Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:01.760] I'm Dave Champion. [00:01.760 --> 00:07.800] This video is inspired by the recent revelations concerning Donald Trump's tax returns. [00:07.800 --> 00:10.560] But it is not about Donald Trump's tax returns. [00:10.560 --> 00:15.360] It was only inspired by the story and some of the remarks that I've seen and heard people [00:15.360 --> 00:17.720] say concerning that development. [00:17.720 --> 00:29.120] So if this really isn't about Trump's tax returns, where am I going with this? [00:29.120 --> 00:34.000] For those of you who have been following me since maybe February or March of 2020, where [00:34.000 --> 00:39.120] we've talked a lot about science and physiology and data and facts concerning SARS-CoV-2 and [00:39.120 --> 00:47.120] COVID-19, you may be completely unaware that if we went back years ago, this show was almost [00:47.120 --> 00:50.320] entirely about the subject of liberty. [00:50.320 --> 00:53.780] Like, wait, how do those two go together? [00:53.780 --> 01:01.660] My goal was to reinvigorate liberty in the hearts and minds of my fellow citizens here [01:01.660 --> 01:03.300] in the United States. [01:03.300 --> 01:08.140] That was my goal starting from 2000 when I had my very first radio show called American [01:08.140 --> 01:09.780] Radio with Dave Champion. [01:09.780 --> 01:15.460] My goal was to rekindle the spirit of liberty in the hearts and minds of the American people, [01:15.460 --> 01:19.080] at least do my part. [01:19.080 --> 01:23.980] About two years ago, I came to the conclusion that I had wasted a good portion of my life [01:23.980 --> 01:29.760] trying to do that because it seemed to me and remains that way today in my mind that [01:29.760 --> 01:32.840] Americans really don't give a shit about liberty. [01:32.840 --> 01:34.440] What they do care about is politics. [01:34.440 --> 01:42.060] And see, to me, I can care less about politics, except in the very narrow area where it is [01:42.060 --> 01:47.600] used as a tool to achieve the ends of personal liberty. [01:47.600 --> 01:50.240] Other than that, I could care less about politics. [01:50.240 --> 01:54.560] Because of my perception then as now, the vast majority of Americans don't really care [01:54.560 --> 01:56.320] about liberty at all. [01:56.320 --> 02:00.820] About a year and a half ago, I made a public announcement here that I was no longer going [02:00.820 --> 02:07.360] to tackle the subject of liberty because it was a waste. [02:07.360 --> 02:11.680] People like to say the words and they'll reference quotes by the founding fathers or maybe a [02:11.680 --> 02:16.640] stanza here or there from the Declaration of Independence or a line from the Constitution. [02:16.680 --> 02:20.240] But in the end, when it comes down to making decisions, whether it's political decisions, [02:20.240 --> 02:23.480] whether it's decisions in their personal life, whether it's how they run their business or [02:23.480 --> 02:29.960] whatever, yeah, so liberty never enters their mind. [02:29.960 --> 02:35.240] So why is liberty so unpopular and politics is so incredibly popular? [02:35.240 --> 02:37.040] Well, I can just share my opinion with you. [02:37.040 --> 02:43.000] And that is there's nothing really to argue about concerning liberty. [02:43.000 --> 02:48.640] There's nothing that people can look at and they have to create an argument or support [02:48.640 --> 02:55.640] a dude that makes them in their mind be right, which has nothing to do with facts or accuracy. [02:55.640 --> 03:02.980] Liberty is pretty much just I do what I do, you do what you do, and as long as I'm not [03:02.980 --> 03:07.440] infringing on the equal rights that you get to exercise and you're not infringing on my [03:07.440 --> 03:10.720] equal rights that I get to exercise, we're good. [03:10.960 --> 03:15.760] And if we do intrude on each other's liberty somehow, someway, well, we have the civil [03:15.760 --> 03:17.840] courts to go and sort that out. [03:17.840 --> 03:23.960] I mean, there's nothing really in terms of argument, in terms of debate, in terms of [03:23.960 --> 03:27.960] getting emotionally amped, there's really nothing sexy about liberty. [03:27.960 --> 03:31.280] Now, I think liberty is incredibly sexy. [03:31.280 --> 03:37.880] But most Americans, it turns out, in practicality, no matter what they say, they don't find it [03:37.880 --> 03:38.880] sexy. [03:38.880 --> 03:40.440] They find it boring and droll. [03:40.440 --> 03:45.960] I think one of the other things that's so unappealing to the American public about liberty [03:45.960 --> 03:51.720] is in a true land of liberty, and you can't point and say, like, see that geographical [03:51.720 --> 03:52.720] area? [03:52.720 --> 03:53.720] That's a land of liberty. [03:53.720 --> 03:54.720] It doesn't work that way. [03:54.720 --> 03:58.000] The only way you have a land of liberty is if you point to that geographic area, and [03:58.000 --> 04:04.520] then you point to all of the people who populate it, and you can say right here in their hearts [04:04.520 --> 04:06.800] lives liberty. [04:06.800 --> 04:10.320] That's a land of liberty, and we don't have that in America anymore. [04:10.320 --> 04:14.800] I think one of the main reasons for that is we've come to the point, I'm not going to [04:14.800 --> 04:18.520] get into the whole history of it, where it doesn't matter whether somebody's left or [04:18.520 --> 04:20.240] somebody's right. [04:20.240 --> 04:27.320] What they want now is they want to enact laws that force the other 50% of the country to [04:27.320 --> 04:30.440] live the way this guy thinks is right. [04:30.440 --> 04:35.520] And this guy wants to pass laws to make the other 50% of the country live the way he thinks [04:35.520 --> 04:38.440] is right. [04:38.440 --> 04:42.600] That's the paradigm that I see far and wide across America. [04:42.600 --> 04:46.800] That is the overarching paradigm in the minds of the American people. [04:46.800 --> 04:51.800] I'm the one laws passed to make that guy do what I say. [04:51.800 --> 04:55.960] There is nothing more anti-liberty than that. [04:55.960 --> 04:59.160] The reason I mentioned Donald Trump's tax returns is somebody said to me, will you please [04:59.160 --> 05:03.160] make a video about this with your background having studied income tax and law for a couple [05:03.160 --> 05:04.160] of decades? [05:04.160 --> 05:09.080] You could make more sense of this as far as revealing things to the public than somebody [05:09.080 --> 05:10.800] else might be able to. [05:10.800 --> 05:14.280] I'm very little interested in doing that because really what we're talking about is we're not [05:14.280 --> 05:18.880] talking about income tax, we're talking about politics. [05:18.880 --> 05:23.040] I have eschewed talking about politics publicly. [05:23.040 --> 05:26.120] I do so a little bit on my personal page on Facebook. [05:26.120 --> 05:29.720] But other than that, I really don't talk about politics anymore and I'm going to explain [05:29.720 --> 05:31.760] to you why. [05:31.760 --> 05:37.360] Politics and politicians and virtually every other issue you could imagine, such as economics [05:37.360 --> 05:47.240] and science, in today's society, they all serve as a surrogate for saying, look at me, [05:47.240 --> 05:50.200] I'm right. [05:50.200 --> 05:54.920] If somebody supports, I don't know, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, what they're really [05:54.920 --> 06:00.040] saying is, I'm a good person and I'm right. [06:00.040 --> 06:04.680] If somebody supports Donald Trump, what they're really saying is, I'm a good person and I'm [06:04.680 --> 06:05.680] right. [06:05.680 --> 06:10.880] And I think a lot of people are going to have a hard time hearing that because it's problematic [06:10.880 --> 06:13.760] for them to realize that that's true. [06:13.760 --> 06:19.800] But this has been proven time and time again when videographers go out and they ask someone [06:19.800 --> 06:24.400] on the street to declare whether they support this candidate or that candidate. [06:24.400 --> 06:28.240] And once the person declares the candidate, well, I support this guy or that gal, then [06:28.240 --> 06:34.360] the person conducting the interview says, can you please tell me why you like this particular [06:34.360 --> 06:38.960] policy held by your guy or your gal? [06:38.960 --> 06:44.440] But they quote a policy of the other guy, the opposition. [06:44.440 --> 06:49.080] And then the person who's declared that they support Trump or Biden or going back historically [06:49.080 --> 06:59.160] anyone, they sit there and they defend their guy's policy, which is in reality, the other [06:59.160 --> 07:03.480] guy's policy, the point being Americans don't know what the hell they're talking about when [07:03.480 --> 07:04.800] it comes to politics. [07:04.800 --> 07:13.200] They are so bereft of facts and data and knowledge and information, and they don't fucking care, [07:13.200 --> 07:14.200] which is the point, right? [07:14.200 --> 07:19.000] Remember I said earlier, it's not about being factual, accurate or correct. [07:19.000 --> 07:23.980] It's about the emotion of feeling right. [07:23.980 --> 07:29.840] And that's really all that politics has devolved down to in this particular point in this nation's [07:29.840 --> 07:30.840] history. [07:30.840 --> 07:31.840] I don't know if it's ever going to recover. [07:31.840 --> 07:33.560] I'm not optimistic. [07:33.560 --> 07:35.640] But that's what it's really all about. [07:35.640 --> 07:43.080] You know how rarely I ever hear anybody, and I know a lot of people who are very politically [07:44.080 --> 07:52.760] How rarely I ever hear a person drill down on an issue through all the layers of the [07:52.760 --> 08:03.320] facts and the data, present it all and say, and this, this ream of data and facts is why [08:03.320 --> 08:07.840] I support that issue, why I look at it that way. [08:07.840 --> 08:11.840] Do you know how often I hear that? [08:11.840 --> 08:15.520] If you said never, yeah, you'd be right. [08:15.520 --> 08:17.080] Why is it never? [08:17.080 --> 08:20.840] Because it's not about facts or data. [08:20.840 --> 08:23.160] It's about feelings. [08:23.160 --> 08:25.320] It doesn't matter whether you're left or right. [08:25.320 --> 08:26.760] It's about feelings. [08:26.760 --> 08:36.740] I want to feel good about myself and my self-definition, how I define self, means that when I point [08:36.740 --> 08:43.740] to that politician and I tell people, ah, what a great person that politician is. [08:43.740 --> 08:47.140] I'm down with that person. [08:47.140 --> 08:48.820] That's all about emotion. [08:48.820 --> 08:51.140] That's all about validating self. [08:51.140 --> 08:56.780] And the guy on the other side of the aisle who says, that politician, oh, I'm so down [08:56.780 --> 08:58.340] with that politician. [08:58.340 --> 08:59.340] We're homies, right? [08:59.340 --> 09:00.340] OK. [09:00.340 --> 09:02.500] Again, it's all about the emotion. [09:02.500 --> 09:05.980] So when somebody says, hey, Dave, will you talk about a particular subject and that particular [09:05.980 --> 09:11.340] subject really, in the final analysis, is all about politics? [09:11.340 --> 09:12.340] What value is there? [09:12.340 --> 09:13.340] I mean, I could sit here and do it. [09:13.340 --> 09:14.340] Don't get me wrong. [09:14.340 --> 09:16.580] And I would probably enjoy it. [09:16.580 --> 09:22.100] And I would be wasting every second of my time because, for instance, we'll use the [09:22.100 --> 09:24.580] Donald Trump tax return thing, right? [09:24.580 --> 09:30.860] People who dislike or detest Donald Trump, they will say this proves that they were right [09:30.860 --> 09:36.180] all along and that he is a low life piece of crap. [09:36.180 --> 09:41.140] Those people who have supported Donald Trump for some time, maybe from day one, maybe more [09:41.140 --> 09:49.180] recently, those people will say, I want that guy over there prosecuted for not paying his [09:49.180 --> 09:50.180] fair share. [09:50.180 --> 09:54.980] Oh, but Donald Trump, yeah, that just shows how brilliant he is that he didn't have to [09:54.980 --> 09:57.180] pay any taxes. [09:57.180 --> 10:02.220] And it doesn't matter whether that's a factual, either side, by the way, it doesn't matter [10:02.220 --> 10:03.980] whether that's a factual assessment. [10:03.980 --> 10:10.400] It only matters that it's either not their guy or it is their guy. [10:10.400 --> 10:15.420] If I were to say to somebody who was excoriating Donald Trump over the income tax issue, can [10:15.420 --> 10:20.740] you give me the details about what actually appears in his tax return, what has been reported, [10:20.740 --> 10:23.620] and why that's problematic for you? [10:23.620 --> 10:26.180] They couldn't. [10:26.180 --> 10:31.820] If I were to say to the person who supports Donald Trump, can you tell me what was reported, [10:31.820 --> 10:39.140] what we know about those tax returns that specifically, not some vague notion, but specifically [10:39.140 --> 10:45.300] what was the facts revealed that show that he was actually, it wasn't that he was going [10:45.300 --> 10:49.340] broke, wasn't that he was in financial trouble, I'm not saying any of those things are true, [10:49.340 --> 10:53.780] but shows that he was just brilliant and it shows what a great business person he is. [10:53.780 --> 10:56.500] Can you show me those particulars? [10:56.500 --> 10:57.780] They couldn't. [10:57.780 --> 11:00.660] So neither side can show the particulars. [11:00.660 --> 11:04.260] Why can't they show the particulars? [11:04.260 --> 11:06.540] It's unimportant. [11:06.540 --> 11:11.980] Because for the person who excoriates Donald Trump, it's about validating self. [11:11.980 --> 11:17.300] For the person who supports Trump and says he's a brilliant business person, it's about [11:17.300 --> 11:19.540] validating self. [11:19.540 --> 11:21.480] That's all we do in America anymore. [11:21.480 --> 11:27.120] We run around like chickens with our heads cut off, emotionally validating self. [11:27.120 --> 11:29.480] Facts don't matter. [11:29.480 --> 11:35.240] That construct is problematic for me because I'm just exactly the opposite. [11:35.240 --> 11:42.280] I look at a situation and I say, okay, let me go out and gather all the relevant data. [11:42.280 --> 11:49.440] And then I pull all the relevant data points in and I go through them. [11:49.440 --> 11:50.940] Which ones conflict? [11:50.940 --> 11:52.660] Why are they conflicting? [11:52.660 --> 11:56.900] If they're in conflict, there's a problem and it needs to be sorted out. [11:56.900 --> 11:59.780] This would be a very long video if I got into that process. [11:59.780 --> 12:06.100] But the net result is we chisel, I chisel down until I have the core facts that are [12:06.100 --> 12:09.480] supportable by data. [12:09.480 --> 12:15.940] Then when I have the core facts that are supportable by data, having rejected bad data, misapplied [12:15.940 --> 12:20.840] data, data that's not really relevant to the equation we're looking at and so forth. [12:20.840 --> 12:28.600] When I've completed that process and I look at these core relevant facts, I let them inform [12:28.600 --> 12:29.600] my position. [12:29.600 --> 12:32.600] I say, okay, here's the core relevant facts. [12:32.600 --> 12:34.480] Now I have a position. [12:34.480 --> 12:37.020] But it doesn't matter what my position is. [12:37.020 --> 12:39.320] Because this is why I don't talk politics anymore. [12:39.320 --> 12:43.960] Because if I were to go through that entire process on something that was a matter, like [12:43.960 --> 12:47.960] the tax return issue, that ultimately the only way people are seeing it is the political [12:47.960 --> 12:48.960] equation. [12:48.960 --> 12:56.520] If I were to come and present all these facts and data and break it down and explain the [12:56.520 --> 12:59.840] whole thing and why certain things are not relevant and certain things are highly relevant [12:59.840 --> 13:00.840] and so forth. [13:00.840 --> 13:07.920] No matter the issue, if it's political, if it taps into somebody's perception of politics [13:07.920 --> 13:13.280] and I were to bring forth all the evidence, all honed it down as I just shared with you [13:13.280 --> 13:17.440] that process, and I were to lay it all out and go through it. [13:17.440 --> 13:21.040] Just nobody that viewed that content would care. [13:21.040 --> 13:25.640] They would think one of two things based on their position versus my position. [13:25.640 --> 13:32.240] Emotionally, they would hear, Dave just validated me. [13:32.240 --> 13:39.440] Or if they're on the flip side of the issue, they'd say, that motherfucker just said I'm [13:39.440 --> 13:41.720] wrong. [13:41.720 --> 13:47.200] It's all about the person hearing it and their construct and they're wanting to feel validated. [13:47.960 --> 13:52.600] So when somebody says will you break down this issue, which is fundamentally in the [13:52.600 --> 13:56.760] final analysis, political in nature, it's like why? [13:56.760 --> 13:57.760] Nobody cares about facts. [13:57.760 --> 13:59.160] Nobody cares about the data. [13:59.160 --> 14:03.440] Nobody wants sound conclusions based on facts and data when it comes to politics. [14:03.440 --> 14:08.000] They just want to feel validated. [14:08.000 --> 14:12.800] If you understand the distinction between my model and the model that's probably pursued [14:12.800 --> 14:14.560] by hell, I don't know. [14:14.560 --> 14:19.560] I would certainly say the high 90 percentile of the United States population. [14:19.560 --> 14:25.480] You can understand what a frustrating situation it is for me to be built one way, but I can't [14:25.480 --> 14:29.760] communicate the results of that to this other, we'll call it 95%. [14:29.760 --> 14:37.080] I can't communicate it to the other 95% because they only can receive it within their narrow [14:37.840 --> 14:43.360] construct of how they see things, which is feeling good, feeling validated. [14:43.360 --> 14:48.640] If you are one of the people who value facts and data and the rational conclusions to which [14:48.640 --> 14:59.880] the facts and the data actually in reality leads you to, may I suggest you go to DrReality.News? [14:59.880 --> 15:00.880] Do yourself a favor. [15:00.880 --> 15:04.440] Pick up a copy of Incompatible in the Mist Body Science to payroll with Holding Handbook [15:04.440 --> 15:10.760] or the W91099 Handbook and enjoy some facts because there are very few places in this [15:10.760 --> 15:19.400] world today where if you are a fact and data based person, you can get facts and data without [15:19.400 --> 15:24.320] any of the emotional crap, but you can at DrReality.News. [15:24.320 --> 15:24.960] Thanks for being here.