WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:11.720 I now welcome our guest, James Beauvard. James, welcome to the show. 2 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:14.960 Thank you for being with us. You wrote a great piece that was 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.480 published and I got to discuss it on my show. Was published on the 4 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:24.559 sixth for the New York Post entitled Joe Biden's State of the Union Shrink shrink 5 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:30.039 flation Swindle, and you warned us that Joe might not exactly be playing honest 6 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:36.119 with statistics or the reason for the economic problems we're having. And of course 7 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.799 we'll be blaming businesses. We're just trying to cater to customers. Welcome to 8 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.119 the David Knight Show. James, thank you for being here. Thank you 9 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.920 for that article and also your new book, which is phenomenal. I love 10 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:52.719 it. I really appreciate all that you've done. Really really good last rites. 11 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.960 James Bouvard, Welcome to the show. Hey Gard, thanks for having 12 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.079 me back. Great to see you again, and it's as good to both 13 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.400 of us. Can take a victory lap for Biden's speech, Yes, tell 14 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.000 us a little bit about what you saw. I was struck. In fact, 15 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.560 I was bowled over, but not necessarily surprised. If those two can 16 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.439 come together, the Beatles would say because he opened with well, America's national 17 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.319 security is dependent upon Ukraine. That was the first thing in the State of 18 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:29.079 the Union for the United States speech. That was just stunning. Then there 19 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.400 were the other accouterments about how quickly he was speaking. Maybe he thought that 20 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:37.640 if he spoke more rapidly, people wouldn't notice his falsehoods. Tell us your 21 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.319 impressions, Jim Well, it was like the old Disney movie Old Yeller, 22 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:48.680 because he's there just kind of flapping away. And it was surprising to see 23 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.319 that the you know, the entire White House and his re election campaign has 24 00:01:53.400 --> 00:02:01.159 decided to go on a message of hatred. He was he was exaggerating so 25 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:07.480 much the faults of people who did not support him. It reminded me of 26 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:13.159 his speech in Near Valley Forge where he openly compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, 27 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:19.560 which reminded me of his Philadelphia speech in September twenty twenty two, where 28 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.439 it would practiced like a Nuremberg rally with the bright red background, but there 29 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:29.599 was a level of vitriol. Historian Henry Adams one hundred years ago said, 30 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:36.479 politics has always been about the systematic organization of hatreds Oh wow, great and 31 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:42.000 that was you know, that's the line to understand Beyind's speech and his entire 32 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.639 message. And I mean this is certainly not Donald Trump is not innocent on 33 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:53.319 this score as well. Trump has hit the vitriol so hard. But it's 34 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:59.479 funny that you've got bind claiming that the upcoming election will show the will of 35 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:04.840 the people. But you've got two major candidates who were just doing so much 36 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:09.199 demonizing and so many falsehoods. But Biden was there. He's supposed to be 37 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:14.919 to say, of the union then instead it's the absolute evil of everyone who 38 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:21.439 doesn't bow down to Joe Biden. You know, James, as I show 39 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:25.840 off your excellent X feet it's at Jim Beaulevard at Jim Board and you have 40 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.439 all the books out there, Last Rights most prominent. I want to show 41 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.719 that on the screen to everybody. Just phenomenal stuff. Jim. You oh, 42 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.840 absolutely, what a great book. And I love the fact that you 43 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.199 know the look of it is so similar to Lost Rights. When did Lost 44 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:44.120 Rights come out? Like ten years ago? Ten years ago? Put a 45 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.800 knife in my heart. No, it was thirty years ago. Hold smoke, 46 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.599 Yeah, it was thirty years ago, and it was you know, 47 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:57.039 that was back in the golden age of liberty. So I had some fun 48 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.120 with the New York Post Life Weekend on Sarday Out of Peace talking about Merle 49 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:08.360 Haggard and the song that he did is a free Life over is the best, 50 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.919 the free life behind us. And it's interesting to think when he's saying 51 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.039 that, is like, hey, you know, excuse, we're gonna get 52 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.720 a hell of a lot worse after that song came out. Oh yeah, 53 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.240 you know. It's it's always strange. You think to yourself, well, 54 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:25.959 it couldn't get any worse, you know, and it just gets it gets 55 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.639 crazier because of course, you know, it's the nature of people involved with 56 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.639 the state to try to find more areas where they can get the state involved 57 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.480 in people's lives. It gives them power. And you mentioned, you know 58 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.639 that that use of the lever of hatred would do you think it would be 59 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:45.240 fair Jim to say that they also lever fear and they're they're sort of, 60 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.160 uh, they're sort of stranded together in a Gordian knot in a way. 61 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:56.199 You know, they will portray the Russia Ukraine conflict and they'll they'll gin up 62 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.560 fear. Well, the United States, we've got to defend. We've got 63 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:00.920 to do this, We've got to do that, and in a way it 64 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.879 helps generate hatred against the thing that which we're supposed to fear. Yeah. 65 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.639 Well, Buying the last night was saying that it's perfectly clear that if, 66 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.439 if, the if Russia has not stopped in the Ukraine, and they'll go 67 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:19.000 further and attack other nations. And it's like, well, do you have 68 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:25.759 any evidence, sir, And you know, the you know, the sad 69 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.959 thing is is about the only evidence, the only source of evidence that we 70 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:38.759 had on government information, accurate government information on Ukraine just have pled guilty in 71 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:44.959 going to prison for sixteen years. That gentleman from the Massachusetts National Guard airman 72 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.160 yes, who was Yeah, and he shared that information on his discord. 73 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:57.519 Yeah, And it's it's striking to see that the media that has basically uh, 74 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:03.360 you know, the the the information which he disclosed, the official documents 75 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:10.279 showed that the US most of the US media has been a shoveling official bs 76 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.360 on Ukraine for the last two years, ever since it started the war, 77 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.199 and yet there wasn't that much media rage at having been lied to and deceived. 78 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:23.439 Instead, a lot of the media folks jumped on say, well that's 79 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:28.600 some of a gun violated government rules by disclosing this information. Yeah, fine, 80 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:30.560 throw them in prison and throw away the key. It's sad, I 81 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:34.199 mean, there was you know, it's sad to see how far the nation 82 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:40.519 has fallen since Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers fifty years over fifty years ago. 83 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.360 It's one you know, Jim, obviously you know I've I've admired your 84 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:46.519 work so long, but that the way that you, with such fluidity can 85 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:51.560 mention these people, because they really deserve to be brought in as we remember 86 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:56.480 them and maybe gained some sustenance and energy from some of the things that they 87 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.879 did that we admire. You know, in Ellsburg one d percent, I'll 88 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.360 I'll bring up as you discussed this air National guardsman from Massachusetts. I mean, 89 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.759 you lived, like you know, forty five minutes an hour away from 90 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:10.480 where I am in New Hampshire. Was all the news in Boston. Obviously 91 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.199 the New York Times somehow found out about it, released that information. And 92 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:19.040 what is interesting is you're absolutely right. First you have written on this numerous 93 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:26.000 times. There's such a glut of stuff that the government produces that is so 94 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:30.360 called classified during a time of no declared war in any way whatsoever. And 95 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.519 even when people issue foyer request, much of the stuff has redacted. Whether 96 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.120 it's you know, fouryer request to get information about the mRNA jabs or it's 97 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.240 four yer requests about anything else. The government is still in control of what 98 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.560 they're going to tell you. And one of the things that you just brought 99 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.079 up to me, I would like to show this to you. You can 100 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:55.920 listen to the audio Jim Marco Rubio literally admitting on Fox New Sunday that all 101 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:00.639 along, all along, he knew, he knew all along that Ukraine was 102 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.519 not going to be successful in its quixotic quest to battle Russia. After of 103 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.439 course, nine years of slaughter in the Dombas with the you know, Nazi 104 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.480 Azov battalion related people that the United States seem to have no problem with in 105 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.480 any way whatsoever. After Amy Klobashar and others and Lindsey Graham met with Tiany 106 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.519 Bak of the Slovada Party, the Nazi party there, and they helped cobble 107 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.480 together that that government under Yatsumyuk in twenty fourteen. This is Marco Rubio actually 108 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:31.120 openly admitting what that young man exposed, but of course not acknowledging like, 109 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:33.840 well, yeah, you know, yeah, we should have told you from 110 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:39.240 the start, and we should remember, as we hear this, he voted 111 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.600 every time there was the major final vote for more weapons and money to go 112 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.200 to Ukraine, even though now he's admitting, well, you know, I 113 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.440 knew all along that there was no possibility they could win. Let's check this 114 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.480 out. Sure to do that. Here's what I do know. There is 115 00:08:54.480 --> 00:09:00.000 no way that the Russian Federation takes Ukraine all of Ukraine half of Ukraine. 116 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.200 And that was that was Putin's goal from the beginning, was to carve it 117 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.279 up into half, at least half the country, including Kiev. That's not 118 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.279 going to happen. That's not going to happen. On the other side of 119 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.159 it, we have the reality of it is that Ukraine is small compared to 120 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:15.480 Russia in terms of size and its ability to bring scale, its ability to 121 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.240 force conscript people, so neither neither kind of this is I'm just being honest, 122 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.080 And you know, in the past I have tried not to talk about 123 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.200 this public because I thought it'd undermined the leverage that Ukraine had. But now 124 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.799 it's the reality. Neither side is going to be able to achieve victory as 125 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.879 defined in the most idealistic term. All right, so Jim, you know, 126 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.840 it's it's really amazing how many tens of thousands of people in Ukraine have 127 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:46.600 had their homes destroyed. Men and women now been pulled into that meat grinder. 128 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:52.720 And and now Joe Biden wants even more money to go to Ukraine, 129 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:56.039 and he's going to find a way to use the so called draw down authority 130 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:01.799 to pull more from the US military banks and centered over to Ukraine, even 131 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.440 after we just found out, as anti war dot com reported, and I'll 132 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.600 show this to the audience. Antiwar dot Com reported that there were one hundred 133 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.639 arms deals that were secretly done between the Biden administration is in Israel after October 134 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.879 seventh. They are reckless, they have no compunction whatsoever. They will lie 135 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.519 to us. They will lie through omission, as Marco Rubio did for months 136 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:30.080 and years actually with Ukraine, and they don't care. Well, it was 137 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:35.320 interesting seeing that Cliff from marc Or Rubio, and he was so the Center 138 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.960 admitted that he made a lot of misleading statements, but it was okay because 139 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:45.440 otherwise he was being careful not to undermine the leverage of a foreign government. 140 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.519 Now, I don't recall the oath of office of a US sounders saying that 141 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:58.240 they're also that they have a legal moral obligation to maintain the leverage of foreign 142 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.080 governments. Uh so, but that was that was what he was saying. 143 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:09.000 That's somebody backing up outside the office. I'm thinking, like the hell is 144 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.320 this anyhow? Yeah, oh my computer is dying. Uh but no, 145 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.440 So, going back to Rubio, I mean, it's it's it's good he's 146 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:22.600 honest about his previous deceit. We trust him going forward. Yeah, I 147 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.639 don't think so. I'm not sure it will. No, I won't make 148 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.320 that crew joke. And you know, it's only it's only veracity, it's 149 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:35.840 only honesty based on it's situational ethics. It's pure situation situational ethics. For 150 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.320 him, it doesn't matter that it's a consequentialist philosophy. There's no morality to 151 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.120 it in any way whatsoever. Truth doesn't matter. It's whatever is convenient to 152 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.960 get by with what you want at the time. Well, and part of 153 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.720 what I was wondering watching the scene there this in the Capital last night, 154 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.879 before and after buying speech, seeing all these folks, men and women out 155 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:01.279 there glad handing each other, and seeing seeing a law of there was older, 156 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.600 well fed women wearing their white dresses. I was, you know, 157 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:13.679 I was thinking Center. I don't recall seeing Center Menendez there. I assume 158 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.480 he was there. He's been indicted for taking a lot of bribes from foreign 159 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:24.559 lobbyist activists, but at least he appreciates the value of gold versus the US 160 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.200 monitory. That's up a good point. Yeah, there's gold bars, and 161 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.080 so I was just I was wondering there. I said, how many of 162 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.559 the people in that room, how many of them deserve to be indicted on 163 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.080 the same kind of federal charges that the Biden just apartment and earlier just apartments 164 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.320 used against American citizens because there are so many, you know, the members 165 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.720 of Congress are practically exempt from federal law. I mean, a person has 166 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.080 to be so brazen, a person has to be said, damn greedy and 167 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:00.399 stupid that they have gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash around 168 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:05.120 their house, as as the allegations are against Center Menendez, because otherwise it's 169 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.360 going to be like you know, well, you know, well it's important, 170 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:15.799 uh whatever. But to see what the politicians as a class get away 171 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.000 with. At the same time the government is persecuting private citizens for I mean, 172 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.000 don't give me this role of law bs. Yeah. Yeah, so 173 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.039 true, so true. And you know, you know, you know how 174 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.639 I'm a voluntarist anarchist obviously, James, and you know, monitor things. 175 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.279 What's that? I was making a joke. I said you are a moderate. 176 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:43.399 I'm okay, okay, maybe you're not a moderate. Okay, I'm 177 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.279 a monitor compared to you. How about that? That sounds great? And 178 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:54.039 it is. It is interesting because you know that we often hear this are 179 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.000 we, which is of course the pronoun of forced inclusion. Are we going 180 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.320 to do this? Are going to do this? We have to do this, 181 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.639 We must do this. America cares and so on and so forth. 182 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:11.279 When the government institutes policies of forced inclusion, forcing people to pay for something, 183 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.320 the wei is a pronoun of aggressive inclusion. You have no choice. 184 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.279 You're going to be included no matter what. You are part of the WII, 185 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.919 whether you want to be part of it or not. And is will 186 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.120 the people? Yeah? Yeah, this state of the Union on a macro 187 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:33.639 level, exposes the absolute canard of the idea that there's any rule of anything 188 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.240 for these people. Because if I don't want to be part of their union, 189 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.360 can I say no? Of course not, They'll throw me in jail. 190 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.240 I've got to keep paying, or I've got a flee to some other 191 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.799 place. I didn't see that I signed up for that. I never signed 192 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.399 the constitution. And even if I had signed the constitution, these people are 193 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:56.200 breaching it all the time. They're the ones who you know they they sign 194 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.519 up to swear an oath to it and put their hands on the Bible, 195 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:05.039 right. And so we look at things like all their ridiculous controls on light 196 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:11.360 bulbs, and their attempts to control ceiling fans and eliminate the internal combustion engine 197 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.679 car and all these different things that they add and add an add of course, 198 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.840 because they make us fear what could be coming. They don't provide real 199 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:26.720 evidence regarding the climate change anthropogenic climate change boogeyman or whatever it might be, 200 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:33.559 regarding car outputs from internal combustion engines. Got to do it for us, 201 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.240 then they have the audacity to say they're saving us money. Of course, 202 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.879 in the free market. We have to decide when do we want to save 203 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.000 money, how do we want to do it, and in what process we 204 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:48.519 have trade offs? They don't allow that. So this inclusive we thing is 205 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.039 perfect, and it just shows the lie because it's if it were a real 206 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.200 union, I would have a choice, just like the South would have had 207 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.519 a choice to be able to separate and say no, thank you. I 208 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.519 can't perpetuate my union with somebody else. So how is it I get roped 209 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.240 into all this stuff? I never said, yes, Well, it's just 210 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:18.080 good you're not bitter. That's classic. Hey. By the way, Jim, 211 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.960 let's talk about the economy for a minute. And the shrink flation claims. 212 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.240 Okay, Joe Biden. Right, so your piece that was published on 213 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.600 the sixth, I have the New York Post version of this, Joe Biden's 214 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:37.759 State of the Union shrinth shrink flation swindle. And you bring up an excellent 215 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:42.159 point, which is, of course, that since Biden took office, the 216 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:48.399 purchasing power of the US dollar has shrunk by eighteen percent. And yeah, 217 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.840 and Biden keeps, yeah, sorry, go ahead, this is eighteen percent 218 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.679 according to the federal government. I mean, if the US government was still 219 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:02.919 using the same measures of inflation that we're used in the nineteen seventies. I 220 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.920 guess it would be what twenty eight percent decrease. It's a whole lot worse 221 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.680 than what they admit. Yeah, And of course part of the reason is 222 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:18.599 because they exclude certain things from their cost of living indexes. And uh they 223 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.319 also you know, they do this all all the time with things like the 224 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.160 employment numbers. You know, they'll explore, oh my god, yeah, 225 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:27.480 they had a hell of adjustment this morning on that. Yeah, Jack Ray, 226 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:36.000 Well, actually, you know, my goodness, they always do that, 227 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.319 and we knew that, you know, after about the first week, 228 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.880 heading into the second week, we start to get the inflation numbers and the 229 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.359 employment numbers. And at first they always put out their rosy employment numbers, 230 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:52.079 and then they adjust them, and they all put out, like Biden will 231 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:59.119 claim, well, unemployment or inflation inflation has gone down, so they're implying 232 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:03.359 that prices are going down. But for example, there was a couple month 233 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.839 period, not an entire period, but for a couple months last year, 234 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:12.039 there was a slight change from say three point five percent inflation down to three 235 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.400 point twenty five percent inflation month on month and then it went back up to 236 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.480 three point five, that sort of thing. So they claimed that, well, 237 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:25.200 inflation is going down, but year on year inflation that means it's gone 238 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:29.599 up. Inflation has the prices of things have gone up. And of course 239 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.640 the inflation is really the inflation of the money supply, the debasement of the 240 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.359 money supply. And you know, even under Donald Trump, people are aware. 241 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:42.640 If you've got the government spending trillions of dollars and the Cares Act, 242 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:47.440 that's money that's being invented out of nowhere. No wonder bitcoin is doing so 243 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.160 well. No wonder gold is on the rise, No wonder silver is on 244 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:53.160 the rise, because those things you can't just invent them out of thin air. 245 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.200 Yeah, I mean, there are so many different ranches the government has 246 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:03.240 thrown into the nation's economic engine. But part of what struck me Biden was 247 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:10.920 doing his fingerprinting on the shrinkflation on a decreased number of chips in a bag, 248 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.119 a snack bag of snack food. But Biden has given himself an absolute 249 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:19.759 waiver for all the damage he's inflicted. It's the same as what the FEDS 250 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:25.759 did for Pfizer and their COVID vaccines. An absolute waiver of liability for any 251 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:30.599 damage. I mean everything that Biden has done that screwed up the nation's productivity, 252 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.920 investment savings, you know, value the dollar. It doesn't matter because 253 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.440 Biden is taking is taking a brave stand against decreasing the number of potato chips 254 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.039 in the snack bag. You had a video. I'm going to show this 255 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.759 on the screen. You had a video and they showed the snack bag. 256 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.319 You can sort of see it in the background on the screen there. It 257 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:59.799 really is amazing too, because they they are always ready with the bad guys, 258 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.799 mentioned the boogeyman, and it's it's it's truly a sad thing to think 259 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:11.039 that politicians come up with these things and so often people just accept the idea 260 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:18.000 of well, there can be calls for, say, anti trust hearings on 261 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.160 Chuck Schumer doesn't like the number of cereal boxes that are on the shelves, 262 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:30.319 or Bernie Sanders doesn't understand why there's more than only a couple Mark brands of 263 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.119 anti perspon or deodorant. You know, I don't know whether he wore that 264 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:38.559 when he was in Moscow celebrating the great economic Wonders of Russia just before the 265 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:44.720 collapse. Well, yeah, and his face mask last night. Oh, 266 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.279 unbelievable. Well I'm curious about Oh sorry, Jim, go ahead. Yeah, 267 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:52.680 so I was going to say, thanks for pulling up the screen on 268 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:57.599 the shot there. The folks that New York Post made a video yesterday. 269 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:02.839 They had me doing a spiel for the article. And it's the first time 270 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.960 I've been on the New York Post YouTube video channel, and they were very 271 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:11.839 very good at that. It was great. Yeah, the way they did 272 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.240 inserts and cookie monster and so on, it was fun. It was fun. 273 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:21.240 It was and it was it was very deft on their part, and 274 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.839 they dropped some of the things I said and kept others. And they had 275 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:30.119 they had the funny thing about the the Seinfeld shrinkage thing to start, which 276 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:37.039 I suggested with George. Yeah. Yeah, and it's shrinkage. It's shrinkage, 277 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:38.200 and it's like, you know, you know, But the real trouble 278 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:44.160 with buying is the person power of the dollars that I have have shrunk eighteen 279 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.440 percent. So I don't give a rasp patuita about potato chips. But hey, 280 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.200 uh, and I'm an independent contractor. I mean, there was a 281 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:57.359 number of places that I write for that have not adjusted their pay scales. 282 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:03.200 I don't forget it. But it's it's like I don't it's you know, 283 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.119 it's not like I'm a government worker that I snap my finger and say give 284 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.000 me my cola. Okay, the you know, there was nine percent inflation 285 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.519 on twenty twenty two whatever, so give me that nine percent raise. I'm 286 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.759 an independent contractor. I don't have that leverage. Yeah, And it's it's 287 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:26.119 very frustrating because you know, I think you probably echo many of the conversations 288 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.960 people have had with their friends and family members saying, look, you know, 289 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:36.720 my capacity to expand my earnings can only expand a certain amount as I 290 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:40.200 try to work harder, do more, you know, take on a second 291 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:42.720 job or something like that. But my costs are going up, so we've 292 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.119 got to cut back. We've got to do this, We've got to do 293 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.640 that. Yeah, you know, and it's it's really sad because of course, 294 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:52.960 there's so many rich experiences people could have, or visits people could have 295 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:57.680 with each other, or just some of the more essential fundamentals of well, 296 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:02.799 you know, we're gonna have to uh, Grandma's going to you know, 297 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.119 be I have to go to a different facility. We can't afford this facility, 298 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.920 over this facility, or and you know this medicine, and it's really 299 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.920 it's a it's a real shame. We can't get the medicine for the dog 300 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.440 this time. We're gonna have to do a fundraiser because we're out of money. 301 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.559 I don't have a job that sort of thing. And the prices are 302 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.880 just out of control. And I don't see that these people have anything other 303 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.119 than a thirst for more control of our lives rather than freeing up the competitive 304 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:33.039 market. And there, yeah, there was a great example. The back 305 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.960 when inflation was at its peak. The Washington Posts had a columnist that they 306 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:41.720 ran a peace by and she was kind of poo poo in concerns, concerns 307 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:47.720 about inflation. And she was talking about things that people could do to save 308 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.240 money, I means such as stop eating meat. And she also talked about 309 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.000 the cost of pet care. And it's kind of like, well, people 310 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:00.000 can save money by just letting their pets die. Oh oh, this is 311 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.880 a great idea. This is this Biden should pick up in a speech. 312 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.359 You know, you know your dog would live long enough, you know, 313 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:12.880 Oh, man, well, you know, Jim, it is very interesting 314 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:17.359 because for a long time, as they push for the Obamacare thing, we 315 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:22.680 always heard them attacking insurance companies and saying, well, you're cherry picking people. 316 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:29.000 But we know that in any centrally planned, government run collectivist resource you 317 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:33.759 know, collectivized resource system, they are going to pick and choose who gets 318 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.000 the resources. And we're all going to be fighting over these things. You 319 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.559 know, it is the tragedy of the commons. Everybody's going to want their 320 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.839 piece that they can try to get, to get the opportunity to get it 321 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.759 good example. Yeah, that's an interesting That was what struck me as the 322 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:56.000 theme of Biden's speech unspoken, but it's the people like him decide that people 323 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:00.240 like Biden deserved to be in charge of who gets what. Yes, and 324 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.839 yes, it was the child. Yeah, it was like listening to the 325 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:10.839 Supreme Soviet uh to a degree, I mean, or a six hour Castro 326 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:17.400 speech. Yeah, but there was this It kept coming back that Biden should 327 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:21.640 be the one who, you know, who has the power to say who 328 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:26.160 gets the subsidized food, gets their loans forgiven, gets this, gets that, 329 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.720 is allowed to have that to go there, you know, and it 330 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:34.759 seems as it was amusing that Biden was towards the end of speech he tried 331 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:40.799 to portray himself as a champion of freedom. But but the only freedom that 332 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:45.559 Biden recognizes is the freedom to terminate pregnancies. Ah so sad, And of 333 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:51.480 course take my neighbor's money to help fund it. There you go. It's 334 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.559 it's it's truly troubling. So what's next on your on your radar scope, 335 00:25:55.640 --> 00:26:02.480 James Beaulevard. I guess I'll I keep working my ass off and throwing rocks 336 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.480 at the government. So, you know, just wheeling and dealing, and 337 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.960 you know, I've got some stories I'm working on, and you know, 338 00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:14.680 there there were several fresh targets that popped up from the Binspiel last night, 339 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.759 So you know, I'm just looking forward to try to keep having some fun. 340 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:23.119 Well, it's great, I've got the Jim Bovard's website right in front 341 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:27.960 of us. Your new book Last writes absolutely the death of American liberty, 342 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:33.680 and it's just excellent stuff. And of course if people go over there, 343 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:38.960 you always have your latest columns listed, and I highly recommend people watch that 344 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.039 video that they put together from the new York Post. It is fantastic and 345 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.200 you are terrific on the screen, Jim, And it's so great to be 346 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.039 able to see you talking like that because I miss you so much. You're 347 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.279 such a good guy, and it's it's in fact, they're having another liberty 348 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.880 forum here in New Hampshire coming up this coming week. Telsea Gabbert's going to 349 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:02.880 be there, Glenn Jacobs is going to be there. Yeah, so I'm 350 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:04.759 hoping to get on over there in Nashville, New Hampshire. And I wish 351 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.799 you were there, man. That was great. Was that the year that 352 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.960 Naomi Wolf was there as well? That was the year, yes, yes, 353 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.759 yes, that was twenty fourteen. Yeah, she was nice. She 354 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.839 wasn't as open to the larger scope of liberty at that time, but she's 355 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:23.240 really expanded a lot recently, especially you know, speaking about the jabs and 356 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.039 the corruption there, and uh, it's been nice to see people really standing 357 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.519 up against a lot of the a lot of the people who would try to 358 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:36.680 connect them still to their old collectivist ways. And of course you've always been 359 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.920 an outstanding guy. And thank you so much. I hope people will check 360 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.079 out that video at New York Post and We'll watch you as you continue to 361 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.960 throw the bricks. Okay, Jim, Hey, thanks so much for me 362 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.519 on. Thanks for your kind words. Oh, not a problem, and 363 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.359 you just remember we're all in this together, whether you want to be or 364 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.440 not. Wink wink, nice all right, James Bobart, thank you, 365 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:11.720 Jim, appreciate you being here. Great great stuff from James Boulevard. The 366 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:19.880 David Night Show is a critical thinking super spreader. If you've been exposed to 367 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:29.319 logic by listening to The David Night Show, please do your part and try 368 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:36.160 not to spread it. Financial support or simply tell the others about the show 369 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:44.359 causes this dangerous information to spread. Father. People have to trust me, 370 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:51.599 I mean, trust the science. Wear you mask, take your vaccine, 371 00:28:52.400 --> 00:29:07.160 don't ask questions using free speech to free minds. It's The David Night Show.