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Mon Episode #2090: Murder on the High Seas: Trump’s Venezuela Escalation

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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 8th of September.
	Year of our Lord, 2025.
	Well, today we're going to talk about Trump's moves to start a civil war.
	I've been saying for the longest time that as this fourth turning comes around, I believe it's going to be a combination of the previous three fourth turnings.
	I think it'll be a world war, a civil war, and a revolutionary war.
	And he is certainly doing his best to make that happen, putting out idiotic memes boasting about his authoritarian war against cities.
	So we're going to take a look at that.
	That's where we're going to begin.
	We have an interesting story about a Navy SEAL raid that failed spectacularly during the first Trump administration.
	I wonder why they're putting it out now.
	Could it be because he's about to engage in all kinds of illegal criminal actions in Venezuela?
	And as Gerald Salenti pointed out, they have the oils.
	Matter of fact, there's no country that has more proven reserves of oil than Venezuela.
	Not even Saudi Arabia.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
	Start with the Trumps.
	Good morning and welcome to the show today, folks.
	We're going to take a look at what's going on with Donald Trump today.
	First, we're going to start with a police state presidency when the rule of law becomes rule by gunpoint.
	This is from the Free Thought Project.
	Then Trump gun control, more than 1,900 arrests made in D.C. since federal takeover of policing.
	That's from Zero Hedge.
	They're bragging about the fact that they've confiscated 200 illegal guns in Washington, D.C. This is the Republicans now.
	And I think it's interesting, Travis, that the reaction of every single Second Amendment group has been to push back on Trump against this.
	We're going to take the guns from Trannies thing.
	As I said on Friday, you know, certainly these people have been driven insane by both the gaslighting of them as a child, but also of the SSRIs that typically put them on.
	But I said you need to address those as a root problem rather than using this as an excuse to attack the Second Amendment.
	It's a typical Democrat strategy, except this time it's coming from the Republicans because Republicans are being run by a New York City Democrat, Trump.
	That's exactly what this guy is.
	He's no different than Chuck Schumer, except he's got more money.
	And maybe a worse haircut, too.
	We've got Trump's Department of War could cost taxpayers over $1 billion.
	Well, that's actually kind of a small amount based on today's spending policies.
	Only a billion dollars for the Department of War.
	That's kind of a steal, if you ask me.
	Trump seeks control of 9-11 Memorial.
	Hochle fiercely objects.
	I'm going to take the 9-11 Memorial.
	It's going to be greater than it ever was.
	Well, he should put Rudy in charge of it because Rudy was in charge of the cleanup, and that cost the lives of a lot of people who went in there.
	He pushed them in before they had protective equipment.
	They could have used those masks.
	That would have made a difference for that event, but they didn't have the mask for them.
	They just told them to rush in and clean it up because they didn't want anybody to look at the evidence that they left behind.
	That's why I call him 9-11 Rudy.
	Well, a police state presidency when rule of law becomes rule by gunpoint, says John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute.
	And you'll also find this on the Free Thought Project.
	Under a police state presidency, there are no checks and balances, no due process, no Bill of Rights that could stay in the way.
	By collapsing the distinction between civil government and militarized force, the president suggests that dissent will not be debated.
	It will be policed.
	Trump has always been a master of imagery, says John Whitehead.
	From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle.
	I would also To the alleged assassination attempt as well.
	The miraculous hearing of his healing of his ear.
	That was, you know, supposedly the miracle was that it just missed his head by just a fraction of an inch and hit the tip of his ear.
	An even bigger miracle, which they don't want to talk about, was the instantaneous healing without a scar when his ear was hit by that bullet.
	Anyway, now he discovered the perfect propaganda machine, AI-generated images.
	Lance, can you pull up a picture of that Chicago apocalypse shy apocalypse, he called it?
	And of course, he's got himself in an AI clip himself dressed up as a Robert Duvall character from Apocalypse Now and kind of helicopters flying over Chicago skyline and saying that this is why we're going to call it the Department of War.
	I guess Trump didn't realize that Apocalypse Now was not, he saw that and he's like, Yeah, this is great.
	This is what we want to do.
	The whole message that was there by Francis Ford Coppola was an anti-war message.
	It was about the insanity of the Vietnam War and the way it was waged.
	Trump kind of missed that point, just like he kind of missed the whole point of what the Constitution of the American government was about to start with, showing the idiocy and the corruption of the Vietnam War.
	But, you know, we got a lot of technocrats who look at these dystopian novels like Brave New World, and they want to enact it.
	You know, 1984 and Brave New World, they want to make that come true.
	Propaganda does not persuade through logic, says John Whitehead.
	It persuades through familiarity.
	And Trump's AI propaganda machine is doing its job, normalizing the sight of a president in a SWAT uniform with a standing army.
	And of course, Christine Ohm has been doing that for quite some time.
	I'm surprised he didn't pick that up.
	You know, we want to have our civilian elected leaders, you know, dressing up and leading the charge.
	And, you know, he's not out there yet.
	He's not out there dressing up like Christine Ohm, but that may happen, might not, Travis.
	I mean, maybe you can get Rudy Giuliani to do that.
	He's been known to enjoy getting in drag.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's another job for Rudy.
	Mussolini wrapped himself in the black shirts of his paramilitaries to rally fascist Italy.
	Hitler's carefully staged uniforms and parades signaled total control of the German nation.
	You know, Trump likes his military parades too, doesn't he?
	Stalin and Mao surrounded themselves with martial iconography to convey power over life, death, and law.
	And that's the other thing, too, is that instinct of Trump that he wants to have a military parade.
	No American president has ever done that before for good reason.
	It's absolutely un-American, as is Donald Trump.
	The message was always the same: I'm not just your leader, I'm your protector, your executioner, your law.
	And the slide image is a visual embodiment of a police state presidency.
	Again, the no-knock raids that we have seen, all this stuff.
	No one is safe in their home anymore in America.
	He talks about the explosion of SWAT teams.
	And I've said many times when I saw in 1984 Terry Gilliam's kind of Monty Python-esque take on 1984, Brazil, it began with this over-the-top raid in a house.
	And it was done as satire.
	But unfortunately, that has become reality that we live in.
	And it has just exploded.
	And what is the basis for that?
	It's the war on drugs.
	And they use the war on drugs for every kind of corruption, for every kind of destruction of the Constitution.
	They use it to steal property from people without due process, without even charging you with a crime.
	They can steal any of your property and charge the property with a crime.
	And of course, property is not covered under the Bill of Rights, they say.
	Only you are.
	Well, your property is covered under the Bill of Rights.
	They just pretend that it isn't.
	And everybody's gone along with this war on drugs now for half a century, over half a century.
	It was 1971, so we're now 54 years into this failed war on drugs.
	And now he's using it as an excuse because he wants to invade Venezuela.
	And look at the attitude of these people in his administration.
	J.D. Vance and Hegseth and the rest of them.
	Yeah, I don't care that we blew up a ship without even checking it.
	That's not been standard operating procedure.
	It's bad enough, what the government was doing before.
	But this kind of cancer that we have, called the war on drugs, always metastasizes.
	And again, I'm not in favor of everybody using drugs.
	I'm always accused of that when I oppose the war on drugs.
	I oppose prohibition that doesn't work.
	You can't solve a spiritual and physical and mental addiction problem by adding more and more authoritarian law enforcement, quote unquote.
	It just gives us different problems, adds those to the existing addiction problems.
	It signals raids on the homeless.
	It signals mass arrests of immigrants and families.
	It signals military deployment to American cities.
	It signals treating dissidents as criminals.
	For a decade, Americans have watched the rise of SWAT teams transform American domestic policing into a militarized state, battering rams, breaking down doors, no-knock raids in the dead of night, armored vehicles patrolling suburban streets, flashbang grenades tossed into homes and into babies' cribs.
	Two of these incidents stick in my mind.
	One of them was a millionaire in California, his name was Scott, and they wanted to have his land.
	And he was fighting them because they were trying to take his land.
	He was fighting them in court, making it difficult for them.
	So what they did was they claimed that they found some marijuana growing on the many, many, many acres of forest that he had.
	Somebody could have put it there, and those somebody could have been the government, or it could have been somebody else unrelated to him.
	So they're trying to use that to take his property, and he was resisting.
	So he got a, they used that and said, we're going to send a SWAT team against him because now he's involved with drugs.
	And so in the middle of the night, they break in, and he's like in his 60s.
	He hears his house being kicked in, so he grabs his pistol to defend himself and his house.
	They don't serve a warrant.
	There's no knock or anything.
	And he comes down the stairs with a gun in his hand.
	They shoot and kill him.
	And then they take his land.
	That's the way the thing goes.
	Another one was a poor black family in their city.
	And they had the wrong house, by the way.
	Wouldn't it mattered if they had the right house?
	They just threw a flashbang grenade in there and threw it into the kids' crib and severely, severely burned.
	It's just horrific.
	We have rules because government without rules is the most dangerous thing that you can have.
	And that's what we have.
	And that's what the Trump administration and these MAGA stooges who applaud him are celebrating.
	It's ridiculous.
	This is just worse all the time.
	In 1980, there were roughly 3,000 SWAT raids per year in the U.S. By the 2000s, the number had skyrocketed to 80,000 annually, from 3,000 to 80,000 annually.
	What was once a rare tactic reserved for hostage situations or heavily armed standoffs is now routine.
	Predictably tragic.
	Children injured by flashbang grenades, elderly homeowners killed when they mistook armed agents for intruders, family dogs shot, and the chaos of mistaken raids.
	SWAT culture has normalized the use of military tactics against civilians.
	It has conditioned Americans to accept armored vehicles on Main Street.
	Black-clad officers in ski masks battering down doors and neighborhoods transformed into war zones.
	Trump's AI propaganda takes this dangerous normalization a step further.
	It puts the president himself at the head of the raid, just like Christine Ohm.
	The enforcer-in-chief, rendering him the law, the enforcer, and the judge.
	I am the law.
	President Dredd.
	We have always dreaded a president like this.
	This is the very definition of dictatorship.
	The Constitution was written precisely to prevent such a concentration of power.
	It was written to prevent the rise of a lawless ruler who would make himself enforcer as well as lawgiver.
	This is not merely unconstitutional.
	It is anti-constitutional.
	It is directly opposed to both the spirit and the letter of the law, folks.
	Police departments nationwide already deploy surplus military equipment, which was provided, that was Obama that started doing that, provided by the federal government to them.
	But something of a white elephant is one of the reasons that didn't take off.
	They didn't want to actually let go of this equipment that was rushed together for the Iraq War and became a very, very expensive thing to maintain.
	So what they did was they wanted to push it to these local police departments, some of them rural departments that don't have the kind of crime problem that you see in big cities like Chicago.
	But then the story was that they didn't give them title to it.
	They kept title, and they required that the local police departments maintain this thing, which was one of the reasons why the Pentagon wanted to offload it in the first place.
	It was a white elephant.
	And so that was one of the things that really sabotaged their plans for militarizing things.
	And of course, they wanted to keep control of it because they wanted to put it with the local police departments, have the local police departments maintain it, keep it in working order, so that when they wanted to go out and use it, there it was.
	It was still their property.
	They could go and take it.
	This has been laid for a very long time, the plans for doing this kind of stuff.
	It is a bipartisan approach.
	They want to have a police and surveillance state.
	Both parties talking about this.
	I mean, it was Zbignzynski who embraced the technocracy back in the 1970s.
	And people like Henry Kissinger, the other president.
	Zbignzinski was the president during Carter's administration.
	And Kissinger was there to manage Nixon.
	But the reality is that this is something that the parties are just there to keep you entertained and to keep you fighting amongst yourself so you don't realize they are the issue.
	Police departments nationwide deploy surplus military equipment.
	Homeland Security and ICE conduct raids that look indistinguishable from military operations.
	Surveillance technology powered by Palantir and other private firms tracks the movements of ordinary citizens.
	Protests are met with riot gear, tear gas, and mass arrests.
	The prison state is rapidly expanding.
	Yeah, the conservatives think that it is their key thing.
	They're so proud of their alligator Alcatraz.
	I call it Ali Catraz.
	They're so happy that we've gotten a green light for concentration camps now.
	Just shake my head.
	Trump's $170 billion prison expansion threatens to make incarceration the government's default solution for societal problems.
	Well, it has been for a long time.
	Military power is being recast as domestic policing.
	All of this imagery changes how people imagine power.
	The president who wears a SWAT uniform, even in an AI fantasy, is telling the public, I am not one of you.
	I am over you.
	This is all part of a deliberate strategy to acclimate Americans to authoritarian rule, as all of his actions, I would say, in 2020 were.
	It was to get us acclimated to martial law.
	It was to get us acclimated to the fact that we were not going to be allowed to work, not allowed to have a business.
	If you're a small business, you're not allowed.
	It's only the big guys.
	You are non-essential, said Trump.
	And it was to get us to be acclimated to universal basic income.
	All of that Overton window was moved by Trump, deliberately so.
	The president, as militarized enforcer, becomes a shareable joke, a collectible, a digital poster for the faithful.
	They love this.
	This is how authoritarianism advances, through the slow, steady normalization of force as governance.
	Trump's SWAT imagery is America's warning sign.
	It is the uniform of repression, masquerading as protection.
	It is the costume of a ruler who governs by intimidation, not by law.
	If we fail to see this danger, says John Whitehead, if we laugh it off as mere fantasy, we will wake up one day to find that the fantasy has become reality.
	Again, the drug war is at the heart of this.
	And you look at all of these authoritarian emergency powers.
	What are you even talking about the trade things?
	What did Trump do?
	Well, he resorted to the drug war as an excuse, no matter how absurd.
	Yeah, we got all this fentanyl coming in from Canada.
	No, you don't.
	Everybody knew that was a lie.
	But hey, he just alleges that he's got an issue that he has to fight for the drug war.
	And the same thing is happening in Venezuela.
	As we said on Friday, you want to know what the real rationale is, just take a look at the oil reserves of Venezuela compared even to Saudi Arabia.
	It's number one in terms of proven oil reserves.
	More than 1,900 arrests made in D.C. since the federal takeover of policing.
	And they boast of the illegal guns that they confiscated.
	Pam Bondi is absolutely, without a doubt, one of the worst people to ever be attorney general.
	I thought Ed Meese was bad during the Reagan administration, but she takes the cake.
	She gets a special award for the absolute worst.
	Under the Second Amendment, by the way, to say that they were illegal guns, if you cared about the Second Amendment, Pam Bondi, there wouldn't be any such thing as illegal guns.
	They did their best and got pushback from all the different gun organizations.
	They did their best to impose.
	And it was coming from the Department of Justice, so-called.
	They were the ones who were going to do new rules and regulations.
	Does that sound familiar?
	That's how they were going to ban ownership of guns by trannies.
	Same thing they did with bump stocks.
	And this is, again, Trump is back at it trying to do gun control by executive order when the Constitution clearly prohibits it.
	When the executive branch is not there to write law, they're doing both of those things.
	Trump federalized policing in the nation's capital, and the MAGA media rejoices.
	Oh, this is great.
	He is absolutely a New York City Democrat, if ever there was one.
	Looking at every tragedy as an excuse to infringe on the Second Amendment.
	His economic program is one of taxing and spending our way into prosperity.
	Peter Navarro just was just gushing about how Trump is going to change our economic system more than anybody else.
	And he may be right.
	I'm reminded of Hillary Clinton when she wanted to completely rework the medical system at the beginning of Bill Clinton's administration.
	And it was always change, change, change.
	I said, well, maybe you ought to think about whether the change is good or bad.
	You know, not change for the sake of change.
	That's what you hear from stupid radicals like Hillary Clinton and Peter Navarra.
	Bondi said that since the federalization of police in Washington, there have been 200 illegal guns taken off the street.
	Oh, that's something to celebrate.
	Maybe they could make it a little event where they can drive a tank over them and crush them or something like the gun control advocates always love to do.
	What do you think, Travis?
	You think that the war on drugs and the war on guns are going to work out any differently?
	Well, you know, it's been so incredibly effective so far.
	There's no reason to assume it won't continue to be.
	Yeah.
	It's just.
	Well, you know, it's kind of interesting.
	Trump is out there.
	He wants to make his work.
	He wants to name everything, rename everything, the Gulf of America, right?
	And now he wants to rename the Department of Defense and call it the Department of War.
	It's kind of like a vanity plate for his car.
	Sorry.
	Before we move on from gun control, it's a very hopeful sign about how people are pushing back against Trump on this because to me, this is kind of a microcosm of his entire presidency, the whole gun control for trannies thing.
	It's a method, a lever in which to get conservatives to support tyrannical government overreach.
	He's been able to get conservatives to turn 180 degrees away from the principles just to follow him, hasn't he?
	Exactly.
	And like all the rest of his stuff, he's still pushing the thing that's causing the problem in the schools with all of the tranny nonsense.
	And the solutions that he's presenting wouldn't fix anything.
	Trannies would still be able to get guns if they're going to want to do a mass shooting.
	Having a gun law isn't going to prevent that.
	That's right.
	It's just an obvious ploy to take power.
	Yeah, so far, the guns have been attained legally.
	But they could easily get guns illegally, just like they can get drugs illegally.
	And unfortunately, SSRIs are not illegal.
	When you think about the war on drugs, let's have a war on SSRIs.
	Let's get those things out of there.
	Let's have a war on the mRNA vaccinations.
	Those types of drugs that are literally killing people are not touched.
	Why?
	Because that's being put.
	Of course, the illegal drugs like cocaine and opium and other things like that and crack cocaine, those were a development of the U.S. government itself.
	We were guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan.
	And the Afghanistan production of opium-related things was being crushed by the Taliban.
	Once we got in, it went from like 10% of the world's supply to over 90-plus percent and stayed there.
	Record bumper crops after we went in.
	I guess that's what the CIA wanted from them.
	I said it was two things that Afghanistan had, the ability to do poppy seeds and also massive lithium reserves.
	I felt like that was why they were going to stay there forever.
	But Trump wants to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
	Like I said, it's like a vanity nameplate for a car and like a vanity nameplate for a car.
	We're going to pay dearly for it.
	You and I will pay dearly for it.
	A billion dollars is what this is going to cost because look, nothing in the Pentagon is ever cheap.
	And that includes changing its name.
	You want to change its name and identify it as something else.
	It's not just a simple matter of going in there.
	They got to go through changing it and all these different documents and getting rid of them and so forth.
	So they're going to have to pay somebody to do that.
	When he was asked how much the name change would cost, he said, not a lot.
	A billion dollars may not be a lot to him.
	You know, it doesn't matter to him.
	He's not paying for it anyway.
	Trump signed an executive order yet again Friday afternoon to change the name of the Department of Defense to Department of War to indicate that America has, quote, the strongest military.
	More ego and totalitarian fantasies from this guy.
	That's what this truly is.
	When asked how much we cost, he said, not a lot.
	We know how to rebrand without going crazy.
	So I guess we can just be grateful that it's only a billion dollars since we're talking about the Pentagon here.
	We won World War I and we won World War II, not with the Department of Defense, but with the War Department.
	Yeah, we won those because of different things as well.
	There was so much that was different about our country.
	And they went to great lengths to try to justify those wars, whether or not they were justified.
	And they don't bother to do that anymore.
	They don't bother to go before Congress.
	And so he said, we're not just defense, we're offense, Hegset said.
	Yeah, that's right.
	We have become extremely offensive to the entire world, haven't we?
	Odia says more like it.
	Levi is even having trouble selling it.
	So there's so much anti-Americanism.
	And where'd that come from?
	Trump?
	I mean, just look at Canada.
	Who would have ever thought that Canada would be booing, Canadian fans would be booing the American anthem.
	It took Donald Trump to do that, the world wrestling afectionado, who knows how to stir things up.
	You got something you wanted to say?
	I lost my train of thought.
	That's all right.
	Okay, so let's just, instead, you know, calling it the Department of War, let's call it what it truly is.
	Let's just call it the Global Police Force.
	The GPF.
	That's what they should call it.
	The Global Police Force is what they should.
	It's not a Department of Defense or war.
	We are a police action.
	And that's really what happened.
	You know, when they called it, I think part of what they did, it was Truman who helped to build the national security state.
	He created the NSA with an executive order.
	He nurtured the CIA into its existence from the OSS during World War II.
	And they renamed the Department of War to the Department of Defense.
	Why?
	Well, that was all in line with the thinking of using the Defense Department or the Department of War, using them as a global police force.
	That's really what it is.
	That's why I say if you want to be accurate about it, just call it the Global Police Force.
	That's why it became the National Security State.
	And then under national security rules, everything had to be secret from all of us.
	They needed to know everything about us for, you know, national security.
	But for national security, we can't know anything about them.
	And I have seen that kind of cancer metastasize.
	It's not just about things that the federal government does or things that are related to military or defense industries.
	It's everything.
	I mean, you go talk to people at a local level.
	I can't tell you that.
	The public can't know that.
	That has rotted.
	Our system has rotted from the top down because of this mindset of the national security state to the extent that all of government is closed.
	There's no transparency in government anymore at all, anywhere, at any level.
	When asked on Friday if Congress would codify the name change into law, Trump said, I don't know, but I'm not sure that they have to.
	But he did say, we'll put it before Congress.
	Well, so what are they going to, they used to call the Department of Defense a DOD?
	Are they going to call this a DOW DAO?
	We've already got one Dow that I don't like.
	That's right.
	It's going to be confusing, isn't it?
	And of course, I'm sure that little squeaker Mouse Johnson would do anything that Daddy Trump tells him to do.
	I've never seen a more disgusting sycophant outside of a Tolkien novel.
	He is the grimer worm tongue of Washington, D.C., Mike Johnson.
	Republicans have already introduced legislation in both the House and the Senate to rename the Pentagon the Department of War.
	I think they should rename it the Pentagram.
	That would be more accurate.
	The satanic and what it's doing now.
	Whatever the master wants is going to be what Mike Johnson does.
	Gollum, gollom.
	At his most obsequious.
	Well, you mentioned the 9-11 Memorial.
	Hochul said it belongs to New Yorkers.
	I think they should give it to the CIA and the Pentagon who created the catastrophe.
	Let's acknowledge their role in this.
	At that point, it's more like a trophy.
	Here's your award.
	That's right.
	Yeah, you can put Rudy in charge, like I said before, and his rule would be that nobody can wear masks no matter what, I guess.
	Trump is said to be exploring ways for the federal government to control the 9-11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan.
	She's not happy about that.
	This is a fight over history, and he wants to rewrite history.
	And we've had enough rewriting of what actually happened there, I think, to last for forever.
	But there's been so many ridiculous stories told about 9-11.
	Earlier this year, and the most ridiculous is the government's official story.
	Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced it would lay off most of the staff at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which oversees the World Trade Center Health Program, a decision that was reversed days later following bipartisan outrage.
	So not only did they, with Rudy, did they push these people in who were trying to do search and rescue and cleanup and destroy their health, but now they want to just cut the money off to them as well.
	Around 137,000 first responders and survivors rely on the program to get treatment, medication, for conditions that were caused by Rudy, the exposure to the toxins that swirled around ground zero during 9-11 and the months that followed, so he could manage the cover-up of evidence.
	They will kill people to get their wars.
	They will kill people to get their police in surveillance state.
	And they will kill people to cover up the fact that they kill people.
	And let's not forget that the dust that caused this problem, people had examined it under laboratory conditions and found that it contained thermite.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So there you go.
	They had to get that dust out of there immediately.
	Even if it winds up in people's lungs, it's got to be ground zero.
	Museum officials say the federal government doesn't have the authority to unilaterally take, or doesn't have the power to unilaterally take over the site.
	Well, the federal government doesn't have the authority to do much at all if you look at the 9th and 10th Amendment.
	But they have the power to do anything that they wish.
	And the power is not necessarily the point of a gun.
	The power is coming from the checks that are written from the federal government.
	That's the way they get the power.
	That's what the MAGA people always tried to pretend that Trump didn't have anything to do with what was happening in 2020.
	But he was writing the checks.
	The bucks started with him.
	He was paying everybody.
	He was paying hospitals to kill people, literally, with the ventilators that Peter Navarro forced GM and Ford to make instead of cars.
	It was the money.
	That's what the Declaration of the Emergency was all about.
	It was about releasing those funds, giving them bonuses for all of the COVID patients, the 20%.
	You call that a COVID patient.
	You get a 20% bonus for everything that you do.
	And of course, they got paid handsomely to kill people with the ventilators and Rem Desivir and the rest of this stuff.
	They have the power to do whatever they wish.
	Power, whether it is military power that's being used by the police state or whether it is financial power of writing the checks.
	They have the authority to do none of this.
	That's the reality.
	Well, before we take a break, let's see what people have to say about this.
	We've got lots of comments here, and I want to start out by saying thank you to Choose Crypto.
	He got gifted five subs on Friday, but we didn't get a chance to thank him then.
	So thank you.
	Yes, Choose Crypto.
	Thank you very much.
	And then Cabos 888, the war on drugs, the war on the human being by the government.
	Chev Ken, the so-called dinner at the White House looked more like a World Economic Forum last week.
	Yona Annie Wode, prohibited from smoking a plant, then mandated to take an experimental turbo cancer injection to save job.
	Land of the pharmacy, home of the behaved.
	That's right.
	Narrow Way, Narrowgate Ministries.
	The War on Drugs is simply the cover they use to channel and launder money into the Pharmakea trade of illicit drugs to further advance the fleecing and bondage of America to witchcraft slash sin.
	Absolutely right.
	I mean, just look at the CIA.
	Nothing was ever more obvious than the crack cocaine epidemic that happened.
	That was completely engineered by the CIA and the Pentagon so they could fund their illegal, undeclared war in Central and South America.
	Now we don't even bother.
	Trump just does it.
	It says, stop me if you can.
	Yeah.
	We've got Yonah Annie Wodi, the war on drugs is for market share, not eradication.
	That's right.
	The government doesn't like competition.
	Shelly A. The war on drugs, quote unquote, is about getting rid of the CIA's competition.
	Well said.
	Venezuela is about oil.
	Right?
	Overture.
	If you say you can't ban drugs, then you can't prohibit mRNA vaccines either.
	Well, I think that what I'm talking about is prohibition, to arbitrarily come in with a schedule of five different categories created by the United Nations.
	Don't forget that, okay?
	And to say that we're going to prohibit that.
	And so the reality is, is that, yeah, everything is prohibited unless the government allows it.
	But it's the FDA that is allowing these mRNA drugs.
	And I think that certainly if you wanted to, maybe we could just stop funding them.
	How about that?
	But the reality is, is that, like alcohol prohibition, you had constitutional amendment was required.
	Everybody understood that.
	Where's the constitutional amendment to prohibit any of the rest of this stuff?
	If the government did not authorize and push, Trump spent $250 million to push the MRA poison.
	And if the government didn't do that, whether they banned it or not, it would largely not fail.
	Word of mouth would have killed the mRNA stuff.
	People would not have signed up to participate in a genetic experiment.
	So that's the key thing.
	They need to stop the recommendations of it.
	And that's already starting to happen.
	It should be not sold as a medicine.
	Like, you're banned from selling baby food that has broken glass in it because it's clearly harmful as baby food.
	Well, truth and advertising would be enough.
	If you want to buy apple juice mixed with broken glass, I'm sure someone could sell that.
	I mean, they'd have to have a lot of warning labels, but it should be something similar here where it's clearly labeled and not sold as medicine.
	Yeah, the problem that we have is the fraud of the FDA, the fraud of the FDA telling people this has been tested and approved when it hasn't.
	And the advertising that was done, the promotion of it that was done, the mandating of these things.
	That's all coming from the government.
	The government is pushing these things on us.
	We don't have to go full prohibition like the other drugs do.
	But be honest about it and talk about it being fraudulent.
	And if you've got a harmful product, I mean, do we have to have a constitutional amendment to ban a crib that they've had three babies die with?
	Perhaps, maybe, if we really want to stick to the Constitution, we do.
	That should be like a state-by-state thing instead of a federal thing.
	Nevertheless, when somebody makes a product that kills people, and there's no question about that with mRNA, that should be stopped one way or the other.
	Certainly not promoted and mandated, which is what's happening with Trump and Biden and the rest of them, Democrats and Republicans.
	Yeah, and you mentioned the cradle that gets banned.
	Thing is, they aren't going to have SWAT teams bust down the doors of houses that are suspected to be holding on to those cradles.
	Yeah.
	Not yet, anyway.
	Give them time.
	I'm sure that Peter Noaro and Stephen Miller are working on that, how they can do that.
	We've got Defy Tirement 1776.
	Anybody who says illegals don't deserve any due process or God-given rights has no idea what they are asking for.
	Totally blinded by ideology.
	Not even by ideology, but by devotion to a man.
	Because, again, they've been whipped up into a frenzy with this manufactured problem of massive immigration.
	That was manufactured by both Republicans and Democrats.
	And there are other ways to address this rather than with a police state thing.
	As I said for the longest time, stop the welfare magnet.
	And you might want to put economic sanctions on employers if they hire people.
	So there's a lot of different things that you could do.
	You don't have to have mandatory e-verify.
	You don't have to have these goons crashing everywhere with masks on and throwing people into concentration camps.
	Malutin Milankovic, between the left and right, it's still death by 1,000 cuts.
	Yeah, or death by 1,000 cults.
	NarrowAway, narrowgate ministries.
	In all fairness, the department was always called the War Department up until World War II when after they changed it to the Department of Defense to further hide the MIC, military industrial complex, behind a softer tone.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And that's also, as they changed its mission, from fighting wars to being the global police force.
	We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit more about the thing is, is it a good thing that they're no longer pretending to be the good guys?
	Like at least the Department of Defense might not have been accurate, but at least it was aspirational.
	Yeah, well, the problem is now that because there's such a personality cult that even if they admit what they're doing, the MAGA people still cheer them.
	I just, I'm disgusted with social media anymore.
	I don't participate in it.
	All right, when we come back, we're going to take a look at what's going on in Venezuela, because that's going to be the next place that Trump is going to wage his wars as well.
	Like I said, we're going to have he wants to try to push a civil war here, but he wants to push wars everywhere.
	We'll be right back.
	Thanks
	to the David Knight Show.
	Welcome back.
	We have Jim Quinn.
	His blog is called The Burning Platform.
	And Jim talks a lot about the fourth turning.
	I do too.
	And he's got another article about the fourth turning.
	He says, World War III is inevitable.
	Compromise isn't an option during the fourth turning.
	And that's what we're seeing more and more of.
	Nobody wants to compromise on anything.
	Nobody wants to be under the rule of law.
	There's at the end of the fourth turning, the end of four generations.
	People are thoroughly disgusted with the institutions, which by that time, the institutions that were created after the last fourth turning have now been seen to be totally corrupt and ineffective.
	And part of that is what happens economically.
	And as part of the desire to rid themselves of the institutions, people are not interested in compromise.
	They're not interested in rearranging the deck chairs.
	They want to sink the Titanic.
	So he said, fourth turnings never fizzle out.
	They build to a crescendo of death and destruction.
	Is there any indication whatsoever that we are not on a course towards all-out war?
	And as a matter of fact, there was a video from the American ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1987 to 1991.
	He was there at the time that the Soviet Union, depending on your perspective, either collapsed or was rebranded.
	He talked about the assurances that were given to the Russians at that time regarding NATO.
	There is one other factor here that we seem to be forgetting.
	And we did, though it was not a legally binding assurance, we gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev back when the Soviet Union existed that if a united Germany was able to stay in NATO, NATO would not be moved eastward.
	And, you know, I think that the current Russian government is very clear about that.
	But that assurance was given to the Soviet Union.
	That is right.
	It's not a legally binding, but it was, you might say, a geopolitical deal.
	Yeah, a geopolitical deal that our government reneged on, just like they reneged on all the treaties they made with the Indians and the treaty that they made with us, the Constitution.
	They reneged on all those deals.
	Jeffrey Sachs is talking about the threat of NATO.
	And Russia has its security interests.
	Now we have the return of the most primitive kind of russophobia imaginable.
	So Europe meets, as you know, every two or three days in terror of Russia with these fools around the table without talking to the Russians at all.
	And so it is this self-fulfilling, grandiose, delusional sense of power and vulnerability together and thinking that the United States will pull them out of, bail them out, pull them out of this fire and protect them from the Russian bearer.
	And as you said completely rightly, this incredibly stupid set of demands, for example, on India, which I think is probably the single stupidest, single stupidest moment of foreign policy of modern America that I know of.
	That was promoted by the Europeans.
	So you were completely right to point out that, yes, Lindsey Graham had the idea, quote unquote.
	Donald Trump implemented it, but the Europeans were desperate for it.
	Secondary tariffs, secondary sanctions, stop the Indians.
	So all of it is such a bad misreading of history, of current events, of tying yourself in knots, of failing to look at a map, of failing to do the most basic arithmetic of world population or technology or industrial production or direction of trade.
	And if you just watch these people, they don't know anything.
	And they don't want to learn anything.
	And they don't want to hear anything.
	And especially in Europe, the most desperate thing is, for God's sake, don't talk to the other side.
	It may be a little annoying.
	And so we actually have a spectacle of grown people like Starmer Mertz Macron, grown people that won't even have a discussion with President Putin.
	Not a talk, not an idea, not an honest exchange, only, okay, I won't go on.
	It's a rant.
	Yeah, because they want war.
	As Geral Sunti always says, when all else fails, they take you to war.
	That's what happens during a fourth turning.
	All else fails.
	Every fourth turning has a massive economic component to it.
	And usually it also has war because it's a wag the dog type of thing.
	Don't get mad at me.
	You know, we got Putin out there that can be the piñata that they all hit.
	And now in France, you've got Macron and his so-called health minister is telling people, we'll get into this more detail later on, but he's saying that all the French hospitals need to be prepared for massive casualties next year and next spring, actually.
	So not even that far away.
	And they need to be able to handle 50,000 casualties a day.
	He's looking for a massive war that he wants to fight.
	And everything that they do, you know, don't judge them by what they're saying.
	For example, Trump says he wants to be the peace guy.
	He wants a Nobel Prize.
	Judge him by what he does.
	He's still giving arms to Ukraine to strike further into Russia.
	He is not a neutral arbiter.
	He is a provocateur.
	That's what all these people in NATO are.
	That's what NATO has been.
	NATO was always set up to oppose Russia.
	And even when the Soviet Union fell, they still, their mission was to oppose Russia.
	And understand just how dangerous and corrupt NATO is.
	Go back sometime and look at Operation Gladio.
	Steve Pachenek, by the way, was instrumental in that.
	That was a wave of terrorism in Europe, especially in Italy, some in Germany.
	And it was actually NATO operatives pretending that they were communists because the left and the communists were making gains in Europe at the time, kind of like Ma'am Danny, if that's how you pronounce his name, up in New York, is doing.
	So they had them scared.
	And so what they did was they activated the networks that they had trained to operate as guerrillas and forces that be left behind to fight an occupying Russian invasion.
	So they started attacking politicians and corporate heads and things like that with violent terrorist actions.
	They kidnapped the prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro.
	And Henry Kissinger sent his disciple, Steve Pachenek, Alex Jones' favorite source of intel, sent Steve Pachinik to Italy to talk to Aldo Morrow.
	And the Italian government investigating the execution of Aldo Moro determined that after Steve Pachenek visited that Aldo Morrow, he reckoned that Aldo Moro had figured out who these guys were.
	So he had to be disposed of.
	Look at that kind of ruthless false flag stuff and tell me that we need to be in NATO.
	NATO is the greatest threat to peace in the world right now.
	It's not Putin.
	It's not Xi.
	It's not even Trump.
	It's NATO.
	And of course, Trump is intricately involved with that.
	The former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said the UK has sent Ukraine $1.3 billion obtained as profit from the use of frozen Russian assets.
	Think about that.
	This has been Trump as well as Biden.
	Trump now has a deal.
	He wants them to use the assets that they quote-unquote froze that they seized from Russia to buy weapons from the United States to rearm themselves in Europe for war again.
	And because Europe has been in a constant state of war pretty much for millennia, and there's been a short period of peace after World War II because it was so horrific.
	But now Trump is there to get them to rearm.
	That's the only thing he was.
	talking about when he said, well, maybe we'll just get out of NATO if these guys don't want to spend enough money buying arms from us to rearm.
	And that was all preparation, in my opinion, for what was coming with Ukraine.
	But when you look at the result of this, Travis, what do we see with the system that we got here?
	Trump and Biden, with their sanctions, with seizing assets and everything, they're using the same kinds of illegal tactics that they use in the war on drugs.
	And people have looked at this and said, these guys are just a gang of thugs.
	I don't want to participate in their system.
	So you've got the BRICS and other countries are looking to set up a different system that doesn't involve the West's control of SWIFT and the rest of this stuff and doesn't involve the petrodollar.
	They've kind of shot themselves in the foot.
	The people are sick of our swaggering, bullying foreign policy.
	And there was a time where they just had to take it.
	I've said this before, but post-World War II, there was about 50 years where if the United States said jump, other countries were kind of required to just go, all right, how high?
	That's not the case anymore.
	And that's gone on so long that American officials have, they've just grown accustomed to this, and it's made them monsters in the way that they think.
	It's also made them incredibly bad at crafting foreign policy.
	They become so used to this, as I've said and other people have said, this swaggering bullying.
	We've got the biggest stick, so we don't have to actually know what we're doing.
	It doesn't matter how bad we screw up.
	It doesn't matter how incompetent we are.
	You're going to bear the consequences.
	So whatever we say, you're going to have to deal with it.
	And they don't understand how to actually craft foreign policy anymore.
	They don't understand how to actually liaise with other countries.
	And so they're just pulling away and saying, we're done.
	We're not going to deal with you anymore.
	They're not trying to build consensus.
	They're just issuing orders.
	Medvedev said, British thieves have handed over Russian money to the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
	And Trump is a big part of this while he's pretending that he is for peace.
	He's always a part of this.
	So Jim Quinn said the path has been set for the fourth turning.
	It's now when and not if.
	And yes, it has for a long time.
	Interesting, as you look at the pattern of history, the cyclical pattern of history, how Strauss and Howe, their first book, Generations, and we still use their terminology, the millennials, and we constantly talk about this generation, that generation, Generation Z and all the rest of this stuff.
	But nobody likes to talk about the fourth turning in the mainstream media.
	And these guys in early 90s, when they wrote their book, The Fourth Turning, they said there's going to be some kind of global economic catastrophe in the mid-2000s.
	That was 2007, 2008, the big pump and dump.
	And that is going to begin the fourth turning.
	And it'll conclude sometime about 2029.
	And I think that is, these people understand that.
	That's why they are angling for all their 2030 smart cities and all the rest of this stuff.
	They want to destroy everything, rebuild it back into their dystopian nightmare of their 2030 plans, that you see the World Economic Forum talking about constantly.
	Now, as we look at what's happening in Venezuela and the attitudes of these people, Vance defending this cartel boat strike, which I had a problem with from the very first time I saw it.
	He said, since when do we just blow boats out of the water?
	We don't even stop and verify what we're doing.
	I mean, how could that possibly go wrong?
	When someone complained about that on social media, Vance came back and said, I don't give a sh ⁇ .
	That's what he said.
	And Rand Paul called him out on that, as a matter of fact.
	And not on just his language, but on the fact that he doesn't care about the rule of law.
	That's what we're really talking about here.
	So, again, remember that this is an alleged drug-carrying boat.
	So the U.S. destroyed what Trump described as, quote, a drug-carrying boat.
	Well, they suspected that it was.
	And even if that suspicion is well-founded, you don't get to shoot first.
	I mean, are we going to start having this situation where, oh, I see a carload of Mexican adults and anything, and they don't speak English.
	So let's just machine gun them all to death because we think they're illegal aliens.
	They're probably connected with some drug organization, human trafficking thing.
	So let's just kill them all.
	That has been the case, as I pointed out on Friday, of the Philippine president, Dutarte.
	That's how he ran his war on drugs.
	And that is eventually where this stuff is all going to go.
	He just told the police, if you suspect somebody's a drug dealer, shoot to kill.
	Shoot them on the streets.
	They killed 12,000 people that way.
	Extrajudicial killings, which means not that you get extra due process.
	It means you don't get it's outside of due process and the rules of law.
	Vance praised the strike, saying, quote, killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.
	Do you know that?
	You suspect that.
	You never verified that.
	You're not fit for office, Vance.
	Besides being somebody who is out there, you know, pretending that he is against Biden's mandates for the warp speed vaccine.
	And yet he's out there funding a company that's doing self-amplifying mRNA.
	He has no authority to talk about any of this stuff.
	He's the biggest liar and hypocrite, just like Trump.
	Also, the stopping of drugs is the best and highest use of the military, not anything actually related to military matters or defense.
	It's stopping drug war stuff, police matters.
	Yeah.
	Well, they started calling it.
	It shouldn't even be police matters.
	Yeah, they started calling it a drug war because this is what I think they had in mind all along.
	So he said, yeah, so they're going to use it to stop the violence in Chicago streets as well.
	You know, in this second prohibition, remember during the first prohibition of alcohol, you had the rise of gangs like Al Capone and rivals.
	How did they compete with their rivals?
	Well, they machine gunned them on the street, and innocent people were killed as well.
	And really, if you look at the gang violence that's happening in Chicago, it's still related to drugs, but they are not going to address the original problem, just like they will ban, try to ban guns for trannies or something without looking at the SSRIs, without looking at the corrupt government institutions, the schools that are gaslighting these kids on gender and making them crazy.
	Brian Krassenstein said killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.
	And he's 100% right.
	And that was what Vance was replying to.
	He says, well, I don't give a shit what you call it.
	Well, there's the people in the Trump administration.
	It's unfortunate there's no enforcement mechanism for international war crimes.
	And that's why they're doing this kind of stuff because they can, right?
	Well, many Trump supporters backed Vance.
	Senator Ram Paul then spoke up, good for him, and said, your remarks are despicable and thoughtless.
	You know, that's the scary thing about the MAGA people, what a cultic mindset they are, and how that has caused them to abandon every principle that they ever had, including their own of self-preservation, because these types of rules and actions that they're cheering now will be used against them in the days to come.
	Hagseth, who is a professing Christian, doesn't rule out regime change in Venezuela.
	Well, you know, when you talk about, he's a big promoter of Christian nationalism.
	Let's just understand that these guys need to remove the adjective Christian.
	It's just nationalism.
	And they're using Christ for their own means.
	And it's despicable to see this.
	They don't agree with any of the principles of Christ.
	They don't agree with the Christian principles of a justified war.
	They just want war.
	That's it.
	And they'll do whatever.
	And they don't care about anything.
	The rule of law, the rule of God, they don't care about any of that.
	And so Hakeseth is bragging about all of the assets that he's got in the air, the water, and on ships and everything.
	And he said, it won't stop with just a strike.
	Anyone else in those waters can face the same fate.
	Yeah, that's the problem.
	You know, the gang that can't shoot straight, but does shoot at everybody.
	When asked if the goal was regime change in Venezuela, Hakeseth said, well, that's a presidential decision.
	So if the president decides to violate the Constitution, Hagseth is willing to carry that out.
	That's what he's saying.
	He stands ready to violate Christian principles, moral law, the Constitution, and the rule of law if the president tells him to.
	And this president is just the guy to do it.
	I just gotta say, you know, war is when the government tells you who the enemy is.
	A revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.
	That's really what's going on with these people.
	But Trump then escalates this, saying, you know, we had some Venezuelan planes flying because you're there.
	I don't know if they're in Venezuelan waters or if they're in international waters, but due to the proximity of it being by Venezuela, they have more of a right to fly around there than the American ships do.
	And so he says, if we perceive anything they do as a threat, we will shoot them down.
	And so he threatens them.
	So again, it's like going into this area, putting a chip on your shoulder and saying, go ahead, knock it off.
	You know, this is the kind of bully that America has become.
	Pentagon officials said a Venezuelan plane flew over the U.S. destroyer Jason Dunham for the second time.
	Well, you know, they have a right to defend themselves as well.
	And again, is it in international waters or is it in Venezuelan waters?
	The U.S. strike on a, quote, drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela, unquote, operated allegedly by a drug trafficking gang, assuming that they weren't military, could be classified as an extrajudicial killing in international waters with no warning issued or any attempt to intercept.
	And of course, this differs quite a bit from the policy that the U.S. has been following in this 54-year-old war on drugs.
	Here's an example.
	I mean, at the same time, this is happening there.
	You have the U.S. Coast Guard seizing a record 40,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific.
	This is the old school drug war.
	That's why what's happening in Venezuela has nothing to do with drug war.
	It has nothing to do with the drug war, just like the Canadian tariffs had nothing to do with fentanyl coming out of Canada.
	Just another Trump lie.
	The Coast Guard has seized an unprecedented 40,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific, releasing striking images of crew members standing watch over a burning vessel.
	But, you know, they actually stopped the ship.
	They validated that it had cocaine, which they have claimed they have legal authority to police.
	And then they set the ship on fire.
	But you notice that they didn't kill all the crew.
	What would you think if they had stopped it, validated that it was something that violated their self-declared war on drugs, and then lined the crew up on the side of the ship and machine gun them?
	Because that's essentially what they did in Venezuela.
	It just all happened all at once.
	Would have been better than what they did in Venezuela.
	That would have been a lot more investigation.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	They would have verified that it was and then kill everybody.
	Trump just killed everybody without any verification, just on alleged suspicion.
	That is what is so incredibly dangerous about that.
	And understand, folks, that when they operate that way in other places, they will operate that way at home.
	Madison said that the weapons of war abroad become the tools of tyranny at home.
	And we have seen, as I said before, the Philippine president did exactly the same thing.
	Yeah, and let's not forget that the justification is, well, they're terrorists.
	And Vance said, this is a good thing to blow them up because just arresting them wasn't working.
	So therefore, if someone's declared terrorists and doing normal police matters for something that is a crime isn't working, it's therefore okay to just use legal force.
	Yeah, the war on drugs will never work.
	It is just for the same reason that the war on alcohol never worked either.
	It's not to say that either of those things are good.
	The arrest of 36 suspected drug smugglers and an average interdiction of over 1,600 pounds of cocaine per day.
	So this is what the Coast Guard is doing.
	They're seizing cocaine.
	They're arresting people.
	But Trump now has decided he's going to change the rules of engagement.
	And remember, he's not yet said this is about regime change.
	I mean, that really is what is happening.
	But he has no respect whatsoever for life, liberty, or the rule of law.
	So Rand Paul replied to that and he said, when Vance said that is the highest and best use of the military, Rand Paul said, did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?
	Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?
	What a despicable, thoughtless sentiment to glorify killing someone without a trial.
	Yeah.
	And just remember, all you MAGA fan club members that you could be labeled a terrorist.
	As a matter of fact, most of us were in the last few years.
	So, yeah, you got some videos for that.
	Let's play those videos.
	There we go.
	...invoke to strike that boat full of drug smugglers.
	We have the absolute and complete authority to conduct that.
	First of all, just the defense of the American people alone.
	100,000 Americans were killed...
	You don't have the authority.
	Each year under the previous administration because of an open border and open drug traffic plot.
	That is an assault on the American people.
	Every boatload of any form of drug that poisons the American people is an imminent threat.
	And at the DOD, our job is to defeat eminent threats.
	We knew exactly who they were, exactly what they were doing, what they represented, and why they were going where they were going.
	Well, he may not have read Tom Clancy's novel, Clear and Present Danger, and he may not have read the Bible, but that's the same argument that they're using for this stuff.
	It's also especially scary that the war on drugs obviously has never worked.
	It was never meant to work.
	It was always just an excuse to get more power.
	And now it's, well, it hasn't worked, so therefore we need military taking over police enforcement and being able to kill people on site without any trial.
	Yeah, they had already tried it with alcohol prohibition.
	They knew that force and interdiction wasn't going to work if people wanted those demand for the substance or whatever.
	So as it continues to fail, how does government respond every time something fails?
	They always say, well, you know, we dropped the ball here.
	The reason we dropped the ball was you just didn't give us enough resources.
	You didn't give us enough power.
	So we need to grow the government so that next time we can handle this properly.
	And that's what they're constantly doing.
	It is a metastasizing cancer, taking us to a police and surveillance state.
	That's what its intention was.
	You're absolutely right, Lance.
	That was its intention from the beginning.
	On Ross's story, the headline, Trump just became a murderer.
	Let's say it like it is.
	When the Supreme Court says Trump is above the law, who speaks for the 11 people killed in the Caribbean?
	As they blew up that boat, Trump simply ordered human beings erased, confident that the court had given him immunity from any consequences, and the leaders of his military would obey an illegal order, which you just heard from Hexeth.
	11 souls were sacrificed, not just to his cruelty and his ego, but to a judicial betrayal that transformed the presidency into a license to kill.
	For most of our history, American presidents have at least gone through the motions of cloaking lethal force in some form of legal justification.
	Many of them would always pretend to be faithful to their wives while they were doing exactly the opposite as well.
	That's why I said character matters in a president because they're going to be sorely tested when that power is handed to them.
	And if they've shown in their personal life that they cannot handle the temptation, that they don't have the character to stand by their wife, that they don't have the acumen to run even a casino at a profit.
	What's going to happen with the Trump presidency?
	And just like he violated his oath to his first two wives and his third wife as well, he has violated his oath to the Constitution and to all of us.
	Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, but he sought approval from Congress.
	FDR went to Congress for the Lynn-Lease program before he escalated the war and got us involved with Britain.
	And George W. Bush and Barack Obama leaned heavily on the flimsy excuse for the authorization of military force after 9-11 to escalate wars in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, so forth.
	The principle has always been that the U.S. does not simply kill people without some kind of a legal process.
	They always pretend.
	The thing that's new about Trump is he doesn't even care to pretend that he's got any legal justification for it.
	It's just, I say it's an emergency.
	That means that I can do anything I want.
	I can declare any emergency that I want, no matter how detached from reality that is, and then I can do anything I want, no matter how detached from the constitutional rule of law that is.
	He gave the order to kill 11 human beings with no congressional approval, no international authorization, and no visible evidence justifying it.
	This is simply murder on the high seas, and the world knows it.
	He did it in the full knowledge that six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have granted him immunity for crimes committed while in office, even international crimes.
	That ruling opened the door to precisely this sort of extrajudicial killing, stripped away one of the last guardrails protecting both our law and our global standing.
	Well, the reality is I don't blame the Supreme Court as much as I blame the people who voted for Trump.
	They knew what he was before they voted for him the first time.
	They had seen what he was when they voted for him in 2020.
	And now they did it again, many of them, in 2024.
	He has shown us over and over again what he is.
	The possibility makes the strike even more chilling when paired with a story that Miles Taylor has told about Trump's senior advisor, Stephen Miller.
	Taylor recounts traveling with Miller and a Coast Guard Admiral after a drug war event in Key West.
	Miller asked the Admiral if it'd be legal to use a predator drone to obliterate a boat full of migrants in international waters.
	Miller's reasoning was that migrants weren't covered by the Constitution.
	So what was to stop us from blowing them out of the water?
	This is the mindless godset of these authoritarians.
	The Admiral reportedly shot back that it would violate international law, said, quote, you cannot kill unarmed civilians just because you want to.
	Well, it turns out that they can because who enforces this, right?
	These people are godless, like I said.
	They don't believe that they will ever answer to any higher authority, but they will.
	And we know that they will.
	God will enforce this with them eventually.
	It's an alarming glimpse, however, into the sadistic mind of a man who sees immigrants as less than human, Stephen Miller.
	It now looks like Trump has taken Miller's reported hypothetical and turned it into a policy.
	What was once an outrageous musing has become a bloody precedent.
	This has profound legal and moral implications.
	Trump risked triggering a direct military confrontation.
	Well, direct military confrontation with Venezuela is exactly what he wants.
	Like I said, he's gone down there as a bully with a chip on his shoulder, daring them to knock it off.
	And of course, if you just look at Venezuela, it's hopelessly incompetent.
	It's run by communists.
	They have more oil resources than any other country in the world, proven resources.
	They have about 17 to 18 percent of the world's proven oil resources.
	Saudi Arabia has 15 to 16 percent.
	If you want to have some kind of a petrodollar, because look, oil is not dead.
	Oil is practical.
	It is necessary.
	It's going to remain practical and necessary for a very, very long time.
	And in spite of all the crazy environmentalists.
	But the real danger is that Russia and China know this as well.
	Do you think that they would be happy to support Venezuela in a war against America?
	You better believe they would.
	And as this writer points out, if they do that, we're going to have a recreation of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1960.
	They're going to have forces that are going to be down there.
	Same type of thing.
	And it's going to be Trump's doing.
	But Trump, of course, will see that as an aggression.
	That'll be used to push us into World War III or something like it.
	Could be used that way.
	At home, the timing is impossible to ignore.
	Authoritarians throughout history have turned to foreign crises to distract from domestic scandals.
	Yeah, wag the dog.
	As I point out, he's got his own wag the dog issue.
	Bill Clinton had Monica Lewinsky.
	Trump has got Jeffrey Epstein.
	And it is, in terms of its magnitude and its corruption, is actually far worse than, of course, Clinton is involved with Epstein as well.
	That's what happens with these sex addicts.
	But it is something that is far more reaching in the sense of the scandal and the cover-up and how it's been embraced by the GOP that stands for Guarding Our Pedophiles.
	Mouse Johnson is the guy who will do anything to keep things secret for Trump.
	If new evidence were to surface with the Epstein thing, and of course it is new evidence that is surfacing all the time.
	Evidence, and we have some more indications and some lies coming out of that over the weekend.
	The Department of Justice, so-called Justice, has pushed back against NBC News in the trial that was rigged to the benefit of Epstein.
	And of course, when you look at all the people that were in Epstein's orbit that are also very, very, very important in Trump's orbit, it truly is amazing.
	Well, one of the things that Johnson came out with, he said, well, you know, Trump was actually on the side of the FBI during all this stuff.
	He was operating as an informant for Epstein.
	I've said for the longest time that I believe that Trump was the one who initially ratted out Epstein, not because he had any moral concerns about what he was doing.
	He'd been hanging around with the guy for 15 years.
	He was perfectly fine with what was going on, had participated in it, quite frankly.
	But it was because of their, they had a war of greed.
	The two of them wanted the same property.
	And that was, you know, Trump wound up getting that.
	And somebody mysteriously pointed the finger at Jeffrey Epstein, and that began the trial that happened in Florida.
	But then, of course, they brought in the big guys and they gave him a sweetheart deal.
	And Trump gave that prosecutor a sweetheart deal, making him his Secretary of Labor in his first administration.
	Now it was the FBI informant who took him down after 15 years of hanging out and being best buddies.
	It happened right after their falling out, but don't worry about that.
	He was really fighting for America.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I think it was Massey who said, okay, so now you're going to tell us that Trump was an informant, but Trump says this is all a hoax.
	So how do you square these two things?
	That's what I mean.
	Liars like Miles Johnson can't keep their stories straight.
	Neither can Trump.
	There was a cartoon that I saw on social media where Trump is sitting down for an interview and they got the speech bubbles.
	And the guy says, you've told 36,000 lies.
	Which one is your favorite one?
	And Trump says, I don't lie.
	And he goes, yeah, that's my favorite one, too.
	So if America embraces this new Putin-like assertion of America's power to bomb anybody anywhere on the whim of the president, as we saw with the disastrous SEAL operation, we will have abandoned any claim to moral leadership.
	Well, we did that long, long, long ago.
	Anyone the president labels an enemy can be eliminated without trial.
	And think about when the Democrats do that.
	That's what the MAGA people just can't think.
	You want to talk about 40 chests?
	These people can't think about the very next move, even in checkers.
	You know, this is the ultimate, I don't know how to play the game thing.
	If you're going to give these kinds of powers to Trump, they're going to be the kind of powers that Democrats have at some point.
	The real test is here at home.
	Do we still believe in the principle famously cited by John Adams that America is a nation of laws and not of men?
	Do we still insist that presidents cannot kill at will?
	If Trump can strike a boat off Venezuela today, what is to stop him from ordering lethal force against dissidents, protesters, or political opponents tomorrow?
	All he has to do is label them as terrorists because that was the justification down there.
	Hex has said, we've got assets in the air, as I said before.
	This is deadly serious for us, and we're not going to stop at this.
	And little Marco Rubio, same thing, says it will happen again.
	If Congress doesn't act now, you think Mike Johnson, this shameless sycophant who covers up for Epstein, even, you think he's going to do anything to stop this?
	If Congress doesn't act now to confront and contain the lawless behavior, we have surrendered not just our moral authority, but our future.
	That's right.
	It'll come back to get us.
	And again, why do we think that if Trump supports genocide in Gaza, why do you think that he would have any problem killing 11 people?
	We had Israelis that he is supporting and arming killed and starved 87 more Palestinians in Gaza over just the last 24 hours.
	It's worse than Chicago, Trump.
	This is, you know, in Chicago, you might have 50 people shot over the weekend, but there's not a deliberate policy of containment and starvation.
	They're not dropping bombs on these people.
	You support that in Gaza.
	You have no rationale whatsoever to complain about the crime in Chicago.
	That, by the way, is about the drug gangs that you guys created.
	All these drug gangs were creations of the drug war, just like Al Capone was a creation of alcohol prohibition.
	On Thursday, Israeli forces killed 84 Palestinians, wounded 338 over the previous 24-hour period.
	Even IDF members were refusing to go back and participate in this.
	Meanwhile, Venezuela's currency is a basket case.
	Their inflation is 229%.
	And again, this shows what happens when you have a centrally planned economy run by incompetent people.
	And that's the one thing that Trump shares with Maduro.
	He's an incompetent businessman who wants to run the country, central planning.
	He and Peter Navarro, if they get their way, they will do to our economy what this dictator has done to Venezuela.
	So, again, they're turning to stable coins there, as if the U.S. dollar is stable.
	As Solentke talked about on Friday, there are some people talking about doing a stable coin that would be stable.
	It would be backed by gold.
	The problem is that it's still tokenization.
	It's still digital.
	And I don't want to participate in any kind of tokenization.
	I think some of us learned our lesson when we watched what happened in 2007 and 2008 when they tokenized real estate.
	Real estate is about as real as you get.
	And they were able to turn that into a fiction with their financial games of tokenization.
	Before we take a break, Travis, what do we got here in terms of comments?
	We have a lot of comments, and let's start with Guard Goldsmith and Trump, just like they were in FLA, talking red flag-style statutes.
	We do the due process later is not due process.
	That's right.
	Also says, I wonder if Venezuelan boaters might start flying the Israeli flag.
	Perhaps Trump won't blow them up.
	He'll hand them weapons instead.
	That's right.
	Narrow way, narrow key.
	Ministries.
	The government does what it does because it can.
	All three branches are compromised.
	Beholden to the beast, to the Rothschilds.
	The Constitution is dead since 1913, but used for their purposes.
	Yonah Annie Wodi, if drug makers could be sued for injuries and deaths like any other producer, manufacturer, perhaps things would be different.
	Make it so they're able to be held responsible.
	Knights of the storm, good to see you.
	Don't forget about the war on the First Amendment during COVID: censorship on media platforms.
	Yeah, they were really cranking that down.
	You couldn't say anything.
	If you did, you were banned immediately.
	Skunk Hollow Rosegarden, Trump is Kamala in drag.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative, when Ukraine bombs Russia, Trump is silent.
	When Russia bombs Ukraine, Trump wants more sanctions.
	The bias is obvious.
	Fonzie Bear.
	It's just like that thing you're saying of trying to negotiate peace talks when you've got a very obvious bias is like having a referee that starts throwing punches at one of the fighters mid-fight.
	Poor judge, I guess.
	Well, you know, that's, again, you know, his big thing was World WWE, the wrestling professional thing.
	That type of stuff would happen in the wrestling stuff.
	You know, all kinds of crazy things would happen.
	Managers are getting the fight and all the rest of the stuff.
	It's Trump with a $5 billion drone program.
	We've got Fonzie Bear.
	Now we know the Cold War was just another psyop.
	Audi MRR, good to see you.
	Hope you're well.
	There's a reason that applicants with high IQs are disqualified from law enforcement.
	They want intellectually limited, non-apathetic, illogical order followers who enjoy bullying other men.
	And you're right.
	And that, Audi, is absolutely right.
	I remember there was a court case where a guy said that they refused to hire him because they were looking for people who had below average intelligence.
	And it was he found the policy where they specifically said that you tested too highly on your score.
	And we saw that during COVID.
	They pushed people out of the military who had religious or constitutional principles.
	You know, especially if you had both.
	They gave you the door real quickly.
	Get out of here.
	We don't want you.
	And don't come back.
	Skunk Hollow Rose Garden, suspected is enough for the death penalty.
	Sure seems like it now.
	The real OctoSpook, police have had decades to stop drugs.
	They failed.
	Next tool in the shed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the thing is, they didn't really fail at what they were trying to do, which is police state.
	This is the next step in the obvious process.
	It's very much like the Department of Education.
	The Department of Education didn't fail teaching Johnny to read and write.
	They don't want Johnny to read and write.
	They want Johnny on drugs and sex.
	It's a brave new world.
	So that's the purpose.
	It's working exactly as intended.
	Its purpose is just completely horrifying.
	We've got Stealth Patriot.
	Thank you very much for the tip, Stealth Patriot.
	We really do appreciate it.
	Off topic, but Friday is when you were talking about RFK Jr. in front of Congress.
	One thing I noticed is he failed to mention Congress gave themselves and their staff immunity from vaccine mandates.
	I wonder why.
	That would have been a really good comeback.
	He should have mentioned that.
	I wonder why they would do that when it's so safe and effective.
	He was loaded with bear to come after them for the money that they had taken, but he didn't want to talk about that.
	Pigeon Verse 2.
	I can now go blow up boats off the coast of Venezuela with no fear of persecution by the USA.
	They might be reserving that for themselves.
	Let's bring back privateers.
	I mean, why not?
	The big problems are that they're too brutal, but hey, you're just going to kill everyone anyway, and they go after the wrong people.
	But hey, who cares?
	Yeah, what if they go in and take over Venezuela and give the government a share of the oil that they operate?
	Don't give them any ideas.
	That's kind of the way we operate anyway, right?
	As Smedley Butler said, I just realized I was fighting all these wars in Central and South America for the United Fruit Company.
	I guess Alex Jones forgot about Smedley Butler when he cheered and said we'd had all of our victories in Latin America.
	Maybe you should read up on history, Alex.
	You seem to have forgotten all the things that you ever talked about.
	Moganesia, I guess.
	It's kind of a form of amnesia when you start cheering Trump.
	Cabos 888.
	What Vance cares about is how much he is going to make with the technocracy after he's out of office.
	The moment you see someone constantly change their name, that should be a red flag about who he is.
	Yeah.
	Mr. Palm, 10-11.
	So much for the doctrine of the lesser magistrate.
	Knights of the storm.
	I wonder how many fish OD'd on fentanyl by now.
	The poor fishies do not obey.
	Who's been more destructive to we the people, Brandon or Miracle Ear?
	We're just the same theater as usual.
	Miracle Ear's pretty good.
	Yeah.
	Occulti Sim.
	Did Johnson and Johnson make fentanyl?
	I don't know who.
	I think it was made by a pharmaceutical company that came up with the formulation.
	I know it is actually used in hospitals and things.
	Johnson and Johnson created the opioid epidemic, and actually, you know, the Sackler family and Purdue Pharmaceutical did the most to distribute it and everything, but they were not actually doing manufacturing.
	Johnson Johnson manufactured the opioid stuff for Sackler.
	And again, I've had people contact me and say, well, I've had to take that as pain medication.
	It was good.
	And it's a very different thing if you take it for pain medication or if you take it for recreation.
	But the key thing is that even for pain medication, you had a lot of people like the story that Chris Christie told of a lawyer that he knew very well, very successful, married, and so forth.
	And he, unlike Chris Christie, was even working out.
	I should laugh because I don't work out.
	But anyway, this guy's out jogging and he hurts his back.
	And he was in a great deal of pain.
	And he was prescribed opioids because that's what the pharmaceutical companies are pushing on the physicians.
	He got addicted to the opioids, and it first destroyed his career, then destroyed his family, and he wound up committing suicide.
	And so Chris Christie's conclusion was: therefore, we need to come after marijuana.
	That was the biggest non-cycler since Monty Python had their guy evaluate whether or not that woman was a witch.
	Not exactly Sherlock Holmes following the trail of clues.
	There is our Chris Christie.
	We've got some info about the manufacturing and the proliferation of opioids.
	The ingredients are used to make oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, now lexone, and more.
	Coal 360, yes, send a million-dollar missile to blow up a banana boat.
	Not the banana.
	I like bananas.
	It's kind of like what they did with Gaddafi.
	You know, Reagan was sending in these expensive cruise missiles to blow up his tents.
	Now, he did kill his son, I guess.
	I guess that's a victory according to their calculus.
	Doug Olook says they could have just droned a grenade into it.
	Yeah, they could have just flown one of these little drones over and dropped it in.
	Could have saved a lot of money.
	So it would have been illegal, but much more cost-effective.
	Defy Tyrant 1776.
	Guess they should blow up the White House since Trump is the biggest drug dealer on earth.
	We don't advocate for that, just in case anyone's listening.
	Nights of the Storm, even if we knew they were headed to the U.S., they need to wait till they are in our waters.
	D. Regimer?
	Yeah, you talked about that blowing up the white side.
	I remember when they did War on the Worlds version.
	Mars attacks?
	No, it was Will Smith.
	Oh, Independence Day.
	Independence Day, yeah.
	And it had a scene where they blew up the White House.
	And I was in Washington for the Libertarian Convention.
	I had my friend who worked at the Pentagon.
	We went to see that movie that night.
	There was a bunch of other people that I wasn't with that were from the Libertarian Convention.
	And when they blew up the White House, this big chair went up, and he was like, What's going on here?
	How could you?
	Yeah.
	We've got D. Regimer.
	FDA perhaps 40% of their salary shouldn't be paid by Pfizer.
	Just a thought.
	Yeah, well, they're trying to make as much money as possible.
	Defy Tyrant 1776.
	Legal big pharma drugs kill more every year than illegal drugs.
	Yeah, that may be true.
	I haven't looked at the stats on that.
	I would not be surprised.
	For love of the road, when are they going to start blowing up known drug houses?
	They're going to start droning the trap houses.
	Yeah, well, we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll be right back.
	We're going to take a look at what, you know, how we have lost our way, really, and how we get into this situation of, and it's going to come back on us.
	You know, we abandon the moral principles and foundations of our country.
	And it's absolutely going to come back on us.
	We'll be right back.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Analyzing the globalist's next move, The David Knight Show.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the DavidKnightshow.com.
	You should be able to buy me several hundred.
	Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the U.S.A.
	Well, this latest tragedy, this shooting, they had a lot of people had a lot of things to say about prayer that was anti-prayer.
	I don't know.
	Even the mother of one of the children that was there.
	Prayers didn't make any difference.
	We've got a nation that's become anti-God, more specifically, anti-Christ.
	Why do the nations, especially ours, rage against the Lord and his anointed?
	Well, it begins with things like this.
	This is out of reason they did a very long interview with Richard Dawkins.
	And Richard Dawkins was talking about the new threats to science, from religion to relativism.
	No sense of the idea that science has turned into religion itself, scientism that we saw with Fauci.
	These are people who want you to believe that something came from nothing.
	That something that was far more complex than anything that has been made by man.
	Far more complex than any car, any plane, any building or computer.
	It just all happened by random chance.
	One of the funny things is relativism can only truly flourish or be seen as a viable way of thinking is without God.
	If God exists, relativism is completely out the window immediately.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so that's his presupposition, right?
	We have to, I'm going to set the rules of the world.
	And so if there's any explanation outside of something that I can observe, we're going to reject that.
	And yet they've not been able to observe evolution.
	They've not been able to observe species changing from one to another, any significant change.
	They've seen variation in the very complex code of DNA, but they don't see design in it.
	Somebody like Dawkins hasn't earned the right to talk about reason, but he goes on with Reason Magazine to pretend that he's got a monopoly on science and truth.
	And Nick Gillespie did a very long, fawning interview with him, as a matter of fact.
	And so he said he was drawn to him by his book, The God Delusion from 2006.
	Remember, we used to joke about this.
	We call the Dawkins delusion.
	You know, it's like it's one person, I forget who it was, it was a Christian comedian who said, well, I've heard that there's a Dawkins, but I've never met or experienced the Dawkins, so I don't think that Dawkins really exists.
	All I have is this book that says that it was written by him.
	And that's precisely the kind of logic that Dawkins brings to the God delusion.
	So this is, it kind of begs the issue here.
	You know, I don't have any spare time, but I'll make it.
	If you don't believe that God exists, email me with your specific arguments about it, your best arguments for random chance evolution.
	And I promise you that I will reply to that.
	I can't think of anything that's more important.
	But be specific and spell them out, and I will take the time to respond to you.
	Why the remnant must not go silent.
	Now, this is from the Mises Institute.
	And this caught my eye because this is the remnant is actually a biblical term.
	It was borrowed by Albert J. Knock, a very important writer for liberty.
	The remnant, they defined this in the Mises article as a group of individuals who understand the value of freedom and free markets.
	Well, the original remnant were the people who understood that freedom is in Christ.
	And as he's saying here, the remnant of people who understand the importance of free markets and freedom must not be quiet.
	And we must not be quiet if we understand that freedom is in Christ either.
	Albert J. Knock wrote, he said, there's a remnant.
	He lived, died 1945 as World War II was ending, born back in 1870.
	He said, there is a remnant there that you know nothing about.
	They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can.
	That's right.
	We are the hobbits who carry this precious truth like they carried the ring.
	They need to be encouraged because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they're the ones who will bring it back.
	That's right.
	And it's going to be, that's what's going to rebuild society.
	It's not going to be rebuilt.
	These people have the power to destroy, but they do not have the power to build a foundation that's going to last.
	And economic theory isn't going to be sufficient either.
	It's going to need a rock that we can build on.
	These people have built their house on sand.
	That's a.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's important to always remember that if If America is simply going to be the place where you go to become rich, there's no true value in that.
	If the American dream is simply about owning a house and a car and getting bigger houses and bigger cars as time goes on, that's not a dream that anyone is really going to die for.
	That's nothing that's truly worth fighting for.
	Yes, that is the materialism of America.
	He said, as I point out, he had paraphrased these words that God spoke to the prophet Isaiah.
	And the mission, one of the 20th century's greatest iconoclasts, took as his own.
	On the morning of Sunday, August 19th, 1945, as the bloodiest war in human history was ending, at last, he drew his last breath.
	And that was Albert J. Knock, a very important writer.
	He wrote a book called Our Enemy, the State.
	And it is important that we understand the threat that the state has to us.
	But it's even more important that we focus on the positive side, that we understand that we have a Savior and a friend, and that we have eternal rewards that are possible as well.
	The Lord Jesus Christ is our friend and Savior.
	The state may be our enemy.
	The state is still temporary, no matter how mighty, no matter how strong, no matter how large it is.
	And even if we're politically and economically correct and morally correct, right?
	There is, you know, that's not going to get us any eternal consequences.
	But having a Savior does.
	And so we get back to the prayer thing.
	And the WND did an article, said that prayer works according to science.
	I don't really care what some psychological study says.
	That is not our highest standard.
	We've got the word of God that says that it works.
	And I hope that you have in your life had experiences that have shown God's working in your life.
	As I said before, you know, Dawkins thinks that God is a delusion.
	He's never met him.
	And that's the argument that he uses, but some of us have.
	So he said it produces psychological benefits.
	It reduces stress and loneliness and fear.
	And religious people live longer.
	And it's like, no, that's not the reason that you should pray.
	The reason you should pray is because it's real.
	And it's real because God is real.
	It's not about prayer.
	It's not this separate thing.
	It's not some kind of meditation exercise.
	You might be able to get those same kind of things if you sit cross-legged on the floor and hum.
	You might reduce stress and loneliness and things like that.
	And it might help you to live longer.
	But that's not the point.
	prayer is not a tactic and it is not a psychological placebo um they said i'm uh reminded of uh that book uh case for miracles by uh was it lee strobel yeah and uh And he talks about two studies.
	One is a very famous study that's been published far and wide about how prayer doesn't work because they got this crazy sect called, I think it was The Way or something, but it was a group of people that, in their own doctrine, don't believe that prayers work.
	So that was the only representatives of Christian prayer that they had was a group that isn't really Christian, doesn't believe in miracles or divinity of God or anything.
	And then there was another study that had actual Christians praying for these people.
	And I should mention the study was the effect of prayer on sick people.
	So they had a large group of sick people that they give the old dossier about and said, pray for these people.
	And the people didn't know they were being prayed for to eliminate the placebo effect.
	Yes, so they didn't know they were being prayed for.
	Or, let's see, I think there was also, or yes, but anyway, there was no difference statistically with the group that was being prayed for in the first study that didn't have any Christian prayers.
	But a second study that wasn't nearly as widespread had actual Christians, and it showed a significant improvement in the people that were being prayed for, even though they were being prayed for remotely, didn't know that it was going on.
	They were statistically healthier than the people that were just going through medical treatments.
	Yes, that's right.
	Yeah, prayer is not there to make people generally happier.
	If they are generally happier, it's because of some practice that they're doing, like meditation.
	It's because they have a relationship.
	That's the purpose, really, of prayer, is so that we can see God working in our lives, and that is what builds our relationship.
	We don't command God to do anything.
	And that's what this mother at this Annunciation Catholic Church shooting, she criticized people.
	She said, prayers didn't stop the bullets.
	And the amazing thing is that her child was shot but survived.
	And she's still railing against God.
	It's pretty amazing to see that.
	Of course, that was picked up by the Christian Post.
	It kind of always reminds me, you know, whenever something bad happens, it's very much like Martha, the sister of Lazarus, said, you know, they sent word to Jesus that Lazarus was sick.
	Come right away.
	And he waited and did that deliberately.
	And he said, no, this is not till death.
	This is so God will be glorified.
	He waited and then he knew that Lazarus had died.
	And then he goes to visit the family.
	And Martha meets him and said, he wouldn't have died if you'd been here.
	I actually have a prayer request.
	I recently found out that the wife of a very good friend of mine, I'm not going to name any names because I haven't asked them, but I found out that she has cancer and she is also pregnant at the same time.
	So I just ask that you would pray for her and for the child, for healing and for strength for the child.
	The child is still doing well, but it's very hard on her body, and so it's hard on the baby as well.
	Do you think she'd be open to apricot seeds?
	I don't know.
	I need to ask.
	I wonder if she would read.
	She seems like the type that would.
	But I just wanted to ask you all in the audience to pray for her.
	Her initial is H. So pray for her and pray for the baby that they would be healed and that she would have a long life.
	They have quite a few children, and so they're missing their mother very dearly right now.
	Sorry to hear that.
	Well, you know, Martha says, you know, if he had been here, he wouldn't have died.
	That's what people always say.
	Where's God?
	Where was God when this happened?
	Where was God when this church was shut up?
	And yet, Jesus doesn't apologize for being late.
	He says, I am the life and resurrection.
	And proceeds to show it that way.
	But he makes that statement.
	And then he asks, he says, do you believe that?
	It's always difficult to remember that God's ways are not our ways.
	That's right.
	And that he works in his own time and in his own means.
	And it is not in our realm to judge him for that.
	You know, the clay cannot say to the potter, why have you made me this way?
	That's right.
	And we don't command him.
	But, you know, he just tells her, I am the resurrection of life.
	If someone believes in me, though they die, they'll live again, live eternally.
	And he says, do you believe that?
	And so the question for each and every one of us is, do you believe that?
	And it is the, there is nothing more important than that.
	No matter how much of your time and energy you devote into trying to fix our political system, it will never be more important than what you devote to your relationship with Christ.
	And if you don't have one, you need one.
	Well, this woman had a nine-year-old child who was shot three times.
	And so she's railing about the ineffectiveness of prayer and thoughts.
	And yes, thoughts don't stop bullets.
	She's right about that.
	Prayer, she said, didn't stop the bullets.
	She said, action is our only hope.
	No, no.
	God, her daughter survived, and yet she still is railing against prayer and directly against God, saying prayer is useless.
	That is to say that God is useless.
	But whether we get what we want from God, you know, as the song says, God who works in mysterious ways, that God is the interpreter of his work, and he will make it plain what his plans are and things, just as Jesus did with Lazarus.
	So her daughter was admitted and has since been discharged.
	So she survived.
	She said, I got to take my child home after this horrific massacre.
	But these other two families, and she mentions them, did not.
	We all dropped our kids off this morning, but we didn't all get to take our kids home.
	Thoughts didn't stop the bullets, and prayers didn't stop the bullets.
	So we've got to have government to stop the bullets, right?
	Because government is God.
	Government's going to fix everything.
	She said, mere expressions of sympathy were inadequate.
	Well, of course, they are always inadequate.
	The problem is, too, that when we look at this, regardless of whether a school says that it's Christian or not, anybody can attend.
	And there's a lot of people who are professing Christians who actually don't believe or trust God.
	The killer was raised by an institution that gaslit him, drugged him, and that's really the problem that has to be addressed.
	And for the most part, that's coming from government.
	It was a government school that gaslit and drugged that guy and turned him into a killer.
	Pastor Greg Lorry said, no truer thing can be said about our nation right now than that we need than this.
	We need prayer.
	Well, I would say we need Christ, the one we pray to.
	But we talked about this when it happened.
	Jen Saki, Biden's press secretary, the Minneapolis mayor, they were all mocking prayer.
	It truly is amazing in this kind of a situation that just shows how godless our country is.
	And it's something that's been going on since I was a child.
	I've gone back and looked at some of the clips of Madeline Murray O'Hare, who really began this crusade to purge God out of public life and to shut down the free exercise of religion by individuals, calling it establishment whenever it was done.
	Talk about somebody who came to a horrific end.
	That was the case of them.
	I won't get into that right now.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	Before we do, you want to read the comments?
	We've got comments.
	Audi MRR, public welfare has always been the alibi of tyrants.
	Albert Kamis.
	Or public health.
	If you hear them talking about the public, know that you're in for a bad time.
	Audi MRR, again, if government really wanted to fight addiction, it would make behavioral health resources available and spend the same money that it uses to pay police to be predatory a-holes.
	Well, there's not as much money in that.
	Radisbro.
	Obama drone strikes an American American, remember, and no one gave a, we'll say, hoot.
	And here we are, drone striking anyone.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Radisbro again.
	Yeah, Obama executing an American civilian, no trial, nothing.
	Just drone strike.
	Yeah, he killed a guy who had American citizenship and killed his son as well.
	Yeah.
	And it was an extrajudicial killing.
	And of course, you know, this guy who says, well, look at this.
	Trump's just doing whatever he wants.
	Well, Trump is kind of doing what Obama did.
	Trump assassinated in his first term, like the number two guy in Iran, Soleimani.
	What gave him the authority to do that?
	Had we been attacked by Iran?
	Were we at war with Iran?
	No, if you go around assassinating people, it can come back on you.
	Yeah.
	I've said this before, but I think Iran's response was more devastating than if they had actually attacked us with weapons.
	The response was simply to say, who within your country could we take out that was of the standing of our General Soleimani?
	He was a hero to our people.
	He was a titan of a man to us.
	Who could we remove from your country that would even matter?
	You have no one.
	And it was just, oh, they're right.
	They're right, aren't they?
	Well, you know, it's also kind of interesting the non-response that they had to that and to so many different things that have happened.
	And I keep thinking back to the Iranian airline that was shot down.
	Accidentally, okay, but it was the same situation we have with Flight 800 that was shot down off the coast of Long Island.
	The Navy was doing exercises there and had a lot of witnesses who said they saw a cruise missile and all the way.
	So I believe that the Flight 800 was taken down by mistake and they just covered it up and ignored it.
	Same thing happened with Iran.
	They did not launch missiles at us, right?
	Like that would be our response.
	But the U.S. compensated them.
	It was clearly the case.
	And since it involved another government, they could clearly prove that.
	Whereas in the case of a Flight 800, the response of our government was to send the FBI around to confiscate records and documents and flight logs and things like that to cover it up, just like we see with Jeffrey Epstein.
	Not the actions of a guilty party at all.
	Yeah, the FBI has been there from the beginning to blackmail people like with J. Agar Hoover and also to cover up government crimes.
	But, you know, the Iranians did not declare war.
	They didn't do anything.
	And you could argue that it was a power differential that was there.
	But over and over again, we see that it is America that is constantly the aggressor.
	So no wonder they call us the great Satan.
	I think they got it right, quite frankly.
	They're not too far off in that assessment at minimum.
	SoloCat 1980, police and military mafias cannot efficiently commit tyranny with moral people in their ranks.
	That's right.
	That's why they've done everything they can.
	That's why they had the 2020 purge.
	It got rid of a lot of people that would stand up and say no.
	And the same thing has happened with doctors and nurses as well.
	A lot of them, a lot of older doctors who are close to the age of retirement saw this coming and said, you know what?
	I'm just going to take it early.
	I can't be a part of this anymore.
	I'm not going to push this on people.
	And they decided, you know, that's it for my career.
	I'm just going to retire now.
	So a lot of the ones you're dealing with have absolutely no scruples left.
	Be my Valentine.
	Fentanyl is used in hospitals on patients in critical care units.
	End-of-life stuff like my Dazzle Lamb, you know, which suppresses respiratory stuff.
	Yeah, I know that fentanyl is extremely, extremely potent, and that's where a lot of people mess up and overdose on it when they're doing it as a recreational drug or it gets mixed in with something.
	And since it's so incredibly potent, you know, you put just a little, little bit too much, and all of a sudden, you know, it's a massive overdose.
	SoloCat 1980, but the commercials tell me that Johnson Johnson is a family company.
	Yeah, a mafia family, she said.
	He says.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to talk about how they are guarding our pedophiles.
	They're at it again.
	It seems like it'll never end.
	We'll be right back.
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	Well, Trump is continuing to call the concerns about the Epstein documents a hoax.
	And again, we've seen this type of cover-up before when it was Dennis Hastert, when there were the PAGE scandals, which are real.
	Dennis Hastert, who himself had a very long pedophilic past, that's one of the reasons he was picked for his position, would go on with Rush Limbaugh and say, oh, this is just a Democrat hoax.
	And they're still running the same game here.
	Trump said in a very lengthy social media post that the Department of Justice has, quote, done its job on releasing information connected to deceased convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
	Does anybody out there really believe that?
	The now dying, he said, after the DOJ gave thousands of pages of documents in full compliance with a very comprehensive and exacting subpoena from Congress, Epstein case was only brought back to life in recent days for political purpose and not for the victims.
	Well, the victims say otherwise.
	As I pointed out last week, the victims spoke out against Trump and said, stop calling it a hoax.
	He knows very well it's not a hoax.
	He says, this is all designed to serve as a hoax to deflect and distract from the great success of me.
	Yeah, to show how great you are by not being a defender of the most perhaps notorious pedophile network and espionage network that was there.
	That might be a start towards greatness if you're actually to come clean, talk about the truth.
	He blackmailed people, people that were exactly like Trump, as a matter of fact.
	In the news conference, the women who said they were Epstein's victims called on members of Congress to pass a bill requiring the release of more documents related to the case, because even though they dropped 30-some-odd thousand, there's still key information that has been withheld.
	And there was nothing that was new.
	It was only about 3% of that that was new.
	That was done as a distraction against the press conference that was held by the victims.
	And Trump fully well knows that.
	This is not a case, by the way, as all the Trump apologists like to say.
	Well, you know, he didn't know what he was doing in 2020.
	He was deceived by the deep state.
	He knows fully well what he's doing.
	And so they said, survivors need protection, resources, and legal support.
	If this Congress is serious about justice, said Thomas Massey, then let this moment also affirm your commitment to provide victims with the legal aid that they need.
	And so I'm sorry, that was not Massey.
	That was one of the victims that was there.
	But Trump is not serious about justice.
	Neither is Johnson.
	And as a matter of fact, we know this because as he was saying this over the weekend, it broke that NBC News had asked a federal judge to unseal the names of two specific people that Epstein had paid.
	One of them he paid $100,000 to.
	The other one he paid a quarter of a million dollars to.
	And those were individuals that were, their names were redacted, but those transactions were mentioned in the original court case that Trump's friend Acosta made sure that they didn't prosecute him to a full extent.
	So that was there.
	And NBC News saw that and they said, well, the Department of Justice at that time and Trump's previous administration, the Department of Justice said that they were concerned that the connection with these people and how they might be paid to cover up any information that they had on Jeffrey Epstein.
	So basically turning the tables on this blackmailer.
	So the Justice Department, now Trump's Justice Department, so-called, under Pam Bondi, on Friday asked a federal judge who was overseeing the case back then to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of the two associates who got these two large payments in 2018.
	So NBC News says we'd like to see the names of these two people.
	Pam Bondi, who says that she's released everything and that there's nothing to see there, has her Justice Department tell the judge, do not release these names.
	I think he's still considering as to whether or not to do that.
	So the first associate got $100,000, the second one got $250,000 in both in 2018, days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of investigative stories where victims criticized the plea deal that he got in 2008.
	And of course, the guy who gave him that plea deal, Trump made his head of labor department.
	The payments were made public after he was indicted and arrested in New York in 2019.
	Prosecutors in New York filed a memorandum in 2019 that argued that Epstein should remain in jail to prevent him from tampering with witnesses.
	And they cited these payments that were made by these two individuals days after the Miami Herald began publishing its stories on Epstein's plea deal and what he was given, which is known as a non-prosecution agreement.
	So prosecutors wrote, on November 30th, 2018, Epstein wired $100,000 from a trust account he controlled to an individual named as, and they redacted that, a potential co-conspiracer, conspirator, for whom Epstein obtained protection in the MPA.
	They said this individual is also named and featured prominently in the Miami Herald series.
	The same records show that just three days later, on or about December the 3rd, 2018, the defendant wired $250,000 from the same trust account to Redacted, who was also named as a potential co-conspirator.
	This redacted guy is up to a lot of stuff.
	He's the guy who did the JFK assassination.
	He's all 9-11.
	I mean, they need to find out who this redacted guy is and arrest him right away.
	Put him at the top of the most wanted list.
	Prosecutors said that Epstein's payments may be evidence of efforts to influence witnesses.
	Do you think that the Trump Department of Justice's efforts to hide these people's names is an effort to manipulate this as well?
	Is that the hoax?
	So they said it suggests that he was attempting to influence these co-conspirators who could provide information against him.
	Last month, NBC News sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman to unseal the redacted names because Epstein is dead.
	The criminal proceedings have ended.
	And the Justice Department said in a memo in July that there would be no additional charges filed against uncharged parties.
	Those are all the reasons that they would typically redact a name is because, well, we may be building a case against this person or this or that, but there's not anything that's going to be happening with that, said the Justice Department.
	So Berman gave federal prosecutors until September the 5th to respond.
	And so on Friday, September the 5th, Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote, individuals one and two are uncharged third parties who have not waived their privacy interests.
	Indeed, both Individual One and Individual Two, it's like a Dr. Seuss thing.
	Thing one and thing two, right?
	Have expressly objected to the unsealing of their names and personal identifying information.
	I bet they would.
	Isn't that too bad?
	But it's their preference not to be named, not to be charged.
	And so we, because these are powerful people, we need to follow what they prefer.
	The judge has given NBC News until September the 12th to respond to the Justice Department's request.
	So again, we haven't, so it's going to be sometime this week.
	Thomas Massey said in response, he said, we can't avoid justice to avoid embarrassment for some very powerful men.
	Well, it's worse than embarrassment.
	These people committed crimes as well.
	They were part of this pedophile rape network.
	Yeah, that's a bit of an understatement to call child molestation and rape embarrassment.
	Oh, gosh.
	I'm just so embarrassed.
	Yeah, asked why he thinks Donald Trump is resisting releasing the files.
	Thomas Massey said, I think it's going to be embarrassing to some of the billionaires, some of the donors who are politically connected to his campaign.
	There are probably intelligence ties to our CIA and maybe to other foreign intelligence.
	Of course, we know the Mossad, right?
	Trump said on Friday that the Justice Department had given Congress, quote, everything requested of them.
	Yeah, you just heard what the Justice Department, however, is telling this judge, keep this stuff secret.
	Keep it quiet.
	So this is all about covering up for other parties, and Trump is lying about this.
	So Roe Kahana, who's also working with Thomas Massey to get this stuff released, said this is a moral issue.
	It's about standing with survivors.
	It's about protecting children.
	I admire Congressman Massey's courage, and I admire Nancy Mace's courage, Marjorie Taylor Greene's courage, Lauren Boebert's courage.
	They are standing with survivors.
	We have the votes.
	Let's get a vote this month and get their files released.
	Kahana, however, said that he has concerns about whether or not the files will be released in their entirety.
	So even if they've got enough votes to get this done, you've got squeaker Mouse Johnson is going to play every trick in the book, and he is one trickster, if ever there was one, to try to keep these things quiet.
	And even if this vote passes, I mean, you think about it, Mike Johnson gave them like an extra month off.
	They always take off the entire month of August, but he shut everything down early to keep this vote from happening earlier.
	And he only guaranteed that it was going to happen when he did that.
	And so his concern, Roquahana said, was that even if the vote passes, he doesn't think that they'll still comply with it.
	He said, the difference is that the victim's lawyers, lawyer, Bradley Edwards, has seen the files under discovery, even though they're not publicly released, as have many people who are career officials.
	So if they try to do something politically, then many other people would call them out on it.
	So what he's saying is, you know, we've got this information, just like these victims are saying they're going to put their stories together and lawyers are going to help them.
	And they're going to release the names that they know.
	Marjorie Taylor Green, as a matter of fact, has said, you put that list together and I'll read it on the floor of the House because anything that she would read on the floor of the House is protected.
	She can't be sued for slander or for any kind of, she has no liability for that.
	These people, if they put that list together and if they name it, they could be sued by these very powerful people.
	But they can't sue Marjorie Taylor Greene for reading it on the floor of the House as a congressperson.
	So the GOP leaders are already working to try to make sure that Massey does not get re-elected.
	I've seen this before.
	I saw Newt Gingrich raise money and give money to a Democrat candidate to try to keep Ron Paul from getting re-elected.
	That's how much he hated Ron Paul.
	These people absolutely hate anybody who will tell you the truth about anything.
	And Thomas Massey has told us the truth about a lot of things.
	So they really want to keep this all secret.
	That's the real hoax, folks.
	That rhymes.
	So Speaker Mouse Johnson and his leadership team are sending their clearest signals to date that their conservative colleague Thomas Massey will have to fend for himself as Trump's allies prepare to dump millions into his district in opposition to him.
	They're not going to give him any of the money from the Guarding Our Pedophiles GOP fund.
	Interviews with CNN, five members of the House GOP leadership declined to offer backing for Massey's reelection bid.
	They are such sheep.
	They are so afraid of Donald Trump.
	I've got to say, anybody that wields that kind of power, it is incumbent upon us to challenge that kind of person.
	We don't want to have that kind of person in charge of our country.
	They do want to have that kind of person in charge of their party because they're just looking at it from the immediate payoff of being able to keep their cushy job in Congress.
	The speaker admonished Massey for undercutting his party's agenda, of course.
	Yeah, the party's agenda.
	What is that agenda?
	To guard their pedophiles?
	That seems to be Johnson's agenda.
	That, and to flatter and to appease Trump, no matter what Trump does.
	Fortunately, they're starting to lose the support of the Guarding Our Pedophile Trump Party.
	And if you lose their support as an individual, that should be seen as an honor.
	They're going to have to take a vote to put them on record.
	If that's hard, I'm sorry.
	That's your job, he said.
	And that was exactly what Massey did the first time Trump promised to primary him out.
	Remember, in the spring of 2020, Trump wanted them to pass this stimulus bill of like, what was it, three or four trillion dollars that they were going to dump in this to pacify everybody as he locked everything down.
	And Massey said, no, I'm going to call a vote.
	You're going to have to come here and go on record in supporting this.
	And they were all furious with him, especially Trump, who said we're going to primary him out.
	But it didn't work out that way.
	And so he's doing the same thing now.
	He says, well, we're going to put this on there, and you're going to have to vote on record as to whether or not you actually want to have the Epstein files released as Trump had promised when he was running for election.
	So Massey also, when he was talking about this on ABC News, he said, why was Trump an informant to a hoax?
	We had Speaker Mouse Johnson was bragging about Donald Trump and saying, oh, look, he was an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein.
	Trump is a hero in all this.
	Massey wondered why Trump had called the Epstein case a hoax, even though Johnson seemed to claim that the commander-in-chief had once been an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein.
	ABC host George Stephanophos told Massey, he said, he says you've been misled.
	He also suggested at one point this week, seemed to suggest that Trump was an informant for the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein.
	You know, and as I said earlier in the show, I have long said that I believe that Trump was an informant against Jeffrey Epstein.
	Finally, not because of the rape and pillage and the pedophile actions of Jeffrey Epstein, which they were both partners in, but because they were both in a fight of greed over a particular property in West Palm Beach.
	And that was the thing that broke up their friendship.
	And I believe that was what got Trump to turn him in.
	And so now they are essentially verifying that that's really the case of what happened.
	So two things out of Mouse Johnson as he's trying to be this grimer worm tongue sycophant.
	He basically verifies that Trump did this out of spite for the greed fight that they were in.
	And, you know, when he talks about Trump being an informant, how can you be an informant on something that's a hoax, points out Massey?
	He said, the lawyers for the victims said that Trump had been helpful in 2009 in their case by giving them information.
	But being an informant implies some formal connection and an ongoing relationship with the FBI.
	I don't know what that's all about.
	I think the speaker needs to clarify that.
	And if it is a hoax, why was Trump an informant to a hoax?
	Boom.
	That's absolutely true.
	And it's amazing when we look at Johnson, the extent that people go to to try to protect Trump everywhere you look.
	And of course, you saw this at the tennis U.S. Open.
	Broadcasters who were going to be covering the event were told by the Tennis Association that they needed to censor the crowd's reactions to Trump if they protested him with booze that needed to be censored.
	Because the last time he was at the U.S. Open back in 2015, he was booed.
	And so they wanted to make sure that Trump is not going to be booed by this.
	He is a special fan.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, I got to say that it appears from Trump's history that he prefers prostitutes.
	And so these people are making themselves prostitutes to him in order to appease him.
	It still hasn't, nothing has changed, really.
	So he's going to be attending the tournament as a guest of Rolex.
	Yeah, there you go.
	So he's sitting in the Rolex box.
	An internal email that was sent by the U.S. Tennis Association leadership to U.S. Open broadcasters that was obtained by the publication Bounces requested that broadcasters censor any possible protests or reactions to Trump's presence at the U.S. Open men's final, which apparently they did.
	I think that happened yesterday.
	Rothenberg included the key text from the letter, quote, with respect to broadcast coverage, the president will be shown on the World Feed and the Ash Court feed during the opening anthem ceremony.
	We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the president's attendance in any capacity, including the electronic news gathering coverage.
	The U.S. Tennis Association's plan to show Trump during the anthem, said Rothenberg, one of the noisiest and most bombastic portions of Sunday's event, is already an effective way to insulate Trump from likely booing.
	But the preemptive instructions outlined by the U.S. Tennis Association in this email, asking broadcasters to censor and avoid any possible protest or negative crowd reaction to Trump for TV audiences watched around the world, is further complicity in broadcasting Trump's desired stagecraft for his first appearance at the U.S. Open in a decade.
	And that's all this is, it's stagecraft.
	This guy is a manager, is a master of that kind of stuff.
	He learned it at the WWE.
	And then we had over the weekend, we had these guys get together at the new Rose Garden Club.
	Trump paved the Rose Garden and he made something that looks very much like what he has in Mar-a-Lago.
	And Mike Johnson was just oozing with enthusiasm about the fact that he was included in this club, a club that you pay for, but you are not in.
	And as part of this, as I pointed out last week, I showed the pictures.
	He had Mark Zuckerberg on one side of, you know, so he had Trump and Wania at the center.
	And on one side of the couple was Zuckerberg, and on the other side was Bill Gates.
	And they both got to talk and were promoted by Trump.
	Zuckerberg, however, sparked a wave of mockery after he was caught on a hot mic suggesting to Trump that he had plucked a number out of his head.
	He said, and this is the, I'll show you the key here.
	Let's see.
	Here's Zuckerberg on the hot mic.
	You'll hear Trump's comments.
	And it's a little bit difficult to hear what Zuckerberg says, but I'll tell you what he says.
	If we pull it up, it can be heard.
	And it's subtitled in this as well.
	How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?
	Oh, gosh.
	I mean, I think it's probably going to be something like, I don't know, at least $600 billion through 28 in the U.S. Yeah.
	It's a lot.
	No, it's not.
	It's significant.
	That's a lot.
	Thank you, Mark.
	It's great to have you.
	Sorry, I wasn't working over to you.
	My friend now.
	He said I wasn't sure whatever you wanted to do.
	Yeah, he said, oh, I wasn't ready about that.
	You need to let me know when you need to lie for you.
	Let's make sure we have that.
	So he said, I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with.
	And so he said, you know, you heard that.
	How much are you going to spend in the next few years?
	And he says, I don't know, $600 billion through $28 in the U.S. And so he said, I'm sorry later on that hot mic.
	He said, I'm sorry.
	I wasn't ready to do, or I wasn't sure what number you wanted me to go with.
	You know, let me know.
	I'll be happy to lie for you.
	I'll make anything.
	I just pull this number out of the thin air.
	Maybe it was too high, right?
	$600 billion, $700, maybe a trillion.
	Who knows?
	Whatever.
	Yeah, they said, it's very different from Trump's past rhetoric.
	Now they're best buddies.
	Remember, before he threatened Zuckerberg about the election.
	He said, we're watching him closely.
	If he does anything illegal this time, we will spend the rest of his, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison, as will others who cheat in the 2024 presidential election.
	He said that in August of 2024.
	That was a year ago.
	Now they're all best buddies, and he's sitting at the table in an exclusive club with him.
	Oh, but don't worry.
	Trump's our guy.
	He's our guy.
	It's just he's friends with people like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates.
	Yeah.
	He's our guy.
	Sure, they're diametrically opposed to everything that we want, everything that we stand for.
	They've been the ones at the helm of the agenda that's been crushing us for decades.
	But Trump's our guy.
	No, he's been bought by them.
	He's been bought by them.
	It's not a hostile takeover either.
	It's a very friendly one.
	So it led to a lot of criticism on social media.
	People pointing out what a lying sycophant he's become, as everybody around him has.
	Doesn't matter if it's a tennis association or if it's a technocracy association.
	One person said, this is a Congresswoman, Mary Gay Skinland, said, it's embarrassing how far tech billionaires will go to suck up to Trump.
	And I would also include Mike Johnson in that.
	He's the most embarrassing of all.
	Now they're just making up numbers.
	And another person said, well, as of June 30th, Meta's assets were valued at $295 billion.
	So $600 billion presupposes borrowing more than twice the book value.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	For one year of capital investment, it's about the most ludicrous statement the CEO of a publicly traded company could ever make.
	And most of the comments were along that line.
	One person said he admitted that he completely made up fake numbers when answering a reporter's question and tells Trump he was giving a number that he thought Trump would want to hear.
	One person, Haley McNamara, says, if you read the whistleblower book, Careless People, everything about this moment is exactly what you would expect.
	Another person said, if you look back at history of these announcements from Trump one on, they are complete nonsense.
	You throw out astronomically high figures and no one ever checks them twice or thinks about it twice.
	So, yeah, this is Zuckerberg admitted on a hot mic that he just lied to the world on camera about how much money he would invest to make Trump look better.
	These tech oligarchs are complicit in Trump's destruction of America.
	They're totally complicit.
	Look, let's understand.
	AI is going to be paid for by you and me in many different ways.
	Trump is going to subsidize it because AI is a special secret weapon that they have been looking for for a long time to weaponize against us.
	It is the ultimate tool for the police surveillance state.
	And they will remove any obstacle they're prepared to give any kind of a subsidy to these people.
	And you and I are going to be subsidizing them and our electric bills.
	And it's going to cause us to have not only unaffordable electric bills, but unreliable electricity as well.
	You know, as I look at all this, there was an article about the Finnish MP who reveals that before she became a politician, she was a prostitute because it's legal in Finland.
	Well, the more things change.
	I mean, that's better than most of the prostitutes.
	They come by it afterward.
	Most of the politicians start after they get elected.
	That's right.
	Yeah, she went from the oldest profession to the second oldest profession, that of a prostitute, which reminds us again of Speaker Johnson.
	You can screw a lot more people at once as a politician.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	And so this is what Mike Johnson put out, this picture of the Rose Garden thing.
	And he says, the grand opening of the new Rose Garden Club at the White House last night was epic.
	Thanks to real Donald Trump for his hospitality and his visionary leadership.
	And there I am posing with him.
	This guy is, again, one of the most disgusting politicians.
	And I've seen a lot of disgusting politicians.
	And this is just fodder for people, just like the threats to Chicago.
	You've now got some of the worst politicians, like the mayor of Chicago and everything, have picked up the mantle of justice and the American way because Trump has thrown it on the floor.
	You talk about somebody burning the American flag.
	Trump has burned American values here.
	And so as this is happening, we had the horrific jobs report saying that essentially there was no jobs added whatsoever.
	And so this has allowed Gavin Newsom to try to take the high ground.
	And he says, Trump's Rose Garden Club at the White House, these guys are cheercing Diet Cooks.
	What does that mean?
	He's drinking Diet Cooks, I guess.
	Cheersing.
	Oh, okay.
	Cheers.
	Okay.
	While the economy is tanking.
	I guess he thinks everybody has forgotten what he did when the lockdown was going.
	His lockdown was going and he met at the French laundry, that exclusive restaurant, while nobody else could get out.
	So same thing, but now, you know, Trump is doing this, and so it allows these people to pose as anti-elitists.
	Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
	Is he seriously taking the tact of man of the people?
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's what he's doing in his social media post.
	It's kind of funny.
	Man of the people, Gavin Newsom.
	Yeah.
	But again, when you look at the fawning fan club of people that are there, Zuckerberg and Mike Johnson, it is absolutely disgusting.
	As they point out on an anti-Trump site, MediaIT, the White House dinner was held on the same day that these horrible job numbers came out.
	So bad that Trump said, well, wait a year.
	The good numbers are going to be coming up in a year.
	I don't know about that or not.
	And so Trump said, we call it the Rose Garden Club.
	It's a club for senators, for congresspeople, and for people in Washington.
	And frankly, people that can bring peace and success to our country.
	I don't think any of those people he just named are the ones that are going to bring peace or success to our country.
	But yeah, that's the club that you ain't in, to paraphrase George Carlin, right?
	Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg.
	Yeah, they had rain, so it forced them to move the party indoors.
	He paved over the grass of the famed Rose Garden, added tables, chairs, umbrellas to shield the sun during the daylight.
	The AP claimed the space looked strikingly similar to the outdoor setup of Trump's Mar-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
	Well, there you go.
	And you have to pay Trump to be in either one of these clubs.
	If you want to be in the Mar-a-Lago Club, you've got to pay Trump.
	If you want to be in the Rose Garden Club, you've got to pay Trump as well.
	That's what Zuckerberg and these other guys have done.
	That is the most in-your-face corruption we've ever seen in my lifetime.
	Truly is amazing.
	We have some comments.
	You want to get to that?
	Yes, we do.
	DG8, and thank you very much for the tip.
	It says, David, every politician deserves booze.
	How arrogant is Trump?
	Never forget Trump ran a liberal maggot opponent against constitutional advocate Bob Good.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	He absolutely did.
	Yeah, because Bob Good wasn't fawning and kissing his feet sufficiently.
	And actually, he did try to move that up.
	He had voted against Trump on some bill, I think, but then did endorse Trump.
	But that's it, you know, because once you have offended a narcissist, there's no turning back.
	We've got SoloCat 1980.
	The virtual read that one.
	Brian and Deb McCartney, but Dawkins only wants to live in a Christian society.
	Well, that's because a Christian society is the only one that produces these kinds of advancements in a culture that is worth living in.
	He wants to have the fruit of a Christian society, but he doesn't want to have the root of that, which is Jesus Christ.
	The reason European cities are so nice, the reason that Europe had such good cultures because it was so thoroughly inundated with Christian values.
	Even if they weren't explicitly Christian countries, they were completely and utterly Christianized, which will carry you a long way down that path.
	It'll eventually evaporate.
	Yeah, it was the basis of their culture, whether or not their leaders were Christian.
	We know they weren't.
	Same thing is true of America.
	It was the basis of the culture.
	And you even had non-Christian politicians like Abraham Lincoln.
	You could quote the Bible left and right, right?
	Because that was how he connected with the people of America.
	It was the people of America who were Christian in their values, not the politicians.
	We've got Francine.
	It takes more faith to believe in evolution than in God.
	That's an old saying, but it's very true.
	Evolution is completely nonsensical, and it always has been.
	Be my Valentine.
	Prayer is for us to press in and persevere.
	DG8, great show this morning, David.
	We need prayer in the home.
	I don't trust the education system when it comes to prayer.
	Well, I don't trust the education system at all.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, they're going to put the Ten Commandments up, but they're not going to put up the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ who fulfilled the Ten Commandments for us that we were incapable of doing.
	They missed the point on everything.
	So, yeah, I don't want the schools teaching that.
	But when you go back and you look at the hostility, like I said, I went back and I looked at interviews and appearances of Madeleine Murray O'Hare and the hatred that she had for God, for the Lord Jesus Christ.
	It's just amazing.
	And she wanted to purge it everywhere.
	And she had the support of the liberal establishment and Supreme Court and that mission.
	And so, you know, once you purge it out, again, I don't think that the teachers are the ones who should be teaching children.
	They'll get it wrong and maybe deliberately get it wrong.
	Yet, if the Bible is there, not purged out, you know, some of the kids may pick it up and actually read it.
	And God works through that.
	So there's always that.
	And not every home are they going to get it either.
	So it's not that I don't want to fight against that, but I just want to tell people, do not trust these institutions to educate your child.
	Certainly do not trust them to train them up in the way that they should go.
	That's your responsibility as a parent.
	And God will help you to fulfill that responsibility.
	Pigeon verse 2.
	Yes, Your Honor, I blew up a crack house with 20 humans inside, but they were drug dealers.
	The real octos.
	You know, we've actually kind of seen things like that.
	There's been cases where SWAT teams followed somebody and it wasn't necessarily even a drug deal.
	It was like a bank robbery or something.
	Followed them to a residential home and the guy takes refuge in there.
	They blew up the house, essentially destroyed it, you know, and they to get this guy.
	And The homeowners tried to recover from the government, and they said, no, we have sovereign immunity from this.
	Truly amazing what they get away with.
	We can do whatever we want.
	The real octo spook, most suspect Trump of being a pedophile.
	I can only wonder why he does not want the Epstein list to clear him.
	It's a real mystery, isn't it?
	One can only wonder about these things.
	There's obviously not an obvious answer.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative, the GOP voters had the power to choose someone else in the primary.
	They chose the orange calf.
	B.L. Houghton was in Michigan during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and our churches were closed, and the pastors were begging parishioners to take their jabs to reopen church.
	That's sad and despicable.
	Very graven.
	We're all dead.
	Responding to B.L. Houghton says leaders of all faiths are brought into the White House and urged to get their flocks to get jabbed.
	Yeah, they know how to manipulate people.
	Brian Shalhave actually has an article.
	I hope we can get to it today.
	Where he talks about the fact that Franklin Graham worked to get churches to jab people.
	And so he was busy this weekend covering for J.D. Vance when J.D. Vance says he doesn't care about killing people indiscriminately.
	And so he was there to cover for J.D. Vance as well.
	It's all about access.
	These people will sell their souls in a number of different ways for access to power, access to audience, access to money.
	We see it with Christian, so-called Christian leaders.
	We see it with media, with alternative media.
	We see it all over the place.
	It's really sad to see it, but it's everywhere.
	That's why we have Trump.
	Yes, we've got a couple more comments here real fast before break.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative, the church sold out to Section 501c3 a long time ago.
	Nibiru 2029, they're protecting Trump because Trump's the technates Don.
	Yeah.
	And Jerry Alitalo, Donald Trump, I was an FBI informant to a hoax.
	That's what I was laughing about when I saw that comment.
	That's right.
	That's great.
	Apparently, it wasted the FBI's valuable time that they could have been using to set up some poor, mentally deficient child on a bomb charge or something.
	Chev Ken, the only way one becomes an FBI informant is if they are a criminal and a bad one.
	Yeah.
	Oh, you're somebody who is a part of that pedophile rape ring.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	We'll listen to what you got to tell us about that.
	We'll give you legal immunity for it.
	You know, we might even, in this particular case, make you president.
	Very easy to blackmail and control.
	J. Edgar Hoover would be salivating.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative.
	Is there a reason why the Epstein survivors can't name the names of their abusers themselves?
	Why are we waiting for DOJ transcripts?
	I guess, you know, part of it is not necessarily, they may be afraid that they're going to be killed, but also that they may be sued.
	And, you know, that kind of lawfare can be very daunting.
	That's why Marjorie Taylor Greene talked about, you give me the list and I'll read it on the floor of the house.
	And I would like to see that happen.
	I hope that does happen.
	Well, we're going to take a break.
	And there was the group that was trying to put together a list.
	There was the one Epstein survivor that was talking about that.
	I mean, I don't know if there's a clear list of Epstein's victims to ensure that it's on the up and up, because I imagine that's a prime target for these people.
	They're going to want to discredit this stuff by adding in things.
	But it would be a definite benefit to have people that are known Epstein victims coming forward.
	I mean, the only instance of that that I know of is the woman that said that Dershowitz had raped her on Epstein's Island, and then she got sued by Dershowitz and said, well, I don't know.
	Maybe it was just someone who looked like Dershowitz and also happened to be a friend of Epstein and also happened to be on Epstein's Island at the same time and also happens to, you know, like young people.
	Maybe it's Woody Allen because the two of them look so much alike Dershowitz and Woody Allen.
	But look, yeah, they could kill you.
	They could also destroy your life and do a lot of other things to you as well.
	So yeah, these are very, very powerful people.
	These are the most powerful people, as well as the CIA and Massad, all involved in this.
	So I understand their concern, their fear about that.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to hit a lot of miscellaneous news.
	And we're going to talk a little bit about what happened with this failed Navy SEALs episode as well.
	We'll be right back.
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	All right, welcome back.
	I thought I was going to take a lot of flack for opposing Trump's idea of gun control, not just from the MAGA crowd, but from conservatives who really hate the LGBT.
	But the good news is that there's a lot of, all the major gun groups have pushed back against this because, again, it doesn't address the real problem.
	And you're not going to be able to stop them from getting a gun.
	And there's a real concern about how this would be handled on an individual basis.
	Would there be due process?
	I don't think so.
	And I think this was really just a tribaloon by Trump for more gun control by executive order.
	Yes, they are crazy.
	They've been driven crazy by the government institutions that we call schools.
	Yes, they have been given drugs that induce murder suicide.
	And again, this is also by the schools and those institutions.
	Real quick, I want to.
	Basically, everything that MKUltra did to people, trainees do to themselves.
	That's right.
	They induce psychosis.
	They make you fearful.
	They drug you.
	They abuse you.
	And they do it all to themselves.
	That's right.
	And they do it because they've been gaslit by the schools that push that and try to keep it secret from the parents.
	They conceal it from the parents, which is why it is grooming.
	That's what groomers do.
	Don't tell your parents this, but we're going to do such and such.
	So it's drawn condemnation from the NRA and every other notable gun rights group in the country.
	Because, you know, you either support the Second Amendment or you're like Trump.
	You're continually looking for a way to infringe it.
	And that's what this is all really about.
	That and Pam Bondi, the person who's covering up for pedophile, is also willing to destroy the Constitution overtly.
	Senior officials in the Department of Justice, so-called, are considering using their rulemaking authority to declare that trans people are mentally ill and then strip them of their Second Amendment rights.
	You see, yeah, it's more gun control by the executive branch, just as we saw in the first term of Precedent Trump.
	That's what he really is.
	He's not a president because he doesn't obey his oath to the Constitution.
	He is there as a precedent to establish these new things.
	Maybe these people can push this back with a unified pushback against it because it has, I think, a tromballoon.
	And just remember that that Vegas shooting, which I think was one of the most obviously fake false flag shootings ever.
	Not that nobody died.
	Yeah, people did die there.
	But everything about that was suspicious.
	And that was a thing that Trump focused on to ban bump stocks.
	Again, if you look at what they were telling us about, none of that made any sense, especially the idea that the bump stock was what made this so dangerous.
	It was absolute nonsense.
	But they focus on some small accessory to establish the precedent that the government can do executive order gun control and tied it to that phony event.
	As one person, Reasons Jacob Sullivan wrote, he said, the idea itself is legally loony.
	There is no statutory authority for such a categorical decree.
	Even if Congress did pass such a law, the law would be unconstitutional.
	based on current Supreme Court precedent.
	Well, not just based on the fact that the Supreme Court would decide one way.
	The Supreme Court doesn't write the Constitution.
	It's not a living document.
	It says what it, you know, it says it's written and it is fixed.
	And this is an infringement.
	And there's nothing that allows Congress to infringe it, let alone the executive branch.
	Categorical bans issued by executive fiat, no less, have been a red line for pro-Second Amendment groups and lawmakers for decades, but not with Trump in there.
	Again, it was the bump stock after they did the Vegas show, the production that they did there.
	The NRA does not and will not support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.
	And also without constitutional authority.
	That whole shall not be infringed thing.
	You know, it's interesting, the NRA took a pass on the bump stock precedent because they didn't think it was an important accessory or whatever.
	They opposed Trump then when he did the pistol brace ban.
	And so he pulled it back because that was right before the election.
	And then having set a precedent for banning a bump stock by executive fiat and the Justice Department and then banning the pistol braces, even though he pulled the pistol brace back, that was one of the very first things that Biden did.
	He puts in an executive order to ban pistol braces.
	And then the NRA pushed back against that.
	But it wasn't just the NRA.
	It was Gun Owners America.
	And by the way, Gun Owners of America, unlike the NRA, pushed back against the bump stock ban.
	They understood how it was being set up as a precedent.
	There's also the Second Amendment Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition, the National Association for Gun Rights, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
	They all pushed back against this because they all understood the principle about this.
	National Association for Gun Rights, we did some work for them.
	That's when we were up in that nightmare trip to New York City in the U.S. Yeah, we were there to cover it.
	That was when they were trying to push through the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty to force, it was ostensibly to stop the traffic of firearms going across the border, but in implementation, it would require the complete registration and tracking of all guns and ammunition and all that kind of stuff.
	So they were on the right side of that as well, National Association for Gun Rights, as were the Gun Owners of America.
	The Second Amendment Foundation said in a statement to Newsweek, beyond the bad policy and the constitutional infirmities of such quote-unquote considerations, the Department of Justice has no authority to unilaterally identify groups of people that it would like to strip of their constitutional rights.
	The Second Amendment Foundation sincerely hopes that the reports of such considerations by the Department of Justice are inaccurate, as a policy reportedly being contemplated is worthy of the strongest possible condemnation and legal action.
	So I don't think it's going to go anywhere.
	I mean, they put this trial balloon out and basically every one of the gun organizations started shooting at it.
	So hopefully they've shot down that trial balloon.
	Which brings us to another one of the Trump interesting episodes.
	And this is from his first term, but it just came out.
	And you might want to ask, as we look at why this is leaked at this point in time, why did somebody inside the Navy SEALs leak this failure?
	It doesn't make them look good, but I think it may be a precautionary tale as Trump is wanting to use them, I think, in this kind of Tom Clancy approach to Venezuela.
	It was exactly the way it was set up in the book, Clear and Present Danger.
	They sent in some special forces people to secretly start attacking the cartels and that type of thing.
	So maybe they don't want to be used in that way.
	Good for them.
	A report that alleges that U.S. Navy SEALs killed North Korean fishermen in 2019 in order to hide a failed mission.
	The SEALs were attempting to install a surveillance device to wiretap North Korean government communications when they encountered the fishermen.
	The article also suggests that the U.S. government often hides the failures of special operations from policymakers.
	You know, I knew, I've met a couple of SEALs and former SEALs, and one of them I got a chance to talk to him on several different occasions, got to know him kind of well.
	And both of these guys I knew were not big strapping guys like Jesse Ventura or whatever.
	They were small guys, but they were incredibly tough mentally and physically.
	This guy that I knew, you know, he talked about the training and the stuff that they put them through.
	Truly was amazing, but he got out of the Navy SEALs because he got injured nicely.
	I said, how did you get injured?
	He goes, well, I was underneath like a railroad trestle.
	I was putting explosives on it in another country.
	And it's like, what?
	And so we didn't go any further than that.
	He didn't want to talk about that anymore than that, but he said he fell on that, fell when he was doing that, and injured his back.
	And that kind of got him out of it because he had to be in top physical condition.
	It's impossible to tell how many other times U.S. special operations failed and then killed innocent bystanders in the process.
	You need to understand how they're being used or being used like secret agents, you know, James Bond types.
	So they said in this article from Reason, imagine that you are a fisherman in one of the poorest, most repressed countries in the world.
	About 20 years ago, your country was suffering from a famine that is still forbidden to discuss, frankly.
	The streets are filled with living reminders of starvation, people whose bodies are marked by childhood malnutrition, and food is precious to you.
	So today, as other days, you wake up before dawn with your companions.
	You go diving in the freezing cold ocean, the dead of winter, in hopes of putting some mussels on your family's table.
	But suddenly, a man you have never met and whose presence you did not know about has shot you with his rifle.
	His companions stab your lungs so that your body will sink to the bottom of the sea.
	Your family will likely never know what happened to you.
	This is what happened to a group of unnamed North Korean fishermen who accidentally stumbled upon a detachment of U.S. Navy SEALs in 2019.
	As I said before, war is when the government tells you who to fight.
	Revolution is when you decide we figure it out for yourself.
	So Trump, as commander-in-chief, had ordered this high-risk mission, utilizing low-tech methods in order to avoid detection.
	Normally, when something like this is happening, they've got a lot more eyes on the situation.
	They'll have satellite coverage and other things like that that apparently they didn't have access to.
	They had to strip it down for this mission.
	The objective was to plant an electronic device that would let the U.S. intercept communications of North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-un.
	But the report notes that the hidden surveillance objective may have had a broader purpose.
	It meant putting American commandos on North Korean soil, a move that, if detected, could not only sink negotiations, but also could lead to a hostage crisis or an escalating conflict with a nuclear-armed foe.
	Essentially, this would be a small-scale invasion and a breach of one of the most militarized and paranoid countries in the region on Earth and on Earth.
	It should be noted that it is covert operations like this which give autocrats like Kim Jong-un valid reasons to be paranoid.
	It's like, you know, we get paranoid, they're watching us.
	It's like, well, you're not paranoid if they really are watching you and if they really are out to kill you.
	So the Navy SEALs swam through freezing water with untraceable equipment, operating completely blind with no typical drone, spy plane, or overhead surveillance or real-time mapping.
	Even their weapons and bullets had been selected so as to be untraceable.
	Apparently, there was precedent for this, something that had long ago been kept secret.
	In 2005, SEALs used a mini-sub to go ashore on North Korea and to leave unnoticed, according to people that were familiar with the mission.
	Every aspect of this 2019 infiltration was very, very high risk, says the New York Times, but it was greenlit by Trump.
	The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea, then deploy a small team of SEALs into two mini-subs, reach the size of a killer whale, that would motor silently to the shore.
	The mini-subs were wet subs, which meant that the seals would ride immersed in 40-degree ocean water for about two hours to reach the shore, using scuba gear and heated suits to survive.
	The mission began dramatically to unravel from nearly the moment they surfaced in the dark of night.
	So bobbing in the darkness was a small boat, and on board was a crew of North Koreans who were easy to miss because the sensors and the SEALs' night vision goggles were designed partly to detect heat, and the wetsuits that the Koreans wore were chilled by the cold water, so they don't show up on their heat sensor.
	So if the SEALs swam back to the mini-sub and sent a distress signal after they, as they, as one of them saw them, they thought that they had been seen.
	And so he just picks up his rifle and doesn't say anything to the other guys, picks up his rifle and takes a shot and kills one of them.
	So then all the SEALs think something's happening.
	So they all turn around and they all start firing.
	All the North Koreans are killed.
	And then they punctured their lungs and dropped them into the water so they sink to the bottom of the floor, of the ocean floor.
	They swim back to the mini-subs.
	They sent a distress signal.
	Believing the SEALs were in imminent danger of capture, the big nuclear submarine maneuvered into shallow water close to the shore, taking a significant risk to pick them up.
	And then it sped toward the open ocean.
	The fact that this highly classified incident is being leaked to the press now is significant in its own right.
	Yes, it is, isn't it?
	I think perhaps maybe there's some people in the SEALs who are wondering what Trump is going to do there with Venezuela and they don't want to be used for this type of nonsense again.
	Let's hope that that's really why this is being put out.
	I mean, it could be put out just simply for political issues.
	But again, Matthew Cole, one of the reporters who broke the story, wrote on his Substack that he first caught wind of the story in 2023 from a source who wanted him to know, quote, how the SEALs involved in the mission had avoided any accountability because of how secret the mission was.
	The broader point of the story, according to the New York Times, was that the U.S. government often hides the failures of special ops from policy makers.
	Yeah, I agree.
	That would be what we saw with our friend.
	Seth Harp, author of the Fort Bragg Cartel, the name of his book, roughly estimates that Joint Special Operations Command killed 100,000 people during the Iraq War surge from 2007 to 2009.
	And of course, Fort Bragg in North Carolina is headquarters to a lot of these things.
	Not to the Navy SEALs.
	They're out in San Diego, I think.
	Their swastika building.
	That's right.
	Look at it from there.
	It's like a swastika.
	It's even rotated in the angle of a swastika.
	I'm sure nobody saw that.
	Just a coincidence.
	That angle looking at it, you know, north to south standard thing, which is something that only the Nazis did.
	The Buddhist symbol was typically done flat, not with the corners pointed at.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, that's the Nazi rotation they gave it.
	The fact that North Korean incident is not tied to any ongoing conflict likely made it safer for Cole Source to share with share other than others more recent failures.
	And of course, this was given to them during the Biden administration.
	So that's why I say I think why it's coming out now is maybe political, but it may be because of Venezuela.
	I just got to say, does it really matter what North Korea is getting up to?
	Who were they actually a threat to?
	Not to us.
	They're such a non-entity.
	Their country barely exists.
	It's one guy's private fiefdom.
	It's nothing to be concerned about.
	And we're still doing these.
	And they are setting on the largest supply of oil in the world, but they're so incompetent they can't even get it out.
	And I know he would like to probably have it.
	But the point that this guy is making in his blog post, he says the problem is everything is operating in secrecy.
	We have secret wars and everything is classified.
	And that's what I was saying earlier.
	You know, we talk about the Department of Defense and when we became the global police force.
	This national security state after World War II has bred every kind of abuse and illegal corruption.
	And it gets to do that because everything is secret.
	As he says, secrecy will breed abuse.
	And it has.
	You know, it's just like that should be kind of Lord Acton part two, right?
	That Lord Acton said, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
	And we should say, and secrecy breeds abuse, because that's a correlation to it that we have learned since post-World War II.
	He said, the only sure way to cut down incidents like this is to scale back American imperial ambitions and to stop getting involved in conflicts of choice because that's what we're doing.
	And yet, we come to Peter Navarro.
	Peter Navarro, who says that Trump is pulling off the most, quote, significant economic change, unquote, in U.S. history.
	And I finally agree with Peter Navarro on something.
	It's not to say that it's a good thing either.
	As I've said many times, you know, with Hillary, it was like, we've got to have change.
	We've got to have change.
	We've got to change the medical system.
	And I said when I would speak to these people, and I did go to their basically Democrat meetings, it was Congressman David Price there in North Carolina.
	And I was not well received.
	It was not a friendly audience.
	But I said, you know, yeah, change is great.
	It's one thing to identify a problem, and it's another thing to solve it.
	And if you say, well, this is a problem, so we're just going to change the whole system.
	I said, you might want to look if you've got a fire to see if the bucket you're going to throw on it is gasoline or water.
	And even water might not be appropriate for certain types of fires.
	So Peter Navarro is out there saying, this is great.
	Significant change, most significant change in history.
	Listen to some of the things that this guy has to say.
	He thinks that that in and of itself is commendable.
	Well, it is not commendable.
	It's stupid.
	It's illegal.
	He says, if you go back 200-plus years of this great republic, you can find no more significant economic change than what President Trump is pulling off in real time, said Navarro.
	This is the guy who browbeat the automobile companies to make the ventilators to kill people that Trump rewarded the hospitals for putting them on.
	So he said.
	All their big changes would be the creation of the Federal Reserve.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And so I thought that's the first thing he said.
	He said, this meets establishing the Federal Reserve or the income tax.
	Those were not good things.
	Only a Democrat like Peter Navarro, he ran as a Democrat and lost.
	And he said, and it hasn't been retaliation.
	He says it hasn't been retaliation for the other paper.
	I think people saw what happened when Canada tried, and we crushed them.
	Yeah, and what's that doing now?
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	Those things sold out right away.
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	And as soon as we get the commercial done, we're going to put that up on the website, too.
	That's really cool.
	And we really do thank Ryan for all of his support.
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