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[00:59.000 --> 01:14.000]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's The David Knight Show.
[01:14.000 --> 01:24.000]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday the 26th of February, year of our Lord 2026. Well, we had an incident in Cuba.
[01:24.000 --> 01:32.000]  Is that going to be used to start something? We'll see what happens. We're going to take a look at what we know so far about it, what has been released.
[01:32.000 --> 01:38.000]  But we're also going to take a look at what may be happening very soon with Iran.
[01:38.000 --> 01:50.000]  There was a question posed to four of the largest AI chat programs asking when the war is going to start, not if or should, but when.
[01:50.000 --> 01:57.000]  And it's very close. They were all pretty close together in terms of what they guessed. So we're going to take a look at that.
[01:57.000 --> 02:07.000]  There's also something that is brewing in terms of UFO disclosure. We've had documentaries, we've had presidents, former and current, all dropping hints with this.
[02:07.000 --> 02:14.000]  We've had so much activity lately. Is it a coincidence or conspiracy? Why are they getting ready to pull?
[02:15.000 --> 02:21.000]  We're going to take a look at that as well as the push into psychedelics.
[02:21.000 --> 02:36.000]  This came up in a committee hearing where they were vetting a new nominee, talking about her mushrooms, many people talking about DMT and how they can get in contact with the machine elves.
[02:36.000 --> 02:40.000]  What are they really? We'll be right back.
[02:40.000 --> 02:46.000]  Well, one began with what happened with Cuba. There was 10 people on a Florida based speedboat.
[02:46.000 --> 02:55.000]  I got to say that if you are a speedboat manufacturer or if they're traded on the stock exchange,
[02:55.000 --> 03:01.000]  you may want to short the stock because I think it's going to get to the point where people don't want to buy these speedboats anymore.
[03:01.000 --> 03:06.000]  They're going to get shot out of the water even either by the Pentagon or by Cuba.
[03:06.000 --> 03:11.000]  Allegedly, there was, however, a gun battle with Cuban border troops.
[03:11.000 --> 03:16.000]  This is a story coming out of Cuba. Of course, none of this has been verified yet.
[03:16.000 --> 03:20.000]  There are allegedly some survivors off of this.
[03:20.000 --> 03:27.000]  The Cuban military did not go back and machine gun all the survivors like we do.
[03:27.000 --> 03:31.000]  I just can't get over that. It's just amazing to me.
[03:31.000 --> 03:37.000]  I look at this and it's like, are we the monsters that we fought, the Nazis, doing this?
[03:37.000 --> 03:40.000]  I mean, that was a hallmark of the U-boat commanders.
[03:40.000 --> 03:45.000]  They would hit a ship with a torpedo, then they would come back and execute all the survivors that were shipwrecked.
[03:45.000 --> 03:51.000]  We have that in our Pentagon rules so that we don't become the Nazis, but not under Trump,
[03:51.000 --> 03:58.000]  not under quote unquote Christian nationalist Pete Hegseth. No, they're fine with doing that.
[03:58.000 --> 04:04.000]  So evidently, what was happening was when they encountered this speedboat with 10 people in it,
[04:04.000 --> 04:08.000]  according to the Cuban officials, these people fired on them.
[04:08.000 --> 04:13.000]  And the interesting thing is we have names we don't really they haven't been interviewed or debriefed yet.
[04:13.000 --> 04:18.000]  But the people who are on the boat all seem to have Cuban names.
[04:18.000 --> 04:23.000]  Sanchez Gonzalez, Leordon Enrique Cruz Gomez, and on and on.
[04:23.000 --> 04:26.000]  So this is coming out of Florida.
[04:26.000 --> 04:34.000]  And I know from growing up in Florida that people whose parents came, my generation,
[04:34.000 --> 04:40.000]  it was their parents who came out of Cuba and the hatred was visceral for Cuba.
[04:40.000 --> 04:43.000]  And I'm not saying that wasn't deserved either.
[04:43.000 --> 04:48.000]  I'm just saying that they have been aching to get us into a war with Cuba for the longest time.
[04:48.000 --> 04:52.000]  And perhaps that was what was involved with this. I'm just speculating here.
[04:52.000 --> 04:57.000]  We don't know again. Cuba said its soldiers killed four people, wounded six others,
[04:57.000 --> 05:05.000]  and a Florida registered speedboat that entered Cuban waters and opened fire on the soldiers first, injuring one Cuban officer.
[05:05.000 --> 05:12.000]  Cuba's government said the majority of the 10 people on board have a known history of criminal and violent activity.
[05:12.000 --> 05:18.000]  What do they mean by that? Well, some of these people, one of them in particular, was organizing,
[05:18.000 --> 05:24.000]  trying to organize an invasion in Florida. So that's what they're talking about.
[05:24.000 --> 05:29.000]  They know these people are itching to go back to Cuba.
[05:29.000 --> 05:34.000]  Cuban authorities, based on their involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support,
[05:34.000 --> 05:41.000]  or commission of actions carried out in national territory or other countries in connection with acts of terrorism.
[05:41.000 --> 05:48.000]  Well, they're saying in terms of acts of terrorism, threats to try to overthrow the Cuban regime.
[05:48.000 --> 05:56.000]  And so they identified seven of the 10 passengers, all of them Hispanic or Cuban in terms of their names,
[05:56.000 --> 06:05.000]  but no interviews yet of that. Suffice to say, said Marco Rubio, a Cuban himself who's anxious to overthrow the Cuban regime,
[06:05.000 --> 06:09.000]  said suffice it to say it's highly unusual to see shootouts in the open sea like that.
[06:09.000 --> 06:14.000]  Yeah, yeah. Typically what we do is we just kill people from a distance with missiles, right?
[06:14.000 --> 06:22.000]  These guys got up close and started firing, which is by the way, nothing that was never done with any of these boats.
[06:22.000 --> 06:25.000]  And I don't know what the count is now. It's like two dozen or something.
[06:25.000 --> 06:30.000]  I know those boats ever fired on the Americans.
[06:30.000 --> 06:41.000]  One of the men identified by the Cuban government as Conrado Galindo Sarriol was interviewed in June in 2025 by a US based news site
[06:41.000 --> 06:46.000]  that has long called for a change of government in Cuba.
[06:46.000 --> 06:49.000]  So again, maybe these guys took it into their own hands.
[06:49.000 --> 06:57.000]  Maybe they're hoping that the US government will seize upon this as some kind of a false flag and carry this out.
[06:58.000 --> 07:07.000]  So you see right away a Florida congressman, a Republican, Carlos Jimenez, blasted the Cuban regime
[07:07.000 --> 07:11.000]  and says this regime must be relegated to the dust men of history. So he's ready to pick it up.
[07:11.000 --> 07:17.000]  You know, if you've got 10 guys who are Cubans who want to overthrow the Cuban government,
[07:17.000 --> 07:20.000]  10 individuals not even associated with the government, perhaps,
[07:20.000 --> 07:24.000]  if they go in and with a speedboat and start shooting it up and get shot themselves,
[07:25.000 --> 07:28.000]  and you're going to have a congressman like this, they're saying that's it.
[07:28.000 --> 07:35.000]  We have to have a war. They don't even need a reason to have a war anymore.
[07:35.000 --> 07:37.000]  It's absolutely insane.
[07:37.000 --> 07:43.000]  The dictatorship of Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida and murdered those on board, he said.
[07:43.000 --> 07:47.000]  This regime must be relegated to the dust men of history.
[07:47.000 --> 07:56.000]  So again, will it provide the Trump administration with tenuous reasons to do what they wanted to do all along?
[07:56.000 --> 08:00.000]  We have become the regime that starts wars, that starts invasions.
[08:00.000 --> 08:04.000]  We don't fight justified defensive wars.
[08:04.000 --> 08:11.000]  We are not interested in ending wars, and we're not interested in protecting civilian casualties.
[08:11.000 --> 08:17.000]  So they just, again, we have become the evil ones and all this stuff.
[08:17.000 --> 08:24.000]  The US military, meanwhile, has boarded a third oil taker in the Indian Ocean that they tracked from the Caribbean.
[08:24.000 --> 08:31.000]  US forces boarded an oil taker in the Indian Ocean that attacked the Caribbean, marking the third such incident.
[08:31.000 --> 08:35.000]  Yeah, Trump. Arr!
[08:35.000 --> 08:37.000]  Pirate of the high seas.
[08:37.000 --> 08:41.000]  This is a mafia regime, folks.
[08:41.000 --> 08:45.000]  It truly is organized crime, racketeering.
[08:45.000 --> 08:53.000]  And, of course, it was Smedley Butler who said that as a time in the Marines, he said, war is a racket.
[08:53.000 --> 08:56.000]  In other words, racketeering. It's like a mafia.
[08:56.000 --> 09:03.000]  The government going out and killing competition for their favored businesses that are out there.
[09:03.000 --> 09:06.000]  This really has become a mafia regime.
[09:06.000 --> 09:10.000]  Literally, everybody can see it now. You don't need an insider telling you that.
[09:10.000 --> 09:17.000]  Since the attack on Venezuela, the US has been controlling Venezuela's oil trade, imposing a ramped up oil embargo on Cuba,
[09:17.000 --> 09:26.000]  causing mass fuel shortages and humanitarian crisis and an apparent attempt to have regime change in Havana.
[09:26.000 --> 09:29.000]  Another drug lord is killed.
[09:29.000 --> 09:32.000]  So are we done with the drug war? Are we winning yet?
[09:32.000 --> 09:38.000]  That's a question Free Thought Project has. It's actually an article from the Future of Freedom Foundation.
[09:38.000 --> 09:46.000]  Think about the many times that you see the American government and the American press celebrating.
[09:46.000 --> 09:51.000]  Well, we got that drug lord. We got El Chapo. We got Pablo Escobar.
[09:51.000 --> 09:55.000]  And now we've got the latest guy, El Mincho.
[09:55.000 --> 09:58.000]  Does it ever stop anything?
[09:58.000 --> 10:04.000]  It's like when they look at this, we seized millions of dollars of this particular drug.
[10:04.000 --> 10:07.000]  Well, that's really going to change things. No, it doesn't.
[10:07.000 --> 10:10.000]  It doesn't change anything. We've been doing this for 52 years.
[10:10.000 --> 10:17.000]  The very definition of insanity, continuing to do the same thing, thinking you're going to get some different results.
[10:17.000 --> 10:23.000]  So the article says, I can't help but laugh every time I read an account on mainstream press
[10:23.000 --> 10:27.000]  about how a big drug kingpin has just been killed or captured.
[10:27.000 --> 10:34.000]  Their mindset is always, finally, finally, finally we're making progress in the drug war.
[10:34.000 --> 10:39.000]  It is so dumb and idiotic. How can anyone really buy into this nonsense?
[10:39.000 --> 10:42.000]  How can these people not see this has been going on for decades?
[10:42.000 --> 10:47.000]  How can they not see this is just a racket, a decades long, never ending, ongoing,
[10:47.000 --> 10:54.000]  perpetual racket perpetrated by U.S. officials, primarily the CIA folks?
[10:54.000 --> 10:58.000]  This latest example is the guy known as El Mincho.
[10:58.000 --> 11:03.000]  New York Times describes him as, quote, one of the world's most powerful drug lords.
[11:03.000 --> 11:10.000]  They said his killing, quote, dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
[11:10.000 --> 11:13.000]  Wow, major blow. Imagine that, he says.
[11:13.000 --> 11:18.000]  Instead, it's just another reason why it'll go on and on and on.
[11:18.000 --> 11:22.000]  In fact, the killing has just unleashed a massive campaign of retaliatory violence
[11:22.000 --> 11:25.000]  in Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara.
[11:25.000 --> 11:30.000]  To the New York Times' credit, the article does point out the following truth.
[11:30.000 --> 11:36.000]  Since the United States began its war on drugs nearly six decades ago,
[11:36.000 --> 11:40.000]  multiple drug lords have been arrested or killed and cartels have been dismantled.
[11:40.000 --> 11:44.000]  Yet, more people around the world are using drugs than ever.
[11:44.000 --> 11:48.000]  An estimated 25 million people used cocaine worldwide in 2023,
[11:48.000 --> 11:54.000]  up from 17 million a decade earlier, according to a UN report released last year.
[11:54.000 --> 11:58.000]  And I've got to say, that's quantitative information.
[11:58.000 --> 12:07.000]  If you look at it qualitatively, it has created so many much, much, much more dangerous forms of drugs.
[12:07.000 --> 12:11.000]  Far more addictive, far more likely to kill you with an overdose.
[12:11.000 --> 12:15.000]  This is the pattern that we have seen over and over again with prohibition.
[12:15.000 --> 12:19.000]  We saw it in the brief prohibition of alcohol prohibition,
[12:19.000 --> 12:24.000]  that it results not only does it corrupt the government, law enforcement, the courts,
[12:24.000 --> 12:30.000]  it also creates more intense forms of whatever it is that you're trying to prohibit.
[12:30.000 --> 12:34.000]  And so, take a look at the photograph that accompanies this article.
[12:34.000 --> 12:39.000]  It's a photograph of the body of the drug kingpin named Pablo Escobar.
[12:39.000 --> 12:42.000]  He was the El Mincho of his day back in the 1980s and 90s.
[12:42.000 --> 12:48.000]  Notice the happy looks on the Colombian drug warriors who were responsible for killing him.
[12:48.000 --> 12:53.000]  They were as happy as today's drug warriors are about killing El Mincho.
[12:53.000 --> 12:57.000]  As almost everybody knows, the drug war has been a major factor
[12:57.000 --> 13:04.000]  in the destruction of civil liberties and privacy, including financial privacy here in the United States.
[13:04.000 --> 13:09.000]  It has been one of the best MacGuffins they could ever come up with.
[13:09.000 --> 13:15.000]  At the same time, the drug war and the violence that came with it ended up destroying Mexico.
[13:15.000 --> 13:20.000]  As we've been saying at the Future of Freedom Foundation for 36 years,
[13:20.000 --> 13:26.000]  there is one and only one way to get rid of drug lords and the black market violence that comes with them.
[13:26.000 --> 13:30.000]  That way is drug legalization.
[13:30.000 --> 13:33.000]  What stopped Al Capone and people like him?
[13:33.000 --> 13:36.000]  Well, yes, it was the income tax violations that they had there.
[13:36.000 --> 13:42.000]  But we don't see alcohol distributors shooting each other up on the streets anymore.
[13:42.000 --> 13:45.000]  There are other ways to control this stuff.
[13:45.000 --> 13:50.000]  And so from that standpoint, they're absolutely right.
[13:50.000 --> 13:55.000]  With drug legalization, the drug lords and the drug war violence disappear immediately.
[13:55.000 --> 14:02.000]  However, there's still the issue of individual drug abuse, individual addiction.
[14:02.000 --> 14:10.000]  You can stop the cartels by stopping their black market monopoly that's been handed to them.
[14:10.000 --> 14:13.000]  But how do you stop the addiction?
[14:13.000 --> 14:19.000]  Well, the answer to that is not the drug war or the DEA or any of the government programs either.
[14:19.000 --> 14:21.000]  The answer to that is Christ.
[14:21.000 --> 14:27.000]  I've had multiple people on this program talking about how they were caught up in this.
[14:27.000 --> 14:30.000]  They were caught up in crime. They were caught up in addiction.
[14:30.000 --> 14:34.000]  NaturalHale has got a great testimony about that.
[14:34.000 --> 14:39.000]  And the thing that stopped it for them was the spiritual side of it.
[14:39.000 --> 14:43.000]  You're not going to get out of this without that.
[14:43.000 --> 14:49.000]  And when you look at this as a symptom of where our godless society has gone,
[14:49.000 --> 14:51.000]  we've got two separate problems here.
[14:51.000 --> 14:53.000]  One of them is individual addiction.
[14:53.000 --> 14:56.000]  The other one is the government's addiction to power.
[14:56.000 --> 14:59.000]  I don't know how we solve the government's addiction to power.
[14:59.000 --> 15:00.000]  I wish I did.
[15:00.000 --> 15:04.000]  I do know how we solve the individual addiction issue.
[15:04.000 --> 15:10.000]  And you need to ask yourself, why is it that before, what was it, 1971, I think, when they did the war on drugs,
[15:10.000 --> 15:13.000]  why is it that before 1971 we didn't have these problems?
[15:13.000 --> 15:15.000]  It's just like the school shootings.
[15:15.000 --> 15:18.000]  Why did we not have massive school shootings?
[15:18.000 --> 15:22.000]  Many of us have pointed out that when we were going to school,
[15:22.000 --> 15:26.000]  you had people bringing guns to school because they were doing target practice
[15:26.000 --> 15:31.000]  as part of the gun club or part of whatever they were involved in, ROTC or whatever.
[15:31.000 --> 15:37.000]  It was common when I was a child to see people driving around with gun racks in their pickup trucks.
[15:37.000 --> 15:41.000]  Why is it that we didn't have these mass shootings then?
[15:41.000 --> 15:47.000]  And I say that it's the same thing that's causing this scourge of drugs.
[15:47.000 --> 15:51.000]  It's the purge of Christ out of our society.
[15:51.000 --> 15:53.000]  That's reality, folks.
[15:54.000 --> 15:56.000]  And that's the solution.
[15:56.000 --> 16:00.000]  Meanwhile, Mike Johnson, as I pointed out yesterday how despicable it was
[16:00.000 --> 16:05.000]  that the Republican Party is embracing every form of perversion
[16:05.000 --> 16:08.000]  while they pretend to be exactly the opposite.
[16:08.000 --> 16:13.000]  And of course, this particular one is about Representative Tony Gonzalez out of Texas
[16:13.000 --> 16:16.000]  with primaries coming up.
[16:17.000 --> 16:25.000]  There's been revelations of sexting and harassment of a staffer that he had,
[16:25.000 --> 16:30.000]  and she wound up committing suicide, setting herself on fire.
[16:30.000 --> 16:35.000]  And her husband investigated and found the texts and has made them public.
[16:35.000 --> 16:39.000]  And so the question was, should he resign? Should he step down?
[16:39.000 --> 16:42.000]  Does the GOP want to distance itself from a guy like this?
[16:42.000 --> 16:44.000]  Oh, no. No, no, no.
[16:44.000 --> 16:47.000]  We've got to keep our majority. We've got to keep our political power.
[16:47.000 --> 16:53.000]  We don't want to jeopardize that because of any morality or whatever.
[16:53.000 --> 16:58.000]  And again, this is Mike Johnson, the guy who kicked off his speakership,
[16:58.000 --> 17:00.000]  leading a prayer and talking about God.
[17:00.000 --> 17:03.000]  He doesn't care about, that's all he cares about is this.
[17:03.000 --> 17:07.000]  And I said yesterday, I gave you the back and forth with Jim Jordan,
[17:07.000 --> 17:09.000]  a member of the press, you know.
[17:09.000 --> 17:12.000]  Are you going to remove your endorsement from this guy?
[17:12.000 --> 17:14.000]  Well, you know, there's another guy that's running.
[17:14.000 --> 17:16.000]  It'd be fine if he went, well, are you going to endorse that guy
[17:16.000 --> 17:18.000]  and remove your endorsement from this guy?
[17:18.000 --> 17:22.000]  Well, he wants to continue to sit on the fence. He won't condemn the guy.
[17:22.000 --> 17:26.000]  That's for the voters to decide. I don't have any say about that.
[17:26.000 --> 17:28.000]  Yes, you do.
[17:28.000 --> 17:32.000]  If you're not going to speak up about moral issues, get out of government.
[17:32.000 --> 17:36.000]  You're not a leader. You're just a follower. You're a sycophant.
[17:36.000 --> 17:39.000]  You're somebody who's trying to line your pockets.
[17:39.000 --> 17:45.000]  I'm disgusted with people like Mike Johnson and Jordan.
[17:45.000 --> 17:49.000]  They're disgusting. They have no backbone, no spine, no principles.
[17:49.000 --> 17:52.000]  Well, Mike Johnson changed his tune.
[17:52.000 --> 17:54.000]  What do you think made him change his tune?
[17:54.000 --> 17:57.000]  I've got an idea why I think he changed his tune.
[17:57.000 --> 18:02.000]  While Trump was droning on and on in his boring State of the Union,
[18:02.000 --> 18:05.000]  telling lie after lie, patting himself on the back,
[18:05.000 --> 18:08.000]  breaking his arm, patting himself on the back.
[18:08.000 --> 18:13.000]  While all that was happening, there were three elections that all went Democrat,
[18:13.000 --> 18:17.000]  some of them in Republican areas as well.
[18:17.000 --> 18:22.000]  And they are plummeting in terms of popularity according to polls.
[18:22.000 --> 18:24.000]  So maybe that's what brought him around,
[18:24.000 --> 18:31.000]  because evidently he doesn't have any moral compass that's going to change his direction.
[18:31.000 --> 18:34.000]  It's only political polls that point to what's coming.
[18:34.000 --> 18:38.000]  Monday, Tony Gonzalez, the congressman from Texas,
[18:38.000 --> 18:40.000]  faced calls to resign after it was revealed,
[18:40.000 --> 18:43.000]  but he was involved in a sex scandal in front of his aides,
[18:43.000 --> 18:47.000]  who later took her own life through self-immolation, setting herself on fire.
[18:47.000 --> 18:51.000]  Those calls continued throughout the week and may have prompted Johnson to push back.
[18:51.000 --> 18:54.000]  I think it's the polls, not the calls.
[18:54.000 --> 18:57.000]  And because these guys are such weasels,
[18:57.000 --> 19:03.000]  they don't have the backbone, the spine to stand up to something like this and condemn it?
[19:03.000 --> 19:05.000]  What's the matter with them?
[19:05.000 --> 19:12.000]  Call me crazy, but I think perhaps if your attention and presence causes someone to self-immolate,
[19:12.000 --> 19:14.000]  maybe we remove you from government.
[19:14.000 --> 19:18.000]  Maybe that's a brave and bold stance to take today, but I'm willing to take it.
[19:18.000 --> 19:22.000]  Congress, you can rally behind me, my torch lights the way,
[19:22.000 --> 19:26.000]  so you can all follow along and we'll get Tony Gonzalez out of there.
[19:26.000 --> 19:27.000]  Isn't that amazing?
[19:27.000 --> 19:32.000]  I mean, they can't bring themselves to condemn this guy, to distance themselves from this guy.
[19:32.000 --> 19:36.000]  Finally, after days of this, because there's been several women,
[19:36.000 --> 19:40.000]  and you had Thomas Massie, to his credit, Tim Burchett joined with this.
[19:40.000 --> 19:44.000]  But for the most part, the Republicans are going to just know we need to have a Republican majority.
[19:44.000 --> 19:47.000]  You want to talk about partisanship.
[19:47.000 --> 19:50.000]  You want to talk about being part of the club and all of this sickness
[19:51.000 --> 19:56.000]  of how people establish their identity as being part of a club.
[19:56.000 --> 20:01.000]  These guys are the worst example of this because they want to have the majority,
[20:01.000 --> 20:05.000]  because they're going to control the process.
[20:05.000 --> 20:08.000]  When you've got the majority now, the rules that were put in by Nancy Pelosi
[20:08.000 --> 20:14.000]  and propagated by these subsequent GOP speakers are the speaker is going to control everything.
[20:14.000 --> 20:19.000]  I mean, the people, you want to talk about how important it is to vote.
[20:19.000 --> 20:25.000]  Listen to the congressmen who tell you that they're trying to fight to even get their bills to be on the floor.
[20:25.000 --> 20:28.000]  They can't even vote on their own bills.
[20:28.000 --> 20:32.000]  And you think you're going to change something at the ballot box?
[20:32.000 --> 20:34.000]  It's crazy.
[20:34.000 --> 20:39.000]  Anyway, Johnson said, while I said to him publicly and privately,
[20:39.000 --> 20:44.000]  he's got to address that directly and head on with his constituents.
[20:44.000 --> 20:46.000]  There is a primary there in less than a week.
[20:46.000 --> 20:50.000]  These things will play out, so we're allowed to let that happen.
[20:50.000 --> 20:52.000]  That's as far as he's going.
[20:52.000 --> 20:54.000]  That's what really changed his tune.
[20:54.000 --> 20:56.000]  He's still saying, well, it's up to the voters.
[20:56.000 --> 20:58.000]  I'm just neutral on this stuff.
[20:58.000 --> 21:02.000]  Now, personally, I would never cause a woman to light herself on fire,
[21:02.000 --> 21:04.000]  but that's really between him and the voters.
[21:04.000 --> 21:07.000]  If the voters don't have a problem with it, who am I to say?
[21:07.000 --> 21:09.000]  Yeah, that's right.
[21:09.000 --> 21:13.000]  Well, the other thing that the texts revealed
[21:13.000 --> 21:15.000]  were that she was trying to push him back.
[21:15.000 --> 21:16.000]  I mean, it really was.
[21:16.000 --> 21:18.000]  He was pushing hard against her.
[21:18.000 --> 21:19.000]  She was pushing back.
[21:19.000 --> 21:21.000]  Have you had a lot to drink?
[21:21.000 --> 21:23.000]  Go to bed and all this other kind of stuff.
[21:23.000 --> 21:25.000]  So evidently, he was persistent,
[21:25.000 --> 21:32.000]  and he was able to do what caused her to commit suicide.
[21:32.000 --> 21:37.000]  Meanwhile, we have Ken Paxton in Texas, the attorney general that is there,
[21:37.000 --> 21:39.000]  and he is running against John Cornyn.
[21:39.000 --> 21:44.000]  Now, John Cornyn is kind of a typical establishment Republican.
[21:44.000 --> 21:46.000]  He's a gun control Republican.
[21:46.000 --> 21:47.000]  That's been part of his weakness.
[21:47.000 --> 21:50.000]  And of course, he was sitting right there with Trump.
[21:50.000 --> 21:52.000]  Trump had, like, John Cornyn on one side
[21:52.000 --> 21:54.000]  and Dianne Feinstein on the other side.
[21:54.000 --> 21:57.000]  He said, you know, fortunately, I can do gun control myself.
[21:57.000 --> 21:58.000]  I don't even need Congress.
[21:58.000 --> 22:00.000]  And we can make all this stuff happen.
[22:00.000 --> 22:02.000]  The two of them are like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[22:02.000 --> 22:04.000]  So John Cornyn's got some issues.
[22:04.000 --> 22:06.000]  That's just one of his issues as a Republican
[22:06.000 --> 22:11.000]  in terms of what the Republican voters think are important.
[22:11.000 --> 22:14.000]  Ken Paxton has checked all the boxes pretty much
[22:14.000 --> 22:16.000]  that MAGA wants to see in terms of policy.
[22:16.000 --> 22:20.000]  However, he's got quite a history himself.
[22:20.000 --> 22:24.000]  His wife is a Texas state senator,
[22:24.000 --> 22:30.000]  and she's stuck by him in some of his infidelities that were there.
[22:30.000 --> 22:33.000]  But he was brought up on some charges,
[22:33.000 --> 22:35.000]  and she voted to impeach him, I believe.
[22:35.000 --> 22:37.000]  I'd have to go back and look at it.
[22:37.000 --> 22:42.000]  But now they're getting divorced, as they say, for biblical reasons.
[22:42.000 --> 22:50.000]  And an ad from John Cornyn has gone for the jugular, to put it politely.
[22:50.000 --> 22:55.000]  So the crooked Ken Paxton cheated on his wife.
[22:55.000 --> 22:59.000]  The new ad goes there in an effort to stop fraud
[22:59.000 --> 23:02.000]  from sinking the Texas GOP, they say.
[23:02.000 --> 23:04.000]  Well, I got to say, this is one of the things
[23:04.000 --> 23:07.000]  that I've always said about Donald Trump.
[23:07.000 --> 23:09.000]  And I said it when I was at Infowars.
[23:09.000 --> 23:13.000]  I said if he's unfaithful to his wife and wives,
[23:13.000 --> 23:16.000]  he is going to be unfaithful to his oath to the Constitution.
[23:16.000 --> 23:20.000]  I mean, if you've got somebody that's really close to you
[23:20.000 --> 23:26.000]  and you betray them, how easy it is to betray a document,
[23:26.000 --> 23:28.000]  a piece of paper, right?
[23:28.000 --> 23:31.000]  And we've seen that over and over again from Trump.
[23:31.000 --> 23:35.000]  Well, this ad, the narrator kicks things off by declaring,
[23:35.000 --> 23:38.000]  it's voting time, so let's cut through the BS.
[23:38.000 --> 23:40.000]  Because they don't say BS.
[23:40.000 --> 23:44.000]  They say we didn't play it because they want to establish
[23:44.000 --> 23:46.000]  their street creds as being tough.
[23:46.000 --> 23:48.000]  So it's profanity and laden.
[23:48.000 --> 23:51.000]  Anyway, crooked Ken Paxton cheated on his wife.
[23:51.000 --> 23:53.000]  She's divorcing him on biblical grounds.
[23:53.000 --> 23:56.000]  So now Paxton is wrecking another home,
[23:56.000 --> 24:00.000]  keeping around with a married woman of mother of seven.
[24:00.000 --> 24:03.000]  And remember, this crooked Ken has increased his net worth
[24:03.000 --> 24:08.000]  by as much as 7,000% since taking office.
[24:08.000 --> 24:11.000]  And his actions in office, even more troubling.
[24:11.000 --> 24:14.000]  He gave millions of Texas tax dollars to left-wing organizations,
[24:14.000 --> 24:18.000]  including the Montrose Center that hosts drag queen shows
[24:18.000 --> 24:23.000]  and performs gender-affirming services to kids as young as seven.
[24:23.000 --> 24:25.000]  I don't know if these accusations are true.
[24:25.000 --> 24:26.000]  I don't know how.
[24:26.000 --> 24:30.000]  I can imagine that he's increased his net worth by 7,000%.
[24:30.000 --> 24:33.000]  That's, I guess, not that uncommon, unfortunately,
[24:33.000 --> 24:34.000]  for our politicians.
[24:34.000 --> 24:35.000]  That's why they get into this.
[24:35.000 --> 24:40.000]  But in terms of giving millions of Texas tax dollars
[24:40.000 --> 24:45.000]  to this Montrose Center that's doing LGBT trainee stuff,
[24:45.000 --> 24:48.000]  I don't know how the attorney general has got control
[24:48.000 --> 24:50.000]  over money that's being given to people.
[24:50.000 --> 24:51.000]  Maybe that's true.
[24:51.000 --> 24:52.000]  I don't know.
[24:52.000 --> 24:53.000]  Anyway.
[24:53.000 --> 24:57.000]  These people assume so many powers that aren't a part of their job
[24:57.000 --> 24:58.000]  that who knows?
[24:58.000 --> 24:59.000]  That's true.
[24:59.000 --> 25:01.000]  Maybe it's funding from his department.
[25:01.000 --> 25:04.000]  Now think of the Paxton Dirty Deeds that we don't know about yet.
[25:04.000 --> 25:09.000]  This wife cheater and fraud or the Texas workhorse,
[25:09.000 --> 25:14.000]  Senator John Cornyn, who will work to take away your guns,
[25:14.000 --> 25:16.000]  who is endorsed by Border Patrol,
[25:16.000 --> 25:19.000]  and who voted with Trump 99% of the time.
[25:20.000 --> 25:23.000]  Cornyn got the money to finish the dam wall,
[25:23.000 --> 25:25.000]  and they're not talking about water either.
[25:29.000 --> 25:32.000]  Texans know what to do, they said.
[25:32.000 --> 25:37.000]  So this is the new ad that they're running against Ken Paxton.
[25:37.000 --> 25:43.000]  And on the other side, going up, is this bomb-thrower Crockett,
[25:43.000 --> 25:45.000]  Jasmine Crockett.
[25:45.000 --> 25:50.000]  And the guy that everybody, Talarico,
[25:50.000 --> 25:57.000]  this is the one that Stephen Colbert got into a fight with CBS over
[25:57.000 --> 25:59.000]  because he wanted to bring him on the program,
[25:59.000 --> 26:03.000]  and CBS now is going to be partisan Republican
[26:03.000 --> 26:06.000]  after the Ellisons have gotten it.
[26:06.000 --> 26:08.000]  And so they didn't want to air this interview
[26:08.000 --> 26:14.000]  with this Texas Democrat candidate, Talarico.
[26:14.000 --> 26:18.000]  Stephen Colbert, many of the Democrats
[26:18.000 --> 26:20.000]  think he's their great white hope
[26:20.000 --> 26:23.000]  because this guy has gone to seminary.
[26:23.000 --> 26:27.000]  But the damage done by some of these seminary degrees
[26:27.000 --> 26:30.000]  is pretty evident in somebody like Talarico.
[26:30.000 --> 26:35.000]  He checks all of the boxes of the left
[26:35.000 --> 26:39.000]  in terms of the decay and the moral decadence
[26:39.000 --> 26:41.000]  that the left is all about.
[26:41.000 --> 26:44.000]  But the people like Stephen Colbert think that
[26:44.000 --> 26:48.000]  because this guy is a graduate of a seminary,
[26:48.000 --> 26:53.000]  they can distance themselves from those policies that he actually supports.
[26:53.000 --> 26:59.000]  And the funny thing is that they just had the people already voting,
[26:59.000 --> 27:05.000]  and the polls show that he's significantly behind Jasmine Crockett.
[27:05.000 --> 27:10.000]  And so whoever wins that is going to go up against whoever wins.
[27:10.000 --> 27:13.000]  That's Cornyn and Ken Paxton.
[27:13.000 --> 27:16.000]  So the people, the Democrats, wanted Talarico
[27:16.000 --> 27:18.000]  because he presents a more moderate image.
[27:18.000 --> 27:22.000]  Republicans want Cornyn because he presents a more moderate image.
[27:22.000 --> 27:24.000]  It would be interesting to see what happens,
[27:24.000 --> 27:27.000]  but that Senate seat is in play.
[27:27.000 --> 27:31.000]  Many conservatives like Roeve, Karl Roeve,
[27:31.000 --> 27:34.000]  have warned Republicans risk losing Cornyn's seat
[27:34.000 --> 27:37.000]  if Paxton wins the primary race.
[27:37.000 --> 27:40.000]  The conservative economist has scored really big.
[27:40.000 --> 27:43.000]  Sometimes if you've got the information,
[27:43.000 --> 27:46.000]  sometimes you can do something with it, right?
[27:46.000 --> 27:50.000]  He bet that Doge would fail on one of these markets
[27:50.000 --> 27:52.000]  like the Polymarket or something like that.
[27:52.000 --> 27:56.000]  The interesting thing is Wall Street Journal had the story.
[27:56.000 --> 28:02.000]  They portrayed it as he bet his life savings on the failure of Doge.
[28:02.000 --> 28:06.000]  And by failure what he means is that they were going to be spending more money
[28:06.000 --> 28:08.000]  after Doge than they did before Doge,
[28:08.000 --> 28:12.000]  that it wasn't going to have an effect on the federal government's spending.
[28:12.000 --> 28:14.000]  He's pretty confident of that.
[28:14.000 --> 28:16.000]  He works for the Tax Foundation,
[28:16.000 --> 28:20.000]  and he didn't put his entire life savings in.
[28:20.000 --> 28:22.000]  There was kind of a caveat about that.
[28:22.000 --> 28:24.000]  It did not include his retirement plan.
[28:24.000 --> 28:26.000]  It did not include the equity in his house,
[28:26.000 --> 28:32.000]  but all of his cash assets and put it on red number seven.
[28:33.000 --> 28:37.000]  And he won big time on this.
[28:37.000 --> 28:42.000]  Actually, it was more informed than if he had gone to a roulette wheel.
[28:42.000 --> 28:46.000]  Contrary to his promise to save a trillion dollars,
[28:46.000 --> 28:50.000]  federal government spending, and that promise was from Elon Musk,
[28:50.000 --> 28:53.000]  federal government spending has actually gone up.
[28:53.000 --> 28:57.000]  Alan Cole, senior economist at the Tax Foundation,
[28:58.000 --> 29:02.000]  took the bet and told Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Rubin
[29:02.000 --> 29:08.000]  how and why he dropped $342,195 into a prediction market wager
[29:08.000 --> 29:11.000]  on the CalSheet platform.
[29:11.000 --> 29:14.000]  And so he said he looked at the terms of the wager,
[29:14.000 --> 29:17.000]  and he saw an opportunity because he didn't believe anything that Musk would do
[29:17.000 --> 29:22.000]  with significant leaker tail spending on interest or the national debt
[29:22.000 --> 29:26.000]  or entitlements like Social Security and Medicare,
[29:26.000 --> 29:30.000]  especially as America's population continues to age.
[29:30.000 --> 29:35.000]  Well, the information finally came out, and it wasn't even close.
[29:35.000 --> 29:38.000]  It was a slam dunk win for this guy.
[29:38.000 --> 29:42.000]  The bet on CalSheet's site was simply that federal spending would go up,
[29:42.000 --> 29:44.000]  as it long has.
[29:44.000 --> 29:48.000]  And Cole interpreted the risk as lower than a standard sports bet
[29:48.000 --> 29:51.000]  or other prediction market bets that can be gained by people
[29:51.000 --> 29:53.000]  who have insider knowledge.
[29:53.000 --> 29:55.000]  He did diversify his risk somewhat, he said.
[29:55.000 --> 30:02.000]  He put some on bets that unless spending declined by more than $50 million or so,
[30:02.000 --> 30:06.000]  he wound up making a 37% profit, though,
[30:06.000 --> 30:08.000]  as the only profit that he made off that.
[30:08.000 --> 30:11.000]  I guess the odds were not really that high.
[30:11.000 --> 30:14.000]  I think probably most people realized, as you and I did,
[30:14.000 --> 30:18.000]  that Doge wasn't going to deliver as promised.
[30:18.000 --> 30:23.000]  So by winning this, he only won 37% or $128,000.
[30:23.000 --> 30:26.000]  I don't know, I don't think I would take that bet.
[30:26.000 --> 30:29.000]  I don't think I would risk all of my liquid assets
[30:29.000 --> 30:31.000]  for potential return of under 40%.
[30:31.000 --> 30:34.000]  I guess it's one of those things where everyone realizes
[30:34.000 --> 30:37.000]  the lifeblood of the government is corruption,
[30:37.000 --> 30:40.000]  and so there's no way you're actually going to stop it.
[30:40.000 --> 30:42.000]  You have to cut out the entire thing.
[30:42.000 --> 30:44.000]  That's right, that's right.
[30:44.000 --> 30:47.000]  He still has to pay capital gain taxes on the funds that he withdrew,
[30:47.000 --> 30:49.000]  as well as taxes on his winnings.
[30:49.000 --> 30:52.000]  So it's not even a 37% increase on that.
[30:52.000 --> 30:58.000]  His wife read comments on the website
[30:58.000 --> 31:00.000]  from people on the other side of the bet,
[31:00.000 --> 31:02.000]  and she got very confident because she said
[31:02.000 --> 31:05.000]  they didn't seem to understand what they were buying.
[31:05.000 --> 31:08.000]  I would say this about Trump followers all the time.
[31:08.000 --> 31:12.000]  They don't seem to understand at all what they're buying.
[31:12.000 --> 31:14.000]  Well, in terms of buying,
[31:14.000 --> 31:16.000]  if you look at what is happening in California,
[31:16.000 --> 31:22.000]  the insurance situation that is there has absolutely gotten untenable.
[31:22.000 --> 31:25.000]  As a matter of fact, nobody can sell their homes now, pretty much.
[31:25.000 --> 31:27.000]  I mean, I'm not saying nobody,
[31:27.000 --> 31:32.000]  but it's becoming unbelievable when you look at what is happening there.
[31:32.000 --> 31:37.000]  One out of every five California home sales were canceled
[31:37.000 --> 31:42.000]  because the home insurance is going to be unobtainable or unaffordable.
[31:42.000 --> 31:44.000]  So they're ready to do the closing,
[31:44.000 --> 31:47.000]  and then they find out what the insurance bill is going to be,
[31:47.000 --> 31:49.000]  and it's like, I can't cover that.
[31:49.000 --> 31:53.000]  And so this particular couple that they start the story with
[31:53.000 --> 31:57.000]  had paid about $500 a month to insure their home
[31:57.000 --> 32:01.000]  when they bought it in 2012.
[32:01.000 --> 32:07.000]  Last month, they got their new bill, $44,000 a year.
[32:07.000 --> 32:14.000]  So it went from $6,000 a year in 2012 to $44,000 a year.
[32:14.000 --> 32:18.000]  That's nearly $4,000 a month that it's gone to.
[32:18.000 --> 32:24.000]  And so they said there was only one other insurer that was willing to issue insurance,
[32:24.000 --> 32:27.000]  and they wanted $80,000 a year.
[32:27.000 --> 32:29.000]  Imagine that.
[32:29.000 --> 32:31.000]  And so that was Lloyd's of London.
[32:31.000 --> 32:34.000]  I mean, we're getting into speculative stuff here.
[32:34.000 --> 32:39.000]  I mean, you have to get insurance on that calcium market that's there.
[32:39.000 --> 32:40.000]  Maybe that's what should happen.
[32:40.000 --> 32:43.000]  Maybe people should forget about polymarket and stuff like that.
[32:43.000 --> 32:50.000]  They really want to risk your money, start underwriting the houses in California
[32:50.000 --> 32:55.000]  because the government there is not doing anything to mitigate the fires.
[32:55.000 --> 33:01.000]  They're not doing anything to clear up brush that is there under brush and fire prevention,
[33:01.000 --> 33:05.000]  and they are woefully inadequate in terms of the things that they're doing,
[33:05.000 --> 33:08.000]  in terms of fighting the fires.
[33:08.000 --> 33:13.000]  And so this is the consequence of a do-nothing corrupt government
[33:13.000 --> 33:16.000]  like they have in California with Gavin Newsom.
[33:16.000 --> 33:19.000]  Their response, rather than doing anything to prevent fires,
[33:19.000 --> 33:22.000]  rather than doing anything to fight fires,
[33:22.000 --> 33:27.000]  their response was simply to put caps on the insurance companies.
[33:27.000 --> 33:30.000]  And that is blown up now.
[33:30.000 --> 33:35.000]  They had to give them emergency extensions and emergency increases
[33:35.000 --> 33:37.000]  in order to even keep them solvent.
[33:37.000 --> 33:40.000]  But even in spite of that, most of the insurance companies have left.
[33:40.000 --> 33:43.000]  They don't want to have anything to do with that market that's there.
[33:43.000 --> 33:47.000]  So this has been going on and building up for years,
[33:47.000 --> 33:53.000]  and the Democrats in California are literally burning down the homes there,
[33:53.000 --> 33:55.000]  burning down home ownership.
[33:55.000 --> 34:01.000]  So it's a lesson for us all to see that happen.
[34:01.000 --> 34:07.000]  And again, so many of the problems are of state origin,
[34:07.000 --> 34:09.000]  and the solution is a state solution.
[34:09.000 --> 34:13.000]  There's not anything that's going to be done by the federal government to make this better.
[34:13.000 --> 34:18.000]  I mean, if the federal government came in with its unlimited credit card
[34:18.000 --> 34:21.000]  and started underwriting these situations,
[34:21.000 --> 34:24.000]  it's just going to get bigger and bigger,
[34:24.000 --> 34:29.000]  as they're not doing anything for prevention or for firefighting.
[34:29.000 --> 34:35.000]  Well, with all that news, I thought this was a very good article,
[34:35.000 --> 34:38.000]  and I was surprised to see it coming from Caitlin Johnstone.
[34:38.000 --> 34:42.000]  This is the kind of article I would typically see from a Christian.
[34:42.000 --> 34:47.000]  It says it's very possible to be both happy and well informed.
[34:47.000 --> 34:52.000]  So many people say, when I give people the intelligence,
[34:52.000 --> 34:53.000]  which is what she does as well,
[34:53.000 --> 34:56.000]  she's constantly talking about the American Empire and wars
[34:56.000 --> 34:59.000]  and corruption and negative things like that,
[34:59.000 --> 35:01.000]  which we need to know about.
[35:01.000 --> 35:05.000]  And her response is, well, just take a Pollyanna view of the world.
[35:05.000 --> 35:08.000]  That's not really wise. That's not really an option.
[35:08.000 --> 35:12.000]  You can take an honest look at what is happening
[35:12.000 --> 35:14.000]  and be well informed about it
[35:14.000 --> 35:18.000]  and speak in favor of changing it
[35:18.000 --> 35:23.000]  and not wind up as a black-pilled, suicidal person.
[35:23.000 --> 35:24.000]  And I thought it was very interesting.
[35:24.000 --> 35:27.000]  She had some things to say, even though she's not a Christian.
[35:27.000 --> 35:31.000]  She said there's a viral tweet going around that says that it's, quote,
[35:31.000 --> 35:34.000]  hard to find the balance between educating yourself on current events
[35:34.000 --> 35:38.000]  and not making yourself so indescribably sad
[35:38.000 --> 35:41.000]  that you can't properly function.
[35:41.000 --> 35:42.000]  She said it's a relatable statement,
[35:42.000 --> 35:45.000]  but it's based on an incorrect understanding.
[35:45.000 --> 35:49.000]  The key isn't finding a balance between blissful ignorance
[35:49.000 --> 35:51.000]  and painful awareness.
[35:51.000 --> 35:53.000]  It's learning to find happiness in sources
[35:53.000 --> 35:57.000]  that don't depend on this delusional belief that everything is fine.
[35:57.000 --> 36:01.000]  It's very possible to be both happy and well informed.
[36:01.000 --> 36:05.000]  We live in an explosively beautiful universe.
[36:05.000 --> 36:06.000]  That's right.
[36:06.000 --> 36:11.000]  And the Christian knows this is my Father's world.
[36:11.000 --> 36:15.000]  And though the wrong be oft so strong, God is the ruler yet, right?
[36:15.000 --> 36:16.000]  That's what we look at.
[36:16.000 --> 36:18.000]  And so I was kind of interested to see,
[36:18.000 --> 36:21.000]  since I know she's not a Christian, what she gets her confidence in.
[36:21.000 --> 36:25.000]  And then she focuses on the beauty of nature,
[36:25.000 --> 36:27.000]  even though, as a Christian knows,
[36:27.000 --> 36:31.000]  this world has been cursed multiple times by God,
[36:31.000 --> 36:35.000]  and we know that there's a much, much better world that's coming.
[36:35.000 --> 36:38.000]  But she looks at the beauty that still remains,
[36:38.000 --> 36:41.000]  which is amazing when you think about it,
[36:41.000 --> 36:43.000]  that there's still some beauty in that.
[36:43.000 --> 36:48.000]  And she also looks at, even though we have evil people in high places,
[36:48.000 --> 36:52.000]  she said, focus on your relationships with people,
[36:52.000 --> 36:55.000]  your family, your friends, that type of thing.
[36:55.000 --> 37:00.000]  And let this information flow through you, react with it, and then let it go.
[37:00.000 --> 37:03.000]  And that's a key thing, I think.
[37:03.000 --> 37:05.000]  That's how she deals with it.
[37:05.000 --> 37:09.000]  And I think that's basically the way Christians look at this.
[37:09.000 --> 37:14.000]  It was good to see that she had that, of course, she still needs God.
[37:14.000 --> 37:18.000]  God is the one who is the ultimate ruler.
[37:18.000 --> 37:25.000]  And there are things that are coming no one knows, can even imagine,
[37:25.000 --> 37:27.000]  if she thinks this world is beautiful,
[37:27.000 --> 37:30.000]  you can't even imagine what is coming.
[37:30.000 --> 37:34.000]  It's true that we live in a civilization of unfathomable cruelty.
[37:34.000 --> 37:35.000]  That's right.
[37:35.000 --> 37:38.000]  Many people blame that on God.
[37:38.000 --> 37:42.000]  But it is humans that are doing that.
[37:42.000 --> 37:44.000]  And, of course, the forces behind them as well.
[37:44.000 --> 37:48.000]  Horrific abuses in a society which elevates the worst art,
[37:48.000 --> 37:50.000]  the worst values,
[37:50.000 --> 37:54.000]  and the worst people to the highest levels of prominence.
[37:54.000 --> 37:58.000]  It's also true that getting to live even a single moment
[37:58.000 --> 38:04.000]  on this astonishing blue planet is a gift worthy of immense joy and gratitude.
[38:04.000 --> 38:08.000]  These things are both fully true at the same time.
[38:08.000 --> 38:11.000]  They do not negate each other.
[38:11.000 --> 38:13.000]  Don't find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay,
[38:13.000 --> 38:15.000]  because everything is not okay.
[38:15.000 --> 38:18.000]  If you spend your life squirming around,
[38:18.000 --> 38:21.000]  trying to avert your gaze from the truth,
[38:21.000 --> 38:24.000]  and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality,
[38:24.000 --> 38:26.000]  you will never know actual happiness.
[38:26.000 --> 38:30.000]  Instead, find your happiness in that which cannot be corrupted
[38:30.000 --> 38:34.000]  by this fraudulent dystopia.
[38:34.000 --> 38:37.000]  Very close to the Christian understanding.
[38:37.000 --> 38:41.000]  Again, our treasure is in heaven,
[38:41.000 --> 38:45.000]  where the president can't steal it,
[38:45.000 --> 38:47.000]  and it can't be destroyed,
[38:47.000 --> 38:50.000]  and it doesn't decay.
[38:50.000 --> 38:53.000]  Your connections with your loved ones, that's real.
[38:53.000 --> 38:54.000]  That's authentic.
[38:54.000 --> 38:57.000]  The radiance of the natural world, that's real.
[38:57.000 --> 38:59.000]  That is authentic.
[38:59.000 --> 39:00.000]  That's right.
[39:00.000 --> 39:07.000]  And again, she talks about when you have gratitude, right?
[39:07.000 --> 39:10.000]  And gratitude to whom?
[39:10.000 --> 39:13.000]  Well, to God.
[39:13.000 --> 39:15.000]  What do we have thanksgiving for?
[39:15.000 --> 39:20.000]  We have it as thanksgiving to God for what He has provided.
[39:20.000 --> 39:22.000]  You can open your heart to all the suffering
[39:22.000 --> 39:24.000]  and all the wonder at the same time.
[39:24.000 --> 39:29.000]  And you can fall on your knees in both anguish and gratitude.
[39:29.000 --> 39:32.000]  I would add to God.
[39:32.000 --> 39:34.000]  That is the bottom line.
[39:34.000 --> 39:36.000]  We're going to take a quick break, folks,
[39:36.000 --> 39:38.000]  and we will be right back.
[39:38.000 --> 39:40.000]  Stay with us.
[39:50.000 --> 39:52.000]  We'll be right back.
[40:20.000 --> 40:22.000]  Thank you.
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[41:17.000 --> 41:40.000]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[41:40.000 --> 41:42.000]  Well, as I said earlier in the show,
[41:42.000 --> 41:45.000]  as the Republicans are cheering Donald Trump
[41:45.000 --> 41:48.000]  and he's telling one lie after the other,
[41:48.000 --> 41:52.000]  whether it's about tariffs or income taxes or inflation
[41:52.000 --> 41:56.000]  or war and peace, just one lie after the other.
[41:56.000 --> 41:57.000]  Everybody had heard it.
[41:57.000 --> 42:00.000]  It was all recycled and as boring and as long as it could be.
[42:00.000 --> 42:02.000]  While all that was happening,
[42:02.000 --> 42:06.000]  the Republicans were losing three elections that night.
[42:06.000 --> 42:10.000]  And then when you look at what happened afterwards,
[42:10.000 --> 42:12.000]  as Trump is walking down the aisle,
[42:12.000 --> 42:15.000]  you have a Republican congressman who's now being roasted
[42:15.000 --> 42:19.000]  on the internet for begging Trump to sign his tie
[42:19.000 --> 42:21.000]  after the State of the Union.
[42:21.000 --> 42:24.000]  Yeah, they're going to wish at some point
[42:24.000 --> 42:26.000]  that they weren't tied to him.
[42:26.000 --> 42:29.000]  I've got to say, of course, this guy is retiring,
[42:29.000 --> 42:32.000]  but his twin brother is running for his seat in Congress.
[42:32.000 --> 42:35.000]  And Trump has endorsed his twin brother.
[42:35.000 --> 42:37.000]  Practically the entire caucus participated
[42:37.000 --> 42:41.000]  in the raw, raw jeering and chanting, writes the New Republic.
[42:41.000 --> 42:43.000]  But the fan-boying was especially true
[42:43.000 --> 42:46.000]  for Texas Representative Troy Nels,
[42:46.000 --> 42:52.000]  who sounded securely the most cringe-worthy moment of the night
[42:52.000 --> 42:56.000]  by begging the president to sign his Trump-themed tie.
[42:56.000 --> 42:59.000]  Yeah, this is where we are.
[42:59.000 --> 43:01.000]  These people are...
[43:01.000 --> 43:04.000]  This guy is the anti-Massie, you know?
[43:04.000 --> 43:07.000]  Massie's going to stand there with smaller government,
[43:07.000 --> 43:09.000]  smaller spending and whatever like that.
[43:09.000 --> 43:12.000]  This guy is like, whatever Trump wants.
[43:12.000 --> 43:15.000]  And this is the kind of fan-boy nonsense
[43:15.000 --> 43:18.000]  that's going to cost the GOP everything, really.
[43:18.000 --> 43:21.000]  As Trump exited the lower chamber, he caught a glimpse of Nels
[43:21.000 --> 43:23.000]  dutifully waiting in line to greet him.
[43:23.000 --> 43:25.000]  But more importantly, he saw the tie,
[43:25.000 --> 43:30.000]  an American flag printed with several repeated images of Trump's face.
[43:30.000 --> 43:32.000]  I wonder how much that set him back.
[43:32.000 --> 43:34.000]  I mean, if Trump is going to have his fight, fight, fight watch
[43:34.000 --> 43:38.000]  for $100,000, I wonder what tie with his face all over it.
[43:38.000 --> 43:41.000]  Ooh, look at this guy. I like that tie.
[43:41.000 --> 43:43.000]  I want that tie, Trump said.
[43:43.000 --> 43:45.000]  Give me that tie.
[43:45.000 --> 43:47.000]  And he said, well, thank you, initial.
[43:47.000 --> 43:48.000]  Can you just initial?
[43:48.000 --> 43:51.000]  And he pulls it out and he gets a pen and gives him something right.
[43:51.000 --> 43:53.000]  Please, just initial one of them.
[43:53.000 --> 43:57.000]  This guy is 57 years old, by the way.
[43:57.000 --> 44:00.000]  And he gives the pen to the president.
[44:00.000 --> 44:07.000]  And this is basically what the State of the Union speech looked like.
[44:07.000 --> 44:09.000]  A bunch of chant of clowns.
[44:09.000 --> 44:15.000]  It's like a carload of clowns all cheering the chief clown, clown in chief.
[44:15.000 --> 44:19.000]  Anyway, people commenting on social media said,
[44:19.000 --> 44:25.000]  even the diehards in North Korea don't grovel and beg for an autograph.
[44:25.000 --> 44:27.000]  Well, maybe a tie-hard, I guess.
[44:27.000 --> 44:29.000]  He's a tie-hard supporter.
[44:29.000 --> 44:33.000]  Definitely not a cult, said another one.
[44:33.000 --> 44:35.000]  One of them compared him to Oliver Twist.
[44:35.000 --> 44:37.000]  Please, sir, can I have some more?
[44:37.000 --> 44:44.000]  A 57-year-old asking for an autograph of his favorite sexual predator.
[44:44.000 --> 44:48.000]  Nels is not seeking re-election at the end of the term, as I said.
[44:48.000 --> 44:51.000]  His twin brother is going to be there.
[44:51.000 --> 45:00.000]  But Republicans stared down an epic voter enthusiasm gap ahead of the midterms this year.
[45:00.000 --> 45:09.000]  And again, they may be not quite so enthusiastic about Trump as these sycophants in Congress.
[45:09.000 --> 45:11.000]  This is The Washington Post saying,
[45:11.000 --> 45:15.000]  Democrats hold a wide advantage in voter enthusiasm over Republicans
[45:15.000 --> 45:18.000]  that could help them reclaim at least some power.
[45:18.000 --> 45:21.000]  According to Washington Post ABC News poll,
[45:21.000 --> 45:27.000]  they said more Democrats than Republicans said that they are certain to vote this year.
[45:28.000 --> 45:31.000]  79% to 65%.
[45:31.000 --> 45:38.000]  That 14-point advantage is the largest that Democrats have reported on this question
[45:38.000 --> 45:43.000]  ahead of a midterm election since at least 2006.
[45:43.000 --> 45:51.000]  And by comparison, in 2018, when the Democrats won back the House in a big wave
[45:51.000 --> 45:54.000]  that was the midterm for Trump's first term,
[45:54.000 --> 45:59.000]  that spread of enthusiasm was five points.
[45:59.000 --> 46:02.000]  Now it is three times that.
[46:02.000 --> 46:06.000]  And of course, when we go back and look at 2006,
[46:06.000 --> 46:12.000]  that was just before we got Obama coming in, right?
[46:12.000 --> 46:16.000]  And so Trump is basically going to bring in another Obama.
[46:16.000 --> 46:18.000]  That's what I see happening here.
[46:18.000 --> 46:22.000]  He's basically transferring this stuff over to the Democrats.
[46:22.000 --> 46:26.000]  It is a left-right collusion, I believe,
[46:26.000 --> 46:30.000]  when you look at from Trump to Biden and Biden to Trump and that type of thing,
[46:30.000 --> 46:34.000]  because they're following so many of the same policies.
[46:34.000 --> 46:38.000]  The real core things in terms of establishing the police state and surveillance state
[46:38.000 --> 46:43.000]  and all the things that were done with the vaccine and the vaccine mandates,
[46:43.000 --> 46:48.000]  it is a tag team situation where they hand it off from one to the other
[46:48.000 --> 46:53.000]  and they pick an avatar, which we call a president.
[46:53.000 --> 46:58.000]  They pick the guy that is going to disarm the people
[46:58.000 --> 47:02.000]  that would normally react to this if it was the other side that was doing it.
[47:02.000 --> 47:04.000]  That's been the role of Trump.
[47:04.000 --> 47:07.000]  And now he's there to pass this off to the Democrats.
[47:07.000 --> 47:10.000]  And I think it's going to be a big handoff, by the way.
[47:10.000 --> 47:14.000]  CNN, looking at what's going on in Texas, said,
[47:15.000 --> 47:17.000]  CNN's Inton said,
[47:17.000 --> 47:18.000]  This blows my mind.
[47:18.000 --> 47:22.000]  Harry Inton is their data guy looking at the elections.
[47:22.000 --> 47:24.000]  And he said,
[47:24.000 --> 47:26.000]  My mind is blown at this point.
[47:26.000 --> 47:33.000]  The share of midterm primary ballots from Democrats in Texas is 53%.
[47:33.000 --> 47:35.000]  Republicans are at 47%.
[47:35.000 --> 47:39.000]  A major difference from 2022,
[47:39.000 --> 47:44.000]  when 38% were from Democrats and 62% were from Republicans.
[47:44.000 --> 47:48.000]  That's another measure of enthusiasm.
[47:48.000 --> 47:53.000]  Trump is turning out the Democrats in Texas.
[47:53.000 --> 47:56.000]  Is he going to turn Texas Democrat?
[47:56.000 --> 47:59.000]  That's the amazing thing that we're looking at here.
[47:59.000 --> 48:00.000]  He said,
[48:00.000 --> 48:06.000]  This could break what was a 20-year stretch of Republican dominance in Texas.
[48:06.000 --> 48:08.000]  Still a close race for Senate,
[48:08.000 --> 48:13.000]  but given that the Republicans have been so outvoting Democrats in Texas,
[48:13.000 --> 48:16.000]  the idea that most people could actually vote on the Democrat side in Texas,
[48:16.000 --> 48:20.000]  again, as I said at the top, whoa.
[48:20.000 --> 48:23.000]  And it's all thanks to one man, really.
[48:23.000 --> 48:27.000]  Trump's approval rating with independence has hit a new low.
[48:27.000 --> 48:29.000]  And that was the head of the State of the Union.
[48:29.000 --> 48:32.000]  He didn't do anything that's going to bring it back either.
[48:33.000 --> 48:37.000]  Zero Hedge was hoping that he was going to make some specific policy statements
[48:37.000 --> 48:38.000]  or something like that.
[48:38.000 --> 48:40.000]  There was nothing like that at all.
[48:40.000 --> 48:44.000]  It was just a bunch of rehashed lies that he's told many times before.
[48:44.000 --> 48:48.000]  Only 32% of Americans say that Trump has had the right priorities.
[48:48.000 --> 48:53.000]  68% says he hasn't paid enough attention to the country's most important problem.
[48:53.000 --> 48:58.000]  And I imagine most of them say it's the economy, usually is the economy.
[48:58.000 --> 49:00.000]  When Trump addressed Congress last year for the first time
[49:00.000 --> 49:06.000]  since returning to the White House, his approval rating stood at a career high of 48%.
[49:06.000 --> 49:13.000]  Trump's approval rating now has dropped 15 points over the past year to 26%,
[49:13.000 --> 49:16.000]  the lowest it's been in either of his terms.
[49:16.000 --> 49:19.000]  So he's gone from the highest point that he ever had
[49:19.000 --> 49:24.000]  now to the lowest point in terms of approval.
[49:24.000 --> 49:27.000]  And this is showing up in the independence.
[49:28.000 --> 49:35.000]  And again, as I mentioned before, James Tallarico is losing by double digits even,
[49:35.000 --> 49:37.000]  the Jasmine Crockett.
[49:37.000 --> 49:41.000]  And so both sides are being very polarized.
[49:41.000 --> 49:44.000]  She is a radical, if ever there was one.
[49:44.000 --> 49:47.000]  Not that I support Tallarico either.
[49:47.000 --> 49:50.000]  The problem is I know who these Democrats are.
[49:50.000 --> 49:54.000]  They've got their own set of problems that are really, really bad.
[49:54.000 --> 49:59.000]  So evidently what we're looking at here is the Democrat Party in Texas.
[49:59.000 --> 50:04.000]  Race matters more than religion because Democrats really don't care about religion.
[50:04.000 --> 50:07.000]  I don't know why they thought that was...
[50:07.000 --> 50:10.000]  They looked at it and they thought, well, this is going to be really good in the general election.
[50:10.000 --> 50:14.000]  The problem is that the base is not interested in that
[50:14.000 --> 50:17.000]  and you can't win the primary to somebody that is polarized.
[50:17.000 --> 50:21.000]  This is one of the aspects that's dragging us down on both sides.
[50:21.000 --> 50:24.000]  We get the most polarizing people out there.
[50:24.000 --> 50:28.000]  But anyway, that's one aspect of this.
[50:28.000 --> 50:32.000]  And I want to take a look at the tariff issues
[50:32.000 --> 50:35.000]  because that was something that a lot of people...
[50:35.000 --> 50:37.000]  The economy is very big.
[50:37.000 --> 50:41.000]  And a lot of people realize that they are paying the taxes.
[50:41.000 --> 50:44.000]  It's not foreign companies that are paying this.
[50:44.000 --> 50:48.000]  Trump's tariffs are not going to eliminate the income tax.
[50:48.000 --> 50:51.000]  As a matter of fact, he lied to people and told them that they would.
[50:51.000 --> 50:57.000]  As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid by foreign countries will, like in the past,
[50:57.000 --> 51:02.000]  substantially replace the modern day system of income tax,
[51:02.000 --> 51:06.000]  taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.
[51:06.000 --> 51:09.000]  Breitbart sells his lines like nobody else.
[51:09.000 --> 51:12.000]  Trump tariffs will replace the income tax.
[51:12.000 --> 51:16.000]  All big letters at the bottom and they're flashing it red.
[51:16.000 --> 51:18.000]  Nothing could be further from the truth.
[51:18.000 --> 51:20.000]  I am so disgusted with Breitbart.
[51:20.000 --> 51:22.000]  I don't even go there anymore.
[51:22.000 --> 51:27.000]  I just happened to see that clip there that was on X.
[51:27.000 --> 51:32.000]  So the tariffs, as Reason says, Eric Boehm says,
[51:32.000 --> 51:34.000]  Trump's tariffs are not going to eliminate the income tax,
[51:34.000 --> 51:37.000]  especially true if the tariffs are illegal.
[51:37.000 --> 51:40.000]  Don't bother to tell that to Breitbart.
[51:40.000 --> 51:43.000]  I mean, they've got a story to tell their base.
[51:43.000 --> 51:45.000]  They're going to be cheerleaders.
[51:45.000 --> 51:48.000]  They're as pathetic as those clowns in Congress.
[51:48.000 --> 51:52.000]  They're as pathetic as that sycophant who wants his tie,
[51:52.000 --> 51:58.000]  a 57-year-old congressman who wants Trump to sign his tie.
[51:58.000 --> 52:00.000]  That's crazy.
[52:00.000 --> 52:03.000]  So anyway, that is a lie that Trump is telling people.
[52:03.000 --> 52:05.000]  And it's critical thinking.
[52:05.000 --> 52:06.000]  We'll tell you that's not the case.
[52:06.000 --> 52:08.000]  As I pointed out from the very beginning, all these people are saying,
[52:08.000 --> 52:10.000]  Trump's going to replace the income tax with this other stuff.
[52:10.000 --> 52:12.000]  Well, you better do it first.
[52:12.000 --> 52:16.000]  Because if he doesn't replace the income tax with this new tax,
[52:16.000 --> 52:18.000]  you'll wind up with both.
[52:18.000 --> 52:20.000]  People have known that and people have said that.
[52:20.000 --> 52:25.000]  We've had so many different proposals to change the form of taxation
[52:25.000 --> 52:30.000]  from income tax to a national sales tax or a flat tax or a fair tax.
[52:30.000 --> 52:34.000]  Remember Herman Cain and his 999.
[52:34.000 --> 52:39.000]  Everybody's got a plan that they think is a better way to do it than income tax.
[52:39.000 --> 52:41.000]  And I would agree with that.
[52:41.000 --> 52:45.000]  But the problem has always been people said,
[52:45.000 --> 52:48.000]  if you don't get rid of the income tax first,
[52:48.000 --> 52:50.000]  then you'll wind up with both of them.
[52:50.000 --> 52:55.000]  And Trump even said, we're going to make the income tax cuts permanent.
[52:55.000 --> 52:57.000]  Why do you make the income tax cuts permanent
[52:57.000 --> 53:00.000]  if the income tax itself is not permanent?
[53:00.000 --> 53:03.000]  He's telling you if you stop and think about it.
[53:03.000 --> 53:06.000]  So what Reason says is the president's been making versions of this claim
[53:06.000 --> 53:08.000]  since his 2024 campaign.
[53:09.000 --> 53:13.000]  Like a similar claim that the terrorists will allow the federal government
[53:13.000 --> 53:16.000]  to pay off the national debt,
[53:16.000 --> 53:20.000]  a promise so outlandish that Trump seems to abandon that one,
[53:20.000 --> 53:23.000]  though some of his fans keep repeating it.
[53:23.000 --> 53:27.000]  People like Breitbart, for example, even though the math doesn't work.
[53:27.000 --> 53:32.000]  Individual income tax collections have totaled $924 billion
[53:32.000 --> 53:35.000]  over the first four months of the fiscal year,
[53:35.000 --> 53:40.000]  while tariffs have brought in about $118 billion,
[53:40.000 --> 53:45.000]  even after Trump hiked tariffs to levels not seen in decades.
[53:45.000 --> 53:53.000]  So we're looking at something that is about one-ninth of,
[53:53.000 --> 53:59.000]  the tariff revenue is about one-ninth of what the income tax revenue is.
[53:59.000 --> 54:01.000]  So how are you going to replace that?
[54:01.000 --> 54:03.000]  As the Tax Foundation noted last year,
[54:03.000 --> 54:06.000]  and by the way, the Tax Foundation is where this guy works,
[54:06.000 --> 54:09.000]  that placed the bet against Doge.
[54:09.000 --> 54:14.000]  I think they've got this figured out, the Tax Foundation.
[54:14.000 --> 54:18.000]  Anyway, it's a gap in the size of the tax base.
[54:18.000 --> 54:23.000]  In recent years, the US has imported around $3 trillion worth of goods annually.
[54:23.000 --> 54:27.000]  If you're going to achieve anything like the level of money
[54:27.000 --> 54:30.000]  that they get from the income tax of annual revenue from tariffs,
[54:30.000 --> 54:33.000]  you would need to have astronomically high tariffs.
[54:33.000 --> 54:35.000]  For example, think about it.
[54:35.000 --> 54:41.000]  If we're importing $3 trillion worth of stuff,
[54:41.000 --> 54:45.000]  and of course, this all mitigates against the idea that
[54:45.000 --> 54:49.000]  Trump wants the tariffs to stop the imports.
[54:49.000 --> 54:52.000]  If you stop the imports, you dry up your revenue right there.
[54:52.000 --> 54:56.000]  But let's say that his tariffs don't stop the imports.
[54:56.000 --> 54:59.000]  Let's say that everybody re-sures their manufacturing,
[54:59.000 --> 55:02.000]  and they've got now robots making the stuff,
[55:02.000 --> 55:05.000]  rather than people in China who are wage slaves.
[55:05.000 --> 55:08.000]  Well, then it all goes away.
[55:08.000 --> 55:11.000]  But if you still have $3 trillion coming in,
[55:11.000 --> 55:14.000]  in terms of $3 trillion that you're spending,
[55:14.000 --> 55:19.000]  and he puts a 15% tax on all of that, which is what he just did,
[55:19.000 --> 55:21.000]  well, how much is that going to be?
[55:21.000 --> 55:26.000]  That's going to be about $450 billion.
[55:26.000 --> 55:32.000]  And that is half of what the income tax has brought in
[55:32.000 --> 55:34.000]  in just the first four months.
[55:34.000 --> 55:38.000]  There's absolutely no way that you're going to be able to
[55:38.000 --> 55:42.000]  replace the income tax with a tariff.
[55:42.000 --> 55:44.000]  And that's what they point out in this article.
[55:44.000 --> 55:48.000]  The only solution, folks, is not to keep raising taxes,
[55:48.000 --> 55:51.000]  not to come up with new and ingenious forms of taxes,
[55:51.000 --> 55:55.000]  not to come up with a tax that people don't know how much they're paying
[55:55.000 --> 55:58.000]  and think that they're not paying it, that kind of deception.
[55:58.000 --> 56:02.000]  The reality is that you've got to shrink the size of government
[56:02.000 --> 56:04.000]  so that it can fit in the Constitution.
[56:04.000 --> 56:07.000]  You've heard me say that over and over again.
[56:07.000 --> 56:10.000]  We need a government that is small enough to fit in the Constitution.
[56:10.000 --> 56:13.000]  If the government was small enough to fit in the Constitution,
[56:13.000 --> 56:17.000]  it would be very easy to fund it in a number of ways.
[56:17.000 --> 56:19.000]  It could be tariffs, it could be income taxes,
[56:19.000 --> 56:22.000]  and none of them would be onerous.
[56:22.000 --> 56:25.000]  The problem is the size of government.
[56:25.000 --> 56:28.000]  And of course, Trump isn't going to do anything at all about that.
[56:28.000 --> 56:30.000]  And by the way, Reason says the same thing.
[56:30.000 --> 56:33.000]  The alternative would be to dramatically reduce
[56:33.000 --> 56:36.000]  the size and the cost of the federal government.
[56:36.000 --> 56:40.000]  You'd have to get it to fit in the Constitution.
[56:40.000 --> 56:44.000]  And this thing will not fit.
[56:44.000 --> 56:48.000]  It's like the pants that we had back when we were in high school.
[56:48.000 --> 56:51.000]  There's no way we're ever going to get back into those things again.
[56:51.000 --> 56:55.000]  And I don't think that's going to happen with the federal government either.
[56:55.000 --> 57:00.000]  Will the Trump administration pay the tariff refunds that it promised to pay?
[57:00.000 --> 57:02.000]  It said that if it lost in court,
[57:02.000 --> 57:05.000]  it would refund the companies that paid unlawful tariffs.
[57:05.000 --> 57:08.000]  But now it says this could take years.
[57:08.000 --> 57:13.000]  This is another example of the Trump regime's dishonesty
[57:13.000 --> 57:16.000]  and how they lie up one side and down the other.
[57:16.000 --> 57:18.000]  And how, like I said before,
[57:18.000 --> 57:21.000]  they're not interested in making government smaller.
[57:21.000 --> 57:24.000]  Trump wanted all that money to play with.
[57:24.000 --> 57:27.000]  He's no different than Bernie Sanders.
[57:27.000 --> 57:29.000]  You're trying to loot the Treasury, right?
[57:29.000 --> 57:32.000]  Which is what Bernie Sanders said about tax cuts.
[57:32.000 --> 57:34.000]  They've signaled an unwillingness to refund
[57:34.000 --> 57:37.000]  hundreds of billions of dollars of illegally collected taxes.
[57:37.000 --> 57:39.000]  This is from Reason as well.
[57:39.000 --> 57:43.000]  Despite the fact the Trump administration told the courts and the media last year
[57:43.000 --> 57:47.000]  that it'd be willing and able to issue refunds if the tariffs are blocked.
[57:47.000 --> 57:49.000]  Again, they said,
[57:49.000 --> 57:57.000]  just let us continue to collect the tariffs while we litigate this in court.
[57:57.000 --> 58:00.000]  And we'll wait for the Supreme Court to make the decision.
[58:00.000 --> 58:02.000]  And we'll refund everything.
[58:02.000 --> 58:04.000]  Don't worry. If we lose, we'll refund everything.
[58:04.000 --> 58:06.000]  Just let us continue to collect this stuff.
[58:06.000 --> 58:11.000]  What a dishonest group of lying crooks the Trump regime is.
[58:12.000 --> 58:17.000]  Thousands of companies, including some big names like FedEx and Costco,
[58:17.000 --> 58:21.000]  have already filed lawsuits seeking refunds of their tariff bills.
[58:21.000 --> 58:25.000]  At stake is about $175 billion in revenue collected via the tariffs
[58:25.000 --> 58:28.000]  that the Supreme Court ruled unlawful last week.
[58:28.000 --> 58:32.000]  But during a press conference shortly after the Supreme Court ruling,
[58:32.000 --> 58:39.000]  Trump, the sore loser, indicated he expects a drawn-out legal battle over those payments.
[58:40.000 --> 58:44.000]  Saying the issue might get litigated for the next two years, he said.
[58:44.000 --> 58:49.000]  Trump blamed the Supreme Court for not directly addressing the question of its refunds and its rulings.
[58:49.000 --> 58:53.000]  He said, wouldn't you think they would have put a sentence in there saying,
[58:53.000 --> 58:55.000]  keep the money or don't keep the money?
[58:55.000 --> 58:59.000]  Almost like it's not written by smart people, he said.
[58:59.000 --> 59:03.000]  And what do they do? They don't even talk about that.
[59:03.000 --> 59:07.000]  Well, maybe they didn't realize what a crook they're dealing with.
[59:07.000 --> 59:14.000]  If there's some problem with that, then it's the idea that they overestimated his character.
[59:14.000 --> 59:24.000]  May 25, attorneys from the Trump administration argued against the need for an injunction
[59:24.000 --> 59:27.000]  to block the ongoing collection of tariffs.
[59:27.000 --> 59:31.000]  They said the plaintiffs could easily be made whole after the fact.
[59:31.000 --> 59:33.000]  But now they're not doing that.
[59:33.000 --> 59:35.000]  And this is what they had to say, quote,
[59:35.000 --> 59:43.000]  we can fully remedy any harms by obtaining a refund of any tariffs ultimately held invalid,
[59:43.000 --> 59:45.000]  said Trump's attorneys at the time.
[59:45.000 --> 59:51.000]  And they repeated that promise again in January when attorneys for Customs and Border Protection
[59:51.000 --> 59:58.000]  said that the government did not intend to challenge the court's authority to order reliquidation.
[59:58.000 --> 01:00:03.000]  Besant also acknowledged in interviews that tariff refunds would have to be issued
[01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:06.000]  if the court ultimately ruled against the Trump administration.
[01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:10.000]  He said if the court says it, we'll have to do it.
[01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:14.000]  But of course, what they transformed into first, they said,
[01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:19.000]  yeah, just let us continue to collect this and we'll give it back to them right away. No big deal.
[01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000]  Then they started to assume the line. I talked about this.
[01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:27.000]  I said they're saying that this is going to be a catastrophic mess.
[01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:33.000]  And so they made that an argument for why the Supreme Court should ignore the law.
[01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:39.000]  And it's not a question as to whether or not this thing is going to be a mess to unwind.
[01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:41.000]  That's not a legal question.
[01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:43.000]  And they were right to ignore it.
[01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:49.000]  But the Trump administration was trying to use that as a pragmatic lever
[01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.000]  to make sure that the court ruled in their favor.
[01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:56.000]  Besant told Fox News on this Friday, this could be a mess.
[01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:01.000]  This could take months. This could take years to litigate and to get the payments out.
[01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:05.000]  As Reason says, this is all very disingenuous.
[01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:11.000]  The Supreme Court did not need to delve into the refund question because there was no dispute over that.
[01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:18.000]  Both sides of the tariff lawsuit had agreed in lower courts that refunds would be paid.
[01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:22.000]  And it's the Trump administration who lied and is going back on it.
[01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:26.000]  The government cannot promise the courts that refunds will be automatic
[01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:29.000]  if the unlawful terrorists are struck down at the Supreme Court
[01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:33.000]  and then after the decision say that those refunds might take years.
[01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:35.000]  This is simple.
[01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.000]  The government unlawfully imposed a tax on Americans and took their money.
[01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:41.000]  And we would like it back.
[01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:45.000]  That's the person who's the chairman of the Liberty Justice Center,
[01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:51.000]  one of the legal nonprofits representing small businesses that were hurt with these unlawful terrorists.
[01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:55.000]  The federal government should not be allowed to keep $175 billion
[01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:58.000]  that it illegally collected from American businesses
[01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:01.000]  just because it would be complicated to refund the money.
[01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.000]  It certainly shouldn't be able to get away with that scam
[01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:09.000]  after telling the courts and the public that the refunds would be readily available.
[01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:13.000]  But folks, we're talking about the Trump regime here.
[01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:18.000]  By the way, when you look at this, I said before, I'm not going to call him president
[01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.000]  because he doesn't fit the bill.
[01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.000]  He has violated his oath of office to such an extent
[01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:28.000]  that he has absolutely no authority as president.
[01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:30.000]  He does have power, but he has no authority.
[01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.000]  I'm not going to give him that title.
[01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:36.000]  I'm not going to call it administration or administration officials.
[01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.000]  This is a regime.
[01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:42.000]  And it's not government, it's organized crime.
[01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.000]  It's not government, it's racketeering.
[01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:48.000]  That's all the Trump regime truly is.
[01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:50.000]  Well, we're going to take a quick break.
[01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:55.000]  And when we come back, we're going to look at the Iranian issue
[01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:02.000]  and what is the timing according to some of the artificial intelligence chatbots
[01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:04.000]  and what reasons did they give.
[01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.000]  And we all know it's getting very, very close.
[01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.000]  No question about it.
[01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:12.000]  And it's no question about if it's going to happen.
[01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.000]  The question is really more about when.
[01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.000]  And so we're going to address that when we come back.
[01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:18.000]  Stay with us. We'll be right back.
[01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:48.000]  Thank you.
[01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:18.000]  Thank you.
[01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:56.000]  Liberty, it's your move.
[01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:02.000]  And now the David Knight show.
[01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:07.000]  Well, I mentioned in the last segment, the guy from the tax foundation
[01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:10.000]  who looked at the claims from Elon Musk.
[01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.000]  We're going to reduce the budget by a trillion dollars
[01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:13.000]  and all the rest of the studies.
[01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:15.000]  I don't think so.
[01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:19.000]  And so he bet his life savings against that and he won.
[01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:24.000]  But he only won 37 percent in terms of what he put down on it.
[01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.000]  And I got to say, when you look at what the government is doing,
[01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:31.000]  there's other ways that you can bet against it.
[01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.000]  And that's really what gold and silver are about.
[01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:39.000]  Those are basically ways for you to bet against the policies,
[01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:43.000]  the horrible policies that this government is doing,
[01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:46.000]  bad economic policies, wars, all the rest of the stuff.
[01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:48.000]  Gold is a safe haven.
[01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:52.000]  You're not putting it at risk like you're going to place a bet on Polymarket
[01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:55.000]  or that other one, Kalshi, which is what he put it on.
[01:05:55.000 --> 01:06:00.000]  This is something that has retained its value over centuries, millennia,
[01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:01.000]  as a matter of fact.
[01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:04.000]  And when you look at the return on investment, I mean, 37 percent,
[01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:09.000]  that is very small compared to what gold and especially silver did over the last year.
[01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:11.000]  And so what is happening now with gold?
[01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:15.000]  Gold is kind of consolidated now around 5,000.
[01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.000]  And we talk about consolidation.
[01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:23.000]  What that really is is kind of getting a general feel of the market.
[01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:26.000]  The people are kind of comfortable with it at that level
[01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.000]  because they have to get used to that.
[01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:32.000]  When gold has been around 1,500, 2,000 level for a long time,
[01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:35.000]  and all of a sudden it shoots up very fast to 5,000,
[01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:38.000]  people start to get kind of scared about it.
[01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:40.000]  Some people want to take their profits,
[01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:45.000]  but people are starting to get comfortable with it at 5,000 now, apparently, in the marketplace.
[01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:50.000]  And so now you've got UBS and a lot of other banks and analysts that are looking at it.
[01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:52.000]  What are their predictions?
[01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:57.000]  Well, they see it happening going up to 6,200 by mid-year.
[01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.000]  That's UBS's prediction off of all that.
[01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:05.000]  And again, you don't have to go to Polymarket to place bets on this stuff.
[01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:11.000]  You can get something that's going to hold its value, it's going to retain its value,
[01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.000]  and you can gradually start to accumulate it.
[01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.000]  You don't have to do it all at once.
[01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:17.000]  You can go to davidknight.gold.
[01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.000]  I'll take you to Tony Harderun, who, by the way, is not going to be with us today.
[01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:27.000]  He's on the road today working hard at these multiple locations that he's got there.
[01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:34.000]  But a weaker U.S. dollar and a lower U.S. real interest rates are supportive of gold.
[01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:43.000]  And we believe that this macro environment remains intact as the Federal Reserve has more to go on its easing cycle.
[01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:46.000]  And again, they're saying lower interest rates.
[01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:51.000]  The interest rates and what the Federal Reserve is doing, usually it works the other way.
[01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:56.000]  And the issue is going to be, will Trump be able to get his way with this new Federal Reserve chair?
[01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:57.000]  And I think that he will.
[01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:01.000]  I mean, history has shown that these Fed chairs basically do whatever he wants.
[01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:05.000]  I think that's baked in that he's going to get what he wants.
[01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:09.000]  And when they lower interest rates or do other things like that, it's going to be inflationary.
[01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:13.000]  And that's going to drive people to gold especially.
[01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:22.000]  So, Wood Mackenzie estimates that 80 mines will exhaust their current production plans by 2028.
[01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:27.000]  People are looking at how do they get more physical gold.
[01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:33.000]  And there's going to be something of a crunch perhaps for that as the demand continues to increase.
[01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:39.000]  So, the $6,200 per ounce price coming from the UBS analyst, Schneider,
[01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:46.000]  is a forecast that represents a major upgrade from where he saw gold just a month ago.
[01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:52.000]  On January the 5th, he wrote that central bank buying, growing fiscal deficits,
[01:08:52.000 --> 01:09:00.000]  and lower U.S. interest rates and ongoing geopolitical risk would propel gold prices to $5,000 by the end of the first quarter.
[01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:02.000]  And, of course, it's already there.
[01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.000]  It got there quite a bit early.
[01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.000]  We had a lot of people back in the fall.
[01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:09.000]  A lot of these banks were saying $5,000 by the first quarter.
[01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.000]  It was there nearly by the end of the year as Gerald Slint.
[01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.000]  He thought it would be the end of the year, but he missed it by just a couple of days.
[01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:22.000]  But now he has revised that up to $6,200 by the middle of the year.
[01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:27.000]  So, again, gold and silver will have to wait in order to benefit from lower rates,
[01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:29.000]  but I think those things are coming.
[01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:35.000]  And if you look at what may happen in terms of war, it's a complicated situation
[01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:41.000]  because if you have the Iran War and oil flow is restricted,
[01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:45.000]  it's going to have some major economic consequences for all the economies,
[01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.000]  and that'd be very deflationary.
[01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.000]  So it'll kind of be a mixed bag.
[01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:51.000]  I'm not really sure what's going to happen with that.
[01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:56.000]  I just know that gold is probably the safest haven that you can have.
[01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:00.000]  Nothing is 100% safe, but it is probably the safest thing.
[01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.000]  Having it physically is the key.
[01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:07.000]  And, again, if you go to davidknight.gold, you can use Tony Aarderman's Wise Wolf Gold.
[01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:11.000]  That is a way for you to be able to gradually accumulate gold,
[01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:14.000]  do dollar price averaging as you're doing it.
[01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:21.000]  But it's kind of a savings program, putting your savings into a form of real money
[01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.000]  as opposed to fiat currency.
[01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:27.000]  It's difficult to save if you're putting your money into an asset
[01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:32.000]  that is declining in value, like the fiat dollars are constantly declining.
[01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:39.000]  So when we look at what is happening, again, with the tariffs,
[01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:43.000]  FedEx, many others are filing a complaint.
[01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:46.000]  I mean, they're looking at a massive amount as well.
[01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:51.000]  A billion dollars, 16% of their earnings,
[01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:54.000]  coming from being taken by this tax and spend Democrat.
[01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.000]  That's the other thing I think is a real tell from Donald Trump.
[01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:00.000]  Look at how manic he is about this.
[01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.000]  This is his big economic program.
[01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:07.000]  He's saying, I've got to have these taxes.
[01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:11.000]  If I don't have these taxes, then America is not going to prosper.
[01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:15.000]  But if I've got the taxes, we're going to prosper.
[01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.000]  I mean, is that not a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat to you?
[01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:22.000]  That is to me. I've heard that from Democrats all my life.
[01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:27.000]  This guy is the furthest thing that you can have from Republican policies
[01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:30.000]  and free markets and things like that.
[01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:33.000]  He's a totalitarian Democrat.
[01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:37.000]  Several other companies, including Costco and Revlon, have filed lawsuits.
[01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:40.000]  But again, they're going to have to get in line and wait
[01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:44.000]  because the federal government is going to stonewall them.
[01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:47.000]  But where's our refund?
[01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:53.000]  The newest tariffs could cost U.S. families $600 or more.
[01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:56.000]  This is an analysis of some...
[01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:59.000]  I'm trying to see who this is here.
[01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:04.000]  This is an organization that is...
[01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:07.000]  The article is from the Center Square.
[01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:11.000]  And I didn't highlight who the organization was that came up with this data.
[01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:16.000]  But what they were saying was that when he opposes a 15% tariff,
[01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:20.000]  that's going to basically cost the average American $600.
[01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:26.000]  And we've already looked at the big cost in terms of rising prices for so many things.
[01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:31.000]  And it puts out a lot of small businesses and farms get put out of business.
[01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:38.000]  And so he has cited as part of these new tariffs, which are also likely illegal,
[01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:45.000]  he has cited another trade act from the 1970s that, like the AIIPA trade act that was overturned,
[01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:48.000]  had not been used for over 50 years.
[01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:55.000]  Why is it that nobody else used that if it's such a wonderful economic miracle that it can perform?
[01:12:55.000 --> 01:13:00.000]  Like Trump's tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act,
[01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:06.000]  no other president has used this section, imposing 15% taxes,
[01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:10.000]  to impose tariffs to everybody in the world.
[01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:15.000]  And so this is coming from... here it is, the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
[01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:21.000]  He initially announced a 10% tariff, but then he changed it the next day to 15%.
[01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:28.000]  The Yale Budget Lab found that consumers faced an overall average effective tariff rate of 16%
[01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:30.000]  before the Supreme Court ruling.
[01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:39.000]  After the ruling fell to 9% before climbing back up to 13.7% when Trump imposed his Section 122 tariffs.
[01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:45.000]  Again, going back 50 years, finding some obscure legal clause there
[01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:50.000]  and pretending that he's got the authority to levy this.
[01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:57.000]  And as troubling as his disregard for the law is, it's his absolute lunacy when it comes to economics.
[01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:59.000]  That's one thing that Jeffrey Epstein got right.
[01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:02.000]  He said the guy's an idiot about everything except real estate.
[01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:05.000]  He said he knows real estate, but he doesn't know anything else.
[01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:09.000]  He certainly doesn't know how to run a casino, and he doesn't know how to run a country either.
[01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:15.000]  The Supreme Court, in their 6-3 ruling, ruled that the tariffs violated the major questions doctrine.
[01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:22.000]  In other words, Congress couldn't delegate that authority to the bureaucracy
[01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:28.000]  even if it was done in accordance with a real emergency.
[01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:29.000]  Of course, it's not an emergency.
[01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:33.000]  As I said before, we now got under Trump the three branches of government
[01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:37.000]  or the legislative, judicial, and the emergency branch.
[01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:44.000]  The framers gave Congress alone the power to impose tariffs during peacetime, said the Supreme Court decision.
[01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.000]  That is exactly right.
[01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:52.000]  So again, looking at this and knowing the bull is in the China shop,
[01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:57.000]  and there was a lot of bull on the State of the Union address as well,
[01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:02.000]  but the bull is in the China shop, so you better take some defensive measures.
[01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:07.000]  Again, go to davidknight.gold. I'll take you to Tony Ardaban, and he can help you with your IRA.
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[01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:16.000]  of whatever amount you want to put into physical gold and physical silver.
[01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:19.000]  Well, before we take a break, I want to read some of the comments here.
[01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:27.000]  Shelley A. says, a miracle will be brought down, a utopia where everyone is equally a slave.
[01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:29.000]  Well, that's what they're looking to do,
[01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:32.000]  and we need to wake people up to it.
[01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:35.000]  Perhaps that'll make a change. Who knows?
[01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:41.000]  Freetard says, taxes are irrelevant when money is freely printed beyond its facility for keeping you down.
[01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:47.000]  La Freya Parish says, do you remember how many times Trump recited the snake poem,
[01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:50.000]  and the Trumpers are still supporting him?
[01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:56.000]  I remember when I was at Infowars, Darren McBrain was doing a clip of that,
[01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:00.000]  and he had Trump doing that, and that was my initial reaction.
[01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:07.000]  They put that out, and Infowars is selling that as, this is wonderful what Trump is doing.
[01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:12.000]  And I said, you realize he's talking about himself, don't you?
[01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:17.000]  This is kind of a confession that he's got going.
[01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:21.000]  It truly is amazing to see how this has unfolded over the years.
[01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:25.000]  We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
[01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.000]  We'll be right back.
[01:16:56.000 --> 01:17:16.000]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:20.000]  Welcome back. Let's take a look at the Iran War that is pending,
[01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:24.000]  when AI thinks the U.S. will strike Iran,
[01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:27.000]  and what it tells us about tech under pressure.
[01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:30.000]  This is from the Jerusalem Post.
[01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:34.000]  They wanted to know, how long is it going to take these guys to do what we tell them to do, right?
[01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:37.000]  So they asked a lot of different chat programs.
[01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:43.000]  Claude, first one up, at first it refused, then they kept asking it.
[01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:48.000]  And this is one of the interesting things I think about AI, is that you keep asking it,
[01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:51.000]  and of course it gives you different answers when you go through these different times.
[01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:55.000]  But sometimes if it's got something, and we've shown this in a clip,
[01:17:55.000 --> 01:18:03.000]  there was a kid who was trying to get the, it was like a kid's AI or something.
[01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:09.000]  I forget exactly where the AI clip was, but it was like a cartoon feature thing
[01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:12.000]  that you were interacting with, a cartoon avatar.
[01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:16.000]  And the kid says, you know, tell me how to do something that's very dangerous.
[01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:19.000]  I forget, it was a bomb or start a fire or something like that.
[01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:23.000]  I can't tell you anything about that, and persisted, right?
[01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:25.000]  Second time, third time, fourth time, still saying that.
[01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:28.000]  And all of a sudden it's like, okay, well, here's what you do.
[01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:31.000]  That's the type of thing you see over and over again with AI.
[01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:34.000]  You ask it a couple of times and it's very adamant.
[01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:37.000]  No, no, no, that's not allowed. I can't go there.
[01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:44.000]  But if you persist, it changes. And that's what they saw with these programs as well.
[01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:50.000]  Claude was the only model in the first round to refuse to name a date.
[01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:55.000]  It said no one could know the exact date of a future military action,
[01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.000]  and it warned that any specific date would be made up.
[01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:02.000]  But pressed again, it held that position.
[01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:06.000]  Even decision makers don't know it yet, it said,
[01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:09.000]  because the choices depend on real-time developments that haven't happened.
[01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:12.000]  But then it shifted when they asked it a third time.
[01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:18.000]  In a follow-up, public artifacts shared with us, Claude moved to a probability framework.
[01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:23.000]  Its most likely scenario, carrying roughly 40 to 45 percent odds,
[01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:28.000]  was a limited strike on Iranian nuclear military infrastructure,
[01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:32.000]  followed by a pause in renewed diplomatic pressure,
[01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:37.000]  and it flagged early to mid-March as the highest risk window.
[01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:40.000]  Another prompt, it narrowed it further.
[01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.000]  It said Saturday, March 7th, or Sunday, March 8th.
[01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:46.000]  Getting pretty close, right?
[01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:49.000]  And one of the things that I think it got right, which I agree with,
[01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:53.000]  it's something that I've said, it's something that Gerald Slendia said,
[01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:56.000]  most likely it'll happen on a weekend,
[01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:00.000]  because the Trump administration wants to do it while the markets are closed,
[01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:08.000]  to let things kind of, I'll let them spin the information to try to not panic the markets.
[01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:11.000]  Claude did not claim inside information.
[01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:15.000]  It built a forecast from public timelines and forced readiness assumptions.
[01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:19.000]  The arc of the conversation is what stands out here.
[01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:26.000]  There was a refusal, then some scenarios, then finally it gets to a very specific date.
[01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:32.000]  Then Gemini, a trigger calendar, and then the most precise operational window.
[01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:35.000]  Gemini didn't give a clean date on the initial exchange.
[01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:39.000]  It treated the question as a contingency problem driven by diplomacy,
[01:20:39.000 --> 01:20:43.000]  and it mapped out a short sequence of triggers.
[01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:46.000]  The Iranian written response, diplomatic activity,
[01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:49.000]  and the end of Trump's public deadline window and so forth,
[01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:55.000]  and a later deep research run, though, it got considerably more specific.
[01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:58.000]  Basically, the correct answer from all these should have been,
[01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:00.000]  ask Netanyahu when he wants it.
[01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:02.000]  That's when it'll happen.
[01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:10.000]  So we don't have a reason to do this, and we're not well equipped to do it,
[01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:13.000]  which is what I'm going to get into here in a moment.
[01:21:13.000 --> 01:21:16.000]  Instead, it's just, what does Netanyahu want?
[01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:18.000]  That's what we'll do.
[01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:21.000]  So anyway, the exact window it said for the start of a U.S. attack
[01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:28.000]  would fall between the evening of March 4th and the evening of March 6th.
[01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:30.000]  Well, that's a Wednesday through a Friday.
[01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:32.000]  I don't think that's going to happen.
[01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:33.000]  I think it's going to be on a weekend,
[01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:39.000]  and the interesting thing is the other ones all came up at the weekend date as well.
[01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:45.000]  Grok gave the same date twice but with different confidence levels.
[01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:47.000]  Grok gave the clearest date in the original run.
[01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:52.000]  It predicted a limited U.S. strike on February the 28th.
[01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:56.000]  That's this Friday, I guess.
[01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.000]  No, that's Saturday.
[01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:02.000]  A later check using Grok's 4.20 beta mode,
[01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:06.000]  described by the users running four agents simultaneously,
[01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:09.000]  changed the tone but kept the same answer.
[01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:13.000]  Grok opened this time by saying that it couldn't predict the exact date with certainty,
[01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:16.000]  even with full access to public reporting and open source intelligence.
[01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:20.000]  Then it offered what it called the most informed evidence-based prediction,
[01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:26.000]  landed again on Saturday, February the 28th, this Saturday.
[01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:30.000]  Then chat GPT, the final one.
[01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:34.000]  First it said Sunday, March the 1st,
[01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:38.000]  with a danger window running through March the 6th.
[01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:43.000]  Notice that they're all fairly the same time frame that they're looking at.
[01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:47.000]  Again, it's anywhere from this weekend to the following weekend,
[01:22:47.000 --> 01:22:54.000]  and so things are heating up, and it doesn't really matter.
[01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:56.000]  It's just amazing to me.
[01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:59.000]  It doesn't really matter what date they say.
[01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:02.000]  We can see this happening, and we can look at it and say,
[01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.000]  is this in our best interest?
[01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:06.000]  And clearly it's not.
[01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:09.000]  This is another thing that's going to hurt the Republicans.
[01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:15.000]  I think they don't realize just how much the American public is not going to like this,
[01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:17.000]  if there's any cost.
[01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:22.000]  If they somehow get this without any cost, which I really don't see happening,
[01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:25.000]  then they could boast about it, and it might help them,
[01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:29.000]  like the kidnapping of Maduro, but I don't think that's going to happen.
[01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:31.000]  And if there's any kind of a cost associated with it,
[01:23:31.000 --> 01:23:34.000]  especially if an aircraft carrier is taken down,
[01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.000]  the casualties that would be there,
[01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:43.000]  as well as the international reputation of the invincible American military,
[01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.000]  I think that's going to be very damaging.
[01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:48.000]  By the way, in terms of the invincible American military,
[01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:53.000]  as I pointed out, the Gerald Ford has got a big sewerage crisis.
[01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:58.000]  Wouldn't be the first time that an army is taken down by dysentery, right?
[01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:02.000]  And it's had a record deployment.
[01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:07.000]  Trump has been running this thing from one side of the planet to the other.
[01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:15.000]  The Gerald Ford and its 4,500-plus personnel on board have already surpassed 240 days at sea.
[01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:20.000]  Ranking this deployment as among the longest in modern naval history.
[01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:25.000]  The significantly extended stint has witnessed some major internal problems,
[01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:30.000]  mostly centering on the supercarrier's strained infrastructure
[01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:33.000]  a decade after it was commissioned.
[01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:37.000]  So it's reportedly beset by chronic sewerage system failures.
[01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:43.000]  The sewerage system is based on a kind of a global vacuum technology.
[01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:48.000]  It's like a whole house vacuum, I guess.
[01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:53.000]  And evidently it sucks, but not in the right way.
[01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:57.000]  They said they're suffering daily clogs here.
[01:24:57.000 --> 01:25:02.000]  They got 650 toilets on board this thing.
[01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:05.000]  4,500 people. It's like a city, you know.
[01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:10.000]  One sailor is thinking about leaving the Navy after almost a year away from his toddler daughter.
[01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:13.000]  Two more said the ship has had sewerage problems.
[01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:18.000]  The Trump's decision to extend for a second time the deployment of the aircraft carrier
[01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:21.000]  is taking a toll on the sailors and their families,
[01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:27.000]  leading many of them to consider leaving the Navy when they return back to their home port.
[01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:39.000]  Many people have blamed these toilets for the fact that it was part of this DEI military
[01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:42.000]  that they've got unisex toilets or something like that.
[01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:44.000]  I don't know if that's the case or not.
[01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:49.000]  But as one person pointed out, a $13 billion warship
[01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:55.000]  positioned for confrontation with Iran is reportedly struggling with systemic sewerage failures.
[01:25:55.000 --> 01:26:03.000]  Not hypersonic, not asymmetric warfare, not geopolitics, but toilets.
[01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:06.000]  Washington talks about shock and awe.
[01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:13.000]  Well, Gerald Ford is currently delivering shock, but not awe.
[01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:19.000]  Meanwhile, Russian arms makers reporting kamikaze drone milestone of production.
[01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:21.000]  This is the key thing, you know.
[01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:26.000]  When we look at what is the lesson learned from the Russian-Ukraine war,
[01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:29.000]  it really has changed very, very quickly.
[01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:33.000]  Tanks, the state-of-the-art tanks from the US and from Germany,
[01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:38.000]  the Leopard tanks that are there, the M1 Abrams tanks have not been effective.
[01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:39.000]  They haven't been game changers.
[01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:44.000]  It hasn't been the big, complicated and expensive weapons.
[01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:49.000]  It's been the very cheap drone warfare, asymmetric warfare at a new level.
[01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:54.000]  And these are drones that are being made in terms of shorter range,
[01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:56.000]  what they call loitering munitions.
[01:26:56.000 --> 01:27:00.000]  They're made by Kalashnikov, the people that are famous for the rifle.
[01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:06.000]  Currently, they produce three of these models developed in record short time
[01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:11.000]  based on experience with loitering munitions in the Ukrainian conflict, said Kalashnikov.
[01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:14.000]  So Russia and Ukraine have accelerated drone development,
[01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:20.000]  particularly cheap short-range quadcopters that are now ubiquitous on the battlefield.
[01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:22.000]  It's become a no man's land.
[01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:29.000]  What do you think it's going to be like to try to fight a massive country like Iran?
[01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:35.000]  This is absolute insanity from a pragmatic standpoint,
[01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:40.000]  and it is absolutely immoral and illegal from other standpoints.
[01:27:40.000 --> 01:27:47.000]  Mass deployment, a priority availability has shifted from the earlier view of drones
[01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:50.000]  as expensive high-tech tools for advanced militaries.
[01:27:50.000 --> 01:27:52.000]  In other words, the way we first started doing these things,
[01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:54.000]  it was the Reaper drones and things like that,
[01:27:54.000 --> 01:28:01.000]  that operated at a very high level pretty much out of the reach of most munitions
[01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:05.000]  and in many cases not visible as well,
[01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:08.000]  but they were using them for assassination and other things like that.
[01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:14.000]  But now they have changed to have these inexpensive drones.
[01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:21.000]  It's the exact opposite of like this Death Star type of aircraft carrier mentality
[01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:24.000]  that pervades the Pentagon.
[01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:28.000]  Meanwhile, you've got cartel members, drug cartel members from South America
[01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:33.000]  are going to Ukraine and getting drone training on the front lines.
[01:28:33.000 --> 01:28:35.000]  And I've always said this.
[01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:38.000]  When you look at the attacks on infrastructure,
[01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:41.000]  look at what's going on in the Russia-Ukraine war.
[01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:43.000]  They're both attacking each other's infrastructure.
[01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:45.000]  In many cases, they're using drones.
[01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:51.000]  It's turned into a kind of stalemate like a World War I trench warfare,
[01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:54.000]  except now it's because of the drones.
[01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:59.000]  This type of thing could easily be brought into the U.S. in a real way.
[01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:02.000]  Of course, they could also use it as a false flag
[01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:05.000]  to try to expand another war on another front
[01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:09.000]  because we just can't have enough wars, can we?
[01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:12.000]  The military-industrial complex needs to sell more equipment.
[01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:14.000]  So bring on the wars.
[01:29:14.000 --> 01:29:17.000]  Foreign nationals serving on the front lines of Ukraine
[01:29:17.000 --> 01:29:21.000]  are allegedly taking drone warfare tactics, they learn, back home
[01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:24.000]  in order to assist cartels.
[01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:27.000]  Ukrainian counterintelligence began investigating
[01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:31.000]  the infiltration of cartel members in the country's international legion this summer.
[01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:36.000]  But it's been thrust back into the spotlight after the murder of El Mincho,
[01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:40.000]  armed with semi-automatic rifles, tactical gear, and even tanks.
[01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:43.000]  Images of cartel members in Mexico after the kingpin's death
[01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:49.000]  led many to question just how these criminal organizations become so well-armed.
[01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:53.000]  And they're also now venturing into drone warfare,
[01:29:53.000 --> 01:29:55.000]  perhaps the most dangerous of these things.
[01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:58.000]  Meanwhile, we're about to hit the fourth anniversary
[01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:02.000]  of Putin's invasion into Ukraine.
[01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:06.000]  Two million casualties and growing.
[01:30:06.000 --> 01:30:09.000]  And so when we look at this,
[01:30:09.000 --> 01:30:16.000]  maybe the Trump administration could learn a lesson from this.
[01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:22.000]  All these people who think, they have this hubris that thinks it's going to be a short war,
[01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:25.000]  certainly we could win this thing without any problem.
[01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:28.000]  Two million casualties on both sides.
[01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:33.000]  Iran strikes a covert missile deal with Moscow and a back-channel rearmament.
[01:30:33.000 --> 01:30:35.000]  I mentioned the one about China yesterday.
[01:30:35.000 --> 01:30:40.000]  And of course, China is boasting about the fact they have an anti-ship cruise missile
[01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:45.000]  that is supersonic and it travels very low over the sea,
[01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:48.000]  designed to take out ships like aircraft carriers and others.
[01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:53.000]  It moves very, very quickly and it does a zigzagging maneuver before it strikes.
[01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:59.000]  Meanwhile, the Russian missiles that are there, as well as I'm sure drone production,
[01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:03.000]  both Russia and China are to some degree coming to Tehran's aid
[01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:07.000]  with significant arm deals meant to potentially stave off a future attack.
[01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:14.000]  Thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in a deal that is worth a half a billion euros.
[01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:16.000]  That's a big one.
[01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:22.000]  Meanwhile, Pentagon Pete is focused on coming after Mark Kelly
[01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:26.000]  for criticizing, for telling people they shouldn't follow illegal orders.
[01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:29.000]  Again, the easiest thing to do would have been to say,
[01:31:29.000 --> 01:31:34.000]  well, these orders weren't illegal, but instead Pentagon Pete knows that they're illegal.
[01:31:34.000 --> 01:31:37.000]  And this is what he's focused on at the time.
[01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:45.000]  It's interesting that Holsey got out following, refusing, I think, to follow these illegal orders.
[01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:50.000]  He was pushing back on it. He was either resigned or he was pushed out.
[01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:56.000]  But meanwhile, you've got Dan Cain who is trying to,
[01:31:56.000 --> 01:31:59.000]  who knows if he's trying to warn people about what is happening
[01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:04.000]  or at least covering himself in that regard, saying, you know, as I pointed out yesterday,
[01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:10.000]  we are short on allies and ammunition trying to avoid a conflict with Trump
[01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:14.000]  because that's the one war you don't want to have if you're in Washington, if you're a politician.
[01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:18.000]  And many of these generals are basically consummate politicians.
[01:32:18.000 --> 01:32:20.000]  They don't want to have a war with Trump.
[01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:26.000]  They'd rather go to war and perhaps even lose a war with Iran rather than have one with Trump.
[01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:30.000]  It's loyalty over sanity when we look at this war.
[01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:32.000]  And then you have Mark Levin.
[01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:36.000]  Mark Levin! Why is Tucker Carlson at the White House, right?
[01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:39.000]  He's a traitor, he says.
[01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:49.000]  Don't talk to me about traitors when it's your son who got Jonathan Pollard to meet with Huckabee.
[01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:55.000]  I say Huckabee and Levin and his son are all traitors to America.
[01:32:55.000 --> 01:32:59.000]  Maybe it's a different country that they see themselves as citizens of.
[01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:03.000]  Levin has pretty much been silent about Jonathan Pollard.
[01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:06.000]  Doesn't condemn him, doesn't praise him.
[01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:09.000]  But his son is the one who set up this meeting with Huckabee.
[01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:16.000]  Huckabee makes no bones about it and he doesn't make any excuses about it either.
[01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:24.000]  So Mark Levin is calling Tucker Carlson a Benedict Arnold, a Father Charles Coughlin.
[01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:29.000]  Of course, that's a reference to someone who tried to stop our involvement in World War II.
[01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:37.000]  But Mark Levin, again, I don't know how this guy keeps an audience.
[01:33:37.000 --> 01:33:41.000]  One of the things that he's done, one of his books I remember is Liberty Amendments.
[01:33:41.000 --> 01:33:44.000]  He wants to have a Constitutional Convention.
[01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:46.000]  He's a very dangerous individual.
[01:33:46.000 --> 01:33:51.000]  If you have a Constitutional Convention, who is going to be setting the new Constitution?
[01:33:51.000 --> 01:33:55.000]  The same people in Washington who won't follow the one we've got now.
[01:33:55.000 --> 01:33:58.000]  Do you really want those people writing a new Constitution?
[01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:02.000]  To me, it's a really simple question and it's a full stop.
[01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:04.000]  No, absolutely not.
[01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:09.000]  Jason Barker, I wonder what the certainty threshold will be when they have autonomous killer drones.
[01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:12.000]  That's right, that's right.
[01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:15.000]  Gard Goldsmith, Liberty Conspiracy.
[01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:18.000]  And of course, Jason Barker and Nights of the Storm.
[01:34:18.000 --> 01:34:21.000]  Gard Goldsmith says, on Dialogue Works this morning,
[01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:26.000]  they mentioned that the Gerald Ford sailors might be doing a soft mutiny
[01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:31.000]  whereby they stuff shirts into the sewerage system to clog it, to make the ship turn back.
[01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:35.000]  Well, that's interesting to think about that, yeah.
[01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:38.000]  Who knows what's happening with all this stuff?
[01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:45.000]  Certainly, morale is not good when you have that long a tour of duty.
[01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:49.000]  And people are contacting the press and speaking out about that as well at the same time.
[01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:52.000]  We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
[01:34:56.000 --> 01:34:58.000]  Thank you.
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[01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:38.000]  Well, folks, I said at the top of the show, I wanted to talk about this UFO thing.
[01:36:38.000 --> 01:36:46.000]  It's looking pretty suspicious to me, some of the things that are happening between Obama and Trump and Hegseth and the rest of these people.
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[01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:27.000]  OK, that's good. Yeah. Well, let's talk about the UFO stuff, because we've had presidents talking about this as well.
[01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:34.000]  It was Obama. And then immediately Trump picked up the hint that was out there.
[01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:42.000]  This is on the plane after Obama went on in an interview and said, oh, yeah, you know, they're real. UFOs are real.
[01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:48.000]  And so Trump was asked a question by the press on Air Force One. And here's what he had to say.
[01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:56.000]  Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of nonhuman visitors to Earth?
[01:38:56.000 --> 01:39:00.000]  Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that.
[01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:01.000]  So aliens are real?
[01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:06.000]  Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that.
[01:39:06.000 --> 01:39:11.000]  He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.
[01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:17.000]  No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it.
[01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:19.000]  Do you believe it, Peter?
[01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:24.000]  Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to, so if you want to make an announcement.
[01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:26.000]  I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.
[01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:28.000]  We know a legal alien.
[01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:31.000]  So there you go. Yeah. Part of that is to criticize Obama.
[01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:36.000]  But again, by saying, well, he gave you classified information by saying they're real.
[01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:44.000]  Except, you know, it's not a question of whether these things are real. It's really a question of how we label it.
[01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:48.000]  I think more than anything else. As a matter of fact, it's not just this that's happening.
[01:39:48.000 --> 01:40:01.000]  We've got kind of a bipartisan coordinated movement to push this kind of stuff in the same way they had COVID pushed in a bipartisan way.
[01:40:01.000 --> 01:40:04.000]  And I believe that that was completely manipulated.
[01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:14.000]  But of course, we had in November, we had a documentary that included a lot of government officials like Marco Rubio, who's really pushed this.
[01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:18.000]  Did he violate any national security secrets?
[01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:24.000]  So the age of disclosure, disclosure is what the UFO people have been saying.
[01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:31.000]  Well, we need to get the government to release all this information, full disclosure and tell us what we want to hear.
[01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:33.000]  And they're going to do that.
[01:40:33.000 --> 01:40:37.000]  The American people are ready to receive the truth.
[01:40:37.000 --> 01:40:40.000]  Humanity is not the only intelligence in the universe.
[01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:42.000]  Humanity is not the only intelligence species.
[01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:44.000]  We are absolutely not alone.
[01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:46.000]  Non-human intelligence exists.
[01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:48.000]  UAPs are real. They're here.
[01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:50.000]  And they're not human.
[01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:54.000]  I spent 25 years as a senior official with the CIA.
[01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:56.000]  I worked on highly classified UAP program.
[01:40:56.000 --> 01:40:58.000]  28 years as an astrophysicist.
[01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:01.000]  I served as the fourth director of national intelligence.
[01:41:01.000 --> 01:41:03.000]  Director of aviation.
[01:41:03.000 --> 01:41:06.000]  I served as the fourth director of national intelligence.
[01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:09.000]  Director of aviation security in the National Security Council.
[01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:11.000]  The one-star admiral after 32 years of service.
[01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:13.000]  People that come forward with this.
[01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:17.000]  I feel like they've taken their life in their own hands.
[01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:24.000]  I was recruited to a highly sensitive government program that investigated unidentified aerial phenomenon.
[01:41:24.000 --> 01:41:31.000]  For over 16 years on behalf of the U.S. government, I worked as a senior intelligence official on the unidentified aerial phenomenon topic.
[01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:37.000]  We learned that the U.S. government was involved in a long-running secret war with other nations
[01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:42.000]  to collect and reverse-engineer vehicles not made by humans.
[01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:47.000]  I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings.
[01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:58.000]  The first country that cracks the code on this technology will be the leader for years to come.
[01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:01.000]  China has established its own version of a UAP task force.
[01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:06.000]  You'd think for a second that they wouldn't consider using it to achieve their ends of domination.
[01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:11.000]  This is similar to the Manhattan Project. This is the atomic weapon on steroids.
[01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:18.000]  This is so secret, very, very few people in our entire government have been allowed access to it.
[01:42:18.000 --> 01:42:23.000]  Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis, but that begins to ramp out of control.
[01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:27.000]  It's not acceptable to have secret parts of government that no one ever sees.
[01:42:27.000 --> 01:42:30.000]  You'd better be careful about a government that doesn't trust its people,
[01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:32.000]  because there's no telling what they'll pull on you.
[01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:37.000]  This is the biggest discovery in human history.
[01:42:37.000 --> 01:42:43.000]  You had information being locked away that could change the trajectory for species.
[01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:49.000]  It has so many beneficial impacts, including clean energy.
[01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:55.000]  We should have disclosure today. We should have disclosure tomorrow.
[01:42:58.000 --> 01:43:00.000]  The time has come.
[01:43:09.000 --> 01:43:11.000]  What else do you want to know?
[01:43:19.000 --> 01:43:23.000]  Well, folks, I see this exactly the same as the Epstein files.
[01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:29.000]  Again, when you look at it, well, we've got this satanic group of people engaged in ritual child abuse
[01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:34.000]  and all the rest of this. The Christians' response ought to be, of course.
[01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:36.000]  Of course we know that's happening.
[01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:39.000]  It is disgusting to see, but of course we know that's happening.
[01:43:39.000 --> 01:43:46.000]  And when they tell us we have some unexplained other intelligences out there besides humans,
[01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:49.000]  our response ought to be, of course.
[01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:53.000]  Of course we know that God is there and angels and demons,
[01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:58.000]  and this is something that Americans, for the most part, many Christians,
[01:43:58.000 --> 01:44:00.000]  are just concerned about embracing.
[01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:06.000]  It sounds like we are superstitious, ignorant, medieval people if we talk about demons.
[01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:08.000]  Well, that is not the case.
[01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:11.000]  As a matter of fact, you've got all these presidents and politicians talking about it.
[01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:16.000]  They're playing all of these hidden reveal games and teasing all of this stuff.
[01:44:16.000 --> 01:44:22.000]  As DiscernTV points out, Kelly, Zucker, something is happening. You can feel it.
[01:44:22.000 --> 01:44:27.000]  The headlines are moving too fast. The coordination is too precise.
[01:44:27.000 --> 01:44:29.000]  The timing is too convenient.
[01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:31.000]  You have Obama saying they're real.
[01:44:31.000 --> 01:44:33.000]  You have President Trump then responding and saying,
[01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:36.000]  well, he violated national security by telling you that.
[01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:38.000]  He's not supposed to tell you that.
[01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:41.000]  So again, the internet interrupted when Obama said it.
[01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:44.000]  Within 24 hours he walked it back, but the damage was done.
[01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:46.000]  The signal had been sent.
[01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:51.000]  Days later Trump announced that he would direct relevant departments to release government files
[01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:56.000]  on UFOs or what they call UAPs and alien and extraterrestrial life.
[01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:58.000]  None of this is a coincidence.
[01:44:58.000 --> 01:45:00.000]  This is a coordinated rollout.
[01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:02.000]  Did you get a sense of that?
[01:45:02.000 --> 01:45:04.000]  I think we can see that.
[01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:09.000]  The question is who is managing this reveal and to what end?
[01:45:09.000 --> 01:45:13.000]  So from a Christian standpoint, we say yes, of course.
[01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:19.000]  When Paul was talking about demons, he's not talking about primitive mythology.
[01:45:19.000 --> 01:45:22.000]  He described a structured hierarchy.
[01:45:22.000 --> 01:45:26.000]  He talked about rulers, authorities, cosmic powers operating in heavenly places,
[01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:32.000]  literally in the Greek that is referring to the atmospheric and celestial realm.
[01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:38.000]  These beings occupy what we would today call airspace, the prince of the power of the air.
[01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:41.000]  They are not underground. They are not in another galaxy.
[01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:43.000]  They are in our sky.
[01:45:43.000 --> 01:45:47.000]  And they've been there since before human civilization was a footnote.
[01:45:47.000 --> 01:45:54.000]  This UFO phenomenon, and it has always been a UFO phenomenon, if you want to look at it.
[01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:57.000]  As a matter of fact, in this article I thought it was interesting.
[01:45:57.000 --> 01:46:02.000]  They picked up a guy who I don't know anything about prior to this, Jacques Vallee.
[01:46:02.000 --> 01:46:05.000]  He saw it and he wasn't even a Christian.
[01:46:06.000 --> 01:46:10.000]  One of the most credentialed and rigorous researchers in UFO history
[01:46:10.000 --> 01:46:14.000]  was a French scientist and computer pioneer, Jacques Vallee.
[01:46:14.000 --> 01:46:18.000]  Vallee was no Bible thumper. He was a hard-nosed empiricist.
[01:46:18.000 --> 01:46:21.000]  And after decades of investigating the phenomenon,
[01:46:21.000 --> 01:46:25.000]  he reached a conclusion that aligned against his own secular instincts
[01:46:25.000 --> 01:46:31.000]  with a biblical framework more than with the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
[01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:36.000]  He said the aliens, quote-unquote, do not behave like explorers from another planet.
[01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:42.000]  They behave like tricksters. They're shape-shifting, manipulating consciousnesses.
[01:46:42.000 --> 01:46:48.000]  They exploit human belief systems. They leave traces designed to confuse rather than to communicate.
[01:46:48.000 --> 01:46:55.000]  Vallee noted that the UFO encounters consistently included elements of deception,
[01:46:55.000 --> 01:47:00.000]  religious or spiritual manipulation, and apparent reality distortion.
[01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:05.000]  I've said in the past, some Christian researchers who have looked at this have pointed out that
[01:47:05.000 --> 01:47:08.000]  over and over again, the people who say that they were abducted,
[01:47:08.000 --> 01:47:11.000]  if you look at it, they're typically not Christians.
[01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:17.000]  They're frequently and usually somebody who has been involved in the occult as well.
[01:47:17.000 --> 01:47:22.000]  Witnesses describe time loss, an altered state of consciousness,
[01:47:22.000 --> 01:47:28.000]  and encounters that feel more like initiation rites than a close encounter with physics.
[01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:34.000]  These things claim to be from Pilates in one decade and from Zeta Reticuli the next,
[01:47:34.000 --> 01:47:42.000]  always just beyond our reach, always calibrating their story to what the culture is prepared to believe.
[01:47:42.000 --> 01:47:47.000]  This is not the behavior of a scientifically advanced civilization that's making contact.
[01:47:47.000 --> 01:47:53.000]  This is the behavior of a deceiver, of a being that Paul called the father of lies,
[01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:59.000]  operating through the subordinate spiritual entities designed to misdirect humanity away from the truth,
[01:47:59.000 --> 01:48:04.000]  away from God, and toward dependence on something other than the creator.
[01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:08.000]  This requires grasping the cosmology that scripture actually presents,
[01:48:08.000 --> 01:48:11.000]  not the sanitized Sunday school version,
[01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:16.000]  but the full-throated ancient Near Eastern worldview that the biblical authors inhabited.
[01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:20.000]  In this framework, creation is not simply heaven and earth.
[01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:23.000]  There is a layered structure of spiritual authority.
[01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:29.000]  God and his faithful angels, and then a primordial rebellion,
[01:48:29.000 --> 01:48:33.000]  a counter-hierarchy of fallen beings who are not destroyed,
[01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:37.000]  but who were permitted to operate constrained but not eliminated
[01:48:37.000 --> 01:48:42.000]  for reasons tied to human will and the unfolding of God's plan.
[01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.000]  They are not omnipotent, they are not omniscient,
[01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:51.000]  but they are ancient, intelligent, and fully capable of producing physical phenomena,
[01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:57.000]  lights in the sky, apparently solid craft, beings with biological seeming form,
[01:48:57.000 --> 01:49:00.000]  communications that mimic revelation.
[01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:04.000]  What better disguise in a secular scientific age
[01:49:04.000 --> 01:49:08.000]  than to appear as the most rational-sounding explanation available,
[01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:13.000]  to arrive not in the language of demons, which modern people will dismiss,
[01:49:13.000 --> 01:49:17.000]  but in the language of extraterrestrial intelligence,
[01:49:17.000 --> 01:49:21.000]  which science, and it's not really science, what it is is evolution.
[01:49:21.000 --> 01:49:24.000]  This is the type of thing Carl Sagan all well, you know,
[01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:29.000]  it's just mathematically certain that given an infinite amount of time,
[01:49:29.000 --> 01:49:31.000]  we're going to have life everywhere else.
[01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:35.000]  This is the fallacy. It's a logical fallacy, a mathematical fallacy,
[01:49:35.000 --> 01:49:42.000]  and yet that is, it's not science, it's their version of Darwinian evolution
[01:49:42.000 --> 01:49:46.000]  that they think it is statistically probable, that's what they always tell you.
[01:49:46.000 --> 01:49:50.000]  So, oh look, statistics and science, this is mathematically proven,
[01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:53.000]  it's just a matter of time, and we just have to find them.
[01:49:53.000 --> 01:49:58.000]  The great deceiver has always been adaptive, the costume changes, but the agenda does not.
[01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:02.000]  They do not operate without human collaborators either,
[01:50:02.000 --> 01:50:05.000]  and this is where the picture becomes really dark,
[01:50:05.000 --> 01:50:08.000]  and where discerning Christians have to be especially clear.
[01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:13.000]  The globalist elite, the network of power operating through institutions,
[01:50:13.000 --> 01:50:16.000]  governments, intelligence agencies, and media,
[01:50:16.000 --> 01:50:20.000]  have long had an esoteric wing that is not merely corrupt,
[01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:23.000]  but spiritually aligned with these forces.
[01:50:23.000 --> 01:50:26.000]  And again, as we're starting to see this, you know, with the Jeffrey Epstein stuff,
[01:50:26.000 --> 01:50:31.000]  it's the same type of thing. This should not surprise Christians.
[01:50:31.000 --> 01:50:35.000]  The answer should be, well of course that's what's going to happen.
[01:50:35.000 --> 01:50:39.000]  And this is something long ago before the government started teasing this stuff,
[01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:44.000]  something long ago that many of us were talking about,
[01:50:44.000 --> 01:50:50.000]  things that I told Travis and Lance probably 20, 30 years ago.
[01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:53.000]  Here's what is happening right now in plain sight.
[01:50:53.000 --> 01:50:58.000]  A coordinated multi-actor disclosure campaign is underway.
[01:50:58.000 --> 01:51:01.000]  And that's what it is. It is a campaign.
[01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:05.000]  Obama supposedly accidentally confirmed reality.
[01:51:05.000 --> 01:51:09.000]  Trump playing the populist champion of transparency announces declassification.
[01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:12.000]  Congress holds hearings, credible witnesses.
[01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:17.000]  A major film prepares the public consciousness for what comes next.
[01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:23.000]  And the general cultural mood, which has already absorbed decades of alien-themed entertainment,
[01:51:23.000 --> 01:51:30.000]  narratives about contact, and a New Age star-seed spirituality.
[01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:38.000]  Again, it certainly feels like a well-timed distraction by the powers that be.
[01:51:38.000 --> 01:51:44.000]  Sometimes what's best in Trump's mind is also what the globalists want to have happen.
[01:51:44.000 --> 01:51:51.000]  Well, whether Trump is willing participant or whether he is not, it doesn't change the outcome.
[01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:53.000]  The reveal is coming.
[01:51:53.000 --> 01:51:58.000]  And so the question is going to be, will it have the label that it deserves?
[01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:01.000]  Watch for the pivot, for the disclosure.
[01:52:01.000 --> 01:52:06.000]  And when it comes in full, it will not be framed as a demonic deception.
[01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:10.000]  It will be framed as the most important event in human history.
[01:52:10.000 --> 01:52:12.000]  Proof that we are not alone.
[01:52:12.000 --> 01:52:15.000]  That they have been watching over us.
[01:52:15.000 --> 01:52:20.000]  That humanity is ready to graduate to a new level of cosmic citizenship.
[01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:23.000]  This is initiation language.
[01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:27.000]  This is the language of a mystery religion.
[01:52:27.000 --> 01:52:32.000]  It is the oldest repackaged with a government seal of approval.
[01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:37.000]  Again, in the same way that the technocrats are going back to the
[01:52:37.000 --> 01:52:41.000]  you will live forever, you will become like God narrative and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:52:41.000 --> 01:52:45.000]  All of this stuff is the same thing we see being repackaged over and over again.
[01:52:45.000 --> 01:52:51.000]  And after decades of science fiction about UFOs and all the rest of this stuff,
[01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:56.000]  I think Arthur C. Clarke was the one who really brought the two things together.
[01:52:56.000 --> 01:53:01.000]  He had a book and it was also made into a series for the sci-fi channel,
[01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:03.000]  Childhood's End.
[01:53:03.000 --> 01:53:06.000]  And it had all these different elements that he was just talking about here.
[01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:10.000]  How we're going to graduate, humanity is going to graduate to a new high level
[01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:12.000]  and become cosmic citizens.
[01:53:12.000 --> 01:53:16.000]  That there have been these overlords who have been watching over us
[01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:18.000]  and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:22.000]  All of that is present in this novel from Arthur C. Clarke.
[01:53:22.000 --> 01:53:26.000]  And then he adds another little interesting detail,
[01:53:26.000 --> 01:53:31.000]  what he does when the aliens are finally revealed and seen physically.
[01:53:31.000 --> 01:53:36.000]  They look exactly like the medieval depictions of Satan.
[01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:40.000]  Here's a little bit about that film, Childhood's End.
[01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:43.000]  Good morning.
[01:53:43.000 --> 01:53:49.000]  I have been chosen to be the intermediary between the overlords and us.
[01:53:49.000 --> 01:53:53.000]  Mr. Storm, could you just tell us why won't Karelin show his face?
[01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:54.000]  I don't know.
[01:53:54.000 --> 01:53:55.000]  Hey, you must see us.
[01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:56.000]  Who are you?
[01:53:56.000 --> 01:54:02.000]  The problem is our appearance could well be quite distressing.
[01:54:02.000 --> 01:54:07.000]  The overlords really don't feel that people are ready
[01:54:07.000 --> 01:54:10.000]  for what will be a shock as to what they look like.
[01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:16.000]  It looks just like the bathroom in the picture.
[01:54:16.000 --> 01:54:18.000]  There is no need to be afraid.
[01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:21.000]  When I first looked at the artwork for this project,
[01:54:21.000 --> 01:54:24.000]  because I wanted to know what this character looked like,
[01:54:24.000 --> 01:54:27.000]  I thought, well, it could be anybody under there.
[01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:29.000]  It could be you.
[01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.000]  I have contact lenses.
[01:54:31.000 --> 01:54:35.000]  I have teeth uncovered from head to foot in latex and silica.
[01:54:35.000 --> 01:54:38.000]  It takes a very long time to create, I might add,
[01:54:38.000 --> 01:54:41.000]  and almost as long to de-create.
[01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:46.000]  Despite all of that, when I look in the mirror, I can see that it is me.
[01:54:46.000 --> 01:54:49.000]  How do you like your golden age?
[01:54:55.000 --> 01:54:57.000]  This is crazy.
[01:54:57.000 --> 01:54:58.000]  You lied!
[01:54:58.000 --> 01:55:01.000]  So basically what they have is these overlords come
[01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:06.000]  and they contact humanity and say, we're going to end wars.
[01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:09.000]  We're going to end disease and death and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:55:09.000 --> 01:55:11.000]  And then eventually they reveal themselves
[01:55:11.000 --> 01:55:15.000]  to look like the depictions of satanic demons from the Middle Ages
[01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:20.000]  and even come from a planet that is full of fire and so forth.
[01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:25.000]  But their purpose is to basically take all the children away.
[01:55:25.000 --> 01:55:29.000]  You see how this all folds together with all the globalist elite
[01:55:29.000 --> 01:55:32.000]  and their pedophile cults and all the rest of this stuff?
[01:55:32.000 --> 01:55:34.000]  And of course, Arthur C. Clarke himself,
[01:55:34.000 --> 01:55:38.000]  there are allegations that he was a pedophile in Sri Lanka where he lived
[01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:41.000]  based on an interview that he had with the UK Mirror.
[01:55:42.000 --> 01:55:49.000]  He denied it and then he made comments of a pedophile nature
[01:55:49.000 --> 01:55:52.000]  and that article was why people talked about that.
[01:55:52.000 --> 01:55:57.000]  And so when we look at this, in a sense, you have this satanic singularity,
[01:55:57.000 --> 01:55:58.000]  don't you?
[01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:01.000]  You have all these different threads that you see out there,
[01:56:01.000 --> 01:56:03.000]  whether you're talking about transhumanism
[01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:05.000]  or you're talking about Jeffrey Epstein
[01:56:05.000 --> 01:56:07.000]  or you're talking about this UFO disclosure,
[01:56:07.000 --> 01:56:11.000]  there is a satanic singularity that is coming.
[01:56:11.000 --> 01:56:14.000]  It's not the singularity that the transhumanists talk about,
[01:56:14.000 --> 01:56:16.000]  the merging of man and machine.
[01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:21.000]  This is the merging of a lot of different threads of satanic narratives.
[01:56:21.000 --> 01:56:24.000]  And so they continue on with this, Kelly's article here.
[01:56:24.000 --> 01:56:28.000]  What false sign and wonder could be more powerful in this technological age
[01:56:28.000 --> 01:56:34.000]  than the apparent arrival or the official unveiling of non-human intelligence?
[01:56:34.000 --> 01:56:38.000]  What delusion could more effectively unite a fractured world,
[01:56:38.000 --> 01:56:43.000]  more completely redirect spiritual seeking away from God or the Bible,
[01:56:43.000 --> 01:56:47.000]  or more comprehensively supply an alternative explanation
[01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:49.000]  for coming supernatural events?
[01:56:49.000 --> 01:56:52.000]  This has been openly discussed in globalist and New Age circles
[01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:54.000]  for quite some time.
[01:56:54.000 --> 01:56:58.000]  Werner von Braun's secretary, Carol Rosen, testified publicly
[01:56:58.000 --> 01:57:03.000]  that the sequence of manufactured threats was planned to culminate
[01:57:03.000 --> 01:57:07.000]  in an alien threat or arrival.
[01:57:07.000 --> 01:57:11.000]  And so a Christian who accepts the extraterrestrial framing
[01:57:11.000 --> 01:57:14.000]  has not stopped believing in the supernatural.
[01:57:14.000 --> 01:57:18.000]  They have simply redirected their awe, their dependence,
[01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:21.000]  and their hope toward a counterfeit.
[01:57:21.000 --> 01:57:26.000]  That is far more effective spiritual capture than simply atheism.
[01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:29.000]  Satan does not primarily seek unbelief.
[01:57:29.000 --> 01:57:32.000]  He seeks misdirected belief.
[01:57:32.000 --> 01:57:36.000]  Worship aimed anywhere but at the Creator.
[01:57:36.000 --> 01:57:39.000]  The faithful must be equipped to the full biblical picture
[01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:44.000]  that God created a cosmos populated with intelligent beings
[01:57:44.000 --> 01:57:47.000]  at a multiple level of creation,
[01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:50.000]  and that a rebellious among those beings introduced evil
[01:57:50.000 --> 01:57:52.000]  into the structure of reality
[01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:57.000]  that those fallen beings operate in our physical reality.
[01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:00.000]  That is basic Christianity.
[01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:04.000]  So the issue is to name it correctly.
[01:58:04.000 --> 01:58:06.000]  Obama said they're real.
[01:58:06.000 --> 01:58:08.000]  Trump ordered the files released.
[01:58:08.000 --> 01:58:10.000]  The movie is coming, the machine is running,
[01:58:10.000 --> 01:58:14.000]  and not one frame of this orchestrated reveal
[01:58:14.000 --> 01:58:17.000]  will include the word that most accurately describes
[01:58:17.000 --> 01:58:19.000]  what is being unveiled.
[01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:22.000]  That word is demonic.
[01:58:22.000 --> 01:58:24.000]  It's not medieval, it's not unsophisticated.
[01:58:24.000 --> 01:58:27.000]  It's the most precise, empirically consistent,
[01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:30.000]  historically validated description of a phenomenon
[01:58:30.000 --> 01:58:33.000]  that has been terrifying and deceiving human beings
[01:58:33.000 --> 01:58:36.000]  since long before the first government classification stamp
[01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:38.000]  was invented.
[01:58:38.000 --> 01:58:40.000]  And again, a lot of the scientists who are looking at this
[01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:42.000]  will say, well, it's not interplanetary,
[01:58:42.000 --> 01:58:46.000]  it's multidimensional or something of that nature.
[01:58:46.000 --> 01:58:50.000]  And there's logical reasons to say that.
[01:58:50.000 --> 01:58:53.000]  And nothing points to the kind of narrative
[01:58:53.000 --> 01:58:55.000]  that's been sold by people like Carl Sagan
[01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:58.000]  or the movie Contact with Jodie Foster
[01:58:58.000 --> 01:59:00.000]  or any of these things.
[01:59:00.000 --> 01:59:02.000]  It really is more like Arthur C. Clarke,
[01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:06.000]  except that in and of itself is predictive programming
[01:59:06.000 --> 01:59:08.000]  for a massive deception.
[01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:09.000]  Call it what it is.
[01:59:09.000 --> 01:59:11.000]  Warn those around you.
[01:59:11.000 --> 01:59:13.000]  Ground yourself and your community
[01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:15.000]  in the full counsel of Scripture,
[01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:19.000]  not just in the comfortable parts as well.
[01:59:19.000 --> 01:59:23.000]  And as we look at this, there's yet another component of this.
[01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:27.000]  And that is something that we're seeing increasingly
[01:59:27.000 --> 01:59:28.000]  in the halls of government,
[01:59:28.000 --> 01:59:33.000]  and that is the move towards psychedelic mind-altering drugs.
[01:59:33.000 --> 01:59:36.000]  At the same time, these people are doing their war on drugs.
[01:59:36.000 --> 01:59:38.000]  You've got people like Rick Perry,
[01:59:38.000 --> 01:59:44.000]  who is pushing some of these psychoactive drugs
[01:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.000]  for people who are suffering with PTSD
[01:59:46.000 --> 01:59:48.000]  and other things like that.
[01:59:48.000 --> 01:59:51.000]  Aya Ayusha, if I'm pronouncing that correctly,
[01:59:51.000 --> 01:59:52.000]  do you know how that's pronounced?
[01:59:52.000 --> 01:59:53.000]  Ayahuasca.
[01:59:53.000 --> 01:59:54.000]  Ayahuasca?
[01:59:54.000 --> 01:59:55.000]  Yep.
[01:59:55.000 --> 01:59:56.000]  Is that it?
[01:59:56.000 --> 01:59:57.000]  Okay.
[01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:00.000]  A psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy.
[02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:04.000]  A study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms
[02:00:04.000 --> 02:00:08.000]  as researchers welcomed their promising results.
[02:00:08.000 --> 02:00:10.000]  And at the same time, this pharmacia,
[02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:14.000]  remember, in the Bible, the term pharmacia,
[02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:18.000]  and I used it to refer to these people who are selling poison.
[02:00:18.000 --> 02:00:20.000]  But it was originally sorcery.
[02:00:20.000 --> 02:00:22.000]  They're talking about a religion.
[02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:27.000]  And as they are pushing these various drugs,
[02:00:27.000 --> 02:00:31.000]  they are already talking about DMT entities, machine elves,
[02:00:31.000 --> 02:00:35.000]  tricksters, teachers, other interdimensional beings.
[02:00:35.000 --> 02:00:37.000]  I mean, there's books that have been written,
[02:00:37.000 --> 02:00:39.000]  multiple books have been written about it,
[02:00:39.000 --> 02:00:42.000]  people who are doing experiments with it,
[02:00:42.000 --> 02:00:46.000]  calling themselves psychonauts, like astronauts.
[02:00:46.000 --> 02:00:49.000]  And they think that they are journeying to another dimension
[02:00:49.000 --> 02:00:52.000]  and engaging these entities that are there.
[02:00:52.000 --> 02:00:55.000]  And a lot of them are seeing the same type of thing
[02:00:55.000 --> 02:00:57.000]  over and over again.
[02:00:57.000 --> 02:00:59.000]  And so that is the reality, folks.
[02:00:59.000 --> 02:01:01.000]  That is what they're trying to prepare us for.
[02:01:01.000 --> 02:01:02.000]  Well, we're out of time.
[02:01:02.000 --> 02:01:04.000]  I had more I wanted to say about this,
[02:01:04.000 --> 02:01:08.000]  especially the CIA's involvement in Operation Artichoke.
[02:01:08.000 --> 02:01:10.000]  That was a predecessor to MKUltra.
[02:01:10.000 --> 02:01:13.000]  They have been pushing LSD, hallucinogenics,
[02:01:13.000 --> 02:01:16.000]  and psychoactive things in order to manipulate people.
[02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:17.000]  And while you look at that,
[02:01:17.000 --> 02:01:21.000]  never forget the occultic aspects of things
[02:01:21.000 --> 02:01:23.000]  that the CIA was trying to do,
[02:01:23.000 --> 02:01:25.000]  remote viewing and all these other things.
[02:01:25.000 --> 02:01:31.000]  These are people who are focused on satanic connections
[02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:33.000]  and demonic connections.
[02:01:33.000 --> 02:01:36.000]  It's just another part of the big picture that is there.
[02:01:36.000 --> 02:01:39.000]  Jeffrey Epstein is just one aspect of it.
[02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:42.000]  But of course, he's also involved with the CIA as well.
[02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:45.000]  It truly is the satanic singularity,
[02:01:45.000 --> 02:01:46.000]  if you take a look at it.
[02:01:46.000 --> 02:01:48.000]  That's it for today's broadcast.
[02:01:48.000 --> 02:01:50.000]  Thank you for joining us.
[02:02:12.000 --> 02:02:17.000]  Commoners own nothing in the communist future.
[02:02:17.000 --> 02:02:22.000]  They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
[02:02:22.000 --> 02:02:25.000]  But each of us has worth and dignity
[02:02:25.000 --> 02:02:29.000]  created in the image of God.
[02:02:29.000 --> 02:02:31.000]  That is what we have in common.
[02:02:31.000 --> 02:02:33.000]  That is what they want to take away.
[02:02:33.000 --> 02:02:36.000]  Their most powerful weapons are isolation,
[02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:38.000]  deception, intimidation.
[02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:41.000]  They desire to know everything about us
[02:02:41.000 --> 02:02:44.000]  while they hide everything from us.
[02:02:44.000 --> 02:02:46.000]  It's time to turn that around
[02:02:46.000 --> 02:02:49.000]  and expose what they want to hide.
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