➡ The text discusses the speaker’s distrust in political institutions and figures, including Trump, and their perceived manipulation of public perception. The speaker also criticizes the handling of the Epstein case and the alleged involvement of various political figures. Furthermore, the speaker expresses frustration with electric vehicles, specifically the VW ID Buzz, due to its high cost, lack of a charging cord, and the inconvenience of charging stations. The speaker concludes by expressing concern about the impact of heavy electric vehicles on road conditions.

➡ The author, a long-time car reviewer, had a negative experience with a Mercedes electric vehicle (EV), the EQS, during a cold snap in December 2023. Despite his usual positive reviews, this time he criticized the car’s poor range and difficulty charging in cold weather. After his review, Mercedes stopped sending him cars for review, which he believes is due to his honest critique. The author also notes that Mercedes has since paused production of the EQS due to poor sales and significant depreciation rates.

➡ A middle-aged man shares his experience of overcoming his fear of computers by replacing his laptop battery himself, saving money and gaining a sense of empowerment. He laments the loss of practical skills in today’s society, where people often rely on others or technology to solve problems. He also discusses his admiration for Jeremy Clarkson’s show, “Clarkson’s Farm”, and his idea to buy an electric van and let people kick it as a form of catharsis. He criticizes Volkswagen for caving into emissions regulations, praising their diesel engines and expressing disappointment in the shift towards expensive electric cars.

➡ The text discusses the potential dangers of data mining and digital currency. Companies like Palantir can use data mining to track and control people’s behaviors, connections, and ideologies. The text also warns about the use of digital currency to limit people’s ability to purchase items based on their behaviors. The author expresses concern about the loss of privacy and the potential for total control over individuals’ lives.

➡ The text discusses various issues, including border control, political figures, and the use of identification for internet access. It criticizes the requirement of ID for certain activities, arguing it’s often unnecessary and can lead to privacy breaches. The text also mentions a popular app that required ID, which led to a security breach. It ends with a discussion on historical events and figures, suggesting that the current state of affairs mirrors past situations.

➡ The text discusses the manipulation of history and truth, particularly in relation to the American Civil War and the South’s attempt to secede. It also touches on the distrust towards authorities and experts, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The text further explores the influence of media and Hollywood, suggesting that they often subtly promote certain worldviews. Lastly, it emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and local-level action, rather than blind trust in higher authorities.

➡ The text discusses the issue of political corruption and the misuse of power, focusing on the case of Dennis Hastert, a former Speaker of the House, who was accused of paying hush money to cover up past misconduct. It also criticizes the tendency to idolize political figures, suggesting that people should stop looking for heroes in politics. The text ends with a call for more critical thinking and skepticism towards political figures, using the example of Donald Trump’s treatment of his supporters.

➡ Dennis Hastert, previously part of a powerful Washington D.C. lobbying firm, has left his job and his information has been removed from the firm’s website. The reason behind his departure is unclear, but it’s suggested that it’s related to his past as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois. The specifics of the situation remain a mystery.

Foreign. Come back. So happy to be back. And my first guest is Eric Peters, somebody I really respect who really gets it. He’s been on the side of liberty and freedom for a very long time, and he’s been on my side as well. Really do appreciate his offers of help when I was in the hospital. It’s great to have you on, Eric. Thank you for coming. It’s a privilege and an honor. And I’m so happy to see you back in the saddle. Well, thank you. Thank you. And thank you for your offers, even to give blood.

As I said yesterday, let’s talk a little bit about what is happening right now. I was looking at your diaper report and I was thinking, you know, it’s interesting. Here we are five years later, and you started the diaper report, making fun of people who are wearing, you know, the diapers on their faces. And yet, as you point out, that is still going on. You know what’s happening? We’ve got Trump back. Oh, wait a minute. He was the one who was there when they did the diaper stuff, right? Right. Well, I think. Because it never really got cured, did it? That’s right.

The report focused on what’s going on in Honduras. Apparently, the Honduran health minister has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in pretty much all public areas again. And I just thought to myself, oh, my gosh, it’s kind of early, but I need a drink. Here we go again. And then I thought, well, okay, maybe it’s just Honduras, but, you know, it really isn’t. Every time I go somewhere, whether it’s to Lowe’s or the supermarket or any place here in the United States, at least in my part of Virginia, it’s 99.9% certain that I’m going to see at least one person still wearing a mask.

Oh, yeah. And that. That’s an indication of just how effective they were in pathologizing and PTSD ing people. Yeah. And I guess that, you know, the underlying point that I wanted to make in that article is that all that’s happened is that this psychosis has sort of waned a little bit. It hasn’t gone away. It certainly hasn’t been cured, I don’t think. And it hasn’t been cured because it hasn’t been forcefully repudiated. We haven’t had any kind of official announcement by the authorities. Hey, we erred. This was wrong and foolish and we shouldn’t have done this.

They’ll never admit to that, will they? They’ll never admit to that. Of course they’ll make two mistakes rather than ever admit to one. You know, when I was in the hospital, they had a sign saying, you need to wear a mask. And I thought what. I looked at it and was like, if you’ve been around anybody exposed to measles, you know, that’s the new thing, isn’t it? Interesting how we were. We had all this press hype about, oh, we got an epidemic in Texas and blah, blah, blah. They misattributed a death there to measles, and they’re telling everybody it’s the most contagious disease ever.

Well, it appears to have just died off, even according to their narrative. If you believe them, it just disappeared. We don’t hear anything more about it. But they do have the signs up at a hospital in Tennessee because they had a couple measles cases in. In Texas. I mean, that is absolutely nothing. But, you know. Yeah. We’re still expected as a society to pretend that there’s nothing abnormal about people walking around wearing these masks. You know, and I’m not trying to be mean. I understand that the people who are wearing the masks genuinely probably believe that they are effective, you know, and they’re afraid and they think that if I do this, I’m not going to catch a sickness.

So I don’t. I don’t intend to disparage those people. The point is, they do still believe. And the point is we are expected to go along with that belief. And it’s an aberrant belief. Yeah. You know, if you had somebody in your family, remember the old Bugs Money cartoon where the crazy guy thinks he’s Napoleon, he dresses up like Napoleon and wears the hat, and he demands to be called emperor. Yeah. Now, if you had something in your family who started wearing Napoleonic outfits and. And demanding to be called the emperor, you know, you could be kind.

You don’t want to hurt their feelings, and you could address them as the emperor, but you’re not really helping them. You’re not doing them any favors. All you’re doing is enabling their mental illness. Well, you know, it has a lot of parallels to a lot of things that are going on in our society. Right. Everybody’s got their own truth, and we don’t have any objective standard of truth. It’s just like what this person thinks, and it’s their felt experience and so forth. We see the same thing with pronouns and gender, imagination. Right? Yes. And so it feeds into all of that stuff.

And so we’re supposed to play along. And that’s part of the way that I think that they have silenced us. Well, I can’t criticize their mask fantasies anymore. That I can criticize somebody’s gender fantasies. We got to get away from the objective realities here. And I’ve said for the longest time, even if you go through their science of virology, you know, it’s kind of like watching a bad sci fi movie or a bad superhero movie. They create a universe. Right. And you expect them then to abide by the rules of whatever that universe is or that particular character.

And so if they start just, you know, they create this fictional world, and if they don’t abide by it, then you have to call BS on that. Yet, you know, they create this fictional world, which, you know, as I’ve looked at this, I’ve talked to Dr. Sam Bailey and her husband and also a physician, both of them physicians in New Zealand, and they looked at research that was done by Christine Massey, going around asking all these public health officials, have you isolated the virus? And she talked to over 200 of them. Nobody did it. As a matter of fact, some of them started saying, we never do that.

It’s like, wait a minute, if you don’t do that, what are you doing from a scientific standpoint? And so what they pointed out was, is that whether or not viruses even exist is in question, but certainly what is not in question is none of this is scientifically proven. If you look at the PCR test, none of it is consistent with their fictional world. Absolutely. And there’s a. You know, there’s another aspect of this that I think bears discussing, which is that no one has been held accountable. Yeah. For the extraordinary psychological, social, and economic damage. That’s right.

That was done over the course of that pandemic. And again, it’s not about retribution, it’s about justice, and it’s about putting this behind us by holding to account the people who did this to us. Yeah. It’s imperative that that be done. And if that isn’t done, then they can get away with acting like, you know, they were somehow kind of in the right. Yeah. You know, that it wasn’t really wrong what they did. You know, you wouldn’t, in any other case, if somebody had had committed a serial murder, you wouldn’t just stop talking about it. You wouldn’t let the serial murder go on about his business.

That person has to be brought to trial, has to be held accountable. That’s right. Medical martial law unconstitutionally imposed. And we let that go, we forget it, and we just move on. Now everything is great because Trump’s back again. The guy who did it, and what is he doing? He’s making up one emergency after the other to rule by executive order. And so there’s a real issue with that. Of course, the very first thing that he did when he came back was to set up Stargate with his crony capitalist billionaire friends to push MRNA combined with artificial intelligence.

So now we’re going to add AI into the mix of nonsense that is here. And, you know, there’s nothing from RFK Jr. To stop this. They’re not banning the RNA. They no longer recommend it for some groups of people, but they’re not banning this thing. And every week we see more. More studies coming out talking about death and disability of people who took that jab, and yet they’re not banning this under any other circumstances. It ought to be banned. And of course, RFK Jr. Is just letting this go. As a matter of fact, they also approved yet another MRNA in the meantime.

And the Trump administration is really doubling down on DNA and MRNA research, just like they are with AI as he did his first day in office. Yeah. I think that RFK is kind of the beard of the Trump administration. They bring him forward. I think he seems to be a genuine person, not perfect. I disagree with him on a number of things, but I think he’s well meant. And I think that’s why they brought him aboard, because a lot of people do respect him and believe that he’s legitimate on those issues. Yeah. So it makes it more difficult to pin the tail on the appropriate donkey, which is Trump.

Well, what he said. And of course, Tulsi Gabbard said as well. We’re here to restore trust in the institutions. I’m here to destroy trust in institutions. That’s my life mission, is to destroy blind trust and government and their unconstitutional institutions. But that’s what they’re trying to restore. And so that’s why they use people like RFK Jr. And Tulsi Gabbard who have, as you point out, they have this certain public perception, whether or not it’s deserved. They have that perception. They’re trading off of it to try to restore confidence. Well, that kind of blew up in their face with Bongino and Cash, didn’t it? If you caught that interview, which I’m sure you did, where Bongino and Patel looked like somebody was holding a gun to their heads, when the whole everything that has been happening over the course of the last four or five weeks makes me feel like I’m in a circus funhouse all of the Populist, nationalist things that Trump ran on have just been cast by the wayside.

I have some red hat friends and I asked them, would you have voted for Trump if he had campaigned on imposing real id, continuing the aid to Ukraine and pushing an AI technocratic surveillance state a la Palantir, and instituting some form of digital currency via the so called genius act? And yet, if you look at what he did his first term, none of that stuff is a stretch. It was kind of predictable that he’s going to go in that direction. You know, he is basically. How do I put this politely? He is the servant, we’ll say, of the deep state.

And you can see this and everything that happened the first term. He’s throwing everything against the wall, isn’t he, to try to distract from the Epstein thing. And, you know, some people even say, oh, now we need to go investigate Gina Haspel and psych. Why don’t you ask Trump why he made her his head of the CIA after she was the one who produced the lies and Trump said we were lied into the Iraq war. Well, she’s the one who did it with illegal torture. And he put her in charge of the CIA because she was right at the epicenter of London and Langley axis where they were doing this Russiagate stuff.

I’m so sick of Russiagate. I got sick of it from the very beginning. Yeah. Of course, it’s now Trump’s, look, a squirrel Obama. It’s now not lock her up, it’s lock him up, as if they’re going to do any such thing. That’s right. But, you know, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud, I think. Now, I hope I’m not being Pollyanna Ish here, but my sense of it is that Trump’s bizarre and corner brat behavior over the last several weeks on the Epstein stuff has kind of given us our. Our peek behind the curtain.

You know, in the wizard of Oz, when they finally pulled the curtain back. Yeah. And we see that it’s not the Democrats, the Republicans, it’s them. They’re all like, the whole thing is fundamentally unreformable, run by a mafia, a disgusting cohort of people who are engaged in not just grift and graft, but some of the most sordid and reprehensible things you could possibly imagine. And I think that’s part of what you’re trying to do with Ghislaine Maxwell in terms of. I think he wants to bring in Clinton and try to revive the partisanship, at least for his people.

There you and I are going to look at this and say, yeah, they’re all part of the same club. You know, Clinton was partying with Trump and vice versa. They’re going to the same Jeffrey Epstein parties and, you know, she’s at his wedding and so forth and so on. But. But we’ll look at that and say, yeah, it’s all just one big Eyes Wide Shut party. But he will look at it and say, yeah, the Clintons, we need to lock them up. That movie, for people who are not aware of it, it was Stanley Kubrick’s last movie, and I think that he deliberately wanted to give us a peek inside that world.

Watch that movie, if you haven’t seen it, and you can kind of get a sense of what’s going on here. And it helps to understand, like, Trump’s disingenuous assertion that, well, if they had anything on me in the last four years, they would have. No, they wouldn’t have. Because it’s like it’s mutually assured destruction. They’re all guilty and they know it. And so, you know, they know that if I say something about you, you’re going to say something about me, and we both go down in flames. Yeah. So they shut up and don’t say anything. And we’ll get more to that, too.

As a matter of fact, you got an article about that and a little bit of a clip of Eyes Wide Shut to give people an idea of that. But before we do that, I wanted to talk a little bit about cars. You got a funny article. Kick me about that. And talking about, I guess one of your favorite cars is you’ve also got a review of the VW ID Buzz. And I thought that was kind of an interesting name for a car in the age of surveillance, the VW id. It’s interesting. It could be the name of another.

The next Samsung generation phone. It’s like all of they’ve succeeded in turning things that used to have emotional appeal into these cold, distant, remote. Who cares? Why wouldn’t they come up like the old Microbus. That was a cool name, Microbus, you know, or affectionately known as the hippie van. You know, it was just kind of. It was cute and it was fun. And that thing is the antithesis of everything that the old Microbus was. And that kind of might fit that kind of a name if you called it a microbus, because it is a device now that would kind of fit.

To get back to what you were talking about, you know, I was so frustrated with the ID Buzz. I was Only able. When they sent it to me, I was only able to drive it twice because they didn’t include a charge cord, if you can believe that. Really, it’s extra, it’s extra cost. So this is a vehicle that starts at $60,000. And if you want to have the home charge cord, you have to pay, you have to pay almost 700 extra for it. So it wasn’t included in the press car loan that they sent me, which is even more crazy because I’m a journalist.

So it’s like batteries not included, except they put the batteries in, but no way to charge the batteries. So that essentially forced me because what am I going to do? I can’t charge it at home now, which is like the main thing they try to sell you the EV with. Well, you have the convenience of being able to charge it at home. But now I don’t even, I’m not even able to do that. So you’re forced then to rely on this sketchy network of so called fast chargers. Well, I drove into town and I went to the first place in my area where there are fast chargers and it’s completely offline.

They’re like doing some construction to it. So that didn’t, that didn’t work. So now I’m sweating and nervously eyeing how much range have I got left? And I think, okay, I can probably make it to the other one that’s on the other side of town. So I drive to that one and that one’s working, but it won’t accept my credit card or any of them. I tried six different credit cards. I had to download the app. In other words, they had access to my phone and access to my bank account, basically my debit accounts, in order to, you know, charge me for this service.

And I’m not willing to do that. I’m not willing to let this, this, this creepy third party entity that I’m not, I don’t know these people. I don’t want them having access to my phone. So long story short, I wasn’t able to charge it. So I limped it home at low speed and it became a 6,000 pound, not a joke, curb weight. 6,000 pounds. Wow. Dead weight for the next five days until they came to pick the thing up. I left just enough charge in it so the poor guy, you know, the delivery guy can pick it up and get it.

He can deal with it. Then it’s not my problem anymore. With all these electric vehicles weighing so much money, weighing so much in terms of weight, it’s going to tear up the roads. And of course they’re not going to replace them either. So it does a couple of things for the Elites. They don’t want us to own private cars and they don’t want to maintain the roads, obviously. So now they’ve got these heavy EVs to destroy the roads for them at the same time. Now, you had that same problem when you were test driving the Mercedes and you had an article about how they pulled your credentials with your press credentials with Mercedes after you gave them an honest review of what it was like to have range, panic and all the rest of the stuff, not be able to get where you wanted to go with Mercedes in a very cold streak back In December of 2023, I think it was.

Yep. Yeah, it was very interesting because I’ve been doing what I’ve been doing for a very long time. And I had been getting regular press car deliveries from Mercedes for more than 25 years. And they never had a problem before with anything, with anything that I’ve written or anything at all like that. And I wasn’t gratuitous. I didn’t insert my personal dislike of EVs, which I’m quite open about. Yeah, I find them to be just lacking any. Anything that makes. Makes a vehicle appealing. But that’s just my personal preference. And I don’t bring that into. Into the car reviews.

What I did bring into the car review was that I attempted to use their EQS, which was $112,000 electric luxury sedan, to visit my mom, who lives 50 miles away in Bedford, Virginia. 50 miles. Now, it happened that it was in December of 23 and it was very cold, if you remember that month. I remember. Yeah. It was a bad cold snap. So by the time I got down to Roanoke, which is the closest city to where I live, I looked at the range and boy, the range wasn’t so hot anymore. And I thought, you know, it might be smart.

Dawn and I were looking at the temperature and it’s about 13 degrees outside. And I’m thinking I don’t want to be caught on the side of the road with it being 13 degrees outside, so maybe we should just stop and put some charge in the thing. So again, same problem. The first place wouldn’t work at all. The second place, dawn put the app on her phone and we were able to hook up the charger. But after sitting there for 40 minutes, we barely got enough charge to make it home. Yeah, you know, put the kibosh on it.

By that time I thought, I’m Just not gonna risk driving this thing a significant distance away from home and being stuck on the side of the road with it. It’s difficult to charge them when the weather gets really cold like that. Yeah, it’s much harder because you know, not only the battery in the car is trying to keep the battery warm because it’s that cold outside and that uses. Anybody who has a heat pump or tries to use like one of those, you know, hot wire portable electric heaters knows they burn a lot of energy to try to keep you war warm.

So I just wrote about that and I, and I wrote specifically, you know, your clientele, the people you’re trying to sell this car to. This is a $112,000 car. These are affluent people. Affluent people pay to not have hassles. Yeah. You know, affluent people pay to be able to do the things that we can’t do. And I thought, my God, I could get in my 24 year old truck and easily drive to Bedford with the heat blasting. I’m not worried about it because it’s not going to, you know, leave me by the side of a road dead.

And that’s, that’s ridiculous. You’re getting even. Even a virtue signaling leftist who has $115,000 to spend isn’t going to put up with that. I thought that that was a very fair and objective thing to say. And now you’ve been vindicated. Yes. Oh yeah, that’s because that’s the elite. People don’t want the hassles of buying that thing and they’re not buying it. Yeah. So Mercedes PR gave me this, this stuff about how, you know, I’m now out of their delivery area, which is nonsense. I know that that’s nonsense. I mean I happen to have people who do what I do that I know who are still getting the cars, you know, who are as far away or farther than I am.

So that’s just not true. Yeah. Well, anyway, fast forward to now. And they’ve had to announce a, they call it a pause, a pause in the, you know, the continued manufacture of the eqs and the EQE because they can’t sell them in this country. It’s been a catastrophe for them. They’ve had to cut bait and cut prices massively. They’re marked down to try to desperately get rid of these things because you know, we’re, we’re getting, we’re in the middle of 2025, we’re at the 2026 model year now. So you know, the 2025s are already becoming kind of like old fish that you want to get rid of, you know, and people aren’t buying them.

And part of the reason they’re not buying this is also, this is another aspect of this issue. The depreciation rates on these things is absolutely catastrophic. You can find a year old EQS that sold for $100,000 more or more when it was new for $35,000. Now, rich people tend to be a lot of things, but they tend not to be stupid people, you know, and nobody wants to take a $70,000 bath on depreciation in the course of, you know, a year or two. It’s just, it’s ridiculous. It is amazing. Yeah. You know, I look at this VW ID buzz, like I said, you know, it’s interesting to call one of these devices an ID because they are going to be IDing you everywhere you go.

But I guess the other alternative, you call it a bug or something. I mean, that would also kind of harken into the Internet of things and tracking you everywhere you go. But, you know, originally it was the Beetle, or wasn’t it the Type one? Technically, Type one was the designation. Yeah. And then affectionately it became known as the Beetle, which I think is from the German, which I think is Kaffir. I think K I F I R, which was at Hitler came up with because he actually sketched the shape of it. You know, there are sketches of Hitler’s original concept of the Beetle that he worked on with, with Ferdinand Porsche to create the car.

Now, all that aside, the original Beetle was a great car. It literally was the car for the people. It was very basic, it was very simple, it was very light, it was efficient. And it was something that anybody could learn to fix. You could do your own maintenance on the thing and save a lot of money that way. Oh, yeah. Something that has been totally tossed out and kicked to the curb. Now this idea that you own this extremely expensive gadget and when the gadget glitches, what do you do? Well, you either take it or have it flatbed, towed to a dealer where you pay an exorbitant sum of money to have some specialists try to fix it for you.

Yeah. And I remember, even though it was very inexpensive car, it had a reputation for liability. I remember a Woody Allen movie. I don’t even remember which movie it was. But he goes, he goes to sleep or something like that, maybe Sleeper or something. And you know, he wakes up. Yeah. Hundreds of years in the future and he sees he’s on the run or Something and he sees a Volkswagen in a cave and he thinks, wait a minute, no, it couldn’t possibly. But he, he opens the door and he, and he gives it a push and, and it starts and it’s like, oh, how about that? You know.

So it had this reputation for being reliable. I remember we had a VW dealer close to where we lived and it was called Birdsong Motors. Kind of as a reference to the noise that it made. You know, it kind of sounded like the Jetson car had this little tweeting sound that it made with the, the engine, the air cooled engine in the back there. They were funny cars. Well, they were also kind of the first step on that ladder. I can speak from personal experience to me also, I had a Volkswagen when I was young. You know, it was a great car for a teenager because again, it was like a step up from a Briggs and Stratton push mower, literally.

I mean an air cooled engine with a little 1 barrel carburetor on it and, and a fan, I mean, and then you pop the back of the hood and there it is. Was, it was so simple. It wasn’t intimidating. So if you’re a 15 or 16 year old kid, you know, you can look at that. No, I think I could maybe figure out how to take those spark plugs out. You know, I can learn how to change the oil. I mean there’s a, there was just a bolt on the bottom of the engine. I mean, you didn’t even have to jack the car up.

You could just undo the bolt and wow, look, I just changed the world. And it sounds trivial, but when you’re 15, 16 years old, it’s kind of intimidating. Yeah, you know, you’re, you’re like, oh, do I want to touch that? Do I want to mess with that? I don’t want to break that. Well, the cars are intimidating today, aren’t they? To work on. Yeah. I had an interesting kind of lesson. Now here I am a middle aged guy and I’m afraid of computers. So, you know, this is how I can sort of understand what’s happened. I had a problem with my laptop.

The battery basically wouldn’t accept the charge anymore. And I thought, gosh, do I dare, do I dare to try to open this thing up and maybe see about replacing the battery myself? And I gathered up my courage and I did it. I bought a, I bought a battery online for $35 and you know, I very timorously, I removed the screws and I took the COVID off and it wasn’t so Bad. And I felt so good, it made me feel like I did when I was a kid. Yeah. Wow. I learned how to do something today. I did it.

It’s so empowering. As opposed to if I had gone to the computer store, which I’ve done in the past, you know, when I’ve had a battery issue and $300 later, you know, there’s your. You know, there’s your thing, and you have no idea what they did, you know, works great. But now you’re out $300 and you. You feel kind of emasculated because you had to go to get somebody else to fix it for you. And I think we’ve lost. You know, it used to be so common for dads and their sons to work on the car, you know, in the driveway on Saturdays or Sundays.

And I’m not talking about major gearhead overhauls of the entire engine. I’m just talking about doing basic things like a tune up, you know, doing brake work, stuff like that. And it was a good experience for the father and the son or the daughter, frankly, and helped to empower that young person. That young person felt competent. And that’s extremely important growing up, you know, to feel like, hey, I can do things. My hands are capable, my brain is capable. I can understand this. I know how to do this. And now they can change the blinker fluid, right? Yeah.

Now they’re inculcating helplessness. There’s this commercial that makes me want. It makes me feel like. Remember the story about how Elvis would shoot the TV when Robert Boulay came on? I saw this commercial. I think it was for a Volvo. It might have been a Subaru. And it’s a couple of teenagers and they’re out in the car and they have a flat tire. And what do they do? They call mom, who calls aaa or some, you know, roadside assistance thing. Everybody’s all ungrateful. Oh, my God. It’s embarrassing. Imagine being 16 years old as a boy and you didn’t know how to change a tire.

Yeah. Your friends would have laughed you into the next county. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, now you don’t have to write. You can just use AI to do your website. Therefore, you. Right. That is the ultimate emasculation and lobotomization, actually. I think it’s happening. But tell us a little bit about this Kick Me article. I thought it was a funny idea. You talk about Jeremy Clarkson. Yeah. I’ve never met Jeremy. I’d love to. I have always enjoyed Top Gear and his shenanigans. You know, I think he’s got the right kind of tally ho pirate spirit. You know, he’s.

He’s a guy who just. He. He has a knack for. For telling the truth in an interesting way. You know, a funny way sometimes. Yeah. Anyway, we were watching his. His most recent thing is, it’s called Clarkson’s Farm, and it just reminded me, you know, I should do things like Jeremy does now. I don’t have the backing that he has, I don’t have the resources that he has, but I thought it would be just hilarious if I could figure out a way to acquire. To buy one of those I.D. buzz electric vans. And so it’s mine now and I can do what I want with it, like Jeremy does on top here.

Yeah. And I could put a sign on it and take it to a shopping mall somewhere and people could just kick it, you know, Film. Yeah. I think it would provide a great kind of cathartic moment, I think. So many people are so frustrated and angered by everything that’s being foisted on us and pushed on us, and particularly these electric cars. You think it could stand the kind of abuse that the Toyota Hilux got from Top Gear guys? No, actually, I think they would act without even using implementation, without necessarily getting involved with crowbars and hammers and things.

I think you completely total an ID Buzz within about probably half an hour. Yeah. Amazing. Was there anything that you liked about it that you thought was clever that they laid out with it? Yeah, I liked that it looks immediately distinctive from everything else on the road. Kind of like cars used to. One of the attractions of the old Volkswagens was you didn’t even have to see it. You heard it, you know, you knew, here comes a Beetle or here comes a bus. Because it had that distinctive sound. Yeah. So I like the way that they styled it.

I think it is a. The idea is great. It’s a perennial favorite. The idea of the old microbus was brilliant. You know, what a fantastic, practical vehicle. Now, if only they could have taken that vehicle that they created and instead of using a battery powered drivetrain, imagine if they had put one of their TDI diesels in that thing. Yeah, yeah. Right. Then you’d have. Then you’d have a microbus that would be able to go probably 600 miles on fill up. Yeah. And also would only probably cost about 35 to $40,000, as opposed to $60,000. Yeah, that would be great.

They’d sell a lot of those. Oh, you actually make money. Imagine that. You know, instead of Trying to kind of sell virtue. They’d make money. Well, the only thing better than putting one of those things a shopping mall and putting a kick me sign on it would be to do that to Klaus Schwab, who actually he had a big kick me sign on put on him there at the World Economic Forum, I think, or as I like to refer to them, you know, you can take like some gigantic pinata. Yeah. And let people take a turn in giving him a whack.

Yeah, yeah. Eats the bugs. But isn’t it sad? You know, it really breaks my heart to think that Volkswagen as a company caved into that, that nonsense about the, the cheating on the federal emissions certification test because it’s diesel engines that they used to sell were brilliant. I had the opportunity to drive every vehicle that they make equipped with the diesel engine, and every single one of them outperformed the advertised mileage. They were phenomenal. Some of them would go 700 miles on a full tank of fuel. I remember driving to North Carolina and back and still having a substantial amount of fuel in the tank of the thing.

And you could pick one up. This is as recently as I think 2015, you could pick up a TDI powered Jetta for about $22,000. So naturally that’s why they had to go. Can you imagine the juxtaposition? On the one hand, you’ve got a $22,000 Jetta that gets 50 plus miles per gallon, that goes 700 miles on a tank full of fuel, and it will probably last you for 25 years because it’s such a durable car. On the other, you got a $50,000 electric car that goes maybe 240 miles, that forces you to plan your life around these constant charge discharge cycles, and that in all likelihood is going to require a new $15,000 battery by the time it’s about 10 years old.

Yeah, because it clicks all the boxes of what the Elites want for us, which is nothing. You know, to own nothing and to go nowhere. And, and that’s the thing that ought to concern us about all this stuff. You know, when you, you mentioned the Epstein thing and the other things you say while everybody’s looking at Epstein, they’re missing the stuff about Palantir and the genius act and all the rest of the stuff. And, and those things are not unrelated. No, they’re not. Now, I’ll preface my remarks by saying that obviously the allegations and the facts that we’re aware of with regard to Epstein are just repellent beyond description.

And I think that that stuff definitely should be exposed. I don’t think we probably ever will get to the bottom of it, at least not with any of their help. They don’t want this stuff out. But at the same time, it has served to distract attention away from things that are extraordinarily important for people to be aware of. Palantir is one. And you know, by the way, I didn’t know what palantir was. You know, I wonder, what does that mean? What does that word mean? I’m not a big Lord of the Rings. I never, I never read Tolkien’s books on it.

But it turns out that in the universe of Lord of the Rings, the palantir is a sorcerer’s stone. Yes. And you know, the sorcerer uses it to see what people are doing. And that’s what Palantir is about. It’s about. I did reports on about a decade ago and I said at the time, I said, you know, the palantir would allow the sorcerer to actually see into you. Right. Which is really what Palantir data mining is allowing them to do as well. They’re able to look at externals like metadata and other stuff like that, and to anticipate what you’re going to do to make connections between you and other people and ideologies and religion and politics and all these other things that they want to track and control.

It is really insidious. What is there. And of course, they’re not the only one you’ve got. And which is the sword, right, from Lord of the Rings that belong to the king. And there’s a company called Andrew that is working with, with Trump and they want to use that for creating a no man’s land at the border, basically having real high tech surveillance and law enforcement that is automated and they’re working with them hand in glove. And he’s another one of these guys from the PayPal mafia part Palmer Lucky, I think is his name. I get it confused.

I always talk about Howard Lutnick. I call him Lucky Lutenik because he didn’t show up on 9 11. He knew not to go. And so he got real lucky. But not so much his employees, even his brother who was there. But that’s related to this. That’s important. It’s not just Palantir. There are two arms of the pincer and the other one is this genius act which essentially is the propagation of some form of digital currency. Non real money. Digital money. Now what they’re going to end up doing, in my view, is on the one hand they’re going to use the Palantir to draw these profiles of you and aware of everything that you do.

And then if you do things they don’t like or don’t want you to do, they’ll be able to use this digitized money to limit your ability to buy things. Oh, you are. You want to buy some hamburger? Well, you’ve exceeded your. Your, you know, your carbon footprint this month, so. This month. So you know, your coin. And it’s interesting that they used. The psychology of it is fascinating. They talk about coin, but there’s no physical anything. It’s a coin and name only. Your wallet is your phone. It’s not your wallet. You know, you don’t have physical money anymore, so they control the money, which means they control you.

Well, they call them crypto coins. And you think, oh, it’s crypto. You know, it’s got crypto. It’s got encryption in it, and so they can’t tell what. No, it’s completely visible what’s going on. The encryption is there for the processing, not to protect your privacy. And it’s a blockchain, a public ledger that’s available and visible to anyone and everyone, especially the government that’s there. Yeah, it’s an absolute nightmare, you know, at least during the pandemic, when they attempted to throttle people’s ability to engage in commerce, to buy and to sell, you know, if you had cash and, you know, for example, I was friends with a local guy who.

Who operates a convenience store, you know, the gas station convenience store. Because we’re friends. He knows me. I know him. You know, he didn’t hassle me about the masks or anything, and I could go in there and I could buy things with cash, and nobody knew except for him and I, you know, now in this. This regime that they want to create, not only will they know whether I’m wanting to buy something, they’ll know how I’m trying to pay for it. And if the two things aren’t aligned and if their algorithm says, oh, no, Eric’s been a bad boy, he shouldn’t be allowed to buy anything, what are you going to do now? You can’t transact business.

That’s what they want. They want absolute, total control, and they exert this control using the data mining and using our ability to transact commerce. Well, and that’s coming at us in a lot of different ways. I look at the stablecoin, and, you know, they want. They want to tie it to the dollar, which is a joke, because the dollar is not stable. So it’s not a coin. And it’s going to be tied to fiat currency, which is not stable. And the crypto is not there to protect your privacy and let them know anything about that. All of it is a lie.

But they’re looking at the stablecoin as a way to protect the dollar and to transition into the next monetary system. You know, we’ve had Bretton 1, Bretton, Bretton Woods 2, Bretton Woods 1 and 2. And so now they’re. They’ve got to transition to something else because they can only run these scams for a few decades until everybody catches on and people have caught onto this thing. So they got to come up with something new and fresh, a new con, and that’s a big part of that. But I experienced this personally back in May of 2021. My program here, independently was only five months old when PayPal banned me.

And I still can’t use PayPal. So they. They banned me. And Venmo, which is owned by them, banned me at the same time. I spent hours with him on the phone, and the guy was very helpful. But he finally came back and he said, I can only find one thing. It says delete this account immediately. There was no violation, no alleged violation of anything, and no reason given for taking me off, as a matter of fact. But that’s what they want to do. They want to use it to control content. And we’ve got something very similar we talked about here on the show last couple of days is some Australian group of feminists called Collective Shout.

You should look this up, Eric. It’s. I think a better name for them would be the Collective Karens. I’m going to make a note. I’ll look it up after we get on Collective Shout. And so they’re out there trying to use the, you know, banking bans or, you know, like Operation Choke Point. They’re trying to use that against anybody that they don’t like. And they have focused on some video games that they say are not safe for work. Some of them are, but some of them are not. But what they’re doing is they’re setting a very dangerous precedent.

But this is something that the governments are very eager to do for them, and. And so are the corporations. You know, that’s fine, fine. We’ll just shut everything down. So that’s what’s coming, you know, banning anything that anybody doesn’t like and doing it right away and just completely shutting you off, whether it’s for your carbon footprint or because your politics or Your religion or because you oppose the pandemic or the vaccine, it just take you off for that stuff. Ultimately they want uniformity because they want predictability. Yes. You know, they don’t want anything unexpected to crop up.

They want to have the ability to know ahead of time what the reaction is going to be, how people are going to move forward and all of this stuff. And it’s, it’s the most anti human thing I can imagine. Yes, it is. It is the end of creativity. It is the end of personal judgment, initiative. You know, it is literally the NPC world where we’re just the gray man. All of us are just the same sort of representation, human stick figures, you know, marching blue. It’s incredibly depressing to me. Yeah, Geospatial intel. I’ve been looking at this for a long time and you know they’ve had a thing that they called AI before.

We talked about artificial intelligence, they talked about anticipatory intelligence, which was to predict what you’re going to do before you did it. And of course Zbigniew Brzezinski was talking about that back in the 1970s when he wrote Between Two Ages. He said in the technocratic age we’re going to know what you’re going to do do before you know what you’re going to do. And that really is our goal. To know, to surveil and to control everything that we do. To live in a panoptagon state. Now people got the message about CBDCs. So now Trump is here to gain their trust and to put in a different form of cbdc.

That’s the stablecoin. I even call it CBDC in terms of crony billionaire digital cash as opposed to central bank digital cash. Right. It’s just another cbd. All he has to do is give it one of his narcissistic appellations about how big and beautiful it is. That’s right. You know, people will fall in line for that. I have gotten to the point, I hope I’m not falling down the rabbit hole of madness, but I begin to believe that this whole thing is just a gigantic form of political wrestling that they, you know, they put Biden in there deliberately to create chaos and demonstration demoralization, to, to flood the country with random foreign people and to just rub it in Americans faces that, you know, if they, if they make an illegal U turn, they’re going to get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But you know, people can just scamper across the border and do whatever they want. They can drive without insurance that you and I will get nailed to the wall for if we do. Anyway, they let that go on for a number of years, along with the whole tranny thing and all the other things that happened and incomes. Trump on his white steed. Trump is the populist nationalist savior. He’s going to correct everything. And sure, I mean, it was attractive. You know, people were desperate to hear that maybe we can fix this. Maybe, you know, we can.

We can do something about it. So, yeah, okay, I’m going to vote for the Orange man. Vote for Trump. Yay, America. Right? You know, and he gets in here and crashes everything. And what ends up happening when he crashes everything? He will have completely demoralized and discredited the populist nationalist movement such that anybody who even tries to say, well, maybe free enterprise and, you know, all of that are a good idea. It’s going to be like Herbert Hoover. Yeah, yeah. For the Great Depression. And then, you know, they got Franklin Roosevelt. We’ll probably end up with Pete Buttigieg.

Yeah. And, you know, where has Trump spent so much time in professional wrestling? I mean, he’s even got Linda McMahon running the Department of Education. It really is crazy, but he knows how that works. And, and that’s one of the key ways that he controls a narrative, is by making these heroes and heels stuff. You know, this. All the stuff about Canada, the 51st state, that’s as phony as Hulk Hogan on the ring, you know, I mean, all of that was just to. To create these. These different issues out of nothing. We also had something else was also kind of interesting, also involving a bunch of women.

And that was the T app. I don’t know if you saw that or not, but it was actually the number one free app on download on Apple before the stuff all blew up. And what happened was this is another one of these deals where we got to have your ID before you can get onto the Internet. And we got to be very careful because Republicans are pushing that extremely hard. You know, well, we don’t want kids to be harmed by anything. So we’re going to have to require ID in order to use the Internet, you know, to use these porn sites or whatever it is.

Never mind the fact that they’re going to be able to easily get around these restrictions they’re always coming up with, with reasons that we got to have an id. We got to have ID because otherwise we’ll have illegal aliens who are going to be taking your jobs. So we got to have mandatory E Verify and An ID for that or we got to have id. And I agree, we should have ID for voting. That’s the one thing I would agree with because it is voluntary. And if you don’t want to vote and get involved in the professional wrestling match, then I don’t have to give them my id.

But for all the rest of these things, they’re always looking for an excuse to push ID on us. Well, this app, the T app, was a place where women could go in and gossip about men that they had dated. And it became extremely popular. But they required that you give them a picture ID to show that you’re a woman and so forth. And they just put all of this personal information, give us a shot of your driver’s license and all the rest of stuff. They put it on a page, a URL that was completely. No password, no encryption, nothing.

If you had that URL, you could see it all. And guess what? Somebody got it and showed it to everybody. And one thing so we can see that was really funny was a guy just wearing a wig. That was his id and they let him in because he, I guess, identified as a woman. But one of the worst case examples of how all the stuff that is supposed to protect us and keep us safe and secure actually endangers us in our identity, you know, so all this kind of stuff that, that ID thing is stuck in my crawl for a very long time.

Yeah, you know, I understand, you know, just as a moral matter, not a legal matter. You know, if I were a storekeeper, I probably would not be comfortable selling beer or Booze to a 14 or 15 year old kid. You know, that, that’s just, I consider that to be not appropriate. That’s something that I wouldn’t personally do. But there’s something affronterous about demanding that a guy our age, for example, I mean, anybody, I mean, there’s no possible way that we could be, you know, underage, that we could be anywhere near 18, 19, 20 years old. It’s ridiculous.

Once upon a time, this is a few years back, I was attending a press event in, in Southern California. And I was at LAX airport, you know, waiting in the terminal for my flight to board. And I went up to the, there was a bar there. I just wanted a cup of coffee because it was too early to have a drink. And I just sat there having a cup of coffee. And this guy who clearly was in his 70s, you know, had a white beard, old guy, he sits down and asks for a drink. And the guy who was manning the bar who looked like he was maybe 24 or 25, you know, demanded ID of this guy.

And the guy, to his credit said, you know, I was in Vietnam when, you know, you were still in your diapers. And then he expleted, deleted and just walked away. And again, I think it’s this constant pecking at us, treating us like stupid children that the system shows first. And also if you flip it around too, these poor people at the, at the cashier, for example, at a store, you know, they probably know perfectly well that you’re old enough to buy a bottle of wine with your groceries, but because of store policy, they have to participate in this degrading kabuki, you know, of asking you to present your id.

We can’t even buy cough syrup anymore, you know, without begging and pleading. Here’s my id. Look at. I’m old enough. I’m not a meth head, I’m not a drug addict. I just freaking want some cough syrup. But now you have to be treated as if you were a meth head, drug addict, whatever, just to buy a box of cough syrup. That’s right. Well, Lance tells me, he says the UK’s Online Safety act considers all criticism of illegal immigration to be 18 plus content and requires that you register your face and a government ID in order to be able to see any content related to it.

So if you’re going to criticize their policy of taking society down, then, you know, they want to completely ID you and get you into their files. It’s pretty amazing. But that’s where this stuff is all headed. And as you point out, this is the government corporate thing that replaced the somewhat limited government that briefly existed until about April of 1860. You have a statement about Lincoln. He said Lincoln was no more free than the country that he enslaved. By the way, owned by the railroads and by a kind of precursor to Palantir, the Pinkerton thing. It’s all very depressing, but no less true for being depressing.

You know, I remember years ago I read an alternative history by Harry Turtledove. It was called so Few Remainder. In it, he changes history slightly so that there’s an early end to the war and the south is able to go its separate way. And as a result of that, in his novel, Abraham Lincoln is complete, is despised by everyone and ostracized. But he makes a comeback a few decades later when this book picks up and he comes back, guess what? As the Socialist Party candidate, which I thought was really accurate, I think that’s exactly where he would have been so he’s a socialist to boot as well as a crony capitalist and under control of the corporations.

And that’s what we’re seeing today, isn’t it? Tom DiLorenzo, who’s written a number of books about this subject, points out that Lincoln was until after the war, after his assassination, when what he calls the Lincoln cult was erected. Lincoln was widely loathed in the north as well as the South. There were massive riots in New York City over the dragooning of people to be pushed into this war in what was then another country. You know, understandably these, these fresh off the boat Irish immigrants, like why in the world, I don’t want to be dragged all down south of the Mason Dixon line to get killed.

I haven’t got a dog in this fight, you know, and the whole Americans are so propagandized about that. I mean, ultimately the south just wanted to do exactly what the American colonies wanted to do. Yes, they want to leave. They wanted to no longer be under the control of the central authority. Like the most foundational fundamental principle that Jefferson was writing about and that Tom Paine wrote about. That’s right, you know, self determination. We want government. And then Lincoln had the insolence to talk about government of the people, by the people, except the people of the South.

Yeah, he’s going to impose it upon them. Yeah. Well, they were able to, with massive propaganda and educational system, completely change history with all that stuff, weren’t they? They were. And that’s the way it always works. Yeah. Part of recovering our senses is recovering our history and getting at the truth of things. And that the so called Civil War, which was nothing of the kind, it was an attempt by the south to secede. A very different thing. Not a spore. The south did not want to take, take over the North. That’s right. Not want to, you know, control the whole country.

They just wanted to depart, leave us alone, we’re out of here. Yeah. The American colonies didn’t want to take over England. They just wanted their independence. And that’s what the Southern states were doing as well. So if, if that’s illegitimate, there was no legitimacy for the American government to start with. But I think it’s a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Yep, exactly right. And so I think, you know what we do, you and I and other people do, if we can just get people to see even one example of this sort of manipulation of history and truth and facts, it’s like you can’t unsee it.

You know, that’s the one blessing of the whole Covid thing. I think a lot of people have been disabused. The falsehood that the experts, the authorities, that they’re. Well meaning that they have our best interests at heart and they can be trusted. We know now they are not to be trusted. That’s right. Yeah. For years we talked about the harm from, from mercury and vaccines and they say, oh, we took that out in 2002, 2003. No, they didn’t. It’s still in the flu shots. And they just had. They just revealed that and just said, well, we’re going to stop doing it in the flu shots.

I don’t know if I believe that or not. You know, we look at it, but, you know, they’re keeping their fingers crossed and say, well, we. What we meant was the childhood vaccines, we meant the MMR and other things like that. But, you know, they, they manipulate the information and, you know, as we see all this stuff coming together and the technocrat billionaires that have completely owned Trump, I don’t know if you saw this or not, but Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, who runs Palantir, they’ve been, they have been tied together with their venture capital firms and now they want to come out and start making movies.

And they were talking about that kind of movies that they want to make. And of course, they’re all going to be very jingoistic, militaristic, high tech, you know, and they’ll throw in your subservience in the name of patriotism as well. But that’s the next big thing coming. Sorry. Hollywood is. They’re unwatchable. Hollywood is collapsing. Yeah, yeah. There are occasionally exceptions, but for the most part, the DRE that they are putting out is so awful as entertainment. Leaving aside politics, it’s just, it’s poorly written, it’s poorly acted, it’s full of clumsy, cliched propaganda, political correct. Because people are tired of it.

They don’t watch it anymore. They grab you by the lapel and yell at you about LGBT and DEI and all the rest of the stuff. So there is perfect. There is a big opportunity for. Somebody comes in, as they said, they want to do things like Top Gun, Hunt for Red October and stuff like that. But of course, they’ll put their technocracy spin on it as well. Well, you know, they could easily. Anybody could come in and start doing movies that are better in terms of acting, characterization, plot, you name it, and, and, and not hector people over this left wing nonsense and be successful.

The key is, are they going to come in and remake Things to come. You know, H.G. wells book shape of Things to Come, if you remember that movie from the 1930s that basically shows the, the kind of fascistic technocracy that they wish to put in. And Elon Musk’s grandfather completely bought into that. And that’s one of the reasons they wound up in South Africa. He tried to instate that instead of the former government that they had in Canada. But that’s really where these guys are going. And I think they’re going to be pretty successful at that.

And that should worry us because. Because that’s a different kind of threat that’s going to be coming in. It’s going to take people a while to wake up. I’m bullish and positive actually about this topic and I’ll tell you why. Look at how Joe Rogan, and he’s just one example, you and I are another example. Look at how people like us have managed to sort of get around the mainstream media, as it’s called. Rogan’s got a much bigger audience than cnn. People have had enough. This whole thing has just reached its, its critical mass. And I think with regard to movies, independent studios that come up with quality stuff that people like, you know, there’s now a vehicle for getting that out there.

Oh, I agree. Maybe we don’t have the media. I agree. It’s just going to be a different, it’s going to be a different subtext for a different way to come at us. They’re going to be coming at us from another angle. I mean, take a look at the collapse of the late night talk shows that long ago stopped being funny and just hectored people with lectures. It’s like, who in the world was watching that stuff anyway? Well, it turns out they weren’t. They were losing 40 million a year on Colbert’s show. But, you know, so there is a big opportunity for somebody who wants to come in and do it differently.

But then you got to be careful. What are they trying to sell you? Even if they do it subtly because, you know, Hollywood for the longest time has been selling very subtle, very subtle philosophy and a worldview and the rest of this stuff. And if you just accept that without looking at it critically, that that is what has had a big role in changing our society goes back to the Franklin School. I mean, they’ve been working on these types of things, very calculating the way they do it. The problem with them was that they became a little bit too confident and they jumped the shark.

You know, they did it right in Your face face. And they don’t really care anymore. If it was more subtle, it’d be more effective. And I think that’s probably what’s going to happen. I think that trust is probably the most valuable currency that there is, and once you lose it, it’s almost recoverable. And so now I think people are much more tuned into that. They want to feel as though that they can trust whoever it is that they’re listening to, that they’re viewing. And if they get a whiff of shadiness, a lot of people get immediately turned off by that.

And good. There should be consequences for shadiness. Yeah. Being a propagandist and that’s healthy. You know, people talk about a high trust society, and a high trust society is a good thing. But at the same time, you can’t be naive. You can’t just assume that everybody’s benevolent and, you know, there’s nothing harmful to this. I know it’s a little more work to have to investigate and check things out and make a determination. But ultimately, that’s how we get back to some kind of an adult, healthy society instead of this, this fearful, infantilized society that we built up around us.

That’s right. Well, Patrick Henry said in his day, he said, trust no man, but bind them down with the chains of the Constitution. If they’re not going to abide by the Constitution, they certainly don’t deserve your trust. But you don’t put blind trust in anybody. And it’s just part of critical thinking. That’s a key part of it. And so I think that’s one of the things that we need to be very, very wary of. And one of the things that’s always concerned me about Trump. That’s why I see the Epstein stuff as very good, because at least some people are having second thoughts about blind trust in Trump.

The biggest issue is people will come back and say, well, if we can’t trust Trump, who can we trust? Site no. 1. Trust yourself. Trust your neighbors. Start working at the local level. You know, we just had a story about how on the sly they wanted to do these experiments to block out the sun. Well, where did it get stopped? It got stopped at the local government level. There are things that we can do. We need to understand the usual suspects of the federal government with its unlimited amounts of money, and they’re trying to keep that thing going.

And, and I think they will with the stablecoin. But we need to understand that, especially if we use the Constitution, there’s a lot that can be done at the local level, and it’s harder for them to control it. That’s why they keep trying to move everything to the federal level so that they can get rid of any of these restrictions. We saw that with glyphosate. They’re now talking about moving things to the federal level on other pesticides and basically giving them a big pharma deal in terms of legal immunity. We know exactly why they’re doing that, because they can buy a few people in Washington a lot more easily than they can buy people at the local level.

And so, you know, it’s just, as you point out, it’s, you know, people who are not a part of the system. And you have to look at what these people have done and actually hold them accountable. I know for the longest time, one of the key weaknesses of Trump on this thing is not only did he campaign on it, but even before he was elected the first time, he had all this Q and nonsense, that’s what I call it, about how, oh, he’s gonna. He’s gonna wrap up all these pedophile rings that are out there and all the rest of this stuff.

I thought, really, with his background, they sold that for so long, you know, that’s why it’s so much deeper. It’s not just a campaign promise. They had this entire mythology about how he was the white knight who was going to come in and stop these known pedophile rings. They should have talked more about the actual pedophiles, like on Capitol Hill. You remember Dennis, Astrid. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we’ve all forgotten about that. The longest serving speaker of the House for the Republicans, and he was picked because he was a pedophile wrestling coach and then made speaker of the House.

And, you know, while he was speaker of the House, they had two pedophile scandals. You know, men. The. With Mark Foley, the House page handler. Foley and Barney Frank, rent boys from his townhouse in Georgetown. That’s right. The Hastert thing, you know, it was Hastert. I remember him going on with Rush Limbaugh and just poo, pooing, all of it and saying, oh, they’re only coming after Foley and these other guys because that’s what the Democrats are doing. It’s just purely political. There’s nothing real here. Well, it was real. And Dennis Astor was eventually exposed as being a pedophile.

And the most interesting thing about that whole thing to me was that after it was all known, what did they do about it? Nothing. Zero, zip, nada. Right. They could have gotten Rid of the statute of limitations, which is incredibly short for pedophilia. And if they had done that, they could have prosecuted Hastert. Instead, what they did was they manufactured a corner crime so he could send him to jail and satisfy people into thinking that they’re doing something about the pedophile networks when the whole system was set up to make sure they did nothing about the pedophile networks.

And so, yeah, nothing is going to happen with this thing with Trump, but it’s a little bit more cynicism and critical thought is going to be something that’ll be very good if that can get into the mogul. Trump’s comments. You know, the arrogance and the narcissism that is his probable greatest weakness, I think. Yeah. In that it makes him do things that just from his point of view are stupid. You know, calling his supporters stupid is stupid politically. Yeah. You know, and yet he did that. And, you know, just that you can see it, like, snarling contempt that he has even for the people who support him.

The moment they don’t support him abjectly, the minute that they raise a question, that they take off the red hat and say, wait a minute, then he comes after them, doesn’t he? It’s amazing. He demands sl. Literally slavish, obsequious, like, you know, cur dog rolling on its back, kick me, kind of, you know, follow followership. And that brings me to, I think, this. This other point that I wanted to make. I think all of us, whatever your politics, stop looking for secular heroes and saviors. Yes, we save ourselves. That’s how we absolutely stop looking for these heroes.

It’s idolatry and it’s stupidity. It’s amazing, you know, how many times, as one person said, you’re talking about Trump’s narcissism. You know, all these guys in politics are narcissists and especially all these billionaires. Just take a look at Musk, right? It was a clash of egos as they were coming after each other. But of all the narcissists, you know, Trump does stick out in his own special category, doesn’t he? He really does. Yeah. I mean, he’s a tour de force. Well, Eric is great talking to you. Always is great talking to you. Ericpetersautos.com is a place to go for honest reviews, and you’ve got comments about new cars.

And we didn’t get into the oil, the underneath pan, which makes maintenance more difficult and oil leaks more difficult to know about and all the rest of the stuff. But a lot of Practical articles in there. The perils of the pan is that article. I love your site. Always have loved it. And you focus on mobility and liberty. We can’t have one without the other, can we? And, and it’s great to have an honest review. If you’re going to get shut down by car company for an honest review. Now you’ve been proven right to them as well.

But I don’t expect they’re going to restore your credentials. I hope they do. But you can still. Again, it’s heartbreaking to me because I’m a car guy. I love cars. Yeah. And you know, Mercedes at one time made brilliant cars. Yeah. They had super vengeance. You know, they’re inline six cylinder engine, they’re V8s, they’re V12s. Remember those? Yeah. Just magnificent things. And they just decided to give that all away and to basically make another Tesla with a cheap plastic three pointed star on the hood. That’s right. Yeah. I’m very, I’m very negative on the survivability of the entire German auto industry because it’s not just their craven subservience to that aspect of the Green New Deal, but the Green New Deal for manufacturing in general in Germany is just sabotaging them.

Whether it’s the manufacturing of steel or the ability to be able to compete in terms of cost on energy. They have, the governments have put, put the businesses in Germany and France and especially the UK at such a competitive disadvantage. I don’t see how they’re going to be able to do any kind of manufacturing, especially something like automobiles and steel and that type of stuff. They’ve basically just given a monopoly or duopoly, I should say, to India and China with the, with the carbon mandates that they have on it. But again, it’s always great talking to you and thank you for being such a great friend.

I really do appreciate it. Eric, thank you very much. You know, I appreciate our friendship and I appreciate you having me on the show. Well, thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. And before we leave, I just want to thank everyone for all the support in the last couple of days. Thank you so much for supporting the show. We would not be here without you. Thank you for your prayers. And let’s go out with a clip from Dennis Hastert just as a reminder of what this whole thing looks like. Thank you, Eric. Ericpetersautos.com that shocking indictment.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert charged with lying to the FBI and trying to hide secret payments apparently to cover up misconduct in his past when he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach. ABC’s John Carl has the story. Good morning, John. Good morning, George. The indictment alleges that Hastert had a dark secret in his distant past and he was willing to pay millions to keep it a secret. Dennis Hastert was once the most powerful man in Congress. Now he stands accused of a dark past before his career in politics. Federal prosecutors have charged the 73 year old Hastert with bank fraud and lying to the FBI in connection to a promise he made to pay an unidentified person $3.5 million in hush money.

Prosecutors say Hastert started making the payments five years ago to, quote, compensate and conceal his prior misconduct. It’s quite a fall for the man who was chosen speaker of the House because he had a reputation as being Mr. Clean. It’s popular these days to ask political figures what mistakes they’ve made, where they failed. As a former history teacher, I know such analysis is best tempered by time and reflection, and that is probably best left to others. The indictment doesn’t say what Hastert was trying to cover up or who he was paying, but it points to his time as a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Yorkville, Illinois, and notes the unnamed person has known Hastert for most of his or her life.

The indictment alleges Hastert structured withdrawals from his bank accounts to avoid detection, taking out just under $10,000 in 100 separate transactions. When asked about it, Hastert told the FBI, yeah, I kept the cash. That’s what I’m doing. His former constituents are surprised by the news. You’re prideful of people that are coming from your community and trying to make a difference in Illinois. It’s just disappointing. There’s no word from Dennis Hastert this morning or from his legal team, but he has reportedly stepped down from his job at a powerful Washington, D.C. lobbying firm. And that firm, George, has removed Hastert’s bio from its website.

But as you said, Jon, we really don’t know what conduct he was trying to cover up. That is a complete mystery here. There is no indication whatsoever, except in that indictment. It says that his time as a wrestling coach and a high school teacher back in Yountville, Illinois, way back when is material to this indictment. So it apparently is something that he did back when he was a high school teacher. Okay, Jon Karl, thanks very much. I know you have more on Sunday this week.
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