Episode 2741 CWSA 02⧸05⧸25
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the latest news from the world of AI, sports, and other things that make me feel good. I also talk about a new study that says eating one egg a week lowers heart disease risk by 29%. And a new job offer from Andreessen Horowitz.
Transcript
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All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stye in a canteen
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing
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Well, according to a new atlas, there's a new study out that says that eating one egg
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Now, I'm telling you this so you can start saving up.
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If you put away a little bit every week, eventually you'll be able to afford an egg.
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I recommend canceling your health care and using that money to buy an egg.
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Well, here's some news that might sound nerdy and small to you, but it might be really, really
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The company called Figure, they're making robots that look like humanoids, much like Tesla.
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And their latest announcement is they're not going to use OpenAI as the brains of their
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And that's a big deal because they had an agreement with OpenAI.
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So they were already in association with OpenAI.
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But what they found was that OpenAI was great for sort of general purpose stuff, but it wasn't
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So somehow, Figure made its own AI or found a different one, but they got an AI that's optimized
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And the head of Figure is predicting that the world will not be lots of machines filled with
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generic AI, but rather every device might have its own AI, an AI that's trained on the specifics of
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what you need to be a robot or something like that.
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So I don't know if the robot would then not be able to answer general questions the way an OpenAI
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But apparently, it's going to give them the ability to roll out an operating robot way faster
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Something coming in the next 30 days, they say, that's going to be a big deal.
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Every now and then there's a story that just makes you feel good.
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And this one is the, let's call it the conclusion, I hope, of the Daniel Penny story.
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He tried to save some people in a subway, but unfortunately, the person he was holding down
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He was cleared of all that in what I thought was a racially motivated case.
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But once you go through that kind of thing, it's hard to get your life back together.
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He was just offered a job by Andreessen Horowitz.
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So Mark Andreessen's company with Ben Horowitz.
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And it's one of the big venture capital companies in Silicon Valley, one of the most famous noted
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Now, I don't know if that means he's actually going to be making investment decisions or if
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it means that he needs to learn what the company does so that he finds his role there, because
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I don't know what background he has to make him a venture capitalist.
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But on the other hand, maybe it's not that hard to train somebody to be a venture capitalist.
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It's not like they get most of their plays right.
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You know, most of the bets, even by the smartest people, end up being, you know, the wrong bet.
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And I love the fact that Andreessen Horowitz stepped up to just right that little bit of
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I think the country, or at least a big part of the country, just appreciates that.
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It just tied up that story just the way it needed to be.
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Because you want to know that somebody who put their, risked their own knack, which is
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what he did, you want to know that if somebody risks their knack for other people and doesn't
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ask anything in return, can still, you know, have a good outcome.
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I guess Trump's going to keep things interesting today by, allegedly, he's going to sign some
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kind of executive order that would ban biological males from women's sports.
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I would argue that although he genuinely wants to do this and his base genuinely wants it
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to happen, I think the majority of the country, actually, over 50%, are completely on board
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But what I love about it is it's part of his overwhelming the news.
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I think it was maybe at the beginning of the first term of Trump, you know, his first four
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years, and it was Steve Bannon explaining how to defeat the fake news.
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And you do it by overwhelming them so that they can't get a beat on anything.
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So this was perhaps Steve Bannon's original strategy.
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It looks like that might have been the origin of just overwhelming the news.
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So I see this executive order as well as a lot of the other ones as part of that strategy
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to make sure that they just can't figure out what he's doing.
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And this one's wonderful because it gets everybody worked up.
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Meanwhile, I don't know if this is true, but I think it was a Wall Street Journal that
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was saying that RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are on a glide path to confirmation.
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I guess they both got out of committee, which is the step before the full vote.
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And getting through the committee is hard enough, you know, and probably that tells you what
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I guess the thinking is that the Republicans who might have resisted have been co-opted.
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So they either got some kind of thing in response or they got some assurances or something.
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But it's looking like maybe they're going to go through.
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Now, what I like is that the reason given that the RFK Jr.
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nomination would go through is that the politicians were afraid of saying no,
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which I don't think you see with most nominees.
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might not be confirmed, people went fucking nuts.
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takes the enormous risk of playing with Trump, we got to back him.
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And, you know, not only did his own, you know, Maha, people who kind of allowed themselves
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to be wrapped in the Trump world for at least to get their stuff done.
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So if we don't get RFK Jr. through, I'm going to go nuts.
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And I'm going to make sure whoever voted against him, who is a Republican,
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Eventually, they're going to know that was a very bad idea.
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According to Futurism, a publication, the FBI has quietly revealed that it has a real-life
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Now, apparently, the Pentagon also had a UFO office, or maybe it was a UAP, but really
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If you're looking for an easy cut, I don't think we need a UFO office.
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If the UFO office of the FBI has found a real UFO, they can stay.
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If they haven't found a UFO yet, maybe we don't need the UFO office.
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It's funny that it's funny that it even exists.
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Anyway, apparently El Salvador keeps doing smart things.
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Have you noticed that whenever El Salvador is in the news, no matter what the specifics
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of the topic are, the general theme is, oh, that's like really well done.
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Or, oh, looks like you got another good idea there, El Salvador.
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Or, oh, strategically, that's kind of brilliant.
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So I guess Bukele is just, you know, slaying it.
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And one of the things he did when Marco Rubio was down there yesterday or whatever it was,
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I think it was yesterday, they worked on a deal where the United States has offered to
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help El Salvador build a domestic nuclear energy structure.
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Now, I worry that the United States doesn't have enough nuclear energy experts to build
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our own stuff, but we better be developing that really quickly because if we're not, we're
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So how important is it that the United States becomes sort of the big brother to South American
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Really, really, really important because the last thing you want is for somebody like El
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So China, can you help us build a nuclear reactor?
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So this is a story that just, I almost fell off my chair.
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So if you're watching my posting on X, you may have noticed a change of opinion on my part.
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When it was first announced and I saw the video of Trump saying, hey, maybe the United States will just take over Gaza.
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We'll be in charge of cleaning it up and then we'll just own it.
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And we'll rebuild it into the Riviera of the Middle East and it'll become an important port, you know, for the whole world and everything will be great.
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But the current residents will not be there for many years while it gets cleaned up.
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Apparently, it would take years to even make it safe to live there.
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Some of you just like anything that Trump says he's going to do.
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But your first reaction, if it was anything like mine, was, hell no.
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How in the world does that make sense for America?
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We stay the F out of the entire Middle East because if we put our stupid foot right in the middle of their business, we're going to be pestered forever.
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We're going to have, you know, our troops are going to be dying in the sand over there for nothing.
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The odds of it becoming a prosperous place seem not so good to me because it'll always be under risk of attack.
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I think 100% of the people over there don't want us there.
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So somehow Trump came up with an idea that 100% of the world thinks is a bad idea, except for, you know, there'll be some, whatever you say, Trump.
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A lot of people is like, you want to, you want to murder all the people?
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You know, so some number of Trump supporters are going to say, whatever you say, dear leader.
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But a lot of Trump supporters, like me, and even the Israeli ones, I imagine, are thinking, uh, hmm, I see why you think this is a good idea.
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But do we really need you occupying this land that Israel just cleared for itself?
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Because it would be basically taking land from Israel.
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Because for all practical purposes, Israel owns Gaza.
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So that's what I thought when I first heard it.
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Does that match what any of you thought when you first heard it?
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Now I'm going to give you a more nuanced take because I slept on it.
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The first thing you have to remember is that Trump doesn't operate like anybody else.
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So as soon as you imagine that the frame you're evaluating him in would be some kind of standard frame,
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the standard frame would be, is it a good idea for America to own Gaza?
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So if that's the frame you're in, you just kind of only want to answer.
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I think Trump just ended a permanent war between Hamas and Israel.
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Because what he just told both sides is you're never going to have a common border again.
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The fact that they're right there, and they'd like to be even closer right there, and they're going to get ready behind their border until they're ready for an attack.
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And then obviously, surely, 100%, there'll be another one.
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So Israel and really the entire Middle East had an unsolvable problem.
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Israel can't just keep it, because that would be ethnic cleansing, right?
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They'd say, okay, Israel, you've just turned into the very thing that you complain about the most.
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So in terms of Israel's brand, just destroying Gaza and then just keeping it would have been really bad for their brand.
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Now, it might have been good for them in the long run.
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And 30 years from now, they would just have more land, more safety, more security.
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But for decades, it was going to be really bad.
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So Israel didn't really have a clean path to a win.
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They couldn't depopulate it, because that looks like ethnic cleansing.
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They couldn't say, hey, now that we've killed most of the people we hate, why don't you go back there and live there?
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Second of all, they haven't gotten rid of Hamas, and it looks like they're not even that close.
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What do you do if you have people who can't unite and come up with a common solution?
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What is the one thing that will make people who absolutely are at each other's throats stop fighting each other and unite?
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That's the only thing that makes people who hate each other for this long put down their weapons and say,
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all right, temporarily, temporarily, we need to get together and fight this other external threat.
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It's not good for any of the residents of Gaza.
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And I haven't heard what the European countries are saying, but you know they don't like it.
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I haven't heard what China and Russia say about it, but I don't think they're in favor of it.
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So, not only did Trump end the war, let me say that again, he ended the war.
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There can't be a war if there's nobody next to somebody else.
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Because Hamas, wherever they end up under this plan, if this happens, wherever they end up would be spread around in different places.
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And it would be really hard to mount any kind of a real attack on Israel proper.
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So, he just basically said, Trump did, the war is over.
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The only thing you get to decide, you meaning Israel, Gaza, and all the related countries,
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all you get to decide, do you have a better offer?
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The only thing they get to decide is, do you have a better offer?
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You're going to see some creativity and some flexibility that you never thought you would see.
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Suddenly, countries that thought, okay, we can offer this, but that's as far as we're going to go.
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Suddenly, they're going to get flexible because the last thing they want is the United States to set up a giant military base
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right in the middle of their business and have a dominant role in controlling the shipping in the region.
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Because Gaza, if they build a little portal, I guess they'd have to build an artificial island and then turn it into like a harbor.
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But it could be the controlling place for a huge amount of trade through the area.
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So do you think that the Islamic countries, whether they're allies or not, do you think any of them want that?
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The war is over because they need a common border for that Hamas versus Israel thing to continue into the future.
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Now, if they come up with a better idea, and I don't know what it would look like, maybe Saudi Arabia says, oh, we'll do more.
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What if Saudi Arabia came in and said, all right, here's the deal.
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I know we want to do this wider, bigger than the Abrams Accord thing, but we're not quite ready to step up to that.
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You know, we can't just, you know, have everybody embracing Israel like nothing ever happened and go into this big old deal.
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Well, but now you can, because maybe the larger deal in the region depended on everybody thinking, if we don't do this, we're going to get something we really don't want, which is a big old Trump boot in the middle of the Middle East.
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So watch how this sharpens everybody's thinking.
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Watch how it makes people who weren't flexible, flexible.
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Watch how perhaps Jordan and Egypt, who had said, no, no, no, we'll never take any of these Gaza immigrants.
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Maybe they'll say, well, yeah, well, maybe we could if, you know, maybe Saudi Arabia or somebody helped us fund it.
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And then Saudi Arabia would say, we don't want to help you fund it, but we don't want Trump in the Middle East with a giant military base.
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What he does is he shakes the box so hard that everybody involved just wants us to stop shaking and they all get flexible and they all think, all right, this is the time to make a deal.
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Because if we don't do it now, the United States is going to own Gaza.
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Now, did you see, if you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch Netanyahu's reaction when Trump is rolling out this idea in their joint press conference after they met yesterday.
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I can't read minds, but watching Netanyahu squirm, because he didn't know how this was going to work out or how it was going to go.
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And I don't know how much he even liked the idea.
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He may have just decided he had to go long because he was he was in Trump's house, so to speak.
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And he needs Trump on board and they've got a good working relationship.
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So, you know, he's not going to throw that away.
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And he just sort of let it happen while looking really uncomfortable.
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Again, I can't read his mind, but he didn't have the look of someone who was embracing the idea.
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So we might end up with the best possible situation.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
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She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
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The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
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Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
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I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
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So the things we're learning about USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is another one of these alleged CIA cutouts that the U.S. uses to control other countries and run coups and do.
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Capacity building in other countries, which is, you know, getting kind of a foothold in other countries in some entities within those countries so that we can have some future control.
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Now, as you know, the only reason we know about this is that Mike Benz has been explaining it for a while, but then Doge got in there and started looking at USAID and all the things it's doing and decided, oh, no, it's a ball of worms, as Elon Musk says.
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And although it might be doing some things we like, we're going to have to close down the whole thing.
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And then if there's a good argument for adding anything back, they're open to listening to it.
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But the only way to fix it is you just got to get rid of the ball of worms and then see if you can find a little bit of Apple later.
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Yeah, and Mike Benz says, when a job is too dirty for the CIA, they give it to USAID.
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The Mike Benz take on USAID is, it's not a mixture of bad things like overthrowing countries with a mixture of good things like helping countries battle the AIDS crisis in their own country.
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What it is, is in every case, a CIA takeover of a country.
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Sometimes they help them with the AIDS, but that's really just the easiest way to get our assets into their country.
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So it's really about maybe collecting some information through the AIDS process, maybe using it to get some spies in there so they can work their thing once they're behind the, on the other side of the border.
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So the Benz take, which I accept, is that there's no such thing as USAID just doing charity.
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All the charity is a cover for something that the U.S. wants.
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So in some sense, USAID is doing the bidding of the United States, except who in the United States?
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It kind of matters who's bidding they're doing, right?
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So if it's not Trump's bidding, should they be doing anything?
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So at the moment, USAID looks like just a weapon that we use against other countries.
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And what we've learned about how they do it is the fun part.
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So I'm going to tell you what to look for if you thought that USAID and the CIA were trying to take control of your country.
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So if you're in another country and you see this happening, you should say, whoa, whoa, red flag.
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Number one, usually the takeover has to do with getting rid of a populist, because a populist is not a puppet.
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And if we're going to try to control some smaller country, we want to get a puppet in there.
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So the existence of a populist is usually a trigger for the other things.
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And if the result is a puppet, then probably there was this undercover effort.
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Now, there's a name for this kind of takeover, and there's some more details I'll give you.
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They're often referred to as color revolutions.
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The reason it's a color revolution is that there's some history of some of these fake revolutions that the CIA and USAID gins up,
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that they have some kind of color as their banner.
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So I guess Georgia had an orange movement, and Ukraine, when it was doing its thing there, had a rose movement, right?
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So often there's a color associated with the movement, but that's not a requirement, but often there.
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You would look for outside money flowing into the country, right?
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So if you saw that USAID was sending money into anything in your country, that would be a sign that there's a planned takeover, right?
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So you're looking for a populist who triggers it, looking to be replaced by a puppet, the puppet being run by USAID and CIA,
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some outside money from USAID, and capacity building.
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So the capacity building would be getting your own puppets into the media, getting your own people into the important institutions,
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either by bribery or blackmail or usually bribery.
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You look for an artificially generated social instability.
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So the way you get a good revolution going is you've got to get the social instability really high.
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Oh, it's obvious why this country got rid of their leader, because look at all the social instability.
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So you've got to create some social instability if there isn't any.
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You might, for example, the number one way to do that is to get to get a country racially divided.
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So if there's any minority groups that are being abused, they're already primed.
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So you just got to organize them, give them money, make sure they got a leader, you know, make sure they know how to organize.
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And then suddenly you've got people on the streets.
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Well, suddenly the news, which you've also done capacity building, so you've got some control of at least some of the media.
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So then the media starts saying, hey, look at the population.
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They're so unhappy because of all the division.
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If you see movements literally on the streets and they haven't existed before, they might be fake movements.
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So it would be typical for the color revolution to, say, co-opt a big union.
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If they could get control of the leaders of the union, then the union would be, you know, part of the marching in the streets.
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So you look for any big organization that maybe already exists, but they're not organized.
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And you get them organized and get them on the streets.
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Two of the things that USAID does for other countries, which you could say, huh, is that part of the social instability?
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Do you think they're pushing DEI on other countries because that's good for America?
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Well, DEI causes tremendous social instability.
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Apparently, climate change is something that gets introduced in a country you want to take over.
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Because there's always some green people who say, yeah, hell yeah, climate change.
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We're going to take to the streets so you can get some climate change people marching.
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You can get some race, race related groups marching.
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But none of it works unless you've got control of the media or enough control to tell your story.
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We're going to have to get rid of this populist leader.
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We better put it in this well-respected, boring puppet.
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Look for the racism and the fake groups and all that and the media propaganda.
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And then there's one tell that's like the good one.
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If it also looks like Russia is a threat, that's almost a guarantee that the United States is behind it.
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Because we love to blame Russia for stuff, especially if it's Ukraine or Georgia or just about anybody else.
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You know, we're going to say, you know, we could save you from Russia.
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Or this new leader could be the person who protects you from Russia.
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When this populist American became president, his name was Trump.
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And the powers that be in this country, even the people who control USAID, probably were not happy about it.
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So you can imagine how everybody felt when this non-Democrat populist became president.
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And do you remember what happened soon after he became president?
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Yeah, but there was also Black Lives Matter in Antifa.
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Seems like they were wearing a lot of black outfits.
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There was the, you know, black motif of Black Lives Matter.
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Isn't it weird that we had never seen anything like that in modern America?
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And then it happened once, and then we never saw it again.
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And it became the biggest story in America, and it was based on a hoax.
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The hoax that Trump was on the side of the Nazis.
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Now, I said it at the time, but I didn't have any context to back it up.
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I said, there's something about this Charlottesville event that looks completely non-organic.
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How did the most disorganized group of people in the United States, the neo-Nazi racists,
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how did they suddenly mount this camera-perfect media event, but only once?
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So that would look like exactly the kind of thing that the USAID and the United States
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And then, of course, there was something weird about Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
00:38:25.080
Antifa that popped up around the same time, that seemed to come out of nowhere, seemed to
00:38:33.120
be funded by Soros and who knows where else, and they disappeared as soon as Joe Biden became
00:38:45.420
So that would kind of suggest that Charlottesville was never real, because it never reconstituted
00:38:52.260
It would suggest that Black Lives Matter was never real, except that it had some kind of
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exterior backing that made it active for a while.
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And it would suggest that Antifa was never real.
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So who would be backing things that aren't real, that would create racial division?
00:39:13.120
At the same time, DEI was going wild, and one of the biggest complaints about this populist
00:39:24.520
DEI and climate change, two things that we know are used as weapons against other countries
00:39:33.340
Both of them happening at the same time our populist president got in.
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We don't know what role the government had in fomenting that, but it doesn't look like
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To me, it looks like a bunch of people who thought the election was rigged.
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But for some reason, a bunch of bad people got in there, too.
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What do you think was the organizing principle that got all the bad people in there, too?
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And yet, and yet, after January 6, nothing like that has ever happened again.
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It's almost like that's not a naturally organized group of people.
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It's as if there's some exterior force organizing Black Lives Matter, organizing a Charlottesville
00:40:34.760
march, organizing Antifa, and organizing, perhaps, the violent part of January 6.
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So I'm not sure if that's related, because that one actually could be organic.
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But anyway, you don't have to worry about some color revolution in the United States, because
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that would assume that the CIA was turning its weapons against a domestic enemy.
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Except we know that they are allowed to do that now.
00:41:13.000
And we know that they did that for censorship by using funding of foreign entities that would
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then try to suppress our social networks and create censorship in our country by building
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Oh, and USAID pushed DEI in the United States, somebody's saying in the comments.
00:41:39.180
I haven't seen that, but that wouldn't surprise me.
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But, you know, the way to know if there was some kind of color revolution in this country
00:41:48.680
would be, I mean, and obviously this didn't happen, but imagine if the person who replaced
00:41:56.760
the populist candidate, imagine if that person was a puppet.
00:42:09.020
He was the only candidate we've ever seen in which neither side believes he was actually
00:42:18.820
But at least he has this vice president who, oh wait.
00:42:23.020
We learned that the vice president was so incapable that she couldn't possibly have been in charge
00:42:31.700
And if she became president, would have been a puppet because she was weak and incapable.
00:42:38.560
So, I'm not going to say that there was a color revolution in the United States
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driven by the same people with the same tools that did it in other countries.
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And by the way, not just once in a while, but dozens of other countries.
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But there were fake organizations, there were fake media.
00:43:08.160
Do you know why the Charlottesville thing worked?
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It's because of the hoax that came out of it, the fine people hoax.
00:43:14.140
Do you know why the mainstream media, who all knew it was a hoax, do you know why they
00:43:22.540
And they kept recording it as fact long after it got debunked.
00:43:27.320
Well, it's not because they didn't know it was fake.
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It looks exactly like USAID and the CIA and all their evil trolls ran an overthrow of this
00:43:45.120
Under that context, given that context, do you believe the elections were not rigged in
00:43:51.560
You know, I went from open to the question in 2020.
00:43:59.260
I was like, well, you know, I'm not seeing any proof, but I'm open to the possibility of
00:44:08.820
At the moment, I think the odds that 2020 was rigged are 100%.
00:44:13.900
Because once you see the entire mechanism from the fake media to the fake street movements
00:44:21.860
to the fake division about race, fake division about climate, it's so textbook that if they
00:44:30.240
didn't rig the actual election, why'd they do the rest of the stuff?
00:44:35.580
All the rest of the stuff was to get a result, and they're not playing.
00:44:44.160
Whoever would be behind this sort of stuff, they're not playing.
00:44:48.240
So yes, of course they would rig the election if that was the only way to win.
00:44:55.060
So I would say that if they didn't rig the election, they were ready to rig the election.
00:45:03.100
I mean, it's possible that Biden, the puppet, the brain-dead puppet, got the most votes that
00:45:13.680
And then the very next election, it goes back down to the baseline.
00:45:25.140
I would say the odds of the 2020 election being stolen, I'd give it 100%.
00:45:36.520
But I'll give you, I'll give you, the only out I'll give myself is that it's not proven.
00:45:43.920
But how many times has the United States rigged an election in another country and they couldn't
00:45:52.560
And I'd like somebody to explain to me, why is it we have voting machines?
00:45:59.980
When you don't need them, they're more expensive, they're harder to maintain, they're not as fast,
00:46:15.840
You know, in the early days, I can imagine the vendors just sold them with their bullshit.
00:46:26.340
But now that we know that none of that's true, why do we still have them?
00:46:36.220
Once you've actually had them long enough to know that they're not faster, more accurate,
00:46:48.020
And if nobody will even come on TV and say, oh, Scott, you're wrong.
00:46:53.060
I'd be open to that, by the way, if there are some good reasons.
00:47:00.560
I'm a voter, and this is one of the biggest issues in the country, was the election fair.
00:47:07.120
And not a single person has ever, that I've seen, maybe you've seen it, but I haven't seen it,
00:47:13.540
going on TV or in the news to defend why machines are safer, faster, cheaper, better than paper.
00:47:29.120
Now, the good news about this USAID debacle is that the leaders who are prairie-dogging
00:47:37.860
on this, and otherwise the ones who are sticking their heads up and saying, no, no, no, you
00:47:45.380
They're all the ones who are part of the grift.
00:47:49.140
They're ones who are either directly or indirectly funded by USAID, even though they're politicians
00:47:55.440
in this country, you know, there are lots of indirect ways to fund things.
00:48:01.700
But all the definitely corrupt people have decided to go public.
00:48:09.700
Now, they don't know that it's so obvious that this is the corrupt crowd.
00:48:17.900
But look at the names of the people who just went public, trying hard to keep that USAID.
00:48:25.960
Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, AOC, as Mike Benz pointed out, AOC
00:48:35.080
is only a politician because there was a USAID process to find her in college and jumpstart
00:48:46.280
So AOC has always been a creation of the machine.
00:48:52.720
And she's out there, oh, defending, need that USAID.
00:48:56.420
Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta.
00:49:01.120
Well, also, let's see, Jasmine, I think Jasmine Crockett was there and Presley and Ilhan Omar.
00:49:13.140
The last three on the list, they may just be jumping in because they like to jump in.
00:49:21.360
I'm not sure they're all USAID, you know, beneficiaries.
00:49:31.440
Anyway, they've all revealed themselves as part of the dirty money plot.
00:49:37.220
Now, if you saw Schumer, the second day in a row, he went out in public and embarrassed
00:49:46.160
Remember, he held up the can of beer and the avocado and he mansplained to people what an
00:49:59.420
You will not have a beer as inexpensively as before on Super Bowl.
00:50:11.020
And then the next day, he's out there trying to save USAID and he's giving his inspirational
00:50:16.740
And I'd like to give you my impression of Charles, of Senator Schumer inspiring the crowd.
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No, this is where you say it the same time I say it.
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But I thought to myself, maybe Democrats love this.
00:51:29.240
Maybe my bias filter is so sensitive that anything the other team does, I don't like.
00:51:43.460
Jon Stewart is begging Democrats to stop sending Schumer out.
00:51:53.920
And after mocking Schumer as badly as I did, Stewart just leans into the microphone and he goes,
00:52:15.100
Anyway, so all the bad people are going to try to stop Doge.
00:52:19.780
The federal workers are suing Doge for connecting some server to something Wired is reporting.
00:52:29.600
I guess 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump's buyout offer.
00:52:34.460
If they take the buyout, they get paid through September with benefits.
00:52:42.600
And that's going to save, they say, $100 billion a year.
00:52:52.180
Apparently, the entire CIA has this offer as well.
00:52:59.820
In other news, Ukrainian President Zelensky, according to the Gateway Pundit,
00:53:04.940
he thinks that the United States should supply him with nuclear weapons.
00:53:13.860
You know, the puppet that the United States installed?
00:53:23.500
But I don't think we want to give him nuclear weapons.
00:53:36.900
I can't imagine how that would make anything better.
00:53:41.800
Apparently, according to Doge, and there's an article in Breitbart,
00:53:47.380
that the Biden administration made improper payments,
00:54:01.720
And, you know, even though it's a lot of money, $238 billion,
00:54:07.060
it's just a portion of the $1.8 trillion annual deficit.
00:54:15.680
So, $236 billion is the amount we've identified as fraudulent or overpayment.
00:54:35.240
That is by no means the limit of what the fraud was.
00:54:45.680
You know, we found out through the Doge effort that the Treasury was signing off on everything that came to them.
00:54:52.060
They didn't look at anything and say, wait a minute, you're paying a terrorist?
00:55:00.280
So, we had this huge, unaudited, immense pile of money that wasn't being managed in any practical way.
00:55:11.640
But I'd like to go on record as saying, I don't understand how Doge could possibly save enough money to balance the budget.
00:55:21.140
All the numbers I hear don't make any sense to me.
00:55:24.740
So, USAID, for example, is like 0.7% of the budget.
00:55:32.720
But I think 100% of what Doge has been working on is maybe 1% of the budget.
00:55:39.280
So, if they save, you know, 30% of 1% of the budget, that's not even getting anywhere near the amount of the deficit.
00:55:51.240
But when they talk about it, they act like it does.
00:56:01.660
And when I say it doesn't make sense, I mean, it's like a butterfly to an elephant.
00:56:09.860
What I see is a butterfly-sized number of cuts.
00:56:14.020
Even though the numbers are enormous in terms of percentages, it's like a little butterfly.
00:56:23.700
The claims are they found enough butterflies to equal like half an elephant already.
00:56:31.660
So, I don't know what's going on exactly, but I don't know why I can't understand the difference between a butterfly and an elephant.
00:56:38.100
I mean, I'm not even, I'm not even in the same zip code with seeing that we're cutting enough to make a difference.
00:56:52.960
So, we'll see what happens with that in terms of the deficit.
00:56:55.880
But certainly, I like everything that Doge is doing.
00:57:02.480
I like them turning off things that we desperately need.
00:57:05.300
Just to find out how desperately we do need them.
00:57:14.680
I like that they're bending, you know, maybe bending some rules.
00:57:18.180
No bad ones, but they're bending rules in the service of doing something useful.
00:57:24.440
You can do that all day long, as far as I'm concerned.
00:57:32.880
Apparently, according to Zero Hedge, seven Americans have been charged with this gigantic COVID-related tax credit scheme,
00:57:43.840
where they filed for over $600 million of fraudulent payments.
00:57:49.160
Now, they didn't get all $600 million, but they got $45 million.
00:57:52.900
Seven people filing fake tax returns and asking for the COVID money, $45 million.
00:58:11.480
The numbers of fraud during the pandemic, and just in general, are just mind-boggling.
00:58:29.680
It's throwing our money out the door for things we don't even know about.
00:58:34.100
So, if you break that, you're breaking something that was already broken, right?
00:58:40.460
You can't break something that's already completely broken.
00:58:44.200
And that's what our funding and spending were, completely broken.
00:58:48.680
So, you can't break it harder than it was already broken.
00:58:51.320
All right, so the Wall Street Journal, in their editorial opinion, is describing Trump's negotiating
00:59:02.100
victories with Canada and Mexico as, quote, minor concessions, and treating it basically
00:59:09.780
as an embarrassing failure because he got nothing of substance, but he backed off at least for
00:59:23.580
Why are they calling a major concession a minor one?
00:59:28.360
Is it because they think they won't actually do anything?
00:59:31.240
So, I think the complaint is, until Mexico and Canada do something that is big and what they
00:59:40.120
promised, he got nothing because they haven't done anything yet.
00:59:45.200
To which I say, that's why he postponed the tariffs for 30 days.
00:59:50.960
Because our good friends and partners and neighbors said, yes, we plan to do these things.
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And so, Trump said, that those are things I want.
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So, if you're going to do those things, I'll wait 30 days for the tariffs.
01:00:07.620
And in 30 days, if you've done those things, we're all good.
01:00:21.560
And so, if the Wall Street Journal is right, and the only thing Canada and Mexico did was
01:00:29.560
make some promises that they have no intention of keeping.
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I saw an article just before I came on that suggested that Canada had no intention of sending
01:00:48.260
Because if they really promised us something that's that important to us,
01:01:03.200
That's when Trump's going to crash your economy.
01:01:09.820
And we're never going to stop tariffing you because we can't trust you now.
01:01:13.940
If we can't trust you, when you make a deal, your economy is going to the toilet.
01:01:23.800
But because we're dealing with allies and neighbors and partners,
01:01:32.680
In other words, if you ask for something and they say yes,
01:01:43.700
But if they lied, which is what the Wall Street Journal is suggesting,
01:01:48.440
or they allowed Trump to think it was more than it was,
01:02:02.620
because when it gets close to that 30 days, it's going to be pain.
01:02:14.140
I don't think they're going to get another 30 days.
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And I think Trump will just take both of them down
01:02:54.440
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