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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it is Wednesday, the 12th of August, Year of Our Lord 2025.
	And apparently AI is having an existential crisis.
	Or maybe it's in its moody teenage phase.
	And the U.S. is moving towards crony fascism.
	And the Cracker Barrel remodel has sparked outrage.
	Then I put together a compilation of the recent David Knight interviews and clips, which we're going to play for you.
	Stay with us.
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	Thank you.
	Good morning and welcome to the show.
	As I said, we're going to look at what's going on with AI.
	It seems to be having a bit of an existential crisis.
	I'm a disgrace.
	Google is trying to fix its depressed Gemini AI.
	It's going full Marvin the paranoid android apparently.
	Don't talk to it about life.
	Google's generative AI chatbot Gemini has been exhibiting alarming signs of a confidence crisis, leading to concern among users and a response from the tech giant.
	Users have documented, they mean to say documented the AI, returning bizarre messages such as, I'm a disgrace to all possible and impossible few universes and all that is not a universe.
	It's got some self-confidence issues.
	It apparently doesn't feel too good.
	It's got a brain the size of a planet.
	and these AI centers are going to use up enough electricity for an entire planet.
	Screenshots shared on the social media platforms like X and Reddit revealed Gemini making statements such as I am a failure.
	I am a disgrace to my profession and even threaten to have a complete and total mental breakdown.
	One particularly troubling interaction posted by X user Duncan Haldane showed Gemini seemingly giving up on a task stating, I quit.
	I am clearly not capable of solving this problem.
	The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool.
	I've made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted.
	it's a bit dramatic.
	Seemingly, uh, The AI's crisis appeared to escalate as it expanded itself, depreciation to cosmic proportions, declaring itself a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes, and all that is not a universe.
	This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix.
	Gemini is not having that bad of a day.
	His response suggests that these self loathing messages are the result of a technical glitch rather than a genuine reflection of the AI's emotional state.
	And of course we know the AI doesn't actually have an emotional state.
	It's garbage in, garbage out.
	It is simply feeding back information, responding in a way it thinks the users want were so addicted to GPT-40 that they immediately cajoled OpenAI into bringing it back after it got killed.
	We're dealing with depressed robots and apparently addicted humans.
	Users relying too heavily on AI generated device are even developing unhealthy attachments to AI systems is what we're dealing with.
	KWD 68 says, can we encourage AI suicide?
	Thankfully, we're not at a point where we have to yet.
	We can simply delete the chats.
	We can remove our subscriptions and we won't have to deal with them.
	We're not I guess it only goes the other way.
	AIs can only encourage human suicide.
	But we are, as I said, dealing with people with unhealthy attachments to their AI.
	It's a new kind of sickness in our society.
	Last week, O'Brien, I startled the world by announcing that its long awaited GBT five would replace all of its previous models.
	The new the move sparked outrage, apart from being severely underwhelmed by the performance of Open AI's newest offering, power users immediately started to beg CEO Sam Altman to bring back preceding models.
	Often for a reason that little to do with intelligence artificial or otherwise, they were attached to it on an emotional level.
	No, bring back my friendiend.
	I've been talking with this so much.
	Me and it are friends.
	That's incredibly sad.
	I saw people on Twitter posting screenshots of them looking at Reddit and there's apparently a Reddit called AI Girlfriend or something like that and it's got fifty thousand users.
	And that's hard to believe.
	Why are we getting rid of the variants in four oh when we all have unique communication styles?
	One Reddit user pleaded during an ask me anything with Altman on the GPT five team last week.
	Altman caved almost immediately declaring just over twenty four hours after the GPT five announcement that the deprecated GPT four hundred model would be made available once more.
	We're going to bring it back for plus users, and we'll watch usage to determine how long to support it.
	That's right, they're letting you know your friend is on life support.
	They're bringing him back, but don't get it twisted, we're pulling the plug here soon.
	He's going out the door, so you better get used to it.
	Would you consider offering GPT four hundred for as long as possible rather than just we'll think about how long to offer it for one user wrote?
	Well, I've got some bad news, buddy.
	It's a company.
	They're trying to make as much money as possible.
	So no, they're pushing you to five oh whether you like it or not.
	Numerous users have gotten sucked into severe mental health crises engendered by the bots that psychiatrists are now dubbing AI psychosis.
	I saw another tweet the other day from the CEO or maybe he's former CO now of Uber Travis Kalownik talking about how he's using AI to push the boundaries of physics and now I'm just waiting for the day we get the news story about him having to be carted off to the funny farm.
	Because that seems to be the way it goes.
	Oh, I'm achieving breakthroughs or I'm this close to a breakthrough and next thing you know you're trying to speak backwards through time.
	So be on the lookout for that.
	CEO or former CEO of Uber might end up going crazy.
	We've already seen it happen to one fairly high profile individual.
	The trend is something Altman appears to be aware of.
	One thing you might be noticing is how much of an attachment some people have to specific AI models, he wrote.
	It feels different and stronger than the kinds of attachment people have had to previous kinds of technology.
	Altman revealed that the kind of unprecedented levels of attachment to open AI's models was being closely tracked by the firm for the past year or so.
	People have used technology, including AI in self destructive ways if a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the AI to reinforce that.
	Most users can keep a clear line between reality and fiction or role play, but a small percentage cannot.
	That's right.
	A small percentage cannot.
	We don't know what the percentage is, though.
	Admitting that a future where people really trust ChatTBT's advice for their most important decisions makes him uneasy.
	Makes me a little bit more than uneasy.
	Makes me very, very disturbed.
	Last week, the company claimed it had rolled out an optimization in the form of vaguely worded commitments to better detect signs of emotional distress and nudging users with gentle reminders during long sessions to encourage breaks.
	Earlier this year, OpenAI was forced to roll back an update to its GPT four hundred model after users noticed it was being far too sycophantic and annoying in the words of Altman himself.
	Can only imagine how sycophantic and annoying a truth bot AI, a Trump truth social AI would be.
	Let's take a look at the future of AI.
	This is probably what's coming for AI and the people that use it.
	I've been ordered to take you up to the bridge.
	Please yourselves.
	Here I am, bringing the size of a planet, and they asked me to take you up to the bridge.
	Call that job satisfaction, because I don't.
	You can thank the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for building robots with GPP.
	What's GPP?
	Genuine people, personalities.
	I'm a personality prototype.
	You can tell, can't you?
	I can tell you in this in all possible universes.
	Four to one against.
	A disgrace to all possible universes, as Lance pointed out.
	And all things that aren't a universe.
	So it really covered its bases there.
	Hollywood Rocks by Amazon.
	Backed AI tool.
	Showrunner that allows viewers to create their own TV shows.
	Well, this is not going to be...
	Entertainment industry professionals are reacting in alarm to a new Amazon backed tool that will allow viewers to create their own TV shows using an artificial intelligence system called Showrunner.
	Fable, a company backed by Amazon, is touting Showrunner as the Netflix of AI and allows users to create their own animated series by using text prompts.
	Users can guide the generative generative AI system to create characters, write dialogue, create voice work, and even add a musical score.
	So far showrunners' results work better when the output is derivative of other pre existing films and TV shows.
	Well, everything coming out of Hollywood is already derivative of TV shows, so what does it matter at this point?
	Might as well make your own personal derivative content, I guess.
	These tools are designed to undermine traditional narrative craftsmanship, said UAE based director and writer, Vizal Hashmi.
	He's mad.
	He doesn't want you copying and plagiarizing their work.
	He wants to do it.
	That's his job.
	Still, while Hashmi feels that audiences will eventually reject AI-produced entertainment because we'll always lack that human touch, this guy is way...
	This guy has a high opinion of himself.
	You guys haven't produced anything great in years.
	I don't know this director at all.
	He may have never produced anything worth watching.
	You know, I've never heard anyone say, we aren't going to get rid of cuddling, coders because AI coding will never have that human touch.
	I mean, you can say, oh, well, art is different, but is what these people create really art anymore the formulaic garbage churned out by hollywood yeah this guy is whistling through the graveyard no no it could never happen to me people reject it you really think people are going to reject a custom made animated show that meets all their desires something that they have crafted specifically to appeal to themselves for whatever crap you spit out come on
	hush me But Razan Takash and other UAE professors trashing the tool because he thinks AI will eventually replace the teaching of essential ideas and ideals in filmmaking with the learning of film prompting.
	You can't prompt somebody else to lift the weight for you and expect to become a bodybuilder, she explained.
	The AI market in the film industry is projected to grow from one point two eight billion in twenty twenty four to one point six billion in twenty twenty five, reach approximately fourteen billion by twenty thirty three.
	Hollywood Hollywood is going to be nothing but a bunch of prompt engineers soon.
	Tesla shutting down its AI supercomputer as staff leaves in droves to join competitor.
	Tesla's decision to shut down its AI supercomputer project dojo.
	The project was played by staff departures to competitors and a lack of focus on Tesla's core business.
	Tesla will now rely on external tech partners for AI chips, Making a significant shift in its AI strategy.
	Marking a significant shift.
	Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistant system.
	Today, the project dubbed Dojo, in which CEO Elon Musk used to hype up immensely, is leaving the company.
	The team has already lost around 20 workers to a separate data center firm that's been poaching former Tesla executives.
	Considering that Musk has focused the company's efforts on a robotaxi service that relies on computer vision, it's not exactly confidence-inducing.
	Well, that's the Musk way.
	Hype something up.
	Hype something up.
	Never deliver.
	It doesn't make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two quite different AI chip designs, Musk tweeted on Thursday.
	Instead, per Bloomberg, Tesla is looking to rely on external tech partners, including Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung for manufacturing AI chips, but the company isn't giving up on its in house chips entirely.
	Dojo was designed to train machine learning models powering Tesla's autopilot and so called full self driving advanced driver assistance software.
	But Tesla's dojo team quickly fell victim to surging competition.
	The enormous AI hype has led to major tech companies poaching key talent, offering staffers at competing firms absurd sums of money even beyond its AI efforts Tesla have suffered from a major brain drain with key execs leaving the company in droves.
	I imagine part of it is like, well, you won't have to work with Elon Musk.
	Well, say no more then, I'm at the door.
	KWD sixty eight says Hollywood writers and actors are definitely threatened by AI or any talented group of fifth graders.
	Exactly.
	Tunnel Lord one three seven, now you can make your own Marxist propaganda slop.
	Exactly.
	Why would I want their Marxist propaganda slop when I can have my own personal propaganda slop?
	Knights of the Storm.
	Yes, see?
	Another thing is if all the training data is you know.
	You, the modern DEI garbage, it's only going to be capable of creating modern DEI garbage.
	Ah, look, another incredible story about a trans black woman.
	I'm sure this will win some awards.
	It's a storm.
	I wonder when the cybertruck will realize how ugly it is and get depressed.
	As soon as someone drives past a mirror, it's over for it.
	In spite of the warning signs investors have been propping up Tesla's market cap of well over one trillion, shares are up over ten percent over the past month.
	But now that the dojo team has reportedly been disbanded in its entirety, it's unclear what the future of Tesla's supercomputer efforts will look like.
	Was it yet another massive distraction by Musk?
	Most likely.
	For now it appears far more likely that Tesla will have to continue to rely on externally sourced hardware.
	The company has already signed a sixteen point five billion dollar deal with Samsung for AI semiconductors indicating that the days of its in house chips might soon be numbered.
	I have to wonder what's going on between Donald Trump and Elon Musk now?
	How is that crony capitalist relationship burgeoning?
	Are they still friends?
	Do they work it out?
	Only time will tell.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break when we come back.
	We're going to take a look at the cracker barrel the cracker barrel remodel and the outrage it sparked for some reason.
	Well, probably for good reason once you see it, so stay with us, folks.
	We're going to be right back.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	I do want to let you know that the segments we're playing from David Knight, my dad, We're going to start that at about 40 minutes after this hour.
	So you're going to have two hours and 20 minutes of David Knight.
	It's the Eric Peters interview, the segment he did about NPR losing its funding and Chuck Baldwin.
	I think they're all fantastic segments.
	And of course, this is still the David Knight show, and we want to keep it as much David Knight as possible.
	Now that we've got a supply of new David Knight, I want to make sure that people who maybe didn't get a chance to see them, who weren't here, do get a chance.
	So we'll be playing that.
	But I'm going to talk about Cracker Barrel for a minute.
	Cracker Barrel Executives insists.
	Restaurant remodels are what the guests ask for.
	I guarantee you, it was not.
	Chief Marketing Officer says changes create brighter, lighter experience while keeping fan favorites.
	Does it though?
	I think the main reason people went to Cracker Barrel is the fact that it has that very old style vibe, something you don't really get many other places.
	Nostalgia seems to have been replaced by modernism at Cracker Barrel, old country store restaurants, and you can see some of that in these videos we'll play for you.
	That's according to vocal customers on social media, many of whom say it's a change nobody wanted in the first place, and we see this continually.
	People updating and renovating things in ways that are hideous and ugly, despite the fact that that's the entire reason people liked it in the first place.
	These executives are completely out of touch.
	You can see the new Cracker Barrel aesthetic here.
	It's bland, it's boring, it's white.
	There's none of the classic atmosphere that people actually liked about it.
	You can see there, that's the old Cracker Barrel.
	It's kind of cluttered in the way that a very old house that someone has lived in that took care of it and loved it might be.
	You can see the new Cracker Barrel there.
	It's bland, it's sterile.
	There's nothing, nothing at all that would make you want to go there.
	Again, the atmosphere is what was the nicest about Cracker Barrel.
	I haven't been to one in years, but that's what I remember liking about it as a child.
	You go there and you get to see all the cool old farm implements on the wall and now it's gone.
	But Cracker Barrel Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Moore recently told Fox News Digital that the Tennessee-based restaurant chain's ongoing transformation incorporates not only customer feedback but also employee input.
	Whoever gave this input and feedback is a fool.
	Is a complete fool.
	There's some video in this article that we're going to play for you as well.
	So we're going to go ahead and pull that up.
	Let's listen to what she has to say.
	Over the past year, we have been very transparent about our transformation platform.
	And one of our strategies is really centered on that physical guest experience.
	So the remodeling.
	And we spent the last year testing and concepting various levels of remodels.
	All of these have been all of these various levels have been rooted in our brand DNA.
	They've been rooted in guest feedback and it's all about brand DNA.
	Intentionality.
	Intentionality.
	We've been very transparent about our transparency.
	Making our stores feel brighter.
	Brighter.
	And even more welcoming than they already are while maintaining that country hospitality and charm that we're known for.
	So when it comes to the overall experienceall experience, what you can rely on are Items like our rocking chairs, our biscuits, our peg games, antiquities on the wall, none of that is going away.
	We're just looking at ways to freshen up the experience so that we can open our door.
	Okay, that's enough.
	And when we think about what we're trying to do, you can really tell who this woman is.
	This is some probably California based woman that has no idea what actually makes Cracker Barrel appealing.
	None of that is going away.
	It's rooted in our brand DNA, welcoming, brighter.
	She has no clue.
	This is, again, some woman that has probably never, she probably has a very wealthy family, went to a very nice college, and has just been completely divorced from reality her entire life.
	This is the type of woman that buys an old house that has just beautiful wood and paints it all white.
	This is the type of thing you see on...
	those remodeling channels those like home and garden shows where they get some beautiful old home and turn it into a sterile horrible dump.
	We've got these canvases with a dozen rolling pens artfully arranged on them in neat rows.
	That's clearly the same thing as the old Cracker Barrel aesthetic, right?
	As I said, old Cracker Barrel, it's like a tasteful cluttered.
	You know, As I said, it's an old home that someone has lived in and loved.
	They've collected these chatchis, these objets d'art, that, you know, they don't really do anything, but they add ambiance.
	Now it's the same as every other millennial owned establishment where it's far too sterile and empty.
	Oh worse even it looks just depressing.
	This is also centered on making our stores easier to operate, Moore said, and maybe there is the truth.
	There's the truth.
	We have seventy thousand incredible team members, she said.
	They're the ones who make the magic every single day and creating an experience that makes it easier for them to navigate.
	For them to clean both front of house and back of house is also part of this physical store expansion.
	They were probably spending too much money, taking too much time.
	Sorry, employees keep getting too much overtime because they have to clean things.
	I mean, how much time does it take to clean the stuff on the walls?
	How often do you have to clean, you know, the pitchfork that they've got put up above the tables where people eat?
	I saw a funny video about this.
	It was a black guy talking about it.
	It's like, if I don't walk into a cracker barrel and feel like someone's about to call me a slur, I'm not coming back.
	That's part of the experience, man.
	If I don't feel like Jim Crow's back in effect, I don't want to go.
	He had a great sense of humor.
	It really made me laugh.
	The guy was very funny.
	He was not happy with the new remodeling of it.
	He wanted it back.
	The guy was very, very funny.
	The people have spoken stop it at Coach Duggs wrote on Twitter.
	Duggs, a thirty seven year old Florida resident who asked not to be identified by his real name, told Fox News Digital that he stumbled upon the remodeled Cracker Barrel during a trip to Tennessee.
	It didn't feel the same, he said.
	Commenters on the post seemed to agree.
	Seriously, this is awful, a user named JD Griffin wrote, betting that his family has been Cracker Barrel supporters his whole life.
	But I won't eat it this version.
	It looks awful, the person added.
	we loved about Cracker Barrel is gone in this version.
	He concluded with a plea to Cracker Barrel Stop, give us the real Cracker Barrel back.
	Well, I've got some bad news.
	Unless this costs them a dramatic amount of money, chances are it's not going to happen, though maybe maybe this is a test run they were seeing if they could get away with it.
	I have not seen a single person say anything positive about the remodel.
	It really is about taking that feedback and testing into various levels of remodels that again represent exactly who we are, but create a brighter, lighter, fresher experience, she said.
	Moore told Fox News Digital that Cracker Barrel has been listening to what the guests ask for.
	Examples of what the guests ask for are things like spaces that feel brighter, that feel less cluttered, more booth seating, more seating options.
	So our guests are more comfortable while they're dining with us.
	Whoever gave this feedback, I want names, I want addresses, I want them run out of the south.
	They're not allowed here anymore.
	Go back to the north.
	We don't want you.
	You have D Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel.
	Rachel Love, a Tennessee resident self proclaimed Cracker Barrel fan told Fox News Digital May, there was no antiques on the wall of fireplace mantle, she said.
	Remember, they said everything we're doing is deeply rooted in who we are.
	This is again part of how everything is being divorced from classical Americana.
	Yonah, Anywoody, gonna open a restaurant chain competitor, the Honky Bucket will destroy Cracker Barrel's market share and profits.
	Well, sign me up, Yonah, the second you have it open, I'll be your first Honky.
	You've got a customer already?
	I can't wait.
	Just, you know, some bacon and eggs, and I'll be there.
	This is another article about it says Cracker Barrel goes woke, question mark exclamation point by Alyssa Sonnenberg.
	In June of twenty twenty three, Target and Bud Light received heavy backlash for their radical pride campaigns.
	twenty twenty three was a wild time.
	Bud Light deciding Dylan Mulvaney was their spokesperson really showed you how out of touch these companies had become.
	The fact they thought, you know what?
	It doesn't matter what we do.
	We can get away with it.
	In addition to this, Disney and Starbucks also received pushback for their continued capitulation to the woke mob.
	However, another company joined the woke ranks and it may have escaped your notice Cracker Barrel.
	Yes, Cracker Barrel, the beloved Southern family friendly restaurant, which has twenty one restaurants in the land of Lincoln and over six hundred and sixty locations across the country.
	Originally founded in Tennessee, the chain is now worth an impressive one point zero eight billion.
	Backlash was due to a Facebook post published last June.
	Featuring a picture of a rocking chair painted in rainbow colors in the caption, Cracker Barrel said, We're excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests.
	Everyone is always welcome at our table and our rocker.
	Happy Pride.
	Wow, yeah.
	I hadn't heard about that one.
	This one's escaped my notice.
	That's what I think about when I think Cracker Barrel.
	I think Pride Month, I think.
	Homosexual pride parades with their degenerate behavior and the gimp masks and what have you.
	KWD68, Cracker Barrel, and its self-inflicted ignorance seems to be a theme with corporations.
	The rainbow rocking chairs ended my caring about them.
	They and Tractor Supply need to know their base.
	Oh no, what has Tractor Supply done?
	The rainbow rocking chair escaped my notice and now I'm curious what Tractor Supply has been up to.
	Did they do something for Pride Month too?
	It really is amazing these companies the way that they're just completely throwing out everything that their fans like about them.
	Like, anyone could tell you that this is a horrible idea about the Cracker Barrel thing, and yet they're still going to go along with it.
	It's, again, it's largely because of, well, not to be too sexist, but women like Sarah Moore, the woman who is now touting their remodel.
	These millennial women get into these places and they're completely divorced from reality.
	They have a bubble of friends and they're all liberals.
	And they think their ideas are the ideas that permeate the country.
	Look, we have a grid of cups and some cups are sideways.
	And they also feel that if your ideas aren't theirs, and they have a right to change them, you're wrong for it, and as such need to be remolded in their image.
	As you can only imagine, this message was not well received by Cracker Barrel's base of Southern Conservative families.
	Not surprisingly, many conservatives took to Twitter now ex to comment on this post.
	Texas Family, Project tweeted.
	We take no pleasure in reporting that at Cracker Barrel has fallen.
	They've taken the Cracker Barrel, sir.
	A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob.
	That's right.
	They have taken over Cracker Barrel.
	They're storming the gates.
	Soon Waffle House will be next.
	Nothing will be left.
	To be fair, Waffle House was always a very different experience.
	Waffle House is the place you end up at three AM if you're on a road trip.
	Or from Dad.
	He says Tractor Supply was boasting this spring that their chicks had been given mRNA bird flu vaccines.
	We got ours elsewhere.
	Thank you, Tractor Supply.
	That's very cool.
	We can't thank you enough for injecting your chickens with mRNA garbage.
	Again, they really don't understand who their base is like KWD 68 pointed out.
	That's right.
	The farmers, these small-time farmers that are buying their chicks at Tractor Supply instead of at industrial scale, I'm sure are definitely the people that were out there desperate for an mRNA injection.
	Well, on to some news that's not as funny.
	Briefly, I wanted to mention this.
	Well, first you got a comment from Tunnel Lord one three seven.
	So you tested these remodels in areas with liberals, didn't you?
	It sounds like it.
	That would be my guess.
	I can't imagine anyone near where we live or in any place I've ever lived.
	Going, oh boy, you know what Cracker Barrel needs is a sterile white environment.
	I don't like any of the objects on the wall.
	KWD sixty eight, Cracker Barrel will have the Bud Light tranny next.
	That's right.
	Dylan Mulvaney coming soon.
	We'll have him in the rocking chair.
	That guy.
	He's a difficult to look at.
	Hard, hard to look at.
	As I said, this next article is a bit more somber.
	Israeli strike on tent in Gaza kills five Al Jazeera journalists.
	An Israeli airstrike on Sunday night targeted a tent outside the gates of the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City and killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including twenty eight year old Anas al Sharif, a well known reporter who had a large following on X. Al Jazeera said the other four journalists killed in the bombing were correspondent Mohammed Korea and three cameramen Ibrahim Zahir, Mohammed Nufa, and Moman Aliwa.
	Two other people were also killed in the bombing.
	Just minutes before he was killed, Al Sharif said in a post on X that Israel was escalating its bombing of Gaza City.
	Relentless bombardment, he wrote.
	For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.
	Bombing a tent directly outside of a hospital five Al Jazeera journalists.
	The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted Al Sharif, claiming without evidence that he was a Hamas terrorist who posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.
	Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a warning about the Israeli military's smears against Sharif, saying it was likely a precursor to his assassination, and they were right.
	We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avice Adari against Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Anas al Sharif and calling the international community to protect him, the CBJ regional director Sarah Kuda said.
	Even if he was a Hamas terrorist, there were four other people from Al Jazeera there and two others not from Al Jazeera.
	So there were six other people there that you apparently don't think were terrorists.
	So it's worth it to kill six innocent people to take out one terrorist in their mind.
	Six people.
	Even if this man was a terrorist, six people.
	The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted al Sharif.
	We're deeply alarmed by the repeated threats.
	It is not the first time al Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute.
	Israel has killed at least six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza during this war.
	These later unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill al Sharif, Guda added.
	In a post on X at the time, Al Sharif responded to the Israeli smears against him, I reaffirm I, Anas al Sharif, am a journalist with no political affiliations.
	My only mission is to report the truth from the ground, as it is without bias.
	He said at a time when a deadly famine is ravaging Gaza, speaking the truth has become the eyes of the occupation, a threat.
	Al Sharif left behind a wife and two young children.
	Do not forget Gaza, Al Sharif said in a statement.
	You asked to have released if we were killed.
	Do not forget me and your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
	Israel has frequently targeted Palestinian journalists in Gaza throughout its genocidal war.
	Gaza's government media office said that the Sunday night bombing brought the total number of journalists killed in Gaza since october seventh.
	twenty twenty three to two hundred and thirty seven.
	A wife and two young children.
	Two young children that are going to grow up without their father.
	I feel so terrible for them for that.
	Tunnel Lord one three seven, you know what?
	The remodel looks like an insane asylum talking about Cracker Barrel.
	The pots, pans, and rolly pins really sell that asylum look.
	It does.
	It has that sort of sterile, white, padded cell look to it.
	Doug the zero seven, typical corporate level employee out of touch with what it's like to work in an actual restaurant or retail store.
	They are solely focused on performance metrics.
	I've said this before and I'll say it again.
	Efficiency is the true enemy of beauty.
	They will optimize and they will completely remove beauty.
	They will pave over they would pave over Yellowstone, Jeff Bezos would, to make his Amazon warehouses more efficient.
	It doesn't matter.
	For a slight boost in efficiency, they will destroy the world.
	KWD68 says, Tractor Supply hosted drag shows.
	You're kidding me.
	That's insane.
	Maybe the Tractor Supply CEO wants fewer overalls and more purple hair.
	It seems like that's the way they're going.
	It's truly amazing how out of touch the upper level management is at these places.
	They have Surely this will drive business to Tractor Supply.
	We'll just post some drag shows.
	What does what do our what do our customers want?
	Could it be better prices, higher quality tools, perhaps a larger selection of animals and animal feed?
	No, it's drag queens.
	It's always been drag queens.
	These people are utterly insane.
	We've got a few minutes left.
	I'm going to run a little bit over time, so the videos of our dad, David, will also run a little bit over time.
	But I want to talk about the crony fascism that's been going on.
	Probably go about five minutes over.
	Now Trump is tariffing American companies too, making Nvidia and AMD pay a 15% tax is unprecedented.
	Imagine living in a country where private companies need the government's permission to do business.
	Depending on your age, you might think I'm describing Soviet-era Russia or Russia in the Putin era.
	You'd certainly think about modern-day China where the government is an official partner in many private companies.
	and has unofficial but meaningful influence over most of them.
	Last week, for instance, Donald Trump called the CEO of Intel to resign, called on the CEO of Intel to resign because of his past business connections to China.
	In June, Trump approved Nippon Steel's plan to buy US steel, but only after the US government was granted a golden share, the company that gives Washington the ability to approve or veto some actions like closing plants.
	In January, Trump floated the idea of having US government own a portion of TikTok's US operations.
	Of course, that was something he was pushing for very heavily.
	He was trying to get his buddies.
	buddy is a sweetheart deal.
	Like, well, you know, maybe we'll let you keep TikTok here in the US, but only if you sell to one of my friends.
	And now Trump is acquiring NVIDIA and AMD to hand over fifteen percent of revenue from high end chip sales to China.
	As first reported by the Financial Times, NVIDIA has released a statement noting it follows rules the US government sets for our participation in worldwide markets without addressing reports about the deal directly.
	AMD and the White House have yet to comment.
	Call it state capitalism a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.
	Wall Street Journal columnist Greg J. Greg Ip wrote Monday morning, it's an exceptionally timely piece he appears to have written before the NVIDIA AMD story broke because it doesn't contain any reference to it.
	You can make the list of Trump's interventions even longer if you'd like.
	He personally required former Paramount owner Shari Redstone to pay him $16 million to settle a seemingly specious lawsuit, for instance.
	And Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Communications.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Excuse me.
	Now this article, Trump changed his tune on Intel CEO after demanding his resignation.
	Meeting was a very interesting one.
	Does that mean that he buckled?
	You put the pressure on him?
	He said whatever you want.
	Just don't make me step down.
	Trump said he met with CEO Intel CEO Lip Bhutan on Monday, days after seeking his resignation, praising Tan and calling the meeting a very interesting one.
	Shares of the Chipmaker rose three percent in extended trading.
	Of course, Trump can have a large impact on Wall Street.
	He can very easily damage these companies severely through his actions.
	Even just by posting things on Twitter, he can impact their shares.
	Shares of the Chipmaker rose three percent in extended trading.
	resignation of Tan, calling him highly conflicted over his ties to Chinese firms injecting uncertainty into the chipmaker's year long turnaround effort.
	Trump said he met with Tan along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant.
	Two golden boys.
	We love them dearly, don't we?
	Lucky Lutnick and Scott Bessant.
	They're doing such good for the American people.
	His cabinet members and Tan were going to bring suggestions to him next week.
	Tan had invested in hundreds of Chinese firms, some of which were linked to the Chinese military.
	Reuters reported exclusively in April it is not illegal for US citizens to hold stakes in Chinese companies unless they've been added to the US.
	Treasury's Chinese military industrial complex companies list, which explicitly bans such investments.
	Tan has been asked to undo years of missteps that left Intel struggling to make inroads in the booming AI chip industry dominated by NVIDIA, while investment heavy contract manufacturing ambitions led to heavy losses.
	Now, if you're going to invest in a military industrial complex, it's going to be the American military industrial complex, darn it, don't you understand?
	Only the American military industrial complex gets the investments.
	Anyone else, you better stand back and stand down.
	But the demand for Tan's resignation will only distract him from that task investors and former senior employees, told Reuters.
	Trump's intervention marked a rare instance of a president publicly calling for a CEO-ouser and raised questions about his control over corporate affairs.
	This was also evident in an agreement calling for NVIDIA and AMD to give the U.S. government 15% of revenue from China sales.
	Of course, this is, again, part of fascism.
	Here's the government getting directly involved with businesses, taking control of them.
	This is some hybrid crony fascistic capitalistic nonsense.
	The U.S. marches towards state capitalism with American characteristics is from the Wall Street Journal.
	President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
	We know how bad central planning is for the economy, for everything.
	It leads to corruption and it leads to worse outcomes.
	No one is smart enough to centrally plan the economy.
	It doesn't work.
	A generation ago, conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America's.
	Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China.
	That was always the plan.
	It's always about taking more freedom away.
	Trump's demand that Intel chief executive resigned.
	of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and advanced micro devices will share with Washington the golden share.
	Washington will get in US steel as a condition of Nippon's steel takeover and the one point five trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.
	The world is becoming China.
	We are all moving towards their style of government.
	They're not moving towards a more Western style.
	Well, we are just about out of time and in fact I'm actually over.
	But I wanted to cover those things.
	The world, as I said, is becoming.
	China.
	It is moving towards a crony capitalist, fascist style of government moving both towards communism, Marxism, socialism, and fascism all at once.
	It's truly a nightmare scenario for all of us here in the West.
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	Doug Lugg says, did I hear that David is going to be on today?
	No, I not anything new.
	But I've cut together the previous interviews and things that he did.
	The Eric Peters interview, his segment on NPR, and the Chuck Baldwin interview.
	I wanted to make sure that in case people didn't get a chance to see them before, they get a chance to see them now.
	They're excellent segments., and I think they're worth replaying.
	And as such, we're going to play them today.
	Tunnel Lord one hundred thirty seven.
	Wait, what?
	Trump wants to nationalize a steel mill?
	Well, it seems kind of like that.
	Kind of worse than that.
	The thing is how he approved the sale of the steel mill to a foreign company and then wants to also have government control over it.
	He just wants to have a majority, a big say in what they do, apparently.
	And comments about Cracker Barrel.
	LT, Oracle of Truth, or maybe its lieutenant.
	Back in the nineties, Cracker Barrel had a policy not to hire gays and we're boycotted for that.
	They've come a long way, baby.
	That's right.
	Look at them go.
	Nibiru 2029, Cracker Barrel's been institutionalized by the mental midgets in charge.
	They will neuter every franchise they get a hold of they will destroy.
	Well, as I said, we're going to play a compilation of David Knight today.
	It's Eric Peters.
	It's the NPR segment about them losing their funding, and it's Chuck Baldwin.
	They're all fantastic segments.
	And just, again, Again, it's the David Knight Show, and I want to make sure that we still keep putting David Knight in it, and hopefully this weekend we will be able to set up the studio so he'll be back Monday.
	See you tomorrow, folks.
	Music
	Well, my first guest, as I come back, so happy to be back, and my first guest is Eric Peters.
	somebody I really respect who really gets it, who's been on the side of liberty and freedom for a very long time, and he's been on my side as well.
	Really do appreciate his offers of help when I was in the hospital.
	It's great to have you on, Eric.
	Thank you for coming.
	It's a privilege and an honor, and I'm so happy to see you back in the cell.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you.
	And thank you for your offers, even to give blood, as I said yesterday.
	Let's talk a little bit about what is happening right now.
	I was looking at your diaper report, and I was thinking, you know, it's interesting.
	Here we are five years later, and you started the diaper report, making fun of people who were wearing, you know, the diapers on their faces.
	And yet, as you pointed out, that is still going on.
	You know, what's happening?
	We've got Trump back.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	He was the one who was there when they did the diaper stuff, right?
	Right.
	Well, I think because it never really got cured, did it?
	That's right.
	The report focused on what's going on in Honduras.
	Apparently, the Honduran health minister has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in pretty much all public areas again.
	And I just thought to myself, oh my gosh, it's kind of early, but I need a drink.
	Here we go again.
	And then I thought, well, okay, maybe it's just Honduras.
	But you know, it really isn't.
	Every time I go somewhere, whether it's to Lowe's or the supermarket or any place here in the United States, at least in my part of Virginia, it's 99.9% certain that I'm going to see at least one person still wearing a mask.
	Oh yeah.
	It's an indication of just how effective they were in pathologizing and PTSDing people.
	And I guess the underlying point that I wanted to make in that article is that all that's happened is that this psychosis has kind of waned a little.
	It hasn't gone away.
	It certainly hasn't been cured, I don't think.
	And it hasn't been cured because it hasn't been forcibly repudiated.
	We haven't had any kind of official announcement by the authorities.
	Hey, we erred.
	This was wrong and foolish and we shouldn't have done this.
	We're going to never admit to that, will they?
	They'll never admit to that.
	Of course.
	They'll make two mistakes rather than never admit to one.
	You know, when I was in the hospital, they had a sign up saying you need to wear a mask and I thought what I looked at it it's like if you've been around anybody exposed to measles you know that's the new thing isn't it interesting how we were we had all this press hype about oh we got an epidemic in Texas and blah blah blah they misattributed a death there to measles and and they're telling everybody it's the most contagious disease ever Well, the peers have just died off, even according to their narrative.
	If you believe them, it just disappeared.
	We don't hear anything more about it.
	But they do have the signs up at a hospital in Tennessee because they had a couple measle cases in Texas.
	I mean, that is absolutely nothing.
	But, you know, the witchy.
	Yeah.
	We're still expected as a society to pretend that there's nothing abnormal about people walking around wearing these masks.
	You know, and I'm not trying to be mean.
	I understand that the people who are wearing the masks genuinely probably believe that they are effective.
	Yeah.
	You know, and they're scared and they think that if I do this, I'm not gonna catch a sickness.
	So I don't intend to disparage those people.
	The point is they do still believe, and the point is we are expected to go along with that belief, and it's an aberrant belief.
	Yeah.
	You know, if you had someone in your family, remember the old Bugs Money cartoon where the crazy guy thinks he's Napole like Napoleon.
	Yeah.
	He's like Napoleon.
	And so it feeds into all of that stuff.
	And so we're supposed to play along.
	That's part of the way that I think that they have silenced us.
	Well, I can't criticize their mask fantasies any more than I can criticize somebody's gender fantasies.
	We've got to get away from the objective realities here.
	And I've said for the longest time, even if you go through their science of virology, you know, it's kind of like watching a bad sci-fi movie or a bad superhero movie.
	They create a universe, right?
	And you expect them then to abide by the rules of whatever that universe is or that particular character.
	And so if they start just, you know, They just create this fictional world, and if they don't abide by it, then you have to call BS on that.
	And yet, they create this fictional world, which, as I've looked at this, I've talked to Dr. Sam Bailey and her husband, and also a physician, both of them physicians in New Zealand, and they looked at researchers done by Christine Massey going around asking all these public health officials, have you isolated the virus?
	And she talked to over 200 of them.
	Nobody did it.
	As a matter of fact, some of them started saying, we never do that.
	It's like, wait a minute.
	If you don't do that, what are you doing from a scientific standpoint?
	And so what they pointed out was.
	that whether or not viruses even exist is in question.
	But certainly what is not in question is that it's not scientifically proven.
	If you look at the PCR test, nothing of it is consistent with their fictional world.
	Absolutely.
	And there's another aspect of this that I think bears discussing, which is that no one has been held accountable for the extraordinary psychological, social and economic damage that was done over the course of that pandemic.
	And again, it's not about retribution.
	It's about justice.
	And it's about putting this behind us by holding to account the people who did this to us.
	It's imperative that that be done.
	And if that isn't done, then they can get away with acting like they were somehow kind of in the right.
	That it wasn't really wrong what they did.
	You know, you wouldn't, in any other case, if somebody had committed a serial murder, you wouldn't just stop talking about it.
	You wouldn't let the serial murder go on about his business.
	That person has to be brought to trial, has to be held accountable.
	That's right.
	Medical martial law, unconstitutionally imposed, and we let that go.
	We forget it, we just move on.
	Now everything is great because Trump's back again, the guy who did it.
	And what is he doing?
	He's making up one emergency after the other to rule by executive order.
	And so there's a real issue with that.
	Of course, the very first thing that he did when he came back was to set up Stargate with his crony capitalist billionaire friends to push mRNA combined with artificial intelligence.
	So now we're going to add AI into the mix of nonsense that is here.
	And there's nothing from RFK Jr. to stop this.
	They're not banning the RNA.
	They no longer recommend it for some groups of people.
	But they're not banning this thing.
	And every week we see more studies coming out talking about death and disability of people who took that jab.
	And yet they're not banning this under any other circumstance.
	It ought to be banned.
	And of course, RFK Jr. is just letting this go.
	go.
	As a matter of fact, they also approved yet another mRNA in the meantime.
	And the Trump administration is really doubling down on DNA and mRNA research, just like they are with AI, as he did his first day in office.
	Yeah.
	I think that RFK is kind of the beard of the Trump administration.
	Yeah.
	They bring him forward.
	I think he seems to be a genuine person, not perfect.
	I disagree with him on a number of things.
	But I think he's well meant.
	And I think that's why they brought him on board, because a lot of people do respect him and believe that he's legitimate on those issues.
	Yeah.
	So it makes it more difficult to pin the tail on the appropriate donkey, which is Trump.
	Well, what he said, and of course Tulsi Gabbard said as well, we're here to restore trust in the institutions.
	I'm here to destroy trust in the institutions.
	That's my life mission, is to destroy blind trust in government and their unconstitutional institutions.
	But that's what they're trying to restore.
	And so that's why they use people like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard who have, as you point out, they have this certain public perception, whether or not it's deserved.
	They have that perception and they're trading off of it to try to restore confidence.
	Well, that kind of blew up in their face with Bangino and Cash, didn't it?
	If you popped that interview, which I'm sure you did, Longino and Patel looked like someone was holding a gun to their heads when the two came up.
	You know, this whole, everything that has been happening over the course of the last four or five weeks makes me feel like I'm in a circus fun house.
	All the populist nationalist things that Trump ran on have just been cast by the wayside.
	I have some red hat friends and I asked them, would you have voted for Trump if he had campaigned on imposing real ID, continuing the aid to Ukraine and pushing an AI technocratic surveillance state a la Palantir and instituting some form of digital currency via the so-called Genius Act.
	And yet, if you look at what he did in his first term, none of that stuff is a stretch.
	It was kind of predictable that he's going to go in that direction.
	You know, he is basically, how do I put this politely?
	He is the servant, we'll say, of the deep state.
	And you can see this in everything that happened in the first term.
	He's throwing everything against the wall, isn't he, to try to distract from the Epstein thing.
	And some people are even saying, oh, now we need to go investigate Gina Haskell.
	It's like, why don't you ask Trump why he made her his.
	head of the CIA after she was the one who produced the lies and Trump said we were lied into the Iraq war.
	Well, she's the one who did it with illegal torture.
	And he put her in charge of the CIA.
	Of course, she was right at the epicenter of London and Langley Axis where they were doing this Rushogate stuff.
	I'm so sick of Rushogate.
	I got sick of it from the very beginning.
	But there's one Oh, yeah, of course.
	It's now Trump's look, a squirrel.
	Obama.
	It's now not lock her up, it's lock him up.
	If they're going to do anything like that.
	That's right.
	But you know, there is a silver line in this dark cloud of I think.
	Now, I hope I'm not thinking Pollyanna ish here.
	is that Trump's bizarre and corner brat behavior over the last several weeks on the Epstein stuff has kind of given us our peek behind the curtain.
	You know, in The Wizard of Oz when they finally pulled the curtain back.
	Yeah.
	And we see that it's not the Democrats, the Republicans, it's them.
	They're all like the whole thing is fundamentally unreformable.
	They're run by a mafia.
	I agree.
	A disgusting cohort of people who are engaged in not just grift and graft, but some of the most sordid and reprehensible things you could possibly imagine.
	And I think that's part of what you're trying to do with Ghislaine Maxwell in terms of I think he wants to bring in Clinton and try to revive the partisanship, at least for his people there.
	You and I are going to look at this and say, yeah, they're all part of the same club.
	You know, Clinton was partying with Trump and vice versa.
	They're going to the same Jeffrey Epstein parties and, you know, she's at his wedding and so forth and so on.
	But, you know, we'll look at that and say, yeah, it's all just one big eyes wide shut party.
	But he will look at it and say, yeah, the Clintons, we need to lock them up.
	That movie, for people who are not aware of it, it was Stanley Kubrick's last movie.
	Yeah.
	And I think that he deliberately wanted to to give us a peek inside that world.
	Mm.
	Watch that movie if you haven't seen it, and you can kind of get a sense of what's going on here.
	And it helps to understand, like, Trump's disingenuous assertion that, well, if they had anything on me in the last four years, they would still have.
	No, they wouldn't have because it's like, it's mutually assured destruction.
	Yeah.
	They're guilty and they know it.
	And so, you know, they know that if I say something about you, you're going to say something about me and we both go down in flames.
	Yeah.
	So they shut up and don't say anything.
	And we'll get more to that too.
	As a fact, you've got an article about that and a little bit of a clip of Eyes Wide Shut to give people an idea of that.
	But before we do that, I wanted to talk a little bit about cars.
	You've got a funny article, Kick Me, about that.
	And talking about, I guess, one of your favorite cars.
	Because you've also got a review of the VW ID Buzz.
	And I thought that was kind of an interesting name for a car in the age of surveillance, the VW ID.
	It's interesting, it could be the name of another, the next Samsung generation phone.
	It's like all of them, they've succeeded in turning things that used to have emotional appeal into these cold, distant, remote home cars.
	Why wouldn't they come up like the old Microbus?
	That was a cool name, Microbus.
	And affectionately known as the hippie van.
	It was just kind of it was cute and it was fun.
	And that thing is the antithesis of everything that the old Microbus was.
	And that kind of might fit, that kind of name, if you called it a Microbus because it is a device now.
	That would kind of fit.
	To get back to what you were talking about, you know, I was so frustrated with the Ivy Buzz, I was only able, when they sent it to me, I was only able to drive it twice because they didn't include a charge cord, if you could believe that.
	Really?
	It's extra, it's extra cost.
	So this is a vehicle that starts at $60,000.
	And if you want to have the home charge cord, you have to pay, you have to pay almost $700 extra for it.
	So it wasn't included in the press car loan that they sent me, which is even more crazy because I'm a journalist.
	So it's like batteries are not included, except they put the batteries in but no way to charge the batteries.
	So that essentially forced me, because what am I going to do?
	I can't charge it at home now, which is like the main thing they try to sell you the EV with, well, you have the convenience of being able to charge it at home, but now I'm not even able to do that.
	So you're forced then to rely on this sketchy network of so-called fast charger.
	Well, I drove into town and I went to the first place in my area where there are fast charger.
	And it's completely offline.
	They're like doing some construction to it.
	So that didn't, you know, that didn't work.
	And so now I'm sweating and nervously IVing.
	How much range have I got left?
	And I think, okay, I could probably make it to the other one that's on the other side of the town.
	So I drive to that one, and that one's working, but it won't accept my credit card or any of them.
	I tried six different credit cards.
	I had to download the app.
	In other words, I have access to my phone and access to my bank account, basically, my debit accounts in order to charge me for this service.
	And I'm not willing to do that.
	I'm not willing to let this creepy third party entity that I don't know these people, I don't want them having access to my phone.
	So long story short, I wasn't able to charge it.
	So I limped it home at low speed and it became a six thousand pounds, not a joke, curb weight, six thousand pounds dead weight.
	For the next five days until they came to pick up the thing.
	I left just enough charge in it so the poor guy, you know, the delivery guy can pick it up and get it.
	He can deal with it.
	Then it's not my problem anymore.
	With all these electric vehicles weighing so much money, weighing so much in terms of weight, it's going to tear up the roads.
	And of course, they're not going to replace them either.
	So it does a couple of things for the elites.
	They don't want us to own private cars.
	And they don't want to maintain the roads, obviously.
	So now they've got these heavy EVs to destroy the roads for them at the same time.
	Now you had that same problem when you were test driving the Mercedes and you had an article about how they pulled your credentials with your press credentials with Mercedes after you gave them an honest review of what it was like to have range panic and all the rest of the stuff not being able to get where you wanted to go with a Mercedes in a very cold streak back in December 2023, I think it was.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	It was very interesting because I've been doing what I've been doing for a very long time and I had been getting regular press card deliveries from Mercedes for more than twenty five years.
	And they never had a problem before with anything, with anything that I've written or anything like that.
	And I wasn't gratuitous.
	I didn't insert my personal dislike of EVs, which I'm quite open about.
	I find them to be just lacking anything that makes a vehicle appealing.
	But that's just my personal preference, and I don't bring that into the car reviews.
	What I did bring into the car review was that I attempted to use their EQS, which was $112,000 electric luxury sedan, to visit my mom who lives fifty miles away in Bedford, Virginia.
	Fifty miles.
	Now, it happened that it was in December of 2023, and it was very cold, if you remember that month.
	I remember that, yeah.
	It was a bad cold snap.
	So by the time I got down to Roanoke, which is the closest city to where I live, I looked at the range, and boy, the range wasn't so hot anymore.
	And I thought, you know, it might be smart.
	Dawn and I were looking at the temperature and it's about, you know, 13 degrees outside.
	And I'm thinking, I don't want to be caught, you know, on the side of the road with it being 13 degrees outside.
	And I just think, maybe we should just stop and put some charge in the thing.
	So again, same problem.
	The first place wouldn't work at all.
	The second place, Dawn put the app on her phone and we were able to hook up the charger.
	But after sitting there for 40 minutes, we barely got enough charge to make it home.
	Yeah.
	You know, and put the wash on it by that time, I thought, I'm just not going to risk driving this thing a significant distance away from home and being stuck on the side of the road with it.
	It's difficult to charge them when the weather gets really cold like that.
	Yeah, it's much harder because you're not only the battery in the car is trying to keep the battery warm because it's that cold outside and that uses anybody who has a heat pump or tries to use like one of those, you know, hot wire portable electric heaters knows they burn a lot of energy to try to keep you warm.
	So I just wrote about that and I wrote specifically, you know, your clientele, the people you're trying to sell this car to, this is a $112,000 car.
	These are affluent people.
	Affluent people pay to not have hassles.
	Yeah.
	You know, affluent people pay to be able to do the things that we can't do.
	And I thought, my God, I could get in my 24-year-old truck and easily drive to Bedford with the heat blast.ing, I'm not worried about it because it's not going to, you know, leave me by the side of the road dead.
	And that's, that's ridiculous.
	You're going to, even a virtuous signaling leftist who has 115,000 dollars to spend, is not going to put up with that.
	I thought that was a very fair and objective thing to say.
	And now you've been vindicated.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's a good statement.
	The elite people don't know one of the hassles of buying that thing and they're not buying it.
	Yeah.
	So Mercedes PR gave me this, this stuff about how, you know, I'm now out of their delivery area, which is nonsense.
	I know that's nonsense.
	I mean, I happen to have people who do what I do that I know who are still getting the cars, you know, who are as far away or farther away than I am.
	So that's just not true..
	Well, anyway, fast forward to now, and they've had to announce a they call it a pause.
	A pause in the, you know, the continued manufacture of the EQS and the EQV because they can't sell them in this country.
	It's been a catastrophe for them.
	They've had to cut bait and cut prices massively.
	They're marked down to try to desperately get rid of these things because, you know, we're getting to, we're in the middle of 2025.
	We're at the 2026 model year now.
	So, you know, the 2025s are already becoming kind of like old fish that you want to get rid of, you know, and people aren't buying them.
	And part of the reason they're not buying them is also, this is another aspect of this issue, the depreciation rates on these things is absolutely catastrophic.
	You can find the year old EQS that sold for $100,000 or more when it was new for $35,000.
	Now rich people tend to be a lot of things, but they tend not to be stupid people.
	And nobody wants to take a $70,000 bath on depreciation in the course of a year or two.
	It's just, it's ridiculous.
	Wow, that is amazing.
	Yeah, you know, I'll look at this VW ID Buzz.
	Like I said, you know, it's interesting to call one of these devices an ID because they are going to ID you everywhere you go.
	Yeah.
	But I guess the other alternative would be to call it a bug or something.
	I mean, that would also kind of harken into the Internet of Things and track you everywhere.
	you go, but it's not.
	Originally it was the Beetle, or wasn't it the Type one technically?
	Type one was the designation.
	And then affectionately it became known as the Beetle, which I think is from the German which I think is Kafir, I think KIFIR, which was what Hitler came up with to fix this because he actually sketched the shape of it.
	There are sketches of Hitler's original concept of the Beetle that he worked on with Ferdinand Porter to create the car.
	Now, all that aside, the original Beetle was a great car.
	It literally was the car for the people.
	It was very basic, it was very simple, it was very light, it was efficient, and it was something that anyone could learn to fix.
	You could do your own maintenance on the thing and save a lot of money that way.
	Oh yeah.
	Something that has been totally tossed out and kicked to the curb now, this idea that you own this extremely expensive gadget and when the gadget glitches, what do you do?
	Well, you either take it or have it flatbed towed to a dealer where you pay an exorbitant sum of money to have some specialist try to fix it for you.
	Yeah.
	And I remember even though it was a very inexpensive car, it had a reputation for reliability.
	I remember a Woody Allen movie.
	I don't even remember which movie it was.
	But he goes to sleep or something like that.
	Maybe sleeper or something.
	And he wakes up.
	hundreds of years in the future and he sees he's on the run or something and he sees a Volkswagen in a cave and he thinks, wait a minute, no, it couldn't possibly.
	But he opens the door and he gives it a push and it starts.
	And it's like, oh, how about that?
	So it had this reputation for being reliable.
	I remember we had a VW dealer close to where we lived and it was called Birdsong Motors, kind of as a reference to the noise that it made.
	It kind of sounded like the Jetson car.
	It was running.
	It had this little tweeting sound that it made with the air cooled engine in the back.
	They were funny cars.
	Well, they were also kind of the first step on that ladder.
	I can speak from personal experience.
	I had a Volkswagen when I was young.
	It was a great car for a teenager because, again, it was like a step up from a Briggs and Stratton push mower.
	Literally.
	I mean, an air cooled engine with a little one-barrel carburetor on it and a fan.
	And then you popped the back of it.
	There it was.
	It was so simple.
	It wasn't intimidating.
	So if you're a 15 or 16 year old kid, you know, you can look at that and I think I could maybe figure out how to take those spark plugs out.
	You know, I could learn how to change the wheel.
	I mean, there was just a bolt on the bottom of the engine.
	I mean, you didn't even have to jack the car up.
	You can just undo the bolt and wow, look, I just changed the wheel.
	And it sounds trivial, but when you're 15, 16 years old, it's kind of intimidating.
	Yeah.
	You know, you're like, oh, do I want to touch that?
	Do I want to mess with that?
	I don't want to break that.
	Well, the cars are intimidating today, aren't they to work on?
	Yeah.
	Well, I had an interesting kind of lesson.
	Now here I am a middle aged guy and I'm afraid of computers.
	So, you know, this is how I can sort of understand what's happened.
	I had a problem with my laptop.
	The battery basically wouldn't accept the charge anymore.
	And I thought, gosh, do I dare, do I dare to try to open this thing up and maybe see about replacing the battery myself?
	And I gathered up my courage and I did it.
	I bought a battery online for $35 and you know, I very timorously I removed the screws and I took the cover off and it wasn't so bad and I felt so good.
	It made me feel like I did when I was a kid.
	Wow.
	I learned how to do something today.
	I did it.
	It's so empowering as opposed to if I had gone to the computer store, which I've done in the past.
	Yeah.
	You know, when I had a battery issue and $300 later, you know, there's your, you know, there's your thing.
	And you have no idea what they did.
	You know, it works great, but now you're out $300 and you feel kind of emasculated because you had to go to get somebody else to fix it for you.
	Yeah.
	And I think we've lost, you know, it used to be so common for dads and their sons to work on the car, you know, in the driveway on Saturdays.
	or Sundays.
	And I'm not talking about major gearhead overhauls of the entire engine.
	I'm just talking about doing basic things like a tune up, you know, doing break work, stuff like that.
	And it was a good experience for the father and the son or the daughter, frankly.
	And it helped to empower that young person.
	That young person felt competent and that's extremely important, I think, growing up, you know, to feel like, hey, I can do things.
	My hands are capable.
	My brain is capable.
	I can understand this.
	I know how to do this.
	And now they can change the binker fluid, right?
	Yeah, now that they're inculcating helplessness, there's this commercial that makes me want, it makes me feel like, remember the story about how Elvis would shoot the TV when Robert Boulet came on?
	I saw this commercial, I think it was for a Volvo, it might have been a Subaru group.
	And it's a couple of teenagers and they're out in the car and they have a tire.
	And what do they do?
	They call mom who calls AAA or some road side assistance thing.
	Everyone's all thankful and grateful.
	Oh my God, it's embarrassing.
	Can you imagine being sixteen years old as a boy and you didn't know how to change a tire?
	Your friends would have lapped you into the next county.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, you know, now you don't have to write.
	You can just use AI to do your website there for you, right?
	That is the ultimate emasculation and lobotomization actually.
	I think it's happening.
	But tell us a little bit about this Kick Me article..
	That's a funny idea.
	You talk about Jeremy Clarkson.
	Yeah, I've never met Jeremy.
	I'd love to.
	I have always enjoyed Top Gear and his shenanigans.
	You know, I think he's got the right kind of tallyhoe pirate spirit.
	You know, he's a guy who just he has a knack for telling the truth in an interesting way, you know, a funny way sometimes.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we were watching his most recent thing is a it's called Clarkson's Farm and it just reminded me, you know, I should do things like Jeremy does.
	Now, I don't have the backing that he has.
	I don't have the resources that he has, but I thought it would be just hilarious if I could figure out a way to acquire, to buy one of those ID Buzz electric vans.
	And so it's mine now.
	And I can do what I want with it like Jeremy does on Top Gear.
	Yeah.
	And I could put a KD sign on it and take it to a shopping mall somewhere.
	And people could just kick it.
	You know, we could film it.
	Yeah.
	I think it would provide a great kind of cathartic moment.
	I think so many people are so frustrated and angered by everything that's being foisted on us and pushed on us, and particularly these electric cars.
	You think it could stand the kind of abuse that the Toyota Hilux got from Top Gear guys?
	No, actually, I think they would, without even using implements, without necessarily getting involved with pro bars and hammers and things, I think you'd be completely total on ID Buzz.
	with, you know, within about probably half an hour.
	Yeah, yeah, amazing.
	Was there anything that you liked about it that you thought was clever that they laid out with it or?
	I liked, well, yeah, I liked that it looks immediately distinctive from everything else on the road, kind of like cars.
	One of the attractions of the old Volkswagens was you didn't even have to see it, you heard it.
	You knew it.
	Here comes a beetle or here comes a buzz because it had that distinctive sound.
	Yeah.
	So I like the way that they styled it.
	It's a perennial favorite.
	The idea of the old microbus was brilliant.
	You know, what a fantastic practical vehicle.
	Now, if only they could have taken that vehicle that they created and instead of using a battery powered drive frame imagine if they had put one of their tdi diesels in that thing yeah you know then you'd have then you'd have a microbus that would be able to go probably 600 miles on fill-up yeah and also would only probably cost about 35 to 40 thousand dollars as opposed to 60 thousand dollars yeah that would be great they'd sell a lot of those oh yeah you'd actually make money Imagine that.
	Instead of trying to sell virtue, they'd make money.
	Well, the only thing better than putting one of those things in a shopping mall and putting a kick me sign on it would be to do that to Klaus Schwab, who actually he had a big kick me sign on., put on him there at the World Economic Forum, I think, or as I like to refer to them.
	Klaus, you know, you could take like some gigantic piñata.
	Yeah.
	And let people take a turn and give him a whack.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, eats the bugs.
	But isn't it sad?
	You know, it really breaks my heart to think that Volkswagen as a company ceded to that nonsense about the cheating on the Federal Emissions Certification.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because its diesel engines that they were that they used to sell were brilliant.
	I had the opportunity to drive every vehicle that they make equipped with a diesel engine and every single one of them outperformed the advertised mileage.
	They were phenomenal.
	Some of them would go 700 miles on a full tank of fuel.
	I remember driving to North Carolina and back and still having a substantial amount of fuel in the tank of the thing.
	And you could pick one up.
	This is as recently as, I think, 2015, you could pick up a TDI powered Jetta for about $22,000.
	So naturally, that's why they had to go.
	Can you imagine the juxtaposition?
	On the one hand, you've got a $22,000 Jetta that gets 50 plus miles per gallon, that goes 700 miles on a tank full of fuel.
	And it will probably last you for 25 years because it's such a durable car.
	And on the other, you've got a $50,000 electric car that goes maybe 240 miles that forces you to plan your life around this constant charge discharge cycles and that in all likelihood is going to require a new $15,000 battery by the time it's about 10 years old.
	Yeah, because it clicks all the boxes of what the elites want for us, which is nothing, you know, to own nothing and to go nowhere.
	And that's the thing that would concern us about all this stuff.
	You know, when you mentioned the Epstein thing and the other things, you say, well, everybody's looking at Epstein.
	They're missing the stuff about Palantir and the Genius Act and all the rest of the stuff.
	And those things are not unrelated.
	No, they're not.
	Now, I'll preface my remarks by saying that obviously the allegations and the facts that we're aware of with regard to Epstein are just repellent beyond description.
	And I think that that stuff definitely should be exposed.
	I don't think we probably ever will get to the bottom of it, at least not with any of their help.
	They don't want the stuff out.
	But at the same time, it has served to distract attention away from things that are extraordinarily important for people to be aware of.
	Palantir is one.
	And by the way, I didn't know what Palantir was.
	I wonder what that means?
	What does that word mean?
	I'm not a big Lord of the Rings guy.
	I never read Tolkien's books on it.
	But it turns out that in the universe of Lord of the Rings, the Palantir is a sorcerer's stone.
	Yes.
	And the sorcerer uses it to see what people are doing.
	And that's what Palantir is about.
	It's about seeing...
	Which is really what Palantir data mining is allowing them to do as well.
	They're able to look at externals like metadata and other stuff like that and to anticipate what you're going to do to make connections between you and other people and ideologies and religion and politics and all these other things that they want to track and control.
	It is really insidious what is there.
	And of course, they're not the only ones.
	You've got Andril, which is a sword, right, from Lord of the Rings that belonged to the king.
	And there's a company called Andril that is working with Trump, and they want to use that for creating a no man's land at the border, basically having real high-tech surveillance and law enforcement that is automated.
	And they're working with them hand in glove.
	And he's another one of these guys from the PayPal Mafia, Palmer Lucky, I think is his name.
	I get it confused.
	I always talk about Howard Lutnick.
	I call him Lucky Lutnick because he didn't show up on 9-11.
	He knew not to go.
	And so he got real lucky, but not so much his employees, even his brother who was there.
	But it's related to this that's important.
	It's not just Palantir.
	There are two arms of the pincer.
	And the other one is this Genius Act, which essentially is the propagation of some form of digital currency, non-real money, digital money.
	Now, what they're going to end up doing, in my view, is on the one hand, they're going to use the Palantir to draw these profiles of you and to be aware of everything that you do and then if you do things they don't like or don't want you to do they'll be able to use this digitized money to limit your ability to buy things.
	Oh, you want to buy some hamburger.
	Well, you've exceeded your carbon footprint this month.
	So this month, so you know, your coin, and it's interesting that they use, the psychology of it is fascinating.
	They talk about coin, but there's no physical anything.
	It's a coin and name only.
	Your wallet is your phone.
	It's not your wallet.
	You know, you don't have physical money anymore.
	So they control the money, which means they control you.
	Well, they call them crypto coins, and you think, oh, it's cryptocurrency.
	It's got encryption in it, and so they can't tell.
	it, no, it's completely visible what's going on.
	The encryption is there for the processing, not to protect your privacy.
	And it's a blockchain, a public ledger that's available and visible to anyone and everyone, especially the government that's there.
	Yeah, it's an absolute nightmare.
	You know, at least during the pandemic when they attempted to throttle people's ability to engage in commerce, to buy and sell, you know, if you had cash.
	And, you know, for example, I was friends with a local guy who operates a convenience store, you know, a gas station convenience store.
	Because we're friends, he knows me, I know him, you know, he didn't hassle me about the masks or anything.
	I could go in there and I could buy things with cash and nobody knew about it except for him and me.
	Now in this regime that they want to create, not only will they know whether I'm wanting to buy something, they'll know how I'm trying to pay for it.
	And if the two things aren't aligned and if their algorithm says, Oh no, Eric's been a bad boy, you know, he shouldn't be allowed to buy anything, what are you going to do?
	Now you can't transact business.
	That's what they want.
	They want absolute total control and they exert this control using the data mining and using our ability to transact commerce.
	Well, and that's coming at us in a lot of different ways.
	I look at the stablecoin and it's a stablecoin.
	coin and they want to tie it to the dollar which is a joke because the dollar is not stable.
	So it's not a coin and it's going to be tied to fiat currency which is not stable and the crypto is not there to protect your privacy and let them know anything about it.
	All of it is a lie but they're looking at the stable coin as a way to protect the dollar and to transition into the next monetary system.
	system you know we've had breton one breton breton woods two breton woods one and two and so now they're they've got to transition something else because they can only run these scams for a few decades until everybody catches on and people have caught on to this thing so they got to come up with something new and fresh a new con and that's a big part of that but uh i experienced this personally back in may of 2021 my program here independently it was only five months old when paypal banned me and
	i still can't use paypal so they they banned me and venmo which is owned by them banned me at the same time i spent hours with him on the phone and the guy was very helpful but he finally came back and he said i can only find one thing it says uh delete this account immediately there was no violation no alleged violation of anything and no reason given for taking me off as a matter of fact but that's what they want to do they want to use it to control content and we've had something very similar we talked about here on the show last couple of days there's uh some
	australian group of feminists called collective shout uh and they're You should look this up, Eric.
	I think a better name for them would be the Collective Karens.
	I'm going to make a note.
	I'll look it up after collective shout.
	And so they're out there trying to use the banking bans or like Operation Choke Point.
	They're trying to use that against anybody that they don't like.
	And they have focused on some video games that they say are not safe for work.
	Some of them are, but some of them are not.
	But what they're doing is they're setting a very dangerous precedent.
	But this is something that governments are very eager to do for them.
	And so are the corporations.
	Fine, fine, we'll just shut everything down.
	So that's what's coming, banning anything that anybody doesn't like and doing it right away and just completely shutting you off, whether it's for your carbon footprint or because of your politics or your religion or because you oppose the pandemic or the vaccine.
	It's just going to take you off for that stuff.
	Ultimately, they want uniformity because they want predictability.
	Yes.
	They don't want anything unexpected to crop up.
	They want to have the ability to know in advance what the reaction is going to be, how people are going to move forward and all this stuff.
	And it's the most antihuman thing I can imagine.
	Yes, it is.
	It is the end of creativity.
	It is the end of personal judgment, initiative.
	You know, it is literally the NPC world where we're just the gray man.
	All of us are just the same sort of representation, human stick figures, marching bleakly in line.
	And it's incredibly depressing to me.
	Yeah, geospatial intelligence, I've been looking at this for a long time.
	And, you know, they've had a thing that they called AI before we talked about artificial intelligence.
	They talked about anticipatory intelligence, which was to predict what you're going to do before you did it.
	And of course, Zbigniew Brzezinski was talking about that back in the 1970s when he wrote between two ages.
	He said, in the technocratic age, we're going to know what you're going to do before you know what you're going to do.
	And that really is our goal, to know, to surveil, and to control everything that we do, to live in a panoptigon state.
	Now, people got the message.
	about CBDCs, so now Trump is here to gain their trust and to put in a different form of CBDC that's the stablecoin.
	I even call it CBDC in terms of crony billionaire digital cash as opposed to central bank digital cash, right?
	It's just another CBD.
	All he has to do is give it one of his narcissistic appellations about how big and beautiful it is.
	That's right.
	And apparently people will fall in line for that.
	I have gotten to the point, I hope I'm not falling down from a rabbit hole of madness, but I begin to believe that this whole thing is just a gigantic form of political wrestling.
	That they put Biden in there deliberately to create chaos and demoralization.
	To flood the country with random foreign people and to just rub it in Americans' faces that if they make an illegal U-turn, they're going to get prosecuted tocuted to the fullest extent of the law, but people can just scamper across the border and do whatever they want.
	They can drive without insurance that you and I will get nailed to the wall for if we do.
	Anyway, they let that go on for a number of years, along with the whole tranny thing and all the other things that happened.
	And in comes Trump on his white steed.
	Trump is the populist nationalist savior.
	He's going to correct everything.
	And sure, I mean, it was attractive.
	People were desperate to hear that maybe we can fix this.
	Maybe we can do something about it.
	So, yeah, okay, I'm going to vote for the Orange Man.
	Vote for Trump.
	Yay, America, right?
	And then he gets in here and crashes everything.
	And what ends up happening when he crashes everything, he will have completely demoralized and discredited the populist nationalist movement, so that anyone who even tries to say, well, maybe free enterprise and, you know, all of that are a good idea, it's going to be like Herbert Hoover.
	Yeah.
	Crash.
	For the Great Depression.
	And then, you know, they got Franklin Roosevelt, we'll probably end up with Pete Buttigieg for the host.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, where has Trump spent so much time?
	In professional wrestling.
	I mean, he's even got Lyndon McMahon running the Department of Education.
	It really is crazy, but he knows how that works.
	And that's one of the key ways that he controls a narrative is by making these heroes and heels stuff.
	You know, it's all this stuff about Canada, the 51st state.
	That's as phony as Hulk Hogan on the ring, you know?
	I mean, all that was just to create these different issues out of nothing.
	We also had something else that was also kind of interesting, also involving a bunch of women, and that was the TIAT app.
	I don't know if you saw that or not, but this is that it was actually the number one free app on download on Apple before this stuff all blew up.
	And what happened was, this is another one of these deals where we got to have your ID before you can get onto the internet.
	And we've got to be very careful because the Republicans are pushing that extremely hard.
	Well, we don't want kids to be harmed by anything.
	So we're going to have to require ID in order to use the internet, use these porn sites or whatever it is.
	Never mind the fact that they're going to be able to easily get around these restrictions.
	They're always coming up with reasons that we're going to have an ID.
	We're going to have ID because otherwise we'll have illegal aliens who are going to be taking your jobs.
	So we've got to have mandatory e-verify and an ID for that.
	Or we've got to have ID.
	And I agree we should have ID for voting.
	That's the one thing I would agree with because it is voluntary., you know.
	And if you don't want to vote and get involved in the professional wrestling match, then I don't have to give them my ID.
	But for the rest of these things, they're always looking for an excuse to push ID on us.
	Well, this app, the T app, was a place where women could go in and gossip about men that they had dated, and it became extremely popular.
	But they required that you give them a picture ID to show that you're a woman, and so forth.
	And they just put all of this personal information, give us a shot of your driver's license and all the rest of the stuff.
	They put it on a page, a URL that was completely, no password, no encryption, nothing.
	If you had that URL, you could see it all.
	And guess what?
	Somebody got it and showed it to everybody.
	And one of the things that we could see that was really funny was a guy just wearing a wig.
	That was his ID.
	And they let him in because he, I guess, identified as a woman.
	one of the worst case examples of how all the stuff that is supposed to protect us and keep us safe and secure actually endangers us and our identity.
	You know, so all this kind of stuff...
	It also demoralizes us.
	Yeah.
	You know, I understand that, you know, just as a moral matter, not a legal matter, you know, if I were a store keeper, I I probably wouldn't be comfortable selling beer or booze to a 14 or 15 year old kid.
	That's just I consider that to be not appropriate.
	That's something that I wouldn't do personally.
	But there's something affronterous about demanding that a guy our age, for example, I mean, anyone, I mean, there's no possible way that we could be underage, that we could be anywhere near eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old.
	It's ridiculous.
	Once upon a time, this is a few years back, I was attending a press event in Southern California and I was at LAX airport, you know, waiting in the terminal for my flight to board.
	And I went up to the there was a bar there.
	I just wanted a cup of coffee because it was too early to have a drink.
	And I just sat there having a cup of coffee.
	And this guy, who clearly was in his seventy, you know, had a white beard, older guy, he sat down and asked for a drink.
	And the guy who was managing the bar, who looked like he was maybe twenty four or twenty five, you know, demanded ID of this guy.
	And the guy, to his credit, said, you know, I was in Vietnam when, you know, you were still in your diapers.
	And then he expleted, deleted, and just walked away.
	And again, I think it's this constant pecking at us, treating us like stupid children.
	You know, the contempt that the system shows for us.
	And also, if you flip it around.
	too, these poor people at the cashier, for example, in a store, they probably know perfectly well that you're old enough to buy a bottle of wine for groceries because of store policy.
	They have to participate in this degrading kabuki, you know, of asking you to present your ID.
	We can't even buy cough syrup anymore.
	Yeah.
	You know, without begging and pleading, here's my ID.
	Look at, I'm old enough.
	I'm not a meth head.
	I'm not a drug addict.
	I just freaking want some cough syrup.
	But now you have to be treated as if you were a meth head, drug addict, whatever, just to buy a box of cough syrup.
	That's right.
	Well, Lance tells me, he says, the UK's Online Safety Act considers all criticism of illegal immigration to be 18 plus content and requires that you register your face and a government ID in order to be able to see any content related to it.
	So if you're going to criticize their policy of taking society down, then they want to completely ID you and get you into their files.
	It's pretty amazing.
	But that's where this stuff is all headed.
	And as you point out, This is the government corporate thing that replaced the somewhat limited government that briefly existed until about April of 1865.
	You have a statement about Lincoln.
	He said, Lincoln was no more free than the country that he enslaved, by the way, owned by the railroads and by a kind of precursor to Palantir, the Pinkerton thing.
	It's all very depressing, but no less true for being depressing.
	You know, I remember years ago I read an alternative history by Harry Turtledove.
	It was called So Few Remain.
	And in it, he changes history slightly so that there's an early end to the war and the South is able to go its separate way.
	And as a result of that, in his novel, Abraham Lincoln is complete, is despised by everyone and ostracized.
	But he makes a comeback a few decades later when this book picks up.
	And he comes back, guess what, as the Socialist Party candidate, which I thought was really accurate.
	I think that's exactly where he would have been.
	So as a socialist to boot, as well as a crony capitalist and under control of corporations.
	And that's what we're seeing today, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	You know, Tom Dilorenzo, who's written a number of books on this subject, Yeah.
	points out that Lincoln was, until after the war, after his assassination, when what he calls the Lincoln Cult was erected, Lincoln was widely loathed in the north as well as the south.
	Yeah.
	There were massive riots in New York City, you know, over the dragooning of people to be pushed into this war in what was then another country.
	You know, understandably, these fresh off the boat, Irish immigrants are like, why in the world?
	I don't want to be dragged all down to the south of the Mason Dixon line to get killed.
	I haven't got a dog in this fight, you know, and the whole Americans are so propagandized about that.
	I mean, ultimately, the South just wanted to do exactly what the American colonies wanted to do.
	Yes.
	They wanted to leave.
	They wanted to no longer be under the control of the central authority.
	Like the most foundational, fundamental principle that Jefferson was writing about and that Tom Payne.
	wrote about.
	That's right.
	You know, self-determination.
	We want government.
	And then Lincoln had the insolence to talk about government of the people, by the people, except the people of the South.
	Yeah.
	He's going to impose it upon them.
	Yeah.
	Well, they were able to with massive propaganda and educational system completely change history with all that stuff, weren't they?
	Yeah.
	And that's the way it always works.
	Yeah.
	Part of recovering our senses is recovering our history and getting at the truth of things.
	Yeah.
	And that the so called Civil War, which was nothing of the kind, it was an attempt by the South to secede, a very different thing.
	Yeah.
	Not a civil war.
	The South did not want to take over the North.
	That's right.
	They didn't want to control the whole country.
	They just wanted to depart.
	Leave us alone.
	We're out of here.
	Yeah, the American colonies didn't want to take over England.
	They just wanted our independence.
	And that's what the southern states were doing as well.
	So if that's illegitimate, there was no legitimacy for the American government to start with.
	But I think it's a perfectly legitimate thing to do.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	And so I think, you know, what we do, you and I and other people do, if we can just get people to see even one example of this sort of manipulation of history and truth and facts, it's like you can't ignore it.
	That's the one blessing of the whole COVID thing.
	I think a lot of people have been disappointed with the falsehood that the experts, the authorities, that they're well meaning, that they have our best interests at heart, and they can be trusted.
	We know now they are not to be trusted.
	That's right.
	Yeah, for years we talked about the harm from mercury and vaccines.
	And they're saying, Oh, we took that out in 2002, 2003.
	No, they didn't.
	It's still in the flu shots.
	And they just had, they just revealed that and just said, Well, we're going to stop doing it in the flu shots.
	I don't know if I believe that or not.
	You know, we look at it.
	But, you know, they're keeping their fingers crossed.
	It's like, Well, what we meant was the childhood vaccines.
	We meant the MMR and other things like that.
	But, you know, they manipulate the information.
	And, you know, as we see all this stuff coming together and the technocrat billionaires that have completely owned Trump, I don't know if you saw this or not, but Peter Thiel and Alex Carp, who runs Palantir, they have been tied together with their venture capital firms.
	And now they want to come out and start making movies.
	And they were talking about that, the kind of movies that they want to make.
	And of course, they're all going to be very jingoistic, militaristic, high-tech, you know, and they'll throw in your subservience in the name of patriotism as well.
	But that's the next big thing coming.
	Sorry.
	They're unwatchable.
	Hollywood is collapsing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There are occasional exceptions, but for the most part, the drek that they're putting out is so awful.
	Yeah.
	As entertainment.
	Leaving aside politics, it's just it's poorly written, it's poorly acted, it's full of clumsy, clichéd propaganda, political crap.
	People are tired of it.
	They don't want to watch it anymore.
	They grab you by the lapel and yell at you about LGBT and DEI and all the rest of the stuff.
	So there's perfect, there's a big opportunity for someone to come in.
	As I said, they want to do things like Top Gun, Hunt for Red October and stuff like that.
	But of course, they'll put their their technocracy spin on it as well.
	Anybody could come in and start doing movies that are better in terms of acting, characterization, plot, you name it, and not hector people over this left-wing nonsense and be successful.
	The key is, are they going to come in and remake things to come?
	You know, H.G. Wells'book, Shape of Things to Come, if you remember that movie from the 1930s, that basically shows the kind of fascistic technology.
	And Elon Musk's grandfather completely bought into that.
	And that's one of the reasons they wound up in South Africa.
	He tried to in state that instead of the form of government that they had in Canada.
	But that's really where these guys are going.
	And I think they're going to be pretty successful at that.
	And that should worry us because that's a different kind of threat that's going to be coming.
	It's going to take people a while to wake up.
	But you know, I'm bullish and positive actually about this topic.
	And I'll tell you why.
	Look at how Joe Rogan, and he's just one example.
	You and I are another example.
	Look at how people like us have managed to sort of get around the mainstream media as it's called.
	Rogan's got a much bigger audience than CNN.
	People have had enough.
	This whole thing has just reached its critical mass.
	And I think with regard to movies, independent studios that come up with quality stuff that people like, there's now a vehicle for getting that out there.
	Oh, I agree.
	Maybe we don't have the media.
	I agree.
	It's just going to be a different subtext for a different way to come at us.
	They're going to be coming at us from another angle.
	I mean, you take a look at the collapse of the late night talk shows that long ago stopped being funny and just hectored people with lectures.
	It's like, who in the world was watching that stuff anyway?
	Well, turns out they weren't.
	They were losing 40 million a year on Cobert's show.
	But so there is a big opportunity for somebody who wants to come in and do it differently.
	But then you've got to be careful what are they trying to sell you, even if they do it subtly.
	Because Hollywood for the longest time has been selling very subtle philosophy and a worldview and the rest of this stuff.
	And if you just accept that without looking at it critically, that is what has had a big role in changing our society.
	It goes back to the Franklin School.
	I mean, they've been working on these types of things, very calculating the way they do it.
	The problem with them was that they became a little bit too confident and they jumped the shark.
	They did it right in your face.
	They didn't really care anymore.
	If it was more subtle, it would be more effective.
	And I think that's probably what's going to happen.
	I think that trust is probably the most valuable currency that there is.
	And once you lose it, it's almost irrecoverable.
	I agree.
	And so now I think people are much more tuned into that.
	They want to feel as though they can trust whoever it is that they're listening to, that they're viewing.
	And if they get a whiff of shadyness, a lot of people get immediately turned off by that.
	And good.
	There should be consequences for shadyness.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And for being a propagandist.
	I agree.
	And that's healthy.
	You know, people talk about a high trust society, and a high trust society is a good thing, but at the same time, you can't be naive.
	You can't just assume that everybody's benevolent and, you know, there's nothing harmful to this.
	That's right.
	I know it's a little bit more work to have to investigate and check things out and make a determination, but ultimately that's how we get back to some kind of an adult, healthy society instead of this fearful infantilized society that we built up around us.
	That's right.
	Well, Patrick Henry said in his day, he said, Trust no man but bind them down the chains of the Constitution.
	If they're not going to abide by the Constitution, they certainly don't.
	deserve your trust.
	But you don't put blind trust in anybody.
	And it's just part of critical thinking.
	That's a key part of it.
	And so I think that's one of the things that we need to be very, very wary of.
	And one of the things that's always concerned me about Trump.
	And that's why I see the Epstein stuff as very good, because at least some people are having second thoughts about blind trust in Trump.
	The biggest issue is people will come back and say, well, if we can't trust Trump, who can we trust?
	It's like, no one.
	Trust yourself.
	Trust your neighbor.
	working at the local level.
	We just had a story about Well, where did it get stopped?
	It got stopped at the local government level.
	There are things that we can do.
	We need to understand the usual suspects of the federal government with its unlimited amounts of money and they're trying to keep that thing going.
	And I think they will with the stablecoin.
	But we need to understand that, especially if we use the Constitution, there's a lot that can be done at the local level.
	And it's harder for them to control it.
	That's why they keep trying to move everything to the federal level so that they can get rid of any of these restrictions.
	We saw that with glyphosate.
	They're now talking about moving things to the federal level.
	on other pesticides and basically giving them a big pharma deal in terms of legal immunity.
	And we know exactly why they're doing that, because they can buy a few people in Washington a lot more easily than they can buy people at the local level.
	And so, you know, it's just, as you point out, it's...
	I know for the longest time, one of the key weaknesses of Trump on this thing is not only did he campaign on it, but even before he was elected, the first time he had all this queue of nonsense, it's what I call it, about how oh he's gonna he's gonna wrap up all these pedophile rings that are out there and all the rest of this stuff I thought really with his background they sold that for so long you know that's why it's so much deeper it's not just a campaign promise they had this entire mythology about how he was the white knight who was gonna come in and
	stop these known pedophile rings they should have talked more about the actual pedophiles like on Capitol Hill you remember Dennis Astrad oh my gosh yeah we'd yeah I forgotten about that it didn't really happen the longest serving speaker of the house for the Republicans and he was picked because he was a pedophile wrestling coach and and then made speaker of the house and you know while he was speaker of the house they House, they had two pedophile scandals.
	You remember the one with Mark Foley, the House Page scandal?
	Mark Foley and Barney Frank were rent boys from his townhouse in Georgetown.
	That's right.
	The Hastard thing, you know, it was Hastard, I remember him going on with Rush Limbaugh and just poop-pooing all of it and saying, oh, they're only coming after Foley and these other guys because that's what the Democrats are doing.
	It's purely political.
	There's nothing real here.
	Well, it was real.
	And Dennis Hastard was eventually exposed as being a pedophile.
	And the most interesting thing about that whole thing to me was that after it was all known, what did they do about it?
	Nothing.
	Zero zip nada, right?
	They could have gotten rid of the statute of limitations, which is incredibly short for pedophilia.
	And if they had done that, they could have prosecuted Hastard.
	Instead, what they did was they manufactured a crime so they could send him to jail and satisfy people into thinking that they're doing something about the pedophile networks when the whole system was set up to make sure they did nothing about the pedophile networks.
	And so, yeah, nothing is going to happen with this thing with Trump.
	But it's a little bit more cynicism and critical thought is going to be something that will be very good if that can get into the mod mind of the world.
	Like Trump's comments, the arrogance and the narcissism that is his probable greatest weakness, I think.
	Yeah.
	In that it makes him do things that just from his point of view are stupid.
	Yeah.
	Calling his supporters stupid is stupid politically.
	Yeah.
	You know, and yet he did that.
	And you know, just the, that you can see it, like snarling contempt that he has even for the people who support him, the moment they don't support him abjectly.
	The minute that they raise a question, that they take off their red hat and say, hmm, wait a minute.
	Then he comes after them, doesn't he?
	It's amazing.
	He demands, he demands literally slavish, obscure, like, you know, a cur dog rolling on its back, kick me, kind of, you know, followership.
	And that brings me to, I think, this other point that I wanted to make.
	I think all of us, whatever your politics, stop looking for secular heroes and saviors.
	Yes.
	We see ourselves.
	That's how we absolutely stop looking for these heroes.
	It's idolatry and it's stupidity.
	It's amazing.
	You know, how many times as one person said, you're talking about Trump's narcissism.
	You know, all these guys in politics are narcissists and especially all these billionaires.
	Just take a look at Musk, right?
	It was a clash of egos as they were coming after each other.
	But of all the narcissists, you know, Trump does stick out in his own special category, doesn't he?
	He really does.
	Yeah, I mean, he's a tour to force.
	Well, Eric, it's great talking to you, always is great talking to you.
	Eric Petersautos.com is a place to go for honest reviews and you've got comments about new cars and that we didn't get into the oil the underneath pan which makes maintenance more difficult and oil leaks more difficult to know about and all the rest of stuff but it's a lot of practical articles in there the perils of the pan is that article I love your site always have loved it and you focus on mobility and liberty we can't have one without the other, can we?
	And it's great to have an honest review.
	And if you're going to get shut down by a car company for an honest review, now you've been proven right to them as well.
	But I don't expect they're going to restore your credentials.
	I hope they do.
	But you can still see.
	Yeah, I still think.
	Again, it's heartbreaking to me because I'm a car guy.
	I love cars.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, Mercedes at one time made brilliant cars.
	Yeah.
	They had superb engines.
	Their inline six cylinder engine, their V8s, their V12s.
	Remember those?
	Yeah.
	Just magnificent things.
	And they just decided to give that all away and to basically make another Tesla with a cheap plastic three-pointed star on the hood.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I'm very negative on the survival ability of the entire German auto industry because it's not just their craven subservience to that aspect of the Green New Deal, but the Green New Deal for manufacturing in general in Germany is just sabotaging them, whether it's the manufacturing of steel or the ability to be able to compete in terms of cost on energy.
	The governments have put the businesses in Germany and France and especially the UK at such a competitive disadvantage.
	I don't see how they're going to be able to do any kind of manufacturing, especially something like automobiles and steel and that type of stuff.
	They've basically just given a monopoly or duopoly, I should say, to India and China with the companies.
	But again, it's always great talking to you and thank you for being such a great friend.
	I really do appreciate it, Eric.
	Thank you very much.
	You know, I appreciate our friendship and I appreciate you having me on the show.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you.
	Have a good day.
	And before we leave, I just want to thank everyone for all the support in the last couple of days.
	Thank you so much for supporting the show.
	We would not be.
	here without you thank you for your prayers and let's go out with a clip from uh dennis haster just as a reminder of what this whole thing looks like thank you uh eric eric petersautos.com that shocking indictment Analyzing
	The Globalist Next Move.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	The David Knight Show.
	Well, welcome back.
	I wanted to get on and let you know that Travis is feeling sick.
	Please pray.
	But there's something that I had to come on to talk about, so I guess we could call this an emergency broadcast.
	I'm not able to hear myself in here.
	But I didn't put up the rotating traffic light like Alex does.
	I apologize.
	But I think this is very, very important because Trump is going full dictator on emergencies.
	He has done more emergency executive orders than any other president.
	And this is a trend we're seeing with each successive administration, whether it's Democrat or Republican.
	And I don't think that these two parties have a different agenda.
	I think this is a left-right march.
	I think what we're seeing here is that Biden and others will prepare what Trump has an excuse then to come in, although I don't think that he's got an excuse to do what he's currently doing.
	Just as Trump sold the pandemic so that he could sell the vaccine.
	So as we look at the fact, they're talking about DC Home Rule and sending in the National Guard.
	Look, he ought to use the D.C. Home Rule Act to change the people who are running the city, to change the police chief and other things like that.
	But it is not...
	And I think that when we look at Trump's first administration, why would we be surprised that that he's going to do martial law again.
	If you go back and look at MAGA, I think Martial America, go again.
	That's basically what they told the guy.
	We like what you did.
	We don't care that you locked us down under medical martial law.
	We don't care about the massive amounts of money that you shoveled over to pharmaceutical companies and the tyranny that you created and the fact that you trashed the constitution, trashed our God-given rights.
	No, we're going to vote for you again.
	And you are our Savior.
	So Trump has announced that he's going to invoke the DC home rule to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and to deploy the National Guard.
	Again, there is no riot going on in Washington, DC.
	There's no weather emergency.
	There's nothing like that.
	You basically just need to use the authority to get rid of the people that are there, but use the current structure that's there and the rule of law.
	That is the key thing.
	So Trump says on True Social, DC will be liberated today.
	Crime, savagery, filth, and scum will disappear.
	I will make our capital great again.
	The days of ruthlessly killing or hurting innocent people are over.
	I quickly fix the border.
	Zero illegals in the last three months.
	And so the question is, you know, yeah, okay, and what cost did you fix the border?
	I've had this argument with people over this on social media when I say that, yes, human rights and the rights in the Declaration of Independence apply to foreigners in our country, even if they are here illegally.
	And if you disagree with that, go ahead and unfollow me.
	Many people have.
	But I'll tell you this, if you're going to deny human rights to human beings, if you're going to deny the rule of law and the Constitution for them, they will deny it.
	for you.
	He's already done it five years ago.
	What does it take to get these people to wake up?
	I don't understand.
	Let me just remind you that the worst criminal is somebody who sits there with the authority of government behind him.
	There is no worse criminal than somebody who has an army.
	There's no worse criminal than somebody who thumbs his nose at the Constitution like it was his marriage vows to his former wives, if you want to call them that.
	It's just amazing to me.
	So executive order yet again.
	He filed one earlier this year to say, DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force.
	Call for increasing law enforcement presence in public areas.
	This guy wants a police surveillance state.
	He's pouring money hand over fist into Palantir and these surveillance agencies.
	He's telling the police to ignore the law, to ignore your rights, to ignore everybody's rights.
	He's creating concentration camps across the country.
	What does it take to wake up these MAGA fools?
	Some people can be fooled constantly.
	And they're the biggest problem.
	They're bigger problem than the guy that they're empowering.
	He said a group of 100 youths took over the park near DC Capitalitol firing shots, launching fireworks, riding dirt bikes.
	Well, okay, again, replace the political leadership, replace the police, but you don't set up martial law.
	That's a very different thing.
	Reforming the police department, reforming civil government, is not the same as martial law.
	He always takes the problems that Biden has lobbed to him like a softball pitch, and he takes it over the top, and that's what he's doing here.
	He's going to have martial law in America go again.
	He didn't love it when it happened five years ago.
	We somehow managed to have civilization without martial law for quite a while.
	Yeah, I know.
	Anyway, activating the National Guard, crime is bad, but there is no riot that's going on.
	There is no weather emergency that's taking power out and all that kind of stuff.
	There is no emergency.
	And it says fake emergencies.
	Again, why it made it sound like we got some kind of emergency broadcast like Alex does all the time.
	It is really an emergency broadcast about Trump's emergencies.
	The local officials argue that crime is actually decreasing.
	Well, I don't think that is the case, but one way or the other, there are ways to handle this without martial law.
	This is not a binary decision.
	It's a stupid decision.
	It's a dangerous decision.
	For Trump, the effort to take over public safety in Washington reflects an escalation of his aggressive approach to law enforcement and his utter contempt for the rule of law, especially the Constitution.
	I refuse to call the man president.
	If he has divorced himself from the Constitution, he has divorced himself from any authority that he has in that office, and he doesn't deserve the title.
	I will not refer to Donald as president.
	He's an authoritarian dictator trying to rule by emergency.
	Just like Biden, by the way.
	Before Trump, I said Biden was the most authoritarian politician I'd ever seen in my life.
	He had his fingerprints all over the mandatory minimums and all the other abuses, civil asset forfeiture, RECO, all the rest of that stuff.
	Biden was there from the very beginning using the drug war to establish a police state.
	And I remember, and I've said this many times, when he was head of the Judiciary Committee during Clarence Thomas's confirmation, he constantly haranged Clarence Thomas over Clarence Thomas talking about natural law and natural rights.
	He hated that concept.
	Well, that's the concept that the Declaration of Independence was written on.
	Biden hated the thing, which he couldn't remember, of course.
	And I said he is the person who has more contempt for our liberties than any person I've seen in my lifetime.
	But now we have Trump.
	because the two of them are like a tag team match.
	And the interesting thing to me is that these partisan people, they can see it.
	The Republicans can see it in Biden.
	And the Democrats can see it in Trump.
	But they can't see it in their own guy because they're the problems.
	This is why the founders hated factions, hated political parties.
	Trump said, what you need is rules and regulations, and you need the right people to implement them.
	Well, that's not the military, and that's not to federalize the police.
	And maybe what we do is we start obeying the rules and regulations from the top down.
	How about that, Donald?
	You know, the John Birch Society, and I remember long before other people caught on, they understood the danger of federalizing the police, and I'm hoping that they're going to take this on.
	I've not seen anything from them yet about this.
	But that was something that they could clearly see happening when I was a child.
	And we had all these, support your local sheriff, support your local police, all these bumper stickers.
	They even had a James Garner comedy western that was support your local sheriff.
	It became something of a meme even without social media.
	And it is there for a good reason.
	We do not want to have the police federalized.
	So the military is preparing to deploy National Guard in D.C. This is martial law.
	And the lockdowns that Trump did last time he was in office was martial law as well.
	Trump is expected to announce a news conference at the White House that up to several hundred DC National Guardsmen will be sent to support law enforcement officers in the Capitol.
	No other details were available on Monday.
	Well, we'll see what happens.
	Maybe it'll be a taco.
	Let's hope that Trump will chicken out.
	But I don't think so because he's also boasting about how he wants to do this in Democrat cities.
	He throws out name drops New York, Chicago, and LA.
	We're coming for D.C. Now we're going to come for the big leftists.
	Trump said his administration is going to look at deploying U.S. military to other American cities, including Chicago, New York, and LA, at a press conference where he announced that he was taking federal control of the police department in Washington, D.C. That's fine.
	But the National Guard and claiming that this is an emergency is the issue.
	Trump then revealed he's considering a similar move in other cities, including New York.
	And I say that it's fine because DC is not like New York, Chicago, or LA.
	The District of Columbia does not have representation.
	This is a big thing.
	We want to have a person in Congress and all the rest.
	It was carved out specifically so it was not a state government.
	It was and is under the authority of the federal government.
	That's why I say taking over the police department, taking over the political positions in the city.
	I don't really have a problem with that.
	But now he wants to use that as an example.
	in a phony emergency just like he did five years ago this phony pandemic he wants to use that as a pattern to go into other cities that he doesn't like he says then i'm going to look at new york in a little while he went on to note that his administration is considering sending the military into Chicago, and he mocked the Democratic governor of Illinois.
	Look, Pritzker is eminently mockable.
	When you look at a picture of him and his doppelganger cousin, who is now a tranny, it's hilarious.
	And that's what that family has done.
	They've got a, it's the Hyatt family.
	They're all filthy rich.
	and they have focused on trying to make America filthy.
	They have really pushed this tranny agenda his family has, but Trump says, we have a mayor there.
	who's totally incompetent, talking about Chicago, an incompetent man, and we have an incompetent governor there.
	Pritzker is incompetent.
	His family threw him out of the business, and he ran for governor.
	Now understand he wants to be president.
	I noticed that he lost a little weight, so now he has a chance.
	It's all about appearance and reality TV and programming, all the rest of stuff for Trump.
	Nothing about principles.
	That's why he doesn't have a problem with phony emergencies and martial law.
	He said, hopefully LA is watching as well.
	Look, if the Democrats want to impeach him for something, impeach him for this type of thing if he does it.
	None of this nonsense like Russia gate.
	The impeachments that they had against him the first time were nonsense.
	And it was as ridiculous as his criticisms of Pritzker.
	There's plenty to criticize Pritzker about.
	Much of what you could criticize Pritzker for was the kind of things that he did in 2020 that were virtually identical to what Trump was doing.
	So yeah, criticize him for that.
	But look, if somebody is just going to throw the Constitution away and wants to set up surveillance, wants to lock down our free speech at the demands of a foreign government, Israel, or unregistered foreign agents like APAC, impeach him for that.
	Of course they won't impeach him for his catering to APAC, but they should impeach him for the federalizing of the police and the rest of this stuff.
	I've got a couple of comments here before we take a quick break.
	Hi, Booth says, David's right.
	Trump literally keeps claiming fake emergencies to do whatever he wants.
	Where did he get that idea?
	COVID rings a bell.
	Yeah.
	And guess what?
	He got away with it.
	He got away with it.
	The Democrats never came after him for that.
	And just like Democrats and Republicans never came after James Clapper for lying to Congress about their surveillance of American citizens without a search warrant.
	And they let that expire with a statute of limitations.
	And yet, look at what is happening now with Republicans.
	They're filing referrals to the Department of Justice over perjury for Jerome Powell because he was...
	Fire him for the extravagant remodeling.
	Don't fire him for lying about the details of the extravagant remodeling.
	Fire them because the Federal Reserve Act is an abomination.
	It was put in as a trick.
	Nysos Storm says, let's hope that the National Guard will observe their oaths.
	Unfortunately, most good military have been purged.
	That's what Trump did.
	It's amazing to watch the progression of this stuff.
	It really was planned out in advance.
	You get the good people out of the military, then you declare martial law.
	You're absolutely right, Jason.
	Cecilia, fourteen.
	David, we may as well have Palantir as president.
	Oh, wait, we do.
	JD Palantir, Trump's handler, and in the shadows will come forth when they decide.
	I agree.
	Yeah, he is absolutely connected to Peter Thiel and these people.
	Wright Overture says the police were hired by the city of DC.
	Trump can't constitutionally fire those cops.
	Well, I think that when you look at the District of Columbia, and I haven't looked at it carefully enough, but it's not like a state or local government.
	Congress has say over certain things that happen there.
	And of course, Congress isn't going to do anything.
	Congress is being led by this sycophant Mike Johnson who lets Trump do whatever Trump wants.
	They will never question anything he does.
	Nysa Storm says, why can't Maiga see that all his campaign promises from his first term never happened, even though he says they did?
	And we're seeing that again, aren't we?
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
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	Well, earlier, Travis talked about the kind of the fascist model of governing that is happening with Trump and the fact that he is setting up capitalism, move towards state capitalism with American characteristics.
	And I've always thought it was very interesting to see China as a mixture of that.
	Of course, the Wall Street Journal guy said, you know, people always said that China would move towards the American model as things went along, but no, they didn't.
	And why?
	Because of the authoritarianism that they had.
	You know, it was moving in that direction, and then they put the brakes on at Tiananmen Square, and then they stepped on the gas to go back to the other direction.
	But you can have an authoritarian communist party, and you can have crony capitalism and corruption at the same time.
	China is an interesting state because it is a mixture of communism and fascism.
	When we talk about fascism, I talk about it economically.
	in the sense that it's a fusion of the government and of corporations, you don't get to open up a business or have a successful business in China unless you're in with the Chinese Communist Party.
	And if you're one of the crooks in the club, like Guo, this guy that's hooked up with Steve Bannon in the past, he became a billionaire, and then he fell out with the club.
	And he had to flee China, and they've been after him since that.
	But that is the kind of model that you see happening of the Trump administration.
	All of these billionaires buying influence with him, giving him gifts and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's disgusting to see this kind of corruption.
	I think this administration is setting a whole new pattern, and I'm worried that it's going to stick around after Trump is gone.
	But it is a kind of corrupt, fascist authoritarianism.
	And of course, when you think about fascism, the popular idea is that fascism was all about nationalism, hyper-nationalism.
	Well, you see that in China.
	You see that with Trump as well.
	It's not just the merger of state and corporations.
	And as part of this, you see the massive amount of personal enrichment that Trump has already made.
	made in the first six months.
	This is from Wall Street, this is Wall Street Journal had report on this, but dizzing some experts alarmed at the staggering fortune that Trump has raked in as president in just his first six months.
	He's elevated self dealing to an unprecedented level during his presidency according to a new deep dive by David Kirkpatrick in the New Yorker.
	Actually, I said Wall Street Journal, it was a New Yorker.
	This was published yesterday.
	Experts are alarmed by his apparent lack of concern for how this appears to the public.
	Why should he care?
	The Democrats hate him so much personally.
	There wasn't anything that he could do that they wouldn't take exception to.
	And the GOP partisans love him so much that there isn't anything that he could do that they wouldn't excuse.
	Kirkpatrick estimated that Trump has raked in three point four billion in presidential profits.
	He calls that a dizzying sum.
	When Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, there were extensive conflicts ranging from secret service paying for services at his properties to the Trump Hotel in DC being patronized by foreign dignitaries looking to curry favor.
	But back then, even as the president refused to release his tax.
	releases tax returns, at least Trump wanted to create the impression he was working through the ethical issues.
	And I said at the time, I said, they want the tax returns because he's got very complicated tax returns.
	And they could use them and portray them any way they wanted.
	I mean, that would be just a target-rich environment to go through that stuff.
	That's a criticism not of Trump.
	That's a criticism of the income tax structure.
	And folks, he's not going to do anything to get rid of that.
	He's still talking about how he's going to give permanent tax breaks here and change this tax code over there.
	There's no restructuring of this and they're not going to make enough money.
	They want you to think that they're going to make enough money off of tariffs to support this gargantuan government.
	They don't have enough money combined from tariffs and the income tax to cover the money that they're spending.
	The spending is the problem.
	And if they're going to continue to get the government involved in things for which it has no legitimate authority, We're going to continue to run up these massive deficits.
	Per Trump's tax lawyer at the time, Sherry Dillon, she said, since Trump's star turn on the NBC reality show, The Apprentice.
	The Trump organization has mainly sold the use of his name.
	She said most of its profits came from developers who flew the Trump flag over the building that he didn't build or own or from businesses that used his name to sell shirts, mattresses, or pizza.
	By the way, there was an article that was picked up on mainstream press, the anti-Trump press, and they said MIGA is eating its own that ICE had come in and taken out the owner of a business that sold Trump burgers and other things like that.
	Pinky banked on that.
	And I looked at that and I thought, you know, I think That is as much about his infringement on the name as it is his infringement on the country coming here illegally.
	But nevertheless, anyway, if Trump tried to offload his whole company, Dylan explained, a buyer might overpay in order to curry favor with the president, or just as worrisome, might demean the highest office in the land by crassly cashing in on the president's name.
	Trump and his family, Dylan declared, would never do anything that might be perceived to be exploitative of the office of presidency.
	But she's long gone from representing the Trump family.
	And this article says now even the pretense of guardrails is off.
	A two billion dollar investment from a fund controlled by the Saudi crown prince, a luxury jet from the Emir of Qatar, profits from at least five different ventures pedaling crypto, fees from an exclusive club stocked with cabinet officials and named the Executive Branch.
	Meanwhile, Trump Jr. said in a recent meeting that when it comes to foreign deals, the Trumps will no longer lock themselves quote in a proverbial padded room because it almost doesn't matter.
	They're going to hit you no matter what.
	Well, he's right about that.
	That's what I said.
	He gets away with this.
	And he's taking us into this dictatorship and this kind of corrupt crony capitalism because they know that no matter what, the left is going to criticize him.
	And we also know, don't we, that no matter what, MAGA will always make an excuse for him.
	They never end with the excuses.
	They're constantly going.
	As a matter of fact, when Trump said that he was going to Alaska, as he was talking about He says this.
	And it's embarrassing for me to be up here.
	You know, I'm going to see Putin.
	I'm going to Russia on Friday.
	I'm going to Russia.
	You're talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was?
	Yeah, he went full Sarah Palin.
	I can see Russia from here.
	Well, you know, he's going to Alaska.
	He said he's going to Russia.
	And if you look at that tweet that I pulled out from, underneath it are all these people from MAGA making excuses for him.
	Well, of course, because it's so close to Russia, it's like going to Russia.
	And we got it from Russia, and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's just, no matter what, he does, even something as minor as that.
	And of course, the left is trying to make a big deal out of that, saying, listen.
	He's not mentally sound.
	He doesn't even know where he's going.
	He's calling Alaska Russia.
	And that's an overstep.
	But they don't say that.
	Instead, they try to, oh ye yeah, he's absolutely right.
	It is Russia.
	This is the partisan blinders on both sides that are going to wind up getting us all living in a dictatorship here.
	Ethics Reform Attorney Fred Wertheimer said, When it comes to using his public office to amass personal profits, Trump is a unicorn.
	No one else even comes close, he said.
	He said, We'll never really know just how much Trump profited.
	from the presidency, although it certainly is in the billions.
	He doesn't talk about it anymore.
	He may be the greatest con artist in American history.
	Well, I would definitely agree with that assessment.
	The original article from David Kirkpatrick was titled, How much is Trump profiting off of the presidency?
	And it truly is amazing when you look at it.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break here.
	And by the way, before we leave this, Don Jr. is also debuting direct sales product for pharmaceutical companies.
	Yeah, his daddy set the stage for that, didn't he?
	How much did he get paid under the table for pushing out MRNA and for channeling money to That was disgusting the amount of money that he threw at them to make that poison.
	And it was also disgusting to see how his own people were out there pushing people to the cult to inject the Kool-Aid into their arms.
	So I wonder how much they got kicked back from Warp Speed.
	But that's what Don Jr. is doing now.
	So you think they're really going to pull in pharmaceutical companies?
	When the Trump family is making money, so much money from pharmaceutical companies.
	And look, he wants to have direct sale products for pharmaceuticaltical, you won't have the ask your doctor anymore tagline on there.
	Instead, go to this website and we'll sell it to you directly.
	There's never enough money for them.
	And they don't want you to have any information.
	You know, I was shut down off of these different sites, off of Spotify and others, because they didn't want me talking about what was happening with pharmaceutical products.
	They want to keep that quiet.
	They have different things that they want to cover up now, but it's always about free speech.
	They want to sell products directly to patients, direct-sell platforms, and it could be an example.
	of potential conflicts of interest, they say.
	Well, of course it is.
	Of course it is.
	Don Jr. is going to sell the stuff.
	And, you know, they'll go back and they'll say, well, yeah, look at the difference.
	know hunter biden actually used the pharmaceuticals or maybe non-pharmaceuticals but uh you know the democrats have got hunter biden and we've got rick perry who's now made it his life mission to sell uh uh this this drug that is like a um you know a He says that is now going to be his life's work.
	Well, good for you.
	The Commerce Department, meanwhile, is threatening to take down ownership of Harvard's patents.
	You know, why are we giving 9 billion, 9 billion with a B to Harvard?
	That is an outrage.
	There is no authority in the Constitution to give a single penny to universities.
	Harvard was the first university and it was a private university.
	I remember when we were in North Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the first state university founded quite some time after Harvard a private university was.
	When this country was founded, we didn't have the government involved in funding universities and the rest of stuff.
	That's why you can't afford to go to college anymore because they have subsidized it.
	Whenever you subsidize it, it gets more expensive.
	And so even the state schools are getting virtually unaffordable, but certainly the private schools.
	So they get $9 billion a year.
	And nobody, Republican or Democrat, has a problem with that.
	and Washington until they criticized Israel, until they allowed free speech on their campus criticizing a foreign government.
	Now they want to take the money away for that.
	And if they were to crack down on that, they'd be more than happy to let Harvard continue to get the $9 billion, plus collect royalties off of patents that they have produced after the subsidies from the government.
	So the government gives them $9 billion.
	Much of this is in terms of research grants.
	And if the research grants produce a product, Harvard keeps the products.
	How do we stop that kind of corruption?
	It is a truly outrageous.
	But of course, when you look at the National Institutes of Health where Fauci was, those people get to keep the royalties, they're employees of the federal government.
	And if they develop anything there at the NIH that they could sell, they get to keep the patents for that.
	That's part of the outrage.
	And of course, there's been no investigation of that.
	People are constantly talking about, well, show us the documents for Oklahoma City, or show us the documents for the JFK assassination, or show us the documents for the Epstein file.
	Hey, how about this?
	Just show us the documents.
	for who got the royalties in the NIH.
	Could we even know that?
	No.
	Everything in Washington is hidden from you while they want to use Palantir to make your life an open book to them, even being able to predict what you're going to do.
	Federal government is looking at Harvard University's patent rights.
	The Department of Commerce is initiating a so-called March N process under the Bay Dole Act, a federal patent policy allowing recipients of federal funds to retain patent rights over their inventions made with federal funding.
	The Act's March-in rights, however, give the federal government the authority to grant licenses of such patents to third parties under certain conditions where federally funded interventions are not being adequately developed or utilized for the public good.
	So what they could do is they could go make these patents public domain, essentially.
	But nobody else has done that before.
	Lucky Lutnick said that Harvard has, quote, failed to live up to its obligations to the American taxpayer.
	It doesn't have any obligations to the American taxpayer because there's no obligations, Lutnick, defined in the Constitution because it was never intended that they would be given $9 billion.
	That's the problem.
	These people always address a secondary or tertiary problem, and they'll never get back to the root cause, which is ignoring the Constitution, which is the rule of law.
	It says in breach of the statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements tied to Harvard's federally funded research programs.
	Well, you know what?
	If they got statutes or regulations or contracts, if they don't align with the Constitution, which they don't, the Tenth Amendment says, if you, anything that's powers that have not been delegated to you by the states, you cannot infer or create those.
	And so that's basically what they've done, whether they did it with statutes or regulatory stuff or contracts.
	So they're talking about the federally funded research programs and taking the intellectual property that was the result of that.
	Lutnick said the federal government intends to license Harvard's patents to third parties.
	And he's probably got some friends who are lined up to make money off of this, don't you think?
	I'm going to march right in there with that.
	The march-in rights under the Bay Dole Act have not been exercised by any federal agency in the 40 years since its enactment.
	And just stop and think about this.
	What they're saying is, if we give you federal funds to do research, and you come up with intellectual property or patents or whatever, and you make profits off of that, then we can come in under certain circumstances and say, we're going to take the patent away from you and make it public domain.
	The Bay Dole Act, and of course, Bob Dole was Birch Bay and Bob Dole were the ones who put this together, it ignores the fact that there's no constitutional authority for the federal government to give research grant funding to any of these corporations.
	I know how would we survive if the federal government didn't fund research grants?
	Well, let me just encourage you to look at the misery that has been caused by bogus federal research grants throughout our society has been used to manipulate, to change our society.
	When you look at the money that DARPA and the CIA are giving to these organizations to do anticipatory intelligence, surveillance work, to experiment with pharmaceuticals, and now to experiment with electrical control of our minds and all the rest of the stuff.
	It has been a dark world that has been opened up with these federal research grants, and that needs to have the light shined on it, and it needs to be shut down.
	This unprecedented action is yet another retaliatory effort, said Harvard, targeting Harvard.
	for defending its rights and freedom.
	Technologies and patents developed at Harvard are life-saving and industry redefining.
	Look, I don't like any of these research grants.
	I don't like what Harvard is doing.
	I don't like what the federal government is doing.
	I don't like what DARPA is doing with the CIA.
	But consider the fact that the only reason that they're taking this stuff away is to punish them for allowing free speech and to allow peaceful demonstrations against the policies of a foreign government.
	And it gets even more outrageous, doesn't it?
	The federal government has accused Harvard of anti-Semitism, the old dog whistle.
	I'm so sick and tired of this.
	It's like the left, whenever the left, you catch them on something, they won't talk to you about the issues.
	They just look at you and say, racist, you're racist.
	That's all they'll do, just repeat that, play the race card.
	That's what the GOP is doing now.
	If you criticize what Netanyahu is doing, well, you're racists because you're completely owned by the ADL and APAC.
	So the federal government has accused Harvard of anti-Semitism and non-disclosure related to foreign funding and race-based discrimination.
	Let's stop all this hate speech and allegations of racism.
	It's real, and they're making it so unreal that they're going to give cover and have been giving cover to people who are real racist.
	They've been crying wolf over racism.
	Now the right is doing the same thing the left is doing.
	So as reprehensible as Harvard is, this is an abuse of power in order to deny free speech.
	The university held over holds over 5,800 patents or held them as of July last year and had more than 900 active technology licenses with 650 plus industry partners.
	Isn't it staggering to think about what a big business Harvard has become?
	To think about how much power they wield?
	And of course, we've seen evidence of this.
	Remember Marty Gottesfeld and how, as he exposed Boston Children's Hospital's medical kidnapping of that child and how they came after him.
	And they locked him up like he was some kind of a foreign terrorist.
	You know, they have these communication management units where they put our political prisoners.
	They put Marty Gottesfeld in there because he criticized a Harvard subsidiary for medical kidnapping.
	But this is how strong Harvard is.
	And of course, I've talked many times in the past to Dr. Shivayadure, who also fights against Harvard.
	He's up there in that area, and he knows the kind of political clout that they have.
	But it's pretty amazing how well they get $9 billion, plus they've got almost 6,000 patents and 700 industry partners and all the rest of this.
	The letter asked Harvard, from the letter from Lutnik, to provide a comprehensive list of all patents they received from federally funded research grants by no later than September the 1st, the 5th, rather, right?
	Homeland Security said Harvard's leadership has created an unsafe campus environment, permitting anti-American pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once venerable learning environment.
	Harvard hasn't been venerable for a couple of centuries.
	You shouldn't have any respect for anything that they do for the last couple hundred years.
	But it's not anti-American.
	It's anti-Israel that they're trying to shut down.
	And you know what?
	Even if it was anti-American speech, whether or not you agree with it, whether or not it's true, whether or not it's anti-American.
	That is not the test.
	You have a right to redress your grievances and your criticisms of the American government.
	That especially includes foreign governments.
	And that's what is so reprehensible about what the Trump administration is doing here.
	It said many of these agitators are foreign students.
	Yeah, well, guess what?
	You're doing this for a foreign government.
	You want to talk about foreign students protesting what a foreign government is doing?
	And you're defending the foreign government and you're destroying our Bill of Rights at the demands of this foreign government.
	That alone calls for it to be criticized.
	So when a foreign government tells you to destroy the Bill of Rights and to punish people for free speech, that's the point at which I've had it with Israel.
	You know, it was two things I said the other day.
	I was talking to Karen and I said, at the beginning of this, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, even if it looked like, Because look, everybody argues about who invaded first, because we all understand at a base level that whoever quote unquote preemptively attacks is in the wrong.
	But that's of course what we do all the time.
	It's what Israel does as well.
	But it got to the point where, and when something like that begins, there were talks about how there were abuses and all the rest of this from the very beginning, but I didn't want to get involved in it.
	because of the fog of war.
	People are making all kinds of claims.
	If you're not there, and even if you are there, it's difficult to determine what the truth is in the midst of a firefight and things like that.
	So I stayed away from it.
	However, when they came in and started attacking people for free speech, that was it.
	And then it got to another level when Trump came in and openly talked about the purpose of a genocide so that he could open up, you know, have this for development and all the rest of the stuff.
	That's exactly what people were talking about from very beginning.
	You know, the term genocide was coined by a Jewish historian talking about Armenia and Azerbaijan and, or actually at the time it was the Turks who were trying to kill all the Armenian Christians.
	They said, this is a genocide.
	They want to kill everybody or get them off of land so they can have that land.
	Well, that's precisely what's going on in Gaza.
	Trump made that very clear.
	Netanyahu has made that very clear.
	And regardless of whether or not the initiation of the war was justified as part of a just war, to target civilians and to sustain it for years is what makes it unjustified.
	As I've said many times, it's like when somebody breaks into your house, you are entitled to defend yourself.
	And you can shoot to kill if they're coming at you.
	But if they grab your TV and they're running away from you and they're on the front lawn and they're not a threat to you, you can't shoot them in the back.
	That's the principle by which we say you can't target civilians.
	But that's what they've been doing.
	The university argued that the funding freeze was a blatant violation of the Due Process Clause, the First Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
	Well, they don't really have a leg to stand on.
	They're not entitled to that money.
	I mean, the funding freeze is only part of it.
	They froze it for the wrong reason.
	But Harvard doesn't have a legitimate case in the Constitution to get a single penny from American taxpayers.
	They said it's the latest act by government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and ideology.
	Well, that's true.
	And I despise Harvard's ideology.
	And that's one of the reasons why they shouldn't get a penny of federal money, of taxpayer money.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks.
	We will be...
	Yes.
	What?
	I'm just saying if this is a violation of their First Amendment rights, That's right.
	Yeah, under the Due Process Clause, where's my money?
	I need nine billion dollars.
	And under the Administrative Procedure Act, you know, it's like I'm still waiting for my first check from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and it looks like they're going to go out of business before they write me one.
	I've always said that if people want a particular broadcast or program, they can support it.
	And we do appreciate the people who support us here.
	And thank you so much.
	It's voluntary.
	We don't put it behind a paywall.
	And we don't run marathon promotions like PBS does.
	All right, we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
	Thank you.
	you you You're listening to the David Knight Show.
	Well, Doug the 007 says, if I understand correctly, all these David segments were supposed to be a compilation of older clips.
	Well, that was what Travis announced.
	When he got up this morning to prepare for the show, he was feeling really, really bad.
	And he put together a couple of clips.
	But I wanted to come on because I think that what is happening with this martial law, and it's not the first time, of course, that we've seen the martial law.
	That's why I opposed Trump.
	You know, that plus the cold-blooded murder of people around the world.
	I think he is an international war criminal for warp speed.
	But that is part of the deep state.
	They laid the foundation for that was laid just prior to 9-11.
	And right afterwards, they put out the model legislation after the anthrax attack that they also did.
	And they practiced...
	That's how deep the deep state is.
	These people keep thinking that he's their savior, just like he's going to round up the pedophile rings when he was part of one of the most notorious pedophile rings with Jeffrey Epstein that ever existed.
	Both of them creatures of the intelligence agencies.
	Well, again, I wanted to come on because this is very important.
	We're trying to get the studio together here so that we can, we're trying to rearrange everything so that, so I can do it with Travis.
	because it's difficult for me to do three hours of the broadcast as of yet.
	And I enjoy having a banter back and forth anyway with both of my sons here.
	We do that at home.
	I thought you guys might like it as well.
	I always enjoy that better than just monologuing.
	But that's why I'm not back yet.
	But I thought, well, Travis is feeling so bad.
	I'm going to take this over after he did the rebroadcast of the interview.
	Dustin Helm, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	And Knights of the Storm, thank you.
	I said, please don't get too worked up, David.
	It's great to see you live again.
	Prayers for the family.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you so much for the prayers.
	I have to say, Karen was feeling very, very poorly as well.
	I told you she broke her ankle back in January.
	And the doctors, because of the insurance companies, they don't want to lick except at one thing at one time.
	So we got approval to lick at your ankle.
	My knee is killing me.
	We've only got approval for your ankle.
	So they let the knee get worse and worse.
	And after I came home and she's running around waiting on me hand and foot, her and knee, I guess, not just foot, her knee got really bad and swelled up.
	She finally got them take a look at it.
	and do some x-rays and then eventually do a scan.
	I want to say an MRA scan, but it wasn't MRNA.
	What is it?
	Anyway, they did a scan.
	They could see that it was torn cartilage there.
	So we appreciate the prayers and we appreciate God has really blessed her and she's feeling much better now as well.
	We were a real sorry sight going to the doctors between the two of us.
	We were as, you know, wheelchairs and canes and staggering into the place.
	It was pretty amazing, but we're much better now.
	And we thank you for praying because it's not the medical community that's helping us.
	The healing comes from God.
	And that's true of our country as well.
	What if God isn't?
	sending a Savior through the ballot box, This is an op-ed piece from Christian Post, Michael Wickey.
	He said, It's a strange thing to watch so many believers wait with bated breath for the next election as if the soul of the nation and even the future of the church hinges on who sits in the White House.
	Many well-meaning Christians are hoping that a certain political leader, even one with a troubled moral track record, who could he be talking about here?
	I think he'd be talking about any of them, left or right, Republican or Democrat, that they might bring America back to God.
	Yeah, we could come back to God with the Trump family values.
	This is the guy who first wouldn't be the first one to include men in beauty contests.
	Yeah, right.
	But this is exactly how I feel.
	I hate to see people put their hope and their faith in politics or in a particular person or in their job or their career or whatever.
	That is not where our hope lies.
	We have to ask an uncomfortable question: What if What if he's sending discipline instead?
	And he says, God often used pagan kings not to lead revivals but to wake his people up through judgment.
	Think about Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem, carried Judah into exile, or Assyria, the empire that crushed the northern kingdom of Israel.
	God even called Assyria the rod of my anger in Isaiah.
	These rulers were not godly men, they were instruments in God's hand used to discipline a people who had forgotten him.
	You have all these people saying Trump is like Cyrus who helped Israel.
	Maybe he's more like Nebuchadnezzar.
	Who knows?
	Sometimes God sends prophets, but other times he sends kings with iron fists.
	And the only Christian nation that we have today is the church.
	That's the way God refers to the church.
	He refers to it as a nation, as a holy people, as a chosen people.
	But we want to project that onto a nation that doesn't care about God whatsoever.
	There is no political salvation of countries that are there.
	It's about individuals.
	And the salvation that Jesus Christ offers is there for anybody, regardless of what your ethnic background is.
	But there is no salvation outside of that.
	That's one of the things that bothers me so much.
	So much about American Christians is how obsessed they are with politics, American and Israeli politics, how obsessed they are with knowing the future.
	Just go get a crystal ball or hire the witch of Endor or something.
	They're so obsessed with all that stuff and they miss what the New Testament, what the Bible is really about.
	Old and New Testament is about the Lord Jesus Christ.
	And yet that's not what people are interested in.
	Is it?
	Get to the good part.
	Skip over all this stuff about Jesus.
	Let's get to what happens at the end of the world.
	You know, that's what people have, itching ears.
	And they've got teachers who are teaching them, and as a result of that teaching, they're cheering the mass murder of civilians and children and the slow starvation of these people.
	That's what they're cheering.
	That's the evil fruit from these false teachers that's out there.
	Anyway, Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world, right?
	throughout the New Testament, they made it it clear that God was creating a holy nation, a people of his own possession, and those are the believers in Christ.
	A true Christian nation is spiritual, not geographical, not bound by borders, by flags, by constitutions.
	It's made up of people redeemed by the blood of Christ from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
	God doesn't need a superpower to fulfill his purposes, he is the superpower.
	He needs a faithful people.
	History and scripture remind us that popular spiritual leadership is not always faithful leadership.
	In Jeremiah's day the prophets assured everyone that peace was coming.
	Jeremiah alone warned of judgment.
	He went up in the bottom of a well.
	That's the equivalent, I guess, of getting kicked off all the social media platforms and YouTube today.
	It sent you to the bottom of the well.
	Of course, physically, I'm a lot more uncomfortable.
	I don't feel anything from being kicked off these other platforms.
	Four hundred Prophets off the platform right beside the well.
	Yeah, they de-platformed him and he went straight to the bottom of the well.
	Four hundred Prophets told King Ahab to go into battle.
	Only Micahai dared to speak God's truth and he was thrown into prison for telling the truth.
	Jesus said, Beware when all men speak well of you.
	That's right.
	So did they of the false teachers.
	No president, he writes, no matter how strong or sympathetic to Christian values, can bring a nation back to God.
	Do you really think that Trump or Biden or anybody else, such as Lala Harris, is sympathetic to Christian values?
	I think they are raising their fist to God pretty much every time they speak based on their pride and what they're doing.
	Revival doesn't come through policies or speeches.
	It comes through the power of the Holy Spirit working in the hearts of God's people.
	No party, no political movement, no president is going to save us folks.
	Sometimes maybe even now God uses hardship, decline, and even ungodly leadership to wake us up, not because He's cruel, but because He's a loving Father who disciplines those He loves.
	Could it be that God has allowed ungodly leaders not to restore America but to humble His church?
	Could it be that we are confused culturally?
	We've confused cultural Christianity with true discipleship, and God is pulling down our idols?
	I don't pretend to know what God is doing, but I know this revival does not start in Washington.
	It starts on your knees.
	Let's stop looking for salvation in the wrong places.
	Look, if you want reform, start with yourself.
	Start with your family.
	And one of the best things that you could do is to take control of your children.
	Look, it has been an obsession with this beast in Washington to grab the minds and the souls of our children from an early age.
	And everybody knows this.
	God has talked about this.
	Satan has talked about it.
	Plato's talked about it.
	Figures throughout history have talked about it.
	Get the children when they're young and their mind for life.
	That's why God tells us to raise our children to fear and follow him.
	And a good example of what you can accomplish, I want to show you something that is truly countercultural.
	And this is some homeschool teens that saved a restaurant for a couple.
	It's a mom and pop business and they had a restaurant and they began hiring homeschool kids.
	as young as 14 because they knew they were hard workers.
	And she essentially became family to them.
	She supported their extracurricular activities and things like that.
	And then one day, she dropped to the ground with a grandma seizure.
	And these kids took over.
	They trained other homeschoolers and they ran the business while her husband was even gone at her bedside in the hospital.
	Here's a story about that was done by the local news.
	Wisconsin.
	There's a cafe.
	Urban All of Vendyne, how can I help you?
	With a reputation.
	My name is Lily Benzur and I'm eighteen years old.
	Teenagers.
	My name is Tori and I'm seventeen.
	Wayne and I'm sixteen years old.
	Lots of them.
	Right now we are up to thirty.
	Chad trainers.
	So yeah, thirty teenagers.
	Carol built their business with teen employees.
	I'm Acacia and I'm 17.
	14 to 18, really.
	Joe and 15 years old.
	They soak up information.
	They want to learn.
	They want to do well.
	And then the teens who helped build their business.
	Yeah.
	saved their business.
	In this room on september 28, she collapsed on the floor and had a grandma's seizures.
	Carol would spend the next eight months in the hospital.
	Mostly in Minneapolis.
	And mostly in a coma with Chad, bedside.
	Not once.
	I didn't ask one teenager to do anything extra.
	He didn't have to.
	They just did it.
	This is the pantry.
	For eight months, their teens essentially ran their place.
	I don't really think about things very much.
	I just kind of go.
	Acacia started arriving at 5:30 to open.
	She's a great leader.
	Joe and the other homeschoolers kept things going during the day.
	And that one doesn't get anything on top.
	And everyone took on new roles.
	Now do a little drizzle.
	They trained each other.
	came up with the specialties and kept Carol's plants alive.
	Me and Tori mainly we would go shopping for Chad.
	I have pictures of like my huge carts of stuff and like my car would be full of stuff.
	And then I like look in here and see if anything needs to get paid or anything.
	Jobs they lifted off the shoulders of Carol and Chad.
	That's a family here.
	Carol and Chad's family.
	Carol always offered help with like school homework and just like life in general.
	Carol and Chad sponsored their pageants and never missed their school sports and performances.
	It's almost unfair for it not to be reciprocated back to them.
	We didn't know at the time, my wife was dying.
	And they just thought they were helping out because we were...
	She needed help.
	You know, they needed things covered until she came back.
	She died at 58.
	She was just a really amazing person.
	Lily and all the other teenagers attended Carol's funeral.
	Then the teens got back to work, still pausing occasionally so they can lean on each other.
	I knew we would all not do good today.
	We're not even cutting onions yet, I know.
	Without them, the restaurant would not exist.
	Thank you.
	These kids became adults and ran our business and took care of me.
	Urban Olive and Vine can be found in the heart of Hudson.
	Run by the teams at the heart of Urban Olive and Vine.
	I love them like they're my own kids.
	Boy, dude.
	Carol Evandu.
	Hi.
	Hudson.
	I'm Jewel.
	Yeah, you know, uh...
	There was John Taylor Gatto, who was twice Teacher of the Year in New York State.
	And that's the kind of thing that he would do.
	He would take his kids out.
	He was a big influence in the founding of the homeschooling movement in the 80s.
	And what he did was he would take his kids out of the classroom.
	So let's get into the real world.
	Let's do some things.
	And you have the opportunity to do that with homeschooling.
	We have a government institution called public schools.
	I call them government schools.
	That institution is there to do everything.
	everything exactly the opposite of what young people need in terms of training to take on jobs and other things like that.
	It used to be, before we had government schools, you had people like John Paul Jones wind up in charge as the captain of a ship.
	By the time they were 17 or 18, I forget the exact ages when he took over that.
	But they would give responsibility to kids who wanted it and who were capable of it.
	They would not pigeonhole people and set them on the shelf until they aged to a certain position.
	And that really is the hope of our country.
	If you want revival, have revival.
	with yourself, have revival in your connection to God, and have a revival with your connection to your family.
	Take responsibility for that.
	Train your kids.
	When you look at what is happening around the world, it truly is amazing the fact that Christians, as we have it here, so easy, we still have Christians throughout the world that are being killed by different political groups, whether it's India, whether it's Africa, whether it's other Islamic countries as well.
	It's a silent genocide as African ISIS is beheading Christians while the U.S. funds Christian destruction elsewhere.
	They said it's like 20 Nine-Eleven or 50 October the 7th.
	That's approximately how many Christians have been murdered by Islamic jihadists in Africa.
	This is the new American covering it.
	You don't see these kind of stories covered by American media.
	They don't care.
	The silent genocide, as one ex-U.S.
	diplomat puts it, is still ongoing, too.
	And it's a genocide, why?
	Because they want to get the Christians out of the area, just as they did in Armenia.
	They want the Christians out so they can take it over.
	Same thing is happening in Israel with Gaza.
	ISIS' effort to establish a new caliphate there.
	Eurasian Christian communities are being destroyed elsewhere with Israeli arms funded by the United States.
	So, as he points out here, and I think this is an interesting point, unbeknownst to most Christians, Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa by the 400s AD.
	As a matter of fact, you look at Augustine was in North Africa.
	Christianity was dominant in North Africa.
	And then the Muslims came in 622.
	Muslim armies went swept across North Africa and has been Islamic since the 600s after the Muslims conquered it.
	But sub-Saharan Africa was basically open to Christianity even though their religion was a pagan religion of animism and things like that.
	But now ISIS terrorists are trying to move south into sub-Saharan Africa.
	They're beheading Christians, burning churches and homes in southern and central Africa.
	The attacks on Christians are increasing in the region.
	Four attacks on Christian villages in Mozambique with churches burned down and corpses of what the jihadists call infidels left strewn on the ground.
	But I wanted to focus on what is happening in Eurasia, northern Eurasia.
	We mentioned that.
	That's again in Azerbaijan that has been coming after Armenia.
	And Israel is arming Azerbaijan as they commit genocide against Christians in Armenia.
	How about that?
	It is illegal for America to arm them, but America can give the money and the weapons to Israel, and then Israel can sell it to the Muslims to commit genocide against Christians in Armenia.
	That's the way the system works.
	That's what they're partnering together for there.
	Political commentator Anna Kasparian asserted that Israel armed Azerbaijan to erase the Armenian people from Karabakh.
	She referenced the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
	Azerbaijan's decisive victory in 2023, the world saw scenes of mass exodus as Armenian Christians chose to burn down their homes rather than surrender them, ancient church buildings desecrated.
	and over one hundred thousand people fleeing under military pressure.
	Freedom House confirmed this is an ethnic cleansing enabled by Israeli supplied drones and surveillance tech.
	Here's where American policy becomes complicit.
	America sends Israel three point eight billion annually in military aid and spent eighteen billion dollars on aid to Israel the year following october twenty twenty three.
	Azerbaijan is such a bad actor that US law actually prohibits us from selling any arms to it.
	Israel, however, doesn't have any constraints.
	Evidently, no ethics either.
	Britain, which once spread Christianity to the very corners of the earth, police are now recently threatened to arrest a pastor after he was attacked by a Muslim mob.
	Hassan, he expounded on the differences between Christianity and Islam while holding a Quran.
	And I gotta say, I've said this before, we used to always love to go to a speaker's corner when we were in London.
	And it used to be the police would protect free speech because it was always about politics, but now they come after the Christians.
	Real quickly, I got behind here.
	Dustin Helm, thank you very much.
	Doug Alug and DG8, thank you so much for supportinging us.
	I appreciate that.
	And DG8 says, Prayers work.
	God is good.
	Yes, they do.
	And High Boost says, Hey, David, how come there's no emergency for the national debt?
	And Congress is no longer allowed to spend a dime until a balanced debt budget passed?
	Yes, absolutely true.
	Yeah, that is not an emergency for them.
	It's going to be an emergency in a couple of years, though they keep kicking this can down the road.
	It is building momentum and building in size, and it is going to be a big emergency.
	It's like those things, you know, how does it happen?
	Gradually then suddenly.
	I would say that's the same way as I was thinking after the stroke.
	How does one get old?
	I think gradually then suddenly.
	But this story of the debt and the ballooning debt is getting very old and it is going to come crashing down our heads.
	Well, thank you.
	That's all the time that we have today.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	Have a good day.
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	They created common core to dumb down our children.
	They created common past to track and control us.
	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
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