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[01:35.000 --> 01:37.000] It's the David Knight Show.
[02:29.000 --> 02:39.000] It's the David Knight Show.
[02:59.000 --> 03:16.720] And a beautiful Friday to everyone here at the David Knight Show audience.
[03:16.720 --> 03:20.460] Thank you for watching and thank you for joining me Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David
[03:20.460 --> 03:25.240] and Travis today as they take some needed time off for the family.
[03:25.240 --> 03:30.320] Our condolences to Karen and the entire family for her loss of her brother.
[03:30.320 --> 03:35.600] And I really want to thank you for joining me on this 21st day of November, 2025.
[03:35.600 --> 03:36.780] It's great to be here.
[03:36.780 --> 03:41.080] Some of you might know my work at MRCTV, although I'm not there anymore.
[03:41.080 --> 03:46.840] And you might know my work from Liberty Conspiracy Live and my Substack, Gardner Goldsmith Substack.
[03:46.840 --> 03:50.880] Every Monday through Friday, we broadcast Liberty Conspiracy Live at 6 p.m.
[03:50.880 --> 03:55.840] We sort of wrap up of the news and we try to derive some longstanding lessons for Liberty
[03:55.840 --> 04:02.240] out of those news stories and offer you the opportunity to play scholarship as well.
[04:02.240 --> 04:06.980] You can be the professor on the program so you can stream us over there at Rumble every
[04:06.980 --> 04:08.360] Monday through Friday at 6 p.m.
[04:08.360 --> 04:11.480] You can go over to the channel and see the breakout videos.
[04:11.480 --> 04:14.880] And of course, you can follow me on X that's at Gardner Goldsmith.
[04:15.120 --> 04:21.040] Well, it's been a very, very busy, not even 24 hours since I was last streaming.
[04:21.040 --> 04:24.480] So we're going to touch base on some of the stories that I got to discuss with my audience
[04:24.480 --> 04:29.400] on Liberty Conspiracy last night, because of course, freedom is out of fashion and introduce
[04:29.400 --> 04:34.460] some new stories as well as open up the video chat to you.
[04:34.460 --> 04:38.000] And if you want to get your comments put on the screen, just go to my Gardner Goldsmith
[04:38.000 --> 04:40.440] feed and you can do so.
[04:40.440 --> 04:43.760] Of course, you can always drop a line inside Rumble.
[04:43.760 --> 04:46.840] We love to see what people have to say inside Rumble.
[04:46.840 --> 04:48.640] And it's always a great team over there.
[04:48.640 --> 04:52.100] We're streaming at Kick and DLive and Odyssey as well.
[04:52.100 --> 04:57.760] And please visit the David Knight Show website to find out all the things that you can do
[04:57.760 --> 04:58.760] to help the program.
[04:58.760 --> 05:03.680] It's always a big deal when I fill in for David to mention that while I stream for David,
[05:03.680 --> 05:08.680] you can still contribute and support the show because that's how the show is supported through
[05:08.680 --> 05:13.000] your purchases at the website and your donations and your subscriptions.
[05:13.000 --> 05:18.220] It's a wonderful thing to think about all of you who support the program and support
[05:18.220 --> 05:20.180] such good people as the Knights.
[05:20.180 --> 05:22.140] So let's get started for today.
[05:22.140 --> 05:25.960] Don't forget, again, if you want your comments seen on the screen, just go to my at Gardner
[05:25.960 --> 05:31.900] Goldsmith X feed and here in Mother Russia, because of course, we only spread the Russian
[05:31.900 --> 05:36.600] propaganda on Liberty Conspiracy, you can talk to the Russians.
[05:36.600 --> 05:40.520] They'll get your comments right there on the screen and we'll try to do that as often as
[05:40.520 --> 05:41.520] possible.
[05:42.040 --> 05:44.040] So we're already seeing some great comments in there from everyone.
[05:44.040 --> 05:46.720] Thank you so much, everyone, for doing so.
[05:46.720 --> 05:49.960] And we're getting some great comments from Kick that I can also see.
[05:49.960 --> 05:53.480] So if you're over on Kick, you can drop your comments in there as well.
[05:53.480 --> 05:57.560] We've got a lot to cover from last night, as I mentioned, but some news stories plus
[05:57.560 --> 06:03.240] Eric Peters will be joining us and Jason Barker from Knights of the Storm has the opportunity
[06:03.240 --> 06:06.360] to join us most likely in the third hour.
[06:06.360 --> 06:09.960] So let's take a look at what we are interested in covering.
[06:09.960 --> 06:14.420] The Russians and I work very hard on our very long office table putting together the
[06:14.420 --> 06:19.040] production show notes and making sure that we've broken apart the stories properly to
[06:19.040 --> 06:22.140] get that pro-Liberty marrow out of the stories.
[06:22.140 --> 06:25.400] So let's find out what we'll be discussing on the program today.
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[06:59.640 --> 07:05.060] Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything, but she needed a private
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[08:25.960 --> 08:29.880] I'm on the David Knight Show for the 21st day of November 2025.
[08:29.880 --> 08:36.120] First, as I often try to do on my program, I usually play Genesis with Tonight, Tonight,
[08:36.120 --> 08:40.200] Tonight and say tonight, tonight, tonight, what are we going to be discussing?
[08:40.200 --> 08:44.760] Sometimes it comes in with the wrong music and suddenly we hear Humpty D and the Digital
[08:44.760 --> 08:48.260] Underground or Black Flag or Rod Stewart.
[08:48.260 --> 08:49.720] It's very strange.
[08:49.720 --> 08:53.160] I don't understand it, but you have to trust Anthony Fauci.
[08:53.160 --> 08:55.080] He knows the musical science.
[08:55.080 --> 09:00.000] He's told me that every time one of those strange songs has come on, he's done a PCR
[09:00.000 --> 09:01.440] test on the song.
[09:01.440 --> 09:05.180] He's found some notes that might have been used by Genesis.
[09:05.180 --> 09:09.960] He's amplified it 40 trillion times and the song is actually Genesis.
[09:09.960 --> 09:16.760] So let's find out what's on tap tonight or perhaps how about today on the David Knight
[09:16.760 --> 09:17.760] Show.
[09:17.760 --> 09:20.360] This is the way we often do it on our show.
[09:20.360 --> 09:25.760] So there you go, Anthony Fauci.
[09:25.760 --> 09:27.480] He'll tell you that's Genesis.
[09:27.480 --> 09:31.320] That's a way that we check out our secondary sound system at the beginning of each program.
[09:31.320 --> 09:32.780] Well what's on tap today?
[09:32.780 --> 09:34.780] One and all in the David Knight Show.
[09:34.780 --> 09:39.040] We're going to be starting with the big story as we did last night.
[09:39.040 --> 09:42.160] The Huckabee Pollard Potluck Edition.
[09:42.160 --> 09:49.000] It just gets worse for Mike Huckabee as yes, he met with one of the most infamous spies
[09:49.000 --> 09:55.000] in the past 50 years in the United States and evidently didn't tell anyone.
[09:55.000 --> 09:59.520] Or perhaps a lot of people in the White House did know, but they're making it look like
[09:59.520 --> 10:01.000] they didn't know.
[10:01.000 --> 10:05.880] You can figure out that skullduggery yourself and perhaps offer your comments and let us
[10:05.880 --> 10:07.400] know what you think.
[10:07.400 --> 10:12.880] We'll discuss that and we'll discuss Mike Huckabee's absolutely rabid Christian Zionism
[10:12.880 --> 10:17.680] that seems to be completely blind or supportive of genocide.
[10:17.680 --> 10:21.660] We'll also discuss on our second story, the Democrats.
[10:21.660 --> 10:29.160] The Democrats who spoke up and stated essentially and actually a tepid version of what the military
[10:29.160 --> 10:36.000] oath is, which is to comply with lawful and the actual oath is constitutional, which is
[10:36.000 --> 10:44.040] a very profound difference, orders and to not comply with unlawful orders.
[10:44.040 --> 10:50.080] That is being flipped around by Donald Trump, who now claims that those congresspeople and
[10:50.080 --> 10:53.640] senators who said that, one of them comes from New Hampshire, perhaps one comes from
[10:53.640 --> 10:57.200] your state and they're Democrats.
[10:57.200 --> 10:59.720] He says they should be hanged, first edition.
[10:59.720 --> 11:06.040] Yes, there's nothing like a balanced president is there as part of your balanced breakfast.
[11:06.040 --> 11:11.400] So it has gotten worse as Caroline Levitt, who comes from New Hampshire, which is where
[11:11.480 --> 11:16.920] I'm located, spoke up about it and again, tried to completely flip the narrative.
[11:16.920 --> 11:18.280] This is beyond gaslighting.
[11:18.280 --> 11:20.360] It's just outright lying.
[11:20.360 --> 11:25.520] And talk radio hosts in Boston were saying the same thing that they should be hanged.
[11:25.520 --> 11:26.520] Yes.
[11:26.520 --> 11:31.040] And now after this talk host in Boston said that those people should be hanged, he came
[11:31.040 --> 11:35.080] on at six this morning and said, they're trying to start a civil war.
[11:35.080 --> 11:36.400] Look what these people are doing.
[11:36.400 --> 11:38.600] I was like, let me just figure this out.
[11:38.600 --> 11:44.160] They're calling for only complying to lawful commands.
[11:44.160 --> 11:47.080] And you yesterday said, yes, they should be hanged for sedition.
[11:47.080 --> 11:50.280] I don't know where the violence is coming from, but we'll figure that out.
[11:50.280 --> 11:55.680] We'll also discuss Trump's tariff terrorism meeting the economic numbers.
[11:55.680 --> 11:59.560] Yesterday the labor statistics numbers for September came out.
[11:59.560 --> 12:00.840] They're not good.
[12:00.840 --> 12:01.840] So get ready.
[12:01.840 --> 12:05.120] I hope your Thanksgiving plans are going to be looking good nonetheless.
[12:05.120 --> 12:06.440] And we'll discuss that.
[12:06.440 --> 12:11.120] And we'll also discuss how, yes, again, it is like Humpty Dumpty world.
[12:11.120 --> 12:13.280] They're just saying anything they want.
[12:13.280 --> 12:18.340] The Trump administration says, oh, no, the numbers are great.
[12:18.340 --> 12:22.360] It's like Raiders of the Lost Ark as Belloc stares into the light.
[12:22.360 --> 12:23.360] It's beautiful.
[12:23.360 --> 12:28.520] We'll also discuss our mind meld subjects with Eric Peters.
[12:28.520 --> 12:32.080] Please head over to the ericpetersautos.com website.
[12:32.080 --> 12:35.740] His newest one just released this morning will be on tap.
[12:35.740 --> 12:39.980] And it's a big one about the government giving us back some money.
[12:39.980 --> 12:46.600] And we'll talk about trucking lines further being hit by Trump and the ICE invasions.
[12:46.600 --> 12:52.560] And specifically, I went in and did some extra research on who are actually the riskiest
[12:52.560 --> 12:54.640] drivers on the roads.
[12:54.640 --> 13:01.520] As the Trump administration tries to use the very tragic and very widespread and visible
[13:01.520 --> 13:07.720] accidents that were caused by some migrant truckers recently to say the federal government
[13:07.720 --> 13:12.120] has got to be involved and those foreigners can't drive trucks.
[13:12.120 --> 13:17.340] There are a lot of nuances for constitutionalists out there that they might want to remember.
[13:17.340 --> 13:18.540] So we'll get into it.
[13:18.540 --> 13:21.900] And we'll get into the statistics, which show, yeah, you got it.
[13:21.900 --> 13:27.320] We discussed it on the program last night, native domestic drivers of trucks are actually
[13:27.320 --> 13:33.700] much more dangerous proportionally, including, as I said, the proportion of the people that
[13:33.700 --> 13:38.160] are on the roads because it's only a very small number of foreigners who are driving.
[13:38.160 --> 13:39.920] So thanks again for joining us, everybody.
[13:39.920 --> 13:42.160] We're going to have an awesome, awesome time today.
[13:42.160 --> 13:47.660] And again, I want to thank David and Travis for asking me to stop by.
[13:47.660 --> 13:49.080] I really appreciate it.
[13:49.080 --> 13:52.500] This is where we usually turn for the Liberty Conspiracy News notes.
[13:52.500 --> 13:55.840] So we're going to be referring to that if you want to go to my website.
[13:55.840 --> 13:59.480] That's something that I put out every Monday through Friday for the paid subscribers.
[13:59.480 --> 14:03.200] And then on Sundays, we do something called the Sunday News Assembly, which is free for
[14:03.200 --> 14:04.200] everybody.
[14:04.200 --> 14:09.120] And it usually has about 20 stories pertaining to freedom, a lot of historical context or
[14:09.120 --> 14:13.080] economic information that I might have taught in a lecture hall.
[14:13.080 --> 14:17.480] And hopefully it gives people something that they can enjoy on their Sunday.
[14:17.480 --> 14:20.120] But right now, let's enjoy a little something else.
[14:20.120 --> 14:22.820] Let's enjoy some some music, shall we?
[14:22.820 --> 14:28.740] For the subject of spy craft, we need a little visit from the most famous fictional spy of
[14:28.740 --> 14:29.740] all time.
[15:22.820 --> 15:30.500] Wonderful stuff's got a little bit of that swing in it.
[15:30.500 --> 15:31.560] So good.
[15:31.560 --> 15:36.080] And you know, they have that new Ken Burns documentary on the Revolutionary War.
[15:36.080 --> 15:40.640] And all I can think of is the abysmal documentary that he did on rock and roll.
[15:40.640 --> 15:45.840] And he always he sort of went with the pat line that rock and roll is a fusion of country
[15:45.840 --> 15:52.400] and the blues, completely missing the drive of big band swing, the drums of Gene Krupa
[15:52.580 --> 15:53.580] and Louie Belson.
[15:55.380 --> 15:58.620] You just sit there. I watched the whole thing with my dad as I do you think something was
[15:58.620 --> 16:00.660] missing, daddy goes, yeah, I think so.
[16:01.060 --> 16:02.300] It was just ridiculous.
[16:02.300 --> 16:03.700] He comes from New Hampshire as well.
[16:04.020 --> 16:05.260] Thankfully, he's not my neighbor.
[16:05.260 --> 16:07.180] I'm sure he's a very, very nice man.
[16:07.340 --> 16:09.900] All right. Let's get rolling, everybody, on this story.
[16:09.980 --> 16:12.660] Mike Huckabee, it just gets crazier.
[16:12.900 --> 16:17.820] Huckabee, as one of the headlines says, he's out of control.
[16:17.820 --> 16:21.880] So here's the story from Mediaite.
[16:22.320 --> 16:23.840] He's out of control.
[16:23.920 --> 16:30.800] MAGA demands answers after Trump ambassador Mike Huckabee covertly meets with spy who
[16:30.800 --> 16:32.480] told American secrets.
[16:32.680 --> 16:37.840] And last night, when I opened up the Liberty Conspiracy program, 6 p.m., streaming over
[16:37.840 --> 16:39.840] at the Liberty Conspiracy Channel, Eastern U.S.
[16:39.840 --> 16:45.480] Time or Moscow Time, perhaps, as we spread, as you know, the Russian propaganda.
[16:45.980 --> 16:52.460] Well, I got to say, there is something about knowing that Mike Huckabee was always a
[16:52.460 --> 16:58.380] hardcore Christian Zionist and then wondering about whether or not the supporters of Mike
[16:58.380 --> 17:03.820] Huckabee are now torn because they're often very patriotic people at the same time.
[17:03.820 --> 17:11.380] So is there some cognitive dissonance for these people as they see a guy they like, Mike
[17:11.380 --> 17:18.520] Huckabee, down there in a place they support Israel now associating with a person who was
[17:18.520 --> 17:22.200] convicted as one of the worst spies in American history?
[17:22.480 --> 17:27.760] I don't know that these seem to be battling each other for supremacy, but I'm sure they'll
[17:27.760 --> 17:32.600] find a way to smooth everything out, just like heavily pasteurized milk.
[17:32.920 --> 17:38.240] So let's get into this one, because as they say on Mediaite, prominent supporters of
[17:38.240 --> 17:44.200] President Donald Trump demanded answers on Thursday after it was revealed that U.S.
[17:44.200 --> 17:50.260] Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee had held a secret meeting, or at least what they tell us was a
[17:50.260 --> 17:56.720] secret meeting in Jerusalem with Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy who sold American
[17:56.720 --> 17:57.980] secrets to Israel.
[17:58.360 --> 18:02.680] So I put together some notes about Jonathan Pollard in case maybe you weren't born at that
[18:02.680 --> 18:04.100] time or anything like that.
[18:04.460 --> 18:06.360] So Pollard was convicted.
[18:06.560 --> 18:08.320] It was discovered in 85.
[18:08.320 --> 18:10.360] I think he was convicted in 86.
[18:10.760 --> 18:16.560] And not only did he provide all sorts of secrets, including nuclear secrets to the Israeli
[18:16.560 --> 18:20.340] government, he was born in Texas, raised by a Christian Zionist family.
[18:20.720 --> 18:25.680] But in addition to that, he got hundreds of thousands of dollars from them.
[18:26.080 --> 18:36.280] And the Israelis gave secrets to the Soviets in exchange for prisoners because of the
[18:36.280 --> 18:39.680] information that Jonathan Pollard offered.
[18:40.000 --> 18:44.360] So it had tertiary effects for people who are very patriotic as well.
[18:44.760 --> 18:52.560] And of course, the Jonathan Pollard story is actually tied to a number of other people.
[18:53.760 --> 18:55.320] And one of them is a U.S.
[18:55.320 --> 18:56.120] Senator.
[18:56.440 --> 18:57.760] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[18:57.760 --> 19:03.320] And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[19:03.360 --> 19:08.800] A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called
[19:08.800 --> 19:10.200] Compassion International.
[19:10.320 --> 19:10.920] Why?
[19:11.200 --> 19:14.040] Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[19:14.400 --> 19:20.600] It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act would change
[19:20.600 --> 19:21.680] my life as well.
[19:22.120 --> 19:27.880] I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes, going from
[19:27.880 --> 19:32.800] starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and education.
[19:33.040 --> 19:36.520] She needs to reach her God given full potential.
[19:36.960 --> 19:42.160] I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion not only illuminates
[19:42.160 --> 19:44.800] in her, it illuminates now in me.
[19:45.200 --> 19:47.440] That is the power of compassion.
[19:47.800 --> 19:50.960] The light of Christ shines on all of us.
[19:51.400 --> 19:56.520] Feel it for yourself and change literally a child's life, change the world.
[19:56.600 --> 19:58.360] And you also change yourself.
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[20:37.000 --> 20:41.000] Who, and I'll let you put your guesses in if you want to get your guess on the screen,
[20:41.480 --> 20:42.040] is a U.S.
[20:42.040 --> 20:44.160] Senator currently in office now.
[20:44.960 --> 20:50.640] And this Mike Huckabee, Jonathan Pollard meeting is tied to this man who recently was
[20:50.640 --> 20:56.480] embarrassed in an interview with Tucker Carlson and is a hardcore big time.
[20:56.600 --> 21:01.000] I'm for the state of Israel occupying that place and I'm overlooking genocide.
[21:01.200 --> 21:03.320] So let me know if you can if you know who it is.
[21:03.320 --> 21:04.720] We discussed it last night.
[21:05.000 --> 21:09.880] But yes, yes, he this person who went with Mike Huckabee to meet with Mr.
[21:09.880 --> 21:13.480] Pollard has been long associated with this senator.
[21:13.840 --> 21:19.800] So reacting to news of the July rendezvous, which reportedly raised concerns at the CIA,
[21:19.960 --> 21:25.440] former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said this is shocking behavior from the United
[21:25.440 --> 21:26.560] States ambassador.
[21:26.680 --> 21:28.840] Is Huckabee going to explain it?
[21:29.240 --> 21:33.120] Well, I've got some further information for you about the Pollard story.
[21:33.280 --> 21:37.960] So let me give you some of these details about Pollard, but I'll tell you who the
[21:37.960 --> 21:39.480] assistant was first.
[21:39.920 --> 21:46.400] So as Chris Minahan writes, he is over at Information Liberation, Ambassador Mike
[21:46.400 --> 21:54.640] Huckabee together with David Milstein, Mark Levin's stepson, held an off the record
[21:54.640 --> 21:56.280] meeting at U.S.
[21:56.280 --> 22:00.440] Embassy Jerusalem, which shouldn't even be there with Israeli spy, U.S.
[22:00.440 --> 22:01.800] traitor Jonathan Pollard.
[22:02.000 --> 22:07.880] The New York Times reports Pollard confirmed it was a friendly meeting and trashed
[22:07.880 --> 22:10.280] Donald Trump as a madman.
[22:10.360 --> 22:16.200] So, well, you know, I mean, a stop clock is right twice a day, right?
[22:16.440 --> 22:18.960] Here, of course, is the headline from The New York Times.
[22:19.200 --> 22:21.280] Jonathan Pollard looking also stylish.
[22:22.000 --> 22:28.960] And here's a bit of information about David Milstein, because, yes, he was a former
[22:28.960 --> 22:32.120] assistant for you got it, Ted Cruz.
[22:32.520 --> 22:38.960] Milstein worked on the Vandenberg Coalition Advisory Board until April 20, 25, at which
[22:38.960 --> 22:44.200] point he assumed his duties and you got to pay for it as senior advisor to U.S.
[22:44.200 --> 22:46.600] Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
[22:46.800 --> 22:50.200] Why should you be forced to pay for any of this?
[22:50.560 --> 22:53.640] You might have some other things on your mind like trying to fight the inflation of
[22:53.640 --> 22:55.840] the money supply and buy Thanksgiving dinner.
[22:57.040 --> 23:01.920] Milstein worked in the executive and legislative branches for seven and a half
[23:01.920 --> 23:04.400] years, but he's not parasitic at all.
[23:04.440 --> 23:10.600] Remember that now as a poll as a political appointee in the Trump administration, David
[23:10.600 --> 23:13.080] served as special assistant to the U.S.
[23:13.080 --> 23:18.440] Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, David Friedman.
[23:18.680 --> 23:20.640] Yes, David Friedman.
[23:20.640 --> 23:23.560] We'll hear a little bit about David Friedman in a moment.
[23:24.120 --> 23:25.120] He worked at the U.S.
[23:25.120 --> 23:27.640] Embassy in Jerusalem with David Friedman.
[23:27.880 --> 23:31.600] David provided research, expertise and analysis.
[23:31.600 --> 23:37.680] This is Milstein on policy initiatives that supported and facilitated a stronger than
[23:37.720 --> 23:41.400] ever U.S.-Israeli relationship, which, of course, helped cement the three point eight
[23:41.400 --> 23:47.720] billion dollars that goes to Israel automatically in every budget and offers them
[23:47.720 --> 23:51.240] more money in almost every National Defense Authorization Act.
[23:51.400 --> 23:57.920] In fact, David previously worked as a legislative aide for the oh so classy Senator
[23:57.920 --> 24:04.920] Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, otherwise known as the Israeli province of Texas, working
[24:04.920 --> 24:05.600] in the U.S.
[24:05.600 --> 24:07.840] Senate for five and a half years.
[24:08.000 --> 24:08.800] There you go.
[24:09.000 --> 24:13.240] You bought his lunch as part of Cruz's national security team.
[24:13.840 --> 24:19.840] Wink wink. David focused on economic and trade policy and policy initiatives regarding
[24:19.840 --> 24:21.440] the U.S. and Israel relationship.
[24:21.560 --> 24:26.280] It's linking throughout the Middle East and international institutions such as the UN
[24:26.480 --> 24:31.160] and the International Criminal Court, you know, the one that the United States flouts
[24:31.160 --> 24:34.120] when they say Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
[24:34.280 --> 24:35.800] You see how it all fits together.
[24:35.840 --> 24:40.440] It's just they appoint these people so that everything will be completely insulated
[24:40.440 --> 24:41.680] from American eyes.
[24:41.880 --> 24:43.720] That's the role of Milstein.
[24:43.720 --> 24:47.720] It has been for years and, of course, to cobble together legislation to further pick
[24:47.720 --> 24:49.560] your pockets and send it to another country.
[24:49.680 --> 24:50.920] I don't care what country it is.
[24:51.160 --> 24:53.160] It's not good to pick your pocket at the outset.
[24:53.160 --> 24:55.680] That's the illegal, immoral premise.
[24:56.160 --> 25:02.840] David made contributions to a number of provisions, especially get this as it relates
[25:02.840 --> 25:07.680] to strengthening U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation money, money, money.
[25:08.120 --> 25:14.040] And that became law through the National Defense Authorization Act each year.
[25:14.560 --> 25:17.320] Oh, yes, that's awesome.
[25:17.480 --> 25:22.160] Let's get some further information about this and turn to some of the details that
[25:22.160 --> 25:25.040] I've got on this particular topic.
[25:25.680 --> 25:33.400] The incredible and heroic meeting that we got to have with Jonathan Pollard
[25:33.520 --> 25:34.720] through our tax money.
[25:35.000 --> 25:41.520] So in the early 1980s, Pollard, who was born in Texas, Texas, as I said, was an
[25:41.520 --> 25:43.600] intelligence analyst for the U.S.
[25:43.600 --> 25:46.360] Navy's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center.
[25:46.680 --> 25:50.440] So, you know, he's got to care about American security because, of course, terrorism is
[25:50.440 --> 25:51.720] a word they use for anything.
[25:52.160 --> 25:59.000] He was recruited in 1984 and over roughly 18 months, Pollard delivered an estimated
[25:59.000 --> 26:04.280] one thousand five hundred classified documents to Israel.
[26:04.480 --> 26:08.800] And on redacted yesterday, Natalie Morris mentioned that they could the eight by
[26:08.800 --> 26:15.480] eleven pages were so voluminous they could fill a six by ten room satellite imagery
[26:15.480 --> 26:20.920] he provided, along with technical intelligence on Arab armies, Soviet weaponry
[26:21.000 --> 26:26.080] supplied to Arab states and Iraqi Pakistani nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
[26:26.240 --> 26:31.880] He also gave signals intelligence manuals from the United States that the U.S.
[26:31.880 --> 26:33.240] Navy and U.S.
[26:33.240 --> 26:35.720] Marines need to keep secret.
[26:35.800 --> 26:40.840] He gave those to the Israelis, including radio signal notations, manuals that
[26:40.840 --> 26:42.480] detailed much of the U.S.
[26:42.480 --> 26:45.200] global eavesdropping collections capabilities.
[26:45.400 --> 26:50.640] Guess what? He then sold some of that or the Israelis did to the Russians, to the
[26:50.640 --> 26:57.240] Soviets. Yes, we all know the Trump administration is very trustable.
[26:57.920 --> 27:01.840] Yeah, Mike Huckabee has no problem with that, evidently, because he was a big
[27:01.840 --> 27:03.240] anti-communist, Mike Huckabee.
[27:03.240 --> 27:08.360] So now it's he doesn't care much in the material was reportedly far beyond what
[27:08.360 --> 27:13.480] Israel even needed for its own defense and was allegedly traded by Israel to
[27:13.480 --> 27:19.880] third countries, notably the Soviet Union, in exchange for Jewish prisoners who were
[27:19.880 --> 27:20.960] sent back to Israel.
[27:21.240 --> 27:25.360] Pollard was was paid up to one hundred thousand dollars for the period.
[27:25.560 --> 27:29.120] In eighty six, Pollard reached a plea agreement.
[27:29.360 --> 27:34.280] He pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to deliver national defense information
[27:34.400 --> 27:37.480] to a foreign government. And they're supposed to be the allies.
[27:37.480 --> 27:38.960] Of course, there's no declaration of war.
[27:38.960 --> 27:42.640] So technically that term ally and enemy shouldn't exist.
[27:43.080 --> 27:46.920] And despite the plea deal, Casper Weinberger, who was defense secretary at
[27:46.920 --> 27:51.200] the time, submitted a damaging classified memo to the judge, arguing that Pollard's
[27:51.200 --> 27:54.560] leaks caused exceptionally grave damage to the U.S..
[27:54.840 --> 28:00.520] Pollard was then sentenced in 1987, spring of 87, late winter, to life in
[28:00.520 --> 28:02.800] prison with no possibility of parole.
[28:03.120 --> 28:08.480] And and Pollard, his wife, received five years because, you know, why not share it
[28:08.480 --> 28:10.280] in the family till death do us part?
[28:10.280 --> 28:14.200] Right. Imprisoned. Well, that started in 1987.
[28:14.200 --> 28:19.760] He served 30 years, mostly in maximum security federal prisons, and he repeatedly
[28:19.760 --> 28:25.720] appealed. Their appeals were finally denied until July 2015.
[28:25.880 --> 28:30.480] The U.S. Parole Commission granted him parole after he had served 30 years.
[28:30.480 --> 28:33.200] He was released November 20th, 2015.
[28:33.400 --> 28:36.080] He had to wear a lovely GPS ankle monitor.
[28:36.080 --> 28:37.320] They're very good for dancing.
[28:37.640 --> 28:42.160] He had a curfew, sort of like Epstein, you know, and had to do some computer
[28:42.160 --> 28:45.640] monitoring. And he had a prohibition of leaving the U.S.
[28:45.640 --> 28:51.960] until December of 2020, actually started in 2019 during the Trump administration.
[28:52.200 --> 28:55.080] Attorney General, yes, William Barr.
[28:55.080 --> 28:57.760] And he has no association with the CIA.
[28:58.040 --> 29:02.680] Neither did his dad. No deep state ties to the Mossad in any way whatsoever.
[29:02.880 --> 29:06.720] He and the Justice Department lifted the remaining parole restrictions, allowing
[29:06.720 --> 29:08.960] Pollard to leave the United States.
[29:09.080 --> 29:10.280] And now he's a big hero.
[29:10.440 --> 29:14.880] He lives in Israel with, let's see, a lot of money.
[29:15.240 --> 29:19.560] Yes, he lives with a lot of money that he gets from people who are big fans of his
[29:19.720 --> 29:25.040] over in Israel. For a little more amplification on this, let's turn to a little
[29:25.040 --> 29:29.000] more background from Judge Andrew Napolitano's program yesterday with the
[29:29.000 --> 29:33.400] great Max Blumenthal of the gray zone, because Max covers additional
[29:33.600 --> 29:34.880] amplification here.
[29:35.320 --> 29:38.640] Hi, everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
[29:38.680 --> 29:42.560] Today is Thursday, November 20th, 2025.
[29:43.000 --> 29:45.640] My dear friend Max Blumenthal joins us now.
[29:45.640 --> 29:49.040] Max, a pleasure. Thank you very much for your time and for accommodating my
[29:49.040 --> 29:55.680] schedule. But let's start with this unrecognized and to me bizarre.
[29:55.680 --> 29:57.520] You can probably shed some light on it.
[29:57.520 --> 30:03.080] Meeting back in July between Jonathan Pollard and Mike Huckabee.
[30:03.080 --> 30:06.480] Huckabee is, of course, the Zionist U.S.
[30:06.480 --> 30:07.880] ambassador in Israel.
[30:08.360 --> 30:14.560] Pollard is the notorious theft of American national security secrets.
[30:14.720 --> 30:17.400] Is Pollard a hero to the Israelis?
[30:18.640 --> 30:24.840] Well, he is, and he's a settler who is sort of a local celebrity.
[30:26.160 --> 30:30.600] Among the religious nationalist world, I remember there's this bookstore I used to
[30:30.600 --> 30:36.280] walk by in central Jerusalem where a lot of settlers would frequent when they came
[30:36.280 --> 30:40.800] into Jerusalem to get to go shopping and so on by frozen yogurt.
[30:41.120 --> 30:45.560] And it had a giant picture of Jonathan Pollard over the front door, because at that
[30:45.560 --> 30:50.640] time he was considered cause celeb to the religious nationalist movement and kind of
[30:50.640 --> 30:52.440] a political prisoner in Israel.
[30:52.600 --> 30:59.960] And that was the main bookstore where settlers could get messianic texts and so
[30:59.960 --> 31:04.960] forth. So he's a hero to a certain constituency in Israel.
[31:05.000 --> 31:12.240] And through the Adelson bribery network, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump
[31:12.240 --> 31:15.080] was basically paid to release him.
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[32:56.120 --> 32:57.800] He was sentenced to life in prison.
[32:57.800 --> 33:01.440] Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison for some of the most damaging
[33:02.040 --> 33:04.120] intelligence thefts in U.S.
[33:04.120 --> 33:07.080] history. He was a naval intelligence analyst.
[33:07.080 --> 33:11.760] He did this for ideological reasons because he believed he was an Israel
[33:11.760 --> 33:18.880] first-er and he handed over the methods that the NSA used to collect intelligence
[33:18.960 --> 33:25.240] to the Mossad, as well as a list of thousands of intelligence contacts,
[33:25.240 --> 33:30.520] collaborators, undercover spies, the knock list that U.S.
[33:30.520 --> 33:32.720] intelligence used to Tel Aviv.
[33:32.800 --> 33:35.720] He did this in exchange for money, but for ideological reasons.
[33:36.080 --> 33:42.440] Ultimately, Donald Trump released him and Sheldon Adelson flew him back to Israel
[33:42.440 --> 33:46.000] on his personal jet, where he is now sort of a hero.
[33:46.480 --> 33:51.800] And for some reason, Mike Huckabee, last July, the what I call the Israeli U.S.
[33:51.800 --> 33:56.840] Reciprocal Ambassador, decided to meet with Jonathan Pollard in his office.
[33:57.200 --> 34:02.560] And this came as news to me, but it also came as news to the White House and to
[34:02.560 --> 34:05.240] the CIA. None of them knew about this.
[34:05.920 --> 34:10.320] And this should be a fireable offense, considering what Pollard did to the
[34:10.320 --> 34:15.480] United States. I mean, this is Aldrich Ames level spying.
[34:16.160 --> 34:18.480] This is treachery. He is a traitor.
[34:18.480 --> 34:20.080] What was Huckabee doing with him?
[34:20.080 --> 34:23.280] No U.S. ambassador has previously met with him.
[34:23.280 --> 34:29.400] But it does appear that Huckabee has ideological kinship with Jonathan Pollard.
[34:29.400 --> 34:30.840] Huckabee is a Pollardite.
[34:31.080 --> 34:35.280] And if Huckabee isn't fired for this, we have to ask in what world, in what
[34:35.280 --> 34:38.600] political movement, in what White House does he not get fired?
[34:38.960 --> 34:42.040] It's one that believes in Miga making Israel great again.
[34:42.880 --> 34:48.640] Well, it wasn't on his schedule and the press knew nothing about it.
[34:48.640 --> 34:51.480] I didn't know about it until you told us a little while ago.
[34:51.480 --> 34:55.640] And then I looked it up and it just came out, I guess, in the past few days.
[34:55.640 --> 35:01.080] So Huckabee must have known he needed to keep this secret from the CIA, from other
[35:01.080 --> 35:04.080] embassy employees and from the White House.
[35:04.400 --> 35:07.800] I bet he didn't keep it secret from Benjamin Netanyahu.
[35:08.600 --> 35:12.240] Well, he didn't keep it secret from other figures in the Trump administration
[35:12.240 --> 35:15.000] because they went, it looks like they went to the New York Times.
[35:15.520 --> 35:20.440] Three current senior officials confirmed this to the New York Times.
[35:21.320 --> 35:25.920] So it looks like this is an internal problem.
[35:26.000 --> 35:29.520] And it's something that I've been seeing from inside the Trump administration.
[35:29.520 --> 35:32.680] There are still forces in the Trump administration that are deeply
[35:32.680 --> 35:35.960] uncomfortable with the personnel and control of the policy because they
[35:35.960 --> 35:39.920] consider themselves to be Israel firsters, or as one Trump administration
[35:39.920 --> 35:43.680] source called them to me, Mossad stenographers.
[35:44.800 --> 35:50.800] You know, Mike Huckabee, and I know him well, Max, because he was full time at
[35:50.800 --> 35:55.760] Fox for about two or three years during the much longer time that I was there.
[35:55.760 --> 35:58.800] But I didn't know now what I now know about him.
[35:59.160 --> 36:05.520] Yeah, he is what Tucker Carlson is being excoriated for condemning a Christian
[36:05.520 --> 36:10.800] nationalist who puts Israel above the United States, an arch Zionist.
[36:10.840 --> 36:14.280] Now, I don't know how a human being nominated by the president, confirmed
[36:14.280 --> 36:18.320] by the Senate, the official government representative of another country can
[36:18.320 --> 36:22.200] put that other country first and expect to get away with it.
[36:23.080 --> 36:27.040] Well, all the other previous US ambassadors that I can think of were
[36:27.480 --> 36:32.360] Israel firsters, even under Joe Biden, Tom Nides, for example.
[36:32.480 --> 36:36.120] I mean, after October 7th, he went and lobbied on behalf of the Jewish
[36:36.120 --> 36:40.720] federations for more money to support Israel during its genocide.
[36:40.720 --> 36:45.760] Before that, you know, under Obama, Daniel Shapiro, he stayed in Israel
[36:45.760 --> 36:52.960] with his family when his term ended and went on to lobby for the NSO group,
[36:53.320 --> 36:55.360] which produces Pegasus spyware.
[36:56.160 --> 37:01.280] And that is in a lot of phones, in addition to possibly explosives, who
[37:01.280 --> 37:06.640] knows and that point that Max brings up with the judge and just the judge has
[37:06.640 --> 37:11.200] just been firing on even more cylinders than I always thought he had.
[37:11.200 --> 37:12.200] He's just amazing.
[37:12.840 --> 37:18.840] But the idea of Israel first versus America first, again, I do think this is
[37:18.840 --> 37:20.520] going to bring up some cognitive dissonance.
[37:20.520 --> 37:23.880] You let me know whether you think that the MAGA supporters who are also
[37:24.080 --> 37:28.360] supporters of Christian Zionism will have any problem with this whatsoever.
[37:28.400 --> 37:32.840] If these two differing positions will cause them some stress.
[37:33.560 --> 37:38.160] But when it comes to the term America first, I do want to mention that that
[37:38.160 --> 37:43.640] term is being used by various subgroups of political pushers in the United States
[37:43.840 --> 37:48.160] to try to push for their agenda, to either try to get back to a sort of
[37:48.680 --> 37:58.240] nativist, protectionist, tariff backing, pro so-called American economic policy,
[37:58.240 --> 38:02.880] which is actually destructive to Americans, or it's don't give money out
[38:02.880 --> 38:07.000] to foreign countries and have the government go out and have bases all
[38:07.000 --> 38:10.760] around the world, it comes in various shades and colors.
[38:11.440 --> 38:17.360] But I do think that the term itself is a bit of a problem philosophically.
[38:17.360 --> 38:22.040] So if I were in the class with the students, I would say, is there perhaps
[38:22.040 --> 38:27.560] a conflict with America first and the concept of individual rights?
[38:28.720 --> 38:32.960] And there might be a number of answers from the students that actually might
[38:33.560 --> 38:37.520] go along with that prompt, and I would invite disagreement as well.
[38:37.520 --> 38:43.760] But in my eyes, I need to bring that up, because if the idea is America first,
[38:44.080 --> 38:48.520] then that subsumes the very so-called reason that the United States
[38:48.520 --> 38:52.720] Constitution was written, because, as I said, that term is highly malleable.
[38:52.720 --> 38:55.280] It's one of the Plato terms of politics.
[38:55.520 --> 38:57.160] It can be turned into virtually anything.
[38:57.200 --> 39:04.240] It's one of those Humpty Dumpty sort of carnival barker words to mean anything,
[39:04.240 --> 39:06.760] you know, a Barnum word, as Charlie Robinson would say.
[39:07.480 --> 39:14.840] But the problem is that philosophically, the establishment of America or any
[39:14.840 --> 39:20.360] political institution requires that someone who doesn't want to be part of
[39:20.360 --> 39:23.160] the political institution must pay for it.
[39:23.320 --> 39:29.360] Now, the founders, they made a grievous error and they tried to provide for some
[39:29.360 --> 39:34.480] safeguards because, as they said, they were going to establish a government
[39:34.480 --> 39:38.280] without your consent, and this is one of the things that many patriotic people
[39:38.520 --> 39:42.320] don't really discuss that often, and it's very worthwhile to discuss it because
[39:42.320 --> 39:47.000] it gets to the heart of the illegitimacy of any statist political institution.
[39:47.520 --> 39:51.560] They said, essentially, we're going to get together in a room and not only assume
[39:51.600 --> 39:55.520] for all the people out there that we are we the people of the United States of
[39:55.520 --> 40:00.520] America, which is illogical and philosophically unsound and immoral, but
[40:00.720 --> 40:05.600] they assumed everybody else was part of them, so they grabbed everybody up with
[40:05.600 --> 40:11.840] tentacles. And again, this is not slamming the the colonial and revolutionary
[40:11.840 --> 40:17.200] Americans who fought for liberty from the British, but it didn't equate to true
[40:17.200 --> 40:20.160] liberty. It just meant a different government from the British government,
[40:20.320 --> 40:24.080] with perhaps more safeguards for certain of our rights.
[40:24.360 --> 40:29.640] But the only way that the state can exist is by commanding you to pay for it.
[40:29.640 --> 40:33.640] And not only is it commanding you to pay for it, these are people who never ever
[40:33.640 --> 40:36.600] could have asked for your consent and just said, we're going to write up a
[40:36.600 --> 40:41.440] document and we're going to create a machinery of governance or political
[40:41.440 --> 40:45.520] threats against people to make them pay for this government.
[40:45.520 --> 40:51.280] But but we'll install some safeguards that we will claim are written into it,
[40:51.520 --> 40:53.680] that if you want to change it, you have to amend it.
[40:53.840 --> 40:57.920] And everybody who enters this machine that we're setting up, this machinery of
[40:57.920 --> 41:01.840] theft and coercion, will have to swear to abide by that.
[41:03.080 --> 41:04.200] That's what we get to.
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[42:45.560 --> 42:51.520] Now, what's curious about that is it brings us to our next topic, which is
[42:51.560 --> 42:57.880] these six Democrat Congress people and senators who tried to remind people of
[42:57.920 --> 43:02.160] their oath in the military and who are getting utterly slammed around the tennis
[43:02.160 --> 43:06.440] ball court or the pickleball court for actually just stating the obvious.
[43:06.440 --> 43:10.880] And in fact, they understated the obvious in what has been a generations long
[43:10.880 --> 43:17.560] attempt to try to get people to think that the oath for the military is to abide
[43:17.560 --> 43:19.840] by lawful orders, which it is not.
[43:19.960 --> 43:24.280] It's to abide by constitutional orders to protect and defend the U.S.
[43:24.280 --> 43:25.120] Constitution.
[43:25.320 --> 43:27.640] And I'll give you an example of how bad this is.
[43:27.920 --> 43:33.760] When John McCain first ran for president, McCain said, well, when I, when I ran
[43:33.760 --> 43:36.800] for president, I swear an oath to protect this nation.
[43:37.800 --> 43:42.240] And I could tell that he was not paraphrasing, like he had used that line
[43:42.280 --> 43:47.480] many, many times, and they often do this as a way to deceive people into thinking
[43:47.480 --> 43:53.120] that just nationalism, just support of the military for whatever the statute
[43:53.120 --> 43:58.560] allows them to do, whether it's an authorization to use military force, which
[43:58.560 --> 44:00.240] is not a term in the Constitution.
[44:00.360 --> 44:04.680] And Ron Paul called them out for that and offered them a declaration of war and
[44:04.880 --> 44:11.120] showed that every one of those people very clearly and very seditiously plotted to
[44:11.120 --> 44:13.680] make sure that they circumvented the Constitution.
[44:13.880 --> 44:18.480] They were all enemies of the domestic enemies of the United States Constitution
[44:18.480 --> 44:21.040] in the Senate. Very clearly, there's no denying it.
[44:21.640 --> 44:26.520] And every member of the military, if they accept an order after they read the
[44:26.520 --> 44:31.040] Constitution and there's no declaration of war and they're put into some combat
[44:31.080 --> 44:36.520] role or they're occupying another nation, they too are domestic enemies of the U.S.
[44:36.520 --> 44:40.880] Constitution. That also, regardless of how one feels sentimentally about whether or
[44:40.880 --> 44:44.600] not these guys knew or didn't know, they are enemies of the Constitution.
[44:44.720 --> 44:47.240] There is no there's no denying that fact.
[44:47.560 --> 44:49.280] They're breaking the Constitution.
[44:49.400 --> 44:53.240] They're taking your money and they're acting in a way contrary to what the
[44:53.240 --> 44:54.640] Constitution says.
[44:54.760 --> 44:58.320] And it's easy to argue about what the Constitution says.
[44:58.480 --> 45:02.800] And also, we can look at historical precedents like the authorization to use
[45:02.800 --> 45:07.960] military force to invade Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of the people in D.C.
[45:08.160 --> 45:09.680] very clearly knowing.
[45:09.960 --> 45:15.120] So let's now turn to what some of those senators had to say.
[45:15.440 --> 45:21.000] If we go into my news notes from yesterday's program, I want to show you this.
[45:21.320 --> 45:27.960] Trump attacks Democrat vet politicians who published a video advising soldiers to
[45:27.960 --> 45:29.920] disobey unlawful commands.
[45:30.120 --> 45:36.480] And again, that's a tepid watering down of what the military oath actually is.
[45:36.800 --> 45:39.320] First, I said, let's look at Trump's reaction.
[45:39.600 --> 45:44.520] He's calling for their death as punishment for making the video.
[45:44.520 --> 45:48.520] And actually, of all people, Chuck Schumer, who has broken the Constitution many
[45:48.520 --> 45:51.600] times, offered some very salient words about this.
[45:51.600 --> 45:53.840] So I will say what he said was right.
[45:53.960 --> 45:56.760] He's a towering hypocrite, but what he said was right.
[45:56.760 --> 45:58.840] And he has supported genocide.
[45:59.000 --> 46:03.920] So he doesn't have much of a moral like to stand on because he himself has broken
[46:03.920 --> 46:06.960] the Constitution many times and supported mass death with your money.
[46:07.160 --> 46:08.360] But let me show you this.
[46:09.160 --> 46:10.280] Here's what it says.
[46:11.840 --> 46:13.080] This is quite interesting.
[46:13.080 --> 46:15.920] Gavin Newsom, of all people, called him out.
[46:16.200 --> 46:20.240] He said the president of the United States of America just called for the death of
[46:20.240 --> 46:23.360] Democratic, as he uses the term, lawmakers.
[46:23.800 --> 46:25.960] This man is sick in the head.
[46:26.920 --> 46:31.360] And he has here seditious behavior punishable by death.
[46:32.280 --> 46:38.240] And Gavin Newsom also posted an earlier one, he says Trump just reposted this.
[46:38.880 --> 46:43.120] This came from someone with one of the Knights Templar Symbols, Symbols says it is
[46:43.120 --> 46:49.680] a call to hang Democratic lawmakers who broke out against Trump, hang them.
[46:49.800 --> 46:51.360] George Washington would.
[46:52.760 --> 46:59.720] So if that doesn't give people some pause to ask if Donald Trump even thinks
[46:59.720 --> 47:06.120] about things that he puts out there, I don't know, but after he did that,
[47:07.480 --> 47:12.560] it might be worthwhile to actually show what these people said because everything
[47:12.560 --> 47:16.680] they said not only was appropriate, it actually was inappropriate for a different
[47:16.680 --> 47:21.440] reason because they didn't actually look at what the code says.
[47:22.040 --> 47:28.880] Six Democrat veteran lawmakers, writes Geopolitics Monitor, released a joint
[47:28.880 --> 47:32.800] video opposing the Trump administration, urging U.S.
[47:32.800 --> 47:38.800] military personnel to refuse unlawful orders without specifying, is this one of
[47:38.800 --> 47:40.240] your congresspeople or senators?
[47:40.520 --> 47:43.880] Well, one of them, Goodlander, comes from New Hampshire.
[47:44.200 --> 47:49.440] Of course, she's married to Jake Sullivan, who didn't stand up against the genocide
[47:49.440 --> 47:52.280] and unconstitutional actions of the Biden administration.
[47:52.440 --> 47:53.120] But here we go.
[47:53.640 --> 47:58.120] I'm Senator Alyssa Sotkin, Senator Mark Kelly, Representative Chris D'Aluzio,
[47:58.120 --> 48:02.600] Congressman Maggie Goodlander, Representative Chrissy Houlihan, Congressman Jason Crowe.
[48:02.600 --> 48:07.120] I was a captain in the United States Navy, former CIA officer, former Navy, former
[48:07.120 --> 48:11.280] paratrooper and Army Ranger, former intelligence officer, former Air Force.
[48:11.280 --> 48:14.320] We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence
[48:14.320 --> 48:17.440] community to take risks each day to keep Americans safe.
[48:17.640 --> 48:20.760] We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now.
[48:20.800 --> 48:24.000] Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.
[48:24.120 --> 48:27.920] This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence
[48:27.920 --> 48:31.240] community professionals against American citizens like us.
[48:31.480 --> 48:35.560] You all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution right now.
[48:36.000 --> 48:39.200] The threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right
[48:39.200 --> 48:39.720] here at home.
[48:39.880 --> 48:40.800] Our laws are clear.
[48:41.160 --> 48:43.360] You can refuse illegal orders.
[48:43.680 --> 48:45.680] You can refuse illegal orders.
[48:45.760 --> 48:48.080] You must refuse illegal orders.
[48:48.120 --> 48:52.280] No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
[48:52.440 --> 48:55.880] We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.
[48:55.920 --> 49:00.800] Whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army or Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance
[49:00.800 --> 49:05.680] is critical and know that we have your back because now more than ever, the
[49:05.680 --> 49:07.160] American people need you.
[49:07.320 --> 49:11.240] We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution and who we are as
[49:11.240 --> 49:12.000] Americans.
[49:12.040 --> 49:13.200] Don't give up.
[49:13.440 --> 49:14.160] Don't give up.
[49:14.200 --> 49:14.840] Don't give up.
[49:14.880 --> 49:16.280] Don't give up the ship.
[49:18.880 --> 49:19.480] Okay.
[49:20.080 --> 49:24.520] Now, every one of those statements, as they purport to be very
[49:24.520 --> 49:29.160] constitutional, probably, I don't want to be too assumptive, probably brings
[49:29.160 --> 49:35.200] up an avalanche, a Niagara Falls of thoughts for you about all the things,
[49:35.240 --> 49:37.760] all the ways that they've broken the Constitution.
[49:38.160 --> 49:42.480] Even as they discuss the United States government being used against American
[49:42.480 --> 49:46.960] citizens, referring to ICE and trying to use the National Guard inside states.
[49:47.240 --> 49:48.400] And that is a good point.
[49:48.400 --> 49:52.160] They don't go far enough to mention that the word immigration is not in the U.S.
[49:52.160 --> 49:52.840] Constitution.
[49:52.840 --> 49:53.760] It's a state issue.
[49:54.120 --> 49:58.520] They don't go far enough to mention, oh, by the way, I supported this or that or
[49:58.520 --> 50:01.840] the other agency, which also breaches the Constitution.
[50:02.120 --> 50:05.960] Let's look at some comments as we roll into this, because we've got a great one
[50:05.960 --> 50:12.440] on kick from Pessoa Vante 1776 says, where were these Democrats when Biden was
[50:12.440 --> 50:17.440] forcing the poison jab, making felons out of gun owners and allowing invasion?
[50:17.720 --> 50:21.840] Well, here is the first two I agree with the invasion part.
[50:22.080 --> 50:27.160] If there is an invasion, if they claim it's an invasion, that term is used for
[50:27.160 --> 50:31.000] state actors and you have to declare war against the invading state.
[50:31.000 --> 50:34.880] If they're not state actors under the Constitution, if anybody bothers to vote,
[50:34.880 --> 50:37.640] then they're voting on the offices that are created by the Constitution.
[50:37.840 --> 50:40.680] So they hopefully will make themselves familiar with this.
[50:40.880 --> 50:45.160] If they're non-state combatants, then they issue letters of mark and reprisal and
[50:45.160 --> 50:48.160] the president can hire mercenaries to go against these people.
[50:48.480 --> 50:52.520] The word naturalization is in the Constitution, how you become a citizen,
[50:52.760 --> 50:55.880] but immigration is not in the Constitution.
[50:56.200 --> 50:57.560] It was left up to the states.
[50:57.600 --> 51:02.400] When Texas entered the union in 1869, they had a Bureau of Immigration in their state
[51:02.400 --> 51:07.040] Constitution. The feds would never have allowed that if it were a federal purview.
[51:07.040 --> 51:12.000] It wasn't until 1875 with the Supreme Court decision that was as bad as Roe, where
[51:12.000 --> 51:16.600] they actually just invented it out of whole cloth in a case called Chi-Lung v.
[51:16.600 --> 51:20.640] Freeman. And literally, you can read the document of the Supreme Court decision.
[51:20.800 --> 51:24.360] They didn't even once refer to any line from the Constitution.
[51:24.440 --> 51:26.160] They just said, oh, it's a congressional purview.
[51:26.560 --> 51:33.640] Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in 1798, both wrote that it was a state purview.
[51:34.120 --> 51:40.520] There are numerous examples of states coming up with their own legislation regarding
[51:40.720 --> 51:42.800] the presence of foreigners.
[51:43.080 --> 51:46.720] Kentucky resolution number four, that's a really good one to read from Jefferson, if
[51:46.720 --> 51:50.520] you want to see it, where he says resolve that aliens on the soil of any of the
[51:50.520 --> 51:55.160] signatory states are under their control, not the federal control.
[51:55.400 --> 51:57.760] And he mentions the ninth and tenth amendments as well.
[51:57.960 --> 52:00.440] So it's very clear. It's a very simple thing to sort of look at.
[52:00.440 --> 52:03.200] But a lot of people don't want to because it makes them feel uncomfortable, because
[52:03.200 --> 52:08.120] since 1875, there's been this mass buildup of tarnish of, well, it's got to be
[52:08.440 --> 52:09.760] controlled by the federal government.
[52:09.960 --> 52:14.160] What you have there is a Soviet style central command and control.
[52:14.280 --> 52:17.920] Whoever is in office is going to dictate the immigration policy.
[52:18.000 --> 52:22.800] And what we're seeing now is a reaction to the overinflated number of people who
[52:22.800 --> 52:25.800] were brought in unnaturally under the central control.
[52:26.040 --> 52:29.920] So the MAGA people now have central control, but it could fall into the other hands
[52:30.120 --> 52:32.240] just as well, you know, just as easily.
[52:32.400 --> 52:33.840] So that's something to bring up.
[52:33.840 --> 52:35.520] And it's a very fruitful conversation.
[52:35.680 --> 52:39.160] If you can get into it, I've had mentioned before, I've had great conversations with
[52:39.160 --> 52:47.120] Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo and Jayce, what a congressman from Arizona, J.D.
[52:47.120 --> 52:48.400] Hayworth, I think his name was.
[52:48.560 --> 52:50.000] And they all agreed.
[52:50.000 --> 52:51.920] You're like they said, you know, you're right.
[52:52.160 --> 52:53.600] Your your historical argument.
[52:53.680 --> 52:55.520] And there's a logical argument to it as well.
[52:55.640 --> 52:58.920] You're correct. But then they would just march on to say we're being invaded.
[52:59.120 --> 53:02.480] And then you have to come up with that answer about invasion and say, look, if
[53:02.480 --> 53:06.280] there is an invasion, then how is there a constitutional provision to protect
[53:06.280 --> 53:10.680] against invasion? You can't just allow the president with the Alien Enemies Act
[53:10.680 --> 53:12.440] that subservient to the Constitution.
[53:12.600 --> 53:15.560] You have to look at the Constitution and the Constitution.
[53:15.560 --> 53:20.400] And I'm an anarchist. I don't I don't believe in the validity, any moral
[53:20.400 --> 53:22.360] argument for any state entity.
[53:22.560 --> 53:26.040] I would be satisfied if they could get closer to the Constitution.
[53:26.200 --> 53:29.400] But I do try to remind people in classrooms of, you know, let's look at what
[53:29.400 --> 53:32.160] the rules are and have a conversation about that, you know.
[53:32.280 --> 53:36.200] And it doesn't mean like I often tell the audience at Liberty Conspiracy, I'm
[53:36.200 --> 53:39.760] never going to win a political argument here, but just providing the information
[53:39.960 --> 53:43.600] and trying to be truthful about it and asking other people to be as fair inside
[53:43.600 --> 53:47.640] their own minds about it, I think is is is fruitful to do that.
[53:47.760 --> 53:49.520] So we've got that video from them.
[53:49.720 --> 53:56.000] Trump freaks out and then he's called out for it because, of course, people say,
[53:56.520 --> 53:58.240] this seems a little unbalanced.
[53:58.240 --> 54:03.880] You're calling for these people who were just asking the soldiers to remind them
[54:03.880 --> 54:05.960] of their oaths and they actually watered down the oath.
[54:06.600 --> 54:08.320] You're saying these people are seditious.
[54:08.560 --> 54:13.000] Well, Caroline Levitt doubled down on this and she completely flipped it.
[54:13.000 --> 54:15.480] Let me show you what Caroline Levitt had to say.
[54:15.840 --> 54:19.320] And this this is do they really think they can get away with this?
[54:19.560 --> 54:24.080] Ed Krastenstein writes breaking White House press secretary Caroline
[54:24.080 --> 54:26.960] Levitt completely gaslights Americans.
[54:27.320 --> 54:28.560] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
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[56:06.040 --> 56:11.160] Claiming that Democrats have told our military it's ours, it's yours,
[56:11.160 --> 56:12.720] whether you want it or not, you got to pay for it.
[56:12.720 --> 56:13.800] They'll go anywhere in the world.
[56:13.800 --> 56:18.320] Whoever's in charge defy lawful orders from President Trump.
[56:19.080 --> 56:20.760] Watch this full video.
[56:20.760 --> 56:25.320] If you still believe her, then you are completely brainwashed.
[56:25.680 --> 56:29.880] Do you believe what you hear with your own ears or what she tells you
[56:30.080 --> 56:32.480] that you heard cult much?
[56:32.800 --> 56:34.320] So here we go.
[56:34.320 --> 56:38.520] You have sitting members of the United States Congress
[56:38.960 --> 56:43.640] who conspired together to orchestrate a video message to members
[56:43.920 --> 56:47.480] of the United States military, to active duty service members,
[56:47.480 --> 56:51.680] to members of the national security apparatus, encouraging them
[56:51.960 --> 56:55.200] to defy the president's lawful orders.
[56:55.480 --> 56:57.760] You can refuse illegal orders.
[56:57.760 --> 56:59.840] You can refuse illegal orders.
[56:59.840 --> 57:02.200] You must refuse illegal orders.
[57:02.200 --> 57:06.360] No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.
[57:06.400 --> 57:09.880] They are literally saying to one point three million active duty
[57:09.880 --> 57:15.800] service members not to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.
[57:16.040 --> 57:18.160] You have it's amazing.
[57:18.160 --> 57:19.240] It's incredible.
[57:19.240 --> 57:21.760] Literally, people have screens, Caroline.
[57:21.760 --> 57:23.320] They've got them in the White House.
[57:23.320 --> 57:25.920] They can play it for you right now.
[57:25.920 --> 57:27.200] It's amazing.
[57:27.200 --> 57:30.960] I just it's flabbergasted that they can continue to get away with that.
[57:31.320 --> 57:35.120] So I just want to stress that in my opinion, the most important fact
[57:35.120 --> 57:39.360] out of this whole baggage story that we can carry with us to to gain some,
[57:39.360 --> 57:42.520] you know, some valuable lessons out of this as they dispute this
[57:42.880 --> 57:45.720] is the fact that both Trump's gang and the Democrats in the video
[57:45.720 --> 57:49.320] use the term lawful when it's supposed to be constitutional.
[57:49.520 --> 57:54.160] Lawful pertains to statutes, and there are many statutes that Congress writes
[57:54.160 --> 57:57.160] and many executive orders pushed by various presidents
[57:57.640 --> 58:01.840] that operate under color of law, but are wildly unconstitutional.
[58:02.120 --> 58:04.160] Here's the meat of the military oath.
[58:04.320 --> 58:05.240] So here we go.
[58:05.240 --> 58:06.640] We go to Title 10 U.S.
[58:06.640 --> 58:10.280] Code Subsection 502, enlisted oath, quote,
[58:10.640 --> 58:15.000] I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution
[58:15.000 --> 58:19.120] of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,
[58:19.320 --> 58:22.880] and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States
[58:23.000 --> 58:27.400] and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations
[58:27.600 --> 58:30.160] and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
[58:30.720 --> 58:34.960] So that is the problem, because this is verbal ledger domain.
[58:35.040 --> 58:39.200] This is the continuation of a canard that they have to follow lawful orders,
[58:40.120 --> 58:44.320] because, as I said, you can have lawful orders that are patently unconstitutional.
[58:45.080 --> 58:48.520] Let me show you a little bit from Ed Krastenstein
[58:49.080 --> 58:51.120] as Chuck Schumer spoke about this.
[58:51.120 --> 58:54.520] And again, towering hypocrisy from Chuck Schumer as a person.
[58:54.520 --> 58:56.600] But the lines are correct.
[58:56.600 --> 58:59.080] Here's what Schumer had to say.
[58:59.480 --> 59:04.040] Clear today, Donald Trump shared a post on Truth Social
[59:04.480 --> 59:07.960] calling for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged.
[59:08.920 --> 59:13.840] He also posted a message that said seditious behavior, punishable by death.
[59:14.840 --> 59:17.160] Let's be crystal clear.
[59:17.160 --> 59:21.200] The president of the United States is calling for the execution
[59:21.560 --> 59:23.320] of elected officials.
[59:23.320 --> 59:25.240] Clear today, Donald Trump.
[59:25.240 --> 59:26.840] So let me just ask you,
[59:26.840 --> 59:29.320] did Chuck Schumer oppose Barack Obama
[59:30.040 --> 59:34.280] drone striking people on the advice of war criminal John Brennan?
[59:35.040 --> 59:38.040] Did he oppose rounding up journalists
[59:38.440 --> 59:40.960] under the Espionage Act and trying to imprison them?
[59:41.800 --> 59:46.480] Did he truly speak up for the guys who were held in Guantanamo without habeas?
[59:47.440 --> 59:50.320] Or is this more of a political stunt? Right.
[59:50.600 --> 59:53.080] So, again, I think one can question his motives.
[59:53.560 --> 59:56.080] The statement itself is 100 percent correct.
[59:56.640 --> 59:58.560] And in fact, as I said, it doesn't go far enough.
[59:58.920 --> 01:00:00.880] We've got great statements over on Kik.
[01:00:02.240 --> 01:00:07.520] Pesavante 1776 asks, should Trump not be prosecuted for war crimes
[01:00:07.640 --> 01:00:10.600] and covid crimes and crimes against the Constitution
[01:00:10.680 --> 01:00:14.120] and be subject to the punishment for such which is death?
[01:00:14.680 --> 01:00:17.360] And defy tyrants.
[01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:21.280] Hello, says 1776 on Kik says everything.
[01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:24.800] Congress, the military, law enforcement, intel agencies
[01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:30.600] and all government departments carry out unconstitutional illegal laws and edicts.
[01:00:31.560 --> 01:00:35.320] Yeah. Thank you so much, by the way, for being here as I fill in for David.
[01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:38.280] And remember, if you do want to donate on rumble, if you want to
[01:00:39.040 --> 01:00:42.760] help out over the David Knight website, I want to make sure that I do
[01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:46.040] my due diligence for David and everyone who are taking the day off.
[01:00:46.040 --> 01:00:47.000] I'm Gardner Goldsmith.
[01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:51.120] If you're just joining us, I do Liberty Conspiracy Monday through Friday at 6 p.m.
[01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:54.800] I used to write for the MRC TV people.
[01:00:55.000 --> 01:01:01.200] And as the Israeli battle started to crop up with the occupying force,
[01:01:01.720 --> 01:01:05.520] really expanding its occupation and conducting genocide,
[01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.960] they still allowed me to be critical of Israel.
[01:01:08.200 --> 01:01:11.000] But I'm no longer with MRC TV.
[01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:13.880] And you probably saw they had the little star up on their website.
[01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:17.560] I just do want to mention that
[01:01:17.560 --> 01:01:20.960] Mark Levin is very closely associated with MRC TV.
[01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:24.400] I have massive disagreements with Mark Levin.
[01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:28.080] I think he supports a towering hypocrisy and immorality.
[01:01:28.080 --> 01:01:31.360] And I've never met him just as a little disclaimer there.
[01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:35.240] I've written about Mark Levin and had many problems with him for a long time.
[01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:39.120] I want to show you Alyssa Slotkin's response to this
[01:01:39.680 --> 01:01:43.560] as a way to round this off and give you some of her
[01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:45.960] opportunity to talk to us from Michigan.
[01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:48.240] She's a former CIA officer.
[01:01:48.240 --> 01:01:50.280] In fact, she mentions it in this video.
[01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:52.600] And she has a response to all of this.
[01:01:52.640 --> 01:01:53.920] Let me show you what she has to say.
[01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:58.800] I'm Senator Alyssa Slotkin, Senator from Michigan, former CIA officer.
[01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:03.640] Earlier today, President Trump threatened myself and a number of other service
[01:02:03.640 --> 01:02:08.080] and veteran lawmakers with arrest, trial and death,
[01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.080] because he didn't agree with a video we put out this week.
[01:02:12.040 --> 01:02:14.760] This really isn't about those of us who made the video.
[01:02:15.120 --> 01:02:17.360] This is about who we are as Americans
[01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:20.480] and how we're going to engage with people who we disagree with.
[01:02:21.120 --> 01:02:24.680] I would hope that people of all backgrounds, Democrat, Republican,
[01:02:24.680 --> 01:02:28.440] independent, would agree that threatening death for people
[01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:32.880] you disagree with is beyond the pale of who we are as Americans.
[01:02:33.720 --> 01:02:35.080] I love this country.
[01:02:35.080 --> 01:02:37.840] It has given me everything, everything.
[01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:40.920] And I refuse to believe that this is the new normal.
[01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:45.320] I refuse to believe that we are going to use fear and intimidation
[01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:47.640] against people we disagree with.
[01:02:47.640 --> 01:02:51.400] And I'm not going to be forced away from speaking up on behalf of my country.
[01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:54.640] I swore an oath to the Constitution
[01:02:54.640 --> 01:02:58.360] many times, most recently, less than a year ago as a senator
[01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:02.840] to the Constitution, not to any one man, not to any one president.
[01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:06.000] And I abide by that oath.
[01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:09.200] For me, I believe in the power of this country
[01:03:09.200 --> 01:03:12.200] and that we are better than our current politics represent.
[01:03:12.760 --> 01:03:16.680] And I refuse to be intimidated out of defending the country I love.
[01:03:17.640 --> 01:03:18.920] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[01:03:18.920 --> 01:03:22.600] And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act
[01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:24.520] of compassion really feels.
[01:03:24.520 --> 01:03:27.480] A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:31.400] with an amazing organization called Compassion International.
[01:03:31.520 --> 01:03:35.160] Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[01:03:35.560 --> 01:03:38.840] It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea
[01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:42.840] just how much that simple act would change my life as well.
[01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:48.200] I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes,
[01:03:48.520 --> 01:03:53.120] going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care
[01:03:53.120 --> 01:03:57.720] and education she needs to reach her God given full potential.
[01:03:58.160 --> 01:04:02.320] I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion
[01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:06.000] not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me.
[01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:08.600] That is the power of compassion.
[01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:12.120] The light of Christ shines on all of us.
[01:04:12.560 --> 01:04:16.360] Feel it for yourself and change literally a child's life.
[01:04:16.680 --> 01:04:17.800] Change the world.
[01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:19.760] And you also change yourself.
[01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:21.680] You can sponsor a child today.
[01:04:21.680 --> 01:04:23.880] Visit compassion.com.
[01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:26.840] That's compassion.com.
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[01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:01.080] OK, so a lot of deceptions there.
[01:05:01.200 --> 01:05:05.280] And in fact, one of the big points that perhaps you bring up to people,
[01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:08.640] I try to bring it up to people in classrooms is the term lawmaker.
[01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:14.880] Regardless of whether one believes in a higher power,
[01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:17.720] the Christian God
[01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:20.840] or a lawmaker from logos, which I do.
[01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:27.440] The term lawmaker runs completely contrary to natural law.
[01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:30.920] So some people who aren't even religious,
[01:05:31.120 --> 01:05:34.680] understand that they don't write the laws.
[01:05:34.680 --> 01:05:38.240] They write the statutes, the edicts of the state.
[01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:41.560] The etymology of this is a very profound difference.
[01:05:41.560 --> 01:05:43.960] It provides a very profound difference and a lesson.
[01:05:44.120 --> 01:05:46.720] If one breaks this down, they're not lawmakers.
[01:05:46.720 --> 01:05:48.400] They're statute writers.
[01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:52.440] And oftentimes even she from the CIA, now in Congress,
[01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:56.440] in the Senate, oftentimes they're writing statutes
[01:05:56.440 --> 01:05:58.560] that run contrary to natural law.
[01:05:58.560 --> 01:06:00.440] And this is where I want to sort of round things off
[01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:03.280] as we get ready to welcome Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos.
[01:06:03.640 --> 01:06:05.840] And we start to look at a number of subjects that are over
[01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:07.760] at the Eric Peters Autos website.
[01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:09.160] I hope you'll check that out.
[01:06:09.160 --> 01:06:12.640] I'm going to display my one of my Eric Peters baseball caps
[01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:15.400] in just a minute to promote his store, which is awesome.
[01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:19.440] But the idea of America first,
[01:06:19.680 --> 01:06:23.440] I want to return to that to round this off, whether it's the Pollard story
[01:06:23.640 --> 01:06:26.840] or it's this story about these people who were softening
[01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:29.960] the actual oath for the military and then got, you know,
[01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:33.760] roundly attacked for that by literally that radio host
[01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:36.000] from Boston was doing the same thing day before yesterday,
[01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:38.720] calling for their deaths, the punishment with death.
[01:06:40.240 --> 01:06:44.000] And then again, today, now he's saying that it's the people
[01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:45.200] who don't like Donald Trump.
[01:06:45.200 --> 01:06:47.880] It's these Democrats who are trying to cause a civil war.
[01:06:48.600 --> 01:06:50.840] It's just you can't make it up.
[01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:53.560] It's like they play a game of Twister just to figure out
[01:06:53.560 --> 01:06:55.360] where they're going to put their brains today.
[01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:57.720] Put right on red. Put it over here.
[01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:01.640] Just they just they twist themselves into any intellectual pretzel
[01:07:01.640 --> 01:07:02.760] that they can.
[01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:07.400] But the idea of America first runs parallel and echoes
[01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:10.440] the canard of the general welfare clause of the Constitution,
[01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:13.240] which is often used by people like her and others
[01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:17.200] to try to promote whatever thing they want to get passed in the United States.
[01:07:17.600 --> 01:07:20.680] And they'll say, and it's even in the preamble of the Constitution
[01:07:20.680 --> 01:07:22.920] to promote the general welfare.
[01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:25.920] If we look at the preamble of the Constitution, this will show you
[01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:30.320] where really breaking things down linguistically and logically
[01:07:30.600 --> 01:07:34.960] tells us that it strays from real, full of philosophical support
[01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:36.560] of individual liberty.
[01:07:36.560 --> 01:07:38.560] It's supposed to provide some backstops.
[01:07:38.560 --> 01:07:41.400] But as Lysander Spooner pointed out in the 19th century,
[01:07:41.560 --> 01:07:43.560] they've long since broken those backstops.
[01:07:43.560 --> 01:07:45.120] They don't care about the Bill of Rights.
[01:07:45.120 --> 01:07:47.240] They don't care about the enumerated powers.
[01:07:47.240 --> 01:07:48.240] They'll come up with anything.
[01:07:48.240 --> 01:07:51.480] And one of their leverage points is the general welfare clause.
[01:07:51.480 --> 01:07:53.040] And it gets into this.
[01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:56.760] I support the Constitution sort of flowery rhetoric,
[01:07:56.960 --> 01:08:00.000] general welfare, what's good for Americans and America first.
[01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.560] However, the groups want to define it.
[01:08:02.560 --> 01:08:06.000] The problem here is that echoes the general welfare clause.
[01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:08.120] Same thing as so-called public health.
[01:08:09.240 --> 01:08:12.360] Welfare can only and this is where economics comes into it,
[01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:16.000] the Austrian School of Economics and subjective marginal utility theory,
[01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:17.280] which I teach.
[01:08:17.280 --> 01:08:20.280] So welfare can only be defined by you.
[01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:23.920] Someone else assuming for you what your welfare is
[01:08:23.920 --> 01:08:25.960] means you're that person's vassal.
[01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:27.000] You're his puppet.
[01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:28.160] You're his plaything.
[01:08:28.160 --> 01:08:29.080] You're his pet.
[01:08:29.080 --> 01:08:30.760] He has control over you.
[01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:32.720] Only you can define your welfare.
[01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.360] And in a market that has to be reflected with free markets
[01:08:36.360 --> 01:08:40.440] allowing you to buy what you want and assess things based on your needs,
[01:08:40.440 --> 01:08:45.720] which can vary even during a day, week to week, your needs and your satisfaction.
[01:08:46.080 --> 01:08:50.000] As you discover your satisfaction, the price point changes
[01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:52.240] based on what you're interested in buying.
[01:08:52.440 --> 01:08:55.200] Resources are then allocated to what people like most.
[01:08:55.480 --> 01:08:57.680] We become more productive.
[01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:02.720] All right. But it's individual decisions as as calculated
[01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:05.080] through the marketplace, through the price price system.
[01:09:05.320 --> 01:09:08.320] When people interfere with that, through tariffs to steer things
[01:09:08.320 --> 01:09:12.160] towards favorite people and even people who generally think that tariffs
[01:09:12.160 --> 01:09:15.920] are a good idea, that, well, they're just not being controlled properly.
[01:09:16.080 --> 01:09:19.640] You are assuming for someone else what they should be able to buy
[01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:23.520] because you think you know what the economy of the United States is best to be.
[01:09:24.280 --> 01:09:28.040] You are the one engaged in essential and non-essential thinking,
[01:09:28.040 --> 01:09:29.600] just like the covid lockdowns.
[01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.560] You're in the Supreme Soviet.
[01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:33.800] That's a very dangerous room to be in.
[01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:37.560] It also assumes that you know better than your neighbor,
[01:09:37.560 --> 01:09:39.120] which can then be turned on you.
[01:09:39.120 --> 01:09:42.680] And this is where we reach the logical impasse of the general welfare clause.
[01:09:43.120 --> 01:09:46.400] If the state can define for other people what their welfare is,
[01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:51.120] that immediately means that those individuals are at threat from the state.
[01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:56.240] It immediately assumes a damage to the individual, stealing from them
[01:09:56.240 --> 01:10:00.600] their ability to define for themselves what is in their best interest in a peaceful way.
[01:10:01.280 --> 01:10:03.000] So it's an act of aggression.
[01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:05.680] It says, no, we are going to steal that from you,
[01:10:06.360 --> 01:10:09.240] just like we steal money from you to fund the state.
[01:10:10.400 --> 01:10:15.240] So that assumption, the general welfare clause runs with the America first term,
[01:10:15.240 --> 01:10:17.480] which, again, it's malleable.
[01:10:17.480 --> 01:10:22.640] But what you're doing is you're even undercutting the very logic of it.
[01:10:22.640 --> 01:10:27.680] It becomes a QED or an Ouroboros or a Tesserac, you might say,
[01:10:28.040 --> 01:10:32.560] because what you're looking at here is by the government
[01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:37.040] taking away the opportunity for the individual to define his own welfare,
[01:10:37.560 --> 01:10:42.120] you then eliminate the very concept of welfare
[01:10:42.120 --> 01:10:46.040] that the general welfare clause assumes the government can come up with
[01:10:46.040 --> 01:10:48.720] to use as its little protective shield or its mask.
[01:10:49.080 --> 01:10:51.560] Same thing with public health, as David has often mentioned.
[01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:54.000] There's only individual health, right?
[01:10:55.160 --> 01:10:59.520] And someone else claiming that they have the power to define for you
[01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.160] what is your health is an immediate injury to you.
[01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:05.480] So the general welfare clause,
[01:11:05.480 --> 01:11:09.960] assuming that even in the preamble of the Constitution is a big mistake
[01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:13.640] and it even opens with we, the people of the United States,
[01:11:13.640 --> 01:11:17.080] in order to form a more perfect union, ensure domestic
[01:11:17.080 --> 01:11:19.640] tranquility and security and the general welfare.
[01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:23.160] So, again, they're assuming we, the people of the United States.
[01:11:23.320 --> 01:11:26.800] So they wrote that in 1787. Were you there?
[01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:31.560] Now, we may have very, very positive, sentimental thoughts
[01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:36.120] about the Revolutionary War and the attempts that these people made to hash this out.
[01:11:36.440 --> 01:11:40.040] But the underlying assumption that precludes it is never addressed,
[01:11:40.280 --> 01:11:44.000] which is they were assuming for other people their consent, which is immoral.
[01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:46.520] And there's no denying that.
[01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:50.840] Now, people can try to shade it to say, well, I think there is a necessity
[01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:54.080] for a government, so this is probably the best form you could get.
[01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.880] Again, historical examples show us that that is not the case.
[01:11:58.280 --> 01:12:02.280] So I often bring up Brehan Law from ancient Ireland or the Viking Age,
[01:12:03.040 --> 01:12:07.240] the Iceland people who didn't have official states and taxes,
[01:12:07.360 --> 01:12:09.720] who didn't have written constitutions even there.
[01:12:10.160 --> 01:12:12.800] They went tribally and clan wise.
[01:12:13.040 --> 01:12:16.200] The ancient the ancient Hebrews who escaped from Egypt,
[01:12:16.440 --> 01:12:19.560] if only Mike Huckabee could understand this, did it by tribes.
[01:12:20.440 --> 01:12:25.640] And they're not the the the Zionists who came down from from Europe either.
[01:12:26.280 --> 01:12:29.080] And they did it with the family elder becoming the sort of head.
[01:12:29.080 --> 01:12:31.480] That's how that's how kings and so on sort of develop.
[01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:33.320] But it's a very interesting point.
[01:12:33.320 --> 01:12:34.840] And Travis has brought this up.
[01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:38.400] If you want to do some very interesting reading, explore the readings of
[01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:43.600] let me see, Hans Hermann Hoppe.
[01:12:44.040 --> 01:12:45.560] There's a really good book by Hoppe.
[01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:47.320] It's H.O.P.P.E.
[01:12:47.320 --> 01:12:49.920] He's very closely associated with the Mises Institute
[01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:53.960] called Democracy, The God That Failed.
[01:12:54.400 --> 01:12:57.280] And of course, we all know that democracy is just gang rule.
[01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:01.800] But more than just two sheeps, two wolves and a sheep voting over
[01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:06.080] what's for lunch, he goes into historical examples
[01:13:06.080 --> 01:13:08.880] of even so-called constitutional republics,
[01:13:09.080 --> 01:13:13.640] which is really just a step back version of democracy with some supposed safeguards.
[01:13:14.040 --> 01:13:20.320] But people don't really question this idea of, oh, the the the founders could do this.
[01:13:20.480 --> 01:13:23.200] They had no moral prerogative to do that at all.
[01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:25.680] I mean, you can't deny it. They didn't.
[01:13:27.320 --> 01:13:31.080] And Thomas Jefferson sort of sort of referred to this when he said
[01:13:31.240 --> 01:13:34.760] he kind of thought a revolution would be necessary every few years. Right.
[01:13:35.200 --> 01:13:37.320] But again, that doesn't really get to the nub of it.
[01:13:37.320 --> 01:13:41.240] Let's get to the nub of a couple of big issues that are over on some websites now.
[01:13:41.240 --> 01:13:42.800] Get some more of your opinions about this.
[01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:44.840] Take a break. Here's some music from David Knight.
[01:13:45.080 --> 01:13:50.120] Some great stuff. And remind you, if you want to donate to the show, please do so.
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[01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:07.400] We're going to check out some of the great stuff that David Knight has created
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[01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:12.680] And let's go with one of my favorites from the last of the Mohicans.
[01:15:27.040 --> 01:15:51.240] You're listening to the David Knight Show.
[01:15:53.480 --> 01:15:54.720] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[01:15:54.720 --> 01:15:59.140] And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute, and I want you to hear
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[01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:13.540] So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents have no real options, no doctors in their community,
[01:16:13.540 --> 01:16:16.600] and no money for real medical care.
[01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:19.420] By the third day, her body was shutting down.
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[01:16:47.500 --> 01:16:51.560] She lived because someone just like you took action.
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[01:17:55.440 --> 01:18:01.160] Volodymyr Zelensky, I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
[01:18:01.160 --> 01:18:06.840] You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
[01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:12.540] And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies
[01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:17.380] or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
[01:18:17.380 --> 01:18:19.500] But he told me to get lost.
[01:18:19.500 --> 01:18:24.600] Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the davidknightshow.com.
[01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:27.300] You should be able to buy me several hundred.
[01:18:27.300 --> 01:18:32.100] Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
[01:18:32.100 --> 01:18:37.860] I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
[01:18:37.860 --> 01:18:43.160] If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles
[01:18:43.160 --> 01:18:44.540] coming from the USA.
[01:18:53.540 --> 01:18:55.820] Oh, I love that so much.
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[01:19:00.140 --> 01:19:02.660] The music, the rush, it's just great.
[01:19:02.660 --> 01:19:04.420] Everything's fantastic in that video.
[01:19:04.980 --> 01:19:10.900] Well, everyone, let's discuss some big issues with a man who has often appeared on the David
[01:19:10.900 --> 01:19:11.900] Knight Show.
[01:19:11.900 --> 01:19:13.380] I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David.
[01:19:13.380 --> 01:19:15.540] Welcome to our number two of the program.
[01:19:15.540 --> 01:19:18.840] Great comments from so many of the people and we'll check in on the Rumble Chat and
[01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:20.460] read some of your comments as well.
[01:19:20.460 --> 01:19:24.620] If I've missed anything, please just copy and paste or something like that if you do
[01:19:24.620 --> 01:19:25.620] want it seen.
[01:19:25.620 --> 01:19:31.040] If I've missed it in the flow of information in this river is a stream of information that
[01:19:31.040 --> 01:19:32.600] flies by us.
[01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:36.000] Let's welcome the man right now to the stage.
[01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:39.680] He is Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos.
[01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.480] Eric, welcome and thank you for joining me as I get to fill in.
[01:19:42.480 --> 01:19:43.480] Great to see you.
[01:19:43.480 --> 01:19:44.480] Oh, likewise, Gard.
[01:19:44.480 --> 01:19:46.520] I really enjoyed that clip from David.
[01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:51.660] That put a smile on my face, which of course I think all of us can use these days.
[01:19:51.660 --> 01:19:52.660] That's for darn sure.
[01:19:52.660 --> 01:19:56.240] I often tell the people on Liberty Conspiracy, we're going to try to turn their political
[01:19:56.240 --> 01:20:00.120] frowns upside down in Washington, DC.
[01:20:00.120 --> 01:20:04.420] It's interesting because as you know, you and I try to remember the lessons that come
[01:20:04.420 --> 01:20:08.560] out of these things, the evergreen stories that we can pass on to people and those are
[01:20:08.560 --> 01:20:11.360] positives and you often do that.
[01:20:11.360 --> 01:20:16.680] You go into the articles on your website and you've got a real vast knowledge of libertarian
[01:20:16.680 --> 01:20:20.720] philosophy and economics and understanding of the golden rule.
[01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:25.880] I'm always amazed by the various topics you bring up in addition to your really cool items
[01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:30.320] about automobiles and you were years ahead of people warning people about the EVs and
[01:20:30.320 --> 01:20:34.720] of course that that entire system is is dropping in the economy big time.
[01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:39.440] So if I could, you had one and I texted you this morning over at Eric Peters Autos.
[01:20:39.440 --> 01:20:44.360] I'd like to show this on the screen, Eric, and get your opinion about this in just a
[01:20:44.360 --> 01:20:45.680] minute as a little preview.
[01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:51.040] But I'd like to get your opinions about some of this Mike Huckabee and some of this information
[01:20:51.040 --> 01:20:55.280] about the the military oath as well before we go into that.
[01:20:55.280 --> 01:20:59.400] What do you think about some of the things we discussed over the past hour or so, ranging
[01:20:59.400 --> 01:21:05.120] from the Huckabee issue with Pollard into this this statement of Donald Trump to hang
[01:21:05.120 --> 01:21:06.120] these people?
[01:21:06.120 --> 01:21:11.200] Well, I like I really appreciate your distinction between multiple and constitutional to begin
[01:21:11.200 --> 01:21:12.200] with.
[01:21:12.200 --> 01:21:15.240] I think that's that's one of these fine distinctions that is important to make.
[01:21:15.240 --> 01:21:20.800] We kind of live in this era of I call it etymological jujitsu, where our minds get manipulated by
[01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:23.520] words and it happens unconsciously.
[01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:30.640] They will use terms to prevent people from identifying and thereby discussing the true
[01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:31.880] issue.
[01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:33.920] It's a kind of way of of like a railroad track.
[01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:38.680] If you can picture they shunt the conversation from going this way to over to this way.
[01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:41.120] And if you let them do that, you've already lost.
[01:21:41.120 --> 01:21:45.640] You know, the discussion is then on their terms and they get to define them.
[01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:50.320] So it's very important when these kinds of conversations come up to say, wait a minute,
[01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:55.720] I want to understand exactly what you're talking about and identify the point, the particular
[01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:58.560] thing, and let's define that before we move forward.
[01:21:58.560 --> 01:22:00.680] So I want to thank you for doing that.
[01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:03.820] Now, it's a bit it's a form of the Hegelian dialectic.
[01:22:03.820 --> 01:22:06.320] They give you the options and they tell you it's a choice.
[01:22:06.320 --> 01:22:09.920] You know, now, as far as the other stuff, you know, the thought that immediately popped
[01:22:09.920 --> 01:22:14.720] to mind was I remember when Richard Nixon supposedly said if the president does it,
[01:22:14.720 --> 01:22:15.720] then it's not illegal.
[01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:16.720] Right.
[01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:21.280] I mean, essentially, that's the kind of thing that these people are now asserting and the
[01:22:21.280 --> 01:22:24.360] difference is that well, I don't know that it's a difference, actually, because when
[01:22:24.360 --> 01:22:30.280] Nixon was drunk and on a tear, he came across like a maniac and Trump is coming across like
[01:22:30.280 --> 01:22:34.960] a maniac. At this point, he comes across as a man who has lost control of himself.
[01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:39.760] He apparently has plenty of time to just post angry, all caps tweets all day.
[01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:43.400] I thought he's supposed to be president and the presidency is apparently a challenging
[01:22:44.040 --> 01:22:47.400] and difficult job that requires full time and attention, but it seems he's sitting there on
[01:22:47.400 --> 01:22:51.480] his phone. I mean, I'm assuming he's doing it as opposed to a staff of people.
[01:22:51.480 --> 01:22:53.560] And if it's a staff, it's even more embarrassing.
[01:22:53.560 --> 01:22:54.120] Right.
[01:22:54.120 --> 01:22:56.280] No, it's illiterate. It's ungrammatical.
[01:22:56.280 --> 01:22:59.640] It's garbled, utterly chaotic and embarrassing.
[01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:04.360] It's infantile to think that this guy who's the president, this 80 year old man almost
[01:23:04.360 --> 01:23:11.240] is thundering around like some angry hippo complaining not not in a you know, in the in
[01:23:11.240 --> 01:23:16.360] the way that an adult would look, I disagree with this policy because X, Y, Z, he basically
[01:23:16.360 --> 01:23:21.400] just engages in these ad hominem attacks. A great example of that being the way he
[01:23:21.400 --> 01:23:26.360] went after Thomas Massey again because he got married apparently too soon.
[01:23:26.360 --> 01:23:30.840] You know, Massey's wife died about a year ago. So now somehow, you know, Massey is a bad man
[01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:35.240] because he got married again. What's that got to do with anything beyond the pale?
[01:23:35.240 --> 01:23:39.400] And, you know, I think nine times out of 10, when you're getting backed up by Laura Loomer,
[01:23:39.400 --> 01:23:41.320] you're probably not in the right spot.
[01:23:41.320 --> 01:23:42.040] Sure.
[01:23:42.040 --> 01:23:46.600] Yeah, sure. The thing that worries me the most about the most recent developments is
[01:23:46.600 --> 01:23:52.280] the thing that's been troubling me about the way the ice goons have been driving up on
[01:23:52.280 --> 01:23:56.600] people who are, you know, priming shrubs in somebody's lawn and grabbing them and
[01:23:56.600 --> 01:23:59.240] throwing them into the back of these. They're using unmarked minivans now.
[01:23:59.240 --> 01:24:03.800] It's not even a police type vehicle. It's just a random civilian looking vehicle.
[01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:08.520] And by the way, and by the way, you probably saw just as many people predicted.
[01:24:08.760 --> 01:24:11.320] I mentioned it and other people probably thought of it too.
[01:24:11.320 --> 01:24:16.360] There are now civilian criminals who are posing as ICE agents because they can wear masks
[01:24:16.360 --> 01:24:21.720] and they're going around trying to, they tried to kidnap one woman in Michigan about
[01:24:21.720 --> 01:24:23.400] four or five days ago.
[01:24:23.400 --> 01:24:27.000] Yeah. I mean, this is goon squad tactics. And unfortunately, there are a lot of people
[01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:33.080] who are supporters of Trump who are countenancing it because they have bought into this thing about,
[01:24:33.080 --> 01:24:36.120] oh, we have to get rid of all these illegals that are in the country.
[01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:40.680] But it's kind of fatuous in my opinion, because you're never going to be able to round up.
[01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:43.160] How many is it? 10 million people, something like that.
[01:24:43.160 --> 01:24:46.120] And throw them into the back of minivans and cart them over.
[01:24:46.120 --> 01:24:49.400] I mean, logistically, it's just, it's something that can't work.
[01:24:49.400 --> 01:24:51.960] Leaving aside whether it should work, it can't work.
[01:24:51.960 --> 01:24:54.360] It's not the way to do this.
[01:24:54.360 --> 01:24:58.760] You know, if you have a problem with the illegals and specifically, if you have a problem with
[01:24:58.760 --> 01:25:04.040] people coming over here to avail themselves of services that are paid for by tax dollars,
[01:25:04.120 --> 01:25:08.280] Trump could simply issue an executive order saying that, you know, if you can't prove that
[01:25:08.280 --> 01:25:13.560] you're in the country legally, then you're not entitled to receive any benefits whatsoever,
[01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:15.400] either at the federal or the state level.
[01:25:15.400 --> 01:25:16.840] I think most people would support that.
[01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:18.600] I don't think that that's necessarily a bad thing.
[01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:21.480] In fact, I think it would sort of separate the wheat from the chaff.
[01:25:21.480 --> 01:25:25.400] I don't think any reasonable person objects to somebody coming here who wants to work.
[01:25:25.960 --> 01:25:29.080] I mean, I've got a buddy who's, you know, who's a small business man.
[01:25:29.080 --> 01:25:33.160] He has a roofing business and his crew, his guys are Mexicans.
[01:25:33.160 --> 01:25:35.960] And I personally can attest those guys work hard.
[01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:37.640] Yeah, no problem with those guys.
[01:25:38.600 --> 01:25:41.800] You know, the problem that I have, though, you know, I've got the problem with anybody,
[01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:46.840] whether they're legal or illegal, you know, filching my hard earned dollars to subsidize
[01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:49.400] their sushi at the bouquet supermarket.
[01:25:49.400 --> 01:25:50.600] And I've seen that personally.
[01:25:50.600 --> 01:25:55.160] I've been standing in line and seen a guy younger than me standing there who clearly can work
[01:25:55.160 --> 01:25:57.160] getting sushi and using his snap card.
[01:25:57.160 --> 01:25:58.120] That's irritating.
[01:25:58.120 --> 01:25:58.680] I get that.
[01:25:59.320 --> 01:26:02.920] And it would be a good way to introduce eliminating
[01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:08.040] welfarism and, you know, addressing the problem of the assumption that
[01:26:08.040 --> 01:26:13.560] welfarism through the state is somehow charitable when it's predicated on theft.
[01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:18.200] So you could start it and reduce that incentive by getting rid of all those
[01:26:18.200 --> 01:26:19.640] welfare payments for the migrants.
[01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:21.080] That would be a great way to start.
[01:26:21.080 --> 01:26:21.560] Absolutely.
[01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:25.240] But instead, what they've done on the one hand is to generate understandable
[01:26:25.880 --> 01:26:28.920] resentment and anger among a lot of Americans about this issue.
[01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:33.480] And then they present as the solution, the goon squads, you know, this this.
[01:26:34.440 --> 01:26:39.720] And I see this as an attempt to normalize goon squattery, you know, and I think these people
[01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:44.840] are whistling past the graveyard who support this stuff that they don't seem to get that
[01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:47.080] this is going to get turned around against them.
[01:26:47.080 --> 01:26:49.320] Did you know I just caught this news item this morning?
[01:26:49.320 --> 01:26:53.000] I don't know whether you saw it, but I mean, I was I thought this was an onion piece at
[01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:55.400] first when I read this, but I'll get you the name.
[01:26:55.400 --> 01:27:02.280] Trump has put forward somebody named Rabbi Yehuda Kaplan to be the special envoy to
[01:27:02.280 --> 01:27:05.960] monitor and combat anti-Semitism in this country.
[01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:08.520] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I heard about that.
[01:27:09.640 --> 01:27:13.000] You and I, if we dare to mention something about like, you know, us being upset about
[01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:17.160] what's being done to people in Palestine, maybe the minivan is going to roll up to our
[01:27:17.160 --> 01:27:19.960] house and drag us out to disappear us someplace.
[01:27:19.960 --> 01:27:25.320] And if you don't think that that is a possibility, I really suggest that you think about it again.
[01:27:25.320 --> 01:27:26.200] Oh, absolutely.
[01:27:26.200 --> 01:27:30.680] If we if we if we look at this presidential memorandum, national security memorandum
[01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:37.640] number seven that he issued very early on, Judge Napolitano just wrote a part of included
[01:27:37.640 --> 01:27:39.160] that in part of a very good piece.
[01:27:39.160 --> 01:27:41.560] It's over at the Ron Paul Institute website.
[01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:46.600] Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul discussed it yesterday on the Liberty Report at noontime.
[01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:51.080] I always switch over there after David's show and watch them live.
[01:27:51.080 --> 01:27:56.760] And they said, well, we're going to have the Department of Justice investigate.
[01:27:56.760 --> 01:28:00.760] And they're talking about possible prosecution under what terms?
[01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:03.640] I don't know, but possibly under the Espionage Act.
[01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:04.360] I'm not sure.
[01:28:05.080 --> 01:28:08.760] People who are expressing anti-Christian, you've heard about this.
[01:28:08.760 --> 01:28:12.520] I know anti-capitalist, which is not real capitalism.
[01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:15.320] Their version of capitalism is mercantilism.
[01:28:15.320 --> 01:28:16.440] It's fascism.
[01:28:16.440 --> 01:28:17.960] It's not real free markets.
[01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:22.280] And just the term capitalism itself has been so sullied that it's not really worth using
[01:28:22.280 --> 01:28:23.000] that anymore.
[01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:31.720] And any any anti-Christian terminology they're using really mixes in Christian Zionism,
[01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:37.320] because if you speak out about Israel, then clearly you're against the Bible as the
[01:28:37.320 --> 01:28:38.520] Christian Zionists see it.
[01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:41.240] So they'll categorize that as anti-Christian.
[01:28:41.240 --> 01:28:44.920] And again, you know, it just goes to what Lewis Carroll said in Alice Through the Looking
[01:28:44.920 --> 01:28:45.720] Glasses.
[01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:47.640] Humpty Dumpty was the politician.
[01:28:47.640 --> 01:28:51.560] She said, how do you have this power to make words mean anything you want them to mean?
[01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:53.000] And he said, no, you don't understand.
[01:28:53.000 --> 01:28:55.240] It's not where the what how do I have this?
[01:28:55.240 --> 01:28:57.160] You know, what magic power do I have?
[01:28:57.160 --> 01:28:58.840] It's who is in power.
[01:28:58.840 --> 01:28:59.880] That's the question.
[01:28:59.880 --> 01:29:01.400] Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
[01:29:01.400 --> 01:29:03.160] And it's not a new thing either.
[01:29:03.160 --> 01:29:06.200] Many people listening might not be aware that this goes back a long time.
[01:29:06.200 --> 01:29:11.720] For example, during World War One, the federal government went after people who dared to
[01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:12.760] question U.S.
[01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:17.880] involvement in the war and who expressed even oblique sympathy for Germany.
[01:29:18.440 --> 01:29:19.880] It got really, really bad.
[01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:25.000] You know, people were dragged away for saying something that contradicted the narrative
[01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:26.120] about the evil Hun.
[01:29:27.080 --> 01:29:30.520] And again, you're allowed to supposedly in a free country have opinions.
[01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:32.680] You know, thoughts are not supposed to be criminal.
[01:29:32.680 --> 01:29:34.200] Actions are another matter.
[01:29:34.200 --> 01:29:37.560] But to be able to speak your mind is one of the most fundamental freedoms there is.
[01:29:37.560 --> 01:29:40.520] Even if other people don't like it, even if almost nobody likes it.
[01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:43.000] In fact, even if the majority of people hate it.
[01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:44.360] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[01:29:44.360 --> 01:29:49.960] And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:53.240] A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
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[01:31:23.160 --> 01:31:26.600] You know, and this is the problem is that a lot of people let their feelings override
[01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:30.360] their judgment and because they don't like something and they find a particular person
[01:31:30.360 --> 01:31:32.680] and they always put this in an extreme way.
[01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:36.200] You know, the classic example being the neo-Nazis shouting racial rants,
[01:31:37.080 --> 01:31:38.280] walking around with the swastikas.
[01:31:38.280 --> 01:31:40.360] Nobody likes that, obviously.
[01:31:40.360 --> 01:31:45.880] The point is if you don't allow those guys to speak and to have their views however much
[01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:51.000] you may not like them, you've accepted the principle that your speech can be restricted
[01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:53.960] and you can be punished when the government doesn't like what you have to say.
[01:31:56.360 --> 01:31:58.280] It echoes Immanuel Kant.
[01:31:58.280 --> 01:32:04.280] He used the term universalizability where he would explain to people even if you don't
[01:32:04.280 --> 01:32:09.240] believe in a God, if you just look at it logically and you want to be selfish about it,
[01:32:09.240 --> 01:32:14.520] then just remember that if you're not willing to allow people to freely express their opinions,
[01:32:14.520 --> 01:32:17.960] then your opinion can be stifled and the whole system just breaks down.
[01:32:17.960 --> 01:32:22.440] If people think that theft is acceptable to steal from other people, that means
[01:32:22.440 --> 01:32:26.760] that other people can steal from them as well and it just becomes totally predatory and we're all
[01:32:26.760 --> 01:32:28.440] jackals and that's all it is.
[01:32:28.440 --> 01:32:32.360] And you bring up an interesting historical point that pops to mind, Eric.
[01:32:32.360 --> 01:32:34.760] Our guest is Eric Peters, everyone, on The David Knight Show.
[01:32:34.760 --> 01:32:38.440] I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David and Travis and Lance.
[01:32:38.440 --> 01:32:44.840] And the Alien and Sedition Act period, I referred to this a little bit earlier,
[01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:49.320] with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1798.
[01:32:49.320 --> 01:32:55.800] And the Alien Enemies Act is one that's sort of this long ancient holdover that
[01:32:55.880 --> 01:33:00.680] the MAGA people have used in reference to say, oh yes, the president can claim there's an emergency
[01:33:00.680 --> 01:33:03.240] and you can use the Alien Enemies Act.
[01:33:03.240 --> 01:33:08.120] Well, if we actually look at that act, that was one of the reasons why Jefferson and Madison
[01:33:08.120 --> 01:33:13.800] wrote about that in the Kentucky Resolve for Jefferson and the Virginia Resolves for Madison
[01:33:13.800 --> 01:33:15.000] in 1798.
[01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:18.440] They released them within a couple days of each other to explain to people,
[01:33:19.160 --> 01:33:21.880] look, first of all, the Sedition Act.
[01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:26.520] The Sedition Act was the other part of this, which was you can criticize Jefferson,
[01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:30.200] the vice president, but you can't criticize the president, John Adams,
[01:33:30.200 --> 01:33:34.440] or you'll be put in jail, which is essentially an echo of what we're seeing today
[01:33:34.440 --> 01:33:36.520] or what you mentioned in World War I.
[01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:39.560] These things keep popping up with different eras.
[01:33:39.560 --> 01:33:42.360] And it's the same kingly mindset.
[01:33:42.360 --> 01:33:47.160] And in fact, at least with a monarch, we would know the difference
[01:33:47.160 --> 01:33:49.960] and we wouldn't be told that the government is us, right?
[01:33:50.360 --> 01:33:53.240] It goes back a long way, and Adams, to his great credit,
[01:33:53.240 --> 01:33:57.320] recognized that he'd gone too far and that he let his emotions carry him away
[01:33:57.320 --> 01:34:01.160] and that he was wrong about the Alien and Sedition Acts.
[01:34:01.160 --> 01:34:03.880] Unfortunately, the president now is not a reflective man.
[01:34:03.880 --> 01:34:05.000] He's not a thoughtful man.
[01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.560] He's not the kind of man who will allow his temper to cool and recognize,
[01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:13.560] I made a mistake, let alone admit he made a mistake.
[01:34:13.560 --> 01:34:18.600] I can't think of a single instance when President Trump has acknowledged he made a mistake
[01:34:18.600 --> 01:34:23.400] and apologized for it and said, look, I messed up and I'm not going to do it again.
[01:34:23.400 --> 01:34:25.560] That's one of the more troubling things about this guy.
[01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:28.840] There's a problem when you can't own up to errors that you make,
[01:34:30.200 --> 01:34:33.800] which is the first step to not making the same mistake again.
[01:34:33.800 --> 01:34:39.000] I mean, he has yet to atone for his behavior during the last year of his presidency,
[01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:45.240] and the 2020, that whole year, for everything that he did with regard to warp speeding,
[01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:52.280] the beautiful vaccines, which he still continues to insist publicly, saved millions of lives.
[01:34:55.080 --> 01:34:58.600] I deeply regret, frankly, I'll say it publicly, that I voted for the guy.
[01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:00.760] I did, and I feel like an idiot.
[01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:02.120] I feel like Charlie Brown.
[01:35:02.120 --> 01:35:04.360] I tried to kick the football again.
[01:35:04.360 --> 01:35:07.480] I did it for, frankly, cynical reasons because I thought that on balance,
[01:35:07.480 --> 01:35:08.840] he's the lesser of two evils.
[01:35:08.840 --> 01:35:12.280] Well, when you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still end up with evil,
[01:35:12.280 --> 01:35:15.960] and sometimes you end up with a worse evil because you thought it was good.
[01:35:18.040 --> 01:35:22.600] I think reaching that conclusion, and I reached that conclusion a while back,
[01:35:22.600 --> 01:35:29.160] so I don't vote to put people into offices, but I will express an opinion about whether,
[01:35:29.160 --> 01:35:33.000] for example, Thomas Massey is a heck of a lot better choice if you're going to try to put
[01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:39.720] somebody in that office than his opponent or whatever, but there's a very clean feeling.
[01:35:40.040 --> 01:35:43.560] There's a breath of fresh air feeling that comes in knowing,
[01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:45.480] okay, I've disconnected from all of that.
[01:35:45.480 --> 01:35:47.960] Pulling a Gary Neumann, me, I disconnect from you.
[01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:53.640] Also, there's a really important undercurrent there, which I know you're aware of,
[01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:59.240] but I think it's worth us discussing, which is that you have not involved yourself in something
[01:35:59.240 --> 01:36:01.160] that entails the abuse of other people.
[01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:03.800] Your hands are clean.
[01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:09.000] I didn't vote in the recent governatory election, so I'm not voting for some person,
[01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:14.600] even if I think that they are aligned with me in a general sense, who will then have essentially
[01:36:15.240 --> 01:36:20.280] unlimited power to act and to do things to other people that I don't approve of.
[01:36:20.280 --> 01:36:23.960] I don't like things being done to me, especially by somebody else voting for
[01:36:23.960 --> 01:36:28.200] some politician to do them to me, so I'm withdrawing my consent from all of that.
[01:36:28.200 --> 01:36:29.960] I don't like coercion.
[01:36:29.960 --> 01:36:32.040] I don't like collectivism.
[01:36:33.080 --> 01:36:38.680] I want to be free to make my own decisions in life, and I respect the right of other
[01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:43.560] people who have the exact same equal right that I have to be left alone if I'm not bothering,
[01:36:43.560 --> 01:36:49.080] hurting anybody, causing harm, and to keep what's mine that I work for, and so on.
[01:36:49.080 --> 01:36:50.360] That's how we recover things.
[01:36:51.000 --> 01:36:55.480] We stop using force, which is what we're doing when we're voting, no matter what you think.
[01:36:56.200 --> 01:36:59.960] You're saying, I endow this figure, whoever you're voting for,
[01:36:59.960 --> 01:37:03.160] with the proxy power to impose things on other people, and they will.
[01:37:03.160 --> 01:37:05.800] I don't like that.
[01:37:05.800 --> 01:37:07.720] I'm not looking to rule anybody.
[01:37:07.720 --> 01:37:10.440] I'm looking to rule myself, perhaps, but that's my own business.
[01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:12.280] Well, that's a great point.
[01:37:12.280 --> 01:37:17.080] You remind me, in some of the classes, Eric, I would have conversations with the students,
[01:37:17.080 --> 01:37:21.960] and I would show them examples because there were a lot of erroneous assumptions
[01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:26.840] thrown out by these videos that PBS produced called Crash Course This, Crash Course That.
[01:37:26.840 --> 01:37:30.280] They would have Crash Course Science, Crash Course Economics,
[01:37:30.280 --> 01:37:32.920] or Crash Course Philosophy.
[01:37:34.280 --> 01:37:39.560] I would focus on the economics and the philosophy videos as examples and show them to the students
[01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:45.080] and say, where do you find some problems or differences in your thoughts here?
[01:37:45.080 --> 01:37:49.240] One of them was on that classic, and I think you and I might have discussed this previously
[01:37:49.240 --> 01:37:55.960] on David's show, that classic jungle warlord scenario where a group of tourists is in the
[01:37:55.960 --> 01:38:00.360] jungle, and this goes towards the government problem where people, they give you this
[01:38:00.360 --> 01:38:05.400] Hegelian dialectic or this assumption that you have to try to act in some way that actually
[01:38:05.400 --> 01:38:10.040] is an immoral act, but you think it's the best of the possible choices.
[01:38:12.040 --> 01:38:15.560] Essentially, what it is is a group of tourists gets captured by a warlord,
[01:38:15.560 --> 01:38:22.200] there are 20 tourists, and the host of the show says, don't you, so he says,
[01:38:22.760 --> 01:38:28.280] the warlord pulls one person out and puts a gun in his hand, makes him point it at somebody,
[01:38:28.280 --> 01:38:32.360] and says, you've got to kill this person or I'm going to kill all other 18 people,
[01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:35.720] and say, what would you do?
[01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:39.560] The assumption here is that you kill that person.
[01:38:40.600 --> 01:38:44.200] If we even pull out the idea that the warlord could be lying to you,
[01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:48.920] I ask the students, I say, what is the actual correct answer?
[01:38:49.880 --> 01:38:53.400] And so the correct answer is, you let him kill you.
[01:38:54.040 --> 01:39:00.840] You don't become party to the evil because you still have some sort of control over yourself,
[01:39:00.840 --> 01:39:03.560] you still have agency over your own life.
[01:39:05.800 --> 01:39:09.320] And this is where we get the political sphere where people say, well, I don't like that choice,
[01:39:09.320 --> 01:39:12.520] but I really got to do something because the other one's a lot worse.
[01:39:12.520 --> 01:39:17.400] No, you don't have to vote for evil, you don't, and you shouldn't.
[01:39:17.560 --> 01:39:23.000] I think it's important, that's why I feel very, very refreshed to think I don't touch that world.
[01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:27.880] Imagine if enough of us did that, people often talk about, gee, I wish we had a third party,
[01:39:27.880 --> 01:39:32.120] so I wouldn't have to vote for the Republican A or the Democrat B.
[01:39:32.120 --> 01:39:35.240] Well, rather than a third party, what if it were just none of the above?
[01:39:36.760 --> 01:39:40.440] Because then we'd have an opportunity to delegitimize the system.
[01:39:40.440 --> 01:39:46.680] You can imagine in an election when none of the above won, that would be quite telling.
[01:39:46.680 --> 01:39:50.760] Then it would be out in the open. Then we would know, and people couldn't deny,
[01:39:50.760 --> 01:39:55.560] that we're run without our consent by force by a relative minority of people.
[01:39:55.560 --> 01:40:00.440] And that's important because it would make it much more difficult for them to govern us.
[01:40:03.320 --> 01:40:06.120] Oh, sorry, I was going to say it would be clear what it is.
[01:40:06.120 --> 01:40:10.520] I think a lot of people are passive or accepting of the system because, oh, it's a democracy.
[01:40:10.520 --> 01:40:13.160] We have our chance to vote. It's legitimate.
[01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:19.000] So it's okay to rob somebody via a letter in the mail that says you owe a certain amount of money,
[01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:22.360] as opposed to some thug showing up at your house and pointing a gun at your head.
[01:40:23.080 --> 01:40:27.960] Exactly, exactly, exactly. It's great to have here. This is fantastic.
[01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:30.840] Oh, and let's check in and check in on some of the comments.
[01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:35.880] And then I'd like to hop over and ask you about one of the pieces at Eric Peters Autos,
[01:40:35.880 --> 01:40:38.520] giving us back some stolen money.
[01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:41.880] And there's another one that's right up at the front, but this is on the front page.
[01:40:42.680 --> 01:40:49.880] And so let's head over into Rumble and say hi to Bulldog is there. Don't Frag Me Bro is there.
[01:40:51.160 --> 01:40:59.080] Flower Sower is there. And Flower Sower says I held my nose and voted frump the first time
[01:40:59.080 --> 01:41:03.320] and voted the pro-life candidate the other time. Stop voting in evil.
[01:41:04.280 --> 01:41:08.520] Well stated. Let's see. We've got, let's see.
[01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:11.720] Over here, we've got this.
[01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:20.840] Okay, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, over on on kick. Let me check some of the statements on kick.
[01:41:21.640 --> 01:41:30.440] Let's see this. Oh, a Syrian girl is there. She says, I vote for none of the above. Way to go.
[01:41:30.440 --> 01:41:35.960] Oh, that's terrific. And in a way, the decentralized nature of the concept of the
[01:41:36.200 --> 01:41:44.840] decentralized nature of the Constitution is not exactly, but it was the founders attempt to provide
[01:41:44.840 --> 01:41:50.520] carve outs and walls for none of the above on this subject, on this subject, on this subject.
[01:41:50.520 --> 01:41:56.120] Government's not supposed to be involved. The Bill of Rights is there to be a de facto,
[01:41:56.120 --> 01:42:00.200] none of the above. Nobody's going to be touching any of this stuff in your life,
[01:42:00.200 --> 01:42:04.360] but they breach it. And so that gets me back to Lysander Spooner, who said, you know, the
[01:42:04.360 --> 01:42:11.080] Constitution either was built this way to allow this, or it was incapable of stopping it. Let's,
[01:42:11.080 --> 01:42:17.000] yeah, let's use that as a, as a leap point to talk about this piece over at Eric Peters Autos,
[01:42:17.000 --> 01:42:24.680] giving us back some stolen money. And this is just phenomenal. Eric, tell us a little bit about this
[01:42:24.680 --> 01:42:31.880] piece at Eric. Yeah. Am I the only one who's teeth ache when I hear about Trump trying to assuage
[01:42:32.680 --> 01:42:38.440] our increasing impoverishment by promising at some indeterminate point to hand us another
[01:42:38.440 --> 01:42:45.240] STEMI check? In this particular case, it's supposed to be our refund, say it like Dr. Evil,
[01:42:46.040 --> 01:42:51.480] for all of the tariffs that Trump has collected. And people don't seem to connect the dots and
[01:42:51.480 --> 01:42:57.240] understand that they've already paid an enormous amount in taxes because that's what tariffs are.
[01:42:57.240 --> 01:43:01.640] Tariffs, to get back to that whole thing we were talking about earlier, about the way they shift
[01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:06.280] the conversation through etymology, a tariff is a tax. The only difference is that it's applied
[01:43:06.280 --> 01:43:12.440] to the manufacturer instead of you as an individual. You as an individual pay for it though, when you
[01:43:12.440 --> 01:43:17.000] buy, if you can afford it, whatever the product is that the manufacturer is trying to sell cars,
[01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:21.880] for example. So, you know, Trump imposed all these tariffs on vehicles that are made outside
[01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:25.880] the United States. Well, what does that mean to you as a car buyer? It means that the car
[01:43:25.880 --> 01:43:31.240] now costs more and it's not just the car that was made in another country. It's also the domestically
[01:43:31.240 --> 01:43:36.280] manufactured vehicle because what happens every time that this stuff goes on is that the domestic
[01:43:36.280 --> 01:43:39.720] manufacturers, they don't reduce their prices, they just raise them to an equivalence and you've
[01:43:39.720 --> 01:43:45.160] got a parity there. So, everybody's paying more. And Trump, you know, this, we're supposed to go,
[01:43:45.160 --> 01:43:51.000] oh, look, we're getting some money back. And it's like, it's how illiterate and foolish do you have
[01:43:51.000 --> 01:43:56.520] to be to accept that this is some kind of benefit to you. It's, again, it just, it makes my teeth
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[01:45:40.840 --> 01:45:46.360] Peters Autos, Eric, I do want to mention that was manifest and we saw the different layers of it
[01:45:46.360 --> 01:45:51.960] manifested in the auto industry in the 1970s when they imposed massive tariffs on foreign cars.
[01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:59.000] And the unions and other people within the auto industry saw that new leeway, that new space,
[01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:06.520] where they could sponge. And they became even less efficient. They became even more top-down
[01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:14.600] with retirement schemes and even higher salaries. And they couldn't compete against
[01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:19.800] these foreign car makers. This is a really good point to bring up in addition to the fact that,
[01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:24.760] as we often bring up in economics or I'll mention James Bovard's book, The Fair Trade Fraud,
[01:46:25.880 --> 01:46:32.360] the point of a productive economy or the point of a tool is to allow people to get work done
[01:46:32.360 --> 01:46:37.640] more easily. And if someone is standing there telling you, no, you can't buy that in the store.
[01:46:37.640 --> 01:46:43.800] I'm right here next to you. I'm your buying buddy. You're going to buy that instead. Then that is
[01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:48.840] costing you more. That means that you can't spend money in a way that you had preferred and save
[01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:53.400] that money. And you're going to have to work harder. But in addition to that, someone else who could
[01:46:53.400 --> 01:46:59.720] have received your patronage is no longer going to receive it. That part of the economy is now
[01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:06.040] squandered and stifled and that life-giving sustenance, that liquidity no longer goes to them.
[01:47:08.280 --> 01:47:12.600] I was going to mention there's an underlying thing that it's important to bring up in this context.
[01:47:12.600 --> 01:47:18.680] And it is that Trump is very disingenuous about this particular subject in that the reason
[01:47:19.320 --> 01:47:23.560] vehicles and other things are expensive to manufacture or expensive to sell in this country
[01:47:23.560 --> 01:47:29.640] has to do with compliance costs. The reason that it is less expensive to manufacture
[01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:35.160] vehicle outside the United States is because compliance costs are lower in places like China,
[01:47:35.160 --> 01:47:41.080] Vietnam, and what have you. So my point is that the core issue here is not the trade imbalance,
[01:47:41.080 --> 01:47:46.280] it's the compliance cost. If Trump really wants to make American industry competitive again,
[01:47:46.280 --> 01:47:52.440] what he's got to do is figure out a way to reduce the costs imposed by the regulatory regime
[01:47:52.440 --> 01:47:57.320] at the manufacturing level. It's so god-awful expensive. Talk to anybody who's in business
[01:47:57.320 --> 01:48:03.480] to try to make anything in this country. So that's the problem. And he has to know that.
[01:48:03.480 --> 01:48:08.360] This guy supposedly graduated from the Wharton School of Business. How can he not know that?
[01:48:08.360 --> 01:48:13.160] It's basic fundamental economics. Exactly. And I'll give you an example. Last night on liberty
[01:48:13.160 --> 01:48:20.840] conspiracy, I brought this story up, Eric. This one coming from, let me see, Scripps News. Holiday
[01:48:20.840 --> 01:48:28.200] shoppers face higher costs amid tariffs, of course. And there's much more, much more. There's
[01:48:28.200 --> 01:48:39.960] this one out of Alabama. Let me see. Yeah, here it is. Alabama faces largest closure in years,
[01:48:39.960 --> 01:48:46.600] resulting in 400 plus job losses. And they're all over the place. We've got Target with,
[01:48:46.600 --> 01:48:53.160] of course, Target screwed itself up with its woke-ism. But let's see, there's another one.
[01:48:53.160 --> 01:48:57.960] Home Depot is running into problems, also partially because they're being boycotted
[01:48:59.320 --> 01:49:05.080] because of their support for the ICE people to come in. There's so many of these stories
[01:49:05.080 --> 01:49:12.520] about the economy. Here's this one. Companies ate tariff costs, but your price hikes are coming next.
[01:49:13.160 --> 01:49:20.440] And again, it's central planning. If people are unwilling to look at the economic drawbacks of it,
[01:49:20.440 --> 01:49:27.160] at least they could look at the moral darkness of it to say, I know best. I know what is the
[01:49:27.160 --> 01:49:33.960] correct form of a US economy. It really, it blows my mind. It's a breathtaking assumption.
[01:49:33.960 --> 01:49:41.320] Yep. Yeah, it's absolutely terrible. And it's insidious because it enables the political class
[01:49:41.880 --> 01:49:47.080] to hide what they're doing to us and to shift the blame and to make it seem like it's those awful
[01:49:47.080 --> 01:49:53.000] foreigners who are flooding the country with their cheap goods and taking away our jobs.
[01:49:53.960 --> 01:49:58.680] It's just another example of this dialectic of us being pitted against one another rather
[01:49:58.680 --> 01:50:03.480] than understanding who the real enemy is. I think you lay it out well over on the
[01:50:03.480 --> 01:50:07.800] site at Eric Peters Otto's, Eric. Your writing is great. You said, Trump is once again promising
[01:50:07.800 --> 01:50:14.520] to give Americans back some of the stolen money from them by money stolen from them by the
[01:50:14.520 --> 01:50:20.760] government by Trump himself in this case, because it was he who imposed massive taxes on Americans
[01:50:20.760 --> 01:50:25.240] who were told they were merely tariffs and so wouldn't cost them any money. And I'll mention
[01:50:25.240 --> 01:50:31.640] if anybody's new, this is the largest tax increase in 70 years. This tariff amount,
[01:50:31.640 --> 01:50:36.920] these tariffs, which of course are taxes applied to the manufacturers of things that are then passed
[01:50:36.920 --> 01:50:41.880] on to the buyers of things have increased the cost of new vehicles by at least as much as the
[01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:47.000] paltry two thousand dollar checks. Trump says Americans may receive some time, two thousand
[01:50:47.000 --> 01:50:52.280] checks that they might receive sometime next year, by which time it is likely. So he hopes
[01:50:52.280 --> 01:50:57.880] everyone will have forgotten the promise and moved on to some other thing. I was covering some stories
[01:50:57.880 --> 01:51:05.240] yesterday, Eric, that discuss how some of the people tried to forward date their purchases
[01:51:05.240 --> 01:51:09.400] in sort of predicting that Trump was going to come in with a lot of these tariffs.
[01:51:09.400 --> 01:51:13.720] And now they're running out of that stock. So their next purchases are going to be even
[01:51:13.720 --> 01:51:18.760] more expensive and we're going to get hit even harder. And I'd like to ask you a little bit more
[01:51:18.760 --> 01:51:23.560] because this has sucked already three hundred billion dollars out of the economy. And people
[01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:28.200] like Treasury Secretary Scott Besson are applauding it. They think it's wonderful.
[01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:32.840] And, you know, regardless of Trump's claims that it's twenty one trillion dollars,
[01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:37.560] we'll look at an example of their argument, which is, well, we're bringing in America,
[01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:41.880] we're bringing jobs to Americans. And they'll look at, as you and I've discussed this Honda
[01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:46.920] electric plant that originally the plant was in Mexico. Now they're going to have to come
[01:51:46.920 --> 01:51:52.120] to the United States to manufacture in the United States at higher production, higher production
[01:51:52.120 --> 01:51:59.800] costs. And they are doing so and moving. They're having to spend extra money that they should not
[01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:04.760] have had to spend at all just to build a new plant. So somebody is going to have to pay for
[01:52:04.760 --> 01:52:09.720] that. And it's going to be the consumer. Of course. You know, Trump, I think his dissonance,
[01:52:09.720 --> 01:52:14.920] if it is dissonance, I might give him the benefit of the doubt here, is that for a certain small
[01:52:14.920 --> 01:52:21.240] slice of the population, things are just going swimmingly. If you're of the Wall Street class,
[01:52:21.240 --> 01:52:27.480] the corporate class, because they're once again squeezing every dime out of us that they can
[01:52:27.560 --> 01:52:32.680] via the grift, via the federal government's machinations. I mean, from that standpoint,
[01:52:32.680 --> 01:52:37.080] oh, it's wonderful. You know, I can buy another hundred thousand dollar EV to sit next to the one
[01:52:37.080 --> 01:52:42.840] that I already have in my garage. But for everybody else, it's obvious that things are off the rails.
[01:52:42.840 --> 01:52:47.480] And, you know, Trump the other day said he actually said that inflation is under control.
[01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:53.800] And I mean, that shows that he's either delusional or something far worse, that, you know,
[01:52:54.280 --> 01:52:57.560] say something like that out loud. I'd like to play something for you,
[01:52:57.560 --> 01:53:01.080] Eric. And this goes back a couple of days from my Liberty Conspiracy show,
[01:53:01.080 --> 01:53:09.560] because there's this guy, Hassett, who came on CNBC and Joe Kernan, one of the hosts over there,
[01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:14.600] called him out on this claim that inflation was going down. And he said, no, year to year,
[01:53:14.600 --> 01:53:21.240] we're still 3% more expensive than last year. And as you and I know, this is an additive functional
[01:53:21.240 --> 01:53:29.000] equation. You take the 3% that it measured last year was over and above that. You take that amount,
[01:53:29.000 --> 01:53:36.120] add the new amount to it, and then multiply that by 3%. And you're getting what the new price is.
[01:53:36.120 --> 01:53:42.120] And, you know, I mean, it's your basic algebra, right? So what's interesting here is this CNBC
[01:53:42.120 --> 01:53:46.440] host called him out on that. And if I can, I'll bring your mic down for a minute and just play
[01:53:46.440 --> 01:53:55.160] this for you and bring this up. So here it is. And this is a very interesting call out. Here we go.
[01:53:56.840 --> 01:54:02.360] Now, inflation is still 3%. It's still too high. Now, oil prices, energy prices, there are certain
[01:54:03.080 --> 01:54:07.480] things where they have come down. But when you keep saying prices are falling,
[01:54:07.480 --> 01:54:14.440] that's not true. Because inflation is still, the 3% is on top of all the inflation we had
[01:54:15.080 --> 01:54:20.680] during the Biden years. So we got all that inflation plus an additional 3%. And we should,
[01:54:20.680 --> 01:54:25.880] I think you should admit that. A more precise way to say it though, Joe, is that purchasing power
[01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:31.320] has gone up. So real wages, that's W divided by P for our technical people in the audience,
[01:54:31.320 --> 01:54:36.200] have gone up by about $1,200 this year. And that's really where I wanted to go,
[01:54:36.280 --> 01:54:40.760] Eric, because that is a lie. And that brings me here.
[01:54:43.640 --> 01:54:47.400] You know, what do you even say? I posted an article the other day that kind of gets into
[01:54:47.400 --> 01:54:51.480] this a little bit about Honda announcing that they're bringing back the prelude. You remember
[01:54:51.480 --> 01:54:56.680] the prelude? Yes, that was the one I was going to go to next. Absolutely. Yeah, for 2026. And
[01:54:56.680 --> 01:55:03.000] it's going to start at $43,000. The last time the prelude was available, which was back in 2001,
[01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:08.520] it was about $23,000. Now, when you talk about inflation, are you making roughly twice as much
[01:55:08.520 --> 01:55:17.000] money today as you were in 2001 to adjust for the near doubling in cost of a car like the prelude,
[01:55:17.000 --> 01:55:20.840] which isn't really that different from the original. And in some ways, it's actually worse.
[01:55:20.840 --> 01:55:24.680] The point is this thing, which used to be an affordable car no longer is, you know,
[01:55:24.680 --> 01:55:29.240] we are getting habituated in a kind of Patty Hearst way to ordinary vehicles. I mean,
[01:55:29.240 --> 01:55:33.640] it's a prelude. What's so special about a prelude costing, you know, not too far away
[01:55:33.640 --> 01:55:41.000] from $50,000 when all was said and done. It's an unbelievable. And you make this point here. You
[01:55:41.000 --> 01:55:47.800] say Hondas and Toyotas were once the affordable and generally better alternatives to Fords and
[01:55:47.800 --> 01:55:53.480] Chevys. And talk about those terrorists from the 70s. Whether they are better now is harder to say,
[01:55:53.480 --> 01:55:59.800] but it's not difficult to say that none of them are affordable anymore. Some of the near doubling
[01:55:59.800 --> 01:56:05.480] of the 26 preludes price is, of course, what is called inflation. But this is this does not
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[01:57:56.360 --> 01:58:02.520] for more details. I went into what Austrian economists explain as the Cantillon effect.
[01:58:03.080 --> 01:58:07.560] And so when you have a central bank, whether it's a central bank that's licensed by
[01:58:07.560 --> 01:58:12.600] the central political system and it's given a monopoly on the issuance of currency, which of
[01:58:12.600 --> 01:58:18.360] course they use to buy the bonds, to pay off the debt because they can't tax enough, or it's the
[01:58:18.360 --> 01:58:25.080] treasury of that political institution like ancient Rome calling back their coins, shaving off bits,
[01:58:25.080 --> 01:58:30.120] creating new money, and then claiming those coins were still worth as much. It doesn't matter. Any
[01:58:30.120 --> 01:58:36.680] political connection to the monetary system, a fiat system forced on people, will incentivize
[01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:41.400] the government to play with the money to give them more to pay off some of their special favors,
[01:58:41.400 --> 01:58:46.120] people. If you have a competitive banking system, you can't do that because the bank would be
[01:58:46.120 --> 01:58:51.800] recognized as ripping people off and nobody would accept the little slips. But what's interesting is
[01:58:51.800 --> 01:58:56.760] the Cantillon effect tells us about this pyramid or in class, I would describe it to the students
[01:58:56.760 --> 01:59:03.000] as a train where the people who are closest to the engine are the very wealthy politically connected
[01:59:03.000 --> 01:59:09.720] corporate stock market types, banking types, and they'll get the money first. And the Cantillon
[01:59:09.720 --> 01:59:19.560] effect is basically a descriptor or a normative term to apply to the people who get the money
[01:59:19.560 --> 01:59:26.920] first, can spend it on assets and invest it in things before the buying power has been diluted
[01:59:26.920 --> 01:59:32.680] by seeing the money bid up all those prices over time as it goes through the various strata to the
[01:59:32.680 --> 01:59:38.200] people at the end in the caboose. And what's interesting is I added a little bit to this.
[01:59:38.200 --> 01:59:43.080] There's actually a separate video about this over at the Liberty Conspiracy Rumble channel
[01:59:43.080 --> 01:59:48.280] is what ends up happening, of course, as you know, with the boom bust cycle is once the people on
[01:59:48.280 --> 01:59:53.960] the bottom end realize that their prices are going up, they pull back their expenditures.
[01:59:53.960 --> 01:59:59.480] But what's already happened is inventories have been increased on the expectations that there's
[01:59:59.480 --> 02:00:03.640] going to be big sales because there are low interest rates. They've hired new people because
[02:00:03.640 --> 02:00:07.960] there are low interest rates. A lot of natural resources have been turned into things that
[02:00:07.960 --> 02:00:12.840] should not have been turned into things because they had expected big sales because there were
[02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:18.040] low interest rates. And so what ends up happening is all that stuff has to be liquidated, turned
[02:00:18.040 --> 02:00:23.800] into liquid or currency that can be spread around at much reduced prices. They get a drop,
[02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:28.680] just like the Wizard of Oz, you liquidated her. And so in the end, what ends up happening,
[02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:33.880] the final point of it is these people who purchased assets and are connected to the
[02:00:34.840 --> 02:00:39.640] government money system, they then not only have been insulated from losses,
[02:00:40.360 --> 02:00:46.920] they can buy up those resources at discount prices. And so it becomes a new form of colonialism,
[02:00:46.920 --> 02:00:51.000] just like the old enclosure movement with the Brits, where they were taking the land from the
[02:00:51.000 --> 02:00:55.560] locals for the royally connected people. We still have the royally connected people,
[02:00:55.560 --> 02:01:01.640] but it's supposedly our government. And it's quite an insult to human dignity.
[02:01:02.280 --> 02:01:06.760] It's serial victimization that's particularly devilish because the victims for the most part
[02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:12.200] don't see that they've been victimized. They recognize that things cost more, that they have
[02:01:12.200 --> 02:01:18.680] less money available for things, but they attribute it to this sort of numinous force called
[02:01:18.680 --> 02:01:25.240] inflation. Inflation, it's the natural force, things just cost more. They don't understand
[02:01:25.240 --> 02:01:31.000] that it's a machination, that it's an engineered thing, which as you say, is designed to extract
[02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:36.120] wealth from people farther down the train for the benefit of those at the head of the train.
[02:01:36.120 --> 02:01:40.120] And in the double way that you mentioned, they initially have the sounder money,
[02:01:40.120 --> 02:01:45.320] the stronger purchasing power, and then they are in a position to lap up all of these
[02:01:45.320 --> 02:01:50.680] extraneous resources at bargain basement prices when the whole thing collapses.
[02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:55.880] And so now they're doubly enriched at the expense of everybody else. It's really despicable.
[02:01:55.880 --> 02:02:01.640] Yeah. And one of the most despicable characters involved with that is Scott Besson. He worked
[02:02:01.640 --> 02:02:06.520] with Soros as they broke the Bank of England, sucked up tons of resources. That was one of
[02:02:06.520 --> 02:02:12.120] his claims to fame. I don't know if he still wants to claim fame on that now, but he's still
[02:02:12.120 --> 02:02:18.120] spouting nonsense. In fact, I've got a piece over here. Trump and Treasury Secretary Besson
[02:02:19.400 --> 02:02:24.520] are talking nonsense on inflation. This comes from Market Watch, of all things.
[02:02:24.600 --> 02:02:30.840] And he's just utterly clueless. He's telling Maria Bartiromo that he expects the price of
[02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:37.800] beef to go down. And then he made the fatuous claim that the reason that the beef prices were
[02:02:37.800 --> 02:02:43.240] going up was that beef stocks, beef herds, cattle in the United States were getting sick
[02:02:43.880 --> 02:02:51.000] because migrants had smuggled cattle. They had brought their cows with them over the border.
[02:02:51.960 --> 02:02:58.200] Like, you can't make it up. It's like Monty Python putting the cow in the trebuchet and the
[02:02:58.200 --> 02:03:03.560] catapult in Holy Grail. What are they throwing them over the walls? I mean, it's absurd.
[02:03:04.200 --> 02:03:08.280] I'll take issue with one thing that you said, which is that he doesn't know. He does know.
[02:03:08.280 --> 02:03:13.720] He's not a stupid man. They all know. I don't want to be crass, but they're farting in our faces.
[02:03:14.600 --> 02:03:20.120] They just think that we really are stupid cattle and we don't know any better. And sometimes they
[02:03:20.120 --> 02:03:27.160] just want to smear our faces in it, just to show who's in charge. It's a segue just a little bit,
[02:03:27.160 --> 02:03:32.120] this whole thing with the Epstein stuff. You got Trump running for office and one of his big
[02:03:32.120 --> 02:03:37.160] campaign promises was, we're going to get to the bottom of the Epstein thing. You get selected,
[02:03:37.160 --> 02:03:41.320] and then all of a sudden it's not a thing. Never mind that Pam Bondi standing there with all the
[02:03:41.320 --> 02:03:46.920] reams of documents and files. Oh, no, no, there really wasn't any. I mean, the effrontery of it,
[02:03:47.800 --> 02:03:52.920] that they do these things and it scales across the border. They know every single thing that
[02:03:52.920 --> 02:03:57.320] they're doing is nonsense, but they have to say something so they get out there and they say it
[02:03:57.320 --> 02:04:03.560] and they expect us to go, okay, sure. That sounds good to me. Yeah, that really hits the sentiment
[02:04:03.560 --> 02:04:08.280] that I feel as well. And I was speaking, I mentioned last night actually on the show,
[02:04:08.280 --> 02:04:14.280] last night, Eric, I mentioned one of the members of the Free State Project. I've been in touch
[02:04:14.280 --> 02:04:19.960] with them. They live real close by. I was talking with his daughter and she's about 14, I think,
[02:04:19.960 --> 02:04:27.560] and she is totally aware of what terrorists do. She's aware of the breaches of the constitution
[02:04:27.560 --> 02:04:33.240] and she's 14. And I do think that sometimes when you talk to younger people, they don't come in
[02:04:33.240 --> 02:04:40.040] with all this effrontery. They're much more open to saying, yeah, that person's lying. It's the
[02:04:40.040 --> 02:04:44.600] child who called out that the emperor has no clothes, right? I think that's a function of
[02:04:44.600 --> 02:04:49.160] the fact that we live now in an era where the lying has gotten cartoonishly buffoonish
[02:04:49.160 --> 02:04:55.320] and it's so omnipresent. It's so blatant. Maybe one of the good side effects of the whole COVID
[02:04:55.320 --> 02:05:02.760] thing, this girl's 14, so a large part of her early adult life was spent during that period.
[02:05:02.840 --> 02:05:10.360] You could just see how deliberate and malicious and egregious the lies were and it just kind of
[02:05:10.360 --> 02:05:15.720] separated. It made the veil part for a lot of people. And you begin to realize that,
[02:05:15.720 --> 02:05:20.040] and I don't think I'm being a little bit hyperbolic here when I say we're ruled by monsters,
[02:05:20.040 --> 02:05:26.120] really, really bad people. It's not a question of, oh, they're misinformed. Oh, they meant well.
[02:05:26.120 --> 02:05:32.520] They're malicious. They're monstrous. They're evil people. They don't care. Their whole point
[02:05:32.520 --> 02:05:37.640] and purpose is to exploit and control us. And if you start with that as the fundamental premise,
[02:05:37.640 --> 02:05:43.000] you begin to see things a lot more clearly. Yeah. And I think it allows us to see historical figures
[02:05:43.000 --> 02:05:47.480] in a different light too. If you look at Abraham Lincoln or Alexander Hamilton or Henry Clay,
[02:05:48.120 --> 02:05:57.400] the further off in history they are oftentimes, the more polished the statists can make them.
[02:05:58.360 --> 02:06:03.320] You also remind me on contemporary grounds. I was sort of struck this morning when I was
[02:06:03.320 --> 02:06:09.320] listening to that radio host suddenly claiming that it was the people who were calling out
[02:06:09.320 --> 02:06:16.040] Donald Trump for lawlessness who were the ones who were calling for a civil war rather than
[02:06:16.040 --> 02:06:21.000] Donald Trump engaging in aggressive threats against those people, telling them you should be
[02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:28.040] hanged. It's just beyond belief, but it really hit me. You might have thought of it many times
[02:06:28.040 --> 02:06:34.760] yourself. I've thought of it a few times about how they've leveraged that reaction of many normal
[02:06:34.760 --> 02:06:39.800] people who didn't like and didn't appreciate the fact that they were breaching the constitution
[02:06:39.800 --> 02:06:45.640] with the lockdowns, all the lies and stupidity and canards of the claims they were making about
[02:06:45.640 --> 02:06:52.440] the jabs and how obvious it all was that the emperor had no clothes for so many people.
[02:06:52.440 --> 02:06:56.360] And the stark difference between those people who were trying to get their voices heard
[02:06:56.360 --> 02:07:00.920] and the people in the pop media who were suppressing them or the actors and actresses
[02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:07.640] who were being hired in some cases, not all, to promote the canards. And it really struck me how
[02:07:07.640 --> 02:07:16.200] the MAGA movement has leveraged that to get them to think that they're still on the right track
[02:07:16.200 --> 02:07:21.640] when they're calling for the utter destruction of due process, half of the Bill of Rights,
[02:07:21.640 --> 02:07:27.800] Christian Zionism, overlooking genocide, suppressing free speech on college campuses,
[02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:33.560] all of these things that if they were to just put the word COVID or lockdown in there,
[02:07:33.560 --> 02:07:39.080] they'd be on the opposite side. Now, there is a silver lining to the star cloud and it is that
[02:07:39.080 --> 02:07:44.520] there has been a cleaving of the MAGA movement. There are people, and I'm among them, who were
[02:07:44.520 --> 02:07:49.160] sympathetic to the idea of making America first again, putting Americans first more, you know,
[02:07:49.160 --> 02:07:54.600] more finally, that if we've got to have a government, it ought at least to operate in
[02:07:54.600 --> 02:08:00.360] the general interests of most Americans. You know, that would be a better thing than what
[02:08:00.360 --> 02:08:08.520] we have got right now. But the propagandizing and the dishonesty has gotten so extreme that even
[02:08:08.520 --> 02:08:12.920] half of the people who supported Trump, I think, and it's probably more than half, can't swallow
[02:08:12.920 --> 02:08:18.280] it anymore. You know, the movement has fractured. You know, you've got the clapping seals who are
[02:08:18.280 --> 02:08:23.240] just as bad as the people on the left during COVID, you know, who whatever Biden did, whatever the
[02:08:23.240 --> 02:08:28.920] Gesundheit's Fuhrer said we had to do, yep, we have to do it in lockstep. And if anybody else
[02:08:28.920 --> 02:08:33.000] disagrees, you know, they're awful. They want to kill granny. You know, so now you've got people
[02:08:33.000 --> 02:08:37.400] on the Trump side who are a lot like that in every way. You know, they have a mask on, you just can't
[02:08:37.400 --> 02:08:42.440] see it. You know, it's fundamentally the same attitude. But I think for the first time ever,
[02:08:42.440 --> 02:08:46.840] there is a huge cohort of people in this population who've just had enough. Whether it's
[02:08:46.840 --> 02:08:51.880] from the Republicans or the Democrats, right or left, they've had enough. And that's what it's
[02:08:51.880 --> 02:08:57.160] going to take. It's always sort of an awakened critical mass minority. And if you go back to the
[02:08:57.160 --> 02:09:02.760] revolutionary period, to the colonial period, it wasn't before the war was won that a great bulk of
[02:09:02.760 --> 02:09:08.680] the American public, the colonial American public wanted to separate from Great Britain. In fact,
[02:09:08.680 --> 02:09:14.760] probably the majority was still Tory at that time. Yeah. You know, the revolution only got to be
[02:09:14.760 --> 02:09:19.400] popular. Everybody was a revolutionary after the revolution was won. But, you know, there was a
[02:09:19.400 --> 02:09:24.680] committed cohort of people who said, no, we can't deal with this anymore. There's no negotiating
[02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:29.400] with the king and with parliament. This isn't something where we can come to some kind of a
[02:09:29.400 --> 02:09:35.160] reasonable, amicable understanding. We have to separate. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you
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[02:11:10.200 --> 02:11:16.440] details. That's the only solution. And I think we've got a cohort like that right now that could
[02:11:16.440 --> 02:11:23.640] form the nucleus of something perhaps better in the years ahead. I hope so. And I hope even
[02:11:23.640 --> 02:11:29.880] just intellectually, because I find it's a much more fruitful ground and much more comfortable
[02:11:29.880 --> 02:11:35.400] for me to be able to... I mean, nobody likes conflict and disagreement and dissent and so on.
[02:11:35.400 --> 02:11:39.400] And the more government does, the more we get conflict and disagreement and dissent. And just
[02:11:39.400 --> 02:11:43.080] that ought to be a lesson to people. But I think you put a fine point on it, Eric,
[02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:50.840] in mentioning that it should be Americans first. I brought up that term America first,
[02:11:50.840 --> 02:11:57.960] which is easily used for political reasons. But Americans first, maybe there isn't as much wiggle
[02:11:57.960 --> 02:12:04.040] room, because that could be focused more on the individual. I think it still possibly could be
[02:12:04.040 --> 02:12:09.160] misused. But hey, before we go, Eric, I want to check in on some more comments from people.
[02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:14.680] But I also want to ask you about your most recent piece that was published about the hybrids over at
[02:12:14.680 --> 02:12:23.960] Eric Peters Autos. And so let's get some comments from people inside Rumble. We've got Bulldog is
[02:12:23.960 --> 02:12:33.800] there. And we've got, let's see, since back in the late 90s, when... Oh, yeah, okay.
[02:12:34.840 --> 02:12:42.360] Okay, I'm going to go down here. Okay. It says, if you speak truth to power, then you have entered
[02:12:42.360 --> 02:12:47.400] the world of politics. When you challenge... This is from Don't Frag Me, Bro. When you challenge
[02:12:47.400 --> 02:12:52.840] the priest class and bankers, you have entered the world of politics. Yeah. And I think, well,
[02:12:52.840 --> 02:12:58.920] there's a distinction obviously, because the world of politics is always attacking us. And so there
[02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:04.920] is a degree of defense there. The question is whether one is trying to participate by actually
[02:13:04.920 --> 02:13:11.080] getting hands on levers or indirectly getting hands on levers of the institutions. But that's
[02:13:11.080 --> 02:13:15.560] a very interesting point. And I'd love to ask you about this hybrid piece that you've got here,
[02:13:15.560 --> 02:13:20.440] Eric, to close things off. Tell us about this one just out, literally just out this morning.
[02:13:20.440 --> 02:13:27.880] Yeah, it dovetails on the announcement by Toyota that the 2026 RAV4, which is the first and probably
[02:13:27.880 --> 02:13:32.520] the most popular of these small crossovers that you see everywhere, is henceforth going to be
[02:13:32.520 --> 02:13:38.360] hybrid only. And it's of a trend. You may have noticed how many vehicles now have hybrid power
[02:13:38.360 --> 02:13:43.080] trains. Why is that? Well, it's not because of market demand. When hybrids were available,
[02:13:43.080 --> 02:13:47.000] for example, the Prius, which is sort of the arch type of hybrids, and it's been around for
[02:13:47.000 --> 02:13:51.320] more than 20 years, it was available. And there were some people who really liked the idea of an
[02:13:51.320 --> 02:13:56.680] ultra fuel efficient vehicle, and they would buy a Prius. But for many years, there was not many,
[02:13:56.680 --> 02:14:00.520] there weren't many others on the market, which kind of demonstrates that there really wasn't
[02:14:00.520 --> 02:14:05.320] that much more demand from the market for these things. Now all of a sudden, pretty much every
[02:14:05.320 --> 02:14:10.120] vehicle that you can shake a stick at has a hybrid drive train. And the only reason for that is
[02:14:10.120 --> 02:14:15.320] because of government demands. I make the distinction between buyer demand and government demands.
[02:14:15.320 --> 02:14:20.760] Hybrids, of course, are a kind of half electric car. The idea is to shut the gas engine off as
[02:14:20.760 --> 02:14:26.920] often as possible, to slightly increase the gas mileage, and to reduce the emissions of that
[02:14:26.920 --> 02:14:32.280] dread awful gas that feeds plants, you know, carbon dioxide. So it's a regulatory compliance
[02:14:32.280 --> 02:14:38.280] cost that's being sold to people as a gas savings. But how are you saving money if you end up having
[02:14:38.280 --> 02:14:44.040] to spend, as in this case, about $3,500 more for the vehicle at the time of purchase, and then you're
[02:14:44.040 --> 02:14:48.200] going to be paying more to own it because it's going to cost you more to insure, because insurance
[02:14:48.200 --> 02:14:54.280] is based on the replacement and repair costs of the more expensive vehicle. It's probably going
[02:14:54.280 --> 02:14:59.560] to cost you more down the road because it's a more complex system. And the more complex a system is,
[02:15:00.120 --> 02:15:04.360] statistically speaking, the greater the odds are that at some point, something expensive is going
[02:15:04.360 --> 02:15:09.320] to fail, and you're going to end up having to pay for that probably. So you're not saving any money.
[02:15:09.320 --> 02:15:15.480] What's happening again for our earlier discussion is that these costs are being hidden and offloaded
[02:15:15.480 --> 02:15:20.680] onto us. The manufacturers are faced with having to figure out how are we going to comply with
[02:15:20.680 --> 02:15:25.720] federal gas mileage requirements and the CO2 emissions requirements. Well, we'll hybridize
[02:15:25.720 --> 02:15:29.960] everything. We'll take away the choice. We won't leave it up to people to decide whether, you know,
[02:15:29.960 --> 02:15:34.840] Toyota has offered a hybrid version of the RAV4 and a number of its other models, but it's always
[02:15:34.840 --> 02:15:40.520] been a relatively small portion of the people who buy the RAV4, who chose the hybrid. So what does
[02:15:40.520 --> 02:15:45.240] that tell you? Now they're making it so that you have no choice. If you want a RAV4, you have to
[02:15:45.240 --> 02:15:50.040] buy a hybrid. And they've done this with other models. And I'm not picking on Toyota. All the
[02:15:50.040 --> 02:15:55.480] other manufacturers have done it as well. Honda has done it with the Accord. All the other
[02:15:55.480 --> 02:16:00.680] manufacturers are diving into this because they have to. I mean, they could fight, I think, and
[02:16:00.680 --> 02:16:04.920] I've counseled them off the record. I've suggested to them, you know, rather than spending all this
[02:16:04.920 --> 02:16:07.800] money to figure out how to comply with the government, why don't you explain to people
[02:16:07.800 --> 02:16:11.880] what's going on? Why don't you line item in your window stickers, for example, that you see on the
[02:16:11.880 --> 02:16:18.440] car, costs of compliance, and then have each line item, direct injection, 10-speed transmission,
[02:16:18.440 --> 02:16:23.480] hybrid drive frame. Let people see what they're paying for. Make it plain. Maybe buy some ads,
[02:16:23.480 --> 02:16:27.800] you know, have some ads at the Superbowl. Explain to people, you know what, the reason your car
[02:16:27.800 --> 02:16:31.880] costs $50,000 now, and that's the average price people are paying for a new car,
[02:16:31.880 --> 02:16:35.880] is because of the federal government and all these regulatory requirements that it imposes.
[02:16:35.880 --> 02:16:41.720] That's why you can't find a new car that costs $15,000, which there's no reason not to be able
[02:16:41.720 --> 02:16:46.920] to have. Yeah, the sheer insult of that. You know, oftentimes I think people get normalcy biased.
[02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.360] They hear these terms. But just the effrontery of that to say, hey, you know, we're not going
[02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:56.680] to participate in the market ourselves. We're the politicians. We're going to tell you. We're not
[02:16:56.680 --> 02:17:02.760] going to offer our own product and just peacefully compete. We're going to tell you who invested all
[02:17:02.760 --> 02:17:08.520] this into all these things, and we're going to come up with all these insulting so-called
[02:17:08.520 --> 02:17:14.440] rationales and justifications to say, oh, well, you know, we got to protect against the giant
[02:17:14.440 --> 02:17:21.000] climate god. You know, it's just so insulting and insufferable. It's ridiculous. And, you know,
[02:17:21.000 --> 02:17:25.640] I'm looking at the RAV4. I'm thinking about that cost. I was like, hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
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[02:19:31.240 --> 02:19:40.600] pointed out numerous times, the EVs are very, very bad in cold weather, as we know. You know, they
[02:19:40.600 --> 02:19:46.120] don't hold their charge. Is there anything to be concerned when we talk about hybrids with that
[02:19:46.120 --> 02:19:52.040] sort of thing as well? Yeah, but less so because the hybrid system is essentially designed to be a
[02:19:52.040 --> 02:19:56.680] part-time system. You know, the vehicle is, generally speaking, usually being propelled by
[02:19:56.680 --> 02:20:01.560] the power of the gas engine, which operates as a generator as well. Yeah. And it feeds electricity
[02:20:01.560 --> 02:20:06.920] to the battery as you drive. And the way that the thing is set up, the battery never discharges
[02:20:06.920 --> 02:20:11.240] beyond a certain point. So that's good for the battery's long-term longevity in that it ever,
[02:20:11.240 --> 02:20:16.840] you know, is heavily discharged and then subjected to heavy charging. It's maintained in a sort of
[02:20:16.840 --> 02:20:21.880] homeostatic state for the majority of the time. And of course, it's not responsible for,
[02:20:22.440 --> 02:20:26.600] predominantly responsible for propelling the vehicle. It's sort of there as an adjunct.
[02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:30.680] You know, it powers the accessories when the engine's not running. And it sometimes,
[02:20:30.680 --> 02:20:35.320] in some cases, provides a little more motive power when you get going. So it will last longer
[02:20:35.560 --> 02:20:40.440] than an EV battery would end because it's smaller, significantly smaller. You know,
[02:20:40.440 --> 02:20:45.800] it's not as expensive to replace. It's about 1,500 bucks, give or take 1,500 or 3,000,
[02:20:45.800 --> 02:20:49.960] depending on the vehicle. And that's not totally out of hand. You know, if you had to replace a
[02:20:49.960 --> 02:20:54.600] transmission in a car, you know, you might have to spend two or $3,000 to put a transmission in a
[02:20:54.600 --> 02:20:59.960] typical car. It's not a deal killer, in other words. You know, if you have a 12-year-old hybrid
[02:20:59.960 --> 02:21:04.600] and, you know, the battery's starting to wane and it's starting to lose its charge capacity
[02:21:04.600 --> 02:21:07.960] and the guy says, well, you know, you're going to have to buy a new battery for it. It's going to
[02:21:07.960 --> 02:21:13.560] cost you $1,500 or $2,000. It's still worth doing that because, you know, the vehicle at that point
[02:21:13.560 --> 02:21:18.120] probably has some life left in it. And its value as such is probably around five grand at that point.
[02:21:19.000 --> 02:21:26.040] Have an EV, a pure EV, after say 10 years, that's already lost, depreciated massively.
[02:21:26.040 --> 02:21:31.080] And you're facing having to put $15,000 or $20,000 into it for a battery?
[02:21:31.080 --> 02:21:35.800] No way. It's untenable. You know, leaving aside, most people simply can't do that. I mean, you'd
[02:21:35.800 --> 02:21:40.040] have to have another financing scheme to, you know, to buy the battery, which is equivalent to
[02:21:40.040 --> 02:21:44.920] buying another car. It's not most people are going to be able to write a check for or even put on
[02:21:44.920 --> 02:21:49.640] their credit card because most people don't have $15,000 worth of credit available on their credit
[02:21:49.640 --> 02:21:55.720] card. Right. Yeah, it's much less of a worry with a hybrid to answer your question. Well, it's very
[02:21:55.720 --> 02:22:00.760] interesting to think about these things. You know, luckily, I think people have started to wake up a
[02:22:00.760 --> 02:22:06.280] little too late for some of the large auto manufacturers, whether it be GM or Volkswagen,
[02:22:06.920 --> 02:22:14.440] just, you know, billions just dumped right down the tubes. But there is at least some hope that
[02:22:14.440 --> 02:22:19.800] people are starting to wake up to these things. I wish they would, as you have on the piece, Eric,
[02:22:19.800 --> 02:22:26.520] look into this regulatory state and just even just the term regulation is an insult. You know,
[02:22:26.520 --> 02:22:32.200] it's just, it's just so frustrating. It's like, no, this is a Dick talk. Mussolini would approve.
[02:22:32.200 --> 02:22:37.240] It's just, and they really need to, they need to address what I think is the Achilles heel of all
[02:22:37.240 --> 02:22:42.760] of this, which is the premise that absent these regulations, we would have unsafe vehicles. We
[02:22:42.760 --> 02:22:47.480] would have dirty vehicles, you know, because they've been able to manipulate and play on people's
[02:22:47.480 --> 02:22:52.360] reasonable worries about, you know, the commons, you know, about the idea of having vehicles that
[02:22:52.360 --> 02:22:59.720] are spewing toxic stuff into the air and, you know, making us all sick, stuff like that. There's an
[02:22:59.720 --> 02:23:03.960] era, there's an aura of moral legitimacy to that. You know, even if it could be handled in tort
[02:23:03.960 --> 02:23:10.440] court, but setting that aside, the point is that neither emissions have not been an issue in any
[02:23:10.440 --> 02:23:16.520] meaningful sense since the mid late 1990s. So, you know, 30 plus years now it has been a non-issue.
[02:23:16.520 --> 02:23:21.320] We're talking about fractional reductions that are meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
[02:23:21.320 --> 02:23:25.720] And there's just malicious lie about carbon dioxide, which has nothing to do with air
[02:23:25.720 --> 02:23:31.000] pollution at all. It doesn't, it doesn't smell, it doesn't, you know, it doesn't make the skies
[02:23:31.000 --> 02:23:35.640] cloudy, nothing, you know. So the idea that that's, they have to frame that as an emission,
[02:23:35.640 --> 02:23:39.960] you know, implying that it's a pollutant, it's dishonest. And then the safety stuff,
[02:23:40.520 --> 02:23:44.680] I mean, if I want to drive a car without airbags, it doesn't mean it's not a safe car. Maybe it's
[02:23:44.680 --> 02:23:49.560] less crash worthy if I get into a crash, but that's, you know, that's a different matter. And as you
[02:23:49.560 --> 02:23:56.840] say, how dare they, it's my choice. If I want to run the hypothetical risk of being potentially
[02:23:56.840 --> 02:24:02.520] injured or more injured in a car without airbags, if I have an accident, if I run it into a tree,
[02:24:03.080 --> 02:24:07.480] and I prefer to not have to spend thousands of dollars more for a car with the airbags,
[02:24:07.480 --> 02:24:13.400] that's my choice. I'm an adult human being who's able to make these decisions. Just like I choose
[02:24:13.400 --> 02:24:18.120] to go to the gym to work out, to keep myself in shape. It's my choice. I don't have to do that.
[02:24:18.120 --> 02:24:22.520] I do it because it makes sense to me. And we all should have the right to make the decisions
[02:24:22.520 --> 02:24:30.600] that are sensible as we see it in my opinion. I don't need Elizabeth Dole to be buying my car
[02:24:30.600 --> 02:24:35.240] with me, you know, and putting it, and you know, there are a couple of things that brings to mind,
[02:24:35.240 --> 02:24:43.560] whether it's through coercion or deception, the means by which politically interested people or
[02:24:43.560 --> 02:24:49.640] power-interested people get other people to do things. And you brought to mind how Thomas Massey
[02:24:49.640 --> 02:24:57.320] had explained that some of these people that Epstein brought in, you know, as 13, 14-year-old
[02:24:57.320 --> 02:25:06.920] kids, that they then were told that they could get out of it if they recruited other kids.
[02:25:06.920 --> 02:25:11.480] And Massey just said, just think of the evil of that, you know, and the weight that that puts on
[02:25:11.480 --> 02:25:17.960] those kids. And I thought, you know, in a way, these lies about things like carbon dioxide,
[02:25:17.960 --> 02:25:23.800] which have been spread by even the Supreme Court, just ridiculous, the EPA, all these lies,
[02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:29.960] in a way, that's not coercive, it's deceptive. It is coercive in a way, because we're forced to
[02:25:29.960 --> 02:25:34.200] pay for all those political institutions. So that's, you know, that's the coercion. And then they
[02:25:34.200 --> 02:25:42.920] use it to create new legislation that's coercive. But the acidic, insidious, deceptive way is another
[02:25:42.920 --> 02:25:50.040] means, maybe not through coercion, but through deception, to get younger people who the politicians
[02:25:50.040 --> 02:25:55.800] often know very well that they're lying about carbon dioxide. You know, they know that it is not
[02:25:55.800 --> 02:26:01.560] a pollutant, and yet they spread the canard. They know that it's not anthropogenically destroying
[02:26:01.560 --> 02:26:07.480] the earth through climate change. But they spread the lie, and they, through deception, get young
[02:26:07.480 --> 02:26:13.800] people to perpetuate the lie. And how evil is that, you know? Yes, particularly evil because of
[02:26:13.800 --> 02:26:19.240] obviously the naivete of the young. And in the second place, the instinct that most young people
[02:26:19.240 --> 02:26:24.440] have that, you know, wanes over time as you get old, to do the right thing. You know, kids are
[02:26:24.440 --> 02:26:29.080] generally more interested in justice than, you know, than older people who've tended to grow
[02:26:29.080 --> 02:26:34.440] cynical. You know, kids, that's why kids, you know, tend to be revolutionary, more so than older
[02:26:34.440 --> 02:26:39.960] people who get set in their ways. They see something that is wrong to them, and they want to correct
[02:26:39.960 --> 02:26:45.080] that wrong. So they have been manipulated into believing that, you know, the older generations
[02:26:45.080 --> 02:26:49.400] are befouling the earth. They're causing the climate to change, and they're ruining their
[02:26:49.400 --> 02:26:53.240] future. And it's understandable. You know, you're a 15-year-old kid, and you're looking down the road
[02:26:53.240 --> 02:26:57.480] and thinking, I'm going to be around for the next 60, 70 years potentially. And I'd like to live in
[02:26:57.480 --> 02:27:02.280] a, you know, a habitable world. So, you know, I'm opposed to these polluters and, you know,
[02:27:02.280 --> 02:27:08.200] these people who are out to just spoil the earth. It's horrific. Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. Well,
[02:27:08.200 --> 02:27:13.240] Eric, thank you so much for joining us on the David Knight Show, and I'll look forward to talking to
[02:27:13.240 --> 02:27:19.560] you. It's funny because if folks aren't aware, I had texted Eric to see if he wanted to join me
[02:27:19.560 --> 02:27:24.680] on Liberty Conspiracy last night, and then Travis contacted me to see if I could fill in for David
[02:27:24.680 --> 02:27:30.600] and Travis. And so, I said, hey, Eric, how would you like to pop on David's show tomorrow? So,
[02:27:30.600 --> 02:27:36.520] thanks for accommodating the schedule very, very much. And as Andrew Napolitano would say,
[02:27:36.520 --> 02:27:41.880] thank you, my good friend, for accommodating my schedule. And thank you for coming on here. It's
[02:27:41.880 --> 02:27:47.800] just terrific. And the website, of course, is awesome. And before we go, I will display the
[02:27:47.800 --> 02:27:55.400] mighty bar cap that you can get at the David Knight Show. The sheep, the bar cap, and I hope
[02:27:55.400 --> 02:28:00.520] at the Eric Peters Autos website. So, check it out, everybody, because you're gonna love that website.
[02:28:00.520 --> 02:28:05.800] It's awesome. Sign up for it, and you'll really enjoy it. Eric, thanks, man. Great, great stuff.
[02:28:05.800 --> 02:28:10.600] And we didn't do the Vulcan mind meld, but we'll do it on Liberty Conspiracy next time. You got it.
[02:28:10.600 --> 02:28:16.440] You got it. Thanks. Take care, man. All right. And we'll take a little break and hear some music
[02:28:16.440 --> 02:28:24.120] from the great David Knight, and Travis and the gang will be enjoying the rest of the afternoon.
[02:28:24.120 --> 02:28:29.800] And thank you so much for being here with me as we take the opportunity to look further
[02:28:29.800 --> 02:28:36.920] at some of the major stories that are out there, and one that Eric mentioned. Let's talk about
[02:28:36.920 --> 02:28:47.400] immigration coming up and truckers.
[02:30:06.920 --> 02:30:19.560] Liberty. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
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[02:30:32.040 --> 02:30:38.920] they turn into action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world
[02:30:38.920 --> 02:30:46.200] who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all.
[02:30:46.200 --> 02:30:52.520] And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but that child is waiting. This is
[02:30:52.520 --> 02:30:58.760] where you come in. With Compassion International, you have the chance to change a child's future,
[02:30:58.760 --> 02:31:05.160] not just with words, not with promises, but with real help that provides food, education,
[02:31:05.160 --> 02:31:11.560] and hope through local churches and people already in their community. Put your words
[02:31:11.560 --> 02:31:19.960] into action and join me. Introduce a child to a loving Heavenly Father today at compassion.com.
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[02:31:51.800 --> 02:31:58.440] It's your move. And now, the David Knight Show.
[02:32:00.440 --> 02:32:06.840] Well, again, big thanks to Eric Peters for joining us. Remember the BACAP. Head on over there. He's
[02:32:06.840 --> 02:32:11.080] got so many great things in addition to the articles. You'll love them. And I really
[02:32:11.080 --> 02:32:19.320] appreciate the comments from everyone as well. We've got this from President Vanti, 1776,
[02:32:19.560 --> 02:32:25.000] great interview guard. And we have this from Doug. Thanks. Well, the hour of power is over.
[02:32:25.000 --> 02:32:31.080] Thank you so much. You guys are just terrific. I love it. And so again, if you want to join me
[02:32:31.080 --> 02:32:37.720] on Liberty Conspiracy, that's Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. And you can hang out live there
[02:32:37.720 --> 02:32:43.640] on Rumble or on my ex feed, and that's at guard Goldsmith. And if you are interested,
[02:32:43.640 --> 02:32:48.520] you can also go to the Gardner Goldsmith sub stack. That's Gardner Goldsmith sub stack.
[02:32:48.520 --> 02:32:53.080] And you can find the news notes there every Monday through Friday. I produce those for the
[02:32:53.080 --> 02:32:59.720] paid subscribers over there, as well as the Sunday News Assembly, which is available to anyone who
[02:32:59.720 --> 02:33:05.720] wants to check it out on, of course, Fridays. No, it's on Sundays. Now, let's take the opportunity to
[02:33:05.720 --> 02:33:11.160] check out the next big item. And then about 10 minutes from now, Jason Barker will be joining
[02:33:11.160 --> 02:33:17.560] us to chat with us about some major items coming up for nights of the storm. But I want to discuss
[02:33:17.560 --> 02:33:22.840] the immigration issue and truckers, because this is something that I think needs addressing. You
[02:33:22.840 --> 02:33:28.600] know, we discussed this a little bit about ICE invading states without any invitation that runs
[02:33:28.600 --> 02:33:34.280] contrary to Article four, Section four of the U.S. Constitution. Donald Trump supposedly using the
[02:33:34.280 --> 02:33:41.160] Alien Enemies Act, which is unconstitutional. You either have a declaration of war against an invader
[02:33:41.160 --> 02:33:47.000] invading state or you issue letters of mark and reprisal. Very important to remember that the only
[02:33:47.000 --> 02:33:53.400] way that the federal government can go into states is upon the invitation of the legislature
[02:33:53.400 --> 02:33:57.960] of the state or the governor. If the legislature is out of session, it's an Article four, Section
[02:33:57.960 --> 02:34:03.800] four of the Constitution. Now, they might try to use an excuse that under the necessary and proper
[02:34:03.800 --> 02:34:09.960] clause of the Constitution, the federal government can go into, say, protect federal courthouses.
[02:34:09.960 --> 02:34:15.400] But as I brought up with people also in the Constitution, there's a conflict there because
[02:34:15.400 --> 02:34:20.360] the Constitution only delineates three forms of land that the federal government can run.
[02:34:21.240 --> 02:34:27.080] A 10 square mile area for the capital of the nation state, Washington, D.C., territories
[02:34:27.800 --> 02:34:35.080] before they become states and military garrisons. So although the Congress is licensed, according
[02:34:35.080 --> 02:34:41.160] to the Constitution, to create a court system above the state supreme courts and subservient
[02:34:41.160 --> 02:34:47.480] to the federal supreme court, they can't actually put it on any federal land other than those three
[02:34:47.480 --> 02:34:54.120] types of land. So the claim that they're going in to protect these federal courts, which would be
[02:34:54.120 --> 02:35:01.720] the only closest valid one if they have not been invited in, is actually not that valid because
[02:35:01.720 --> 02:35:06.520] those courts, if they wanted to be truly federal courts, would either have to be on military
[02:35:06.520 --> 02:35:13.080] garrisons in Washington, D.C., or on a territory. And that's just the way that it is. You can't have
[02:35:13.080 --> 02:35:19.320] it any other way. Otherwise, they're going to have to rent land from the states and it would be state
[02:35:19.320 --> 02:35:25.160] land. I'm just saying that. And again, that's irrefutable. There's nothing you can do to argue
[02:35:25.160 --> 02:35:30.760] against it except try to come up with different rationales to say, well, I don't mind it. But
[02:35:31.560 --> 02:35:35.960] hopefully, if you're voting and you're voting on offices created by the Constitution,
[02:35:35.960 --> 02:35:40.680] you will mind it or one will mind it. Maybe not you. Maybe you understand it completely and you
[02:35:40.680 --> 02:35:46.200] agree. I don't know. But hopefully, it's a valid argument and it's a ripe area of exploration for
[02:35:46.200 --> 02:35:51.240] you because if you want to deal honestly with the Constitution, that's a very important point.
[02:35:51.240 --> 02:35:55.560] The other point that I bring up often, and I've got it in my book, Live Free or Die, which is right
[02:35:55.560 --> 02:36:01.880] over here. I've got many, many pages on it, is the research on the fact that immigration is a state
[02:36:01.880 --> 02:36:06.840] issue that is irrefutable. I will be able to win any argument and so will you,
[02:36:07.480 --> 02:36:12.680] but you might not win politically. So just to keep it in mind, it was part of federalism as
[02:36:12.680 --> 02:36:17.480] Jefferson and Madison brought up. And so all these invasions into the states, in Illinois,
[02:36:17.480 --> 02:36:22.440] where Pritzker correctly brings up, we don't want you here, where Gavin Newsom correctly brings up,
[02:36:22.440 --> 02:36:28.280] we don't want you here, where Hokel correctly brings up, we don't want you here. And a court
[02:36:28.280 --> 02:36:37.640] just ruled that in New York, the State National Guard does not have to comply with the feds
[02:36:38.200 --> 02:36:44.600] to police immigration. And New York cops don't have to comply with the feds to police immigration.
[02:36:44.600 --> 02:36:49.160] And by the way, they're going to go into New York City probably in the next week. They just announced
[02:36:49.160 --> 02:36:53.880] that. These are very important matters of federalism and they're not being addressed.
[02:36:53.880 --> 02:36:59.880] One other thing that's not being addressed is the economic side of it. So let's give you one more
[02:36:59.880 --> 02:37:06.520] court case and then we're going to talk economics and this canard about the foreign truckers. Yes,
[02:37:06.520 --> 02:37:13.720] let's talk about that right now. Yeah, you got it, my friends, a little Perry Mason.
[02:37:23.880 --> 02:37:47.720] Great books by Earl Stanley Gardner. If you get a chance, they're wonderful. They're short, wonderful stories.
[02:37:53.880 --> 02:38:01.000] All right, which reminds me, actually, I should mention, if you're interested, you can join
[02:38:01.000 --> 02:38:07.560] me over at the former Star Trek Writing Fellow channel on YouTube because they're not censoring
[02:38:07.560 --> 02:38:13.080] that and on Rumble. That's my alternate channel to talk about books and television and film
[02:38:13.080 --> 02:38:17.960] production because I worked at the scriptwriting department of The Outer Limits and at Star Trek
[02:38:17.960 --> 02:38:25.560] Voyager and I've also had novellas published and I've had a novel accepted but they wanted me to
[02:38:25.560 --> 02:38:30.120] change my name so that it wouldn't be associated with my political work so I denied the contract.
[02:38:30.120 --> 02:38:35.000] I said no thanks. So that has yet to come out. So I've got a lot of prose writing. So that's former
[02:38:35.000 --> 02:38:39.480] Star Trek Writing Fellow channel. Would love for you to find that over at YouTube and love for you
[02:38:39.480 --> 02:38:44.840] to find it at Rumble. We would really enjoy having more people join us at the channel. I talk lots
[02:38:44.840 --> 02:38:50.200] of books. We talked about Earl Stanley Gardner. Talked about the creator of Fu Manchu. Talked
[02:38:50.200 --> 02:38:57.160] about E.R. Edison who really influenced Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Really interesting writers and I
[02:38:57.160 --> 02:39:02.680] love talking about that and on Friday nights on Liberty Conspiracy, we always read a short story
[02:39:02.680 --> 02:39:08.200] or almost always read a short story for Fiction Friday. On Wednesdays on Liberty Conspiracy Live,
[02:39:08.200 --> 02:39:14.360] on Rumble and on my ex, we do Wordsmith Wednesdays where I try to highlight a particular author.
[02:39:14.360 --> 02:39:19.960] Most recent one we did was a friend of mine who's passed away named Brian Lumley. He was a real big
[02:39:19.960 --> 02:39:25.320] writer in H.P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Circles and did a whole series of books called the Necroscope
[02:39:25.320 --> 02:39:30.360] series. A lot of vampire stories and stuff. Great guy. British guy. Very interesting guy. So find
[02:39:30.360 --> 02:39:34.280] the former Star Trek Writing Fellow channel over there. It's my opportunity to sort of promote it
[02:39:34.280 --> 02:39:40.120] to the audience, you folks here and we'd love to have you there and I also want to open it up to
[02:39:40.120 --> 02:39:45.160] people to get their ideas when we go live on Liberty Conspiracy about stories that really
[02:39:45.160 --> 02:39:49.080] were spooky for them or movies that they really loved, that sort of thing. So we'll do that
[02:39:49.080 --> 02:39:53.880] tonight on Liberty Conspiracy. You can join us tonight on Rumble. I want to give you a couple
[02:39:53.880 --> 02:39:59.400] items that are in the news on immigration that I think are pretty important. First off, Alligator
[02:39:59.400 --> 02:40:05.080] Alcatraz, the legal access to it. That's been in the news big time. So let me give you this one,
[02:40:05.080 --> 02:40:11.160] okay? These are some of my back notes and here it is. Judge pushes for resolution in lawsuit over
[02:40:11.160 --> 02:40:16.840] legal access to Alligator Alcatraz. One of the things that I mentioned to the Liberty Conspiracy
[02:40:16.840 --> 02:40:23.240] audience is this top-down money funneling fascist system for corporations and military industrial
[02:40:23.240 --> 02:40:27.560] contractors where even members of the EU, you can see that they're going to get their bread
[02:40:27.560 --> 02:40:33.160] buttered by either continuing the warfare in Ukraine because they have either stocks or friends
[02:40:33.160 --> 02:40:39.720] in the military, apparatchiks over in Europe, or they have connections to heavy industry and
[02:40:39.720 --> 02:40:45.240] cleanup crews and they're going to have them get involved as well with the cleanup in Ukraine.
[02:40:45.960 --> 02:40:52.200] That also is manifest in the federalist system of the United States where, for example,
[02:40:52.200 --> 02:40:58.680] the FEMA folks are now trying to incentivize governors to build detention centers in states,
[02:40:58.680 --> 02:41:02.280] giving them hundreds of millions of dollars to say, oh, and of course the governors will say,
[02:41:02.280 --> 02:41:07.080] we're going to employ all these state residents. Isn't it wonderful? Well, the money comes from
[02:41:07.080 --> 02:41:13.880] debt servicing, of course, or not even servicing from debt. And so here's this story in Orlando
[02:41:13.880 --> 02:41:19.000] where they set the template with Alligator Alcatraz. A federal judge in Florida is pushing
[02:41:19.000 --> 02:41:24.600] for a resolution in a lawsuit over whether detainees, there shouldn't even be a term like
[02:41:24.600 --> 02:41:29.960] that, in an immigration center in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz are getting
[02:41:29.960 --> 02:41:37.800] adequate access to attorneys. U.S. District Judge Cherry Poulster-Chappell last Friday ordered a
[02:41:37.800 --> 02:41:44.280] two-day conference to be held next month in her Fort Myers courtroom with attorneys president
[02:41:44.280 --> 02:41:50.200] who have the authority to settle. The judge asked for an update at a hearing next Monday.
[02:41:50.200 --> 02:41:55.000] Now, in the Constitution, it's up to Florida as to whether or not they're going to go after
[02:41:55.000 --> 02:41:59.640] immigrants, okay? But if they do, they have to afford them all the protections under the
[02:41:59.640 --> 02:42:04.840] the Bill of Rights. Those protections aren't just for Americans. The First Amendment doesn't just
[02:42:04.840 --> 02:42:09.800] apply to Americans, neither do the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. The court will not
[02:42:09.800 --> 02:42:15.640] entertain excuses regarding leaving early for flights or other meetings. The judge wrote,
[02:42:15.640 --> 02:42:22.120] the lawsuit filed by detainees against the feds and state government over legal access is one of
[02:42:22.120 --> 02:42:28.280] three federal cases challenging practices in the immigration detention center that was built this
[02:42:28.280 --> 02:42:34.520] summer as a remote airstrip in the Florida Everglades at a remote airstrip by the administration
[02:42:34.520 --> 02:42:39.240] and Governor Ron DeSantis. Of course, they have to ship in the water. It's incredibly expensive.
[02:42:39.240 --> 02:42:45.160] The third lawsuit claims immigration is a federal issue and Florida agencies and private contractors
[02:42:45.160 --> 02:42:49.880] hired by the state have no authority to operate the facility. That's going to be a big one to
[02:42:49.880 --> 02:42:56.520] watch because they'll probably double down on the 1875 Chai Long decision. That's a big mistake.
[02:42:56.520 --> 02:43:01.400] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute and I want
[02:43:01.400 --> 02:43:08.040] you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion. We say those words all the time and they sound
[02:43:08.040 --> 02:43:14.520] good. They feel good, but here's the truth. Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into
[02:43:14.520 --> 02:43:21.080] action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world who doesn't
[02:43:21.080 --> 02:43:28.360] know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all. And while
[02:43:28.360 --> 02:43:35.480] we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but that child is waiting. This is where you come in
[02:43:35.480 --> 02:43:41.560] with Compassion International. You have the chance to change a child's future, not just with words,
[02:43:41.560 --> 02:43:47.880] not with promises, but with real help that provides food, education, and hope through
[02:43:47.880 --> 02:43:55.320] local churches and people already in their community. Put your words into action and join me.
[02:43:55.320 --> 02:44:03.560] Introduce a child to a loving Heavenly Father today at Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com.
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[02:44:37.800 --> 02:44:47.000] story. As we know, the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, is speaking nonsense about a labor
[02:44:47.000 --> 02:44:59.240] shortage that at salary levels that really are restrictive, Americans won't fill, and that's
[02:44:59.240 --> 02:45:05.880] in trucking. Let me give you a little bit more information about this. Duffy is saying truckers
[02:45:06.840 --> 02:45:16.120] from a saving truckers from illegals, he says. There's so much hope now. So as I've done for years
[02:45:16.120 --> 02:45:24.120] at MRCTV, for years I have been covering the onerous regulations on truckers that increase the
[02:45:24.120 --> 02:45:29.480] costs of the trucking lines. They can't be as efficient. They can't make as much. Their profit
[02:45:29.560 --> 02:45:35.880] margins decrease. As those margins decrease, they have to shift and try to cut expenses.
[02:45:35.880 --> 02:45:42.360] One of the only ways that is left for them to cut expenses is to go black market drivers.
[02:45:43.160 --> 02:45:49.080] This is just something that we've seen coming for years. Let me give you an example. This is what
[02:45:49.080 --> 02:45:54.440] transportation secretary Sean Duffy says. He's helping the trucking sector. He's helping them.
[02:45:54.440 --> 02:45:59.080] He's helping them recover from the damaging flood of illegal migrant drivers. Well, guess what?
[02:45:59.080 --> 02:46:03.080] Yellow trucking went out of business last year because of the regulations, because of the
[02:46:03.080 --> 02:46:10.040] lockdowns, and how they couldn't afford anything anymore because of all the expenses. The tariffs
[02:46:10.040 --> 02:46:16.360] have increased expenses. You're not going to help the trucking lines by saying one way you've been
[02:46:16.360 --> 02:46:22.520] able to decrease expenses by hiring cheaper labor is now closed off to you. Just over the past few
[02:46:22.520 --> 02:46:35.160] days, Mr. Duffy was able to get the California government to revoke the CDLs of 17,000 truckers
[02:46:35.160 --> 02:46:40.920] who are not American truckers. Part of the argument is that, well, they're much more dangerous.
[02:46:41.720 --> 02:46:48.920] They're very, very dangerous. I went through some of the information about the dangers of the
[02:46:48.920 --> 02:46:58.200] truckers, and that's over at my sub stack. If you go to the Liberty Conspiracy news notes for the
[02:46:58.200 --> 02:47:06.120] 18th, I believe, I've got that information in there. Let me go into this and see if I can find it.
[02:47:06.920 --> 02:47:09.880] I think it's in there. Let me just make sure I've got it.
[02:47:09.880 --> 02:47:19.080] It might have been on Wednesday. Yeah, it was probably on Wednesday, so I'll find it again for
[02:47:19.080 --> 02:47:27.880] you just to give you the information. There's a separate podcast all about this that runs through
[02:47:27.880 --> 02:47:33.880] whether or not the domestic truckers or the foreign truckers are the most dangerous.
[02:47:33.880 --> 02:47:42.360] Let me see if I've got this for you here. Yeah, it must be from another day. I'll just give you
[02:47:42.360 --> 02:47:49.880] the quick information on the side here because I've got it elsewhere. Basically, there are
[02:47:50.680 --> 02:47:57.720] basically there are three million truckers who are American truckers on the roads,
[02:48:00.440 --> 02:48:07.400] and there are 200,000 truckers who are foreign truckers.
[02:48:07.720 --> 02:48:12.680] Of the American truckers and the foreign truckers, there have been
[02:48:14.520 --> 02:48:27.320] 2,510 accidents associated, not caused by, but involving truckers. Of the 2,510 over the past year,
[02:48:27.960 --> 02:48:42.440] of the 2,510 over the past year, 2,505 were caused by American truckers. Five were caused
[02:48:42.440 --> 02:48:50.760] by foreigners who hold licenses, but since there are so many more American truckers,
[02:48:50.760 --> 02:48:57.800] we have to look at proportionality. What proportion of the truckers is represented by
[02:48:57.800 --> 02:49:03.320] the numbers of people who have been involved with fatal accidents? Let me see if I can
[02:49:03.320 --> 02:49:17.960] find this over for you here. Yeah, see if I can get it. In fact, I've got it on my podcast,
[02:49:17.960 --> 02:49:25.800] but I'll get that to you later. It turns out that the percentage of truckers who are involved with
[02:49:27.400 --> 02:49:38.280] associated with dangerous crashes is much smaller for the foreign truckers.
[02:49:39.400 --> 02:49:43.000] Let's see if I can go over here to get this for you. All right.
[02:49:43.480 --> 02:49:49.960] I'll show you an example of some of the problems that the truckers have run into that have cost
[02:49:49.960 --> 02:49:59.480] these expenses to go up so much. Here's a piece from MRCTV from 2019, showing truckers engaging
[02:49:59.480 --> 02:50:04.920] in slow rollout protests. Trump was president, but they were upset that Donald Trump wasn't
[02:50:04.920 --> 02:50:10.520] changing things quickly enough, and they were going out of business. Here's something that
[02:50:11.000 --> 02:50:17.320] didn't get a lot of pop media coverage. Last week, truckers nationwide engaged in a protest
[02:50:17.320 --> 02:50:21.960] of onerous federal mandates that had been hobbling them for years.
[02:50:27.800 --> 02:50:32.760] Hi folks, I'm Gardner Goldsmith for MRCTV. And yes, on Friday, April 12th,
[02:50:32.760 --> 02:50:38.840] long haul truckers nationwide engaged in what they called a slow roll protest.
[02:50:38.840 --> 02:50:44.760] Slow roll protest of federal regulations, something that really only got brief or
[02:50:44.760 --> 02:50:50.280] slightly curious mentions, and a handful of media markets. A lot of big rigs in New York
[02:50:50.280 --> 02:50:55.560] City today blocking traffic, all part of a planned one day protest. A number of large trucks were
[02:50:55.560 --> 02:51:00.520] parked in front of our ABC building on the Upper West Side. This was just a few hours ago. Other
[02:51:00.520 --> 02:51:06.520] truckers conducted slow roll protests on highways all across the country. They are upset over what
[02:51:06.520 --> 02:51:12.200] they call excessive regulations controlling their hours. They want rules relaxed on electronic
[02:51:12.200 --> 02:51:17.320] logging devices and more truck parking along expressways. They hope industry leaders
[02:51:17.320 --> 02:51:24.200] will get their message. But this is actually much bigger than those reports indicate because the
[02:51:24.200 --> 02:51:30.920] trucking industry is being crushed by heavy federal regulations that have really been piled on
[02:51:30.920 --> 02:51:36.680] since the start of the Obama administration. See, the feds impose their mandates primarily
[02:51:36.680 --> 02:51:41.400] through three agencies. That would be the EPA, the Department of Transportation,
[02:51:41.400 --> 02:51:47.320] and a very little known monster called the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
[02:51:47.320 --> 02:51:53.320] all of which are excused by misreading the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution,
[02:51:53.320 --> 02:52:01.400] which, as James Madison said, was not meant to let the feds regulate anything that crosses state
[02:52:01.400 --> 02:52:10.120] borders. So the Obama administration hit American businesses with over 4,000 mandates, and many of
[02:52:10.120 --> 02:52:17.720] those were applied to truckers. For example, Obama imposed new fuel efficiency mandates on truckers,
[02:52:17.720 --> 02:52:23.320] forcing them to change their loads, the physical makeup of their trucks, or buy new trucks
[02:52:23.320 --> 02:52:29.640] altogether. And if they didn't comply to the fuel mandates, they were fined. The Obama administration
[02:52:29.640 --> 02:52:36.280] imposed restricted hours of service mandates, cutting by 12 hours the time that truckers could
[02:52:36.280 --> 02:52:43.160] work over a seven-day period and compelling them to stop for a half hour every eight hours.
[02:52:43.160 --> 02:52:49.320] The Obama gang wanted to impose actual speed limits on truckers, but they had to settle
[02:52:49.320 --> 02:52:56.200] with something that is called the electronic logging device, or ELD, an intrusive monitor
[02:52:56.200 --> 02:53:03.400] that actually monitors trip times, allows police to offload the data, and essentially works as a
[02:53:03.400 --> 02:53:11.080] de facto speed monitor anyway. Obama wanted to force all truckers to undergo tests for sleep apnea,
[02:53:11.080 --> 02:53:18.040] but ended up settling with a consolation prize to prohibit what are called glider kit trucks,
[02:53:18.040 --> 02:53:24.920] where old engines are used in new frames and chassis. So yes, and there's a lot more there.
[02:53:24.920 --> 02:53:29.880] I've been writing about this for years, and it's very, very obvious. Now, some people will look at
[02:53:29.880 --> 02:53:34.440] those examples of the accidents, and they'll say, but these foreigners, they're getting into these
[02:53:34.440 --> 02:53:40.440] terrible accidents, and we just can't have that. So let's look at the statistics. If we go to
[02:53:40.440 --> 02:53:46.360] my Liberty Conspiracy News Notes at the Gardner Goldsmith Substack, this is from the news notes
[02:53:46.360 --> 02:53:52.280] from, let's see, the 19th. So if you want a reference to it, if you're one of the paid
[02:53:52.280 --> 02:53:55.720] subscribers, you'll find it. But I'll just give you this information. In fact, I'll show it to
[02:53:55.720 --> 02:54:03.320] you on the screen right now from the 19th. The statistics are very, very clear. As I mentioned,
[02:54:03.320 --> 02:54:09.160] based on the numbers, if you actually break it down proportionally, the foreign drivers are actually
[02:54:09.160 --> 02:54:15.000] safer than the American drivers. So I'll put this up on the screen for you so we can read it together
[02:54:15.000 --> 02:54:21.720] and you can check it out. If we go down here, you'll see here, I said, so you're talking about
[02:54:21.720 --> 02:54:29.560] Sean Duffy upset about this. I said, by the way, thus far in 2025, non-domiciled CDL holders
[02:54:29.560 --> 02:54:38.760] comprise less than 0.2% of all CDL holders involved with not necessarily causing fatal crashes in the
[02:54:38.760 --> 02:54:46.840] U.S. So far, domiciled CDL holders have been involved in 2,505 fatal crashes of the total
[02:54:46.840 --> 02:54:55.000] 2,510 for the year. According to the federal NHTSB, only five crashes are cited as involving
[02:54:55.000 --> 02:55:01.080] non-domiciled CDL holders. To measure that with more precision as percentages of the domiciled
[02:55:01.080 --> 02:55:05.960] and non-domiciled who are on the roads, non-domiciled who have been involved in fatal
[02:55:05.960 --> 02:55:13.240] crashes this year represent five of the 200,000 recorded with CDLs. That's their population,
[02:55:13.240 --> 02:55:23.240] the non-domiciled, five of the 200,000. That is 0.0025% involved with fatal crashes.
[02:55:23.800 --> 02:55:30.360] Domiciled who have been involved in fatal crashes comes to 2,505 of the three million
[02:55:30.360 --> 02:55:38.920] licensed holders or approximately 0.759%. So when you hear the canard that foreigners on
[02:55:38.920 --> 02:55:44.920] trucking routes are causing a spike in fatal crashes, please consider this. Also, please
[02:55:44.920 --> 02:55:52.120] consider that the normative aggregate CDL-related crashes leading to death has actually been going
[02:55:52.120 --> 02:56:02.440] down from 8.3% in 2023 to 2024, and the numbers indicate that 2025 will see even fewer CDL-related
[02:56:02.440 --> 02:56:11.400] road deaths. Now again, that could be borne upon by fewer truckers out on the roads, fewer packages
[02:56:11.400 --> 02:56:15.240] being sent around. There's something that I would have to investigate there as well. And on liberty
[02:56:15.240 --> 02:56:19.720] conspiracy, somebody brought up a point, yeah, but they can't read. They can't read the lines. Well,
[02:56:19.720 --> 02:56:24.840] first of all, most people are using direction things on their trucks. But let's say there's
[02:56:24.840 --> 02:56:29.080] an emergency and they can't read a sign hypothetically if we go into some speculation,
[02:56:29.080 --> 02:56:33.320] very quick speculation. There are a lot of American truckers who can't read either,
[02:56:33.320 --> 02:56:38.040] most likely. Just look at the number of illiterate people who are graduated from schools.
[02:56:38.680 --> 02:56:45.000] So that's something that really becomes sort of a fungible point. But the facts remain. The
[02:56:45.000 --> 02:56:50.440] statistics are clear. Regardless, somehow they're doing a better job than the American truckers are
[02:56:50.440 --> 02:56:55.480] as far as safety goes. You're not going to hear that from Sean Duffy. He says the exact opposite,
[02:56:55.480 --> 02:57:00.520] just like they said about these politicians talking about the military oath. Talking about
[02:57:00.520 --> 02:57:06.680] the military oath, let's get a little opportunity to talk about a guy who is a great host.
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[02:59:12.520 --> 02:59:17.960] Storm, and he's popping in to be a guest right now to give us a little information about what
[02:59:17.960 --> 02:59:23.400] might be coming up on Nights of the Storm tomorrow at two in the afternoon on Rumble. Jason, welcome
[02:59:23.400 --> 02:59:28.200] to The David Knight Show. Thanks for coming in. I know it's a little bit after what we had discussed,
[02:59:28.200 --> 02:59:33.240] but I appreciate you being there, man. It's great to see you in that legendary beard, brother.
[02:59:33.240 --> 02:59:38.440] Well, thanks, Gart, for having me on. It's an honor again to be on with you and on The David
[02:59:38.440 --> 02:59:43.720] Knight Show. Yeah, we got some exciting stuff coming up on Nights of the Storm tomorrow at
[02:59:43.720 --> 02:59:50.440] 2 p.m. Eastern. We're having, what's her name? Holy crap. I had it written down here. It's
[02:59:50.440 --> 02:59:55.400] Michelle Spencer. She has another name, so I had to figure out if that's a maiden name or what. But
[02:59:55.400 --> 03:00:02.200] yeah, Michelle Spencer is a pivotal figure right now. She is a whistleblower, medical whistleblower.
[03:00:02.200 --> 03:00:06.280] So this is kind of a good follow-up to having Zoe on. We had two episodes with Zoe,
[03:00:06.280 --> 03:00:12.440] who's also a whistleblower. Yeah. But Michelle's coming on to talk about the skyrocketing,
[03:00:13.640 --> 03:00:20.520] what is it, miscarriages and stillborns and death, you know, inside and outside the womb.
[03:00:20.520 --> 03:00:25.640] Like, the numbers will blow you away. And she's actually being protected right now,
[03:00:25.640 --> 03:00:29.880] so she hasn't lost her job. She still works where she works because of the whistleblower
[03:00:30.520 --> 03:00:37.320] status. But there's a humongous lawsuit going on that nobody's talking about. She's been on a few
[03:00:37.320 --> 03:00:44.200] podcasts, and the story will break your heart. I probably won't say much because it's kind of
[03:00:44.200 --> 03:00:48.680] near and dear to my heart when it comes to children like this. So I think Karen's going
[03:00:48.680 --> 03:00:54.600] to lead that one up. But she's actually being backed by Children's Health Defense. And I think
[03:00:54.600 --> 03:00:59.240] we couldn't talk about it before because Zoe, I think, may or may not be an expert witness in this
[03:00:59.240 --> 03:01:05.560] case, to back up some of these facts, these numbers and statistics that they're hiding now.
[03:01:05.560 --> 03:01:10.520] So that's who we have coming on. And then in a couple weeks after that, we have Scott Helmer
[03:01:10.520 --> 03:01:14.600] coming on. I don't know if you know who Scott Helmer is. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to be. I want
[03:01:14.600 --> 03:01:19.240] to get him on Liberty because I love skies. Great. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going to be getting him
[03:01:19.240 --> 03:01:23.880] over. I love him. Yeah. Yeah. Let me know. His booking agent, me and her have been going back
[03:01:23.880 --> 03:01:29.240] and forth. She's a really nice lady. But his story is a phenomenal story about standing up for the
[03:01:29.240 --> 03:01:35.240] right thing. Throughout COVID, he's a live performer, opens up for some really big bands.
[03:01:35.800 --> 03:01:43.160] He refused to do the mask mandate. He refused to do the COVID jab and lost about, I want to say,
[03:01:43.160 --> 03:01:50.600] like $35,000 in that year that the supposed pandemic was going on. But he stood his ground
[03:01:50.600 --> 03:01:57.080] and he was scrubbed from every platform. And I think at one point he may have been back. I'm
[03:01:57.080 --> 03:02:02.280] going to have to clarify that with him because I read an article on it somewhere. But because of
[03:02:02.280 --> 03:02:08.840] the AI music stuff that he went ahead and voluntarily pulled his stuff back down to stand up against it.
[03:02:08.840 --> 03:02:17.400] Yeah, I believe he was part of that group that is pulling his music down. And I love his music,
[03:02:17.400 --> 03:02:21.320] first of all. And sometimes he's in the chat, in David's chat, which is just terrific.
[03:02:22.120 --> 03:02:28.600] And yes, I've been in touch with his person who helps out on media as well and just wonderful
[03:02:28.600 --> 03:02:33.000] people. And you think about, I don't know if you're familiar with the Reverend Horton Heat, he's a
[03:02:34.040 --> 03:02:38.200] rockabilly performer, just awesome, great, great. He was in an episode of Homicide,
[03:02:38.200 --> 03:02:43.800] Life on the Streets actually, in a motel. They never actually, he just basically sat between
[03:02:43.800 --> 03:02:47.320] two areas where the story was happening on the show and they would move the camera past and he
[03:02:47.320 --> 03:02:55.800] was in his little motel room. But he said, look, I'm going to play. He said, my band is reliant on
[03:02:55.800 --> 03:03:01.560] live play to make our living. So you can try to stop us, you can try to arrest us. We're going
[03:03:01.560 --> 03:03:06.680] to do it. And just like Scott, it's just amazing courage on the part of these people, whether it's
[03:03:06.680 --> 03:03:13.240] them or it's Van Morrison or Eric Clapton or others speaking up, this concept of truth to power.
[03:03:13.800 --> 03:03:17.640] The more people who do that, how much more comfortable do you feel living in a world like
[03:03:17.640 --> 03:03:22.360] that? You know, that's wonderful. That's great. So I'll look forward to that. And Jason, I was
[03:03:22.360 --> 03:03:31.800] curious to ask you, because we first heard about you after you were so integral in getting the
[03:03:31.800 --> 03:03:40.120] exemption for military members to not have to take the jab. And I was curious because I've never
[03:03:40.120 --> 03:03:45.560] really asked you about what went through your mind as you were approaching retirement time.
[03:03:46.440 --> 03:03:55.720] And how stressful was that for you to say, they want me to do this? And before you really figured
[03:03:55.720 --> 03:04:02.040] out a way to do it, what was going through your mind of I'm either going to have to stop or I'm
[03:04:02.040 --> 03:04:08.600] going to have to take this thing and it's supported by abortion. It could hurt me. How was that? How
[03:04:08.600 --> 03:04:13.160] did that play on you emotionally, especially looking at your finances, knowing I can't leave
[03:04:13.160 --> 03:04:19.320] now, I'm this close to retirement? Could you describe any of that to us? Well, for me personally,
[03:04:19.880 --> 03:04:24.520] I wouldn't care much, but I have a family and that was the hard part. And I'm telling you right now,
[03:04:24.520 --> 03:04:29.640] I was talking to some people offline about this, about specifically about Scott. And that's why
[03:04:29.640 --> 03:04:34.200] I'm excited to have him on because he took that stance as well. So we have a lot in common there.
[03:04:35.160 --> 03:04:41.880] But people said it's not as easy said as done. People were wrapped up in these, you had Eric on
[03:04:41.880 --> 03:04:47.080] talking about these car loans, trying to get car payments, your mortgage payments, houses are stupid,
[03:04:47.080 --> 03:04:53.880] expensive now, healthcare. You can't just lose your job because your family relies on you for that job.
[03:04:53.880 --> 03:04:59.880] So it really was a family decision. And I probably would not have been able to hold out if my wife
[03:04:59.880 --> 03:05:05.960] did not stick with me and say, you know, whatever you want to do, let's do it, we'll figure it out.
[03:05:05.960 --> 03:05:12.440] And that's a real hard step to make, especially as the provider, the only provider of the family.
[03:05:12.440 --> 03:05:16.520] At the time I had, well, we had our second grandchild coming that lived with us and one
[03:05:16.520 --> 03:05:21.560] of my daughters living with us. So we're talking about a whole household here that relied strictly
[03:05:21.560 --> 03:05:30.280] on my income. And, you know, the retirement thing, it actually worked out pretty good. God,
[03:05:30.280 --> 03:05:36.520] God will see you through. If you see it through, he will see you through. I promise that. I promise
[03:05:36.520 --> 03:05:40.840] that because right now the army hates me because they're paying me more than I used to make to
[03:05:41.560 --> 03:05:47.560] watch my grandson. And that's because of what they did. So anyway, yeah, it wasn't so much
[03:05:47.560 --> 03:05:53.800] hard on me as it was hard on, for me, it was a simple decision, you know. But when you have
[03:05:53.800 --> 03:05:58.040] family, I do understand how people say, well, some people just didn't have a choice. Yeah,
[03:05:58.040 --> 03:06:02.200] you had a choice, but it come with consequences and those consequences could be dire.
[03:06:03.000 --> 03:06:10.520] I'm always amazed by the dynamism and the elasticity of people to be able to move and do
[03:06:10.520 --> 03:06:17.080] something different and take on another job and acclimate themselves to doing something new.
[03:06:17.080 --> 03:06:24.200] And for example, when my father left Washington, when he was working with Charlotte down in the
[03:06:24.200 --> 03:06:28.520] education department, and he said, you know, we're just waiting. They left at the same time. They're
[03:06:28.520 --> 03:06:35.000] like, we're not going to get rid of the education department. And so Charlotte is a beat. My dad,
[03:06:35.000 --> 03:06:40.120] you know, they're both, they talked and he said, I'm going to leave. You know, he was so close to
[03:06:40.120 --> 03:06:46.760] getting his retirement, but he left and he ended up working on cars for a while. And
[03:06:47.880 --> 03:06:54.760] you know, he had a family. I was still in high school, you know, and it is amazing because,
[03:06:54.760 --> 03:07:00.840] as you say, God provides. And one of the things that I think, Jason, God provides us is
[03:07:01.880 --> 03:07:05.720] an ability to recognize that we've done the right thing. And that provides incredible
[03:07:05.720 --> 03:07:12.120] satisfaction. And I think it's fuel to allow us to take some chances, try a different job,
[03:07:12.120 --> 03:07:16.280] you know, deliver milk or, you know, get into landscaping or, you know,
[03:07:16.280 --> 03:07:21.880] do something, anything, any job that is productive. And I don't know what it is
[03:07:21.880 --> 03:07:28.120] about contemporary society, but I think for quite a while, maybe from the 50s, 60s and 70s through
[03:07:28.120 --> 03:07:33.720] the nineties, people just thought that there was just a track. You had to go to college, get a job
[03:07:33.720 --> 03:07:37.880] and what am I going to do? I got to keep this job. And it really ties them into the corporate system.
[03:07:38.520 --> 03:07:43.320] That's a real shame, I think. Yeah. And going back to the trusting in God thing, I think it's
[03:07:43.320 --> 03:07:49.400] important that God gives us the wisdom and discernment to have a plan as well. And my plan,
[03:07:49.400 --> 03:07:54.840] so we were a little fortunate because my dad had passed away. Not saying that that's fortunate,
[03:07:54.840 --> 03:07:59.560] that was horrible, but he had passed away and left us a little bit of something like some stocks,
[03:07:59.560 --> 03:08:04.600] you know, that got divided up between the family. And so we had a little bit of wiggle room
[03:08:05.560 --> 03:08:11.240] to last us a couple months should they decide to deny my exemption and boot me out with no
[03:08:11.240 --> 03:08:17.960] retirement. So, you know, my plan at the time was to go back to Illinois, because when I entered
[03:08:17.960 --> 03:08:23.400] the military, I was working in a car factory, making bumpers for cars, which is why I love
[03:08:23.400 --> 03:08:29.880] Eric, because I'm in the car thing and I'm wearing his hat, by the way. But, you know, I think it's
[03:08:29.880 --> 03:08:35.160] important that we do try to have a plan, but don't try to force the plan, just have a plan.
[03:08:35.720 --> 03:08:40.680] And that was our plan was that I would go back to Illinois, which I do not want to live there.
[03:08:40.680 --> 03:08:46.120] I did want to talk guns today, but we probably won't get to it. But Illinois is not very friendly
[03:08:46.120 --> 03:08:50.680] on guns, as you know. So I didn't want to go there. But for the sake of the family,
[03:08:50.680 --> 03:08:55.480] I would go back there because our policy was that if you left that job to go into the military,
[03:08:55.480 --> 03:09:01.320] you're promised your job back. And that's one of those jobs that, you know, for the first year or
[03:09:01.320 --> 03:09:06.200] two, you're kind of in the layoff cycle. They paid really well, the work wasn't too terribly hard.
[03:09:07.560 --> 03:09:12.600] But you would be in the layoff cycle for the first couple years, like when they had to scale
[03:09:12.600 --> 03:09:17.800] down or whatever. But then after two or three years, you were no longer in the layoff cycle.
[03:09:17.800 --> 03:09:23.320] Well, when you come back from the military, you bypassed that layoff cycle, right? I only
[03:09:23.320 --> 03:09:27.000] worked there for like eight months. So that's a pretty big jump. I can go right back into my old
[03:09:27.000 --> 03:09:32.600] job at the same pay, low cost of living area there. I was down south Illinois, not up by Chicago,
[03:09:32.600 --> 03:09:37.880] where it's crazy. And, you know, you can get you a nice 10 acre plot of land and a double white
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[03:11:24.840 --> 03:11:29.560] I feel like I have a good enough plan. So let's just roll with this. Let's stand our ground.
[03:11:29.560 --> 03:11:33.400] The family supported me. They said, okay, we like your plan. We'll do what we got to do.
[03:11:34.440 --> 03:11:39.480] And God just gave us something better on the back end. And that's what I'm seeing with a lot
[03:11:39.480 --> 03:11:46.920] of my friends that actually did the same as me. They PCS'd on different locations and stuff,
[03:11:46.920 --> 03:11:51.320] but we still keep in contact. And a lot of them, we were talking the whole time. And that was
[03:11:52.040 --> 03:11:58.680] a huge, it really bolstered me to stand my ground because other people were doing it
[03:11:59.320 --> 03:12:04.120] as well. So you either stand together or you hang separate, right? Or you hang together,
[03:12:04.680 --> 03:12:11.160] I don't know how the saying goes, but that communication with people who were of a similar
[03:12:11.160 --> 03:12:16.680] mindset, and these people were also 16, 17, 18 years in and said, no, I'm not doing that.
[03:12:16.680 --> 03:12:21.560] And it also was important to me to stand that ground because I really cared about my soldiers.
[03:12:21.560 --> 03:12:28.280] My soldiers are like family. And I tried to show them that you can stand up. You talked about the
[03:12:28.280 --> 03:12:34.760] constitution, constitutionality, lawful orders, unlawful orders. I looked at it as an unlawful
[03:12:34.760 --> 03:12:42.200] order. And outside of the oath that we take, and I'm pretty sure that the last time I read the oath,
[03:12:42.200 --> 03:12:47.960] the word lawful was in front of presidential order. I'm pretty sure I tried to find that
[03:12:48.520 --> 03:12:53.080] document before I came on. I couldn't find it. It's packed in a box somewhere,
[03:12:53.080 --> 03:12:58.680] but I'm pretty sure that we were required to obey the lawful orders of the president
[03:12:58.680 --> 03:13:03.320] and the United States and officers appointed over us. So I'd have to confirm that. But
[03:13:04.040 --> 03:13:09.400] the thing is there's other regulations that talk about lawful versus unlawful orders from
[03:13:09.400 --> 03:13:16.040] the president and your commanders. And that's what I based my whole thing on was that. And then I
[03:13:16.040 --> 03:13:19.800] wrote it up differently, but I didn't expect to talk about this today.
[03:13:20.280 --> 03:13:27.000] No, I didn't expect to ask about it, but I was just struck by it just popped into my mind what
[03:13:27.000 --> 03:13:31.400] you must have gone through. And I remember at the time hearing about what you were doing,
[03:13:31.400 --> 03:13:37.400] and it hit me then. Just the stress of it must have just been unbelievable. And yet you pulled
[03:13:37.400 --> 03:13:44.440] through. And you helped so many people with what you did that it stands as a moment in American
[03:13:44.440 --> 03:13:50.760] history that few people can say that they were able to pull through for that many people and
[03:13:50.760 --> 03:13:57.640] really save them from such dire consequences, whether it's professional or it's medical,
[03:13:58.520 --> 03:14:09.000] ethical as well with, as you say, breach of the oath, the use of fetal cells, just terrible things
[03:14:09.000 --> 03:14:12.600] all involved with that. And just the massive deception of it.
[03:14:15.160 --> 03:14:18.760] They were lying to us. And we knew it because we have scientific documentation
[03:14:19.800 --> 03:14:24.360] that shows that what they were saying was not true. And that's deception right there.
[03:14:24.360 --> 03:14:31.960] It's not informed consent. And it's not that I did anything. My sphere of influence was so tiny.
[03:14:32.840 --> 03:14:37.880] I had some other leaders I knew that were out in other bases and they were trying to help
[03:14:37.880 --> 03:14:42.600] their soldiers. I had my 12 soldiers or so I was trying to help at the time before they moved me
[03:14:42.600 --> 03:14:50.840] where I had no soldiers. David Knight was the one who got that out there. So praise God for
[03:14:50.840 --> 03:14:54.520] David Knight getting that out there. And if people were helped, it's not because of me,
[03:14:54.520 --> 03:14:58.200] it's because David put it out there. And I do pray for him and his family because I know
[03:14:58.200 --> 03:15:03.160] Karen lost her brother, her twin brother, and they're taking a little time off. There's a lot
[03:15:03.160 --> 03:15:07.000] to deal with. So prayers for them. And yeah.
[03:15:07.880 --> 03:15:17.960] Sometimes I'm reminded, Jason, of just the strength of David in his show and how God brought him
[03:15:17.960 --> 03:15:26.120] through two infowars, then saw the dissension between him and Alex, who obviously was
[03:15:27.160 --> 03:15:31.320] putting forward things that were totally unbelievable. And David had noticed these
[03:15:31.320 --> 03:15:35.720] things and was just going to keep trying to get the truth out as long as possible until he was
[03:15:35.720 --> 03:15:42.120] fired. And that sort of integrity in one's life is remarkable. And it's something that any family
[03:15:42.120 --> 03:15:47.000] can see, but the family members of the Knight family are just wonderful people. They also recognize
[03:15:47.640 --> 03:15:53.240] the goodness in David. And also just on a personal note, as you and I know, seeing David
[03:15:53.240 --> 03:15:59.080] recovering from the strokes the way he has, full bore, going at it, doing an awesome job. And now
[03:15:59.800 --> 03:16:04.200] the way that they've been able to juggle things during that time period, when Travis took over
[03:16:04.200 --> 03:16:09.320] and Lance was on the production side of things now, it's an even stronger program. And it's so
[03:16:09.320 --> 03:16:16.760] dynamic that they've been able to add new things. It really is terrific. And I'm just so pleased
[03:16:16.760 --> 03:16:23.000] that I've met you and Tiger and Karen and Tony and Don Jeffries and Billy Ray Valentine and
[03:16:23.000 --> 03:16:29.960] Eric Peters and so many wonderful folks. Even folks just within the chat who communicate with
[03:16:29.960 --> 03:16:37.720] me, Skunk Hollow and so many other folks who are so kind, Harry and iHandy and wonderful people. And
[03:16:37.720 --> 03:16:41.960] it's a great thing. It feels like family, but at the same time, sometimes I almost forget
[03:16:42.520 --> 03:16:48.520] of the strength of David's voice to be able to communicate to people. And I love the fact that
[03:16:48.520 --> 03:16:54.520] he has a good, good audience and they've been finding him. And we have a good viewership going
[03:16:54.520 --> 03:17:00.760] today over at X on David's X. We're not streaming on my X over at Gardner Goldsmith right now,
[03:17:00.760 --> 03:17:05.080] but I want to remind people that one of these offshoots is Knights of the Storm.
[03:17:05.080 --> 03:17:10.920] And your website has a lot of these folks who are associated with us over there. Why don't you tell
[03:17:10.920 --> 03:17:15.560] people what's over at Knights of the Storm? Oh yeah, Knights of the Storm, the landing
[03:17:15.560 --> 03:17:19.560] page just kind of talks about us a little bit. And we were born out of David Knight chat.
[03:17:19.560 --> 03:17:25.160] And by the way, I want to give that tip to all the folks over in chat today. Chat was pretty
[03:17:25.160 --> 03:17:30.920] amazing. We were talking tariffs and constitutionality, a lot of really good conversation. It's like a
[03:17:30.920 --> 03:17:39.160] second show that you're watching. So we're watching you, Gard, and we're watching the chat. Sometimes
[03:17:39.160 --> 03:17:43.640] we'll get some trolls in there that'll kind of disrupt, but it was really good today. And I was
[03:17:43.640 --> 03:17:48.600] like, this is great. And that's how we were born Knights of the Storm. We were in the chat talking
[03:17:48.600 --> 03:17:53.480] about things and we're like, let's expand on this beyond the show. We'll do our own show.
[03:17:54.200 --> 03:17:59.640] And that's how we were born. And we have a lot of great guests on. Some of them are David Knight
[03:17:59.640 --> 03:18:06.760] listeners. Some are organic to us now. And we reach out recently, we've been booked out about a month
[03:18:06.760 --> 03:18:12.600] out. So we're really, since I have a little more time now, I'm actually trying to be more productive
[03:18:12.600 --> 03:18:20.600] on the scheduling and production side. And then we have Ashley and Karen, amazing co-hosts. I think
[03:18:20.600 --> 03:18:25.560] it's a hostile takeover, Gard. I think it's a hostile takeover. Well, you can see I was calling
[03:18:25.560 --> 03:18:30.600] up the, I'm getting the Rumble channel going over there, Knights of the Storm. Yeah, they're awesome.
[03:18:30.600 --> 03:18:38.440] And you all have such very strong backgrounds in various things that it's just, and the research
[03:18:38.440 --> 03:18:42.680] is just great. So I know you, you wanted to talk a little bit about guns. Let's go a couple more
[03:18:42.680 --> 03:18:47.160] minutes before I wrap up the show, talk about guns and things like that, that you wanted to bring up
[03:18:47.160 --> 03:18:51.640] because you've been, you've been, you and I've been communicating a little bit about this on text.
[03:18:51.640 --> 03:18:57.960] Yeah. So one of the things I've been looking at, and I actually went to my gun shop recently, gun
[03:18:57.960 --> 03:19:02.440] shop slash shooting range recently, we talked about the Glock debacle. I don't know if you
[03:19:02.440 --> 03:19:10.840] heard about the Glock debacle in California. No. So short of it is that California did some
[03:19:10.840 --> 03:19:17.800] legislation that banned the sale of new Glocks of all but like three of their models because you
[03:19:17.800 --> 03:19:23.400] can put the switch on it, you know, to make it fully auto. Yeah. And the concerning part about
[03:19:23.400 --> 03:19:30.680] this is that right after that, so this goes in effect, is it July 1st of 2026, they can no longer
[03:19:30.680 --> 03:19:39.000] sell any Glocks of certain models. And there's some far, far reaching implications to this
[03:19:39.000 --> 03:19:43.800] because I got to talking to my gun guy here. I was actually picking up a lower matter of fact,
[03:19:44.360 --> 03:19:53.560] I'll do a little show and tell here. This is the 3D, 3D printed. It's 3D printed in multiple pieces,
[03:19:53.560 --> 03:19:59.480] about 15 pieces that are now glued together. But I did it as a, as that article series I did for
[03:19:59.480 --> 03:20:05.320] Substack to show the fallacy of you could just buy a $50 3D printer and crank out guns all day.
[03:20:05.320 --> 03:20:10.520] It's completely bogus. Right. But they're basing a lot of legislation on this false narrative.
[03:20:10.520 --> 03:20:16.920] Yeah. So I printed that I tested it actually surged the purge went out with me and we got video
[03:20:16.920 --> 03:20:23.320] on his channel shooting it. All right. But it fell over and broke. So I ripped the guts out of it.
[03:20:23.320 --> 03:20:29.000] And I built an actual, you know, weapon with it, a metal one. And then I just glued this together
[03:20:29.080 --> 03:20:33.560] as a training tool for my grandson so he can run around and pretend to shoot squirrels and deer.
[03:20:33.560 --> 03:20:38.920] And we teach him don't point at people. Anyway, the point is getting back to the Glock thing.
[03:20:38.920 --> 03:20:43.800] Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute. And I want
[03:20:43.800 --> 03:20:50.440] you to hear about love, generosity and compassion. We say those words all the time and they sound
[03:20:50.440 --> 03:20:56.920] good. They feel good. But here's the truth. Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into
[03:20:57.000 --> 03:21:03.000] action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world who
[03:21:03.000 --> 03:21:10.120] doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all.
[03:21:10.120 --> 03:21:16.440] And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward. But that child is waiting. This is
[03:21:16.440 --> 03:21:22.600] where you come in with Compassion International. You have the chance to change a child's future,
[03:21:22.600 --> 03:21:29.000] not just with words, not with promises, but with real help that provides food, education,
[03:21:29.000 --> 03:21:35.400] and hope through local churches and people already in their community. Put your words
[03:21:35.400 --> 03:21:43.800] into action and join me. Introduce a child to a loving Heavenly Father today at Compassion.com.
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[03:22:22.360 --> 03:22:28.040] going to take effect in July of next year. And Glock folded and they said, you know what,
[03:22:28.040 --> 03:22:32.840] we're going to discontinue all of these models, all but three. Now Glock has, hold on, I got it
[03:22:32.840 --> 03:22:40.120] here on the, I forget how many models it was like, oh geez, crazy amounts of models that they are
[03:22:40.120 --> 03:22:46.920] discontinuing 54 variants in total. So I heard something about that. I didn't know what the cause
[03:22:46.920 --> 03:22:52.680] was. Well, the cause was because of California. So they're like, okay, we're going to discontinue
[03:22:52.680 --> 03:22:58.840] these models that are easily modified for this Glock switch to make it fully auto. And this is
[03:22:58.840 --> 03:23:03.320] completely different than what Magpul did. So Magpul, if you don't know, is a company who makes
[03:23:03.320 --> 03:23:10.200] aftermarket parts and magazines and stuff like that for AR-15s and other types of platforms.
[03:23:11.080 --> 03:23:15.880] But I was, I think I was in Colorado at the time, but they were a Colorado based company
[03:23:16.680 --> 03:23:23.480] and Colorado had slipped in some legislation by a very ignorant lady that had slid in. It was a
[03:23:23.480 --> 03:23:29.480] high capacity magazine ban. So they said, okay, after this certain date, this is probably back
[03:23:29.480 --> 03:23:37.240] around 2014, 2015, something like that, somewhere in that era. They said, magazines made after this
[03:23:37.240 --> 03:23:43.560] date are no longer going to be for sale in Colorado if they're over like 10 rounds or something.
[03:23:44.200 --> 03:23:51.640] And so they pressured Magpul to re dye their systems to stamp a manufacturer date on their
[03:23:51.640 --> 03:23:57.320] magazines so that they could prove whether or not it was made before. Cause you're still allowed to
[03:23:57.320 --> 03:24:03.480] keep the old ones. It was a grandfathered situation. Magpul said, no, they picked up
[03:24:03.480 --> 03:24:08.120] and they moved. That's what Glock should have done. Said, go stuff yourself because we're talking
[03:24:08.120 --> 03:24:12.760] about freedom here. You had Eric on freedom of transportation. This is freedom to keep them
[03:24:12.760 --> 03:24:20.680] bare arms and there is no restrictions on it. Anyway, so, but no Glock folded the real concern
[03:24:20.680 --> 03:24:24.760] that I had with it as I'm researching, cause you know, California could do what they want,
[03:24:24.760 --> 03:24:29.560] whatever. If you don't like it, move out of California. The problem is I got to
[03:24:29.560 --> 03:24:36.360] dig into it a little bit deeper. So they tried to save face. Glock tried to save face by saying,
[03:24:36.360 --> 03:24:40.840] well, we're, we're looking into a new generation model and we don't need to produce all these other
[03:24:41.880 --> 03:24:46.040] guns anymore. We're going to move into a new generation model, which people have already
[03:24:46.040 --> 03:24:51.400] figured out how to install these switches on already. But they said, we will still continue
[03:24:51.400 --> 03:24:58.040] to sell the parts. And I have another show and tell this is a Glock slide that I purchased. So
[03:24:58.680 --> 03:25:04.120] you can't buy the Glock frame in California. Well, it won't be produced anymore, but you
[03:25:04.120 --> 03:25:11.320] could still buy the parts. And I got to looking into other things. So I ordered a, a PSA Palmetto
[03:25:11.320 --> 03:25:16.760] state armory dagger, which is a Glock clone. I started questioning. I said, I wonder if it's
[03:25:16.760 --> 03:25:23.960] just Glock or is it the other models that are Glock clones? Because you could easily just buy
[03:25:23.960 --> 03:25:31.560] an aftermarket frame that's not on the band list and then order these Glock parts to throw on it.
[03:25:32.120 --> 03:25:36.120] And you could essentially have a Glock that you could essentially put a switch on if you wanted
[03:25:36.120 --> 03:25:42.600] to. Sure. And illegally in California. Well, and I got to look in and sure enough, it is not just
[03:25:42.680 --> 03:25:50.680] Glock. I got into a Reddit post here and discontent or models that will be banned as part of this Glock
[03:25:50.680 --> 03:25:58.920] ban also include several models of shadow systems, uh, FMK firearms, Smith and Wesson, and a company
[03:25:58.920 --> 03:26:05.400] called dirt. I don't know who that is. Uh, but, and I was like, why would they ban certain ones
[03:26:05.400 --> 03:26:11.240] and not other ones? Well, this is why, if you take a look at the Glock frame, what they're actually
[03:26:11.240 --> 03:26:18.600] banning is this, uh, there's a little bar in here as part of the trigger mechanism. So anything that
[03:26:18.600 --> 03:26:24.120] has that kind of a bar system for trigger will be banned and maybe after the fact. So you could
[03:26:24.120 --> 03:26:30.360] legally purchase one, they could add it to the list and you become a felon. And I got to look and
[03:26:30.360 --> 03:26:36.280] I said, Oh, I think my, my Springfield, uh, XD nine has the same system. It's not on the list.
[03:26:36.360 --> 03:26:42.440] Guess what? That's the same system. So you can expect to see a lot of firearms. It isn't just
[03:26:42.440 --> 03:26:45.640] one of those things we're going to creep in. They're going to say, well, we're just banning
[03:26:45.640 --> 03:26:52.120] these, uh, guns, uh, the frames only, not, not the parts, but the frames we're banning these only,
[03:26:52.120 --> 03:26:58.760] but then they slip in more and more and more. The, the utter contempt, the utter, utter,
[03:26:58.760 --> 03:27:03.880] utter contempt and lack of respect for their neighbor. And, and, you know, we're talking,
[03:27:03.880 --> 03:27:11.480] of course, the second amendment, very clear and no ex post facto law. And then the immorality
[03:27:11.480 --> 03:27:18.120] of saying, no, you can't possess this thing. You're the dangerous one for possessing something.
[03:27:18.120 --> 03:27:24.040] Is possession harming anyone? No. Who's making the threat, the government, they're the ones with the
[03:27:24.040 --> 03:27:28.920] guns pointed at people, not only to take their money, but to take that money, put it into a
[03:27:28.920 --> 03:27:34.920] policing system to further point government guns at people who want to own a gun peacefully.
[03:27:34.920 --> 03:27:39.800] It's incredible. The doubling and tripling of aggression that the state does, and people
[03:27:39.800 --> 03:27:46.280] will accept it. They'll justify it. It's just ridiculous. Listen, we're just up against the
[03:27:46.280 --> 03:27:50.920] clock. I got one. Can I throw one more thing in there? Guard? Sure. I'll send people over,
[03:27:50.920 --> 03:27:55.400] go to the United States of the storm over on rumble and look at my repost. So Toby Leary,
[03:27:55.400 --> 03:28:02.520] which I know, you know, guard, Toby Leary just did, I think yesterday, he did a show. Guy's been
[03:28:02.520 --> 03:28:09.080] in jail for 608, I think 610 days now, not jail, but house arrest. Yes. And this is terrible. The
[03:28:09.080 --> 03:28:13.800] Air Force guy. Yeah. And the reason I wanted to bring this up is because talking about the
[03:28:13.800 --> 03:28:21.080] Glock stuff and how you can still buy the parts, they got him. It was a targeted for disarmament
[03:28:21.080 --> 03:28:26.840] because of something he bought on eBay. So he was just traveling through Massachusetts.
[03:28:26.840 --> 03:28:32.520] No, I think in this case, he actually bought a part on eBay. And then they came, I had to watch
[03:28:32.520 --> 03:28:38.600] it a second time to get the story down. But if you buy something that is one of these parts that
[03:28:38.600 --> 03:28:44.280] the gun is now banned, but you can buy the parts, guess what? They're going to, you're inviting them
[03:28:44.280 --> 03:28:49.240] into your home to come check. And that's where I'm worried about this going. I had more to talk about
[03:28:49.240 --> 03:28:56.600] 3D printing guns and all this other stuff. I always over-prepare. But no, it's going in a
[03:28:56.600 --> 03:29:01.720] very dangerous direction because they're sliding in, oh, it's just this model of Glock. These couple
[03:29:01.720 --> 03:29:06.200] models of Glock. Next thing you know, it covers a myriad of clones of guns that operate in the same
[03:29:06.200 --> 03:29:10.840] function. If you order a replacement part, all of a sudden now they're coming up to your home to see
[03:29:10.840 --> 03:29:15.880] if you're building a new one, which is prohibited. You can still own an old one and repair it, but
[03:29:15.880 --> 03:29:20.840] now you're opening the door. This is getting really, really dangerous. And we start talking about AI
[03:29:20.840 --> 03:29:27.000] and tying into your financials and looking where you're shopping. I worry about that too. I order
[03:29:27.000 --> 03:29:32.120] stuff online. They can tell that I'm buying parts. So even if they don't know the serial number of
[03:29:32.120 --> 03:29:37.160] the gun or they don't know this or that or the other, they know I'm building a gun. So what if
[03:29:37.160 --> 03:29:41.320] it's a prohibited gun or becomes prohibited tomorrow? And I don't even know. Now I'm a felon.
[03:29:42.280 --> 03:29:47.240] You know, and just the fact that they're breaching the Fourth Amendment, looking into the shops or
[03:29:47.240 --> 03:29:53.240] online purchases, there's so much dark activity on the parts of these people. And they seem to
[03:29:53.240 --> 03:29:58.040] think they're doing the right thing. It's just, all right, better run. Thank you so much, Jason.
[03:29:58.040 --> 03:30:04.760] Knights of the Storm, you are the man. You've got the best team out there. Thanks, Jason. I would be
[03:30:04.760 --> 03:30:09.320] giving you the Vulcan mind meld, but we'll do that on Liberty Conspiracy sometime next week.
[03:30:09.320 --> 03:30:13.560] All right, brother. And we'll watch for you tomorrow. Thanks, Jason. I'll talk to you soon.
[03:30:13.560 --> 03:30:19.160] Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm, two o'clock tomorrow. Watch for them on Rumble and check out
[03:30:19.160 --> 03:30:25.160] the page, of course, over there on Rumble land. And of course you can check out Liberty Conspiracy
[03:30:25.160 --> 03:30:31.880] live over at the Liberty Conspiracy channel tonight. And you can, of course, participate.
[03:30:31.880 --> 03:30:36.040] And one of the things that we're going to discuss tonight that I think is going to be fairly
[03:30:36.040 --> 03:30:42.840] important is going to be the latest on the Ukraine so-called peace plan. And we'll give you that
[03:30:42.840 --> 03:30:51.080] information tonight. I'll just let you know that it's a 28 point plan. And one of the key points,
[03:30:51.080 --> 03:30:56.440] in fact, I'll read to you from my notes here. It has not been rejected, but it has not been accepted
[03:30:56.440 --> 03:31:04.760] by Zelensky. The plan requires Ukraine to cede Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea to Russia to freeze
[03:31:04.760 --> 03:31:11.560] front lines in other areas and adopt permanent neutrality without NATO. And they're supposed to
[03:31:11.560 --> 03:31:17.880] limit their military to 600,000 troops when they could get that many sometime after the slaughter
[03:31:17.880 --> 03:31:23.480] that the US has helped push and hold elections within a hundred days. That's a big one for
[03:31:23.480 --> 03:31:31.640] Zelensky. In return, Russia pledges non-aggression, sanctions will ease and $200 billion in aid from
[03:31:31.640 --> 03:31:35.880] those frozen assets that the Europeans are already saying they're going to steal.
[03:31:36.440 --> 03:31:42.520] So this is going to be probably a big moneymaker for the United States corporate interests to
[03:31:42.520 --> 03:31:47.720] go in there and do the cleanup along with friends of the EU. But it remains to be seen whether or
[03:31:47.720 --> 03:31:53.560] not Zelensky accepts it. So we'll discuss that tonight. If you'll join us, you'd be so kind.
[03:31:53.560 --> 03:31:59.080] We'll have Fiction Friday. We'll read a great short story as well over at Liberty Conspiracy Live.
[03:31:59.080 --> 03:32:03.080] And remember, it's because freedom is out of fashion nowadays. You can follow me,
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[03:32:35.560 --> 03:32:41.080] Yeah. And we've got a lot to discuss about the Ukraine information tonight and the corrupt
[03:32:41.080 --> 03:32:45.640] U.S. government involvement with the overthrow there. But I want to thank everybody over in
[03:32:45.640 --> 03:32:51.240] Rumble as well. David will be back Monday with Travis. I hope everybody's getting all geared up
[03:32:51.240 --> 03:32:59.400] for a fantastic week as we approach. You know what? Yes, it's going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving,
[03:32:59.400 --> 03:33:04.200] even though, of course, it's going to be a little bit more expensive. So I'm going to give you
[03:33:05.240 --> 03:33:10.600] a little farewell for the David Knight Show. Let's go off with a piece of music for the
[03:33:10.600 --> 03:33:21.080] David Knight Show once more. And let's talk about, let's go with a little something from
[03:33:21.080 --> 03:33:39.560] the Peanuts Christmas. How's that? Have a great afternoon. God bless everyone. Thank you.
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