Mon Episode #2048: “One Big Beautiful Lie”: Trump’s Budget Bill Explodes Debt & Betrays the Base
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It's the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it is Monday, the 7th of July, the year of our Lord 2025.
Donald Trump isn't content to just bankrupt casinos.
He's now gambling with the future of the United States.
The government says the economy is doing fine, but nearly 50% of the jobs that have been quote-unquote created are government jobs.
And now Donald Trump is working on amnesty for millions of illegals.
Sorry, MAGA, no refunds.
Stay with us.
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Welcome back.
Good morning.
I hope you all had a wonderful Independence Day weekend, despite the fact that America is not so independent anymore.
I know that Angry Tiger deals with fireworks and sells a lot of them.
And I hope that he was able to provide a lot of people some entertainment this weekend.
Hope you had a good weekend.
Hope you all did as well as I said.
It was fun for us.
We had a good time.
Let's get right into the one big beautiful bill, because that's the main topic of discussion here.
But first, actually, I see we've got a comment from Atomic Dog.
Will today be David's triumphant comeback?
We will know soon enough.
I'm sorry to say that it is not today, but it will be soon.
Right before the show, we talked about it.
Said he's not going to wait for his voice to fully recover.
But the main thing is that he's just so tired all the time for the medication he's on.
But he will be coming back soon.
So you can have that to look forward to.
And I have that to look forward to.
I know we're all so excited to have him back.
As I said, we're going to start with the one big, beautiful bill.
And as I said, he's not content to just bankrupt casinos.
He's now gambling with all our futures.
On Thursday, Congress passed the one big, beautiful bill.
And this is from Zero Hedge, One Big, Beautiful Budget Deficit.
That's right.
It's definitely big.
I wouldn't call it beautiful.
Congress passed the One Big Beautiful bill that is supposed to include all Trump's promises on fiscal policy in his second term.
The bill includes tax cuts and additional spending on Republican priorities.
The bill will extend the income tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which were set to expire by the end of the year.
It would have caused a fiscal cliff.
I think we're still moving towards that fiscal cliff.
They've just pushed it back a little bit.
There will be tax deductions for taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security.
The bill includes additional spending on defense and immigration enforcement.
Immigration enforcement.
We're going to take a look at that as well later.
To finance the tax cuts and additional spending, or at least some of it, there are tax increases for spending cuts and democratic priorities.
The tax credits for purchasing electric vehicles from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will be terminated.
What's more new taxes on wind and solar energy projects will be imposed if they use too much foreign content?
Federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, will be reduced and the slack should be picked up by the states.
There will also be cuts in spending on Medicaid, the healthcare program for low-income people.
Finally, at the request of Trump, and much to the dismay of fiscal hawks, the debt limit will be raised by $5 trillion.
And of course, as we've said on the show, if that's what they're raising the debt limit to, that's the debt limit they will hit.
They're not going to sit back and hold back on spending.
They will hit whatever the upper limit is.
That's how they always operate.
They always do that.
That's the bottom line.
And they will always hit the bottom line.
However, the bill front loads tax cuts and delays spending cuts, causing a fiscal cliff at the end of 2028.
Well, we've pushed it back a little bit.
Isn't that wonderful?
I'm sure it won't only get worse as time goes on.
Therefore, the upward impact on the budget deficit in the next 10 years could be even larger.
And of course, this isn't could.
It's a certainty.
It's always how they operate.
This is the modus operandi of the federal government.
It is only ever about increasing the deficit.
A large part of what the Republicans and their proxies are trying to sell as tax cuts are actually extensions of the TCJA, which have been widely anticipated.
Meanwhile, the increase in defense spending is relatively modest and keeps it below what other NATO members have pledged as percentage of GDP.
Well, that's right.
We're spending just a modest amount on the military-industrial complex.
We already spend more than anyone anyway.
It's just that.
It's not as much of a percentage of the GDP.
The One Big Beautiful Budget Act of 2025 underlines that two traditional wings of the Republican Party, the fiscal hawks, the foreign policy hawks, have been pushed aside by the MAGA movement.
Have they?
Have they really taken over?
Or is it business as usual?
Because I don't see much of what the MAGA movement wanted being represented in government at all.
In fact, as I said, Trump is completely turning his back on one of his main uh policies that got him elected.
He's contemplating amnesty.
Isn't that wonderful?
The U.S. Congress has passed the one big beautiful bill that is supposed to include all Trump's promises on fiscal policy in his second term.
The self-imposed deadline was for the Senate and the House of Representatives to get a uniform bill to President Trump's desk by July 4th.
Rand Paul voted nay because of the rise in the debt limit.
In contrast, Susan Collins and Tom Tillis found the Medicaid cuts too deep to support the bill.
Today in the final vote of the House of Representatives, there were 218 votes in favor of the bill, 218 Republicans, 214 against, all 212 Democrats and two Republicans.
Thomas Massey voted against the bill because he wanted more spending cuts, calling the bill a debt bomb.
And he's right, it is a debt bomb.
It is going to explode, and it is going to be the American people that pay the price for it.
Now, what is in the bill?
I'm sure we don't know all of it yet.
I'm sure there's stuff buried in there that no one has fully explored.
One big, beautiful budget act, the OBBBA of 2025, includes tax cuts and additional spending on Republican priorities.
The bill will extend the income tax provisions and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, TCJA, of course, of 2017, the main fiscal policy package of Trump's first term.
These tax cuts were set to expire by the end of the year, would have caused a fiscal cliff.
There'll be tax deductions for taxes on tips, overtime, and social security.
But of course, the income tax and the IRS remain, they're still here.
Isn't that wonderful?
There will also be a rise in child tax credits, the deduction cap on state and local taxes, salt will also be raised.
The bill includes additional spending on defense and immigration enforcement.
The latter will be improved by extending the border wall.
Well, isn't that wonderful?
They're going to extend the border wall.
They keep talking about that.
They bring up the border wall whenever they want to.
Seem like they're really doing something.
Of course, no impact to all of the benefits offered to illegals once they get here.
If you climb over that border wall, then you get all the free stuff.
Just you gotta get around the border walls first.
If you manage to find a ladder and sneak your way in, don't worry, you still get the welfare.
Largest items in defense spending are shipbuilding, the Golden Dome Defense System against foreign missiles and replenishing the stock of ammunition.
That's right, we're gonna waste a ton of money on the Golden Dome Defense System.
He went to Israel and thought, wow, they've got an iron dome.
What if we had a golden dome?
Of course their iron dome is working out so well for them.
Uh-huh.
It's fighting the war of previous years.
It's not about missiles anymore.
It's about drones.
Drones that can very easily take out targets such as power stations and transformers.
But even their missiles are getting through their Iron Dome.
The Iranian missiles are getting through.
Of course, we covered that article where Russia was working on a missile that may have already out-moded things like the Iron Dome and the Golden Dome.
The technology is advancing.
Still leave defense spending at about 2.7% of GDP by 2034, which is well below the target that other NATO members have pledged at the recent summit in The Hague.
When the U.S. tried to outrun the Soviet Union during the Reagan years, the U.S. spent more than 6% of GDP.
Was that even a good thing?
Was that necessary?
I'm of course not old enough to really know about those things.
I can only read about them from the past.
But it seems like it might have been a waste of time and money on our part.
Seems like it might not have been necessary or worthwhile.
Tax credits for purchasing electric vehicles from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will be terminated.
This was one of Trump's campaign pledges.
Of course, the debt limit will be raised.
My dad said we should call him deficit Don because that's what he is.
He's raising the deficit by a gigantic amount.
It is going to be ridiculous.
The Republicans have always pushed themselves as the fiscal hawks.
We're going to balance the budget.
We're going to get it right.
We're going to make sure the government runs smoothly and efficiently and not run into a massive amount of debt.
But they've thrown that out the window.
They don't even try to pretend anymore.
They don't care.
They've given up on that.
They don't have to pretend.
It's reached a point where most people, I think, have the feeling that it doesn't matter.
We're so far deep in debt, there's nothing we can do to get out of it.
So what's the point?
On July 1st, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill, as passed by the Senate, would decrease budget deficits by $0.4 trillion relative to the budget enforcement baseline.
But that doesn't make any sense.
We know that isn't true because they raised the debt ceiling.
If you know that you're going to cut the deficit and you're going to cut down on spending by $0.4 trillion, you don't raise the debt ceiling to $5 trillion.
They assumed that these tax provisions would expire in line with then current law and with the common practice of budget scoring by the CBO, so taken together the budget impact of these tax extensions has been deleted.
This is truly one big, beautiful magic act.
As Lindsey Graham put it last week, I'm the king of numbers.
I'm Zeus.
I'm the budget king.
With a simple shift in accounting, trick one, $3.8 trillion, has disappeared into a black hole in time inconsistency.
In the same letter on July 1st, the nonpartisan CBO stated that compared with their January 2025 baseline, budget projections, it would increase deficits over the 2025 through 2034 period by $3.4 trillion.
So in reality, the OBBA has a significant upward impact on the budget deficit.
What's more, the bill front loads tax cuts in the next few years and delays spending cuts.
We don't like cutting down on our spending here in the United States.
We love our spending.
We love our spending, don't we, folks?
And of course, this is your daily reminder that taxes have gone up in total with the tariffs that have not been replacing the income tax as people were hoping they would.
That's right.
Well, we'll put on the tariffs, but we'll get rid of the income tax, and that'll actually be a benefit to us.
But no, we're going to put on the tariffs, we're going to keep the income tax, and we're going to grow the IRS.
Despite the large rise in the budget deficit, the upward impact on the growth trajectory of the U.S. economy is likely to be limited.
A large part of what the Republicans and their proxies are trying to sell as tax cuts are actually extensions of the income tax provisions in the TCJA.
In fact, the one big beautiful bill is removing the fiscal cliff that loomed at the end of the year.
What's more, the extension has been widely anticipated because the Republicans could not afford the fiscal cliff from an electoral perspective.
So this should not change the growth projections of the U.S. economy.
That's right, these have all been kind of expected.
People have known this was coming.
This isn't something that is going to have a major impact that wasn't accounted for already.
People knew that the Republicans could not afford this.
They couldn't afford to have everything hit under their leadership.
No, we're going to push it out to 2028.
Well, they're going to try anyway.
We'll see if it succeeds.
This is still a house of cards, and it could come down at any time.
There's only so many ways you can scam the system.
No serious attempt has been made to improve the U.S. public debt trajectory.
Fiscal discipline has gone out the window.
On Capitol Hill, and the few remaining fiscal hawks are at best slowing down the upward trajectory of the debt.
This leaves the enforcement of U.S. fiscal discipline to the bond vigilantes.
However, they are faced with limited alternatives to U.S. treasuries.
Nevertheless, as far as they are able and willing to diversify away from U.S. Treasuries, they could demand higher yields.
In the long run, this is increasingly likely.
In conclusion here, in this article from Zero Hedge, in the end, this bill is essentially about extending the Trump tax cuts of 2017 and adding some new tax cuts promised during the presidential campaign of 2024.
Despite spending cuts on clean energy programs and health care for low-income Americans, the fiscal hawks saw their wings clipped again and the U.S. public debt continues to rise.
That's right.
Deficit Dawn.
The corruption always wins in D.C. The corrupt always win in D.C. That's their home turf.
That's where they go.
Deficit Dawn.
KWD 68.
Good to see you.
I saw where the IDF is destroying wells in Gaza.
Let's send them some more money.
Satan Yahoo is going to come tell us about their hostages this week.
That's right.
Gotta fund this insanity in the Middle East.
We have to fund a genocide.
They're our greatest ally.
KWD 68 Not a single agency will close.
The debt will increase bigly, and there will be wars, the best wars.
That's right.
Only big, beautiful wars for our Adoni boy.
Not any of these small, pathetic, ugly wars.
We're gonna have big, beautiful wars.
Knights of the Storm, good to see you, Jason.
I hope you're doing well.
Talking about seeing what's in the bill, shouldn't your tax bill be itemized?
I would like an itemized list of what they spend my money on.
I think that should be required.
Well, I'm with you there, but I'm sure they would not want to give you that.
I feel that might reveal some things that they wouldn't be too happy with.
Guard Goldsmith, and the Ice Push is going to bring in an E Verify tracking system.
Now they're going to track and trace everyone.
They're going to say, well, it's for illegal immigrants, as Donald Trump is working towards amnesty for certain groups of illegals.
That's right.
No refunds, MACA.
No refunds at all.
KWD 68.
Keep in mind that the debt increase increases at least 3.5 trillion in the next 10 years.
The current interest is another $1 trillion.
Then there's the additional spending.
The interest alone would is an absurd amount, an unfathomable amount.
It's not really an amount we can get out of.
There's not really a way to fix this, I don't believe.
Nights of the storm, we can roll over the national debt to the new CBDC credit card for lower interest rates for 24 months.
That's right.
24 months, no interest.
Just give all your freedoms.
Give all your privacy.
Isn't that wonderful?
KWD68, third party will save us.
Baphomet suit must to the rescue.
Third party.
Normal isn't returning, people.
Jesus is.
That's right.
Normal isn't coming back.
This is what we're this is the new normal.
Isn't it wonderful?
But yes, Jesus is coming back.
We don't know the hour or the day, but he is coming.
And that is a hopeful thought.
This is from antiwar.com.
House passes Trump's big, beautiful bill.
That bill will bring the 2026 military budget over $1 trillion.
That's right.
We finally cracked a trillion dollars on the military budget.
The bill includes $150 billion in additional military spending.
$113 billion of it will be used to supplement the 2026 military budget.
The House on Thursday passed a massive piece of legislation dubbed the Big Beautiful Bill by President Trump that includes an extra military spending to bring the 2026 military budget over $1 trillion.
The legislation includes $150 billion additional military spending and the White House plans to use $113 billion of it to supplement the 2026 military budget, bringing it to approximately $1.006 trillion.
Isn't that wonderful?
Should all get out the sparklers and clap.
We finally cracked the trillion for military spending.
Just in time for the 4th of July.
Exactly.
Woo!
Can't get enough of that military budget.
We do such wonderful things with it.
$150 billion will go towards several military priorities of the Trump administration, including the so-called Golden Dome.
Plan for a sprawling missile defense system in the United States that's sure to kick off a new arms race.
Be a boondoggle.
I'm sure that it will be, as I said, a boondoggle.
And I also wonder where it's going to go.
Are they going to have to use eminent domain to seize people's property to put in some of these installations?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Donald Trump loves his eminent domain.
He always has.
Long before he got into politics, he was willing to use eminent domain.
Electric vehicle tax breaks will expire on September 30th as the big, beautiful bill passes.
Of course.
Sweeping tax and budget legislation approved by Congress on Thursday means the $7,500 tax credits for buying or leasing new electric vehicles will end at September 30th, as well as a 4,000 used EV credit that have helped juice green vehicle sales in recent years.
That's right.
The taxpayers have been funding the purchase of these vehicles.
You have been getting scammed on the deal.
By help juice, they mean actually creating the entire industry because, according to all these manufacturers, they can't sustain themselves without that money.
No, no, if you get rid of our supplementation, we're just going to wither and die.
When you think about it, the EV tax was always a tax on the poor for the wealthy.
It's the people that can afford new, nice cars getting an advantage from everyone else who can't.
Yes.
Or those that are too smart to get suckered in by one of these things.
True, I say new, but I mean expensive.
Yes.
Congress first approved a $7,500 EV tax credit in 2018 that it phased out after manufacturers hit 200,000 vehicles.
Credit was expanded in 2022 to cover leased vehicles, and the per-manufacturer cap was lifted.
Separately, U.S. automakers stand to receive significant benefits from the final bill that eliminates penalties for failing to meet corporate average fuel economy shortfalls.
The measure makes it easier for automakers to build gas-powered vehicles.
Well, that's good.
That is good.
I would love to see some more gas-powered vehicles that actually are worth buying.
Yes, last year, Chrysler parents, Stellantis, paid $190.7 million in civil penalties.
Of course, that's for not meeting emissions mandates for these insane, made-up pieces of legislation.
The final bill, Congress dropped a planned $250 annual fee for EVs to pay for road repairs, as well as a requirement that the U.S. Postal Service sell off its EV delivery vehicles.
So they're really just getting rid of the tax credits.
They're not going to penalize people for buying these things.
I'm also curious what the wear and tear on the roads are by electric vehicles, since they're so gosh darn heavy comparatively to your standard car.
I'm curious if they have contributed to road deterioration faster than normal.
KWD 68.
The fix to the national debt is an economic collapse that Trump has worked hard for.
One world CBDC reset.
If you have bonds, trade them for gold.
KWD has been on fire today.
Lots of great points.
And of course, if you would like to buy gold, you can go to davidknight.gold.
Tony Arburn has set that up.
Again, I don't make any economic predictions.
I don't give financial advice.
But if you would like to buy gold or silver, that's where you can do it.
Tesla delivers its 200,000th car.
This is an article from 2018.
And of course, as the previous article pointed out, the tax credits were phased out once you hit 200,000 cars.
And Tesla hit that in 2018.
This article describes Tesla delivering its 200,000th vehicle, triggering the phase-out period for the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles.
The phase-out period will reduce the credit amount for buyers, with the credit being completely phased out for vehicles delivered after December 31st, 2019.
Now, this article is from July 13th, 2018.
Tesla has delivered its 200,000th vehicle this month, July 2018, triggering the phase-out period of the $7,500 federal tax credit.
Elon Musk had known about the push to get rid of the tax credits.
Donald Trump had talked about it before.
It already happened once before they extended it again.
This is not what is causing him to freak out about the Big Beautiful bill, or at least not the main point, I don't think.
I think this is just a blow to his ego when it comes to Dogue.
You mean I went in and did those cuts.
I tried to make myself look good by doing it, and you're going to ignore all that.
I think it is simply an obfuscation on Trump's part to say he's just mad about the removal of the tax credit.
Seen on Tesla's official electric vehicle incentives page, the phase-out period for the $7,500 federal tax credit is in effect for all Model S, Model X, and Model 3 vehicles delivered on or before December 31st, 2018.
All buyers taking delivery in 2019 will only be eligible for a subset of that original $7,500 credit.
Customers taking delivery between January 1st to June 30th, 2019 will be eligible for a $3,700 federal tax credit, or half of the full amount before phase-out.
Those taking delivery in the second half of 2019 between July 1st and December 31st, 2019, will be eligible for a $1,875 federal tax credit.
That's right, they slowly stair-stepped it down.
Yes, Tesla has exceeded the 200,000 vehicle cap for federal EV tax credits in the United States as outlined in earlier tax Credit programs, the federal EV tax credit program under the Internal Revenue Service.
Over the Inflation Reduction Act, IRA of 2022 modified the EV tax credit system, removing the 200,000 vehicle cap for manufacturers starting in 2023, but it introduced new eligibility requirements such as battery components, sourcing, and income limit for buyers.
That's right.
This is a chat from Grok that is discussing what happened with it.
And of course, Trump campaigned on stopping it, as I said.
But Elon Musk knew this wasn't a blind side.
This wasn't something that caught him by surprise.
We're going to take a quick break.
When we get back, we're going to take a look at this article from the Free Thought Project.
Inaliable Rights in an Age of Tyranny.
What does independence really mean this 4th of July?
Well, we'll find out, folks.
Tunnel Lord, 1337.
Also, I want to see diesel cars again.
Those things were awesome with their gas mileage.
Yes, diesel has been demonized and penalized for years now.
I remember before Hurricane Katrina, diesel was substantially cheaper than gasoline was.
Then afterwards, it jumped up and has never come back down.
I remember they were talking about how Hurricane Katrina was going to take out all the refineries and it was going to destroy the diesel pipeline.
It was going to make it impossible to get diesel.
So the prices immediately went through the roof before anything happened.
And then none of that came to pass, but the diesel prices never came back down because why would they?
They were making so much money.
We'll be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Unlike most revolutions, where the people rise against a real economic oppression, in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
As I said, we're going to look at inalienable rights in an age of tyranny.
What does independence really mean this 4th of July?
And this is from the Free Thought Project.
We've got some comments here.
The mic is open.
Kingdom law.
The U.S. cannot be the world's bully indefinitely.
There always comes a bigger and batter bully.
Otherwise, we go the way of the Roman Empire.
Expiration via implosion.
We do have some barbarians at the gates, don't we?
KWD68, Audi, still sells the diesel A5 in Europe.
I'd love to see the diesel jetta back.
Yeah.
They've gotten rid of most diesels here in the United States.
It is.
Of course, that was a deliberate thing with their extreme reaction to VW having a slightly different emissions than what they put on the test, whether they cheated or not with a very slight amount.
They just destroyed their entire diesel line.
Minuteman Militia.
My buddy had a little VW diesel.
That thing went forever on a tank.
Yes, diesel gets great gas mileage, and as a general rule, the engines tend to be very reliable as well.
There's many reasons to want diesel to come back.
When the government, whether president, congress, court, or local bureaucrat, claims the right to determine who does and doesn't deserve rights, then no one is safe.
Individuals become faceless numbers, human beings become statistics, lives become expendable, dignity becomes disposable.
This is from the Rutherford Institute, and you can find it on the Free Thought Project.
When a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such a government.
And that, of course, is from the Declaration of Independence.
And it sounds very much like what is going on today.
We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic transformed into a kleptocracy, which of course is governed by thieves, collapsing into cacistocracy, government by the worst and enforced by police state algocracy, rule by algorithm.
This week alone, the Trump administration is reportedly erecting protest barricades around the White House.
Congress is advancing legislation that favors the wealthy, and President Trump is grandstanding at the opening of a detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz.
That's right, Alligator Alcatraz.
Against such a backdrop of government-sponsored cruelty, corruption, and shameless profiteering at taxpayer expense, what to the average American is freedom in an age where the government plays God, determining who is worthy of rights, who qualifies as a citizen, and who can be discarded without consequence?
This is why we were so set on making sure that even when you're throwing someone out of the country, they deserve due process.
Because if you remove rights for one person, it gives the government free reign to do it for everyone.
What are inaliable rights worth if they can be redefined, delayed, or revoked by executive order?
Frederick Douglass posed a similar challenge more than 170 years ago when he asked, What to the American slave is your fourth of July?
His question was a searing indictment not just of slavery, but of a government that proclaimed liberty while denying it to millions, a hypocrisy that persists in a system still governed by institutions more committed to power than principle.
Every branch of government, executive, legislative, judicial, has in one way or another abandoned its duty to uphold the Constitution, and both parties have prioritized profit, political theater over justice and the rights of the government, of the rights of the governed.
Founders of this nation believed our rights come from God.
Of course we see the modern government, the modern people who are in charge of everything seem to ascribe more to BF Skinner's ideology.
They want to go beyond freedom and dignity.
As in those are archaic principles we no longer need to care about.
We need to break people of them.
They don't deserve it.
They don't need it.
What they need is to be brought into line, to be controlled.
That's what BF Skinner was talking about.
That we are born free, not made free by bureaucrats or judges.
That among these rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, none can be taken away without destroying the very idea of government by consent.
When the presidents rule by fiat, when agencies strip citizens of citizenship from naturalized Americans, when police act as both enforcers and executioners, and when courts rubber stamp the erosion of basic protections, the distinction between a citizen and a subject begins to collapse.
That's right.
Do you feel more like a citizen or a subject?
What do inalienable rights mean in a country where your citizenship can be revoked based solely on government's say so?
Your freedom can be extinguished by surveillance, asset seizure, or indefinite detention.
Your property can be taken, your speech censored, and your life extinguished without due process.
Your life can be ended without a trial, a warning, or a second thought because the government views you as expendable.
That's right.
If you show up on their list of people they need to do a no-knock raid on, there's no guarantee you're making that out of it.
The government sees you as expendable and non-essential, as Trump has made clear in his first term.
And not just that, but they may view you as a threat if you actually care about these things.
If you stand up for liberty, they may view you as someone that needs to be dealt with.
When the government, whether president, Congress, court, or local bureaucrat, claims to determine who does and doesn't deserve rights, then no one is safe.
Individuals become faceless numbers, human beings become statistics, lives become expendable, dignity becomes disposable.
It is a slippery slope, justified in the name of national security, public safety, and the so-called greater good.
And of course, we saw that in spades, we saw that taken to the extreme with COVID-19.
It's for the greater good, it's for the public health.
So you have to be locked down.
Your business must be destroyed.
Grandma has to die alone in the hospital because it's for the greater good.
Don't you know the government loves you and cares about you and wants what's best for you?
You just have to accept that they're going to put their boot on your throat.
Imagine living in a country where government agents crash through doors to arrest citizens merely for criticizing government officials, where police stop and search you on a whim, where carrying anything that resembles a firearm might get you arrested or killed.
Where surveillance is constant, dissent is criminalized, and loyalty is enforced through fear.
If you're thinking this sounds like America today, you wouldn't be far wrong.
But this scenario isn't new.
It's the same kind of tyranny that drove American colonists to sever ties with Great Britain nearly 250 years ago.
Back then, American colonists lived under the shadow of an imperial power in an early police state that censored their speech, surveilled their movements, taxed their livelihoods, searched their homes without cause, quartered troops in their towns, and punished them for daring to demand liberty.
In fact, it was probably a lighter yoke under Great Britain at that time.
It was probably not as bad as it is today.
It was only when colonists finally got fed up with being silenced, censored, searched, frisked, threatened, and arrested that they finally revolted against the tyrant's fetters.
A declaration of independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson and signed on July 4th, 1776 by fifty six men who risked everything was their response.
It was more than a list of grievances, it was a document seething with outrage over a government which had betrayed its citizens, a call to arms against the system that had ceased to represent the people and instead sought to dominate them.
Labeled traitors these men were charged with treason, a crime punishable by death because they believed in a radical idea that all people are created to be free.
For some their acts of rebellion would cost them their homes and their fortunes, for others it would be the ultimate price, their lives.
Yet even knowing the heavy price they might have to pay, these men dared to speak up.
They understood that silence in the face of tyranny is complicity, so they stood together, pledging our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to the cause of freedom.
Even after they had won their independence from Great Britain, these new Americans worked to ensure that the rights they had risked their lives to secure would remain secure for future generations.
The result was our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitutions, to the Constitution.
Imagine the shock and outrage of these 56 men would feel were they to discover that almost 250 years later, government they risked their lives to create had been transformed into a militaristic police state, In which exercising one's freedoms, at a minimum merely questioning a government agent, is often viewed as a flagrant act of defiance.
We see that over and over again.
Merely asking questions of these government agents causes them to spiral, causes them to view you as a threat.
In fact, had Jefferson and his compatriots written the Declaration of Independence today, they would most certainly be labeled extremists, placed on a government watchlist targeted by surveillance and prosecuted as domestic threats.
That's right.
If you even quote a founding father today without context, you'll get labeled an extremist or a terrorist.
In context, for the most part, a lot of it.
Yes.
I mean, that if you were to quote it without context, they would most happily do it publicly.
If you do it with context, they'll probably do it privately and put you on a list.
But with context, if you just say, no, this is a quote from Thomas Jefferson, they'd probably be forced to.
Oh, isn't that interesting?
Well, maybe we move past that kind of mentality.
But you're definitely going on a list behind the scenes.
Had Jefferson written the Declaration about the American Police State in 2025, might have read like a criminal indictment of the crimes perpetrated by a government that polices by fear and violence.
Raiding family homes in the dead of night with SWAT teams that shoot pets and traumatized children, targeting vulnerable individuals, including the disabled, and neurodivergent for arrest under pretext of noncompliance.
Killing unarmed citizens for not complying quickly enough, using roadside cavity searches and rectal probes as tools of humiliation and control.
Surveils and represses dissent, spying on its own citizens, reading private messages, tracking movements, and mining personal data.
Collecting DNA from innocent Americans and compiling biometric databases without consent.
Tracking drivers with license plate scanners and red light cameras without due process.
Detaining protesters, journalists, and whistleblowers without trial, often labeling them as domestic threats, jailing veterans for criticizing the government, placing ordinary Americans on watch lists and labeling dissent as terrorism.
Seizing property through civil asset forfeiture without charges or due process.
Building secret prisons and detention centers shielded from judicial oversight, stripping citizenship from those it seems it deems disloyal, making constitutional rights conditional, criminalizing homelessness, dissent and disloyalty as pretext for exclusion and punishment,
criminalizing routine behavior under vague laws that fuel mass incarceration and over criminalization, concentrates unchecked power in the executive, bypassing Congress with executive orders, sidelining the courts and ruling by a decree.
Of course we have a useless, feckless Congress that is more than happy to abdicate power and let the executive do whatever he wants.
Thank you, Mike Johnson, but of course it's been going on longer than Mike Johnson has been in office.
He's just the current face of it.
Weaponizing federal agencies to suppress opposition and silence critics, treating constitutional limits as optional, and the presidency as a personal fiefdom.
And these are not isolated abuses.
They are the logical outcomes of a government that has turned against its people.
That's right, you are the enemy of the state.
You are a threat to their power.
This week's spectacle, protest barricades, legislation to benefit the rich, and Trump's appearance at Alligator Alcatraz, aka Gator Gitmo, shows how completely we have inverted the spirit of 1776.
That a president would celebrate the 4th of July while inaugurating a modern day internment camp far from the reach of the courts or the Constitution speaks volumes about the state of our nation and the extent to which those in power now glorify the very forms of tyranny the founders once rose up against.
This is not law and order.
This is rule by fear and intimidation.
Oh, you said something we don't like.
We might revoke your citizenship.
You might end up in Alligator Alcatraz.
You might end up in the swamp with the gators, don't you know?
This is political theater, carceral cruelty, and authoritarianism in plain sight.
It is what happens when a nation that once prided itself on liberty now builds monuments to its own fear and domination.
President Trump is now marketing his own line of fragrances, a exercise so absurd it would be laughable if it weren't a flagrant violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause.
And of course it doesn't pass the sniff test.
His investments are booming, and all across administration, top officials are shamelessly using public office to line their pockets, even as they push legislation to strip working class Americans of the most basic benefits and protections while claiming to be rooting out corruption and inefficiency.
This is not governance, this is kleptocracy, and it is happening in plain sight.
It has gotten more obvious under Donald Trump.
It has gotten more open.
They just do what they want.
In previous administration, previous years, they at least had to have some level of plausible deniability.
They had to make it look like, oh, how did this happen?
This is a mistake.
We didn't mean to.
Trump is just bold faced with it.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't have to.
We are being robbed blind by political grifters and corporate profiteers.
We are being silenced by bureaucrats and blacklists.
We are being watched by data miners and digital spies.
We are being caged by militarized enforcers with no regard for the Constitution.
We are being ruled by presidents who govern not by law, but by executive decree.
Given the fact that we are a relatively young nation, it hasn't taken very long for an authoritarian regime to creep into power.
Unfortunately, the bipartisan coup that laid siege to our nation did not happen overnight.
The architecture of oppression, surveillance, militarism, censorship, propaganda was built slowly, brick by brick, law by law, war by war.
As I've said, these people think on longer timelines than we do.
They're very happy to plan things decades in advance.
They're not simply looking at it in months to years, but decades to multiple decades.
They know that if they just wait long enough, if they do it slowly enough, they can get their way.
It's snuck in under our radar, hiding behind the guise of national security, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on immigration, political correctness, hate crimes, and a host of other official sounding programs aimed at expanding the government's power at the expense of individual freedoms.
The building blocks for the bleak future we're just now getting a foretaste of police shootings of unarmed citizens, profit driven prisons, weapons of compliance, a wall to wall surveillance state pre crime programs, the suspect society, school to prison pipelines, militarized police, over criminalization, SWAT team raids, endless wars, etc were put in place by government officials we trusted to look out for our best interest.
Of course we were foolish to trust them on that, weren't we?
We've got some comments here.
Britt Belly, the Epstein list no longer exists, Trump was on it and has had all evidence destroyed.
Trump's Bondi and Patel are not going to release anything else about Epstein saying there is no evidence.
That's right, we saw Cash Patel come out and come out and say, well, you know, I've seen it and there's nothing on it.
You don't have to worry about it.
Case closed, move along.
KWD 68.
We, the people, put up with much more than our 18th century forebears did.
That's right.
We're very passive comparatively.
We're very mild.
Defy Tyrants 1776.
Trump has done one thing very well, and that's turning America into a police state where armed mass government thugs get out of vans and kidnap people at gunpoint.
Gotta be good at something, I guess.
Defy tyrants again.
You will either be ruled by God or ruled by tyrants.
It's obvious that Americans have rejected God and embraced a tyrant.
Minute Man Militia.
I think one of the worst parts of all this is the unwavering commitment of MAGA.
It is truly sad to see how many people, no matter what he does, no matter how obvious it is.
They don't care.
Well, you don't understand.
It's 4D chess.
He's owning the libs.
He's saying mean things to journalists.
Isn't it wonderful?
That's not enough, folks.
It's not enough to simply call journalists mean names.
You've got to actually stand up for liberty.
You have to actually fight for freedom.
Not just enrich yourself and your friends.
This is from LifeSight.
COVID mandates protester in Canada released on bail after over two years in jail.
And of course, it was Trump that locked us down here in the United States.
He went along with the globalist plan.
He was more than happy to.
He gave Fauci a green light to do whatever he wanted.
He and all of the other nations went along with the lockstep plan that had been modeled.
It was a globalist plan.
COVID protester Chris Carbert has been granted bail pending his appeal after spending over two years in prison.
Two years in prison.
Carbert has demonstrated that there is no substantial likelihood that he will commit a criminal offense.
It was the government that was committing criminal offenses.
It was the government that was engaged in crime, locking everyone down, isolating people.
As I said, making sure grandma dies alone, not from COVID, but from the policies that they put in place.
Carbert's appeal is expected to be heard in September.
So far, Carbert has spent over two years in prison when he was charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the protest in Kouts, which ran parallel to but was not officially affiliated with the Freedom Convoy taking place in Ottawa.
Later he was acquitted of the conspiracy to commit murder charge, but still found guilty of the lesser charges of unlawful possession of a firearm for a dangerous purpose and mischief over $5,000.
He was engaged in mischief, folks.
What a miscreant.
In September 2024, Chris Carbert was sentenced to six and a half years for his role in the protest.
Six and a half years for protesting the government in Canada.
Of course we see that Canada is generally about ten, maybe twenty years ahead of us down the pipeline, but things are accelerating.
We're catching up fast.
However, he is not expected to serve his full sentence as he was issued four years of credit for time already served.
Carbert is also prohibited from owning firearms for life and required to provide a DNA sample.
Carbert was arrested alongside Anthony Olianik, Christopher Lysak, and Jerry Morin, with the latter two pleading guilty to lesser charges to avoid trial.
At the time the Couts four were painted as dangerous terrorists and their arrest was used as justification for the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Trudeau government, which allowed it to use draconian measures to end both the Couts blockade and the much larger freedom convoy occurring thousands of kilometers away in Ottawa.
That's right.
These men were dangerous.
They're dangerous terrorists.
But we stopped them.
But of course, we're going to need to take more of your freedoms.
You're going to have to invoke an emergency to stop these protests.
Under the Emergency Act, the Liberal government froze the bank accounts of Canadians who donated to the Freedom Convoy.
Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23rd after the protesters had been cleared out.
At the time, seven of Canada's ten provinces opposed Trudeau's use of the AEA.
Of course, Donald Trump enacted an emergency here.
And I'd also like to remind everyone that this was around the same time that all the BLM riots and everything were going on.
Now, granted, that was Mostly in America.
There was some in Canada.
I don't know if it ever got terribly violent or destructive, but you could never imagine a government going after one of the BLM protesters in anything like this, or else people would justifiably scream from the rooftops about, you know, the oppression of it.
That's right.
It would be a completely different story.
It would be, as you said, they'd be screaming from the rooftops.
It's from the Brownstone Institute.
The documents speak and they tell a very different story.
And this is from Kim Witzack, who my dad has interviewed on SSRIs.
Interviewed about SSRIs.
They weren't on SSRIs during the interview.
Should clarify that.
When my husband Woody died by suicide in 2003, nothing made sense.
Everyone around me said the same thing.
He must have been depressed.
But I lived with him.
I knew him.
In the deepest part of me, that explanation didn't fit.
Woody was outgoing, high functioning, driven, and fully engaged in life.
He was training for a marathon, logging his miles, showing up for work, and showing up for us.
He wasn't withdrawn or struggling in the ways people typically associate with depression.
The only thing that had changed was five weeks earlier, his doctor prescribed him Zoloft, an antidepressant for insomnia due to his new dream job with a startup company.
We didn't know much about antidepressants then, but after Woody died, we started digging.
We found was shocking.
One discovery led to another.
We began connecting the dots.
Ultimately, it led us to file a wrongful death and failure to warn lawsuit against Pfizer.
Uncovered during that legal process changed everything.
That's when I learned one of the most sobering truths of my life.
The truth often doesn't come from the doctor's office or the stories we're told.
It lives in the documents in black and white behind closed doors.
That's right.
They keep it secret.
They don't want to tell you these things because it could cut into their bottom line.
If they tell you how dangerous these medicines are, you might not want to take them.
So when I read this article by James Lyons Wheeler for the Brownstone Institute, and the article is The Bio Leaked Memo, it's time for RFK Jr. to go.
A think take I've come to respect for its commitment to questioning powerful systems and fostering honest dialogue about the leaked bio memo, where a pharmaceutical lobbying group discussed quietly removing RFK Jr. and shaping public sentiment, I didn't need convincing.
I've seen this before.
The names change, but the machinery doesn't.
That's right, the bureaucracy is entrenched.
No matter who is at the helm of it, no matter who shows up for these hearings in Congress, it still keeps on trucking along.
It doesn't simply stop.
Things are in motion.
You have to clear out the entire system.
It's not enough to just replace the face of things.
The linked internal document reportedly from biotechnology innovation organization, BIO, the powerful lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry, had just come to light.
When I read the April 3rd, 2025 steering committee document, it was deja vu all over again.
Because it said the quiet part out loud.
It is time to go to the hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go.
Not because of policy disagreements, but because he posed a threat to the business model, to public scrutiny, to transparency.
The memo outlined a strategic roadmap naming influential voices outlining investor fears, identifying messaging tactics, and spotlighting political allies like former FDA commissioner, now Pfizer board member, Scott Gottlieb.
Of course, that was Trump's FDA head, and CMS Administrator Dr. Oz.
As someone with a career in advertising and marketing, I recognized the blueprint instantly.
Dr. Oz was championed by Donald Trump.
What a great guy, folks.
He's a great guy.
It reveals how calculated and controlled the public narrative can be, especially when profits and control are at stake.
This wasn't about protecting science or public health.
This was about managing perception, neutralizing dissent, and maintaining their political capital.
This post isn't about defending RFK Jr. or debating the politics of the FDA or NIH.
It's not about red or blue.
It's about something deeper and far more dangerous.
How far industry will go to protect its pockets and control the narrative, no matter who's in charge.
As I have said over and over again, as my dad has said over and over again, they make so much money off of poisoning the American people.
There's no way they want someone in there who will even mention it.
They will do anything.
They will spend an enormous amount of money.
They will do everything they can to propagandize and create fear in the American people to keep generating those profits.
And the bio memo isn't the only example of this.
There's another document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act request that paints a similar picture.
It wasn't a science-led health strategy.
It was a nationwide messaging campaign designed not to support informed choice or foster open conversation, but to shape public behavior while shutting down questions and debate.
We're told the public health messaging about COVID was about following the science, but what this FOIA obtained document from Judicial Watch reveals is something very different.
A strategic communication campaign designed to shape perception, influence behavior, and saturate culture through entertainment and media.
Not evidence-based health dialogue.
Highlights from the internal HHS public education plan included vaccine engagement packages sent to entertainment talent and media agencies, recruitment of late-night hosts, Hollywood comedy Writers and scripted TV shows.
We've played that clip of Colbert with his dancing little injection needles.
How awful it was, how despicable it was, how unfunny it was.
But this was part of it.
We recruited people like him to push this.
True of late-night hosts, Hollywood comedy writers, and scripted TV shows.
Partnership.
Here we see it.
This is what they bought.
Yeah, I know you're gonna hug.
You're gonna hug and not hug.
Alright, that's enough.
I cannot stand Stephen Colbert.
I cannot stand his smug face and his unfunny show.
It is simply unbearable to me.
What a despicable, wretched human being that man is.
Partnerships with TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram influencers, specials on Christian Broadcast Network and live TV programs like The Voice.
Messaging Amplified by the NFL, NASCAR, MLB, Disney Parks, and more.
Algorithm-boosted content created with social media platforms.
Of course.
We saw this show get banned in many places.
Banned and deplatformed, debanked from PayPal and Venmo.
Yeah, maybe you shouldn't get your medical advice from Disney Parks.
Yeah, I think perhaps if Snow White and the seven dwarves show up to push a vaccine on you, you should do some more research.
This is Sleepy Dopey and the Eighth Dwarf Vaxi.
And this was one of the most aggressive PR blitzes I've ever seen.
The fact that it had to be uncovered through FOIA says everything.
And of course, you just had to uncover the admission, the actual documents through FOIA.
To most of us, perhaps all of us here, it was obvious that this was what was happening.
But if you were to tell people that, they'd look at you funny.
They'd call you a conspiracy theorist.
They'd say you were crazy.
They would never do that.
This is based on science.
No, it's based on making record profits.
Knights of the storm, don't worry.
The Gator Gitmo is for all the people the National Guard rounded up from the stolen election.
That's right.
All those blockchain watermarked ballots.
They got them.
They're in Gator Gitmo and they're not getting out.
Patriots are in charge.
Just ask Q. Got some more comments about the cars.
This is from Tunnel Lord 1337.
Why'd four-cylinder trucks go the way of the dodo anyway?
Those things were sick and super durable from what I've seen.
KWD68, you answered your own question.
Tunnel Lord, the trucks ran forever.
Planned obsolescence now.
That's right.
If you've got something that is indestructible and runs well, and is a good product, you can't have that.
The American people don't get to have nice things.
You have to continually upgrade and update because your piece of garbage, whatever it is, whether it's a phone or a car or a washing machine, has stopped working.
You've got to get a new one every few years.
Nights of the Storm, when it comes to medication, terms like safe, effective, and rare are not quantifiable and subjective.
Give us numbers and not phrases.
That's right.
You need hard data to be able to make any of those sorts of claims.
But they don't.
The problem is they also lie about the numbers.
They'll lie about the numbers, but at least you can get some kind of idea.
At least those you can look up yourself.
All right, folks.
We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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Assyrian Girl.
Good to see you, Assyrian Girl.
I hope you're doing well.
When you think about it, Trump had a brilliant COVID strategy.
Hide behind Fauci.
It's all his fault.
Knowing that Fauci would be pardoned from all crime by the next Uniparty installment, president, quote unquote.
And Fauci gets even richer.
It's a win, win, win.
That's right, folks.
Are you tired of winning yet?
Brian and Deb McCartney says, Fault of Fauci, the Grand Battle Plan.
And I don't know if that's a book or not.
Defy Tyrant 1776.
Trump always has a scapegoat.
Fauci, deep state, the globalists, Democrats, rhinos, never takes the blame for his actions.
Well, I mean, Donald Trump's never to blame.
He's just trying to do good for us.
He's just so hampered by the swamp.
It's forty chess.
The patriots are in position.
Don't worry, he's clearing out the secret underground tunnels.
The National Guard is at war with the deep state lizard pedophiles.
And we're all winning.
You just have to trust the plan, guys.
Trust it.
Don't question anything.
I still see some people pushing that line of thinking, and it's so ridiculous to me that after all these years, after none of the predictions have come true, they'll still just swallow it, hook line, and sucker.
This is coming from the expose, Andrew Bridgeon vs.
Matt Hancock.
Hancock's done far too much harm and he's the first domino that's gonna fall.
On Wednesday, Andrew Bridgeon, former member of the UK Parliament, posted a video giving an update on the court case he filed against Matt Hancock.
Of course, this is the man that laughed about locking people down while he violated his own rules for certain reasons.
The case hasn't moved forward for a year.
A case management hearing that was scheduled for November 2024 didn't happen.
The court's timetable has been derailed by Hancock's repeated, vexatious really attempts to strike out my claim against him, mister Bridgen said.
Hancock is doing everything he can to stop this case from being heard in front of a judge.
I'm not going to let him get away with that.
He's done far too much harm.
He's the first domino that's going to have to fall, Bridgen said.
On january 11th, 2023, Andrew Bridgen shared a link on Twitter, which is now X, to an article concerning data about deaths and other adverse reactions linked to COVID vaccines and stated, as one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.
Matt Hancock, aka Medazalam Matt, was the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the height of the COVID hysteria, was responsible for overseeing the UK government's COVID response.
On 11, January 2023, Medazalam Matt described Mr. Bridgen as a disgusting and dangerous propagator of anti-Semitism in the House of Commons, tweeting a clip of his question to then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons.
Medazalam Matt highlighted his malicious accusation.
Of course, here is the tweet in the article.
The disgusting and dangerous anti-Semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society.
Of course, he defends himself by claiming the other person is anti Semitic.
They're anti-Semitic.
Don't you know that's the worst thing you can be?
Of course, they always throw it at people as a way of screening themselves.
Trying to paint these people as some kind of Nazi.
All of the buzzwords are here.
You've got your anti-vax, anti-science.
All that's missing is him calling him a trooper of some kind.
Racist, homophobe.
That's right.
He couldn't work it in there.
Maybe he ran out of characters in the tweet.
But he leads with anti-Semitic.
In a clearly rehearsed move, Hancock's statements were immediately acclaimed by the Prime Minister, and Bridgen was suspended from the criminal mafia popularly known as the Conservative Party.
The next day, Mr. Bridgen issued a video statement expressing his disappointment that he had been suspended from the Conservative Party, but that he remained resolute.
Reasonable questions about the safety and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines must continue to be asked, and I will continue to ask them.
If I cannot do that as a Conservative member of parliament, then so be it, he said.
Mr. Bridgen denied the comment was racist or anti-Semitic and said he would be speaking to a legal team who will commence action against those who have led the call suggesting that I am.
January 13th, 2023, Mr. Bridgen tweeted, Matt Hancock has still not removed his defamatory tweet falsely alleging that I'm anti-Semitic.
I will allow Matt three days to apologize publicly for calling me an anti-Semite and racist or be contacted by my legal team.
Medazzalan Matt didn't apologize, so Mr. Bridgen began libel proceedings to sue him for £100,000.
On the 26th of January, Mr. Bridgen confirmed that Hancock had received a letter before action.
According to the seven-page letter before action, Mr. Bridgen wanted Hancock to retract and delete the defamatory statement contained in the tweet complained of which contained in the tweet complained of with immediate effect.
The letter said he should apologize for the tweet, complained of, both orally in the House of Commons and in writing on Mr. Hancock's personal Twitter account.
Bedazzle Am Matt has attempted to have the libel case against him thrown out.
For example, he claimed that he did not.
He had not identified Mr Bridgen in his tweet.
So the case should not go ahead, but in March 2024, a high court judge threw out Hancock's bid to strike out the claim.
What a weasel.
What a worm.
Well, I didn't specify who I was talking about, don't you know?
I didn't specifically say it was about mister Bridgeon.
So therefore, you must throw out the case.
Despicable.
These people think they get to say and do whatever they want without consequence.
Paint you with any kind of brush, call you things that are going to ruin your life, destroy your life.
And there's no consequences for them.
And of course, as was pointed out, he was the one that laughed about locking people down.
Laughed about it while he violated his own rules.
My tribute to Christians celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. This is from vaccineimpact.com.
It's by Brian Shalhavi.
When I started making coffee this morning, I turned on a local Christian radio station because I liked the worship music they usually play.
When I turned it on this morning, a voice was on and said, Today we are celebrating the 4th of July with patriotic music as the United States is the most free country in the world.
I turned it off immediately and went to my playlist instead.
My dad points out, we had a similar experience at a church service.
We left that church and we never returned after that.
So for all you Americans, American Christians celebrating Independence Day today, and believe that the U.S. is the most free country in the world, I made a short video for you reminding you just what you are actually celebrating.
It is a long walk out of the tunnel of darkness called patriotism, for most Americans, especially Christians, and it took me many years to get out of that tunnel and into the light of the truth.
I know many of you who read Health Impact News are probably still somewhere in that tunnel.
I published an article last year, perhaps my most researched and best article of the year to help others get out of that tunnel of idolatry.
It's got the article linked here.
Was the U.S. Constitution written to protect we the people or we the globalists?
Were the Founding Fathers godly men or servants of Satan?
It's got more articles like Nationalism and the Ten Commandments, Patriotism or Idolatry, Liberty or Slavery.
Hear my previous Independence Day article since 2021, the year where millions gave their life to serve the medical state by taking COVID-19 vaccines, all in the name of freedom.
This is from 2021.
Happy Independence Day?
Question mark.
Americans will celebrate Independence Day as CDC reveals almost 7,000 dead, half a million injured following COVID injections.
This is one from 2022.
America, land of the free, crossed out slaves, home of the brave, crossed out cowards.
An idolatrous nation celebrates freedom even though they are slaves to the pharmaceutical cult.
And it is amazing to see.
For years, we pointed out that about 50%, it seems like, of the advertisements you'll see on TV are for some kind of pharmaceutical medication.
Something that you can take to make yourself feel better.
something that will help solve all your problems for whatever is wrong with your health.
This is a new article from Crosswalk.com.
Four lessons from the founding fathers that we need to hear.
At the beginning of June, a docudrama was released in theaters and entitled The American Miracle, Our Nation Was No Accident.
It explores the ideas that God guided the hearts and minds of our founding fathers because of their belief in his existence, belief in his willingness to move on their behalf, and because of their faithfulness to him.
The movie takes the viewer on a journey highlighting the supernatural protection of America's first president, General George Washington, multiple mysterious weather conditions that favored the Continental Army on the battlefield, and the amazing creation of America.
It is...
It is truly sad to see what America has become over the years.
It is especially ironic every 4th of July, every Independence Day, where people go out and they celebrate and deal with the rules surrounding fireworks.
I've always found that to be deeply ironic, that there are pieces of legislation about what kind of fireworks you can buy.
No, these are too dangerous for you.
These are not allowed.
You can't have these fireworks.
This is an article.
It's a...
Remember 9-11?
Remember how they just let those planes go on their merry way?
But this plane gets near Trump's golf course and it's immediately escorted by F-16s.
They're scrambled and kicked out.
Of course.
Dad was talking about this the other night.
There's a political pundit in his famous book, Corvidal, wrong about a whole lot of stuff, but one thing that he was right about was because his uncle was one of the designers of the NORAD system.
He was one of the first 9-11 troopers.
And he said this could not possibly have happened.
There would have been jets scrambled long before these planes could have gotten anywhere near Manhattan.
Yeah.
North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD said the incident, which occurred around 2.39 p.m., marked the fifth unauthorized incursion of the restricted airspace on Saturday.
A spokesperson confirmed the jet was an F-16.
NORAD aircraft conducted a so-called head-butt maneuver to get the civilian pilot's attention.
The aircraft was safely escorted out of the area, NORAD said in a statement.
Of course, that never happened on 9-11 in New York or DC.
Never happened.
This is from The Daily Skeptic.
Britain is turning into a hotel for the world's criminals.
And of course, this is by design.
This is what they want.
They want to get rid of the people who live there.
They want to destroy the culture of Britain.
They want to destroy and remove the original people.
Britain risks becoming a hotel for the world's criminals, warns Guy D'Ampierre in the Telegraph, as new analysis by the Conservative Party reveals that illegal small boat immigrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen.
Although the rate at which foreign nationals are sent to prison is only slightly higher than that for British nationals, the rate at which some nationalities are imprisoned is much higher.
That includes nationalities which are among the largest groups of small boat arrivals, such as Afghans, Albanians, and Iranians.
Some 3.4% of smallboat arrivals could go to prison, according to the research, which is 24 times higher than British nationals and 18 times higher than for all migrants.
Not only is our asylum system being abused to allow foreign criminals to enter, it is being dominated by those groups of foreign nationals most likely to commit crime.
That means that around 700 of the 20,000 small boat arrivals this year could go to prison.
And of course, I believe that there are probably a lot more than 20,000.
I think they always underreport these numbers.
As there is more crime than is ever detected or solved, and as many successfully prosecuted crimes do not result in a custodial sentence, mics open, the actual number of small boat migrants who commit a crime will be even higher than that.
Among some nationalities, the rates are even higher.
Based on prison data from March 12th, from March, 12% of all people with Somali passports in Britain are in jail.
12% of all Somalis that go to Britain end up in prison.
And that's even considering that the British government is not terribly harsh on enforcing their own laws against immigrants.
They want to make sure these people are seen in a good light.
They want to make sure that people don't have a reason to complain.
They don't have things they can point to and say, these guys are a problem.
So as Lance pointed out, they don't like to enforce those laws.
They want to do everything they can to paint them with a good brush.
This is from CBS News.
Trump says he'll host a UFC fight on White House grounds next year.
That's right.
Our pro wrestling president is going to have a UFC fight.
It'll be a championship fight with 20,000 or 25,000 spectators.
I know it's old and tired to say this, but this is pure idiocracy.
Who cares?
This is not what the White House is for.
The idea came up during a Thursday night speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds one year and one day before the 250th anniversary of the 1776 ratification of the Declaration of Independence.
The federal government is planning to mark the occasion with a year's worth of events, including a UFC fight, according to mister Trump.
Of course, the ultimate fight will be to recover our republic.
That would be the ultimate fight, not this.
We're going to have some incredible events, the president said.
Some professional events, some amateur events, but the UFC fight is going to be a big deal too.
This is nothing but a presidential circus.
Further details on the event, which is not lacking for possible names, the Rose Garden Fight Night, Oval Office Octagon are unclear, or the President is dead serious about the idea.
White House White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt told a pool reporter on Thursday.
A UFC spokesperson also confirmed the plans to CBS News.
mister Trump described it as a championship fight, full fight, with 20,000 or 25,000 spectators.
A tall order for the White House grounds, though, mister Trump said.
We have a lot of land there, said longtime UFC CEO Dana White will organize the event.
It's going to be epic, wrote Levitt on X. That's right.
Epic.
It's going to be so cool, guys.
I'll get to watch UFC at the White House.
The president's ties to the UFC go back to at least 2001.
With the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, Atlantic City hosted the Mixed Martial Arts Enterprise.
And it still went bankrupt, just like the USA.
Isn't it wonderful?
We're going to have a UFC fight at the White House.
Gonna have two sweaty guys wrestling around on the lawn.
Can you imagine what the founding fathers would have said 250 years ago?
I'm just the bicentennial anniversary.
250 years on.
My how we have fallen.
Marjorie Taylor Green is introducing a bill to curtail weather modification.
This is from the Liberty Daily.
And this is good.
This is a good move on her part.
But one thing that we have started to see is that everyone on the left calls all weather, you know, whether it's good or bad, a product of climate change.
And now it seems like everyone on the right, everyone on the MAGA side is calling all weather geoengineering.
America has finally entered the weather mod curious stage of awakening as more and more become skeptical of the official government line.
Now there's another voice in DC who's looking at chemtrails and asking questions.
In fact, she's doing more than asking questions.
She's introducing legislation to stop it.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances in the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity.
And of course, they passed a bill similar to that here in Tennessee, but it had no enforcement mechanism.
They didn't specify how they would punish people that did do that, what they would do about it.
There's also the fact that these chemicals, if they're dispersed in one area, in a state nearby, there's no guarantee they're not going to end up in your state as well.
It has to be a...
It has to be blocked everywhere.
Attempts to block sunlight intensity have been in the news recently with multiple governments, particularly the UK and US governments seriously exploring flooding the atmosphere with particles to block the sun.
This is ludicrous prima facie, but as we've learned in recent years, there is nothing too ludicrous for climate change cultists to try.
That's right, they'll attempt anything, because the earth is melting down, or maybe it's cooling down.
And all their solutions to their imagined problem are problems in and of themselves.
All this, we've got to restrict all the CO2 from the farmers so they can't grow anything.
We've got to block out the sun so that the farmers can't grow anything.
It's all just population control through the guise of saving the planet.
It's disgusting.
We're going to save the planet.
Of course, we're going to destroy your life, Your livelihood.
We're going to poison you and the ground and the planet as a whole.
But it's so we don't melt the planet down, guys.
It's for your own good.
Exclusive: more evidence: UK government is quietly funding geoengineering.
The UK government is actively funding geoengineering experiments, including technologies that aim to block or scatter sunlight in order to cool the planet.
I thought it was already too cold in the UK.
Maybe that's propaganda.
Maybe it's boiling summer over there.
Newly released documents confirm the government is pursuing real-world experiments under a public program called the Exploring Climate Cooling Initiative.
The work is funded through the ARIA ARIA, also known as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, a body championed by Dominic Cummings and established through the ARIA Act of 2022, which was only revealed through a Freedom of Information request submitted by a member of the public who sent the anonymous tip-off.
Material shows that these experiments are planned, funded, and moved toward physical deployment.
None of this has been debated in Parliament.
There have been no public consultations.
You don't get a say in it.
You don't even get to know about it.
The government isn't even going to dignify it with a discussion.
One of the most striking admissions in a proposal titled De-Risking Cirrus Modification aims to alter Cirrus cloud formation using particles dispersed by aircraft in order to allow more heat to escape Earth's atmosphere.
The trials are structured in phases culminating in real-world experimentation over the Scottish Highlands.
These are not just simulations.
In the proposal's third phase, researchers state, the seeding strategy will involve the release of custom seeding particles over a defined part of highlands to maximize our chances of a successful test.
Seeding particles.
I wonder what they could be.
Because a lot of the stuff they put in is incredibly toxic.
It is desiccants.
They end up leading to worse forest fires, at least here in the United States.
They dry out the stuff that is left on the ground even more than usual and more rapidly.
The release is expected to occur from aircraft based out of Stornoway, targeting orographic clouds.
The particles themselves are described vaguely and no environment assessment has yet been conducted.
In fact, Ari acknowledges that as of yet, no public consultations have taken place.
We don't really, we're not going to tell you what's in the particles, and we haven't done any studies on what it'll do to the ground or to the ability to grow anything there, but this is more important.
We don't care what it does to the Scottish Highlands.
This program there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands, but the MacGuffin is there.
This program funded by UK taxpayers aims to use aircraft to disperse artificial substances into the skies of Britain to manipulate the climate.
The scientific community itself admits this technique known as serious cloud modification, CCM, is poorly understood.
Or the documentation states, the true efficacy of CCM is however uncertain, with some models showing negligible benefit, and a key uncertainty being the challenging to measure concentration of background ice nucleating particles at altitude.
The document notes that previous modeling was inconclusive and cites calls by researchers to pause simulation work until observational data could be gathered.
Yet the program doesn't stop at Earth's atmosphere.
Another project under the same ARIA funding stream explores the feasibility of deploying solar shields in space.
Titled Planetary Sunshade Baseline Survey, the goal is stated plainly.
The Planetary Sunshade Project aims to advance our understanding of space-based solar radiation modification architectures.
Researchers are developing models and mission concepts for six types of orbital, including reflective satellites at Lagrange points.
And of course, the Lagrange points are these gravitationally neutral areas.
So the orbit can be permanent.
In between Earth and the Moon, where it's caught between the two gravitational poles.
Yeah, they have an equal pull on it, so it stays in place.
Dust clouds made from pulverized asteroids.
Diffractive materials to scatter sunlight.
Seasonal orbital shading.
Isn't that wonderful?
Seasonal orbital shading.
They're going to put up some big old screens.
They're going to tint the planet.
I can't wait for that.
I'm sure it won't have any negative consequences.
Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks.
And we will be right back.
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Knights of the Storm.
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Jason says, so the bill does not forbid the release of chemicals for other reasons outside climate change.
Mass poisoning is still allowed.
The bill should ban it for anything.
Mass poisoning is on the agenda.
They're all for it.
Nibiru 2029, geoengineering will never end as it provides manufacturing a means by which to dispose of non-recyclable waste and get paid for it by the federal government.
And of course, we've seen that with the fluoride in the water as well.
It's a great way for them to dispose of this chemical that they can't do anything with.
Nights of the Storm.
Fireworks used to celebrate our independence are produced in a communist nation and illegal in many states.
Oh, the irony.
That's right.
Made in China.
These are comments about the UFC fight.
Brian and Deb McCartney, there's a UFC fight of the White House every day.
Unified Fools Club.
Angry Tiger's Den.
Bread and Circuses on Steroids, literally.
When I first saw that, I thought it was satire.
Sadly, it's hard to do satire in this day and age.
It's hard to come up with anything more ridiculous than what will actually happen.
Satire is outmoded five minutes after it's said.
Hired stability.
How is David's health?
Got a...
He'll be back soon.
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This is from Liberty Nation News.
U.S. workers account for all job gains in 2025.
Now, this is, of course, coming from the Trump media.
Over the last several years, dating back to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend has emerged in the labor market.
A divergence between employment levels of natural U.S. citizens and foreign-born individuals.
The gap widened substantially during the previous administration, favoring newcomers.
In the early days of President Donald Trump's second term, however, American workers have gained all the new jobs this year.
So They say that's what they're claiming.
But when you take a closer look at things, this is from the Mises Institute.
Half of June's job growth was in the government.
Manufacturing jobs are falling.
As I said, this is mises.org and they're telling the truth about things.
According to a new employment total released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added an estimated 147,000 payroll jobs month over month in June.
This was celebrated in the media and among financial commentators as a sign of great economic performance during the month.
Except there's a problem.
Fully half of these new jobs were government jobs.
According to the same survey, 73,000 of the 147,000 new payroll jobs were in the government sector.
That's right, they're not producing anything in those 73,000 jobs.
They're leeching off the taxpayer.
You and I are supporting them.
They're costing us 73,000 new government jobs.
That means only 74,000 of the total were in the private sector.
June's surge in government jobs was the largest month-to-month jump in government jobs in 16 months.
That's more than Biden.
Government has exploded under Donald Trump.
It has gone through the roof.
Over the past five years, government jobs growth was higher in only seven other months.
Meanwhile, private sector job growth in June was at a nine-month low.
But the economy is doing great.
During June, 49.7% of all job growth was government growth, making June the fifth worst month for the total proportion of government jobs over the past decade.
Remember how Dog was going to cut government?
It was going to cut waste.
It was going to gut it.
It was going to get rid of all these useless managerial positions and streamline things.
Oh, sorry, we're adding 73,000 government jobs.
Dog was a dodge and a lie.
Moreover, in spite of the Trump administration's claims that manufacturing jobs would soon bloom throughout the American heartland, manufacturing jobs were negative month over month for the second month in a row.
Over the past 12 months, manufacturing job growth has been either zero or negative for eight of the past 12.
Negative for eight of the past twelve.
This is a very weak jobs report, essentially, so given how every new worker hired in this report is working to pay for the job of equally numerous government employers hired in the same period.
Anyone arguing that this is a sign of a robust economy is confused or intentionally misleading the audience.
Of course, MAGA media, we know, intentionally misleads the audience.
They're grifters.
They will sycophantically praise anything Donald Trump does and run with any party line he comes out with.
Unfortunately, a part of the output of these government jobs will also be factored into GDP.
They're going to count these.
Isn't it wonderful?
Things are improving as we balloon the government.
These government jobs will be used to further create the illusion of robust economic growth.
This may come as a surprise to those who wrongly thought the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was going to lead to large cuts in government employment.
Indeed, some MAGA outlets have attempted to create this impression by focusing on federal employment only.
Yet federal employees are only a portion of total government employment, and total government employment has surged in recent months.
Yet many of these state and local employees are de facto federal employees since they are funded by federal dollars.
They love doing these little obfuscations, don't they?
Oh, he's a local, he's a state employee.
He's a local government employee.
And yet his paycheck comes directly from the federal government.
After all, state and local budgets are increasingly strained and tax revenue at the state and local level fell in 2024.
So what is funding all this new government employment?
Much of it is the federal government, which continues to spend at historic levels with historically large deficits.
As anyone who has worked in a state or local government knows, it is easy to find employees in those departments who are either partially or fully funded by federal grants.
Even if they are technically state and local employees, whatever Dog's contribution may have been, the Trump administration has made it clear it has no plans to actually cut federal spending.
Thanks to Trump enormous budgets, the U.S. federal government is still on track to rack up the largest deficit by far since 2021.
The Big Beautiful Bill is a business-as-usual federal spending bill that will greatly add to mounting deficits and fuel more price inflation.
This is from Kitco News.
Solid employment data dampens gold, but deficit concerns continue to support prices.
Of course, the stock market doesn't mean anything.
The stock market is all nonsense.
It's completely and utterly rigged.
These people, it doesn't reflect anything of what's going on with the average American.
These people are playing their own game.
The gold market fell roughly 1% in response to data showing that the U.S. economy created 147,000 jobs last month.
And of course, as we just discussed, 50% of those are government jobs.
This is not economic growth.
These people are fools.
The markets are heavily manipulated.
Yes, heavily manipulated.
And, of course, we always...
And they put in a bill that said, we're not allowed to do that.
But then when people stopped paying attention, they removed it.
Said, oh, never mind.
Trump sends tariff letters threatening up to 70% levies, sparking fears of delayed trade deals.
This is from Zero Hedge.
Trump says, they're not love letters.
He's sowing more conflict and Causing more damage to the average American.
This is, of course, going to effectively be a tax.
It's going to function as such.
It's going to cost more for people to buy the things they need.
And of course, we've talked about the problems with the tariffs being a tax, but there's still another thing which we've mentioned a few times before, but it bears repeating with these letters.
It's just more uncertainty and instability.
He pulls them off and puts them back on and talks about them and says, well, maybe instead of this amount, it'll be this amount.
And you can't do business with that level of uncertainty.
Trump told reporters that 10 or 12 letters would be sent out on Friday with additional letters to follow over the next few days.
By the 9th, they'll be fully covered, the president said, referring to the deadline he set for countries to strike deals or face steep import duties.
They'll range in value from maybe 60 or 70 percent tariffs to 10 and 20 percent tariffs, he added.
New tariffs effective August 1st mark a shift away from negotiations toward more aggressive, unilateral approach, as only the UK and Vietnam have struck deals during a 90-day pause.
Only the UK and Vietnam.
It's a lot of money for the country, says Mario Newfall.
We're going to start sending letters out to various countries starting tomorrow.
There will probably be 10 or 12 go out, with tariffs ranging from 10 or 20% up to 60 or 70%.
It's going to be a lot of money for the country.
Mario Newfall has quoted on Twitter.
Maybe the most important question.
She gave a horrible answer to it, so they took an answer from another part of the interview and they inserted it.
Nobody's ever seen that before.
So I think they made a wise decision to settle.
And does that take $15 million for the ad?
Is that part of contingency for your administration to approve the merger for the sale of the company?
That has nothing to do with that.
But this was when I was running.
Alright, I think that's enough.
President Trump over there.
He is playing fast and loose with the American economy.
60 to 70 percent.
Some maybe 10 or 20 percent.
Large discrepancies.
Last month we reported that U.S. tariff revenue for May soared to a record 22 billion.
But this is bad for the economy.
It's bad for the economy and Americans when the government steals even more.
Because that's what this is.
It's them getting money.
You are going to be paying more.
They're going to make a lot more money, and the American people are going to be left out in the cold.
Besant says tariffs will boomerang to Liberation Day levels if countries fail to negotiate deals.
That's right.
We're going to bully, dictate, and tax.
We're going to swagger around and tell them how it's going to be.
This is why a lot of the globe hates us, hates America.
Because we act as if we are entitled to deal with them in a bullying fashion.
This is from CNN Business.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said tariff letters will be sent to about 100 countries over the next several days as the Trump administration's 90-day tariff pause comes to an end Wednesday.
If you don't move things along, then on August 1st, you will boomerang back to your April 2nd tariff level, Besson said about Trading Partners Sunday on CNN's State of the Union with Dana Bash.
President Donald Trump has suggested the letter would include duty rates at the current 10% baseline or as extensive as 70%.
Besson said Sunday the United States would not impose 70% tariff rates on major trading partners.
We're going to be sending letters out on Monday having to do with the trade deals.
Could be 12, maybe 15.
We've made deals also, Trump told CNN's Betsy Klein, when asked about tariff rates late Sunday afternoon at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey.
Trump added that letters will go out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
We'll have most countries done by July 9th, either a letter or a deal, he said.
We've got two more days on that.
It's coming up.
We'll find out what happens, won't we?
The President is right in the midst of discussing all sorts of deals.
It's not a new deadline, we are saying this is when it is happening.
If you want to speed things up, have at it.
If you want to go back to the old rate, that's your choice, Bessant said about America's trading partners, and used the European Union as an example of countries coming to the table after Trump threatened 50% tariffs on EU imports.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who has blasted Bessant for undermining the economic impact of tariffs, said Sunday and ABC's this week.
The tariffs will probably collect some revenue, but would come at the expense of higher inflation and less competitiveness for American producers.
It's going to raise inflation.
It'd be difficult for American producers to compete.
It's going to destroy manufacturing more than it already has been.
But that's not what they care about.
As from the Mises Institute, the American Revolution was a free trade revolution.
In 1765, a writer at the Boston Gazette complained about the seemingly endless stream of protectionist laws imposed on the colonists by the British Empire.
A colonist cannot make a button, a horseshoe, nor a hobnail, but some sooty ironmonger, respectable button maker Britain shall bawl and squall that his honor's worship is most egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated, and robbed by the rascally American Republicans.
Sounds much like today, doesn't it?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
These are not new problems.
They have just reached historic levels.
Beginning at least as early as the 17th century, Parliament had placed a wide variety of restrictions on what the colonists could trade and wear.
The British state limited both imports and exports.
Under these trade laws, Americans had to ship tobacco, pitch, tar, turpentine, mass, and other specified items to England only.
According to Charles Beard in the rise of American civilization, commodities of manufacture, as a rule, they could buy only through English factors, the idea being to add to the prosperity of English merchants.
Of course, now it's for big tech, big pharma, and the other bigs.
Whatever big is paying for the lobbying, whatever big is paying into the coffers of the American politicians.
Other regulations put restrictions on colonial manufacturing, woolen goods and hats could not be made for the general trade, mills for slitting and rolling iron and furnaces for making steel were forbidden.
These laws were according to Beard the result of specific protests made by interested parties in England.
Of course, this is why Elon Musk wants a party.
He's interested in wielding more power.
He's not interested in giving the American people back their freedom.
They never are.
It isn't something that someone is going to give to you.
There was the Hated Molasses Act of 1733, which was a protectionist measure designed to drive up the price of foreign-made molasses.
It was passed at the insistence of wealthy owners of plantations in the West Indies, many of whom were said to be sitting members of Parliament at the time.
The act was a grave threat to the standard of living in New England, where a large rum production industry thrived.
The act led to widespread smuggling and opposition from colonists, which eventually led to the nullification of the law.
Historian John C. Miller writes in Origins of the American Revolution.
Against the Molasses Act, Americans had only their smugglers to depend upon, but these redoubtable gentry proved more than a match for the British.
After a brief effort to enforce the Act of Massachusetts in the 1740s, the English government tacitly accepted defeat, and foreign molasses was smuggled into the northern colonies in an ever-increasing quantity.
Thus the New England merchants survived, but only by nullifying the Act of Parliament, and it seems like the British were in a sticky situation there.
In many ways, the opposition to the Molasses Act would prove to be a sort of rehearsal for the acts of disobedience that would lead up to the American Revolution decades later.
And when revolution finally did come, trade would indeed be in the forefront of the debate over British abuses of power.
After all, with every tariff and with every trade restriction must also come enforcement.
In a lecture on the American Revolution, Lord Acton noted how the British, in the name of protectionism, slowly tightened the screws on the Americans faced with such relentless smuggling and clouting the Empire's tariffs and trade controls, the monarchs took ever greater interventions.
The right of searching houses and ships for contraband was conveyed by certain warrants called writs of assistance, which required no specified designation.
No oath or evidence enabled the surprise visit to be paid by day or night.
Of course, we don't even really bother with something like a writ anymore, or even with knocking.
We have no knock raids by SWAT now.
They'll bust your door down, flashbang your child, pull guns on you.
And if you think you're in the middle of being attacked, you think someone is trying to rob you and grab your own gun, they'll just shoot you.
They'll just gun you down.
Acton tells us the American jurists argued vehemently that the writs were an abuse of power, but eventually the court decided in favor of the validity of the writs.
That's right.
It's the same as always.
Courts continually uphold no-knock raids.
Continually uphold whatever the police state does to us.
It's the same as it ever was.
With protection must come taxation and enforcement, thus the protectionists tacitly or explicitly approve of fines and prison terms against their own fellow Americans who might be so bold as to disobey the authorities and the tradition of the American revolutionaries.
And of course, protection means higher taxes for everyone.
Donald Trump loves his high taxes.
He's always been a fan.
He's a New York Democrat, simple as that.
Indeed, modern protectionists have returned many Americans to the status of the colonists of the 18th century.
Today, a distant government hundreds or even thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C. can impose tariffs and quotas and restrictions of enormous variety.
These protectionist measures might benefit only a tiny number of industrialists or farmers living halfway across the country, all at the expense of everyone else.
To justify this, the protectionists invent fantasies such as the one in which all taxation is now justified because there is representation.
This is of course a fantasy based on an absurd notion that a few hundred millionaires in Congress could possibly represent 320 million Americans spread across a varied geography of more than 3.5 million square miles.
We've seen over and over again that these rich politicians are utterly out of touch.
It is not even if they were there to actually represent us, to do the best they could, if they weren't bought off and paid for, if they weren't out to get us, they are still detached from us.
They are not like us.
They wouldn't be able to effectively do it.
Even if they wanted to do their job, they'd be bad at it.
In practice, however, the reality of protectionism today is little different from what it was in the days of the Revolution.
As freedom to trade is restricted, human freedom is likewise restricted.
Thus, as Thomas de Lorenzo observed, whenever human freedom advances, as it did with the growth of trade, state power is threatened.
So states did all they could, then is now, to restrict trade.
Now this, this is, I was pleased to see this, but we'll have to wait and see how it pans out.
Ron DeSantis makes case to end property tax nationwide.
We actually have a clip of that.
So let's take a look at it, see how it goes.
Their citizens to higher taxes, such as higher property taxes to pay for these spending habits.
And you know, these property taxes, it's like you, you buy a home, you buy land, you know, maybe you buy the home outright, but maybe you pay off a mortgage over 30 years and then, okay, you've paid off the mortgage, you bought the land, you've been taxed many times.
It's like you, Is it your property or not?
Just for being on your Property.
You've got to write a check to the government every year.
So you're basically paying rent to the government to live on your own property.
And our homestead exemption is not strong enough to help these folks because the property gets assessed so high.
And that's the thing.
If you buy a home for $300,000 and you know there's certain tax, well then what?
Ten years later they say it's worth $700,000 and so and they say there's homestead stuff that helps protect you to a certain extent, but you're paying for it.
Well we've devalued the dollar so it's now worth $700,000 of these worthless pieces of it.
We're going to be really looking at ways to bring people relief from that because I think it's been really something that's pinching a lot of homeowners, particularly seniors, on fixed income.
But the reality is people have seen, and this is not the state, we don't control this, you know, we've not allowed any of that stuff to happen.
We've been cutting taxes, but people have seen their property tax, their property tax liability go up over these last years because the property is being assessed higher and higher.
And the reality is, is you don't really know how much your home is worth until someone offers you money and is willing to pull the trigger on a sale.
That's how a market works.
You can say it's worth this much, but if no one's willing to come and offer you that much, then why should you pay taxes on that amount?
And so there's a lot of things that need to be done with that.
But as part of our Doge initiative, our state task force will look into local government expenditures by utilizing publicly.
That's right.
They're going to come in and they're going to reassess it.
It's now worth $700,000 based on what we believe.
Isn't that wonderful?
Now you just have to pay taxes on that $700,000.
They would never lie about the value of your home to soak you for more money, would they?
No, never.
We've got some comments here.
Trucker Chris for the win.
FBI Director Cash Patel says America needs to wake up and prioritize Israel.
Well, I've been saying that for years.
We don't prioritize Israel enough.
They deserve our love and support, our fealty.
Everything for Israel.
The Texas flood victims will literally have to pledge support to Israel to qualify for state emergency funds.
We live in absurd times.
It's fairly obvious how the influence flows.
Our government is bought and paid for.
Seeing a couple comments of people rightfully criticizing DeSantis because, of course, he has been pretty terrible about free speech and criminalizing criticism of Israel.
That's right.
But when these politicians do do something good, we need to support the few good things they do, or else we're never going to get anywhere.
I have a comment from David Knight.
Where does property taxes go?
To the satanic schools and them.
This would both allow you to own your own property and it would be something that would harm the satanic government school system, which is win-win.
That's right.
Your tax dollars would no longer be going to train children in gay sex, in queer relationships, and transgender ideology.
Wouldn't that be something?
Wouldn't that be a nice change of pace?
We're into our third and final hour of the show now, folks.
We're going to take a quick break, and then we're actually going to take a look, a brief look, at what's going on with Israel.
Stay with us, folks.
will be right back.
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As I said, we're going to take a look at what's going on with Israel here.
It's truly amazing how slavishly devoted these politicians are to them.
Whether it's because solely of APAC funding or because of things like Jeffrey Epstein and a blackmail ring.
We'll never be fully certain, but it's probably a combination of the two.
we've got some comments before we go to that.
Tunnel Lord 1337.
From some of my research into property taxes, they only provide supplemental funding to local government operations.
They aren't the main funding of any local government operation.
Got a comment from David Knight as well.
If I ran on the platform of ending property tax saying own your home and your children, I'd probably get 1% of the vote.
It would be amazing to even get 1% of the vote, in my opinion.
People have completely lost sight of what's important.
You'd have to run on some kind of platform about welfare, giving people free stuff.
You'd have to say how much you support Trump.
That's right.
You gotta pledge fealty, swear loyalty.
And maybe promise that you'd send the kids off to Israel for lessons on why they're our greatest ally.
Maybe that way you could get elected.
This is the article.
APAC-funded reps put forward bill to transfer American B-2 bombers and bunker busters to Israel.
That's right, we want to send them bombers and bunker busters because they're not doing enough damage.
They're not killing enough people yet.
We haven't empowered them fully.
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers has proposed authorizing President Donald Trump to transfer B two stealth bombers and 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs to Israel if Iran is found to still be developing a nuclear weapon after last week's strikes.
Proposed by reps Josh Gotheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, the Bunker Buster Act would allow Trump to take actions to ensure Israel is prepared for all contingencies if Iran seeks to develop a nuclear weapon.
And of course, they're saying the determining factor is if Iran is found to still be developing nuclear weapons and the level that they will use as determining whether that's true or not is whether or not Netanyahu says so.
So in other words, if Netanyahu says they want a bunch of B2 stealth bombers, they're going to get a bunch of B2 stealth bombers.
That's right.
If this passes, Netanyahu is definitely getting those bunker busters.
Those B2 stealth bombers.
I did a little bit of research into Gottheimer and Lawler.
I was curious about the type of legislation they've sponsored and if there's any previous go-between between them.
But there isn't much.
They both seem to love mephopristone, the abortion pill.
Gottheimer sponsored legislation to protect access to it.
Lawler has many times spoken about his support of it.
Gottheimer voted in 2021 to federally safeguard abortion and voted in 2022 to protect out-of-state abortion travel.
He also co-sponsored a bill to create a task force to combat abuse of elderly LGBTQ members.
And Lawler, again, the really only tie between them is their support for Mefapristone.
They've both spoken about it.
But Lawler, unlike Gottheimer, says he supports some restrictions on abortions.
It's very curious that these are the two people that are sponsoring this bill.
Their only real agreement is on Israel.
They both think Israel needs more, needs more support from us, needs more ability to kill people.
Israel is better at creating bipartisan support and coalitions within the United States government than Donald Trump is.
They're able to get these two different people, these two men from opposite parties, not that they are two opposite parties, you know, we all understand here that it's a uni party and they both all want the same thing, really.
But they're able to get them to play nice with each other, get them to come to the table and argue that they should be allowed to have the B-2 bomber and these 30,000-pound bunker busters.
Israel doesn't possess the 30,000-pound GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators, precision-guided munition bombs developed for the U.S. Air Force.
20-foot-long weapons can travel 200 feet deep inside a target before exploding.
As of 2024, the U.S. had 19 B-2s in operation.
It does not transfer custody of its B-2 South bombers to any of its allies.
Well, that's got to change, guys.
Israel needs them.
They've got to be able to destroy anything.
Excuse me.
They have to be able to destroy anything and everything within Iran.
It's their divine right.
So we have to give them this technology.
Iran, the leading sponsor of terror and one of America's top enemies, can never have a nuclear weapon.
Excuse me again.
That's why I strongly supported our military actions earlier this month.
Iran has killed scores of Americans, including our service members, and repeatedly attacked our key democratic ally, Israel.
Of course, they never talk about the fact that America has been involved and engaged in destabilizing Iran for decades, starting back with Operation Ajax, getting rid of their democratically elected leader, Mossadegh, and putting in the Shah of Iran, who was a brutally repressive totalitarian leader.
All because we wanted more access to their oil.
Mossadegh had talked about nationalizing the oil companies, making them a benefit, more of a benefit for Iran.
And that was a threat.
Of course, Israel sees Iran as a threat, so we have to do everything we can to protect them, to protect our greatest ally.
How are they an ally again?
What benefit do we receive from this relationship?
Israel must be able to defend herself against Iran.
I'm sure that Iran cannot rebuild its nuclear capabilities, Gotheimer said in a statement.
This bill gives the president the authority to equip Israel with the tools and training they need to deter Tehran and make the world a safer place, said Lawler.
That's right.
They need them as tools of determent.
It'll make the world safer when Israel, this country that loves to launch preemptive strikes and assassinate people, has this kind of technology.
These Israel first reps would send Israel American nukes if they hadn't already illegally obtained them.
That's right.
Israel has never cared what America said.
They'll illegally obtain them.
They'll steal information and secrets if we don't give it to them.
This reminds me of another bill put forward last year by another pair of APAC-funded congressmen, which sought to extend benefits reserved for U.S. government service members to U.S. citizens serving in the IDF.
That's right, you serve the IDF.
You're going to get benefits.
You're going to get all kinds of goodies.
With the American people's opposition to Israel hitting record highs and Israelis fearing, they've got only two years left to bleed us dry.
We're entering a smash and grab stage.
We're Zionist kleptocrats.
We plundering our nation in a display so shameless it would make Black Lives Matter looters blush.
And this is from Information Liberation.
That's right, they're worried.
What if we can't continue to blackmail these leaders?
What if we can't keep looting their treasury?
What if we actually have to pay for some of our own?
Amazingly service member benefits reserved for U.S. government service members, something that ostensibly is given to people that are protecting U.S. interests and are funded by U.S. taxpayers.
So it's yet another instance of aid to Israel that we are funding the retirement of people that have aided a foreign country with our tax dollars.
They're our greatest ally.
They're there to help us.
They bring us so much good.
Israeli forces massacre 118 Palestinians in Gaza over 24 hours.
This is from anti-war.com.
Gaza's health ministry said on Thursday that Israeli forces killed at least 118 Palestinians and wounded 581 over the previous 24-hour period as heavy U.S.-backed Israeli strikes continued across the strip and Israeli troops continued to shoot people seeking aid.
Thursday marks the third day in a row that the health ministry reported a death toll of more than 100.
Based on the ministry's numbers, which studies have found are likely a significant undercount, Israeli forces killed 369 Palestinians over 72 hours.
Israeli attacks on Thursday included massacres of children.
According to the Associated Press, an overnight strike on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 13 members of one family, including six children under the age of 12.
Two children, including a six-year-old girl, were among eight people reported killed by an Israeli strike that hit near a stand selling falafel in central Gaza.
The Israelis are truly a bloodthirsty, war-mongering, uncaring nation.
In this article, they have these pictures of mourners surrounding these body bags, these corpses wrapped up.
And this is happening continually.
118 people in 24 hours, which is likely to be an undercount, which is likely not the full picture.
And we're supposed to blindly support them.
And we see these Zionist Christians in America just, as I said, blindly, unquestioningly support Israel because of bad theology.
Because those who bless Israel will be blessed, right?
Supporting this genocidal regime because they interpret the Bible as saying to support whatever political party is in Israel at the time.
This thing which is not supported by more than half of Israelis.
What would happen to these Zionists if Benjamin Netanyahu lost power and a party that was diametrically opposed to everything he stood for took over?
Would that still be what you need to unquestioningly support?
An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City killed 15 people.
The breakdown of the casualties is unclear, but photos of the funeral for victims at Al-Shifa Hospital show several tiny bodies wrapped in shrouds.
Medical sources told AP that five Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces along roads while attempting to reach distribution sites run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Another 40 were killed while waiting for UN aid trucks in various parts of Gaza.
They're killed while trying to get aid, while trying to get food so that they can not starve to death.
This is just some of the most blatant cruelty and wickedness that I've seen in my lifetime.
The Israelis using the aid to gather them into specific locations, knowing that these people are starving to death and using that as a way to corral them and kill them.
This is from the Libertarian Institute.
Amnesty.
Israel using starvation to commit genocide in Gaza.
One of the top human rights organizations has concluded that Israel is using starvation as a means to commit genocide in partnership with a U.S.-based agency.
Of course, the amount of aid that is sent in is not able to feed everyone there.
But now they're not just not providing...
Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how, over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
The scathing summary of the report reads, to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
In the month following Israel's imposition of a militarized aid scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured, either near militarized distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys, it adds.
The GHF is a U.S.-based agency run by Christian Zionist Reverend Johnny Moore.
Since the end of May, the GHF has distributed an insufficient amount of aid to the millions of starving Palestinians in Gaza.
I'm sure it wouldn't be some kind of scheme.
They wouldn't be working together to be able to gather the Palestinians into places so they can more effectively kill them.
I'm sure that would never happen.
The method of aid distribution is dehumanizing and leads to fights as desperate people race to obtain food.
The U.S. government backs the Israeli GHF scheme to provide some funding to the organization.
Additionally, Israeli soldiers have killed hundreds of Palestinians attempting to reach the aid sites, often with tanks, artillery, and drones.
Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to fire on the unarmed civilians.
Even with the risk of death near aid sites, many Palestinians make the journey as the alternative is starvation.
At least 66 Palestinian children have starved to death under the Israeli blockade of the Strip.
The Amnesty Report concludes all the evidence gathered, including testimonies which Amnesty International is receiving from victims and witnesses suggests that the GHF was designed so as to placate international concerns while constituting another tool of Israel's genocide.
66 children have starved to death that they know of.
The likelihood is it's much, much more.
66.
As someone who is a new father, I can't even imagine how horrifying it must be to see that happening to your children.
To see them waste away like that.
It must be so unimaginable, so horrific for the parents of those poor children and the poor children themselves who pass away.
It is truly despicable, the tactics that are being employed against the Palestinians.
The devil in the details of Trump's final proposal for Gaza ceasefire.
But we've got some comments here before I continue.
Travis, APAC is the Gottheimer-Lawler connection.
Gottheimer's received 2,01,136 and Lawler $639,253.
www.terackapac.com.
Maybe that's supposed to be trackapac.com.
I have to check that out.
I knew that they had both received donations from APAC, but I wasn't able to find any specific amounts.
But that makes sense.
APAC builds coalitions better than we're able to here.
Trucker Chris for the win.
If Israel wins against Iran, there will be millions more Arab refugees in Europe.
The destabilization of the Middle East has been an utter disaster for us in the West.
That's from a purely Machiavellian materialistic standpoint.
Even if you don't care about the loss of life in the Middle East, even if you don't care about the destruction of their countries and what it does to their people, it is simply bad for the West because many of them come here.
The devil in the details of Trump's final proposal for a Gaza ceasefire.
A Hamas official accused Trump of aiding an Israeli deception operation, but the movement says it wants to bridge the gaps and make a deal.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the new U.S.-promoted Gaza ceasefire framework as the final proposal, maybe a final solution.
While it contains some substantive changes to the previous terms crafted by the U.S. and Israel, the plan would still allow Israel to resume its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip after initial 60-day truce.
Trump is a crucial part of Israel's deception operation, a Hamas official told Dropsite News.
Of course, we know, given Israel's history, that the most they would wait is that 60 days.
But they would very likely find some reason to begin attacking immediately.
They have continually claimed that the truce has been violated on the other side.
Well, they did something, so we're justified in responding with overwhelming force.
We're justified in using any means necessary.
And that's if you believe what they say.
I personally don't tend to believe them.
The official characterized the proposal, which was also obtained by DropSight, as containing mostly rhetorical changes, though he acknowledged that some of the amended language describing Trump's desire to end the war was clearly aimed at convincing Hamas to support the agreement.
The United States and President Trump are committed to work to guarantee the continuation of the negotiations with goodwill until they reach a final agreement.
The draft says according to the Arabic language version given to Hamas, it adds that Trump will personally announce the deal.
The Hamas official said the new draft was largely a repackaging of terms that the U.S. and Israel tried to strong-harm Hamas into accepting in late May.
That deal would have allowed some Israeli forces to remain entrenched in Gaza, offered no clear guarantees for a permanent end to the war, and allowed Israel to effectively maintain control of food and aid distribution in Gaza.
It would leave Israel in control.
It would give them the prerogative to do whatever they want, basically.
I'm sure they would never stage a false flag with the troops they leave there in Gaza.
They would never claim they'd been attacked, and as such, the war is back on, that there continue to be justified in a bombing of men, women, and children.
This is another article from anti-war, but this time it's about Ukraine, because America is involved in many proxy wars.
Trump speaks of Putin, says he didn't make any progress on Ukraine.
Remember when he said it would be finished day one?
Remember his campaign promise?
Oh, when I get in power, it's done.
It's over.
I'm going to end it.
That's.
hasn't proved to be the case.
This by Dave DeCamp.
President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and said after the call that he didn't make any progress on the issue of the Ukraine war.
We had a call.
It was a pretty long call.
And we talked about a lot of things, including Iran.
We also talked about the war with Ukraine.
I'm not happy about that, Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One.
When asked if any progress was made on Ukraine, Trump said, no, I didn't make any progress today with him at all.
According to the Kremlin, Putin told Trump that Russia wouldn't give up on its war goals.
Our president said that Russia will achieve its goals, that it that is eliminate, our president said that Russia will achieve its goals, that is, eliminate the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current harsh confrontation.
And Russia will not give up on these goals, said Putin aide Yuri Ushaykov.
What led to these conditions?
It couldn't be the United States orchestrating a color revolution in Ukraine.
It couldn't be the fact that we basically put Zelensky into place, had him serve our interests, had him move Ukraine further towards joining NATO, causing Russia great distress.
No, it couldn't be that.
A call between the two leaders comes after the U.S. halted the shipment of some air defenses and other munitions to Ukraine due to the dwindling U.S. stockpiles.
Ushaykov said that Trump and Putin didn't discuss the halted U.S. supplies to Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has continued to rage despite Trump's dialogue with Russia and push for a ceasefire.
As the two sides remain very far apart on their conditions to end the conflict, the pause on some U.S. military aid shipments can increase the likelihood of Ukraine making concessions to Russia.
Ukrainian President Vlodymir Zelensky said on Wednesday that Ukraine was holding talks with the U.S. to clarify the issue of U.S. military support for Ukraine.
I need some clarification.
Wait, I thought we were your boy.
I thought you were going to support this puppet regime.
What happened?
I thought we were doing your bidding.
One of the main impases is over the issue of territory, as Russia wants Ukraine to recognize for Ukrainian Oblast that Moscow annexed in 2022 as part of Russia, which would require Ukrainian forces to withdraw from territory it holds in those regions.
During short-lived negotiations in the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in March and April of 2022, Russia's main demand was Ukrainian neutrality.
The Biden administration discouraged those negotiations, and later that year, Russia declared its annexation of the four Ukrainian oblasts and added the recognition of that territory as part of Russia to its demands to end the war.
It is truly amazing to see how little Donald Trump has actually delivered on.
But he has promised to end these wars, and not a single one of them has ended.
He's barely even stopped the supply of munitions.
In fact, the only reason they were stopped is because we're running low on supplies for ourselves.
Maybe we've got to make sure that we've got enough to send to Israel.
Maybe that's what will stop us supplying Ukraine is we have to make sure that we've got a large enough stockpile so that Israel can demolish Gaza and Iran whenever they feel like it.
Because of course our loyalty to Israel is more important than Ukraine.
It always is.
We're going to take a quick break folks and then we'll be right back.
And we're going to look at how Donald Trump is working on a mass amnesty bill.
As I said, sorry, MAGA.
No refunds.
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I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
But he told me to get lost.
Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
You should be able to buy me several hundred.
Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
The end of the day.
Welcome back folks.
That's right.
Zelensky loves his military cosplay, doesn't he?
As I said, we're going to look at Trump announces he's working on mass amnesty plan for illegal aliens after passing the big beautiful bill.
Ah, isn't that wonderful?
Part of what he's campaigned on.
We're going to deport the illegals.
We're going to secure the border.
But nope, we're going to give amnesty to millions of them.
Thursday he's announced he's working on a mass amnesty for potentially millions of legal aliens working in farms and hotels in leisure industries, which radical right people won't be happy about.
Of course, I'm sure that this wouldn't have anything to do with the staff at his hotels, right?
He wouldn't be thinking about the fact that if he gets rid of the illegals that are working there, he would have to pay an American a proper wage to do those jobs.
Now, that wouldn't be one of Donald's concerns.
And the quote of radical right is from Trump himself.
That's his supporters, people that wanted something done about the illegal immigrant invasion.
They're the radical right.
That's right.
A direct quote.
Because Trump is a New York Democrat.
He's always been a New York Democrat.
He's just been playing a Republican on TV.
You probably saw I got myself into a little trouble because I said, I don't want to take people away from the farmers, and we're going to do something.
I think that's going to be good, Trump told a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa.
Referring to illegal aliens, Trump said, if a farmer is willing to vouch for these people in some way, Christine Ohm, I think we're going to have to just say that's going to be good, right?
You know, we're going to be good with it because we don't want to do it, or we take all of the workers off the farms.
We're working on legislation right now, he said.
I think that's going to make a lot of people happy, Trump said.
Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand, won't they?
Probably so.
I got myself into a little trouble because I said, I don't want to take people away from the farmers.
And we're going to do something I think that's going to be good because we want all the criminals out, everybody agrees.
And we're finding the criminals, the murderers, the drug deals, we're getting them the hell out of here.
But the farmers, some of the farmers, many of you sitting right here, I have four friends right in the fifth row.
But some of the farmers, you know, they've had people working for them for years.
And we're going to do something.
We're working with Christy.
And we're going to do something that we're going to sort of put the farmers in charge.
And if somebody, if a farmer's been with one of these people that works so hard, they bend over all day.
We don't have too many people can do that.
But they work very hard.
Donald Trump there.
We're going to do something.
We're going to do something.
These farmers, they don't want to pay Americans to do the job.
Americans won't do it at these third world prices.
They want to be able to live a comfortable life.
They want to be able to support a family without living in poverty.
And that's not acceptable.
We can't afford that.
Stephen Miller and other MAGA shills were all pushing this big, beautiful bill by telling their followers it would lay the groundwork for mass deportations.
But not even 24 hours later, Trump is already pushing for a mass amnesty.
BBB will liberate America from invasion.
Occupied towns will be freed.
Whole towns saved.
A precise coalition to pass this bill only exists for a fleeting instant, and yet one or two members may tank it because the largest spending cut in history isn't 1% larger.
And that's from Stephen Miller.
That was from July 3rd.
Only four days ago.
Only four days.
Imagine having the chance to undo years of illegal mass migration and finding some obscure reason to say no.
Sorry, Stephen.
No refunds.
But I'm sure he'll come up with a way to spin it.
To say, oh no, this is actually a great thing.
This is good.
This is what you wanted.
You were just too stupid to realize it.
Something Donald Trump campaigned heavily on is being thrown out the window.
How many Felford Again awards do people need to rack up before they realize they're being conned?
That's right, MAGA.
You get another one.
You're going to look like one of those North Korean generals with all these Felford Again awards pinned to your chest.
Outsourcing Mania.
Microsoft expands American layoffs while lobbying for even more foreign workers.
That's right.
That was the message one Microsoft employee said.
Your journey here ends today.
It was the message one Microsoft employee said she received when her job was abruptly terminated.
Another described the experience as paralyzing, refreshing emails staring at the screen, heart racing with every ping.
A third added, there has been speculation for a while, but the scale of today's news still hits hard.
Across social media and professional networks like LinkedIn, thousands of American workers have shared that they've been laid off by Microsoft, marking what has become one of the largest workforce reductions in the company's history.
But their job titles reveal a deeper pattern.
Many of the same roles are now appearing in Microsoft's filings with the U.S. Department of Labor for H-1B foreign workers.
That's right.
These aren't jobs that they're removing.
They're not streamlining the company.
These aren't unnecessary.
They just don't want to pay an American to do it.
Americans cost too much.
They want to be able to support themselves properly.
They're not willing, as I said, to live in squalor.
This is an issue that plagues many, many different industries.
The cost of American workers is one thing.
Another thing causing this is simple racism from a lot of these Indian hiring managers.
The people that get into HR, there's been story after story where HR gets taken over by an Indian who only wants to hire other people from his country.
It is something we've talked about here before.
Quite a few times now, they engage in these racially nepotistic hiring practices.
They don't want to hire white people because the Indian government has engaged in a program to send these people out and to then send money back to India.
It accounts for quite a lot of money.
The Indian government likes that.
Earlier this week, World Net Daily reported that Microsoft announced major layoffs impacting workers in Washington and California.
Even as the company continued pursuing thousands of new foreign hires through the H-1B visa program, since then the number of layoffs has continued to rise, raising concerns that what began as cost-cutting may now reflect an even broader and troubling shift in Microsoft's labor strategy.
As its new fiscal year began on July 1st, Microsoft confirmed an additional 9,000 would be laid off company-wide, including 830 cuts in Washington State.
Combined with earlier waves in May and June, Microsoft has now laid off more than 15,000 workers since spring, including more than 3,100 in Washington, home to its Redmond headquarters.
While the company previously stated the cuts were meant to flatten management, publicly available data shows that only 17% of impacted roles in Redmond were classified as managerial.
While those layoffs were unfolding, publicly, another lesser-known development was playing out in Washington, D.C. In April, just weeks before the May layoffs began, Microsoft filed a federal lobbying disclosure reporting $2.35 million in lobbying expenditures, much of it directed at the Federal Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security.
The very agency is responsible for overseeing visa certifications and employment eligibility.
Among the listed priorities, high-skilled immigration reforms, a long-standing policy goal often associated with expanding access to the H-1B visa program.
It's not a new strategy for Microsoft.
In 2023, the company filed Federal Warrant Act Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification Notices, disclosing 3,426 layoffs across its California and Washington offices.
During the same period, Microsoft requested 14,020 H-1B visa workers, plus another 708 through third-party staffing firms.
This is, again, the hollowing out of the American middle class.
You guys want a reasonable living wage.
You guys want to be able to support a family.
You guys aren't comfortable living in squalor and doing the job for a fraction of what it's worth.
You guys need to get with the times.
It's about destroying the country.
It's also ever since the H-1B visas have become more and more common, as more and more of the American tech sector has moved to India and other places, as they have hired foreign people to do these jobs, the interfaces on everything has gotten worse.
Technology has gotten worse.
For whatever reason, the user interface has become a nightmare.
Programs are less reliable, more bloated, more worthless.
As someone who works with computers all day, it has been a nightmare to watch as these programs get less and less reliable, more shoddy, less streamlined.
It is...
Maybe it's...
But it has been happening in time with the Americans being driven out of the companies that built these programs.
The company also spent $5 million lobbying in 2023, 4.52 million of which was aimed directly at the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security on issues related to high-skilled immigration and immigration reform.
Of course, I've also talked about on the show that India runs many, many diploma mills where they will just falsify your credentials.
They'll say, yes, yes, we've trained him in this when the university does nothing but create this piece of paper.
Or they'll just claim that they went to these prestigious universities and hope no one checks.
It is a huge problem.
Microsoft has consistently maintained that the U.S. does not issue enough H-1B visas to meet labor market demands.
On its lobbying blog, the company states the number of H-1B visas remains very limited.
Congress sets a limit on the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each year.
Demand far exceeds supply.
Demand exceeds supply, again, because they don't want to pay the actual price for this kind of work.
They want it done for cheap.
They don't care if it's done well.
They want third world prices here in the United States.
I want to hollow out and destroy the American middle class.
I want to make sure that you can't get a job or you can earn a living.
While it is accurate that U.S. law caps new H-1B visas at $85,000 per year, Microsoft's own hiring data offers additional perspective from 2021 to 2024.
The company submitted H-1B requests at a staggering rate of 5.17 for every one net new job it created in the U.S. Based on this pattern, Microsoft claims of a lack of available skilled workers appear less about unmet labor needs, more about the company's inability to replace its existing workforce at scale due to the legal limits imposed by the H-1B visa cap.
That's right.
If they get the cap raised, if they get more people brought in, they will simply terminate more of their existing workforce.
This imbalance raises further questions regarding how the program is being applied, whether to support innovation or to enable deeper transformation of the labor force.
I think we all know what's really happening.
I think we can all just understand at this point that these large companies hate the American population.
They hate the American people.
Bill Gates is one of the premier globalists.
Everything he does and everything his company does, even though he's not really the one in charge of it anymore, is about destroying the American people, but destroying people in general.
Cecilia, we've got some comments.
Cecilia 14.
Travis, are you going to discuss the horrific Texas flooding?
Not especially.
It is horrible, and we should all be praying for them.
We have been praying for them here.
My wife has some friends that lost everything in the flood.
They lived nearby, and they were, they, an entire family group lived on some land, and they multiple generations lost everything.
They've got kids who have lost all of their toys, all their clothes.
It's truly horrible.
So you do need to be praying for them, but I just it's it's a tragedy.
There's not too much information about it that I feel is relevant for the show today.
Just keep them in your prayers.
It is a horrific thing to have happen.
Many people have lost their lives.
I'm sure we'll be discussing at length the government's mismanaging of the recovery efforts, which is inevitable at this point.
Yeah.
Once that happens, we'll discuss it.
But thank you for reminding me about it, Cecilia.
Just to keep these people in your prayers.
Keep all the families that have lost loved ones, have just had their homes destroyed.
It is horrible, and they do need our prayers.
So thank you.
I appreciate you reminding me to bring that up.
Tennel Lord 1337, of course the farmers want the illegals.
To employee these aliens would be cheaper than paying Americans.
That's right.
We always hear the refrain, well, Americans won't do the jobs.
No, what they mean to say is Americans won't do the jobs at the price you want.
You would actually have to pay a reasonable amount of money.
You would have to pay something that would sustain a livelihood, sustain a family, sustain them.
Another thing that rarely gets mentioned is the incentive that employers have to hire illegals and that they don't have to pay additional taxes on them that are required with U.S. citizen employees.
Yes.
So not only can you pay these people less, you don't have to pay taxes on them.
It is a massive savings for the employers that they get by screwing over the American people.
And brought to my attention that a lot of people in chat are talking about Dr. Kirk Moore and the trial that's going on.
I don't have any info on him today, so I want to do some research on that before I say anything about it.
Don't want to speculate.
I want to make sure that we have real data behind it.
So we'll probably talk about that tomorrow or in the coming days this week.
So look out for that.
But thank you for bringing that to our attention.
There's always so much news that it's hard to make sure that we get everything.
This is from the AP.
Protests against surging mass tourism in Mexico City ends in vandalism and harassment of tourists.
That's right, they're mad about tourism in Mexico City because it's gentrifying the area.
It's causing prices to go up.
They're allowed to be mad about this.
They're allowed to claim it's bad.
We're not allowed to be mad about people who are permanently mooching off the welfare state or making the country less safe or making it impossible to find jobs that will pay an appropriate amount of money.
People who will undercut the American economy and destroy it over time.
And they can be upset about this.
Yeah, it's their country.
I'm not mad that they're mad about it.
I'm mad that we're not allowed to be mad about this sort of thing in our country.
If the Mexicans...
Let's not forget, Mexico has a much, much more restrictive system for becoming a citizen legally.
Yeah.
I don't think...
I know that used to be the case.
I believe it's still the case now.
I think you're only allowed to rent there.
But again, as Lance pointed out, I'm not mad that they're protesting.
If they don't want foreigners in their country, that's their right, in my opinion.
They should be allowed to protest, and if they want to, kick people out.
I just find it ironic that so many people will come here and wave the Mexican flag and get mad that the American people might want their country to reflect their values and the people that built the country.
I said this is from AAP Mexico City, a protest by hundreds against gentrification and mass tourism that began peacefully Friday Mexico City neighborhoods.
Popular with tourists turned violent when a small number of people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners.
Hey, Gringo, get out.
Mass protesters smashed through the windows and looted high-end businesses in the touristic areas of Condesa and Roma and screamed at tourists in the area.
Graffiti on glass shattered, on glass, shattered glass being smashed through with rocks read, get out of Mexico.
Protesters held signs reading, Gringos stop stealing our home, and demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and stricter housing laws.
Gringos stop stealing our home.
Oh, the irony.
Those gosh darn gringos.
They won't stop undermining our country.
And of course, I don't support them being violent.
I don't support them destroying private property or stealing things.
But a peaceful protest, an actually peaceful protest, not what we have come to call peaceful protests, is completely within their rights.
Whatever, I think the Mexicans have the right to decide for themselves how they want their country run, what and who they want inside it.
I think everyone from every individual country has that right.
Marchers then continued on to protest outside the U.S. Embassy and chanted inside the city's metro system.
Police reinforcements gathered outside the embassy building as police sirens rung out in the city center Friday evening.
It marked a violent end to a more peaceful march throughout the day, calling out against masses of mostly American tourists who have flooded into Mexico's capital in recent years.
Tensions had been mounting in the city since U.S. digital nomads flocked to Mexico City in 2020.
Many to escape coronavirus lockdowns in the U.S. or to take advantage of cheaper rent prices in the Latin American cities.
Since then, rents have soared and locals have increasingly gotten pushed out of their neighborhoods, particularly areas like Condessa and Roma, lush areas packed to the coffee shops and restaurants.
Michelle Castro, a 19-year-old college student, was among the flocks of people protesting.
She said that She's from the city, city's working-class city center.
And she's watched slowly as apartment buildings have been turned into housing for tourists.
Mexico City is going through a transformation, she said.
There are a lot of foreigners, namely Americans, coming to live here.
Many say it's xenophobia, but it's not.
It's just that so many foreigners come here.
Rents are skyrocketing because of Airbnb.
Rents are so high that some people can't even pay anymore.
Mexico City protests follows others in European cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and Rome against mass tourism.
Digital nomads.
They're sick of these.
Increasing the demand for housing by importing a bunch of people raises the cost?
What a shock.
Truly incredible.
I...
I...
And again, I feel for this woman.
She's 19, and she's being priced out of the area she grew up in.
Probably some place she loves and has deep affection for by these people that are simply there to escape and get a little bit better pricing on rent.
I do feel bad for that.
And I think, again, as I said, I think they have the right to be angry about it.
I think they have the right to make their laws however they want to decide who they want in their country.
This is from Life Site.
New Spanish bill could jail parents for resisting gender confusion.
Homosexuality in children, says an attorney.
And I thought we had...
But, yes, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition, but now I suppose it should be the Spanish mutilation.
A prominent criminal lawyer is speaking out on the ramifications of a new Spanish law that could effectively criminalize resisting the gender transition of a confused child.
Approved last month by the Spanish Congress of Deputies, the new Article 173 to the Penal Code would punish potentially with jail time any acts, methods, programs, techniques, or procedures of aversion or conversion intended to change another person's sexual orientation, identity, or gender expression.
For doctors and parents alike, including resistance to so-called affirmative therapies.
That's right.
Only the government is allowed to propagandize and proselytize to your children.
Only they're allowed to confuse them.
You're not allowed to try to help them.
So their definition of methods, programs, and techniques, or procedures of aversion or conversion don't include their own propaganda and affirmative therapies where they're going to push this on people, the kinds of books that we see them pushing in libraries for children.
None of that is considered conversion or aversion, just any pushing back against that.
According to these people, the natural state of everyone should be homosexual.
That's right.
You're not allowed to try to talk them out of it, to try to explain that this is just some mental illness.
If you try to do that, you can end up in prison.
Not allowed.
And of course, we've seen the explosion of this gender confusion over the last few years.
Since it became a hot topic and since it became a protected class, since it became part of the oppression hierarchy, and they're right near the top, we've seen the explosion in the number of children who identify as such.
Because it's cool, because it gets them points on the system.
It makes them something special.
The legislation was opposed by the Socialist Party PSOE and supported by all parliamentary groups except VOX, which voted against it, and the Navarese People's Union, UPN, which abstained, according to the European Conservative.
On July 1st, the European Conservative published an interview with Spanish criminal lawyer Paula Fraga, who concurred with critics' worst fears about the new law.
This means that if a minor claims to feel like the opposite sex, their subjective perception must be automatically accepted without any kind of pushback.
Not allowed to question it.
You're not allowed to say, this isn't right.
I know that you're confused.
I know that things are strange for you right now.
But this isn't the answer.
Got some comments.
Con think.
Thank you very much for the support, Con.
Hope you're doing well.
Using companies like Airbnb and Verbo only increase the housing crisis.
It just gets worse and worse.
As I've said before, my wife is from the Austin area in Texas, and she has been priced out of ever owning a home in that area.
It will it has gone through the roof.
It has gone to the moon.
The prices are obscene.
It is not worth what they are valued at.
But there is no chance we could ever afford to live or buy a house in that area.
Big Brit is back again.
The Epstein thing is over.
They have come out and said there is no list, and Jones was crying about it.
Oh no.
Poor Alex.
His idol betrays him.
Yeah, I saw some more stuff.
I meant to get this to you before the show, but didn't.
Statement put out by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of FBI.
This systematic review revealed no incriminating client list.
There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.
What a strange thing to say.
No evidence.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Move along.
Well, all his Mossad connections were all apparently just coincidental.
He just really liked running this thing and providing this service to all these rich people.
There was no blackmail element to it whatsoever.
There was no blackmail.
No one in politics is being held up by the Mossad under threat of having their crimes be exposed.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
Business as usual.
Isn't that wonderful?
Of course, we all knew here that Donald Trump had been friends with Jeffrey Epstein, that they were buddies at one point.
This is from Zero Hedge.
California homeschool families rally against bill for increased oversight and funding cuts.
Well, don't take the government's money.
It's a trap.
If you take their money, you're beholden to them, and they get to come in and oversee what you're doing.
If you take their money, that's what happens.
Don't make a deal with the devil.
It doesn't end well.
This is a monkey's paw scenario.
Homeschooling families in California are rallying against a bill they say would cut funding for critical enrichment programs and force their charter schools to close down.
The bill would strengthen accountability and oversight to crack down undocumented fraud and improper use of taxpayer dollars allocated or public education.
The main point is just don't deal with the government.
Don't take their money.
They will always find some way to use that against you.
Just don't deal with them.
Don't ignore them when they come to your door and say, hey, wouldn't you like some money?
Wouldn't you like some cash?
Courts, LGBT in school fine, but Ten Commandments are unconstitutional.
That's right.
They can learn all about the degenerate LGBT lifestyle.
Whatever.
All the books that they put into the library are fine.
They can promote lesbianism, gayness, bisexuality, transgenderism, queerness, LGBTQ, and other sexual gender perversions.
But no, you can't discuss the Ten Commandments.
Those are hateful.
We don't want that.
Ironically, Moses holding the Ten Commandments is literally pictured on the outside wall of the High Court, of the Supreme Court of the United States, SCODIS.
And as any of the students of American education know well, the Bible was the primary textbook used for educating children for centuries, for pagan and godless propaganda took its place over the last century, long before child suicide, mass shootings, drug abuse, illiteracy, fake history, fake science, gender confusion, and other absurdities took over what passes for education.
The state law requiring a display of the Ten Commandments is plainly unconstitutional, they say.
Plainly unconstitutional.
Well, we are out of time here.
I wanted to get to this article, but I dilly-dallied too much.
I'm a dilly-dallier.
How horrible.
Tunnel Lord, 1337.
This logic by the Spanish government is hysterical.
It reminds me of the criminalization of people talking to kids about sex.
Sex, yet when the gov does it, it's somehow okay.
That's right.
If a normal average person was to do that sort of thing, they'd be called a freak, a weirdo, potentially a pedophile.
Someone with devious intentions towards your children, not to be trusted.
But when the government doesn't, it's a-okay.
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