In this week's episode, we talk about coffee, sexual humor, and the devastating fires in California. Plus, a new invention that takes water out of the air and puts it into your coffee, and a new kind of coffee maker that doesn't need to be plugged in.
00:06:41.360Nothing in the L.A. area as a natural disaster has ever come close, is my understanding.
00:06:47.160I don't think anything's ever been close to the size and scale of this disaster.
00:06:52.520You know, we've had forest fires, of course.
00:06:54.140But, you know, this many structures, this is insane.
00:07:01.300Joel Pollack is writing in Breitbart that L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut the fire department budget by $20 million.
00:07:10.260Now, to be fair, it wasn't the only thing that was being looked at to cut, and they did cut it back to the budget that was roughly the same as the year before.
00:07:20.500But clearly, the question of priorities has to be asked.
00:07:26.520If you knew that we had this much risk, is the fire department the thing you want to cut?
00:07:33.380Do you think more money went to immigration and taking care of the homeless?
00:07:40.260And maybe a little less went to the fire prevention?
00:07:44.240We also are hearing that California Governor Newsom did a bad job of managing the forest floors, you know, cleaning up the brush.
00:07:53.520Apparently, I think Trump had warned him, and maybe everybody warned him.
00:08:37.800I'll say it just because it's in the comments.
00:08:40.360That this really isn't the disaster that I think I want to take a stand on DEI.
00:08:47.980You know, DEI is a big issue, and, you know, I hammer it all the time.
00:08:51.660But this is more about the people in the disaster right now.
00:08:56.000It is true that if you look at the mayor and you look at the head of the fire department, they are quite conspicuously, you know, that they would fit that frame, your DEI analysis.
00:09:10.780I have no evidence whatsoever that any of the people in charge did a specific thing that caused this fire or anything that's, you know, DEI related.
00:09:20.560So, the standard that I like to use on this stuff is you can't tell anything about the individuals.
00:09:27.340So, yes, the people in charge are probably, it seems, influenced by DEI.
00:09:34.720But we don't know if somebody else who had not been a DEI hire would have done better.
00:09:42.200We do know that there are obvious ways they could have prevented or maybe had a better chance of preventing it.
00:09:49.300But I wouldn't tightly bind the DEI story with the fire story because I think that's sort of taking attention away from where it should be, which is an insane tragedy and a lot of people affected.
00:11:09.260So, it seems like there's a, you know, and of course, Bill Maher and a number of other Democrats are now coming over to the, what I'd call the common sense side of things.
00:11:21.160I feel like this disaster is going to be big enough that it might actually shake even blue California.
00:11:30.420I would say that after this, the impossible is now possible.
00:12:17.600Every time Democrats are in charge, it's either a riot or an economic disaster or it burns.
00:12:26.300You know, everybody's going to see the pattern.
00:12:28.100The pattern is a little hard to avoid at this point.
00:12:33.540Anyway, if we can, I'm going to try to stay away from the conversation about the heavy part of that, just because it's hard to handle.
00:12:42.940Well, let's talk about Trump on Greenland and Panama and Canada.
00:12:49.120So, the big question all the fake news are asking is, he says, is he going to use the military?
00:12:56.940Is he going to use the military in Greenland and Panama and Canada?
00:13:00.020Well, so, Trump said, according to the Daily Wire, Trump said, in answer to that question, I'm not going to commit to not using the military to get Greenland or the Panama Canal.
00:13:15.480So, Trump said he would not promise that he would not use the military for Greenland or the Panama Canal.
00:13:23.280Now, have I explained enough how Trump works so that you can understand that in context?
00:13:49.620But if he says, I'm keeping that option open, and the larger context is that it has a geopolitical homeland defense element to it, and it does, because China is getting control over the canal, and that's unacceptable.
00:14:04.880As long as he keeps it as a military homeland defense issue, he is perfectly entitled, and it's the smart play, to say, no, I'm not taking that off the table.
00:14:15.940Now, how many times have I had to explain to the country, Trump never takes options off the table?
00:14:23.980Taking options off the table is maybe the biggest mistake you could make.
00:14:29.380I mean, there could be other ones, but that would be about the biggest mistake you could make, taking your own options off the table?
00:15:17.660Because we might say, we don't want to own your country, we get it, but we have to protect it because it's relevant to our own defense.
00:15:26.120We're not doing it for you, we're not doing it to you, it's just for our own defense.
00:15:30.340So that would be military, but it wouldn't be us threatening to shoot anybody in Greenland, which would be 100% unacceptable.
00:15:40.360But keeping it on the table is absolutely the right negotiating position.
00:15:45.740Now, you might say to me, but Scott, are you saying that you would be in favor of the military going into Canada?
00:15:54.140Because he's also talked about Canada being 51st state.
00:15:58.120When he was asked about using the military in Canada, he said we don't need it because we only need financial, he called it pressure, but you could also call it, you know, a risk reward.
00:16:09.980And the idea would be that he could make an economic argument that Canada would just be economically better off, so that's all he needs.
00:16:20.520Because people care about their wallet, and they care about their defense, and they might care about just surviving.
00:16:27.180And if he can offer a better chance to make money, survive, and thrive, then doesn't everybody win?
00:16:35.680Now, of course, that's the American point of view.
00:16:37.480My understanding is that at least part of what makes Canadians Canadian is they're not Americans, and they would really prefer to keep it that way, you know, much of the Canadian public.
00:16:50.260However, they've also watched the value of their dollar go down by 41% or something since Trudeau got in office.
00:16:58.460So they've watched the virtual destruction of their country and everything they love about it.
00:17:03.040And Trump is offering a very clean solution to it.
00:18:55.240So that means to me that, no, there's not going to be any military incursion in Canada.
00:19:00.060However, I can see a way it would happen if Canada goes to even more unrestricted immigration to the point where the immigration in our northern border becomes a direct risk to the United States
00:19:17.680and Canada is unwilling or unable to stop it, we would stop it.
00:19:23.360So if you're Canadian and you're listening to this, if your immigration remains uncontrolled
00:19:32.680and it's bringing in people that we think would be a future risk to the United States, that is cause for military action.
00:19:43.660If your immigration policy becomes a direct risk to the United States, even if it's, you know, five years from now, yes, I would be in favor of military action only to do that one thing, to make sure that they close the border.
00:20:40.440Meanwhile, over in China, President Xi had to slap down this Chinese economist who said that the Chinese GDP numbers were probably cooked and ridiculous.
00:21:11.120Well, let's just say in China, you don't want to be the economist who goes public about President Xi lying and being in, you know, doomed financial position.
00:26:31.400Every one of these police officers, current and former, went through the exact training that told them to do exactly what Derek Chauvin did and went to jail for.
00:26:42.720Derek Chauvin's, I guess she would have been something like a boss, but higher up.
00:26:47.920The assistant chief, Katie Blackwell, said at trial that that's not what they trained them to do.
00:26:55.84014 people said, I went through the training.
00:26:58.300It's exactly what you trained us to do.
00:27:09.260Because if we find that it's true that these 14 people got the same training and that the police lied about it for maybe political expediency,
00:27:24.900just maybe they were reading the room and it was too dangerous to let him go free.
00:28:53.400And I would make sure that the police officer who said this, if it can be demonstrated that it was an intentional lie, she needs to go to jail.
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00:30:18.900Meanwhile, you heard about this before, that Biden is releasing several Yemeni, I guess, people who are accused of being terrorists, or too close to terrorism, I guess, from Gitmo.
00:30:36.240Now, two of them were Bin Laden's bodyguards.
00:30:40.660Who in the world thinks that Bin Laden's bodyguards can be reformed?
00:31:07.420And there are so many things going on that the only way you could explain it is that there's a certain class of people, you know, whatever Soros wants and some other people, Biden.
00:31:18.560And it looks like they're acting against the interests of the United States.
00:32:38.600And also in the United States, Biden with his open borders, immigration stuff, it looked like he was doing something that was intentionally bad for the country.
00:33:27.420All right, so here's the poorly visible Democrat frame.
00:33:33.360If you talk to Democrats about immigration, they'll say, if you look at our history, you know, the long history of the United States,
00:33:40.000in the beginning of history, immigration was good, because it was a big old semi-empty country, except for the Native Americans, of course.
00:33:48.820But we had plenty of space, and we also had unlimited demand for manual labor.
00:33:56.760Unlimited demand, because farming and, well, mostly farming.
00:34:02.020Farming, you can just do more of it if you have more people, because we had lots of land.
00:34:40.140Now, to back that point of view, I wasn't there, but don't you imagine, just commonsensely, that in our past, where we're looking at it from today's perspective,
00:34:52.800we say, well, it's good we did all that immigration.
00:34:56.300But don't you think that the people who were in the country at the time were saying things like, look at all the Italians who are coming into the country, and, whoa, do we really want to bring in that many people from France?
00:37:20.920And if you ignore the rate that there is some level that the country can't handle all at once, you're not really looking at this like a smart person.
00:37:29.860So when Democrats ignore the flow rate, they're not really being honest about the conversation, are they?
00:37:57.620Now, the Democrats will call you racist if you criticize a system, even though a system is not a person, right?
00:38:07.960So Trump and a lot of Republicans would like to get the people who have the right skills so that we're not dealing with this, you know, unlimited manual labor thing.
00:38:18.400Rather, do they fit in the country with what we know about the country today?
00:39:33.140Islam is wonderfully open to all races.
00:39:37.140So when you talk about Islam, you're talking about a system.
00:39:40.800You're not talking about the individuals because you could have, you know, black, white, brown.
00:39:45.740You could be Islamic as long as you just buy into the system.
00:39:49.540So when I say, if you say you're being anti-Islamic, I say, how is that different from being anti-communist?
00:39:59.160Because I'm not talking about the people in either case.
00:40:02.160I'm talking about the system that some people are in.
00:40:05.020So I'm going to say things about the system that do not apply to any individuals.
00:40:13.400Furthermore, they do not apply even to the majority, even to the majority of Islamic people.
00:40:21.000However, here's what you need to know.
00:40:23.140There is something different about the Islamic people coming into the country.
00:40:29.980They have a system which prefers their religion to be above the government.
00:40:36.960That's different from pretty much everybody else who came into the country.
00:40:41.500Most other people, people coming into the United States and Great Britain, I would say,
00:40:45.420are people who could easily adapt to the government being the top authority and the religion just being like the other religions living among them.
00:40:55.560Now, I would say that probably most of England is non-Islamic, but I don't have the exact number.