WEBVTT 1 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.560 In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a 2 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.079 revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. 3 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.679 As the clock strikes thirteen, it's the fifteenth of December, 4 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.759 You're of our Lord, twenty twenty six. Today, we're going 5 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:58.280 to begin with the we missed the Common Sense anniversary 6 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.560 that happened on Saturday, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 7 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.159 of Thomas Paine's Common Sense. A lot has been said 8 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:07.760 about this being the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 9 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.680 the Declaration of Independence coming up on July fourth. However, 10 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:16.239 you can't have a declaration of independence without common sense, 11 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.560 and we don't have any common sense left today, and 12 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:20.159 we're to talk. 13 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:21.359 About why that is. 14 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:27.239 What was the central theme of common Sense. We're going 15 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:29.359 to take a look at that, and we're going to 16 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.040 take a look at how far away we are from 17 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:35.319 that and have we lost the ability to not only 18 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.959 critically think, but even to read it. That appears to 19 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:43.040 be the case with upcoming college freshmen. We'll be right back. 20 00:01:43.079 --> 00:02:11.120 Stay with us. And by the way, I didn't mention 21 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.319 at the beginning, but tony Ardubin is going to be 22 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:15.800 joining us at the bottom of the hour. Here in 23 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.000 just about a half hour, so we're anxious to talk to Tony. 24 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.240 So much has been happening. Unbelievable, isn't it. You know, 25 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.960 It's the thing says you know, sometimes you have years 26 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:29.280 that are compressed into just weeks, and that really is 27 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.599 the case. And we've had periods of time where really 28 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:35.159 not much has happened, but that's not the time that 29 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.680 we're living in right now. And so the question is, 30 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.599 you know, these are the kinds of times that trimends souls, 31 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.759 right The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Paine's 32 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.599 Common Sense was on January tenth, this last Saturday. We 33 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.879 didn't talk about that before. But I think, first of all, 34 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.400 it's kind of interesting when you look at how pervasive 35 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:02.759 that was at a time and there was no government schooling. 36 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.159 People had common sense, They had the ability to think critically, 37 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.159 they had the ability to read, and America was full 38 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.400 of readers. They grew up reading their Bible because it 39 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:18.120 was a Christian society that was there at the time. 40 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:20.360 This was a situation where. 41 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.719 All the population of all the colonies at that time 42 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.280 it was only two and a half million. We've got 43 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.680 cities that are far bigger than that right now, several 44 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.159 of them, unfortunately, and they're not really very well run. 45 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:38.560 But there was only two and a half million people 46 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.800 in the thirteen original colonies, and they printed up ten 47 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.479 thousand copies of it, but there was so much demand 48 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.599 that within three months they had sold one hundred and 49 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.840 twenty thousand copies in a country of only two and 50 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.639 a half million people. And they didn't just put them 51 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.360 on the shelf. They read them. Yeah, Thomas Jeffers, George 52 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.960 Washington read it to his troops for morale purposes. This 53 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.280 is why we're fighting. It's very important to understand that 54 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.000 and what was the central theme of it. That's what 55 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.639 we're going to talk about. But before that, I just 56 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.520 wanted to compare it to what we have here in 57 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.279 the twenty first century. If you go back and look 58 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.879 at it, if you normalize that to the population, one 59 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.040 hundred and twenty thousand copies to two and a half 60 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.480 million people, that's about one copy for every twenty one people, 61 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.319 a lot of copies. And so do we have any 62 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:36.839 books that have hit that kind of level, And actually no, 63 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:42.839 that'd be about fifteen million copies in today's American population. 64 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.319 We don't have any books that hit anything like that, 65 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.680 So a matter, right, The first Harry Potter book sold 66 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:51.480 over eight million copies in the first twenty four hours 67 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:55.959 here in the United States. It went on with cumultive 68 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:57.800 sales in the United States, the first one to sell 69 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.680 eleven and a half million. Now they did well fifteen 70 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.199 million in the first twenty four hours worldwide. Half of 71 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.079 that was in the United States. But we're talking about 72 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.680 the population of that comes down to even fewer per 73 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:13.600 capita if you'd take it out to the entire world 74 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.480 billions of people. But we're talking about a country of 75 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.319 two and a half million people, one hundred and twenty 76 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:25.279 thousand copies of this thing. So it was a cultural touchstone, right, 77 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.079 I mean, this is like Harry Potter, Star Wars, all 78 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.399 the rest of the stuff. And isn't it interesting how 79 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.680 frivolous our society has become in terms of entertainment. I mean, 80 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.600 we look at something that has that kind of cultural impact. 81 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.279 The only thing we can do is movies or things 82 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.839 like that, fiction fantasy. That's the world that we live in. 83 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:46.480 As a matter of fact, when you look at some 84 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.879 of the other titles that even they didn't achieve what 85 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.959 Harry Potter did, but that came close to it. You 86 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:58.040 have titles like The Hunger Games or fifty Shades of 87 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:03.000 Gray Porn. You know, that's the kind of stuff that 88 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.920 we consume today. There's not any serious discussions of what's 89 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:13.800 going on. And he was, as World Magazine says, the original, 90 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:15.879 No King's protester. 91 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:17.160 That's right. 92 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.839 That was a real central theme of common sense, the 93 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:28.879 juxtaposition of rule by a dictator, by a king versus 94 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.839 the rule of law. That was the central issue there, 95 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.120 and that is the central issue of our time as well. 96 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:40.439 This is why I keep coming back to it. I 97 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.319 don't care what the stated end is. I could agree 98 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.000 with the stated end of Trump, not that I necessarily 99 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.519 believe that his policies, his tactics in terms of achieving 100 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:55.160 that end would even work. But I do see them 101 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.800 as being a very very dangerous precedent. They'll be seized 102 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.120 by the next person that's out there. Once that power 103 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.560 is put in the oval office, it's going to stay 104 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.040 and it's going to be used by the next occupant, 105 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.759 and the one after that and the one after that. 106 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.439 That is what is so dangerous about that, and that 107 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.240 is the president in which we live now. You know, 108 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.160 there were so many people that were accused in early 109 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.120 American history of being kings, and that was the accusation 110 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.240 that was usually me that somebody was ambitious. That's what 111 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.120 they said about Lincoln and that he wanted to be king. 112 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.560 The same thing about Alexander Hamilton, same thing about Andrew Jackson. 113 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.000 He's imperial and he acts like a king. That type 114 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:40.800 of thing that was a criticism. And yet now Trump 115 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.079 actually really embraces this. It's just like we talked about 116 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:48.240 the idolatry of Maga, and well, we're not. You know, 117 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.720 we're not worshiping him as God. I worshiped God and 118 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.480 he is my president. I really like that. No, you're 119 00:07:54.519 --> 00:08:01.399 putting your trust in Donald Trump. That is idol. As 120 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.600 a matter of fact, this article from a World magazine says, well, 121 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.319 you know, Thomas Paine got it wrong because his theology 122 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.879 wasn't very well informed. I mean, he really wasn't a Christian. 123 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.879 Later on he was something of a DS but not 124 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.439 so much even that, and he made some arguments on 125 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:22.600 the Bible. Of course, one of them is coming from Samuel, 126 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:27.040 where the people come to Samuel and they say we 127 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:30.199 want a king. And what does the God say? He 128 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.720 says to Samuel, they haven't rejected you as judge. They 129 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.759 have rejected me. Is because they put their trust in kings. 130 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:40.279 Right. 131 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:42.960 One of the reasons why in the nineteen fifties in 132 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.799 America they put in God we trust. We don't trust 133 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.360 in government. And yet these people said, we need to 134 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:51.960 have a strong government. That's what's going to do it 135 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.080 for us. That's the kind of idolatry that I accuse 136 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.840 Maga of. I think we can see it now, and 137 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.840 I think we can see the fact that Trump kids 138 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.360 about being a king and a dictator, But he wasn't 139 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:09.879 really joking, was he. He really embraces it, even embraces 140 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.679 it in his Ai memes that he puts out. He 141 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.279 puts on a crown and he drops excrement on his opponents. 142 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:23.440 It's not a joke. The Namoga people are a joke 143 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.360 quite frankly. So, do you want to have the dictates 144 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:27.840 of a king or do you want to have the 145 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.919 rule of law? You know, for Trump, the law is 146 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:36.080 in his mouth whatever he says. That's why we call 147 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:40.000 them dictators. Are you going to take dictation from him? 148 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:42.879 Or are you going to use the Constitution, and so 149 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.519 you know, you had a lot of people that was 150 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.399 always the insult, and that was the fear when people 151 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:53.039 saw George Washington. He was very impressive as an individual. 152 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.399 He carried himself a lot of dignity and things like that, 153 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.960 and people just in awe of him even as a person. 154 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.519 And there were concerned many people with the constitution. Have 155 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.519 we created an office of the king? That has always 156 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.039 been the concern, And now that concern has been realized. 157 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.159 But George Washington gave his farewell address when he was 158 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:16.919 sixty fourth and I'm going to step down. He did 159 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.039 step down, he was only sixty five. And yet you've 160 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:23.200 got people like Steve Bannon out there trying to activate 161 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:24.799 the base saying we're going to have a third term 162 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:32.639 for Trumph in his eighties, right, and which again is 163 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:37.960 not only violating the tradition that George Washington established, but 164 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:42.480 also violating the law. And the whole aspect of saying 165 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.120 that we're going to have Trump for a third term 166 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.039 is really just doubling down on this. We don't care 167 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.080 what the law says. We're going to do what we want. 168 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.679 You try to stop us. We're going to find some 169 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.279 way to get around both the letter of the law 170 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:59.440 and the spirit of the law. That is a Trump administration. 171 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:04.159 That is the enablers and the clowns who follow Trump, 172 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:09.000 like Steve Bannon, that is what they trade in, and 173 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.200 they are traders the very fact that somebody wants to 174 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.600 censor your speech. And we just saw this yesterday we 175 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:19.679 had the Pentagon under war. Pete decided, you know, he 176 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.080 didn't want to have people in the Pentagon as a 177 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.279 press corps if they're going to report things that he 178 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.159 hasn't okayed. First right, we don't want to have any 179 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.600 independent thought. We don't want to have a free press, 180 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.879 we don't want to have free speech. People want to 181 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.879 shut down free speech in the free press. Are the 182 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:40.000 people who are admitting that they're criminals. They've got something 183 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:45.000 to hide, and they're always hiding behind national security. And 184 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.960 so it's not a surprise to see this is something 185 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.399 that's coming from the Pentagon. We're go' to talking about 186 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.120 that in a moment here, but that is where we 187 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.000 are right now. And so as they point out here 188 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:01.679 he called out Thomas Paine did he called out not 189 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.759 just for resistance against the British government, but for independence 190 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:11.159 from Great Britain entirely because common Sense became an instant bestseller. 191 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.399 And that is why I say, you can't have the 192 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:20.120 Declaration of Independence without common sense. That is what laid 193 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.039 the groundwork for it, and that's why it's very important 194 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:28.639 what we consume is entertainment. And that's why the Communist 195 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.399 works so hard with Frankfurt School and so forth to 196 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:34.679 make sure that they were going to push their worldview 197 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:40.879 through movies and entertainment, and so as they point out 198 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:44.840 a world they said, Payne did more than complain about 199 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:49.279 particular wrongs committed by King George. In Parliament, he articulated 200 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.919 a broader political theory. The theory has more similarities to 201 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:57.639 the Declaration of Independence than the Second Continental Congress would 202 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:01.919 produce around six months later. Human beings were created equal, 203 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.480 endowed with natural rights, and formed governments out of pure 204 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:11.720 political state of nature through consent. The governments the people 205 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:16.320 formed then operated through representation and were intended to protect 206 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.519 the rights of the people. Great Britain, he said, violated 207 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.600 the principles of government of the government of the consent 208 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.960 and government's purpose to protect rights. So see, these are 209 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:32.720 all themes that Jefferson didn't plagiarize this. This was really 210 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:37.039 the American understanding even before Thomas Paine. He just was 211 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:40.799 able to distill it and articulate it. And Thomas Jefferson 212 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.559 did that as well in the Declaration of Independence. They 213 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:45.799 were on the same page and they were reading the 214 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:53.279 same books, right, And so they point out the violated 215 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:58.440 consent on multiple levels with a hereditary monarch also through 216 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:03.120 the Parliament's aristocratic House of Lords. Moreover, violated rights, among 217 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.960 other ways, by his dismissive treatment of the colonists over 218 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:10.679 the previous decade. Sorry, I'm stumbling over this because this 219 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.360 print came out somehow at about six points. It's very 220 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.279 very tiny. It's hard for me to see this. But 221 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.639 the bottom line is that, as I said, this is 222 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.279 World magazine. And so they came back and they said, well, 223 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.720 we think that he got it wrong in terms of 224 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:31.840 his theology. Thankfully, the founders of the US did not 225 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.519 all go along with Pain's arguments. Pain had disdained separation 226 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:40.600 of powers and checks and balances. For instance, he thought 227 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.480 the best government would be a simple one in structure. 228 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:49.320 He said, complex institutional interactions would allow corrupt officials to 229 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:54.399 hide the true blame of what was happening. Checks and 230 00:14:54.440 --> 00:15:01.840 balances were inherently contradictory to pain. So I disagree with 231 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:06.080 World's assessment. I think that he got it right. I 232 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:08.559 think that we can see now when we look at 233 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.440 checks and balances and things like that, we can see 234 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.120 that these complicated structures. Yes, they were very concerned about 235 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.639 consolidation and concentration of power. So they divided the federal 236 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.159 government into three parts, and they divided power between the 237 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.399 states that created the federal government. And so they don't 238 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.159 have any power that hasn't been delegated to them by 239 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.159 the states. There is not instead of a supremacy clause. 240 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:37.200 The supremacy clause really is a tenth amendment, tenth amendment 241 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.759 that says that the states created the government and they 242 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:47.559 only give up certain powers specifically given up in the Constitution. 243 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.840 But also they divided the central government into three parts, 244 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.759 and they divided power into three areas, the federal government, 245 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.799 the states, and we the people. And we talk about 246 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:02.399 the public, that really is the people. And it really 247 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:05.919 is an amazing thing when we see how national security 248 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.519 is used over and over again to keep information away 249 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.960 from the common people, from we the people. Privacy is 250 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:18.159 very important. Our government doesn't appreciate privacy for individuals. It 251 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:23.480 claims that public servants the public government should be private 252 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:27.240 for them, everything they do is private. That is an oxymoron, 253 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:31.399 a contradiction in terms, if it is something that is 254 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:35.559 part of the government, it should be open and available 255 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.000 to the common people, to the public. Everything they should do, 256 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.879 that they do should be public. We don't need to 257 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.039 know where you stashed your military, but we do need 258 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.720 to know where all the money was spent and how 259 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.960 it was spent, what is being used for. So this 260 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.039 whole idea of national security, this Cold War paranoia, has 261 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:01.679 been used as a cloak to shield all of their lawless, 262 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:05.759 unconstitutional actions from US. As time we say that's enough. 263 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:07.680 But I agree with them. You know, when you look 264 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.200 at what we have in Washington. Now you have a 265 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.200 situation where it's not just between the Republicans and Democrats 266 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:17.160 who are saying, well, they did it. 267 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.119 Or they did it first? What about what they did? 268 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:19.359 You know? 269 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:22.720 What about is them? That's always an alibi for them, 270 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.240 isn't it. Well, you know, yeah, ok, Trump is acting 271 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.359 like a lawless dictator. But look at Biden and look 272 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:33.160 at Obama. It's like that's not an excuse that you know, 273 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.599 we don't want to accept that as a precedent. But 274 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:40.440 then also within government, you have Congress has created the 275 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:46.200 bureaucracies purely for the purpose of not directly being involved. 276 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.920 I mean, they create these bureaucracies, they hand the power 277 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.359 over to them, they abdicate what they should be doing, 278 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.440 and then when the bureaucracies do the wrong thing, they 279 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:57.799 have an opportunity. If people get really upset about, they 280 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.640 have the opportunity to come in and pretend that they're 281 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:03.680 you're savior from the beast that they created because they 282 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.759 didn't want to have the responsibility, they didn't want to 283 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.519 create laws, and so we have rules that are created 284 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:14.599 by unelected bureaucrats. And then they come back and say, well, 285 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.759 because these are not laws. Laws are created by your 286 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.000 elected representatives. These are rules created by unelected bureaucrats. So 287 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.599 you have no due process rights since it's not a law. 288 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.839 Since it's a rule, you now have no presumption of innocence, 289 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.759 you get no due process, and you get no protection 290 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:37.640 against excessive and unusual fines and punishments. Right, this is 291 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:39.839 a precedent that began with the irs and now it's 292 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:45.400 a tasticized to every one of these bureaucracies, and so 293 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.720 they don't want to have accountability, and they're constantly passing 294 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.759 the hot potato over to the other side and passing 295 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.720 pointing the finger to somebody else. And so the President 296 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.680 points of finger at Congress, and Congress points of finger 297 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.720 at this Supreme Court, and on and on on. They 298 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.039 just keep passing the blame around. And so I think 299 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.960 Pain was right about that. I think even though the 300 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:14.359 idea of trying to divide power, it really hasn't worked 301 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:18.640 very well, has it. Do you see any checks on 302 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.200 government power at this point in time? 303 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:20.519 Now? 304 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.960 Do you see any balance between these branches of government? 305 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.519 Do you see any balance between the state government and 306 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.240 the state governments and the federal government they created. No, 307 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:34.279 they've turned that exactly upside down, and we the people 308 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:39.200 have no power left whatsoever. The constitution has not worked 309 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:39.720 at all. 310 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:41.039 And so. 311 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.720 They say, of course, the reading of scripture they put 312 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:51.519 in soas finally God inherently disapproved of kingship, as Pain acclaimed, 313 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.000 because the stories of get In and of Samuel. Of course, 314 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.599 this reading of scripture says world ignored the passages and 315 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.599 judges is arguing that the anarchic condition of Israel was 316 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.400 because there was no king in the land. Well, yes, 317 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.519 but again it was because they didn't make God the king. 318 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:18.119 That was the real issue. And as Samuel's Israel, God 319 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:21.640 was not the king and so and they're asking for 320 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:26.119 a secular king was just a manifestation of what was 321 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:30.359 in their hearts. And so we see that, don't we 322 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:33.200 in America? Don't we say it on both the left 323 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.519 and the right. We say it in Maga as much 324 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.160 as we see it in Antifah. They don't want God, 325 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:44.400 they want a king. That's what they put their trust in. Now, 326 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.960 the people in Maga they say no, no, we trust 327 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:50.200 in God. And yet what they really trust in and 328 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:54.759 what they really looked to for deliverance is politics, and 329 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:56.640 particularly to Trump. 330 00:20:57.599 --> 00:20:57.960 And so. 331 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:03.079 You know, a man cannot save you know, a man 332 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:05.920 cannot save us. And the people need to understand they 333 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:10.480 can't serve two masters. Right, who's your master going to be? Well, 334 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.160 especially when we look at this divided power, right is 335 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:15.559 going to be a legislative, judiciary, executive martch who is 336 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.000 going to be the bat master? You're not going to 337 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.640 have There was no mechanism formal mechanism that you could 338 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.880 even point to to say, well, they're not really following 339 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:28.720 that power sharing thing, right, But a person can only 340 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.200 serve one master. And so there has been a back 341 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:37.480 and forth. Is it going to be Supreme Court supremacy 342 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:40.680 or now is it going to be presidential supremacy. It's 343 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.400 always been that struggle back and forth. Congress just wants 344 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.119 to collect a paycheck. They're out of the running for 345 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:51.119 all of this stuff. Now will it be the states 346 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.359 that are supreme or will it be the central government 347 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:55.079 that is supreme? That was that the Civil War was 348 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:58.599 fought over. And so the constitution is supposed to be 349 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:03.720 the master, but it's people that are actually going to 350 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:08.799 execute it. And we have people who ignore, people who 351 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.759 prevaricate what it has to say. Those are the people 352 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.039 that are in office. That's why when you look at 353 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:19.720 things like Mark Levins approach the Liberty Amendments, any kind 354 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.920 of constitutional convention is going to be run by the 355 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.759 same people who ignore the constitution. Now, they don't pay 356 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:27.839 attention to the constitution we've got now, so why would 357 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:32.440 we let people of no character oath breakers like that? 358 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:36.279 Why would we let them write a new constitution? That 359 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:39.319 they would then be free to ignore as well. It's 360 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:44.279 a futile exercise. But the reality is is that what 361 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.240 is really at the heart of our problems is the 362 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:49.680 same thing that was a problem with Israel when they 363 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.480 wanted a king. We have rejected God. Now, the people 364 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:59.680 of colonial times understood the message that of Thomas Paine. 365 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:02.240 What they took away from it, it's not what World 366 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:03.480 Magazine took away from it. 367 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:04.599 They look at this. 368 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:06.480 And say, well, you know, God is king and we 369 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.440 need to have God's Yes, they understood that. And the 370 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:16.480 Christians of colonial America their slogan was no king but Jesus. Right, Yes, 371 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:19.920 Jesus is King. God is King, will have no others. 372 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:25.400 Today people look for salvation to secular governments. We're talking 373 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:30.640 about America, Israel, whatever. So while rereading Pain, let us 374 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:36.680 exercise the common sense to recognize real kings from false kings, 375 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:42.319 good from poor government governments. And I think that they 376 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.960 don't quite get it. I don't think there are any 377 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:49.839 good secular kings. And we want to have the rule 378 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:53.160 of law, that is what good government is, and yet 379 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:58.000 we don't have that doing What we have is summarized 380 00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:00.599 by this interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump, 381 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:01.640 here's the audio from it. 382 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.519 You see any checks on your power on the world stage? 383 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.920 Is there anything that could stop you if you wanted 384 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:11.960 to do? There's one thing, my own morality, my own mind. 385 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:14.920 It's the only thing that can stop up. And that's 386 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.359 very good. I don't need international I'm not looking to her. 387 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.440 I don't need international law. I don't need the Constitution. 388 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:26.359 You know, is there is there any check on your power? 389 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.680 He wouldn't say the Constitution, right, I said for the 390 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:32.119 longest time, this is a guy who has not only 391 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:35.119 you know, divorce has become very common, unfortunately in our society. 392 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:39.559 But this is a guy who not only divorced his wives, 393 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.440 but then he proceeded to publicly humiliate them as much 394 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:49.880 as he could, which is really reprehensible. And he does 395 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:51.319 the same thing with the people that he puts in 396 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:57.319 his cabinets. He flatters them absurdly when he puts them in. Oh, 397 00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:00.240 this guy is the best whatever, right, And then when 398 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.160 he doesn't like something that they did, he throws them 399 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:06.240 out and he follows them down the road, pouring scorn 400 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.319 on them. Same thing he did with his wives. Why 401 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.759 are we surprised that he would do this, and when 402 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:16.880 we look at his morality, what a joke, What a joke. 403 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:21.920 That is the same guy who just flipped out and 404 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.960 flipped a finger at the guy who called him a 405 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:27.920 pedophile protector. The guy hit the truth on the head. 406 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:30.519 As a matter of fact, we'll talk a little bit 407 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:32.839 about that in the aftermath of what's happened to that guy. 408 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:39.400 But you have the Rutherford Institute. John Whitehead is picked 409 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:43.079 up on Free Thought Project as well. What Tterrany looks like. Now, 410 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:50.079 there's not any crowns, there's not any coups, just unchecked power. 411 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.720 And that's really what is happening. This is a slow 412 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.680 moving coup, except it's not really moving that slowly. Americans 413 00:25:57.720 --> 00:25:59.640 are being trained to accept what would have once been 414 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:04.000 on thanksable law enforcement that kills without consequence, presidents who 415 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:09.240 operate above the law. War is launched without consent, powers 416 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:15.000 exercised without accountability, and without authority. Again, you know the 417 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:16.839 New York Times sayings, do you see any checks on 418 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:21.200 your power on the world stage? Is there anything that 419 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:24.680 could stop you from doing what you want to do? No, 420 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:29.440 he doesn't see any check in his power, not with 421 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:33.119 foreign issues, not with domestic issues. He's not going to 422 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:36.920 follow any laws. He will be a law unto himself. 423 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.279 It'll be his morality in his mind. And I would 424 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:44.319 say that those are two zeros right there. In January 425 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:49.440 seventeen seventy six, says John Whitehead, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, 426 00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:52.440 a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a 427 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.000 nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who 428 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.960 believe that power flowed from his own will rather than 429 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.759 from the consent of the governed. And so the question 430 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:09.359 we have today is can a people remain free if 431 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.440 they place their faith in the virtue of one man. 432 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.839 This is what I've been saying about maga idolatry all along. 433 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:20.640 You know, it's all just a matter of degrees, right. 434 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:23.680 I mean, they may not literally fall down on their 435 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:26.119 feet and worship Trump, although many of them come very 436 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:29.880 close to that, but it's what they put their trust in. 437 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:31.160 Right. 438 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.319 You can make an idol out of money because you 439 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.960 trust in it. And these people are trusting in Trump 440 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.440 and his politics as their salvation. And so John white 441 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:46.599 had said, Trump, when asked about any checks on his power, 442 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.200 he didn't point to the Constitution. He didn't point to 443 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:53.319 the courts, or Congress or the rule of law, as 444 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.400 his oath of office and of our constitution republic required. Instead, 445 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:01.839 he pointed to himself. And I would say there was 446 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:06.400 another notable thing that was missing, not just the fact 447 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.519 that he didn't believe that he was accountable or bound 448 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:12.440 by the Constitution by course, by Congress, or the rule 449 00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:16.240 of law. He doesn't believe that he is bound by God. 450 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:20.200 He's got his own morality, and I can't say that 451 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:23.480 there's much evidence of it when you look at what 452 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:27.559 the man is doing. America's founders believed in faith and morality. 453 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:31.559 Is John Adams warned in seventeen ninety eight, avarice, ambition, 454 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:36.680 revenge would break the strongest cords of our constitution, just 455 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:39.559 like a whale goes through a net. Now, let me 456 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:43.480 ask you, when you look at the first year of 457 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.319 Trump two point zero. I mean we're going to go 458 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.839 back and include the last year of Trump one point 459 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.920 oh if you want. But when you look at especially 460 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:57.119 his return, his avarice, look at how much money he's made, 461 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:00.599 Look at all how he has come in grab money 462 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.880 and using the power of government to ingratiate himself with 463 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:09.279 foreign leaders, and so the avarice, the ambition, the revenge. 464 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:14.680 Isn't that pretty much covering all the basis of Trump's 465 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.200 first year of his second term. And yet John Adams 466 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:23.839 said avarice, ambition, and revenge would break the strongest cords 467 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:26.720 of our constitution, just like a whale going through a net. 468 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.279 Absolutely right, He thought our constitution was made only for 469 00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:35.240 a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to 470 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.599 the government of any other kind of people. That's why 471 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:43.480 we're in such big trouble. Adams was not advocating for theocracy. Rather, 472 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:47.559 he was emphasizing that a government of liars, thugs, and 473 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:52.119 thieves will not be bound by constitutional limits. That kind 474 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:57.160 of government will treat these constitutional limits as inconveniences. Doesn't 475 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.319 that look like what we've been seeing from Trump for 476 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.880 the last year. The Trump administration has never been more 477 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:08.039 obvious that we're governed by a bunch of liars, thugs, 478 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:12.880 and thieves. A constitutional government survives only when both the 479 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.400 people and their leaders are willing to be bound by 480 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:20.440 the Compact, by the Constitution, by the treaty, whatever you 481 00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:23.759 want to call it. And Trump is not willing to 482 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:26.319 do that. Not with the women that he told that 483 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:31.240 he loved. He told us that he loves America as well. Yeah, 484 00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:34.920 that's the same type of thing. If our freedoms depend 485 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:40.880 on Trump's self proclaimed morality, we are in dangerous territory because, 486 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:43.640 of course, we haven't seen any evidence of his morality. 487 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:46.920 Over the course of nearly eighty years, Trump has been 488 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:55.440 a serial adulterer, philanderer, liar, a convicted felon. He has cheated, stolen, lied, plundered, pillaged, 489 00:30:55.759 --> 00:31:01.920 and enriched himself at the expense of others. Petty, unforgiving, 490 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:08.440 foul mouthed, and crass. His associates include felons, rapists, pedophiles, 491 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:14.519 drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and thieves, many of whom he's pardoned. 492 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:21.759 He disrespects the law, he disregards human life, is ignorant 493 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:25.759 of the Bible, illiterate of the Constitution, takes pleasure in 494 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:31.440 others pain and misfortune, and is utterly lacking in mercy, forgiveness, 495 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:37.519 or compassion. That's he does sum it up. It's a 496 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.400 good job from what John White had he said. However, 497 00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:45.359 Christian nationalists have tried to whitewash Trump's behavior by rapping 498 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:49.519 religion in the national flag and urging Americans to submit 499 00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:54.720 to the government to authoritarianism, an appeal that flies in 500 00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:58.680 the face of everything the founders risk their lives to establish. 501 00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:01.720 And I got to say it is anti Christian as well, 502 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.880 this misinterpretation of Romans thirteen, and we have seen it 503 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:09.680 over and over again. Prime example was a pandemic obey 504 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:12.000 your government, just do whatever they say. And we keep 505 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.400 seeing this. What was the response to the execution of 506 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:19.319 that woman by that Ice agent right Orne, good, Okay, 507 00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.799 show your hands, obey commands. That's it all these people 508 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.160 who keep coming out of is after saying, don't evaluate 509 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.359 what the government does. Don't you dare think about whether 510 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:33.960 or not this cop was doing the right thing or not. No, no, 511 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.440 you just obey him or he will kill you. And 512 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:39.960 we hear that same lesson being given to us by 513 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.920 many pastors. Obey the government. It doesn't bear the sword 514 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.400 in vain, it's not for show. They'll let you use 515 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.480 it on you. Well, that was not the message of God. 516 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:57.119 That was not the message of the apostles either or Christ. 517 00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.759 You do not obey authority when the authority is evil, 518 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.400 when the authority is wrong. It was Romans thirteen was 519 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:08.920 descriptive of a good government. It was not descriptive of 520 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.839 a legitimate government. It was not just oh yeah, we 521 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.480 ten thirty. I'm sorry. I'm going on on here. I'm 522 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.920 going to Tony is ready and has been ready for 523 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:21.960 a couple of minutes here, So thank you real quickly 524 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.640 before we take a break. Angelo nineteen ninety nine, When 525 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:27.799 Christ is your king, Bullets, bombs and armies of thugs. 526 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:28.359 Hold no weight. 527 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:34.599 That's right, It's just a change location, change your address. 528 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.680 We'll be right back. We're going to connect with Tony 529 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:40.640 here in just a second. 530 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.680 Unlike most revolutions, whether people rise against the real economic oppression, 531 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:47.839 in our case, here in Boston, we are fighting for 532 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:53.559 purely an abstract principle. It is, however, not nearly so 533 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:58.480 abstract as a young gentleman supposes. The issue involved here 534 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:07.200 is one of monopoly. Today the British government will monopolize 535 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.239 the sale of tea in our country. Tomorrow it will 536 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:11.119 be something. 537 00:34:10.760 --> 00:35:06.639 Else, liberty. It's your move. You're listening to the David 538 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:13.199 Knight Show, All. 539 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.400 Right, welcome back and joining us now is Tony Ardeban. 540 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:18.559 I apologize to him for losing track of the time, 541 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:23.119 and we haven't. We haven't lost track of Tony, but 542 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:25.239 it might appear like that to the audience because it's 543 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:27.079 been a while since Tony's been on. He took some 544 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.360 time off for the Christmas holidays and things like that 545 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.440 to try to get caught up. It's been a chaotic time, 546 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:35.320 of course in the metals market. Things have been moving 547 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:38.639 incredibly quickly. And I don't know how you do it, Tony, 548 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:41.400 any type the time to come on at all, But 549 00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:44.159 it's great to have you back, and we're really anxious 550 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:45.559 to talk to you. With all the things that have 551 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.320 been happening. We're now up over forty six hundred dollars. 552 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.840 Gold has gone high, and we had well over eighty 553 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.960 for silver. I don't know what the exact price is silver. 554 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.079 I don't follow this stuff on a day to day basis, 555 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:01.519 but you do. And it's really crazy times, isn't it. 556 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:04.440 And this last week we just had both of them 557 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.760 get a shot in the arm again from Trump because 558 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.880 he wants to be the dictator of the dollar. He 559 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:12.840 wants to be the one who's going to set this. 560 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:14.840 And you have to look at this, and I can 561 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:19.400 understand why the markets and why Wall street investors anything 562 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.239 would be scared of this. Just take a look at 563 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.760 what he did with tariffs. It doesn't matter what you 564 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:26.400 think about tariffs. It doesn't matter what you think about 565 00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:29.760 interest rates. Trump is going to be setting If he's 566 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:31.400 going to be the one setting interest rates, they're going 567 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:33.360 to be varying based on what he had for breakfast 568 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:33.760 this morning. 569 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.440 It's going to be crazy, right. 570 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:41.199 Well, the uncertainty is certainly an underlying driver of these 571 00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:46.039 prices that you can go with the traditional market forces, David, 572 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:48.920 as I was saying off air, I think and I 573 00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:51.599 started to notice this in the last quarter of twenty 574 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.199 twenty five and towards December, I just said, I'm taking 575 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:58.280 the rest of the month off of my shows and appearances. 576 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:01.159 I got to focus on my business because so many 577 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:05.679 people were selling silver because it was reaching new all 578 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:07.840 time highs and every week, and you know, it was 579 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:11.719 something else was happening, new price drive. And so I've 580 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:15.400 seen this, you know, accumulate over the last thirty forty 581 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:17.519 five days, and I'm just convinced now that we're in 582 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.639 some sort of fourth dimensional warfare between governments. I think 583 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:26.360 silver is in a key playing role in the currency. 584 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:27.320 Wars that are going on right now. 585 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:33.320 I remember when Russia put silver as a strategic reserve asset. 586 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.239 That story really stuck out with me, and I talked 587 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:38.719 about it on your show. I talked about it my 588 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:40.519 show many times. I thought this should get a lot 589 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.280 more coverage than it's getting. I don't think people really 590 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.159 understood what that meant. That was the first time that 591 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:50.800 a major government, especially a nuclear power, it's saying we're 592 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:54.480 signaling that this is a monetary asset for us again. 593 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.480 And silver used to have that same standing within especially 594 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.440 in countries like China in the early twentieth century and 595 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:03.559 for centuries before that. 596 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:05.599 And as you point out many times, you know, the 597 00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:09.239 very word that is used for the Indian currency it 598 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:13.440 comes from silver. Yeah, yeah, and that's right. And I 599 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:15.400 think wasn't that the case of the dollar as well. 600 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.639 Maybe there was another currency that was that way as 601 00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:19.480 well as a word for. 602 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.960 Sea the dollar it was it was based off a 603 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:24.599 German silver coin. 604 00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:30.639 T H A L E. R. Right, dollar, Yeah, from 605 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:31.480 collar to dollar. 606 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:35.559 So yeah, really, I mean, you know, silver, because of 607 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.840 the lower value, was really kind of the every man's 608 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.639 currency that they were passing around. 609 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:42.679 The gold was there as a store. 610 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.599 Of wealth, of sovereign wealth and that type of thing, 611 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.880 which is what we're seeing with the central banks. But 612 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:51.440 we've also seen a massive amount of individual purchasing. You know, 613 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:54.119 the shortage that we talked about before, what happened in India. 614 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.320 You know, every year they have as part of their 615 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:01.000 religious observations, they will accumulate well or whatever. Typically they 616 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:02.880 would get gold, but when guys say, hey, you need 617 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:04.800 to get silver this year, so everybody was buying silver, 618 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:09.239 created a big shortage in terms of distribution. And there's 619 00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:11.159 something else happening with silver that I thought was kind 620 00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:13.960 of interesting, and that is that was sent to me by. 621 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:15.719 Listening. 622 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.320 The guy put out three videos yesterday and there were 623 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:21.280 a lot of assertions that were made in it, and 624 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.960 it wasn't possible for me to verify what he was 625 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.400 saying in terms of commodity trades and amounts. He said, 626 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.199 this is not anything that's concealed. This is not a theory. 627 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:34.800 These are actual trades that been made by JP Morgan. 628 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.639 And he said, if you look at this, he said 629 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.880 he totaled up on these various exchanges, they were short 630 00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:44.519 four point two billion ounces of silver, and so he 631 00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:48.440 what he was, this is about to go vertical, and 632 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:51.519 I can't verify if that's true. I sent to you 633 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.800 and I know there was a lot of information there 634 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.440 and he was referring to a lot of things that 635 00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:58.920 is very hard for us to get access to. But 636 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.119 you know, what do you think about that? I mean, 637 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:03.679 as you said, it's kind of fourth dimensional warfare that's 638 00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:04.000 going on. 639 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.960 Now, Well, that's a that's uh, something that we've talked 640 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:11.320 about for years. The role that JP Morgan has played 641 00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:15.599 in silver is has a lot of history. There's a 642 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.000 there's some shadowy things that have gone on there and 643 00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:20.880 some some things that are suspect and criminal. I mean, 644 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:24.679 they've been convicted of of shorting the silver. 645 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.360 Market, of of of the fraud. 646 00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:28.639 Really, I mean, if you if you want to put 647 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:30.719 it in that way, and they had paid a steep 648 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.760 fine for it, and I don't I want to say 649 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:36.639 it was more than once. And if you go if 650 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:41.159 you go into their history, they're the largest holder of 651 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:45.840 physical silver supposedly in the world, private holder other than governments, 652 00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:48.199 and that's been that way for a very long time. 653 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.519 You got to remember, you go back to the seventies 654 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.440 and you had the Hunt family and they cornered the 655 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:56.079 silver market, and I coined the term deep stated. I 656 00:40:56.119 --> 00:41:00.639 thought that they they were just basically, you know, taken out, 657 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:03.880 taken out to the woodshed and punished for exposing weakness 658 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.360 of the dollar. In the late nineteen seventies early eighties, 659 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.519 and nobody touched silver again. There was a time when 660 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:14.320 Warren Buffett supposedly was into some physical silver, but you know. 661 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:15.920 He has that pet rock theory. 662 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:18.440 He doesn't do anything, and I think he held some 663 00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:20.599 for a while and then dumped it. So nobody through 664 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:24.480 the eighties and nineties, in two thousands has picked up 665 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:27.800 the mantle of silver. But JP Morgan was one of 666 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:31.119 those entities that started accumulating. And I imagine that they 667 00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:33.000 have a lot of analysts they're looking at this is 668 00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:36.920 where does the Fiat dollar go? What is silver's use 669 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:39.719 is for all the factors that would drive it up, 670 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:42.639 and I think they've been and again they were convicted 671 00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:47.800 of suppressing the silver price while they were buying. So 672 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.440 it's like, and that doesn't register with a lot of people. 673 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:53.519 A lot of people think of stock fraud as a 674 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:55.960 pump and dump where they're just going to inflate the 675 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.159 price drive people in it and then sell off. 676 00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:59.199 That's not what they did. 677 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.920 This has been long term play, and i'd love to 678 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:04.880 see if I didn't have enough time to verify some 679 00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:07.239 of the things you sent me yesterday. But it does 680 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.599 make sense that I did get that to you till 681 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:11.119 really late. And there was a lot there. 682 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.079 Guy goes it's about a half hour video and he's 683 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:16.000 got two or three of them that he put up. 684 00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:18.880 But yeah, it is. It is a complicated situation. And 685 00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.440 of course there's always been this tension between gold and silver, 686 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.760 and go back to William Jennings Bryant and his cross 687 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:29.079 of gold speech and that type of thing. But it's, uh, yeah, 688 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.840 it's we live in very strange times there. And of 689 00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.119 course we're talking about how Trump portrays this stuff. He 690 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.079 just told the Detroit Economic Club that inflation is defeated. 691 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:45.280 Nobody believes that but him. He is such a bold 692 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:48.239 faced liar that he will say that kind. 693 00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.000 Of probably go into stores, they can get that that 694 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.159 banner that George W. Bush just had the mission accomplished. 695 00:42:54.199 --> 00:43:00.880 We've got right back over the just right in inflation accomplished. 696 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.159 Yeah, and we had evidence of that. Everybody was scared 697 00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:08.159 to death of what he was going to do when 698 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.920 he started coming after Jerome Powell. And that was one 699 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:14.119 of the reasons, I said, when we're talking about this 700 00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:15.679 thing in the fall, and you would see, you know, 701 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.239 JP Morgan, all these different large banks, Goldman Sacks and everything. 702 00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.079 They come up with Bank of America. They've got their 703 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.480 analysts to say, well, we think gold is going to 704 00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:27.159 be here at this point in the first quarter or 705 00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:29.400 the second quarter of first half or this. We see 706 00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:31.480 that kind of stuff all the time from them, and 707 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:34.400 they constantly kept revising it up, and it's like, well, 708 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:36.440 we just passed that already. You know, you would look 709 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.559 at this stuff in the fall and I said, it's 710 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.920 really gonna really step up because Jerome Powell is going 711 00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:48.480 to be ending his term. But you know, Trump doesn't 712 00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:50.760 even want to wait for that. He is so eager 713 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.440 to play games with interest rates and the quantitative easing. 714 00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.559 I mean, he is chomping at the bit, and so 715 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.480 much so that he's going to take the risk I 716 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:02.400 got what risk I mean, and supporters are going to 717 00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.559 support him no matter what he does, but so much 718 00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:08.400 so that he wants to come after with criminal charges, 719 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:10.519 come after drum Pale and get rid of him like 720 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:13.079 he did Lisa Cook. Isn't that interesting? I think that's 721 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:15.719 a big tell as to what his economic policies are 722 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:16.119 going to be. 723 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:17.199 Right out the gate. 724 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.880 He's going to do everything he can to push every 725 00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.119 button to have easy money, and that's going to make 726 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:26.400 inflation war. He's going to pour a lot of gasoline 727 00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:29.559 on the fire. He's an agent of chaos. 728 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:30.360 Yeah, he is. 729 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:33.679 You know, the Federal Reserve is a criminal entity. Just 730 00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:37.199 not really maybe for the building of an extra wing. 731 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.679 I think it's for the entire scope of what they've 732 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:44.159 done to our currency or to our world. I mean, 733 00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:47.000 I mean, yeah, it's the very reality and the fabric 734 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.239 of America has been ripped apart by a central bank. 735 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:50.440 But don't mention that. 736 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.800 You know, it is very tolling, and you know, certainly 737 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.000 he has a lot that he can say, how can 738 00:44:56.039 --> 00:44:59.559 you justify two and a half billion dollars, not even 739 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.440 to bill I mean, this is not foundation costs or 740 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.119 grading costs, or this is just decorations. Right, They're going 741 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.400 to remodel it with decorate two and a half billion 742 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:13.239 dollars of decorations for these existing buildings. That's outrageous, But 743 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.440 I said, so he's going to audit that, but he's 744 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.320 not going to audit the FED itself. He's not going 745 00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:22.559 to audit Fort Knox's gold. Let's focus on this other 746 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.559 thing over here that really doesn't matter except as an 747 00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.239 indication of the corruption and. 748 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.719 The just the raw power that the Federal Reserve has. 749 00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:36.519 It's absolutely astounding. I mean, and people are following this 750 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.360 like this is a good thing, and I think it's 751 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:41.800 just chaos for the sake of chaos. It's saken the 752 00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:46.119 whole thing that's pushing all of this, you know, the 753 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.960 drive and prices is the movement out of like safe 754 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.800 haven traditional markets where people played and you know there's 755 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.840 long term paper markets. This is this is fear. Yeah, 756 00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.960 and again it's governments that are involved. And people might 757 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.480 think I enjoy where we are in the silver price. 758 00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:05.960 I think it should have taken a little bit longer 759 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:10.679 these massive hikes that we've seen that are really unprecedented 760 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:13.440 ever since the nineteen seventies. And this won't I don't 761 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.880 believe this will end like the nineteen seventies, David. I 762 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.800 don't think that. You know, if silver went from fifty 763 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:22.519 two dollars to two in nineteen eighty. It's not going 764 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.840 to happen. There's it's not going to happen. Nothing like 765 00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:28.079 that's going There might be some pullback, and there probably 766 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.400 will be both in gold and silver, and there's profit 767 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:33.559 taking that could go on. But I think we're pushing 768 00:46:33.639 --> 00:46:38.559 new boundaries and price discovery every single day. And this 769 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:41.719 is a reflection of the weakness of the dollars, the 770 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:46.639 weakness of the Fiat system, the massive, the systemic malignancy 771 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.480 of worldwide debt, the global debt that is really I mean, 772 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:53.840 it's bankruptcy on paper for pretty much the entire world 773 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:56.519 if you look at debt to GDP, and we've been 774 00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:58.880 talking about that for a long time and it's only accelerating. 775 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:05.719 But there's there's an underlying, I think story going on 776 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:09.000 with silver because of the governments that I think are 777 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:13.239 starting to realize that these strategic assets and especially silver, gold, 778 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:16.800 things like that, they're reaching for the physical bullion and 779 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.639 all the paper markets. Those days are gone, and thank god, 780 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:25.119 I mean, I remember February of twenty one, David, they 781 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:27.239 did the Wall Street bets and they did the whold 782 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.360 the Reddit people and they did this, you know, buy silver, 783 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.639 and people were sold out of physical silver all around 784 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:37.960 the country, and they were trying to get the price 785 00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:40.400 to move by buying out the physical silver, and people 786 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:43.239 went and bought physical silver out of shops and one 787 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.159 of my shop was that way, and we sold out, 788 00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:47.679 and the next day the price went down. 789 00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:50.000 And that's because they did. 790 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.760 Because they sold off these paper markets that they used 791 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:54.679 to be able to control the price. They sold off 792 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.400 one point five times the annual supply and one day 793 00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.440 and just sold hit cells el sell and it dumped 794 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.119 that price down. So the spot actually went down. But 795 00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:06.400 if you went in to go buy silver the next day, 796 00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.880 you couldn't get any And I thought, this is broken. 797 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:12.920 This can't last. This is a complete exposure of what 798 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:17.320 that market was. Well, we're not there anymore, and I don't. 799 00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:20.559 You can't go back. You go to the beginning of 800 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.320 the year when we talked about the black Swan event 801 00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:29.039 really with unintended consequences, was just the threat of tariffs 802 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:33.519 and not giving clarification on whether gold or silver or 803 00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:37.719 commodities would be tariffed if they entered into the country, 804 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.440 and that alone started clearing out vaults and contracts were called. 805 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:47.119 It's a cascading event. It needed to happen, but that 806 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.960 was the unintended consequence. Without that, we don't have forty 807 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.119 six hundred dollars gold on our way to five thousand. 808 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:55.880 We don't have that. If you remember last year, we 809 00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.280 hit an all time high over thirty plus times. I 810 00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.440 think almost every time I come on the air with. 811 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:03.119 You, there'd be a new all time high. 812 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:07.960 So it was really an unprecedented It's uncharted waters, and 813 00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:13.559 nothing really in history lines up to what we're watching exactly. 814 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:16.760 I don't think it even rhymes. 815 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:19.840 Well, yeah, yeah, it's a very different time. If you 816 00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:23.800 go back and you look at the nineteen eighties, what 817 00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:26.599 was happening to that in terms of gold and silver. 818 00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:29.199 That was the shock that was sent through the system 819 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:33.239 because of the energy because of OPEC and the oil 820 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.400 shortage and embargoing things like that. That set off a 821 00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:38.639 wave of inflation, and we saw that in the interest rates. 822 00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:41.880 And so just in this last week kind of to 823 00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:45.440 underscore that, the fact that Trump is talking about the 824 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.880 confiscatory interest rates and credit cards, well that's there because 825 00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.519 they got rid of the caps on usury. It wasn't 826 00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:56.960 a federal cap, as I point out this week, it 827 00:49:57.079 --> 00:49:59.440 was a state law. And this is a tradition that 828 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:03.840 had gone back to the fifteen hundreds in the English 829 00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:07.320 and American tradition that you would not charge more than 830 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:09.800 six or eight percent. It'd be illegal to be considered 831 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:12.679 to be usury loan sharking, that type of thing. But 832 00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:17.079 because we had such rapid inflation versus Supreme Court and 833 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:19.239 then the Congress and Supreme Court in nineteen seventy eight, 834 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:23.400 then the Congress in nineteen eighty did things to essentially 835 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.639 get rid of the state usury laws. And so now 836 00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:32.280 Trump wants to do just a one year moratorium on 837 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:35.559 these ridiculous rates that they're able to charge people. It's 838 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:37.440 the most amazing thing, but it really does show the 839 00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.320 character of the banking system, Tony, when you see how 840 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.760 they come back of this, say, well, if you cut 841 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:44.920 the interest rates that we're allowed to charge poor people 842 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.480 who can't pay off their balance, that would hurt the 843 00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:51.360 poor people, that would restrict their credit. It's like, how 844 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:54.039 does that hurt the poor people if they're not allowed 845 00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:57.079 to go into debt to you for twenty to thirty 846 00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.719 percent a year? I mean, and of course it would 847 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:03.039 hurt us as well, but yeah, it would hurt you, 848 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:05.239 but it would not hurt the poor people. That's almost 849 00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.239 like saying, sorry, you're not going to be able to 850 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:11.199 drink your paycheck or pour it into the casino slot machine. 851 00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:13.719 You know, we're going to prohibit that, but it truly 852 00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:17.719 is exploitive. And I've been there for a long time, 853 00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:21.079 and so what I thought was interesting was that Trump's 854 00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:25.679 got first of all, Scott Bessnt was confronted at one 855 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.639 of these economic clubs about that and said, you're starting 856 00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:33.599 to sound like Elizabeth Warren, and then Trump called Elizabeth Warren. 857 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:39.440 So on economic issues, we've got the Trump is Elizabeth Warren. 858 00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.159 On issues of Warren peace, we've got Lindsey Graham. That's 859 00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:47.280 kind of where his advisors are right as we're supposed 860 00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:49.800 to believe that he's the peace president. He's a Republican, 861 00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:52.639 and yet he's looking at Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham. 862 00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:54.840 They are his influences. But when you look at the 863 00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:58.239 when you're talking about paper, silver, paper, gold, we're talking 864 00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:01.400 about stuff on the Shanghai Stock Gold Exchange, which is 865 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:05.559 SLV for silver and gold for gold. This has been 866 00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:07.280 the way that a lot of people who were typically 867 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:09.320 in the stock market would just move things over into 868 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:12.960 silver or gold. But I noticed what you talked about 869 00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.800 was something that was far more broken than what I saw. 870 00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:17.880 I just saw, you know. 871 00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:21.599 I guess back in twenty eighteen or nineteen, I saw 872 00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:26.119 that when gold was moving, the paper gold was going 873 00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:28.320 in a different direction or staying still. You know, it 874 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.760 wasn't tied to the spot market. And I thought, why 875 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.039 is that? And I started looking into it, and I 876 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:36.679 realized I wasn't really getting gold when I bought paper gold. 877 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:40.079 I bought GLD or whatever. And that's really the issue, 878 00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:43.480 and I think it's something that we need to be 879 00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:47.199 concerned about. As you see Tether going in and saying 880 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.440 they're going to tokenize gold into their stable coins, right, 881 00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:55.760 it's not clear how that's going to work out. I mean, 882 00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:57.800 who audits that to see if they've really got the 883 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.639 gold there? Just that's the issue with the SHI Gold 884 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:03.199 Exchange and Silver exchange. Do they really have the gold 885 00:53:03.239 --> 00:53:05.360 and silver or are they saying that they've got it 886 00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:09.000 and then trading paper contracts for it. It may not 887 00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:11.800 be tokenized because it's not on the blockchain, but it 888 00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:15.960 is still securitized, just like the phony mortgages in two 889 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:17.360 thousand and eight, right. 890 00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:19.039 That's right. 891 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.519 And the beautiful thing that happened in nineteen seventy four, 892 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:26.880 we were because of Gerald Ford taking over after Nixon resigned, 893 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:30.039 we got the ability to own gold again. It was 894 00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:33.360 legal after you know FDR from nineteen thirty three to 895 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.079 nineteen seventy four. Is FDR that made it illegal for 896 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:38.119 you to own gold? Is you know you couldn't. I 897 00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:41.840 remember listening to Robert Kiyosaki who's coming back from Vietnam 898 00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:44.760 as a marine, and he smuggled in a Krueger Rand 899 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.800 that he bought just after we went off the gold standard. 900 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:52.039 But you know, you mentioned something earlier that I think 901 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.159 and this is why I brought that up, that we 902 00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:56.960 can you know, own gold, and they may be making 903 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.639 a play on that. Eventually we have to be vigilant 904 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:03.239 on that. I mean, I think you mentioned tether and 905 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:04.880 some of these stable coins and how do they back 906 00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:07.159 this up? And you know, people ask me about gold 907 00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:09.440 standards and all the rest, but we already really have one. 908 00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.199 And that's because we're outside. When you and I have 909 00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.239 a gold or silver coin, or an ounce of bullion 910 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:18.519 or a bar, and it's recognizable, we're outside of the system, 911 00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:21.320 we're our own bank. Same thing with bitcoin. You know, 912 00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:25.159 millions of Americans are unbankable, and you have these predatory 913 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:27.760 institutions that you mentioned, and they're all fruit of the 914 00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:31.039 poisonous tree. We got this financial system that we have 915 00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:34.159 post nineteen seventy one, when all bets are off, when 916 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:37.239 you have a fake currency, it tends to create these 917 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.519 type of entities that prey on the lower economic strata. 918 00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:43.239 You just can't get out of that cycle. Yeah, I mean, 919 00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:45.280 it hasn't been that long ago. Day I had to 920 00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:48.440 use some of those things when I was between adventures 921 00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:50.239 and so I had to get you know, loan with 922 00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:53.280 small loans, weekly loans, stuff like that. And it hasn't 923 00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:56.280 been that long ago. And you know, this is a 924 00:54:57.239 --> 00:54:59.360 The reality I live in today is a lot different 925 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:02.079 than it was ten years ago when I, you know, 926 00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:03.599 when I so I had to use some of those 927 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:05.400 things and they're awful and they're hard to get out of. 928 00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:07.880 Yeah, so they keep it. It is a trap. 929 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:09.480 You know, it is a trap. It's just you know 930 00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:12.280 the same thing that Trump is says one year moratorium 931 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:14.280 on this. Well you see that kind of stuff all 932 00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:16.400 the time. You know, somebody, you know, move your credit 933 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.119 card balance over to our thing. You won't pay any 934 00:55:18.119 --> 00:55:20.440 interest for a year or whatever. Then it shoots up higher, 935 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:22.840 higher than where you are right now, you know, And 936 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.440 so that kind of stuff. You know, what Trump is 937 00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:29.440 proposing is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. 938 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:32.199 And it's not something that's going to work out for 939 00:55:32.239 --> 00:55:35.840 the benefit of consumers, just like it fifty year home 940 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.679 mortgage for the benefit of consumers. 941 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:41.199 That would be a horrible thing to get involved in. 942 00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:45.360 And yeah, price controls, yeah, christ, we don't we know 943 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.800 the price controls. No, this is this is the seventies 944 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:50.239 all over again, but just worse. I mean, just on 945 00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:54.079 every scale. The corruption, the amount, the amount of bureaucracy, 946 00:55:54.119 --> 00:56:00.000 everything in between is amplified. So you know, when you 947 00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:04.039 a true prosperity would cure a lot of these ills, 948 00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:06.079 and a real free market would cure a lot. But 949 00:56:06.119 --> 00:56:08.760 this is crony capitalism. This is what happens when all 950 00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:10.840 these things, these entities that are tied to the Central 951 00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:14.440 Bank and everybody waiting for unbated breath and what the 952 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:16.679 Fed's going to do with interest rates instead of just 953 00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:21.320 worrying about economic outcomes, and building infrastructure, economic infrastructure, all 954 00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:23.440 the stuff that should be going on, right, And that's 955 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:25.880 why that's why the new hundred dollars bills a silver 956 00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:29.159 went out, Silver Eagle. My friend Charlie Robinson sent me 957 00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.800 a mean said that yesterday. I thought that's about right. 958 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:35.239 That's good. I like that a new hundred dollar ago. Yeah. 959 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.159 Yeah, Everything that Trump is doing is a gimmick, right, 960 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:42.920 He's not. You know, Affordability is the big issue that 961 00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:45.360 is the elephant in the room as far as these 962 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:49.559 elections are going. And of people who have jobs. We're 963 00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:51.719 not talking abou people unemployeed. Nineteen percent of people have 964 00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:54.960 jobs said that they're struggling, according to a recent poll. 965 00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:58.000 So when you look at affordability and Trump comes in, 966 00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.320 he wants to play some financial games to help you 967 00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.639 to get a house, he says, But if you are 968 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.719 you know, if inflation is eating into people in taxes 969 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:11.039 and all these different predatory things that we've got in 970 00:57:11.159 --> 00:57:14.159 terms of mandated insurance and this and that, all of 971 00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:16.840 that is there, and all the government regulations that are 972 00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:21.400 raising the price of things and killing industry and killing manufacturing. 973 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:24.000 We look at all those regulations, if those are there 974 00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.440 and the society is fundamentally sick and getting poor. There 975 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.239 isn't any kind of financial game that you're going to 976 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.360 play that's going to help anybody. I mean, it's just 977 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:35.840 something to kind of a sugar high that he's hoping 978 00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:39.679 people won't realize until after they voted for it. I 979 00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:42.440 saw this article, Tony, I thought this is interesting. Egyptian 980 00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:46.880 army holds billions in secret cash as a country miss 981 00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:49.480 is a debt deadline, and so you know, they've got 982 00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:51.880 all this money in the Egyptian army and the Egyptian 983 00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:53.360 government says, wait a minute, We've got to make a 984 00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.079 debt payment to the IMF. And they said, well, we're 985 00:57:56.079 --> 00:57:59.000 not telling you where the money is. You know, all 986 00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.239 the money that Trump is funneling over to the Pentagon. 987 00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:06.559 And he loves to brag about his tax increase as 988 00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:09.039 if you know, people fill in the blank and they think, well, 989 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:11.880 he's going to use this tariff revenue to get rid 990 00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:13.559 of the income tax. No, that's not going to happen. 991 00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:15.239 He's going to use it to pay down the debt. No, 992 00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:17.639 that's not going to happen. He says, I'll give it 993 00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:19.519 back to you as a check. That's not going to 994 00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:23.800 happen either. He's talking about, how's let's increase the new 995 00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:26.639 record defense budget. We just went over trillion dollars for 996 00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:29.239 the first time. Let's make it one and a half trillion. Yeah, 997 00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:32.679 so we were flushed with cash. Now it's amazing. But 998 00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:35.039 when you watch him, you can start to get see 999 00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:39.119 the lines of how this guy bankrupted six casinos, can't you? 1000 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:41.199 Well you can. 1001 00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:44.119 It has the hallmark of everything that is short term. Yeah, 1002 00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:47.239 everything is. Everything is short This isn't long term planning. Again, 1003 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:51.840 not building financial infrastructure, not not incentivizing the free market. 1004 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.599 We're not doing any of that. This is crony capitalism. 1005 00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.280 And you see the breakdown of institutions you just mentioned 1006 00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:03.320 the Egyptian are me and the hoarding of cash, by 1007 00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:06.800 the way, keeping it from the IMF, which was born 1008 00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.400 out of Breton Woods in nineteen forty four. This was 1009 00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:12.159 the old you know, economic world order that is coming 1010 00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.679 to an end. There's the new institutions are being born, 1011 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:18.760 new factions being born. That's a key indicator, especially since 1012 00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:20.920 we you know, we went off the petro dollar. 1013 00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:24.159 I mean, it wasn't an official thing. 1014 00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:26.679 We just lost it, right, We in twenty twenty four 1015 00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:29.280 and that agreement pretty much lapsed, and people have been 1016 00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:33.519 asking me is Venezuela about re propping up the petro dollar, Like, No, 1017 00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:35.880 I don't think that it is. We're going in a 1018 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.840 completely different direction, and maybe they don't even know where 1019 00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:41.440 they're going. But it's the you know, the digital currency 1020 00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:44.039 certainly on the rise, the off ramps from the stable 1021 00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:46.360 coins and all that we we could well, we'll be 1022 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:49.559 talking about that in the months and years to come. No, 1023 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:53.920 that's institutional breakdown, is what you're watching with the Egyptian issue, 1024 00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:56.400 and I think that's going to start happening more and more, 1025 00:59:57.239 --> 00:59:59.639 where you know, the hoarding of cash, the hoarding of 1026 00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:04.360 common because the bracing from impact what comes next, We 1027 01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:07.639 don't have trust, any of the trust is diminishing, and 1028 01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:11.800 we trusting us as far as you know, the being 1029 01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:14.400 the world's reserve currency in this you know, the stable 1030 01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:19.559 country that we were perceived to be is is completely 1031 01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:20.239 off the table. 1032 01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:22.920 Everything is coming unraveled because we're here at the end 1033 01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:25.440 of this fourth turning. And she saw a clip. I 1034 01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:28.079 can't remember the woman's name. We've seen her on this 1035 01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:31.559 Ukraine thing several times. She's notable because she's one of 1036 01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:33.519 the youngest people in terms of leadership. I mean, we 1037 01:00:33.519 --> 01:00:37.079 had this gerontocracy now, you know, ruled by really old people. 1038 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.760 She's in like her thirties, I think. And she came 1039 01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:44.079 out and said she's been the spokesperson for the EU 1040 01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:46.679 in terms of Ukraine and things like that. She came 1041 01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:49.079 out she said, well, I think when we look at 1042 01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:50.840 what's going on, we just need to have a drink. 1043 01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:56.039 This is this is her remedy is so bad. I 1044 01:00:56.079 --> 01:00:57.679 think the only way we can cope with this is 1045 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.360 just to get drunk and drop out of reality. And 1046 01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:02.679 I think that's a harbinger of what's coming, don't you. 1047 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:06.239 I think that's that about sums it up when they 1048 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.920 when they've reached they've run out of uh, you know, 1049 01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:11.519 run out of tools, whatever is in their tool bag, 1050 01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:14.559 they've run out of and you know, I think you'll 1051 01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:16.800 see that for a lot more where just people just 1052 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.760 shrug because that's what we don't talk about the elephant 1053 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:23.280 in the room. We don't talk about the debt anymore. 1054 01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:25.760 Nobody really talk. You get like one can get Thomas 1055 01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:28.880 Massey their throat, we'll talk about it. That you don't 1056 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:31.760 get this is not even talked about by the so 1057 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:34.400 called conservative movement. I think that you covered that well 1058 01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:39.440 this week. Conservatism is dead, Modern conservatism. This isn't this 1059 01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:43.440 isn't Russell Kirk, this isn't Pat Buchanan, this isn't any 1060 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:46.519 of those. If there's no intellectual haft behind any of this, 1061 01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:51.360 this is group think, cultish behavior and parroting you know, 1062 01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:54.960 headlines and things that are void of any sort of thought. 1063 01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:57.119 And it's it's really sad to watch because that's the 1064 01:01:57.199 --> 01:01:58.840 camp that I came out of, you know, I mean, 1065 01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:03.960 I'm more traditional Edmund Burgh or something type of Yeah. 1066 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:05.920 No, no, it's not any principles. They're just trying to 1067 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.000 conserve the status quo and the status goal was given 1068 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:10.920 to us by the liberals who seek to destroy us 1069 01:02:11.159 --> 01:02:14.400 economically and in terms of liberty and the rest of 1070 01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.400 this stuff. But you've talked so much about the massive 1071 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:20.760 debt that we have that all these different countries have. 1072 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:23.880 I mean, it's just a sea of debt, and so 1073 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:27.400 it was kind of interesting van K and this is 1074 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:31.519 an article off of Kitko van k Analysts looked at 1075 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:33.320 this and said, well, you know, let's take a look. 1076 01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:34.920 You know, what if we were to go back to 1077 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.639 gold as a standard. What would be the price of gold? 1078 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:41.239 Says if gold were to back M zero, that is 1079 01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:44.480 the base money, it would need a trade at thirty 1080 01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:47.880 nine thousand dollars per ounce if gold were to back 1081 01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:51.039 M two, which is broad money, And in terms of 1082 01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:54.000 that we're talking about, you know, M two is things 1083 01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:58.079 like including savings deposits, money market funds and things like that. 1084 01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:02.239 M zero is really just cash that is issued by 1085 01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:04.519 the government. So if it were to go to broad 1086 01:03:04.559 --> 01:03:06.800 money M two, it would need to trade at one 1087 01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:10.599 hundred and eighty four thousand dollars per ounce the price 1088 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:15.639 of gold in order to cover the outstanding debt that 1089 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:18.000 these people have put together, the money liabilities in a 1090 01:03:18.039 --> 01:03:20.960 scenario where the only thing you got left is gold, 1091 01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:23.400 and of course the central banks have been accumulating gold 1092 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:25.000 as if it was going to be the only thing 1093 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:27.440 that was left. It's going to be what they have 1094 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:31.000 in terms of making a case for their legitimacy or 1095 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:33.840 making a case for their new financial system. They're going 1096 01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:35.519 to need to have gold. That's why they're all racing 1097 01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:39.159 to get it. And this massive debt that we have, 1098 01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:42.320 just a sovereign debt in all these different countries, not 1099 01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:47.880 even including the consumer debt that is there. It's truly amazing. 1100 01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:51.360 It really reminds me, and I know people have done 1101 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.519 a lot of these analysis on what would it look 1102 01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:56.599 like if we go back to a gold standard. I 1103 01:03:56.679 --> 01:03:58.480 was on the when I first went on the air, 1104 01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:02.239 and I was on conservative talk radio in Dallas. There 1105 01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:06.440 was a host there that argued that we couldn't go 1106 01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:09.400 back to a gold standard. There's not enough gold. And 1107 01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:11.719 I thought, well, no, no, no, I'm like, you got 1108 01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:15.920 it backwards like it. Of course there's enough gold. But 1109 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:18.400 they were, we have trillions of dollars, you couldn't make 1110 01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:21.719 that into two gold, And I thought, well, that's that is. 1111 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:24.800 I guess that's modern conservative think, you know, where we 1112 01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:27.440 just we have to infinite prints and other things. 1113 01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:28.559 No, you'd have to be. 1114 01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.119 If you have a limited supply of money, which is 1115 01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:36.400 the way that you're supposed to have, and with sound money, 1116 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:39.159 you have a limited supply, which what makes it valuable. 1117 01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:41.559 You have to be fiscally responsible, which means you have 1118 01:04:41.639 --> 01:04:45.519 to have some measure of sanity. You can't just do 1119 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:48.199 anything you want and build anything you want and bomb 1120 01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:50.800 anything you want. You have to have so with the 1121 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:55.199 root of everything that's falling apart for us is fake money, 1122 01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:58.880 because you can just paper over everything until you can't. 1123 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.119 And I think that's why reaching endgame where the institutions 1124 01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:05.639 are coming apart and trust is completely diminished. The amount 1125 01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:09.800 of corruption that we see as unprecedented, I mean all 1126 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:12.119 this stuff that is systemic in everything we do. But 1127 01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:15.599 it's worldwide, folks, I mean it's global. It's not just 1128 01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:19.400 here in the US. All these central banks. It's a 1129 01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:23.000 sad reality watch. And for them to I mean, people 1130 01:05:23.039 --> 01:05:25.920 will float this idea about gold standard, Well, we already 1131 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:30.440 have one. It's ourselves, and these governments are You don't 1132 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:34.440 want the government involved with your gold in my opinion, 1133 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:38.039 because look at what happened in nineteen thirty three. You know, 1134 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:40.639 I like the free market. Let the free market decide 1135 01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:43.440 you can have your fiat currencies. I mean, I would 1136 01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:45.719 love it if we had a consensus in this country 1137 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.280 about fiscal responsibility and the evils of central banking and 1138 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.920 all the rest of that. But we're not anywhere near there. 1139 01:05:51.960 --> 01:05:53.800 And if they just take that and then they make 1140 01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:55.960 it into a gold standard, it's not good for us. Yeah, 1141 01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:57.880 your gold might go up and you're told to sell 1142 01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:00.960 it or whatever it is. I just don't. I don't 1143 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:04.199 subscribe to that. Yeah, that's right, I have that theory. 1144 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:06.840 I got a couple of questions for you from listeners here. 1145 01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:10.679 Hatch Car sixty one said, excellent, that Tony's back. Can 1146 01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.320 you please ask him why wolf Pack packages are taking 1147 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:14.360 longer to be delivered? 1148 01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:18.119 Well, that's a crazy everything on that. 1149 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:22.000 Well, my crew, and by the way, I have just 1150 01:06:22.199 --> 01:06:24.760 great people, and I look around sometimes like how did 1151 01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:28.119 all these people show up? I have wonderful people, and 1152 01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:33.360 we ship everything out of Missouri. It has been a 1153 01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:37.039 really efficient last thirty days. I know my crew is 1154 01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:40.639 doing a great job. I think the mail is something 1155 01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:43.880 that if you're going usps, some packages do or ups. 1156 01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:47.559 That's an interesting question. You can always mail into the crew. 1157 01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:50.559 I want to check your your tracking number. Most of 1158 01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:54.000 the time we are in real time, like you've if 1159 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:56.960 your card gets charged, like on a Monday. Most of 1160 01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:58.800 the time, like on a Wednesday, you've already got a 1161 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:01.840 tracking number. So I don't know, i'd have to learn. 1162 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:03.840 I know things are changing in terms of shipping, and 1163 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:07.800 we've used a service called Sindel and they just kicked 1164 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:10.159 us off. You know, Karen is saying, what is going 1165 01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:11.079 did they go out of business? 1166 01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:11.159 Now? 1167 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.000 Way, they didn't go out of business, and she's asking 1168 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:16.280 them questions and they won't respond to her. And it's like, 1169 01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:19.719 I don't know, we've been we've been debanked in the past, 1170 01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:22.320 we've now been deshipped. I don't know what's going on 1171 01:07:22.360 --> 01:07:23.960 with it, but you know, we can want to take 1172 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.199 stuff down to the post office and put it through. 1173 01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:29.719 But there's some crazy things going on. And Amazon has 1174 01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:32.039 just said they're not going to use the postal system anymore. 1175 01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:33.599 So that's going to be a big hit for the 1176 01:07:33.599 --> 01:07:37.440 postal system, just like it was for Ups when they 1177 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:40.119 didn't have that business. And so, yeah, there's a lot 1178 01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:42.079 of things that are happening right now on the shipping 1179 01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:43.000 side of it as well. 1180 01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:46.559 It really is. But I think it's all things, David. 1181 01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:49.960 So many companies that I used to rely on for 1182 01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:52.039 service and other things. I just you don't get that 1183 01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:56.760 same the competency, yeah, isn't there. And I ask other entrepreneurs, 1184 01:07:56.840 --> 01:07:59.480 other people, and they said, no, this is this is real. 1185 01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.320 Yeah you're not. You're not going insane. 1186 01:08:02.559 --> 01:08:02.920 It's not. 1187 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:06.199 It's just not the same, and you know, even UPS 1188 01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:11.360 we have issues. It's funny because the girls who run 1189 01:08:11.440 --> 01:08:14.599 my Brandson shop, who would do all the packing, they're 1190 01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:18.119 used to run a UPS store. And I asked her, 1191 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:20.439 I said, so when we put in a claim with UPS, 1192 01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:22.720 if we ever gotten the package back because we lose. 1193 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:24.720 When we lose the package for wolf Pack, I just 1194 01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:27.039 replace it. So I just eat it, like I don't 1195 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.000 ever get it back, And so it's funny. I'm like, 1196 01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:33.319 have we ever gotten one back on a claim? She said, 1197 01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:34.920 I'm like, so, we just put it in. Just for 1198 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:38.279 the record, we put it into. We never get that back, 1199 01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:40.279 and used to there would there would be a lot 1200 01:08:40.319 --> 01:08:43.640 more of an investigation process. And uh no, I just 1201 01:08:43.640 --> 01:08:47.199 think that's that's everywhere. So at least wise wolf we've 1202 01:08:47.199 --> 01:08:49.479 still got you can get a whole People called all 1203 01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:52.479 the time and I answered the phone, and why wouldn't I. 1204 01:08:52.479 --> 01:08:54.760 I mean, it's kind of like what you're talking about. 1205 01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:57.279 We see this everywhere. It's a Corey doctor or the 1206 01:08:57.319 --> 01:08:59.439 science fiction writer. It's kind of a rude term, but 1207 01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:02.880 he calls it and shitification. Yeah, it's really what's happening 1208 01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:05.800 to everything. It's not just the software stuff and not 1209 01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:08.880 just things online, but it's just everything everything. Things have 1210 01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:12.720 gotten so complicated that nothing is working anymore, like it 1211 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:15.520 seems like ap rumble. Seat says, I'd like to I 1212 01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:18.960 would trust Tony, But can you talk about flexibility to 1213 01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:20.359 sell if you might need to? 1214 01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:24.479 Is that at all viable? I don't know much about 1215 01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:29.720 metal investments, he says, I mean we're buying. 1216 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:31.880 I don't think this is a great time to sell. 1217 01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:34.560 I mean honestly, because you're not. You need to wait 1218 01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:38.960 for things to stabilize. And because of the whip song 1219 01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:42.039 that's gone back and forth my buying rates. You know, 1220 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.159 I'm an eighty five percent of spot on anything over 1221 01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:47.640 and ounce of silver and people that why would you 1222 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:50.000 be that way? It's because of the there's no end 1223 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:55.439 buyers and David, I won't name the institutions. I am 1224 01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:59.039 three weeks from getting paid for a very very large 1225 01:09:59.159 --> 01:10:02.640 orders that have been with Whostsalers three weeks. That means 1226 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:04.720 that I had to take it out. People sold me stuff. 1227 01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:07.039 I sold it to the trading floor. Trading floor hasn't 1228 01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:10.319 paid me. Wow, And that's because they're backed up. Yeah, 1229 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:13.920 and you know, this bottlenecked everywhere. So I've had to 1230 01:10:13.960 --> 01:10:17.000 make tough decisions on you know what I'm actually percentages 1231 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:19.359 I'm buying for now, if you're a wolf Pack member, 1232 01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:21.119 if you're a David Knight listener, and just call me, 1233 01:10:21.239 --> 01:10:23.359 we can do something a little bit different. But the 1234 01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:26.239 majority of the times for like physical walk in shops. 1235 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:29.680 And by the way, it hasn't slowed much down. I mean, 1236 01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:31.600 I just I just been able to have a little 1237 01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:33.720 bit more flexibility. I have to go sell stuff to 1238 01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:36.840 the refiners or whatever. But you know, we don't have 1239 01:10:37.600 --> 01:10:40.680 in this market. And what's funny is do you see 1240 01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:45.039 rising prices but limited retail buyers. And the reason this 1241 01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:49.479 is because institutions are buying folks institutions. That's right, and 1242 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:51.359 that's not already. 1243 01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:53.840 We had that last year. I remember that that video. 1244 01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:55.600 We talked about it. At the point in time, there 1245 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:58.920 was a silver show, like a golden silver show. I 1246 01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.920 have gun shows and things, and and this guy goes 1247 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.079 round he talks to all the different dealers and they said, yeah, 1248 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:09.039 you know, uh silver. Everybody wants to sell silver. But 1249 01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:11.880 you know, the institutional buyers are getting everything. The price 1250 01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:16.119 is going up. They're just you know, the people off 1251 01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:18.159 the street are coming in and they're not buying silver. 1252 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:21.600 But it's it's all institutional in terms of buying. It's institutional. Yeah, 1253 01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:24.399 maybe they know something and maybe well the other thing 1254 01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:25.000 knows them. 1255 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.119 And I think it's institutional, but more importantly, more than 1256 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:30.960 market forces, I think it's governmental. 1257 01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:31.359 Yeah. 1258 01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:34.720 Yeah, Well, and it's the chaos and volatively that we 1259 01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:37.399 see everywhere. And you know it's not just the terriffs 1260 01:11:37.479 --> 01:11:39.920 that have created that kind of an issue. Uh, it 1261 01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:43.239 is something that's happening through every type of business. Wally 1262 01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:48.039 Wallers says, gold got get off he killed Yeah, he did. 1263 01:11:48.199 --> 01:11:50.560 That's absolutely right. We got the emails from Ellary Clinton 1264 01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:53.439 talking about that. And you know how they can't have 1265 01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:57.279 him set up another standard in competition to the kind 1266 01:11:57.279 --> 01:11:59.720 of Fiat system that they had in Europe. 1267 01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.640 The banks don't want that. So yeah, that was peak Fiat. 1268 01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:05.640 You know, that was peak Fiat. Was with with Kadafi 1269 01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:09.880 and what happened. He wanted to do an African back 1270 01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:13.600 gold back currency there, you know. And interesting is the 1271 01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:16.159 Hunt family used to own the oil rights in Libya 1272 01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:19.720 and there was that uh, you know, coupdetah on the revolution. 1273 01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:22.159 You got a colonel Kadafi, you know, the state, state 1274 01:12:22.159 --> 01:12:24.279 of current, never never graduated being a colonel. 1275 01:12:24.840 --> 01:12:26.720 Uh, Hunts are right there the epicenter of a lot 1276 01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:29.159 of things, weren't they. They were the epicenter of that too. 1277 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:31.119 That was peak Fiat. If you go back to two 1278 01:12:31.159 --> 01:12:34.680 thousand and nine, interesting metric. You know, after the Great 1279 01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:40.279 Financial Crisis, central bank buying of gold was almost at 1280 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.720 zero and they were just relied on the dollar. I mean, 1281 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:47.840 market holdings were dollars. The world transacted in dollars, and 1282 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:49.840 that's the way it was until that. And that was 1283 01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:53.399 a watershed moment and central bank started buying gold, and 1284 01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:56.760 now everything it's just a race not only for gold, 1285 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:01.439 but I think you know minerals, you know, silver, copper, 1286 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.359 all these other things that are going on, things that 1287 01:13:03.399 --> 01:13:07.520 make that that actually society runs off of and away 1288 01:13:07.560 --> 01:13:09.760 from the FIAT system. They know what's going on, and 1289 01:13:09.800 --> 01:13:11.079 that's the central banks are. 1290 01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:12.039 They're sick. 1291 01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:15.159 The institutions are signaling to you folks what the future is. 1292 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:20.359 Yeah, that's right, absolutely well gold in terms of the 1293 01:13:20.680 --> 01:13:22.800 you know, things that we have any control over. It's 1294 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:24.319 one of the few things that we can do, I think, 1295 01:13:24.399 --> 01:13:29.760 to actually try to move against this tide of chaos. 1296 01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:32.640 You know, it's the one thing that has basically retained 1297 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:37.000 its value. And again we look to God for our 1298 01:13:37.039 --> 01:13:40.520 real provision. But in terms of things that we have 1299 01:13:40.600 --> 01:13:43.720 control over that we should do something about. That is 1300 01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:45.159 one of the few things that we can do to 1301 01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:49.600 kind of guard against a hedge against this kind of 1302 01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:52.880 chaos and volatility. That is deliberate is being put out there. 1303 01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:55.479 It's not just stupidity. It is deliberate what is being 1304 01:13:55.520 --> 01:13:58.079 done out there. And so I really do appreciate what 1305 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.840 you do. Tony worked with you for many years, and 1306 01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:03.720 what you do is you provide a way for people 1307 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:07.520 to get into that on a small regular basis with 1308 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:10.159 wolf Pack, that is a really important thing. Of course, 1309 01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:13.760 you can handle large transactions one way or the other. 1310 01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:16.680 But the idea that people can save gradually and you 1311 01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:19.720 make that service available, that is really a valuable service 1312 01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:22.399 for people to be able to gradually save into that 1313 01:14:22.479 --> 01:14:25.800 whatever they can put aside for the rainy day. Because folks, 1314 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:28.560 there's a storm on the way, big storm. They like 1315 01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:29.399 to talk about it. 1316 01:14:29.359 --> 01:14:32.399 That I've still got some time. It's a dollar cost 1317 01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:35.560 average a thing. That's right, somebody you know me yesterday 1318 01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:38.279 and send it. They'll they'll come back to wolf Pack 1319 01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:39.399 when prices go down. 1320 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:40.840 I thought, I don't know. 1321 01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:43.720 It reminded me of that meme of the I'm sitting 1322 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:49.760 at the computer, you know, like that, I don't know 1323 01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:51.359 when prices are going to come down. 1324 01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:53.359 I'm sure you know this, And. 1325 01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:55.199 I don't know how you do your job because I 1326 01:14:55.199 --> 01:14:57.520 don't know how you you know, how do you when 1327 01:14:57.560 --> 01:15:00.760 it's this volatile? You know, how do you understand where 1328 01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:02.720 things are going? It's got to really be difficult. 1329 01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:04.680 I got a good team. 1330 01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:07.560 I have a good team, and you know, we did 1331 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:09.800 a lot of planning for this. I think we just 1332 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:14.000 it accelerated and went past. So I wasn't fully prepared. 1333 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:16.800 That's why I did take December and part of January off. 1334 01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:20.039 It's just been well, that's what we talk about, you know, 1335 01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:20.760 That's what we talked about. 1336 01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:23.199 We talked about hyper inflation and how you know, prices 1337 01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:26.960 are constantly changing in Germany or Zimbabwe or whatever, and 1338 01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:30.520 you know, it's just total chaos like that, and yet 1339 01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:32.840 you know what you're living with. Things are changing so 1340 01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:35.239 quickly in gold and silver. It's like having to do 1341 01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:39.000 business in a hyperinflation environment. Yes, what you're looking. 1342 01:15:38.880 --> 01:15:42.479 At imagine and like you amplify it over you know, 1343 01:15:42.520 --> 01:15:44.920 your shops, and then you got you know, the direct 1344 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:46.760 sales and you got wolf Pack, and he's trying to 1345 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.479 constantly keep up with you know, are you making you 1346 01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:51.840 can you keep the lights on? You know, because you 1347 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:55.840 have so many price fluctuations. And we've been pretty lucky 1348 01:15:55.960 --> 01:15:58.560 because the deals that I needed walked in. When they do, 1349 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:01.239 you know, like I need supply, I get to supply, 1350 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:06.119 you know. So, uh, We're okay, and I'm glad that 1351 01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:08.560 we're built the way. I'm glad I'm not over leveraged, David. 1352 01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:12.359 I'm glad I had that instinct to go do hord 1353 01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:15.159 things or do things you know, or or become a 1354 01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.960 different kind type of company, you know, like a you know, 1355 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.359 I just know my limitations and what we were built 1356 01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:24.119 to do, and wise wolf is uh was designed to 1357 01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:29.119 be more closer to the earth, to regular people. You know, 1358 01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:32.279 We're We're never We're not going to be this giant conglomerate. 1359 01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:34.399 I don't want that for the for my company. I 1360 01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:35.800 just I think with the size that we are, it 1361 01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:39.399 is perfect to serve. We can serve nationally, we can 1362 01:16:39.479 --> 01:16:43.520 serve locally, and you know and keep up with prices, 1363 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:46.039 and that's where we are right now. But yeah, it's 1364 01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:48.840 been an interesting time. I look forward to our talks weekly. 1365 01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:50.600 I want to make sure that we're doing this weekly 1366 01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:52.359 again and so I think it's good for both of us. 1367 01:16:52.439 --> 01:16:56.479 And we just kind of uh been compared to Yeah, 1368 01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.199 it's been a while. And and tomorrow we're going to 1369 01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:01.479 have Jeraldy. It's been a while since we've talked to 1370 01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:03.039 Cheryl Clinty as well. He's going to be on with 1371 01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:05.039 a storm. Oh good, I can't wait for that. We'll 1372 01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:09.319 get his trends and predictions for twenty twenty six. We 1373 01:17:09.439 --> 01:17:11.560 say which war he wants to focus on the most 1374 01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:14.279 he's got. It's like a Smorgasborg there, you know, every 1375 01:17:14.319 --> 01:17:15.840 day it's another war for Trump. 1376 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:16.560 It's crazy. 1377 01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:19.439 But thank you so much, Tony for coming on and 1378 01:17:19.520 --> 01:17:22.119 again you go to David Knight, Dye Gold and that 1379 01:17:22.199 --> 01:17:24.880 will take you to Wisewolf Gold Tony rdban that I'll 1380 01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:26.560 let him know that you're coming from us, and so 1381 01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:28.520 thank you Tony for what you do. It's been a 1382 01:17:28.560 --> 01:17:31.600 great been a great year this year, and I know 1383 01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:33.239 that it's going to be a great year for Gold. 1384 01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:36.760 And silver this next year as well. Again, you know, 1385 01:17:36.760 --> 01:17:38.960 when you look at you said, it's not gonna be 1386 01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.479 like nineteen eighty because nineteen eighty the price of gold 1387 01:17:41.479 --> 01:17:44.439 and silver was really a response to the shock of 1388 01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:47.920 inflation from Opek, and once that tapered down and they 1389 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:50.800 got that under control, then gold and silver went back down. 1390 01:17:50.920 --> 01:17:53.000 But when we look at the horizon, what we're seeing 1391 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.760 here with this is completely different. We have so many 1392 01:17:56.800 --> 01:18:00.319 different trends and they're not external, they're internal, and you've 1393 01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:03.319 got all of these different things coming together all at once. 1394 01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:06.079 It really is like a perfect storm. It's like three 1395 01:18:06.199 --> 01:18:08.880 storm for him. I guess that was one thing. What 1396 01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.359 was that the the Q nine people is that the 1397 01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:14.399 storm is coming. Well they're right, not in the way 1398 01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:17.239 that they meant it, though, but it is a storm 1399 01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.319 that is coming, true, and it is a bipartisan storm 1400 01:18:20.319 --> 01:18:23.119 that's been building up off the coast for a very 1401 01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:25.640 long time and been building up in Washington for a 1402 01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:28.479 very long time. So thank you again, Tony, appreciate it. 1403 01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:30.800 David Night goldill take you to Tony. Thank you, Tony. 1404 01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:32.800 We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we'll 1405 01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:33.680 be right back. 1406 01:19:25.119 --> 01:19:28.239 Joined listening to the David Knight Show. 1407 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:33.039 Well, it's not a big issue in the scheme of things, 1408 01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:37.239 but it does talk about the character of these masked 1409 01:19:37.479 --> 01:19:43.079 militarized police. ICE reportedly stole a tenth grader's phone, then 1410 01:19:43.239 --> 01:19:47.840 apparently sold it for cash. ICE agent bortally stole a 1411 01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:51.760 teenage boy phone and then seemingly ponded it for cash afterwards. 1412 01:19:52.199 --> 01:19:53.880 This is a report from Pro Publica. 1413 01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:58.840 They said that this boy and his father were on 1414 01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:02.640 their way to McDonald's father was an illegal alien. They 1415 01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:06.319 were pulled over by the masked agents after several agents 1416 01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:10.319 violently tackled his father to the ground, with one pressing 1417 01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:13.319 a knee into his neck. Another put the sixteen year 1418 01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:16.680 old in a suffocating chokehold. He told the agent he 1419 01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:19.279 was a child and a miner. The agent didn't stop. 1420 01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:21.760 I started screaming with everything I had because I couldn't 1421 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:22.279 even breathe. 1422 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:22.760 He said. 1423 01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:25.079 I felt like I was going to pass out and die. 1424 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:29.199 He was taking photos of the encounter with his phone 1425 01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:33.199 that was then confiscated as he was taken into custody. Later, 1426 01:20:33.239 --> 01:20:37.439 when he used his find my iPhone feature to track 1427 01:20:37.479 --> 01:20:39.960 down his device, that led him to a vending machine 1428 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:44.840 for used electronics that was several miles away, but it 1429 01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:49.760 was near an ICE detention center according to reporting someone 1430 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:53.520 and we can only guess who had apparently sold his 1431 01:20:53.680 --> 01:20:58.439 phone after ICE had confiscated it. The idea of ICE 1432 01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:02.279 stealing and then selling somebody's phone is jarring. As one 1433 01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:04.039 person said, well, this is not the key part of 1434 01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:09.079 the story, obviously, but they sold his phone. This is 1435 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:12.960 not to be a surprise when we look at the 1436 01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:18.640 corruption of secret police, militarized police police, as I pointed out, 1437 01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:22.960 a giant army that would be the fourteenth largest military 1438 01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:25.279 budget in the world if they were a separate country. 1439 01:21:25.279 --> 01:21:25.720 But they're not. 1440 01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:32.000 Unfortunately, we have armies of domestic police, boots on the 1441 01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:35.680 ground here in America, boots on our necks here in America. 1442 01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:38.359 And of course a big part of what they're interested 1443 01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:42.279 in is surveillance. They're pouring in tens of millions of 1444 01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:44.760 dollars into one surveillance program after the other. Where there 1445 01:21:44.800 --> 01:21:49.119 it's the roads or the streets, a car of license 1446 01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:53.199 plate recognition, flock cameras looking at your car and profiling 1447 01:21:53.199 --> 01:21:56.279 your car, or biometric information on your face. They're looking 1448 01:21:56.279 --> 01:21:58.239 at what you're doing on social media. They're looking at 1449 01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:01.680 your phones all of this, but you're not allowed to 1450 01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:05.800 photograph them. You're not allowed to take their picture. And 1451 01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:08.399 they're wearing masks, and they will get in your face 1452 01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:11.520 with their masked face, knock your phone to the ground, 1453 01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:14.560 knock you to the ground. And that's just the beginning 1454 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:15.359 of what they'll do. 1455 01:22:15.560 --> 01:22:18.359 Also, what I'm talking about, this sort of behavior is 1456 01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:23.279 incredibly common. It happens so frequently with the TSA. It's 1457 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:26.119 not as visible because generally the TSA isn't tackling even 1458 01:22:26.159 --> 01:22:28.920 throwing you to the ground. They just have easy access 1459 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:32.920 to your stuff, which they steal and then sell very regularly. 1460 01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:33.279 Mm. 1461 01:22:34.119 --> 01:22:36.479 They don't like to be photographed either, right, because you 1462 01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:37.359 have no recourse. 1463 01:22:37.479 --> 01:22:40.039 It's your word against theirs. Oh oops, I wonder how 1464 01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:40.640 that happened. 1465 01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:41.520 That's right. 1466 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:44.399 Yeah, you better believe I'm going to photograph any account 1467 01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:47.560 I have with the government and keep a record of it. 1468 01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:48.439 Anyway. 1469 01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:52.199 So again, the fact that they would find this near 1470 01:22:52.359 --> 01:22:56.319 a nice detention center, and so after being detained and 1471 01:22:56.359 --> 01:22:59.000 released by Ice, his family took him to the Texas 1472 01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:02.720 Children's Hospital, where staff moved him to a trauma unit 1473 01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:06.960 after identifying signs of a chokehold. The doctors ordered dozens 1474 01:23:06.960 --> 01:23:10.279 of CT scans, X rays, including for his head, neck, 1475 01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:14.760 and spine. His father says. Family says that the agents 1476 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:19.640 threatened to charge him with assaulting an officer unless his 1477 01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:23.600 dad agreed to be deported. That's how these guys were 1478 01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:28.119 So the father is now in Mexico. Well again, you know, 1479 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:30.359 you can take the approach well, they should never have 1480 01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:34.000 come here in the first place. Well, I agree, But look, 1481 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:36.159 do we really want to have a government like this? 1482 01:23:36.920 --> 01:23:40.359 Do you really want to have these guys who pretend 1483 01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:42.960 to be police, who pretend to enforce laws when they 1484 01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.439 say that there's no law for them. We're giving cart 1485 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:49.319 Blanc to do whatever they wish. They steal property from people, 1486 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:54.520 they bully and hurt sixteen year olds, They blackmaile family members. 1487 01:23:54.880 --> 01:23:58.239 Is that really what we want from our government? That 1488 01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:02.119 is a foolish bargain. Like I understand, and you know, 1489 01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:04.199 if you've listened to me over the years, that I 1490 01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:08.920 don't agree with illegal immigration, and that is a big 1491 01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:11.239 point with me. This is as big a point with 1492 01:24:11.279 --> 01:24:14.960 me as it is with MAGA. But the means matter. 1493 01:24:15.479 --> 01:24:18.359 How you do this makes all the difference in the world. 1494 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:24.239 And so you've got some who we're talking about impeaching Christineome. Unfortunately, 1495 01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:27.359 you know, here's the headline, Nuclear option is launched against 1496 01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:37.560 Christinome by seventy Democrats. Seventy only seventy only Democrats. That's 1497 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:40.119 what's disgusting about all this when you look at how 1498 01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:41.960 many Democrats are. I mean, there's two hundred and thirteen 1499 01:24:42.000 --> 01:24:46.319 Democrats in the House. Seventy of them. That's only thirty 1500 01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:49.079 two percent. That's not even that's just about just under 1501 01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:52.960 a third. Okay, of the Democrats want to impeach Christinome. 1502 01:24:53.760 --> 01:24:56.600 Impeachment ought to be the least that happens to this woman. 1503 01:24:56.680 --> 01:24:59.079 I mean, I just showed you the other day that 1504 01:24:59.159 --> 01:25:03.479 she put this a speech, one of ours, all of yours. 1505 01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:08.479 I mean this is literal, the literal slogan of the 1506 01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:11.920 Nazis when they destroyed villages. You kill one of ours, 1507 01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:15.800 like Heidrick, we'll kill everybody in your village. And we 1508 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:19.199 want you to know that that's what she's doing. I 1509 01:25:19.239 --> 01:25:23.479 know it sounds tiresome to Homeland Security be called Nazis 1510 01:25:23.479 --> 01:25:26.920 all the time. Well, then stop acting like Nazis. And 1511 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:30.960 when you look at Iran, for example, as I said 1512 01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:35.239 the other day, the only difference between these Iranian quote 1513 01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:38.600 unquote law enforcement people that are murdering people in the 1514 01:25:38.600 --> 01:25:41.000 streets and our ice agents. 1515 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:42.560 Is the flag that they fly. 1516 01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.079 You take down that Iranian flag, you put up an 1517 01:25:46.119 --> 01:25:49.479 American flag, and all the Maga people going, oh rah, hoorrah, 1518 01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:52.199 you knowa USA, we love this stuff. 1519 01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:53.319 I don't. 1520 01:25:53.640 --> 01:25:57.640 Authoritarianism is authoritarianism doesn't matter what flag you fly. These 1521 01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:01.640 people always act the same way. By way, this cartoon here, 1522 01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:05.399 this is Maga for example, Well, at least we're safe 1523 01:26:05.840 --> 01:26:11.600 from immigrants, right. And the man and woman have a 1524 01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:15.359 QR code on their sweater and they kind of barcode 1525 01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:19.159 on their forehead. There's an army of police around them, 1526 01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:24.560 there's drones above them, there's cameras beside them. This is 1527 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:29.640 what the people who were so overwhelmingly concerned about the 1528 01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:32.600 open borders. And understand, folks, the open borders were created 1529 01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:37.439 by both Republicans and Democrats. It's worse under the Democrats. 1530 01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:40.840 But the Republicans didn't do anything about it either, and 1531 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:45.239 so they created this problem because their solution is to 1532 01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:49.319 have the police state, just like they created the pandemic, 1533 01:26:49.359 --> 01:26:54.479 which didn't exist because their solution was a bioweapon vaccine. 1534 01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:58.720 You don't want their solution, and you don't be fooled 1535 01:26:58.720 --> 01:27:02.039 by what these people are. I'm gonna take a real 1536 01:27:02.119 --> 01:27:04.520 quick break, folks, and we're going to come back. I 1537 01:27:04.520 --> 01:27:07.279 want to finish what I was saying about common sense, 1538 01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:10.199 because we don't have any common sense, and we need 1539 01:27:10.199 --> 01:27:14.159 to make sense common again, don't we We'll be right. 1540 01:27:14.039 --> 01:28:35.680 Back analyzing the globalists. Next move and now the deep. 1541 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:40.479 And nutshell, Well, welcome back. And I want to go 1542 01:28:40.600 --> 01:28:43.279 back to what John Whitehead is working on, because you 1543 01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:45.279 know he's talking about Thomas pain I ain't got to 1544 01:28:45.279 --> 01:28:50.079 say I would nominate John Whitehead as the Thomas Paine 1545 01:28:50.119 --> 01:28:52.680 of our time if I had to pick somebody, I 1546 01:28:52.680 --> 01:28:55.239 bet he goes back. He quotes Madison and Jefferson, Madison 1547 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:57.760 saying if men were angels, we wouldn't need government, right, 1548 01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:01.359 and Jefferson said, yeah, but in questions of power, let 1549 01:29:01.600 --> 01:29:04.920 no more be heard in the confidence of man, but 1550 01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:08.439 bind him down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution. 1551 01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:11.319 But these are chains that have been easily snapped. As 1552 01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:13.840 he points out, Trump speaks in the language of kings, 1553 01:29:14.479 --> 01:29:17.840 of strong men. It would be emperors advocating for personal 1554 01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:22.880 rule over constitutional government. America's founders rejected that logic. They 1555 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:26.920 revolted against tyranny. They built for themselves a system of 1556 01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:32.479 constitutional restraints, checks balances, divided authority through separation of power. 1557 01:29:33.039 --> 01:29:37.920 And this is the key thing, an informed, vigilant populace. 1558 01:29:37.960 --> 01:29:41.880 You know, Jefferson said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. 1559 01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:47.640 That's why Ice hates you filming them. Think about that. 1560 01:29:49.079 --> 01:29:51.279 All the hard work of the founders is being undone, 1561 01:29:51.359 --> 01:29:54.920 not by accident, and it's not being done overnight. This 1562 01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:58.159 is not about left versus right. It's not even about 1563 01:29:58.159 --> 01:30:01.319 whether Trump is a savior or villain. It's about the 1564 01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:06.399 danger of concentrating unchecked power in any one individual, regardless 1565 01:30:06.600 --> 01:30:11.039 of political party, regardless of their personality, or their character 1566 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:15.439 or their lack of character. The end does not justify 1567 01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:16.239 the means. 1568 01:30:16.399 --> 01:30:16.640 Right. 1569 01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:20.279 That's what we have to understand over and over again. 1570 01:30:20.319 --> 01:30:21.920 We have to keep coming back to that power can 1571 01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:26.159 be used for the right reasons today, but it will 1572 01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:30.199 be used for the wrong reasons tomorrow. History shows that 1573 01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:33.119 once the machinery of oppression is built, once we have 1574 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:38.680 these surveillance systems, the militarized enforcement, the emergency authorities. It 1575 01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:42.039 does not care who operates the controls. The only question 1576 01:30:42.159 --> 01:30:46.119 is who will be targeted next. This way is so 1577 01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:48.159 amazing to me. You know, you see the left and 1578 01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:51.399 the right constantly going back to January sixth. What lesson 1579 01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:54.920 did either of them learn other than rabid partisanship. 1580 01:30:55.119 --> 01:30:55.479 Nothing. 1581 01:30:56.119 --> 01:30:58.560 You know, when you look at John Stewart, you know, 1582 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:01.800 or Jesse event or whatever they left is they look 1583 01:31:01.840 --> 01:31:03.560 at it and they see the people that were fighting, 1584 01:31:03.800 --> 01:31:06.159 the cops that were there. They don't see what happened before. 1585 01:31:06.279 --> 01:31:09.279 They don't care what happened afterwards to people who were 1586 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:15.159 peaceful protesters. And then you look at the right and 1587 01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:19.880 they don't even though they saw the weaponization of government, 1588 01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:24.199 they want more power given to the president just after 1589 01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:27.760 they were they saw the corruption of the Biden administration. Oh, 1590 01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:30.399 let's give more power to Washington. No, you need to 1591 01:31:30.439 --> 01:31:34.119 devolve power away from Washington because there will be another Biden. 1592 01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:36.119 You just want to make sure he doesn't have the power. 1593 01:31:36.359 --> 01:31:39.840 I can't understand why the left and the right took 1594 01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:44.359 these lessons. And this is the understanding of the grassroots people, 1595 01:31:45.159 --> 01:31:48.960 and that I'm talking about Trump's two point zero has 1596 01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:51.920 done more to dismantle the nation's constitutional guardrails in any 1597 01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:56.840 other time in history. This is now unfolding through emergency declarations, 1598 01:31:56.840 --> 01:32:03.000 warrantless raids, speech based detentions, unaccountable surveillance, military actions launched 1599 01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:08.560 without consent, debate or constitutional authority. Just one individual that 1600 01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:11.920 is doing all of this stuff, and we don't. That's 1601 01:32:11.920 --> 01:32:13.680 the danger of it, he says. And so we look 1602 01:32:13.680 --> 01:32:18.439 at the sequence that always that despotism always follows. First 1603 01:32:18.439 --> 01:32:21.920 of all, power is centralized. Well, we can check that box, 1604 01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:26.920 can't we. And then the next one is accountability is dismantled. 1605 01:32:28.600 --> 01:32:31.520 Certainly see that as well, don't we. Then finally, once 1606 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:36.920 law no longer restrains power, force takes its place. If 1607 01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:39.439 we had a map, we would have the arrow. You 1608 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:41.640 are here. This is the stage that we're at. Just 1609 01:32:41.680 --> 01:32:44.640 like the other day. If we're talking about the way 1610 01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:49.800 that civilizations collapse, and we checked off of the five 1611 01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:54.399 different steps, we're at step number four right now. Step 1612 01:32:54.479 --> 01:32:57.399 number five is about to begin. If this is how 1613 01:32:57.439 --> 01:33:01.239 Trump intends to celebrate the country's two and fiftieth birthday, 1614 01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:05.720 it's maybe by re enacting what the king did. The 1615 01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:09.000 abuse is that drove Americans to a revolt in seventeen 1616 01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:12.800 seventy six. Someone might need to clue him into the 1617 01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:19.119 fact that it ended with Americans rejecting tyranny an absolute rule. 1618 01:33:19.680 --> 01:33:21.479 You know, That's what I hear when I hear jd 1619 01:33:21.640 --> 01:33:26.239 Vance talking about how these ice agents have absolute immunity. 1620 01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:29.239 No they don't, and if they do, shame on us 1621 01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:32.600 for allowing that to happen. Not under a system of law. 1622 01:33:32.680 --> 01:33:36.039 Do they have absolute immunity under a system of tyranny? 1623 01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:36.520 They do. 1624 01:33:37.399 --> 01:33:40.880 When I heard that, folks, I don't care what else 1625 01:33:41.119 --> 01:33:44.279 jd Vance says or does not that I was supporting 1626 01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:46.840 him before. I got a lot of questions about how 1627 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:51.520 this chameleon has moved himself around the political spectrum in 1628 01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:56.600 order to ingratiate himself to the technocrats. Have issues with 1629 01:33:56.760 --> 01:34:00.159 his making money off the self amplifying MR and A 1630 01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:03.159 JABS and many other things that Jadvance does. He is 1631 01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:08.600 part He is the handpicked salesman for the technocracy, and 1632 01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:10.960 you can see that when he says, yeah, our people 1633 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:14.079 get absolute community. Well, if that's the way this is 1634 01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:17.319 going to work, our system is done right now. At 1635 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:22.199 this point, you're talking about absolute immunity, absolute tyranny. It's 1636 01:34:22.279 --> 01:34:25.560 what we're talking about here, Consumed of visions of global 1637 01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:30.279 conquest and military expansion. Trump has treated sovereignty as negotiable, 1638 01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:35.800 international law as inconvenient. And we just had this happen 1639 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:40.640 yesterday with the people from Greenland and Denmark coming in 1640 01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:44.600 and when I look on social media, I saw these 1641 01:34:44.600 --> 01:34:46.840 people saying, oh, yeah, look they're trying to pretend that 1642 01:34:46.840 --> 01:34:49.119 they're brave, but they're going to cave. You know, this 1643 01:34:49.239 --> 01:34:53.039 is Trump, He's strong. These are the influencers that some 1644 01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:55.920 of the most despicable people I've ever seen in my life. 1645 01:34:56.560 --> 01:34:59.399 I mean, I would never have believed that there would 1646 01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:01.760 be people like this that I see on social media, 1647 01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:05.640 and they call themselves conservatives as crazy, the Trump administration 1648 01:35:06.239 --> 01:35:09.119 is justifying the cold blooded assassination of an American citizen 1649 01:35:09.119 --> 01:35:12.279 by masked gunmen as an act of self defense and 1650 01:35:12.319 --> 01:35:15.520 declaring we have absolute immunity and we're not going to 1651 01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.479 be nobody's even going to investigate us. We're going to 1652 01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:21.960 shut down the investigation from the get go. They told absurd, 1653 01:35:22.239 --> 01:35:25.399 made up lies that bore no resemblance to the facts 1654 01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:29.720 of the thing. Because of their utter contempt and their 1655 01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:34.880 certainty that X and social media and their influencers would 1656 01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:38.680 cover for them. Ice agents have been battering down doors, 1657 01:35:38.760 --> 01:35:42.680 ramming into private homes, carrying out warrantless militarized raids that 1658 01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:46.920 treat constitutional protections as an inconvenience, in human beings as 1659 01:35:46.960 --> 01:35:52.000 expendable obstacles, I would say, as their personal livestock. That's 1660 01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:54.000 the way they treat us with this. When a president 1661 01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:58.960 surrounds themself with military parades and flights, defense budgets to 1662 01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:03.079 obscene levels, deploys federal forces against the civilian population, and 1663 01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:07.760 insists that his personal morality is the only safeguard against abuse. 1664 01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:11.920 The republic is no longer drifting towards tyranny. It is 1665 01:36:12.079 --> 01:36:18.000 sliding downhill fast. And when ego becomes policy, the results 1666 01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:22.800 are predictable. Perpetual war, endless surveillance, normalized violence, the criminalization 1667 01:36:22.960 --> 01:36:28.239 of dissent, a public conditioned to accept abuses in the 1668 01:36:28.319 --> 01:36:31.560 name of security and patriotism. Well, at least we don't 1669 01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:35.239 have any more immigrants, right because we would want to 1670 01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:42.399 come here. Trump influencers and explainers are, in my opinion, 1671 01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:46.439 enemies of the constitution, their enemies of liberty as well. 1672 01:36:47.359 --> 01:36:54.239 And their appeasement for Trump really is just beyond disgusting. 1673 01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:58.039 It's not blind loyalty from the influencers they actually see 1674 01:36:58.039 --> 01:37:02.079 what's going on. They are putting out the eyes of 1675 01:37:02.119 --> 01:37:05.560 the people who listen to them and plugging their ears 1676 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:08.000 to the sense that they can't. They're told, don't believe 1677 01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:11.399 what you see, don't believe what you hear. It's the 1678 01:37:11.439 --> 01:37:16.079 worst kind of group think and double think. Thomas Paine 1679 01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:19.199 warned that a long habit of not thinking a thing 1680 01:37:19.319 --> 01:37:25.279 wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. And 1681 01:37:25.439 --> 01:37:29.239 this is the essence I think of this. Whataboutism, Oh 1682 01:37:29.359 --> 01:37:32.800 what about what Biden did or what Obama did or whatever. 1683 01:37:32.880 --> 01:37:37.600 Whenever Trump is doing something that is criminal that they 1684 01:37:37.640 --> 01:37:39.399 did and got away with, we need to say this 1685 01:37:39.439 --> 01:37:43.239 is enough. We're going to stop passing this back left 1686 01:37:43.279 --> 01:37:45.640 and right and saying, well, our guy can do it, 1687 01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:48.399 because your guy did it. Americans are being trained to 1688 01:37:48.439 --> 01:37:52.159 accept what would have once been unthinkable law enforcement that 1689 01:37:52.279 --> 01:37:57.600 kills without consequence, presidents who operate above the law, war's 1690 01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:02.720 launched without consent, power exercise without accountability or authority. That 1691 01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:07.119 normalization is the true danger which brings us to the 1692 01:38:07.199 --> 01:38:11.479 question of common sense forced Americans to confront in seventeen 1693 01:38:11.560 --> 01:38:14.720 seventy six, and we have to confront it again. Now, 1694 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:17.600 are we going to be a nation that is governed 1695 01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:22.039 by laws or by the will of a man? Because 1696 01:38:22.039 --> 01:38:26.119 that was the essence of common sense. Do we want 1697 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:30.720 to have a king that is going to just dictate 1698 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:32.880 to us? Or are we're going to have consent of 1699 01:38:32.920 --> 01:38:36.199 the government. Are we going to have laws? Are we 1700 01:38:36.279 --> 01:38:40.119 going to treat people as human beings rather than livestock? 1701 01:38:41.039 --> 01:38:44.039 And as he points out, this was the moral foundations 1702 01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:46.399 that we have lost, or they're really the key. You know, 1703 01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:49.520 we used to have the black regiment when this country 1704 01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:52.920 was formed, and you would have pastors who would put 1705 01:38:52.920 --> 01:38:56.920 this in context for the people who they talked to. 1706 01:38:57.800 --> 01:38:59.640 But he said, now we've got the Franklin Grahams of 1707 01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:04.479 this world who've exchanged moral authority so they can have 1708 01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:07.000 a seat at the table with Trump. As a matter 1709 01:39:07.039 --> 01:39:09.079 of fact, you know, we talked about Trump being a 1710 01:39:09.079 --> 01:39:16.199 pedophile protector. One of his spiritual advisors quote unquote has 1711 01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:21.560 just been convicted of pedophilia, and yet he got a 1712 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:25.800 slap on the wrist, just like Jeffrey Epstein isn't that interesting. 1713 01:39:26.760 --> 01:39:30.239 So they have us believe that the lawful response with 1714 01:39:30.279 --> 01:39:33.680 all this stuff is just to comply, just to obey, 1715 01:39:33.920 --> 01:39:36.800 because they've got power. And I have to say, these 1716 01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:43.560 people have exchanged Christ for Trump. Scripture says John Whitehead 1717 01:39:43.600 --> 01:39:47.279 does not command blind obedience to power. I agree with that. 1718 01:39:47.279 --> 01:39:52.399 That's what's wrong with that interpretation of Romans thirteen. Chuck Baldwin. 1719 01:39:53.840 --> 01:39:56.159 I interviewed him not too long ago, but prior to that, 1720 01:39:56.840 --> 01:39:59.319 the last time I had interviewed him was several years ago, 1721 01:39:59.479 --> 01:40:02.199 and it was a few years before we had twenty 1722 01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:05.600 twenty and the pandemic lockdown and all the blind obedience 1723 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:08.039 to authority that's being sold by the people there, and 1724 01:40:08.079 --> 01:40:09.880 we were talking about how that was going to work. 1725 01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:12.960 You had all these people say, well, you do whatever 1726 01:40:13.000 --> 01:40:15.800 the government says. It doesn't matter, you know. And Todd 1727 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:20.279 Frele said, if the government tells you put a pinwell 1728 01:40:20.279 --> 01:40:21.840 on your head, you put a pinwill on your head. 1729 01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:28.319 He was saying that on the cusp of Biden mandating 1730 01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:30.439 the vaccine for people in order to have a job 1731 01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:33.600 or a life or anything else, to mandate the bioweapon 1732 01:40:33.680 --> 01:40:36.760 that Trump had created. He said that I thought it 1733 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:39.359 was reprehensible then, and I still think it is. It's 1734 01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:43.560 just amazing that he would say that. Tell people, if 1735 01:40:43.600 --> 01:40:46.720 the government tells you to commit suicide, you commit suicide. 1736 01:40:48.279 --> 01:40:50.520 Drink the kool aid, inject the kool aid. That's what 1737 01:40:50.600 --> 01:40:55.359 Todd Friele was saying. I called him pinwill freel and again, 1738 01:40:56.359 --> 01:40:59.760 blind obedience to power is not what we're told to do. 1739 01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:04.560 Should you obey God or man? And just because these 1740 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:07.119 people are in power, they may be there as a 1741 01:41:07.239 --> 01:41:11.319 means of testing you, but you don't obey them. Just 1742 01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:14.199 take a look at And that's what they were saying. Well, 1743 01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:16.920 you know, we had obviously we had martyrs who when 1744 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:19.399 they were told you have to worship Caesar as God, 1745 01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:22.279 they said, I'm not going to do it, even under 1746 01:41:22.319 --> 01:41:26.079 penalty of death. That's what I call them martyrs, because 1747 01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:30.000 there were witnesses to what they had seen, and so 1748 01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:31.640 they would come back and they say, well, of course, 1749 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:35.680 if they tell you to deny Christ or to you know, 1750 01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:40.840 deny your convictions, you don't follow that. But when I 1751 01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:42.960 interviewed Chuck Balden we were talking about it, I said, 1752 01:41:43.000 --> 01:41:45.439 you just wait, these same people who are telling you that, 1753 01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:49.000 now when push comes to shove, they will tell you 1754 01:41:49.079 --> 01:41:51.880 to obey the government instead of your convictions. And they 1755 01:41:51.960 --> 01:41:55.640 did in twenty twenty. They told people shut the churches down. Okay, 1756 01:41:55.800 --> 01:41:59.840 shut the churches down. Inject yourself with a bioweapon. Okay, 1757 01:41:59.800 --> 01:42:02.880 y do it. And these people like Franklin Graham were 1758 01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:08.239 telling you to do that at the same time. So 1759 01:42:08.319 --> 01:42:11.720 he quotes here John White had quote smartin Luther King 1760 01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:15.359 Junior said, and regardless of what you think of the man, 1761 01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:18.079 take a look at what he has to say here. 1762 01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:21.800 One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility 1763 01:42:21.920 --> 01:42:27.920 to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility 1764 01:42:27.960 --> 01:42:33.640 to disobey unjust laws. This is that you have to 1765 01:42:33.840 --> 01:42:39.760 have the discernment and the wisdom to distinguish between what 1766 01:42:39.880 --> 01:42:42.119 is just and what is unjust, whether you're talking about 1767 01:42:42.439 --> 01:42:45.840 obedience to government or you're talking about war. You know, 1768 01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:49.520 are we fighting wars to save lives? Are we fighting 1769 01:42:49.560 --> 01:42:52.479 wars to end them? Are we fighting so that we 1770 01:42:52.479 --> 01:42:56.760 can support the greed, avarice and ambition of corrupt men 1771 01:42:56.840 --> 01:43:00.800 in power. That's the real issue. It comes to worst. 1772 01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:04.800 And yeah, the concerning thing is that when we look 1773 01:43:04.840 --> 01:43:07.399 at what the churches have become. This is actually a 1774 01:43:07.399 --> 01:43:12.760 comedy routined by a comedian. What's his name, industry? Is 1775 01:43:12.760 --> 01:43:17.920 that his trust Drewski? Is that his name? Yeah, Drewsky. Yeah. 1776 01:43:18.079 --> 01:43:21.680 And but you know, when I first saw this, I 1777 01:43:21.720 --> 01:43:23.960 thought it was real. Take a look at what he's 1778 01:43:24.000 --> 01:43:27.039 doing in terms of uh, this is what megachurches look like. 1779 01:43:28.000 --> 01:43:37.479 Read what you want. 1780 01:43:39.199 --> 01:43:41.199 For those who are listening. He suspended on wires. 1781 01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:43.920 Wanda told us earlier this month that she could not 1782 01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:45.479 have a baby anymore. 1783 01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:48.199 So I impregnated her with the word of God. 1784 01:43:50.520 --> 01:43:54.159 I'm going to impregnate everyone with the word of God. 1785 01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:56.640 You don't go get pregnant to God. 1786 01:43:56.960 --> 01:43:58.560 Don't go get pregnant with the war to God. 1787 01:43:58.880 --> 01:43:59.680 Don't go get. 1788 01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:08.319 Pregnant to TV of angelists, mega churches, somebody in the congregation. 1789 01:44:08.399 --> 01:44:10.479 Now he's up in the air again, suspended on ropes 1790 01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:18.239 because I'm a Christian and I'm walking the blood up here. Yeah. 1791 01:44:18.399 --> 01:44:23.359 Again, it's such a parody. It's blasphemy, right, And that's 1792 01:44:23.359 --> 01:44:26.159 really what these mega churches have become. I see this 1793 01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:29.119 guy suspended up on the wires, and it's like, yeah, 1794 01:44:29.159 --> 01:44:31.800 and I've seen the Christmas programs the big churches in 1795 01:44:31.920 --> 01:44:34.720 Dallas and everything they do that they got flying angels 1796 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:36.239 and Campbell's. 1797 01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:37.039 In the aisles and all of this. 1798 01:44:37.079 --> 01:44:40.840 Suff it's become entertainment. It's like what we began talking about, 1799 01:44:40.880 --> 01:44:44.600 you know, we had Common Sense was bought by one 1800 01:44:44.680 --> 01:44:47.279 hundred and twenty thousand people in just three months in 1801 01:44:47.319 --> 01:44:49.199 the colonies, and it was something that was serious. Today, 1802 01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:50.920 what do we look at. We're looking at the Big 1803 01:44:50.920 --> 01:44:54.640 Sellers or Harry Potter Hunger Games, fifty Shades of Gray, 1804 01:44:55.560 --> 01:44:57.720 and that really is what the church has become. It's 1805 01:44:57.760 --> 01:45:00.920 reflective of our society, all of that. So he says, 1806 01:45:00.960 --> 01:45:03.800 the same things that are running through the themes that 1807 01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:06.800 are running through Pains common Sense and later in as 1808 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:09.479 American Crisis are just as relevant now as they were 1809 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:12.359 two hundred and fifty years ago. That is that no 1810 01:45:12.479 --> 01:45:14.960 ruler is above the law, no government is entitled to 1811 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:18.439 unchecked power. No people remain free who surrender their conscience 1812 01:45:18.439 --> 01:45:21.039 to the ambitions of the powerful. And how do we 1813 01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:25.520 discern all of this stuff. Well, that's where the churches 1814 01:45:25.600 --> 01:45:30.159 have fallen down. They have become centers of entertainment as well. 1815 01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:32.680 So with all this happening, we had the FBI rating 1816 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:37.960 a reporter's home, citing a leak of classified documents. So 1817 01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:42.920 this is the FBI, the Cash Bettel FBI, and the 1818 01:45:43.079 --> 01:45:47.840 or Pete Pentagon, And of course, remember war Pete kicked 1819 01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:50.760 out all of the news organizations. He said, I don't 1820 01:45:50.800 --> 01:45:52.720 want you here. I don't want you getting any information 1821 01:45:53.399 --> 01:45:57.199 that we don't want reported. You have to authorize it 1822 01:45:57.199 --> 01:45:59.760 with me first, and we're going to come after people 1823 01:46:00.000 --> 01:46:03.279 got any information like that. It's not that they're telling everybody, 1824 01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:05.640 you know, well, here's how you can defeat this particular 1825 01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:08.680 weapon system. We just created a death star and this 1826 01:46:08.720 --> 01:46:11.560 is the vulnerability. No, it isn't that at all. It's 1827 01:46:11.600 --> 01:46:13.800 not that at all. It's just anything that's critical of them. 1828 01:46:14.880 --> 01:46:16.760 And so it's not a surprise at all to see 1829 01:46:16.760 --> 01:46:20.720 this happening. This happened to a Washington Post reporter. It's 1830 01:46:20.840 --> 01:46:23.600 kind of an interesting parallel to what we saw the 1831 01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:27.319 Pentagon papers, isn't it. You know, we had Daniel Ellsberg 1832 01:46:27.359 --> 01:46:31.039 who had secrets that he had stolen and he passed 1833 01:46:31.079 --> 01:46:34.840 them off to Washington Post in New York Times. I 1834 01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:37.359 think both of them got a copy of it, and 1835 01:46:37.399 --> 01:46:39.239 so they had to decide whether they're going to publish 1836 01:46:39.239 --> 01:46:43.520 this stuff or not, And it was not anything that 1837 01:46:43.640 --> 01:46:46.319 was going to get anybody in trouble. It was about 1838 01:46:46.359 --> 01:46:50.159 the conduct of the war and the attitude of the politicians. 1839 01:46:50.920 --> 01:46:53.479 And the Supreme Court said, you can't come after the 1840 01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:56.640 news organizations. You can come after the guy who stole 1841 01:46:56.680 --> 01:46:58.319 the information and handed it over to him. But we 1842 01:46:58.399 --> 01:47:02.079 have this thing called freedom of the press that is 1843 01:47:02.119 --> 01:47:06.840 held in contempt by Pete Hegseth, held in contempt by 1844 01:47:06.880 --> 01:47:10.640 Cash Mattel because it's held in contempt by their master, 1845 01:47:10.960 --> 01:47:16.720 Donald Trump. So again they're investigating this leak. It will 1846 01:47:17.000 --> 01:47:21.039 be interesting to see how this goes because Trump has 1847 01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:25.159 broken all of the conventions about freedom of the press 1848 01:47:25.159 --> 01:47:28.119 and free speech, hasn't he If you put something out 1849 01:47:28.119 --> 01:47:31.520 that he doesn't like, then they are going to come 1850 01:47:31.560 --> 01:47:33.560 after you. And it appears that this is going to 1851 01:47:33.560 --> 01:47:37.039 be coming after her. They seized her phone, took her 1852 01:47:37.159 --> 01:47:41.159 Garmin watch, which would have information about where she has been, 1853 01:47:41.319 --> 01:47:45.279 that type of thing, And according to Pam Bondi, she 1854 01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:47.600 said this past week at the request of the Department 1855 01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:50.560 of War, the Department of Justice, and it's not a 1856 01:47:50.600 --> 01:47:52.720 Department of War. They haven't officially changed the name that 1857 01:47:52.720 --> 01:47:54.479 it costs billions of dollars for them to do that. 1858 01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:57.520 They haven't done that. This whole thing is a fantasy 1859 01:47:57.600 --> 01:48:01.680 for them. The FBI secued a search warrant at the 1860 01:48:01.680 --> 01:48:05.960 home of a Washington Post journalist who obtained in reporting 1861 01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:11.680 who was obtaining and was reporting classified illegally leaked information 1862 01:48:12.039 --> 01:48:17.199 from a Pentagon contractor. And so I guarantee you We'll 1863 01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:18.520 I have to wait and see what happens, but I 1864 01:48:18.520 --> 01:48:21.199 can almost guarantee you that this is not going to 1865 01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:24.199 be anything that's going to put anybody's lives in danger. 1866 01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:27.199 It's going to be something that embarrasses Pete access. Well, 1867 01:48:27.279 --> 01:48:29.560 let me tell you something he should be embarrassed about. 1868 01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:33.840 GROC is going to get access to classified military networks, right, 1869 01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:37.800 but not reporters. If you report something that a contractor 1870 01:48:37.800 --> 01:48:40.319 has told you about their policy, they're going to try 1871 01:48:40.319 --> 01:48:42.479 to throw you in jail, but they're going to give 1872 01:48:42.600 --> 01:48:46.520 full access to all the classified military stuff that you 1873 01:48:46.800 --> 01:48:50.039 should be classified. That's going to go to GROC. This 1874 01:48:50.119 --> 01:48:57.039 is how foolish excess is. In December, musk chatbot GROC 1875 01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:01.239 made headlines for casually distributing the addresses and phone numbers 1876 01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:05.279 of everyday people scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease, 1877 01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:10.479 while other AI models refused. Now this same chatbot is 1878 01:49:10.520 --> 01:49:13.640 going to be welcomed into a far more sensitive area. 1879 01:49:13.920 --> 01:49:16.520 The people have told us that everything must be hidden 1880 01:49:16.520 --> 01:49:19.439 for national security are going to now turn it over 1881 01:49:19.479 --> 01:49:24.640 to chatbot that have such a great record for confidentiality. 1882 01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:29.039 This week, PETE announced that Croc will be integrated into 1883 01:49:29.079 --> 01:49:32.439 the Pentagon's classified system later this month as part of 1884 01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:39.239 a sweeping department wide initiative to weaponize AI. Well just 1885 01:49:39.279 --> 01:49:42.479 be careful. You may have AI weaponized against you, and 1886 01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:45.159 all I can say, hexth announced the creation of a 1887 01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.520 new role within the Department of Defense, the Chief Digital 1888 01:49:48.800 --> 01:49:52.760 and Artificial Intelligence Officer. As if we didn't already have 1889 01:49:52.880 --> 01:49:56.159 enough artificial intelligence and Pentagon before they had computers, right, 1890 01:49:56.880 --> 01:50:03.439 it's like the another one these oxy morons. So this 1891 01:50:03.520 --> 01:50:05.600 is a guy who used to work at Amazon's Web 1892 01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:07.880 services because they've got a lot of government contracts, so 1893 01:50:07.920 --> 01:50:11.479 they're pulling this guy in for that. Other AI models 1894 01:50:12.000 --> 01:50:15.079 have their own ethics and safety issues. A futurism survey 1895 01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:20.359 of chatbots including chat GBT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Groc found 1896 01:50:20.359 --> 01:50:24.199 that the only Groc was willing to give operational suggestions 1897 01:50:24.840 --> 01:50:29.479 for hypothetical invasion of Greenland. The rest of them refused, 1898 01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:33.800 citing international law and other ethical issues. So there you go. 1899 01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:37.720 That's already set to go for Greenland. Ramp Paul says 1900 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:41.159 that Trump's Department of Justice still has not acted on 1901 01:50:41.239 --> 01:50:46.079 his criminal referral of Fauci. What a surprise? Are you 1902 01:50:46.119 --> 01:50:51.159 surprised about that? And Fauci is a good example of this. 1903 01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:53.920 He is the very embodiment of this stuff. Trump set 1904 01:50:53.960 --> 01:50:58.560 him up as the viceroy and maybe even you could 1905 01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:01.640 say even higher than that, because he bowed to Fauci. 1906 01:51:02.760 --> 01:51:05.680 And last thing he did was to give him a medal. 1907 01:51:05.760 --> 01:51:09.159 I know it was a commendation, not a physical medal, 1908 01:51:09.680 --> 01:51:11.479 but that's the last thing that Trump did was to 1909 01:51:11.560 --> 01:51:14.600 honor him. The last thing that Biden did was to 1910 01:51:14.760 --> 01:51:18.039 pardon him. Why does ram Paul think he's going to 1911 01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:23.800 get a referral, a criminal referral on Fauci. There's no 1912 01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:25.560 way the system is going to do. The system has 1913 01:51:25.560 --> 01:51:27.840 protected him. You might want to start with something a 1914 01:51:27.880 --> 01:51:31.199 little bit more obvious than what ram Paul did. And 1915 01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:35.239 what ram Paul is saying is he was on Joe Rogan, 1916 01:51:36.079 --> 01:51:38.159 and he said that he had been talking to DARF 1917 01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:40.680 K Junior and r F K Junior, who does not 1918 01:51:40.920 --> 01:51:43.800 like Fauci and really did a good job of exposing 1919 01:51:43.960 --> 01:51:47.039 he wrote a whole book about Fauci. Rf K Junior 1920 01:51:48.000 --> 01:51:54.840 told Ran Paul that Fauci had allegedly told people to 1921 01:51:54.920 --> 01:51:59.439 destroy messages that he sent them after reading because he 1922 01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:03.039 has been so connected with intelligence the entire time, has 1923 01:52:03.079 --> 01:52:05.520 any I mean, you know, going back to Dark Winter 1924 01:52:05.560 --> 01:52:08.239 and other things like that. That's where the pandemic games 1925 01:52:08.319 --> 01:52:12.720 came from. And so Rand Paul said, you can't do that. 1926 01:52:12.760 --> 01:52:15.800 The executive branch, when they communicate, they're required to keep 1927 01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:19.079 their communications. They're required to do it on governmental devices. 1928 01:52:19.880 --> 01:52:22.439 So we have this evidence and I've summarized it again 1929 01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:25.840 as a criminal referral to President Trump, but they're not 1930 01:52:25.880 --> 01:52:30.560 doing anything with it. I wonder why you might want 1931 01:52:30.600 --> 01:52:35.600 to start with, why was Fauci paid double what was 1932 01:52:35.680 --> 01:52:38.239 legal for him to be paid. His salary was supposed 1933 01:52:38.239 --> 01:52:41.840 to be capped, as everybody's his boss, his boss's boss. 1934 01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:45.960 Their salaries were capped beneath that of the Vice president, 1935 01:52:46.039 --> 01:52:49.960 which is just over two hundred thousand dollars facci's salary 1936 01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:54.319 was higher than the president's salary. It was well over 1937 01:52:54.479 --> 01:52:57.520 four hundred thousand, and so the question might start there, 1938 01:52:58.279 --> 01:53:01.640 why was he illegally compensated and what other kinds of 1939 01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:04.520 illegal compensation did he get in terms of royalties and 1940 01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:07.640 other things like that. Start with the money that'll get 1941 01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:13.520 people's attention. We start talking about destroying things and you 1942 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:17.560 start focusing on gain of function. Ram Paul doesn't seem 1943 01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:20.119 to understand that the real gain of function from the 1944 01:53:20.159 --> 01:53:24.960 COVID fraud, the COVID macduffin, the mcguffin, was there to 1945 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:29.760 cause to give gain of function to the government. The 1946 01:53:29.800 --> 01:53:35.439 government is a dangerous, deadly virus that is metastasized like 1947 01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:38.640 a cancer. And really the gain of function that came 1948 01:53:38.680 --> 01:53:43.079 from all that stuff was the fake pandemic. That's the 1949 01:53:43.119 --> 01:53:45.800 worst gain of function that's there. But of course we've 1950 01:53:45.840 --> 01:53:50.680 got people like Ursula fond of lying and she is 1951 01:53:50.760 --> 01:53:52.560 always hated free speech. 1952 01:53:52.600 --> 01:54:04.159 Remember, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. Yet LAOS, your annual Global 1953 01:54:04.239 --> 01:54:10.880 Risk Report makes for a stunning and sobering read for 1954 01:54:11.000 --> 01:54:15.159 the global business community. The top concern for the next 1955 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:21.840 two years is not conflict or climate it is disinformation 1956 01:54:22.079 --> 01:54:35.119 and misinformation for not closely by polarization within our societies. 1957 01:54:39.439 --> 01:54:43.079 In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a 1958 01:54:43.119 --> 01:54:44.479 revolutionary act. 1959 01:54:45.399 --> 01:54:47.640 You are listening to the David Knight Show. 1960 01:54:52.279 --> 01:54:57.119 Yeah, Ursula fond of Ye. She's now saying that free 1961 01:54:57.159 --> 01:55:00.079 speeches a virus and we need to have a vaccine. 1962 01:54:59.560 --> 01:55:01.840 For it has to kill you if you exercise. 1963 01:55:01.920 --> 01:55:04.239 You know, the vaccine's going to kill you, right, just 1964 01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:08.520 like the Trump shot. And she has always been after 1965 01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:11.359 free speech. And of course you know they're at Davos. 1966 01:55:11.399 --> 01:55:15.119 She was talking to her Klaus. Well, Trump's going to 1967 01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:18.039 be there talking to her Klaus. Just remember the last 1968 01:55:18.079 --> 01:55:20.600 time Trump went to Davos, we wound up with a 1969 01:55:20.600 --> 01:55:24.439 global pandemic a couple of weeks later. So I just 1970 01:55:25.119 --> 01:55:30.119 hope that doesn't happen again. So again, the first sign 1971 01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:33.680 of a scoundrel, I think and a liar is somebody 1972 01:55:33.680 --> 01:55:37.359 who seeks to censor other people, someone like Ursula fond 1973 01:55:37.359 --> 01:55:41.840 of Lying, somebody like Shlomo the billionaire from Israel who 1974 01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:44.800 was saying we have to kill the First Amendment in 1975 01:55:44.920 --> 01:55:49.239 order to protect the First Amendment. The second sign is 1976 01:55:49.319 --> 01:55:54.600 that they are doing this all as public officials. We 1977 01:55:54.680 --> 01:55:57.199 have a right to privacy and secrecy, which they deny 1978 01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:00.680 public officials. As I said before, the very word public 1979 01:56:00.760 --> 01:56:03.199 means that it's common to all. So if you're a 1980 01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:06.520 public official, the information that you have should be common 1981 01:56:06.720 --> 01:56:09.399 to all. Everybody should know what you're doing. We should 1982 01:56:09.479 --> 01:56:13.640 have transparency. She doesn't like that. In twenty twenty four, 1983 01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:18.319 Ursula fond of lying who is the non popularly elected 1984 01:56:18.359 --> 01:56:23.319 President of the European Commission, the ultra girl boss Extraordinaire, 1985 01:56:23.880 --> 01:56:26.920 came out swinging against free speech and a white Knuncle 1986 01:56:27.159 --> 01:56:31.760 speech in which she likened thelign information. She said to 1987 01:56:31.800 --> 01:56:37.000 a virus society must be inoculated against via the vaccine 1988 01:56:37.119 --> 01:56:40.880 of pre bunking is what she called. That's just censorship. 1989 01:56:41.159 --> 01:56:45.000 But pre bunking is actually even more than censorship. It's 1990 01:56:45.119 --> 01:56:48.239 identifying people. It's what we talked about with a CCPA, 1991 01:56:48.399 --> 01:56:53.359 the Coalition for Content Providence and Authentication that Gates and 1992 01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:56.640 microsoftware pushing through, and they got hardware software companies as 1993 01:56:56.680 --> 01:56:58.920 well as the people who are going to tell you 1994 01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:02.239 what's true or not, you know, the establishment media like 1995 01:57:02.279 --> 01:57:05.880 New York Times, Washington Post, BBC. And then once they 1996 01:57:05.920 --> 01:57:08.680 got that, the hardware and software company is going to 1997 01:57:08.720 --> 01:57:12.119 label your content. Whether it was a picture, text, or 1998 01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:15.600 video or audio, they would label it and prevent you 1999 01:57:15.640 --> 01:57:18.479 from even uploading it. That'd be pre bunking, right. 2000 01:57:18.640 --> 01:57:21.199 One of the set things to me is I can 2001 01:57:21.239 --> 01:57:25.520 imagine a lot of people would be ecstatic about this 2002 01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:28.199 from a young age. You know, I'm dumb, so I 2003 01:57:28.239 --> 01:57:30.079 like to go on the internet and argue with people. 2004 01:57:30.560 --> 01:57:36.039 I realized most people automatically default to argumentation from authority. Well, 2005 01:57:36.079 --> 01:57:38.640 this person over here with a lab coat or a 2006 01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:42.760 doctorate says this, Well does it make any sense? Well, 2007 01:57:42.800 --> 01:57:45.760 it doesn't matter. This person who got a degree said it, 2008 01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:47.600 So your argument doesn't matter. 2009 01:57:48.039 --> 01:57:49.000 That's right. Yeah. 2010 01:57:49.039 --> 01:57:50.600 They don't want to debate the facts. They don't want 2011 01:57:50.600 --> 01:57:53.199 to do science. I remember at the beginning of this thing, 2012 01:57:53.359 --> 01:57:56.880 I played the clip over the pandemic thing. They had 2013 01:57:57.079 --> 01:58:00.359 six people in white lab coats and there was going 2014 01:58:00.399 --> 01:58:02.920 to be a person speaking. Before this person speaks, they 2015 01:58:02.960 --> 01:58:06.199 want to have the authority of the people in white 2016 01:58:06.239 --> 01:58:10.479 lab coats, so they had these people go out on stage. 2017 01:58:10.560 --> 01:58:13.039 Three of them go out on one side of the podium, 2018 01:58:13.399 --> 01:58:15.800 cross their hands, stand there in their white lab coats. 2019 01:58:15.800 --> 01:58:18.079 So you got three on each side and white lab 2020 01:58:18.119 --> 01:58:22.039 coats six total, and then the speaker comes out and 2021 01:58:22.079 --> 01:58:25.239 takes the podium. That's the insanity of this. That's exactly 2022 01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:28.560 what you're talking about, Travis. You're right, as technology evolves, 2023 01:58:28.600 --> 01:58:31.640 we need to build up societal immunity. She's set around 2024 01:58:31.640 --> 01:58:35.720 information manipulation. Research has shown that pre bunking is more 2025 01:58:35.720 --> 01:58:41.359 successful than debunking, and that prevention is preferable to a cure. Well, 2026 01:58:41.399 --> 01:58:43.479 I just got to say to Ursula fond of lying. 2027 01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:49.640 Her actual name is Ursula vond Leyden or Leiden, I guess, 2028 01:58:49.640 --> 01:58:50.479 but anyway, she's. 2029 01:58:50.359 --> 01:58:51.000 Fond of lying. 2030 01:58:51.479 --> 01:58:53.840 I just got to say, I've got natural immunity to 2031 01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:57.520 government lies. I don't need to be vaccinated anymore because 2032 01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:01.239 you know, it's like being exposed, right, according to virology, 2033 01:59:01.319 --> 01:59:04.800 virology is an ultimate lie. But according to the science 2034 01:59:04.840 --> 01:59:07.359 of virology, you know, you get exposed to something and 2035 01:59:07.399 --> 01:59:11.560 you get immunity to it. Once you see how the 2036 01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:15.840 government has lied, and we should have all seen that 2037 01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:19.600 in twenty twenty. Once you see that, you should have 2038 01:59:19.760 --> 01:59:26.319 immunity to government lies and the fact that they for 2039 01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:31.680 their agenda just by labeling people and by then ranking 2040 01:59:31.720 --> 01:59:34.520 them which is what SloMo was talking about. He wasn't 2041 01:59:34.560 --> 01:59:38.199 just talking about censorship, he was talking about this pre bunking. 2042 01:59:38.600 --> 01:59:40.920 We're going to take something we disagree with, We're going 2043 01:59:41.000 --> 01:59:43.760 to label that person as a terrorist or as a 2044 01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:45.760 liar or whatever, and we're going to stop them from 2045 01:59:45.800 --> 01:59:49.840 being able to publish anything whatsoever. So we appreciate your support. 2046 01:59:50.000 --> 01:59:53.840 Thank you for that, and that's our show for today. Tomorrow, 2047 01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:56.119 we're going to have a couple of great interviews. We're 2048 01:59:56.119 --> 01:59:59.119 going to have the Doctor's doctor Sam Bailey and her 2049 01:59:59.159 --> 02:00:01.439 husband Mark Bailey are going to be joining us from 2050 02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:05.079 New Zealand. And Sam Bailey is the only person I 2051 02:00:05.159 --> 02:00:09.800 know that has lost two careers over her integrity of 2052 02:00:09.840 --> 02:00:14.000 opposing this COVID pandemic stuff. She had a very lucrative career, 2053 02:00:14.079 --> 02:00:18.840 a very successful TV presenter in New Zealand, and both 2054 02:00:18.840 --> 02:00:21.600 she and her husband are physicians. And we're going to 2055 02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:24.199 talk in that interview about what was done to them. 2056 02:00:24.880 --> 02:00:26.680 You won't believe what they did and what they're still 2057 02:00:26.680 --> 02:00:30.279 doing to them, attacking them financially after losing their careers 2058 02:00:30.399 --> 02:00:34.399 as doctors because they told people the truth, and losing 2059 02:00:34.479 --> 02:00:37.840 her career also as a presenter they have held their 2060 02:00:37.880 --> 02:00:40.880 line and they've kept their integrity, their real model for people, 2061 02:00:40.920 --> 02:00:42.680 and they got a lot of information for you as well, 2062 02:00:43.520 --> 02:00:47.439 not only about the vaccines, but about virology and viruses 2063 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:49.159 as well. So they're going to be joining us tomorrow, 2064 02:00:49.560 --> 02:00:52.079 and Jeryl Slenti is going to be joining us and 2065 02:00:52.119 --> 02:00:55.640 he's going to talk about his trends for twenty twenty six. 2066 02:00:55.720 --> 02:00:57.920 I know a lot of people have been very interested 2067 02:00:58.000 --> 02:01:00.600 to hear what Joy Clinti thinks it's going to be 2068 02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:04.000 happening in this very interesting year. So thank you for 2069 02:01:04.079 --> 02:01:06.840 joining us today. Great program coming up tomorrow, Have a 2070 02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:23.239 good day. The common Man, they created common Core and 2071 02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:26.800 dumbed down our children. They created common past, track and 2072 02:01:26.840 --> 02:01:30.800 control us. They're Commons project to make sure the commoners 2073 02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:36.720 own nothing and the communist future. 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