Fri 27Dec24 UNABRIDGED - Guest Host Gard Goldsmith

you had an absolutely fantastic Christmas. On this program today, we'll be discussing a lot of breaking stories that might have slipped past a lot of folks because they were with family, with friends, going to church and enjoying Christmas. And we'll recap some of those items and get your opinions on Rumble, on rockfin on Odyssey, on d Live, and of course on David Knights ex at Libertarian Liberty Arian. I'm Gardner Goldsmith and you might know my work from MRCTV.

Thank you for joining us if you're coming over from there, And of course Liberty Conspiracy Monday through Friday at six pm Eastern Time. But I always say whatever time zone you call home is okay with me. Thank you very much for being here as I get to fill in for David in an absolutely wonderful day here in the deepest part of Russia where we spread the Russian propaganda that is our business. Here, my brain chip receiver is working very well, and Vladimir Putin is speaking to me

giving me all the instructions. Yes, he's written in cyrillic to me. I hope you have a great, great rest of the day, and let's get started. We've got much to discuss. I want to welcome everyone, and if you're watching on X, you can give us your comments inside X and the Russian team can post your comments on

the screen. Also, you can watch us on Rumble and on Rockfinn And don't forget while I get to fill in for David coming over from the Liberty Conspiracy or MRCTV, I want to remind you that you can donate to the David Night Show. This is how his program works and it works well thanks to you. Go to the David Knight Show store and check everything out there, because there's some great items and the Christmas Night album is great. It's so much, so much fundless to so heartwarming and

it's just amazing his talent and integrity. So thanks for being here, everybody. I'm honored to be filling in for David. Had a little abbreviated theme there, and we're going to get started right away. We've got a lot to cover, to recap after Christmas. And in fact, on my program, what I often do is I show a little billboard on what we're going to be discussing that sort of thing. So we'll do that and we'll play little music here

and there, maybe some Christmas music. I'm in my Christmas sweater. The theme is still with me, the season is still with me. So let's see what's on tap for the David Night Show Friday, December twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. What a beautiful time of the year. Anytime is great. As Jason Barker of Nights of the Storm says, any day is Christmas Day for me. So I love that. That's a great sentiment well today on the program. In fact,

on my show, I should mention. On my show, I often have tonight on there and I'll say tonight tonight tonight like Genesis. But I can't do that today, and I use it as a way to actually make sure that the Russian team is able to get the audio from computer to going through to you and you give the five by five and so on, and so I can't do that because it's not Genesis singing tonight tonight tonight. Sometimes we even have other musicians sneak through on this.

So let's see if we have some other guest musicians stopping by. Yes, I get it. It's Genesis with Humpty d a special guest. Just let me know if you've got the audio. Okay, we'll check in on the five y five. And I see already the Russian team is telling me we have commenters over on X populating X. I appreciate it. Everybody I can't believe is there. That is his nom de guerre. And we've also got good morning, guard Glad, Glad, I'm here. Glad, I'm glad, I'm here.

Putin I think is what it says. Martin Thorn. Thank you Martin, and happy morning to you, my friend. Great to see you there. And I've got something else there and I'm not quite sure what that is, but you can check out the link if you want to over there on X. And I also want to say hi to the great rock fan crowd and the Rumble crowd

and everybody who goes to visit after the fact. If you do get the chance, check out David Knight's gab feed because he posts the whole team at the David Knight Show, posts the shows and segments and the entire shows and audios as well, and you can check that out on his gab. Lots of people follow David on gab and of course on his ex at Liberty Terarian,

lots of people follow him there. And I want to say hello to Octo Spook and Karen Carpenter and Greg Talent and so many of the wonderful folks who are Oh dougalug Hi dougal ug are populating rock Fann what a great home, as well as all the folks over at Rumble. I always say it looks like fruit stripe gum at Rumble, all the colors and it gets me thinking of those wonderful flavors of fruit stripe gum. So let's look at what is on tap today. At ten thirty we're going to be joined by Eric Peters of

Eric petersautos dot com. I highly recommend going to Eric's website every morning. Maybe it's over breakfast, or it's at lunch, or maybe you're just hanging out waiting somewhere in some government line, a line created by government, And who knows, there are a lot of lines that are created by government.

We might not even realize it, like the waiting line to get nitrogen fertilizer or a baby formula, those lines, you know, sort of like Frederick Bassia, the economist from the nineteenth century in France, said, it is what is seen and what is not seen, the opportunities lost due to government. Well, what are our opportunities today? On the program, we'll start things off with the Big Story, recapping post

Christmas stories and Christmas stories. A couple major ones that are breaking just over the past day that David didn't get the opportunity to discuss with you yesterday Live. So I want to give you one of the major ones that has a bearing on the socialistic welfare state in the United States. That one of the major domestic policies that started up under FDR. And if you can guess it, throw it into the chat. Yes, it's you might call

it a Ponzi scheme. That'll give you a hint. And then we'll look at do Trumper's adore Donald so much that they blind themselves to the latest evidence of his errors and the legacy of them. I've got some samples that I showed on my streaming show on Liberty Conspiracy last night at six o'clock Monday through Friday. Check us out at Rumbull and Rockvin and my ex is at

Guard Goldsmith. That's at Guard Goldsmith. But on Liberty Conspiracy last night, we checked it out and I thought there was some terri observations from the folks in the chats, and hopefully I had some salient observations as well, so let me know. I didn't want to attack this person too much, but I thought what he was saying about Donald Trump was sort of emblematic of how people will. They've pulled their blinders over their eyes and are just

counting on one guy to do so much. And to me, that reflects a really dangerous position of so much collectivism that has arisen on the United States system like tarnish on silver over the years, just layer upon layer, strata upon strata of collectivism that even many conservatives except, and now they want the one guy to fix everything. You know, I might be going a little bit too far. Maybe

I'm being unfair, but we'll see. We'll talk about Trump's Christmas message and whether or not it lacks or has any sort of authenticity or any believability, look at the chaos in Syria. We'll also i know, also connected to Donald Trump, which many people don't want to discuss, and we'll also discuss and I'll show you on an MRCTV video. The reactions on YouTube are a perfect example of it.

It's an exercise in societal blindness. I think in many cases, not to say that I am blessed with any sort of great insight, but I have a different viewpoint and I think they're not seeing what I'm seeing. So we'll look at ABC avoiding the New York City that should be New York City subway murder by fire, while the immigration issue grows more intense, give me some breaking news on that, and we'll look at climate cult fascism. I

discussed this on the program last night. And there's a new piece that I got to write for MRCTV and it's out there, and I want to thank the editors. I don't think they changed anything in that piece. It just went so smoothly. It was so much fun to do, and unfortunately it's about a very troubling subject again, the rise of fascism in the United States and how they steer people's behavior and habits by getting the Central Bank funding and then sending that money out for their special favors.

So thanks everybody for being here on the David Night Show. And I hope my attire is okay. I was gonna wear my jacket, but I thought, no, you know, it's holiday time, It's Christmas time. They even gave me a Christmas hat from TD Bank. I know one of my old high school friends works there, and so I hope that you are ready for a terrific day, and I hope that your Christmas time was very, very special. And I do highly recommend David's record. It is just Christmas

Night is just so good. It's really good. He's got amazing talent. So thanks for being there, everybody. Let's get started and let's discuss, as Joe Piscopal would say from New Jersey, the big story, story to big stories.

It's a little intro theme called Gimme, Gimme, Gimme some the Sons of Hercules. I'm a man can gain.

Someone's making a documentary that's gonna be coming out at the beginning of next year about the sons of Hercules. Can't recommend him more highly. That album is called Hits for the Misses. It's great, So gimme, gimme, gimme some well at the at the expense of drawing out Unfortunately, the guess is too long. Let's go with you got it. It's social security, social security, Yes, the Social Security Wink Wink Fairness Act. They passed it. They passed the so

called bipartisans So you know it's gonna be great. Both wings of the of the of the vulture have come down and they they swooped down towards you. So you know the delivery of this parasitic thing has got to be fun. Well. Unfortunately, no, because of course FDR started the social security system. It's unconstitutional for those people who sign on to the constitution, they claim it has authority over anybody. It doesn't have authority over me. I didn't

sign it. That's just you know, I can't sign commands to say I've got a group of people and we're going to have control over you and we've written a piece of paper. But for the politicians who swear the oath to abide by it, maybe they might want to read it once in a while, or at least if they've read it, they might want to actually have the integrity to abide by their oh's well, social Security, of course, with FDR a big gimme. It was a Ponsi scheme

from the start. The first year social Security began. The first woman who got her Social Security benefits got more than she paid into it. And this is just another cartoonish manifestation of it. Why because as I suspected when I first saw this, I saw that it was for public workers who don't pay. These particular workers don't pay Social Security taxes. It's not drawn from their income, So like the Earned income tax credit, this is actually money

that is just being handed to people. So here's the story. It's one of these little little slide show things. It starts with the picture of Rand Paul. So of course we can always ask why does Ran Paul's wife have stock and Rendeze beer. But Congress series, I do love I do love his Festivus list, and I'm friends with him. I haven't spoken them for quite a while, but he

approached me before he ran for Senate. We were at the Green Dragon Inn in Boston at the very first tea party since the tea parties that sort of brought things back. And we were at the that's where the Sons of Liberty did all their plotting, you know, Sam Adams and all those guys. And it was the Green Dragon and they've moved it in Boston. It's about one hundred feet from where it originally stood, but it's essentially the same building. And he said, do you think I

should run for Senate? And I was like, I don't know, Rand, I don't know. And we used to talk on the phone because his dad was friends with my dad. I didn't know that. I interviewed Rand when his father was running. And after the interview we walked out of the radio station. He said, Hey, did your father know my dad? And we start talking and he's like, yeah, your dad was Paul Goldsmith, right, And I was like, yeah, how'd you know that? He goes, yeah, yeah, they were friends. So

I haven't I haven't met Ron. Well here's the story. Congress passed this thing called the Bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act, So you know, it's got to be absolutely palatable despite opposition from some Republicans some there you go, gop Ars, I know, you know that there are lots of rhinos, but this is just ridiculous, and I think it's a manifestation of so much of the normalcy bias that people's people have. When they hear about this, they say, well,

of course these people aren't going to get their social Security. No, it's not THEIRS, it's not THEIRS. In fact, the social security people are receiving now isn't actually THEIRS. It's taken from younger people because it's all drawn away to put into the larger budget. The bill repeals the windfall elimination provision that's from the eighties, that was during the Reagan administration. And I discussed this on Liberty Conspiracy when it was

before it was to hit a final vote. And so what they did was they said, well, these government employees don't have to pay their social Security, their social security, so why should they be getting Social Security benefits for something they haven't paid. Yeah, how about that, Well it goes towards the first year of social Security. Again. For more than forty years, these two laws have reduced benefits for approximately two point eight million public service employees. You

see the way that they frame this. The legislation passed both chambers of Congress. That's the way they frame it. Okay, But the the Congressional Budget Office estimated that this is going to cost one hundred and ninety billion dollars over the next decade in a nation that already has thirty six trillion in debt. So for those retired government, they're already government parasites. They already work as government employees, and they call them things like first responders. I'm sorry, but

police officers are not first responders. Statistically, armed civilians are first responders. And as much as I appreciate many of my friends who are police officers, I don't see logically, philosophically, or morally that working for a system that tells people they must pay for their own protection or else armed thugs are going to come to their house and take them away or take away their house. I don't see that as protection, do you who? No, I call that

a protection racket. It's not good one hundred and ninety billion dollars over the next decade to go to people who didn't have that amount of money drawn from their salaries in the first place. It's a gimme, and the Congress passed it, so you might want to check in to see how your congressperson or Senate person voted on that, because it's not good and Ran Paul spoke out against it. Here is what he said before passing the legislation. Paul warned,

it speeds the bankruptcy of Social Security. Social Security is due to go bankrupt in twenty thirty four. That's just from demographics. It's already being drawn from like the vampires of DC will do. This will speed it up by a year or so. It's two hundred billion dollars added to a program that is already short of money. And he added, and if you're going to add to its

mandate by expanding it, you should pay for it. Well, look, they're very busy trying to buy weapons for the military industrial complex or give other nation states money to buy weapons from the military industrial complex. So who am I to complain? Right, it's all in there in the Article eight thousand of the Constitution. I read it one time in the back of a cereal box. Oh it's dark laughter, it's dark laughter. But let's do a quick recap of a couple of the items that have come up since

Christmas and during Christmas. Actually, so Christmas Day and the day after. Let's discuss a couple of the major stories.

I want to offer these to you to get your thoughts on this, because there are a couple that I'd like to bring back, and one of them actually has a direct bearing on Christmas as we celebrate it in society, and I think it reflects something about society that perhaps just like the acceptance of social Security is if that is part of the American tradition, you know, welching off of somebody else, having the government take your money for your protection when you could have invested it yourself and

done much better. Ah, yeah, that's okay. And I love these people who say they'll change social Security so that the social Security money has to be invested in stocks. Well, in that case, why don't you again just leave it with the people rather than possibly gaming the system and investing it in stocks of corporations that are government favored. How about that? Well, let's discuss something that is cultural societal. And also let's just remember some great work of no

Illuminati pun intended, great work of David Knight. We're going to go with sanfrinitz Son to bring back the memory Fred Stanford. He was always on the edge of retirement, wasn't he. He was always on the edge of the heart attack. It's the big one, Elizabeth. I'm coming with his son Lamon. He always called big Dummy Man. That was based on a British British television show. Yeah it was.

It was called Upstairs Downstairs. It's called Doctor Who because Fred Sanford's the interior of his junk junk building was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. By the way, I flew to England for the return of Doctor Who. Flew over to England with a friend of mine and because I had friends who were gonna start up working on the show. And I was disappointed. Nothing nothing touches the Tom Baker era. And then right after that as the John Purwey era of Doctor Who.

And they have just destroyed Doctor Who. It's really really sad. It's all about wokeism. Oh, yes, let's talk about that cultural stuff here in the United States and the wokism. Yes, you might be familiar if you watch the David Knight Show, you might be familiar with the fact that David Knight got knocked off of YouTube a while back, quite a while back, because he produced a fantastic film which was heartwarming.

It was instructional about the film, It's a Wonderful Life, and it was instructional about the lie of the federal reserves, central central banking, fractional reserve banking, and the fraud of inflation that builds up the money supply and reduces the buying power of all the units that are out there, makes them all more and more units bidding on items, drives off the prices. Very simple causes the boom bus cycle and malinvestment because people who get the money at

low interest will invest in it more recklessly. They'll hire new people expecting more demand, and then eventually all the prices get bit up, people pull back their spending and you get the bust where everything's got to be liquidated, like at the end of The Wizard of Oz you liquidated Arra. That's an intentional line. So David produced It's a Wonderful Lie, and as we know, banned by Google. Wonderful Live Federal Reserve the one hundred and eleventh anniversary.

He put this out a while ago and He showed it on the program December twenty third, my niece's birthday. He says. The first info Wars video censored by YouTube in twenty thirteen, on the one hundredth anniversary of the Shenanigans that passed the Federal Reserve Act, when much of the Congress had left for Christmas vacation. Many of the actions of JP Morgan were paralleled in It's a Wonderful Life by the banker mister Potter. And by the way, mister Potter, as I mentioned, was played by I can't

remember what was that actor. I mentioned it last night in the program. I'll think of it later. Selected clips used in the commentary are covered under fair use. But there's nothing fair about Google, Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore. There's nothing fair about Google or YouTube. By the way, the clips they claimed copyrights strike on were taken from the entire movie that was up on YouTube and remained up even after they struck the Info Wars channel. In David's production,

it had been there for seven years. I remember seeing it and had over a million views at the time. I might have been one of them who had been watching. And so David produced this and it has a reference to this cultural item in the news today.

substack too. I should mention the Gardner Goldsman substack because the audios are available there. And you can check out my Sunday News Assembly every Friday. Now every Sunday. I should do that. Sometimes put out a Sunday News Assembly on a different day just to mess around, but you can check out. I always put out a probably about eighteen to twenty stories on Sundays that are breaking stories with a lot of context from my teaching in philosophy

and economics and political science and stuff like that. My also have a background in scriptwriting and so on, so sometimes you'll see some cultural stuff there. I won't be given any secrets of Star Trek out anytime soon, but working at Star Trek Foyager was a lot of fun and the Outer Limits was a lot of fun. That was great. But Amazon is in the news, and as a person who worked in television, this is just this. I mean, as a fan of the movie it's a

wonderful life. This just disgusts me. I don't understand. I just okay, So here's the story. We're gonna go over to Fox News. Here's the story. Morning Glory. All right. Amazon sparks outrage after cunning important scene from film classic It's a Wonderful Life. And I thought of some things as I was on the air last night, and I just thought, well, maybe this is a good analogy. I suppose I'll offer them to you. So fans of the

Christmas class this is insane. I don't even understand. Fans of the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life are livid over Amazon's abridged version of the movie on its streaming service. Abridged, Like, where does that even? Again, I've been in production studios. I've been at the tables right as they're forming the

ideas for shows. I was there at the Outer Limits as Brad Wright and some of the other guys started the Stargate SG one series, and they were doing interviews and stuff and for staff members and things like that, and they were heading up Outer Limits. So they started this. I've been there, you know, sit there say hmm, you know, I really like that story. How can we, you know, make an abridged version of it? Hey, hey, writer, thanks a lot. Let's just pull the heart out of this. Now.

I know sometimes they're editorial decisions. That's for the people who make the movie. And I know that sometimes some people will do things like dubbing out or silencing out swear words or something like that. This is a completely different ballgame. This is wokeism on acid. They abridged the movie. The nineteen forty six hit film, which follows the life of businessman and banker George Bailey, sparked outrage after Amazon cut a pivotal portion. Like the pivotal portion, otherwise there's

no meaning for the movie. Amazon's A Bridge version doesn't include what many consider the most important scene, known as the Pottersville scene, in which George wishes he had never been born, prompting his guardian angel to remind him that he needs to earn his angel wings. That's Clarence, Clarence Clarence right. Outrage fans said the scene sets up the rest of the movie exactly. That's the whole point of the movie. That's the point of the movie. They said.

It abruptly jumps between scenes without the full context of the story. And I mentioned last night that would be like watching Wizard of Oz and what Dorothy goes to open the door to the colorful land of Oz after the storm. She wakes up. There's the storm, the house is a wreck. She opens the door. She's in Oz. You wouldn't have that. She'd just wake up, look around the messed up house, and then you'd see her and better again, and all her buddies are there. Hey, how's

it go there, Dorothy? Why that was some storm last night? Huh, you wouldn't have the story. The whole point of It's a Wonderful Life is in the in the title it's a wonderful life. He's going to take his own life, and he realizes, through Clarence's help and showing them, what life would be like if he weren't there. How all these people exist because he helped them, and their lives are better and they love him and he loves them. And that's the point of the movie. And you know,

spoilers if you haven't seen it. In the end, he's in financial trouble, and his financial trouble because he's tried to help so many people, he's over extended himself, and Potter is out too aggressively and predatorially take his bank, his savings alone away and the next thing, you know, all these people who love him, who show how much they appreciate him, those local bonds are there and it's wonderful, and they come to his rescue, they come to his aid,

and his wife and his daughter are there, and the bell rings and Clarence the Angel has earned his wings. It's so heartwarming. How could anybody not like that? Well, I don't even understand. It's ridiculous. That would be like Rocky going from training to being the champ instantly. The whole point of the movie is the process of him working to get over the hurdles and overcome things, and his relationships with people as he tries and struggles to

even overcome his own self doubt. It's I mean, gosh, I don't know, it's just ridiculous. So people are really really angry about this, and I think appropriately so, and it just I think it just serves to remind a person about how wonderful that movie is. And I also want to bring up while I have the opportunity, because I have that clip from David's show that is over at his x feed. Remember if you go to the at liberty Tarian x feed, you can see a nice

takeoff of the film. I would add for that he produced with CG with Ai that he and the family produced to promote at the Davidknightshow dot com store how you can pick up his Christmas album and it's a

wonderful little takeoff of the film. So I want to play just a section of this because here in the David Knight Show, if I can come in as not just a host filling in for David, but someone who just offers enthusiastic delight for what David does and what the entire team does, and what all the people in the chat do. And remember you can contribute as as a member of the Goldsmith family to the Ninth Family, I say Merry Christmas to you and to all in the audience. Here is a sample of what they were

able to do. It's wonderful.

And of course Dougalug given the five by five and I also want to thank I think it's Sila Sheila or Sheila a over on Rumble who offers this comment. And I do want to mention if you want to donate to the David Knight Show as a fill in host. I hope I can engender and entice people to do so, that would be great. But a great comment from Shila or sheile a over on Rumble. The fruit stripe gum colors are jumping over there, they're sparkling. Amazon did that

about that film on purpose to cause outrage. We are in the demoralization phase of the mal revolution, and isn't it interesting how cultural icons are the types of things that collectivists often try to destroy, especially local flavor, local bonds, and replace it with bureaucracy and the larger idea of national identity, which oftentimes can't cover all those local things. All that becomes homogenized and destroyed for the greater good.

And I want to get into that next topic actually about the greater good and this icon worship of Donald Trump, And as I mentioned, you know, I don't want to be too critical, too harsh, because many of these people really seem like nice folks, right, And it's not like I have any grand enlightenment. I have a different perspective. I'm a Christian anarchist. I don't believe that any political structure that is formed through coercion and mandates is at

all ethical, So I oppose all forms of statism. I favor voluntarism. In fact, the term voluntarism applies to an anarchist, and anarchy is really not what the violent anarchists who were really socialists promoted, especially in the United States in the nineteen twenties nineteen thirties. In the United States and in Europe, anarchy is technically, you know, breaking it down, anarchy no human ruler, only God. We're all created equally.

I have no right to claim rule over you. Even if I sign a piece of paper with a bunch of other people, that doesn't give me any authority. Pieces of paper don't give people authority. Voluntary free will and agreements, those are what actually bring our bonds together. And as the United States, this large hegemonic creature has grown across the continent, across so many areas of the economy, and into our private lives. I think so many people get

normalcy bias. They become accustomed to the government controlling many of these types of things. And so we have control over air routes, we have control over speech on the internet, over television waves. None of that stuff is conforms with what the founders actually designed. They have something in there called the Interstate Commerce Clause. But even James Madison warned people. He said, essentially that that is supposed to.

to another. And in fact, you'll see inside the clause, states is capitalized, so it only applies to those political bodies. So with all these things that have been added up, I keep seeing, unfortunately, many conservatives looking to the central authority as the fix it man, or, as Monty Python would say, bicycle repairman. We're saved, right, everything has to

come from Donald Trump now. And they're overlooking the fact that they themselves call themselves conservatives, and yet many of the things that Donald Trump favors, like for example, he says he's not going to allow foreign students to criticize Israel or even support a peace in the Middle East. In Gaza, for the occupying nation of Israel to stop blasting people apart and killing reporters. They killed five reporters yesterday. They killed four people near a hospital. All that stuff,

even if they're foreigners and they call for that. He's going to make the universities get rid of them. And they're considering deporting those people. So why want a conservative rather than applauding that, say, hey, why should you be holding the money from the federal government over the universities.

That's how you're going to make them do it. Why don't you allow for real privacy, private property rather than legiate fascism, which is what we've got in so many areas of the economy, whether it's the green handouts, whether it's the you know, climate climate change, whether it's tariffs that are going to go towards certain businesses that are favored like the dishwashing manufacturers in Ohio with Portman under Trump, whatever it might be. And tariffs are in the constitution,

but they're economically bad and they're immoral. They're a form of tearor they're a form of taxation. Taxation is wrong. It's a way that groups of people try to take other people's stuff. That's wrong. It's just baseline wrong. There's there's no arguing about saying, well, yeah, but we have to fund the government, how are you gonna do it. I'm gonna force people to pay for it. Well, then

it's wrong, isn't it. You're not gonna come up with an answer that says it's right, because then you're justifying theft that's incorrect. You just find theft, coercion, extortion, that's not right. It's wrong. So I want to show you a quick example of a way that American Trump supporters seem to forget what Donald Trump has wrought. And this is going international, not to Israel and Palestine and Gaza. Although Donald Trump a couple weeks ago had dinner with

Benjamin Netyaho's wife who's up on charges. The wife of a man who internationally is being recognized as a person who's conducting genocide and is up for war crimes charges and would be arrested in many nations, can't even go

back to Poland. He's not Semitic, he's Eastern European. He comes from this family, comes from Poland, net and Yahoo, and so he can't go back for the remembrance of the Holocaust because the Polish authorities say that they will arrest him for what he's doing with his own form of a Holocaust in Gaza. And people might look at that as inflammatory. Well, you know, anybody I think who's been watching this very closely knows the genocide that the IDEF has been conducting with our money. And I find

it repulsive. It's absolutely utterly unacceptable. It's morally, constitutionally, ethically unacceptable. So and it's a historic black mark on the United States and anybody anybody who supports that in the Congress should be ashamed of himself or herself. And Joe Biden, I know he's got mental problems, but he's been backing

this for a long time too. Let's talk about another area though, In the area I want to bring up to discuss this strange blindness and this hero worship of Donald Trump is Syria, and I've got a segment from RT that I recorded that shows you the chaos that's

happening in Syria. Let's check this out as they talk about this now sectarian violence and even the Alloites who are in the area where Asad used to live, they're having problems, of course, and they're fighting with each other as United States backed forces that at the time that the United States was giving them money, they were calling

them terrorists. This is the group that formed isis the Alnustra Front, which is now what is it the It's the Hayat Tar al Sham and their leader who used to go by al Galani or al Jilani because he was born in the Golan Heights, who's now called al Sharha, Muhammad Glani Abu Muhammad Galani now Mohammad al Sharha. This man was on the most wanted list until last week

from the United States government. But at the same time both Israel and the United States were working with him, and the United States was occupying a third of Syria. So let's see the chaos that has been wrought not just by Joe Biden. And this is where I want to go on this hero worship. Let's check out some of the chaos in Syria right now. These poor innocent civilians who might be there caught up in all of this.

As Israel moves past the goal on heights, don't know how far in they're going to take land, as Turkey wants land, as the Kurds in the northeast want their land, and of course, as the United States continues to play favorites there on.

here in Russia. Hampshire Glenn Jacobs, the man who played Kine in the w W E and is now mayor of Knox County, and Glenn's been on here with me when I've filled in for David once. Glenn, great guy. Glenn had house just a couple of towns up from here, and we met at a libertarian convention where we were both speaking, and so I was in La a couple of years later, and he said, hey, Guard, you know

you don't want to get together for dinner. So one night we had a real, real nice time, went to a sushi place with with Freddy Prinz Junior actually, because Freddy's worked doing a lot of things for WWE for quite a while and Glenn and Freddy had been friends. And Freddy was really nice guy, really really good guy, very pro freedom sort of guy. And the things he the wonderful things he said about his wife was just great,

Sarah Michelle Geller, and that was awesome. And then the next night we went to dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant and this is around twenty eleven, and the manager, I believe, came from Turkey and he came up to us later after the dinner and he said, Hey, they're going to try to overthrow Asad. And I said, what is is maybe the spring of twenty eleven, I thought, he was what are you talking about? He said, Look, Asad's not a great guy, he said, but they want

to stop rushing energy exports. And of course I looked into it and yeah, they had a pipeline they were planning, and of course, the United States government dependent on the Petro dollar. The Arabs didn't want that competition, and there was the larger plan for the Greater Israel project and the campaigned for a New American Century that Wesley Clark exposed. You can see the Democracy Now video all about that.

You know, the seven countries in five years, which you know, the timeline has been drawn out much much longer, but that's what they're going for. Iran is the last one. And he said, you know, they're gonna try to overthrow Asad. They want to overthrow USOT. And then shortly thereafter, I didn't, you know, pay that much attention to what the man said.

But shortly that after Obama had his redline and the same thing they came up with that Assad is using chemical weapons against his own people, which was debunked by scientists and students at m I. T Seymour Hirsch has written about it, utterly bogus stuff, and even Obama had to pull back because they showed they disproved his claims.

But all of the stuff at ben Ghazi that that uh that night at ben Ghazi with Ambassador Stevens, that didn't just spontaneously happen, as Hillary Clinton said, you know what, what difference does it make. The difference is those were weapons, as Seymour Hirsh has talked about, which were supposed to be moved from Libya after she and her other absolutely demonic vultures came and overthrew the government of Libya and

picked that apart. Then we see that they wanted to move the weapons into Syria and that night in Benghazi that was supposed to be a weapons transfer. That's what happened. And Seymour Hirsh has written about the rat lines. You can check that out and I'll show you. As they started to prepare for the overthrow of the government of Asad, there is a classic picture, and I've shown this before of John McCain in Turkey meeting with none other than Abu Muhammad Jilani, who, yes, at that time, was just

attracting the attention of people like John McCain. McCain also was at the heart of the overthrow of Ukraine. This man is responsible for so much chaos in both of those countries, both of Ukraine and Syria have seen hundreds of thousands of people dead because of him and his friend's machinations. And that is the man right there on the screen. If you're listening in audio, just look up Al Qaeda operative Abu Muhammad Jilani, John McCain Turkey and

you'll see the image. It'll pop up. That is a picture I've been showing over and over again for years on Liberty Conspiracy. I've emailed it to people. And John McCain is also in photographs on stage as I mentioned on the program, probably David's show here as well, on stage in twenty fourteen and working with them in twenty thirteen. And Joe Biden is in pictures with a man named ole Tiani Bach, leader of the Slovada Party which is the Nazi party in Ukraine, literally on stage with Phil Murphy,

the senator from Connecticut. Amy Klovershaw was there for that trip. Lindsay Graham was there for that trip because I think

he liked the military fashions. And John McCain was there, And Joe Biden is in photos shaking hands with the Nazi who formed part of the coalition government behind Yatsunyuk who of course we heard mentioned, whom we heard mentioned by Victoria Neulan and Jeffrey Pied as the guy they were going to put into office in early twenty fourteen, and that led to Barisma and also the extension of the bioweapons labs that Barack Obama and Dick Lugar put

in there when they overthrew Yanikovich in two thousand and five two thousand and six in Ukraine he got reelected later, but in two thousand and six or so, that's when they started to put the bioweapons labs in. And there's a very good documentary by Russia today, terrible Russian propagandists that exposes many of those bioweapons plans in not just Ukraine, but I believe also Estonia and Latvia or Lithuania. And one of the bioweapons plants actually has Dick Louguard's name

on it. If people needed any more evidence, or you know, if Victoria Neulan acknowledging that there were bioweapons labs to Marco Rubio, maybe that's enough as well. I don't know, I just don't know. But this is just perfect and shows you the influence of Republicans and Democrats. So let's look at John McCain in particular, let's look at the blind side of people when it comes to Donald Trump, because indeed, just a little while ago on Friday, and

I got to put this in my Sunday News. Assembly on Friday a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, and of course you get to pay for your own defense, and if you don't pay for it, you'll be trying to defend yourself from people getting into your house. I love how they talk about border control. We've going to have border control that's not in the US Constitution under the powers of the Congress or the government. The executive branch or the judicial branch is a state issue. Jefferson

and Madison have written about it. And if you don't want to pay for their arbitrary political border, because of course, no one can actually say that a border that's put up by government is actually where anyone wants it, because the people who are forced to pay for it, it's not their decision, and the politicians are using other people's money. The only borders that are actually real and show any value that anyone wants it there are on private property.

But the people who want to protect the political border and look for central authority to handle the border, which isn't even in their constitution unless states under Article four Section four ask for the militia to come in to protect their constitutional form of government, they have to ask them to come in. So you don't need posse comatatas. You don't need posse camatatas because it's Article four. Section four is only when they are asked to go in, can they go in. So it's supposed to be a

state issue. So if you don't want to pay for where their political border is going to be put up when they take private property somewhere in Texas or Arizona to put up a new wall or something like that, if you don't want to buy into their central command and control that, if a new president other than Donald Trump comes in next time, it might go right back to Joe Biden actually taking your money to fund people moving,

but in this case to put up the barriers. If you don't want them to take your money for that, guess what happens to your barriers at your house. That's right, they don't care about your borders. They'll come right into your house, they'll take you away. That's how much they

care about borders. That's how much. The people who are saying I care so much about the US border are the very ones who would force their neighbor to pay for where they want the border wall to be, or how to be policed with how much, how often, how much money. That's all part of the tragedy of the commons. It's unworkable. The only way you can show value is through your own decisions, not by forcing somebody else to

pay for it. So let's take a look now at again the mistakes that many conservatives make when they look to that central authority. We'll talk about immigration a little bit more and touch on that theme again, which is a philosophical, anarchist, logical theme, plus touches on the constitutional framework that many conservatives just seem to overlook when they

look at the central authority trying to handle this. We're going to talk a little bit about this Defense Department spokesman, a major general rider who gets up there and acts as if he's surprised to discover something. He discovers amazingly that there are more troops in Syria the United States,

deployed deployed from the United States than they realized. So I did a video for this and wrote about it from our CTV, and idn'd like to play it for you now, Perhaps extinguishing any flicker of confidence many Americans might still retain in the honesty of a Biden Department of Defense and the US Congress that already has shown

decades of utter contempt for the US Constitution. Department of Defense DoD spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters on December nineteenth that, well, chucks, you know how we've been telling you for almost a year that there were nine hundred US troops in Syria. Well, we just discovered that there are more than double that number deployed there. Hi, everyone, and I'm Gardner Goldsmith for MRCTV, And here's the story. Yes, Major General Rider, he was surprised to find that his

own agency, his own department, had taken certain actions. That's kind of curious.

for many months about the overall number. Journalist Michael Tracy put it succinctly on X, posting a clip of the insufferable writers inane statement and writing quote, would love to know how the Pentagon suddenly learned that it had at least one one hundred more troops deployed to Syria than it had previously acknowledged end quote. Absolutely right. Did the

soldiers walk there? Perhaps they appeared out of hammer space, as if they were in a Mario and Luigi video game, all while the wildly unconstitutional US wanders like a blind beggar into thirty six trillion dollars in debt. Of course, given the track record here, we can't even be sure we can trust this new number of two thousand troops.

But while Ryder did make a court gesture of himself and expose how much contempt the current US military brass, DC politicians and federal bureaucrats have for us, he was honest about one thing. At the close of the clip provided by Michael Tracy, one can see Rider admitting that the US has been in Syria for a long time. Some of us have been trying to sound the alarms about this for a long time.

contains the best growing fields in the nation. In fact, Donald Trump himself admitted to this occupation on numerous occasions while he was president presiding over the occupation, and he even stated during a meeting with Turkey's leader, Recev tyep Erdowan five years ago, in part.

a Greek treaties prohibit the occupation of foreign nations. Not of course, that any of the federal bureaucrats and war hungry politicians in DC much care. So long as they keep collecting their cushy, taxpayer funded salaries, we don't know where they came from.

what the comments were on this video. Okay, so let me go down here just to give you an example, because this sort of helps with the lesson of the whole thing, and it is I think illustrative or at least allows for some comments from people. So let me show you this and you can check it out. And someone has here and nice thanks and things like that. Someone says, is Rider a DEI general officer? That's great, But then we have so someone had an excellent point.

Anyone who actually believes the d D didn't know exactly how many troops it has in Syria has quite a few screws loose. Do you guys seriously think the government didn't know how many troops it had there? Seriously? Well, obviously that's the point of my video, But some people didn't really seem to get the point. One person said, hammer space is more a bugs Bunny thing than Mario and Luigi thing. But it's actually taken from Mario and Luigi when they would pull their hammers from out behind

their backs in the video game. But I understand what he was saying about bugs bunny. So this is interesting. So this one person here, this is new says, while I agree with the criticism of the DoD, I must bring scrutiny, not even paying attention to Donald Trump, I must bring scrutiny to your criticism of the US declaring war argument. The US Congress has not declared war since nineteen forty one. All the other wars we have fought have not fallen under the constitutional war doctrine. That's the

point that I made. It's not constitutional. What else are you going to use to run the US government? You know, the rules to monopoly. I'm not sure, but some people just concentrated on Joe Biden. They thought, yeah, you know, when a new guy gets in here, it'll be changed, it'll be different. Someone says Trump will fire his you know what as you know what, So he writes this, Trump will fire his you know what. Well, that's not

the point. The point is that Trump also was at fault, and he says, another person here says, who's responsible for such awful record keeping? That's not the point. The point is that the United States government is deploying troops without a declaration of war and was occupying a nation contrary to the US Constitution and international agreements to which the United States has signed and which are constitutional according to the US Constitution.

you that I think you might find interesting. So let's turn to what I wrote down on the billboard, and I showed this to the audience at Liberty Conspiracy last night. Collectivism grows. Even so called conservatives have embraced the mindset while deluding themselves. Many not all, you know, I want to be sort of just questioning and expressing some vexation and hope that maybe we can have a conversation and that sort of a thing and say, hey, what about this?

Are you you going to talk about that? Or are you just going to say I'm putting all my chips on this and while deluting themselves that they stand for freedom. The hits and missus come up here, and here are the hits and the misses of an example. So I want to turn to this web channel. You can find them on Rumble Real America's Voice. Right. So this guy, Steve Gruber comes back from Christmas, and he's a very likable host. Seems you know, he's got some chops when

it comes to certain things. I disagree with him on other things. And yet it's this banking on Trump is gonna change everything. It's gonna be great, and then for completely forgetting all these other things that he's done in the past. And in this we're gonna touch on the last little bit to sort of recap Christmas, because Trump's Christmas message is part of what I plan to discuss on the program. As you saw on the Billboard earlier,

Trump's Christmas message shows us. I think, how so many people are so willing to uncritically look at these people and just rely on the one guy's gonna save us. How in the world did a supposedly decentralized federalist system get to that point. Well, again, not to be too critical, you know, try to pull back every once in a while here and just offer what he has to say and say, geez, you know this makes me feel uncomfortable sometimes and sometimes he makes very good points. Here we go.

have died in the Russian Ukraine conflict. He repeats nonsense from Jake Sullivan. Absolutely false, I mean so clearly obviously false. He said six hundred thousand Russians have died. It's nowhere near that. It's six hundred thousand Ukrainians have died. And how any thoughtful human being can hear that and say, well, sure, I believe that is beyond me. There's no possible way that Donald Trump could believe that unless he didn't know

anything about what was going on there. And it's the same thing with the PPP and care stuff, going back to the so called pandemic, the same thing with even calling it a pandemic when you've got a medical system that's getting incentivized by the federal government to the tune

of upwards of thirty thousand dollars per patient. If they can claim that the patient has a if they can take a positive pc artist which has been gin dupped to two to the fortieth power, and then claim that someone has died from COVID nineteen when they could have died from something else, they'll get paid. You don't even know how many people. Ever, they will never know how many people died from COVID nineteen. Donald I could see that Donald Trump's the president of working with these people.

He didn't bring it up. Hey, do you think we might be sort of pumping up the numbers by sending money out to people who claim that they've got this so that they can get the money. I don't know about that. I'm Anthony Fauci. I think we're fine. By the way, put your mask back on and go back to mar A Lago. I mean, these are the most If you were a teenager playing a board game, you just scratch your head like, hey, did I miss something here on the way this is supposed to work?

invited in. It was a judge who was a friend of Alexander Hamilton's in DC who said that there was an insurrection going on or a rebellion going on in Pennsylvania. That's why they call it the Whiskey Rebellion. It wasn't a rebellion. It was an aggressive march to get the Whiskey excise tax by Washington and Hamilton and many of the people who had they wanted money and they were holding onto the war bonds that Hamilton had said you'll get paid back one hundred percent because we'll have taxing

authority under the Constitution. But even though they put the excise taxing authority in there, they didn't explicitly spell out how they could collect the excise tax. So people were trying to figure it out because they can't send federal troops into states unless the states invite them in. So they reached loggerheads there and you can read the constitution, you can check it out. It doesn't work. Seriously, like you, it doesn't work. They can't send the troops in unless

they're invited in. So that's very interesting, and that it's not a standing army. It's supposed to be the militia. It's not a US army, not the Marines, not the Air Force or anything like that. Right, they have a navy. But as far as the land troops go, that's the militia.

That's us. We're supposed to be in our states. If we get if we get called up supposedly under their constitution by a declaration of war, which is the only thing they can do to send the troops under the command of the president anywhere, then we can decide if we want to go or we don't want to go. Otherwise we can stay. That's the militia, that's all. That's why we're all supposed to be armed. So you know, we can fight back against guys like George Washington when

they come after us for making whiskey. So let's continue. Oh and by the way, great comments inside X for previous segments. HRC's right hand man off the books, Sid Blumenthal in deep with Benghazi and Libya's destruction. Absolutely right, Jennifer, thank you, Thank you Russian guys for spreading the Russian propaganda. Trump was furious with Germany getting its energy from Russia.

Trump wanted that stopped. Yeah, very interesting. You know, this whole play was with the Saudis that were you know, they could see starting in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, Jennifer I started to really watch what was going on with the Russians very closely because with the two thousand and eight American Recovery Act, Obama and you know, the rest of the crew, they created basically, you know, twenty trillion dollars or twenty billion dollars out

of thin air? Was a twenty billion Oh no, it was seven. They gave seventeen billion just to GM, so it was more like, I think it was more like two or three trillion dollars, that's what it was. So they knew, the foreigners knew that you can't just create this money out of nothing and see the value of the monetary units remain the same. It's going to drop. So they started to drop their long term bond purchases. The Chinese dropped their long term bombs, the bonds. They

weren't going to buy the ten year bond anymore. The Russians did the same thing. They were going with short term. They weren't doing long terms, and the Americans didn't like that at all. Well, why buy a long term bond if it's going to get paid back later and the value of it's going to be even lower? Right, the buying power of it. I mean, it's been watered down so much by inflation. No thank you. Right, So that's when they started to orient again towards demonizing Russia. And

you could see, of course, the overthrow of Kadafi. If you look at the WikiLeaks emails of the Hillary Clinton emails that WikiLeaks released, you can see the interior emails where she talked about how it'll be a good thing to overthrow Caddaffe because he's starting a gold based currency. Captain Sensible, the guitarist of the Damn My Favorite band, he sat down a dinner with me and a friend of mine from the Free State Project one time down to Boston, and he's like, yeah, you know, we started

talking about kadaff and and he knew about it. He's like, yeah, he was gonna start an African African gold based currency. That's why they knocked him out, absolutely right. And you know, Kadaffi had played along with the United States for quite a while, opened up. He wasn't a good guy either, you know, he'd opened up some of those rendition camps and so on that John Kuriaku exposed and had hats off. What a great guy John is. He is such a nice guy. I've only met him once, but we just

you know, became real quick. You know, got along great. We've got along great. And of course he's been on with David many many times. So thank you very very much. I appreciate that great, great comments all the way, and also thank you ushers. Let's get this up there as well. Uh don don don't don't BESHI ninety nine. I'm not sure if I'm reading that right. The wicked walk on every side when the violence men are excited. Boy, isn't

that true? Yeah, So let's continue again, not too intensely critical, but just again to to sort of put on balance as we approach Donald Trump coming into office here, I think it's important to see some of the manifestations of this hero worship.

in the United States. It's we, the people who are writing this piece of paper. And Lessander Spooner in the eighteen hundreds, his treatise called no Treason the Constitution of no Authority spells it out very clearly. They had no authority over people to say, I'm going to write for you what's in here. And even if they claimed representation of certain people, mathematically it's impossible to be able to represent all the people. And it was a political system,

so therefore there's really no voluntary representation at all. So the we, the people think we, is used by politicians. It's like the royal we, but they've reconstituted it to be the democratic royal wei. So it's even more pernicious. In the olden days, in the old medieval days of the of the royal peerage system, people understood and I

mentioned this on on the Liberty Conspiracy. Uh J R. R. Tolkien wrote to his son and said, I would describe myself as an anarchist, or I would go with a monarchy, much like Hans Hermann Happa, the contemporary philosopher, because he said, uh, democracy is a canard.

we command this because they represent the state. I am the state, and the people were seen as the civilians. That was why there was this distinction supposedly during war, where only the knights who signed up to fight for the king and get paid by the king would be in threats threatened during war, and civilians were supposed to be left alone, you know, women and children. That sort

of thing. Obviously didn't work out that way, with pillaging often, but there was supposedly that supposedly chivalrous rules of war, which is why the term declaration of war is capitalized in the Constitution because it's a term of art. Unfortunately it's the dark art. But so Toldien said, you know, at least if you've got a monarchy, you know who your enemy is. You're not sold this snake oil, this canard that it's you, it's the royal We in democracy, Now it's us. What if I don't want to be

part of your Wii? And I'll give you a great example. F Paul Wilson, a great libertarian writer. Doctor read his Repairman Jack novels. They're phenomenal. I've had stuff turned into into movies, really really great stuff. So F Paul Wilson and I and my friend Tom Antileoni. Tom was on on on the program last time. I filled in for David,

another great writer. We're all libertarians, and we would attend this thing called Camp nikon the Northeast Writers Convention in Rhode Island every summer and they would have a little cookout and a lot of people be hanging around and it's aid, you know, sort of dust towards darkness. So uh, someone said to Paul, we have to we have to provide healthcare for people, and so he justs, who's this Wii?

Because it's just assumed that if you are if you want to be left alone, you're not part of their we, then somehow you're the bad guy. But they're the ones who are engaging in the activity, initiating the aggressive action of pulling you in with those arms of the royal we now reconstituted in democracy. So there we are. It's the we.

Why is it that he calls himself a Christian and yet he engages in things like, oh, I don't know, claiming the power to be able to take my money to fund universities. I didn't know that that was Christian.

want to answer it. It's final, just walk away. But I am curious because I know you swear an oath to the Constitution and you only follow constitutional orders, right, yes, how do you feel that you're being deployed at as we heard General Major General Ryders say they're deployed? How can you be deployed if there's no declaration of war? And the answer is not well, as some people might say, well, they've been doing it since World War Two, that's not acceptable.

You can't say, well, he's been beating his wife since they got married, so I guess it's okay. No, sorry, not working. Not a functional answer. The synapses aren't connecting on that doesn't work. It's you're you're deluding your yourself if you call yourself a constitutionalist if one is supposedly doing honor to the founders. And again, I don't accept that the founders can write anything that has any authority over me. I wasn't there. It's that's just the fact

of it. And the fact that I don't run away when agents of that entity that they created come after me, just again shows that I don't have to run away. I shouldn't have to run away. I should be a free person to be able to be left alone, regardless of whether people hold up a piece of paper and say, you know, some people wrote down that I can come after you. Now they put some barriers in there. I don't even care about the barriers. But we got authority

over you. No, you don't have authority over me. I didn't give it to you. God didn't give it to you. Leave me alone. How about that? How is it that people in the military can be seen by Donald Trump and others as being heroic and defending the United States when they're sitting in Syria and he left them there.

I'm just wondering about that. What do you think? And I'm curious to get a lot of opinions, So drop your messages inside the check here in the David Knight Show, and let's take the opportunity to give you something that you know what I was thinking about this. Let's go back to those olden days and think about a film that actually is based on a real person from the Revolution. I haven't even seen this movie, but David, again with his musical power, put something together to remind us of freedom.

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as well. If you want to donate on rockfin, on Rumble, anything like that, you can go to the website to find all those other areas. And I want to tell you about another website that you might want to check out often every day. It is Ericpetersautos dot com. And if you go over there, going to see a really cool image of one of my favorite cars. But before we go to his website, I want to show you something from his x feed that I think you'll enjoy.

Let me bring this on to the stage and then we'll welcome our guest, Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos. He says, what is it with this adulation of more efficient government. Isn't that like mending rather than ending exactly exactly? And this is one of the major problems I've had with Elon Musk and with Vibek Ramashwami. It's all based on outcome. It's all based on not the philosophy of rights and at least what the standards are supposed to be based on their constitution. None of that is part

of their calculus. If it's not in the Constitution, they're not questioning whether it is or is not there. They're questioning the efficiency of it. Well, if you can have a much more efficient guillotine and you're lopping the heads off French people who are innocent people, does that make it better? I don't think so. I don't think so. The ideas are pernicious at their outset. And this is one of the reasons why I try to remind people that immigration is not in the US Constitution as a

federal issue. It's a state issue. So let's turn to Eric Peters now, who has a lot to tell us about Elon Musk and many other things. He's with us now in the David Knight Show. Hello Eric, and welcome and Happy New Year. Early and Happy Christmas. Late goodness to you.

Gulag Archipelago. They were efficient at organizing and rounding up people and shipping them off to internment camps.

people froze to death. And I talked about that book called The Long Walk, about those guys who were brought up to the Gulag and they escaped and they walked like three and a half thousand miles to India. Not all of them survived, and they described how awful it was on those trains going those I don't know how many miles, and day after day in cold weather where

they would make circles, most of them were naked. They would make circles because the exterior of the train car the interior near the walls of the exterior were so cold that they would take turns to try to get to the center of the car where body heat could keep them warmer. And sometimes guys would freeze to death on their feet inside the cars.

You know, how do you how do you stop that without standing on the principle that no, this fundamentally is a long thing to do, that this is not the legitimate business of government. Instead of saying well, or rather than saying, we're going to make it more efficient, you know, we're going to we're going to do a better job of the administrative state managing people's lives.

feet from Milton Friedman. And that's all well and good, but there's a great example where Friedman was a monetarist, a Chicago Go school economists who didn't mind things like FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation he had. He didn't have

a problem with that. That's wildly unstable. It caused the nineteen ninety nineteen ninety one housing crisis, where a bunch of people, because they increased the amount of money that they were allowing the FDIC to ensure banks, the banks started to lend out even more money because they had a moral hazard that opened up. They could say, oh, we can just let it out. We'll give it, you know, we'll give the money away for cheap, we'll get it

paid back. That's exactly what they did. People couldn't afford their homes, and we had a housing bus in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety one. I worked at an auction firm after I got out of college and showed those houses off. I was at the auctions for the houses and the condos that came as a direct result of that. And so Elon Musk coming around and doing this sort of thing, quoting people like Milton Friedman. That doesn't show that he's really you know, Friedman was great and his son is

even better. But Freedman did allow for the existence of government and a lot of things that first aren't even constitutional, right, And second he would go with say, vouchers for schools, Well, that's still government taking people's money. And maybe Friedman eventually got convinced that it might be a means to an end, but it then injects government into the money wherever it goes, and it starts to corrupt even private schools that have

to conform or charter schools that have to conform. So Musk, unfortunately, with this consequentialist outcome based thing, I think some of the first things that people think of are didn't you take money for your rockets? Aren't you doing government contracts? Are so won't he won't question the underlying assumptions that government should be doing X, Y and Z that are nowhere near what the Founders, at least with the Founders had envisioned at all at all. In any way, there's

a disingenuous duality about Musk. You know, now he's talking about how he thinks the federal seventy five hundred dollars tax kick back that has been used to help promote people buying electric vehicles should be ended. And that's all well and good.

He's not a free speech guy. He's a paid speech guy. And he's also a speech suppressor guy. I point out one incontrovertible fact in Brazil, when the government of the current government of Brazil demanded that he suppressed the speech of certain political wrong thinkers. He initially opposed it, but then he realized he was going to lose money, and as a businessman, he didn't want to lose money, so he acceded to the demands made by the govern of Brazil.

And he's now suppressing speech in Brazil. So what does that tell you? You know, I go by what people do, not by what people say. So if you look at Musk's actions, you know he's been a rent seeking grifter as regardless elect as regards electric vehicles and this free speech thing, well, it's paid speech. You pay him a fee to be allowed to post things on the platform and so that people can see them. And yeah, they're

subject to his whims. You know, try and post something, for example, that's critical of the government of Israel and what the government of Israel is doing over there, and more than likely that is going to be shunted off somewhere. And if you continue to do stuff like that, you'll find that you have been kicked off the platform entirely.

not owned by the Chinese government. You know, if you want to look at companies that are basically owned or run or affiliated with certain governments, look at black Rock, look at Uh, look at Lockheed Martin, look at BAE Systems. How about those? You know, how about some of these green corporations, how about Tesla for a while, you know, all these different things, so that whole that whole thing

is just ridiculous. And then they don't even recognize the fact that what what you know, where where's the balance of the problem here? Is it the Chinese possibly getting my social media, the Chinese government getting my social media accounts or my bank account, which is easily hacked by

anybody who wants to hack this stuff. My social Security number was stolen, but because they got into Blue Cross, Blue Shield, you know, Uh, the government lost tens of thousands of social security numbers just a few years ago. They admitted to that the irs. So who's a bigger threat, either because of their accidental their errors, or because they intentionally through the NSA collect our information, The Chinese or the US, you.

Because I'm in this to make money. I'm mining your data. I'm selling your data to advertisers. That's what I do. That's fine. I don't have an issue with that, But spare me the cant about free speech, please.

and sometimes Musk has valuable comments. He makes some good points, you know, and and so I get frustrated because let me let me just post this because you've your article. In fact, let's go straight to this article right now from Eric Petersaudis dot com. You've got deconstructing Elon. I'm gonna delay any any further comment because could you tell people a little bit of you've sort of touched on this, but tell us a little bit more about what this

piece is that you posted here. This was just yesterday and it's just phenomenal. If you could give people a quick thumbnail.

it and mass producing it. And Elon Musk has figured out a way to make vehicles more expensive through government grift and graft, and you know, fundamentally changed the car business in that respect. And we've already talked about the free speech stuff, and then there's this other stuff.

the National Socialist period in Germany. People who may not be very familiar with that era might not know about is that when Hitler was campaigning for chancellor the very first time he was actually elected chancellor by a plurality of the votes, he would travel by plane from one city to another city in Germany and give an entirely different speech depending on the audience, and he would say

what they wanted to hear. And you know, people heard what they wanted to hear, which I think is part of Trump's appeal too, frankly, And I know right now, I'm you know, the red hat brigades are probably getting very angry at me for seeing that, but they you know, and on a human level, it's understandable, particularly when you live in a chaotic environment and you're concerned and anxious and you hear a political leader or somebody like Musk

who's influential say something that sort of aligns with, you know, what your concerns are. But then he acts differently so he may to get the support. And then when he does something that ordinarily, if it had been done by let's say, Joe Biden, people would have objected to it. I've had people the supporters will just kind of ignore it or rationalize it. Really good example being Trump's beautiful vaccines,

which he can talk about. You know, if it were Biden seeing that same thing, there would be these these these huge and cry outrage about about that. But you know, never mind, you know, he really didn't mean that, you know. And the same thing with you know what the red flag laws and the bump stocks and all this other stuff, and with Musk. You know, my god, two years ago, Musk was anathema to people on the Republican and conservative side for all the reasons that I went through in

the article which haven't fundamentally changed. They're the same things now as they were back then. Musk favors a carbon tax. I can't think of nothing that potentially is more threatening to our way of life than a carbon tax. About this guy's is one of the most ardent believers in the carbon tax.

heart of it is that there's more evidence. And I wrote a piece about it talking about this recently because Joe Biden, and in fact, I'd like to bring it up with you if I can, Eric, Joe Biden just engaged in more fascism, and I talk about fascism and how in class one of the early things that I try to describe to students about the various forms of collectivism is fascism, and I discuss how, you know, it's

crony capitalism, not real capitalism, otherwise known as mercantilism. As Adam Smith wrote in the Wealth of Nations in seventeen seventy six, it's favoritism. And this is the sort of thing that we definitely see with people like Elon Musk

and Donald Trump engages in this all the time. And so Joe Biden is giving money to a coal plant in Texas to have them switch out and become a solar farm electric provider in Texas, which already has shown major problems because they have been pushing away from chi Yes petrochemicals.

market that decided it. The only real difference in say, National Socialist Germany versus Soviet Russia was there was still this the legal fiction of private property in the sense that you know, corporations were still nominally privately owned, but they were still directed by the state. You know, in the Soviet system, you know, you did not have the fiction of private property, there was state property, and state property was owned by the party and the people who

controlled the party. That was really the only difference between the two systems.

socialist side. And it's all a battle between individual freedom and voluntary choice and expressing our values peacefully, hopefully in smaller communities where we have to show respect for each other versus the giant hegemony of the state. That's it. That's all there is. You know, it's so simple. Christ experienced it. We're experiencing it. And we have these people who either are fraudulent or they have little facets of these things where either they're deluding themselves or they're somehow

going along to get along. And even many of the supporters of these people do the same thing. They'll shave off the areas where they don't. It's cognitive dissonance. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it, and they go along, this is going to be my guy. He's the savior. He's fighting the other power block. But your power block as well should be questioned, and they don't do it. It's very frustrated.

You use that word in generally speaking the product of the public school, immediately think of storm trooping, jack booting, you know, whereas that's not the essence of fascism at all. You know, fascism is, and you can go to the Capitol and see it in the embodiment of the fascis, which were the bundle carried by the Roman lictors. You know, that symbolize the merger of state and corporate power together.

And if you want to know more about that, those who listening read Mussolini, who was at least sort of an intellectual and actually fleshed out some of this stuff you know.

coal power plan, and you're nailing. I said early each semester in political economics class, I try to show students all the forms of pernicious statism i e. Force collectivism, and one of the most important is fascism. I focus on fascism because pop media and leftist anti capitalists used the term to apply to any unwoke set of ideals. It's like, it's like you could have sat next to me while I was writing this and dictated it to me. It was amazing.

Then the other side can say, hey, if you rely on the government to fix what the government did, everything will be fine. Culture will be perfect again, and you get to more fascism. We've got to protect this business. We've got to stop this business. We've got to stop TikTok because that there's that word China, so we've got to stop. I mean, it's crazy.

we can't allow that to happen. We're going to inject as many taxpayer dollars as it takes to kind of revive the corpse somehow, like Frankenstein on the table and keep it going. And of course at that time, then what happens is that these companies become beholden to the government. They become in effect part of the government. Yes, so that's why you have seen you know, general in my

own field, in General Motors and four. And this is the true of the industry generally, but really specifically with regard to them.

protect this company GM. Perfect example. It's just an example, the two thousand and eight you know, seventeen billion dollars given to GM and they got a three year lift from their corporate taxes that they had to pay, while Ford, which didn't take a bailout, had to pay its corporate taxes. And remember Eric, for that period, GM finally started to show a profit and it was the exact amount that they would have had to have paid for their corporate taxes.

Remember that that was amazing. It was like, oh, it's incredible. And it all comes because of the example of protectionism. Well, and Frederick Bossi, he writes about this so much. If the politicians can institutionally make get people to think that there has to be something that has to be kept going for American American tradition, American strategic needs or the

national defense, or whatever it might be. Then they will pick and choose any industry that gives them the feedback to keep them in power and claim that they're part of what is so important and necessary for our future. It's the buggy whip manufacturers all over again. It's when the car gets introduced. We can't allow the buggy whip makers to go out of business. There's no demand for

them anymore. It's decreased dramatically like GM. Maybe they've mismanaged their businesses because they've given such massive retirement benefits to their unionized employees, which themselves have been given benefits because of the destructive attacks of politicians and in the favoritism

that they've given to unions. So the companies themselves can't compete against foreign companies, or they moved their manufacturing over to Korea or something like that to do it with less expense and less overhead, whether it's because of energy or the terrorists, and then they applied terrorifts on us, and we're screwed over even more. It's amazing to see how they can use these arguments to say we're doing it for your good, we're protecting GM and those jobs. Well,

then why have any progress in business in any way whatsoever? Now? With the GM thing to sort of finish off. Of course, that got inflamed because of the bubble of all of the money that was poured out with the near zero percent interest rates, and of course the amount of money

that went into the housing system. The banks started to collapse, and then they pumped even more money in with the American Recovery Act, and they claimed as jud Greg did the suppose a conservative on Fox News the night they had the initial vote for it and it failed, and then they went back the next couple days and they did another vote in that follow two thousand and eight, he said, this is about people's retirements, talking about because

they had to bail out the banks. I'm like, dude, do you understand that creating seventeen trillion dollars or I mean two trillion dollars is somehow maybe going to destroy people's buying power. Maybe their retirements aren't gonna buy as much anymore. Why don't you stop let this bubble collapse? And they don't do it. They don't do it because they have all these things they've got to keep going.

And finally, what is not seen or all the opportunities when they're supporting GM, keeping them going when they're not something that should be going, or they're sending money out to these green industries, or again and show I'll show this as an example. They're sending one billion dollars to this Texas company, the Texas Tribune reports is a billion dollars to an electric cooperative called the San Miguel Electric Cooperative. They were using coal that's reliable, you can burn coal

in the winter, doesn't get destroyed by hail. And instead they're going to take the subsidy, they're taking the payoff and it's all part of the Biden thing and they're saying it's going to support jobs. But what is not seen are the jobs that won't be created because that money has been taken from people.

It's it's of the same thing, same cloth. You know, the people who have been leashed their entire working lives to contribute to social security and who are now too old to work and who depend on social security, of course they're going to fight tooth and nail to to keep Social Security around. So you know, we're battling and bickering with each other without seeing that we're being systematically and served and impoverished by this entity's that's called government,

you know, whereas sure, you know, life is sometimes unfair. Sometimes, you know, things don't work out the way you want them to work out. But in the long haul, you know, if things are allowed to correct themselves, when bad decisions have consequences, you know, we sorted out, we figure out what we did wrong, and we do something different and better the next time. In the long run, things are better for everybody that way than rewarding failure.

Even if they didn't farm out their banking to a central bank, they were you know, calling back the coins and shaving the coins of some of their silver and creating new coins to inflate the monetary system and claiming the old coins were still at the same way. So it's a cipher to what, you know, what happens now when they create the money out of thin air and

then buy the US bonds with it. But with Bostyad's dictum about government being that great fiction where everybody tries to live off of everyone else, the way they try to smooth that over is to fund all of the different things that they're trying to do to appeal to

people by doing the central bank. And then in the background, what's actually happening the whole time is the monster of inflation is eating away at everybody's livelihood except the people who get the money right at the start that connected people to the government. It's harming all of us. Even as they hand out all this candy to people, they don't people don't even realize that they're getting fewer and fewer opportunities to eat the candy, and the candy is worth less and less and less.

going to cost somebody else something which is dishonest. So, you know, if you don't want to live honestly, and you don't want to live by lying to yourself about where the source of your your mana your benefits come from you know, that's what you have to do. And if we did that, we did that once as a culture. Once upon a time it was shameful to be a parasite and you know, to take money from other people by force. Now it's kind of like a belligerent entitlement.

You know, you suggest to somebody that that perhaps government cheese should be just that government cheese, not government sushi, and they, you know, they get very upset.

And and you know, I've brought up the point on liberty conspiracy before as as you know, as much as people admire the Constitution as being a bulwark against that total control, really constitutional republics, you know, people will say, you know, we are not a democracy again, throwing that inclusive. You're in there as well, whether you want to be

part of it or not. We are not a democracy, this anthipomorphizing of it, but also the the the idea that constitutionalism as voted on by a bunch of other people is anything other than just democracy A couple steps removed. Sure, right, So so representative government is still in the end, a group of people having a majority vote based on a group of people who had a majority vote to set up these people to do these majority votes. So it's

still you can't escape it. This is why The Prisoner the TV series is so special to me.

in order for them to be seen monthly ongoing. It is only eight dollars, say some apologists, but that is beside the point, the point being that having to pay for speech means it's not free. And if you do pay for your speech to be seen, it still isn't free because if you say certain forbotten things, as you said about certain verbotten topics, then your speech will be suppressed,

if not entirely erased. Post something so called anti semitic, that is, something critical but factual regarding the policies or actions of the government of Israel, no matter how heen is the policies or actions at issue, and see for yourself,

or post something critical of Musk himself. Now, I want to go back to your point about Brazil because I have I have some friends who in Washington have been working with people from X and they've been talking to me, and I'm getting a sense they're sort of, you know, behind the scenes sort of folks. So occasionally they'll say

something and I'll say, wait a minute. I get a sense that they think that Musk's long game is that he wants to introduce the X phone, have the payment system on the X phone, and they think for beneficial reasons, and it could you know, you think about this. You could at first blush agree with them. One could, I say, to be fair, not you, but one could at first blush agree and say okay, I see where you're coming

from here. They'll say, yeah, see what he wants to do is he wants to get the x phone in everybody's hand. In fact, I've heard they'll tell me that Musk doesn't even care if people copy the technology as long as the user interface gets into their hands, because it'll go up to starlink and he will be able to circumvent any on the ground government from blocking the transmission and then they'll be free speech for everybody. And

I said, well, let me get this straight. So you don't think that government moves like that in Brazil have already shown us what will happen in the future. If even if he gets that technology. Even if they can't block it per se, you know, years down the line, they might try to block it somehow with signal jamming or whatever. But even if they can't block it, you don't think they'll block it through legal means, Like I don't know, let me know your thoughts, because I can see that you know.

in the book. In the future, in this dystopian future that Dick laid out back in the sixties, this one gigantic corporation material corporation controlled everything. I mean, it had absolute control over everything. And that's the tendency that we're seeing the centralization of everything. So Musk is a part of that, and Amazon is a part of that, and

what's going to happen. We're going to get to the point where Musk controls all information propagation and you buy everything from Amazon, and how is that going to How is that going to give us an alternative if these if these entities turn out to be evil. As Google used to like to say, well, what are we going to do? Because by that time, the gate's been locked and we're in the pen and there's almost nothing that

we'll be able to do about it. I think people who believe in freedom and liberty should be focusing on decentralization, locality, you know, figuring out ways to disconnect from all of this centralization. Centralization goes hand in hand in hand with authoritarianism and collectivism, you know it another way, you cannot

have authoritarianism and collectivism within a decentralized context. And that's what the originally the Thirteen Colonies tried to establish that by having a decentralized form of government, in which the thirteen Colonies became independent sovereign states. And it's why that they were referred to as plural in the original wordings, not the United States singular, you know, really became administrative. Dick's districts of the federal government, which is what they

became after the Civil War. The idea was that if you lived in one state, say Virginia, and you didn't like what the government in Virginia was doing, well, you had the option to go to North Carolina, let's say, or another state where things were different and more to your liking. And that kept things in balance and in check because there were so many options and alternatives, and it's always a good thing to have alternatives and options,

whether in politics or economics. If you haven't got them, well then you've got no choice, right absolutely.

lot of highak stuff. So I sort of just you know, whether my dad taught me that or I just sort of realized, like, the larger the area of control, the more people are hurt by the bad ideas, the less you know, the less you have knowledge of the local issues, and the less resolution you can get or satisfaction expression you can get. Because you've got to try to satisfy so many different groups, right, so many different people. And that's that's one of the reasons why I really like

that Irish Brehon laws system, the old clan system. Yeah, I like that a lot. And it's it's also interesting because I think that when you see this, they use again, these these themes and flag waving and so on to sort of get everybody in a large land mass to connect to one or two things that they think are so great, even if they're fictions. You know, American traditionalism, Well, what does that mean in Hawaii versus main You know, they're so different, they're they're quite different. And to be

able to retain that authentic vibe is great. I love, you know, people having some different traditions and things like that. And again, you know, if we look at things like the US government getting involved in natural disaster AID and things like that, Well, isn't it a bit of an affront to somebody who lives in Alaska to say, hey, you're not on Cape Cod, but you know there was a storm on Cape Cod. Really, how bad was it? Well,

we're going to tell you how bad it was. We'll define how bad it is we're going to call it an emergency. Yeah, but you know I was thinking like maybe of putting an extension on my driveway because I got to rebuild that. No, no, we're going to take your money for Cape Cod. It's just it just is ridiculous. You can't manage any of it. And always you got to rely on the central planners. You've got to rely

on the controllers. And he isn't where I'm glad you brought that up, because apparently, you know, one Zelensky is worth how many millions of Americans. I mean, it's really really affrontress.

guy president. Oh, I know, he's a dictator. He suspended elections. Yeah, he's no different. He he's like the Eastern European Dame.

because it's just right in front of your face. And I know, I told you Eric before. You know, a friend of mine who worked for the Obama administration came up to me in December because I was reporting on Ukraine and the overthrow. They're the min On coup that was happening. He said, hey, where are you getting your information about Ukraine? And I was like, I'm just looking stuff up, and he goes, well, you're right, there's a

lot more. And obviously we've found out the much more, maybe not even all of it, you know, going back.

You know, if my neighbor down the road, who I know, falls on hard times, a tree falls on his house, and some of my other neighbors, maybe we go over there with our chainsaws and we cut up the tree. We help the guy, you know, and if he needs a ride to get down.

You don't have a situation that happens when you've got this this centralized so called help, where this permanent apparat this government entity simply comes in, takes out every much money of yours that they want to take and then decides how they're going to use it and exactly puts you the bird along the way. Yeah, have no control over that, and so there's no accountability, there's no ability to prevent abuse.

and they're being prevented. They're literally being prevented. You know, the same thing happened in New Orleans with Walmart and ups tried to bring stuff in and they were they had roadblocks put us by FEMA. They couldn't even get in, they had to sit in parking lots. I mean, just absurd, because it's all a terf war. And in the meantime, it's very important.

the WHO. Right, that was his big thing over the past thirty six hours or so, said, good, it's that funny now he you know, as I mentioned on The Liberty Conspiracy last night, that's an easy one for him, essentially because he already did that a while back, and then the Gates Foundation came in with, you know, billions and billions and filled that slot until Biden came back,

and then he refunded the WHO. But what's what is interesting is as I listened to the details of what he said, and I didn't bring it up last night when I was streaming on the show, Trump doesn't say we're going to get out of that top down thing, that worldwide thing, per se. And so i'd love to play this for you. There are a couple segments here

that I'd love to play for you. This comes from that real America's voice thing that I was playing a little bit earlier to try to, you know, say like, hey, maybe take a step back from the idle worship here. But here is a little bit of what he had to say, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this.

the PPP stuff. It doesn't matter what the outcome of it is. The precept of it is wrong. It's unconstitutional, and on the deeper baseline, it's immoral. I don't yet, they're not questioning, and there's there's a little bit more, but I want to allow you to come in with what your thoughts are.

the de facto president. Somehow, that's, you know, the fault of the who, rather than you know, the colossus Orange man. It's astounding to me, by the way, to idolatry. Did you see they're going to build a statue to this man outside of the place in Pennsylvania where the assassination took assassination time?

He knew he could have gotten back in for less, so why did he pay so much?

to persons or property, meaning that there was a victim involved and other than that, the government was supposed to not be involved, was supposed to be free to organize their own lives and to interact with one another consensually and voluntarily. And now we've got to the point where

the state, the federal government literally micromanages practically everything. I mean, it's going to get to the point where there're going to be federal regulations regarding what time you can get up in the morning to brush your teeth, and how you must brush your teeth, and perhaps there's going to be a livestream camera in your bathroom to make sure you do it correctly.

We see that even in England, they were going to tell obese people, well, for voluntary surgeries, for elective surgeries like knee things, things like that, or smokers, you have to show us that you've quit smoking for x amount of time, or you have to lose this amount of weight. We're going to put other people ahead of you. This is exactly what they were doing in Canada. When I was in Canada, I was hanging out with the carpenters. They would say the government of the British Columbian governments

literally said, because they were paying everybody's health care. They didn't say this, but this is the way that it worked. Because they had a government run public health care system. They were paying people's bills. So people were overutilizing things when they weren't husbanding their own resources, they were using somebody else's and they were going to the doctors more for stuff that they normally, if they were deciding for themselves, might not have done it. They might have waited or

done something else, gone natural path, whatever. And then the doctors themselves were making good money from all these people were coming in, but the government was getting over They were running out of money, so they put caps on what they would pay the doctors. Of course, that's always

the way it goes. They put price gaps in and then the doctor said, hey, now we're not making what we think we deserve for our services, so we're going to restrict the amount of time that we see the patients, and we're going to increase the number of patients per day, so we can make up for what we've been losing

here because you put caps on all these services. So then they got more complaints from the customers, the patients who said, hey, I'm going into one office, I'm only in there for three minutes, and then they're shuffling me out. What's going on. So then they come out with the government with the new band aid over the the you know,

over the the the the injury. They've already caused to say, well, now we're going to impose limits on the number of patients that doctors can see per day, and we're going to say what they have to see first and what takes precedence. So one of the carpenters on the set said to me, he said, does that mean that they can tell us what we can get sick with on what days? And I said, essentially, that is what it tells you. That is what it says.

so one size fits all. I read something really interesting on lou Rockwell the other day and you may have seen it too, was by a doctor whish I could remember the guy's name, and he talked about one of the problems with vaccines in the context of government mandates and all of that, is that you don't have individualized treatments for particular people whose physiology, whose history may be different.

You have a one size fits all shot that is injected into everybody and may have pernicious results in some people by dint of the fact that that particular person may have a different metabolism or history or something that if you took the time to deal with that person as an individual and tailor or treatment according to that particular person, the outcome would have been positive rather than negative. But we have to have this one size fits all.

Everybody's the same, you know. So it's going to get to the point where it's just like you know, in the movie Depiction of or Worlds nineteen eighty four, everybody wears the party onesie, you know, the jumpsuit you're all, you know, like all fitting clothes. You're wearing the same bad quality food. You're driving your government motors approved vehicle that's the same as everybody else's vehicle. You know, it

literally sucks the life out of life. You want to just sameness this brutalist you know, no latitude, no, no creativity, no, you know, hey, let's try this, let's do something differently. All has to be the same.

I could never understand it. You look at the Boston City Hall building, which is one of the ugliest buildings ever created, and that thing should have been torn down the minute they put it up, right, they should never have put it up. And as a perfect example of how it's almost put up as an insult to people in a way.

of the old Soviet Union. It's designed to make people feel small and helpless, to to smash their individuality, to make them feel like just an atom, you know, part of some greater, big collective as opposed to an individual that has some power.

But I wonder what he would think today. Uh let me ask you this before I want to get one more thought on one, more of your one and more of your articles, Eric Peters, Eric Peters autos dot com, and I want to turn to some of the comments from people here. Uh, let's see, we've got inside Rockfinn. Let's see some of the folks who are in there. A lot of comments from people going back and forth,

tons of comments. Actually, we've got uh Wes robertson communism and uh uh let me see my i Q micro dot says, when most folks are so jammed up on religion they cannot eat, plurbus unham. I always look through lens of love, but I see mostly deranged g m O people repeating senseless pap by rote. Well, you know, it's interesting because the religion of the state is what they try to use to replace you know, individual connection to God and neighbors. Let me see a couple other

ones here over at Rumble. Okay, we've got don't frag me, bro is chatting with someone, says, First comes the kind tyranny with drugs to make us think we are happy. Then comes the boot on the neck. Well on the drug subject, Eric, I'd love to get your thoughts on this, because I got one final one on of course, Donald Trump is going to save the world by essentially making Mexico more of a vassal state and using the word terrorism to describe drug dealers. Because terrorism is an easily

malleable word. It can be turned into anything.

to make you take his drugs. Meanwhile, juxtapose that with the Orange Man who used the power of the federal government to coerce people to take these drugs, who pushed drugs during the aftermath of the pandemic, who actually pushed them, employers, the military, you name it. You know, people were presented with the option if you don't take these drugs, you're going to lose your job, you're going to get kicked out of the military, you're going to miss your kids,

can't go to school. That's pushing people. Again. I'm not you know, I'm not advocating the people take fentanyl or any other street drug. I'm just saying that for the most part, these drugs are offered to people who choose to take them. They're not being pushed on anybody exactly.

and you'll be you'll remain dominant. They literally did this the Dea of the United States, which of course as an unconstitutional agency, and no one seems to question these things anymore. They don't question the way the members of law enforcement against prohibition former cops will show that even after all these decades of the so called drug war, you know, treating it as if we ourselves are terrorists. Right again, they use this term. Look at what I

mentioned last night on the show. Look at what the FBI did with those parents who were concerned about their schools. They sent they they contacted the National Association of school Boards and they said, hey, this is the Biden administration win going, why don't you write letters to us and say you're concerned about these dangerous parents coming in who are threatening LGBTQ or teachers, and then we will set FBI agents on them. It's just absurd. They use this

language to scare people. And the drugs are not something that are being forced on me the way the US government policy is.

pack of beer and probably beats his wife. You know, it's that's it all out of your head.

to be able to get away with wrongdoing. And this is exactly what we see with US international relations, whether it's Ukraine and the bio labs, the corruption there with Hunter Biden, whether it's Syria and the money that's going over to them, all sorts of things international black rock, the green stuff, with the you know, the buyouts of these companies and and they steer people's behavior. It's just ridiculous. Let's end on this, however, because over on your website, Eric,

you have something that I'm so happy about. What's that you play?

see there, which was a base Firebird. But the neat thing about the car back in those days, you know, Pontiac offered you the option to select a la carte from the transam's performance hardware. In other words, you could buy the base Firebird without all the cost padding extras, but you could pick the transam's high performance engine, the transmission, the heavy duty suspension, and basically have a Transam that didn't look like one for a lot less money, you know.

And Ford did the same thing. You probably remember this, and they're going fast forward a little bit to the eighties and into the nineties with the Mustang LX five oh, which they took the base Mustang, you know, which ordinarily was a kind of a secretary's car, a grocery gether car, came with a little four cylinder engine, and they fitted it out with the Mustang GTS high Performance V eight, same transmission, heavy duty suspension and all of that, but for a lot less But it didn't look like a

Mustang GT. Unfortunately, you can't have that today anymore. You know, if you want to, if you want the performance car, you have to buy the performance car at the top

of the line model, and unfortunately that's pushing you know it. Particularly, I feel bad for people who are in their twenties today, you know, who'd like to have a fun car like that, but they can't come up with a forty plus thousand dollars And it takes, you know, to buy a current Mustang GT, because Ford won't sell them a de contented based Mustang with the GT's drive line for you know, ten grand less.

of the parking lot's. See it had done a show at bu and it was at the time when he when he would take the questions of what's your beef, what's your beef, and he would, you know, start talking about something, just riffing it would go. He just was hilarious spontaneously. And I see this big car pulling out and I see it's Jay and he rolls down the window. I'm like, hey, Jay, and the snow's coming down. It's just the two of us is sort of getting this

like nighttime. He goes, Hey, how you doing. Like, it's nice to meet you. Man. You were really you were really funny man, really appreciated what you did. It was a great show. He goes, thanks, it's like you really do drive a big car and goes it's my mom's she lives in andover. I'm just driving back. He goes, I hope I make it. Her tires are really bald. So it was great. And and I love the embedded stuff.

And you talk about the Mustang GT in here, and I think it's really neat that people had these types of options and in those days, as you say, teenagers could get the skills, they could work on these things and mess around with the cars.

theme is great. And my brother, seven years my elder We had a real to real tape recorder and he would record television themes before the TV tunes people at the CDs. He had them all on tape. We had everything John Williams had done, you know, time Tunnel Voyage, at the Bottom of the Sea, all that stuff, and he recorded the Rockford Files theme and all those things. But before he got the Rockford Files. A couple of years before that, there was a show called Toma. It

had a great theme. It was done by the guy who did the theme for Hill Street Blues and all those things, and it was about a guy in New York who was a police officer, a real guy, sort of like the guy al Pacino played in the movie I can't remember, but he was like an undercover cop and he was he actually was real and he was known as a really good undercover cop, man of a thousand faces, named David Toma. And there was a book called Toma and it was his story about infiltrating the

street gangs and all those things. And so ABC put the show on and David Toma was actually like an advisor on the show. And the show was a hit. It was a It was like in the top ten and The lead actor who played David Toma was a guy named Michael or something Tony Mussante I think his name was, and uh so he I guess he, I guess. He didn't realize when he signed the contract that it was supposed to be like, you come back next year if it's a hit. So at the end of the

season he's like, oh, that was fun. I don't want to do it anymore. You want to do something else? This is no wait wait, this is a hit show. What are you doing? How can you leave? He goes, I don't want to do it anymore? He didn't want to do it. So instead what they did was they created essentially a Tooma like character in Bretta. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so I think I maybe we spoke. Yeah. So that gave Robert Blake, you know, as sad as you know,

his story became later. It gave him a chance to have a second, you know, second role in life that he became a big hit. Barretta was huge, and curiously enough in that for the second season of Toma, they already had a bunch of scripts ready and one of the writers was Steven J. Cannell. It was one of his early shows and he of course went on to create the A Team and you know, uh, Magnum p

I and all these different shows. So Canell had written a character who was a private eye in New York named Jim Rockford, and Rockford was gonna appear on TOMA, but he they never made this story. So he went to NBC. He expanded on the idea, and then he put Rockford on the beach in the in the little mobile home. And and so if that guy Tony Wassante had had decided to do the second season of TOMA,

we never would have gotten Rockford. Files Bretta would never have been on, and all these people who did all these other shows, these actors, James Garner, their trajectories on their professions would have gone in completely different different directions. It's incredible to think of call to.

provided and still provides, and is what is he ninety now? Yeah, it was, and the way that, yeah, he really did a lot for Star Trek and he still does. So that's interesting. I forgot about that.

if you saw they did recently. They used Ai and an actor to sort of be the basis for Shatner, and they had Shatner coming from the last of the movies that Generations scene where he was with Captain Picard and so on, and that that was done by Brandon Braga, and I was a little disappointed the way they did that, but they sort of have a nice final chapter for William Shatner Nimoy, because Shatner was a little bit disappointed and saddened obviously by the passing of Nimoy, but also

the way that their relationship didn't quite end. I think the way many people would hope that a relationship, if it's got to end, as they all do, you would want it to end on a positive note. And it ended up that h Leonar Nimoy had stopped talking to William Shatner because there was a misunderstanding Shatner was involved with the documentary on the Captains of Star Trek or something was on Star Trek and the production team I

guess Shatner was involved with it. They had approached Nimoy to get some footage of Nimoy, and Nimoy was busy or something, and like he didn't reply or something. They didn't get a reply from him, so they took some footage of Nimoy from one of the Star Trek conventions and they didn't get Nimoy's permission, and they put it in this movie. Yeah, and you know the other I guess the people making it, they didn't think anything of it.

They're just like, well, you know, running out of time, We've got this footage, you know, let's get Leonard and put him in. We'll mak him part of it. But Leonard Nimoy, he was very upset, I guess, and so Shatner tried to communicate with him and you know, tried to apologize and so on, and it just didn't go. But what's interesting is this new production from Star Trek. It's about a ten minute thing. You can find it

on YouTube. It's got millions of views now, and it's essentially they used AI to take the character of Captain Kirk, who was sort of stuck in this weird like eternal vortex thing where he can live forever. It's like heaven.

It's this weird sort of pseudoscience of heaven. After he had been such a hero and his character dies at the end of the Generation's movie, they have him emerge from this to be able to be there when Spock dies and hold his hand, and it's very interesting because he passes through seeing all these different characters, like Robin Curtis, who played Savik in Star Trek two and three. She's there. She's a really nice actress, a really nice person, so

she's in the film. So they brought all these people back and leonarding Moy's wife and I think his son and Shatner were all involved in the production. So it shows that Shatner had a very He was able to have a good relationship with the family. They don't have any problems with William Shatner. They've forgiven and that itself is a nice to me in the end. You know,

all of these theatrical things. As I've gotten older, I don't know if you feel the same way or you probably were way ahead of me on this, but to me, it's just people taking a stage and I want to see them as people. You know, having worked on the sound stages and been there, and I was in the same sound stage where they shot Bonanza. You know, they're

just people walking on the concrete. They're doing their work for their families, and and that human touch, that touching way that those people can say, Yes, that other stuff isn't important. It's the love that we have for each other. And that's that's it. It's great to see. It's a wonderful little thing that really doesn't mean as much about the characters as it does about the people who are alive today, and it makes you think about your friends

and maybe getting in touch with them. It's great, absolutely, it does.

you'd like as long as you like. And there's also a forum area which is somewhat hard to find that if you if you just keep scrolling down that you will see a little farther. If you keep continue scrolling down, there you go the forum and that's just sort of a free form conversation area that you can go to if you're interested in posting something about whatever you'd like to post, and it can be book length if you

feel like it. So you know, we just have that for people as an alternative to the speech suppression platform that Elon Musk likes to call X.

fi shows on regular TV. What a shame. And Jason Barker is there from Nights of the Storm and he says, he says, Eric is on Rumble too. Libertarian car Guy. Eric is on Rumble Libertarian car guy boy. Eric, this is good. You've got a lot of people like you, Man, good stuff.

I'm friends with one of the folks just you know, disclosure name, and one of the folks at anti ward named Angela Keaton. But I just admire the work of the other people. I haven't met them directly, but here's a little something to get us into the final segment here on the program.

Dave is the editor at anti war dot Com and I rely on them so much, especially recently, they've just

been just so important for me to see. And so they have a report preceding you can see the red here on the video where they're talking about four babies die of hypothermia in Gaza, and he also discusses reports of starvation famine inside Gaza with of course weapons, that the United States could stop this in a few days if they would just even stop giving them the repair materials that the IDF needs to continue their slaughter there.

And regardless of how one feels about who should be there and who should not be there, how about not invading my home and taking my money or saying that the government can invade my home if I don't give them my money to pay for all this slaughter. But the next story is such a contrast. After he talks about the four babies dying of hypothermia, watch.

provides sixty thousand liters of drinking water per day. At the resort, IDF soldiers can enjoy a cafe, hotel style meals, massages, and hot showers, and they have access to mental health support and medical services. And yes, this is a picture of an IDF soldier using a cotton candy machine making cotton candy at this beachside resort. And this is what

the Wyet Israeli media called this a beachside resort. So the chief warrant Officer, the head of the food services for the IDF Southern Command told Wyet, quote, you know this is Gaza, right, yet we've created a sense of home here with iced coffee, espresso, protein shakes, toast shakshuka, fresh fruit, and even ice cream on warmer days.

The construction of such facilities is just the latest sign that Israel is planning for a long term military occupation of Gaza and is not interested in a hostage deal with Hamas that would lead to a permanent ceasefire. Colonel Michael Azuli, a logistics officer for the Southern Command, said, quote, the facilities deployment reflects our readiness for prolonged operations even if a ceasefire is reached in the context of a hostage exchange end quote. So he's saying, even if there's

a ceasefire, we're here. We're here for the long term and then I mentioned in the article all the you know, the places like the net Zurum Corridor where they've demolished all the buildings and established military bases. They've also done that in the Philadelphi Corridor along the entire border Israel Gaza border, which they call the Buffer Zone. Then the

ethnic cleansing campaign. You know, they're going to do similar things in those northern areas, and of course this is all going to lead eventually to the establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza. That is clearly the game plan here. And I mean, just the contrast between what these Israeli soldiers are doing at this resort and what the Palestinians are facing just absolutely shameful that the US government is supporting this funding and enabling all of this.

to continue in the face of adversity. And you know, it makes me think back to the opening talking about it's a wonderful life and how important it is to be in touch with each other and to tell each other, you know, how much we appreciate them, and to lend a hand once in a while, or if, uh, maybe you're you're on your own, go down to a local shop and see somebody occasionally, you know, give a compliment on something, that sort of thing, and you know, find

some local people or send out a compliment if you're online real quick, that sort of thing. You know, that's a real benefit. And I know that Dave, Dave is aware of my compliments for his work over at at Antwerp, because I know Angela has mentioned. Angela and I got to speak on the phone a couple about a month ago. But so I know that they know how many people appreciate them. But I want to thank you, and I

want to thank David for amazing work. Amazing work. Just it just it just puts a smile on your face thinking about how people can just be so great for each other. And again I'll remind you if you do want to donate, you can do do so over at rockfin or rumble to the David Knight Show and uh you can go over to the Davidnightshow dot Com or Davidknight dot gold. Thedavidnightshow dot Com allows you to check out all the great items that are for sale over there,

including the new shirts. My blue mcguffin shirt is on the way. I can't wait for that. And you can check out the music that you can buy. That Christmas record is absolutely terrific. And I will see you tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at six o'clock. It's Friday, so on Fridays, I try to do what's called Fiction Friday, and we have a lot of fun with that. We'll cover a number of the stories like immigration and things that will pop up on the news very soon and are almost

always perennial. So thank you to everybody for being here, and again anyone who had some comments. Little John is in the house inside Rockfinn. Thank you so much, Little John, and Shay Bishop is there. I really appreciate it. And he says US stakeholders have too much invested in the build of build Gaza back better, smart city plans, the canals, pipelines, disaster capitalism, and I think that's sort of the way that they're looking at rock fin That's the way they've

sold it to a lot of the corporations. Isn't it crazy. I don't know, It's just I don't understand. It's just crazy. Oh hey, Birdhouse, thank you, he says, thanks Guard for being our substitute, because I'm a substitute for another guy. I didn't even shoot one spitball through my straw. Thank you, and Birdhouse, thank you with the hearts. Thank you, Reies by Gypsies, Thank you all boy. What a terrific way to cap off Christmas. Thank you everyone, and again absolutely

the best people around. I got to get over to Tennessee to visit with everybody in the Night family, and I hope that you will join me tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at six. You can find the Liberty Conspiracy channel on YouTube, on Rumble and my exes at Guard Goldsmith. So I'll leave you with a little bit more from David to say farewell, and I hope that everyone has an absolutely splendiferous and awesome, awesome rest of the day.

What shall we do? What shall we do? You know what, Let's go a little bit.