Through the mist without those who were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed, he took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. According to the state, you read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame number. You trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize... farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God, get the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for when his words were true we are not free but we have ourselves to blame for even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight if he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave build the land of the free afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is the first hour of the Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kernke, one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, west, south, northwest, and gentlemen, you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com LibertyTreeRadio.org And we're on satellite, want to say hi to all of our merchant marine operators out there. No matter what body of water you're on, we appreciate the fact that you are either listening or rebroadcasting an analog and digital. We're in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It's Wednesday. It is the 24th of January. It is the 16th year of open, obvious, and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. 2024, old earth calendar 2024, battle for the republic, the dance of swords. And the epic, let's see, first of all, needless to say, they're trying to do as much distraction, damage control as they can with regard to what's happening in Washington with the pinto sniffer meat puppet slash Obama's orphan. knee doll, okay, you know, bite in the bite at eight. Well, of course, there's a whole bunch of other activity that's been made public, which is one of the other reasons that for all of a sudden Shazam! The controlled press is covering subjects that are away from Washington, D.C. This is that introvert-extrovert thing. Now, it doesn't mean the other things shouldn't be covered. New service has plenty of time to do it, but are doing everything in their power to only, of course, do what they're told to do by their handlers, you know, the kosher mafia. So for a change, there's actually some coverage about what's happening out in Texas, needless to say. We've been discussing that. And of course you're seeing it in your face, but there is a lot of other action going on around Washington DC that has to do with the hot dog and pizza crew. The pedophiles that are in our government in the White House, Congress, and even in the judicial of course. And all right through the bureaucracy are the pedo-Satanic queers, extraordinaire and mass as they say. Having their little collective get togethers and being about as sick as could possibly be imagined, a pile of perverts collect one upon the other. So anyway, as it is, we have a couple of other things that we do want to touch on in the process. Number one is, well, I care out of the district of criminals. We do have a bunch of other actions taking place. And as you know, It's gonna be rather interesting to see how they develop. First of all, I'm gonna do this. Let's go to guns and gadgets because Washington and the courts are allowing foreign nations to attempt to attack the Bill of Rights. And of course, it's coming from the invasion band of Mexico that the Jewish mafia controls. This is where HIAS is located right now. coordinating the invasion of the southern border, the Jewish Mafia, as I told you, was taking place. H-I-A-S is providing support, coordination, maps, and information directing the invaders to hit the beach on America. And they're coaching them about how to lie, which is why, again, I will repeat, The refugee treaty needs to be gone. Repeat this to everybody. The problem is the refugee treaty. The refugee treaty needs to be burned. We need to get out of the refugee treaty now. We need to get out of the refugee treaty now. The refugee treaty is the problem. Repeat that to everybody. Repeat that and put it in posts everywhere you can. When people are talking about the border, plug in everywhere you can. Any YouTube videos, anybody send you something and there's a comment section. The refugee treaty is the scam and it needs to be gone yesterday, day before yesterday, 20 years ago, it needs to be gone. We can individually evaluate cases, we get the bureaucracy to get up off its dead end and do its job, which of course it's used to not doing its job. And when you have illegal aliens coming in, the bureaucracy does nothing. In other words, there's a front door, but if they go in the front door, all of those Trotsky glass wearing purple-haired POSs that are in the bureaucracy, well, they get to sit on their dead ass a lot more when the side door is open and they just can sit there on their dead ass and do nothing. So anyway, real quick here, we've got guns and gadgets. I want to make sure we plug that in today, and this has to do with magical. And of course, this is the other Soros scam coming at us, globalist scam. Here we go. Revived a lawsuit by Mexico looking to sue gun manufacturers out of business. Yeah, yeah, this is amazing. 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Bump my coffee and almost spilled it all. So we're going to keep it over here now. Yeah. Well, I've talked to you numerous times about this lawsuit where Mexico was trying to sue several gun manufacturers. because they were willfully and maliciously exporting slash importing guns into Mexico, which are leading to deaths in Mexico. has to sue to stop these companies. And it's interesting, I will say that the one company that they didn't name, and this is the one company they have a military contract in with, and that's SIG, here's the front page of the lawsuit, and it's Mexico versus Smith & Wesson, Barrett Firearms, Beretta USA, Glock, Ruger, Interstate Arms, Century Arms, Beretta Holdings, Glock Holdings, and Colt. say no-stake because they don't want to upset their their supplier of their military firearms. Now I'm not going to get too far into this. This was a 60-page decision that I woke up this morning to read before I came on. And it's bullshit, but I think we all need to pay attention to this because what these anti-gun judges are looking to utilize this case to do is to go around and destroy the PLCAA, which is the Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act. That is the law that passed by Congress that protects gun manufacturers. This is the one you hear Biden saying all the time, we need to remove the protection for gun owners, for gun manufacturers so they can be sued. Nobody can sue them. It's actually horseshit. They actually can get sued if they sell something that is defective and can cause injuries as a result of that. For example, the SIG 320 issue, you see lawsuits pop up all over the country for that. But what the PLCAA does is it protects manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits when criminals use products and do criminal things and cause harm to people. The gun didn't do it. You can't sue Glock, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Century Arms because a gangbanger killed somebody or a coward murdered some people and stuff like that, right? We understand that. That's like common sense. However, the attack on our rights is not common sense, y'all. Now, I think you'll enjoy this little bit here, because this will make you laugh. This is the circuit judge, Cayada, who penned this decision. Says, the governor of Mexico brings this lawsuit against seven U.S. gun manufacturers and one distributor. The district court dismissed Mexico's complaint because they concluded that Mexico's common law claims were barred by the Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act. That act prohibits the bringing of certain types of lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of firearms in federal and state courts. We agree that the PLCAA's limitations on the types of lawsuits that may be maintained in the United States applied to lawsuits initiated by foreign governments for harm suffered outside the United States. However, this is like, I believe in the Second Amendment, but... However, we hold that Mexico's complaint plausibly alleges a type of claim that is statutorily exempt from the PLCAA's general prohibition. We therefore reverse the district court's holding that the PLCAA bars Mexico's common law claims, and we remand for further proceedings. reasoning follows. Then a couple quick blurbs here that'll make you giggle. Mexico has strict gun laws that make it virtually impossible for criminals to obtain firearms legally sourced in the country. It has one gun store in the entire nation and issues fewer than 50 gun permits a year. Despite these strong domestic regulations, Mexico has the third most gun-related deaths in the world. The number of gun-related homicides in Mexico grew from fewer than 2,500 in 2003 to approximately 23,000 in 2019. Yes, see the border area for the wars happening between cartels. The percentage of homicides committed with a gun similarly rose from 15% in 97% to 69% in 2021. Now, ignoring the war between the factions that are at the border trying to run guns and drugs, those cartels will ignore they even exist. They continue and say the increase in gun violence in Mexico correlates with the increase of gun production in the United States, beginning with the end of the United States assault weapon ban in 2004. You see what they're trying to do? Well, there's more on here. Mexico alleges that to the costs. have risen for medical and mental health as well as other services for families of the victims and increased cost of law enforcement and so on. And that's of course the fault of gun manufacturers in the United States. Not the fact that they're inept or incapable of stopping the war between the cartels or that some of the federales have been known to take things into their own hands. We'll ignore all that. We'll ignore the lawlessness that is taking place in Mexico because the truth of the matter is it's Smith & Wesson, it's Ruger, it's Interstate Arms. It's everybody except for the manufacturer that we're doing business with. It stinks, right? However, what else? Stinks is the First Circuit. And this lawsuit was written in a specific way. to try to pierce the bubble of the Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act. So I just wanted you to be aware that it is something we need to watch if they're going to allow other countries to try to sue gun manufacturers out of business. Well then they realize they're losing the war at home and they're going to take it to us from abroad. But we'll be there every step of the way. They're not taking over. You know, for those who watch these videos, they are not taking over. I appreciate each and every single one of you have a phenomenal day. For those looking for shop show updates, range day yesterday was cold and wet, and there were cool few things, some cool, some Glock slides from Franklin Armory that turned the gun into a binary, a trigger firearm. and got to play with the .40 cal yesterday. That was cool. They also had a new AR-15 upper, which is piston gun, and there's no springs in it. And it also doesn't have to be regulated as far as the gas system goes when you throw on a can. You shoot regular, throw a can on, shoot regular, no adjustments needed. That's pretty cool. And staccato, my new favorite. manufacturer of toys. They came out with a brand new C with a full-size grip and a smaller compact grip. Amazing. They kind of brought everything that they brought from this CS over to this new C model and they came out with ammunition yesterday too that they make in-house. Get ready to head down to the show floor got some business to do and I'll be back with you I just want you to be aware of what was going on appreciate y'all please guys and gals what if you watch my videos Please subscribe to the channel there are tens of thousands of you that watch every day that are not subscribed and that is significant in the world of analytics. And if you could just do me a solid and push that button, the subscribe button, it doesn't do anything to you, but what it does is it drastically helps this channel get stuff through the algorithm so that more people can understand what's going on in the Second Amendment. And I thank you for your consideration. Until we see each other again, be safe, stay vigilant, carry a gun to keep you, your friends, your family, your community safe. I'll see you all in the next one. Take care. For everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. That was Jared, Guns and Gadgets. Please take the time, go over there, watch the videos that you just heard and more, and give them a thumbs up. That does help to promote the channel, and we want to see more of that happen. And you guys are the ones that can make it happen, so it helps out. Only takes a minute to do, guys. So please, again, pitch in. It's not a big deal for everybody, but it's a big deal for the guys that are doing the work and we want them to keep it up because it saves us a lot of time when somebody else is actually able to focus on a particular specialized area of interest that we're all concerned with. It works out pretty well for us all in the long run. And again, many hands make for light work across the board. Now, a couple other things here real quick. It is Weapons Wednesday. Palmetto State Armory, I mentioned the other day, have a whole family of AKs in inventory. Somebody asked me in an email, I just have to re-did the little discussion the last few days here about that. My preference is a standard beaver board, no frills, AK-47, with a nice side rail on it. Because the side rail has eradicated the reason for having most any of the other technologies hooked up to the firearm. I prefer a slick side weapon. And what I mean by that is minimal material attached or minimal material fixtures on the weapon if I'm in the field, I'm going cross country. Why? Because stuff hooks up on everything. We're in a temperate environment. We're in Michigan. We're not gonna be playing police state soldier like we did in Iraq and Iraq. It was a police state operation whereby we had our boot on the neck of the Iraqi people to steal stuff for the Israelis. We understand that. It's cool. We weren't defending America. It had nothing to do with defending America, but it's the thing we do. Okay, so whoever was over there doing it, cool. The tools they were using in the toolbox for the police state example, the same weapons you see that were used for police state operations in Iraq. are the same kind of tools you'll see for police state operations against America when the globalists make their move on the United States. Those weapons, the stuff that you're seeing with all the extra bells, whistles, and goodies are for terrorizing a population in hopes that you can cowl them down so you can confiscate guns. That's what they'll be for. In most other environmental situations, you just got stuff hanging everywhere. And because everybody's talking, when we talk about this, everybody goes, well, the militia doesn't stand together because they're regular forces and we'd be elite special woo-bang-y cross-country guerrilla troops, okay? Which we will, by the way. We're gonna be both unconventional, paraconventional, and conventional. That's a mistake most commonly made by people who try to hyper specialize. But because of that, Guess what? We're going cross-country. Have you ever gone cross-country with a piece of equipment in its present configuration that's most commonly promoted? You're not going to the range anymore. We're talking about going out into the field and I'm gonna have to go through the sumac. I'm gonna have to stay under cover under the pine trees underneath all of the other low growth. I've got to take advantage of cover and terrain and you know what that means? You're gonna be going through some of the densest conventional temperate foliage you can imagine with brambles, drags, briars, wild grapevines. Have you ever walked through that with a whole bunch of garbage? This is why we talk about taking your equipment out and testing it in a real world environment to see how well it worked for you. A slick side firearm for the most part is your first best choice. It's kind of why both weapons in the era of the Vietnam War were so Simple. I mean, in reality, optical sites, you know, add-on sites for the M16 were enormous. There was a vast amount of equipment that you've never seen that was promoted, made available, tested, and it was determined whether or not it would work in the environment. And in some cases it did, in other cases it did not. That's part of the R&D and combat operations that takes place in every war. The soldiers, the guinea pig. Okay? So, in the environment we're in right now, even a scope or scope mount or overhead fixture, the biggest problem you've got is that little curvature. It's kind of like a bullet grab on a tank turret, you know, where you create a bullet sump. where the base of the turret comes together down on the hull. And if you don't properly feel that area up, if you have a deflection, it pushes a main projectile right down into and under the turret and you kind of decapitate yourself by design. Not because you shot yourself, but because of the design. Even that little stirrup edge in front of the scopes snags everything. It's tough, you gotta be paying attention. Needless to say, well, you carry your weapon in low carry, yeah, or high carry, depending upon the situation. And I have been with both schools, with the knuckle draggers slash the muzzle draggers, and the trap and skeet crew, because that's the difference between the two, high carry, low carry. The big issue here again is, depending on the environment, if you were out in the relatively clear area and you're going down urban streets and you're driving in a big honking police state type vehicle that is designed to deflect anti-vehicular mines, IEDs, etc. And you jump out once in a while and you chase the poor ass native who's running around, bare ass naked half or at least in sandals and cheap clothing, that's one thing. but to actually be out there in the field in a situation where nope, it's not just desert for as far as you can see. No, the palm strap and the sawgrass, you know, light sawgrass or minimal grass and threat and thatch on the ground is about all the foliage you got. This is Michigan. So again, a straightforward, you know, slick side as in minimalist in terms of material that can be snag tagged and gacked. The older M16A1 basic design took that into consideration and something nobody ever talks about. So I will. It doesn't mean that that's the first and only choice. But remember, when you do this, you're going to find out in the field right angles to foliating areas is a very tiresome affair. And it's going to continue to be an issue. You'll find out. Again, you'll learn by OJT. It's amazing how much stuff will be on the weapons and within a short period of time, how much stuff will be disappearing from the weapons. And there are a couple of other issues I will remind you. We get into a major conflict, supply and support for everybody, not just us. The government's not going to be in any better shape. You get into a multifaceted conflict, which includes the idea that, say, the Chinese want to carve us out of the formula. Well, if that happens, say goodbye to most of your cheap ass stuff that you're used to getting which makes it affordable to have all of these extra doodads for government. Granted, they do have all these lucrative, uh, luker-oriented scam contracts so that they make money handed for fist within their own little circle of butt buddies. But even there, notoriously, the butt buddies have a tendency to screw us all when they realize that it's gonna cost money to do something. So they start making things disappear, stuff will fall off, so to speak. In other words, they won't be providing it anymore. Just like when you're in any other situation with the military, it's like this ad nauseam repeat over and over and over and it happens over and over again. And with the military force especially, with irregular guerrilla or opposition forces of our type. It's a matter of availability being number one, is there an access point? Probably not. Are we going to have to improvise and replace certain power supplies and things of that nature to make the systems work? Most probably. So again, a lot of the equipment simply won't make sense to be employing or should say deploying if you can't employ it because you do not have the material resources to utilize the equipment on a regular basis. It becomes dead weight on the weapon system and it becomes, therefore, dead weight in the field. Just something you're really, really, really not gonna appreciate a whole lot as things carry on. So again, a basic AK, beaver board, polymer stock, it'd be fine. But again, I've carried wood before, it works. And price is right if it's cheaper, big thing is crisp crown. Magazine well operates properly, magazine availability, but if I'm carrying an AK, that's the model I would be carrying. And again, there's all kinds of the cool weapons, take your pick. You don't have to do what I'm talking about. I'm just giving you my recommendation based upon many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, Days, weeks, months, years now, decades now, in the field with pretty much every kind of weapon system you can imagine to be carried. And including squad guns and all the other fun stuff and tricks of the trade, know them all. Ways that we can shear off weight or reconfigure a little bit to make it easier to carry the weapon, etc. I know all those too. And I still recommend that you take a serious look at the idea of minimizing so that we maximize. And most important is just fatigue drag. Let me give you an example. I will repeat this again. This is Weapons Wednesday. I can do this. When the M16E1 came out, it had Pickle Fork Banette. Now, this was during the time when the, what is the purpose behind the Pickle Fork Banette? Well, let me ask everybody that. And I would point out that you would find FNFAL Bennett configured flash hiders like this. You would also find many other accoutrements on other flash hiders that might be closed basket flash hiders that still serve the same purpose. And what was the purpose? Wire cutting. Yeah. Yep, it was a neat little idea that you basically, well also obstruction wire, thank you, but not just barb wire. But traditionally when you built anti-personnel obstructions, you would interlace that with wiring that is about the gauge of galvanized fencing. Very heavy, tougher to cut, in many cases a much better quality steel than say the barb wire might be made out of. But in either case, the barbed wire or the support cabling was pretty rigid. Now breaking out a tool under fire and standing there or even laying back and sticking your hand up and snipping wires while somebody's taking pot shots at your arm and your wrist to see if they can blow it off was considered to be, let's just say rather hazardous to your overall physical condition. So, the solution was, the idea behind this is that as you move forward, you can literally hook the wire, you know, kind of like vanetting it, or even if you were under cover, rather than having to handle a separate tool and trying to articulate the tool, the idea was that you slip the wire into that pickle fork, pull the trigger, and she's cut. Didn't care where the bullet went as long as you weren't pointing it as bob right next to you when you did it or better still point the barrel towards the enemy or since the wires probably in front of you as a bullet crack over their head at least to contribute something and did something to help you out but it especially worked as a wire cutter. So it was really neat. All it was designed to do is really catch that little piece of wire and stoner thought it was cool. Everybody thought it was a good idea. They went ahead with the deal. During the period of the E-series introduction and with feedback from units that had received the weapon for evaluative purposes in Vietnam, but also in Panama, they all pointed out that, well, this is interesting and, you know, units eventually, whole combat units were issued these particular E-models with the Pickle Fork Bandit. You see them trying to be correct in this by putting the proper flash fighter on the rifle in many of the movies out there. Sometimes they're right about the era, sometimes they're not, but in reality in the field, supply, not everything caught up, everybody right away. So you can never say, oh, they didn't have any of those, or, well, they may have had those, but they didn't have those. When in reality, as long as it fits the right time where either one could be in service, they were all in service. But very quickly, one of the first things, and in fact, it was really the only change that was immediately made between the M16E1 and the M16A1, certainly the forward assist was another one. That was a major change. But the significant most important issue was that the flash hiders were changed out from the pickle fork to a sealed front basket, which pretty much all of you are familiar with. And the reason was because of the muzzle snagging on everything. Because you're in rainforest or cross-country work. Remember troops didn't want to move on roads. You all know all the stories. Everybody's repeated a million times. We were indoctrinated with it. You don't travel on roads, but if you do, you've got to maintain a tremendous amount of security. Flankers on either side of the road out to 200 yards if needed. You had to have pickets forward and point men. You had to make sure that you had a picket formation in front of larger formations. Okay, and so instilled IEDs were an attrition maker. So small units, especially aggressive patrol units, had a policy of cross country or parallel travel operations to routes of travel. This means that the lieutenant would take you out, say a quarter mile or half mile off the beaten track, then make a 90 degree turn to follow the intended original route for the aggressive patrol. And then you'd be going cross country through whatever kind of terrain and conditions existed. And every time you turn, my muzzle caught. And you're moving a little farther and all of a sudden, my muzzle caught again, I gotta shake it off. Then it's like, that bastard muzzle caught again. And about another maybe 10 yards, well, that's son of a, beep, beep, beep, caught again. Well, saw hell, what this is getting more is this is getting obnoxious. Well, this piece of garbage, what the hell it's doing it again. And I shake it off, you got to move it around, you got to back the weapon off. You're trying not to hook up on the junk, it's snagged on the end of the firearm. Seriously. And so the troops said, dude, this is a problem. And amazingly enough, the donut of destruction actually listens, which doesn't happen very often, but they actually did. Something as simple as that. So just imagine all kinds of little right angles all over your gun that have sharp aggressive surfaces like picatinny rails. In fact, they've already realized that this can be a problem for a couple of different reasons. So you'll notice that for a while there and they actually do produce them for pretty much everybody. The picatinny rails now have picatinny rail covers. So you can create rounded grip surfaces, but it's also, more importantly, if you are actually in the field, not working as a military police occupation force type troop, it's because when you get out into the field, this stuff is all gonna let you know right where it is again. Yeah, there you are. Yeah, I know you're there. Okay, yep, you're doing it again to me. Man, you're doing it again, Tom, really getting pissed. I'm really getting tired of this. I really finished with this. See how that works? So just a heads up. And again, it's one of those things about the basic weapon itself. AR-15s, I've already told you before. We need all the other ARs we have. I don't care what model you have, they're fantastic. If you've got every widget and every latest do that, and every latest gotta have it item, nuclear flash, high-ideal flashlight, generation 24 night vision device costs $68,000 and it can pick out a NAT at, what, 900 yards at night and looks like daylight. In fact, it even looks in Technicolor now and live silhouette, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, fantastic. But most of the weapons that we need right now, and what we really need to get as many people armed as possible, is a gladeus that is simple. Kiss. Keep it simple, stupid. We need a weapon system that's light. In other words, what we need is the Kar-15, as it was originally produced. We need a model of rifle that is out there right now. It doesn't need the flashlight on it, doesn't need most any of the optics, doesn't need a laser. It's a utility buggy rifle. And if we do this, we're gonna make up the difference in weapons so all the more expensive and sophisticated arms can be focused and put into the hands or kept supported with the troops that know how to use them. But most people don't need that. And for those who need the other rifle, we just don't have an example that I can see that really fits the niche perfectly. Doesn't mean we don't have variants out there, we really do. But we need a seven pound AR15 M4 CAR 15 knockoff now. That's really where the priority is. That's what needs to happen. It would be fantastic if somebody were to crank it up, Bear Creek or whatever. And here's the thing, to save on production, it doesn't have to be a tapered slash sculpted barrel, AR15 barrel of the pencil barrel like you see on the M16A1. A straight cut barrel just in fact with maybe only one or two very tiny steps, but to shave off as absolute much material as possible from the barrel to make it as lightweight as possible. In fact, again, what's the goal? The original goal, and what we were told, now I'm gonna remind everybody of this, cuz now I'm hearing all this drivel the other way, and it's fascinating how you get this gun snobbery crap going on. Like your grandpa's M16, that was the three round burst. Well, I guess I'm grandpa rated, and I had an M16A1, so it had full select fire. What are you talking about? Well, that's the other grandpa gun. But the thing is also true of all the other weight added. Now, do I have heavy barrel AR-15 students? I've got match grade AR-15 rifles that will tack out at 900 yards. I got your ass with that 5.56 round with the match rounds that we put together, whole name, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But is that what everybody needs? No, for the most part not. Although if you can afford to, nice solution because again, accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. But most people could better be served with a CAR-15 M4 type weapon system. We need a 16-inch barrel, don't go a short carve. But when I say CAR-15 is the M4 is basically the CAR-15 with a longer barrel. Carving link gas system is fine. The piece of equipment would work flawlessly. Everybody would be happy with it. You could grab it and throw it in places. You wouldn't care about it. At seven pounds, everybody can carry it. Nobody's going to have any special issues. So that's the niche gun that we still need. And we don't really have right now. Although we do, we can make one. You can take a plumb crazy generation two lower. with the lightest weight AR-15 flat top upper that Bear Creek or Palmetto makes. And you can throw a Kar-15 type rifle together for, or that kind of utility rifle together for about 350 right now. It'd be reasonable. In fact, probably a little less than 350. Now we're talking, not talking mags and, you know, you're going to have to put some optics on a flat top, something, iron sights at least. But that's what we're looking for. I heard a voice call her, jump in there. Yeah, the Sega, I bought a Sega about 15 years ago. It was just said there was no pistol grip. It looked like a, I mean, it mimicked basically the SKF. And I think that I haven't waited got it in the other room here. But I think that was about it was so light. I mean, did that say it was 556? Just beautiful gun you can just throw in your bag. You know, you just Drap it over your back. Yeah, and it's it's almost weightless. I mean it's it's and it was real short Not only that when they came out when that when they came out they were 16 inch barrel They were utility woodstock basically it fit the niche of the carbine Except you know, it's kind of like a cross dresser between a mini 14 and an AR 15 rifle Well or an AK but it's the I know what you're talking about Sega's rolling up that rifle was as little as $165 for that gun. Remember, nobody knew what they were, nobody wanted them, and they just sat for the longest time. And I just told everybody, guys, you can't beat the price. $165 for a center fire rifle at semi-automatic that takes whatever magazine you want to buy for it. And even when it went up to 235 a rifle or 250 a rifle, it still was a great buy. Yeah, that's what I bought it for. And then I had a hard time getting the Max, but I can get plenty of Max for it now. Well, the other thing too is the 5.56 was at the time, that was the orphan boy out in the A case because, you know, the first two cat chain brings would be, you know, 7.60 by 39 or 5.45 by 39. And again, one of the biggest things that really hurt those guns is simply the fact that when they started chambering them in 556, that's when government didn't want them to come in. Because as I pointed out, you've got the best of two systems. You've got American ammunition, and you have an AK system that really can't quit. You can't break it down easily, you gotta be stupid to do so, you gotta really make an effort. And in fact, that's the only way it really probably damaged the weapon. So you have, what I say, long standing, excellent guerrilla warfare firearm or a utility security firearm for, again, individuals that are performing support. The driver, the radio operator, the guy that's the ambulance attendant. medical personnel, somebody that needs a light, light, light rifle that can stay out of the way. And in the Sega and that configuration, it's like the carbine except in 5.56. It has the same basic form to it and it served the same purpose. It was durable. I mean, I threw this thing, I went through all kinds, I tested it out, went to all kinds, I mean, it just kept working and working just like an SKS. As a matter of fact, I'm looking to see good color jump in there. Hey, this is Carl in Virginia. Whatever happened to the the Bushmaster carbon 15 you remember that that was incredibly lightweight wasn't exactly yeah, but it was an a carbon fiber receivers, I believe and super duper lightweight. Has anybody picked that up? I've not you know what we have uppers. This is weird. We have the carbon fiber AR-15 uppers, and I think they have a total of eight that are put together. And just like you said, you're shaving almost another full pound off the rifle. If you have the carbon fiber, they're actually steel plate reinforced, or aluminum plate reinforced. I don't know which. I think it's aluminum. But anyway, The assembled those rifles dropped down to about six and a quarter pounds Which again is below or around the weight of what the car 15 was because the regular m16 weighed in at seven seven and a half depending upon What you know additional components you would you attach to the weapon not much? But the car 15 was designed to be again an NCOs rifle And it was smaller, more compact. They lost weight because they shaved the barrel weight down. They cut the barrel down. But the carbon fiber, it holds up. I mean, everything that we've seen so far, we haven't really tried to fail the weapon. But the weapons that are put together that use those, we picked those up. The uppers were $17 apiece when we picked them up. In fact, I brought them up on the air. Remember they had the one source that had the carbon fiber AR-15 uppers and it was $17 plus some shipping, couple dollars shipping per unit. Now they disappeared. Now we haven't had any fail. I haven't had anything where I would say, oh my God, the weapon exploded or no, nothing like that's happened. But again, I will say this, these are put in reserve. These weapon, any of these weapons here, you know, with an 80% lower carbon fiber upper and again, the 80% lower is a polymer. So basically again, there's shaving more weight. I think all of these are good solutions. And we're going to see so many stinking hybrids with combinations of uppers and lowers. The Plum Crazies are all over the place and they're completely polymer. At your choice, you can switch out the, you know, they make the Plum Crazy with or without the alloy folding stock. You can buy it both ways. A little more expensive by a few dollars with the alloy. I don't see those around so much, but remember they offered them both ways originally. And everything where you start switching out the polymer, you're shaving ounces down. So all of these are good solutions. The big thing is I'd like to see a company, we need to have somebody offer it so people can go, you can say, go here, buy it. And I would hope that Bear Creek does that or Palmetto does that. They actually are already building the AR-15A1, but they're doing it as a classic firearm. We know what that means, that means price. What we need is a weapon that it should be cheaper. If AR-15 with all the picatinny rails and all the extra doodads on board that they've done to sculpt out the gun. bring the price to one level, then taking all of those parts off should systematically reduce the overall cost of that upper. If you get my drift, in other words, if I don't have to put a mulk, a CNC-produced picatinny rail on the roof of the forward grip, and if it's not all alloyed aluminum, but rather traditional carbine-length gas system with a simple polymer forward pistol grip, I might offer that with, I mean, you could set that up with an option for a vertical grip connector in the front maybe, if that would be a personal flavor choice thing, it wouldn't add any weight because you could add it or take it off as needed. But there's just several different mission niches that the more sophisticated and complicated rifles don't need to meet. They won't meet, they don't know it's not necessary. Better to have my attitude, my personal attitude. Better to have 15 or 20 AR-15 stashed all over the place so you could just walk two steps or five steps and grab something and go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang to shoot your way towards more magazines or to put the threat down in front of you and advance to maybe a more sophisticated gun rather than one or two or three firearms that are incredibly expensive and makes you feel like John Wick, but you're not John Wick. And if you can't get to a weapon, then your ass is grass and the lawnmower goes through it. So, I'd rather have a lot of, and there's another reason for this, is that right now, you give me 10 good allies, all carrying an AR-15 of some kind, and we point at one of the bastards in a black uniform, between all 10 of us, we're gonna shoot their ass dead. And if you take the attitude of working as a sergeant and again, directing fires and while you're suppressing in general, four guys can be suppression operators. Six people are gonna work with you and you're gonna systematically go right up the daisy chain of the enemy as you observe them. And all fires to bear on the aggressor and you keep putting them down. Hits count, misses don't, killing them is the mission. And the idea is to make sure that, again, when I say all fires, in other words, all fires, all operators on my trace or all fires on my mark. You call out the target, whoever the poor bastard is that's out there, everybody dumps on him. Maybe it's only part of a mag, sometimes it's a designated three round fire. It can be a five round engagement, or you can tell everybody dump a mag on that one right there. I want everybody to dump a mag, I don't want that piece of crap getting back up. Aim for the feet. videos. What? Aim for the feet. I want bullets on target. I don't want bullets cracking over his head. I want his ankle shot out. I want his knee shot out. I want his gut shot out. I want him to be peppered. I don't care if he hit his body armor, it won't make any difference. He shot everything else attached to him. He's bleeding to death, and he's not going to be able to move. But systematically, now, as soon as we put that target down, the team leader orders you to switch to another target. And like I said, you go right down the daisy chain. And you don't need a super sophisticated weapon for that, you need a lot of weapons because your people are, again, in need. The idea behind this is you're gonna be building an army, you're gonna be recruiting. You need more weapons out there for less money to be able to get everybody armed. At the very least, look at it this way, these can also be considered basic training weapons. The other thing that we are going to need a quantity of are training weapons. very similar to what might be the more sophisticated standard arm that we issue, but we need a quantity of them because we have a quantity of individuals that are in the training cycle and process. And the weapons that we are prioritizing for combat are very different weapon from our BCT weapons in terms of cost. Effectiveness is the same. If we need to press them into combat service, they could be easily without any problem whatsoever. And they would be just as desirable as any other firearm we could possibly carry. But the idea is that with minimal cost, I can afford to have more weapons on the rack. Which is another consideration. Price needs to be down, weight needs to be down, reliability needs to be comparable. And in this day and age, there's no reason for reliability not to be there. I heard another voice. I'm sorry, please jump in there. Yeah, Sex Macs. Yeah. I wanted to go back to the AK, the caller with the AK, the Sega. What's nice about that Sega is not only is it Russian made, but it's made with a chrome-lined hammer forged barrel. And right now, because of the, they've been, you know, they have been banned from import. He could sell that, aka, he could sell that Sega and buy himself a fairly decent AR and come up with, have enough money left over to buy a case of ammo and several magazines, quite a few magazines. I mean, that's, they're really getting, the model he's got is worth up to at least $1,600. And originally they were a giveaway because, like I said, nobody was excited about them. It's a Sportr AK. Yeah, but it's made by the Russians and it's made to spec. And that was the most critical aspect of all of the SAGAs, even the shotguns. The receivers are the critical, obviously, issue. The issue is, what did they make the receivers out of? Well, these came right off the standard production plant line. And so if you have one, they're as good a rifle as any you can carry, but they don't have a pistol grip, but they don't need a pistol grip. On the other hand, what will happen if somebody else gets the gun? Yeah, they'll put a pistol grip on it. They'll actually dress it out because there's a whole bunch of market material out there to completely change out the gun to look just like any of the standard AKMs of the period. So, but it is, like you said, it's a good rifle. Important to remember, the .308 model, it's an SVD receiver. When they came in with those, the first batch, because they didn't have anything in a stretched receiver to make a larger main battle rifle caliber, the only option they had was to actually use a regular SVD receiver. And so that's what you are, what you have in your hands is actually a receiver that you simply can't buy in the United States. If it's in 7.62x51 NATO. So heads up on that one. Every aspect of that system was grossly underestimated initially because of its looks. And I still pointed out that I grabbed that rifle and carried it a heartbeat. I have no problem with the weapon itself. It's functional. And again, the price was a quarter what any of their main battle rifle was in semi-automatic at the time, or half or a quarter, in fact, for a little bit. I'll remind you of something there. When the Sagus came in, here's way back and it's not that far back. When the Sagus came in, they came in with 10 five round magazines and the rifle. for the well they dropped they started out higher and nobody was buying him so they dropped down to as little as $135. Well you got 10 five round mags so you basically didn't have a great battle pack but you had a nice little battle kit and you couldn't beat it because well you got base plates you got followers inside each one of those five round mags but you had a functional system then remember for a little bit they brought the sagas and also the washers with 10 round mags. Anybody remember this? Whole bunch of little goofy 10 round mags. And that bundle was about $145. And it was factory boxed. So all these weird combinations that they tried apparently, or for marketing in different environments, or marketing in different states, made for some interesting fare to purchase. But you ended up with a lot of nice support equipment for a weapon system that is very reliable. Now most everybody carved all that stuff up so I don't think anybody's got it originally in the box altogether. Although, well I can't say that. There's some people I know down the road here. They got piles and piles of those as reserve rifles. and they're not coming off them. And they pretty well kept the way they were, just added more 30 round mags if it could take a 30 round mag. And otherwise they just left them the way they were and said, well, you show up, this is the gun you're gonna be issued. And you really can't cry because it works. Go ahead, jump in there, caller. They made one in 308 and a lot of guys were converting that over to make it look identical to like a Dragon off and they're calling it a Sigan off. And then we use it as a definite spark. It works very well with that role. Oh, it's an excellent rifle. Like I said, in fact in 7.6 U by 51, here's the thing. You've got a Russian, a real Russian gas system that works every time and will work for decades without any maintenance. Well, you want to do maintenance, but if you didn't, it would just keep running like a singer sewing machine and it's in a US caliber. See, the one thing, remember they tell you about, what are they trying to do? Go after the ammo. Why are they trying to go after the ammo? Because that way they figure they can run you out so that you'll run out, you'll surrender because you'll be heartbroken and, you know, disheveled and because the piss willies on the other side would give up the moment there's a supply issue because they don't have a clue. Their logic is that we would think the same way and do the same thing, which we won't. But in this case, with that 760 by 51 NATO, there's always gonna be some of that out there somewhere. They haven't dropped it yet, and the rest of the world isn't gonna go to 6.8, not any time soon, if we even officially go to it. I'm waiting to see, I'm not holding my breath on that one, but we have the ability to go both ways. We can still make a 6.8 chambering barrel for many of the weapon systems we have. But 760x51 NATO, everybody's going to have it on their APCs. It's going to be up on the roof of the tanks. It's going to be strapped all over the top of whatever APC they got, however many cans, cases, and pallets. So it's going to be out there. And for that reason, that's not a bad caliber. And again, good combination. Great rifle, combined with a good caliber that can reach. Got a big bullet going down range. I can live with that. My enemy won't live long with that, but I could live with that. Which is what we wanna see. Remember, hits count, misses don't. And the heavier the hit, the happier you'll be. Well, hold on here, let me double check our time. We gotta be getting close. We are, how'd you like that? It was a good guess with a dart. We are right at the top, so we gotta take a break. Everybody hold your brain right there where it is, cuz we're gonna have some more fun here in a minute. 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Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K 2024 Old Earth Calendar, Obgivir Olshas Got Kepted And 2024 Battle for the Republic The Dance of Swords And again, Weapons Wednesday real quick The discussion originally was about, you know, what kind of, well, would you carry an AK and what kind? Well, I kind of, hopefully I qualified that. And then we got into a lot of other subjects, needless to say, full circle through a lot of other weapons. But if you do have SAGAs, and you haven't modified them, you might end up with SAGAs as an inheritance gun. A lot of people bought them as investment rifles or, well, just fun rifles. It used to be we bought a lot of extra weapons because stuff would come in cheap. It used to be things coming in cheap all over the world. That isn't the case hardly anymore. But back in the day when the Russians, of course, were trying to open into the market, the SEGA gun was one of their solutions to get into the commercial firearms market. And a lot of them are still out there in the box. They do show up in any number of configurations. Shotguns in 4.10, 20 gauge, 12 gauge in rifles. 7.62x39, 5.45x39, 7.62x54R, 7.62x51NATO. And even, let's see if I jog your memory on this one, there were a few made in 243 Winchester. If you have those, I would assume that those are collector's items on a monster scale. Because as was pointed out by our caller a moment ago, these are Russian built barrels. At the time when the Sega came out, the premier company, and it's funny cuz you don't hear any more about this country right now, Bulgaria. Where Russia's ideas for its latest barrel production came from competition. with the Bulgarian AK producers. During the end of the Cold War, the Bulgarians came up with a classified slash secret barrel production process. The barrel plant was locked down, they divulged no secrets about the production of the barrels. However, the quality of these barrels was so high that for a period of time, the Russians purchased Bulgarian barrels to go on the AK-74. because of the new variant that they were working on. And these barrels were also sold under contract to a number of other former iron curtain contract locations. Example is India, because India had a contract AK-74 factory. They too were hoping that they could at least figure out how the Bulgarians probably did the barrel. So they ordered a quantity, a good quantity, and they did mount them on the rifles that they were either rebuilding from the first generation or first wave of AK-74s from several years earlier, or the new guns that were built. There's no way to tell with the Indian government because they were doing classified work in their own sphere too because they wanted to get an edge up on everybody. Everybody's competing. But the very, very, very fine barrels were put on the SAGAs were top end for, you know, they were at the zenith of production barrel development at that moment and are still very high quality and just, well, superior to many, many barrels that are made today. This is like when we talk about the M14. Why is it I want a TRW kit as opposed to others? Well, when the TRW-M14 was built, along with the other M14 variants, or I should say other producers, TRW was at the zenith. We were at the high point of steel production in the United States, superior to pretty much everything made today. And the TRW kits, we would pick through thousands of cobbled up M14 kits. I told you before, we were building these things in quantity. and of the rifle kits that I kept, I kept some of the dog kits because nobody wanted them and I didn't care. The M1As, you guys, the M14s that we'll hand out to mine, we'll hand out to you from caches that we have here in Michigan, are immaculate firearms. But they're hodgepodge. I'm sure that there's maybe an H&R front with a TRW back on it because these were re-welded receivers. But guys, we know how to re-weld, okay? And when we did them, we had a whole production mechanism set up. those receivers to specs. Same with the garands that we rebuilt and the carbines. But wherever possible when we're trying to build up a superiority weapon. And just remember we also got the barrels with these kits back in the day. Not like the day where they intentionally realized, shit, the barrel makes the gun. Receivers are obviously important, but the barrel makes the weapon. And TRW at that time, everything just perfectly blended. And those TRW rifles are the top. So again, this is also true with some of the Russian stuff that's out there. Everybody's now realized they've gone past that. They've dropped down below the quality in production in some cases. And so there are now connoisseurs of the industry that are paying attention. So if you have one of those say goes, my attitude is I wouldn't get rid of it personally. You can't replace it. It works just fine as it is. You don't need to change it out and do anything to it, just as it came from the factory as a C-type grip. Now, what do we mean by a C-type grip? Instead of an AK-47 pistol grip on the bottom, it has a C-type arcing back strap grip built into the buttstock, similar to any other sporting rifle or like the Garand or say the M1 carbine. The or an M1903A3 that has a C-type stock on it, which mates more to the ergonomics of the Garand and the carbine that I just mentioned too. As opposed to the 1903 straight model, which literally is a more of a straight stock, basically a more of an inline stock system. Variants and how things were done. Okay, but these weapons are good weapons and if you were looking for additional firearms to issue out You just got an inheritance of some kind. Well, first of all, nobody knows really that you got it hint hint hint and Guns are for buying not for selling and if you're really careful and you pay attention go through what you probably just got You've probably got everything you need shorter. Maybe if you didn't get an AR-15, so you don't have one I will say again go buy an AR-15. I don't care what model. I don't care what price Everybody out there needs to get an AR-15. With everything else you just got, oh hell yeah, it'll get the job done. So again, heads up on prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Now, there's a couple things I wanted to touch on. Ed's got a little bit of music ready. And I figured for our friends down there on the Alamo, on the big muddy water down there in Texas. Well, bad guys have their way They're gonna abuse those boys down there in Texas. They're probably trying to figure out how to do it Well something like this happened before and they're starting to call the location down there at Eagle Pass the Alamo So I figure we pull up a little bit of John Wayne music for you from another epic movie John Wayne's version of what happened at the Alamo stopped them in their tracks. They stood there in their glory at the siege of Eagle Pass. So for everybody out there, if I was in Texas, I'd be getting ready for war, but that's just me. And again, this is a big country and why am I saying, well, Mark, everybody needs to pitch in. You've said that before. Yes, I have. But we're getting ready for the big kickoff. And there's millions of men that are armed in Texas. And Texas needs to step up to the plate. In the past, we have brought militias to campaign efforts virtually all over the country that most of you don't realize. I've explained it on the air, the Justice Township siege a year after the Oklahoma City bombing, which was a test to see if the feds could get away with another Waco. Well, we'd stop them dead in their tracks with a combination of the Knob Creek resolution, and volunteers from all over the country that converged up there to surround the feds who were surrounding the Freeman. We sent more than 3,000 personnel from Michigan alone out there to deploy with allied resources. The first wave, listen to me. The second wave, well, somebody who was, it turns out, wasn't really working for the Patriot effort, and this always happens. Somebody caught everybody's ears in the second wave and they were totally ill prepared when they went out there. Why? Because that was the plan. The units that I sent out in the initial deployment with that had water, food and ammunition and didn't have to move around. They got in, they deployed, they hunkered down, they stayed where they were. And you know what? Those men didn't have any hardship. The ones who listened to the idiot stick from the other side of the state, we did get those troops out there. But they didn't listen to anybody about food and water. They ended up having to relocate and also expose themselves for attracting attention to themselves. And that was the plan. That's why they try to get you to do the shallow hell routine. When you deploy, you deploy as heavy dragoons, as heavy infantry. Because you may get no resupply. And so you better make sure you've got food, you got water on the freebie trip in, you carry everything you can. When you leave, leave the food for the locals. Go ahead Ed, jump in there please. Well, we at least got an answer from the Texas guard down here. They're on the border at that little park that they're calling the new Alamo. The Fed came down today and served them with papers telling them that they hit We're deceased and desist on putting up the barbed wire and we're told that in case of an emergency, so but now this is how the press is spinning it. That in case of an emergency, the fence has to come down. Well, the guard didn't stop doing what they were doing, they kept putting up the fence. And the press has been down here like, my God, they're still putting the fence up in defiance of that BS order. So that's your dad. Yeah, I'm still here. I just make sure you got me you were clear. We got a little bit of remember a little bit of a delay there with me adjusting things One of the things that we need to remember is that they're used to the panty waste limp dank attitude And that has been the response. So why would they not expect otherwise as they've seen in the past? But everybody's learned a lesson. These people are all liars on the other side They're all worthless turds in no way shape or form. Are they genuine to America or are they loyal to America? So Texas has got to take care of Texas and I hope that Texas steps up. But the other thing that the governor better be ready to do is call on the people to step up. I don't know if the governor had anything to do with the guards that are down there not listening to the orders. We know where that goes. It's the guys on the ground. They're gonna follow their orders. They're gonna do, you know, what they feel is right, regardless until they're told to otherwise. Right. Well, I guess I mean, go ahead. Well, as far as jurisdiction is concerned, they're military. They don't take orders from, you know, they don't take orders from the Fed. They take orders from the governor. Right now the governor tells them otherwise they're gonna do what they're supposed to do well and again This is the test of this particular individual is he a fake globalist going through the motions and then flopping over sideways Or is he actually gonna put some you know teeth into his action? Stay the course dig his heels in and tell them to go piss off I will say this for all the noise they're making about this small stretch of land They showed how how stupid this argument really is claiming that they had to take the fence down when you go just to the edge of the park where they only have containers up for walls and they can't put it there because it's not Texas land. They can't put the razor wire there supposedly for whatever BS reason and the illegals are going right over top of the cargo containers. Like right at the edge of the park. So them having the razor wire up there or not doesn't make really a bit of difference anyway as far as the Fed would be concerned other than it's enacted to find you know, saying we're We're stopping the flow through the park Another interesting thing is they pulled some idiot flapping his yap about, oh, the park is, it's blocking our access for local commerce and this and that and the other guys. The feds have been down there for how long with this invasion? That park has been occupied and used as a rally point for the feds. Do you think that there are any rafting companies coming down there? They tried to play, they always have some little lone kosher actor, some liar. And they put them in front of the camera and they're holding a microphone and they do the sob story this or the sob story that, and the whole thing is a stinking lie. Use some common sense when you see a fool like that in front of the screen. And they tried this and everybody did the same thing. It's like, well, who the hell is operating there with the feds there anyway? Well, you know, nobody's doing business where that is. Somebody is lending both there. Somebody is doing business where that is. The guys that are crossing with the drugs and the illegal. Right, exactly. It's the coyotes. Right, so that's what this character to me represents for all practical purposes, okay? And that's the problem with what if you look at some of the junk that they've thrown out there. step back and think for a minute. Nobody's doing any, quote unquote, regular business there. There's all kinds of drug dealing going on. There's all kinds of human trafficking going on and the federal government is fully cooperating to make it happen because the skanks are bought and paid for horrors working for the kosher mafia, slash read that to cartels. But other than that, The illegal is coming across the borders. The PCU had us play the other night. Mallorca himself, head of Homeland Security, is funding that crap with his own money. And yet he'll turn around and tell the American people that the border is secure when he was head of and is funding that organization that's bringing them across the border. H-I-A-S, and H-I-A-S is a non-governmental organization receiving United Nations and United States tax dollars. to literally compromise the border. And Mallorca's is on the board of directors of HIAS, go look it up people. And that in and of itself is an act of treason because this is the duplicity and the action of that horror, that piece of excrement, that worthless piece of trash, Mallorca's. Can you say a conflict of hatred? As I suspected, yep, he's Jewish. That's why he's on the board of directors. I'm telling you, isn't that fascinating? So we find the same click over and over again, betraying America. We find the same rabid turds over and over again, betraying America. Which means we know which rabid turds need to be gone. That way we don't have to worry about them betraying America anymore. And so again, it's about time, but we'll see what happens. And it's kind of fun. We got to come up with some epic. If the guys were smart down there to have some fun, they would actually post like do an ad hoc sign, Alamo 2 or whatever. and put it out there where everybody can see it, make sure it's right where the gate is. I would also point out that, I mean, again, Texans are gonna have to choose to do this, but if the troops are down there, support the troops and say, hi, drop off some pizzas, make them a little more comfortable, or at least give something to pitch in to help them out. They can't do much, but what little they can do should be, again, it can be useful, straightforward. So, again, heads up there. And again, that is, by the way, the piece is from the original, not the original. There's other Alamo's that have been done. That particular music piece is the tale of the pre-credit but ending piece for the Alamo with John Wayne, the one that was produced by John Wayne, where they actually have, remember, the Alamo set still sitting out there in Texas. where it was built. And it is kind of a little, it's supposed to be a bit of a tourist attraction, not as much as it could be, but it is. So just heads up there. Also, again, let's see what else we have here real quick before we get started. Yes, somebody's asking, no, it's H-I-A-S. Well, who is H-I-A-S? The organization that is coordinating, transporting, and also coaching, supplying, And then helping to step off and working hand in hand with the cartels is Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Are they helping Jewish immigrants to go somewhere? No, it's a Jewish mafia operation sucking up the gravy of all kinds of under the table money. It is a scam operation. They are coordinating the invasion of the southern border of the United States. the El Gintro Mayorkas, the director of the Private Corporation of Homeland Security, the Private Invader Corporation, and we told you that this was going on, that Mayorkas is on the board of directors. with the organization that is bringing all the visa illegals across the border and coordinating with the cartels. So Mallorca is literally in business with the cartels to create this invasion and his sorry ass needs to be in jail, needs to be tried, his ass needs to be shot. That's all there is to it. He needs to be out of here. But of course, everybody in Washington has to know what I just told you because it's information that can be accessed. So why isn't somebody when my orc is up there asking about, hey, are you a board member of any independent or non-governmental organizations other than being director of the Homeland Security operation? Well, As a matter of fact, I'm with a few, would you tell us who you're associated with? What are the names of these organizations? Well, I can't divulge that because it's an ongoing investigative process thingy and I need to lie my ass off to protect myself because you just asked the question you weren't supposed to ask, it's off script. Because that's really what this is all about. Again, they know in Washington, they're not making the effort to pin his ass down on this though, now are they? Should tell you something like I said about Washington in general. So again, that's H-I-A-S, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They've been photographed, videotaped. There are even people who have sat in on some of the briefings. that are doing reports on exactly how they're coaching, what they're telling them to lie about when they get up to the border. These people are the problem and that's H-I-A-S. Again, there's a number of different articles out there. One that you can show your friends, which we played three times, so it's in the archive yesterday. The Supreme Court just ruled against American historically bad decision. This is on the Mark Dice channel on YouTube. It may or may not still be there, but you want to watch the later half of it if you want to abbreviate it to show somebody what you're talking about and what I'm talking about right now. It's not the only report as is pointed out by our callers or several others. Individuals that have been south of the border that have documented this exceptionally well. And it's H-I-A-S, Hebrew, Immigrant Aid Society. Hebrew, Immigrant Aid Society, H-I-A-S. They're busy bringing across all those, I guess, wait a minute, are they all Jewish that are coming across? Maybe that's it, they're also dropping their IDs from China and I'm a Chinese Jew. I need refugee status, oi, I'm telling you, oi, oi. Oi! I got this funny feeling that they don't need to. They're just lying. So, another thing, the refugee treaty needs to be burned, the refugee treaty needs to be overturned and gone. We need to break from the refugee treaty immediately. You need to talk to your congressman, to any of your political hacks you can call that are in Washington. The refugee treaty needs to be gone now. The refugee treaty needs to be gone now. The refugee treaty needs to be gone now. That's all we need to say. Well, no way, you need to understand. I'm going to stand completely. The refugee treaty needs to be gone. We want to be out of it now. We want it canceled. We want it burned. The refugee treaty is the lie, is the scam, is the the the Yahoo-D trash coach job that they're doing south of the border with those pieces of filth like H-I-A-S. Those are the turds that are telling them, don't just drop your ID and don't tell them anything except, I'm a refugee, I'm a refugee. Now, here's the thing, we got a big honking bureaucracy. They're all lazy bunch of bastards. They don't need to come in the side door where there's no reference or information on the bastards. They can come up to the front door and we can evaluate. You can tell us if you're a refugee. And then we can do a review of your status, and we'll find out if you are a refugee, what country are you from? And by the way, if you're referencing the refugee treaty, we're not part of that anymore. We're going to get rid of that. But if you're in another country, that country is a refugee treaty signator, and you were supposed to stay there. So why are you here trying to get in the US? when you already got to a country of safety and refuge, and you've declared yourself a refugee. You don't need to come here. Mexico can feed you. Mexico can clothe you. Mexico can take care of you. I'm sure Mexico loves you. I'm sure they want more people there because they keep letting the people in. Wait a minute, no, they keep letting them in, and they run them right up to the border and throw their ass over the border into America to help invade the country. Which means that Mexico's an enemy and Mexico needs to be treated as the enemy combatant that it is participant in operations to try and Destroy the sovereignty of the United States Now you keep that up my personal attitude is looks like we need to go south wipe out the cartels Maybe go all the way to Mexico City clean out the communist regime there make the place a limited constitutional republic, model their constitution directly after the United States and nobody else, no parliament, no other bullshit from overseas. And Mexico can be run by the Mexican people and the wealth of Mexico will be properly managed so that everybody benefits and the Mexican people don't have to run north because beautiful, prosperous and wealthy Mexico, which it is guys. can properly be managed so that all of the people are able to stay in Mexico. Will that not be a beautiful thing? The Mexican people need to have another war for war of independence. They need to shoot the shit out of whoever it is that's in charge right now, not talk about it. And then once they get rid of the communists that have been a problem and a thorn in our back for a very long time and backstabbing us for a very long time because it's the Jewish Mafia running Mexico. Once we kill off all the bastards that are the commies there, the country should run just fine in the hands of the American, forgive me, not American, the Mexican people using an American form of government that ensures that they have all of the rights of, well, a free-born person in the nation state of Mexico. I think that's a good idea. But of course, first we're gonna have to kill off the cartels. Well, by the way, are bragging up when they come across you. You'll know who I am soon enough. Remember that? Anybody see that latest little post that they did? Where the character is kind of, you know, getting a little hocky and arrogant right in front of the camera? Because he's already been told he can get away with anything here. And so he's telling them, yeah, you'll know who I am soon enough. Yeah, I would think you already got a good understanding of what you are. You sorry, little prostitute? You know exactly what you are. For that reason, y'all better be looking at your government as an absolute pile of crap that has betrayed us completely. And every aspect of that government has failed us to the point where they need to be changed out. And everybody pretty well understands it too. So anyway, organize, arm, equip, and train as militia. Establish a 5.10 program in your area of operations. Logistics, the key to victory. It is, of course, Weapons Wednesday. We're past the bottom of the hour. No, because it's Weapons Wednesday. And on Weapons Wednesday, my rifle is very important. And so for Weapons Wednesday, bottom of the hour break, although a few minutes late. I am sure we still have the bottom of the hour break music right there waiting for us. It'll take care of it in a minute because this is my rifle. And you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org. And I would like to remind you that at 8 o'clock we're upon 6.160 regular shortwave WBCQ, the planet. And take the time if you would break out your AM-FM shortwave receiver. If you don't have one, you need to go buy one. Break it out of the box. If it's brand new, plug everything in to find out if it works. And at 8 o'clock, from Monday through Friday, tune in to 6.160 regular shortwave. That's 6.160 regular shortwave. Hold on here, let me double check something else. Since I just had a message come in from our friends way out there. Okay. Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, yes, beyond the shadow of a doubt, everything is a go. The 26th, which is only two days away, southwest of of Grand Rapids. That's one meet up and then the other one in Ionia is only three days away. The 27th is Saturday in Ionia, Michigan for everybody out there. We've got more people attending. We will have two militia commands that will be providing information for the counties and the townships that are now gonna be making their announcement about militia formations. And so we're going to have some recommended packages, mechanisms, and show people how to set up and establish manpower rosters, things of that nature, so they can manage the direct volunteers. One of the counties out west, remember several sheriffs have made public announcements of this, that if need be, they can They can deputize as many people as they want and in fact one sheriff has said well, maybe the whole county needs to be deputized Now that is another thing to remember about the posse. Okay posse comitatus the posse is in reality the militia it's just one of the other structures or constructs and terms and But the militia traditionally was the general militia could be called up and that's where the posse came from. The posse is like the select militia called upon, raise your hand, you're mobilized for that period of time. The sheriff was the officer of the ad hoc militia, and he could bring as many people to bear as he felt necessary. For depending upon the emergency or threat, limited period of time because it was a burden upon the township and the counties to actually finance because you had to feed, you had to maintain. And remember that traditionally the sheriff had the red book. Now, at this meeting on the 26th, I have two of the original post war for independence. These are only a few years later, one is 1793. These are militia red books. When the War for Independence took place afterwards, well, actually, the basic system was already there. But an established pocketbook roster for the militia at large was available for the sheriff. And these were really cool because they were standardized throughout all of the states of the union. It's rather interesting, actually had a pretty good system set up. This lists the sheriff, of course, as the officer in charge, the chief officer of the militia in general form. The county coroner was the medical examiner slash also the medical doctor for the militia. His purpose was to determine viability of the individual so he would do a physical inspection. He had the ability also to discharge individuals for medical reasons or again for being mentally feeble. The Red Book included all male individuals in the townships and the counties and they were listed by township. So we're going to actually I'm going to have I can release these to anybody on somebody very reliable obviously. But we're going to have these as examples to show people the history for these county and township representatives. The traditional mechanisms that were in place, they were low tech, they didn't require a whole lot of bullshit bureaucracy. And somebody starts proposing a whole pile of bullshit bureaucracy, those people need to be put out. We are going to make sure that that does not happen. We got to this shipwreck because of layer upon layer of bullshit failure. And so we're going to make sure that people understand, kiss, keep it simple, stupid. Now once you mobilize militia, there are infrastructure components that need to be in place so that you can shower and shave, make sure you got food, again with a shower and shave also comes health issues. These issues can all be dealt with within the minimal or bare minimal infrastructure established with militia formations in the field. But the counties and the townships will be mobilizing specific rosters. This does not mean the militia will be fully mobilized as in at constantly active, but rather this verifies the traditional and standing structure as it was established for the militia at large to be in place and always readily available and on call. And that's what is especially critical to effective mobilization for area defense. Most of the militia formations that are here in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, etc. are already structured appropriately for immediate mobilization. Most everybody is now set up as a minuteman. So they're in a highly prepared state of readiness. superior to their counterparts, any of the individuals that are part of the police state and or the goose steppers that they plan on using for whatever they think they're gonna get away with. And the big advantage, they're already in place, they're for local defense. We're not going overseas. We're not prostituting out to be part of the rape, kill, pillage and burn crew that go to steal overseas. That's not national defense. That has nothing to do with defending the country. That is just you're working for the business. But you're not defending the United States. And right now, all the operations they're yapping about getting into have nothing to do with security and protecting the country. It has to do with trying to piss off somebody else and steal from somebody else. That's why the militia is there. The militia was there before the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps. The whole shebang, the militia was there first, first to fight, first at first because it is the people. And that's what needs to be in place now, the militia. So everybody that's already organized is going, well, they're playing catch up. It's like, yeah, but we can live with that. Okay, guys, they're doing something as long as, you know, lead follower, get the hell out of the way. We've talked about this many times. Well, they're stepping up. So we're going to do our part. They'll do theirs. Just keep chugging along. Let's get something accomplished. Now, also, there was two other things here. Okay, well, tell you what, it may be late, but if we can, bottom of the hour music for Weapons Wednesday, and for everybody out there, again, it is Weapons Wednesday. It is the second hour, and you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. And look, here we go. And he shoots me before God. You may ride a goodly speed, you may know it's stern and after. You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back's much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And their leader, John Scott, glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands, we'll prove no frightful. Raise it home, back across the ground. Our back it is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon, but If you do not physically back it up with force, then a very sophisticated mind, you can pontificate all you want. Then they walk up, put a muzzle right to your forehead, turn your head into a canoe, as they said in Tombstone. And that's the end of gray matter and brain power. So you have to have a balance where we physically defend what it is that makes up the ethereal. And that means we need to organize arm, equip, and train as militia. Establish a 5-10 program in your area of operations. Logistics, the key to victory. A deep larder, means that we can fight on when others can't. And since we're not projecting overseas around American soil, we're here to fight and to protect our own. We are going to prevent the aggressive from raping, killing, pillaging, and burning. Which by the way, the border is wide open and they're not doing anything about right now as it is. So when you hear an epistolary talk about how we got to be overseas, why? Well because the threat from the, if we have a threat, the border's wide open, obviously the government doesn't take it seriously. Why should I? Well, I got the hullabaloo and awesome awesome, whatever. You don't care about America. You cared about America. Border would be nailed down tight right now. But we have no operational security whatsoever with the American border. This is an intentional failure by the traders in Washington. It is an intentional failure by the same ring knocking, spit swapping kosher mafia types who are telling you all about how we gotta provide them with this. And we gotta spend money that we gotta get our big knuckle dragging troops over there so that we can get and no we don't. No, we don't, and no, we don't. If the southern American border is wide open, you can piss out the rest of the world to hell with all of them. We have no business being involved. No operational security is being maintained. I was a security coordinator, guys. I worked as an intelligence analyst. And all of the drivel, and all the bullshit, and all the lies that they spewed about their concern for America, and how you have to be so anal retentive and chewing on your toenails. It makes no difference, none of it. The border's wide open, the border's wide open, the border's wide open. All the bullshit about how you have to have airport security, the border's wide open, piss on it, you're liars. This government is a liar, the regime is nothing but a farce, a joke, a hoot. And the donut of destruction is an absolute blatant farce and joke. Because the border is wide open. Don't tell me how I need to be concerned about anything. They have failed us completely and intentionally, bringing combatants across the border to use as a threat against the American people. While bullshitting you with this, how is the terrorism overseas? With the southern border wide open, then that terrorism, you just walk right across and has been able to for three, four months now. Well, no, three, four years now. With reckless abandon laughing their ass off No one of the characters coming across are so arrogant that her enemy combatants ready to do harm to America Because they know that all these Yiddish pieces of fellow, you know pieces of crap that are fellow travelers Oye Gevalt are screwing America and they're laughing at you because you're not doing anything about it There is no OPSEC. There is no physical operational security. It's dead They're liars, anything they try to come up with other than the fact that they're just arrogantly want power, well, shoot their ass. Well, we're gonna tell you what to move. No, you're not. Boom, that's where we are. There is no operation, all of the aspects of all the billions of dollars and trillions of dollars the NSA pigs are stealing from us. The CIA pigs are stealing from us. The FBI pigs are stealing from us. Look at the southern border. You tell me about our how's our physical security doing? Oh, they got lots of money to spend on making sure their sorry asses are covered though. I'm sure that because they took the money at gunpoint from you and me While they're telling you that we need to surrender our freedom Because they have betrayed and failed us intentionally every step of the way and there is no operational security But but we need to have operational fear Why? They're not scared. They're leaving the border wide open hot. I guess maybe they're gonna go down their little tunnels and caves underground, lock the doors and leave us out here for the crazy town people to attack. And then we're supposed to scrabble at the underground tunnels and hatchways and beg for them to come back out. Why? If they disappear, piss out of them. I guess the sky's the limit. We'll have to deal with the problem ourselves. If they ever do, come out of those sorry ass tunnels or shoot their ass too. Why? They don't mean anything to us. Morlocks can go to hell. Because that's what they are. A bunch of stinking Morlocks. So, again, a couple of things here before we go. Let's see, one more thing. Yeah, we'll only get a few minutes. One other thing, Sousa Tactical guys have a variety of different options and holsters. And I highly recommend you take the time, check them out. The one thing that I would remind everybody about is I've had people asking about particular holsters for Tactical operations, you know, what can we come up with but also some people are looking for custom holsters for You know daily where but also for daily show and so Sousa is the place to go guys if you get a chance check them out and Again what you need your best bet is to talk to the people who make it happen there and work out a deal. Because the technology is, again, very, very, very useful. If you have the right holster for the right weapon, you'd be amazed at how well you can perform. And again, there's many, many options for lesser pieces of technology for hand-cannon carrying. But having something that's built to your spec and to your personality, it kind of says something. So take the time and check them out. Also, again, there are a number of deals, Bowtash still has that pistol deal and magazine deal right there on the front page. If you get a chance, check them out. Also, go through the scroll because I've noticed they've added a few things and there's also a few other items you'll notice that are gone. But the big deal is, again, If you're looking for a personal hand cannon, something that fits your wallet and you can afford to beat it up and carry it around, which is really one of the biggest problems we've got with people is they buy something that's a little pricey and they're terrified to get a booby scratch on it. I've watched this for decades. I thought the most expensive firearm I could, you know, the Schmidlap 402 and I'm afraid to do something to it. Oh my God, I scratch it. The very first time they scratch it, there's this almost like belly moan, a whale that comes up from the bowels of their foundation. Oh my God, I scratch my toy. And in reality guys, get over it. If it's a tactical device, It's a tool in the toolbox. Gonna get scratched, gonna get beat up. You're gonna put some wear on the finish. You'll have that Star Wars lived in look after a while. It's pretty cool as a matter of fact. Gives you more character. So anyway, go ahead. Yeah, every time you pull it out of your holster, Mark, and you put a little scratch or ding and, you know, you know, come on. If you buy something nice, it's right away gonna get Funky aren't ya? In fact, usually everybody looks at it the other way around and like well dude that looks like it just came out of the box Do you shoot at all? Well, I've been taking really good care of it. Oh, trust me out here for a little bit You know, you ain't gonna know the difference after a while. You ain't gonna know the difference at all And again, that's the most important thing is just don't let it rust up. Okay? Finish yeah, that's meant to be replaced but rust That's embarrassing because that could have been prevented. Now, not always. If you pick a battlefield, you know, if it's a battlefield pickup, you know, I'll worry that weapon's going to be coming from down the road. But if it does have oxidation, now we make sure we take care of that. Let's make sure we fix that. Go ahead, call it. Jump in there. But the gun looks so pretty. Why would I want to shoot it for? Right. What can I do? If I take it outside, it'll get dirty. And it might actually get worn down a little bit. Yeah, so again, no, don't worry about that guys. In fact, you know what? Krylon paint covers a multitude of sins. Remember that. Once you get speed up a little bit, flatten her out a little bit here and there. Give her some splotches and make her blend in better with the environment when the time comes. I like, again, Krylon because it's off the shelf and color consistent. So if you want to Reshade it you can I know there's all kinds of tough coat paints We were the first to start using that stuff came from the boating industry by the way initially That's where all of these, you know, hyper skip, you know, hyper skid hyper scrape paints That are quite durable came from that in the aircraft industry too, by the way Some of the stuff that we got from the do D sales cost, what, $300 a gallon, aircraft, stealth paint, etc. But it was also designed to take a lot of abuse. And again, back in the day, we found, later on after they sold it to us, they found out they weren't supposed to sell it to us. And so they were trying to get it back and all we could say is, well, I didn't think it was worth anything and I didn't really use it and I think it's long gone. Oh, well. They actually were trying to get it back. They can do that with DOD sales. You know, they can actually put notices out, hey, we sold that to you, but kind of like to buy it back, which they actually have to do. They have to offer you fair market value for the product. It's kind of cool because you can make money on stuff they want to take back or want to buy back because they want to use it. Not just because they want it back because they didn't think they should have given it to you, but also because they want it back because they want to use it. So there's an actual whole way to make money on government sales on occasion. Not with everything, but with some things. We're at the top for everybody out there. It is Weapons Wednesday. Take the time to check out CenterFaresSystems.com. We'll be back. God bless the Republic. Now for the new world order. Michelle Pervan, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We're in the march. We're going to get out of the way for now. We will be back in one hour and taking over more LTR coming up. It's Weapons Wednesday on Liberty Tree Radio. Bye-bye. dangerous episode of Forbidden Knowledge. My name is Craig. It is Wednesday, January 24, 2024. If you're listening live, you're welcome to call in and be a part of the program. I have a few things I will try to cover here tonight. See here, no shows for me. I just did a show last weekend. All the gun shows. It's good for me that The online sales went up because of the fear-mongering in the press. I don't like the fear-mongering. I never have, but it creates sales. So I guess I can't complain much. Because the gun shows are so terrible recently. And I'm in Michigan right now. And in Michigan, there's new gun laws taking effect this year that a lot of the vendors are very worried about the gun shows in Michigan now. Most of them saying, well, that'll pretty much kill all the gun shows in Michigan. I haven't looked at all the details yet, but it sounds like it involves, well, there's red flag laws, that won't necessarily affect the gun shows. The background checks, I guess, are gonna be required for transfers, even inheritance and gifts and private sales. the way I think I heard it, but I have to check that out because I probably do have to talk about that in a later date. By the way, there is a big gun show promoter in Michigan. I will leave the name out of it for now. A big gun show promoter in Michigan that attempted, offered to buy out another gun show promoter in a neighboring state. I'll just leave it at that. I won't mention any names or the other state, but it's not rumored because this other promoter told me this from the other state. So it's not really a rumor, unless he's lying to me, not really a rumor, but the main Michigan gun show promoter tried to buy out another gun show promoter in a neighboring state. And so people who do the regular gun shows are probably going to have to further figure out how they're going to make a living, because it's harder and harder for the people who make a living. It has been, for the last 10 years or more, the gun shows have been in decline. And yeah, we get a little boost when a Democrat is in office for a little while, but then it dies down. And when Trump was in before, there was no urgency to buy a gun. But now it doesn't matter in Michigan because you won't be able to walk into a show and walk out with a gun like you could in the past, apparently. Anyway, yeah, speaking of Trump, of course, Trump, as of today, basically looks like he's going to be the Republican nominee for the ticket for president of the United States looks that way. Haley's hope, I can tell, that something happens, the Democrats are successful in either putting him in jail or getting him on some of these up charges, as you will. Or something else happened to him to where he can't run. So Haley is still hopeful, she's still in the race, supposedly. But it looks like 99% sure that Trump is going to be the nominee for the Republican Party. And so far, they haven't thrown Biden under the bus. I don't know when they're gonna do that, but I'm pretty sure they're gonna have to do that, cuz Biden and Trump running again. It's like, I don't think there's a contest there. And I'd really love to see, and I have to go back and look, cuz I don't remember what in the world happened with the Democratic debates, the Democratic vice presidential debates. Because Kamala Harris would have been one of the debating what happened there anyway. I had to go back and look. She couldn't have done very well. I mean, I don't know. I don't remember. Of course, the press won't dwell on it because they favor the Democratic ticket. And, you know, oh, she's the first black woman, even though she doesn't look black to me, whatever. So the press can't demonize her. But if you go online and start looking around Social media and YouTube and other places you'll see a lot of things that you just he's just a disaster So I think they're gonna have to throw nothing the Democrats gonna have to throw both of them under the bus I don't know. It's just my opinion and can you imagine if you were? Put if you were in a cold bag four years ago. Hey, hello Ed He there was that as far as I know she wasn't in any vice presidential debates But she was in presidential debates. Remember she ran against Biden the last time She called him a racist, a white supremacist and claimed that he was responsible for her family going through hard times when she was growing up because of the crime bill. But wasn't there a vice presidential debate this last time? Not that I can recall, there wasn't a vice presidential debate, but there was a presidential debate on the Democrat side. They had a whole bunch of people up there. She was as far as This time coming up, I don't think there has been. In fact, we haven't heard anything really on a common this time around, have we? Well, they don't wanna really draw attention to her because she's a disaster. Now, the scandal, at least the last I heard was there may not be a presidential debate at all this time. I think, didn't Biden announce that he wasn't going to participate in the presidential debate this time? Anybody remember that? Or am I just imagining that? I believe that is what he said. But there are at least two other Democratic parties that are running that if they wanted to have Democratic debates, you could at least get those two up and have them debate against each other. So their point is to get out. You don't do it, or don't. Well, the fact that they're ignoring these other candidates suggests to me they probably have something valuable to say. So they're not gonna pay attention to them. They're gonna keep- Well, I know you don't agree with this, but I keep hearing the same things from the Democratic Party and all of their things on YouTube, on their website. Is Trump the candidate, the only candidate that can beat Trump is Biden. Yeah, okay. A lot of meds and- And then proctors that maybe maybe they can maybe they can lipstick AI to his lips. Maybe it's just not just movie. Let's will insert AI for you Craig all they have to do is do what they did last selection. They kept him in the basement. It didn't let him out hell They elected better than em better man's got brain damage Yeah, yeah, and try them in would probably be just as what good of a choice as Biden at this point. I don't know He may be better because unfortunately for them with him and his mental decline is actually making sense talking about the border situation and needing to close the border down for national security. They've kind of been like trying to shove him off to the side, but it has leaked out a couple of places where he has recovered quite a bit since the stroke that he had. It's no longer to the point where he was in the debates where you couldn't understand what he was saying and nobody was there to translate for him, but they would translate for, I mean translate for us, but there was something there to translate to him. But apparently he's much, he's gotten better at being spoken, but he's like flipped a coin and has become very much anti-open border. Well, that's interesting because if he's a Democrat of a Democrats art that's playing any Attempt to close or even control the border at this point now. I do want to talk about that tonight So I guess this is a good segue to what I wanted to talk about also Because I did a lot of calculations This morning woke up at like 2 a.m. Couldn't sleep a while. So I said, oh, let me let me see if I can prep I wanted to do this and so this is this is my attempt to do this About a month ago. I did a show here on YouTube and and and Liberty Tree radio about My view that we shouldn't have all these military bases all over the world, more than 750 of them on foreign lands, and that maybe we should bring our troops home and defend our own nation. After all, a military's only legitimate purpose is to defend your nation. But we haven't done that in really even World War II. We didn't defend our own nation. We haven't defended our own nation. Our military hasn't defended our own nation in probably, what, more than 100 years? So this is this is really getting crazy and and I did some lumber crunching I looked a lot of things up and did some lumber crunching and even follow me with this here So how can we how can we do that? You know with our borders wide open? Let me before I Talk about that. Let's well, no, I guess I'll go ahead go on with this Our southern US border Meeting Mexico is almost 2,000 miles long, 1,933 miles long. That's how long the southern US border is with Mexico. Now, the last numbers I have here is 2023. There are 460,000, let's call it 462,000, I'm going to round these numbers to the nearest thousand. There are 462,000 active duty troops in the US Army. Now, that's not counting the Army Reserve and a lot of others because I could, I'm going to just use that number for now, for a hundred, four hundred sixty two thousand US Army active duty personnel. Okay? Four hundred sixty thousand. Did some number crunching. And if you were to, okay, if you were to put all those Green Army men on the border with an AR or whatever they have and with maybe night vision scopes for night and And then, you know, some canteen full of water and a couple MREs and whatever have each one of them out of the borders spread out evenly across that hole almost 2,000 miles. You would have, okay, in order to make this correct, more a legitimate number because I'm not trying to punch these numbers. I looked at a job where I, we were operational 24 hours and you really need four shifts in order for like eight hours, eight hours on the ship for five days or whatever, then two days off. Essentially, you have to have four shifts on the border, 24 hours. So you have to divide that number by four of our active duty Army personnel. And what you get is, if you do that division, you get one Green Army man every 88 code on the border. So to suggest that we can't protect our borders when we have the resources to do so, Well, you can have somebody of green army men every 88 foot on the border Just counting active-duty army personnel alone not counting Army Reserve not counting the National Guard not counting Air Force not counting the Air National Guard not counting the Marines not counting the Marines or not counting the Navy not counting the Coast Guard just active-duty Army and not counting space Space force either Space force is only about 8,000 at this point back to duty But anyway, so 88 foot now if there was a greener event every 88 foot on our borders right now 24 hours a day with night vision for night I Don't think anybody is getting through and if they do attack us because we are under attack If somebody does try to attack our border, well, they have radio sue, right? We're gonna have a Every green-odern man is gonna have a radio and he's gonna have a night vision for the night. And if any of them are attacked by any talent migrants that happen to try to cross the border, he's got a radio, you know, if there's like a dozen of them in a group and he can't handle them, well, he's got a radio. And you got guys within a couple hundred feet who could run to help you or even aim for more of their ass. So, no, this is just we can't protect our borders. Total nonsense. We've got Army personnel and Marines and Air Force and Navy and so on all over the world, but we can't seem to protect our own borders, which is the only legitimate use of a military. Now, there's one little caveat with my number. Of course, 462,000 active duty Army personnel. A lot of that's going to include officers, support, and so on. So yeah, the number is going to be a little longer. It's probably more like 100 feet. A Green Army man every 100 foot on the border. But frankly, I think probably the National Guard would be the first to be put in this position. And they have 325,000, less than, but still quite a lot, National Guard. The National Guard Reserves, they could be put at the border. Now the Navy and the Air Force wouldn't be logical, of course, but some Marines could be. We have plenty of U.S. personnel that could completely protect our border from a single one coming over. Unless they're digging tunnels down and going under the tunnels, which of course they have in the past. Unless they get they got nice tunnels Nothing is getting across our border with a green army man every eighty three feet You would think that would be true Craig, but as let us come to light True the common people here in the US in the last couple of months you may not I've heard this, but the group that is helping the illegals come up across the border, H-I-A-S, is the organization. That stands for Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. They are dropping pamphlets, flyers, maps, telling people how to come up and avoid our border security. And on their board of directors is the head of our Homeland Security. The guy who's supposed to secure our border is on the board of directors for a NGO company that is helping people illegally cross the border. Well, not surprising. I mean, it's very obvious that our administration has no intention of protecting our borders. In fact, there's a big fight in Congress right now over Ukraine and funding for Ukraine because the Republicans are saying no money for Ukraine wants to protect and do something for the border, more money for the border. And so it's very obvious that the Biden administration doesn't have any intention of solving the border problem. It's actually quite intentional. This kept this way. It's very obvious to me. I have some more numbers here, which is going to add to this little thing I'm doing here. In the news here in the last few days, for one, we've got a U.S. Supreme Court decision because a governor, what's the governor, is it Abbott, the governor of Texas? Sorry, I don't remember offhand. Monday, U.S. Supreme Court, Monday this week agreed to temporary let U.S. Board of Patrol 8. Again, Ed? I think you're correct. It's Governor Abbott down here. And Abbott is a Republican governor, as we'll see here. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to temporarily let U.S. Border Patrol agents cut or remove razor fencing that Texas officials placed along part of the Republican-governed state's border with Mexico to deter illegal border crossings. Now I also remember hearing on the news before this because they were making a big stink about, oh somebody died, somebody died at the border because of this razor wire or something to that tune. You're trying to demonize the wire and trying to get the Supreme Court to rule on this. Well they finally did on Monday. The justices in a five to four decision. Wait, it's not a Supreme Court ruling, it's an appeals court thing. They've already presented it to the National Guard, the Texas Guard down on the border that is securing the small park and it is a small park with papers today telling them to cease and desist. And they are continuing to put up the razor wire. They've changed their tune down here in the local media saying that they will only take it down in case of an emergency. Well, I'm going to beg to differ unless this article is wrong from Reuters. You have a screen for... Well, I'm telling you what they're putting on the news down here. This is about the mainstream media MSNBC here in Texas. Okay. This also even has how each individual judge voted on the ruling. In a five-dissort decision granted by requests for President Joe Biden's administration to pause a lower court's ruling, that temporarily blocked federal agents from distributing the fencing while litigation over the issue proceeds. Two conservative members of the court, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined the three liberals' justices in the majority with conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh dissenting. So I'd say that is the U.S. Supreme Court. You're referring to a previous lower court ruling, but this has been, maybe you hadn't heard about this, because the press doesn't really want to talk about this much, but that's Monday, January 22nd, Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this. Now, also for my research, I filed. They were making a big stink about some migrants dying on the border because of this wire fencing, this razor wire fencing. Evil, we've got to remove it, don't you know. Well, looked up some numbers. And in 2022, which is the latest number I was able to find, there were 853 migrants that died on the border. Now, they died on the border, due to various reasons I'm going to get into here, they died on the border and the bodies were recovered on the US side. So there may have been many more deaths than that that washed up ashore on the Mexican side. I don't have those numbers. And the articles that I looked up didn't have those numbers either. But 853 migrants died. Now, that was actually a record. The previous year was 546. But the average from what the last 12 years of the article said was about 400 people per year die at the border attempting to cross. Now, most of those are drowned. Many more are the next in line. The reason they die at the border is the heat exhaustion in the desert. Next on the list is Fowls, falling from a fence or a wall or whatever. And lastly in this category was dying inside trucks, being transportation-reported. We all hear about those when 50 people die in the back of a truck because a trucker is getting paid and then getting water and left out in the sun and so on. We've all heard those stories. Now, about 400 average a year, not counting the double that was in 2022. So, you know, this is terrible. They're making a big deal about this razor wire and how it killed somebody or killed two people or something. Well, golly, the evil Rio Grande River is killing a whole lot of people. I think we probably, by the administration ought to come up with a way to drain the river, drain the Rio Grande, because we can't have all those migrants drowning now, can we? Those are valuable Democratic voters, right? Well, we can't have anybody drowning at the river until we can build bridges, rock bridges for the migrants. We need to drain the – come up with a civil army – what they call army – or army civil defense – not civil defense, civil engineers. We need to come up with a way to drain the Rio Grande so we can build some bridges to make it legit for all those people that don't drown at the border, you know. And for heat, well, we need to put the – this is actually – You know, Craig, the whole thing that they're doing down there with the border, they're not really, anybody who crosses illegally at that point, Texas is picking up and we're gailing them and we're handing them over to border patrol after they've had their time in prison to pull the illegal trespass onto Texas, the sovereign land. But, I'll, and if you look at Abbott's thing, all they really want to do is force them to go to the regular ports of entry, which, there's a bridge there. If they want to come up and file for asylum, they can do it at the normal ports of entry. The exact reason that you're saying about people dying in the desert and people bringing the legal substances across, that's the concern, you know, is that that stuff that those deaths are happening that there's other stuff going on that of course the Democrats don't want to talk about and They would rather see them come and not stop them which could be like, okay They're coming here legally anyway, even if you believe in the oh Even if you believe in that refugee treaty thing that refugee treaty thing that is International law is supposed to be the first friendly country that you come to that you can communicate with, you're supposed to seek asylum there, you're not just supposed to keep on going. You're the first friendly country that you come to. That's where you apply for asylum. And yes, you can apply for asylum in the US from that country, but you have to do it from that friendly country that you're in. The Border Patrol, the latest number I have here that I looked up, the Border Patrol stopped 2.4 million refugees at the southern border. This was in 2022 or 2023, I didn't write down the year, I'm sorry. So lots of people, lots of people. But, Ed, we can't make all these migrants walk 50 to 100 miles to the nearest legitimate border crossing to cross safely. That would be racist. Why not? If you believe the propaganda that the West pushes, they walked all the way from South America up here without any assistance, which of course is BS. to our border and then between the physical world and the past, let's go into the regular port of entry. How hard is that? When you've crossed literally several countries to get you. Yeah, and of course our northern border isn't talked about much, but there are similar problems going on there. It's an easier way for people to get in. And we can have a whole lot of problems there that we aren't hearing about. But we have enough Army personnel. The Army is stationed every 88 foot on the southern border. Also let's have the National Guard up on the northern border. How's that? Every 100 feet spaced or whatever. That would keep everything out. Literally would keep everything out except the ones that come over with force and then they need help and then but then you got the Air Force if there are Air Forces here instead of in Cambodia or wherever Well, then the Air Force could be there probably in 10 minutes to try to track down with naval with air reserves, so of course, they got drones these days and drones would be easy to Control the border with night vision, right? infrared drones But no, we've got to leave the borders open because the Demi Libby's want it. So in the meantime, and there's going to be a big contention during the election, Trump always talked about the law during his last one, and he's going to talk about it again this time, I'm sure. And then that Biden just got everything wide open. So it's going to be a bad talking point for Biden in a debate, if there is any debate. So, that's my take on some of the things that I just come up with, looking up some numbers about the border. You mentioned drones, and I find something funny, you know. We had that spy-bloom incident with China. But, you know, as far as drones go, we have had aerial surveillance on our border for years. And if you don't know what it is, just look up border blimp, okay? There are hundreds of these things along our border that are supposed to be watching our border to see where people are crossing from. It's all part of that virtual fence BS back during the Bush administration. Yeah, I remember them talking about those, yeah, more than ten years ago. I don't really know the status. Are they actually there or are they still just a pilot? They're supposed to be there. You can go on and look at where they're at. It's supposed to be able to go out and even pay them with binoculars. So supposedly they're out there. I mean, but again, it's another project that we're paying for that they're turning a blind eye to. You know, it's not that our border system is broken. It's not that our border system is broken, but it's not because they don't have a policy to follow. It's that the policy that they're supposed to follow is not being enforced because the higher Rux are corrupt as hell and are making money with the cartels, letting it be open like this. Now I can tell you from personal experience my observation of the southern US border South of, well, just north of Tijuana, south of San Diego, I actually spent about a half a day at the border where I could literally see the fence. When I did my radiation testing along the west coast all the way from Canada down to Mexico, my last stop was, indeed, just north of Tijuana. I could see the fence the whole time I was there, and I took radiation readings there at that beach as well. It spent about a half a day there, and the whole time I was there, I did see at all times at least two helicopters in the air observing, well, not only me, but probably whatever they wanted to observe. I did not see any blips. Of course, I wasn't necessarily looking that high up. I can't remember. Was it clear day or what? But there were, and I can see there were helicopters rotating because at some moments there seemed to be three helicopters in the air, but then it was reduced down to two. So of course they have to refuel and so on. So there were literally two helicopters in the air, visible to me at the southern border just north of Tijuana, at least two at a time, the whole time I was there for half a day. So I did see some activity that goes around the US side of course. I saw no aerial. surveillance on the southern side of the fence. Well, here's the thing is that we let Mexican military and Border Patrol cross into our airspace just like we do Canadian Mounties and Canadian Border Patrol up in Michigan on our side of the border. What is it? It happened during Quentin, come on, where they can come 80 miles inside the US and operate. I had not heard that. I assumed they were U.S. just because they were, if I'm facing the Pacific Ocean, they were way off to the right side of me. So I assumed they were. U.S. because they were far from the border, not far from the border, but miles from the border. I didn't know about the 80-mile thing, so maybe they could have been Mexican. I don't know, maybe a joint training mission, don't you know, to make it look like their U.S. helicopters are patrolling our boat. I think that was called when Clinton was, was it Clinton? It was either the Clinton or Bush. It had a weird project name. Almost like Area 51, but that's not right. It's not border 51. It's border something or other. You can look it up. The border inside the US border. How far we let them come in before we actually do anything. Okay, so we have no other callers. I'd like to move on to another topic. I got 20 to 25 minutes here to go. Unless anybody else calling in and going in the conversation. That's all I've got written down as far as all the numbers I looked up, because I was pretty diligent about looking up all these numbers so I could be accurate and giving the information I did tonight. And I started mentioning it, and I got cut off briefly. But the, can you imagine somebody going into a coma four years ago and maybe waking up just now and realize, oh, Trump and Biden, okay, well, at least I wasn't in a coma. Because it's like a repeat, because that's what it looks like it's going to be unless they throw Biden in with a bus. Oh boy, this is going to be interesting. But unless they can do away with Trump, or they throw Biden under the bus, it's going to be basically a repeat. Except maybe without debates. You know, they're both old. I think even Haley has mentioned here in the last couple days saying that Trump is not mentally fit because he said something that she didn't agree with or something. I can't remember what the context of it was. But Haley is even trying to admit that, or not admit, trying to bring forth the fact that Donald Trump isn't fit for duty because he's mentally incompetent as well. So she's trying everything she can to be the Republican candidate. I wanna talk about, if anybody else wants to join in, we had a lot of cold weather in Michigan and most of the country actually had a lot of cold weather in the last week and a half. Very difficult for me to do the work I had to do outside and so it was really rough. But I want to talk about, and this is something I have talked about before, but a lot of people maybe didn't believe me. But there's a lot more in the media now, the social media and the alternative media and online, not so much the mainstream, although I do hear some things about it in the mainstream a little bit here and there. Electric cars and winter performance. The disaster that this is going to be with the greenies trying to force us into this Eevee nonsense that you're doing now a little point of Background with me if you're new to my channel I've owned four of EVs in my lifetime for it last 40 years I have owned four electric vehicles and none of them were named Tesla None of them were by GM because the last one that was available to the public at least in California was called the EV one by GM It was long before that I owned four electric vehicles in the 80s, starting in the 80s, all the way up through until they got, most of them got stolen from me in a divorce. But I know electric vehicles, especially the older technology. I've studied the newer technology, although I've not owned one with a lithium-ion battery. And all the computers on board, and I got an argument with somebody today online on my channel because they're trying to Then the greeny narrative, I don't know if they're paid to do it or if they just believe all the crap they're being told. I'm doing something here on the computer, okay. But anyway, try to argue their point how wonderful EVs are. But I always was in favor of EVs and I still am, just not the way the greenies are pushing it on us. They should be running its own course with its own technology advancements if there are any. Without any government intervention, anytime government gets involved, you know there's going to be an agenda or there's another reason for it. And the greenies are pushing this and it's going to be a disaster. But of course, maybe that's the goal, being a disaster. Same with the grid. We're going to talk about electric cars, though, not the grid at this point. But the grid is going to be going down with the renewables, what I call them. And electric cars, who's going to add to that? Because we don't have the capacity to get everybody out of electric cars. You have to expand the grid about 33% in order to get the amount of electricity we need. And that's not counting the fact that we need to upgrade the wires and install more of them, all the charging stations, all the infrastructure needed. It's just not there. And it really can't go there. I've read a lot of reports of places that order so many charging stations to be near their business, in or near their business, or near their business. And they're being refused quite often, or they may order 10 charging stations and only allowed one because the utility just can't supply the power, even if you did install the charger. And this is happening all over the country as well, where even if you spent the $60,000 it takes to put in a Tesla charger charging station, that's the rough number I've seen, about $60,000, the utility can't supply with energy, so they're not approved. I just picked on Tesla, but Tesla is the one that started this recent craze. And if you buy into the electric cars, Tesla is a good car, but I'll never be able to afford one. I mean, at the time they started out at like $70,000, they'll get down to about $50,000 base or something like that now. And it costs you about over 20 grand to replace the battery after what, about 10 years, got to replace the battery or something like that, however many years they're warranted for, I can't remember. Every car manufacturer has their own little warranties and things. I've been eight years or ten years, I can't remember now, which one this Tesla is doing. But I got into a numbers comparison, a fact-finding numbers comparison with my car versus this guy's Tesla. And I said, okay, well, I've got these electric cars here. I have to replace the battery about every four to five years. And today's prices have cost me about $2,000 to replace those batteries, lead-acid batteries. This is the old technology. Yeah, they don't go very far, but they don't also spontaneously combust either. They don't have a thermal runaway, because that's another big problem with the electric cars. They say you should probably only charge, unless you're going to use the car for a long distance, you probably shouldn't charge it to 100%. They're recommending about 80%. I think Tesla is one of them that recommends that. Because the more that I saw some videos on YouTube showing thermal runaways, testing on thermal runaway batteries, thermal runaway, if you don't know what I'm talking about, is basically a fault in the battery, whether it be a dent in the battery pack or a battery, a cell, an individual cell. Because a battery pack consists of generally hundreds of these little cells. And by little cells, I mean these are sizes like a flashlight battery almost. Like a like a double-a battery a little bit bigger than that, but they're that's essentially there's there's hundreds of those things in in the battery pack Wired in series parallel to make the voltages they need to make to make the car run well when you fully charge them they have a greater tendency to become a thermal runaway to catch fire and when they do it's almost like when you as a kid everybody's lit a sparkler you know how sparkler all sudden starts It starts sparking real bad. Well, it looks like that in the initial, but then it starts shooting out like a flame thrower and sparks flying everywhere. And it basically melts through to the other batteries and it becomes a chain reaction to where it would be called thermal runaway. Your entire parry pack is going to go up in flames. The fire department really can't do much about it. When that happens, they have very limited means of putting out such a fire. Your better bet for fire departments are being told, try to pull that car or push that car away from other things that are going to burn because just let it burn. There are some technologies you can try to come up with to try to do that, including a huge blanket that they cover the car with, basically, to try to smoke off the oxygen. Yeah, go ahead. I know you're talking about EVs, electronic vehicles, but what do you think of ammonia-powered engines? I haven't really looked at those much. Well, it's interesting. I've seen more information on them a lot recently. Apparently Toyota in October was unveiling a ammonia engine for a sports car. They were saying it was going to blow EVs away. You know, EVs are obsolete overseas. There are a whole bunch of headlines and articles like that from last year around October. Everybody's like, yeah, but it's compressed. It's a compressed gas and worried about explosions. The funny thing is, is with the ammonia engines, you don't have to worry about like a burning explosion. The worst accidents that they've had with these have been flash freezes. When the tanks ruptured, there's a flash freeze of the area. Okay, I have seen Some scum about that and Toyota in fact is one of the car companies, it's one of the major car companies that are basically against EVs. They're going more towards hybrids and they've offered other technology including now they have been testing solid state batteries. Which, I don't know all the details on it. I've read some articles about it, how it showed some real promise about having 1,000 cycles, 1,000 charge cycles, and also less chance of any kind of thermal runaway and it would be safer and maybe a little more energy. I don't know for sure. I tend to discount a lot of that new wannabe stuff until I see something that's actually available to some car maker can buy to put in their cars on the market. Because yeah, you hear artists kind of thought about all this other stuff. Craig, apparently there's a couple of trucking companies shipping in the US that have been running on nothing but ammonia. And these ammonia engines are also being put into large shipping container ships. Well, until there's something on the market that any car company can put in their car, they prove themselves to be valid and viable, then that's when I start paying attention. I hear all the time there's all kinds of YouTube channels that promote all this stuff that, well, maybe this will be good someday and they're promoting it like the next greatest thing just to get hits and views based on the title. It's kind of the opposite of fear mongering. It's a wonderful thing that's going to change the world. And, of course, ten years later, what happened to that wonderful thing is not here. It never seems to come. So I kind of wait and see what actually comes instead of... Doing these pie and the sky things that may or may not ever come to see the light any time soon. Well, there are a couple of car companies that you can look into where they have this. China's GAC Industries has a new car engine that runs on non-toxic ammonia. Toyota has cars and these are overseas. But their cars are out there actually out there. They're being sold. They're on the streets right now. They're running on ammonia. You can actually go to Toyota's website and see the research on it. The whole idea is that because of the emissions thing, the ammonia engine supposedly is like 95.5 emissions efficient. So it basically only has like 5% emissions, pollution emissions, which is greater blah, blah, blah. People believe in the climate change crap. It's well below. But even the electric cars, and that's a big thing because their argument is that the electric cars and how much it takes to make the batteries and everything, you're doing more damage to the environment and this is a more viable solution if you're truly worried about climate change. What they call EV zero emission after all, even though they are at least not in the manufacture of them, and the power that they need. They are at zero emission, but they're calling them zero emission, and that's where the Biden administration and Newsom and all the other greenies out there, they're trying to vow to have zero emission vehicles on the road by whatever year they picked up this week. And so ammonia would have an emission. And hydrogen is another one that's actually, those actually exist here in the US. There's very few hydrogen charging stations. They're fraught with problems too. The answer, even though I see a lot of hydrogen fanboys trying to argue this back with me, but basically hydrogen, if you're worried about a electric vehicle dying in an electric vehicle because of thermal runaway, because that's what a lot of them do, oh, they're going to kill you. Well, you can get killed in any car that has a major accident can kill you regardless of what it is. It's rare that an internal combustion engine explodes in a major accident. They do, and they can, they can catch fire. Generally you have a little bit of time to get out of it unless you're trapped in it. You generally have a little time to get out. Same with an EV, it may spontaneously go through that thermal runaway and it may start catching fire pretty quickly, but usually you have, you know, 10, 15, 30 seconds or whatever to get out, there's possibility you could escape that. But hydrogen, I'm not talking about, bear with me, a lot of people are screaming, you know, screaming Hennenberg. No, hydrogen does not explode like that, catch fire immediately like that. It's kind of a slow hydrogen. The problem with hydrogen is those tanks that they have on there, when you go to fill up a hydrogen car, you fill them up to either 5,000 PSI or 10,000 PSI. If you want the full range, it's generally 10,000 PSI. There are two manufacturers that make cars in the US, hydrogen-powered cars, and they go up to 10,000 PSI. Now, if you get an accident, a serious accident with a hydrogen car, And you're basically sitting on a biome that's immediate. You're not going to escape that. If that tank gets damaged, that's going to blow. There's going to be a major problem, not a fire problem, just explosion will kill you. Because you've got 10,000 PSI under the floor or in the trunk or whatever. So you're not going to survive that. You're not going to have a chance to escape that. That's one of the biggest arguments against hydrogen, in my opinion. They have some pluses. But they have that major minus there. Unless they come up with different ways to store the hydrogen and enough to make the range that people want, hydrogen cars are not going to be viable here in the US until people change that a few times. Craig, a lot of the tanks have a lot of safety features on them that people are about really familiar with unless you look at gas all the time. The ammonia one is an interesting one because the risk is not a flame. There's still an explosion risk, but burns are not being a factor except freezer burn, flash burn, flash freezing. Yeah, out of all the others, it's a more survivable thing if you have an accident, but again it has the tanks, the pressurized tanks, just like the tanks you're talking about there, just like the propane tanks or the other liquid gas tanks that we have like that. They have safety features that are built in to help protect them from impact damage, you know, unless you something really freaky happens Most of the time you're not gonna have like a kaboom unless you're really trying to make it go kaboom well, or if you have a you're in a major accident where it's like the level of Possibility of dying just because of the accident itself Getting trapped in the vehicle and all that. I mean it you're not going to be able to 100% protect from the major accidents. I was watching some videos recently. Anytime winter comes on, I go on YouTube and watch some of these ice and snow accidents and things, pile ups and so on. And some of these cars be... It doesn't have to be winter, just wet. And I'll tell you, I had a hydroplane to my truck the other day and my neighbor saw me do it and I wasn't going that fast. Just came around the corner. And my rear wheels on the pickup truck without anything in there was just light enough that it swung my ass end around. Fortunately, it got control of the vehicle. We don't teach people how to control a controlled skid anymore. I find the YouTube videos useful. I watch them on occasion. And you watch how people get into accidents on ice and snow and how they start skidding and how they control them. It's very educational just observing how these things happen in real life. It makes you think about it when you're on the road when you've got a lot of ice and snow or wet roads of how to react or to slow down. I mean, essentially, to slow down. That's the key thing. You can't always protect yourself from the other guy, but you can protect yourself from things that happen to you if you're careful enough. Because a lot of times people slide right into it because of head-on collision. If you were on an inside curve and you were starting to slide and there was another car coming the other way on the outside curve, you could have gotten a head-on collision or a really major collision, which may depend on how fast you were going, and then could have been a really serious problem. But I find it really helpful. There's all kinds of that stuff on YouTube of real-life car crashes. Not even just wet and winter weather, but it just seemed dry weather. I mean, there's some serious crashes where you might have realized... I meant to ask, are you enjoying the winter that none of the weather was? Oh, are you enjoying the winter that none of the weather was? No, remember, MSNBC, a couple of the other Stations we're talking about how this is going to be the winter that never was we're not gonna have any snow this year climate change is just Disaffected us so much that our seasons have changed so much that we're never gonna see the mama's snowfall that we did before I love how when they start saying crap like that the Mother Nature always has a tendency to like kick it in the ass Yeah, yeah, don't predict Mother Nature, but the I can tell my own personal experience up here in Michigan I used to drive by this lake all the time. And last year, last winter, that lake did not freeze over. It's the first time I've ever seen a lake in this area not freeze over at all. It had a little skim on it for a little while, but then it melted and you could never do any ice fishing on that lake this past year. This winter, however, it was the same way this winter up until just after the one day of a subzero weather, boom, all of a sudden, Like, the next day I saw an ice fishing house, an ice fishing tent, whatever you call it, on the lake. So, this year, that same lake did freeze over, strong enough even after it's a wonderful day of the cold weather where somebody was ice fishing on it already. So, this winter, although we haven't had much snow here where I'm at, probably only had about five or six inches the whole year accumulated so far, which is probably lower than normal. It's in super cold weather for about 10 days straight, which really throws things over. Things are melting right now, but that's typical for January, it's deep freezes and a little bit of melting. I know there's a lot of beer laundering about your Texas grid. Was there any fallback from the Texas grid this time? Ed, I know there was a lot of scuttlebutt about it in the media. You know what? I honestly don't know. Unfortunately, we're at the area I am in the panhandle, they shifted over to Urquhart, which Urquhart is a company that had the problem before. And now you're still buying your power from the same power plants you were buying them from before. But now they have opened it up to where you have all these individual contractors that you can contract with for the same power. You asked me, it's kind of messed up because you can't guarantee. How do you guarantee that you're getting power from, you know, diagra falls? How do you guarantee that you're getting power from California? How do you guarantee that you're getting power from Arizona on a grid that is all sharing the same lines? You have some way to tell you, you know, where that came from because it's all intermingling. It's not like it has a frequency. Right. Well Texas is a little bit more unusual because you have very limited access to other portions of the grid outside of Texas. So it's a little more controllable in Texas. No, actually that's not true. A lot of our power was coming from Arizona and California and Texas was, and I'll say was, we were being paid like Arizona to take electricity from California. Yeah, that is true anymore with this new management BS that they've got going on here But yeah, we are there are points where our electric bill would go down because we were absorbing some of that extra solar that California was producing Let me finish off my show talking about also the electric cars in the winter time. As a lot of you have seen now in the press, the media is actually covering a little bit of it. I think somebody called it a lot of dead robots at charging stations. Not only did they find a lot of charging stations weren't working in the cold, but then also the cars themselves lining up to try to get charged and maybe there isn't a charge they're working or they can only do a limited capacity. electric cars with these new batteries, these lithium-ion batteries, they actually have to heat up before they can charge. You cannot charge a lithium-ion battery that's frozen. They have to have heat first. So when you plug in to charge... ...they're damaged. You can't charge them anyway. If your battery has fallen below 20%, the charger won't charge it. And you can't charge it when it's freezing. So what a Tesla or any of these other electric cars have to do, they have to warm the battery up first, which requires electricity, before they can actually start charging. So in other words, you're going to charge a supercharger, and it's going to have to maybe sit there 10 or 15 minutes before the batteries warm up enough to where they can even charge. And these superchargers are very high in demand and they're very limited in the number of them out there. You can plan your trip all day on your Tesla app, but you're going to find that a lot of them are broken or they don't exist, or there's a long line in them. So anytime you go, if you're shopping for an electric car, here's the biggest word of warning I can give you. Don't take the manufacturer's range as the Bible. Do not you're gonna have to reduce it probably about ideally this may sound crazy But in the winter time if you're in a cold climate You may need to reduce that by almost 50% in order to get a real life Range that the manufacturer is claiming you're gonna have to reduce it greatly You know what Craig do what the Tesla dealership? Owners do with their Tesla's keep a small generator in the back of the car to charge it a little gas powered generator. There are so many of them down here that do that. You'll find videos of them on YouTube too, where they're broken down on the side of the road and they're asking for a bit of gas and people are like, why do you need gas? It's a Tesla. It's like, well, because I've got this to charge a Tesla in the back. So the electric car is still relying on gas. And there would be a hybrid. And if these ammonia engines are any good, you should have a small ammonia engine along with a battery pack, a hydrogen, I'm sorry, an electric vehicle that's a hybrid. Because, and that technology has been proven, Toyota has been doing it on the Prius. In fact, the Prius, actually the newest Prius, actually won car of the year by whatever magazine. Hybrids have been around for a hundred years. Our locomotives... On the railways are hybrid vehicles basically. They'll have battery banks, but they're an electric drive with a diesel engine. Electric, uh, hybrid buses. Hybrid is the way to go right now, folks. Stay away from the electric, all-electrics, unless you can use it as a second car for limited distance. But the only reason I would really suggest to buy these modern electric cars today, limited distance, that you can complete without being charging until you get home, and... And, uh, any distance and charging on, even at 110 volts, it could be charged 110 volts slowly. Without the charge, without the power of the expensive charging stations at your home. So anyway, thanks everybody for listening until next week, so long. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hope you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. 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It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 24th of January, 16th year of open obvious and in your face Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist, occupation of America with a K. 2024, old earth calendar, 2024, battle for the Republic, the dance of swords. We're going to make sure the music is played. Battlefield Illinois continues to develop with a series of proposed pieces of legislation to offer cash, to entice law enforcement to attack gun owners and confiscate guns in Illinois. In addition to that, we have of course the ongoing border shipwreck. It's not a crisis because it's not really that urgent for anybody. No one's really acting all that fast on anything. But the border sloth situation continues with the bleeding of the border foreign agents and foreign entities outside the country cooperating with the director of Homeland Security who is a traitor to America. Mr. Dworkis, no, no, my Dworkis, that piece of filth, along with other kosher pieces of trash who are intentionally undermining the sovereignty of the United States. for the purpose of a globalist agenda. They're all POSs that need to be dragged out of this country and beat senseless and then beat some more and go, don't shoot them, that's kind of fast. I was thinking about that. Let's just deal with them in other ways. But anyway, also on the Michigan note, again, for everybody out there, the 26th, we have the meeting southwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan on the 27th. We have the Ionia meetup. And yes, there will be representatives. The meeting on the 27th is with township, county officials from all over the state of Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula. And there will be representatives from the militia formations there from different parts of the state, different independent groups that have organized or also the national groups like Colonial Marine Militia, which will help them to develop the mobilization skills and also organizational tables for setting up militia at the township level and the county level. We have a significant number of counties that are gonna be making their public announcement. The Ionia meetup is for the purpose of making sure that everybody is on the same page. Doesn't need to be perfect. And in fact, each county can do as they choose based upon resources available. But there are a lot of militia formations already in place out there that have both training capabilities and are mustered out to significant numbers. So they can help to flesh out these county and township organizations very quickly. and give them the ability to, within a very short window of activity, be up to speed and be able to mobilize as needed for local defense and to mutually protect each other. And that is the priority. So we've got some good work coming up here. Already have been doing some good work, but we have some additional good work coming up. and this weekend is going to be very, very, very busy. It's wet and nasty outside, by the way. We've got this misty, you know, they said it was going to rain. I guess it technically kind of is raining. It's a a misty dampness that just has been nonstop. It is in the air, humidity is obviously way up as you can imagine. The snow's not gone completely but we do have melt. This could drop down very quickly and it probably will. So we're going to have freeze up, which means secondary roads are going to be very unique on the Backcountry of Michigan, I highly recommend that again, plan up here a little bit, make sure you've got everything squared away for when that cold spike takes place because it'll take a little time for everything to get roughed up and safe enough to be driving on. Again, as I've said, cold wet is the most dangerous and that's what we're going into is cold wet. Cold dry, probably we've had cold dry here, it's like driving normal environment. But when we get the wet and then we get the on the edge of freeze like this, this is where you got to be careful on the road. Typical Michigan, there's nothing that you don't hear me. Do I sound like I'm panicking? My God, Michigan snow, Michigan ice. This is Michigan. This is exactly the kind of weather we grew up with. Nothing I'm seeing that's a surprise. In fact, it's pretty mild. Even what we've got going on right now is incredibly mild. So we'll take more of this kind of winter. Let's hope that this happens. It takes down the heating bill. We're a good chunk of the way through the winter now. However, unfortunately, if you're out going to train, and we are going to be training this weekend, as we know, we actually have between the meetings and everything else, a lot of activities planned. Make a point of making sure your wet weather gear is with you and replacement socks and other items such as glove liners or mitten liners. to use. Wool is your first best choice. All the traditional military five-finger gloves and trigger finger mittens are a preference because they are a higher grade of wool. There are some really phenomenal commercial grade items out there. But wool, whatever you can find at yard sales or estate sales, grab all of it you can. Remember it dries from the inside out and retains almost 100% of whatever body heat You have available warms back up pretty quick and keeps you warm even if you're wet. So let's make sure that we take advantage of that, hunt down what you can find and put it in your inventory. Now, its weapons Wednesday so far. We haven't really talked about any weapons. There's a bunch of people that have been asking me about British. There's a lot of British surplus out there that came in years ago. There have always been a series of waves and still there are some number four Enfields number five jungle car beans You know the number four mark ones or mark two asterisks The SMLE number one mark threes in whatever variant by the way, they're more just the number one mark threes, but they're all there's basically two patterns of Enfield rifle that are the most dominant And so there's basically two magazines out there you're looking for, if you're looking for spare mags. And I would point out that gunpartscorp.com has spare Enfield bags. The reason I bring this up is some people are asking because they bought some of these really reasonably priced number four mark twos that are coming in. I believe they're Indian rifles, but they're standard pattern weapons, parts all interchange. And some of them need magazines. Well, it's an average price, not the greatest price in the world, but over at GunPartsCorp.com, they have the Enfield magazines there. And many, many, many other Enfield parts right now are available to the point where, unfortunately, the ammunition is not in a great price category, even though it would be surplus. You can find surplus. It's not cheap like it used to be because it's been a long time since anybody's been using the 303 Enfield as a primary weapon or even as a secondary weapon. But it's out there. Are they good rifles? They were. Ten-shot magazine. Close the cock on the closing stroke, not the opening strokes as a reverse of a Mauser. There are tons of parts over at gunpartscorp.com, needless to say. But also, right now, they made a deal, I don't know where they got it from, it may be part of the old SAMCO inventory that got picked up, but over at CenterFireSystems.com. CenterFireSystems.com. CenterFireSystems.com. They have a large inventory. Now remember, you have to know what you're looking for. And the British nomenclature is actually not difficult to understand. But it is something that's important that you identify the proper parts for the weapons that are in your inventory. Also, and these companies will help, apexgunparts.com has a large inventory of Enfield parts right now. Now that's not really where I was going because I was mentioning British weapons. But some people who asked me some questions after we started talking about certain pistols, especially cash guns or inheritance. There are a number of the Webley and Enfield 38, well actually when you see them, this is what's got everybody confused. The nomenclature on the pistol is stamped as .380 revolver, okay? It is a 38 Smith and Wesson cartridge, that's what that takes. It's in the US military at the same time as the 38 Smith and Wesson was adopted by the British as the .380 cartridge. The US military was producing the five screw, a victory models of Model 10, but it basically would be, we would call it Model 10 Smith and Wesson, in 38 Smith and Wesson. Not 38 special, that's a different cartridge. And yes, there is still ammunition available, that was the question. First, of course, there was also, well, I've got a bunch of the ammunition with this pistol that says 380. Is that 380 auto? Well, it's got a rim, so no, it's not 380 auto. It is actually a slightly larger projectile. It's a larger bore than 357. That's another thing you need to remember. But again, depending on what you're doing for reloading, a lot of guys have used lead cast. 38 bullets because usually they're a little swollen. So they work just fine catching the lands and grooves with a larger chambering, the larger bore on the 38 Smith and Wesson. The 38 Smith and Wesson rounds that are available through aimsurplus.com, which are PPU, are brand new, non-corrosive, ammunition, boxer-primed, reloadable, so save all your brass. If you're looking for ammunition for these top break British revolvers and they're in the 380, the 38 Smith and Wesson cartridge, not 38 special or 38 Smith and Wesson special as you'll see it printed depending on the year. It's 38 Smith and Wesson, typically it'll be a lead bullet. Now if you got surplus British, it's jacketed. You'll also notice it's in a mildly conical projectile. If you compare a regular pistol projectile of the type you would see on most handguns, most handgun ammunition, and then look at what the British did, you'll notice that there is a graduating taper to the side wall of the bullet. It is a jacketed bullet and they are very reliable. They shoot. The one thing I would watch out though is like everything from World War II or from the Korean War, this stuff is all collectible now. So the ammunition that you have, if it's original British and somebody has say an Enfield pistol and they want a couple boxes of matching ammunition that's sealed, you don't want to open up that ammunition you've got because you might be able to sell it for the price of what you paid maybe for the gun. If not more. So the ammunition is serviceable enough. I've never had any of this stuff malfunctioned. Typically it was very high quality production as is typical for the British even in wartime. They were pretty good about cranking out a consistent round. They maintain standards. The pistols are lethal a lot of people died in the hands of those revolvers You know, I should say in front of the muzzle of those revolvers and they work I like them by especially like all revolvers because they don't lose any brass and I'll leave anything behind And especially in the future when we're looking at being short on ammunition Not having to track down or figure out where brass is going is is it is as important as any other subject with regard to performance And again, your pistol is a personal defense arm. It's a go to situation where you're out of ammunition or something happened with a malfunction or failure to feed on the weapon. The hand cannon is designed to just get you out of a fight, I should say out of trouble so that you can stabilize the situation and get back in with the proper tool, either a placement big tool or fix what it is you're having a problem with. But you can continue to contribute with a handgun. and any handgun will do. But in this case, one nice thing is typically these guns came in years ago in the 90s at about $60 apiece. There are, for that reason, there were quite a few of them that went out and just disappeared. A lot of people put these into caches like we did because you can buy a whole crate of them for nothing and slide them off, grease them up, clean them up, clean them up, grease them up. can up the ammunition to go with them, throw in some holsters from one of these suppliers, there's a bunch of them out there, and you can get original nylon or original leather, oh forgive me, not nylon, original canvas. Those two, of course, are now far more collectible and far more expensive, but back, you know, several years ago, a couple decades ago, they were dime a dozen, okay? Now, the big thing here again is, again with any weapon, a handgun, keep your ammunition clean. Do not lubricate. Do not, do not, do not lubricate. Do not lubricate ammunition. If you have any oxidized ammo, you just simply can wipe it down and clean it up. It does not mean that the ammunition is dysfunctional. In other words, it just Oxidation happens, entropy catches up with everything, so if you do have a cartridge that is oxidized, you clean it up, there's a couple different tricks, we use number, you can use steel wool, do not tumble any of your loaded ammo, you'll be upping the pressure inside the case when you touch it off and it may be very dangerous. But what you want to do is either use a green pad or again, a plastic brush to clean off the heavy oxidant first. Use a green pad or number four to scrub off whatever was there that looks iffy and then shoot it as soon as you can as part of your utility range fire. Something to do. Every once in a while, 5.56, you have issues with ammunition was left in mags and it was left in tactical gear. It went outside, came back in, cleaned it up, inspect, clean, sort. prioritize what can be kept, prioritize what should be shot, shoot what needs to be shot. The big thing here again about these revolvers, standard range for engagement. The only thing that is disconcerting is many of the infield pistols and the other variants, the Weblies, are double, in many cases double action only. And so it was a policy of the Empire. It was a standard established by the the British military and sometimes people just shake their head and don't understand the logic and I agree. So that's the only odd thing about most of them. But they are good weapons and I recommend if you have them, clean them up, keep them in hand. Remember guns are for buying, not for selling. And it's good enough for a security weapon to make sure you got an additional boom stick on hand when the time comes. So hopefully it answers the question, the 380 rimmed cartridge is actually a 38 Smith and Wesson. Now one last thing, you may have, now this is something you gotta watch and you pay attention, you need to read the barrels on your weapons. If you have a Colt shortcase, it's 38 Colt and Colt and Smith were competing against each other. The Colt projectile is slightly larger yet again. And I will remind you that, well, actually, sometimes you can stick them in the revolver cylinder, sometimes you can't. But some of your weapons are Colt cartridge specific, and they're probably, well, they should be Colt manufactured. The counterpart Colt's were K frames built when they did the V victory models are comparable in size, frame is the same size. But it is chambered in Colt if it's pre-war. If it's during the war, they were forced by US Standard to go to 38 Smith and Wesson. Because, again, standardization of ammunition for field use. So you do need to read the barrel because it will be stamped for the particular chambering of your weapon. And you need to make sure that you kind of line that up. There is still some garrison companies, the cowboy companies I think are doing 38 Colt. Now we're not talking 38 long Colt, we're not talking long cartridges. We're talking the same height as a 38 Smith & Wesson. So you have to do a little research, it's hard to do this on the radio, but just as a heads up, yes, there are 38 Colt cartridges out there. And it is the short chambering that we're talking about. So you might run into those as likely as not. It used to be we'd see as many of those at the gun show because Colt was running neck and neck for the longest time with Smith and Wesson. So hopefully that answers a few questions there that we had over the last couple of days, just emails. Also, again, I mentioned ApexGunParts.com. There is also Sarco. So, if you're looking for Enfield, my pecking order on this right now, as far as for parts cost, is Apex and Center Fire Systems probably have the best price. You'd be buying multiples of parts. They have boxed, unissued, never before, single-headed A since World War II, or maybe the Korean War parts inventories. In addition to that, gunpartscorp.com. Sarcos and there are other companies out there too that are immersed to mention that are still running parts of one form or another that would be useful to your endeavor. So check them out, see which one makes sense. If you have a whole rack of fields, I would buy multiples of the spare parts. There are boxes and literally if you notice what it says you get five or ten in a box of whatever part for a set price. Definitely, the price is very reasonable because everything went up there for a bit, but there's been a flood which creates a temporary glut, which means there's been a little hiccup in the prices, but only for a little while. So take advantage of it while you can. Also, and somebody asked me about this, the SKS's with regard to detachable magazines. Guys, there are so many detachable magazine systems for the SKS that you have to be particular. The first idea that came out was basically making what we call the duckbill and of course putting a large cab base on the back. Those magazines, while they're good mags, unfortunately were tack welded together, contact metal short point welds and some of them are a little soft. You may have to re-tack weld or re-tack to ensure that they become stable. Some cases people have lost parts, you're going to have to actually bend a piece of metal. If you're a little found one and if you pay attention usually, why can't it, why won't it lock into place? Well, that little back flange or tab sometimes is missing. And so I recommend that you take a look at those if you've got a whole pile of magazines that you got with a weapon. Compare notes, look at the back of the magazine, where towards the trigger guard. And also inspect the front where the duckbill inserts into the front of the magazine well area where the pivot is for the 10 round mag, which is what the duckbill mags lock into. However, there are a lot of other mags out there of varying types, including some. that incorporated additional parts to make the magazine well similar to an AK type magazine well. But they're proprietary mags. I guess they had a question about where can we go for those. Well, that's the problem. They are proprietary mags. And you're going to have to scour the system to look to see. You have to almost go store to store with any of these parts companies. and look to see what they have in their odd man out collection. And in most cases, I'd have to say that if you know the manufacturer type, probably gonna end up having to call place to place because they're not gonna have everything they've got in their inventory listed on the computer. That's always the case. So, and especially if you're looking for more of that, those odd man variant magazines, and there are more than a few. In fact, I'd say, Probably upwards over the last 40 years worth of SKS purchasing. There's probably at least six or seven separate independent requiring special parts magazine types that allowed for a straighter mag without the duck bill. It looked more like an AK mag, but it doesn't pivot. Many of them lock straight into place the way you would introduce a carbine or an AR-15 mag. And while they're not bad designs, the problem is people didn't necessarily keep the mags or the weapons, so they weren't paying attention, or the people who inherited them didn't know anything about them. So their assumption is one mag is all mags. In other words, they didn't do any work on this, and the weapon gets into the system. You might have one magazine, even though there were others laying there. So the only thing I can say is identify the model. One of the considerations of going to the gun shows and scouring the magazine tables, there's still magazine guys here in the Midwest that have a lot of their older inventory, they always bring it with them. And so you never know what you're gonna find in those boxes or those odd boxes at the gun show. And that is something that's tedious, but it is a way to kind of top off and dot the I and cross the T with these inventories that are out there. And this is without having to change significantly any of the weapons that you may have already parts attached to. I will point out, and this is most important, is if you can find any just standard, non-detachable 10-round mags for the SKS, you should buy some if you have different magazine systems. Why? Well, because if you do lose, break, bust, or damage, The 10 round mag can only be always be reattached. And the one thing that I like about the SKS is the fact that they have that 10 round non detachable magazine. Why can't lose it if I affect the SKS as I've said for decades is the perfect recruit weapon. If you were using something as a first time rifle for an individual who has not had to be shoot at people or be shot. The SKS basically you can't lose parts off it. This guy fumbling with a magazine is just as likely to drop it as not, make a mistake, whatever, especially under fire. But one good thing is with the SKS is no, he doesn't have a whole lot of ammo, but he's probably not going to contribute that well or that much anyway. It varies from personality and the intestinal fortitude of each person from one to the other. So the SKS is a perfect weapon to give to people that you can figure, well, at least they'll pull the trigger. They may actually try to aim. And again, when they have to reload, it's less likely that they're going to lose something in the process. Again, it's a good choice. And besides this, because it's a very reliable and very accurate weapon. Go ahead, call her, jump in there. I will bring up again the fixed 20 round mags that they did bring in for a short while for the SKS. They're like hens teeth now you can't find them anywhere, but if anybody runs across one looks just like a 10. It's just twice as big Stick that sucker on there you can run two stripper clips in you got 20 rounds and it doesn't create any offset from the ground or anything and It works and functions just exactly go together one just twice as many rounds over as a matter of fact one of the places you might still run into those are over at Gunpartscorp.com. They may have them listed in the inventory, may, and if they do, and you're looking for one, they should be reasonably priced. They actually didn't go crazy on the price on those. So they're, it's, you know, like you said, their problem is that now what fewer out there, most people's hands, the price is classic, to say the least. and that kind of bites at the wallet, but there are still samples out there. It is a fixed magazine. Now, what I mean by that is, if you wanted to drop the mag, so to speak, you just release the pivot point towards the trigger and the magazine pivots and you can extract the ammunition from the mag, dropping it like a pile of chicklets, and drop it in your hand. The advantage of this is again that you can't lose the magazine but you have increased firepower. You have 20 rounds carried in the magazine well and yes it will still operate with stripper clips. So it is a good solution. The original ones were mostly made by the communist Chinese that came in. There are some that came in from Romania. I don't know what the significant marking is on them. The communist Chinese ones typically have the big steel knockout star on the side, easy to spot. But the remaining ones, and I believe they're also, again, we mentioned Bulgaria. There were some that came in from Bulgaria, oh, about 25 years ago. This is the year 2024. So I'll say 26 years ago. And they may be still floating around out there, and they're definitely worthwhile. And they work. So it's another solution, you know, coming rather than just complaining about the problem, trying to figure out a way to deal with, you know, specific issues that everybody typically is concerned with. And that includes how to put a few more bullets down range and focus on that rather than having to reload right away. And again, all these things. The other benefit, which is why I put one on my SKS, the other benefit is you know if you shot more than 10 rounds with the SKS you're gonna go 10 rounds and it's gonna bolt back on you're not gonna be able to shoot. The 20 rounders you know you've shot 10 or 12 and you get a little bit of a break, a little breather, two breaths, you jam another stripper clip in there and you've still got more than 10 rounds in there. Over. Exactly. Another one. There we go. Again, the big thing is you can also just top it off, you know, a handful of chiclets Select the number you need, reintroduce them into the magazine. Kind of like the forever shotgun tube. Every time you stop, when you're not under fire, you're not under contact, reload, reload, reload. Add more ammo to the tube. Reload it as best you can. And then keep right on functioning slash operating when the time comes. Also, wait a minute, before we go any farther, let's do this. We are. A little past the bottom, but we are at the bottom. You're listening to us on WVCQ 6.160. Regular shortwave, but it is the bottom of the hour. And it is Weapons Wednesday. This is my right, I think, but this one is mine. It is my life. You can before it shoots me. Before God. In our valleys there is danger, and there's danger in our hills. Oh, here you nost us, singin' of the view, though wild and free. So soon you'll know the ringin' of the rifle from the tree. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands, the proof, no dry foam. You may ride a goodly speed, you may not stern a master Your forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster When you meet our mountain boys and their leader journey starts Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no frightful We've raised it home, back across the bridal water And yet he must come, as well as to the slaughter But if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun If vengeance figure hold the buck through, the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no true rifle Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no true rifle weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon, remember? Sharpen it. No, don't stick your head in a pencil sharpener. Again, make sure that you practice, practice, practice, train. The important thing is that you put more between the ears there and the old lumber yard so that you are that much more capable when the time comes. Trains you will fight for, you will fight as you have trained. And we do have a lot of work to do. Bad guys definitely are going to make a play on the guns in Illinois. The latest piece is that they are offering a cash reward. They're offering funding, which of course we already knew was gonna happen, I already told you about this, from the other direction. In that the feds are gonna come in and help to finance the gun grab. Well, apparently there's a couple of pieces of legislation in Illinois right now having to do with enticing the counties and the departments with cash. to betray the gun owners. I don't think that's gonna really work, go over for them. But who knows, again, we'll see what transpires and how this develops. Not gonna be shocked or amazed or surprised at anything because betrayal is the norm rather than the exception. So we will see how this develops. And everybody out there, make sure that you organize effectively as militia. One of the things that I will remind you about again is medical support and ShopMedVet.com. Get over there, best price on bulk. We don't just need the very sophisticated technology to patch holes up in people. What we need is bulk. You need quantity. We need a lot of everything. Because you will never have enough of what you need. I cannot emphasize that enough. Go ahead, color chip in there. Gotcha. They have in their clearance area over there at Shop Med Vet. I bought a bunch of them. I didn't clear them out. They are six inch self adhesive bandages like that. Perlix or not Perlix, Pro. So I forget the name of the stuff. They gave it to me in the hospital. Sticks to itself, not supposed to stick to you as much. They've got those for a dollar a roll and there were like 67 left when I ordered the other day. So that is a steal and anybody that wants to take advantage of what I didn't steal, you can steal for me. Bye. Exactly. Very quickly on the note, guys, there's a wide range of bandages, wound dressing, sutures, syringes, etc. And one of the things that's most important is if you're gonna be doing blowout kits. I mean, most common are a complaint I have is marked the medical supplies are expensive. Guys, if you could go over to ShopMedVet.com. This is what Darr is talking about, the items that are in the inventory there. You can go right down through your checklist for building a lot of IFAX. There is no such thing as having too much medical gear, ever. They also sell HIFAC kits to put in your pouches. They sell like the refill kits. They'll send you the whole batch. And they're actually a really good price. Looking at what they want for an HIFAC, probably half the price that you're paying for an HIFAC is just a pouch. So if you can get a pouch cheap, you can throw all this stuff in there and have an iFAC kit for about half price. Over. Yeah, exactly. In fact, that's what we're going to be doing this weekend, is putting iFAC kits together. Probably, I should be able to put a total of about 200 with what I've picked up from this inventory, from the inventory that we're talking about right now. So take advantage of this. Go over to ShopMedVet.com. look to see what they have on hand. It is fairly extensive. Take your time, go page by page, go slow, and you want to shop carefully because you'll miss things. It happens if you go a little too fast there. So take your time, have somebody else sit down with you, pitch in, being the eyeballs because So you know you get a little cross-eyed after a while, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. But there are unique gems in that inventory there. Some of you guys got some of the items as part of your gift packages. Remember there are things that I mentioned that were available? Well, I took advantage of them. And several of those items are in your gifts from the drawings. So pay attention. That's where they came from. If you already got yours, there are some very useful tools there. By the way, they usually have gifts too. Don't pass those up. I'll tell you why. There's stethoscopes for free. They usually have something that's a markdown item, special gift, depending on the amount of money you spend. And another thing about ShopMedVet.com is that Their cost in shipping is non-existent. It's token. If you do $200 worth of material, the shipping is free. But the other rate, otherwise, is ludicrous. It's like $5, $10, $5, and then no dollars. Yeah, I was in there like 160 and I paid five bucks shipping. Yeah, you can't beat this. And this stuff when it shows up is heavy. This is not, you know, this is the tiny little packages. They do sell the smaller boxes of like fabric bandages and stuff. Stuff you go to the store and pay eight or nine dollars to get a box of 12 or a box of 20. They'll sell you a hundred for that price or for less than that price. Really, quite good. Hey, you can't beat this, sorry. We can't empty this while we keep emphasizing you've got to take advantage of this, especially units that again do have a large number of people that they're responsible for and again or like our friends down the street several of them now are churches that are building up medical supply or medical units. We got a lot of people recruited that way. Okay, they won't necessarily work as fighting units, but you know what they can be organized as medical support units. And that's what we've been doing. So this is the way that you get them stocked up so that they're ready to help when the time comes fully kitted. No doubt about their abilities. So shopmedvet.com, shopmedvet.com, shopmedvet.com. The other thing here too is again sutures. Guys, we add a couple of suture needles and thread. There's the way to describe it. Suture packs, we put in every iFAC kit, and I also put them in the medical kits as a random item. And it's something that you should do when you look at the prices and how cheap the clearance are. Oh, by the way, in the bulk clearance, they have another, I think it's not the chisel. It's another scalpel blade, 100 count box of disposable scalpels. Well, replacement scalpel blades, 100 count box and it's ridiculous. We're talking, if you do hobby craft, if you do munitions maintenance, if you're gonna be doing special work with detail items that go boom, then the scalpel, scraping tools slash stripping tools slash scalpel blades, you know, a scalpel is a very useful tool to have in the tool box and I highly recommend that you invest this way because you're talking pennies and you have equipment to last for a very long long period of time. You got a lot of replacements. Boxes of 10 scalpel, 10 disposable scalpel for almost no money. Then the 100 count replacement blades. That's another box that's in there And it is a different blade from the last time they sold out of the other another thing that we need to emphasize is that they have a Pickle meter for most all of the products if you look it'll tell you how many of the units are there how many dozens how many hundreds or even thousands So if you don't have to worry about, well, I ordered so many and didn't get any. Well, it tells you and it won't let you order otherwise, which is really cool. But it'll tell you exactly what it is that's available. You can clear them out even if you want to. You can look at them and go, no, I'll buy all 62 of those. I've done that several times where it's something that, wow, there's only 62 or there's only 100 of them and they're pennies, an item. I'll just get them all. What the hell? You can't afford that. I got to the end of my order and I'm like, oh, this is a little bit more than I wanted to spend. So I went back in and started adjusting the cart, adjusted the numbers in the cart to look at something more palatable because those boots I told you about the Danner wrap boots. They showed up. Oh great boots. One problem is they were listed as 14 wide. They're all 14 regular So I sent a woman a message. I said see if you got any 14 wides I think otherwise I'm gonna wind up having to keep them. So did you try them buyer beware? I tried to find you my foot my foot's wide. I did I could get my foot in it I could do an hour or two in it, but it's it's not good for like long-term walking or being on my feet for four or five hours, which you know I'm not real happy about being on my feet for too long since one of them was out here. We'll have to work on getting a few people together on that. Because those are rat boots, right? Yeah, these are the TW rat boots. They're the temperate weather, TW. They don't have the grommet holes in them, so they are waterproof. They're leather, they're Danner boots, they're Vibram soles stitched, the leather's stitched down. There is Cordura, but it's waterproof to Cordura. And other than that, I mean, their speed laces up for the, you know, the ankle, the leg, the calf section is all speed lace and below the pilots. I'll tell you what, just as a canoe right here on the area, we're going to have a bunch of Marines here this weekend. and they might have an interest and I'm gonna double verify their size. They'll know what their military size is. And I know one of them at least got a kick two cows in the ass to make a pair of boots just like me and you. So they might actually do for them. And I don't think he has a wide foot. But there are other Marines and they'd be interested in those boots. So yeah, we'll follow up on that. I'll let you know right away. Boots don't go to waste with any of us people. That's the one thing. No, especially not these. In fact, well, and the other consideration is again, also, as we've said, you want more than just a couple pairs of boots in hand for your own personal use. A trick with those, since they are a regular military boot, I mean, I don't know if you want to try it or not, it's winter, it's not fun, but you can hot water them, in other words, put them on. Like we used to do with our brand new blue jeans. Yep, make them fit. They will reconfigure. Actually, I'm wearing a brand new pair just as a footnote or a subnote. I'm wearing a pair of Teemu boots that I picked up and as I absolutely have been accurate on guessing about China Sport, these are supposed to be, well, first of all, they're supposed to be 14 and a half. Now, the good thing is, is they probably are close, but they were in metric sizes and they said metric 48. Well, metric 48 is not 14 and a half guys. No. That's the problem with sizing around the planet was stuffed away. It's made. However, these particular boots are a chukka boot and I needed something that was a throwaway kicker and they're not bad for what they are. They're actually winter pack lined. They are a short ankle boot, not a shoe, again, a chukka boot if you're familiar with that. And so for under $20 for the price of a pair of tennis shoes, these actually worked out okay. But I went to the biggest size they had available in order to get it. I didn't say figure out a real or a true size with the China Sport stuff. And also with a lot of the Euro stuff, try to find the biggest size posted and go a couple sizes over whatever you'd expect. It's just a basic rule and seems to be consistent. I haven't been bit yet because of that. And again, I don't do a whole lot of the China sport shoes, unless it's just something for utility storage. In other words, putting more boots in the barrels. And if it's a deal, like I said, I kicked myself in the arse a year ago. Remember, he had a sale here and the guy had the woman had shoes for a dollar repair. And it's like, what was I thinking about? I said, just bought them all simply because I can't find, you can't find anything for a dollar a pair. And the basic shoe, which was a big lot kind of, you know, one of their store shoes, runs about $25. And they were a good, you know, what I would use these for are for medical personnel. The medical personnel are going to go through stuff because they're going to get gore, they're going to get blood, they're going to get muck on their feet. The shoes are only going to last so long. You're gonna clean them up, you're gonna clean them up, you're gonna scrub them off, and you're gonna let them dry out, but they're gonna get messed up badly. And the other thing is, if you have medical, people who are casualties or convalescing, you need some kind of sandals and or footwear in inventory for them. You have to be thinking ahead. It can be the cheapy Crocs or whatever I buy every guy grab for, especially in the freebie boxes. I have a box here that's nothing but those types of shoes. And they're gonna go into individual bags, and then they're gonna go in the medical barrels. Because again, something to put on people's feet. Think ahead, the problems you're facing when you have to support personnel who are convalescing and injured or weak. And again, every move they make is gonna be painful. And here's another thing, you're not gonna have enough pain relief. You're not gonna have enough painkillers. That's the part that nobody's thinking ahead to and I guarantee it. Well, I'm not gonna get shot or I'm gonna get so badly shot I'm gonna be dead. Well, yeah, I wish in one hand defecate in the other and see which one gets full first. I always love how people tell me that though I just could have wanted die. are people who then turn around and tell you that they really want to live, but because they didn't plan ahead, it's become very uncomfortable to live. And now they expect you to come up with a solution. Trust me, I've seen this before. Know what I mean? So prior proper planning ahead of that curve prevents piss poor performance, but also you don't hear as much moaning. And so think ahead, when you've been injured, what do you need? And that's how you should be thinking. Another thing I will remind everybody, we talked about this. If we get into an escalating conflict at any time, you have to have purchasing agents. One of the things that I would recommend is you take, with your debit or credit, use your credit card. Debit cards are the second thing to clean up, not the first. Use the other guy's credit card, so to speak. Give banks card. Cash it out to the limit. But your purchasing agents should be going like the Dollar Tree and I know it's not cheap there. Or go to Meyers or go to Walmart and you clean the shelf off of every pain reliever you can find. One of the things I would highly recommend are the lidocaine creams also as being a priority and lidocaine patches. Now, we can't do extreme pain relief medicines without going into prescription, and we're not gonna do that. We do have doctors that are doing it right now, but they can. Lidocaine patches or even the topical do permeate down into the tissue. So for relief of injuries, no, it's not as good as a morphine shot or having whatever else in the way of pain relievers that you can orally take. Again, we're talking high strength and prescription. The lidocaine pain relief technology is the closest thing you're gonna get without any restrictions. And the patches, I would recommend actually carrying in your first aid kit or in your other patch up kits on your tactical gear for body maintenance. Because there's little there's not little but significant boobies that are gonna take place But you're still gonna have to move think about it. You're not gonna be able to take a time out You're not gonna the enemy is not gonna let up You're going to end up being in being in constant contact unless you're significantly injured. You're not gonna be out of the fight So you should be thinking about ahead of time ways to placate You know the system your body to keep it from wanting to really, really, really shut down on you. Also, major or significant injuries, the lidocaine, it can be applied around the area, not into the wound. And it's not gonna do everything. It's to do something. If you know anybody who has an anesthesia, go ahead. It is pretty much native in all of our area around here. I'm not sure how far west or south it goes towards the southwest. But that is supposed to be a very good painkiller and it is not any restricted plant. It's something you could actually, I think you probably figure out how to harvest and grow it yourself. I mean, harvest it, you can harvest when you find it wild. But I think you might even be able to figure out some way to grow it. and have somebody, you know, grandma, grandma Jane or Uncle Tom over there can grow half an acre of it and then go right under the radar and they'll be able to milk milk the plant and get the derivative out of it and it's painkiller over. Exactly. But you know, again, we need to be thinking ahead on this. And it's one of the many, many issues that this is why you need to get all the rest of your allies on the same page and involved in solutions. And once you identify these solutions, again, like we said, purchasing off the shelf, obviously whatever you can afford right now, you can't buy, there's only a small spectrum of pain relief that you can acquire. But what you can acquire, you should be putting already into play and have on hand. You also still need to deal with all the usual daily boobies. that take place that just again if it keeps nagging at you it drags you down. It's like we talked about that muzzle flash hider open at the end. One time it drags, yeah, it's obnoxious. Two times it's pissing you off, three times it's really pissing you off. Walking with pain or having to deal with pain if it can be reduced to one degree or another is a significant plus because it takes the energy out of you. And again, we're not going to be able to stop. So you need to be prepared to fight through that kind of a problem. And in some cases, it's simply because you have to fight to save our lives. Everybody, even those who may have normally been able to lay down, won't be able to. We may let them uncirculate, they may not be able to. So, this is why we need to be thinking ahead. And ShopMedVet.com, ShopMedVet.com, ShopMedVet.com has a lot of the other solutions. Now, let's see, what have we got left? We're not, we can't be getting close. I knew it, we're really close. For everybody out there, again, Texas is on the boil. The Alamo down there on the border eagle pass. The eagle flies overhead. It is the Mexican eagle, the eagle of invasion. And the Mexicans and all of the other allies of HIAS who hate America, they are coming across the border to show you who's boss. And right now, there are some Texicans who are standing in the way a little bit. We shall see.