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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 Wednesday, the 10th of September, year of our Lord 2025.
	Well, we're going to take a look today at what is going on in Nepal.
	It should be appalling to the Silicon Valley censors and the government censors because at the heart of it was outrage over censorship combined with a long simmering frustration with in-your-face government corruption.
	Does that sound familiar?
	Can anybody relate to that?
	I think we can.
	And so we're going to talk about what's going on in Nepal, even as the AP point out that Silicon Valley enabled all the brutal mass detention and surveillance in China.
	Yeah, they built all of that on the technology that was developed out of Silicon Valley.
	And Silicon Valley would go to their trade shows and adopt their slogans of authoritarianism.
	So it is, they've been in this for a long time.
	Do you think they might bring the weapons of tyranny here at home where they can make a lot more money?
	Well, those weapons are already here in the form of flock cameras, artificial intelligence, and the like.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Well, Nepal, where is it?
	I couldn't tell you as an American geographically.
	Was that?
	We haven't gone to war with them yet.
	That's right.
	We only learned that when we have a war.
	But it is the land of Mount Everest and adventure tourism, Gurkha soldiers, which may be a factor here, and the pink Himalayan salt.
	So with the unrest that's there, and it is getting pretty bad over the last couple of days, you may want to stock up on that Himalayan salt.
	It's a country that has unbelievably low income.
	The per capita income there is between about $1,450,000.
	That's $1,450 and $1,500 a year.
	Now, sometimes the economists will go through and come up with something called purchasing power parity, which means that, well, okay, they don't make much, but it doesn't cost nearly as much to get things.
	When you change it for that, that brings their income up to $5,000 or $6,000 a year.
	Still incredibly poor.
	They have about 7 million students who are studying abroad.
	Social media and the internet has been their lifeline.
	And as this has been something that they pay a great deal of attention to, even though they don't have much income, they have seen the children of these corrupt communist leaders flaunting their wealth.
	And I guess we would say that they were kind of Nepo Nepalese or something, the Nepo babies of the Marxist dictators there.
	So what began as a protest against, and this is called not the Ministry of Truth, but the Ministry of Information.
	The Ministry of Information decided that it was going to ban all social media because people were complaining about the corruption.
	And so primarily Gen Z, they're calling it a Gen Z revolution, showed up to protest.
	I mean, they shut down Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, 26 social media platforms, many of them you've never heard of.
	I've never heard of.
	And so they showed up to protest this.
	And the police got kind of high-handed.
	They put up barriers and people were there with slogans about free speech and the internet and corruption and things like that.
	It got violent, as these things frequently do.
	The police started using live ammunition as well as rubber bullets and tear gas on them.
	And this turned into a real insurrection, not like January the 6th.
	They didn't have any weapons.
	All the weapons were on the side of the police.
	They killed 22 people, wounded 300.
	But this is not a quote-unquote insurrection where people walked between the velvet ropes in the Capitol.
	They set their Capitol building on fire when they got in there.
	And so there's been a curfew and a shutdown, and the government has done an about face.
	The prime minister and the home minister have both resigned now, pushed out by their own Marxist party.
	As a matter of fact, it's kind of funny because the main party is known as the Unification Party.
	And what they did was they unified Marx and Lenin.
	Seriously.
	I don't know.
	I look at them.
	I can't really, from where I sit, they're so far to the left that they look like they're sitting in the same spot.
	But I guess if you get way off to the left, you can discern a difference between these different ones.
	There's political turmoil in Nepal in decades.
	Analysts call it a generational reckoning.
	How about that?
	Like a fourth turning, you mean?
	Against a political culture that is defined by, listen, see if this sounds familiar.
	Instability, rent-seeking, and impunity.
	Yeah, we're going to make you renters of everything.
	That kind of thing is going around.
	Yeah, yeah, you'll own nothing.
	You'll rent everything.
	And whatever we do, we're going to do it with impunity.
	And of course, we can't really kind of make up our mind on these tariffs or anything else, but I have the authority to just take it on, take it off, take it on, take it off.
	So it's like a hokey-pokey dance.
	The protesters, made them in college uniforms, accuse political elites of corruption and nepotism using the lavish lifestyles that were flaunted online by the so-called Nepo kids, children of politicians as a symbol of inequality.
	The movement is described as leaderless and decentralized with young people using platforms like TikTok.
	See this?
	Just what the Zionists tried to do here with TikTok is to ban it all.
	So again, it's just we are not that far removed from this kind of total chaos and tyranny that you see here.
	And they went on to TikTok and to Reddit primarily to organize, despite internet blackouts, highlighting the role of digital spaces and modern dissent.
	Because I guess they shut down some of the main ones like Meta and X, but they could still get on to Reddit.
	So they said the security forces.
	I'm surprised the mods didn't kick them all off for resisting their government.
	Yeah, the mob versus the mods.
	Yeah, Reddit has been one of the worst censorship platforms from the very, very beginning, even before they started adopting it in other places.
	So it's now finally being reported by some of our mainstream media after a couple of days.
	One is calling it a color revolution that's turning into an internet revolution.
	Well, the color revolutions were not grassroots decentralized, leaderless.
	They were led by people like Soros and his organization and the CIA putting this stuff out there.
	What authoritarians may learn about censorship and a hand-fisted social media ban.
	They're calling it a color revolution in the Western media, but didn't they burn down the Communist Party headquarters?
	I saw something about that from someone, but I'm not sure.
	I don't know.
	I know for a fact that they burned the parliament when they got inside it, that lit fires.
	And there's pictures of the Reichstag on fire.
	Now, I don't know what they call their parliament building.
	Well, I guess if it's that corrupt, burning down their government building probably is the equivalent of burning down the communist headquarters.
	Yeah, yeah, because it is a unified communist political philosophy that is the ruling organization there.
	Like I said before, they are incredibly poor.
	About 60% of their exports, what there are of them, go to India.
	So this is heavily covered in the Indian press.
	Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in the capital city of Kathmandu, reintroducing restrictions just hours after a previous prohibitory order expired.
	Despite the curbs, student-led anti-government protests broke out in several parts of the region in the morning.
	The Ministry of Information had instructed agencies to restore access to the 26-block platforms.
	They claim they're just doing it to regulate them, you know, for their own good.
	We have to, we don't like the content and there's some really dangerous content out there.
	Does that sound familiar?
	So we just need to regulate it and we need to make sure that all these social media companies sign on and say that they are accountable to us.
	And so they put out their statement and none of the social media companies signed up for that.
	So they flipped the switch off of them and then the people flipped the switch on them.
	And it was the Ministry of Information, appropriately enough.
	Interesting to me is that it looked like what they were trying to do with the social media companies that they pushed back on was the same thing that Britain just did successfully, which implementing a thing where if you want to see topics that the government thinks are restricted, then you have to register your name and face.
	And these companies did that for the UK, but then when Nepal asked them to do the same thing for them, create a Nepalese registry, they said no.
	And then the Nepal government blocks these sites, and then that creates a revolution.
	But for Britain, they'll just go ahead and do it.
	Good point, Lance.
	Yeah, the British are going quietly into this dark night, aren't they?
	Yeah, this is the country that gave us George Orwell, that gave us Lord Acton, all these political philosophers who laid the foundation of liberty, who with Magna Carta gave us juries and other things like that.
	And they're just walking away from their heritage and quietly allowing all this stuff to be imposed on them.
	Not in Nepal.
	And so it's kind of interesting to see that happen.
	And I can say the same thing about America as well.
	Americans, for the most part, because of our tribalism and partisanship that they have pushed us into, Americans are now complicit in this.
	You have both the left and the right demanding that the other side be censored.
	Nobody supports free speech as a principle anymore.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	I look at it and I just shake my head.
	It's like looking at 2020 and the lockdowns where everybody just dutifully shut everything down, stayed at home, put a mask on, all the rest of the stuff.
	It's like, what is the matter with these people?
	Who brainwashed them?
	And it truly is like a brainwashing.
	So protesters had placards and the national flag.
	They're placards, things like shut down corruption, not social media, unbanned social media, youth against corruption as they march through the city.
	Interesting that the Marxist prime minister that was there, his name was Ali, O L I. And I guess the people of his party forced him to resign.
	I guess they came to him and said, this is another fine mess you've gotten us into.
	But I mean, his second in command was crying like Stan.
	I don't know what we're going to do.
	An eyewitness challenged the perception that this was led solely by Gen Zers and said the movement includes people from all age groups, millennials and even boomers, united by broader concerns beyond just the social media ban.
	The protest is against the pent-up anger against misgovernance and corruption in the nation.
	The protest has evolved into a wider civil rights movement demanding accountability and change.
	The Nepal army was deployed to enforce law and order.
	See, now this is an emergency, and this is probably what is really behind Trump's moving the overturn window of people's perception.
	This is all of this stuff with him wanting to use the military in these cities that have crime.
	And it's not an emergency.
	It's awful.
	But it's not an emergency.
	It's been there for quite some time.
	It hasn't escalated recently.
	But that is an effort, I think, to get people normalized to seeing troops on the street, because that will be the reaction once people push back.
	While the government claimed the ban was a matter of regulatory compliance, protesters viewed it as a direct act of censorship to suppress critical voices and organized dissent.
	Despite the phone and internet blackout imposed by the government, Gen Z activists turned to alternative platforms like TikTok to mobilize.
	That's why I guess TikTok must be shut down, right?
	So the parliament building is burning or was burning when they took the pictures that I saw.
	Simmering anger over corruption and economic inequality.
	And I imagine the people in government are making a lot more than $1,400 a year.
	Yeah.
	They always seem to make sure that you get whatever they leave on the table.
	They make sure they get the choice cuts.
	Yes, yes.
	So one student said she was protesting against the authoritarian attitude of the government.
	Well, it's not just an attitude.
	It is an actuality.
	And so he had Ollie had previously addressed the convention of the ruling Communist Party.
	They call it the unified Marxist-Leninist.
	Declared that the party would always stand against anomalies and arrogance and never accept any act that weakens the nation.
	There you go.
	I guess you had Trotsky as the pro is the opposition party.
	They're all fully communist, I guess.
	Well, you know what they say?
	If it's an act that doesn't weaken the nation, then it's not illegal.
	Yeah.
	Any act that doesn't weaken the nation.
	Any act that a Marxist-Leninist does is definitely not illegal.
	It looks like they actually did storm the Communist Party headquarters in Nepal and tear down the flag that was on top of it.
	I actually sent Lance a link to the video.
	Somebody you want to pull up.
	They need to set Karl Marx's beard on fire.
	He's got a great one that suitable for murder.
	That comes from an apparently communist subreddit where they're all lamenting the fact or talking about how, well, they weren't real communists anyway.
	They sold out, so it doesn't matter.
	Well, they banned TikTok back in 2023.
	See, they're a little bit ahead.
	The Marxist-Leninists over there are a little bit ahead of the Democrat Republicans here.
	But philosophically, they are exactly the same.
	There you can see the smoke coming out.
	There's somebody's taking down their Marxist flag or whatever.
	Anyway, they had banned TikTok in 2023.
	The ban was lifted last year after TikTok executives pledged to comply with local laws.
	I was going to say local lies.
	That's really what it truly is about.
	So, yeah, it's kind of interesting the parallels to that and what's going on in the West, especially as Lance pointed out, in Britain, just quietly going along with whatever they do to them.
	There's no information that anybody in Nepal was locked up in prison for a social media post, unlike the UK.
	And while we're on that, we have the picture.
	Show the picture of the judge that just let this terrorist go, Lance, in the UK and wished him well.
	This is somebody who had murdered quite a few people.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	20 years ago, Islamic terrorists blew up a bus in London, murdered 56 people.
	The man behind the attacks, Rashid Oswat, is now being released.
	A mass murderer, walking free in London, while British moms sit in jail for social media posts.
	When are they going to do something about this?
	And there's the guy, the judge, wearing his little curly hat.
	That's about the cat wig.
	That's about the only thing, the tradition that's left in British laws is dressing in a ridiculous manner.
	But they've completely abandoned the traditional law.
	He says, I wish you all the best and say to you that the way forward is to keep to your medications.
	Listen to the advice that you're going to get and keep out of the sort of things that you were doing.
	The sort of things that you were doing.
	Mass murder, blowing people up.
	Keep out of those sort of things.
	One mustn't do that.
	One mustn't kill 56 people with a bomb.
	You would be quite naughty back in the day, but now you know.
	Lance was saying he's got involvements going back to the very suspicious 7-7 bombings as well, doesn't he, Lance?
	Yeah, I think that's what's referred to here as the bombing that killed 56 people.
	He wasn't directly a part of the operation, but he provided materials and training for the people that did.
	And he also went to America and was creating a terrorist training camp in America, but then he fled.
	Let me pull up the article here.
	They might want to look and see if he's got any connections with Langley because when you look at 7-7 bombings, I thought the 7-7 bombings were in the subway.
	I didn't realize it involved a bus.
	But the 7-7 bombings that happened had a lot of interesting parallels to typically to American false flags.
	Just like on 9-11, we had NORAD was involved in an exercise that suspiciously looked exactly like the real thing and was happening at exactly that time.
	There's some coincidence theorists out there who say it was just a coincidence, not a conspiracy.
	Same thing happened on 7-7 in London.
	They had the people who would normally be there on the lookout and trying to provide security.
	They were essentially disarmed by being told that it was an exercise.
	And it turned out the real attack was exactly like the exercise, just like on 9-11.
	What do you have there, Lance?
	Funny how that works out.
	Yeah.
	Well, we got a comment there.
	Let's read that comment before we get a break.
	Joel want to say something?
	I was just looking at the article.
	Go ahead and read the comment and then I'll get some more information about this.
	We've got Risha M. Blumenthal and others at a meeting on controlling the internet for child safety.
	That safety is going to be used worse than during the Operation Warp Speed to shut out opposing views.
	Yeah, you know, the thing about the Trumps is so genius, how they use them, is how disarming they are.
	You've got Melania, not Donald, that's going to introduce the fact that we need to have AI in education.
	You talk about the ability to be able to manipulate opinion and to control the internet.
	That's to teach children from the very beginning that AI is their mentor, their instructor, their trustworthy source.
	Because that's always been a big part of government school in the first place.
	That is to establish the hierarchy of authority so that people don't think for themselves.
	You will not see government institutions teaching critical thought ever, never.
	They will never do that because they don't want any critical thought.
	Because it always winds up, if you think, you're going to be critical of them if you think.
	So the critical thought must not be allowed.
	Yeah, a little bit of critical thinking goes a very long way when you're dealing with the absurdities that we have today.
	That's right.
	The ludicrous people that are in charge.
	So apparently this guy set up al-Qaeda-connected training camps in the U.S. and UK and confessed.
	He was arrested and sentenced to 20 years for setting up the training camps.
	While in prison, he confessed to providing support and training and materials for the 7-7 bombing.
	So he's connected with the CIA.
	That makes sense.
	That's to why they would let him loose.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
	See ya.
	Making Sense.
	Common again.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	All right, welcome back.
	And I hit the button real quickly here.
	I think I cut Lance off a little bit as he was about to say something.
	You had another comment you wanted to make, Lance?
	Yeah, I was just saying that he was arrested for the terrorist training camp and then confessed later.
	So we're not 100% certain that he was telling the truth with that, but I just found this very interesting, this comment from the article here.
	The judge found that he continues to pose a risk to violent, extremely extremist motivated or terrorist offending behavior given his threats to kill Jews, Christians, and other groups of Muslims, and that he could also influence other vulnerable individuals.
	These are exactly the people that they want out on the streets as he's seen in America.
	That's right.
	Yeah, he poses a threat to every religious group we can think of and any non-religious groups.
	He killed atheists as well.
	Sure, he's mentally ill.
	Sure, he's sort of mentally handicapped, and sure, he's hateful and violent.
	Where was that going with this?
	That's right.
	That's why they let him in the country.
	That's why they let him out of the jail because of all that.
	Look, I haven't covered what's going on with money for several days here in detail, and there's a lot that is going on with money.
	Silver lease rates remain elevated after spiking for the fifth time this year.
	It's not just gold that's having a moment.
	Silver is as well.
	Silver prices continue to trade near their highest level in 14 years as investment demand becomes a driving force in the marketplace.
	However, silver's industrial component continues to attract significant attention and volatility.
	Late last week, Trump issued an executive order clarifying tariff exemptions for some important metals, including gold, graphite, tungsten, uranium.
	However, analysts note that silver did not make the official list.
	So the question is, is silver going to be taxed?
	And silver is something that is used, again, for so many electronic devices as well as solar panels and other things like that that they're trying to push.
	So I thought that was an interesting omission from the dictator of economics, Donald Trump, Ian is Peter Navarra, the collective psych of bricks that's in the White House.
	Mild profit taking in gold after a new all-time high was set yet again.
	This is like it was, what was it, about a year ago when Every Day was a new record.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	Gold this year is really taking off.
	It's about 35% that's up for the year.
	Gold prices are near steady and silver prices slightly lower near midday.
	Profit taking is featured yesterday after gold earlier in the day hit new contract record highs.
	And silver, as I said, hit the 14-year high on Monday.
	December gold, these are the gold futures, was up to $36.79.
	And December silver at $41.
	Key outside markets today see the U.S. dollar index firmer while crude oil futures are higher.
	It is very interesting, as Zero Hedge and others are saying, gold surges to new record high as stocks and bonds follow diverging narratives.
	So always when you have a dodgy economic system, which is what we have right now with the tariffs fluctuating everywhere and the inflation that Trump is desperate to bring roaring back, this is, as Gerald Salinti said, it's not just stagflation.
	That's what some of the analysts are calling it.
	We're not going sideways.
	We're going down.
	It's dragging us down.
	And so it is really more appropriate to call it dragflation.
	Inflation plus a recession.
	When money is abolished, just a reminder, surveillance becomes inevitable.
	That's my key about the gold issue and silver, is that it is a hedge against the abolition of cash.
	And we know that the reason that they're doing it is because of surveillance.
	It isn't that it naturally follows from it, but it is part of the plan.
	And in this article from Expose News in the UK, they point out that abolition of money was originally proposed by Karl Marx, which I think is kind of interesting because there are so many philosophical agreements that the Silicon Valley technocrats have with Marxism.
	That's why George Gilder, who wrote the book Life After Google, said that they called the people in Silicon Valley called them neo-Marxists.
	And he was talking about it from the standpoint that because of the Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx decided that there was going to be no shortage of any material goods.
	All we had to do was just decide how we're going to redistribute them.
	And that should be the job of government.
	And that's essentially what you're hearing from the Silicon Valley people, right?
	We're going to have infinite wealth, right?
	We're not going to just have universal basic income.
	We're going to have universal high income.
	Well, I think I know that I think Busk, when he says stuff like that, is either high or he thinks that you are high on something.
	But that's not the truth.
	That's not going to happen.
	Marxism was a scam then.
	It's a scam now.
	Yeah.
	It's a combination of ignorance and arrogance to think that there is no material shortage of anything.
	And all you need to do is just reallocate it.
	Of course, the difference philosophically was that now these people in Silicon Valley want everything redistributed to them as opposed to the masses, which is what Karl Marx was saying.
	I think that's also a more honest interpretation.
	I don't think Marx truly believed that they were post-scarcity.
	I think he just didn't like how it was distributed.
	He wanted to take it from the people who had it and give it to himself.
	And that's where these Marxists always go to.
	I don't believe any of these on-the-ground Marxists, these liberal college students, actually think that they can solve world hunger.
	They just see Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and all these billionaires with the wealth, and they think, I don't like that.
	That should be mine.
	It's based on NB.
	It's just a wicked grasping ideology.
	Yes, that's right.
	Trump's attacks on the Fed could send gold prices up to $5,000, says an analyst with Goldman Sachs.
	The $3,500 announced that we saw like a week ago, I mean, it was last time I was looking at it, it was somewhere around $34,000.
	It stayed around $34, $33,000, $34 for a long time.
	Now it has jumped up significantly in the last couple of weeks.
	Like I said before, I don't sit there with a ticker tape watching the price of gold or anything else, you know, like recalculating your your wealth in your spreadsheet um for me it's primarily a hedge against the surveillance tech that's going to be run through the money uh thirty five hundred dollars announced this week having risen thirty five percent since the start of the year on the back of geopolitical turmoil in anticipation of further interest rate cuts from the u.s central bank
	uh now it is um it's just shy of thirty seven hundred uncertainty about the u.s policy in general and trade tariffs in particular under trump has also added to the medal's appeal as public clashes with jerome powell fed chair and his attempt to remove lisa cook fed governor have raised concerns of the central bank's independence and i'm no fan of the federal reserve but it's you know we need to all understand that just because something
	is bad doesn't mean that you can't come up with an even worse system and i think a system where you have the president by fiat declaring interest rates however way he wants it i think that's an even worse system than the federal reserve imagine that the federal reserve is horrible but putting all that power that the federal reserve has in the hands of one political individual with ambition is the the absolute worst that you could do i think earlier
	this week commerce bank in a note referring to the federal open market committee which sets interest rates said the accusations against cook are a clear warning to other open market committee members to bow to government pressure for substantial rate cuts that's the way trump operates you know he focuses he cuts somebody out of the herd and he focuses on them to make an example out of them like i said when
	you look at uh when trump was running i said the stuff that the democrats did him leticia james in new york and uh alvin bragg i think it was the manhattan da uh it was it was criminal and what biden did to him was criminal what biden did to the january sixers was criminal but uh i said rather than uh do something about it to try to strengthen and enforce the rule of law trump will come at it as a uh don't mess with me
	i will take personal revenge against you and that's what he's doing to the federal reserve people they said this makes gold investments more attractive in such an environment goldman sachs base scenario is that gold will hit 4 000 an ounce by the middle of next year i'd say that'd be pretty conservative at the rate that's going right now because if this continues through september and october i would think they hit 4 000 um by that and and you know this is the time of year where the stock market gets shaky gold remains our highest conviction long
	recommendation in the commodity space they said uh so uh the price of gold eased uh just under one percent uh to thirty six hundred and eleven dollars an ounce after reaching another record on wednesday noting uh notching up its longest winning streak since march traders are now pricing in a 97 chance of a quarter point interest rate at the fed's september 17th meeting i think that's pretty certain question is will they do um a half a point rather than
	just a quarter point analysts said that gold's record run this year with several new highs has been underpinned by sustained central bank purchases diversification diversification away from the dollar resilient safe haven demand amid geopolitical and trade frictions and broad dollar weakness i think it was el salvador um i think it was el salvador it's one central american country i think it was a for
	the first time their central bank bought gold this week uh even they're getting the message uh so uh u.s treasury secretary by the way uh scott besant seems to be an angry little boy he's uh had yet another incident you know when this happened with musk he had to say Who was it?
	Was it him or Musk?
	Because that happened back in, I think it was April when it happened.
	Now he had an issue with Pulte, who is the guy who is head of the housing administration.
	And he is, as I said, he has talked about Nepo babies.
	He's with the Pulte family that does home manufacturing.
	And he has been Donald Trump's investigator, I guess we could say.
	finding these issues with not only Cook, the Fed governor, but also with Letitia James.
	He's identified some mortgage statement irregularities on her as well.
	And he's pushing the idea that we could use artificial intelligence to go back over people's records and see if we can find a crime on them in terms of their purchases of real estate.
	This is the way AI is going to be used by these people.
	It can sort through mountains of data and do it very quickly to look for a specific thing.
	And so he's been doing that.
	And both he and Scott Besant were tasked by Donald Trump to look at the privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these two federal mortgage organizations.
	And they came out with different recommendations that were counter to each other.
	Besant is not for privatizing them.
	Pulte is.
	And so as part of this, there's been bad feelings between the two of them, just like there were bad feelings with Scott Besant and Elon Musk over who was going to run the IRS and got into a screaming and shovey match with Musk.
	He did the same thing allegedly last week at, listen to this, the Executive Branch Club in Washington, D.C., which is yet another private club run by the Trumps, this one by Don Jr., during a dinner hosted for podcaster Chameth Palahapicha's birthday.
	Do you know who that is?
	I have never heard of this person.
	Well, this person evidently is very important because they are, you know, she's there at this private club that is run by the Trumps, and so are all these cabinet officials at the same time for this podcaster.
	Turns out there's quite a lot of clubs that you ain't in.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I'm a podcaster who's not in that club.
	Bessant reportedly launched a profanity-laced tirade at Pultey, who he believed was bad-mouthing him to Trump.
	The Treasury Secretary allegedly shouted, why the F are you talking to the president about me, F you, and threatening to punch Pulte in his effing face?
	This is the guy that we have negotiating with foreign heads of state, complete self-control, of course.
	So the co-owner of the club, Omid Malik, separated the two men after Besant told him, it's either me or him.
	You tell me who's going to get the F out of here, or we could go outside.
	Pultey asked, to talk?
	Besant said, no, I'm going to effing beat your behind.
	I'm changing it.
	Cleaning it up real time.
	The two were then seated at opposite ends of the dinner table.
	This is the Trump administration right here in a nutshell.
	So Bessant and Pultey have been on opposite sides of the debate over whether Trump should remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
	Besant privately cautioned against such a move, warning that it could destabilize financial markets, which we have already seen.
	While Pulte has urged Powell to resign and has drafted a suggested termination letter for Trump.
	This guy knows exactly how to weasel his way up to Trump.
	He not only did the opposition research using AI to go over a fine-tooth company.
	Like I said before, what bothers me about this is the saying that we've always heard about Joseph Stalin, bring me the man and I'll find the crime.
	And so that's what we see actually made very easy now with artificial intelligence.
	You show me somebody that you don't like and I'll use AI to do a complete audit of their life and find something on them.
	And I'm not defending this Lisa Cook.
	She broke the law and she should be better than that if she's going to be running some kind of government financial institution.
	She ought to have, I'd say, an impeccable character.
	But that's kind of, I guess, a little bit naive to think you're going to find that in Washington.
	Anyway, Bessant earlier this year clashed with Elon Musk near the Oval Office using profanities to accuse the tech billionaire of going behind his back in a dispute over the acting IRS commissioner appointment.
	Republican donor, meanwhile, has broken with Wall Street on a Trump rebuke.
	Everybody in Wall Street is afraid to criticize Trump for the obvious reasons.
	But Ken Griffin, who runs the Citadel Hedge Fund, is a billionaire who doesn't have a problem taking on Trump over the Federal Reserve.
	He delivered one of the most severe critiques of Trump of any U.S. business leader so far this year in an opinion column on the Wall Street Journal on Monday morning that the president's assault on the Federal Reserve's independence risks stoking both higher inflation and higher long-term rates.
	Well, he's absolutely right.
	And I hate to say it, but Scott Vessel is right.
	It's about chaos.
	And when you look at Trump and the things that he's done, you have to say, I think the man genuinely wants the chaos.
	And I've said this before about him.
	I think he is an agent of chaos.
	I think he is there to foment a civil war between different factions.
	I think he is there to take us down economically.
	I've never been more sure of it.
	Yeah, even if he wasn't doing it for that reason, he is such an incompetent rube that he's basically forced to create chaos so people don't focus on what it is he's doing.
	Yeah.
	I say incompetence.
	We know it's malicious.
	I'm saying, you know, if it weren't malicious, he would be so incompetent he would be forced to do this to continually distract.
	Yes.
	Everything in his background.
	I mean, the fact that WWE was such an important part of his life.
	And that's all about creating fake conflict, unnecessary conflict over nothing.
	And the suckers buy into the KFAB.
	That's right.
	Wall Street giant Cantor has now debuted a Bitcoin fund with gold insurance.
	Now, how does this work?
	The fund gives investors exposure to gold as a downside protection.
	They said they aim to give investors exposure to Bitcoin's gains, but then protect you with insurance on the gold.
	Well, that's great.
	Why didn't anyone else think of creating something where you can get all the profits of Bitcoin without any of the risks?
	Yeah.
	So far this year, as a percentage-wise, gold has done more than Bitcoin.
	So, you know, you don't necessarily have to gamble.
	You don't necessarily have to speculate.
	You can have something that is real, that is physical, that's outside their virtual reality that they're going to control.
	And I think it really is interesting because this fund, although I don't think it really offers any safety, if they're going to keep 10% of it in gold, I don't know how much of insurance that is.
	But it highlights the fact that Bitcoin is really fundamentally about speculation and gambling.
	And if you want to do that, that's up to you.
	Gold, however, is insurance, and it is privacy, and it is physical, not digital.
	And so I thought that was an interesting sign thing.
	So gold provides a safety net that historically performs well when markets decline.
	And that's the whole issue.
	Do you think that we've got a bubble that's about to burst called the AI bubble in stock markets?
	Do you think that we've got massive inflation coming as well as massive unrest and war?
	Headlines this morning are that Poland has shot down Russian drones, not Russian planes yet, but Russian drones.
	This is the first time we've had direct involvement of NATO countries directly with Russia in this conflict.
	So they're escalating it.
	Like I said, this is their intention.
	When you see the French government telling hospitals, be ready by spring of this coming spring, March of 2026, be ready to handle 50,000 casualties a day.
	To me, this looks very much like Alexei Restovich, who said in 2019 on Ukrainian television, there's not any chance for peace.
	As a matter of fact, it's going to get worse.
	He said, in three years, which is exactly when it happened, in three years, we're going to be fully on war with Russia, and this country will be havoc, destroyed.
	And the person who was interviewing him said, that's horrible.
	He goes, no, it's good.
	We get into NATO.
	Because NATO is not about defense.
	NATO is about war.
	And if you want to rename something, you need to rename NATO instead of the Department of Defense, maybe.
	But NATO has always been about that.
	As I pointed out, Operation Gladio and the rest of the stuff, it is a hotbed of warmongering snakes.
	And it is going to drag us all into a world war if it can.
	Well, NATO loses its purpose for existing if there isn't war.
	If you don't have conflict, NATO goes away.
	So they are perversely incentivized to generate conflict.
	That's right.
	And conflict with the Russians.
	That's what all this Russia-Russia-Russia says.
	Back to the old stomping ground.
	During the last bull market of 2021, Bitcoin hit a high of over $69,000 per coin, only to plunge to under $16,000 the following year.
	The current upcycle is likely to see an end, many analysts believe.
	So that's why Cantor is trying to put a gold floor on it.
	Gold, the traditional safe haven asset, hit a new high Monday near 36.80 per ounce and is up more than 37% year to date amid ongoing concerns about the U.S. economy, inflation, and macroeconomic uncertainties.
	Wait until war kicks in.
	You'll see what happens with it.
	Again, investors continue to pile into gold ETFs.
	on stagflation and rate cut expectations.
	I don't give investment advice.
	I just give warnings.
	So I would say that, you know, if you want to jump into, if you want to jump into gold, just make sure that you don't jump into an ETF because you don't own gold.
	You can't redeem it in an ETF.
	You can't even verify that the company that sold you the ETF even has the gold.
	It's like Richard Dawkins or something.
	I've heard there's gold, but I've never seen it.
	That's right.
	I can't get my hands on it.
	If you get an ETF, eventually you may be saying WTF when you go to get it.
	Yeah.
	I learned that lesson because that's what I was doing.
	It's easy to buy into it on the stock market.
	And then I realized when Gold started making moves that the ETF was not tracking those moves on the spot market.
	I thought, how could that be?
	And then I started doing a little bit of research.
	It's like, oh, okay, it's another one of these derivative scams like the mortgage crisis and the securitization of mortgages.
	So they just put it into a big fund and tell you that you own something when you don't.
	It's another tokenization scam.
	And so a lot of people are falling for that.
	But you need to get the real thing and the real thing that you can, that is physical and in your possession.
	That brings us to the new tariff rules that are happening.
	This de minimis rule exemption, and Lance and I were talking about this at lunch yesterday.
	It's kind of interesting because this was the exclusion of up to $800 would come in.
	They wouldn't bother with tariffs.
	So you could have the shipping companies were bringing stuff in.
	And if it was less than $800, there were no taxes.
	And all of a sudden, just like that, Trump changes the rules.
	And this is something that's been in for a long, long time, many years.
	This wasn't something that just came in with the new tariffs.
	This is, if it's under $800, it's exempt from a lot of normal taxes, including stuff that gives an unfair advantage to foreign companies.
	Yes, this has been around for 100 years, and the Chinese and foreign countries have found a way to game this.
	And so there is an element of, you look at this and say, why is Trump raising taxes everywhere?
	Well, if he's going to raise the tariffs, this is a major leak because this allows people to essentially get in under the radar.
	And rather than sending mass shipments to a U.S. retailer, what allows them to do is, if they're Alibaba, it allows them to sell directly to American consumers, which doesn't just undercut U.S. manufacturing, but undercuts U.S. retailers as well.
	And so, but the bills, as we see with all these Trump economic policies, are sudden and jarring.
	This is a report from NBC News.
	$1,400 for a computer part from Germany, $620 for an aluminum case from Sweden, and $1,041 for handbags from Spain.
	Some U.S. shoppers say they're hit with surprise charges from international shippers as the exemption on import duties for items under $800 expired as part of Trump's tariff push.
	It is maximum chaos, said Nick Baker, co-lead of the trade and customs practice at Kroll, a firm that advises freight carriers.
	And see, this is the key, right?
	You can have a debate and you can do this in an orally way and you can have Congress debate, which is why the founders gave that power to Congress.
	And so everybody can have a say about this.
	Once you make a decision about it, then it's going to roll out in several months or something.
	So you do it in an orderly way.
	What Trump is doing is he's jumping in and jumping out, and it's absolute chaos.
	That's the biggest issue.
	You know, we can have a debate over forms of taxation, levels of taxation, whether there should be taxation, the rest of the stuff.
	And we should have those debates.
	But we're not having the debates.
	We're having dictates, and they are sudden and jarring.
	Thomas Andrews, who runs a business in upstate New York restoring vintage computers from the 1980s and 90s, said he was shocked to receive a tariff bill from UPS for about $1,400 on a part that was worth $750.
	He said he assumed that there had to be a mistake.
	He said that's extortion.
	Late Friday, a representative for UPS told Andrews that the initial charge was indeed incorrect.
	The tariff bill should only have been about $110.
	They don't have any, this is happening quickly, and so the carriers are not sure what's going on either.
	So mistakes are being made.
	But it was too late.
	He'd already refused shipment to avoid paying the charge.
	Soon after learning about the corrected charge, he realized that UPS had already begun sending the item back to Germany.
	The final annoyance was that Andrews is being charged for returned shipping about $50.
	In a statement, UPS said it's solutions available to merchants designed to navigate the new environment.
	It did not address the customer billing situation.
	Well, again, it's sudden and people haven't had a chance to really adapt to find out what's going on with it.
	To comply with the new de minimis rules, yes, Lance?
	I was just saying that getting rid of this exemption in some way would probably be a good thing because it allows these sites like Alibaba and TMU or whatever to have essentially an unfair advantage over American manufacturers who have to deal with all of the problems of manufacturing in America and then selling to Americans.
	They're at least no better off, probably worse off, than these foreign companies that sell without any minimum getting rid of any fees.
	So getting rid of something like this would be good if it's done in a way where people have time to start creating these retail things in America that have all been driven out by Dominimus and other things.
	It's like having Amazon, but if Amazon is based in a foreign country, they get an advantage.
	And if they are selling to Americans, they are paying less than Americans are paying to sell to Americans.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's all about the manner in which these changes are made.
	We can debate policy, but there is no debate when you've got a dictator.
	He just tells you what to do suddenly, and people are trying to react with it.
	And the people who are getting hit the hardest, not even consumers, but small businesses who are being put out of business, as I talked about last week, they had no say.
	They might have had a say through their elected representatives.
	But when you have the dictator who is going to make tax policy, it's the people who are sitting at the table with him in his private club who are going to get their exceptions and get their way.
	And that means that the small businesses on Main Street are not essential, as Trump told us five years ago when he was destroying them at that point in time in a different way.
	So to comply with these new rules, a wave of countries have halted shipment to the U.S. That has caused postal traffic in the U.S. to decline by 80%.
	U.S. customers received a shock bill from major shippers like DHL, FedEx, UPS, having no notice about the charges from the foreign merchant that they'd ordered from.
	Again, everybody's scrambling to try to figure out what Trump wants to do today, and nobody knows what he's going to do tomorrow.
	The shippers are being inundated with messages from customers disrupting the charges, along with a return to sender requests as customers refuse shipments to avoid having to pay the bills.
	Here's a guy who, as a consumer, he bought a $300 aluminum computer case in Sweden.
	And then because there's the de minimis charge plus a tax on aluminum items, his $300 aluminum computer case then jumped up to $620 of additional taxes.
	So it essentially tripled the price, slightly more than that.
	All this is going to create a feeling of, oh, well, we need de minimis.
	It's going to radicalize people as, oh, well, because he put this out there with absolutely no warning to cause all this chaos and suddenly seeing prices spike, it's like, oh, well, what if we didn't have this new policy, getting rid of de minimis?
	We need to bring that back.
	It's turning it into a political issue when before lots of people were against de minimis.
	Well, it doesn't do anything to help retailers.
	It doesn't do anything to help manufacturers.
	And it's very much like Lance what he did with the rare earth metals.
	All right, that's it.
	No more rare earth metals from China.
	It's like, you've got them here in the U.S. Well, yeah, we've got the materials here.
	We just have to get the infrastructure together to extract and refine them.
	That's going to take us about five or ten years.
	Oh, okay.
	So we'll just do without for five or ten years.
	It kind of reminds me of everyone's legitimate criticisms for Biden getting out of Iraq.
	And yes, getting out of Iraq is a very good thing, but doing it in such a way where you abandon all of the equipment and money and all that, give it to the people that we've just been attacking for 20 years, that is the worst possible way of doing it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Trump wants to attack Biden for that.
	He had a chance to get out in an orderly fashion, and both he and Biden refused to get out in an orderly fashion.
	They were thrown out of that country.
	A software engineer in San Francisco, Wang, said he placed his order back in August, and he said confusion transitioned into late-night panic when I got the notice from UPS about the bill.
	He's expecting to pay $300 plus a little bit of shipping, and he gets hit with $620 of tax on that $300 item.
	UPS confirmed that he'd been charged the 200% tariff.
	Trump has slapped on certain aluminum goods.
	Yeah, there's a whole lot of things that lined up with this.
	Trump is angry with Sweden.
	Sorry, yeah, it was Sweden.
	Was it Sweden or Switzerland?
	Yeah, Sweden.
	Okay, so I was thinking it was Switzerland as well because he's jacked up things on Switzerland.
	But it's not only the tariffs, but it's also an additional charge because it's made out of aluminum.
	Again, the policies are arbitrary, capricious, sudden.
	That's why tax policy should be made with deliberation by your elected representatives.
	Some U.S. small businesses are also paying a price.
	The day after receiving a shipment from Spain for handbags that he said were worth about $600, Herm Narcisco said he and his wife, who run a brick and mortar shop in Dunedin, Florida, that resells goods from Europe, got a tariff invoice for $1,000 from DHL for $600 worth of items.
	We can't understand how it's possible to assess us with that level of tariffs.
	They plan to file a dispute, but the response could take two to four weeks.
	He's worried that their shop won't survive the recent charge changes if they start getting similar bills going forward.
	He said this last quarter is probably going to tank us.
	The margins on this type of business are slim to begin with.
	It just doesn't feel like the American way to me.
	It isn't.
	It's the Trump way.
	It's a way of bankruptcy and dictatorship.
	Job growth has been revised now by $911,000.
	That is the new record.
	If you recall, last year during the election, they revised down the job estimates by just over $800,000.
	And that was the second highest revision.
	Because that's one of the games that's always played by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
	You know, I think it's Mark Twain that said statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics.
	Well, the stats still don't lie, but the liars at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are the ones who are constantly lying about things.
	And they're doing it on a quarterly by quarterly basis, always to make this quarter look like an upward trend.
	They revised the previous quarter's numbers down, but it was pretty unprecedented, the magnitude of downward revision.
	And so Trump, because they didn't revise them in a way that made him look as good as he wanted to look, fired these people.
	But people have been putting way too much emphasis and credibility on these labor stats from the federal government for a long time.
	The revisions were more than 50% higher than last year's adjustment, and they were the largest on record going back to 2002.
	On a monthly basis, they suggest average job growth of $76,000 less than initially reported.
	Most of the time span for the report came before Trump took office, indicating that the jobs picture was deteriorating before he began levying taxes against U.S. trading partners, which will, again, will make it worse in the coming months.
	We've not seen the effects of the tariffs.
	That's one of the idiotic things coming out of the Trump media saying, look at this.
	You know, he put these tariffs on back on April the 2nd, and we've had an uptick in some of the revenue from the government, but we haven't seen any inflation.
	Well, you haven't seen the effect of the tariffs yet.
	Most of the tariffs were off and on and finally put on the first week of August.
	And you're not going to see any effect of those tariffs for several months because people have already got long-term contracts where the prices are locked in.
	That's a big, said one organization looking at this mass revision of the job numbers.
	Again, as I said, it was the largest revision that has ever been made, indicating that the labor market was frozen in 2024, that job gains were significantly lower than previously reported.
	And of course, we've reported the fact that job gains were almost all in the government sector, not the private sector.
	And they were almost all for foreign jobs, not American jobs.
	This has been going on for some time.
	Trump once called Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill terrible.
	Now he's pretending that he signed it, as he's pretending that he didn't sign the Epstein letter.
	Reason said he was right the first time.
	It was a bad bill.
	But he can't make up his mind whether he wants to take credit for it or criticize it, just like the tariffs.
	When the Democrats pushed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law through Congress in 2021 with hardly any bipartisan support, Trump warned Republicans not to vote for it.
	He said, patriots will never forget, he said, who described the bill as a loser for the U.S., a terrible deal, and makes Republicans look weak, foolish, and dumb.
	But it appears that Trump, who's now taking credit for the projects funded by the bill, has.
	Many projects, sites sponsored by the Biden bill, displayed signs crediting Biden and his infrastructure law for funding the job.
	You know, say things like President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law funded this project.
	Well, that in and of itself is a lie.
	This is what you typically see in the presidential debates, how one side or the other will take credit for jobs or projects or whatever that were created, when they didn't do it at all.
	They were, it's your taxpayer money that is taking it.
	We saw the worst of that with Obama when he was out there saying, you didn't build that.
	Remember that?
	You know, you got a business.
	You didn't build that.
	We built the roads.
	We built the infrastructure.
	We did this.
	We did that so that you could have a business.
	It's like, no, they actually did build the business.
	You wouldn't recognize it since you've never done anything.
	But, you know, they risked their capital.
	They poured their labor into it, their blood, sweat, and tears.
	They really did build that.
	And they would have built it whether or not you had your pothole-filled roads or not.
	It's the absolutely ridiculous idea that they think that the government interfering and regulating things is somehow a benefit to these private businesses instead of a drain on them.
	Yes, you did build that, and the government, you built it in spite of the government.
	The government was not there to help.
	That's right.
	But these guys always take credit for everything.
	So it's not unusual to see Trump taking credit for the Biden bill.
	And neither one of them are going to be the ones who pay for it.
	It's going to be paid for by the taxpayers.
	Many project sites sponsored by the bill displayed signs crediting Biden.
	But in recent months, these signs have been changed to predominantly credit Trump for making these projects happen, says the New York Times.
	Well, neither of these thieves paid for it.
	The taxpayers did, or they will.
	They'll pay for it with interest later on and inflation.
	Trump taking credit for someone else's work is nothing new.
	But given the bill's failures, it's a questionable choice even by his standards.
	What sets this apart is not just the unprecedented funding levels for hard infrastructure, for roads, bridges, transit, ports, and rail, but also the unusual funding mechanisms for some of these projects.
	While a lot of the bill's infrastructure projects were formula funded, which allocates money to states or congressional districts based on factors like population or square mileage, this one is being done mostly by grant funding because this is about corruption and crony capitalism.
	We're going to give the money to the people that I like because they like me, that type of thing.
	And a lot of this money has been difficult to get to people.
	Despite having been given over $42 billion, the bill's rural broadband program has yet to connect a home to the internet.
	Very much like the chargers for electric cars, right?
	$8 billion allocated and they did like five or six stations or something.
	The infrastructure bill also funded things that are clearly not infrastructure, like the Energy Department delivering a more equitable, clean energy future for the American people, quote unquote.
	This funding supported the opening of dozens of new offices and grant programs within the agency.
	So it wasn't actually building anything except a bureaucracy.
	That's what the government typically does.
	It doesn't build infrastructure that we use.
	It builds a bureaucracy infrastructure that uses us.
	Also, there are claims of this infrastructure thing was supposed to deliver a more equitable and clean energy future.
	That itself, even if that was what they were doing, isn't something that the infrastructure people should be concerned about.
	It's just more climate MacGuffin, it sounds like.
	That's right.
	And what do they mean by equitable?
	That's right.
	Unsurprisingly, rapidly increasing the agency's budget and bureaucracy has led to several examples of wasteful, frivolous spending.
	The Trump administration has rescinded some of this funding while also passing its own wasteful spending that will likely hurt energy reliability and saddle future generations with debt and inflation if Trump gets his way.
	Let's take a look at some of the comments that we got here, Travis.
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	Watch him blow something up right outside the door.
	That's in relation to that Islamic terrorist that got released in England.
	B.L. Houghton, Trump be cashing in with his gold stuff, gold sneakers, watches, meme coins.
	That's right.
	Here's the thing.
	They put him on a taxi instead of on a subway or bus.
	I guess they didn't want one of those.
	It might be a bit too much of a temptation there if they put him on one of those old habits and all that.
	KWD 68, Trump's crash of the economy will be Biden's fault.
	Yeah.
	Belutin Milankovic, universal income will be high inside the virtual pod prison they have for us.
	That's right.
	You'll have all the fake tokens you can use in the metaverse.
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	Tony A is my man.
	Absolutely.
	And we thank Tony for supporting this program.
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	And that's the nice thing about it.
	He makes it very easy to acquire gold.
	They have great staff there to help you.
	But you can set up a savings program.
	And you can start saving your money in something that's going to retain its value and maybe even increase it significantly relative to the dollar.
	And this year, so far, it's gone up 37% in relation to the dollar.
	You couldn't get interest rate.
	You couldn't get that in the days when the banks used to pay interest.
	They never got it to 37%.
	They'll charge you that on a credit card, but they never paid 37%.
	You know, the rule of 72 is that if you take whatever the nominal interest rate is and divide it into 72, that'll tell you the number of years it takes to double your money.
	At 37%, you double your money in two years.
	Actually, a little bit less than two years.
	We've got Skunk Hollow Rose Gardens.
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	The real octo spook, China is the new American industrial power and rolling over all in its way.
	Just fact, complain all they like.
	No one is even slowing it.
	In the not so distant future, China will have higher quality of living, quality of life.
	This is how these things work.
	The Chinese know this, embedded criminals, Americans' government deny it and look like fools.
	I don't think so.
	China is a country full of scammers, and basically everything you see on social media about China is a scam.
	It's nothing but propaganda.
	They are still a miserable, sad group of people, mostly.
	Well, yes, but everything in the West, all the leaders in the West, as hell-bent as they are on war with Russia, they're equally hell-bent on transferring all of our manufacturing to China.
	Yes.
	And these are the globalists.
	They know that they can make a lot of money.
	Oh, they're going to transfer everything to China, but it's still going to be a slim, slim portion of the population at the top that have everything.
	They're not going to magically hand out a good life to the people beneath them.
	It is still going to be an authoritarian, totalitarian.
	They're desperately poor.
	But when it comes to manufacturing, slave labor has been a part of it along with currency manipulation and intellectual property theft.
	However, the slave labor thing is only going to be more intense because they'll have robot slave labor and because this green New Deal stuff and net zero and the Paris Climate Accord, all of that has handed cheap energy to China on a silver platter.
	And there's absolutely no way that you can be competitive in manufacturing if you don't have cheap energy.
	That is the fundamental baseline.
	That is more fundamental even than cheap labor.
	And they have given that in spades to both China and to India.
	I just, I don't think their standard of living is going to exceed ours anytime soon.
	As I said, it's a country full of scammers and they will scam each other as readily as they will scam everyone else.
	And when you have a culture like that in a society like that, it doesn't lead to a conducive.
	It's not conducive for growth.
	Well, I would say that if our economy wasn't turned in the same direction, you know, that kind of equal kind of equalizing things.
	All the wealth is going to be flowing not to the Chinese people in general, but to the Chinese political parties.
	The James Mason 0521.
	Oh, fun fact.
	Thanks to Bill Clinton, who gave China to who gave China to the World Trade Organization and American Industrial Power to them.
	What a sellout he is.
	Yes.
	Audi MRR, AI will target critics of Zionism.
	Well, that's a given.
	The real octo spook.
	When England and the UK failed and fall behind, America became a trash hole of the unfit.
	This is now happening to America as it falls behind China.
	Worst point is, no one has a method or clue on how to stop or reverse this.
	China is becoming the new superpower, the Chinese, the citizens of that superpower.
	Well, I guess that's one way in which China could outpace us in quality of life is if the politicians in America just take us down below the level of China now.
	Yeah, well, the problem is China is not very good at actually new research.
	They're very good at stealing research from other people, but when it comes to actually inventing new stuff, they're not that good.
	So if America ever stops inventing things, China does too, as a general rule.
	Once America has nothing left to steal, China has nothing left to steal from them.
	I think that may be changing, though.
	When you look at some of the latest things, they're starting to not just live off of pirated intellectual property.
	They're starting to develop some of their own.
	We'll have to see.
	I mean, if you look at some of these AIs and robots, a lot of the best ones are coming from China.
	The problem is when you abandon God and you abandon freedom and you abandon morality, you have abandoned the things that give you your competitive edge.
	And all the stuff that the globalists are looking for are not to value those things.
	They don't value those at all.
	And so the key issue is: you know, do we?
	And that's what we have to make sure that, regardless of what our dear leaders do, regardless of how Marxist they are, remember that in China, they have they may be dirt poor and they may be under the thumb of this totalitarian government that's been empowered by Silicon Valley technology.
	However, they have a thriving underground church.
	And, you know, that's that's the key thing.
	No matter how authoritarian and totalitarian the government is, we still have the ability to do some things on our own.
	That's what we should focus on: empowering ourselves.
	Angry Tiger's Den: Trump has been brought into be an economic wrecking ball after passing the Genius Act.
	By the time his 10 years is over, people will be begging for monetary policy change.
	Yes.
	Yes, I absolutely agree.
	Bulldag.
	In a side note, Trump lost the $80 million suit from the grifting prostitute.
	Yeah, that's right.
	MOE Studios, is it Moe Studios?
	Bring back that show-me-the-money sound drop.
	KWD 68 gold and silver, not so much going up as the dollar is failing.
	Well, that's a golden silver holder value as the dollar crashes.
	So it's a good place to kind of park your value.
	Yeah, we say it's going up.
	You're right.
	That's exactly what is happening.
	As we've talked about many times, and many people have looked at this in terms of across different currencies.
	But even if you look at things like a long discussion that Tony and I had one time on air about, you know, what did it cost if you were, you know, 100 years ago, if you were in London and you wanted to get a custom suit and you wanted to travel to Switzerland, you buy this and that.
	And you look at how much gold it costs.
	And it costs slightly less gold because people got a little bit more efficient in terms of manufacturing things.
	But in terms of the currency denomination, it was astronomically higher, which means that the currency is astronomically dropping in value.
	And the gold is retaining its value.
	That's the whole point.
	It's not that it's actually going up in value, it's retaining its value, which the currency will never do.
	D. Regimer, with global instability, the deliberate, the deliberate paradigm, gold is an easy 5K an ounce before 2030.
	AP Rumble Seat, manipulating the markets and finishing off small business.
	Mr. Orange is a destroyer by design.
	Nice of the storm.
	Imagine what the cost of making a car will be with the tariffs on steel and aluminum.
	You're not going to be able to do that.
	See, that's the way Trump can do these things subtly through the back door, right?
	He can price people out of being able to afford cars rather than just coming out like the Democrats and saying, you can't have a car.
	He can just make it unaffordable.
	I can't wait to pay.
	And not even do it with regulations, you know, do it with tariffs that you don't see.
	I can't wait to pay $200,000 for a Nissan Altima.
	Yeah.
	KWD 68, over 200 executive orders, and MAGA would disagree with 175 of them if they could read the real octo spook.
	You'll have nothing and be happy.
	Still think they were kidding?
	They were kidding?
	Or there is a way out?
	I think there's always a way out.
	I think there's always hope, but no, they were not kidding.
	And I definitely agree that is exactly the way we are headed.
	They made their plans clear, and you'd be a fool not to take them seriously.
	You'd be a fool not to think they were serious about it.
	B.L. Houghton, no business could stay open with that kind of taxation.
	That's right.
	You're a small business, and all of a sudden the cost of what you, your product has tripled.
	How do you stay in business like that?
	Of course, the reply from this idiot, Navarro, and Donald Trump is: oh, the businesses will just eat it.
	The foreigners will pay it.
	It's not being paid by foreigners.
	It's being paid by small American businesses, and it's driving them out of business if they don't pass the costs along to you.
	Can you afford to pay triple for whatever you were buying before?
	B.L. Houghton, no business.
	Already read that, Steve Evans.
	The whole the foreigners will pay it thing is so ridiculous in that, oh, yeah, we're adding a tax to the manufacturers of this, but don't worry, the manufacturers will pay it.
	It's always the same thing that you've always seen in New York City, which is what mom Danny is pushing out there.
	Trump is doing the same thing.
	We're going to tax and spend our way to prosperity, and don't worry, other people will pay it.
	And you won't be hit.
	It's going to be those horrible billionaires and millionaires in New York City that are going to pay it.
	So Trump is saying it's going to be these foreign countries that you hate so much.
	They're going to pay it.
	No, you're going to pay it.
	Always.
	Steve Evs, applying to Tunnel Lord in 337: Billionaire hate small businesses.
	Yes, they do.
	Assyrian Girl, the way Trump is devastating trade for American retailers and consumers guarantees the pendulum swing back to outright Marxism in 2028.
	That's a part of it as well.
	AP Rumble seat, all while raking in fortunes for himself and family via crypto and other numerous scams straight out of a KGB oligarch playbook, and Congress refuses to move on it.
	Yes.
	Wally Walrus, high-end goods businesses are the first to go.
	The fish rots from the head down.
	The James Mason 0521: When all things go to crap, they will take you to war, like Bibi and his corruption scandal.
	KWD 68, tariffs hit small businesses for the same reason they were hit during COVID tyranny.
	Small businesses aren't corporations.
	Trump must smash.
	Asticus 25, the magic virus only attacks small businesses.
	The big box corporations had heard immunity.
	Yeah, that's what I heard.
	B.L. Houghton, meanwhile, Melania carries her $200,000 Birkenbag.
	Yes, $200,000.
	Let that sink in.
	Yeah, what a scam.
	I also grabbed a comment here.
	It was from Brandon Grateful Baptist.
	He says, God bless you guys.
	Keep me in prayer if you can.
	My physical condition is debilitating and I can barely make rent and groceries.
	So please pray for Brandon Grateful Baptist.
	Keep him in your prayers.
	Yes, Brandon.
	We pray that God will bless you and protect you.
	And as he does, we don't know how that's going to happen or when it happens, but he does protect his children.
	And we want to thank those who have supported this program.
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	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.
	Welcome back.
	Karen just handed this to me while we're on break.
	This is from Jason Barker.
	I had not seen it.
	I think it came in just recently.
	He said, Can your family please pray for my wife?
	She's been suffering from massive migraine for about a week now.
	Not able to sleep.
	It's gotten so bad she's going to the ER this morning.
	She has a pretty high tolerance for pain.
	So if she feels a need to go, it must be very bad.
	She has a family history of cancer, fears that she may have a brain tumor or something like that.
	I pray the Lord will take this pain from her and that they don't find anything.
	Yes, we do too.
	And I wanted to read this, even though he didn't ask me to read it to all of you, because so many people have been so kind to pray for me and for my family.
	And we know that God works through that.
	So please pray for Jason and his wife.
	Please take this pain from her and that it not be anything serious.
	And so I really wanted to pass that on to you.
	It's very important.
	God does answer prayer, even though the Democrats mock it.
	They don't understand the first thing about God or prayer.
	And the biggest issue is that it's not some magic incantation.
	It does change us.
	It absolutely does when we start to see God working in our lives.
	And that is the purpose of prayer.
	It isn't that we obligate God to do anything.
	And I was really surprised when I covered that article about the mother whose child survived.
	And she started saying, thoughts and prayers don't do anything.
	Well, they're probably, you know, she didn't realize it and didn't give it credit, but I'm sure there were a lot of people who are praying for her child, even if she wasn't praying for her child.
	Well, this is all these comments from Tim Kaine.
	This has continued to magnify through the conservative media the fact that he said that rights don't come from God and took on the Declaration of Independence.
	And so Ted Cruz is going to carry the flag and all that.
	And so Trump was able to essentially start to grab onto that.
	It's a very useful thing for him to be able to try to inoculate himself from his Epstein connections and portray himself as a defender of the faith and of the Constitution.
	Don't be fooled by that.
	It's absolutely laughable.
	So the senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself.
	Trump smokes tyrant Tim Kaine, says the gateway pundit, for claiming rights come from government, not God, and calling government-given rights an extremely troubling Iranian belief.
	Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
	It's a little bit sensational in the way it does, but it's true.
	Tim Kaine claimed that natural rights don't come from the Creator and that it is radical to think otherwise.
	And as I've said for the longest time about Biden, that is what Biden said about in 1991, I think it was, with the Clarence Thomas hearings.
	So, you know, that was like 34 years ago.
	It's the easiest way to get in trouble if you be called a radical is to quote the founding fathers.
	And that's especially true when you quote them on the foundation of government, the Christian foundation of it.
	Yeah, if you quote them too frequently, you might get yourself a visit from some unpleasant people.
	Yeah.
	So the Epstein clone and buddy is now hugging the Constitution and the Bible.
	Trump says, under the Trump administration, we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God.
	Well, Tim Kain's idea was that these rights are meaningless unless they are protected by law.
	No, it's actually the government has to abide by the law.
	They're meaningless if the government doesn't abide by the law.
	That's the bigger point here.
	He can try to nuance this and say, oh, well, all I was saying is that the government has to protect your rights.
	It's like, no, the government is the biggest destroyer of these.
	That's why it was put into the Bill of Rights.
	And the government that will not obey the law that they swore to uphold as a condition of their office lose their authority.
	So, again, he thinks that the government is the one that is going to spare us.
	Trump affirms his faith, says the Christian Post, at this religious liberty meeting.
	And as I said, he is not a defender of the faith.
	He doesn't understand it at all himself.
	It's very clear that he doesn't understand what the Christian faith is and that he's not a disciple that follows Christ.
	The real issue, do you think that Trump is going to say that Christ is the resurrection and the life?
	Does Trump believe that?
	More important question is, do you believe that?
	We're not here really to sit on the sidelines and carp about somebody, except to point out when they're being hypocritical about these things and putting themselves out as a Christian leader.
	It is important to see if there's hypocrisy there.
	He says, to have a great nation, you have to have religion.
	And I would say to you that religion has no value at all.
	And I truly mean that.
	It is not your works.
	Religions are based on what must I do to be saved.
	The answer is you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because he has done the work for you.
	That's the difference with Christianity and these other religions.
	Jesus was very much against the religious establishment of his day.
	And so he speaks in such vague terms.
	We're one nation under God.
	Well, which God?
	Yeah.
	Which religion?
	Which religion?
	That's right.
	I said yesterday, the founders were very cagey about that.
	They didn't want to mention the name of Christ.
	And, you know, they talk about nature, nature's God, and things like that.
	And that was something that Madeline Murray O'Hare tried to hang on, to hang her hat on, say it wasn't a Christian country.
	It's like, all you're saying is that the leaders weren't Christian.
	And I don't know if that's ever going to change or if that was ever true.
	The real issue is that they were speaking as they did because the vast majority of the people in America and the culture was Christian.
	And they were trying to pander to that.
	In Texas, they have a guy in Austin who is a 36-year-old state lawmaker.
	And he has a Presbyterian seminarian.
	I don't see if he got his degree or not.
	But they said this guy might be able to show the way for the Democrats.
	And because, you know, what is the problem with the Democrat Party?
	Well, they become the party of Satan, of child pornography and gender gaslighting and mutilation, all the rest of this stuff, rampant homosexuality in your face and proud of their sin.
	And so maybe we could get some guy who went to a Presbyterian seminary.
	The problem is, is that, and he's had a lot of viral videos that have gone around.
	And so the Democrats think, this guy could be a real torch carrier for us.
	He's a four-term Democrat in Texas, and he wants to, he's announced that he's going to join the primary race for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn.
	So two years ago, a video made the rounds where this guy whose name is Tallerico, I think is the way it's pronounced, arguing against legislation that would require public school teachers to hang the Ten Commandments in their classroom.
	So again, it's not really different from the Democrats that are there.
	He wants to purge any free exercise of religion out of the public square.
	He says, this bill to me is not only unconstitutional, it's not only un-American to put up the Ten Commandments, it's also deeply un-Christian.
	He said it is idolatrous.
	It is exclusionary, and it is arrogant.
	Well, he should know that Christ is exclusionary.
	He said that people are not going to like his exclusive change or his claims.
	He said, no one comes to the Father but by me.
	How exclusionary can you get about that?
	We should not be ashamed of that.
	And the only problem I have with the Ten Commandments is that it doesn't have the cross there.
	Because if you've got the Ten Commandments without a cross, it doesn't do the individual any good.
	It just leaves you under condemnation because nobody can keep those Ten Commandments.
	That was the point that Christ made repeatedly with people.
	And yet they like the Ten Commandments because it's something that they can use like Riddling to keep you under control.
	I think that's why they're so pressed on.
	It's like, you're breaking number six right there, you know, or whatever the number is that they're coming after.
	Democrats hope that his emphasis on faith, again, his religion, is not following Christ.
	We need somebody who is actually a good person.
	Again, that is antithetical to Christian beliefs.
	Jesus said, there's no one who is good.
	As a matter of fact, Isaiah said the same thing as well.
	All of our righteousness is like filthy rags in front of Christ, so don't brag about your righteousness.
	The modern American political discourse, Democrats have mostly ceded the topic of religion to Republicans.
	But the party could learn from Tallarico's understanding of this.
	Well, again, this is like Hollywood deciding that, you know, we can make a lot of money if we make a movie for Christians, and they don't have the slightest understanding, so they're going to gender swap out Aslan from Narnia.
	They're going to gender swap Jesus.
	To me, this just smacks of the liberals being sad that they haven't been able to get in on the Christian grifting as much as the right wing has.
	Yes.
	You know, as a general rule, the right wing has had a monopoly on the Christian grifters.
	But now they're like, hmm, can we get that as well?
	You're not going to get, you know, the fire and brimstone southern preacher for the left, but maybe you'll get someone like this, the sort of soft, meek, well, I think that's just arrogant and mean.
	Well, that brings us to Nick Fuentes, who is not a Christian grifter.
	He's made it pretty clear, I guess, that he rejects the principles of Christ as well as the idea of family.
	But he's getting a moment right now.
	He was featured by the New York Times.
	That was picked up by Drudge.
	And this is J.D. Hall, who already took one bite out of Nick Fuentes, which I thought was devastating.
	But he is taking a second one because of this additional attention, I think.
	The headline of his substack is, understanding the gospel of Nick Fuentes.
	He's quickly reaching one of the world's most unreached people groups.
	Evangelicals would be wise to find out why.
	And the unreached people's group is young men that are out there.
	He says, every so often the American right manages to cough up a figure that is so embarrassing, so grotesque to the liberal mind that even the left can sit back and fold its arms and say, thanks for the assist.
	Enter Nick Fuentes.
	If you've never had the experience of listening to him, imagine a teenager with a webcam hopped up on Red Bull and racial resentment, dressed like Alex P. Keaton.
	You know, that was the guy that has Parkinson's disease that was in Back the Future.
	I can't remember his name.
	Michael J. Funks.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I can't believe I can't remember his name.
	Maybe I'm getting Parkinson's.
	I don't know.
	Ranting about politics like a sophomore who just discovered irony.
	Then imagine that instead of growing up, he leaned into it.
	He built a cult following out of it, and he convinced people that he was the future of conservatism.
	Fuentes has made a career out of being deliberately revolting.
	His act is equal parts, shock, jock, dorm room, troll, and proto-fascist rant.
	I know somebody like that.
	I think you probably take Alex's place.
	He openly flirted with Holocaust denial, joking about ovens as if reducing genocide to a punchline is bravery.
	He's mused publicly about suspending women's suffrage, but not like a cool theological maverick like Doug Wilson sort of way, but more like, girls are icky.
	I've never had a date sort of way.
	All while broadcasting from his mom's basement like a parody of himself.
	And of course, he has declared America to be a Christian nation, quote unquote, in the same breath that he praises fornication, lies shamelessly, and humiliates women for sport.
	This is what passes for the dissident right to the terminally online.
	He said, from a Christian perspective, Fuentes is not just misguided.
	He is revolting.
	He drapes himself in the language of faith when convenient, but it is nothing more than stagecraft.
	Many people like this.
	Yes.
	Christ warned about whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but filled with decay.
	Fuentes is the TikTok version of that warning.
	He can quote a verse here and there.
	He can sneer about how based Jesus was.
	But at the heart of it is idolatry of power, race, and his own ego.
	He does not exalt Christ.
	He exalts Nick Fuentes.
	Yet tragically, young men follow him.
	Why?
	Because he embodies rebellion against a culture that hates them.
	And instead of pointing them towards Christ, he points them toward bitterness, resentment, and rage.
	He tells them that the problem isn't sin per se, but women voting.
	I mean, he might have a point, but why does he have to argue this and not someone who is less obnoxious?
	He tells them that the issue isn't rebellion against God, but immigration, when the issue is both of those.
	He offers them not repentance, but resentment.
	Oh, that's a great line.
	Yeah.
	Not the cross, but a cope.
	For lonely, disenchanted men, it feels like purpose, but it is poison.
	The problem with Nick Fuentes is not that he is controversial.
	It's that he is corrosive.
	He takes the legitimate frustrations of young men, that is the betrayal by the culture, the collapse of masculinity, the rot of the family, and he twists them into rage at all the wrong targets.
	Instead of teaching them that Christ is the only foundation, he teaches them that the solution is a white Catholic dictatorship.
	Instead of calling them to holiness, he calls them to trolling.
	Instead of telling young men to stop pleasuring themselves to porn and maybe go talk to some women for the purpose of moral procreation, he keeps them glued to live stream rants and has denounced men for engaging in family time instead of tuning in to him.
	Imagine complaining about the low Caucasian birth rate while simultaneously promoting incel culture because girls are all gold-digging whores, apparently, to him.
	Nick Fuentes is not a leader, not a prophet, not a visionary.
	He is a juvenile idolater playing dress up as a statesman.
	He degrades women, like legitimately, not in a pro-patriarchy, quote-unquote, toxically masculine way.
	He mocks the very faith that he pretends to uphold.
	He poisons the hearts of the vulnerable.
	His entire platform is built on shock, not substance, on rage, not righteousness.
	The fact that anyone mistakes him for a Christian is a sign of just how spiritually bankrupt our culture has become.
	So, let the world know I am not a fan.
	I think we figured that out.
	I will never be a fan.
	I find Nick Fuentes to be revolting.
	I think I've already said that, he said.
	He's not a voice for the church.
	He's not a voice for truth.
	He's not even a voice for the right.
	He is a cautionary tale.
	He is proof that pride, immaturity, and idolatry can gather a crowd, but can never lead to life.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And we see that in so many of these so-called influencers who have become grifters.
	And I think, you know, as we look at it, you know, stop and think, why would anybody want to be an influencer?
	That's tantamount to saying that you are a propagandist, right?
	That you're pushing people.
	You're not trying to inform them.
	You're not trying to educate them.
	You don't have a point of view that you're trying to defend and to show, to give people a perspective as to what is coming at them and the things that are repeats of history.
	You're not doing any of that.
	You're simply trying to push them for some partisan purpose and some mob that you're a member of that you're serving.
	I think that what they ought to call the influencers, I think they ought to call them nudge news.
	Nudge, of course, is the tactic, the behavioral psychology tactic that the governments of the West have adopted.
	So we're going to gradually move people in this direction, that direction.
	And that's what these so-called influencers do.
	They're nothing but nudge news, and there's a lot more nudge than there is news in what they do.
	So he says he's an aim to keep surfacing in headlines, whether you like it or not.
	So why is this happening?
	He says it's not because he's brilliant.
	It's not because his worldview is consistent.
	It's because he speaks to a demographic that feels completely ignored.
	It's the same reason that Andrew Tate has a following.
	Specifically, white men have generally been cast aside and told that they are the source of all the world's problems.
	So if you give them someone that says you're not the source of the world problems, no matter what else they say, as a general rule, they're going to gravitate towards them.
	It doesn't matter how hateful, resentful, and despicable they are as a person in other ways.
	If they're the only person that's telling you, hey, you have value.
	You can do stuff to help.
	I agree.
	And J.D. Hall would agree with you.
	That's the point of his op-ed piece here.
	People, especially young men, want to push back on the people that are being hateful against them.
	And it is obvious that these people are hateful toward young men.
	So they perceive everyone that is similar to the people that are being hateful as that.
	And it just creates a bigger problem.
	Yeah, as J.D. Hall says, he talks directly to young men, the same group that the church cannot seem to hold on to.
	Evangelicals hemorrhage young men in droves, but Fuentes attracts them.
	That contrast should alarm us.
	When you live in a world where even stating basic truths gets you accused of hate speech, a guy who laughs in the face of taboos will always look heroic, no matter how ridiculous the rest of his message is.
	This is where evangelicals need to take note.
	Saying whatever you feel like is not virtuous, but it does scratch an itch.
	It represents courage even if it is misplaced.
	A generation of young men who've been told to sit down, shut up, and apologize for existing are desperate for someone to give them permission to speak again.
	Fuentes does that.
	And because the church has largely abandoned them, they're listening to him instead.
	Again, you know, we need to understand that, you know, what the church needs to reclaim is something that was emphasized by both Christ and his apostles, that this is a spiritual war.
	And, you know, we're not called to just relax and sit back and let it happen.
	And that is, I think, the way that you reach men is you talk to them about that, because that's what men understand.
	They're there to protect and they're there to defend.
	That is innate, just like women have an innate nurturing.
	And both of those things can be destroyed by repeated nudging and propaganda, but that is our nature.
	This is where evangelicals need to take note.
	He said, so he mixes his bile with just enough reality to hook people.
	He points out the obvious, like the failure of feminism, the emptiness of modern politics, the hypocrisy of the elites.
	Those are true observations.
	And truth is so rare in today's cultural wasteland that people tolerate oceans of sewage to get a sip of the truth.
	And so he says this is a demographic that we cannot ignore.
	And so he said the methods that we spend millions of dollars trying to train missionaries to reach foreign cultures.
	And yet, we have a culture here that is now foreign to Christ.
	And we are blind to that problem.
	And so that's his greater point, you know, that this guy can get a following, but we can't.
	Which brings us to the other thing that was pushed a lot by the media, and that is this op-ed piece saying that George Washington's worries about America's fate are coming true.
	And it emphasized in his farewell address not so much the aspect that everybody talks about, the fact that he warned us against foreign entangling alliances with Europe, no less, something exactly like NATO.
	But he also warned us about ambitious, unprincipled leaders.
	And this is something, when we look at the Christian foundation of our society, that was a key takeaway from all that.
	As I said the other day, I said many times, the main criticism of Abraham Lincoln by his opponents was that the man was flawed in his great ambition.
	They saw him as a social climber, and they saw him accurately as such.
	And they said he's not suitable for the office of presidency.
	They were looking for men of character.
	We don't care about character anymore, do we?
	When you look at Donald Trump, who we've seen him do this with all the people in his administration, you know, first of all, he flatters people excessively.
	And then when he gets rid of them, he doesn't just part ways.
	He finds it necessary to pursue them down the road, trying to destroy them.
	And that's why so many people who worked in his cabinet are so adamantly opposed to him.
	You know, we see the same type of thing with somebody that we worked for as well.
	Washington's farewell address is famous for the admonitions to steer clear of permanent alliances.
	But as important as those warnings are, they're not the main topic of his message.
	During the four decades that I have taught the farewell address in classes for American government, I have urged my students to set aside the familiar issues of foreign policy and isolationism, to read the address for what it says about the domestic challenges that were confronting America.
	Partisanship, parochialism, excessive public debt, ambitious leaders who could come to power playing off of our differences, and a poorly informed public who might sacrifice their own liberties to find relief from divisive politics.
	Washington's address lacks Jefferson's idealism about equality and inalienable rights.
	Instead, it offers a realistic assessment that Americans are sometimes foolish and make costly political mistakes.
	Partisanship is the primary problem for the American Republic, according to George Washington.
	It serves, he said, always to distract the public councils and enable the public administration.
	Partisanship agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasional riot and insurrection, and can open the door to foreign influence and corruption.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, you are here.
	Though political parties, Washington says, may now and then answer popular ends, they can also become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines that have lifted them to unjust dominion.
	He felt compelled to repeat the warning more than once in the farewell address.
	Second time that Washington takes it up, he says, the disorders and the miseries of partisanship may gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual.
	Some political savior, in other words, who could that be?
	Sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns his disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
	So why not outlaw parties and rein in the dangers of partisanship?
	Washington observes that this is not possible.
	The spirit of party, he says, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
	The central problem in American politics is not a matter of devious leaders, foreign intrigue, or sectional rivalries, things that will always exist.
	The problem, Washington warned, is with the people.
	That's why I say MAGA is a bigger issue than Trump.
	Washington worried about the excesses of partisanship.
	He said, partisanship is like a fire, not to be quenched.
	It demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
	So where is America today?
	He writes.
	Warmed by the fires of partisanship or consumed by the bursting of flames.
	That's a good point.
	Roger Strong, who is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Washington Lee University, which used to be a good university.
	I don't know if it is anymore.
	I don't know if any universities could be called goods.
	Probably like human beings themselves, right?
	Well, we've got some comments here.
	Let's take this.
	Yes, we do.
	IRS machine gun.
	Thank you very much for the tip.
	It's very kind of you.
	I work in the heavy equipment industry.
	Basic diesel oil used to be 17 bucks a gallon.
	Now it's 30.
	The new John Deere's take a special hydraulic oil.
	That's $168 a bucket.
	It used to be $60 a bucket.
	Wow.
	DG8, thank you very much, says David.
	Alex doesn't even talk about Trump covering up the Epstein files either.
	You support opposing the pedos or you're in support of it or are one.
	Alex makes a movie called Police State, warning us of it.
	When Trump brings it in, Alex is in full support of it.
	It's sad Alex helped wake me up.
	Now I'm disgusted by him.
	Alex is a fraud.
	Yes, he's one of those people.
	As a matter of fact, Karen just handed this to me during the break.
	And this is from Ryan.
	Gave me a heads up.
	I'll just read you what I haven't read this yet.
	He said, I suffered through the show for looking for where he talked about you.
	What a lying SOB.
	At the end of the clip, Rob Dew twisted the time you told Alex that you didn't want to stop, spread Stop the Steal, or whatever it was called, on your show.
	He doesn't mention how it was him and Daria that fired you, not Alex.
	Well, the other thing, too, is that it was what he was doing was he was fundraising because he said, I had to fire David because we just couldn't afford him and Travis anymore, as if they're paying us that much.
	And I knew for a fact.
	What is that?
	I got a phone call coming in.
	Okay.
	It's coming through the speakers.
	That's Alex on the line.
	Thank you.
	Anyway, he said that he didn't have the money to pay us.
	And Daily Bee said, look at this.
	Infowars is going out of business and all this kind of thing.
	They got very excited about that.
	But I knew what the reality was.
	I knew what a bold-faced lie that was.
	I knew that he'd had record sales by pushing fear and panic about COVID in the spring.
	He was selling so much storable food.
	And it's good for people to prepare.
	But he was pushing it.
	to the nth degree with fear and panic.
	He was selling so much of it that the people who were supplying him Patriot Supply had to build new factories to make the storable food.
	It was insane.
	And all of that was, it's not just my word.
	You can go back and you can look at the Sandy Hook trial.
	And they went through the records there of the warehouse.
	And they saw that it was record sales that they had then.
	And then again, it was stopped to steal.
	And that's what they were talking about, is how those two things were so profitable to Alex.
	And I knew that was the only reason that he was throwing the country, the Constitution, and his own listeners under the bus, was to make money off of that.
	So he said, I don't remember any mention of you complaining about an upload error when Alex hosted the first episode of the American Journal.
	Do you remember anything about the upload error?
	I don't understand how any of the show would upload if there's an error.
	Wouldn't have to start over and try again.
	I know what that's about.
	When Alex got everybody really scared.
	And at one point, he even said to me in the break room, he was there, I was there, his dad was there.
	And he says, all these millennial kids or whatever, they said, they're all scared to death.
	They've all headed literally for the hills and the hill country.
	You know, they've all bugged out into the woods thinking that this pandemic is real.
	And I said, no, I don't think it's real at all.
	And what happened was the social media guys left, of course.
	And they were the ones who did the uploads.
	And they didn't upload my program for a week.
	And so I had words with them when they came back.
	And I guess they still didn't do it, even when they came back.
	And so I guess that's what it, it wasn't an upload error.
	The, it was an upload a mission for a week.
	They didn't put my show up on, on a podcast.
	He says, also wanted to suggest you share the audio from the call with Alex after getting fired.
	The clips I shared have him saying he warned you not to say that you're being censored back in 2019.
	Then he said you did it again.
	That's the reason you were fired.
	He changes more than Hillary with Benghazi.
	Like you've said before in the three minute clip, he told Dew that you called him complaining and told him F you.
	No, he's lying about that.
	I never had a conversation with Dew about being fired.
	I mean, they fired me.
	I didn't say anything.
	I put my phone on the desk and, but I didn't say anything at all to them.
	I just left after that.
	He said that your family's going down and the lawsuit will bury you.
	Something like that.
	It would be interesting to hear the actual phone call.
	That I did not record, but no, I called him because he was attacking my family and he said he was going to continue to do that.
	And, and I said, well, you do that.
	I'm going to file a lawsuit.
	And he mocked at me and he laughed.
	He said, get in line.
	I got so many people suing me.
	I can see anything I want.
	And that's kind of the way that Alex rolls.
	And Freethought Project did an excellent expose on Alex and talked about how these alt media personalities have really betrayed everyone and the influencer media.
	And it is, as a matter of fact, let's, let's go to that now.
	There's a time I think we should talk about that.
	You want me to finish reading?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Go ahead.
	Shelley A. The government employs 80% of the jobs.
	You can consider contracts, tax credits, subsidies, all the rest.
	There is no free market.
	AP, rumble seat.
	Yes, China is the CCP slave model they intend to bring here to the States.
	It is the globalist pet hegemony.
	No moral compass in CCP China.
	No moral compass in CCP China.
	Yeah, that slave model was created by our own elites and our own globalists that we have here.
	Shelly A. Read the Bricks 2025 website.
	It reads like the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative saying, talking to geesebusters.
	I've seen Chinese talk to their families on WhatsApp Live.
	I saw beautiful parks, shopping malls, etc.
	They spend a lot of money to build these places, and a lot of them are very, very empty.
	Well, yeah, we went to China a while back.
	We're there for a couple weeks, and there were a lot of nice places, but the number of places that were in just abject poverty greatly outnumbered those.
	If you just drive a little ways out of the wealthy cities, there's a lot of poor people.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the cities are where they spend all their money, and there's a lot of people that live outside them that live in absolute poverty and destitution.
	Angry Tiger's Den.
	I've done a lot of business with Chinese people from China.
	I found it very pleasurable, and in most cases, they're a lot more honest than Americans are.
	Yeah, it's the people at the top, you know, that like our politicians, you know, have taken advantage of them as well.
	Asticus25, they shipped all the machinists and industry jobs to China with the express purpose of eliminating the skills and preventing passing them down.
	America is neutered.
	AP Rumble Seat, yes, China is notorious for stealing intellectual property, but hey, but they are leading in graphene and other destructive applied tech.
	Bin Laden Bernanke, the Chinese Christians have not only accepted the persecution, but they have embraced it as their identity because they never lose their hunger for God.
	America lost that love for God a long time ago.
	That's right.
	Shelly A. I have been trying to buy a book from a small publisher in Sweden and they won't ship here because of the tariffs.
	But if the guy would have published it through Amazon, it would be no problem.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative, these tariffs will drive down the birth rates even faster and further.
	Guard Goldsmith, I was listening earlier.
	Plus, should mention the de minimis allowances.
	Those should be the standard regardless of U.S. ability to compete.
	The key is lifting U.S. government burdens from U.S. makers.
	I agree.
	And the evaluation of these things should be: does this help American businesses?
	Does this help American consumers?
	And if it's a tax, the answer is always going to be no.
	But the biggest problem, you can talk about the collapse of manufacturing in this country, but the biggest problem is, as it has always been, government regulation and taxes.
	I grew up in a family where everybody had small businesses.
	And I used to hear, I grew up hearing all the problems that were needlessly created by an intrusive, expensive government.
	And so I know that the biggest problem with manufacturing or running any kind of business here in America is not the Chinese government.
	It's not foreign competition.
	It's our own government.
	And of course, they will not take their boot off of your throat.
	The regulation and the taxes are going to stay.
	Anyway, this is the Free Thought Project article, and I want to go quickly because we've got a guest, a very good interview that's coming up at the top of the hour.
	The mainstream alternative media, they say, is the biggest threat to real truth.
	And again, the so-called influencer media, which I think is better seen as nudge news.
	It's no secret that we live in the midst of an information war and have for quite some time.
	Perpetual propaganda shapes the perspectives of the day, wherein establishment news outlets, either under the control of an editorial board with blatant conflicts of interest and financial incentives or directly beholden to the intelligence community, skew facts and information to fit neatly in line with the agenda of their benefactors and the status quo of the state.
	That's the mockingbird media, the Operation Mockingbird from a long, long time ago, how they got their hooks into the establishment media.
	They promote war in the interest of imperialism.
	They passively endorse the subjugation of marginalized communities via the police state.
	It is a crony capitalist economic policy and a corporatist monopolization of the monetary system.
	They actively promulgate institutionalized oligarchy and the false dichotomy of the duopoly to the detriment of individual liberty and personal sovereignty.
	They do this while attempting to maintain some veneer of objectivity, crafting narratives and counter-narratives to play off the indoctrinated prejudices and confirmation biases of the masses.
	Seen this most recent years was the so-called culture war, the wokeness versus anti-wokeness.
	Nothing more than a slew of manufactured outrage as a tool of psychological warfare.
	Not too long ago, the independent and alternative media served as a bulwark against these kinds of mind games, shining light in dark places, exposing acts of corruption and abuse.
	They didn't play the game of partisan politics.
	Instead, they chose to follow the facts no matter where they led, often for little or no reward, while met with slander and derision and the likes of being labeled conspiracy theorists, but still acting as a bastion for the curious truth seekers that were all too aware that governments and their subservient institutions do not have the best interest of the people at heart.
	This kind of muck-raking independent media, real fearless journalism, not afraid to ask hard questions is what helped to expose the truth of many sordid activities, such as CIA involvement in drug trafficking, illegal mass surveillance, heinous war crimes, the military assassination of a sitting president, U.S. government complicity in 9-11, international pedophile rings tied to intelligence agencies, and much more.
	But with the rise of podcast culture as time goes on, goalposts move, and you have shifting ideologies.
	Attitudes change.
	All inside the ever-swirling vortex of censorship, corruption, bias, some figures and outlets within the independent media space previously held in high regard for reporting have since fallen into disrepute.
	While some newcomers on the scene have popped up to have only the appearance of an alternative while shamelessly towing the line of the status quo, these quote-unquote influencers no longer seek to uncover truth, but rather to influence.
	And again, if you call yourself an influencer, just call yourself a propagandist because that's what that really is.
	Now serving as gatekeepers of independent media, rather than being a true alternative, they only serve to promote alternative narratives within the false left-right paradigm and to serve the ruling class, acting as a kind of controlled opposition.
	This outfit is typically referred to as the mainstream alternative media.
	And there's a number of notable names among them.
	Some are obvious figures like Tucker Carlson or Laura Loomer that have made a career out of simping for the state, even if in some instances, like with Carlson, they attempt to rebrand themselves as an anti-establishment talking head.
	Then there's some pundits like Tim Poole, who rose to prominence, parroting right-wing talking points and showing for Trump while pretending to present an unbiased centrist position.
	Others like Luke Radowski, once renowned for his on-the-ground reporting, exposure to state corruption and promotion of libertarian ideals, has followed suit with Tim Poole, finding a new home in the MAGA crowd as a cheerleader for Trump.
	And it's sad to see that with Luke Radowski.
	I liked Luke.
	I met him several times at Bilderberg, and I always thought that he did a good job, and he was out there taking risks to get the truth out.
	And now he's just been corrupted by this association with Tim Pool and Laura Loomer into a joke.
	For instance, he said, Joe Rogan is a bit more subtle.
	He holds the position of the most popular podcaster in the world.
	While Rogan himself does not purport to be a journalist, his platform typically hosts political commentary that fits neatly inside the bounds of the dichotomy.
	Some have made such a monumental shift towards embracing the grift that their lack of integrity is almost unparalleled.
	One prime example being that of Russell Brand, once a rising star on the leftist media promoting anti-racism, decolonialism, environmentalism, exploitation of consciousness, radical political revolution, sexual revolution, as a matter of fact, as well.
	He's now done a complete about-face, embracing the far right and promoting a Christian worldview.
	Again, I don't know if that is genuine or not, but by far, though, they said, this is Free Thought Project.
	The most notable among these mainstream alternative media figures is none other than the man who helped the independent media rise to prominence in the first place, Alex Jones.
	Nowadays, most people likely only know Jones for his ardent support of Trump and viral clips of his cartoonish rants alongside legacy media coverage of his numerous lawsuits.
	Once upon a time, Alex Jones is a man credited with exposing Bohemian Grove and Bilderberg, protesting the military-industrial complex, the lies about the Iraq War, and speaking out against a two-party paradigm.
	Yeah, he would never align himself with anybody until Trump in 2015.
	And then with Roger Stone, that became his reason for existence.
	Long before his embrace of alt-right nationalism, there were those of us who remember Alex Jones led a protest against the KKK rally in Austin, Texas, and ran the Klan out of town.
	Before he supported massed ICE agents disappearing people off of American streets, he produced documentaries exposing the militarization of law enforcement.
	He did documentaries about the police state.
	And this is now where Alex Jones has now joined the enemy.
	It's amazing to see it.
	You know, and let me just say this.
	It's not about, you know, I don't need to go in and I don't want to watch the lies that Alex Jones told about me.
	Karen said, I got this a couple of days ago.
	I didn't want to give it to you because I want to get your blood pressure check first.
	It does get me upset to see Alex lying to people.
	Not just about me, but it gets me upset to see him lying to people about January the 6th.
	He set up his own people, as I said.
	Look at all the people who got in trouble.
	Look at the people who went to jail for four or five years until Trump finally pardoned them.
	And look at who did not get charged.
	Alex.
	He is a useful tool of these people.
	He makes the truth unbelievable.
	He misleads his own followers while he's picking their pocket.
	It's despicable what he did.
	That's what bothered me.
	It bothered me throughout 2020.
	And it wasn't a personal thing.
	I'm not important.
	And you know what?
	Even though he thinks he is, Alex Jones is not important, except to the damage that he does to his followers.
	He should be ashamed of himself.
	Alex, you need to turn yourself around.
	Genuinely, not another fake turn.
	Okay, hang on.
	Long before his embrace, he was pushing the, he's pushing against the police state.
	Jones and his company spent the last 10 years, yeah, going back 2015, making excuses for Trump.
	Nowadays, Bilderberg comes and goes and barely receives any mention.
	You know, when that first happened, I could kind of make excuses for it because I knew how much he hated, and rightfully so, Hillary Clinton.
	And so it's like, okay, Trump is the anti-Hillary.
	I could get it, you know.
	But it just became a cult.
	It was absolutely amazing.
	Alex Jones is now all in on promoting regime change in Venezuela instead of protesting the war machine.
	He's regurgitating the same neo-colonialist lies that the U.S. Empire has used to foment unrest in the country for years.
	So I said he needs to go back and reread what Smedley Butler told us about these Latin American wars.
	He needs to educate himself again, if he ever was educated.
	We live in a world where the old cliché that knowledge is power is truer now than it ever has been.
	There is indeed a war on our minds.
	Legacy media propagandists are quickly being replaced by the prestitutes of the influencer age, which I think we ought to just call them the nudge news, where grift is valued more than grit, and they don't value truth at all.
	Well, I've run over time and we've got our guest is patiently waiting for us.
	So I'm going to end it at that point.
	We've got, who's going to be joining us real soon?
	We have the author of a book that is called The Godless Crusade.
	And it's talking about really what is happening in this country.
	And it truly is spot on The Godless Crusade, the progressive campaign to rid the world of religion.
	And by that, he means in the broader sense of any kind of a moral standard and to purge that out.
	And that's really where we have seen our countries go down.
	We have abandoned any connection to morality.
	And he's also a psychologist.
	And so he looks at how what is being pushed out really does fall into the paradigm of a disordered mind that we see in the woke functions.
	He said it functions exactly like a cult.
	It's like a religious cult, where original sin is white privilege, where salvation is DEI, and where excommunication is the cancel culture.
	I thought it was a great observation.
	So I'm interested in talking to him about his book, and we're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back with that.
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	The scoundrels who put America on central bank fiat currency used our heads on their coins as some sort of trophy.
	Despicable.
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	I spent my life fighting centralized power.
	Now the Federal Reserve Monopoly parades us around on their monopoly money.
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	Welcome back, and we're having some audio issues in terms of our connection.
	We're going to continue to try, but I'm going to continue on.
	And I'm very interested to hear Dr. Richard Creighton.
	Again, his book is a godless crusade, subtitled a progressive campaign to rid the world of religion.
	I think they want to rid the world of any religion except theirs because as he points out, their movement is really kind of just created their own religion.
	And that's what we typically see.
	Let's take a look at some of the news that is here.
	We have Silicon Valley has enabled the brutal mass detention and surveillance in China.
	This is from the Associated Propagandist AP.
	The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Woliang as he lay bloody, paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks.
	By then, the surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they will do next.
	Their train tickets, their hotel bookings, their purchases, their text messages, their phone calls are all forwarded to the government.
	Their house is ringed with more than a dozen cameras.
	They've tried to go to Beijing 20 times in the past few years, but mass men show up and grab them, often before they depart.
	Last year, Yang's wife and younger daughter were detained, now face trial for listen to the crime, disrupting the work of the Chinese state.
	A crime that carries a sentence of up to a decade in prison.
	I'm hearing a lot of noise.
	Do we have him online?
	Dr. Creighton, are you there?
	Okay, we still don't have any audio from him, though.
	Yet the Yangs are not criminals.
	They're simply farmers trying to beg Beijing to stop local officials from seizing their one half acres of land.
	But the article goes into, it's important to see what that looks like because this is the future that American technocracy has in mind for us.
	And they've been planning and laying these designs for a very long time.
	You go back to the middle of the 20th century and you had JCR Lookliter planning the internet and the people with the CIA, venture capital firms and everything, jumping into creating Incutel and jumping onto the boards of all these venture capital firms to own the internet with these social media companies and these search engine companies.
	And it was something that you had Sabigny Brzezinski talk about, the techniocratic age, where we are going to know what you're doing everywhere.
	We'll even know before you know what you're doing.
	So this is something that has been wargamed, been planned for since the middle of the 20th century.
	And it has been developed with technology in the West.
	China is their beta test site for all of this stuff.
	That's what I've said for the longest time.
	You look at this stoplight traffic system where they rate you with social credit scores of either a red light, a yellow light, or a green light or something like that.
	That is the system that they're trying out there.
	And as we talked about that, it only took about a year or so before they started implementing it here under the cover of the pandemic.
	So China is simply their beta test site for all this American tech that they want to use against us.
	And so he talks, they talk in this article about the things that they're doing, DNA swabs and all the rest of this, and the companies that are there, the usual suspects.
	The one name that I didn't see that I was really surprised not to see was Palantir, because I think Palantir is so heavily involved in the military-industrial complex and the American government and nationalism that they would not be involved with the Chinese.
	But other than that, the rest of them are.
	And it is really interesting to see these different computer companies, Microsoft and Dell, Intel, all the rest of them, NVIDIA.
	They were not only selling their products, Seagate was another one that promoted their projects to Chinese police at the conferences.
	Thermo Fisher is another tech company, American tech company.
	They said they would go to the trade shows for the Chinese police state and said where officers stroll the streets of Beijing with Motorola walkie-talkies and NVIDIA and Intel chips, critical for Chinese policing system.
	The contracts to maintain the existing IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, and Microsoft software.
	And great, they remain ubiquitous, right?
	And so when they go to these conferences, again, it is the police state-industrial conference, complex, I should say, instead of the military-industrial complex.
	They would directly pitch their tech tools for the Chinese police.
	They would use sales pitches that adopted the language of the Chinese police state, both publicly and privately.
	They cited Communist Party catchphrases to crush protests, including stability maintenance, quote unquote, key persons, quote unquote, abnormal gatherings, quote unquote, and named programs that stifle dissent, such as Internet Police, Sharp Eyes, and Golden Shield.
	So American technology companies, according to the AP, they found, make up nearly every part of China's surveillance apparatus.
	Yes, the globalists have laid their plans out here and have profited from this as they are using China to create the digital cage for all of us.
	EU censors a German police boss's chilling immigration nightmare post for 2050.
	This is a guy who is the deputy head of the German police union.
	His name is Ostermann.
	He published an excerpt from his book on X about what he sees as the perils of mass immigration.
	He said, imagine what Germany is going to look like in 2050, because by that time, the baby boomers will be dead and the Muslim population that has been brought in will explode.
	And so he put up his vision and he was censored by the European Union across all European platforms on social media.
	This is what he had to say.
	He described Arab clans dominating big cities in 2050, Sharia law, child marriage, grooming gangs, and a host of other ills.
	Now the European Union has censored his post from being seen across the entire continent, a major escalation against a public official.
	They're now censoring the police, who are talking about the obvious result of what this open immigration policy is about.
	And as he points out in this article, it has already begun to happen.
	This is not projection or speculation about the future.
	These are things that they're already seeing.
	When they start talking about the Arab clans, this is again the type of thing that we've seen over and over again with crime.
	And that is just like with the mafia, right?
	That was a family-run business.
	But you see that in politics as well.
	And this is what's happening with this is always pulling in these families or clans or mafia or whatever.
	That is one of the ways that these people pull this in.
	And the original text was republished.
	They grabbed it by remix and they translated it to English and they posted it out.
	He says, by the way, this text comes from my book, Germany is No Longer Safe.
	I'm pleased that it's being debated because that's how reality, unfortunately, can look quite different very rapidly in Germany.
	Will the EU also ban his book, they ask?
	If they're willing to censor sections of the book, they are also willing to censor entire books.
	It is certainly a dark turn of events that Europe is actually censoring a police official and a union deputy leader amid an ongoing public debate about immigration and its effect on European nations.
	They don't want debate, of course, obviously.
	He sees the Arab clans dominating the big cities.
	He said, imagine Germany in 2050.
	Arab clans dominate the big cities.
	Gangs fight each other in the street for sovereignty and organized crime.
	We've seen that before, haven't we?
	During alcohol prohibition, that's the way things always organize.
	And so that's what's going to be happening.
	That's what they've designed this to do.
	People who don't belong to the right side are murdered in the streets.
	That's what's going on in Chicago right now, over the drug prohibition.
	Even the police hardly dare to go to certain areas known as no-go areas anymore.
	Drug deaths hit an all-time high.
	So what is the issue that the censors have here, they said.
	Because Klan crime is already a major problem within German cities, almost entirely derived from Muslim countries, including Lebanon, Turkey, and even Syria.
	There are similar problems in neighboring countries, including Moroccans and Chechens operating in France and the Netherlands and warring over the country's drug trade.
	This is the thing that is at the center of it.
	Yes, it is illegal immigrants coming in, and they do want that clash of populations.
	Groups coming in in large enough numbers will not become a part of the existing culture.
	They will become a counterculture, another group that will then eventually, under hard times, fight the other group.
	But over and over again, you see that at the center of this violence that is happening there, whether you're talking about what is going on in Germany or Europe or you're talking about what's going on in Chicago, it is always about the drug war.
	And that is what we see happening here as well.
	Germany's only public media networks routinely run articles and documentaries on the country's glowing clans and their power.
	Slickly produced documentary details how these clans have infiltrated the government and police forces to the point that fellow police officers cannot even trust each other anymore.
	And that's what you see during Prohibition, because it corrupts the courts as well as the police.
	It's just like with Frank Serpico.
	You've got to watch your back because if you don't join with the drug cartels, then they're going to shoot you in the face.
	Just this year, 100 Lebanese Klan members battled on the streets.
	Here is what Remix News wrote.
	There was a bloodbath on the streets of Germany after two exalted Lebanese family groups fought in a battle that reportedly involved 100 people in the city of Hellinghaas.
	The two groups battled using machetes, knives, and other weapons, leading to mass police operation that resulted in at least five serious injuries, including one that was life-threatening.
	So that was in Germany.
	In France, the French port city of Marseille is now a major narcotics hub for Europe.
	Again, drugs, always drugs, always family crime families.
	You call them mafia or you call them Klan, whatever it is.
	Last year, a 15-year-old was stabbed 50 times and burned alive in drug violence as murderers hit record highs.
	And again, where did this all start?
	As I said, it wasn't, this is not something that was invented by Richard Nixon.
	This is the UN war on drugs.
	They set up this framework.
	Okay, I'm getting the thumbs up signal.
	I think we now have Dr. Richard Creighton on the line.
	Dr. Creighton, can you hear me?
	I can hear you.
	Can you hear me?
	Okay, great.
	Yes, I hear you.
	We're good.
	I'm sorry it took so long for us to get this set up.
	We had some technical issues here.
	And again, the book is A Godless Crusade, The Progressive Campaign to Rid the World of Religion, I guess any religion except theirs.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	And of course, Dr. Richard Creighton is a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, and I'm not really sure what the difference is between those two.
	He is a professor emeritus from Harvard Medical School.
	We won't hold that against you.
	Sorry.
	But give us an idea of what you see as a problem with the left.
	And you say I diagnose it as a psychological disorder.
	I think we can all see elements of it, but give us your take on it as a psychoanalyst.
	You know, I think one of the problems that we have with understanding the left is understanding their version of reality.
	The diagnosis of a mental disorder really revolves around a certain consensual understanding of what reality is.
	And if you're dealing with a group that has a separate reality or has a whole different set of tenets that make up their reality, then it's almost impossible to use the usual diagnostic approach to understanding what they're about.
	So from the perspective of the conservative mind, the left is clearly at some level mentally disturbed.
	On the other hand, they're not playing by the same rules that we are.
	And so if you can't get a consensual agreement about what the rules are, then it's impossible to really even define what mental disorder is.
	That's right.
	They constantly tell us that they've got their own truth.
	They've got their own reality, right?
	Yeah, well, this is what the neo-Marxist post-modern philosophies are about.
	They're about the idea that there is no truth, that there's moral relativism.
	And again, I think it speaks to what I've been listening to you talking about, the whole idea of promoting conflict.
	And the conflict is persistent.
	And as a result, there's no possibility of producing a coherent society, which is how they intend to transform the society by undermining it.
	Yes, yes.
	And the conflict is key.
	How did these people get in charge of everything?
	I have people ask me that all the time.
	And it's like, as you point out, they've infiltrated the universities, they've infiltrated politics, even churches, corporations, and so forth.
	How did they get in charge of all this stuff?
	Well, I think I'm old enough to realize where it began, at least from my perspective, and that was probably back in the 60s.
	And the idea of a violent revolution was not seen as something that was likely to be workable in the United States or in the West.
	And so the approach was instead to infiltrate the institutions and to produce this conflict around race in particular and around any other division that they could inject into society.
	And as a result, rather than being active on the streets, the activists entered the institutions.
	They entered higher education in particular.
	And from there, they just moved on to all positions of leadership.
	And so at this point, again, virtually all of the institutions have been markedly infiltrated by this type of thought.
	I agree.
	I think it really is.
	You know, the educational institutions are really seminal in this.
	They act as seminaries for this type of thing.
	And I always think back to Bill Ayers.
	Do you see that as part?
	You mentioned how they switched from kind of a class-based struggle, which the Marxists used in Europe, to a race-based struggle.
	And they were the ones who really kind of popularized.
	I think somebody else came up with the term white-skinned privilege.
	They just shortened it to white privilege.
	And Bill Ayers and his group there stopped bombing buildings and they decided they would start bombing mines and they got involved in education, right?
	Yeah, Herbert Marcuse, who was part of the Frankfurt School coming over from Europe back in the 60s, became prominent in the educational system in California.
	Angela Davis was one of his students.
	Bill Ayers, again of the same mindset.
	And Barack Obama, you know, really is just a generation removed from that.
	And so, again, this has been a systematic infiltration of the institutions.
	And I think, unfortunately, most Americans have been naive and probably good-natured enough not to believe that this is truly happening.
	That's right.
	People don't want to believe that this is, they don't want to believe the worst of people.
	And we typically will project our values onto them.
	I remember at the end of Barack Obama's administration, I think it was Harry Belafonte, I believe, who would support him, who was very leftist.
	And he said, I don't know who this guy is.
	We just projected our values on him.
	And of course, he was disappointed that Obama had not been radical enough.
	But I think we all wind up doing that to some degree.
	We can't believe that somebody would do the types of things that people will do out there.
	But how do you see this happening with the various adoptions that are happening right now with Gen Z?
	You've got a stat in your book, 42% of Gen Z is struggling with depression, which is double the rate of older adults.
	What is causing that?
	Well, there's a number of causes.
	Clearly, the internet and social media and the iPhone has played a role.
	And you can look at the statistics and you can see that as people spend more time on their screens, they become more and more anxious and more depressed.
	But in addition, again, the loss of a commonly held set of religious values, moral values, I think has left most young people with the sense that there's no meaning in their life.
	And so they can't look to any defined sort of meaning.
	And as a result, you know, the human psyche is essentially conservative.
	And it's unable to keep up with some of the technological advances that have been made over the last 20, 30 years.
	And so as a result, you know, we're seeing a kind of revolt of the mind that really can't absorb what the technological changes are that have been occurring.
	And it's really going to accelerate with artificial intelligence, isn't it?
	Absolutely.
	I think that's going to be a huge problem.
	Yeah, we look at this generation that is constantly online, as you point out, and on social media, it's making them anxious.
	They've lost a moral foundation.
	They don't have a framework of what's right or wrong.
	And they're just kind of adrift.
	And then we bring into this mix this tool that can be used.
	It's not necessarily that it's going to do its own thing, but it is being wielded by people.
	They have people who are setting a bias into this thing, and yet people don't understand.
	I've done some recent searches on AI just to see whether or not there is a clearly artificially induced bias within the system, and there's no doubt about it.
	You know, you get questions that really just mimic the propaganda of the left when you get an answer.
	Yes.
	And they pay people to do that.
	I mean, it is a deliberate thing.
	What I find so dangerous about it is that it operates under the veneer that it is objective when it is anything other than that.
	As an engineer, we would constantly be warned by our professors, garbage in, garbage out, right?
	Don't take this as something that is objective fact simply because you've got a computer printout.
	And yet people will do that with artificial intelligence.
	It sounds very intelligent.
	It sounds very authoritative.
	Well, unfortunately, most people will trade almost anything for comfort and ease.
	And so if it's easy, if it helps them write their papers, helps them do their studies, helps them with whatever they're trying to do, they'll defer to that without being critical about what they're absorbing.
	Let's talk a little bit about the corporations because we just had Cracker Barrel update this.
	First, they changed the logo, and I saw that, and I thought, yeah, but are they going to still change the interior of the buildings?
	Because that's not what the customers want.
	And now the Cracker Barrel CEO has tapped out and said, we're not going to spend all this money remodeling all these things.
	But there's a lot of corporations that maybe they've learned from what Bud Light and some of the others did.
	What do you think is going on with this?
	Over and over again, we see corporations counter-programming and going head-to-head with the perspectives and the cultures and the opinions of their own base.
	We see that especially like with NASCAR, for example.
	There are two sometimes conflicting motivations for the corporations.
	One, obviously, is the profit motive, which one would think would be the driving force.
	And I think underlying it for most corporations, it actually is.
	But the other issue, I think, is that you're seeing that the people who come to head these corporations have gone through the institutions.
	And they've actually absorbed this leftist propaganda and leftist ideology as their way of being in the world.
	And so they're really out of touch with the consumer in many cases, such as Cracker Barrel or Bud Light.
	But they're so isolated and insulated from the rest of the world that they don't see that as an issue.
	But ultimately, again, I think for people like the Zuckerbergs and the Cooks, they realize that the bottom line is they need to make money.
	And they've got a globalist agenda with respect to money.
	Corporations basically run the West.
	They run this country.
	They run the countries in the West.
	I mean, there's nothing new there.
	It's just become more overt.
	Yeah, it's something that I saw.
	We had video stores about 30 years ago, a little bit more than 30 years ago.
	And we would see this with Hollywood.
	They would increasingly make films that would not do well.
	And they seem to revel in offending people.
	And it's the same stuff that you see coming out of Bud Light or NASCAR or whatever.
	These movie studios loved to offend people, or at least the directors that were there loved to do it.
	And as you point out, they're true believers in this stuff.
	But there's also this peer pressure.
	They wanted to be respected by their peers in the industry.
	And the way that they would be respected by their peers in the industry is just to show how awful the middle class is and how awful religion is and to deconstruct all these things in a very Marxist way.
	And the audience, even if they didn't analyze it along those kinds of lines, still could understand that they hated them.
	It's pretty obvious that they hated their audience and their audience didn't like their films either.
	But they wouldn't change.
	Even when you talk to them, say, you know, we'd make more money if you would make movies that were not combative with your audience.
	But they just continued to go down that route because it was, as you point out, it's like a religion.
	I like the analogy that you had about the religious aspects of this.
	It's most definitely a religion.
	And the most cynical aspect of it is that this neo-Marxist ideology, which again is a secular humanist religion, has adopted many of the Judeo-Christian elements of social justice as their goal without crediting a traditional religion for it.
	But that's where it's coming from.
	But it's a very cynical adaptation, if you will, because it really has nothing to do with social justice as it was understood in traditional religious mode.
	So let me ask you, what do we do to reclaim a religious foundation in this thing?
	How do we get that old-time religion?
	Is it based on what we do in terms of education?
	I think that is fundamental.
	But how do you see it?
	You know, I really can't say that I know the answer to that.
	I think one of the things that I tend to believe is that the ideas coming out of the woke left at this point are so bizarre and so unnatural, if you will, that it may reach the point where the minds of people will just rebel against it and seek another form of meaning.
	And to find that meaning, they're going to have to go back to traditional religion because in the West, in Western civilization, that's where it comes from.
	You can't find anyone who has real moral values that won't trace them at some level back to traditional religion.
	So I'm hoping that at some point, and maybe it's beginning to occur, there's some evidence perhaps that it is, that people are just getting fed up with this nonsense because it makes no sense.
	It's not improving their life, and they will begin to seek other modes of meaning.
	It seems like the danger is that as people realize that this moral relativism, that this humanism, that this transhumanism, whatever, you know, all these different elements don't make any sense, that they can't produce anything that anyone wants.
	There's no good to be found in them, that they'll start seeking around for other failed modes.
	We might wind up with a religion of the state or something like that.
	And so that's the key thing.
	When I look at it, Dr. Creighton, I think that so often, you know, we want to make a major change in our life and we take off all these different things that we want to do and we try to do them all at once.
	And I think the wise people have said you pick one of these things that you want to change in your life, focus on that one at a time.
	And I think that when we look at society, this big nebulous thing, I don't think anybody can change society.
	It's like trying to move this gigantic ship that has massive momentum in the sea with a little tiny boat or something.
	But I think that we can make a change if we accept that we're going to do the small things and fix those one-on-one in people's lives.
	I think that is maybe the perspective that we need to have.
	We can't fix society, but we can fix maybe one person here, another person there, or maybe a family here and a family there.
	And as you point out, that is going to be with a foundation that has a moral foundation that is rooted, most likely, in a religious belief.
	Well, I think if there's one thing that probably needs to be done, and it's a small thing, but it's at the same time a huge thing, and that is to focus on the education of our children.
	Yes.
	Because they are the future, and if they're not educated properly, we're going to go down the wrong path in the future.
	I agree.
	So either changing the public educational system or pulling one's children out of the public educational system and educating them either at home or in religious schools, I think is probably an important task and something that needs to be seriously considered by most parents at this point.
	I absolutely agree with you.
	And I think we can see that the other side agrees with that as well, because that's where they began.
	You look at some of the utopian societies in the middle 1800s.
	And they said, well, this society that we're trying to set up here failed because we didn't get to the kids early enough.
	And they were entrenched with the values of their parents, which are antithetical to this utopian society that we're trying to set up, typically socialists.
	And so they began in the educational system.
	And I think that we're going to have to begin there as well.
	And we're going to have to gradually unroll that, as you said, family by family.
	They're going to have to have the determination that they are going to take control of their children's education.
	Maybe that's going to be homeschool, or if they want to create some other structure in conjunction with other people, that they want to have some kind of a charter school or something that's not as formal.
	And I think a key issue with all that is going to be it's going to have to be the kind of mindset where people don't place money first.
	In other words, if they go begging for financial support from the government, it's doomed to failure because the government's going to then drag them right back into some frame of reference that is going to be antithetical to what they're trying to do.
	What do you think about that?
	Well, I agree with you.
	And again, the educational system is one critical part of this.
	But the other critical part is what takes place in the home.
	What values are the parents actually conveying to their children?
	And it's not clear to me that even conservatives these days have really adhered to the proper morality to instill in their children.
	I mean, they've given a lot over to the left and the propaganda of the left and the acceptance of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, all of these types of things.
	They're all problematic.
	Even the homosexual population, which, again, I think almost everyone will kind of agree is kind of accepted as normal these days or even celebrated.
	There are problems with the homosexual population.
	I've treated many homosexuals in my practice, and they all, virtually all, have major psychological issues.
	And much of what's detrimental to the morality in society today is coming from the LGBTQ community, not just the transgender community, but the homosexual community.
	Yes, I agree.
	I agree.
	So, you know, when we look at what is happening, you've talked about what may be happening and the blowback as we see these people who have been gaslit as young children or teenagers into mutilating themselves.
	We're starting to see people as they grow up, sort of say, wait a minute, you did this to me, and I was taken advantage of.
	We've even seen that from a former Navy SEAL who they convinced to transition as an adult, and he came out against that and attacking the people who pushed him in that direction and speaking about how, well, he said, if they can do that to me as an adult Navy SEAL, imagine what they can do to children.
	What do you think is going to happen in that regard in terms of how that's going to blow back against the institutions, both educational and even medical?
	The transsexual transgender community is a community that suffers from severe mental disorder.
	And this was generally accepted by the psychiatric community until it was infiltrated as well and taken over by leftist ideology.
	And again, it links directly to the acceptance of homosexuality back in the 1970s when it also was considered a normal lifestyle instead of a neurotic type of disorder.
	The fact that people can even accept the idea of transgender as a transsexuality just shows how far gone we are as a community, as a society, and even entertaining the idea.
	And I blame the mental health profession in large measure for this, because the mental health profession has really taken on the role of Nazi doctors back in Germany who were working for the state without any concern for the welfare of their patients or individuals.
	So that transgenders are treated in any way other than with some type of psychological support is abhorrent, frankly.
	There's going to be blowback.
	Absolutely, there's going to be blowback, but we want to be careful that the blowback doesn't take the form of another element of victimization within society because we have enough of that.
	Yes, yes, that's right.
	It's kind of interesting, you know, when all this stuff started.
	I used to play clips of Corporal Klinger from MASH all the time because he was deliberately dressing up in a woman's outfit as a cross-dressing so that he could get a Section 8, meaning that he would be declared insane and kicked out of the military because he wanted to get out of the Korean War and go home.
	And that was the running joke with him, and they didn't do it because they all knew it was an act.
	And so it's kind of funny that we see this coming back in that way.
	We know that it is an act by the people who are running the institutions now rather than the individual who wants to get out of the institution.
	They're trying to institutionalize them.
	But it was always, as you point out, it was a mental disorder.
	And it still is, quite frankly.
	It is making the people, as we've seen, the violence that's been done recently, again, targeting religion and the transgender shootings that we had in Nashville and the other one that was up in Minneapolis.
	Do you want to comment on that?
	Well, once again, as I said, this population is seriously mentally disturbed and they're very angry.
	That generally goes along with serious mental illness.
	It's not unusual for seriously mentally ill individuals to be extremely angry and paranoid.
	And I think it's the paranoia that you're seeing in this population, you know, when they feel that they're being threatened in some way, you know, again, artificially, but being threatened by conservatives or being threatened by traditional religious ideas, then they lash out.
	I mean, they see this as self-defense on their part.
	So again, it's just indicative of how mentally disturbed these individuals are and how in need they are of treatment and how abominable it is that the mental health profession has gone along with this idea that this is essentially a lifestyle of choice.
	Yes.
	Yeah, that was something that really surprised me when that began about a decade ago.
	And then five years ago, what we saw was the informed consent attack, how the government started using medicine as a weapon where they removed people's informed consent.
	Talk about that and the damage that that's done to the institutions and how do we pull that back?
	How do we, you know, RFK Jr. said that his mission was to restore confidence in the HHS and by extension, I guess, the CDC and FDA and others underneath that umbrella.
	But how do they get that kind of confidence back?
	We have to see some real change, don't we?
	Absolutely.
	You know, I've written two other books.
	One dedicated to this whole issue of what's taking place in the mental health profession and the other in terms of what's going on in the general medical profession because in addition to being a psychotherapist, I am actually a pulmonologist.
	I'm a lung doctor.
	Oh, wow.
	What do you think of the ventilators?
	The ventilators.
	The ventilators being pushed for people who had respiratory issues at the beginning of the lockdown.
	There was a big push for ventilators, and I've been told that they had a very, very high casualty rate.
	What do you think of ventilators?
	I'd seen one pulmonologist who said, we've never done that type of thing typically.
	Well, you know, I forgive a lot of the confusion that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic because I think when you're faced with a serious disease and with people dying at an increased rate, it's easy to make mistakes.
	Ventilators are absolutely life-saving when they're used properly and when they're used for the right populations.
	When they're not used properly and overused or used with incorrect settings, which is often the case, then they can produce increased lung injury and they can produce death.
	So again, I don't know exactly how to evaluate each and every case.
	You'd have to look at the specifics of that.
	But certainly what the medical profession did with respect to the COVID epidemic, again, is another abomination.
	And it just speaks to how readily that particular profession and maybe the population in general is to just conform to what is expected of them.
	But the decisions that were made were obviously contrary to general scientific thought.
	The idea that a quiet immunity was not effective for a virus is something that I never heard of.
	I mean, it was very obvious, I think, to some of us that what was going on with COVID was just the scientific decisions were just totally incorrect.
	The masking, the distancing, the lack of isolation of the people who were sick and mandating vaccines or a vaccine that you had to take endless numbers of times.
	I mean, no one had ever seen anything like that.
	And the fact that the medical profession was on board with that is just extraordinary.
	But if you read anybody who questioned the safety or the efficacy or why they would roll something out without sufficient testing of it in a very radically different approach, they were vilified and canceled.
	I get that.
	And they were built on not only by the government, but by the medical profession itself, by the professional societies.
	Yes.
	You know, the fact that they were threatening cancellation of one's licensure if you prescribe nivermectin, it's just nonsense.
	Yeah.
	And nothing that we'd ever seen before.
	And so the medical profession, you know, if you read the medical journals these days, half of the articles are about DEI in medicine.
	They're no longer about medical issues.
	They're all about distributing care equitably to minority populations.
	So, I mean, the whole profession has been co-opted by progressive thought.
	It's a travesty.
	Yes.
	What Robert Kenny is doing is extremely important.
	He may not be right on every issue, but he's certainly right in terms of realizing that what we're doing and prescribing for people has no scientific basis anymore.
	And much of this has been because it's been co-opted again by money.
	It's been corrupted and corrupted largely by the influences of foreign governments, particularly China.
	When I worked at Harvard, most of the people who were working in the laboratories were Chinese.
	The Americans no longer wanted to work in the laboratories.
	There wasn't enough money in it for them.
	So the Chinese Communist Party was sending people over here and they were filling up the laboratories.
	So the researchers were perfectly happy to have these people here, but they were taking the information and sending it back to China, you know.
	And so the money was coming from other places and it just corrupted the whole institution.
	Well, you know, we were talking about the insanity of the left and especially of transgenderism.
	But it really was truly insane.
	I mean, even with the virology paradigm, the purpose of a vaccine was to train your immune system.
	So how in the world can they say that, according to that paradigm, that if you have actually been exposed to the thing that they're trying to protect you from and you've recovered, how has your immune system not been trained by that?
	That's the whole idea of natural immunity.
	So do we have to go back and rethink the whole field of virology now with these people?
	Or was it clearly a case that they had a political agenda that had nothing to do with any of their scientific beliefs or teachings?
	It's the latter.
	I mean, I'm trained also as an immunologist.
	I did research for many years in respiratory immunology.
	Immunologists understand how the immune system works.
	And it doesn't work the way that the people were telling us it worked during the COVID epidemic.
	So it was clearly political.
	It was clearly ideological.
	It was clearly being driven by the drug companies and the corruption within the NIH with Dr. Fauci and others.
	So, I mean, again, it's just a travesty.
	And I don't know what it's going to take to restore America's faith in the health profession.
	Yeah, I think when you go back and we look at it, you know, people began to look more closely at what was happening with the pediatricians and the vaccine schedule and other things like that.
	I was really surprised at how they wanted to do multiple boosters with the COVID thing.
	I said, you know, what is up with that?
	But when I went back and looked at the standard vaccine schedule for children, you see the same vaccines being given over and over and over and over again, sometimes multiple times a year for these childhood diseases.
	And that begins to raise questions as to whether or not what the real motivation is for this and whether or not these things have any efficacy at all.
	I think that's one of the reasons why people are looking at the vaccine schedule.
	Well, two things along those lines.
	First of all, the children, for the most part, virtually none of them developed any lethal disorder from COVID, so to keep vaccinating them was just improper.
	Second of all, the mRNA vaccination by itself was clearly experimental.
	It had never been used.
	It had never been used on people.
	And so to use the entire world as a guinea pig to see whether or not this vaccine worked without any knowledge whatsoever as to its efficacy or the complications that might ensue just extraordinary.
	And yet you see that the WHO and the Globalists went along with that.
	It's just, you know, it just tells you what it's about.
	I agree, yes.
	Yeah, Moderna had been around for a decade and they had never been able to get past any safety testing.
	So with this, they just skipped it.
	But now we're at the situation where, and you've got a lot of people in the current administration who are trying to remove all of the concerns about AI and rush it as quickly as possible.
	Peter Thiel says that he's trying to tie it into Christian eschatology and saying that if you try to regulate AI, you're going to have to do it with a global government, which is going to actually be the beast itself, not the AI, but the global government.
	And so there's a move to get rid of any oversight of AI.
	And there's also a move to get rid of oversight of mRNA.
	And you've got people who are rushing to apply this in a lot of places.
	Trump's very first event that he had was Stargate, where they wanted to use AI to design mRNA.
	And it's like, whoa, you know, what could possibly go wrong with this?
	How do we get control?
	Well, I think people need to begin to reevaluate what progress actually means.
	Progress is not solely some advance in technology.
	I agree.
	Progress needs to have some evaluation with respect to whether or not it improves the welfare of society.
	And if it doesn't do that, then that's not necessarily progress.
	I mean, Chesterton wrote about that years ago.
	And so I think people need to get beyond their individual comforts and ease and really see, you know, is what's being introduced into my life into this society improving it or not.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Yes.
	The book is A Godless Crusade: The Progressive Campaign to Rid the World of Religion.
	We're talking to Dr. Richard Creighton.
	That's K-R-A-D-I-N.
	Do you have a website that you saw that, or can people find this on Amazon only?
	Or best?
	You can find it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
	Okay, great, great.
	Well, it's a fascinating book, and I think it is important for us to keep pointing back to the foundation that we must have.
	We are a society that is cut adrift, and we're being tossed about by every new wave of ideas or technology that come in.
	We're going to have to have an anchor somewhere.
	And that has always been religion.
	You're right about that.
	And I think an anchorless society is a very dangerous society.
	And I think we're approaching a very dangerous time.
	And people need to start looking at what is really going to be necessary for us to move forward in all this.
	I agree.
	Thank you so much for focusing on that.
	And I think it's very important that you see it for what it is, I think, and that is a crusade.
	It really is their religion, and they really are on crusade with it.
	And they seem to be, even though they deny any objective truth in their moral relativism, they hold that, if you want to call it a truth, that truth is totally absolute and a few other things that they push out there.
	And they seem to have a greater conviction, unfortunately, in this religious lack of religion or lack of any moral beliefs.
	They have more of a conviction to that religion than the people who profess to have a connection to religion do.
	I think that's one of the reasons why we're losing the battle.
	So thank you so much for picking that up and pointing out the different aspects of that.
	And one of the things that you talked about was the narcissism of the left and the woke technology.
	Talk a little bit about that from a psychological standpoint.
	I think people are very fascinated by narcissism.
	It's kind of hard to get our heads around it.
	But just briefly, what do you think?
	Because we're almost out of time.
	As a parting thing here, where do you see the narcissism of the left?
	How does it manifest itself?
	You know, one of the basic tenets of virtually all traditional religions is an abhorrence of narcissism.
	That is, you know, the idea that one is egotistic, prideful, thinks that, you know, things revolve around oneself and totally involved, engaged with oneself.
	That was one of the messages, critical messages of religion.
	As religion is basically ignored, narcissism emerges and replaces it.
	And, you know, Christopher Lash wrote about this back in the 70s, that we've become a culture of narcissism.
	I don't think there's any question about it.
	All you need to do is see people out on the street or see what's on social media or on the TV screens or in the movies.
	It's all about self-absorption.
	So again, in the absence of a religion, of religious ideas that counter that, One comes to a society where individuals just are completely self-absorbed and not particularly concerned about the welfare of others.
	I mean, that's really what narcissism is.
	I think exactly right.
	We end the interview on a very important insight, I think.
	We see that in Christianity.
	We see the pride of Satan from the very beginning, and we're told that in the last days, people will become lovers of themselves.
	And that we now call that narcissism, but that's exactly what it is.
	Lovers of themselves more than they love God or each other or anything else.
	And that really is where we are.
	So thank you very much.
	Again, the book is A Godless Crusade, The Progressive Campaign to Rid the World of Religion by Dr. Richard Creighton.
	Thank you so much, sir, for joining us.
	Thank you.
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