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July 3, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Thu Episode #2046: Trump Threatens Musk Over Subsidies — The Billionaire Feud Is Theater
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In the world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It's the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it is Thursday, the 3rd of July, year of our Lord 2025.
And the feud between Elon and Donald seems to be on hold.
But the Libertarian Party is courting the crony capitalist Musk.
Seems they've officially thrown out all of their principles.
We're going to look at one world climate religion.
Then Tony Arterburn is going to join us and we'll talk about what the BBB means for gold and silver.
Stay with us.
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Thank you.
Good morning.
Hope you are having a good morning.
It is the day before July 4th, the day before Independence Day.
And I hope you've all got some nice plans for this weekend.
As I said, we'll be doing a rebroadcast tomorrow.
We'd all like to spend some time with the family.
As I said, we're going to look at what's going on with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It seems the feud has been put on hold.
People are speculating maybe it's the fact that Donald Trump threatened to deport Elon Musk, or at least mentioned it.
This is by Joe Kovacs on WorldNet Daily.
Did threat to deport Musk stop the feud?
Elon suddenly changes his tune with Donald Trump.
As my dad was saying, did he end up with a horsehead in his bed?
Was there a message that we didn't get to see?
Did he make him an offer?
He couldn't refuse.
Just hours after President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of deporting Elon Musk to South Africa, the former Dog chief appeared to change his recent negative tune about Trump, giving the Commander-in-Chief credit for resolving numerous world conflicts.
Credit where credit is due, Musk posted on X early Wednesday.
At Real Donald Trump has successfully resolved several serious conflicts around the world.
Which conflicts has he resolved?
Because the war in Ukraine is still going strong.
The war in Gaza is still going strong.
And of course, Israel launched strikes on Iran and drug us into that.
Which conflicts has he resolved?
I'm very curious.
I'd love to know.
Presumably there were conflicts going on at the sites where he bombed in Iran.
Yes, someone was having some workplace spat and they were bombed.
And of course that resolved it.
Musk attached a message.
Trump had posted Tuesday on True Social, in which the president stated, My representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza.
Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60-day ceasefire, during which time we will work with all parties to end the war.
Israel agreeing to a ceasefire means nothing.
We've seen over and over again that they'll violate any agreement, that they'll say, oh, we were attacked.
They'll make up a story.
They'll lie.
They'll find justification to launch attacks on crowds of civilians.
It doesn't matter what they agree to.
It's a completely meaningless agreement when the Israelis are involved.
And when the U.S. is involved.
The Qataris and Egyptians who have worked very hard to help bring peace will deliver this final proposal.
I hope for the good of the Middle East that Hamas takes this deal.
It will not get any better.
It will only get worse.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yes, it will only get worse.
Musk recently has been vocal in his opposition to Trump's big beautiful bill due to concerns about adding to the national debt.
At least someone's concerned about it.
Whatever Musk's other faults are, and there are many, I don't trust him at all, at least he's raising some concerns.
It's probably all nothing but theater.
But still, at least maybe someone will see it and go, hmm, he's right.
On Monday, Musk wrote, It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill which increases the debt ceiling by a record $5 trillion that we live in a one-party country, the Porky Pig Party.
Abi, abi, abi.
That's all, folks.
It's over.
We're done.
Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.
And of course, he had said that he would immediately launch a new political party if this passed.
He would do it the next day, which was yesterday.
And I don't remember hearing a single thing about a new political party from Elon Musk.
These billionaires love to talk.
They love to say they'll do things.
But they don't usually end up following through on them.
Instead, we get a tweet about how he's resolved conflicts around the world after bombing Iran.
I'm starting a new political party.
It's the suck up to Donald Trump Party.
Maybe that's what he meant.
Trump pushed back early Tuesday saying on True Social, Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far.
And without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.
No more rocket launches, satellites, or electric car production, and our country would save a fortune.
Perhaps we should have Dog take a look, hard look at this.
Big money to be saved.
When reporters asked Trump later Tuesday morning if he would deport Musk, the president said, We'll have to take a look.
We're going to have to put Dog on Elon, Trump added, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency, that Musk previously led.
You know what Dog is?
Dog is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.
The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.
Wouldn't that be terrible?
He gets a lot of subsidies.
Musk responded to Trump saying, So tempting to escalate this.
So so tempting, but I will refrain for now.
He's taking the high road.
I suppose you have to take the high road if you're going to get to Mars.
On Monday, Musk vowed to bankroll primary challengers of any Republican lawmaker who voted to pass Trump's bill.
If it is the last thing I do on this Earth, yes, the last thing he does before he blasts off, before he leaves us, and goes to the red planet.
I would be totally fine if every single billionaire left this planet, every single one of these diabolical creatures.
Wouldn't that we can only dream of a future where they all just get in spaceships and leave us alone.
Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame.
They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth.
More promises from Elon Musk.
More tough talk, but of course, as I said, he talked about starting a third party.
And nothing came of that, so we'll see.
When asked by ABC News about Musk's criticism, the president reiterated that it was about the EV mandate.
He should have known I wouldn't do that.
I couldn't do that.
I campaigned on those things for two years.
I never understand why he did what he did because he's not going to get his mandate and he better be careful because he might not get anything else.
You know what that means, right?
He said.
Just another belligerent warning from Donald Trump.
You know what that means, don't you?
He's going against the family.
You never go against a family.
He's just a gangster.
He's just a gangster.
Libertarians seek partnership with Elon Musk.
That's right.
Libertarians are desperate to get this crony capitalist billionaire into the ranks.
They don't care about principle.
Of course.
I mean, that was obvious with Gary Johnson.
Aleppo.
Yeah, maybe Elon Musk will at least know what Aleppo is.
We can only hope.
So with his comment about Trump ending conflicts, maybe not.
The Libertarian Party has long since thrown out principle.
They have completely broken with it.
As I've said before, I have many issues with the corporate Libertarian Party, and I find many Libertarians are nothing but contrarians.
They have no interest in principle.
They simply like having a viewpoint that is unpopular.
They simply see what the majority believes and do the opposite.
And as such, they have no actual attachment to it.
They have no real stance on things.
If the majority of people were to overnight become libertarians, they would shift to something else, simply because they like to be contrarians.
That's it.
Guard Goldsmith.
Good to see you, Guard.
Hope you're doing well.
And of course, Gard Goldsmith hosts Liberty Conspiracy, which you can watch on Rumble as well.
The schedule you can find on knightsofthestorm.com.
He also has a sub stack.
Gardner Goldsmith, for Trump who used government to get people tossed from their land for his building projects, talk about government subsidies.
It's ironic.
That's right.
Donald Trump has loved using eminent domain.
He will not hesitate to use the force of government to throw people off their land, to take what he wants.
Maybe that's why he became president in the first place.
He thought it would simply cut out the middleman.
Why am I spending so much money to bribe these politicians when I could just become the politician?
Then people would have to bribe me.
Just cut out the middleman.
The billionaire has been floating a third party over his opposition to the mega bill.
Libertarians, national chair, says that's a bad idea.
That's right, it's a bad idea because we want your money.
Give us your money.
Why spend that money on a third party when you've already got a third party that's willing to sell out and suck up to you right here?
Libertarians were very quiet during the 2020 lockdowns.
There's no principles left in the party of principle at all.
Musk money would go a long way in advancing libertarians.
The national organization operates with a yearly budget of between $1 million and $3 million.
Nikila said, Musk alone funneled more than $250 million into the 2024 election, mostly through his America Pact to help catapult Trump to the presidency in November.
You can hear libertarians salivating all the way to the distance.
We get someone that has libertarian after their name, then it doesn't matter what they believe.
We could get lots of attention on them with lots of money.
Exactly.
One to three million is the annual operating budget of the libertarians, and Trump spent more than $250, or Musk spent more than $250 million to help Trump get elected.
They're salivating at the idea of getting their hands on that kind of cash.
Imagine what we could do.
Once the capital is there, the doors get blown wide open, Nikila said.
Nikila has not heard from Musk directly, but he said the party is trying to break through to the billionaire.
I can imagine.
I can imagine they've got people scratching at his doors, at his walls, trying to break through.
Musk, please, please give us some of your money.
We need it.
Who has been showing continued support for one of the most libertarian leading members of Congress, Kentucky Republican rep, Thomas Massey?
Musk, who in recent days reignited his war against the GOP's mega bill, said once the legislation passes, he will immediately go forward with his new America party.
So why exactly should Musk forgo his own effort and instead join with the Libertarians?
Nikila, it's pretty simple.
They have ballot access in almost every state, which many recent third party efforts have failed to secure.
And of course, ballot access is a tremendous issue.
They make it very, very difficult to get on the ballot.
They make you jump through all kinds of hoops.
Libertarians have effectively jumped through them.
They've managed to make it so they are on the ballot, despite the fact that you never really win anything.
You have to at least give them that.
Even Libertarian Party isn't on the ballot in every state.
They're on in almost every state, but only the Republicans and Democrats.
You have to stay within the uniparty duopoly.
Not that the Libertarian Party is any better.
As I said, they showed their true colors with Gary Johnson, who is a statist Democrat, but because he had something of a platform, because he'd gotten elected previously as governor, they rolled over just to get attention.
Absolutely sold out every principle they ever claimed to have.
That's right.
And that really begs the question of what's the point of voting for the libertarians?
What would it matter?
Who cares?
They're still just another statist.
There's still another party that will bow to the power structure.
There's no way an independent or new party can actually do this, he said.
It takes years and years and years, and the infrastructure and everything else.
It's not a fun process.
Most recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. found success.
Or did he?
Seems more like he failed, getting ballot access in the 2024 election, but it took loads of time and resources.
He ultimately removed his name from many of the ballots following his endorsement of Donald Trump.
So far, Musk hasn't gotten the return on his investment he once hoped.
Musk renewed his fury of the Republican megabill this week, calling the bill insane, and pledged to put money behind Massey, who is already facing an onslaught of spending from Trump's political organization, and of course Israel.
The Jews do not like Thomas Massey.
He doesn't bow down to them.
He doesn't want to continually support Israel and fund its genocides.
So of course, they're doing what they can to unseat him as well.
He took a big hit to his business.
He took a big hit to his reputation.
He took a financial hit.
He made an investment and got nothing in return, Nikila said.
That's right.
If you help us get elected, we'll make sure you get return on your investment.
We'll sell out harder to you, mister Musk.
Just get us ballot acts, just give us your money, and we'll make sure you get a return on that investment.
It's hard to believe that this is someone representing the Libertarian Party, telling this crony capitalist almost completely openly, if you support us, if you fund us, we will use the levers of government to make sure that you get a return on your investment.
How brazen.
Libertarians are not alone in their efforts to court Musk.
No labels, the political group that pushed for a centrist presidential ticket to avoid a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, is also interested in talking to Musk, said Dan Webb, a leader of the group.
A centrist political group.
What a waste of time.
Boy, I sure can't wait to go back to the moderate centrism of Barack Obama, of George W. Bush.
That'll save us.
That will take us back.
Don't you want to go back to the lovely time that was the early 2000s?
What does it matter?
We're going to go back to when politics made sense twenty years ago.
Utterly ridiculous.
I cannot stand these people that think, well, what we need is a centrist.
We'll take the policies from this and the policies from that, and we'll create a worldview that works for everyone.
No, you're going to end up with the worst policies of both sides.
That's what happens with centrism.
The problem with centrism is as the Overton window is moved, the idea of centrism is drifting farther and farther left.
Centrism of today is very different from centrism of 20 years ago, centrism of 40 years ago, certainly.
Yes.
As I've said before, and will continue to refuse to explain, Bill Clinton was the last Republican president.
That's how it is.
What he's talking about is that partisanship in the two parties has created so many huge problems that the country isn't working, as evidenced by what's going on in Congress right now, Webb said, adding that the group is trying to find out a way to reach out to him, create a line of communication.
That's right.
What we need is some bipartisan Republicans and Democrats, some centrists that will work to just slowly destroy the country.
They'll slowly erode everything.
Centrism.
While starting a new party is surely a tall order, if anyone could pull off such a feat, it would be Musk, who, as the world's richest man, can pour just about unlimited resources behind the effort.
There's some data to back up Musk calls for change.
Americans routinely show their displeasure with the two party system.
Of course, they routinely voice their displeasure.
They say, oh, I wish there was something we could do.
They always end up voting for the lesser of two evils, which is still evil.
Well, the other problem is the winner takes all system of elections that we have, whereas you need something like ranked choice for a third party to even have a chance.
Actually, making a dent in party power is a different story, but since the 2000 election, there's been a 9 percentage point increase in unaffiliated and independent voters.
The analysis found that 32 percent of registered voters in states that report the data did not affiliate with Democratic or Republican parties, up from 23 percent in 2000.
32 percent of registered voters did not affiliate, but they probably still voting for them.
Can't escape that dynamic, the two party system.
Well, we've got to vote for my demon because otherwise the other guy's demon will get into power.
Bannon targets Musk over call for third party.
Of course, Bannon is the one that was calling to nationalize SpaceX.
Maybe Bannon wants a Communist Party.
We'll seize all of these private enterprises.
Of course, with the amount of government subsidy SpaceX has gotten, perhaps he's got a point.
Perhaps the government does have a claim to it.
I jest, but SpaceX is completely a creature of the federal government with the amount of money that comes through.
Steve Bannon slammed tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday for his continued criticism of the GOP spending bill after the former Department of Government Efficiency Chief proposed creating a third political party.
You're disloyal, Elon.
And as such, we're going to take your stuff.
Elon Musk is out of hand, is out, and it's not that I told you this is going to happen, but he's out lighting up the president, lighting up MAGA, and claiming it's time for a third party, Bannon said on his War Room podcast in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
And that this is, he calls it, I think, in all his maturity, the porky pig bill.
He's going on about the spending, hammering it, hammering it, he added.
Well, we wouldn't want that.
We don't want anyone to talk about the fiscal problems the United States is having.
We don't want anyone to point out that this is a massive, bloated piece of garbage that is being rammed through, that has been rammed through.
That is going to create all kinds of problems in the future.
Musk has railed against the Trump-backed Republican legislative package, which is set to increase the national debt by trillions, boost defense spending, and roll back electric vehicle credits.
Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame, Tesla CEO wrote.
Do you think politicians even have shame?
I don't.
I don't believe they can feel it.
I don't think they have that capacity.
They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth.
Attack giant Musk already vowed to back GOP incumbent Rep Thomas Massey, who is facing threats of a primary challenger.
That's good.
At least he's doing something worthwhile.
Hopefully I think Thomas Massey could probably win without it since he is so very popular in his state.
People there at least know that he stands up for them.
But the challenger is backed by President Trump amid their ongoing feud.
President Trump and of course the I forget which exact one it is.
I think APAC, but there's a specific Jewish group that is targeting Thomas Massey as well to get him out.
Since Musk falling out the president last month, he has toyed around with the idea of creating a third party floating, the American Party.
Bannon has long warned that Musk would backstab the GOP, alleging tech billionaire was a truly evil guy entrenched in self interest.
I mean he is he is, I wouldn't disagree.
He's a technocrat.
He wants to put brain chips in people.
He wants to have direct access to your cerebral cortex.
He's not a good guy.
However, he's not wrong on this.
He's telling the truth about the big, beautiful bill, that it's a massive spending boondoggle.
This spring, Bannon encouraged administration officials to launch a special counsel probe into must-reported drug usage while repeatedly critiquing the billionaire for his shortcomings of the Department of Government Efficiency, which seeks to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
This was the guy that told the president he was going to cut $2 trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse, then he backed it off to $1 trillion.
And this was on an annual basis.
This wasn't over 10 years.
Of course, my dad made it clear that this just simply wasn't feasible.
This isn't something that they could accomplish.
This is simply a feud between the elites.
I know some of you fanboys said we got $160 billion in cuts.
We haven't seen the $160 billion.
What we do have is a $9 billion rescission, and all that is programmatic.
And of course, Dog was just smoke and mirrors.
It was BS.
It was to make people feel good about what was happening.
Oh, look, they're going to cut government.
They're going to cut spending.
What did it accomplish?
Almost nothing in the grand scheme of the federal budget.
And then they decided, in fact, we're going to raise the budget.
We're going to raise the debt ceiling by more than anyone ever has before.
Five trillion dollars.
And of course, that is what the spending budget will actually be.
They always hit the ceiling.
They'll find some way to spend more money than ever.
Elon Musk knew long before he so strongly endorsed me for president that I was strongly against EV mandates.
But Trump is lying about that.
And as people have pointed out, Musk actually stands to gain against his competition with its removal.
They require the EV mandates more than he does.
I mean, he's also gaining a lot from it.
Yes, but when you look at it, Tesla is more profitable and more popular on Wall Street than these other places are.
He has more ways of getting funding than these other places do.
The other companies are smaller.
Places like Rivian, they're a more boutique company.
Yeah, though, I would say that his business model is less about competition in the free market and more about government subsidies in the first place and playing Wall Street.
But like I said, he is heavily invested in Wall Street.
This is from LifeSight.
Watch, a grave warning about Elon Musk's push for superhuman brain chips.
First, we've got a comment from Stealth Patriot.
There is no political solution for a spiritual malady.
This nation is sick.
That's right.
There is no political solution for a spiritual malady.
People need is Jesus.
They don't need another politician.
They don't need another Donald Trump or Elon Musk or anyone else in the White House.
That won't fix our problems.
Watch a grave warning about Elon Musk's push for superhuman brain chips.
Did Elon Musk just admit he's creating a robot army?
See for yourselves what he said during an interview with Gary Tan, the president of CEO and CEO of Y Combinator's AI Startup School.
That's right.
Superhuman brain chips.
Is it true that you're planning a robot army?
Tan asked Musk.
Whether Tesla does it or not, you've seen how many humanoid robot startups there are.
I think there are dozens of robots from different companies, Musk said.
Tan spoke with Musk about the future of AI brain chips, augmented humans, and more.
Musk said was fascinating, but also very concerning.
And the robot army remark is relatively benign compared to the rest.
First off, he said the digital superintelligence will be achieved this year, or at most next year.
I think we're quite close to digital superintelligence.
It may happen this year, and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure.
But of course, this is the man that's been promising autonomous self-driving vehicles for the better for over a decade now.
He's been promising it'll be right here.
It's around the corner.
It'll be just tomorrow.
It's not here yet.
Well, around a decade ago, he was saying he already had it.
There was already a push to say that it was ready then.
Yes, he's been saying it's here to, it will be here shortly.
I don't think you can trust Elon Musk's judgment on these things.
I think he likes to build hype.
Most concerning for me were his remarks about his brain chips, Neuralink, that will make for augmented human beings.
At some point, the cybernetic implants would simply be correcting things that went wrong, but augmenting human capabilities.
Dramatically augmenting intelligence and senses and bandwidth dramatically.
So we can all be super beings with augmented vision, hearing, strength, and even thinking?
Wow.
Imagine how hard it will be to resist that.
Even if to get the chip, you had to deny your faith.
Remember COVID?
Remember how the jab gave you access to work, to travel, to restaurants, to your grandparents?
It was a temptation beyond belief to take a shot that was controversially associated with abortion.
Many took it out of grave concern for their health and the health of their families.
Even many of those who didn't want to take it took it to save their jobs, to visit dying relatives, to travel and have a normal life.
That's right, the amount of pressure they can put on people is truly amazing.
They made it so difficult for people who refused.
They said, we'll ruin your career.
We'll keep you out of hospitals.
Your grandma is dying in the hospital.
Well, we can't let you in.
You don't have the vaccine.
So many people, as they said, caved into that pressure.
They didn't want to get it, but they thought it was their only chance of survival.
Not from COVID, but because they knew that if they didn't, they'd be fired.
And they thought to themselves, well, how will I provide for my family?
What am I going to do?
How can I refuse this?
If I do, I won't have a job.
I'll go broke.
It'll destroy my family if I don't take this.
It's truly sad.
Stealth Patriot Musk is not looking to return this country to a constitutional republic.
He wants to bribe who he can to bring about his grandfather's technocratic vision.
That's right.
His grandfather, of course, was the one who got kicked out of Canada for trying to stage a technocrat coup, basically.
They said, not on our watch, and threw him out and he fled to South Africa.
And of course, now we have him here in the United States.
Maybe he figures he can get us easier than the Canadians.
Or maybe the Canadians just wouldn't put up with his family anymore.
I remember well how Bishop Bishop Athanasius Schneider told me before it was mandated all over the world that should it be mandated, it could well be the biblical mark of the beast.
Of course, whether it is or not, it moved the Overton window towards the mark of total government control mark of the beast.
Well, it didn't fit everything described of the mark of the beast.
It was the first implementation we've seen of many of the things that the Bible describes will be a part of the mark of the beast.
It was training for and the first step toward.
But the scriptures make very clear that taking the actual mark of the beast will be a mortal sin, which will damn your soul to hell.
Another angel, a third following them, saying with a loud voice, If anyone worships the beast in its image, receives a mark on his forehead or his hand, he shall, he also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger.
He shall be tormented with fire and sulphur, in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the lamb, and the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever.
They have no rest day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives, and whoever receives the mark of its name.
We could not have haters and bigots given superhuman abilities.
So surely this advance would be restricted to those who embrace love and choice in sexual partners.
Naturally, this ship would be restricted to those who would value human freedom, quote unquote, so that those opposed to transgenderism should never be allowed it.
So you and me may be safe from the temptation of superhuman brain chips.
They're not going to give it to people like us.
They're not going to give it I've got the brain chip and I'm tweeting anti trans slurs on every single platform in every language instantaneously.
You can't stop me.
It's all over.
No, they're not going to let you do that.
Not that any of us would want to, I don't think.
I have no interest in brain chips.
Nibutu 2029 Muskrat vs.
Trump verbal battle of the world's top two grifters.
That's right, they're duking it out for first place.
I can grift better than you can.
No, you can't.
I'm the greatest grifter the world's ever seen.
You get my drift.
We were given a dry run with the COVID jab of the pressures that could weigh on us to choose evil over good.
And even though the COVID jab, morality was muddied by Pope Francis.
Pope Francis, of course, has gone out of his way over and over again to muddy the waters on everything.
He is truly despicable.
But you also had people like Robert Jeffress, Al Moeller, Franklin Graham, Todd Friel, good old Pinwheel Freel, as my dad calls him.
I actually got a clip of Robert Jeffress discussing the vaccine.
And when he got it, he's so giddy and excited to tell this interviewer that as he was en route to get the vaccine, Donald Trump called him personally.
We're going to play that clip.
And this is the kind of pressure that was put on people.
And you could say, it's very easy to say, well, they should have known better.
They shouldn't have listened to people like this, and they shouldn't have.
But we need to still feel some level of compassion and pity for these people.
They didn't have the benefit of the understanding we do.
They're just a more trusting sort.
And that's sad, but you need to do your best not to hate them, not to despise them, not to look down on them.
It doesn't benefit anyone.
Let's look at that clip of Jeffress.
Pastor Robert Jeffress has urged Christians who are fearful of COVID-19 to get the vaccine, saying it's nearly 100% effective and is the best way for churches to fully open.
The senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, one of the most influential churches in the nation.
Dr. Jeffress, welcome and thanks so much for joining us.
Well, thank you so much for having me.
So, Dr. Jeffress, we begin this by asking all of our guests this question, which is simply, have you taken the vaccine?
I have.
I got my first shot of the Moderna vaccine in the middle of January.
I was so excited when I got that appointment.
I was driving anxiously to the vaccination site.
And while I was driving there, President Trump called me from Air Force One.
And I was so excited, I almost missed my exit to the vaccine site.
But I got there on time, took the vaccine, and took my second one in early March.
And so I am fully vaccinated.
Well, my goodness, I think out of all the people we've interviewed, you're the first one that's able to say that you got your vaccine en route while interrupted by a phone call with the president.
It's just so exciting.
You got a call from President Trump.
Tell us, how did you reach that decision for yourself to actually go ahead and take the vaccine?
Well, I have been praying, like millions of Christians have been praying, for a cure to this pandemic, for an end to it as a pastor.
I saw it take the lives of many of my church members.
I saw them get locked down and sent to hospitals and ventilated.
They could lie to their loved ones using FaceTime.
We saw our church when you were so eager to name drop.
President Trump's the one that locked people down.
I saw this vaccine as an answer to that prayer.
And no vaccine is perfect, but I believe that looking at the odds, I would be much better off taking the vaccine than ignoring it.
So it was really a no-brainer for me.
Dr. Jeffers, one of the important roles you know-brainer.
You're a teacher of God's word.
And so what are the important biblical truths for Christians to consider when they themselves are deciding what to do about the vaccine?
Well, first of all, I think somebody who is as pro-life and outspoken on that as I am has a duty to be consistent with that.
I believe if we are intent on protecting life inside the womb, which I am, we need to also be careful to value life outside the womb and do everything we can to preserve it.
And I think certainly the controlling passage for me in Philippians chapter 2 is do not merely look out for your own personal interests, Paul said, but also look out for the interest of others.
It's about us.
And if we're really Christians, we need to think about the well-being of those we come in contact with.
But what I don't respect are reasons that are based on bad theology, ideas such as that this is the mark of the Antichrist.
I've just written a verse-by-verse commentary on the book of Revelation.
I can guarantee you this is not the mark of the Antichrist.
Or other people who will use selfishness as a reason for not taking the vaccine.
That's right.
You're selfish if you don't take the vaccine.
You're selfish if you consider the facts.
What a charlatan he is.
Oh, I did it because it's the Christian thing to do.
But again, you heard him say, I saw how it affected people.
I saw how people had to say goodbye to their family members via FaceTime.
But he was still so giddy to talk to President Trump, the man who locked everyone down.
The man who let Fauci put these in place, the one who was so proud of Fauci.
We've done great work together.
And of course, Fauci.
All of his arguments were all the talking points put together by the psychiatrists and propagandists at the government that they put out for pastors to use guilt to drive this.
They say, oh, well, if you're pro-life, then that means you should take the vaccine, ignoring all of the many injuries and deaths that are caused by this.
Whether you're pro-life or not doesn't change the effectiveness of their medication.
Yes.
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Denver Attaway, Musk is just saving FACET after successfully opening up the data pipelines for private interest.
NTF control grid machinations and Palantir.
As soon as that was done, he was out.
Give me your data and I'm gone.
He kill us.
Today's libertarians are yesterday's Democrats.
It's pathetic.
Yeah.
They've sold out.
They've given up on principle.
Of course, that happened quite a long time ago.
It's just a lot more obvious now.
Chambers, Nancy, the vax killed my husband seven days after he received it.
He fell, and they gave him the vax without his permission.
They said it was the Convid Protocol.
I'm so sorry to hear that, Nancy.
I'm so sorry for your husband.
That is terrible.
KWD sixty eight, Trump surrounds himself with these false teachers.
That's right.
They're all over the White House.
Of course, I can't remember...
And of course, you had Michael Flynn with that prayer that he stole, talking about ascended masters, which was lifted almost directly from that Luciferian cult.
We are ruled by wicked, wicked people.
This is from What's Up With That?
CO2 sustains greenhouse farming revolution.
Of course, this is upsetting those who worship the green religion.
The cult of Mother Earth.
You're killing Mother Earth.
CO2 is destroying the planet.
But it's not.
It helps the plants grow.
It's bad science.
The world would be safer if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide CO2 were stopped according to the teachings of many schools, the regulatory schemes of some governments, and the hyperbolic public relations campaigns of a climate industrial complex.
But the truth is happier.
CO2 is an irreplaceable plant food, that is, increasing.
Carbon dioxide, the gas branded as public enemy number one, is not destroying the planet.
It's enhancing life on it.
Across the globe, elevated CO2 levels are supercharging plant growth and delivering bountiful crop harvests at an unprecedented rate.
Why does this matter?
Because future generations could benefit from rejecting the hysteria and embracing common sense and well-established facts.
They really kicked the global warming climate nonsense into high gear when I was young.
I can still remember, you know, the first time I really heard about it.
There had always been these sorts of it would always been in the ether.
I remember when I was young watching Captain Planet on TV from time to time.
Not frequently, but when we'd go to a relative's house, sometimes I just turn on TV and it would pop on.
And that had been part of the programming for previous generations.
It was old by the time I was young, but it was still there.
But then it became this insane push, climate change, global warming.
It's melting the ice caps.
It's just around the corner.
It's going to destroy everything.
Remember, our cousins, you know, they were in public school, and they started talking about it.
And I was like, what are you on about?
Where did this come from?
Didn't make much sense to us.
Since the start of the 20th century, atmospheric CO2 has risen from around 300 parts per million to over 420 parts per million.
If you believe some headlines, this is tantamount to a death sentence.
But if you're a farmer or a scientist focused on plant physiology, this increase looks like a gift.
That's right, it helps the plants grow.
Denver Adaway, with these people as trusted authorities, who needs enemies?
That's right.
Yeah, it kind of shows that you don't want the government making these decisions about health, about the environment.
These people that, even if they did have the public's best interest at heart, which they never do, they're only interested in who can pay them the most, but even if they did, these are not intelligent people that can look at these things and determine that, no, we should have less CO2, or...
They are not scientists.
They're not scholars.
Even if they were scientists or scholars, you shouldn't immediately trust them.
You shouldn't immediately bow to what they say.
But these people have no information of their own.
Studies show that crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and grains grow faster and yield more under higher CO2 concentrations.
This phenomenon has been verified by observations of plants in the world at large and in controlled environments over many decades.
People taking advantage of this knowledge have contributed to an agricultural revolution.
From Israel's Negev Desert to Kenya's Rift Valley, farmers are proving that CO2 is not a villain, but an ally in feeding a growing population.
The greenhouse boom, food where there was none.
Greenhouse farming employs tent-like structures with controlled environments to grow crops.
Unlike open field agriculture, which is susceptible to risks of weather and pests, greenhouse provides stable ecosystems that extend growing seasons and manage lighting and temperature.
In addition, greenhouses can artificially elevate CO2 levels two or three times higher than ambient atmospheric conditions.
These farmers achieve what nature cannot, predictable, abundant harvests in deserts, tundra, and urban sprawl.
The benefits include lower water use, reduced reliance on pesticides, year-round production, and higher yields.
In a study, researchers assessed the proliferation of greenhouse farming in 119 countries, including 22 in Africa.
Greenhouses now cover more than 5,000 square miles of land worldwide, 40 times the agricultural area under cover four decades ago.
China has 60% of the world's greenhouse farms.
And of course, they're using cheap coal energy.
They get to keep the coal.
We don't.
Some of the largest are in Weifeng, China, 82,155 hectares, and Almeris, Spain, 35,117 hectares.
CO2-enriched greenhouses now supply a significant portion of urban vegetable demand in China, a country once plagued by food shortages and famine.
Rice, cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes provide off-season supply to the whole country, says Chinese researcher Zhaoye Tong.
In the Hotan Prefecture of the Xinjiang Desert, farmers now grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons in greenhouses having CO2 levels up to 1,200 parts per million, triple the outdoor concentration.
Greenhouses in this region have enabled the development of fast breeding rice, reducing the growth cycle to just 75 days by leveraging vertical soil, soilless cultivation, and artificial light control.
The desert greenhouse project in Xinjiang, Shawan Oasis has over 2,100 units that can produce annually about 19,000 tons of vegetables and fruits in more than 30 varieties.
The rate of expansion is the most dramatic in China, but the increase is a global phenomenon.
The Metro Leada greenhouses in Huntersville, North Carolina consist of 8 million square feet of heated indoor growing space, making it the largest single-site heated greenhouse in the United States.
Didn't realize that.
Didn't know we had the largest single-site greenhouse in the United States of North Carolina.
You don't need a PhD to see through the haze.
Ask yourself, if CO2 is so harmful, why do farmers pump it into greenhouses?
Why are crop yields breaking records as CO2 levels rise?
The answers are in biology, not ideology.
That's right.
That's why we shouldn't be trying to capture it in a pipeline and pump it into the ground.
We shouldn't be trying to deprive the planet of it.
A deficiency of atmospheric carbon dioxide is being rectified.
In the meantime, greenhouse farming fueled by this life-giving molecule will be part of a promising future free of hunger.
Now, of course, I don't necessarily believe we'll ever have a future free of hunger.
This sounds a lot like the word post-scarcity you hear from Marxists.
But I think we can reduce it.
I think we could greatly reduce world hunger if these people were to get out of the way.
But that's it for this segment.
But we'll have more on the global religion of the climate when we come back after this short break.
Stay with us.
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As a Christian, it is our responsibility to actually do research before pushing something on the church.
That's right.
As Christians, we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, because we know there is someone that we will answer to.
We know there is someone that we should be representing.
We need to do our best.
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Paleo Armory, something like 30% of the Earth has turned green from increased CO2 levels and are still, and we are still at deficit levels.
I used to have to refill five 30-pound CO2 bottles a week per grow house.
Shelly A. Is that why they want to pump CO2 underground to feed the underground greenhouses and their underground bases?
You know, maybe.
I've been seeing people saying that.
It's a very interesting thought.
I don't have any information one way or the other, but I would not be surprised if they're capturing CO2 specifically so they can grow food for themselves.
These people do love to watch out for themselves.
He'd kill us, they were...
Exactly.
He kill us.
They were talking about the EV mandates.
Toyota in the last few months have scrapped their entire electric vehicle line.
We looked at it and was like, this doesn't make sense.
This isn't working.
They didn't want to continue.
It wasn't making any financial sense.
It shows that the technology just isn't there if they need the government subsidies in order to make it work.
Yeah, if it's not profitable on its own and you need those government subsidies, it's not a good product.
But of course, one of the easiest ways to get rich is to milk the government.
Milk the American taxpayer.
It's basically free money if you can come up with some kind of scam.
And of course, the climate is always a good one.
Religions of the World Unite.
This is by Alex Newman.
Of course, Pope Francis' number one priority was the climate encyclical.
He is all about the climate.
Doesn't really care too much about promoting the gospel, about sharing the gospel with people and telling people that Jesus Christ is the only way, the way, the truth, and the life.
No, he's more interested in the one world climate religion.
There is a global effort to unite the religions of the world.
Not around the creator of the heavens and the earth, of course.
That would be divisive, if not outright hateful.
After all, as the late Pope Francis argued just last year, different religions are just like different languages, all expressing the divine.
All religions are paths to God, claimed Francis, the first Jesuit pontiff.
Of course, we see that Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.
That's what Jesus said.
I'll take his word over Pope Francis's.
And I'm sure he has learned the error of his ways.
Author of the deeply controversial environmental encyclical, Lodato C, was perhaps the leading public advocate for unity among world religions, but he was hardly alone.
The unity sought by so many religious and political leaders, the third leg of the stool for large scale global transformation described in A Climate of Tyranny, must be based on concern for Mother Earth and common values.
Globalists in the religious realm have made that clear for many years.
Everything and everyone is welcome except those who hold extreme views that are incompatible with this global unity for the sake of the planet.
Views such as the idea that Jesus is the way, rather than a way.
That's right.
Everyone is welcome, except those that want to tell the truth.
The same concern was outlined by Lucifer Publishing Company founder Alice Bailey, an occultist whose writings played a profound role in shaping the UN and today's global spiritual movement.
Bailey, who claimed to be channeling the spirits of ascended masters.
Of course, I mentioned that earlier.
Michael Flynn referenced this directly.
Believed in the unification of all religions under a universal consciousness.
The major obstacle, what she described as the great heresy of separateness.
Christians and Jews, of course, know this as God's instruction to be holy, for I am holy.
The great heresy of separateness.
Of course Jesus said came not to bring peace but a sword that families would be divided by him.
Because the truth is divisive, The Great Heresy of Separateness.
It's real easy to get together under one banner if it's not the truth.
Because if it's not the truth, you don't really have to care.
You can make common cause with other people who believe different lies.
Because it doesn't really matter.
It's not that big a deal if they don't believe your lie.
But if they don't believe the truth, you have to be concerned.
You can't make common cause with them.
Working with and alongside the Vatican on interfaith efforts to save Mother Earth is a well-funded and vast, fast-growing global network of religious organizations.
Financed by the United Nations, billionaire globalists, and countless governments, these institutions span the gamut.
Interfaith, pagan, Islamic, pantheistic, spiritual, and more.
What unites them?
All are openly working to bring humanity into what many global leaders call a new world order.
A new world order.
A key part of the transition into the new world order is a redefinition of morality.
Nowhere was this clearer than at the UN's climate summit in Egypt in 2022.
For the conference in 2022 before 2022 conference of the parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP27 even got underway, the UN Development Program released a report dubbed Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives, Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World.
Outlining the call for a new system of ethics and morality.
We already have the perfect system of ethics and morality.
It's outlined in the Bible.
Christ is the center of it.
And if you're trying to make a new system, when the old system is already the one that we need, the one that works, the one that is true, you're building a lie.
We don't need a new system.
The old one is the truth.
And trying to move away from it means you're wrong.
Citing evolutionary processes and ethical reasoning, e.g.
Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, that may have led to current behaviors and institutions, the UN report argues that uncertain times and new challenges mean it is time for something new.
Individuals and societies, the UN document explains, must adopt fundamental changes and choices, leading people to act according to new moral codes.
We don't need new moral codes, as I said.
The old ones work just fine.
They're the ones that are correct.
You only need to move away from that if you're trying to fool people, to get them to believe in a lie.
That will supposedly be better suited to saving the global environment.
This is like, in they live.
Obey the government.
Just obey.
If you're trying to get people to worship the government, the old moral code doesn't work.
It's not what you need.
Efforts to bring these new moral codes were apparent everywhere.
In fact, right after getting off the airplane in Sharm el-Sheikh, this author encountered a giant UN placard featuring a bizarre message on this topic from the ancient pagan Egyptian document, The Declaration of Innocence, before being judged before the scale of Ma'at and entering the afterlife.
Among other messages about sin, the document argued that one should be allowed into the afterlife because I have not polluted the water or the earth.
I wonder if Moses turning the water of the Nile into blood counts.
Even before they became so blatant, the religious undertones of the UN's climate and sustainability scheming were already clear.
UN climate Tsarina Christiana Figueres opened the 2010 COP Summit with a prayer to Ixchel, the Bayan goddess of cannibalism, human sacrifice, and war.
Well, I'm sure Ixchel is a lovely little demon.
In 2012, the famous Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was lit up by green lights for the UN's Conference on Sustainable Development.
Then UN Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change boss, Rajendra Pachari, famously declared in 2015, for me the protection of planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission.
It is my religion, my Dharma.
During the UN Climate Summit in Egypt, Pope Francis celebrated his La Dato Sea action platform released the year before the summit.
That document promotes ecological conversion and lifestyles consistent with it, Francis said.
I encourage this crucial mission for the future of humanity so that it may foster in everyone a concrete commitment to care for creation.
And we should care for creation.
We should not want to see it polluted and destroyed.
That is because the Bible tells us to care about it.
We are called to be stewards of God's creation.
But we shouldn't worship the creation.
We shouldn't worship it.
We should take care of it because we are told to by God.
The late pontiff added, describing it as a journey aimed at responding to the cry of the earth.
That statement was a perfect backdrop for the unveiling of the new Ten Commandments at the top of Mount Sinai while the official UN summit was going on further south on the Sinai Peninsula after a bizarre climate repentance ceremony.
Featuring key religious leaders from different faith traditions from all around the world, the green tablets calling for a new understanding of morality were unveiled.
Compassion, the new Decalogue argued, means to feel the pain of the earth.
An interview with the new American Peace Department CEO James Sternlicht's co-organizer of COP27 religious events went even further.
After praising the new Ten Commandments of climate change, Sternlicht gave insight into the next project by the UN and friends, a third covenant that we're kind of working on between mankind and creation, that we would refocus on those elements of the teachings from across religions that point us in the direction of fixing the problems that we've created, so that we can build that real kingdom of heaven here on earth.
Outside observers who are deeply skeptical and critical of the push have pointed out that exact phraseology, the global interfaith movement, for that is what it is, seeks to create a new global civilization, to build heaven on earth through collective peace and unity, and it sees itself as the moral and ethical voice to that end, working in parallel with and in support the United Nations.
And of course, this would work oh so nicely with the technocratic agenda.
Well, we need a technocracy because it'll allow us to track everything, control everyone, and make sure they're not polluting Mother Earth.
It is.
It's an attack from all angles.
Speaking to the new American, Tychrib, author of the groundbreaking book, Game of Gods, The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment, noted that there are many ways in which this is happening.
These include uniting spiritual and religious leaders around key agenda items such as climate for peace as members in religious institutions, all religious institutions representing all religions, representatives from faith traditions, where there are no institutions.
While that claim may be a slight exaggeration, plenty of evangelical pastors and institutions would not be caught dead collaborating with this group.
It is true that the organization has broad membership and reach.
Founded in 1970, it has received massive funding from the U.S. government, the UN, subversive billionaires, including the Rockefellers and George Soros, many other sources.
And its agenda is very clear.
Unite the religions of the world behind the UN agenda.
In 2019, the group met in Germany and adopted a declaration calling on all religious communities to be in alignment with achieving the SDGs.
That's the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Very open about the world government now, aren't they?
It's for the climate.
Before they had to pretend that this wasn't happening, that the UN wasn't really moving towards a new world order.
And of course, Dad's been saying that this whole climate thing has been a religion for quite a long time.
It's just now they aren't even trying to hide it with their ten commandments of climate change as though these people could come up with more important commandments than God.
Well, they want to be the new God.
You will worship us.
Those goals as discussed in A Climate of Tyranny, including building a global economic and political system, entirely at odds with American traditions.
And yet religions for peace could not get enough of the UN plan.
We commit to human development as set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals, the group said in its final declaration.
Other key organizations include the Parliament of the World's Religions, one of the largest interfaith networks in the world.
Tyke Ribb, who has attended its meetings, explained that this organization founded in 1893 served as the launching pad for the West's contemporary internationalism.
Apparently, the only religious or spiritual view not welcomed into the fold is the divisive position from the Bible that Jesus Christ is the way, which is portrayed as extreme.
Also critical in the global move towards religious unity around globalist morals and principles are the G20 Interfaith Forum, the United Religions Initiative, the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, the Temple of Understanding, the World Congress of Faiths,
the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, the World Council of Religious Leaders, the Interfaith Alliance, the Elijah Interfaith Institute, the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, the World Council of Churches, the World Evangelical Alliance, and many more.
Even the UN itself is working on this.
One of the major global initiatives in the effort to hijack religion for globalism and pseudo-environmentalism is the UN Environment Program Faith for Earth Initiative.
The scheme's tagline gives the agenda away, away.
Religion uniting for the planet.
We're going to sand away all the differences because they don't really matter.
We're all just kind of worshiping the same God, aren't we?
What's important is that we save the planet.
So if you just unite under our banner, we can do that.
And the leader of the initiative, Director Iad Abomogli, was transparent about the goals too.
85% of the world population believe in a faith or a religion, and the power of that is humongous, he said in a video promoting the scheme.
We can harness that in mobilizing faith leaders and faith followers in protecting the earth.
We can harness that.
That's right.
We're going to infiltrate your groups.
We're going to put people in power at the top and push them to direct you towards this.
On its website, the group is also explicit about the goals.
One of the main objectives of the Faith for Earth initiative is to strategically engage with faith-based organizations, FBOs, and mobilize faith leaders and the faith community in an effective partnership to collectively achieve the sustainable development goals and fulfill the objective of the 2030 agenda.
Of course, we've seen how they are able to infiltrate and control churches, as Lance pointed out, with COVID-19.
They readily absorbed the talking points fed to them from the government and used those to convince their flock to go get the vaccine or to lock down and not bother attending church.
Yeah, I would say that would instance of them successfully harnessing churches to further their ends of authoritarianism, which is what this is all coming back to.
It's the Ten Commandments of authoritarianism, and the climate is Justin McGuffin.
Two years ago, the UN Outfit even released a book, Faith for Earth, a call for action, claiming that the world's religions basically agree with the UN's environmental agenda.
Its mission is very simple, to encourage, empower, and engage with faith-based organizations as partners.
Aside from biblical Christianity, all religions are more than welcome within the globalist tent.
Because of course, biblical Christianity doesn't work.
It doesn't work for them.
Because under biblical Christianity, you know, you understand that there is no higher power than God.
That you cannot worship the state as they want you to.
That you have to reserve that position for the Lord.
Nowhere is the push for the one-world religion and spirituality movement more obvious than in UN-backed education programs around the world.
Many of them tie directly to sustainability and climate change in the UN's agenda for the 21st century.
The 100-year UN plan, often dubbed Agenda 21, Chapter 36 of the Global Agreement, explains that education is essential to get people to comply with the new world system being imposed on humanity.
And if you would like to read more of this article, as I said, it's by Alex Newman and you can find it at The New American.
It's a very good article.
Alex Newman does great work covering the climate scams.
It is truly amazing how obvious they have made it over the past few years.
We've got some comments here.
Star Barkley, Catholic Church is jockeying for a prime position in the NWO.
They've got their position.
They don't want to lose it.
Don't frag me, bro.
All communist slash collectivist government wants to eliminate all religion and spirituality because you must worship the state.
That's right, it is the cult of the omnipotent state.
You will bow at their altar.
No truth in them.
Without Jesus, people are led in all kinds of directions.
Sheep need a shepherd, and we are all sheep.
That's right.
He is the good shepherd.
He is what we need.
He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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I cannot wait.
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I wish he would slow down.
I wish he would not grow so quickly, but I'm also very excited for what's to come.
Feels like I miss when he was just a tiny little baby, but it's so much fun now.
It feels like I want every moment with him all at once.
Like, no matter how much time I have with him, it's not enough.
I'm sure anyone who has children can anyone who has children can understand that sentiment.
Sam Miller, 123.
Travis, babies understand far more than you can imagine.
You can teach them simple sign language to communicate with them and then back to you long before they have the motor skills to speak.
I've actually been looking into a little bit of baby sign language.
I haven't tried or started anything yet, but I was very interested in that.
It would be...
No, but I have looked into that, Sam Miller.
That is something I am interested in.
It would be a lot of fun.
He is a...
He just brightens all our days.
He's very interactive, and he has reached the stage where he is babbling a lot.
He's making a lot of noise.
He's really cute.
We'll take a quick break.
When we come back, we're going to look at Mr. Jeffress again.
We're going to look at him and his claims about Israel.
See what he's got to say there.
So stay with us, folks.
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But as I said, we're going to look at Robert Jeffress and his take on Israel.
And perhaps you've noticed that a lot of the names, a lot of the same Religious leaders, the names are the same, and political leaders who pushed the vaccine are the same ones pushing Zionism, same ones pushing this idea that Israel can do no wrong.
What are the odds?
Isn't that strange?
That's right.
And of course, by Israel, they mean the political party of Netanyahu, which is supported by less than half of the population of Israel.
Yes, to them, Israel is whoever is in power and whatever agenda they're pushing at that moment.
The Lakud party, I believe it's pronounced.
And Benjamin Netanyahu and his relentless expanse, his push to take over the area and his willingness to kill and destroy anyone who gets in his way.
God created the nation of Israel.
Pastor Robert Jeffress weighs in on the Cruz-Carlson debate.
So who created Palestine?
That's right.
God created all the nations.
He is in control.
When it comes to supporting the state of Israel, Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress says he's siding with Senator Ted Cruz and the Bible.
Jeffers, the senior pastor of the 16,000-member First Baptist Dallas Church, 16,000 members.
That is an enormous church.
Absolutely gigantic.
Delivered an impassioned sermon on June 22nd, which he addressed the U.S. military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
And of course, Christian Zionists replace Jesus with Israel.
They worship the state of Israel.
They refer to the enemies of Israel as Amalekites.
That gives them, of course, free reign to kill them all.
They don't have a right to exist.
People like Robert Jeffers don't follow the teachings of Jesus.
They are murderous and warlike.
Framing them both as a strategic and moral necessity.
That's right, we have to take them out.
We have to destroy them.
We have to do Israel's bidding, because they're God's chosen people.
The strikes ordered by President Donald Trump have fueled a broader theological political debate about America's support for Israel, particularly in light of a heated interview between Senator Ted Cruz and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who questioned the biblical basis for such support.
Jeffress, who was 69, used his pulpit to respond directly to Carlson's recent viral exchange with Senator Ted Cruz, where Carlson challenged the notion that Christians are biblically mandated to support Israel.
Tucker, let me help you out, Jeffress said.
To support Israel, first of all, means to support Israel's right to exist.
Their right to exist.
Their right to bomb men, women, and children.
Their right to open fire on unarmed civilians.
Is that what he's talking about here?
The nation of Iran does not believe Israel has the right to exist.
Iran has stated, has its stated objective to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
And there are other countries that believe that as well, but in doing so, they're going against God himself.
Of course, Robert Jeffers speaks for God.
He's the one who will determine that, isn't he?
And tragically, many of these Zionists confuse Israel with God.
Yes.
They have replaced Jesus with the state of Israel, with Benjamin and Yahoo's government.
Asserting that the modern day state of Israel holds a unique place in the divine providence, Jeffers added, Unlike any other nation in the world, God created the nation of Israel.
Every nation is created by God.
He ordains all things.
Israel was his idea, and he said Israel will endure forever.
He contrasted this with the fate of other nations, including the United States, which he said lacked such divine assurance.
Jeffers further asserted that supporting Israel includes affirming its historical and biblical claim to the land.
We've talked about this before, but the promise was specifically made to Abraham, the man, not the entity of Israel, not the entity of the corporate state.
It was made to Abraham.
And of course, there are the words, not all Israel is Israel.
The new church, the church is the new Israel.
That is what we are talking about.
Ladies and gentlemen, history is very clear on this.
Those who oppose Israel are always on the wrong side of history.
And most importantly, they're on the wrong side of God, Jeffers added.
And thank God we finally have a president who understands that truth.
And Donald Trump.
What does history tell us about what happens in the Bible when Israel goes against God?
What does it say in the Bible?
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal.
But Israel is killing and stealing right now.
It is killing the Palestinian people, the Iranian people, and stealing the land of the Palestinians.
Last night we saw President Trump make the right decision, he told his congregation, in going against Iran.
He not only removed a menace and a threat to the nation of Israel, but he removed a threat to America and the entire world.
Jeffers revealed that he had personally texted Trump earlier in the week to express support, assuring the president that millions of Christians across the country were praying for him and would back his decisions.
You have to stay away from churches like this, churches that worship politicians or the state.
Jeffers' sermon also highlighted Trump's public acknowledgement of faith following the strikes.
Referencing the president's brief speech after the mission, Jeffress noted, he said, I want to thank everybody, but in particular, I want to thank God, and I just want to say, we love you, God.
Have you ever heard another president say that Republican or Democrat?
That's right, he cloaks his warlike tendencies, his unprovoked attacks on Iran in language of loving God.
How utterly despicable.
The congregation responded with fervent applause, signaling strong approval of both Trump's actions and his overt expressions of faith.
makes me sick.
These people applauding, clapping like seals, because Trump pays him lip service.
We love you, God.
Thank you for letting us bomb these people that could do nothing about it.
Thank you that we were able to destroy their facilities and kill their people without any sort of consequences.
Isn't that sickening?
If you love God, you will keep his commandments.
You know, the ones that he gave us directly, not the ten commandments of climate change.
Exactly.
And of course, we know Trump doesn't follow his commandments.
Even before he was president, we talked about Israel just a second ago.
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal.
Donald Trump is more than happy to use eminent domain to steal land from people, so he already steals.
He's divorced multiple women.
He doesn't honor his duty to his wife.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who took exception to Carlson's claim that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is not the same entity as the biblical people of Israel, said the nation of Israel today comprises a people that prays in the same language in the same places and with the same liturgy as in ancient times, he wrote.
It's faith governed by the Old Testament.
This is the same nation of Israel referred to in the Bible, Friedman added.
When referred to in the Bible when Jesus said that the blood of bulls and goats is not sufficient to take away sin.
But yet, look, they're still doing it the same way.
They're still doing the same things they did when they killed Jesus.
Isn't that wonderful?
No.
Their religion is empty.
It has been replaced.
This was all meant to point towards Jesus.
He was the fulfillment of their religion, of their promises.
And they rejected him.
It is meaningless to say they're still doing the same things because it's all empty.
It's all worthless.
What they need is Jesus.
And refusing to admit that, refusing to acknowledge that is not doing them any favors.
The Jews need Jesus just like I need Jesus.
Just like every other nation, tongue, or tribe needs him.
He is the way, the truth, and the life.
And no one comes to the Father except through him.
Their religion is empty, just like all others besides Christianity are.
We're going to take a quick break.
When we come back, we'll probably be joined by Tony Arderburn, where we'll discuss what's going on with gold and silver, get his take on the big, beautiful bill and what's happening with the economy.
This house of cards that we've built up.
We'll be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
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Welcome back, folks.
Joining us now is Tony Arderburn.
And Tony has kindly set up DavidKnight.gold.
So if you'd like to start accumulating some gold and silver, you can go through us and let him know that you heard about it here on the program.
And Tony has also set up Wolfpack.
It is a subscription service where monthly he will mail you some gold or silver or both, depending on the level you sign up at.
Tony is very good about working with people to get them what they want.
So thank you for joining us, Tony.
That's great to be back, Travis.
Yeah, I'll send you silver and gold.
I might add platinum and copper to that really soon, just looking at the prices and what's going on with commodities around the world.
So stay tuned.
Everything is in flux right now.
But I want to get your opinion on the big, beautiful bill.
Of course, that monstrosity passed through J.D. Vance.
Cast a tie-breaking vote.
Good old JD.
Man of the people is J.D. Vance, as he likes to remind us.
He's only overseeing, you know, a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase, something that we all have to deal with in our daily lives.
Friends with all the technocrats.
He's one of us.
But I just want to get your opinion on what's going on with the Big Beautiful Bill and what do you think it's going to do for the gold, silver, just the markets in general, Tony?
Well, all I needed to know about the Big Beautiful Bill was the commercial that the White House put out.
I don't know if you've seen this commercial.
I don't know if you've played it on the show.
I have not.
They put out like a spot on the White House Twitter and I think on the Instagram.
You should have to go find it.
I might pull it up from my show today.
But it was like a kind of a spoof on a woman's hair product that like the big, beautiful bill like increases your hair size and the volume of your hair.
And it's like got these different models.
And that's their take on it.
I mean, we have crossed into the idiocracy that we were warned about.
You know, this is coming.
It's not just dystopia.
The future will be stupid.
And that's when you look at something like the, like even they call it the big beautiful, it has to be BBB because it has to be Bill Back Better.
It's the same thing.
They're just getting into a different brand.
It's like Coke versus Pepsi at this point.
And when I ran for Congress, I tried to bring up the fact that anything that's really convoluted is bad for America because you look at the Constitution, look at the Bill of Rights.
These are simple truths, and you can carry around your pocket Constitution.
I don't need a law firm to follow me around and find out what, well, you do if you want to navigate life now, apparently in this tragic reality.
But I would just look at the Constitution.
You don't need an army of lawyers, but that's what they've done.
And they make everything so complicated and then, of course, big and beautiful and all the rest of it.
It's just bloated.
And it's just going to be, it's riddled with unconstitutional overreaches, unnecessary spending.
It is indicative of an empire in decline.
You just look at when the laws increase, like Cicero says, it's like the end of morality.
You're watching this just, I think, a looting of the Treasury, Travis, at this point.
It's every person for themselves, every they, them in Congress for themselves at some level.
Yeah, it's get what you can while you can seems to be what they're operating under.
They realize things are kind of coming to an end, so they've got to accelerate their taking, the pickpocketing of the American people.
The country is in decline, and so they're going to take as much as they can before it all comes down on top of them.
Again, as you pointed out, the fact that it's BBB amused me as well.
No, we can't even get a new initialism.
We're going to keep what's already there.
Build back better, we'll just repurpose that.
It's the same thing.
Maybe people won't notice if we change the words.
The, as you said, it's bloated.
Maybe BBB stands for bad, bastardized, and bloated instead of big, beautiful bill.
And the way Donald Trump speaks, it has always bothering me because it's so childish and juvenile.
It's just, it's big.
It's beautiful.
It's definitely big.
It's large.
It is a gigantic spending increase.
And it's going to destroy the American people.
It's going to just ruin the economy even further.
Really?
And it's just bigly beautiful, yes, of course.
The way he speaks is utterly ridiculous.
They're like, oh, he's one of the people.
He's one of us.
He's the blue-collar billionaire.
It just speaks to me that he's uneducated, that he's an idiot.
He's a fool.
And it drives me kind of insane.
But looking at this headline here, looking at this article from Kitco.
Gold prices jump as ADP says 33K private sector jobs lost in June.
And we have been seeing that the economy is still turning down.
It's still heading downward.
The number of jobs are contracting.
People are getting fired left and right.
Many, many jobs are being lost.
They predicted that there would be 100,000 job increase in June, but instead they lost about 33,000, which is, you know, that's just a small error.
You were only off by 133,000, but, you know, whoever calls these people on these things?
So, what do you think is going to happen with gold and silver now that the big, beautiful bill has passed, Tony?
Well, unfortunately, I think this is more of a trend on the horizon for further economic downturn based off of the conditions of the economy.
And it's all baked into that.
I mean, you look at our becoming a consumer nation over a productive nation.
That means wages will decline.
That means the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar will decline since we're now a fiat currency.
You can't grow your way out of this in this condition.
If you don't have sound money, if you don't start making things, if you don't become a production economy, even Paul Volcker, who was head of the Federal Reserve for Jimmy Carter and a little bit under Reagan, he raised interest rates to the teens to curtail inflation after we went off the gold standard.
But he was being interviewed by Congress and they asked me about the economic weakness in the early 1980s.
And he said, well, we've just become a consuming nation instead of a productive nation.
This is what happens with trade deficits and the like.
And you add in the fact that the U.S. dollar is in the worst condition it's been in its history going into the middle part of this decade.
And the rest of the world is de-dollarizing Travis at an alarming rate.
Central banks just added 20 tons of gold in May.
They're continuing to buy.
I think almost the majority of central banks that were interviewed and asked about whether they're going to buy more gold said yes.
So almost a majority of central banks are going to be buying more gold in the near term.
I would assume all of them at some level will be buying gold in the long term in the next five years just because of the de-dollarization rate.
They're actually using other currencies now, not just gold or the usual currencies.
They're stocking up and diversifying currencies, anything to get away from the dollar.
And that spells disaster, at least in the near term, for the U.S. economy and the American people, because we're just so used to being able to have this clown show in Washington, D.C. without any fiscal responsibility.
It's just like a trust fund kid that keeps writing checks for swiping daddy's credit card, and eventually it runs out.
The reality hits home and you got to sober up.
And that's what's happening around as we de-dollarize, Travis, as the dollar, all those currency units get shipped back home.
This was the economist Robert Triffin.
This was Triffin's dilemma.
What happens when you stock all the central banks and then they want to give it back?
And you lose that status.
We're losing the status.
And it's not happening.
It's not going to be like tomorrow.
It's not going to be like a giant crash.
It'll just be over time.
We'll lose that.
There will be a monetary reset.
So that's probably what you're looking at, the reason that neither party talks about fiscal responsibility at all.
I think they have to know at some level that they will just run out the clock.
Those who have golden parachutes will have them.
Those who aren't paying attention, it's something that our Buckminster Fuller said, people cannot get out of the way of what they don't see coming.
The average person, and especially if you're involved in the left-right paradigm and you're paying attention to party, you think this is a team sport.
Somebody's got to win, lose, whatever.
Well, all of us are the losers in this battle, whether that's the big, beautiful bill, whether it's Build Back Better.
It's all the same thing.
And there's no fiscal responsibility.
Those who can get and plan and take a, like I said, a golden parachute, they will.
They already know, too.
And you're starting to see some of the other trend lines, and we can talk about this a little further.
You're seeing the large capital pouring into things like Bitcoin.
And I think that's indicative of where we're headed as well.
Yes.
And as you pointed out, if we don't have a production economy, if we don't have people that are capable of manufacturing things, we will never get back to a point where we can be a manufacturing economy.
We don't have the base of people that are interested in that kind of work anymore.
Most people in my generation, and especially in the following generations, have this interest in, oh, I want to be an influencer.
I'm going to do something online.
I don't want to work in a factory.
I don't want to produce things.
I want to make silly little videos about makeup or whatever it is.
And that is something that it doesn't even matter if you bring back manufacturing here, if you cannot get the next generations interested in that kind of labor and that kind of work.
Even if you were to bring back these factories and get them up and running overnight, as Trump says he's going to do with the tariffs, which is another terrible blow to the economy.
But even if you were to get those manufacturing jobs back here, if you don't have people interested in working them, it doesn't matter.
America is not the same country it was.
It has been hollowed out on every level, whether it's economically or in the type of people that it produces.
So many people, as I said, have zero interest in working these jobs where they actually create something.
They want an easy life where they get to make these travel vlogs or make up tutorials or whatever it is.
And they have no interest in an economy that actually manufactures things.
And that speaks to the type of people that America now produces.
And it's been hollowed out spiritually.
It's been hollowed out through economic conditions.
I agree with you.
And it's not just even the production side of it, but just the spirit of American ingenuity that I think is sadly waning.
I do see a spark in some of the younger people that want to be entrepreneurs.
They may be a little misguided on what that actually produces or what that's for.
To me, I think as an entrepreneur, somebody has built something, and by the way, I've built some things that have crumbled.
So it's not like everything I've touched, I don't have, I'm not Midas, not everything I touch is great.
But having built things, I think that's part of as an entrepreneur, I think you're just channeling what you were built to do because we're created in God's image and God's a creator.
And I think we're supposed to make things or make things better.
It doesn't even mean that you're an entrepreneur.
It has nothing to do with that.
I'm like trying to make money.
It's not a lifestyle.
It's not about that.
It's your work.
And if you read like Stoicism, that's really getting down to doing the most good and creating something, making something better.
Whether it's going to be even just a garden or keeping your house better or whatever, just something that you're leaving something better each day when you wake up.
And I think you can do that.
We've gotten away from that.
And not even just the virtue of work or the virtue of building things.
And then the conditions that are set.
I think this is on purpose, to keep you in a perpetual state of need or that you need the state.
And you mentioned earlier in the show, people just viewing the state as God.
And it's really sad.
A lot of these people in church think that they're like the state of Israel is like a deity.
That's really sad to watch, like just a human construct somehow is divine.
And that's sad.
So I think that's what it's dependency that we've created and a lot of the conditions in a consuming economy because you look at people, they want a higher living wage or a higher minimum wage.
Well, that's probably besides the point.
The point is there's something wrong with your money and there's something wrong with the jobs.
They're not meant to be like you got to work three of them.
And there's not enough hours in the week to support a family on these, you know, the consuming jobs or, you know, the retail jobs and things like that instead of what used to be living wage.
So I just think that the economic conditions set on purpose are built for surfs and creating a surf-like 15-minute city economy, kind of a 2030 agenda, surprise, surprise.
But I think that's what we're looking at more and more.
And the disparity, Travis, between those who have and those who don't have, that gap is widening, just like you would see in any third world country.
That is a hallmark of it.
You have these incredibly poor people that are just subsistence living.
They can barely make it through.
Each day is a struggle for them, and they just kind of scrape by.
Then you have these warlords or these people that have siphoned off all the money from the government living in these palatial estates.
And their every whim is catered to.
Everything they could ever want is immediately granted to them.
And that has been a hallmark of, as you said, third world countries, tin pot dictatorships, banana republics.
But we're moving more and more towards that here.
Where you get just enough.
You're fairly, you're kind of comfortable here in the United States.
It's not to the level of places like Africa or some of the places in South or Central America where things are really bad, where you're in constant misery and every day is a struggle.
But things are getting tighter here.
It's harder to raise a family, to be able to afford to have kids to do these things that might bring you actual joy, that keep you just comfortable enough so that it's not worth causing any real problems for them, that it's not worth standing up to them.
And even if you were to want to do that, how do you find the time?
How do you find the money to be able to afford to engage in those kinds of actions, to go to your local government and say, I don't like this?
Makes it very, very difficult to make changes locally when you are having to work, as you said, two or three jobs.
You don't have the energy.
You don't have the money.
You are constantly occupied with just survival.
And it is sad to see this happening to the American people, as you said, being turned into serfs.
And as you said, the desire to create, to build something, whether it's a business or just, like you said, a garden, I think that's very important because you can do all things to the glory of God.
And being able to create is in some way inspired by him, I believe.
We are called to emulate him and to work, I believe, is, I don't know, it's hard for me to put into words, but I see one of my biggest critiques of AI is that it robs people of that joy of creation.
It substitutes it with just this, oh, well, I put in a couple words here and there and it made something.
And, you know, that makes me an artist.
But I think it really robs people of that joy, of the joy of effort and of hard work and of building something, of creating something, of learning a skill.
And I think that to me is the greatest danger of AI.
But we have a couple comments here.
One of them is from Front Porch Media.
Texans now can use gold and silver as legal tender.
I actually have the article right here.
I was going to ask you about it, but Front Porch Media beat me to it.
Chambers Nancy says, I appreciate the wolf pack, Tony.
So Chambers Nancy appreciates the wolf pack.
And I want to get your take on, as Front Porch Media said, Texans being able to use gold and silver as legal tender now following the governor's approval.
Of course, Governor Greg Abbott occasionally does something good.
He's still questionable, but every once in a while he gives some red meat to the people in Texas.
How are you, what do you think of the ability to use gold and silver in Texas now?
Have you seen any places talking about that?
You know, any businesses bringing it up saying we want to accept it?
I haven't seen any businesses say so or post anything about it.
It's fairly new, and it's going to take a couple of years, it looks like, if you read into the article and what happened into the bill, for the comp troller to recognize and it has more to do with the state Precious metals depository, and how they're going to be able to link up your,
they want your deposits of physical precious metals in this depository, and they can link it up to a payables account so you can, in real time, swipe a card and deduct from your ounces of precious metals.
So that's, and if you talk to Kevin Freeman, who wrote Pirate Money, he was a big advocate of this exact thing that's just been passed.
And, you know, about a year or so ago, a year and a half ago, Texas tried to implement a gold-backed digital currency in a similar bill.
But this is a little different, and it gives to the individual the ability to store their own precious metals and then bank against it.
So I'm interested in it as far as storing my metals and then having the state oversee my funds.
You know, that's if you're comfortable with that, that could be a great, I like the fact that anytime a state moves to make gold, silver, or Bitcoin legal tender, I think that's great because these are better monies.
This is actual sound money.
This is the legal lawful money.
It's funny, if you go back to the old $20 bills, somebody gave me a $20 bill at the shop.
It was from 1950 or so.
And if you look on it, it says, this note is in exchange for lawful money.
So you can exchange it for lawful money.
It's not lawful money.
It's just a note.
And you could get lawful money, which at the time was gold.
And that's, I think, at the end of the day, the good part about this is that it gets people in the mindset of storing value in actual money outside of the fiat currency system.
However, you still be linked to that with whatever this electronic system will be based off of your ounces that are stored in the depository.
Yes, we have a comment here from Angry Tiger's Den talking about what you were just saying.
Texas has a depository.
You give them your gold and they give you digital credits.
Not good.
I would be very skeptical about giving or turning my hard physical gold into the government being like, all right, cool, you guys hold on to this for me.
Because at that point, there's no guarantee they're not going to pull it.
Well, gold is illegal again.
We're confiscating it.
In fact, you've already given it to us.
So here's your little CBDC tokens in place of it.
I would be very worried about that.
I do like, as you said, the fact that it moves towards recognizing gold as a way of paying for things, that it acknowledges gold.
But I would be very, very worried about turning my supply of gold if I had some over to the government.
I would be nervous, to say the least.
It would make me a little, I'd constantly be calling up and like, hey, is it still there?
You guys still got it?
What's going on?
It would make me nervous.
Yeah, there's a lot of downside to the state being involved.
I just say, you know, make it gold and silver legal tender and step away and then let the market decide.
There will be, I think, the private sector can do a much better job and be a lot more accountable.
But that's me.
The bill is passed and we'll see how it's implemented.
I think it will take a long time for businesses to catch up and just even understanding that.
Because you go back to people still think that you can trade gold and silver with your local bank.
I hear that a lot.
I'm like, I don't think they have dealt in that in many, many, many years.
I don't think they even know where to start.
They don't.
They don't know where to start.
So people like me, you know, gold and silver exchanges will still have a place in this far into the future as far as I can see.
And I hope so anyway.
Or, you know, I'll have to find a different line of work if the state puts me out of business, but that's okay.
At least people will still have gold and silver.
Yeah.
The state does love putting people out of business.
So that is something to worry about.
But that is a very interesting.
It seems there's more and more laws regarding gold and silver, whether it's to make them legal tender or just in general.
But the goldbacks are things I've always found interesting.
The fact that, like, oh, it's woven in there.
This is considered legal tender, that it has a actual value built in.
I find the goldback bills very interesting.
We've got a comment here from a Syrian girl.
We've long since been turned into serfs, living in the houses we bought and paid for with years of labor.
We're paying rent to town governments for the privilege of living in them.
Property tax has always driven me insane.
It has been something I've always...
It is very...
Like, what do you mean?
I can't own...
It blew my child mind because even as a child, I realized this means I don't own it.
That means I can't own it.
And if you can't own the property, it just means the government can come in and kick you off at any given moment.
It's absolutely disgusting.
Property tax.
If anybody's, we should get property tax lowered.
It should get it abolished across the board in all aspects.
And it's so look at the, it's so, you know, the interpretation of value from these people.
Like I got my property that I have, just the business that I have in Denison, Texas, they came in and valued it more than the actual building and more than the mall that it's in because it just said gold and silver.
And I didn't notice it until later.
They'd already assessed the value.
I had to pay this absorbent fee.
And I'm like, where did you get this?
I mean, I literally have like a counter and they just think it's worth all because I said gold and silver.
So it's worth more than all of the things.
It's so ridiculous.
And they just put this, it's so blue sky.
They just take it out of nothing and assign value to it.
And it's really zero property tax across the board has to, I mean, that has to be, you know, if you talk about a reset, you know, for and going forward, if you were to have any sort of say, you'd have to get rid of that.
And it'd be even more mind-blowing if you own A business that's high volume, like my family's own convenience stores and you know, restaurants like small fast food things.
And if you go and look at the sales tax on those and realize what's going to the state, so it's like you realize the bill that you write every so you house the product, you create everything, and then just for housing the product and selling the product, you write a check to the state.
It could be tens of thousands a month.
And you think, okay, well, add up every business out there.
And it's like, how are they, how are they not just functioning?
How are they not just, I used to think they could pave the roads in nickels.
Like, it's just, there's so much money.
How can you not have enough?
But they always have budget shortfalls because of the unions and the pensions and you add all the bloat and everything.
And it's another big, beautiful bill.
That's where the money goes, folks.
There's plenty of, you know, just through just consumption tax and things like that, you don't, without income tax, without property tax, you could build amazing things.
But we don't.
We have the big, beautiful bill instead.
Isn't it wonderful?
Yeah.
When you think about the fact that the founding fathers went to war over a small tax on tea, I can't even imagine what they would do if they were to come forward today and say, property tax.
What do you mean property tax?
The government's going to tell me that I have to pay them every single year for my land?
I can't even imagine what George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and these other men would do if they were to hear that.
How apoplectic they would be with that knowledge.
Just losing their minds over this.
It is a, as the listeners pointed out, you are a permanent serf already basically at this point.
You rent from the king, defy tyrant 1776.
Like, yep, most people are under the delusion that they actually own property, but they don't.
They only pay taxes to the king to rent it.
If you don't pay taxes on it, government thugs with guns will come to take and kill you if you don't cooperate.
That's right.
If you don't pay your taxes, they will send the thugs with guns in.
They will kick you off that land.
They'll throw you in prison, or at minimum, garnish your wages.
They will take your land.
You don't own it.
And Assyrian girl responds, and that system of paying the overlord eternally for the privilege of living on your property is the definition of serfdom.
Yes.
Yes.
We are already serfs.
We live at the privilege of the king.
He owns our land, and he so graciously rents it back to us.
It's wonderful.
Assyrian girl says, Yes, Tony, they value your property higher than you could ever get by selling it and then tax you on unrealized capital gains.
It's really amazing the kind of games they play on every facet when it comes to soaking the American taxpayer.
Oh, well, we think it could be worth this much.
We think it might be worth this much, and so you're going to have to pay value on that.
Or the way they'll come in and adjust your land value.
They'll assess your property and go, well, it's gone up in price, hasn't it?
It's increased in value, so you're going to pay more.
Not that you're planning on selling, not that you think you're going to make that kind of money, but the government comes in and says, it's worth more than it was, so you've got to pay more on it.
It is just disgusting how every single year it seems they'll come in and find new ways to get more out of you for taxes.
My wife and I have, we've looked at houses here and there occasionally, just be like, well, what could we afford?
And my wife is from the Austin, Texas area, and she has been completely priced out of ever owning a home nearby.
There is not a chance we could ever afford anything in that area, just because of the value of houses, and then because of the amount of taxation that goes on there.
Even if we could afford to buy a house in that area, paying the taxes on it each year would be impossible.
It's just not something that the average person can afford anymore.
It's getting more and more difficult to actually rent from the government.
Now you have to go through third parties.
You have to rent an apartment who rents that land from the government.
It's becoming impossible even to rent a house directly.
You have to go third party at this point.
It's ridiculous what has happened to the American economy, how people are priced out of owning land, even in the modern sense of it.
Yeah, well, meanwhile, BlackRock buys them in mass in packages.
It buys the single-family homes in giant swaths of mortgage packages and outbids you with cash pricing.
What are they planning?
When I look into the comments from Larry Fink a few years ago about how they can direct societal change, and I'm just paraphrasing, it's basically if you want to control behavior, you can do that from the financial standpoint.
And that's what ESG was all about, environmental social governance.
It's really nothing new here.
It's the same central banksters who created communism and Bolshevism and Mao's China are just using their influence to create Marxism by other means.
And that's why they used the financial system to create change.
And yes, you are being priced out.
It's by design.
But I'm not exactly sure that they win out in this game.
I think a lot of people's consciousness and awareness has been tripped and probably accelerated since 2020.
I've seen a lot of changes in society and even the conversation.
Yeah, a lot of it gets hijacked by MAGA and other things that are dead ends.
But people generally have a skepticism they've never had before.
And so I think there's opportunity for us to pull a lot of these things out.
There's still opportunity for change.
Like you said, and we just mentioned good news.
Without 2020, you have to ask like a question mark over this.
Without 2020 and some of the massive liquidity injections and lockdowns and skepticism, would you see a gold and silver as legal tender in a lot of these states?
Would they even have noticed?
And it's been rapid.
And the answer is no.
It would have taken more time because that control demolition or whatever of the dollar, the timeline's been accelerated, de-dollarization's been accelerated.
I think they're just bracing.
You can't outrun it.
I mean, they can, the central banks have a real problem.
It's an existential crisis because I'm sure they have much more sophisticated ways of looking at the future than we do.
We're just, I mean, we can use history.
We can use our brains.
We can, you know, sketch this out, but they have to know.
We're going to, the bubble's going to pop.
The debt bomb is too big.
There's too much currency.
We can't print our way out of it.
We have to have some semblance.
And even something Trump said the other day about Bitcoin, which is very cryptic.
He really is a good actor.
You know, like if you look at, if you look at his, and you said, we were talking about him earlier, like, it's big, it's built, it's huge, and all that stuff.
If you go back and look at him in Congress giving testimony in the 1990s, it's kind of like when you see George W. Bush before he ran for president, like how he's just very well-spoken.
There's a depth there.
And then after he started playing that character, it's like, oh, gosh, gee.
You know, like that.
Trump was very, there was...
And now you could see it was very well-spoken, very reasoned.
And I don't see that.
So it's interesting.
It's interesting to watch, Travis.
We have so much going on.
I think the writing on the wall for where we're going on currency is where we're going on the economy is just about what real is versus fake.
And that's the battle that we're in right now.
That's what I try to do every week with my shows when I talk to people is just trying to get them to understand the difference.
And moving forward, I think a lot of people are seeing that.
And so it's not exactly the black-pilled end of the road, especially when we talk about economics, but there's going to be a lot of chop coming up.
I think a lot of turbulence.
Yeah, it's not going to be an easy time, which is why people should prepare how they best see fit.
Get some, in my opinion, get some gold and silver.
Find ways to feed yourself.
Learn to protect yourself.
There's many different things that need to be handled for the coming time of, as you said, turbulence, the choppy waters ahead.
You don't want to be left out in the cold having not prepared at all.
So I think gold and silver is a good way to do that.
Of course, being able to feed yourself, being able to get water is incredibly important.
Without food or water, nothing else matters.
You need to have that before you can think about anything else.
So get food, get water, prepare for uncertain times.
Learn to protect yourself.
Have some gold and silver.
Be prepared.
Got some more comments here.
Citizen of America, no worries.
BlackRock will be our benevolent sum lord.
That's right.
Blackrock will keep us all safe and warm.
The front porch media, they have drones to make sure you're not adding value to your house without permission.
That's right.
You have to go to the local government hat in hand.
Oh, please, government, can I add an addition?
Can I do this to my home?
You have to ask them.
See if you can do something.
It's ridiculous.
Trucker Chris for the win.
And BlackRock gets money from the Fed to do it.
It's all one big con game.
It's all one big scam.
The players get their money for free.
They get to do it subsidized by the American taxpayer.
There's also histories of this sort of thing happening.
These companies coming in and building these large apartment complexes or buying houses and then renting them out.
And when the economy takes a downturn, they'll turn them into things like Section 8 housing.
They'll turn them into these places where it becomes very dangerous very fast.
If you are in an apartment complex owned by BlackRock, if the economy takes a downturn, it would not be surprising to see them do that again.
And then your neighbors could very rapidly turn into a very dangerous type of individual.
Or you just get Venezuelan gangs to take it up.
Well, you know, I hear they pay good rates.
The drug trade is booming.
They've got a lot of money to throw around.
But I know we're about eight minutes over time, Tony, and I know that you've got a lot going on.
So, of course, you've got your own show coming up after this, America Unplugged on Rumble at Tony Arderburn on X. I know you said you're on YouTube now, too, right?
Is that under America Unplugged or Tony Arterburn?
It's at Tony Arterburn, if you can believe it.
I have a channel.
It's not very big, obviously, where they got rid of it.
But yeah, go find me over on YouTube if you want to get in the comments.
Rumble, America Unplugged channel at my X, my Twitter at Tony Arderburn will be live.
Fantastic.
And this time, we'll make a note.
We meant to raid you after the show, but with everything that happens, an hour goes by and everything falls out of my brain.
So we'll make a note.
We'll raid your channel after this.
Make sure that we pass as many people over so they can easily find the show.
But thank you again for coming on, Tony.
I really appreciate you being on, giving your perspective on what's happening with the economy and what's going on with gold and silver.
So thank you, Tony.
And of course, if you're not watching on Rumble, we won't be able to pass the viewers over.
But go find Tony on YouTube, on Rumble America Unplugged, on Twitter.
Go watch his show.
He provides a lot of great information.
He gets into a lot more granular detail on his own show than we do here.
But again, thank you, Tony.
And thank you again for setting up DavidKnight.gold.
If the listeners want to get some gold or silver, that's a great way to do it.
So we'll take a quick break.
And when I come back, we'll still continue to look at the economy and what's going on with movie theaters, if anyone still goes to them.
Stay with us.
You're listening to the David Knight Show.
Welcome back, folks.
It's always such a pleasure speaking with Tony.
It's always a fun conversation.
It makes the time pass by quickly.
It's hard to believe that was already 30 minutes.
We've got just about 50 minutes left here in this.
And as I said, we're going to look at what's going on with theaters.
AMC has warned people.
To expect up to 30 minutes of ads and trailers after major switch.
That's right, 30 minutes of trailers.
This is coming from the sun, US.
Of course, the hidden surcharge noticed by customers at the chain.
Thousands of movie fans nationwide could soon see longer advertisement periods before showtimes.
And this reminds me very much of my parents lived in Texas before we were born, before they moved back there.
They lived in Texas, moved to North Carolina, then moved back to Texas.
And when one of their family members was visiting.
I don't know if this is a quote from someone else, but he said about Texas, he'd never seen so much of so little, so far between.
And I imagine that greatly applies to the trailers that you'll be seeing in front of the theaters, in front of the movie that you go to see.
The real question is, how can they even have 30 minutes of advertisements?
What movies is Hollywood putting out?
I have not paid attention to the movies released by Hollywood in years now.
They never release anything that is worth seeing.
This is really going to be the final nail in the coffin for theaters.
There's already less and less reason to go to a movie theater as home cinemas get better and better.
But this is really going to kill it.
Yes.
I mean, sure, they don't have enough content to do 30 minutes of ads, but even if they did, no one's going to want to sit through that.
Yes, I would love to sit there and be advertised to for 30 minutes.
My dad has said that they used to have cartoons and mini features back in the day when they would go to the theater.
It wasn't just about advertising to you, about the next thing you could go watch.
They actually had stuff that you could enjoy before the movie.
Apparently people pushed back on it when it first started becoming commercials.
They started comparing it to TV.
But now that's the standard.
But they're going to up it to 30 minutes.
Hollywood's DEI stuff ruins all the content they're putting out.
There's hardly anything worth seeing.
And then add to that the fact that home theater is getting better and better.
This is going to be, you know, three strikes and you're out.
No one is going to go to theaters anymore.
It's truly amazing how completely bankrupt of ideas Hollywood has become.
I am a huge fan of the original Jurassic Park.
I like the...
I think they're both great movies.
One and two are very, very different, but I think they're both excellent films.
The third, I still enjoy it because I was young when it came out.
I've got nostalgia for it, but it's not a great film by any means.
And I was still young enough when the Jurassic World movies started to come out that I had some hope.
I was like, oh, this could be interesting.
But they rapidly proved that they were completely and utterly bereft of ideas.
And this is going to be, I think, the seventh?
Yes, the seventh Jurassic Park film.
Seven movies, and only two of them are really actually any good.
They just keep milking the same franchises.
The last one or two they released are genuinely terrible.
Yeah, I haven't.
I didn't see the third Jurassic World film.
I watched some people talk about it, and it sounded so completely and utterly disinteresting, uninteresting, that I was disinterested.
I never went to see it.
I never bothered to even watch it at home.
And they're making a fourth one in this series.
And it is, from what I can tell, full of the typical girl boss nonsense.
I have fully gone in on the idea that personally, if I see a female-led action movie, I just won't watch it.
I have zero interest.
There's only...
Sure, you guys cloned a dinosaur.
I cannot suspend my disbelief to have Scarlett Johansen beating up some giant thug.
There's only so far I'll go for it.
I mean, it's just become so cliche.
Just so many movies now, it's like, how many DEI fight scenes are there?
You know, fight scenes in which a 90-pound woman beats a dozen 200-pound men with combat experience.
Yeah.
It truly is amazing how bad American cinema has become.
As Lance pointed out, the fight scenes are incredibly bad.
They look terrible.
They don't make sense.
There's quite a few videos online detailing why American fight scenes don't work properly.
And one of them is the fact that even before the DEI stuff, they would engage in anytime a blow was about to make contact, they would make a cut to sell the blow a little bit better.
But it makes the fight scenes feel a bit weightless.
It makes it.
it makes the editing flow more smoothly, but it makes the fight scene feel less real.
Whereas when you look back on things, movies with Jackie Chan, they don't engage in that because Jackie Chan could actually fight.
He had the technical skills to do it.
He could actually do the moves that he was doing in the movie.
The choreography is excellent.
It is a pleasure to watch the way he does things.
And of course, everything coming out of Hollywood is propaganda.
It's still a waste of time, but at least it was a fun waste of time.
It was something that was actually entertaining.
They've removed the entertainment from the entertainment.
The bread and circuses have gotten worse and worse.
The bread and circuses are now lame and gay.
It's just there's no reason to go watch things at the storm or watch things at the theater.
Nights of the storm has a comment here.
Remember when paying for cable came with no ads?
Why do they run ads on services we pay for?
It drives me insane.
Just the sheer number of commercials.
As I've said, when we take a trip, we travel between here and Texas quite frequently.
And we'll stop at a hotel in the middle, you know, to break up the drive because our son is young and he shouldn't be in the car for such long periods of time.
So, you know, we take breaks every two hours or so, which drastically increases the length of the drive.
So we'll stop in the middle.
And, you know, we'll put on the TV just to see what there is.
And it feels like 60% at least of the time the TV is on, it's showing some kind of commercial for something.
It is nothing but advertisements.
Even if there was something worth watching, it would still be amazing.
It would still be annoying to have it broken up by so many commercials.
But at this point, it's all garbage.
It's bad, and then they give you majority commercials anyway.
Hollywood and the TV industry is just utterly bankrupt of ideas.
Even Pixar, I used to really like Pixar when I was a kid.
I used to really enjoy and get excited for the next Pixar movie.
But the latest one, it looks terrible.
The animation isn't cutting edge anymore.
It looks like everything else.
It's not worth it.
Marky Mark NJ, thank you for the tip, Marky Mark.
We appreciate it.
You get ads, even at the gas pumps nowadays.
Oh, oh, those drive me insane.
That's when I was starting to lose my mind at one point.
That's when I could feel the dystopia at its hardest.
When it's 110 degrees in the Texas summer, and the heat haze is rolling off the concrete around me, and the gas pump starts to scream at me about the latest celebrity drama.
But you were saying about Pixar.
It's like, yeah, I liked Pixar back when it was an entirely different studio led by different people with different people writing it and wasn't owned by Disney like everything else.
Obviously, it's going to be the same slop put out by Disney in their other studios when it's the same people running it.
You can't ship a Theseus a studio.
Just because it has the same name doesn't mean it's the same studio.
Citizens of Americaca, stunt robots coming soon?
That's right.
They'll just have robots beating each other up, which they'll green screen a fancy new background on, and they'll put the face of your favorite actor on there.
Jerry Alitalo, the Three Stooges staged more realistic fight scenes.
The Three Stooges were actually funny.
They were entertaining.
We watched a lot of Three Stooges when we were young.
We watched a lot of those classic comedies.
My favorites were the Marx Brothers.
Still haven't seen them in years, but I can remember so many of them.
T-W97401, Bruce Lee pioneered the kind of movie choreography you were speaking about.
Part of it is a lot of the Americans involved in action movies don't actually know how to fight.
They don't have any real technical skills.
And so to get around that, they do the cut when the blow lands.
They don't know how to fight, and so they can't actively do it when it's time to do it on set.
And it's a lot cheaper than paying for them to learn or have a real choreographer on set that puts these together.
It just makes the fight scenes boring.
It makes them uninteresting.
Just like everything else in Hollywood.
They used to talk about movie magic, and it used to...
It was amazing to see what they could do.
Things like, as I said, I'm a big fan of Jurassic Park.
I love the movies.
The animatronics that they used.
The T-Rex still looks great to this day.
And they used a little bit of CGI here and there to enhance it.
And now everything is just computer generated.
And it looks worse.
It looks worse.
It looks bad on top of being terrible storylines.
They can't write.
They can't act.
They can't fight.
They can't make good films.
Nostradamus, how long has David been in the hospital?
Well, he's out of the hospital now.
He is out.
He is home.
He is here with us, but he is still recovering.
He's been out of the hospital for a while.
His voice is still recovering before he does the show.
But hopefully he'll be doing something soon.
Yes.
So I am here filling in as interim assistant to the regional host.
And we just ask that you continue to pray for him.
Pray that his vocal cords and the nerves in his tongue would be healed and that he would be back in the saddle soon.
Well, perhaps that's enough rambling of me about Hollywood.
we'll get back to the article talking about AMC.
National Cinemedia is a company that provides ads to several top competitors along with AMC, but the deal will now allow AMC to get additional ads and generate more revenue, something it sorely needs.
Aside from the pandemic era when AMC nearly went bankrupt, the company recently saw its worst first quarter earnings report in nearly 30 years, per The Hollywood Reporter.
There's no...
They can't make money if Hollywood doesn't make good movies.
There's no interest in going to see the latest garbage.
And it's also the fact that they know, people know that it'll show up on a streaming service very, very soon anyway.
The deal with the National Cinemedia is also kind of a 180-degree turnaround for AMC's original position on ads in 2019.
Regal Cinemas and Cinemark theaters had signed similar agreements with the company at the time, but AMC refused.
At the time, AMC even noted that it flatly rejected the offer, detailing concerns that U.S. moviegoers would react quite negatively to the concept.
I suppose they reached a point where they just can't afford not to.
Well, we're not making any money.
Hollywood's not making anything people want to see, so we've got to make that money somehow.
And if our theaters are empty, I guess not too many people will object to the extra 30 minutes.
AMC said in June that research determined that this assumption wasn't accurate.
Inside the world's largest cinema, The Big King with 2,700-seater triple-decker Grand Hall and giant 3,000-foot screen.
While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance, company told Bloomberg.
Of course, it was Trump's lockdown that caused so many of these theaters, these issues.
It was even more of a blow than Hollywood's lack of capability.
Because a lot of people still, even if the movie is bad, are interested in just getting out of the house.
Like, well, at least I'll go to the theater.
I'll turn my brain off.
Even if the movie is not that great, at least it provides some kind of distraction.
But when things were shut down and locked down under Trump, that wasn't an option anymore.
People got out of the habit.
They became more accustomed to just sitting on their couch and streaming everything.
Maybe it's a good thing that people are bankrupting Hollywood.
Maybe we can thank Donald Trump for that, at least.
Maybe one good thing came out of the lockdown.
SoloCat 1980.
Mass media commercials clue me into what products and services to avoid.
That's right.
The more commercials you see for something, the more you can be sure it's probably a piece of garbage that you shouldn't ever buy.
Well, that's enough about Hollywood.
There's not much to say about it.
The movies are bad, the actors are bad.
It's full of weird creeps that support evil.
So that's your occasional information on the movie industry.
This is from CBS News.
Del Monte Foods files for bankruptcy and will search for a buyer.
Of course, Del Monte, as the article points out, the nearly 140-year-old company is entering Chapter 11 proceedings as part of a restructuring support agreement with its lenders.
California-based companies said about the sale and its statement will involve all or substantially all of the company's assets.
140 years and it's going bankrupt now.
Del Monte is the fourth company in the food and beverage sector to file for Chapter 11 according to data from DebtWire, a data analytics firm.
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This is from the Daily Mail.
Beloved grocery staple files for bankruptcy after 138 years on the shelf.
This is more about Del Monte.
Del Monte's portfolio extends beyond canned corn and peaches.
It also shelves household names like College Inn, known for soup broth, and Joiba's bubble tea.
Consumer demand has declined.
People want healthier foods.
A lot of people over the years have become more health conscious.
They realized that these foods are bad for them.
They are carcinogenic to some extent.
A lot of these foods have so many preservatives.
And of course, I've never been a huge fan of canned fruit.
It always tastes kind of sickly sweet.
The syrup they put in it.
I'd much rather just have a fresh peach.
This is a new article here.
We're looking at jobs lost.
As I mentioned with Tony, the private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June.
Badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says.
Well, you know, sometimes you're on point, sometimes you're off by 133,000.
We expected $100,000 increase, but we lost $33,000 instead.
What can you do?
How could this happen?
Private sector hiring unexpectedly contracted in June.
Payrolls processing firm ADP said Wednesday, and a possible sign that the economy may not be as sturdy as investors believe, as they bid the SP 500 back up to record territory to the end of the month.
Private payrolls lost 33,000 jobs in June, the ADP report showed.
And of course, the market has only a tangential tie-in to what's actually happening.
The market is a completely different beast.
It plays by its own rules, and it's about making certain people a lot of money.
And it carries on doing its own thing.
Things have to be really, really bad for the market to react.
Layoffs reach highest level since 2020, new data shows.
Here's why companies are cutting jobs.
This is from CBS News.
Layoffs across the U.S. this year have climbed to their highest level since the pandemic slammed the economy in 2020, new labor data shows.
Who was the one that locked us down during the pandemic?
Hmm.
The world may never know.
Oh wait, it was Donald Trump.
It was Donnie.
In the first half of 2025, companies announced 744,308 job cuts nationwide, the highest tally since the first six months of 2020, when employers cut nearly 1.6 jobs in response to Trump's lockdown.
They say the COVID-related, they say COVID-related, but it's Trump lockdowns.
Federal agencies have been partially hard, particularly hard hit this year amid a push by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to slash costs.
Other sectors shedding a large number of workers include retail, technology, media, and nonprofit organizations.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced it would cut just under 4% of its workforce, or roughly 9,000 employees, and what is a second major round of layoffs this year for the profitable tech giant.
I'm sure Microsoft is looking at AI and is looking at it and saying, we can replace so much of our workforce with AI.
It is going to be a boon for companies like Microsoft.
They are going to be able to replace many, many people with it.
And soon with robotics catching up, a lot of other places like Amazon will be doing that too.
They won't have people in the warehouses anymore.
It'll be robots picking the packages.
Challenger, Gray, and Christmas point to several reasons layoffs are on the rise.
The leading factor is Dog, which the firm said has accounted for nearly 287,000 cuts so far this year.
Firings by the task force led to a spike in federal worker cuts earlier this year at the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, USAID, and other agencies.
Thousands also departed through a deferred resignation program.
States in the east and southeast have seen the biggest jump in layoffs with more than 220% jump from a year ago, according to Challenger Gray and Christmas.
It's a sad Christmas.
This dramatic rise is largely due to significant reductions at federal agencies headquartered in Washington, D.C. Of course, the tariffs.
An economic slowdown in rocky financial markets has led companies to shed more than 154,000 jobs this year.
With the uncertainty that Donald Trump has put into the market with the tariffs, people not knowing if tomorrow he'll slap a heavy tariff on some country makes it very hard to do business.
Even more than the actual cost is the uncertainty.
You don't know what you can afford.
You can't grow under those conditions.
Retailers are one of the hardest hit business sectors by tariffs, inflation, and uncertainty.
Andrew Challenger, Senior Vice President of Challenger Gray in Christmas, said in a statement, consumer spending continues to fall, it can mean more job losses in this industry.
Challenger Gray directly attributes 2,000 layoffs so far this year to stepped up U.S. tariffs on foreign imports.
Other factors contributing to the wave, I suppose they mean that are contributing to the wave of layoffs, include store closings and company restructuring efforts.
Del Monte at Home in 23andMe are among the companies that have filed for bankruptcy this year.
All kinds of companies are going bankrupt.
The economy is not doing well.
Donald Trump's tariffs have caused all kinds of chaos on top of the already shaky economy and the massive debt bubble.
This is from Raw's story.
Deliberately lying, Trump hammered over horrible new trade deal.
President Donald Trump announced his second trade deal as part of his 90 Deals in 90 Days marathon.
This one is with Vietnam.
For political analysts, however, the deal doesn't look as good as Trump boasts.
It is my great honor to announce that I have just made a trade deal with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after speaking with To Lam, the highly respected general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Trump announced on True Social Wednesday.
Trump said that all imports for Vietnam will be taxed at 20% with a 40% tax on trans shipping.
Even the shipping is trans these days, folks.
He goes on to celebrate that the United States will have total access to sell U.S. goods in Vietnam.
As foreign affairs journalist Olga Nesarova explained, Trump is taxing Americans 20 to 40% while Vietnam gets products for free.
Over the country's economy, cost of living and salaries are vastly different from those in the United States.
For example, Numbio data shows that the cost of a 12-ounce bottle of soda is about 50 cents.
Monthly cell phone bill with at least 10 gigabytes of data is under $6.
A one-bedroom apartment in the city center averages $400 a month.
So they're not going to be buying American products.
They don't have the money.
It's a completely different scale.
As political and media researcher Craig Harrington explained, our trade relationship with Vietnam was growing before Trump, but we still only exported $13.1 billion worth of goods to Vietnam in 2024.
They exported $136.6 billion to us.
$13.1 versus $136.6 billion.
Tariffs aren't the reason we don't export much to Vietnam.
It's because they are poorer than we are.
They don't have the expendable income to blow on the things we send them.
Meanwhile, University of Michigan professor of public policy and economics Justin Wolfers noted on X. New trade deal just dropped.
U.S. businesses get tariff-free access to the Vietnamese market, just as they were offered eight years ago in the TPP.
But Trump refused to sign.
In addition, Trump's imposing a 20% tax on Americans who import goods from Vietnam.
Political commentator Brian Krasenstein, good old Krasenstein, posted on X that the deal is horrible for the U.S. Trump announces what appears to be a horrible trade deal for the United States and Vietnam.
American businesses will now be paying between 20 and 40% for imports coming from Vietnam.
It's literally like they want inflation.
He wrote, no, they wouldn't want that.
They wouldn't want to cause inflation, cause the American people to be unable to afford anything, to destroy the value of the dollar and turn us into permanent serfs.
That doesn't sound like the American government I know and loathe at all.
The group of Republicans against Trump agreed, noting, it sounds like a really terrible deal.
Ericton pointed out that on April 4th, there was a zero-rate tariff offer in Vietnam.
There was a zero-rate tariff offer in Vietnam was proposed.
Trump announced his Liberation Day on April 4th.
He's essentially done nothing in three months.
A true genius at work.
The art of the deal.
The art of the deal, folks.
The art of the deal is to steal your money through inflation, to destroy it.
Isn't that wonderful?
We're going to take a quick break.
When we come back, we'll continue with the economy and the big, beautiful bill.
Some people aren't happy about it, but stay with us.
We will be right back.
We will be right back.
Thank you.
Decoding the mainstream propaganda.
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And this is coming from Fox, Grover Dorquist.
Trump's big, beautiful bill and its permanent tax cuts will change the world.
It's going to change the world.
It's going to be wonderful.
It's big and it's beautiful.
And it's great to cut taxes.
We support that.
But you've also got to cut spending.
If you cut taxes and grow spending, you are simply increasing the deficit more.
It's accelerating, Trump said.
And of course, we're going to have to pay interest on that.
It's just kicking the can down the road.
And it's not as though Trump has cut taxes when you look at the bottom line with all of the tariffs that he's added and not cut the other stuff anywhere close to being enough to make up for that.
Yes.
The tariffs are just a tax coming in through the back door.
Increase taxes and increase the debt ceiling.
President Donald Trump's permanent tax cut will change the world.
The Big Beautiful Bill is the capstone of years of work to create a pro-growth tax policy.
Of course, with tariffs and inflation, we're not seeing any growth.
As we covered, we've lost 33,000 jobs just Last month alone.
It has been a bad year for the economy.
That will make the American economy so strong we will leave Europe in the dust and convince China they cannot compete with us militarily or economically.
The big bill provides lower tax rates for all, permanent, immediate expensing of business investment, tax simplification, America competing in the world economy with lower taxes, not lower wages.
Now, they really wanted to do something.
They could end the income tax.
That would be a big deal.
They could get rid of those, what was it, 70 something thousand IRS agents that they hired and gave guns to.
But they're not shrinking the IRS.
The IRS is still here, and it's still going to knock down your door, kick it in under the slightest provocation.
We are not growing the economy.
The importance of permanent 100% business expensing cannot be overstated.
This is an achievement pursued by the taxpayer movement for the past five decades.
Thanks to the bill, individuals and companies will know how to plan for the future.
But they won't because of the vacillation when it comes to tariffs, the on and off, the back and forth, Trump chickening out, saying one thing one day and another thing another.
We're going to have a 200% tariff on China.
Wait, no, we're going to take those off.
We're not going to have that.
Well, actually, we are.
You can't make plans under those kinds of conditions.
Democrats will not be able to claw back such widespread and successful tax reductions.
Republicans will not have to buy extensions of tax rate reductions as they did in defending the previous Bush tax rate reductions.
They're very optimistic about this.
Following the Trump 2017 tax cuts with its temporary expensing provisions, Americans for Tax Reform compiled over 1,200 testimonials and newspaper reports documenting new investment and higher wages and benefits.
The stories flowed in from all 50 states.
Now again, without the pandemic, White House economist Kevin Hassett found that the permanence of individual and corporate tax reductions will increase economic growth to the point that revenue will rise $4 trillion over the next decade.
That's if you believe them.
That's if you can trust their numbers.
But they raised the debt ceiling by $5 trillion.
We're going to increase revenue by $4 trillion over the next decade.
But we raised the debt ceiling to $5.
And of course, that's what it will really be.
That's what it will end up actually being.
It doesn't matter.
They say, well, we think it'll cost $3.5 trillion.
If they raise the debt ceiling to five, they will go to five.
That's how the government operates.
They will use all the headroom you give them.
Got some comments here.
The real octo spook.
Companies are laying off not hiring and firing because they cannot afford to pay workers enough to pay their government taxes, fees, fines, charges, etc.
Guard Goldsmith.
Trump's tariffs represented the biggest tax increase in 70 years.
Oh, but he's removing taxes.
He's cutting taxes, guys.
He's an anti-tax president.
The tariffs are just a tax by a different name.
It's going to cost the American people.
It's taking more money out of your pocket, out of my pocket.
Good to see you, Guard.
Hope you're doing well.
And of course, Guard has Liberty Conspiracy.
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He's incredibly hardline when it comes to Liberty.
No compromises with Guard Goldsmith, which is what we like, which is what we respect.
This is coming from Vaccine Impact.
Is Amazon really eliminating human jobs with robots?
This is what they want.
Whether it's happening right now, it will be happening in the future.
They are salivating at the idea of getting rid of people in the warehouses.
They don't want to have to pay salaries.
It'll be a lot cheaper for them to just do repairs here and there or replace the robot when it breaks down completely.
This is by Brian Chilhavi.
Amazon announced yesterday that they had added their one millionth robot to their fulfillment centers.
This announcement has led to another news frenzy about how robots are replacing humans.
Yet there was nothing in Amazon's announcement that predicted this.
It was the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the announcement that it has been repeated and spread like wildfire through both the corporate and alternative media today.
This was the opening statement of the Wall Street Journal article.
The automation of Amazon.com's facilities is approaching a new milestone.
There will soon be as many robots as humans.
While the statement was repeated far and wide to predict that robots were now taking over the labor market and replacing humans, other facts from this announcement by Amazon were completely ignored.
TechRadar, a technology publication, had a much more balanced coverage of this announcement.
Amazon Robotics VP Scott Dresser boasted that more than 700,000 employees have been upskilled since 2019 through training in robotics, engineering, and maintenance, suggesting that human roles at Amazon could be evolving rather than disappearing.
Dresser also noted that new fulfillment centers, including Shreveport, Louisiana, required 30% more technical roles to look after the tech.
Even the Wall Street Journal mentioned this later in their article and gave one example.
For some Amazon workers, the increasing automation has meant replacing menial, repetitive worklifting, pulling, and sorting with more skilled assignments, managing the machines.
Of course, I think personally this is a short-term gain.
Eventually, the robots will get to the point where it takes very few people to maintain and upkeep them.
You'll have a few people in these higher skilled positions, and they'll phase out everyone they don't need.
They'll become more reliable and more robust as the technology gets better.
And then you'll just need a few people to maintain them.
So if 1 million robots have now been added to Amazon warehouses worldwide, and over 700,000 hourly workers have retrained to operate this technology, what about technology professionals who were hired from outside Amazon, such as engineers, tech managers, tech producers who develop and maintain the equipment, etc.
That could easily make up a workforce of 1 million that offsets the 1 million robots.
As Amazon admits, Their fully automated warehouses require 30% more employees.
As I said, I think this is a temporary increase.
I don't think this will be a long-term solution.
I don't think that they're going to require this forever.
Not that I want to see the Amazon empire continue to grow.
Ideally, these people would have jobs in other companies, not Amazon.
But this is just a sign of things to come, in my opinion.
The other thing that the people predicting the end of the human labor force in favor of robots are failing to leave out of their fear-mongering reports is a picture of what these robots in Amazon warehouses look like, which is similar to the robots that many consumers already have in their homes.
Vacuum cleaner robots.
Little Roombas, just skirting around on the floor.
But again, this is just for now.
This is what it's like at the moment.
It's hard to say what it'll be like in the future.
We are caught in between these people that are techno-utopianists, where they think robots will be capable of doing anything and everything.
That they will be better, faster, and stronger than people at everything.
And certain people that don't believe anything like that is possible.
I fall somewhere in the middle, I think.
I think robots will reach a point where they're capable of doing most jobs.
Most menial jobs will be capable of being performed by robots, and they will phase us out.
That's the goal.
They don't want us working.
They want to give us subsistence handouts, UBI, universal basic income.
They want us dependent on the government.
And if you have a job where you can earn money, you're not truly totally dependent on them.
Even if they've managed to devalue your money, having a job gives you some level of freedom, some autonomy.
You're not completely beholden to the government.
Warehouse automation with robotics has been around for almost two decades now, so let's talk about some of the limitations and dangers of relying too much on the technology.
First, they need electricity to operate.
When the grid goes down, humans can still work with backup battery-operated lights.
And while all of these warehouses for sure have backup generators, have these warehouses been fully tested to see if those backup generators will have enough power to do more than just turn the lights back on and get the internet back up and running?
These robots need a ton of power to operate.
I would imagine, especially with AI, new power centers are being built as rapidly as possible to meet the demand of new data centers.
It was reported earlier this week in Texas that a new law gives grid operators the power to disconnect these data centers during a crisis.
And they link to the article.
The title is Texas Law Gives Grid Operator Power to Disconnect Data Centers During Crisis.
Another big concern to being so dependent on the technology is the software that is needed to run all of these robots.
As a former certified Microsoft systems engineer, I can tell you that this is a much bigger danger to being dependent upon all these robots.
Amazon calls its software DeepFleet and describes it like this.
Think of DeepFleet as an intelligent traffic management system for a city filled with cars moving through congested streets.
Just as a smart traffic system could reduce wait times to create better routes for drivers, DeepFleet coordinates our robots' movements to optimize how they navigate our fulfillment center.
How does one deploy this software and updates across the Amazon warehouses around the world running the software?
Through the internet.
If the internet goes down, they can't update.
So first, the internet has to be available at these warehouses, and secondly, that software can be hacked or have some bad code that could bring down everything.
As someone who does video editing and has to deal with programs, it is infuriating the number of updates that these companies push.
Because there's always something that doesn't work quite right when they first push it.
I refuse to update until it's been about two weeks.
At minimum, two weeks before I update anything so that they have a chance to encounter issues and deal with them.
The first people to get in on updates are generally the first ones to encounter the bugs.
And we saw how that works last year when a single Microsoft Windows update was deployed to millions of MS Windows computers around the world, which caused worldwide chaos when it failed, even bringing down airports' ability to show flight information.
As the article linked, one single computer glitch could cost tens of billions of losses, showing how frail technology has become.
We are very dependent on technology, and it is a shaky, shaky system.
The question is, is this technology even profitable and sustainable?
Well, again, I think in the short term, we are not in too much danger.
There's a principle where technology is overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term.
There's a lot of promises that get made about how it's just around the corner.
It'll be viable in just a few years, which oftentimes don't pan out.
But in the long term, a lot of these things do come to fruition.
In the long term, I think this will be a viable alternative for having humans doing a lot of these jobs.
In the short term, I think we are safe.
You know, they're having, as he's pointed out, to hire people to take care of them.
More tech jobs are being added.
But again, I believe that's only in the short term.
It was also just announced a few days ago that Waymo quietly just shut down its Detroit plant.
Self-driving car company Waymo quietly closed its Detroit plant.
Google-affiliated autonomous vehicle company Waymo shuttered its plant in Detroit earlier this year after shifting resources and production down south.
The developer of self-driving shuttle technology, along with its automotive supplier partner Magna, ceased operations at a factory at least from American Axle Manufacturing Inc.
in the first quarter.
Waymo spokesman Chris Benelli confirmed to Automotive News, affiliate Crane's Detroit business.
The fact is that Silicon Valley still has too much money to throw away on science fiction.
They can continue to develop it whether consumers want it or not.
Robots cannot replace humans.
They can make humans more efficient, but humans are still needed to run them.
America's over-reliance on technology will be her downfall.
Perhaps we are already watching it happen.
I agree.
You are going to need people to run these things.
You will need people to monitor and observe them and make sure they are running properly.
But I think it is going to come as a drastic reduction in human workforce.
Not necessarily, as I said, tomorrow.
Not necessarily immediately.
But I think it's, as I said before, more around the corner than too far to see.
It's close.
It's not immediate.
It won't happen tomorrow.
Probably not next year.
Maybe not even in 10 years.
But in my lifetime, I imagine they'll get this worked out to the point where they phase out a large portion of human jobs.
The U.S. and Israel were forced to end the war after only 12 days as they ran out of bombs.
Iran, on the other hand, stated that they have used only 5% of their missiles.
So what does Iran have?
That the U.S. doesn't human labor.
Factories and the ability to make lots of bombs.
The U.S. and Israel thought they could rely on their technology to use espionage and terrorism to kill Iran's top military leaders, hoping to cripple its military.
It didn't.
As Iran recovered quickly and showed superior hardware made by human labor in factories that probably had zero robots working in them.
I think he is right.
I do think human labor is superior.
I do think that the human aspect allows you to adapt on the fly to produce a higher quality product.
But I don't think that's what these people want.
I don't think they really care about producing a better, higher quality product.
In the long run, I think they will be content to produce inferior products and phase out the human component.
We've got just a few minutes left here, and we've got a lot of comments that I want to get to.
Radis Bro, I thought it was well known Amazon had nothing but robots.
No humans are even allowed on the floor because it's all bots.
That's right, it's all robots.
You try to get in there, a Terminator grabs you and chucks you out the door.
Radis Bro, again, Amazon is going full automation.
Drones giving you your items, drone drivers, robot workers.
Front porch media, Amazon will have its own nuclear power plant, I bet.
Nuclear power brought to you by Amazon.
Jeff Bezos is salivating at the idea.
Angry Tiger's den between AI and robots, they do not need us anymore.
I think that day is coming.
As I said, I don't think it's here just yet.
I think they're desperate for it to be here and will be here soon, within my lifetime.
But as I said, they overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term as a general rule.
But we'll have to wait and see.
It's coming.
One day, they'll be happy to get rid of the last human worker.
Radisbro, your best bet is moving into the repair and maintain robot job before they get that one replaced.
That's right.
You gotta know how to repair your robot overlords.
They're gonna need some meat bags with hands to fix the delicate little fiddly bits.
No, I don't think robots, I don't think anything like the Terminator, Skynet, is happening.
But I think the people, the very, very rich, the people who really run things, will be happy to put robots in charge.
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