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Feb. 19, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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The David Knight Show -2/19/2025 Part 2

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	I was rendered speechless by this.
	Do you remember that there was a TV evangelist back in the 70s named Ernest Angley?
	Yeah, yeah.
	He was such a fraud.
	Be healed!
	You know, he was...
	Put your hand on the TV. And one of the things that old Ernest would do, he would sell you what he called the blessed cloth.
	Which was supposedly something that he had prayed over.
	And, you know, if you gave him some money, you would get this piece of cloth in the mail.
	And that would somehow, as you were talking about earlier, help you to be prosperous.
	It would solve your financial problems if you carried around this blessed cloth.
	Well, Trump is doing essentially the same thing now.
	There's a website devoted to his Trump cards, which you've probably heard of.
	And if you scroll down and look at it a little bit, you'll find that you can actually pay to get a piece of the suit that he wore during the assassination attempt.
	It's like he's got the effrontery of a Roman Caesar to deify himself while he's still alive.
	I bet if you bought all those pieces of that suit, you'd probably find that it's like 45 different suits.
	Of course.
	You can only cut the thing into so many pieces.
	I wouldn't even trust that it was a genuine piece if I was buying it from him.
	You know, we just saw, while we're talking about the fraud here and everything, the Trump crypto coin that he had, and then he had a Melania coin as well.
	Remember that?
	How that was always, as these things always are, they're pumping dumps.
	And his guy they put in as Commerce Secretary, Lutnik, A lucky Howard Lutnik.
	He is, I call him lucky because he didn't show up on 9-11.
	You know, he was, all the people in his office died, but he, somehow he didn't show up that day, just like Larry Silverstein didn't show up.
	But he is the master of doing all this stuff.
	Well, it turns out that there was another pump and dump coin called Libra.
	And they have impeached the Argentinian president there, Javier Malay.
	They're working up on, I don't think they've completely impeached him, but they're filing the paperwork and that type of thing.
	I'm sure they'll still have to vote on it or something.
	But anyway, they brought impeachment charges against him for being involved in that Libra pump and dump.
	And that has a connection to the people of the Melania coin.
	It's just like one hustle after the other.
	It's speculative vaporware, and it's fundamentally designed to be a speculative instrument to rip off people who think they're going to cash in.
	You know, it's the oldest game in town.
	Appeal to people's greed.
	They think, oh, if I buy this crypto, it's going to explode in value, and, you know, I'll be able to make a fortune.
	Of course, the only people making a fortune, generally speaking, are the ones operating the scam.
	That's right.
	Yeah, the greater fool theory, that's there.
	But isn't it a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration?
	A bump and dump ripping off his own supporters like he did in 2020 and all the rest of this stuff?
	I mean, it's just, hopefully he won't get them arrested like he did on January the 6th, you know?
	I'm drinking coffee.
	I feel like sometimes I should be drinking vodka instead.
	It is a crazy world.
	Well, you know, when we're looking at...
	And what is happening, one of the things I saw that I thought was interesting, and we're going to get to some of the topics that you've recently covered on ericpetersautos.com, but there's one that I saw, which I thought was kind of interesting.
	They've got now this Chinese electric car company, BYD, I think it is, has now surpassed Tesla in terms of being the biggest globally in terms of number of units shipped.
	You can get...
	An electric vehicle from this company in China for under $10,000.
	But you can't buy it in the United States because they've got all these safety regulations and things like that.
	Right.
	Exactly right.
	The idea, apparently, is that we want to limit mobility rather than increase mobility.
	And also, if you look at it from the so-called environmental point of view, if these people actually really did believe that the climate is changing, which is the predicate for the whole push to electrify everything, then why wouldn't you want to do everything possible to make affordable EVs more available to people in this country?
	You know, $10,000 car, hey, that's great.
	You could get a lot of people into these $10,000 cars.
	And if it's necessary to do that, to save the planet, to keep the climate from changing, then why not do that?
	Why could that be?
	Why is it that all the EVs that are available in this country start around $40,000 for the most part?
	So that only really affluent people can afford to have them.
	Well, it's because it's another scam.
	It's another grift.
	It's all about wealth transfers with the pretext of this climate change, applying the virtue signaling.
	Hilarious things that we were talking about a little bit before we jumped on the air.
	Sales of Teslas are tanking, and I don't think it's so much because of the affordable Chinese vehicles.
	It's because his demographic, the person who typically would buy a Tesla, Sheryl Crow, for instance, have decided that Musk is now Satan incarnate, and they have to walk away from him and his cars.
	And they've got people that are out there doing graffiti on Teslas and everything.
	They hate him so much now.
	But it was only just a couple of years ago that he was one of the biggest climate hoax people out there, you know, pushing the climate MacGuffin.
	And, you know, and it was just a couple of five years ago that Trump was pushing and not even five years ago.
	I mean, he stopped pushing the vaccine well into his campaign.
	He was still pushing it.
	And so you got Trump who was pushing the pandemic MacGuffin.
	You have Elon Musk, who was pushing the climate MacGuffin, and now they're the heroes of the right that don't believe and despise everything that comes along with all that stuff.
	That's how he got to be the world's richest man, was by pushing this climate MacGuffin nonsense.
	And that's one of the reasons why the left loved him so much.
	And now that he's moved away from it, he's not an evangelist for it anymore.
	But that is the basis of his whole business model.
	Oh, sure.
	And the really interesting thing to me is that just as A lot of the red hats have completely forgotten all about Trump's warped feeding of those beautiful vaccines into circulation.
	People don't want to talk about how Musk has in no way abandoned his support for carbon credits and for taxing people based on carbon.
	Oh no, we can't talk about that, even though that is a dagger placed right directly over our chests and at our standard of living that's going to further insert the American people.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	They're going to come at us from another way.
	They're going to come at us from the carbon credits.
	They're going to come at us from the carbon pipeline and all the rest of the carbon dioxide pipeline, all these other things.
	They'll do it differently.
	And that's one of the things that we need to be concerned about.
	You know, when they talk about, we're not going to have CBDC, but then you've got all the people around Trump who are pushing, you know, Tether and the various crypto.
	companies that are there, they're going to have a Kind of secure coin.
	They're going to make partnerships with Visa.
	Musk is all about making his platform another WeChat so that you do all of your financial payments and everything through it.
	A digital wallet, all the rest of the stuff.
	People don't look at the functionality of this.
	They look at the name.
	And so they get real excited about the fact that Trump is going to get us out of the World Health Organization.
	Got to wait a year.
	But he's getting us out.
	Supposedly, he has stopped.
	We'll see.
	But at the same time, he has elevated this Office of Pandemic Preparedness, and he's got a veterinarian there that is the alleged expert on bird flu.
	And they don't see that.
	You know, they're wondering why eggs are so expensive and why the shelves are empty of eggs.
	And yet these people have been, you know, he's been part of this cabal that is out there killing all the chickens.
	And this is a guy that Trump has put there.
	Publicly, Trump makes this big display about getting us out of the World Health Organization while he takes a guy who has worked with the World Health Organization, worked with One Health, and he puts him in as a chief of the new pandemic nonsense, the Pandemic Preparedness Office.
	It's about predictive programming is what it's really about.
	There is a tragic element to this in that people are so PTSD in this country, good people, who are desperate to hear something that will give them some hope.
	And that desperate hoping is what I think causes them to sort of close their ears to things that contradict that and might make them feel uncomfortable.
	So they see Trump as he's our savior.
	He's the guy who's going to pull us back from the brink of this woke left takeover.
	He's going to restore America's greatness.
	And the same thing with regard to Musk.
	You know, all of a sudden he's the guy who's going to root out all the corruption in the federal government.
	Never mind that he's the guy who's been profiting to the tune of billions from the corruption in the federal government.
	It's because people just are so eager and desperate to have some relief.
	You know, we're constantly barraged by chaos, machinations, and evil.
	So that when you're presented with something that might be an antidote to that...
	You really glatch onto that.
	And I can relate to that.
	You probably can relate to that, too.
	You want to believe.
	You want to hope that there's something better around the corner, even when there probably isn't.
	And there may be something worse.
	That's right.
	I remember at the end of the Obama administration, you had an actor, a very well-known actor, who said, I don't know who this guy is.
	We projected onto him what we wanted him to be.
	And that's exactly what the right is doing with Trump.
	You know, they've got this idea of how the universe should work, and they have this idea that, hey, he's not beholden to anybody.
	You know, he actually used that.
	I played that clip from when he was running in 2016, the debate that they had at the Reagan Library with a plane behind him and everything.
	And he was hectoring.
	Jeb Bush over the fact that Jeb Bush had brought in like $100 million worth of donations and everything.
	It's like when now we look at Trump in 20...
	And he brings in 250 from just one guy, you know?
	And then, of course, he gets 100 million from Adelson and, you know, for Israel and all the rest of the stuff.
	You talk about somebody who is for sale.
	And he was projecting himself out in 2016 as, I'm independently wealthy.
	I don't need to take money from anybody else.
	I'm going to pay for my own campaign.
	And that is not who he is today, but that's who people still think he is.
	They want to believe that.
	They're projecting what they want onto him.
	They're projecting what...
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, it is sad when we see this.
	But, you know, it's also, I don't know, how do we get people to wake up and actually see it for what it truly is?
	I think part of it is that they are looking for a dictator.
	And you mentioned Germany.
	I played all the clips from 60 Minutes and everything yesterday.
	And the fact that they're bragging about arresting people for speech and for joke memes and all the rest of this stuff on the Internet.
	And, you know, so you've got J.D. Vance out there saying, well, we don't do that.
	You know, we're all about free speech.
	And you've got Elon Musk who's saying we're all about free speech.
	Well, no, he's not.
	He shuts people down.
	He's calling for the arrest of people who criticize him.
	You've got Trump wanting to shut down 60 Minutes because he doesn't like the way they edited the Lala Harris interview.
	And it's like, hey, man, you won.
	Where's the damage to all of that stuff?
	And as Reason looked at it, they said what they edited was not deceptive.
	One of the edits made her look better than she actually did, but she didn't say anything in either one of them.
	And so he wins this, but he wants to punish them, and he wants to use We have to weaponize the FCC against them.
	I remember when Obama was going to do that.
	Everybody got upset about it.
	And then you've got all these Republican governors, including, I would say, Trump and the presidency, bought by Israel who have put all these anti-Semitic laws out there.
	So, you know, you can criticize trainees, but you can't criticize the foreign government that has bought our politicians.
	I mean, what hypocrisy we have across the board.
	Well, sure, but that's what it's been for so long, right?
	You know, the left and the right fundamentally agree on the same thing.
	It's just that they have a different approach to how they want to implement it.
	So, yeah, Trump's been on record saying essentially that if you dare to question anything that the government of Israel does, it's very important to frame it that way, somehow that means you're anti-Semitic.
	Somehow that means you hate Jewish people and you want to see Jewish people persecuted.
	Because you criticize what Bibi Netanyahu is doing to people in Israel.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, there are 350-plus rabbis that got a full-page New York Times ad saying, we're not standing with this stuff.
	So I guess they get deported now.
	Yeah.
	No, it's exactly the piece with, you know, during the pandemic when if you raised your hand and said, look, if somebody wants to take these drugs that they're marketing as vaccines, hey, they're adults, they can make that free choice.
	They can choose to go ahead and get themselves injected with that.
	Somehow that became you're an anti-vaxxer.
	You know, that's the kind of political language now that we are mired in.
	R. Emmett Terrell, the editor of the American Spectator, came up with a great term many years ago.
	He called it the kultur smog, you know, which he meant that we're all sort of Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, people bought into these paradigms.
	Getting back to the car stuff, one of the things that's interesting is that with BYD, they're offering their self-driving stuff for free.
	And of course, you pay a big premium for that with Elon Musk.
	And he has a worse safety record than the Pinto.
	And, you know, it was legendary with the Pinto, but now he's got a worse safety record than that.
	But you pay extra for that.
	You can get that kind of fiery collision death for free.
	You pay forever with Tesla.
	It's not as though you pay for it once.
	It's a subscription.
	So, you know, if you buy the car that has the full self-driving, let's say, and then you decide to sell it, well, whoever buys it next doesn't get the self-driving unless they then sign up for the subscription to get it.
	And more fundamentally, I'm not the least bit surprised by the safety issue because you're encouraging passivity behind the wheel.
	The whole point of this is to take the driver...
	Basically, out of the driving equation.
	So what do they expect?
	You put a technology in a car that encourages people to literally go to sleep and take a nap behind the wheel of the car so that when the system glitches, somebody walks in front of the car and the cameras don't see the person or they see something else or whatever it is that causes the car to run into something, of course that's going to happen.
	You're either a driver or you're not.
	It's really binary.
	You're either the person who is responsible for controlling the car or you're not.
	It has to be one or the other.
	Well, you know, he doesn't really care about how many of these things he's selling, I don't think, because his new approach, and he's already put out the cyber cab or whatever it was, right?
	It's got two seats.
	It's got no steering wheel, no brakes, no gas pedal.
	It's going to do all the driving for you.
	And you're just there as a passive passenger.
	It's what you and I have been talking about for the longest time.
	It's more profitable for them to rent a car than it is for them to sell you a car.
	And where they really want to go is to rent.
	And that's really where Elon Musk wants to go.
	He wants to have robo-taxis, and he doesn't really care about anybody owning cars, and he's saying that this is going to happen in the next few years.
	And, you know, that's what really concerns me.
	About seeing him get so much power, so much inside information, backdoors into all the computers and all the rest of this stuff.
	That's what really concerns me, how he's being worshipped by the right when he has these evil agendas.
	And that's not the only evil agenda he has.
	It's a different agenda than the evil ones that I was talking about earlier, where he wants to put a chip in your brain and have you join with a singularity.
	I mean, that's ultimate evil there.
	But, you know, he wants to pacify you with his cyber cab as well.
	Yeah, it's all about monetizing everything.
	It's no longer about owning anything.
	You know, this archaic, antiquated model wherein you would purchase a car, and once you purchased it, it was your car.
	Well, that's just so very 20th century.
	What we want now is to have you paying a regular fee in order to be able to use the vehicle.
	And that really is what Cole Klaus Schwab meant by, you will own nothing and be happy.
	Exactly right.
	And yet, you know, Musk does this all the time.
	You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
	You'll be much better, you know, when you're not driving the car and all the rest of the stuff.
	And it's the same stuff that Klaus Schwab is saying, and yet the right...
	He hates Klaus Schwab rightfully, but they love Elon Musk.
	Isn't it amazing that he can say the same stuff as Klaus Schwab?
	He can actually make it happen, and they love him instead of hating him like they do Klaus Schwab.
	Well, I think part of the reason has to do with the gradual transition which has occurred over the last 50 years of our culture into a culture that is comfortable with debt.
	And with not owning things.
	With living beyond our means.
	Because most people now are making payments on a car.
	They're making payments on a house.
	They're making payments on all kinds of things.
	And so they've gotten used to not really owning things.
	Well, why not?
	I can just make the payment.
	As long as I can make the payment.
	Sure, I'll get whatever that thing is.
	They're not uncomfortable with that.
	Earlier generations of Americans were very uncomfortable with getting into hock for things.
	There used to be the layaway, where you would pay some money every month, and then eventually, once you paid it off, whatever the item was, maybe it was a TV or a sofa, then you got it.
	You paid it before you paid for it.
	But that whole thing has been reversed now, and a whole generation of Americans, two generations of Americans, have grown up...
	Being kind of hypnotized and narcoticized by the idea of getting things that they really can't afford.
	College kids now, the first thing that happens when they go to campus, they get presented with these tables where MasterCard and Visa are there, handing out credit cards to these college kids who have no job.
	Yeah, well, they've shown their willingness to go into debt.
	Right.
	They want them to go into debt.
	What they want is to get you on that train so that you're just making those monthly payments.
	And if you get used to that, if that's the way you want to live, well, why not just rent the app and rent the ride?
	I remember my mom, you talked about layaway.
	I remember my mom heavily doing that.
	And then my dad, whenever I was with him and he bought something, he would always say to him, 90 days, same as cash.
	They would not pay any financing charges.
	They would absolutely flip if they saw the credit card rates that are criminal, I think.
	It's what we used to lock people up for loan sharking.
	In those days, they didn't want to pay a 5% rate or something like that, which was just slightly over what they would pay you in the bank.
	They might charge you 6% for a home mortgage, but they would pay you 5% in the savings account.
	But today, they pay you less than a fraction of a percent, and they'll charge you 20, 30, 40. 40%.
	That's criminal.
	We actually got a solicitation in the mail.
	And we have good credit.
	And they pitched us a credit card.
	40% compounded monthly.
	You're better off dealing with Winnie in the alleyway.
	I know.
	It's absolutely crazy that they can get away with this.
	But, you know, when we look at getting back to the Chinese thing again.
	Okay.
	So part of the reason why it is cheaper is because of what you've always talked about.
	How, you know, in other countries like in France, you know, a young driver could get a special class of car and it didn't go as fast.
	It didn't have all the safety stuff.
	They load up.
	Our cars with safety regulations and all the rest of this stuff.
	And that's part of it, all the regulations and all the add-ons that are mandated here.
	But I think a big part of this, and I think it is something that we're seeing all the automobile companies circling the drain, Volkswagen, for example.
	Why is Volkswagen circling the drain?
	Well, part of it is this push towards EV, but another part of it is...
	The energy costs.
	There's no way that they're going to be able to compete with China on manufacturing, especially in something that is energy intensive, when China is given an advantage with the Paris Climate Accord.
	They're adding a couple of coal power plants with no scrubbing, no cleaning at all, each week in China.
	And they've got dirt cheap, literally dirt cheap power plants.
	They're very dirty.
	And yet, the West, they're mandating all of this stuff.
	This is all part of the...
	I mean, what do you think about...
	The tariffs that send a lot of shocks to the automobile industry, these tariffs that have been announced by Trump on steel and aluminum and all the rest of this stuff.
	Well, let's start by defining our terms.
	What is a tariff?
	It's fundamentally a tax.
	That's right.
	There are all these different names for taxes.
	Fundamentally, you're talking about increasing the cost of whatever the item is by 25%.
	That's what Trump is talking about.
	And it'll be paid by us.
	It'll be paid by us.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, he's bragging that he's going to get a trillion dollars worth of new taxes.
	Well, he's going to get it from us.
	That's the whole thing.
	Well, fundamentally, you know, the stated objective of this is to provide an inducement for manufacturers that have located, you know, outside of the United States, such as Mexico, for example.
	All of the major automakers now have these operations south of the border.
	But the reason for that has to do with the cost of manufacturing things in this country.
	So Trump is approaching it, in my opinion, in exactly the wrong way.
	You know, rather than apply a tax to the manufacturer of vehicles, how about do something about the regulatory costs and the environment in this country that makes it so expensive and so difficult to make anything in this country?
	That's the reason why these companies left this country, because it costs less to manufacture stuff in other countries.
	That's right.
	And, of course, key with that regulation is going to be the emissions regulations coming from the EPA and all the rest of this stuff.
	I agree with you 100%, and I've said the same thing.
	I said, if you really want to help us, don't play around with the tax stuff, don't play around with tariffs, because now...
	We have, and this was always the case, and everybody would talk about, oh, I don't like the income tax, and there's better ways that we could do taxes and everything.
	So they'd propose these different things, whether it's a flat tax or whether it's a national sales tax, whatever.
	But everybody was always concerned before Trump that we would have the new tax and we would keep the old tax.
	Now with Trump, he's openly talking about it.
	And they don't have a problem with it.
	And you've got people like Dan Bongino trying to sell people on the idea, well, the income tax is going to go away.
	It's not going to go away.
	He's talking about what he's going to have the corporate tax rate at 15%, which, by the way, is what everybody internationally, all the globalists agreed, was going to be the minimum corporate tax.
	So he's obeying the globalist minimum.
	He's not going against that.
	And he's keeping all the taxes, all the stuff about, well, I'm not going to tax waitresses on tips and things like that.
	He's going to keep the tax in there, so we're going to have internal and external revenue, but it'll all be internal.
	And even by calling it external revenue, that's a lie, because it's all going to be paid, as you know, by people here.
	Republicans used to always understand there's no such thing as a corporate tax, because those taxes get passed on to the consumers, or this business is going to go out of business.
	But they buy into that double-think, that Orwellian double-think, because it's Trump.
	It's amazing.
	Well, and because they don't really have an understanding of what they're talking about or what's being talked about.
	Again, we hear people talking about tariffs, and there's no mention of the fact that it's a tax.
	Is it some sort of different species of thing when, in fact, it's exactly the same thing?
	And this is of a piece with the way they call what you're forced to pay into Social Security a contribution.
	It's a tax!
	All these things are taxes.
	They can come up with various different names for them, but at the end of the day, you're being compelled to pay more for whatever that service or product is.
	By the government, because it's a tax.
	That's right.
	So let's have that discussion instead of talking about all of this completely irrelevant peripheral etymological shuck and jive.
	Yeah.
	And of course, you need to get right down to it, since Trump doesn't care about the deficit, he wants the debt ceiling removed for several years, maybe had a fight with...
	You know, Congress over that.
	He doesn't want a debt ceiling.
	He wants to keep going into more and more debt.
	And Democrats say that we have modern monetary theory where deficits don't matter.
	So why do we even have an income tax, right?
	But instead, they're going to double down on it.
	Whenever you start talking about cutting taxes for us, Then they all become fiscal hawks, whether they're Republicans or Democrats.
	But when it comes to their spending, they don't care about any of that stuff.
	We've got Bernie D. says, why don't they just advertise these things as battery cars?
	Battery included.
	Hey, it's a selling point, you know?
	Instead of batteries not included, the batteries aren't included.
	When you hear batteries, you think of a toy, don't you?
	You think of a kid's toy.
	And, you know, that's not good marketing.
	So they have to call them something else.
	Don Draper from Mad Men understood this.
	It's all about how you present things to people if you're trying to sell something, particularly if you're trying to sell them a bill of goods.
	I've got another comment here from Brian and Deb McCartney.
	David, can you ask Eric if he saw that Tedros, the World Health Organization, was at the Global Conference on Road Safety?
	I didn't see that.
	Did you see that?
	Oh sure, because they're going to try to find that as a public health thing too.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Go ahead, sorry.
	I was going to say, I had an experience recently because we've had a couple of snowstorms back to back and these new cars that I test drive, of course, have all the advanced driver assistance technology.
	Well, when the snow and the ice obscures the cameras that the system depends on, you get these klaxon warnings about how driver assistance is not available.
	And I got to thinking about that.
	Well, if the premise is that you have to have this technology in order to safely drive the car, and the weather makes the systems inoperative, then implication is it's not safe to drive the car.
	So probably we should just lock down whenever the weather is bad, because...
	The cars aren't safe to drive.
	And I think that that's coming.
	I don't think that that's an exaggeration.
	Oh, no, no.
	They'll do a climate lockdown for any number of reasons.
	They'll do it because you get too many emissions and everything.
	But I think they're really going to be coming after us with this bird flu stuff.
	I think they're really ramping up on that.
	I mean, we look at all of this.
	Does it just scream at you like it does at me that they would go in and kill every last bird on a farm because they got a phony PCR test on one of them?
	What is the logic of that?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	What is the logic of that?
	You know, they're out there trying to scare everybody and say, we're going to have a case fatality rate of 25 to 50 percent.
	Well, first of all, Redfield, Trump's guy, doesn't have any idea what that is.
	He couldn't possibly, he's just making these numbers up.
	But, you know, okay, 25 to 50 percent, that's really bad.
	Well, why would you kill 100 percent of all the birds then?
	You know, how are you ever going to get herd immunity that they always talked about, or flock immunity?
	It's nonsense.
	What's fundamental?
	Let's go back to the old cop shows.
	Think about Columbo.
	They used to have the corpus delecti.
	You had to have the body in order to prove that there had been a murder.
	We've gotten to a point in this country where you can simply assert that there might be harm.
	You don't have to produce harm.
	Go back to the VW thing with the diesels that I've written about extensively.
	Not a single victim, a person who was actually damaged by the Volkswagen diesels, was produced as evidence of, hey, these things are causing a problem.
	We have to get them off the road.
	It was enough to say, well, they affronted the regulatory standard.
	They cheated.
	They triggered their cars to pass the federal test, but in fact, under wide-open throttle, oh my gosh.
	For a moment, it blipped a little bit, and it emitted a slightly higher than allowable amount of oxides of nitrogen, and that was enough to destroy Volkswagen.
	Nobody says, well, wait a minute, who's actually been harmed by this, and to what extent?
	So, in other words, there's no cost-benefit analysis anymore for any of this.
	You and I talked about that at the time.
	We talked about the Takata airbag recall and how many people have been killed globally off of that, how they'd mandated the airbags and it was killing people.
	But, you know, now we've got far more than that happening with Tesla.
	It's now become a fiery crash type of thing.
	Worse rate so far than the Pinto.
	Hasn't got up to the number of deaths that the Pinto did because the Pinto was on the marketplace for 10 years.
	But its rate is double what the Pinto was.
	And yet nobody is coming.
	The National Highway Traffic Safety.
	The Safety Association is not coming after Tesla for that when it's actually killing people, but they came after Volkswagen and made them bow the knee, stop making diesel, start making electric because of the emission cheating, quote-unquote.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I don't think it really was because of that fundamentally.
	I think the timing of that helps to explain why that happened.
	At that time, which was circa 2014-2015, Volkswagen was offering an entire line of TDI-powered diesels that were affordable.
	They were $22,000, $23,000, and these things had 700 miles of range, and they could get 55 miles per gallon.
	And being diesels, they would last 300,000 miles with any kind of decent care.
	And it was right around that time that the push for these electric vehicles began to get really serious.
	And I think, at some level...
	There was this realization, we can't have this.
	We can't allow this comparison to be out there of a $22,000 Volkswagen Jetta with a diesel that goes 700 miles in between Phillips, that gets 55 miles per gallon on the highway, versus this $40,000 EV that maybe might go 240 miles before you have to sit and wait.
	For an hour for the thing to charge back up.
	And it's going to need a new $10,000 battery after six or eight years of driving it.
	They had to get rid of the TDI diesels.
	And so they came up with this pretext of, oh my gosh, they're dirty.
	They're not clean.
	They're dirty.
	Because of some fractional increase in NOx emissions under wide-open throttle that was never explained to people.
	Yeah, one of the listeners is a mechanic, and he goes around the country grabbing these diesels and fixing them up and reselling them.
	That's his specialty.
	So he heard that my head gasket had blown last Christmas.
	And so he came by last year and he fixed the Miata for me because he was making a trip northeast of me.
	He's in the Austin, Texas area.
	I think it's Austin.
	It's in Texas or San Antonio, somewhere around that area.
	But anyway, that's what he's doing.
	He's going around and grabbing these diamonds in the rough and fixing them up.
	They're great vehicles.
	They're very durable.
	They're cheap to run.
	Of course, it would be even cheaper if they hadn't added all the extra charges to the diesel fuel.
	But it's such a criminal shame.
	And when we look at what's going on with the EPA, they're still not going to get rid of the EPA. They're not going to get rid of the EPA. They're not going to take away the powers of the EPA to use emissions to shut things down.
	They're not going to take away the powers of the Department of Energy to use energy efficiency to ban appliances.
	All that stuff is going to stay.
	It's the regulations that are going to stay.
	They may play games with this.
	And, you know, here's the thing.
	What do you think about this, Eric?
	I've talked about how Elon Musk in the World Government Summit and everything has talked about how he wants to minimize government, but he wants to maximize governance.
	He didn't use that exact phrase, but that's a paraphrase of what he was talking about.
	And so he wants to get rid of a lot of these people who are in the bureaucracy, but a bureaucracy that is run with a few people that has AI looking at everything that you're doing and auditing everything you're doing, to me, that terrifies me.
	Oh, me too.
	Absolutely.
	I hear that phrase about making government more efficient.
	That scares me.
	The government was very efficient in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin in terms of rounding up the entire populace of the country, essentially, and shipping them off to gulags.
	You want to read about efficiency, read The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Zolzhenitsyn.
	And he'll describe how very efficient they were at putting people into trains and then sending them to a particular depot.
	And then that depot would then route them to a camp somewhere and then about maximizing the productivity of those inmates for as long as possible until they finally expired from starvation and overwork.
	They were extremely efficient.
	The last thing we want is more efficient government.
	We want less or no government, ideally.
	Yeah, they always like to talk about how these totalitarian governments can make the trains run on time.
	You might want to ask where the train's going to be taking you, right?
	That's a really good one.
	Exactly.
	Well, let's talk about the Ensurfment Picking Up Speed.
	This is an article you got talking about insurance and the insurance mafia.
	Yeah, it's not just insurance, but we can start there.
	You probably have the same experience that I've had.
	You get your renewal offer, as they put it, sort of like the offer that the Godfather makes you in the movie.
	And you find that, in my case, it doubled over the course of two years for no legitimate reason in that I haven't even gotten a seatbelt ticket in years.
	And yet, suddenly, I'm having to pay twice as much for this car insurance as I paid two years ago.
	And, of course, the reason that that happens is because they can make you, just like Luca Brasi holds the gun to your head and makes you sign the piece of paper.
	And it's all part of this systematic effort to just fleece us to the point where we can't afford to drive anymore.
	And then you add on top of the car insurance thing, people are starting to find that their home insurance policy has doubled.
	And then on top of that, the assessment that's the basis of your property tax that you're forced to pay, then that doubles.
	And it's getting to the point, back to the insertment thing, where literally people are going to be pushed out of their cars, pushed out of their homes, and pushed into the street by this trifecta of costs that are being foisted on people at the behest of the government for the benefit of these private entities, typically.
	Yeah, it is absolutely insane.
	I talked to Donald Rainwater, who was running as Libertarian for governor in Indiana, and he had a great idea, because we are...
	You talked about us always being in debt.
	You know, even if you get out of debt and you get your mortgage paid off, you never own your home because you've got property taxes.
	We all talk about that, know that.
	And he had a great idea.
	He said, okay, so we charge people 7% when they buy the house.
	And they can fold that into the mortgage, or they can pay it off in equal installments over a seven-year period, and then they're done.
	And we're not going to have this constantly attributing more money to a home because of arbitrary home values when you're not selling your home.
	It happens when you sell your home and then you're done.
	What an excellent idea.
	It's an unrealized capital gains tax.
	That's essentially what this...
	This property tax assessment is, which is outrageous because most people buy their homes to live in.
	You know, it's not a speculative instrument that you're using in the hopes of scoring some big gain.
	You know, you buy it and typically you're buying it because that's what I can afford, right?
	You go shopping for a house and say the house costs $300,000.
	I can afford that.
	Then all of a sudden you find out that five, six years later the government says your house is actually worth $600,000.
	And, you know, you didn't factor that into your purchase decision.
	You didn't think you were going to have to be paying this massive tax.
	On that value rather than what you paid for the house.
	Another reform that I would suggest if we can't get rid of it altogether is that it caps at some point.
	At some point, enough should be enough.
	Once you have paid a certain percentage of whatever you paid for your house, that should be the end of it.
	And at that point, you should be free and clear.
	It shouldn't be this open-ended obligation to endlessly pay for these services that are demanded by other people.
	That you don't use and you don't approve of and you don't want to subsidize.
	That's right.
	And I think there's a big disconnect, again, with the public's understanding of the fact that most of these property taxes go to pay for the schools.
	The schools that they abhor.
	You know, they're doing such an awful job of what they think a school should be doing.
	That's not the school's agenda.
	School's got a different agenda, and the school's doing, unfortunately, a really good job on that, you know, framework.
	And so that's why you've got these never-ending taxes.
	It's really because of schools, and people can't get that around their heads.
	Well, there's this audacious effrontery, too.
	You and I and every other normal person, we have to live within our means, within our budget.
	The government doesn't because it can force us to pay.
	So, you know, in my county, for example, the county decided it just had to have a fleet of brand new Ford Explorer cop cars.
	You know, each one of these Ford Explorer cop cars costs about $50,000.
	So who gets to pay for that?
	You know, so these cops can sit around running radar traps in their $50,000 Ford Explorer vehicles.
	We do!
	You know, you and I, if we're going to buy a vehicle, we look at our money and how much can we afford to buy?
	And if we can only afford to buy a $15,000 car, well, that's all we buy.
	Because we can't go knock on our neighbor's door and say, oh, I need a $50,000 car.
	Here's your bill.
	And by the way, if you don't pay it, you know, I'm going to come back later with a gun and I'm going to take your house.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Reason Magazine just had an article about how with civil asset forfeiture, they can auction off your car and you don't even know it.
	You know, for whatever reason, they just take it.
	They don't have to find you guilty of anything.
	There's no due process involved.
	They don't even charge you with it.
	They can take civil asset forfeiture.
	They can take it, and they've extended it in Hawaii to other issues as well.
	But there was an article that I really liked.
	It was in reference to the Super Bowl commercial, the 1987 Buick Regal Grand National.
	I loved your article.
	When turbos were power adders.
	Talk about that.
	It's interesting to me because there has been this shift that's occurred.
	At one time, a turbo was just that.
	It was a power adder, and it was typically only offered in a high-performance vehicle.
	So a good example of it is a Porsche 911. You had the Porsche 911. It was already a really fast car.
	But if that wasn't fast enough for you, you could pay a little bit more and get a turbo 911, and now you've got a really super-fast Porsche.
	So, you know, you bought that with the idea, okay, I'm getting a little bit of something extra for my money there.
	Now, because of all these government regulations having to do with gas mileage and fuel economy, they are being used as displacement replacements.
	It's getting to the point of absolute absurdity.
	A week ago, I was test driving the Nissan Rogue.
	So this is a 3,400-pound crossover SUV that has a 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine, you can imagine.
	It's a motorcycle-sized engine, and it's totally appropriate in terms of its size.
	One and a half liters, that was the size of my Spitfire engine.
	Yeah, I've got a 500-pound motorcycle that has an engine about that size.
	So the only way you can make that work, To kind of recover the power that has been taken away by taking away the displacement, by taking away the cylinders, is to add a turbo, which is essentially, for those who don't really understand what that means, a turbo pressurizes the engine.
	It forces more air into the cylinders.
	And that effectively increases the displacement of the engine while it's under boost.
	And the only reason they're doing this at all, the only reason you see turbochargers everywhere now, is because of compliance.
	It is the only way that the manufacturers can figure out how to comply with federal regulations, because the small engine, when it's not under boost, yeah, it doesn't use as much gas, and it doesn't emit as much gas.
	But of course, in order to make the power, it has to be under boost, at which point...
	Physics is physics.
	It's still going to burn as much gas and emit as much gas.
	But they had to play this stupid game, this stupid game of regulatory compliance, which you and I get to pay for.
	I had a 1974 Trump Spitfire, and they had boosted the engine size all the way up to 1,500, 1,5 liters.
	And it was so tiny.
	It was a tiny car, and the whole front half of that car lifted up with a hood, and you could actually step inside the frame.
	You could work on the engine and everything.
	The thing was very, very crude, primitive, easy to work on and everything, but it was teeny tiny.
	There's so much room in that thing to turbocharge it.
	So you could get one of these things if you just didn't have to work with the electrical system, but you didn't have to replace the whole electrical system.
	It's all about what's appropriate.
	I used to have a 74 Beetle, and it had a 1600cc, i.e.
	a 1.6 liter.
	Four-cylinder engine and totally appropriate for a little Beetle that weighed 1,800 pounds.
	You know, it wasn't designed to be quick.
	It was just designed to be a good transportation appliance.
	It used to be that you found engines that size in small, economical cars because it made sense.
	And as you moved up in weight and power, you got bigger engines.
	It used to be common to find a V6 in family cars like Camrys and Accords.
	Not anymore.
	They've all been downsized to these 1.5 liter engines with turbos.
	It was so slow.
	The Spitfire was so slow that I don't know what the 0-60 time was on it.
	It would just be embarrassing to clock it.
	It was probably like 15 seconds or something, zero to 60. They even did a commercial where they show a guy and his girlfriend, they're just kind of cruising along the wind in their hair, and all these cars are zooming past them, and I'm thinking, why is that a selling feature in America, you know?
	But it was okay.
	They're around these cars that are much more capable and are much quicker, and they're not driving any more rapidly than people did back in the 70s or 80s.
	So, again, it makes my teeth hurt.
	It's just so gratuitously wasteful to have all of this weight and power and technology in these cars when people would probably be perfectly happy driving around in just a good, solid, basic car that didn't have all of this junk.
	Oh, yeah.
	You've got an article, safetyism.
	Safetyism.
	And boy, have we not seen that.
	You know, I know because you've been on this for the longest time about cars that went all of this stuff with the masks and the six feet apart and all the rest of these superstitions that they pushed on us five years ago.
	You know, you were fully on that, talking about the face diapers and the rest of the stuff, and the security blanket, that exactly described what this whole thing was about.
	But safety has become so embedded in our culture, and isn't it really the antithesis of liberty?
	Well, it's the distinction between rational evaluation of risk.
	And this sort of neurotic obsession with everything being dangerous.
	Mike Rowe, the guy who did the Dirty Job series, does a really good job of getting into this.
	You know, it's paralyzed the country psychologically.
	Everybody's being conditioned to be afraid of everything, of trivial risks, like during the pandemic.
	Oh my gosh, somebody might sneeze.
	You know, somebody might, you know, they might be a bacillus-carrying plague deliverer.
	It's the kind of thing that in a healthier time, people would have recognized this as neurotic.
	These people, there's something not quite right about them.
	It's safe to go outside.
	It's safe to take a shower.
	Yeah, you might slip and fall, but just be prudent.
	Be careful about it.
	Make sure that the surface isn't slippery and you won't fall, probably.
	In order to function, in order to live, you have to be willing to accept some degree of risk.
	But now it seems to be the central organizing principle of this culture that nothing can be done if there's even the slightest possibility.
	That something might go wrong.
	We have to quake in our boots and hide under the bed because of safety.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	And if you start talking about removing any regulations, you know, they'll talk about, it's the Wild West.
	These people want the Wild West!
	And with regard to cars, they've managed to somehow conflate safety with compliance.
	You know, I use as an example, if you went back just 10 years and got a full-size Mercedes S-Class, by today's standards, that car would be considered, quote-unquote, Because it's not compliant with 2025 federal motor vehicle safety standards.
	But is a 10-year-old Mercedes S-Class an unsafe car to drive?
	Yeah, yeah, no, it is, absolutely.
	So what's going to happen to all of our used cars and everything?
	What are they going to do in terms of, I know most places they've just stopped doing any road maintenance.
	You talk about how they're doing the congestion pricing in New York and all the rest of this stuff.
	What are they going to do?
	Are they going to tolerate us geezers having our old cars for a little while longer before they push everything off the road?
	What do you think they're going to do?
	Well, I think inevitably, unless by some miracle all of this really does change for the better, sure, that's going to be the next shoe that drops.
	They are going to use some pretextual rationalization, something like, well, they're not safe, or they're dirty, or they're unclean, something along those lines, to effectively outlaw them.
	They'll say, for example, well, yeah, you can continue to drive your 25-year-old car provided you bring it up to date with current safety standards.
	They do this in Japan already.
	They have this pedantic inspection process that, you know, pretextually it's about safety.
	But they use it to essentially force people to throw away vehicles that are more than about eight years old.
	That's why you find so many of these Japanese cars, right-hand drive cars, that are sent to other countries because they can't pass.
	They call it shaken, as in shaken down.
	You know, you can't pass the inspection, so you have to buy a new car.
	They'll probably do something like that in this country.
	They'll find some, you know, some picky little thing to nitpick about, but it's so expensive to fix it that you won't fix it.
	So the alternative is, well, you have to go out and buy a new car, which will probably be an electric car.
	And it is imperative for them to do this because they saw in 2020 with I mean, you might have a husband and wife in the car next to Karen and I, both of them wearing their mask with their windows up and everything.
	We didn't have a mask.
	We had the top down and all the rest of the stuff.
	But, you know, they could be scared to death, but they would have enough courage to go out in their enclosed car to do things.
	And it was kind of a leak to their system because they couldn't completely lock us down.
	And they want to completely lock us down.
	In these 15-minute cities, and so the car has to go.
	You know, the 15-minute, all those yellow vest protests that were happening in Paris, that was over Hidalgo, the Spanish mayor of, leftist Marxist mayor of Paris.
	They were issuing in the 15-minute city regulations at that point in time, and people understood that was what it was about.
	It was about banning all cars, and that's why they started pushing back against it.
	But now we're gone beyond that.
	Nobody is protesting that anymore.
	I see that as where they're headed.
	Sure, and the infrastructure is already in place.
	Pretty much all the cars that have been manufactured for at least going back five years, and probably about ten, have telematics.
	They can send and receive information, and they can be shut down remotely at any time by the vehicle manufacturer.
	So all they'd have to do is effectively throw the switch if they wanted to.
	If they declared a climate emergency, let's say, they could throw the proverbial switch, and the majority of these modern cars would just be bricked.
	You know, Tesla pioneered.
	That, you know, your car is tethered.
	You can picture it.
	You're electronically tethered to this hive mind.
	So, you know, you might be the quote-unquote air fingers owner in a legalistic sense, but ultimately, who controls your car is who owns your car, and that's not you.
	That's right.
	I know you've got to go soon, and let's make this one last question here.
	This is from Be My Valentine.
	It says, what is the best car to buy these days?
	Oh boy, that's a toughie.
	It really is a difficult one.
	There are still a number of cars that are worth looking at, and most of them are vehicles that haven't been significantly updated over the last several years.
	The Miata is one.
	Of course, it's not a very practical vehicle.
	I'm trying to think of some of the other ones.
	Actually, depending on your budget for food, you can get all the food you can afford to buy in the trunk now.
	It's true.
	It'll fit about two bags of groceries.
	Exactly.
	So it's real practical, yeah.
	There is apparently some good news, though.
	From what I gather, Stellantis, now none of this is official yet, but they are grappling with the debacle of having committed fully to electrification, and particularly with regard to the Ram trucks, you know, and using this new six-cylinder Trovo Hydro thing.
	And they're talking about bringing the V8s back.
	Because it's existential for them.
	They realize that they're going to go out of business if they don't go back to selling the kinds of vehicles that the people who buy Ram trucks and Dodges and Chryslers want to buy.
	And they gilded the lily so much with the Jeeps that people, their market segment can't afford the Jeeps anymore.
	This is not a joke or an exaggeration.
	Imagine paying $70,000 for a Wrangler.
	The one that was in the Super Bowl ad?
	The one that Harrison Ford was trying to sell you?
	Yeah.
	That's the last one you can get with a V8 engine, and the thing costs $90,000.
	Oh, man.
	Well, Harrison Ford can afford that.
	Sure he can.
	Exactly.
	So he can follow his dream, but the rest of us won't.
	So, yeah, that's amazing.
	So what is this?
	Okay, never mind.
	Yeah, Whistler's going to write something there to me.
	Well, I'm going to let you go because I really do appreciate you coming on.
	I know you've got another commitment.
	And so it's always great talking to you, Eric.
	And you and I see eye to eye on this stuff.
	We're going to keep a lookout as to Trump.
	I'll tell you just one last thing here.
	You've got Trump 2028. What is that about?
	Well, you know, it is about if this is not going to be the seesawing back and forth every four years that is destroying the car industry as well as other industries because they can't make plans.
	You know, let's say hypothetically Trump were tomorrow to say, OK, all of the regulations pertaining to safety and emissions and all of that are going to be put on a cost benefit basis.
	Great.
	We're going to go back to manufacturing big vehicles, V8 engines, all of that.
	Well, four years hence, Trump is replaced by another Biden type, another leftist.
	And all of a sudden, all of the investment that the manufacturers have made in that has to be pulled back and thrown away and written off.
	And now they're going to have to reinvest in the woke electric car agenda.
	It's going to bankrupt them.
	They're already close to bankruptcy.
	They can't continue to operate on that basis.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, and that's the problem that we have when you rule by executive order and when you have the problem with democracy as well.
	Okay, so it's a problem with dictators.
	It's a problem with executive orders.
	It's a problem with, you know, massive people making these decisions rather than having a republic that is based on the rule of law and the respect of the rights of the individual.
	And that's really where we're going.
	And we're going to be seesawed back and forth in every aspect of our life, I think.
	Well, always great to have you on, Eric.
	autos.com is where you can find that and he's got a lot of reviews about cars and he tells you straight up what he likes and doesn't like about him he's very honest about that and he does practical car reviews but he's also focused on the bigger issue of liberty and mobility thank you so much eric always great thank you I appreciate you having me on.
	Thank you.
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	Analyzing the globalist's next move.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	you Well, welcome back.
	And as Whistler's telling me, we're on Rumble now, so hopefully people who are having trouble with that stream have been able to switch over.
	And I would have had this finished, I think, if we hadn't had the problems with switching back and forth.
	I had one last thing I wanted to talk about while we were talking about the meaning of life and artificial intelligence and summoning the demons, or as Peterson and Musk say, our new god that is coming out there.
	We have scientists have captured the end-of-life brain activity that could prove that humans have souls, said the Daily Mail.
	Well, of course, there's not going to be any absolute proof of that.
	But we do have a lot of – we operate by faith, but it's not by blind faith.
	It's not a blind leap of faith.
	Yes, it is by faith.
	We can't see this exactly.
	But I thought it was kind of interesting when I saw this headline, because it made me think about what I had just seen this last week, about how our lives begin in a flash of light.
	Remember this?
	I played this as the moment that a sperm fertilizes an egg...
	there's a flash of light.
	This is the documented moment of conception.
	And the sperm enters the egg, and there's this poof of light that comes off of it.
	Scientists are studying this, and they're looking at it, and they're like, okay, well, it looks like it's a release of zinc, a burst of zinc that comes off the egg, and it creates this appearance.
	But any way you slice it, they can't explain away that light happens when life happens.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Light happens when life happens.
	Yeah.
	That is interesting, isn't it?
	And so they kind of explain it away.
	Oh, it's just zinc that's coming out.
	Okay, well, what happened?
	What made the zinc happen?
	And how do you explain all the other amazing designs and miracles of life?
	The idea that you would even have to have a sperm and an egg, and then how do these interact with each other?
	And the fact that some zinc is released, it goes back to the analogy I was making earlier.
	About the ants who say, hey, you know, they get on the thermostat and they figure if they move that lever they can change the climate.
	We are now masters of the climate, you know.
	Well, they still only understand a little tiny part of it.
	This is one of the things that I always see science doing.
	They say, well, if we can identify something physical, then we can explain away the metaphysical.
	And it still doesn't explain it away.
	Still, when you see a car, you always wonder who made that car.
	You know that it didn't just happen.
	The egg, the sperm, the fertilized egg, that didn't just happen.
	And so it's always an attempt to push God out of physical observation.
	But as we look at these transhumanists, especially people like Elon Musk, who they want to hack into our brains.
	And what is he going to do when he starts auditing our brains, right?
	But he wants to transfer whatever he thinks you are into a machine.
	That's what all the transhumanists want to do.
	Do they think that we have a spirit?
	Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and a professor at the University of Arizona, recently discussed a study that captured the brain activity of clinically dead patients.
	He said, what we're seeing here is they put sensors on the brains of seven chronically ill patients minutes before they were taken off of life support, allowing them To capture activity after each patient's blood pressure and heart dropped to zero.
	And he said they saw everything go away, but then there was this burst of activity.
	So that could be the near-death experience, or it could be the soul leaving the body, perhaps, he said.
	Dr. Hameroff believes that consciousness happens at a deeper quantum level, arguing that it comes from quantum processes inside microtubules.
	Tiny structures in the brain cells, rather than just from large-scale electrical signals between neurons.
	So is he looking at, is that the effect, or is that the cause?
	You find some physical thing, like the zinc release, is that the effect or the cause?
	And they always get those things confused, don't they?
	And again, he comes up with a theory, because he wants to move away from God, presumably, just like you had Crick and Watson, When they see DNA, they realize this is a very complicated code, error-correcting, self-replicating.
	This could not happen by chance.
	It has to have intelligence, an organizing intelligence.
	And so what they do is they say, well, it must be panspermia.
	It must be aliens who came here and created us.
	And now Elon Musk says, we're going to find out the meaning of life, and we're going to find out where those aliens are.
	Again, they start with their presumptions, and they go down to a dead end.
	He said the patients included two males, five females, ranging in age from 34 to 74. They conducted an electroencephalogram on each of the patients as they were set to be taken off of life support.
	And the raw data captured the moment of death, which was then followed by a spike of energy that would last anywhere from 1 to 20 minutes.
	So the brain showed a sudden burst of high-frequency activity called gamma synchrony that lasted 30 to 90 seconds, and then it's gone.
	But then that was just one part of it.
	They said some of those other effects went on for maybe as long as 20 minutes or so.
	Well, no, actually, I think they're eternal.
	It may linger around at that point in time, but who knows?
	You might want to think about that, because it's something that each and every one of us is going to be facing.
	But I think it is interesting.
	The flash of light at conception, the burst of energy at death.
	From life to death, our physical reality is not the ultimate reality.
	The ultimate reality is supernatural, above nature.
	And scientists will never have the answer to that, because they exclude any of that at the very beginning.
	They will never look at any of that closely.
	Let's talk real quickly about Doge here.
	I thought it was an interesting development to see that the Trump White House has claimed that Elon Musk doesn't actually work for Doge.
	He doesn't work for them.
	And he's not the leader.
	And there's some kind of a legal issue with this, because this is done by the lawyers at the White House.
	And so this follows a very long time where Trump was saying that he was going to create Doge, put him in charge of it.
	He had the White House, the Oval Office meeting.
	Remember, he had his son on his shoulders, Musk did.
	White House is claiming that Musk does not run or even work for the Department of Government Efficiency, a claim that seems to contradict numerous previous statements from Trump.
	In legal filing late Monday, Joshua Fisher The director of the White House Office of Administration stated an affidavit that Musk is not an employee of U.S. Doge Service or the U.S. Doge Service Temporary Organization.
	And again, this is a repurposed digital services organization.
	And I think that this is ultimately, first, it's a big PR thing.
	Everything that Musk does is a big PR move to make him into a larger-than-life hero.
	But I think that this is also a way for him to exercise control, to sell artificial intelligence, and he's going to get a lot of people who are going to support him and not be concerned about the amount of power and money concentrated in this one guy.
	So they ask, so exactly what is Musk's job?
	Well, Fisher wrote, Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House office.
	He holds that position as a non-career.
	Special government employee.
	In that job, Mr. Musk is a senior advisor to the president.
	And he said in his role as senior advisor to the president, Mr. Musk has no greater authority than any other senior White House advisors.
	Like other White House senior advisors, Mr. Musk has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.
	So I'm sure this has something to do with the lawfare that is going to be going back and forth with all this stuff.
	By the way, they just had one of the Obama judges refuse to block them.
	So who knows?
	Maybe they'll win and they won't have to go through and actually fix judicial supremacy.
	But I think ultimately it's going to come to that.
	They're going to acquiesce to the judicial orders about things, or they are going to challenge this thing that has been set up.
	By the Supreme Court going back to Marbury v.
	Madison.
	You have to take away judicial supremacy.
	You have to put it back into its constitutional role.
	But I don't know if that's going to be the outcome of this or not.
	That characterization, though, runs counter to numerous public statements made by Trump.
	In a November the 12th statement, Trump announced that Musk was going to be the head of Doge in tandem with Vivek Ramaswamy, who's now moved on.
	He's going to run for governor of Ohio.
	Oh, man.
	But anyway, I am pleased to announce that the great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE. Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy slash excess regulations.
	I don't think we've seen any regulations cut.
	Cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies.
	And the Oval Office on February the 11th, Trump...
	With Musk standing by his side, and his son on his shoulders said, we're going to be signing a very important deal today.
	It is Doge.
	And I'm going to ask Elon to tell you a little bit about it.
	Later, Trump asked Musk a direct question about government waste identified by his team.
	He said, could you mention some of the things that your team has found?
	Before Musk went on to detail various examples of waste.
	He says, I'm going to tell Musk very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education.
	He's going to find the same thing.
	Then I'm going to go to the military, and let's check the military.
	Left unstated in the affidavit is who is actually running Doge, if it's not Musk.
	Maybe he's now running an agency called Dodge.
	I'm going to try to dodge this for legal.
	I still don't understand what this is about, but we all know.
	What has been said, and both of them have been taking credit for it.
	FDA staff that was reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in the Doge employee firings, say a couple of sources.
	This is from Reuters.
	They said FDA employees that were reviewing Musk's brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
	Now, part of this is that You know, the left has made big issues of the fact that inspector generals and then now this is, were fired.
	Some of them who were looking into Musk, one of them that was looking into Starlink contracts in Ukraine, said, ah.
	See?
	They're getting rid of these inspector generals who are investigating what Musk was doing.
	Here, they've got some FDA employees who are part of the review process for Neuralink.
	They were fired, presumably, because they're not doing their job.
	If anybody at the FDA is signing off on this Neuralink stuff, they need to be fired, okay?
	I guess Elon Musk understood that.
	If you're going to let me do this to people, you should be fired.
	But that is just part of the overall thing.
	It's not necessarily a thing in Starlink, who knows, in Ukraine.
	It's not necessarily corruption on the part of Musk, the fact that these people had oversight things.
	It speaks more to the fact that Musk is a creature of government.
	He's got his tentacles into all these different things everywhere.
	That's the real issue that is there.
	The cuts include about 20 people in the FDA's Office of Neurological and Physical Medical Devices, several of whom worked on looking at Neuralink, but the two sources said they didn't believe the employees were specifically targeted because of their work on Neuralink's applications.
	It's just that Musk is everywhere.
	That's how he's made all of his money.
	So they're saying that they now found $4.7 trillion in virtually untraceable treasury payments.
	And that's a headline you're seeing everywhere.
	And so, if you look at the total amount that the government is spending is $6.8 trillion a year.
	Now, they don't say in these articles, I'm presuming that this is in annual payments.
	If that were the case, that would be 70% of the money that the government spends has no way to trace it.
	That doesn't mean that it's just been stolen or put into dark bank accounts or overseas bank accounts or anything like that.
	It's the fact that they're not tagging this with anything that can be audited.
	Thank you.
	And that really is the way that the government operates without audits.
	We are not allowed to audit the Pentagon, Federal Reserve, Fort Knox, the rest of this.
	Okay, everything is supposed to be above looking at it.
	As ZeroHage says, it's not as if such a federal tracking system wasn't already in place.
	It's just that it was casually unused for all sorts of payouts, adding up to an unfathomable $4.7 trillion, 70% of what they spend.
	Without a treasury access symbol identification codes associated with those payouts, there's little hope of figuring out where all that money went.
	So they weren't labeling it.
	As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where the money is actually going.
	But you can see how the government is set up to facilitate fraud.
	You know, if a company were to do that and the IRS were to audit them, and if the company were to operate as the IRS and the rest of the federal government does, they'd be in big trouble, wouldn't they?
	Earlier this month.
	Treasury Secretary Scott Besant pushed back on the portrayals of Doge employees as reckless rogues.
	He said, these are highly trained professionals.
	This is not some roving band going around doing things.
	This is methodical, and it's going to yield big savings.
	And so one of the things he's found, of course, is in Social Security.
	About 21 million Americans over the age of 100 are collecting Social Security retirement benefits.
	And, of course, we know there aren't 21 million Americans over the age of...
	100. And that includes 12 million of them who are purportedly over 120 years old.
	And so what this is is somebody going out and getting somebody's Social Security number and somehow being able to collect the payments.
	And as they're pointing out, some of this stuff is going abroad.
	So these are foreign people who have hacked in and gotten the Social Security numbers, and now they are collecting Social Security payments abroad.
	So the Democrats are not looking too good because they're trying to push back on this obvious fraud.
	Suing to stop access to this data, that is really going to blow back big time, big time on them.
	Jason Barker says, Musk being a part of government audits is likely to cover up his own fraud.
	He has received billions upon billions of dollars.
	That's right.
	He is the crony capital billionaire that is there.
	That is how he's made his money.
	But again, notice how he's playing this to the audience.
	It's not Musk, but it's James Fishback, CEO of an investment firm, Azoria, reportedly an outside advisor to Doge.
	So he's an outside advisor to a senior advisor who's not really part of Doge, right?
	What is going on with all this stuff?
	But he is somebody who, when Ramaswamy left, he said, I'll take his place.
	But he's close to Musk.
	And so James Fishback.
	He pitched the idea of, quote, a tax refund check to be sent after the expiration of Doge in July 2026, funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by Doge.
	He pushed that out on social media on Friday.
	And he continued posting about it on Tuesday, and he tagged Musk in a tweet about it.
	The proposal that he's putting out would call for 20% of Doge's targeted $2 trillion in savings to be returned to about 79 million tax-paying households.
	And that would be a kickback of about $5,000 per household.
	Now, again, this is just his idea.
	And this isn't anything coming from Trump.
	It's not coming from Musk.
	Who knows?
	But it sounds like exactly the type of thing that they would do.
	It would benefit them tremendously.
	Because everybody loves their universal basic income stimulus training check, don't they?
	And, you know, oh, look at this.
	I got a $5,000 check from Musk.
	Look at how people react to their IRS income tax refund.
	I just got this great check from the IRS. I guess they're not all that bad, right?
	Considering they don't think about all the taxes that they paid and how little of it they get back.
	No, no, I got money from the IRS this year.
	You hear that all the time.
	Let me go out and buy a TV set or something.
	And they don't look at the total bill that's gone in.
	And so this would be the same type of approach, but people would see it as coming from Musk.
	Look at this.
	This is my dividend for all the hard work that he did and all the money that he saved.
	And I could absolutely see them doing this to make him look good, to make Trump look good with people, and also to get people used to that free check from the government because they want everybody to get into universal basic income.
	They're saying that they have saved $55 billion so far.
	Okay, well, if we assume 79 million people, that would be about $139 so far.
	And look, I'm glad that they can cut some of its expenses, but I want to see the function of government.
	I want to see the regulations cut first and foremost.
	Otherwise, what you're talking about doing is replacing bureaucrats with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence and computers so that he can make more money and so that there can be even more maximized governance, and I don't like that at all.
	So, again, $55 billion.
	Biden would throw that at Ukraine in just one week.
	No problem at all with that.
	High boost, says David.
	It needs to be said, it's not a crime for Congress to waste our money.
	Zero.
	No heads will roll from all of this wasted spending.
	Mark my words, in fact, they will continue to spend.
	Oh, yeah.
	Nobody believes that it is a problem.
	Again, nobody cares about balancing the budget.
	This is something that they're going to talk about.
	But the bigger issue is that they're going to tremendously raise taxes.
	So, you know, he's saying that he's going to save $2 trillion.
	I don't think they will.
	I don't think they will come anywhere close.
	But at the same time, Trump is saying he's going to add $1 trillion.
	In terms of taxes.
	Oh, but that's external revenue.
	No, you will be paying that.
	It'll be paid for in higher prices of things.
	And in many cases, it's going to really, really be concealed as products are going back and forth in the manufacturing process across the border.
	It'll be picking up these tariff taxes just like a VAT. So it's going to be there.
	And they're hoping that they can send you a $5,000 check.
	And you're going to really desperately need it because it's going to make everything else so much more expensive.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we will 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, one of the things that has happened is Trump has been very careful to fire all the Biden-era U.S. attorneys.
	Now, this is something typically the attorneys will leave with the administration, and then they'll get a whole bunch of new ones as well.
	But the fact that he's talking about firing them, this is being done to make him look strong.
	And usually they're allowed to resign.
	Instead, what he's saying, no, you are fired.
	So the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before.
	Yeah, it has.
	He's right.
	Therefore, I've instructed the termination of all remaining Biden-era U.S. attorneys.
	Should spell that E-R-R-O-R. But I agree with that.
	The problem is that he sees this weaponization, which was largely against him.
	And of course, we saw it with January 6th people and everything.
	This is part about protecting himself.
	But at the same time, he's getting rid of all these Biden-era U.S. attorneys.
	He's keeping the pandemic people around.
	Oh yes, I know, he's got RFK Jr. there at HHS, and he's going to change everything.
	Is he?
	Is he?
	When he keeps the Biden office of pandemic preparedness, and he keeps the Biden official, this veterinarian who's going to be running it, have we really changed anything?
	You know, government was weaponized not just against Trump.
	Not just against the J6 people.
	Government was weaponized against each and every one of us in 2020, in 2021, 2022, because of the pandemic.
	It was a bipartisan weaponization of government against us.
	It began with Trump and the lockdown, Trump and the masks, Trump and the six-foot social distancing, and then Trump and the bribery of hospitals to kill people.
	With ventilators and remdesivir and all the rest of this stuff.
	And then it continued on with the mandates from Biden.
	And that's really when people started dying.
	That's really when the excess death rates went up.
	That's why Dr. Michael Yadin says there was no pandemic.
	The spike, if you look at the excess deaths, then you see that that all came with the vaccines.
	So yeah, for the past five years, The real weaponization of government has been through public health, not through the Department of Justice as much.
	Even more so through public health.
	That is what has been weaponized.
	And of course, Trump is a big promoter of all of that.
	And so, going back to the DOJ, he said, we must clean house immediately and restore confidence of America's golden age must have a fair justice system.
	And that begins today, he said, in all uppercase.
	Well, how about you stop cleaning the shelves of eggs and other food?
	How about you stop all these efforts to inject mRNA into our food supply?
	Which is what this is about.
	We all see what this is about.
	I'm not the only one saying this now.
	This is about mRNA being put into the food because we're not going to submit to that vaccine anymore.
	But going back to this Department of Justice thing, the decision is part of a broader effort by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the DOJ, which they claim has been weaponized against American citizens.
	Look, the pandemic public health bureaucracy has been weaponized for five years against all the rest of us.
	And so far, he's not doing anything.
	So far, what he's doing is he's retaining the key personnel that were there.
	RFK Jr. is there to restore a sense of trust.
	Because trust has always been the plan.
	So, Trump orders DOJ to fire all remaining Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys.
	Everybody's got this.
	But Gerald Parker, Gerald Parker's going to stay.
	It's very much like what you saw with Gina Haspel, for example, right?
	Trump says, we were stuck into the Iraq War based on lies about weapons of mass destruction.
	And then what does he do?
	He takes the person who created those lies, With torture and makes her head of the CIA. Well, that's what he's doing with Gerald Parker.
	So Newsweek says, so why does this matter?
	They said, while it's standard for U.S. attorneys to resign following a change in administration, Justice Department lawyers, both current and former, note that incoming administrations typically request resignations rather than issuing abrupt termination letters, according to reporting by Reuters.
	So this is about Trump being feared.
	This is about him looking tough.
	They don't offer any courtesy to the other people to say, you know, semi-resignation.
	That's essentially a firing, but it allows them to save face.
	So, along with that, when you look at his campaign against the Associated Press over this Gulf of America thing, keep them out, he says.
	He doubles down on the blocking of AP reporters over quote-unquote certain phrases.
	Again, he's going to go to the mat for the DOJ people that were weaponized against him, but he's not going to do anything about the pandemic preparedness powers.
	And he will go to the mat for the Gulf of Mexico, being named the Gulf of America.
	So he confirmed that he's going to continue to punish the Associated Press.
	And at Tuesday news conference, he was asked if there was anything that the AP could do.
	To be allowed to report from the Oval Office and from Air Force One again.
	And he said, well, I do think that some of the phrases that they want to use are ridiculous.
	In the Gulf of America, that's not ridiculous, is it?
	And I think, frankly, that they've become obsolete, especially in the last three weeks, because many things have happened in the last three weeks, he said.
	And so I would say that if they want to use certain phrases like that, I guess some are okay, but many aren't.
	But the Associated Press just refuses to go with what the law is and what is taking place.
	Well, why stop there, right?
	He says it's called the Gulf of America now, and it's not called the Gulf of Mexico any longer, and I have the right to do it.
	Why doesn't he wrestle with the Associated Press over their language, saying we're not going to refer to somebody as pro-life.
	We're only going to call them anti-abortion rights.
	Or, you know, he didn't do this in his first term when they came out.
	They had a problem with anchor babies.
	No, you can't do that.
	Well, what would you use, he said.
	And he said, well, I would refer to them as the children of undocumented immigrants.
	He said, no, I think I'll do anchor babies.
	But he didn't kick them out of the press corps, right?
	So what is that about?
	Why is it that he wants to fight with us?
	And I said before, I think this is an important thing.
	You know, the American technate.
	Got to have the Gulf of America there because we're going to have this American technate.
	It's going to go from Panama up to Greenland.
	Going to have the American technate.
	That's been the plan of Musk and his people around his grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, going back a century.
	Again, you've got more DOG resignations, but just contrast all this stuff to what has happened with the pandemic office, and in particular, that one official, Gerald Parker.
	Trump's possible day one health moves.
	This was on January the 20th.
	This is NPR saying, what is Trump going to do on day one with health?
	They said, well, he could take action in two areas.
	First of all, he could restrict foreign organizations receiving U.S. funding from providing or from promoting abortion.
	That's done every time a Republican comes in.
	It's called the Mexico City policy.
	It goes back to Reagan.
	And he did that.
	So since Ronald Reagan, every time a Republican come in, they would stop or at least restrict foreign organizations from getting money for abortions.
	The other thing they said is he could withdraw from the World Health Organization, which he also.
	He said, I've got to stay in it for a year, but we're going to hold the money, so we'll see if that really happens.
	But the WHO would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, while America would lose a key partner in containing and surveilling global health threats, said Politico.
	Trump said at the time, he said, they were wrong about a lot of stuff.
	Of course, he was not wrong.
	He was not wrong about any of that stuff.
	And he saved.
	Millions and millions of lives, as he continued to say even through his campaign this last time.
	Trump promises, this is January the 14th, Trump promises to change the pandemic defenses that were created by the Biden health officials.
	Did he do that?
	Promises made?
	Promises kept?
	You know, we didn't hear anything about all this making Canada a state and Greenland a state and we're going to take back the pandemic.
	But he had specific promises.
	About what he was going to do to stop this pandemic preparedness stuff.
	Did he do that?
	The Biden administration, just before they went out, released a roadmap for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases as President-elect Trump pledges to dismantle them.
	Biden officials touted the steps that they took to halt or prevent disease threats, but Trump and his team plan to slash government spending, and Trump has endorsed prominent vaccine detractors to top government health posts.
	So PBS says public health experts are worrying that the next administration could do less.
	Well, then what actually happened?
	Well, in his first week, he held a press conference with Larry Ellison.
	Who was bragging about how AI was going to custom-design genetic injections using mRNA for each and every one of us, of course, to cure cancer.
	Trump hit the ground running, pushing mRNA vaccines, and the worst kind, something that is custom-designed to your genetics by artificial intelligence.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, in 2020, during the pandemic, Trump officials moved to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization.
	Did it change anything then?
	Right?
	So, during the pandemic, you know, they got us out of it for a short period of time, effectively cut down the money to it.
	Did that change anything?
	And they asked, what has been done to prepare for bird flu and for other pandemics?
	Well, you also had...
	This is also from Reuters saying the White House pandemic office may shrink under Trump January the 18th.
	So you see that prior to Trump taking office the week or so prior to that, everybody's saying he's going to really slash all this pandemic stuff, and yet he did just exactly the opposite.
	Sorry, this is from Washington Post.
	The White House office in charge of preparing for the next pandemic is down a wide black-and-white checkerboard hallway in the Eisenhower Executive Office building.
	Its windows look out across an alleyway toward the West Wing.
	In recent months, the staff there has been busy coordinating with state and federal agencies in response to the alarming spread of bird brain flu in the U.S. as the virus jumped from chickens to cows to farm workers.
	All this is a total lie.
	By Inauguration Day on Monday, again, this is January the 18th, most of the pandemic offices' staff will have cleared out their desks.
	The office, officially known as the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, is losing more than half of its 18-person staff as the Biden administration hands off the duties to a Trump administration that has yet to fill multiple key pandemic response positions.
	For months, health experts have been concerned about what Trump's victory would mean for the federal government's pandemic planning apparatus and his pick of RFK Jr. A vaccine skeptic has drawn the most attention.
	And again, he's using RFK Jr. as a distraction.
	That's all phony.
	RFK Jr. pledged that he will not be against vaccines.
	He pledged to the one senator who's a physician, big vaccine cheerleader.
	He pledged, I will talk to him about anything before I make any actions.
	And so that was the guy who was going to hold out, and he agreed to vote for him.
	The Office of Pandemic Preparedness cost about $2 million to run last year, according to a Biden administration official.
	Last year, Biden called on Congress to appropriate $6 million to beef up staffing in 2025. That's the way these things grow.
	And I bet you it'll have that kind of money or more from Trump.
	You start it out.
	It only started in 2022 or 2023. And then before you know it, it's growing, tripling every year.
	By the bird flu, as the bird flu cases have popped up in multiple states, the pandemic office has organized the federal responses across multiple government agencies.
	I tell you this so that you see how this thing is actually being used.
	And you see who is there.
	And you see...
	How Trump is betraying us, setting us up for the fall with this thing.
	What have they done?
	They've coordinated with the CDC, with the HHS, with USDA. So the federal responses included monitoring large farm operations for bird flu outbreaks, reimbursing farmers for killing infected livestock to stop the spread.
	They also worked with states to expand surveillance of batches of milk.
	Again, this was all targeted towards our food supply.
	It was all targeted to take away the things that the globalists have said that they were going to take away all meat and dairy.
	And we're going to make all protein very expensive.
	You'll eat the bugs.
	After Trump is sworn in as president on Monday, the office will continue to operate, but the kind of staffing and resources it has remains unclear.
	Well, no longer.
	No longer.
	What happened is that on February the 6th, Trump tapped This is the headline from Bloomberg, and they're excited about it.
	Trump team taps bird flu expert to lead the Pandemic Response Unit, Gerald Parker.
	Decades of experience in global health veterinarian has briefed Congress on U.S. bird flu outbreak.
	His career includes more than three decades in the federal government focus on global health.
	This is the new Fauci, folks.
	Here's your new Fauci.
	Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
	So he's been focusing on global health, national security, and pandemic preparedness.
	He works with the Department of Defense, as well as these other people.
	And again, all of this stuff, the pandemic was a biological warfare by the Pentagon against us.
	And the rest of these people went along with it.
	He will serve as director of the office, which was established by Congress in 2022. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to abate.
	So we've got to have an office to bring this back.
	As people stopped taking the injection.
	All right, now what are we going to come up with for the next fear campaign?
	And so he is somebody who has held out.
	His whole career has been centered around One Health.
	He wrote a book about it, as I pointed out yesterday.
	One Health is a concept that became an approach and then became a movement.
	And this is from their website, onehealthglobal.net, to improve health and well-being through the prevention of risk and mitigation of effects of crises that originate at the interface between human, animals, and various environments.
	This is the zoonotic myth of contagion.
	This is what they were selling us with the bat soup stuff and everything.
	And then other people said, no, it's a lab leak.
	And we got to, you know, the conservatives came in.
	In an effort to make the pandemic seem real, they focused on the lab leak stuff.
	But these people, this is why they picked this veterinarian.
	It's the interface between humans and animals.
	And they're selling the idea that, you know, animals can get you sick.
	And that it's going to jump from animals to humans.
	One Health recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and ecosystems.
	Ecosystems, the environment as well.
	Tie it all together.
	So One Health, if you stop and think about it, One Health is kind of like the unified MacGuffin theory.
	They can pull in the ecosystems, the climate and all the rest, environmentalism, they can pull that in with vaccinating us and with control of our food supply.
	That's a really dangerous concept, and that's where this guy has spent his entire career.
	It involves applying a coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral approach to address potential or existing risk, potential risk, that originate at the animal-human ecosystem interface.
	It's a prescription for tyranny.
	RX for tyranny.
	So, the One Health has been formally endorsed, listen to this, by the European Commission.
	By the U.S. Department of State, by the USDA, by the CDC, by the World Bank, by the World Health Organization, by the Agricultural Organization of the UN, FAO, by the World Organization of Animal Health, by the UN's System Influenza Coordination, and by NGOs and many others.
	So, UN, UN, UN, UN, World Health Organization.
	And the usual suspects in America.
	The USDA, the CDC, and the rest of them.
	And here's why I'm going over this again.
	As I've said before, people figured out where the CBDC was going.
	And so we don't want to have that.
	We don't want to have everything that we buy, tracked, and surveilled.
	And we don't want to have stuff rationed to us, prohibited to us.
	We don't want our purchases proscribed.
	And so they have, a lot of states have said, well, we're not going to have CBDC. We're prohibiting CBDC. And I've said, you're going to wind up with the people around Trump.
	They're putting in a system, and of course Elon Musk is at the very epicenter of all of this, trying to make X the everything app, where all transactions and payments are going to be happening.
	And so I said, you're going to wind up.
	With a public-private partnership to do CBDC. They won't call it CBDC. It'll be done by Trump's donors, like Musk, and some of the other people around him, like Howard Lutnik, Lucky Lutnik.
	These are the people who are going to be putting this stuff in place.
	They're going to redesign our financial system, and they're going to make it, effectively, a CBDC. And they won't call it a CBDC, and it won't be run, necessarily, by the central bank.
	But it'll be a digital currency.
	And it'll have the features are the issue, right?
	Just like you look at a politician, you don't go with what they have to say.
	You look at what they're doing.
	When you look at this digital money, does it walk like CBDC? Does it talk like CBDC? Does it smell like CBDC? Well, then it's CBDC! You have to look at the functions, and the functions, we're not having any state governments that are prohibiting the functionality of this.
	We don't have any state governments that are really working to make sure that we have transactional privacy.
	And so if you're not going to do that, you're going to wind up with a CBDC by another name, or by no name at all.
	And likewise, If you shut down this pandemic treaty, and I'm glad that we did, it was a very dangerous thing, and so was CBDC. But that's the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.
	The Democrats will come at you and say, we've got a pandemic treaty, and this is what we're going to do.
	We're going to give ourselves the power to do anything that we want to to you, as long as we declare a pandemic.
	We're going to have CBDC. We're going to completely redesign the financial system.
	We're going to impose this on you.
	That's the Biden approach.
	The Trump approach.
	Is going to be to do this and to call it something else.
	The Trump approach is to, instead of having a pandemic treaty with the World Health Organization, you're going to have a guy who's completely embedded with the World Health Organization, with One Health, with the UN, and he's going to effectively do the same thing that would be done by the pandemic treaty.
	Somebody that worked with Biden and with Bill Gates and all the rest of them.
	Pay attention to the functionality, not to the name.
	This was sent to me by listener Robert, who sent this to me, Robert Wright.
	And he said, hey, have you seen this?
	COVID? Corvid?
	COVID? Look at that.
	He says, why haven't we pointed this out before?
	He said, how about we call this thing, this bird flu, Corvid-19.
	Because, as he said, Corvid is actually a family of perching birds.
	A cosmopolitan family of Ossine, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, passerine birds that contains crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, coes, and nutcrackers.
	In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or as corvids.
	Currently, 139 species are included in the family.
	The genus Corvus contains 50 species.
	It makes up over a third of the entire family.
	The ravens, the crows, all the rest of this.
	The corvids.
	And so I guess what we could do is we could call, since this is all being spread by wild birds, we're told, except I don't see any dead crows or dead ravens or dead geese.
	Any of this.
	I don't see any dead turkeys, as I said yesterday.
	But we could call this COVID-19.
	So, he says maybe they're just laughing at us when they do this.
	Well, it is laughable, what we're looking at.
	And Brownstone, yesterday, Clayton Baker, Dr. MD, says bird flu is a return of COVID playbook.
	So, COVID-19 is what we could call it.
	Bird flu, he says, can be very confusing.
	This is true because, as is so often the case with our government, those who claim to be trying to solve the problem are so-called public health and our pandemic preparedness experts.
	That's where we are, right?
	Our public health pandemic preparedness expert, Gerald Parker.
	They are actually the ones who are creating the problem.
	What is worse, they're actively seeking to perpetuate it.
	And so is Trump, but this guy can't say that.
	All right?
	Can't say that it's Trump.
	Bird flu is a complete rerun of the COVID script with just one twist.
	Because again, history always rhymes.
	Doesn't exactly repeat.
	He said last time with COVID, the pandemic planning bioterrorists directly blackmailed us by taking away our civil rights in order to coerce us into accepting their unsafe, ineffective vaccines.
	This time with bird flu.
	The pandemic planning bioterrorists are indirectly blackmailing us by targeting our food.
	He's exactly right.
	And I think, even to the extent, they know that they're not going to scare us into getting a bird flu vaccine, most of us.
	And so they're going to vaccinate the animals.
	And that's just fine with them for right now.
	Because think about how many hundreds of millions of animals there are when they do all the different ones that are farm animals.
	They'll sell a lot more vaccines.
	Here's why I disagree with him.
	He said over the years, bioweapons scientists under the guise of pandemic preparedness have genetically manipulated.
	And again, remember this guy, Gerald Parker.
	He worked with the Department of Defense.
	Not just with the World Health Organization.
	And CDC. They have, in the guise of pandemic preparedness, genetically manipulated a bat coronavirus to be both transmissible and virulent in humans.
	No, they haven't.
	No, they haven't.
	It's not the bioweapon.
	And again, like I said with Francis Boyle, when Alex had me on with Francis Boyle so Francis Boyle could shut me down, Francis Boyle was full of excrement.
	I don't care if you've got, you know, do you have proof?
	Have you isolated this stuff?
	Of course he hadn't.
	Nobody had.
	Francis Boyle hadn't looked at an isolated COVID pandemic virus.
	Instead, he's running off of the fiction.
	I mean, you might as well, if you're going to go with their description of this stuff, you might as well start drawing pictures of balls with spikes on them that they do everywhere, right?
	So, first of all, they hadn't isolated.
	So, secondly, you know, he could not, therefore, know.
	If it had been engineered or not.
	But thirdly, as I said to his face, I said, even if it was engineered, it's not working then, is it?
	If they try to engineer this, they've got a non-working bioweapon.
	But I said, I guarantee you that the vaccine is going to be a working bioweapon.
	He said, oh, I agree, the vaccine's going to be a bioweapon, absolutely.
	But we've got a bioweapon now, we have to be careful about it.
	So wear your mask and do all the...
	No, no, no.
	And the excess deaths started with the vaccine.
	Whatever.
	Don't listen to these people who are talking about the lab stuff.
	What they're telling you is the last pandemic was real.
	And that is a fundamental lie about all this stuff to entrap us.
	Because if you believe that last pandemic was real, you'll believe this next one is.
	And here's what he says.
	Over many years, bioweapons scientists under the guise of pandemic preparedness, he says, what's happening now?
	And he repeats that phrase.
	They have genetically manipulated now the bird flu virus to cross classes of animals and even become more transmissible to humans.
	In other words, they have created a bioweapon.
	This is not real.
	You've got people who have pink eye.
	You're a physician.
	Come on.
	Don't you know what pink eye is?
	These people don't even have a respiratory illness.
	They don't have a fever.
	They've got pink eye and they're calling it bird flu.
	Come on.
	You're a doctor.
	Act like one.
	Stop spreading these lies.
	So they said, so what do we do about it?
	Now here's why I agree with them.
	As a matter of fact, this is put out by Solari, Catherine Austin Fitz, and it is a meme that succinctly sums up my complaint about this stuff.
	Joel Salatin.
	It says, on bird flu and egg prices, Joel Salatin said, I have always suggested that the survivors be kept for breeding in order to build flock immunity.
	This is such a basic animal genetic principle, it's not debatable.
	And yet, U.S. scientific protocol is to, quote, kill the healthy ones, unquote.
	I don't agree with their paradigm of contagion.
	Let me just say it again.
	I'm not on board with that.
	Not anymore.
	But if you follow that logic of contagion and herd immunity, their actions make absolutely no sense.
	So the first thing he says is, end the brutal mass slaughter of poultry flocks immediately.
	Yes, why didn't that happen on day one?
	Instead, he waited from the 21st of January to February the 8th, and then he put in a guy from the Pandemic Preparedness Office, an expert on bird flu, because he's going to continue this stuff.
	That's what Trump is going to do.
	Number two, end the indiscriminate PCR testing for bird flu in animals and humans immediately.
	I would agree with that, too.
	Number three, the USDA needs to be acting, appears to be acting as a rogue agency.
	The USDA's leadership needs to be thoroughly reviewed and called.
	That's right.
	I've said that all along.
	Kill the USDA. Instead, what Trump has done, he's put in a political appointment.
	This person, her first name is Brooke.
	She doesn't know anything about any of this stuff.
	She's just a political cheerleader for Trump, and he's put her in this position.
	He's going to let these people run wild.
	And I think that he deliberately put in somebody that doesn't know what's going on.
	The personnel at the CDC need to have a similar prompt and a thorough overhaul.
	No, kill it as well.
	Kill it as well.
	As a matter of fact, the CDC, RFK Jr. used to tell us the truth about that.
	CDC is nothing but a vaccine marketing.
	They make money selling vaccines.
	Biggest seller of vaccines is the CDC. A quasi-public, quasi-private organization.
	So, he also talks about the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Lab in Athens, Georgia should be shut down, thoroughly investigated.
	The Kiowa Bird Flu Lab at the University of Wisconsin has been doing reckless gain of function, shut them down.
	Brooke Rollins, that's her, yeah, Brooke Rollins, the new USDA secretary, needs to be fully briefed.
	Maybe you could get somebody that knew what they were doing in the first place.
	Yeah, on-the-job training for Brooke Rollins that was put in there simply because she's a political cheerleader for Trump.
	He says, then Trump should follow through on his 2024 promise to disband the redundant Biden-created Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, which is what I've been talking about.
	Instead, what he's doing is he's continuing on with it.
	Notice how they pass the baton back and forth to each other?
	They're on the same page with this stuff.
	Trump and Biden.
	The $590 million bird flu contract development to Moderna.
	That should be canceled.
	They should claw that back, as I said.
	The USDA's reported conditional approval of a bird flu vaccine with Zotus should be canceled.
	But look, most importantly, you need to outlaw the mRNA into food.
	And that isn't going to happen at the...
	RFK Jr.'s HHS. I guarantee it's not going to happen.
	He's there to keep you from doing anything about this at the state level.
	He's there to get you to trust this and to be quiet about it.
	In Tennessee, we had some legislators who, a couple years ago, one of them was a doctor, and he said they've been talking about genetically modifying plants to create mRNA vaccines and saying, well, just feed it to people.
	So they came up with a bill and said, no, you're not going to do that in Tennessee.
	But to my knowledge, they don't have anything that would ban mRNA injections into the animals that we eat, only the modification of plants.
	Understand that the mRNA injections are genetic modification, and that should be stopped as well.
	And that's where we need to stop it.
	We need to stop it at the state level.
	It's not going to be done at the federal level.
	We need to make sure that we've got representatives who understand that we've got to, you know, and perhaps in Tennessee and other places, we've got some people who are sympathetic to this because they did it for lettuce.
	Let's do it for chickens now.
	Make sure they're not going to make genetically modified organisms for our food.
	And so this needs to be stopped for all the same reasons.
	And it should just be all of this push to vaccinate us through our food.
	To vaccinate all the birds and animals, that needs to be seen for what it is.
	Genetic modification.
	GM food.
	And so, at the same time, you've got News Nation saying, bird flu is likely spreading undetected in humans, says the CDC. This is exactly the same kind of stuff that I used to see all the time from Mike Adams when I was at InfoWars.
	I'll never forget walking out and seeing him.
	Put up a CDC thing showing that more people were dying of COVID than of heart disease and of cancer.
	Yeah.
	Be afraid.
	Fear campaign.
	Be very afraid.
	That's what it was.
	Well, you know, bird flu may be spreading undetected in humans, so be very afraid, says the CDC. It is so dangerous that you don't even know you've got it.
	I mean, again, we heard all that.
	Five years ago, didn't we?
	CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
	That's what Mike Adams used to put up to scare everybody.
	So they're talking about no reported cases of human-to-human transmission, but be careful because you might get that pink eye of death.
	You never know.
	So Trump's new USDA chief takes aim at rising egg prices, says Newsmax.
	They're going to cheer Trump because they're conservative.
	Trump administration is swiftly addressing skyrocketing egg prices.
	First of all, it's very clear, says Brooke Rollins, that the president campaigned on significant and transformational change.
	We've launched the America First Policy Institute.
	That's where she got her position.
	She did the America First Policy Institute, and that got Trump's attention.
	She became a cheerleader for Trump, and she's still a cheerleader for Trump.
	She doesn't know anything about what's going on with any of this stuff.
	And she wouldn't care if she did.
	She would just...
	Chair Trump.
	She said egg prices have reached nearly a 40-year high, driven by inflation and avian flu outbreaks.
	No, it's been driven by the USDA killing people, and the USDA is underneath her.
	Rollins said she wasted no time tackling the issue, holding immediate briefings on egg pricing after being sworn in.
	She said, at my very first briefing, she said I was sworn in about 3 o'clock.
	Took a couple pictures and immediately went into a briefing on avian flu and egg prices with the team at the USDA. Again, she didn't know anything about what's going on.
	Nothing about it.
	And wouldn't care if she did.
	She said, we're looking at every tool in the toolkit, including biosecurity measures.
	And there are other countries that use vaccines for their egg layers that have none of these issues.
	There it is.
	They're saying, well, you know, Trump's going to do something about egg prices, and they're going to release a policy.
	Well, there's the policy, folks.
	She goes to the USDA, and they tell her, we've got to have vaccines approved.
	We're going to approve these.
	They've already done it.
	They've approved the Zotis vaccine, and so now what they're going to do is twist the arms of farmers and say, well, you know, we can come to your place with an imaginary test, and we can kill every last bird and put you out of business, or you can inject them all.
	What do you want to do?
	Oh, we're not going to pressure.
	I'm not going to mandate this for anybody.
	You know, Biden does mandates.
	The Trump administration doesn't mandate anything.
	They're into this kind of coercion, right?
	The Biden administration and their USDA depopulated, she said, they wiped out millions of egg layers.
	We're not going to do that.
	We're going to vaccinate them all for the big pharma companies.
	So how do we quickly repopulate those farmers and their flocks?
	Well, We vaccinate all of the egg layers.
	That's where it goes.
	Now, one last thing before we run out of time.
	This is from Madra again, who had written me about some of the other stuff.
	And she said, by the way, when you're talking about the fact that RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins at the USDA, or she's at the Ag Secretary, which is over the USDA, talked about the fact that they're coming together to oppose junk food.
	Well, you know, she said, think about it.
	There isn't anything else for those who are on a budget to buy because junk food is cheap.
	So, you know, you can get Spam, you can get ramen noodles, that kind of stuff.
	They're garbage.
	But all that food is cheap because it's junk food.
	Very little good nutritious food is affordable for people on a fixed income.
	You know, eggs used to be affordable.
	And you could eat it.
	It was one of the best things that you could eat.
	But now...
	Eggs have become unaffordable, if available.
	So why don't they take a look at that with their junk food campaign?
	Mav2022 says the Supreme Court decided in 2013 that genetically altered organisms are the property of the patent holders.
	Modifying everything is a control grid.
	Yeah.
	Hedge 88. Corvid 2025. There we go.
	Not 19. Corvette 2025. The birds.
	Yeah, it is like a bad Hitchcock thing, isn't it?
	Jason Barker.
	We need a Doge-style thing to audit all legislation from the founding and cut out anything that's not constitutional.
	Wouldn't that be nice?
	Except that, you know, because we've got billionaires of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they're always focused on money, and only money.
	And as one person pointed out, the Doge organization could have some of the biggest impact if they would audit Elon Musk.
	Where is he getting all of his money?
	How much money has this guy got?
	How did he become, again, the wealthiest man in the world?
	It's because he had his fingers all over government.
	And that's the reason why he's there.
	And that's the reason why he's got the backdoor into everything.
	And he's looking forward to the future.
	Where he can take his demon god AI that he's so proud of there in Memphis, and he can use it to maximize governance of us all.
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