WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:08.119 All right, and joining us now I want to get him in before Christmas 2 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:14.000 is Eric Peters of epautos dot com. And we have so much car talk 3 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.600 to talk about. It truly is amazing. But I want to begin with 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.359 something else that you got your site, Eric, and that is your story 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.640 about this abusive relationship we're second with the federal government. Tell us about that 6 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.239 one that we've been in since eighteen sixty five. Yeh, that's right, 7 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.760 that abusive relationship. If you leave, I'll kill you. As you point 8 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.840 out, you know, I used that graphic. It shows Abraham Lincoln and 9 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.640 as that caption, if you try to leave me, I'll kill you. 10 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.240 And I thought that that was very succinct and very apt because it distilled the 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.679 whole conflict into that witty, little mean yeah, And that's exactly what it 12 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:48.719 was all about. You know. On the one hand, we have this 13 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.119 cognitive dissonance in this country. On the one hand, kids are taught to 14 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:59.679 revere the Founding Fathers, the Founding fathers who seceded from Great Britain. That's 15 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.399 right, he said, will you They said, we'll kill you as well. 16 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.400 Well. Somehow in the Southern States wanted to exercise the same prerogative. 17 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.200 They felt that they were no longer served by being part of this union, 18 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:17.599 just as the columnists thought they were no longer being served by being part of 19 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:22.760 the British Union, and they wanted to separate themselves, leave, in other 20 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:27.959 words, from what they considered to be an abusive relationship. Did exactly that 21 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.200 he killed what's the estimate, something around the order of half a million Americans 22 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.719 were killed. Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting. They would 23 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.799 they would they again? Do you believe these numbers exactly the same number of 24 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.680 people north and south, three hundred thousand each. Yeah. Of course that 25 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.000 doesn't include civilian deaths, but I think that's a cooked number anyway. Yeah. 26 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.599 And the point is, you know, Lincoln, as Malcolm X I 27 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:53.280 think said, Lincoln didn't free the slaves, enslave as all. That's right, 28 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:55.680 that's right. I've said the way I put it, I said, 29 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:59.480 he ended private slavery, and he made us all slaves of the public, 30 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.680 slaves of the federal government. That's really what happened with all of it. 31 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.359 And you know the other thing that's interesting, you know, we they always 32 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.479 want to put this in the context of slavery, to put it in the 33 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:15.639 best possible light. But you know, the northern soldiers didn't call the Southern 34 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:22.000 soldiers, didn't say slavers, you know, or didn't call them rage accusations 35 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.400 of them being racist or having a white privilege or anything. They called them 36 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:30.039 secession. They called them rebels. And so it was early about the secession. 37 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.080 And you know, Eric, I've mentioned this on my show, probably 38 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:39.080 never told you about it, but my brother in law went to Italy. 39 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.919 My wife's family is half Italian, and he went to Italy to study, 40 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.400 and he learned Italian and met some relatives over there, and they gave him 41 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.719 a diary that had been put together by an ancestor who fought with Garibaldi's army 42 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.439 there. And that was a real eye opener for me, because I realized 43 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.719 that Italy was going through a civil war in eighteen sixty one exactly as we 44 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.280 were, and it wasn't over slavery. It was over the same thing that 45 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.479 our war was ultimately about. And that was a fourth turning, going from 46 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:13.800 an agrarian society to an industrial society. And as part of that fourth turning, 47 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.199 you had nation states that were being created everywhere, and so you had 48 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.039 internal civil wars that were happening everywhere in Italy and Brazil and other places. 49 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.319 As a matter of fact, Garibaldi had fought in Brazil, I think as 50 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:25.680 Brazil or Argentina. Always get those two confused. Anyway, he had fought 51 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.520 over there and then went to Italy to fight. So you had this type 52 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:34.719 of this thing, this consolidation because of the industrialization. You had this consolidation 53 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.479 of the nation state. You had different power centers now because of industrialization versus 54 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:44.080 agrarian and that's what that war was really about everywhere that it was happening. 55 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:50.199 But of course they spend this for their own particular purposes. And I remember 56 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:59.520 that Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Jackson said this is our second 57 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.800 Worman and that's the way he saw it, and that's exactly what it was. 58 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.039 You know, people have a right to self government, and we see 59 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.479 this all the time. You know. We had Ukraine said well we're going 60 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.680 to secede from Russia, and then the people on Crimea say, well we 61 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:13.879 want to stay with Russia. No you can't. We're going to fight you 62 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.360 and kill you. You know, and if you do that, that type 63 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.519 of thing. The relationship that isn't consensual is if so facto abusive, isn't 64 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.160 it? That's right? I mean, if you're compelled, if you're forced 65 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.639 by by threats of violence to remain in a relationship, I think by definition 66 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:33.319 it's an abusive relationship. The left has been very successful in this etymological ledger, 67 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.480 you mad if using words to change the way people think about things. 68 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.759 You know, even you and I we're just talking about this, and we 69 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.240 use the term the Civil war, and it's a term because it was not 70 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.319 a civil war. It was an attempt by the southern Southern States to secede, 71 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.519 which is a very different thing. The Southern States were not attempting to 72 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.079 occupy and control the North and to control the government of the whole. They 73 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:00.759 simply wanted to have their own government and their own country' I think it's important 74 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.040 to make that point. That's right, Yeah, that is exactly what It's 75 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.839 two groups of people fighting to control the same country. That's very different than 76 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:13.319 saying we want independence and secession. But you know, it's all ramping up 77 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.360 and it is getting it is escalating, and we see this. I've said 78 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.720 many times, I think that they're setting up Donald Trump and a set him 79 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.800 up for quite some time to be the Mason Dixon line of our next civil 80 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:30.680 war. Yeah, it's horrific. I this morning, I was struggling to 81 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:36.120 even find the words after I read news about the decision in Colorado that apparently 82 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:41.079 is going to take Trump off the ballot in that state on the basis of 83 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:46.040 his having been an erection an insurrectionist, notwithstanding that he's not actually been formally 84 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:47.560 charged or convicted. And I'm not carrying the order for the Orange Man by 85 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:53.040 any rights. I'm just pointing out this horrible winning that we're being kind of 86 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:56.680 pushed down a cattle choot. What they're trying to do. They accused Trump, 87 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.279 on the one hand, of an insurrection, and they're actually fomented a 88 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.800 real one. Yes, because they're making people so angry and desperate, you 89 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:10.240 know, the same a funerist people who will constantly talk about our democracy and 90 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.240 who then tell you who you're allowed to vote for right now. Again, 91 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.279 I'm not caring water for Trump, but if he's a popular candidate, people 92 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.000 want to vote for him, okay, And by taking him off the ballot, 93 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.720 if they're successful in doing that, they're going to enrage people, and 94 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:27.839 it seems to me inevitable that there's going to be some kind of an incendiary 95 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.040 response to this, and I think that that's what they want, frankly, 96 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:34.040 and they continue to do this. I just talked earlier in the program about 97 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:41.120 how they've now arrested a Blaze photojournalist who was there years after this. They 98 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.720 continue to expand this, and I think that that's a real insurrection against our 99 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:48.040 constitution and our form of government that the Biden administration continues to cast this net 100 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.800 wider and wider. There he came after Sam Montoya, Info Wars and other 101 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:56.759 reporters. Now they're coming after this guy, a bona fide a photojournalist to 102 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:01.519 attack and attack him over just being he didn't harm anything, he didn't interfere 103 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:06.240 with anything. He's taking pictures as protected under the constitution, And so they 104 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.879 really do want to ramp this whole thing up, and we've got to be 105 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.639 careful not to fall into that trap. That's one of the things, Eric, 106 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.639 that I'm so concerned about, because you look at it both the people 107 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.519 who oppose Trump and the people who support Trump. What do you think is 108 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.399 going to happen because one of those groups is not going to get their way, 109 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.480 and so whether he wins or whether he loses, you're going to have 110 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.560 half of this country want to kill the other half of the country over Trump. 111 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:32.759 That's really what we're looking at coming up in this next year, and 112 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.759 they're egging it on. You know, that situation is very much analogous to 113 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:41.079 what the situation was back in eighteen sixty one when you had this regional difference 114 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.040 broadly brushed between north and south, and you had two mindsets, two cultures, 115 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.680 and two societies that were at odds with one another. And this was 116 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:54.439 blamed and pushed and it got to a certain point where the kinetic energy became 117 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.920 unsolvable and events took their own course. And that seems to be exactly what's 118 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.240 happening right now with regard to what's going to happen over the course of the 119 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.360 next twelve months. And it's pretty scary. And I just saw this thing 120 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.480 from Tucker Cross and he and Dan Bongino are getting each other worked up in 121 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:13.079 Tucker crosson these guys are your blood enemies, No, they're not. The 122 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.000 appropriate response is to debate this, not to kill these people. But they're 123 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.600 escalating this. They really want both sides want violence, and they keep talking 124 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:26.160 about blood, you know, Trump talking about migrants being blood poisoning or poison 125 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.839 in your blood, you know, and it's like the person who put poison 126 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.519 in our blood? Was you pal? I mean, is founding? Yeah. 127 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.120 I have a number of friends, including friends that I had been friends 128 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:41.360 with since I was a teenager, who adamantly will not deal with the business 129 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.799 of Trump pushing those drugs on people. Yea, and his action during the 130 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.840 final year of his presidency if that just doesn't matter. It's as if you 131 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.200 know, in Orald's nineteen eighty four crime stop, you know, when that 132 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.720 thought comes up, they just blink and shut down. I say, well, 133 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.960 what about the bump stock bump stop bump sock business, what about the 134 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.639 red flag laws? Yeah, and it's just a conversation over Yeah, you're 135 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.559 you're you know, you're not seeing the big picture of the five D chess. 136 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:11.000 Yeah, oh yeah, I know. I work for a guy that 137 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.799 was always pushing that stuff. But yeah, that is that is the key 138 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.200 thing, isn't it. You know, that's this blind spot and now they 139 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.279 just shut it down. And I see that through all the press. I 140 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.200 see it with bright part I see it with WorldNet Daily. Uh. You 141 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.240 know all of these different I call them the the maga bird press. You 142 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.840 know you had the mocking bird press for the CIA. These are the people 143 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.480 the other side of the Hegelian uh project here that are just pushing everything for 144 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.000 Trump that absolutely hate the vaccine, people like Wayne Allenhood, but they just 145 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.639 Trump is your savior. You won't say anything negative about him. And we 146 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.840 can see how that is happening to politicians who do oppose him. But you 147 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:48.440 know, let's talk about what's going on with the climate stuff here. You 148 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:54.360 know, jail time for operators of gas powered leaf blowers, edgers, and 149 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.840 mowers, and this is I mean literally jail time. This is being pushed 150 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.519 in in Washington state where else. And you know al Gore said in twenty 151 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.399 fifteen that the deniers need to be punished, you know, for violating his 152 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.080 religion, and so they want criminal sanctions. And we've got a law that's 153 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:16.639 going into effect this next year in California. They passed it in twenty twenty 154 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.960 one, but it's going to go into effect this coming year to ban all 155 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.960 leaf blowers and lawnmowers and weed tremors and so if you don't do that, 156 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.279 what are they going to do to you? Well, the one in Washington 157 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.279 State is going to go into effect in twenty twenty six, so we'll see 158 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.480 this one in California is going to happen first. But this is how desperate 159 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:41.279 these people are. Any gasoline, diesel powered landscaping other outdoor power equipment is 160 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.399 going to be contributing to climate change and we're going to have to lock you 161 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.639 up. But you know, this is inevitability, isn't it. You know, 162 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.679 if you accept or you let go unchallenged the premise that there is a 163 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.720 climate crisis, i e. An existential threat, you know, a dire 164 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.320 emergency and we're all going to die. Well, then it follows, doesn't 165 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.519 it permit people to operate anything that produces carbon dioxide. It's even going to 166 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.120 get to the point, and I saw a news article about this earlier where 167 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.559 they're starting to worry about people breathing. Yes, you're sailing carbon dioxide and 168 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.080 you're contributing therefore to this climate crisis. So you've got to get at the 169 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:16.840 root of this. You've got to talk about the climate crisis, which is 170 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:22.320 a fraud, and to spell that, then you can deal with this issue, 171 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.159 but you cannot play their game by accepting their terms of the debate. 172 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.840 That's right. And when we talk about I talk about both the pandemic thing 173 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.759 and the you know, the climate thing. I call them mcguffin's. It's 174 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:37.799 like, you know, Hitchcock. The mcguffin is just what motivates the characters. 175 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.200 But you've always got the same goal at the end of the line. 176 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.240 And so we can't talk about the pandemic as being real or the virus is 177 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.039 being real, and we just like you know, we can't say, well, 178 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.440 this is a better way to handle the real pandemic, and we can't 179 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.960 talk about a better way to handle the real emissions because you can't accept those 180 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.200 false premises. You're not going to win a debate. If you let the 181 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.799 other people set up a false foundation for that debate and you go along with 182 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.639 that, you're going to lose. And so you've got to stop talking about 183 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.480 emissions because again it comes down to our breath. And because this has been 184 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.879 before the environmental movement even started. You know, in nineteen seventy the first 185 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:22.879 Earthday, they had already they based it on the population bomb. So this 186 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.720 has always been about stopping us breathing and stopping us doing everything. So it's 187 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.440 always been about killing people, and so we have to understand that we just 188 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.960 don't accept their premise that there is a virus, a pandemic, or a 189 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.840 climate crisis. You cannot play that game with them. Yeah, I try 190 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.720 to. For example, I refer to the event that was marketed as a 191 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.120 pandemic, and then I will deconstruct that a little bit, and I'll point 192 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.360 out that, yeah, it's technically true, if you really want to be 193 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.799 pedantic about it, that it was a pandemic in the sense that maybe there 194 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.240 was a bug going around. But the thing the key to understand this, 195 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.399 I think is the disingenuousness of it because to the average person, when they 196 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.159 hear that word pandemic, it calls up immediately associations of mass death, and 197 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.399 that's exactly what they wanted by using that term. It's a dishonest way of 198 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.879 having a discussion about it. Just the same when they talk about emissions, 199 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:18.879 you know, which the implication there is that it's a pollutant. The implication 200 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.639 then is that you're causing some sort of harm to the external environment. And 201 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.519 to characterize carbon dioxide, which plants need in order to create oxygen so that 202 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:35.360 we can breathe as a pollutant is preposterous. So it's really important to deconstruct 203 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.799 all of these things, and it's a lot of work. It's it's literally 204 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:39.879 like cleaning out the algae and stables. You know, you have to parse 205 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.759 almost every word that's used today in the debate. I wish I could remember 206 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.879 the exact phraseology of it, but I think it was our Ematerrell back in 207 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:52.080 the nineties and he talked about something he called the culture smog. Do you 208 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.639 remember that term? Yeah? Yeah, And what he meant by that was 209 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:01.080 that everything is so fought now with this dishonest language that causes people to think 210 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.159 of things in a certain way that it becomes almost impossible to have a rational 211 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.399 discussion about anything without first going back and picking apart these words and trying to 212 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.840 figure out, well, what exactly is meant by that word, what is 213 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.480 the point of view that they're trying to convey, And let's discuss that before 214 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.679 we have the broader discussion. That's right, And you know you mentioned the 215 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.039 term smog. Right, when's the last time we've heard the term smog? 216 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.559 Nobody talks about that anymore because we got rid of it right on. Me 217 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.919 controls everything and we don't have smog. But smog was just, you know, 218 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.200 something that they use to take us to the next step right aways, 219 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.679 a sounding of the neurosis of people. You know that they can't okay, 220 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.639 all right, they're telling me that there's something that's dangerous out there. I'm 221 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.039 gonna use my eyes and look, I'm looking out the window of my office. 222 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.960 The sky's blue, which seems pretty nice. Other just like with the 223 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.080 virus. Oh, there's this invisible boogieman. It's going to kill us all 224 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.399 It's invisible. It's always invisible, isn't it. They're literally turning the populace 225 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.120 into a bunch of neurotic, hysterically scared children were crawling under the bed to 226 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.679 hide because there's danger, danger everywhere. Yeah, I said, everybody on 227 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.159 pins and needles. I said. Back in April twenty twenty, I said, 228 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:11.679 we've become an OCD nation. I mean, everybody was wiping everything down, 229 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.000 masks and gloves, and I can't get gas. I'm afraid I'm going 230 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.240 to catch the virus on. These people are crazy. Now. The pandemic 231 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:24.679 was political and the and it was psychological. It wasn't biological, right, 232 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:28.679 And that's what we have to understand. Yes, there were people who additional 233 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:31.120 people who died, and they were dying from stuff like the ventilators and the 234 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.279 medical protocols and the rim deservor and things like that that was actually killing more 235 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.200 people, and they were being paid handsomely to kill people by the top minister 236 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.039 holiness. You know, shutting people in homes where they had no access to 237 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.480 their family, yes, and getting them no hope and no reason to live. 238 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.799 You know, that'll sap the life out of an elderly person, and 239 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.720 that's what happened to a lot of them. That's right. Well, you 240 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.480 know, getting back to this thing that the face up to a year in 241 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.759 jail in Washington State for having a leaf blower worn sanity. Oh yeah. 242 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.159 And then of course you know Biden is coming after ceiling fans, after he 243 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.039 shuts down our air conditioning. He wants to come after the ceiling fans, 244 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:11.720 and he wants to redesign them quote unquote for efficiency to the extent that nobody 245 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.840 will be able to afford them. That is really what we're looking at here. 246 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.720 Here's this is New York and this is up in the Buffalo area where 247 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.919 they do get a lot of snow. They have the lake effect that's up 248 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:26.480 there. And now what they're doing though this hearkens back to the kinds of 249 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:32.200 controls that we had during Trump's lockdown. They want to enforce travel bands for 250 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:37.320 weather and for any other catastrophes that they can imagine. Right, So it's 251 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.000 all there. We didn't get rid of any of this stuff. They're going 252 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:41.480 to bring it back. They're going to have different mcguffins, but they're still 253 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.600 going to get their travel bands, which is what they really want. And 254 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:48.159 in this particular case, I guess you could say it's a travel ban over 255 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.200 the climate, because it's a travel ban over the weather. But that's really 256 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:56.720 what they want to have, is that, and they will give travel exemptions 257 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:03.320 to essential people. Oh isn't this the same language that Trump used? Yeah, 258 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:04.960 you know, the safety cult. I wrote about this probably ten or 259 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.880 fifteen years ago. I predicted that it's going to a tastasize to the point 260 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:14.799 where if there's a snowflake walking down from the sky, or if we're going 261 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:18.480 to get some heavy rain, they're going to impose travel bands because it's not 262 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.920 safe to be on the roads. You know, they've already asserted and established 263 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.960 the precedent for all of these things, and since they haven't been challenged, 264 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:27.960 they're going to continue to use them. You know, everything that occurred during 265 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.599 the past three years, none of that has yet been fully rejected as unwarranted, 266 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.880 unreasonable, tyrannical. They simply dialed it back a little bit, and 267 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.000 they're waiting for their next opportunity to bring it back out of the toolkit. 268 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:44.920 Yeah. I remember when this happened in twenty twenty and they went around, 269 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.559 they gave us paper and said, you know, try to make a case 270 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.839 that you know, this person has engaged in the central thing of informing the 271 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.160 public or whatever, and you know these are not the droids you're looking for. 272 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.839 Officer, let him go. You know, I never had to use 273 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.720 that at a stop. I never had to do any of the mind trick. 274 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.039 But that is exactly what they're saying with this. We're going to have 275 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:08.160 a list of essential employees that'll be reviewed annually and essential employers and they'll be 276 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:12.400 asked to provide updates and then you'll have to show your identity papers to the 277 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:19.000 to the stormtroopers. Yeah, I think that the little liberal stormtroopers, they 278 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:22.319 send them out and when there's a storm. Yeah, and then just wait, 279 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.720 you know, if by some happenstance, the Orange Man is brought back 280 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.119 into office next year, then to solve this problem of the illegal aliens who've 281 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.000 been entering the country, Americans are just going to have to deal with showing 282 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.720 their papers at checkpoints because we just can't have all of these illegal aliens running 283 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.279 around through the country. Oh, you have to figure out who's here. 284 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.160 That's what they're going to do in that in that in that case, oh 285 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:45.920 absolutely right. I mean, it already started with DeSantis in Florida and the 286 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.119 Republicans in Florida. They said, we're going to have everify and we're going 287 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:52.079 to make it mandatory. And see everify has been around for a while and 288 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.119 Republicans have always referred back to that, and I've said, no, that 289 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.079 is a trap. Do not do that. You know, we're going to 290 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.160 leave the borders wide open. But now you Americans are going to have to 291 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.799 get an idea. And they're already talking about this because you got people like 292 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.319 Michelle wu saying we're going to let foreigners vote in our elections. So now 293 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:08.359 the Republicans say, no, we've got to have something to prove that you're 294 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:11.039 an American citizen. You're going to have to have eve Airfi to vote. 295 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.480 You're gonna have to. Don't give me a reason to not vote. I've 296 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.440 got many enough of them as it is. But you know you're going to 297 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.440 have to show your eve Airfy to vote, eve Verify, as you point 298 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.839 out, maybe to drive to the store. It's just crazy, but it's 299 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:27.599 always a problem. And then they've already got the solution set up, and 300 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.319 the solution always comes for all these problems that they've created. It always goes 301 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.559 back to a digital ID. So you're just going to have to have that 302 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:41.720 on your phone. And fundamentally, doesn't this all earlier With regard to consent, 303 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.640 None of us have consented to this, I'm aware of that's right. 304 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.119 It's just being imposed upon us. And I think the only way we're going 305 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:51.880 to get out of this is to reassert that unless I have freely consented to 306 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.240 something, then it is illegitimate and you do not have the right to oppress 307 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.960 me with a contract that I've been coerced into being a party to. That's 308 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:04.680 right. Think it's going to create the necessitation for a secession of sorts. 309 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.240 And I've talked to people from the Tenth Amendment Center and others, and they 310 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.039 pointed out, they said, you know, the middle ground here is nullification 311 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:17.079 and non commandeering, and those have already been upheld. And there, you 312 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:21.640 know, it's clear that you can have local officials who say, well, 313 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:23.240 we're just not going to enforce those laws, and we saw that happening in 314 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:29.000 twenty twenty. That really is probably our best approach for all this is just 315 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:33.079 to say we're going to focus on trying to get people in office locally who 316 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.000 are not going to do this, even if the state government is doing it. 317 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.440 At the very beginning of this, I remember there was a guy who 318 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:42.359 had a church that he kept open, so they put him on Fox News. 319 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.400 He had a lot of attention. He was in Illinois, and Pritzker 320 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:51.400 wanted to shut down the church there. Well, he got the sheriff there 321 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.599 in that area, the sheriff and his deputies because Pritsker was saying, well, 322 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:56.839 we're going to send the state police down there and we're going to rescue 323 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.880 people if you go to church. He got the sheriff and his deputy the 324 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.160 Chrieff went to his church, small town, and so you know, Sheriff 325 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:11.240 Taylor and Barney five and then Barney puts his bullet in and they guard the 326 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.960 people there the church from being arrested. And they fortunately it didn't you know, 327 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.400 come to a confrontation or anything. But you know, they were there 328 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:21.720 to stop that from happening, stop them from being harassed. And so you 329 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:25.079 know, you can, if you got the right people, you can do 330 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:29.599 things to stop that kind of intrusion. Yep. Non compliance is a very 331 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.799 powerful tool even when it's only practiced by an individual, but when more individuals 332 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.519 decide to practice it, then it takes on a kind of kinetic energy all 333 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:42.559 of its own. A point comes when something becomes unenforceable because it becomes ridiculous. 334 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:45.319 You know, go back a few years. A really good example of 335 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.960 that as the old fifty five mile an hour national speed on it. Remember 336 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:52.680 that, Oh yeah, it became preposterous. You know, they kept they 337 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.720 kept it enforced for twenty years, but everybody mocked it. Everybody dissipated it. 338 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.079 Totally delegitimized traffic enforcement because everybody knew it it's just a scam to get 339 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.480 money. And they eventually had to repeal it. And that's a really good 340 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.799 object lesson in how to deal with this stuff. You and I have talked 341 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.759 before, you know, during the event that was marketed as a pandemic, 342 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.079 If only enough people had refused to obey the mask mandates, only that had 343 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.720 happened, it would have become unenforceable within a month, and the whole thing 344 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:22.359 would have fallen apart, if only So that's a lesson to take from that 345 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.279 episode when the next episode comes up. And I tried to point out to 346 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:33.119 people, you know, throughout the lockdown stuff, I said, look at 347 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.119 what happened with medical marijuana and with pop prohibition, Right, what do we 348 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.119 have? We got more than half of the states have said, even though 349 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.559 it is now still listed as a Class one drug and their war on drugs, 350 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.359 more than half of the states have said, well, we're not going 351 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:52.319 to enforce that, and we're not going to arrest people for that, even 352 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.759 for recreational use in some states. So, whether or not you agree with 353 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.519 pop prohibition, pop prohibition, like all the drug war, is against the 354 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.720 Constitution. They never passed an amendment like the Eighteenth Amendment to prohibit either stuff 355 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:07.799 and they never had the power. And so you have somebody like Jeff Sessions, 356 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:12.160 who was you know, had fully succumbed to Reefer madness and he wanted 357 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:15.440 to shut this down so badly, but he never would. And that's why 358 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.839 I say, you know, he didn't want to show how they had bullied 359 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:25.000 and bluffed people over this issue where they had absolutely no legal authority. And 360 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:30.160 that is a real shining example. Regardless of what side you're on about marijuana 361 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.039 or pot, that's a shining example of how you can shut down one of 362 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:38.920 the biggest government agendas, the drug war, and because that was marijuana and 363 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.640 pot that they were locking the most people up for during the War on drugs, 364 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:45.759 and to shut that down. You know, the states have used it 365 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.279 as as a way to make money, and they've got their own regulations and 366 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:53.200 things like that. But the bottom line is what it teaches us about authority 367 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:57.599 when they overreached their authority. I think many of us has forgotten the lesson 368 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:00.319 that most of us do learn an element entry school, which is that you're 369 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:04.880 not going to get anywhere by deferring to bullies. You'll never comply, your 370 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.079 flee out of bullying. That's right. You know it's not pleasant, but 371 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:11.559 you have to stand up to bullies. And if you stand up to them, 372 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:18.279 then the bullying stops. And if only enough people would just practice that, 373 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:21.519 that's standing up, even if it just means no, I'm not going 374 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:26.000 to do that. You know what made okay? Whatever? If we would 375 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.240 just recover our spine as a society, then most of these problems would no 376 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:32.960 longer be problems, at least not to the extent that they are. If 377 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.720 you've got a critical mass of people a local area and they like people in 378 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:37.880 town government and a sheriff and things like that, you have to have a 379 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.359 critical mass to have that happen, and that critical mass can stand around those 380 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.559 elected officials who are going to stand in the gap and stop this from happening. 381 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.279 Yeah, let's talk about one of your articles here, another entry luxury 382 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:53.319 price, entry level vehicle. I like that, a luxury price, entry 383 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:59.039 level vehicle. Which one is this? Well, let's let's let's start with 384 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.200 some term ology. In the car business, the term entry luxury referred to 385 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:08.680 a luxury brand's least expensive model, but it was still expensive, and the 386 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.559 bar typically defining that was about thirty four to thirty five thousand dollars. That's 387 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:17.880 which you used to pay for, say an entry luxury Lexus or a BMW 388 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.960 or Mercedes and what have you. And the counter to that was the entry 389 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.119 level car, which was typically synonymous with an economy car, an affordable car. 390 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:30.119 A good example of an entry level car would be something like a Toyota 391 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:34.960 Corolla. Let's say, Well, as we transition into the world battery powered 392 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:42.079 vehicles, the entry level of car is becoming the entry luxury priced car. 393 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:47.200 All of the latest evs that they're bringing out, and they're marketing these things 394 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:52.000 as affordable have prices that start right around what used to be the defining price 395 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.119 point for an entry luxury car. Fiat is bringing back their little five hundred 396 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.160 micro car as an electric car, it's going to start around thirty four one 397 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.200 thousand dollars. Volkswagen has just announced that they're going to bring out their entry 398 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:07.200 level electric crosses. We're going to start around thirty four to thirty five thousand 399 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.720 dollars. Wow. So you know that's what they're they're pushing now, and 400 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.079 there's this this interesting levolence behind it in that it's being pushed by the left, 401 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.759 and the left putatively cares about the workingman, the average guy, right, 402 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.920 if you're still buying that anyway, it's very clear that a working man, 403 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:26.599 an average blue collar guy, is not going to be able to afford 404 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:30.240 to spend thirty four thirty four to thirty five thousand dollars on a car. 405 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:33.640 So very clearly intent is to just cool all of these people who cannot afford 406 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.279 that price of entry out of cars. That's right, that's right, Yeah, 407 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:40.799 especially with interest rates where they are at this point in time. Ye 408 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.359 know, it's interesting to see this. In the UK, they went through 409 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.319 some of their models and it's not really important what the models are, but 410 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:55.640 across the board they had thirty used models of ev that had plunged the most 411 00:26:55.799 --> 00:27:00.799 value in twenty twenty three, and so they had thirty different models of evs 412 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:06.759 that had lost half of their value in the first year. That's tremendous drop, 413 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:12.640 and that is indicative of the collapsing demand for evs in general and the 414 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:18.079 price at premium that they have to charge for these things. It's just something 415 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.400 else, you know. It's not just that they depreciate as all cars do. 416 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:27.279 It's used. Electric car has a used battery and batteries as the age, 417 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:32.400 lose their capacity to hold a charge. And so now you're going to 418 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.480 get a vehicle that had started out with let's say the ability to maybe go 419 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:37.759 two hundred and something miles on a charge out only goes one hundred and fifty. 420 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.319 And it called onto it a little bit more. It's only going to 421 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:44.480 go seventy five and then it's not going to go at all. And if 422 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:47.200 you want to go any farther, you're going to have to replace that battery. 423 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:49.359 Now you're looking at spending ten to fifteen, even twenty thousand dollars on 424 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.640 a battery for an electric car that you bought for ten or fifteen thousand dollars. 425 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.599 Nobody's going to do that, and that's why they're not selling. Yeah, 426 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:59.599 and we all know that. We know that from experience. We know 427 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:00.759 what happened to our phones and our laptops. I mean, all of our 428 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:07.799 laptops are so old that you know, they're not They don't function unless they're 429 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.039 plugged into the wall. Now is what the situation is around here. You 430 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.079 know, I can run my laptop for maybe about twenty minutes and then I 431 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.359 better get it plugged into the wall or it's gone and so that's what happens. 432 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.240 You know, they charge up more slowly, they discharge more rapidly. 433 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.480 They don't aren't able to last with that thing. And we've all experienced that 434 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.240 with all of our electronic devices. Why are the cars, Why do people 435 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.039 think the cars are going to be any different? It's just a bigger problem 436 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.799 and a more expensive battery to replace. Well, it's far worse because we 437 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:41.720 say a laptop, you know, a laptop doesn't have to move, It 438 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:45.880 just sits on your desk. So the battery and the laptop is relatively small, 439 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.519 and typically proportionately to the value of the laptop. It might be worth 440 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.240 spending one hundred and fifty bucks or whatever on a new battery for a laptop 441 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.480 rather than buying a new laptop for eight hundred dollars, let's say, But 442 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:02.200 the cost of battery replacement is so exorbited le high that it's unmanageable. You 443 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.559 know, it doesn't matter how much you want, you know, the bottom 444 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:06.759 line is, Okay, I'm going to what I'm going to put fifteen thousand 445 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:10.119 dollars on my credit card of thirty percent interest to pay for a new battery 446 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:12.920 for this used EV. It's insane economically speaking, nobody's going to do that. 447 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:15.559 And the battery is more expensive than the value of the car as it's 448 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:19.720 depreciating. And now, you know, so you've got this accelerating trend because 449 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:23.200 the battery the prices of them are going down. But now because the prices 450 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.400 of them are going down, it doesn't make any sense. It makes even 451 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.559 less sense to replace the battery. You know. And the hypocrisy of all 452 00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.359 this is kind of interesting, Eric, because this thing that I use here 453 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.039 in my pad that I put my articles on to try to go paperless, 454 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.079 I got an update from them and they've got a new model for this year 455 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:48.759 and it's got a removable battery. Why because the EU has mandated that they 456 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:53.319 have to have renewable removable batteries for these things. And yet they keep mandating 457 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:57.640 the evs for people that don't have removable batteries that are easily replaced or at 458 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.720 least affordably replaced either. You know what I'm saying. It is kind of 459 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.799 crazy that for a small device like this, it's not all that expensive, 460 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:10.200 they're going to mandate that it's going to have to have a replaceable battery that 461 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:15.240 is easily replaced and everything, and yet for the cars, they're not easily 462 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.279 replaced and certainly not economically replaced, regardless of how easy it is to get 463 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.119 them out of there. It's only crazy if you start with the assumption that 464 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:27.000 this is some kind of well intended effort to simply replace the cars that we're 465 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.359 driving right now with these electric cars because they're better for the environment. And 466 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.960 that's just it's not the right way to look at it. That's right. 467 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.920 This is malicious. They understand perfectly well what this is all about, and 468 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.839 the point of it is to use the electric vehicle as the vehicle to get 469 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.799 most people out of cars. They're well aware of the cost issues, They're 470 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.160 well aware of the practicality issues. They know that there isn't sufficient electrical capacity 471 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:55.440 to power up an entire national fleet of evs if such a thing existed. 472 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.880 They know this the whole point, and it's not me hypothesizing you. You 473 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.759 could read their documents. In one of my most recent articles, I'd linked 474 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.359 to one of the documents where they very specifically say what they want is to 475 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.839 get roughly two thirds of the cars off the road, two thirds of the 476 00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:12.680 people out of cars. And this is a mechanism I wish to going to 477 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.960 accomplish. That's right, yeah, And that's just the next step. You 478 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.119 know, the ultimate goal is to get everybody out of their cars. And 479 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:23.079 you know, you're right, it's not irony, it's just hipocrisy. And 480 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.759 it's a real malevolent hypocrisy that they've got going there. But we've also seen 481 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.119 now, you know, last time you were on, we talked about how 482 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.160 some of the American car companies are pulling back. Now Audi is pulling back 483 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:40.079 on electric vehicles. You've got the CEO there saying that he wants to avoid 484 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:42.559 flooding dealerships. So we've also talked about that, how the inventory is backing 485 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.559 up for all types of cars because of high interest rates, but especially for 486 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:52.119 the evs. And he said that they forecasted the electric car take up is 487 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.319 going to be slashed by about half from last month. Sales of new battery 488 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.599 powered cars expected to grow steadily until they accounted for six seven percent of the 489 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:05.960 market by twenty twenty seven, but that has now been revised down from sixty 490 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.680 seven percent to an expectation of thirty eight percent. And I think that that 491 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.880 is optimistic because I think now a word is getting out as the people who 492 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.319 are the early adopters have tried to do this, and of course they're now 493 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.119 also facing cheaper cars and competition from China. Audi has been kind of a 494 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.200 luxury model, and you've got to review about one of the Audi As a 495 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.799 matter of fact, you've got to review about one of the luxury Oudies. 496 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:30.839 Tell us a bit about that, well, the AA. It's kind of 497 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:36.400 a depressing review in that the A eight is Outy's top of the line model. 498 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.799 It's it's in the same class of cars and Mercedes S class or a 499 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.559 BMW seven series. And if you go back, oh just a few years, 500 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.319 go back about ten years, a car like the Audi A eight would 501 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:50.599 have come minimally with a V eight engine as a standard engine. And typically 502 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:52.880 cars in that class and we're talking about six figure cars here, cars that 503 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:58.119 have a starting price around eighty ninety one hundred thousand dollars would have the option 504 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.960 to go with a D twelve engine. In the case of the A eight, 505 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.480 they had a W twelve. You remember that. Wow, No, 506 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.279 I don't remember that. Yeah. I mean also exotic, because after all, 507 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.920 you're spending essentially exotic money, you're spending near one hundred thousand dollars for 508 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:13.240 one of these things, right, you know you're not buying a Corolla or 509 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.440 a Cameray. Well, now, this top of the line OUTI and similarly 510 00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:20.839 the top of the line Mercedes and the top of the line BMW, they 511 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.920 come standard with a little V six engine. Because the V six is now 512 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:29.160 becoming the new V twelve. You know, it's something that's exclusive and exotic. 513 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:31.039 As on the lower end of the spectrum. I wrote about this recently, 514 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.519 Toyota is pulling the V six out of the camera. They canceled the 515 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.799 Avalon altogether, which was a slightly larger version of the camera, and they're 516 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:43.400 both now going to be four cylinder only hybrids. So you know, the 517 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.960 proletariat, the peons can have a four cylinder engine, which used to be 518 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.920 kind of synonymous with an economy car, and that's exactly what it is, 519 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.039 except the price is in economy anymore. Whereas if you have the means, 520 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:57.319 you know, if you're in that category of person who can afford something like 521 00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.640 an AA, now you can have a V six, but that's all you 522 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:05.119 can have over ninety thousand dollars, and people who didn't buy one a couple 523 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.319 of years ago. I smacking themselves on the headside. I could have had 524 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:09.719 a V eight, but you can't can't get it anymore. And of course 525 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:15.280 as they do, that eric a place to the major selling point of the 526 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.239 evs, which is just straight line acceleration. Yes, yeah, exactly right. 527 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:24.519 Very interesting. I mean I had some inside baseball conversations with a person 528 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.199 I can't really talk about it directly yet. I'm going to be writing about 529 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:32.599 this at one of the major luxury car brands who was kind of chastising me 530 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:37.840 about my position the electric vehicles. And I said to this person, what 531 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.920 will be the selling point of your brand when all you sell are battery powered 532 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.599 devices and everybody else is selling battery powered devices and there really isn't any material 533 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:51.480 difference between your device and their device. It's going to be ever ready or 534 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.800 energizer over here. I mean, how are you going to? Where? 535 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.239 Does you know at one point you had these wonderful particular types of engines that 536 00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.639 the other MANUF didn't have, and that was a selling point. Well that's 537 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:06.760 all going away. When everything has a battery and a motor, you can 538 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.559 make a bigger battery a smaller battery. But there's no personality, there's nothing 539 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:15.719 particular about it. So why not just have one conglomerated motors company that sells 540 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:21.880 different shapes of extruded plastic blobs, you know, with with different sized motors 541 00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:25.320 or different power configurations. And it's just all the same homogenized stuff coming out 542 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:29.280 of this being squeezed out of the same factory somewhere. Well, that's when 543 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:34.800 you call in the descendants of Edward Berneze in Madison Avenue and you create this 544 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.880 mystique around a brand and you charge you know, three times as much for 545 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.559 it, and then you know, it just becomes a status symbol. It's 546 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.679 not that there's any functionally functionally a different thing about them at all. You 547 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.920 know, it's kind of interesting. I'm sure you saw this about the cyber 548 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.760 truck that got stuck. Many people call the cyber things. Yeah, the 549 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:58.199 cyber is stuck. And as I shaid, this thing being pulled out by 550 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:02.519 a Ford pickup truck. And I think that it was the CEO of Ford 551 00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:07.000 that was this is an early Christmas gift or something to that extent to show 552 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.480 that the cyber truck was being pulled out by a gasoline engine forward truck. 553 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.079 But yeah, it is. It is kind of interesting to see how this 554 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:22.920 is developing. And now we've got Elon Musk who has made a pivot to 555 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.599 saying, well, we're not going to be able to get rid of fossil 556 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:28.800 fuels in the short term or maybe even in the medium term, so we 557 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:30.639 need to kind of get used to it. And boy, he is just 558 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:35.320 being eviscerated by the climate cult over that statement. You know, I'm not 559 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.599 sure what to make of a Musk. I'd actually like to meet that guy 560 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:42.119 to have a conversation with you. I see parallels with Trump and that he'll 561 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:46.159 say things that for an audience that is desperate to hear something that sounds like 562 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:51.920 it might possibly indicate that that person is in favor of liberty to some degree 563 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.039 or other, that they just lap it right up and then they shut down 564 00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.599 their minds to anything that is dissonant. You know, that could that makes 565 00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.760 that questionable. Musk has talked greatly about how he's going to be a big 566 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.079 component of free speech and how x is now not what Twitter was, and 567 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:12.360 it's simply not the case. I can tell you that I've been shadow banded 568 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.119 repeatedly. I'm sure you've dealt with this thing, and recently I even documented 569 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.719 it in an article that I wrote about it, that people are unders in 570 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.559 that it's up on the site. And Elon Musk, oh my god, 571 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:23.679 his entire operation, he's been the stocking horse. He's been the tip of 572 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:29.800 the spear for this whole forced electrification thing. He used the government to leverage 573 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.480 his business, to extort money through the carbon tax, carbon credit regime, 574 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:39.800 to extort all of the legitimate automakers to finance his business, to foist these 575 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:44.239 ebs out there, and to create kind of a fate, a complete situation 576 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.679 where all the other manufacturers now have to create the same kinds of electrified devices, 577 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:51.079 and that's all we're going to be allowed. And now he's telling us, 578 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:52.159 well, maybe we got to keep we have to stick around with some 579 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.760 fossil fuels for a while. I don't understand it. Yeah, the very 580 00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:59.360 first time we talked, and I mentioned this because I talked about Elon mus 581 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:01.000 the other day about this, I said, you know, look, the 582 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.440 guy's a technocrat, he's a transhumanist. He's not on your side, and 583 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:07.559 he's going to do the same thing to you. These people on the left 584 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.800 are so angry with him now because they feel like he's betrayed them. But 585 00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:14.639 I guess when he does it to the right, they will still be just 586 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:19.360 as incapable of saying that they've been betrayed as they are with Trump. But 587 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:22.159 I said, you know, he is. He sold all this stuff to 588 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.360 get to become the richest man in the world. And as all these conservatives 589 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:29.960 are writing article after article about oh, Elon Musk, click this, the 590 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:31.800 richest man in the world is going to use his fortune to buy our free 591 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:36.079 speech back from these people who want to make slaves out of us. It's 592 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:37.400 like, is that really what he's going to do? And I showed a 593 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:44.800 clip of when Theory Breton, the censor in the EU, the guy's head 594 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:50.199 of the censorship in EU, came to Austin after he bought Twitter and lectured 595 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.760 Elon Musk about how the DSA was going to be coming into effect. I 596 00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:59.559 call Theory Breton, I call him the conspiracy theory. He's part of this 597 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:02.440 conspira shut down for his speech. And so he comes and just and Elon 598 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.639 Musk is just groveling before him, And so you get this conflicting stuff but 599 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:09.119 I think he's just playing to the audience, and I think he's playing him 600 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:13.119 in the same way that Trump did. I think he's smart enough to really 601 00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:16.159 understand. I think he could sit there and watch how Trump played the Maga 602 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.480 crowd, and so you know, you can do that too, because he's 603 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:28.480 already talked about how he says Soros has picked these races for district attorneys and 604 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.079 other things like that he's realized that he gets more bang for his buck if 605 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:37.280 he goes to the local elections. Musk is very, very political. You 606 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.760 know, he became the richest man in the world by playing politics with all 607 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.960 of these dictators worldwide, including our American dictators, and he knows exactly how 608 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.519 the political game is being played. He is very understanding of the strategy there 609 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.800 about Soros, and he's got his own strategy, and I think that he 610 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:58.000 is playing the Trump game with all this stuff. Yep. It's like a 611 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:02.679 game of whack a mole and very successful maneuver in that it diverts people from 612 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.519 really understanding the nature of their enemy by thinking that he's their friend. And 613 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.760 it's the same strategy used by the Trumper people too, And it's to me 614 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.719 It's very tragic because most people who are being manipulated in this manner are well 615 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:21.800 meant people. You know, they're trying to grab onto something. They know 616 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:25.000 that something's very profoundly wrong with the country, and they are desperate. What 617 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.199 can we do? What can we do? You know, back in history, 618 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.199 if you read about the you know, the late Czarist early pre Communist 619 00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.840 era, when Russians were exasperated. What is to be done was the name 620 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.360 of a famous essay back then, because it seemed as if their world was 621 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:45.199 crumbling around them, and normal people want order, not chaos. They want 622 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:51.400 calm, not not violence everywhere, and so they're so enervated and they're so 623 00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.760 upset that they will just latch onto if they think that might be the one 624 00:40:54.840 --> 00:41:00.440 that might be our solution, instead of thinking, you know, we need 625 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.880 to look into ourselves and we need to take care of ourselves somehow and recover 626 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:07.800 our power that way and stop being led. I don't want a feurer, 627 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.159 you know the German the German word means leader. I'm not looking for a 628 00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:15.199 leader. I'm an adult. I can direct my own life, thank you 629 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.400 very much. And I think that if people in this country recover that which 630 00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.519 used to be a typical American mindset. We used to be a nation of 631 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:29.920 skeptical people who practice due diligence. We wanted to if there was somebody presented 632 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000 us with something, we had questions and we demand answers, and if the 633 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:36.039 answers weren't good, we wouldn't put up with it. And we need to 634 00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:38.400 get back to that somehow. Yeah, I've said many times. When I 635 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:44.920 was young, people used to say, well, you know, don't make 636 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.760 a federal case out of this. Well, everything is a federal case now, 637 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:51.079 right, Yes, absolutely, so there ought to be a law and 638 00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:52.400 it's like, no, there not to be a law about that, and 639 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:54.519 certainly don't want to make it a federal law. But you know, as 640 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:58.920 you mentioned, how Musk has been a stalking horse for all this stuff, 641 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:00.760 and he has this is one of the reasons why he's hated so much on 642 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:07.960 the left because they feel betrayed by him. This publication of futurism talking about 643 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.599 Musk and how he says, well, we're going to still need fossil fuels 644 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:15.400 and the short and medium term, they said Musk is willing to renege on 645 00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.800 his commitments to the environment to score political points, even if that means undercutting 646 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:24.599 the very mission of his EV maker, Tesla, which warns that a delay 647 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:30.960 in moving two renewables could quote increase the risk of global climate change with potentially 648 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:36.119 disastrous consequences worldwide. So Tesla is still selling this. Tesla knows how the 649 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.840 game is being played. Tesla is still a stocking horse, and Musk is 650 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:42.920 still tied into all this stuff at the very beginning. And here's an example. 651 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.599 You know, the cyber truck comes out, and so Jay Leno is 652 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:51.039 talking to the chief designer of the cyber truck and they start talking about inductive 653 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:55.039 charging. And this happens at exactly the same time that the state of Florida 654 00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:00.920 is talking about setting up a road that is going to inductively charge evs. 655 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:06.119 Well, there's not any evs that are inductively charged right now. And so 656 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:07.760 so Musk is going to be there right at the very beginning. You know, 657 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:13.400 he's going to present what these places, you know, what these governments 658 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:15.679 want to do in order to push this EV agenda. He's going to be 659 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.719 there right from the very beginning. He's still on board with this twenty thirty 660 00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.280 agenda and still on the cutting edge sorry, you know, And as you 661 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:27.519 were reading that, I was doing my little etymological discession that I've become. 662 00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.800 It's become a roade habit for me when I read and hear things commitment to 663 00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.079 the environment, Well, how do you do that? I mean, it's 664 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.559 just a dumb phrase, right it is. It's a non specific, feel 665 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:42.159 good, virtue signaling phrase. And then get away with this stuff, and 666 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:44.719 you even read it. I wrote an article vide about something that was in 667 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.119 Scientific American and I can't remember I've got so many balls up in New York 668 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.320 what it was all about. But Scientific American used to be a reputable public 669 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.639 publication. You know. Science used to be about specifics, because that's what 670 00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:58.920 the nature of science is. You have to understand what you're talking about in 671 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:00.559 order to talk about it intelligently. It has to be something that can be 672 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.280 examined and it can be evaluated in terms of facts. And if it isn't, 673 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:09.119 for example, climate change, what does that mean exactly? There is 674 00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:13.960 no meaning to it exactly because it's a morphus. It's vague. The climate 675 00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:17.559 change is okay. Well, so it's a political term. It's a very 676 00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:23.639 deliberate political term that's designed to encompass anything at all. And that's the point 677 00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:29.800 of it. In the mind of anybody who has been trained to think critically 678 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:35.559 at all, it ought to raise red flags because if it's nonspecificity, nonspecific 679 00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:39.039 nature tiguing me, I've been making way too much coffee this morning. Yeah, 680 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:43.280 well, you know, I that's exactly right. It was for the 681 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:47.159 first eight years or so after Earthday, it was all about a new ice 682 00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:50.559 age and it's going to be global cooling. And then all of a sudden 683 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:52.400 they just flipped the switch and it became global warming. And then it stayed 684 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.599 there until out I guess what was about ten fifteen years ago, maybe not 685 00:44:57.679 --> 00:44:59.840 even that long, and they did change it to well, it's just going 686 00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:01.679 to be climate change, climate change, there be anything, you know. 687 00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:05.119 They just give up on the on the ice age, they give up on 688 00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.199 the warming, and so now they've got a term that they can use and 689 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.519 whatever happens. You know, again, if it's too much snow not enough 690 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:16.239 snow, well it's because of your internal combustion engine. But it truly is 691 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.679 amazing to see how he is always there on the cusp of all this stuff, 692 00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.119 isn't it? And an idiot. You know, he didn't get to 693 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:25.719 be the world's rucious man by being an imbecile. He's definitely smart. The 694 00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.159 question is whether he's honorable and trustworthy. And I think we know the answer 695 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:32.920 to those questions. And the sad thing too, is that you know where 696 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.639 they're going to build this induction road. You know, we talk about if 697 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:38.599 we build it, they will come. You know, we're going to build 698 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:42.519 this induction road where they charge the cars, and yet there's not any cars 699 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.840 that have inductive charging on them yet. But I'm sure that they'll build it. 700 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:49.440 And here is Elon Musk to fulfill that for these government agencies. But 701 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:54.920 this is coming from Republican Florida. Conservative Republican Florida. The Central Florida Expressway 702 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.079 Authority is going to be the ones who are going to do this. So 703 00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.880 it's a big boondoggle from them. And you know, we've talked for the 704 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:07.079 longest time about the h the autopilot, which was the big, you know, 705 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.239 high tech cherry that he put on there, which is not really working, 706 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:15.159 and how he has been able to skate around all these draconium measures that 707 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.960 they pull against people like VW for quote unquote cheating on an admission thing. 708 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.760 Now you've got Tesla drivers are now being forced to pay after killing two people 709 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:28.039 on autopilot. And that's one of the things that we all talked about that 710 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.719 we talked about over the years, you and I. Who's going to have 711 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.320 the liability when the autopilot kills people? Is it going to be the insurance 712 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.199 company, Is it going to be the is it going to be Tesla, 713 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.960 the automobile company, or is it going to be the person who owned the 714 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.480 car and is sitting in the car while they got it on autopilot. And 715 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.119 that's what they decided in this particular one. They it's not going to be 716 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:49.719 Musk, It's going to be you. It's going to be holding the poet. 717 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:53.480 That's because they've got the little lawyer screen in the car and the language 718 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.400 in the agreement, the user agreement that says, you know, the driver 719 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:04.960 is responsible or being ready to intervene at any time and maintaining the ability to 720 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:07.400 control the car. But of course it flies at odds with the plane meaning 721 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:12.039 of autopilot. You know, they chose that term deliberately to an aviation term. 722 00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.039 You know, so when when when a commercial plane is up at altitude, 723 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:21.079 and it's not necessary to be directly constantly involved in the in the operation 724 00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.000 of the plane. You can put it on autopilot. The pilot still has 725 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:27.039 to sit there, by law, in the left seat and be monitoring. 726 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.800 But that's the term implies that the thing is going to fly itself, which 727 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.400 is technically true. But in terms of the car, of course it doesn't. 728 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.519 You know, and and and yet you're placed in this paradoxical position as 729 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:42.239 the person who owns the car. Okay, I'm gonna I'm going to spend 730 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.320 the money because I want the car to be capable of driving itself. But 731 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.719 then if it recks because I wasn't paying attention to the driving, it's my 732 00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:54.199 fault for using the autopilot and must somehow manage just to get away with that. 733 00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:58.440 And it's just still that's right. So he's got the trump game down 734 00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:02.280 already. Yes, he was just playing four D chess with you when he 735 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:06.760 sold you autopilot. You know, in an autopilot either is or it isn't. 736 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.480 If it's not able to safely drive the car, then it's not autopilot, 737 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:14.360 and there's no point in having it, And you might as well just 738 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:16.400 be the driver of the car, right, that's right. Well, while 739 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:20.599 we're talking about autopilot, take a look at what is going on in the 740 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:24.199 UK. They are now rolling out They rolled it out in Wales and now 741 00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:29.000 you've got you know, a Cidique Khan who is rolling it out around the 742 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:35.599 London area. They're changing the speed limits from thirty to twenty and spending a 743 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.880 lot of money to put signage up and they're going to be issuing speeding tickets 744 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:42.000 and all the rest of this kind of stuff. But you know, when 745 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.360 you look at this, Eric, it reminds me of what we were just 746 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.679 talking about when we said, you know what is a strong point really of 747 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.480 the electric vehicles, and that is straight line acceleration. And so what are 748 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:54.400 you doing now, Well, they're making the cars go down to four cylinder 749 00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:59.159 engines, right to need to highlight that, and so when you look at 750 00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:04.360 this, you know what is their problem with the self driving taxis with all 751 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.559 the Johnny cabs that they just shut down in California and other things like that. 752 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:10.480 Well, it's the fact that they can't really navigate this stuff and they're 753 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:15.239 super slow, and you know, they can't make these decisions quickly. And 754 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.039 so they've got to go really so like you're in some kind of a self 755 00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.239 driving golf cart or something. So when they start lowering the speed limit from 756 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.000 thirty to twenty, what are they doing? Well, first of all, 757 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.960 they're frustrating drivers. It's like, why am I even bothering with this thing? 758 00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:32.840 Right? And then you know, tickets being issued with you by speed 759 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.280 cameras and all the rest of this stuff all the time, and now to 760 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.440 take it down to the speed that Johnny Cab can drive. So it just 761 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:42.679 says, all right, fine, I'm just dying. I can't drive more 762 00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.199 than twenty miles an hour anyway. So here have the keys to my car, 763 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.440 and you can have my car. You know. That's really what they're 764 00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:50.800 doing, isn't it. Oh? Absolutely, you know, And it's something 765 00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:53.440 it's what they call law enforcementate clue, you know, to people who like 766 00:49:53.519 --> 00:50:01.679 Tesla's and these these ludicrously fast accelerating electric generally, they are going to make 767 00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:07.000 it so that you can't make use of the one thing that the EV has 768 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:10.000 that most other cars don't have. They're letting you know, you know, 769 00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:14.079 knock being on wood here, be aware. You know, you're going to 770 00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:17.920 have your your one hundred thousand dollars Tesla s with the hypothetical capability of going 771 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:22.719 to zero sixty two point nine seconds. But if you use it, you 772 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:28.840 know, yeah, I'm not sure you're back to these You're back to these 773 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:30.719 hypercards that you know good. Yeah, it can go one hundred and seventy 774 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:32.559 miles an hours. Like, okay, go ahead and try that. You 775 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:37.719 know. It's like the song you can discern here, Like the ultimate object 776 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:42.159 of all of this is to make driving so unbearable, so unpleasant, so 777 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.239 expensive, that people will throw up their hands in despair and say, okay, 778 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:49.360 I give in. I'll just walk, or I'll ride the bike, 779 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:52.039 or I'll take the train. And that's exactly what they want, that's right. 780 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.360 It reminds me of the old song. I can't remember the name of 781 00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:59.280 it, but the line goes, my Maserati does one ninety five. I 782 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:04.519 lost a license. Now I can't drive. That's what we're going to be 783 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.360 with all this stuff. Now. They want to make life impossible for us, 784 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.360 whether it's an automobile or a ceiling fan. They got to take that 785 00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:13.079 away from us. It truly is, and they don't care what we think 786 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:20.079 here in this situation. They had half a million people sign a petition against 787 00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.800 this hated policy. That's why he's reported in the UK lowering it from thirty 788 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:27.800 to twenty. And they just blew it off. They said we don't care. 789 00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:30.719 They said this is going to save lives, and it's like okay, 790 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.360 And we know they've had their vision zero for a long time. Everything is 791 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.480 about zero. Everything is you know, we got net zero, but they 792 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:40.119 had vision zero, which was to say we're going to have no lives lost. 793 00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.480 And of course a big part of vision zero was to make sure that 794 00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:50.199 we're going to turn everything over to autopilot. And the autopilet is killing people. 795 00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:52.079 It is always going to be a situation. But that's the way they 796 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:57.719 justify all the road diets and all the road calming issues and all the lowering 797 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.159 of the speed limits and everything. We got to just stop everybody. I'm 798 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:04.679 dying. And yet everything else that they do in this cynical hypocrisy, and 799 00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:08.239 they're set up to depopulation, you know, to create depopulation death by government. 800 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.800 Isn't that amazing? Yeah? Both zero is the mark of a fanatic. 801 00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:16.079 It's not reasonable, right, you know, you're talking about something that 802 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.760 is being used as a pretext for almost unimaginable tyranny, because you know, 803 00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:24.400 in a rational, reasonable world, there are costs and there are benefits, 804 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:29.679 there are pros and cons and it's a spectrum and you weigh things and you 805 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.800 come up with a reasonable middle ground, you know, if you're not a 806 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.599 bad person, if you're not a somebody who's in the grip of some kind 807 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:39.920 of deranged religious mania, which is what we're dealing with. Here's I use 808 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:44.119 the word religion. It's secular, but it's still a religion. These people 809 00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:47.840 have a faith. It's an evil faith, but they're no less fervent on 810 00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.440 account of that. And it's kind of the Torquemada esque. There can be 811 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:58.159 no appostacy anywhere, you know, we cannot permit the slightest heresy. You 812 00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:00.920 know, if you violate the dog muff, like the coda, then you 813 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:02.599 were a heretic and you must be burned at the state, you know, 814 00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:07.639 metaphorically as well as potentially literally with regard to stuff that we're talking about. 815 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.519 Oh yeah, I think it's a really good point you made. It really 816 00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:13.440 is. You know, it's the mark of a fanatic to talk about zero 817 00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:15.920 and everything. They talk about is zero, you know, absolute zero. 818 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:21.440 I guess because they're absolutists, you know, they want everything to absolutely go 819 00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:24.920 to zero. And when they're talking about saving lives and this petition, they 820 00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:29.159 said that, you know, the government is claiming that it reducing this to 821 00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:31.920 twenty miles per hour, and they put all upper case everywhere because that's where 822 00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:36.599 they want to do. Everywhere saves lives. Yet we get flyers merely claiming 823 00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.599 that it will. We don't have any evidence about this. We've got opinions 824 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:44.480 from doctors, but there's no evidence. It's just the same mcguffin that they 825 00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.199 played on us through this so called pandemic. At least one of the trials 826 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:52.960 they said, however in villages actually reverted their trial because it was causing absolute 827 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:57.840 carnage on the road. They said that every time I go out, they 828 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.840 said, nobody is driving at twenty miles an HOURLSH government has failed to produce 829 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:07.559 any convincing evidence to support these claims. Again, it's the same tactic they 830 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:09.840 keep using. There's never they don't show you the data for the climate stuff. 831 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:14.639 They don't show you the data where there's imposed regulations, they didn't show 832 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:20.400 you the data for their supposed virus and pandemic, and they don't show you 833 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:27.320 the data for their solution. The jabsto it's logical conclusion. Let's forbid all 834 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.440 movement. There's a way to achieve vision zero. And even then you're not 835 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:32.880 going to do it because inevitably there's going to be somebody who might have a 836 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.599 heart attack while there lying in bed. You know, you know again, 837 00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:42.199 it just it reveals the religious mania of these people, and it's a dishonest 838 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.079 mania. They know it is. They're just using this to gaslight people. 839 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:47.760 You know, they put forward, they put forward, well, you know, 840 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:51.679 somebody might die. Oh, it's always a hypothetical, somebody, somebody 841 00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:59.119 might be injured as a pretextual excuse and justification to impose something obnoxious and tyrannical 842 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:02.119 on everybody. And you know, these politicians are really no better than these 843 00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:07.920 idiots who are gluing themselves to the highway and creating massive root or roadblocks and 844 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:14.039 causing people with medical emergencies to have a serious medical consequences or even die. 845 00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:16.519 That's really what is happening. But the politicians are doing that in reality with 846 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:21.920 their regulations. I've got a comment here for you this is on Rumble. 847 00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:24.360 Thank you very much for the tip. Why j seventy two, I'm very 848 00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:29.960 curious, said, why don't we hear about updated tests for COVID nineteen yet, 849 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:35.159 because there's so many variants. How do we test for something new with 850 00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.679 an existing test? That's a very good question. I love that. What 851 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.599 do you think about that's a that's a good retort. Well, you know, 852 00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:44.199 I'm not really sure about these tests. Isn't the case that if you 853 00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:46.519 put a banana in the blender and cycle it en off, you'll come up 854 00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:51.639 with a positive test? That's right. I've had people, as a matter 855 00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:54.960 of fact, Andy who was saying that he's ems and he was saying, 856 00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:59.360 yeah, we had a nurse who tested one of these things right out of 857 00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:01.000 the package and got a positive test for it. I think it was all 858 00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:05.360 just harassment if you look at it right, because, and I've said this, 859 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:08.320 you look at the con Film Festival and all these elitists show up, 860 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:12.760 and this was just a couple of months before they were going to go the 861 00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.840 next stage of saying you're going to have to have a vaccine or you're not 862 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:19.000 going to go anywhere. But they held off on that, so they could 863 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.199 have their con Film festival in France. As these people showed up, they 864 00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:25.400 were saying, this is disgusting. I have to spit in this container to 865 00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:29.239 get a COVID test. And it's like you get to spit, we get 866 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.559 this thing ram rotted up our nose if you submit to that. And then 867 00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:36.119 in China they were doing it rectally, you know, to the State department 868 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:39.400 employees time. I was disgusting. It's degrading, Yeah, it is. 869 00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:43.960 That's the point. I think that that was part of the reason for the 870 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.519 pushing of the masks as well, because it's a humiliation ritual. You know, 871 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.440 it's not just making somebody do something, it's making somebody do something that 872 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:57.239 is degrading and embarrassing. Yes, and there's a purpose psychologically for that, 873 00:56:57.639 --> 00:56:59.960 and the mask or the same way. You know, how could you believe 874 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:02.760 these little and there's no definition of what a mask is. It could be 875 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:08.280 anything, and so it's all just an exercise in humiliation, obedience, and 876 00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:13.599 power. It was a psychological experience that the experiment. That's true. But 877 00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:17.360 that's a very good observation, Yja, I think that is true. You 878 00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:20.159 know, to call their bluff on that and say, well, how is 879 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.119 it that you got all these new variants and that you haven't changed the test 880 00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:24.840 and how do you know how to test for this thing? What are you 881 00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:29.280 testing for? Anyway? The whole thing was a scam, wasn't it? 882 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.920 And that really kind of shows it right there, doesn't it. Absolutely, 883 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.400 that's great. And I've got another person who left a tip on Rumble. 884 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:40.360 I think you KFB very much and wished us happy Merry Christmas. Thank you 885 00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:45.320 very much. I appreciate that and it's great to have you on and I 886 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.039 want to wish you a merry Christmas, happy New Year. We won't be 887 00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:52.960 talking to you until after the New year, but you know you got how 888 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:57.880 are things there in Virginia? How's your self sufficiency projects? Well, we've 889 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:00.119 only got about thirty seconds, so just a little kay. It's gotten very 890 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:06.840 cold. I'm grateful for hypercarbon fuels to keep us warm though. That's great, 891 00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:09.039 that's great. I won't turn you in. I won't tell anybody that 892 00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:14.360 you said that we've got the Stazzi Society is being set up right now, 893 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.639 but I will not inform on you. Thank you so much. Eric Peters 894 00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:21.079 at ep autos dot com, where you can also find him at Eric Peters. 895 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.559 It's Eric Peters autos dot com or ep autos dot com and either one 896 00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:28.559 of those. Yeah, you can get to Eric Peters. Thank you so 897 00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:34.679 much, Eric, appreciate you. Merry Christmas. I'm delighted to present something 898 00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:39.079 born from my love for music and the Christmas season. Christmas Night is a 899 00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:52.199 perfect companiment for anything from family gatherings, the moments a peaceful reflection. I 900 00:58:52.199 --> 00:59:02.920 helpe us to provide a fresh take to the soundtrack of Christmas. 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