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At the clock strikes thirteen, it's Tuesday, the sixteenth of July. Here,
our Lord, twenty twenty four. Well, it appears that Trump's going
to take a chance on Vance, or maybe Trump is playing JD Chess this
time around, we're going to take a look at Jade. Evans is not
really very well known except maybe perhaps out of Ohio, but even there we
don't have much of a record on him. So we're going to take a
look at his background, his let's just put this his evolution, what we
might expect out of him, it's still hard to say, because he's been
all over the map, quite frankly. But we're going to also take a
look at the great replacement that is happening here in America at a rapid pace.
We're going to talk a little bit more about the assassination attempt. A
lot of people have a lot of questions, and so we're going to cover
that. And we're going to have in the third hour a man who had
a long career as a secret Service agent. He has written a book called
Cheating Death that'll be coming up in the second hour, So we'll be right
back. Stay with us Hillbilly elegy. Are they going to play the Are
they going to play the Beverly Hill Billy is? When he takes the White
House there, it's an another one of these mansions he's going to get to
live in the youngest nominee, and since Richard Nixon, I should say,
not a record young nominee. But when we look at this, it ultimately
is a beauty contest, a popularity contest, a demographics contest. It's about
Dei and he is, in many regards a Dei pick like Laala, except
he's a lot smarter than Laala. It's not going to be much of a
contest with him having a debate, and you know, debate is not certain
yet. They hadn't agreed to that. People have talked about a date of
July twenty third, which is really close week away. Lala is not going
to have any time. They're propoun I don't think jd Vance needs time to
prepare, but she certainly would or August the thirteenth, but again, nothing
is definite. And although the Biden team has kind of a tentatively signed onto
this, they might be having second thoughts about this when I look at this
guy and I watched some videos of him talking for the first time. If
nothing else, Jade Vance is very intelligent. I would say that his IQ
is greater than Trump's, Biden's, and Lala Harris combined. Without doubt.
It's going to be very interesting. So he's of average intelligence exactly, exactly.
Yeah, that's good. So that part of it is going to be
interesting. And so let's take a kind of a look at his background here
and the twenty sixteen presidential campaign. He's kind of gone the opposite way that
I have. In twenty sixteen, he was proud to be a never Trumper,
and he was the person that all the mainstream media was getting on to
talk to about the problems with white America and what is it that they see
in this guy Trump? You know, so he's going to explain all that
to them. He's now saying that he didn't want to be put on the
Trump train, so he overreacted against it or whatever. We'll see. But
he was a never Trumper. He said some very harsh things. We'll tell
you some of those things harsher than what I said about Trump. Actually not
even then, but I mean, even now he said some very hard things.
I don't know. Maybe I'm worse. I don't know, because you
see, I thought we should give him a chance. I felt like Juliana
Seine. We know what Hillary Clinton is, we know she's a criminal,
we know she's a warmonger. We don't know about Trump. Let's find out.
Well, you know, Trump administration tried to kill Julian Assan and Trump
tried to kill the constitution, our society, and he succeeded in killing tens
of millions of people with his chab And so we'll talk about Vance's positions on
issues, and again we see positions on issues. Who's to say where these
people will be. I mean, we can talk about this stuff, but
the key thing is we don't want to focus too much on politics because and
I think this is the important thing. If you look at the story of
JD. Vance, his story, whether or not he realizes it or not.
And I haven't read his book, and I haven't watched the movie that
was done by Ron Howard of his life, so but I've seen the trailer,
and I used to watch trailers make decisions about movies for a living,
so can usually kind of guess what's going on with it? And I've read
a lot of stuff now as of yesterday about JD. Vance. To me,
the big takeaway from JdE E Vance is what is happening to our society
as reflected in his family? Lessons from that? Did he learn those lessons?
When are we going to learn those lessons? A lot of the stuff
that I see in his family again, a poor white family that has a
lot of the same problems as in rural Ohio, a lot of the same
problems that urban blacks have. And this is the destruction of the family.
Drug addiction, dependency, of blind faith on government to fix your problems.
All these things were there and white rural America just like they are in black
urban America. You see, skin color doesn't really make that much difference,
and even our culture doesn't make that much difference. Is really the spiritual issues.
I don't know that he understands that, but let's just roll through this
in a little bit of a chronological order here. What I was going to
say was that he kind of went the other direction. You know, twenty
sixteen, he was an ever trumper. I was like, let's give Trump
a chance. And then after the Trump election when he wanted to run for
office. He's telling everybody Trump is great. He's now in the Trump train
and all the rest of this stuff. Obviously, I am now a never
again Trumper. Never again. Let's don't make America go through that again.
That's my MAGA thing. I don't want to make America and not go through
that again anyway. He compared jp voters newfound interest in Trump in twenty sixteen
to a heroine addiction. Privately speculated about whether not Trump was America's Hitler referred
to himself as a never Trump guy and to Trump as an idiot, and
he declared that twenty sixteen election he had not voted for Trump. That's pretty
based, actually, because Trump is an addiction. Like I said, when
you look at the conditions that he grew up and you compare them white role
poverty the black urban poverty, not really much difference. And there's another similarity
between them, and that is that they both look to government to fix their
problems. They looked at different parties of the Uni Party government to fix their
problems. What he's done is he's really articulated basically the Trump platform, and
he's done it in a very articulate way, said Governor de Wine. One
of the worst Republican governors, one of the worst governors period during twenty twenty
and pandemic and lockdown. The despicable guy who offered people a lottery of a
million dollars. Take the vaccine and he might win a million dollars. Well,
you know once't you just play games of Russian roulette. Hell, here,
spend the chambers. There's one bullet in there. Maybe you'll get lucky.
You can either blow your brains out or you can win a million dollars.
You feel unlucky. I mean when that was happening, I actually played
that clip from The Deer Hunter. I said, this is what this guy's
doing here anyway. And of course working for the Wine was Vek Vivek the
snake Ramaswami, who wanted to get his clutches on surveillance and tracking. That
was his angle for getting in there anyway. Vance in recent months is attempted
to moderate his position on abortion, after referring to abortion as murder last year
and during his twenty twenty two race saying that he would vote for a national
fifteen week abortion limit. Vance more recently has praised Trump's leave it to the
state's abortion platform and says that he shares Trump's support of access to the Mafi
pristone or I just call it Mephistopheles. It's easier to say. I know
I'm pronouncing that correctly, and it really is satanic abortion pill. If you
care about women's health, you're not going to give them a dangerous pill like
that without a doctor's examination to see the condition of the baby, and on
and on the size of the baby, the position of the baby, your
health support. And that is just the for people who say that they care
about women's health, for them to support the mephistophiles pill is the ultimate hypocrisy.
But we talk about abortion. You know, the reality is is that
that's the constitutional So from a legal standpoint, the Supreme Court and the Dobbs
decision got it right. Trump is doing this out of political expediency, but
from a pragmatic stamp point of actually keeping abortion prohibited in some of the states.
I support leaving it to the states, and I've explained why, and
I'll maybe talk about a little bit more. But the other part of it
is is that it's the Constitution. If you don't like the fact that the
States are doing it. You need to change the Constitution. And if you
don't respect the constitution, we got big problems, problems that are going to
result in innocent people losing their lives as well. You shared in recent years
a close relationship with Trump's son, Don Junior. That's why I thought he
had the inside track of me. He's very popular with the conservatives anything,
but you can never tell what Trump's going to do. Trump makes really stupid
decisions when it comes to staffing. This is probably a wiser decision than I've
made seen Trump make wise from many different angles. For him from a pragmatic
political standpoint, which I really didn't expect him to do the wise thing.
Even from him his own perspective. You know, he tries. He's he's
an angry narcissist, and he's incapable of acting except in his own perceived self
interest. But the keyword in that is perceived. He usually can't perceive what
his best self interest is. The first term Ohio Republican and by the way,
he only took office in January twenty twenty three, so we only got
about a year and a half of experience on him. He hasn't really done
much. And Senate, That's why I'm saying, it's hard to get a
grip on this guy, because all we have is what he said at first
as an author, when he was beloved by the New York Times and by
NPR and by Hillary Clinton and by Hollywood and all the rest of this stuff,
and then what he said when he flipped and became a born born of
Maga the candidate. And so I was like, where is this guy?
Will time will tell? He has both a poor background owned and a super
elitist background. Which of those will he draw from? On which policies will
he draw from his poor background? And which ones will he draw from his
Yale Skull and Bones background? And yes, they don't officially confirm that.
They're multiple multiple reports that he was in Skull and Bones when he was at
Yale. So the first term Republican has emerged as a foil to GOP and
Democrat leaders alike, criticizing the Senate's bipartisan foreign aid package. He's not in
favor of the Ukraine War. That's a good point. Holding up Justice Department
nominees absolutely should shut them down. So anyway, he's expected to have this
debate, which will be one that I will actually watch. I would enjoy
watching one of the dumbest politicians I've ever seen on the stage debating one of
the smartest politicians out there. It should be at least entertaining, if not
informative in ja the events. Once Brandon Trump the American hitler and called his
voters idiots, as I said, that's widely reported everywhere. He said,
Trump at the time was a cynical ahole. Who is America's hitler? Only
an idiot would vote to the highest office in the land. He even said,
I think I'm going to vote third party, he told The Washington Post
at the time, because I can't stomach Trump. I think he's noxious,
he is leading the white working class to a very dark place, and ultimately
I don't share Hillary Clinton's politics, he said. He wrote a twenty sixteen
article for The Atlantic titled Opioid of the Masses, saying that Trump was not
the solution to America's problems. We see the bottom line is the president,
the office of president, is not the solution to your problems. And he's
actually made that point, and he's running for a president. He said.
His life is a series of contradictions. I guess, as you could say,
all of our lives aren't, perhaps to some degree or the other,
but is particularly pointed in terms of the contradictions that are out there during this
election season. Appears many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. He
wrote at the time. It enters minds, not through lungs or through veins,
but through eyes and ears, and its name is Donald Trump. He
described Trump's actual policy proposals as ranging from immoral to absurd in a twenty sixteen
opinion column for USA Today. See I've said this before, that is the
people who were never Trumpers in twenty sixteen. We hadn't really seen what he's
going to do. We only had his policies out there. He had good
policies that he was saying. Of course, he didn't act on them,
and he did the greatest betrayal I've ever seen in my life in twenty twenty.
And so the people who are never Trumpers, people like Mark Levan or
Ben Shapiro or Glenn Beck or whatever. Just as in terms of the talking
heads that I'm familiar with, and then of course the politicians that were out
there, these are people who ultimately oppose limited government and conservatism. I don't
care what they labeled themselves as they didn't like his policies period, and then
they came around when he won because they like power. And see, that's
what we're seeing here. We're seeing somebody who despised his policy proposals. He
said they range from immoral to absurd. What were his policy proposals when he's
running twenty sixteen. Primarily, we're going to stop wars. We're going to
end wars. Didn't do it. We're going to stop Obamacare, didn't do
it. His campaign, as I've said before, had a great ten or
twelve point or fifteen point, I don't remember how many. Now they flushed
it as soon as he got elected. But it's a great proposal of market
based reforms to healthcare competition. You having purchasing power, you having the information
to make intelligent decisions. Is this doctor? Is this hospital good or bad?
What is the record? How many times have they been sued from malpractice?
We don't have any information. It's not an open marketplace. It's prohibited
for these companies to compete against across state lines, and so it's not open
competition. We don't have the economic compowerment of even our own money, really
to be able to know what they're going to charge, know what their results
are, negotiate things like that, we're flying blind. They keep us blind.
They conceal all this stuff. And so there were a lot of things
that were necessary from a market standpoint a reform that were in that policy,
and he didn't do it, and then we didn't do it. Mark Levin's
and Ben Shapiro's and Glen Beeck's loved it, because, hey, this is
a gravy train I can latch onto, and this guy's not going to do
anything, he said as a globalist. He went on to embrace Trump's populist
right wing policies, from supporting a national abortion band with no exception for rapid
incests to supporting the white supremacists Great replacement theory. This is according to the
Express out of the UK, the Great Replacement theory is not white supremacist.
Is fact, is what their plans are. It is a great replacement,
there is no doubt about it. It has nothing to do with white supremacy.
It has something to do with their racism, but it is not It
is not white supremacist. And Heed they say he supported Russia's war on Ukraine.
See that's not true. Just because you oppose NATO's aggression and because you
want peace either one of those, that doesn't mean that you support Russia's war
in Ukraine. He also does not believe in gay marriage, among other things.
See now he's saying conservative things because back then, as I said,
New York Times liked him, MPR liked him, Hillary Clinton liked him,
Hollywood liked him. Vance says about Trump, I like him with the New
York Times this month, he says, when they can say he's threatening the
foundations of American society, I can't help but roll my eyes. And then
what does Trump say about him in return? Well, he's one handsome son
of a b right, and that's all that matters. Trump picks people based
on their appearance, sometimes based on the fact that Peter tile likes him and
Peter Tiel likes JD. Vance a lot. There's a lot of connections.
He worked for Peter Teel, Peter Tiel gave him, depending on the sources,
anywhere between ten and fifteen million dollars in his Senate run. But of
course you it is for the little guy. He's not beholden to any big
tech downers. He's not beholden to the elites, right. No, no,
actually he's very connected to them. But he's got blue eyes and a
thick beard, and that's what Trump likes about him. This is like a
high school popularity contest, folks. It's absolutely ridiculous and shallow. One of
the things, in terms of the discussions about Biden's suitability, one of the
Democrats said, we got to stop this right now. You know, people
are going to look at this and they're going to lose respect for the presidency.
In other words, let me translate that for you. They look at
Biden as many people are saying, what's going on, you know, who's
running the country? Well, actually, nobody's running the country. The president
is not running the country. There's the deep state is running the government,
and they're increasingly trying to run the country. But what an absurd premise that
somebody, somebody, or some group of people should on the country. Sam
fundamentally and adamantly opposed to the idea that one person or a group of people
in Washington should run the country. That's an American, that's anithetical. That
is totalitarianism. That's the path to that. And I don't care whether these
people are fascist, socialist, communists, technocrats, or whatever. That is
a path for disaster. And yet that is what people left and right,
Democrat and Republicans want. They want somebody who's going to run the country.
And even Biden, as he's trying to as he's struggling to show that he
has the mental capacity to continue to work, just put it that way.
What he says is, Hey, I'm running a campaign and I'm running the
world. I'm running the world. Wow. See that's the disqualification right there.
This's is this qualification that has characterized Joe Biden his entire life, the
idea that govern should run the country, run the world, run your lives.
And yet that's what people want. And that was part of what JD.
Evans was talking about the failure of rural America when he talked about Hillbilly
Elogy. Doug Bergham sixty seven was on the short list, but a lot
of people said he kind of fell out over being too much pro life.
He'd signed a very strong pro life bill and Trump wants to distance himself from
that. I can still do deals, you know, with the Summit pipeline,
the CO two pipeline nonsense, and this other kind of stuff. But
yeah, he also wants to get somebody who is younger. Doug Burgham is
sixty seven. But you know that's the thing. Jd evans forty years younger
than Trump. Roughly his big supporters Donald Trump Junior, Tucker Carlson, and
of course Tucker Carlson thinks that because his enemies hate jd Vance that makes jd
Vance good. He says he's got all the right enemies. Oh, that's
a stupid way to look at stuff, but it's the way that people like
Tucker Carlson look at the world. They don't have any hardcore principles that they
want to see there. They don't want to talk about policies. Again,
this is like competing clicks in a high school election, except the bigger stakes.
You know, in a high school election, unless it's some kind of
Hollywood movie, you typically don't kill the competition or jail of them. The
courtship of Trump began with a twenty twenty one meeting at mar Lago broker by
Peter Teal, jd Vance's former boss. It caught light during one of the
primary debates when Vance was only one of three Republicans on stage to oppose the
idea of a no fly zone in Ukraine enforced by NATO, which is really
stupid. Former President's son Don Junior spied the clip on Twitter. He said
he was already a fan of hillbilly elogy, he told friends, and this
is the way that he was able to reverse the effects these strong Trump criticisms.
He got in through Don Trump Junior and throw Peter Thiel. Vance has
become one of Trump's most visible defenders on television, a hero to the hardline
MAGA movement with his message of America first, economic nationalism. He credits his
time in Iraq, and this is good with developing a skepticism for foreign intervention.
That's real good. So he had four years in the Marine Corps and
in those four years he was sent to Iraq, and that was a good
lesson, a good life lesson, and I think that might be something that
is kind of foundational, let's hope. So he has the Times outflanked Trump
to the right with a tougher line and abortion, and a tougher line on
sending aid to Ukraine, for example. Critics see a smart guy who has
worked out how to rise to the top by ditching his never Trump credentials.
The Mark matt Lewis, who is a hardcore Democrat, hates the GOP,
but he says he probably rationalizes it a little bit, which is to say,
I can take the good parts of nationalism and the good parts of populism.
I can soften it a little bit, and I can use Trump or
trump Ism as a vehicle to do that. So that's how you would sort
of justify what is obviously rank hypocrisy and blind overwhelming ambition. According to his
critic, when confronted by Fox News Brettbear about his past quotes with Trump,
he said, look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn't think
he was going to be a good president. He was a great president.
I'm a Trumper. Is one of the reasons why I'm working so hard to
make sure he gets the second term. A close friends of the criticism missed
how Vance had always bristled at the idea being the Trump whisperer for coastal elites.
The explainer his friend, who seems to be anonymous here one of the
things he talks about is how he became very uncomfortable with the fact that the
liberal media basically was using him as an avatar to explain trump Ism, to
explain to us how these poor people in Ohio like him that type of thing.
So again, when we look at his life, you kind of sum
it up from what I can glean of his personal story, drugs and multiple
divorces, of his mother, not having a stable family life. There perhaps
he will support strong families. He seems to have learned that lesson. Sometimes
people have grown up in a situation like that are really strong supporters of families.
In terms of foreign policy, his experience with the Marines in Iraq makes
him skeptical foreign intervention. That's good. And then he grew up poor in
the rust belt, so there was at least at the beginning, an identification
with the working class and trying to get back the fundamental prosperity that was in
America instead of this polarization of just a few people owning everything, the global
elites. But then he went to Yale after he was in the Marines.
As a matter of fact, he had according to him, he had aced
the act or the sat rather, he had aced that test, but he
didn't have enough self confidence in himself to go to college. He didn't think
him, so he enlisted in the Marines. He said, the Marines really
taught him a lot about character, about you know, organizing himself. And
so then when he gets out of the Marines, he does go to college.
He graduates summa cum lattie highest that you can get, and then he
goes to Yale Law School. Then he starts social climbing, and then he
gets involved with Skull and Bones and all the rest of this. He had
a friend, close friend they talked to. They said, well, when
people voted, who was most likely to be present? See that's what they
do at Yale, not who's most likely to succeed. But they got a
very definite idea of what success is. He's becoming president, and so who
was most likely to become president? He said, I chose him, And
it's only one who chose him because I thought he had the right story of
the perspective, the talent, the intelligence, all the rest of the stuff,
and perhaps the hunger for doing it and that could be a dangerous thing.
Then after he finishes with the Yale elites, then he makes establishment with
the global technical elites. He goes to Silicon Valley, and he goes to
work for Peter Tiel and Peter Till's Mithrail venture capital firm. He works for
him a few years, and then he goes to work for a guy who
has another venture capital firm that this is the guy who started AOL and he
also gave a great deal of money to advance people. So they're not sure
how much he gave to him. I thought, well, how does that
work out? I mean, he was some kind of a political action committee
or something like that. He did it, but nobody is exactly sure exactly
how much money he gave him. But again he connects with the technocracy,
the global elite in Silicon Valley. His wife, by the way, her
parents were Indian immigrants. Is her father was an engineer. She was born
in San Diego. She I think met him at Yale. She became a
lawyer after Yale because they were both in Yale Law school. She clerked for
John Roberts. She clerked for Brett Kavanaugh before he was put into the Supreme
Court. So very intelligent, very ambitious, rising incredibly quickly. He's quickly
evolving, as a matter of fact, and so he's got a lot of
different influences. It's hard to tell what his principles are going to be a
lot of contradictions. And again, you know, we look three years ago
when he was running for Senate. This article by Chris Zillah in twenty twenty
one said Trump is still the king of the GOP and JD. Vance just
proved why that is. At that time he was covering the Ohio Senate race,
and he said, this isn't complicated. In twenty sixteen, Vance wasn't
running for senate, but now he is. So what he said then was
what he leave. What he's saying now essentially totally disavowing what he said then,
is born out of political necessity. So this was concerning when somebody has
such a dramatic one to eighty turn like that. He did not have a
road to Damascus experience. There's no explanation for it except for political expediency and
ambition. He says, what is a necessity, Well, you've got to
kiss up to Trump. The political reality is that at the present moment twenty
twenty one, and this has been the case since at least twenty seventeen,
is that you simply cannot win a contested Republican primary unless you're outspokenly pro Trump.
Nowhere is that fact on clear display. Then in Ohio, where an
open seat created by the retirement of Senator Rob Portman Republican has turned into a
battle as to who can love Trump more, he says, consider this you
got. Josh Mendel, former state treasurer. He twee, had a ten
second video last month of himself lighting a face mask on fire. My kind
of guy. The tweet was accompanied by the word freedom and two emojis,
one wearing a medical mask and the other of flames. Well, he didn't
say anything about Trump, but then the rest of the guy is dead.
Former state Party chair Jane Timkin ran ads in favor of Trump. The ads
feature her going full sycophant. She said in the ad, nothing energizes our
conservative grassroots more than a Trump rally. Then wealthy businessman Mike Gibbons, who
served as co chair for Trump's fundraising efforts in Ohio, said, I was
his co chair. I raised a lot of money for him. I gave
a large amount of money. I support his policies period. And so they
said, what happened? What you needed more about this? They said,
Politico reported on the gathering of these major candidates except for JD. Vance at
Trump's mar A Lago. So the three go to mar Lago. They said
what ensued was a fifteen minute backroom, backbiting session reminiscent of Trump's reality TV
show. I mean calling it the Apprentice VP selection right, Mandelle said he
was crushing Timpkin and polling. Tempkin touted her support on the ground thanks to
her time Estate Party chair. Gibbons mentioned how he had helped Trump's campaign financially.
Bernie Marino noted that his daughter had worked on Trump's twenty twenty campaign,
etc. The Vance flip flop, then, is simply the latest proof that
there is no room for any candidate to have any views ever, that are
anything less than utterly supportive of Trump. Any GOP candidate who is not already
a incumbent this is in twenty twenty one, is going to have a very
hard time winning. And as a matter of fact, we've got Mitch McCollough
course being booed at the URNC, one of the former leaders of the Republican
Party. So we're going to take a quick break and when we come back,
we're going to talk about how he got to this point, the things
that influenced him as he was growing up, because again we don't know the
man, we don't know his policies. Trying to get a take on it.
But more important than this political stuff, because again that our country is
being run out of Washington, and the world is being run out of Washington,
and that's not a good thing. And we shouldn't be begging for them
to do a better job. We should begging for them to leave us alone.
Go away, shut down your empire. It's only going to lead to
more wars and death and suffering. I don't care how wit about the American
empire. I don't support the American government one way or the other. I
support America, I support our freedoms that we're there. I don't support this
government. It has nothing to do with America or the Constitution or our history.
It is anathetical and hostile to all of those things. It is allied
with the UN, with Davos, with these globless leagues who want to kill
us all. It is satanic, occultic group. It's not just scull and
bones, it's the entire lot of them. And I'm disgusted with them.
And I think his story is something that we need to take a look at.
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Jadmans listened marine photographer when he was in the Marines. But he's still
gott to get through marine basic training. My respect for anybody who can get
through that. I don't think I ever could have gotten through that. And
maybe as a photographer that's what he was. Maybe that gave him enough of
a view of war to be very skeptical of it. It's something that is
welcome. It is something that you typically don't see from the chickenhawks, people
like Lindsay Graham and others who've never been in the military, never been in
a war, they don't seem to have the reservations about it. The people
who've actually been in it do so. Just being there as a witness,
if that was all it was, is an important thing. But let's talk
about his background. I went from a hillbilly broken home to becoming a vice
presidential nominee and perhaps a president. When you take a look at how young
he is, When you look even at Trump, he is seventy eight.
Ronald Reagan, I believe was seventy seven when he left the presidency, and
everybody was always talking about Reagan being very old. I remember the choke that
he made in the second debate when he was debating against the Walter Mondale.
He says, I won't it was not that young, he says, I
promise that I won't hold the youth and inexperience of my opponent against him,
and everybody laughed so that it was a great way, perfect way to disarm
the concerns about his age. We don't see that anymore. Well, we
see blank stares from Biden, not any jokes like that. I got a
message here from President Andrew Jackson. David, did you get to watch the
movie in time? Imagine time being swapped with carbon credits? No, I've
never seen that. I have gotten so far out of touch with movies.
I just don't have the time anymore. You know, we sat down.
I don't even getting to the point where I don't even have time to watch
a ten minute video of you know, people falling and stuff or car crashes
or something. I watched stuff like that. It's just kind of a distraction.
But I don't even have time for that anymore. We're the only people
that no one feels ashamed to look down on, he said about the poor
white people in rural Ohio. It was a rough upbringing. Vance's book describes
his mother as highly unstable, sometimes violent, persistently addicted to prescription narcotics.
His grandfather, Popa, as he called him, was frequently drunk, while
his grandmother Mama, was quote violent, non drunk, unquote, prone to
unpleasant stunts such as dousing him in gasoline or serving him garbage on a plate.
I've never had either one of those done to me by a parent.
I'm very fortunate to have grown up in a loving home, and I really
feel sorry for people who have gone through something like this. And anyway,
he said, we're the only group of people other Americans don't have to be
ashamed to look down upon. He said, never be like these losers who
think that deck is stacked against them, said his grandmother. And that's a
clip actually that was put into the trailer. So again. He spent four
years in the Marine Corps. He said it was basically a four year education
in character and self management. He said it helped him to have been in
his learned helplessness and believe in his capacity to do difficult things Like I said,
he did great on the sat but he didn't feel like he could hack
it in college. Then after he went into the Marines, he thought to
try. That's great and he hasted. At Yale Law School, he met
his future wife in San Francisco, where the couple moved. In twenty fifteen,
he met Peter Teal, who would later fund much of Vance's campaign for
the US Senate. Oh, another Blake Masters. Blake Masters, somebody that
very read alert, read alert exactly. Pals with the technocrat who funded the
Singularity as well, right, I mean we talked about these satanic influences there.
That's about as Peter Teil is about as satanic as it gets. He
and Musk and these people only think they're going to live forever. They're going
to merge with machines, all the rest of this stuff. In twenty seventeen,
having worked at Teal's firm for about two years, he joined another investment
firm, Revolution, that was again run by the CEO former CEO of AOL.
Vance has been working on a book at Yale. He was encouraged to
pursue the project by his professor, who had written a parenting memoir called battle
Hymn of the Tiger Mother that had been a big hit in twenty fourteen.
He said, I don't think anybody wants to read about me. But when
he published it it was a big success, despite not having written it with
Trump in mind, that says The Independent. His book was hailed across the
political spectrum as a welcome explanation for the destabilizing crisis that appeared to be emanating
from Middle America as Trump continued his combative, outrageous, unexpected rise to power.
Rod Dreyer, who wrote a book called Lived Not by Lives, referencing
SoSE Nitsen, Rod Dryer called it one of the best books I've ever read.
He said, you can't understand what's happening now without first reading JD.
Vance. The Washington Post called him the voice of the rust Belt and the
Trump whisperer. Vox called him the reluctant interpreter of Trump. He had little
patience for traditional conservatives who see no role for wider economic forces in these problems,
and he wrote scathingly of the elitism and the bigotry of upper class Americans
toward his people. Well, when he talks about when The Independent is saying
that he doesn't see any role for wider economic forces in these problems. What
he's what they're talking about is government programs, and so he hasn't quite gotten
past this idea that a big government is going to pull us out of the
problem. Again, there's this contradiction. He also tore into what he saw
as a culture of learned helplessness, arguing working class whites that shirked the duty
of making wise choices because they believe their choices would not and could not matter.
See, this is where it is interesting to talk about his story where
it hits home where we live, because folk, what's going on in Washington
is it might as well be arguing over who's going to take Klaus Schwab's place
in Davos. I don't care. I want to know what these people are
about. I want to know what Klaus Schwab is about. But they shouldn't
have this power. We should shut them off, and we should shut off
Washington, just like we got to shut off the UN. Same thing right
now, same thing, except the Washington's far more dangerous than the UN,
more than Davos, because it's got so much money, so much power,
such a large Army, he said. I once ran into an old acquaintance
at a Middletown bar, that's the town in Ohio where he grew up,
who told me that he had recently quit his job because he was sick of
waking up early. Hey later I saw him complaining on Facebook about the Obama
economy and how it had affected his life. You see, here's the lesson.
You start with yourself. And how many times we've seen this. This
is my argument on a daily basis to the MAGA people. Stop looking to
Trump as your savior or stop looking at Biden and Obama as a people who
are holding you down. You're holding yourself down. If you're not doing this,
it's up to you. You start with yourself. You start with your
family, you move out from the community, but you start with God.
When you're going to start with yourself, what's the first thing you do?
Get yourself right with God. If you got peace with God, that's going
to give you a kind of contentment that you can't get any other way.
It's going to give you a foundation that you can't get any other way.
It's going to give you a joy and a piece that you can't get any
other way. So you start with that. He said, there is a
cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government,
and that movement gains adherents by the day. And so I've been saying
for the longest time, used to only see this, and it popped up
first in poor democrat areas, rural areas, typically urban black areas. They
blame their poverty on society, or they blame their poverty on government. So
the solution is going to be getting the right person there in government's going to
help you. But now this diseased way of thinking has gone over to the
Republicans. They want everything fixed in Washington. The poor whites in the rural
areas now want everything fixed in Washington, just like the urban black poor.
And so they want a guy in Washington's going to fix it, and their
whole life, they believe, depends on who is in Washington. Do you
understand what a powder keg that has created. We're talking about assassinations. Why
do we have things like that. It's because people think that their life is
nothing if the wrong person is in the White House. And it's interesting to
me that these people who concentrate all power to themselves are getting hoisted by their
own petard, blown up by their own barrel of gunpowder, if you will,
because they create this perception that everything in our life depends upon Washington,
and if it depends on Washington, then the stakes are so high that people
are going to kill whoever is in that office if they don't like that person
in that office because their life depends on it. Your life doesn't depend on
Washington. Don't think that. Don't give them that kind of power over you.
You know. I remember when I interviewed Scott Adams because he, you
know, right after the election, he was going very political. The guy
had the Delbert cartoon. I totally disagree with him, Tilliot, but he
had a good insight. After the election. He said, you know,
the problem with Hillary Clinton. Her campaign slogan was I'm with her. It
was all about her. He goes, Trump made it about America. Let's
make America great again. But you know, when you look at that slogan,
even in that regard, what Scott Adams didn't see then was the fact
that if Trump can make America great again, Trump is selling himself as a
solution to your problems. And that's even more dangerous than just being honest about
the fact that you're a narcissist. You know, Hillary Clinton was honest about
the fact that she was a narcissist and people, but Trump is as well.
The difference is Trump is telling you that he can fix your life.
He's telling you that he can fix America. Well, the only way to
the only thing the president can do to fix America is to get out of
the way. Presidents don't create jobs, they don't create a good economy.
They can ruin the economy. They can put people out of business, as
Trump did in twenty twenty. All the non essential small street, small main
street people he put out of business. But it's an equally bankrupt idea to
think that your life's going to be fixed by somebody in Washington. See.
Trump is able to sell collectivism and dependency to people who had not embraced that
before. He sold it in a much larger degree than anybody has ever been
able to sell that to poor whites, for example, collectivism and government dependency.
And then he locked everybody down and said you can't do a job,
you can't travel, you can't go to school, he can't go to church,
and I'll give you some money for that. Yeah, I'll give you
a little bit of stimulus check, creating dependency, creating debt. It was
a controversial thesis, with many left wingers accusing him of blaming the poor for
problems inflicted on them from above. In terms of talking about his book,
aibili Elogy Mad one other thing very clear, he thought Trump was part of
the problem. He said, Trump's promises are the needle in the in America's
collective vein. He's absolutely right about that. That's what I'm saying. It
is a drug addiction to think that government is going to fix your life.
Your government is maga. You know, your hope is in maga. Your
hope isn't Trump. And that's a kind of idolatry, as I've tried to
point out so many times. But Trump's promises, he said, and he's
right about it, are the needle in America's collective vein. He said.
This campaign is cultural heroism. Of Trump's twenty sixteen campaign, he said,
it offers an easy escape from complex problems. And it's a false promise,
And it's a false promise in twenty sixteen. It was a false promise in
twenty twenty and it's a false promise today regardless of which candidate, Republican or
Democrat of the Unit party is telling you they've got an easy fix for complex
problems and they're going to fix your life. That person who is a member
of the Demagogue Party. An interview with MPR, he said, I can't
stomach Trump. I think he's noxious. He's leading the white working class to
a very dark place. To a friend, he privately texted, I go
back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical, a hole like Nixon that
wouldn't be all that bad, might even prove useful, or that he is
America's hitler. How's that for discouraging? He told his friend, well,
that's where he was, and he said, the ruling class are robbing us
blind. So what did he do. He joined the ruling class. That's
what he did. He's a smart guy. He understood that the ruling class
is robbing his mind, so he joined them. And he gets a ten
million dollar donation from Peter Teal, he gets a lot of money from Robert
Mercer, got a lot of money from the other guy, the venture capital
from AOL founder. He said, if you look at every issue in this
country. Every issue I believe traces back to this fact. On the one
hand, the elites and the ruling class in this country are robbing us blind,
and on the other if you dare complain about it, you're a bad
person. I think of Dave Chappelle's thing when he talked about Trump. He
said, Trump is really something else. You know. Trump comes out of
the building, you know, when all the insiders are meeting and all the
big guys and everything, and he tells you what's going on there. He
tells you how they're going to rip you off, They're going to fleece you
one way or the other. And then he goes and then he goes back
inside and he joins him again. That's what Trump is. That's what JD.
Vance is. He's a forty year old, younger version of Trump.
I think he's smarter, but he's maybe more ambitious as well. He knows
what's needed, but I don't know that he's going to do it, he
said. I did say those critical things, and I regret them. I
regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president.
I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think
he took a lot of flak. Well, he's still walking around free,
so obviously he hasn't taken enough flak for what he did in twenty twenty with
the vaccines of lockdowns, the mass murder with ventilators and remdesivir, and the
rest of this stuff he is proposed to criminalize. So here's some Advance's issues.
He's proposed to criminalize gender transition healthcare for under eighteens, to cut off
block taxpayer funding for adult transgender healthcare too. Well, I agree with those.
He's also been a staunch opponent of USA to Ukraine, saying it would
be an America's best interest to accept that Ukraine is going to have to seed
some territory to the Russians. And quite frankly, Zelenski is now pushing to
meet with Putin. He can see as people are looking at this, it
looks like, okay, well, the Trump crowd is going to get the
whoever is running the Trump administration. There's going to be a change of policy.
And so Zelenski, who didn't want to meet with Putin, and Biden,
who says I don't want to meet with him, you know, in
his meeting that he had in his interview, he should should say that he
had. That's last week. He said, I'm not meeting with Putin,
but Zelenski wants to meet with him now because he doesn't think Biden's going to
be making this and that's what people are looking at. He was elected the
Senate in twenty twenty two. He closed deals when he was working venture capital,
again with Peter Thiel's Mithral Capital, then with Revolution Stephen case is a
guy's name, the al founder. When he was working in venture capital.
This is also very interesting in terms of his background. He was involved in
military technology and AI, because folks AI is military technology. AI is there
to accelerate surveillance, biometric surveillance and all the rest of this stuff. It
is the perfect tool from that. That's why it was developed by the military
industrial complex. Why it was DARPA that was pushing AI from the very beginning.
It's all about the military, you know, the chat, GPT stuff
and everything's just there for your entertainment. This is about weaponized technocracy, artificial
intelligences. It's about the police state, the surveillance state, perpetual war,
totalitarianism. That's what AI is about. So he is involved in that and
military intelligence, military technology. He made a lot of connections, ranging from
AI startup founders to Chase Coke, the billionaire sun of the CEO of Coke
Industries. In twenty nineteen, he left to start Narya Capital, another venture
capital fund that drew investors like Teal, like Mark and trese In. One
of the big VC people venture capital. Some people call him vulture capitalists and
Eric Schmidt pure evil. Eric Schmidt, Eric Schmitt, who's become one of
the biggest guys in the military industrial complex, and he's doing it very quietly.
Always there. Remember the interview that I had with a guy who was
talking about artificial intelligence. Of course, the main thrust of the book was
about how we're going to fight a war with China, and in it he
kept talking about the footprint of Eric Schmidt. And so we're going to pick
up with this when we come back. But I'm really anxious to talk to
our guest. We schedule him in the second hour today because of his He's
in a great deal of demand, obviously, somebody who's had a lot of
experience working in the Secret Service, and I'm very interested to see what he
has to say about what happened over the weekend. But I'm also interested in
seeing his life view somebody who is always every day he goes to work,
he's thinking about taking a bullet. And the name of his book is Cheating
Death, and he's talked about that, and you know, and that's what
I really am excited to talk to him about. But we'll also talk about
the Trump assassination attempt. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
right back with Ken Valentine. You're listening to the David Knight Show, all
right. Joining us now is Ken Valentine. He has worked in the Secret
Service. He worked under three presidential Secret Service details we'll find out how many
years he worked with him. But there was an excellent quote from Dan Bongino
and supportive of his book. I haven't read his book, but I wanted
to get him on because he wants to talk about his view of life.
What that gave him working in the Secret Service is called Cheating Death. Dan
Bongino said this about his book. He said, there's few people I've met
in my life who've had as deep of an impact on me as Secret Service
agent Ken Valentine. His new book, Cheating Death, as a masterpiece about
leadership and perspective in a difficult world. His stories from his time and the
Secret Service are overlaid with leadership and with life lessons that he learned in a
way that readers will embrace and appreciate. So I'm very interested to talk to
him, even though I haven't seen the book. So welcome, Ken Valentine.
Thank you for joining us. Yes, sir, plad to be with
you. Thank you. Tell us a little bit about First of all,
how long you were there under three different presidents. How long did you work
for the Secret Service? Sure? Well, my career span from nineteen ninety
six to twenty twenty, so twenty four years with the Service. I was
on the President's detail two times for a total of ten years. Started at
the end of Bill Clinton's term, so I was with him for his last
year and then the first four years with President George W. Bush. Bounced
around the country and headquarters doing different things, and then I was promoted back
at the start of the President Obama administration, serving another five years, so
that was my tenure. I retired as the Special Agent in charge of Dignitary
Protective Division. I want to talk to you about what happened with this last
weekend. But before we do real quickly that the title cheating death. That
also got my attention because that is a kind of thing every day that you
guys are going to work, you never know if there's going to be some
kind of a violent attack, if you're going to have to take a bullet
for the present. I guess it's kind of like living with cancer for a
very long time, isn't it. Talk about that absolutely, And since that's
been in our family, My wife cheated death beat breast cancer. So eating
death was a term that we threw around when I was on the President's detail.
Among the agents, it was just it was kind of a way to
prad each other a little bit. It was a good reminder of the importance
of the mission and what's going to happen if we don't do our job,
if we don't pay attention to detail, if we don't follow through on the
methodology the protocol. But it was also a lighthearted way to just to just
punch each other and a little joking kind of inner circle. So, you
know, the book was close to having another title that wasn't nearly as good,
but thankfully we can at the end kind of graveyard humor there as a
cult job. And did you point out what can happen cheating death? What
can happen if you don't pay attention to the details. Now, what we
saw over the weekend was an astonishing lack of attention to detail that I can
believe what was happening with that. First of all, howd the shooter get
into the event carrying a gun? How did he get onto a roof that
was that close to the clear line of site? Talk a little bit about
your impressions about this. Yeah, you know, having done this for twenty
four years and sort of lived and breathed that, even though that's what we
prepared for, it was still a bit shocking to see someone that we've been
given the mission to protect risked off the stage bleeding from a gunshot wound.
It's just that is not supposed to happen. You've been given a mission.
It is an enormous responsibility, but it's a privilege that comes with consequence if
you don't do it right. And the Secret Service director came out early this
morning, thankful. She's, you know, someone that I've known for a
long time and encounter as a friend, but it's Tuesday. This happened Saturday,
and you know, thankfully, we're taking ownership for that. There's no
way around that. So there were failures. Every time you set up a
site, it takes an enormous amount of time, enormous amount of collaboration and
effort, and you know, we're not to know it all. So we
have a lot of experience in that, but we always lean into other partners
federal, state and local partnerships to do that. But at the end of
the day, the Secret Service has the final say, we sign off on
it, and we coordinated that. So you've got to take ownership for that.
I was glad to see her do that this morning. Yeah, because
what we saw for the first several days was finger pointing back and forth.
Well that was a local job. They should have done this or done that,
and they said, well, they were ones running the show. They
were coordinating everything, you know, and so yeah, I guess yeah,
finally said something about that. I saw a quote from an individual who said,
I've been to five Trump rallies, and at four of the five we
went through wanding and all kinds of stuff about weapons and everything. But because
not at this one, they just waved me through, and so I guess
that's my question, you know, I mean that kind of thing would catch
somebody that's got a concealed pistol or something. But how do you get into
an event like that carrying a rifle and who knows what else? Yeah,
that that doesn't make any sense to somebody like me. That does not compute,
you know, weapons and secured events. This don't come out of the
same mouth. So the perimeter was set up again, it's excuse me.
It's an architecture and every single one is different. It's like a painting or
something, and so they're all different. If it was if it was cookie
cutter, you know, we would you could easily say, well, what
was the security failure? I think in this instance, with the way the
security perimeter was drawn and where this building was, obviously the final outcome was
failure. But I think the investigation is going to reveal probably multiple mini steps
of failure. But the game of protection is prevention, and when you don't
prevent bullets from flying into what we would call a security event, the word
failure ought to be at the forefront of the confession there, because that's that
is just failure. You can't have that, and they did so the you
know that the impressive thing to me was watching and I know some of these
individuals that that did react and you know, the security is made up of
layers. It's then there shouldn't be a single point of failure. So I'll
be interested to see what the investigation reveals and and how any of those points
led to failure. But the reaction by the by the shift what we would
call the working shift around President Trump was was pretty fast. It was it
was quick, it was coordinated. They did exactly what we were trained to
do. Uh. The unfortunate part of that is that they were reacting to
bullets flying and President Trump's own reaction to being hit. And most of the
time that is just simply too late. Yeah, and we trained for that,
but you don't ever want to be in that situation. I would much
rather have seen them with that kind of quick reaction having received verbal, you
know, information that we have identified a shooter on the roof, we're in
the process of neutralizing, but you know, get him out, and that
didn't happen. I don't know why that didn't happen. I'll be you know,
waiting, just like everybody else to see what, you know, what
were the sequence of events here that that led to bullets flying into a secured
area. And of course now we're seeing things coming out from local law enforcement
saying that there were reports of him walking around thirty minutes ahead of time.
But I guess one of the questions that I have is why wasn't there wouldn't
it be standard procedure for there to be somebody on that roof if it's that
close, or do they just kind of watch it? I mean the other
part of it. As we saw the guy who was kind of elevated as
a sniper and he seemed to pointing his gun at that guy, did he
have to have special orders to shoot the guy? If he sees somebody laying
prone in a position with a rifle, does he have to have some special
permission to take action? Or how does that? Well, I'll address that
first. The Secret Service counter snipers operate on a green light, so they
don't need permission. They need a circumstance that warrants taking the shot. Okay,
so there you know. I've heard some of those stories too, and
so all I can say is that the entire time that I was there.
The snipers are your best friend, they are your overlord. They are they
are watching way beyond your back, taking care of you, and so that
the so that the working shift around the president can can you know, maintain
their focus a lot closer in. The snipers are are incredibly well trained and
disciplined. But like everybody else, I saw the photos and now videos of
what they were looking at. And typically the snipers working tandem. You have
a shooter and a spotterer, and they both can become shooters, but one
person is using the binoculars for you know, looking around. Uh. Sometimes
they're both doing that, but as soon as they have a threat identified,
then one gets on the rifle. The other maintains spotting and and you coordinate
that shot. But it, you know, it just seemed like there was
some kind of delay. And I don't know if that was in acquisition.
I don't know if it, but it should not. The delays should not
and would not in my experience, come from any kind of permission, because
they have the green light to do what needs to be done real time all
the time. Yeah, those one of the questions that I had because I
looked at the video. There's a video where he seems like he's acquired the
guy, and then he takes his eye off of the eyepiece, and then
you hear a bunch of shots, and then whoever's filming it with a phone,
they start moving around and you lose any visual of what is happening.
What I read was that somebody else then at a further distance rather than one
hundred and fifty yards, somebody that was about four hundred and fifty yards and
then took him out. I don't know. That's just what I've seen people
say. But what seems strange to me was that you he seemed to have
acquired him, then pull back and took his head, removed his head away
from the eyepiece, and then you hear all the shots happening there. Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I think. The other question
with respect to the counter snipers is how many teams were in place. It's
a little unusual in my experience to see just one team because there's a lot
of ground to cover. You know, you you asked if it was typical
or you know, you would expect this or that, and again, every
security venue an event is so different. So the architecture of the infrastructure is
going to be different, and so I would be curious to know how many
sniper teams there were, and and you know what their area of responsibility was,
And if this team that we keep seeing the videos of, if that
was within their area of responsibility, then then they should have been seeing a
shooter on the roof the coordination to your first question about you know how someone
would get access to that roof and wouldn't it be part of the protocol to
not allow anyone on the roof. I can tell you in my experience,
people get on the roofs all the time. And the way we mitigate that
we try to prevent people from getting on roofs through locked doors, through posting
of police officers and agents, and then you also utilize roving counter surveillance and
identification teams that patrol in those areas. And so it's it's a little hard
for me to even appreciate the notion that this guy number one got access scaled
this building without some kind of communication going out or number two. The rumors
that I've heard is that he was up there for quite a while. So
a little hard for me to digest that because it just doesn't square with my
experience that this would go. You know, it's certainly not going to be
casually dismissed. Someone's on a roof, that's that's a direct threat to the
security of the venue. So I you know, wish I knew. I
it'll come out, But really more information is coming on on a daily basis.
When you said, do you wish you knew how many sniper teams were
the reports that the Trump campaign had asked for more coverage and had not received,
and of course they denied RFK Junior any coverage, but now they have
changed that for FK Junior. Do you do you think that might be something
that was in play? I know it's too soon to say, but what
might that be a possible explanation for why there wasn't something more done about the
venue even though they had people there to screen people, but they just weren't
doing it coming in But you know, in terms of the roof or something
like that, in coverage of the roof that was a personnel maybe I don't
know. Yeah. Another that's another difficult thing for me to to get past
me is the idea that people were coming into the venue that were not being
screened for weapons. Uh, that's that's a little hard to take. It's
a huge crowd. It's it's right up against the r n C. Use
of magnetometers, you know, should have been there. So I've been working
under the assumption that they were there, and I'm I'm going to maintain that
assumption. I'll be very disappointed if people were coming into that venue without without
passing through a magnetometer and being cleaned up. There's there's no point in having
a perimeter if you're not screening people coming in that that means there really is
it. Yeah, that's right. Well, I think we pretty much covered
what happened over the weekend. Let's talk about your experiences. I'm sure you
had some very interesting experiences personally over twenty four to twenty five years. I
tell you I loved my career. I had a storybook career, and I
wouldn't trade one day of it for anything. It was. I loved it.
It's a passion of mine. And you know that when I went back
to the President's Detail for a second tour, I served as a shift leader
and that's that's kind of the operational quarterback of the President's Detail, and that
was such such a fun job. It typically as a one year burnout.
I did it for two years and seven months and they had to throw me
out to forget me to stop doing it because I just loved it so much.
And it's a great missions it's good. I think it's just part of
my DNA to want a mission driven job. And you know the fact that
you can't fail at anything. It drives you. It can wear you out,
but I still loved it. Well, what was your background? What
got you into that's such an unusual job? Actually, I think what got
you into that? Not too many people get into becoming a secret service agent.
Yeah, I'd be glad to tell you that story because my dad and
my uncle were both FBI agents. So I broke family tradition and they,
you know, they talked me into going to law school. So I went
to Purdue undergrad and then Mississippi College for law school. But you know,
they they finally got me diverted. My dad had the opportunity when in a
Ronald Reagan visit, to participate in the intelligence aspect of the advance, and
you know, he got to engage with the agents, be brought in to
see the culture behind the scenes, and you know, he was comparing that
FBI culture to secret Service culture. Knowing his son, he said, you
know, if you just insist on going into federal law enforcement, I'm going
to push you to secret Service. And so he did. I think that
was wise. I enjoyed it. I loved it and wouldn't trade. Now.
You know, we all see the presidents all the time, but you
get to see them behind the scenes. How different as it seeing them behind
the scenes versus their public persona, Well, it really depends on the president.
And I don't want to hand anyone out necessarily. I can tell you
this, I am near and dear to my heart because I spent four years
with him, George W. Bush. There was no on camera persona whatsoever.
So you know, I can thinkly say that he didn't have a different
persona at all. There was no the cameras are on, you know,
let me, you know, let me change, because he was just that
genuine. So I did appreciate that he you know, we had an incident,
uh several where he saved us, so we we you know, he
was very much dear to me and I appreciated his his demeanor toward us,
and you know, we certainly weren't friends. It didn't like that. But
the only time he called me by my name was was when my family came
in for a departure photo when my time was up. So it was a
very professional relationship. That's great. And he didn't have a dog that bit
you either, right, we had dogs, and I remember one time I
had to to pick pick it was. I can't remember which dog, it
was, probably Barney up and Harry the dog to him. And you know,
some of my colleagues are like, really, dude, you're you're you're
carrying dog. And I'm like, look, if I don't pick this dog
up and carry the dog to him, he's going to stop, come back
and get the dog. I said, this is just quicker. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Talk a little bit about what you saw in terms of
insights you got in terms of leadership and integrity and things like that. Can
you talk about that in a general way? Yeah? Yeah, That's part
of my heartbeat now, it's part of what I'm doing. I serve on
the board at the National Center for Missing Sploited Children at the White House,
and on another technology company called Base Molecular Residence. Technology and leadership is what
I'm teaching and preaching. Fact, I'm in Pittsburgh. This is my glorious
studio, is my hotel room here, but I'm at the International Conference of
Police Chaplains to speak to them about leadership. And I serve as a point
man leadership Institute teacher, and so we're going to talk about leadership even amongst
chaplains. And my you know, leadership mantra that's that I lead with in
the book is to keep it simple and continue the direction over perfection. And
so I talk about vision, the importance of vision, discipline, and integrity,
and those are my those are my big three. I feel like all
the other you know, attributes of leadership can fit somehow into one of those
three categories. And if you if you major on the major with those three,
then it's a it's a little hard to go wrong. Vision and integrity.
What was the third one that you mentioned? Discipline? Discipline? Let's
talk about that vision thing, because I summon George W's father talked about well,
but how would you define vision for people? You know, sometimes vision
has to do more with faith than it does with site. In the book,
I talk about vision and I and I talk about an outing with President
Obama and with Tiger Woods, and we came up to the eighteenth hole the
Floridian, and it had been a long day. Tiger Woods was enjoying talking
to me a lot more than President Obama. For some reason, it was
very uncomfortable. But President Obama got up to the eighteenth hole and I'm not
a golfer, but the fairway was off to the right and then it jutted
back to the left to the green. He hit a nice shot almost to
that clearing. Tiger Woods gets up to hit his shot, and I talk
about the importance of being able to see differently than everybody else, and so
I said, sometimes it's more about faith than sight. Tiger Woods didn't hit
the ball to the right, he didn't go straight for the green. And
we've been talking about the collaborative nature of the Secret Service and our security infrastructure.
And I pointed out the Coast Guard boat out on the water to the
left and the Coast Guard helicopter up above, and we had agents on the
boat and agents in the helicopter. Tiger Woods launches the ball out to the
left, out over the water, and I really thought for a second he
was trying to give the Coastguard and the agent out there a souvenir. But
the ball took off and kept rising and rising, rising, and then it
started slicing back to the right, coming back to earth lands on the left
edge of the green, rolling toward the hole. And it's just like,
well, Tiger Woods looked at this problem and saw it differently than everybody else
out there. He had some skills, he had some tools, experience and
know how that gave him a vision for getting this ball in this hole different
than other people. And when I was about a year into the prison's detail,
you had to pick a specialty, and they selected for me because I
wanted to do other stuff, but they put me in the transportation section.
And that's the folks who drive the limousine and work out the motorcade routes and
all that planning. You have to pass the Protective Operations driving course, and
it's not an easy thing, but that's where you learn all those cool driving
maneuvers, and you learned to go past and to steer and break and do
the crazy turns and all that stuff. But you know, to stay in
the transportation section, you had to pass Protective Operations driving course and to pass
you had to make it through the obstacle course in a certain amount of time
without hitting cones, and every cone you hit took time off of your score.
And you know, we're approaching the end and nobody's passing, and our
instructor finally said, do you want to know the secret to managing the obstacle
course? And of course we all did, and he he said, it's
we've taught you how to break. We've taught you how to use the accelerator
and the steering wheel. But the key to navigating the obstacle course is your
eyes. And if you look at the cones, you will hit the cones.
But if you look to where your goal is, the little bitty opening
at the very end of this big banana curve, you'll hit that. And
so your your hands and your eyes work together when you've got good vision,
and so you have to lift your gaze. And I, you know,
I point to Scripture saying that you know, he wants us to fix our
eyes upon him. He wants us to lift our gaze off the problems and
the troubles of life. When we look down, we see problems. We
get bogged down when we lift. When we look up and lift our gaze.
Then we tend to hit where we where we're gazing. So that's for
me, that's a little nutshell about vision and something that I enjoy talking about.
Yeah, that's a great lesson. And you know, in the middle
of talking a lot about money and its effects and how we treat it,
Christ said, you know, if the light of the eye is darkness,
how dark is it on the inside of your body? That's what you're looking
at, right, Well, why do you focus? Are you looking as
you pointed out? Are you looking at the problems? Are you looking at
the things that you want that you don't have and that type of thing.
If you do, you're going to miss the goal. It's going to become
your master that that's a very important lesson. I really like that. But
I can't go away from the driving thing without finding it. You know,
how to do Rockford turns? Oh, yes, yes, that's that's one
of the things they teach you. We call them a jay turn. Yeah,
and you have to master the j turner. You can't make it too
because it's part of the obstacle course. You have to, you know,
drive down into a dead end and then and then do the jay turn and
you have to do it fast. And a limousine, no less, not
a sports car. That's the key thing. And and I've seen pictures of
them navigating a cone thing backwards. Is that part of it as well?
It is Wow. Wow, that's very impressive. Yeah, that's that is
really impressive driving skills. There. Talk a little bit about how it affected
your family life. Well, there's a huge impact on the family life.
And and that's another thing that I that I do talk about in Cheating Death
is the impact on the family. And very thankful to have a wife who
was not only supportive but encouraged me to get out there and do that.
And and so that I have a chapter in there about decision making, and
I talk about the importance of including your spouse in the decision making process.
But you know, what I found is that if the two of us are
one and we're seeking him, then those decisions tend to come out better than
if I just go on my own strength and my own understanding and then inform
her. I have some examples in the book where I did that and they
don't come out very well. So I learned the value of seeking her advice,
her counsel and agreement in making these decisions and then navigating a job that
is not family friendly. It just isn't. So I took on focus on
the family because they put out an article about a secret service agent who quit,
and they hold him up as the example of what you must do if
you're going to be a good husband and a true father to your children.
And I said, I'm not sure about that. I can't find a biblical
example of anyone that God told you lay up because I've got someone else to
do this mission for you. I see plenty of examples of men in particular
who were told, you know, go out and do as I say,
leave your home. But it's it. You know, this career wouldn't have
been much of a career without her support, without her so much of the
time taking care of the family. And you know that carries forward to today.
My mother is in the hospital have an open heart surgery tomorrow. My
mother said, you must go, just go, I'll be fine. My
wife said, I got it, and I want you to go slay the
dragon. So here I am in Pittsburgh doing what I plan to do,
but not without tremendous support from the family. That's such a great example,
a difficult career, constantly traveling, often away from your family, a situation
where your life really is in danger, frequently more so than in many other
law enforcement jobs, perhaps, And so it is I think probably going to
be one of the more interesting parts of your book. I guess I haven't
had a chance to read it yet, but I think to see what those
family dynamics are there and how a family can work. You know, we
have lost sight of that in America, haven't we We have indeed, and
you know, it's just such a tragedy that we have so many homes that
don't have a solid foundation. They don't have the infrastructure. You know,
in the point Man Leadership Institute, we talk about these these these ten foundational
principles and then the eight character traits that flow from that. And so many
homes don't have grandparents or two parents to give guidance to share those principles with
children. And so I fear for the future with a generation generations to come
that haven't had that infrastructure, or they haven't had that teaching in that training.
So where do you turn what's right from wrong? And you know,
where are we going to go from here? But we do have five children,
and we're you know, so blessed to have two girls and three boys.
And that's really that was the audience for the book originally was just trying
to pass that legacy of faith and leadership of decision making, even when it
gets hard on to the next generation. That's really important as you're talking about
family, you know, we don't have because everybody is so mobile because people
follow careers around and you know, even in engineering that I was in,
we would, you know, people would frequently advance their career by going to
work for another company and that might be a move across the country. That's
so common today that we've lost the multi generational family that used to have when
we were more of an agrarian society and people know their grandparents, maybe even
their great grandparents. Then it got reduced to a nuclear family, just a
mom and dad and the kids. And now with divorce it's become so common
we do you have split that at him? I guess, so the nuclear
family has kind of gone through a real radical vision. I think your experience
and being able to hold this together in a very high pressure job like that,
there's a lot for you to tell people. I think about that.
Tell us a little bit about Well, I got another question when you said
take on focus on the family. Was there a report about a guy who
was in this high pressure job and he quit it so that he could work
with his family. Was that what they were talking about. Yeah, yeah,
that was the article. It was about a very young secret service agent
that lived in Washington and was supporting the full time details on a probably a
part time basis. But yeah. I talked about how he missed birthdays,
and he missed this and that, and how he you know, he just
gave that up so that he could spend more time with the family. And
and you know what I was trying to do was give my kids an example
of how to go about making a hard decision. And I said, I
don't think that's the that's the most important factor, because I just can't find
a biblical example where it says, you know, if it's easy, that
must be the right way. It just like God has a has a grander
plan, and it's not quite that simple. So I lay out what for
me has been a good way to go about making decisions. And so you
you pray, you you seek wise counsel, you you dive into scripture and
then you wait. You know, Psalm thirty seven says trust to light,
commit and then be still and wait for the Lord and see what he says.
And and that has that. You know, that's been a good model
for me to follow. It's not the only way to go about making a
decision, but certainly if you know, when when they tried to say that
that if it impacts your family negatively, then it must be wrong, it
seemed like a poor working model for how to make a decision. And again
just finding that biblical exiit sample of that was a little tough. Meanwhile,
a lot of examples of biblical figures who were told to go and do hard
things and God will be with you as you do hard things. So that's
right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But again a part of it,
I guess is trying to figure out what it is that God is calling
you to do. Maybe that guy and that wasn't his calling, Maybe that
wasn't something that was really a good fit with him, because he could figure
out how to manage it. You know, you were able to manage a
very difficult thing that you know, most people would really struggle with because you
really were called to do that, I think, and I'm a huge supporter
of focus on the family, and and you know when I talk about that
in the book, that is exactly what I say is this, Obviously God's
will was done in this fellow's life, and praise God for that. You
know, he found another job and pursued that. But what I took issue
with was the working model of how to make a good decision, which didn't
seem to square for me. And so that's what I was trying to provide
my kids and now the audience of cheating death with was a working model of
how to make a good decision. And I think that in our society we've
lost the idea that we should try to do the hard thing. I think
that's a really important thing that has been lost. And so I think that's
another aspect of your experience that's very valuable. So you talk a little bit
about faith and how that plays a role in terms of your prayer, in
terms of you know, reading and understanding as well as you can God's will,
but then also praying about it and waiting and trying to get direction on
that. How did that all play out and what type of things are you
doing now that you have retired from the secret service that are part of your
Christian faith. Yeah. Faith. You know, I actually didn't become a
follower of Jesus Christ until I was in law school and I was confronted with
the gospel. I grew up in a Christian home with faithful parents, faithful
grandparents, but you know, I strayed and wandered through the college years in
early law school, and I was confronted with the idea that you could know
for certain, And you know, I was caught up in that, the
idea that somehow you had to be good enough to be saved. And so
the fellow that talked to me asked me, if I die tonight, would
I go to heaven? And I said, well, I think so,
but I don't know. And he cut through all that and gave me First
John five point thirteen, which says, I write these things to you who
believe in the name of the Senate God, so that you may know that
you have eternal life. And so I really grabbed that and ran with it.
I like the fact that you can know for sure that salvation is yours.
And now how do we get on with the rest of our life?
And so that's where I want to live. And so at this point,
having retired from the Secret Service, I'm pursuing a number of things. I've
met the book, I'm serving on a number of boards and uh and and
out teaching and training and leadership, and that's UH, that's one of the
things I want to do. That One of the boards that I serve on
is is a technology firm called b MRT and and you know, unfortunately,
we were in Florida last week with them looking at technology that that would have
alerted the Secret Service to the presence of a of a man with not only
explosive in the car, but also a loaded R fifteen magazine well before he
got to the building. And so it was a little hard for me to
swallow to watch that and then to realize that this technology, which we're trying
hard to get to the forefront, uh, it would actually have you know,
prevented that by virtue of giving them an alert and actionable you know,
item of intel to pursue, versus you know, having to wait until he
crawled up on a roof and gotten ready to he's off around. So it's
been a pleasure to you know, to be retired from the Secret Service to
have the freedom to get out, teach and train and talk about these things
that are important to me. And of course it always is, you know,
a concern while we look at at ways, whenever we have something that
is a disruptive event like that, our first instinct is to clamp down harder.
And if we're not careful, that moves us right into a detalitarian society.
You know, when we try to make everything completely safe. It's a
double edged sword. We have to be careful with technology. But I want
to talk to you a little bit about the things that you Again, as
you're there with the President and you're watching a lot of the most powerful and
wealthiest people in the world come all the time, you have a chance to
watch these people, and you talk a little bit about what makes life fulfilling,
what makes people happy. My question to you is, as you see
all these rich and power full elites coming into the presidency, do they strike
you as being happy and content? Is it something that you envied to look
at these people or is it I'm kind of guessing that it wasn't. But
I don't know what was your take on seeing these people, because I've had
an opportunity to see a lot of wealth and famous people, and I feel
really sorry for a lot of them, right Frankly, I do too,
you know, it's amazing to me. You if you're around them long enough,
you can see then let their hair down a little bit. And you
know, my contention is, my belief is that we all have about the
same number of problems and troubles in life, and they're just different. You
know, the rich the very rich have a different set of problems than the
poor have, but probably about the same number of problems. And it doesn't
go away. The acquisition of wealth and power and all of this does not
eliminate the problems. It just changes them. So you really have to have
your north star set on something besides things of the earth and things of this
world. And that's why I you know, in good weather and in bad
for richer or poor, my saviors Jesus Christ, and it's not going to
matter to me. You know, it isn't going to affect my happy meter,
my contentment, my joy, my peace, the outcome of an election,
you know, because that's already set. That perspective is already rock solid,
and it's built on a different kind of rock then you know the outcome
of human elections. So that's my perspective on that. And I see these
people, but I don't envy any of them. Yeah, yeah, that's
right. Nothing can come between you and God, right, nothing of this
And that's the thing that really as a foundation of our life. And and
I know you've had this experience as well. You know, we see people
who are rich, we see people who are famous, and I've dealt with
them. I've dealt with see common people all the time as well. And
there's not really any correlation to join contentment. As a matter of fact,
it's just the opposite. It's usually the people who are not rich and famous
who are the most content and who have the most joy, even though what's
happening to them and their happenstance and their circumstance is not necessarily something that any
of us would want. They seem to often have a greater peace and joy
because of that Christian faith. I think, Yeah, yeah, well,
it is a very interesting book and I think a great perspective for people from
what I can tell. Again, I don't have an advanced copy of it,
because we wanted to get you on very quickly and talk about what happened
over the weekend. But I think when we talk about cheating death, there's
really only one way that we're going to cheat death, isn't it, And
that is to have a relationship with the one who defeated death, isn't it.
And so I have to lean into him if you want achieve death in
the end, you know, we we would take the president out, we
would bring him back, hand him off to another team. And you cheated
death for the day, and your reward is that you get to come back
tomorrow and do it all again. And you know that's the that's the hamster
wheel that the Secret Service lives on. And so what I tried to do
with the book is to say, you know, there is a there's a
much bigger picture out there, and and we you know, we passed from
death to eternal life with Christ if we're hidden in him. So that's right,
that's my that's my doal Well, I think it's a fascinating book,
Cheating death. Three time presidential Secret Service agent lives to tell you how.
And I think, uh, there's so much in there for people. People
are always interested in what is going on at the center of power, but
the real center of power is not located in Washington. It's a lot of
it is located in your family. And you've got some great advice I think
in terms of how that operates. Thank you so much for joining us.
And is there a website for people to get or just Amazon to get your
book? Yes, sir, it's it's definitely available on Amazon, Barnes and
Noble, Walmart, all that. But I put all the links to that
on Kenneth Valentine dot com and you can you can order it either way.
Okay, Kenneth Valentine dot com. We'll put that in the notes. Thank
you so much for coming on, Thank you for telling your story. Thank
you for your encouragement to everybody. We're gonna take a quick break, folks,
and we'll be right back. Joy listening to the David Knight Show.
Well, welcome back, and let's finish talk a little bit about Jade Vance,
because again, it's kind of interesting to look at his life as policies
and things like that, but we never really know what somebody is going to
do in advance. There hasn't been any indication of there hasn't been any contraindication
in terms of his integrity except for the rapid change that is there, and
that is concerning. But we can take a look at what he has done
and pushed in the short period of time that he's been the Senate of what
was said in his election, and of course it was a great deal that
was discussed about his life and along with his priorities he says are to dismantle
the big tech oligarchy. Now, this is a guy who basically became part
of the big tech oligarchy, and it is possible that now he wants to
dismantle it. I mean, he's part of, you know, one of
the key people. They're Peter Tiele, the PayPal mafia. You know,
so many people who came together and created PayPal, of course, Peter Tiele
and Elon Musk emerging their two companies together. And then so many people that
were in the PayPal corporation went on to fund venture capital firms themselves and to
fund other people's ideas. So he wants to dismantle what he says is the
big tech oligarchy. Now, maybe perhaps what he's talking about with that as
a social media companies, because that's what he has mentioned in the article Facebook,
Google, He said they have an unfair advantage in the marketplace. There's
not a marketplace anymore. The digital town square doesn't exist except in theory should
be there, it should be supported that a y Combinator event earlier this year,
Vance said he's a fan of strong anti trust rules. He noted that
blockchain technology like that used by bitcoin will be necessary to challenge social media companies.
Now that's good. That's why you're not going to be able to break
a monopoly ever by doing legislation. It'll always find a way to do it.
Just take a look at what happened with rockefil and the standard will the
way that he just you know, yeah, okay, we'll break it up
and we'll have you know, the different companies, just like AT and T
and the baby Bells and things like that. But they still will be able
to maintain that monopoly. The only thing is going to change any of that
is going to be changing the technology that is there. That's what changes monopolies.
That and only that. Advance is also an advocate for domestic natural gas
and will production. Opposes electric vehicles and solar power. Ohio is ranked six
in the US and gas production. It is the eighth largest consumer of coal.
Vance has denied climate change and call the whole evy thing, he said,
a scam. All of that is very good. I mean that I
one hundred percent agree with. But of course he's also been on the other
side of the climate change thing. He supported it, climate alarmism. He
supported before he was opposed to it. Now he is opposed to it.
Jade Vance in terms of abortion the Middle East, He's skeptical, he says,
of American overseas intervention. He says raising territs will create new jobs.
And yet, even as he says he's skeptical of American intervention, this is
sent to me by Mary Ellen Moore. Is independent or if he's owned by
the tech companies, if he's owned by Israel, what are the things that
are out there? Again? You know he's capable of flip flopping as all
these politicians and reinventing himself evolved being if we will. Vance says he opposes
abortion rights even the case of incessor rape. Says there should be exceptions for
cases in which the mother's life is in danger. I would agree with that.
He ran for Senate in twenty twenty two. A headline on the Issues
section of his campaign website simply read ban abortion that said, says the New
York Times advance like Trump opposes a national abortion ban, saying the issue should
now be left to the states. But look, that is the constitutional legal
position. And it's not the constitutional legal position because the Supreme Court says so.
It's the constitutional. It's the legal and constitutional because the Bill of Rights
says so in the tenth Amendment, and they finally recognized it in the Dobbs
cases. I said, for the longest time, when are we going to
have a governor who's going to stand up and say, as Andrew Jackson said
to the Supreme Court, you've made your decision, let's see you enforce it.
They if you call their bluff on these issues like the drug war,
like the redefinition of marriage, like the definition of when life begins and when
we can supposedly take it innocent life. If you stand up to them,
they don't have a basis. It's patently absurd to think that anybody in the
federal government, whether it is the Supreme Court or whether it's the President,
or whether it is the Congress, none of the three branches has the authority
Nobody in Washington, no bureaucracy, no legislative, executive, or judicial branch,
has the authority to do the types of things that they've all done.
And so from a constitutional standpoint, they don't have any authority. Like I
said before, if you don't like that, change the constitution. But having
a law passed by the legislature and signed by the president is not the way
to go. That just nullifies the constitution. That takes us down a very
dangerous path. And then from a pragmatic perspective, we can see that nullification
as it has been practiced. Well mean that if you take this legislative path
and you define it in Washington legislatively instead of jial judiciously judicially, I should
say, if you're going to take that path, you're going to wind up
having more babies killed. It's just that simple. You're going to lose it
all in pursuit of absolute control over this because you're going to have the Blue
States will nullify it, the so called Red States will not. On Ukraine,
he has good positions and he has taken some good actions, and I
think that perhaps this is one area that I would expect that he's solid on
Because of his military experience, Vans has been one of the leading opponents of
US support for the Ukraine war with Russia, and he says, I think
it's ridiculous that we're focused on this border in Ukraine. I've got to be
honest with you. I don't really care what happens to Ukraine or the other.
That's refreshing to hear somebody say that. That is my core belief about
all of these wars, whether you talking about Ukraine or Israel, or what's
going on with Taiwan. I don't care one way or the other. We
should be our politicians should be focused on what is happening in America. We've
got too many problems right now to be trying to be the global empire that
in and of itself will destroy this country alone. He led the battle and
the Senate unsuccessfully to block the sixty billion dollar military and package, aid and
package for Ukraine. Again, He's got more integrity than Mike Johnson with this,
far more, he said. I voted against this package in the Senate
and remain opposed to virtually any proposal for the US Senate to continue funding this
war. He said Biden has failed to articulate even basic facts about what Ukraine
needs and how this aid will change the reality on the ground. In terms
of the vaccine, I searched long and hard, and I could not find
any criticism of the vaccine. Like the rest of the GOP, JD events
will take the position that the mandates were bad, but I'm not going to
say anything about the vaccine. As a matter of fact. He wrote an
op ed piece in twenty twenty one opposing vaccine mandates at Ohio State University.
Said I'm in Ohio State alumni, and he said, you know, I
pose this as an outrageous invasion of medical privacy. But again, they don't
oppose the poison because it was produced by Trump. And you won't find anyone
in the GOP, including JdE events that will oppose the vaccine. The safe
thing is to oppose a mandate. The safe thing is to talk about the
fiction of how this is created in a lab, produced the idea that it
was a real pandemic when it was not. But he spoke out against the
vaccine mandate, and again he was running at the time for Senate, and
his op ed piece he says, first, let's start with a basic timeline.
A lot of people chose Ohio State over other schools because it didn't mandate
a vaccine. But now having reached the point of roturn, having in no
return, and having invested time and money and their Ohio State University decision,
they learned that the university has now changed this policy. Second, the policy
suffers from the confused messaging that is so common in today's fear heightened environment.
This is again Jade Vance writing this op ed piece in twenty twenty one.
There's no reason to effectively ignore the effects of natural immunity, he said.
Third, these are new vaccines, and while they've been proven safe in the
short term, no, no, but he doesn't want to oppose Trump.
The long term risk is said or impossible to know this point. And I
say this, he said, as someone who got the shot myself. Okay,
he said, I have encouraged at risk family to do the same.
So he's publicly, whether or not he believes is privately or not, he
is publicly buying into the alarmism of the pandemic, buying into the shot.
He's only concerned about the mandates, apparently, and that's if what he's saying
here is true. The decision, if what he's saying here is true,
is not as wise and as smart as you might hope. The decision to
not get vaccinated, he said, is often rooted in caution about long term
risks, not a rejection of science or of the severity of COVID. Well,
I rejected all of those. I mean, I've looked at that.
I said, long term risk, you have no idea. But I do
know that this isn't science, and I do know that COVID is not severe,
and I can see that from my own observation. Call it science or
whatever you want, but real observation was what I was basing my stuff on,
and a knowledge of history how these people have operated, what they've done
over this amount of time. He said that caution must be allowed in a
free society, not stamped out through mandates. Finally, he said, and
perhaps most importantly, wrote J. D. Evans, our society needs to
respect bodily autonomy and family choice. In the last year, we've lost thousands
of our fellow citizens to a new pandemic. You said, no, We've
lost them to Trump's ventilators. Trim de severe, to do not resuscitate,
orders to do not treat people. That's what we're losing people to. It
came very close to take looking on the planned parenthood people. We said we
need to respect bodily autonomy and family choice. But I have yet to see
a single Republican say, all you people out there who are talking about being
pro choice, you don't want me to have a choice about my body.
And there's no question that the vaccine is about your body. The open question,
and I think it's not an open question for anybody who looks carefully at
it, is whether or not the baby is your body. The baby is
not your body. Frequently it has a different blood type, it has different
DNA half the time, is a different sex and gender. So it is
not your body. He said, had our leader is openly questioned they came
from a lab leak and up ended our lives, He said, the world
has moved so fast, and our leaders should treat their fellow citizens as people
trying to figure out how to do the right thing, not as enemies of
science who need to be ordered around. Well, there's some good stuff in
there, but there's some troubling stuff in there. And I guess we could
say the same thing about JD Vance in general on Rumble, ratisbro thank you
for the tip, says Trump vance TV for TV. That's good. I
like that a lot. It's the reality TV Trump vance the initials even they
say it all that's good on rumbled. Don't frag me bro. Right,
So, the vast majority of people today have zero understanding of what it means
to be responsible for their own choices. That's right. Yeah, the people
who are pregnant did not have an immaculate conception. Let's just say it that
way, okay, COVID nineteen rules. He also came out talking about the
lockdown rules where businesses are suffering, called it fundamental unfairness. And who was
talking about that in terms of Ohio, that in terms of Michigan. Because
one individual who was having their life's work destroyed by this superstition. It's not
science, it's superstition, he said, first, just the fundamental unfairness of
it. Right, you have politicians who are instituting lockdown orders where they're not
following him themselves. One thing Americans are told is to follow the rules,
and people who are creating the rules aren't following them themselves. Again, pointing
at the time to Newsom Cuomo Pelosi. We could also point in other countries
to Matt Hancock and Borce Johnson and so many others. Why do you think
they don't follow the rules, Well, because they don't believe it's a pandemic
either. If they believe that it was a pandemic, they would follow those
rules. But just arbitrary capricious rules. It was an arbitrary and capricious exercise
of power. And with something like that, we have a duty and out
obligation to oppose those kind of arbitrary, capricious, unlawful, unconstitutional orders from
these people. Vancays. The Fox News appearance came on the heels of his
Netflix movie He'll Billy Elogy, which I have yet to see. As I
pointed out, I don't know if I'll watch it or not. I just
don't have time for movies. In terms of crypto, he reportedly has one
hundred thousand dollars in bitcoin, and I don't know how all that report was,
but they do have to file reports as to how they have their how
much money they got, where it is invested in that type of thing.
And so he is in favor of crypto. I think that's a good thing.
I mean, as I said many times, I don't personally, I'm
not interested in investing in something that is as volatile as the crypto market.
I'm not interested in something that is accessible to thieves all over the world and
many other things like that. But you know, I think it ought to
be there. I think it's a good check against the power of the Federal
Reserve. He drafted a bill to revamp how Washington police's digital assets Last year.
Vance introduced a bill that would shield banks from regulatory pressure to cut off
crypto customers. And we know that's what was happening. We know that was
what drove the failure of those three banks. As a matter of fact,
one of them did not fail. It was simply closed under threats because it
was completely solvent. Nobody lost any money, they didn't have to dip into
the FDIIC. The Biden administration just wanted that bank closed because they dealed dealt
with crypto. One lobbyist said that Vance's draft bill is more industry friendly than
the House passed legislation. Crypto firms argue that the SEC has claimed too much
authority over the marketplace, and of course that is one of the big issues
as well. They still view crypto as a security, which brings a whole
set of regulations and things like that. And that's one of the things that's
been peeled back over a period of time for gold and so many different gold
and silver and so many different states, to get rid of the sales tax
on it in so many states, and to treat it as it is legitimate
money and not the exchange of some kind of a security. JD. Vance
is an oil booster and a doubter of human caused climate change. As I
said, he once said that society had a climate problem. So again he's
not firm on this. He seems to be malleable on all these things right
now, he's saying all the right things, But again in twenty sixteen,
Trump pretty much said all the right things. As well as recently as twenty
twenty, Vance said in a speech at Ohio State University, we have a
climate problem in our society. He praised so energy he called natural gas and
improvement over dirtier forms of energy, but not the sort of thing that's going
to take us to a clean energy future. Now, then you fast forward
to twenty twenty two, his positions on climate change took a sharp turn.
Now, he says, I'm skeptical of the idea the climate change has caused
purely my man. As I pointed out yesterday, by the way, you
know, look at the volcanic effects. You know, we have the big
volcano that blew up near Tonga, the Hunga volcano. Think about it as
Hunga mangus. It was really big. It was underwater, though, and
that works exactly the opposite of when you have a large volcano on land.
And as I mentioned yesterday, Krakatoa east of Java. There was a movie
about that when I was a kid. A major, major volcano that exploded
in the middle of the eighteen hundreds, and it threw up so much debris
from the land of volcano that it created very very cold temperatures for several years
around the world. But it works differently when you have an underwater volcano.
This was a huge underwater volcano that threw up so much water into the atmosphere
vaporized it as you know water vapor that goes up in states. It increased
the amount of water vapor And if you want to talk about a greenhouse gas,
the biggest greenhouse gas by far is water and that one volcano increased that
by ten percent. So if there is a warming of temperatures for the next
few years, this year and for the next few years, it is attributable
to that volcano, not to anything that's done by man. He says,
anything that's caused purely by man, it's not caused by man at all,
except for the people that are doing geoengineering. Let's we talk about that.
But other than jew engineering, there is no man made climate change. So
to kind of sum up some of the things that he's some of the interesting
quotes that he's had, Politico said, well, here's fifty five things you
need to know about Jade Vance. You don't need to know all fifty five
of them. I've mentioned many of them already, and I won't go through
all these, but there were a few of these that I thought were interesting.
He said. I'll be the first to admit that I've accomplished nothing great
in my life. He said, when he wrote the introduction to his book,
He'll Biliology in twenty and sixteen, and at that point in time,
he was married. At that point in time, he'd been married two years
and got married in twenty fourteen. A decade ago, so he had been
married for two years. He and his wife had were making a lot of
money in a venture capital firm. But he says he had not accomplished anything
great in his life. So what was it that he thought would be right?
I think this is interesting. He says, I'm not a senator,
I'm not a governor. I'm not a former cabinet secretary. I haven't started
a billion dollar company or a world changing nonprofit. Those are the things that
he thought were important. Is that something that's on your list? None of
those things are on my list. None of those things are on my bucket
list. To be a senator or governor or cabinet secretary, to have a
billion dollar company or a world changing nonprofit. I think it's an interesting perspective
on the guy. That's how he defines himself. You know, as I
said in the interview earlier with Ken Valentine, you know when you look at
right in the middle of Jesus telling people about the effect of money, you
know you can't serve two masters, and don't lay up treasures on earth,
lay up your treasures in heaven. And you know, and if you're worried
about God providing for you. Don't worry about that. He provides for the
birds of the air and so forth, and the flowers in the field.
He will provide for you. You're more important to him than that. In
the midst of all that the thing we were talking about before, the light
of the eye, and he's always look at that. It's like, what
is that about? You have to understand there's a context of that that's within
all of these examples where he's talking about the effect of money on people.
What you value, What is a priority in your life? What is it
that you want to achieve in life? Where do you find your security,
Where do you find contentment, what do you serve? What are you enslaved
to? And so when you look at that, you know the light of
the eye. Is that what you were desiring, what you were focused on?
I think it is. And you know, right in the middle of
this discussion about money, Jesus who said the love of money is the root
of all evil. You know, as we talked about it before, we
have the lust of the eye, right, lust of the eye. I
think that is greed. I think the lust of the flesh. Of course,
that is sex. So you got money, you got sex, and
you got the pride of life power. Those are the three things that all
of us struggle with. Trump struggles with it, Jade Evans struggles with it.
Everybody struggles with that. Those are the things that seek to dominate us.
Those are the things that he's not come to terms with that We should
all think about it. Like I said, this is more important really our
insights as we look into somebody's public life in the same way that the Bible
gives us all these stories about individuals throughout the Bible. Karen showed me a
cartoon like a Simpsons thing or something, and Homer said, yeah, I
just read through the Bible. He said, all these people except for one
are really messed up. Well, that's the point, and that's the perspective
really of God seeing how messed up we are. There's no hagiographies except for
one in the Bible. We don't you know, we don't worship men.
We see the flaws of men. Even people, even great people like King
David, had their big flaws. And so when we look at the lives
of other people, I'm not looking at jd Vance's life as you know,
holier than now type of thing, but as the common struggles that we all
face. In the same way that we look at the life of David and
we see the common things that we all struggle with, we don't hopefully look
at the life David say I'd never make that mistake. Watch out. That
kind of attitude goes before a fall. But you know, when we look
at these public lives, I think that's one of the key things, is
to see that we can see some things, of course and other people that
we don't see in ourselves. And that's the difficult thing, is to apply
those lessons to ourselves. Reflecting on his first encounter with Peter Teel in twenty
eleven, he wrote, Teal articulated a feeling that I was obsessed with achievement
in itself, not as an end to something meaningful, but to win a
social competition. My worry that I had prioritized striving over character took on a
heightened significance striving for what. He said, Well, again, that kind
of introspection is good. Maybe it's a hopeful sign for him. Growing up,
he said, I always distinguished my address from my home. My address
was where I spent most of my time with my mother and sister, wherever
that might be. But my home never changed, my great grandfather, grandmother's
house in the hallor in Jackson, Kentucky. So when we look at this
and we look at the devastating effect of his broken home and the drug abuse
and the alcoholism, and and I would say, also not just an alcoholism
or drug abuse, but where does that come from? It comes from the
fact that they don't have a connection to God. And so this is Uh,
he is unusual in the extent in the in the way that he was
able to escape the gravitational pull of those types of addictions in his society.
And maybe he has things that he can say to the public that will be
helpful about that. Who knows, We'll have to wait and see. But
uh, it ought to be a concern to all of us because the thing
that parents do in their homes have massive repercussions for their kids' lives, massive
repercussions. And don't just dismiss this because well, Jade Vance is able to
turn out, Okay, you know the way that we value success in terms
of what in terms of money, in terms of power, it's too soon
to say about that. And it also depends on what your definition of success
is when he was in the second Marine Aircraft Wing. And again I don't
know was he a photographer? That's what somebody said here. He said,
I served my country and I saw when I went to a rock that I
had been lied to. The promises of the foreign policy establishment were a complete
joke. Who was it that lied to him? Oh? It was the
person that Trump picked to run the CNIA, Gina Haspital, The person who
lied to everybody, the person who tortured people illegally. And think about it.
I'm harp on this because to torture these people in order to get them
to produce lies that you can lie us into a war. How unbelievably vile
that whole chain of sins are. She had absolutely no concern about the law.
She had no concern about ethical or moral issues, no concern about her
fellow man, She had no concern with the truth. As a matter of
fact, she did all of these things in order to subvert the truth,
and then she was rewarded by Trump for doing that. Trump said, we
were led into the war. Did he not know who ran the lies?
Did he just do what he was told? Yes, he did what he
was told, and he will do what he has told in the second term
as well. While at Yale, he attended to talk by Peter Teel about
technological stagnation in the decline of American elites. He saw these two trends as
connected, he said. He later recalled in his first encounter with Peter Teel,
he said, if technological innovation we're actually driving real prosperity, our elites
wouldn't feel increasingly competitive with one another over a dwindling number of prestigious outcomes,
he said. He called Teal's talk the most significant moment of his time at
Yale. Do you believe that he's absolutely wrong about that? He couldn't be
more wrong about that. I don't know if that's his conclusion about what Peter
Teele was saying, or that was Peter Tiele's thesis about you know, I
know that Peter tile has talked about technological stagnation and that's a key theme of
his However, this again is this kind of technocratic lie. It's kind of
technocratic naivete if you will, about how technology is going to solve everything,
and listen to this again, if techno logical innovation we're actually driving real prosperity,
our elites wouldn't be increasingly competitive with each other. You think that's true.
You think the people who have focused their life around the acquisition of money
and power, you don't think they'd be fighting with each other. You don't
think that they love money and power so much that they would not be fighting
with each other if they're all making massive amounts of it. We have people
who have more wealth, we have more concentration of wealth and more power and
fewer hands than we have ever had in the history of the world, and
they're still not satisfied with it. They're still going to war with each other.
He doesn't understand anything about human nature, and he rejects the fundamental insights
that Christ gives us in his teaching when he says things like this is naive.
The love of money is causing this competition, this rivalry that is increasing
all of the time. The idea that the common man will own nothing,
that the global leadists will own everything. We've never seen people with a kind
of technology that they have. We've seen human nature be this ruthless, but
they've never had the tools to make it happen before. And it is not
more. Technology is not the cure. The technology just makes these people more
dangerous. Quite frankly, so unrumble Froggy Trail says Trump is one hundred percent
controlled opposition. Yeah, he's going to fill his administration with swamp creatures all
over again. And Maga will say he's exposing them imbeciles. That's my fundamental
take on JD. Vance. I think he is a shape shifting chameleon who
will do whatever he needs to do to advance his blind ambition as one.
As Chris Sillo said, So we're going to take a quick break and when
we come back, I've got a little bit more to say about this before
we move on to some other topics. And I do want to move on
to some other topics. I want to talk about more questions about the assassination
being put up all the time. Also, we now see that the conservatives
are now saying speech is violence. Be careful what you say. You can't
say anything like that. You can't use these simple terms that we've always used
in terms of talking about competition or what a no no no. Speech is
violence. I hate to see that happening. And we have some updates on
pandemic on on CBDC and other issues. So we're going to take a quick
break and we will be right back. New World Order in music one two,
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I have the David Night Show to keep me informed on the plots of these
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welcome back. Let's take a I mean, we're about halfway through this list.
And again, as I said, a lot of these things I've already
mentioned, or you don't need to know of these fifty five points things that
you need to know about Jade Evans his wife he met. He said she
would make an excellent heroine in an Ein Ran novel. But she has a
great sense of humor, he said, and Ironran didn't seem to have a
very good sense of humor. Colleagues described her, though, as liberal or
moderate. As I said before, she was somebody who clerked for John Roberts
then for Brett Kavanaugh. She met him in Yale Law School. Her parents
were technical people who immigrated to California from India. Vance's memoir Hill Billy Elogy,
published in twenty sixteen, he said about the industrial economy in the US,
he said, there is a lack of agency here, a feeling that
you have little control, a feeling that you have little control over your life,
and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. Again, that's the key
thing I was mentioning before key insight about what has happened to conservatives to put
all their hope in getting the right person in Washington. It won't make any
difference to your life and it's not going to change anything. He credited this
conversion to I guess being a trumper via Teal to the writings of a French
philosopher, Rene Gerard, who Teel studied under at Stanford. Gerard is famous
for his theory of mimetic desire. The human beings imitate the desires of their
peers, ultimately giving rise to rivalries and violent conflicts that are resolved by scapegoating
a common enemy. Again, he's not based in Christianity. He's based in
philosophies like this. One of his other influences. He's said a blogger Kurtis
Chauvin, who I don't know, Rod Dreyer, who I do know,
who is very big in terms of he's a Christian, he's conservative, and
he focuses on localism. But when we look at Trump's involvement with him in
April twenty twenty two when he wanted to win the Senate race and when he
was moving his way through networking again, I guess it's something they learned in
Yale. You know, he can meet these people and you can you know
the sons of the elites, and then sons and daughters and elites, and
you can use that to get to know their fathers who are going to put
you in different places. I think he kind of did that with a Trump
family. In April twenty twenty two, Trump endorsed him and said this JD
is kissing my behind. He wants my support so bad, and again big
big support from Donald Trump Junior, Peter Teal Tucker, Carlson, Mitt Romney.
This is kind of an endorsement. I don't know that I can disrespect
someone more than I do. JD. Vance so that's one of the best
endorsements you can have for Jdvance. I guess coming from Romney again, that's
what Tucker Cralson said. He's got all the right enemies out there, but
that doesn't really get us there. What has he done in terms of bills,
Not much because he's only been there about a year and a half.
His two biggest initiatives were done with progressive Democrats. Now, one of them
was a railway safety reform bill because and he did that with a Democrat,
Shared Brown, who is also from Ohio. The two senators from Ohio got
together to do something about a railroad safety reform bill because of that horrific situation
in Palestine, Ohio. I think they call it Palestine Frankenstein Frankenstein. And
it wasn't even really the derailment that was the big issue. The big issue
was the fact they said the thing on fire and blew it up. But
yeah, so he did that with Shared Brown, and then he put together
something with Elizabeth Warren, an executive pay clawback provision with Elizabeth Warren. Now
that's kind of interesting, isn't it. A redistributive redistribution approach from folcahannas.
I don't know that I could ever find any common ground with Elizabeth Warren on
a single thing, especially something's economic. He suggested that the Biden administration is
allowing fentinel to cross over the southern border as part of a deliberate strategy to
kill Republican voters. He said, if you wanted to kill a bunch of
MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them
and their kids with this deadly fentanyl. It does look intentional. It's like
Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn't vote for him. Well,
again, we look at the war on drugs, and maybe he didn't get
the full lesson in his family because they're all struggling with alcohol or drug addiction.
His mother finally overdosed on drugs. She's supposedly been drug free for a
few years now. But you don't have to be at the mercy of drugs.
It's there. But if you look to Christ, you have the power
to say no. He gives us not only forgiveness of sin, but he
gives us power over sin. And if you don't have that in your life,
you need to do something about your relationship, the one who can fix
your life. I don't look to Washington. I don't look to the Border
Patrol to stop ventanyl. I stopped vententyl by not taking it myself. I
went through I didn't have the same situation that he did. But I was
in college. I was in bands and played parties that played nightclubs all the
rest of this stuff. I didn't take any drugs. Why Well, I
had a foundation, it was Christian. I had other issues. I saw
addiction. That's why I don't understand when you see that kind of addiction in
other people, isn't that something that is a lesson that you're not going to
touch this stuff. I imagine he's got a very strong aversion to ever trying
any of these things, but he doesn't think that other people are going to
do it. And so really, you know, he's not going to help
people to get out of drug addiction as a president, and he's not going
to do it with some kind of world changing in go. He's going to
do it with a life changing relationship with christ That's where your real hope is
not in Washington. In June twenty twenty two, he put a hold on
all Biden administration appointees to the Justice Department to protest the indictments of Trump.
Well, I'm glad that he stopped all the appointments of Biden to the Justice
Department. That's a good thing in and of itself. And then one more
thing I'll talk about. He says, quote, the culture war is class
war. Again it his focus on class No, it's not. The culture
war is a spiritual war. The culture war is above most, it is
above politics. I think that I think it's Breitbart that said that the politics
is downstream from the culture war. But the culture war is downstream from spiritual
war. It's not downstream from class war. And one of the things that
concerns me about is not only the fact that you know, he's clueless as
to what is happening spiritually and with Christ, but he's also i think vulnerable
to Marxist types of fixes. If he thinks that it is a class war,
that leads him open to Marxist types of approaches, which takes us back
to what I was just talking about. He puts something in with Elizabeth Warren
to do income redistribution, a clawback provision for executive pay that is a class
war Marxist approach, Like I said, this guy is all over the place
and he's going to be a puppet of these people. He has said that
if he had been and Mike Pins his shoes in twenty twenty one, he
would not have certified the results of the twenty twenty election. Now he got
this right. This is exactly what I say. If I had been vice
president, I would have told states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, so many others
that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the US
Congress should have fought over it from there. He said, that's exactly right.
I said that. Thomas Massey said that. Thomas Massey said, they
gave us nothing to work with, And I said that on the Monday,
December the fourteenth, that the Electoral College votes were sent in, I said,
it's done. I said, there's no point in following you to stop
the steel stuff, because it's simply a grift. I said that when I
was at INFO Wars, and I got fired two days later. So it
was a grift because they could have opposed us that were getting no traction at
all in the courts. They could have and should have opposed it. There
were four states that were very narrow. He mentioned just two of them,
four states that had that were very close. I'm not sure that Pennsylvania was
one of the four. The four states that I was talking about. I
know Georgia was one of them. Had Republican majority legislatures and two of them
had Republican governors. And they could have looked at the evidence if they decided
that there was and they had razor thin margins victory for Biden, so they
could have sent a second state of electors from the state legislature. They did
not. Instead, you had some places where the legislators who had been put
on a list said well, we're going to send our votes, and they
had no authority at that point. They have to be designated by the governor
of the legislature. So let's end this up here. He's forty years younger
than Trump. Trump is already older than Reagan when Reagan left office, and
so there's a pretty good chance that if Trump wins, this guy will become
president one day. And like I said, it is going to be interesting
to see the debate of nothing else else. I've never seen such a mismatch
in terms of Laila Harris and pretty much anybody else, but certainly with this
guy, it'll be very interesting. We're going to take a break and we
will be right back analyzing the globalists. Next move and now the Deevid nutshell.
Well, let's talk real quickly about the Great Replacement. Was as we
were going through that, one person who was talking about J. D.
Vance said, well, he supports this white supremacist idea of the Great Replacement.
Well, it's not just something that is affecting white people. It's affecting
people urban rural. It's affecting people in Democrat states, Republican states. It's
affecting people of ethnicity. Here's an example. Moped mounted crime is soaring as
migrants are bringing this in from the Third World. It's a tactic that they
use. Latin Americans are quite familiar with these attacks, and some of them
in New York are being attacked by the new arrivs US. Followers of Phoenix,
Arizona based Active Self Protections YouTube channel are very familiar with attacks carried out
by two criminals riding on a single mopet or a dirt bike. The mo
that facilitates both surprise and a quick getaway. Sometimes the criminals don't even dismount.
Sometimes it just you know, hit you and steal your purse or something
like that on the run. In other instances, one or both may get
off of the ride regardless. They frequently wield deadly weapons to compel their victims
to give up valuables. A recent experience of two friends strolling in Brooklyn's Green
Point neighborhood after eleven pm on Thursday night, they say, a man in
a ski mask jumped off the back moped and pointed a gun at one of
them, taking the twenty nine year old man's watch and the thirty two year
old woman's purse. The gunman then hopped back on the moped and the getaway
driver sped the two criminals off into the night. It was very quick,
but it's obviously super rattling. I've lived in the area for over seven years
now, and I've never felt unsafe, said the woman. She asked that
her name be kept out of print because she is worried about retaliation, another
tactic from these countries. The female victim was certain that the criminals were Venezuelan,
she said, based on her familiarity with her accents thanks to having grown
up in that country, and then she said this, it's pretty insane for
this to be happening here. My family left Venezuela because crimes like that are
very common there and they just didn't want to be growing up in that kind
of lack of safety. She said, I've mentioned example many times about a
father who left El Salvador, where MS thirteen is in control. Of course,
MS thirteen was initially created by some gang members out of la but then
they really are based out of El Salvador. And it was a father whose
daughter had been killed and he was on Long Island and he said, you
know, there was they had a dispute or something at school and they just
killed his daughter. And so he had all these kids who'd come in deferred
action for childhood rivals Obama's dhaka. They had MS thirteen tattoos all over their
faces, literally written on their faces what they were. They were here illegally.
The federal government would not do anything about it. There are members of
MS thirteen. Federal government would not do anything about it, and they killed
his daughter. And he said, I came here same like like this woman.
Some one says, we left in as well because of things like that.
That were happening there. This guy said, I left El Salvador because
of MS thirteen and now they've killed my daughter in Long Island, washing hundreds
of thousands of illegal immigrants in New York City is the top hotspot for moto
crime. Yeah, this is not some kind of white supremacist paranoia. This
is a deliberate takedown of our country by the people who have opened up the
borders. They want to sow chaos, discord, civil war, violence,
crime, and everything else. I mean, just look at what the Soros
prosecutors are doing in terms of turning criminals loose or as I reported, I
don't know if it's Friday or if it was yesterday about what was going on
in California where they came after target said, you're reporting, you're calling the
police too often. We're going to start finding you for calling the police.
Well, they're shoplifting and other crimes like that had doubled every year for the
past three years, and so the approaches we're going to leave the shoplifters and
the thieves alone. We're going to come after you with fines if you report
their crimes. Some victims have been targeted because their foolish choice to wear outrageously
pricey watches. And June twenty six, men in Greenwich Village had a gun
plant at his head before surrendering his ten thousand, forty thousand dollars Rolex forty
thousand dollars rolex. On June eighteenth, arm robbers stole another man's one hundred
thousand dollars watch outside of Manhattan Hotspot. I don't know. These watches must
really tell time? Well, don't you think that's my son's comment on these
expensive watches. It must be really good at telling time. Had to watch
that expensive. Don't thank you're immune from a moto attack if you don't flaunt
your money an iPhone, a purse, a wallet, all these could be
enticements for these people to engage in this type of attack. And again,
these types of ms coming in here. And then the Ohio town of fifty
eight thousand people flooded with twenty thousand Haitian migrants. The sound Familiar talked many
times about the Italian town that had six thousand. It was an island and
had six thousand residents who were Italian, and they brought in triple the number
of people from outside Italy. I mean, who isn't excited to import people
from cannibal murder land. Well, and it's flooding these areas. You can't.
These people are coming in and they're not even they're not even coming in
as families or refugees, coming in as young men because they want to get
on mopeds and steal people's money, presumably, But anyway, they've increased the
population of this in Italy they brought in. You know, it's now three
times the number of the three times of population or whatever that's there, but
here it's one third of the population. Still a big deal. They don't
have any way to care for these people who have no means of support.
Remember, if you want to immigrate into a country, you had to show
that you had means of support. That's a way it has always been in
the past, not anymore. This self imposed disaster, says spoke out about
this. JD. Vance said, this is self imposed disasters, crushing the
job prospects of our citizens, making it more difficult for Ohio families to find
homes, and draining social service programs funded by American taxpayers. People who are
here illegally should be sent back to their home countries as soon as possible.
Individuals here on temporary status should not expect to stay indefinitely. And I said
for a few years it really wasn't a problem, even though they had this
growing Haitian community. But they said people started to become uneasy when the Haitian
flag was raised at city hall instead of the US flag during the Cities Flagged
celebrations. They're marking their territory. It is their territory. City manager said,
you know, we can't add twenty thousand people to a city that has
fewer than sixty thousand and keep this going. In Germany, for example,
half of the German welfare payments are now going to foreign migrants social services.
They're taking this up. A British empire must be presented like Nazi Germany,
say, new curriculum guidelines. This is a daily skeptic out of the UK.
This is the same thing they did to post war Germany. They presented
all Germans as Nazis, and now in the UK they want to use the
schools to get people to hate British, you know, to hate Britain,
they have to portray them as Nazis. And of course they're doing the same
thing today in the USA as well. We're all Nazis, and anything that
is done to us as Nazis is therefore justify and even demand it. Well,
we're gonna take a quick break and we will be right back. You're
listening to the David Knight Show. I want to talk a little bit about
the speech is violence approach. It's been rallying cry for a lot of left
wing sensors. Well, I don't like what you had to say about sexual
orientation, or about your religious beliefs or whatever. Your speech is violence.
And now we're seeing that in the wake of Saturday's whatever it was, assassination
attempt. I guess we say we're now seeing that over and over again,
and the right is playing that card. I see this over and throughout conservative
media, alternative media. Oh look at what Biden said. He's threatening Trump.
And of course this has also been played by the left against Trump and
others. I think we have to draw the line at some somewhere, at
a reasonable focus. We're always going to have people who use the metaphors of
combat and war, especially when you're talking about these kinds of rivalries and you're
talking about politics, and we need to get a little bit of a thick
skin about it. You can tell if somebody is actually threatening somebody. And
the problem that I've had with this is that people like Steve Bannon and Jack
Pisoviet are actually threatening people, threatening specific people, and that needs to be
handled differently, rather than having this mass censorship, which is now what the
right is starting to push, both the right and the left, or pointing
fingers at other people and saying, look at what you are calling for out
here. Here's an example. Joe Biden in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt,
Well, let's talk about the conversation this has started, and it's really
about language, what we say out loud, and the consequences of those You
called your opponent an existential threat. On a call a week ago, you
said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye. There's some dispute about the
context, but I think you appreciate I didn't say crosshairs. I was talking
about focus on Look. The truth of the matter was that I guess I
was talking about it at the time, was there's very little focus on Trump's
Yeah, the term as bullseye. Oh, he can't say bulls eye now
I mistake to you. I didn't. I didn't say crosshairs, bulls.
I'm focus on him, Focus on what he's doing, Focus on one as
far as policies, focus on the number of lies he told the debate.
Focus I mean, there's there's a whole range of things that Look, I'm
not the guy that said I want to be a dictator on day one.
I'm not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election. I'm
not the guy who said that one. So you got the idea, right,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean you know, come on, come on,
this is ridiculous, and this game is being played by both the left
and the right. Speech is violent. You use bullseye and somebody took a
shot at Trump, Now it's your problem. And this is the narrative that's
being pushed by the conservative media. It's ludicrous. This speech is violence.
Biden said it was a mistake to use the word. He said, no,
it wasn't. It was not a mistake to use the word. It
was perfectly legitimate to say that. So again, I'm not going to play
this game with anybody, and I'll probably still say Trump shot. I'm talking
about something else. And they'll probably try to misconstrue that as well. How
do you talk about a threat to democracy, which is really said and things
like that, Well, how do you talk about competition without that as well?
The front page of the Washington Post and again this is another one.
This is bright part again. But I see this all over conservative and alternative
right wing media. The front page the Washington Post read Biden trains a fire
on Trump. That was a headline, Biden trains his fire on Trump and
by and he said, put him in the bulls eye and so forth.
On the day of the assassination attempt. Oh wow, really, really,
that's the best that bright Bart can do. It is absolutely absurd. Well,
we don't have a lot of time, so I'm going to go without
a break here. I want to talk a little bit about the assassination stuff,
because there's a lot of questions about that, and Bloomberg see even talking
about well, disinformation is swirling on social media after the Trump rally shooting.
Earlier, when I talked to Ken Valentine and said, you know, does
this make any said, oh, that doesn't make any sense. They know,
why would you set up a perimeter and you're checking You're not going to
wand people with a magnetometer. How does this guy, now we now got
multiple reports this guy walking around for thirty minutes, How does he walk in
with a gun? How does he get onto a roof? How does he
not have that secured? And so forth? So again, like I said
yesterday, when something is so stunningly incompetent and it goes on and on and
on and nobody ever does anything about it, you have to ask is there
malice there? And if you have something that is so amazingly such an incredible
failure that doesn't add up, it's start I have to ask yourself, well,
is there something else that is going on? And when we look at
this, a lot of people said, well, I think that this is
a setup from Biden against Trump. I haven't seen anybody else say this,
maybe hint at it a little bit, but you know, Trump himself was
at the center of the plan demic. The plandemic was, folks, the
biggest conspiracy, not a theory. You know, there's a theory about the
virus. There was a theory about a pandemic, But it was the biggest
conspiracy. All these people doing the same thing at exactly the same time,
and they rolled it out step by step. They did it from the inside,
They did it with disruption, and they rolled it out step by step.
As I said over and over again, look, ounce they're going to
do such and such a measure two months from now, as they're implementing the
one that they said they were going to do two months ago. I said,
this is not a reaction to pandemic. This is a step my step
takedown into martial law. And so it was a global conspiracy. He was
at the center of that global conspiracy Trump and then he handed it off to
Biden. Give either one of them. But Trump was at the center of
the biggest conspiracy and the biggest false flag. Understand that as well in history
the other shoe to drop from nine to eleven. And of course his pal
Rudy Giuliani was right there at the center of nine to eleven himself. So
don't give me these people a pass. But just because somebody is morally capable
of doing something like this doesn't prove that they did it. We should be
very skeptical, and as Ron Paul has said, we may never really know
what happened on Saturday on this alleged Trump assassination attempt. We may never know,
and you know, I think that's likely the case. I don't know
that we'll ever know what happened on nine to eleven. I know what didn't
happen. I know what didn't happen on nine to eleven was the official story.
I know that steel skriscrapers did not collapse in their footprint, three of
them when two of them were hit by planes, and so I know what
did not happen. I don't know what did happen. And people argue about
was it explosives, was it some kind of directed an energy weapon or this
or that? A lot of theories about what happened with that. But we
know what didn't happen, and that's the official story. And so when we
look at this, we know what didn't happen. What didn't happen was the
normal things that would be happening typically, and so we can say was it
the obvious I mean the obvious would be the DEI stuff. There's a lot
of obvious failures that are there right out in the open, and those should
be addressed. But then there's other questions about that. You know, did
Trump do the weird move and did he smash something up to side of his
You know, I've seen pictures of his ear. It doesn't look to me
like it was shot. I don't know, but you know, if it
was more like Stephen Colbert's Hero, I believe it. But I didn't see
anything unusual with his ear. So he's got a little bit of blood there.
Earlier posts misidentified the shooter as a man called Mark Violets. They said
he was a known anti fi extremist. According to NBC News, misidentified person.
Circulated posts included a photo that was someone named Marco Violi, an Italian
YouTuber. So we see this type of thing all the time. That's why
I don't want to jump into this. And we also see the type of
thing where well, it was all completely false and nobody died and all the
rest of this stuff. And folks, that's not just a sandy hook thing
that became a standard mo being pushed by people like Steve Pachennick's CIA Opera is
pushing everybody to think that no event was ever real. So that's why I'm
saying, I'm going to jump into this thing one side or the other.
And we've also seen in terms of these fake identities. Sam Hide is always
doing jokes about it. He always puts himself or some variant of himself and
these things. I think he gave himself some kind of a name that was
kind of quasi Ukrainian. But there's a picture of him and a version of
his name, Sam Hide. And he got Adam Kinsinger to bite on it,
and he put himself out of there, said well, we finally have
the ghost of Kiev revealed, you know, And he got Adam Kinzinger to
bite on it. We had a Democrat congressman and one of the senators on
one of these shootings bought into the idea that it was Sam Hide and put
that out there. And then Jake Tapper reported that and I said, come
on, I trolled him personally, and he replied and he said, well,
we were told that by us congressman. And I said, oh,
so that's your standard of truth you as congressman, that's really what you got.
At that point he blocked me. That's all I had to say.
But I wasn't going to say anything more about it. But you know,
this goes in a lot of different ways, but it is important for us
to look at this and to say you know what is really going on.
This stuff really really doesn't make any sense. This report the Secret Service is
moving people around behind Trump just before the shooting. Another person who has a
background law enforcement says, the DEI Secret Service looks like Keystone cops in action
in terms of the things that they did. He said, think about the
fact that you had the President reacted before the agents did. Once they decided
to take Trump to the beast, they it became really apparent. Trump says,
I don't have my shoes, so they let him do the shoes.
The diversion, they said, does not. This kind of diversion not in
the Secret Service playbook. They then more or less man handled the President toward
the beast. Two of the agents were women who seemed to be about five
foot six. Trump, whom they have sworn to protect, stands about six
foot three. This will be funny if it wasn't so potentially dangerous. Again,
part of what we're talking about with the DEI obvious failures that need to
be addressed. First, When they got the President safely into the beast,
one of the female agents had trouble holstering her firearm, a move that should
be instinctive if she was trained. While the president has executive oversighter of the
agency, it is up to the Secret Service agents to protect him as their
only priority. So why is this important? Well, first of all,
it's understandable why Trump would want to reassure his followers that he was fine and
still in the fight. If there had been more than one shooter, he
might have been dead by now. And the Secret Service agents did this.
They didn't forcibly move him away. When he said he wanted to shoes,
they stopped so they can get his shoes after shooting. It happened all of
this very very, very strange. Then, when he lost his Maga hat,
one of his female agents been over, leaving the President vulnerable to another
shot from a sniper if it had been a second one. And then when
they got to the stairs leading down from the platform, there was a scrum
amongst the agents because the stairs are not wide enough to hold the present and
all the agents. If there had been other shooters, this inept decision could
have proved fatal. Finally, when they got to the beast, there was
another scrum as they decided who would push President Trump into the safety of the
protective vehicle. It truly is strange. And then this is the way Bill
Maher put it just inside everything. And then I see today a view because
blood's three gods down the space. I don't want to say the election is
over. I don't because I didn't think he had had an election. He
has his amagamation, finally has his whole mark they lovely twenty minutes to jam
the mugshot. I got to say he's insane and he's a criminal. But
that mug shot and this play, this scene, what usage And never an
idiot spirits to Paris idiots who will say what the lay? But he said
putting all the thin. We got that critics, he gets raised and a
nothing a shot. It's so harm but you know the this is gonna work
for him. I can see the name is now the man a little stor
kid. So today it's it's dramatic. I should be, we should heal.
It's a horrible thing, but I'm not gonna do with the show.
Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be these crazy conspiracy theorists. I'd like this
guy. And whether or not it was planned, Oh he planned what he
was doing when he did the fist shaking, and he was no Wait a
minute, Wa a minute, we're gonna do this and again, Uh,
no protocols were followed with it. But yeah, I think at this point
we don't really believe anything that we are told directly. American Thinker, there
was a first person account of security issues on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania.
This is what I mentioned earlier. He says. My wife and I
have attended five Trump rallies, three of which were held outdoors. Once you
get to the gate, security requires you to put everything you're carrying on a
table for inspection. Then you go through a metal detector, after which an
agent with a wand gives you the once over. At least that's what happened
in four of the five rallies, but not in the one on Saturday.
He said, yesterday, I didn't get wanded. Instead, when I went
through the metal detector, which didn't go off, and then presented myself in
the usual T stance with arms out, the uniform, security simply said,
you're good, you can go through. So you know, how do you
get an AR fifteen into a venue like this? He said? The venue
itself is also a problem. You had. Dense trees are somewhat close in
they were open umbrellas. There was a water tower only about a quarter mile
away and had an excellent line of sight, he says, I'm talking about
Texas tower book repository grade line of sight. He said, a utility poll
almost right next to me with footpegs, in which a couple of people actually
partially partly climbed and there were no protests from security in order to get a
better camera shot of Trump has his motorcate arrived, elevated terrain that sloped downward
from spectator to podium and on and on. You see, they are really
begging for a security state, aren't they. As a matter of fact,
you know when I talked to Ken Valentine earlier, and he says he's working
for a company now to be able to detect all this stuff somehow remotely detecting
the gunpowder, I guess, or something like that at a distance. And
I keep thinking about how much further are we going to go down the police
state, surveillance state path. That's why Drago Drasarian, whom I've interviewed here
a couple of times, one of the first things he put out is he
said, he said they always want to have and Marxist countries. They always
want to have these types of issues, the these attacks, assassinations or planned
assassinations in order to move this towards that kind of police state, to get
people begging to have more of a police state. We see it here,
we see it in terms of equipment that people are putting together. I want
to just take you back and think for a moment about Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams. I mean, these two guys, they were from different parties.
That's the way they chose the vice president from the president. At the time
they had a true multi party election, and whoever was the top vote getter
would be president and the number two guy would be the vice president, and
they could be adamantly opposed to each other and be president of vice president,
as Adams and Jefferson were. But if you ever saw the excellent HBO production
of John Adams, really good. I loved that, And there was a
scene in it that really struck me as odd because in that scene, Jefferson
and Adams are walking down a very busy Washington, d C. As busy
and as big of a city as you would have anywhere in the United States
at that point in time, and there's people going about their business all over
the place, and here's Thomas Jefferson and John Adams walking down the sidewalk chatting
as they would in ordinary times, and as you would encounter them, for
example, in Colonial Williamsburg where they have you know, some of these re
enactors would be there and you just engage them. That was a very common
thing. As a matter of fact, during the Civil Wars, I reported
the past, you had a Colonel Arthur Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards in Britain,
came to America because he wanted to observe firsthand what was happening with the
military from a military perspective. And he entered in through Texas I think as
Galveston or something, and up through Texas in the middle of the Civil War,
and he was able. He was wearing a uniform, British soldier uniform,
so maybe that helped him. But he's able to go into all these
different camps. He was able to meet Sam Houston, he was able to
meet the generals on both sides, and he was able to, you know,
just walk into their camp and sit there and talk to them. This
kind of blows me away. I'll open everything wise. And you know,
when you look at Jefferson and Adams walking down the street, why was it
that they could do that? Well, I think it gets back to the
very thing that I was talking about before, the thing that is, these
politicians are getting hoisted by their own petard because they want to create a situation
where they run the country, where they run the world, and this American
empire that they've created is such an abomination to everybody globally as well as domestically,
that they put their lives in danger. If they didn't take all of
that power upon themselves, they'd be able to walk down the street like an
normal person. But instead they decide that they're going to run everybody's lives.
You know, in the nineteen nineties in Switzerland, it was reported that the
vast majority of people in Switzerland didn't know who the president of Switzerland was.
It wasn't because they're stupid, it wasn't because they're uninformed. It was because
the president of Switzerland didn't have a lot of impact on their life. There
wasn't a lot that the Swiss president could do at that time to them.
But now we watch every little move that the president or the vice president or
anybody else. I spent a lot of time talking about Jadvans, And again
it wasn't simply because we need to know about this man, because there are
people behind the scenes that are just using them as puppets, as placeholders to
keep you entranced and focused on them while they do something else. But the
reality is is that so much has been taken over by Washington that people increasingly
just pay no attention to their own lives. As jd Vance was appropriately saying,
it becomes a drug addiction to focus on what these people in Washington are
going to do. You create this kind of dependency on well, they're going
to fix my life or are they going to destroy my life? And when
you create that kind of an issue, now you've got a lot of people
who want to kill them on either side. They have created this whole thing
by their desire to have an empire, by their desire to dictate to you
everything. It is the price of tutalitarianism, the price that we all pay
because they will be adding additional restrictions on us and everything that we do.
And so I didn't have time to talk about it today, but Brian shallhave
so things just don't add up. There's a lot of unanswered questions and the
Trump shooting. You've got John Rappaport saying the same thing, You've got Paul
Craig Roberts saying the same thing. Now, I'm not jumping the same conclusions
that they are, and I'm not saying it was done by the CIA or
the FBI. I'm saying any of them could. And I'm saying that just
like the FBI or the CIA capable of doing this morally capable, technologically capable,
so are Trump and Biden and whoever it is it's running their organizations.
They are morally, ethically, technologically capable of pulling off all this stuff.
Anyway, here's the key thing. Don't make that your life. Thanks for
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