As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 17th of March, Year of Our Lord 2025.
Well, today on this St. Patrick's Day, we've got a special family announcement we're going to show you in just a moment.
We're also going to be talking about the swatting of conservatives.
Is this a partisan thing, or is this a law enforcement out of control thing?
We'll also be talking about introducing wolves.
Literally, metaphorically, in our society.
The tariffs, Canada's getting serious.
They're talking about putting an embargo on porn.
And we'll look at the technocracy as it is moving on.
And as our government increasingly adopts this robber baron protection racket scheme.
Yes, all wars are bankers' wars.
And the bankers just changed form.
We're going to be right back.
Stay with us.
Well, welcome on to St. Patrick's Day.
It's a special day for Karen and I. It was 51 years ago that we had our first date, and now we've got Travis's first son here.
Hey there, little buddy.
Hi.
This is the first time I saw him was just before I came into the show, and he gave me a really big smile.
He's not doing anything right now.
Hey, can you say hello?
Hello?
Hello, what a cute fellow.
And this is the first time I've seen him.
Almost, what, four months old?
Four months old.
But Travis, little guy, we won't mention his name.
We'll keep him anonymous for now.
We'll call him Nephew Whistler.
They're here now, and they're going to be here for a while.
So, thank you.
Thank you.
Well, I was going to start with the swatting.
But, since I saw the little guy, I'm going to start with this.
You know, we have, just one second.
We have a Baptist pastor prosecuted in Northern Ireland for open-air sermon.
And it was on John 3.16, you know, that even football players, you know, put it right on their cheeks or something like that many times.
But this is in Northern Ireland.
And now this is Northern Ireland, so this is under British rule.
But it wasn't that long ago that Ireland stopped making abortion illegal.
And now speaking about life, eternal life even, is illegal in Ireland.
A 76-year-old retired pastor.
And, you know, just when you thought that St. Patrick had cast out the snakes, we find out that, no, the snakes remain in the abortuaries, which is what a lot of people call it.
I think it's a good name for it.
It's not a clinic.
They're not helping these people.
It's a place where they kill people.
But now, abortion is not illegal.
Talking against it, speaking against it, is illegal.
And the snakes have now completely taken over the government as well there.
He was allegedly seeking to influence individuals accessing abortion services.
Let's talk a little bit about that abortion industry.
Here's a Planned Parenthood person in deposition talking about how they were aborting babies in order to steal their parts.
How does a tissue procurement occur in one of these situations when the entire fetus is intact in the lab?
We do dissection.
And just to be clear, you do dissection to obtain the tissues that are on the list for the day?
We do dissection to get the tissues that the researchers have requested, yeah.
They have a heartbeat, don't they, at the point they would fall out?
You know, objection.
Yeah, I object to that too.
When that happens, this witness is not a doctor.
This witness is not here to testify about the medical...
It's okay if it's a doctor.
...biological conditions of the...
If we call it a fetus, it's okay.
...when it comes when it's...
Eliminated from the mother.
And by not alive, do you mean that they were not moving?
Correct.
And do you mean that they did not have a heartbeat?
It would depend.
And when you say it would depend, what do you mean?
There are, I can see, hearts that are not in an intact POC that are beating independently.
Yeah, so thanks for explaining that to us.
Look, all of the organs have to be taken out of a living individual.
That's whether you're talking about a baby or you're talking about an adult or a prisoner, whatever.
And that is the real truth that they don't want you to hear.
Well, so they arrest him because he's trying to tell people what's really going on in there, right?
This is really...
You know, like Soylent Green or whatever, right?
Well, they've also got a British preacher who was just arrested because he was doing some street preaching.
That's not allowed either.
Perhaps he was able to get acquitted because he's not English.
His name is Karandeep Mamman, and I'm guessing that maybe he's Indian with that name.
I'm not sure.
But he was doing some street preaching, and you know, when we were there, Speaker's Corner was a...
Very, very interesting thing.
Every Sunday, they would, at this corner of Hyde Park, they would set up, you know, literally, I guess, where the expression comes from, you get on your soapbox.
You know, you bring a box and you stand up and you start talking.
Well, most of the stuff that people were talking about was, guess what?
Religion and politics.
Very controversial things, but it was always protected by the police.
And yet, that's not the case anymore.
When we were there last in 2001, I took the boys there, and they were young, and it was very different than when Karen and I went in 1980 and 84. There,
people would argue with it, right?
Real free speech, you know, somebody says something, and they would typically argue, and whether it's about religion or politics, there's always arguments.
But when we went in 2001, you started having, around a Christian preacher that we saw, started getting this mob of young Muslim men getting increasingly agitated.
And not really speaking back or debating the individual, but just getting really angry.
And then I noticed a policeman, and then another one, and another one, and they start speaking into their intercoms, and I said, let's get out of here.
We don't know what's going to happen.
Well, this is what it looks like here.
A small crowd of protesters surrounded him as he critiqued the Quran, saying the Islamic holy text is inaccurate because it represents a wrong view of Jesus Christ.
He says Jesus in the Quran is not the true Jesus, he told these people.
According to the Quran, Muhammad promoted hatred, terrorism, and killing of Jews and Christians who do not convert.
As the crowd became more aggressive, men attempted to leave, but a witness testified that, quote, the mob would not let him go.
The crowd only let him leave after local police arrived.
Another man violently grabbed a sign that he was holding that listed a series of Christian commands from the Bible, including a symbol suggesting the prohibition of homosexual practice.
Following the incident, police called him to the police station and they charged him.
Charged him with causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm, and distress.
Now, again, when we went in the 1980s, and even up to 2001, that was allowed.
But now we have hate speech laws.
And any speech that they hate, you will not be allowed to speak.
Look, whatever you say, If you don't allow the speech that you disagree with, that you dislike, there is no free speech.
And so I don't even know what's going on with Speaker's Corner.
I can't imagine Speaker's Corner even being allowed in modern London 24 years after we were there.
I can't even imagine that existing there.
So he was acquitted, but he said, my aim when preaching is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and that all of us can only be saved if we follow his teaching.
It was intimidating to be attacked and surrounded by such an angry mob, but I was determined to stand my ground and to knock back down over my beliefs.
It's getting increasingly dangerous for people to speak out.
And it's not just even religion, especially religion, but it's anything that they disagree with.
And of course, their religion is typically the state religion in the UK.
It's not Islam yet.
It's close to that.
It's protected, has protected status.
But the real religion is LGBT at the moment.
The media's disdain for Syrian Christians is inexcusable, and it is palpable.
The story from Christian Post.
Just days ago, hundreds of Alawite Christians and Druze civilians, men, women, and children, were killed by the Syrian forces which recently toppled the Assad regime and took control of the country.
I've not talked about this before, but who are the Alawites and why are they hated by these American-supported terrorists?
Because that's what they are.
We have always supported al-Qaeda.
You know, we supported the Mujahideen against the Russians.
We had Osama bin Laden come to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies, introduced him as Tim Osmond.
They have been doing this for a very, very long time.
And then they changed to ISIS, to al-Nusra, to this group, whatever it is.
But it's always the same.
And we always support them militarily.
And we always look the other way when they commit their terrorist acts.
So who are the Alawite and why are they going to target on their head?
And of course, Christians.
Always the Christians.
Always the Christians.
People like to ignore that.
Well, the Alawites were a separate ethnic group.
And, you know, this happened all through the Middle East when they went in and chopped everything up.
You know, they gave basically the Iraq to the Babylonians, the Chaldeans.
They gave Iran to the Persians and everything.
But there's also the Medes.
You remember that from the Bible?
And the Medes basically...
They were not given a homeland, and so they're kind of across the top of all these.
Same with the Alawites.
So a lot of smaller groups didn't get any territory, and they've been persecuted extremely in the aftermath of these.
And I'll call the Medes, the Kurds, that type of thing.
But anyway, the Alawites were another one of these groups.
And they were kind of self-sufficient, and the vast majority of Syria was Sunni.
And as the Sunni got more politically powerful and hung out in the cities, then these people who were self-sufficient lived in rural areas.
They got pushed further and further out in rural areas.
This is a warning to us all, by the way, of how this might happen in the U.S. They eventually took to the mountains.
They stayed in the mountains, but they were oppressed by the Sunnis.
The Sunnis would hit them with oppressive taxes so that they could not get capital, which is what is happening to the middle class in this country.
The government doesn't need our taxes, you know.
They don't.
They have no intention of even coming close to paying the debt off.
So why do we have taxes?
The Democrats have this idea of modern monetary theory, MMT, I call it the magic money tree, which says that the deficit doesn't matter at all.
And if things get out of hand, if inflation starts to go up, then you tax the people that you don't like, which is what they were talking about when they did that big tax and spend bill, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
No, that was just...
Modern monetary theory being put into practice.
So you have the Syrian Sunnis in control of the cities and in control of the government, and they have more and more oppressive taxation.
Well, what happened is eventually the French come in, and they work with the Alawites.
They've got a lot of resistance when they occupy this colonially.
Work with the Alawites who now understand that the Sunni are against them.
So as an oppressed minority, the French use the Alawite to come after the majority.
Another lesson for us there, right?
And to govern them.
And out of that, so you have a lot of them get into government, but especially into the military.
And out of that rose Assad's father.
And he realized that he was going to need to be able to put down any, there's going to be a lot of people against him.
They'd had a lot of governments that had been set up and had fallen.
So after the French get out, he comes in and he sets up secret police, just as we did in Iran when we installed the Shah of Iran.
They were very ruthless.
Saad was not a good guy.
But he didn't come after the Christians.
He was going to come after his political enemies.
It wasn't an ethnic thing with him.
It was a political thing with him.
But now these people who are in charge, it is now a religious and ethnic purge that is going on there.
The so-called free Syrian troops is what we call them.
What our government and our press calls them.
These terrorists.
The free Syrian troops, having been portrayed in Western media as freedom fighters, For the last decade are not likely to start receiving bad press now, no matter what their behavior.
So, whether it is preventing students from praying at a school, removing Ten Commandments monuments from state houses, disallowing nativity scenes, or forcing Catholic nuns to kneel at the altar of sexual permissiveness and genuflect to contraceptives,
The Christian Post says, the U.S. mainstream media never met an opponent of Christianity or saw a proposal to hamstring or curb it, with which it couldn't find some common ground.
And of course, look, all of those are U.S. government policies.
It's funny that they didn't want to criticize the U.S. government.
The government is, the media is the handmaid, the court jester of the government.
And they were a part of all that.
You know, it's kind of interesting to see Voice of America funding being cut now.
We talked about USAID.
I talked over and over again about how, yeah, that was Obama's mama, you know, and the whole Obama family connected with the CIA, and USAID was money laundering in other countries.
Well, so Obama's mother, you know, was part of USAID.
Tucker Carlson's dad was part of Voice of America.
And so while USAID...
Is handing out the money and pretending that they're a charitable organization.
Voice of America, where Tucker Carlson's dad was, was handing out the propaganda and the lies and pretending that it was doing reporting.
I wonder if Tucker Carlson will talk about the doge cuts to Voice of America and the backhanded comments about it, which are well-deserved.
Or will he just kind of find another thing?
Maybe he can have Andrew Tate on his show again.
Tucker Carlson.
It's never been as much CIA as Obama.
This is what I'm saying.
This is the phony left-right paradigm.
Oh yeah, we got one person.
They're complete opposite, aren't they?
No, actually, they're both just manifestations of the real government, the CIA.
They're great swores and assassinations and coups and is doing the same thing here at home.
Speaking of Doge, NIH...
Is funding Planned Parenthood Researcher $495,000 for a study about oppression in terms of abortion access.
This is to bolster the FACE Act.
Chip Roy has introduced a bill to get rid of it.
I don't think there's any support for that, unfortunately.
But this is a Harvard researcher given a half a million dollars.
College Fix reports that the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Children's Health and Human Development.
The important thing there is Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
This is another thing, right?
We can talk about Tucker Carlson.
We can talk about Obama.
We can talk about RFK Jr.
Folks, it's a club that you ain't in.
And it's just different manifestations.
It ought to be pretty apparent.
Because the ease at which RFK Jr., Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, all these, can just migrate so easily from the left to the right.
Isn't it?
No problem at all.
Because it isn't any difference.
All of this stuff MAGA's been had for the longest time, and all this stuff about MAHA, make America healthy again, is really a ha-ha.
It's a laugh, folks.
It's a joke.
And so the Eunice Kennedy Shriver department there at the NIH is going to fund this with your taxpayer money.
Will they do anything about this?
I seriously doubt it.
Meanwhile, another abortuary.
This just was a trial that concluded.
It went back to 2019.
Six years this thing went on.
Delayed significantly because of Trump's lockdown of fake pandemic, continued by Biden.
Priests and pro-life activists are found guilty of trespassing for efforts to save babies.
That's abortuary.
And it's abortuary.
It's not a clinic.
It's not a clinic.
It's not a tumor.
It's not a clump of cells.
It's a...
It's a baby.
The judge was unsympathetic, even combative, according to one observer, president of the trial, who said the defendants, quote, could hardly get a word in, much less finish a sentence during summations.
And of course, there had been some other government trial.
They would have been very combative and kept you from putting any exculpatory evidence out there.
But fortunately, at this point in time, he gave them They'll get jail if they do it again.
We'll see what happens.
And all this is happening in a backdrop, as George Barna says, who does polls about where the country is in terms of religion.
Barna says America needs a spiritual renewal as fewer than half of Americans believe that God even exists.
You know, that's the easy thing.
That's the easy thing.
You know, when you see an automobile, do you believe that there was somebody that made it?
A designer?
Why would you think that this world, everything about it, each individual creature, each individual species, so incredibly complicated, and then beyond that, all the cosmos.
Why would you think that that just happened by chance?
There's not a chance that that could happen.
But that's the easy part.
What takes a little bit more investigation and a critical thing is, has God spoken to us?
And how has he spoken to us?
But the easiest part is that there is a God.
A new survey has found that more than half of Americans do not believe that God exists or that he affects lives.
Well, that's really sad.
A research found that overall 60% of Americans do not believe that God exists or that he affects lives.
Nearly half self-identified as Christians.
47% of the people who said they don't believe God exists or that he affects lives self-identified as Christians.
Is this the Richard Dawkins denomination of cultural Christians who go because they like the Christmas programs or whatever?
I don't even understand that.
47%?
A slightly smaller share of theologically identified born-again Christians.
40% said the same thing.
So some people said, well, yeah, I'm Christian.
That's 47%.
But even the people who said, born-again Christian, I identified as born-again Christian, 40% of them didn't believe that God exists or that he affects lives.
Well, then how were they born even once, let alone twice, right?
He said, it seems dubious that political, economic, legal, or institutional improvements are not what America needs most desperately today.
Yeah, that's because America is worldly, right?
Look at the things that keep us from God.
What is it?
The world, the flesh, and the devil.
Well, we know about the devil.
The flesh is really your instincts, your will, your animal instincts, your basic urges.
I just want to do what I want to do, right?
And really, when you talk about the world, it's kind of a Tower of Babel approach.
I can do this on my own, right?
The technocrats approach.
And really, that's where we are when we look at politics.
When we talk about how they've made an idol out of the political figures, how they've made an idol out of the political parties and all the rest of the stuff, this is worldliness.
And it even includes what's going on with Zionism with a lot of Christians who look at it and they're focused on making this happen, right?
They're going to build Jerusalem.
That's another Tower of Babel.
The way these Christians have done it.
Well, I've got a promise here.
Well, God's going to do that.
What you're doing is what Abraham did with Sarah's concubine.
Amongst Americans who believe that God exists and affects lives, a plurality, 38% defined God as, quote, the most important element in their life.
While 23%, and these are the people who said that God exists and affects lives, 23% said God was extremely important, 18% characterized God as very important, 14% said somewhat important, 5% said not too important or not at all important.
The kind of doublethink that is just everywhere anymore.
You believe that God exists and affects lives, but you don't think it's important, very important or not at all.
Explain that one.
I don't understand that either.
The remaining 3% place their views on God's influence in their life in the category of, eh, it varies.
God doesn't vary.
You don't know God then.
You may vary, but not God.
Just 20% of those who believe God that the Bible exists and affects lives to all posters, they have an intimate and interactive spiritual relationship with him, with constant two-way communication.
Another 45% classify their relationship with God as close.
Yeah, we talk sometimes.
I guess keep them at arm's length.
Yeah, that is what we should aspire to.
7% of respondents remained uncertain whether or not God interacts with people and did not know how to describe their relationship with him.
One-third of those who believe the God of the Bible exists and affects lives Define God as having a total influence over their lives and choices, while another one-third reported that he had a lot of influence over their lives, which often would reflect his guidance.
But less than a quarter of those who believe in God think he provides identity and boundaries.
And so George Barna says the fact that more than three out of four people who believe God exists and is influential in their lives nevertheless do not get their identity from their relationship with him.
He said that explains a lot.
The fact that two out of three people who believe in God's existence and influence do not believe their connection to him comes with responsibilities.
That also delivers additional insights, he said.
Discovering that fewer than one out of five of the people who acknowledge God's existence and influence are aware of any life boundaries that God provides to them explains even more, he said.
Reflecting on the connection between the research and, quote, the trials and tribulations, as well as the multifaceted demise of the nation.
Well, again, God works with us as individuals.
And he doesn't save nations.
He saves individuals.
And you can be in the darkest society.
And that is something that you can still have that relationship.
That's one of the reasons why our identity as Christians is so much more important than our identity with any political party or philosophy or anything else.
In order for that to succeed, you have to somehow have a majority.
And you know the people who are the guy who is the guru for all of these technocrats like Elon Musk and everything, they realize that they're never going to be able to persuade people that freedom is a good thing.
So Curtis Yarvin and these other people around him, so he talks about it as a dark enlightenment.
So these people really don't get it, so we're going to have to compel them to see things our way.
That's where this is all going to go with these people, if they have their way.
The reality is that the Christian approach, which is around the foundation of our country, realized that men are fallen, men are evil, Because men are not angels, we need to have government.
But as Madison said, because men are not angels, and how do we control that government of people who are fundamentally flawed, fundamentally evil?
And so they did their best to create checks and balances, which have now been removed by design.
But with all of that said, there's absolutely nothing that any of them can do.
To keep you from having a relationship with God.
To be in constant two-way communication with Him.
To commune with Him.
And to enjoy that in this life and to enjoy Him forever.
That's the key thing.
We're going to take a quick break.
And we'll be right back.
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Welcome back, and I've got two tips in that.
Whistler's doing the show today.
Karen is with the grandbaby.
And so, anyway, he said he gave me a tip and told me to remind you about tips on Rockfin.
We've had some issues with Rockfin, as I pointed out.
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And then we have to take it from that currency, Ray, and move it into Ethereum.
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But it's gotten worse because now when we last tried to get tips out, we couldn't get all the tips out because there weren't any buyers of Ray.
And then to make matters worse, I found out from a guard over the weekend that he and a lot of small contributors have lost their channels and their money.
On Rockfin.
So, maybe they're going to get...
I hope they get this ironed out.
I mean, we had issues with Rumble about six months ago.
They were not sending us checks on it.
They sent them on a very irregular basis.
They got months behind and everything.
But now, Rumble is fine.
So, please, if you're going to leave tips doing this, and he's put up a lower thirds here.
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But these two tips were on Rumble.
SVCat, he said, thank you, David and Karen and crew for all you do.
We couldn't do it without you.
JoeBaker357, thank you as well.
He says, so you don't believe viruses are real?
I recently got sick with a cold and gave it to my three-month-old child.
By the way, I miss Travis.
Is he planning on doing the show with you again?
Enjoy your time off, DK.
And so I guess he missed the very beginning of the show, or else that was a clip from earlier on.
No, I don't believe that viruses are real, and colds are one of the reasons, interestingly enough.
You should take a look at the book.
From Sam Bailey and her husband.
I always forget his name.
Both of them physicians in New Zealand.
And it goes back to Christine Massey, and that's going to be one of the interviews that we're going to replay and actually be on tomorrow.
So tune in tomorrow to listen to Christine Massey, who kind of kicked this all off by asking if there was any isolated COVID viruses.
And she sent out requests to over 200 different places, and they got back to her and said, no, we didn't isolate it.
Many of them said, we never isolate viruses.
We just don't do that.
So how do you do science if you don't isolate the viruses?
How do you do science if they do the flu shots before this happens?
And I know that's a different issue than the cold.
But the key thing that was in their book was that they had, and I think it was for 45 years, In the UK, they had a place that was called the Cold House.
And they would, I believe that was, I'm just going from memory now, I wasn't planning on talking about this.
I think it was called the Cold House.
And it ran for like 45 years, from World War II on to like the 90s.
What they were trying to do was to figure out the key mechanism about how coals were transmitted.
And so you could go there and basically get kind of a little paid vacation.
They would pay people to go there when they were sick and paid well people to go there and tried to pass the cold on to those people.
And they did a lot of disgusting things.
They would take mucus and they'd put it in somebody's mouth.
They'd have them cough on them.
They do all the stuff that we are concerned about transmitting it.
And they couldn't do it.
And after 45 years, they shut it down with no answers.
I know that it appears that way, but there's a lot of things in our environment and a lot of other things that are happening, a lot of other possible explanations.
But the key thing is, is that if there is something there that is behind contagion, they have not isolated it, which means that they have not done science.
They haven't said, here is the thing that is making everybody sick.
Now, bacteria, that's real.
You can identify the bacteria, you can see them, not the virus.
They don't isolate the virus, they don't see them.
I mean, that's why they haven't come up with a cure for the cold.
They can't even reliably transfer a cold to somebody else.
So you have to identify and isolate something, and then you have to, if you're going to do science, you have to say, well, this exists in the sick person and quantity that we can observe, and it doesn't exist in the well person, and that type of thing.
So science has to be based on observation.
That's why I say this is not scientific.
This is an intellectual abstraction trying to describe something that they see, as I've said before.
I think of it like dark matter.
They believe that the universe began with a big bang coming from all the matter in the universe.
It was condensed into a teeny tiny thing and then for some reason it exploded.
Now why that would happen and how that could happen.
They don't have an explanation for.
I mean, think about if all the matter in the universe is condensed into a small spot, the gravitational forces that were there, what was the force that overcame that and caused that kind of an explosion?
But anyway, if that were true, and it was an explosion, then you would expect to see the matter uniformly dispersed throughout the universe, right?
An explosion, and it's...
Just an empty vacuum of space and nothing to affect its trajectory, so it should be uniformly distributed throughout the universe.
But it's not.
So, they said, well, I think then that there's some dark matter, something that we cannot observe, that is out there.
And so there's matter that we can see and observe somehow, and there's other matter that we cannot see or observe.
And you understand what they're doing.
Rather than saying our theory was wrong, They come up with a construct, dark matter, which they can't observe that either.
They're not doing real science with that either.
It's just something that they came up with to propagate their theory.
And I think viruses fall into that category as well.
Conthink, thank you for the tip.
It says, Mark 11, 25, whenever you stand...
Praying forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.
He says, in all uppercase, anyone for anything.
So, yes, that's very true.
That's very true.
That is a big barrier in our relationship with God.
If we have grudges and unforgiveness, and we punish ourselves more than we punish the other person when we do that.
Be My Valentine says the movie Gosnell really brings this graphic procedure to light.
Yes, it does.
It does.
And they don't do it graphically.
They do it with a trial.
And the interesting thing is that they would not allow people in the trial if they did not support abortion.
That was a disqualifier, a question for the jury.
Do you support abortion?
Yes.
If you were pro-life, Instantly, you're off.
And during that trial, they were astonished when they found out that it was standard procedure to let a baby die that was born alive after an abortion.
They were appalled, these jurors who supported abortion.
They couldn't believe it.
And what they came and...
What they convicted Gosnell of was killing a baby who was born alive.
He should have just left it off to the side and let it die.
Now, is that not killing it?
Yeah, it's all semantics, really.
Just like everything in abortion, it is all semantics.
It's all cherry-picking the terms and all the rest of this stuff to get what they want, which is to kill a baby.
It's all about depopulation.
Chefkin, make America healthy again.
Is that like Michelle Obama's let's move?
Or the other one that they use all the time, forward, right?
They would stand there, and they'd stand on one side or something from an angle, and the politician would obscure the D, and it's like, yeah, that's Obama.
He's for war.
And Hillary Clinton.
She's for war as well.
And so are the Republicans.
Hedge88, I just bought a Blue McGuffin t-shirt from the website.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
That's great.
I hope you enjoy it.
I like the design a lot.
By the way, that was Karen's brother did that design.
Keith.
And remind me what his website is.
It was KeithDolmat.com.
Yeah, I think that's what it was.
Yeah.
He was doing business as flying colors, and I put that out, but I think it's Keith Delmatic.
You can see some of his other work there.
Some of the stuff that I thought was really interesting, and he's done a lot of illustrations.
He's done like watercolor illustrations that he would do using a computer and a Wacom pen and things like that.
Really, really cool stuff.
Anyway, Ron Helton, one, he says they're still pushing the flu shots, even though it's proven they're worthless.
Money over logic is getting really tiresome now.
Yeah, you know, along those lines, one of the things that they're upset with RFK Jr. about is they say, well, we have these committees that meet together to decide what the next flu thing is going to be this fall so we can start manufacturing the vaccine now.
And basically, I guess he shut down those seances or tarot card readings or whatever it is that they use to look into the future and decide what the mysterious virus is going to be that they have to vaccinate everybody for.
They're really upset about that.
Yeah, a virus is back to the future.
Guard, good to see you, Guard.
He says, good on, David, for getting out the word.
He says, people donated and the Rockfin people just took it all.
But I'll be patient, he said.
We will see if they handle things right in the end.
Let's hope that they do.
Let's hope that they get things straightened out.
Like I said, Rumble did, and I don't know what's going on with the Rockfin right now, but I just want to let you hold off.
By the way, Gard will be doing a show on Friday.
He's got a large lineup of interesting guests.
He's going to have an expert on tariffs.
He's got a constitutional scholar who's going to speak on Bitcoin.
He's got popular guests like Eric Peters, Gerald Salenti on Friday.
So it's going to be a great week and looking forward to having Gar do this.
He's going to be, Tony will be joining him as well.
So he's got some interesting people.
And again, a constitutional scholar who's going to be speaking on Bitcoin.
We're going to have a rebroadcast tomorrow.
We'll have Catherine Austin Fitz.
I'm going to make sure.
I don't know if Karen had it in there, but I'm going to make sure that she's got either Christine Massey or maybe we can go back and find Sam Bailey and her husband.
I interviewed both of them in New Zealand, and we talked about their book.
And so it was called No More Pandemics.
Don't let them do this to us again.
Let's talk a little bit about this swatting thing.
The FBI is investigating, quote, alarming rise in SWATing incidents targeting conservative influencers.
And look, I'm not going to downplay the SWATing stuff.
It is very dangerous.
And I've talked about this for many, many, many years.
What happens to innocent people when the SWAT team goes to the wrong address?
And they do no-knock raids.
Just kick the door in because they're told that it's dangerous or something else.
So far, these have not been no-knock raids.
I think the police might have been a little bit suspicious about some of these.
But we've had no-knock raids happen all the time.
And we've had situations where flashbang grenades were thrown into a baby's crib.
Just horrific stuff.
Innocent people shot and killed.
You have a SWAT team.
One of the early cases of this.
And I was always suspicious as to whether it was SWATed or whether it was something that was done by the government.
You had a guy who was a multimillionaire out in California.
He had some land that the government wanted.
And he was fighting them on this, on their condemnation of the property and taking it for environmental reasons or a park or something.
I don't even remember.
It was the early 90s.
And they did a SWAT team raid, kicked in the door, no knock.
He hears his house being broken into, he grabs his pistol, starts coming down the stairs, and they shot him dead.
And then they took his land.
But it's not always that motivation.
But it frequently has a situation where innocent people are hurt, even if they get the right address, and even if there is a perpetrator there, they're going in and killing innocent people to get that individual.
And this is one of the reasons why I really wanted to talk about this.
Because the conservatives won't.
Even the ones who are SWATed won't put their finger on the problem, which is the SWAT team approach.
The militarized police approach.
And this is something that in 1984, when Terry Gilliam did it, it was not widespread.
If it existed at all.
I don't even know if Daryl Gates was the one who started that in L.A. I don't know if he was even doing that at that point.
But that was how the program, the movie, starts out.
It's Terry Gilliam, Monty Python, the guy who did all the illustration stuff.
And it was his kind of black humor about Norwellian society.
And the thing begins with a fly dropping down into there, and all the technology was really just...
Kind of twisted and crude, so they've got teletype writers, right?
And so it falls down to the mechanism, and instead of getting a tuttle, it gets buttled, or vice versa, right?
And so they go to the wrong house.
And they bust in on this family while they're celebrating Christmas.
And cart the father off, you know, bag him and tag him and take him away.
And that was how the whole thing began.
And the way that it was depicted...
It's probably worse in real life now with these swatting no-knock raids.
That is the hallmark of a totalitarian society.
That's why he did it that way.
And now this is happening everywhere.
So these are, however, people are calling into the police department, pretending that they're somebody that's living there.
Saying they're going to kill themselves and their family and all the rest of the stuff, so they send the SWAT team out there to it.
Well, Kash Patel said, I want to address the alarming rise in SWATing incidents targeting media figures.
And one of them was InfoWars host Chase Geyser, the guy who's the Freemasonry recruiter and evangelist there now at InfoWars.
I know about him.
Somebody sent me that clip.
I was absolutely flabbergasted that you talk about how Alex is out there now and openly embracing not just Trump, but Musk and Freemasonry as well.
Like he embraced vaccines.
Like he embraced the lockdowns and all the rest of the stuff.
Like he embraced the reality that there was a pandemic to sell stuff.
Well, now he's got Chase Geyser.
People send me this clip and he's out there saying, yeah, I'm a 32nd degree Freemason.
It's great.
Oh, you should try it.
He's an evangelist for this garbage.
And it is.
Satanic garbage.
Anyway, a lot of other people whose names I don't know.
Cat Turd.
I know Cat Turd.
Don't know him.
But I know the garbage that he puts out on social media and how he is beloved by Elon Musk and Trump.
Cat Turd.
Also got swatted.
So Kash Patel says, I want to address the alarming rise in swatting incidents targeting media figures.
But my question is, have any of these media figures opposed the militarization of the police in the past?
And will they do it now?
Not that I know of.
No, instead what they're going to do, they're going to make this a left-right issue.
They're not going to make this, they're not going to fix the problem.
This is always the way that it is.
And look, take red flag, for example.
We're going to take the gun and do the due process later.
And Trump said that.
Well, that got the gun owners upset, and rightfully so.
Except this had been something that had been done for pretty much everything else.
Your car, your cash, your house, your business, your plane, you name it.
Take the property.
And do the due process later, maybe.
Well, they don't do the due process of civil asset forfeiture.
They don't charge you with anything.
They just steal your property.
They say your property committed a crime.
What nonsense.
What utter nonsense.
If people will go for that, you think they might believe that there's a virus, a pandemic, when there isn't one?
No pandemic?
Yeah, of course they will.
And so, when you look at SWAT, When you look at civil asset forfeiture, these things are all unintended consequences of the drug war.
And I put unintended in air quotes because I think the people who put it together knew that that was going to be the consequence.
So, again, Kash Patel says this isn't about politics.
It's about weaponizing law enforcement.
No, the drug war did that.
The drug war.
Weaponized politics.
So on Wednesday, Chase Geiser at Infowars posted on Exit he was, quote, just swatted again moments ago, just before 2 a.m.
The police officers used a PA system to call me by name and order me to walk out of my house.
And that was the second time.
He and his family weren't at home when the police showed up at his house the first time.
He was met by the police in his driveway, and they were still receiving 311 messages about his property.
He said, so there was a campaign to swap my property.
Now, the police, and this is why we don't want them to have this kind of swap power, okay?
They get messages that there's a crime going on, and he and his family are not even at home.
They meet him in the driveway.
And then they tell them, we've got 311 messages about this.
But then after that happens, after the 311 messages, after the false swatting, it happens a second time.
This time, they show up.
Six to eight police officers used a PA system to call me by name and order me to walk out of my house.
What's the deal with this?
Haven't they put these things together?
They had 311 fake messages?
They had messages that, you know, there's a slaughter going on in the home, and they're not even at home, nobody's at home, and then they arrest them.
But then, after that happens, they go again.
Now, this time, they're in the house.
Six to eight police officers use the PA system, call them out by name.
He says, I was handcuffed in the middle of the street, presumably at gunpoint, though I couldn't tell because the light was shining in my face.
I was then led into the house where my wife was awakened and we were informed that they received a call from someone pretending to be me and threatening to kill my family.
That's the insanity of it.
But then it gets better because I had people send this to me.
I wasn't even going to talk about it until this got really large.
Alex Jones took the tragic death of Jamie White and this.
And started running a scam on his listeners again, telling them that there was a concerted effort.
He'd been warned by people in the CIA, because he's got lots of friends in the CIA, who are always telling him all kinds of stuff that he can then tell his audience, all of which are lies, like this.
He told his audience that they're all being targeted for assassination.
Briefly talked about that, said, yeah, he's so concerned about the safety of his employees that he didn't have any security there at all when I showed up to do the program early in the morning at 4 o 'clock.
Didn't want to spend the money.
But then all to his embarrassment, now this is happening with all these different people.
A long list, some guy named Nick Sartor, an influencer.
An influencer, yeah.
Alex is an influencer, too.
He's not a reporter.
He's not an analyst.
He's an influencer, folks.
He gets calls from the CIA and people like that to influence you.
Anyway, this guy, this influencer, Nick Sartor, has 900,000 followers.
Never heard of him.
I don't pay attention to influencers.
You shouldn't either.
You ought to pay attention to what's going on.
They're not going to tell you what's going on.
They're there to influence you.
This is a show.
This is not a program.
I'm not trying to program you.
I'm going to tell you what I think, why I think it, but these people are trying to program you, trying to influence you.
He says, a dozen cops attempted to kick my dad's door in at gunpoint.
So it must be young, maybe living at home or something.
He says, this is literal terrorism.
Yes, it is.
It is literal terrorism.
It's called SWAT teams.
SWAT teams.
And you can see all about it in the movie Brazil.
Government terrorism.
That's what SWAT teams are.
But these conservatives will never oppose that.
Never.
Never oppose it.
He said the FBI should treat this as such.
Well, it's the FBI, the federal government, that's running this operation to terrorize people.
So, Elon Musk's favorite cat turd was swatted at his Texas residence, according to a journalist.
Yeah, these are the Trump sucker proxy media that are there.
They're not even conservatives.
They're not conservative.
Except that, you know, they want to conserve SWAT teams.
Let's use it against the left.
Not against me.
Let's use it against the people who are using drugs.
Not against me.
Let's, you know, create this monster and let it run amok, attacking innocent people as well.
U.S. Attorney Ed Martin says, swatting is a violent act.
That's right, it is.
But it's fine when it's done by the government for their purposes.
Right, conservatives?
Is that right?
How did we have a country that was far safer than, you know, without SWAT teams?
That's a really recent innovation.
Again, it came around late 80s, early 90s.
How did we have an America without SWAT teams?
How did we have less crime without SWAT teams?
Well, a lot of this comes down, again, to the drug war.
It corrupts the police.
It militarizes the police.
It corrupts the courts.
And, of course, it makes very, very, very dangerous gangs.
You know, you go back to alcohol prohibition.
They were shooting each other on the streets with fully automatic machine guns.
But now, this has been going on for 51 years.
52 years, I think.
It was 73, I think.
Yeah.
Or was it 71?
Maybe it was 71. Maybe it's gone on for 54 years.
It was a UN agenda anyway.
Nixon called it his drug war.
It had to be, I think it was 71 when he was still there.
Anyway.
So now, here's what it looks like.
We've now had these...
Gangs that have been shooting each other in the street and escalating the violence on and on and on.
That's the way they compete with each other.
They kill each other.
And so now we see in Mexico, this group has found an extermination camp run by one of these gangs.
Another one of the drug war effects.
On a quest to find loved ones who've gone missing in Mexico's years-long plague of gang-driven disappearances.
It's a decades-long drug war is what this is about.
A group of volunteers has discovered a ghastly, bone-strewn extermination camp in rural village near Guadalajara, complete with cremation ovens.
Their shock was compounded by the knowledge that the police first learned about this months ago, but didn't do anything to investigate it.
You see?
You create these vicious gangs, and you have law enforcement, which is either complicit or corrupt in it.
They're not going to challenge them.
Possibly working for them.
The site near the village of La Estenzuela, if I pronounce that correctly, holds at least 700 personal items, including some that appear to belong to women and children, such as a blue summer dress, a small pink backpack, high-heeled shoes,
the New York Times reports.
Those and other shoes may offer one of the best indications of the potential number of people killed and or processed at the site.
And there are hundreds of them.
They said the number of victims that presumably could have been buried there is enormous, with the New York Times saying what's already been uncovered is reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps.
They said the small abandoned ranch outside Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara, came after tips about the site's existence were left on a Facebook page that was being run by a group of citizens searching for missing people.
The Washington Post also has this.
On traveling to the site in western Mexico, they nudged and unlocked the gate and soon found themselves gazing into a kind of hell.
Their discoveries included three underground ovens, presumably used for cremations.
Using the crudest of methodologies, poking metal rods into the dirt, then withdrawing them and smelling them, they found human remains that included several hundred bone-scorched bone shards they had discovered in an extermination camp.
Eerily, the site also held several figurines of Santa Muerte, the so-called Our Lady of Holy Death, or the Bony Lady.
Yeah, you see that picture there?
It's amazing to me how there's this death cult in Mexico.
They even have like a Day of the Dead and festival and skeletons and all this other kind of stuff.
It's amazing.
The worship of death.
We don't worship that as Christians.
We worship life.
And the one who gives life.
Not these, you know, the death.
And of course, this particular one, Our Lady of Holy Death, Santa Muerte, is typically depicted as a female skeletal figure in a cape.
Who holds a scythe in one hand and an earth globe in the other, as you see right there.
I don't know how we know that's a female.
They examine the pelvic bones, I guess.
Viewed as something of a protector of criminal gangs, and the gangs frequently build altars to glorify her.
These altars are often adorned with offerings such as cash, alcohol, and religious items.
Gang members are said to sometimes offer human sacrifices.
They stole children from other towns and sacrificed them in front of her when they wanted to land a big hit.
Oh, so they're kind of like the Hollywood elite.
When they want a big hit, right?
They go do some child sacrifice to their god.
But there is a weird obsession with skeletons that is there.
And, of course, this kind of death cult, this kind of violence.
It's brought to you by Prohibition, and a prohibition that's lasted over half a century.
The gang would use phony employment advertisements to lure men to the Guadalajara bus station.
Gang members would then meet them there and whisk them off to the extermination camp.
When they arrived at the Guadalajara area, expecting to meet their employers, they were instead taken to a ranch and forced to undergo military-style training.
People who failed or who didn't follow orders were killed.
Their bodies were cut up into pieces.
Others died of dehydration or beatings.
Others say the curriculum at the camp included torture techniques, failing students reportedly meeting a fate straight out of a Hollywood movie.
Ms. Navarro recounted how one young woman had told her that the young recruits were at times forced to burn their victims as part of their training.
If they objected to the orders of their trainers, the recruits are sometimes fed to wild animals like lions, she said.
Told the New York Times.
Well, again, we can keep going down this path, or we can understand that the drug issue is a spiritual issue.
You're not going to win a spiritual war by using law enforcement.
It's the wrong tool for the job.
Unfortunately, our government looks, it's like if you've only got one tool, right?
If you've only got a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Well, they're hammering everybody with the inappropriate tool.
You're not going to stop this kind of stuff if you don't understand that you're addressing a spiritual war.
Grammy for God says, swatting goes directly against the Fourth Amendment, so much for the Constitution.
Yes, of course.
Of course.
Yeah, due process.
All of it, just like civil asset forfeiture.
The war on drugs has been used.
It's not unintended consequences, folks.
It was used to get rid of due process, to get rid of the Bill of Rights and everything else.
Audi, Modern Retro Radio.
Good to see you there.
ModernRetroRadio.com.
So police have now become a standing army.
That's right.
And if you look at the size of our standing army of policemen.
It is one of the biggest militaries in the world.
I think the Russians and the Chinese have more soldiers, but we're like number four.
So, it's not counting the military, just counting the police.
It is an army, and it is standing, and it's standing on our throat, like Orwell's thing.
Imagine the future, where there's a boot stomping you in the face.
Incessantly.
Right over to her.
A woman in Chicago sued the city for busting into her house over the wrong address or a drug bust.
She was naked in the tub.
Well, a lot of times there's things like this happen and there is no recourse.
I mean, there have been situations where the police have destroyed homes and, you know, they have this legal immunity thing, which Trump supports.
And all these Trump sucker proxy influencers out there who support Trump, they really support unaccountability in law enforcement.
And, you know, just getting rid of the Bill of Rights, as Trump has time and again.
He said, yeah, fortunately I can do that.
I can do whatever I want.
Suave Lover says, what's the chances that once you are swatted, the cops will turn it against you and try to use it as a means for illegal search and seizure?
Yeah.
Exactly.
Lou G4 Liberty.
They won't need SWAT teams once the battle bots are perfected.
Sheely A. It happened to me.
Oh, I'm a nobody.
I thought the cops were going to kill my dog.
The cops looked like the military.
Guns pulled.
Some were hiding in the bushes.
I just, I absolutely detest what has been done.
And this is another area where Republicans and Democrats Are in 100% agreement.
They don't want to change anything.
On all the vital issues, really, well, there's a few that are vital.
I mean, you know, killing babies, that's a vital thing.
But there's just a few issues where they make a distinction.
And on the core thing, where they want to change the nature and the form of government and to give it unlimited power, oh, they're all both for that.
B. My Valentine says civil asset forfeiture is also used in many illegal animal seizures.
Innocent animal owners are targeted for Superfund donations by corrupt animal rescues.
Audi, Modern Retro Radio.
Thank you for the tip.
I appreciate that.
Police, he says, gleefully search people's vehicles almost praying that they find drugs.
They have no respect for Fourth Amendment rights.
It's absolutely true.
And be very careful.
When, you know, if you get some child protective services come up, don't think that because you are innocent that, oh yeah, sure, come on in, I'll show you how everything is great.
Time and again, time and again, I have talked to people who have been harmed by that.
It's a fishing expedition.
Never do that.
Get on the phone with your lawyer, better yet, homeschool legal defense or something like that if you're homeschooling.
Make sure that you have somebody that is going to be there to keep them in line.
Shelley searched my house, arrested me.
Luckily, I had the bail money.
Eventually, the charges were dropped, and I got my bail money back.
All over them getting a bogus call for somebody who was mad at me.
Well, it is absolutely insane.
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KWD68 says Disney did a Day of the Dead movie several years ago.
I remember you had to normalize it, yeah.
But it was also to address the Hispanic culture that is all about that.
By the way, this is the coin.
And such a nice-looking coin.
I really want to thank you for the love of the road of putting this together.
And there's only 100 of them, as you heard.
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So they're going fast.
Let's talk a little bit about what is happening with the wolves that are being introduced into our society.
And Ukraine, because of this war, and again, we can go back and look at this war.
For the mainstream media and for the Biden government, the war began when Putin invaded.
I think that was a mistake.
I don't think it was justified.
But that's not when the war began.
It began long before that.
NATO had essentially started a proxy war long before that.
Business leaders now in Ukraine are calling for 8 million migrants to replace the dead Ukrainians.
Going to fight them to the last Ukrainian and then bring in people from other parts of the world.
That seems to be the plan, doesn't it?
So they said we need to mitigate this demographic crisis created by the three-year war with Russia.
As well as, like the rest of Europe, they have collapsing fertility rates because of the things that they're doing to people through food, drugs, and all the rest of the stuff.
Also the anti-family propaganda that is out there, the mind war that they're executing on people.
So there's wars, there's the anti-family propaganda that is out there.
There's the drugs and harmful things that they're doing to people.
I mean, you look at these.
The fertility rate has dropped 65% for women who got the jab.
You look at the sperm count for men.
That has dropped in the 60 percentile, even before the jab.
So there's those types of things, but one of the big things is that they have created this.
Mind war, this spiritual war against people that is against the family.
This is an association of companies.
It's called the All-Ukrainian Association for International Employment.
Are you talking about a liar and oxymoron?
The All-Ukrainian people, they're looking at international employment, and so they want to have mass migration.
They're the ones, the All-Ukrainian.
Business Association is the one saying that we need to have mass migration so that Ukraine is not all Ukrainian anymore.
According to estimates by the International Organization for Migration, which is a U.N. agency that talks about immigration being inevitable, desirable, and necessary, the International Labor Organization says we need 8.2 million workers.
We have a demographic catastrophe.
I remember when you look at the climate nonsense, it was always about depopulation.
And one of the key movers and shakers for the first Earth Day in 1970 was Paul Ehrlich, who had just written, I think he published it in 1969 even, The Population Bomb.
He was doing tours about that.
I remember my best friend got drawn into all of that garbage.
You know, he was always talking about, oh, we use too many resources and too much energy, and there's too many people, and we're all going to die.
But I was usually able to change this topic.
Look, squirrel!
That type of thing.
But anyway, this guy says, it would take 18 to 20 years to reflect on our labor market, or we can just get people to come here from other countries.
What other countries?
He wants people to come into Ukraine.
He wants to repopulate Ukraine after this manufactured war.
That's why I started talking about Paul Ehrlich.
He said, you know, wars are a good way to depopulate, good population control.
But we can do even more with disease.
You can do even more with vaccines than you can with disease, actually.
Interesting how that works.
But anyway, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, North Africa, Central Asia.
Despite various studies showing that non-Western migrants are a massive net drain on public finances in other European countries, says Zero Hedge.
And of course, remember that they put together that video saying Ukraine 2030, where everything is on your phone, and all your interaction with government that you didn't want to have in the first place is now expedited because it's on your phone.
They know where you are.
They know what you can do.
And you can interact with them in every way.
Isn't it so nice that you've got digital ID?
Well, how does this look in the U.S.?
This open immigration that we've had, along with the lockdown and the aftermath of that, is now bringing a mass influence of foreign-born truckers.
And this is...
About more than just taking the jobs of truckers.
This is about safety issues.
Safety issues that they just waved aside.
Safety and training.
You know, it's one of the things I just was able to see my grandson this morning just before I walked in.
Because they got in very, very late last night.
On the way here, about an hour and a half out, you know, driving in from Texas.
There was a massive 18-wheeler accident.
I haven't talked to them about that yet, but I mean, the traffic was...
They got stuck for like an hour or more and got in very, very late last night.
And I don't know the details of that, but it's a very serious thing.
It bothers me so much to see them talking about using self-driving technology on the 18-wheelers.
I know they're desperate to do that in order to cut...
The trucker jobs that are there.
But what about safety?
Show us that you can drive the self-driving cars first before you start driving, use this to drive an 80,000-pound rig.
The American trucking industry today is in trouble.
Wages have flatlined for decades, while deadly accidents have steadily increased.
And there's a couple of different trucking organizations, right?
The one that represents the truckers has looked into this and found out the root cause for both of these things.
Both the flatlining of wages as well as the increase in accidents.
An illegal alien from Mexico crashed and killed another trucker on his way home from work.
He had been deported 16 times already.
Catch, release, catch, release, catch, release.
So when the COVID lockdowns hit in 2020, let's rephrase that.
When the Trump lockdowns hit in 2020, COVID didn't lock down anybody.
Trump did.
I am so sick and tired of this excuse.
And we just had the fifth anniversary on Thursday.
I missed it.
Guard reminded me.
I'm thinking of the Friday.
Anyway, we had five years of this nonsense, and when that happened, Nobody had died from any of this stuff.
It wasn't a pandemic.
Anyway, and the people died from Trump's lockdowns, from his incentivization of these deadly ventilators and remdesivir and midazolam and all the rest of this stuff, withholding medical care from people.
That's what caused a slight rise in excess deaths, and then it went through the ceiling when Trump's vaccine was pushed out by Biden.
It's a uniparty approach.
It's a tag team match.
So, when the Trump lockdowns hit in 2020, the industry went through a very brief demand collapse as businesses closed and people lost their jobs.
People with email jobs began working from home.
The government started handing out free money to those who were out of work.
And online shopping took off all at once.
Truckers were more in demand than ever.
Because, you know, if you have your packages delivered by truck, They're germ-free.
You know that, right?
If you were to go into a store, you might get sick and die.
But if they're delivered by truck, you're okay.
The trucker's fine.
Everything else is fine.
The thing that they had to get rid of, folks, was the small businesses, the small retail businesses.
You had to consolidate everything for Amazon and the rest of them.
Well, even while doing its usual fatuous whining about the supposed shortage of truck drivers, The American Trucking Association had to admit that its own research revealed that there were 10 million people in the U.S. with an active commercial driver's license.
Naturally, the government had to get involved to create a problem where there wasn't one.
Late in 2021, the Biden White House let slip what was really going on.
They said the industry reports historic demand for its services.
Reflecting that demand, wages for employed drivers in all trucking segments have increased 7-12% in the last year alone.
But employment in some segments is still below pre-pandemic levels.
What do they mean by that?
Certain groups of people.
The Biden administration, no doubt encouraged by the American Trucking Association lobbyists, was not happy.
The truck driver pay had increased, nor did they seem to believe that the market was moving fast enough to correct this bidding up of wages.
Again, the American Trucking Association is going to be the people who own the trucks, not the individual operators and stuff so much, and not really representative of the truckers.
There's a different group that is talking about this problem.
The White House's proposed solution was to pay for people to get commercial driver's licenses.
So, the American Trucking Association and some driving schools that were part of them already had been receiving taxpayer funds for a debt-free path to a commercial driver's license.
But scratch beneath the surface of the ad copy for any truck driver training school and government grants and subsidies become immediately apparent.
Certainly not as much, though.
The entire trucking industry, a tiny fraction of what they give to one Ivy League school, Columbia, we now know, is getting $400 million because Trump said, well, if you criticize Netanyahu, we're going to take that $400 million away from you.
Altogether, for example, in California, the entire state of California spent $20 million on driver training.
They found, however, that those drivers didn't stick with the industry.
So if using millions in taxpayer funds, and again, $20 million for the entire state for commercial driver's licenses, whereas Columbia University getting $400 million, and they're just one, and they're not the most connected of all of these universities either.
So the government moved to lower the requirements for a commercial driver's license.
The White House phrased it, So they're going to expand the path for veterans and for underrepresented communities, such as women, to get good driving jobs.
So they said, suppose we, except for a moment, the American Trucking Association's unlikely claim there's a shortage of 80,000 drivers and that that shortage could grow as high as 160,000 by 2030.
2030 is when they expect to have self-driving cars and trucks.
So that they can take about half of the jobs.
Even more than half of the jobs for white-collar jobs.
Like lawyers and doctors.
Why then did the Biden administration claim to deliver more than ten times the number of the supposed shortage that the ATA represented?
I remember when they were talking about that.
We're 80,000 drivers short.
I remember that all the time.
Anyway, where do they find all these extra drivers who are clearly not drawn from the existing pool of commercial driver's license holders?
Another group that is asking the questions is the Trucker Advocacy Organization, American Truckers United.
It's been digging into the data on all the excess commercial driver's license produced over the past five years.
Their number crunching revealed that 10 states and Puerto Rico had somehow managed to issue over three and a half times the number of commercial driver's licenses as all of the other 40 states combined.
Just take two examples.
Oregon dumped 98,872 truck drivers into the system in 2022.
77 times the normal yearly number.
South Carolina contributed 77,500 new truckers in 2021.
And so the American Truckers Union says, is it even possible to test, to train, to qualify 43 times your normal throughput?
Did Federal Express and UPS move all of their operations to South Carolina, they asked.
Well, they have a different explanation.
Most of these drivers have been insourced from other countries.
With very little in the way of vetting.
No English necessary.
These hires also took advantage of a change that was quietly made in the waning days of the Obama administration in 2016, when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a very curious memorandum ordering the Department of Transportation and the police to,
listen to this, stop enforcing the federal regulation requiring Commercial drivers license drivers to be proficient in English.
I have a personal story about that, as a matter of fact.
It was in 2014, and this was before they waived it in 2016.
But of course, in Texas, there's a lot of illegal immigration, and this was not an 18-wheeler.
This was a gigantic dump truck.
And so Karen and I were in the Miata that we'd gotten like a month before.
And I'm sitting at the traffic light and this big truck pulls up behind me and the light turns green and he puts it in gear and goes and bumps me in the back.
And it's like, you know, I'm looking at all I can see in the back of the rearview mirror is this massive bumper, you know, that is there.
He hits me.
And so I, you know, put it in neutral to get out and talk to him.
It's like, you know.
About this fender bender at that moment.
But then he proceeded to hit me again because he's shifting down into another gear.
And again, and he pushed me out into the intersection.
And, you know, he's pushed me out of there.
So it's like, okay, this guy's not going to stop.
It's like that Steven Spielberg thing.
There's a mad trucker out in the desert that was chasing him.
That flashed into my mind.
So I put it in gear, and I sped up and got away from him.
And sped up and got in front of him, and then he wasn't pulling over.
He's just going to go.
And so I'm there, you know, and at that point, I'm really angry.
And I'm going to block this guy with my little Miata, right?
But I did get him to pull over.
And so I get out, and he doesn't speak any English.
He goes, okay, okay, okay, insurance, insurance, or whatever, you know.
And so we call the police.
The police come out there.
And they said, yeah, he doesn't speak English, and, you know, we'll talk about this.
But, you know, the problem is, they told me, they said, the problem is you can see that your car is too small.
He couldn't see you.
And so he saw me when he pulled up and stopped behind me.
Anyway, but, you know, it wasn't a problem because he didn't speak English.
So, okay, we're fine.
I wonder if they would have handled it differently if he did speak English.
If he wasn't an illegal alien.
Anyway, so why drop the sensible English requirement?
And, you know, there wasn't even any English instructions on that stop sign.
It's like the universal color.
So they announced that the resources would be directed to increase the capacity to train veterans and their family members, and also individuals from underserved and refugee communities.
That's really what they're talking about.
Well, they put the veterans there.
Put the veterans there so they feel good about it.
Trump is pausing the components of Biden's refugee program, which will affect hundreds of thousands.
Of Ukrainians, I said.
But still, when you look at what is happening in Arkansas, and who's governor in Arkansas?
None other than Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of Mike Huckabee, as the Republican governor there.
In Arkansas, legislators have rewritten regulations governing who may qualify for a CDL.
Removing domicile requirements.
And even allowing learners' permits from other countries to be proof enough to get a CDL.
I started reading this.
I thought, oh, okay, well, they're going to fix it in Republican arguments.
No, they're not.
They're going to lower the standards there, just like they have in South Carolina, Oregon, and other places.
And notice, Republican, Democrat state, doesn't matter.
They're all in on this.
All in on it.
And so is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, evidently.
The ATU has also found a disturbing correlation between the massive spike in commercial driver's licenses issued and the steady increase in truck-involved collisions and fatalities.
Will anyone in the new administration do anything to protect the American trucker and the motoring public, they ask.
Well, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Will Trump?
I don't think so.
But here, just during the last 12 months, a handful of these incidents, an illegal alien from Mexico again killed another trucker on his way home.
He'd been deported 16 times already.
A man from Uzbekistan, who has since disappeared and is presumed to have fled the country, killed a tow truck driver in Kentucky while he was watching YouTube and driving.
A man from Central Africa, who doesn't speak English, And required a translator for his court proceedings, drove the wrong way on a Nevada highway, plowing his semi into three motorcyclists who were killed instantly.
An apparent asylum seeker rear-ended a vehicle near Detroit, killed two women.
He had no commercial driver's license, but he was driving a commercial vehicle.
An Indian man driving a truck in West Virginia, accused of smashing into and pushing a car off a bridge, hitting it and keeping going.
And so what do we do?
When government puts wolves in our backyard.
So here's a real story.
The red wolf that they've introduced in eastern North Carolina.
A lot of other places like that.
They've done it out west for quite some time.
This is a story from Reason.
When the government puts wolves in your backyard.
Look.
They do this all the time.
They do it so much.
The government is so fond of predators.
Pretty much every government.
They love to have predators as their symbols, you know.
Lions, eagles, bears, all this other kind of stuff.
Wolves, I think, would be the best one.
As a matter of fact, I think they should get rid of the donkey and the elephant, and they should replace both of those with wolves.
You could have a red wolf, maybe a blue wolf.
Or they could put them in red and blue sheep's clothing.
I think that would be the most appropriate.
Metaphor for the two political parties.
Certainly not a donkey and an elephant.
In October 1990, Richard Mann shot a red wolf that he feared was threatening his cattle.
The wolf was a member of an experimental population from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
They were the ones who were sticking the wolves out there.
This is in Eastern Carolina.
A few years earlier in an effort to save the most endangered canine on the planet.
Why do you think they're endangered?
Does anybody have any answers as to why people would be killing wolves?
I can't imagine why.
Whistler says the government loves predators from wolves to Epstein.
They absolutely do.
When are we going to get the wolf papers?
Werewolves is really maybe what these politicians are more likely.
But you know, you look at this and you say, Why are there no lions in Europe anymore?
Or in the Middle East?
Or in China?
You know, they all have had lions.
They all depict them, but there's no lions there.
I wonder why that is.
Maybe the same kind of thing that they...
Same reason why they got rid of the wolves.
They got rid of the lions for the same reason.
You know, when we took the boys to the British Museum, there was this bas-relief there of snack rib and all that.
All of these, you know, again, they're bass relief murals, showing them doing lion hunts, you know.
And all these Middle East leaders, they would do lion hunts all the time.
Evidently, they got pretty good at it.
They don't have that problem anymore.
Fortunately for this guy in 1990, the red wolf on his property had not yet attacked his livestock.
Unfortunately for him, that meant that he was prosecuted under the Endangered Species Act for preemptively killing the canine.
He pled guilty, was fined $2,000 in order to perform community service to build wolf houses and to feed red wolves.
That'll teach him, right?
But I guess feed him his cattle.
I don't know.
Whatever they do.
But, you know, these Endangered Species Act, when you look at the windmills, they're massive fines.
$10,000 or whatever.
You just have one eagle feather.
And I can't imagine how much it is if you kill an eagle.
But, you know, they have had some prosecutions, but not many.
For these windmills, but they kill more than their share of migratory.
I think they kill way, way, way more birds, migratory birds, than bird flu.
Because bird flu is not killing any of them.
But the windmills are.
I imagine they're going to probably take those PCR tests.
They start roaming around the windmill farms.
And try to make a case for the wild birds being killed.
Because we have a PCR test.
I'm sure that they could find whatever they're looking for when they magnify it sufficiently.
So, you know, take a PCR test out there and go to a windmill area, and you're going to find a lot of migratory birds, bats, and other things that are killed by these windmills.
So, over the decades, more than 100 red wolves have been raised in captivity and been released into that area of eastern North Carolina.
The population peaked.
At about 120 wolves in 2012 before falling rapidly due to human-caused fatalities.
It could be gunshots or it could be cars.
The species has also been interbreeding with increasingly prolific coyotes, which cause a dilution.
And so, yeah, the coyotes somehow figured out a way to survive.
And I guess the...
People who were shooting the wolves figured out after this high-profile case that you shut up and bury it.
So the Red Wolf has now become a symbol of federal overreach in the area.
Again, should be the symbol of the political parties.
Trucker Chris for the Wind says, Our countries can recover from war, but not from diversity.
They must all go back.
That's right.
That's what they have brought them in for.
To create issues, just like the Alawites that I was talking about.
Now, that was not, the Alawites were always there, the Sunnis were always there, but what they did was they put them together in one political entity, and that created problems, just like the Kurds, the former Medes.
You know, they have been a problem for Iran, Iraq, and for Turkey, because they didn't get their own country.
It's an ongoing thing.
They know that.
They have used that.
I believe that they intentionally did that.
They were not trying to create boundaries that were going to be sustainable and peaceful.
They intentionally split up these minorities like that and combined them into a political system because they wanted division, and that would allow them to control the oil.
They like civil war.
That was a deliberate plan, in my opinion.
Cliff at Goodland.
LLC, I've been trucking for 44 years and have not had a raise in 30 years.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah, that is awful.
Honor Seeker.
I can relate to that.
Working at Infowars for a short period of time, but not that long.
Not that long.
Not that bad.
Honor Seeker says regular English speaking Americans that grew up here must jump through hoop after hoop to get commercial driver's license and hazmat.
But foreigners get a pass.
So many can't speak English or even drive a car.
Absolutely.
Yeah, there was an interesting thing on Wall Street Journal.
They're talking about the clever ways that they're coming up with gear shifts.
Because sometimes, you know, for better performance, you want to be able to shift it your own or maybe whatever.
But yeah, not going to do, they're electronic, and they're not going to do anything that looks like anything anybody's ever used.
They're talking about how weird it's getting with crystal balls and all the rest of this stuff to control the drive.
I remember my sister had an Edsel, and it was destroyed by a tornado that took the back porch off.
And hurled it board by board at her Edson.
The thing was doomed from the start.
But they did some very unusual things for the controls for that time.
You know, it looked really ugly.
It had that big horse collar grill, if you remember.
But I was kind of fascinated by some of the instruments when I had some push-button transmission.
If I remember correctly, I think it was that.
But I definitely remember the speedometer.
The speedometer had a fixed needle, and then it had like a metal hemisphere that had the numbers marked on it, you know, what speed you're going.
And that would rotate around as your speed increased or decreased, which was really weird.
Conthank says there's hardly any lions on the Scottish Highlands.
That's good.
You have a MacGuffin.
Yeah, that's good.
And if you realize that, then that's not a MacGuffin.
Ron Helton.
What next?
Intentionally start fires to burn down our homes?
Wait, I think they're doing that already.
Wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, naked.
Says, aren't wolves just competition for us?
Let the deer and the stuff overpopulate and there'll be more food for us.
Well, that's absolutely true.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
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Handy says they just installed AI in our ambulances.
For now, it watches us and reports infractions to our management.
Not only that, but it audibly critiques us when we violate its programming.
I was going to show that coming up.
Since he mentioned it, he took a picture of this thing.
Are those...
Is that part of the device or are those pieces of blue tape that you guys have stuck over it?
I don't know.
I'm sure that it would complain about that.
It says, I found a Facebook page with other EMS folks who have already tangled with it in the cab.
Funny thing, funny stuff if we weren't next to get it.
So yeah, it's, as he said, he wrote me, he says, as if our job with EMS is not difficult enough, now they're going to be micromanaging and hassling us with this stuff.
And again, complaining about the way you drive.
When you put these types of devices in passenger cars, and they always are encouraging people to do that, then they use that to increase your insurance, right?
They don't know if you were acting responsibly when you braked suddenly.
If you didn't have an accident, maybe you were doing the right thing.
And yet they will use that against you.
So this is this type of thing.
But, you know, how annoying.
We've got some very old and very dear friends who we used to have a weekly Bible study with back in North Carolina.
And I've never seen the husband and wife argue over anything except her telling him how to drive.
They would get angry just thinking about past arguments that they had.
When that subject would come up, so he'd avoid that subject altogether.
But that was a raw nerve.
Can you imagine having to work with that thing?
That's crazy.
It says, it monitors our eyes to determine if we were distracted.
Doug Oleg says, oh man, Andy, I cannot imagine the stress that that would cause.
Yeah, exactly.
Angry Tiger, good to see you there.
Angry Tiger Report, and also with Jason Barker, Nights of the Storm.
He says, I have a friend from Haiti.
A very nice person.
He went to school to drive a truck.
It only took him a month.
He should not be driving the truck.
He's already been in three accidents.
I don't know how he is still able to drive.
It's very dangerous having him behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler.
Again.
And it's also very concerning to have artificial intelligence behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler as well.
But it's insane.
They don't care.
Look, they don't care what happens to us if they can make another penny.
Just take a look at fast food and the ingredients that they put in fast food.
They don't really care.
For them, if they can shave a penny off of the price of each hamburger, they sell billions of hamburgers.
That's a lot of money for them.
Handy says, for example, the AI reports that we don't come to a complete stop or if we stop before the white line at intersections.
Especially when we're in emergency mode.
Just last night, a Domino's driver cut us off while we were driving with lights and sirens because we had to come to a complete stop and wait a couple of seconds.
He thought we were going to let him go ahead.
So then I guess you get reported by the AI, your master.
Well, let's talk about something that is moving in the right direction, hopefully.
But again, even when we see things that are moving in the right direction, I'm cynical enough, and I know that it may not be completed, and that if it is completed, with the kind of government that we've got, it's going to be completely undone.
Let's talk a little bit about the climate stuff and what I mean by that, as I preface that, was EPA and some of the good things that Lee Zeldin is doing there.
But this is an interesting article WhatsApp App had responding to the New York Post.
The New York Post says, How major coastal cities are rapidly sinking into the sea.
This is the New York Post, which is a Republican conservative thing, towing this line.
And again, why is it that Obama and all these people are buying property on the seashore?
And if you look at the places where they're buying these extremely expensive properties...
They have a website.
It says all these areas are going to be underwater, right?
Well, they say they're going to be underwater if any of this stuff is true, but it's not, so don't worry about it.
And they're not worried about it.
That's the key thing.
Obama, Biden, all these people who are talking about this, they're not worried about it at all.
They're putting their money where they believe it's going to be fine.
And so, this headline says, you almost got it right.
The New York Post...
Says subsidence is sinking coastal cities, but climate change is not raising the seas.
In other words, they do mention the fact that cities, some cities, are sinking.
Some at a faster rate than others.
And the issue is that the cities are sinking.
It's not that the sea level is rising.
We're going to explain to you how that all works.
But this is the fear-mongering going on by the New York Post, and they call it scary.
Because they're trying to scare you.
Could this be the American Atlantis?
New York City isn't the only metropolis that is on the descent.
An alarming new study by NASA has found that parts of California, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, are sinking into the ocean at a shocking rate, exacerbating the effects of sea level rise.
Well, it's absolute nonsense, even if this were real.
The appropriate response would not be to try to shut everything down.
The appropriate response would be to do what they did in the Netherlands.
Most of the Netherlands is below sea level.
How did they manage that?
They built dikes and other things like that.
But again, a recent New York Post article, a scary map reveals the major coastal cities rapidly sinking into the sea.
And it talks about this idiotic study.
So the post says that it's a combination of subsidence and rising seas.
Subsidence is a local issue where the land starts sinking, and it can be for a variety of things.
It could be excessive groundwater extraction.
Ever heard of a sinkhole?
Well, that's subsidence.
And so that's one example of it.
But, you know, you pull into it, you've got a lot of people in there, you're drawing a lot of groundwater out, you start getting sinkholes.
Or it could be infrastructure issues.
It could be sediment compaction.
It could be tectonic shifts.
Climate change is not a factor in subsidence.
And so when you look at these situations in California, San Francisco, LA, you think it might have something to do with tectonic shifts?
Some of these other things could be issues as well.
In many parts of the world, like the reclaimed ground beneath San Francisco, the land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up.
Now, this is something that the NASA study said, something that was reported by the New York Post, but then they throw in the nonsense about rising sea level.
The study cites short-term data from satellites to imply that global sea level rise is accelerating.
However, real-world tide gauge data does not support this claim.
NOAA's tide gauge data, this is not NASA, but NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or something, or agency.
Their tide gauge data from New York City's Battery Park Station, which has recorded sea levels since 1856, Shows a steady rise of about 2.85 millimeters per year, a rate that has remained consistent for more than a century.
This gradual rise of sea level is not accelerating despite increasing CO2 emissions over the past several decades.
Again, that is not the issue.
And we don't even really need to explain this.
When they look at this data, they say San Francisco shows a steady sea level rise trend.
That is even lower than that found in New York City.
And LA's rate of sea level rise is even lower and even slower.
So how does this work?
You know, remember the quote from JFK when he was talking about why he cut taxes?
He said, a rising tide floats all boats.
And you know, it floats them all.
Funny thing, it floats them all.
Equally, you know, some boats don't rise faster than others when the tide goes up.
How is it that we have coastal cities where you have a big difference between San Francisco and LA, if the sea level is rising, it's going to rise the same rate both places there, right?
Except that what happens is it's a difference in subsidence that is happening.
The city is sinking at a different rate.
It's not that the sea level is rising at a different rate.
We've seen this before, and I talked about this a month or two ago.
They were talking about a couple of South Pacific islands.
Oh, look at this one.
It's going up by this amount, and the other one is going up by 50% more.
It's like, so you're telling me that the South Pacific is rising in one area faster than it's rising in another area?
Come on.
Obviously, these islands are sinking, and they're sinking at a different rate.
And it could be tectonic issues.
It could be any number of things.
But, you know, a rising ocean would flood all cities and islands the same, wouldn't it?
Just like a rising tide is going to float all boats the same?
Well, CBS is having a fit.
They are scared.
They're freaking out, trying to freak everybody, or at least trying to freak everybody else out.
A CBS environmental journalist slams Trump's EPA, says we have less than 10 years to save the planet.
How many times have we heard this?
This is because Lee Zeldin is talking about doing the right thing, getting rid of regulations.
Now, the problem is that the right thing would be to get rid of the EPA, not to get rid of the EPA regulations.
But we'll take what we can get.
Hopefully, this will go through to fruition.
But again, even if it does, it can completely get undone within the next four years when somebody else gets in, if they get in.
This is, you know, and this has been a bipartisan thing.
Going back to Richard Nixon, who created the EPA.
He created the EPA to clean up pollution.
There's a lot of large sites.
They called it the Superfund.
It was going to be very, very expensive to clean them up.
So, you know, the government can create unlimited amounts of money, so we'll make it a federal program, even though we don't have any constitutional authority to do that.
Pragmatism won out.
But then what happened was...
The metastatic bureaucracy kicked in.
It's like a cancer, right?
You give it one job, and it's got a mission creep.
And these creeps are now on a mission to shut down everything.
The EPA under Biden even wanted to shut down power plants, not just our automobiles with emissions.
So Lee Zeldin is talking about getting rid of some of these regulations, and I certainly hope that he can.
And that would be very good news if he can.
But if he can, it'll only be a temporary thing.
And understand that it's going to be a lot of lawsuits involved.
And the Trump administration has not been doing very well in the lawsuit area.
They have lost pretty much every one of these challenges.
Of course, they will be appealed, but they've pretty much lost all of them.
The one area where they have not had a real defeat was in deportation.
They made a big display of sending a couple of jets full of these gang members, MS-13 and this Venezuelan gang, La Trenua.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Anyway, this Venezuelan gang, which is kind of a new thing, but MS-13.
So they sent them down to El Salvador, where they're going to get incredibly harsh treatment.
You know, you've seen that president has...
Built a special prison for these gangs, and so they did a couple of shiploads down there.
Now, plane loads.
This is in violation of a court order.
So is this going to be something that Trump is going to now challenge judicial supremacy?
He's going to have to do that if he's going to get any of the agenda through.
Or it's all just a head fake to say, well, I wanted to do this, but the judiciary wouldn't let me do it.
So keep voting for Republicans, and we'll pack the courts with our political appointees, that type of thing.
Look, you can make pragmatic arguments for and against judicial supremacy.
And I've got a listener who's a lawyer who sent me an email and said, here's the arguments for judicial supremacy and the arguments against judicial supremacy.
The problem is the entire Constitution is an argument against supremacy of any one branch.
It was designed to have checks and balances.
And they also said at the time they put together, they said, well, I think the judiciary is the least dangerous because it has the least power.
The executive can do a lot of things.
The Congress has the power of the purse and so forth, but the judiciary doesn't have any way to enforce it.
And so they didn't put any more restrictions on it.
And you had Andrew Jackson say to the Supreme Court when they told him that he couldn't do what he wanted to do.
He said, well, you made your ruling.
Let's see you enforce it.
He had, regardless of what the policy was, and I didn't agree with the policy that he was talking about at the time.
It was the relocation of the Cherokee.
But regardless of whether he agreed with the policy or not, he had the authority under the Constitution.
Where is the authority under the Constitution for the EPA?
There is none.
So, at best, we're looking at something that's a temporary fix.
But this would be a good thing if it goes through.
Deregulation at the EPA said CBS would mean, quote, ominously wondering what the big changes at EPA could cost you as the administration makes good on the president's campaign promise to roll back climate protections.
Well, I know what it's going to cost me if they ban my cars and if the Department of Energy is the one in charge of energy use, and that's the way they're coming after.
A lot of the appliances, but even the EPA is pushing its bureaucratic mandate, I should say, into appliances, saying you can't have any gas appliances because of emissions.
So the EPA is about emissions.
The Department of Energy is about energy usage.
And both of those 1970-ish bureaucracies Are being used to destroy everything in our country, and they've got to be reined in.
I don't know what's going on with the Department of Energy, who's in charge of that under Trump, but Lee Zeldin appears to be focused on deregulation issues, and that's the key thing.
If you want to bring manufacturing back, for example, if you want to have affordable energy, that's all going to be done with deregulation.
All this tariff stuff, that's just a tax.
You're not going to tax your way into prosperity.
And if you want to enable people to have businesses and do manufacturing and things like that, you're going to have to get rid of regulations.
So they said one of the things EPA will now reconsider is what its press release calls a burdensome greenhouse gas reporting program where thousands of companies have to submit their emission levels.
This is CBS reporting.
They said Zeldin said the agency would try to undo a total of 31 environmental regulations from rules governing wastewater.
To emission standards.
The Trump administration has also revealed plans to shut down the EPA's Environmental Justice Division.
Good.
You know, any adjective like that in front of justice negates it.
You know, we talk about social justice.
We talk about racial justice.
We talk about environmental justice.
I mean, we're talking about ESG, right?
That negates justice.
It really isn't, but they love to use that word.
Just like they love to use the word liberal, because, you know, liberal used to mean free.
It used to mean liberating and all the rest of the stuff.
But then they stole that, just like they stole the term justice.
They're not about justice or liberty.
But liberty and justice for all, right?
Wait, Superman, you're fighting for the wrong people.
They just changed the labels here.
Anyway, Zeldin says that he's going to ensure that we have clean air and clean water.
That was the original mission, the original unconstitutional mission.
But now the mission that is on, we can see the result of that if we follow this in terms of what is happening in communist Cuba.
This headline from Zero Hedge, communist Cuba plunges into a power blackout hell.
Well, you know, the communist in the UK, the Labour Party under Keir Starmer, is going to do the same thing to the UK.
All of this stuff, you know, you can call it communists, but all the environmental movement, as I've said many times, it's watermelon communism.
It's all red on the inside.
Remember, red was the color of communism.
All red on the inside with a thin veneer of green.
It's watermelon Marxism.
Cuba's ongoing power crisis plunging more than 10 million people into darkness.
Serves as a stark reminder of the systemic failures of communist dictatorship.
But look, environmentalism seeks to do the same thing, because it is fundamentally Marxism.
So this is something that's been going on for quite some time.
It went down.
The entire grid went down, the entire national electric grid in Cuba.
Still only about 10% the next day of total demand was available to supply critical infrastructure such as hospitals, food centers, and water supply systems.
Don't worry, AI will have all the energy that it needs.
Remember, Trump said, the grid is old and vulnerable.
Talking about the American grid, not the Cuban grid, the American grid.
For your factories, you're going to want to build your own power supply, because they're not going to fix our grid.
So keep that in mind before you get too excited about what Lee Zeldin is doing.
Trump knows that our grid is old and vulnerable, and he's not going to do anything to stop it.
And when we talk about vulnerability, that's been talked about for a very long time.
The EMP stuff is just one issue of it.
But they've had a lot of these blackouts in Cuba.
In October, November, December, the island's grid suffered a major blackout.
In October...
Headline said, Cuba paralyzed by massive power blackout.
December.
Total grid collapse strikes Cuba.
Parentheses, again.
Like Texas, right?
Put in the windmill power when they've got oil.
Out the wazoo.
Cuba's long list of problems.
Rolling blackouts.
Yeah.
Check that in.
Texas, you know, during the winter thing, but also in California, other places like that.
Food, fuel, medicine shortages.
Just chaos in general.
Well, Bill Gates is giving up on climate change, and that has got some of the left really upset with him.
Futurism is really mad.
They said, by the early 2020s, billionaires had positioned themselves as masters of climate change policy.
That's right.
And think about that.
Now, all of a sudden, These billionaires, who are the masters of climate change policy, they've now done a pivot to Trump, and that's what they're really upset about.
And that's just as true of Elon Musk as it is of Bill Gates.
That's why the left is so angry.
Gates doesn't make anything that they could deface.
I guess you could...
Look at Microsoft operating systems, but people are doing that all the time anyway because they're so vulnerable to being hacked.
But, you know, they're spray-painting the Teslas and all the rest of this stuff because they're angry with Musk.
Why?
Because he was a darling of the climate change movement, just like Gates was.
And now they've all switched.
They're going to have their own private grid.
They want to start instituting the technocracy now.
And futurism really doesn't get it.
They don't understand.
So the billionaires used to be the darlings of climate change policies.
They took advantage of their great fortune to become indispensable to environmentalism.
They were the ones who were pushing that fraud.
Now, however, many of those same billionaires are pulling support at an alarming rate.
Bill Gates is the latest among them, signaling the end of a, quote, major chapter in climate giving, unquote.
Breakthrough Energy, his climate change non-profit, has locked the doors on its policy and advocacy office, laying off dozens of employees throughout Europe and the U.S. Breakthrough Energy was a non-profit, non-governmental organization that was a lobbying group pushing for all this stuff.
He's now shuttered the doors on that.
He's got other things that he's going to do.
Breakthrough lobbying was central to advancing climate policy through legislation, championed by the Biden administration, the CHIPS Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, and of course the Inflation Reduction Act, which as I said earlier, it's just the MMT,
meaning that they can reduce inflation by raising taxes and other things like that.
Though the billionaires, for-profit green energy investments at companies like Arn Energy and Mission Zero Technologies.
That's Bill Gates who's invested there.
Although those remain in place.
His Breakthrough Energy Company.
Not company, but it's a non-profit.
You know, the Breakthrough Energy.
They want to break our energy.
That should be called Break Your Energy.
It's not a Breakthrough Energy.
They're not inventing any new energy generation techniques.
They just want to shut it down.
They're lobbying government to shut your stuff down.
So they're going to have belt-tightening, as said, very likely in the nonprofit's grant-writing efforts.
Ever since Trump won his second election, barons like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and of course Elon Musk have made no bones about shedding their progressive skin and embracing the new technocracy.
Oh, they say embracing the new administration.
No, this is about the technocracy.
All these guys who are always reliable leftists, anti-free speech, anti-energy use.
We're talking about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Bill Gates.
They've all just transmogrified, you know, and something else, shed their skin.
And you can see it at the massive grift that was the Trump inauguration.
They still don't know.
Who the people were that were giving him a record amount of money?
There's not really any accounting for that, and I guess Elon Musk isn't going to use Doge for that, right?
He made $2 billion, and his company, Tesla, did and paid no taxes at all.
Gates, too, is cozying up to the returning president in early January.
He spent three hours dining with Trump.
Telling the Wall Street Journal that he was frankly impressed, quote-unquote, by Trump's grasp of money.
No, by the issues that are dear to him.
Trump has got a firm grasp on all the money that he can get.
Though many no doubt feel betrayed by what seems like a sudden rightward turn, billionaires like Gates have always behaved like wolves in sheep's clothing.
Prioritizing their fortunes above all, says Futurism.
So, how about that?
Gates, Musk, Trump.
Their fortunes, not yours.
These 21st century robber barons.
For example, Gates was heavily involved in establishing the Global Fund, a privately funded rival to the World Health Organization.
This leftist publication says, while the Global Fund did improve global vaccination rates, the cost of basic medicines skyrocketed thanks to his introduction of for-profit actors into global health efforts.
They're starting to realize that these guys are about raising money.
Now, what he doesn't realize is that Bill Gates is not the flip-flopper all over the place just to make money that they think he is.
His agenda, whether you're talking about climate change or whether you're talking about vaccines, has always been the same.
Depopulation.
He's always been a depopulationist.
He was a spawn of people who were involved in Planned Parenthood.
And so were all the Bushes, by the way.
Going back, you know, Prescott Bush, the father of George H.W., the first treasurer for Margaret Singer's Planned Parenthood.
His name is right there on the letterhead of the very first fundraising letter from Planned Parenthood.
Billionaires are never going to save the world from climate catastrophe.
They just needed us to believe that they could.
And these people are so stupid that they still believe that there is a pending climate catastrophe.
It's just ridiculous.
Well, here's the real issue.
As one person said, we need to arrest Gates and Fauci.
See that woman shaking there in the bed?
That's a reaction from the vaccine.
And these vaccines, even before the Trump shot, these vaccines were putting some children into uncontrollable seizures forever.
But that is, here's more of these particular cases.
And this is what they cheer.
is not like her tongue.
It's protruding hair.
How do you think she feels when Fauci and Gates say rare?
Rare. Just bring me here.
Poor things.
And it is just sickening.
Yeah, crimes against humanity.
That's what these people are.
They want to kill us.
And if they can't kill us, they want to do that.
That's what Gates and Fauci and Musk and Trump and all of them are about.
All of them about.
It's not just Gates and Fauci.
It's Musk and Trump, too.
Come on, folks.
Pay attention.
Get these blinders off.
These partisan blinders that you've got on.
You can't see what's going on.
It's all of them.
They have no ideology except to kill us.
It's the only thing that they care about.
Well, let's take a look at the regulations.
This will make a temporary change, perhaps.
Maybe.
Lee Zeldin said that his intention is to save coal.
Good.
And to bring down the cost of living.
Good.
Good.
But just remember that it was Nixon who created the EPA.
And, you know, since then, it has been a bipartisan party to run this stuff through.
He said it's not a binary choice to either protect the environment or to grow the economy.
He says we don't have to just choose one.
Well, again, he's going back.
What he's going to do is maybe roll it back to the beginning of the EPA.
One of the guys that I worked with, David Schneer, used to work for the EPA.
He worked for them over 30 years.
He retired, and then he focused on opposing them.
Why?
Because of mission creep.
So he's going to take it back to the original mission, which, by the way, was not constitutional.
Even if it was pragmatic, it was not constitutional.
And how has the EPA been doing in terms of cleaning up things?
Well, not very well at all.
One of the larger commitments made by...
Zeldin was to clear hundreds of backlogged cases having to do with clean air that Biden didn't care about.
He said Biden administration focused on ideological pursuits rather than the agency's core mission of cleaning up stuff.
Take a look at Palestine, Ohio, for example.
Want to clean up?
No, no, no, no, no.
We want to get rid of your cars and your appliances and things like that.
The EPA stated that the deregulatory actions will roll back trillions in regulatory costs and in hidden taxes on American families.
Yeah, you see, regulations are hidden taxes, just like tariffs are hidden taxes as well.
After announcing 31 deregulations on Wednesday, including the termination of the Biden administration's Environmental justice and DEI arms of the agencies.
And they actually called it DEI.
He said, we're going to be able to create jobs including inside the American auto sector.
Because that's become the main focus of the EPA.
To eliminate petroleum-based automobiles.
How about that?
I just thought of that.
EPA.
Eliminate petroleum autos.
That's Biden's EPA in a nutshell, isn't it?
Just like the FDA means that Pfizer is free to do anything, and Moderna and any of the other pharmaceutical companies.
EPA is eliminating the Biden administration's electric vehicle mandate as well.
Why didn't Congress do that?
It's not constitutional.
Why didn't the judiciary do that?
It's crazy what they are not doing.
So, as a matter of fact, the other thing that they're not doing, they gave legislative authority to the EPA to measure emissions and to the Department of Energy to regulate energy usage and to ban things and so forth.
That needs to be taken away.
Mike Johnson has got other priorities, I should say.
Making money.
Having public appearances, helping Israel, all these other things, they're not going to do anything that is fundamental, fundamentally needs to be done.
I've been told that we're going after the holy grail of the climate change religion, said Lee Zeldin, and I would just say this, that we can protect the environment and grow the economy.
It's not a binary choice.
Well, good, but just don't celebrate yet.
Nothing may happen.
If it does, it may get rolled back right away.
This is something that's gone from Nixon to Obama to Biden and so forth a very, very long time.
For example, some of the foundational things that they've used for this, the endangerment finding that was used by the EPA, that began in 2009.
Obama.
You might say, okay, sure, yeah, I understand that.
Okay.
However, in 2007, who was president?
George W. Bush.
The EPA charged in 2007 that greenhouse gases endangered both public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.
That was George W. Bush and his EPA.
And so these people own this, right?
And to his credit, you know, when Trump is, if he's going to get rid of some of this stuff, even if it's temporary, you know, that's, you know, that belongs to him.
Just like the lockdown order and, you know, Friday the 13th, 2020, that belonged to him as well.
As Chris Morrison says, Trump is striking at the heart of the climate change agenda by attacking the CO2 is pollution claim.
He says, 8 billion humans living on the earth breathe out 2 pounds of carbon dioxide every day.
Yet net-zero fanatics have long argued that this gas of all planetary life is a pollutant.
And so that was the key thing, the pollutant determination in 2009 by Obama, and then the fact that it was an endangerment two years prior to that by George W. Bush.
So I hope he turned this around.
But of course, it is about the lions on the Scottish Highland, isn't it?
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Appreciate the tip.
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I asked a simple question.
It says on social media this weekend, does the Constitution enshrine the rights of free speech to non-citizens?
The responses were scary.
My people perish for lack of knowledge.
First of all, the Constitution doesn't give us any rights, as I'm sure he knows.
It recognizes that the government can't take away some of our human rights.
But, you know, they're really no different than Ursula Fond of Lying, who sees free speech as a threat.
If you see speech as something that is a threat to you and has to be shut down, if it's the wrong speech from the wrong people, look, hatred...
Anything is, you know, even yelling fire in a crowded theater, really, in spite of what the Supreme Court says.
That's all protected speech.
Or you don't have free speech.
It really is.
Once you start making exceptions to it.
Now, White House seriously is considering a deal from Oracle to run TikTok.
See, we've gone from crony capitalism now to mafia capitalism.
Theft.
And handing it over to your friends, right?
These other made men.
Because it simply is a protection racket.
Always has been.
And that's what I think is really going on with TikTok.
They're going to take it, hand it over to some of their friends who are going to run it for their benefit.
Run it so they can make profit.
They're going to have a public-private partnership to control our speech and to do other things.
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Octospook.
They have released wolves in New Mexico.
Ranchers have shot them.
They're still searching for those ranchers.
Yeah, well, you know, that's the thing.
Again, shovel and shut up about it.
Brian and Deb McCartney.
Wolves are prolific here in northern Minnesota.
Yeah, so is the government.
Trevolong says, I have enough issues with coyotes and hawks eating my chickens.
So do we.
Swamp lover says, and bear population is way up as well.
You know, I grew up in Florida, and they, for a while, were protecting alligators.
Now the alligator population has exploded.
I remember we lived on a lake, and now everything is just intensified and everything.
But we were one of the few houses on the lake when I was growing up, and there was a couple next door to us that were elderly, and he needed to get into the lake to do, Therapy, it had a stroke and things like that.
And they had permission.
I don't know if they had permission.
I was very young.
I don't know what was happening with it.
But they had the ability, were set up to protect themselves against alligators.
So they always had a gun ready to shoot them, I think.
I remember that very clearly.
I also remember when I was a very little child looking out the back window.
And seeing an alligator under my swing set.
That was an image that haunted me in my dreams for quite some time.
It's like TikTok, the alligator from Peter Pan.
Let's see, where were we?
Treble Long.
I have enough issues.
Oh, I read that one already.
Let's see.
We're All Dead said, swamp lover bear attacks are up.
There's a guy on YouTube making a living off of just reporting the bear attacks.
Oh, there you go.
And I guess I make a living reporting the attacks of the government wolves that are out there on people.
KWD-68, the ones with two legs, you know, not the four-legged wolves.
AI has also been put in charge of the U.S. Postal Service.
And you see how that's worked out for the last year.
Audi, Modern Retro Radio, a...
Surveillance state is what they want.
However, the watchers aren't aware that they are being watched.
LOL.
That's right.
And we see what's happening with this AI stuff as well.
Mav 2022.
Man-made climate change is BS, but man-made climate engineering is 100% causing huge problems.
And there was a lot of stuff on the internet.
I didn't put it into the deck today.
A lot of pictures of geoengineering, of nozzles on planes, you know, turning on and off.
It's just right in your face.
Literally in our faces.
So we've gone from who watches the Watchmen to the Watchmen to who programs it.
Says, Whistler, you're absolutely right.
Mark Young says, climate is always changing.
Due mostly to solar changes.
That's right.
Mark Young says that.
A solo board gaming night.
It says, global warming told us we had 10 years before destruction.
Now with climate change, they gave themselves 100 years before they could be proven wrong.
They kept putting it out.
That's one of the things I've always said about the American Meteorological Society.
They had their weather conference in Austin one year.
I went there and covered it.
And again, everybody is trying to predict.
Hundreds of exhibits.
With these guys talking about their latest climate models and how they were testing them and so forth.
And how they were not working.
They're trying to accurately predict the weather like three days in advance and they couldn't do it.
Still can't.
If you look at your weather apps and then make a note of it, you'll see.
But they're constantly changing and updating the weather apps as it gets closer to the real thing.
So that gives a perception that they know what they're talking about.
But they don't.
And so the difference with the climate stuff is that they make these projections that are decades out so that nobody can hold them responsible.
You know, they can't do real science.
You can't observe it.
So again, just like going back to the virus and these people try to hide their data.
Same game.
Jerry Alitalo says eugenicist Bill Gates advocates 10 to 15% depopulation of humanity via vaccines now.
And it seems that nobody bats an eye or asks Gates for a legitimate explanation.
Certainly not these people.
They're upset about the fact that...
He's not going to try to take everything using the climate, MacGuffin.
But let's get back to this.
The imperial peace, Trump's strategic rebranding of empire.
Free Thought Project.
The dramatic clash between Trump and Zelensky dominated the news, but beneath the theatrics, Trump's not fundamentally breaking from U.S. foreign policy traditions.
He is reshaping them, rebranding them as well.
His rhetoric of ending forever wars masks a calculated strategy, one that replaces direct military intervention with economic control, resource extraction, and corporate education.
This is everything that he's been doing before and after the election.
This is not something that just got sprung on us.
We saw what the technocracy was doing.
We saw Elon Musk jumping in behind him and even...
Zuckerberg before the election.
We saw him working with the Summit Pipeline CEO at Mar-a-Lago, along with the governors, the Republican governors of North and South Dakota, both of whom are now in his administration.
The North Dakota governor, Burgum, now in charge of the Interior Department and talking about how they got $200 trillion worth of resources they can exploit for whose benefit?
Theirs.
They're going to get a cut.
Just like Lutnik gets a cut when he sets up these corporate pump-and-dump scams.
And that's what these people are going to do.
What kind of a cut do you need off a $200 trillion bonanza in order to make a lot of money?
Yeah.
So this is what they're always about.
He's not about peace.
Trump's approach may lack the diplomatic polish.
of previous administrations, but the difference is one of style rather than of substance.
His overt transactionalism merely exposes what has always been true.
The U.S. does not support Ukraine out of a commitment to democracy, but because it serves American geopolitical and economic interests.
And those are always and still remain the geopolitical and economic interests of the big corporations.
Like Smedley Butler said, I realize that I've been fighting all my life for the fruit companies or whatever in Central and South America, or the oil companies and other times.
So the Biden administration, along with centrist politicians in the U.S. and Europe, have funneled billions into a war effort that increasingly appears to be less about securing Ukrainian sovereignty and more about sustaining a profitable cycle of militarization.
And strengthening of the U.S. global power.
And then, you know, moving on to Russia, which is where they would like to go.
This, by the way, is Free Thought Project.
So, imperialist peace, a new model of capitalist control.
Yeah, it is usually done with contracts.
It's usually done in the back.
Think about what...
Dick Cheney was doing with Halliburton contracts in Iraq.
That's been the model in the past.
You know, we come in, we blow things up.
Military-industrial complex is happy.
We come in then and we hand out some contracts to some other people who then rebuild it.
And everybody likes it except all the people who got killed and the Americans who have to pay the money for it.
And we'll eventually pay the price as the entire world gets turned against us.
As they see what we're doing.
Expanding the imperialist peace model through Gaza through the digital economy.
Trump's imperial peace extends beyond Ukraine.
His proposals for Gaza suggest similar priorities.
Displacing residents while repurposing land for high-end development.
His team's discussions on transforming Gaza into an exclusive investment hub.
This is key that everybody's finally seeing.
Again, this has been going on everywhere.
It's not just the fruit companies in the late 1800s, early 20th century in Central and South America, or the oil situation and gas situation in the Middle East.
It's also in Afghanistan, where we look at the lithium and rare earth elements and things like that, because they want them for their electric vehicles.
Electronics.
It's always been about this stuff.
As Gerald Slenty says, you know, we're in the Middle East because of the oil.
So Trump has ordered the military now to also draw up plans to seize Panama Canal.
Because again, BlackRock is going to benefit from this.
Already has.
While the MAGA people chant, USA, USA, USA, right?
U.S. officials said military action in Panama would only be considered if the country does not allow Trump to reclaim the canal.
We're going to reclaim it for BlackRock, right?
We've got to stop fighting these wars for corporations and banks.
Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. military to come up with plans to increase the number of troops in Panama.
U.S. Southern Command, responsible for security cooperation and operations in Central America, has drafted ideas such as working with the Panamanian military and with U.S. troops taking the canal by force, to officials told NBC News.
Again, it's a protection racket, just like the mafia.
Yeah, it'd be a shame if anything were to happen.
Wonderful canal you got there.
DGA, David, you're right with Oracle buying TikTok.
This is nothing more than fascism.
And again, it was Larry Ellison, Oracle, that Trump, like a day or two after he became president, has this Oval Office thing where they are talking about Stargate and everything.
Larry Oracle again.
During Obamacare, the right pointed this out.
But now that Trump picks the winners, Oracle...
Johnson& Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer, and Abbott, they don't care about that.
That's right.
That's what I said.
That's how they control us with all of that stuff.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to be right back.
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Well, as we talk about the trade wars and the imperialism and all the rest of the stuff, let's talk about Canada.
There is a proposal from some Canadians, and they've actually started a petition saying Canada has a nuclear weapon in the trade war.
Pornhub.
So I guess, you know, if you're talking about a bomb, I guess we could have some blonde bombshells that they want to withhold from us.
I didn't realize that Pornhub was Canadian.
And actually, it began in Montreal.
And it was bought in 2023 by a company that goes by the name of Ethical Capital Partners.
Ethical bought Pornhub.
And it turns out, why do they call it ethical?
Well, it turns out it's owned by an Orthodox rabbi, Solomon Friedman.
This is far more interesting, actually, than the fact that you've got some people saying, hey, let's cut off Pornhub to America.
By the way, in between all of this stuff is MindGeek.
So MindGeek was the owner of Pornhub.
And then I think there was another holding company above it.
That had a whole bunch of porn sites, and that all got that company, that holding company, was bought by Ethical Capital Partners.
Business Insider headline for March of 2023, the fund that just bought Pornhub owner MindGeek won't say who's running the company due to, quote, unfortunate stigma, unquote, says the report.
The unfortunate stigma of...
Being a pornographer, this rabbi was profiled in the Jewish Independent.
A rabbi who, they said the headline was, the rabbi who owns Pornhub.
Said he was ordained an Orthodox rabbi, but his day job is a lawyer, and his passion is making pornography.
Hmm.
Well, hence the name, I guess.
Ethical.
So, yeah, it's kind of interesting.
You know, Oliver Anthony was on the Joe Rogan program a couple of months ago, and they had a discussion about that very thing.
In that business.
I believe it's one-third of internet traffic worldwide or something bonkers like that.
Yeah.
Isn't it something like that?
It should be more.
Let's find out what it is.
What's the percentage?
Everybody's like, I don't know where it's coming from.
It's not me.
I've never even seen one of these films.
That stuff's terrible for people.
It's terrible for some people.
I gave that up.
I think it's like Adderall.
Some people can handle it.
That is one thing I had to give up.
Some people think they can.
Yeah, because it's...
I don't know.
It does disconnect you from reality in many ways.
I think a lot of the...
a lot of the weird perversion we see like coming out sort of like now at this point you read about I mean I even reference some of it in the song of course but you read about like a lot of the weird things that people are doing that maybe wouldn't have been accepted a hundred years ago I think
People go down these rabbit holes with porn, and they start off with the video with the milkman, and by the end of it, it's like, where did I end?
It's almost like a drug.
People have to keep chasing that thrill, and it takes them down very destructive rabbit holes, if you will.
It definitely can for some people.
I have no issue with anybody watching it, but I hate to read about some of the things that it does to people.
It ruins marriages and that kind of thing.
I don't know.
I think a lot of things ruin people.
I think they also should be legal.
Sure, yeah.
Like, alcohol ruins people.
I like the fact that bars are legal.
Shit, I own a bar.
Alcohol is legal.
I like it.
It's not good for everybody, though.
Some people drink alcohol and they lose their fucking mind.
And it's not good for them, whether it's genetically or whatever it is.
They can't have a drink.
I like a drink.
You know, and I support your right to do whatever you want.
Like, you know, I think...
If cocaine was legal, the same amount of people would probably do it, and it would be real.
You'd get pure cocaine.
It'd probably be better.
We'd probably have better music.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe we could have better podcasts if Spotify wasn't so focused on having somebody who is promoting destructive behavior to people, which is what he's doing.
Look, I don't believe that prohibition, as I've said over and over again, prohibition doesn't solve anything.
It certainly doesn't solve addiction issues.
It doesn't solve sin issues and everything.
But just, you know, from your own personal standpoint, you want to be enslaved to something?
That's what addiction is.
Why don't we just start, instead of calling it addiction, Let's call it slavery.
Slavery to sex.
Slavery to drugs.
Slavery to alcohol.
Which is what Joe Rogan is selling.
Which is why they pay him something like $25 million a year.
And they won't even let me on Spotify.
Because he's selling this slavery to you.
Slavery of your mind.
Slavery of your spirit, of your soul.
All kinds of slavery.
Oh yeah, some people can't handle it.
I can see these people in the gutter.
I'm not one of them.
Oh, I can handle it.
Those are the lies that you tell yourself.
Those are the lies that the demons tell you.
But they're not true.
They're absolutely not true.
So Pornhub is the most visited site in the U.S. with more than 3 million views a month.
And so, again...
That was Oliver Anthony.
That was about the time, I guess, that he had his, you know, hit everything with it.
I don't know, how long ago was that?
Was that last summer even, maybe?
Richmond, north of Richmond.
A petition has since been launched urging Canadian authorities to block Pornhub as a peaceful yet powerful response to the trade dispute.
Please do.
Please do.
New Yorkers, meanwhile, were aghast of the prospect of losing Pornhub, whose parent company is Montreal-based entertainment conglomerate ILO.
They don't mention the fact that ILO is owned by Ethical.
And who owns Ethical?
ILO owns a dozen popular X-rated sites.
If they take away my access to Pornhub, I'm moving out of the U.S., said one person to the Post.
I think this is jokes.
Canadians wouldn't do that to us, would they?
said another.
I thought they were supposed to be nice.
I thought we were supposed to be friends until we had Trump in, anyway.
They said Trump's argument for starting an international trade war is based on socialistic-sounding plea for fairness and equality.
And I've said this very same thing from the very beginning.
I said, listen to the way that he sells this tax, because a tariff is a tax.
He sells it like New York City Democrat that he is.
The Democrats will always tell you somebody else is going to pay that tax when you're the one who's going to pay it.
They'll also tell you that the other people, that they tell you they're going to pay the tax, who, by the way, aren't.
You know, it's just like Elon Musk.
He makes $2 billion on Tesla.
He's not.
Paying a cent of taxes on it.
They'll also tell you that those other people are going to pay the taxes, and it's only fair that they pay the tax, and not you.
And that's exactly what Trump is doing, because that's what he is, a New York City Democrat.
Trump's demand of fairness is as follows.
Whatever tariff taxes foreign governments place on American imports, an equivalent tariff tax will be imposed on their imports in the U.S., and that's only fair.
To end, the end result of this will be an even larger degree of legalized theft as American consumers and American corporations that use imported parts for their own manufactured products, for example, American automobile companies, are going to be taxed and have to pass that tax on to you.
How then is it fair to American consumers, to automakers, and to myriad other American businesses to be forced to pay higher prices, higher taxes?
Of course it's not.
It's quintessentially unfair.
There's a saying in economics that a tax on imports is also a tax on exports.
Because if America's foreign trading partners are impoverished by protectionist tariffs, They'll then have fewer dollars with which to purchase American goods and international trade, especially agricultural products.
But, of course, they will also respond, an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat.
What this is, is a spiraling race to the bottom.
You raise the taxes, the other people are more than happy to raise the tax, keep raising it, and we all get poorer, right?
Trump has repeatedly stated, with great excitement, That with his impending huge tariff tax increases, we, meaning the federal government, are going to take in a lot more money.
And he put lot in uppercase.
A lot more money.
The Trump administration, this is a tax, the Trump administration wants to drain the pockets of American consumers and businesses with tariff taxes so the federal bureaucracy can become even larger and more bloated than it already is.
So, isn't he supposed to...
Reduce the size of government spending?
Isn't that what Doge is all about?
No.
Doge is a dodge.
Trump was not interested in cutting this.
Why did he get so angry with Congress because he wanted them to get rid of the debt ceiling for two years, and they didn't do it?
That was just as he was about to take office.
If he was really a master negotiator, He was genuinely interested in justice and fairness.
He would propose the following deal to foreign governments.
And listen to this.
Mises got it exactly right.
Mises.org.
Instead of a race to the bottom, I'm going to raise the taxes on your stuff.
You can raise the taxes on our stuff and keep going.
Instead of that, why doesn't he do this?
Why don't he say, we will eliminate all tariff taxes on your imports into the United States if you eliminate all tariff taxes on American imports into your country.
What about that?
And then he could eliminate regulations.
He doesn't want to do that.
Because he knows it's a tax.
And he wants more money from you.
Wouldn't that be fair?
Yes, that would be fair.
You eliminate all the tariffs, and we'll eliminate all the tariffs.
But both he and the other countries want more taxes.
As the Dems always say, somebody else is going to pay those taxes, and it's only fair.
But now, you know, they're going to continue this stuff.
Don't Friday Me Bro says, Russia and China don't care about climate change because they're already tyrannical.
Yeah, and also huge polluters in China.
Nabooru2029 says, Climate is what we expect.
Weather is what we get, said Mark Twain.
He also said, Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
I guess we could say that's not true anymore.
We've got geoengineering, where they deliberately do something about the weather, and then we have climate change, where they pretend that those of us who are living our lives are doing something about the weather when they are the ones who are actually doing it.
Well, when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit more about tech.
And how arrogant AI is becoming along the lines of what Handy was talking about earlier in the show.
Oh, it's in a lot of different places.
We'll be right back.
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All right, so should you learn to code?
That was a meme a couple years ago, right?
Learn to code.
Well, the decline of American software developer jobs.
There's a visualizer on that on Zero Hedge, the surge in tech hiring.
And the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 represented one of the most aggressive talent grabs in industry history, only to be followed by widespread layoffs and hiring freezes as economic headwinds and post-pandemic corrections hit the sector.
See if you can pull up that chart there.
There, look at that.
I mean, it looks like vaccine deaths, doesn't it?
And it was tied to Trump's lockdown.
The pandemic was kind of what started that, kicked it off.
Because everybody's going to be doing stuff at home.
But now, AI is stepping into the gap.
And now, humans are not getting the coding jobs.
U.S. software developer hiring boom is over.
The percentage change in software development has crashed down more than 33% from 2020 levels.
You know, that's one of the things that...
I remember when I got a job at Texas Instruments when I interviewed in college.
They flew us out.
They gave us and put us in this hotel.
They gave us a car rental to go to the interviews and stuff.
And it was really funny.
You know, there's all these guys about the same age as me.
You know, the airport.
And, you know, I thought it was kind of strange.
And then, especially then, we all go to the same car rental place.
That was what was really telling.
We all get the same car model.
And then I noticed that we're all going to the same hotel.
And then the next morning, we're all going in a line, essentially, to TI.
And then a couple of years down the road, after they do a massive hire, they're doing massive firings.
One after the other.
I didn't get fired.
I got out of there before they fired me.
But, you know, that's the way these guys do.
They binge hire and binge fire.
Welcome to Skynet.
Google unveils AI models to power physical robots.
And by the way, when it comes to this programming stuff, well, the AI chatbots, when asked some programming issues, gives you a lecture on why you shouldn't be a programmer, why they're going to take it over.
That's actually one of the things there as well.
Thank you, Trevor Long.
Thank you very much for the tip.
I appreciate it.
It says, thank you, David, for the truth.
And thank you, Karen.
It takes a strong woman to create a great man.
Well, that's a nice compliment to both of us, but really, especially to Karen.
People don't see what she does behind the show, but she does an incredible amount, even with a broken ankle.
So, it's amazing.
The Skynet thing.
This is Google unveiling AI models to power physical robots.
You know, what could possibly go wrong with that?
Elon Musk is talking about how he's going to send a probe and he's going to send an optimist robot to Mars and all the rest of the stuff.
But Google has got now two AI programs designed specifically for robotics.
They call it Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics ER.
That's not emergency room for when it breaks your leg.
That's extended reasoning.
Set to revolutionize the way that robots interact with the physical world, designed to adapt to different situations, understand and respond quickly to instructions, manipulate objects with dexterity.
The company's goal is to have autonomous robots taking order from AI without human control.
There you go, Skynet.
Demonstration videos show this model performing various tasks.
Such as plugging items into power strips.
You don't want to have to do that yourself, right?
Filling lunch boxes.
Moving plastic vegetables.
That's the chore that I really hate.
I hate it when I've got to move the plastic vegetables.
And zipping up Ziploc bags.
All in response to spoken commands.
Well, just understand when we're told that they're here to serve mankind.
Mr. Chambers!
Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship!
The rest of the book, to serve men, it's a cookbook!
Wait a minute.
I want off this flight.
There's the A-Man.
No! No!
No! No!
No!
Yes, force compliance.
There you go.
By the way, they're coming out with a new propaganda documentary about UFOs again, shortly pushing it heavily.
A study finds that AI search engines are wrong an astounding proportion of the time.
It turns out they're really good at being wrong, and they do it quite a bit.
It turns out they're flat out incorrect much of the time.
They did a study analysis of eight AI models, including OpenAI's chat GPT search, Google's Gemini, the one that's going to be, you know, Controlling without human input all these robots.
Finding that overall they gave an incorrect answer to more than 60% of the time.
So, therefore, we should have it driving cars and providing healthcare, physical healthcare, you know.
Like I said, the ER version of Gemini.
That's going to be the one that puts you in the emergency room.
It should tell you something that the most accurate model to emerge from these tests, perplexity from perplexity AI, Still answered 37% of its questions incorrectly.
That would be a 63 on your test.
You're not going to make it through.
Well, maybe they just promotion passed people today.
I mean, that would have been a flunk out when I was in college.
But maybe 63% is just fine today.
That was the star of the class.
The Village Idiot Award, meanwhile, goes to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok3.
Which was wrong a staggering 94% of the time.
Impressively bad.
This is, yeah, what do you say to, even the worst students in class got more than 6% on their test, I think.
So the search tools parse and repackage information themselves, cutting off traffic flow to original sources.
And that's the key impetus of this report here.
What they're saying is, You know, when I do a search on Brave, it'll show me, you know, what it's, but it'll also do a summary of some of the top pages, which is usually not very interesting.
I mean, if I'm just looking for, you know, a number or something, sometimes I guess I should start checking that to see if it's right.
But you can see that in the top searches there.
When you look at some of these other ones, Like Google, they're not even showing you the other websites now.
So there's not any, if you go with their search engine in AI mode, you're not even going to see the other websites so you can go see if it summarized it correctly.
What they're saying is even the best of these things summarized those websites 37% of the time wrongly.
So that hasn't stopped the companies from trying to supplant the traditional web search.
Some of them releasing versions of their existing chatbots.
Taylor made to do just that.
ChatGPT search.
Google has even debuted an AI mode that shows only Gemini summaries instead of web links.
Grok will show you the number of websites that it's looked at and the number of social media posts.
Because, you know, social media posts will be accurate, right?
The latest study quantifies why this might be a bad idea.
It was conducted by choosing 10 random articles, each from a pool of 20 publications, ranging from the Wall Street Journal to TechCrunch.
In what should have been a softball response, the chatbots were asked to identify an article's headline, its publisher, its publication date, and its URL.
This should be really easy.
The headline, the news source, when it was published, and the website.
And that's what it couldn't do.
The researchers made sure to only choose article excerpts that returned the original source within the first three results of an old-fashioned Google search.
In addition to showing the AI models are wrong over half of the time, these tests exposed other idiot tendencies, such as passing off their dubious wisdom with alarming confidence, quote-unquote, as the way the researchers describe this.
Alarming confidence.
Either by not qualifying their responses or by failing to decline questions that they didn't know the answer to.
See, this is the plan.
Trust.
You must trust the AI for the propaganda.
And, you know, you look at the stages that propaganda has gone through.
You know, we had newspapers heavily involved in propaganda, pushing people into war and all the rest of this.
Radio then came along.
That was even more effective.
The voice, video, TV, voice, pictures, ad, all of it still, though.
Pushing propaganda.
Then we got to social media.
Social media even more effective.
You think this is your fellow citizens when in many cases it's a bot.
And in all of these cases, when they nudge you, they can then measure to see how well their propaganda is working.
That's what social media did for them that they didn't have with any of these other things.
They got better and better and better at doing propaganda, but they couldn't measure the feedback until they got social media.
But now with AI, what do they get?
With AI, they get this idea of alarming confidence.
And that's what it really is.
It's the ultimate con game.
The ultimate expert.
The computer.
People are so willing to always follow that.
KWD68 says, I've had workers from UPS and U.S. Postal Service tell me that AI has destroyed their delivery setup.
UPS is sent to the same neighborhood three times and has to follow it.
Not AI, but actual stupidity.
That's absolutely true.
Handy says, company driving policy has gotten ridiculous.
If we're driving emergency and come to an intersection that's full of traffic, we are to shut down the lights and siren and wait for the light to change.
And then as he's pointed out, you know, like during COVID, you get to the hospital and the first thing they do if somebody's dying of a heart attack, you give them a PCR test so that you can get the 20% bonus.
I mean, none of this stuff makes any sense.
He says, I wonder if they're feeding that data for future self-driving ambulances.
Probably are.
ChatGPT search linked to the wrong source article nearly 40% of the time and straight up didn't bother to provide one in another 21% of cases, but it always...
Told you that it was confident of the answer.
That's the key thing, isn't it?
And so when we look at what is happening, you've got Elon Musk with this Colossus thing in Memphis that he's making.
And again, he named it after the movie, The Forbin Project, where Dr. Forbin creates this gigantic, the world's biggest computer, and nearly causes a nuclear war.
Everybody knows that.
Musk knows that everybody knows that.
And so Musk names his computer Colossus, just like that movie.
What is he doing?
He's telling you what his vision is.
You better believe him.
He's not even trying to hide it.
And now he wants to expand this site that he put there in Memphis.
He put it there because he needs the water from the Mississippi to cool this thing.
And now he's going to add another 100-acre purchase in Memphis to scale it up to 3 million.
State-of-the-art GPUs.
And as technocracy says, got power, Memphis?
You're going to need it.
You're absolutely going to need it.
Well, we're just about out of time.
Before we run out of time, I did want to talk about this article here.
Shakespeare's birthplace is going to be, quote, decolonized after white supremacy fears.
We wouldn't think that Shakespeare was somehow superior to anything else, would we?
I mean, it's the only reason people have constantly picked his brain and his narratives.
What would Hollywood do without the storylines that Shakespeare created centuries ago?
And it's not just that.
He probably affected the English language more than anybody else, adding vocabulary as well as everything else.
So Shakespeare's birthplace trust is very much like the Rockefellers and Colonial Williamsburg, right?
They've taken it over.
They want to turn it into DEI and all the rest of this.
So they're doing the same thing.
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings linked to the town Stratford-upon-Avon.
And so what they want to do is push back on this so-called, quote, continued impact of Europe, colonization and all the rest of this stuff, white supremacy.
I mean, who would think that Shakespeare was superior to other authors?
Only an idiot would think that, right?
I mean, even when you look at the big authors of other languages, like Goethe in German or Cervantes in Spanish, you know, they had a big novel, you know, Faust for Goethe and for Cervantes.
You had the Don Quixote thing.
But, you know, they have gone on and on.
And, of course, the Faust thing has been adapted in numerous ways and so forth.
And yet Shakespeare was all over the place.
You know, had multiple hits.
Quote-unquote, right?
And he completely changed the language.
There's not anything else like that.
But this is all about eradicating architecture, eradicating literature, eradicating music of Western civilization, degrading and destroying it.
And folks, this is Gramsci Marxism.
They take over these institutions.
Somebody took over this Shakespeare trust.
And so they're in the process of deconstructing and destroying Shakespeare's work.
Now, they're doing this in Stratford-on-Avon.
I've just got to say, every time I see all this now, I can't unsee it.
Back in the early 90s, I guess it was, Joe Sobran, who used to be an editor at National Review, and then William F. Buckley kicked him out because he was critical of Israel.
But he was, and our involvement with Israel, I should say, our political involvement with him.
But he wrote a book called Alias Shakespeare, which I found fascinating.
I read it about 35, 40 years ago.
And it was maybe longer.
But it was fascinating because it was like, who was Shakespeare?
Was it this guy in Stratford-on-Avon?
Wrote his name as Shakespeare, without an E, that dropped those two E's there.
This guy was like this middle class guy who never went anywhere, never did anything.
How would he come up with all of these stories that were always told from the perspective of somebody that was inside the royal court?
And not only that, but if you look at the person that many people thought was Shakespeare, Edward Veer.
The Duke of Oxford.
He had life experiences that were very, very similar to what Shakespeare went through.
Hey, he's back.
Hey.
Hey, how you doing?
And it was a very fascinating thing going back to, here's what it's all about.
Say, hi, can you say something?
He was looking at the microphone.
We're going to have to train him a little bit more to talk about this.
But this is why I'm not going to be here for the next couple of days.
Oh, there was a movie about that called Anonymous, says Whistler.
Well, I didn't know that, but it was a very effective...
And very interesting book.
I'd highly recommend it to you.
I don't know about the movie, but the book was fantastic.
And made a great case that it wasn't even this guy.
But now these people are going to make a case that you shouldn't be worried about Shakespeare anyway.
So for the next couple of days, we're going to have a rebroadcast tomorrow.
We're going to have some great interviews.
And then Gard has got some great guests coming up the rest of the week.
And I'm going to be getting to know this little guy.
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