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April 8, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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The David Knight Show LIVE - 04/08/2025

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	As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 8th of April, Year of Our Lord 2025.
	Well, today we're going to take a look at some interesting AI and robot frauds, but there is a massive...
	Amount of robots that are about to be unleashed against us.
	And it is truly amazing to see how this is escalating on a daily basis.
	But we're going to begin with Take Your Medicine.
	That's what Donald Trump is telling people about the tariffs.
	Isn't it fascinating how this keeps going back to what he did five years ago?
	And on the top of the Drudge Report, as well as the top of InfoWars, is a picture of Trump.
	With his needle.
	Take your medicine.
	We'll talk about that.
	We also have an economist coming on who's going to talk about all of this, as well as the possibilities of stagflation or something even worse.
	And we're going to talk about his books about teaching economics to children.
	That's right.
	It's the dismal science, they say, but it doesn't have to be dismal.
	We'll be right back.
	I want to welcome the people who are on Kik.
	And as we pointed out, we're trying to move from Rockfin to Kik.
	And it is a platform that is very good in terms of what it gives the creators.
	And we've had, for the love of the road, has subscribed there and gifted 11 subscriptions.
	Thank you very much, Kik.
	R.I.I.
	Baba has gifted one subscription.
	Question Everything has subscribed as well.
	We need to have, there's some metrics.
	What are they, Travis, that we need to have?
	So right now we're working towards 10 individual subscriptions.
	So 10 individual people need to subscribe for themselves.
	Gifting subs still helps us and we appreciate it so much.
	But if other people could subscribe for themselves, that would greatly help us and push us towards the next goal.
	Which is, and the goals that we're setting up here are so that we can get some of the financial benefits of being on that platform, right?
	We've already monetized, but this will help them verify that we're a serious streamer.
	We'll be there and actually producing content for a long time and show them that we mean business, basically.
	So that'll help them push us out to more people and give them more reason to promote us.
	Hopefully they will.
	Yeah, and hopefully they won't kick us off.
	I asked Travis, I said, is this a platform that's going to be open?
	And he says, well, I've seen some people say some pretty raunchy stuff on there.
	And I said, yeah, but raunchy is OK. Racist, real racist is OK. All the rest of this stuff is OK. I said, but what about when you criticize government policy?
	I think we'll be okay.
	The only thing I've seen people get banned for are actual crimes as they live stream themselves committing actual crimes.
	Well, we won't be doing that here.
	Hopefully, yeah.
	No crimes.
	We promise.
	No crimes.
	Maybe some thought crime.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	Yeah, we got a lot of thought crime.
	We live stream here.
	Let's talk a little bit about Trump.
	He took a question on the plane, and he says, yeah, you're going to have to take your medicine.
	They're asking him about the knock-on effects of this, and a lot of people are talking about that.
	Asked on board Air Force One about the catastrophic market reaction to the announcement.
	Trump said this.
	Pain in the market.
	At some point, you're unwilling to tolerate this idea of a Trump would.
	Is there a threshold?
	I think your question is so stupid.
	I mean, I think it's a, I don't want anything to go down.
	But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
	And we have such a horrible, we have been treated so badly by other countries.
	Because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen.
	They took our businesses.
	They took our money.
	They took our jobs.
	They moved it to Mexico.
	They moved it to Canada.
	They moved a lot of it to China.
	And it's not sustainable.
	We're not going to do it.
	Now we have hundreds of billions of dollars that's pouring into our country.
	On a monthly basis, it's boring.
	It's already started.
	Because I put tariffs on.
	And eventually it's going to straighten out.
	And our country will be solid and strong again.
	We have to get the shot.
	The vaccinations are so important.
	And look, I guess in a certain way, I'm the father of the vaccine because I was the one that pushed it.
	I pushed the FDA like they have never been pushed before.
	I wouldn't exactly say they're in love with me.
	Well, I think they are.
	I think the pharmaceutical companies are in love with them.
	They like the FDA, too, because you're free to do anything.
	Yeah. He didn't have to twist their arms too hard.
	Look. But he did twist their arms.
	He did take credit for that.
	And you gotta get your shots.
	We had these stupid leaders who moved businesses to Mexico and California.
	Wait a minute!
	Didn't you do USMCA?
	Yeah, that was you.
	You're so stupid.
	You think we're so stupid, you think we don't remember what our stupid leader did.
	You, our stupid leader.
	Well, As we look at all of this, as I said, the Drudge Report at the top here.
	Take your medicine.
	And there he is with the hypodermic needle.
	And then, well, how is Alex spinning this?
	He's got the picture there from Drudge.
	It says, this is war.
	Well, he's right about that.
	He's just wrong about where the war is coming from.
	The globalist controlled media is trying to come after Trump.
	Is that what's really going on, Alex?
	Come on.
	Trying to make the market panic.
	I think Trump made the market panic.
	I think his capricious, arbitrary flip-flopping about tariffs that he's been doing for the last couple of months is even worse than his rates.
	Even worse than his rates.
	His rates just capped it off and kicked off what Charles Hughes has said is essentially an earthquake.
	And he uses that analogy because he said...
	You know, you survive an earthquake.
	Maybe the building didn't fall on you.
	You look around.
	You see some things are broken.
	Some things are leaning.
	You got some broken windows.
	And you're like, all right, good.
	We survived.
	The building survived.
	He said, but what you don't realize is that there's some broken gas mains, some broken water lines, foundations that have been shaken and destroyed.
	And that damage is going to be showing very soon.
	And it's going to be knock-on damage.
	And the longer this earthquake goes, the more it is shaken, and the more damage is going to happen.
	It's not all immediately apparent.
	But of course, it's just what Trump is doing is always beyond criticism.
	And if anybody criticizes it, oh, you're coming after Trump.
	It's not because what Trump is doing is stupid, like moving businesses to Mexico and Canada.
	No, Trump never does anything stupid.
	And if he does something stupid, people like Alex Jones will tell you, no, he didn't do that.
	He didn't do that.
	He didn't do USMCA.
	It's just, it's crazy.
	Now, this article from Yahoo says even MAGA politicians and influencers are balking at the turbulent economic response and hoping that Trump will willingly calm the markets by renegotiating tariff rates that he announced last week.
	Well, MAGA politicians and influencers, that doesn't include a lot of them, actually.
	No, it's just this collectivist mindset, this partisan mindset.
	We're going to tax our way to prosperity, and Japan should buy American cars.
	That's the other thing he had to say about this.
	We have a trade deficit with Japan, and they're not buying a lot of our cars.
	You should buy those cars because they're American.
	I mean, what's he want to do?
	Does he want the Japanese government to buy the cars?
	Because we're not making cars that the GM and Ford are not making cars that most Japanese people want.
	We're making, let's say, our most popular car is a Ford F-150.
	You see a lot of Japanese people driving around in something like that?
	With a steering wheel on the wrong side of the car for them?
	I don't even know if that would fit down the streets in Tokyo.
	That's the point, yeah.
	People in Europe and Japan don't buy pickup trucks like that.
	But hey, you should buy it.
	If you don't buy it, that's not fair.
	It's not fair.
	Well, hey pal, I know that you're not much of a businessman.
	You drove six casinos bankrupt.
	But part of this is giving people what they want, not dictating to them what they want.
	But see, he doesn't operate like that.
	He just operates by buying politicians who then tell you, you've got to sell your home to Trump because he wants it for his parking lot in his casino.
	And they tell the lady that, the widow that, and then after he gets the house, kicks her out, he declares bankruptcy before he finishes his parking lot.
	That's the way he operates.
	He doesn't operate in a marketplace.
	He operates with corruption and graft and that type of thing.
	And so, you know, you just, for your friends, you do whatever you need to do for the people that support you.
	And you just tell everybody else what they need to do.
	And that includes the Japanese who should be buying our cars, even if we don't make what they want.
	They should still buy our cars.
	This is also about thinking collectively.
	It's collectivist thinking.
	It's not just centralized control, but it's collectivist thinking.
	We don't care about what individuals want in the marketplace.
	We didn't care if people wanted to wear masks or not wear masks or lock down or stay six feet apart.
	No, you're going to do it because of public health.
	Japan needs to do this because of our public economy.
	They need to look at this collectively.
	But beyond that, I think that what is really going on is this focus on trade deficits which are not good.
	I think that this is the same thing in a larger sense.
	That RFK Jr. is doing at HHS.
	We've got a big problem with mRNA poison that is out there.
	So what does RFK Jr. do?
	Well, in order to get his position, he pledges to Senator Cassidy of Louisiana, a Republican, and a vaccine prostitute.
	He pledges publicly.
	Oh, I'm going to promote the vaccines.
	And he does.
	He's down in Texas or wherever.
	I think it's in Texas.
	Where he's feeding the fuel of this measles epidemic narrative that is a media creation, and pretending that a second child has died from measles.
	Now, I don't know if the second child has died or not.
	I know the first child did not die.
	And so when they say a second child died, they're already lying.
	And his own organization, Children's Health Defense, Has debunked that lie about the first child dying from measles.
	But he's down there.
	The second child is down.
	And if you want to be safe, you've got to get the MMR shot.
	And he's joined this push, right?
	The establishment and the pharmaceutical companies want to revive the vaccine hesitancy because of the Trump shot.
	And the way they do that is with a little measles epidemic.
	Claiming that people are dying because they didn't get the shot.
	And he's joined that little parade so that you are distracted from the real issue, the number one issue.
	He's focusing on some minor problems that you don't focus on the major problem.
	He's going to talk about food additives.
	He's going to talk about high fructose corn syrup, but he's not going to talk about the mRNA genetic code injection.
	Trump is doing the same thing economically.
	He doesn't want to talk about the $37 trillion of debt, and he was throwing a temper tantrum when Johnson didn't remove the debt ceiling for two years.
	Trump doesn't want to do anything about the debt.
	Forget about Doge.
	Doge isn't serious about that anyway.
	I mean, we're nearly a billion dollars in our war against Yemen.
	Yemen, of all things.
	And he doesn't care about the money.
	And he doesn't care about the deficit.
	He wants to kick the can down the road for another two years.
	This is exploding.
	It began exploding under Trump, continued with Biden.
	Trump set us on a new upward angle with all the nonsense exactly five years ago.
	And so he doesn't want you to see that.
	He doesn't want you to see the government's deficit.
	And he wants to surreptitiously raise taxes on you.
	So that's what this is really about.
	Don't look at the budget deficit.
	Look at the trade deficit.
	And we can tell you that the trade deficit is there because we've got evil countries abroad.
	And then what he does is instead of focusing on products or industries even, he's not doing anything to protect America.
	He's not deregulating things.
	Instead, and he's not focusing even on protectionism.
	What he's focusing on is other countries.
	Because what Trump is trying to do here, folks, is not save this country.
	He's trying to start a global war.
	These are not tariffs.
	They're sanctions.
	When you say on a countrywide basis, we're going to hit you with punitive tariffs or we're going to shut down your products or whatever.
	When you do that, that's a sanction.
	And that's the first step towards war, towards real war.
	Typically been done when you had city-states and you had forts and palaces and whatever.
	You know, they would do a siege around the city.
	Cut off all the supplies.
	That's the purpose of a sanction.
	It's initiation of war.
	And what Trump is doing is sanctioning these other countries.
	He wants to have a war.
	He wants to have a global trade war.
	And that global trade war, and Trump as an agent of chaos, As a wrecking ball for the World Economic Forum and the UN wants to have a global war for this fourth turning so they can institute what they want on the ashes.
	That's where this is all going.
	We can talk about the immediate effects of this.
	We can talk about the economics of it.
	But folks, that's the big picture.
	That's where this is going.
	Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something, said Trump.
	Well, you know, just a spoonful of MAGA helps the medicine go down, right?
	And we have such a horrible, we have been treated so badly by other countries, not by our own government and its regulations and its taxations, which taxation is going to go up, but that's good now.
	Republicans now say taxes are good.
	They're an engine of creation.
	And the Democrats have moved back a little bit from that position because it's Trump.
	It's just like the vaccine.
	You had to take your medicine, right?
	Well, when it was Trump with the medicine, Trump with the Trump vaccine, everybody was saying, we're not taking that.
	Biden, la la, all the Democrats, all the media, I can't trust that.
	That was done by Trump.
	Then when Biden becomes president, somehow it was immediately purified and immediately safe and effective.
	And you know, just like what happened five years ago, the The initial lockdown and the emergency declaration and all the rest of this stuff, that was preparation for what was going to come.
	The real pandemic, the shot, the real poison.
	And folks, these reciprocal trade things, this nonsense created by AI, this formula, so-called formula, that is just laying the groundwork for what is going to be coming here.
	We've been treated so badly by other countries, said Trump, because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen.
	We had stupid leaders like him who put auto production in Mexico and Canada.
	Now we're going to do a rug pull on those people.
	And there's only so many times that you can do rug pulls and cry wolf and things like that before people say, wait a minute.
	And that's the real issue right now.
	everybody is backing up and saying i don't know what's happening here i don't know what the effects are going to be of these massive tariffs and i don't know if they're going to stick is he serious about this or is he just what what is going on with this and so you see everybody in a waiting position we've seen volkswagen we've seen many other
	We're just going to stop at this moment in terms of Trying to export cars to the US and see what happens.
	We're going to put a 30-day pause on it.
	Let's see what Trump is going to do because he has shown us for two months nothing but capricious and arbitrary actions.
	So nobody knows what is really going to happen.
	That in and of itself, folks, is one of the most destructive things about this.
	That's even more destructive than the tariff rates.
	everybody's afraid to make a move nobody wants to jump into the stock market is he going to do something else is going to send it lower is he going to lock these in or is he going to remove them if he removes them then the stock market's going to go up you know he might keep these things keeps going down or whatever nobody knows what to do because of his chaos that he has done that's the worst thing about all of Trump's policies.
	He can't or won't make up his mind, and I don't think he wants to.
	He thrives on chaos and conflict.
	He wants everybody guessing.
	He wants everybody in the world focused on him, and he is not going to give us a clear path forward.
	it isn't other governments.
	It's our own government that has killed industry and opportunity.
	It's our own government that has put its boot on our throat.
	It's our own government that has sought off the lower rungs of the ladder of success so that you can't do entrepreneurship.
	It's our own government that has told people where to build factories and then pull the rug out from underneath them.
	It's our own government.
	We've met the enemy, and he is us.
	And look, it's not all just Trump.
	This is a bipartisan thing, but he's made it even worse with a vacillation.
	As he's chiding all these other countries and talking about how wonderful taxes are as an engine of creation.
	No, they are the power to destroy.
	That is what they do.
	They destroy.
	Taxes destroy.
	They don't create.
	He says, someday people realize that tariffs for the United States of America are a beautiful thing.
	Now, let's talk about the truth of that.
	Just change a couple of words.
	Someday people realize that taxes from the U.S. government Or a beautiful thing.
	That's what he's saying.
	These tariffs are not for the American people.
	They are taxes for the U.S. government.
	And it's a beautiful thing, right?
	Well, no, actually it isn't.
	Don't you love huge government and huge deficits?
	That's what the taxes are for.
	And so at the same time all this stuff is happening, I said, you know, here we are five years, five years afterwards.
	And of course, the exact anniversary, When this all began.
	It was probably the 13th of March.
	I forgot that date because it came on Thursday.
	I wasn't thinking about it.
	Guard Goldsmith reminded me on that Thursday, the 13th.
	Hey, this is a five-year anniversary of all this stuff.
	That's right.
	It began on a Friday.
	And by the following Monday, the 16th, everything was locking down over the weekend.
	You had declarations from the governors of California and New York.
	They were ready to lock people down right away.
	And everybody else.
	Began to follow on with all of that.
	And so there's multiple stories out there about the five-year anniversary of the COVID lockdown.
	And I think it's appropriate for us to remember this.
	I don't see anybody connecting this, really.
	I mean, they're getting pretty close when, you know, Drudge Report says, take your medicine, right?
	These people know who ran this scam, even if the MAGA people and the MAGA press won't admit it.
	They know where this all began.
	But people are not making the explicit connection to it.
	I think we should make that explicit connection to it.
	And so, we'll take a look at all of this nonsense.
	The COVID superstitions.
	Public schools are closed from March the 16th.
	They closed in California, says this author here.
	March the 16th, 2020.
	They didn't open up until September 2021.
	And that was, I told you that was going to happen.
	As planned, as practiced.
	They legally prepared for this.
	They had the state laws put in place in 2001.
	This is the other shoe of 9-11 to drop.
	They had given the pharmaceutical companies legal immunity.
	They were playing the same game with a mask, saying you wear your mask for yourself.
	I mean, not for yourself, but for the other people.
	That's always the argument they've given for the vaccines.
	So they're ready to roll this stuff out as soon as it was time for school to start so they could mandate it for children.
	Playgrounds in San Francisco were closed until October 2020.
	Outdoor playgrounds were closed for seven months.
	While open in the beginning, these were the rules in the playgrounds.
	You could only stay for a half hour.
	No eating, no drinking water because two-year-olds would need to remove their masks to do so.
	A two-year-old.
	You know, you might get the cooties if you stayed out there more than a half hour.
	So you can't stay in the park for more than a half hour.
	And if you wanted to do any activities like climbing or something like that, you had to get in the line.
	But you had to stay six feet apart.
	If your child was crying, you had to leave the public park because they might spew droplets in COVID.
	Basketball hoops were boarded over.
	They stayed that way for well over a year, some longer because they were forgotten about.
	And we've forgotten about that now, haven't we?
	Skate ramps at state parks were filled with sand.
	Then they'd close again, then open again, at the whim of the city's public health bureaucrats.
	Kind of like the Trump tariffs, isn't it?
	So much is the same.
	Once the city's parks opened, people were forced to sit in chalk circles to maintain their distance.
	This is what living under a dictatorship is like.
	It's the dumbest thing.
	And then it got evil.
	It began to be a see-something, say-something campaign.
	People are encouraged to turn in their friends and neighbors rather than suspected terrorists.
	See someone entering a neighbor's home that doesn't live there?
	Text the number.
	It's science!
	Text the number and you'll see the cops show up.
	You got somebody from a different household that is mixing outside the park.
	Well, text the number to somebody.
	See some madness or a child playing in a playground with a yellow caution tape around the swings?
	Text this number.
	And what happens when you text that number in San Francisco, she said?
	Well, a police officer who couldn't be bothered to help with a heroin addict who's vomiting on your doorstep would be happy to interrogate you about who was inside your apartment and ticket you if you dared to exercise beyond a one-mile radius outside of your home.
	The citizenry of San Francisco took great pride in turning in their friends and neighbors for a perceived violation.
	She said, I learned that the vast majority of people that I'd considered to be my people for decades would have been snitches for the Stasi.
	Yeah, like that American woman who moved to East Germany because she loved communism.
	Later on, when they revealed the Stasi file, she found that out.
	All of her neighbors were snitching on her to the Stasi.
	All of her Friends, as she thought.
	Well, this is what this lady found out.
	We turned into a Stasi society.
	We turned into an OCD society.
	She says, as I've written extensively, my husband and I resisted and shouted and raged about this from day one, and we paid a heavy price.
	We left San Francisco on February the 1st, 2021.
	A city that I'd lived in and loved for over 30 years.
	We lost friends.
	I lost professional reputation as one of the best in the business, a reputation that I'd spent decades building.
	Despite being right about all of this, she said, my good standing has not been restored.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	I can relate to that.
	I won't forgive these psychopaths, pathetic cowards, and aggressive virtue signaling conformists, she said.
	Well, you can start with Trump.
	Which he doesn't come after.
	Because this is brownstone, right?
	They're not going to be critical of Trump.
	They don't want to commit suicide.
	Hey, look, I fought the COVID wars, but I was careful not to blame Trump, many of these people will say, right?
	Because if they blame Trump, you want to see how much worse it's going to get?
	If you blame the guy who actually presided over it?
	The guy who bribed people to do all of this stuff?
	Both Democrat and Republican?
	She said, now on the eve of the fifth year anniversary of the lockdown, there is a book that is about to come out about how wrong it all was.
	Sort of.
	And the book is The Case Against Fauci.
	She's not happy with that.
	But look, you know, this is phase two.
	Take your medicine.
	Fauci's not there, but Trump is back.
	Now, history is rhyming again, isn't it?
	Take your medicine.
	So she said, in her view, the problem is we just focus on one person, Fauci, as if everything else was okay.
	But she sees some heroes in this that I don't think were heroes, quite frankly.
	She said the authors themselves admit, when they said the case against Fauci, they admit that they were bleaching their groceries.
	Is there any indictment of themselves, or do they just train their ire only on Fauci?
	Well, that's what we're seeing the conservative press do, for the most part.
	They will not blame Trump.
	They'll blame Fauci.
	They will blame Birx.
	They'll blame, maybe, Redfield.
	But now, not Redfield, even though Redfield is back and he's pushing bird flu lies.
	But the key thing is that now both the left and the right are in agreement.
	They were fighting over whether it was a lab leak or whether it was bat soup or that kind of thing.
	Now it was a lab leak, and so everybody wants to say, This is their alibi.
	It was real.
	We did the best we could, but it was crazy.
	And that's what she faults this book for.
	She said, well, she said COVID was not a one-man problem.
	And yet, nobody wants to talk about the guy who was running the government at the time.
	The guy who funded it all.
	She goes through and says, David Wallace-Wells with his New York Times piece just a few weeks ago called the COVID alarmist said they were closer to the truth than everyone else.
	Were they really?
	You know, we saw the same thing from Scott Adams.
	Scott Adams at the very beginning of all this stuff said these so-called freedom lovers are looking like psychopaths.
	He said that when we were about two weeks or more into it.
	And I replied to him at the time and I said, the so-called pragmatists are looking like totalitarians.
	And then when all of this stuff was over, Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, again, I just, I never got it.
	I mean, he doesn't have any insights that are funny.
	It's not funny.
	It's not insightful.
	It's cartoon strip.
	And the guy is a full-on totalitarian.
	And he comes back and he goes, okay.
	You guys who are against all this stuff, you're right.
	But you just got lucky.
	You didn't know why this was on.
	No, I knew exactly why it was wrong.
	Because I had looked at what people had been doing for 20 years.
	And so, anyway, this guy from the New York Times said, COVID minimizers and vaccine skeptics.
	But I think the funniest thing about the whole Scott Adams thing is even when he admitted he was wrong, his whole shtick was, oh, I was wrong, but it's because I was too smart.
	I wasn't thinking like an idiot would.
	I was too smart to figure this out.
	Oh, I just overthought it, you know?
	My brain was too big.
	Yeah, yeah, too big, yeah.
	I'll tell you what.
	It truly is amazing to see some of this stuff.
	I interviewed him once, and he was saying about Trump, and I thought it was a good insight that he had.
	He said, you know, the reason that Trump won was that he made it about America, whereas Hillary Clinton, it was her turn, right?
	I'm with her.
	And Trump was saying, I'm with you.
	Of course he was lying, but that was basically his messaging, and that was what Scott was there to talk about, the difference between the two of them right after the election.
	It's like, okay, yeah, that's true.
	But he's completely off base about everything else.
	And so this guy, the New York Times, says that COVID minimizers and vaccine skeptics now run the country's health agencies.
	Do they?
	I wish they were.
	No, we've got sycophants.
	And bootlickers.
	And we've got syringe worshippers who are running this now.
	Look at RFK Jr.
	He's now a syringe worshipper, right?
	He's now basically a prick.
	He's out there talking about MMR.
	Oh, it's safe.
	It's effective.
	It's your best defense against those deadly measles.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	And then her hero, Jay Bhattacharya, right?
	He is also...
	Embrace the vaccines and MMR.
	And they're not talking about mRNA.
	Why are these people heroes to her?
	I don't get it.
	She said the alarmists continue to insist that we need to do better next time, lock down harder and sooner, and implement more censorship.
	There's no apologies coming from them.
	And there's no accountability coming from the right for any of these people.
	It is simply a partisan cheerleading game.
	Excuses for Trump.
	And now he's going to play you again.
	And he began playing you again right away.
	Day after he's at Stargate.
	Now, mRNA is back.
	It's still your savior.
	And we're going to combine it with AI.
	And then he does this sham of having Dave Weldon, a critic and a skeptic of this stuff, who telegraphed that he was willing to subjugate himself to the vaccinators.
	That wasn't good enough.
	And I don't think that was ever the intention.
	Clearly, Dave Weldon was going to sell out, just like Jay Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. and the rest of them.
	But they wanted somebody who was going to push AI plus mRNA.
	And that was, you know, he was bait.
	And then for the switch, we got an AI mRNA person.
	So she said, the rest of us, though, who pushed back against us, we are not uncanceled.
	We are still heretics who may have been right, but, you know, for all the wrong reasons, as Scott Adams said.
	But then she finds a glimmer of hope in Dr. Jay Bonacharo.
	No, I don't.
	I think he's another feckless coward who kissed the syringe of power.
	Notably, at his confirmation hearings, He was not asked a single question from the Democrats about his views on lockdowns.
	No. The purpose was to get him, the purpose of the lockdown, of the confirmation hearings, I should say, was to get these guys to embrace the vaccine.
	And the purpose of lockdown, she's focused so much on the lockdown and she ignores the vaccine.
	The whole purpose of the lockdown was to hold a gun to your head to get you to take the vaccine.
	Doesn't she see that?
	She sees the absurdity of the lockdown, but she doesn't see the ultimate purpose of it.
	It was blackmail.
	Blackmail and fear.
	And that is what is still being sold.
	So, another article.
	Five years later, what COVID taught us.
	Now, this is from a Christian site, and he's talking about what happened with the churches.
	But I would say this.
	Five years later, COVID didn't teach us anything.
	COVID didn't exist.
	What should we have learned from Trump's medical martial law?
	That's the issue.
	And what should the churches have learned about this?
	If anybody's going to stand up on principle, wouldn't you think it would start at the churches?
	Wouldn't you hope?
	This person, Shane Adelman, said, It's clear many churches have either closed or considerably shrunk in size since COVID-19 forced them to lock their doors.
	No, that was Trump.
	Trump. And public health goons.
	Reasons range from churchgoers are still scared to return to they prefer watching live feeds.
	A lot of these people were afraid of the disease that they were told was out there.
	A lot of people were not afraid of the disease, but they were afraid of the negative publicity.
	Or they were afraid of the police and the government.
	And so I agree with him.
	He says this issue runs much deeper.
	It really does.
	It comes down to the heart of it.
	And here's the issue.
	These were zombie churches in the first place.
	They were whitewashed sepulchers.
	The dead people inside that seemed to be alive.
	That's why they closed in the first place.
	And that's why they didn't come back.
	So he says we need to understand The churches and the pastors there are not CEOs running a business.
	We are watchmen who are there to warn a nation.
	Well, there were watchmen who couldn't see the army that was coming at the city.
	They didn't have the discernment to do anything about it, or they didn't have the character to do anything about it.
	And that varied from place to place.
	It's fear, uncertainty, doubt.
	Doubt in God is what it was.
	And lack of discernment.
	He says, when you lose intimacy with God, you lose boldness.
	He said, but as Zechariah 1 says, return to me and I will return to you.
	That's God.
	He said, the strength of your church lies in purity and spiritual power, not in its numbers.
	God doesn't need a majority.
	He is the majority, and we need to understand that as well.
	Yes, everybody around us is losing it.
	It's like that Rudyard Kipling poem, you know, if when everybody around you is losing their head, you can keep it.
	But it's even bigger than that.
	When everybody around you is so afraid of death and so afraid of government, that is the time that you need to understand that God is the majority.
	That God is on the throne.
	He hasn't gone away.
	He hasn't left to come back someday to leave you on your own.
	He's there.
	And he is on the throne.
	And you have to understand that in this temporary life, nothing is going to happen that he doesn't allow.
	So we don't have to be afraid of that.
	But when we come back, we're going to take a look at the current state of the tariff war, what is going on with China.
	You know, I said...
	In the 2020 elections, I said, if Biden wins, it's going to be a war with Russia.
	If Trump wins, it's going to be a war with China.
	Well, we've had our war with Russia.
	Still a war with Russia, by the way.
	And I said, if we're unlucky, we're going to be both of them.
	If we're unlucky, the war with Russia is going to continue.
	But here we have Trump, and he wants a war with China.
	And that's what these sanctions are about.
	Think of them as sanctions.
	If you're going to put penalties against an entire country, you're not doing this for revenue.
	You're not doing it as protectionism.
	You're doing it as a political sanction.
	This is the beginning of Trump's war with China.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	back. We'll be right back.
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	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
	You should be able to buy me several hundred.
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	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
	With China, as you know, against my statement, they put a 34 percent tax rate.
	Yeah. And as I said before, Biden, war with Russia.
	Trump, war with China.
	Trade war.
	And both of their wars began with sanctions, right?
	Biden began with his sanction.
	And Trump is beginning with his sanctions.
	Trump has threatened to slap an additional 50% on all Chinese imports unless Beijing recalls its proposed retaliatory 34% levy.
	Now, let's understand the timeline here.
	We had earlier...
	There was a 20% tariff put on China by Trump, again, because the emergency of fentanyl.
	And yes, there's fentanyl coming from China, but it's not such a big emergency that Trump wouldn't get rid of those tariffs if they would just let one of his billionaire buddies buy TikTok, right?
	So, yeah, the emergency to declare, he had to declare an emergency, whether there was one or not.
	He had to declare it so that he could say that I'm going to set all this stuff arbitrarily by myself, rather than having Congress do it.
	So the whole thing about the emergency is a fraud, just like it was a fraud five years ago about the COVID emergency.
	And he did his thing on March the 13th, on January the 31st, 10 days after Trump was at World Economic Forum.
	He had his pharmaceutical head of HHS declare.
	A pandemic when only six Americans, they claimed, had COVID.
	Anyway, so the emergency is a fraud.
	But the emergency is there so that he can exercise these extra powers that are out there.
	So he put the 20% tariff on about the fentanyl stuff.
	China didn't do anything about that.
	They didn't retaliate with it.
	Then he came out and he put an additional 34% on.
	And China says, I see your 34%, and I'll match this like a poker game, right?
	And that should concern us as well, since Trump had so many casinos that went bankrupt.
	Now he's playing poker with the Chinese.
	We might lose this game.
	So they put the 34% thing on.
	But remember, their total tariffs now that he's put on them is 54%.
	And now what he's saying is, I'll put another 50% on them.
	He'll take it up to 104% on everything that comes out of China.
	He's really poking the bear, isn't he?
	Or the, I guess, Winnie the Pooh, I guess.
	You know, you're talking about AI stuff.
	I went to an AI average program.
	I said, show me a picture, do a picture of Xi Jinping in Winnie the Pooh clothing.
	And I came up with a hilarious one with him in Winnie the Pooh pajamas.
	I'll show it to you sometime.
	Anyway. 34% tariff on imports from China on top of the existing 20%.
	And so now they said, okay, now we're going to raise it 34% against you.
	So the Chinese foreign ministry said it'll hurt the U.S. itself as well as others.
	Well, that's the case with every war.
	A trade war is dangerous, especially this kind of trade war, because this is not even about protecting particular industries.
	This is about going after one country.
	So it's really not a tariff, it's a sanction.
	And sanctions are the beginning of wars.
	These are punitive rates.
	So what was the situation with China?
	With China, they've taken advantage of us.
	Yeah, they have.
	And guess what?
	It's our leaders.
	And it is the globalists who put them in that position.
	Going back to Richard Nixon, who was actually the presidency being run by Henry Kissinger.
	Opening up China.
	The globalists loved China.
	They wanted to use it as their beta test site for depopulation.
	Their beta test site for technocratic surveillance police state.
	And they've done all those things.
	They have used them as their beta test site for global surveillance of everybody in their country.
	The biometric database associated with identifying people by face, by walk, by the rest of this stuff, and the one-child policy, they did everything that the globalists wanted, and in return, the globalists said,
	okay well you know we're going to move our industry there and we're going to tell the u.s and europe and everybody else except for you and for india we're going to tell them that the two most populated countries we're going to tell everybody else that the world is going to melt down because of your activity but the two largest populated countries they're free to do anything that they want as a matter of fact they don't have to clean up their coal plants they can make them as cheap and dirty as they want.
	They're opening up a half dozen a week, literally, in So we're going to give you a monopoly on energy.
	You're going to be able to generate energy so cheaply, nobody will be able to compete with you.
	You're going to have cheap labor and all the rest of the stuff.
	Just do some of the things that we say.
	Create the template and work this out, how we're going to do the biometric surveillance police state and depopulation.
	But where were they in terms of the actual tariffs?
	Well, I did a little bit of research.
	And it turns out that China's tariffs were between 5% to 70%.
	That's a big range.
	Why? Because it wasn't against a particular country.
	It was protecting certain industries.
	Most of the tariffs were in the 10 to 25% range.
	There were a couple of areas that they had selected that were there for political reasons that were punitive, and that's the few that were in the 50-70% range.
	But the vast majority of them were in the 10-25% range, and I think that that is the reason that they didn't do anything the first time around, waiting to see what happened, because that's about where most of their tariffs were anyway.
	He said, okay, he's using a phony justification to get this emergency thing, and now they put the 20%, but we're charging about 20%, so it works out.
	Then when he adds another 34%, they add 34%.
	And they've done something even more damaging.
	Because, look, we buy way more from China than they buy from us, so that should give us the advantage.
	And yet, they've got something that we don't have.
	Rare earth minerals, which are necessary for electronics, for battery manufacturing, and all the rest of the stuff that they're forcing us to have.
	And so, you know, you're going to put out tariffs by country?
	Well, those are sanctions.
	And so what China has done is they've sanctioned minerals, just like Biden sanctioned oil from Russia.
	Said, you're not going to be able to sell that oil.
	Well, they said, well, we're not going to let you buy these minerals that you need for the things that you want to manufacture.
	And it's not just the U.S.
	They're doing this globally to everybody so that other countries will put pressure on the U.S.
	South Korea, which is getting hit with penalties in the initial round.
	I don't know where they are in negotiations, but they hit them with a 10 percent penalty, even though they have a zero tariff on the U.S.
	and South Korea.
	China is the world's dominant producer of rare earth minerals, with about 70% of the world's supply at the moment.
	China supplies roughly 60% of the raw materials, but they supply 90% of the processing and refining capacity.
	China controlled 90% of the market about a decade ago.
	But alternative suppliers ramped up production and the Chinese retaliated for this infringement on their near monopoly by setting record high production quotas in a bid to bring prices down and to bankrupt their competitors.
	This is monopolistic practices.
	We see this out of Wall Street with the big box retailers and things like that.
	They would come in and they could operate at a loss.
	We saw it with Blockbuster competing against all the small mom and pop When we had the video business, they would pick one retailer and they would put a big blockbuster thing in front of them and then operate at a loss until that person went out of business.
	Then they would pick somebody else and do it.
	They picked us to do it and we stayed in business because we'd focused on catalog titles instead of new releases.
	Because I didn't like the garbage that...
	It's a lot worse now than it was.
	In the early 90s, when you look at what Hollywood is putting out now, but we didn't like it even back then.
	So this is a monopolistic practice.
	We're so big, and we're going to operate at a loss, and we're going to be able to subsidize this.
	And this is what corporations in the U.S. do.
	They subsidize their losses.
	Moderna operated for 10 years without a product.
	Constant losses.
	But they had support on Wall Street because it gave people happy.
	Numbers, okay?
	Happy scenarios.
	Oh, we got this new thing.
	It's going to cure cancer.
	Never did.
	Never went to market, but they were still able to operate at a loss.
	And, of course, Blockbuster operated at a loss.
	They never made money after they were bought by Viacom, which owned Paramount, CBS, other things like that.
	Never made money after that.
	But they were there as a cat's paw for Paramount and for the Hollywood industry to shut down.
	Individual retailers.
	And so, you know, they can operate at a loss.
	That is a clear monopolistic practice, and that's what China's doing with the rare earth stuff.
	The export controls, they call it, well, they're sanctions.
	Sanctions against us after we sanctioned them.
	The sanctions pointedly excluded two rare earths.
	Neodymium and Prazodymium.
	I've never heard of these things.
	They definitely are rare.
	I look at the names of these rare earth things and I was like, what?
	Unobtainium is now on the list as well, because you can't get it.
	They have abundant supplies outside of China, so they didn't put that on there.
	But all seven of the rare earths that were subjected to additional export controls are minerals which are primarily supplied by Chinese sources.
	So what they're saying is there's nine of them.
	They didn't put these two that other people have.
	They're not so rare.
	Well, they're rare, but China doesn't have monopolistic control of it.
	But these other seven that they have an effective monopoly, 90% of the processing and refining capacity, as well as 60% of the minerals themselves, they put restrictions on those, export controls.
	Chinese officials on Friday claimed the new controls are justified because these seven minerals have dual-use military applications and are therefore vital to China's national security.
	They'll always, all of these governments will always say, well, this is vital to our national security.
	So South Korea, heavily dependent on the Chinese rare supplies for its electronics industry, held a, quote, supply chain inspection meeting, unquote, on Sunday to assess the impact of China's trade restrictions on rare earth metals.
	These are the knock on effects from what Trump has done.
	And so South Korea is out there, you know, you zero tariffs on American products.
	But Trump hits them with 10 percent.
	Then China says, well, I'm going to we're going to not allow these rare earth minerals that you need to go out as a retaliation against Trump because they can't really retaliate on the tariffs.
	Since we are buying more from them, they don't buy that much from us.
	Okay, well that's four out of seven.
	What happens with the other three?
	No word about that.
	This is going to have a big effect.
	Big effect.
	Now, in Australia, Australian mineral companies there are expressing optimism on Monday that they could benefit from China reducing its supplies.
	Remember, as China was starting to get competition from other places, what did they do?
	They upped their production to make sure these people were swamped out and couldn't survive.
	So now, if China drops its production, there's an opportunity for these Australian mining companies.
	Australian refiners were already making plans to cut into China's huge share of rare earth markets, so Beijing's export controls could give them the money.
	And just on a side note here, Australia, like the UK, Yeah,
	the fact that he sees, as he said, the good analogy, Trump...
	Use the analogy of, well, you know, you had surgery.
	He likes this medical stuff, right?
	I guess he's been talking to Bill Gates a lot.
	Take your medicine.
	You've got to get this shot.
	It's really going around.
	Trump likened it to surgery.
	Said, yeah, the patient may be in shock, but the patient is healing.
	I think a better analogy is kind of like he drove his car into ours.
	And people are injured.
	Some of them are in shock.
	And he doesn't care.
	He doesn't care.
	So Charles Hughes said, no, the real analogy is an earthquake.
	And again, are we okay?
	What's left?
	And so forth.
	Okay, that building is still standing, but it may not be standing because there may be follow-on fires that come.
	Foundation may be destroyed, that type of thing.
	He said the initial assessment, See?
	And so, again, we come back to Trump's chaos and the uncertainty over the tariffs.
	And now we've added Even more.
	That's why the markets are so sick.
	There's even more chaos and uncertainty because nobody knows if he's going to stick to this, if he's going to change it.
	How do we make plans?
	Let's just shut everything down and wait to see what he's going to do.
	It's an economic lockdown.
	It rhymes with what he did five years ago.
	He said the key parallel is that the damage is often hidden and only manifests later, parallel to the earthquake.
	He said, water mains may have been broken on the surface, foundations may have cracked, though structures look undamaged and seem to be safe.
	They're closer to collapse than we can imagine.
	And the structural damage is hidden.
	Is that what's happening to us economically?
	That we're closer to collapse than people can see?
	That the damage remains hidden?
	What was considered to be rock solid and safe is revealed as vulnerable in ways that were poorly understood.
	The tariff earthquake.
	Exhibits many of these same features.
	Much of the damage has yet to reveal itself.
	Much remains uncertain as chaos spreads.
	Like an earthquake, this economic damage is systemic.
	Both infrastructure and households are disrupted.
	The uncertainty itself is a destructive force.
	And we've had two months of this capricious vacillation that has prepared us for this.
	He said, when you look at the ring of fire, Now we've got an earthquake going on in South Korea.
	It's spreading.
	So he said, the same way the tariff earthquake is unleashing economic reactions across the globe, anyone claiming to have a forecast of all the first order and second order effects of the tariff earthquake will be wrong.
	It is impossible to foresee the consequences of so many forces interacting.
	Fires have been ignited that are not yet visible.
	And the economist who's very famous for the black swan meme and has been, he's always very bearish, he's always very pessimistic, but he's, Usually right when he speaks out.
	He came out yesterday and said that this is just the beginning.
	This is the first wave, the first shock.
	He said when all this is done, he expects the stock market will have lost 80% of its value.
	Gone. So, what do you do about this?
	Again, it's going to affect the infrastructure.
	Uh, you're, you got to look after your house.
	One of the things that you can do to kind of prop up your house is to make sure that it's got a lot of metal in it.
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	I don't know what it did today, but, um, everything has gone down.
	Bitcoin has gone down even more.
	The stock market has gone down way more.
	And I don't know what, But gold was hanging in there.
	Yesterday, it dropped from, it was up around and staying in the 3,100, 3,000 range.
	Yesterday, it dropped down like 29-something.
	But again, the fundamentals are still the fundamentals.
	And just like we're talking about with the hopium, about Trump and crypto.
	I think it's a buying opportunity, frankly.
	The fundamentals have not changed.
	We still have, even though nobody's talking about the budget deficit, even though nobody's talking about the cumulative debt of $37 trillion, it's still there.
	Now everybody is talking about the trade deficit, which is just under a trillion dollars, and nobody's talking about the $37 trillion worth of debt.
	And nobody's talking about what's going to happen if some people like J.D. Rucker are out there saying, well, this is genius part on Trump because he's going to hurt the economy.
	He's going to drive us into recession and the Federal Reserve will be forced into lowering interest rates.
	Great. Well, what happens with that?
	Inflation. What happens with gold during inflation?
	It goes up.
	This is why people run to real stuff when things get really bad.
	And it's why when whatever they do, with $37 trillion in debt, just trying to lower the interest rate on that debt isn't really going to help much.
	The debt is the issue.
	And the debt is there because of government spending.
	It's not there because of trade barriers abroad.
	So it's not just the stock market that's in trouble.
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	So it's not just the stock market that's in trouble.
	It's going to be supply chain chaos as well, just like five years ago.
	This is reason.
	That's their headline.
	It's not just the stock market that's in trouble.
	Trump's tariffs vaporize.
	Now, a lot of people said it's been $10 to $11 trillion since he took office.
	But that was just a two-day thing.
	$6 trillion.
	Here's the bad news.
	That's not the end of the bad news, says Reason.
	The big hit from Trump's tariffs probably hasn't even arrived yet.
	It's going to be that aftershock.
	The stock market is not the economy.
	It's an aggregated indicator of what investors think the economy will look like in the future.
	Right now, they think it's going to be bad, really bad.
	You know, isn't it funny how Trump was always boasting about the stock market, always?
	That was his metric of success.
	Not talking about it now, is he?
	In addition to crashing Americans' retirement accounts and wiping out huge amounts from American companies like Apple and Nike, among the biggest losers in Friday's route, Trump's move will soon raise taxes.
	Is that good?
	Wreck supply chains.
	Did you like that when he did it to us five years ago?
	Make basic goods more expensive or difficult to obtain.
	Hey, gotta take your medicine.
	Gotta get the shot.
	Because I say so.
	And I've got an agenda.
	And it doesn't involve anything that's good for you.
	It's what my buddies and I, what they've told me I need to do.
	So even if you aren't affected by the stock market sell-off, you'll feel the effects of the tariff before long.
	And just remember, if you're feeling upset and life is tough, just take a spoonful of MAGA.
	It'll help the medicine go down.
	So first, the tax increase.
	He said Trump's tariffs will reduce the average household income by nearly $3,800 this year because a lot of things will get more expensive.
	Secondly, there'll be the supply chain chaos.
	Ryan Peterson is the CEO of Flexport.
	That is a tech platform that helps companies with global logistics.
	He reported last week that 28% of the companies in their system are pausing all ocean freight bookings from Asia until there's more clarity on where the terrorists will end up.
	You see?
	More clarity.
	We need clarity.
	There's uncertainty.
	There's chaos.
	Nobody knows what he's going to do at any moment.
	So everybody's just stopping.
	In Asia, they're stopping.
	The European car companies are stopping.
	You got Mercedes.
	You got VMW.
	VMW. VW.
	They're going to merge.
	Call it VMW instead of BMW.
	I don't know what BMW is doing.
	But I know that VW and Mercedes are putting everything on pause.
	and so are the a quarter well 28 percent of the companies in his system are putting it on pause what is going on i don't know let's wait and see what he's going to do that's going to wreck things just that uncertainty and the pause will wreck things even if some american companies are willing to pay the tariffs to keep the supply chains flowing they may not be able to find importers and shipping services right now because everybody said oh we're just going to wait and see what trump is doing that internet
	He's locking us down this time with what?
	Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, just like he did with COVID.
	The COVID thing wasn't real.
	It was fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
	And he's doing the same thing again now, except now it's based on supposedly fixing the tariffs, when before it was supposedly based on fixing the bat soup disease or whatever it was.
	A trade war triggered by Trump's chaotic tariffs is the same kind of aggregate shock as the COVID crisis, but worse.
	Says a professor of economics at Northwestern.
	Take, for example, morning coffee.
	Americans consume 1.6 billion pounds of coffee last year.
	But the U.S. only produces 11 million pounds annually.
	And all of it comes from Hawaii.
	Okay, so we've got something of a coffee deficit, don't we?
	Well, we should punish those countries that have coffee.
	That's the story right there.
	But he's not even doing it on an industry-by-industry thing.
	However, America exports a lot of coffee.
	Even though it doesn't grow it, we refine it.
	Remember we were talking about the rare earth minerals.
	China has 60% of the rare earth minerals, but they do 90% of the processing.
	Well, we do a lot of the processing of coffee, even though we don't grow it.
	And the companies that process it then export it.
	Well, what's going to happen with them?
	You see how it screws up and throws a monkey wrench into the supply chains exactly like his fear, uncertainty, and doubt did five years ago.
	He said, so coffee drinkers are screwed and the coffee exporting companies that employ American workers are screwed even more.
	He said, now repeat this process for every one of the industries because everything is distributed.
	These people have set up a distributed global system of supply chains and Trump demands like a temper tantrum that you fix it right now.
	Right now.
	We're not going to get out of this gradually.
	No, it's going to be done right now because I've got to have the credit for it.
	Well, he's going to get the credit for what's going to happen here.
	Not from...
	Not from the Trump sucker media that's not going to give him credit.
	They're sucking up to him.
	Whether or not the menu of tariffs causes a recession remains in question, but it will slow down growth, said Jamie the Demon, CEO of JP Morgan.
	The quicker this issue is resolved, he said, the better, because some of the negative effects increase cumulatively over time and would be hard to reverse.
	This is one of the reasons why we don't need to Discount what somebody is saying because we disagree with them like 99% of the time.
	They can occasionally tell you the right thing.
	I mean, we've got Ursula fond of lying at the EU and she's telling us the truth about this chaos.
	We've got Jamie the Demon at JP Morgan.
	He's telling us the truth about this.
	But there's a lot of people, well, that's coming from so-and-so and I would never believe anything they say.
	When we had James Clapper exposed for...
	Spying on Americans, that was Senator Ron Wyden.
	That's the only time he's ever done anything right.
	He exposed that.
	Everything else Ron Wyden has done is absolutely wrong.
	But you look at it on an issue-by-issue basis.
	It's just like the media that you listen to.
	Don't discredit everything because it comes from a particular paper or something that's got a political bias that you don't share.
	And don't believe everything because it comes from a paper that has a political bias that you share with him.
	So, he says, there's a reason still, he says, Trump seems to be unswayed.
	That's right.
	Take your mandated medicine.
	It's safe and effective.
	whether it's the Trump shot, the genetic code injection, or whether it is the Trump tariffs.
	You can be assured, because Trump said so, that it is safe and it is effective.
	I don't think this is going to be safe and effective medicine for the economy.
	U.S. stock market has closed lower after Trump's latest tariff threats.
	After he threatened to crank his tariffs higher even yesterday against China, it went even further down.
	We have the EU.
	We stand ready to negotiate with the United States.
	Indeed, we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners, because Europe is always ready for a good deal.
	So we keep it on the table.
	But we are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.
	Yeah, okay.
	So there's your threat.
	And again, it is country by country.
	You know, when Trump was talking about the tariffs on cars with Japan, this is what he had to say.
	You know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister of Japan and we had a very good conversation.
	They're coming.
	And I said, one thing, you're going to have to open up your country because we sold no cars, like zero cars in Japan.
	And they sold millions of cars into our country.
	They don't really take our agriculture a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy, but they don't take...
	Yeah, you know, the whole thing about agriculture, yes, that is one of the big things that we put out.
	But a lot of countries have said, we don't want your agricultural product because of GMO or because of glyphosate.
	And when you talk about the Japanese car companies that I mentioned, you know, I remember, like I said the other day, in the 70s, Well, we're going to sell them Cadillacs.
	Everybody wants a Cadillac, right?
	Well, not in Japan they didn't.
	They were real gas guzzlers.
	They had the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car for them and on and on.
	We don't care about their marketplace.
	We've got people who don't want glyphosate in their food and don't want GMO food and they don't want left-hand drive cars and all the rest of the stuff.
	Well, we don't care.
	It's American.
	You need to buy this.
	And if you don't, we're going to punish you as a country if your consumers don't want to buy the American products when the American products have nothing but contempt for their consumers.
	And, of course, we've seen that in spades, haven't we, with the DEI stuff?
	We've seen Coca-Cola hating white people.
	We've seen NASCAR doing the same thing, you know?
	Being anti-racist and all that.
	I mean, they come after their own customers with contempt.
	And so, when we're talking about other countries, we see the contempt in the products that were not designed to sell into the Japanese market.
	It's like, well, we...
	We sell these things in America?
	Everybody ought to want to buy it because everybody thinks like, well, no, everybody doesn't think like Americans.
	Americans sometimes want something different than other people do and vice versa.
	We need to remain calm and respond in a way that de-escalates.
	The stock market right now shows what will happen if we escalate straight away, said the European officials.
	That was actually a Dutch trade minister.
	His name is actually Clever.
	We could use some of that cleverness here, shouldn't we?
	We need to de-escalate.
	We need to stay calm.
	Stay calm.
	That's what I said on Monday the 16th of March.
	I started it with the signs, stay calm and carry on, right?
	Keep calm and carry on.
	And also the one that doesn't get as much attention, liberty is in peril, defend it with all your might.
	Those are the slogans that they came up with.
	As the Battle of Britain was about to begin.
	And it was a real threat, unlike COVID.
	That was a real threat.
	And I said, keep calm and defend liberty because it's in peril, right?
	Well, that's not what we're getting now.
	You've got the Dutch trade minister saying, let's go slowly.
	And if only they would have done that with Ukraine, right?
	But Ukraine is ultimately about money.
	You know, the war is about money for the EU and these military-industrial complex.
	All the wars are banker wars.
	And it's the bankers and the corrupt politicians that benefit from all of these wars.
	So it's an economic thing.
	The EU Commission has proposed a 25% tariff on U.S. goods in response to Trump.
	But they're going slow.
	They're saying they're not going to roll these out until the middle of May.
	So they're giving Trump a month and a half to change his fickle mind.
	And hopefully that'll happen.
	But if it doesn't, and they're also throwing out the carrot.
	Say, well, let's go to zero tariffs.
	And that's what the Mises Institute does.
	I've read that.
	Why does he offer this?
	Instead of jacking things up to match what they're doing, why don't you say to them, let's both go to zero.
	Well, that's now what the EU is saying.
	It's now what Trump is saying.
	Again, of all things, to see that Ursula von der Leyen is more reasonable on this particular issue than any of the Americans.
	The EU Commission is proposing 25% tariffs on U.S. goods in response to Trump, but again, they are waiting until the middle of May, and they put on the table, well, we'll go to zero if you go to zero.
	And so it's going to be on a range of American goods in response to tariffs on steel and aluminum.
	And notice again that it's on American goods.
	It's not necessarily on everything coming from America.
	They're not doing it the way that Trump is doing it.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to go to a different topic.
	I want to talk a little bit about what's happening with artificial intelligence.
	We've had a couple of interesting things that have been put out.
	Robotics is starting to really explode in a lot of different ways.
	Not just robots that can be your maids.
	Like the Jetsons who are about to get our flying cars and our robotic maids, but I think that's going to be for the people who can afford them, not for most of us.
	Most of us, they're working on how they can take everything away from us, including our jobs and factories.
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	On kick, Angry Tiger.
	Good to see you there.
	Good to see you on kick.
	Says the Carnival Barker put out a tweet yesterday saying inflation is gone.
	I didn't see that one.
	And he's bringing billions back to the U.S. with tariffs.
	He then went on to say how he wants to lower the interest rates, which means a weaker dollar, which means more inflation.
	He's destroying the economy.
	You're absolutely right, Angry Tiger.
	And he's got the Angry Tiger report, which is heavily on economics, not exclusively.
	But you're absolutely right.
	And when we look at this, oh, we're going to lower the interest rates.
	Well, that's going to be inflationary.
	And he's not really, in spite of all the nonsense about Doge, he's not really cutting the budget deficit.
	They're not going to cut the budget deficit unless they do something about the warfare state and the welfare state.
	And they're not really doing that.
	So on kick, Contagion Hoax says, I feel that we're gathered with God here.
	Thank you, David.
	Matthew 18, 20, where there's two or three gathered in my name.
	There I am in the midst of them.
	Yes, thank you.
	And thank you to all of you.
	I appreciate all of you who support and who gather, and we do have a great community in a lot of different places.
	On Rumble, on Rockfin, and I think that we can have a good community on Kik as well.
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	On Rumble, KWD68 says, All the factories are opening this week.
	All is good.
	America's in a golden age.
	Just a little medicine for a big, beautiful Trump age.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Look at the bright side.
	Everything's getting better and better every day.
	And in a lot of different ways, that is true.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	Oh, look at this.
	Is this a new sci-fi movie?
	Well, yes, actually it is a new sci-fi movie, but it's also supposedly a new product from Kawasaki.
	A rideable horse robot.
	We've got to replace everything.
	Humans need to be robots.
	Dogs need to be robots.
	Horses need to be robots.
	Who are they going to sell these products to if they replace us all?
	This is Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
	...has shown off a bizarre concept for a rideable four-legged robotic horse.
	They call it Corleo.
	And it runs on a 150cc hydrogen engine.
	Does that hydrogen engine exist yet?
	Hmm, I don't know.
	The better question is, does the robot exist yet?
	I saw this on the internet, and everybody was saying, I'll believe it when it's not CGI or AI.
	You know, and it's not integrated like that.
	And it turns out that with the exception of like about one second...
	Corleo. Except for about one second, it was all CGI.
	Now, a lot of people say, I don't even believe that's what it is.
	And we've seen a lot of that now with AI generation.
	I've seen...
	And there's some pretty cool looking cars, actually.
	Talking about bringing back a classic car or something.
	And they have AI do an updated design on some classic, like a Mustang or a...
	Thunderbird or something like that.
	Here's the new design.
	And it's all just them doing that with AI.
	And that's really what I thought this was.
	And I was surprised to see that it was actually introduced by Kawasaki at a Japanese trade show.
	A horse that looks like a gigantic wolf, in our opinion, could traverse uneven terrain thanks to its four independently moving limbs.
	Video is almost entirely computer graphics.
	And to show what something like this might be capable of.
	It's got rubber feet or something to help it grab rocks so it can climb like a goat, supposedly.
	Well, here's the kicker.
	Kawasaki says their target date for it was 2050.
	Are you kidding me?
	This is...
	The biggest vaporware I have ever seen in my life in terms of a tease.
	They're going to tease a product that's 25 years in the future?
	And then, of course, you had a lot of other people saying, okay, well, here's the features of these two things as advertised.
	Here's a horse, a real horse on the one side, and here on the other side is the Corleo.
	And, you know, stuff like, oh, my horse can get fuel everywhere.
	My horse misses me when I'm gone.
	You know, things of that sort.
	They sound like the dog stuff as well.
	But we have seen a lot of rideable robots being introduced.
	So far, nothing at all coming close to that.
	At a Chinese expo in the last year, they had a four-legged robot that was Xiaoping Motors.
	They said it was a rideable unicorn for children.
	It didn't look anything like a unicorn.
	It's just a four-legged thing that a kid could sit on, and it's got a globe for a head.
	I don't know how you get a unicorn out of that.
	Also, a giant minivan-sized rhinoceros-like four-legged walking robot that can carry up to four passengers.
	Again, I didn't say anything like a rhinoceros about it.
	It was just this large body that was there for four people, and it's like the walking robots from Star Wars or something like that.
	So Kawasaki also showed off a concept for a futuristic modular train passenger system.
	They call it Alice.
	Alice. And I guess everybody is wondering in Wonderland when any of these things are going to be real.
	But robotics is moving pretty quickly.
	And the humanoid robotics are moving very, very quickly.
	As a matter of fact, the big thing now that all the robotics companies are pushing, and a lot of videos put out in the last couple of weeks about the fact that they are taking the humanoid robots into natural walking.
	And here is a video that shows the difference between, I think this is a figure if I remember correctly.
	And they show their previous walking robots that walk with the knees bent, you know, and now they walk in a more natural gait.
	Still looks like somebody's just had a hip operation, but that doesn't look like somebody who needs a walker to walk.
	So here's the evolution from...
	As you can watch this, I'll narrate it.
	Right now we're looking at the back.
	So here's a comparison.
	This is the old way.
	This is the Biden walk.
	Knees are bent, very tenuous.
	Now it's walking a little bit faster and almost fully straightening out the knees when it takes its steps.
	It's a simulation compared to the way it walks.
	And here's a bunch of them.
	Isn't this great?
	This is what the sidewalk's going to look like.
	Because humans are going to have to be locked down.
	It's going to be some pandemic or something.
	Or they just don't want us out.
	They'll lock us down and keep us in our apartments playing virtual reality games.
	And that's what the street's going to look like.
	It's going to have robots walking all up and down the streets.
	Don't you just love...
	That is figure.
	Don't you just love their planned future?
	I think it's time for us to go Amish on these people.
	But there is a...
	Talk about trade wars.
	There is a big trade war that is happening in the robotics industry.
	A global arms race for humanoid robots has officially begun.
	And the battle lines are being drawn right now.
	On one side, Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus.
	On the other, China's Agibot.
	A startup you may not have heard of yet, but one that's moving at terrifying speed.
	And here's the shocker.
	Agibot plans to deploy a 5,000 strong humanoid robot army this year.
	Directly challenging Tesla's dominance.
	This isn't just competition.
	It's an all-out war for the future of robotics.
	And the winner could dictate the rules of automation for decades to come.
	A Chinese robotics startup has just announced plans to build up to 5,000 humanoid robots this year.
	That's not just a random number.
	It's a direct challenge to Tesla's Optimus project, which set the same target for its humanoid robot production.
	We're now seeing the beginnings of a serious robotics showdown between some of the biggest tech players in the world.
	Yeah, and who can replace the humans most quickly there?
	I thought it was kind of interesting that they call the Chinese companies called Agibot.
	It kind of reminds me of Karen on her mother's side is Italian.
	She talks about agita, you know, heartburn, you know.
	Agitation or something like that.
	And it's kind of my feeling when I look at these robots, I get agita.
	So I think it's appropriate that we would call it Agibot.
	5,000 of them!
	You're going to have...
	That company was founded by a Huawei engineer, a very young engineer, a genius, who won some kind of a competition or something like that.
	And just for fun, he created a robotic dog.
	And somebody showed a picture of it on social media or something like that and all of a sudden he just got flooded with offers of investment capital for people.
	Perhaps that was coming from Xi Jinping.
	I don't know.
	But any company that's there is going to have it.
	But they're now going to try to manufacture as many robots as Elon Musk is doing.
	And as the guy who has the figure robots said, I think it was the figure robot guy, said, hey, if we had whatever number we could make right now doing these functions that we already show, we've got customers out there who will take them.
	They are more than willing to replace you.
	You're not going to be replaced by migrants coming across the border.
	They're pulling people for the most part.
	There's people coming in that were doing agricultural work and things like that and doing it cheaply, slave labor.
	But the slave labor is going to be replaced, the cheaper labor that is coming in, is going to be replaced by robotics.
	And when you had Howard Lutnick, who was on with Margaret Brennan on Sunday, And I played the part there where she was repeating what Saturday Night Live had done.
	She didn't really have any understanding that she could challenge Lutnick on all this.
	He just laughed it off.
	You made up these numbers.
	Did you use artificial intelligence?
	These numbers aren't really anything that has to do with any tariff rates.
	She didn't pursue any of that because it was obvious that she didn't have anything more than a Saturday Night Live understanding of those issues.
	But later on, He's talking about how we're going to bring all these factories in and she did interject and she said, yeah, but in those factories you're going to be using robots.
	He goes, yes, that's true.
	But the key thing is that the people who will be owning those factories will be people that are with us.
	That's really what this is about.
	It's about Trump and his technocrat friends owning the robotics factories and they're not about creating jobs for you.
	Not at all.
	Well, you'll never guess what happened to Trump's meme coin after he announced his tariffs.
	It was, as the Buddhists would say, karma.
	Trump's eponymous meme coin is now worth less than ever.
	It's nearly worthless, but it's worth less than ever.
	In the wake of his tariffs finally being launched less than 24 hours after he announced the long-anticipated reciprocal trade tariffs, Trump cryptocurrency value dropped to a meager $9 per token.
	Well, what is that about?
	I mean, it was, at one point, it reached a peak of $75.
	It's now lost 88% of its value from that peak.
	Well, it's at a new all-time low.
	Remember, it was only launched about 10 weeks ago.
	We can talk about volatility.
	I wonder how he likes that volatility in his...
	Yeah, he probably does, because people like him and people like Lutnick thrive off of volatility in the stock market and probably off of the crypto stuff as well.
	They can pump and dump.
	This is what Catherine Austin Fitz is talking about, all this crypto stuff.
	It's there to pump this up and then to dump it.
	We should be very concerned about Trump's so-called Bitcoin reserve, which is not really about Bitcoin either.
	He pulled in a whole bunch of other stuff now.
	You should be very, very worried about that.
	Everything Trump is doing, folks, is designed for economic collapse.
	He's picking right up where he left five years ago.
	So, I was introduced just before he took office, and it pumped up really fast for just a day or two.
	And it's been going down, but it really tanked.
	After he put out his tariffs.
	The tariff announcement came just after news broke that the Trump coin would be unlocking 40 million tokens, or about 20% of its locked down supply, later in April.
	Theoretically, that should have generated the kind of buzz that would drive its value up.
	Instead, it didn't make a blip.
	Again, it was at a high of $75 at one point.
	Now it's down to $9, 88% off.
	It's on sale!
	Hurry up and go get it right now.
	So in the UK, we talk about how they want to have a merger of government and corporations, which is the textbook definition, folks, of fascism.
	I mean, we're not...
	We're not talking about Elon Musk's salute, whatever he meant by that.
	We're not talking about that at all.
	Fascism is the merger, economic definition of fascism, is the merger of corporations and government.
	Usually accompanied by populism and also by nationalism, but that's really beside the point when we look at what is happening with the technocracy, and it's not just in our country.
	This is a global thing.
	In the UK, the labor guy, and again, do you see the connection, just like with the COVID stuff?
	It didn't matter if it was Trump or Trudeau.
	They're both going to do the same thing during the COVID stuff.
	Well, now it doesn't matter if it is Trump or the labor guy, Keir Starmer.
	They're going to do the same thing when it comes to replacing government with private corporations.
	And so, The goal is to do this globally, and just like COVID, this was about economic warfare, the World Economic Forum, and it was about corporate control by the technocracy.
	In the U.S., Curtis Yarvin and all of his disciples like Teal and Musk and all the rest of them, they talk about GovCorp, like government corporation.
	In the UK, they're talking about sovereign corporations, or SovCorp.
	Same thing.
	Slightly different name, but it's the same thing.
	So how is it that your American populist nationalist is on the same page as a British socialist?
	Keir Starmer?
	Greenie? Okay.
	It's because those are just things that they put out there as red herrings.
	So that you don't see what they're really about.
	They're all on the same page.
	Whether it's Trump or Trudeau or Keir Starmer, they're all on the same page.
	And they're going to roll things out in about the same amount of time.
	The UK has deregulated 74 special economic zones and 12 free ports, which are not strictly regulated, allowing for potential misuse of state aid to favor corporations.
	The manner in which the UK is implementing these enables corporations to self-regulate.
	And to gain significant influence over the public sector.
	In other words, they're going to let them become their own sovereign unity because that's the whole point.
	They want government to be a corporation and they want corporations to be government.
	That's the singularity that they're looking at.
	And just as they've got a transhumanist singularity, they have a political singularity as well, where you merge government with corporations.
	And it's going to be difficult, I think, for Americans to see this because they have been trained for so long On this bipartisan stuff, I talk about all the time how libertarians and conservatives will always make excuses for government and blame every problem on, for corporations and blame every problem on government.
	And then the Democrats will always blame the corporations for everything and say the governments can do no wrong.
	Well, that's not the reality in which we work.
	And I've been saying for a long time, the problem with these entities, I mean, if you have a pure free market and you've got individual actors, which you're only going to have if you've got thriving small businesses.
	The big businesses are about creating monopolies.
	They don't like corporation.
	They don't like competition.
	Competition to them is an evil.
	Rockefeller said it.
	Peter Thiel said it.
	We have to eliminate competition.
	At their heart, all of these big guys are monopolists.
	And of course, that's the big problem with the government, is that it's monopolistic in what it does.
	So if you want to have Decentralization, diversity, and economic activity.
	You can't have everything owned by one entity.
	The problem is that the corporations, the big corporations, have merged with the government.
	And that's what is a blind spot for libertarians and conservatives and for socialists and communists as well at the grassroots level.
	They're still thinking in this bifurcated paradigm that's out there that is not what we're seeing.
	They're merging sovereign corporations and Government corporations are merging.
	And so the UK government, now backed by Keir Starmer's Labour Party, is partnering with corporations like BlackRock.
	They are socialist in their orientation, and yet in application, what they're doing is fascist.
	In the same way that the Chinese Communist Party is fascist in its economic orientation.
	And also on the fact that it's hyper-nationalistic.
	You have a merger of government and corporations in China, and it's also highly nationalistic.
	And yet they call themselves communists.
	Oh, wow, I don't see what's going on there.
	It's a cloak.
	And so here you have Keir Starmer, Labor Party, Communist Party, Green Party, whatever you want to call them.
	The Green Party is nothing but watermelon Marxism, like I said, is a thin veneer of...
	Green, but on the inside it's all red.
	It's all communist.
	Red is the color of communism except for the MAGA people who have adopted that as their color.
	They'll do anything.
	They just haven't got a clue.
	Anyway, BlackRock is going to be working with Keir Starmer, the Labour Party.
	The biggest of the corporations.
	And he's going to be granting BlackRock significant powers and paving the way for the privatization of the UK.
	Look. This has been happening for a long time.
	It's just now it's out in the open.
	Instead of them doing backdoor deals, you know, hey, I give you money for your election and so forth, and then, you know, you deregulate things for me.
	Now it's out there in front of you and sold to you as something that is good and something that is necessary.
	Well, we're going to take a break, and we're going to come back.
	We're going to talk a little bit about do no pharma.
	And I didn't have a chance to get fully into this yesterday, the fact that we've had some very good research that's been done by Cheryl Atkinson, going back and finding the connection between the vaccines and autism, especially with mercury, aluminum, and things like that, and the lies that they all told us that they took the thimerosal, the mercury, out of the vaccines in 2001.
	No, they didn't.
	And Cheryl Atkinson has gotten to the bottom of that, done some really good work on that.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	Before we do, though, we should thank the people who have subbed on Kik.
	Yeah, I was going to do that when I came back.
	We'll be right back.
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	And, yeah, I need to go to a break quickly.
	I need a drink of coffee, so...
	I jumped the gun.
	Yeah, you're right.
	We do need to thank the people on Kik.
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	That wasn't my mistake.
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	Appreciate that.
	To Mikey.
	And on Rumble, Hedge88 says, The function of government is to raise suffering to a much higher level.
	That is absolutely the way that it works, isn't it?
	On Rumble, Gondoff the Rogue says, Father of the Vax, I don't care about the prices of things.
	I care that he has killed millions and bragged about it.
	Yes. And ultimately, that's what this is really about.
	Why would we trust him after he did that?
	And it just, it infuriates me to see people making excuses for him.
	People playing the partisan blinder game and blaming everything on Biden, for example.
	Yeah, Biden should be blamed as well.
	But it's not all Biden's fault, just like it's not all Fauci's fault.
	And the guy who presided over it when it started was Trump.
	And he continued to boast about it.
	And he continues to lie to you, saying that he saved millions of lives when he killed millions of people and destroyed Many millions, tens of millions more globally, globally, a shot that was sent around the world.
	By the way, Travis said we now stream on Kik as well.
	That's why we've got people who are subscribing there.
	Okay, let's talk a little bit about the vaccine.
	rfk jr again embracing the mmr vaccine telling people it's the most effective way to stop measles spread a record switch in just two months doing this and he's doing it in texas with the
	gop that's there and not only that but he's hyping the fear he's going to he's attending a funeral of a child that they say is the second child to have died except we know the first child did not die from measles and his own children's health defense told us what really truly happened with that it was not measles so uh again
	Because that's what they do when you talk about the adverse effects on people who die from the Trump shot.
	That's rare.
	We're just going to ignore it.
	Or people who are harmed by their antibiotics.
	Oh, it's rare.
	I don't care.
	Well, this is the story from Cheryl Atkinson.
	The government misled the public on thimerosal.
	And it's linked to autism for decades, and they're still lying to us about it.
	They falsely claim that it has been removed from the vaccines when it hasn't.
	There's a special investigation by Cheryl Atkinson saying the government has misled us for decades.
	She linked it to autism, to neurodevelopment, and also looks at the false claims that they have removed it from the childhood vaccines.
	The U.S.
	government in this story, by the way, is on Children's Health Defense, who's still telling you the truth, even though their creator, RFK Jr., has now capitulated and has now joined the dark side.
	The U.S.
	government has long told the public that thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative ingredient, And by the way, as I pointed out, when I tried using contacts back in the 1970s or 80s, I would put the cleaner that had thimerosal in it, put that in my eyes, and my eyes would immediately turn blood red.
	Can you imagine injecting that into your body?
	Well, according to a special investigation by Cheryl Atkinson, these claims are false.
	Atkinson, that it's not connected to autism.
	It is.
	That they stopped putting it in vaccines in 2001.
	They didn't.
	She described them as part of a, quote, concerted propaganda campaign to mislead the public, unquote.
	She said that government agencies and the mainstream media medical establishment for decades promoted a contradictory narrative about How does this happen?
	Well, you know, when we look at the mRNA shot, We have a tremendous amount of contamination with DNA and other things like that that are in that vaccine.
	And you had the Florida Surgeon General, Latipo, and others have said, this needs to be taken off the market.
	It violates your own rules at the FDA.
	Well, everything is a violation of the rules.
	Trump bragged about how he got the FDA to violate their own rules.
	And I remember when that happened.
	You know, he had Scott Gottlieb had already left to go to Pfizer, and Hahn was there, and I remember that was in the fall in the lead-up to the election.
	Trump was very angry about that, and he said, actually, it was, well, I think it was right after the election.
	I don't think they okayed it until right after the election.
	Anyway, I remember he went public with it, and so did the FDA guy.
	He said, I told him you do this now or you're fired.
	And so he did it.
	He approved it.
	And then he was able to get a position with Moderna.
	But when you look at the contamination that is there, they violate their own rules.
	And it's been shown over and over again.
	The Florida Surgeon General said that.
	But they will not pull it off the market, even though it is in violation of their rules.
	And so, would you have a situation where you got...
	Thimerosal and vaccines, and they label them as thimerosal-free?
	Yes. It's probably some trick that they play and say, well, if it's less than a certain percentage, we'll call it thimerosal-free.
	And so it's some kind of a legal prevarication that lets them get away with this.
	Cheryl Atkinson's investigation shows evidence that linked thimerosal and vaccines to neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
	And that has existed for decades.
	She went back and she found the transcripts of the scientists that were talking about this and government agencies as well as others.
	It also exposes an intentional project to rewrite the scientific narrative around thimerosal and mercury.
	To hide that link from the public.
	So the CDC, as well as Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a key source for the vaccine industry propaganda, and it has been Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is heavily promoted by Google for vaccine propaganda, says Children's Health Defense.
	And of course others besides them and the CDC have long posted statements leading the public to believe that thimerosal has been removed.
	You'll see on the CDC website, it still contains statements like this, quote, fact, thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in the U.S. in 2001.
	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia says on its website that thimerosal, quote, was removed from vaccines after an amendment to the FDA Modernization Act that was signed into law on November the 21st, 1997.
	So they can't keep their lives straight.
	CDC says it was taken out in 2001.
	Children's Hospital says it was taken out in 1997 after the FDA Modernization Act.
	Cheryl Atkinson said these claims would receive five outrageous Pinocchios from any neutral fact-checking organization.
	She shows a series of screenshots from websites and vaccine labels You can click on those, Travis.
	1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024.
	You get the idea.
	She's got a lot of research here that shows these websites.
	And they're talking on the website.
	You can see that, you know, these things, she got the websites that were archived.
	She said they have now changed it, but it was there showing that it had thimerosal.
	They show thimerosal as an ingredient in the vaccines available to children in the U.S., including flu shots and some tetanus shots.
	In 1997, Congress asked the FDA to review the use of thimerosal in drugs and vaccines due to safety concerns about mercury exposure.
	The following year, the agency requested detailed information from manufacturers about thimerosal in their products.
	You mean the FDA really wasn't paying any attention?
	No, they weren't.
	As I said before, when they were starting to roll out the Trump shots, and they said, we're going to put this special ingredient that's going to reprogram your body to be a vaccine manufacturing plant, we're going to put that in polyethylene glycol, PEG.
	They call it pegylated.
	And the people at Children's Health Defense said, ooh, a lot of people are going to go into anaphylactic shock that have allergies to this.
	That's a very...
	Very well-known allergen that is there.
	And so they contacted the FDA and they said, you understand how dangerous this is to inject people with PEG?
	I said, well, we don't care.
	Talk to Pfizer.
	Of course, Pfizer doesn't care if the FDA doesn't care.
	So, same type of thing.
	They don't know about thimerosal?
	And they don't know if it's in these products that they're supposed to be regulating?
	No, because the FDA means free to do anything if you are a pharmaceutical company.
	By 1999, U.S. and European public health institutions have begun to recognize the cumulative exposure to mercury in all vaccines.
	Because, you know, we give these same vaccines four and five times to our children here in the United States over the course of their childhood.
	We have 76 vaccines, and many of these things, it's like giving it to them four times.
	Many of them are given three times in the first year of their life.
	So I said, well, there's a cumulative effect in the mercury.
	Your body doesn't break it down or really eliminate it very well.
	So in 2000, the CDC brought together vaccine manufacturers and public health officials who regulate, mandate these things.
	They brought them together at a meeting in Norcross, Georgia at the Simpsonwood Retreat and Conference Center.
	Transcripts from that Simpsonwood meeting that were obtained by Cheryl Atkinson with a FOIA request, a Freedom of Information Act request, Revealed, attendees discussed the findings on thimerosal research, and it showed a link between mercury-based thimerosal in vaccines and brain injuries, including autism.
	During the meeting, immunologist and pediatrician Dr. Dick Johnston explained that mercury in the form of thimerosal, a known toxin, is used in vaccines because it lowers the rates of bacterial and fungal contamination during the manufacturing process.
	See, this is the type of thing, a lot of the stuff that's in our food additives are there for the manufacturing process.
	It may be there as kind of an antibiotic, or it may be there to help it go through the machine better.
	Maybe it's a defoaming agent.
	But then it remains in the food, and you eat it, right?
	Well, that's great.
	It makes it go through the machine better.
	Well, you know, how about a little bit of motor oil with your bread or something?
	I mean, that's basically what we're talking about here.
	Anyway, they said during the meeting, Dr. Dick Johnson said that.
	He said, well, it's used in the manufacturing process.
	But he said there was, quote, scant data, unquote, on the safety of injecting babies with multiple metals through vaccination.
	Atkinson says, well, this is in spite of the fact that aluminum and mercury are often simultaneously administered to infants both at the same injection site and at different sites.
	So what's the deal with that?
	We don't have much data on it.
	Aren't you supposed to have them show that it is safe and effective before they put it out there?
	And of course, with vaccines, they skip the effective part, the efficacy part, because they say, well, we can't directly expose anybody to a particular disease.
	So if we're vaccinating them for X, we can't expose them to X. Instead, what we will do is we'll have...
	The people who get the vaccine and the control group and we will give it to them just let them circulate and we'll see over the number of years how many people in each group got the vaccine and that's how we will determine whether it's effective or not.
	They're not challenging people with that disease.
	So they don't know if it's effective or not.
	And when it comes to safety you realize that in all these cases they're using a real vaccine For the control group.
	They're not injecting them with a placebo that is water.
	They're injecting them, for example, with COVID.
	Why'd they do it?
	They injected the control group with a meningitis vaccine.
	And said, well, we don't have any more not noticeable number of difference in adverse effects with COVID than we do with the people we give the meningitis vaccine to.
	Except they call it a placebo, and it's not a placebo.
	They've been doing this with all of them for a very long time.
	But when you look at this, we have known for a very, very, very long time that aluminum and mercury were causing autism, causing neurological damage, brain damage, brain injuries, and things like that.
	Which, again, is why my jaw dropped when I saw Alex Jones telling people, Trump shot.
	It's good.
	It's basically going to be dead or killed or something like that, you know?
	And it's just going to be basically sugar water with a little bit of mercury or aluminum in it.
	Like, what are you talking about, Alex?
	For 20 years, he told people the truth about aluminum and mercury and then for the COVID takeover, he flipped and he told them a lie that he knew because he talked about it for 20 years.
	Yeah, Alex Jones woke me up.
	Well, he put you to sleep again then too, didn't he?
	So researchers found possible associations between thimerosal containing vaccines, mercury, given to healthy babies before the age of six months, and tics, you know, nervous disorders, attention deficit disorder, speech and language disorders.
	It was further worrisome that an association between brain disorders and thimerosal showed up in the limited sample of children, mostly age six and younger.
	Since that's typically too young to be diagnosed with ADD and autism, said Cheryl Atkinson.
	Those disorders are typically diagnosed from ages 6 to 12. But hey, with our vaccines, we can make it happen with toddlers and infants.
	Many doctors at the meeting expressed concern.
	One famously said that he knew that definitive research might take some time, but in the meantime, he had a newborn grandson.
	He said, I think I want that grandson to only be given If I mirror us all free vaccines, Travis, I want my grandson to get none.
	I don't trust any of these poisons, and neither should you.
	For your children, for your grandchildren.
	No needles for him.
	Yeah, it is.
	I mean, and you're going to watch them like a hawk whenever they get around some of these people in the white coats.
	It's like an insane asylum at the hospitals now.
	It's a cult.
	And they'll stick the kids when you're not looking, if you're, you know, are not.
	On them like a hawk.
	After the meeting, other published researchers linked autism and thimerosal, including a 2001 report by the Institute of Medicine which found a biologically plausible quote-unquote connection between thimerosal exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders.
	Cheryl Atkinson says this report sounded alarm bells with some people in the public health since the number of recommended vaccines, thus the cumulative mercury exposure, had exploded in the 80s and 90s.
	And along with that explosion and the number of vaccines, we had an explosion in autism.
	Again, you know, you look at this and going back to Rain Man, you know, they had to have a segment in that movie that was done in the late 80s to explain to people what autism even was.
	Nobody had seen anything like that.
	You know, you have Dustin Hoffman seems to be their go-to guy for...
	Doing predictive programming and reveals.
	You know, it's pretty amazing.
	Anyway, peanut allergies as well.
	A peanut allergy epidemic spraying from the expert's exactly wrong guidance.
	This is from Zero Hedge.
	And it's not just peanuts.
	Now we're seeing milk.
	I've known a couple of kids who've had milk.
	I mentioned this Over the holidays, we had three recalls, and I saw the headline.
	It said, these such and such products are recalled for life-threatening ingredients.
	I thought, what in the world is in these ingredients?
	Well, trace amounts of milk.
	Because if you have these milk allergies, that can be life-threatening.
	And they didn't mention it.
	Somehow milk got into these products, which don't normally contain milk.
	Somehow they got contaminated with milk, and it was not listed as an ingredient.
	Like I said, about Travis's age, she's grown up now, we knew somebody had a milk allergy.
	Very severe.
	She could smell it in anything.
	It would set her off.
	But the peanut allergy, that is something that...was a little bit ahead of milk in terms of timing and broader.
	In the 1980s, peanut allergies were almost entirely unheard of, but today the U.S. has one of the highest peanut allergy rates in the world.
	Why would that be?
	Well, we give more injections than anybody else in the world.
	Disturbingly, this epidemic was precipitated by institutions that exist to promote public health, says Zero Hedge.
	And just to remind you, a report I had in the last couple of weeks You had some doctors saying if you have some contaminated proteins, just like we had milk, which is not bad, but if somebody's got a milk allergy and it gets into the potato chips or whatever, then it's going to have an effect on them.
	They said that in a lot of these vaccines, there's contamination, just like we're talking about the contamination with DNA, there's contamination with a lot of stuff.
	They got SV40 in there.
	They got extra DNA.
	They got other proteins that are in there.
	And if you are, when they inject the very young, these kids, especially in the first year of life, if you are first introduced to a food and your first introduction to that food is intravenous, you have a very good chance of developing an allergy to that.
	And even in this, what they're saying is that the experts We're telling the existence of peanut allergies.
	They said it was rare.
	In the mid-1990s, however, major media outlets were running attention-grabbing stories about hospitalized children, terrified patients.
	You had the great parental peanut panic was on.
	And they said they told parents that to prevent their children from becoming the latest victims, they said there's one problem.
	We didn't know what precautions, if any, parents should take.
	Said a then Johns Hopkins surgeon, now FDA Commissioner Marty McCary in 2024.
	So what they said was parents should avoid feeding any peanut product to children under three years old.
	Well, that is especially true if you're talking about giving something to a child intravenously, which they do over and over and again, right?
	And so, you have to introduce this stuff early.
	Now, is Marty McCary going to come out against the vaccines that are doing this?
	Or is the advice just going to be, well, you need to not give your kids peanuts at an early age?
	...
	first of all, handle the adjuvants that are there.
	Whether it is heavy metal or not, what they do is they put in adjuvants in order to provoke a response from you
	...
	Dr. Jamie Andrews is leading the studies, and he is publishing on Substack.
	Good, good.
	Well, that's good.
	I'll need to try to find that.
	Jamie Andrews.
	That's important.
	Yeah, they're free to do anything that they want.
	It remains to be seen whether or not any of these people who have traded their integrity for their job position and the Trump administration will do anything about it.
	It ought to be first, do no harm.
	But they don't care about that at all.
	They don't care about the harm being done to anybody.
	So my advice to anybody is first, do no pharma.
	That's the key thing.
	We're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
	be right back.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, welcome back.
	We were marveling last night, just a separate issue here, the fact that Netflix is going to do The Chronicles of Narnia, and they have decided to do a gender swap on Aslan the Lion, who is a picture of Christ.
	Everything I loved in my childhood is being burned to the ground in front of my eyes.
	Tolkien and now Narnia, there you go.
	Of course, you would want to gender swap out.
	I don't like allegory.
	I tried, of course, his stuff was whether or not he, whether he liked it or not, it was very allegorical to a Christian understanding and stories of Christ.
	But a lot of analogies could be drawn.
	It was just, you know, he, he, that was his worldview.
	And it shows up in his story, even though he's trying not to do it.
	But C.S. Lewis intentionally put allegory in there.
	And now Netflix is intentionally going to replace Jesus with Meryl Streep.
	It just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?
	Well, let's talk a little bit about what is happening with news.
	We have an interesting case here with Matt Taibbi.
	He has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a Democrat representative who accused him of serial sexual harassment.
	This is the type of thing you would normally think that only AI would be that stupid, but this is a Democrat congresswoman.
	Sydney Kamlager-Dove is her name.
	Kamlager-Dove.
	He is now suing her for libel.
	Now, she is free to libel anybody on the floor of the Congress, which is where she libeled him.
	But she not only doesn't know anything about Matt Taibbi, she also doesn't know where her immunity ends in all of this.
	And so afterwards, she, as Zero Hedge pointed out, was stupid enough to post these libelous claims on social media, both on X and on Blue Sky.
	Tybee directly noted to her, he said, no woman has ever accused me of engaging in sexual harassment once, let alone serially.
	I'll see you in court.
	And the amount is going to be $10 million.
	Again, you got Jonathan Turley, who was libeled by the chat programs that made up a Sexual harassment or something about him said that it happened when he took his students on a field trip to Alaska.
	And that never happened at all.
	And I looked my name up on Grok and it said that I had been sued by some environmental group in Raleigh.
	What is that about?
	And actually, that had a grain of truth in it.
	There is a David Knight who was either state representative or he was in city government in Raleigh or something, and he made some statement, and they did come after him, but different David Knight.
	But the one about Jonathan Turley was just made up out of nowhere.
	He said, A, I've never taken a group on a field trip to Alaska.
	I've never been there in my life.
	And all this stuff is completely fictional.
	But he said, as a lawyer, he thought that he wasn't going to be able to win against them, because they had, I forget now the reason why, they had some kind of immunity to slander people like that.
	Speaking of slandering, we had Laura Loomer put some stuff out.
	Pull up that picture, Travis, because that is the essence of literal pearl clutching.
	They've got a picture of Laura Loomer in a two-up.
	Trump on one side and Laura Loomer on the other.
	And she's got a pearl necklace on and she's like, and it's, that's right there.
	Show that picture.
	There you go.
	That is classic pearl clutching.
	Literally clutching her pearls as she is speaking on a microphone.
	So she called for the heads to roll in an Oval Office meeting with Trump.
	Trump took her advice the next morning.
	Maybe we could get to Laura Loomer and try to talk some sense into her about tariffs.
	Maybe if she's got Trump's ear or whatever part of his anatomy, we could maybe get her to explain something to him.
	The New York Times said Loomer walked in the White House with a sheaf of papers which amounted to a mass of opposition research, attacking the character and loyalty of numerous NSC officials, National Security Council.
	Two of the people said, and she proceeded to excoriate them in front of their boss, Michael Waltz, who was also in the meeting.
	Well, here we go.
	Insufficient loyalty is the charge, I guess.
	Right? The Trump administration has to be filled with 100% yes men.
	It's time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
	Yeah. I mean, they can't have anybody there that isn't completely a yes man.
	So, he acted on the recommendations, apparently, firing some people.
	Times said Trump may act on this, but by the next day, she was sitting with the president there, and they said the meeting came after a recent string of social media attacks by Loomer on a lot of Trump administration officials, people like Alex Wong.
	I guess he told his boss they got the Wong man, but he was, I think, He was under fire from both the tractors inside and outside the administration for more than a week.
	Trump has spoken somewhat sympathetically about Mr. Wong in some of his private conversations with advisors.
	Then on Thursday, Axios reported that the president had indeed laid off several members of his national security team.
	Not so sure if it was, it doesn't say whether or not they got the Wong man.
	The firings came a day after Loomer visited the Oval Office and pressed him to fire specific staffers.
	It's a total clown show.
	If they're going to fire anybody, they need to fire the person who created those stupid so-called tariff charts that are not tariff charts.
	The person who went to chat GPT for that formula.
	That's the person that needs to be fired.
	But, you know, two very smart people probably put that thing together.
	Again, disloyalty.
	So Loomer said, I woke up this morning to learn that there were still people in and around the West Wing who are leaking to the hostile left-wing media about Trump's confidential and private meetings in the Oval Office.
	Hmm. Well, okay.
	So now she's got to get the people who talked about what she did.
	And so you've also got economic staff, however, that are leaking on us.
	And telling us that it's raining when it comes to the tariff things.
	Again, the TikTok deal, they have moved that deadline.
	Maxine Waters alleges that Trump wants to replace the U.S. dollar with his stablecoin.
	You know, occasionally she can get things kind of right.
	Not completely.
	Listen to her take on this.
	Maxine Waters, ranking member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, said that the launch of stablecoin by a family-backed Company is really what Trump is after, and she's angry about that.
	Now, she's not angry if we have a CBDC or if we have a stablecoin.
	She's only angry about the fact that Trump might make money off of this.
	You know, they can put you into a surveillance state, and she doesn't have a problem with that.
	It's just who's getting paid.
	And it isn't her.
	With this stablecoin bill, she said, this committee is setting an unacceptable and dangerous precedent, validating the president and his insiders' efforts to write the rules of the road that will enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.
	The issue is that we're creating a surveillance control state with this.
	She doesn't care about that.
	So Trump likely wants the entire government to use stablecoins from payments made by HUD to Social Security to paying taxes.
	And which coin do you think Trump would replace the dollar with?
	His own, of course.
	Well, she didn't have a problem with using the stable coin for the police state again.
	So she said, if there's no effort to block the president from owning his stable coin business, I will never be able to agree on supporting this bill.
	And I would ask that other members not be enablers.
	But she's okay, as long as Trump's not making any money.
	So, again...
	Yeah, we can do that if you want to do that.
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	We have a good community that's there at Rockfin, and I always enjoyed being there.
	It's just that it's impossible to get the money out that is there.
	And most of the people on Rockfin have already moved over to Kik, and they seem to be really enjoying it.
	The interface is really clean and smooth.
	Everything works well.
	I've got some fun emojis that people seem to be enjoying.
	So, many reasons to move over to Kick.
	Not just that you can support the show by watching and even subscribing over there, but, you know, just to hang out with the people you know and have some fun.
	Yeah, we did the RockFan thing and have done it for a number of years.
	And we had a really good community there.
	And the, but it was always very expensive to get money out of there because we, they would take your dollars and put them into their own cryptocurrency.
	We would have to then, which was constantly fluctuating in value.
	And then we would have to try to time that and get it out and try to get that into, you couldn't directly transfer that back into dollars.
	You had to transfer it into Ethereum and then from Ethereum into dollars.
	And so it's a very expensive process when you look at it.
	And Contagion Hoax has just subscribed on Kik.
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	And then what happened is the market for that crypto coin they had dried up.
	So we've got like $800 that are in there, and if we were to try to convert that out of their cryptocurrency, we'd get $4 for it, which wouldn't even cover the fees that are there.
	So it's a bad situation, but we're going to shut it down because I don't want to see people continuing to pour money into that that we can't get out.
	It's just not right.
	So that's why we're moving over to Kik.
	And on the other flip side of the coin, Kik has some of the lowest fees around.
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	Again, it has ramped up very quickly, so we expect that to happen.
	And we will continue to be on Rumble, and we have a good community there as well.
	We don't want to see that go away.
	The Supreme Court upheld Biden's rule on so-called ghost guns.
	So we would talk about that later, but we just had our guest who's ready to join us, and I want to talk to him about a variety of issues.
	He's coming from the Mises Institute.
	He's a fellow there on economics, and so we're going to talk about some of the economic issues, and we're also going to talk about his children's books, because we have to...
	We have to pass on our knowledge and our love of liberty and freedom to our children or we're going to lose it ourselves.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we're going to be joined by our guest Jonathan Newman from the Mises Institute.
	We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	be right back.
	Well, joining us now is Dr. Jonathan Newman.
	He is a Henry Hazlitt Research Fellow at the Mises Institute.
	He's earned his PhD at Auburn University while he was a Research Fellow at the Mises Institute.
	He's got a couple of children's books on economics.
	It's a way to make the dismal science less dismal and make it accessible to children.
	The Broken Window and Lugwig the Builder.
	So we're going to talk to him about that, but I want to begin by talking about tariffs, stagflation, and things like that.
	Thank you for joining us, Dr. Newman.
	Hey, thanks for having me on.
	It's good to have you.
	Let's talk a little bit about the tariffs.
	A lot of people are talking about stagflation.
	Are we seeing signs of stagflation starting to raise its head in the U.S. economy?
	Is it stagflation?
	Is it recession?
	Tell us a little bit about stagflation and what you think about how the economy is reacting to the Trump tariffs.
	Sure. Stagflation is certainly possible.
	It's a rare sort of thing.
	Usually what happens is the Federal Reserve will print money and this will stimulate business activity, it will get the employment numbers up, makes it easier for the government to borrow and spend.
	And usually that's their reaction to a recession or an impending recession.
	So usually what happens is they print the money and that causes prices to rise and for business activity to increase, at least in the short run.
	Of course, anybody who's familiar with Austrian business cycle will know that this will eventually turn into a bust.
	Eventually, all of the new projects that are started while interest rates are artificially low, they can't be completed because the real savings aren't there.
	And so we get a recession.
	But usually what happens is we have price inflation and output and employment moving together.
	Or during a recession we'll have some price deflation at the same time we have declining business activity or a recession.
	And that's why stagflation is so rare.
	We did have pretty much a whole decade of stagflation during the 1970s and it's certainly possible that it could happen this year or in the next couple years.
	I remember it well.
	I'm about to remember that, yeah.
	What happens in a stagflation is when we have price inflation at the same time we have declining output.
	So we have a real recession, but we also have increasing prices.
	One thing that I want everybody to understand is that while tariffs and sort of the uncertainty surrounding them could increase, Cause that sort of event to occur at a particular time, that's not the real underlying cause of it.
	It's more of like a triggering sort of event that could cause entrepreneurs to reevaluate their plans and start to liquidate, start to decrease output.
	But the real cause of a stagflation is simply bad monetary policy, bad fiscal policy.
	The real cause of a stagflation is government overspending, government overregulation, the things that the government does to decrease output.
	And at the same time, they're printing money.
	At the same time, they're contributing to the price inflation.
	And so that's if and when we do see stagflation, we should attribute it to bad monetary and fiscal policy and not, you know, back in the 70s, the scapegoat was the oil crisis.
	And I'm sure especially people on the left today would come up with some other scapegoat like Trump's tariff says the real underlying cause of the stagflation.
	Like I said, it could be sort of a triggering factor.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	If we're in a bad...
	And that's why, you know, I look at this and I say, we has met the enemy and he is us, or the U.S., I should say, the U.S. government, right?
	It's created a lot of trigger, you know, a shaky economy that's just waiting for the right trigger.
	I was talking earlier in the program, Charles Hugh Smith said that this is kind of like an earthquake.
	You know, whether the earthquake was a terrorist or whether it was a long, sustained policy, I think a big part of this...
	That is, I think we, as important as the tariffs are, I think a big part of this is just the uncertainty that's been there because we've seen vacillation for two months about this.
	And we've got a lot of people, whether they're shippers or whether they are automobile companies in Germany, other places, just said, we're just going to stop right now.
	We're going to take a 30-day to a 45-day hiatus, and we're not going to do anything at all and wait and see what happens.
	That in and of itself can create kind of a stagflation, a stagnant economy, even though we've got inflation.
	Oh, you're exactly right.
	There's really no incentive on the part of politicians and bureaucrats to address the real underlying causes.
	Of course, the incentives of a politician is to increase government spending and decrease taxes.
	Of course, I'm all in favor of decreasing taxes.
	But if you're increasing spending at the same time, it just means that the taxes are going to show up in other ways.
	It's going to show up in the form of higher prices.
	It's going to show up in the form of wasted resources going to government programs, government projects.
	But that's really the allure of government money printing is that they're able to – At the same time, the tax bill doesn't fully reflect that.
	Since taxes are so unpopular, it's very easy for the government to resort to the printing press to finance its activities.
	We pay for it either way.
	We pay for it in the form of higher prices.
	We pay for it in the form of financial crises and business cycles instead.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So what do you think is going to happen with this?
	I think that a large part of this is just to distract people's attention from the massive debt, from these other things that have been done in terms of massive stimulus and quantitative easing and printing of money and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's kind of a backdoor tax increase.
	It's kind of interesting to see conservatives now...
	Cheering taxes as if it was some kind of an engine of creation.
	You know, tariffs are just another tax.
	I don't think they're as bad as the income tax, if we're going to have a tax.
	And I've said that for a long time.
	Always, when people talk about changing the tax system, they were very wary about keeping the income tax and adding an additional tax, which appears to me to be what's going to happen if he says he's going to keep the tax cuts permanent.
	That means he's going to keep the tax permanent as well.
	What do you think about this?
	I mean, tariffs are just another tax, and yet you have so many people who see this as an engine of creation now.
	Yeah, you're exactly right.
	Tariffs are a tax.
	Economics itself was born as a rejection of old classical mercantilism and protectionist ideas.
	So you go back to writers like Adam Smith and Richard Cantillon, they were writing in the 1700s, explaining that the government is not going to be able to achieve the ends that it's seeking by implementing tariffs.
	So it's actually it's no benefit to the to the domestic economy to impose these tariffs.
	It makes things more costly, makes things more expensive, and it disrupts the global division of labor that we've developed over the There's really...
	A lot of times people will point to trade deficits, which is really a terrible term because it has the word deficit in it.
	And so people sort of equate it with a budget deficit.
	And of course, it's terrible for the government to be in a budget deficit.
	And I agree with that.
	It's bad for households to be in a deficit as well because it means that they're overspending.
	But it doesn't apply to a trade deficit.
	It's a bad term, in my opinion.
	What a trade deficit shows is that there's money flowing in one direction and goods flowing in the other direction.
	If you just think about it from your own personal perspective, think about your own household and the relationship that you have with your local grocery store.
	There's money going in one direction and goods going in the other direction.
	Every household has a giant trade deficit with their local grocery store, and there's nothing unsustainable about that.
	There's nothing bad or unfair about that.
	It's simply the grocery store is providing goods that households want, and households are paying for those goods with their money.
	And so there's this trade deficit that happens all the time with every single household and all the shopping that they do.
	And then, of course, there's trade surpluses that we have individually with our employers.
	So if you think about there's money going from your employer to the household, and that's a trade deficit from the employer's perspective, but a trade surplus from the workers.
	But it absolutely does.
	Just think about how land around the world is especially suited to produce different things.
	So here in the United States, we're good at producing corn.
	We've got workers that are very good at designing software and designing airplanes, producing airplanes.
	Very good at providing health care and education.
	People come from all over the world to get educated here in the United States or get health care here in the United States.
	And yet other countries are good at producing other things.
	And so we might get semiconductors from somewhere else.
	We get tequila from Mexico, for example.
	So each country has its own sort of specializations, and this is going to result in trade surpluses and trade deficits that are just dependent on different productivities and consumer preferences in the different countries.
	There's no reason to disrupt this.
	There's no reason to fear this.
	There's no reason to think that it's unsustainable or unfair.
	It's something that's been a huge benefit around the world.
	I agree.
	And when we look at this, the thing I think is...
	Interesting is that Trump is not really addressing even the tariffs.
	You know, in the past we've had, when government was small, Tariffs could fund a small government that fit inside the Constitution.
	Later on, they used tariffs to protect certain industries.
	And we see in all the other countries, there's a wide range of tariffs on things.
	In China, it could go from like 5 to 20 percent on most of the things.
	Well, the aggregate level was like 20 to 25 percent or whatever.
	They had a few things that they were particularly restrictive on.
	They would have 50 to 70 percent tariffs.
	And they would go through, though, the Trump administration and cherry-pick something like Japan that has a 700% tariff on rice.
	But these were about particular things that they were trying to protect for whatever reason, trying to get a monopoly on it, or they want to make sure that they produce their own food inside their own country or something like that.
	Yet these tariffs are being done on a country-by-country basis.
	And so when Trump talked about this yesterday, he was talking about Japanese cars.
	And you're not buying enough American cars.
	It's like...
	Well, are the American cars being tailored for something that the Japanese people want?
	He's doing this on a country-by-country basis.
	He's not doing it on a product-by-product basis.
	And even on a product-by-product basis, what's being ignored here is the decision of the consumer, isn't it?
	Yeah, you're exactly right.
	And you brought up an excellent point about how countries like to protect certain industries.
	One very common argument for tariffs that I hear is the national security argument, that if we're going to be, if it's likely that we're going to go to war, and that another country will be our enemy in this war, we don't want to be dependent on them to produce weapons or to produce food or pharmaceuticals or other things that we need.
	essential things, especially in a wartime where we have these, you know, giant international conflicts.
	And I understand where that argument is coming from.
	And it makes sense just at face value that you're right, we don't want to be dependent on an enemy to provide the things that we would need to fight a war.
	But I think that even in this case, there are other things that we can do to make sure that we're producing the things that we want here domestically, even if you grant the argument that there's going to be this war with the other country.
	And specifically, the tool that I would recommend, I'm not a fan of subsidies, but I think that a subsidy would work better in that regard as opposed to a tariff.
	And the reason why is the subsidy is transparent.
	The cost is transparent to taxpayers.
	So they see exactly how much is it costing us to How much does it cost us to have this national security capability, as opposed to a tariff where there are all these unintended consequences that distorts things throughout the economy, whereas a subsidy, it can be targeted.
	We can say, we want this particular industry to not have to...
	I think our competitive advantage would be...
	Freedom and liberty and low taxes.
	Absolutely. And that's the thing that bothers me so much when I look at how the conservatives and the right-wing media, the people who are supporting Trump, they basically want to prop him up regardless of what he does.
	They don't want to call him out if he's wrong about something.
	And he's very wrong about the fact that our country became prosperous because of tariffs.
	When we look at America in the 1800s, The size of government was minuscule.
	The intrusion into our lives was minuscule.
	You could start a business.
	You could start a manufacturing concern without being regulated to death.
	Today, with all the regulations, it's pretty much impossible to start a manufacturing business or to grow it.
	That's the real issue.
	The thing that is really harming us is the heavy hand of government.
	Again, they redirect you.
	To a different thing.
	They don't want to talk about the trade deficit and the $37 trillion, I mean the government's budget deficit, the $37 trillion.
	They want you to think about a trade deficit.
	Which is just under a trillion dollars, okay?
	So they don't want to talk about the thing that's 40 times bigger.
	But they want to misdirect you.
	And they want to misdirect you from our government to some foreign government, or from our government to corporations.
	And it's always a misdirection thing that is happening.
	But I think, again, when we look at it...
	It's the clarity that is missing for the trade policy that is one of the most damaging things about this.
	We could argue about the rates.
	By the way, did you see the calculation, how they came up with those numbers on that chart?
	It was parodied on Saturday Night Live, and Margaret Brennan didn't really know what to say to Lutnick about it.
	But she repeated some of the talking points, but I don't think she actually saw it.
	Did you actually see what people worked out as a reverse engineer, the formula they came up with for the so-called tariff rates?
	Did you see that?
	Yes, it was...
	Basically, it worked out to be a simple fraction of the trade deficit between the U.S. and the particular country divided by the imports.
	Yeah. And so I guess they're thinking they're thinking is that they want to apply the right tariff to diminish or get rid of that trade deficit.
	But as I mentioned before, there's there's nothing to worry about trade deficits.
	Trade deficits do not mean that America is losing.
	It does not mean that there's something unsustainable or necessarily unfair that's going on.
	And so, I mean, just the whole idea, it's preposterous.
	It's been refuted thousands and thousands of times throughout the history of economic thought.
	And so it's really up to economists.
	I mean, economists have been wrong.
	I am an economist.
	I'll be the first to claim that economists have failed, especially over the past few decades.
	But it's really, it's up to the economics profession to stand up and say, I mean, there are some good things here.
	Trump is really a mixed bag.
	There's some good things.
	Decreasing the size and scope of government through Doge.
	Decreasing government spending.
	Decreasing regulation.
	There's some good things there.
	But also, like you said, we've got to call out the bad things when we see them.
	And I definitely consider the tariffs and really any sort of trade barriers a bad thing that we should stand up and call out.
	I agree.
	Yeah, I'm something of a cynic and a skeptic, so I'll believe the cuts when I see them actually take place, when they aren't overturned by court system or whatever else.
	But let's talk a little bit about training the future generations, because, you know, as you point out, you've had a lot of different schools of economics, and so only one could be right, and maybe none of them are right.
	We look at all this stuff, it doesn't necessarily mean that because we've got a lot of them that any of them are right, but I like what you guys do at the Mises Institute on Austrian Economics.
	How do we train young economists so they don't fall into some kind of fuzzy thinking like modern monetary theory or something?
	Well, whenever I go to a bookstore, or sometimes even sort of big retailers that have a book section, I see the children's books that they have there, and I notice that there's all this indoctrination there, especially a ton of wokeism, you know, getting people, getting children to believe these, you know, terrible ideas.
	And I remember a few years ago thinking, you know, we should have our own version of that.
	And there are some versions of that.
	I'll definitely say that the Tuttle Twins book series does a great job of teaching the principles of liberty and economics.
	But I wanted to do something else.
	I wanted to show that I could also write some of these stories, especially since I have some young children myself.
	And so my main idea for training young economists, getting children to see the principles of liberty, see the principles of sound economics.
	And so I started writing these stories, these children's stories that are interesting.
	Easily graspable.
	Something that they're fun to read as well.
	Fun stories to follow along with.
	And so I started off with The Broken Window that tells Frederick Bastiat's Broken Window parable.
	It was popularized by Henry Hazlitt.
	It basically just says that involuntary destruction is not good.
	A lot of people will say that if something breaks and we have to replace it, this is stimulative for the economy.
	In fact, you'll even see this today, like a hurricane will come through the southeast United States, and you'll see some journalist somewhere say, you know, it's not all bad news.
	This is going to be great for the economy because people are going to have to spend a bunch of money to repair and replace and rebuild.
	But of course, what they're forgetting, including the Keynesian economists who fall for this fallacy, what they're forgetting is the opportunity cost.
	They're forgetting the fact that we had valuable resources and repairing them, replacing them, rebuilding also costs us valuable resources that could have gone to other uses.
	So really, it's not a stimulus to employment.
	It's not a stimulus to...
	Economic growth.
	When we have these destructive events, there's an opportunity cost and it's bad.
	That's especially true today.
	We've got these people from Silicon Valley whose motto is to move fast and break things.
	They want to break all the windows so that they can build it back better.
	That is a very, very important lesson.
	For kids to understand that breaking stuff is not necessarily a good thing.
	We don't want to do that.
	And we have the people who seem to be in control at this point on both sides seem like they want to break everything that we've got.
	So that's a great lesson.
	So how do you flesh that out for the kids and give them an example of how that is not what we want?
	We don't want broken windows.
	So I used the broken window parable as it was told by Bastiat and Hazlitt.
	The story goes this way.
	There's a young hoodlum that throws a brick through a baker's window and a crowd gathers to reflect on this event and think about it.
	And they come to the conclusion that the broken window is actually good.
	It has good positive effects.
	It stimulates spending and employment because now the baker is going to have to get the pane of glass repaired and so this is good for the glass business.
	The people who work in the glass business, now they have extra incomes that they can use to go buy things out and about in the economy.
	And so that's the conclusion that the crowd comes to, and that is the fallacy.
	That is the broken window fallacy that's coming to that conclusion.
	But then the economist arrives on the scene and informs everybody.
	shows people that it's actually not an increase in spending and employment.
	It's actually just a redirection of the way resources are used.
	Because now the baker is not able to buy the new pair of shoes or to get the new suit that he would like.
	And so instead of having, you know, Full, unbroken piece of glass and a new pair of shoes, the baker just has to settle for the repaired piece of glass.
	So the economy, this community, is actually worse off.
	It doesn't have as many real, valuable resources that it did before.
	So the story, it's a rhyme, so it's very easy to read through, and kids have a fun time.
	There's great illustrations.
	uh of uh you know the kid throwing the brick through the window uh there's also an illustration of like the broken glass over the you know the bread and the pies at the baker uh and there's even some cool illustrations that show the two different courses of events one in which the I
	have a more detailed explanation for parents and teachers.
	So if somebody wants to use this in a homeschool curriculum, that's what that section is for, to really explain and help the child to see why it is that...
	When the government decides to spend money on something, the same thought process applies.
	It's not stimulative for the government to employ a bunch of people.
	So especially after the financial crisis, the government had all of these infrastructure projects, and the goal was to spend and to stimulate the economy to get us out of the recession.
	But of course, if you understand the broken window fallacy, then you see...
	Actually, all of the resources that were used in those infrastructure projects come at a cost.
	It means that all of the resources that were used to make new bridges, repair roads, and all of those sorts of things, it comes at a cost.
	It's not stimulative for the economy.
	It's just a misdirection or redirection of resources.
	And, of course, you saw that during the COVID lockdowns and everything.
	The government checks were called stimulus checks.
	That was great.
	And it wasn't great that we locked everybody down.
	We busted a bunch of businesses.
	But on the left, you see that with the green agenda.
	They're constantly going, you can't buy this, you can't buy that.
	You look at what's happening in the UK, they're telling the people over there, UK You're going to have to have a heat pump.
	And we're even going to not just ban your gas furnaces, which are going to put out warm air in that cold climate and damp climate, but we are even going to rip up the gas lines that are under the ground so that you can't build this back.
	But that's great.
	You look at how it's going to stimulate the economy, and that's the way that the Democrats have sold all of this green stuff.
	It's all a stimulus to the economy.
	We're going to create so many jobs with our electric school buses and our solar We've had the broken window fallacy has been sold to us in a variety of manifestations and twists and turns, hasn't it?
	Yes, yes.
	So these fallacies are alive and well, and I want to do my part to teach children about this so that they're somewhat inoculated, so that when they grow up and become voters and they're reading the news and they're hearing politicians spew all the nonsense that they do, that they have the critical thinking there so that they can...
	Understand, hey, this is not a stimulus to the economy.
	This is not good for us.
	This is just the government grabbing more.
	This is the government deciding how resources are going to be used as opposed to private citizens, entrepreneurs, and consumers.
	So that's really the goal is that there are these good critical thinking skills that we're teaching our children now so that later on, hopefully we're not in the same sort of mess that we are now.
	That's the key thing.
	Critical thinking is the key thing.
	That's absolutely right.
	Once they understand the principle, they can apply that in critical thinking when somebody comes with whatever the agenda is, the green agenda or whatever else.
	I'm sorry, what were you going to say?
	Oh, no, it's fine.
	I was just going to give a quick preview of an upcoming children's book.
	So you mentioned Ludwig the Builder.
	That one is a...
	It's another story for children to help them understand business cycles.
	But one that's going to printers now, should be out very soon, it's called the Magic Coin.
	And this is a...
	children's book version, a retelling of Murray Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money?
	What Has Government Done to Our Money?
	is a short little book, very accessible, easy to read.
	By the way, the Mises Institute is running a promotion right now.
	We're trying to give away 100,000 copies of this.
	So your viewers can go to mises.org slash my money.
	That's M-I-S-E-S dot O-R-G slash my money to get a free copy of that book.
	But in the children's book, what I do is I go through all of the steps that Rothbard goes through in that book, where he explains the origins of money, the origins of banking, how government took control of money and banking.
	And then there's a fun little episode in there about hyperinflation.
	And so the story follows a girl who discovers this magic coin that takes her through all of these different episodes in the history of money.
	And the goal there is to show children and really anyone who wants to pick up this book that money has been co-opted by the state.
	Money and banking has been monopolized by the state to our detriment.
	It was originally a market institution that facilitated trade, made for the global division of labor, made it possible, which we were talking about when we were talking about tariffs earlier, and greatly expanded economic growth and standards of living across the world.
	But then governments realized that they could take control of money and banking to their own benefit and implement the inflation tax.
	If the government wants to spend more than it collects in taxes, it can make up for part of the difference with money printing.
	and so I explained that in a And the goal is to show children that money is all of the problems that we see in money and banking and finance.
	It's not a...
	A problem that originated on the market.
	It's because the government has taken control of it.
	Once again, the government is the enemy in this story.
	And with that in mind, what do you think of the alleged Bitcoin reserve, which it turns out that Trump started talking about other coins besides Bitcoin.
	What do you think about that and the crypto stuff and the stable coin?
	We've got a couple of bills that are going through, the Genius Act and others that are like that.
	What are your concerns when we talk about government manipulating the money supply?
	What are your concerns about these types of things?
	I'm not a fan of the Bitcoin Reserve idea.
	I think it's best for governments to just be hands-off.
	Just let the market work.
	Let the market decide what it wants money to be.
	There's nothing that the government needs to do to try to monopolize that or influence that, intervene in that area.
	I can't say that Bitcoin is the money of the future, but I can say that what we ought to do, the future that we should shoot for, is one in which the market decides what money is and not the government.
	What we had in ages...
	Ages ago, really not that long ago, just before the 20th century, we had markets deciding what money was and they settled on precious metals.
	They settled on gold and silver.
	And then, of course, you can go back to ancient history and you can see how the Roman Empire debased their own silver coins and that caused all sorts of problems.
	They tried to fix it with price controls and, of course, that made it worse.
	And eventually you had the downfall of the Roman Empire.
	And I think we're seeing the same sorts of things happening today, where governments have taken over money, they've debased it, they've printed too much, there have been a few hyperinflation scenarios throughout the 20th century, and even some in modern times, if you look at Venezuela.
	And so what this shows is that the government is not a good steward of money.
	Money is too important for us to give to the government to take control of.
	The sort of system that we should shoot for is one in which the market decides what money is.
	Whether that's going back to gold and silver or doing something new like with cryptocurrency, I can't decide because I'm not in charge of the market.
	But I do know that the answer is let the market decide.
	When you look at what is happening now, do you get a sense that our government is getting ready to reset the financial system like another Bretton Woods and this time move us over into a stable coin that is, I guess we could kind of characterize it as a tokenization of treasury notes.
	If they're going to have difficulty selling treasury notes to people, maybe they could sell all the treasury notes to a stable coin or something like that.
	I mean, to me, it seems like a tokenization of the Fed bills.
	And bonds and things like that.
	What is your take on it about the stable coins, the way it's being promoted?
	Not that it's going to be based on gold, but it's going to be based on fiat currency and government bonds.
	What do you think about that?
	I think it's inevitable.
	I think you're absolutely right to see that in the future.
	I think that the government has a very big incentive to maintain the current system of fiat money and central banking, which means that if there is some sort of threat from private cryptocurrencies, the government may try to impose or will try to impose something like a central bank digital currency, like what you're talking about.
	And of course, The reason why they would do that is so that they maintain that monopoly control over money and banking.
	And really, that would be the coup de grace.
	That would be the last nail in the coffin of sound money.
	because even now in our current banking system, there's just this tiny sliver of a constraint that the public has on the banking system by being able to withdraw cash from the system.
	But if we get rid of cash and we go to a completely central bank managed monetary system with a central bank digital currency, even that constraint is gone.
	And so what we'll have is we'll have even more inflation All privacy will be gone because, of course, with the central bank digital currency, government will be able to see everything that you're buying.
	We got a taste of this during the COVID years.
	You remember there was the trucker protest in Canada where they cut off their access to their own bank accounts.
	And also with the January 6th protesters, they did the same sort of thing.
	It was Bank of America working with the federal government to help identify who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
	It's not a conspiracy theory.
	It's already been done.
	It's already been put into practice.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Surveillance and control and restriction and taking it away.
	It seems to me like this stablecoin stuff has got all the worst attributes of CBDC, but it's got some incentives for it to be...
	It's kind of like I call it a public-private partnership for digital currency.
	Yeah, you're exactly right.
	We should fight it tooth and nail.
	Like I said, it would be the death knell for sound money.
	I mean, we don't have sound money now, but that's really the end point in terms of government control over money and banking is a central bank digital currency.
	I would much rather see a future in which we go back to sound money, where we go back to money that's chosen by the market.
	I agree.
	And that's why it's important.
	The Mises Institute is important because it is...
	Nonpartisan. And that's the key thing.
	Because it's going to be people who like and who trust a political party or a politician are going to step aside and let them do this to us and make excuses for that when it happens if we are going to be partisan about it.
	So again, you're nonpolitical there.
	You're nonpartisan.
	Non-PC.
	Tell us anything else about, of course, Austrian economics there at Auburn University, the Mises Institute.
	Tell us a little bit more about that.
	You're a fellow there at the Mises Institute?
	Absolutely. The mission of the Mises Institute is to educate people about Austrian economics, principles of liberty like freedom and peace.
	We're really counter-cultural in that sense.
	And you mentioned that we're nonpartisan, and that really gives us the ability to call out people on the left and the right when they're going down the wrong road, when they're going down the road towards greater state control, greater size and scope of government.
	So that allows us to be principled, allows us to be uncompromising.
	But the way that we teach Austrian economics is we have student programs.
	Really, our flagship student program is called Mises University.
	It's a week-long crash course in Austrian economics during the summer where specifically undergraduate students is the target audience here to come and learn Austrian economics from start to finish from wonderful faculty from around the world, really.
	We also have everything that the Mises Institute publishes is available for free online.
	So you can get the PDF, and of course, sometimes we'll give away even our printed material for free like I did with the – like I shared about the what has government done to our money promotion that we're doing.
	We have academic journals as well, and we have academic conferences.
	In fact, just recently, we had the Austrian economics research conference and the libertarian scholars conference where scholars came from around the world to present their research on Austrian economics and liberty and rights and justice and all of the good things that we need to be researching and talking about and explaining to the public.
	So if anybody's interested, you should come check out our website, Mises.org, Mises.org.
	You'll see commentary on current events.
	We have new articles coming out every single day, multiple articles coming out every single day, where our authors, our scholars are commenting on what they see and, you know, giving the Austrian economics.
	Yes. And a lot of articles about history as well.
	And of course, when we look at history, what has government done to our money?
	That's very important for people to understand that because government's got designs on our money right now, as we've just been talking about.
	And we're going to be, I'm afraid that in a couple of years, everybody's going to be asking that question.
	What has government done to our money?
	But it's got a long history behind it.
	And if you understand that history, you might be able to head off some of the worst aspects of this in the future.
	Tell people again how they can get that book because it is very much something that everybody needs to know, not just the kids, but especially the kids.
	What has the government done to our money?
	How can they get that at the...
	Yeah, the website is mises.org, M-I-S-E-S dot O-R-G.
	My money.
	M-Y-M-O-N-E-Y.
	And if you go to that link, then you'll be able to get your own free copy of What Has Government Done to Our Money?
	Like I said before, it's very accessible.
	It's an easy read.
	You see some of the books that are written by Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek.
	Some of them are quite dense.
	They're thick and they're dense and difficult to go through.
	But this one...
	It's very accessible, easy to read, and it's a short book.
	And it makes the very strong claim, but one that is backed up with evidence and the history as well, that government has taken over money and banking and it has not been good for all of us.
	That's right.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Thank you so much, Jonathan.
	Dr. Jonathan Newman, thank you very much there at the Mises Institute, and Travis has shared that.
	We'll put that in the description for the video and the podcast as well.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
	This has been a pleasure.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
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	got some vested interest in the government because that is a tool of government.
	I don't think even if you sent it to the MMT people, the modern monetary people, I don't think they would get it at all.
	Not even a children's book.
	That would be over their head, I think.
	On Rumble, DG8, thank you very much.
	The tip says, Good morning, David and all the viewers.
	Remember, put our hope and trust in the Lord.
	Yes, following man always leads to disappointment.
	Stay strong, vigilant, and share the gospel to this lost world.
	David Laura Loomer is the queen of grifters.
	I know.
	She learned to heal.
	When the Trump cult got behind Musk, Trump and Vivek promoted the H1 visa program.
	I remember, I remember that spaces that they had where they're talking about that.
	She spoke, got censored, then healed to Musk as well.
	Yeah, just, she is, she wants access to power, which is really sad.
	You know, you talk about people who are so fixated on that.
	I remember when she got kicked off of one of the social media platforms or something, she chained herself.
	And she was desperate.
	I mean, it was really heartfelt, the desperation.
	It's sad to see people putting so much into that.
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	He says, wise words from DG8 this morning.
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