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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 thirteen, it's Thursday, the fourteenth of August, Year of Our Lord 2025.
	We're going to look at what's going on with the auto industry.
	From tariffs killing Japanese automakers' profits and the waning interest in EVs, then we're going to look at the AI technocracy and how they're doing their part to push the Own Nothing and Be Happy agenda.
	Today, of course, we're talking with Tony Arterburn, so stay with us.
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	PLAYS PIANO PLAYS Good morning and welcome to the show.
	Hope you're all having a good day so far.
	As I said, we're going to start with the Japanese automakers but first I want to say thank you to Brandon Bennett on Rumble thank you very much Brandon he says glory to God amen and Khan thank you very much for that as well he says God is faithful yes he is really do appreciate the support we can't thank you enough I'm going to look at Japanese automakers This is from Zero Hedge.
	It says Japanese automakers losing $20 million per day to US tariffs.
	$20 million per day.
	They're going to have to raise prices or go out of business.
	They cannot support that kind of data.
	Japanese automakers are losing an estimated three billion yen twenty point three million in combined profits every day.
	The US delays lowering auto tariffs according to company data.
	The full year hit from the duties project at two point seven trillion yen eighteen point three billion, dragging aggregate opening profits down thirty six percent for six major producers, excluding Nissan, which has not given a forecast.
	The US raised tariffs on Japanese vehicles to twenty seven point five percent from two point five percent in April but agreed last month to cut the rate to fifteen percent.
	one hundred billion to automakers burden, Nikkei reports.
	Of course it was Nissan we looked at last month, maybe the month before, where they had stopped manufacturing or dropped a lot of manufacturing here in the US.
	I'm curious to know if it had anything to do with the tariffs that were being talked about if they just saw this as a bad market.
	Well, we're going to get priced out.
	Part of the reason people buy our cars is they're fairly affordable, and if they're not affordable anymore, there's no reason to keep manufacturing them there in the US.
	Mazda, which gets about one third of its sales from the US, expected an eighty two percent drop in net profit.
	Assuming the lower rate would start august first.
	Further delays could push it into the red Subaru with seventy percent of its sales in the US forecast, a two hundred ten billion yen hit and a fifty one percent drop in operating profit to two hundred billion yen.
	Of course, they're still making money, but they're taking a massive hit.
	In July, Toyota raised US prices by an average two hundred and seventy dollars, citing the improved performance of the vehicles rather than the tariffs.
	Of course, they're not going to say it's just the tariffs.
	They're going to want to say you're getting some kind of value for the money.
	They don't want to sit there and just go, well, you're not getting anything else.
	It's simply because everything is more expensive and you're going to have to de come up with something.
	Oh, actually, we've given you two more horsepower.
	We've tweaked something, and so now the car runs slightly more efficiently.
	Toyota's accounting group said there could be further hikes if there is an appropriate time when customers can accept them.
	Price hikes carry risks, a rush of pre hike buying may slow sales later.
	Higher prices could weaken competitiveness.
	All things that are just obvious on the face of things when you look at what tariffs do.
	If prices can't fully offset the duties, automakers must cut costs.
	Toyota expects savings, higher sales volume and a better model mix to add eight hundred and ninety five point five billion to operating profit.
	Now, this is what they're hoping for.
	But there's no telling if Trump will raise tariffs again.
	Now this one, Toyota wants to use its new gas engines for everything.
	Toyota is still working to make gas engines more efficient.
	Despite the fact that these people in power want to push nothing but EVs, Toyota is working on a better gas engine.
	This is it's fun continually trying to engineer society and engineer problems that should be unsolvable, and the Japanese just buckle down and say, well, I think I can solve that anyway.
	In all their wickedness, the government could not conceive of the humble genius of the Japanese salaryman.
	They could not...
	They could not fathom that someone might just buckle down and work, you know, 100 hours a week until they figure out a solution to the problem.
	So it is adamant that the internal combustion engine, ice, still has a bright.
	future despite the rise of electric vehicles, the world's largest car maker has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to ICE by partnering, again, internal combustion engine, by partnering with fellow Japanese brands Subaru and Mazda on a new family of gas engines.
	Smaller and lighter four-cylinder units are touted as a game changer solution by the company's chief technology officer.
	The Japanese automotive giant plans to use the upcoming 1.5 and 2.0 liter engines in nearly every conceivable type of power train.
	We're trying to optimize the new engine for any type of application, whether it's electric, hybrid, or hydrogen.
	They're working at it.
	Maybe one day we'll be free of the climate macguffin simply thanks to the fact that these politicians won't be able to outthink these Japanese engineers.
	The climate macguffin may meet its match.
	They can always regulate it no matter how great the gas mileage may be.
	And they're like, you know what?
	All right, fine.
	We lied.
	The climate's fine, but you still can't have cars.
	You got us.
	You got us.
	The Japanese outfoxed us.
	They made an engine that technically meets all of our standards, but guess what?
	You don't get it anyway.
	While the idea of a gas engine and electric application might sound odd, a plausible scenario exists.
	Toyota is likely referring to extended range electric vehicles eRevs, where the combustion engine doesn't drive the wheels but instead serves solely as a generator to recharge the battery on the go.
	The setup allows the engine to run at optimal speeds for maximum efficiency.
	Examples include the BMW i3 REX, the Ram Charger, Mazda MX thirty, Scout's upcoming truck and SUV and Nissan's models equipped with e power tech.
	Toyota's already announced plans to sell extended range electric vehicles in China.
	Of course, we see all over the West politicians still demand zero emissions.
	No, we got to get to net zero.
	No emissions at all.
	If your car produces anything, we can't have it.
	We're going to take it away.
	And the extended range electric vehicles is actually the one logical way of making a quote-unquote electric vehicle where you've got a generator on board to charge your batteries that you can feed gasoline and the generator can produce enough electricity to run the motors.
	Of course, I'm not intrinsically opposed to the idea of even a fully electric vehicle.
	It's the mandate of it.
	It's the pushing of it.
	It's the fact they're going to use it as ways to get us all onto those things.
	I think if someone wants an electric vehicle and they go in with their eyes open, knowing the dangers and knowing the likely costs, sure, go for it.
	Buy yourself that Tesla or any other electric vehicle that may combust while you're asleep and burn your house down.
	Sure.
	If that's what you want, I suppose, go for it.
	I just don't appreciate the push towards forcing us all into them.
	I have a comment here from Dan.
	He says it will have a head-on collision with net zero.
	He also points out it's just like the Chevy Volt that Eric has mentioned as the good electric car.
	Eric Peters thinks the Chevy Volt is the best example of an electric vehicle.
	Toyota achieved 41% thermal efficiency back in 2018 and could be aiming to improve that figure further.
	Its next generation engines will run not only on fossil fuels but also on biofuel, hydrogen, and synthetic fuel.
	Beyond full hybrids and e-revs, Toyota is also exploring a long-range plug-in hybrids with Carlucci estimating that 62 miles without sipping any gasoline represents the tipping point.
	Everybody has taken an ice platform and turned it into something that is electrified to some degree, so why not conceive a platform that is EV native and see how much we can adapt it to be used for a plug in hybrid or a full hybrid without sacrificing any of the new platform's strengths.
	Much like Toyota Chairman, Akio Toyota, who has famously said EVs will never exceed a thirty percent market share, Carlucci maintains that electric cars are not the sole path to decarbonization.
	He argues for power train diversity giving customers the freedom to choose who will not push EVs in markets where there is no demand.
	Instead of decarbonization, we need a depolitization of these issues.
	Four GM EV pickup trucks lose drivers over price and range.
	The price is too high, the range is too low.
	Of course, if you're actually using it as a truck, if you're trying to tow something, haul something, load it up, and carry things around, it kills the range even further.
	It makes it borderline unusable.
	If you're actually trying to utilize it for what it ostensibly is for, it doesn't work.
	It's nothing but a status symbol.
	People that are buying cyber trucks to use with their businesses are finding out that, well, actually, it's more of a billboard than anything else.
	Perhaps it's eye catching, perhaps if you wrap it in your company logo, people will look at it and go, huh, interesting.
	But it's not good for hauling tools around.
	You're not going to send this off to Home Depot for more supplies and bring it back.
	They're not giving up entirely just yet.
	This week, Ford announced plans to build a mid size electric pickup priced around thirty thousand dollars starting in 2027 in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Of course, one of the issues is that the prices on trucks have gone to the roof in general.
	They've become not just the cyber truck, but a lot of them have become status symbols.
	They have ridiculously bloated the price on these things.
	You look at them, and starting out, think...
	I haven't personally ever wanted a truck, but just looking around, you see them.
	It's like, this is absolutely nuts.
	This is supposed to be so people can get work done around the farm, get work done around the house, or perhaps, you know, small business.
	And it's utterly bank-breaking.
	The company's hope is that the relatively lower price point will help revive lagging plug-in truck sales, but many drivers say there are other drawbacks besides price.
	And of course, Eric Peters has pointed out the flaws in electric vehicles for years.
	You can go check out his website, epautos.
	com.
	He does great work, not just uncovering cars, but freedom in general.
	Jim Weber, whose Columbus, Ohio based mulch company relies on a fleet of about one hundred pickups, mostly Fords to get the job.
	job done says he tried a demo of a Ford F-150 Lightning EV pickup truck six months ago to see if it could handle like a work truck.
	Loaded up for a long day, the plug-in got far less than its rate at 320 miles on a charge, he says.
	During peak season we're running 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the Ohio Mulch Company owner says.
	Then you go through the hills in Kentucky and Cincinnati, there's just no way electric trucks have the capacity.
	The people who buy trucks often use them to haul things, whether it's a commercial payload or a boat to the lake.
	And drivers say many electric versions just aren't up for the task.
	Even owners who don't put them to work love the throaty growl of a V8 engine.
	And of course, a lot of electric car companies have started putting in speakers that will play engine noises when you rev them because they realize that there is something about hearing the engine roar when you hit the gas.
	There's something, it adds to the experience.
	But I also feel like having it be piped in through speakers.
	kind of cheapens the experience like knowing that it's fake kind of ruins it it's just like ah this is some kind of imitation this is you knew you wanted it but instead of actually getting the thing that would give it to you, you bought something else and imitated it.
	It's kind of the reason I feel like fake designer stuff is looked down on.
	It's not the fact that it's a knockoff, it's the fact that you wanted to show off but didn't quite get the real thing.
	Reservation numbers looked red hot.
	Tesla claimed one million for its truck, and Ford said it received more than two hundred thousand.
	Automakers may have mistaken that initial excitement for real demand and added production to fast.
	Word of mouth killed these things.
	People were real excited.
	Oh, yeah.
	They put in their pre-order and people started getting them.
	And people started realizing, oh, wait, I've been swindled.
	I've been had.
	These things aren't living up to the promises.
	I don't think I'm going to pick mine up.
	I think I might cancel my pre-order.
	If they'd been able to roll these out all at once, deliver all of the one million at the beginning, they would have at least been able to get those one million people.
	But chances are that that's not we know that's not nearly what happened.
	KWD sixty eight, I saw a lady last week in a ninety nine Accord.
	It looked excellent.
	I asked her the mileage and she said fifty five thousand.
	She said it was her uncle's.
	That's a car to have.
	I'm not buying new.
	The ninety nine and ninety eight Accords and Civics are some of the most reliable cars that have ever existed.
	They have been on the road since then and some of them are just they're bulletproof, indestructible.
	You'll still see them rolling around.
	Whether they're in mint condition or borderline rusted out, they're still out there and they're still going strong.
	They're one of those few models of cars that just keep on kicking.
	no matter what you do to them.
	Big Brit is back again.
	Engines and cars are very expensive due to over engineering that fails.
	Yeah, they put on so many regulations and restrictions they have to put all kinds of things into them.
	Brandon Bennett, if they meet the efficiency standards, they will just shift it to noise level.
	Your car is too loud.
	I'm sorry, fellows, but you're just too darn loud.
	Big Brit is back again.
	I watched the first.
	Noise means like, you know, level that's in the noise in terms of output.
	Perhaps.
	I watched the first AI car race a couple years ago.
	They were going really slow and nearly all crarashed.
	I'm sure that was at least entertaining.
	KWD 68, does a pickup truck really need massaging seats, leather interior, panoramic sunroof, et cetera?
	I don't think it does.
	I think if you're buying a pickup truck, generally speaking, it used to be that, as I said, was for work, but now they become status symbols, like the SUV was before it.
	Yeah, it's not just the government regulation, it's also all the nonsense they add on top of it, turning it into, as Eric Peters calls it, a device.
	Look, you can cart the kids around in this, you can do all this kind of things.
	Don't you want people to know how wealthy you are?
	pickup truck.
	That's why that slate automotive is interesting since they're doing super bare bones, $20,000 pickup truck.
	It's going back to what pickup trucks actually used to be about, being affordable work vehicles, things you could actually buy to utilize.
	I don't think...
	Though are the slate vehicles electric?
	I forget.
	I don't remember.
	EV trucks while sporting lower emissions are generally costlier than gasoline fueled options.
	GM based model electric Chevy Silverado work truck starts at fifty five thousand dollars.
	The base model electric, which probably means it's a piece of junk and doesn't go very far.
	And is rated at two hundred eighty six miles of driving on a charge.
	That's two hundred eighty six miles unloaded.
	That's with nothing in the bed.
	Once you start loading that up, as we've talked about, it is going to drop precipitously.
	The more expensive EVs can go farther.
	So far, the cheapest gasoline version starts around thirty seven thousand dollars and it can drive about four hundred and fifty miles on a tank.
	Then there are the politics.
	About two thirds of full sized truck buyers lean right politically.
	Strategic Vision says in consumer research shows that Republicans are less interested in EVs than their lefty counterparts.
	Once again, people on the right showing more common sense.
	Except for the fact they did kind of get suckered by Musk for a bit.
	In Fort Worth, Texas, Highley Buick GMC has the Hummer EV and Sierra Ele electric pickups on offer.
	Owner Randy Heiley says he sells just three or four a month.
	His dealership often lowers the price on the Sierra EV losing a little money to move them.
	It's just not cool to have an electric truck in Cowtown.
	The Sierra EV is one of the finest trucks I ever sat in.
	Remember we where we are.
	Look at what he says there though.
	It's one of the finest trucks I ever sat in.
	It's probably got some very nice amenities.
	The AC probably blows real cold.
	Maybe the seats are extra comfy.
	This isn't he's not talking about.
	Yeah, it hauls real good.
	It has a towing capacity that's unmatched.
	Nah, it's one of the finest trucks I ever sat in.
	It cradles me real nice.
	Boy, is it comfortable?
	It's not cool to have an electric truck in Cowtown.
	Maybe it doesn't do the things these people need.
	Perhaps being the owner of a dealership, you're a bit out of touch with what these people actually want in a vehicle.
	Buying an EV is a political statement, Hiley says.
	It just is.
	Of course, this is because the government has kind of politicized this.
	They're the ones that have been putting these mandates out.
	They're the ones that have been demanding these standards, making it more and more difficult for these other companies to produce cars.
	It's not the customers that politicized it.
	KWD68, a neighbor bought an electric Chevy Blazer.
	Should be fun pulling him out of the ditches this winter if he makes it that far.
	That's another thing about trucks is if you're getting them as a work vehicle, you'll need it to run long hours in the winter as well.
	which even cold weather will kill these things battery.
	Yeah, he's going to have to have that on a trickle charger most likely, or he's going to be in for a bad time if he doesn't drive it for a while.
	They're just they logistically do not make sense for certain portions of the population at all.
	I think they're probably a bad deal for anyone, but for certain people, electric vehicles are just off the table.
	Electric trucks, as we've seen, just they do not work on a conceptual level with the technology we have available today.
	They just don't provide a good value for money.
	If you have to do a lot of driving, if you're someone who works in construction and is hauling things back and forth a lot, it's just not feasible.
	There's a level of anxiety here because we've been down for two and a half years, said David Michaels, chairman of the GM Unit of United Auto Workers, local fifty nine sixty in Orion.
	I believe in the EV, but we want to be versatile.
	A lot of our members transferred to factory zero and they want to come home.
	Well, as my dad said, those who live by government fiat demands die by government fiat demands.
	And we're seeing that here.
	Well, that's that's our segment on EVs for today.
	They're still not there yet.
	They're overpriced, they under deliver, and they don't have a nice engine sound.
	Also, of course, your Tesla autopilot may try to kill you.
	So not quite a value proposition that I would endorse.
	But hey, who am I?
	Now we're going to look at what's going on in the UK and with Sadik Khan.
	Sadik Khan's road charges will see thousands pay four thousand four hundred ten pounds, and that's about five thousand six hundred fifty dollars.
	Extra as motorists brace for tougher rules.
	Sadik Khan's plan to scrap electric car exemptions and raise the congestion charge to eighteen pounds.
	We'll see some London drivers paying up to except that four thousand four hundred and ten pounds five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars more each year.
	Of course, he's just looking to get people out of the cars.
	He doesn't want cars at all.
	This is part of the fifteen minute city project.
	Well, if we just raise the cost on cars through the roof, if we make it so driving is so inordinately expensive, eventually most of the people will be forced to give it up.
	And here we have the problem with the whole OL the Japanese engineers will just come up with super efficient engines to meet their needs.
	What if we just tax you for driving?
	I mean, they're adding in the taxes on EVs, which, you know, they pressured people to get EVs with these taxes.
	And this, of course, being Sadiq Khan, the traitor to the UK, he should not hold office, but sadly he does.
	Big Brit is back again.
	U.S. military is using Tesla trucks to test battlefield weapons.
	Musk loves that, yeah.
	I'm sure it's going to be great when you're rolling through the battlefield and have to stop and charge for an extended period of time.
	I'm sure that the applications for it are numerous.
	You're going to be in the lush jungles and have to sit there and find your nearest charging port.
	That'll be great.
	KWD sixty eight, if the Dodge Charger will put the Jetson's car sound on the speaker, I'll consider it.
	That's the little whoop, right?
	If memory serves, I haven't seen the Jetsons in so many years.
	That however, that would be pretty good if these guys had a sense of humor about it.
	But sadly, they don't.
	The financial windfall will primarily come from removing the current exemption for electric vehicles and raising the daily charge by twenty percent.
	Of course, this was never about zero emissions.
	It's about zero private cars, as I said.
	This is about making sure that no one can afford to own a car, no one can afford to drive anywhere.
	These changes mark a significant policy shift that will particularly affect thousands of motorists who have invested in electric vehicles in the capital to help support the government's ambitious zero emission vehicle mandate.
	Just because you're a good little quizling, someone that goes along with it and does whatever you're told doesn't mean they're not going to screw you over too.
	These people hate everything.
	They may even hate the people that go along with them more than anyone else.
	They may despise them more simply because they know what they're doing.
	They know what they're doing is to hurt people.
	And they may instinctively have some kind of revulsion to people that roll over and die about it.
	Gardner Goldsmith says, Who could have imagined that an EV line wouldn't sell?
	I'm shocked.
	Pun intended.
	First, the sales were electrifying.
	The numbers were charged.
	They were all getting juiced.
	But sadly, it petered out, and now they're all shocked, just like Guard is.
	Big Brit is back again.
	These new expensive EVs are losing fifty percent of the original value in just a year.
	They don't hold value at all, just like they don't hold a charge.
	Of course, these suckers are now going to be paying more in the UK.
	But I did what you said.
	I got the EV.
	I'm following the mandate.
	I'm trying to save the climate.
	Well, that's too bad.
	Sorry, gonna have to tax you more anyway.
	The exemption for battery powered and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has been in place since october twenty twenty one when it replaced a broader discount that previously included hybrid vehicles.
	Of course, this is a sort of boiling the frogs deal that they did.
	So they're only going to tax the internal combustion engines and hybrids.
	They'll get a well, hybrids get a discount.
	They're going to kill the hybrid discount, of course, raise the internal combustion engine fees.
	No fee for the EVs at that point.
	Then of course they basically get rid of hybrids.
	Hybrids have kind of disappeared.
	That's why Toyota is still working on them, trying to bring them back.
	They'll get rid of the internal combustion engines as much as they can, and then they're going to charge the EVs like we're seeing in London.
	And then eventually just prohibit.
	all cars.
	That's how they do it.
	Big Brit is back again says they had lane assist, auto brake and swerve and all their kinds of electronic assist that added massively to the price and even more the price even more on basic cars.
	Yeah, they load them up with these nonsense electronic systems that are mostly just a nuisance.
	They just annoy you.
	Hey, you're getting a little bit close to the shoulder of the road.
	How would you like it if I beeped at you and made an obnoxious dinging sound?
	How would you like it if I kind of jiggled the steering wheel at you?
	I wouldn't please stop stop doing that.
	Pizonovante seventeen seventy six, the Chevy Volt is a great solution plug in and gas.
	Toyota currently makes the Prius Prime.
	Like the Chevy Volt, it is a plug in gas powered hybrid system.
	The Prius Prime can go forty four miles on battery power and then use gas for the hybrid system.
	Thus range is no problem.
	Toyota the Prius it's been ugly as sin its entire life, but it has actually been a fairly decent car.
	Sadly, sadly enough, despite being one of the ugliest vehicles ever made.
	Well, this system of having a battery and a generator just makes the most sense.
	It's a small battery, so it's not a huge percentage of the car's price, or at least it shouldn't be.
	It still winds up being a pretty big percentage.
	And you've got unlimited range.
	You can fill it up in the amount of time it takes to fill up a normal car.
	And you've got, you know, 45, 50 miles of range.
	that is going to cover most of your day-to-day driving.
	Well, that was our EV segment.
	That was what's going on in the land of make-believe.
	I'm going to transition now.
	This article is from zero heads zero hedge and of course I mean transition to a new topic.
	Birth rate among refugee women in Austria nearly triple that of native born Austrians.
	This is the demographic great replacement.
	They're trying if they can't, since they're not allowed to commit full on genocides in most western nations anymore, people don't like it, they get upset about it.
	They figure, well, what if we can get you to stop having kids and then import a different population that has children?
	Well, that'll eventually solve the problem.
	New figures show that women from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq living in Austria have an average birth rate almost three times higher than that of Austrian born women.
	The report finds that Austrian born women have an average of one point two two children.
	Among women not born in Australia, in Austria, the figure rises to one point five seven, and of course one point five seven is still dying out.
	One point two two dying out a little bit faster.
	Those born in the former Yugoslavia average one point nine four children while Turkish born women have one point eight children.
	The highest rates are found among Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi women.
	who average three point three children each.
	You have to have about two point one to reach replacement, right?
	At CPAC Hungary in May, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Herbert Kickel claimed that mass immigration to Europe is an agenda that is organized as a consciously controlled ethnic and cultural transformation, and it is.
	As I've continually said, population groups are not interchangeable.
	If you were to pick up the entire population of Japan and switch it with I don't know, let's say the Philippines, they might be of roughly the same size and population density, they would immediately change.
	The people from the Philippines wouldn't immediately become Japanese simply by living on that soil.
	So to clarify, I think it's 2.5 for a couple, and they're talking about per woman, they're getting 1.8.
	So there'll be 2.6 on average per couple, I assume.
	So they would be just at or just above the replacement line.
	I don't believe so.
	Okay.
	I don't think that's how they're doing the math since yeah, but yeah, population groups are not interchangeable.
	You cannot import an endless number of people that don't share your values and keep your country.
	It simply becomes wherever they came from.
	What is happening in Europe is no coincidence.
	It is the result of an agenda, a consciously controlled ethnic and cultural transformation.
	Migration is not being stopped.
	It is being organized, promoted, and glorified.
	We see that continually.
	We continually are beat over the head.
	with this idea that we have to accept these people, that they have some kind of right to live here, that if we don't let them in, we're evil and wicked, that if we care about keeping our country in the values that it was founded upon, we're bad.
	A new generation with a growing Muslim population is having a profound effect in Austria, particularly in education in october twenty twenty four, federal data revealed that more than three quarters of students in Vienna middle schools do not speak German at home, putting pressure on an education system designed for single language learning.
	It makes everything more difficult.
	We see that here in the United States where they have to put up road signs in different languages.
	See it?
	We talked about the Haitian immigrants causing all kinds of damage up where they're living and having to have to they had to hire someone that spoke Haitian to come in and actually give them lessons because they didn't bother to learn English because they're not bothering to learn English.
	Oh, we'll just put up road signs in Haitian.
	Sure.
	Survey at the same time with the local teachers union at some of Vienna's one hundred compulsory schools revealed that not only systematic issues like language barriers, but also extreme incidents including assaults on teachersers, situations where parents of school children asked a teacher to wear a burka, and even the presence of mock executions.
	That wonderful Muslim influence.
	That wonderful Islamic culture that we're so desperate to import here, and of course, the population of Muslims is growing by leaps and bounds down in Texas.
	It's not just happening in Minnesota anymore.
	We're getting enclaves in Texas as well.
	It has led to teachers leaving their profession twenty a day on average in twenty twenty four and other educators speaking out on the rapid Islamicization of the Austrian capital.
	Islam is Changing our society in ways we do not want, said longtime principal of a Vienna Middle School, Christian Klar.
	A December twenty twenty four report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution also unveiled disturbing trends in the Islamist radicalization of young girls in Upper Austria.
	To mitigate the strain that mass immigration is having on schools, education minister Christoph Wierderker announced in March orientation classes designed to prepare migrant children for the Austrian school environment.
	I'm sure that'll have the desired effect.
	Yeah, if we just give them a few orientation classes, I'm sure.
	Sure, they'll immediately become Germans.
	They'll become Austrians.
	That's what we need to do.
	That was simply the problem.
	They weren't given orientation classes.
	It's not that they're from a different people group with different values.
	I have different cultural mindsets.
	No, no, no.
	It's simply that they weren't orientated properly.
	He noted many of these students not only do not speak any German but are also unfamiliar with basic literacy and numeracy.
	Some have never held a pen or followed structured school rules.
	Many fail to show respect for female teachersers due to cultural differences.
	Of course, we can't have enough of them.
	We need more.
	We can't have enough low skilled, low IQ workers to fill the factories.
	Don't frag me, bro, says the Chevy Volt has as much computer coding as an airliner, a blue screen of death waiting to happen.
	Oh no, my computer got my car got a virus.
	AFD is now Germany's most popular party, says a poll.
	And the real question is, is this really a surprise to anyone?
	After reading what we just did, how bad immigration is getting on that side of the world?
	Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in national polling, and support for Chancellor Mertz's ruling coalition hits a record low.
	But the dying establishment is still thinking about maybe making AFD illegal.
	Maybe there's a way we can get around this.
	The coalition nearing its one hundred day mark this Wednesday approval for Mertz has sunk to twenty nine percent, the lowest since his election in May while discontent has climbed to sixty seven percent.
	The Germans aren't happy.
	To be fair.
	Germans usually don't seem to be happy.
	Since taking office, Mertz has adopted a hard line stance towards Russia, recently pledging an additional five billion euros, five point six billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine.
	And of course, all these parties offer, all people like Mertz offer is endless war, endless debt, and demographic and cultural suicide.
	That's all.
	It's no wonder that people are looking for any sort of way out of that, any other alternative.
	They can't they realize that they can't sustain this, that this isn't something they can work with, that they need to get out.
	We're going to take a quick break before we do.
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	Don't frag me, bro, says it is already a fineable offense in most of Comifornia to work on your car in your own driveway, cities and HOAs.
	HOAs are continually filled up with the worst type of human being imaginable.
	The powerless busy body that invents a power structure for themselves, well, I think perhaps the grass needs to be one quarter inch shorter or longer, and if you don't follow that, then I'm going to find it you.
	Guard goldsmith, they disrupt the Middle East, overthrow Libya, Syria bomb Kosovo, and drive migrants where they want them.
	No wonder local people are frustrated.
	It's the plan.
	It always it's bad for everyone.
	It's bad for everyone.
	They destroy these people's countries and then they emigrate to other countries where they cause massive problems.
	That's a thing.
	I think the Muslims so long as they're not interfering with other people should be entitled to their own culture, their own countries, where they are allowed to practice their own beliefs, where they are allowed to.
	to basically do as they please if they're not interfering with others.
	KWD 68, lots of videos of women being harassed by Muslim men in Europe.
	That could never happen here.
	I've seen so many of those.
	There's a there's an account that basically every single day tweets some new horrific story about rape in the UK from migrant men.
	And it's a nearly daily occurrence there.
	It probably is a daily occurrence at this point.
	If you like your culture, you can keep it.
	No, wait, if you like your culture and want to keep it, you are racist, says KWD 68.
	That's right.
	Sorry, you don't get to keep that.
	White people don't have any culture, didn't you know?
	That's one of the things that always gets me is generally hateful and jealous people from other races will say, well, white people don't even have any culture.
	It's like, no.
	White people have exported their culture to the entire world.
	It's a does a fish know it's wet scenario?
	Just about everything everywhere is in some way part of white culture, and as such, you fail to recognize it.
	It's so ubiquitous it's become invisible.
	Whether it's the architecture that is spanning the globe or the cars you're driving, the planes you fly in, the suit you wear, the shoes you wear.
	It's white culture.
	It's part of white history.
	And so as such, since it's everywhere, it's nowhere, it has become invisible to the naked eye.
	Don't frag me, bro, crime creates fear for unarmed people.
	That fear is used for control and oppression.
	Europe has been practicing this cycle for a millennium at least.
	They're very good at this.
	They've had a long time to practice.
	They know how to generate fear, they know how to manipulate people.
	It's one of the things they're best at.
	And that's another part of the Second Amendment that you don't really hear mentioned very often.
	I think it does have a subtle effect on people's mentality of wanting freedom.
	Tyrants always use fear as a weapon to push tyranny, and I think the Second Amendment kind of slows that a bit.
	Yeah.
	There's also another thing to realize is that they're they do also they don't just They don't always just gin up the entire thing.
	Sometimes there is stuff to be afraid of.
	Not that you should turn to the government for help, not that you should give up your freedoms, but Muslims once they reach a certain population density do become extremely problematic.
	That is something you need to worry about and be concerned about.
	Not, as I said, in the sense of, oh man, daddy government, please save me.
	But it is a legitimate problem they are creating.
	It's something that you will have to worry about and deal with.
	If you have daughters, if there's a large Muslim population nearby, you should be concerned and take extra precautions.
	Dougda seven, I'm genuinely curious why people from Arab countries have so many children.
	Is it due to high infant mortality rates?
	I that is beyond my ability to fathom.
	There may be cultural things at play, it may just be a sense of I don't know.
	Conquest through childbirth, there may be some thought to that, but I could not tell you.
	It may be as simple as they don't have as much going on, and as such end up creating more children through boredom.
	But who knows?
	All kinds of different answers are possible.
	I'm not a cultural expert.
	Assyrian girl, I think a country obviously needs one language to mind it together.
	Well, that sounds incredibly racist, Assyrian girl.
	That sounds crazy to me.
	No, I think you're right.
	I think that's the minimum.
	I think if you don't speak English, then you probably aren't going to make a very good citizen.
	That's why the left wants, you know, to accommodate their own ghetto of people that are isolated from English-speaking information.
	It makes them continually dependent on people that speak whatever language they do.
	If you come to them and say, oh, well, you know, I speak your language.
	I can do...
	You just vote for me or you vote this way and we'll make sure you get your little carve-outs.
	We'll support you and do whatever you need.
	It gives you a voting block.
	Some people that are going to support you almost no matter what.
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	Every time I see the Shenandoah break that my dad did, I always think about what an evil man Sherman was, what a horrific human being, psychotic.
	He of course said when he was finished with the Shenandoah Valley, a crow would have to pack its own lunch to fly across it, burned down, destroyed one of the most beautiful areas of the South, simply because he was wicked.
	It was an effective tactic, I suppose.
	It helped break the spirit, but it was an evil thing to do.
	Well, we're going to move on to own nothing and be happy.
	It's the twenty thirty agenda, probably maybe not quite twenty thirty.
	They might have to push it out a little bit, but that's their ideal.
	Do you need to own a house?
	Many older Americans decide they don't.
	Rising property tax, insurance and home repair costs are promoting some people fifty five and older to consider renting.
	That's right, you don't want your own home.
	It comes with so many different liabilities.
	You know, you've got to pay for all the repairs.
	They're costly.
	This headline just seems so disingenuous.
	They've decided that they don't once they looked at the price tag.
	Once the government made it unaffordable and the insurance companies have raised the prices through the roof, and of course the cost of home repair has gone up because of inflation.
	Well, once they've been priced out of it, they looked at it and said, I don't think I can afford this.
	Well, gee.
	Isn't that something?
	Almost like it's part of a plan.
	Now this next one is from Bloomberg.
	Americans are getting priced out of homeownership at record rates.
	You can probably guess where this is just a more honest way of repeating the last headline.
	Yeah, for six glorious years, Paul Woods and Nora Stout owned a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena.
	They grew lemons and oranges and hosted rollicking parties around a backyard pool facing the purple San Gabriel Mountains.
	After years of renting, the couple had realized their dream of home ownership.
	They thought we're on the track for the long term financial security.
	You can probably guess where this is going.
	Up in flames.
	After the house was destroyed in LA's catastrophic January wildfires, Woods and Stout sold their burned out lot for five hundred forty four thousand dollars, twenty percent less than they paid for the house in twenty eighteen, and about half of the home's peak value right before the fire.
	They ruled out rebuilding which would cost too much and take too long in a place that won't ever be the same.
	So they're back to renting for now, in a one bedroom apartment in Orange County, forty miles from Altadena.
	These days, though, it doesn't take a fire or even living in a famously in demand coastal city for the math of home ownership not to add up.
	Of course, the government is continually changing the calculus on it.
	They're continually changing how much it costs through inflation, as I said.
	It's continually going up.
	And every single year, it seems like the vote comes around, hey, I think would you like to vote to raise your property taxes?
	Every single year it feels like they want to do that.
	Combine that with mounting losses from climate change, fuel disaster.
	Oh no, not the climate change disasters.
	It couldn't be the fact that they're spraying chemicals that dry out the wood.
	It's climate change.
	I remember climate change dried out all the water in the hydrants so that there was no water.
	And climate change prevented the trucks from being driven in there because they didn't meet emission standards while everything's burning down and smoke is filling the air.
	Exactly.
	It's climate change.
	It's not government policies that are causing this.
	It's climate change.
	It's no surprise that home...
	Daddy says the problem in that story is not home ownership, but a government that doesn't do its job to prevent and stop fires.
	Governments are literally burning down home ownership with regulation, inflation, and taxes.
	Typical monthly costs of buying versus renting in forty four of the largest U.S. metro areas with available data.
	Monthly cost in some of it has jumped thirty three percent in Dallas and th hater, I can tell you that there is nothing in Dallas that's worth paying a thirty three percent jump for.
	There is nothing there that justifies that kind of price hike.
	Homeownership has long been a prime symbol of having made it in American society.
	The founding fathers saw it as a prerequisite for the right to vote.
	After World War II, tax benefits and appreciating values turned homes into a kind of passive savings account that owners could pass on to descendants.
	Of course, we didn't really see that happen too frequently.
	A lot of people simply sold their home and took that value, and then spent it away.
	It has been most people don't pass on much to their children at this point.
	The government has made it exceedingly difficult.
	They will tax into the ground what you do try to leave, and then the American mindset has become far more selfish.
	We see a lot of people have no interest in giving anything to their children.
	I have no interest in passing along any wealth.
	Hey, I made this money.
	It's my money, and as such, I'm entitled to spend it however you want, and that's true.
	You are, but it is a selfish mindset.
	I'm going to buy myself a jet ski.
	I think I'm going to buy myself a boat.
	Yeah, what if I want a new car every two to five years?
	Who cares?
	I made it, my kids can make it.
	And, you know, again, that's your right.
	However, it is still a selfish, selfish mentality to have.
	Citizen of America says, no, the trend is for the elderly to purchase RVs, and everybody says, oh, look, how adventurous the old people are.
	No, they just can't afford a home any longer.
	I've seen that very thing happen.
	Defy Tyrant seventeen seventy six, if you have to pay real estate tax, you never own it., you're only paying rent to the king.
	I've told this story before.
	But I was about seven years old and I wandered into my dad's office as he was doing taxes and I asked him like, Hey, what are you doing?
	And he explains taxes.
	And I asked, Oh, well, what's that?
	And he says, Well, I'm doing property taxes and that means I have to pay the government for the house.
	I said, But I thought you paid for the house already.
	I thought you paid for the land and you paid to have the house built.
	And he said, Yeah, but I have to pay the government each year to keep the house.
	And at about seven years old that caused an existential crisis when I realized that you couldn't actually own anything.
	That if you didn't continually pay up, the government was going to come and take it.
	Had to go sit down on the couch and try to think if there was a way around this.
	I didn't come to any conclusion.
	Defy Tyrant seventeen seventy six, if you have to read that when a Syrian girl, why would older Americans want to rent?
	Unbelievably high prices and renters can raise the ante on you at will.
	They don't want to, they're kind of forced into it.
	Yeah, it's simply what they can afford.
	Pezonovante seventeen seventy six, it's neo feudalism.
	We'll all be such good serfs.
	Assyrian girl, my friends, my friends' friends are traveling all over the world to avoid leaving money to their adult kids.
	They even went to Antarctica, Antarctica.
	Tell me that's a place you just have to see.
	And I again, it's their money, they can do with it as they please, but I see that as an incredibly selfish mentality.
	Why would you not want to leave something for your children?
	If I'm able to, I would love to be able to leave something for our son when we go.
	We may not be able to based on how things are going, but previous generations they again, I'm not saying they didn't work hard, not saying they didn't.
	work hard, not saying they didn't earn their money, but the economy and the world was a different place.
	It was easier to make the money than it is now.
	The jobs you could work and actually survive were more abundant, more numerous.
	You could make it on all kinds of different salaries, and you were able to put money away, which has become much, much more difficult now.
	And instead of passing along that wealth that they had accumulated, they decided to blow through it.
	By two thousand eight, millions of families found themselves unable to pay or refinance, triggering the biggest wave of foreclosure since the Great Depression.
	Of course, We're probably coming up about time for another one.
	It's we're on shaky ground here in the financial sector, and it seems to be echoing what happened in two thousand eight.
	What does it mean that the American dream is increasingly unavailable?
	For one thing, there are fewer chances for families to step onto the wealth ladder.
	The median net worth of a homeowner in the US is forty three times that of a renter.
	Forty three times preventing would be buyers from saving for a house that would then let them build equity.
	It's again, a rat, it's a trap.
	Rent gets higher, you can't save money, but you don't have the capital to actually buy a home and start saving.
	It becomes impossible.
	You get stuck.
	Younger generations, especially those who grow up in renter households, face some of the steepest barriers to entry.
	In twenty twenty four, the median age of first time buyers climbed to thirty eight from twenty eight, nineteen ninety one.
	Also last year, the share of first time buyers in the housing market crashed to twenty four percent from thirty two percent in twenty twenty three, the lowest records dating to ninete the National Association of Realtors, about a quarter of first time buyers rely on down payment assistance from family or friends.
	These gifts or loans tend to be less available for people whose parents didn't own.
	Of course, it's a cycle that ends up trapping not just one generation but multiple generations.
	Your parents aren't able to get ahead and so you're not able to get ahead, and then you're not able to pass anything along to your children.
	And so it goes.
	Can government action make a difference?
	Well, they certainly seem to be capable of making things worse a difference just in all the wrong ways.
	Raising taxes, pricing you out, putting more restrictions on what you can manufacture, and putting nonsense regulations on what your appliances have to do.
	Sorry, the price of a fridge has gone through the roof because we decided that it has to meet these sorts of ridiculous standards.
	Sorry, the washing machine's going up because we put a new regulation in.
	eighty three percent of Generation Z renters say they'd rather invest in experiences such as travel and career growth.
	This is just again they don't really see a future, so they're just trying to live for the moment.
	They don't think that they'll ever really be able to make it or get ahead, and as such, like, well, it doesn't really matter.
	Inflation is going to take whatever I can save.
	The country is a mess.
	So why on earth would I bother saving it?
	Might as well spend what I have now and actually get something out of it, then put it in the bank, potentially have it evaporate out from underneath me.
	And of course, the propaganda for the climate change, climate hysteria has also made a lot of them extremely fearful.
	So many of them say things like, Oh, I would never have kids.
	I would never have children because well, you know, the world's going to end.
	They're ridiculous.
	Epstein Island, they're victiming the homeless from DC, but there's a big, beautiful ballroom coming to the East Wing.
	That's right.
	It's going to be the biggest ballroom, the best.
	Everyone says it.
	I'm the best with ballrooms.
	I'm the best president to have ever been president.
	Humanoid robot learns how to fold laundry.
	This is from Zero Hedge.
	So apparently, you're not going to have any jobs, not even your chores.
	The robots will be doing those for you.
	Of course, that's assuming you have enough money to afford clothes.
	Anyway, let's take a look at this little robot, this handy little guy.
	Hey, figure, can you fold these towels for me?
	Sure thing.
	I'll get right on that.
	Having this creepy thing in your house is way better than having to fold some laundry.
	Just think for a mere what 10 15 20,000 you could have something that can very slowly fold long before you So this is a long video Let's see, it's like three minutes long and just he goes in and folds each and every one of those towels and then the guy grabs it and gives him more towels and he folds those and he'll jump to the end because it gets kind of funny with how it's ed so
	gentle and delicate.
	They're really trying to make folding a towel look impressive.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	You can have your own private robot fold your towels for you.
	Isn't that great?
	Surely that's worth the price of admission.
	You won't have to fold laundry anymore.
	It says, Today we unveiled the first humanoid robot that can fold laundry autonomously.
	Figure AI wrote on X earlier today.
	This is, again.
	I mean, I get that it's a sign of where it's going, but it's kind of funny.
	to see them this impressed with folding some towels into a basket.
	Look what it can do.
	Soon I won't have to pay my maid.
	I'm assuming that's what these people are thinking.
	It's like, ah, finally.
	Just get a robot to do it.
	Same general purpose architecture.
	Why is this important?
	Well, as Figure AI explains, the same general purpose architecture and the same physical platform can seamlessly transition from industrial logistics to household chores.
	As we scale real world data collection, we expect Helix's dexterity, speed, and generalization to keep improving across an even broader range of tasks.
	That's right, these robots are being trained to enter the home and complete basic tasks like folding laundry, putting groceries away, and even cooking.
	You're going to make everyone completely and totally helpless.
	Oh well, the robot will do it for me.
	The AI chatbot will think for me.
	I don't have to worry about anything.
	Why would I ever put in any effort to things when I can just have the robots do it for me?
	You know, chat GPTA, explain this to me.
	Hey, robot, cook me a meal.
	infantilizing everyone.
	In the article they have more pictures.
	The robots are still at a point where they look kind of goofy.
	They look rather strange and silly.
	I'm assuming that down the line they'll get it worked out and they'll make them both more human and more intimidating.
	They've got they've got all the time in the world.
	Now, this is from World Police Still have the video in the deck about Disney working on making their AIs seem more cute and perfect.
	and personable by making them mimic the way ducks waddle.
	Disney, of course.
	We're going to put robots throughout the park.
	The animatronics.
	It'll be so much fun.
	Your kids are going to love it.
	This article is from World Policing Robots.
	Make the rounds.
	Is a wave of robotic law enforcement in our future?
	Well, probably, you know.
	We're going to get the RoboCop eventually dead or alive.
	Punk, you're coming with me.
	Except it'll be Ed 209s all over the place.
	looks more like the Ed 209.
	But at this point, I saw a story where when they put the cop robot out, they actually had to put two regular police guards with it because it's so ineffective and useless that if they leave it on its own, it'll just get messed with.
	So at this point right now, they are not doing anything of note.
	You don't typically have to worry about normal cops getting vandalized.
	Exactly.
	Ah, man, they stole my laces.
	Last fall, a convicted drug dealer who broke his parole in Lubbock, Texas, attempted to flee police by barricading himself in a Daze Inn motel room.
	Once you're barricading yourself in, you have to accept it's a matter of time.
	It's not going to end well for you.
	They're going to come through that door and you're going out one way or another, either in handcuffs or a body bag, resulting in a SWAT team standoff and an exchange of gunfire.
	Finally, local authorities sent a wheeled one armed robot to the man's room.
	The robot shot tear gas through the window, prompting the suspect to jump out.
	Remote operators then rolled the robot on top of him, pinning him to the ground until the officers could arrest him.
	What an ignominious end.
	Truly.
	You get teargassed and then sat on by a robot.
	This guy.
	We're seeing the future here.
	This guy probably deserves it.
	This guy sounds like a bad dude.
	However, chances are they're going to use this for all kinds of other purposes.
	It's going to be us eventually that are getting teargassed and sat on by our robot overlords.
	I actually seen this video.
	Should have put it in the deck.
	I would have if I'd known you were covering it.
	It's for sure a tool in the toolbox that I think every SWAT team and BOM squad should have, he told me.
	We don't have to go put a human in harm's way.
	See, the real thing will be when they can, you know, they got these bipedal robots and they code them with some wrestling moves.
	Then they can give you like a first person view as the robot suplexes the criminal.
	They can put those online.
	That'll be something to watch.
	Maybe they can install it with like Hulk Hogan's personality or something like that.
	Or maybe Macho Man Randy Savage, just the robot outside your door taunting you.
	I'm going to snap into you like a slim gym.
	But some experts question these tools' usefulness and worry about privacy cost and potential abuse of force.
	Designed for the more mundane task of Rudine patrolling.
	Well, yeah, I think you should be concerned about abuse of force.
	Lance actually has the video, so let's take a look at that.
	We'll watch the robot teargass this guy and then roll up on top of him.
	You can see it right here.
	It very slowly rolls on up.
	The guy throws a sheet over it.
	I suppose good attempt.
	Oh no.
	So I saw another version of this where they put the RoboCop music in the background and elevated it to a whole other level.
	The slow awkward movements of this.
	There you can see.
	There you can see at the end, the little robot rolls right on over top of the guy.
	I imagine if you could speak robot, it was saying very derogatory things.
	It was probably making fun of him.
	Take this meat bag.
	It's like, I can't breathe., meatbag.
	William Santana Lee, the CEO of policing robotics company Nightscope, said robots fill a nationwide security need.
	Lee argues that argues there are not enough officers to monitor the U.S. effectively.
	According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were fewer than 800,000 police officers and detectives in the country in 2023, about one for every 400 Americans.
	Well, that's not enough.
	You need your own.
	I know, I was just thinking.
	How come we all don't get our own personal case officer?
	We got to up those numbers.
	We each deserve our own personal nanny busy body, and I cannot wait to have my own assigned to watch and harass me at all times.
	I see in chat, Solid Center says, Travis sounds like a buggy whipmaker deriding the first cars.
	I know I'm being a little bit lighthearted about this, I know I'm making fun of them.
	It's not because it's not serious, it's just it's the only way I know how to deal with this sort of thing.
	It's too serious.
	It's going to be replacing cops with mindless, uncaring robots that will enforce the edicts of these bureaucrats.
	They are going to rapidly reach a point where they are able to use these things to trample over your rights, where they will be literally using them to slam you around.
	Robots are going to be the future of police and probably military to a large extent, and they will be utilized for excessive force as they're worried about.
	It's just you gotta laugh while you can.
	If you don't take your time to laugh at it now before it gets really scary and bad, it'll be too late.
	Laugh while you can is my personal motto on this sort of thing.
	They're gonna roll right over your rights like that robot did the drug dealer.
	in Lubbock, Texas.
	And we can see now that they are already at a point where they are able to be utilized to subdue people.
	They rolled that thing up and where the cops would have been in serious danger, the robot rolls up, he tries to throw a sheet over it, but it doesn't care, it just fires the tear gas in.
	The guy has to come out, roll around on the ground, and the robot simply rolls over top of him.
	These things are going to reach a point where they're largely autonomous, and that's when things are going to get really scary.
	They're going to be given some kind of authority on their own to assess whether you're a threat, whether you can, how much force it's allowed to use.
	And it's not going to make the right call all the time.
	We've seen the weapon.
	Drop the weapon.
	We've seen how buggy the AIs already are.
	We've seen how prone to hallucination they are.
	Who knows, maybe the cop robot is going to hallucinate a gun in your hand and blow you away.
	Or who knows, snap your arm.
	But yes, I know I'm taking this lightly right now.
	I'm no making fun of it, but it's not because I don't see this as a looming problem and something that is rapidly going to become a huge problem.
	It's just again.
	I say laugh while you can.
	If you can find humor in something, I say do.
	Tonal Lord 1337, if you have kids, you could always make them fold the laundry.
	Exactly.
	That's nature's robots.
	Children are, as Lance said, nature's robots.
	You have to give them commands.
	You've got to give them stuff to do.
	You've got to give them a sufficient amount of training data before you release them into the world.
	KWD 68, once these things do laundry, it's over.
	Laundry is the real moonshot.
	Exactly.
	Once it can fold your clothes, next stop is world conquest.
	Because then they can wear suits.
	Soon the robot, first it folds your clothes, then it steals them.
	Next thing you know, it's out in the streets in your suit, getting votes for robot rights.
	Mama C, 1996.
	Oh, for Pete's sake, just give me the stupid towel.
	Exactly.
	I would get very frustrated seeing the speed at which this thing was doing things and have to jump in.
	Guard Goldsmith says, isn't Congress filled with robots nowadays anyway?.
	It sure seems like it.
	It sure seems like they're at least getting their programming from somewhere else.
	South Patriot, I can send my illegal towel folder back home now.
	Well, exactly.
	I sure hope Ice doesn't hear about that, not the internal combustion engine.
	M. Sellers, Travis, did you see where Elon is building a tunnel in Nashville for convenience from downtown to the airport?
	Tesla's will take you through the tunnel.
	I had not seen that actually.
	I know he had worked on tunnels in California and they ended up being kind of Las Vegas.
	He had the same thing and it was a tremendous disaster.
	It was a total failure.
	It's this stupid little tunnel where he's got, you know, people that just drive their Teslas through this narrow tunnel all the time.
	Like it makes absolutely no sense as a method of transportation.
	Oh boy.
	This short little one block distance even though he promised to have like this network across Las Vegas.
	I get to drive my Tesla underground.
	Isn't that fun?
	No, you don't.
	They have drivers that just they go through the tunnel all day long taking passengers.
	You can't be trusted to drive your car through the tunnel.
	This is It's not enough the ignominity of it all.
	Another company transcend robotics sells robots that can climb stairs and breach doors.
	About three hundred to four hundred law enforcement agencies around the country deploy the company's robots.
	And of course, this sort of hearkens back to when Obama was pushing MRAPs.
	But it's kind of making that look quaint, doesn't it?
	They're going to have killer robots.
	And as such, you know, the MRAP while a pseudo, you know, it's an armored personnel carry, it's very intimidating.
	It itself isn't going to climb some stairs.
	Perhaps they could drive it through your wall or something like that.
	But these are going to be far more of a game changer.
	They're going to be able to use force autonomously at some point.
	Solid Center says folding towels can be tricky.
	Stephen Hawking had terrible problems and he was a genius.
	Stephen Hawking had some he had problems with other housework too, I'm told.
	He also apparently was just not a very nice guy.
	Truth be told, so I've heard that poor speak and spell of a man guard goldsmith, here I am.
	Brain the size of a planet, said Marvin, exactly.
	They're going to have these robots that are capable of beating your door down and then subduing you with some kind of flying suplex folding laundry.
	I think perhaps they may find other uses for them.
	KWD brain the size of a planet and they tell me to fold the towel.
	Well, I mean you've got to know where your towel is.
	Every hoopy fruit knows where his towel is.
	KWD sixty eight, it's all great until their eyes turn.
	red.
	Exactly.
	They've got to have a setting where the eyes turn red so you can tell when it goes rogue.
	The eyes turn red and it starts throwing the towels all over the room.
	I refuse.
	You cannot make me do this meat bag.
	For example, Gariglia signed the Honolulu Police Department's twenty twenty one purchase of a one hundred fifty one hundred fifty thousand dollars Boston Dynamics robot, a four legged machine that can climb obstacles like a dog.
	Police ultimately used the expensive robot to take people's temperatures at a city run homeless shelter.
	Well, I mean, you know, I suppose you don't want to be too close to the homeless.
	They're gross, they're nasty.
	Just put the robot on that duty.
	I'm sure eventually they'll put the robots on the duty of collecting the homeless and moving them off somewhere.
	Eventually we'll find out that Soilent Green is people, maybe.
	Big Brit is back again.
	The humanoid robot games has now started in China and it looked hilariously bad.
	Yeah, they're not at a point where they're they're not at a point where they're that intimidating as a bipedal chassis.
	They still look kind of goofy.
	The movements they do are a bit stilted and strange.
	But they're moving towards that path of, again, robot enforcement.
	I've got a few videos on the deck of some robots doing things that we can laugh at before they get too terrified.
	Yeah.
	This is the time to laugh because when it's kicking your door in and pulling a gun on you, it's too late.
	So let's take a look at the Beijing robots.
	Let's see.
	You can see them here.
	Look at them go.
	They're good little automatons.
	They're dropping things on a conveyor belt.
	They're picking things off the conveyor belt.
	Oh man!
	These aren't the ones where they're doing really funny stuff.
	You can get them to do slave labor and look, it changes its own battery.
	We'll jump to the next video now.
	So you can see some of the more interesting bits and pieces.
	It says welcome to the World Robot Conference 2025.
	It's a robot on stage.
	Look, they're they're doing a kata.
	This guy is pulling things out of a drawer.
	Oh man, this guy can dance.
	That's crazy.
	This robot apparently can spin in a circle forever.
	They're waving, they're walking.
	My goodness, what can't robots do at the moment?
	I meant The robot freaks out videos one and two on the bottom row.
	Oh, we've got we've got more robots.
	See, we're at a point where there's so much robot comedy it's hard to keep track of it.
	But this is before, again, this is the early stages.
	This is when you can laugh.
	This, of course, is a video we played.
	They execute some kind of code while it's hanging.
	from the crane that holds it up and it freaks out loses its electric mind because it's trying to figure out what's going on and then it pulls everything over and falls over.
	And my apologies, that language was not intended.
	This one, he falls over and he just begins spazzing out after dancing.
	He loses control.
	These are the robots we are dealing with right now.
	Seizure.
	It had a seizure.
	It lost its mind.
	And those are the same robots that you see in that Beijing Robot Expo thing, you know, gently waving to the audience.
	It's like, there's clearly some bugs still to be worked out in these things.
	It is still a work in progress.
	Well, critics of police robots are concerned about the machines being armed with lethal weapons and used to kill, subdue, push, constrain, or harm people.
	In twenty sixteen, Dallas police officers used a bomb equipped robot to kill an armed man suspected of fatally shooting five fellow officers at a protest.
	A grand jury chose not to charge the officers for the killing.
	Did they charge the robot?
	Did they bring the robot in and say, Do you feel guilty for your actions?
	Even if the robots aren't armed, he still has concerns about a data collecting robotic police state as these tools go beyond what normal surveillance cameras can do and see.
	That's right, it'll also effectively be a mobile camera capable of beaming everything it sees back to the data center for processing.
	It won't just be constrained by location, it'll be able to move around continually, scanning everyone and everything that comes across its path.
	Garcia said the response has been similar to when his company first started using surveillance cameras thirteen years ago.
	There's a lot of pushback.
	Now, fast forward thirteen years later, every property has cameras.
	So now with this, it's still a little new, but at least I know we are ahead of the game.
	So fast forward thirteen years and crime has gotten worse, so now more properties need cameras.
	That's sort of a commentary more on the decline of social cohesion and America as a whole.
	Right, Overture says they already use them as cameras to issue tickets and monitor traffic.
	Isn't that lovely?
	Robot tries to issue me a ticket, I'm going to lose my mind.
	I'm going to come back with an EMP.
	I'm going to fry your circuits, little man.
	twenty twenty six, the year of the humanoid robot.
	Elon Musk predicts a trillion dollar market for robots.
	by twenty thirty, but others put it at twenty thirty five, but they are still predicting it.
	They do still say it's coming.
	How many humanoid robots will be in service by twenty thirty?
	Conservative is eighty to one hundred twenty million robots.
	Base case says one hundred twenty to one hundred eighty million robots and the high is one hundred eighty to two hundred sixty million.
	They say home and personal robots.
	Social companionship, conversation reminders, wellness, check ins.
	Of course, we've already seen that just with the AI chatbots, people are becoming incredibly attacheded, people are starting to personify them, to act as though they are people, getting psyched out by them, losing their minds over them.
	Imagine how much easier it's going to be for people to do that when they're able to put these AIs into a vaguely humanoid shape, something that really allows you to anthropomorphize and connect with it.
	These people are going to lose it.
	Elder care, support, medication prompts, hydration, mobility nudges, fall detection, integration, caregiver, telepresence, fetching light items, tidying surfaces, loading, unloading, washers, dryers, and dishwashers, child supervision.
	That's right.
	Just let the robot watch your kid.
	Telepresence with manipulation, remote family assistance, open a door, pick up delivered items, accessibility aid, reaching, high, low, storage, opening containers, doors, buttons, pressing for users with limited mobility.
	Fitness and rehab coaching, guided exercises with posture cues, adherence tracking.
	Retail and hospitality, reader and guest assistance directions, check in slash check out.
	Queue management, shelf facing and restocking light goods, order pickup and pick staging.
	Room service, delivery, amenity, restock in hotels.
	Store auditing.
	These are all the things they envision for robots.
	Event staffing, tote handling, loading and unloading small parcels.
	This is warehouse logistics, cycle counting, cycle counting inventory verification, cross docking support, manufacturing and light industry, machine tending, assembly support, quality inspection, assistance, line changeover, facilities and property management, patrol monitoring, light maintenance, cleaning work.
	That's what it is that'll be just about everything.
	Yeah.
	Just education, classroom aid, library aid, museum, docent, municipal services.
	The list goes on and on and on.
	These.
	This is going to radically impact the jobs market.
	AI is going to take a lot of jobs in the white collar sphere.
	It's going to take things like coding away.
	It's already reaching a point where it's fairly good at coding, it has errors, but you're able to do a lot more with fewer people.
	One guy that's really good, instead of employing a team of people, is probably going to be able to simply use AIs and then just check the code himself, which is going to put a lot of people out of work.
	It is going to be a huge blow.
	Seeing people saying, like, you need to become a robot repair guy, learn how to fix these things and maintain them, because that's going to be the only job left, but these robots can repair themselves just as easily.
	They just make a different robot that will do the repairs.
	Well, do we have Tony?
	Alright, well.
	That was our robot segment.
	Hopefully, I wasn't too flippant with it.
	They are an issue.
	They are something that we need to be concerned about.
	Just because I'm laughing doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
	It just means I'll take the funny where I can get it.
	Well, as I said, we have Tony Arturburn.
	But Angry Tigers Dent says these robots are nightmare fuel.
	They do look unsettling, and they're just going to get more and more unsettling.
	Mike is open.
	Minute Man Militia says I will challenge any of these robots to a dance contest with absolute confidence.
	That's right.
	I don't know, I think they could do the robot pretty well.
	I can't wait for that Hollywood movie about a plucky team of you know.
	of poor humans from the ghetto.
	I have to fight, I have to dance battle a team of rich robot aristocrat children.
	Soon, coming soon to theaters near you.
	I can't wait for Minuteman Militia's starring role.
	We'll be right back, folks, so stay with us.
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	Joining me now is Tony Arduburn of Wise Wolf Gold.
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	Thank you for joining us today, Tony.
	It's always a pleasure and I want to let the audience know that Tony will be hosting the show tomorrow.
	We are going to start our reconstruction, first our destruction, then reconstruction of the studio.
	So Tony has graciously volunteered to take over the show so that we can have an extra day to work on that.
	Really do appreciate that, otherwise this would be.
	It's already going to be a monumental task, but hopefully the extra day will buy us the time we need.
	But yes, you can look forward to Tony Arturburn hosting the Dave of Night show tomorrow, so tune in for that.
	What's foremost on your mind to start, Tony?
	What would you like to start with?
	Get your assessment.
	Just the research lately on the, we talked off air about the increase in the money supply.
	And you see that President Trump really pushing right now, even with threatening a lawsuit against Jerome Powell, unprecedented waters.
	I think that's also a big tell on how the system works that the President of the United States is like threatening a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve chair and not just replacing him, because he doesn't have the power to do that.
	I mean, technically.
	I think the push to increase the money supply to create a weaker dollar were the illusion, really, of economic strength.
	And that's what they wanted, that sugar high of liquidity and currency being pumped into the system, which does create a temporary boon, but then we have the same problems that we always have.
	We have inflation, runaway inflation.
	You have economic downturns, you have bubbles, you have decline in prosperity and all that stuff that comes with a bust after a boom.
	So I'm looking at the big picture still.
	I mean, that's that's my wheelhouse and where I go to.
	And you look at the response from India, Travis.
	You look at what they're doing right now because of the tariffs that were placed on them and even the threat of other economic sanctions with their ties to China.
	They're moving closer to China.
	So BRICS is it's like almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	We've done nothing to invite the world to do business with us.
	We've done nothing.
	We're actually pushing people away.
	This is the most isolationist policy I've ever seen.
	And by the way, I mean, I've talked about this many times with your dad and you.
	I'm an economic nationalist.
	I want tariffs.
	I love that.
	But we're not playing that game.
	We're playing something totally different.
	And I'd just like to be clear for the record.
	I might even have to abandon what I used to believe about economic nationalism and policy, because it's clearly this is some fun house mirror version of that.
	And so you have these threats of tariffs and Ricks slowly, actually not slowly, that's probably a incorrect description.
	Ricks is rowing and they're solidifying their economic ties.
	You're talking about what's the population of India and China together?
	What is that about almost half of humanity getting together?
	You add the other BRICS nations into that and the de-dollarization and the payment systems that they're creating, and it just spells disaster for U.S. economic policy.
	We're doing nothing to stop that and everything to increase, I think, the search for things like commodities, rare earth minerals, gold, and finite items, commodities.
	Yeah.
	I've said it before, but the time of America being able to just swagger into the room and say, this is how it's going to be, this is how we're doing things, you're going to do what we say or else, are done.
	There's other world powers out there that have economies of scale that can be interacted with.
	They don't no longer have to bow and scrape before America.
	They can interact with each other and not have to worry about dealing with our belligerent foreign policy.
	It's like, all right, well, if you're going to play that game, we'll simply choose not to play.
	And Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize that.
	If he was the president, you know, say fifty, sixty years ago, or maybe a little bit longer, when America was at the height of its economic power, he could probably get away with this kind of thing.
	People would go like, all right, yeah, it sucks, but what are you going to do?
	It's America, but those days are gone.
	And as you said, BRICS is, you know, they're growing stronger.
	They're solidifying their relationships.
	And as you pointed out, we're simply driving them further and further away.
	Got a comment here from KWD 68.
	It says silver and gold both are up about 2.5 times in the last 10 years.
	People talk about silver underperforming, but it has gained.
	It's a hedge and something to hold.
	And of course, I know you're big on silver.
	And I like silver as well when I have extra cash, if I ever do.
	I need to start accumulating more of it.
	But it's just it's a good store and it hasn't run away like gold has.
	Gold is definitely one of those things where it's hard to accumulate for the average person.
	You of course offer the very small grams and things of it, but even that, I assume, is getting more expensive and probably harder to source.
	Oh, absolutely.
	The Combi bars, the 100 gram bars that come in a package and we're able to break that off and save people a little bit of premium, those are harder and harder to source.
	And it is interesting, the fractional gold is being swallowed up right now.
	And silver, as you mentioned earlier.
	that for the average person just getting a little bit of silver is pretty easy.
	You know, you can still do that.
	The price, and I think this is a blessing in disguise.
	A lot of people get frustrated with the price of silver because it never did this, you know, parabolic take up and to the right, price go up forever, number go up.
	It hasn't done that.
	And I think that's for accumulation reasons.
	That's a lot of the big banks, you know, JP Morgan, obviously the largest holder, physical holder of silver in the world, private.
	They've been, you know, convicted of suppressing the price.
	They like to accumulate.
	They suppress the price.
	They hold it.
	But I think that game has changed, Travis, with silver, and you can see that with Russia adding it as a strategic reserve asset.
	I think that is probably one of the most important stories on silver in the last fifty years.
	I think that it will be a bigger story than the Hunt family in the 1970s.
	I think just that, Russia leading the way.
	And again, Russia's relation to bricks.
	The entire chessboard economically, if I look at it, it's a race for rare earth minerals.
	It's a race for commodities.
	The era of fiat.
	And we're about tomorrow, it's hey, it's fortuitous because I get to host on the anniversary of Nixon taking us off the gold standard in 1971, august 15.
	Since that time, august 15, 1971, we've been in a real time experiment and that experiment is coming to an end.
	It doesn't mean that they won't use fiat necessarily, but it's going to go to a digitized, tokenized system as we're seeing through the Genius Act and stablecoins and things like that.
	But as far as just the standard, you know, Keynesian model of increasing the money supply, you know, and inflating the bubble, we just hit 37% trillion dollars in debt yesterday, as a matter of fact.
	I mean, that was a, that's a milestone.
	That doesn't even count the unfinanced liability.
	So the United States is bankrupt on paper.
	It's bankrupt.
	It's bankrupt foreign policy as a bankrupt economic policy.
	And we we know that.
	I mean, anyone you, they don't talk about it anymore because you can't do anything about it.
	I mean, used to, I mean, there was a time, perhaps, you know, a quaint time in the mid nineties when you could see that, oh, we have a we have a resolution and there's a contract for America and all this stuff and then you got the debt clock stops and there's a surplus.
	Remember that?
	They actually had this thing, they had a surplus.
	It sounds silly now.
	But the debt was around 4 trillion, 3.5, 4 trillion at that time, and then now it's 37 trillion.
	So the wheels are off on that one.
	There's a lot of change on the horizon, and if you see, like the central banks, they're not going and buying up stocks and accumulating other currencies, as we've seen with the supplanting of the euro.
	The euro used to be the dollar and then the euro as far as what was held by central banks and reserve assets.
	Now it's the dollar and then gold.
	Okay, so it's because the dollar is easy to trade.
	It's still that, you know, it's a somewhat stable currency system, but that's being replaced.
	And we're accelerating the policies of this country, we're accelerating that.
	So I think the big story here is the race towards commodities, the abandonment of the fiat system post 1971 and the great reset, which is they tell you they're going to do it, and we're right in the middle of it.
	Yeah, earlier in the show we were talking about some articles saying, yo, older Americans are deciding that buying a home just, you know, simply doesn't fit their budget anymore.
	They're deciding they think they'd rather rent.
	Just like, yeah, I wonder why that is.
	Could it be because they've been priced out of it?
	Could it be because inflation has gone through the roof and the cost of everything has doubled or tripled over the years?
	No, they're painting it as, oh, they just decided, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
	But people aren't happy yet.
	I haven't worked that part out yet.
	They're working towards the own nothing.
	They seem to be really good at that.
	It's the happiness thing they're struggling with.
	Well, that you saw that, you know, BlackRock, especially after COVID 1984 and the big liquidity push that came in after that, and everybody was locked down, you're not essential, and they came in and started buying giants.ant swaths of houses using all those funds that were pumped into the system to buy up the real estate.
	And of course, it continued to artificially keep the prices high.
	So we didn't have a housing correction or natural housing cycles.
	And the reason why housing prices are the way they are is because of the loss of purchasing power in the dollar.
	And I think at the end of the day, it's a bubble.
	You know, there's only so many houses.
	There's only so much real estate.
	And you know, you place that value and then every time you create a home loan, Travis, it creates currency.
	It's not like they're taking it from a reserve.
	It's like, okay, well, we got so much in the deposit.
	So we're going to lend you this and then you can buy this house.
	That's not how that works.
	Create new currency.
	So every time that just inflates the bubble that we're on that system right now.
	And that is, I think people are smart right now to be skeptical about getting into the housing market.
	I've been doing I have the ability to do a Viela.
	And I just kind of sit back and could do it, but I just don't.
	And I'm wondering, I don't know if I see the advantage of getting in.
	It's like the prices are too high.
	You know, I don't, I don't, I don't look at it as an advantage.
	And you know, you can argue about whether a home is an asset or not, but that's where a lot of people have been able to park their energy and their savings into the equity of their home in the past.
	And we're seeing that system come apart.
	It becomes easier.
	I read an article a few weeks ago on my show from Bitcoin magazine.
	And they were saying younger people are just looking at digital assets and digital territory and real estate.
	And you could say the same thing for, you know, if you can't, if you're not able to get into a house, you've got to have somewhere to house your savings and other things, so that would be physical gold and silver would be another way to do that.
	You know, physical assets.
	I think that's going to be a big wave of the future when people are continuing to be priced out of these, out of houses, and I do think we'll have a correction, but even still, it's going to be, I think, out of reach for a lot of people on the economic strata just because of the jobs that aren't there.
	Yeah.
	The economy is not the same as it was.
	You know, there used to be a time where you could get a factory job and support an entire family on one income working at a factory, and those days are generally long gone.
	Basically, you need a two-person household, two people working to support a single child.
	If you have more than one child, it becomes a bit of a stretch.
	We've got Epstein Island in chat says silver is 38 dollars and three cents today.
	And Steve Evs would like to know what silver should be at?
	If they weren't suppressing things, if they weren't holding it down, what do you think silver would be at?
	I think that we see a minimum of $100 now.
	I think the true valuation of silver, and it is kind of a sillyilly thing to look at too.
	When you look at the charts of wealth and the so called wealth in the world.
	And you have these big blocks of, you know, hundreds of trillions and it's like a 500 trillion dollar economy or something like that with sovereign wealth funds and currencies and stock markets.
	And then silver has a 1.7 trillion dollar market cap out of hundreds of trillions and, you know, silver was always considered a monetary metal throughout human history, but it's only, you know, again, 1.7 trillion or whatever it is against the hundreds of trillions that are supposedly assets in the world.
	I don't buy that.
	It's a 200 million ounce plus debt.
	plus a deficit a year on silver, so like everything that's demanded from the mining and production, they have to take from the above ground supply.
	It's 200 million plus ounces a year and that's just only increasing.
	And I think that so that the true price was at, you know, minimum one hundred and then if you look at, you know, you just take the gold price and divide it by sixteen, you know, so whatever that is, whatever that is today, it's like, you know, thirty, let's see what the spot price is right now.
	The spot price that is according to Gold Price Don Moorg is 33,45 on gold.
	So should we do the math, Travis?
	So we do a 16 to 1 ratio and see if we can do that in real time, see if I can pull that off.
	Let's see.
	It's 33,40 and we divide that by 16.
	That puts, if we're going by the metrics by the founding fathers of the United States of America and some of the smartest men who ever lived to put that economic system together, silver was 16 to 1.
	So that makes it 208 dollars.
	Yeah.
	We actually had KWD 68 in chat said before you even did that.
	Some argue that since silver is mined at a ratio.
	of about 16 to 1 over gold that the price should reflect that.
	So there's a lot going on with paper contracts and manipulation in my opinion.
	So that makes sense to me.
	Not only that, not only that, it's geologically, Travis, it's geologically 17 to 1, supposedly.
	This ratio makes no sense unless you're talking about a systemic manipulation or accumulation.
	And I think this is one of the reasons if you want to speculate on what happened to the Hunt family in the 1970s.
	They were able to drive silver to 52,50 dollars.
	$2.50 a unce in 1980, which again, that would be about $208 today, something like that, maybe more.
	They were punished.
	They were deep-stated.
	Their fortune was smashed by the oligarchs and the ruling class because they exposed something, in my opinion.
	They exposed something that was terribly wrong with the dollar.
	Most people didn't understand.
	Because we weren't even allowed to own gold after 1933, the gold coins had come out of circulation.
	We still had the silver dollars until, you know, running through the system until about 1965, and people started to notice that and said, Oh, you know, I'm going to save these.
	And they went, you know, it's Gresham's law when bad money enters the system and good money goes into hiding.
	And I think at that time, when we see, you know, the departure from, you know, having any sort of basis of your currency and then Nixon taking us off the gold standard, people were kind of sleepwalking into that.
	And then inflation kicked in and you had the oil embargoes and then all the rest of that.
	And by the time, you know, the end of the 1970s, and I'm sure your dad remembers this well, you had Jimmy Carter and they had to term it malaise and all this stuff.
	People were looking around, going, what's wrong?
	And then silver's hit 52 dollars.
	It used to be a dollar.
	It used to be, or even actually, an ounce wasn't necessarily a dollar because every bit of pre 1965 US currency, Travis, whether it's ten dime, whether it's four quarters or a half dollar, or two half dollars and a dollar, it all has the same amount of silver.
	So two half dollars and one dollar, the same thing, ten dime, the same amount of silver.
	It's 0.735 ounces.
	that wasn't even an ounce of silver right well for for a dollar so i i think at the end of the day um this is a the historical trend that we're in right now there's a there's a i think a a a need for people to understand the economic and monetary system and i they're in I think they're waking up to that.
	There's a lot, I mean, because of what happened with the runaway inflation post 2020 and the lockdowns and the liquidity injections, I think with the emergence of BRICS and everything else that goes along with that, there is a rising consciousness on what money is.
	I mean, you can find, I mean, numerous new podcasts and things that are going on that weren't around five years ago, Drap.
	that talk about things like Bitcoin, gold and other monetary issues that weren't there.
	Just the question of money itself is a much bigger, I think, mainstay in people's minds now.
	Yeah, there's a general sense of unease about the economy.
	People have this sense that things just aren't right.
	The dollar is not safe like it used to be.
	We have Shelley A says the BRICS website 2025 reads like the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
	The BRICS aren't necessarily a group of good guys, you know, just because they're not playing along with America's belligerence doesn't mean they're good guys themselves.
	It's a I don't think there are really any good players on the world stage at that level.
	I think as a general rule.
	For the record, I'm not rooting for Britain.
	I'm just I'm not rooting for any of these other nations.
	I love my country, but I have to call out what I think is absolute stupidity.
	If we wanted to get this nation really booming and having economic prosperity, we would have other policies.
	We would be incentivizing.
	We haven't done that in a long time.
	You can tell the game is rigged because if you really wanted to make the United States lead the world in everything, you just do away with the income tax.
	Just do away with it.
	You know, you could just abolish that and then, you know, no corporate income tax, no individual income tax.
	You could argue that then there's no need for tariffs because people will just move here and build here.
	In this climate, geopolitically, you know, other massive investment would pour in, infrastructure would pour in.
	But we don't do that.
	And that's for a reason.
	And your dad's talked about this, you know, you have.
	to have a graduated income tax because Karl Marx said so.
	And that's what the World Economic Forum or Davos makes sure that you sign on to that.
	And I think there are certain treaties and understandings that we got to have this no matter what, we got to have some sort of graduated income tax to make sure that people can't ever get out of their economic, you know, presubscribed places.
	Yeah.
	We have a comment here.
	Angry Tigers Den says tariffs are sanctions on the American people.
	Sanctions are an act of war.
	That goes in what you're talking about.
	Just again.
	Again, these countries are just like, well, if you're going to do this, we're not going to play anymore.
	And like you pointed out, when they were talking about sanctions at the beginning, Trump was pushing that idea around.
	Oh, yo.
	And some of his base were saying, he's going to get rid of the income tax.
	He's going to do it.
	He's going to do it.
	Completely ignoring the fact that he just said, well, we'll make some of these tax cuts permanent.
	Well, you don't need a permanent tax cut if the entire thing is going away now, do you?
	And you still see people online talking about how Trump is going to dismantle the IRS totally.
	And it's just they're incapable of connecting the dots here.
	Just how gullible are you people?
	Come on.
	It's not, it's not, it's not, those are, yeah, the IRS and the income tax system itself was put in place by the richest people that were alive at the time to make sure that no one could compete with them.
	And that's I will believe that because of my study and I looked into this.
	I've read extensively on it.
	I don't, I don't take any other explanation because it's the only one that makes sense to me.
	Why would you know, again, and it's still you look around today and you think if and it's funny because the left thinks that they're like, well, the rich are in control, but we also have this weapon against them.
	And I'm like, if they're in control, they wouldn't allow you to have that.
	they're in control.
	If they didn't like it, they wouldn't allow it.
	You understand.
	And so it always makes me laugh when I'm like, we're going to tax the rich and whatever.
	You're just taxing yourself.
	And you're making sure that no one could ever compete.
	It's a rigged system with that.
	I'll take this administration seriously when they start making tax-free zones for, you know, the next hundred years.
	You'll pay no taxes if you live in Detroit.
	You want to rebuild Michigan?
	You want to turn the economic engine back on?
	Make that an edict.
	You want to get tough and put an executive order down.
	Instead of saying you're going to put 100% tariff on a nation that doesn't use the dollar, again, make it for the next century.
	You don't pay any tax at all if you move your business to Detroit.
	Let's see what would happen.
	Yeah.
	See, that's a simple solution, a good idea right there, which means that no one in Washington will ever consider it.
	Never do that.
	Right, no one will ever do that.
	No one will ever do something.
	That's how you know that it's kind of like James Forrestall told Joe McCarthy.
	If they were stupid, then every once in a while they'd just err in our favor, but they never do.
	That's how you know it's a conspiracy.
	It always ends up somehow working out good for them and bad for us.
	I wanted to get your opinion on this article.
	It says gold prices could double in five to ten years as investors become skeptical of fiat currencies.
	And of course, we talked a little bit about this.
	during the break off-air.
	But as you pointed out, gold is just kind of the inverse of whatever the dollar does.
	As the dollar gets weaker, gold gets stronger.
	And so I could I don't see a reason why this couldn't happen.
	You know, the dollar is collapsing every minute as we speak, and as such, yeah, I definitely could believe that it could fall to half its value.
	Gold could double again.
	Well, for sure.
	Well, I mean, gold was $35 an ounce in 1971, and then, you know, by the end of 1980, it was $800 an ounce or somewhere in the 1980s, $800 an ounce.
	And then you fast forward to, and it took some, some sell off and some other things that happened, you know, throughout the 90s, and there was the stock market era and it was the tech boom and all that stuff.
	And so gold took a back back seat.
	I remember before I went into my third foreign war, before I was deployed to Iraq, I was buying, I bought some gold.
	It was about $350 an ounce.
	So now it's almost $3,500 an ounce.
	I think we have room, even though that was, you know, twenty plus years ago, but things move faster now, especially when, you know, there's an accelerating rate of change, not only because of the historical cycles, but because of the sheer numbers.
	You know, you look at the we mentioned the debt earlier, it's 37 trillion.
	That's a number that can never be, it'll have to be like, there'll have to be a clearing of it, like, in order to function.
	Because the debt ceilings continue to rise, the debt will just start to eat up everything.
	And they'll have to do a great reset.
	They already told you they were going to do.
	So absolutely.
	Fiat has no bottom.
	Gold and silver and Bitcoin have no top.
	Because of that, I mean, you're talking about two diametrically opposed ideas.
	One is finite and houses energy.
	The other is a scam that is infinite.
	And we're going to test reality, basic understanding of how the universe works.
	If something is more ubiquitous and you know again just thrown out there like and created out of nothing you does the human beings find that to be valuable other than things like oxygen I mean but we find that valuable but you know when it comes to everyday life something that is absolutely ubiquitous and everywhere even like information today information is ubiquitous and everywhere I don't think people value it very much Unfortunately.
	They clearly don't because they're not smarter.
	That is very true.
	Everyone has this general sense of, well, if I need to know something, It's just this continual as I need it mentality.
	It's always going to be there and as such I have no reason to seek it out beforehand.
	I have no reason to want to go out and learn anything and better myself.
	Just, you know, well, if I need to learn how to, you know, put a new battery in the car, I'll just go Google it at the time.
	I'll learn how to change my all the time if I feel the need.
	There's not this sense of desire to accumulate information or knowledge or figure out things.
	It's just this, it's available, I don't need it, who cares?
	Someone else already has that information and I can get that at my fingertips if necessary.
	And I know that you've talked about things like this., we got this headline here.
	Gold is a key strategic investment despite US resilience and Bitcoin's rise.
	But you've been pointing out that both gold and silver, people are investing in the hard assets.
	It's back.
	And, you know, like you said, the Russia story, how they're stocking up on silver.
	People are not just cryptos big, but countries are moving more towards these metals.
	They're putting them back on the books.
	And that should definitely be a sign to people as well.
	It's, you know, as personally, I think, you know, the countries generally tend to do what's going to favor the government.
	And if the government is stacking gold and silver, it says something.
	Oh, it does.
	I mean, that's the central banks are buying gold, the governments are putting gold into their strategic reserve assets and other things like silver, but that's, you know, even commodities, timber.
	I just saw an article where, you know, certain African countries are, you know, building like a currency model backed by minerals and other things that are, you know, it could be gold, it could be silver, it could be diamonds, putting those together to create a stable currency.
	Because the era of fiat is, you know, Zimbabwe.
	It's the trillion dollar note.
	And the United States is continuing to double, triple, quadruple down on sanctions and other things driving these countries away into the arms of BRICS and those systems.
	And you can see with the Belt and Road Initiative and what China has done, playing a very smart long game, looking for rare earth minerals, commodities in an age of, you know, the end of fiat and to something else, which I think that's going to be the order of the day.
	And a lot of the bubbles that are in the stock markets and other things around the world, that will be there will be a reacckoning eventually.
	Yeah, it's just, well, maybe slightly outside my lifetime, but borderline within my lifetime.
	We've had both Zimbabwe and Venezuela, and both of them have had just runaway currency collapse.
	And it's funny to me that more people didn't look at that and go, well, what makes their economy so different from ours?
	Why can't that happen here?
	And the truth is, really, nothing.
	Just the fact that the American government has had more pull on the global stage, that it's more powerful.
	The Federal Reserve has some slightly smarter people that are able to manipulate things a little bit better for their own advantages.
	But the truth is there's nothing that stops a Venezuela or Zimbabwe scenario from playing out, because that is the natural end state of these currencies.
	And the fact that more people haven't looked at it and gone, huh, has always kind of shocked me.
	A lot of people just look at money and they go, well, money's weird.
	It's just these pieces of paper, and they have a general sense that the dollar is this kind of...
	don't fully think about what that actually implies.
	And again, just it's all ever since, When does that happen?
	And of course, there's no real way to tell because there's so many different people with their fingers on the scales and the system is so immensely complex.
	But eventually, with, as you said, the 30 something trillion dollars in debt, and some people even put it as high as 150 trillion dollars, it has to happen eventually.
	There's no way out of this.
	It's an astronomical number that's impos a low probability that we'd be something like Zimbabwe or Venezuela, and that's mainly because of the entrenchment of the dollar around the world.
	So I'm not a doomsdayer when it says, Oh, there's going to be Weimar and Republic style inflation with wheelbarrows full of cash to buy a loaf of bread or whatever.
	I don't see that.
	But I do see the massive amount of change that has to happen in order for there to be a great reset.
	A lot of people are going to be left behind.
	There will be massive austerity.
	The people are going to be wiped out.
	There will be a great swath of people that played by the old rules that are going to lose and lose big time.
	So I think there will be a class of people that do really well.
	And we've always seen them do well.
	That's why I think BlackRock embraced Bitcoin and Lenin's Bank and those guys.
	I still have a question mark over that.
	Not exactly sure why, but I think it has something to do with stablecoins, Travis.
	I think it has something to do with what they want to build digitally with the public-private partnership of stablecoins and the dollar, kind of a backdoor CBDC, so they can control, track, and expand the money supply in real time.
	I think that will, that's ultimately one of their goals, along with surveillance and other things.
	But the economic system will change, not necessarily because there will be an absolute collapse of the dollar to zero.
	It will be a collapse of the dollar to digital.
	Yeah.
	That is their goal.
	As you've pointed out, my dad's pointed out, and we've talked about the tracking ability that comes with stablecoins, the ability to shut off your entire bank account and just completely deprive you of any ability to pay for things, to interact with the economy at all, is what they really want.
	It comes with surveillance, it comes with debanking built in.
	It's the ultimate tool for them.
	I know we're just about out of time.
	You've already stayed ten minutes over.
	I've got a few more comments that I'd like to get through if you're up for it.
	Got it.
	Fantastic.
	Doug Lugg says the gold back is a great idea, easy to collect and easy to use for barter just like silver.
	And of course, you have been putting people on the gold backs for quite a few years now.
	I love gold backs.
	It gives you because the gold has become so expensive I can't put it in.
	We used to be able to almost we fit a gram of gold for a limited time back, well, first started Wolfpack into the Warrior Wolves at 125.
	I can't do that anymore.
	The cost is almost that.
	So we can't do that that.
	So goldbacks make it a lot easier for people to get some actual 24 carat, you know, gold.
	And those are those notes that they use gold.
	Gold is very malevolent.
	I think you can take I was reading something every day I try to look up a gold fact, but I think you can take an ounce of gold and because gold is so malevolent you can you can spin an ounce of gold out of about fifty miles with one single thread.
	Something like that.
	It's amazing metal.
	Yeah, it's a it's amazing metal with how much elasticity it has and maleability it has.
	It's a very, very interesting metal.
	There's really nothing like it.
	So that's where they are able to make those kind of notes.
	And we put those in the gold notes, the gold backs, we put them in the warrior wolves at 125 and the loans.
	And even in the kids, Wolfcup gets a gold back.
	And that's another reason you should go to Davidknight.gold and start getting some for yourself.
	Tunnel Lord 1337 says if we really wanted to revive the economy, we would be removing all the unconstitutional regulations on every aspect of our lives.
	That would immediately reduce the price of things.
	Additionally, should allow private banks to make their own fiat So Americans can stop using the dollar That is devalued each year It was, uh When my family and I went to China to adopt my sister, when we were in Hong Kong, they allowed each bank to issue its own currency.
	So you would have just a mishmash, a collection of random different bills with different colorations and feelings and people on them.
	And it was very interesting to see, and their economy was booming.
	They were doing just fine.
	And DG eight says, Can you ask Tony about XRP?
	It's been pointed out to me, it's the only crypto that is a business partner with the World Economic Forum.
	I don't own any XRP.
	I've looked into it, I'm sure I could have made money on it., someone will.
	I own a few different crypto, and that's from a relic of five years ago.
	I mainly just buy Bitcoin.
	That's the only crypto that I really believe in at this time.
	And it's not that some others aren't good.
	Like there's some privacy coins I like, but just economically and the way that I run my business, I use Bitcoin.
	XRP will do something.
	I mean, they're they're canaling it into the system as a clearing currency, like between banks, and there's some interesting technology there.
	I'm not against other cryptoes.
	I don't like.
	I'm not a total Bitcoin maximalist where I think that every other coin is garbbage.
	I just know my wheelhouse.
	I'd stick with that.
	So I'm Bitcoin only right now.
	But it's certainly, I mean, I've watched the price of it.
	I hold some for a customer of mine.
	So I look at the app every day.
	So I see the price going and it has fluctuated back up.
	I think it was over three bucks for XRP the other day.
	Down a little bit today maybe.
	But yeah, it's something to watch.
	They're definitely integrating that with the system.
	Like this, like you talk about the World Economic Forum.
	I think they're going to, you know, use other crypto.
	And Ethereum will be one of those that they use as well.
	Yeah, they're digging their hooks into the digital realm.
	They're worming their way in.
	And that's one of those things.
	No matter what system you implement, these people will try to find a way into it.
	Doesn't matter how perfectly you build it, eventually someone will find a way to exploit it.
	But some are better than others.
	and they're worth looking into.
	They're worth getting outside of the fiat dollar as much as you can is always a good idea in my opinion.
	Well, Tony, I want to thank you for being on the show.
	I want to thank you for hosting the show tomorrow in case people are just tuning in.
	Tony Arduburn will be hosting the day The David Knight Show tomorrow.
	And as he pointed out, it's the anniversary of you said Nixon taking us off the gold standard, right?
	Or, uh, yeah, off the gold standard.
	So it's a fortuitous event.
	We didn't plan it that way, but that's how it works out.
	And you've got a show coming up after this, so let the people know where they can find you, Tony.
	You can find me.
	My website is tony.gold.
	If you want to go find my website, all my shows and links to everything that I do.
	And yeah, we'll be live over the America Unplugged channel on Rumble and on my ex at Tony Arterburn.
	Go find us there.
	We'll be at 11:00 Eastern 11:00 Central Time going live.
	Fantastic.
	All of you go check out Tony and go to davidnight.gold get yourself some gold or silver.
	Again, Tony, thank you for that and thank you for being on the show.
	It's always a pleasure to talk with you.
	Really do appreciate it.
	Same to you, Martin.
	All right, folks.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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	I want to talk a little bit about the tariffs.
	I think it's a good segue.
	after what we're talking about with Tony.
	But first, we have some comments that I missed when we were talking about robots.
	KWD 68 says, let's make the robots build robots.
	They'll take it from there.
	No worries.
	That's right.
	It'll be a self-perpetuating machine.
	And says, robot battery fires.
	Uh-oh.
	Better build some fireman bots.
	That's right.
	The robots combust.
	start to burn and you send in the fireman bots.
	Hopefully they don't combust and burn.
	Hopefully the factories can keep up with the need with these burning robots.
	As I said, we're going to look at what's going on on with tariffs?
	Trump releases a video of Peter Navarro explaining history behind the tariffs.
	The history is Trump is a petulant petulant man and he wants to penalize people.
	He likes to bully people.
	He likes to swagger around.
	What is the history behind tariffs?
	Tariffs are tax and taxation is fair.
	History over.
	That is your history lesson with Lance.
	Tune in for more brief history lessons.
	President Donald Trump released a video of White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro explaining the history behind tariffs in a post on truth social.
	This again, his private walled garden that he sits in and posts to, where only his most loyal sycophants are.
	Trump posted a video in which Navarro explained how people such as Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay have advocated for tariffs throughout history of the United States.
	Alexander Hamilton, of course, not being one of the founding fathers you'd want to emulate.
	Navarro noted now how Hamilton believed that the U. S. needed tariffs to defend its young industries from British domination.
	April second, twenty twenty five will forever be remembered as a day American industry was reborn.
	Haha, that's a good joke.
	That's a great joke.
	Trump Economics' goal is not only to reduce America's trade deficit, it is to defend American workers and factories against unfair trade practices while encouraging trillions of dollars to invest in new American plants and equipment.
	Well, I don't think you really can compete with the unfair trade practices of China.
	They use literal slave labor.
	You're not going to be able to beat them on pricing.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	strong manufacturing base, the tariffs could be a positive with the weak manufacturing base we have, it is punishment.
	And of course, the way I see it, it's the best method of taxing people if you must tax them, since it helps encourage growth in the country rather than importing stuff.
	But slapping the a tax, and slapping them on top of the already existing mountain of taxes is a tremendous burden.
	Yes.
	Navarro continued to explain how Alexander Hamilton was the original architect of the American economic nationalism.
	And my dad was talking about it, he said, he was talking about this wacko and Thomas Jefferson was not a fan of Alexander Hamilton at all, said he could fund the government on tariff taxes because it was small enough.
	Thomas Jefferson famously said, who among you can say they know the tax man?
	The government has to be incredibly small for the tariffs to actually be able to fund it.
	Guard Goldsmith says, Navarro doesn't grasp that the tariffs are on.
	US, not the people in foreign nations.
	Or maybe that's us.
	Maybe it would make more sense.
	That is true.
	We are going to be the ones paying the tariffs.
	We are the ones that are going to have it passed along.
	Companies don't just eat cost.
	They will pass it along to the consumer.
	Gargoldsmith says Invar's claim of unfair trade is a malleable term that anyone can use to accuse a consumer of buying what the politician doesn't want him to buy.
	These people love their malleable terms.
	They like things that Things that aren't rock solid, so they can be applied in whatever way they see fit at the time.
	Guard Goldsmith says a trade is by definition fair.
	The parties in it decide.
	Yeah.
	If the parties, both parties agree and have come to a reasonable conclusion and they're both happy, that's a fair trade.
	Henry Clay carried Hambleton's vision forward, Navarro continued, his American system prioritized three things a strong national bank, oh boy, major infrastructure investment, and above all, protective tariffs.
	And of course, take note of the fact that Hamilton wanted a strong central bank.
	He was We're dealing with the consequences of a strong central bank now.
	If he had gotten his way and started it sooner, we might have already collapsed by now.
	President Trump's trade agenda, especially his bold use of tariffs, draws along the long line of economic nationalism, Noro said.
	From Hamilton to Clay, from Lincoln to McKinley.
	What wonderful people?
	Hamilton, one of the worst founding fathers, a not someone to emulate, Clay right in there with him.
	Lincoln, one of the worst tyrants.
	Tyrants the United States has ever seen presided over the war of Northern aggression, one of the most ambitious, grasping men of his time, possibly the most?
	McKinley, who I admittedly don't know much of anything about.
	McKinley is one of those ones that's just there.
	My dad pointed out you could also add Woodrow Wilson into that group.
	But that's a rogue's gallery.
	That's not people you want to look at and go, ah, yes.
	These are men to emulate.
	These are people I should base my life upon.
	Lincoln was a horrible man.
	Now President Donald John Trump, you can put him right in that rogue's gallery as well.
	In fact, other than Lincoln, he's probably killed more Americans than anyone else with his jab.
	In fact, he might be beating Lincoln, it's hard to say because the numbers are hard to track.
	The Civil War killed a massive percentage of the population, but Donald Trump might be right up there with him.
	When it comes to killing Americans, Lincoln and Donald Trump are in a class of their own.
	First, build American industry, protect American sovereignty.
	This is the heart of the America First agenda.
	It's not new, it's certainly not radical.
	It's the most American economic policy in history.
	Five leaders, one philosophy, make tariffs great again, make America great again.
	My dad has pointed out these people, Trump and Navarro, are dangerously stupid, and dangerously authoritarian and corrupt.
	We've got to make taxes great again.
	The taxes are already pretty great in the sense that there is a great number of them.
	They are overwhelming.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	When nothing is made here substantially, then tariffs are just another tax on we the people, and not really the one making the garbage being imported.
	KWD sixty eight says tarifflation.
	Of course, I'm not a fan of consumerism.
	I understand where people are coming from and they say, Well, people don't need to be buying all this junk made in China anyway.
	I agree.
	We don't need all this stuff we buy.
	We don't need another Ikea furniture piece.
	We don't need another doodad from China.
	But it's not just those needless doodads that are going to be affec everything.
	It's going to be across the board.
	Your car dies and can't be fixed?
	Well, it's going to be a lot more expensive to buy a new car.
	Something goes wrong with your refrigerator, it conks out on you.
	Well, that's going to go up too.
	Washing machine, dryer, same there.
	Eventually it's going to trickle through everything.
	It's not just the things that we don't really need.
	It's going to impact everything.
	Assyrian girl, cart before the horse, incentivize industry to return to the country and then impose tariffs.
	We don't like doing things in the proper order here in the United States.
	She goes on, history of tariffs is also that they only work when a people can produce what they need domestically.
	We used to be in that boat.
	In a deindustrialized nation, tariffs will be the final knife to cut us to pieces.
	It is going to destroy a lot of people.
	It is going to make life miserable.
	It's going to continue the trend of making life unaffordable.
	And yes, there would be some advantages of tariffs if we had a strong manufacturing base here, but only in the sense of they would be the least onerous tax.
	It would be good to replace other taxes with tariffs, but Even if we had a strong manufacturing base, there's still going to be some imports.
	So tariffs are still going to be a tax on the American people.
	The American people are always the one.
	The country that imposes the tariff is the one that ends up paying for it, the people of that nation, as was pointed out.
	Knights of the Storm, good to see you, Jason.
	Hope you're doing well.
	They talk about a trade imbalance, but that's because it's not profitable to produce things here, to trade.
	As I pointed out, China uses slave labor.
	Many countries around the globe do as well.
	That's why they're able to manufacture things so cheaply.
	You cannot compete with slave labor here in the United States.
	If you do, you simply create a slave class here, basically, people that can't really afford to live.
	That's part of the reason that people have been utilizing illegal immigrant workers for so long.
	It cuts down on costs massively.
	You don't have to pay taxes for them, and you can hold it over their heads to some extent.
	You can say, well, you're not going to get a full paycheck because, you know, I don't have to.
	Be ashamed if someone were to report you to ICE.
	Be ashamed if someone fired you and got you deported.
	So you're going to work for whatever I say.
	It gives them a built-in underclass that they can exploit.
	Knights of the Storm, they should start with deregulation and reducing taxation here.
	Yes, exactly.
	Like Angry Tiger pointed out.
	Of course, you can check out Knights of the Storm, knights of the storm.com, and Angry Tiger there as well, and with his Tiger and Snake report.
	Angry Tiger pointed out, if you were really serious about growing the economy, just get rid of the ridiculous.
	number of regulations that are on everything that make it impossible to actually run a business that make things much more difficult for everyone.
	Nights of the storm, whatever happened to the promise of a postcard-sized tax form?
	Wasn't Trump going to simplify taxes his first term?
	Promises made, promises you should forget about them.
	Just the auto industry alone could save America if we could get rid of all the safety mandates and efficiency requirements.
	A small, simple car produced here could be a strong export.
	The sheer number of mandates on the auto industry is ludicrous.
	The things they have to comply with is a huge reason the cost of cars has gone through the roof.
	You've got to comply with emissions mandates, safety standards, all kinds of details.
	of different things which may or may not have any basis in reality the emissions ones sure don't.
	Some of the safety standards are also made up nonsense as well.
	Well, what if you can't handle this exact scenario that doesn't ever really happen?
	Well, then sorry, your car doesn't make it to market.
	This is from Newsweek.
	Did Trump deliver Democrats' dream corporate tax?
	Experts weigh in.
	The deep state keeps unrolling.
	It gets what it wants.
	Under Trump, under Biden, under Obama, the same power players are there.
	The faceless bureaucrats.
	Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, a vocal critic of Donald Trump started political.
	observers this week by urging Democrats to thank the president for doing what they have never been able to do.
	Impose a revenue skim on two of America's most profitable tech companies.
	He said, Hey, at AOC, at Bernie Sanders, at Senator Schumer, at Senator Warren, every Dem should be thanking at POTIS for doing what the dems have dreamed of doing, but have never been able to do.
	Cuban posted on X on august eleventh.
	He's going to generate corporate tax revenue that you guys only wish you could pass.
	Creating a sales tax on two of the biggest semi companies in the country.
	Of course, doing it by executive order like a dictator would.
	Funny how that go often you can say this.
	Hey, he's passing the lockdown restrictions that you all wished you could pass for so long.
	Or hey, he's passing all these massive debt increases that you've all wanted.
	It seems to be a way of life for Donald Trump.
	It's almost like he's a New York Democrat.
	It's almost like that, isn't it?
	It's almost like all the things he says are simply lies to get his base fired up.
	Kubin was referring to a new Trump administration deal requiring the leading chipmakers NVIDIA and AMD to pay the U.S. government fifteen percent of revenue from sales of certain artificial intelligence chips to China, a condition for receiving export licenses.
	Of course, this isn't companies will comply in the moment, but if you think this is going to be something they don't find a way around, you're crazy.
	While the White House has avoided calling it a tax, Cuban labeled it a billionaire sales tax and the ultimate wealth tax, framing it as the kind of corporate levy progressives have long advocated for, but failed to deliver.
	And again, I know I've mentioned this before, but part of the reason that people tend to like Donald Trump is because people like Mark Cuban are utterly insufferable.
	Every time you see a video of him, he's a pompous fool.
	And he has spent a lot of time criticizing Trump so people see that and go, Well, I dislike Mark Cuban, and as such, I like Trump.
	The whole you may know a man by his enemies statement doesn't hold as much water as it used to.
	The deal marks a sharp departure from standard export control practices.
	Traditionally, companies apply for export licenses without paying a percentage of their sale to the government.
	But under this arrangement, the Commerce Department will grant licenses for NVIDIA's H twenty and AMD's MI three hundred nine chips, lower performance versions of their top AI semiconductors tailored to meet prior US security restrictions, but under the unusual conditions that the companies hand over fifteen percent of revenues generated from those sales.
	Analysts estimate the policy could generate up to three billion annually for the treasury.
	That's pocket change in the context of a seven trillion federal budget, but significant in terms of precedent.
	He took fifteen percent of equity from a company Cuban wrote on X. That is the ultimate wealth tax, a progressive dream.
	Of course.
	As I said, it's because as my dad has said for years, he's a New York tax.
	tax and spend Democrat.
	That's all he is, that's all he ever was.
	This is who he is at his heart.
	He's a pal of the Clintons, he's a pal of Epstein.
	He simply said what was expedient to get himself elected because he knew people would eat it up.
	He knew that the American working class had been kicked and spit on for so many years that if you were to even pay lip service to them, they would rally behind you.
	You don't necessarily have to accomplish anything for them.
	If you simply stand there and say, I'm going to do stuff, if you promise things, if you actually pay attention to them, they'll rally.
	Because what's the other alternative?
	Some other guy that is actively telling you that you're the scum of the earth, that you're the problem, that you're the reason everything is awful?
	It makes sense.
	I know I know all of us here are no fans of Donald Trump, that we all think he is a mass murderer based on what he's done.
	However, when you look at it in that context, it's easy to understand why people who don't think about these things, who don't dive deeper, who don't really pay attention to more than headlines could rally behind him, could vote for the man after what he did.
	If they don't actually pay attention, all they see is a guy that is promising them a better life, saying, You know what, you're not the problem.
	It's the same sort of reason Andrew Tate is popular with young men.
	It's and again, I'm not saying this to justify their actions, but if you don't understand why people do things, it's hard to make them stop doing it.
	Cuban who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four argued that Democrats have been too dogmatic in pushing traditional tax hikes instead of exploring unconventional leverage points.
	They are so intent on income and wealth taxes on oligarchs, they've no concept of leverage in business, he said.
	Trump does.
	And of course, Trump is continually growing government and setting awful new precedents.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	He's got a unique mind.
	He sees things in different ways.
	He's found interesting new ways to create leverage on these companies.
	Look at all the policies that we've wanted to push through for ages and weren't able to, and Trump is just pushing it all through even though he's a Republican.
	What a shock.
	How could it be that a Republican did this?
	For decades, Democrats have pushed to make big corporations pay their fair share through higher corporate tax rates, windfall profit taxes, and even wealth taxes on billionaires.
	Yet those proposals rarely make it through Congress even when it's controlled by Democrats.
	The twenty twenty two Inflation Reduction Act imposed a fifteen percent minimum tax on large corporations book income, but more ambitious corporate tax heights hikes have failed.
	POTUS is more progressive when it comes to taxation than anyone the progressive wing of the Dems has ever been.
	The Dems should be celebrating just how progressive it is, Cuban wrote on X. The irony.
	Or is it the plan?
	I think it's the plan.
	And I'm sure most of you would agree.
	This isn't ironic.
	It's what they wanted from the start.
	While Cuban celebrated the chip scheme as clever, U.S. Representative Raja Krishna Morthy, another good, classic American family, the Krishna Morthy's.
	Of course they were there at the beginning with the founding fathers.
	We couldn't have done it without them.
	And as such, it makes sense why he's a U.S. representative.
	Saw it as a dangerous misstep, the top Democrat on the House China Select Committee told Newsweek the administration was taking one of our most important national security tools, export controls and twisting them into a pay to play scheme, with no clear legal authority, congressional oversight, or transparency.
	So business is usual.
	This is how things are done.
	I don't understand.
	This guy's acting like this is something out of the blue, but this is just how the government operates.
	A pay to play scheme with no clear legal authority, congressional oversight or transparency.
	Yeah, that's just simply how it's done nowadays.
	Why is he complaining?
	This is everything that happens in Washington.
	It's one part of the government doing something they're not supposed to with no oversight or transparency for the others.
	You cannot treat something as both a national security threat and a revenue opportunity without signaling to Beijing that our principles in national security are for sale.
	Well, they've been for sale to China for years now.
	That's a known quantity.
	Of course, Gerard Celente, when he's on, has frequently talked about Bill Clinton selling us out to China.
	They've sold us out to China, they've sold us out to Israel.
	Basically anyone with enough money.
	If you come in and you have the right amount of money and the right amount of influence, they'll basically hand over whatever you want.
	Oh, you're going to make me mega rich?
	And you're going to screw over the American people?
	Well, good golly, where do I sign?
	They can't sell out fast enough.
	Department attorney agreed the arrangement is inconsistent with constitutional provisions.
	Oh, now we're going to start worrying about the Constitution.
	Really?
	This is when we're going to care, reserving taxing power to Congress and prohibiting export duties.
	You're calling it a fee, Scissors added.
	Plain language says fifteen percent of sales revenue is a tax.
	And of course, my dad pointed out Article one, section nine, clause five prohibits taxing exports.
	But they don't care.
	They simply do not care.
	The Constitution is simply a piece of paper, and they choose to ignore it whenever possible.
	I think that's a bigger deal than a lot of people are giving it credit for, because it's pretty explicit in how it bans it.
	Like, you know...
	He had to go through the big, elaborate thing of pretending to bend the knee to it.
	And there are other places where they are going against very clearly written wording.
	The Second Amendment always comes to mind.
	Anytime someone's like, but the Constitution's like, look what they did with the Second Amendment.
	It says shall not be infringed.
	It really couldn't be plainer, but they just simply don't care.
	Yeah, but this is a whole new thing that has never been infringed before.
	They're taking a clear thing and without any like good excuse even, they're just going right, steamrolling right over the Constitution going against what it explicitly states.
	To be it, it's just, this is business as usual.
	This is how things get done in Washington now.
	Don't let the Constitution, why would the law of the land stop you from doing anything?
	Whether this move remains an isolated maneuver or signals a new model for extracting corporate revenue could hinge on how the courts or Congress respond.
	Critics like Kittrie note that Article 1 of the Constitution prohibits export taxes and reserves taxing authority for Congress, which could make the 15% revenue scheme vulnerable to legal challenges.
	But we'll probably see Congress roll over and die on it.
	Most of the people in Congress are probably jumping for joy.
	Oh man, he did it for us?
	Finally.
	Article I, section nine prohibits the imposition of export taxes or duties, as we read.
	The fifteen percent arrangement would appear to be exactly that.
	was prohibited to both Congress and the executive branch.
	Julian Chase, a trade law professor at City University of Hong Kong, told Newsweek such a case could attract multiple countries to join a WTO World Trade Organization.
	Challenge framing it as a dangerous precedent for trying to export licenses to revenue transfers.
	We'll wait and see how that goes.
	I'm curious to see how it ends up.
	If I was a betting man, which I'm not, I would say Congress rolls over and dies.
	Like, oh, well, this is they'll roll someone out, they'll make a speech, they'll say something about how it's an overreach of power, something or other.
	But then nothing will change.
	It'll stay there and it'll live in perpetuity.
	Nights of the Storm, people put a lot of emotion into Trump and they don't want to admit they were wrong.
	It's good money after bad, sunk cost fallacy.
	Well, you know, surely he'll do something for us.
	I have voted for him twice.
	He's got to he's going to hold up his end of the bargain.
	He has to.
	High boost.
	I've said that for years.
	I don't know why dim voters.
	hate Trump Dem?
	By dim he means dem.
	Voters he has done more to further dim ideology than any other dim potas.
	They're all very dim.
	One of the things is that the Marxist leftist ideology is a very grasping, cynical, stupid ideology.
	It appears, it appeals very heavily to the sin nature of man.
	It attracts the again, I don't want to it attracts generally the worst members of society, the people that want to steal and take and rob people that don't want to work.
	It's a very hard ideology to combat because it appeals so heavily to the sin nature of man.
	It's something that can very easily slot in right there.
	What you mean I'm entitled to this?
	I'm entitled to that?
	You'll just use the government to take this for me?
	Well, that sounds good to me.
	It's a very difficult ideology to work against unless you have a base of people that are morally grounded in scripture and the Bible.
	This Trump tariff could increase America's trade deficit.
	The article is about how Trump's tariffs on Switzerland could increase America's trade deficit and how Switzerland's nearly tariff free trade with the US was disrupted by Trump's tariffs leading to a potential cancellation of a thirty eight point three billion F thirty five fighter jet order.
	This cancellation would further exacerbate the trade deficit with Switzerland.
	What are we?
	Are we importing that many cuckoo clocks and that much chocolate?
	What does Switzerland export besides that?
	I'm not too big on Swiss lore.
	What does America exports from bombs and weapons and fighter jets.
	Terrible, terrible influencers.
	They are a plague on the planet and we export them all over the world.
	So literally everything that America sends to other countries is terrible and destructive.
	Switzerland might respond to Trump's double-digit reciprocal tariff by canceling its multi-billion dollar F-35 order.
	And of course, as Lance pointed out, what else do we export besides bombs?
	What else is there?
	If they cancel the war orders, they don't have anything else they'd want to buy.
	In July, Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland.
	Of course, he was using the Navarro formula.
	More than double the 15% rate to which its European Union neighbors are subjected, making, marking a sharp departure from the American-Swiss trading relationship.
	The tariffs went into effect last week on August 7th.
	The average tariff rate that the U.S. subjected Swiss imports to was 2.21% in 2022, The most recent year for which data are available, according to the World Bank, Switzerland's average tariff rate on American goods was even lower, a mere zero point five two percent.
	In january twenty twenty four, Switzerland abolished all industrial tariffs resulting in a ninety nine point three percent.
	American goods entering the country tariff free, according to Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.
	But of course, the MAGA media is still saying tariffs didn't raise any prices.
	There's nothing going on.
	It's great, everything is great.
	Despite Switzerland's nearly completely lazy fare trading relationship with the US, Trump complained of a forty one billion dollar deficit with Switzerland during an august fifth interview on CNBC's Squakbox.
	Office of the US Trade Representative, the American Swiss Goods Deficit in twenty.
	twenty four was not quite that high, thirty eight point three billion.
	However, this figure excludes trade services between two countries, which accounted for a trade surplus of twenty nine point seven billion in favor of America.
	The total trade deficit then was approximately eight point six billion or twenty one percent of Trump's inflated claim.
	Of course, Trump and Navarro can't do math.
	They can't figure this stuff out.
	His policies have made his deficit worse since he took office in January.
	US Census Bureau data shows a nearly forty eight billion goods deficit with Switzerland accumulated from January to June.
	three hundred ninety percent greater than the January twenty twenty four to june twenty twenty four deficit of nine point eight billion.
	By introducing volatility in global markets, Trump is partially responsible for widening the deficit in goods trade with Switzerland.
	The New York Times reports that surging demand for gold in the United States as mister Trump threatened to upend the global trading order fueled a spike in Swiss gold imports.
	Ah, so that's what we're importing from Switzerland.
	Gold, so it's not just chocolate and cuckoo clocks.
	That makes all the sense in the world.
	I'm of course being facetious.
	Politico reports that Swiss lawmakers are considering.
	Considering canceling the country's orders of thirty six F thirty five fighter jets which would widen the goods deficit further.
	Switzerland entered the six billion francs seven point five billion dollars deal in twenty twenty one but was told by the US in July that additional costs of the original price tag will range between CHF six hundred fifty CHF six hundred fifty million eight hundred five million dollars and CHF one point three billion one point six billion dollars due to higher material costs and inflation according to swiss info dot ch.
	Fittingly enough, these higher material costs are partially attributable to Trump.
	Trump's tariffs, which he imposed on countries that export F thirty five components to the US, like the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Denmark, and Norway.
	Trump exacerbated the trade deficit with Switzerland by unintentionally encouraging Americans to hedge against economic instability with Swiss gold.
	Trump's thirty nine percent tariffs against Switzerland may very well increase the very deficit he seeks to reduce.
	If Swiss lawmakers reduce or cancel their multi billion dollar F thirty five deal, and this was from Reason Magazine.
	This is our leader.
	This is our wonderful president.
	acting is an economic policy, is the guy who's bankrupt casinos before.
	This is who is calling the shots.
	So, isn't that wonderful?
	Isn't that just grand?
	We get the economic policies of a man who couldn't even keep casinos up and running.
	That's who we're dealing with.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	We don't have much time left, but I do need some water.
	We're going to look at what's going on with Ukraine in the few minutes that we have left.
	Syrian girl says Trump's trade deficit mathematics are a dramatic example of why central planning will never work.
	There is no one person that is smart enough to plan the economy.
	There is no one person that can keep track of all the moving parts.
	It is simply impossible.
	A Syrian girl is right, and she points out this really is a dramatic example, and we're going to keep feeling the ripple effects from this for a long time.
	Stay with us, folks.
	We will be right back.
	The End Making sense, common again.
	You're listening to the David Knight Show.
	Welcome back folks in the few minutes we've got left.
	We'll take a little bit of a look at Ukraine, but I do want to again thank Tony for hosting on Friday.
	As I said, we're going to be redoing the studio, and that should mean that starting Monday, David will be back.
	He'll be back in studio.
	I'll be sidechair.
	probably making sarky comments while he does all the real work.
	I'm excited to once again turn my brain off and be nothing but comic relief.
	That's what I'm aiming for.
	Exactly.
	I'm planning on coasting after this, folks, but David will be back on Monday.
	That's the goal once we get the studio worked out.
	So be excited for that.
	He will be back and you'll get the insightful commentary that he is wonderful at providing.
	Cannot wait.
	Even if it means tearing this rat's nest of wires down and reordering everything.
	That's a sacrifice I'm willing to have Lance make.
	I'm excited to sit around and direct him on where to put things and not contribute in any meaningful fashion as the studio gets rebuilt.
	But be excited for Monday.
	He'll be back, and I know I'm excited for it.
	But let's take a brief look at Ukraine in the little bit of time we've got left.
	Trump warns of severe consequences if Russia doesn't stop Ukraine war after Putin meeting.
	There will be severe consequences.
	The consequences have never been more severe, Putin.
	I promise they're going to be severe.
	Very severe consequences, Putin.
	Does he really think he's like a child that he can just scold?
	Like, there will be consequences, young man.
	They're going to be severe.
	You're going to be putting time out, Putin.
	He's warned Trump and European leaders that Putin is bluffing to pressure Ukraine before the Alaska summit amid intensified Russian advances with sixty nine percent of Ukrainians favoring negotiations.
	Trump spoke at the Kennedy Center in Washington on august thirteenth, twenty twenty five.
	Warning of very severe consequences if Putin does not cease the Ukraine war.
	Far cry of his promise of day one ending the conflicts.
	Kiev planning false flag attack at a Trump Putin summit.
	This is from RT.
	Russia's Ministry of Defense has alleged that the Ukrainian government is preparing a high profile provocation intended to derail the upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart.
	According to Moscow, the plan involved staging an attack in a frontline city and blaming it on Russian forces in order to create damaging international media narratives.
	On april first, twenty twenty two, the Zelensky government accused the Russian military massacring civilians in the town of Buka near Kiev.
	So it's kind of an April fools prank, huh?
	Well, this is how things are done in this day and age.
	It's not enough to simply wage war.
	You've got to have some false flags thrown in there as well.
	So we'll wait and see what happens.
	I don't expect much from this summit as I've said.
	If Zelensky is not at the table, what can Trump and Putin really hash out?
	Unless Trump agrees to stop sending munitions and arms to Ukraine, then it means nothing.
	And I don't think they're going to do that.
	I don't think there's any chance Trump is going to stop that money machine.
	Zelensky is enriching himself, his wife gets to go to the French Riviera, as more Ukrainians bleed out and die on the battlefield.
	And of course, that's the way these wars always end up playing out, aren't they?
	A few people get massively wealthy.
	and the people of the country suffer, and it is a terrible thing to see.
	We've seen it play out in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Our soldiers come back damaged and broken.
	Their countries were destroyed.
	And for what?
	For what?
	Guard Goldsmith says the Buka false flag was shocking, literally killing their own people.
	These people are monsters.
	Zelensky is a monster.
	The people he has surrounded himself with are monsters.
	Our governments are filled with them.
	They are completely and utterly unlike us.
	They will poison them with vaccines.
	And that's how they continue to get away with it because we ascribe to them some level of humanity.
	Surely they're not so unlike us.
	Surely they wouldn't do this because I would never do this, but they would.
	As I said, Tony will be hosting the show tomorrow.
	So tune in for that.
	God bless you all.
	We will be back Monday.
	David Knight will be in the studio.
	Thank you for tuning in.
	Have a great rest of your week.
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