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Hello, America. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the United States. The full number is 877973-725. Should you wish to be on the program, I would be very happy to have you on the program. I want to talk to you about something other than the politics of Washington and the like, although it has implications here. We've thought about this a number of times, the AI stuff. There's a growing body of evidence that progressive environmentalist groups and the Chinese government are funding a lot of the opposition to AI data centers. Or I say data, you say data, same thing. I was talking to a buddy of mine this morning, WCHM in Clarksville, Georgia. I was on there this morning talking about the Georgia race. And data centers is a big issue in parts of my state, also parts of Texas, Virginia, and elsewhere. And a lot of people are blaming energy increases on data centers. And actually, the data shows that energy... power increases are not going up because of data centers, going up because of inflation. And also because in the last 20 years, progressives have been arguing we needed to shut down coal and natural gas plants. So we have not actually built new power plants in the country, even as power demand has gone up. And what the data centers do is they offset it with solar power, with wind, and with their own micro energy plants and generators that they put on their property. So your data center, or your power bill is not going up because of data centers. But the environmentalists are trying. trying to tell you they are. You need to understand that back in the 1980s, when I was a kid, the Soviet Union funded environmental groups in the United States, and those were the groups that opposed nuclear power plants, those were the groups that opposed nuclear weapons, and those were the groups that opposed the United States. The Chinese government does the same thing now. The Soviet Union was very, very effective in the United States in the 1970s and particularly the 1980s, getting Americans to become deeply scared of nuclear power. Three Mile Island didn't help the situation, and these environmentalist groups expanded the fear of nuclear power, such that the United States stopped building nuclear power plants. The first nuclear power plant constructed in the United States since then has been Plant Vogel, south of Augusta, Georgia. And Georgia Power and the Southern Company, which built it, they had to go abroad and import nuclear design engineers to the United States because all of the people who knew how to build nuclear power plants in the United States were dead or retired. We lost the institutional knowledge. That's how bad it got. We had to bring in a bunch of Frenchmen because the French have had a robust nuclear program and the Japanese as well, because Americans simply lost the knowledge on how to build nuclear power plants. And it was because of a well-funded Soviet propaganda effort in the 1980s through environmental groups.

There are real concerns about AI data centers. There are real concerns about kids relying on AI. In fact, I saw someone yesterday say that someone told them, a college student told them that they don't understand how people could have written a 10-page paper before AI, something that pretty much all of us who went to college before AI did regularly write 10-page papers. AI has lots of problems, but there are lots of upsides. Do you know doctors now are able to spend more time with patients because they have AI transcribing the notes? In fact, those of you who are diagnosed with cancer these days, you are more likely to get diagnosed more accurately sooner because of AI technologies. There actually is a lot of good that come from AI. I've talked about the propaganda campaigns against AI. Do you know who the worst enemy of AI is, though? It's not the communist Chinese. The worst enemy of AI is not the environmentalist. You know who the worst enemy of AI is? It is the chief executive officers of the AI companies. These people are instead of selling a product to Americans or scaring the bejesus out of Americans. Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. He says AI is going to destroy the world. In fact, he says he stays awake at night, scared of what he's creating. Why would you want an AI data center if the CEO of one of the major AI players is scared of what he's creating and thinks it's going to destroy the world? Palantir's co-founder, Peter Thiel. was asked about saving humanity. And he can't even say yes. I want to play you an Instagram reel of a kid who is in AI. I put this clip in my morning piece. And he has a clip. It is tech CEOs. saying diabolical things in broad daylight. Let me, let me play you this clip. This is between Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir and Ross Douthin of the New York Times. A daylight would prefer the human race to endure, right? You're hesitating. Well, I... Yes? I don't know. I would... I would... This is a long hesitation. There's so many questions. Day one of... He can't answer yes. You would prefer humanity to endure? There are so many questions. This is a guy who is dedicated to the rollout of AI. Why should you embrace AI if he can't even say he wants humanity to endure? Dario Narendra Modi. of Anthropic, which runs Claude, which is the AI engine. More and more people are using. I think it's phenomenal things it does. He has been talking about massive job losses. This is from CNBC a while back. Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodi, has issued a fresh warning about how AI will disrupt the job market, saying it will cause unusually painful disruptions. On Monday, Emote published a roughly 20,000-word essay arguing the risks to AI poses.

not being taken seriously and warning the technology will lead to a shock in the job market bigger than any before. If he's that concerned about it, shouldn't you be concerned about the rollout? In fact, speaking of a Narendra Modi, Derry Omodi says ideology is not going to survive the reality of AI. This is wild. Listen to this. This guy, by the way, is an atheist. Listen to this. You know, within countries, we need to, you know, we need to think about, you know, how not to have a part of the world that just kind of decouples, right? How do we get the economic growth to Mississippi that, you know, that is coming to this contained area of Silicon Valley? And so, you know, there we've done work around kind of economic mobility and economic opportunity. But I think both of these, again, are going to need to have some involvement of the government. We're going to find that ideology will not survive the nature of this technology. It won't survive reality. The things I'm talking about, while you could today say, oh, yeah, they're like politically coded in some way, they're going to become bipartisan and universal because everyone will recognize the necessity of it. Really, everyone will recognize the necessity of this stuff. And the wild thing here is that he's got disdain for religion. He doesn't understand beliefs or values or deep principles held by individuals and communities. This is the CEO of an AI company who actually thinks that AI is going to so transform the world. I mean, people are going to give up their ideological beliefs. They're going to give up their religious views. Why would you support it? Aravind Srinivasa perplexity says that AI job losses are, and this is a direct quote, part of a glorious future. Elon Musk has said AI, Elon Musk of Grock and Twitter and SpaceX. He says AI is summoning demons. NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang says companies should be letting AI do everything even at the expense of human jobs.

If the AI CEOs, the faces of the companies, are going to go on television, And say AI is going to supplant religion. AI is summoning demons. Companies should use it even if it costs them their employees. It's going to cost massive job losses and be economically disruptive and it's dangerous and going to destroy humanity. And it keeps them up at night worrying about the danger. Why should anyone support AI? If they're not going to sell the good that AI is doing, why should anybody... Support it. Maybe you should burn down the data centers. Now, you really shouldn't. You know what AI is doing? It's actually speeding up cancer research. It's speeding up the development of drugs. It's actually helping people. It's making employees more efficient so they can do more work. Assistance now have assistance with AI. There's actually a lot of good that it's doing. But, I mean... When you say that AI is scary and you're the CEO of an AI company, you're just sabotaging your own efforts. These people tell you what this is. These are a bunch of godless secular atheists who need Jesus and some humility. That's actually what AI CEOs are. They need Jesus and humility. These people look down on those of us who actually take our faith seriously. They look down on humanity. They believe that humanity needs some sort of computer guide. It's like Elon Musk, who himself is pretty much a godless secular atheist, who believes that one day we're going to have robots who are going to supplant us and enslave us. They've seen Terminator. They don't recognize a god. They view themselves as the gods, and they are creating something that will be twisted and perverted against us. They have their own genesis story where they create something pure, and it gets free will and twists itself and destroys humanity and sinners the world. just retelling the story of Genesis, except now they're the divine ones. What it is is a Tower of Babel moment. They're trying to build a tower to get to heaven so they can touch the gods and be the gods, and it's all going to be collapsed on them. Now you have a massively well-funded propaganda effort by environmentalist progressives who want to degrowth, who want to de-grow. Do you know what this effort is? This is an effort by the left to actually cause society to roll back. It is implicit in the demands of these people. Think about this. Since the 1990s, the environmentalists have been telling us the world is coming to an end, and what you must do is get rid of your power plants. And you must get rid of your power consumption. And you must get rid of your big vehicles. You must essentially recede your economy. Your economy must now not work for everyone and must not grow for people. It must actually shrink. The pie that benefits the community must be shrunk. So some people starve and die because we need fewer people and we need a less robust economy.

And these people have engineered a world now where we don't have power plants, where we can't build nuclear plants, we must get rid of coal plants, we must get rid of natural gas plants, and we cannot invest in the energy of the future because they actually want the calamity. They want us to reseed. And the AI CEOs are playing into the hands of these people who are bad for humanity. They don't want humanity to survive. It's kind of wild. The AI CEO say AI is going to be the end of humanity. And the environmentalists who want the end of humanity are like, no, no, we don't actually want AI because it could speed up cancer research and we need people to die of cancer to save the planet. And, I mean, they're together destroying this stuff. Are there concerns? Yeah, there are concerns. Water usage really isn't a concern. You know, golf courses in this country don't use that much water. They recycle water. And AI data centers use less water than golf courses. Your power bill has not gone up because of the data centers. It's gone up because of inflation and because of the reduction in power plants in this country thanks to left-wing progressives. There are noise concerns that can be mitigated, and zoning regulations and local governments can take care of the noise. And some of these data centers are bringing in a massive amount of, a massive amount of revenue for communities. I saw a guy who works for the Morning Brew, which has become an anti-AI propaganda outlet, claiming that this place in Utah is going to have like 29 atom bombs worth of energy dropped on this particular place in Utah. Based on his own metric, the Manhattan Island in New York City has over 30 atom bombs dropped a day given its energy uses. It's a talking point designed to scare people. And these people are scaring people. I saw a guy I know who's actually a pretty bright guy regurgitating this anti-AI adjutant prop about this place in Utah claiming it's going to have massive water consumption. It's not going to have massive water consumption. It's going to have no more water consumption than what the farmers have on the land that is being bought. The reason they're buying 40,000 acres of land to build a couple hundred acre data center is because they need the water rights. But the AI CEOs can't explain this stuff. It's left to me. And increasingly, the AI people, instead of making the case themselves, they're buying off people. I got asked by a reporter today if I'm getting paid from the AI companies to support them. Like, no, it makes sense. It actually has great utility. And as our population declines over time because people aren't having kids, it becomes a more and more useful tool. But the AI CEOs are destroying their own product by treating themselves as if they're gods inventing a replacement for humans. humanity and it's going to blow up in their faces and all of us. You don't need an environmental propaganda campaign funded by the communist Chinese when you got Daryan Amodi and Sam Altman out there doing their best to scare people about AI. You're at the intersection of politics, news, culture, and current events. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

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Hello, America. It is Eric Erikson here across the nation. Delighted to have you with me. Full number is 877937-7-425. I am broadcasting today and tomorrow from Washington, D.C. had meetings this morning that I can't talk about, did the Ruthless Podcast yesterday. We'll be at a free con, which is a gathering of freedom-loving conservatives to give a speech tomorrow, and then fly home tomorrow after the speech back in my home studio on Thursday, and boy, I miss it every time I travel. We got to talk about the American press in a way different from the Joe Biden cover-up and the like. Back in, when was it? It would have been 2012. I was working for CNN at the time on the campaign trail as a conservative commentator and covering the Iowa caucuses as Rick Santorum surged and kept hearing the media say some of the dumbest things possible about religion in America. Before I get to those, I got to tell you about Vision computer, because if you're buying a computer, Vision can update your computer for you. They can build you a new computer. You can go to the electronic store, you know, the one, and you can get the computer that is made for everybody, not for you. It's one size fits all. And you're not one size fitting all. You're you. You've got unique responsibilities and duties and desires for your computer. And if you call Vision, they'll sit down with you. You don't have to worry about the gobbledy group of CPUs and GPUs and RAM and all of that. just tell you, here's what we think you need based on what you want to do with it, whether it's word processing or games. We've got a gaming PC in our house. They'll build it for you. And then you get their world-class tech support. Comes with the computer. And you get it. And if you ever have a question, ever have a problem, they can take care of you. If you just want to upgrade your existing computer, as long as everything's Windows compliant, Windows-11 compliant, they can do that too. And your new computer is just like your old computer except better. And if you just want their tech support, they can do that too. For you, your home, your family, your... kids headed to college, your senior citizen parent who has computer deeds, or your business. Reach out to them today, 404 compute or visioncomputers.com. Tell them Eric sent you. 404 compute or vision computers.com. So when Rick Santorum ran for president in 2012, there was a big discussion about the main line, the main line of Christianity. And people were confusing mainstream Christianity and mainline Christianity. And I had to write a piece. It became well circulated in the American Press Corps. The Gang of 500 is my buddy Mark Halper. You used to call them the 500 reporters cover politics. I think every single one of them referenced it at the time. It got a lot of traffic for redstate.com at the time. The main line of Christianity, it was referred to the main line because the Philadelphia mainline tram system, trolley system, would go through the mainline neighborhoods. In Philadelphia, neighborhoods were mostly segregated by religion.

You had a Catholic neighborhood, but then you had the Protestant neighborhoods. And the Protestant neighborhoods, they were the United Church of Christ. They were the Lutheran neighborhood. They were the Presbyterian neighborhood, the Episcopalian neighborhood, and a few others. And the main line was kind of divided up by those denominations. The main line is not mainstream Christianity. It is old-school white American Protestantism that is in decline. The main line denominations, the Presbyterian Church USA, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, the Lutherans, evangelical Lutherans, the United Church of Christ, or the, oh, what is it now, the Unitarians, which aren't really Christian, at least not anymore, they're rapidly in decline, these neighborhoods. Mainstream Christianity in the United States is... Catholic and is evangelical Protestant, the Southern Baptist, the PCA, the denomination I'm in, the evangelical or the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the conservative Lutherans. The big divide had been over women in ministry in the 1960s and 70s, and it became the divide over gay marriage. The churches that have embraced women in their pulpits largely went on to embrace gay marriage and are in collapse. According to the recruitment numbers of the Episcopal Church in the United States today. The Episcopal Church is the most rapidly in decline church in the United States. Now, I don't think it'll actually go away. But the Episcopal Church in the United States is largely a real estate company. Now, it's more like McDonald's. McDonald's isn't actually a fast food company. It's a real estate company with fast food franchises. The Episcopal Church in the United States is, in effect, a real estate company holding these churches that they now essentially sell to a Islamic congregations to convert to mosques. The PC USA, the main line denomination of Presbyterians in the United States, is in decline. It's becoming such a woke group of pastors. I actually met a guy who's a Presbyterian pastor in the PCUSA who was banned from a group chat because he expressed conservative views in opposition to something. But the media couldn't get it right when Rick Santorum ran for president. They confused the mainstream and the main line. They didn't know the denominational lingo. They didn't know any of this stuff. I wrote this primer forum and it went viral among the press. And it's only gotten worse. As the press has gotten more and more secular, they don't understand this stuff. Remember what is Heidi Presbyler or whatever her name was? She was on MSNBC at the time, now MS now, and said that conservatives, these Ron DeSantis supporters, they actually think their rights come from. God, not the government. And everybody was against, I think their rights come from God, not the government. How dare they? This is Katie Turr in a conversation on MS Now the other day. What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator, and heavenly fathers. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence? Well, you know, I actually think... Now, this is McKay Coppins responding, who is a writer for the Atlantic and also Mormon. That idea is not...

wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain in alienable rights that come from God can be read in a fairly benign way, which is basically that we have innate human rights that our Constitution and our government, our democratic government, are meant to codify, right? That idea is not totally abnormal. I think that the thing that, you know, might alarm some people is some of the rhetoric that we heard at this rally that we are in a spirit. battle, right? That the forces of good and evil are at work here, and that partisan politics is injected directly into the spiritual, biblical rhetoric. We have heard that for the last couple of years. It's been ratcheted up more and more, especially since Donald Trump lost in 2020. And it can lead to some pretty dangerous places if it's not Captain Chip. Okay, thanks to my friends at NewsBusters for capturing that clip. And again, just to hear the opening, this is Katie Turch. She's talking about that religious rededication of the country, 250-year rededication of the country. Mike Johnson spoke at it in again. What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator, and Heavenly Father. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are endowed by our creator. The government did not create us. Mike Johnson is reflecting the wisdom and thinking of the founders of this country. And on MS Now, that's a dangerous idea. This is just kind of bizarre stuff, a bizarre view at MS Now that they would consider these things to be in some way. a bizarre idea that anyone would think of this sort of stuff, that people would... I'm flummoxed. That they would think about these things, that they would take these ideas and think that somehow this is a dangerous thing, that Mike Johnson, who is referencing... The founding truths, this is the conversation from, at the time, MSNBC, again, with this Heidi Presbola person. And by the way, Michael Steele is there, the former chairman of the R&C is on this panel who doesn't really push back on this wildness. The one thing that unites all of them, because there's many different groups orbiting Trump, but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalists is very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress. They don't come to the Supreme Court. They come from God. She's dragging in this clip, Heidi Presbylow, from Politico, at the time, political. She's left for some left-wing group, I think, more left than politico. This separates Christians from Christian nationals. I'm not talking about Christians. I'm talking about Christian nationalists. They actually believe that our rights, Americans' rights, all human rights come from God. Yes.

All Christians believe that. And she got dragged, by the way, including by me on social media for this absurd statement. She blocked everybody who was correcting her that actually every Christian on planet Earth believes we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. The reiteration by Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence was not some profound idea. It was an idea commonly believed at the time by people that our rights come from God and government is instituted. among men to protect those rights. This is essential to the founding of the Declaration of Independence. I am five blocks from the National Archives right now where the original Declaration of Independence is held, and you can go read the piece of paper for yourself. If you've still learned cursive, you're able to read it. If you don't know cursive, you're never going to be able to make heads or tails of the thing. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, which rights? The unalienable rights endowed by our creator. Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. You got that? Our rights come from God and governments are empowered. by the consent of the governed to protect the rights given not by government but by God. The purpose of government is to protect God-given rights. That is reflected in the book of Romans in the Bible. It is reflected in the Declaration of Independence. It is an essential idea to the founding of the country. And to reporters in America today in the 21st century, this is something new. This is something important. This is something dangerous.

It's absolutely absurd. They do not understand basic. American belief, not Christian beliefs, basic American beliefs. There's nothing more American than the Declaration of Independence. It is the reason for being for the United States. It actually starts with the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America. Prior to the Declaration of Independence, they were referred to as the United Colonies of America. And now the United States of America, they threw off the entanglement with Great Britain to declare. declare their independence. That's the purpose of the, what, declaration of independence, and in so doing, they say one of the reasons that they are breaking away from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at the time and becoming United States of America, independent, 13 states, was because Great Britain was to ensure the God-given rights of the colonists, and they no longer did that, so the colonists were seeking independence.

And yet our national press corps views what Mike Johnson said as dangerous. To McKay Coppins' credit, he didn't take the bait and redirected to some of the other wild statements. I don't know if y'all saw that event. I hope not. You should have been in your actual church. Your local church community is far more important than a gathering on a Sunday in D.C. to rededicate ourselves to God or whatnot. It was a silly event where they said some outlandish things. Some of them, by the way, taken out of context, Eric Metaxus made a joke about the president being placed on earth by God to build the ballroom, and it was clearly a joke, and people laughed. He actually believes this. No, it was clearly a joke, but you people in the media have no sense of humor about this sort of stuff. It's just kind of. bizarre to watch the American media absolutely ignorant when it comes to the founding ideals of the founders. How can you keep this republic another 250 years when the press corps itself that is to given freedom of the press to cover? Our country, as fairly as possible, has broken and parted ways from the founding ideals of the country and now treat the people who are committed to the founding ideals as bad. This is not a sustainable thing unless we get back to the very foundational principles of this country, which I'm less and less encouraged we're ever going to do on both sides of the aisle because it's all about power for everybody these days. Follow Eric on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. Search E.W. Erickson. It is wild to read media reports about the Hanna virus and now Ebola spreading. And it's almost like the American press corps and the global press is rooting for Hanna virus and Ebola to start spreading in the United States as a gotcha against the president for cuts to USAID and to the CDC and the like. You know, the good news and the bad news about Ebola and the Hanna virus are actually the same. They kill so many people. so quickly that it's hard for them to spread outside of contained areas. The Hanna virus spread by rodent droppings, among other things. If I remember right, there was some concern about, you know, Gene Hackman, the retired actor who got Alzheimer's, his wife was found dead, that the Hanna virus may or may not have played a role there. There were some allegations there, but it's hard to spread because these viruses kill a whole lot of people. Now, that sounds horrible, and it is. It's very tragic. And Ebola in particular is an awful way to die. But also, because it spreads the way it spreads, it's difficult to have a pandemic like COVID. But I swear to you, the American media and the global media seems to almost be rooting for a global pandemic of these viruses to hit the United States so they can play gotcha with Donald Trump on this sort of stuff. Or I don't know, maybe to help the Democrats win the election.

I just, it's wild to watch. And the number of people who are starting to get panicked, I have gotten more questions about the Hanna virus in the last week. Do you think this is going to be the next thing? Do you think this is going to be the next pandemic? Do you think this is what the Democrats are going to use to try to steal the election? No. No, because they spread too quickly. And, you know, You can argue over COVID, whether it counted or not, one to two percent of the global population of people infected died. With the Hanna virus, it's 30 to 40 percent. And in particular, children are most likely to die, the exact opposite of COVID. So I don't think we're going to see a massive spread of these viruses. The one concern with Hanna virus is that it can take eight weeks in some cases. Usually it's four, but in some cases, eight weeks to show symptoms. And you can be contagious during... part of that time. That's one of the concerns with it. But I'm not to that worried about the viruses, and I don't think you should be that worried about these viruses. And at the end of the day, you know, God's got a plan, whether you like it or not. He is sovereign and in control, and he's got this. And so you shouldn't worry about things you can't control. Too many people these days are whipped into a frenzy about things they cannot control. I can't control the spread of the viruses, and neither can you. This is not an excuse for you to become a hermit and avoid people, so don't worry about it. Just don't worry about these viruses. They're not going to start spreading all over the United States. Some people may get it. Probably not here, and even if they do, it'll be contained. So calm down, people, please. Let me tell you about Old Glory Bank, my bank. It can be your bank. If you go to Old Glorybank.com slash Eric today, you can sign up with Old Glory Bank. They have no fee checking, no fee savings accounts. That's what I've got. They have premium accounts. If you're active in the military, they'll waive some of the fees for you as well. Not only that, but at Old Glory Bank, they're a very pro-business. So if your business, he's a great bank. Old Glory Bank can be your business banking. And they are very hands-on with businesses. Even though they're an online bank, they don't actually have a branch. You can still deposit cash. You can deposit checks. You can handle payroll with them. You can do whatever you need. They do mortgages. They do CDs. They're a full service, fully functional. bank and if you're active duty military or first responder they have great deals for you they waive some fees for you and they have old glory protect a hundred thousand dollar line of duty death benefit if god forbid something happens find out everything at old glory bank dot com slash eric old glory bank dot com slash eric if you have a kid and they need a check in account for cash this is a great bank for them old glory bank dot com slash eric member fdic equal housing lender terms and conditions apply see you guys again tomorrow from washington