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Jade Helm Revisited 00:14:50
	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 Tuesday, the 3rd of February.
	Hear our Lord, 2026.
	Well, do you remember Jade Helm a little over a decade ago?
	We're going to go back and take a look at that because we're now living it, folks.
	I've talked many times about how at Infowars we did, Alex did before I got there, four documentaries about the police state, all this Jade Helm stuff and going to the cities.
	That all began about a decade ago.
	And there was an article that just came out from the intercept saying, look at this.
	Now, all these people who were very paranoid about this a decade ago are now cheering it.
	And that's exactly what is happening.
	And so we're going to take a look at the Pentagon's continuing vision.
	Their vision hasn't changed about what they want to do.
	That's what we were talking about at the time.
	And we're also going to talk about AI, some incredibly amazing, crazy results.
	We've got a social network now that has been created for AI agents.
	No humans.
	Humans can watch, but they're talking to themselves now.
	And meanwhile, the Pentagon wants to hand the keys to the place over to these bots.
	We'll be right back.
	Well, as I said before, Jade Helm, you know, we, this is from The Intercept, and they said, conservatives were once panicked about a federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent, and now they're cheering it.
	Of course, that got my attention.
	This is on the intercept, and it was something that was linked by the Drudge Report.
	And I remember when that happened.
	And my take on it at the time was that I thought that they were using InfoWars to push this out.
	McRaven, who was head of Special Forces at the time, Admiral McRaven, had said, we need to get back to our PSYOP roots at Special Forces.
	We see all these movies about people jumping out of planes and all these kinetic things and stuff like that, because we really started was with special forces and psyops.
	They would basically go into an area that the U.S. is going to start a war with or invade, and they would plant stories there and see how people reacted to them.
	So they could identify who was going to be their ally and who was going to be their friend.
	And I believed that that was the purpose of Jade Helm from the very beginning, and I think that they used Infowars for that purpose.
	But let's go back and see from the perspective of the left, because that's where the intercept is coming from.
	Talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors, the targeting of gun owners, mass surveillance, the deployment of militarized artificial intelligence, and the suspension of the Constitution.
	By the way, folks, you are here.
	This is where it is.
	The year is 2015.
	And in 2015, the far right was incensed, they said.
	But now the far right embraces this because it's Trump.
	It was bad because it was Obama.
	But if Trump is going to bring in military martial law and take over the cities, that's just fine.
	Isn't it amazing how these people can't extrapolate?
	Even when they've experienced Obama, when they've experienced Biden and his J6 persecutions, they still can't get it.
	It's incredible.
	It was also a time of post-Snowden horror, as a nation realized that it was living inside an unfathomably immense government surveillance dragnet, endorsed and expanded by both political parties.
	They're absolutely right.
	It was a moment that for a certain segment of conservatives, Jade Helm 15 became an American crisis.
	And again, it was a reporting as to what was happening with the drills in the cities alongside with leaks from Snowden that I think was why they leaked this information, put out a false narrative through InfoWars in order to get to see how people were going to react.
	And of course, that had a big effect in Texas.
	Greg Abbott got involved in it, and a lot of people did.
	Reveals how much about the hucksters who pushed it and the tolerance of many Americans for state oppression.
	So long as they are not the intended targets.
	The cauldron of hatred, federal violence, and surveillance brewed by the paranoiks who pounced on Jade Helm has spilled over today, not in the form of right-wing phobia, but of right-wing policy.
	Let me just say, if they're actually watching you, you're not paranoid, right?
	How could they, in one paragraph, say, look, this is where we are today.
	This is actually happening.
	And in the other next paragraph, they talk about paranoia of the right.
	No, it wasn't paranoia.
	It was understanding where these people were going.
	And I think even though Alex understands where they're going, he certainly does know what's going on.
	He is a huckster.
	In July 2015, Alex Jones, at that point, still little more than a punchline, they said, issued a dire warning on his website, Infowars.
	This is an urgency broadcast, he began.
	To militarize the police, to put standing armies on the streets to suppress the population and to carry out political operations.
	But now he celebrates it, doesn't he?
	Jones was referring to publicly released Pentagon planning documents detailing Jade Helm 15, a military training exercise throughout sparsely populated swaths of the American South, from Florida to Texas.
	As is often the case when the dishonest have primary documents and a vast megaphone, Jones misstated nearly every detail of the materials.
	And that is true.
	He hyped it.
	It was good for business.
	A map from what was essentially a large-scale military role-playing game labeling Texas as hostile, colored in red, was irrefutable evidence to Jones that the Obama administration was prepared to let loose the national security state on the conservative heartland.
	Well, prior to this, we had reported over and over again about the military exercises that were being done in cities like Chicago and LA and other places like that.
	And they said, well, when questioned about it, they said you train where you're going to fight.
	It's like, what's that about?
	And then they talk about the fact that the Obama administration was putting MRAPs everywhere.
	You know, small town sheriffs were getting them if they would be willing to take them.
	What they found out was that they were getting white elephants.
	These things were hastily put together for the war in Iraq, these mine-resistant armored personnel carriers, MRAPs, and they were a nightmare of maintenance expenses.
	And so what they did was the Pentagon retained ownership of it, but gave it to some of these communities, small sheriffs and stuff like that, so they could, I guess, drive around in parades or something.
	And part of the militarization of the police, letting them role play as SWAT teams and that type of thing.
	But they quickly found out that it was so expensive to maintain them, and they had to be maintained by the local people.
	A lot of them gave them back.
	But as I pointed out at the time, why were they doing that?
	What is the motivation for that?
	Well, one possible motivation would be, I give this to these people, they maintain it, and of course it trains them to think of themselves as military.
	The other thing is that if they decided that they were going to actually run something out like Trump is doing now, these things are still under the control, still owned by the Pentagon.
	And if they've been maintained as they were required to maintain them, then they're already there, pre-placed.
	You don't have to move them around the country.
	They've already pre-deployed them.
	It was a very strange change in the Obama administration.
	It was newsworthy, whether or not the intercept thought so.
	It was newsworthy because prior to that, since World War II, surplus military equipment had always been given, and I mean given, transferred over with no charge and that type of thing, to rural fire departments.
	They pointed out that the rural fire departments are the front line on these large forest fires that will happen in natural areas, national parks and things like that.
	So you've got small rural fire departments that have to deal with the biggest fires.
	So it made sense to give them some equipment to help them to do that, especially if it was surplus equipment that the military didn't really want to use anymore because maybe it was outdated and vulnerable.
	They stopped that program so they could start putting this equipment in with police departments and sheriff's departments.
	And so you had a lot of volunteer firemen immediately start writing letters.
	They're very politically involved.
	They're active.
	They're volunteers.
	And they got senators in several states to push back right away.
	And they stopped that policy right away from Obama.
	But it said something about what their motives were that I thought were very important.
	So that was really the full context.
	The military drills that happened over and over again in large cities, especially Democrat cities, and the fact that they had the deployment of these things.
	And then also there was the asymmetric warfare aspect of it.
	That's why I went to Fort A.P. Hill.
	Sorry.
	Go ahead, Glance.
	It's interesting to see the parallels between the doublethink of the left and the double think of the right, because, you know, like you pointed out, they're pointing out, they're saying they're paranoiacs if they believe this stuff, which is now coming true.
	And they have to say that it was just a map that was colored red and ignore all the stuff about the Fort AP Hill with the corner of 1st and Maine and churches and all that that's set up for the military to train in.
	That doesn't look anything like the Middle East.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And it hasn't been attacked by planes.
	It's not bombed out shelves of buildings.
	No, they were actually there doing these drills.
	The left has to say, no, it was ridiculous 10 years ago, but it's real now.
	And the right has to say, no, it's nothing now, but it was a real threat 10 years ago.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	So the White House was leveraging the national security state to build the infrastructure for a federal paramilitary occupation of the country to choke out political dissent by force.
	That's what's happening.
	Unwanted portions of violations would be herded into Department of Homeland Security administered campuses and warned Jones, other stalwarts of the right-wing paranoia.
	We're not becoming a police state, he told viewers.
	We're already here.
	Well, you know, they're spending tens of millions of dollars to get massive warehouses to put people in.
	Is it only going to be illegal immigrants?
	I mean, are they only attacking, arresting, ramming, shooting illegal immigrants?
	No, they're doing that to American citizens now.
	Will incarceration, mass incarceration be the next thing?
	Well, maybe.
	All right.
	So Jones claimed the training exercise was connected to the broader militarization of the American police agencies, a real trend that he misconstrued as a leftist scheme against his audience.
	Well, as they pointed out at the very beginning, they said this is something that's been done by both the left and the right.
	And when you superimpose your partisan paranoia or your partisan bias or your partisan marketing over this, what it does is it discredits it, doesn't it?
	He said, you've got massive military gear being cached, armored vehicles, machine guns, helicopters, night vision Humvees with the police departments around the country, he said.
	But now it's all good.
	Jones was not alone.
	Texas Governor Greg Abbott quickly endorsed Infowar's ravings, deploying the State Guard to monitor Jade Helm so Texans know their safety and their constitutional rights, private property rights, and civil liberties will not be infringed, as he put it in an April 2015 letter ordering their mobilization.
	This is amazing.
	They call it ravings.
	Yeah, ravings, right?
	So former Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert suggested the White House was hoping to provoke an armed confrontation between the military and the administration's critics.
	It's no surprise, said Gohmert, that those who have experienced or noticed such persecution are legitimately suspicious.
	I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty, agreed Senator Ted Cruz.
	So when you look at all this, folks, this tells you the importance of partisan political parties, right?
	It blinds people to what is happening.
	The left was blinded to it then, the right is blinded to it now.
	The reality is it was happening then, and it's happening now, and it's further along, and this is the agenda.
	Locals organized Jade Helm volunteer groups that monitored and recorded military movement.
	Oathkeepers described Jade Helm on its website as a, quote, portentious government plan, a prefabricated, pre-constructed umbrella under which a black op by the deep state's compartmentalized agencies could possibly go live in a fantastic sort of shock and awe, false flag, psycho coup to jar the public mind of America through fear into acceptance of some nefarious policy.
	You know, like Operation Warp Speed.
	Which they just set that out.
	So changing the mind of America through fear into the acceptance of some nefarious policy that the government desired, such as establishment of martial law, complete loss of individual liberty and our Constitution.
	Well, that was 2020.
	Now today he's taking it to the next step, isn't he?
	And so I always felt the purpose of this was a psyop, as I said.
Operation Warp Fear 00:04:14
	I felt this was to essentially inoculate them from any criticism about this.
	Oh, yeah, they criticize that, but see, with Jade Helm, nothing happened.
	And so I always believe that was what was going on.
	Largely unconcerned and frequently unconstrained by law, Trump has found in his Department of Homeland Security what Jones warned was coming a decade ago, a paramilitary force to terrorize political opponents and demographic undesirables.
	That's right.
	And it was all about identification of people and different groups.
	Trump and a docile American right wing have finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency.
	You've now got armored personnel carriers today carrying masks, heavily armed, pointlessly camouflaged.
	That's the thing I said the other day.
	I said, these guys are all wearing camouflage like they're in the jungle.
	That doesn't help you in the city, does it?
	It actually makes you stand out.
	And I guess that's the point.
	You know, this is kind of Christy Gnome level role-playing when you wear camouflage in the cities.
	So federal commandos going to American cities that voted against the president.
	And it's backed by a sophisticated national surveillance apparatus.
	Trump and his lieutenants, beneficiaries of American right wing, reshaped by the likes of Jones and his audience, make real explicit, quiet fantasizing attributed to Obama during Jade Helm, speaking openly of American communities as hives of the enemy.
	In September, Trump announced impending deportation operations in Chicago with a doctored image depicting the city under attack with maypalm.
	You remember that?
	That's the most amazing thing to me.
	I took that meme and expanded it.
	Very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one.
	They're saying you're trying to take over the Republic.
	And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.
	That's a war, too.
	It's a war from within.
	I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.
	And that's going to be their military.
	robots.
	And I did that before ICE did it.
	A human robot did that to a woman who was talking to him.
	Pulled down his pepper gun, pepper ball gun, and pulled out a real pistol and stuck it right in her face, just like that robot.
	Except this is a flesh and blood robot.
	Yeah, that's Trump's meme right there.
	Chicago burning in the background.
	He's dressed like the character from Apocalypse Now with the helicopters.
	What Trump didn't do in his meme was have himself holding the Constitution and lighting it from below, which is really what is happening here, folks.
	Yeah, so say that you're going to attack NAPOM, Chicago by NAPOM.
	Chicago is going to find out why it is called the Department of War, said Trump in his tweet.
	Imagine if Obama had done that.
	Just imagine.
	And yet these same people who would have been rightfully outraged if Obama had said that don't care at all when it's Trump who is saying that.
	And so, was this paranoia?
	Or was it something that was rolling out that we just reported?
	You know, we look at trends.
	And like Gerald Slinty says, you don't try to predict exactly when it's going to happen.
	It's important to get an idea of when it's going to happen, but you can identify this trend and be correct about that without knowing exactly when the hammer is going to fall, when the market is going to fall.
	There was a Pentagon video that was done back in 2015, I think.
	And this is also something that was picked up by the intercept at the time.
Urban Drain 2030 00:15:26
	Listen to the Pentagon's vision of megacities in the future in 2030.
	Of course, that's the date that they want to have all this stuff put in.
	And I've been saying that, you know, even though we don't know the exact timing, they've been saying that is their goal.
	You know, you don't have a goal if you don't set a date for it, right?
	You have a wish.
	Well, they've got a goal.
	They have set the date of 2030.
	That's when they want to roll this stuff out or have it in place.
	And we're rapidly moving toward that if you think about it.
	We got another four years.
	What could happen another four years?
	Look at what's happened in just the last few months.
	You know, there are some decades where nothing happens, and then there's some months where decades happen, aren't there?
	The future is urban.
	By 2030, urban areas are expected to grow by 1.4 billion, with that growth occurring almost entirely in the developing world.
	Cities will account for 60% of the world's population and 70% of the world's GDP.
	The urban environment will be the locus where drivers of instability will converge.
	It is the domain that by the year 2030, 60% of urban dwellers will be under the age of 18.
	The cities that grow the fastest will be the most challenged as resources become constrained and illicit networks fill the gap left by overextended and undercapitalized governments.
	The risk of natural disasters compounded by geography, climate changes, unregulated growth, and substandard infrastructure intersect to frustrate humanitarian relief.
	Growth will magnify the increasing separation between rich and poor.
	Religious and ethnic tensions will be a defining element in the social landscape.
	Yeah, because they're doing the great replacement.
	Unprecedented development as impoverishment, slums, and shanty towns rapidly expand alongside modern high-rises, technological advances, and ever-increasing levels of prosperity.
	This is the world of our future.
	It is one we are not prepared to effectively operate within, and it is unavoidable.
	Megacities are complex systems where people and structures are compressed together in ways that defy both our understanding of city planning and military doctrine.
	It is an ecosystem that demands a highly agile and adaptive force to successfully operate within.
	Infrastructures will vary radically, with concentrations of high-tech transportation, globally connected air and seaports, contemporary water, utilities, and waste disposal intermixed with open landfills, overburdened sewers, polluted water, and makeshift power grids.
	Living habitats will extend from the high-rise to the ground-level cottage to subterranean labyrinths, each defined by its own social code and rule of law.
	Social structures will be equally challenged, if not dysfunctional, as historic ways of life clash with modern living, ethnic and racial differences are forced to live together, and criminal networks offer opportunity for the growing mass of unemployed.
	This becomes the nervous system of non-nation-state, unaligned individuals and organizations that live and work in the shadows of national rule.
	Where physical domains can be seen, digital domains will have limitless potential to breed and expand without limit.
	Digital security and trade will be increasingly threatened by sophisticated illicit economies and decentralized syndicates of crime to give adversaries global reach at an unprecedented level.
	This will add to the complexities of human targeting as a proportionally smaller number of adversaries intermingle with a larger and increasing number of citizens.
	The scale and density of these domains is daunting.
	In a city of 10 million, where you hold the support of 99% of the population, the remaining 1% represents a threat of 100,000.
	It is an environment of convergence hidden amongst the enormous scale and complexity of the megacity.
	These are the future breeding grounds, incubators, and launching pads for adversaries and hybrid threats.
	Linked globally, these are man-made labyrinths that provide refuge and movement across the vast sections of these cities where alternate forms of governance have taken control.
	The advice of doctrine from Sun Tzu to current field manuals has provided two fundamental options.
	Avoid the cities or establish a cordon to either wait out the adversary or drain the swamp of non-combatants and engage the remaining adversaries in high-intensity conflict within.
	Even our counterinsurgency doctrine, honed in the cities of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, is inadequate to address the sheer scale of population in the future urban reality.
	From the streets of Akhen to the citadel and way, we have defeated adversaries who attempted to use urban terrain to their advantage.
	Oh, have we?
	Conflict is written deep into the army's histories.
	But in tomorrow's conflict, these megacities are orders of magnitude greater in complexity, and our current options do not meet strategic ends.
	Our future operations must allow us to rapidly return the city to the people.
	They will be too large and complex to isolate or court on in their entirety.
	Yet our soldiers will have to operate within these ecosystems with minimal disruption and flow.
	Our current and past strategies can no longer hold.
	We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw.
	We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways.
	The future army will confront a highly sophisticated urban-centric threat that will require that urban operations become the core requirement for the future land force.
	The threat is clear.
	Our direction remains to be defined.
	The future is urban.
	And again, that was done by the intercept.
	But one thing really strikes me as I watch that.
	And that is they're describing this dystopian third world hell that is essentially the outcome of current government policies in America as well as in Europe.
	They know exactly where they're going, and it is their policies that are driving us into this.
	They want that.
	The only thing they're concerned about in this video is how do we maintain continuity of government?
	How do we maintain control after we create this third world dystopian hell?
	That is the amazing thing.
	They talk about, yeah, the makeshift power grids.
	I highlighted some of the key words that are in this in a sense.
	The unaligned individuals and organizations that live and work in the shadows of national rule.
	This is about wiping out all choice and concentrating wealth in the hands of the few.
	They said, you know, you're going to have little tiny shanty towns where people are building shacks in the street, living in the shadow of these amazing, high-rise, high-tech things.
	Sounds like Gaza, doesn't it?
	They want to make the entire world like that.
	And so they want to overburden sewers, polluted water, makeshift power grids, like Trump was saying.
	Yeah, I told these companies that are coming in here to do manufacturing, you need to set up your own power right there at the factory because, hey, our power grid is old and it's falling apart.
	And implied in all that is, we're not going to do anything to fix that.
	We're not going to do anything to incentivize people to fix it.
	I don't think it's the federal government's responsibility to set up the power grid.
	I think they need to get out of it.
	More things they get out of, the better, because everything they get into, they mess up.
	But they're not talking about incentivizing or helping or planning for a future that people want to live in.
	This is the dystopian third world hell that they're trying to do to everybody.
	And that is the other side of this Jade Helm militarized stuff in 2026.
	Even to the extent that they talk about draining the swamp.
	Now, this is about 12 years ago.
	Is anybody talking about draining the swamp?
	Was that a MAGA meme at that point in time?
	Drain the swamp, drain the swamp.
	No.
	Isn't that interesting?
	You know, people who gave us Trump, who did all the rest of this stuff, and they're propagandists like Alex Jones, drain the swamp.
	They see you as the swamp.
	They want to drain you, drain you of power, of independence, of liberty, of financial independence.
	That's what they want to drain from you.
	And of course, they're very concerned about the population.
	You get a city of 10 million.
	If 99% of them are with you, that means there's 100,000 people there that are against you.
	We got to eliminate that.
	One of the ways that you need to do that is to reduce the population, of course.
	That's always been a big part of this.
	That's always been a big part of all of this Green MacGuffin.
	And before we had the 2030 Smart Agenda and the smart cities, of course, we had Agenda 21.
	Sometime in the 21st century, they were going to implement this.
	And then when they got to around 2015, they put a specific date on it, 2030.
	But prior to that, they put out their maps.
	You remember the old Agenda 21 maps where it showed the areas that were off-limits, going to be off-limits to humans, which basically most of the continental United States.
	And they would concentrate us in large mega-cities.
	For example, in Texas, they would take the corridor there that was Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and just make that into one gigantic city.
	Well, it's basically getting there pretty quickly.
	And then, of course, there'd be another center over in Houston.
	So you just have to have a high-speed rail line that's going to run between those.
	They've been planning this for a very long time.
	And it wasn't paranoia, I'm afraid.
	I'm afraid that they're doing exactly what they always said they were going to do.
	So they said, after Minneapolis residents Renee Goode and Alex Predty were gunned down by DHS agents, then cheered by Alex Jones, 100%, showing that ICE was justified in shooting Alex Predi.
	That was the day after he puts that stuff up.
	And he had nothing that showed any justification whatsoever because it wasn't justified.
	He didn't have any new video.
	So since Trump's speech, DHS agents have shot 12 people, killing four of them.
	Minneapolis residents describe the experience of ICE as something akin to a military occupation.
	Where Obama's Jade Helm fell short in the collective imaginations of the Infowars Right, Trump's second term has succeeded in wielding DHS as an ideological cudgel.
	So they have the killing of Good and Predty.
	The department's justification for dispensing the death penalty on the sidewalk, that they were both domestic terrorists bent on killing federal personnel, quickly disintegrated in the face of video evidence.
	All that was left was a rationale that was more foreboding than anything that Jade Helm truthers had attributed to the Obama administration.
	A shrug that boils down to the brutal view, well, that's what they get and for wanting this to stop.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, they deserve that.
	You know, they want Somalis here.
	They deserve to die.
	I voted for this attitude that's out there.
	Okay, boomer.
	You know, that's what we see from these people.
	So Greg Bovino wondered if Predty about Predty at a press conference, he said, or was he there for a reason?
	As I point out, his reason for being there was clear.
	And it was filmed from multiple angles.
	He was there to legally observe and record the agents who then killed him for doing that.
	In May 2015, and here's what they mentioned me in this article.
	InfoWars correspondent David Knight warned that Jade Helm would involve the collection and exploitation of enormous reams of personal information.
	Quote, they analyze the data, and then because you stick out in some way, now you're treated as if you already have had due process, as if you've already been found guilty of a crime, resulting in the government kicking down the doors of innocent people.
	If you understand the technology, you'll see that this is an intelligence operation that's using geospatial intelligence.
	Information from low-level surveillance technologies like Stingray and predictive policing programs are all getting siphoned up into NSA data centers.
	A detailed global map that will continue to grow with near endless stats on all individuals.
	Well, the Intercept said this much was true in broad strokes, if not the specifics.
	They don't say what specifically they disagree with about that.
	And quite frankly, there isn't anything that I see in this article where they disagree with it.
	The biggest thing they said is that it's worse than I predicted.
	And it's not just the NSA.
	It's all these other agencies that are all hooked into the flock cameras and all the rest of this stuff.
	Makes me sick.
	Makes me sick.
	The budget for DHS in 2025.
	10 times the agency's total surveillance spending combined over the last 13 years.
	Think about that.
	So since we were talking about that type of thing, you take all of their surveillance stuff for all those years, all those 13 years we were talking about it, warning people about it.
	And then Trump comes in in 2025.
	And in one year, he has a bigger budget for surveillance than the last 13 years combined.
	Alex Jones, you sold out, you son of a bitch.
	Thanks to the unregulated thanks to the unregulated market in commercial surveillance technology, DHS has little need for a spy agency like the NSA.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	So, you know, when you look at this, and they throw in some things here that were false speculation.
	Some of the InfoWars orbit speculated the word Jade itself may or may not be an acronym for military developed artificial intelligence.
	And again, that was never true.
	Never said anything.
	I don't know where they found that.
	I never heard that, actually, even when I was there.
	But it's these kinds of false details that are added to discredit what is really going on.
	And that's why I said that about Jade Helm in general.
	They laid out and implied they were going to do something, which they didn't do.
	And that in and of itself was a way to try to discredit all the criticism of the police surveillance state, which is now rolled out.
	That's the reality, folks.
	That's where we are.
	The federal government is willing to use force, surveillance, and extra-constitutional power to suppress dissent.
	That's what we know.
	These abuses aren't a problem so long as it's somebody else's back that's being pushed onto the concrete.
	Somebody else's car windows that are smashed.
	Somebody else who's dealing with the pain of a chemical irritant.
Someone Else's Back 00:05:02
	Or somebody else who gets disarmed and shot in the back.
	The contingent of the country that swore to avenge Ruby Ridge and Waco now seem mostly content to cheer on more of the same.
	Under the X videos that you see, the far right is making clear their opposition was never to authoritarian violence or state terror, but instead being subjected to that violence and terror themselves.
	They only defended individuals and political parties.
	They didn't defend principles.
	They didn't understand how to say, if you don't defend the principles, you're going to wind up in the crosshairs.
	That's clearly the case.
	So while the NRA used to call the federal police jackbooted government thugs, now they felt that after the death of Alex Predi, because they started saying, well, look, he had a gun.
	Oh, we'll step this back.
	They said, well, he was antagonizing ICE.
	Now he had a right to carry arms, of course, but he was antagonizing ICE.
	And so that's why they killed him.
	You know, it's a death penalty to antagonize these massed thugs.
	Don't get in their face.
	Don't film them because that interfere with their quote-unquote investigation.
	Well, the investigation should come before the violent force, shouldn't it?
	The problem is they don't do an investigation.
	They don't do a warrant.
	They go and break into a house and take out a guy who is decades older than the person, their cover story that emerges later.
	Well, we're looking for these other two individuals.
	They were in their 20s, so we grabbed this guy who's in his 60s and drug him out in the 10-degree weather.
	If you'd done an investigation in the first place, if he'd had a warrant, maybe that wouldn't have happened.
	But anyway, as I point out, InfoWars' jade helms coverage now seemingly scrubbed from the site.
	As a matter of fact, I thought it was suspicious the way Alex acted when I went to the Asymmetric Warfare Center at the time.
	I thought it was real suspicious.
	Now I see it for what it was.
	Absolutely.
	The spirit of the old anti-state paranoia of Infowars remains, but it's just inverted into the service of the state.
	That's what's going on.
	The notion of camouflaged agents in the street is cause for celebration now, not for an emergency broadcast.
	This is a headline that just was put out by Infowars, they said, quote, a war has erupted on the streets of America, and it's going to end with martial law in major U.S. cities.
	And with that headline, they put up an AI-generated image of federal officers defending themselves from an anti-FA onslaught.
	You see, now the feds are the victims.
	They're not the jackbooted thugs anymore.
	They're the victims.
	That's what this stuff is all about.
	Well, we're going to, and before I take a break, let me just say this.
	Marjorie Teller Green, who's now out of Congress after having resigned, she said, MAGA was all a lie.
	That's absolutely right.
	It's not about making America great again.
	She said that in his first year back in office, Trump is just focused on obliging his wealthy supporters.
	It's worse than that, Marjorie.
	He wants to get much wealthier himself.
	I mean, just look at everything that he's done.
	He's made over a billion dollars this last year, he and his family.
	So it is graft, it is corruption, total disregard for America.
	He's totally focused on his faux peace prize that he thinks he deserves for starting all these wars.
	I mean, how insane can you be?
	She said it was a big lie for the people.
	What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they're serving, is their big donors, the big, big donors that donated all the money and continue to donate to the president's PACs and donate to the 250th anniversary and are donating to the big ballroom, which is most likely an underground bunker.
	On Wednesday, she said the people who truly benefit from backing Trump and financial benefactors are the people that get the special favors.
	They get the government contracts, they get the pardons, and somebody they love or one of their friends gets a pardon.
	She criticized the favoritism for Trump's wealthy allies and also slammed the president for focusing on foreign policy rather than problems at home.
	It's the foreign countries they're running the show here.
	It's the major big corporations and what's best for the world.
	That's really what MAGA is.
	We're seeing war on the behalf of Israel.
	We're seeing the people in Gaza, innocent people in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of them completely murdered.
Favors And Foreign Policy 00:05:20
	Completely murdered.
	Only partially murdered, right?
	So they can build some new real estate development.
	So anyway, she's focusing on the financial betrayal.
	Still, you can't find people in Washington who will say anything about the police surveillance state, even if they criticize Trump's grifting.
	We're going to take a break and I'm going to calm down here.
	We'll be right back, folks.
	Let's talk about what's important.
	As the rain and the snow falls down from the heavens.
	so the words of my mouth will not return empty, but do what I purpose and lead to in peace.
	Come to me, all you who thirst.
	Come and drink the living water.
	Let those without money still purchase and drink.
	Listen carefully to me that your soul may live forever.
	Your soul will delight in what I have to give.
	As the rain and the snow falls down from the heavens and waters the earth and sees.
	So the words of my mouth will not return empty, but do what I purpose and leave.
	Oh, that we might know the Lord.
	Let us follow through to know him.
	He'll come like the spring rains that water the earth as the rain and the snow falls down from the heavens and waters the earth and see.
	So the words of my mouth will not return empty.
	But do what I purpose and lead you in peace.
	Seek the Lord while he is near.
	Call on him and he'll have mercy.
	His thoughts are not your thoughts, his ways.
	Call on him while he is near, for he said he'll freely pardon your ways.
	Turn toward me as the rain and the snow falls down from the heavens and waters the earth and see so the words of my mouth will not
	return empty.
	But do what I purpose and lead you to me.
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Moral Wickedness At The Top 00:03:43
	All right, welcome back.
	Stealth Patriot.
	Uh, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that he said this.
	A moral wicked, criminal government is just a reflection of the people.
	Yeah, when you settle for the better of two evils, that's exactly what you get, moral corruption.
	We need a come to jesus moment.
	That's absolutely right.
	I I said the other day.
	I said, you know, it doesn't worry me as much.
	That's why I put this before the Epstein uh updates and things like that, because the corruption, the rot at the top is not nearly as bad as the massive, widespread rot at the grassroots.
	Our roots have been corrupted in this country and so yeah, maybe it rots from the top down, but uh certainly, when you look at social media, what a bunch of rot that is.
	Uh, Doug the 007 said the majority of people seemed just fine with martial law.
	That's exactly what I say, just like with the covet lockdowns and the controls that were imposed on us.
	Then that's right.
	Many of them voted and cheered for the guy who did those things.
	Did the things now as well as back in 2020.
	Zoxov Voxaus says they call them flock cameras because they're surveilling sheep.
	That's probably true.
	Let's watch the flock.
	Except they're not sheepdogs.
	They're wolves, right?
	Surveilling us.
	Pick out the ones, the stragglers on the sides there.
	That's the ones they're after.
	Shealia fusion centers are hiring.
	Yeah, that's the amazing thing, isn't it?
	We're saying every government is in big hiring blitz, and yet private companies are, you know, small companies are going out of business.
	Large companies are firing people.
	It reminds me of when we went in the aftermath of what happened in Malhur and the murder of Lavoie Finnecum by federal agents, of course.
	We went out there.
	It was, we went around and talked to a lumberjack that was there about what had happened in his lifetime in a short period of time.
	He said, used to be vibrant around here.
	We went around and we took pictures of all the sawmills that were rusting and decaying.
	And he said, the entire industry has been shut down here by the federal government.
	And he said, they don't manage the lands.
	That's why he was a lumberjack and he had, over a period of time, what he had provided for his retirement was to gradually accumulate land and he was going to then gradually sell off the lumber as part of his retirement.
	What happened was the federal government didn't do land management.
	And so the fire spread to his private land and destroyed his retirement.
	It's a metaphor, isn't it?
	And yet he said, the only people here anymore, he says, everybody that was here working as part of the lumber industry and everything have left and it's all just decaying.
	He said, the only people left are people who are retirees and they've got money from somewhere else and they come here because it's a beautiful area and the federal government.
	He said the federal government is hiring like crazy.
	That's our future.
	That's the future that the Pentagon and the feds want for us.
	That's the future that they had in that video.
	They drained the swamp, that's us, of people, of power, of wealth, of independence and liberty.
	And then they come in like a plague on us, like a disease.
	And then they feed on what's left.
	Angelo, 1999.
	MAGA will say, trust the plan as they're being put into the camps and killed.
	You're right.
	Absolutely right.
Guns and Weed Controversy 00:15:17
	Well, let's take a look at a couple of things that scare people.
	Guns and marijuana.
	Somebody did a documentary.
	I'll never forget it.
	They were absolutely right.
	It was called Guns and Weed or something like that.
	How Guns and Weed Won the West.
	And they were talking about efforts to nullify federal laws in terms of the Second Amendment and in terms of this illegal war on drugs.
	Let me just say that, you know, virtually every, the government is into, the federal government is into everything.
	And they have no authority for virtually anything.
	But there are certain areas, like when we talk about guns and drugs, those areas are in direct defiance of the Constitution.
	It's not just that they're usurping some authority here.
	They are defying the Constitution.
	And so they're talking about the fact, this is from reason.
	They said, you know, the NRA and NORMAL are uniting to oppose the federal gun ban for marijuana users.
	In other words, if you get charged with marijuana possession, then that is going to ban you from ever having a gun, according to the feds.
	The reality is, is that they're concerned about nullification by lesser magistrates, nullification by state and local government in terms of these unconstitutional things that the federal government is doing.
	And by the way, I have a note to myself here.
	We're going to do some Ask Me Anything questions on Friday.
	So if you would like to give us a question, you can email us at davidknightshow at protonmail.com.
	Just put AMA in the subject line, and we'll try to get to those, all those.
	And you can also do it on Rumble.
	We're going to limit it to Rumble and to email.
	If you do it on Rumble, put AMA at the front of the comment, and we'll save it.
	And we'll respond to that later.
	So, just a little announcement here.
	You have to remind me later on, Lance, to do it a second time in case people didn't catch this.
	Anyway, a federal law enacted in 1968, and there was a horrific mass of gun regulations unconstitutionally done in 1968.
	Because you had people that had been killed for the most part with sniper rifles, you know, high-profile politicians like JFK, Martin Luther King, and so forth.
	And then a very questionable shooting of RFK Jr. with a pistol.
	They went full on with the 1968 Gun Act and started banning things left and right.
	Things that were not even anything at all like the weapons that they allege were used in these assassinations.
	So 1968 was 177 years after ratification of the Second Amendment.
	And it makes it a felony currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison for an unlawful user of any controlled substance to receive or to possess a firearm.
	It therefore aims to disarm millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers who live in states that have legalized marijuana.
	So this is a federal law.
	And I think it's very important when we look at the power of nullification that the states have and refuse in most cases to use it.
	The rare exception is marijuana.
	That is the rare exception of nullification that the states have done.
	They have nullified the federal law.
	Remember in the first term of Trump, you had Jeff Sessions, who was totally obsessed with marijuana.
	It was like reefer madness.
	It was really kind of crazy.
	And he really wanted to push back because there was this movement to legalize first medical marijuana, then recreational marijuana.
	And he hated that.
	And he wanted to shut that down.
	As much as he wanted to shut it down, what did he do?
	He was really limited to trying to bribe local law enforcement to confiscate and steal people's property with civil asset forfeiture.
	Said, you do that, and I'll give you a split.
	You know, I mean, this is just, it's RICO, it's really what it is, racketeering and corrupt organizations.
	He's bribing the local police to steal your car and he give them 80% of it and he'll take a 20% cut.
	That was the way he was going to fight the war on drugs, fight it against Americans who have not been even charged with a crime, let alone found guilty of a crime.
	And so they point out until a few years ago, the NRA was reluctant even to comment on the constitutionality of this section as it applies to state legal cannabis consumers because, you know, conservatives don't like drugs and they didn't want to be seen as supporting drug use.
	And I, frankly, I don't care what people want to infer from my opposition to the war on drugs.
	Anybody who knows me knows that I don't do any drugs.
	I don't do alcohol, never have.
	And I'm not interested in it either.
	I never stayed away from that because it was illegal.
	If I'd wanted to do it, I would have done it.
	And that's one of the comments that really kind of stunned me when I told the guys I was working with, a data general, they were talking about something about the drugs and stuff like that.
	I said, you know, I think this whole thing is really overblown.
	I said, nobody ever offered me any drugs when I was in college, except, you know, when I'm in the bands and stuff.
	And they said they probably thought you were a narc.
	That really kind of took me back.
	But I thought, well, I guess they're right.
	I do have this conservative air about me that they noticed.
	So anyway, now the NRA is arguing that the statute is unconstitutional as applied to a cannabis consumer in Texas where recreational use is still illegal.
	Although 18 states have legalized recreational use, they're nevertheless urging the Supreme Court to allow that prosecution.
	The Drug Policy Alliance and the, and NORMAL, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, have joined the NRA in asking the justices to uphold the Fifth Circuit's decision.
	And again, the key thing here, as I said before, there is absolutely no authority for the drug war.
	And everyone in America knew that when they put in the 18th Amendment to prohibit alcohol.
	They went to the extra trouble of doing a constitutional amendment.
	It's very easy to pass a gun control act like the 1968 Act.
	You just have to get Congress to do it.
	And so the level of putting together a constitutional amendment is really very heavy on purpose.
	And everybody understood that that was necessary if they were going to prohibit anything.
	So if they were going to prohibit alcohol, they need to have a constitutional amendment.
	So yeah, the 18th Amendment prohibits it.
	The 21st Amendment brought it back.
	But there was no amendment to prohibit marijuana or any of these other drugs.
	That was a UN agenda that Richard Nixon put out and has absolutely no authority for it.
	Furthermore, the Second Amendment says that the individual right to keep and bear arms, and that's what it's talking about, it's not talking about state militias.
	States don't have rights.
	Let's just understand that.
	They have powers.
	And everything in the Bill of Rights is all, except for the last two, it's all about the individual's rights.
	You know, we have a right to free speech.
	We have a right to freely exercise religion and so forth and to protect ourselves.
	We have a right to due process.
	Everything that's in the Bill of Rights, the first state, they're all about individual rights.
	And nothing is there for collectively for the state.
	The state has powers.
	Individuals have rights.
	Why?
	Because they are created in the image of God.
	This is not something that belongs only to citizens.
	But states do not have rights.
	They have powers.
	So the Second Amendment says they shall not infringe.
	Congress shall not make laws that infringe on our right to keep and bear arms.
	And so everything that the ATF does is an infringement of some sort.
	And it is in direct defiance of the Second Amendment.
	And the war on drugs is essentially nearly as bad as well.
	Trump administration, meanwhile, insists that blowing up boats is not hostility.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So supposedly, words don't have any meaning anymore.
	And of course, the Constitution has no meaning to the Trump administration.
	And as Reason says, this does not stand up to scrutiny.
	Trump has sought to justify the policy of summarily executing suspected drug smugglers by arguing that the U.S. is engaged in, quote, armed conflict, unquote, with criminal organizations that supply prohibited intoxicants.
	Yet the Trump administration also insists that their forces are not engaging in hostility when they blow up boats and kill people that they think are carrying illegal drugs.
	So how does that work?
	I purposely try to avoid referring to Trump as president.
	I just use his last name.
	Because if he has such contempt for the Constitution, he doesn't deserve the title president.
	I can't remove him from office.
	But I can remove the usurped title from him, and I do.
	And I don't, I'm going to stop referring to the Trump administration.
	It's a regime, folks.
	They're not administering anything.
	They're not administering the Constitution or the rule of law.
	It is a regime that is stealing money and freedom from us everywhere you turn.
	His regime has tied itself in knots to portray murder as self-defense while avoiding congressional constraints.
	And even as they say, it's self-defense.
	You've had some of them say, Well, you know, we're proud of the fact that we're not even in range where they could even shoot at us.
	We're doing this by remote control using drones and other things like that.
	So we're not in danger.
	Isn't that great?
	We can kill at a distance.
	Well, then it's not self-defense either, is it?
	And it's not hostilities?
	Hmm.
	I don't know.
	So they talk about non-state armed groups whose actions constitute an armed attack against the United States.
	Except we're the only ones using any arms, right?
	As I said before, you know, the weapons of defense, which in this particular case is the prevarications and lies and manipulation of the language, those weapons of defense of the Trump regime become instruments of tyranny at home.
	That kind of rhetoric, that kind of excuse, that kind of usurpation has become the rhetoric at home of tyrants.
	And that always happens.
	Madison was right.
	It always happens.
	So the definition of a non-international armed conflict requires violent confrontations between organized parties that possess organized armed forces.
	The violence must meet a minimum threshold of intensity that distinguishes it from threats such as riots or banditry that are unorganized and short-lived insurrections and of terrorist activities.
	The armed conflict that Trump describes does not meet these criteria.
	This is not stretching the envelope, said a former senior advisor on the law of war for the U.S. Army.
	His name is Jeffrey Korn.
	He said, this is not stretching the envelope.
	This is shredding it.
	He's absolutely right.
	And in this article of reason, they point out how Trump, in his first term, one of his big heroes, was Rodrigo Duterte, then the president of the Philippines, who likened himself to Adolf Hitler while urging the murder of drug offenders.
	Trump bragged of his, quote, great relationship, unquote, with this brutal authoritarian, who he said was doing, quote, a great job, unquote, and tackling substances abuse.
	Now, Trump is copying the example set by Duterte.
	Let's hope that he continues to follow the example of Duterte because Duterte is currently imprisoned in The Hague, awaiting trials on charges of crimes against humanity.
	Why?
	Because he did extrajudicial killings of people that they said, well, if you think they're doing drugs, just kill them on the streets.
	So Trump has preposterously claimed that we saved 25,000 American lives with each boat strike.
	He's keen to conceal the reality of his bloodthirsty tactics.
	By choosing to kill alleged drug smugglers instead of intercepting and arresting them, he is imposing the death penalty on criminal suspects without statutory authorization or any semblance of due process.
	And I would just add, and I have added, I have said this in the past, even if they were guilty of what you allege you suspect of them doing, there's no death penalty for that.
	Think about that.
	Rand Paul has eviscerated the Trump administration's lies on Alex Predi's shooting.
	As a matter of fact, he's been right about the murders of our government in off the coast of Venezuela.
	And he's right about this as well.
	I don't agree with Ram Paul and everything, and I think he's not only pulled some punches, but he's misled us on the COVID stuff.
	But on this, he's absolutely right.
	He got into a back and forth.
	I played some of that for you a few days ago with Marco Rubio about what was going on in Venezuela.
	Ram Paul pulled no punches on Sunday in criticizing the Trump administration's response to the killing of Alex Predi.
	He said, I saw no evidence.
	I saw a man that was retreating.
	I mean, he went to the middle of the street.
	He didn't even obstruct traffic.
	He let a car go through.
	As agents advanced on him, he retreated to the side of the street.
	A woman is violently pushed to the ground and he turns to help her.
	That's when he's grabbed from behind.
	I saw no evidence of him assaulting the police.
	As a matter of fact, we have shown videos of it.
	One of them was shot from inside the car that was right behind him.
	He said, who's the aggressor here?
	And you see this little guy who is shoving him around from the back, spraying him in the face, spraying everybody there in the face, and wanting to get to that woman so that he can continue to beat her.
	The woman that he just violently pushed on the ground, probably pushed her about 10 feet.
	Anyway, so Scott Paley was who he was talking to.
	And Scott Paley said, so should Secretary Noam be fired?
	He said, I think we have to get to our hearing on February the 12th.
Amazon's H-1B Controversy 00:11:16
	And I think we have to see what the people who work for her say.
	But my advice to them, if they're watching and they come to testify, if you come in, you know, something needs to be done.
	But of course, they're not going to do anything, are they?
	Nothing, of course, will be done about any of this.
	So the narrative that Trump put out, Christy Noam put out, has collapsed, and we've all seen that.
	Interesting thing is there's also a little storm inside the Trump, I almost said administration, inside the Trump regime, there's a little bit of a storm about Tulsi Gabbard.
	There is a whistleblower complaint.
	The only thing worth talking about with this is because they have no details.
	It's all classified at secret.
	If you found out, they'd have to kill you, right?
	This is the kind of thing, you know, when you have a national security whistleblower because of national security, there's no sound to the whistleblower.
	It's just crickets, right?
	So there's internally, there's rumors that something is going on, and there's been complaints and investigations about Tulsi Gabbard for months, but we're not allowed to know any of it.
	They'll just pass on the broad outlines of this.
	I couldn't care less what these people in Washington are doing in and among themselves.
	I know that they're working against us.
	I know they're trying to start wars.
	I know they're setting up a police state, surveillance state.
	That's all I care to know about these people.
	Trump threatens to sue the Grammy Awards host after a defamatory joke about Epstein Island.
	Thin-skinned bully.
	That's what the guy is.
	And of course, this was, he's going to make Trevor Noah, who is, I find, one of the most annoying people on TV.
	But he's going to, just like Jimmy Kimmel, he's going to make a star out of him.
	I guess the joke's hit a little too close to home.
	That's right.
	So he was doing the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, actually.
	And he said, when somebody got an award, he said, well, that's really a coveted award.
	He said, let me see if I can find the quote here.
	I lost it here a second.
	He said, wow, that's a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland.
	And it makes sense.
	I mean, because Epstein's Island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.
	Now, that's going to get him a lawsuit, perhaps, of billions of dollars.
	You know, I looked up, he's suing the IRS, the American taxpayer, you and me, for $10 billion.
	And again, this is shouldn't, before Trump gets any compensation as a taxpayer, shouldn't he have to pay tax?
	Most of the years that he's, in the last 20 years or so, he has paid absolutely zero tax.
	Two years, he paid $750 in tax.
	And then one year, he paid $38 million off of $150 million income.
	Well, that's Chump change now compared to being president in his second term.
	Look at the amount of money that he's raking in left and right.
	Anyway, he made about, you know, he paid $38, I think, off of $150 billion.
	So like maybe a quarter, right?
	And so that's the only taxes that he pays.
	You know, the IRS's budget, they don't give a total budget.
	They have it broken down in terms of like, you know, four or five billion dollars for enforcement and for tech.
	They have like $2 billion for supposed service to citizens, you know, when they talk to you, I guess.
	But their discretionary budget is $11 billion.
	And you put it all together, and it's about $20 to $22 billion.
	Trump wants to sue them for $10 billion.
	You know, the stuff that they does is just unbelievably excessive.
	And we talked about that yesterday, you know, coming after the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion because they dared to show the Christmas card, the birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.
	And then the Congress releases the original, and he continues with that $10 billion lawsuit.
	Well, you want to see how we're going to get to the society that they say they have to control.
	Amazon is a good example of this.
	Amazon is laying people off left and right, and yet their workforce is not going down.
	You see them getting rid of 16,000 people and all the rest of this stuff, but they're hiring people from abroad with the H-1B visa stuff.
	This is something that has been a focus of WND, World Net Daily, former.
	And they've been on this H-1B thing.
	Of course, not really so much caring about Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump's H-1B visa hiring shows hypocrisy, but it's small change compared to what Amazon is doing.
	Amazon is firing 65,000 people, but then they've added 71,000 and a half.
	And so what's going on with this?
	Well, these people are coming from foreign countries.
	So if you're American, don't apply at Amazon.
	They don't want you.
	They want the cheap labor from abroad.
	And so it's not like their workforce is shrinking so much.
	As a matter of fact, it's not.
	They have worked this game so much that they've got so many H-1B visa credits they can't use them all.
	Now, maybe they could trade them to other companies, you know, like they do the carbon credits.
	We've got immigrant credits here.
	Would you like to have some of our immigrant credits?
	We got the permission to hire people to take Americans' jobs.
	Pretty amazing, isn't it, when you look at this?
	And of course, that's how they get so rich.
	Meanwhile, this is one more thing, and then we're going to take a quick break.
	Trump tells Bongino on Bongino's first day back yesterday that the GOP should nationalize voting in 15 crooked states.
	Really?
	That's, again, you know, he doesn't care what the Constitution says.
	The states have the right to set up the ways that the elections are going to be conducted.
	So he wants to take that away from them.
	And of course, he's not going to do anything to change the Constitution.
	He's just going to ignore it.
	Yeah, it makes sense.
	Why have to do 50 corrupt elections when you can only do one?
	That's right.
	Yeah, we don't want to have a patchwork of corruption.
	We can do it all from Washington.
	We need to centralize the corruption for better efficiency.
	Yeah, we've seen that with the DARC Act to protect Monsanto.
	We see it with the pharmaceutical stuff that's happening.
	So the core argument that Trump is making is the fact that he would have won Minnesota, except that it has too many Somalis and they all vote Democrat.
	What an absurdity.
	Minnesota has been one of the most reliably Democrat places.
	And again, I keep meaning to go back and check it and think about all that.
	But when Ronald Reagan won 49 states, I think the one that he lost was Minnesota.
	So Trump thinks that he should have won it three times.
	And the only reason he didn't win it three times was because all these Somalis that came in as refugees.
	So what is Trump doing about that?
	Well, the refugee programs I mentioned, these Somalis are not walking across the border.
	They're brought in as refugees and they're given money by the federal government to come here, the welfare magnet.
	And so right now, the budget is $6 billion for refugees like the Somalis.
	The Trump administration wants to increase that by $5 billion.
	That's like an 80% increase.
	That's what he wants to do about it.
	That's his solution to it.
	Well, I mean, you need to say this big Somali problem, or else there's no justification for ICE.
	Problem solution, right?
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	So and then there's an article about rural Americans trying to hold back the tide of AI by attacking the data centers.
	And that's one of the reasons why Trump is centralizing control of regulations about AI.
	10-year moratorium, he says, you can't do anything about AI at the state level for 10 years.
	How does that fit with the 10th Amendment?
	Well, quite frankly, it doesn't.
	Not the least bit.
	We're going to take a quick break, and we'll be right back.
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Epstein Files Controversy 00:14:44
	Well, when we look at the Epstein stuff, what is the news that we've had from Epstein?
	Really, nothing that we didn't know before.
	I mean, how many times do you have to see a picture with Trump and Epstein and these other people with a young woman, a young, a child, I should say, not a woman?
	How many times do you have to see that before it's wrong?
	Before something needs to be done about it.
	And of course, with Trump hanging out with him for 10 or 15 years and then being the guy who blew the whistle on him, of course, how do you blow the whistle without knowing everything that's going on there?
	Of course, he was a part of it.
	But I think one of the most interesting things to come out of this is a document from the Justice Department talking about how they faked Epstein's body, how they switched it out of the prison.
	They said they switched it out with boxes and sheets while he was being taken to the hospital in order to thwart the media, they said.
	Examiner OCHE arrives to transport Epstein to their facility due to the large news media presence outside MCC.
	A male OCHE official called and said he wouldn't be arriving at the loading dock with a black vehicle in order to thwart the media.
	MI and used boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body.
	It was put into a white vehicle, which the press then followed, allowing the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with Epstein's body.
	And this was something that happened about an hour.
	This refers back to what one person who worked there had said on 4chan at the time.
	The person who worked on 4chan said, anonymously posted in 4chan the morning of Epstein's death, 2019, claiming that he witnessed weird happenings at the prison before Epstein's death.
	He's now been identified in the Epstein files.
	Roberto Grahavla, an officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, that's the MCC I was referring to before, has been identified as the anonymous prison employee. who posted on 4chan claiming that Epstein left his cell Friday evening, shackled in a medical wheelchair, while at the same time an unauthorized trip van arrived at the prison, which he believes took Epstein away the night before news broke of his death.
	The day after Epstein's death, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York opened a grand jury proceeding and subpoenaed 4chan, Apple, AT ⁇ T, and Citibank for records aiming to uncover Grajalva's identity following the anonymous 4chan Post.
	They worked pretty hard for something that a lot of people just dismissed as a conspiracy theory, didn't they?
	So this is huge.
	We now have validation of the 4chan Post, which was put out before the official reporting of Epstein's death, saying that they had moved him out of the site and were faking his death.
	And so again, what is important is how broad this pedo-spy conspiracy is.
	It's further proof that the real government are the spy agencies in these various nations, right?
	And that's really what is happening.
	It's more corrupt and it's more wicked than you and I can even imagine.
	And it's truly amazing to me.
	It's another one of these issues where the right looks at it.
	It's like, okay, we got Trump, we got Bannon, we got Musk, we got Gates.
	And they're very selective about who they want to focus on, right?
	They'll focus on the lefties and they'll let their guys go when it is across the board.
	It doesn't have anything to do with political philosophy.
	As a matter of fact, these guys don't really have any political philosophy.
	It's just complete domination.
	They are the Machiavellian bipartisan party.
	Explosive update on the anonymous 2019 4chan Post claiming that Epstein was switched out.
	And I think that is probably the most important thing that's come out of some of these documents.
	Going through and finding that, yes, this was reported.
	Yes, we did something like this when somebody talked about it on 4chan.
	We had to find out who that guy was.
	And we moved heaven and earth in order to find out who this guy is.
	And now they have leaked his name as well.
	Interesting, though, nobody can find Roberto.
	He's now disappeared.
	I hope he's still alive.
	One of the things he put out, he said, you guys, I'm sharing this right now, but I think they switched him out.
	And he said, I'm not saying anything after this, so please do not try to dox me.
	But last night, blah, blah, blah, all this kind of stuff.
	He said, I'm scared to death.
	He put that out, but he didn't think they would find him.
	Of course, they're going to find him when they put this stuff together.
	So where in the world is Diego Garcia, whatever that, what was that?
	What was that?
	Carmen Diego.
	Carmen San Diego.
	Carmen San Diego.
	There we go.
	Well, where in the world is Roberto Grajalva?
	We don't know.
	We don't know where Waldo is even.
	I mean, how can we find somebody else?
	No public information available on his current employment or whereabouts, and we don't know if he's alive because this is the type of thing these people do.
	I'm more inclined to believe that he's dead than that Epstein is dead.
	That's a great point, Lance.
	is the most likely outcome is that Epstein is alive and Roberto is dead.
	That's sad but true.
	Well, the Epstein files, they demand victims are demanding that they be taken down.
	This is truly amazing how they have covered up still for all the pedophiles.
	You know, we had Ghlaine go to jail because she was supposedly trafficking and setting this stuff up.
	And yet the people who are actually doing it, the Johns, if you will, the prostitution type of thing, they all walk free and nobody's allowed to talk about them.
	But they can talk about the victims and put out photographs, nude photographs of the victims.
	Isn't that amazing?
	That's Trump's Department of Justice for you, right there.
	Women are at risk after unredacted names of those who fell prey to the financier are published alongside nude photos of the victims.
	So a couple of lawyers who represent more than 200 Epstein victims told judges in New York there was an unfolding emergency and the files need to be removed from public view.
	They said almost 100 of their 200 clients had found unredacted information about themselves.
	Their lives had been turned upside down.
	And the lawyer said, you know, there is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence that is sufficient to explain the scale, the consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred.
	In other words, they couldn't be this incompetent.
	It had to be malicious.
	Trump himself has attacked the victims.
	He's called the whole thing a hoax and a great deal of animosity towards them.
	So is that where this is coming from?
	They said they had one job, one job.
	You had one job and you failed.
	Your job was to go through these documents.
	The only thing that was supposed to be redacted was the names and information about the victims.
	That's the one thing you didn't redact.
	You redacted everything else, especially the stuff about the perps that are out there, the alleged perps.
	The sole task ordered by the court and repeatedly emphasized by Department of Justice, quote unquote, was very simple.
	Redact known victim names before publication.
	One person who found their name there said, this places me and my child at risk.
	Not only is there information about us, but there's also addresses and things like that.
	Well, Todd Blanch, the deputy attorney general, and remember, this guy was the personal attorney to Trump.
	So this may be where this is coming from.
	He says, every time we hear from a victim or their lawyer that they believe their name was not properly redacted, we immediately rectify that.
	And they said, well, wait a minute, why couldn't you do what we did?
	I went to the site and I typed in my name and I found it.
	Why couldn't you do that?
	They didn't want to, right?
	It's just that simple.
	So the lawyer said they were alarmed that the DOJ didn't perform a simple keyword search of victim names.
	Would it have been that difficult?
	Annie Farmer, who testified in court she was abused by Epstein as a teenager, said the release of images was extremely disturbing.
	She said, it's hard to imagine a more egregious way of not protecting victims than having full nude images of them available for the world to download.
	That's Trump's Department of Justice.
	Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims about Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election, said the DOJ.
	And yet, how do they know they were untrue?
	They were sensationalists, that's for sure.
	Is that what made them untrue?
	The fact that they were so outrageous?
	That can't be true.
	Because as I pointed out yesterday, without going through the details of these different things, the bottom line on virtually every one of them was the FBI didn't do anything to follow up.
	No investigation.
	No follow-up on these allegations.
	There was only one where they put an explanation saying, well, the phone number that was given was bad.
	All the rest of them just said, well, we didn't bother to do anything about it.
	Because, you know, if it's sensationalist, it can't be true if it's about Trump, right?
	So the claims, they said, are unfounded and false.
	How do you know that they're unfounded and false if you didn't investigate them?
	It's just like the quote-unquote investigation that they did of the two Minnesota killings.
	Well, we know that that's not what happened.
	And I'm going to tell you what happened, even though I haven't seen the video.
	That's why that line from Jake Tapper, who, by the way, I've had a lot of disagreements with Jake Tapper.
	I've been blocked by Jake Tapper.
	But Jake Tapper said to one of these officials, you do know there's a video about what you're talking about.
	In other words, you do know that we all know that you're lying, don't you?
	And they don't care.
	They don't care.
	So Wall Street Journal says that the Epstein files release exposes names of 43 victims.
	Well, the DOJ said it was two dozen.
	The lawyers said it was 100.
	So I guess we take the median figure here or something.
	So they said, including more than two dozen who were minors.
	So maybe that's what they're talking about with the DOJ.
	A review of the 47 victims, full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files.
	So if a reporter can do that, if a victim can do that, why can't the Department of Justice do that when that is their primary job?
	Make sure there's no names in these documents of victims because they're too busy covering up for Trump.
	They were too busy covering up for these billionaires.
	That's why.
	They made sure you couldn't search Trump and find Trump unless you put a space in it, but they didn't bother doing even that inept level of cover-up for the people that should be protected.
	So it's kind of interesting.
	You know, you talk about the 80-20 rule, right?
	Well, in this particular case, it's more like the 90-10 rule.
	Because when you look at this, 43 out of 47 victims that Wall Street Journal looked for, they had their names unredacted.
	That's 91.5%.
	What about the perps or the alleged perps, right?
	Well, they're nearly 100% redacted.
	How about that?
	Isn't that interesting?
	And so with all this, Trump is threatening to sue Trevor Noah.
	And what he doesn't really get is that when he does these things, he's just digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself.
	That's like his best confirmation that he's really as guilty as sin is when he's got such a thin skin about it.
	And as one op-ed piece pointed out, he got here.
	This is a Frankenstein monster of his own creation.
	Because just as we saw with the election coverage in January 6th, well, we've got all these allegations that are out here.
	And we haven't investigated them or verified them, but the sheer quantity of allegations out here are sufficient to prove that it's true.
	And, you know, that is not the way that this all works.
	But he has set up that system.
	And that's what the people who follow him are all about.
	I can look at, like I said, I only need to see one instance of him with a child.
	I only need to see the fact that he was partying with Epstein for 10 or 15 years and they're doing beauty contests for teenagers and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's like, come on, you know, this is just all over the place.
	It's right in your face.
	No question about it.
	But again, he's looking at, he's a monster.
	It's the monster of his own making.
	It's the Frankenstein monster that he's not.
	The problem with all that is that he's also created another monster.
	He's created a monster of personality and idolatry to the extent that he could rape a child on Fifth Avenue and MAGA would make excuses for him.
	And he knows that.
	He knows that.
	And I said that when he made that comment about shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue, I said, that's really dangerous that somebody is, first of all, they usually know that, right?
	They know I'm so popular I could get away with anything, but to say it to everybody and to say, yeah, I know that I can do whatever I want and you're still going to support me.
	To me, that was next level, something that was truly unprecedented before we had this character there.
	We still have that video in the deck.
Creating Frankenstein Monsters 00:05:04
	Yeah.
	Well, we've played a lot.
	I'm going to let that go for right now.
	But the reality of all this is one person summed up, here's a trap that Trump can't escape.
	The MAGA movement was built on the premise that elites protect each other and that document releases reveal hidden truths.
	Trump can't suddenly ask that coalition to accept, oh, there's nothing to see here.
	He cannot deploy the establishment playbook against an audience that he taught to distrust the establishment playbook.
	That move might work for another president, but it is structurally unavailable to him.
	And then he makes it even worse by these lawsuits against anybody who even jokes about what was going on.
	Meanwhile, Nikki Minaj, who is now the new Trump influencers there, she unleashed on what she called a satanic cult.
	I thought, oh, okay, she's talking about Trump.
	Oh, no, she hasn't.
	Her faith in Trump has not been shaken.
	She's talking about the Democrat Party, the Demon Crat Party, she says.
	And this is about the Grammy as well.
	So she said, Jay-Z and a satanic cult are sacrificing children.
	She did this on X.
	And so this is yet another example of how she can be completely blind to what is going on with Donald Trump.
	And she focuses, I would agree, probably that is the case, what is happening with Jay-Z.
	But you can't see it with your guy, right?
	It's almost like they've got a particular colored lens that filters out the red, if you want to go with that color, which, again, that's yet another tool of control.
	I see the same type of thing with many people in terms of what's happening with this FACE Act thing.
	She said, any Christian who votes Democrat again is a fool.
	They're showing people that it's okay to disrupt church services during worship.
	This is how they truly feel about you.
	The veil is now lifted.
	No morals, no integrity.
	It's not enough for them to have an opinion.
	They've escalated it to the physical.
	So again, they disrupt church services during worship.
	Seems to me like your hero Trump bribed governors to shut down churches, even as they opened up casinos.
	What was going on with that?
	Then he used some of his evangelical cult followers and leaders.
	He used them to actually set up their churches as injection sites.
	What's going on with that?
	You have a problem with that?
	Is that a satanic cult?
	What about the fact that he paid and bribed hospitals to kill people?
	You have anything to say about that?
	And then when you talk about the disruption of a church service, this is the calculation that many of these churches are willing to make.
	They will give up their right to try to save babies at abortion clinics as long as you let them sing and preach in quiet in their church buildings.
	Isn't that pathetic?
	It's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.
	You talk about a compromise.
	That's what Matt Trohalo was talking about the other day.
	We'll be right back.
	Night show.
Lyrics and Voice 00:03:03
	Well, welcome back.
	And I just want to remind people that we're going to do an AMA on Friday, Ask Me Anything.
	So if you put AMA at the front of your comments on Rumble, we will collect those.
	And if you want to email them to us, if you're listening to a different platform or you're listening to the podcast or whatever, you can send it to David Knightshow at protonmail.com.
	Just put AMA in the subject line.
	That'll help us to find it.
	Let's talk a little bit about some of the comments here.
	And then I got some stuff about AI that I think is both bizarre, amusing, and frightening at the same time about the song.
	This is James Faithway.
	He says, hey, David, what's the name of the song with the Bible verses on your break and who sings it?
	Well, that is, it's got a little bit of a story behind it.
	That's something that the tune itself is a shokin farewell.
	That's by Jay Unger.
	And that was kind of the theme for Ken Burns' Civil War documentary.
	Absolutely the best thing about the documentary, I thought.
	And for years, it was out as a, you know, that was done in the 80s at some point in time.
	I don't know which part of the 80s, but it was there as an instrumental and wasn't written for the documentary, but they used it for the documentary.
	So it existed for a very long time as an instrumental, beautiful melody.
	And I thought it deserved words.
	So in the 90s, I wrote lyrics for that.
	That's where the lyrics came from.
	And we used to sing it in the Bible, neighborhood Bible study that we had back in the 90s at home.
	But I always wanted to get it recorded.
	Didn't have the tools to do it.
	Didn't have the chops to sing it.
	And fortunately, I have the ability now with, just like I do for the music that I have here, I can now control voices that do lyrics.
	And that's about the only work I've been able to do now since I had the stroke.
	I can't really play and get things organized with that.
	But so I got it to sing the lyrics.
	So that is an AI voice, but I'm controlling it in the same way that I would control some of the AI, not AI, but some of the MIDI instruments.
	And so for the longest time, you hear some of the songs that we do, trumpets or it's a string orchestra, something like that.
	I'm controlling that, and I'm changing the articulations and stuff like that.
	So it might be legato or mercado or something like that.
	And you do that to try to make it realistic.
	It's a little bit more of an issue in terms of programming.
	But now you can do the same thing with a voice.
	First they did text-to-speech and things like that, but now they have the ability to, you know, as they said in the music man, Professor Henry Higgins, not Henry Higgins, that was my fair lady.
	Harold Hill.
	He tells the quartet there, he says, singing is just sustained talking.
	That's really what these people figured out.
	And so they've made some voices that you can actually play and program.
Singing Is Just Sustained Talking 00:02:31
	But the title that I use for it is As the Rain in the Snow.
	That comes from Isaiah 55.
	Narrowway Narrowgate Ministries says hemp is used specifically for naval ropes, rigging, and load handling.
	Hemp ropes are the strongest ever made.
	Yeah, that's absolutely right.
	And we used to laugh about that when I was with the Libertarian Party.
	You know, they had the documentaries, Hemp for Victory, that were done by the military back in World War II.
	Some of the guys I knew in the Libertarian Party had a stamp that they would stamp on $1 bills, and it had like a little speech bubble that came out from George Washington that said, I grew hemp, because he did.
	So anyway, yeah, we also have a constitution about it, which is really my issue about it.
	Militan Milankovich.
	Sorry, I had to struggle with that.
	Drugs are bad here.
	There's dozens of SSI commercials that we approved.
	So the government.
	Yeah.
	So while they come after marijuana, they let them push out these SSRI commercials on TV all the time.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Bob of Atlanta says, some say cheap hemp paper is why they made it illegal in the first place.
	That and also the textile competition as well with cotton.
	You can make clothing out of it.
	You can make paper out of it.
	You can make ropes out of it.
	And of course, my understanding, I'm not an expert on this stuff, but my understanding was that a lot of the hemp didn't have THC.
	They just lumped it all together.
	A tree oligarch.
	Shut it down.
	Could be, could be.
	Bob of Atlanta says, if they can genetically engineer weed to have the perfect THC CBD content, imagine what they could do for fiber strength.
	That's right.
	And, you know, it's something that they have done a lot of genetic engineering with, I imagine, because tobacco is the thing that they have done more genetic modification of than anything else.
	They've been experimenting on that for many, many years.
	Chevkin says, Trump is the most lawsuit happy mongrel I've ever seen.
	You bet.
	It's called lawfare and slap lawsuits is really what he's doing.
	Jerry Alitalo says little Saint Greenland.
	Yeah.
	Well, there was that joke somebody made.
	They said the way that Denmark's going to get Trump to stop talking about Greenland is to rename it Epstein Island.
	Real Jason Barker, good to see you, Jason.
Lawfare And Slap Lawsuits 00:01:05
	He says, Audi is a huge red flag when ICE investigates its own shootings and doesn't allow the locals to do their own investigation.
	That's right.
	You're not allowed to see anything.
	We're going to shut it down even for the local police, even for the state police, not going to see anything.
	Find any data center, he says, on Google Maps and use a street view.
	It's insane how protected they are.
	Yeah, that's true.
	I hadn't tried to do that, I guess, but I'm sure they do that.
	AP Rumble Seat says, I think Jeffrey Epstein had several dead man switches on a global scale.
	So I think he may just be sipping pina coladas on a beach somewhere and retiring in his own private yacht.
	Yeah, like we said before, it's more likely that this guy who blew the whistle on the fake removal of Jeffrey Epstein, it's more likely that he's dead than Jeffrey Epstein.
	Swamp Lover says two days before the fake death, he had $5 million transferred in accounts.
	Doesn't sound like someone who's getting ready to hang themselves, does it?
	No.
	That's why I've said that all along.

Chapters

00:00:52 Jade Helm Revisited
00:15:42 Operation Warp Fear
00:19:57 Urban Drain 2030
00:35:24 Someone Else's Back
00:40:26 Favors And Foreign Policy
00:45:47 Moral Wickedness At The Top
00:49:30 Guns and Weed Controversy
01:04:48 Amazon's H-1B Controversy
01:16:05 Epstein Files Controversy
01:30:49 Creating Frankenstein Monsters
01:35:54 Lyrics and Voice
01:38:57 Singing Is Just Sustained Talking
01:41:29 Lawfare And Slap Lawsuits