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April 30, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 30th of April, year of our Lord, 2025.
Well, yesterday I talked about the grid outage in Spain, Portugal, parts of France, parts of Belgium.
But today we're going to take a look at the aftermath of this.
Everybody has pretty much agreed that, yes, it was an inertia problem caused by having too much of the grid be solar rather than the turbines that would have physical inertia that would play back into it.
And it's amazing to see just how close they were to the entire grid coming down.
And I think this is going to be a turning point, quite frankly.
We've had Tony Blair come back and say, well, people have been asked to lose too much in their life, to give up too much for something that really isn't their problem.
And yet I'm going to show you where they're going to pivot with this as well.
We'll also take a look at what's going on with Amazon and the tariff itemization.
Boy, that hit a raw nerve with the Trump administration.
Don't want you to see that itemized expense.
And of course, they have also changed yet again.
The auto tariffs have changed yet again.
I'm glad they're taking them down, but it's the uncertainty, stupid, that is destroying the economy, stupid.
We'll be right back.
Well, I want to begin by thanking everybody for their kindness and generosity yesterday, especially I'm Marty, who matched funds.
We got it up to seven-eighths, which is significant considering that we were just over.
A little bit over half when that started yesterday.
So thank you so much for what you've done, and I appreciate that.
And I've got many birthday wishes from people.
I'm going to play one later from a guard.
This was sent to me by Birdhouse Blues.
Sent a couple of pieces of artwork.
Said, forget Y2K.
It's all about DK2K.
Happy 70th birthday, and congratulations on the 2000th episode.
That's today.
Interesting how those two things lined up.
And he did another one, the cartoon artwork version of this.
I look uncomfortably like Mike Huckabee there in that picture when he used to do a cartoon version of me.
He's kind of become a cartoon version of conservative Christians, hasn't he?
Anyway, we're going to talk a little bit about the aftermath of this situation in Europe.
And hopefully there's going to be an awakening.
Based on this, as Michael Schellenberger said, all of Europe appears to have been just seconds away from a continent-wide blackout.
See if you can pull this thing up, because he's got a chart there that shows the dip.
And it truly is amazing.
It dipped down 0.3%.
It went from 50 hertz, which is, you know, we have a 60 hertz system.
Here in the United States where, you know, the electricity, the alternating current is transmitted at a frequency of 60 hertz.
And they change it.
This goes back to all the, what was the name of that movie?
Current Wars or something like that about the fight between Tesla and Westinghouse and Edison and all of them as to whether they were going to do direct current or alternating current.
I can't remember what that movie was.
It was excellent.
I really enjoyed that.
But, you know, you can go back and do your own research in the history and adjust the movie.
But more or less, it was an interesting competition as to whether or not they're going to have direct current or alternating current.
And, of course, with alternating current, you can step the voltage up.
Super, super high.
So for the same amount of power, you have a very low current, and that means that you have low line losses, because the line losses that you're going to have are going to be related not to the voltage that is transmitted along it, but the actual current that is running against the resistance of the line.
Anyway, so we have alternating current.
In Europe, they alternate the current at a frequency of 50 hertz.
Here, it is 60 hertz.
And I never realized just how, because like I said, I was never into the power generation stuff.
I did not want to go to work for Tampa Electric and be hooked there.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's just not the kind of job that I wanted to have.
I knew people who did that.
And there was a friend of my parents who had worked there as an engineer all of his life.
And his daughter was in school, electrical engineering, at the same time I was.
That was what she was angling for.
No, I'm kind of more interested in electronics and computers, but it's kind of interesting how tight the tolerance is there.
Anything that is outside plus or minus 0.2 hertz triggers major emergency actions.
Wow, that is amazing.
So, you know, they want to keep it within 0.1 hertz of 50 hertz.
That's a very, very tight tolerance.
Now, they've never had problems doing that in the past.
Because in the past, all the power has been generated by rotating turbines, generating the power, whether you're talking about hydroelectric or nuclear, or if you're burning some fuel, like coal, oil, gas, anything like that.
So that's never been a problem until they got solar and wind.
And even with wind, they don't have enough inertia in the windmill to actually do this.
So they had to try to come up with some kind of a synthetic inertia.
There were a lot of people who were warning them that this was going to be a problem.
Six days after they were able to go full net zeros, I talked about yesterday, the...
They created net zero.
And then for six days, they had it.
And then on the seventh day, the grid rested for several hours because it was out of tolerance.
So they said at that threshold, what happens is, you know, when the thing drops again, if it had gone, that went down 0.2 hertz from where it needed to be.
If it had gone down just a tiny bit more, To 0.3 hertz.
Then there would have been a cascading blackout throughout the entire European grid.
At that threshold, he says, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants and collapse accelerates.
It's disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred.
He said renewables don't risk blackouts, said the media.
But they did, and they do.
And, of course, we talked about the blackouts that happen when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.
Oh, it's okay.
We've got a big battery backup.
Well, that's another problem in and of itself.
Fire.
Fire.
And expense.
Unbelievably expensive.
And just how much of a backup can you get with that?
So, anyway, they said they did and they do.
The physics are simple.
And now as blackouts in Spain stand...
Strand people in elevators jammed traffic lights and ground flights.
It's clear that just too little inertia due to excess solar resulted in the system collapse.
And as I said before, you have even people like Tony Blair starting to walk back from some of this stuff.
I mean, these are people who were insane about it.
To see Tony Blair walk back against this is like seeing Joe Biden walking back against this.
And so...
They've now admitted that it was some failures on some solar farms, a couple of them, that initiated this, and then it propagated through the grid.
Spain's national grid operator said it identified two incidents of power generation loss, probably from solar plants, in the country's southwest.
These incidents caused instability in the electrical system, led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France.
They've ruled out a cyber attack as a cause.
They said the blackout was not due to a lack of nuclear power, rejecting claims by far-right party Vox, which opposes Madrid's planned nuclear phase-out.
The nuclear is the only thing that we got, that we're allowed to have, because it doesn't have any CO2 in it.
It only has deadly radiation.
That's so much better, isn't it?
I mean, CO2, that's something plants need.
Something we, all of us, every human and animal, breathes out CO2.
We can't have that.
We want...
Nuclear radiation.
The nuclear waste.
And hopefully they'll get that problem solved.
Look, it's a technical problem.
And I reported on Monday the fact that there's a Swiss company that was able to significantly reduce, and I still don't know how they did it.
Makes no sense to me.
But they claim that in...
And one area, it was their experiment, they were able to reduce significantly the radiation.
They said they could get rid of it in five years in Chernobyl, rather than the 24,000 years that it would otherwise take.
So there are some solutions for nuclear waste and nuclear risk and things like that.
I mean, you have breeder reactors and other things, but the technology is not finished yet.
It's like all of this stuff.
There's no time to wait.
It's just like the terrorists.
This whole green agenda stuff is just like Trump's tariffs.
Now, unlike Trump's tariffs, I agree with where he wants to go.
It's just the means by how he gets there that's the problem.
And the means does not justify that end.
Because he's just going to shut everything down.
He wants to do it right now.
And it can't be done right now.
But Biden and all the rest of these people, people in the UK now, They've all got that same impetuous impatience.
I want it now.
I want it now.
Well, it's not there now.
And they want to destroy the things that are very well understood, safe, operating, paid for.
Because the people who are driving this want to make money off of it.
And they don't care that the technology is not finished yet.
And they don't want to wait for the technical problems to be ironed out.
They don't even want to wait for it to be tested.
They just demand that you do it now.
The petulance of dictatorship that has now taken over Western society.
And we know who's dictating it.
And we know why they're doing it.
And so, but now, this is a real consequence.
And so, perhaps, people have started to learn a lesson.
Some people pointed out, what if that were a real cyber attack?
What if that were an EMP, for example?
What would have happened at that point?
Well, it shows that nobody is prepared for this.
It shows that they don't have much in terms of breakers for something that is localized, right?
First of all, they need some more circuit breakers, you know, in the system to be able to shut this thing down so that anything that happens somewhere is not going to be so widely spread.
But there's not really any backup on this.
And as Tony Blair said, we have been pushing people to use more and more electricity.
Yeah, we want to electrify everything.
All of your transportation.
All of your heating, your cooking, everything.
All right?
All your personal stuff.
But all the major transportation, even trucks, they want to electrify everything.
Even in the ridiculous moves of the Obama and Biden administration, they want to electrify military equipment.
Unbelievably heavy, energy-intensive military equipment.
They wanted to electrify it.
Like right now.
Okay, why don't you just destroy your defenses here.
These incidents cause instability in the electrical system.
They ruled out cyber attack.
They said the blackout was not due to nuclear power, but, look, being phased out.
But if they had nuclear power, the nuclear power does use the big turbine generators, and that does solve the inertia problem.
So the guy is wrong.
The guy's wrong.
That is one of the many things that would have stopped this type of problem.
Those who link this incident to the lack of nuclear power are frankly lying or demonstrating their ignorance.
No, you're lying and demonstrating your ignorance.
That's the Spanish Prime Minister who's saying that.
Pedro.
Pedro Sanchez.
He still evidently doesn't understand the connection.
They say the Guardian was still, this is Daily Skeptic, the Guardian was still running with the idea that weather was to blame as of yesterday morning, but later in the day they dropped that entirely because it was not weather.
Still, the Guardian wants to blame everything on man-made climate change.
Everything.
Everything.
Every catastrophe.
Every storm.
It's all going to be blamed on man-made stuff.
However, I said the politics section of The Guardian did cover Tony Blair's warning that phasing out fuel is doomed to failure.
Now, of course, he calls it fossil fuel.
I think that's absolute nonsense.
That is the CIA's agenda for mind control and messing with us.
Oh, yeah, we've got to go to different forms of energy because, guess why?
Oh, tell them it's from dinosaurs.
We don't have any more dinosaurs.
We're going to run out of oil and gas.
No, no.
Fuel.
Fuel.
Tony Blair, said The Guardian, has called for a reset of action on climate change to the dismay of some green campaigners suggesting that the government should focus less on renewables and more on technological solutions like,
uh-oh, here it is, carbon capture.
He's pivoting, along with the Trump administration, to carbon capture.
The pipeline thing that I was talking about.
So we're not out of the woods yet.
I mean, these grifters, liars, politicians, and thieves.
I know I'm being redundant there.
It's four adjectives of the same group of people.
They're always going to pivot us over to some pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
Let's be clear.
You're the carbon they want to capture.
That's right.
They want to capture and eliminate us.
It's fundamentally about depopulation.
It's also about...
Making themselves rich in the process and taking everything so that we own nothing.
And look, this carbon capture stuff is insane.
We spent a lot of time last week talking about the pitfalls of these pipelines and the ripoffs and how they were stealing people's property with eminent domain and ruining their farms.
So many problems.
But again, Trump is at the center of all this.
Summit Pipeline, the biggest one, I think.
And the governors of North and South Dakota, Kristi Noem and Doug Burgum, who are now in the Trump cabinet.
Noem at the Department of Justice, but Burgum in there at the Department of Interior.
And so those two governors and Trump met with the pipeline head, CEO of Summit.
At Mar-a-Lago.
The fix was in well before the election.
Now you've got Tony Blair jumping in on carbon capture.
Elon Musk is there as well.
People want carbon capture.
They want carbon taxes.
All this is also an argument for you having everything that you buy and use measured by a digital currency.
So the former Prime Minister Tony Blair said people were, quote, being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal.
Zero.
Let's talk about that.
The real net zero is the effect that your life has on all this.
And that's especially true in the UK.
The UK is so small.
The Labor Party has belabored this.
And they have shut down, they're de-industrializing Britain at an alarming rate.
And it's largely gone now.
It's not just the market forces.
And of course a lot of the market forces have been put in place by these preferential treatment treaties for China, India, others like that.
But it is truly insane, especially when you look at the small amount of carbon that is being used in that small country.
And they've already eviscerated their energy usage.
And so this is an unbelievable understatement from Tony Blair.
Yeah, we know that our impact is not only minimal, it's net zero.
That's what our impact is, is net zero.
That's the real net zero.
And they want us to make big financial sacrifices, changes in lifestyle.
They want to kill our lifespan because that's when you take away cheap energy.
It's not just a lifestyle change.
It's a life expectancy change.
So Blair was writing the foreword to a new report for his think tank at the Tony Blair Institute.
And it echoed similar criticism of net zero made by the UK's conservative leader.
He wrote, any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels?
I can't.
Stand that term.
Phasing out fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.
This is every kind of fuel.
Every kind of fuel.
They don't want you burning wood.
I remember back in 2009, 2010, maybe 2008, you had the EPA.
It was there in Research Triangle Park.
They were working on how they could stop people from having fireplaces and all the rest of the stuff.
It's burning any kind of fuel.
Trees are not fossils.
They don't want anybody burning anything.
That's why they came up with this fantasy nonsense about CO2.
And they don't want you burning any energy.
They don't want animals burning any kind of energy either.
Most political leaders, said Tony Blair, are decent people.
They would like to start taking some of the hysteria out of the climate debate, but they're reluctant to be the first to do so.
They want to do the right thing.
I guess we can all hope that that's true, right?
I don't think so.
So, what do we see?
We see that our dependence on electricity is increased dramatically by their fiat demands.
And then we see that the new sources of electricity are subject to uncontrollable variations in supply.
And now we have this new kind of variation in supply in terms of the grid frequency.
So the fiasco there in Spain and Portugal has flagged up like nothing else before it to show how vulnerable our society is, especially when massive changes to something as important as a power grid are,
listen, forced through in a rush.
And that's the problem with the tariffs.
I don't support any of this green stuff.
What they're trying to achieve, I adamantly oppose, and I also oppose the means of why they're trying to achieve that.
Now they're trying to do it.
But what Trump is doing in terms of, well, let's get manufacturing back in America.
Well, that's great.
But everything that he's doing mitigates against that.
And there are many things that he could do that would help it.
And by the way, there is a bill in Congress that we're going to talk about that I think is hopeful.
We'll see if Trump pushes it and supports it.
Something that Rand Paul and Thomas Massey have been pushing for a very long time.
They called it the Reigns Act.
Basically reigning in the bureaucracy.
We'll talk about the details of that coming up.
But if that were to happen, that would be a huge step forward.
And the left is not happy about that.
But that's the type of thing.
We need to have some fundamental structural change.
First of all, in the government.
The government is the biggest problem.
The biggest problem is not even China or any foreign government or even any foreign corporation.
The biggest problem is that our government is basically smothering innovation in this country.
And they're doing it with regulation.
And so, will Trump learn anything about trying to force changes through in a rush?
I don't know.
We'll see.
So, again, when you look at this, as Daily Skeptic also said, it revealed the Achilles heel of the grid that's dominated by wind and solar.
Spain's electrical grid used to be a model of reliability, as all of the grids in the Western world did.
Texas as well.
Texas destroyed their fuel.
Burning power plants, put up wind power, spent billions or tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure to bring that power into the grid, and then they froze up.
Didn't see that coming, right?
Well, that didn't happen with the older forms of power.
It's undergone a radical transformation, the grid in Spain, over the decade.
Conventional power plants with massive spinning turbines that naturally resist frequency changes and provide crucial stability have been systematically replaced with weather-dependent solar panels and wind turbines that contribute virtually no inertia to the system.
Everything about it is variable.
They need to stop calling them renewable, and they need to call them variable energy.
Because everything about them varies.
They vary with the sunlight.
They vary with the wind.
And then they create varying frequencies because they don't have any inertia.
The result is a grid that may function adequately under ideal conditions, but remains perilously susceptible to rapid destabilization when faced with disturbances.
Power system engineers have been warning about the high penetration of renewables and the inertia-related risk for years.
But guess what?
Politicians didn't care.
And they didn't listen.
They had a different agenda.
So they've had, as I pointed out, Daily Skeptic, many studies that methodically demonstrated that when renewable generation dominates the mix, the resulting low rotating mass and insufficient inertia creates conditions where frequency disturbances can accelerate rapidly,
precisely the pre-failure conditions that existed in Spain's grid that caused the collapse.
British grid operators have highlighted nearly identical concerns in the UK.
The 2023 report called Operability Strategy explicitly identifies the British system's inertia declined by about 40% between 2009 and 2021,
creating reduced resistance to frequency changes, making the grid more vulnerable to these same types of disturbances.
Daily Skeptic says, as our nation races down the same dangerous path, systematically closing, Reliable coal and gas plants.
Not only reliable, but affordable.
Stuff is not affordable.
And it doesn't last.
It's not affordable.
It's not durable.
It's not renewable.
It's variable.
The energy is terrible, and in such small portions, too.
That's right.
That's a classic story.
Two old ladies that come out of the restaurant.
Food was terrible, and in such small quantities, too, said the other one.
Inside and outside of government will inevitably blame extraordinary circumstances when these failures occur.
But they point out, I like what they say about their energy secretary, Ed Miliband.
They said his economic illiteracy regarding energy markets is rivaled only by his magical thinking on power system fundamentals.
And you know, we have a lot of magical thinking in politics.
And you look at the modern monetary theory.
I call it the magic money theory.
It's just magical thinking.
Such delusion is nothing new in the energy sector.
We saw that happen with Enron.
They supposedly had innovative new energy products, but it turned out just to be elaborate financial illusions.
This week, millions of Spaniards learned this lesson the hard way.
They were trapped in elevators, stranded on trains, left without basic services.
And that gets their attention.
It's pretty hard to get people's attention anymore.
They got people's attention.
The grid went down.
The total economic damage will likely reach into the tens of billions of euros.
Britain faces a stark choice, and so does everybody else.
You acknowledge the physical realities of electrical systems, and you maintain adequate conventional generation, or you continue the current ideologically driven path.
A path that is ideologically driven.
A path that is based on depopulation.
Deindustrialization.
A path that is not based on any observation of climate change, let alone man-made, towards a likely system collapse.
So, again, it was just a small amount of variation, which is truly amazing.
So, in conclusion, there is a story from Michael Every of Rabobank on Zero Hedge.
He says, well, one or two things from this.
Number one, this is what a cyberattack on the West could look like, and we are not ready.
Are you ready?
Don't depend on the politicians who are pretending that everything is okay.
It's a good time to point to Jack Lawson's Civil Defense Manual, jacklawsonbooks.com.
It's now back in stock, but take a look at that.
You need to start making some kinds of preparations for yourself.
Because the government isn't going to be there for you.
The government is creating fragility and instability.
And they certainly aren't going to be prepared to handle anything if there's some maliciousness behind it.
They can't even operate stuff under normal circumstances.
And of course there's a certain maliciousness in what they're doing, but I'm talking about direct malice in terms of a full-on attack, sabotaging, and that type of thing.
And of course...
It could be very simple.
You just have some people shoot up a transformer, right?
Some key transformers, and that would take a very long time to do it.
And then secondly, he says, as a global energy expert had made clear, we cannot rely on renewable power without backup batteries.
That's not going to help us.
That's going to add another level of massive expense, another level of risk with massive fires.
And so he says, further, massive investment is needed.
Or we return to fuel.
Well, let's hope that it isn't going to be a massive investment that's coming up.
But you know that's what they're going to do.
Because this has all been a green grift.
It's all been about them making money.
So, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back, and I'm going to read.
I've got a lot of happy birthday wishes from people, and we're going to talk a little bit about that when we come back.
Stay with us.
We'll be right back.
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It says, happy birthday.
Have a great year.
Thank you.
And he sent $70, which is my age.
I think that's a coincidence.
I think he did that.
Thank you so much, everybody, because, again, we were just above half, and we're now at seven-eighths, which is a big change.
And thank you especially to I'm Marty for matching that.
And many birthday wishes.
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Risha M says, my puppies were born this morning on David's birthday.
That's great.
Dogs have been such a blessing to us.
I was going to tell.
I can't remember her name now.
It was just a couple of days ago that I had the lady on, and we were talking about her book.
I think it was on Friday, didn't we have it?
Christine.
Christine Manitas.
Manitas, thank you.
Yes.
And I was going to tell her that she starts out, and she's got pictures on her website.
She starts out her video with her dog there.
And she's got a Border Collie.
And I was going to tell her, you had me at the Border Collie, you know, to interview you.
And what great dogs they are.
Scout's been a great dog.
And, of course, there's another one that we picked up that may be in some fashion related to him, we think.
But he's a little mongrel, and he's a great little dog, too.
They really make our life great.
But that's great that you had puppies.
Guard Goldsmith, good to see you, Guard.
And I've got a birthday.
I'm going to play in a little bit here.
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Thank you.
Happy, blessed 70th birthday and congratulations on 2,000 shows.
They just both coincided on the same day.
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MinuteManMilitia also.
And ChooseCrypto says, happy birthday.
You and my mother share the same birthday.
She's turning 73. Easy to remember.
Blessings to all your family.
Thank you so much.
And Birdhouse Blues, who did a couple of DK2K, which I thought was great.
DK's 2000th show.
And on kick, South Coast Painter.
Very, very happy birthday to you, David.
Very thankful for you and your knowledge.
Well, thank you.
That's kind.
Chris Chrysostomus Electronica.
Thank you for the tip.
I appreciate that.
I'll rumble.
And Steve Swan on Rumble.
Yeah, I agree.
The only question is, is it going to be coming from them, or is it something that they see coming?
Are they going to be the ones who trigger it?
I mean, we've been talking about that for quite some time, and I saw a clip where she was talking to Tucker about that.
They've got their storable seed vaults and things like that.
That's why I say you need to do some preparation for yourself.
But look, life is short.
Every birthday that we have, we get closer to the end of it.
What you need to do is you need to make some preparation for the next life, which lasts eternally.
And so I hope that people make that kind of preparation.
I want to be prudent, and I want to manage things well, and so we don't just walk out, well, I don't care what happens.
No, we do care what happens, but I'm not panicked about it.
I'm not in fear of it, and we shouldn't fear what these people do.
We don't fear those who can even destroy the body, right?
We fear the one who can destroy the body and cast you into eternal hell.
That's who we fear.
And once we begin to fear him and get to know him, we realize that we see his kindness and his love.
And that's the key thing.
And that's what gets us through this dark period that we call life.
Let's talk a little bit about the truths about tariffs.
Trump and the administration and...
And their cheerleaders on Fox News went apoplectic at the idea that Amazon would itemize the new tariff charges that they're putting on.
There are online retailers where you buy things out of China that are going to be doing that.
They are going to be doing that.
And so it was reported by one group that Amazon was going to do that.
Jeff Bezos pushed back against it, but Trump called him.
Called him.
As soon as somebody had that, as soon as there was a small article that put it up, and it was a publication I've not heard of.
It was Punch Something and Punchbowl.
I've never heard of Punchbowl.
So, I don't know who that is.
But some...
I guess relatively obscure.
Maybe they're not obscure.
They're obscure to me.
But some organization reported this and the Trump administration freaked out.
And Donald Trump personally called Jeff Bezos to get him to not do that.
What are they afraid of?
I thought that...
It wasn't going to raise the prices of anything.
Haven't we had that talking point hammered on us repeatedly?
Don't worry!
These tariffs are going to be nothing.
I mean, there's going to be tariffs on the wholesale price.
And you realize what a big markup they do?
So that's a tariff on this, you know, they mark everything up by a factor of 10 or whatever.
And so this is going to be, you know, doubling the price of, you know, what was 10% of the price.
That's going to double.
Don't worry, they're going to just eat that.
They're not going to even pass that along.
It's going to be so minor you won't even see it.
Oh, really?
Really?
Then why is Trump freaking out, right?
The very fact that Trump and Caroline Levitt and you have Maria Bartiroma, they're all freaking out about this stuff yesterday.
But I thought it wasn't a problem.
It's not going to be inflationary.
It's not a tax, right?
Yeah, it is.
It is.
They know it.
And they didn't want people to see it.
They're lying to you about this.
They're trying to hide what they're doing.
They're trying to give you a hidden tax while he is out there saying, well, you know, now I'm going to drop the income tax rate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a shell game.
Watch this hand over here while he does this over here.
Yeah.
MAGA.
The magician's trick, right?
It's a magic trick.
It's a MAGA trick.
And it's only the MAGA people who are like, whoa, how'd he do that?
They don't see the trick of what's happening in the one hand while he's waving the other hand over here.
While he's waving this hand in front of your face, he's reaching around and lifting your wallet out of your back pocket with the other hand.
Trump said he talked to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday shortly after a report claimed that the e-commerce giant was going to show the cost of tariffs next to the total price of products on its site.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett blasted Amazon, calling its reporting hostile and political.
It's hostile and political to tell people how much Trump's going to increase the prices of things.
Jeff Bezos, though, said Trump was very nice.
He was terrific.
He solved the problem very quickly.
He did the right thing.
He's a good guy.
But here's what Caroline Lovett said.
I will take this since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement.
This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.
Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?
And I would also add that it's not a surprise because as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.
So this is another reason why Americans should buy American.
It's another reason why we are on-shoring critical supply chains here at home to shore up our own critical supply chain and boost our own manufacturing.
Is Jeff Bezos still a Trump supporter?
Look, I will not speak to the President's relationships with Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you that this is certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon.
Secretary, if you have anything to add.
Yeah, I would also add that bringing down the terrible Biden inflation has been a So you get the idea,
right?
Let's stop and think about that.
You know, think about how dishonest that answer was.
If Bezos or Amazon was going to show the The amount of the surcharge that Trump is putting on, the tariff surcharge he's going to be putting on.
That would be hostile and political, to tell you the truth.
It would also make him a Chinese foreign agent and propagandist, right?
But isn't she a propagandist?
It's amazing.
They put out this thing about her.
She's going to have a prayer before she goes out and tells lies to people.
That's what she does.
They put out on social media a thing of her.
They're with a couple other people, and they pray before she goes out for the press conference.
Well, we do that here, too.
We pray that we'll tell people the truth.
Dear Lord, help me lie through my teeth for Donald Trump.
I don't know.
That's incredible.
She didn't pull any punches in her comments about Amazon.
She said it was not a surprise because it's just Chinese propaganda to tell people the truth about how much the taxes are being arbitrarily raised by Donald Trump.
So, again, why get mad about something that's simply the truth?
And, you know, the other part of this, besides calling him Chinese propaganda, the other part of it is to hammer on, yeah, but...
Joe Biden did inflation.
Oh, okay.
So, because Joe Biden did inflation, we can do inflation with taxes.
We can jump the prices up just by fiat, right?
You know, quite frankly, that is super dishonest.
Yes, I know that inflation is caused by government policies, and of course, the inflation in egg prices, for example, was caused by direct government action.
But typically, inflation is...
Is this systemic thing, you know, it's very different to have inflation that's caused by money printing and all that kind of garbage, which we know, okay.
And, you know, that's got a lot of different hands in it, but to just come out by fiat, one person, not the Congress, one person, is going to dictate new tariff surcharges on everybody.
That's a bit different, right?
That is a bit different.
And just because Biden's policies and regulations and everything were inflationary, that doesn't give Donald Trump a free pass to just come out and say, well, now I'm going to raise the price of everything by 145%.
I know.
It's the wholesale price still.
The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products.
This is never a consideration for the main Amazon site, and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.
I don't even know what Amazon Hall is.
Do you?
I've never heard of it before.
So that was his pushback against the report from Punchbowl.
But that report from Punchbowl really set the Trump administration on fire.
And so, Because Jeff Bezos is not going to tell people what the cost is.
Now he's got the other half of the political sphere angry at him.
He's now, as this article says, the second most hated multi-billionaire in the world, I guess, after Elon Musk.
Shares of Amazon also tumbled on the stock market because he's going to go against Trump.
I mean, just look at what Trump was doing to CBS and to Sherry Redstone and how they kowtowed.
I mean, there's absolutely, it's one of the most frivolous, ego-driven attacks on freedom of the press that I've ever seen.
Trump's tirade about, well, you did an interview with Lala Harris and you edited it and you made her look better.
Sorry, there isn't anything that CBS could do that could make Lala Harris look better.
None of it.
And it wasn't dishonest anyway.
And it's something that people do all the time with interviews.
They got a limited amount of time.
And they edit it.
And even if...
Here's the other thing, right?
Just like when we talk about free speech.
Even if somebody is a hateful, racist, truly anti-Semitic person, that is allowed with free speech.
Right?
And if they were set against Trump...
And if they deliberately rigged this, which the evidence indicates that they didn't, even if they had deliberately rigged that, that is their prerogative to do that.
You are allowed to have an opinion in a country that supports free speech and a free press.
You are allowed to have an opinion.
And you're allowed to do that.
There isn't a law that says that you have to be objective.
And as I've always said, anybody that tells you that they are objective in the press is either lying to you or unaware of their own bias.
Because everybody's got a bias.
And I always point to Matt Drudge.
His site, for the longest time, he didn't write anything.
What he would do is he would determine which articles he's going to point to.
And what topics he was going to cover.
Like an editor, okay?
And for the longest time, he was associated with conservatives.
Then he flipped.
Now he is associated with the left, but he doesn't write anything.
It's just what you choose to talk about.
You don't even have to write anything.
It's just what you choose to cover.
And it shows the bias that is there.
Everybody's got a bias.
What I choose to cover reflects my own personal bias.
I tell you what I think and why I think it.
And I don't trust anybody that claims to be objective.
And I certainly don't trust a president who wants to shut.
Down news sites and use criticism of him or political bias to take away their broadcasting license.
That's abhorrent.
So, she said, why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?
Oh, okay, 40 years.
Well, that's kind of cherry-picked, isn't it?
Going to 1985.
So, you know, if you go back just a few years earlier, yeah, we had some inflation go up.
But it was also the line of attack, that same line of attack.
And I'll show you how ridiculous that line of attack is.
But that was repeated by Maria Bartiromo as she curried favor.
I will say that there was no mention whatsoever at Amazon about Joe Biden's inflation.
And the fact is, is that we got to...
You don't itemize inflation.
Inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index was up 9.1%.
We all remember we were at the cash register.
Everything costs so much more.
So, you know, why they're putting a little bug now?
This is because of the tariffs, and they didn't put a little bug.
This is because of the seven trillion dollars spent by the Democrats under Joe Biden is a question.
That's an absurd question, Maria.
That would have been politically disputed and hostile and all the rest of the stuff.
Inflation is not the same as when somebody goes out and says, we're going to put a surcharge on, we're going to put a restaurant surcharge on, or we're going to put a hotel surcharge on, or we're going to put a tariff on, right?
And those things are typically itemized.
And to the point of the inflation, yes, in the Biden era, E-R-R-O-R, in 2022 we had 9% inflation.
And of course it varies month by month, but you know, the peak, it was 9%.
In 2023 it was 6%, then it dropped down significantly in 2024.
And so Trump's going to bring it back up again.
But isn't it interesting that...
For these talking points, oh, you know, he created inflation, so now we can add taxes.
How is that?
That's a non-sequitur, really.
But she also cherry-picked the year 1985.
She said, for 40 years.
What happened before 1985?
1985 was when they started getting things under control with massive interest rate increases.
I remember I lived through all this stuff.
If you go back to 1974, You had inflation peaking at 10%, 1982, 8.4%.
But prior to that, 1980, 15%.
1981, 12%.
Right?
So, 1974, 10%.
Then you get to 1980, 15%, 81%, 12%, 82%, 8.4%.
Yeah, it was higher and more sustained than what we went through.
And the Biden error.
And yet, they want to focus on that.
They want to cherry pick that.
I want to look at that.
Again, you know, statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics, don't they?
Cherry picking, the starting point, is kind of the same thing these climate creeps do when they go back and they look at temperature.
They miss the medieval warming period.
Right?
And they start with a little mini ice age in the 1800s and then go from that.
And then they completely ignore the thousands of years of data that they've got showing that the temperature was much higher.
So the idea that they would put the tariff right next to the product's total listed price was what set them on fire.
But that is going to be done by some other groups in China.
And again, what is the big deal?
We're told that the tariffs don't raise prices.
Now they're out there saying, oh yeah, they do raise prices, but what about Biden's policies?
We had inflation with Biden, so now we can raise prices.
It's just amazing to watch how these people spin and lie with the news.
And as I said before, This is something that's been very common in the restaurant business, the hotel business, because a lot of times they will single out restaurants and hotels and be able to surcharge on them.
In the same way that Trump is singling out a certain class of products that came to us from another country.
He singled them out for specific taxes.
And so restaurants have frequently in the past posted the surcharge that's being pushed on them as a protest.
And that's what these Chinese sites are going to be doing.
For example, in California, restaurants have used surcharge as a form of protest to offset costs, such as health care mandates.
It was a good thing when we did that, right?
When Obama comes in with health care mandates and some restaurants put that in as an itemized thing, the conservatives applauded.
And I would applaud that as well.
You want to know where this is coming?
You should know how much this is.
It's kind of like when you look at the gas pump.
You should pay attention to what the state and local taxes and the federal taxes are in terms of the price that is there.
So, in San Francisco, these surcharges have been common for over 15 years, initially as a protest against the city's health care mandate for employers.
However, starting in July 2024, last year, a new California state law will ban restaurants from adding service charges and other surcharges to customers' bills.
And so what happened was, last year in California, and then we also had it at the federal level, you had government bans on putting these surcharges in here.
Why?
Because listing the surcharges separately was a form of political protest against these mandated surcharges.
It's a surcharge.
It's not inflation.
It's a surcharge, a direct surcharge.
And it is a form of political protest.
But just like the Democrats, the Trump administration doesn't like political protest.
And just like the Biden administration, they'll lie to your face about all this.
They'll spin, they'll misdirect, they'll throw, well, what about the other guy, you know?
All that stuff.
So when you look at what's going on with restaurants, In the case of restaurants, they typically operate on a very thin margin, for example.
The new surcharges are not a sinister move to bolster the bottom line, but rather a genuine attempt to remain in the black despite the twin onslaughts of hefty wholesale price increases and shortages in supplies and labor.
In other words, you've worked out what the price of your items need to be in terms of supplies and labor and overhead and all the rest of this stuff.
And they come in and say, well, we're going to hit you with a particular tax.
Or we're going to have a particular expensive mandate.
So what they did was they just itemized that as another thing, like a sales tax.
We used to have, when we had British friends in Houston, when we first got married, the group that I was working with, there was a lot of people from other countries in it.
And they said, I hate this.
When I go up to the register and they tell me that this is going to be this much, and then they add the sales tax to it.
And as always, you never quote the price.
The price that's put up never includes the sales tax.
In the UK, they would always incorporate the sales tax.
Here, sales tax is there as a surcharge.
And for the same reason, I would think that I wish they would put the tariff charge there, for honesty.
And also for simplicity, for the people who are trying to operate the business.
And that's what they're saying here.
They say the typical small business restaurant operates on a 3-5% pre-tax margin.
Razor-thin margins.
For the vast majority of restaurant operators, about 88% of them, total food costs are higher now than they were in 2019.
Labor costs are up for 86% of operators.
Profits are down, too.
With 85% of owners reporting lower numbers than before the pandemic.
This one person they interviewed said, Well, I've changed my pricing three times since the pandemic.
Menu pricing is up 20% thanks to inflation.
When I started, Flounder cost $49 a case.
Now it's $92.
More than double.
Well, almost double.
Eggs were $34.
Now we're paying $62.
Again, almost doubled.
Chicken was $80 a case.
Now it's $189 a case.
More than doubled.
She said, beef has gotten so expensive, I've just taken it off the menu.
Don't even have it there.
And so, like I said, California kept adding surcharges to things.
And, of course, you know, the inflation, how do you calculate that?
Because, as you see, different ingredients go up different amounts.
There's no way that you could add an inflation surcharge.
What a lying argument from Carol Lyon.
Let's call her Carol Lyon.
Love it.
Because that was the most ingenuous argument that they could possibly have.
Yeah, well, he raised prices, too, so we're going to raise prices now.
Oh, you admit you're going to raise prices.
Anyway, the restaurant industry.
It is now getting a ban as of last year.
This is a year ago, April 24th, 2024, a year ago.
The Federal Trade Commission said that the restaurant industry was not going to be able to list surcharges that are put on it by the government.
So that was in April.
It came from the FTC.
Other things were prohibited.
Other surcharge listings were prohibited in California in July.
A year ago, April 24, 2024, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, held an informal hearing on its recently proposed ban on so-called junk fees.
You should call them junk feces.
It's total BS.
The proposed rule would ban common restaurant service fees and surcharges.
Forcing restaurant operators to raise the menu prices and to rewrite how servers are paid.
Do we need the federal government to dictate this?
Where's their authority to dictate this?
It's not in the Constitution.
And they even went further.
They even said, because a lot of people are doing delivery, you're not going to be able to itemize delivery fees.
Now, see, they always react.
And they go so far overboard.
Now, this happened to the federal government under Biden.
That goes so far overboard.
It's like, okay, now you're not going to be able to itemize delivery fees here.
So they're going to have to have a separate menu for takeout versus the other stuff.
Because if somebody likes to take something out, of course, that's an expense.
But you can't just add that there and say, here's your delivery fee.
No, you're going to have to create a separate menu.
This is when the federal government gets into micromanaging your business to the nth degree.
The Restaurant Association said the FTC unfairly swept restaurant operators into its far-reaching junk fee rule.
Restaurant fees are not junk fees.
They're long-standing fees for additional services or for greater convenience which customers choose that add value, like delivery fees.
But you can't itemize those anymore.
But the real issue is that they don't want people itemizing.
They don't want restaurants itemizing these surcharges that are put on, By local, state, and federal government.
And that's really where we are.
Trump hates it.
Biden hates it.
Because they lie to you about this stuff.
The FTC estimates this rule will cost restaurant operators about $5,000 per restaurant.
For small independent operators who run on a 3-5% pre-tax margin and make an average of $45,000 a year, that's about 10%.
Of their total income.
One rule from a federal bureaucracy.
Just wipe out 10% of your income.
So, Lutnik rolls out an auto tariff relief.
Oh, here we go.
I'm glad that they're lowering the tariffs, but had they thought about this before?
Did they have a plan?
They can't make up their minds.
And their variability, their uncertainty.
It's even worse than the tax itself.
It's this lack of inertia in the system.
It's not just going to take down the Iberian electrical grid.
This lack of inertia in Washington with taxes.
Why?
Because you've got Trump declaring a national emergency on everything.
And saying, well, because it's a national emergency now, I can just arbitrarily by myself set the taxes, and I can change it tomorrow, and I can change it the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that.
And that uncertainty is effectively a lockdown.
Because for people to protect themselves, they just shut everything down, just like they did on the electrical grid in the Iberian Peninsula.
You have to shut it down, because you can't handle that kind of uncertainty.
And so they added that there's some relief.
It's going to be phased in over three years, giving manufacturers time to shift their supply chains back to the U.S. And so what they're saying, here's the new rules, and they've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine of these.
I'm going to read you a couple of them of what they're going to do.
It's going to be phased in over three years, but then at the bottom they said, well, there's no third year of relief.
So again, you know.
These people, their stuff doesn't make any sense.
They're going to give you some kickbacks on year one and two if you do a certain percentage of the work here in the United States.
As for cars that have 85% domestic content, we'll have no tariffs.
Manufacturers of U.S.-built autos will get 15%.
Offset for the value of those vehicles.
You'll be able to pick the highest tariff that comes with your goods and they will only pay that one, right?
So in other words, the point about that is that they are not going to stack on for the automakers automobile tariffs plus steel plus aluminum charges, that type of thing.
Automakers will pay either the steel or the auto tariff, whichever one is higher, higher.
And so, are they going to give people now a little bit of time to adjust to this?
So they just impetuously put out a 25% surcharge on everything, plus a, and I forget what it was on steel and aluminum, plus that as well.
Now they're coming back and saying, well, be one or the other, and we're going to, you know, make some exceptions for this for two or three years to give you some time to start reshoring your manufacturing.
Well, these tariffs were announced on the 26th of March.
They went into effect on the 3rd of April.
And so what they're going to do is they're going to have to rebate some of this stuff now.
This is the kind of idiotic non-planning that these clowns, these losers in the Trump administration are doing all the time and calling it winning.
It's not winning.
It's stupidity.
It's the uncertainty, stupid, that is messing up with the economy, stupid.
That's the reality.
And where does Trump get the authority to set tariffs on automobiles?
Well, he claims that he has this power because he's declared that foreign-made autos are a threat to national security.
And he references back to a law that was done in the 1960s.
I think it's 62. It might have been 65. It's gone on memory.
And so we've had foreign autos for quite some time.
We're talking about the early mid-60s, right?
Foreign autos have never been considered to be a national security threat because they really aren't.
But Trump declares it, and he uses that to give himself dictatorial powers, just like he declared a lie about fentanyl coming in from Canada.
It's not true.
We've got massive waves of cartels and fentanyl coming in from Canada?
No.
But he used that as a basis to put tariffs on Canada.
The decision will mean that automakers paying Trump's automotive tariffs won't also be charged for other duties like those on steel and aluminum.
The move will be retroactive, meaning that automobile makers could be reimbursed for the tariffs that they've already paid for the last month.
Took them that long to figure this out?
The 25% tariff on finished foreign-made cars went into effect early this month.
Now, of course, he did this as he was holding his 100-day rally in Michigan, automobile industry headquarters, I guess, still, perhaps.
Trump's pivot on auto tariffs represents the largest development in his ever-changing trade strategy, says Zero Hedge.
Well, it's not a strategy.
It's not a strategy at all.
It's a reactive clown show.
A bunch of losers.
It was supposed to be a tax, and it was supposed to be a border bill.
But now the House, says Politico, is handing Trump vast new executive powers.
They're upset about this, but I think this is a good thing, quite frankly.
And this is something that I've wanted to see for a very long time.
Politico is very upset about it, but I think giving a president Veto power over rules that are created by the bureaucracy that is under the executive branch, I think is a good thing.
I don't think it's a good thing if the executive, if Trump can do the executive orders by fiat himself.
And that's if I understand this legislation.
And so the RAINS Act is trying to stop.
It's trying to take power away from the bureaucracy.
That can just arbitrarily do whatever it wishes.
If you listen to this program, you know that for years I have pushed back against an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy that can create any kind of rule that it wishes, and all they have to do is just publish it, and they put it up for a particular period of time.
They get feedback from the public, and they don't care what the public says because they're not accountable to the public.
Everybody can hate the rule, and there's no requirement that they get rid of the rule.
They can still do the rule.
And they frequently do.
And so, that is no protection.
And even worse, when we look at how this rolls out, this is why we have things like civil asset forfeiture, because they come around, they say, well, that's a rule.
And it's not a law.
If it were a law, then we have to give you due process.
But laws are passed by Congress.
This is a rule that was passed by the bureaucracy.
Therefore, you have no due process.
You see how that works?
These people, they play these...
They play these semantic games.
It's like, okay, you call it a rule so that you can take away my due process.
You make it a rule so that my elected representatives don't participate in it whatsoever.
I mean, it's the worst of everything.
And so the RAINS Act, which is something that Rand Paul has pushed for a very long time, has also been introduced by Thomas Massey and other people.
This is what is the basis of this.
This is what Politico is freaking out about.
I think it's very good.
Basically, it's instead of Congress continually abdicating more and more power to the executive branch or to the bureaucracy or whatever, they're taking back some of that power.
And that's a really good thing.
That's what they're supposed to do.
There are elected representatives, and they are accountable to us, and they should be writing the rules, not handing it over to a bureaucracy.
When Nancy Pelosi said, About Obamacare.
We're going to pass it so we can find out what's in it.
And everybody said, she's crazy.
No, you're crazy if you don't understand what she was saying.
She was telling you the truth.
What she was saying is, we're creating this vast new program and we're going to hand it over to the bureaucracy and they're going to fill in the devilish details and then we'll see what's in it.
And then maybe we'll come to your rescue if it's really bad.
But we're going to let them do it.
I'm just creating this thing and throwing it over the wall to the people in the bureaucracy who are going to put all the stuff together.
That's the way they've been operating for a very long time.
And it's time that we rein that back in.
R-E-I-N-S stands for Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny.
These acronyms that they do are just stupid.
But again, it's a great idea.
It's a stupid acronym, but it's a great idea.
It would require Congress to affirmatively approve major new regulations.
No more of this.
We're going to pass it so we can find out what's in it.
Send it over, kick it over to them.
Republicans are selling the measure as a way to check presidential power, they said.
Well, why is that?
Well, that's because the bureaucracy is under the president.
You know, when Trump said, I'm going to ban bump stocks and I'm going to ban pistol braces, how did that happen?
He had the ATF write a rule.
And so that is a way to check presidential power.
And that is constitutional.
And so I really do approve of this.
I think this is a great idea.
A key provision included in the bill would grant Trump sweeping powers to erase existing federal regulations from the books.
That freaks out Politico.
But that's a good thing.
We need to have veto power.
You know, it's like the line item veto, right?
I think is the way that this operates.
So here's the detail.
It would task federal agencies with submitting portions of their rules to Congress for approval over a five-year period.
So rather than just posting it and getting public feedback, they'd have to get approval from Congress.
If they didn't get that approval, the rules would cease to have any effect.
Yeah, that's good.
Letting Trump erase rules off of the books or any other president.
I'm all for that.
Again, the line-item veto, which was put in, remember, in 1994, Newt Gingrich did his contract with America.
He had 10 points that he had in there.
One of them was a line-item veto.
And they actually operated on that.
They put that through, and Bill Clinton signed it.
So you had bipartisan approval of that.
Until...
Rudy Giuliani saw that some of the projects, some of the port barrel projects that he was getting as mayor of New York are going to be cut out.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump's friend, takes it to the Supreme Court and challenges it.
The Supreme Court says, no, you can't give the president line item veto.
Again, a political decision that is completely detached from reality, just like their same-sex marriage and all the rest of this stuff is attached from reality.
But anyway, it was a bad Supreme Court decision.
It was pushed by Rudy Giuliani, but it's the same idea.
With a line item veto, the president isn't creating spending programs.
He's shutting down spending programs that were thrown in as pork barrel projects by the Congress.
That's what Rudy Giuliani didn't like.
So I'm all for veto power.
I'm all for a line-item veto.
I'm all for veto of regulations by the executive.
Critics of the RAINS Act, says Politico, say it would significantly slow down the rules-making process.
Good.
Good.
We need that inertia in the system, don't we?
Just like the power grid.
The political power grid needs to have some more inertia in it.
And it would allow partisan majorities in Congress to determine regulations rather than agency experts.
You want to be ruled by agency experts.
I'm science.
You're having Congress basically involved in every agency decision.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
That's what the Constitution says.
It's what the founders understood we wanted to do.
And so, as all this is happening, other big changes on the horizon here in terms of the economy.
UPS.
It's going to be eliminating 20,000 jobs as it is decoupling from Amazon.
The U.S. tariff war with China is reducing parcel shipping activity.
So it's another sign of declining, another sign of the effect of what Trump's taxes that he calls tariffs.
And they are tariffs, but they are taxes as well.
What his taxes, what his increased expenses are doing, and of course his uncertainty.
That is locking down the decisions of everybody everywhere.
So they're planning on shedding about 20,000 frontline positions in 2025, and they are going to be closing 200 sorting centers over five years.
They intend to close 164 operational shifts in the first phase of the program, including 73 buildings by the end of June.
Now, these are not all reactions right away to the tariff.
This is something that they had begun planning last year.
Because they were losing money on all the shipping that they were.
Amazon had become a gigantic part of their business, and Amazon was using that to negotiate such low fees that they were losing money on the work that they were doing for Amazon.
We're losing money on every transaction.
All right, we'll make it up in volume.
Outbound deliveries from Amazon fulfillment centers are not profitable.
Especially compared to returns and outbound volumes from retailers that sell on the marketplace.
About 60% of UPS's Amazon business is losing money.
About 60% of it.
So one year ago, they announced an aggressive strategy for network consolidation and automation.
Aimed at improving profitability by better matching capacity and labor with lower parcel volumes.
And of course, as I talk about massive layoffs, the Teamsters Union, which is in charge of the drivers and everything, you know, part of the drivers.
They said, well, we got a contract.
They're going to hire 30,000 Teamster people.
So there's going to be a fight if they get underneath that number.
But here's the other part of it.
Not only are the tariffs going to slow down things, and everybody knows that.
Again, this was something that was planned because they were losing money with Amazon.
However, they're rolling it out now, and they said that we do see volume deceleration in both enterprise and small and medium businesses.
Small and medium businesses.
Why?
Because they don't have the ability to adjust to the higher tariffs.
And so you're going to see a lot of them go out of business, and that's what they're saying yet again.
Says they do not have the tools to deal with the changes that our enterprise customers do.
Smaller companies don't have the working capital to pre-order inventory, and they have less ability to get contract manufacturers to switch to non-China countries than large retailers.
So again, Trump will be putting out of business a lot of small And medium-sized businesses because, folks, they're not essential to him.
And his globalist billionaire buddies and the technocrats don't want them to exist.
It's so amazing to me that people can't see who this man is.
Just amazing.
Online shoppers on Chinese platforms will experience huge price hikes.
Timu and fashion merchant Shine.
Are going to show consumers the import fees during checkout.
And they said when they wrote this article, reportedly, Amazon will also.
Nope, nope.
Not if Trump gives them a call.
Don't you show that price increase that I'm forcing everybody to have.
Meanwhile, we have another carrier.
DHL is dropping an embargo on medium-value goods after Trump has walked back his customs rule.
They were going to...
DHL does a lot of international shipping.
And they had said, we are going to lower the threshold for which you have to do a lot of customs reporting.
So they lowered it down to $800.
Now the Trump administration has raised it back up to $2,500 because of the administrative burden that was there.
Now here is a good thing, as I pointed out the other day, the massive increase in truckers.
That was because of the Biden program and because of an Obama program.
The Obama program removed the necessity for truck drivers who are driving these big rigs that weigh 80,000 pounds or whatever.
They don't have to be able to read signs.
What could possibly go wrong?
I don't know.
Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
Let's just go for it.
So Obama got rid of the necessity that truck drivers, commercial truck drivers, would have to be able to speak and read English.
Biden heavily subsidized training programs for these big trucking companies, which is in competition with the owner-operators and others, who have about a 90% turnover.
And they said, why is it that they can't keep anybody working for them?
And as part of that, they were bringing in a lot of people, a lot of Some of them not even legal, but they don't even speak English, right?
So this order reverses a 2016 Obama administration rule that removed the requirement for those commercial truck drivers to be able to demonstrate proficiency of the English language.
And so, as one person pointed out, the ability to understand and react to road signs, especially in emergency situations, It's critical for public and operational safety.
We have to debate that?
I don't think so.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Thank you.
I know.
I know.
You're listening to The David Knight Show.
Well, welcome back, and I have a lot of other happy birthday wishes here.
Amnesty Anarchy, thank you very much.
Do not obey.
Knight, I guess, N-A-Y-T.
I don't know how you pronounce it.
I would say Knight.
Huh?
Nate, okay.
Nate J11 says, thank you.
We love you and your family.
Thank you very much.
God bless you all.
Soylent Goy, happy birthday.
And that's very kind.
I appreciate what you had to say there.
That's nice.
On Rumble, catastrophic truth.
Happy birthday, Dave.
Many more.
You've got four years on me.
Okay, well, just be careful.
When you hit that, Karen and I were talking about this.
When she had her 70th birthday, all hell broke loose.
I mean, she...
She had dental problems.
She had the accident, which is she's still not fully recovered from.
Broke her ankle.
Just so many things happened.
She's been really tough, hitting 70. So, yeah, it's not always just a psychological thing that's there.
And also on Rumble, Franson, thank you very much.
DK and puppies.
Happy birthday, DK and puppies.
Because somebody else has a litter of puppies that are born today.
On Rumble, Tony Tai.
Happy 70th as well as happy 2000th show.
Thank you.
And thank you all for making that possible.
And again, thank you for all the donations yesterday.
And thank you especially to I'm Marty who primed the pump and got us up to 7.8 because we were really, really low this month.
But anyway, on Kick Jetson, thank you very much for the happy birthday.
On Rumble, Atomic Dog, thank you for the tip.
And he wishes me happy birthday.
He said, you really are aging like a fine wine while the rest of us age like milk.
Oh, thank you.
Good Christian living for the win.
Thank you very much.
I tell you, it truly is amazing.
You talk about milk aging.
We have a local dairy that we go to pick up our stuff.
Now, it's not raw milk, but it is not homogenized, which is good.
Being unpasteurized, you get a lot of good probiotics in it, but the homogenization does really bad stuff to the fats that are unhealthy for your body in a lot of different ways.
So we go there and it is unhomogenized and we can really see the difference.
It is cream colored as opposed to bleach white because one of the reasons that they do homogenization is so they can skim cream off.
These people don't.
They leave it there.
And so, but if you, we forgot one day when we went to get some milk and we left it in the trunk.
And we go on a Saturday and Monday I discovered it.
And boy, it was swollen and about to burst.
And boy, what a mess that would have been.
But it spoils pretty quickly.
If I put that stuff in my coffee, because it's got a lot of cream content, if I don't drink it in the morning, by the afternoon, it is soured.
And that's a good thing.
I'm really happy to see that.
It tells you that it's fresh and it tells you that they haven't loaded it up with preservatives and the color tells you that they haven't skimmed off the cream and all that stuff.
Anyway, yeah.
Real milk.
Ages very quickly, unlike the stuff you get to the supermarket.
On Odyssey, you get to see somebody on Odyssey and on DLive as well.
Drowning in Broken Eggs is wishing me a happy birthday on Odyssey.
On DLive, Lady Nutsy, Defy Tyrant, 1776, and T. Luke and Fuzz Meister.
He says you don't look a day over 69. Well, I am just a day over 69, so there we go.
Coil Spring says, stop by as I normally have to see the show the next day, but I want to wish David a happy birthday.
And cheers to the show, 2000th production.
Well done, Knight family and all the wonderful people supporting the show.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
On Rumble, DG8.
Thank you for the tip.
He says, David, Biden's policies were horrible.
Only added more inflation that was bound to happen after Obama and Trump added $8 trillion to the debt.
And never forget the $6.2 trillion CARES Act.
Yeah, they did forget that, didn't they?
I should have mentioned it as well.
You want to talk about inflation?
Let's talk about what Trump did to us when he locked us down.
He set a whole new curve on the deficit, right?
The annual deficit.
It took a whole new slope based on what he did.
They have some nerve talking about inflation.
Especially when, even before, what he did with the phony pandemic and the CARES Act and all the PPP, you know, where they're supposed to help small businesses and yet...
More than 50% of it went to the 5% biggest people.
All of that corruption and that scam and that inflation, the Trump administration even predated that.
He was leaning on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, to do quantitative easing.
And then in 2019, in the fall, before this lockdown stuff, you had the repo market.
And I remember reporting on that.
I said, look at this.
You know, I talked about it.
Salenti talked about it.
But before I talked to Salenti about it, I saw that they were dumping in, you know, $100 billion or something in this repo market.
I said, what in the world is a repo market?
And are they taking back cars or something?
That was the only repo market I knew about.
No, it wasn't that.
But I looked it up and said, so how does that compare?
I started comparing it to the gross domestic product of other countries.
So that one.
The first time I noticed, it was about the same as the gross domestic product of Puerto Rico.
And the Trump administration, or the Federal Reserve, at the encouragement of the Trump administration, dumped that much into that financial market.
And then it kept on going.
Not long after that, they dumped in an amount that was even bigger.
I looked that up, and that was equivalent in just this one dump.
That was equivalent.
To the entire gross domestic product of Switzerland, which is the 20th largest country in the world.
It was an astronomical amount of garbage that the Trump administration was pushing in there.
So the deficit, the debt curve that he put in, the repo market, pressure and quantitative easing, inflation, all of that, our interest rates, all of that was inflationary.
And now they want to pretend that it was only Biden.
Who did the inflation?
It's all of them.
It's all of them.
And Trump set us on a different trajectory, and Biden continued with that trajectory.
And so on Rumble, Will Tubox also says, Happy Pappy birthday, Sir Knight.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, that's what I got on the coffee cup that we got.
He said, what do you want Travis's son to call you?
He said, we'll go with Pappy.
Let's talk about what happened in Michigan yesterday.
I saw this headline on the Daily Mail.
And it looked like something you would normally see on some Trump outlet, right?
The moment that Trump totally humiliates disgraced Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
Well, I think she is disgraced.
I would agree.
But I thought that's strange that Daily Mail would put that up there.
What was it about her that was disgraced?
And, you know, when you look at this, what Trump did...
They said Trump totally humiliated, disgraced Democrat, again, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, in a made-for-TV moment in Michigan.
The president spotted her in the crowd and said, I want to thank Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
You know, I'm not supposed to do that.
She's a Democrat.
Well, so is he.
They say, don't do that.
Don't have her here.
I said, no, she's going to be here.
She's done a very good job.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Whenever I talk about what Trump is doing during the lockdown, the pandemic, garbage, anything, I'd always hear from the MAGA people.
It's not him.
It's the bad governors.
Like Whitmer.
She was one of the worst.
One of the bad Democrat governors, right?
Because we had a lot of really bad Republican governors like DeWine and Brad Little and I would even say Greg Abbott when I was in Texas.
But anyway, it was always the bad Democrat governors.
And she was one of the worst.
She was one of the worst during lockdown.
Remember that?
You know, arresting this elderly barber and all the rest of this stuff and shutting him down and putting up signs not allowing people to buy seeds.
You're going to use the excuse of a pandemic to keep people from being able to buy seeds in the spring to grow their own food?
Well, that certainly was convenient, wasn't it?
As Trump was destroying the supply chains, Whitmer was banning people from buying seeds to grow their own food.
Oh, sounds like a tag team match here.
Match made in hell.
She's done a very good job, he said.
You've been a real good girl.
Earlier this month, she faced...
Here's where we get to the disgraced part.
Why is she disgraced?
Because earlier this month, she faced the wrath of her Democratic colleagues for her seemingly friendly appearance alongside Trump in the Oval Office.
At one point, she even raised a folder she was holding to try to seemingly cover her face from the press that was snapping photos of the unlikely bipartisan meeting.
So shame on her.
She's a Democrat.
You know, not shame on her if she locked everybody down, right?
You know, I look at this and it's like, okay, they're trying to push this partisan thing.
You're a Democrat, you're a Republican, you shouldn't be together.
It's like a mixed marriage or something, right?
So you're not supposed to do that.
And yet the reality is, is that they're soulmates.
They're soulmates when it comes to the lockdown.
They're on the same page.
And they're both Democrats.
Let's just understand that.
They're both Democrats.
So, did he own her?
Did he own this lib?
You know, it's always, oh, he really, you know, like I said, it looked like something from a Trump thing.
No, he owned her lockdowns.
She did a great job, he said.
He said she's really done an excellent job.
She's a very good person.
You tell that to the people that were under her rule in 2020.
It was her second time meeting with the president since he retook office in January.
He didn't own the Lib.
He joined with her back in 2020.
Not in this event.
This is nothing.
They're all upset about this, but they're not all upset about what happened back then.
Just like all the big tech guys.
She's meeting with him.
The politics doesn't mean anything.
It's all about power.
It's all about money.
That's why all these big tech CEOs, it's the power and the money.
It's the uni party.
That's what is the basis of all of it.
I've talked many times about how my cardiologist, when last time I went to see him, was trying to push statins on me.
I said, no, I'm not taking those.
I know about them.
He goes, oh, you've been talking to Dr. Google, have you?
Well, this is an article on this headline here, The Cholesterol Con, how statins became a billion-dollar threat to human health.
And this is not even really simply about statins.
This is about how the medical establishment, corporate, and government lies to us, and lies to doctors, who many of them are ignorant, about the statistics.
Misleading statistics.
And so this is on Sayer G's Substack.
The original title was How Misleading Statistics Suppressed Data and 30 Documented Toxicities Revealed the Dark Truth About the World's Most Prescribed Drug, Statins.
Statins were first approved by the FDA in 1987, and they quickly became one of the most widely prescribed drug classes in the world.
Their claim to fame?
They reduced cholesterol and, by extension, heart disease.
But after more than three decades, the scientific and ethical integrity of this narrative is unraveling.
I say cholesterol is vital to human health.
Yeah, that's right.
The reality is I need things like exercise and sleep, but I certainly don't need statins.
Here's what Sayer G. points out.
About how, like I said before, statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics.
Well, here's how the pharmaceutical industry lies with statistics.
It says, let's say that a study reports that statins reduce the risk of heart attack by 36%.
Well, that sounds great, doesn't it?
But this figure represents relative risk reduction.
A proportional comparison between two groups.
It tells you nothing about how many people are actually helped.
He says, let's take a look at the absolute risk reduction, which tells you the actual difference in outcomes between the statin and a placebo group.
You know, we see these statistics.
That's what we immediately think they're telling us, right?
So we have a group that's put on statins, and we've got a group that gets a placebo.
And when they say there's a 36% improvement, that's what we're thinking.
But they've got a different thing in mind.
And they're using that statistic to lie to people.
In the heart protection study, 2% of the people in the statin group had a non-fatal heart attack versus 3% who were in the placebo group.
Now, what they say is, well, then you have a one-third improvement, right?
The relative risk was 33%, but the absolute risk was really only 1%.
In other words, that 99 out of 100 people who took the statins, Got no measurable benefit in terms of heart attack prevention.
And so for every 100 plus people on statins, one may benefit.
But a lot of people are going to have problems with the adverse effects that are there.
Muscle damage, you would have 10 to 20 of the 100 people.
Diabetes onset.
You would also have big numbers on that.
Cognitive impairment and so forth.
He says, you're more likely to be harmed than to be helped by statins, especially if you're taking them without a previous cardiovascular event.
And he says, so why do these things happen?
Well, they happen fundamentally because, you know, liars use statistics and they know how to cherry pick the different ones and how to present this stuff.
Doctors, he said, are rarely trained in medical statistics, and most of them just trust the summary statements from pharmaceutical reps or the guidelines.
Patients are never informed that 36% fewer heart attacks may only mean one fewer person out of 100.
Medical journals and media often repeat the press releases without even looking at the numbers.
So the media, the medical journals, and the doctors don't even bother to look at it.
They just go with whatever they're told by the pharmaceutical companies.
And then the pharmaceutical companies are misrepresenting this.
To say they had 36% fewer heart attacks.
In reality, what it meant was that one fewer person out of 100 had a heart attack.
And then, of course, they don't tell you about all of the adverse side effects.
So, you know, what can you do that is...
Effective.
And, you know, when you look at natural interventions that are backed by real outcomes, he has some of that here, too.
So it's not just be careful of statins.
Well, you know, now you've got nothing to do.
Coenzyme Q10 that is vital for mitochondrial health is depleted by statins.
And there's no adverse effects for that like there are for statins.
I mean, if you drank a bottle of it or something like that, or maybe you'd have an adverse effect.
But in reasonable quantities, none of these things have an adverse effect.
Red yeast rice is a natural statin alternative, but it requires careful formulation, so you might be careful about that.
Vitamin K2 prevents vascular calcification, especially in statin users.
And by the way, if you take vitamin D, Make sure that you also have K2.
A lot of the vitamin D formulations will have K2 as part of it, but if it doesn't, be careful because if you take a lot of vitamin D that's synthetic, the best way to do it is to get sunlight.
But if you take a vitamin D supplement, it will calcify in your veins if you don't have K2.
And so K2 by itself.
It can help not just as a preventive of adverse effects from too much vitamin D without it, but it can also help with other things.
Omega-3 fatty acids.
If you want to lower your triglycerides and systemic inflammation.
And then, of course, the biggest things are going to be diet, movement, sleep, stuff like that.
So that's the real issue.
And as he points out, you know, this whole thing about cholesterol.
I've had this discussion with my sons, you know, who looked it up, and they educated me on it.
Stuff about cholesterol, it's gotten a bad rap.
It's really necessary, just like fats are necessary.
And a lot of, I think, what we're seeing with mental problems in our generation, dementia and other things, is complete elimination of fats for some people's diets.
And your brain needs some cholesterol, other parts of your body.
It's gotten a bad rap, kind of like CO2, you know?
It's natural that you really need.
And we were talking about milk earlier.
Now that we've got lab-grown milk is being fast-tracked into mass production, the FDA is going to just get out of the way.
Because, you know, like I said before, the FDA stands for free to do anything.
You're free to do anything.
That's what the FDA tells the people they're supposed to regulate.
Lab-grown unreal milk.
They're using...
Mammalian cells in bioreactors.
And then of course you've got another brand, Perfect Day.
It is a synthetic dairy alternative that makes a lot of questionable environmental claims as well.
What it is is some proteins that are there.
This is an article from Mercola.
It says raw milk from grass-fed cows contains essential nutrients like C15 colon zero.
I don't know what that is.
I mean, it's got a colon between the 15 and the zero.
But anyway, it's a kind of fat that supports mitochondrial health, protects from diabetes, helps with weight management.
And it is not found in any of these synthetic alternatives.
By the way, it's not just what they're missing, but it's what they're going to have.
And what they're not going to tell you is in these synthetic alternatives.
Unpasteurized cow's milk is an incredibly important food.
It contains a great mix of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, other nutrients that support you from birth all the way into adulthood.
But unreal milk is fully lab-grown.
Unlike plant-based milk substitutes or fermented dairy analogs, this product is not from soy, oats, or nuts.
Instead, it is from mammalian cells that are grown in a lab and coaxed to produce the core nutrients found in cow's milk.
It mimics real milk at a molecular level, they said.
And so what's missing from all this is any real-world testing, and you're not going to get it from the FDA because the FDA says to them you're free to do anything you want.
There are no long-term studies showing what happens in the body when people consume milk that is made from lab-grown cells, and there never will be.
There never will be with the FDA.
Perfect Day uses genetically engineered fungus.
To produce synthetic versions of casein and whey, the dairy proteins.
And so, you know, they put these, this is genetically engineered fungus.
That's where you want to, what you want to drink, is their excrement.
Nevertheless, as he points out, this thing, it's C15 colon zero.
That's odd.
It is pentadicanoic acid.
I have not heard of that or seen it before.
That is a rare essential fat that you will find in raw milk, and you're not going to find it in these other things.
It is also present in small amounts in certain fish and plants.
What is notable about this is that it contributes to optimal cellular health.
As I said before, diabetes prevention, mitochondrial health, weight management, and LA detoxification, linoleic acid.
If you get too much of that, it can help you to detox from that.
But anyway, just a word of warning, because you're going to start rolling out the synthetic milks pretty soon, and I would want to inform yourself about what is in this and where this is coming from.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
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Decoding the mainstream propaganda.
It's the David Knight Show.
All right, welcome back.
And Gard did a thing on his program yesterday with his guest, and they sang happy birthday to me.
And I'm going to tell you a little bit about...
Happy birthday and why he can do that without getting a copyright strike.
Yeah, that was something that they kept going for a very long time.
It's a good example of the abuse of intellectual property.
But this is a guard on Liberty Conspiracy that you'll find every evening on Twitter as well as on Rumble.
Go ahead and play it, Travis.
We don't have any sound there.
Okay.
Well, we tried.
Okay, well, we got a little bit of a technical difficulty.
I had problems downloading it, so I thought we'd just play it live, but it did not play live.
So let's talk a little bit about the happy birthday and the copyright thing, because they did sing happy birthday to me.
The copyright claims on happy birthday were based on a 1935 copyright claim.
Now, this is a song that's been around forever.
It goes back to 1893.
As a matter of fact, when we went to China, And we were going around.
They had a whole group of us that were adopting children.
And they had us all on the bus.
And one of the kids had a birthday.
And so all the adoptive parents and everybody were singing happy birthday to this child.
And the kids in China knew it.
The kids in China knew it.
I was really surprised.
They knew it, and they knew the English words to it.
That's the only English that she spoke when we got her there.
But everybody knew it.
It was universal, right?
It goes back to a song that was written in 1893.
It was called Good Morning to All.
And then in 1935, there was a piano arrangement of the song, and they copyrighted that piano arrangement.
They claimed specific rights over the arrangement and over the lyrics.
That company was eventually bought by Warner.
And then Warner bullied and blackmailed and extorted money from people for the next hundred years, basically.
They were going to do it until 2030.
Can you believe that?
95 years worth of a copy.
This is...
The abuse of copyright that we see here in this country.
And beyond all reason.
And beyond anything that is there to help the people who actually created it.
This is just lawyers feasting on the abusive copyright laws.
Well, they were making millions a year.
Especially because what they would typically do is they would charge license fees to people who used it in movies or TV or something like that.
And they would occasionally go after other people, too.
If they didn't like your content, they would use that as an excuse to shut you down.
Well, there was a filmmaker who pushed back against them on this, pushed back against this extortion, blackmail, and bullying, and won in 2015, won in a federal court against Warner, extorting people over playing happy birthday.
So the court ruled that...
There was a prior publication of Happy Birthday with the lyrics in 1922.
So that predates significantly the 1935 claimed copyright.
So that copyright was really only about the piano arrangement on that sheet music.
It doesn't copyright the tune, and it doesn't copyright the lyrics.
And so, as a result, Warner had to pay back About $14 million to people that they had extorted.
And like I said, they were making some years as much as $2 million a year, shaking people down with their copyright lawyers.
The whole intellectual property thing is just another area of our society that is out of control.
But you said you got the issue here?
Okay, so this is what Gard did last night.
I really appreciate it, Gard.
Thank you.
Oh, it's not working still.
Okay, well, we'll move on.
We tried.
Sorry, Gard, but I do appreciate you doing that.
That was really nice of you.
We were talking about lab milk.
So let's talk about meat glue.
Did you realize there's this thing called meat glue?
Yeah, whenever you're getting chicken nuggets or veggie burgers or just a lot of food, that's one of the reasons why they talk about, be careful about processed food, because it's got meat glue in it.
Well, actually...
It is something called microbial transglutaminase.
But its function is to glue the meat together.
And it has some real adverse effects in it.
This is what I'm saying.
You know, when you look at this synthetic milk and other things like that, who knows what they're doing to process it.
Gluten and genetics may not be the only culprits behind the skyrocketing cases of celiac disease and related inflammatory digestive autoimmune conditions.
Recent research shows that an enzyme called microbial transglutaminase induces celiac disease and related inflammatory digestive diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease,
and psoriasis, they said.
Meat glue is beneficial.
For the food industry, said the researchers in one of several papers that they published on the topic, but apparently it's not too good for your health.
It is the darling of big food for a lot of reasons.
It can glue together scraps of fish, chicken, and meat into something that looks like a whole cut.
We often call these things Frankenmeats.
It can extend the shelf life of processed foods, even pasta.
It can improve the texture of the food.
Especially in low-salt, low-fat products.
It can make bread and pastries, particularly gluten-free ones, rise better.
And as one manufacturer puts it, it allows for the use of things that would ordinarily be tossed out.
Things that are like unappetizing leftovers and scraps of food that would otherwise be considered to be waste.
Oh, they can now make a chicken nugget out of it or something, right?
Kind of reminds me of...
Christmas Vacation thing with Chevy Chase.
His job, I think, if I remember the right movie, was to come up with some additive that would keep cornflakes from absorbing milk and getting soggy.
I'm sure that was good for you, too.
When I saw that, I thought, that's crazy, but somebody's actually got that job, and they actually don't care about your health.
All they care about is whether or not this food can be processed through their machine, and whether or not it absorbs milk, how it looks.
Is it bright and colorful?
Okay, yeah, that's good.
Okay, we'll put that dye in there.
Anyway, meat glue can change the nature of gluten, and it can make the immune system more reactive to gluten.
Which can cause conditions like intestinal junction leakage and a whole variety of health issues there.
But don't worry, because the FDA is going to regulate all this.
Except the FDA tells them you're free to do anything, including meat glue.
Well, pharma-friendly public health officials have now launched a new project to shore up U.S. vaccination policy.
Now you look at this, and this is in response to RFK Jr.
Do they believe that RFK Jr. will do something?
Maybe they do.
Maybe they don't take chances.
I hope he does something.
It remains to be seen what he's going to do about the vaccines.
But they're there to safeguard vaccine policy.
And so I think that they're being very proactive.
But, you know, they may actually, with this thing, if he doesn't actually go in the other direction, this organization could actually wind up increasing the number of vaccines that are recommended, that are demanded.
Pushing a centralized, privately funded group to influence vaccine policy and messaging could blur the lines between public health advocacy and private agenda pushing.
Yeah, you know, when you look at this, it's the insurance companies, as I pointed out before, that essentially blackmail pediatricians to push and push and push and push on all these vaccines.
And even to get kids that are behind caught up.
That's really, really dangerous.
And if the physicians don't do it, then the insurance company can put them out of business.
They've gotten such control since Obamacare.
The insurance companies have become such a big part of their business.
That unless you go to somebody who doesn't take insurance, you're probably going to have them pressure you for all kinds of stuff that you really don't want, but the health industry does want.
A good example of this, by the way, is, I saw this online, this is a guy who had to have, I think his ambulance care, we'll see here, I'm going to play the clip for you, for his child.
And they gave him one price.
And then he said, oh, I didn't give you my insurance.
So he gave him his insurance and the price went way, way up.
Listen to this.
How can I help you?
So I think there's a mistake on the bill, but maybe you could help me out.
We got a bill and then we realized that you guys didn't have our insurance.
So we sent you the insurance and it looks like the bill went up.
Yeah, the first bill we got without the insurance was $600, and then the second one was almost $1,300.
Okay.
Yeah, so the first invoice you receive, that's a discount that you receive if you're uninsured.
So you're not eligible for the discount since you are insured.
And so the bill was $2,342.14.
We built your insurance.
Your insurance only paid $1,078.85.
Can I go back to the discount without the insurance?
No, so you're insured, so you're not eligible for the discount.
If I go cancel my insurance, am I eligible for the discount?
No, sir, because we checked eligibility and you do have active coverage for date of service.
Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got the service to get the discount.
You're only eligible for the discount if you're uninsured.
Okay, so I'll get cheaper health care if I'm uninsured.
If you're uninsured, you're eligible for the discount, correct.
Is this common?
Yeah, it is.
It absolutely is amazing.
I remember years and years ago, I covered the LA Times talked about that.
He's in California, but this is everywhere.
This is everywhere.
And so they got one that is for uninsured and a cash price, right?
And then they've got a, if you have insurance, boy, they jack it up, as you just heard.
Jack it up so high that even if the insurance pays a large percentage of it, your fee is still going to be more.
And, of course, you're still paying these outrageous insurance premiums.
It's a difference.
Again, what we're seeing here is the insurance companies and the hospital systems, which, again, are corporate.
They've taken over this stuff.
They're not interested in medicine.
They're interested in making money.
And you see these two colluding together.
To rip people off.
But we personally experienced that.
We had, for years, we had medical, like one of these Medicare, MediShare, Samaritan Ministries is one that we had, but there's another one called, that we had at one point in time.
And you basically are treated, it's not insurance.
You have other Christians, and of course, if you're not a Christian, there's another one that's Liberty something or the other.
And so you're in a group and people agree to help to pay other people's medical bills.
And so when you have a need, you give that to them and then they send it out.
And there's like an annual fee that you pay to the organization that manages this.
And then when you have a bill...
They send that out to other people, and you write your checks directly to the person.
Again, once a year, you write this organization a check, a nominal amount.
That's how they make their money.
But then your monthly contribution...
It's sent directly to somebody that they tell you has a published need.
And so they verify that this is a real need, and you send that money along to them.
And if it's a Christian organization, you agree to pray for them and other things like that.
You can send them a card.
People would send us a card.
We had something like that.
And then when you're dealing with a hospital, you're dealing with them as a cash patient.
And it truly is amazing how this system...
It's rigged against people, to take advantage of them.
That's one way that you can get out of the system.
You know, we always are talking about ways that you can prepare and get out of the system.
Get out of the medical system, the financial side of that, by getting into one of these groups.
And the other thing we found was not only was it cheaper, and that was L.A. Times did this, like I said, about a decade ago.
They did a story about this very same thing.
This guy just published a video about it.
But we also found...
That when we go in for something and say, well, if you had insurance, we'd run all these other tests, but they're not necessary anyway.
Well, that's good, because I don't like unnecessary tests being run on me.
They're usually not comfortable, and frequently they have adverse effects themselves.
So that's a real plus, that they don't do extra things to you.
And so that's the system that we have.
And so here we have shocking data that suggests that the abortion pill has complications that are 22 times higher than previously reported.
But the FDA is not going to do anything about it because...
The pharmaceutical companies are free to do anything.
That's what FDA stands for.
Contrary to what some people may claim, the abortion pill is not like Tylenol.
We find that one out of every ten women who takes the abortion pill will suffer a serious adverse effect like hemorrhaging or infection soon afterward.
A third to a half of these women will then go to the ER or even be hospitalized as a result.
Mephaprex, I call it Mephistopheles, from September of 2000, said the drug should be used through approximately seven weeks of pregnancy.
But now they removed all that because they want you to be able to get as many, you know, they want as many abortions as they can get.
So they said, so now you can do it online without an exam.
Because again, the purpose of the exam was to make sure the baby wasn't too large for your own good.
They don't care about the good of the baby.
But for your own good, you don't want to use it past a certain period of time.
But of course, when you had a physical examination, they would look at the size of the baby, and that would be the issue there.
So, part of that...
Prior to what we just did, they would require three office visits by the patient.
They would require a prescription that could only come from a physician, not something you get over the internet.
And you would have to take the drug in a clinic in the presence of a physician who would then monitor you and who would be able to get you to a facility that was equipped to provide blood transfusions and resuscitation if necessary.
All that stuff has been taken away.
No examination.
No observation as you're taking it.
No backup plan for an emergency.
These safeguards have been removed.
All of them.
And so this is a very, very dangerous drug.
They simply are just waving their hand and let this go.
So Children's Health Defense is funding a lawsuit against the CDC.
Over a program that forces pediatricians to give COVID vaccines to kids who are on Medicaid.
Medicaid.
So again, if you get their financial assistance, if you get insurance or whatever, then these insurance companies or the government that is giving you financial assistance is going to mandate that you do things that are not in your interest.
And we see this across the board.
And of course, it's not limited.
To medical stuff.
That's why I tell people, homeschool your kids and don't take any money from the federal government or the state government for any of this stuff.
Because if you do, they're going to hammer you with this kind of thing.
And now we see this is being done for kids who are in Medicare.
And again, this all goes back to Obamacare, where they started taking over the individual private practices at that time.
We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back...
We have our guest today is J. Warner Wallace, and I've talked to him before.
He's a very interesting guest.
He was a cold case detective looking at murders and other things like that.
And he applied those principles to the Bible, the same principles that he would use to evaluate the testimony of people in a murder case that were all gone.
And he's written a couple of books about it, but he's got something that's new that I think you're really going to find interesting and a very entertaining way to put this out that he did with his son, who is also a detective.
So we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk to Jay Warner Wallace of Cold Case Detective fame.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Unlike most revolutions where the people rise against a real economic oppression.
In our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
Yay!
Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
Tomorrow it will be something else.
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All right, welcome back, and joining us now is J. Warner Wallace.
As I said, I've talked to him a couple of times before about his book, Cold Case Christianity, and he's got a new book that is put out in a very different way, and I really like this.
I'll just show you the cover here of it.
It is a graphic novel.
So there's the suspense broken right there.
I gave away the secret.
Thank you for joining us, Mr. Wallace.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Angle to take.
Yeah, that's right.
Tell us a little bit about this and why you did this.
And, of course, you did this in conjunction with your son.
It's really professionally done.
We've got some images of it that we can show.
But it's an amazing book, and it's kind of a fun way to get the point across that you've made in some of your other books before.
Tell us a little bit about it.
Yeah, I think all my other books are non-fiction books that make a case for Christianity, either for its truthfulness or for its goodness and usefulness.
So those are books that we kind of just make a straight case.
But I think there's a lot of folks who are moved more by fiction.
And my son always thinks this, too, because we know that we can make a case for something, and you may agree with that case.
But we can also take you on a journey.
And if you are part of the journey, you end up living the case.
And so this is a graphic novel that is a fictional work about a team of detectives that are trying to catch a serial killer in Los Angeles County.
You know, we applied all of our experience in the county, so this is going to feel, I think, pretty realistic.
If you're a police officer or detective, you're going to read this and think, oh yeah, that's pretty much how we do it.
But I also think what we're trying to do is to...
To tell a better story, we're going to explore an issue that most people struggle with, and that is, how do we ground human value, meaning, and purpose?
I think that most of us take our identity for granted, and then at some point we struggle because we're trying to figure out, like, who are we really?
And if you'll notice, and if you've seen, like, today in America, there'll be a number of homicides.
It's just the sad truth.
Now, most of those you're not going to know anything about because they're not even going to make the press.
But if a celebrity gets murdered, well, now that's going to make the news.
And suddenly it'll be a national or international item.
Well, why?
Do we think that celebrities somehow are more valuable than other victims?
We kind of act as though they are.
So how are we grounding human value?
What makes one person newsworthy and somebody else?
Not.
We think from a Christian worldview that every life has value, but how do we ground it?
So what we have here is this is not a Pollyannish kind of Christian story where everyone's going to get saved in the last chapter.
This is a realistic, gritty novel.
It's a large comic book because it's a graphic novel.
It's kind of like you're watching a storyboarded movie involving people who are struggling to understand who they are as they chase a serial killer who is...
Upping the ante every time he kills somebody, this victim is of increasing cultural value.
And what we're trying to do is challenge the notion that people actually are of increasing value.
We think that we want to be able to ground our identity and our value in something that's transcendent.
And so we're going to make a case for this, but we're going to do it without kind of beating you over the head.
That's great.
You know, many times I've heard people talk about...
Animal sacrifice.
And one of the first things we see after the Garden of Eden is that God gives skins to Adam and Eve to cover up their nakedness, right?
Now they're aware of what is going on, but he has to kill an animal in order to make that.
And so it's a consistent principle throughout Christianity that without the shedding of blood there's no forgiveness of sin, right?
And so a big part of that is that people understand The seriousness of sin.
You talk about the difference in human life.
Even when we see a dead animal, we kind of stop for a moment.
If we see a broken branch or a tree or whatever, some plant that's been chopped up, you don't necessarily think anything about it.
But if you see an animal that's been chopped up...
You've got blood all over the place.
Even that will make an impact on you, let alone a human life.
And as you point out, all human life is valuable.
It's not just celebrities.
But again, it's like all life is valuable.
Life is in the blood.
And that is a real, I think it's a lesson that God was trying to give us to drive home just how serious rebellion to Him is.
Yeah, I think, as my son likes to point out, you know, as police officers, we have certain limitations because there are rights that humans have.
So, for example, I can't just kick down your door and enter your house without a warrant, without a reason to do it.
But on the other hand, if someone is screaming in your house that they're being murdered, they're being killed, well, now I can kick down the door to save that person's life.
We actually think that the value of life, legally, is more important than even some rights that you have to privacy.
We recognize as police officers that human life is important.
Now, what I see in culture...
You're right.
What we have a tendency to do is the secular world just sees us as another evolved creature, another animal like all the other animals.
And what you see happening is that typically other animals are now being afforded the same dignities that we would have in the past only have afforded humans.
They're in our restaurants.
They're on the plane with you.
They're everywhere.
And they're there because we have minimized the difference between humans.
And other animals.
Now, here's what's interesting.
You know from Scripture, if Scripture is true, we are unique in the sense that we are image bearers.
We bear the image of God.
And the first thing that God does when he gives us the identity, he creates Adam in his image, and then he gives Adam a name, an identity.
And the first thing he asks Adam to do is to then turn and give an identity to all the other animals.
You know, the Christian story is an identity story from the Old Testament.
the way through the New Testament.
And so this is something we wanted to explore.
Now look, I could easily make that case on paper and make it the way I just made it to you.
Or, I could tell you a story that we hope is so engaging that by the time you're done with it, you'll get this principle.
Even though in this story, I think if you were to read this book, you're going to get halfway through it before you even think to yourself, "Is this a Christian book?" Because what we want to do is we want to reach people with truth.
And God's truth is there...
Everyone's truth.
You're stuck with it, whether you're a Christian or not.
If it's true, it's true for everyone.
So we thought we could write a book in which we could make a case that even your unbelieving friends Could read and not feel like, oh, this is so preachy.
You know, this is, no, it turns out it's just describing the world the way it really is.
And this is what scripture does.
It describes the world, and it describes us the way we really are.
So you'll see that these characters, there's only one Christian character in the entire book, and he's treated, for the most part, The way that, as a non-believing cop, I treated most Christian cops I knew, which I kind of marginalized them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, here comes the Christian view.
Okay, great.
And you'll see this is probably true, and many of the people who read this book are going to say, but you know what, this is true in my world, too.
My non-Christian friends don't really take what I say seriously about this.
So we wanted to create a narrative.
It depicts reality the way it is for a lot of the readers if we're going to read this.
You're going to recognize your own struggles trying to tell people about Jesus, trying to tell people about what's true.
And so this is a book that may not land, every plane may not land safely at the end of the runway, because life is that way.
I've got a father who's a cop, who's a detective, who is now retired, of course, and he's 85. He is not interested in hearing about the gospel.
And as many years as I've spent trying to help him see it from the same perspective that I take as a detective, he is willfully rejecting anything that I tell him.
Well, you probably have someone in your life like that, too, if you're a reader of this book.
So we want to have a book that reflects that reality as well.
Well, you know, what I said earlier about just the specialty of what is special about life in general, and you're right.
We're created in the image of God, and there's a huge difference between us and the animals.
And one of the things that we are seeing now, when we talk about the dignity of human life, one of the things that we really have to be aware of, the push that is coming against that, And we're seeing it across the board.
It goes back to B.F. Skinner and other people talking about, you know, beyond freedom and dignity, they're just going to treat human beings like animals.
And we see it more in the more contemporary writings of people like Yuval Harari, just saying, well, you know, we're going to take away, you're not going to have any freedom or dignity.
We're just going to control you as we would an animal.
And so I think that's a really important theme to drive home.
And it's a great way to do it in a detective.
I mean, it's always captured the human imagination because it is about life and death, and it is also about a mystery and a puzzle, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
And this form of novel, I always wanted to write fiction, and I realized that there's a difference between writing fiction and writing nonfiction.
There's definitely a different skill set.
My son is an avid growing up.
He's now 36. He's been on the job 13 years.
He's always an avid comic book reader.
And I think if you are an avid reader in a particular genre, well, then you have a better shot at writing something in that genre.
So what we had to contribute was basically a script.
It's like a movie script.
You know, say page one, he's going to have five panels.
These panels are going to be these scenes, these dialogue, this action.
Then we give it to a group of illustrators that are really gifted illustrators.
They're the same illustrators that created the chosen graphic novel.
So they're very gifted, and they basically do all the rest of the heavy lifting.
If people like this book, and I hope they do, It's largely because it was illustrated so magnificently.
I mean, we first got it back, and we're watching how they're developing the characters.
Yeah.
I mean, when you see the character development, I'm like, wow, that's actually better than I had imagined.
So I think that this partnership between writers and creative artists had been really helpful.
Yeah, we've got a clip up there now of a couple of these different things.
And I love the graphic novels and the comic books.
And, of course, I learned how to read with comic books.
My mom would take me in tow before I started school.
And this is back in the Silver Age of comics when they were a lot safer than they are now.
They've kind of pandered to adult or to college kids, I should say, in terms of what they got.
But they were pretty safe back in the late 1950s and stuff.
It was great because, like you point out, it is like a storyboard to a film.
And what's interesting about that is that my son will say this because he found my brother-in-law's old comic book collection from the early 1960s.
And you're absolutely right.
There was far less objectionable material in those old comic books.
And what he told me is growing up as a young Christian, he got his, of course, his marching orders from Scripture, but he found that a lot of his character development Came from these comic books, especially Spider-Man.
You know, this kid who's got to save the world, but he's getting a chance to go on this date.
And of course, as soon as he gets to the point of taking the girl out, this is when Dr. Octopus attacks and he's got to change his...
I've got to act sacrificially.
I want to do this thing, but I need to do that thing.
Well, I thought, really, so you were telling me that some of your character was developed through comic books?
But I realized that this is probably true for a lot of our young people, that issues that are sold to them under the ruse of fiction become...
The kinds of things that develop people's character.
That's why we as Christians need to be in this space.
Because you're right.
What's happening, if you're reading comics or graphic novels today, you're going to have to turn a blind eye to a lot of offensive non-Christian material.
But can we do a story that's every bit as gripping, entertaining, gritty...
But also teaches a Christian worldview so that when character development is actually going to occur naturally as you're reading fiction, it's the kind of character that's also consistent with the teaching of Scripture.
That's what we're trying to do with this kind of a book.
That's great.
Yeah, when we go back and you look at it, it's like comparing a contemporary movie, comic books of today, graphic novels of today versus the stuff back in the 50s.
It's like a Disney movie about...
about davy crockett or something you know versus uh movies that focus on uh a psychotic joker character you know for batman it's now the villains have become the the heroes of these things and they've become really really rough as you point out you know when i was
a kid the the characters would and and there was a reason for that when they first started
They were pretty rough, just like films, and just like they had the Hays Code for movies, they also came up with a comic book code.
They said, if you're going to target kids with this stuff, then you're going to follow certain rules.
And so it was kind of quasi-mandated that they would have to follow those rules, and the characters were really straight up.
And they were good, and they were honorable characters.
My son Travis is working on the board here.
I used to read him novels from G.A. Hinty.
And in those novels, even the villains, the villains were better than our heroes today.
And I'm not joking.
You know, they had better, higher ideals, and they treated people better than the heroes treat people today in our movies.
And so, and fiction.
So those things were there.
As a matter of fact, they always have this thing.
It looked like a stamp.
And I never knew what that was when I was a kid.
That was up on the cover of the thing.
And that was saying that it had been certified and was with a comic book code.
And it's one of the reasons why MAD called itself a magazine, because they didn't follow that code.
It wasn't anything that was sexual or violent or anything like it is in the graphic novels today, but it was sarcastic.
A lot of satire and everything.
And so they were proud of the fact that they did not adhere to the code.
And so I think the code was basically you're going to present a good moral character.
And in our society at that point in time, Christianity had a lot of influence on that.
And really, even if these people were not Christian, it was the Christian influence that was influencing the art and the culture.
And you're right.
We do need to take that back.
Well, think about this.
The Christian theology tells us that there's an enigma of man, that we are duplicit.
We have the capacity for unbelievable altruism and goodness because we have been created in the image of God.
But we also are deeply rebellious and have inherited that sinful condition from Adam.
So that's why we are these duplicit kind of beings.
Now, what's interesting is we went from a point in history where we preferred to write about what we could be.
than what we really are.
Now we've shifted.
Yeah, it's true that we are duplicit.
We have a capacity for both greatness and evil.
But we want to focus on the greatness.
We want to say, hey, this is the ideal we ought to aspire to.
But I think what we're seeing right now, especially in comics, is that instead we're just sketching out the characters as they really are, as dark as their nature can also be.
I get it.
You're going to see in this book that we've been very realistic with all the detectives, and they have a dark side.
But we want to aim at something.
And you know that old saying that if you aim at nothing, you hit it every time?
That's exactly right.
So we have to write stories, I think, that aim at something that is good.
There ought to be some example in the book that is not trite and trivialized and stereotyped, but offers a solution to the problem that everyone else is experiencing.
And so hopefully if we do this in a way, That is compelling.
You're going to come away from reading this book, and you're going to have, I think it could, for number one, if you're not a believer, I hope it'll open up your thinking to the possibility that Christianity has something to teach you about how to live.
But if you are a believer, I hope it's going to give you much more confidence.
And also, we want to have an alternative for believers who maybe want to have some fun in this space, this true crime graphic novel space, which right now, if you were to go online, you're going to get a lot of stuff that you're going to have to ignore some percentage of it if you want to hold on to your Christian worldview.
We wanted something that you didn't have to do that.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely right.
Tell us a little bit about, you know, you also are encouraging with this some deeper probing and some discussions about Christian worldview.
Tell people what you've got in association with that conversation guide that is also… Yeah, and I do think this is a gateway book, going to be a gateway book for a lot of people.
So on the inside back cover, we have a QR code that if you just hit that QR code, it's going to open up our case closed booklet, which is a case for the resurrection.
In about 40 pages.
So it's going to take you a step further.
If you wanted to know, for example, why this particular character in our story maybe responds a little differently to the trauma, well, the answer is in his Christian worldview, even though we're just going to hint at it.
We're not going to make it like a punch in the face.
But we want to give you a chance to go.
Now, look, if you're somebody who buys a book today, in our economy today, I feel like it's a big ask anymore for someone to spend, you know, somewhere between $15 and $20, depending on where you buy it, a book like this.
So what we want to do is offer something that makes the price seem like it's reasonable.
So what we've done on our website at coldcasechristianity.com is anyone who buys the book, yes, you have access to that digital QR code, but also we want to send you a conversation guide that'll help you navigate the conversations that are going to flow out of someone who reads this book.
Also, we want to give you our 10, our 10 and a half hour, 30 session casemakers course.
It's the same course I teach at Gateway Seminary here in Southern California.
It's a course that is fully, robustly illustrated.
It's all videos.
If you take this course, you will become a much better Christian casemaker.
So when someone does have a question about the Christian worldview that maybe is prompted by a book like this or anyone else's book, You'll be able to kind of hold your ground to be able to make a case for why you...
Here's my concern.
If you really want to know what it is you love, what it is your family loves...
Think about what it is they're capable of defending.
Because it turns out, whatever it is you're capable of defending, that is your real God.
We just came out of the football draft from college football into the NFL.
And I know people who can make a robust case for why so-and-so should have gotten drafted or didn't get drafted or should have gotten drafted in a different position.
Oh, yeah.
I see that all the time on the news.
I kind of flip through it.
I see that they're all upset because this guy didn't go earlier or whatever.
And there's talk shows that they only have...
Literally, I was watching on the sports channels where you might have six hours today of this discussion with people debating it.
Well, okay, if that's you and you are better able to defend your pro football team and their selections than you are able to defend your God, you've kind of shown your hand as to what you find worth defending.
I think we need to move into a position where we're so geeked out about what we believe about God and about Jesus.
That this is the stuff we spend our discretionary time on.
This is the stuff we spend our disposable time, our disposable income, our disposable thoughts.
The stuff that we have freedom, like, you know, you're not working right now, what are you thinking about?
There's your God.
You're not engaged with your family, what are you thinking about?
There is your God.
So I think in the end, we have to kind of align our thoughts and align our abilities.
And so what we want to do, we've always wanted to do this, is provide resources that will help people.
If you do want to do that, like, how do you learn?
Like, where do you get that stuff?
Yes, you can buy a book.
But what we want to do is offer those free resources through our website that will help you to take the next step.
And I love what you do because, you know, we always have people who will push back on that.
And I like to have my faith challenged from one perspective or the other.
Because I've always found that when I get that challenge and I go back and I investigate in it, I come back much stronger.
Because it is true, and it helps me to understand that it's true.
If I go back and I investigate, which is what you did in your life, you go back and you investigate it.
And, you know, it's not a blind faith that we have.
And what it does is you find the answers, and as you dig deep, then it becomes a passion for your life.
The more you get into it, and we've been talking about celebrities.
We've had so many celebrities in the last year or so that I've seen they're in their 50s and 60s and say, you know, I never read the Bible before, but I started reading.
It's pretty amazing, you know?
Then they want to grab you by the lapel and tell you about how amazing this is and what they found in it.
We don't see that in the case of a lot of nominal Christians because they're just not reading it.
You know, they may be a part of a club or a church or whatever, you know, but they're not really actively involved in it.
And so if you can get something in that pulls you in, that's what I love what you do in general with Cold Case Christianity is that you answer a lot of these concerns that other people had, concerns that you had when you first came to it.
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
I mean, I think what we want, I'm hoping to do, to have my own kids, and as I was raising them, and now my grandkids, is to help them develop an investigative approach.
Yes.
This is worth taking the time.
Church attendance is not the box you can check and say, okay, I'm done.
It's just one of the many things you're going to find yourself doing because you are this in love with the worldview, with Jesus of Nazareth.
So I think the reality of it is, how do you do this?
Here's what I love.
This is a worldview you could...
Investigate.
Think about it.
If you're somebody, for example, who is a Baha 'i, and you think that the writings of Baha 'u'llah are magnificent and beautiful and spiritual, okay, great.
How could you test those?
How do you test proverbial statements, even though they're Buddha, if they're Hindu statements, whatever they may be?
How do you test that?
This is not just that Jesus said smart things.
Of course he did.
It's that this is a claim about something that happened in history.
That's very unusual if you think about it.
You don't have claims about history that can be tested in the Baha 'i faith or in Buddhist faith.
This is testable in the sense that it records an event.
If it didn't happen, it's all false.
There's something you can point to now, which is the resurrection.
Do we have good reason to believe the resurrection occurred?
If it did...
Then this guy's in a different category, Jesus.
He's the one wise guy who, unlike all the other ancient wise guys, rose from the grave.
We need to know, have confidence that that's the case.
Because otherwise, he's just one ancient voice among many who also said wise things.
Or is he the voice?
And by the way, because we are created in the image of this God, we always have a shadow of his teaching in our lives.
We are image bearers.
We cannot avoid it.
Even when we think, do you know how many Christ figures there are in history?
Stories that are like the Jesus story that emerged?
Now you could argue that those that come after Jesus are simply people who are copying the Jesus story.
But there are a lot of Christ figures that are pre-Jesus.
Why?
Because this is God's story.
And if you're an image bearer, which you are, you kind of innately have God's story in your head.
Whether you like it or not.
That's right.
So I think in the end, we want to be able to use our giftedness, whatever that may be, all of us, even those of us who are listening to this show, to be creative.
And we ought to own the arts.
We have, by the way, for generations.
Don't step back from the arts.
Continue to write.
Write fiction.
Do Christian movies.
Yes, I know.
People will say, well, they're not the one I wish they would be.
Well, that's on us.
We can do a better job.
So let's do that better job so we have something to point to so our young people have an alternative that actually is God-honoring.
I agree.
Oh, yeah.
And as a matter of fact, you talk about doing the best job that you can.
That's the key.
You know, when we look at...
The architecture, for example, in Europe, the great cathedrals and everything that were there.
And there was a multi-generational effort to show their best, you know, to show their best skills and all the rest of this.
They poured it into that regardless of, you know, what you think.
There was still a, you know, that was their desire to do something.
in some way that honored God.
And everything that we do, I think, as Christians ought to be done to a standard that people would say, oh, I want to know more about this guy, what motivates him, you know, to do something of that quality.
But as you were saying, it all comes back to the resurrection of Jesus, and we're just a week away from Resurrection Sunday, and you've got...
Case Closed, that is also there at your website, and you have a link to that as part of People Get This Graphic Novel.
It's a link to that.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah, Case Closed was really something we wanted to do a long time ago.
We've done a couple of different versions of what we would hope to be a quick case for the resurrection.
Because I do think this is the one most important piece of evidence that is in the Christian worldview.
Paul says, if the resurrection didn't occur, then number one, we have been false witnesses.
So we've been lying to you.
So that ought to discredit pretty much everything else we've said.
But also, you have no hope of your own resurrection.
This is all in 1 Corinthians 15. So if you look at this, this is the key thing that I knew I had to investigate first.
Do I have good reason to believe that this resurrection thing occurred?
Because that puts him in a different category.
All together.
And that category is the difference between any other ancient sage and Jesus of Nazareth.
So what this is is like a 30 or 40 page, very small booklet.
It's the quickest version I can give you of why I think the resurrection is the most reasonable inference from the historical evidence.
Now, look, some people are going to say, well, I can't believe that because it includes something supernatural.
You know, it turns out that that supernatural thing is what's keeping most people out.
Here's what I mean.
If we had an ancient set of documents that just described Jesus of Nazareth as a simple teaching rabbi in the first century, that's all he is.
He said some wise things, but never worked a miracle, never rose from the grave, never walked on water, was not born of a virgin.
He's just a guy, just an ancient guy who was smart.
There wouldn't be a single skeptic on planet earth who would deny the historicity of Jesus
Based on the manuscript evidence we have, It's so strong.
There is no ancient who is better attested than Jesus.
But if you insert one miracle into those same ancient manuscripts, suddenly skepticism is at a high.
None of it can be true.
Why?
That just tells you that the skepticism is not based on the strength of the manuscript evidence.
It's not.
It's based on a presuppositional bias against the supernatural.
Because trust me, take out the supernatural elements and everyone loves it.
Yeah.
So that is really about us having to examine.
Do we have really good reason to reject anything outside of space, time, matter, physics, and chemistry?
I actually think there's good reason to believe there is something beyond space, time, matter, physics, and chemistry, just from the science of those who study the universe.
Yes.
I think we're stuck with that.
The only question is, is that thing outside of space, time, matter, science, and chemistry, and physics, is that thing personal?
Is it a personal being?
If there is a personal being that starts the universe, well, then I suspect he can do anything he wants.
Once the universe has been started.
So there's no big deal miracle in the pages of the New Testament.
The biggest miracle of all is in Genesis 1. Everything from nothing.
That's big.
If you can do that, you can probably walk on water.
So that helped me to at least navigate my...
My bias against the supernatural.
I was somebody who believed in Big Bang cosmology.
That's still the standard cosmological model of the astrophysicists who are working today as secularists.
Well, they believe that there's something outside of space, time, and matter that begins all space, time, and matter.
Well, what is that?
What kind of force?
Is it an impersonal force?
Or is it a personal force?
Why would we think, for example, it's an impersonal force and be stuck on that?
If it's a personal force, we at least have to have a hypothesis that includes God as a creator.
I'm not saying you all have to do this, you all have to jump in that direction, but can you at least allow that as a hypothesis?
Because I'll tell you what, if you do, you're going to find that it has much better explanatory power for a lot of other things in the universe.
So I think in the end, that was what had opened the door for me.
Yeah.
Yeah, if there was ever a time, as people have said, if there was ever a time where there was literally no thing, then there still would be nothing that's out there.
And, you know, we even talk about the word supernatural.
There must be something that organizes this that is above nature.
And we've seen a lot of materialistic scientists say that.
We looked at Crick and Watson, who discovered DNA.
They could no longer deny an intelligent design, but instead they created in their imagination and said, well, we'll call it panspermia.
It must have been aliens who came here and did this.
But they will not – then you take it to the next step.
I'm going to – I'm still going to deny the God of the Bible, even if I see the inevitability and the impossibility of this happening without intelligent design.
So there's always that there.
But that's the other thing I like about Christianity.
It's always about critical thinking.
It encourages – it invites critical thinking, and that's what you do with cold case Christianity.
You invite critical thinking, and you have answers for that.
And it's important.
It's a vital life skill for us to be able to have critical thinking.
And so that's something that we tried to really stress with our children when we were homeschooling them, was the critical thinking aspect.
And so we would look at creation versus evolution.
And we would look at all the biology and, you know, here's your set of facts and everybody's got the same set of facts.
How do we interpret these set of facts?
And why would we interpret it this way or that way?
Well, and think about this.
This is a worldview that I hope when people, even when they read our books, whether it's this book or fiction or nonfiction, I think this is a very different worldview.
Paul tells us in Romans 12, too, that you cannot be conformed to this crazy world, but you need to be transformed.
And he had a number of ways he could have said it.
Remember, when I listen to a suspect, I'm listening to all the things and thinking to myself, he chose to say it a certain way.
Why did he choose to say it this way when there were about six or seven other ways he could have said it?
Because how you choose to say it matters.
And Paul says in Romans 12, too, that we are to be transformed not by the renewal of our will or our hearts or our emotion or our experiences.
Like, what is it that's going to make a difference?
What's going to transform your life?
Well, it turns out it's the renewal of your mind.
It's about rethinking.
This is a thinking person's worldview.
And I know that we've got a generation, we've got so many different strands of Christianity in which what's really emphasized is the experience.
Yes.
What you've experienced.
Share your testimony.
What they're really saying is don't share the way you thought about this, the way you rethought all the facts.
What most people are about to share then is what experience they had.
From that, they interpreted that God was real.
I get it.
God is a God of experiences, for sure.
And if you've had an experience, you may be able to attest it to God.
But you need to kind of evaluate it based on the evidence.
It's not just your experience.
Your experience alone will get you into all kinds of trouble.
My brothers and sisters who were raised LDS by my stepmother, and they largely will tell you that they had an experience that confirmed for them that the Book of Mormon was true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.
Well, look, your experiences can't be trusted.
They have to be tested against the facts.
And once they're tested against the facts, you can know if that experience is, if you've properly interpreted it.
Yes.
Well, I think we have a worldview that encourages us to not just enjoy the experience of God's presence, but to test it to make sure it actually is God's presence you're feeling.
Yes.
Because I believe there's a spiritual realm.
But not every spiritual experience you have will necessarily be from God.
And we have to test the spirits to see.
So we need to test those experiences.
Yeah, exactly.
You've got to see if that is from God.
And he calls us to worship him in spirit and in truth.
And we don't want to throw away either one of those because it's an ant.
It's not or, you know.
It's ant.
That's right.
And so then he says, come let us reason together.
You know, he says, though your sins be as scarlet, I'll make them white as snow.
So he invites us to use the minds that he gave us.
And that is a wonderful thing.
And then he does come with experiences as well.
And so all of that has to be a part of it.
So it is a complete package.
And I think a lot of people are missing it now.
This is one of the reasons too, David.
I'm thinking this is why we wanted to do fiction.
I have a sense that we can make a case that you can assent to intellectually.
But fiction takes you along as part of the experience of the chase for this killer, for example, in this book.
So it's combining both.
What is the case for this?
And two, I want you to experience something.
John always says that, yes, he learns a lot from nonfiction, but it feels like when he's reading fiction, he's drawn into the story, and it becomes an experience.
And I think that's true for a movie.
If you watch a movie for those two hours, you're kind of transported into that realm.
Well, graphic novels are basically just movies that have been put on paper because they're just storyboarded movies.
And so we hope that when you open this up, and even if you're not somebody who likes to read a novel...
Graphic novels are so visual, you're just watching a movie.
That's right.
So you can take it anywhere you want to go.
So the idea is to draw people into that experience.
Because I think you're right.
This is not an either-or.
I would never suggest that you develop your entire Christian worldview from fiction.
That's like saying experiences are all that matter.
At the same time, though, you've got to be careful not to draw all your Christian, robust Christian life simply from reading non-fictional case books, basically, or theology or whatever they may be, because it's going to be kind of dry.
You need to have a heart and head kind of experience together.
And I think that non-fiction often affects your head.
Fiction often affects your heart.
So that combination we think we have, especially what I always say is we're trying to bite the apple from both sides.
Well, it combines the spirit and the truth in a way, you know, when you have that there.
And, you know, it reminds me of music, for example, right?
When we have music, if you've got good lyrics, that's great.
And it moves you emotionally through the music.
And then you add the lyrics if they teach you something that's valuable.
That's a great thing as well.
And again, going back to the graphic novels, they are so much like movies.
That was the thing that used to always fascinate me because I can't draw anything.
I can't draw stick figures.
And the fact that somebody could, as they do in your book, you can draw things and there's a certain kind of kinetic.
You can almost see things moving when you look at it because it is like a storyboard.
But a good graphic artist That's right.
Yes, my son always says that what we contributed is we contributed the movie's script or the screenwriters.
And in that screenplay, you're going to have some direction about what the movement should be, what the scene is going to look like, what the characters are going to say for sure, what the action.
You're writing all of that into the screenplay.
The artist in a graphic novel is every other person in the movie.
He's the director, because he's going to direct the action.
He is all of the actors.
He's even telling the actors what expressions to take.
He is the wardrobe guy.
He is the set designer.
I mean, he's the lighting person.
I mean, the artists basically play the role of every other important person in a movie project.
All we do is submit the screenplay.
And we've also given them liberty, the same way a screenwriter was going to give liberty to a director to direct his screenplay however he sees fit.
You hire the right person, right?
Because you know that you're going to have to give them that liberty.
Well, the same is true with this kind of a project.
We had to give the artists the liberty.
We developed the characters.
We developed the storyline.
We give them the storyline.
We had some ideas.
They gave us the rough sketches back on the different characters.
There's like six major characters here.
And we had some ideas about those characters.
And we had some input, of course.
But in the end, I was impressed with what they thought the character should look like.
And I think this is awesome, right?
Maybe I wouldn't have cast that actor for that role.
But here, they thought of something.
And by the way, they're thinking of it just from their imagination.
It's really an amazing process to go through.
But I think in the end, when you see it, I think most people don't think of comic books as being that thoughtful.
But there is so much that's happening behind the scenes.
For example, we started this project two and a half years ago.
And we were ready to go.
We could have had this...
If we could just snap your fingers and produce 160 pages of art...
We could have been ready in a day.
It took two and a half years for us to get from concept to published work.
And that's largely because it's a collective effort and it's like making a movie.
Well, it certainly does show.
And just like that last panel that you had up there, Travis, there's one at the bottom where a guy comes up behind and hits somebody from the back and you see crack and you see the cap flying.
I mean, there's just such...
Kinetic energy in these graphic novels.
That's what I really enjoy out of it, because you can really see it come alive.
And as you point out, they create the characters, and they're doing the direction and the action in it.
So it is a great collaboration, and it looks really interesting.
I haven't had time to go through all of it yet, but it's really well done.
Again, it is...
You can go to coldcasechristianity.com.
That's where the people can find it and buy it, right?
I guess they can also get it on Amazon.
But once they get it, then there is a code in the back that's going to give them supplemental material.
And it is a great outreach, a great conversation starter with people, I think.
Yeah, I hope it is.
I hope it's a gateway book.
I think it's the kind of thing that you can give somebody and then the conversation begins.
Now the question is, are you ready for the conversation?
And that's what we really, I think, our whole ministry is about.
If this is a tool that helps you get active and get ready for the conversation, then we've accomplished our goal.
That's right.
And you know, that's the wonderful thing about it.
We used to have a Bible study in our home back in North Carolina.
And when something is coming up like that, you have to, and it wasn't that I was leading it or anything, but I knew what we were going to be covering.
And so I would look at it and I would study it for a while.
And it's that preparation that is really the benefit to you.
And so if somebody goes into this and somebody looks at this and focuses on it, it just gives them a focus.
It gives them something to do.
We always ought to be engaged in some way or the other, doing something that is positive.
And so this gives you some direction.
It gives you something to contemplate, to think about critically.
And it's really going to build you.
And it might help you to pass that on to somebody else.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
If it's a catalyst, that we've done our job.
Yeah, that's great.
ColdcaseChristianity.com.
Thank you so much, Jay Warner Wallace.
Always a pleasure talking to you.
Hey, thanks so much for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
All right, folks, we'll be right back.
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Welcome back.
And on Rumble, I see Cecilia14 says, Please pray for my mom.
She's very sick.
Well, we do pray that God would bless her.
In the name of Jesus Christ.
And we pray that he would be glorified and that she would be recovered.
We pray also, you know, whenever anything like this happens, we also want to ask God, what is it that he wants us to learn from this?
Because it's a learning experience for everybody on both sides.
It's regardless of what the consequences are.
And so, especially when we have something that is difficult like this, if we walk with God, And we ask him what he wants to teach us.
We're not going to know why, but we ask him, what should we be learning from this?
That is a key thing.
But I do pray for her recovery, Cecilia.
On Rumble, K. Carpe, 27. Thank you very much for the tip.
So happy birthday with love and many thanks.
Well, thank you.
That is Karen Carpenter.
Okay.
K. Carpe.
Sure.
Thank you very much, Karen.
On Rumble, don't frag me, bro.
Thank you very much.
That's very generous.
I appreciate that.
He writes, the internet of everything.
And the use cases are going to be healthcare, smart apparel, health monitors, telehealth, smart cities, retail, smart homes, industry.
This is the reason for the massive data centers.
Absolutely.
You know, they clear the...
Deck for that, don't they?
I don't know.
We can't use any energy.
Can't have any energy.
And then they find out that they can use this AI.
So now all of a sudden that just goes away.
Well, we'll do nuclear power because it doesn't have any emissions.
They'll find a way to get it through there.
And of course, it's going to be power for them, but not for us necessarily.
They're doing their own private grids, even when Trump rolled that out with Stargate.
He said, well, you know, you can't really depend on the grid.
It's old.
It's unreliable.
It's vulnerable.
That's what he said.
Oh, you're not going to fix it then?
Oh, okay.
I get it.
Yeah, so you want to build these things where you're building your factory or you're building your AI data center to spy and control on the population.
You want to make sure you've got your own power plant right there.
Right there.
Build your own power plant.
That's really what you need, because we're not going to have an infrastructure for you.
Let's talk a little bit about just general news here.
In Nassau County, in New York, on Long Island, they seek to make it illegal to stand within 15 feet of your masters during an emergency, within 15 feet of police or emergency personnel.
Nassau County lawmakers want to make it illegal to stand within 15 minutes of cops or other emergency workers.
And again, if you interfere with somebody, right?
If you interfere with somebody, you assault them or whatever, that is already a crime.
What is this for?
Well, it's not even six feet.
Now it's gone up to 15 feet.
We're now two and a half times further out.
Civilians, civilians.
When you break the population into two groups of people, civilians and something else, What's the other thing?
It's the military.
We're talking about a military police state here.
If you've got civilians, then that means you've got militarized police.
So civilians who enter the zone for the militarized police, firefighters, or other responders during an emergency can get a $1,000 fine and a possibility of up to a year behind bars.
This is all to protect emergency responders from threats, harassment, and physical interference.
Well, those are already all crimes.
No, the reason for this is because they don't want you to film and they don't want you to ask questions.
You get back 15 feet because I don't want you filming what I'm doing.
Why not?
Well, because what I'm doing is against the law, maybe?
Floating buffer zones offer yet another way for police to keep their activities hidden from public scrutiny.
Laws that make it harder to monitor the police, violate the Constitution, and...
They foster distrust in law enforcement.
Yeah.
You have to be able to correct bad behavior or there's distrust.
As Frank Serpico said, you know, you're always going to have bad people in any human institution.
Always going to have bad people.
The test of the institution is whether or not it will purge those bad people or...
Defend them.
And if they're going to defend bad people, then the trust is gone in these institutions.
Similar laws in Louisiana, Arizona, and Indiana have been blocked by federal courts.
We expect the NASA county law, if passed, will also be blocked.
And we see that over and over again, free speech is under attack everywhere.
It's under attack at Bitshoot.
It's under attack with Rumble.
They're being sued by foreign governments, but on both sides of these two parties, they're coming after speeches they don't like.
As I pointed out, Trump comes after 60 Minutes, or he comes after protesters who are anti-Israeli government, and the other people come after other issues.
There's an assault on Substack that is now coming as well.
And this is coming...
Internally, from people who are using it, people who are writing, people who are speaking.
And they say, I don't like the speech of these other people, so I want you to censor them.
Well, that's not what Substack is about.
That's not what any free speech system is about.
So, this is coming from one group.
Hamish McKenzie.
He said their company doesn't like Nazis and they wish that nobody held these views.
This is Substack.
This is the chief writing officer.
But he said the company did not think that censorship by demonetizing sites that publish extreme views was a solution to the problem.
Instead, it made it worse.
Some of the largest newspapers on the service have threatened to take their business elsewhere if Substack does not reverse its stance.
You see, this is one of the reasons why people...
Don't, you know, when you look at what 60 Minutes is saying, when you look at CBS and, you know, they have the head of 60 Minutes resigned in protest because they were told, don't criticize the Trump policies and other things because he's suing us in frivolous lawsuits.
Well, these same organizations are demanding that people that they disagree with politically be purged.
See, it's coming from all over.
You know, the mainstream media wants people like me purged.
And, you know, the conservatives want to purge the mainstream media.
Nobody wants to support free speech as a principle.
They want to shut down anybody they disagree with.
And, of course, I disagree with both sides.
So they're the one who shut me down.
This is the way that censorship movements always start.
You accuse somebody of being a Nazi or of loving a Nazi, meaning extremists, racists, or science deniers, right?
Oh, yeah.
What Fauci is saying.
Well, you're some kind of a sociopath, right?
Remember, it was Scott Adams, the guy that does Dilbert.
Just two weeks into the lockdown, he said it's getting harder and harder to tell these so-called freedom lovers from psychopaths, or sociopaths, I think he said.
I said it's getting harder and harder to tell the pragmatists from totalitarians.
Well, on Tuesday, Casey Newton, who writes Platformer, a popular tech newsletter on the platform with thousands of subscribers who pay at least $10 a month, became the most prominent person to say, I don't like free speech on the platform that I use to speak.
Okay, so you have a popular tech newsletter.
I imagine there's going to be some people who would disagree with what you have to say about something.
And, you know, you want those people shut down.
Should those people be able to shut you down?
They don't care, right?
They really don't.
Always follow the money.
Question who is funding and who is pushing this organization platformer in order to de-platform free speech and why.
And I think that really is true.
This is Brownstone saying that.
But I think when you look behind these people who make their living writing And offering opinions and so forth.
If they're calling for censorship, there's somebody paying them to do that.
Or they're doing it because they are pandering to the crowd more and more, I think.
Because now the mob is anti-free speech.
The partisan mob on either side.
And so this person, Bill Rice, who wrote this says, well, I wish I had thousands of paid subscribers.
In fact, I've recently begun to wonder if my paid and total subscriber numbers are being sabotaged by some kind of nefarious secret censorship industrial complex operation.
Well, it's not secret.
It's not secret.
It's there all the time.
I mentioned this earlier this week.
It's pretty amazing that in New York...
In Nassau County, where they're going to be telling you to stay away from the police.
You've got to stay 15 feet back.
And again, harassment or interference, that is already illegal.
They just don't want you asking them questions or videotaping.
So in that same state, they've got 77 stairs that need to be repaired at a cost of $935,000 each.
Nearly a million dollars a step.
Boy, if this isn't a metaphor for government that is wasteful, out of control, and coming apart, it seems I don't know what is.
I mentioned the other day that they found the person who stole the Gucci bag that had $3,000 in cash.
Evidently, it wasn't in Christine Ohm's hand.
Maybe it wasn't in the one that had the $50,000 watch.
And so they got her Gucci bag.
I said, I always thought the devil wore Prada.
Well, they have found out that the person who got it is an illegal immigrant.
And so there you go.
She's in charge of law enforcement.
They've got Secret Service there.
She's supposed to be watching the war.
All these things seem to fail all at once.
But the thing I find is most interesting about this is just the price of this stuff.
Her handbag was $4,400.
That's worth more than my car.
She has a Louis Vuitton purse inside of it.
And the purse is $600.
And so, inside the $4,400 handbag, there is a $600 purse.
And inside the $600 purse is $3,000 cash.
And she carries it around with her.
And on her arm is a $50,000 watch.
But it truly is amazing the amount of money that these people who rule over us have.
It is a club that you're not in.
And we see that in an article from Breitbart talking about Melania Trump and her birthday weekend.
I guess it was last weekend.
And they go on and on.
Literally, if I would have printed this out in normal size print, it would have been 71 pages of pictures.
With her wearing a Burberry trench coat.
Now, those things are expensive, but she's wearing the...
And she's got just ordinary-looking flat shoes and a handbag.
And so there's picture after picture after picture after picture.
71 pages of pictures from Breitbart.
You talk about how they are obsessed.
With these people.
It's like what Gerald Slinty says when he's talking about, you know, you look at the Wall Street Journal and it's all, you know, just pictures of stuff.
That's what this is.
And it's pictures of idolatry.
It's pictures of a club that you're not in.
Because the little bit, they've got like two paragraphs where they talk about what she's got.
They said the trench coat costs $3,745.
Her flats, her shoes.
Cost $750.
But her handbag, and these handbags are expensive.
You know, Christy Noem's was $4,400.
Well, Melania's handbag is $36,000.
That's like nine times more expensive.
And 71 pages of pictures, basically all of them the same.
Her and her trench coat and sunglasses carrying her $36,000 purse and all the rest of this stuff.
I mean, look at this.
And I just don't understand this.
And so I thought, does anybody else that's looking at Breitbart feel this way?
So I looked at the comments on Breitbart.
They had a couple hundred comments.
And almost all the comments were, she is so classy.
It's such a difference between the Democrats' first ladies and our first ladies.
Oh, she's so classy.
And one person commented on it, the cost, and said, I don't care what it costs.
She looks great.
I was like, really?
I look at it and I see people who are just totally out of touch with us and who are completely in love with money, which is the root of all evil.
Well, she was also pushing the Take It Down Act, which, and I understand, this is about pornography.
This is about using, creating sexually explicit images of people, faking it with AI.
And that is something that is really horrific.
But it's not simply about that.
And I thought it was also interesting that she's focusing on this because it would be a federal crime to post real sexually explicit imagery online of a person without their consent, considering the fact she's so proud of her past.
I mean, she just did a book talking about it.
So I guess she just wants to be paid, you know, like the happy birthday stuff.
If she's in her birthday suit...
She gets a check, just like Warner Pictures always wanted to charge people if they played Happy Birthday.
Well, if she's in her birthday suit and you don't get her consent and you don't pay her, she's upset about this.
But I certainly understand the fake stuff, but I don't think that's what this is about either in the long run.
I think that certainly you should take that down, and there's other ways that they could approach this, and there's...
Better ways that they could have written this.
They wrote it in a manner that it is very open to a lot of other things.
And of course, Donald Trump himself, when he was pushing this, said, yeah, I'm one of the people that they make the most fake images of.
Now, he wasn't talking about sexual images.
They want to shut down satire.
I think they want to shut down satire.
And I think that's the way this thing is open.
Of course, you don't want to have people putting up pornographic images of you, and especially not faked pornographic images.
But I think that this thing is heading towards shutting down satire because everyone in every country now, in all the parties, hates free speech.
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