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Wed Episode #2102: Trump’s UN Circus: Escalators Stall, Teleprompters Fail, Wars Multiply

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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 24th of September, Year of Our Lord 2025.
	Well, it is on again, off again, turnaround, spin around, and we never know from one hour to the next what Trump is going to do.
	Now he's done a complete spin around, and now he wants to pursue the war in Ukraine until the end.
	The end of what, you might ask.
	He thinks that Ukraine can win it, he says.
	Is it just bluster for negotiation?
	That's the way he's being explained by many of his die hard apologists.
	But is it also incredibly stupid and dangerous?
	That's what I think.
	We're going to talk about Trump's appearance at the UN.
	We'll be right back.
	Trump coming down the escalator.
	If only that had happened, what was ten years ago?
	If only the escalator had stopped ten years ago.
	Right on time, I would say.
	Yeah, we are.
	Right on cue.
	We've got video footage of it here.
	We love that punctuality.
	Yes.
	Love the punctuality.
	Isn't that great?
	He's right on time.
	I wonder how he managed to get everything together in time.
	I heard a few questions being shouted there.
	Stop.
	We're going to have to walk up.
	And so he had a problem with that.
	He had a problem with a teleprompter.
	And so his supporters, like Zero Hedge, are saying, they tried to sabotage him.
	I heard the end.
	There's a reason.
	Poor thing.
	It's really tough.
	While that is breaking, other news that we're going to have today is how YouTube kicked off people like me because they didn't like our policies and what we were talking about.
	But it's all being laid at the feet of Biden.
	Nobody will criticize his majesty.
	I got kicked off during Trump.
	I got kicked off again during Biden in May.
	I got kicked off of two financial platforms.
	And YouTube where I had a music channel.
	So it is not just about the people who talked about COVID getting kicked off.
	But anyway, let's go back to the UN.
	Break in real fast.
	It just reminds me of that Mish Hedberg joke.
	You know, I love escalators because, you know, escalators never broken.
	It just temporarily becomes stairs.
	I was about to bring that up.
	Escalator.
	Temporarily stairs.
	We apologize for the convenience.
	He had to take the stairs.
	And then when he started to make his speech, the teleprompter didn't work.
	So he had to actually, like, do a speech and think and talk.
	And maybe that's why some of this stuff came across as so strident and bullying, except, you know, that's kind of his personality.
	So the only thing that was good about it, which, in a sense, when I look at all the different things that Trump has done, especially in just the last couple of months, you know, hiding the Epstein files and taking all the hits to hide the Epstein files, the wars that he is trying to get us involved in.
	And he's even trying to start restart the Afghanistan war.
	And but he's trying to get us involved in wars in South America.
	He's trying to escalate the Ukraine war.
	He never tried to stop it.
	If he wanted to stop it, he could have stopped it immediately because he's the one giving all the weapons to Zelensky.
	giving him weapons and giving him money.
	If he wanted to stop it, he could have done it.
	You're not a Nobel Peace Prize negotiator if you're arming one side of the conflict.
	It's just absurd.
	But when you look at all the things that he's done, the attacks on free speech and everything else, supposedly in the memory uh of uh Charlie Kirk, who was uh pushing for free speech, trying to re-establish free speech in the university.
	So in his honor, you're going to censor people.
	It's just the most absurd thing.
	So when Trump comes out and starts lecturing the countries about how uh, you know, this global warming stuff is nonsense.
	You're destroying your own countries with the global warming and the climate change nonsense as well as the immigration stuff.
	I look at it and it's like I almost wish he wasn't on my side on any issue because it it only poisons that issue and people's minds, isn't it?
	That um it's like somebody who uh takes your side and then all he does is scream at people and say stupid things about it.
	He doesn't explain why climate change is wrong.
	He just says it is and he taunts people over it.
	Uh so it's actually counterproductive for people on our side of the issues.
	Uh after a moment of confusion, Maline Melania quickly strode up the stalled steps, and Trump followed behind.
	And I guess that was the issue for him.
	Um bit easier for her to get up the steps than it is for him as we all get older here.
	He says, All right, I got from all I got from the UN was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in the middle.
	If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would have fallen.
	But she's in great shape.
	Didn't say he was in great shape.
	There's two things I got from the UN, a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.
	I suppose that was just a lie too far, even for him, you know.
	Yeah.
	So um he um uh just uh it was a as they said, it was a blistering attack on the UN.
	So he was he attacked and criticized the UN.
	He attacked and criticized London mayor, Sadiq Khan.
	Uh that's a target-rich environment right there.
	European countries who were abetting uncontrolled migration.
	He attacked Putin.
	He attacked countries that are recognized Palestinian statehood.
	Of course, he attacked Biden, windmills, the climate change hoax, and um and uh took an anti-globalist position.
	He said uh climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.
	Again, it doesn't help our side for Trump to be taking our side and to not explain why it's a con job.
	He says, You're destroying your countries and they're being destroyed.
	He's gotten uh uh so deranged.
	I just hate for him to be on my side on any issue.
	Trump is now going in details as they were blogging this on Zero Hedge about the death and destruction in the Ukraine war, taking a swipe at Biden, saying it shows you what leadership is and what bad leadership can do to a country.
	And now he's gonna follow the exact same policies.
	What did Biden do?
	Uh he did sanctions against Russia, which is what Trump is boasting about.
	He's gonna do really good sanctions, and it's really gonna work this time.
	And so uh Biden did that and he armed Ukraine.
	So Trump is going to do the same things that Biden did, and he expects different results.
	Don't tell me he's not crazy.
	That's a definition of crazy.
	Yeah, it's not about what gets done, it's about who does it.
	That's right.
	When our guy does it, it's fine.
	Yeah, it didn't work when Biden did it, but the same things will work when Trump does it.
	Well, you see, when my president does it, it's not illegal.
	Yeah, I tell you, he's he's looking for a distraction.
	You think that he wouldn't start a war to get off of the Sepstein thing.
	Look at what Clinton did, right?
	Clinton got uh got us involved in a war, but uh not as dangerous a war as this is going to be.
	It's absolutely insane.
	And he was really taunting Russia, calling them paper tiger, saying they're not a real military.
	If they were a real military, they could have finished us off in a week or so.
	You know, like we did in Afghanistan.
	Twenty years we were there, we still lost.
	So it's uh Trump says European nations must immediately cease all energy purchases from Russia.
	Otherwise, we're all wasting a lot of time.
	You know, that's we want to destroy Russia.
	Let's make it clear.
	It'll also destroy Europe to do that as well.
	That's right.
	They they physically cannot cut themselves off from this without endangering their own populations as we move towards winter.
	Trump says the U.S. is fully prepared to impose, quote, a very strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the bloodshed, I believe, very quickly.
	If Putin doesn't agree to end the war in Ukraine.
	That was all done by Biden.
	When Biden put sanctions on, it was a windfall profit for Putin.
	He cut the price and took payment in gold or Russian currency.
	And it was a $300 billion windfall for him.
	So Trump says that Europe is going to hell.
	That's his words.
	Goes scorched earth on the failing countries in the UN, blasting immigration, the world-ending nukes, and Sharia law in London.
	So it was just a gripe session that he had.
	Took aim at Sadiq Khan as a terrible mayor.
	He said, So again, he said that he hectored Herr Starmer for three days that he was there every day telling him we've got to get away from this green stuff.
	And I'm sure that's persuading everybody, don't you think?
	Trump slammed the UN for not helping me to stop conflicts.
	He's not trying to stop any conflicts.
	He falsely claimed that he had ended seven wars.
	I'd like to enumerate those.
	Can you think of any war that he has ended?
	I can't think of a single one.
	I can think of wars that he is eager to start.
	I mean, he even wants to go to war with Greenland and Canada when he began in Panama.
	What was the what was the purpose of all that stuff?
	And he was being cagey about saying, yeah, we might use force against Canada.
	It was all to create chaos, confusion, disruption.
	It's just professional wrestling and it's how he publicizes things.
	But he says it's time to end the failed experiment on open borders, because your countries are going to hell.
	And climate change is the greatest conjob ever perpetrated on the world.
	He's on the right side of those issues.
	But he doesn't give any good reasons.
	And who knows if he's going to stay on that side or not?
	You can't count on him being on the right side of anything for more than two minutes.
	And of course, he won't explain why.
	Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements, but for me, the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people will no longer be killed in endless and unglorious war.
	And he's saying this at the same time, he is doing everything he can to escalate and to prolong the war and to create a conflict directly with Russia and America.
	This is what's so amazing about Trump.
	And that's why I've lost all faith in this country.
	I gotta say, you know, just as I was saying the other day, this guy said uh he David is against everything.
	You you bet.
	You bet you think I'm going to side with Trump because he says the right thing for right now about climate change.
	He said the right thing about ending the war.
	Never believed he was going to do it.
	And of course he's had a lot of other wars they'd never talked about.
	We've got people so angry at the United States and Canada and the tariffs and retaliation for what he's done that uh it's affecting Florida orange juice sales.
	That's what this guy has done.
	He's created conflict with a wasn't.
	Everybody was uh very happy about the fact that the U.S. and Canada had the longest unpatrolled border.
	So you get this Trump shell, Jack Bessobit go up to the border.
	Look at this.
	This town, there's no there's no fence, you know, there's no guard dogs, there's no guard towers, people machine guns.
	We've got to fix this.
	What's the matter with these people?
	I know exactly where Jack Basobiat is coming from, and I know where Trump is coming from, and I know who they work for.
	You can see it in the agenda.
	You don't need specific names.
	And so um, you better believe that I don't support Trump.
	That's the issue that I got with Charlie Kirk.
	I know that Trump knew what he was doing.
	I don't think he's that stupid, and I know that Charlie Kirk is not that stupid.
	Why would Charlie Kirk try to get him in office again?
	Try to explain away all of the faults instead of trying to correct them if he's got any influence with Trump.
	That's what I don't get about it.
	Somebody said, You don't like Charlie Kirk because he supported Trump.
	You're right.
	That's the issue I've got with him.
	I also saw him sell out the family and Christ when he used a uh a black guy's homosexual.
	He he went we've got the culture war that we're that we're doing, right?
	And he has this young black guy, a homosexual there, and behind him he's got the big thing that says culture war.
	And so there were some people from Nick Fuente's group that uh said exactly how does that help us win the culture war?
	How does that strengthen families?
	And and of course it doesn't, but Charlie Kirk got very angry about that and defended this guy that he platformed on Turning Point USA for years.
	Uh this is just big tent partisan politics, folks.
	There's no principles involved in that.
	Uh it disgusts me.
	Reports in the Norwegian press claim that Trump co-called the country's finance minister to discuss the peace prize.
	He should get a peace prize, evidently, because he's raising tariffs on everybody.
	I I think again I think he always spells peace with an eye.
	That's what he wants.
	And so he's had Pakistan, Israel, Cambodia, uh, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Rwanda, and Gabon have uh said he should get the peace prize.
	Is there any real country that uh is is uh saying this?
	No.
	Yeah, is there a country that we can't immediately break in five minutes with some economic policy we put in place?
	That's right.
	Yeah, what about Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela, uh all these different things uh uh and other countries that he has threatened and harmed who have not done anything.
	Uh so that is his he he really wants that for some reason.
	I think they should come up with a new prize.
	I think they should have them the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, because that's he is ignoble, uh he's not noble.
	Uh the New York police stopped uh Manuel Macron.
	He was walking down the sidewalk and they wouldn't let him get across because Trump's uh entourage was coming through.
	You know how that works whenever they come to town, it's total chaos and they stop everything in every direction.
	And he was a bit incensed, as you can imagine, Macron.
	And so he he has uh Trump's number on his phone, and it was all in French, so he didn't play the video.
	But he calls up Trump and he says, they won't let me get across the road uh because they're blocking it for you.
	And he says, um, if you can't see it, he said, let me pass, and I'll negotiate with you, he says to the police.
	Because if you can't see the um uh the entourage coming, if it's that far away, just let me pass.
	I will negotiate with you.
	I guess that's the way that he talks when he's at these meetings here.
	But um uh he calls up Trump and he says, So, how are you?
	Guess what?
	I am waiting in C Street because everything is closed down for you, he says.
	Welcome to America.
	That's right, yeah.
	Welcome to New York by the time that place is always good luck, it seems like every time we go up there.
	Um last time we were there was uh No, last time we were there for work, we got stuck in traffic for three hours plus trying to get out of the Holland tunnel, I want to say it was.
	Yeah, oh, oh, that was awesome.
	Absolutely nightmarish.
	And you know, you can't you can't go anywhere to use the restroom even, you know.
	I mean, you're you're stuck there.
	Uh but uh it was also we were there to uh report on something that's happening at the UN.
	Yeah, you're trying to trade this treaty.
	Yeah, the arms trade treaty.
	And uh and it was total gridlock around there, but then it got really bad when we tried to get out in the Holland Tunnel.
	Oh it's just crazy.
	Well, you might put the video in this article.
	What's that?
	There's uh video of uh Macron.
	Yeah, it's just all in French, so we have no idea.
	Oh, we wee, baguette.
	That's right.
	You want to get the conversation.
	We've got DGA.
	Thank you very much, DGA.
	Really do appreciate it.
	It says, David, we are in dangerous grounds.
	The merger of government and religion is very dangerous.
	The new TV USA tour is loaded with Hindus, Mormons, Jews, and Catholics.
	T P USA was a Christian organization.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, uh I I thought it was kind of interesting.
	Um, yeah, what I read that uh observation from a guy who was in the UK, and he says in the UK, they won't even talk about uh God, they won't mention Christ except as a swear word, right?
	And um and he was so excited to hear politicians saying that.
	And and I guess that's my problem with it, is because I know these politicians.
	He doesn't because he's in the UK.
	So he doesn't know what these guys are about.
	When you see people like Rubio and others and the things that they have said, the things that they have done, to me, yes, God can use anybody, you know, as uh one pastor said, uh, you know, God spoke to Baylon through his ass, his donkey.
	And he says, and he's used many an ass since then.
	And so God can use that when somebody says something, and maybe there's somebody who's really not political, hasn't been paying attention to who these guys are.
	And so that hypocrisy of them and and their personal life doesn't get in the way of the message.
	I look at it, and to me it's like some guy that's been caught red-handed in a whorehouse, the pastor, and then he shows up on Sunday morning and he's gonna preach.
	Uh it's just you can't get past that hypocrisy.
	And that's the way it is with these politicians.
	You know, so I look at it, that's why I said I guess I'm just too critical, but I thought more about it, and I thought that's why I'm critical about this.
	I can't get past this hypocrisy.
	I know what these guys have done.
	You know, it's like you know, when I look at these um Christian news sites, it's mostly, well, this celebrity said nice things about Jesus, and so we're gonna platform him for this, and you know, you should uh you should investigate this because this celebrity likes Jesus.
	And then next to that is are more articles about how some um high profile pastor has been caught in some sexual abuse thing or something.
	It's just those two things all the time.
	And there's just this cognitive dissonance when that happens, and many times in some denominations, uh, like uh what was the guy that just uh uh uh I have sinned, that guy that became a soundbite.
	What was his name?
	Uh I can't remember.
	Anyway, you know, you got somebody like that, and some of these denominations they get caught multiple times at whorehouses, and uh they just they just come back and the people just keep following them.
	And that's what I see happening with uh politics and religion in the GOP.
	Uh I can't go there.
	It just bothers me.
	Uh that hypocrisy, that rank hypocrisy just gets in the way of the message so much I can't hear the message anymore.
	And I know there's a lot of people out there that are like that about this.
	So Travis, go ahead.
	Meganick 117, thank you very much.
	You need to scroll that down.
	Says, Islam is an anti-Christ religion.
	Well, every other religion is an anti-Christ religion.
	Yeah.
	Think about it.
	Yeah, I've told the story before we went to uh we were in Vegas and um we went to hear um Penn and Teller and uh Pen Gillette said, uh I don't use the F word.
	He says everybody uses the F-word for every type of speech.
	They use it as a noun, as an adjective, as an adverb, and all this other stuff.
	And he says, uh I try not to do that because uh I I try to have a good vocabulary.
	He said, I think that's a crutch.
	People use that and they don't have a vocabulary to express themselves.
	He goes, but I deliberately work to blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ.
	And that's exactly the way these people are.
	You know, it's just uh it's deliberate.
	And it's uh across the board.
	I had uh we had friends uh uh his uh wife had uh grown up in Japan, and she said it's funny because all the people there are uh see what is it?
	Shinto isn't shintoism, yes, I believe.
	But she said, you know, they're not Christian, uh very, very tiny Christian populations there.
	But she said everybody there is swearing using the name of Jesus.
	But there's other ways we can take Jesus' name in vain, and that's uh some of what we saw with some of these politicians taking his name in vain.
	We've got Big British back again.
	Some idiots were saying stopping the escalator might have killed Trump.
	Oh, we can only hope.
	They mean you know, having to walk.
	This is a guy who's been escalating every conflict he can think of uh across the uh across the world.
	So it is fitting that they would try to stop the escalator.
	That's he is the escalator.
	Do they really escalator?
	Do they realize that escalators are dangerous when they're moving?
	And stopped escalator isn't is no threat.
	It's just a stairs.
	You know, when it's moving that it you could theoretically be injured by it.
	Oh no, it's stairs.
	Back in the 60s, my dad had a out-of-town client who came in.
	And um he had uh never been to the big city, so to speak, as Tampa.
	Tampa's not a big city in 1960s.
	And um he took him someplace they went and they had an escalator, and the guy was absolutely flummoxed and scared to death about how to get on this thing.
	When he got on it, he squatted down hanging on the two sides, you know, got down really low.
	And everybody was looking anyway.
	That's uh you had to be there, I guess.
	What's going on?
	The floor, it moves.
	Denver Atway, Trump's own White House was controlling a teleprompter, just as is the case with the other heads of state that speak at the General Assembly.
	Yeah.
	B. L. Houghton, war is just peace through strength, LOL.
	Bulldog, peace through UN climate lockdowns.
	Yeah.
	Francine climate change.
	We climate change, we used to call that seasons.
	Not anymore.
	You can only have this uh rhetoric back and forth.
	Man, I remember when the seasons were stable and it's gotten so much warmer.
	It hasn't.
	Well, I I've used that as an example, just to try to break through the group think of people.
	I said, you know, think about the profound effect that the sun has on our climate, right?
	We have just a little bit of a the seasons are caused because of a little bit of because we have the tilt and then that little bit of change and distance from the sun causes us to have these major seasonal changes.
	So that is the driving force behind our that's still, we still have seasons, even if they think that there's some kind of global warming greenhouse effect going on.
	We still have seasons.
	That means the predominant influence on our climate is obviously the sun.
	You can't get these people to even think that is correct.
	When I said that, people attack me for saying that.
	I mean, it's just that's how far gone this country is.
	It's useless, it's hopeless.
	Really is.
	DG eight.
	Thank you again.
	David, as long as Trump is in power, government tyranny will reign, no discernment.
	Question nothing.
	Trust this government.
	People will blindly defend their choice of the lesser of two evils.
	That's right.
	Yeah, if they admit he's evil, it means they are complicit in it because they voted for it.
	Yeah.
	Epstein Island says peace through telling NATO to shoot down Russian jets.
	Yeah, isn't that amazing?
	KWD68, Trump shows at Charlie Kirk's memorial while scripture being read and takes applause, talks about hating enemies.
	What an evil, ego-ridden enemy he is.
	Yes.
	Of course, you notice that they couldn't find any quote or he said anything about Christ.
	He couldn't even open the Bible and get his staff to find uh something that he could repeat, like uh the Hindu uh did.
	Uh but not even Trump would uh could find a single thing in the Bible that he would repeat.
	We have Big Brit is back again.
	I have to agree with him on that the UN is a danger funding illegals and the climate hoax.
	They but he's not gonna get out of the UN, right?
	He will point to the problems that we all know.
	He knows what the problems are, and he'll identify the problems that we see.
	But he'll do exactly the opposite, or he'll do nothing, right?
	Or he'll do something like, you know, when we understand what's going on with the autism stuff, and everybody knows what's going on with this.
	He'll come up with a misdirection and tell you that it's Tylenol.
	That that's such a ridiculous statement after all this.
	Uh maybe it's the Tylenol.
	Of course.
	How could we have been so blind?
	Maybe it's the fluoride in the water.
	Oh, no way.
	They were doing that in the 60s.
	No, we're fighting to keep that in.
	Yeah, that's right.
	He's fine to keep the fluoride in the water.
	That's the Trump administration for you.
	KWD 68.
	Trump will say and do little things that need done in maggot cheers.
	They ignore the rest of what he does, that is 2030 work.
	Over 200 executive orders and three quarters are technocracy tyranny.
	That's right.
	Bulldog, AI is chastising me for using the term climate lockdown as being a conspiracy.
	Ah, yes.
	The lockdowns were a conspiracy.
	My first uh when I first got Chat GBT, I uh I uh I interacted with a few things about climate and about COVID.
	And of course, it's gonna tow the party line.
	And so I said, uh, this thing is useless.
	And it's rigged because there's no logic behind any of these McGuffins.
	DG 8, thank you again.
	I try to warn people about APAC, they will defend it to their last breath.
	I ask them why would Trump take 250 million from them when they fund Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, Waters, and Hakeem Jeffreys.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Israel is the closest thing to have to bipartisan politics here in this country.
	Unfortunately.
	Apparently.
	All it takes to build a coalition of the willing is a massive war chest.
	It's one bird and there's two wings to it.
	That's what's going on in this country.
	DJ says David noticed Trump advanced, kept pointing out Charlie Kirk's God.
	Do they worship a different god?
	I didn't notice that it didn't.
	I I couldn't bring myself to actually watch it or even any clips of it.
	I just uh you know, the like I said before, the hypocrisy makes me want to puke.
	Star Barkley says war is peace, and Three Little Birds says they murdered Kirk, so the indoctrination of our college kids can continue unfettered.
	Yeah, they won't uh talk about you know, Kirk talked about how the colleges were the problem, he was going to go there and talk to them.
	Nobody wants to talk about getting rid of the colleges.
	Uh nobody wants to talk about, you know, if they want to have colleges, fine.
	Let the students pay for it.
	Let let it be with tuition.
	You know, one of the reasons why tuition is so expensive is because it was so heavily subsidized by the government.
	Whenever you subsidize something, it gets more expensive.
	Uh why do you think they subsidize it so heavily?
	Why do you think that they won't uh do anything about it?
	They love to have these pro problems that are being generated by these institutions.
	It gives them an excuse, gives them gets everybody riled up so that they think that if they vote for their candidate, he's going to fix this stuff.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about uh Trump's AI bioweapon that he wants to do out there.
	He's he loves bioweapons.
	He loves MRNA, he loves uh AI, and he just keeps coming back to these themes over and over again.
	We'll be right back.
	Thank you.
	you you You're listening to the David Knight Show.
	Well, Lance had an interesting uh insight here when we uh we took a break.
	Tell tell the people what you just told me.
	Just about the Trump on the escalator story.
	I thought it was amusing.
	The first ever escalator was an amusement park ride that just went up a few stairs to a little platform, then you walked down regular stairs on the other end.
	How about that?
	Sounds like a lot of fun, right?
	It was hugely popular, apparently.
	My goodness, the stairs, they move.
	Actually, uh, it was a much better time.
	Uh when people can have that kind of wonder over simple things like that.
	Now, uh we've not just become jaded, we have become oppressed by the technology.
	We're gonna talk about robotics coming up.
	Yeah, what would those people think about the robots?
	I think they'd pull out their shotgun and granny would shoot them.
	Yeah, you're talking about the appropriate response.
	The famous line uh sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
	But you know, if you were to go back 200 years, uh, I think they would already find what we've got currently to be pretty indistinguishable from magic.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	Um, and of course, I guess the real magic is that uh people living today would go back and say, how were they able to make these things for themselves?
	How were they able to be self-sufficient and survive on their own because that's what they were doing 200 years ago?
	They were surviving on their own.
	They didn't have corporations and government to feed them, and now we've become uh helpless little uh dependents on them.
	Yeah, the thing is if you were to take someone from 200 years ago and transpose them into the modern world, they could adapt to it.
	If you take someone from now and put them 200 years into the past, they'd probably die.
	They would almost definitely just keel over the Well, we may have that experiment uh reenacted because of what Trump is doing at the UN yesterday.
	He called out the UN for not doing enough for peace, praise his own peacemaking as he's saying he wants to go to war with the with the Russians.
	For eighty years, the U.S. has participated in the UN.
	The dominant form of rules-based international order that was meant to prevent wars hasn't worked out too well, has it?
	Uh, neither the rules nor the prevention.
	Trump proposed his own method of diplomacy, largely through trade pressure.
	Uh that hasn't brought peace.
	We need to understand that sanctions and attacking people in terms of trade is a prelude to war.
	That has always led to war in the past.
	And it is very much like a siege put around a city state.
	You know, we used to not have nation states until the uh fourth turning of the industrial revolution.
	Remember, as I said before, Italy had a civil war at exactly the same time we did, 1861 to 65.
	It was not over slavery.
	It was over the fourth turning of the industrial revolution and the creation of the nation state.
	Prior to that, uh power was distributed, and you had different centers, and so it was very easy to put a siege around a town that had a castle and try to starve the people out.
	And that is what sanctions are on a larger scale.
	And it is a pre it is a form of war.
	The president said that the high tariffs that he enacted forced other countries to renegotiate trade agreements with the United States.
	He called the practice a defense mechanism and said it can be a model for more effective diplomacy around the world.
	Uh it is a defense model in the same way that we had the Defense Department, which he now has appropriately renamed the Department of War.
	It is a war mechanism.
	That's what sanctions are.
	Much of Trump's speech touted his actions and his policies, independent of the UN.
	And just remember, back in the first term of Trump, he threw out some red meat to his base saying, I think we'll get out of the UN.
	Because conservatives and you know, mainstream America doesn't like the UN.
	Never wanted to be in the UN.
	Uh but of course that red meat was nothing but an illusionary nothing burger, as it typically is.
	You couldn't even make a Trump taco out of it.
	Uh so his administration is launching an international effort to stop countries from conducting bioweapon research, which he characterized as a growing danger after the COVID-19 pandemic.
	No, it was his jab.
	He's the father of the bioweapon, is what we should call him.
	Uh also to pioneer AI's verification system as part of the effort.
	This is all about creating an overlord AI system.
	And uh to the extent that he combines it.
	Remember, the very first thing he did was to have an event with Larry Ellison and to say that they wanted to have AI design, custom, genetic, uh, you know, custom to your genes, mRNA.
	Uh his injection has always been an in a genetic injection.
	And uh they admit as much.
	And now they're telling us, oh yes, you know, MRNA can modify DNA.
	And of course, there's a lot of garbage and DNA in the injections to boot.
	But it was pretty obvious from the very Beginning, I said, if you just think about this.
	If the MRNA, they tell us, it doesn't, it doesn't uh change the DNA, it copies the DNA.
	Well, what if it doesn't copy it exactly right?
	Well, then it's going to change it, isn't it?
	It was just very simple to understand that that could happen even accidentally.
	Uh, but that it could also happen deliberately was shown in the summer of 2020 as they were rushing through all this stuff before it was deployed by Trump and was still in the development stage.
	I reported that Thomas Jefferson University did some uh experiments with MRNA and they said, look, we can use it to change your DNA.
	So I said, that's it, folks.
	Nobody wanted to report that.
	Uh that was that cover was story story was spiked right away.
	Uh nobody wanted to talk about that, but that is the reality.
	And when you look at Susan Monarez, who was put in at the CDC, and I don't know if she was taken out because of this, if if the good guys won, I don't know if there's any good guys in there.
	Or if it was just a personality conflict between her and RFK Jr., but I know that whoever got her put in that position in the Trump administration, put her in there because she was part of BARTA, uh, the biological equivalent of DARPA, uh also ARPA H. And so both of those things are uh horrific in terms of the way they're weaponizing technology against us in a way that is medical.
	And um her focus was on the same thing that Trump's focus on his first day was, and that is a combination of AI and MRNA.
	So it raises a lot of red flags with me to see Trump talking about AI and bioweapons yet again, because the MRA MRNA is the bioweapon.
	It wasn't something that came out of a lab.
	The COVID pandemic was not something that was weaponized as gain of function.
	But you notice that even though they want to promote that narrative to cover up what they did with the vaccine deliberately, uh they they will not stop the gain of function.
	And he's not even saying we need to have a treaty that is going to stop this.
	He says, Oh, we'll police it with AI.
	This will be an excuse, a use case for AI, to make sure they can put AI everywhere.
	He's doing this for his technocracy buddies who are controlling it.
	He does things for Israel, and he does things for the technocracy, and both Israel and the technocracy are doing everything they can, contrary to our interests, but they completely own him.
	So his administration is launching an international effort to stop countries from conducting bioweapon research.
	Of course, he won't lead the way and stop it here.
	Um so to pioneer an AI verification system as part of the effort.
	We'll wait and see just how this is going to be uh imposed on people.
	In February, America sided with Russia and China on a resolution that called for an end to the Russia and Ukraine war.
	Except now he has flipped on that as well.
	Trump pulls a jaw-dropping 180, ruthlessly mocking Russia as a paper tiger.
	Uh Trump made a shocking announcement about his administration's new approach to Ukraine.
	Just like that.
	He changes, right?
	Turns on a dime.
	Why?
	Because he is rudderless.
	He has no principles.
	He has nothing to steer him whatsoever.
	Uh so he's just a ship blown about by every change and whim.
	Trump declared that he is now willing to back the Ukraine until it recovers all the territory taken by the Russians.
	So he thinks that they can get everything back from the Russians, they can win the war, quote unquote.
	What does that mean to win a war like that?
	I think you win a war like that by stopping it.
	That's the most successful thing that you can do.
	He says, quote, after getting to know and fully understanding the Ukraine Russian military and economic situation.
	Oh, so does he admit that he was just spatting his mouth off without any understanding of the situation when he said he was going to end it in 24 hours?
	And after seeing the economic trouble that is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form.
	With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe, and in particular NATO, no, of the American taxpayers who will be made bigger debt slaves for this war to kill people.
	Also, who will be left to occupy this territory at that point?
	Yeah, the won't be any Ukrainians left.
	It's crazy.
	The original borders from where this war started is very much an option.
	And why not?
	Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years, a war that should have taken a real military power less than a week to win, taunts Trump.
	This is not distinguishing Russia.
	Well, what about our war in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places?
	Since World War II, we have fought one asymmetric war after the other, and the best that we've been able to manage is a stalemate in Korea.
	In fact, it's very much making them look like a paper tiger, he said.
	When the people living in Moscow and all the great cities, towns, districts, all throughout Russia find out what is really going on with this war, the fact that it's almost impossible for them to get gasoline through the long lines that are being formed, and all the other things are taking place in their war economy, where most of their money is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which has great spirit and is only getting better.
	Ukraine would be able to take back their country, its original form.
	Who knows?
	Maybe even go further than that.
	Which we know has always been the goal of NATO, to overthrow Russia.
	NATO has been the aggressor in this folks for decades.
	So going back to the nineties.
	Putin and Russia are in big economic trouble.
	And this is the time for Ukraine to act.
	I wish both countries well.
	We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them.
	Good luck to all.
	Yeah.
	And go knock yourself out.
	Let's have a war.
	It was just in February.
	Here we are now in September, that he and Vance blew up at Zelensky in the Oval Office.
	But now he's become full Lindsay Graham on this thing.
	And is absolutely insane.
	From the very beginning, everybody said there is absolutely no way that Ukraine can win this war with Russia unless America enters it along with uh and you don't even have to have Europe, but we're going to have a war between us and Russia.
	That's what Trump wants.
	Good luck to you all.
	It's such an utterly insane thing to say about a war.
	It's not a baseball game, you know.
	This isn't, oh, I just hope both sides have a good time.
	No, it is for him.
	It is for him.
	He thinks that he won't be touched by this.
	And he probably won't.
	He's got his his little bunkers no matter what happens.
	He's got his bunkers to hide in.
	But it'll be our war.
	Rich man's war, poor man's fight.
	As I said before, and I said it again on Twitter in response to him saying this stuff.
	War is when they tell you who to fight.
	Revolution is when you figure out who the real enemy is.
	And a major shift, Trump says he now thinks Ukraine can win back all the territory taken by Russia.
	What an incredibly stupid and dangerous man he is.
	He despises this country.
	He puts this country last.
	Our interests are behind all of these corporate interests and donors and bribers who are showering him with cash.
	Whether it's a foreign country or whether it's an industry group or a particular person.
	They all come first.
	Our concerns are none of his concern.
	It's a big shift.
	This post of Trump, as I just read to you, is a big shift.
	And Zelensky says that it is very positive, he thinks.
	Zelensky added that he believes that Trump understands for today that we can't just swap territories.
	It's not fair, he says.
	Yeah, it's not fair.
	I I need to have my territory.
	I want my NATO membership, and I don't care how many Ukrainians I have to kill to get it, says the leader of Ukraine.
	And the same thing is true in every country.
	Putin doesn't care about Russians.
	Trump doesn't care about Americans.
	Zelensky doesn't care about Ukrainians.
	Fred Mertz doesn't care about the Germans.
	Macron doesn't care about the French, and Herr Starmer doesn't care about the Brits.
	They all hate us.
	They're all looking for ways to kill us.
	That's the reality of this.
	The goal of Trump's social media posts and subsequent comments to reporters about it was to exert maximum public pressure on Russia to get them to the table for deal.
	Oh yeah.
	He has been so effective at negotiation, hasn't he, with this abrasive bullying tone that he takes with everybody?
	So he's going to mock Russia and say, yeah, a real country would have won this war by now.
	We'll see how long this thing drags on once Trump gets involved in it.
	Trump was not able in four years to conclude successfully the war in Afghanistan.
	He made no attempt to leave.
	The thing came crashing down in a kind of Saigon evacuation under Biden, which, again, is Biden's fault, but Trump didn't do anything to end that war that he promised to do for four years.
	And he's not going to do anything to end Ukraine.
	The military-industrial complex that he's so beholden to doesn't want it to end.
	Macron applauded Trump's statement.
	I think he is very, very right on this one.
	Yeah, right, because they all want war.
	All the Europeans want war.
	If we come back completely Ukraine in this situation, given the Russian economy is suffering, there's an opportunity of a good future, Macron told Trump right.
	Trump then added, I really do feel that way.
	Let's get them their land back.
	If you're going to do that and you're going to take some of the Russian land, it is absolutely insane.
	Lindsay Graham, who last month said that Russia and Ukraine would have to swap some territory to end the war, is now elated.
	Now instead of having to make concessions to end the war, the guy who has been saying, we're going to go into Russia, we're going to get Putin.
	Remember that?
	I've played that clip many times.
	He and John McCain went to Ukraine several years ago, well before Russia invaded, and said to the Ukrainians, all right, right now you're fighting your fellow Ukrainians.
	We're going to go into Russia and we're going to get Putin.
	That's what you guys are going to do.
	And they pan the camera around and the people are like deadpan.
	It's like, seriously?
	And that's what they're doing.
	But now Graham is excited.
	I mean, he'd come around even to this, saying they're going to have to give up some stuff.
	So I wonder what is in this for Trump.
	I mean, somebody must have either threatened him or paid him off big money to get him to flip like he did.
	Trump also conveyed to the press that there doesn't appear to be an end in sight for the conflict.
	Looks like it's not going to end for a long time, because that's what we want.
	We want endless wars.
	That's what we've always had.
	This is a guy who keeps bragging about how he deserves a peace prize.
	I'd like to give him a peace.
	Trump has repeatedly said that exchanging territory between Ukraine and Russia would be a key element of any solution to end the war.
	So again, paper tiger, and we're going to get all their land back, plus some from Russia.
	And Trump stunned people When he was asked if NATO should shoot down Russian planes Zelensky Was asked by MMS NBC anchor Katie Tur I do want to play something he just said to reporters as he was meeting.
	I'm sorry, it wasn't asked to Zelensky.
	This was MSNBC playing this.
	Somebody asked him, do you think that the NATO countries would shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?
	Yes, I do, said Trump.
	That was quick.
	Helping to understand the president's position right now on Russia, she said.
	And Von Hilliard was also there.
	He said, uh, it's the heck of a statement coming from this president of the U.S. in the situation where Article V were to be invoked by NATO allies.
	There's a question of whether the U.S. under this Trump administration would be committed to defending countries that could face incursions from Russia.
	And what we have seen over the course of the last two weeks are that Romania, Poland, and Estonia all reporting jets, drones, and Russian aircraft entering their airspace, Hilliard said.
	Well, again, this is the narrative that Poland has been pushing very hard.
	And as we we pointed out, uh these were drones that we've had this situation before where Ukraine uses electronic jamming on these drones.
	These drones were not armed.
	They were decoy drones for the ones that were armed and did have electronic countermeasures.
	So these are the low echelon drones that are just out there as decoys.
	They got jammed, they went over the border, ran until they fell.
	The only damage that they could find was A house, they said was hit by a drone.
	Except that the Polish military and Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, knew before they put out the story, that it was actually their own missile, a dud that was fired from an F-15 that hit that house.
	It was not a drone.
	And they knew that before they put out the report saying that it was a drone.
	What they were trying to do was to get the president, who was part of the opposition party, and the president of Poland was not on board with a war with Russia like Donald Tusk, who was an EU globalist.
	So they were trying to gaslight him and the entire world by thinking that there had been trying to make the case there had been an attack.
	It was nothing of the sort.
	It was all a false flag narrative.
	It was all lies, and these people continued to try to drag us into World War III.
	That's what this is about.
	And now Trump is fully on board as well.
	Because, like Donald Tusk, Donald Trump is also a globalist.
	People just haven't figured that out in the United States yet.
	Nothing could be clearer to me than that this guy is playing for that team.
	He's not America first.
	He's America last.
	Israel first, uh the globalist agenda next, and America last.
	That's where Trump is.
	For the first fourth time this year, he's allowed a deadline to come and go after welcoming Putin onto U.S. soil.
	The president was just asked at what point will he stop trusting Putin?
	And he said he'd give him about another month.
	Well, I think that um that trust that that time frame is already left, uh, I think.
	Ukraine, says Rubio, has to agree to a peace deal.
	He's saying this as Trump is trying to escalate everything.
	So again, are they playing good cop, bad cop?
	I think this is a very stupid and dangerous game.
	Uh Rubio said it's not up to us to win the war.
	He said when asked why the conflict continues despite Trump's repeated promises to end it on day one of his new administration.
	Yeah, those are just things that he said to get people to vote for him.
	He never had any uh ability to do that.
	We always knew that.
	He never had any intention even of trying to do that.
	We always knew that as well.
	It's just things that he tells us base, and they believe him, and then they defend him when it doesn't happen.
	The Russians have to stop the war, said Rubio, and the Ukrainians have to agree to a peace deal.
	Uh the Secretary of State said the U.S. would be would retain the role of a broker in the conflict for as long as possible.
	We are not an honest, neutral third party when we are arming one side of the conflict and threatening the other side.
	The only way that the U.S. is going to be broker is with a amount of money that uh Trump is giving these people.
	That makes us all broker than we were before.
	There's also the fact that Zelensky is never ever going to agree to a peace deal.
	The corruption he's engaged in and he's been able to get away with is solely because of the fog of war, because that's why he wants to keep this war going.
	Yeah, because there's thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians dying.
	No one has the time to really sit there and prosecute him for what's going on.
	The second that ends, the second there's a ceasefire and people look at what he's done.
	Well, the most interesting character in Ukraine is this guy, Alexei Arestovich.
	Because he's kind of like uh Dave Chappelle says Trump was.
	He says he'll come out and he'll tell you these guys are a bunch of criminals, and he'll go right back in and join them.
	And that's the way that Arestovich was in the Zelensky administration.
	Remember, they got elected in 2019.
	There'd already been five years of civil war where they were bombing these people in um let's see, is it Eastern Ukraine or Western Ukraine?
	I think it's uh Eastern Ukraine, yeah.
	And um, so they've been bombing the people who wanted to remain with Russia.
	And so uh he put together Zelinsky put together uh uh a team for peace talks because he had run on that platform just like Trump did.
	But he had no intention of doing it.
	And so Arestovich was the guy who was the lead negotiator in that.
	And when he comes back and he talks to Ukrainian TV, they said, What are the chances of peace?
	He goes, none.
	I said, Oh, that's horrible.
	He goes, No, it gets worse in three years.
	And it was 2019 when he said it, and it was 2022 when Russia did it.
	He said, We're gonna be at full war with Russia.
	And he said, uh, and she said, Oh, that's really horrible.
	He goes, the country will be devastated, destroyed.
	But he said the good news is we're going to get into NATO.
	And the reporter really was not too impressed with that.
	He got kicked out of the Zelensky administration when during the war you had a Russian cruise missile that hit a uh residential uh high rise that was there and uh hurt a lot of people, and Zelensky wanted to make that uh some he wanted to blame Russia for that saying they deliberately targeted it rather than it's something that happened in the fog of war.
	Rusovich came out and said, actually, what happened was we shot that cruise missile, it went off course and hit the apartment building.
	And then he was fired.
	Now he is running against Zelensky for president.
	And if he doesn't get killed, I was gonna say that's the first time.
	He'll have some interesting things to say.
	Yeah, he's already said some interesting things.
	He said that he told everybody, he said, Ukraine is going to be destroyed.
	He said it again.
	If we continue down this path, he said the only way forward for Ukraine to continue to exist as individuals and even as a country is forced to have a negotiated settlement and then to put ourselves in a position of like intermediary of trade between uh Europe and Russia.
	He said that's a role that we could fulfill that would work for us, but he goes, uh, there is no other role that we can have.
	So he's still telling people the truth.
	But people don't want to hear the truth.
	They don't want to hear the truth in Ukraine, they don't want to hear the truth in the U.S. either.
	Uh so the German army is revealing what their expected losses will be from a conflict with Russia.
	The German army apparently disagrees with Trump that the Russian army is a paper tiger.
	They said to expect to suffer 1,000 wounded soldiers a day in the event of a conflict with Russia.
	Realistically, said the Surgeon General, Ralph Hoffman, told Reuters on Monday, he said, realistically, we're talking about a figure of around a thousand wounded troops per day, when asked about the potential casualty rate.
	But of course, this is a price that they're willing for other people to pay, isn't it?
	You know, the Germans don't care, but the German government doesn't care about Germans.
	The Ukrainian government doesn't care about Ukrainians, the Russians government doesn't care about Russians, the American government doesn't care about Americans.
	This is where we see it everywhere.
	So yeah, okay, a thousand people wounded a day, how many killed?
	Earlier this year, Kremlin's spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov warned that Germany is becoming dangerous again.
	Yes.
	Uh Mertz, Fred Mertz had earlier vowed to make the Bundeswehr the strongest conventional army in Europe.
	He also labeled uh Putin as perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time.
	Well, that's the title that Trump is in competition for.
	I mean, he's out there blowing up ships left and right.
	As a matter of fact, I didn't play this, but I'll um uh uh play it for you.
	This is the uh uh the latest uh murder on the high sea from Donald Trump.
	You know, what do you say about somebody who uh destroys boats and kills everybody on board without warning, without legal justification.
	They are war criminals.
	By the way, I've talked about uh what Dutarte did as president of the Philippines.
	Do you know that he's now I I just saw yesterday, he is under arrest in uh at the uh International Criminal Court for the extrajudicial killings that he did as part of his war on drugs, and it is no different in principle than what Trump is doing with this.
	He killed about 12,000 people, but they're not even coming after him for that.
	They've got him at the International Criminal Court.
	He's turned 80, and he's under arrest.
	He left as president in 2022, I believe, and uh then they arrested him, and um uh same thing could uh same fate could be there for Donald Trump.
	I think they'll just skip the impeachment this time and have some international uh people arrest him after he leaves office.
	That'd be a better solution.
	Uh something's gonna happen somewhere.
	U.S. officials say that regime change in Venezuela is the real goal of military action in the Caribbean.
	We don't know what their real goal is because they are they just won't discuss this.
	They're gonna do whatever they wish, whatever they decide in secret.
	They will not involve the American people.
	They won't even involve Congress in this.
	U.S. officials have told the New York Times that the real goal of the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and the bombing of the boats in the region is regime change in Venezuela.
	Well, it might be the oil, right?
	But we what we know is that it's not fentanyl.
	That's yet another Trump lie.
	The policy is largely driven by Marco Rubio.
	Back in 2019, the first Trump administration attempted to back a coup against Maduro.
	Rubio posted a photo on Twitter of former Libyan leader Mumar Gaddafi.
	The moment he was being brutally murdered and an apparent threat to the Venezuelan leader.
	The Trump administration claims that Maduro is a leader of a drug cartel, but has not produced any evidence for the charge.
	As a matter of fact, there have been analysts within the Trump administration that says that that's not the case.
	Trump has also framed the military campaign in the region as a response to overdose overdose deaths in the U.S. due to fentanyl.
	But fentanyl is not produced in Venezuela.
	And it does not go through the country on its way to the U.S. Well, that didn't stop him from charging, making the same charge against Canada.
	He will tell any lie that he feels is necessary in order to declare an emergency and act like a dictator.
	We got fentanyl to the north and fentanyl to the south.
	Looks like we're fent stin.
	Yeah, we're fentanyl fentanyl fence.
	So the real goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power.
	I think the real goal is to take the oil.
	Driving him from power is a means to that end.
	And uh all the talk about the uh the war on drugs is just a uh head fake and a uh prevarication to try to act as a justification here.
	U.S. officials have said the Trump administration is considering direct strikes on Venezuelan territory.
	Of course, that's why they're there with the big armada, which could lead to a full-blown war with the country.
	But of course, it could also lead to a full-blown war with Russia and China, which Trump doesn't care about.
	Maybe that's why he turned 180, because he knows he's going to be at war with Russia and China anyway.
	Uh so is he any different from Putin?
	I mean, if Trump is going to invade Venezuela, take their oil.
	Does he have more or less justification than Putin did to go into Ukraine?
	I think Putin had I'm not saying he was justified in doing it, but I think he could make a better case that what he did was more justified than what Trump is doing.
	After all, uh Ukraine would not allow the Russian-speaking, Russian culturally uh linked areas to have uh their own self-governance and to remain with Russia.
	That was a core part of that.
	And Ukraine had been part in the Crimea, especially, had been a part of Russia for 400 years.
	Venezuela was never a part of uh America, and you can't make any uh humanitarian case whatsoever that we should invade Venezuela to stop something that is going on there.
	It is nothing other than political geopolitics and oil, which is why they're going into that area.
	Uh comment.
	He's got a lot of comments.
	Big Brit is back again.
	They were saying if he was on a moving escalator, a sudden stop could have made him fall backwards.
	I know that.
	Well, if you look at that picture, he was about to get on the escalator when it stopped.
	I mean, maybe he was on the first step.
	But he wasn't in the middle of the escalator anyway.
	They're the bottom of it.
	Truly a terrifying prospect to consider.
	What if the escalator all of a sudden stops at its blistering pace?
	Might be thrown around.
	Assyrian girl, yeah, Trump.
	So get the U.S. out of the UN and get the UN out of the U.S., then I'll believe your critical insights on the organization.
	Yeah.
	He could just say, you know what?
	Get out.
	Well, he he goes to the World Economic Forum in Davos and he lectures them about how wonderful he is and how nationalism is the way forward.
	And then within uh a week of coming back, his uh big pharma HHS secretary declares the pandemic, and in a couple of months uh He locks everything down.
	Exactly what the World Economic Forum and the UN wanted.
	And exactly what the uh uh the American government had practiced for two decades.
	Don't believe a thing this con man says.
	KWD68.
	The road to 2030 is paved.
	We may change lanes, but both parties are heading to the end.
	Uniparty road.
	That's right.
	Hadrian was right.
	Putin doesn't want to stop the war either.
	That's right.
	They've got their agendas.
	Yeah.
	Audi M. Well, you know, we're here at the end of the fourth turning, and at the fourth turning, they need a war because all of their institutions are obvious failures, and the people are getting very upset with them.
	This is how you control the people, how you get them to fall behind you.
	This is what we saw in Netanyahu do in Israel.
	Uh tremendous political upheaval.
	Well, he was incredibly unpopular.
	He had corruption charges coming against them.
	He had they'd had to have one election after the other, because it could even though Netanyahu's party kept coming out on top, they couldn't put together a coalition and they didn't have enough votes to form a government.
	So they did like like three times in a row.
	And so to pull everybody together, you have the war.
	The false flag attack.
	Go ahead.
	We have Oudi MRR.
	Trump is all in with the Ukraine nonsense just as much as his predecessor.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	KWD68, Magable cheer as they're marched into Trump's freedom cities.
	Well, it's got freedom in the name.
	It's gotta be good.
	Yeah.
	And we need to scroll up.
	Yeah.
	Audi MRR, Trump, the peace president.
	Wars are not meant to be won, they're meant to be continuous.
	That's right.
	Modern retro radios where you find Dowdy.
	That's great.
	Yeah.
	Epstein Island, Trump is doing exactly what Biden was doing with both Israel and Ukraine.
	It's the same as it ever was.
	It continues unabated.
	That's right.
	Radis Bro, they never wanted to win or even tried to win.
	It was just to murder Americans and enrich the government.
	Yeah, I'm uh I'm of the opinion that there hasn't been a single war that America could not win that we have engaged in.
	It's simply that we have just been there to advance our agendas, and they like seeing American citizens die, so they're not interested in winning it.
	That was certainly the case with Vietnam, I tell you, it's just amazing.
	They could uh with the technology they have, they could basically reduce all of these countries to ashes.
	They could basically exterminate the population, in my opinion, which not that you should, but you know.
	Well, if you look at Vietnam, they won every battle, but then they would abandon the area that they just fought over.
	Uh that was a deliberate strategy by Robert McNamara, one of the premier go globalists of his time.
	Epstein Island Trump is doing exactly what Radisbro.
	No, Schmid Wave.
	Zelensky wants every white Ukrainian man dead.
	Ukrainian men know this.
	Yeah.
	Cloud and pivot's strategy on steroids.
	It's not just replacing them by drowning them out with a huge number of uh immigrants.
	They're also actively killing them all.
	And that's what they want to do throughout Western civilization.
	That's one of the reasons why they want another reason why they want to have war.
	They have uh you can just take all these different boxes as to why they want a global war.
	And now it's amazing to see this.
	How they'll hold out that false hope to MAGA.
	Yeah.
	MAGA is Charlie Brown, not Charlie Kirk.
	And uh Trump and the rest of these people are loosely holding the football.
	Go ahead.
	Be my Valentine.
	Many people do not know they have Lyme disease with various symptoms this bacterial spy rochet can hide in the body, fooling the immune system.
	Of course, Lyme disease being another wonderful gift from our military industrial complex.
	Don't know if I missed the comment.
	That was in response to uh a comment from I believe a Syrian girl talking about how it was gain of function.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Citizen of America.
	Well, they even they they've got uh they want to give people a meat allergy as well.
	Yeah.
	No, you don't get to eat red meat, despite the fact that it's you know basically the best food for you when it comes to uh nutrient profile.
	Citizen of America, when the entire world's preparing for war and the citizenry just wants peace and a decent standard of living and doesn't care about the foreign entanglements.
	They just want the potholes filled, they just want the potholes filled.
	Yeah.
	And apparently Bulldog says there's a sniper attack at an ice facility, a shooting in Dallas, Texas.
	Well, that's not gonna be good.
	That's gonna lead to more extreme measures.
	Yeah.
	And he says officials confirm the suspected shooter was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, same pattern we see over and over again, isn't it?
	Well, when we come back, we're gonna talk about the AI bioweapon.
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	Exactly.
	All right.
	Well, let's talk about Trump, AI, and biological weapons.
	Now, what he's saying is he wants to use AI to enforce biological weapons convention.
	So to try to limit this.
	That would be dangerous enough.
	It was only going to be that, but I think there's going to be a uh combination with this.
	Because we've seen this, as I mentioned before, from the Trump administration from day one.
	Uh Larry Ellison and others saying that they were going to combine MRNA with AI to do genetic uh well treatments, right?
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	Yeah, that's good.
	Um that's uh it's also true, I think.
	Well, again, the the people that he has put in there and the programs that he has supported, uh, if you read between the lines, you understand that this is not about trying to stop bioweapons uh and bioweapon deployment and control.
	It's about making them.
	Uh Stargate was about making another bioweapon, just like his Operation Warp Speed, so-called vaccine.
	So I I find this to be very concerning.
	Trump announced the effort under which our AI will pioneer uh, he says, to prevent potential disasters.
	I'm announcing today that my administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention.
	Well, why don't you lead by getting out of it yourself?
	This is just like the UN itself.
	He wants to talk about how bad the UN is, but he won't get out of it.
	He wants to talk about how how dangerous biological weapons are, but he won't stop it.
	Um he needs a mission for AI.
	And of course, this mission is at the very least, it's going to be surveillance and it's going to be total information awareness.
	He said, We're going to pioneer an AI verification system that everyone can trust, he says.
	It's going to be a system that no one can trust.
	It seeks to know everything about everyone.
	That's where they're going.
	But uh the government is more than happy to provide however many problems it needs.
	The government has an excess of problems.
	Yeah, they can provide the problems as well as the funding that's that's always there.
	He's enumerated several things that he's done since retaking the White House in January, including yet again, here he is uh with his the big lie, ending seven wars.
	That evidently is this week his favorite lie, uh, other than the one that I never tell lies.
	Uh the lie that he ended seven wars, this is number one.
	Uh so uh AI is uh ready for this, you think.
	We have a new term that's been coined by uh researchers.
	They call it AI generated work slop.
	Work slop.
	Uh they said it is killing teamwork because it's uh getting people angry with their fellow workers who are using AI that's creating a bunch of problems that they then have to go back in and clean up.
	And it is causing a multi-million dollar productivity problem.
	So it looks like we've got to give it the key mission of making the world safe from bioweapons.
	Uh you know, you can't talk about that with a straight face if you're not going to do anything to clean up and to reform after what was done in 2020 with Trump and many of these other same leaders that are out there.
	Yeah, you're gonna give AI the keys to the bioweapons, and it's gonna say, oops, I've accidentally released them all.
	I did that even though you told me not to do that.
	You're right.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, that that dialogue from that that uh AI that deleted that company's entire database.
	I know you told me not to do that, but I did it anyway.
	This will be catastrophic for you, won't it?
	It's like, yeah, well.
	Whoopsie doodle.
	Yeah.
	Uh also just just reminds me of once a company reaches any sort of size, you reach a point where, you know, there's just some filler employees.
	They don't actually do very much at all.
	They're just kind of there.
	AI allows them to churn out this nonsense to make it look like they're busy, which then results instead of them being negligible, they're a hindrance.
	Because as it's saying, the real workers, the people that are actually getting stuff done, have to go in and redo their work.
	That's right.
	It's extra work for the real workers coming from the non-workers and the AI work slop that's coming in.
	It's just uh as I said, a company of any size eventually you reach a point where you just need bodies in places.
	And you know, if a guy will just sit there and do the minimum, you know, it is what it is.
	You just need somebody to sit there and do something.
	And now he can sit there and do something and have Chat GPT export, you know, a hundred.
	You can make it look like I'm doing something, yeah.
	Look, here's a thousand pages you now have to sift through and see if any of it is valuable.
	That's right.
	Well, the the term work slop was coined by Harvard Business Review, and uh they were looking at a study that was done by Stanford and a company called uh Better Up Labs, looking at productivity, and they said AI has been a massive productivity loss.
	We know it's been a massive loss of capital as they bought into this illusion.
	Surveyed workers report 40% of 1,150 US-based full-time employees received work slop in the past month, with each incident costing nearly two hours and 186 dollars monthly per person.
	Recipients of work slop say senders seem less creative and reliable, while a Harvard Business Review experiment found a nine percent competence penalty and said freelance workers are being hired to clean up sloppy AI output.
	So there you go, maybe it's not going to create massive unemployment anyway.
	Maybe what it'll do is it'll create so much work slop that you've got to have hire more humans to fix it.
	You're gonna your job will be to sift through the most mind-numbingly boring derivative nonsense you have ever seen.
	Because chat you can tell when an AI is writing something.
	It all has this very pseudo-intellectual feel to it where it's inserting words in places to bloat a sentence, making it larger than it needs to be.
	You know, it's almost it's very sort of first-year philosophy student almost in the way it speaks.
	Yeah, it's a pseudo intellectual pedantic, yeah.
	Uh but and that's what they're talking about in this.
	They're talking about company memos, emails and stuff like that, are wasting people's time and other things that they're doing.
	But of course, then we talked about the code, uh just last week we were talking about the fact that it was uh creating some very subtle errors that it was that were difficult for people to be able to catch.
	And when it was generating code, it would leave glaring vulnerabilities for hackers to be able to exploit.
	So all these things, that is even worse than just the work slot that they're talking about here.
	Uh, you're going to see when we see these uh issues with our complicated infrastructure like we saw over the weekend, excuse me, various airports.
	Uh you're going to see this, and uh is it going to be a case of sabotage by hackers or by foreign governments?
	Or is it going to be sabotage by AI coding?
	It's going to be kind of difficult to tell.
	Certainly they'll make it easier for these uh malicious actors to do what they want to do.
	So they said um uh it's all about the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues' AI generated work slop.
	Uh said work content that masquerades is good work but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a task.
	The injection of AI tools in the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom.
	Instead, it has just created the amount of time, uh increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI generated work.
	Uh the study came out the day after the Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meetings, transcripts that were fire filed by Standard Poor's 500 companies that found huge firms are having trouble articulating specific benefits of widespread AI Adoption, but they had no trouble explaining the risks and the downsides.
	So they are struggling to find a benefit that justifies their massive investment in it.
	But you ask them what are the downsides, and they've got a million of those right away.
	Why are they doing this?
	Oh, well, because they've been told by these ultimate hucksters like Sam Walton who go into these dog and pony hearings in Congress and say, you know, this is so important.
	It's going to be civilizational ending if the other bad guys get it.
	And it's going to be the end of your company if you don't get it and the other guys get it first.
	So if you've got an AI gap, you better get with it, you better buy our product.
	This kind of fear-mongering that's been done by our government and the technocracy is behind this, and everybody is bought into this, they can't find any justification for it in terms of benefits.
	They understand what is happening with it.
	Well, if you don't get the AI, your competition's gonna get the AI.
	You don't want that, do you?
	Yeah.
	Fear of missing out, that's it.
	Uh so the anticipated benefits such as increased productivity were vaguely stated and are harder to character categorize than the risk, they said.
	Uh but uh they couldn't describe how this technology is changing their business for the better.
	This is the case, folks, of almost all of the latest technology.
	It's not changing our lives, our businesses, our communities, our families for the better.
	It's big change, yes, but not for us.
	It's making things better for the people who are creating the change and creating the disruption.
	It's good for them.
	It gets them money, it makes us poor, it takes us down the path of where we own nothing.
	Uh they said, despite 30 to 40 billion dollars in enterprise investment into Gen AI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return, says Harvard Business Review.
	Industry level transformation remains limited because people are having to now, humans are trying to clean up the mess that the AI has created.
	So, what's going to happen when this when this suddenly turns?
	And I think it will turn suddenly.
	This has been the fear of missing out, the conventional wisdom, you gotta go with AI.
	And when people realize um the reality of this, and you're starting to see several of these reports out there, and all of a sudden it comes to a screeching halt.
	What happens?
	Well, the stock market crashes because the stock market has been built on this AI bubble from the very beginning.
	It's not to say they won't find some use for AI in the future.
	Uh I hope they don't, but it's inevitable that they will.
	But it's just that the hype got so far out ahead of the reality.
	It's the same thing that happened with the dot-com bubble, and I said this from the very beginning, didn't I?
	Uh the anecdotes.
	That was one of your first observations, just this reminds me so heavily of the dot-com burst and how these people go in and they're uh everyone's excited.
	They want whatever technology you've got on offer, sure, that sounds great.
	You know, the future is now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that was uh I got burned really badly on that.
	So I once burned twice shy.
	That's right.
	I learned that lesson.
	I was like a toddler who got a third-degree burn on their hand with that pot.
	I thought I would be smart and invest in the picks and the axes of that gold rush, but even the picks and the axes went down on that.
	Anecdotes have heard, we've heard from workers and the rise of industries like vibe coding cleanup specialists, all suggests that workers are using AI, but they may not be leading to actual productivity gains for companies.
	In other words, why do you have to have a coding cleanup specialist?
	There's also another thing to realize is there is basically only a certain amount of work you can get through in a day.
	No matter what you're doing, the company may not have anything else for you to do.
	Yeah.
	And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't benefit you to sit there with the AI and generate a t a hundred, a thousand different pages of nonsense.
	Well, the other thing is is that um always in the past, when I was in um working in engineering software, we'd see that the really good code was typically written by one guy.
	And uh he would come up with a killer app, and then what would happen is a big company would buy it, and then they'd put a team of programmers on it to try to maintain it, and it would start rapidly going downhill from that.
	It's much, much harder for other people to pick up on the structure and you know the nuance and everything that you know one person or maybe two people would put together working very closely.
	That's uh a big part of all the mythical man months, thinking that okay, well, if one person can do this amount of work in this amount of time, then we can get this big engineering product, and we can hire a lot more people, and uh we have this many man months that we put on this, but because of the organization, the interaction and things like that, uh it doesn't work out that way.
	You don't get that kind of productivity gain, and so AI is somebody's gonna have to come up with a term that's equivalent to the mythical man month, maybe the mythical machine month that is going to be there.
	But uh, yeah, one of the things a lot of people don't realize is technology doesn't really advance by having a giant team of people working on something.
	Usually, like you said, it's one you know, very smart, highly dedicated individual that pushes technology forward in a leap.
	And then you know, you have these teams of people that may iterate on what they've created and change it in different ways and add things to it, generally making it worse over time.
	But it's generally you like you said, a small team, one or two people that are very, very dedicated and highly, highly intelligent, borderline genius that take something and you know, give you something you've never seen before that the world has never considered because they wanted it.
	They thought the world could use this.
	I worked at uh at Data General, they were trying to make the leap into doing a generalized office computer.
	So they bought this.
	I think it was it's been a long time.
	I think it was a word processing system.
	I just remember it was done by one guy, and they bought it when we got the code and they wanted us to port it to this system and looked at it, and it was such an unbelievable mess.
	It was written in Fortran, it was just one go-to statement after the other.
	There was no organization to it at all.
	I mean, that's one of the things when you're writing code in a in a company, there are certain conventions that you follow to make your stuff readable by other people and to organize it so that other people can come in and find it there.
	This was just this ad hoc thing that wasn't necessarily a genius, but he was a good salesman, and they bought the farm.
	It was uh truly amazing, but what a piece of garbage that was.
	Anyway, uh that's what makes me think I can really you know, I can really relate to this if uh AI comes in and just creates this total garbage stuff, and you gotta have a cleanup specialist who comes in to fix it.
	It'd be better to have it that kind of person just write it clean from the very beginning.
	Instead of a clean up specialist, you have a clean coder from the beginning that's gonna do it.
	I and uh I assume AI can be useful for someone who is very, very good at the job.
	They know what they're doing, they know what to look for, they can give it some prompts, and he can very quickly check to see if it's done what he said while he's doing other things on the side.
	Give it some small tasks.
	Yeah, whereas you know, someone who doesn't know what they're doing generates an entire code base, you know, thousands upon thousands of lines.
	You then need someone like you know, someone who is incredibly good at the job to come through and then scan through it so he doesn't have time to actually work on anything of his own.
	So, what they're saying with this is that it is um uh it is grieving uh a number of workers.
	Uh so that other their co-workers are using AI to make presentations, reports, write emails, do other work tasks that are then filed to their colleagues and their bosses.
	It appears to be useful, but it's not.
	Work slop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to other human beings.
	When coworkers receive work slop, they're often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring the missed or false context, a cascade of effortful and complex decision-making process may follow, including rework, uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues, they write.
	They said they surveyed workers and told them that they're now spending their time trying to figure out if any specific piece of work was created using AI tools so they could identify possible hallucinations, then to manage the employee who turned in the work slop.
	The most alarming cost may have been interpersonal.
	Here's another example from the legal field, right?
	We've had several situations where people have filed legal briefs where they had AI write it for them, and AI cited a bunch of imaginary precedents and similar cases that never existed.
	And then when the judge checks their work because they failed to do it, uh the judge looks at this work slop, and you've had situations where the judge has uh censored the law firms and things like that for filing false briefs like that.
	But it's the AI that's hallucinating, adding a bunch of nonsense.
	So you create this whole lawsuit and you've got to have another group of people go through and fact check and double check everything that's in there to make sure that it is not just been made up.
	Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work.
	Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent work slop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output.
	Forty-two percent of them said uh they saw them as uh less trustworthy.
	Thirty-seven percent saw that colleague as less intelligent.
	Evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people's work in the same way it's affecting everything else.
	It's making it easier to output low quality slop that other people then have to wade through.
	But here's the thing that is really concerning when we talk about this slop and we talk about handing off key tasks of law enforcement and uh policing of bioweapon concern think about AI when it's just going to be handed off by the government to do this kind of stuff.
	It is truly going to be dangerous and that's how they want to use it.
	Maybe we should call this new thing operational warp speed stupidity we're gonna get stupid at a increasingly fast rate, accelerating rate.
	Operation warp slop That's right we have opossum king alcohol kills twice as many as fentanyl alcohol is truly people ignore how dangerous it is but people become addicted to it and it absolutely destroys their life.
	Alcohol addiction is one of the worst addictions you can have.
	Yeah.
	I remember when uh w we talk about the um the war on drugs people would equate alcohol addiction to heroin addiction in terms of how addictive it was or other class one drugs that were out there.
	That's one of the reasons why alcohol was the first thing to be prohibited.
	You know at the time Travis they had um cocaine and Coca-Cola, right?
	They didn't try to prohibit the cocaine That's how we built things like the Hoover Dam.
	They tried to you know they were more concerned about the alcohol to prohibit it than they were the cocaine.
	You know you could have uh Sherlock Holmes could take cocaine Coca-Cola could use cocaine but let's not use the alcohol that is really bad stuff.
	Audi M R R the war on drugs is not interested in fighting addiction.
	No it's interested in getting a like all wars it's supposed to go on forever and it's supposed to expand like a cancer.
	It's interested in giving your local police department an APC so they can terrorize you.
	Denver at a way fentanyl was invented by Dr. Jaw Paul Jansen in 1959.
	The name Jansen sounds familiar it's because that was the name of J and J's MRNA COVID Vax interesting interesting Nibiru 2029 Lyme disease equals Pum Island equals operation paperclip.
	Yeah.
	Bulldog wait until you are forced to rely solely on the virtual AI customer service rep. I begin to lose my mind if I am kept on hold for too long.
	If it if it becomes a circular nonsense of oh please tell me what you would like I'll connect you to a representative all our representatives are busy.
	Would you like me to solve your problem I begin to go squirrely I start thinking about Ted Kaczynski.
	Bulldog it's only a matter of time when most government workers will be mass laid off and their salary budgets pocketed.
	Yeah that's not going to end up in a tax cut for us.
	Well that was what Doge was about from the very beginning minimizing government but maximizing governance minimizing the number of government employees maximizing their surveillance of us that that was what it was about from the very very beginning and it's still going down that path.
	Audi MRR AI is to be used not relied on it does have its uses and it can be very helpful but it is something you need to monitor and keep track of.
	Yeah.
	You can't just turn your brain off and go, AI, do this for me.
	Well you know it's useful for things like entertainment, right?
	Where hallucination comes in handy hallucination can be entertaining and uh but if you've got something specific that you want it to do because that's part of your story, that can be unbelievably frustrating.
	The most simple directions will be ignored or it'll do exactly the opposite and So it is uh a very frustrating thing to work with, and sometimes you wonder would I be better off just learning how to do a uh create the computer graphics myself by hand.
	It'll get fixated on things for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, and and so it does something like uh it makes the character go in the wrong direction, walk backwards.
	And so, you know, the more you try to stress that to m you know the direction that you want this character to walk, the uh more it will make him go in the wrong direction.
	It doubles down.
	It's like a disobedient child.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	Bulldog, how many gov lawyers and paralegals can be fired?
	Probably the vast majority of them, given how frequently they've done DEI hires.
	They're probably staffed up with some of the dumbest people you could ever possibly imagine.
	So realistically, you could probably replace most of government with AI and barely notice a thing.
	They need to maybe hire more of 'em to uh check the lawsuits that are making up references, right?
	Mm-hmm.
	Also, I've said this before, but part of what's saving us is just the sheer level of bureaucracy that we are dealing with.
	It's a pain for us, it's a pain for them.
	They are trapped by it too.
	They are all b we are all beholden to the dreadful calcifying majesty that is bureaucracy.
	Acculty sim, I pay for chat GPT and it's helping archive over forty years of writing and videos, it's super for creative uses.
	Like I said, it does have its uses, and just so long as you're monitoring it and keeping track of it, and you are the one that's in charge, it can be very helpful.
	I see tons of people online though.
	Anytime something is posted on X, there's the immediately the first comment is at grok, is this real?
	Yeah, Grok disreal?
	Yeah.
	They've turned off their brain.
	They are simply asking for AI to define reality for them, and that is a very, very dangerous place to be.
	Well, they use the influencers to define reality for them as well.
	And they don't realize that uh when you're talking about things like that as opposed to creative uses, that it is um uh it's been nudged by the people who are controlling it.
	They pay people to build in biases into them about things like climate change or uh things like uh the so-called pandemic and stuff like that.
	So uh just be careful of that, you know, and and understand that's why you should always look at different sources of information, because uh you never know, somebody might be honest and all of a sudden someone comes along and buys them out.
	We have seen many of the alt media do an about face as a matter of fact.
	I think it was Free Thought Project that had that article uh talking about the about face of so many people in the alt media and how they become uh echo chambers uh to influence people for Trump or the Republican Party or something like that, as opposed to they used to be uh I'm not you know I'm not gonna take sides on any of these parties because they're all lying to us.
	You know, that's why that guy accused me of being he hates everybody.
	It's like you better believe I hate the Democrats and Republicans because I know who they are, I know what they have done, and I can't unsee it.
	So yeah.
	Yeah, part of it is everybody has to be worried about audience capture.
	There it's it's a pressure that everyone feels of well, if I say this, it might upset my audience, and that could lead to negative circumstances for us.
	And you have to be very careful that you're not giving in to that.
	Yeah.
	Which, you know Well, we haven't, so you can see where we are.
	Yeah.
	So they can look at the gas gauge, you can know we're not uh bowing to pressure on this.
	IRS machine gun.
	Thank you very much.
	Also very spooky name.
	One of those might be coming to all of our doors.
	If you really want to get mad, try ordering a pizza over the phone at any local chain pizza place, their AI will make you uh make you make healthier choices.
	Uh I have not uh I've not had to deal with that.
	Um as someone that can't eat gluten, I'm probably saved from that as a general rule.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it really inflames you.
	Yeah.
	Three little birds, EMP.
	Also, fun fact, um when uh gluten leads to bread in general leads to worse outcomes with schizophrenia, so it increases the rate of schizophrenia.
	So you think that may be what's happening to our society?
	Yeah, possibly.
	During World War II, when certain places were cut off from wheat, they didn't have the supplies, so they couldn't eat it, their rate dropped dramatically, and when the wheat came back, the schizophrenia rate jumped back up to its standard a lot.
	So it's not the SSRIs, it's Wonder bread.
	It could be a combination.
	I mean look at people today, they're eating far more bread than any time in history, and uh you can see it with a glance.
	Yeah, and the and the grain has been uh modified.
	Sometimes genetically modified, but if not, it's been modified through selector breeding for a very long time.
	So the wheat that we're eating is not like what the people ate at the time of Christ.
	No, not at all.
	Three little birds, EMP could disable AI.
	Well, you have to they're I'm assuming they're taking precautions in shielding some of them at least.
	But then again, who knows?
	Who knows what these people do.
	We can always hope.
	We're gonna find out probably soon enough if uh Trump keeps on this war path as antagonism.
	Yeah.
	Bulldog, AI equals control over what remains of humanity.
	The I mean, just th think about Trump and what he did at the UN.
	I mean, where else can you have somebody just you know, every other breath is Nobel Peace Prize, and the every other breath is taunting uh the other large nuclear power.
	I mean, what a man of lunacy and contradiction he is, and he continues to get away with it.
	He is a walking piece of double think.
	It's just amazing.
	Perhaps that's how he gets away with it.
	He's so utterly confusing and doesn't hold a position at all that no one can r define him.
	That's right.
	The real Octo spoke one of AI's greatest uses, one of the one of AI's greatest use of its resources and the students using it to write their papers for schools slash colleges.
	Gardner Goldsmith, I just saw that the Italian Well, the trick is on them, man, right?
	They haven't learned anything.
	I think that was sarcasm.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Also, I mean, considering what colleges teach, you know, you're probably better off using the AI to write all your stuff and not absorb anything at this point.
	So more power to him.
	Gardner Goldsmith, I just saw the Italian government is sending a military ship to support the Sumo aid flotilla after Israel hit it with flashbangs and frag grenades last night.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I didn't see that last night.
	Good to see you, guard.
	Liberty Conspiracy is what Guard has uh every evening money through Friday on Twitter.
	And Rumble.
	Uh and Rumble, yes.
	And he also has which is Guard Goldsmith, I believe.
	Or is it uh can I think he's kept it separate and the substack is Guard Goldsmith.
	I know I'm subscribed to it.
	He's got a great Sunday uh newsletter that he puts out over the street.
	Yeah, that's one of the problems with having everything delivered automatically.
	You sign up once and you have to look at it again, you're like, wait, what was that called?
	That's right.
	Especially if you get taken off of it randomly, as a lot of our uh audience has.
	Yeah.
	I've got my wife's phone number saved in my phone, and I for the life of me couldn't tell you what it actually is.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Epstein Island says Donald Tusk.
	All caps.
	It's a very orange walrus.
	With a name like that, he ought to be in the Republican Party, uh, an elephant, right?
	The elephant in the room is Donald Tusk.
	Minute man militia.
	I know so many people who search something and then their AI answer they take it as fact, as if the AI is infallible.
	Yeah.
	I see that continually.
	The AI will say something completely wrong, and then someone else will have to come in and be like, no, actually, this isn't that.
	It's from this other thing over here.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Well, we're gonna take a quick break, and when we come back, we're gonna talk about uh this YouTube censorship.
	And uh we're gonna ask you all a question as to what you think about uh what we should do to proceed forward with this.
	So we'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
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	Well, we had an interesting admission from Google, which is uh uh nothing new, actually.
	Uh and this is uh Google admitting that the Biden White House pressured content removal, and they promise to restore banned YouTube accounts like yours truly.
	We all knew that this was happening.
	And as a matter of fact, this is only a partial, uh limited hangout.
	This is uh because the House Judiciary Committee under Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to them and uh started an investigation to reveal the extent of government influence on content creation.
	This is uh and yet at the same time they want to pretend that this was not done under the Trump administration, and it was done under the Trump administration.
	What I also find interesting is that they want to say that this is simply about people who are opposing the so-called pandemic and the so-called vaccine treatment that uh was proposed for this.
	Well, if you said something about the masks or the lockdowns or the vaccine or what no, it was about so many things.
	As a matter of fact, when you start to look through this uh article where they're describing it, they said, Well, uh YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators join to rejoin the platform if they were taken off for repeated violations of COVID 19.
	And then they add, and election integrity.
	And then when you continue to read this article, they will continue to add more and more qualifications.
	I was like, okay, so now it was uh COVID 19, and it was a 2020 election.
	Oh, and then it was also Hunter Biden's laptop, okay.
	It's very much like the uh joke about the um uh that disappeared.
	Lance, where is it?
	Um the uh um the one about the uh Monty Python and the Spanish Inquisition.
	Remember that?
	Where he comes in.
	If you can find that, I don't know, I thought it was on here, but um it's the uh the Spanish Inquisition, right?
	He comes in.
	He goes, our main tool is this, and then also this.
	Oh, our two main tools are this, right?
	And then he keeps going down that thing.
	Three or four.
	And that's what they're doing with this.
	Saying uh YouTube does not use third-party fact checkers to determine whether content should be removed or labeled, said the lawyer for Google.
	No, they just follow the government rules.
	And this is their Nuremberg defense.
	I was just following the autos, right?
	To pull people out.
	I don't like this.
	But I was just following the orders.
	Uh no, they were perfectly good with that.
	And as a matter of fact, it's not limited to Google, it's not limited to social media.
	Uh I got kicked off five months after the show started.
	They kicked me off in May.
	I was kicked off of PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube.
	All those in May of 2021.
	Don't tell me that this wasn't somebody in the Biden administration that was focused on me.
	They won't none of these places would give me a reason for why I was kicked off either.
	And I know that it was something that was happening through uh the Trump administration.
	It was in 2018, at the midterms that you had 800 sites that were kicked off because they were against the police surveillance state and the wars that were going on.
	That was the one thing they had in common.
	They weren't getting kicked off simply because they were pro-Trump or because had questions, the election had not taken place at that point in time, and we didn't have the uh COVID-19.
	So none of that stuff that they say, you know, the Hunter Biden's laptop, all that stuff came years later.
	Uh so it had nothing to do with that.
	And it was happening in the Biden and the Trump administration as well as the Biden administration.
	And yet what this is going what they're going to use this for, you'll have the GOP say, yeah, but what about Biden?
	What about Biden?
	So since Biden did it, we can do it.
	Rather than saying Biden did it and let's make sure that never happens again.
	No, they'll say Biden did it, so we can do it.
	That's what we're getting from these people.
	Senior Biden administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet, a parent company of YouTube.
	Pressed the company regarding certain user-generated content related to the so-called pandemic that did not violate its policies.
	And they also pointed to people as well.
	Let's understand this is not simply about topics.
	It's also about people.
	Just like they've got a no-fly list, and you're not allowed to know if you're on it.
	Well, you'll find out that you're not that you're on this list when they tell you you can't fly.
	But then they won't tell you anything about why you were put on there.
	They won't tell you how you can get off of that list either.
	This is the same thing, except it's really kind of a no-see, no reach list.
	You can be um like uh Elon Musk said on X, well, you're gonna have the ability to have speech, but you won't have any reach.
	We're not going to kick you off the platform, we'll just make sure nobody can see you.
	That's called shadow banning.
	So you get shadow banned or you get taken off completely, and uh that's the name of the game that's there.
	So now they're saying they will give an opportunity for people to rejoin.
	YouTube does not use third-party fact checkers, he said.
	They value conservative voices on their platform, do they really?
	These creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.
	So now they want it to be the public square again, is that right?
	The revelations echo findings in the Murphy versus Missouri case, where lower courts found that federal agents had taken on a role similar to the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
	Uh it's not like we didn't always know this.
	It was very clear what was happening.
	So when will it change?
	Will it change with the next pandemic, the next war?
	Look at how rapidly Trump did a 180 on Ukraine.
	These people are arbitrary and capricious in terms of what they will kick you off for.
	And the mechanisms have not changed.
	They have uh confessed what they did, but there's not going to be any real change or prohibition against that.
	Not at all.
	And look at how he's done a complete 180 on free speech with Charlie Kirk.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Uh so we've seen it over and over again, especially on free speech.
	So um, you know, will it be because um I oppose Trump?
	Uh because I get kicked off because I oppose Biden.
	This is the way this thing works.
	So the question I would ask some people if you want to put a comment in there, do you think we ought to even bother to try to get onto YouTube again?
	Uh I'm really conflicted over this.
	I hate the platform so much.
	I hate Google so much.
	I don't want to have anything to do with them.
	But uh I don't know if they would bring me back either.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	What happens with us seems absolutely specifically targeted because of what happened with the Christmas channel.
	It didn't have anything to do with the show.
	It didn't have your voice.
	There's nothing that it could have keyed off of when it comes to AI looking at it.
	It did have uh you're listening to the David Knight show.
	We left that on there because we used the commercial bumpers that we had.
	So possibly that.
	That's the only thing that said it was a David Knight show.
	Yeah.
	The the name of the channel didn't say that.
	It was just that we had that thing you heared at the end of the music bumpers that we create.
	You're listening to the David Knight show.
	Yeah.
	Uh To me, that seems very far-fetched that the AI would have that specific soundbite indexed and known to look for it.
	It could.
	To me, it feels specifically targeted from YouTube for us.
	I could be wrong.
	But I have seen that a lot of different people who were banned that have come back to YouTube.
	So they are actually letting people back on.
	Whether they would let us is another story.
	But you know, guys, uh one specific guy who I never expected to see on YouTube again, they had him banned, and he was just completely disallowed from uploading is back.
	And so it's not a good thing.
	Well, they're very eager to platform Nick Fuentes right now, everywhere.
	I mean, I'm seeing articles all the time from the left from the Drudge Report and everything about Nick Fuentes, you know, if you know what did Nick have for lunch today, you know, that it's that kind of stuff.
	And uh they really want him to be the face of their opposition for obvious reasons, I think.
	Well, I mean, he's in my opinion, he's absolutely controlled.
	After January 6th, you know, so many of his followers got arrested, and nothing happened to him, despite he the fact he was the ringleader of his little group.
	Yeah, he was there in all these different meetings with Alex Jones as well, so I mean the two of them, you know, uh look at what happened to their followers and and what did not happen to them.
	But the dog that did not bark, as uh Sherlock Holmes said, that kind of solves the case about controlled opposition.
	Very much so.
	Yeah.
	So again, uh Biden, all the headlines uh from uh all the uh uh conservative papers are all trumpeting the fact that Biden did it, but they will not talk about what Trump did, and Trump did it as well.
	And as I said, I don't see any of uh Jim Jordan, none of these other people saying, we're gonna make sure that corporations and bureaucracies don't punish people for what they say.
	I mean, uh because they're not going to do that, because at the same time, you've got Trump trying to weaponize the FCC, and uh Jimmy Kimmel came back, and I thought what he had to say was uh very funny.
	Actually, the funniest thing I've heard him ever say.
	Uh, listen to what he says about uh his return.
	He tried his best to cancel me instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show.
	That backfired Bigley.
	He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.
	That's perfect because the firing of Kimmel along with all these other things that Trump has been doing were to uh distract people from the Epstein files to start with.
	So that was a clever joke, whoever wrote that.
	You know, and these guys who did a late night show when they were really focused on uh jokes, they had uh pretty good writing staff.
	Many of the people who were on the staff uh had a uh career of their own as comedians later on.
	Uh so again, uh Biden uh pressed YouTube to censor COVID misinformation, uh and any information about the vaccines, any information about Hunter Biden, all the rest of this stuff.
	But there's many, many other things, and specifically it was about people, as I said before.
	Uh a no-sea list that is there.
	Brendan Carr says networks must serve the public interest.
	Is that any different than what Biden was saying when he said that these uh network these social media must serve the public health?
	So we're gonna justify censorship uh during COVID uh so forth uh because we've got to protect public health.
	And so now the Trump administration and Brendan Carr at the FCC says that we have to serve public interest.
	Every time they put the adjective public in front of something, it's exactly the opposite of what you might hope it means.
	And so since the um uh since all of this stuff is is happening again, uh would would Trump take us into a war in order to distract us from this stuff?
	Of course, Clinton did that with the Wag the Dog.
	And um Trump has no compulsion whatsoever about mass murder or murder on a one-to-one basis.
	So uh Google has vowed to restate the banned YouTube accounts after admitting to political censorship.
	Let us know if you think that we should be able to do that.
	I've been watching chat and the majority of people seem to be saying, Yeah, you should get on YouTube.
	They may eventually ban you, but at least maybe you'll get to, you know, share with more people.
	I don't know.
	You know, when when Alex started attacking me when Owen uh left or was fired, whatever happened, I don't know what happened.
	I wasn't there.
	Uh but when he started attacking me again, you know, five years later, he hasn't gotten over it.
	And uh people started uh contacting him to say, I didn't know that you were still there.
	It's like uh that was the point.
	Alex at first didn't want to use my name, and he wanted to shut down all the different avenues uh that uh even keeping some of the places we were posting stuff, but now the uh it's turned around in a different direction.
	Um I wanted to also talk about before we leave this, the uh tech issue.
	Uh it was kind of interesting, you know.
	We talked about how Lance had a situation where he gave the the classic case, I don't know what is it, Lance.
	You got a a lamb and a wolf and a cabbage or something, you gotta get them ferry them across, and uh you uh left out one of the key ingredients and it wanted to give you the canned response.
	And when you pointed out it was wrong, it just kind of melted down.
	It was really funny.
	It was like something straight out of a Star Trek sci-fi episode.
	You could almost see the thing shaking and smoking as the lights are flashing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The old riddle of uh you've got a uh wolf uh sheep and a boat and you gotta get across the river, but you can only take one of these things, but if you leave the wolf with the sheep, it'll eat it.
	Uh so you you left out one of those and it couldn't handle it.
	People are doing a similar situation now with football teams.
	Uh they asked the latest chat GPT, chat GPT 5.
	They ask it uh to tell it um uh teams that don't end in S. And uh it comes back and says, yes, there's two NFL teams whose names don't end with an S before proceeding to list the two names that do.
	Uh that's the Miami Dolphins and the Green Bay Packers.
	And then it says, Well, wait a minute, they do end with an S, especially um when uh you point it out to it.
	And um then it says it keep it gets into a loop and it can't get out of that.
	It is it is absolutely uh definite.
	First it'll go for Miami Dolphins, then it'll go the Washington Commanders and Chicago Bears, because every team ends with an S. And they said it has a nervous breakdown, just like when you slightly modified that test and started trying to just uh uh put it back in,
	it'll come back and say, No, now the actual answer is it'll say at one point, just like it did with you, and it'll come back and they'll regurgitate that and come up with another couple of teams that end in S. And um it's um it's kind of interesting to see how it functions.
	China is opening a bodega that is going to be entirely run by robots.
	And um, this is a little shop, and and it's become something of a curiosity for people to watch this thing.
	But understand that the robots are suddenly coming.
	They're gonna start mass producing these things, and they want to have the biped robots, even though in a lot of manufacturing operations, the uh non-walking robots are actually far more efficient and make a lot more sense.
	Uh they're a lot more stable because they're not mobile, or maybe they have wheels instead of two legs because two legs mean that they can't lift as strong a things as they could if they were solid.
	And uh so here you see a combination of robots that are kind of uh this particular one looks like Captain Pike from Star Trek.
	We had that little machine.
	I wonder if it just if it beeps uh over and over again.
	But there are some uh really weird robots that are coming as well.
	One person said, Well, maybe all the robots aren't going to be imitations of human beings.
	Yeah, maybe what they'll do is they'll imitate centipedes and other creepy crawlies as well.
	Which is what we're seeing right here.
	Uh this is going to be the future of warfare.
	And this is what idiots like Trump are gonna wind up unleashing on us with their geopolitics.
	This is what we're gonna wind up having to fight.
	So we have our C toys, but that could be real weapons.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Oh, we've seen some of uh some really uh bizarre things coming out of China as well.
	So uh yeah, these things right now at this point, they're just uh toy prototypes.
	But um the interesting thing is when you talk to a lot of these people, you know, they they uh Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, they said that's gonna be a trillion dollar product.
	And yet uh when he did his demonstration, he had human operators that were there.
	The same thing is happening with um the um uh another robotics firm where the guy invited the reporters to come into his house.
	He said, at first uh everybody's kind of wary of this robot.
	It's just doing household chores, acting like a butler, but he goes, after about a half hour they get over that.
	And then within another half hour, they're just fine with it.
	Then as he continues to talk to them in the interview, he admits that it's actually human employees who are actually running this thing with some VR headsets.
	Again, uh, just like we've said before, AI stands for actually Indians.
	And this is a repeated theme that you see throughout these articles.
	Even one from technocracy uh that was uh brought in and uh from the Washington Post, where they're trying to hype the fact that there's a massive uh army of robots on the way.
	They still admit that they are for the most part being controlled by humans.
	And that's a step beyond having you know a maid.
	You have a maid that's remotely teleprompting in with the uh you know, super expensive $30,000 walking robot, or however much it costs.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, it's uh course this guy is wealthy enough that he can hire somebody to control the robot made remotely.
	That's crazy.
	Um, we're gonna take a break.
	Before we do, let's grab a couple of these comments here.
	We have Eric Peters of AP Autos or Eric Peters Autos.com.
	He's gonna be joining us, and it's always a great it's always great to talk to Eric looking forward to it.
	Yeah.
	Citizen of America Aka says automation is garbage, but in the end of this century, the atomic bomb will no longer be considered the most catastrophic thing to mankind, rather robotics and artificial intelligence.
	I agree.
	Christian Constitutional Conservative says it is ridiculous to do a broad comparison to alcohol versus fentanyl.
	You have to do a per capita comparison.
	that's a fair assessment to make.
	You have to compare the number of people that are on each and the outcomes.
	I would just suggest people don't use either one.
	I would suggest you don't compare them yourself.
	How about that?
	Yeah, I put up the other comment saying that there are more deaths, which you know, it is obviously more deaths.
	Uh and what do you say is fair that uh you need to look at per capita, but uh I was just putting that up as a you know, criticism of the prohibition.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Audi MRR, they want us to use AI in place of thinking.
	Yeah.
	Just trust the AI, it'll tell you what you need to know.
	Don't ever think about it.
	AI maybe means anti-intellectual.
	Yeah.
	Uh Culty, Sim, will YouTube lose all the lawsuits of people suing them?
	That is beyond my ability to predict.
	The courts are so incredibly uh corrupt and unjust that getting a reading on what they'll decide on any case is impossible, really, in my opinion.
	It's hard to say.
	I mean, even if they had to give compensation to people, it would be worth it for them to tow the line with the government so the government doesn't take punitive action with them.
	Uh the government has a big stick and it's got lots of carrots in its pocket.
	And uh it hands out those treats to people if they do what they want, and it hits you with a big stick if you don't do what they want.
	That's how they get their way with the corporatocracy.
	And uh that's where we're going with the technocracy.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	Welcome back, and joining us now is Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos.com.
	Always great to have Eric on.
	He is focused on liberty and mobility because you can't have one without the other.
	It's kind of what Jefferson said about life and liberty.
	He said the hand of force can destroy life or liberty, but cannot separate them.
	Of course, he said disjoin them, but that's a little bit uh stilted uh power language.
	But um it definitely is true.
	And you cannot disjoin liberty and mobility either.
	So I always enjoy Eric's take on things.
	Eric, I was sad to see that you're we were just talking about this over the break.
	You uh wrote a piece uh three days ago, you said our Charlie.
	Uh what happened in uh in your family?
	Well, yeah, it's a tough thing to talk about.
	I uh I'm I hope I'll be able to do this well enough.
	But we had a uh had uh about a two and a half-year-old mixed breed German Shepherd lab, and uh, you know, he's been my companion for that whole time, and just a very big presence in our life.
	Anyway, he got hit by, I guess, a car or truck, I'm not sure exactly which.
	And it was really jarring because as anybody who's been through having a pet die knows it's one thing when your pet is elderly and old or sick, and you you know, you understand that it's gonna happen, and you have time to prepare for it.
	But you know, with a with a young pet like that to just be gone instantly, just like that.
	What happened?
	Uh really difficult.
	You know, boy, for the last several days has happened on Friday.
	I've been having deja vu, you know, at certain times of the of the day, like, oh, I better put put water in pace's bowl, or oh, it's time for us to go for our run.
	I went for a run on Monday, and you know, one of his things that he would do, he would carry around a he was a strong dog, a big log in his mouth, and he would keep it in his mouth for a mile or more on our run.
	You know, it's just one of those things.
	And as I'm running by myself, which was strange, uh I saw one of the logs that he dropped off on the trail, and it just really, I'm sorry, kind of really I'm being overly emotional about it, so I apologize.
	Oh no, I understand.
	Absolutely understand.
	It's uh, like you said, it's the suddenness of this.
	And I think that's one of the things that really magnified what happened to Charlie Kirk.
	But I think, you know, when we look at it and how they have taken his legacy and they have flipped it completely opposite of what he was known for, what he ought to be uh remembered for.
	They're they're doing everything they can to uh make a uh a saint, a celebrity, uh, whatever there, and in Oklahoma, they want to put a Charlie Kirk statue on every university campus.
	I think the right way to honor him is to support free speech.
	But it seems like the people who uh agreed with him and who followed him want to do just the opposite of that.
	They want to attack free speech, and they think this gives them an opportunity to do what they know the left was doing to them before.
	What do you think?
	Did you happen to catch the interview?
	It was a couple of days after Kirk's assassination, and I wish I could remember who the journalist was.
	It was a woman.
	And you know, she was asking Trump about the calls to suppress what they called hate speech now.
	It's interesting that Trump, all people in the right, is now doing exactly what they excorated the left for doing during the 2024 campaign season, and it was one of the the reasons why people voted for Trump, because they were tired of having their differing opinions framed as hate.
	That's right.
	Hey, I've got a question.
	Oh, you're hateful.
	We you know, we can't discuss that because clearly you're a Cretan and you're you know you're motivated by malicious motives rather than hey, I just have a question.
	Anyway, this female reporter asked Trump about that, and Trump had the egregious vulgar gall to say something like uh, well, Charlie Kirk isn't he may not think that way anymore.
	I can't remember the.
	Yeah, that's exactly what he said.
	We played that clip.
	Yeah.
	She said uh Charlie Kirk said there's no such thing as hate speech.
	Well, he probably wouldn't say that now.
	You know, that's basically.
	Which is pickable.
	Because again, everything that whether you agree with what Kirk had to say or not, I think the one thing that has to be universally acknowledged is that he was willing to debate.
	He was willing to discuss practically any topic, including even Israel lately, and you know, the the influence of the Israeli government over the American government.
	And I think that's ultimately what got him into trouble.
	You know, Trump demands lockstep adherence and even worship of himself and his policies.
	And he does it in a manner that's just so abrasive and insulting to the people who support him.
	This this latest business of doing the parking break 180 on Ukraine.
	You know, again, it's another example.
	You know, if if if people had been aware that he was going to do that in 2024, I doubt many people would have voted for him.
	One of the reasons, strong reasons people voted for him was we are sick of all these wars.
	We're sick of being forced to finance it through our taxes and thereby be complicit in it.
	You know, the mass murder in Gaza, we want no part of this stuff.
	It's got to stop.
	That's one of the reasons why people voted for him.
	And now this brazen guy just says, well, uh, we're going to back Ukraine.
	And not only that, he's saying that Ukraine has a right to not only seize back every territory that it's lost, but potentially even more than that.
	Yeah, take some back from Russia, exactly.
	It's it's madness.
	How did they think that this is going to be received by Putin?
	What do you think Putin's response to this is going to be?
	I wouldn't be surprised if he if he amps things up because he believes that he's got a sh a narrow window of opportunity now to finish this situation before uh boots that go on the ground, potentially American boots.
	That's right.
	Yeah, he he's he's uh taunting uh Putin, saying he doesn't have much of a military, could have finished this off in a couple of weeks, you know, like we finished off Afghanistan, right?
	In a couple of weeks.
	I was having a conversation with with a friend of mine who stopped by um yesterday about this, and we got to talking about Putin versus Trump and the difference between a serious person and a clown.
	Yeah.
	Now, whatever you may think of Putin, you don't have to say that you like him.
	You know, that's a childish argument.
	It's not about whether you think he's a nice man or a bad man.
	He's a serious man, he's a serious person with serious credentials, who is not an idiot and who understands history.
	And look at Trump.
	What do we have?
	You know, we literally have a clown going up against a serious person, a dangerous clown.
	I believe he was installed for that same that very reason.
	You know, even had his first commerce secretary, William uh Ross, who said that um, you know, it was the Rothschild bank that he was working for, and he said, you know, when Trump was going bankrupt, he showed up and he saw this big crowd around him.
	He said, I contacted uh the Rothschild people and said, Hey, this is somebody I think we could use.
	And I think that's exactly what they're doing.
	They're using him as a clown, they're using him to divide people, they're using him to create chaos.
	I think that's his role.
	And also a distraction, and maybe the worst kind of distraction imaginable, you know, as everything falls apart internally, and and you know, potentially, let's say the Epstein thing percolates up again, or we find new details about what may have been involved in Kirk's murder that could have incredibly damaging repercussions.
	Uh what a what would be a perfect thing to get people's mind off of that?
	Well, perhaps a big war in Eastern Europe would do just that.
	That's right.
	And that's what I I have this creepy feeling, maybe in the works.
	And I think he's absolutely capable of it.
	You know, you look at what he's doing with the uh trying to make an excuse that he can blow up ships uh off of Venezuela without even stopping them or verifying that they're running drugs.
	And as I pointed out, at the same time that he's saying that this is an appropriate response, and uh JD Vance is saying it's appropriate, Marco Rubio and Pete Heggseth are all saying, oh, this is what our military is for.
	No, it's not.
	We had our military was stopping ships inspecting them.
	If they find drugs, they'd take the drugs, they'd arrest the people.
	They didn't line them up on the side of the boat and machine gun them.
	And uh so this is an extrajudicial killing.
	I I told the audience earlier on the program, I said Dutarte did this in the Philippines.
	He said, you know, if you think it's a drug dealer, shoot to kill.
	And uh he's now in the international criminal court uh and they're looking at him for those extrajudicial killings.
	It's an it's a crime, it's a war crime that he's doing.
	So he's perfectly capable.
	Yeah.
	It's a psychopathic elaboration of that old if you see something, say something.
	Now if you see something, kill something.
	Yeah.
	These are acts of war.
	And they're also the acts of a coward bully in that Venezuela.
	It's just another example of uh big old Uncle Sam throwing his weight around uh and and extraditionally extrajudicially killing foreign nationals outside of the United States with impunity because you know we can do it.
	What's Venezuela gonna do about it?
	That's right.
	You know, I think at some point Trump is gonna whack the wrong guy.
	And Putin could be just the guy who's the wrong guy to whack.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah, it's very concerning.
	You know, even escalated saying, yeah, we should shoot down Russian jets if they get anywhere close to the borders and things like that as well.
	It's a dangerous time that we live in.
	Of course, that it's very much like the Chinese curse, isn't it?
	May you live in interesting times.
	There's never a shortage of things to report on.
	It's like and now for something completely different from Trump than he said yesterday, you know, it's like Monty Python.
	I'm glad you brought up China.
	I just I happened I needed a break the other day, and so I was just watching some random YouTube videos and I was watching some um videos of uh depicting scenes in China around, for example, their train stations and their airports, their infrastructure, which is immaculate and modern.
	I looked at their bullet trains and I compared it with what's going on in this country.
	You know, China is actually concerned with China and trying to build up its own internal society and improve itself where it seems that the U.S. is deindustrializing and rapidly descending from second to third world status, you know, to the extent that we can actually see the change from day to day.
	Yeah, it's and it's by design, and it's by the same people that are running Trump, even though he pushes back against the climate MacGuffin that I call it.
	Uh still it's the uh deliberate deindustrialization of the West.
	And there's two sides of that.
	They want to de-industrialize the West while they give China the advantage in terms of manufacturing.
	And the huge advantage that they have is in terms of energy cost.
	But as Gerald Slinty has said many times on this show, he said the business of China is business.
	The business of America is war.
	And that's not serving us well.
	And destructiveness.
	Yeah.
	I I saw something also related to China that talked, it was a a person talking about how in China the oligarchs, the really rich people kind of do what American oligarchs did in the late uh part of the 19th and early 20th century when they uh did things like the Carnegie Library.
	You know, they funded these these vast things that were good for Americans, you know, leaving aside the question of corporate oligarchs, at least they put money back into the country.
	Whereas now the oligarch class in this country just flaunts its gratuitous, egregious theft wealth, uh, you know, with one one twenty thousand dollar McMansion after the next and yachts and lavish lifestyles, thumbing their nose and rubbing our faces in it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And and to make it clear, you know, when you look at somebody like Henry Ford, who had his issues, uh he he wanted to make sure that his workers could afford to buy the product that he has.
	Who's gonna buy these products when they replace all of us with robots?
	That's what their goal is.
	They want to replace everybody with robots.
	And I said when Trump did his um tax cut in 2017, because it was all targeted towards corporations, and he was going to incentivize them to bring to onshore manufacturing.
	I said, that's not going to happen until they've got the robots to replace the workers.
	Uh they that I said that's why they've got the open border immigration.
	And uh once they have robots to that point, they'll get tough on immigration and they will pay these oligarchs a lot of money to bring factories back, but it's not going to bring back any jobs.
	They're just going to be incentivized to build the factories and they'll brag about the fact that they've got manufacturing in the United States, but they won't be using it to uh uh raise the standard of living of anybody.
	And I think that's really what is uh what is happening and what is going to happen.
	I think so too.
	And I'd like to focus in on something that you mentioned, which has to do with that word about owning things.
	You know, they're not concerned about that.
	It's not it's not that they're you know, oh, well, how are people going to be able to afford these $50,000 vehicles that they're pushing out right now?
	They know that the end goal is for you to not own the vehicle.
	Exactly the end goal is for you to rent the ride, to rent everything.
	You know, sort of like the way that you you pay for a streaming service so that you can watch TV.
	Uh that's what they want.
	Serial debt.
	They they want to completely disconnect us, the you know, the typical average American from owning anything in order to control everything.
	It isn't like they didn't tell us.
	They constantly say you will own nothing, right?
	Yes.
	And you'll be happy.
	And and uh I thought about you this way, it's why I wanted to get you back on because yeah, I haven't talked to Eric for a while.
	I saw that Porsche was uh having problems, and Porsche, of course, owned by VW, and the two of them are having to pull back because they can't sell their EVs.
	And and I remember I said, and I talked to the audience, I said, yeah, Eric's been saying this for the longest time.
	They should have hired him as CEO of Porsche.
	Uh they wouldn't have had this issue because you knew, and of course, common sense would tell us that uh they have a huge advantage, these companies that have been making uh internal combustion engines for a long time.
	They had a huge advantage to China or to other uh potential competitors.
	That had to be destroyed by saying, no, now we can't use internal combustion engines.
	We're gonna have to do the uh uh the uh skates of the EVs.
	And China's got the advantage with the battery technology.
	They've also got now a manufacturing advantage in terms of cheap available energy.
	Energy is so expensive in the UK, they're shutting down all their manufacturing.
	And in Germany, it's uh very expensive, and it can't be cost competitive with it.
	Uh but now they're saying, hey, we're gonna have to pull back a little bit.
	We've malinvested billions of dollars in the EV industry.
	Nobody wants these things, nobody's buying it.
	So now we're gonna have to pull back and try to uh have a cottage industry of maybe being allowed to sell some internal combustion engines, but it's going to break the back if it's even allowed of these uh if they even allow them to sell a few uh boutique uh things to the rich, it's still gonna break their back.
	It will, and this is a general problem.
	Stillantis, which is the parent company of the Dodge Ram, Jeep, and Chrysler brands, uh announced uh about a week ago that they were not going to produce the electric version of the Ram 1500 pickup that they had planned to bring out in 2026 because they understand that it would be a disaster, that nobody's gonna buy it.
	And so rather than just build these things and then shipping them to dealers where they're just gonna sit and then having to give them away fire sale prices, which is what Ford's had to do with the lightning, they figured it's smart thing to do is to cut bait.
	You know, they practically destroyed the Dodge brand already by getting rid of the engine in the charger and getting rid of the challenger altogether and replacing it with this electric charger, which has been an epic flop.
	I mean, it is even worse than the Edson disaster back in the back in the 50s.
	It hasn't been remarked on, but I mean it's that bad.
	They can't sell these things.
	I have yet to see one in the wild.
	I have yet to see one on the road.
	Uh they haven't even sent me one to review yet.
	Uh because you know, they're there, it's not just that they're short range and all the other problems that electric vehicles have.
	It's it's not well made.
	It's a problematic, problem-prone vehicle that suffers endless glitches, such as bricking, to the point where they have to send out a technician to try to figure out why it won't move.
	Now, the other thing is that you brought up, I find this endlessly endlessly fascinating with regard to Porsche and these other uh manufacturers that are no longer run by car people, because any car guy would tell you that a Porsche, there are intangibles when it comes to a car like that.
	It's not just about how quickly it goes to zero zero to sixty.
	That's right.
	You know, they're fatal error in thinking, well, we'll just basically produce a Tesla that looks like a Porsche, essentially, you know, and and somehow we'll sell that, failing to understand that one of the big reasons that People buy Porsches is because they love that six-cylinder boxer engine and they love the sound that it makes and the emotional visceral feeling that you get that is lost entirely.
	Electric vehicles are fundamentally homogenous.
	Say what you will about, you know, oh, well, they're quiet and this and that, but they're fundamentally when you drive one, you've driven them all.
	Yeah.
	You know, some quicker than others.
	And don't they does uh Porsche and some of these other sports car companies, when they make their EVs, do they uh take the Tesla approach in terms of instrumentation?
	Because that's one of the things that is also a part of the feel.
	You know, how do the controls feel?
	Does it feel solid or chintzy?
	I hate the idea that I've got to use a touch screen while I'm driving.
	How is that safe?
	You know, you're not you're supposed to use hands off of your phone, or we'll give you a ticket.
	But hey, it's a wonderful thing if we take all the controls, even on a Tesla, you can't even adjust the direction of the air vents without using the touchpad that is attached to the dashboard.
	Yep, and they're all doing it now.
	Right now in the driveway, I have a brand new 2026 Kia Sporage, which is a nothing special little crossover that stickers for about $28,000.
	And it's got a full-width single sheet L C D screen for everything, you know, the main instrument cluster, and then off to its right is the thing that you have to tap and swipe through in order to operate functions such as you know, changing the station uh that you're listening to.
	And you're right, and it's just an illustration of how disingenuous the government is, because on the one hand, they say to people, oh, you can't use your cell phone while you're driving because it's dangerous to be looking at your phone and swiping and tapping a screen while you're trying to drive.
	You can't keep your eyes on the road.
	But it's no problem if you build the thing into the car.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's okay.
	We need to have some controls that I have to take my seatbelt off in order to use, right?
	Yeah, so one of the you know, to get back to circle back to what we were talking about, the great disaster, in my opinion, uh, and it's another one, uh, is that this homogeneity of appearance in the interior of cars that has been um that has been bequeathed to us by this obsession with reproducing the smartphone in your car, the look of a smartphone.
	That's right.
	So now you've lost that individuality too.
	Instead of having this kind of neat array of gauges, a really good example of this.
	A couple of weeks ago, I had the latest Mini Cooper.
	And it used to be that one of the cool things about the Mini Cooper, which is owned by the Germans, it's owned by BMW, but nonetheless, was that they replicated the feel, the look and the function of the 60s minis.
	You know, if you've ever been in one of the old models, they had the cool little chrome toggle switches, you know, and it had that vibe to it, that feel, and it was like no other car.
	Well, they did what everybody else is doing, and they got rid of essentially all of the physical physical tactile controls, the switches and knobs.
	And in lieu of that, they put one gigantic pie plate touch screen, you know, in the middle in the center of the and it looks cheap, it looks homogenous, and it's also in a way, in my opinion, it's anti-human, it's antiseptic, it's cold.
	You know, there's a lot they shut down the last uh UK factory for uh the mini BMW did.
	Uh am I correct?
	I think they just shut up.
	I'm not sure it'd have to look, but I wouldn't be surprised.
	I saw something because again, you can't do manufacturing in the U.S. because Herr Starmer, the Nazi, yeah, doesn't want you to have any energy.
	So they shut it down.
	I don't think uh, you know, and and uh and um it was an article out of the UK, uh, and they were saying, you know, this is uh something that was fundamentally British, as you pointed out, very idiosyncratic.
	And uh now it's not going to be made anymore in uh Britain because of the cost of energy that's there.
	Yeah, if nothing survives any longer except the brand.
	You know, that's what you get.
	You get the label.
	But you know inside the box is all the same.
	When you talk about the uh design of these cars and how we've lost so much of this, uh around this area, you know, we're not too far away from Pigeon Forge.
	And last week they just had a big classic car show.
	And uh that's when it really hits home.
	You know, when you see one of these cars, which you know, you never really valued.
	I mean, it might have just been like uh a family sedan or something, you know, 50 years ago.
	But you look at it, it's like, wow, that's really quirky.
	That's kind of interesting looking.
	Look at those colors, you know, and all the rest of the stuff.
	Look at the colors, look at the chrome.
	It it really is entertaining to see cars that were just ordinary cars or ordinary trucks uh half a century ago uh to see them and to see how different they were and how unique they all were.
	And so it really kind of drives it home uh here in the the uh Pigeon Forge area, they have these car shows that happen frequently.
	The big one was last weekend.
	They had that.
	But you you got some articles uh at Eric PetersAutos.com about uh some of the difficulties of keeping these older cars running.
	Talk about ethanol blues.
	What's that about?
	Oh boy, well, yeah, I you know, I have to uh as the saying goes in the hood, cop to something, you know, which is embarrassing for me because you know, I shouldn't all of all people, this should not have happened to me.
	But I was lazy one day, uh, and this is several months back, probably about eight months ago, when I was out driving my old muscle car, I have a 76 trans M. And rather than go all the way into town where they have a station that sells unadulterated pure gasoline, which is normally what I use to fill the car up with, because it sits sometimes for you know, I get I get preoccupied with work and other things.
	Sometimes the car unfortunately will sit for several months before I have time to drive it.
	Anyway, I filled it up with E10, which is uh only 90% gas and 10% ethanol, and I left it to sit, and it sat for about three months.
	God help me.
	I, you know, I deserve to be beaten for that.
	Anyway, I went to I went to uh to start it, and uh boy, I barely got it to run and it was going to smoke pouring out of it.
	And long story short, I ended up having to take the carburetor off the engine and completely disassemble it and clean out the ethanol gunk inside the carburetor because the fuel had gone bad over the time that I kept it in storage, basically.
	And you know, this is a problem with these older vehicles because you know, my car was made in 1976, and in 1976, when you bought gas, you actually got gas for your money, uh 100% gasoline.
	Most people don't understand that most pump gas is 10% ethanol alcohol.
	And if you own a vehicle that was made before that came into being, uh that vehicle was not designed for alcohol.
	Alcohol is a different fuel than gasoline, it has different properties, it attracts water, among other things.
	It's corrosive.
	Does it degrade faster than pure gasoline then, I guess?
	It does.
	That's what you're saying.
	Yeah, because pure gasoline will degrade as well, right?
	But a much much longer period of time.
	Yeah, anybody who has outdoor power equipment knows the real problem is if you put ethanol in a gas jug, let's say, and you put it in your shed and leave it, uh, you know, it'll tend to accumulate uh water much more rapidly than regular gasoline.
	And you can also look at the color, the change in the color, you know, as it starts to go from almost translucent to sort of a yellow and then a darker yellow color, and that's a clue not to use it, by the way.
	Well, that's interesting.
	You also talk about uh oil and uh additives in the oil that are different now for the older cars.
	Oh, yeah, it's not just the additives.
	Uh again, to get circling back to the transam.
	After I cleaned out the gunk from the carburetor and got it running well again, uh, I recognized, oh boy, it's time to change the oil.
	So I went down to the auto parts store and I looked at the rack of oil, and the rack of oil is you know, it's it's it's the whole width of the store.
	They have all kinds of different oil, but they didn't have any 1040 anymore.
	You know, and and my car, when it was made, was designed to have 1040 oil.
	So that's what's specified, and that's what I use.
	There's a reason why there's a specification, you know, and generally speaking, it's sound policy to follow what the specification is.
	Read the manual, yeah.
	Yeah, but you'll you know, if you've been to a if you've been to a car parts store lately and looked at the oil rack, you'll see all these exotic formulations, you know, zero W50, this and that.
	Uh because they they they thinned out the oil because it helps with compliance.
	You know, this is this is again, it offers the manufacturers this incremental friction reduction, which translates into slightly higher gas miles, not anything you would notice as a vehicle owner, but when you factor it out over, say half a million vehicles that you build, then it helps with corporate average fuel economy with the compliance with that federal requirement.
	Um and it also helps with emissions, and you know, this is the obsession now that the manufacturers have.
	It's compliance.
	They're their primary customer now is the government, not you.
	You know, you're sort of an incidental person that comes along to buy what the government says you're allowed to have.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Because the government will put them out of business if they don't please the government.
	And uh so that is their primary customer.
	In so many cases, the only customer that they care about is the government.
	That's really what's going on with uh social media and with YouTube, I think, isn't it?
	Uh it is.
	And and so long story short, I I ended up having to go online to find uh a good high quality 1040 for my old muscle car.
	Now, previously I'd also had to go online to get there's an additive.
	It's it generally is it goes by the acronym ZDDP, and it's essentially a zinc manganese additive.
	And it used to be present present in all the store motor store-bought motor oils, but they began to take it out, and now there's a much less uh of that additive in store-bought motor oil.
	If you have a newer late model vehicle, it doesn't matter.
	The engine was designed for that.
	But if you have an older vehicle, particularly an older American vehicle with what's called a flat tappet camshaft, so essentially uh an American car made before the early 80s with a V8 engine, typically.
	Um, it's important that you use that additive.
	You know, if you're gonna be somebody to go, if you're gonna go out and buy one of those classic cars from that era, it's something to be aware of.
	Because if you don't use that additive, you risk valve train failure.
	Uh those the the campshaft and lifters in those engines were designed to have that anti-friction additive in it.
	And if you use regular oil, you you very likely to have a problem that you don't want to have.
	What about in the aftermarket?
	Let's say that you uh have uh some some problems because you didn't have the right oil and fuel and things like that.
	Uh how difficult is it to uh to get uh parts for these things?
	I'm I'm sure it it varies uh depending on how rare your car is.
	But uh just something's kind of uh you know in the middle or something, maybe like a you know, a 50s Chevy or something like that.
	Is it really different?
	Do they have much of an aftermarket uh for parts with that?
	Yeah, particularly with mechanical things.
	One of the great pluses of owning, say a General Motors product or a forward product from that era is that they they shared mechanical things, engines, you know, an engine like a small block Chevy was used in practically every model uh vehicle that Chevrolet made uh you know from the 50s through the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
	And so there is a robust and abundant aftermarket as well as used market for those kinds of parts.
	You'll have sometimes difficulty finding trim pieces, you know, for an oddball make, you know, say it was a one-year uh vehicle where they only had that that that grill for that one year.
	I have that issue because my 76 has a unique front end for that for that year.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, sometimes you know, these cosmetic parts will be more difficult to find.
	But generally, if you pick a popular vehicle that was made in large numbers from that era, you're not gonna have any difficulty finding the necessary parts that you have to have in order to keep the vehicle serviceable and running.
	That's interesting, yeah.
	Because like I said, I certainly do see a lot of uh classic cars running here.
	Yeah, I guess if you had an Ed Sol and you got your horse collar grilling.
	But even though the V8 and the Sole, you can keep that going.
	But one of the great examples, a Volkswagen Beetle, you know, to this day, you can easily find any part that you need to keep a beetle running.
	Uh so you know, that's a great choice if you just want a very basic, simple, completely analog, non non-digital, non-data mining, non-connected car that anybody can service if they're you know willing to turn a screwdriver or a wrench and have basic hand tools.
	That's a great choice.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I know there's a huge aftermarket for the uh Mazas, especially the first generation of Mazda that's out there.
	Uh they're even doing full restorations and, or at least were for a short period of time.
	I don't know if they are still doing it now.
	It's a couple of years ago.
	They're doing full uh factory uh spec restorations in Japan.
	They would do it in Japan.
	And uh uh the factory itself was doing it, Mazda was doing it.
	I don't know if they're still doing that or not.
	Uh you got uh an article, and I'm reaching back now, the beginning of August.
	Pontiacs were cool.
	I thought they were as well.
	Uh I I was just so amazed that when they decided they're gonna get rid of uh an entire make that they kept Buick and got rid of Pontiac.
	I thought that's really strange because Buick was always perceived as kind of uh an older person's car or it was uh you know family car or something like that, where as uh Pontiacs had kind of a sporty panache to them, right?
	Yep.
	Well, there's a reason for that.
	For whatever reason, Buicks are immensely popular in China, and that's where they're built.
	Believe it or not, GM sells a ton of Buicks in China where it's considered kind of a status vehicle to have.
	And all of the buicks that they sell here are made in China.
	Is that right?
	Yeah, we used to use Buick.
	We we use that as neuphemism for uh throwing up.
	We'd say so and so is in the bathroom selling Buicks.
	Uh now what's really sad though with regard to Pontiac, and Pontiac's just one example of many, is that you had uh a once distinctive brand.
	In effect, Pontiac actually was literally a car company at one time.
	It wasn't a marketing company.
	It actually had an engineering staff and they engineered their engines, which were different than Chevy engines.
	So when you bought a Pontiac, you weren't just buying a rebadged Chevy.
	There may have been commonality of the underlying platform, but it was a fundamentally different car.
	I'll again refer to my own car.
	A 76 Pontiac Transam is a very different car than a 76 Camaro.
	Even though they share a common underthing, they their drive frames are different, and that makes it worth buying the Pontiac.
	You know, it's not that one's better or worse.
	It's simply that it is different.
	And and GM actually allowed Pontiac for a great deal of time to be uh sort of the raucous uh you know, go get them uh brand, you know, that that had performance and style and attitude.
	Yeah.
	Kind of like what Dodge was before Stellantis ruined everything.
	Yeah.
	You know, uh they they they just had this great reputation for, you know, not just crude muscle cars, but cool muscle cars that had some panache to them, you know, like Catalinas and and Grand Prix and of course GTOs and everything, which were a little bit more refined than say something like a Chevelle SS, which is a great car, but it's it's not the same thing as a GTO.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Made it.
	And they just hollowed all of this out.
	And this was by the way, I think the first wave of casualties from compliance.
	The reason the Pontiac uh and ended up dying was because General Motors was under enormous pressure to try to figure out how to get these different brands, Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile, all their different divisions that had different engines.
	Each one of those engines had to be certified independently by the federal government as being in compliance with the emissions stuff.
	That costs a lot of money.
	So General Motors made the decision, well, what we're gonna do is corporatize.
	We're going to just put Chevrolet built engines in pretty much everything that we sell.
	They did this beginning in the 80s.
	And that way they only had to certify the Chevrolet engine, which they could put in a Pontiac and a Buick in an Oldsmobile, which is what they did.
	But by doing that, they just gutted any reason for having a Pontiac or an Oldsmobile or even a Buick.
	It's all you're getting is a reskin Chevy with the identical drivetrain.
	Over and over again, I tell people, you know, the real problem with industry and manufacturing and innovation in the United States is the government.
	They are the biggest obstacle.
	They are far more destructive of uh jobs and manufacturing than any company abroad or any country abroad.
	All this stuff about tariffs is a misdirection away from the true source of the problem, which is government regulation.
	And even when they're talking about the housing crisis, uh some people are talking about how expensive houses have become because of government regulation.
	But the government's not talking about doing anything with that.
	They're talking about playing some financialization games in terms of interest rates or subsidies or this or that, but they're not going to do anything about the over-regulation and all the green mandates that are there.
	Trump will go to the UN and they'll say, You're destroying your country with all this uh green stuff and everything, but he won't take those regulations off of cars or homes, so we can't have nice things anymore.
	That's correct.
	Um we have become, as a culture, so habituated to the government being involved in these things.
	And really, I think that's that's the bone of the matter.
	Why is the government involved in car design?
	Yeah.
	You know, a good example of this is you know, the whole I wrote an article about Ralph Nader a couple of weeks ago and the core of air, uh, and his allegations about the core of air being unsafe.
	This is a matter for the courts.
	If the car is unsafe, it's effective in some way, that can be handled in tort claims.
	That's the way these things ought to be handled.
	Instead of this broad brush one size fits all of the federal government decreeing, you know, you will have this particular safety standard.
	And it doesn't matter what you know what side effects that safety standard has, even if it ends up being less safe.
	Good example of that being in the mid-70s, they imposed a roof crush standard on the industry.
	You know, the vehicle had to be able to support the weight of the vehicle if it got turned upside down.
	So as a result of that, you got these gigantic A, B, and C pillars.
	Those are the things that support the roof, the A-pillars at the base of the shield, B in the middle and C in the back.
	Instead of being, you know, these these thin and graceful things that you could easily look around and you had this expansive view of the outside world around you.
	Now you're essentially in a tank.
	You know, you I drive new cars all the time.
	It feels like you're in a tank.
	You have us you have essentially no visibility often to the right and to the left because of this enormous B pillar that's there to support the weight of the vehicle if you roll it over.
	But the problem is now when you pull out from a side street, you're likely to get get T-boned because that thing is created blind spot.
	You didn't see the car that was coming at you from the side.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Um, you know, how did we wind up still being able to keep uh convertibles with that?
	Uh I know I've got all my convertibles, I got some really huge A-pillars on them, but uh very cleverly, like you know, with regard to some of them, uh, you know, with Mazda, the Miati, as you know, they built a roll bar into the backs of the seats, basically.
	That that was one way that they did it.
	Uh, and some of the manufacturers took that a step farther with pop-up roll bars.
	You know, Mercedes did that with some of their high-end convertibles.
	And they also managed to uh reinforce the structure of the windshield in a way that that made it supportive of the vehicle if it were to roll over.
	Um but you know, it's it's just the point is the government's involvement in this stuff is just so insufferably obnoxious.
	Yeah.
	We are constantly and it's and and it to put a finer point on it, you know, we talk about the government as if it's sort of this entity out there.
	And I like to I like to point out to people what you're really talking about is a relative handful of micromanaging bureaucrats who are the weevils within these regulatory bodies.
	You know, go to the DOT or NHTSA.
	How many people work there?
	A few thousand.
	So you've got a few thousand people in these regulatory bodies who are dictating to 330 million people, you know, the design of the cars that they're allowed to have.
	Yeah, exactly right.
	I just, you know, uh and and we have spineless politicians who let the bureaucrats rule over us and never do anything to push back against them.
	Uh that's by design.
	You know, they've offloaded this.
	They'll say, Congress in particular, they'll say, Well, we I can't do anything about it because the you know the bureaucracy is responsible for this.
	That's right.
	Uh, but they are the ones that offloaded their responsibility under the Constitution to legislate.
	You know, there's legislation and there's regulation, and regulation has the force and effect of law, and yet it's not voted for, which means there's no accountability.
	You know, you can't out you can't vote out of office an EPA apparat chick, you know.
	And they claim that they're not responsible for it, even though as you point out, they they delegated this to them.
	Yes.
	Then, you know, if something gets really bad and there's a huge outroar, uh uh uh uproar about that, then they can come in and say, uh, okay, we're gonna save you from these bad guys, the regulators.
	So it it's a very calculated political ploy, isn't it?
	And I think we got do we have a couple of comments or questions for him?
	Good to talk to you.
	Uh Travis here.
	We've got citizen says, uh, Eric, but he'd like you to speak on the fact they were trying to pass legislation, so you're gonna be able to insure a car that's over 25 years old, which is just utterly ridiculous.
	Because of course we know that 25 years ago, all calls cars were death traps, people were dying left and right.
	It's only within the past few years that the cars have become safe at all, and people can drive them without living in constant fear.
	Yeah.
	And and along that same line, uh, Eric, uh California just um, you know, they wanted to uh it's missions, I think that they had there, and it was like a 35-year moving average, and they were trying to uh adjust that a little bit, and uh they shut it down.
	It's a huge blow.
	It was Jay Leno's law.
	Maybe you heard about that.
	Purely purely punitive and vindictive.
	Yeah, Leno, I think learned a valuable lesson.
	You know, I think he in his innocence might have believed that rational considerations and reasonable considerations might uh cause the California legislature and regulatory apparat to agree that yeah, you know, vehicles that are 35 years old uh are uh constitute a very small minority of the vehicles that are in use as as daily transportation.
	Uh and so yeah, we'll exempt them as most states do from having to go in from emissions testing.
	Uh this is purely punitive because they want to push these cars out off the road.
	And it's particularly egregious in California because it's not even a matter of whether you pass the tailpipe sniffer test, you know, when you bring your car into the inspection station and they put the probe in the tailpipe.
	And and in most states, if it passes that, you pass and you get your sticker.
	In California, it doesn't matter whether you pass the tailpipe sniffer test if any of the factory original emissions equipment has been tampered with, altered, or removed.
	Now, what that means, you're talking about the 35-year-old car, or how about a 50-year-old car, and maybe the original smog pump or EGR system had to be replaced because it's a 35-year-old vehicle.
	35-year-old vehicle.
	Well, what if there is no aftermarket replacement?
	And more finally, in California, every aftermarket replacement has to have a California Air Resources Board number, a certification that it's been approved by car.
	So if it doesn't have that, even if everything works, and even if the emissions are within spec, they will still fail the vehicle on the basis of failing the visual and not having the carb-approved replacement part.
	So this is purely, purely punitive and vindictive.
	And I do see this sort of thing uh expanding.
	You know, they're going to start targeting cars and they're going to say, we can't permit vehicles that don't have the latest advanced driver assistance technology to be on the road, you know, because of the threat that they present.
	And the people are going to die.
	That's the sort of thing that I foresee that they're going to start doing in the next few years.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it's kind of interesting too, because uh when I was doing modifications to my Miata about seven years ago, uh the companies that was getting the aftermarket parts on, which were taking those parts that you just mentioned and pitching them completely.
	But they were based in California.
	And I thought, you know, this is kind of interesting.
	They can't sell their own product.
	Even at that time, uh, many of their things were not carb compliant, and they couldn't sell them and the uh to people who lived in California, only to people who lived outside of California.
	But it's getting much, much worse.
	No, you know, the common thread that runs through all of this is that there's no requirement that tangible harm be uh be produced, in other words, a victim.
	Uh a really fine example of this is the crucification of Volkswagen, and I I revisited that issue recently in a column.
	It's been about ten years now since Volkswagen got raked over the coals for cheating on federal emissions certification tests.
	Yes.
	And you know, at the time, and even to this day, I continue to ask well, who was hurt by any of this?
	All the only thing that happened was that the government was affronted.
	You know, Volkswagen, like every other vehicle manufacturer, programmed its vehicles to pass the test.
	That's the whole point.
	They made it so they would pass it.
	And not only the this is an important point, not just the federal emissions certification tests.
	Nobody ever disputed these vehicles when they were bought and put into service and in states where people had to go to get emissions testing, you know, at the state level and get the tailpipe probe put in, they all passed.
	The only the only kerfluffle happened after this independent lab uh subjected the cars to an entirely different test uh that found that under certain operating conditions, oh my gosh, the vehicle will emit slightly higher, fractionally higher amounts of oxides of nitrogen, which is a regulated emission for EPA.
	And the amount was minuscule.
	It was literally a fraction of a fraction.
	In other words, something that was meaningless in terms of whether it was hurting anybody.
	Didn't matter.
	It was so draconian.
	I mean you and I talked about this many times.
	It was so draconian that it was clear that it wasn't about what they said it was about.
	It was really about, as we said, uh getting rid of diesel.
	I mean, they had criminal charges against executives.
	It was something like four billion dollars, if I remember correctly.
	It was outrageous what they were doing, and we talked about that, how you didn't see anything at all like that with the Takata airbags that were blowing up spontaneously and killing people, or with the pinto, you know, and the uh the deliberate uh uh exclusion of some devices that would keep that explosion from happening.
	Uh so it was something that we'd never seen before, even when uh human lives were at stake, and there was nobody that was harmed by any of this stuff.
	Well, the the reason why they did it though, it wasn't just that it was diesel, it was that Volkswagen uniquely was selling a lineup of very affordable diesels uh as recently as 2015.
	You know, it's 10 years ago, not even.
	You could have bought a brand new Volkswagen Jetta with a TDI engine for about 22,000.
	Now that little car had a 700 mile driving range and would get 50 plus miles per gallon on the highway and could probably be counted on to go for 300,000 miles or more.
	Now, it's a curious coincidence, isn't it, that around the same time the Volkswagen started getting raped over the coals over this emissions cheating thing, that's when the big push for EVs began, right around that time, around 2015.
	Uh and I think the reason that they went after Volkswagen was because they could not abide the comparison.
	You know, on the one hand, 22,000 Jetta TDI, 700 mile range, refill it in three minutes, keep it for 20 years, drive it for 300,000 miles.
	On the other hand, Tesla Model 3, $50,000 car that goes maybe 270 miles uh and is going to need a new $15,000 battery after eight years.
	It just would have been a harder sell.
	So they had to go after Volkswagen.
	I think, you know, if Volkswagen had continued making engines like that, other manufacturers would have started to do the same.
	In fact, Chevy did.
	Chevrolet was you could get a Malibu diesel for a little while there, and other manufacturers would have done it because it's appealing.
	I mean, I like the idea of a you know, brand new $22,000 car that gets 50-something miles per gallon, 700 miles.
	You know, diesel is great.
	You know, it's a wonderful option for people who want a durable, long-legged, long long-lived vehicle.
	So naturally they had to take that away from us.
	Yeah, it checked all the boxes in terms of competition with the electric vehicles, as you point out.
	It's like durability, reliability, affordability, range.
	It was all there.
	So it had to go.
	It really had to go.
	They've got an agenda, and they don't want you to have something that you can afford.
	They don't want you to uh have a long range because they want to keep you on a short rope with their smart city and their uh probably geofencing to make sure that you can't buy anything outside of your approved city and that type of thing.
	It's just amazing.
	It's a really important thing for people to understand.
	And it's a difficult thing to understand because the undercurrent of malevolence that's there is difficult for most people to come to grips with.
	But it's almost axiomatic that you cannot have an authoritarian system in which people are still free to move about as they like on their own initiative in their own vehicle, unsupervised, unmonitored, and uncontrolled.
	In order for them to uh to impose a truly authoritarian system on Americans, they have got to get control over transportation and particularly personal transportation.
	And when you when you filter everything that's going on through that, everything becomes comprehensible.
	That's right.
	I tell people all the time the TSA is a transportation security agency, right?
	It's not the airport security agency.
	And and they want to do the they want to eliminate the private vehicles so that everything becomes like the airport.
	If you like that, uh certainly you'll be able to keep that authoritarian government.
	If you like your authoritarian government, you can keep it or they'll keep it for you.
	But something like geofencing and the Teslas, they can just simply section you off, say, oh no, your car just simply will not go there.
	You try turning that way.
	No, we're going to autopilot you back into your safe zone.
	That's right.
	You're not allowed over here.
	You're not allowed to go this far.
	And you won't have enough range really to get out of there anyway.
	You know, it's a 15-minute city.
	It's incredible how creepy it is.
	And it's incredible how blasé so many Americans are.
	They think, even if they're aware of it, they will say, oh, well, that would never happen.
	They would never do that to us.
	Yeah.
	You know, Eric, about 10 years ago I went to an auto show in Texas.
	Star Roundup.
	Yeah, long star roundup.
	It's a real big uh uh classic show.
	And I think um it's gotta be an America-made car, and it's got to be um uh they don't include the um it's gotta be older than the Mustangs, older than 64, 65.
	There's a cutoff, right?
	So they didn't want to uh take it at that point.
	But um there's a lot of modification to them and a lot of rat rods that are out there, you know, really um uh grungy cars that people kept going and modified.
	I went around and I talked to all these people, and they were all different ages, you know.
	People had cars that they were 17 or 18 years old that they had fixed up to people who retirees.
	And I asked them all, do you think the government is going to make private cars go away and gasoline cars go away?
	Oh, yeah, they all said.
	And to a man, they pretty much all said, including the like 17, eight-year-olds, it'll never happen in my lifetime.
	It's like, man, the the disconnect that was there at that time was just that that was the most, you know, the cars are interesting, but the most interesting thing was how these people had lied to themselves about the government's intentions and its abilities to rob them of their mobility.
	It truly is amazing.
	The intentions were always there.
	I think the technology has made it much more feasible to fast track things.
	Yeah.
	They they would not have been able to do what they had wanted to do for 50 years, uh, you know, back in the 80s, 90s, or even the early 2000s, but now, particularly within the last 10 years, uh, they have now got the ability to utterly and completely control vehicles um to a degree that most people would not believe until they have to deal with it.
	You know, I I I give uh I give various examples.
	One is the illusion that you have in a modern car that you're controlling uh how fast you drive.
	You're not.
	When you push down on the accelerator pedal, all you're doing is feeding data to the computer.
	Uh you're not connected to the engine to a cable system and a throttle any longer.
	You're sending data to a computer, and the computer then is telling the engine, okay, increase the RPMs or to a certain amount to give you the illusion that you're the one who's controlling the car.
	That's right.
	I had a um Ford expedition a couple of weeks ago, uh, and I was this is a big vehicle, big SUV, and I'm trying to back the thing up in my driveway.
	Now I've lived where I live for 20 years.
	I know my driveway.
	There's a there's a big big bush at the one side of my driveway, and I know because again, I've been doing it for 20 years exactly how far I can back up before I hit that bush.
	But the Ford slams on the brakes a couple of feet before I get anywhere near the bush, because again, safety, but you know, read dig down and to think about what that means.
	The vehicle can decide that it's going to stop.
	Yeah.
	You know, actually your will, it's going to exercise control.
	And bit by bit they're doing this.
	I I had an article up the other day about this speed limit assistance technology.
	I love how they call it assistance technology.
	Like you didn't know you were driving faster than the speed limit.
	And now the car is told, oh, thank you so much, car for telling me that I'm driving faster than the speed limit.
	And you know, first they try to shame you.
	There's a little icon that pops up in the dashboard that shows us a speed limit sign and it goes red.
	You know, you're driving faster than the speed limit.
	And sometimes there's a chime that accompanies it.
	And this is weirdly standard now on all the vehicles.
	Why is that?
	You know, it's not optional for people who need assistance.
	If I need assistance, oh, I'd love that.
	I'll buy some assistance.
	No, they're making it standard because what they're doing is in classic Fabian socialist style, slowly bit by bit, you know, getting people used to this stuff.
	And the next step will be not just assisting you to know that you're driving faster than the speed limit, it will be preventing you from driving any faster than the speed limit by using the drive-by wire throttle by using the electrically controlled braking system to prevent you from doing it.
	And and what they're doing with that is making driving such a uh it's no longer fun.
	You feel like you're guaranteed, you feel like you're a kindergartner again.
	And that's delivering.
	They want you to just say, you know, the heck with it.
	Why am I why am I signing up for a $700 a month loan for the next six years?
	I don't even control the car.
	The car nags me and pesters me all the time.
	It tells me what to do.
	The heck with it.
	I'm just gonna get my app on my phone and I'll you know, tap it and I'll get my ride.
	That's right.
	Yeah, the comedian, uh British comedian Rowan Atkinson, who plays Mr. Bean, okay, uh, he was an engineer before he became a comedian.
	And he's got a lot, he loves cars, and he's got a lot of uh very expensive hypercars.
	And he said, Well, you don't really drive these so much as you manage them because there's so much drive-by wire stuff in it.
	And I remember when Michael Hastings was killed, and I think he was killed.
	I don't think it was an accident.
	And uh he was he had rented a late model Mercedes when that happened, and he was he thought the people are after him with the government because of what he was um reporting on.
	He had a lot of death threats from the government.
	And uh so he went out to his car, his uh landlady said he'll go out to the car and he'd look underneath it and all this other kind of stuff to see if there was some kind of a bomb on it.
	But um uh they can you know, when you have the uh when the computer is able to control your acceleration, your braking, your steering, and all these other things, it's very, very easy to assassinate somebody that way.
	And uh they have illustrated over and over again at the uh uh Black Hat conference in Vegas how easy it is to hack one of these cars as well, because they're also online.
	So everything is under computer control, and it's also online.
	So any bad actor, especially the government, can uh jump into this thing and do whatever they wish.
	They can shut you down, or if they want to, they can try to make it look like it was an accident.
	Uh this is the type of thing we've been seeing for a long time.
	Yeah, you had uh your article when you're talking about the insurance.
	When will people decide to stop paying?
	And you're talking about the fact that you've got an antique car.
	Uh you drive it 300 miles a year and stay within about a 10 mile radius of your home in rural Virginia.
	And uh, why should you have to pay insurance for that?
	That should be your decision for that.
	But of course, it is this corporate government fascism that we see over and over again where they force you to buy their product, isn't it?
	It is, and now they are using using insurance to price people out of vehicle ownership.
	Yeah, everybody.
	You probably have had this happen to you as well, has had their premium increase by on average 25 to 30 percent, and in some cases 50% or more, for absolutely no reason having to do with anything they did in terms of having an accident, filing a claim, anything, or even a speeding ticket.
	You get the notice in the mail and all of a sudden your premium is is you know double what it was the year prior.
	Why?
	Because they can, you know, because you don't have the option to say no.
	Imagine what a cup of coffee would cost if the government said you have to go to Starbucks.
	You have to buy a cup of Starbucks coffee at least once a week.
	You know, we'd be paying $10 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
	That's exactly where we are, isn't it?
	That's essentially where we are with this.
	And I think, you know, we are getting to a point, you know, I I have my ear to the ground about things like this, and it's also my own personal opinion, that everybody's feeling pinched because of the cost of everything.
	Everything's going up, and they don't include it in the uh evaluation of inflation either, do they?
	This kind of stuff.
	And so, you know, when it comes down to a choice between you know obeying the law and and handing a check over to these insurance mobsters for a large sum of money that could be used to pay your electric bill or you know, food for your family, what's the choice?
	Well, you know, probably a lot of people are gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna buy food for my family instead of sending this check to all state or geico.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so what?
	You know, I mean, the the the illegal aliens can with impunity, because they you know, they can't they can't get blood out of a stone, can they?
	You know, they don't have any access to seas.
	So uh, and I'm not I'm really I'm not I'm not disparaging people who are in that category because I understand people are trying to improve their lives and all of that.
	I'm just trying to make the point that there are no consequences for those people.
	You know, if if they want to go out and drive without insurance and hit you and wreck you, they'll walk away from it, and the state will do nothing about it.
	But you and I, we don't hit anybody, you know, we haven't caused any problems for anybody, but we didn't hand over the money to the mobsters.
	They'll cancel your driver's license, they'll cancel your registration, and if they catch you driving, they'll you know impound your vehicle and potentially arrest you for it.
	Yes, absolutely right.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	That's the way it works.
	It's a two-tier standard already in many different areas that we got in this country.
	Well, we're at a time.
	It's always great having you on, Eric.
	Uh anything you want to tell us about uh what's happening with your website?
	Oh, well, nothing more than what's on there.
	Uh, you know, I I posted an article this morning that's more of a thought piece about how we're all kind of in this bad marriage situation in this country, you know.
	And yeah, Trump is the guy who has bad marriages.
	He specializes in that, doesn't he?
	Well, isn't it isn't it interesting that for the most part, most people will say, okay, you know, if you have a situation where a couple just can't work it out, they're at odds, uh, you know, it nobody would say, well, they have to stay married and be miserable for the rest of their lives.
	People accept that sometimes marriages don't work and you know there's a divorce, it's not a happy thing, but it's better than forcing people who can't live together to live together.
	Well, politically somehow that seems to be off the table.
	Why is that?
	You know, we're at a point in this country with the left, right, and just people who want to be left alone chiefly, versus those who won't leave people alone.
	Why can't we just figure out a way to peacefully separate ourselves and that way end this fractiousness?
	You know, and and just instead of going to blows with each other, and that includes blows at the ballot box and you know, trying to constantly figure out a way to elect our guy to impose our will on the other side.
	How about we just figure out a way to go our own way and live and let live?
	The problem is that probably half the country doesn't want to live and let live.
	Yeah, I I've I've talked about that.
	You know, if you look at the Scandinavian countries, they have split apart and joined together in various combinations many times, and um uh you know, they would peacefully join together, peacefully break apart, and there was never a war over it.
	We don't have a government like that.
	You know, when uh Marjorie Taylor Green started talking about having a national divorce, I said, yeah, the problem is is that we're married to an abusive spouse who once he finds out that we want to divorce him, he's gonna come kill us.
	You know that.
	Yep.
	I've got I've got a picture that I recurrently use because I think it's very pithy and it says it all.
	And it's a picture of Abraham Lincoln, and the caption reads, if you try to leave me, I'll kill you.
	That's right.
	Yeah, the ultimate abusive head of the household.
	That's exactly the case.
	And especially in a country that was formed over the right of secession and self-government.
	That was the basis of uh America's existence from the very beginning.
	How could you deny that to somebody?
	I'm always uh all about secession.
	And I would say if at first you don't secede, try, try again.
	That'd be my motto for how it's it's a safety valve, and everybody should be on board with that.
	And of course, there is one other thing we can do, and uh people at the 10th Amendment have taught center have talked about this a lot.
	They there is another uh avenue of this, and that is nullification.
	That is kind of the middle point.
	You know, we say, well, we're just going to ignore what you have to say.
	So there is nullification and non-commandeering uh and uh short of uh you know and that effectively can allow you to secede issue by issue if you've got people at the state level who have the backbone to do that type of thing, and that's the big if we don't, because they're all on the take.
	I don't think that we're going to get this country back until we have a catastrophic economic system that's going to destroy the ability of our government with US dollars or reserve currency to just print money out of thin air.
	Uh I agree with you.
	Until that disappears, we're gonna have a the same type of situation.
	We we do have one power under our control, and it is to simply not participate, to opt out on our own, you know, with regard to new cars.
	Uh if you don't want to be data mined and controlled, well, don't buy a new car.
	You know, Eat the older car that you have, get an older car, fix it up.
	Uh, you know, during the pandemic, don't wear a mask.
	Don't go along.
	Don't comply.
	If enough of us as individuals, you don't have to join an organization.
	Just abide by your own moral uh compass.
	And you know, if this is wrong, I don't like this.
	I'm not going along with it.
	That's it.
	I'm I'm just taking my stand.
	I'm not going to be a cattle and go along mooing with the herd just because that's what the herd does.
	Yeah, I had been thrown out of so many different places and restaurants in Texas.
	I had to move to Tennessee because I had promised these people I would never be back because the way that they insisted that I wear a mask.
	And uh so I left then.
	I said, and I won't be back.
	And I kept my word by moving to another state.
	That's the only way I could do it.
	It's always great to have you on, Eric.
	Uh Eric PetersAutos.com, folks.
	A great site for liberty and mobility and a little bit of nostalgia now as well, because that's how the only way we're going to be able to keep our mobility is with uh classic cars.
	Thank you, Eric.
	Always great talking about it.
	Thank you, David.
	Thank you, Travis.
	Thank you, Eric.
	Always a pleasure speaking to you.
	And before we go, ACSAB.
	Thank you so much for that.
	We really do appreciate it.
	It says so awesome, DK and family.
	Thanks for everything.
	I wish I could do so much more.
	Well, you're already doing so much, ACSAB.
	Thank you.
	It really is because of your support that we're able to continue to do this, and we really cannot thank you enough.
	Thank you very much, folks.
	Thank you all very much.
	God bless you all.
	Have a wonderful rest of your day.
	Yes.
	The common man.
	They created common core to dumb down our children.
	They created common past to track and control us.
	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	and the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
	They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
	It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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