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March 5, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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The David Knight Show -3/5/2025

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We have an American company.
	Did you know that BlackRock is an American company?
	It came as a surprise to me.
	They don't have American values, whatever.
	I mean, it's headquartered in the U.S., so what?
	They're going to be taking the Panama Canal, and we're going to be taking a look at the tariff wars.
	And we're going to take a look at the history of tariffs in the United States and ask ourselves, what is it exactly that Trump is trying to do with these tariffs?
	What are they designed to do?
	We'll also take a look at Alex Karp's new book, The technological republic.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, it's the technocracy.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	in this Trump administration.
	I think we're going to see...
	The 21st century version of the robber barons.
	And this is the headline.
	U.S. firm agrees to buy Panama Canal ports at the center of the Trump fury.
	Social security.
	My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.
	And we've already started doing it.
	Oh, standing ovation.
	Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals.
	Well, the reality is that they are, you know, it's two ports around the Panama Canal, not actually the Panama Canal.
	Panama Canal is owned by the Panamanian government, operated by them.
	So it's two ports.
	These two ports were owned.
	Buy a company out of Hong Kong since 1997. He didn't have a problem with this the first time around for some reason.
	I don't understand what it was about.
	Just like, you know, he didn't want to make Canada the 51st state the first time around.
	Some new priorities here.
	So it is now our favorite corporation, BlackRock.
	So what do you think, MAGA people?
	You guys love BlackRock, don't you?
	You've complained about them, and rightfully so, for a long time, about the fact that they've got leverage with virtually all of the major corporations.
	If you want to go back and look at the Moriarty that is pulling the strings of ESG and DEI and all the rest of this stuff throughout corporate America, all of that stuff goes back to Larry Fink and BlackRock.
	It may be that this rapid adoption of, or should say this rapid abandonment of ESG and other things like that, perhaps that was Larry Fink pulling their strings, telling them, yeah, I've got this deal I want to do with Trump or the Panama Canal.
	So just tone it down.
	We'll come back stronger later.
	And BlackRock will come back stronger later.
	BlackRock has agreed to buy two ports at either end of the Panama Canal.
	From a Hong Kong-based firm whose ownership has angered President Donald Trump, says CNN. Trump cited Chinese ownership of some of the port operations as a sign that China is now running the canal.
	Again, no.
	Two ports on either end of the canal, but this has been run by them since 1997. Even before Hong Kong was swallowed up by China.
	The deal announced Tuesday calls for BlackRock and a consortium of fellow investors to spend $22.8 billion to buy the ports of Balboa and Cristobal on either end of the canal from C.K. Hutchinson, a Hong Kong company that's had it since 1997. BlackRock's consortium is also buying C.K. Hutchinson's controlling interest in 43 other ports.
	Comprising 199 births in 23 countries.
	So, the question is, why are Republicans cheering this?
	This is like selling it to Bill Gates.
	Or worse.
	I don't know which is worse.
	I mean, they control assets between the big three.
	They control most of the assets in the world.
	$11 trillion of assets, but that's spread out, so he's got a big chunk in control for all of these corporations so he can jerk their strings around.
	He doesn't need to own 100% of the company.
	Just a sizable chunk of it so he can jerk it around.
	And let me ask you, is the Trump administration 2.0, does MAGA mean make America grift again?
	Because that's what it's turning into.
	It's turning into a massive exercise in corruption.
	Remember the 19th century robber barons?
	Well, they're back, except this time we spell baron with two R's, right?
	He's feathering the nest for his family.
	And this is about just in-your-face crony corruption everywhere you turn.
	That's all this is about.
	So, you know, I knew that this was coming.
	Mark Hall, who lives down there, is talking about the fact that this company, C.K. Hutchinson, was being audited by Panama's income tax, their internal revenue thing.
	So that was a prelude to putting pressure on them.
	And so, you know, I think that probably it's just my guess.
	We don't have any proof of this.
	My guess would be that Larry Fink and BlackRock is really what is causing everybody to drop.
	Their ESG stuff really, really fast because they were the ones who told them to do it.
	And if ESG, if they're telling them to do ESG, and of course we had a lot of attorneys general who have filed suit against BlackRock saying they violated their fiduciary trust as a publicly traded company.
	You're there and people buy your stock because you're supposed to be about making money.
	If you've got a different agenda, which BlackRock does, they cared far more about pushing ESG Environmental and social governance, right?
	They cared far more about that than they did making a profit.
	They didn't care about annoying their customers.
	You know, they're pushing Coca-Cola to hate white people and NASCAR to hate their crowd and all the rest of this stuff.
	Their tentacles are everywhere.
	And so, to me...
	You know, when you look at this, it all makes sense now.
	Were they all trembling in their boots about Donald Trump?
	He didn't have that kind of leverage over him.
	Look, the leverage is always tied to the money, folks.
	It's just the same way that Trump had leverage over all the governors.
	It was tied to the money.
	So, BlackRock, one of the largest asset managers, $11.6 trillion in assets.
	As a matter of fact, the big three pretty much own everything.
	State Street, Vanguard, BlackRock.
	That sum is equal to about 40% of the U.S. gross domestic product.
	That's how big they are.
	And then when you add these other two guys, which are almost about the same size, that's almost the entire GDP. Maybe more than the GDP because it doesn't come out every year.
	So it doesn't completely control a large number of high-profile companies.
	It just leverages its ownership there.
	So, when we look at this, again, those lawsuits done by the Attorney General didn't have any effect on it.
	But, boy, if you want to get their attention, make sure that you're going to put the squeeze on the Panamanian government to put the squeeze on the Hong Kong government so they can do a sweetheart deal to help Larry Fink and BlackRock.
	The big guys get bigger.
	You don't think they're coming after all of our property in the same way they're doing in Panama?
	They absolutely are.
	You just watch what happens to George Soros' right-hand man who broke the Bank of England and Lutnik as they're working on how they're going to entrap us in debt and a digital currency that they will have a cut on.
	Look, they're not communists.
	Understand that, okay?
	They don't want to turn all this stuff over to the government.
	They want to make money off of it.
	Right?
	These are capitalist dictators.
	They're looking to make a profit off of this.
	There's none of this nationalism or anything like that.
	No, they're simply looking to make a profit, and they're looking to make a profit off of flipping our property as well, just like in Panama.
	They'll find a way to do leverage for it.
	And everybody's going to set back because everybody's afraid to even criticize Donald Trump.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Well, I tell you, it makes me want to criticize him all the more every time I see people push back on this stuff.
	And with their ridiculous explanations and excuses, it makes me double and triple down when I see that.
	Since his handover in 1999, the canal has been operated by Panama, not the Chinese, despite Trump's concerns that he says.
	The only part of Trump's demands on Panama included that Panama stop charging fees to American vessels.
	Marco Rubio, when he's down there, met with the Panamanians.
	And he said that the U.S. is obligated to protect the Panama Canal if it comes under attack.
	So I find it absurd, he said, that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are obligated to protect in a time of conflict.
	I'm assuming that when they say not charging American ships, they're talking about not just American-flagged ships, but...
	The military.
	I don't think that they're talking about the American flagships, but it would be the military for sure.
	He said, those are our expectations, said Rubio.
	They were clear.
	They were clearly understood in those conversations, he said, remarks that he made in the Dominican Republic after he left Panama.
	So there we go.
	It's going to be a $23 billion deal.
	To buy the Panama Canal.
	Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
	You know, we talk about billions of dollars so much.
	You know, we gave $177 billion to Ukraine.
	A hundred of which, Zelensky says he has no idea where they are.
	I didn't get that.
	Did anybody sign for that?
	Did you sign the, when FedEx came, did you sign that piece of, show me my signature on the FedEx package for that $100 billion.
	I don't know where that is.
	You could buy the entire Panama Canal.
	We could buy four Panama Canals for what he's lost, not counting what we gave him.
	So, yeah, $23 billion.
	Conservatives have long criticized BlackRock for, among other things, abusing its market power to push leftist policies, ESG, DEI, etc.
	That's more important to them than their profit.
	BlackRock was also part of the Democrat scheme to rebuild Ukraine after its war with Russia.
	You know, Larry Fink said famously before the election, it didn't matter to him for what he was going to be doing, whether it was Trump or Biden.
	He knew he could buy either one of them.
	They're both for sale.
	They're both puppets.
	So with Biden, he can buy his way in to have a contract to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
	And I'm sure he probably will with Trump as well.
	And then with Trump, he sidles in and he gets the Panama Canal.
	He can get whatever he wants because our government is for sale.
	Like I said yesterday, Trump says, well, the language of government is going to be English only.
	No, no, no.
	The language of our government is money, graft, and corruption.
	You know, money talks and the rest of this stuff walks, right?
	So, Trump, when he issues an executive order, that's all about money.
	And he gets the governors to lock us down, to take our businesses, to run this medical martial law on us and everything.
	That's money.
	Obama speaks to the schools and says, put the trainees in the girls' bathrooms and the sports.
	Trump says, take the trainees out of the girls' bathrooms and sports.
	In both cases, they're speaking money.
	Money.
	Money is the language of Washington.
	And it's how these people like Larry Fink speak to Trump and to Biden.
	They speak to them in terms of money.
	You want $100 million for your campaign?
	Okay, fine.
	Then I can turn that $100 million into a $23 billion investment here.
	Or Elon Musk.
	Look at him.
	He doubled his fortune from $200 and something billion to over $400 billion because he bought the Oval Office lock, stock, and barrel, including the kitchen sink.
	As he was so proud of in that meme.
	And so at the Ron Paul Institute, Chris Rossini, a senior fellow there, says, looking at how the conservatives will excuse everything that Trump does.
	He says, oh yeah, that's much better.
	America, Americans are whipped into jingoistic fervor.
	We're going to take blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And you're not taking anything.
	BlackRock is going to be taking it.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, America.
	America's going to own the Panama Canal.
	You know, wave the flag and all the rest of this stuff.
	I had a listener yesterday when I was talking about the jingoism and the tribalism and everything that I said is inculcated, going back to high school sports and everything.
	He wrote me and he said, well, I think sports are good.
	And I wasn't criticizing sports.
	I was criticizing fans.
	That's short, folks, for fanatic.
	Fanatic.
	And he says, sports is a good thing.
	It's like music or something.
	And I was like, yeah, I agree.
	And you know, people get crazy about music as well.
	As I wrote to him, I said, yeah, I remember.
	It really put me off of Elvis and the Beatles when I saw these women going crazy, you know, or girls because of the time.
	I was like, this is sick.
	But, you know, it started, I think, with Frank Sinatra, but it goes back even further.
	Like I said to him, you know, we were told, I don't know if it's true, that Franz Liszt was a rock star.
	You know, he had long, flowing hair.
	All the women swooned when he played.
	He was a great musician.
	It's just something about, you know, you've got somebody who's good-looking, and then they hit the music stuff as well.
	Everybody just falls on their feet.
	I never had that experience, but I've been told.
	And I've seen that.
	But we're looking for idols everywhere, whether it's in music or whether it's in sports.
	And I said, my problem is with the pep rallies that we had, right?
	Kill these people over here.
	Now there are an enemy.
	You know, that school is awful.
	Now that school is awful.
	My type of thing.
	And that's why they were trying to work up the crowd.
	You know, people are actually participating in the sports.
	They're focused on what they're doing.
	They got a job to do.
	You know, just like the people who are doing music, if they're really good, they're going to be focused on what they're doing.
	It's the other people who get caught up in all this idolatry and all this tribalism and all the rest of this stuff.
	And that's what you're seeing here.
	Yeah, we need to take Greenland.
	We need to take Panama.
	We need to take Canada.
	All the rest of this stuff.
	Who's going to get it?
	It's going to be Trump's crony capitalist friends who are out there.
	They train us for this kind of tribalism so that you can just, you can graduate from high school and college and your fanaticism about sports, you can go straight into your Partisan politics.
	I'm red.
	I'm blue.
	I'm Republican.
	I'm Democrat.
	Whatever.
	BlackRock has recently backed away from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
	I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	Why do you think they would do that?
	Because they never cared about profit before.
	They never cared about criticism before.
	Could it be that he's playing a bigger game?
	Yeah, I'll tell you what.
	Let's make a deal.
	Let's do this Panama Canal and I'll back everybody away from ESG. You'll look like a hero.
	Because Trump doesn't care about all this stuff.
	Trump wanted to put men in his Miss Universe beauty contest.
	He doesn't care about any of this stuff that the conservatives care about.
	None of it.
	It's all just things that he can throw out there for you to get excited about.
	Like the Epstein files.
	It's all just a show.
	BlackRock has removed references to its, quote, three-pillar DEI strategy.
	They were the epicenter of this.
	They were the people, the Moriarty of DEI and ESG. That was Larry Fink.
	Gone also was a statement that BlackRock views transparency as a measurement as critical to its strategy.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	So, we'll see what happens.
	But look, these people are going to bide their time and come back even stronger.
	And unlike the Marxists, they've got a profit motive in all this.
	Yes, they're totalitarian, authoritarian, but we have other fish to fry here that are more important for them because money gives them personal power.
	Well, and then we have, also in this administration, like I said, it only took, what, a couple of weeks for RFK Jr. to turn.
	You know, he had one job, and he didn't do it.
	For years, he's talked about autism.
	Where did this MMR thing, what does it have to do with autism?
	Well, he was trying to convince everybody that it was a part of it.
	I believe it is.
	And now he's turned into a cheerleader for both the nonsense about a pandemic.
	It's absolute nonsense that it would be a pandemic.
	So, he is now, after jumping onto the measles and the MMR vaccine bandwagon, he has now jumped onto the criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, and it is a public health crisis.
	He says anti-Semitism and racism is a public health crisis.
	Why don't we think of that with BlackRock?
	I mean, they're pushing DEI as racism.
	Why isn't that a public health crisis?
	In one of his first official acts, Health Secretary Arf K. Jab on Monday declared anti-Semitism to be a public health crisis, like racism, he said.
	And he threatened to cut off billions in federal funding to Columbia University unless they make their campus a safe space for Jewish students.
	So, he somehow couched his demand for safe spaces and speech suppression as a fight against Quote, woke cancel culture in defense of free speech.
	Isn't that amazing?
	He's canceling speech and he presents it as free speech.
	How Orwellian is that?
	This is from Information Liberation.
	Yeah, it is Orwellian.
	Censorship is free speech.
	We just had Margaret Benin lecturing J.D. Vance that the Nazis came to power because of free speech.
	These people are just all over the place.
	I mean, they truly are Orwellian.
	War is peace.
	Ignorance is strength.
	Freedom is slavery.
	Freedom is racism, right?
	Freedom is Nazi, according to Margaret Brennan.
	And so, you know, so now he's pushing both the, in his second or third week of being HHS secretary, RFK Jr. is pushing both the MMR jab.
	And also the idea of a measles pandemic.
	He's pushing that, and now he's pushing censorship.
	He's batting a thousand, isn't he?
	I said I would never support him for president.
	I said I don't trust this guy about anything.
	I would never support him.
	When you look at his background, you look at his personal life, like Trump, if you don't see red flags in that, you'll never see any red flags in the Epstein files.
	Both of them pals of Epstein.
	Let me just ask you, how many people do you know that know Epstein, have been on his plane?
	Oh, just hitching a ride, right?
	It's like the CIA thing, and all the people around Alex are CIA, and it's like, wow, I've never known anybody that's even known anybody that was in the CIA. Closest I ever got.
	There's one guy at Texas Instruments that worked up in Dallas that we liaisoned with, and he had formerly been in the NSA. And he wouldn't talk about any of it.
	No such agency is what it stands for.
	That's the closest I ever got to any of this stuff.
	Didn't have family members that were in it.
	All the rest of this stuff.
	Anyway, so don't criticize a foreign government.
	Because that foreign government owns our government.
	That's the bottom line.
	And they own RFK jab.
	Look, they exercise.
	And this is why I put these two things together.
	Are you worried about China exercising control over the Panama Canal?
	Or are you worried about Israel exercising control over Congress?
	Are you kidding me?
	What is that?
	These people get everything that they want.
	They're shutting down the First Amendment now.
	If you happen to criticize their politics or their war policies.
	No.
	We can't have that.
	I mean, you talk about a distraction and a misdirection.
	To say that you're more concerned about China and the Panama Canal than you are, you know, and we've got to do something about that.
	But, you know, we can't be concerned.
	Rightfully so, said Trump when he said, you know, Congress is owned by Israel.
	He said, and rightfully so.
	Rightfully so.
	How is that right ever to be owned by a foreign government?
	So here's what Kennedy said.
	He said anti-Semitism, he posted this up on X, anti-Semitism like racism.
	It's a spiritual and moral malady that sicken society and kills people.
	And with lethalities comparable to history's most deadly plagues.
	Here we go.
	This has a public health issue.
	Look, it is a spiritual and moral malady.
	But what they're talking about with anti-Semitism is not anti-Semitism.
	It's not anti-Semitism to criticize a foreign government.
	Look.
	As I pointed out, you had 350 rabbis took out a full-page New York Times ad criticizing this government's policies.
	There's a lot of people who disagree with Netanyahu.
	There's a lot of people who disagree with his wars in Israel who are Jewish.
	So it is not anti-Semitism to criticize them.
	So he goes on to say, censorship and false narratives of a cancel culture.
	And then he is doing the same thing.
	It just depends on who you want to censor.
	If you support free speech, you support free speech.
	If you want to shut down speech of what you disagree with, you don't support free speech.
	So now he's doing it.
	Now he's doing it.
	And they will always resort back to threats of violence or assault or things like that.
	Look, physical attacks have always been illegal.
	And that's not speech.
	But that's not what they're talking about shutting down.
	They're talking about shutting down speech.
	Today, the Department of HHS, also the Department of Education, and the U.S. General Services Administration announced a comprehensive review of Columbia's federal contracts and grants.
	Coming back to what I just said, the official language of the federal government is money, not English.
	And they scream at you through the grants and through the contracts and the money that they give you and then pull away.
	They bribe and they blackmail, saying, I'll take that money away that you got used to.
	So that's what we're talking about here.
	We're not talking about free speech.
	We're not talking about people speaking in English either.
	It's money.
	A relentless harassment of Jewish students, they said.
	Well, again, how are you going to distinguish between that and people who are peacefully standing?
	Outside of an abortion clinic, is that harassment?
	Well, they would say it's harassment because they don't like you standing there.
	And because it causes them distress for somebody to point out that they're about to kill a baby.
	Which is the truth.
	But it should be allowed whether or not it is the truth.
	But they're punishing people for saying the truth about killing a baby.
	And so if you're going to call speech harassment...
	We're not that far away from the UK where they're telling people you can't pray privately in your own home in Scotland if it's close to an abortion clinic.
	It's a prayer-free zone.
	You can't pray silently in your head.
	And we've got the FACE Act here in the United States, so if you're gathered with some signs a block away from the clinic, you still might be arrested and threatened with jail by somebody like the Biden administration, the Biden Department of Justice.
	This is a key issue, folks.
	And that it is a moral issue.
	And RFK Jr. and these other people are twisting this and perverting this for the state of Israel.
	The state of Israel.
	Not Israel.
	The state of Israel.
	You hear that, Christian conservatives?
	The state of Israel.
	The politics of Israel.
	And it's not monolithic.
	And Netanyahu did not get a majority.
	He had a really hard time putting a coalition together.
	You know, they have a parliamentary system.
	Unlike the U.S., they don't limit themselves to two parties.
	They've got multiple parties.
	It's very rare for anybody to get a majority.
	You have to put a coalition together.
	He struggled.
	He had to go through, I think, three different times.
	And the only reason that they were able to get a governing coalition is because of this war.
	War brings everybody together, doesn't it?
	It's one of the reasons why they start wars and keep them going.
	Far beyond the point at which there would be any excuse for it.
	And again, I say that about a just war.
	People say, well, they have a right to protect themselves.
	Of course they do.
	But they don't have a right to keep killing people because of something that happened.
	And a just war is one that seeks to stop aggression.
	A just war does not start aggression.
	A just war, though, also does not continue the aggression when there's no longer a threat.
	And a just war, like we're talking about Ukraine.
	Does Ukraine have a right to protect themselves against a Russian invasion?
	Yes, they do.
	But when they no longer have the ability to win that war, then they have a moral obligation to stop it.
	And that's why I compared Robert E. Lee to Zelensky.
	Robert E. Lee said, we can't win this war.
	We'll just be killing our own people, as well as the other side.
	That's not moral if you can't have any way to win it.
	And that's part of the moral calculations at the beginning that Augustine laid out in a just war theory.
	He said when you look at it, part of the thing that you have to look at is do we have any possible way of winning this?
	Is there a path to victory?
	You know, Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy believed that they did have a path to victory at the beginning of it, and they did pretty well at the beginning of it.
	But it became a war of attrition, and there was absolutely no way they're going to win it.
	A small country that didn't have the material means to continue this war in the same way that Ukraine is.
	And they needed to have somebody that was on their side to pursue this, and they didn't.
	And even with us on their side, what we risk is a...
	Is World War III in a nuclear war?
	It's not worth the risk.
	And so, when you look at Israel, they say that they're destroying Gaza to get to Hamas.
	Well, that obviously isn't working.
	Right?
	Hamas is doing fine.
	It's the civilians that are being killed.
	And so you have to look at this and say, well, you know, that strategy is just murdering civilians.
	And massive amounts.
	And so from a just war theory, it doesn't make any sense.
	It only makes sense if you're going to make it into the Gaza Strip, a development for Netanyahu and Jared Kushner and Donald Trump's family to kick all the people out or kill them so they can turn it into a development, which is what a lot of people said was the motivation for this in the first place, that the other stuff was an excuse.
	So this task force.
	Put together by the Department of Education, HHS, and then the people are writing the checks.
	The task force review is the first major action announced by the multi-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.
	That's created by Trump's executive order that he called additional measures to combat anti-Semitism.
	But it's not combating anti-Semitism.
	It's combating...
	A criticism of a political entity, the state of Israel, and the prosecution of that immoral war that Christians support, many of them.
	I know many Christians who don't support it, but there are far too many that do.
	So he said, students have been assaulted and harassed.
	Well, yeah, that's not speech, is it?
	That's not speech.
	And that's a separate thing.
	So you don't need to, it's what I've always said about hate speech laws.
	You know, well, look at this.
	You know, they do this, and they do that, and they hurt this person, and they kill that person.
	Those are already crimes.
	Now, hate might be a motive, and that might help to establish a person's guilt in actually creating a crime, but hate is never a crime.
	Hate can never be a crime, because if hate is a crime, that will be the wedge to destroy all free speech, as we see now.
	We could see this for the longest time if we thought this through.
	Now you see it being put in place.
	Institutions that receive federal funds have a responsibility to protect all students from speech they don't like.
	No, it says discrimination.
	But that's what they mean.
	That's what they're talking about.
	Well, if you want to protect people from discrimination, where have you been for the last several decades in terms of the admission policies that have only gotten codified and intensified by DEI? Now, the policies have been racist all of my life.
	All of my life.
	Their admission policies have been racist.
	Preferring one group of people to another.
	Not about merit.
	And now you got the case just last week of the Asian student.
	No, no, no.
	We're not going to bring in Asian and white people.
	We've got to bring in other groups.
	He got more than a perfect grade score.
	And he got nearly, on his GPA, it was beyond 4.0, like 4.5, because he got extra credit for stuff.
	And then he came within like two or three points of getting an absolutely perfect score on the SAT thing, and all the big schools turned him down, all of them, because he's not the right race.
	So why don't you talk about that, Trump?
	I guess they didn't pay him.
	Enough to talk about that.
	Trump administration is blatantly attacking free speech and the right to protest in order to silence criticism of Israel, says Information Liberation.
	Calling it discriminatory hate that threatens the safety of Jewish students.
	Well, again, if they're threatening the safety of Jewish students, then that's a separate crime.
	But they can say whatever they want to about the government of Israel.
	He says, and he's right about this, this mirror image, this is the mirror image of the social justice warriors' safe space, woke speech suppression tactics used by the left to silence criticism of minorities, but it's being applied only to Jews and it's being couched in anti-woke rhetoric.
	And so as one person said, going back to an interview that R.K. Jr. had, he says, Pause.
	In human history.
	I don't agree with that.
	But, okay, do you have concerns about the level of Israeli influence in our politics here in the United States of America?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I'm not a politician in political office, so I don't see much of that.
	Now he is.
	Now we can see what he's doing in political office as a politician.
	He's being controlled by Israel, isn't he?
	Yeah, Thomas Massey talked about how AIPAC has got its hands around all the politicians' throats.
	They're not registered.
	Is there any other Republican who has your views on this?
	Well, I have Republicans who come to me on the floor.
	And say, I wish I could vote with you today.
	Yours is the right vote, but I would just take too much flack back home.
	And I have Republicans who come to me and say, that's wrong what AIPAC is doing to you.
	Let me talk to my AIPAC person.
	By the way, everybody but me has an AIPAC person.
	What does that mean, an AIPAC person?
	It's like your babysitter, your AIPAC babysitter.
	Is always talking to you for AIPAC. They're probably a constituent in your district, but they are firmly embedded in AIPAC. Every member has something like this?
	I don't know how it works on the Democrat side, but that's how it works on the Republican side.
	And when they come to D.C., you go have lunch with them.
	And they've got your cell number, and you have conversations with them.
	So I've had, like...
	That's absolutely crazy.
	I've had four members of Congress say, I'll talk to my APAC person.
	It's clearly what we call them, my APAC guy.
	I'll talk to my APAC guy and see if I can get him to dial those ads back.
	Why have I never heard this before?
	It doesn't benefit anybody.
	Why would they want to tell their constituents that they've basically got a buddy system with somebody who's representing a foreign country?
	It doesn't benefit the congressman for people to know that, so they're not going to tell you that.
	Yeah, and that's one of the reasons why Massey has said that AIPAC needs to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Farah, right?
	That lobbyists have to do.
	If you're going to lobby people on behalf of a foreign government, you should do that.
	Now, I think it's also interesting to look at how powerful that can be if you are persistent.
	This is why I said I don't think we're ever going to get anything done unless we focus on...
	Single issues.
	You know, the gun lobby people are persistent and focused on one issue.
	Homeschoolers, same type of thing.
	I said many times, I was really surprised when North Carolina government was completely controlled by Democrats everywhere.
	The governor, both houses, Senate and the House, they were all Democrats.
	And they all loved government schools, and they loved teachers' unions, and the teachers' unions wanted them to shut down homeschooling.
	And this very small number of homeschoolers at the time, because we're talking about the mid-'80s, got together and organized this persistent hectoring, like you see here, you know, somebody in your district that is associated with APAC. And this constant lobbying and connection, you know, John Burst Society has done that in the past.
	And, you know, if you organize around particular issues or if you have an organization that is just looking at conservative issues and said, you know, here's some new legislation we need to run, do this.
	If you get involved in that and you contact them and they get a lot of calls, you know, even the Democrats who wanted to please the teachers union because they got so many calls from individuals, they backed off.
	And so that can be very effective.
	Now, AIPAC is masterfully doing that, but they also have a great deal of foreign money because when Massey ran for re-election this last time, because he said things like that, and Tucker's so disingenuous.
	Are you kidding me?
	Why have I never heard this?
	I've never heard about this thing called 9-11 either, or the rest of this stuff.
	I mean, Tucker is such a limited hangout, such an act.
	It's just amazing.
	If he was really that stupid.
	He wouldn't be where he is, so I don't believe it for a moment.
	But after Massey complained about AIPAC, they spent $300,000 on just one TV station running this ad.
	Israel, the Holy Land.
	Tom Massey's like Hezbollah.
	Tom Massey is hostile to Israel.
	United Democracy Project is responsible for the content of this advertising.
	Yeah, well, you know, the thing is, I don't think land is holy.
	I think God is holy.
	I think he's got holy purposes.
	But this is holy wrong, okay?
	They spent $300,000, and fortunately, Massey, in his district, the people saw through those lies and that propaganda associating him with Iran and Hamas and all the rest of the stuff.
	They really overstepped so far.
	They jumped the shark.
	And he won by 75% in his district, even though they spent $300,000 in just one station in his district.
	But again, Trump goes even further than RFK Jr. in terms of coming after free speech.
	Just like Germany.
	You know, you just had J.D. Vance criticizing Germany.
	You're sending the police out for people who make social media posts.
	How dare you do that?
	That's not our values.
	Maybe we shouldn't be in a defense agreement with somebody that is this authoritarian.
	And yet, what is Trump talking about doing?
	Locking people up.
	He said that after RFK Jr. did.
	See, in Germany, if you criticize a German politician, Greens, the Greens, the Marxists, As I said, there's two politicians in Germany, each of whom has filed 800 charges with the police and had the police go out and harass, sometimes arrest, sometimes imprison people who criticized them.
	So you criticize a German politician, you get the German police at your door.
	Now, in America, we do it differently.
	If you criticize a foreign politician, you criticize an Israeli politician, now Trump wants to put the police at your door.
	How about that?
	This is absolutely crazy.
	You criticize a German politician in Germany, you get the police at your door.
	You criticize an Israeli politician, you get the American police at your door in America.
	Because this is what Trump is saying.
	He says, colleges allowing illegal protests will lose federal funding, and agitators will be imprisoned.
	He said, if they allow, quote-unquote, illegal anti-Israel protests, How is a protest illegal?
	I mean, didn't we just talk about that with January the 6th when I said that no protest is illegal?
	We have our rights don't come from the Constitution.
	Our rights come from God.
	We're endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
	The Constitution...
	Has the Bill of Rights, which adds additional prohibitions to specific things and says that the government will not interfere when we are peacefully redressing our grievances about the government or anything else.
	So we have a right to protest.
	I don't care much for public protests personally, but we have a right for it.
	And there is no public protest that is going to be illegal if it's peaceful.
	Going back again to January the 6th.
	But see, it isn't about the principle, is it, for these people?
	For these people who support Trump and who support these restrictions on free speech, they no more care about free speech than the Biden administration did.
	They just want to come after their opponents.
	Biden didn't care about free speech.
	He wanted to come after the people who supported Trump.
	Trump doesn't care about free speech.
	He wants to come after the people who come after Israel and criticize Israel.
	So he says, illegal, that's his term, illegal anti-Israel protests.
	You'll lose your federal funding and agitators, that's what he called them, taking part in these demonstrations will be imprisoned, he said.
	Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came.
	American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested.
	And he says, no masks!
	And he puts that in all uppercase with an exclamation mark.
	No masks.
	Speaking of COVID-19, Goldman Sachs put out a model yesterday saying that if there is universal masks, it would be a net positive for GDP. Oh, well, if Goldman Sachs says it, then we should do it.
	Now Trump tells us no masks.
	Why not go forward and say there should be mandatory masks all across this country?
	I'm all for masks.
	I think masks are good.
	I would wear, if I were in a group of people and I was close.
	You would wear one.
	Oh, I would.
	Oh, I have.
	I mean, people have seen me wearing one.
	I mean, I'd have no problem.
	Actually, I had a mask on.
	I sort of liked the way I looked.
	Okay.
	I thought it was okay.
	It was a dark black mask.
	Yeah, I didn't like the way you looked.
	I didn't like the way his marching, uniformed military guys in the mask looked either.
	Had kind of a Star Wars fascism vibe to it, didn't it?
	He's got the presidential seal on his cheek.
	There are many masks, but mine is special.
	Yes.
	There you go.
	And there he is.
	Darth Vader.
	Riding in the beast.
	I wonder if he's got a mark on that beast.
	I can't breathe in this thing!
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
	That's what everybody said.
	They finally took the mask off and quit playing the charades that he was pushing on everybody.
	And how did he do it?
	With an executive order that spoke in money, not in English, okay?
	So that's how it's done, right?
	It's in money.
	The language of government, money.
	Anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hate will not be tolerated on American campuses, said Elise Stefanik, who is now his ambassador to the UN. I think it was the place.
	She says promises made, promises kept.
	Those are promises made to Israel.
	And, of course, he's going to keep those promises he makes to Israel.
	And she's going to be rewarded for that as well.
	She spoke also at the Anti-Defamation League's Never Is Now conference on Monday.
	Helped a heap praise on ADL's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, who never saw a speech that he didn't want to control.
	One of the most reprehensible organizations out there, the ADL. If you want a rise of anti-Semitism, you keep putting ADL out there, people.
	And Jonathan Greenblatt.
	It's going to blow back big time.
	Big time.
	It's like...
	The CIA putting in the Shah of Iran and teaching them how to torture people.
	This is going to blow back on them in the same way.
	She ran down everything the Trump administration is doing to shut down criticism of Israel, ranging from civil rights investigations to threatening deportations.
	She said the ADL's work helping expose the rot on higher ed campuses has been invaluable to these efforts.
	And again, they always equate anti-Semitism with anti-Israel.
	And they always leave out the word, government.
	Different political parties in Israel have different policies.
	Oh, you're not allowed to criticize any of that.
	Trump's call to jail Americans for illegally protesting Israel came just one day after Robert Kennedy declared anti-Semitism is a public health crisis, like racism.
	Yeah, public health.
	Public health.
	A dictatorship.
	That is used in the past martial law.
	Well, here's the thing, RFK jab.
	You had one job, and you didn't do it.
	Instead, you turned it into a jab promotion, right?
	And again, you're now seeing this everywhere.
	Somebody sent it to me, but it's all over Twitter.
	People are putting up the clips from the Brady Bunch back in 1969. Let's talk a little bit about how this all evolved, right?
	So, you know, you didn't have a measles vaccine until 1963. And they didn't get the final form that they wound up going with until 1968. So this Brady Bunch thing, I'm going to play a little bit of it for you so you can see how everybody viewed measles.
	Trump viewed it that way.
	I viewed it that way.
	We all grew up with it that way.
	So you have the measles vaccine, the first prototype, 1963. They settle on it in 1968. The mumps vaccine, 1967. Rubella, 1969. So you've got 1967, 1968, 1969 for the three of them.
	Then you combine them into an MMR shot in 1971. Then the push begins to mandate it for school attendance.
	Through the later 70s and up into the 80s.
	By 1989, the CDC hypes that there is a measles outbreak to get more schools to jump into this.
	Now, Massachusetts jumped in right away.
	As soon as they had a measles vaccine, Massachusetts, they love bossing people around.
	And so Massachusetts says, well, you've got to have your measles shot to go to school.
	But it was still...
	In the early 2000s, before Texas mandated it.
	And then you have Rick Perry, who tries to then leapfrog everybody else and mandate the HPV shot for school attendance.
	It's amazing.
	So that was the case.
	The vaccines come out at the end of the 1960s through the 70s and 80s.
	They're pushing it to get schools to mandate it.
	It's not happening in a lot of places, so they manufacture a measles epidemic to scare people.
	In 1989, this starts getting adopted more and more places.
	Finally, they got everybody in by the early 2000s.
	And then in 2019, they have some more scary measles outbreaks for which nobody's really sick and nobody dies.
	And then you have more mandates.
	And that was, I'm not going to play the clip, but that's when Trump goes out there and says, I got to get this shot.
	It's really going.
	That's 2019. California, New York, saying we're going to remove all religious and medical exemptions for these vaccines.
	You've got to have them.
	Got to get this shot.
	And so, you know, just right before they started rolling out the COVID thing, for which there was going to be no exemptions, medical or religious, if they got their way.
	And so, let's just go back and take a look at this.
	The Brady Bunch measles, 1969. This is the attitudes for measles that I had then.
	And the attitude that I have today, because I don't believe a word that comes out of the CDC or RFK Jr.'s mouth.
	Hi.
	Peter.
	What are you doing home from school?
	They sent me home.
	Measles!
	It's either measles or a strange case of red freckles.
	You have got a temperature.
	They told me.
	101.1.
	So this would be headline news on CNN today.
	That's one record.
	You don't want to break.
	Right.
	You don't get to hold the title very long.
	And everybody would be locked down.
	I'll phone the doctor and be right up.
	Measles.
	Let's hope all the others don't start coming down with it.
	Oh, that would be terrible.
	Right.
	As the ward in the state prison once said, I sure would hate to see them all break out at once.
	Yeah, I never watched this show.
	Pretty corny.
	Are you sure it's the measles?
	Well, he's certainly got all the symptoms.
	A slight temperature, a lot of dots, and a great big smile.
	A great big smile?
	No school for a few days.
	Jan!
	You've got measles!
	Golly, mothers are supposed to know everything, but do you have to keep proving it?
	You've got a temperature, too.
	What do you mean, two?
	Peter was sent home from school a little while ago.
	Oh, what was his temperature?
	101.1.
	Oh, is that all?
	I'm 101.2.
	Oh, Greg, you are my railroad.
	I'll be a sport.
	You can ride on it free.
	Thanks a lot.
	It's your turn, Peter.
	Oh, I need two more hands.
	Six.
	Ah, missed it.
	Boy, this is the life, isn't it?
	Yeah, if you have to get sick.
	Sure can't beat the measles.
	That's right.
	No medicine.
	Inside or out.
	Like shots, I mean.
	Don't even mention shots.
	Yeah!
	Jan had chicken pounds.
	Shot.
	And Marcia and Cindy.
	Oh, let's see.
	We got mumps, scarlet fever, all the rest of the time.
	She's checking off on different childhood diseases they had.
	That's why they called them childhood diseases.
	So what happened?
	From that America, thanks to Fauci and others.
	Now the vaccine companies mandate the vaccines for the school kids.
	They hold the vaccine companies harmless for any damage that they do.
	We have an epidemic of autism.
	That was what RFK was supposed to do.
	But he didn't do that, did he?
	Well, I'm going to take a break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about tariffs.
	And we're going to take a look at the history of the tariffs as well, just like we did with the vaccine here.
	A quick review of the history.
	But I'll just say this.
	We've now got Daryl Issa, who wants Trump nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
	Peace Prize.
	Well, I would say that he deserves it every bit as much as Obama did, right?
	Yeah, what Trump wants, he wants a peace.
	He wants a peace of Canada.
	He wants a peace of Greenland.
	He wants a peace of Panama.
	He wants a peace of Ukraine.
	That's the peace that he wants.
	Congressman Daryl Issa recently led a congressional delegation to four Middle East nations.
	He observed firsthand from several heads of state that the spirit of peace and moving away from conflict is real and multilateral.
	Was he doing those mushrooms that Janet Yellen was doing when she went to China?
	Is he bowing his head incessantly?
	Evidently so.
	But we're going to take a break and when we come back we're going to take a look at tariffs.
	We're going to take a look at your comments here as well.
	And we're going to compare, you know, Trump talked about these McKinley tariffs and how they were great.
	So we're going to take a look at the McKinley tariffs.
	We're also going to take a look at the tariffs of abomination.
	That nearly caused secession in the Civil War back in the late 1828. They put in the tariffs.
	You had the nullification crisis by the early 1830s.
	And we'll also take a look at Thomas Jefferson.
	What was his strategy with tariffs?
	Because it was different from what Jackson later did and what McKinley later did.
	So we're going to take a look at all three of those when we come back.
	Stay with us.
	We will be right back.
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	Making sense.
	Common again.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	All right, let's talk a little bit about some of your comments here.
	We've got a lot of them.
	In Max, Trump has a serious conflict of interest with BlackRock.
	Larry Fink is his investment banker, so he's padding his own investments.
	I didn't know that.
	I know that he's got business deals with Larry Lutnik and these other people that he's brought in as Treasury Commerce Secretary and all the rest of this stuff.
	Of course, he had a lot of that conflict of interest, and the people that he appointed in his first round through, his first commerce secretary was a banker for Rothschild that was looking at his bankruptcies of the casinos and said, well, instead of foreclosing on this guy, let's let him run a little bit.
	Let's work with him.
	Look at the crowds around him.
	I think we can use this guy.
	And they did use him.
	Big Daddy Kane in Littleman, Massachusetts, a liberal communist nut, vandalized an electric car charging station.
	To protest President Musk's actions.
	I know I saw that.
	I'm going to cover that and say, look at this.
	We got an EV fire without the EV. We didn't even have a battery blow up.
	How about that?
	So yeah, there's protests at Tesla dealerships.
	People are boycotting his products and all the rest of the stuff.
	But look, the Twitter thing is actually far more valuable to him.
	He's with Twitter, first of all.
	The big data.
	The compute stuff that he can feed into his artificial intelligence, that's incredibly valuable.
	That's what they were complaining about with TikTok in China.
	They said, you don't want to let them have that.
	So instead, he knows that.
	So he jumped in there and got it.
	Secondly, it allows him to play to a big crowd of supporters, just like Trump.
	You know, like Trump said, no.
	If I ever run for president, I'll run as a Republican.
	Those Republicans are stupid.
	And so, you know, it's like, okay, I'm going to get into politics and get a big mob supporting me, worshipping me.
	That's what Twitter is for.
	So, he's getting the ire of the leftists on Tesla.
	All of his government contracts and his involvement with the government is going to be far more important to him.
	SFlow0818 says, well, all the more reason not to have an electric car.
	Well, Tesla, they're going to be maybe vandalizing it.
	I mean, they've been throwing paint on Teslas and stuff.
	These are a really disturbing minority of vandals like the Just Stop Oil people throwing paint on paintings and stuff like that.
	I mean, these people are...
	Absolutely, totally deranged about everything.
	Not just about Trump and Musk.
	They're deranged about everything.
	North American House Hippo.
	Trump is ensuring a continued liberal rule in Canada under Prime Minister Carney.
	You'd almost think that he was a Democrat.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And he makes, look, he's making this, he's making Trudeau look reasonable and smart.
	This World Economic Forum puppet, this Marxist Trudeau.
	He's making him look good.
	Polyev has even, the conservative, has even jumped behind him.
	But of course, his North American house, I haven't shown it, but he sent me a clip talking about how disappointed he was in Polyev, Polyev, whatever the guy's name is.
	And I was too.
	I sent him a couple of things.
	He's pushing for the Ukraine war, but in the clip that North American house hippo sent me, he's talking about how vital the Paris Climate Accord is.
	It's like, what?
	What?
	You're too smart to believe that.
	So there's some betrayal that's going on there.
	Seriously, yes.
	I mean, he's a very smart guy.
	Just look at those two interactions, the time he had the Apple and the other time where he's leading these reporters on.
	He is a master at rhetoric.
	And he's very intelligent.
	And so he's not naive enough to believe this Paris Climate Accord thing.
	Nobody believes that.
	And so anybody who's still towing that line is a World Economic Forum puppet.
	Now, everybody knows that Trudeau is.
	And as North American House Hippo said, what Trump is doing is he's making these people who are in opposition to him, you know, the more you're opposed to Trump, the better now.
	Because now everybody's booing each other with the national anthems at the sporting events and stuff.
	Self-Patriot, thank you for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	He says, David, I listened to your show the day after, but I listened to a little of your interview with Dr. Tenpenny.
	I have a lot of respect for her, but her theory about RFK Jr. sounded like a Q-hopium.
	It wasn't Dr. Tenpenny.
	That was Catherine Austin Fitz.
	And I would disagree with Catherine on that as well.
	I really do like her insights.
	We didn't talk a lot about her localized solutions, but she's been very active in helping these agendas in Tennessee, and I appreciate that support.
	And she agrees with us on these solutions.
	I think she just got too close.
	You know, on a personal basis with RFK Jr. a few years ago.
	And, you know, when I look at, and I understand, you know, people who are in these positions, they get their life is threatened on things.
	And, you know, if it was a situation where you're going to expose financial fraud, like she was talking about in her particular case, they threaten members of her family to kill them, to expose financial fraud, and everybody already knows about the financial fraud.
	Doge is nothing new, for the most part.
	They have shown some receipts and some details that we didn't have before, but we knew all this stuff all along.
	And so, would you risk your life and your family's life to show something that everybody already knows?
	But it's a very different thing when you're talking about RFK Jr. and these vaccines, frankly.
	Because he knows, clearly knows, and has talked about the toll of autism and Guillain-Barre and all these other horrific, Side effects of the vaccine industry, he knows how unsafe and ineffective they are.
	Even if he buys into the virus theory, he knows that these vaccines are not safe or effective, even by their own definition.
	And so now what you're talking about, if they're threatening you, your life, or the life of your family, you're talking about your life and your family's life versus tens, hundreds of millions of other people's lives.
	How do you make a calculation like that?
	None of us knows what we would do until the time would come.
	But I gotta say that I can't just brush that off.
	Because now you're talking about mass murder on a scale that we've never seen before.
	Cold, calculated murder.
	You know, poisoners are some of the most calculating and reprehensible of all murders.
	There's not a crime of passion in it.
	These people are poisoning everyone.
	For money.
	And so I don't make any excuses for them, and there's no prisoners in this stuff.
	No prisoners allowed in that.
	Militin Milankovic, thank you for the tip.
	He said, let's get David's rumble chat a sea of red for March.
	Please pass it on.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Nmax says, RFK Jr. stated that the hep B vax is causing autism in small children, yet suddenly he's unconcerned about it.
	Yeah, will success spoil Rock Hunter?
	Remember that movie?
	It certainly did spoil everybody in Hollywood, and it spoils everybody in Washington, D.C., too, it seems like.
	Yet suddenly he's unconcerned.
	The MMR is one of the most damaging shots, and now he doesn't care.
	That's right.
	Doesn't care.
	Gonna push it.
	Gonna push it.
	And he hedges his bet a little bit.
	And he says, well, you know, make sure you got good nutrition and vitamin supplements and all the rest of the stuff.
	And then the left just hectares him over.
	You can't please them.
	He's going to sit on a fence.
	What happens to people who sit on a fence too long?
	They wind up getting castrated.
	Ron Hilton says, anti-war is now considered more dangerous than genocide and is now classified as anti-Semitic.
	Isn't that right?
	Yeah, I agree.
	It is just amazing to me.
	I've seen people that, teachers that I thought did a really great job of teaching the Bible, took it seriously, and I've seen them call the people in Israel Amalek with Ben Shapiro.
	It's like, well, you just discredited everything that you told people.
	I mean, it's just amazing.
	The truth is still the truth, and who knows what these other political motives are that are out there, but I tell you what, just read the Bible for yourself.
	Don't be a follower of any of these people, because they'll take you over the cliff somewhere or the other.
	If you follow them, always hold the standard up.
	You know, if it's politics, it's the standards of Bill of Rights.
	And the Constitution.
	If it's religion, moral issues, the standard is the Bible.
	And don't ever become a follower of men.
	Never.
	Eric Kovarni, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	Imziz7 says, as soon as the Muslims are wiped out, Christians are next.
	Yeah, they are not.
	Just take a look at what they're doing to the Christians with the Muslims.
	And Germany, you know, for Ramadan.
	Let's get a vehicle and ram the Christians for Ramadan.
	NMAX. Trump ran to the UN to demand that all religions must accept homosexuality, but didn't say a thing about the huge persecution of Christians in those same countries.
	Mark Kernicky says, all of the kids in my class had measles.
	33 out of 33. That's right, me too.
	Gard Goldsmith.
	Good to see you, Gard.
	Liberty Conspiracy and Rockfin and X. The RFK Jr. thing.
	He said, so glad David covered that.
	And it's amazing that MAGA-ites justifiably criticized Biden's Department of Justice for going after parents at school board meetings, yet now they claim criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism.
	And RFK Jr. calls it a national mental disorder, essentially.
	Yeah.
	And let's make clear, you know, when, you know, What do you think when you say Israel?
	I've talked to a lot of Christians, and they think Israel, that's God's people, and that's Old Testament.
	No, we're talking about a political state, a modern political state, for which there is not a unified agreement even within Israel.
	But it is a political entity.
	It is an atheistic entity.
	It is an entity that parades its distance.
	Distrust of God and its reliance on its own strength.
	That was always a criticism of Israel in the Old Testament.
	They've decided that they're going to do it on their own.
	You know, some trust in chariots and horses.
	And those are not the people that God applauds or rewards.
	God's people trust in Him.
	And as I said, they've got the Hagar problem.
	God promised Abraham and Sarah in their old age they're going to have a child.
	And they wait for a while, and it's not happening, and they think God's taking too long, so, okay, I guess I'm going to have to make it happen.
	And so, Hagar is the handmaid of Sarah, and Sarah gives Hagar to Abraham, and they have a child, Ishmael, the progenitor of all the Arabs that are out there at their throats again.
	And you talk about anti-Semitism, that also includes the Arabs.
	All right, so is Israel anti-Semitic when it attacks the Semites in Gaza?
	Because they're all downstream from Abraham.
	But it created all kinds of problems because they didn't wait for God.
	They didn't do it God's way.
	And so the problem is that Zionists, whether they're Jewish or Christian, they've got a Hagar problem.
	They've decided they're going to do it on their own.
	They're going to do it in their own strength.
	And they're going to do it regardless of what the moral principles are.
	They're going to throw away the Ten Commandments.
	Maybe they can contact that thief that stole them out of the English church and get a copy of that and read it.
	I don't know.
	Let's talk about tariffs.
	And let's begin with McKinley, because Trump has talked about how much he loved McKinley and McKinley's tariffs.
	He went back and he renamed Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley.
	Part of that was just to come back at the leftist.
	So you had McKinley...
	He was involved in tariffs before he became president, actually, but he always supported them.
	The most notable tariff legislation during his political career was the McKinley Tariff of 1890, enacted when he was a congressman and a chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee before he became president.
	As president, he also supported the Dingley Tariff of 1897, which built on his earlier tariff philosophy.
	Now, here's an interesting point.
	According to the Constitution, the tariffs and taxes should come from the Congress, not from the President, right?
	So he might say these are McKinley tariffs because McKinley, when he was a congressman, he introduced a tariff.
	And then when he was President, he supported this other tariff that was done by a congressman because those are supposed to originate in Congress.
	Congress doesn't do anything anymore.
	And so now we have executive orders for tariffs.
	See how far we've gotten away from the Constitution?
	That's the first point.
	The second point is the purpose of the McKinley tariffs.
	The purpose was to protect American industries.
	They were protectionists.
	And, you know, not all tariffs are protectionists.
	Now, these that were happening in the 1800s were protectionists.
	The tariffs that happened in the 1890s, they were trying to protect specific industries.
	And so they put very high tariffs on particular things to protect particular industries from foreign competition.
	And so here's some of what they did in the 1890 tariffs.
	They increased average tariff rates to about 48% to 50% on some of these imports that they put them on.
	Some specific examples.
	Wool.
	Duties ranged on wool from 33% to over 90%.
	Evidently different types of wool.
	Tin plate had big tariffs on that.
	Textiles, metals, agricultural equipment.
	Often exceeding 50%.
	They removed tariffs on raw sugar.
	In order to appease consumers.
	Why?
	Because it raised their prices.
	That's what terrorists do.
	But then they raise the rates on refined sugar to protect U.S. producers.
	So, still, they're going to be, you know, they're not taxing the raw sugar and the refined sugar.
	But, you know, if it was an American producer, then the raw sugar could come in, the refined sugar would be...
	Would not have the terrorists attached to it.
	But the purpose of it is targeted to particular industries to protect American industries.
	It was not about raising revenue.
	And so it covered about 50% of imports.
	The rest of them were duty-free.
	Similar thing with a Dingley tariff of 1890 that was during his presidency.
	That first one, the McKinley tariff, that was one that was done by him when he was there at the, when he was chair, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
	And then he did the same type of thing that he supported, of course it came from Congress, when he was president.
	So he was, McKinley was a staunch supporter of protectionism.
	And that's the way that Trump has portrayed these tariffs.
	Except that he's not talking about doing 50 to 90 percent tariffs on things.
	He's had some rhetoric that's been out there, but in reality it's not.
	We're looking at China.
	You're going to try to protect us from China tariffs by just putting 10 or 20 percent?
	Initially he said it's going to be 10 percent.
	He's doubled it now to 20 percent.
	Is that something that's going to protect us?
	And again, it's not targeted to specific things.
	In other words, he's not putting on a tariff.
	To target solar panels so that we can develop a solar panel industry here.
	I mean, that's been rife with corruption and crony capitalism and all the rest of the stuff, and we don't need that here.
	But I'm just using that as an example.
	So then, go back earlier to that.
	The tariffs of 1828, which nearly caused a secession of civil war at that point in time.
	But I've used this example before because I said, You know, when you look at the economic split that happened, it happened because it was a fourth turning.
	We had a civil war in Italy at the same time, 1861 to 65, because it was the Industrial Revolution.
	It was the consolidation of political power into nation states.
	That was what was happening in Italy, and that was what was really going on in America as well.
	It wasn't about slavery.
	But the slavery, the economic issue that was involved there...
	It was also brought to a head in 1828 to 1832. You had tariffs that were put in in 1828, and they were very high.
	And they were mercantilist tariffs and everything, and so there was retaliation on the agricultural products that were being exported out of the South.
	And so that's why they called them abominable, right?
	It was making their products non-competitive while it was protecting the industry, the industrialized companies in the North.
	And so it became a real sticking point.
	Those tariffs were on things like textiles and iron products, molasses, and hemp.
	Hemp, which was legal.
	The libertarians used to, when I first started working with them, they had a little stamp.
	That a lot of them bought and passed around.
	And whenever they get a dollar bill, they had a little stamp, and they could stamp it right next to George Washington's face, and it came out a little speech bubble that said, I grew hemp.
	And they all did.
	Hemp for victory in World War II and the rest of this stuff.
	So they doubled or tripled duties on hemp, on iron products, a 50% increase over earlier levels, on textiles, and this is the key thing.
	That rose to 50% of their value.
	Some items were taxed higher, up to 67%.
	And so the raw materials of cotton and things would go to the textile industries in Great Britain.
	They would come back as finished products.
	They said, we don't want that coming back as finished products.
	So the British would say, well, we don't want your cotton either.
	So it became a big, big issue.
	About 92% of imports were subject to duties in that 1828 tariff thing, leaving little things on the list that were free.
	And it really got the people in the South upset.
	So much so that it caused a nullification crisis in 1832, which nearly led to secession.
	But as I pointed out, the reason I've talked about this in the past was because people were not ready.
	To just give up on everything at that point.
	Like they were later on in 1861. They weren't ready to give up on the institutions.
	Another 30 years, they would be.
	But the timing was not right.
	And so they came up with a compromise on this.
	And they adjusted the tariffs.
	They lowered them.
	And so let's compare this.
	Those tariffs were to protect 1828 and then again the 1890s.
	Those sets of tariffs were there to protect specific industries.
	The one in 1828 was fairly broad-based.
	The one in the 1890s was more specifically based, but they were all very high, and they were still targeting particular industries.
	Now, what about Thomas Jefferson?
	I've mentioned many times that he said, by eliminating all unnecessary offices of the federal government, in other words, by cutting government down and cutting government spending, He said, we were able to eliminate all internal taxes so that no one knows a federal tax man.
	And the government, which was small enough to fit inside the Constitution, was completely run off of tariffs during the Jefferson administration.
	Now, what was different about the Jefferson administration was that these tariffs were not about protecting a particular industry.
	It was about funding the government.
	A completely different approach.
	Again, it was not about protectionism, but it was just about running a small government.
	And it worked quite well until the end of the Jefferson administration in 1807 because of the Napoleonic Wars and because there was attacks on, you know, the French and the British were attacking each other and they were attacking the Americans who wanted to remain neutral to some degree.
	But they put in an embargo act, which basically just shut down all imports from all countries.
	Completely shut everything down.
	And the problem with that...
	Was that they'd already switched over to a tax system that was completely funded by the tariffs.
	It was short-lived.
	And they quickly realized that because their revenue fell from $16 million.
	That was the entire revenue of the federal government in 1807. $16 million.
	But does that not speak volumes about inflation and about our bloated government, which is even worse than our devalued dollar?
	It fell from $16 million in 1807. To $6 million in 1808. So they had to do something about that.
	But you notice that the reason I talk about this is because there's two ways that you can look at the income tax, I mean the tariff.
	You can look at it as protectionism, in which case you're going to be specific about particular industries, not necessarily about particular states, right?
	They didn't care whether if they had competition for iron goods, they didn't care if those iron goods were coming from Germany or from Britain.
	Right.
	We're going to protect the iron industry.
	So we're going to put a high tax on it and make sure that doesn't come in from any country.
	That's protectionism.
	That's not what Trump is doing.
	And then under Jefferson, it was about revenue.
	Well, that's also not what Trump is doing.
	I mean, we're still not anywhere close to even though he leaves the income tax on and adds the tariff as a second tax.
	we're still not anywhere close to paying for the federal government.
	So it's not about revenue either.
	And what is he doing with these tariffs?
	He's targeting not an industry.
	He's not trying to protect them from iron competition.
	He's targeting specific countries.
	He's targeting Canada.
	And he's lying about the basis for the targeting Canada.
	There is no immigration problem coming from Canada, and there is no fentanyl problem coming from Canada.
	He's targeting Canada.
	Why?
	Well, we can speculate about why he's trying to do it.
	But the bottom line is, this is not protectionism.
	He's not protecting anybody.
	He's not protecting any industry.
	He's not protecting anybody from immigration or fentanyl.
	He's targeting Canada.
	And when he looks at China, these are across the board.
	He's not specifically targeting and trying to protect a particular industry.
	He's not coming after semiconductors or anything.
	He's just everything.
	Everything.
	So, the Wall Street Journal says the tariff war risks sinking the world into a Great Depression.
	This is coming from the International Chamber of Commerce, which I do not support.
	I mean, these people are radical, globalists and everything.
	However, they're looking at this and they know that if you go back to these fourth turnings, you look at the Industrial Revolution and the Civil Wars that were happening in America, Italy, and other countries at the time.
	These fourth turnings are always accompanied by major fiscal disruption.
	They're also accompanied by distrust of institutions.
	People are looking at institutions, they're corrupt.
	They don't work.
	Let's get rid of them.
	And they're usually accompanied by war.
	We look at our fourth turnings.
	We had the Revolutionary War.
	We had the Civil War.
	We had the World War II. And, you know, we know that World War II was accompanied with the Great Depression, but there were fiscal issues that were involved in the others as well.
	And so, you know, they're looking at this, and they're essentially basically following the script, folks.
	Just like he followed the script for Dark Winter.
	So, they said, our deep concern is because we get the start of a downward spiral that puts us in the 1930s trade war territory.
	This is really more about creating chaos, distrust in institutions, and then creating war.
	And that's exactly what Doge is about as well.
	Trump is following the script, folks, for the fourth turning, just like he followed the script for the fake pandemic.
	And roll the vaccine out quickly that's not tested and all the rest of the stuff.
	Dark winter that they practiced for 20 years.
	They did the first one two months before 9-11.
	So the Trump tariffs are not focused on industries to protect them, like the McKinley and the Jackson abomination tariffs.
	They're not large enough to fund the government because...
	And this is the other thing.
	These MAGA influencers out there, the same people that are around there pushing the Jeffrey Epstein files and nonsense, these same people out there are telling, oh, he's going to get rid of the income tax.
	No, he's not.
	He made it very clear that he's keeping the income tax.
	He throws out these things, like he says, you know, it was better when the government was funded by tariffs than when it was funded by an income tax.
	Well...
	I agree, but the real issue is not the form of taxation as much as it was the size of government and the size of the taxes.
	That was the real reason that everything was better under McKinley.
	And so we can talk about the way that we're going to collect taxes, but any form of taxation, Ron Paul has said this as well.
	He says, if you don't cut down the size of government, any form of taxation is going to be oppressive.
	And if you cut it down really small, The form really doesn't matter all that much.
	But what has mattered to Republicans in the past was that they didn't want to have, in the name of tax reform, they didn't want to wind up with the income tax plus a new tax, which is exactly what we've got.
	And nobody wants to say anything about it because it's Trump.
	Just like they won't criticize BlackRock being given Panama now, the Panama Canal.
	They won't criticize that either because it's Trump.
	And so, you know, quite frankly, As I said, these Trump tariffs are not about funding the government.
	They're not about protecting an industry.
	They're targeting countries, and you've got to ask yourself why.
	Why is Trump picking a fight with Canada?
	Why is he picking a fight with Mexico?
	Yeah, I understand Mexico.
	Massive drug trade, massive immigration stuff.
	You could say it was about that, except for the fact that he's treating Canada the same way that he treats Mexico, which tells me that it's not about those things even with Mexico.
	Even though those are problems with Mexico, I don't think it's about that with Mexico.
	I think he's targeting them.
	And what is the endgame with all this stuff?
	Well, I'll tell you what I think the endgame is with all the stuff that Trump is doing.
	I think the endgame is ultimately about turning stuff over to his friends, like we just saw in Panama.
	I think that's what this is truly about.
	Well, let's take a look at what Trudeau has to say.
	North American House Depot, who is from Canada, said, Trump is going to hand this over to the liberals.
	What he is doing is making the liberals look good.
	Should these tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures.
	Measures which will demonstrate that there are no winners in a trade war.
	Just like I did a month ago, I want to speak first directly to the American people.
	We don't want this.
	We want to work with you as a friend and ally.
	And we don't want to see you hurt either.
	But your government has chosen to do this to you.
	As of this morning, inflation is set to rise dramatically all across your country.
	Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk at the thousands of workplaces that succeed because of materials from Canada or because of consumers in Canada or both.
	They've chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items like groceries and gas, on major purchases like cars and homes, and everything in between.
	Exactly.
	What is the purpose of all this stuff?
	And again, all of these lying influencers for Trump.
	They're telling you, oh, he's going to get rid of the income tax.
	He's going to get rid of the income tax.
	He never said that.
	As a matter of fact, he said just the opposite.
	I'm going to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent.
	I'm going to eliminate taxes on tips.
	And maybe on Social Security or whatever.
	But that means that he's going to keep it for everything else.
	That means that he's not eliminating even the corporate income tax.
	He's taking it down to 15%, which the globalists all got together under Biden and said, We're not going to let, none of us are going to take our taxes below 15%.
	So he takes it down to the level that they tell him he can't go below.
	And so we're winding up with a massive new tax.
	You've got Trudeau out there talking about this.
	And again, I guess that's the first time I've ever agreed with him.
	But he's being, this World Economic Forum puppet is being rescued by Trump.
	And Trump is using the same Democrat tax everybody playbook.
	Don't worry.
	This is not going to be a tax on you.
	It's going to be a tax on somebody else.
	And they deserve it because they're bad.
	Right?
	That's always been the way that Democrats talk when they raise taxes.
	So Trump's tariffs could raise prices of fruits and vegetables within days, warns the CEO of Target.
	So consumers will likely see price increases over the next couple of days.
	We depend, he said, on Mexico for a significant amount of supply during the winter months.
	Mexico and Canada supplied 51% and 2% of fresh fruit imports, 69% and 20% respectively of fresh vegetable imports in 2022, according to the USDA. Cornell, who's the CEO, said that the 10% additional tariffs on Chinese imports...
	Well, now, on top of the other 10% imposed earlier, so it's now 20%.
	He says that's less of a threat to immediate price hikes at Target as they have reduced their reliance on Chinese imports from 60% to 30% over the past few years.
	But again, these retaliatory measures are coming back now from China, from Canada, from...
	Even from Mexico, they say they're going to do something.
	I don't know what.
	China said it will impose an additional 15% tariff on a range of products, including chicken, wheat, and cotton, and expand export controls.
	Now, when Trump did this his first term around, their retaliatory tariffs were focused.
	Theirs were focused.
	See, Trump focused on China as a country.
	They focused on agriculture.
	Because they...
	That's the key thing that they buy from us, but they also are focused on an industry.
	And it put a lot of farmers out of business.
	Even though Trump eventually came around and gave them some stimulus checks, a lot of them lost their business.
	And the ones who didn't, it really hurt them.
	And they still haven't, some of them, fully recovered.
	A Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta study estimates that this could lead to prices on around a quarter of all consumer spending to rise, 0.81 percent, or 1.63% if the costs are fully transferred.
	So they don't know how the different people will react with this.
	Now, Lucky Lutnik came out yesterday afternoon, Commerce Secretary, and said they would probably be rolled back maybe as soon as today.
	And so you've got to ask yourself, what is the strategy?
	He's not trying to raise revenue.
	He's not trying to protect an industry.
	He puts these things out one day and then takes them off the next day.
	What is the purpose of this?
	Chaos.
	He's an agent of chaos.
	We need to get smart.
	You know?
	Hey, Chief.
	What's going on here?
	Groceries are about to get more expensive.
	So here's what to store up on, says Hearst and Yahoo, before the tariffs go up.
	But you know, still, there's absolutely nothing like the eggflation that we're seeing.
	And eggflation is 100% approved by the USDA. And by the Trump administration.
	And by the agricultural secretary.
	100% USDA approved.
	Crisis.
	Manufactured crisis.
	And again, this is another pointless war against us.
	You know, the egg thing is even bigger than what's going on with Canada, I think.
	Because it is so foundational to our food supply.
	So they're saying 77% of our fresh produce comes from Mexico.
	They're not breaking out fruit and vegetables and anything, but they're actually still coming up with a higher number because maybe they don't know.
	Maybe they don't really know.
	Maybe the USDA doesn't really know.
	Just like the Department of Labor doesn't really know what the unemployment rate is.
	Or if they do, they lie to you, right?
	Or what the inflation rate is.
	Or if they do, they lie to you.
	As a matter of fact, the other thing that Lutnik said was he started talking about how we're going to change the way we calculate the gross domestic product.
	Do you think that he's looking at the gross domestic product getting worse?
	When inflation really started kicking off, they said, let's change the way we calculate inflation.
	So what does it telegraph to us when the Commerce Secretary Lutnik says, we've got to change the way we're calculating GDP. It tells you that GDP is about to go bad.
	That's what it tells me.
	Well, so regardless of all of this stuff, why not just end the income tax if you want to help people?
	And even more so, a comment here from DG80 says, the idea of tariffs is great, but unfortunately the U.S. is not set to manufacture at this time.
	A tariff of maybe 1% per year, doubling every year, would bring manufacturing back.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Scott Besant, who's Treasury Secretary, when they were talking about the different tariffs, he said, yeah, what we'll do is we'll ramp them up.
	If we take it up to 25%, we might start out with 5% one month and then 10% the next month and 15% the next, until we get up to our target of 20% or 25% or whatever it's going to be.
	But we'll roll it out gradually.
	And then they say, well, it's all at once.
	Nope, not going to do that.
	It's going to be all at once.
	So there's this chaos within the administration.
	Nobody knows what anybody else is doing.
	And then the next day, they take it off.
	Say, we'll give them another 30 days.
	Now he puts it back on, and then later that afternoon, you've got the Commerce Secretary saying, well, probably, you know, we'll roll back some of this stuff.
	What is going on with it?
	There isn't any coherent plan, folks.
	There's no strategy.
	It's dumb and dumber time.
	I'm back to where we were with the election, you know, between Trump and Lala.
	It's dumb or dumber time.
	Nobody knows what they're doing.
	They don't have any plan for any of this stuff.
	There's no point in any of it.
	Trump and Trudeau are working together, he says, both puppets of the World Economic Forum.
	I think it's about chaos and the rest of the stuff.
	He says we need to wake people up to what happens on Education Day, March the 15th.
	Every year, the president meets with Shabad Lubavitch and signs the Noahide laws claiming America was founded on them.
	I've not seen that, but I'll take a look at this.
	Beware the Ides of March.
	That is aware of the Noahide laws, and that is not what our country is based on.
	Going back to this, they're suggesting that you stock up on cereal grains, on avocados, which almost all come from Mexico.
	90% of avocados are imported from Mexico and the U.S. Beer and liquor.
	I think we'll pass on that one.
	Maple syrup, though.
	He said you might want to stock up on maple syrup because it doesn't just come from Vermont.
	A lot of it comes from Canada.
	And he points out that even after you open it, it'll stay fresh for about a year.
	It lasts for two years when kept sealed and in a cool and dry place.
	Meat is something to think about because Canada is the largest supplier of meat products to the U.S. Is that part of why this is happening?
	Because, you know, it's like the Trump administration is pursuing these policies, not for the stated reasons of the C40, of Bloomberg and Sadiq Khan and all the rest of these people who say, we don't want you to have any meat or dairy.
	But, you know, you look at the cars.
	He's going to destroy the automobile industry with his stuff.
	That's where the big price increases are going to be coming.
	Forget about avocados, okay?
	It is the automobiles that are going to really be under pressure.
	It's a one-two punch from Biden and Trump.
	They come at him from different angles.
	You get a left hook, and then you get a supposedly right hook, even though I think that Donald Trump is a lefty.
	Fresh and frozen produce, they said.
	Since a lot of the stuff is coming in from Mexico, 88% of Mexico's produce eventually ends up in the U.S. Some of it fresh, some of it frozen.
	So I said stock up on that while you can.
	So it's a word of the wise.
	But in a word, what are the Trump tariffs about?
	ABC News quotes a person who says this is just dumb.
	Just dumb.
	There's no apparent strategy to any of this stuff.
	And they put it on, take it off, put it on, take it off.
	Canada and Mexico blast these historic Trump tariffs, threaten retaliation.
	And again, what was he trying to do with his, I didn't like the USMCA. I didn't like NAFTA. USMCA was NAFTA rebranded, warmed over.
	But he was so proud of it.
	What has changed with all this?
	It is going back to the technocracy.
	We're going to talk about that coming up.
	Hours after the trade war broke out, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday afternoon, That Trump may soon offer Canada and Mexico a pathway to relief from tariffs placed on some of these goods covered by North American Free Trade Agreement.
	Oh, so we're going to honor some of that then?
	Here's the interesting thing.
	When you look at NAFTA, and when you look at the USMCA, and again, he says covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
	They don't capitalize free trade agreement.
	So this is not NAFTA. NAFTA was replaced by USMCA. But when you look at these trade agreements, what happens if they raise taxes in a way that they had already agreed under this treaty not to do it?
	Well, for both NAFTA and the USMCA, they have treaty lawyers.
	And it is a process of arbitration.
	One of the reasons why I disagreed with this was because it puts some Corporations on equal footing with the governments and things like that.
	But corporations that are involved in all this stuff, for example, you could take Ford, GM, Stellantis.
	They could basically bring charges against the Trump administration.
	It'd be a long, drawn-out process.
	And, of course, meanwhile, they're losing money.
	But if they wanted to, they could bring up an arbitration process on this USMCA stuff and stop Trump.
	Dead in his tracks.
	He doesn't have the authority to do this.
	And as I pointed out from the very beginning, the terrorists are supposed to arise from Congress, not from the president.
	So, anyway, Lutnik goes on to say, I think he's going to work something out with them.
	It's not going to be a pause.
	None of that pause stuff, he says.
	But I think he's going to figure out...
	You do more, and I'll meet you in the middle some way, and we're going to probably be announcing that tomorrow, he said yesterday.
	Lutnik said.
	Folks, these guys are just Atlantic City gangsters.
	That's all they are.
	Organized crime.
	Mobsters.
	He's a mob boss.
	They don't care about the rule of law.
	This is about, you know, hey, I'm holding all the cards here.
	You're in a very weak position here.
	You do what I say.
	It's that type of thing.
	Trump alleged that illicit drugs such as fentanyl had continued to enter the U.S. through Mexico and Canada.
	Again, that was all lies.
	It's all coming through Mexico.
	And Trump said when Trudeau pushed back with that, he did about a 20-minute speech.
	I only played about a minute and a half of it.
	But when Trudeau pushed back, Trump puts up on Truth Social, Trudeau of Canada.
	It's the 51st state, you know.
	He's playing to his audience.
	What a reprehensible creep he is.
	When he puts on a retaliatory tariff on the U.S., our reciprocal tariff will be immediately increased by a like amount.
	There you go.
	That's the Chicago way.
	The New York City way.
	The mobster way that we're going to do this here.
	As many are saying, Most inexplicable decision yet.
	Spectacularly foolish, but even more so.
	It's not even the foolishness of it.
	There's no strategy.
	It's not about protectionism.
	It's not about revenue.
	It's about attacking a country.
	What for?
	Why is he doing that?
	Why is he singling out a country, not an industry?
	He's not going to replace the income tax with it.
	The new tariffs will raise prices for American consumers.
	It'll weaken the American auto industry.
	It'll prompt severe retaliation from America's top trading partners.
	With respect to China, a case can be made that tariffs would promote U.S. national security and domestic industry if they were targeted and well-designed.
	But they're not targeted, and they're not well-designed.
	They're just across the board.
	Like I said, you want to target them?
	You know, for semiconductors or for AI that they want to compete with them on or something like that.
	Oh, fine.
	If you did that, you could say, well, there's a purpose to it.
	It's just across the board.
	The 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are utterly incomprehensible.
	Higher than they are on China.
	There is no grand economic vision.
	There is no geopolitical strategy or even political logic behind them.
	Trump's tariffs are a rare policy that might turn out to represent nothing but That is nothing but chaos.
	And I think that is his goal.
	And look, he's going to get it, too.
	The Canadian Premier threatens to cut electricity to millions of Americans as Trudeau announces retaliatory tariffs.
	And this is Ontario Premier Doug Ford went further, said his province was ready to cut off electricity to millions of Americans in New York, Minnesota, and Michigan.
	If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cut off their energy.
	With a smile on my face, he says.
	So this is, everybody's going to get out there, they're going to beat their chest, and who is it that's going to be harmed by this?
	And again, you've even got Polyev, and not just Ford, who's a leftist, but you've got Polyev, who's there as a supposedly conservative.
	Everybody is now uniting behind World Economic Forum puppet Trudeau.
	Polyev vows to fight back against Trump's tariffs as well in Canada.
	He said, 12 a.m., President Trump, this is the conservative, President Trump stabbed America's best friend in the back, he said, in a 14-minute press conference.
	Trudeau has one for 25 minutes.
	Polyev, who was, again, I have real issues about whether or not he's a true conservative, but still, he was their opposition to this stuff.
	He had a 15, 14, 15-minute conference.
	He said, my message to the president is this.
	Canada will fight back.
	And again, Ford says he's going to, part of his response, he's threatened to cut off electricity, but he's already cut off a contract that Elon Musk had for Starlink satellite internet.
	He said, it's done.
	It's gone.
	We won't award contracts to people who enable and who encourage economic attacks on our country.
	It's done.
	It's gone.
	Starlink.
	So there we go.
	Soylent Goy says, I think Trump is going to cause more inflation and probably a recession because he's worried about the obesity problem.
	We'll all be scarecrows soon.
	MAGA. Yeah, I don't know what.
	I think he is an agent of chaos.
	I think he is a globalist.
	I think he is a fifth column traitor.
	Insider.
	We know he's a traitor to our country when it comes to Israel, but he's a traitor to our country with the World Economic Forum and their agenda as well.
	Everything that he did in 2020 was for their benefit.
	He followed the plan to a T. And none of this stuff is for our benefit.
	He has big spats with other countries so he can tell everybody that he's standing up for America.
	And yet, you know, he goes to the World Economic Forum.
	He hangs out with Klaus Schwab, and 10 days later, his pharmaceutical head of HHS declares a pandemic emergency when they can only scrounge up in their imagination six people that supposedly had this imaginary COVID-19 stuff.
	Angry Tiger.
	He's acting like a bully right on time.
	The rest of the world will be against us as well, and we'll all be bullies.
	The children get together and stand up to him.
	And that's the other part of it, too.
	He really is making America an international pariah.
	International pariah.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back.
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	Took us a while to get the website set up and to get the different packaging because it's such a large coin.
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	That was such a nice gesture for Ryan to do, and really to appreciate that.
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	Let's talk a little bit about what is happening with the technocracy, where a lot of this stuff is going.
	And I thought it was interesting to see that Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, and of course long-term pal, Peter Thiel, who is also one of the co-founders of Palantir.
	And you've heard me talk about this many, many times.
	Palantir was one of the first and is still the most probably powerful and politically connected of all these companies that are spying on us for the government.
	It was there to collate information, all this geospatial intelligence that was there.
	He's now written a book, and he's doing a tour of media.
	This is kind of...
	He went on with...
	Was it CNBC Squawk Box or something?
	I guess they're the ones that do that.
	I don't watch cable.
	But he goes on with them, and he's talking about how...
	His leftist friends, which he really likes, he's a hardcore leftist Democrat.
	He says, I really want to see the Democrat Party not disappear.
	He's wringing his hands like James Carville over what is happening with the Democrats.
	But he thinks their problem is that they just won't bow to the smartest man around, which is Elon Musk.
	He said, they're not left.
	They're not right.
	They're not Democrat.
	They're not Republican.
	They're technocrat.
	And so here is Karp talking about...
	That aspect.
	And then we'll talk about his book, which is called Technological Republic.
	Or they could call it the Technate.
	Or they could call it the Technocracy.
	All those words fit.
	Here's Alex Karp talking about Doge and how the Democrats know what's good for them.
	They'll go along with Doge.
	There's two revolutions happening.
	One is transparency and one is AI. Okay, so why is it that we do not know where every penny of our money goes?
	Like, how do you explain that to people?
	And by the way, slightly more technically, what large language models do is they mean you can go into the contracts and see exactly what happened.
	So in the past, we couldn't do this.
	Now we can.
	The right response is, we want this to happen.
	We want to happen.
	We want to be involved in the dialogue.
	The real response is, it feels like...
	The people criticizing Elon don't want it to happen.
	And this is going to destroy those people.
	Alex Karp, the book is called The Technological Republic.
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	Well, think about what he was saying.
	You had this transparency revolution as part of it, right?
	And what he means is that we've never been able to go in before and Data mine, the way they can data mine.
	That's what Palantir does.
	That's what all this stuff is about.
	And so to be able to go in and grab the information and collate it and make sense of it and everything, and that's what you should really be afraid of.
	That kind of transparency, because that's going to be there in every aspect of our life, whether you're talking about continually auditing us.
	For the IRS or for something else, or continually auditing our speech and our attitudes and our political and religious beliefs.
	That's what this has always been designed for.
	Geospatial engineering was the fastest growing part of the intelligence community from the late 90s when they started creating these social media companies.
	They started creating these internet companies and everything.
	They were operating for free for many years.
	Where were they getting the money to operate?
	And it gets so big?
	Well, they're being funded by the U.S. government.
	Through the back door.
	Through these venture capital firms that were also created.
	But of course the CIA had its own venture capital firm, but they had the rest of these intelligence people sitting on the venture capital boards that were there.
	And so this has been the fastest growing part of the intelligence community.
	James Clapper came up through geospatial intelligence.
	That was where he rose quickly and got to the top.
	But this is the concerning thing.
	They've been saving the data forever.
	Say forever, you know, for the last 25 or so years.
	Everything that everybody does.
	That's what these big data centers that they've got, the one that's in Bluffdale, Utah, that's in the middle of the desert, using massive amounts of energy, massive amounts of water, more than you would use water and energy for a city.
	They're using that to store the information.
	So they can then go back in and collate it.
	And, of course, that's not the only data center that they've got.
	And they don't worry about the carbon footprint of those things, do they?
	Or the water usage or anything else.
	And now he says, what this is going to be done in our technological republic, we're going to have transparency.
	That means the government can go in and see everything that you're doing, is what he's saying.
	Transparency is not good in that respect.
	Everything that's being done with Doge, going in and finding all of the details and sorting it out, that's all being done by AI. It's not just a half dozen people that are there.
	Yeah, they're directing the AI. And they're using the AI. And that's how this tyranny is going to roll out.
	It's going to be artificial intelligence and this technology that is going to be under the direction and the use of a few people for evil means.
	That's what this is truly about.
	And so his book, The Technological Republic, it came out about two weeks ago.
	The reviews, people are very, very excited about it.
	From the Palantir co-founder and the economist, The guy the economist called the, quote, best CEO of 2024. And his deputy, it is a sweeping indictment of the West's culture of complacency.
	One of Financial Times' most anticipated books of the year.
	And I played for you a clip that he had a couple weeks ago when he was doing an investor thing.
	And he's talking about...
	How much he enjoys it, how much money they're making, and how they get to come after the people they think are bad guys.
	And he says, and yes, we kill some of them.
	That's what we're looking for.
	That's what these people are going to be doing.
	In this groundbreaking treatise, one of the tech's boldest thinkers and his longtime deputy offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition.
	The new arms race of artificial intelligence.
	Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have propelled Silicon Valley's success.
	Boy, this is technocracy in a nutshell, isn't it?
	You've got to embrace this.
	You've got to become like us.
	Government needs to be technocrats, right?
	It needs to be a technocracy.
	That's what they're saying throughout all of this.
	Now, some of the comments on Reddit.
	In response to this.
	Well, a little bit more about the review here.
	This review.
	At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book will also lift the veil on Palantir.
	I don't think so.
	And its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.
	Our new reality?
	That they're in charge.
	That they can see everything that we're doing.
	Yeah, welcome to your new reality.
	First comment here.
	Person says, I just threw up a little bit.
	I don't want to tell you what these a-holes don't want to confront.
	That's whether or not the copyrighted stuff that they're using to train their AI is covered under fair use doctrine.
	Yeah, all their AI stuff is all based on theft.
	You know, YouTube.
	That's their thing as well.
	They are stealing this stuff from people.
	So one person says, basically, what they started off with was a tool for intelligence agencies, that's right, to scrape and to assemble personal data from individuals from different sources, like pulling your Facebook profile and connecting it to your Google Maps data, etc.
	Then, because of money, they thought it's a good idea to sell this to regular companies.
	There were some cases that caused a stir when managers abused the access to info that they basically had to spy on the private life of their employees.
	I tried to dig this up as I'm writing it, and I can't find much about it.
	Very sus.
	These companies are making fortunes because they're making stuff no one with a moral spine in their body would consider to build.
	Peter Thiel is a libertarian who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of money and power.
	It should come as no surprise that the CEO of his company is right up there with the other tech nutjobs.
	And I wouldn't even call him a libertarian, right?
	One of the things that I thought was a good expression, of course, the Libertarian Party has now thrown out the non-aggression principle, but it was always, I do not support the use, the initiation.
	I do not support the initiation of force or fraud to achieve social or political goals.
	Well, they do support the initiation.
	Of force and fraud.
	They'll kill people.
	They'll befraud people.
	They'll steal to get what they want.
	So, do they spell out exactly what ideological confrontation they think is necessary?
	Because they refer to that as ideological confrontation.
	What confrontation do they think is necessary in the book?
	Or are they still nervous to say out loud that they think they inherently deserve to be rulers?
	And that they think eugenics is good, actually.
	Well, it's even worse than that.
	Because it's beyond eugenics.
	I mean, we're talking about transhumanism.
	We're talking about post-humanism.
	I mean, they're not trying to breed good humans.
	They're trying to breed the humanity out of us.
	Trying to merge us with machines.
	And that is Palantir.
	And that is Teal and Karp and Elon Musk.
	And you notice how, even though he's, well, I really like the Democrat Party, but they need to get with the program.
	They need to understand that we're going to rule them.
	They need to understand that Elon Musk has got tools that they can't comprehend, and he's going to control them.
	They better not oppose him.
	This is essentially what he's saying.
	So, Technology in the American Republic.
	The Technological Republic.
	The subtitle of the book is Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.
	Now, I'm not sure what he's saying about soft belief, but I think they've gone soft on any principles.
	They've gone soft on any principles of the West, Western civilization, Western civilization's Christianity and the principles that were there.
	Riding the artificial intelligence wave, Palantir's stock price soared about 370% over the last 12 months, and about 60% since the beginning of the year.
	This is one of the reasons why he was so gleeful as he was talking about killing people that got in his way.
	Karp has an unusual background for a tech billionaire.
	He's a graduate of Haverford College and Stanford Law School where he met Peter Thiel.
	He also earned a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University in Frankfurt.
	In 2002, he completed his dissertation in German.
	The formidable title of which translated is, Aggression in the Life World.
	The extension of Parsons' concept of aggression by describing the connection between jargon, aggression, and culture.
	Seems like he's kind of an aggressive person.
	He also, he's aggressive.
	He wants to know everything that you're doing.
	He wants to map you out.
	He's proud of the fact that he kills his enemies.
	All that stuff.
	He says in the book, we can and we must do better.
	Do better than what?
	Do better than the society that we've got.
	We've got to do better than the Constitution.
	We've got to do better than individual liberty.
	We've got to have technocrats ruling us.
	He says, the software industry should rebuild its relationship with the government and redirect its effort and its attention to constructing the technology and the AI capabilities that will address the most pressing challenges that we collectively face.
	It is an existential thing for us to have AI that puts us in charge of everyone and everything that can be weaponized against the people in this country and can be weaponized against other countries as well.
	So this is their arms race that they're pushing.
	As one person sums it up, trust me, I'm a technocrat.
	That's basically what they're telling you.
	Trust me, I'm a technocrat.
	Technocracy ascending, yeah.
	So that's coming from technocracy-news, and he has always focused on the technocracy.
	He is fully aware of what these guys are up to as well.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
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	He says, awesome, DK, the show coin, and I thank Ryan for that love of the road who put that together.
	That was his entire design.
	He took it upon himself and sent it to us.
	It's really nice.
	I'm going to keep one of those.
	Actually, I'm going to give Ryan one of them, too.
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	Take one down, you pass it around.
	Trump's Commerce Secretary.
	Claims that 250,000 people are already waiting for gold cards, but there's nowhere for them to sign up.
	So they rolled this out before they had their website.
	That's why we had to keep the coin.
	We had to get the website set up before we put it out there.
	I want to look a little bit deeper at this thing that's going to be happening, some of the lead-up to this so-called Bitcoin reserve.
	Which is really not about a reserve at all, I don't think.
	And I think he really kind of tipped his hand when he talked about that.
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	And Trucker Chris for the win.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's talk a little bit about what they are planning to do, because this all folds into...
	You know, the robber barons and the technocrats and everything.
	Because, again, this, you know, history rhymes.
	It doesn't exactly repeat.
	We had the robber barons were there with railroad businesses and stuff like that.
	Now these robber barons in the 21st century have got their AI and their crypto coins and all the rest of this stuff.
	The gold card visa program.
	Touting that there's already 250,000 waiting in line for the visa pathway that the gold card program could soon replace.
	He went on, Lutnik did, with Brett Baer on Fox News.
	Again, spell it P-H-O-X for the pharmaceuticals that they push.
	So if 250,000 people were willing to pay the $5 million that the gold car requires, it would amount to over a trillion dollars to stimulate the U.S. economy and to pay down the national debt.
	So the government can filter some more of this to him and to his cronies to purchase stuff that overinflated.
	Prices.
	Or maybe it's just going to be, like Catherine Ross and Fitz said, a big pump and dump.
	You know, put our assets into this volatile currency, pump it up, have it crash.
	It's like, oh, sorry, now we're going to have to pay this off.
	We're going to have to steal the land.
	And we're going to sell off all the land.
	Because they're selling off the citizenship stuff as well.
	So, are we a slave to this government-created debt?
	Oh, yes, we are.
	I owe, I owe.
	That's off to work, I go, right?
	It's the same thing with these government debts.
	It's going to be land and citizenship for sale to the rich to pay off this debt.
	Is that the real purpose of Doge?
	I think it is.
	They want to do this as much as possible, then they're going to have this big pump and dump, then a liquidation cell.
	America-thon.
	Everything's got to go.
	Well, Lutnik said, That this gold card, again, would replace the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.
	It is not launched, so there's no way to apply for it yet.
	It is expected to be there in roughly two weeks.
	Now, Trump said, I'm not giving away citizenship.
	So what is it that he's giving away with this?
	Well, the EB-5 program was a program to get permanent residency.
	Very much like a green card type of thing, but with the EB-5s, they were created in 1990 as a method for immigrants to obtain a green card.
	To get the green card through the EB-5 program, you had to invest at least a million dollars in a company or $800,000 in a low-income area that would employ at least 10 people.
	And we've seen things like this in the Solana Solar.
	Scam during the Democrats and things like that.
	It's been a corrupt program.
	But the interesting thing about the EB-5 applicants is the number of them every year.
	Analysis of data tables indicates that there is currently a backlog of anywhere from 24,000 to 60,000 applicants.
	But that's nowhere close to the 250,000 applicants that he says.
	So he says, well, you've got 250,000 people want to get in.
	Well, you've got a program here where they can pay a million dollars to get in, or let's say 800 if they do it in a preferred area.
	But let's just talk about a million.
	So a million versus five million.
	You've got maybe as many as 60,000 people trying to get in on the one million level.
	There's going to be fewer people coming in at the 5 million level, but Lutnik is saying 250,000.
	Where are these people going to be coming in?
	In other words, it's not going to be a trillion dollars coming into the coffers.
	It's not going to be that big.
	But it will be there for some of their friends who are coming in, and I think that's the key issue.
	What country are they going to be coming in from?
	Because the EB-5 had limits in terms of how many people could come in from various countries.
	I mean, we could have, with this, we could have people coming in from Saudi Arabia.
	We could have people coming in from Afghanistan.
	You know, I mean, don't tell me that with all the pallets of cash they left behind, you couldn't find some Taliban who could scrape up a measly $5 million to come in and buy permanent residency.
	You could have a bunch of Israelis who would come in, you know, the Gaza developers.
	Who knows?
	I think that there's something here.
	They're not expecting 250,000 people, but they want to make a way for some of their friends to come in.
	So the U.S. allocates approximately 18,700 EB-5 visas.
	It caps the number that can be given to individuals from a specific country.
	So I'm assuming that this new program is not going to be any caps from a specific country.
	We might have all the people in the UAE buy an American citizenship.
	They can afford it.
	In 2024, more than 4,500 EB-5 visas were issued.
	So the EB-5 visa is a way of getting the green card.
	What does the green card give you?
	Permanent residency, but you can't vote, and you don't have a U.S. passport.
	And if you commit...
	Certain types of crimes that they've enumerated, they can deport you rather than imprison you.
	Okay, so that's what the green card is about.
	So the question is, if this is going to be a green card plus, what kind of things are they going to add to it to sweeten the deal?
	So that people would pay $5 million instead of $1 million or $800,000.
	What is it that they're going to do?
	The interesting thing is that they're not going to require them to pay tax on their non-U.S. income.
	So the U.S. government has always taxed all foreign income as well as all domestic income.
	And so that's going to be the big thing that they're offering these cats.
	You can have American residency, but you don't have to pay taxes on your foreign investments that are there, your foreign income.
	And that is not.
	What is there with the HB5 program?
	The HB5, they get their green card, they've got to pay taxes on everything, including their foreign earnings.
	So think about this.
	These people come in and give $5 million.
	They get benefits superior to Americans.
	Because Americans have to pay taxes on any foreign earnings as well as domestic earnings.
	But these people with the gold card don't have to.
	America first?
	Uh-uh.
	No.
	No.
	Money first.
	Money first for the Trump administration and everything.
	So no cap on the number of gold cards issued.
	No caps on any country.
	No taxes on foreign income.
	No vetting, I'm sure.
	200,000 of these gold green cards is a trillion dollars to pay down our debt, said Lutnik.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen.
	There's something else going on with this.
	Again, just like the tariffs, this is not about raising money.
	Just like tariffs are not about raising money, it's not about protecting an industry, it's about attacking a country.
	This has got some other agenda attached to it as well.
	They said it's even more unlikely that one million foreigners would apply for a gold card.
	And they say that because when you look at...
	How many people are millionaires?
	And how many people are wealthy enough that they could pay $5 million for this?
	So there's approximately 424,000 people in the world with a net worth of $30 million or more.
	And 277,000 of them live overseas.
	So if Lucky Lutnik was telling you the truth, which you can pretty much count the fact that if he's talking, it's not the truth.
	I don't think he'd ever tell you the truth about anything.
	So he says 250,000 people want to come in.
	Well, there's only 277,000 people living overseas who have a net worth of $30 million or more.
	Nearly half of the 424,000 people that have a net worth of $30 million or more.
	And they just looked at that and said, well, I think this is an arbitrary cutoff point.
	If you've got a net worth of $30 million and you really want American residency for some reason, you could afford to pay the $5 million.
	But there's only 277,000 people who have a net worth of $30 million or more that are not already living in America.
	And the question is, do we really like a system here where anybody who's got $30 million can be an American?
	No loyalty required?
	Just cash?
	Just cash?
	And look, they may not be able to vote, but...
	They can buy politicians.
	It's far more important to have the money to buy a politician.
	That may be what this is about.
	I really don't know.
	Honestly, I don't know why he would do something like this.
	Trump has come up with one crazy idea, one chaotic idea after the other in just a very short period of time.
	So let's take a look at this strategic Bitcoin reserve.
	And again, as Catherine Austin Fitz said, I get the idea of a strategic petroleum reserve, which Biden did his best to destroy.
	We need to have something that is useful, like oil, in case sources of it dry up suddenly or cut off suddenly by political enemies.
	But what do we need this stuff for?
	You can't do anything useful with a Bitcoin.
	I mean, you could do something.
	A gold reserve, that is something that is useful because it's accepted everywhere.
	Not just where...
	MasterCard and Visa are applied, you know.
	So the Trump crypto strategy, he focused on ADA, XRP, and SOL, which doesn't mean substance out of luck, right?
	Although it may mean that for us.
	That may be the reality of what is happening.
	And we saw all these things get pumped and dumped.
	I guess, you know, part of it is to, you buy on rumor and you sell on news.
	And so, but this was a little bit different.
	It went up so much that people immediately started selling it, even before the news as to what Trump is going to do with these things is announced.
	You had huge gains, 72% gains for the cryptocurrency ADA. Immediately.
	Immediately.
	And so, you know, a lot of people wanted to take their profits on it.
	So let's take a look at these three currencies.
	What are they?
	XRP. This is attached to a company called Ripple.
	It was designed to do fast transactions.
	It's not designed, and of course, you know, we look at the hijacking of Bitcoin.
	Roger Bear and others have talked about it, and I had Aaron Day come on.
	He said, yeah, it was originally set up to do transactions and to try to do transactions without using Federal Reserve notes, fiat currency.
	But then it got hijacked, and it became an asset that people would buy and trade and gamble on.
	Right?
	That's the hijacking of it.
	Taking something that was set up to do, transactions, like I'm going to buy a pizza with Bitcoin.
	And now you look at it after they turned it into an asset to be hoarded.
	Now the people who bought that first transaction of pizza, they have a day where they celebrate that.
	And I don't know what it's up to now.
	But it's like hundreds of millions of dollars for buying a pizza in today's value.
	XRP came along.
	It was designed for fast transactions.
	They are targeting institutions, though.
	Not really individuals with XRP. There is no proof of work on any of these three.
	On XRP, ADA, or SOL, which is Solana.
	And again, proof of work is what all the mining of Bitcoin is about.
	It's to keep it honest, right?
	You've got to do some calculations to process these things.
	Well, they're not doing any of that.
	Instead, what they're doing is they're going to proof of stake.
	The initials for that are POS, which also are initials for what this whole thing is.
	It all is a piece of S. But the proof of stake, stakeholders, right?
	What this means, I've got the authority to do this.
	I'm a trusted individual or whatever.
	You need to trust me as an institution.
	All three of these are about POS. And CBDC was about POS. That was a major distinction between CBDC and Bitcoin, was that Bitcoin was about proof of work, and the CBDCs were just going to be, well, this belongs to the central bank, so you can trust it.
	That type of thing.
	And that raised a lot of red flags with a lot of people.
	But, you know, these things were set up, again, XRP was set up to target institutions to do fast transactions.
	No proof of work.
	And it relies on trusted validators.
	It's not designed as a store of value.
	It's not really for retail.
	It's really for financial institutions and processing transactions.
	It is highly centralized.
	It is owned by just a few people.
	As a matter of fact, They are not, you know, creating these coins with a mining process.
	They had 100 billion tokens, and they were all there at creation, at the moment of creation.
	You know, kind of like the angels, you know.
	There's nothing angelic about this stuff.
	But they had 100 billion of these tokens.
	And they kept 80% of them themselves.
	And so they're using this as a transactional thing.
	So this would be, you know, settling international transactions, you know, kind of like SWIFT or something like that.
	And that is a function that they need to have for CBDC. And it's also about tokenization, which is a function that they need to have in order to steal everything from us.
	Steal all of our land.
	Steal everything.
	You go back to Lutnik.
	And I assume that he is probably going to be taking his grandkid to kindergarten the day that the economy crashes like 9-11 towers.
	He will be taking a powder on all this stuff.
	But he will have tokenized everything.
	That's what all these people around Trump are about.
	They're all about derivatives, tokenization, and everything else.
	Anyway, the other one, ADA. Created in 2017, launched by the co-founder of Ethereum.
	It is also a POS. Proof of stake.
	It supports NFTs.
	The kind of stuff that Lutnik has been involved with.
	It supports smart contracts, too.
	And you can take these smart contracts.
	They're very close to what they want to do in terms of Proscribing what you can buy and controlling what you can buy with these smart contracts.
	So it checks a lot of boxes for the functionality of a CVDC without it being a government function, a public-private partnership with these stakeholders who just have to have a proof of stake and the approval of the president because Congress does nothing anymore.
	Nothing anymore.
	Then finally, SOL, Solana.
	It was set up for speed and for scalability.
	It has low transaction fees.
	It came about just in 2020. It was heavily involved with meme coins.
	And so you got, you know, these different currencies are all there for transactions.
	They've been involved in NFTs.
	They've been involved in meme coins and in smart contracts and all the rest of this stuff.
	You start to see where this is leading.
	No reserve.
	With these digital gold, right?
	Instead, you're going to have digital money using private currencies as proxies.
	And remember, CBDC had to be used for institutional transactions as well as for individual transactions.
	And they were going to roll it out for institutional transactions first.
	That's where they first did it with FedNow.
	And then they go to FedCoin.
	I think that this...
	Initial stage here is like creating their public-private partnership digital coin, kind of like a FedNow.
	Because FedNow was about transferring money between the institutions.
	It wasn't about a retail coin.
	I think that's where we are with this thing that's going to happen on Friday.
	So Ripple had said, private sector innovation meets public vision.
	That's kind of their motto.
	Functionally, a lot of the same stuff as the CBDC, except without the central bank.
	It is a giant step towards CBDC, without calling it that.
	And again, starting first with the wholesale stuff, before they get to the retail stuff.
	So all this news triggered a lot of buying.
	Bitcoin went from about $85,000 to $95,000.
	The Cardano stuff jumped by 72%.
	But again, it's created a lot of extra volatility.
	And a marketplace that was already pretty volatile.
	Trump is about chaos.
	He's about pump and dump.
	And look, these guys, whether you're talking about Wall Street or especially talking about these crypto things, they thrive on the volatility.
	That's how they make their money.
	They don't make any money if everything goes sideways and stays horizontal.
	If it's going up and down, big time, they can trigger that stuff.
	I think that's a big part of what Trump is doing as well.
	So Bitcoin has been all over the place.
	And my thing, when I look at it, I think that Trump is going to try to turn America into one of his failed casinos.
	And then, just like with his other casinos, it would be the Rothschilds who are holding the paperwork at the end of the day, like they did with Wilbur Ross.
	So, this one guy says, I don't believe that a strategic digital asset reserve can be established by executive order.
	He says, if that is correct, then, would Congress pass a strategical digital asset reserve anytime soon?
	If the answer to that is yes, which he says I think that is unlikely, at what level would Congress fund purchases of digital assets in the reserve?
	So first of all, I don't think the executive can do this.
	Secondly, it'd have to be done by Congress.
	Would they?
	And then if they would, what amount would they actually put in it?
	Would it be significant or not?
	Well, I think the problem is that he's not really looking at the Trump effect.
	The Trump effect is that Trump gets to do whatever he wants to in Congress.
	Mike Johnson and the rest of them are going to lay down for him.
	They will offer him up as a Nobel Peace Prize winner and all the rest of this.
	Anything he wants to do, he'll be able to do.
	And he doesn't have the authority under the Constitution to do terrorists, but they wiggle around.
	They give him the room to do that.
	They'll give him the room to do this as well somehow.
	They don't want to be the ones to decide whether or not we're going to have a war.
	They want the presidents to decide that as well.
	So the Bitcoin returns to being under $90,000.
	I don't know where it is today.
	I keep getting these alerts on Cash App saying it jumped up by 5%.
	It went down by 5%.
	It's back up again by 5%.
	The market, however, liquidated $150 million in just hours.
	There's a massive amount of programmed trading, and this is all pumping and dumping.
	Trump is boosting the crypto barons and his own struggling meme coin.
	When you look at it, Trump's meme coin is based on SOL. There's your connection, right?
	One of the most recently connected one.
	His dollar Trump coin, which had a meteoric rise after he first launched it, has collapsed in price.
	Over the last two months, again, pump and dump.
	And it's what he's going to do with this reserve, I think.
	Pumpty Dumpty had a great fall.
	And all of Trump's kings and everything are not going to put it together again.
	And so this is a direct transfer of wealth from the U.S. Treasurer to David Sachs, another crypto baron, said Ryan Grimm.
	He said the railroad and the coal tycoons of the 19th century.
	Could never have dreamed of this level of heist.
	And that is exactly what it is.
	Angry Tiger says, this is just a scam Mr. America first auctioning off American foreign investors will come in and buy up American assets.
	Well, that could be a part of it, too, you know.
	You could say that, you know, the $5 million...
	Could be an entry-level land, and these people, you know, maybe you'll have this, and it's like, I'm sorry, nobody but American citizens and permanent residents can bid on the land that we're going to sell off.
	Because they've telegraphed this over and over again.
	Treasury Secretary Besant, you've got Commerce Secretary Lutnik, you've got the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, they're all talking about how we've got all these massive, hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of assets, if you look at the value of the land that the government claims that it owns.
	Unconstitutionally claims that it owns.
	And so if you're going to put all that stuff out, maybe that's the big draw for these wealthy people.
	Hey, if you pay us the $5 million, then you get preferred treatment on this auction.
	We bankrupt the country and sell it all off.
	Maybe that's part of it.
	I don't know.
	So a lot of people are questioning this $200 million investment.
	We did get a...
	Somebody put a $200 million bet.
	Look like on this Bitcoin Reserve thing, which we now have an explanation for that.
	By the way, let me just say before we keep going here, you know, when I look at all this stuff, again, everybody make your own choices.
	Some people want to put a little bit of money in Bitcoin and gamble with it, but that's what it is.
	It's gambling.
	You know, just like I look at the stock market as gambling.
	I certainly look at the crypto market as gambling.
	There's no way that you can really make a rational decision about any of these things.
	I've invested in the stock market before, doing due diligence and said, well, you know, looks like the internet's going to be a sure thing, and it was.
	I'm not even going to try to pick winners in the dot-com thing.
	I'm going to invest in the companies that are making the...
	The tools that the Internet's going to be built out of.
	You know, the people making the switchers and people, even companies like Cisco and things like that.
	Sound companies that are going to be making the tools that are going to be used to construct the Internet.
	It still went crazy.
	Still crashed, you know.
	And if everything crashes and you've got to cash out at that point in time, you lose it.
	It's just that simple.
	And so I don't like volatile stuff.
	I don't invest in stocks anymore.
	I don't want to invest in any crypto stuff.
	And, you know, I look at it as just the gold stuff.
	Now, you know, Tony will help you if you want to get involved in the crypto thing.
	He'll help you with setting up your own private wallet and stuff like that.
	And you can move back and forth.
	If you got some of it in crypto, you can transfer it over to gold, for example, without a fee at WiseWolfGold.
	And he set up davidknight.gold to take you to WiseWolf and let him know that you came through us.
	And so it is, again, I would strongly recommend the safe stuff to people, stuff that's got real value, stuff that is private, stuff that is not volatile.
	And not transparent to Alex Karp and his cronies.
	That's why I like physical.
	I like financial transactional privacy and all the rest of this stuff.
	So, again, David and I are going to take you to Tony Arderman, and we really do appreciate Tony's support.
	So, a lot of people are saying, well, this is blatant corruption, but when they looked at it, They said, well, one guy said, I tracked this guy's wallet.
	See, that's another thing.
	It's trackable.
	You don't even have to be Palantir to track where this stuff is going.
	He said, I tracked this guy's wallet, and it turns out that he got his funds from fishing.
	And he is also a Rubet whale.
	Rubet is a crypto casino.
	Really is a crypto casino.
	So he's kind of a shady character.
	He got a lot of money doing all that kind of stuff.
	And they can determine all that just by looking at his public, the public ledger.
	See, crypto doesn't mean that it's encrypted.
	It's very visible for everybody.
	It's only the stuff that is used to process the transactions.
	That's the only part of it that is encrypted.
	The rest of it is a big public ledger.
	And people can look at this and the guy says, okay, you're saying that this is some kind of an insider trade?
	No, this guy is a gambler.
	He gambles at a crypto casino.
	He does phishing attacks on people.
	And he also closed his long positions before the Trump second announcement.
	And so he missed out on tens of millions of dollars.
	Turns out he's just a gambler with stolen funds, not somebody with inside information, said a person.
	However, somebody who is a gambler and somebody who does have inside information is Howard Lutnik.
	The Nancy Pelosi of the Trump administration.
	So, Howard Lutnick, a businessman who pumped $75 million into...
	I'm sorry, that's not him.
	This is another person.
	This is a guy, Justin Sun.
	S-U-N. A 34-year-old Chinese crypto entrepreneur.
	And he was in trouble with the SEC. Until he made a big donation to the Trump family.
	And then that all just went away.
	I mean, when you go back and look at it, right now, the Democrats don't have the votes to impeach Trump.
	In two years, if they've got the votes, they're going to have more than enough evidence to impeach him for any variety of things that are out there.
	Starting with this particular case.
	He pumped $75 million into the Trump family-backed crypto token.
	And again, SOL ran the token, so we're going to bring in SOL into our Bitcoin reserve thing.
	He's now, the SEC has now done a very fast 180. They were coming after him for fraud, and then he invested $75 million into the Trump family meme coins and other things like that, and now the SEC has gone away magically.
	Two years ago, the SEC charged Sun and his companies with selling unregistered securities and fraudulently manipulating the prices of a digital token, Tronix.
	Sounds like what they all do.
	He's become one of the most prominent investors in the World Liberty Financial Crypto Project, which is backed by the Trump family.
	Sun's $75 million purchase of World Liberty tokens Which he has touted in social media posts, could set the Trump family up to eventually collect tens of millions of dollars themselves, as the family is entitled to 75% of the token's revenues.
	Sun is also an official advisor to World Liberty, which lists Trump as its, quote, chief crypto advocate, unquote, and his son Barron as a, quote, DeFi visionary.
	Decentralized finance.
	That's another one of their crypto thingies.
	Crypto offers a particularly easy way to anonymously or otherwise funnel money into assets that directly benefit the president and his family.
	If Biden was engaging in these shady dealings, people would rightly be throwing a fit, but not with Trump.
	With Trump, they just look the other way.
	So, by the way, this guy, this Justin Sun, Do you remember somebody did a piece of artwork, and I'll use the term with air quotes, that took a banana and they duct taped it to a wall?
	Do you remember that?
	And some guy paid $6 million for it, actually $6.2 million, for a banana that was duct taped to a wall.
	And then in front of the cameras in Hong Kong, he took it off the wall and ate it.
	Just to show how wealthy he is.
	This is the guy that dumped $75 million into the Trump family crypto scheme and then subsequently got the SEC to drop the investigation into him that had been going on for two years.
	Nothing to see here.
	We don't have to worry about anything that Donald Trump does.
	They're all in the up and up, right?
	Trump family has been cooking this This WLF crypto scheme for a long time.
	It finally bore fruit after its election, thanks in no small part to the big push from Sun.
	The way it worked, its founders would retain 70% of the project's governance tokens and would only get a big payout if the token hit a certain threshold of investment.
	And that's what they do with a pump and dump.
	They keep 70% of the threshold and it goes public.
	And everybody wants to buy into it because it's Trump or because it's Melania's coin or whatever.
	And so then the price jumps up after the intro.
	They've already got 70% of this.
	And they can sell off this stuff and then, boom, it goes back to nothing.
	Nothing.
	So maybe Trump should rename this WLF. Maybe he should rename it Icarus.
	Because maybe it flew too close to the sun.
	I might get him impeached if there's any injustice in this country.
	What a scam.
	What a corrupt organization.
	And we're only three weeks into it.
	It just makes my head spin to think what the next several years are going to be like with all of this corruption that we've seen in just the first few weeks.
	It's going to be a real rollercoaster ride right here at the tail end of the fourth turning.
	DG8, thank you.
	He says, David, XRP Ripple will be the CBDC. XRP Ripple is the only crypto.
	That is a business partner listed on the World Economic Forum.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	It'll be the choice of the globalists.
	Fast, cheap, and efficient.
	Well, you know, also Ethereum is in there.
	And Ethereum, they had said, would be the substrate for a lot of these CBDCs when we were looking at it and saying, you know, what are they going to do?
	How long would it take them to implement this stuff?
	And a lot of people said, oh, they could do it right away using Ethereum.
	So there's a number of these that they could use, but it looks like they do have an inside track.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
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	Let's talk a little bit about this Epstein list thing, because I thought it was an interesting headline.
	What if I told you there was no Epstein list?
	Well, I've been telling people that, but this guy who wrote this op-ed piece actually has an authoritative position about this.
	He actually knows that there is no Epstein list.
	Nick Bryant said, I uploaded, Nick uploaded.
	Epstein's black book to the internet back in 2015. He said, and I believe that's the closest that we've come to an Epstein list because a black book contains the names of numerous perps.
	He said, I also uploaded passenger manifests from Epstein's various sojourns, which I believe contain the names of various perpetrators too, he said.
	The documentation I released in 2015 had exponentially more information in it, he says, on the particulars of the Epstein case than the redacted dreck that Bondi released last week.
	In the Epstein list, or the Epstein Files narrative, however, he said, each acts like Epstein kept a list of his child-molesting clients as if he were a travel agent at the Jeffrey Epstein Travel Agency.
	And, of course, it never existed in that form.
	That's why we look at all this stuff.
	JFK files, all the rest of it.
	If there was ever anything there, you would have to piece it together if all the pieces were still there.
	It's a jigsaw puzzle that long ago, all of the jigsaw, most of the pieces were erased if they were there in the first place.
	And there isn't anything there that really is a smoking gun, probably.
	They would not have committed it into a written record.
	All of this stuff is a hoax.
	It's a hoax.
	The Epstein-List narrative, he says, is problematic because the idea that he just kept their names and numbers in his black book, at best, the Epstein-List is wishful thinking.
	At worst, though, he said, it is a contrived meme.
	And he would know because he's been on top of this stuff from the very beginning.
	But just recall that it was just a couple of days ago and you had people like D.C. Drano.
	One of the influencers, the people that have been set there to lead you around by the nose, to lead you on wild goose chases, and to bring out red herrings like this to throw you off of the trail of what is really happening.
	You know, that's the metaphor.
	They have the fox hunts.
	The people who didn't like the fox hunts and wanted to stop them but didn't have the power to stop them would take a smelly fish, a red herring, and as a fox would run by, they'd run out and drag the smelly fish across the...
	The trail so that the hounds lost the scent.
	That's what these influencers like D.C. Drano are doing.
	He said, I've been informed that every word of the Epstein files is in this binder and will be released in full today.
	We cannot control the exact time, but it's happening.
	The Trump administration is the most transparent in our lifetime.
	Equal justice is being restored in America.
	And that's what I said when I first covered what he had to say.
	I said, yeah, it's so transparent you can see all the people standing behind him.
	That had been funding him and all of this stuff.
	So Bondi says that she was misled on these Epstein documents.
	She's very concerned about this.
	But now she's got a truckload of this.
	And any day now, she's going to get all this information out there.
	You know, we were talking about the crypto pump and dump stuff and the Trump family's involvement with Justin's son and the rest of this.
	But that's just one way that the Trumps have run scams.
	Take a look at Jeff Bezos, who was sniffing around Mar-a-Lago for some way that he could insinuate himself into this clown show.
	And Melania Trump is going to earn at least $28 million from Amazon for a documentary deal.
	She will walk away with at least $28 million as part of a $40 million agreement with Amazon to license a documentary film about her life.
	And I would just say this, your best shot at getting information about Jeffrey Epstein, what was really going on there, would be if she told the truth in a biography, because she was one of his prostitutes.
	He introduced her to Donald Trump.
	If she was, and you know, this is a possibility.
	I mean, who would have thought four years ago that Melania would have written a book bragging about her porn?
	You know, at first when that was put out, the MAGA people were absolutely incensed.
	How dare you publish pictures of her previous career when she was Epstein's first lady and doing nude modeling and how dare you put that stuff out?
	And then who would have thought that a few years later she would do a biography talking about how proud she was of that.
	So maybe she'll be really proud of her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
	And maybe she will give you the full scoop on that.
	It's going to have to be somebody like her who would talk that's going to do it.
	Anyway, she is due to receive over 70% of the deal's proceeds.
	A $40 million deal.
	She had been shopping sponsorship deals for this film to all the people who were showing up in Mar-a-Lago, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	The first lady also reportedly told blue-chip CEOs who attended her husband's inauguration That they would need to pony up at least $10 million in exchange for being acknowledged at the end of the film's credits.
	Oh.
	Okay, so it's kind of like the inauguration itself, you know, where you raise record amounts of money, and you get your name there, and who knows, maybe there'll be some goodies in a grab bag for you later in the Trump administration.
	The open selling of influence is just amazing, which, again, I talk about this.
	Because they're going to be openly selling our country right out from underneath us.
	You just wait.
	You just wait.
	This gang of thieves that he has accumulated, some of the biggest, most successful thieves in the history of mankind, all coalescing around the Trump administration, all sniffing around for how they can get an inside track on this stuff.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, the first lady was keen on persuading Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
	Who has historically had a difficult relationship with the president.
	She wanted him to buy the rights to document.
	This is a guy who really needs to mend his fences with my husband.
	I bet I can really stick him up.
	She did.
	She did.
	And so now, where is she going?
	Well, now she is holding a roundtable on deep fakes.
	And revenge porn.
	See?
	This is how they play both sides of the fence.
	They'll have a big festival in Mar-a-Lago one day for LGBT, and the LGBT people will be giving her awards.
	And then the next day, she's talking to a group of Christians at a prayer breakfast.
	And so she puts out her porn book, and then she's going to hold a roundtable on deep fakes and revenge porn.
	I guess porn's okay as long as they pay you, right?
	That's the key thing that she wants to make sure is that she gets her cut.
	Don't do a fake.
	I'll give you the real stuff if you pay me enough.
	So, again, we got Pam Bondi saying the FBI delivered now a truckload of Epstein files after she put out a hard deadline.
	I tell you, these people, you know, the QAnon folks and everything, they are so upset about this Epstein.
	And the fact that it fell apart, you know, she'd gone on Fox News and said, oh, you won't believe we're going to release everything, and it'll make you sick, as if she had read it, as if she had looked at the content, and then when it turns out to be far less than was revealed by this guy 10 years ago, in 2015, when it's far less than has already been previously revealed, she pretends she doesn't know anything about it.
	So that's just one week apart.
	So now she's got a truckload of stuff.
	And she says that she finds it infuriating as well, because the MAGA people who think they're going to get to the bottom of this, the people who've been told by these MAGA influencers, these snakes like D.C. Drano, that, oh, this is the most transparent thing, and Trump's going to tell you all about his long-term relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
	Now she says it's infuriating.
	She says all the Epstein files now are in.
	And she's talking about what's going to go public.
	She said over a 100-page document, the first phase of this, but it failed, that 100-page document failed to contain any new information.
	It sparked controversy online.
	So she goes on with Sean Hannity to smooth this stuff over because that's what Sean Hannity is there for.
	He was there to smooth everything over between Fox and Trump.
	Trump was peeved with him.
	By the way, it's not just the Trump administration.
	It's also Microsoft is still, you know, it was a couple of weeks ago.
	They said, well, okay, the new administration and we are not going to be doing this NewsGuard censorship stuff anymore.
	So they make these announcements.
	Everybody's great.
	Look at that.
	Trump is so powerful.
	He's stopping the censorship.
	Of course, he's going to be censoring people who criticize the state of Israel's government.
	But now Microsoft is still using it.
	They disavowed it a couple of weeks ago, but now they're still using it.
	See, they did not have some kind of a road to Damascus experience with any of this stuff.
	They were all just coming around Trump because they were looking for hooks into how they could make investments for these things.
	And in Germany, we have the Stasi snitch government.
	You know, the unified East and West Germany looks like they brought in the values of the Stasi, unfortunately.
	Report your family for thinking wrong, for wrong think, says the German Government Initiative.
	This is Germany's Interior Ministry and Family Affairs Ministry.
	Government should stay out of the family's affairs.
	They have launched a program they call Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking.
	If you have a family member...
	Who is involved in something that we label as a conspiracy thinker, then that person needs to be reported to the government.
	That's how creepy this stuff is.
	This is full-on Stasi.
	German Interior Ministry that is headed by a person called Nancy Fazer, known for banning media outlets, as well as the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth.
	Everybody's covered there except men, I guess.
	young men need not apply uh have launched a project dubbed advice compass on conspiracy thinking the center is there to provide advice to anyone who quote suspects their friends or family members have fallen victim to conspiracy theories i won't yeah i won't report you karen if How about that?
	Hilariously enough, they say the German word for advice happens to be R-A-T. Rat.
	They're going to rat out their family members.
	Holistic is how she chose to describe this approach and the inclusion of the Advice Center into Germany's overall fight against what the authorities consider to be extremism and disinformation.
	This is from Reclaim the Net.
	Look, if you are a critical thinker, They call you a conspiracy theorist.
	So you better not critically think about anything the government says to you.
	You should just accept it on face value.
	Just like a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency.
	You just accept it because of who it's coming from.
	You just accept the science because it's coming from Fauci.
	And then, in case you think this is all in Germany, we've got a German tourist being held in California indefinitely.
	She says it's like a horror movie.
	A German tourist is fighting to be released from an immigration detention center after she was detained entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month.
	A 26-year-old German tattoo artist is being indefinitely detained by Border Patrol after she tried to enter San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico with her American best friend.
	The two were traveling With tattoo equipment.
	And so because she was traveling with tattoo equipment and she was a tattoo artist, they said, you're coming here to work illegally.
	Have they noticed that there's some Mexicans who do that?
	They're not detaining them for months at a time, more than a month at a time.
	She had her German passport.
	She had confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country?
	I mean, far more than, you know, they talk about, whoa, traffic coming across the border has really crashed since Trump came in.
	They've still got over 8,000 people a day coming in.
	But this person is from Germany, and so she's going to get special treatment.
	So, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country and a copy of her return ticket.
	Back to Berlin.
	She wasn't planning on staying here.
	Look, I've got a visa.
	I've got a passport.
	I've complied with all this.
	Here's my ticket to go back to Berlin.
	I'm not planning on staying.
	I just happen to have some tattoo equipment because I'm a tattoo artist.
	I'm not here to do any tattoos.
	She was still pulled aside for a secondary inspection by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent.
	They then accused her of planning to violate the terms of a visa waiver by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her time in L.A. She says it was like a horror movie.
	They were screaming in all different rooms after nine days.
	She said she went so insane that she started punching the walls, and she's got blood on her knuckles, said her friend.
	She asked the ICE agents if her German friend could be sent back to Mexico, but they responded that her lack of legal residency there would mean that she would be deported back to Germany.
	Well, fine.
	She's also tried to get in touch with a German consulate in L.A. So her American friend initially had no idea where she was being held or if she had already been deported to Germany.
	It was only after pleading for help online and using the federal detainee locator website that she was able to track down her friend.
	This is like something out of Kafka.
	It would be 25 days before she would find and be allowed to visit her friend at the detention center where she remains to this day.
	So this is the insanity that we have here.
	By the way, see if we can pull up this Twitter thing.
	This is from Jay, Jessica Hill.
	Jay Hill.
	He put up another sweatshirt we were talking about, Zelensky.
	He said, just for the record, when I saw that, I said I liked it, but I said, just for the record, I would never sell it to this guy.
	That is absolutely the truth.
	You know, when we look at what is going on with the agreements again, it was touted that Zelensky has now humbled himself to his master, Trump, and he will do anything.
	He now wants peace and everything.
	So then they put out information.
	Reuters had somebody tell them at the White House or whatever that there was going to be a A minerals deal signed just before Trump spoke to Congress yesterday.
	And everybody started reporting it because it came from Reuters, right?
	So you can trust it because it's from Reuters.
	Well, it turns out it's not true.
	It didn't happen.
	And just before we found out that it didn't happen, you had Scott Besant say, no, it's not going to happen.
	He would know because he's going to be the one who's going to rape and pillage.
	Our minerals and our land and everything.
	So he would be right at the center of all that.
	And he said, no, it's not going to happen.
	But Reuters reported, President Trump has told his advisors that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening.
	So they said, well, it's going to be signed just before that.
	And that came out.
	It was a Reuters exclusive.
	Everybody reported it.
	Then they walked it back.
	And it didn't happen.
	But it has been reported by some other media, like Joe Hoff, saying he has an exclusive.
	Don't know if this is true either.
	But he says Zelensky's big lie is exposed.
	Does it involve the UK? Does President Trump know?
	There is documentation to support this.
	Because just before Trump became president, back in January, the UK signed a 100-year agreement.
	And in it, he circled this in the article, it says it also cements the UK as a preferred partner.
	For Ukraine's energy sector, its critical minerals strategy, and its green steel production, meaning that it's somehow energy efficient.
	I don't know if that's a real thing or not.
	And I don't know if the minerals are a real thing or not.
	It's like Zelensky's going around selling the Brooklyn Bridge to multiple people.
	As I talked about it before, there isn't $350 billion worth of minerals, period, in Ukraine, let alone rare earth minerals.
	If there was that much, they probably wouldn't be rare, right?
	But there isn't.
	It's not there.
	People have said there's not that much there.
	You can tell there's not that much.
	There's a long article where somebody talked about how, well, maybe this whole idea originated with a NATO report.
	That was a bunch of garbage.
	They didn't know what they were talking about.
	But that's the only indication that anybody has had that there might be more than just a small amount of this stuff.
	And then the question is, is it in the areas that Russia controls or is it in the area that Ukraine controls?
	Now there's another question.
	Has Zelensky already done a deal with the UK? Is he going to sell this stuff a second time to Trump?
	These guys are such con men.
	They're owning each other, selling these minerals multiple times.
	It was on January the 16th that he signed that.
	It was released at the time, a UK-Ukraine 100-year partnership declaration.
	And as part of that, they said, well, Ukraine has agreed to give us the mineral rights to this.
	And yet now, you have the Ukrainian government, Ukrainian officials say, we're willing to sign a minerals deal with you.
	I bet they are.
	I bet they'll tell you anything that you want to hear to get that stuff through.
	So, again, it didn't happen yesterday.
	But Zelensky is now on his hands and knees.
	Said the Oval Office meeting was regrettable.
	Says he's ready to negotiate.
	He thanks Trump for all of this.
	And officials in the Ukraine respond, telling Der Spiegel, The German news paper there.
	Ukrainian officials say that Zelensky is like a child.
	Ukrainian leader Zelensky has the mind of a child.
	So does Donald Trump.
	We're being ruled by children.
	That's what this whole thing looks like.
	This is an anonymous person, of course.
	And former officials, many officials, but all of them anonymous.
	Well, that's it for today's show.
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