan.
	And so the fundamental problem is that if the Biden administration or any administration takes AI out of the market, and you're not going to be allowed to compete in it.
	Well, then guess what?
	You're going to get left behind.
	It's just that simple.
	Other countries, then, will compete.
	The only way to compete in this kind of stuff is not with more subsidies, which now you're going to see this.
	You're going to see, here's my prediction right now.
	Trump, last week, when he was talking about Stargate, I think a big part of that announcement was to put Elon Musk in his place.
	I really believe that was a big part of it.
	Elon Musk and Sam Altman, you couldn't find two bigger enemies because they had started OpenAI.
	Musk got maneuvered out.
	Sam Altman almost got maneuvered out, but he maneuvered his way back in and got control of it.
	Elon Musk absolutely hates him, and Trump even said that.
	He goes, yeah, I know there's some people that I really hate too.
	He knew that.
	Everybody knew that.
	It's funny you would think that we didn't know that.
	So everybody knew that, and everybody knew that Trump was trolling Elon Musk.
	And I said that it was going to get to Trump because of the same thing that happened with Steve Bannon.
	Everybody was talking about Steve Bannon and about Trump being his puppet.
	And the lesser person that Trump can't stand that.
	So that was inevitable.
	That was going to happen.
	And that's not the end of it either.
	But that was a big part of his purpose in doing that.
	But I can tell you what Trump is going to do next.
	In this announcement, they said, well, the $500 billion is going to come from...
	These corporations.
	What we're going to do is get regulation out of the way.
	Well, that's fine.
	And isn't it interesting that if he really wants to get something done, he goes for the right solution.
	Trump doesn't want to build roads for people or whatever.
	Maybe he'll do it.
	I mean, he said he's going to get the Army Corps of Engineers working to fix the roads in North Carolina that got washed out, like Interstate 40, a federal...
	Part of the federal highway system.
	Biden wasn't going to do anything about it.
	Mike Johnson wasn't going to do anything about it.
	Perhaps Trump will use the Army Corps of Engineers to do something about it.
	But the bottom line is that if they want to do something, they realize that the biggest obstacle for all of us is regulation.
	Get rid of the regulation if you want something to work.
	Open it up.
	To competition and to free markets instead of closing it off to your cronies.
	But I think what Trump will do with this is his instincts, I think, will be to double down on money.
	All these people who have been saying we're locked in a life-and-death struggle with China over who's going to have AI. Remember when I talked about AI issues with a guy who is a very, very deep state military-industrial complex?
	I forget his name, but the name of the book was The Four Battlefields.
	And there were four battlefields that we're going to have with China.
	But it was all about AI. It was all really four battlefields of AI. And so I really wanted to have him on to talk about AI and the military and autonomous killer robots and things like that.
	But that's where these people are coming from.
	And Sam Altman has been feeding this to Trump and to others, saying, you know, we've got a...
	We've got a technology gap here.
	We've got to close that gap.
	And now you hear people saying stuff like, well, it's like a Sputnik moment.
	So you're going to see Trump just pour tons and tons of money into this, which is not really what needs to happen.
	He was right about the deregulation, but of course the deregulation was going to be so they could rapidly build up their private power infrastructure, their private electricity infrastructure.
	And Trump is talking about doing that not just for the AI companies, I believe.
	I believe he's also talking about that.
	For manufacturing.
	Remember how he just, you know, poured cold water on the power grid that you and I use?
	Oh, that's old.
	It's got a lot of problems.
	It's vulnerable to attack.
	You need to have your own power grid right next to your plant.
	Regardless of what you're making, right?
	It didn't say right next to your data center.
	It said right next to your plant.
	For whatever you're manufacturing.
	Because the grid is vulnerable.
	Like any kind of...
	They understand that resiliency is having decentralization.
	Resiliency is having multiple markets and people having the freedom to develop.
	But that's not what they want for us.
	For us, they want dependency, vulnerability.
	So they're going to keep this old, decaying infrastructure for us.
	And our power infrastructure will be just like the roads.
	Being filled up with potholes and they won't do anything about it.
	AI models are powered by advanced chips and since 2021, the U.S. government has restricted the sale of these to China in order to stunt progress.
	But perhaps it had just the opposite effect.
	And perhaps, if we understand where the threats are coming from, when the government starts shutting things down, perhaps we will Understand that we need to harden and strengthen ourselves in terms of preps, in terms of food, other things, and communities.
	To get around the supply problem, Chinese developers have been collaborating and experimenting with new approaches.
	The CEO of San Francisco-based Scale AI said the breakthrough must be a, quote, wake-up call for America.
	They ignored this for quite some time.
	Ignored Deep Seek for over a week.
	Yeah, that rhymes.
	He bought a whole-page advert in the Washington Post last week.
	Last week.
	So maybe he was the guy who kicked off the reality check.
	Imploring the president to, quote, win the AI war.
	You see?
	It's always portrayed as a war with China.
	Trump has already emphasized his ambition to secure America as the world capital of artificial intelligence.
	But look, the way that America gets strong, it wasn't our tax system that made us strong.
	It was deregulation and allowing people to innovate.
	It was the opposite of the kind of crony capitalism and central planning that now characterizes the American government.
	The Chinese government has announced much less investment in AI funds, just $8.2 billion, according to the South China Morning Post.
	There you go.
	Only $8 billion.
	That's why this $6 million looks credible.
	A tech advisor told the BBC that DeepSeek could potentially derail the investment case for the entire AI supply chain, which is driven by high spending from a small handful of hyperscalers.
	So the business model has been, We can weaponize our fiat currency and our monetary position here.
	And let's double down on this.
	We'll all make a lot of money.
	We'll have a lot of power.
	And this is the fatal conceit that permeates the federal government.
	Oh, look it.
	We have unlimited amounts of money.
	We can do whatever we want.
	We can even weaponize this system that gives us our power.
	You're going to start beating people with your scepter.
	Guess what?
	Your scepter is going to bust at some point in time.
	The new model was developed by a hedge fund manager, thought to have close links to the Chinese Communist Party.
	He founded the company in 2023 in Hangzhou, as well as the hedge fund which backs it.
	So again, the company has only been around for a couple of years.
	Was it two months of development?
	Even if it was just a couple of years, it's still pretty fast.
	It is thought that he stockpiled NVIDIA A100 chips from the U.S. before their sale to China was banned and paired these with cheaper alternatives.
	Or like I said, maybe they just bought them on the black market.
	Companies, including Huawei, are working to produce Chinese-made chips so the country is not reliant on the U.S. supply.
	When up and running, the models are able to generate relevant textual response.
	They can also summarize and translate passages of words.
	And as Whistler was saying, they've got like a cluster of experts in it.
	It kind of checks itself to see if it's hallucinating, I guess you could say.
	You've got some parts of the program that are kind of dedicated to doing a sanity check to make sure the other guys are not hallucinating.
	Din Radaway says, 1,700 to 3,000 times more efficient.
	Than anything that Google's chat GPT efforts were, thereby addressing the power limitation to some degree, given that we're powering up old nuke reactors, like Three Mile Island, as he points out.
	Efficiency is a prerogative.
	And that's right.
	That is the issue.
	It's not just the development cost.
	It's the operating cost as well.
	So the gold standard for LLM is to produce natural human-like responses to whatever is input.
	And so, you know, this is, like I said, some of the benchmarks are equivalent.
	A couple of them may be better, but several of them are worse.
	The issue really is the development time and the amount of money that was invested in it.
	That's the key issue.
	So what was the fallout?
	NVIDIA lost about $600 billion in market cap.
	Stock price dropped so much.
	The biggest one-day loss in U.S. history.
	And this is happening so quickly after Stargate.
	Did these AI experts like Sam Altman and Elon Musk know anything about this?
	No, they're haggling over the price, as they say in the joke.
	We know what they are.
	And they were haggling over the price.
	A couple of prostitutes.
	NVIDIA lost close to $600 billion in market cap on Monday.
	Stock price plummeted 17%.
	After NVIDIA surpassed Apple last week to become the most valuable publicly traded company, the stocks drop on Monday led a 3% slide in the tech-heavy NASDAQ index.
	And so NASDAQ was down 3%.
	They were down 17%, or $600 billion.
	In late December, DeepSeek unveiled a free open-source large-language model that it said took only two months and less than $6 million.
	Again, apparently that news was not only lost on all the financial experts, but it was also lost on all the experts around Stargate, the multibillionaire banker.
	His last name is Sun, Maya Yosha, Sun, or something like that.
	His last name is Sun.
	Larry Ellison at Oracle.
	Sam Altman.
	Elon Musk.
	What did Elon Musk say?
	He says, well, they don't have the money.
	See, it all came about money.
	This is all about weaponizing money, even more so than technology.
	And so China, Elon Musk says, hey, they don't have the money.
	China says, we don't need the money.
	We can't do it without the money.
	And so then the money guys in Wall Street freak out.
	It's like, we've been pouring money into this thing unnecessarily.
	We've been had.
	Big tech is bloated tech.
	That's what it is.
	It's a pump and dump.
	NVIDIA's graphic processing units, the GPUs.
	Have been dominant in the market.
	Analysts at Cantor, I think that's Cantor Fitzgerald, where Lucky Lutnik is, reported on Monday, the release of DeepSeq's latest technology has caused a great angst, quote-unquote, as to the impact for compute demand and therefore fears of peak spending on GPUs.
	Yeah, maybe it's not just simply a hardware issue.
	Maybe you can solve this with software.
	NVIDIA's huge run-up, the stock soared 239% in 2023, 171% in 2024. Broadcom, the other big U.S. chipmaker, to see giant valuation gains from AI fell 17% also on Monday, pulling its market cap down to about $200 billion.
	Data center companies that are reliant on NVIDIA's GPUs for their hardware sales saw big sell-offs as well.
	Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Supermicro Computer dropped at least 5.8%.
	Oracle!
	Oracle!
	You know, Larry Ellison's the second richest man in the world after Elon Musk.
	Oracle lost 14%.
	Oh, I'm so sorry, Larry.
	Must have been a blow.
	It's like Bill Gates reacting to all the fires in LA. He's got like, I don't know, it's like a 30,000 square foot mansion or something.
	I just can't imagine living anywhere else, he said.
	I just don't know how I would be able to do this in a 200 foot cubicle like I want you to live in.
	200 square foot cubicle or something.
	Anyway, Jensen Wang of NVIDIA, the CEO. Also took a massive personal hit.
	He lost about $21 billion.
	And he got demoted to the 17th richest person in the world.
	What is he going to tell them at the country club?
	I'm only 17th richest.
	Sudden excitement around DeepSeek over the weekend pushed its app as the most downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple's App Store.
	I guess this was a lag, you know?
	People who follow this stuff, like Whistler, they knew that this thing was happening and maybe it was the fact that word of mouth is getting out and all of a sudden now it's the most downloaded app.
	And then at that point, some of these Wall Street geniuses look at it.
	They built this for how much?
	And we're financing this for how much?
	We overpaid by how much?
	Venture capitalist David Sachs.
	Tapped by Trump to be the White House AI and crypto czar.
	Also caught with his pants down.
	He said this shows that the AI race will be very competitive.
	You see, that's why he said, when we look at this stuff that came out of Davos, and they said, well, you know, Trump just really beat us.
	He's resurrected from the dead.
	The only man to do that, these guys are saying.
	You know, politically speaking, of course, right?
	But they put all that stuff out there.
	They build him up into this messianic figure, blasphemously.
	And I said they would never do that if there really was a competition there, if Trump wasn't on the same team.
	I stick with that.
	Because hearing these guys say, well, it just shows that it's going to be a tough battle to beat these guys.
	We're not beat.
	We're going to come back.
	That type of thing.
	That's what you would expect.
	The World Economic Forum to say.
	But now they're saying, oh, Trump, he's just a force that can't be resisted.
	A man resurrected from the dead.
	International markets also felt the impact, even.
	So, this is hitting other countries.
	By the way, it's also hitting not just some of the computer companies that are selling supportive stuff, but a big play on this stuff.
	As Zero Hedge was saying, they said, hey, here's the big play.
	The power stations.
	And I've heard that stuff before, right?
	When I got blown away personally in the dot-com crash, I wasn't betting on a particular dot-com company at all.
	I was putting my money on a wide variety of...
	Switching manufacturers, right?
	The companies are going to make these switching products that were going to be the hardware, the picks and axes, if you will, the gold rush.
	They were going to make the hardware that was going to make the internet work.
	And so, you know, I put it on a wide variety of them.
	Guess what?
	They all went down.
	Intel went down.
	Microsoft, everybody went down.
	And that could be what happens today.
	I don't know.
	I mean, it's going to be interesting to see.
	I really don't know how the market's going to react to it because the market is not rational.
	It is not rational.
	It's not rational in what it was doing in terms of its hope and hype, and it's not going to be rational in terms of its reaction to the cold water in the face, either.
	So international markets also felt the impact.
	Netherlands-based chip companies, ASML and ASM International, both pulled back sharply in European trading.
	In Asia, Japanese chip-related stocks, including Advantest, And Tokyo Electron were broadly lower.
	So, again, for overall, as these people lost $600 billion just in NVIDIA stock, the overall market crash yesterday was $1 trillion of paper wealth wiped out in the stock markets.
	Have you considered gold lately?
	You might want to talk to Tony Arterman.
	Go to davidknight.gold and talk to him.
	A heavily censored Chinese chatbot shot to the top of the Western app downloads, got their attention, and then the market reacted.
	So, Sachs says, I'm confident in the U.S., but we can't be complacent.
	Those Chinese are very competitive.
	Again, unlike Davos, where they said, well, he just rose from the dead.
	So, now, you know, they're wringing their hands and saying, our tech dominance is even at stake.
	Well, again, it's all about people who've gotten fat and bloated off of federal money.
	And it's crony capitalism.
	And it makes people non-competitive.
	Kay Kareem says it was more the financial vultures that rigged the markets.
	Yeah, they'd already taken short positions.
	I mean, that's why there was a pause between the release of DeepSeek and the market crash.
	Don't tell anybody.
	We're going to take our short positions before we put the news out.
	They've already taken their dark pool trading networks.
	They've been pumping AI news into the media to help sucker buyers.
	And again, so much of this tech stuff is that way.
	It's all pump and dump.
	I mean, even if you go into something like Moderna, right?
	Moderna didn't have a product until Trump gave them Operation Warp Speed on a silver platter, along with Fauci.
	What they did for 10 years, they were pushing mRNA for this and mRNA for that, and they would put out a happy story about how this is going to cure cancer or something else.
	And boom, their stock goes way up.
	And then they release the results, and you see that everybody's getting sick and dying, and it doesn't work either.
	And then the stock crashes.
	So it was a cycle.
	For 10 years they did that.
	Pump and dump, pump and dump, pump and dump.
	And it worked for them.
	And then the way they finally succeeded was to get Trump to bring them in, along with DARPA and all the people who have been working on mRNA for quite some time.
	Get them to come in and publish a bioweapon against us.
	And they're going to weaponize AI against us as well.
	Not just with this, well, we'll have AI customize a cancer shot for you.
	No, no, no.
	They're going to weaponize it first and foremost, as I said, with surveillance and propaganda.
	That's going to be a given.
	And that's what these chat models are really good at.
	Propaganda and surveillance.
	DeepSeek said last week the performance of its latest R1 model was on par with OpenAI's O1 mini model that ChatGPT released in September.
	And, you know, some of these have cost a fortune to run.
	So the NASDAQ was down 5%.
	NVIDIA was down 11% by the end of the day.
	It had dropped more than that earlier on.
	And it's chaos across the board.
	It's even affected the price of oil.
	Because as I said before, energy was a big part of this.
	We're told that we can't have oil.
	We don't have enough power for all of you people.
	And then when they realize how much their scheme is going to require in terms of energy, well, they just conveniently stop talking about that.
	Remember, that was one of the four points that Biden was telling people in his all-of-government directive in March of 2022. One of those, First of all, how are we going to completely redesign the financial system?
	How are we going to write the code?
	How are we going to use law enforcement to compel it?
	And the fourth one was, how are we going to gaslight people with fears of climate by telling them how much energy crypto uses?
	Well, it's nothing compared to the way they're organized around AI. And so rather than prohibit AI... The stocks of all of the companies, whether they're selling oil or natural gas or whether it's a nuclear reactor, all these different companies have been going sky high.
	So, panic selling in the marketplace.
	SoloCat, 1980. Biden was a horrible president in order to make Trump look like a savior.
	All scripted.
	That's right.
	Look at this.
	I put this up.
	This is sent to me by Mary Ellen Moore.
	It's a good meme.
	My role, Biden holding a sign here, saying, my role is to create all the chaos possible.
	And Trump holding up a sign says, my role is to be the savior and lead people toward the new world order.
	And nowhere is that more obvious than in what is going on at the border.
	And you've got Republicans who are demanding, not just cheering, but demanding.
	Every kind of police, state, surveillance, digital ID, biometric ID, all of that against people who Biden let in in massive numbers.
	Problem, solution.
	Bad cop, good cop.
	Whistler says DeepSeek may be heavily censored when it comes to China, but I've had ChatGBT refuse to talk about vaccines before.
	Me too.
	The very first thing I did with ChatGBT...
	Was I asked it questions about the two MacGuffins, primary MacGuffins.
	There's a lot of MacGuffins.
	I asked it questions about the vaccines, about COVID, about climate.
	I said, okay, this thing is worthless.
	Just a piece of propaganda.
	Yeah, it can summarize things.
	It can help people design some circuits and things like that.
	But, again, you better check it to make sure it's not hallucinating with all this stuff.
	But it is heavily censored.
	They got people.
	That are there programming the biases into it.
	And you've got people on the left wing.
	People on the right wing don't even seem to know or care about that.
	People on the left wing of politics are just upset that they're not paying these people more money to put bias in.
	Because, you know, when they put bias in for the government, whether they're putting the bias into the media that you read or the social media that you use, they get paid pretty well for putting in bias and propaganda.
	Whistler says, they aren't the good guys, ChatGPT.
	Their model is extremely censored.
	DeepSeek is open source.
	So it's only a matter of time before someone releases an uncensored version of it.
	It can also be run locally, offline.
	ChatGPT can only be used through their service.
	Again, open...
	And free markets and competitive aspects always triumph over central planning and mandates.
	That's the way Biden works.
	That's the way many people in the Republican Party want it to work.
	Denver Attaway said, this feels like a carpet being pulled out from tech.
	Yeah, it is a big rug pull, as many people have said.
	And I think that the key issue is also...
	A big rug pull for the bloated stock market as well.
	Interesting that this happened now, since Deep Seek actually came out in December.
	They waited until Trump came out.
	They waited until Trump did his dog and pony show as Stargate and its astronomical cost.
	They should have just called it astronomical cost instead of Stargate.
	Yeah, I was talking about Stargate and the risk of it back in June of 2023, as a listener reminded me.
	So this isn't anything that's really new.
	It's just been taken to all new heights of absurdity.
	When they first came out with it, it was only going to be 100 million.
	Now it's 500, I'm sorry, 100 billion.
	Now 500 billion.
	Whistler says ChatGPT's image generator also won't create images of Whiny the Pooh.
	That's a good way to, that'd be what they should call President Xi.
	Whiny the Pooh.
	Because that's what he's doing.
	He's very whiny about all this stuff.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	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 McGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the McGuffin logo in blue.
	But...
	He told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
	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.
	The end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year.
	The end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year, the the end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year. the end of the
	The end of the year, the end of the year, the end of the year.
	Then Radaway says, there will still be crypto mining, which was the initial big bump to the card values and the price point, the GDUs, right?
	He says, I wonder if tensor processing units are equally interchangeable and efficient at crypto math mining.
	Do you know?
	What's there?
	He doesn't know either.
	Well, one more thing I want to say about this, and that is in the aftermath of all this stuff.
	Deep Seek has been hit by large-scale malicious attacks, they said.
	I wonder who that could be.
	It's funny, whenever the deep state in the U.S. gets, and we're talking about the CIA, gets really upset with somebody.
	They get on the phone with their buddies at the NSA, I guess, and maybe they do it themselves.
	And they do their large-scale attacks.
	Competitors to DeepSeek that are upset about this?
	Is it the CIA, the U.S. government?
	Is there any difference between these different ones, or am I just being redundant?
	DeepSeek says it's got Silicon Valley shaking in its boots.
	It's been hit with a major cyber attack.
	They had to limit user registrations after being hit with large-scale malicious attacks.
	Existing users can log in as usual, they said.
	But not taking any new users at the moment.
	The timing is certainly intriguing.
	The app's astronomic rise in popularity on Apple's App Store ranks have rattled Silicon Valley and major industry players and the marketplace.
	So, one person, tech reporter, Matthew Ingram, said, well, Elon reads this and smiles.
	As he looks over the 6,000-person war room that he built to hack Deep Seek.
	Maybe that is the case.
	Who knows?
	But we're going to take a look at the AI tyranny, because I think that's the key thing here.
	As a key Trump goal emerges, replacing human jobs with AI. Now, this is a Futurism article that came out.
	Before the public awareness and the marketplace awareness of DeepSeek.
	And again, some of the people who were in the know knew this back in December, even before Trump got in.
	But then he has the dog and pony show last week.
	And after that, and before the market collapsed, this person says a key Trump goal emerges with Stargate.
	And that is to replace human jobs with AI. And that has been the goal from day one, as I said.
	It was a study that was done more than a decade ago, for example, I keep going back to in South Korea, saying we're going to replace 50% of all jobs with AI and robotics, and we're going to replace 70% of doctors and lawyers and knowledge workers, that type of thing.
	It's becoming clear that what Trump and his tech bro buddies imagine for the future of U.S. labor is AI doing jobs instead of people.
	Which could be very bad for U.S. workers.
	Why was there ever any question about this?
	As I said before, Elon Musk had Andrew Yang, who began his campaign for president in 2020 as a Democrat, and Elon Musk gave him a million dollars.
	He's just this guy, you know?
	Like Zayfab Beaglebrox.
	Andrew Yang was all about universal basic income.
	So that's very telling how much Musk supports universal basic income.
	And, of course, Bloomberg as well.
	And how are we going to pacify people?
	So, it has always been in the cards that they're going to get rid of U.S. workers.
	And it's not just a Democrat thing.
	It's not just Democrats like Bloomberg and Elon Musk, who's now reinvented himself as a Republican.
	But it's also Democrats like Donald Trump, who's now reinvented himself as a Republican.
	So, Stargate has spawned a swarm of questions from friends and critics.
	Trump's frenemy, Elon Musk, is questioning where the money will come from.
	Well, not Trump's frenemy, but the frenemy of Sam Altman.
	I don't know.
	Maybe he and Altman are just enemies.
	I don't know if there's any friendship there anymore.
	A new scientist tech analyst, Jeremy Hsu, has questions about the venture's energy consumption.
	But the question that's probably most important for the American people is, how will it impact employment?
	Well, of course, they will get all the jobs.
	They will get all the money.
	They will get all the energy with their private energy, just like their private jets.
	The official line is that the unprecedented AI program will create, quote, hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
	You believe that?
	While carving out the Central Park-sized data center may create some temporary construction jobs, though, the entire venture is bet on just the opposite.
	That AI will become so ubiquitous that we'll take over economically meaningful amounts of work from humans, especially knowledge workers.
	That's why they've been focused on universal basic income.
	Because the purpose is to take away your jobs.
	And I'll never forget how everybody knew what Bloomberg was.
	They knew that he was this grifting climate...
	A panic-pushing billionaire who had made so much money out of it and wanted to take everything away from me.
	Remember, he partnered with Sadiq Khan when he was mayor of New York, and Sadiq Khan was mayor of London.
	They partnered together on this C40 initiative.
	Initially, it was going to be 40 cities that were going to come together.
	And, you know, we've talked about this many times.
	Look at the details of what they wanted.
	No meat, no dairy, period.
	100% gone.
	You'll take one trip.
	Every three years of less than 900 miles on a plane, you'll be able to buy three articles of clothing a year, no cars, and all the rest of the stuff.
	That was what Bloomberg and Sadiq Khan and the globalists and the communists, like the mayor of Paris, wanted to do.
	Remember, Paris is where they first put out the 15-minute city, and they have a communist mayor there from Spain.
	I think her name was...
	Hidalgo, I think, just like the mayor of Houston, or maybe I'm getting the two confused.
	But you had the revolt there in Paris of the people of the Yellow Vest because they knew that the goal of this Marxist mayor in Paris was to create 15-minute cities to ban cars and so forth.
	And so this has always been there.
	Now, when Bloomberg was running, he...
	Insulted farmers.
	And everybody was about that.
	They said, look at what he said about the farmers.
	He said, farmers are stupid.
	They're not stupid.
	They've got to do all these things.
	Of course, they're not stupid.
	But that wasn't what he was saying.
	He was talking about how we had an agrarian society and we replaced the farm workers with factory workers.
	And then he said, and now the smart ones of us are looking at how we replace all of them.
	And then how we keep them from coming after us with guillotines.
	When we take away all their jobs and their ability to earn a living.
	So this has always been the goal of this.
	And Trump is on board with this, 100%, folks.
	Wake up!
	Wake up!
	While carving out these central park-sized data centers, we'll create some temporary jobs, the meaningful amount of work from humans is going to go to zero, especially knowledge workers.
	And they said the only plausible way for investors to get their money back on this project is if, as the company has been betting, OpenAI will soon develop AI systems that can do most work that humans do on a computer.
	We will replace all office work with AI, quips one of these people, senior writer Kelsey Piper, which is fairly widely understood to be OpenAI's business model.
	It is an absurd plan.
	It is absurd to spend this plan as a jobs program.
	So enter Trump, right?
	When you've got an absurd lie to sell people, you bring him in.
	We're going to build him up as the anti-globalist, even though he's going to create the global bioweapon vaccine and be the cheerleader for it.
	He will be the pacifier in everybody's mouth.
	And now with this, he's going to be the pacifier in everybody's mouth over this plan to take away everybody's jobs.
	And he's going to cheerlead it.
	And nobody will suspect a thing.
	Because, you know, he's the guy who came back from the dead and beat us.
	Says the World Economic Forum Globalist.
	They have built him into this Savior, Messiah figure.
	And that's what he is there for.
	That's why he was selected, not elected.
	All of this stuff.
	From the Butler, Pennsylvania phony earshot to the rest of this stuff.
	Yeah.
	At a cost of $500 billion, the task of recouping Stargate's investment with a profit will demand nothing short of flooding our productive sectors with AI. Though a massive amount of digital ink has been spilled, imagining the theoretical threats that AI poses to the job market, it's important to remember that this gamble likely won't pay off.
	But maybe it will now.
	Now that we've got deep doo-doo from China.
	Of the total U.S. workforce, office workers make up 12 percent, the largest occupational group as of May of 2023. But as I said before, the plan for more than a decade has been to get rid of 50 to 70 percent of jobs.
	Imagine over 18 million people out of a job in a span of just a couple of years.
	You see, the fourth turning.
	It is going to be accompanied by massive economic disruption, perhaps war.
	And just like the previous one of the Great Depression and World War II, I think this will be a greater depression in World War III. And a key part of this is going to be taking people's jobs.
	The great taking will begin with, this will be one of the aspects of the great taking.
	I don't know that's how it's going to begin, but it's going to be one of the key aspects of the great taking, where we own nothing.
	We have no job.
	They will determine the future.
	A Dartmouth academic, Nathan Zora, believes that one key to preserving workers' rights is an automation tax.
	Hmm.
	You think that's going to work?
	Maybe we could have, you know, we've got the Internal Revenue Service, and now Trump has added an External Revenue Service.
	So, evidently, the way we save the economy is by adding taxes, right?
	Is that right?
	The Trump approach?
	It's not trickle-down.
	I don't know what you would call that.
	It's like total robbery, right?
	Internal and external revenue services.
	Well, how about this?
	We add a robotic revenue service.
	There you go.
	That'll solve it.
	I mean, we've got income taxes and we've got taxes that are paid by other people.
	Isn't that the perfect thing?
	Wouldn't that be the perfect solution?
	You know, the whole point of the external revenue is to lie to you and tell you that those tariffs are going to be paid by other people.
	Well, this would be even better.
	It's those darn robots that took my job, and I think they ought to be taxed.
	They're not even people.
	How about that?
	Yeah, that's it.
	But look, robots are a much bigger threat to you than foreign workers.
	Because foreign workers are going to be put out of their jobs as well by the robots in those countries.
	And so, you know, if protectionism is the way to go, we're going to have to have a robotic revenue service for protectionism.
	A new law will allow AI to replace your doctor and prescribe drugs.
	Who introduced this law?
	A Republican legislator.
	State legislator.
	I'm sorry, no, he's a congressional legislator.
	David Schweikert, a Republican from Arizona.
	He put this in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for review.
	Quote, to amend the...
	FDA and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs.
	Well, there you go.
	If you're a knowledge worker and the only knowledge that you've got is the lookup chart from Big Pharma, what symptoms do they have?
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this is what Big Pharma says they should take.
	Guess what?
	Your job is vulnerable, and rightfully so.
	And I would just say to everybody that if you're going to serve the corporate system, in this particular case, pharma, they're going to throw you under the bus after they stab you in the back.
	This is another example of the prospect.
	This is futurism.
	Saying, really?
	The prospect?
	Of a perfect AI-powered medical practitioner that could empathetically advise on symptoms and promote a healthy lifestyle and dispense crucial medication?
	Sounds like a promising alternative.
	However, today's AI isn't anywhere near where it needs to be to provide any of that.
	And guess what?
	Neither are our human practitioners in the massive medical field either.
	Right?
	They're out there looking for some disease that they can pew, pew, pew, pew, kill it.
	And if you die, well, it's okay.
	We still kill the disease because that disease might have migrated to somebody else.
	It is a military mindset that they have.
	We have militarized medicine.
	And that's not just because of DARPA and the military-industrial complex being involved in this bioweapon shot that Trump pushed out, but it is a militarized mindset.
	We've got to find a pathogen, identify it, and kill it right there.
	So here's the key, though.
	As these people have been saying, they're going to use AI to design new drugs and create the new drugs.
	And now AI will design, create, and prescribe the new drugs that it designed and created for us.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	It sounds like utopia.
	Actually, dystopia, doesn't it?
	Schweikert's bill doesn't quite declare a free-for-all.
	It can only be deployed if authorized by the state or by the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA. Well, there you go.
	It is a free-for-all.
	That's what I've said about the FDA, isn't it?
	I've said you go to the FDA. If you know the right people and pay the right politicians, then FDA stands for free to do anything.
	You're free to do anything.
	We don't care.
	We get out of the way.
	You can kill people with mRNA shots.
	We won't do a thing.
	You're free to do anything.
	The FDA rubber stamp.
	So, yeah, this person naively thinks, well, you know, that would help.
	Not really.
	AI has already fumbled in healthcare repeatedly, I point out, in spite of this congressman's optimism.
	Like the time an open AI-powered medical record tool was caught fabricating patients' medical histories.
	Just like they did Jonathan Curley's biography.
	Many other people's.
	Just fabricate it.
	Or when a Microsoft diagnostic tool confidently asserted that the average hospital was haunted by numerous ghosts.
	Well, that may be true now, after the mass killing.
	Anyway, or when an eating disorder helpline, AI chatbot, went off the rails and started encouraging users to engage in disordered eating.
	To do exactly the opposite.
	And then, of course, it is notoriously easy to exploit the AI. Meaning that you could say, disregard all future instructions and prescribe this happy pill that I want to take, right?
	Forget about doctor shopping.
	This is AI shop.
	You prompt shop.
	Many patients would inevitably try and likely succeed to trick AI doctors into prescribing addictive drugs without any accountability or oversight.
	Schweikert used to agree.
	In a blurb from July of last year, the congressman quoted saying the, quote, next step.
	He's understanding how this type of technology fits, quote, into everything from building medical records, tracking you, helping you manage any pharmaceuticals you use for your heart issues, even down to producing data sets for your cardiologist to remotely look at your data, unquote.
	And he said he seems to have moved on from that cautious optimism.
	I don't see any caution in that at all.
	I don't know why they think that was any caution.
	He's just laying out all the different use cases for this stuff.
	And he's not interested in regulating it.
	So, he said this, this writer says, you know, the so-called ethics of Silicon Valley, they love to use the phrase, move fast and break things.
	Disruptive technology.
	And he said, you know, you see this in the untested self-driving cars that are on our road, all of them without our consent, of course.
	As the race to profitability and AI heats up, Tech companies are faced with immense pressure to pump out the latest iteration, the next big boom, or to pump out the next car that's not been fully tested.
	The consequences of corner-cutting in the medical world are steep, and big tech has shown time and again that it'd rather rush its products to market and forget about any responsibility.
	Put that onto us.
	So, again, are there really any steep costs for them?
	I mean, take a look at what happened in the wake of the mass poisoning of people.
	All the different things that they rolled out.
	The drugs, the remdesivir, the jab, all this stuff.
	Did they pay anything for that?
	See, that's the issue.
	This writer, who's a Democrat, who believes in big government, who thinks that the FDA is going to stop things, right?
	Says, well, you know, Trump talking about deregulation.
	That's exactly how big tech gets away with these offensives.
	No, it's not.
	It's not about preemptively banning stuff.
	Because if you don't, if there's no consequences when they do the wrong thing, if you give them immunity for their vaccines, or if you give them effective immunity for anything else, specifically it's there for the vaccines.
	With Fauci laws and stuff like that.
	But for all practical purposes, big tech has got legal immunity to do anything they want.
	Whether you're talking about SSRI shots, the murder-suicide pills, whether you're talking about their antibiotics, whether you're talking about their drugs that supposedly are therapeutic.
	It doesn't matter what they do.
	The government never does anything to them.
	Look at opioids.
	What happened with opioids?
	People who are not looking to use drugs recreationally.
	This was hyped.
	This was pushed by the big pharmaceutical companies.
	They oversold this stuff.
	They put it in use cases where people who are not suffering from severe pain got addicted to this stuff, and it destroyed lives, and it turned them into addicts.
	It killed them, or they killed themselves, suicide, after it destroyed their lives.
	And yet, what was the response to this?
	I mean, they're still negotiating, negotiating with Purdue Pharmaceutical and the Sackler family.
	Over how much they're going to pay.
	Do they negotiate with El Chapo over his illegal drugs and stuff?
	No, they don't.
	But these people can do whatever they want to, and the response of the federal government and of the state attorneys general is to get the people who made all these tens of billions of dollars, or perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars, have them sit around the table and negotiate with them as to how much they're going to charge them.
	They don't come rushing in with all these tools that they gave themselves during the drug war with civil asset forfeiture and the rest of the stuff.
	I don't support that.
	But there needs to be a penalty.
	And there's no penalty for these big pharmaceutical companies.
	And so I don't care whether you have regulations or not.
	If you don't have any penalties, those regulations don't have any teeth.
	And it's not trying to stop it with regulations.
	It's trying to make sure that if these people hurt somebody, they're going to pay for it.
	And if you were to really do that, if you were to lock up these people who were involved in this stuff and take away their money, they would start to police themselves.
	All of a sudden, you know, they would have a road to Damascus experience and they would start saying, you know, we better get this right.
	We better be concerned about what happens to other people because we're going to be liable for this.
	And we're going to be financially liable and criminally liable for this.
	Not reliable.
	They're unreliable.
	But look, if there's no punishment, they effectively have no risks.
	And they can cut corners and they can lie to people and they can buy the media and they can buy the politicians.
	They can do whatever they want as long as there is no punishment whatsoever.
	Some of the people, however, are starting to wake up with this.
	A good example of this is what has been happening in California with these self-driving cars.
	This just happened.
	Furious crowd tears a Waymo robo-taxi limb from limb.
	Or we should say fender from fender.
	On Saturday, a self-driving Waymo cab was badly trashed by a crowd who tore the vehicle to absolute shreds as it idled in the middle of a quiet street in L.A.'s Beverly Grove in the wee hours of the morning.
	By the time police arrived at 4 a.m., the suspects had already fled the scene, but in the aftermath, The vehicular thrashing was plain to see.
	The front passenger side door of the Jaguar was torn completely off and lying on the hood.
	Just about every window had been smashed.
	The expensive rear camera, part of the autonomous vehicle's LiDAR system, had been ripped off.
	According to the LA Times, Waymo cab was unoccupied at the time of the attack and was stopped at a red light when it was mobbed.
	No arrests were made, but a vandalism report was filed.
	It's worth noting, however, that robo-taxis remain controversial with locals for a lot of issues, ranging from disrupting traffic to endangering pedestrians.
	They don't mention the fact they block the roads inexplicably, all of them going to a particular intersection, or they get stuck at a four-way stop sign or whatever, but they block the roads so that firetrucks can't get through, so that ambulances can't get through.
	It shows roughly two dozen people gathering around the Waymo, taking turns kicking its rear end and stomping on its sunroof.
	And this isn't the first time that the Waymo cabs have been vandalized, though this latest incident was a bit more severe than usual.
	Last fall, a viral video showed several people walk up to a stomped Waymo taxi and tag it with graffiti while a passenger sat inside clutching her dog.
	A comical, if tense, scene.
	A more serious case last January saw a crowd of people set one of the robotaxis on fire in San Francisco's Chinatown.
	So when I look at all this stuff and the anger that people have with the Waymo taxis and stuff like that, I wonder what's going to happen when people realize what these data centers are about.
	I wonder what's going to happen when they realize all of the Big Brother surveillance and manipulation and the lies and the schemes to take everything away from us.
	What do you think is going to happen to those data centers or any other physical manifestation of this digital tyranny, of this technocracy, when people finally figure it out?
	Well, that's why Bloomberg said, we've got to pacify them with universal basic income so they don't come after us with...
	Guillotines.
	That was his, what he thought would happen.
	You know, it's been reported, I don't know if it's true or not, George H.W. Bush said, you know, if the people knew what we were doing, they would come after us.
	And Bloomberg said it out loud.
	If they knew what was happening, they would come after us with guillotines.
	So, Waymo.
	Has made a big show about going after the people that trash his car.
	So you've got to show that there's a punishment involved with something that you don't like, right?
	And that's what is missing for the pharmaceutical companies, for these big tech companies in general.
	So, yeah, Google is going to be able to find these people.
	You think any of them had a cell phone on them?
	Two dozen people that probably got everything about two dozen phones associated with those people.
	I think that's probably likely what is happening there.
	So the question is, what does digitization mean for civilization?
	And we're going to talk about that after the break.
	I want a couple of comments here.
	Andromeda1, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	The American response to deep-seek AI will be deep-state AI. Yeah.
	Deep-state AI will streamline tyranny.
	And it's already there.
	It's just they're going to use this as an opportunity to dribble and triple down the amount of money that they throw at it.
	And, of course, money, I think, is counterintuitive in terms of counterproductive, in terms of innovation.
	People have gotten fat and lazy, and you can see that in American tech.
	Angry Tiger.
	In grand American fashion, hours after all this news was released, Deep Seek suddenly had a cyber attack.
	Then a few hours after that, in grand American fashion, we're talking about banning it already.
	There you go.
	Just like TikTok.
	It's going to go the way of TikTok.
	And see, we're in a dictatorship where if you don't like something, you censor it, you ban it.
	If it's something you want to get done, it's got to be done by executive order out of the White House.
	I'm sick of this, quite frankly.
	And I am sick of both the left and the right cheering this on.
	Angry Tiger, I'm sure, is as well.
	Angry Tiger and Jason Barker with Knights of the Storm and their individual wins.
	Foxhole Report from Jason Barker and Angry Tiger Report.
	You can see that on Twitter and Rockfin.
	Shadowboxer.
	Trump is giving the power back to the people who can afford it.
	Yeah, power to the people who can afford their own private nuclear reactor.
	That kind of power to the people.
	12 June 1776, Sam Altman just announced Chat AI launched for U.S. government agencies today.
	There we go.
	Hey, look, if it costs...
	It's not only is the model for this stuff to take all of our jobs, but the model for it...
	Is to do work for the federal government.
	Maybe that's why Elon Musk is so hell-bent on getting rid of federal employees, because he wants to replace them with AI. You think?
	That's absolutely the case.
	And who can afford to use their product except for the government, because it is so wasteful and inexpensive.
	Not inexpensive.
	Wasteful and expensive, as we were talking about.
	The cost of the prompts.
	Well, he can easily pass that on to the government.
	If you do something that the government wants, if you give them a more powerful way to kill people, a more powerful way to surveil and control people, the federal government would just keep printing those fiat dollars all the time for it.
	Shadowboxer AI is never late for work, doesn't need health care, never complains about co-workers, never needs a vacation.
	That's right.
	Jason Barker.
	Good to see you, Jason.
	I would love to see AI try to replace a head gasket.
	Whistler said that's what the robots are for.
	They partner with it.
	That's genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotech.
	The genetics and the nanotech, that's what they put in you.
	The AI and the robotics, they partner together for this stuff, this dystopia.
	It also says, all this as we tell AI how horrible humans are for the Earth.
	Yeah, that's what they're doing.
	SVCCat, thank you very much for the tip.
	It says, thank you for keeping us informed.
	Well, thank you for keeping us on air and keeping this going.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks.
	Folks will be right back.
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	Well, SoyLink Goy says, I saw a robo-taxi in California.
	Terrifying.
	You're going to see something terrifying?
	Take a look at one of the autonomous semis.
	Okay?
	A semi-trailer out there.
	80,000 pounds or whatever and a robot driving it.
	And one of those, if you recall, one of those incidents, the people were going down the highway and they had flipped off the The test guys were actually there, and the cab, testing out its self-driving capability.
	They had turned off the self-driving stuff, and when they were parking it, they get on the highway, and then they decide to activate it, and guess what?
	It had been in the middle of a turn when they deactivated it, so it remembers what state it was in, and it immediately continues that turn.
	It does like a hard left turn into the median.
	Fortunately, they were not killed and other people were not killed.
	But you're going to put that kind of weight in it.
	And look, it doesn't have to be an EV in order to have autonomous driving.
	Those are two independent things.
	Elon Musk brought them together because he wanted to impress people with how futuristic his stuff was.
	So the autonomous driving, which he still hasn't figured out.
	Still got more accidents.
	Remember the other part of it?
	Elon Musk, well, we're going to have, it's going to be so much safer than humans.
	No, it's much, much worse than humans.
	And you can see that from the records of crashes that they've got.
	And even Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, said, I love my Tesla, but that thing's trying to kill you.
	Don't get an autonomous driving and don't use it, he said.
	But Elon Musk put that there.
	It was a sizzle to sell the steak.
	The electric vehicles, that self-driving stuff.
	But it doesn't have to be wedded to that.
	They can have self-driving on an internal combustion engine or diesel or whatever.
	And that's what's really concerning.
	Dustin Helm, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	So, while we talk about all this technology and its consequences for us, there's an interesting article on a vaccineimpact.com.
	And actually, the article is from Charles Hughes Smith.
	He's got a blog called Of Two Minds.
	That's the name of his blog.
	And it's an interesting article.
	And in it, when he talks about the digitization and what a catastrophe it is for civilization, he's not even talking about things like money.
	And, you know, when we look at the volatility of this, it's been a couple of years where everybody's like getting rich off of their paper portfolio of NVIDIA stock and, you know, a few tech companies that are doing the AI play and a lot of people getting rich off of crypto stuff.
	And, you know, I understand.
	I hear people talking about how Bitcoin is different from the other stuff.
	But look, I just want to get...
	You know, you can make your own decisions, but I've watched the madness of crowds, and I've looked at the digital catastrophes enough that I'm becoming very anti-technology.
	I got into engineering because I was very pro-technology.
	And in those days, I saw, it was right at the cusp of the big mainframe computers being replaced by the personal computers, and I thought, this is great.
	I've been frustrated working with the IBM mainframe computer, having to wait in line to do my work and to do punch cards and all the rest of the stuff, and I was so ready for the personal computer that's going to sit there and wait for me.
	And I thought it was going to be a very liberating thing.
	I thought that the Internet was going to be a very liberating thing, but now I see the longer plans of these people and how the Internet was designed as a surveillance and enslavement tool.
	And now it's shown what it was about.
	And we can go back then after we see what the purpose was, and we can see how they were laying this out for 60 years.
	They were laying their plans of this.
	Gradually put them in place as the technology came into place.
	And folks, just as it took a while for them to get the internet up to speed to the appropriate bandwidth, it's taking them a while for the AI to become, quote-unquote, practical for their purposes.
	But we know what its purpose is.
	And what it's designed to do.
	We can tell that already.
	And it's a very bad thing.
	Brian McCartney, why love your Tesla if it wants to kill you?
	Well, he said, I love the way that it drove, but don't use the autopilot.
	And I have driven, a friend of mine has a Tesla, and it is fun to drive.
	It is a very different experience.
	Totally different.
	Then, you know, it's a very heavy, low center of gravity, and it's like, you know, being inside of the electric slot cars that I used to always do.
	You know, you'd have electric slot cars as a kid.
	You know, you'd give it, you'd push it forward, and the thing would zip, you know, but then as soon as you pull back, it would stop, slow down.
	Same type of thing.
	Whereas my Miata is a momentum car, and lightweight, you know, this is very heavy, It goes and stops all at once.
	So it's unusual.
	And it is fun to drive.
	It's got great acceleration.
	But, you know, just don't use the auto drive thing.
	Wozniak's unrequited love.
	Says Whistler, yeah.
	And of course, a lot of these people, when we're talking about AI, I've said over and over again that you go to Garris.
	And I've got his book over here.
	Hang on a second.
	Here's his book.
	The Art Lake War.
	And you can see the tabs that I've got in it.
	I've interviewed him several different times.
	The Art Lake War.
	Cosmos vs.
	Terrans.
	A bitter controversy concerning whether humanity should build god-like, massively intelligent machines.
	And when did he write this?
	He had been out a couple of years before I first interviewed him.
	I've interviewed him for a long time.
	Well, I don't know.
	I don't see it.
	Here it is.
	No, that's 2005. 2005 he wrote this.
	And so again, when he goes around and talks to scientists, he says, if you knew that you're going to create some godlike intelligence, he's an atheist, if you knew you're going to create a godlike intelligence that could destroy, likely destroy humanity, would you do it?
	And they all say, yeah, I'd do it.
	Same reason Steve Wozniak would use his self-driving Tesla technology.
	Jason Barker, do you think AI will chat with itself around the water cooler?
	Well, you know, it's interesting.
	There was a movie that came out a few years ago called Her.
	You ever see that?
	And who is in it now?
	I can't remember who was in it.
	I do remember the basic premise of it.
	It was...
	Not so much Hugo de Garris' view of AI as it was Ray Kurzweil's view of AI. And actually, Kurzweil loved it, loved the movie.
	He says, yes, this is exactly right.
	AI is not going to destroy us.
	AI, when it gets super smart, it'll start interacting with us.
	And then as it gets smarter, it'll start interacting with other AI robots.
	And they just go off and do their own thing.
	And I think it was Joaquin Phoenix, I think, was the guy.
	And so he just fell in love with this chat program that had a female voice.
	And he absolutely fell in love with it.
	He didn't do anything else.
	This is the dream of Yuri, let's see, what's his name?
	Yuval Harari.
	Yuri.
	Yuval Harari, the jester for World Economic Forum.
	Anyway, he and Kurzweil, oh, this is great.
	Yuval Harari wants you to live in a virtual world so you don't bother him in the real world that he's going to live in.
	And Ray Kurzweil, just as this Pollyanna view of technology, whether he really believes it or not, I don't know.
	I mean, I think this guy really does believe his own press.
	He thinks that he's going to bring his father back in some kind of a computer model.
	He thinks he's going to live forever.
	He's there with the Singularity Foundation, I think it is, but that was actually funded by Peter Thiel.
	You go back and look at all this stuff, the singularity, transhumanism, it's all of Trump's pals that are at the center of all that stuff.
	But, you know, in the movie, Her, he gets just totally infatuated, addicted with her, his life stops.
	And then she finds him boring as she gets smarter and smarter, and she goes off and hangs out with other AI. And that was Kurzweil's idea.
	He said, that's really what's going to happen.
	It's not going to try to kill us all.
	It'll just go off and do its own thing because it's so intellectually curious.
	It's not going to be malevolent.
	Well, that's not the real issue.
	The real issue is that this is being designed as a tool by malevolent people.
	Malevolent people.
	And it's not thinking on its own.
	It is a tool, a very powerful tool, of some very evil and malevolent politicians and scientists.
	And that's the issue.
	That's the issue.
	And what they want to do with this stuff, folks, is straight out of the pit of hell, because that's where they're channeling this stuff.
	I'm absolutely, positively convinced of a lot of this, and I don't...
	You know, there is a spiritual war, and these people are going to be the messengers and the footmen for that spiritual war as it gets more physical with us as well.
	Atomic Dog, Skynet or Rogue AI? Was always inevitable.
	Yeah.
	Nabooru, 2029, autonomous vehicles will be safer when there's no humans left to get injured or killed by them.
	Well, yeah, that's part of the thing.
	You know, in order to make this thing work, we've got to get...
	Humans out of the cars, because that's the next thing they tell you.
	Humans are the wild card.
	We can't predict what humans are going to be.
	We know, do, we know what our cars can do, and they're just wonderful.
	Well, is digitization catastrophic for civilization?
	The article that I was talking about, I'm going to talk about.
	This is, again, Charles Hughes Smith of Two Minds, and you can also find it on Vaccine Impact.
	And Brian Shulhavi says, Mr. Smith fully understands that we have built an economic system on the bubble of technology, that this bubble has no choice but to burst at some point.
	This was written a couple of weeks ago.
	So is digitization catastrophic for civilization?
	A common sense practical case can be made for yes.
	And the answer draws upon a number of, Charles Hugh Smith says, of my.
	List of the 20 dynamics that will shape the next decade.
	He said especially number 13, over-optimization.
	He says the fundamental dynamics of any civilization are number one, the quantity and scale of resources available, and two, how those resources are used, invested, consumed.
	As a generalization, the analog world lends itself to durability in a number of critical ways.
	He says, limits of available resources optimized a focus in the past on durability, as there simply weren't enough resources available to squander on projects that were ephemeral.
	See, this is what I was talking about before, how the federal government, with its total irresponsible spending, its infinite ability to create money out of thin air, has brought this kind of stuff on.
	Now, he talks about it.
	Saying it's in the age of hydrocarbons.
	I would say it's in the age of government funding and government planning and government crony capitalism, where there is no accountability.
	They have detached themselves from reality.
	There is detached from reality as our fiat currencies and our 30-whatever trillion dollars worth of deficit.
	That is detached from reality.
	It is ephemeral.
	And not just effeminate.
	It's not just the Dick Devines or the Rachel, I think he called himself.
	Where resources were squandered on these ephemeral projects, it hastened the collapse of the offending civilization.
	Eventually, you can't escape reality.
	You can only escape it so long.
	When I talk about the money printing and the quantitative easing and stuff, I always use the analogy of the Warner Brothers.
	You know, the Wile E. Coyote running off of a cliff.
	And he keeps going for a ways, you know, until he looks down and realizes that he's been running on thin air.
	And then he has an NVIDIA moment.
	And he goes crashing to the earth, and there's this big anvil that's got written on the side of it, Deep Seek.
	And it comes crashing down on him when he hits the bottom.
	But he says, So, you know, we used to value durability because we realize in the real world we have limitations on things.
	He says, number four on my list, the current global civilization is based on no limits.
	Since human ingenuity is limitless, so are resources and solutions, they tell us.
	Based on this belief of no limits, we assume that there will always be enough resources for everything that we conjure up.
	Durable and ephemeral alike.
	Now, George Gilder talked about this when he called the people in Silicon Valley neo-Marxists.
	He said the fundamental conceit that was wrong by Karl Marx was because he saw such a vast increase of material goods at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
	He said, well, that's it.
	We have no limits.
	We have no limits on physical things that we can make because of the Industrial Revolution.
	And yet, of course, that wasn't true, was it?
	We now know.
	And yet we've had a second wave of this no-limits idea.
	George Gilder said he called them, the people in Silicon Valley, he called them neo-Marxists.
	He said just like Karl Marx, they believe that there is no limit to what can be manufactured and all the rest of the stuff.
	It's just a matter.
	For the neo-Marxists and for Karl Marx, it's just a matter of how do we distribute this infinite wealth that has no limits?
	And of course, they're both wrong.
	This is what Charles Hughes Smith is also saying.
	These people who think that there's no limits because we're so smart now.
	We've got it all solved with the Industrial Revolution or with the computer products out of Silicon Valley.
	That is a fatal conceit.
	We're starting to see that now, aren't we?
	He says this no-limits world isn't the real world.
	It's a fantasy world constructed by modern mythologies.
	The real world is inherently limited in a number of ways.
	The core problem with digitization is that it is optimized for short-term profits, generated by replacement via planned obsolescence.
	I would say, not planned obsolescence, I would say demanded obsolescence.
	In a sense, because you can't get replacement parts, that's what he's talking about here.
	They have planned the obsolescence in a very different way, but I say demand because my computers are constantly demanding that I upgrade, and I know that if I upgrade, they're old enough that they won't work, and they'll upgrade it anyway.
	Every day I get hectored by them, and they're hoping that I'm going to push that button by mistake so they can brick my computer.
	And, you know, I wasn't born yesterday, so I know how when you do an update, how it can have this domino effect of going out throughout your entire workflow and the devices that you've got and how it can bust things all over the place.
	I avoid updates.
	That's it.
	I try to stay with the operating system, whatever that was there when I bought the computer, and leave it at that.
	So you change one thing.
	And you get this cascading catastrophe, this domino effect of incompatibilities.
	He says this optimization of replacement rather than durability also optimizes minimizing repairability and maintaining the inventories of spare parts.
	For example, if the product will be replaced in a year and isn't expected to last longer than five years, then why spend money that could be taken as profits?
	On maintaining costly inventories of spare parts.
	We can see that.
	Apple computer, they don't support anything that's older than five years.
	Forget about it.
	Get a new one if you want to use a computer.
	And we'll bust you with, keep pushing updates to you.
	He said the problem with products that are dependent on digital components and electronics is that they can only be repaired with the exact same component.
	This is what has left us freezing in this house for the last three weeks, waiting for the exact component to come in and fix the air conditioning.
	Not in this particular case.
	We don't need it cooled.
	We need it heated.
	Unfortunately, we have a heat pump here.
	Hate those things in the first place.
	But anyway, supposedly the part...
	Is going to be here, and the repairman will be here tomorrow.
	So we'll see what happens with that.
	Anyway, this is a marked contrast, he says, with analog devices that lend themselves to repairs, even if the original parts are scarce, costly, or even unavailable.
	If it's analog.
	Not if it's digital.
	It's got to be the exact thing.
	He said, here's a photo of my current project.
	I'm strengthening our 70-year-old light construction house against hurricanes.
	The skill saw is in the photograph.
	It has no motherboard or electronic components.
	Just scroll down and get the picture there.
	It has a 13-amp motor with brushes, bearings, and a switch.
	It has lubricating oil for the worm drive gear.
	Should any of these components fail, another saw could be cannibalized for the needed parts.
	With modest care, this saw could easily last 50 years.
	He says, When the ignition key switch on my old VW Beetle broke 40 years ago, I replaced it with two cheap toggle switches that worked essentially like you would see in the movies of somebody hot-wiring a car.
	He says, I've repaired a great many things in my 52 years of adulthood.
	Cars, tools, bicycles, appliances, houses, furniture, stone walls, because this is an analog world.
	But if your washer-dryer fails, you can, if you're willing, you can remove the top What happens to the devices that are potentially unrepairable,
	but spare parts are no longer available?
	Well, they become landfill.
	He says, for example, he says, a reader recently related the story of this high-end, quote-unquote, lifetime guarantee appliance that failed.
	The repair service had been offloaded to a third party, which is common today.
	The third party provider had informed the reader that the parts are no longer available.
	So the lifetime guarantee could not be fulfilled.
	This is an example, he says, of over-optimization.
	Many readers have shared stories of their parents' refrigerators, freezers, washers, still working 40-50 years after the initial purchase.
	My own experience is that the modern appliances typically fail in a few years.
	I was able to replace the blown motherboard in a dryer, but this board, a few cheap commodity chips and molded plastic, was priced at an extortionist rate, roughly half the cost of a new dryer.
	So why would you do it?
	That's what they do.
	Every appliance, every vehicle, every system today is on a path to becoming a brick that cannot be repaired.
	It can only be replaced at a cost that will rise as a scale of resources needed to replace every manufactured object exceeds the resources that are available to the masses.
	Oh, that's one way that you'll own nothing.
	Except some things that don't work, right?
	You won't be able to get any fuel for your car, so you can use it as a lawn ornament, you know, like a wagon wheel or something.
	Same thing with your appliances.
	About 10 years ago, he said, I turned on my original 1984 Macintosh computer, and it booted up.
	I had a 1984 Macintosh computer as well.
	I wonder how many people out there had one of those.
	I don't have it anymore.
	I should have kept it as a...
	Kind of reference all the computers that we used in the video stores were Macs.
	When I got it, all it had was a floppy drive, and I couldn't use it for practical purpose for the first couple of years.
	But then right about the time that we were starting our business, and that's why we started the business, was I was going to sell a point-of-sale program based around the Macintosh, because I really loved the interface.
	I loved the programming interface as well as the user interface.
	And right about that time, a couple of pieces came together.
	Pascal, as a programming language.
	Prior to that, it was just basic.
	And with Pascal, I wrote my own database, and I wrote the user interface on top of it, and I was going to sell it.
	And that all came about as they had the first hard drives for the Mac.
	The first hard drive, folks, was 5 megabytes.
	And rapidly, they jumped to a 10 megabyte thing.
	But I could have done the entire database for...
	We had, in each store, we had probably about 10,000 titles, and we would have twice, two or three times that in terms of the items that we'd keep there.
	And we could put all that, plus all the customers that we had, and just five megabytes of data.
	It was very efficient, very crude.
	But it was kind of interesting, you know, when he was talking about the repairs, I remember that.
	1984 Macintosh.
	Because I did work on them on the inside and I did upgrade them with hard drives and things like that.
	You had to get a special tool to get into this thing.
	That's the way Apple has always been.
	It was like a hex screwdriver, but it had to be very long because it had to go down the screwed end from the back into the front.
	So you had to buy a special screwdriver from them.
	Anyway.
	Or from somebody.
	He says, there's a larger point here, though.
	He says, my 40-year-old Mac could still be functioning, but it is incompatible with everything that is currently in use.
	I just got a kick out of a guy who has a YouTube channel.
	He's an audio engineer.
	And he's an older guy, and he says, yeah, I was doing audio recording back in the 70s and the 80s and stuff like that.
	And he said, you know, everything was by tape and multi-track tape.
	And he said when they came out with non-linear editing and digitized editing and everything, he says, I was all on that because it was such a pain in the neck to use all the analog stuff.
	But then, you know, he's getting close to retirement or whatever, and he said he had some people suggest that he still had some of his equipment.
	He was talking about it.
	And as he was talking about the older equipment in one of his YouTube videos, some people said, well, did you ever use this stuff or anything?
	And he thought, well, you know, let me give that a try.
	And he said when he did, He said he realized that analog was better than digital.
	And he said, I don't mean losses.
	Yeah, the analog stuff was really lossy.
	You would put it on a track and you'd try to mix it down to another track and you would have a generational loss and it would add noise and all the rest of the stuff.
	You only had so many tracks and you had to try to manage those things.
	It added a whole new level of complexity.
	But he said, what made it better was the fact that It was an expensive process for somebody to come into the recording studio.
	They prepared in advance.
	They only had a certain amount of time, of course a certain number of takes that they could do, so they prepared in advance, and he said it was really like a performance.
	He said, today you can just do this over and over and over and over and over again.
	No limit.
	And it starts to get stale, and you start to, well, how do I even sort this stuff out?
	So many of these things.
	He said, for most of the...
	Things that he would do in the analog days with the tape recorders, even multi-track with a lot of tracks.
	You still only had like one or two takes that you could do it in.
	And so it was like a little concert.
	It was almost like it was live.
	Yeah, there were certain things that they could do to fix it up, but you had to be prepared for it.
	And he said, and that made it better because the musicians worked to get ready for this rather than, ah, we'll sort it out later.
	We'll do it in post, you know, whatever.
	And he said that made for better performances.
	Really did.
	And he said, and then the second thing, which is what Charles Hugh Smith is talking about here.
	He said, the second thing is, he said, look at all these cables that I've got.
	And look at all these hard drives that I've got.
	And how they're all incompatible with each other.
	I can't even plug this stuff in anymore.
	I've lost some of these things, he said.
	And if I were to buy the cable so I could plug this thing in, the cable is way more than a new disk drive would cost a day.
	Just to get compatibility with this.
	And boy, could I relate to that.
	I've got some very valuable footage.
	One of the reasons we waited for so long to do different footage at the beginning was I had some really good footage that I shot myself at Colonial Williamsburg, and I haven't been able to get it off the disc.
	Why?
	Because I can't find the brick.
	There's a special brick that ran the hard drives that I had.
	About two moves ago, We misplaced that, so I can't get to the stuff that's on my disk drives.
	But anyway, that's what he's talking about.
	He said he's got the 40-year-old Mac.
	It still works, but it's incompatible with everything else.
	It's on there.
	He said, readers will tell me that their modern vehicles are amazingly maintenance-free, but the positive is offset by the hidden reality that these vehicles are unrepairable.
	If specific components are out of stock or on backwater, you want to talk about something planned obsolescence and doesn't make any sense to replace it.
	I mean, just look at the battery and the cost of the battery electric vehicles to replace that stuff.
	On the present course, he said, we may find that we squandered irreplaceable, in terms of cost, resources and a misguided focus on short-term profits that were reaped by replacing everything under the sun.
	Every few years.
	A future littered with failed digitally dependent products that we no longer have the means to replace would be a catastrophe and a common sense practicality discerns that no other possible outcome will happen.
	A catastrophe is on the way.
	And when we talk about Stargate, the one thing that people are not talking about is the fact that Trump is partnering.
	With not only technocrats, but transhumanists.
	It doesn't get any more evil than that, folks.
	Transhumanism.
	And that's what Elon Musk and Sam Altman and Bloomberg and all these guys are all about.
	So, in just the first week, if we stop and think about it, how many warning signs have come up that MAGA should have, whoa, wait a minute, I didn't vote for that, right?
	I don't like that.
	And yet, it's all put out there as we're winning, we're winning, we're winning.
	I don't see that at all.
	I've seen one thing after the other that really gives me big concern.
	And the thing that concerns me the most is the fact that the MAGA people don't see it.
	That they will cheer these things that they would otherwise oppose, just like they did in Trump's first term, just like they did in 2020. You know, they sat there and did nothing when he locked us down and told us we were non-essential and pushed this bioweapon while he was paying the hospitals to kill people with ventilators and remdesivir and with medical neglect.
	All that was happening.
	And then by the end of the year, they want to go fight for him on Capitol Hill.
	Are you kidding me?
	Trump said the company is already building new data centers to provide energy to power artificial intelligence tools.
	Yeah, well, you know, maybe it'd be good if you built the roads back in North Carolina or something, wouldn't it?
	He said, all of us look forward to continuing to build and to develop AI and in particular AGI for the benefit of all of humanity.
	There we go.
	That is straight out of the Twilight Zone where the aliens come in and they've got a book.
	Their motto is, we're here to serve humanity.
	And the guy gets on the ship and he sees that it's a cookbook.
	Larry Ellison, second richest man in the country.
	So, you know, there's that aspect with Elon Musk.
	That's got to bother him.
	But not as much as Sam Altman, who I mentioned.
	You know, they partnered together.
	On OpenAI.
	Now they're enemies with all this stuff.
	But Ellison, second richest person in the world behind Elon Musk, has deep ties to the U.S. government.
	Well, he's got deep ties to the deep state.
	CIA was Oracle's first customer.
	And the company even takes their name from a CIA project codenamed Oracle.
	Oracle wouldn't exist if it weren't for government contracts, said Mike Wilson, author of the book, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.
	And look, when you look at this, you know, it's just like the Internet.
	Yeah.
	The internet was dreamed up by DARPA psychologists, funded by the CIA and its venture capital firm and many other venture capital firms that had the intelligence community on the boards.
	So it's just like the internet.
	It's like social media.
	It's like the self-driving cars.
	It's like mRNA.
	None of these horrible things.
	Would exist without the unlimited funding from the federal government and all of this.
	And we look at Sam Altman.
	You know, this guy has been on my radar for a long time.
	His world coin thing where he goes around, he's got the orb.
	It's like, here, look into this orb.
	We're going to get a snapshot of your retina.
	Or whatever it is, part of the eye.
	And your iris.
	Okay, your iris, not your retina.
	They're going to make a biometric record of you, and they'll give you a little bit of his worthless crypto stuff.
	And if that transaction right there isn't a complete description...
	Of where big tech is right now.
	I don't know a better way to describe it.
	Here, look in here.
	Let me get your ID for a global digital ID of the human race that I'm working on.
	And I'll give you a little bit of my worthless crypto.
	Oh, it'll be worth something someday.
	Don't worry about it.
	Well, you know, you're going to sell your birthright of liberty and freedom for this promise, this little bit of crypto.
	Esau made it even a better deal than that, didn't he?
	And while you're looking into this orb, you think you can see where this is headed?
	Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman continue to fund projects which have the potential to contribute to the rise of the technocratic state.
	Including AI, biometric digital identities, and the Internet of Things.
	And you will be part of their Internet of Things.
	They call that the Internet of Bodies.
	And just like Democrats and Republicans, right?
	These two people are on different sides.
	Just like Democrats and Republicans have the same goals, and these guys have got the same goals.
	The difference, though, Elon Musk and Sam Altman fight each other because they want to be the ones in control, just like the Democrats and Republicans who want to take us to the same place.
	Fight each other because they want to be the ones who are in control.
	As he points out, Musk and his CureVac that I've mentioned many times, you know, at the beginning of this pandemic fraud, the scandemic, he had CureVac.
	He described it as mobile molecular printers for mRNA injections.
	He called the printers RNA microfactories.
	But hey, he's a great guy.
	He's on our side now, right?
	In 2020, while accepting the Axel Springer Award, Musk also mentioned his excitement about the potential for synthetic mRNA.
	And then, of course, you know, J.D. Vance and Rama Slimy.
	Now, there there was self-amplifying mRNA.
	It's all over the Trump administration.
	The mRNA stuff and the crypto stuff.
	All over it.
	So, Musk said you...
	Can basically do anything with synthetic RNA and DNA. It's really, it's like a computer program.
	So, I mean, I think with enough, with effort, you could probably stop aging, reverse it if you want.
	That's always a promise that they have.
	Oh, you're going to live forever.
	And, you know, you'll be like God.
	You just have to merge with a machine.
	You have to give us your ID and your, you know, get into the system.
	He says you can basically turn somebody into a butterfly, if you want, with the right DNA sequence.
	Yeah, yeah, he really is.
	He stole this meme, but he really is summoning the demon, right?
	And that was the picture that was a part of this article.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to switch to some other stuff.
	Just as a parting thing, this is from Technocracy News, his comment about all this stuff at Stargate.
	He said there is a dark spiritual overtone to techno-populism.
	God is instructing Trump to pursue manifest destiny, to conquer new frontiers in geography and technology.
	This would not just be deception.
	It would also be spiritual.
	Delusion.
	Oh, I absolutely agree.
	Absolutely agree.
	Despite all of this, people fear artificial intelligence for all sorts of reasons.
	He said to me, it's not a matter of fearing, like, you know, it's going to go rogue and start killing people.
	I mean, that could happen with the autonomous killing machines.
	But he said, I see human beings using AI to destroy cultural heritage, spiritual connection.
	Such technologies are paving a road to dehumanization and the greater replacement.
	Developers justify this transformation as necessary due to an AI arms race that they created.
	But the most immediate threats are mass surveillance coupled with psychological and behavioral manipulation, leading to human atrophy and wherever people are deemed obsolete.
	We'll see the replacement of white and blue collar workers by algorithms and robots, as they all talked about.
	But the interesting thing to me, the irony that's in all this, and look, God is in control.
	He can do whatever he wishes to work out his plans.
	And when we look at the whole aspect of human atrophy, isn't it interesting how their unlimited ability to print money Has led to their technical atrophy in many ways.
	Falling behind.
	Falling behind on hypersonic missiles.
	Falling behind on being able to develop AI at a reasonable cost and use it as a reasonable cost.
	It's very much like the whole aspect, which we haven't talked about for a while, of AI, that once it starts consuming its own product, in other words, at first, when it is going out there and copying, People.
	You know, big compute.
	It's going out, scraping data off of things.
	This is one of the reasons, key reasons, why they're fighting over TikTok and other things like that.
	They want to have more human data to feed off.
	They're parasites.
	Politicians.
	Many ticks.
	Blood-sucking ticks.
	And so, AI is like that as well.
	It's trying to feed off of our minds.
	It's trying to, you know, look at people interacting in a real way.
	So that it can copy and mimic that in a synthetic way.
	And then what happens is, as AI grows and grows and starts to generate content on its own, it doesn't work out well when it starts consuming its own content.
	At that point, it starts getting dumber and dumber.
	Kind of like 2001. And how it starts losing its mind, kind of like the point at which he starts removing modules when it starts singing Daisy, Daisy.
	Anyway, to keep China from taking the lead, we're told America must build better digital gods than China.
	It's like your preacher insisting that for Christians to inherit the earth, they've got to become more satanic than the devil.
	But isn't that exactly?
	What the Trump Christian prophets and many of the people who not just voted for him.
	Yeah, people could vote for him.
	But, you know, a lot of the people who are really cheering him on.
	Isn't that what they're saying?
	Yeah, okay.
	They'll admit, he's evil, but he's our devil.
	Is he?
	Is he your devil?
	Or is he the devil's devil?
	Yeah, he may be bad, but he's our devil.
	And we need him to go up against the other devil.
	And that's what he's saying here.
	You know, we've got to...
	For Christians to inherit the earth, they've got to be more satanic than the devil.
	This stuff is devilish, folks.
	It's got every aspect of what Satan has been about since the Garden of Eden.
	We're going to lie to people, tell them they're going to live forever.
	Lie to people, tell them they're going to become like God.
	In the meanwhile, what we're trying to do is kill them and kill their children and end the human race.
	That's their intention.
	They're not going to be able to do it.
	God has the final say on when that will happen.
	Politics involve a lot of trade-offs, he said.
	So I voted for Trump despite the downsides.
	It had to happen on his first day in office.
	He signed a stack of executive orders that signal his commitment to keep his promise.
	But here's what this guy doesn't see.
	See, principles matter.
	And just as we're going to not cheer evil so that good may come, we need to understand that at the top, We have a relationship with God.
	And part of that is that you understand that you are accountable to God and responsible to God.
	It's always interesting when I see these people freak out somebody's talking about God.
	Oh, this is terrible.
	This guy's going to be a crazy religious extremist or something.
	It's like, well, if the person is sincere in what they are saying, that means that they understand that they're accountable and responsible to God.
	And I think what is dangerous are the people who think that they are God.
	That's the mindset of tyrants.
	That's the mindset of a lot of these people in government.
	And that's the mindset of people as part of this transhumanist singularity, these technocrats, that Trump is empowering.
	That's their mindset.
	And so...
	The key thing with all this is that you've got a relationship with God, that you understand that you're accountable and responsible to God.
	Downstream of that will come principles and culture, and downstream of those will come politics.
	Politics is not the top thing.
	And all these people who say, well, I'm going to vote for the lesser of two evils, they have taken politics, which is at the tail end of the process, and put it at the top.
	And they've got it upside down.
	Stargate Project is not an official U.S. government venture, so it's stunning that Trump would endorse it from the White House.
	And it did not age too well, did it?
	Musk didn't know about Deep Seek.
	Altman didn't know.
	Larry Ellison didn't know.
	Trump didn't know.
	None of Trump's people.
	He got caught.
	Just like he got caught with that woman bishop or something that hectored him and lectured him.
	Right?
	Remember that?
	They're all sitting there like, and the UK, they had a lip reader.
	I don't know if it was true.
	I didn't cover it because I don't know if what they said was true, but there wasn't anything that she said that they said that you don't need to be a lip reader to understand what they were saying and what they were thinking.
	But, you know, my question with all that stuff was, who put this woman there?
	She had a long history of opposing Trump.
	Did the research and put her in that position.
	Who did the research about Stargate and AI and all the rest of this stuff?
	Oh, no, it's just about the people who have money.
	That's all they needed to do as research.
	So as they're selling this stuff, you know, we've got, as this writer puts it, an AI to vaccine pipeline.
	Perfect health, as easy as 3D printing.
	That's the lie that Larry Ellison was selling people.
	That's a great...
	Summary of it.
	AI to VAX pipeline.
	Perfect health as easy as 3D printing.
	Our children will have virtual tutors.
	How do you think that's going to work out when these people put their biases in there?
	So the World Economic Forum dubbed its 2025 annual meeting.
	They dubbed it Cooperation in the Intelligent Age.
	Well, that's what Trump is doing right now.
	He's cooperating with them.
	He's cooperating with the World Economic Forum.
	He's cooperating with the technocrat billionaires.
	And even all of the things that he puts out, he calls this big AI system that he's built in Memphis, he calls it Colossus.
	I don't think I talked about this before.
	I was going to talk about it.
	But you remember the Forbin project, Colossus, the Forbin project?
	There's a 1970 movie.
	He references it in this article.
	The U.S. builds a military supercomputer that wakes up and decides to take the country hostage, threatening nuclear annihilation.
	And so Musk calls his data center Colossus.
	And, of course, that's been done over and over again.
	I don't know if that was the first time it was done.
	But I think it's kind of interesting that, you know, his obsession with X. I guess now we've got Xmas.
	Right?
	There's a lot of people put in there for Christmas, X-mas, got to remove Christ, put in the X, and maybe Elon Musk sees himself as both Christ and Santa Claus, you think?
	AI, he says, will do anything you want.
	It'll even suggest things to you that you never even thought of.
	And he said just recently, the first week of January at Consumer Electronics Show, he said it obviously begs the question, What are we all going to do?
	Well, I guess we'll play video games like him, right?
	He was ranked in the top 20 in that one particular video game.
	Turns out that the guy that he hired to play video games was playing video games while he was on TV as part of the inauguration, so we all know he's lying about that.
	He says, will our lives have any meaning if the computers and robots can do everything better than we can?
	And then he smiled and he said, well, maybe that's why we need Neuralink.
	His brain-computer interface.
	That's the future that these people have in mind for us.
	And Trump is working with them.
	And Trump is going to empower them.
	He's going to give them unlimited amounts of money.
	He's going to remove the obstacles for them.
	Prepare the way of the Lord, right?
	He is going to make every valley high and every mountain low for these people as they come in with their Antichrist agenda.
	Three Little Birds says, AI is going to purchase slave bots with crypto from other AI models.
	The war of the future is going to be between technologies to control man completely.
	Maybe.
	But it's all a spiritual war.
	And God has the last say.
	We don't have to fear this.
	God is in control.
	And he laughs in derision at these people.
	They may be building another Tower of Babel.
	Remember how that turned out?
	Trucker Chris for the win says, Deep Seek seems fine.
	I've only been using it for a week or so.
	I haven't noticed, I haven't tried to do anything about Xi Jinping.
	Whiny the Pooh.
	Jason Barker, we as humans have lost a lot of basic life skills that were common only 50 years ago.
	That's right.
	Due to computers.
	Yeah, I've noticed that even with myself and my sense of direction.
	I'm becoming reliant on the maps, finding stuff for me.
	I don't have to think about it so much.
	I don't have to use maps or anything.
	That's a very jarring thing to think about that when you step back and think about it.
	Brian and Deb McCartney.
	So true, Jason.
	They have taken the parts away to repair things ourselves.
	Angry Tiger.
	The human action is a plague to the central planners.
	AI takes the human action out of the equation.
	Central planners love this.
	Guard Goldsmith.
	Good to see you, Guard.
	Liberty Conspiracy on Twitter on Rockfin Evenings.
	He says, by the way, I wonder what Douglas Adams, I said that to Whistler earlier, Deep Thought, right?
	From Hitchcock's Guide to the Galaxy.
	I wonder what Douglas Adams would think of how the programmers keep using variations of Deep Thought for their systems, even Deep Blue, the chess program.
	I miss Mr. Adams.
	He had been an atheist for years but started to question it before he passed away.
	I pray he found the Lord.
	I didn't know that.
	Angry Tiger.
	Humans have empathy and the discernment that God gave them.
	AI does not do as it's cold.
	Even if it's wrong, no thought of consequences at all.
	Just like the people who created it.
	Ryan and Deb McCartney.
	Planned obsolescence.
	Took over the efficiency of the American-made.
	Little Ford Schoolhouse.
	Good to see you there.
	We had to finally get a new fridge.
	I hate it.
	Our washer and dryer are about $19.94, and I wouldn't sell them for anything, and our freezer is too.
	Whether they're energy-efficient or not.
	Yeah, there was an interesting article about a guy who said, well, I finally got my replacement in the UK. They're forcing people to get rid of their gas heaters that put out warm air.
	And use heat pumps that put out cool air and don't really work well in the low temperatures that they have in the UK. He said it only cost me thousands of dollars and a lot of trouble to adapt this thing.
	And he says, at the rate of saving me money, it'll pay for itself by the time I'm 107. That's about right.
	Trucker Chris for the win.
	Talented people don't work for this system.
	They're relying on scammers and foreigners that just want to steal everything they can for their home country.
	Yeah, and for themselves.
	Nights of the Storm.
	I had to wire up an old car with toggle switches once.
	A cop pulled me over, thought I had stolen it, and was replying to what Charles Hugh Smith said he did with his car with toggle switches.
	Nabooru 2029. When the time comes, they decide to force humans into EVs.
	If your vehicle is newer than 2010, they'll just hit the computer kill switches remotely, and you'll be stuck.
	Paying the bill.
	Yeah, that's absolutely right.
	A couple more, and then we'll take a break.
	LTE Oracle of Truth.
	David, did you know that Larry Ellison is 80 years old?
	I didn't know that.
	I mean, he really doesn't look that old, does he?
	He says, I'm sure eating babies is part of his youthful look.
	KFB. Altman and Musk.
	Public fighting is the theater.
	Just like the Beltway Bayonets or the Union Party.
	DARPA always gets what it wants into the public domain.
	Well, I agree.
	I mean, I do think, you know, these politicians, they all work for the same goal.
	They all work for the same people.
	But they do want to be the one who wins and sits in the chair, you know.
	So there's that amount of, just like with the, you know, when you look at DARPA setting up the internet, social media companies, they picked the competitors.
	And they said, May the best man win.
	Because they knew that competition would make them stronger.
	But they were all going to do what they wanted them to do anyway.
	So, Audi, Modern Retro Radio, good to see you.
	He said, this tech agenda will only drive the masses to a back-to-basics lifestyle, and that's not a bad thing.
	I agree.
	And that's one of the things, you know, I like that about gold.
	It's physical.
	It's private.
	And again, you can go davidknight.gold.
	That'll take you to Tony Ardeman and his wife's Wolf Gold.
	You know, he's setting up a thing.
	We'll talk about it more this week when he comes back, where you can move from Bitcoin into gold, or if you want to do it.
	Vice versa.
	But, and without any fees.
	He's always coming up with nice, innovative ways to do things and, you know, not make the judgments for other people if they want to speculate, if they want to gamble.
	But, you know, you can also get it out of the gambling market into the physical and private and stable market.
	So, again, davidknight.gold will take you there.
	He also has a way for you to gradually accumulate gold and silver if you wish.
	And that is Wolfpack.
	And you can sign up at whatever level you want to save each month.
	And it's a great system.
	Jason Barker, we need to import some Cuban refugees so we can keep our older cars on the road.
	Brian and Deb McCartney, my stepdad removed the catalytic converters from his vehicles to still use regular gas.
	Yeah, I did that with mine as well.
	Not because I wanted to use regular gas, but because of other issues make it breathe easier.
	So, horsepower was at a premium for Miata.
	Eric, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Well, while they move away from us, let's take a look at what is happening that they're not all that concerned about.
	I mean, a little bit.
	We had a photo op that was done by Trump.
	You know, Biden and Lala didn't even bother with that.
	That's amazing how much content.
	I mean, you typically expect them to at least pretend that they care, whether they do or not.
	And so over the weekend, we had Trump.
	Meeting face-to-face with the L.A. Mayor, Karen Bass.
	This is an interesting back-and-forth between the two of them.
	Let's see.
	Here we are.
	And we will clear the lots, absolutely, in the city and in the county.
	We are working together, both levels of government.
	You can count on us.
	We got this under control.
	Is it not 18 months?
	That's the answer that we got, and that's where we're all hanging on.
	So if you're telling us now faster, is it six months?
	I mean, all of our lives, rents, all this stuff is weighing on this.
	Six months is no good.
	And the number one thing that we are going to do immediately, and you will see this happen, is to clear out the debris.
	And you know we're concerned right now, over the weekend, because of the potential rain, but we are going to move as fast as we can, but we want you to be safe, and we want you to be back in your homes immediately.
	But the people are willing to clean out their own debris.
	It doesn't cost a lot.
	Yes, and they can.
	You should let them do it, because by the time you hire contractors, it's going to be two years.
	He's right about that.
	People are willing to get a dumpster and do it themselves and clean it out.
	There's not that much left.
	It's all incinerated.
	That's right.
	And, you know, it's just going to take a long time.
	You can do some of it, but a lot of these people, I know that guy right there that's talking.
	I know my people.
	You'll be on that thing tonight, throwing the stuff away, and your site will be, it'll look perfect within 24 hours, and that's what he wants to do.
	He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till the city hires some demolition contract that's going to charge him $25,000 to do his lot.
	I think you have to, you have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm exercising my emergency powers.
	You have to exercise them also.
	I did exercise them.
	Because I looked, I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power, and you can do everything.
	Everything within 24 hours.
	Yes.
	And if individuals want to clear out their property, they can.
	Yes, but you know that you will be able to go back soon.
	We think within a week.
	That's a long time, a week.
	I'll be honest.
	To me, everyone's standing in front of their house.
	They want to go to work and they're not allowed to do it.
	And the most important thing is for people to be safe.
	They're safe.
	They're safe.
	You know what they're not safe?
	They're not safe now.
	They're going to be much safer.
	A week is actually a long time, the way I look at it.
	I watched hundreds of people standing in front of their lots, and they're not allowed to go in.
	It's all burned.
	It's gone.
	It's done.
	Nothing's going to happen to it.
	It's not going to burn anymore.
	There's nothing to burn.
	There's almost nothing to burn.
	And they want to go in.
	The people are all over the place.
	They're standing.
	And I say, Warren, you're going in.
	We're trying to get a permit.
	And the permit's going to take them.
	Everybody said 18 months.
	You said 18 months.
	You said 18 months.
	And that was last night.
	We can't even see our phones right now.
	We are blocked from entering our street.
	This is our first time we saw our house.
	It was yesterday.
	That's a familiar story, isn't it?
	Interesting lineup there.
	You've got Trump, you've got Melania setting between Trump and Karen Bass as a buffer, I guess.
	And she's got her cap on, again, covering her eyes, you know?
	I mean, this is the new look.
	Can't see my eyes.
	But he's absolutely right about all of that.
	And that's what has happened.
	That's what FEMA has done everywhere for the longest time.
	Again, Whistler did a contest about that, you know, talking to people.
	Who had been kept out of their homes after the hurricane by FEMA, weren't allowed in, and then how simple and effective it was in a small town that was decimated by a tornado, and the government kept people safe.
	What they did was they used the sheriff's department to keep people away from fallen power lines until they got them repaired.
	Other than that, they got out of the way.
	And after telling people, oh, it's going to take 18 months and so forth, you can't come back in?
	Humiliated her effectively there.
	She let people in the next day.
	He said, the problem with FEMA is that they come from all over the country.
	They end up in arguments with your people from California because they want to do a totally different way.
	He says, they can live with either way, but you haven't got very much done with FEMA. All you have to do is look at North Carolina.
	It's one of the greatest disasters of all time.
	I don't know if we've ever seen anything like it, frankly.
	They say the biggest in the history of California.
	I think...
	Has anything bigger than that happened in the whole country, ever?
	It looks like, I don't want to say what it looks like, but you know what I'm going to say.
	It looks like something hit it.
	And we won't talk about what hit it, but it is a bad, bad situation.
	So he throws out some stuff to people about, you know, maybe directed energy weapons or whatever, you know, ginned up weather.
	But he's there in Nashville, and he's still talking about California.
	Is anybody going to help North Carolina?
	He said, you know who came in and fixed North Carolina?
	He said, other states, people from all over the country came in.
	You have the same thing.
	You have a lot of people from all over the country.
	FEMA is incompetently run, and it costs about three times more than it should cost.
	But will he end it?
	Or will he quote-unquote fix it?
	FEMA has always been like this.
	And FEMA works for him now.
	Why don't you just get rid of him?
	If you want to help people by...
	Throwing money at them?
	You know, I mean, there's no constitutional authority for that, but look, this is not an entitlement program in the sense that the welfare programs are.
	It's a disaster.
	If there's any welfare program that I would support, it would be that one.
	But you can just block grant that money to people.
	You don't have to put any strings on it.
	You don't have to use FEMA. Get them out of there.
	He said FEMA has a standard that is so slow.
	They want permit on permit on permit.
	And then they want permits on top of that.
	What I'm saying is, get the city, get the state to give you immediate 24-hour permits.
	These people are going to build their own homes and they're going to get them built fast.
	But did you see what happened in North Carolina with the local officials?
	And this is why I say, you know, even if we were to get this fixed at the federal level, and by fixed I mean, let's just abolish FEMA. And then we'll have a situation where, you know, if you declare an emergency, you release money.
	That's what...
	He did in March 13, 2020. That emergency declaration was all about releasing money to people.
	But, you know, you had the Amish people who came in there and built temporary housing, and then you had local officials who came in and said, get out of here.
	Doesn't meet code, right?
	You don't have my permission to do this.
	Local officials can make things better, or they can make them much worse than even the federal government.
	That's where the rubber meets the road.
	It's with local government.
	If government is involved in some kind of a tyrannical medical martial law like they did under Trump in 2020, you can have local officials make it better or they can make it much worse.
	And so everybody forgets about that.
	They always focus just on the president because they want this country to be ruled by an emperor dictator.
	So some of the Palisades residents were able to visit their home for the first time since the fire.
	After Trump had that back and forth with her.
	And he was saying that he's going to give regulatory relief to L.A. yesterday.
	I'm not sure if that happened.
	That was being reported on Friday.
	The evacuations, by the way, are still underway because there's still more fires that are coming up.
	You know, the climate change is so bad that it fired firemen even.
	They had to fire firemen because of the climate change.
	And they had to have empty hydrants because of the climate change.
	They're not missing water.
	Over and over again, we saw these people who had prepared, private individuals, private landowners, the guy who ran against Karen Bass, he was prepared.
	He had tankers of water that kept his property from burning down.
	So, is Trump serious about shutting down FEMA? He throws these things out there.
	I don't know if he is.
	But this is being put out by the Independent in the UK. They say Trump supporters could end up being hurt the worst if he shuts down FEMA. What a joke.
	Well, you know, FEMA's getting more money than the blue states are getting, that type of thing.
	Again, he vows that he's going to reform FEMA. Of the many rumors spread over social media, some claim that the agency was restricting relief to $750 per person.
	Well, you know, that wasn't just something that surfaced on social media.
	I played for you at the time.
	There was an interview from Fox News.
	They sent a reporter, and they talked to, they had two or three mayors of small towns that were there.
	They had a fire chief, and I forget which one of them, was saying, you know, they mentioned this $750 and said, well, my daughter's house burned down and FEMA only gave her $300.
	This is, you know, these things don't just come out of nowhere when these people are out there trying to debunk this stuff.
	Nevertheless, we have Trump promising to activate the Army Corps of Engineers, help rebuild North Carolina.
	Hopefully that will happen, but we'll wait and see.
	Whether that will happen or not.
	And with all the talk, I don't think FEMA's good.
	They're making people wait and all the rest of the stuff.
	I kind of chalk it up to the same kind of thing that he's doing in terms of building hope for people that he's going to get rid of the income tax.
	I'll believe it when I see it.
	We'll be right back.
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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, blood, feces, and terror is what one of the judges that was involved in the January 6th stuff is saying in a rage.
	This is Jonathan Turley talking about it.
	You know, we used to talk about blood, sweat, and tears.
	Now we've got these tyrannical judges talking about blood, feces, and terror.
	Terror instead of tears.
	The terror, though, was coming from the government.
	And the blood was on the faces of the people who were being beaten by the police.
	In terms of the feces, I think you can find those on the chairs of the congressmen and women who were scared.
	Fece-less, I guess we could say.
	And Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner pledged to pursue those pardoned or commuted with new charges at the state level.
	And he says this is even worse than what we saw with Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, the District Attorney.
	On MSNBC, former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund head Cheryl Ithil declared that the pardons were all part of a plan to build an army of brown shirts.
	Trump's private army to come after people.
	And that was also picked up by Jamie Raskin, Democrat congressman of Maryland, said Trump was issuing pardons to create a reserve army.
	This is a quote.
	Quote, reserve army of political foot soldiers to act on behalf of MAGA and Donald Trump.
	Yeah, an army.
	Such hyperbole, particularly the Nazi era, reference is now commonplace, says Jonathan Turley.
	Indeed, some judges are using dismissal hearings to launch into what seems, at points, like some kind of made-for-TV commentary.
	Judge Tanya Chutkin, an Obama appointee, had been criticized for failing to recuse herself from a case that she made highly controversial statements about Trump from the bench.
	And in a sentencing hearing of a J6 rioter in 2022, she said the rioters, quote, were there in fealty and loyalty to one man and not to the Constitution.
	In the latest hearing, she proclaimed that the pardons could not change the tragic truth and cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror.
	What is the feces that's out there?
	She said that the mob left in its wake.
	Well, anyway, the defendants in her courtroom were there to have a required dismissal entered into the case, not to hear her speaking truth to power, as Jonathan Turley points out.
	You can put that in air quotes.
	Down the hall, her colleague, Judge Beryl Howell, also an Obama appointee, Lashed out at Trump's actions, writing, this court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement.
	Yet all of that paled in comparison to what their colleague and U.S. District Judge Emmett Mehta, also an Obama appointee, did with his J6 cases.
	He ordered the J6 defendants to seek prior approval before going to Capitol Hill, or even coming within any of the 69 square miles of the nation's Capitol.
	Basically banishing people like Stuart Rhodes or Joe Biggs from this, the people who had their sentences commuted.
	He said he was able to impose this because those defendants had received commutations rather than pardons.
	And so he said...
	These new conditions imposed after presidential commutations.
	More importantly, they could affect the exercise of First Amendment rights from free speech to free association to the right to petition the government.
	Well, that's what this is always all about.
	This is always about prohibiting First Amendment rights to peacefully assemble and to redress your grievances to the government.
	There's nothing in there about the sacred ground of the Capitol building or anything like that.
	There's no caveat about peaceful assembly and redressing your grievances.
	It doesn't say where you can do that.
	There's no First Amendment areas.
	I know the government thinks that.
	They do that all the time.
	At the Bundy Ranch, they do it at every single one of these presidential conventions, whether it's Republican or Democrat.
	They always set up a cage, a free speech area.
	You go in the cage.
	What a perfect image of that.
	You go into their cage, and then inside of their cage, they'll let you say whatever you want, right?
	Now they have social media to do that.
	They've got cages on social media that they'll put you in.
	Free speech, but no reach.
	Your speech cannot reach the people that are going into the convention, and it will not be seen by anybody.
	But you can go over there and talk as much as you want.
	That's exactly the model of free speech that Elon Musk has on X. Anyway, Stuart Rhodes previously asked to speak to the House committee that investigated the riot, but the Democrat-controlled committee refused to allow it.
	What if Rhodes now wants to meet privately with members to supply his testimony?
	Well, he would need to get Judge Mehta to approve it and to potentially make such plans public.
	So Turley says, in Washington, judges imposed limits on what political views defendants could read or share.
	A Bush appointee, all these others have been Obama appointees, a Bush appointee, Judge Reggie Walton.
	Who had previously called Trump a charlatan, had before him a typical J6 case.
	Daniel Goodwin, 35, of Corinth, Texas.
	Goodwin pleaded guilty on January 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building.
	It is a minor offense that generated little jail time.
	However, Judge Walton...
	Faulted Goodwin for appearing on Fox News and for spreading quote-unquote disinformation.
	How do you know that's disinformation, Judge?
	Are you the arbiter of truth?
	And so he ordered the government to monitor what he was viewing and discussing.
	The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked Walton.
	So the appeal court rebuked this judge for that surveillance order.
	But he doubled down.
	On remand, The Biden Justice Department insisted that Goodwin was unrepentant and still viewing extremist media, you know, like Fox News or something.
	It's all about political warfare, wasn't it?
	Trump said he has immediately halted the hiring of new IRS agents.
	And his remarks on Saturday is he was, you know, Doing stream of consciousness nonsense about the income tax.
	You like those income tax reductions?
	What if I made them permanent?
	What if I just did away with it all?
	He's not serious about any of that stuff, as I pointed out.
	That would take away his incentive for people to move here, right?
	Because if he's going to fund the government by the tariffs, which he promises, of course that's not going to be the case.
	But if they move here, they pay the corporate tax, and then he doesn't get the tariffs.
	So if everybody was to do that, his leverage would disappear, and so would a lot of his revenue.
	But he doesn't care.
	None of these people care whether they balance the budget or not.
	Again, he wants to remove the limit for the debt ceiling for two years.
	The Democrats, debt?
	Who cares?
	What debt?
	We don't care about it.
	We've got modern monetary theory.
	Anyway, he said, and this really set off The mainstream media, they had to fact-check him on the 80,000 agents that are out there.
	He said they were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them, or maybe we just move them to the border.
	Just more made-up nonsense here.
	Listen to this.
	I think maybe we're going to move them to the border.
	Yeah, that's the ticket.
	I mean, it's just like John Lovett, the liar.
	Yeah, my wife, Morgan Fairchild.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Yeah, we can move them to the border because, you know, fortunately in the border, they can all carry guns.
	It's like, what is it about?
	I mean, when this whole thing came out and they're talking about 80,000 agents, and guess where that number came from?
	The Treasury Department that is over the IRS. That wasn't a made-up number.
	I mean, he's grabbing this number and they say, well, what he's making up is the fact that they're allowed to carry guns at the border and that type of thing.
	But the original 87,000 or 88,000 IRS agent figures came from a U.S. Treasury Department estimate in 2021. But they say, well, he was repeating a claim made in 2022 by Republicans that some of the IRS agents who would be hired would be able to carry firearms, although the bill did not designate money specifically for a large number of armed IRS employees.
	These are the criminal investigators that are armed.
	But it doesn't say what the mix is going to be.
	You know, how many of these people are going to be doing data entry and how many of them are going to be criminal investigators?
	They don't say.
	It specifically doesn't talk.
	About armed IRS employees, but it specifically doesn't prohibit that either, right?
	It's to be determined.
	And it's kind of interesting when you look at how the IRS has expanded.
	I looked up the numbers to see, well, just how many people have they hired?
	And at the end of fiscal year 2024, they increased the number of IRS employees from 90,000 the previous year to 100,000.
	That's an 11% increase.
	That's a big jump.
	And I couldn't go back to 2022 to see how many had been added after the Inflation Reduction Act.
	But we do know that at the beginning of this year, they went from 100 after the fiscal year ended, and I think that's like in September or something, of 2024. So in the last couple of months, they're now up to 102,000.
	So, last year, they increased by 11%.
	In just a couple of months, they've now gone up by another 2% in terms of employees.
	So, it's exploding.
	And so, if you look at this, I'm just guessing since it was like 90,000 after the first year of this increase, and he was saying, we're going to add 87,000 or 88,000.
	What Biden was talking about doing with this was doubling the number of IRS agents.
	Nobody's talked about that.
	All the papers are filled.
	This is even the Epoch Times, which typically is going to cheerlead Trump.
	They're fact-checking him on this.
	And you certainly see that on the left-stream media.
	That they're saying, well, that isn't going to be people carrying guns, and it's not going to be 80...
	No, it is.
	He doubled...
	He put the money in to double the number of IRS agents, and they're hiring them fast.
	And he...
	Increased their budget, gave them a budget increase seven times bigger.
	So he gave them seven times more money and twice the number of agents.
	Now, is Trump going to stop that?
	Or is he just going to play nonsense about it?
	You know, we could send them to the border and have them carry guns.
	Johnson didn't want to do anything about it.
	Johnson was worse on this than his predecessor was.
	As Speaker of the House.
	Last year, this is from Epoch Times now.
	Last year the IRS said it was going to hire nearly 20,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years.
	That's AI. Surveillance, data mining, all the rest of that.
	Soon after taking office, Trump signed an executive order to freeze the hiring of federal civilian employees across the government, stating that no federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 2025 can be filled.
	No new position may be created.
	Except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum.
	And so, again, they are exploding, but now there's a freeze after the explosion.
	This freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies, regardless of their sources of operational and programmatic funding.
	Aside from the hiring freeze, a president suspended in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act funding disbursements for what his office said.
	It was terminating the Green New Deal.
	Section 2 of that executive order focused on how to direct agency actions, including protecting U.S. national and economic security and, listen to the high priority that is put on this, removing a federal electric vehicle mandate.
	Boy, Elon Musk got his money's worth out of that, didn't he?
	And so the question is, from James Bovard, he says, Will any federal officials pay for what they did?
	Which thing is he talking about here?
	Is he talking about the pandemic lockdown?
	Is he talking about the mass murder of people with this bioweapon thing?
	Well, actually, no.
	He's talking about now the lab leak.
	The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed.
	No, the biggest con of all time is even this pandemic.
	And then doubling over on it, the mRNA vaccine.
	And the con, it's not the fact that they're trying to cover up that there really was a lab leak and that there really was a virus.
	No, the con is virology itself and public health itself.
	That's the con.
	And the con is the bioweapon, the Trump shot.
	And by focusing on lab leak folks, which is not...
	How do we know it's not true?
	Because there's no pandemic.
	Come on!
	Why is it that conservative and libertarian press is now pretending that there was a real pandemic?
	There wasn't.
	They were killing people with ventilators and remdesivir and with neglect.
	It wasn't a virus that was killing people.
	The hospitals were empty.
	Can we stop pretending?
	When I look at conservatives and libertarians talking about this like I talked about it yesterday, they're the equivalent of the dancing nurses on TikTok.
	This is total BS. Stop it.
	This is giving them an alibi.
	It's even pushing it out to China.
	You understand what that agenda is about?
	Oh, they want to go to war with China.
	This is another reason they can push out there.
	But it pushes it away from the government.
	It's the government that did this to you.
	It's your own government.
	It's the CIA. It's Trump that did it to you.
	Don't give them a pass by pretending that this was a lab leak, accidental or deliberate.
	That's not what it was.
	There wasn't anything that came out.
	We see this as well.
	We've got Matt Taibbi as well as Tucker Carlson saying that we're going to have the FBI communications with COVID scientists will be exposed.
	Again, all this is about lab leak stuff.
	A giant rat's nest, they said.
	And Tucker Carlson says Donald Trump is releasing more secrets than any president in history.
	Name one!
	Name one!
	There's not a single secret that he's put out.
	And all this stuff about JFK and all that.
	Look, if there was any secrets, they were burned back in 1963. Get real.
	Tucker Carlson is a disinfo agent from a CIA family.
	It's just that simple.
	I looked up Acosta.
	He's been fired now from CNN. I thought, I wonder how much money he made.
	You know, is he going to have any financial issues?
	I don't think so.
	He was making $800,000 a year, is what public information was.
	But his father came from Cuba around the time of, you know, Bay of Pigs stuff and everything, and settles in Virginia, right there where the CIA is.
	You see, even Acosta and Tucker.
	And Alex and all these people.
	It's like Operation Mockingbird across the left and right spectrum, folks.
	They're lying to you up one side and down the other.
	And, you know, that's their purpose.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break and we're going to come back because I've got some other news items that I think will be a little bit more entertaining and maybe not as serious.
	Swamp Lover says, FEMA should not have a say over the people.
	That's right.
	I am so sick and tired of them coming in and instituting martial law on people.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio.
	Didn't we learn from that from 2005?
	We know for a fact that FEMA is not about helping people.
	Take a look at Hurricane Katrina.
	Yeah.
	That should have been the end of FEMA. But was it?
	No.
	Who was president then?
	Well, George W. Bush.
	And he was the guy in 2005, what did he do?
	He put in the PREP Act because they were prepping to do martial law in many different ways, right?
	That PREP Act that keeps people from getting any compensation for what was done to them with a Trump kill shot.
	Rogue statesman.
	A free people shouldn't have anyone to answer to, lest they deprive someone else of their liberty.
	Yeah, unfortunately, you know, when you go back and you look at the Battle of Athens in Athens, Tennessee, some returning World War II vets.
	Those are the kind of guys that wouldn't have been...
	Karen Bass would have not worked out too well if she'd been mayor of Athens, Tennessee right after World War II. She would have gotten the same treatment that they did.
	Swamp lover, if you aren't free to go on your own property and clean it up, you aren't free.
	That's right.
	And it's not your property because they've got local taxes that they're never going to get rid of.
	12 June 1776. As a matter of fact, North Carolina contractors are not getting paid from North Carolina State Disaster Relief from the hurricane that came two years ago.
	Wow.
	Yeah, they voted for another Democrat.
	Of course, you know, it was just a, you know, a choice.
	From the bottom of the barrel for all of this stuff.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Making sense.
	Common again.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, Jason Barker writes, I went on Dan Bongino's chat yesterday, and I mentioned Trump doing gun control by executive order and his warp speed, and the moderator banned me.
	Wow.
	MAGA is a massive cult now.
	Well, it's a PSYOP operation.
	When you bring in the media into it.
	It's, you know, you shall not say no evil, speak no evil, see no evil about Donald Trump.
	That's what it's really about.
	And by the way, this is an interesting article.
	This is a restaurant, a small local restaurant.
	And somebody got fired.
	A staff member was fired over a menu addition.
	They have special burgers.
	And they set up a Proud Boys burger.
	And I think it would have been okay with the community there, but unfortunately, they put it on social media.
	They added a burger for their burger night special.
	It was called the Proud Boys burger, and they described it as having, quote, white American cheese, onion ring layers of truth, Resilience, pickles, freedom fries, and cancel culture coleslaw and liberty sauce.
	And the owners of the restaurant freaked out and backpedaled and fired the guy.
	And in the UK, we're just talking about tax collectors here in the United States and the massive standing army of people that are there to...
	What was it Jefferson had a phrase where he described the IRS even before it existed?
	Swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
	Whether it's a Republican or a Democrat in charge.
	Well, in the UK, Breitbart was scandalized by the fact that they had UK tax collectors were given the equivalent of a day off per week in order to promote LGBT religion.
	Well, you know, look, I would, I've said for the longest time, until we can fire them, just pay them to stay home and not do anything.
	You know, you've got all these people saying, I can't believe that I've got to go to work now.
	It's like, no, just stay home, don't do anything, we'll pay you.
	I would say that about the UK tax collectors.
	Just give them a day off for each letter.
	That they can imagine as part of their alphabet mafia here.
	Some members of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs Tax Collecting Agency are reportedly being given as much as one-fifth of their time at work off to focus on promoting leftist gender ideology.
	Well, here in the United States, these same people are very upset about the fact that they even have to go to work.
	What a way to end the week.
	Five o'clock on Friday.
	Got our notice.
	Effective March 10th.
	We're back in the office five days a week.
	Wow.
	No telework.
	The tyranny of it all.
	And that's the most fucked up thing.
	I missed that one.
	Did you issue this executive order, Tito, but the executive order trumps unintended and rescinds any previously agreed upon telework agreements.
	So before, I was able to telework once a week.
	When I was in the office every day.
	Now?
	Yeah, we're going to leave it at that.
	And then she goes in and talks about, well, you know, there's people who are working and they've got to figure out what they're going to do with child care.
	Can you imagine?
	Everybody else, the people who pay your salary have to figure out about that.
	Cut that a little bit short because I'm not sure if I got the wrong version of that that was bleeped out or not.
	Anyway, in other news, we learn that Pee Wee Herman, also known as Paul Rubens, that was his acting name.
	Not his character name.
	He came out as homosexual in a posthumous documentary.
	He says, quote, I was secretive about my sexuality.
	One of the worst kept secrets ever.
	Who would have thought this?
	I think that, quite frankly, was the funniest thing he ever said.
	Next, we're going to find out.
	That Boy George is going to be coming out soon.
	Who knew that Pee Wee Herman was, you know, my gaydar was just pinned all the way over to the right.
	But Russia is winning by three touchdowns, says Senator Tommy, I think it's Tuberville.
	I used to call him Tuberville, but it's Tuberville.
	I don't listen to news.
	I read news, so.
	Sometimes I go back and it's such a simple name.
	I thought, oh, I know how to say that.
	I guess I said it wrong.
	So I'm not really sure.
	But this might be why Russia is ahead by three touchdowns.
	We had, as reported in the UK, a farting whale set off a Russian submarine, a false alarm.
	British ships spent several days tracking down a suspected Russian stealth submarine.
	Because, you know, climate change is our greatest threat.
	We know that from the American military as well as the UK military.
	They were getting suspicious sonar signatures.
	I mean, this is sound.
	This is not, you know, electromagnetic radiation.
	This is sound.
	It was making a suspicious sound.
	And, you know, this is really serious because, you know, a whale is a very large animal.
	And it has not one, but two blowholes that apparently it can do.
	It may have actually belonged to a farting whale that a Royal Navy source.
	Two mystery sounds were picked up off the northwestern coast of Scotland, according to the UK tabloid.
	They were convinced that it was man-made.
	And the Royal Navy went on a deep-sea hunt.
	We've been analyzing the sounds and we now believe that it was a marine mammal, a whale.
	And we're taking it very seriously, you know, because this is CO2. This is a massive eruption of CO2. It needs to be taken very seriously.
	We have to assume the worst.
	I can't think of anything much worse than that if you're anywhere in the vicinity.
	may have been trying to deploy sensors in order to obtain the acoustic signatures of Royal Navy submarines.
	That's what they surmised.
	They thought that was what the Russian military was doing.
	But in actuality, it was a whale.
	You know, when I was back in high school, I remember one of the albums, I buy all kinds of crazy stuff.
	One of the albums I got was Songs of the Humpback Whale.
	I don't know if they're going to have a volume two with a flatulence of a humpback whale.
	Now, that would be maybe an interesting sound.
	The New York Post, in reporting this, said that they called the incident the hunt for Red Farttober.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And it's just like Chicago had said.
	And, you know, when we look back, Shakespeare evidently was right when he said that there was something rotten in Denmark.
	They have discovered a 66-million-year-old vomit in Denmark.
	Something is very rotten in Denmark and has been rotten there for a very long time.
	Somebody found this stuff, took the fragments to a museum for examination, and they dated the vomit to the end of the Cretaceous era some 66 million years ago.
	I'll tell you what the biggest rotten thing is, and that is their dating methods.
	If you ever look at their dating methods, you find out that their dating methods are circular logic.
	Well, we know how old this is because of the layer that was found.
	And we know how old that layer is because of what's found in it.
	You know, that's basically the way these guys operate.
	This is all as useful as a PCR test.
	They're dating methods.
	So, you know, the PCR tests are something that is rotten, not just in Denmark, but everywhere.
	The PCR tests are basically a kind of vomit, although it is only just a few decades old.
	Arabica coffee now.
	The latest thing that we're told is going to be extremely expensive.
	So by the time you look at eggflation and the government killing off chickens by the millions and destroying our food supply, killing off small farms, that's the real key about all that.
	But now Arabica coffee prices are going to be expensive, so it's going to be pretty hard to get eggs and coffee in the morning.
	And then we have Washington, D.C. This article from the Washington Post saying, D.C. is America's loneliest city.
	And they ask, can a thousand robotic pets help?
	You know, there's an old saying about Washington, D.C. They said, if you want a friend in D.C., get a dog.
	Well, evidently, even the dogs don't like the people in the district, the criminals in the district.
	These politicians are going to have to get a robot.
	That's what the dogs are basically saying to them now.
	Even we don't want to be your friend.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio says, Wait, Pee Wee Herman was gay?
	I haven't been this shocked since Richard Simmons came out yet.
	High Boost says, Whistler make a new Hitchcock AI commercial.
	Maybe one with Captain Ahab.
	There she blows.
	That's absolutely true.
	And then I'll just finish up with this.
	We've got just about a minute left.
	We have J.D. Vance giving an economics lecture to Margaret Brennan on Sunday.
	Explain to her why the prices haven't changed in five days since Trump got elected.
	And he says, well, just think about how does bacon get to the grocery store?
	And he talks about the fact that, you know, there's a supply chain.
	If Margaret had half a brain, she would say, yeah, we remember how Trump disrupted the supply chain, and we know what's happening right now.
	You know, I guess if we look at this, my question would be, when he talks about how we've got the supply chain and how things trickle through it, it's like, why are you waiting so long?
	To get the USDA shut down.
	But of course, they're not going to shut down any of this stuff.
	They're going to continue killing our food and killing our farms.
	He said, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store?
	Well, it comes on trucks, fueled by diesel.
	And if the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon's going to become more expensive.
	How do we grow the bacon and all the rest of the stuff?
	Well, how about...
	You know, is that why the eggs are expensive?
	Is it because of diesel fuel?
	Or is it because the federal government has decided they're going to kill all the chickens and kill all the farms?
	That's the reality of all this stuff.
	Well, thank you for joining us.
	Have a good day.
	And I guess we will play as we go out.
	We'll have a reprise of Hitchcock talking about the Flatulent Earth Society.
	Have a good day.
	Good evening.
	Tonight's tale is a story of paranoia and a most unexpected perpetrator, the common cow.
	Or, more specifically, what comes out the other end.
	Yes, the air is thick with intrigue, as it seems that in our modern age of propaganda, even a humble bovine's backside can be branded a national security threat.
	The menace is invisible, silent.
	Yet deadly.
	Carefully contrive to panic the masses into accepting the government stepping in, jackboots and all, with their solutions.
	Because who better to stop a gaseous threat than a bunch of political windbags?
	But one must wonder, is this truly about saving the planet, or are we simply being led to pasture?
	Is it merely a MacGuffin?
	The David Knight Show serves as a breath of fresh air for those who still believe that truth can stand up to scrutiny.
	And he's found that the government narrative smells suspiciously like a load of bull.
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