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Jan. 14, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Jan 14, 2025 – Have the citizens of California finally had enough...

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	Brighteon, bring it on, Brighteon, let's get it on.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Tuesday, January 14th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, publisher of naturalnews.com, founder of brighteon.com.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	Oh wow, we are only six days away from Trump being sworn in.
	These are very intense days.
	So be mindful, be cautious, keep your eyes peeled, watch your six.
	You know, all the sayings about being safe apply right now, so be careful.
	Now, we've got a great lineup for you today.
	And if you missed anything from yesterday, you want to go back and review it because I introduced the new song, I Want My Bailout Money, which people absolutely love that song.
	It's being hailed as an economics lesson in three minutes.
	Very cool.
	Also, I interviewed Steve Quayle, and that's definitely worth watching.
	We talk about the California fires.
	Thank you for all your positive feedback since we've been putting...
	Captions on all the interviews and also illustrations.
	We did something really cool with the Dan Golka interview, which is we put his picture and my picture on the lower corners, and then the rest of the frame is illustrations of what we're talking about with captions.
	So that's a pretty cool format.
	I actually like that format a lot, and I might end up doing that format a lot more.
	Anyway...
	The song is being shared widely, and you can download the MP3 free of charge at music.brighteon.com.
	And that's where I'm posting every music video and also all the MP3 files for the songs that are coming.
	Got a lot of new songs coming out.
	Some of them are educational.
	Some of them are protest songs.
	Some of them are inspirational songs.
	Some are, I mean, some of these songs are bringing you to tears.
	It's just so moving.
	Okay, and speaking of AI, because I use AI for the video generation, the images, a lot of the frames, of course, the vocals of that song, it's very interesting.
	It seems like recently I put out, what, three songs that I've written the lyrics and I've engineered the songs using AI tools, and the vocals are all AI-generated vocals.
	And in every case, I've had people contact me and say that it sounds like me singing the song.
	And some people told me that about the Christmas song that I did, the jazz Christmas song that had this really amazing voice.
	And then this rap song, and I also did a song called Brighteon, Turn It On.
	And in every case, people said, oh, that sounds like you.
	And I don't know.
	I'm laughing because...
	Of course, none of them are me, and none of them sound like each other, so I don't know where people are thinking that that's my voice.
	No, I am not performing these songs right now.
	I did in the past.
	I did, you know, numerous songs.
	I even did God is With Us recently, just in the last few months.
	But for these new songs, I'm having AI produce the vocals because then I can choose a style.
	I can choose a silky smooth jazz style.
	Or a harsh, gritty, hip-hop rap-style voice.
	Or whatever I want.
	Male, female, you know, you name it.
	So, for each song, there's a specific message and a specific type of voice that I think best expresses the primary message of that song.
	And for Bailout Money, it was, in my mind, it was clearly a black rapper.
	Kind of a gritty, edgy black rapper.
	That just has the right voice, the right pronunciation, the right level of being able to escalate their energy almost to a screaming level at one point.
	So that's what I engineered into the song.
	And no, it's not me.
	And then for the other song I did recently, Where the Money Go, Joe, I specifically wanted black female rap artists to perform that song.
	And so that's why that voice...
	Or the voices, plural, that are in that song are black female rap artist voices.
	And I think it's a perfect fit for that song.
	But then for Brighton Turn It On, it's more of a typically like a white, young, bright and brassy type of voice with a higher tonal quality, more of a...
	I don't know.
	What do you call it?
	Like a sparkly type of voice.
	And that worked for that.
	I have finished a country-western song now, believe it or not, that has a very mainstream-sounding country-western voice with a fiddle.
	I really like the fiddle instrument for its emotive expression capabilities.
	And that song, I can't wait to put that together for you in terms of the music video.
	The song is amazing, and it's a country-western style.
	And this is a song that could bring you to tears.
	It's so meaningful.
	But in any case, AI tools make all of this available.
	Now, moving forward here in topics, earlier today, I was given some hands-on instruction by a high-level coding engineer in the latest AI coding tools.
	And, you know, I have a background in writing code, relational database, SQL queries.
	I did all that, coded by hand for many, many years in several different languages, like PHP, for example, in the past.
	And then more recently, I've done quite a bit of really basic Python code.
	But I'm not an expert on the syntax of Python.
	I just use it whenever I need to get simple things done in terms of file.
	Processing for our data pipeline for our AI training.
	And yet the tool that I was shown today is extraordinary.
	It allows you to describe your project in plain English language.
	Or you can describe a specific function.
	A function call, a routine, a loop, whatever you want.
	You describe it in plain language and then this system writes the AI code for you and then...
	If you test the code and if it doesn't work correctly or produces errors, the AI system will even read the errors and it will say, oh, I'll fix it, and it will go back and attempt to fix the code to eliminate those errors, and it's pretty good.
	It's quite good.
	In, I don't know, just an hour or so, I was able to write a working Python framework with a GitHub repo associated with it.
	It was just a demo.
	It was processing local text files and matching keywords in the text files and moving them to different folders or subfolders based on keyword density and things like that.
	It's kind of just a sorting function, but it's sensitive to the presence of certain words in the files.
	And I was just doing it to learn the tool.
	But it was incredible.
	If I were to attempt to write that code myself, By hand, because I'm not a professional Python coder, although I can get by in it, but that's not my profession, obviously.
	But it would have taken me all day, maybe a couple of days, to figure that out and do it appropriately.
	But with this AI coder, I had this thing done in an hour, maybe a little over an hour, and that's with me using this for the first time.
	So I was kind of slow with it.
	I think with practice, I could produce that code in 20 minutes, something that would take...
	Normally, it would have taken me a day or two.
	So remember how we've heard over the last few years, for people who lost their jobs, you would hear people say, well, learn to code, man, learn to code, because if you could code, you could always get a job.
	Well, learn to code is no longer the thing that's going to keep you in a job.
	Now you have to learn to prompt.
	That's right, because you need to learn how to write prompts for AI, because the prompts, well, the...
	The practice of writing prompts is called prompt engineering.
	And a prompt is an instruction in natural language, instructions to the AI system to tell it what to do.
	And because AI is so multimodal right now, it's so powerful, depending on which AI tools you're using, you can tell it to summarize a document.
	You can tell it to answer questions.
	You can tell it to write code.
	You can tell it to generate an image, generate a video, generate a song, generate vocals, remove the vocals from a song.
	You know, anything you want.
	Here's a photo.
	Take out the green cup and put in a red lamp or something, and it'll just do that.
	Or upscale the resolution of this image.
	Make it 4K. You know, boom.
	Like magic, it does it.
	But you're simply asking it through prompts in plain language what to do.
	And it became obvious to me.
	Well, I guess I already realized this, but it reinforced today that the future of being employed or being productive in society does not depend on being able to be a hand artist or a typist journalist, someone who can type out a story or someone who can type out computer code or someone who can set up cameras and film a video.
	That's not what's going to determine the future or future viability in our economy.
	It's going to be your ability to prompt AI systems that do this for you, every one of those tasks.
	So the takeaway from this little description here is that from 2025 forward, it's not about, hey, learn to code.
	No.
	The new mantra should be learn to prompt.
	And if you're listening to this and...
	This is the first time you're hearing of prompts or prompt engineering.
	Get up to speed on this.
	Everybody's going to need to know this.
	You can just go online.
	You can find all kinds of courses, prompt engineering.
	You can go on to Brighton or Rumble.
	You can search for videos about prompt engineering, what it is.
	You can sign up for free or nearly free accounts with online language models.
	And you can just learn basic prompt engineering if you don't already know it.
	And then you can learn how to make those even better.
	And when you get good at it, which I consider myself probably among the very best people today in prompt engineering, because I've been doing this for quite some time in multimodal systems, when you get good at it, you can get the AI systems to produce the things that you want, like that song, I Want My Bailout Money.
	Some people ask me, well, how did you get it to make a song that cool?
	And they said, what tool did you use?
	And I said, well, I used Suno to do the music and the vocals.
	And one person said to me, well, I used Suno and it didn't sound nearly that good.
	I'm like, well, so this comes down to prompt engineering and understanding syllables in the lines and understanding how it does this and being able to give it the right descriptions and so on.
	And also, for me to get...
	I want my bailout money just like that.
	I did render hundreds of songs, hundreds of variations.
	By the way, I didn't just hit go and it spits out this awesome song.
	No.
	I spent hours generating hundreds of variations and then I took the variation that I liked best and then I extended it and then I altered it.
	I downloaded the WAV files and I did some editing locally as well.
	Because of my background in music, I knew Sort of what to do and how to edit audio files.
	And that's how you get the result, is to use the tools, but use them in an expert manner, right?
	So these AI tools don't just take over magically and produce awesome, perfect output.
	No, not even close.
	You still have to watch it, craft it, tell it what to do, correct it.
	That's why it's very intensive cognitively to use AI tools.
	And that's why I've said for people who don't understand AI, they say that AI makes people stupid because you don't have to use your brain, they say.
	They're completely wrong.
	They have no idea what they're talking about.
	Using AI tools requires you to be more thoughtful, more creative, more precise in your descriptions.
	You must engage your brain to use the AI tools properly because it's a feedback loop.
	You're telling it what you want.
	It's spitting out samples, results.
	You have to discern what's good, what's not.
	You have to make improvements, alter your prompt.
	Like that whole music video, I want my bailout money.
	I can't tell you how many pieces of video that I threw away or how many images I tossed that did not make it into the video.
	Because some of those images, I was trying to get the prompts to work a lot better and they did not work.
	I was trying to get an image of a doctor holding the two paddles of a defibrillator and putting them on the chest of a patient representing the economy.
	But I wanted the defibrillator handles to be made of stacks of dollar bills so that the doctor was trying to shock the patient back to life with money.
	And I could not get an AI engine to do that.
	No matter what I tried, it just did not work.
	It was too far from, I guess, the training.
	I couldn't get that to work.
	And I tried.
	And there's a lot of stuff that failed with the song, with the videos, with the music, with the images, all of it.
	So if you use AI tools, be prepared to sort through a lot of failed attempts in order to get the gem that you're looking for.
	Now, that leads me to my reminder today that we'll be releasing a revolutionary new, free, downloadable AI tool called ENOC. I've mentioned this quite a number of times.
	You'll be able to download it on March 1st at brighttown.ai.
	And right there, you can enter your email address and sign up for the email notification list.
	And we'll be emailing you when the model is available.
	And we have already had a lot of interest from a lot of parties about being able to download and use this model.
	It's an open-source model, so it's completely free to use.
	I believe this is being released under an Apache 2.0 license.
	So there's no advertising.
	There's no commercials.
	There's no surveillance.
	You can run it locally.
	You can use it as a chatbot.
	You can use it as a wellness coach.
	You can use it to summarize content, to answer questions, to expand your thoughts, expand your bullet points.
	You can use it to edit your articles.
	You can use it to check on the safety of ingredients in your foods or in your pharmaceuticals if you're taking pharmaceuticals.
	It can do all these amazing things.
	So download that again at brighteon.ai.
	When it's available, March 1st, and it's free of charge.
	And I'm going to demo this for you.
	I'll do some screen capture demos, but there's actually something I wanted to do with this engine, and I'm just going to do it in real time here right now.
	As I'm recording this, I'm going to say, generate, this is the prompt, generate a complete detailed list of every known chemical that off gases, how do you spell off gases?
	Okay, that is emitted by, let's say, household materials or furniture or construction materials.
	Yeah, I'm a fast typist.
	Such as, let's say, glues, carpets, what else?
	Paint.
	You get where I'm going with this.
	I want the engine.
	This is the early version of Enoch right here.
	I want it to give me a complete list of every toxin.
	Oh, that's actually a good term.
	Let's see.
	And so on.
	And so on.
	And anything else that may qualify as an indoor air pollutant in residential or commercial new construction.
	Okay.
	Ready?
	That's my prompt.
	Okay.
	Let's see what it does.
	It should be interesting.
	Okay, it's listing volatile organic compounds, common sources, and it's talking about—oh, it's categorizing them.
	So semi-volatile organic compounds.
	It's talking about formaldehyde, particulate matter, heavy metals.
	Whoa, and it's giving me sources, too, for the heavy metals, like paints, plumbing, electronics, biological pollutants.
	It's including dust mites.
	It's—well, skipping ahead.
	Let's see.
	Radon.
	Oh, I hadn't thought of that one.
	Carbon monoxide from gas stoves and ovens.
	Ozone, a reactive gas.
	What is this?
	PAH. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
	That's from burning candles and incense and cooking fumes.
	PFAS from stain-resistant carpets and upholstery.
	Wow.
	Asbestos.
	Hazardous material fiber.
	Let's see.
	Other chemicals of concern.
	Isocyanates.
	Glycol.
	Is that ethers?
	Acrolein, naphthalene, found in mothballs and some paints.
	Wow, that's pretty good stuff.
	Okay, so then I could ask it questions like, okay, if I expect that I may be exposed to airborne formaldehyde, okay, what are the best strategies to protect myself?
	Or to detoxify from airborne formaldehyde?
	Shall we ask it that question?
	I'm curious now, actually.
	Let's see.
	What are the best methods or interventions, let's say, or let's see, nutritional supplements or detox strategies to protect myself from airborne formaldehyde?
	Weird spelling.
	Pollution.
	There.
	And let's see what it says.
	Okay, it says, number one, it talks about reduced exposure, improving indoor air quality.
	Oh, wow.
	And it talks about nutritional supplements, and it mentions glutathione as a powerful antioxidant that helps neutralize formaldehyde and supports liver detoxification.
	And NAC, wow, it talks about Alpha-lipoic acid.
	That's interesting.
	It talks about detox strategies, drinking more water, sweating, and eating cruciferous vegetables that contain compounds such as sulforaphane.
	Hey, that's one of my favorites.
	That enhances detoxification pathways.
	Wow.
	It talks about lifestyle interventions and then herbal remedies and all kinds of things.
	So, see, this is the power of what you can do with Enoch.
	And this is just...
	An earlier version, an earlier rendition of Enoch, it's going to get even better in the final version that we release on March 1st.
	But if you've been wondering, like, what are the practical uses of this thing?
	Well, there you go.
	Just gave you a little demonstration right there, I think.
	Pretty powerful.
	All right, we're about to jump into a special report about California.
	But did I mention that today's interview is with Andy Schlafly?
	He's the general counsel for AAPS, which is fighting the Corporate Transparency Act.
	This is good stuff.
	AAPS, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, which is really a medical freedom organization that's been around since, I believe, the 1940s.
	An amazing organization of really bold physicians.
	And surgeons, as the name says.
	And Mr. Schlafly, he and I had a great conversation about why we need to halt the so-called Corporate Transparency Act because it is federal government surveillance of small businesses, small organizations, and even many volunteer organizations, such as a local school chess club and things like that.
	And now the federal government wants everybody to...
	Copy your driver's license, send in your home address with images of your license and also your social security number and all of this to register with the FinCEN Financial Crimes Network because you might be engaged in money laundering, so they want you to register, and if you don't register, they want to throw you in prison for up to two years.
	So that, wow, what a wonderful thing, huh?
	Yeah.
	So that's got to get stopped.
	And that interview today is really hard-hitting, so you definitely want to stay tuned for that.
	All right, before we get to that interview, we're going to jump into a special report about the scenarios of what may happen if California really does fail as a state.
	I believe California is plummeting into failed state status, and there are, I don't know, five or six outcomes from that.
	None of them are good, by the way.
	They're all pretty chaotic, but in my special report coming up here, I discuss those possibilities.
	It's worth listening, I think, especially if you live in California or if you have any kind of financial interest there, then you want to hear this report.
	And then following that, we'll do the interview with Andy Schlafly.
	So here we go.
	Welcome to this special report on the demise of California.
	I mean, let's hope it doesn't end up in the demise, but...
	California is rapidly moving into a failed state status.
	And if you think it's bad from these fires and the corruption, the collapsing government, the collapsing infrastructure, the collapse of the rule of law, you've got violence everywhere, right?
	You've also got moral bankruptcy, of course, across the institutions of the state, Hollywood in particular.
	Imagine how bad it could be if there's a massive earthquake.
	You know, the San Andreas Fault, the big one.
	If there is a massive earthquake and California is still run by the same corrupt criminal cabal of politicians, the state's doomed.
	I mean, right now, just from these fires, the state can barely function, at least certain portions of Southern California.
	This isn't collapsing the rest of the state, but it's causing a real crisis far out of proportion to what it should cause because of the incompetence of the leaders of California.
	And so in this special report here, and thank you for joining me, I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger, founder of brighttown.com, also the publisher of naturalnews.com, which you'll want to check multiple times a day for all of our breaking news on an assortment of topics.
	But in this special report, I want to walk you through some shocking realizations about what California is actually headed toward, which is a failed state status, and the fact that there are several scenarios that are likely to emerge from this. and the fact that there are several scenarios that are I mean, one of them is likely to emerge.
	And none of these scenarios are good.
	And for the first time, I am now hearing a lot of people who live in California expressing a level of disgust with their leadership that I have never heard before.
	And it's not just people I've interviewed from California, but I'm talking about business people, pastors, citizens.
	People are beyond angry.
	They are absolutely disgusted.
	They're not buying the climate change agenda nonsense.
	they know that this problem is only as bad as it is because of the incompetence of the government, the leadership of California.
	And so a really important context point for this entire podcast here is that I do not blame most of the people of California for what's happening.
	I blame the criminal cabal of corrupt government leaders, and I also cast some blame On the oblivious masses, which is some portion of the people of California, the people who keep voting for the same Democrats, but somehow wishing for a different outcome.
	They want things to get better, but they keep voting for the same criminals.
	Well, for those people who keep voting for Democrats, and I would imagine there are none of those people listening to this podcast.
	If you live in California and you're listening to this podcast, you almost certainly did not vote.
	For Newsom and the corrupt Democrats.
	But for those who did, isn't it true that they are actually living through the results of their own actions?
	They voted for this, in effect, because they voted for criminals to remain in power.
	So that's context point number one.
	The second context point is that California is run by a criminal cabal of four basic families.
	It's pretty obvious.
	You can check them out if you want to know who they are.
	I mean, Newsom is part of it.
	Pelosi is another member, etc.
	Four basic families that run everything in California.
	The level of corruption, fraud, kickbacks, bribery, blackmail, all of it is off the charts beyond insane.
	And nothing about the way California's government works represents democracy.
	There are no functioning free elections in California except in certain local areas.
	There may be small local elections, maybe in Orange County, for example, where they are still okay.
	Maybe in Northern California and some of the counties around Mount Shasta and so on, there may be more honest local elections.
	But by and large, and especially in the main cities, Southern California and Sacramento, And San Francisco and the whole Bay Area, etc.
	And at a state level, there are no real elections.
	It's always rigged.
	It is a one-party state.
	There's one party in charge of everything.
	And that party is not a political party.
	It is a criminal party.
	So get rid of the idea that...
	The majority of people in California voted for the people in charge.
	They did not.
	The people in charge did not win their elections.
	They cheated because it's a criminal cabal that is in power in California.
	And as a result, there is no way for the people of California to vote their way out of the nightmare through which they are living right now.
	You cannot vote your way out because voting doesn't matter.
	It is entirely corrupt.
	And we even saw this in the last election where they just kept, quote, counting votes after November 5th and 6th and 7th.
	They just kept counting votes for 10, 12 days until they took more congressional seats for the Democrats.
	They just kept counting votes, but they weren't really counting votes.
	They were counterfeiting votes until they got the victories that they wanted.
	And that's how they...
	It's a criminal cabal.
	It is not democracy.
	It is not a representational republic.
	And the rule of law in California is null and void.
	The state constitution does not apply in any courtroom in California.
	The judges are largely corrupt, not every single one of them, but...
	Most of them are incredibly corrupt, and California does not function as a free society, obviously.
	Now, Democrats are proving in this catastrophe that they are incapable of governance.
	Democrats cannot run a society in a sustainable fashion.
	They can only run it into the ground.
	They can only destroy.
	They cannot, because of their philosophies of wokeism and irrationality, insanity, authoritarianism, tyranny, and extreme hatred towards anybody that doesn't share their views, Democrats, they have a deeply ingrained philosophy of suicide, destruction, pain, suffering, and death.
	And this is demonstrated in abundance across the institutions of California, the abortion industry.
	Relishes in murdering unborn children.
	Hollywood produces satanic films and films that target children with transgenderism, brainwashing, and LGBT messages.
	You had a California official the other day on camera talking about the fires wearing an upside-down cross, which is a symbol of Satanism.
	So California officials.
	Go out in public wearing demonic symbols on TV cameras.
	They're not ashamed of it.
	This is who they are.
	And you look at the music industry in California and the porn industry in California is apparently a massive industry that just produces filth, exploits mostly young women, and is intrinsically evil for society.
	Then there's the drug trade, the human trafficking, and then big tech with all of its censorship is largely rooted in California.
	And the engineers that program all the code to censor the truth and to censor the truth about ivermectin or to censor the truth about how to prevent cancer, those are Californians for the most part that work for companies like Google and YouTube and Facebook and Meta, etc.
	So they are sinister.
	Evil people who worship Satan and despise human knowledge, they despise freedom, and they work for powerful corporations that are also working on tearing down humanity.
	All of that is in California.
	California is the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah of our world.
	And just to be clear, I'm not saying that every single person in California shares these values.
	Most people do not.
	And if you're listening to this in California...
	You're probably agreeing with me.
	You're like, yeah, these lunatics in Sacramento, these lunatics in L.A., the mayor of L.A., they are lunatics.
	They don't represent your values.
	And you probably don't want to have to live under their tyranny, do you?
	Well, there's good news.
	You probably won't for much longer because of where this is going.
	And that's what I'll talk about next.
	So let's talk about some of the outcomes of this.
	I've got at least five listed here, but it might turn into more.
	Outcome number one, that things continue on this collapsed trajectory and California ends up in bankruptcy because it will owe an estimated nearly half a trillion dollars in property damage claims because of its fair plan, which is the insurance coverage that the state offers property owners.
	Now, the current debt, Well, just these fires, that's going to add another roughly or approaching $500 billion to the existing $621 billion.
	So then we're going to have a state at something like $1.1 trillion in debt or close to that.
	And the thing is that the half a trillion in fire damage has to be paid now, or real soon, within a matter of weeks or months as the claims start pouring in.
	Well, California doesn't have the cash to pay that.
	And if California doesn't engage in some radical reforms, it's just going to end up defaulting on its obligations.
	It's going to put the state at a very high credit risk.
	Which means that its credit rating will plummet and the state will have to pay much higher interest rates to entice institutional investors to buy state bonds or various forms of debt from the state.
	Because would you hand over your money to California and trust the state of criminals to pay you back over time?
	No.
	Probably not.
	Not if you're a rational person.
	You wouldn't.
	This is all option number one is a slow, steady decline into poverty, crime, lawlessness, financial default collapse.
	Everything just gets worse and worse and worse year after year until you end up with California looking like Haiti or at least Southern California and nobody wanting to live there and you end up with a mass exodus.
	Okay, so that's...
	That's kind of the default option of where things go if nobody intervenes.
	And that's where the Democrats will take California if you just let them run on autopilot, because that's what they do.
	They destroy everything they run.
	They were trying to do that to the whole country under Biden and Obama.
	And Kamala would have carried that out in spades.
	She would have just gutted the country.
	All right, now, option number two.
	I want to remind you, as I mentioned this, this is a what-if thought experiment, not a prediction, because this is going to sound pretty interesting.
	You've probably never heard this option before, but option number two out of a list of five options is that Trump gets sworn in as president.
	He declares martial law for the state of California, declares the government to be an illegitimate occupying criminal cabal regime that was unelected.
	Maybe National Guard troops or, I don't know, deputizing citizens or whatever it takes.
	Trump arrests and deposes the current governor, the mayors, all the corrupt officials of California, and then he declares a schedule for new free elections with elections to be run by the military so that the Democrats of California can't cheat.
	Then, you know, obviously chaos would ensue, a lot of uncertainty, and probably Newsom would call China to assist California, and Newsom would declare that California is in a state of war against the United States of America.
	So, again, this is not a prediction.
	This is just one possibility of things that could occur.
	And in this scenario, We end up in a civil war with Chinese troops in California and the Trump military at war with the corrupt officials of California, while most of the people of California are trying to help Trump overthrow the criminal cabal of corrupt officials in California.
	Now, how's that for an exciting year?
	Let's hope that doesn't happen, but it could.
	Let's go to option number three.
	Option number three is that Trump doesn't do that, but that there is a popular revolt, some kind of citizens' uprising against the criminal cabal of the current Democrat government, a criminal cabal that runs California.
	They were not elected.
	They are criminals.
	And there could be a citizens' revolt, an uprising, which you would categorize as a local coup.
	Like a revolution, kind of like an insurrection by the citizens against the corrupt officials of California.
	And in that case, Newsom would no doubt call out the state guard and he would go to town against the citizens and he would order his state military forces to open fire on the citizens and you would have a massacre of citizens in California and then you would have...
	probably nationwide calls by all the other states to come to the aid of the people of California.
	And you might have an effort by other states to help liberate California from the Democrat criminal cabal of authoritarian rule.
	So that's where you could see troops coming in from other states on the side of the people of California to depose the criminals in power.
	So there's an interesting one.
	Let's also hope we don't see that happen because that would not be bloodless, probably.
	Option number four is that the state guard troops or the military troops of the state of California, they carry out a coup against the state government.
	They arrest Newsom and they arrest the AG and they arrest the mayors.
	A military coup against the leadership of California.
	And this military coup, should it occur, although, again, this is just a thought experiment, not a prediction, but should this occur, it would be incredibly popular among the California people who increasingly see themselves as being just royally screwed by the corrupt officials.
	The taxes in California are insane.
	I think they're the highest in the nation.
	And people in California pay more for everything.
	Gasoline and property taxes and just property itself and even food and services and everything else.
	And why?
	Because it's a racket.
	It's a criminal racket.
	Because the government of California is looting the pockets of its own citizens.
	And yet, the government isn't doing anything to protect the citizens during fires or floods or earthquakes or anything like that.
	So we could see a military coup backed by the people against the corrupt officials.
	And if that were to happen, well, it would be interesting to see what Trump does or what other state guards do.
	Probably the liberal governors of Oregon and Washington would send their troops to try to oppose the uprising.
	But then there might be other states that come in on the side of...
	The people of California trying to overthrow the corrupt government, and then you could very quickly see things breaking down into a regional civil war type of scenario.
	And again, let us hope that that doesn't happen, but it's another one of the possibilities.
	And now there's option number five, or possible outcome number five.
	And this would, I believe, follow Tom Homan and the Trump administration attempting to enforce The deportation of illegals out of California.
	This effort would involve a lot of federal officers moving into California in order to grab illegals to take them out of jails, for example.
	Some of them, a lot of them are in jails, but also to round them up off the streets or out of illegal factories or workplaces or maybe even agricultural.
	Job sites, farms, perhaps, things like that.
	And Homan and Trump want to deport these people by the millions, send them back to Mexico.
	The president of Mexico, my understanding is that she has agreed to receive millions of deportees from America.
	And I believe that the state of California will resist this with an escalating force.
	That will eventually end up with state military forces facing off against Trump administration federal forces in some manner.
	Because, you see, you've got to understand, the power base of the government of California, the Democrats, they get kickbacks on the child trafficking, the drug trafficking, the weapons trafficking.
	This trafficking is carried out largely by illegals and gangs made up of illegals that cross the open border.
	So the open border of California is a revenue model for the Democrats.
	It's actually a fundraiser.
	This is why Democrats love the open border, because what they tell the narcos or the drug gangs is they say, look, you can cross the border all you want.
	You just have to pay us.
	Whatever the going fee is.
	If you're going to bring in $100 million of, let's say, cocaine, then you have to pay us $20 million to the Democrat Party.
	And then that money gets distributed to bribe the judges and bribe the police chiefs and bribe the mayors and the city councils, etc.
	That's the political ecosystem of California.
	And so even human trafficking, it's perfectly allowed.
	If someone wants to bring...
	1,000 trafficked women and children across the border.
	They are allowed to do so.
	They just have to pay a fee.
	And that's negotiated between the Democrat power centers through law enforcement in California, most of whom on the border are on the take.
	They get paid to look the other way.
	Everybody gets a piece, and then the trafficking takes place because there's an economic incentive for this to happen.
	Whether it's weapons, drugs, or human beings or children, it's all part of the fundraising and the kickback financial incentives for the Democrat Party in California.
	So when Trump steps in and tries to stop that, well, that's the lifeline of money for the Democrats.
	They're going to fight that tooth and nail.
	And I believe there's a very real possibility that If Trump's enforcement of rounding up illegals and deporting them, if that enforcement becomes sufficiently aggressive, I believe that you could see Governor Newsom or whoever's in charge of California declaring secession,
	splitting off from the United States of America effectively and saying that we no longer will abide by federal laws whatsoever.
	That process has already begun.
	It began under Trump's first administration with the declarations of sanctuary state status, which is a nullification of federal immigration law.
	And many cities in California, most of them, actually declared themselves to be sanctuary cities.
	So California has already set the precedent of declaring itself to be immune to federal laws.
	That's going to be challenged very quickly under the Trump administration.
	Because Tom Homan is not messing around.
	He's not playing tiddlywinks, as we say.
	He's going to go in there, and he has already said that if there are any officials in California who harbor illegals, then those officials are themselves committing felony crimes of harboring criminals, harboring illegals.
	And Homan seems to imply that those officials would be arrested.
	And frankly, in my opinion, that's exactly what needs to happen.
	And that is the brilliant strategy of how you actually take down the Democrat cabal, the criminal cartel of the political leadership in California, is you arrest them all for harboring illegals.
	Because almost every one of those leaders in California has already committed treason.
	They do it every day.
	And if they interfere...
	With federal efforts to deport illegals, especially violent criminals and the rapists and the traffickers, well then, Trump's going to have the justification that he needs to arrest those officials, remove them from power, and then just let local elections replace them.
	And if this is done aggressively enough, you could actually politically take down the governor, you could take down the mayor of L.A., you could take down all kinds of officials by arresting them.
	Charging them with the crimes they have been committing for many years and then begin criminal investigations with the DOJ into election fraud in California because that's tied to the money laundering, which is tied to the human trafficking and the drug trafficking, which is tied to the illegals.
	You start pulling on this thread and the whole sweater unravels, the sweater of crime and corruption in California.
	It's all connected.
	It's all connected.
	The illegals, the trafficking, the campaign finance violations, the election fraud, the whole cabal.
	It's all tied together.
	And so, out of all the outcomes I mentioned there, the five, I am hoping that number five here is the one we get.
	I'm hoping that Trump, well, his officials go in and start working hard to remove illegals from California.
	And I am hoping that California officials resist and try to harbor illegals so that those officials get arrested and charged with whatever are the appropriate crimes.
	But I would just call it generically treason.
	I think that's a great model for taking down those officials and charging them with the crimes they have committed.
	And then you could just, again, let the California people organize their own local elections and then maybe have some DOJ oversight.
	To try to make those elections as fair as possible.
	To try to interfere with election cheating and vote rigging and all that that the Democrats typically engage in.
	And then you might have a chance to have some fair elections and actually get some honest people into office there.
	There are some, I'm told, some honest DAs at the local level.
	There are also some horrifically bad DAs, the George Soros variety, that just let criminals free on the streets.
	So there's a mix, but this could change dramatically.
	Now, if California tries to split off from the United States of America, this is a really interesting scenario.
	Understand that most of the geography of California will say, oh, no, no, not us.
	We're not going to split off from the United States.
	They're going to point to the west coast of California or southern California, you know, the L.A. San Diego, Bay Area pipeline, let's say, the West Coast, they're going to point to that and say, well, those lunatics might want to split off.
	But we here in, you know, Eastern California, rural California, Northern California, whatever, close to the Oregon border, close to the Nevada border, like, we're real Americans.
	We want to remain Americans.
	We don't want to split off from the country.
	So you could actually have a split of California.
	And I think that's a very likely scenario, actually.
	Maybe not in just one year, but over the next few years, I think we could see very serious efforts for many counties of California, dozens of counties, to band together and split away from the West Coast corrupt, collapsed California.
	And I think I interviewed a man a couple years ago about this very idea.
	Was it called...
	New California, I think?
	There are various proposals out there.
	There are efforts underway, and my guess is that these fires are going to accelerate those efforts.
	And I think the man's name was Preston.
	I forgot his first name, but I think it's Preston.
	So there's an effort that's been underway for quite some time, and it will probably accelerate at this point.
	And I find that to be really intriguing, because if that effort succeeds, and at this point...
	Which rural counties of California would not want to break away from the insanity and the corruption of the West Coast of California, right, at this point?
	But if you actually formed a new state, a new California, well, that state would get two new senators.
	That state would be apportioned congressional seats if it is accepted into the union.
	Obviously, but there's a process for doing that.
	How do you think we got New Mexico?
	You know, how did we get West Virginia back in the day?
	How did we even end up with California or Utah or Oregon?
	I mean, these were states that were formed over time and joined the union.
	There's a process for doing that.
	Even Texas used to be its own country, the Republic of Texas.
	And frankly, if Trump had not won this election, I kind of figured Texas would become its own country again.
	But now with Trump in power, It's probably going to be California splitting off instead of Texas.
	But there's a process by which new states are formed.
	And there's also an effort in Oregon to form, you know, a new state separate from the insanity of the lunatics in Portland.
	And, you know, probably the same efforts underway in Washington to get rid of the lunatics or to separate from the lunatics in Seattle and Tacoma, you know, that whole area.
	But these are serious efforts.
	It's not just a gimmick now.
	Some of this could come true very quickly, actually.
	And I would imagine if portions of, if California split and there was a new California, one of the priorities would be, obviously, to just get our freedom back, lower taxes like crazy, you know, just end the insanity, let farmers farm.
	Let businesses do business.
	Let people speak.
	End all the censorship nonsense.
	You could have basically a new California freedom and prosperity zone.
	Like a whole new state with maybe even without income taxes at all.
	And guess what would happen?
	There would be a mass exodus out of old California to new California.
	Because everybody would...
	Jump up and down.
	Oh my gosh, there's a new gulch here.
	Let's go to New California.
	Let's dump the old state.
	There'd be a real estate collapse.
	The valuation of properties in old California would absolutely plummet.
	And in new California, you could even attract tech businesses.
	You could do a lot of agriculture.
	You know, all kinds of possibilities of what you could do in New California.
	Maybe you have an honest, state-run, gold-backed currency.
	You know?
	Something that's not based on the dollar.
	There's all kinds of great ideas for a new state that could be revolutionary and could attract a tremendous amount of investment.
	Like, just saying, hey, deposit all your money in this state.
	Like, we'll set up a state bank or the People's Bank of New California or whatever.
	And...
	You don't have to pay any taxes on any of the earnings of your deposits, right?
	And if you start a new business in the state, you don't pay any property taxes for 10 years, etc., etc.
	Just from all over the country, maybe all over the world, people would flock to that new state and just start investing in it and building business and building infrastructure.
	And it would be prosperity galore while the old California would just collapse into total destitution.
	Which is where it's going, obviously.
	You can't really fix the current system of California.
	It's going to collapse.
	The only real options are to flee or split off, really.
	Anyway, whatever ends up happening, and this process could take several years, obviously, but whatever ends up happening, I see a real estate collapse Southern West Coast areas of California, everything from Santa Barbara all the way down the coastline, down to San Diego, you're going to see a property collapse.
	And because of the collapse in property valuations and the mass exodus of people leaving the area, you're going to have a collapse in property tax revenues for the state, for counties there, for cities, also sales tax revenues, etc.
	So you're going to have collapsing revenue, which means that those entities, whether it's a county, a city, or the state, will lack revenue in order to maintain infrastructure.
	So you're going to see accelerating collapse of infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, and public transportation, streetlights, of course, police, and fire, which hardly function now anyway.
	I think if every firefighter in California...
	Just went on strike tomorrow.
	Not that they would, but if they did, I'm not sure the outcome would be any different than what we're getting now because of the liberals that can't manage to put water pressure in the fire hydrants, you know?
	And that's not a slam on the firefighters.
	They're doing the best they can.
	But they're hobbled by the corrupt officials of California and the incompetence and the lunacy of those officials.
	There are plenty of people in California...
	Who could run the fire department and do a better job and actually put out fires.
	There are plenty of people who could run police departments in cities like L.A. or San Francisco, and they could do a much better job.
	But those people are not put into positions of power.
	Instead, it's the woke-iest, most insane, most virtue-signaling LGBT person that's given the job, and that's why nothing works.
	That's why it takes two years, you know, to get a permit to build a fence in front of your house or whatever it is, or to have a septic system or to put a solar panel on your roof.
	I hear it takes a year or two to get permission from the state.
	You can't do anything without permission.
	And people are done with that.
	That's going to end.
	So I want to be clear that I always hope For peaceful solutions, I personally want to help build a productive, sustainable, abundant society where people are healthy, where people are free.
	I want to help end human suffering.
	I have great compassion for fellow human beings.
	That's why I do what I do when I share tools like knowledge empowerment systems like our Brighton.ai large language model that we're releasing for free starting March 1st.
	Free open source download.
	I believe in contributing to society.
	I believe in helping others build a more abundant society.
	So I don't want to see anybody suffer, but the thing is, they're suffering now.
	So I do pray.
	I pray to God that the current government of California I pray to Jesus Christ that the demonic entities that currently rule California,
	that run Hollywood, that run the music industry, that run the porn industry, that traffic in children, that have the dungeons and the pedophiles and the, what's it called, adrenochrome and all that stuff, those demons and the abortion centers, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that those Evil people are defeated and removed from any position of power where they can continue to harm anybody else.
	And I pray this in the name of Jesus, and I pray to our Lord, our Savior, that if we want to have a future together, a future of abundance and peace, we do have to defeat evil.
	And there are two cities in America or two places where it's steeped in evil.
	It's not Sodom and Gomorrah.
	It's the west coast of California and it's New York City.
	Those are the abortion capitals of the west coast and the east coast.
	Those two cities are steeped in demonic filth, demonic energy, and again, it doesn't mean that every person that lives around those cities is an evil person.
	Many people are strongly opposed to what's happening in those cities.
	But those two areas, New York City and then Kind of the LA, West Coast region of California.
	They reek of deep, dark evil.
	And they must be stopped, I believe, for America to have a future.
	America has a spiritual problem.
	Not just an economic problem.
	Not just a political problem.
	Not just a problem with joblessness or drug addiction or a border problem.
	America has a spiritual problem.
	If you resolve the spiritual issues, the other issues get solved automatically as people express better values and ethics and morality.
	We solve the spiritual problem, we solve the problem for the whole country.
	And that's why when people talk to me about, oh, we're going to make America great again, oh, we're going to make America healthy again, we're going to have these policies and those policies and this and that.
	And, you know, look, a lot of good suggestions out there.
	I'm not scoffing at all of them, but I'm saying policies alone will not solve this nation's problems.
	You need morality.
	You need ethics.
	You need faith.
	You need to believe in a higher power and to understand what's happening in our cosmos.
	That our nation is currently being crippled and destroyed and parts of it are being set on fire in accordance to the expression of evil and suffering that is emanating from those areas.
	There's a link between disasters and demonic energies and spiritual filth and evil.
	You want to make America great again?
	You've got to bring God back to America.
	Seriously.
	That is a critical part of this whole equation.
	You can't just have policies that solve everything.
	You have to get spiritual about this.
	And I don't mean organized religion.
	I'm not talking about megachurches.
	And not everybody has to worship in faith exactly the same way that everybody else does.
	A lot of different expressions of faith.
	But the morality, there is a gold standard for morals.
	And that was set down in the Christian tradition in the Old Testament.
	You know, Moses and all the teachings of God in the Old Testament and then carried on by Christ in the New Testament.
	It's very clear.
	Morals are standard and they are universal.
	They are spread all over the world, such as not hurting people, you know, not causing children to suffer, respecting life, having honesty.
	Refusing to engage in deception.
	These are standard morals and ethics that exist across every religion, every culture, every ethnicity, every time in history or the present.
	It's the same rules of morality.
	And California is violating those rules, and New York City is violating those rules.
	Of course, so are the liberals in Portland and in Seattle and in Chicago and in Denver, etc.
	And in Austin, Texas, for that matter, right?
	You name the cities, you know, Albuquerque, right?
	It's the same evil, different cities.
	That evil has got to be stopped for America to ever be great again.
	So that's my message here today, because this is about much more than California.
	California is just the best example of what happens when you have a government steeped in the culture of Child trafficking, pedophilia, transgender mutilations, human suffering, filth, corruption, greed, all that stuff.
	That's what California, its government, that's what it demonstrates on a daily basis.
	That is not a sustainable structure for any society, and it must be ended for the people of California to have a future.
	So I'll end this.
	By just saying I offer a prayer to the people of California, my church, the Church of Natural Abundance, you can find the website at abundance.church.
	My church is donating $100,000 of storable organic food supplies from our store, healthrangerstore.com.
	We're donating $100,000 to the people of California.
	We are dispatching a truckload this week.
	We already have the destination staging area.
	There, near the West Coast, from which food will be distributed.
	We'll bring you more details.
	We'll bring you photos and all of it.
	So as much as I criticize the government of California, I believe that we all must do our part to help the people there, the people who are victims of corrupt government.
	And so I'm doing what I can, sending a truckload of food.
	You know, many pallets of food, $100,000 worth of organic, storable food, which we sell at our store, by the way, if you want to get yourself some storable food, organic lab-tested food and nutritional supplements, superfoods, just shop at healthrangerstore.com.
	And you supporting us allows us to do things like to make substantial donations.
	And we donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the people of North Carolina, by the way.
	In actual food deliveries.
	And the last shipment was delivered to the Pole Creek Baptist Church, the parking lot of their church right there in Candler, North Carolina, by the way, if you want to know where that food went.
	And, you know, it was distributed.
	It's all gone now, but a lot of people got it.
	Well, now we're going to send more food to California and we're going to help in whatever way we can.
	But the best way that we can help, I believe, all the people in California is help them overcome the corruption or the criminal cabal that's in power there.
	Whether that's through elections or encouraging Trump officials to arrest the felons in government, the traitors, the treasonous actors who are complicit in protecting illegal aliens.
	Yeah, we need to let the Trump administration know and let people like Tom Homan know that we support their efforts.
	Arrest those officials.
	Prosecute those officials.
	And whoever's at the DOJ under Trump, we need to let them know we support it as well.
	Every official in California that is harboring an illegal should be removed from office and criminally prosecuted, in my opinion.
	Of course, they deserve due process.
	They deserve to have an attorney in their defense and to present evidence in their defense, etc.
	I believe in due process and the rule of law.
	But they are violating the law.
	They should be criminally charged for doing so.
	And they are harming this nation.
	Not just the people of California.
	They're harming the people of America.
	On top of that, there's Satanists and demons who mutilate children.
	So there's that.
	So maybe if we stop the evil, Which is so deep in California, maybe God will have mercy on America.
	You ever thought about that?
	Maybe God will have mercy on this nation.
	And I'm praying for that outcome.
	So thank you for listening.
	God bless you all, whether you're in California or not.
	I send you my prayers and blessings.
	I want you to be happy.
	I want you to be safe.
	I want you to have a bright future.
	We can create that together.
	There are times where we have to help each other.
	There are times where we have to overcome evil.
	There are times when we have to arrest and depose criminals.
	Some of those criminals might be mayors, you know?
	Some of them might be the chief of the fire department or maybe the city council leader.
	Yeah, if they're engaged in crimes, they should be arrested and removed from power.
	That's how we restore California.
	Or split it off and have a new California and create a new abundant golden era, a new free state where people can experience the abundance that once characterized California.
	So a lot of different ideas.
	Let's pray for positive outcomes and let's pray for peace through this entire process.
	Thank you for listening.
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	Take care.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, and we have a first-time guest, a very special guest.
	This is a critical issue for our privacy and for the rule of law in our country.
	You may be aware of something called the Corporate Transparency Act or FinCEN, and this CTA requires small companies, but not large corporations and not hedge funds and not banks and not accountant firms, but small companies.
	To register with a financial crimes network run by the federal government, it is essentially allowing government surveillance over your small business entity, who owns it, who are the shareholders, what you do.
	It's almost, I mean, it's a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and other provisions of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
	And joining us today to talk about this is Andrew Schlafly.
	He is the General Counsel of the AAPS, which is an Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which does outstanding work on medical freedom and many other topics.
	Their website is aapsonline.org.
	Welcome, Mr. Schlafly.
	It's an honor to have you with us today, sir.
	Oh, thank you, Mike.
	It's an honor to be on your wonderful show, and you're so informative to the public, and I'm just thrilled to be here.
	Well, we're thrilled to have you here, and this issue is so critical for our time.
	And I gave a little bit of a background there in the intro, but honestly, relatively few Americans are fully aware of what the CTA is and how abusive it is.
	It's a government surveillance program on small businesses.
	Can you give us a little bit of background first of what this is and how dangerous it is to our liberties?
	What this?
	What the law does and the regulation that implements it is to require tens of millions of Americans.
	The estimates put it 32.6 million American businesses are affected by this.
	And it's not just businesses.
	It's also nonprofit entities, local soccer clubs, youth activities, civic organizations, religiously affiliated organizations, all these small.
	Some of them don't have any money in them.
	Some of them were just set up just to associate with other people, a chess club, things like that, that people who have set these up under state law now have to report to the federal government all sorts of personal information about themselves, driver's license numbers, birthdates, home addresses.
	So can you imagine that?
	You volunteer to...
	Be a participant in the leadership of your little youth soccer club.
	And it's incorporated because maybe there's an insurance policy you need.
	And all of a sudden, you've got to report your home address to the federal government.
	And the federal entity is the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
	So all of a sudden, you're going into a database for law enforcement purposes.
	They've used you as a potential criminal.
	It's outrageous, Mike.
	It's absolutely outrageous.
	And two really important points in this.
	Number one, we know that the federal government does not safeguard this information, even if they themselves did not abuse it or weaponize it, which they do.
	We saw that under Biden, under Obama.
	We saw the IRS weaponize against conservative nonprofits.
	Anybody focused on teaching the Bible, for example.
	Was audited or denied non-profit status.
	So we've seen the weaponization.
	But even aside from that, this information can be hacked.
	We've seen hacks of the Department of Defense.
	So Chinese cyber attackers can get all your information out of this database, right?
	I mean, if they hack it.
	Absolutely, Mike.
	And it's funny you say that because just a few weeks ago, the Department of Treasury, that's the department in which FinCEN sits, they admitted.
	That they were hacked in a severe hack of sensitive information.
	And they said it was from China.
	I don't know that they know it's from China.
	That's what they say.
	I don't know how they would know that because these hackers, Mike, as you probably have read about yourself or even experienced, I hope not, they use proxy IP addresses from all around the world.
	They can be a hacker, a political hacker sitting in San Francisco.
	Who goes through a China proxy service, gets a China IP address, and comes back into the United States and hacks somebody's computer here.
	But whatever, the Department of Treasury, which is where this data is going, admits they were just hacked a few weeks ago.
	A severe breach of security.
	Who knows what was grabbed there.
	They'll probably end up on the internet one day.
	So in other words, what they are doing, and this is blatantly unconstitutional, and I want you to give us...
	A brief overview of the legal action that has been taken because there have been significant interim victories, I believe, and Ken Paxton, the AG of Texas, is part of this as well.
	But this is insane that the government, the federal government, is demanding that we, small businesses, turn over information that could make us vulnerable to foreign hackers and could get us doxed online.
	That is just unacceptable.
	It certainly is not acceptable, as you say, Mike, and it violates multiple provisions of the Constitution.
	So many of the legal decisions so far, and there have been multiple courts already that have ruled that this is unconstitutional, and they have said that it violates the enumerated powers in the Constitution, whereby Congress is limited to powers that are set forth in the Constitution, most notably the Commerce Clause power.
	Gives Congress the ability to regulate business transactions between different states.
	Business activity that's interstate in nature.
	Well, that doesn't give Congress the power to regulate somebody's high school chess club or somebody's soccer club or a political group that was formed to fight a local ballot initiative.
	These are not examples of interstate commerce that Congress has any authority over.
	Some people set up little corporations to own a piece of property.
	That's a very common practice, where if someone's going to buy property, maybe a business or maybe an individual, they'll set up an LLC to acquire that property.
	And that unit, that home or warehouse or whatever, will sit in the LLC. And that's all the LLC would be about.
	That's not interstate commerce.
	Right.
	And importantly, these structures that you're mentioning, these examples, these are all set up in compliance with state law, correct?
	So somebody in Wyoming sets it up with Wyoming.
	Somebody in California sets it up with California.
	And they're complying with those state requirements.
	And they set their expectations based on the existing state law.
	And they're not...
	They're not violating that.
	And then all of a sudden the federal government comes along and says, well, now we're going to impose this new burden on you that is going to put you in this law enforcement database and make you a suspect in financial crimes.
	That just seems so un-American.
	It is.
	It's un-American and it's unexpected.
	As you say, Mike, when you set up a new entity to do something beneficial, and 99% of these entities that are set up, Is for a beneficial purpose, a bowling league, a whatever, a parent organization to monitor what's happening in your schools.
	These all have beneficial purposes.
	And when you set that up under state law, you assume, as has been the case for 240 years.
	That all you have to do is comply with the state regulations and setting that up.
	And they're significant.
	You've got to jump through some hoops.
	You've got to file some forms.
	You've got to pay some fees with the state.
	But then for the federal government to say, oh, no, no, we need your home address and a photo of your driver's license, too, it's just so unexpected, Mike.
	And if you don't do that, if you fail to do that, If you didn't update your address when you move, you're looking at a potential prison sentence of two years in jail.
	Yeah, talk about the penalties for noncompliance because they are shockingly high.
	Two years in jail, Mike, and enormous fines, $10,000, and it accrues as time goes by.
	It can be more than that.
	These are volunteers we're talking about, Mike.
	You know, these are not the CEOs of Citibank and Facebook and Google who can afford to deal with this, who can hire the attorneys, and who always, you know, never end up with something severe.
	We're talking about volunteers who volunteered to coach your kid's soccer league or who volunteered at a church activity.
	And now they're looking at two years in jail, and they've got to hire an attorney and so on.
	And so here's the other thing, Mike, if I could just digress a little bit.
	But this is what happens when you get a federal prosecution.
	First of all, the investigation will bankrupt most people, just investigating.
	Even if you get a clean bill of health at the end, that's what we learned with the Mueller investigation and all this lawfare that's gone.
	The investigation will cripple 99% of Americans.
	That's right.
	They did that to Roger Stone, too.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're found not guilty at the end.
	You're bankrupt.
	You're done.
	Your life's ruined.
	You lost your marriage.
	You're done.
	But in addition to that, what the federal government is doing is when they get a plea deal, a plea bargain, or get some sort of little conviction under a statute, if the statute theoretically could have imposed a prison sentence if the statute theoretically could have imposed a prison sentence of more than one year, theoretically, And it didn't because it was just a minor infraction.
	You got a little slap on the wrist.
	But in theory, if there's a provision in the statute that you could have been sentenced to more than one year in jail, then you lose your right to own a gun.
	Oh, no.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	And this is one of the most prosecuted federal statutes.
	It's a gotcha.
	Where it says if you got any conviction on your record that could have sent you to jail for more than a year, you've lost your right to own a gun.
	And if you own a gun in violation of that, you're looking at like 15 years in jail if they catch it.
	So if you volunteered for the local t-ball club to help kids play sports, And then if you do not turn over your home address, your driver's license, all the personal identifying information, social security number, everything, to the government under this financial crimes situation here, this law, the CTA, Corporate Transparency Act, as it's called, which is misnamed, then you could be convicted.
	You could go to prison for two years and lose your Second Amendment rights, is what you're saying.
	That's exactly right.
	And even if you don't go to prison for two years, if it's a warning, you know, slap on the wrist, it's a misdemeanor, whatever, you still lose your Second Amendment rights.
	That's what I'm trying to explain, and it's hard to understand, and people don't get it, but this is one of the most prosecuted federal statutes, where they play a gotcha, they target somebody, and they find some conviction 15 years ago.
	And it was just a little slap on the wrist.
	The person pled guilty because he couldn't afford the legal fees.
	And they find that and say, wait a minute, you're owning a gun now.
	You're possessing a gun now.
	That's a severe crime.
	You're not allowed to possess a gun.
	If you've got some obscure conviction under a crime, it could have punished you for more than a year.
	Alright, so let's follow the history of this.
	How did this become law?
	Because wasn't it Was it part of the NDAA or an omnibus spending bill?
	I forgot how it got passed.
	That's exactly right, Mike.
	It was stuffed into some multi-thousand-page NDA bill at the end of the year, at the end of 2000, where a lot of other stuff was going on.
	This massive bill, I think it was 1,500 pages long, that nobody reads.
	Nobody reads the bill, and somebody stuck this little provision in there.
	And nobody noticed.
	And it's part of a huge bill.
	And actually, Trump vetoed the bill.
	He vetoed it.
	But Congress then overrode his veto at the end of 2000 because it had military authorizations and service members aren't going to get paid if we don't get this passed.
	And we've got to defend our country and this and that.
	So they enacted over his veto.
	And it's got this little provision in there, a couple pages long.
	It's a doozy.
	And the deadline was the end of December 2024, correct?
	To comply with the CTA. That was actually established by regulation.
	I see.
	So that deadline is actually artificial.
	And you're right.
	It's at the end of last year, January 1st.
	And that's when the regulators in D.C., now we're talking about the deep state.
	And they say, we'll make this effective for most people on New Year's Day 2025. So just a couple weeks ago was the effective date of this thing.
	New Year's Day.
	Who makes the law effective on New Year's Day?
	Right.
	Well, this is the deep state, Mike.
	And we don't live in D.C., but I did live in D.C. And there's a different mindset there, Mike.
	There's a different mindset.
	They don't care if they're going to interfere with your Christmas and your New Year's and stuff.
	And they have fought with everything they can do in court to try to make that deadline stick of New Year's Day.
	Now, we're past that now because there were some good court injunctions.
	But they've gone back into court and they've taken this up to the Supreme Court.
	It's some kind of emergency to get this back in place as soon as possible.
	So tell us about the injunctions, because I know that Paxton, his office in Texas, achieved a significant injunction.
	Did that go through the Fifth Circuit?
	I forgot the details.
	It did.
	So then that went up as a district court judge that went up to the Fifth Circuit.
	It had it pretty interesting for those of us who work in this field, as I do, and particularly in the appellate law and appellate courts, something...
	That doesn't happen every day.
	In fact, I've never seen it happen before.
	It goes up to the Fifth Circuit with the injunction in place.
	Then the government, unbelievably, moves so aggressively to get this in place so it ruins everybody's holidays and so on.
	They move on an emergency basis in the Fifth Circuit.
	That's the U.S. Court of Appeals that presides over Texas.
	Louisiana, Mississippi.
	It actually sits in New Orleans, not in Texas, but Texas is the biggest state.
	It's over.
	And the government comes up with an emergency motion to lift the injunction, stay the injunction, so that the rule goes back into effect as soon as possible.
	And it's not like the government said, well, we'll give people a couple more months.
	No, no.
	They want this back.
	They put it back in effect January 13th.
	They delayed it for 12 days because while this injunction was in effect.
	So they go to a motions panel on the Fifth Circuit.
	Now, that's a randomly assigned three-judge panel from that appellate court, which is generally conservative.
	But I've learned, Mike, that the motions panels on that court are usually Democrat majority.
	Wow.
	I don't know how that's happening.
	I need to...
	Raise a ruckus about this.
	It's not really random, baby.
	Why this random assignment, in every case I've been involved in, it's been a Democrat majority on the motions panel.
	So an emergency motion comes in.
	Well, a lot of times those motions are just kind of, well, they're big nothing burgers, and maybe that's why Republicans, maybe they don't like to serve on them.
	I don't know, because a lot of times it's just a...
	Kind of an annoyance, here's a motion to do this.
	Usually it can be by a prisoner or whatever, and they have rights, but these prisoners get in there representing themselves in court, and they can file a lot of things that just aren't going to win.
	And so a motions panel would deal with that.
	Well, a motions panel looked at this and said, yeah, government, you're right.
	And they stayed the injunction and said, you can make this rule go back into effect immediately.
	Wow.
	And we're all looking at that and saying, I can't believe that.
	I can't believe the government would do it.
	I can't believe the motions panel allowed it.
	So then, on our side, attorneys quickly moved for it to be heard by a merits panel on the fifth circuit.
	I know this is kind of difficult to follow, but the merits panel is the panel that decides the case.
	It's not a temporary motions panel.
	It's the panel that really decides the case.
	And the attorneys on our side moved, For an immediate assignment to the merits panel, and our side also moved for review by the full court, which overall is conservative.
	Well, two days later, or three days later, this is over Christmas, so the motions panel ruled on Monday before Christmas.
	And then on Thursday after Christmas, the merits panel was assigned to the case, looked at it immediately, and they said, The injunction is correct.
	And so they reinstated the injunction.
	So the mayor's panels can hear the case, and they've assigned argument in March on an expedited basis for the government.
	They reinstated the injunction the day after Christmas to protect all of us from having to file and spend our Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve.
	Giving pictures of our driver's licenses to the federal government.
	But is that current stay that is in effect right now, is that only through January 13th?
	So, no, it extends beyond January 13th, but the government's been slow to sort of acknowledge this, and you will still see the January 13th day out there, and we're about to pass that.
	But the injunction's in effect now, so...
	No one has to do anything on January 13th.
	This will extend past January 13th.
	But, Mike, there's more to this story.
	Unbelievably, the government, the deep state we're talking about here, this is really the deep state.
	We're talking about inside the most powerful federal agencies there in the D.C. area.
	And FinCEN is one of the most powerful of all.
	They moved with an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court on New Year's Eve.
	Oh, wow.
	That's desperate.
	Can you believe that?
	With all we've got going on, I mean, we've got the Trump sentencing issue now.
	We've got the TikTok issue that it's going to set to go off on, be taken down on January 9th.
	All these emergency cases.
	Election certification, which went smoothly, but no one knew what would happen there.
	And all the coordination of the Supreme Court, the deep state says this is as important as anything else.
	Wow, while our border is wide open.
	Right.
	And we're still, and the human trafficking is off the charts.
	So which justice on the bench is going to hear this?
	Boy, you're sharp, Mike.
	You're really sharp.
	You know this process.
	Not my first rodeo, that's for sure.
	So these emergency applications go to one justice initially, because even though there are nine justices on the Supreme Court, each circuit, in this case we're talking about the Fifth Circuit, has one justice assigned to that circuit.
	And the justice who's assigned permanently to preside over the Fifth Circuit is Sam Alito.
	Well, I'm happy about that.
	Maybe perhaps Thomas would be better, but Alito's also pretty awesome on a lot of issues.
	That's right.
	So he's one of the two best by far justices we have on the Supreme Court, by far.
	Yes, I agree.
	I agree.
	And he presides over Texas, and so that's a godsend.
	Sometimes...
	Luck or Providence breaks in our favor, and it did right there.
	So he got this emergency application on New Year's Eve from FinCEN.
	It's an emergency.
	It's an emergency.
	We've got to have everybody's driver's licenses, home addresses, birthdates.
	We've got to report now, and they're a criminal if they don't do it.
	And we've got to do this right away.
	Half of our country doesn't even know about this, Mike.
	No, but let me add, though, every accountant in America...
	Is screaming at their clients to comply.
	They were doing that all through the month of December.
	I know because our accountants were screaming at us.
	And the accountants mostly just act as proxies for the IRS. Right.
	And the accountants, a lot of them, won't do it, though.
	They'll scream to comply, but they won't do it themselves because they can't figure it out.
	This is so complicated, Mike.
	You can't tell which organizations have to file and which ones don't.
	The accountants are like, you have to do this, but don't ask us.
	You need to hire.
	Wow.
	Well, now you're talking another $1,000 to pay some attorney.
	You don't know if the attorney is going to get it right and so on.
	But FinCEN, it's their job, Mike, to inform people of what these legal requirements are.
	That's their job.
	You go out there, after our show's over, and you go there and think of the next little local club that you happen to...
	Give money to or volunteer to or whatever.
	You know, someone's having a potluck dinner.
	And go and ask the person who's serving the soup there if they know about this FinCEN requirement.
	I'm sure they'll look at you and say, what's FinCEN?
	What are you talking about?
	That's why it's critical that we cover this.
	And let me just mention to our audience, this is a take-action moment.
	I need you to call the Capital Switchboard number.
	I'll put it on the screen here.
	It's a 202 number.
	Call the switchboard.
	Talk to your senators in particular.
	And talk to your governor.
	Talk to your representatives in the House.
	And urge them to get on board with eliminating the CTA. It's wildly unconstitutional.
	We have got to raise our voices about this issue.
	And Andy, you know what?
	This reminds me of the ATF arm brace rule.
	Remember that whole fiasco about the arm braces?
	Right.
	So at some point the ATF... They put out this point system.
	You're supposed to score your AR-15 based on all these silly points.
	I looked at it.
	It's like, they can read this any way they want.
	And at one point, they said arm braces are illegal.
	Well, I have arm-braced AR-15s, so I took the arm braces off.
	But I did not file with the ATF as they wanted everybody to do.
	So all these people across America, they complied and they filed and they sent in.
	Pictures of their firearms, which seems to me like an admission of guilt that could have been prosecuted based on the ATF's interpretation.
	I'm like, I'm not doing any of that.
	And I waited, and it got overturned, as it should have been, because, you know, we have a right.
	We have a Second Amendment right, obviously, to own and bear arms that are in common use in the day here.
	Which includes the AR-15s with arm braces.
	But this whole thing reminds me of that, Andy.
	You're exactly right, Mike.
	And some people say, well, the deep state's not going to prosecute 32.6 million Americans.
	And that's right.
	They're not going to prosecute everybody over this.
	There'll be millions of violations.
	This goes into effect.
	There'll be millions of violations as they want.
	But they won't prosecute every one of those violations.
	It'll be selective.
	Yeah.
	If you speak out, if you run for office, if you're someone like Donald Trump, then all of a sudden, gotcha!
	There's the prosecution.
	They just exploit the law as much as they can to take down anybody they want.
	So it basically makes a criminal out of every American.
	That's right.
	And they're not going to put every American in jail, but they're going to put those in jail who are the most courageous, the Patrick Henrys, the Sam Adams, the John Hancocks.
	That's who they will prosecute and put them in jail or ruin them politically.
	I mean, it's a miracle Trump was able to overcome all that warfare.
	That's basically God's intervention, in my opinion.
	But nobody else can overcome that.
	You can prosecute, you get a felony, and you're done politically.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	And they unleashed everything to try to destroy Trump.
	And like you said, Trump has an amazing team and a substantial amount of money to back his legal defense.
	Most people don't have that.
	But this whole thing, Andy, this just smacks of the weaponization of the government.
	Against the people and against businesses.
	And this is why I've been speaking out against the FDA, the EPA, the ATF. Even I've had guests on that talk about the corruption of the DEA. I mean, you name the agency, the USDA, it's corrupt.
	And it's been weaponized against the American people.
	The IRS, obviously, weaponized against the American people.
	I've had, well...
	I'm not going to go into the stories.
	Just insane things happening.
	And all I'm trying to do is make clean food, do interviews and tell the truth, and we get targeted and harassed because we're pro-America.
	That's why.
	And I'm one among many.
	And I'm sick of it.
	That's why I'm really happy that you're doing what you're doing.
	We've got to fight back in the courts against this nonsense.
	That's right.
	New Year's Eve, they go running to Sam Alito, Justice Sam Alito.
	Emergency, emergency, emergency.
	You've got to reinstate this reporting obligation with a two-year incarceration penalty attached to it to burden 32.6 million American businesses, small business.
	By the way, the large businesses are exempt, Mike.
	The big businesses are exempt.
	Who's ever heard of that, where there's a regulation?
	That exempts the large companies but burdens the small volunteer organization.
	No, I saw that.
	That's part of what makes me so frustrated about this, Andy, is if you want to know where is the drug money being laundered, it's the big corporate banks.
	It's not the small businesses.
	You know, I mean, look at the history of corruption, and I mean internationally, not just in the U.S., but internationally, European banks.
	Busted laundering, you know, drug cartel money, but they don't have to comply with this.
	Small businesses do.
	I don't know about you, Andy, but I've never been involved in narco money laundering.
	I mean, come on.
	It's just absurd.
	We're selling food, you know?
	These small entities, a lot of them are pro-life groups, and they're run by...
	Women who raise children, and their children are out of the home now, and they start a little association or organization, and they're being targeted for money laundering?
	It's incredible.
	So what has happened since Alito got the emergency motion?
	Thanks for asking that.
	So he got this emergency, emergency from the Deep State, FinCEN, Department of Justice, on New Year's Eve.
	And Sam Alito, to his credit, He did not jump immediately.
	So, Justice Alito, I think he's been around the block a few times now.
	And I think he knows that when the deep state comes running in and says, oh, you've got to do this, national security, national security, you know, and you look at it and you say, national security?
	You know, we're talking about little mom-and-pop businesses and volunteer organizations.
	You're talking about national security.
	So he sat on it for a couple days.
	Hopefully, he enjoyed a little New Year's break there.
	Enjoyed that little holiday, hopefully.
	And then he waited another day.
	And then on Friday of last week, he said, okay, I want to hear the other side of this.
	Mr. Government, you came in here.
	I want to hear the other side.
	Is there a wolf really here?
	And so he gave our side until 4 p.m.
	tomorrow to file briefs in opposition.
	Oh, wow.
	And when you say our side...
	Can you please explain, are you working with Ken Paxton, or is it a separate effort?
	What's going on?
	A lot of us are in touch with each other, but they're separate efforts.
	They're independent legal efforts, and we're aware that we're not alone.
	Because we know in the Fifth Circuit, there was probably two or three dozen groups, Mike, that came in on our side.
	Saying this is unconstitutional.
	So there was an enormous, heartwarming outpouring of support on our side against this in the Fifth Circuit.
	A flood of amicus briefs.
	That's the term that's used for this.
	When you're not a party in the case, you can file a brief as a friend of the court.
	Can I mention, too, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I really want to help support the AAPS here.
	Because they're paying your salary to go in and fight for the rights of many physicians and surgeons, small doctors and complementary medicine doctors as well.
	And folks, if you go to aapsonline.org, there's a donate button right here.
	You can help support this effort.
	And Andy, I also want to ask you before we wrap up today, eventually I want to get to tell us about the AAPS and the amazing work that it's doing.
	But I'm sorry to interrupt.
	I just want to help support.
	Your organization there.
	Oh, that's fine.
	I appreciate that very much.
	So the briefs have started to come in against the government on the Supreme Court docket.
	And you all can go to the docket if you want and watch this.
	It's kind of fun to watch.
	The docket number that you type in to the Supreme Court docket to view the briefs as they're coming in is 24A. 653. The A stands for application.
	And the 653 is sequential, so that means there have already been 653 applications to the Supreme Court in the last few months.
	And when the government comes in with these applications, they usually win.
	But this time, we've already had 22 states.
	That's 22. That's half the country has come in.
	Against the federal government on this and in favor of the people.
	And so 22 states led by Chris Kobach, whom you may know, Mike, filed a brief just a few hours ago.
	Oh, wow.
	That said this is unconstitutional.
	What FinCEN is doing here, Supreme Court, leave the injunction in place.
	So I want to be clear, right now the injunction is in place.
	Okay.
	So we do not have to file.
	According to this CTA requirement, because it is fully blocked.
	And there's another development I want to tell you about, Mike, if you have a few minutes, another judge.
	Yes, please go ahead.
	Yeah, another federal judge in Texas did something very courageous this week.
	While this is pending in the Supreme Court, we got a second ruling out of federal court in Texas that blocks.
	This FinCEN regulation and blocks it for everybody.
	So we have another layer of protection here, even if the Supreme Court does the wrong thing and rolls over for the government here, there's another injunction in place that just came out of Texas that protects everybody against this.
	Oh, wow.
	So wait a minute.
	So that's a district-level federal judge in Texas, and that applies to more than just Texans?
	It does.
	It protects everybody.
	Wow.
	So we've got a real struggle here.
	Get your popcorn.
	This is better than watching a football game, watching this thing play out.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because the beautiful thing, Mike, is many people and many judges now are aware of the tricks that the deep state is pulling here to grab more power.
	Indeed.
	And the old days where the federal government could just run in and say, terrorism, we need to guard against terrorism, or we need to monitor money laundering, or national security, national security, those days are gone.
	And judges now look at that and say, yeah, we've heard that before.
	We've heard that before.
	let's look at here, we don't suspend the Constitution because you declare a national emergency.
	And it may have been, honestly, Mike, it may have been the employer mandate that Biden tried to put in for forcing everybody who worked for a company of any size to get the COVID vaccine.
	That may have been the sea change that happened.
	I concur.
	I think the COVID years really woke a lot of people up to the abuses of government and the invocation of an emergency to take away our civil liberties.
	And that's simply not acceptable.
	But the real question for you, sir, is Donald Trump about to be sworn in?
	And let us pray that that goes well and is not interfered with what have you.
	I mean, we made it past January 6th, so that's a milestone.
	But what's Trump's position on this?
	I mean, I keep thinking, you know, Trump has said he's going to do a lot of things on day one, a lot of good things that I think are really critical, like we need a domestic energy supply.
	You know, let's reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline.
	I don't know how you feel about that, but I'm like, the more energy we have domestically, the better off we are.
	But, and also there are J6 political prisoners that need to be pardoned on day one.
	Has Trump mentioned anything about this CTA? He has not, Mike.
	And I think if he knew about it, he would certainly stand against it and stand with the millions of Americans who are affected by this.
	I mean, everything Trump said.
	On the campaign trail, everything he stands for is against this type of suffocating regulation, is against expanding federal police power.
	So there's no man in our country who has been more consistently, more courageously standing against this than Donald Trump.
	It's just that I don't know that he's actually aware of this specific requirement.
	He's a busy man.
	Of course.
	And he doesn't seem to sleep.
	But even when you don't sleep, there's still only 24 hours in a day.
	Well, and he's been dealing with lawfare attacks on himself.
	And some of those have not even ended yet.
	That's what's incredible.
	And we know, look, a lot of people that are going into Trump's cabinet have been guests on this show or watch the show.
	So for all of you who have influence with Trump, This is a major victory opportunity for Trump to stop this obscene law and to say we protected small businesses in America.
	We protected you against the deep state selective prosecution and surveillance grid.
	And so this is like low-hanging fruit for Trump demonstrating that he's helping America if he opposes this.
	That's exactly right.
	And what he could do is suspend the effective date.
	So the law, unfortunately, was passed over his veto, and that's the law.
	But the effective date is up to the agency and ultimately up to the president.
	So he could just do an executive order that suspends the effective date of this, and then it's gone.
	It's not gone.
	I have a suggestion.
	That effective date could be the year 2599. Yeah.
	How about that?
	After the second coming of Jesus, why don't we do it?
	So when Jesus comes, it will become effective the day after Jesus returns.
	Right, right.
	And we won't have anything to worry about because all those who would enforce the law will be burning in hell at that moment.
	So that's kind of a self-solving problem right there.
	Okay, so what do we need to do then?
	Those watching the show, I already mentioned, you know, contact your senator, contact your representative.
	Contact your governor.
	Contact your state AG. You said 22 states are already on board here.
	Right.
	We can probably guess which states those are.
	Are there other states that could be maybe swayed in the direction?
	Well, there could be, and I was thinking about that.
	This just came on the docket just a few hours ago, and there are actually about 26 or 27 red states, Mike, as you know.
	It fluctuates depending on the elections, and there may be some seats that are still trying to call.
	You know, who won this seat?
	So, Pennsylvania, Michigan, I'm not sure whether they're red or blue right now.
	But I think there are a few more states that could come in.
	22. We got more red states than 22, I'm sure of that.
	The other thing is, they had in the continuing resolution that you've all heard about that Mike Johnson prepared.
	It was a stack about seven inches tall that they were going to do.
	A couple weeks ago in December to keep the government turned on, keep the light switches turned on there.
	And then Elon Musk came out against it, and he properly, in my opinion, got that thing pulled.
	But in that continuing, in the big continuing resolution, it had an extension of the deadline from this January 1st to next January 1st.
	Well, that would have helped a bit, but I mean...
	Now that I've been in this so much, I'm like, you just extended the deadline and you didn't repeal this thing?
	And so I'm like, you know, that's not really what we were looking for here to have to spend all year worrying about this to get it right next January 1st.
	This is a form of psychological, this is my opinion, but this is a form of psychological terrorism against the American people by some rogue elements of...
	Hopefully those elements are going to be running and hiding when Trump takes office.
	I mean, although it's going to take a long time, you know, to try to root out the real corrupt actors in the system.
	And you'll never get rid of all of them.
	But Trump and his cabinet can make a very positive difference starting on day one.
	And like you said, he can extend this deadline on day one.
	He can basically nullify this.
	Into oblivion on day one.
	But I would imagine Trump has probably got a stack of executive orders this tall that he's going to need to sign.
	He's going to have a tired wrist and fingers on day one.
	He's got to reverse all the Biden nonsense, for one thing.
	Yeah, Mike, I've heard it may be as many as 100 executive orders.
	Oh, I wouldn't be surprised.
	On January 20th.
	100. I mean, it's going to take us.
	All day and evening just to read through that and see what he did.
	And it's wonderful.
	It's going to be a great day, though.
	Winning, winning, winning.
	Yeah, it's just like bringing in fresh air after you've been stuck in the cellar for a couple years.
	And then someone opens the door and brings in the fresh air.
	That's what this is like.
	And it's just fabulous.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah, Mike, I just want to add about this.
	One thing about this FinCEN is particularly...
	Pernicious and harmful is it strikes right at the volunteerism in our country.
	And Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America nearly 200 years ago, I guess 190 years ago, and he said one thing that's unique about America and very special about America is how people volunteer and associate with each other.
	That's the backbone of everything that's good about our country, is the volunteerism, the small organizations, the small local associations, the churches, and all the organizations associated with our churches and activities and sports leagues and civic organizations and political organizations.
	FinCEN regulation strikes right at the heart, right at the foundation of everything that's good about our country and makes a potential criminal out of the good people who volunteer their time to lead and manage and organize these entities.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And along those lines, I'll add to that, in terms of helping out the people of North Carolina, those great Americans who suffered, From those freak storms there, and FEMA was interfering.
	They were interdicting supplies.
	And it was organizations like us, and we have a church, and so our commercial side donates to our church.
	Our church sent out truckloads of clean, organic food to the people of North Carolina.
	And by the way, we're coordinating right now to see what we can do to respond to California, because we've got additional food supplies.
	We had to work with Green Berets, I mean, former Green Beret team there, to bypass FEMA to get the food supplies and to get them to a church parking lot because FEMA's not allowed to mess with church's inventory.
	But they could confiscate it from airport hangars, it turns out.
	Well, we got it to the Pole Creek Baptist Church in Candler, North Carolina, and then FEMA couldn't touch it, and then the people...
	See, we have to go through that.
	We have to battle our own government to try to help the people.
	That's how bad this has become, Andy.
	It's crazy.
	We shouldn't have to be fighting our own government.
	I don't mean literally fighting, but I mean evading to get food to people who are in need.
	It's crazy.
	Right.
	Well, in D.C., it's all about power.
	It's all about power and control.
	And the deep state mindset is that they want to expand their power and control as many people as possible so that when a Donald Trump comes along, the deep state can prosecute him, get him convicted, and then he won't be electable.
	That's their whole game plan.
	And these people in D.C., they're making lavish salaries.
	They have pensions like you wouldn't believe, Mike.
	They've got a health care.
	That's just the best in the country, best in the world.
	A recent study showed that 94% of them are working remotely.
	They don't even show up at their offices.
	One day a month.
	They show up one day a month.
	Unbelievable.
	When you pay people so much money to do nothing, and they know that as soon as somebody who's competent gets in charge, they're going to get fired.
	They're going to do everything they can, Mike, to prevent a political change in this country that's going to get them fired as they should be fired.
	They should be cleaned out at high percentage levels.
	I hope Elon Musk and Vivek and Trump go in there and just start handing out pink slips by the tens of thousands across these agencies because...
	It's not just that they're not working.
	It's that when they do go to work, they're working against the American people.
	That's the thing.
	That's right.
	We need small, small, small, so small government.
	You know what I mean?
	That's right.
	And the immorality in D.C. I was just chatting with somebody the other day.
	Apparently the Senate, U.S. Senate, is going to stay in session five days a week.
	When the pattern for a long time has been that Congress adjourns on Thursday, people are able to get out for a three-day weekend.
	We're talking about the elected officials now.
	We're talking about the officials being able to get back to their district for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
	And apparently the Senate, in their wisdom, it's GOP-controlled, and maybe they felt...
	Five days a week of the senators being there is a better work ethic, maybe.
	I don't know.
	But what the comment from someone there in D.C. said to me, he said, the Republicans, they don't want to be in D.C. five days a week.
	And that really struck home with me.
	I work there.
	I know what it's like there.
	And it's a sick place.
	D.C. is a sick place.
	Let's just be candid about it.
	And Justice Thomas was candid about it.
	There was an interview Justice Clarence Thomas gave.
	About six months ago, where he got into a talkative mode with somebody, and he said he hates D.C. He said it's a terrible place.
	And he's talking about spirituality and morality, and he said people there have done some bad things to good people there in D.C., and he's exactly right.
	I had a member of Congress offered me two tickets to the inauguration.
	And I said, thank you, but I'm not going to D.C. Not going.
	I need to stay here in Texas and keep working on these projects for humanity.
	I mean, I appreciate it, but nope.
	I can't stand the energy there in D.C. personally.
	And I don't mean to disparage a town that a lot of people enjoy, but I don't like Las Vegas either, frankly.
	It's just trade shows there.
	I fly into Vegas and I'm like, oh, really?
	Prostitutes and gambling.
	Cigarettes everywhere.
	And I'm like, this is just not my town, you know?
	Sorry.
	And drinking everywhere?
	No, that's just not my thing.
	But the difference between Las Vegas and D.C., Mike, is that Las Vegas is transparent.
	Yeah, and it's voluntary, right?
	People are there because they want to be there.
	You know what you're getting.
	There are no secrets.
	You go to D.C. and you watch your back.
	Everybody is lying.
	Everybody else.
	Everybody's duplicious.
	The game in D.C. is what can you lie about and get away with?
	What can you fool somebody about?
	It really is.
	And we look at biblical examples of towns.
	The Bible has multiple examples of where towns, cities, they become taken over by sickness and immorality.
	And that's where D.C. is.
	And I think we need to be...
	I'll tell you, there are other people who feel that way.
	I'm sure of it, Mike.
	And it's not just you and me.
	I mean, there are high officials who feel the same.
	Well, as I said, the person just told me.
	He said, these Republican senators, they don't want to be in D.C. They don't want to be there.
	I mean, they want to represent us.
	They want to do what's right, but they don't want to stick around there another day.
	They look forward to getting out of D.C. They're still working for us.
	They're working for us back in their districts and so on.
	Finest politicians, the finest Americans, don't want to be there.
	All right, we've only got a couple minutes here left, and I want to give you an opportunity to tell us about AAPS because it's such a significant organization.
	So go ahead.
	I appreciate that, Mike.
	So AAPS, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, was founded in 1943. It really is the oldest conservative organization in our country and probably in the world.
	There are a lot of fine conservative organizations, but the oldest is actually AAPS, 1943. No one can find one that's older than AAPS, and it's been continuously active since then on the frontier of medical freedom.
	And we're talking about ethical medical freedom here.
	I'm not talking about unethical medicine.
	We're very much against that, and we file briefs against.
	On ethical medicine, and I include in that the transgender surgery.
	So we're at the forefront of opposing transgender surgeries.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah, that's right.
	But for ethical medicine, we're at the forefront of defending and promoting the ethical practice of medicine, defending physicians.
	Right now, we're defending physicians who spoke out during COVID and spoke out for the freedom of patients to be able to get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.
	And so on.
	And some of those physicians have paid a heavy price, Mike, in retaliation.
	Yes, I think we have a common friend here in Texas.
	Yes, we do.
	Who's involved.
	He paid a heavy price for standing up for what's right.
	And God bless them.
	They're heroes.
	They're modern-day heroes.
	The physicians who stood up for patients during COVID and their access.
	To medication other than the vaccine that was rammed down everybody's throat.
	But APAS has been on forefront of many other issues, too.
	I know you've got a pro-life audience, and we're pro-life.
	Every opportunity we can to file briefs, to tell the court, no, no, the medical profession's not really in favor of these abortions.
	We've been around since 1943 and we're pro-life and we're against these abortions.
	And what else is happening though, you know, it's not just the abortions themselves, it's also the FDA organ harvesting from the aborted fetal tissue to have tissue to make vaccines.
	And so they're taking the dead babies from one group of mothers and they're using those dead babies to inject other children.
	Which I call medical cannibalism.
	And it's sick and it's demonic in my opinion.
	That's the word right there.
	It's demonic.
	Absolutely.
	And then we have the whole euthanasia issue that Canada is all about now.
	Like, oh, you have a migraine?
	Well, have you thought about letting us kill you?
	I mean, whoa, off the rails.
	Maybe we can do a follow-up one day on that.
	We do need to run today.
	But Andy, thank you so much for your time.
	You've been really helpful.
	Thank you.
	Well, thank you, Mike, for your show and for all your outspokenness.
	You're a hero of ours and your courageous advocacy for all that's good and right.
	Well, we 100% support what you're doing.
	And thank you for all of your effort.
	Let me give out the website one more time, aapsonline.org.
	And folks, please consider making a donation to the AAPS. And Andy, please keep me posted so that we would love to have you back on.
	This is a really important issue with the CTA, but also we need to explore these other issues of medical ethics in more detail on the lawfare side.
	How do we establish a First Amendment for medicine?
	You know, Dr. Benjamin Rush, remember?
	The history of Dr. Rush, he tried to put in the Bill of Rights.
	Medical freedom didn't make it.
	Maybe we need that today.
	So we can talk about that next time, okay?
	Thank you.
	God bless you, Mike, and all your listeners.
	Thank you.
	God bless you, too.
	Take care.
	And thank all of you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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