I now welcome our guest, James Beauvard. James, welcome to the show. Thank you for being with us. You wrote a great piece that was published and I got to discuss it on my show. Was published on the sixth for the New York Post entitled Joe Biden's State of the Union Shrink shrink flation Swindle, and you warned us that Joe might not exactly be playing honest with statistics or the reason for the economic problems we're having. And of course
we'll be blaming businesses. We're just trying to cater to customers. Welcome to the David Knight Show. James, thank you for being here. Thank you for that article and also your new book, which is phenomenal. I love it. I really appreciate all that you've done. Really really good last rites. James Bouvard, Welcome to the show. Hey Gard, thanks for having me back. Great to see you again, and it's as good to both of us. Can take a victory lap for Biden's speech, Yes, tell
us a little bit about what you saw. I was struck. In fact, I was bowled over, but not necessarily surprised. If those two can come together, the Beatles would say because he opened with well, America's national security is dependent upon Ukraine. That was the first thing in the State of the Union for the United States speech. That was just stunning. Then there were the other accouterments about how quickly he was speaking. Maybe he thought that
if he spoke more rapidly, people wouldn't notice his falsehoods. Tell us your impressions, Jim Well, it was like the old Disney movie Old Yeller, because he's there just kind of flapping away. And it was surprising to see that the you know, the entire White House and his re election campaign has decided to go on a message of hatred. He was he was exaggerating so
much the faults of people who did not support him. It reminded me of his speech in Near Valley Forge where he openly compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, which reminded me of his Philadelphia speech in September twenty twenty two, where it would practiced like a Nuremberg rally with the bright red background, but there
was a level of vitriol. Historian Henry Adams one hundred years ago said, politics has always been about the systematic organization of hatreds Oh wow, great and that was you know, that's the line to understand Beyind's speech and his entire message. And I mean this is certainly not Donald Trump is not innocent on this score as well. Trump has hit the vitriol so hard. But it's funny that you've got bind claiming that the upcoming election will show the will of
the people. But you've got two major candidates who were just doing so much demonizing and so many falsehoods. But Biden was there. He's supposed to be to say, of the union then instead it's the absolute evil of everyone who doesn't bow down to Joe Biden. You know, James, as I show off your excellent X feet it's at Jim Beaulevard at Jim Board and you have all the books out there, Last Rights most prominent. I want to show that on the screen to everybody. Just phenomenal stuff. Jim. You oh,
absolutely, what a great book. And I love the fact that you know the look of it is so similar to Lost Rights. When did Lost Rights come out? Like ten years ago? Ten years ago? Put a knife in my heart. No, it was thirty years ago. Hold smoke, Yeah, it was thirty years ago, and it was you know, that was back in the golden age of liberty. So I had some fun with the New York Post Life Weekend on Sarday Out of Peace talking about Merle Haggard and the song that he did is a free Life over is the best,
the free life behind us. And it's interesting to think when he's saying that, is like, hey, you know, excuse, we're gonna get a hell of a lot worse after that song came out. Oh yeah, you know. It's it's always strange. You think to yourself, well, it couldn't get any worse, you know, and it just gets it gets crazier because of course, you know, it's the nature of people involved with the state to try to find more areas where they can get the state involved
in people's lives. It gives them power. And you mentioned, you know that that use of the lever of hatred would do you think it would be fair Jim to say that they also lever fear and they're they're sort of, uh, they're sort of stranded together in a Gordian knot in a way. You know, they will portray the Russia Ukraine conflict and they'll they'll gin up fear. Well, the United States, we've got to defend. We've got to do this, We've got to do that, and in a way it
helps generate hatred against the thing that which we're supposed to fear. Yeah. Well, Buying the last night was saying that it's perfectly clear that if, if, the if Russia has not stopped in the Ukraine, and they'll go
further and attack other nations. And it's like, well, do you have any evidence, sir, And you know, the you know, the sad thing is is about the only evidence, the only source of evidence that we had on government information, accurate government information on Ukraine just have pled guilty in going to prison for sixteen years. That gentleman from the Massachusetts National Guard airman yes, who was Yeah, and he shared that information on his discord.
Yeah, And it's it's striking to see that the media that has basically uh, you know, the the the information which he disclosed, the official documents showed that the US most of the US media has been a shoveling official bs on Ukraine for the last two years, ever since it started the war, and yet there wasn't that much media rage at having been lied to and deceived. Instead, a lot of the media folks jumped on say, well that's
some of a gun violated government rules by disclosing this information. Yeah, fine, throw them in prison and throw away the key. It's sad, I mean, there was you know, it's sad to see how far the nation has fallen since Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers fifty years over fifty years ago.
It's one you know, Jim, obviously you know I've I've admired your work so long, but that the way that you, with such fluidity can mention these people, because they really deserve to be brought in as we remember them and maybe gained some sustenance and energy from some of the things that they did that we admire. You know, in Ellsburg one d percent, I'll
I'll bring up as you discussed this air National guardsman from Massachusetts. I mean, you lived, like you know, forty five minutes an hour away from where I am in New Hampshire. Was all the news in Boston. Obviously the New York Times somehow found out about it, released that information. And what is interesting is you're absolutely right. First you have written on this numerous times. There's such a glut of stuff that the government produces that is so
called classified during a time of no declared war in any way whatsoever. And even when people issue foyer request, much of the stuff has redacted. Whether it's you know, fouryer request to get information about the mRNA jabs or it's four yer requests about anything else. The government is still in control of what they're going to tell you. And one of the things that you just brought
up to me, I would like to show this to you. You can listen to the audio Jim Marco Rubio literally admitting on Fox New Sunday that all along, all along, he knew, he knew all along that Ukraine was not going to be successful in its quixotic quest to battle Russia. After of course, nine years of slaughter in the Dombas with the you know, Nazi Azov battalion related people that the United States seem to have no problem with in
any way whatsoever. After Amy Klobashar and others and Lindsey Graham met with Tiany Bak of the Slovada Party, the Nazi party there, and they helped cobble
together that that government under Yatsumyuk in twenty fourteen. This is Marco Rubio actually openly admitting what that young man exposed, but of course not acknowledging like, well, yeah, you know, yeah, we should have told you from the start, and we should remember, as we hear this, he voted every time there was the major final vote for more weapons and money to go to Ukraine, even though now he's admitting, well, you know, I
knew all along that there was no possibility they could win. Let's check this out. Sure to do that. Here's what I do know. There is no way that the Russian Federation takes Ukraine all of Ukraine half of Ukraine. And that was that was Putin's goal from the beginning, was to carve it up into half, at least half the country, including Kiev. That's not
going to happen. That's not going to happen. On the other side of it, we have the reality of it is that Ukraine is small compared to Russia in terms of size and its ability to bring scale, its ability to force conscript people, so neither neither kind of this is I'm just being honest, And you know, in the past I have tried not to talk about this public because I thought it'd undermined the leverage that Ukraine had. But now it's the reality. Neither side is going to be able to achieve victory as
defined in the most idealistic term. All right, so Jim, you know, it's it's really amazing how many tens of thousands of people in Ukraine have had their homes destroyed. Men and women now been pulled into that meat grinder. And and now Joe Biden wants even more money to go to Ukraine, and he's going to find a way to use the so called draw down authority to pull more from the US military banks and centered over to Ukraine, even after we just found out, as anti war dot com reported, and I'll
show this to the audience. Antiwar dot Com reported that there were one hundred arms deals that were secretly done between the Biden administration is in Israel after October seventh. They are reckless, they have no compunction whatsoever. They will lie to us. They will lie through omission, as Marco Rubio did for months
and years actually with Ukraine, and they don't care. Well, it was interesting seeing that Cliff from marc Or Rubio, and he was so the Center admitted that he made a lot of misleading statements, but it was okay because otherwise he was being careful not to undermine the leverage of a foreign government. Now, I don't recall the oath of office of a US sounders saying that they're also that they have a legal moral obligation to maintain the leverage of foreign
governments. Uh so, but that was that was what he was saying. That's somebody backing up outside the office. I'm thinking, like the hell is this anyhow? Yeah, oh my computer is dying. Uh but no, So, going back to Rubio, I mean, it's it's it's good he's honest about his previous deceit. We trust him going forward. Yeah, I don't think so. I'm not sure it will. No, I won't make that crew joke. And you know, it's only it's only veracity, it's
only honesty based on it's situational ethics. It's pure situation situational ethics. For him, it doesn't matter that it's a consequentialist philosophy. There's no morality to it in any way whatsoever. Truth doesn't matter. It's whatever is convenient to
get by with what you want at the time. Well, and part of what I was wondering watching the scene there this in the Capital last night, before and after buying speech, seeing all these folks, men and women out there glad handing each other, and seeing seeing a law of there was older, well fed women wearing their white dresses. I was, you know, I was thinking Center. I don't recall seeing Center Menendez there. I assume
he was there. He's been indicted for taking a lot of bribes from foreign lobbyist activists, but at least he appreciates the value of gold versus the US monitory. That's up a good point. Yeah, there's gold bars, and
so I was just I was wondering there. I said, how many of the people in that room, how many of them deserve to be indicted on the same kind of federal charges that the Biden just apartment and earlier just apartments used against American citizens because there are so many, you know, the members
of Congress are practically exempt from federal law. I mean, a person has to be so brazen, a person has to be said, damn greedy and stupid that they have gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash around their house, as as the allegations are against Center Menendez, because otherwise it's going to be like you know, well, you know, well it's important, uh whatever. But to see what the politicians as a class get away
with. At the same time the government is persecuting private citizens for I mean, don't give me this role of law bs. Yeah. Yeah, so true, so true. And you know, you know, you know how I'm a voluntarist anarchist obviously, James, and you know, monitor things. What's that? I was making a joke. I said you are a moderate. I'm okay, okay, maybe you're not a moderate. Okay, I'm a monitor compared to you. How about that? That sounds great? And
it is. It is interesting because you know that we often hear this are we, which is of course the pronoun of forced inclusion. Are we going to do this? Are going to do this? We have to do this, We must do this. America cares and so on and so forth. When the government institutes policies of forced inclusion, forcing people to pay for something, the wei is a pronoun of aggressive inclusion. You have no choice. You're going to be included no matter what. You are part of the WII,
whether you want to be part of it or not. And is will the people? Yeah? Yeah, this state of the Union on a macro level, exposes the absolute canard of the idea that there's any rule of anything for these people. Because if I don't want to be part of their union, can I say no? Of course not, They'll throw me in jail. I've got to keep paying, or I've got a flee to some other place. I didn't see that I signed up for that. I never signed
the constitution. And even if I had signed the constitution, these people are breaching it all the time. They're the ones who you know they they sign up to swear an oath to it and put their hands on the Bible, right. And so we look at things like all their ridiculous controls on light bulbs, and their attempts to control ceiling fans and eliminate the internal combustion engine car and all these different things that they add and add an add of course,
because they make us fear what could be coming. They don't provide real evidence regarding the climate change anthropogenic climate change boogeyman or whatever it might be, regarding car outputs from internal combustion engines. Got to do it for us, then they have the audacity to say they're saving us money. Of course, in the free market. We have to decide when do we want to save money, how do we want to do it, and in what process we
have trade offs? They don't allow that. So this inclusive we thing is perfect, and it just shows the lie because it's if it were a real union, I would have a choice, just like the South would have had a choice to be able to separate and say no, thank you. I can't perpetuate my union with somebody else. So how is it I get roped into all this stuff? I never said, yes, Well, it's just good you're not bitter. That's classic. Hey. By the way, Jim,
let's talk about the economy for a minute. And the shrink flation claims. Okay, Joe Biden. Right, so your piece that was published on the sixth, I have the New York Post version of this, Joe Biden's State of the Union shrinth shrink flation swindle. And you bring up an excellent point, which is, of course, that since Biden took office, the purchasing power of the US dollar has shrunk by eighteen percent. And yeah, and Biden keeps, yeah, sorry, go ahead, this is eighteen percent
according to the federal government. I mean, if the US government was still using the same measures of inflation that we're used in the nineteen seventies. I guess it would be what twenty eight percent decrease. It's a whole lot worse than what they admit. Yeah, And of course part of the reason is because they exclude certain things from their cost of living indexes. And uh they also you know, they do this all all the time with things like the
employment numbers. You know, they'll explore, oh my god, yeah, they had a hell of adjustment this morning on that. Yeah, Jack Ray, Well, actually, you know, my goodness, they always do that, and we knew that, you know, after about the first week, heading into the second week, we start to get the inflation numbers and the
employment numbers. And at first they always put out their rosy employment numbers, and then they adjust them, and they all put out, like Biden will claim, well, unemployment or inflation inflation has gone down, so they're implying
that prices are going down. But for example, there was a couple month period, not an entire period, but for a couple months last year, there was a slight change from say three point five percent inflation down to three point twenty five percent inflation month on month and then it went back up to three point five, that sort of thing. So they claimed that, well, inflation is going down, but year on year inflation that means it's gone
up. Inflation has the prices of things have gone up. And of course the inflation is really the inflation of the money supply, the debasement of the money supply. And you know, even under Donald Trump, people are aware. If you've got the government spending trillions of dollars and the Cares Act, that's money that's being invented out of nowhere. No wonder bitcoin is doing so
well. No wonder gold is on the rise, No wonder silver is on the rise, because those things you can't just invent them out of thin air. Yeah, I mean, there are so many different ranches the government has thrown into the nation's economic engine. But part of what struck me Biden was doing his fingerprinting on the shrinkflation on a decreased number of chips in a bag, a snack bag of snack food. But Biden has given himself an absolute
waiver for all the damage he's inflicted. It's the same as what the FEDS did for Pfizer and their COVID vaccines. An absolute waiver of liability for any damage. I mean everything that Biden has done that screwed up the nation's productivity, investment savings, you know, value the dollar. It doesn't matter because Biden is taking is taking a brave stand against decreasing the number of potato chips in the snack bag. You had a video. I'm going to show this
on the screen. You had a video and they showed the snack bag. You can sort of see it in the background on the screen there. It really is amazing too, because they they are always ready with the bad guys, mentioned the boogeyman, and it's it's it's truly a sad thing to think that politicians come up with these things and so often people just accept the idea of well, there can be calls for, say, anti trust hearings on Chuck Schumer doesn't like the number of cereal boxes that are on the shelves,
or Bernie Sanders doesn't understand why there's more than only a couple Mark brands of anti perspon or deodorant. You know, I don't know whether he wore that when he was in Moscow celebrating the great economic Wonders of Russia just before the collapse. Well, yeah, and his face mask last night. Oh, unbelievable. Well I'm curious about Oh sorry, Jim, go ahead. Yeah, so I was going to say, thanks for pulling up the screen on the shot there. The folks that New York Post made a video yesterday.
They had me doing a spiel for the article. And it's the first time I've been on the New York Post YouTube video channel, and they were very very good at that. It was great. Yeah, the way they did inserts and cookie monster and so on, it was fun. It was fun. It was and it was it was very deft on their part, and they dropped some of the things I said and kept others. And they had they had the funny thing about the the Seinfeld shrinkage thing to start, which
I suggested with George. Yeah. Yeah, and it's shrinkage. It's shrinkage, and it's like, you know, you know, But the real trouble with buying is the person power of the dollars that I have have shrunk eighteen percent. So I don't give a rasp patuita about potato chips. But hey, uh, and I'm an independent contractor. I mean, there was a number of places that I write for that have not adjusted their pay scales.
I don't forget it. But it's it's like I don't it's you know, it's not like I'm a government worker that I snap my finger and say give me my cola. Okay, the you know, there was nine percent inflation on twenty twenty two whatever, so give me that nine percent raise. I'm
an independent contractor. I don't have that leverage. Yeah, And it's it's very frustrating because you know, I think you probably echo many of the conversations people have had with their friends and family members saying, look, you know, my capacity to expand my earnings can only expand a certain amount as I try to work harder, do more, you know, take on a second job or something like that. But my costs are going up, so we've got to cut back. We've got to do this, We've got to do
that. Yeah, you know, and it's it's really sad because of course, there's so many rich experiences people could have, or visits people could have with each other, or just some of the more essential fundamentals of well, you know, we're gonna have to uh, Grandma's going to you know, be I have to go to a different facility. We can't afford this facility, over this facility, or and you know this medicine, and it's really it's a it's a real shame. We can't get the medicine for the dog
this time. We're gonna have to do a fundraiser because we're out of money. I don't have a job that sort of thing. And the prices are just out of control. And I don't see that these people have anything other than a thirst for more control of our lives rather than freeing up the competitive market. And there, yeah, there was a great example. The back when inflation was at its peak. The Washington Posts had a columnist that they ran a peace by and she was kind of poo poo in concerns, concerns
about inflation. And she was talking about things that people could do to save money, I means such as stop eating meat. And she also talked about the cost of pet care. And it's kind of like, well, people can save money by just letting their pets die. Oh oh, this is a great idea. This is this Biden should pick up in a speech.
You know, you know your dog would live long enough, you know, Oh, man, well, you know, Jim, it is very interesting because for a long time, as they push for the Obamacare thing, we always heard them attacking insurance companies and saying, well, you're cherry picking people. But we know that in any centrally planned, government run collectivist resource you know, collectivized resource system, they are going to pick and choose who gets
the resources. And we're all going to be fighting over these things. You know, it is the tragedy of the commons. Everybody's going to want their piece that they can try to get, to get the opportunity to get it good example. Yeah, that's an interesting That was what struck me as the theme of Biden's speech unspoken, but it's the people like him decide that people like Biden deserved to be in charge of who gets what. Yes, and
yes, it was the child. Yeah, it was like listening to the Supreme Soviet uh to a degree, I mean, or a six hour Castro speech. Yeah, but there was this It kept coming back that Biden should be the one who, you know, who has the power to say who gets the subsidized food, gets their loans forgiven, gets this, gets that, is allowed to have that to go there, you know, and it seems as it was amusing that Biden was towards the end of speech he tried
to portray himself as a champion of freedom. But but the only freedom that Biden recognizes is the freedom to terminate pregnancies. Ah so sad, And of course take my neighbor's money to help fund it. There you go. It's it's it's truly troubling. So what's next on your on your radar scope, James Beaulevard. I guess I'll I keep working my ass off and throwing rocks
at the government. So, you know, just wheeling and dealing, and you know, I've got some stories I'm working on, and you know, there there were several fresh targets that popped up from the Binspiel last night, So you know, I'm just looking forward to try to keep having some fun. Well, it's great, I've got the Jim Bovard's website right in front of us. Your new book Last writes absolutely the death of American liberty,
and it's just excellent stuff. And of course if people go over there, you always have your latest columns listed, and I highly recommend people watch that video that they put together from the new York Post. It is fantastic and you are terrific on the screen, Jim, And it's so great to be able to see you talking like that because I miss you so much. You're such a good guy, and it's it's in fact, they're having another liberty
forum here in New Hampshire coming up this coming week. Telsea Gabbert's going to be there, Glenn Jacobs is going to be there. Yeah, so I'm hoping to get on over there in Nashville, New Hampshire. And I wish you were there, man. That was great. Was that the year that Naomi Wolf was there as well? That was the year, yes, yes,
yes, that was twenty fourteen. Yeah, she was nice. She wasn't as open to the larger scope of liberty at that time, but she's really expanded a lot recently, especially you know, speaking about the jabs and the corruption there, and uh, it's been nice to see people really standing up against a lot of the a lot of the people who would try to connect them still to their old collectivist ways. And of course you've always been
an outstanding guy. And thank you so much. I hope people will check out that video at New York Post and We'll watch you as you continue to throw the bricks. Okay, Jim, Hey, thanks so much for me on. Thanks for your kind words. Oh, not a problem, and you just remember we're all in this together, whether you want to be or not. Wink wink, nice all right, James Bobart, thank you, Jim, appreciate you being here. Great great stuff from James Boulevard. The
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