Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to the David Knight Show. As a clock strikes thirteen, it's Wednesday, the seventeenth of January. You're of our Lord twenty twenty four. Well, today we're going to focus on what Davos has focused on, and of course that's climate and also war.
They're having a Zelenski in he's hitting up all these global banksters for cash, just getting it from the governments, but of course from the people who are going to be setting up our global governance, the corporations that are partners and all this. We're going to take a look at the climate scam. And of course one extreme weather event like we're undergoing right now does not disprove it. The other people use that argument. We must be careful not to,
but there's plenty of good arguments showing the trends are faults. But most importantly, as we can see in the severe weather event, we can see where they're taking us, and that is not to zero emissions, but to zero energy as they get rich with their pals and their cronies. And we're going to begin with that. Stay with us. Will be right back. Well, I don't know how cold it is where you are, but it's pretty cold here, and we were getting these weather advisories telling us it's going to
be minus fifteen degrees wind chill factor. Well, that's interesting, So I looked it up, and that was a different source of information. I looked it up on mine, and it said essentially the same thing, minus fourteen, minus fifteen, and it predicted no wind one mile p hour wind, So that wind chill factor is all chill and not so much wind. But it turns out this morning, as I looked at it, it wasn't minus fifteen degrees. Oh I'm not just add Karen has a different weather app as
well, and they vary quite a bit. Their predictions vary by a couple of different degrees, you know, and even during the day if you look at it, they vary by a few degrees from each other on a regular basis. But rather than it being minus fifteen, it was plus one. They missed it by sixteen degrees. And I mentioned this because there were ceases
to amaze me. It was I think twenty thirteen that the American Meteorological Society had their annual convention in Austin, and I went to that and everybody.
I mean, it was just a sea of science fair exhibits. Some of the people, a lot of people were doing presentations on their particular models to try to predict the weather a couple of days in advance, and then they had this massive floor and every single one of these was like a high school science exhibit where they had a big board up there talking about their model and
all the rest of this stuff. And then they were all struggling to try to predict what the weather was going to be, nobody who was exactly getting it right. And then there was this one exhibit that was done by an organization funded by George Soros, and it was wagging the finger at these weather and saying, you know, people would believe in climate change if you would tell them. But the sad thing is is that most of the meteorologists don't
believe in climate change. It's like, why would they when they are struggling to predict what the weather is going to be in a couple of days or the next day even, And you're going to tell me that you've got a model that knows what the climate is going to be like in fifty years from now, Well, that's convenient isn't it an open ended process, because that's what all these people were doing. They said, well, here's our model, here's why we thought this would work, and these are the factors that
we're measuring and using and putting into our models. And here's how we waited it and all this other kind of stuff. And then here's the results. And as you can see, we got it pretty good here, but we missit over here. That type of thing, that's where you do the science. But if you predict what the weather is going to be like fifty years
from now, you don't have to do any science. And you can also hide your data, and you can pick where you you want things to start, and all these other tricks that they use all the time, standard tricks and lies from government quote unquote scientists that we saw during the so called pandemic as well. Deadly Arctic blast is the threat in the NFL playoffs in the
Iowa. Coccus says that seventy nine percent of the US is it with below freezing temperatures and expecting to set record lows, as I say in this article from Oregon to Mississippi. And so when we look at the Arctic sea ice that they're freaking out about as well. That is surprisingly soaring, and it shouldn't be a surprise, and it's been increasing for the last twenty one years. So it depends on where you pick your spot to set your trend.
Right, we could say, well, I'm going to start it from twenty one years ago, and that means that we're going to go into a new Ice age, which is what the depopulationists for the first Earthday. We're all talking about Paul Erlik who wrote the Population Bomb. He wants to kill everybody. That's the bottom line. And all this climate stuff, by the way, that's what's so appealing to the globalists. But it was going to be
a new Ice age. But if you change the starting point and you take a bigger view, what you see as a cyclical thing, and it's related to solar cycles actually, which they can't predict that either, and they have no control over it. And it isn't because of your dishwasher or your car or anything else. The solar cycles. The traumatic, if largely unpublicized recovery in arctics c ICE is continuing into the new year, despite the contestable claims
of the hottest year ever. You see that all over the materials from Davos to justify because it's a this year, we're going to be talking about climate and conflict, and so they bring in Zelenski for the conflict. Maybe should talk about climate and coups, just whatever. The mcguffin of the year is Arctic sea and ice. On January the eighth stood at the highest level in
twenty one years. And in last December, this just a month or so ago, the US based National Snow and Ice Data Center revealed that sea ice recorded its third highest monthly gained in the modern forty five year record. You see, we haven't been looking at it for that long forty five years, and we had a record here for the last forty five years. I've known Karen longer than they've known what's going on in the Arctic in terms of ice.
That's ridiculous. We're coming up to our fiftieth anniversary of our first date. They don't. They just had their forty fifth anniversary of their first look at Arctic sea ice. So don't talk to me about that. I'm older than their records, a lot older than their records. So the reading up to January the eighth has now far exceeded the average for the years twenty eleven
twenty twenty. It also exceeds the average for the years from two thousand and one to twenty ten, and it points directly upwards with regard to the average for the years nineteen ninety one to two thousand. So again, you know, where do you want to pick your starting point? And as they say here on the Daily Skeptic, this is only half a winter's worth of data.
We must be careful not to follow the alarmists down their chosen political path of cherry picking and of warning of climate collapse on the basis of individual events. Nevertheless, it's good to use their own arguments against them, isn't it. It's somewhat satisfying, even even though we know these things are going through cycles. And of course that was what climate gate was all about, the fact that there were cherry picking their cycles. You know, our models are
not working. How do we hide the decline in temperature because of the point in time they're trying to sell global warming? And now any unusual event, you know, even it's freezing, that'll be presented as climate change. Every unusual weather event will be used to back up their so called solutions. And here's the one. They're so called solutions, the electric cars. And this is getting a lot of attention now because there's more cold and there's more cars.
We talked about this last winter. You remember Eric Peters had a car. He couldn't get it charged. Another person had a car, they couldn't get a charge. Same type of thing. You hook it up these superchargers, but before it can begin charging the battery, the battery has to be at a certain temperature. So guess what, you can keep this thing hooked up as long as you want to. Right now, in Chicago, it
isn't going to charge these things. And so they've got all these different charging stations that they built with the Tesla stuff all over the place, and they've turned into car graveyards, as they call them. Everybody gets there, they can't get a charge, and their cars are now dead. Freezing temperatures in Chicago have left many unable to get home, one person even having to get
his Tesla hauled to a working charging station. Well, charging stations are working, it's just that it's too cold for them to work as created they're into the negative temperatures. One person said, I was stuck here for hours. There's nothing, there's no juice. I'm still on zero percent on my battery. This is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday to try to get a charge. One person said, this is crazy.
It's a disaster. Seriously. She added that she had to abandon her car hitch a ride with a friend who had a what was it? Those things what they call them, Oh, internal combustion engines. They kind of work, because her car wouldn't charge. Yeah, you got to heat the battery first. One person said, we've got a bunch of dead robots out here. Another individual who came back to the airport Chicago here after traveling,
found that his car would not start. Cold had harmed the battery and made it discharge faster, and then he had to get his car towed as well. One spokesperson for the Chicago Auto Trade Association got his dig in. But of course he's just telling the truth. Sometimes the truth can be very very sharp sword, can it? You know? He says, it's not plug and go. You have to precondition the battery, meaning that you have to get the battery up to the optimal temperature in order to accept a fast charge.
And as this article from The Express said, down Tesla has no comment. What are they going to say about this? You know, the world could get its first trillionaire within ten years, as I said yesterday, And they're saying that they think that evs are headed towards ten thousand dollars. And it's like, wow, no wonder. Elon Musk is so rich if he can sell these things for you know, six times. He's been selling them for six times. But he'll still be able to sell at four and still
make a profit. You know, he's not going to sell these things for less than it cost him. And so as they point out the gap between the richest of the rich, as I've said yesterday, five richest people their wealth went up one hundred and fourteen percent since the globalist lockdowns that Trump went along with, and the poorest five billion people took it on the chin.
And as they put it in this article from AP, interestingly enough, they put in quotation marks, the gap has been supercharged since the coronavirus pandemic. Yeah, supercharged. And they got a picture of Musk. There Bezos, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, And of course we had our first, where do we have our first billionaire? Well, that was John D. Rockefeller and that was in nineteen sixteen. He became the first billionaire.
And now we're about to have our first trillionaire. So that's how you get rich is you sell these schemes to governments that give you subsidies. And that's what globalism is all about. The whole thing is a conspiracy between these large multinational corporations, these globalist billionaires, and the governments. It's a partnership. It's what they call stakeholder capitalism. It's what has been done and tested and proven with the corruption in China where all the companies that are there have
to have a Chinese official as part of it. By the way, you want to talk about killing people, I'm killing them with cold is much more effective. At least five people die from hypothermia in this most recent thing, but global freezing deaths are nine times more common than people who die from heat.
And you can die from both of these. I've talked about in the past when they lost power in Florida with a hurricane that went through, and a lot of times the conditions that create the hurricanes will also create really hot muggy weather. That's what happened with us up in North Carolina, Hurricane Friend. We were so far inland, and I've been through so many hurricanes on the coast growing up in Tampa's that kind just alarmism. And it really wasn't
a big storm. When it got to the Raleigh area. We had so much rain. It's unbelievable the amount of rain that it brought. And even though the winds were only seventy five miles an hour, it was knocking over big trees that were more than one hundred years old and taking out power lines everywhere and blocking roads everywhere. And we lived in a rural area and we were out of power for about five or six days. It was unbelievably hot
and muggy. But in Florida, when you had one of these hurricanes go through not that long ago, you got a lot of people in a nursing home guide because they didn't have you know, they build these buildings, you know, without windows, low ceilings, build it for air conditioning, and when the air conditioning goes out, it gets really really hot. So they had some people dying, but people have been dying for a long time from
the hardship. And when we were debating all this stuff back in you know, two thousand and with a climate gate, and then a couple of years after that, and when we got into the fights with the renewable mandates that came in first in Colorado, we had a lawsuit with a group I was
working with at the time. I've played some of the videos that I did for them at the time, and when we talked about that at that particular time, they'd already gone farther, of course, and you're than we had, and they'd made electricity so expensive that you had German pensioners who were dying of the cold because they couldn't afford to turn on the heat, and so hypothermia freezing kills nine times more people than hot weather does. But in Texas
they're putting out a warning about more energy rationing alerts. And the interesting thing is one of the critics there, you know, who were Texas, which is rich in oil, of course, very rich in natural gas. But from when I moved there in twenty twelve, they were just dismantling one, you know, functional power plant. They call them fossil fuels. I call
them functional fuels. Whether it was oil or whether it was gas. I don't think they did that much coal there, but they were dismantling these things left and right. I was like, wow, that's not good. And of course we saw the results of that three years ago. You want to talk about people dying, they had about two hundred and fifty. I don't get the numbers there. We'll get to in a minute, about tw hundred and fifty people died. And that cold snap when the windmills froze. Guess
what, the windmills are frozen again. Now I'm not talking about the fact that the cold weather literally iced them up. I'm talking about the fact the wind's not blowing. You know. I began by talking about how cold it is here, and they said wind chill factor of minus fifteen, what's the wind going to be zero to one miles per hour? That's not uncommon. And as one person said, it's no secret that the wind pretty much always
does this as the temperature drops. And if the Texas grid managers don't understand this, then Texas needs new grid managers. Yeah, so they don't understand the wink it's really cold. It's often the case that the wind stops, you know, not always. If you're in Chicago, they are constantly not the wind blowing, but still Now that's the other way that it freezes just
when the wind stops blowing. So Urkott is a company that are the organization that runs the power for Texas, which stands for Electric Reliability Council of Texas or a reliability. Why don't you take that word out and then you can change what the e coot is. It's about energy cronies of Texas, right,
It's crony capitalism. It's the people that these oil billionaires who said, hey, we're going to get on the ground floor this new thing, and then we're going to ban the other stuff, and we're going to make even more money than if we just kept selling everybody this stuff. They've been doing, right, And so they got Rick Perry and Greg Abbott these other people to build the billions of dollars of infrastructures there. You go out and you you know, if you build it, we will come that type of thing
field of schemes. And they built the infrastructure to go out there and charged Texas taxpayers to do that, and we wound up with a system there that did not work orcutt continues to monitor conditions and will provide updates or our communication channels. At this time, any outages are local in nature, not related to the overall grid reliability. But I said eighty five percent of the grid
supply is coming from coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Wind was about fifteen percent until the coal snap came, and then it dropped to seven percent of the mix. Not as not as bad as when they froze up. Greg Abbott said on Friday that the grid infrastructure and the operators are much better positioned to handle the coal snap than was the case with the twenty twenty one winter storm and subsequent crisis that killed there. We are two hundred and forty
people, two hundred and forty people in just Texas. Well. I think they still are focused on how they can make money for the globalist billionaires, don't you. As a matter of fact, Urkott has issued their conservation appeal for record breaking demand and one of the things that they want you to do is to not turn on your washing machine. Is that desperate? That's desperate. Many people said we're going to see brown outs at major US cities.
Competition for electricity is now an unstoppable race and you know, as one person said, so why is it when we were told and you've heard this, it used to drive me nuts a decade ago. You know. We go around and again David Schneier, who was with the organization that I was with, and he had worked for the EPA for thirty years and then retired and opposed them because they were no longer about stopping pollution, which was their original
mission, and they changed their mission statement to stop emissions. And so he would go around. He'd ask people to say, what is your favorite form of energy? And most people would say electricity. He says, no, that that's the end product, that's and then anyway get to you'd explain that to them. And then these people would say, well, I like wind and solar because they're free, and he's like, they're not free. They're really not free. It costs a lot. It takes a lot of energy
to build them. It takes a lot. You don't have a what are you going to do with the broken windmills and all the rest of this stuff. But here's where we are right now. You know, one person said, why do we continue to have electricity rates going up? We have more and more solar and wind, and they're supposed to be free. Well, here's the costs. Here's the cost. So the age cost per megawatt hour for natural gas thirty eight dollars, that's very clean. For nuclear one hundred
and fourteen dollars. Go from thirty eight one hundred and fourteen. And you know, growing up, I heard the same stuff with U right now, I grew up born in the mid fifties, growing up in the sixties. Nuclear power is going to be so plentiful and so cheap, we won't even meet it. You've probably heard that yourself, right. They looked at it and they said, yeah, you know, we could make billions of dollars on this, but nah, we'll just do it for free. Right,
No, it's not cheap. And of course the big expense for nuclear is on the back end. What do you do with a waste? You got a store and protect and nurture your nuclear waste for a very, very, very long time. You know. That was what happened at Fukushima. You know, they didn't have a meltdown with a nuclear reactor anything. It was the waste pools that are typically stored on site the nuclear reactor that were flooded
that cost all that issue. So natural gas is thirty eight dollars per megawan hour, the one hundred and fourteen for nuclear when we're talking then this includes storage and transmission, and then for wind between two hundred and ninety one and five hundred and four and for solar four hundred and thirteen to fifteen hundred and forty eight. Now, look, you know, I think solar is a good alternative, especially if you want to get off of the grid, but
it's the worst alternative for the grid. It's you know, and that's all matters how you use this, you know, if you want to get independent from the grid for many reasons, for surveillance reasons, you know, and all the rest of this stuff. Yeah, solar, but not for the grid. But they're using it this way because they want to take the grid down. And so again Urkott is asking people not to use their washing machines in Texas. These guys are desperate. I guess we could call these scammers
who wrecked the energy system there in Texas. I guess we could call them desperadoes. But there is a solution. There is a solution. And thanks to the listener who sent me this, I meant to write down his name and thank him for this, but he sent me a clip of an article and said, you know, you're right. The solution to stopping this stuff is at the local level. So many people think, well, we're going to elect people at the federal government, and the federal government is going to
stand up for American sovereignty against these globalists. No, they're bought and sold many times over to many different industries, to the pharmaceutical industries, to these other industries as well. Washington is completely bought and sold, and the people in Washington are believed that they are going to be the center of the new world order that they're building. And the big multinational corporations have a huge and banks have a huge presence here as well, and they are also going to
be partners in this new world order. So how do you stop it? Well, stop it. Even at the local level, green projects are often blocked at the local level. This is coming out of Michigan and so states have really big climate goals. But these people at the local level are working to quote unquote strip their power. And they're not talking. They say the people at the state and federal level and global level are working to strip your
power in terms of energy generation. The people at local level are trying to strip their political power to starview of energy. And so this article says clean energy developers had planned a seventy five turbine wind farm in mid Michigan's Mount Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in twenty twenty two and then recalled seven local officials who had supported it. I see this can be done in a wide variety of these crony capitalist, corrupt schemes. And I'm talking about
not just when things, but here in North Carolina. I'm not in North Carolina, Tennessee. The battery energy storage systems do they want to put in areas where there's a lot of forests and where there's residential areas as a massive tesla battery backup for their renewables. Well, you've got to have the energy before you can really back it up. And if this stuff is taken down by weather storm, even a battery energy storage system isn't going to be around
for that much longer. But nevertheless, these things are massive fire hazards and their massive expenses, and they need to be opposed at the local level. And so you had opposition to that at the local level here in Tennessee, and in the same way, the local people who had approved it withdrew that approval, and then the company said, well, we're going to sue you because you already approved it. So that's going to go to the courts.
But still it is you can recall these people if they do the wrong thing, and they understand that. About one hundred and fifty miles southeast, a person in Monroe County, Michigan, found herself at the center of a similar conflict, as the rising medical cost forced her and her husband to consider selling land that her family has owned for one hundred and fifty years. There's so
many different ways that they've got to bankrupt us, isn't it. And of course medical bills are a very common one, so leasing a parcel to an incoming solar farm could save the property. Neighboring residents complained so vehemently that she said the township changed its zoning to block the project. And again that brings
us back to the push going back to the twenty twenty election. If you remember Andrew Yang who was pushing universal basic income, that was initially his sole issue, and then he got onto a lot of other issues, all of them aligned with the globalist agenda, things like getting rid of all zoning laws and having land use dictated by the federal government. Andrew Yang is a very dangerous person, but he is a puppet for the globalist And guess who gave
him his first money and gave him millions of dollars. Well, that would be your benevolent billionaire friend of the conservative movement right now. Elon Musk, another one of these billionaires that h all these conservatives are putting their trust in. They're looking at him as some kind of a philanthropist that has saved our free speech and all the rest of this stuff. He's I think he looked at these I think he looked at these maga people, and you take a
look at expressions on their faces. They are fawning over a president drop. But he goes, Yeah, there's a lot of suckers there that I could make a power base out of, and I could really fleece them as well. And he's doing a good job of it. Getting back to this, though, local restrictions in Michigan derailed more than two dozen utility renewable energy projects as of last May, two dozen. According to a study that was done
by a university that's trying to push this stuff. They said nationwide, at least two and twenty eight restrictions in thirty five states have been imposed at the local level to stop these projects. So you're not going to get any help from the FEDS. And you may find, depending on your state government, you may find that the state government aligns with the FEDS as well, which is what they're seeing here now. In so again, forget about this horse
race between deplorable characters in Washington. Focus on what's local. Local and state can make things better or much worse. The conflicts have hindered many states aggressive timelines for transitioning to cleaner energy production, with the ultimate goal of eliminating carbon pollution within two decades. We have to eliminate these people, we have to have They've got their zeros right. They want to zero so many things out, zero car use and all the rest of this stuff. We need to
zero out their mandates. Maybe that should be the name of the movement, the zero mandate movement. Michigan and more than a dozen other states are seeking to upend the decision making process by grabbing the power to supersede local restrictions and to allign while state authorities to approve or disapprove locations for utility state utility scale projects. So again, what are they going to do? Political power struggle is a power struggle. We're not going to have electric power if they get
the political power. That's their mission to shut us down everywhere. We can't allow projects of state wide importance critical to our state energy security to be vetoed on purely local concerns. Again, is going to be necessary because they're going to be fought against at the state level. It's going to be necessary for people to understand that your real energy security lies in stopping these projects. And that's why it is now the time to talk about this during a massive storm.
You want to have energy, you stop these projects that are sold as energy security. They're anything but they said. However, many local officials say the giving states the power to cite large scale energy projects clashes with cherished US political principles. That's right and with the law is right now. Local officials, they say, are the public servants who are closest and most directly accountable
to voters. They argue that it is especially important when it comes to land use and what gets built near homes, and so they admit right there, they're the ones who are closest to the voters and what most accountable to them. One thing Elon must Did said was right. He said, look sourus is getting these district attorneys in and these state attorneys generals, because that's far more effective way to change the country than spending money on a presidential election.
And the more local you get, the more accountable these people are, the more power you have. That's why I try to keep focusing on this. I can't tell you who's good or bad in your area. You're going to figure that out. Be any good people in your area, So find some good ones and support them, or run yourself and get other people to support you. But when we look at this, of course, the windmills, it's not just the fact that they don't work. The windmills of your mind
also collapse, catch fire and other things. As I've shown many times, there's one turbine in Colorado wind farm collapses and then burst into flames. It really got people's attention because it's really big, and it had a really big crash and a really big fire. Because everything look at the size of that thing compared to the trucks in front of it. Pickup truck in front of it looks like a little toy truck. So I guess we haul this thing
off now to the landfill because reuse recycle doesn't work with this. But of course, see so called environmentalists don't care about that. While we're talking about fires. This is sent to me by David Weatherby, who used to be in Canada. He said Toronto, and it's an article from Toronto. The fire chief warns of lithium on battery risk after an e bike fire on the subway. On the subway, I think the fire chief is going to have to tell him we don't want to have any e bikes, no molotov cocktails
or other flammable devices on board the subway. Can you imagine being on a subway and having one of these things that burst into fire. So the fire was caused by the failure of a lithium ion battery powering an e bike. It was put out by fire crews on Sunday afternoon. The fires that resulted from the failures of lithium ion batteries represent a significant risk, said the fire
chief. Matthew Peg. When lithium ion batteries fail and ignite, the response is an intense, rapidly developing fire that poses an immediate risk to anyone in the area. If it doesn't burn you to death, the fire is toxic. Of course, there's been an increase in these. He said, there were fifty five fires in the city last year the resulted from lithium ion battery failures, up from twenty nine the year before. Because they have so many more of these things that are out there, and so the bottom line,
we'll finish with us this headline from zero Hedge seeking green utopia. The US and the EU are quietly killing vital industries, even trying to kill our victuals our food right eats the bugs. German CO two emissions are the lowest since the nineteen fifties. So is this a success or is it a failure? Well, here's what Bill Gates thinks. I'm here in July, and of course I flew in on my private jet, very very important meeting. The
issue of you peasants eating bugs will be discussed at length. That's never gotten the attention it deserves. The issue of COVID nineteen not killing off enough poor people, and my vaccines not weeding out the rest of you bastards, which is a trashedy. Of course, we'll talk about using killer robots next chat. Absolutely solve that problem. Yeah, there are some good uses for AI,
aren't there. We'll be right back. If you like the Eagles on the cars and Healey Lewis and the news, they say the hot you'll love the Classic Hits channel at APS Radio, download our app or listen now at apsradio dot com. You're listening to the David Knight Show. And I played that at that point in time because I had a supporter who asked me about that song. Paul d thank you very much for the check. I've got a list of some other people who have sent checks. I want to read
that out real quickly, about ten people. But he said, what's the name of the mandolin composition? Well, that that you just heard there is Heart of the Heartland as by Paul Astrucca. I think is the way he pronounced his name. He was somebody that would make the rounds on PBS, the Prairie Home Companion, I think. But it was because of that, I guess it was. Ken Burns picked him up and he used that song in the and Clark documentary that he did. That's where I picked that up.
Really like that song, so that's my cover of it. I stuck very close to what he did, except I had to shorten it. I shortened up a little bit. I tried to shorten these things up, you know, for the breaks, and so there's like another verse that he does in his arrangement that has a slide guitar in it, but I took that out and then I added strings on the finale there. But I played all the instruments on that and pull that off of the record, and then he
asked, what keyboard do you use. I'm just curious. It's a yeah. I don't even remember the name of it. I've had it for years now, but it's a mini keyboard. It's weighted keyboard, and so if you play piano, that's what you want to get. Otherwise it feels like an organ. So it's an eighty eight key weighted keyboard. It's my native instruments and I got it at the time because they were so at the time
that was kind of the standard for virtual instruments, although they've moved. Everybody I guess got tired of paying them royalties, and so everybody is building their own construct to use for the virtual instruments. But at that time it had a few things on it that made it work a little bit better with the native instruments stuff. So it's a native instruments weighted keyboards, eighty eight keys.
But it's great because you can get amazing samples of keyboards that you can find, you know, from organs to pianos to electric pianos and other keyboards from the seventies and things like that that are really really sound great and have a lot of flexibility in them, and get him and B three organs, or you can get Church organs and all this other kind of stuff. The controls, of course, are not going to be exactly as good as the organs on the control was on a the Hymmon, but you know you can.
You've got a lot of different changes that you can make with it. Thank you. Oh, Karen told me that it was a complete keyboard. Okay, well that's I guess the model that they've got of it. But let me think the people who sent checks real quickly. Of course, Paul d that we just mentioned Susan L. Jack H Scott C. Leon and Glinda W, Jody E, Lloyd P and Charlie at APS. Thank you
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a great deal, might help with our visibility there, who knows. Let's talk a little bit about news before we get into pharmaceutical stuff and elections. This is just kind of general stuff. I thought this is very interesting, sent to me again by listener, and it is the fact that FEDS are banning humorous electronic messages on highways. Now many times we've seen these. Here's what this went with the article the news thing there. This is part of
the sign thing. And you've seen these things hacked in the past where they'll put warning zombies ahead or warning raptors ahead, or something like this, or a message like this. I won't repeat, but you get the idea. That's what the signs look like, right. There are other big signs up above, but they're the ones that are on the road. Sign and the
reason that happens all the time. I know, because they did a little bit of work for the North Carolina Department of Transportation with a company and they we're laughing about what happened. It happened to them a lot. They put these signs out and they never change the passcode. And oh, by the way, Paul d said, please more goat Tree and that forgot to read
that. That reminded me of goat Tree because he's talking about the fact that they typically don't change the passwords on railroad switching equipment or anything like that, which is far more serious. And if they do change the password, they'll typically write it in some booth somewhere, right so they don't forget it and becomes a hassle. So typically they put these signs out there and they're still
the same password that it ships with. Then of course, if you've got the manual, you can see what the default password that it ships with is. And so they've been doing that as hackers. Okay, doing that quite a bit, But that's not about this. This is about the federal government telling the departments of transportation in each individual state that they can't put up humorous
messages. For example, in Massachusetts that put up use yablinka right y A h B l I N kah in Massachusetts or in Ohio this one visiting in laws, slow down, get there late. It's just telling you don't speed right in Pennsylvania, don't drive star spangled hammered that don't drive drunk. Another one in New Jersey hocus pocus, drive with focus. And then this one hands on the wheel, not on your meal. Well, the FEDS don't like that. And we're talking serious stuff here, right, you need to
be serious with your directives. And as this new directive that has come out from the Department and a Transportation of Federal Highway Administration, which is part of the Department Transportation, which is who runs the US Department Transportation, none other than Booty Gay himself, and he apparently doesn't have any sense of humor about this stuff. They put out an eleven hundred page manual and it spells out
the rules of how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated. Administration officials said overhead electronic signs with obscure meaning references to pop culture are those intended to be funny, will be banned by twenty twenty six. They're giving you just a couple of years to get wipe that smile off of your face. I suggest that what these what these state officials should put on the sign is something like Bart Simpson, I will not make jokes. I will not make jokes.
I will not get through that up there a hundreds of times before they pull the plug on him in twenty twenty six. And as of course, the government doesn't have any sense of irony or even hypocrisy when they put out an eleven hundred page manual, and in this they demand that these signs be simple, direct, brief, legible and clear. That's what the eleven hundred page manual tells him. And don't make any jokes. This is idious stuff here, right, I mean, come on, really, would Adolf Hitler
make jokes? Or Mussolini or Stalin? And they don't like people who laugh at them either, Right, that's the key thing. Arizona has more than three hundred electric signs above its highways, and for the last seven years, the state Department of Transportation has held a contest to find the funniest and most creative messages anybody could submit ideas, and they got more than thirty seven hundred
entries. Last year, the winners were seat belts always pass a vibe check that doesn't seem to be too funny, and I'm just to sign asking drivers to use turn signals. And so a state representative there said, the humor part of it we kind of like to have. And he says, I don't really understand why the feds are all getting so fussy about this, said, why are you trying to have the federal government come in and tell us what we can and cannot do in our own state? Prime example that the
federal government is not focusing on what they need to be focused on. Well, again, how is the federal government going to put out their mandate for no jokes? No jokes? And seriously, you know they don't have a sense of humor. Look, we've got a guy who got a jail sentence over Hillary Clinton meme, and it was exactly the same joke that somebody else had made about Trump and voting. He made that same joke about Hillary and voting. You know, don't forget to vote on Wednesday, you know,
the day after the election. Somebody else had already done that with Trump. But of course the person made the joke about Hillary gets a jail. The other person doesn't even get called on that. And so how are the Fed's going to get this done? They don't have the authority to do this. The Tenth Amendment is in their way. So how will they do it? Well, they'll do it the same way that Obama put boys in the girls
bathroom, with bribes and with blackmail, with cash. They'll do it the same way that Trump locked everybody down, put masks on your faces, and so forth. They'll do it with bribes, and then later Biden jumps in with blackmail. It's always about the money. That is always how the government
gets around the Tenth Amendment. And that's why when they planned this whole thing, going back to two thousand and one, two months before nine to eleven they had the Dark Winter thing, and then the false flag a week after nine to eleven of anthrax, and then two months later they put out the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act, and that was telling the states, get
ready to do this. Give yourself some legal authority that you don't have, but make it, you know, put it in a state law, because there's going to be a time where we're going to punt this to you. We'll give you the money and then you run the tyranny. That's how it's always done. This is what is so frustrating about talking to these Trump supporters and just you look at their you know, the people on social media.
You listen to them talking. They hate the JAB, they hate all the lockdowns and the masks and all the rest of the stuff that's social distancing from twenty twenty. But they love the guy who gave it to him. It's insane in Toronto, before we do that, some of the comments on weather Rumble sixty one. I've been locked. I've been iced in since Saturday morning. Power is currently off and water has been off for four days. Oh sorry to hear that. I don't know. Tell us where you are.
On rock Fan, Handy says it's cold and flu season. Nothing abnormal about that. Hospitality ours are moderately busy, but again not abnormal this time of
year. And of course Handy has been talking about and blogging about what he saw as an EMS technician there in the Atlanta area, and it truly is criminal what was done to us. It's so much bigger than even just the masks and the lockdowns, as the medical protocols, the bribery of the hospitals to kill people, and of course the drugs like remdas of air and the
ventilators and the rest of the stuff. Rumble point man Patriot says, it will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so volumeous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. Absolutely right, And he quotes somebody. I don't know who that is, Jay Maddy, but I've always and I don't know who said this quote, but I've used that many times. A law that is sufficiently complex is the same as no law at all.
Just take a look at the IRS Code, right called the IRS. I'm not giving you advice. I'm not jumping into that briar patch. I don't know what the law is either. I'm not telling you anything. You're not going to get my name and use me to give you a pass. But then when you go in for an audit, Oh wow, it's all very subjective, isn't it. Do they like you or they dislike you? Because the law is so complex, they can do whatever they want. In
Toronto. Going back to Toronto again, they have banned tobogganing on forty five hills and put up a warning warning signs. Well, that's pretty amazing. You know, the Roman Empire only had seven hills there in Rome. They got forty five in Toronto, and you better not slide down any of them during the winter. It's just from Reason magazine talk about a slippery slope. They said Toronto recently erected warning signs on forty five hills around the city that
read tobogganing is not allowed. Hazards such as trees, stumps, rocks, rivers or roads make this hill unsafe. Well, when we had our video story and carry North Carolina, you know, it's kind of like it is here. We rarely have snowstorms, and when they do sometimes they last for a few days. But even if it doesn't, because people are not accustomed to the snow and there's no snow removal equipment and nobody knows how to drive
in it, everything comes to a halt. And so close to our video store was there was a neighborhood that had a very steep hill going down into a cul de sac and school was out and nobody was driving around, but the parents were out as well, and they were there with their kids and you know, the kids were having a great time sledding down this hill.
And again parents all over the place, and the carry police decided in those days, they're probably still the same as they didn't have much of anything to do as far as crime goes, so they could kind of become like Barney Fife, you know, get focused on really small things and you know, really get their the hair on the back of their neck standing straight up if you didn't do exactly what they said to do when they bark the orders.
And so they show up to this hill and they decided, like the City of Toronto's decided that it was too dangerous for these kids to be boggling down you know, car might come by and don't don't do that. And the parents said, now they're fine. Now I told you that you're not going to have these kids out here going down here. And it got it wound up with the parents and the and the kids throwing stoneballs at the police and driving them away, and that made the paper there it was, but you
know, that's that's just what they're doing in Toronto now. That was thirty eight years ago, and Carrie so now in Toronto, the fear of liability is ruining modern childhood, I said a mom of two. I used to toboggan all the time with friends when I was a kid, and it was one of my favorite parts about winter. Well, you know, you shoot your eye out, kid. There are too many nanny rules aimed at making the world so safe that people and especially kids, are not allowed to do
anything outdoors but sit on a bench. Oh no, no, don't sit on a bench outside it's too cold. Go inside, set in front of the TV so we can program you. Not only do kids lose out when trees become an obstacled out to our fund says reason, but so does the city itself. Anti tobogganing legislation makes Toronto move in the direction of no fun city again, no jokes on signs, no tobogganing allowed anywhere. Last year, the city put up bales of hay around tree on the Popular Hill to
avoid crashes. Now tobogganing is banned on that hill. Of course, it reminds me of the other extreme Daytona beach where you know, And I've got a clip of that that I play here sometimes And I was just amazed, and we went there. In twenty fifteen, I had grown up and next to this area where I live now, that was our next go to place to take a trip. It was fairly close. We lived in Tampas,
that just right across the state. And one of the reasons that we like Daytona Beach was because you could drive cars on the beach, and of course that's where the Daytona five hundred race originally came from. It was originally a race on the beach. They had one leg of the race was on the beach that has hard compressed sand, a return leg was on the road, a highway that was there a one to a I think is the name of it. And then you had the curve parts where it was really soft sand,
and that's where things got really difficult for them. But now they don't let anybody, even though people were racing on this thing for the longest time before they built the stadium or whatever you would call it, that's purpose built for the Daytona five hundred, they don't let any how to drive on that and they charge you to drive in other areas that are far away from it.
And when I say far away from it, the center of it was always the boardwalk, which was an elevated place and had a lot of restaurants and things like that. So but people would always drive there. That was kind of the center of it, although there were hotels all the way down. And so this is what happening everywhere, right, no fund anywhere locking everything down. I think it's a sign what's going on here, isn't it. Last year the city put up bill to hey, but I'm not gonna
do it now. Memories of a fun place have been yanked away from families in Toronto, said one person. It's not just a boggining. Toronto's team of experts advice is that anyone crazy enough to even think about going sledding always check for hazard. It's like bumps and bear spots, as well as ice
covered areas, so that pretty much covers everything, doesn't it. As they say on reason, The city also warns any not yet daunted tobogganers to never use a plastic disc to slide down a hill, and don't bring your family dog either, as animals may get excited. All children should be supervised by an adult. No humans or animals are to be excited or to have any fun whatsoever. Well, here, the other part of domination, of course, is language and perching things. What is that you found out? Okay,
there we go. There's a professionals, the Boginer, the clip that Travis found. What's that from Travis? I don't remember. Oh, Christmas vacation. Okay, I haven't watched that for a while. That's Chevy Jason. The thing somehow has missed all the trees so far. But we know how that's going to be in anyway. It's also about dominating people and removing history and also naming things right, and that's what they're working on here in
the Smoky Mountains. They want to rename Klingman's Dome. Klingman's Dome is the highest peak in the Smokies. And thank you Jackie for sending this to me. I've not seen this. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council wants to rename Klingman's Dome, and Jackie comments and says, I'm fine with this as long as they cut off their utilities, crush their cars, stop using
modern medicine, and go back to living in teepees. Well, Jackie, that's what they want us to do with the climate, of course, and they'll change the name of everything as well. They voted unanimously, the tribal council did on a resolution to approve a name change from Klingman's Dome to Kuwohee and they passed that vote on January the fourth. That is a Cherokee for Mulberry place. But I think there may be something else involved in this.
I thought in this article that was done local paper, they don't say who was Klingman, right, I think there might be some clues as to why they want to rename this peak. See. Klingman was a US senator who, when the Civil War came around, fought on the side of the Confederacy as a brigadier general as a matter of fact, and then after the war
he led an expedition to determine the height of Klingman's Dome. And it was something of a tradition that the people who would figure out the height of these things would have it named after them, and that's what happened with this particular one. You know, it was something that the Cherokee never bothered to measure the height of these things, as they're just collecting the Mulberry's I guess, but you know, they figure out the height of it, they named the
hill after them, or the dome or the mountain peak. And he's not the only one that did that. There was another guy who was a geologist and his name was Buckley, and he figured out the height of the second highest peak there in the Smoky Mountains, and they named that Mount Buckley. And so maybe they will try to change that as well. But right now they're coming after the one that was named after a Confederate general. I think we kind of know why and which is. You know, the Cherokee were
on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Follows in a tradition from the US Department of the Interior, they renamed Mount McKinley Mount Denali because that was an Indian name that they had out there. So we'll see what happens with this. County commissioners in both Tennessee and North Carolina support the efforts of the Cherokee to rename this because I guess these local politicians decided that this was not a hill to die on. But we've got zoning board orders that
are being overturned. I'm sorry, zoning boards are overturning private property that is happening. This is also a reason magazine. A town zoning board in New Hampshire has decided that they're going to kick out to tenants who have been living in an apartment for more than a decade and they're not wealthy. I mean, this is not like some kind of a rent control thing in New York.
This was a cluster of small apartments and there were thirteen of them, and because they suddenly discovered last summer that according to their records, there were twelve and now they're thirteen. At some point decades ago, they subdivided one of these small apartments and so these two people who are going to get kicked out on the street had five hundred square foot apartments, very tiny apartments. They took one of these small apartments and cut it in half, and they've
been living there for ten weeks. But of course that cannot be tolerated. The real estate investor homes the apartments said, we have a major housing crisis, and we've got a severe shortage of housing around the state and in this town of Claremont. But by the city's request, we have to kick two tenants out who have been there for many, many years, and who have called it their home for more than a decade. And so these are one
hundred year old buildings. And then again they subdivided them. The response from the zoning board was said, yeah, we are in a housing crunch, but that doesn't mean we can bend our codes because their rules are more important than people. Of course, their authority, their power is more important than people. If I was to make an exception for you, I'd have to do that for everybody. That would weaken my power. It kind of make me look like a human or something. I don't know what it is.
Here in Tennessee, lawmakers are proposing legislation banning banks and credit card companies from tracking purchases of guns and ammo. Well, what is this about. We've talked about this in the past, and this is another aspect of nullification, folks, very important. This nullification is being done at the state level, and sorry been done in some other states, but it's coming here in Tennessee. It was in response to New York State trying to nullify your guide given
rights to own and possess firearms and ammunition as protected by the Constitution. And how did New York State do it. They did it in collusion with big banks and with multinational in geos, non governmental organizations. What they did if you remember that a few years ago, they came up with a scheme. New York Attorney General California Attorney General said, you know, if we can put a code on and get them to make this part of the standard codes.
This is the International Standards Organization ISO based in Switzerland, and they assigned codes to different things that are used for financial transactions. If we can do that, there wasn't anything there for guns or ammunition, because you know, it's pretty much controlled in the rest of the world, so it's pretty difficult to buy guns and ammunition, but here in the US it's very common,
and so they wanted to stop people from doing that. So they lobbied the banks, and the banks lobbied the ISO, and they got it put in. And so what was a response to and that was again an effort led by people like Letitia James that hyper political state attorney general. Look at how much chaos and manipulation money can buy from George Soros. When you look at these people, that tells you how important these state and local elections are.
And so you have a state that tries to do this in run around the Second Amendment, making it difficult using banks and international organizations. And so some other states have responded to this by putting in these prohibitions of the banks keeping track of that. So they outlawed that and in their state area. And
so now you've got two state reps. In Tennessee, Todd Warner is in the House and in the Senate. Joey Hensley introduced legislation last Wednesday that would prohibit banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions from cracking purchases of firearms. And of course they want to do this as part of an intimidation and also as part of the surveillance state. So the state bill would make it quote an unfair or deceptive trade practice for any financial institution to require a
firearms retailer to use firearms specific transaction codes. And again the industry, or I should say New York I created this new credit card merchant category recently, and this was previously paused in March of last year, companies including American Express, master Card, and Visa abandoning their plans after legislation banning the tracking of those who buy and sell weapons and ammunition passed in several states Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Texas, Florida, West Virginia. The Tenth Amendment Center notes that similar legislation also exists in Idaho, North Dakota, and Montana. And so you've got one, two, three, four, five states said you're not going to do it here, and now we've got another four that are about to do it. This is what's called nullification, and this is how you nullify the globalist agenda. This is how you nullify the conspiracies of these bankers and
these democrats and these NGOs. So federal lawmakers, we're very happy with this. When it went through, they said, quote a clear government expectation that networks will utilize the new merchant category code to conduct mass surveillance of constitutionally protected farms and ammunition purchases in cooperation with law enforcement. That's what they had previously said. The more states that ban such codes more likely as this program gets
scrapped permanently, says the Tenth Amendment Center. Have you heard any presidential candidates talk about that in this any GOP or did they say, you know, we've got to stop this globalist banker agenda from the Democrats to track and intimidate people and create a database that people are buying guns and ammunition amy even if you went into a gun and ammunition store, even if you didn't buy ammunition or a gun, they still pitt you on the list. Have you heard
any of the presidential candidates address that me? Neither? Isn't that interesting? So many vital issues, they're a wall a wall, and so this is why I say focus on state and local people. Get good people into office, so they're not even going to talk about it. If you want liberty, you're going to have to decentralize the power. You're going to stop this consolidation of power and this centralization that's been going on for quite some time.
After the move to adopt the new merchant codes when public in twenty twenty three, the Tennessee Farms Association said consumers should pay cash whenever possible, and if you can trade chickens for them, trade chickens, if you can write a check and avoid that three percent surcharge that a lot of merchants now charge for using a credit card, or they charge even more than that. Some save
everybody three percent. But absolutely if you can avoid the credit card, just like Dave Ramsey says, do it, so trade them a chicken or whatever you can your gun. So, but we were already seen Bank of America do this right even before Letitia James, going back to January sixth, they put out a They essentially did their own geofense warrant. The FBI didn't asked them for the information. Bank of America did it voluntarily and sent that to them. And then they sent a list to them and said, then here
are all the people who have made purchases at a firearms place. They didn't even have the code. Bank of America did that. So this story here from Reclaim the Note with how a typo and a geofense warrant endangered the privacy of a lot of people. Well, as I've said many times, Terry Gilliams movie Brazil that came out in nineteen eighty four's his Monty Python like take on totalitarianism, and it begins with a typo air. There's a typeo air
here in that movie. You know, you've got these clunky it's a ruthless to tatorship. Their technology is clunky, and they've got these typewriters, manual typewriters, and instead of big screen TVs, they've got a frenelle lens in front of a small screen TV. All that kind of stuff. But because you know, technological innovation gets stymied in these solitary societies as well. At
the very beginning, they're typing up these different warrants. Thank you Travis or pulling this up, and people get to see you can see kind of what I'm doing. But at the very beginning of it, this guy's typing this thing up and the fly drops down off the ceiling as a guy swats it into the typewriter, and instead of Buttle, instead of tuddle, it says Budle, and they send out a swat team, ruthless swat team to the wrong address. That's how the movie begins. And it's particular one. They've
got a geofense warrant and they've got a typo. The typo in it said two miles over San Francisco that would include any businesses, private homes, and places of worshiping in the area. But again it's not just this typo, it's geofense warrants in general, treating every human that happens to be in a
given location as a potential suspect. What could be wrong about that, Well, besides the fact that it's an obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment, which says that if you get a search warn't you got to go before a judge, and you got to be specific about the person, place and things that you're going to be searching for and searching in all the rest of that stuff. It turns out the rule of innocent until proven guilty is turned on its
head. And this is the case of all these things. But of course geospatial intelligence, which nobody ever talks about, you know, they're now was talking about geofense warrants, but really geospatial intelligence was always about mapping people's political beliefs as well as the religious beliefs and anything else that they wanted to do. It was all about mapping you. And that's been the fastest growing part
of the spy agent sees since the nineteen nineties. In addition, while we're talking about guns, you have Latitia James again and leading a lot of a multi state coalition of twenty state attorneys general to try to stop the federal government from selling five to five six am to civilians. And this is coming from the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, a Missouri based supplier for the US military,
So this is not something that's directly on by the military. During the Obama administration, it was very alarming to me because Obama, for the first time in his administration, they seemed to focus on ammunition. And so Fort Drum, New York, was a place where they started this, and they decided that they would stop the recycling of well it wasn't even recycling of brass, but spent brass from the military was frequently sold back into retail manufacturers who
would use it to cut their costs down and to manufacture more ammunition. And so they just cut that off at Fort Trump and it created a big stink, and then you got some senators involved and they reversed that. But what it showed you was how the Obama administration is going to be focusing on ammunition. Because if you've got a gun but you don't have any ammunition, you basically got a club. You know, you're like Davy Crockett at the Alamo at the very end, and that's the way they want you. So you
know, they tried to stop it with that and did that temporarily. So here you've got a contractor for the US military and they want to tell them, well, we're not going to buy your stuff unless you stop selling to the public, strong arming them in that way. They go through the banks,
they'll go through the tractors and all the rest of this stuff. By the way, Fort Drum, the plan was to rather than to take that spent brass and sell it to ammunition manufacturers, they decided that they would just crush it into scrap brass and sell it to the Chinese at a tiny fraction
of what they could sell it for reloading. Billions of rounds of military grade ammunition manufactured that Lake City arm Ammunition Plant have been sold on the commercial market, leading to their use in many of the most tragic mass shootings in recent history. Said this shameful New York Attorney General Letitia James. Well, I imagine it's also been used to improve people's accuracy so they don't hit the wrong people. It's also, as every other farm has been used, it's been
used to take down some dangerous individuals, maybe even by law enforcement. And it is also there to protect innocent life. But they ignore that part of it. So they're trying to stop it and use their leverage. They said, all signatories express their desiral these twenty one state attorneys general to restrict civilian access to ammunition commonly used in the AR fifteen style rifles. Ammunition from Lake
City is manufactured for military use and does not belong in our communities. Well, the R fifteen is, you know, they say that's a military weapon, shouldn't be used. But of course, if you go back and look at some of the seminal unconstitutional court decisions to try to stop our possession of farms, if you go back to the Miller case, a sought off shotgun, and they set that whole thing up. The guy was a convicted felon.
Multiple times they had a regulation that said you can't have sought off shotgun, and their rationale was that it wasn't a military weapon. Isn't it interesting You can't have a sought off shotgun because it's not a military weapon. And here we are on hundred years later, Well, you can't have the AR fifteen because it has been used by the military, and you can't have that ammunition either, And of course, in that particular case, it was an
obvious setup. The defendant died before the case became before the Supreme Court, and it should have been a moot issue, but they went ahead and took it anyway, and there was nobody arguing the other side, and they used that to support early forms of gun control. But it was also a lie because this sought off shotgun had been used in both World War One and in the Civil War. But nevertheless they said this is manufactured for military use.
Well, again, in the early twentieth century, the courts are saying, well, you can't have a gun if it's not for military use. Because the Constitution refers to the militia, a well regulated militia. The Feds should actually be giving away this ammunition and teaching people how to use farms and giving people fiarms, giving people weapons and teaching us how to use it. That's what the militia is about. That's what are well regulated, well trained,
well organized militia is really about. But Democrats want to prohibit militia's altogether because they're not too fond of the Constitution either. They don't like militias and they don't like the Constitution. Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Jamie Raskin have put together
this thing called the PPPAA Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Acts. By the way, Senator Ed Markey back in twenty twelve, he was a congressman and in North Carolina where I was, Ed Markey created this little dog and pony show about the EPA and about they were trying to extend regulations to ban more diesel emissions
and things like that. And so he created this little hearing where he brought in Lisa Jackson, who was Obama's head of the EPA, and they'd worked out this little dialogue and even stepped on some of her lines, so you could tell that they'd rehearsed this thing before. And they were saying that more people are dying from fine particulate matter coming from diesel fuel than are dying from
heart attacks and cancer and all the rest of the stuff. You see, This is why it was so easy for me, at least to see what was going on with this pandemic. I've seen all of that stuff before. They just keep running the same because it works. It works. I mean, if you're a football team and you run this play against the other side and they just fall down and they don't know where to go? What to
do? You keep running that play and they keep running this play. And he was a congressman at the time, and Lisa Jackson was saying, yes, Senator, I'm not talking about people getting sick. I'm talking about people dying. And more people are dying from fine particulate matter than are dying from heart and cancer and all these other diseases, right, full face lie.
As a matter of fact, did a report on it, and I still have that report, and I still have a screenshot which they scrubbed, which showed when they talked about fine particulate matter, they showed the smoky mountains and they said, this is an example of fine particular matter. No, the smoky mountains were smoky long before we had diesel engines or internal combustion engines, long before any Europeans came. They were smoky. Anyway, she was at
that very time. Their EPA placed there in Research Triangle Park where I was, was hooking people up to diesel exhaust. They took out the carbon monoxide so they wouldn't kill them outright, They hooked them up to diesel exhaust. Steve Malloy, who has junk science, I've interviewed him many times, discovered it. They were looking for people who had heart and respiratory issues to begin with, and then they exposed them to levels of fine particular matter that were
seventy two times what the EPA allowed. And they wanted to get people who were going to be sick and have to be taken to the hospital and so they could up those regulations, and that's what Marky was doing. So now he's focused on guns as a senator, and they want to prohibit privately organized groups publicly patrolling, drilling, or engaging and harmful or deadly pairamilitary techniques.
They also want to prohibit interfering with or interrupting government proceeding unless you're January the sixth reference there, And of course they outright reference the oathkeepers and the Proud Boys and the three percenters and their talks about this or interfering in the exercise of somebody else's constitutional rights. Wait a minute, it's the Congress. It's interfering with the exercise of my constitutional rights all the time. And this bill,
especially, the bill makes exceptions for members of the National Guard. Loll right, that's not the militia. Not the militia at all the groups formed solely to conduct military reenactments either. Oh okay, so better get your Confederate uniform and your flag for your exemption. I'm exempt. Yeah, and just keep that on hand just in case they invade us again, okay, Patrolling
neighborhoods, impeding law enforcement, storming the US capital. Private military groups like the Oathkeepers, three Percenters, and Proud Boys are using political violence to intimidate our people and threaten democratic government in the rule of law, said Raskin. Well, I don't know. It seems like our government also uses political violence
to intimidate people and to terrorize people that you think. And the interesting thing is, of course, you know, before January sixth, which they don't want to talk about, as there were riots that were breaking out in various places, Oathkeepers went to private businesses and they protected them. They didn't have to shoot anybody. They just stood there with the homeowner, with the business owners. Because as we know, I think it was George Washington who said
the mere presence of firearms restrains evil. It does a great job of restraining evil looters as well. Really does, because again, Jamie Raskin and Marky are not going to do anything to restrain the looters. They call them mostly peaceful. Well, they were mostly peaceful after the armed individuals showed up and just stood there. They also point out in this Epic Times article they said individuals have also engaged in non violent protest events while exercising their right to carry
firearms in public. And of course that happened at the Alamo, where you had the San Antonio police or harassing people who were doing open carry. And they were doing that. This is before they passed a constitutional carry for pistols. You could still do it for rifles, you could carry openly, but they were harassing people and arresting them in violation of the constitution, that even
the state law at the time. And so there was a massive rally there and everybody showed up with their rifles there at the Alamo, and it was very peaceful. And as my son's pointed out, the only time that covered a big demonstration and it wasn't a violent one, was when the protesters were carrying firearms. It seems to be a way to bring peace to it all. The TSA is rolling out big plans on digital and I thought it was
kind of interesting the way they put this to streamline travelers experiences. Has that been your experience with TSA? Does it streamline your travel experiences? No? And of course there are no threats to airports airplanes, as they point out in twenty eleven in one of their documents that accidentally they released, and if there were any threats to airports or airplanes they're bunching everybody up together would be one of the biggest security threats that there are. But of course there's not
any threats. And in their own tests they show that well over ninety percent of the time they miss the stuff that they would normally be trying to scan. So you've got nine states. Now they are using digital identities and mobile licenses. But of course they're going to ramp this up. And now you
can see what the goal is, right. You know that they want to lock us into the fifteen minute area, you know, into their smart cities, but even subdividing the smart cities into fifteen minute areas, they want to completely immobilize us. And this has been the goal of all of this stuff. It's not about keeping us safe, it's about putting us in an open air prison. And so we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Whether you're feeling like the booze or bluegrass, APS Radio
has you covered. Check out a wide variety of channels on our app at apsradio dot com. You're listening to the David Knight Show. We'll talk a little bit about the aftermath of the election, because there's something more important here than who got how many votes, something very interesting about Ramaswami. But begin here with this letter from Don who says talks about these woefully blind Trump sheeple supporters, and he sent this bag to me. He says, I'm in
Isaiah. God complains about people who are wilfully blind and very much pleased with their own delusion. The people that provokes to wrath, lying children, children that will not hear, see not, and to them that behold be old not because those things that are right. And so when we look at this, you know, they love to talk about anybody that opposes Trump is having Trump derangement syndrome. And you see the MAGA people all the time talking about
TDS. Well, I think they've got another TDS Trump delusion, and they've got it strong. And God said, I will send a strong delusion to these people, and I think they've got a bad case of it, don't you. And then we've got this from Mary Taly Bowden An MD. She said, I asked Ramaswami to add his name to a list of people opposing this JAB and she said this was his response. And this was in December twenty twenty three. Vaiveik Ramaswami said, we're trying to keep our kids away
from it. The Trump shot. I'm a medical choice absolutist. You should be allowed to take a medicine with full facts even if the FDA hasn't approved it, and you should never be forced to take something just because the FDA has approved it. Right now, it's the worst of both worlds. Well, that's true as far as it goes. But what about fraud? What about fraud from the companies? And again, this was in twenty twenty three. You might have been able to excuse this back in twenty twenty, but
not three years later when everybody knows what it is. But you know, fraud is something that I guess the FDA ought to be able to get away with. Right. Well, it turns out that the day before the Iowa Caucus, doctor David Martin and I've interviewed him once. A very interesting guy, very smart guy, and he has gone back and looked at the patents and the intellectual property rights for a lot of this pharmaceutical stuff in depth.
I interviewed him in context with the second Plandemic movie, and so I interviewed both the director of that movie and David Martin, who featured prominently in that second one. And so he pointed out that vive Ake's company had invested one hundred and sixteen million dollars in nanoparticle delivery systems back in twenty seventeen. Also, according to him, vive Ake has not so publicly disclosed his interest in
every single shot that was delivered. Yeah, he's getting a little bit of a kickback on all that, and so this is put out if people started, you know. Of course, there's a couple of different issues. He made his appeal, He offended Trump threw him under the bus that he's not maga, don't be deceived by this guy, and so forth. I think that was the biggest factor, I think, because everybody saw that. But this is something that we need to keep in mind because Vaveake ain't going away.
As a matter of fact, part of the payoff for endorsing Trump was to be featured in New Hampshire and other places like that. You going the campaign trouble with him. He's angling for something else and he's not going to go away. Just as a lot of people said after January sixth, they were angry at me, leave Trump alone. You know he's going away. Leave him all I said, He's not going away. I'm telling you,
Vivake, the snake ain't going away either. All of this fight about who is going to win horse race to get to the vaccine was happening a year two years before the pandemic, so we didn't even have to guess who the winner was going to be. We knew that Maderna and bien Tech were the inside runners. We knew they were going to get the contracts from what ultimately
became off Variation Warp Speed. These were things that were foregone conclusions, and you knew who the people were because they were already fighting over who was going to win. So they lied to Congress about the patents that the CADC ANDIH and its funded entities had. They lied to Congress about whether they had a relationship with Acutus and our budhist which conveniently our Canadian firms which made nothing but copious, copious, copious profits on the back of I don't know a thing
that accidentally came into being. And by the way, we have a presidential candidate vivic right now is the guy who funded our beautist and a cutus, a Republican candidate for president who is using for his campaign money he made on his not so publicly disclosed interests in every shot that was delivered. I wonder how that would play if I don't know, somebody at a town hall would ask an inconvenient question like, hey, Vivek, tell us about the money
you made on the back of our budhists and acutit as pharmaceuticals. Why don't we actually have that conversation. But we don't have that conversation because the public is number one uninformed, and when it is informed, they are too incredulous to believe that the things I just said happen to be true. That's right. So many times you tell people that it's just as too evil, or that technology is too science fiction sounding. They don't have technology like that.
He said that all the time. This comment here, person, it's an anonymous account that goes by the name of Clandestine. I think vive Ake was always on Trump's side. Now Trump and vive Ac are on the side of DARPA, big pharmaceutical companies, on the side of CDC and the World Health Organization. They're their puppets. They're their puppets. But he does have an interesting comment here. He says, the brief media scuffle was just theater of
the day before the primary to create the illusion of distance. They created a lot of illusions. They create the illusion that Trump is an anti globalist, and that illusion is so strong, that delusion is so strong to the MAGA people that they can't believe that he's on the side of the globals, even when he goes down and checks every single box that was on the wish list of Klaus Schwab, and he does it in synchronization with these other people around
the world. All this made up garbage about social distancing. In six feet, they all did the same thing at exactly the same time. And there's as Fauci said, well, I don't really know where that came from. It just sort of appeared. Well, he says his job was to be a Trump stand in and to articulate Trump's agenda effectively, because Trump can't do
it effectively. Trump creates a cult of personality worship, but he can't articulate the agenda to do it to a broader audience that might have been turned off by Trump himself. He woke up a lot of people this way and garnered a lot of support, which has now been transferred to Trump via endorsement. Viveig did his job, and I hope he can find a role in the Trump administration because he's as sharp as they come, and I'm excited about him
in the future if he proves he's for real. Well, David Martin has proved what he is about, and you know, he is kissing the ring and it's not just a Trump's ring that he's kissing. He's been kissing the ring of the pharmaceutical companies and playing foot see with him and making a lot of money. Here's an article from Wine Press and they point out Vivek is even though he's dropped out of the race, he's been all over social media.
He's routinely promoted by right leaning alternative platforms. He's always on with Alex Jones and featured by that I should tell you something. He's not going to just fade away. A collection of authors and journalists dug into how Vaivik made his money, and it has been revealed that he ran a number of get rich quick schemes and scams and profited off of technology using the COVID nineteen vaccines. And I've talked about some of this, but there's some of this that
I've not talked about. And I would have liked to have talked about it to Ramaswami, but he didn't want to. They always referred to him as an entrepreneur or as a biotech engineer whatever. No Vivek is fake on those two things. After working in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, he founded biotech company called Reivent Sciences in twenty fourteen. The following year, he raised three hundred and sixty million dollars for its subsidiary, Axovant Sciences, in order to
market in Alzheimer's drug that had previously failed four separate clinical trials. He then raised another three hundred and fifteen million in the IPO. Shortly thereafter, the company's market value reached almost three billion. Two years later, their drug failed its fifth clinical trial. The company cratered, losing over seventy percent of its value in a single day. Ramaswami's investors would be the quintessential bag holders while
he made out with windfall profits at their expense. Just the kind of guy that you want as a populist president. I've had a lot of people telling me how great Ramaswamy is. And by the way, what they don't mention in this is he didn't create anything right. Instead, he's buying and reselling
stuff, very much like the pharmaceutical bro Martin Screlly. As a matter of fact, he tried to bring Martin Screlly in as a partnership of joint venture type of thing, and the other people in the company said no way. But that's who he is. Like if you want an analogy, Vyvek the
snake, it's Martin Screlly, the big farm of bro. Anyway, Yet, in twenty seventeen, this company that he created, roy Vent, partnered with a private equity arm of the CCPs CITIC Group, again Communist Chinese Party, to form yet another fraudulent company called sino Vent Sino as in Chinese. Shortly thereafter, Soft Bank invested one point one billion dollars and Royvent. So he buys this thing that has failed many times. He hypes it. He's
really good at hype. He hypes it, he raises a bunch of money off of it, and then seventy percent of the value has gone in a single day. Other people are left holding the bag. He's left holding a windfall profit. Then to recover, he joins forces with a Chinese communist party company creates something called Sinovac, and as soon as they create that, they get soft Bank jumping in with over a billion dollars. Does that bother you?
I see a lot of problems there, don't you. Anyway, Roybank sold its steak and five subsidiaries, and Ramaswami pocketed one point seventy five million dollars just from that deal. Again, roy Bank has never produced a single viable product, just kind of like Moderna up until warp Speed, and it's never turned a profit. In other words, Royvent Ramaswami's company was always nothing
more than a ponzi screen scheme, and an egregious one at that. But perhaps by his connections with government, he might be able to go the same way as Moderna. Right. Moderna operated for ten years and it was one happy story on Wall Street. They'd do a pump and dump on the stock, and these guys kept going doing that way. I know that last thing we had didn't pan out, but this one, this is going to cure everything, you know, that type of deal, and everybody would buy their
stock and they would pocket the money. And they did that for ten years until they were brought in as part of this warp speed thing. So perhaps that's his long term plan. Who knows. Anyway, Despite having never created anything in his life other than a series of companies engaged in various blatant scams, Forbes recently estimated his network to be more than nine hundred and fifty million dollars. He's so close to being a millionaire. Perhaps with the right connections
to Donald Trump, he could follow that plan of moderna. It has been found that Vaivek was receiving funding from the likes of Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, the Unholy Trinity of ESG even as he was stumping on the
doing political speeches talking about how evil they are. Yeah, he truly is another Donald Trump, isn't He position himself as being anti globalist position and positioning himself as being anti ESG and yet taking money from the people who are pushing the ESG, Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, the three major investment firms that he has routinely railed against in his speeches for monopolizing and vastly influencing
economic conditions to a shadow hand, but he gets funded by them. In a resurface twenty seventeen article by four, it was revealed that in twenty seventeen, Ramaswami's company invested one hundred and sixteen million dollars into nanoparticle delivery systems that you just saw David Martin talking about the same technology that would be later used in the so called COVID nineteen vaccines the Trump shots, and therefore Vivek would
have gotten cut a check in royalties for Forbes reported that at the time that they said, the voivent said it's agreed to invest one hundred and sixteen million dollars in our ARBUTUS Biopharma, a small biotech company focusing on hepatitis B, locked in a proxy war with Moderna over liquid nanoparticle delivery system And what they don't talk about in this article is his involvement in the pandemic scam and how he was on the COVID of Governor Dowine, one of the worst governors,
a Republican governor there in Ohio. And also the fact that as part of that team, not only did he not push back against all the President Fauci and Vice President Trump prediction demands for things to be done. Now, I did not push back against that, but he was also there trying to angle in and make money with contact tracing surveillance and the vaccine ID stuff. This guy truly is a snake. And yet what is a response from somebody who
truly does have Trump delusion? Strong? Strongly? Laura Looney, all right, Laura Lumer, and she after he dropped out of the race, she said, thank you, Ramaswami. I knew you would do the right thing. Run in twenty twenty eight, and you will have our support so long as you remain loyal to President Trump. That's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter if Ramaswami is for ESG or if he's for the big pharmaceutical companies or anything else, EVDC, any of that stuff. None of that
matters if he's loyal to President Trump. As Dessanta said, the only thing's required in the GP now is that you've got to kiss the Trump ring. Laura Looney goes on to say, I always liked your policies. I just wanted loyalty to Trump. And of course she doesn't like what happened, I guess, like most of these people under Trump, but she still is loyal to him. Looking forward to seeing you in New Hampshire with President Trump tomorrow at his rally. Yeah, exactly. So, oh, that's all that's
required. The question is is we look at this election coming up. Well, we can certainly see the enthusiasm in the Republican primaries and in the polls for Trump, but will they show up? You know, I talked about how low the turnout was. If you go back and look at the last competitive GOP primary in Iowa in twenty and sixteen, we had, you know, about sixteen or seventeen different candidates on the ballot at the very beginning there,
they had a turnout of one hundred and eighty six thousand. It was only one hundred and nine thousand this last time really dropped and only fourteen point four percent of registered Republicans even turned out to vote. So is they're going to win the general election with that kind of tepid interest. Of course, you could always say that was affected by the weather, but still only fourteen percent showed up. So as we move forward, they're going to be any
debates, no more debates. Newki Haley doesn't want a debate. She said that if she does another debate, she's not going to do any more debates unless it's a debate with Trump and or Biden. And so I guess DeSantis is doesn't get to talk to anybody, right, maybe he can find a third party candidate. That's how I got into a PBS debate when I was running for Congress, because, by the way, it was Virginia Fox who voted for these bills that the conservatives are so upset about in Congress, this
betrayal. She was the one that I ran against That's all Care. And I thought I'd be dead now if I had actually won that election, because out of just just stress, living in Washington would have killed me. I hated that place. I did not want to go, but I did want to run against it. But anyway, I got it into a PBS debate because she didn't want a debate. She and she was running for her first
reelection. She had gotten in in nineteen ninety four, and in nineteen ninety six she was above debating anybody, and so the Democrat wanted to go into a debate, and so we did that. Anyway, So Nicki Haley says she's not going to be in any further debates. And I imagine it's probably a good thing that she doesn't get in the debates, because, you know, you might have DeSantis bring this up. For example. She posted this back in April of twenty twenty, and this is Nicki Haley's official account.
Thank you Bill Gates for donating billions of dollars to construct factories that will manufacture the seven most promising vaccines. This will keep us from losing any time as potential vaccines move through the clinical trial process. Isn't that great? You know Bill Gates? She saw Bill Gates as a benefactor. Is she really that stupid? Is she really that stupid? See? I don't think Nikki Haley is stupid. I don't think that Trump is stupid. I think they're evil.
I think they're traders. I think they know exactly what they're doing. Yeah, thank you for giving billions of dollars and expecting nothing at all out of it. Does she not know about the ID twenty twenty or which I've got to know your name, she says. Does she not know about the Immunization Agenda twenty thirty of Bill Gates or everybody everywhere, every vaccine, every
age. So in terms of why she doesn't want to talk anymore about any policies or about her record, she says, our intent, I love this royal we that everybody uses, and they all use it. It just really grates against me. Our intent was to host a debate. So I'm sorry that was not her. That's ABC News. Let me take that back, but they all use that. Nevertheless, she uses it, Disantis uses it. ABC said, well, we want to have a debate, but nobody will do it. And as Trump is taking his victory lap, he was
all alone on the stage. He had his two sons, Eric and Junior there, but he didn't have Milania. You know, when he first went to Iowa, showed up for his very first event in Iowa for this cycle, there was a banner that's being flown around saying where's Milania? And she's been a wall this entire time, and she wasn't there when he won the election. And so what he does is you see this happening everywhere in the
press media, this puff story that he came up with. They deflect away from the fact that Milania is absent and also Baron is also absent his son. Here's the headline, Baron Trump has eaten his way to six feet seven inches, but his head says that he likes soccer over basketball. Well there
you go, nothing to worry about, nothing to see there. Donald Trump is all praise for his son Baron's towering height though six feet seven inches, which he attributes to the late Milania's mother cooking skills, speaking because you know, they don't have any servants for are cooking. Donald Trump had his mother in law cooking for everybody at mar Lago, right. I guess that's why
she died. I thought that's a pretty heavy load for somebody's elderly. And then he buried his wife in his golf course to get a discount his first wife. I guess Milania's maybe he doesn't want to go into the golf course. You know, he has already got one hole taken care of. I guess he could have three all together. But anyway, speaking in his campaign headquarters and dem he spoke about Baron's relationship with his grandmother and how she took
care of him and resulted in his impressive height. You think so he equipped that Baron who was watching the event on TV. I'm sure he was prefers playing soccer despite his massive frame. So he makes us all about the fact that, you know, Milania is not finished with him. She's not fed up with him like all the people who worked for him, she's not fed up with him at all. She doesn't care about all this Jeffrey Epstein stuff
and anything. Now they're good, they're really good. They got a solid marriage there, and she's not ready to divorce him as soon as this election thing is over. No, she's not there because her mother died, you know, from the massive duties of feeding everybody and his son Baron evidently because he got so much food from grandma. He is very distraught about this death in the family that happened several weeks ago. Several weeks ago. We'll take
a quick break and we'll be right back here. News Now at apsradionews dot com or get the APS Radio app and never miss another story. Making sense common again you're listening to the David Night Show. Well, we have our guests coming up in five minutes, so real quickly. I wanted to go over some financial thanks here and this is sent to me by listener Mark.
He said that you and Jerald Silenty have been covering this for years, and now sixty minutes is catching on. Yeah, the commercial real estate bust. Listen to this city without its skyline, monuments to commerce, standing proudly shoulder to shoulder, more office space than any city in the world. But peek inside all this vertical real estate and there's a fundamental question. Where is everyone. More than ninety five million square feet of New York office space currently unoccupied,
the equivalent of thirty Empire State buildings. This building had a lot of law firms, had some governments head So Scott Reckler is CEO of RXR, a New York real estate company with more than twenty billion dollars in holdings. Now we walked through his property at sixty one Broadway near Wall Street. Every other floor half the building lies empty. I think this is an existential moment,
you know, I call it crossing the what's the casual? Specifically, this post COVID world of higher interest rates, the changing nature of how people work and live. We're not going back to where we were. It's a different world, and it's going to be turbulent. It already is. The return to office has stalled out. Fridays are dead, mondays aren't much busier, as tenants shrink their office footprint. Office landlords are confronting the fact that
some of their buildings have become obsolete, if not worthless. Ever, the pragmatist Reckler decided not to throw good money after bad. It's sixty one Broadway and defaulted to his bank on a two hundred and forty million dollars loan. I could see people say, it's a lot of money. How did he sleep last night? We in, that's a lot of equity. If it works to me, If it works to make a lot of money. If
it doesn't, who cares. It's not as some other sucker. And of course it's the banks that are going to be taken down by this as well. And China's stein market as he talks about, you know, hey, this is look at all these empty buildings. It's like thirty Empire state buildings. China's stock market is in free fall. I mean, it's going down
like Building seven. So again, it's kind of interesting to look at this because you go back and you look at when the Great Depression kicked off, and you had the Wall Street crash in nineteen twenty nine, and at that particular time, really it was Britain that was the economic powerhouse, and it was kind of you know, the British pound was the standard for the world, and yet America was rising in America was where most of the manufacturing was
done, and that type of thing. There's a lot of parallels there with what is happening today, America being in the role of Great Britain prior to the Great Depression, and China being in the role of America prior to the Great Depression where all the manufacturing was happening. And so that's very troubling from
a global perspective. After a rocky couple of years for the Chinese economy, of the country's stock market appears to be in freefall now, with authorities asking institutional investors not to sell stocks in an attempt to stabilize share prices as foreigners are pulling out China's market. Regulators have tried to stabilize the market by imposing restrictions that stop some investors from being net sellers of equities on certain days.
So it's like you know the oil embargo of Opek. You can only buy gas on odd or even days depending on your license plate. Right, Well, I guess mean the same type of thing here. On certain days you
can't be a net seller. This strategy, with authorities offering what is known as window guidance in an attempt to help the country's stock market bounce back, was first introduced in October, but under pressure to try to stop the share prices from free falling, the country's market regulators have already reintroduced restrictions on some
security companies large institutional investors. China's Central Bank has been left with little room for maneuvering to strengthen the country's economy, as the Chinese you want has weakened in recent months, and the bank is likely to want to avoid a further depreciation of the currency, as are a weekend more than one percent against the
US dollar this year. And so when we look at this in the background of what is happening with a commercial real estate bus because of lockdown, the rest of this stuff, we have JP Morgan has just racked up another conviction. Yes, Jamie Diamond, you can never say this guy has no convictions. He's got a long string of them. Eighteen million dollar fine for violating
whistleblower protection rules. As zero Hedge points out, Elizabeth Warren continues to try to paint the entire crypto movement as a criminal enterprise, and she does it when she has fundraisers with people like Jamie Diamond. He did not admit or deny the charges, but the bank paid an eighteen million dollar fine this week for violating whistleblower protection rules. What they had done was they said, well, if you're going to do business with us, you're not going to be
able to contact the SEC. Zero head says, doesn't the name the mob have a name for that. Don't they call it hush money? Exactly right? So the SEC said you, he says. They alleged here that for several years it forced certain clients in the position of choosing between receiving settlements or credits or reporting potential security law violations to the SEC. This either or proposition not only undermined critical investor protections and placed investors at risk, but it was
also illegal. The SEC's Division of Enforcement said, whether it's you're in your employment contract or a settlement agreement or anywhere else, you simply cannot include provisions that prevent individuals from contacting the SEC with evidence of wrongdoing. And so at the same time they're doing this, Bloomberg says this too big. Defail banks standardize risk weighted assets hit one point seven trillion dollars. It's cash marketable securities
are one point four trillion. This average loans are near there at one point three trillion, and the bigger bank keeps getting bigger. But it's not only then, it's also a Goldman Sachs dumping billions in stocks and assets as it told clients to buy. By the way, that's the bank that Trump recruited so much of his cabinet from. Cohen got paid two hundred and fifty million dollars in a golden parachute so he could be part of the Trump administration.
And then as Trump got rid of him, he said, yeah, he's kind of a globalist. Yeah, I guess that's why you hired him. JP Morgan, Bank of America, Bridgewater CEOs all at Davos with Zelensky. That's right, here's Zelensky with the bankers getting his lining up for his cash. So the bottom line with all of this and we've got our guests is ready to come on. When you look at what is happening in Argentina, you have Avia Malay making a move to allow certain private think of that as
states to start to circulate their own currencies. That is something that we saw during the Great Depression. You had a lot of local communities and still have it in some of the museums. People printed up wooden coins to exchange because
it was necessary. So the bottom line is, you know, when you try to set up these state banks to try to get away from these two big to fail public private partnership stakeholder banks whatever you want to call them, crony capital and involvement with these corrupt government entities, you want to have something there at the local level, and whether it's going to be wooden coins, certainly, if you've got your own gold or silver, that's going to be
something that is always going to be tradable. You know, a wooden coin is a fiat currency in a sense, So have something that is physical that is there and as a backup to try to stay out of this criminal system as it looks like it's about to collapse get much worse again. Tony Ardaban has set up David Knight dot gold to take you to Wisewolf Gold. You can go there and he will help you with any transaction, any size,
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for governor in California. He's written a book about Gavin Newsom, Newsom's Nightmare. I think it's going to be very interesting. We will be right back. Stay with us. Tell Alexa to add the APS Radio skill and have access to the best channels anywhere from country to blues, classic hits to news. APS Radio curates and ridibly diverse playlist for you. To enjoy. Get details at APS radio dot com. The seed in our home, my boys, then let go where all can see be it with our devotion. Boys
call it the Liberty Tree. It's all low tree and the storm old tree. And we are the sons just they are the sons, the sons of liberty. Liberty, it's your move. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well, joining us now is John Cox. As I said, he is a CPA, he's an attorney, and he has been a candidate for California governor, and he's written a book mount Gavin Newsom, Newsom's Nightmare, and so it's good to have you on. John. I'm so sorry that
you live in California. Thank you, thank you. Well, you know, the weather's pretty darn good, David. That's why that's why I stay out there, and that's why there's a whole bunch of great companies that are out there despite Gavin Newsom. And that's I think the message of the book. The book is called, by the way, the Newsom Nightmare. Uh So it's available on Amazon and any place good books are sold, and I hope people get a chance to read it because I think mister Newsom is going
to make a play to be the president of the United States. If not in twenty four, it'll be twenty eight. I agree. People want to know about his record. They don't know about his background. They don't know about what he will do to the country or how he will lead the country. And I think that's very germane. I agree. And of course we all know that even if he doesn't run for president, and even if he doesn't get elected president or whatever, what he does there is governor of California
has a tremendous impact across the country. We'll talk about that in a moment. Let's talk a little bit about his possible presidency this year. For example, you know, Biden is eighty one, and he's not a young eighty one either. He failed the full effect of all those years. It'll be eighty six by the end of the term. And so you know, people are looking at this. I look at even his running mate, La La Harris, I call her, but because she's kind of in La La lamb,
but she's you know, I look at this. They might replace her, they might replace both of them. And you know, Trump is also getting pretty old. He's he's seventy seven. He'll be eighty one by the end of this next term, so he would end up the same age as
Biden, but he seems to be physically in better shape. And so there's a lot when you look at this and if they get rid of Biden, and a lot of people in the Democrat Party are really pushing for that, the likely candidates I think to replace Biden would be either Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom. But Gavin Newsom is in office and he is having an effect as he is. You know, the things that he's doing right now are having
effect right now on everybody across the country. How did you think he did in terms of the debate that he had with Hannity and DeSantis Unfox News. I think he did what he wanted to do, and that is he wanted to introduce himself more to the nation, to a different audience. Frankly, I mean, he's been on MSNBC and CNN quite a bit, so he doesn't need to introduce himself to those audiences as the Fox audience. Obviously,
there are different people that don't ordinarily see what he's doing. They see a lot of the criticisms, but you know, Newsom came off glib, came off well spoken. He came off citing a whole bunch of statistics that sounded great. Gee, it's no revelation that a lot of great companies have started in California. Sales Force, Apple, Google, all these great trillion dollar
plus companies based themselves in California. And who wouldn't you know? I live in California because I just love the weather and the ocean and the natural beauty. And if you know, if you're a smart guy with a great business idea, sure you're going to want to start your business where you can live the best life you can and that's the place for the best weather. But they quickly, they quickly discover, however, that the government that Newsome leads
is nothing short of spectacularly in in your life. They want to tax you to death. And so a whole bunch of those companies have decided to ultimately leave, like Tesla, but Nestley, Toyota. You know, I can name a whole bunch of companies and people that have left. They've moved to Tennessee or Florida or Texas, where there's obviously zero tax and where regulation is
not going to strangle their future. And you know, they may still keep their homes, by the way, in California, I'm certain that most of them do. But the government of California does its best to chase productive people out of the state or productive businesses, and also make it very very difficult for the rest of the people. If you're not in the top one percent
in California, you're living a very difficult life. The cost of living, shortages of energy, water, housing, homelessness all over the place, wildfires, crime, regular le I think of when I look at the it's the home issue, right, and the homelessness, but even to the fact that
people can't afford to buy a home. And this is absolutely amazing, the pictures of people that you see living out of RVs and just lining the road for as far as you can see, living out of their RVs, and then the homeless people who don't even have an RV, and all that is really a function of when you've got a state that is as prosperous as that, and you see that kind of abject poverty contrasted with the amazing amounts of
wealth that happens because of government policies and because it is doing that. That's that's not a natural situation. I'm in the housing industry, David, that's my business. I build and manage apartments. I don't own anything in California. Right now, I'm building about twelve twelve hundred units outside of Indianapolis, India. Indiana is a great example of a state that treats business well, that isn't owned by trial lawyers, that doesn't have huge deficits or pension deficits.
And I can build wonderful apartments in Indiana for under two hundred thousand dollars a unit, just gorgeous granite countertops, beautiful appliances. Those same units in California, David, would be five six hundred thousand dollars in most of the state. And you know, that's a very big difference in terms of your lifestyle and what you're able to afford and how competitive you are in the rest of the country. It's just so sad. And it's mostly, as you
said, government that drives up that cost difference. And you know, lumber and windows don't cost a whole lot more in Indiana than they do in California. It's the other things. Yeah, And it's stuff like fuel right, fuel is more expensive in California that it is in other places. They got their own special It's like having an own special wood or something. Right, they have to have bespoke gasoline. That so they've got some refineries that only
produced the special blend that California demands. And so between that and the really high taxes is I've reported on the prices of gasoline going up and everything, California is way ahead of even the number two. And so it's even more than the taxes. It's also the regulations that he has on the formulation of the fuel. There this gets to the essence of Gavin Newsom, and that is he appeals to people on a gut level on some very high emotional issues
like abortion, guns, and climate change. It's part of this whole thing to scare the Bejesus out of people. You know. The gasoline formulation that California uses, David makes the tiniest little bit of difference in the atal pollution of the world. I mean it is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. In India and China are spewing carbon into the atmosphere like nobody's business these days. And the tiny little difference that California makes is ridiculously small.
Yet this is what drives Gavin Newsom, and this is what the media loves. The media loves to herald this stuff and why because it gets clicks and it gets eyeballs. And this is the essence of Gavin Newsom's entire political agenda, and that is focus on these emotional scare tactics and highly emotional social and other issues ignore the stuff that truly makes a difference in people's lives, like energy, water, housing, safety, cleanliness, homelessness, all these things
that really have an effect on people's lives. And he's able to roll to electoral victories because so many people just pay attention to these highly emotional issues and they don't think that you can do anything about these other bread and butter,
meat and potatoes issues. And that's what I talk about in my book and what I'm also proposing in my book, David, is a way to get the electorate to finally pay attention to these things and get involved in the process so that they really pay attention to who they're voting for and why they're voting for these candidates. It is so hard to get people to focus though on their policy right and on their records, and I beat my head against the
wall trying to get Republicans to do the same thing. It's like, Okay, yes, you hate this policy, you hated the lockdown, but you're supporting the guy that did the lockdown. What is going on with all this? And of course, you know with Gavin Newsom, he is very telegenic. You know, he looks like he came out of Central Casting there in Hollywood, and you know, he and his wife. And yet you know, when you start looking at what he did, it's like, WHOA,
I was so disappointed to see. You know, in California the people voted him in again, even with everything that had happened there. And yet it's not surprising because the Republican are doing the same thing. They don't want to hold anybody accountable for anything that happened in the last three years or even before that. And why is that, David? The reason is is that most voters don't watch your podcast. They don't get any kind of a glimpse of
the detailed issues that they ought to be focused on. All they get fed is a diet, a steady diet of twenty or thirty second ads or memes on social media. They never have a chance to have a conversation like you and I are having right now. They just sit there and they mindlessly look at their phones and they see something and they say, oh gee, I don't like that, and they vote for a guy based upon what his opponent
says. They don't get a chance to actually discuss issues. So what I'm proposing in my book, and this is really important, David, is a revolution in how we elect our elected leaders. I'm proposing that we change that we tweak our election processes with regard to Congress, especially to get people more involved in getting to the essence of a lot of these issues, where it's more than just a thirty second TV ad and it's more than just a meme.
It's an actual conversation that every voter can have with their representative, which they don't get a chance to. Now. Yeah, tells me about that key thing because you lay out the problems. But you know, unlike, we've got to get past the point of just laying out problems. We've got to have some solutions because things are changing very quickly. So that's one of the reasons I wanted to talk to you about that. You've got an organization
here, thepeople dot org. Yes, tell us how that your vision for how that would change the electoral process. The essence of this is the people's House, David, the Congress. It was intended by our founders to be the people's house. But because they limited the number to four hundred and thirty five about a century ago, the average congressional district is seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Now it's just impossible for people to actually know their congressmen,
and they don't. They only see them on TV. That's right. So yeah, let me just interject. Even thirty thirty five years or so ago, when I ran for Congress, it was about a half a million, and now it's going to seven hundred and fifty or half a million, now's going to seven hundred and fifty thousand, and so you're getting less and less representation, as you will. Sorry, Yes, and so the idea is very simple, David. Plice that big district into one hundred little tiny districts.
Yes, so that each district's only seventy five hundred people. You're not going to use television to reach those seventy five hundred people. You're not going to use social media. You're not going to blast radio ads to all of them. What you're going to be forced to do is actually go and have a conversation. Because seventy five hundred people is only about three thousand households, and you can have a conversation with a couple thousand people. You just have
to spend a few weekends doing it. But you can actually get to know your constituents, and more importantly, your constituents can know who you are, and they can know what your background is, and they can know that you have the character and the confidence and the leadership ability to actually do something. Now, as a practical effect, what ends up happening is that these hundred people who are elected in these little, tiny districts, they get together at
a meeting and they select one person to go to Washington. The other ninety nine stay home, and they don't have an office, they don't have a pension, they don't have a staff. Their entire job is to get together every two years and decide on the guy to go to Washington, and then they monitor what that guy does in Washington. But you know what that guy in Washington is not going to do. David he's not going to spend six hours of every day on the telephone begging for money. That's right, that's
right. He's gonna study the issues. He's going to communicate with his constituents. He's going to communicate with the ninety nine people back home who sent him there because he's got to get reelected and those ninety nine hold the keys to that right. So he's going to keep them informed, and each of those are going to in turn keep their own constituents informed. What this does, David, is it really puts the people back in charge of the people's House.
And I think it would change politics up and down the political spectrum because people then would feel like their voice would be heard, and their elected leaders would actually respond to their voice and would have an interest in doing that. And it wouldn't be in through the media. I think the media, the media has gotten way too much power in this country. I hope you agree with that, even though you're a member. Oh yeah, No, I don't consider myself to be a media a member of the media, and they
don't either to be that. Yeah, And what you're saying is so true. And I remember in the early nineties we talked about the New Hampshire State Legislature and it had that's where I got this idea, Yes, where I got that idea in the early nineties. I don't know what it is right now, but they said if you spent more than a thousand dollars running for office, that accused you're trying to buy the election. And yet at that time, you know a routine and you know for people to spend you know,
over one hundred thousand dollars running for Congress at that time. And that's the problem is that we've allowed this. If you look at the constitution, it said, well, we're going to have like thirty thousand people, one representative for every thirty thousand people, were not going to go past fifty.
And then they just they didn't even go without at the very beginning. They just kind of threw that away and then they fixed it and said, we don't care how rapidly the population grows, and we don't care, you know, about any of this, except we're going to have this fixed number of representatives. And I think you're exactly right. That's the one of the ways that we actually get a representative government is to increase the number of people.
And when we would talk about this thirty years ago. People say, well, it's just not practical do it, and it's like, no, you could do it today. And you could certainly do it today now that you've got the zoom technology and all the rest of stuff that everybody had to live by over the last three years, is not even a question as to whether or not that be a viable way to do it. And you'd have the people living in their district instead of maybe traveling to Washington. You know,
they could still do their work by telecommuting or something like that. But you're so right. The Internet actually multiplies the opportunity for this because let's say I'm the representative of my own little tiny district of seventy five hundred people. It's a few thousand households. Well, you know, once I met every one of those people, they know me, they trust me. I'll be able to send them emails, I'll be able to ask them questions. They'll be
able to ask me questions. If any of them is a crackpot and ask me wild idiotic questions, I can certainly put them in the background, but I'll be able to focus on the people of my district who have real concerns, and I'll be able to then communicate those concerns to the guy that we sent to Washington. That guy that we send to Washington, he's going to listen to me because I'm one of the ninety nine who sent him there.
And it won't be. It won't be because I gave him a whole bunch of money, right like a union boss or a big corporation of something like that. He'll listen to me because he knows I'm one of those ninety nine and I can unelect him as much as I can elect him. And that's really accountable, responsive government, which is what we ought, and it's republican.
It's a small, our republican government. Remember we're not a democracy, We're a republican We're a representative republican demodocracy, which means that we vote for people to represent us. That's right, But that only works. That only works, David, if those people are actually responsive to us, If they're only responsible to the people that give them money for their campaigns, which we know they are. That's right. We've lost our representative republic, we really
have, and my goal here is to get it back. Yeah, it's interesting, you know, when we look at what has happened in the government, it is so rapidly distanced itself from us. And I think about you. We're just watching some old movies for Christmas, and you have these situations where you got, you know, the cop on the beat, and he would walk the beat and he knew everybody. You know, he knew the
grocer, this person, and keep on the street. He knew them, and so you know he and if you see somebody that he doesn't know, he's kind of keeping an eye on this, who's this guy? You know, that type of thing. But we've lost that personal touch with everything, but nowhere more so than with the congressional representatives. We don't know these guys. They don't know us. And and that's why it is so amazing when you the details of these people's lives that are running for office, that you
don't know these people at all. They're so distant from you. And what do they focus on each of these people at rants for office. What they focus on is getting on television, getting famous. I mean, look at in California right now. I'm supporting them because I want to support a Republican, But you know, Steve Garvey a former baseball player is running for the US Senate. God love him. He'll be a million times better than Adam Schiff or Barbara Lee or Katie Porter. Okay, but why why is he
running? Why is he the main candidate on the Republican side. Well, because he was in baseball for thirty years or twenty five years. He got name recognition being in baseball, and so that all of a sudden makes them a great candidate for the Senate. I'm sorry, it's a celebrity, probably a celebrity, and you know what, we need people who are true leaders. You know, look at Gavin Newsom and frankly, Donald Trump are the same kind of person. They really manipulate the media. Why do we know
Donald Trump so much? Because he's been in the media for forty years and you know, Gavin Newsom grew up with the media. You know, his family goes back to governors in California and being part of that whole media thing. But do they really have the leadership qualities that we look to to be real leaders and real truth tellers and real competent, character, character filled leaders. I'm sorry, we need good leaders. We need people of good character.
We need people who can empathize and communicate with us and give us the background of why these policies are important, not just staying close the border, but tell us why that's important, tell us how we're going to do that, tell us the benefits and the burdens of doing all these things. We don't get those kinds of discussion day, but we just get some sound bite somewhere, and I think that's really really damaged our democracy and damaged our country.
And I think that's one of the reasons why, you know, when you look at Iowa and New Hampshire, they don't necessarily have great track records in terms of picking who's going to go on to win even the nomination. But in those environments you have a situation where they go into a pizza ranch and they talk to people one on yes, or they have you know, even the caucuses or the voters interacting with each other, or in New Hampshire. You know, again, it's that that that retail touch that you can
have, and that's just not doesn't happen anywhere else. Everywhere else. It becomes about the advertising budget. And I know when I ran, the first question that anybody in the media would ask me was what's your budget? How much money? Yeah, exactly how much money have you raised? I'm not interested because you're not going to be running ads on my TV show, you know, so I'm not interested in you anymore. I can get the money somewhere else. But you know, that's what it's all about, the money,
and it's about the fundraising. With the exception of those two places, but we can see that you've got to have that personal touch and people have to know you. But they you know, when you've got a celebrity like Steve Gary or you got somebody like Donald Trump, because they watched them for years on a program, and even if it's not a reality program, even if it's not sports, even if it is like some scripted TV show, they think they know that person and they think they know them exactly you say
it. When the person dies, everybody's like, Oh, I'm in mourning for this guy that was in Friends or whatever, you know, and it's like, you don't know anything about him, you know, But they get as upset about that as they do over their friends dying or something good. They do think that they're friends with these people on TV. And that's very true with Kevin new Some people think that they know this guy, they really don't. They don't know anything about his background. You know, his grandfather
helped Pat Brown get elected governor. His father helped Jerry Brown get elected governor. They have fed at the trough of state politics for forty years. The Newsomb family goes back, oh gosh, actually more than sixty years at the power table, feeding off of government in California. Squaw Valley, which is now called the Palisades, a big ski area, used to be owned by
the Newsom family. And why because they leveraged their political connections. Newsom's father, Gavin Newsom's father was the lawyer for J. Paul Getty, the first billionaire, and he opened doors and he maneuvered the legal system to help the Getty family get you know, and keep their money. So you know, there's so many connections here, but people don't know that. They just think that Gavin Newsom's this good looking guy with great teeth and great hair, and
he spouts statistics that sound good. Yeah, I mean if you look, if you look through those statistics, by the way, I mean, I think he sat a whopper. During that DeSantis debate, he said, somehow California's middle class pays lower taxes than Florida, which you know, I heard this and I say, what planet is he on? I mean, this is nobody. The property taxes, they've got to be the same, you know. I know at Florida's property taxes are a little bit higher because they
don't have an incompact, but they don't have an income tax. And I don't think that even their property taxes are as high as California. I may be wrong. Well, no, not when you look at the cost of housing in California. I mean, our tax rate is only one percent, but the average house here costs two million dollars versus one million in Florida or Texas. So I mean that means your taxes are still one percent of two million, which is twenty thousand. Yeah, in Texas it might be it
might be two percent of one million, which is still twenty thousand. So you're not going to be paying much of a different tax bill. But you know, that's kind of lost on Gavin Newsom. I guess you know he doesn't expect people to look beyond the headlines there. Well, certainly he can get away with it. And again it's because you know the he he's been trained and he's he's slick. Now, did you run for governor? Are you going to run for guests? You did well? I did. I
ran. The seat was open in twenty eighteen after Jerry Brown left, and I figured people were going to be sick of Democratic policies, and so I jumped into the race. I had an idea about remaking the California Legislature in the same way that I'm talking about the Congress here, and unfortunately, people
just didn't pay attention. And you know, the media knew. Some raised millions, tens of millions of dollars from the unions, from Hollywood, from Silicon Valley, and you know, the people that feed at the troth and he buried me. But I'm staying involved, and I think this is the right thing. Well, he's absolutely and I've mentioned this many times over the years. That is the path. And when you talk about doing that in California, it needs to be done at the state levels as well, because
the same thing we happened at the state levels. We've frozen the number of representatives to the State House and the state Senate, and that type of thing as a population everywhere has exploded. I mean, you go back and you look at the you know, seventeen seventy sixty, what the population was of just like three or four million or something like that, and you know, and there was real representation because people really did know other people. And that's
the key thing. If it gets really big, as you point out, it's just going to be the people with lots of money and organizations that are going to manipulate them. That's who they're going to answer to. They don't know us, they don't share our concerns, they don't live in our area. And as I've said many times, you know, even if you were to go back and say we're going to limit it to fifty thousand people, you know, you'd wind up with like eight thousand congressional representatives. And yeah,
and that's something unwieldy. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but that would that would be unwieldy. I mean, people would look at that and they would say, gee, a body of eight thousand congressmen would be just you'd never get anything done. You know, there'd be may be just too much tough. That might be. That's why nature that might be a nice speech, I get that, but you know, the structure that we've come up with here where you have one hundred subdistricts and then you extend one person
who's responsive. I think that probably works in a higher population area. People can learn about this, by the way, by going to Hearthepeople dot Org. We're going to try to get this done in a couple of states. I think we're going to start maybe with Arizona, and we're going to try to get the state legislature to enact this. By the way, that's an
important thing, David. I'm sure you're a constitutionalist, but you realize the Constitution in Article one gives each state the ability to decide how to elect their congressman. Yes, so this is this is entirely constitutional, and a state, all the state legislature has to do is enact this and it will be
done for the next election. And so that's what I like to plan there, because you know, if you wanted to say, well, we're going to go back and we're going to have you know, let's say, maybe not eight thousand, we're going to have you know, two thousand members of Congress, so well they determine right now, they said, that's our determination how many are going to be there. But with your system, it spreads
out the representation without in a hierarchical way. Right, instead of saying, well, now we're going to send more people to Washington, we say can't do You still wind up getting that representation, but in a hierarchical way. That's great. In your example, it would be up to the Congress itself to change to go to two or three thousand people, and they're not going to do that. And why wouldn't they do that because it would dilute their
power. Right, if you're one of two thousand, you're going to have a lot less power than one of four hundred and thirty five. So that's the last thing they're going to do. You're absolutely right. They're the ones that frozen at four thirty five to begin with, back in nineteen twenty or so. So this is going to be required to do, is each state legislature is going to have to meet and enact this statute. We have a model statute, we've had draft, so it's very easy to do. And
you know, think about the second. We're going to be able to make an argument that who doesn't want this change. The people who will fight this are the media and the lobbyists. Because they stand to lose that measure of power. I think people will look at that and say, hmm, who do we want to have the power? Do we want the people to have the power, or do we want media and the lobbyists to have power.
I think the people are going to say, gee, I like this idea because it gives me a greater say over my future and about our leaders, not the media or the lobbyists. And that's I think long overdue. So we're going to start in one state. We think that once one or two states does this and the rest of the country hears about it, every state is going to say, hey, why don't we do this in our state?
And I think this is I think this is a perfect time for this as well, because we're at a time right now where everybody is looking at the institutions and they're saying, you know, this just isn't working. You know, I subscribe to the ideas as trous and how in the fourth turning.
You know that this type of thing happens like every eighty years, But we can whether you see this as a cycle or not, you can see that this is really what is happening that everybody is questioning the institutions, and we're seeing at the state level a lot of innovative approaches to change certain things. Let's come up with some different ways to It's kind of a backstop of the financial system in case the Federal Reserve really screws up, as many people
are worried that it's going to do. So you're seeing moves in terms of like a financial backstop to what Washington is doing, and many other things like that to nullify what they're doing. And so I think the time is ripe for people to look at this and say, wait a minute, let's change the way that we select the congressman. We may not be able to change the number of congressmen that we have, but we can certainly change the way
they're selected to make it more representative. And there's one word in all this, David, and that word is accountability. Yeah, the people don't trust the major institutions. And why because they don't believe that they're accountable when they mislead us, or when they give us bad information, or when they give
us half the story. The big deal with here the people is that you're going to have a guy or a girl in your district seventy five hundred people who you know, and if that person gives you bad information, or gives you information that you know is not true or doesn't pass the smell test, or is just lacks common sense, you're going to be able to hold that
person accountable and you're never going to believe them again. What that means is that the person who you would interact with, you're going to be able to hold accountable. And the ninety nine are going to be able to hold accountable that person that they've sent to Washington, d C. At the same time, and they're going to be able to hold that Congress accountable. That's a
really big thing. We've lost accountability because it's all about media. It's all about these sound bites, and it's all about lobbyists and how you shave the truth and telling half the story. We've got to do away with that. We've got to make our leaders accountable to each one of us, and I think this is a step in that direction. Yeah, that's absolutely right.
Yeah. When you look at the presidential bates are a good example. When they get together, they talk about the same issues, even though the issues have changed significantly, same issues that they talked about for decades, They skirt around the issues, they talk past each other, as we saw with Newsom and DeSantis, and then they get away with this because you've only got two choices, and it's like, well, I don't like either one of these
guys, but I really can't stand that guy because I've seen all these negative ads. And also so I'll gote for this guy even though I don't really like him. And so all of these things combined together, and we've got to find a way to break through that. And I like the bottom up approach that you've got because we've really got to take this back from the bottom
up. We can't take it back from the top down. It's two corrupts who's pointed out that Congress isn't going to loot their power, they're not going to do anything to change what they're doing. Instead, they're trying to put these tentacles further into our lives and to micro manage more and more aspects of our life at the local level. And that's why I think you're starting to see these approaches rising up at the state level and below that are saying no,
we're not going to do that. We're going to start taking back some of our rightful power in all this. And you're absolutely right, by the way, the answer to all this is not media that's you know, telling us what we want to hear in sound bites. It's to get the people
back involved. You know, Fox News was created as a reaction to the liberal bent of ABC, CBS and NBC, right, But now we've gone to the Fox News silo and we only hear certain things there, and then we don't hear it over here and on the major networks, so we're kind of buffeted back and forth. And you know, the people's reaction to all this, David, is to just turn off. I mean, you've seen you've seen those interviews that they do on the street, you know, Jesse
Waters or Jay Leno or one of these. They go up and ask people, you know, name the Supreme Court justices or name your US senator. Most people can't do it. Yeah, most people they have no knowledge of politics, and why because they're so detached from it. They've they've gotten moved so far are away from it that they just don't even want to get involved anymore. And you can't blame it because they don't have really any input into it, right, You know, it's become so distant from us it doesn't
really matter. And I look at it even from that standpoint. I've gotten to the point where it's like I'm trying to focus on my local elections and things like that, even to the extent that you know, I look at the national elections and there's lessons to be learned there about the directions that they're going to come at us with. But I'm you know, if for the real practical stuff, you got to focus on what's local, and so we got to grow this from the bottom up. That is a great idea.
I love that, and so that is also discussed in your book about Newsome is a solution. This is good. And there's also a website there as well. We here thepeople dot org. Here thepeople dot org is the plan
laid out there that people can see what that looks like. But before we leave, you know, tell us a little bit more about you know, just just talk about how California, whether or not Newsome runs for president or God forbid, gets elected president, the impact that he has on all of us, whether it is you know, the kind of car that we drive or the appliances that we have, and it falls back to the activist government in California and just how big they are compared to other states, and how
they can throw that weight around, isn't it. Well, Listen, Gavin Newsom will survive Gavin Newsom if he gets to be president. We survived Barack Obama. I think our system is strong enough. But you know what, we won't make the same amount of progress. People won't have the same opportunities, and I think our country will get weaker. And if our country gets weaker, I think the world is worse off for that reason. You know, I'm involved in a movie about Ronald Reagan right now. It's going to
come out in a couple of months. And you know Reagan, you know, took over for Jimmy Carter. We were a weak nation made weaker by Jimmy Carter. We had inflation, we had an oil crisis, we had threats from the Soviet Union. Reagan turned us around and said that we could do better, and we could grow and give more people opportunity. We just got to get government out of the way. Well, you're absolutely right, Gavin Newsom is one of those that wants to empower government. You know,
Hugo Chavez was the same in Venezuela. He promised people better stuff through the government. You know Castro did the same for Cuba. Oh you're going to get better healthcare, You're going to get better this than that. And guess what spectacular failures. I don't want to see the United States go down that route. And let me tell you, Joe Biden has taken down us down that route. Jimmy Carter tried to Ronald Reagan saved us. I don't necessarily
see another Reagan on the horizon to save us from Joe Biden. And if it turns out to be Gavin Newsome, I think that could lead us further down this road to more government, more mismanagement, a lower standard of living, a weaker country, a weaker, more dangerous world. I don't want to see that happen. I want to see us become a better country. And that's why I'm warning people about Gavin Newsom. That's why I'm publishing this
book. That's why I'm appearing with you and getting this idea out. Well, talk a little bit about you know, we're all I to talk about this a great deal on this program. You know, his energy policies, his car policies and things like that that have to effect on other people. But also the immigration policy that he has there, you know, the you
come in as an illegal immigrant. As you point out, you've got Hugo Chavez and you've got Castro promising all this free stuff to everybody, which is what the socialism and Marxists do. But now we've got Gavin Newsom and other people. I am promising it to people in other countries. At least Hugo Chavez was promising it to the Venezuelan's He wasn't promising it to you know, the people from Al Salvador or Peru or Mexico or whatever. You know.
Gavin Newsom is promising it to the world. Just come here, get across that finish line and you're done. You can collect unemployment, you get free medical care and all the rest of this. And of course that's going to bankrupt us very rapidly. I think that was the plan. You know,
Cloud and Piven economists talked about this years ago. So the welfare state's not growing quickly enough, and we can make it grow even faster and make people even more poor and more dependent on government if we can do this, and I think that's the real strategy that's there talk about you know what is happening with the immigration issues with Newsom. Yeah, the border. Well, this is a prime example of a false choice that gets demogogued all the time,
David. And you know, I'm a Jack Kemp Republican. I believe that the United States has benefited tremendously from bringing people who want to contribute to us into the country. Most other countries do the same thing. They have a very strong immigration policy that welcomes people who want to contribute to our growth and our opportunity. But that's not what's happening with our southern border. I mean anybody, and anybody can come across that border without any restrictions and without any
knowledge of who they are or what they're planning to do. That's just as wrong as a total closing of every input to our country. We need to, certainly, you know, get more people. Our kids are not having enough kids. I don't want to see us end up like Japan, which has a no growth economy and has terrific problems caring for its elderly. We need to have some growth, We need to have controlled immigration. We need
to know who's coming into the country. This is a false choice. The Democrats are just letting the borders completely open, which is just so incredibly wrong for our future. And frankly, it's misleading to everybody who's coming in as well. They think are going to come here and live a wonderful life, and a lot of them discover that they're just not going to be able to. Uh that's right. We need you know, we need to make sure that our borders are secure. You can't have a secure country without it.
Uh and uh, you know, this is another example of politicians who just aren't leading. They're they're just not leveling with the people. And on both sides. Frankly, I agree, I agree, yeah, because there's a lot of you know, again, if you point out legal immigration, knowing who the people are, that's one thing. But no matter what they do at the border, if they've got this massive welfare magnet pulling people across and
promising them free stuff, that's the real issue. And we shouldn't have a lot with people who want to work and people want to be a contributing to the to the economy, but we ought to know who's coming in. You just had this massive an Ecuador just massive prison prison breaks and and drug cartels
and everything. So what are they doing in neighboring Peru and other countries there's well, we sent police to the borders and we said you're not coming in here unless you've got some kind of paperwork from your government showing you don't have a criminal record. We don't do any of that stuff. They'll just come up here, you know. And they are yeah, and they are yeah, yeah, they are coming up here. And you know, again,
the politicians just dither and demagogue and they don't get the job done. They need to be secure in the border, but then they need to make it easier for quality people, for people who are interested in working hard and contributing to America. And you're absolutely right, by the way, the welfare state in America is what's going to destroy us. I mean, we have got
we're spending what six and a half trillion dollars this year. We're only and I say only raising four and a half trillion from the tax revenue, which by the way, is a record that's a record amount of tax revenue. But the politicians in Washington spending it, and what are they doing. They're maintaining a welfare estate. You know, something like eighty percent of the people now are on Medicaid. They've expanded that all the way through all the states,
and governors like Newsome have willingly taken this money. Interestingly, of course, you know, DeSantis Abbott. A lot of red steak governors have refused it. And why because they know it's a drugs It's going to be there for one or two years and then it's got to go because it's unsustainable and they don't want to get tied into this drug. They don't want to, you know, balance their budgets on Medicaid. They want to make sure that
they're sustainable. And it's not sustainable for the government to have our entire medical systems supported by the government. Our medical system should be free market, just like cars, just like energy, just like every other good or service. It ought to be free market, ought to be driven by the private sector. It ought to be driven by innovation, it ought to be driven by competition. Putting it in the hands of the government is the way surest way
to destroy it. Well, I agree, and yet you look at this last three years. They don't want your physician to even have a say so in your healthcare a loan you and when you look at the strings that come attached to this money that they give you. That was kind of the way they rolled this thing out. First, they gave a massive bonuses, you know, to follow the Faucci protocols in the hospitals. You diagnose somebody as a COVID patient, will give you twenty percent bonus. And then the next
year after the bribery, what follows is the blackmail. We're not only going to take away that bonus, but we're going to take away all your Medicare and Medicaid patients and bankrupt you if you don't get all your staff shot you know with a vacus who. Yeah, and guess who are some of the guess who are some of the biggest supporters of GAVENUWSOM in California? Healthcare? Yeah, healthcare, healthcare entities. Yeah. That's one thing we should talk
about is how they rolled out the vaccine mandates in California. And I believe that was under Newsom, wasn't it where they started saying you're not going to
have any religious or medical exemptions for any of these childhood vaccines. They've been laying the groundwork for this kind of stuff for a long time, and I think it's one of the reasons why Washington is pushing so hard to get everybody addicted to this medicare, because that's going to be one of the most effective ways that they can use to control us and say, well, now you're going to have to get the ID or you're not going to get any medical
care. We've already seen that done by Gates in India with the Adhar system. We'll give you welfare, we'll give you medical care, but you're going to have to take the digital ID. And so there's all these strings that
are attached to it, but they begin by bribing people. It's always the way the federal government came the stem and guess what, David, everybody is going to need healthcare at some points, and so the more government can control a service like that that almost everybody's going to need, the more the government
then control your life. This is an old playbook and Hugo shaves, you've used it, Castro used it. You know, you promise people something that they know they're going to need, and you tell them that government is going to provide it, and they'll give you their power. And that's what This is all about David. It's about a small group of people trying to control the population. And it's the story of human history. You go back to
the Pharaohs, it's the story of human history. The United States has stood out among all the countries that ever existed as a place where government was limited. The Constitution was about limiting the scope and size of government. And along the way we really have lost that idea. We really let that idea slip, and I think it's time to bring it back. That's what our proposal
is all about with here the people putting those limits back on government. And I think the people, you know, they do want to run their own lives. They don't want government telling them how to live. That was Ronald Reagan's flee to us. That was the key to his success and appeal. We did another Ronald Reagan and that's that's that's my and that's in the book too, by the way, so you'll get a chance to read that.
Well, you know, when you look at the Rights, and as you correctly pointed it out, it was about prohibiting government from interfering with our God given rights. What the Bill of Rights was about. It's very clever I remember when Obama was running for president and or shortly after he got elected.
I can't remember exactly when he said. It was at the very beginning, and he said, and he taught this, and he knew exactly what he was doing, but they have they control the way that you perceive things by the terminology, and so they would say. He said, well, you know, I know that this is set up, and we got prohibitions there for government. We call that negative rights. But you know, a positive right is your right to healthcare, or your right to an education, or
to housing or to this. And it's like, oh, well, I want the positive stuff. I don't want the negative stuff. And he completely turned it upside down by using those labels. And it had absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution. He knew that. But he's great at selling stuff, doesn't he. I knew. I knew Obama very well. I'm from Illinois, I'm from Chicago, and I ran for the US Senate and I once debated Obama for an hour and a half just on those ideas education and
healthcare. And you know, David, you know what his big response to me was, we need government to help people with education and health care. We can't let people and these are his words, fend for themselves. We can't let people. People are too stupid. In his world, people are too stupid to choose their own health care or their own education. Government has to do it for them. And darned if that wasn't his program on becoming
president of the United States. He convinced the media that it was a great thing that government should control your education. Government, you could go health care. You're too stupid to choose it on your own. My answer was, people can choose their healthcare. People can choose education if they're given the tools to do so, and they want to choose that, and frankly, they should be able to because that means we have competition. And when you have
competition, you have quality and you have lower costs. Yeah. Right, But Obama didn't want to hear that. I mean, he disagreed with me on that, and we debated on it. I wish I had a tape of that debate, by the way, because it was an hour and a half and he and I were the only ones there. And I wish you would have beat him. I wish you would have beat him in the election. I'm sure you beat him in the debate. But I wish you'd beat
him in the election. It would have been a very different world, wouldn't it if we'd had John Cox that of Barack Obama. But you know that is a very that's the same kind of argument John that if you go back and you look at Civil War history. We talked about Civil War a lot.
Everybody wants to talk about the Civil War. Now, well you go back and you look at it, and you've got a lot of people who were plantation owners and slave owners, and they said, well, we realize this really isn't a very good system, and we feel bad about the fact that we're controlling these people and enslaving them. But you know it's for their own good. If we let them loose, they just wouldn't be able to survive, right. You know, it's paternalism that Obama is selling. That's
a slave plantation mentality. Uh, And it's actually the mentality of the plantation owners. Well, I have to slave them for their own good. And Reagan, and that's why Reagan's message was so wonderful because it was just so simple. You know, the eight most dangerous words in the English languages. I'm from the government I'm here to help you. You know, the stuff that Reagan said was so true to so many people. You've got to get
government out of the way. Government can't be all things to all people. Government should do our defense because we don't want people owning nuclear weapons and tanks and other things like that. So government should provide national defense. And that's what the Constitution specifically says. But on all these on all these other things, healthcare, education, government shouldn't be providing those things. Governments should create
the avenues for private industry to be able to provide those things. And that's what we got to get back to. And yet, as I'm you're aware, you know you're talking about education all theories that we just had Biden's education secretary. So you know that's our mission statement. I'm from the government. I'm here to help you. Totally oblivious to the fact that Reagan used that as the fearful ass that everybody doesn't want to hear. I'm sure you're aware
of that. It was it was really funny that he bought Thatt that and so a few people called him on it. It truly is amazing to see that. Well, I think you've got a great plan I'm sure that it's a very well I know that it is a very relevant book. Gavin Newsom, whether there's a presidential race or not, has a tremendous impact on everything across the country. People need to understand where he's coming from, a good example of an elitist politician that we don't want to keep promulgating that system.
And it's great to see that in your book. You have a plan for how we can start from the bottom up to reform this without having to beg Congress to reform themselves, which of course they will never do. Here thepeople dot Org is where people can see that plan, I guess you know. Then find your book on Amazon. You also sell it here thepeople dot Org. Okay, good, so great talking to you, and I'm so grateful
that you come up with this plan. We need people to think outside of the box that they have put us into, and we need to look for state solutions, and we need to look for ways that we can I look at this as essentially a way of nullification, and you know, a positive way to nullify this calcified system that has become so self interested and that it can't be that it won't respond to us, and it can't be reformed. So I think that's a very important way to do it is fair and let
me and let me and let me make this clear. By the way, here the people is not partisan in any way. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would agree on the same thing in one sense. Bernie Sanders talks about corporations and millionaires and billionaires. Donald Trump talks about the deep state and the media and the fate news. Right. Well, you know, here the people gets rid of both. Yes, here the people puts the power back in the people's hands, gets rid of the media influence, and gets rid of
the big corporations. And so I think people can look at it as a bipartisan as a solution that both sides that all the people can can get around and believe it's the right way for us to go. I agree. And even as we try to engage and debate ourselves on social media and they try to censor us, this is a way that people can get directly involved and it is something that is a personal, direct person to person type of thing, grassroots moving up. These are all the things that we need to be
looking to. These are all elements of what I think are going to be any successful solutions, so thank you so much for doing that again. Here the people dot Org and the book is Newsom's Nightmare, The Newsom Nightmare, and then you'll find that on Amazon. Thank you so much for joining us, John Cox, appreciate it. Thank you, David. Really pleasure to be with you. Thank you. We got just a little bit of time left and just enough time for me to thank Steven Patterson. Thank you again,
Steven. That is very generous. I appreciate the tip on rockfin and we will. We're about ready to go out, so I'll just cut this short. Tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit more about the pharmaceutical stuff that I did not get to today because there's some very important updates on that. Yes, Fox News is out there trying to sell measles panic. Again. We shut that Doren once and for all, but that's always the way they begin, and they keep going back to that. That's their bread and
butter, that's their pharmaceutical sponsors that they've got there. Thank you for joining us. Let me you the David Night Show. You can listen to with your ears. You can even watch it by using your eyes. In fact, if you can hear me. That means you're listening to the David Night Show right now. Yeah, good job, and you want to know something else. You can find all the links to everywhere to watch or listen to the show at Thedavidnightshow dot com. That's a website.