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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 Thursday, the 11th of December, year of our Lord, 2025.
	Well, we've gone from coups to illegally declared wars, actually not really declared.
	And now we've seen a massive civil asset forfeiture.
	Probably the biggest civil asset forfeiture they have ever done.
	We militarized the police for the so-called drug war.
	Now the military is our police.
	They is our police.
	So we're going to take a look at that.
	We're also going to take a look at our current state of our society.
	We've got fireproof Oreos as well as other crazy things.
	There are a couple of good things that have happened, though, in terms of the vaccine schedule.
	But you still have to get the message out to people.
	Because even if you take away the mandate, as we've seen with the mRNA Trump shots, people may still get it if they don't understand what is going on with it.
	So we're going to take a look at pharmaceutical industry, big tech again, and the many ways that they are tightening the noose.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Yes, the U.S. seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
	And.
	And again, as I said, this drug war thing, we look at people like Megan Kelly going out there and virtue signaling to her base.
	Yeah, yeah, I want more of this.
	I want these people bleeding out.
	It's kind of the same type of thing that, what was the guy's name?
	Used to work for Fox News.
	And after the Charlie Hebdo thing, he said, all these people complaining about militarization of the police.
	I want the police more militarized.
	Well, she's doing that as well, feeding the fear, feeding the hate.
	And she was somebody when I talked to her personally.
	She had no clue what the civil asset forfeiture stuff was.
	Didn't know, didn't care, obviously, right?
	Well, this is what it looks like.
	And, you know, since Trump is taking us on a fantasy ride, I thought we would take a look at the pirates of the Caribbean because they're going to make it so difficult for people to come in from Europe and the UK in terms of vetting them.
	You've got to give them now five years of social media.
	What?
	If you've been kicked off of social media like me, I guess.
	Well, once they reciprocate in Europe, which is the intention, I'm sure.
	Once they reciprocate, if I wanted to go, if I wanted to go through TSA hassles and the biometric face scans and the body scans and the pat downs, all the rest of the stuff, I probably wouldn't be allowed to get into the country because I've already been labeled as persona non grata.
	But this is how this stuff is metastasizing.
	But let's take a look at what the pirates of the Caribbean look like in the 21st century.
	And they are drappelling down American forces swooping in on the tanker and helicopters and repelling down ropes.
	John's Drawn.
	Yeah.
	Sort, rebuild, or we filch and sack.
	Drink up, me heart is yo-ho.
	Rotten and dazzle and even hijack.
	Drink up, me heart is yo-ho.
	Yo-ho, yo-ho.
	A fire is like for me.
	We kindle and char in flame and ignite.
	Drink up, me heart is yo-ho.
	We burn up the city.
	We're really afraid.
	Drink up me, heart is your hoe.
	Yo, oh, yo, ho, a pirate fight for me.
	I guess when somebody mentioned to Trump that they had a lot of booty that they could get, he started having flashbacks to Jeffrey Epstein parties.
	But there's a different kind.
	You know, there's the rape kind, then there's the pillaging kind.
	This is the pillaging kind.
	This is where we are today with our mafia Don, our organized crime lord who is now the pirate king.
	Jaw-dropping moment, says the Daily Mail headline.
	The U.S. commandos storm Venezuelan terror tanker in a breathtaking airborne takedown as tensions rocket towards a conflict.
	Well, here's my question.
	We've been told by War Pete that he's not sure that he can really release that video of them going back and murdering people who were begging for help shipwrecked.
	I'm not sure I can show that to you.
	You know, tactics and things like that, you know, national security secrets, military secrets.
	Yeah, this will, if I show you the video, it'll really help these people fight off a plane they can't see, can't fire at, can't do anything to.
	No, he doesn't want us to see that they kill people in cold blood.
	It's premeditated murder.
	They thought they thought about it for 41 minutes.
	But he will show you the tactics that they use in terms of taking over a tanker, right?
	Now, that really is a tactical video there.
	So, you know, if you wanted to learn how to defend against them, I don't know if you could defend, not on a tanker anyway.
	But War Pete just can't release that other video.
	But he can show you how they take over a tanker, right?
	That's not a problem, is it?
	Hmm.
	So troops with guns drawn darted upstairs to the bridge to take control of the vessel off the coast of Venezuela.
	And again, Pam Bondi, the worst attorney general in a long, long, horrible line of attorney generals that we have had, was boasting about today the FBI Homeland Security Coast Guard with support from the Department of War.
	Let me say this is the Department of War in their imagination.
	It is still the Department of Defense.
	The name has not been changed.
	That costs something like two, what was it, million or billion?
	I don't know.
	Washington, who cares how many zeros there are.
	But it is incredibly expensive.
	I imagine it's billion because it wouldn't have been a complaint if it's two million.
	I mean, just get that out of the petty cash war.
	Yeah, they've just got that lying around.
	Yeah, but in their imagination, because they haven't changed anything, they have changed the website.
	So now the website says war.gov.
	Boy, that says it all, doesn't it?
	That really is what we are.
	War is us, is what they should have called it.
	So The tanking over this tanker and confiscating it, just like they have been doing with the war on drugs.
	This is the logical conclusion, folks.
	This is why I've opposed it for all these decades.
	I don't support drug use at all.
	I think it's horrible.
	I think it is a crime, but they need to pass the Constitutional Amendment if they want to prosecute it that way.
	But you're never going to stop it with prohibition.
	You're never going to stop it by criminalizing it.
	What they did in this drug war was they made criminals of themselves by ignoring the Constitution.
	But the statement from them said that this tanker was involved in illicit oil.
	How did we get to a point where now oil is illicit?
	I guess it's just too slippery or slimy, right?
	Like a politician.
	You got some oil on you there, boy.
	Yeah, this is illicit oil.
	The tanker is criminal, by the way.
	You know, this is the big fiction that they operate with with a civil asset forfeiture.
	Well, I'm going to seize that hotel because over the last 15 years, we've had two drug busts there.
	And so obviously it is involved in dealing drugs because there's been two drug busts in that hotel.
	So I'm taking the whole thing.
	And, or, you know, you come in, the very first case of this that I saw was a guy who had a private jet service.
	One guy, small business, he owns one jet and he had a charter jet service.
	Two guys in suits with attaché cases show up and rent his plane, fly into Canada.
	He waits for them for their meeting and then flies them back to the U.S.
	And when he arrives, you know, all these police surround his plane at gunpoint.
	They take these two guys out, and the two guys have been doing a drug deal.
	And then they stole this guy's plane.
	He goes, What are you doing?
	I didn't know anything about this.
	And I said, We know you didn't know anything about it, but your plane was involved in the crime.
	So we're taking that.
	He had to fight them for years.
	He went bankrupt trying to get back his.
	That was his business, his plane.
	He didn't have a lot of money outside, and he didn't have any other capital except for that.
	It was just his plane.
	He eventually got it back, but he was bankrupt by that time.
	And the fiction was: U.S. government versus Learjet or whatever kind of jet it was, serial number, blah, blah, blah.
	They don't charge a person with a crime, they charge the object with a crime.
	So this is an illicit tanker.
	And no fentanyl on it, not even any cocaine, but it was still illicit.
	This should underscore the fiction of this pirate king, the absurdity, the assault on our intelligence, the arrogance of these people.
	Yeah, you got an amendment for that, you know, to be able to do civil asset forfeiture and take an entire tanker.
	You know, if we had a constitutional amendment for everything that they have prohibited, as they did for alcohol, which they needed to do for alcohol, if they had a constitutional amendment for each one of these things, we'd be well over 100 in terms of amendments that they would have added.
	We've only got 20 something, but we would have had another 100 of these things.
	Well, you know, Trump is talking about what he did.
	Thank you very much.
	It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of the Pirate King.
	As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large.
	Largest whatever seized, actually.
	And other things are happening.
	Has one ever been seized before?
	Later, and you'll be talking about that later with some other people.
	Very excitingly for me and for the country, we've just launched the Trump Gold Guard.
	Scammer.
	About 30 minutes from now.
	You're disgusting.
	Sight goes up.
	Crook.
	Disgusting crook.
	Yeah, largest one ever seized.
	It was big.
	It was huge.
	Nobody seizes them any bigger than me.
	What an idiot.
	What a boasting, lawless idiot he is.
	This must be that Somali influence already.
	Yeah.
	So that sent oil prices climbing sharply.
	It said, well, if there's going to be an embargo and we're going to shut off the oil coming from Venezuela, oil prices went up, went up to $63 a barrel almost, $62.69.
	And I saw I looked up, how many barrels of oil are there on these large tankers?
	Anywhere from 1.1 to 2 million barrels.
	So that was a pretty big theft that he had there.
	The Pirate King brought in about $65 million to $130 million, I guess, right?
	Somewhere around that area.
	Arr.
	Booty.
	You know, it truly is incredible what he's done.
	And when I saw this, I mean, we've got to have some humor here because it's just too dark otherwise.
	You know, we look at this lawless government that we have.
	It made me think of the Pirates of Pennsylvania as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean.
	The Gilbert and Sullivan play.
	It was really kind of made famous when Theater in the Park did it in New York.
	And they had a run where they had some pop stars like Linda Ronstadt and Peter Noon or something.
	The guy that was with Herman's Hermits.
	And I was in New York with Karen and we went to this with her parents.
	And I thought, well, let me get the libretto so I can figure out what's going on with it.
	And I was sitting there laughing and everybody else is trying to understand what they're saying.
	They're looking at me like, what's going on?
	It's like, oh, you should read this.
	This is really great lyrics.
	And so they had this Pirates of Penzance.
	They have the leader who was played by Kevin Klein.
	And so the lyrics to the song are, when I sally forth to seek my prey, I help myself in a royal way.
	I sink a few more ships, it's true, than a well-bred monarch ought to do.
	Yeah, they're up to over 20 ships now.
	But many a king on a first-class throne, if he wants to call his throne his own, his crown his own, must manage somehow to get through more dirty work than ever I do.
	For I am a pirate king.
	And so that's what I was thinking.
	I was very the music.
	But I really like Gilbert and Sullivan.
	And that particular song got Queen Victoria so upset with him that she gave an award to Sullivan, who wrote the music, but not to the lyricist Gilbert.
	She was very angry about the fact that he had mocked the monarchy, which was ripe for mocking.
	But in another line, he says, it's better to be under the brave black flag I fly than play a sanctimonious part with a pirate head and a pirate heart.
	That's right.
	So when asked about what the U.S. will do with all this illicit oil that they stole, Trump said, we keep it.
	A pirate king.
	Forget these no kings protests.
	We need to have a protest that says no pirates.
	Maybe Gerald Salenti can rename Occupy Peace No Pirates.
	That's what these people are.
	Murderous pirates, by the way.
	They're not like the pirates of the Caribbean and Disney World.
	This week's seizure marks the first time the Trump administration has moved to interfere with the country's oil distribution amid the hostile pressure campaign.
	No, they're building up for a regime change war.
	This is also absurd.
	They think that you don't know, but we do.
	We do know.
	When a reporter on Wednesday asked Trump about who owns the seized oil tanker, he says, you'll get that information later.
	I wouldn't be surprised if they don't know and they don't care.
	You think?
	A true pirate king.
	Don't know, don't care.
	I don't know the names of the people that we blew up.
	I don't have any.
	We're not going to give them due process.
	So I don't need to know their names.
	I mean, they're just out there in an area where we think people are doing drugs.
	So that's an instant death sentence.
	They have blown up 20 boats.
	We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too, said Trump.
	And it comes amid fears that the military tensions could soon expand to other countries in Latin America.
	As Trump on Wednesday also fired a chilling new warning at the Colombian president, who he calls a drug dealer.
	You want to look at a drug dealer, go look at your CIA and your NSA and those people.
	That's where your drug dealers are, okay?
	The Pentagon guarding the fields, the opioid, the poppy fields for opioids in Afghanistan and saying they're going to stay there.
	They're the drug lords, the real gang leaders, the real pirate king.
	He says he's going to have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up.
	I hope he's listening.
	He's going to be next.
	There we go.
	Just a thug.
	You're nothing but an organized crime thug, Trump.
	He's still claiming that he saved 25,000 American lives every time he blows up one of these boats.
	And so Jacob Sullom at Reason called him out on that insult to our intelligence.
	He says, you know, nobody would buy this except this benighted cult that is following him and being fed lies and propaganda by people like, and let me just give them the roll call of shame.
	WND, Breitbart, Infowars, you name it.
	There's a lot of sites out there.
	Zero Hedge often as well.
	Just selling these lies as if they were true.
	Truly disgusting.
	Trump is widely mocked for claiming, quote, we save 25,000 American lives, unquote, every time the U.S. military blows up a suspected, suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.
	Undeterred by the well-deserved ridicule, the president is still pushing that preposterous premise, which implies that he has prevented 650,000 drug-related deaths by ordering attacks that so far have destroyed 26 vessels in 22 operations.
	And they just admitted, by the way, that it was not fentanyl, but it was cocaine.
	That came out when the Admiral, Admiral Bradley, who commanded that these people be murdered.
	That's when he was talking about that.
	He said, yeah, it was cocaine.
	So Monday, he reiterated that.
	Every single boat we shoot on average saves 25,000 American lives.
	The BBC dryly notes that, quote, the White House has not explained how it arrived at this figure because it's a lie.
	It seems to be the product of several imperial and logical fallacies.
	Several lies, says Jacob Sullom.
	He said, first of all, Trump erroneously thinks that the targeted boats were carrying fentanyl.
	Again, that is not the case.
	Not the case in this very first one, which was the double strike tap as well.
	The boats get hit, he said, and you see fentanyl all over the ocean.
	I wonder if anybody has thought that through or not.
	I have no idea what fentanyl looks like.
	I don't know if it's a powder.
	I don't know if it's a liquid.
	Is it in pill forms?
	They see floating pills.
	Do you think that you would really see it all over the water when you blow it up if it was in any of those forms?
	I have no idea what form fentanyl is.
	Maybe they can tell because there's just a bunch of fish and dolphins and sharks just doing the fentanyl slump.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	They all slump and go to the surface.
	I don't know.
	It's very deadly.
	I'm not downplaying fentanyl.
	I know people, multiple people who've had their children have died from fentanyl.
	So it's a serious thing.
	But it's a product, folks, of the drug war.
	I'm telling you, we wouldn't have fentanyl if we didn't have the drug war.
	I've said forever, before fentanyl ever came around, I said it's a hallmark of prohibition, just like alcohol prohibition, that you constantly get more dangerous and concentrated forms of whatever it is that you're trying to prohibit.
	I mean, it's just, it's almost like an economic law.
	And of course, fentanyl was developed by a pharmaceutical company in the U.S.
	But its use in terms of recreational drug use is a consequence of our prohibition, just like they went from beer and wine to hard liquor and wood alcohol and things like that.
	Fentanyl accounts for most of the drug-related deaths in the United States.
	It's implicated in more than 49,000 drug deaths, 60% of the total of drug deaths.
	Cocaine was detected in about 22,500 cases, about 28% of the time.
	Yeah, I don't even, you know, even cocaine is involved in a lot of drug overdoses.
	I remember when we first moved to North Carolina, it was a big deal because there was, I remember he was with Maryland University, and I can't remember the guy's name, though.
	It was Lenny something.
	And the story was, this is a college kid playing basketball, and he was squeaky clean, according to everybody else.
	He had never been involved in that kind of stuff.
	He goes to a party, and somebody gives him cocaine.
	First time he tries it, it gives him a heart attack.
	Now, I don't know if that was true or not, but that was the story that came out.
	And was it Lenny White?
	I don't know.
	It's been a long time.
	That was about 45 years ago.
	Anyway, it's a tragedy, and you're always kind of playing a little bit of Russian roulette whenever you do drugs, aren't you?
	You don't really know what's in it.
	And you don't know the concentration that's in it either.
	It's almost like taking a Trump shot in the sense that, you know, the Trump shot, look at how the dosage varied.
	And they did that deliberately.
	They knew exactly what they were doing.
	And you don't know what's in it, right?
	What exactly is it?
	Well, we can't tell you.
	It's a secret.
	Second, Trump imagines, contrary to more than a century of experience with drug interdiction, that traffickers do not compensate for intercepted shipments by sending more.
	It's hard to understand why Trump says that the policy of drug interdiction is totally ineffective if he then boasts about it by saying, well, we took more of it off the market.
	Well, you don't have to do no-knock assassinations to do drug interdiction.
	If you want to confiscate it, the Coast Guard's been doing that for a very long time.
	They did it at exactly the same time that he was boasting that he blew this boat up.
	So you don't have to blow it up with missiles.
	You can confiscate it if that's your goal, if you think that helps to take it off the market.
	It doesn't help to take it off the market.
	Anyway, you could probably seize more cocaine just by going around and searching the offices in Washington, D.C.
	Yeah, you'd ask the CIA where they got their stash stored that they're selling to people.
	Third, Trump assumes that any given amount of drugs would be evenly divided into lethal doses, each of which would be consumed in one sitting by a different person.
	Pam Bondi relied on the same plainly unrealistic assumption when she absurdly claimed that the Trump administration had saved 258 million lives during its first 100 days by intercepting fentanyl.
	Again, but think about the fact that this guy who keeps telling us how many hundreds of millions of lives he saved has destroyed hundreds of millions of lives with his mRNA shot.
	He's killed tens of millions, and he has permanently disabled many tens of millions more.
	And if they're going to do that to you, then why are we concerned about this other thing here?
	And many people, this was even worse.
	It's not only the fact that he paid for using your money, your debt, that he paid for this Trump shot that was killing people, the mRNA thing, the genetic code injection.
	Not only did he make us pay for it, but then he and Biden forced people into it with their lockdowns and all the rest of this stuff.
	It was a one-two punch, folks.
	This is not a different approach by two of them.
	It was a planned tag team match.
	Just understand that.
	And so the people who are poor souls who are taking cocaine and fentanyl for the most part have made that choice.
	But these people forced you to take a deadly unknown drug.
	Who's the worst drug dealer?
	Trump by far.
	Those bogus numbers would be amusing if Trump were not deploying them to justify a policy of killing suspected cocaine couriers at a distance and in cold blood without legal authorization or any semblance of due process.
	Trump conflates drug smuggling with violent aggression, saying it amounts to an armed attack against the United States that requires a lethal military response.
	His meretricious math aims to bolster that reality defying description.
	He hopes his extravagant claims about hypothetical deaths prevented by his bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy will distance the public from the actual deaths that he's ordered.
	Yeah, he truly is a pirate king.
	And I've said that, you know, that is one of the most dangerous things to come out of this, to say that the possession of drugs is a violent act.
	That it is an attack.
	That it is terrorism.
	You follow that logic, and you look at what he's doing by putting the military into cities.
	And we know where this is leading, folks.
	I've been telling people this for a very long time.
	It's one of the reasons why they called it drug war.
	I think they called it drug war because they didn't want to remind people what a failure prohibition was.
	And they also didn't want people asking questions like, why don't we have something like the 18th Amendment?
	But I think this is where this is going.
	And so forget the no-kings protest.
	We need to have a no-pirates protest.
	So let's take a quick break here.
	Actually, today we're going to relax things a little bit.
	We're going to play a couple of tunes on a different break.
	Yeah, go through the comments, Rob.
	Just want to say, it's just a drug addict, unless you are helping them overcome their addiction, will simply find something to substitute.
	That's right.
	If they are addicted to fentanyl, if they can't get their fix, they will try anything else, whatever they can find.
	Yeah, airplane glue, you name it.
	I mean, I had a friend I used to hang out with, and he couldn't get alcohol.
	He couldn't get anybody to buy alcohol for him.
	So he went down and bought a bunch of Nyquil and started swilling that.
	It's like, are you crazy?
	What's the matter with you?
	I don't know what else is in that besides the alcohol, but it actually has quite a bit of alcohol that's in it.
	It's got more alcohol than a lot of alcoholic drinks do.
	And so people, if they want to get high or something like that, that's the issue.
	You got to change that.
	You've got to fix their water, right?
	It's a spiritual issue.
	And they're never going to solve a spiritual issue with the police and the military.
	It's a spiritual war.
	It's not a drug war.
	Even if it's something as simple as huffing gasoline, you know, gasoline is everywhere.
	It's relatively cheap.
	You just, you know.
	Does that get people high?
	Yeah.
	The Australians have a huge problem with Aboriginals siphoning gas out of tanks, stealing it from people to huff it.
	I imagine that kills a lot of brain cells.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It destroys your brain.
	But let's see what the comments have got.
	Wally Walrus says, I got the join ice advertisement from Rumble to watch the chat this morning.
	Oh, Wally, when are you signing up?
	Maybe they haven't really done their research if they're giving ads to my audience to join ICE.
	We're getting paid and they're not getting anything.
	That's right.
	Wasted cash on their part.
	Guard Goldsmith.
	Always good to see Guard.
	You can find him online at Liberty Conspiracy on Rumble and at Guard Goldsmith on Twitter.
	He says a Kevin Knight.
	Also, Substack as well.
	That's true.
	Yes, Substack.
	Kevin Klein is always fun in shows.
	Yeah, he was really great in the Pirates of Pennsylvania.
	And they did it more slapsteak.
	The problem was with American singers, it could be a little bit harder to understand what they were saying than the typical Gilbert and Sullivan people from Toiley Cart, you know, in the UK.
	But he actually played the part, they did a movie of it, and he actually played the part in the movie.
	They did have a British singer who did the Major General part because you really need to be able to understand what he's saying when he does.
	I am a Major General.
	Very model of a modern Major General.
	Go ahead, sorry.
	Jack Sparrow is Trump.
	I think maybe Jack Sparrow is Jeffrey Epstein.
	Trump Burger says Jack Sparrow is greater than Trump.
	Oh, there you go.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Better pirate.
	Southern citizens says most Trump supporters approve of the unconstitutional takeover of the seas.
	That's right.
	And they've got their peanut gallery cheerleaders out there.
	Same people.
	What do you expect?
	I mean, if they're going to cheer the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of people who are shipwrecked and waving for help, disgusting.
	And if they're going to cheer that, of course, they would cheer seizing a tanker.
	That's great.
	Go ahead.
	Pezzo Novante says no pirates except for the Pittsburgh MLB team.
	And the Buccaneers.
	That's the thing.
	I grew up in Tampa, and they'd always have the Gasparilla parade that was there and had this big sailing ship.
	And they would sail into the harbor there, and they would have the parade, and that would be the kickoff of the state fair that was in Tampa.
	And I was involved in that.
	Of course, they've changed that now.
	The state fair has moved over to the center of the state.
	But that was always a lot of fun.
	And I was always in a marching band for six years at junior high school and high school in those parades.
	But yeah.
	They had these doctors and lawyers who were part of a very expensive club.
	And one year when I was in college, the band fraternity that I was in, it was an honorary fraternity that was there.
	And to raise money, we did the makeup for these pirates.
	I got a picture of me somewhere made up as a pirate with my black eyes and a big beard on and all this kind of stuff.
	Maybe for one of the shows this week or the next, we'll do Talk Like a Pirate Show the entire show.
	There's probably an AI app for that that'll do that real time, I imagine.
	Real Jason Barker.
	Of course, Jason Barker is parts of the Knights of the Storm along with Angry Tiger and others, which he says, I don't think we have 26K Americans that can afford cocaine.
	That's a good point.
	That's funny.
	Also, you know, when cocaine was at its height, it was the 80s, and that was when Wall Street was booming.
	It was probably the last time America's economy was at its best.
	Well, you know, every time I think about cocaine, I think about the CIA's crack cocaine.
	And, of course, you know, they turned it into crack cocaine when it came back to America, and then they pushed it out through freeway Ricky Ross.
	And he blew the lid on all of that stuff, and so did Gary Webb.
	Gary Webb was eventually, he had his career destroyed, and they eventually killed him for blowing the lid on all that.
	But that concentrated form of crack cocaine was created by the CIA so it could fund an illegal, undeclared war.
	Now we just do the wars openly, right?
	I mean, didn't need to do all that stuff, but I'm sure they made a lot of money, and CIA gets those black funds.
	You think they spend it all on illegal wars, or do they keep some of that?
	Do they get some sticky fingers with that?
	But you had Charlie Sheen come out and talk about that period of life where he went through and he did the meltdown and with Alex Jones and things like that.
	And he said at that point in his life, he really hit a low, and it was because of crack cocaine.
	He said he'd always done a lot of drugs, but he could handle them before he got to crack cocaine.
	And that just sent him crashing into new depravity, which I won't go into.
	But it's pretty interesting what he had to say about crack cocaine.
	Everybody talks about it, well, it's like crack or whatever.
	So it evidently takes effect so quickly that it creates a much more addictive rush than just regular cocaine.
	Also, you know, back when we had cocaine in Coca-Cola, we built things like the Hoover Dam.
	You know, I'm just saying, maybe it's correlated.
	Patty Wax says maybe the guy from the Imperial College estimated the American lives saved from sinking ships for Trump, similar to the mad cow slash COVID death estimates.
	Yeah, these people, you can tell they're lying because the lips are moving.
	It truly is amazing.
	They just throw these numbers out there.
	And we all know they're lying, but people don't really just come out and call them a liar.
	I mean, you know, it's great that Jacob Solton went down and broke it down.
	Here's the three assumptions behind this ridiculous narrative.
	But folks, it's simply a lie.
	He'll tell you anything, and he's got a whole army of people who can make money by supporting his lies.
	And you got all these bots out there who are saying, I voted for this.
	I voted for this.
	Well, shame on you.
	And I've said that to some of them.
	Go ahead.
	Peso Novante, 1776, says, this bears reiteration, a rogue government unbound by the chains of the Constitution and armed to the teeth is more of a danger than any scourge of drugs.
	That's right.
	This is this gang out of D.C., the Pentagon, the CIA, the president.
	It is the most dangerous gang that you can have anywhere.
	People talk about these drug cartels that have been operating with a monopoly in the black market for so long that they've become very dangerous in terms of murder, in terms of their weaponry and all the rest of the stuff.
	Look at the murder record and the weaponry of our own government and our military when we start using it for this.
	Lynn bias, that was it.
	Yeah, Lynn Bias.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah.
	And I'm Artie says I saved a trillion brain cells by never doing drugs.
	Yeah, me too.
	That was one of the things I learned was that it bothers people.
	You know, the people who are doing drugs wanted you to join in with them, and it really bothered them when I didn't do it.
	And that was the thing that I thought was kind of funny.
	It's kind of like, well, look, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life.
	Why would you feel like you need to pressure me to join you?
	But that was always the case, whether it was people drinking alcohol or people who were doing drugs.
	I was considered the party pooper because I didn't do it.
	And it's like, well, I'm not going to go along with the crowd.
	So as we're going to slow things down a little bit here today, we're going to play a couple of Christmas songs here.
	Let's start with A Good King.
	He wasn't a pirate king.
	Good King Winslet.
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	Well, the Trump administration is set to scrutinize foreign visitors' social media history.
	And I'm sure that, you know, the people in Europe will do the same thing and reciprocation.
	Well, they're doing it in America.
	We can do it as well.
	So you think you're going to come to the happiest place on earth at Disney and see the pirates of the Caribbean?
	You're going to have to settle for the reruns of Trump stealing an oil tanker.
	Travelers to the U.S. from more than three dozen countries could soon be required to submit their most recent five years of social media activity for review before being allowed in.
	So what do you think our own government is doing to us as American citizens, right?
	You think they're not scrutinizing everything that we do?
	We know that they're doing that.
	And it's not just if you're speaking out on social media or whatever about politics.
	They're following everybody.
	Geospatial intelligence, as I've said so many times, grew up with the internet.
	So as the internet, which was designed by DARPA psychologists back in the 1960s, when it became practical in the 1990s, when the switching equipment, the hardware, made it practical, they busted a hump trying to get into all of these social media companies.
	And so you had the CIA create its own venture capital firm, NQTEL.
	Publicly did it.
	Didn't even try to keep it secret.
	And then what is not really paid attention to by most people is that you've got, if you look at the board of directors of most of these venture capital firms that were giving money to these social media companies, they had a lot of people who were current or former members of the NSA, CIA, and others like that.
	And somehow these companies had so much working capital, they could operate for years making things free just to get everybody to try it and get addicted to it.
	Kind of like a drug dealer who gives you first few hits for free.
	And then he starts charging you with this stuff.
	And so they're using this geospatial intelligence.
	That's where James Clapper grew up.
	They're using this to monitor everybody and everything that we do.
	And so now they want to monitor people who are even just coming for a vacation at Disney World or they want to go to Yellowstone or something like that.
	Forget about it.
	A proposal filed Tuesday by Customs and Border Patrol would require social media scrutiny of any potential visitor applying for so-called electronic travel authorization, which allows people from 42 countries to spend up to 90 days in the U.S. without a visa.
	And so notice that this is not a law.
	This is a proposal.
	A proposal by whom?
	By the bureaucracy.
	This is the way things work now.
	You don't have laws written by Congress.
	You have bureaucracies that are created by Congress, and they kick the responsibilities over to them to write the rules.
	What these people do is they come up with a rule and kick it around and then put it out for a posting.
	And that's what they're going to do.
	They're going to give people, I think, 60 days or something to comment on this.
	So you can say whatever you want to about it, and they don't have to pay attention to what you say.
	They may pay attention to it.
	They may, on how angry you are about it, they might put you on a secret list somewhere using a star chamber process like the FISA court.
	But people can comment on it, and they can ignore those comments.
	That's the way the rules are created.
	And the rules are worse than laws, folks.
	When you look at civil asset forfeiture, why they call it civil?
	Well, because they're saying you didn't violate a law.
	We have a rule that you violated.
	And because you violated a rule, guess what?
	Just like somebody in a boat off the coast of Venezuela, you don't get any due process.
	And they just, rather than taking your life, they take your property, you know, like an oil tanker.
	And then if you want to get it back, you have to sue them in court.
	That's why they call it civil.
	And they call it asset forfeiture because they don't want to call it theft, which is what it is.
	And so you have the bureaucracy creating these rules.
	Then they pretend that since they're not laws, you don't have any due process rights.
	What an amazing fabrication.
	That is as ridiculous as Trump saying that he's saving tens of thousands of lives each time he murders a half dozen people.
	So there's no law from Congress, but there's regulations that are proposed by bureaucracy.
	The bureaucracy writes the rules.
	The bureaucracy enforces the rules.
	The bureaucracy then judges whether or not you are in compliance with their rules.
	Isn't that nice?
	They are the enforcement as well as judge and jury and legislators.
	combined a lot of different branches of government into this.
	And so you get a 60-day comment period where you are free to say anything you want about this and they're free to ignore all of it.
	The requirement is set to go into effect early next year, months before thousands of foreigners are expected to travel to the U.S. to attend World Cup soccer matches.
	And so you say, wow, that's going to be a lot of data for them to sort through, except that now they've got AI.
	And AI can give them almost an instantaneous assessment.
	I looked at AI and I said about me, Grok, and it was actually pretty accurate, talking about how I didn't like government.
	I pushed back against climate and COVID and all the rest of the.
	I mean, it went down the whole list.
	And even got into my firing and said, well, Alex Jones initially said that it was about money, but then he kind of walked that back and it had to do with Knight's opposition to what was going on with Stop the Steal and thing.
	It got that right.
	I was like, wow.
	So anyway, it's pretty accurate.
	So it can go through very quickly and assess their social media for five years.
	Realistically, sorting through a massive amount of data is the one use case, the best use case for AI.
	That's right.
	It's really, really good at that.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	And it used to be that they did it with the metadata.
	You know, when I interviewed the guy who was the technical head of the NSA, Bill Benny, for a very long time, and he became a whistleblower, pushing back against what they were doing in terms of spying against Americans.
	And so I interviewed him about that.
	He says, yeah, you've got Michael Hayden out there saying, we're not reading your email, and we're not going through your texts and all the rest of this stuff and listening to your phone conversations.
	He goes, of course they're not.
	You can get the same information pretty much by going through the metadata.
	And it's a lot easier to program that, to do that.
	But now with AI, they can listen to your phone conversations and they can read all of your emails and all the rest of the stuff.
	And they can do it almost instantaneously.
	Under the current system, applicants from countries in the visa waiver program must provide home address, phone number, email, emergency contact information, along with a $40 fee.
	Here we go.
	This is it again.
	Now it's like every time you interact at the border to do anything, everything's going to be $40, $45.
	Remember, they just came at TSA, said, well, if you don't have real ID, we'll still let you fly.
	We're such nice guys.
	You can still fly, but you'll have to pay us a $45 fine.
	They'd initially put that out during the comment period as an $18 fine, and evidently I'd not even seen it reported.
	And so I guess, you know, well, since nobody complained about an $18 fee, let's make it $45.
	And so this will be a $40 fee plus all of this personal information in five years of your social media history.
	Applicants will also be asked to submit all personal business telephone numbers used in the past five years.
	Personal and business email addresses used in the last decade.
	And names, dates of birth, places of birth, and addresses of immediate family members.
	I think they're a little bit snoopy, don't you think?
	The countries that are part of this will be Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Qatar, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the UK.
	If you're coming from a third world country, don't worry about any of this stuff.
	Just walk in, we'll give you a welfare check.
	The proposal has been criticized by First Amendment advocates.
	Those who hope to experience the wonders of the U.S. should not have to fear that self-censorship is a condition of entry.
	said the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, FHIR.
	They said that to the New York Post.
	Requiring temporary visitors here for a vacation or a business trip to surrender five years of their social media to the U.S. will send the message that the American commitment to free speech is a pretense, not a practice.
	Yeah, I think we know that already.
	This is not the behavior of a country that is confident in its freedoms, said the person from FHIR.
	Yeah, Trump, folks, is a globalist.
	And therefore, he hates free speech.
	He hates free press.
	He does everything he can to intimidate people from speaking and to intimidate the press from reporting what he's doing.
	Americans should not feel that they must silence themselves at home for fear that their online expression will bar their access to travel overseas.
	Therefore, we shouldn't put tourists coming here in that bind.
	Call it the golden rule of free expression.
	Treat the speech of visitors the way that we want to see Americans' expression treated abroad.
	I've always said freedom is one thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
	On October 1st this year, the administration imposed an additional $250 visa fee, which applies to travelers from countries including Brazil, China, India, and Mexico, which are not a part of the visa waiver program.
	That's right.
	You don't need to have, but you don't need to have a visa to come in from Mexico.
	You just walk across the border.
	The U.S. plans to scrutinize all these foreign tourists' social media history.
	Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need a visa, would have to give five years' worth of social media.
	And again, what if you're not on social media like me?
	Well, they find out the reason I'm not on social media.
	I'm blacklisted anyway.
	Allows people from 42 countries to travel to the U.S. for up to nine days without a visa, but just give us all the information about your life for the last five years.
	Well, you think this is only targeted towards foreigners?
	A leaked memo reveals that the FBI is creating a watch list that labels millions of Americans as extremists.
	I don't shy from that label.
	I'm kind of proud of it.
	I remember Carl Hess, who was a speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, he's one of the co-founders of the Libertarian Party.
	He's one who said, extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
	Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
	I believe that.
	So call me an extremist.
	Call me a conspiracy theorist.
	You're the guys who are doing the conspiracies, and you need to be called out on it.
	Unparalleled hostility towards huge swaths of American citizens.
	This is from Free Thought Project.
	Actually, it's an original article from Ken Klippenstein.
	He says, Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.
	And basically, it's people who disagree with the Trump administration or criticize them.
	You know, Nixon had his enemies list.
	That was one of the big things against him during this Watergate thing that came out.
	And this is just a much larger version of that, assisted by technology.
	The target is those expressing, quote, opposition to law and immigration enforcement.
	Yeah, I oppose their tactics.
	Not necessarily their goals, but I absolutely oppose their tactics.
	Extreme views in favor of mass migration.
	I'm not in favor of that or open borders.
	Adherence to radical gender ideology.
	Oh, I don't do that.
	As well as anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.
	Does it count if you're anti-federal government?
	Well, anyway, you notice that this is all about people that there's none of this stuff that is terrorist or extremist, really.
	It's just people that are opposed to them.
	This is their enemies list.
	So start compiling this.
	So, whereas the executive, the memos that came out, Trump's directive, national security presidential memorandum in SPM 70, 7, rather, it was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn't MAGA.
	This is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.
	In addition to compiling a list of undesirables, Bondi directs the FBI to enhance the capabilities and publicity of its tip line in order to more aggressively solicit tips from the American public.
	So, you know, we had the see something, say something from Janet Napolitano, which was absolutely despicable.
	You know, be a snitch.
	Help us.
	This is the Republican version of that.
	To that end, Bondi also directs the FBI to establish a, quote, cash reward system.
	Oh, okay, so we have some, just call it Stasi Cash.
	Maybe they could set up an app for that, right?
	See something, say something, we'll pay you because we're Republicans and it's all about money, right?
	In a section titled Defining the Domestic Terrorism Threat, they cite extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment.
	Well, that means that you don't like the Trump administration.
	Because, I mean, you know, if you criticize Donald Trump, that's treason.
	Because he's more important than the Constitution.
	For months, major media outlets have largely blown off the story about an SPM 7, thinking that it was all just Trump bluster, that it was too crazy to be serious.
	But a memo like this one, says Ken Klippenstein, shows you that the administration is absolutely serious about this, even if the media is not taking it seriously and is actively working to operationalize NSPM 7.
	Well, Trump has been covering his hand with a bandage for a full week.
	And if you criticize that, then you're anti-American and treasonous, right?
	My take on all this, they go into all this and say, well, look at, you know, he's got his hand that's bandaged and it was bruised and all the rest of the stuff.
	And then we have yet another absurd excuse from Caroline Lovitt.
	Well, he's just the friendliest president you've ever seen.
	He shakes so many hands that it's bruised.
	Well, I want to know why it's not healing.
	I mean, I've never seen anybody heal like Trump healed when he got shot in the ear.
	I mean, just a couple of days and it all grown back.
	Why is that not happening with his hand?
	That's what I'd like to know.
	That's what I would ask if I was in the White House press court.
	I would last about one question.
	He's now had an entire week of sporting mysterious bandages on his problematic right hand.
	His ear, however, is doing just fine.
	There's not even a scar.
	It's now a week since Trump appeared at a lengthy cabinet meeting with two band-aids on the back of his hand.
	The White House is yet to clarify why he needs medical bandages on his right hand.
	When asked about it, Caroline Levitt had a prepared response.
	Trump is a man of the people.
	He meets more Americans and shakes more hands on a daily basis than any other president in history.
	There is some minor soft tissue irritation caused by frequent handshaking, as well as because of his aspirin, which he takes as part of his prescriptions there.
	Well, I don't know.
	What do you think, Travis?
	Maybe the problem is that he's eating some of these new Oreos.
	I don't know if you saw this or not.
	But Oreos come out with a new formulation that is sugar-free.
	I think this video is, you've got to always be careful.
	I think this video, however, is accurate.
	What they did was they showed how these new sugar-free Oreos are also fireproof.
	Look at this.
	There's a torch.
	He does it for a tenth of a second.
	Five seconds.
	And half a second.
	One second.
	It's not phased at all.
	Now for one second.
	Three second bursts.
	He keeps going up.
	Look at that.
	Five seconds.
	Five seconds.
	Somebody pointed out Elon Musk uses these on his rockets for re-entry.
	And here they do it for 30 whole seconds.
	And it doesn't catch fire.
	The wooden shelf that it's on starts to catch fire, but not the Oreo.
	Isn't that amazing?
	It's kind of like these McDonald's.
	They have in Germany at one museum.
	They put in a McDonald's hamburger and French fries, and it's been there for several decades, and it hasn't degraded at all.
	Nothing eats that stuff.
	We don't know what they're making this food out of.
	And so...
	Calling it food is a bit generous.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You don't.
	Good news is, you know, your body can't process whatever this fireproof material is, so it doesn't have calories.
	Yeah, the shelf there is on fire, but not the Oreo, really.
	I do think those are just standard Oreos because I have seen that video before a while ago.
	Oh, really?
	So that may be an issue Oreos have in general.
	To be fair, I wasn't really convinced Oreos were a health food before this.
	That's right.
	Karen had a cousin when we were in college who came from Italy and was visiting America, didn't speak English or anything, but when they tasted an Oreo, that was it.
	It was like, whoa.
	It was like, yeah, how do we explain to them that this food is set up like a drug or something, you know, to get you hooked on it?
	And you can't eat just one, like a potato chip or something.
	It's really funny.
	He wanted to import these things back into Italy.
	I'm sorry.
	Go ahead, Travis.
	No, it's just funny seeing Europeans talk about American food and they're like, look how disgusting it looks.
	Look at this.
	Look at that.
	It's like, you do not understand.
	This stuff is built in a lab somewhere to be the best tasting, most addictive thing you have ever had.
	That's right.
	Yeah, he was truly amazed with it.
	He goes, we don't have this in Italy.
	What do I have to do to bring these in?
	And I was like, well, good.
	He's thinking entrepreneurially, but he never did it.
	But it's the type of thing.
	I mean, they've got Panettone bread, which we discovered and really love at Christmastime.
	But that's definitely not sugar-free.
	But it is really good tasting.
	So, you know, different cultures have different foods, and you discover them from time to time.
	But he never did get into the Oreo arbitrage business.
	So now they're coming up with an Oreo Zero Sugar.
	And that'll be available in the U.S. from January.
	They already have been trying it out in China and Europe.
	That's been going on for a while with trials.
	And so they're going to bring it to America.
	And this is the new trend.
	Coke, instead of their Coca-Zero, has now got a Coke sugar-free, zero-sugar, I should say.
	And it's different than Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Light.
	But regular Coca-Cola, because of sale increases in the third world, went up by 1%.
	But their Coca-Cola zero sugar grew 14%.
	So there is a lot of what they call it is mindful indulgence.
	Right.
	Now, I want to indulge in this junk food here, but I got to be mindful of the calories involved in it.
	Well, you might want to think about what else is in it as well.
	So this Oreo is going to have a kind of sugar called Maltitol that's found in some fruits and vegetables, along with a soluble fiber, polydextrose, a sweetener derived from sugar called sucralose, and the synthetic sweetener, sulfulfame potassium.
	I think if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
	So be careful what you eat this holiday season.
	So let's have some mindful indulgence of some Christmas music here.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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	We have a lot of comments here.
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	As Guard Goldsmith has said, this is truly a fellowship.
	So my former employer up in Toronto finally opened the Line 6 Finch West LRT, U.S. $3 billion.
	It covers the six-mile journey in 55 minutes.
	What a blistering pace.
	On the other hand, the line 5 Eglinton Crosstown is up to U.S. $10 billion and growing.
	It's been in the work so long, a child born when that turkey started is ready to start driving.
	You're something not allowed to have a car.
	It truly is amazing.
	Yeah, we should definitely have government have a monopoly on our transportation that they have craved all of my life.
	Yeah, they hate the fact that we could get around them.
	And of course, especially, you could see the value of that during the lockdowns.
	It's how we got out of their grasp.
	And I'm Marty.
	Thank you very much.
	That is so generous.
	Oh, yes.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	It says DK's gas gauge shows one-eighth.
	Yes, we will go back and recalibrate that and check it based on what we've gotten this week.
	So stay tuned.
	We'll get that set up by tomorrow.
	Yeah, it's been a struggle with everything.
	Yeah, it has.
	It has.
	So thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	Southern Citizen says government is the mob.
	Organized crime.
	Racketeering.
	And it's been that way a long time.
	Methley Butler called him out on that, especially our Latin America policy.
	It really is really racketeering.
	Steve Ebbs says, Stew Peters interviewed Pastor Chuck Baldwin yesterday, and it was a good interview.
	Wow.
	I imagine Chuck Baldwin could do a good interview with just about anyone.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	We've got, there's a lot of so-called badass, tatted-up trimpanzees on YouTube who like to walk around the woods with their AR-15s and plate carriers.
	You know, the Rambo types.
	I like that trumpanze.
	That's the keeper, right?
	Tough guy, fake triots who support tyrannical, who support a tyrannical SOB and are too stupid to see it.
	That was Defy Tyrants, I believe.
	And Pezanovante 1776 responds, yep, all those firearms and all that ammunition is wasted on such alpha, quote-unquote, males.
	Yeah.
	And we have Skunk Hollow Rose Gardens.
	The Angry Tiger Show is the most up-and-coming conservative financial show.
	Oh, your mic is cutting in and out, Trash.
	Oh, yeah, sorry.
	I'm still not used to this setup.
	We have Skunk Hollow Rose Gardens says, Angry Tiger Show is the most up-and-coming conservative financial show on the internet.
	Yeah, that's good.
	And Max said, did you know these filthy private equity firms are buying up nursing homes and assisted living and screwing them over with scams?
	Oh, yeah, they're buying up everything, screwing everybody over with everything.
	Real Jason Barnes says, looks like the Oreos are made of passport material.
	Same stuff you saw on 9-11, yeah, that's right.
	Recycle that for new use.
	Isn't it interesting that massive fire that they had that went for, I think, days in Hong Kong, and it really has created a lot of anger at the government.
	And those buildings didn't collapse.
	I mean, we had hundreds of people who died from the fires, but the buildings are still standing.
	They're very badly burned.
	But that's the way these things work.
	Well, you know, I we have Star Barkley.
	Thank you very much, Star Barkley.
	That is very generous.
	He says, Maltitol has a laxative effect, typically causing diarrhea at a daily consumption above about 90 grams.
	It's not good for you, but this is cheap, but this is money.
	Cheers.
	When I think of Oreos, I always think of that Stephen Wright joke.
	He said he had a very attractive dental hygienist.
	He says, always before I have an appointment with her, I have a bag of Oreos to get her to spend a lot of time with them.
	Also, I would like to let people know, if you're watching on kick, it is now possible to send a direct donation.
	Oh, that's good.
	You can send what they're called kicks.
	So you buy the kicks and then send the kicks to the streamers of your choice.
	Is that a new feature that they've just put out?
	New-ish, I think.
	I barely have time to keep up with these sites and what they do, so I just noticed it last night.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Well, you know, it's whenever we do the visuals for these things, like I said, you know, when I did the visuals in the beginning, I kind of hate doing them because I don't, you know, I don't want it to detract from the overall message.
	And it's very distracting when you start looking at it.
	You know, you listen to it, you pay more attention to the visuals, you're not listening to the music, or maybe you're not really thinking about the most important salient parts of the biblical narrative when you look at it.
	We just had, was it Tuesday night, I think, Kevin Costner did a nativity story.
	And people were saying, well, it was very accurate.
	It was very respectful.
	I haven't seen it.
	I have no opinion about it one way or the other.
	But when you're talking about a dramatization of this stuff, accurate details is always a relative term.
	You know, just like with that video that Lance did over the Trans-Siberian Orchestra song, it is you're trying to convey something that's happened over a couple of years and trying to condense that into a minute or so.
	So we can try, he tried to do things as accurately as he could to show people really what Jerusalem looked like and what Herod's castle and palace looked like.
	So he went back and referenced the people who had studied this and tried to come up with the most accurate representation they could of that.
	But there's a lot of different issues there.
	There's an interesting article from Crosswalk: 10 traditional beliefs about Christmas that are not in the Bible.
	And it was things like, was the manger wooden having a straw or was it stone that was holding that could hold water and all these different types of things.
	And it's like, you know, really those types of things, you know, were the three kings or three gifts.
	Were there three kings?
	Well, no, actually, they weren't kings.
	They were Magi.
	And it's just plural.
	So two or more could have been a lot of them.
	Many people believe that it was a lot of them, just kind of reading things into it.
	But ultimately, did Mary ride a donkey?
	Did they visit at birth or later?
	There's a lot of different thoughts about that.
	And so people have kind of gone with a consensus on it.
	But those types of details don't really matter.
	The key thing that really matters, we do the lioness thing here.
	This is what Christmas is about, Charlie Brown.
	What it really is about is the incarnation of Christ.
	And the big thing that they left out of this article here, 10 traditional beliefs about Christmas that aren't in the Bible, how about the date of December the 25th?
	I always made a point of trying to, you know, not have our kids really think of this in terms of getting things fixed in their minds.
	You know, three kings or this or that.
	You know, just understand what the bigger perspective is.
	But the bigger perspective is the incarnation, that in the beginning, the word was with God and the word was God.
	All things were made by him and through him and that type of thing.
	And then came in the flesh.
	And that's the real point of it.
	And that's why we want to celebrate it in our family, to try to focus on that.
	It's an opportunity to remember that and to think about it.
	And to hold the details that are out there lightly.
	You know, say, well, maybe it was that way.
	Maybe it was this other way, whatever.
	And so we don't really try to hold those things very, very closely because it can become more about the details.
	I honestly think that what God did was deliberate.
	I think everything He does is deliberate.
	But I think that it was deliberately done at a time when we didn't have any photography or anything like that.
	And so, you know, we get focused on appearances, right?
	And that's one of the things that really always spoke out to me about the Bible.
	If it's written by men, it would focus so much more so on the appearance of the characters and that type of thing.
	We have, throughout the Bible, there's only a couple of moderate descriptions of somebody, you know, that Saul was tall or whatever, David was ruddy, whatever you believe that to mean.
	And yet, you know, when you look at a novel that is written by people, what do they do?
	They go through and they describe in minute detail what the setting looks like, what the building or the room looks like, what the people look like.
	And it's very focused on that.
	It's one of the things, you know, when we talked about who wrote the Shakespeare plays, you know, it's from the perspective of who is writing it, a guy who never had any involvement with royalty or the court or anything like that, is writing all these stories about court intrigue from that perspective.
	You know, it just didn't make any sense that Shakespeare would be written by this guy in Stratford on Avon because of the perspective.
	And so that was one of the things to me that when you look at the Bible and the way things are described, yes, this is rooted in history, and that's why we're told about the events that were happening at that time.
	And those have been validated by archaeology and by history and that type of thing.
	So yes, it is rooted in history, but we're not rooted in the details.
	And we need to pay attention to the bigger picture.
	And so it's key that we not get into that kind of idolatry or get obsessed with the things that are kind of side issues in terms of appearance and that type of thing.
	You know, we have a Texas pastor is sounding the alarm about the rise of AI in churches.
	Real quickly, can I interject about Christmas?
	Yeah.
	I know some people said, you know, well, you know, you don't need a special day to gather with family and remember and be thankful.
	And that's true.
	You don't.
	But I view it as sort of like an anniversary with my wife.
	I don't need a special date to remember our marriage and how wonderful she is and how happy she makes me.
	But it's nice to have a special day for it anyway.
	I love her every single day, but it is nice to have a day to commemorate it and to give her special attention.
	That's very well said.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And I think if we had it to do over again, one of the regrets that I have in terms of raising the kids and things like that, I think as a family, we should have had more days of celebration and remembrance and commemoration, things like that, to remember other things in history, things that are not necessarily revolving around secular government or something, but things that revolve around Christian history and the kingdom of God.
	And, you know, so instead of having maybe a Veterans Day, maybe we have a Martyr's Day or something like that where we remember that.
	And so I'm kind of, after the fact, I fell in the camp of, I think we need to have more remembrance days, more holidays and things like that.
	And because I think that's good to go back and think about it.
	We always did that with Thanksgiving.
	And I thought that was a very valuable thing to do.
	And I thought, you know, we ought to have more of those, especially because these holidays are kind of compressed around November and December.
	It'd be better to have some more days where we reflect on things like that.
	But what is happening in the churches is a reliance on artificial intelligence by a lot of pastors.
	And this is borne out into some polls that people have taken.
	They said the use of AI has increased by 80% across all different ministries and churches.
	They said one guy who was talking about it, Ray Miller of First Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas, recalled how AI was making an impact on others while he was a professor at a small private Christian college in Tennessee.
	He said, I started noticing my students using AI to get answers to difficult questions.
	It became sort of a running joke in the class.
	He said, he expressed concern regarding the exploitation of AI by bad actors.
	And I would say that that's my concern, with the bad actors being the government.
	And just as many people have done with prophecy, kind of creating a mastodonist version of the Bible, you know, making it all about predicting the future and missing the biggest message that is there.
	He said, I also have concern that it'll be used deceptively by people to exploit other church people, which is exactly what we were talking about yesterday in terms of this Friends of Zion organization that is a political organization that is run by the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu and has been for decades.
	It is explicitly antichrist.
	When you listen to this guy, what is his name, Mark or Mike Evans, who was the one who founded it, he says, yeah, I tell people, I'm not here to convert you at all.
	Well, either he has denied Christ's message and doesn't believe that people need Christ, or he has made this all about politics.
	I think both of those things are true.
	You have large-scale weaponized political propaganda that he is putting there, giving to these impastors, these wolves among the sheep.
	And so idolatry can take form in many different ways.
	But we have to, when I look at what is happening, for instance, with the murder that is happening down in Venezuela, the left has always come out and said, well, you Christians are hypocrites because you push back on abortion and yet you cheer the wars.
	Well, I don't.
	I don't at all.
	To me, I don't think that murdering somebody at any age is warranted.
	And just like that essay that we had a few days ago that just stunned me when I saw it put in print, you know, consciously doubling down on this and saying, yeah, somehow these people grow the right to life or something.
	And I thought, when he used that phrase, I thought, that's straight out of Planned Parenthood.
	That's straight out of Satan's mouth.
	That's the reality of all this stuff.
	And so we need to fall back to these principles and understand where this is going.
	As a matter of fact, they are after the kids, trying to abort them in a lot of different ways.
	If they can't kill them, then they will try to abort them spiritually.
	This is something that's been picked up by some influencers on social media.
	There is a book that's been put out that says abortion is everything.
	They're trying to normalize and celebrate this.
	They portray abortion, killing unborn children, as a kind of heroic superpower.
	The book titled Abortion is Everything is being peddled by the pro-abortion group, Shout Your Abortion.
	Be proud of it.
	It is set to ship January the 26th, aimed squarely at children from the ages of five to eight.
	You see how important it is that you educate your kids at an early age, especially.
	They understand.
	Too many times, I think, when we educate children, we speak down to them or we don't think that they're ready to hear this or can't understand it or whatever.
	You just keep repeating the same stuff over and over to them and talk to them like they're an adult.
	And they will gradually start to absorb this because they're doing this with the LGBT stuff.
	They're doing it now with abortion even.
	Yeah, kids five to eight.
	It uses vibrant watercolor style illustrations to hook young imaginations while sipping in messages that abortion is not only acceptable, but empowering.
	According to the groups on description, the book tells children about what abortion is, how it might feel.
	They don't talk about how it might feel to the baby.
	And why people have abortions.
	Abortion is everything.
	Frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower.
	Our capacity to imagine the future and to make choices that lead us toward the life that we envision.
	In the latter days, people have become lovers of themselves.
	That's what this, all this, was it, Maslov's theory of self-actualization, I think.
	They were feeding that garbage to Karen because she got a master's degree in teaching.
	And a lot of the stuff she was reading.
	No wonder schools are so bad.
	They're deliberately set up this way.
	Anyway, the truth is, the scripture teaches is real power is found in loving sacrifice and recognizing the inherent dignity and value in all human beings created, said Jenna Ellis, who used to be the lawyer for Trump.
	Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies and which has shaped the entire world around us, they say.
	Well, other people have commented on this article in their heads that said, children don't need imagining of a future without their siblings or their friends.
	They need adults who protect life, who honor God, who refuse to manipulate their innocence for political gain.
	Always think about that.
	What is the political agenda of these people?
	When they start killing civilians and children in Gaza, what's their political agenda?
	And are they going to bamboozle you with a Nostradamus reading of biblical prophecy to get you to cheer that?
	Maybe you need to start with the fundamentals and get that down before you jump into Revelation.
	Shout Your Abortion claims, quote, parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
	They position the book as a way to introduce the concept of abortion in a way that empowers parents and kids to begin rewriting our cultural scripts about abortion at the most foundational level.
	I think I would explain it to kids with that animated film, The Procedure.
	I know it's pretty strong stuff, but it is a pretty strong action that is being done.
	Desperate measures require desperate opposition.
	Yes, what?
	This is one of those things where I believe personally every single person involved with this should be dragged off.
	They should be given their day in court, and then when they're found guilty, executed summarily.
	You don't get to propagandize children that murdering babies is okay.
	This is where I draw lines.
	Like, no.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen, but we need to understand there's people out there who are coming for your kids in a lot of different ways.
	And you need to get there first.
	Kind of what Nathan Bedford Forrest said.
	I get there firstest with the mostest, right?
	You get there first with the most information.
	And not only that, you don't just give them your side of the story.
	You give them the other side of the story and you tell them why that's a lie and you oppose it.
	We taught evolution to our kids so we could deconstruct it.
	And we taught them the truth as well.
	Also, just look at the women in this tweet.
	These are the type of women that end up being kindergarten teachers and preschool teachers.
	These are the type of women that you will be turning your children over to if you send them to public school.
	These are the psychopaths that want to mold the future.
	And you cannot do that.
	You cannot give your children to this kind of person.
	Yeah, those are the authors and illustrators of the new book, and they are radical indeed.
	Well, again, as I said, we need to be careful of idolatry.
	We need to be careful of false narratives.
	We need to always understand, be able to, we need to fight to discern the truth.
	And we need to fight injustice, mass murder, wherever it occurs.
	It's our government, if it's Israeli government.
	We need to understand that.
	And we need to look at how they use these institutions.
	And I would include in it the churches that are out there.
	Be very careful of that.
	Again, it began with 1,000 Christian pastors this last week.
	They're going to do 10,000, and they're going to incentivize them.
	They're going to give them lies to tell people so they will excuse anything that is done by the Israeli government.
	And Brian Shulhabi picked up on this.
	I was reading J.D. Hall yesterday.
	And he picked up on it.
	Earlier this week, 1,000 U.S. pastors completed their training to become ambassadors of Israel.
	They're not going to be ambassadors of Christ.
	They're going to be ambassadors, not even of all of Israel.
	They'll be ambassadors of Netanyahu because not all of Israel likes Netanyahu.
	As a matter of fact, he got less than 50% of the vote.
	He put together a coalition.
	And there were people in New York who were Jews who were very explicit about why they were voting.
	They said for Mom Danny telling Israeli media that.
	They said, this is our protest against what the state of Israel is doing.
	I think it's important that we make a distinction, and Brian Shulhabi does make a distinction in this article, between all Jews in general and the actions of the Israeli government.
	Just because I'm an American doesn't mean that I support what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela or what our government did in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq or you name it.
	I don't support those actions.
	I don't support the CIA.
	And so many people in other countries would just link me together with that.
	But we don't want to make that mistake with other people.
	In a video published on CBN, Zionist pastor Mike Huckabee, the current U.S. ambassador to Israel, tried to downplay the obvious political implications of Israel funding this program by claiming it was not political, but these pastors were instead ambassadors for Christ, he said.
	Well, as we showed yesterday, I don't really think that that is the case.
	You had this guy who put this whole thing together makes it very clear that this is not at all about making a case for Christ.
	I know why I'm born to defend all the Jews.
	Now, you wrote in your newspaper yesterday that this guy converts Jews.
	That's complete BS.
	Somebody did.
	It's complete BS.
	It makes him angry.
	I.
	That somebody would think that he was telling the good news about the Lord Jesus Christ to Jews.
	And to combat anti-Semitism, that's all I do.
	I do it full-time.
	And I've got 20.
	Well, let me just say, it is not anti-Semitism to criticize a secular government, number one.
	If you get that angry when you are accused of trying to tell something about the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
	You don't believe a word of that.
	And you don't love those people if you did believe that.
	Because if you did believe it and you loved the Jews, as he says he does, then he would tell them about Christ.
	What a pathetic thing.
	And yet, Mike Huckabee is really kind of there as well.
	As I pointed out yesterday, he was somebody who in the 90s, there was a big fight going on, the Southern Baptist, about whether or not they were going to stick to biblical inerrancy.
	Huckabee took a political position, which is say that he set that one out so that he could be outside of it and above it and not defend the Bible.
	And he's got it completely wrong when it comes to the rest of this stuff.
	How can they claim this is not political when the state of Israel is funding it and Netanyahu is commissioning it?
	The original press release that Brian Shahabi has is out of Jerusalem on May 20th this year.
	And it said the state of Israel will pay for the trip for them to come to Israel.
	Their diplomas will be personally signed by Netanyahu, who will speak at their graduation, underscoring the significance of this initiative to the nation, to him specifically.
	So, again, this is the idolatry that I've seen around Donald Trump has disgusted me.
	And we've talked about this over and over again.
	And people come back and say, well, we may build golden idols to him, but there's humor in it.
	And we don't really think that he should be the king or the messiah or this or that.
	And yet they do.
	They do.
	It's just like Trump.
	He says, well, I'm not a king.
	And then he puts out memes of himself as the king.
	No, they really do worship him.
	And the same thing with Netanyahu, the same people in America who worship Donald Trump also worship Benjamin Netanyahu.
	I want to stay away from that kind of idolatry.
	You know, it was Bob Dylan who wrote the song.
	He said, You're going to serve somebody, right?
	You're going to serve somebody or something.
	Be careful of who you make God in your life.
	The late ninth president of Israel, the late Shimon Perez, was the founding international chairman of Friends of Zion.
	He commissioned the Friends of Zion Award, which has been given to 25 world leaders, including Trump, in the Oval Office.
	And so Brian Shalhabi says, Is your pastor a Satanist?
	In other words, anti-Christ, opposed to Christ, opposed to the gospel message, as that guy, Evans, is.
	So even literature is not allowed by this political entity under Netanyahu.
	You can't even bring evangelical literature, and it gets confiscated at the borders.
	I said yesterday.
	If you have somebody who is ethnically Jewish but has converted to Christianity, they can't make the citizenship thing, the Ayila or whatever that is called.
	These pastors do not represent Jesus Christ.
	They represent the Antichrist, who is Satan.
	Is that being too rough on them?
	No.
	Because Jesus himself said to those who opposed him in his time, and Brian talks about this as well.
	Those who opposed him, they said, Our father is Abraham.
	He says, Your father's not Abraham.
	Your father is the devil.
	He said, Abraham saw my day and was and believed what was coming and he believed in what I'm doing.
	And so he pointed out to them that because they opposed him, there's not some kind of a third way.
	There's two ways.
	Benjamin Netanyahu is a criminal.
	There's currently a warrant for his arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
	And he's currently limited in his international travel to only countries who do not support their National Criminal Court, which includes the U.S., or he would be getting arrested immediately.
	He's like Henry Kissinger in that regard.
	In his own country of Israel, he is under investigation for crimes involved in funding Hamas terrorists, what they call Cuttergate.
	And he is seeking a full pardon for these crimes.
	Trump was also requesting a pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu.
	He's also been implicated by victims and survivors of satanic ritual abuse, says Brian Shalhavi, and testimony before the Israeli Knesset.
	It's important to distinguish that not all Jews are Zionists and Satanists.
	To use the term Jew as a unified class of people is incredibly ignorant.
	And that is real anti-Semitism.
	But to criticize this political entity, folks, is not racism.
	As many secular and Orthodox Jews in New York City pointed out, I played clips from some Orthodox Jews as well as from a secular guy who was talking about how they supported Mom Danny, and much of it was as a protest against what the state of Israel, the political entity that calls itself Israel, is actually doing.
	And so we need to keep these things in mind.
	So it was, you know, when you look at, Brian points out, and it's true, Abraham was not a Jew.
	Abraham was a Hebrew, right?
	Because Jew is a contraction of Judah, the tribe of Judah.
	And Israel was his grandson, and Judah would have been his great-grandson.
	Those terms were not around.
	And it was not through a political nation that God was going to bless all nations, but it was through the Lord Jesus Christ.
	And keep that in mind.
	That's the real replacement theology that concerns me.
	You have so many Christians, and I have a lot of them, who write me every time I talk about this.
	And I'm going to keep talking about it because I'm not going to get involved in any kind of racist idolatry, which is really what they are cheering with this Zionism.
	They say, well, people think that the church has replaced Israel.
	The church includes Jewish believers.
	It is an enlargement.
	And they talk about replacement theology, but let me tell you what's been replaced.
	They have replaced the Lord Jesus Christ with the political state of Israel.
	That's what's been replaced.
	And that's why I'm going to continue to talk about it.
	And I'm not going to cheer any wars anywhere from a political, secular standpoint.
	No, no.
	And I haven't seen a justified war in a very long time.
	That's why I'm so anti-war.
	But it's important that we keep these things straight.
	And it's important, I think, for Christians to pull back from this wanton slaughter of civilians, whether it's being done by Trump or whether it's being done by Netanyahu.
	I think it's important for us to pull back against that, just like it's important to oppose abortion.
	We need to be pro-life.
	Christ was pro-life, and we need to follow that as well.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
	Let me get first.
	I want to start off by thanking Sprumford.
	Thank you very much, Sprumford.
	Yes, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	God bless the Knight family.
	Thank you for being guardians of tradition.
	A quote I borrowed from Michael Matt at the Remnant newspaper.
	That's good.
	Thank you, Sprumford.
	Yeah, we want to be guardians of some good traditions that are out there.
	Like I said, I think my big regret was that we didn't, in our family, create some new traditions that should have been out there.
	Create your own traditions.
	We had some traditions around Thanksgiving and Christmas and things like that, but many other times of the year we should have had more traditions, I think.
	We have Ann Max says, I remember in the old days, everyone wished each other Merry Christmas, especially store clerks now seem to have been told not to say that.
	They have to say it instead.
	Muslims can broadcast their call to prayer across the community, but saying Merry Christmas is intolerant to Muslims.
	And, you know, I grew up in a family that was really more from the Protestant tradition and of not celebrating Christmas.
	And so, you know, I looked at it and I thought, you know, why is it that people who hate Christ hate Christmas so much, right?
	They've gone to a great deal to create an alternative of Santa Claus and commercialism and things like that.
	So I thought, well, you know, maybe there's something there.
	And maybe if this causes them to recoil like a vampire, maybe we should, when a vampire sees a cross or something in a horror movie, then maybe we ought to pull out the crosses and start pointing them at the vampires and throw some holy water on them as well, watch them smoke.
	So we try to be very explicit about Christmas.
	And, you know, we have a couple of songs about tradition and family time, but for the most part, I try to do songs that involve the story of Christ because whatever time of year you choose to celebrate it, some people, and again, if you don't celebrate it, I'm not criticizing you.
	As Paul said, some people look at one day as holier than another.
	Some people esteem every day the same.
	That's your own personal choice.
	Do what your conscience tells you.
	But as for me and my family, we're going to celebrate what Christ did with the incarnation.
	And we're going to use that as an opportunity to talk about it since it creates so much consternation with people who get angry about Christ.
	They can use and do use his name throughout the year as a swear word, but we're not allowed to use it at this time of year to celebrate his incarnation.
	No, we're not going to play that game.
	And of course, if it violates your conscience to celebrate Christmas, don't do it because we say we do it.
	That's right.
	Follow, you know.
	Follow your conscience on that.
	Real Jason Barker, the Nights of the Storm Christmas intro features clips from the Bible series that was aired on the History Channel.
	I was going for the same thing.
	I think in reference to your video that was with the last song.
	And Max, traditions are the glue that keeps family and society together.
	There's a reason they've diminished our traditional holidays and replaced with their phony holidays to fracture us.
	That's right.
	And it is a teaching opportunity.
	That's one of the reasons why I did it with a family.
	It's an opportunity for me to teach the kids to think critically and to just fall into everything, you know.
	December 25th, three kings, all this kind of stuff.
	No, let's separate out and be very deliberate about what we understand, even if we do sing We Three Kings of Orientar.
	You know, I like the song, okay.
	I haven't done that one because, you know, I understand the issues with it.
	But still, you know, we would talk about that.
	We have Hopa power.
	H-A-P-A.
	I don't know if that's an acronym or if he's actually saying HAPA, A-I or GA-I.
	It's fake.
	It's gay.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So we're going to take a quick break, folks.
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	There's a post-election sale on silver and gold.
	Trump euphoria has caused a dip in silver and gold.
	It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense.
	Go to davidknight.gov to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
	He knows where to look to find silver and gold.
	Well, it's kind of funny to watch that now causing people to come to their senses, and he holds up a penny.
	People have not come to their senses, but Trump has manned the penny.
	So I guess maybe that's an impediment to people coming to their senses.
	But it was on sale a year ago, and I think that it still has a long way to go.
	That's my personal take on it.
	There's a lot of investment advisors that are saying the same thing.
	And you look at silver soared to a record high this week, over $60.
	And there's a lot of reasons that people are giving where they think that this is a trend that's going to continue to go up.
	And I agree with them because when you look at this, this is not simply inflation or one other thing that was driving.
	I mean, The big gold boom that we had.
	We've had three gold booms since we went off of the gold standard with Bretton Woods II and Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
	The first one was in the 70s and it was very big indeed.
	And then there was the second one.
	We're now in the third one where you've seen a massive run-up in the price of gold relative to the dollar.
	Prior to that, there were no gold booms because gold was backing the dollar and it was tied to it.
	And so it wasn't until you really had this bifurcation that you could have one of them going up or down in terms of the other one.
	So it went up over $60 this week.
	We had at the end of last week, beginning of this, it went up 4% on one day and it's up more than 100% this year.
	In the near term, one of the analysts, his name is Cooper, said the silver market will be driven by investment flows into the silver-backed ETFs, which have seen their biggest inflows since 2020.
	Well, that's good for the price of silver, but don't be one of these people that settles for an ETF or a promise that is backed behind silver.
	I came to that realization a few years ago when I realized I had some of these ETFs, and I realized that I didn't really own any silver or gold with those ETFs, and they were not tracking the price of silver and gold either.
	But they are big buyers of silver and gold.
	So that is also another factor that is going to be helping the price of real silver and real gold.
	Other big buyers are going to be Tether and stable coins and things like that.
	They're looking for something that is real to give credibility to it.
	And that's the other thing that is unique this time around.
	It's not just about inflation or the government's uncontrolled deficit, annual deficit and the accumulated debt, which interestingly enough, Trump doesn't care about at all.
	Look at how he has disrupted our economy and thrown monkey wrenches into the supply chains because of this trade deficit.
	But he doesn't care a whip, a whit, about the big deficit of $38 trillion.
	As a matter of fact, you talk about it.
	You become his number one enemy.
	That was the first issue that he had with Thomas Massey when he started blowing up the deficit with his lockdown.
	And so he doesn't care at all about the real deficit that matters that he could do something about.
	Instead, he wants to focus on this other thing.
	And so when you look at what is coming up this next year, the optimism last year was that Trump was going to do big things with Bitcoin, which of course he didn't do.
	He didn't make a Bitcoin reserve.
	He immediately caused problems for people because instead of talking about Bitcoin, he started talking about some of these transactional coins that were out there, like Ripple and others.
	And everybody was like, what is he doing?
	He's not even talking about Ethereum, let alone Bitcoin.
	He's talking about these other coins that are a lot more obscure.
	And so that was the first sign that something was up.
	The other issue was how he had done pump and dumps on his own Trump coin and Melania coin and things like that.
	And a lot of people in the crypto market said he's going to destroy the reputation of crypto.
	I believe that is going to be the case.
	And I think it's largely been done this last year as well.
	But he is going to be doing more with stablecoin.
	And this year, we have a replacement at the Federal Reserve Chair.
	And so you're going to see Trump put in somebody who's going to do everything he says.
	And you're going to see a lot of money creation, which is going to drive inflation.
	You're going to see that in spades.
	And as Geral Sunti said, Trump is always very good for gold because he's awful for the dollar.
	And that's going to be the case this next year.
	So Russian gold reserves have reached an all-time high.
	Its estimates show that Moscow's investment in bullion rose by a record $92 billion over the past 12 months.
	And it's gone up by 50%.
	And part of that is due to the war, but it also showed a lot of people that the way that you get around this fiat dollar dominance that is out there, the hegemony of the U.S. dollar, one of the ways that you do that is with gold.
	And that's a lesson that has been internalized by the BRICS countries as well as many others.
	In late October, it became known that the Reserve Bank of India had returned about 64 tons of its gold reserves from overseas between April and September, preceded by several other massive transfers.
	The move came amid concerns over the freezing of more than $300 billion in Russian Soviet and private assets by the West.
	Again, trust is gone.
	Also in October, JP Morgan, CEO, Jamie Demon, we'll call him, predicted that gold could easily go to 5,000 or even 10,000 in an environment like this.
	And again, the demon doesn't buy or sell gold.
	He's just, and it's kind of interesting when he starts talking about assets that he doesn't want, he says, and then makes it sound like they're very desirable to have.
	Gold gains and silver is solidly up, setting a new record high in the last few days.
	Edward Dowd said gold became money again this year under what he calls Basel III.
	And he says that the charts point to $10,000 gold, in his opinion.
	He said former BlackRock portfolio manager Dowd is one who's saying this.
	He says that gold is now repricing the end of the global sovereign debt bubble.
	Yeah, there's been a debt bubble of global sovereign debt.
	That's the U.S. government and many other governments following Keynesianism.
	He said gold became money again recently when Basel III went through.
	They made gold their tier one capital asset again.
	He's referring to the regulatory shift that's fully implemented on July the 1st, 2025, which reclassified and allocated physical gold as a tier one high-quality liquid asset.
	This change allows banks to count gold at 100% of its market value for liquidity purposes with a 0% risk weight, effectively placing it on equal footing with cash and with sovereign bonds.
	So now this rule from the Bank of International Settlement said the central bank of central banks said, okay, so we'll allow you to carry gold at the full market value, just like you would if you had a T-bill or if you had U.S. dollars or something like that.
	And it's not just a T-bill, but it'd be sovereign bonds from other countries as well.
	And so that is something that's also driving the accumulation of gold.
	So he said there's going to be a new monetary system at some point.
	And that's what's happening here.
	We're looking at this.
	Is it going to be bricks?
	Is it going to be some kind of a stable coin environment that's there?
	We know that's going to be reset and that the petrodollar is effectively dead and that Bretton Woods 2 is going to be restructured into something else, whatever that looks like.
	And whatever it is, all these people who are pushing for a new system, everybody is trying to accumulate gold for the credibility of the new system that they're going to propose for people.
	And so the issue is that you need gold for that same reason, not because of credibility, but just because of retaining its value.
	Dowd sees a quote fiat money crisis coming, unquote, that necessitates owning gold.
	He also issued a bold long-term price target based on technical analysis.
	He said the chart looks in the long term like it wants to go to $10,000, he said.
	He noted that the structural bid for gold is being driven by central banks preparing for a monetary reset, specifically highlighting China's aggressive accumulation.
	Data released by China in just the last couple of days supports Dowd's view of a shifting global order.
	China reported record trade surpluses, as I've pointed out, of a trillion dollars.
	Yeah, Trump's tariffs are not working at all, unless the purpose of them was to create chaos and havoc in the American economy.
	That's the only thing they have done.
	They have not been effective at all of China.
	China's exports have gone up into new record territory over a trillion dollars.
	Ours have gone down year to date by 29%.
	So just like he hurt the soy farmers, he's hurting everybody, and he's hurting manufacturers internally with the chaos, as I've said many times.
	So China exports to the U.S. fell 29% in November, but they more than made up for it elsewhere.
	So he said China has a voracious appetite for gold.
	The leaders and the smart people in that country that have all the wealth know this.
	And so they're accumulating it very rapidly.
	He said, if gold were to go down 20, 30, 40%, I would be buying it hand over fist.
	And I think that gold is something you just want to continually stack.
	That's why Tony's wise wolf program, Wolfpack, I think is so valuable.
	It allows you to save.
	And that's the real power for us as individuals.
	Is the consistent saving, even of small amounts, really makes a big difference.
	It's very hard to try to get a stash of stuff put up all at once.
	But if you save it little by little, then it accumulates.
	And that's what Tony allows you to do with Wolfpack.
	And again, you can get there through DavidKnight.gold.
	Let him know that you came through us.
	Dowd's bullishness on precious metals is underpinned by his bearish view on the U.S. economy.
	He argues that the resilience of the U.S. GDP over the last two years was a hallucination driven by government deficit spending and by mass migration, a dynamic that he says has now ended.
	So he said the U.S. government basically brought in 20 million illegal aliens and gave them money to keep that extended.
	That floor has been removed and the housing market is now rolling over.
	Again, they gave them federal subsidized loans and it pumped up the housing market, made sure that a lot of young people who would be entering the housing market could not afford to because of the housing bubble that they created.
	And that was a big way that they created that bubble was by giving money and federal loans to illegal aliens coming into this country.
	With border crossings halted and the illegal alien stimulus removed, Dowd predicts a tumultuous 2026 for the housing sector.
	He also warned metal investors looking for growth in the tech sector to be wary of the AI boom, which he described as a bull trap.
	He called a bullpen, a bull trap, a bull excrement.
	You know, it's similar to the dot-com bubble.
	He predicted massive downside from market leaders like NVIDIA, drawing a direct parallel to the crisis system's collapse in 2000.
	Well, I've been saying for a long time that I think that there was going to be a burst of that AI stock bubble.
	I'm not so sure anymore.
	When we look at this pronouncement of the Trump administration about the Genesis Act, they're talking about it in terms of massive funding, equivalent to the space program or to the Manhattan Project or whatever.
	And they're going to pour so many resources into it.
	I said there's a lot of people have been saying there's two possibilities.
	Either this tech bubble built around AI is going to blow up and take down the stock market and create a great recession or a depression.
	Or the other alternative is that it works and it takes everybody's jobs.
	I don't think that's going to happen.
	But I said there's a third alternative, that the real killer application for this was and always has been for the government to use it to monitor and to manipulate people.
	And so I think that police state aspect of it, Trump has already shown he's willing to pour everything into it.
	And so I think the government will keep it going, just like they keep the military industrial complex going.
	I'm not so sure there's going to be a crash of the stock market now.
	I kind of feel like they're going to subsidize it whatever it takes because it is going to be the basis of their police state powers and it is also what his donors want.
	The big donors that have sidled up around him and given him lots of money want this.
	And he's clearing the decks.
	He's doing everything he can to make sure that nobody is going to stand in the way of AI even regulatorily at state or local level.
	So Cisco Systems, as he pointed out, when he goes back to look at the dot-com bus, he said Cisco Systems was once the most valuable company.
	They lost 80% of their value following the March 2000 peak, and it took nearly 20 years to recover its nominal high.
	He warned that NVIDIA shareholders face a similar dead money period.
	He said, if you're buying NVIDIA now at these price levels, it's going to take, in my humble opinion, you might earn your money back in 10 or 15 years.
	So, again, a lot of talk about whether the crypto Ponzi scheme is finally coming to an end.
	Many people are jumping into that.
	But I think that, yes, that is a pump and dump.
	And I think that the AI stuff is a real bubble.
	But I think they've also been able to successfully sell this to the government.
	The Genesis Act statement that is put out by the Trump administration, I find it to be a truly frightening document when you look at how they're going to grease the skids for all this stuff.
	And they've laid the foundation for this with Musk and with Sam Altman coming in and trying to scare everybody.
	You know, we have to be number one in AI or we're going to lose everything to the Chinese.
	So he says, recognize, says Brian Shahi, when he talks about the crypto stuff, he says, recognize that the adoption stories, the dollar hedge, central banks, and so forth, remain mostly marketing copy.
	They are not monetary policy.
	The biggest scammer, Trump, immediately shifted from Bitcoin to other things when he took office, and so a lot of that has been a pump and dump.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
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	Why don't we do those first?
	Yes, indeed.
	I want to say thank you to DG8.
	We appreciate the tip.
	Thank you.
	He says, David, BRICS nations are selling oil and precious metals.
	Saudi Arabia is partnering with 32 other BRICS nations.
	Venezuela is USA's last grasp to protect the petrodollar.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it's just piracy.
	It really is.
	It's crazy.
	And Max says the AI is to assure you don't do anything anti-Semitic and that you take your shots as ordered.
	Yeah, monitoring and messaging.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Says China is already using AI talking heads, judges, policing, etc.
	Well, with a population that large, there's no way you can effectively police and control them.
	You need a tremendous amount of people to accomplish even a portion of it.
	It's like that article.
	I don't for don't remember you were doing the show for it was me, talking about churches in China and how some of them don't put their kids in school and they manage to get away with it just because there's so many people that they have a hard time keeping track of everyone.
	Yeah, China is the beta test site for all this stuff, right?
	That's why they transferred all of our industry and our energy to them as well.
	But yeah, if they can control the people in China, you know, first they did population control.
	Let's have a one-child policy.
	But it's also about actually controlling the people that are there.
	And that's why they made them the beta test site for all this traffic light system, red, green, or yellow, in terms of you're allowed to do things because we're monitoring you on social media.
	But yeah, if you keep your head down, there's so many people in China, they're not going to know that you're there.
	You just live in your little storage shed facility.
	That's what the people are living in outside of the cities.
	It's like you look at a long line of storage sheds where it's a concrete floor and three concrete walls and a garage door.
	And you can drive by them and they had the garage door up and they're all living there.
	They got like a living room and they're all just in there.
	And they opened up the garage door because they needed to have the ventilation.
	They didn't have any windows and that thing.
	But if you live in a simple way like that, they don't know where you are.
	That's kind of what they planned on with Brave New World, the savages outside of the city, right?
	And so yeah, I think this comment here that we have to be like China so they don't win, nice trick to turn us into China, which has always been the agenda.
	That's exactly right, NMAX.
	We always, for some reason, have to become what we fight, right?
	And we have seen this over and over again.
	We have become the Nazis, quite literally.
	I mean, we're aggressive, invading other countries, and, you know, we have adopted their tactics.
	And now we are machine gunning people who are out of the fight.
	We're committing war crimes like the Nazis did, and why we had the Nuremberg trials and why we had the Geneva Convention thing.
	We're violating all that stuff.
	We are the Nazis.
	So, yeah, I agree.
	And we're also going to be the Chinese big brother communists.
	DG8, thank you again.
	He says silver and gold is skyrocketing.
	I seem to remember a campaign promised out at Fort Knox that went the way of Dove and Transparency and Justice for COVID tyranny.
	It's all just WWE wrestling.
	It says all this stuff and he has no intention of doing it.
	It's about grabbing headlines and keeping you busy chasing his lies while they enact these things like the Genesis Act and other things like that.
	Yeah.
	Opossum King says, Apple already has an app to upload your loved ones into the cloud.
	I heard a woman talking about how she has an AI that she named after her grandmother and trained it on something to make it similar to that.
	And that was so horrifying to me.
	Well, I can understand it because, you know, we go back and we look at photographs of loved ones after they're gone, right?
	And it's very easy for these things to animate photographs.
	By the way, you know, when we did that Charlie Brown thing, I just took a bunch of Charlie Brown toys and stuff and had it animate Charlie Brown toys for the most part.
	But, you know, it does a very convincing job of animating it.
	You don't even have to give it really any direction.
	Sometimes they will take direction, but it can be a very, very frustrating thing trying to give direction to AI if you've got a specific thing that you want to do.
	And that's what the people who did the McDonald's commercial that took so much criticism and heat said.
	They said, do you realize how many runs we had to do with this stuff and how we had to edit it to get exactly what we wanted?
	That's where the work is.
	As many people point out, so you just admitted that as expensive as all this stuff is and all the effort that's being put on it, that it's a hassle and you probably would have been just as well off or better off to do the traditional approach.
	And certainly with a company that's got a budget like that, they could do that.
	For you and I, we don't have the budget to do those types of things.
	So we, you know, we go through the different iterations of it.
	But it can make some things very convincing.
	So if you had something, Travis, that moved and talked, you know, that sounded exactly like your loved ones, I can see where that would be something that would be very effective and wanted by people.
	I know it sounds creepy, but in a sense, it's not really that much different than when you look at a picture, a still photograph.
	You know, your mind is doing that.
	Instead, if this thing does it, it makes it even more real.
	I don't know.
	That's my take on it.
	Yeah.
	To me, it's just there's a difference between animating a photo and getting to see some motion, what might have been going on in the moment, versus trying to have and thinking in some way that you're having a conversation with your dead relative.
	That's right.
	I remember when that was done in the first Superman movie, they had Marlon Brando, and it was an interactive thing.
	I thought, what in the world, how in the world would you do that?
	Well, I mean, you could actually see it right now.
	You'd be interacting with AI and not with a person, but it would be simulating that person when it was interacting with you.
	So, yeah, it is crazy.
	They're enacting all of these sci-fi dreams and nightmares everywhere, aren't they?
	All I want to say is, once I go, please, nobody try to make an AI of me.
	For one, you wouldn't get the full experience.
	It won't be able to.
	Words it can't say.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	The USA has enough oil domestically that we don't need oil from anywhere else.
	It is a scam system used for creating the pretext for conflict.
	Oil is not scarce or limited.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Real Jason Barker, renaming of the Gulf, Ice Raids, and all the other optics was always about the oil and ultimately the dollar.
	I agree.
	And iHandy, good to see you.
	And we're going to get it from Greenland, too, right?
	Yeah, Greenland.
	Yeah, we're going to take over Greenland.
	Remember that?
	Which Greenland is the one you don't want.
	Haven't heard too much about that anymore lately either, have we?
	It's just kind of like Fort Knox and all the rest of this stuff.
	Well, maybe Greenland doesn't exist anymore.
	I Handy, good to see you.
	iHandy.
	Yeah, of course.
	iHandy has his own sub stack.
	He is a paramedic, I believe, is the technical.
	There's different terms, but I believe paramedic emergency service worker, and he cataloged a lot of what he saw during COVID, the insanity that was ongoing.
	You can find him on Substack at iHandy.
	He said, I just made a batch of turkey jerky.
	I left it on a little too long and got turkey crisp.
	Still delicious.
	It's the season for turkey.
	We have so many wild turkeys that roam around this area.
	You see them all during the year.
	Yeah.
	DG8 says silver is pushing $64 an ounce today.
	Wow.
	It's going up and up.
	Can't even keep track of it.
	Well, let's talk a little bit about pharmaceutical stuff here.
	And this came out a few days ago.
	You have 10 deaths.
	I pointed that out.
	10 deaths are being acknowledged by children in the FDA memo that was leaked.
	And of course, in the past, we have had vaccines pulled off and made illegal in a lot of states because they identified nine people who had died after having the vaccine.
	We don't do that anymore for some reason.
	How about that?
	Isn't that amazing?
	You know, we will pull all of the baby cribs because of one death, but we won't pull the vaccine because they have documented 10 deaths or a dozen deaths or whatever.
	And we know that there's many, many, many, many more.
	In particular, one of the ones that is on there is after the persistence of his father, Ernest Ramirez, Ernest Ramirez Jr., who was 16 years old.
	He died five days after he got the Pfizer vaccine.
	And his father has been everywhere telling people about it.
	And good for him.
	You know, he's not going to let his son be forgotten.
	And it really is when we look at this and think about it.
	It's not just the children, the 10 children or whatever, but it is especially true this time of year.
	You know, we look at these family holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
	We think about the children that have been killed.

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