Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2743 CWSA 02⧸07⧸25

00:00:00.540 All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen,

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00:00:24.980 I wonder if there are any new stories about the benefits of drinking coffee.

00:00:30.860 Checking notes?

00:00:31.860 Yes, there is.

00:00:33.160 According to Get Suri, Ellen Jen writes that drinking one extra cup of sugar-free coffee

00:00:38.060 a day is linked to weight loss.

00:00:41.480 I believe that I'm only a few cups away from disappearing totally.

00:00:46.220 If there's less of you, the more you drink coffee, I'm about ready to disappear.

00:00:52.200 So, that's how I'm going to go.

00:00:55.660 Just drink coffee until I don't exist.

00:00:59.540 If you're following the Dilbert comic that you can only watch if you're on the locals

00:01:04.480 platform, but there's a lot of political stuff on there, if you don't want that, that's not

00:01:08.420 for you.

00:01:09.400 But, if you just want to see the comic that has continued since my cancellation two years

00:01:15.120 ago, it's called Dilbert Reborn and you can get it on the X platform just at the

00:01:19.840 subscription button.

00:01:20.700 And here's what you would be finding.

00:01:22.880 You would find that the new comic will tell you the problem with hiring the low-bid hitman.

00:01:30.960 Yeah.

00:01:31.380 So, Dogbert is in the role of a hitman.

00:01:35.280 And you see what happens when you take the low bid for your hitman.

00:01:38.640 It doesn't go well.

00:01:39.980 But, here's the more interesting thing.

00:01:41.900 I also publish that whatever comic ran exactly 10 years ago from whatever date the day is.

00:01:48.400 So, the comics that ran exactly 10 years ago are so on point for right now.

00:01:55.060 It's about humanoid robots being introduced into Dilbert's house and, you know, what goes

00:02:00.960 wrong.

00:02:02.080 And, oh my God, did I call it 10 years ago?

00:02:05.940 You have to see it to see how on point it is for today.

00:02:09.480 Anyway, so go take a look at that.

00:02:11.780 In other news, Ye, we'll get to the hard news in a minute.

00:02:16.000 I like to ease you into it with some lesser hard news.

00:02:20.820 So, apparently Ye is making a buzz on social media.

00:02:25.000 I think he's got a new album out.

00:02:26.240 And he's apparently off his meds.

00:02:30.320 And I'm not going to tell you any of the things that he said, in all caps, shouting like crazy

00:02:36.100 on X.

00:02:37.020 But let me tell you, he looks like he's off his meds. 0.98

00:02:43.640 It's just absolute mental illness. 0.93

00:02:47.300 There's no other way to look at it.

00:02:50.160 He says he's off his meds, by the way.

00:02:51.680 He thinks he was misdiagnosed as bipolar.

00:02:54.960 So, now he thinks he's autistic.

00:02:57.800 He is not autistic.

00:03:01.080 I'm pretty sure that's not right.

00:03:03.360 But, I don't know.

00:03:04.480 We'll see.

00:03:06.700 In other news, a simulation alert.

00:03:09.320 Simulation alert.

00:03:10.540 Simulation alert.

00:03:12.000 Everybody, simulation alert.

00:03:15.060 Here's how you know you live in a simulation.

00:03:17.000 The confirmation vote for the new budget chief, Democrats tried to delay it.

00:03:26.680 They tried to delay the vote for somebody named Russ Vote.

00:03:33.160 That's right.

00:03:33.780 His name sounds like Rush the Vote.

00:03:36.960 And they delayed the vote for Rush Vote.

00:03:41.260 That's all.

00:03:42.120 That's the whole story.

00:03:43.440 Simulation alert.

00:03:44.380 Simulation alert.

00:03:47.000 Meanwhile, there's a Michigan Democrat state legislator who decided to announce that she's

00:03:53.580 going to sterilize herself, actually already has, to avoid giving birth in Donald Trump's 0.92

00:03:58.540 America, according to the Gateway Pundit, Colin Leinberger.

00:04:05.380 Leinberger.

00:04:06.660 Barger. 0.83

00:04:06.960 So, I would regard this as a combination of mental illness and probably something she

00:04:18.280 wanted to do anyway that had nothing to do with anything.

00:04:20.700 She's 36, hasn't had a kid, I guess.

00:04:24.240 Yeah. 0.97

00:04:25.340 So, I don't know how much sex she was having, but she won't be having any extra Democrats. 1.00

00:04:31.300 In the most important story of the entire year, one of the Doge team members used to go by 0.99

00:04:40.120 the name, a secret name online, Big Balls.

00:04:43.960 And Big Balls said some pretty, pretty inappropriate things.

00:04:51.920 Yeah.

00:04:52.480 Pretty inappropriate.

00:04:55.180 And once that all came out, you would be surprised to hear that somebody who was once

00:05:02.000 working for USAID, but now works for the Wall Street Journal, outed that Doge person.

00:05:08.900 Huh.

00:05:09.740 Feels like everything's coming together, and now we understand.

00:05:13.160 Every time you hear that somebody like, you know, Liz Cheney came in, or AOC, were birthed 0.92

00:05:20.740 by the USAID funding, you have to say to yourself, hmm, is this really describing the entire structure

00:05:29.260 we see, that all the people that we know to be turds came from the same place?

00:05:35.100 That would be kind of a big coincidence.

00:05:38.120 Anyway, so the best part is that CNN did a part in this, in which Aaron Burnett and Kara

00:05:47.200 Swisher were talking about it because, oh, you just can't have somebody working on your

00:05:54.460 team named Big Balls, who once said offensive things online under a pseudonym.

00:06:00.220 Anyway, what's the point of having a pseudonym if you can't be anonymous?

00:06:03.820 But here's the best part.

00:06:08.600 I believe that the media thought that they would hurt Musk and his effort by giving a lot

00:06:17.980 of attention to Big Balls. 0.99

00:06:19.220 And I don't think they know much about Elon Musk, because Big Balls is the funniest thing

00:06:28.300 you could possibly do.

00:06:29.820 And the more you talk about it on CNN, the happier I am.

00:06:34.820 I think you should do the whole segment on Big Balls.

00:06:38.420 There should be more of a special.

00:06:40.520 I'd like to see them delve deeper into it.

00:06:42.480 But here's the thing, and I love the fact that they thought they were defeating the monster.

00:06:49.440 You know, they would think that Elon Musk is the monster. 0.94

00:06:52.560 And so the way they thought they would defeat him is talking about Big Balls. 0.70

00:06:58.840 That's really feeding the monster.

00:07:01.300 I mean, if you're really afraid of him, don't feed him stories about Big Balls.

00:07:05.440 He's going to be dining on that all day, so to speak.

00:07:07.700 So there's one thing missing with this story, and I think you can all tell what's missing.

00:07:12.540 You know what's missing, right?

00:07:13.940 It doesn't have a clever name yet.

00:07:16.720 So we need to have some kind of a name to talk about this scandal about the Big Balls.

00:07:23.260 I'm going to go first. 0.98

00:07:24.600 I'm going to call it a scrotum gate. 0.86

00:07:27.560 Scrotum gate.

00:07:29.880 Everybody in?

00:07:31.080 Do you like that? 0.63

00:07:32.540 So whenever we talk about it, it'll just be scrotum gate.

00:07:35.460 Now, Elon is running a poll on X to see if he should bring back the—he quit, by the way.

00:07:44.500 Big Balls quit once the news got out, and I can understand that.

00:07:49.580 But Elon wants to bring him back.

00:07:53.900 Now, here's my take.

00:07:55.100 If somebody who is a teenager or 19 years old said something that we all agree is absolutely inappropriate,

00:08:04.240 but did it anonymously, did it anonymously, I don't have a problem with it.

00:08:11.420 Because every 19-year-old boy is saying deeply inappropriate things all the time.

00:08:18.640 And if he was doing it anonymously, he knew that it was not something that you could put in the public domain.

00:08:26.020 Somebody else put it in the public domain.

00:08:27.920 So my problem is not with anything he said, because I just can't blame a 19-year-old for having inappropriate—especially a man—a 19-year-old male.

00:08:43.380 It's all we have is inappropriate thoughts.

00:08:46.880 Do you understand what a 19-year-old male is?

00:08:50.500 That is a person who is nonstop, inappropriate thoughts.

00:08:55.360 That's all we do at that age.

00:08:57.380 Do we grow out of it?

00:08:59.120 Sometimes.

00:09:00.400 Sometimes.

00:09:01.720 Not all the time. 0.54

00:09:04.200 Anyway, Big Balls might be back, but we'll keep an eye on the scrotum gate.

00:09:09.160 Fox News says that a big consulting firm, PwC,

00:09:13.040 they're going to have a big conference this summer,

00:09:14.780 trying to get high-performing college students an opportunity to work for their company.

00:09:20.020 Oh, that's good.

00:09:21.320 Yeah.

00:09:21.660 Big consulting company wants to make sure that the high-performing students get to check out their job offerings.

00:09:28.740 Oh, wait.

00:09:29.900 It specifically excludes white and Asian applicants.

00:09:34.720 So it's a DEI policy or something like it.

00:09:39.980 So apparently not everybody got the memo that if you openly discriminate against white and Asian applicants,

00:09:47.560 it's not going to end well.

00:09:52.140 It might not go your way in the long run.

00:09:55.060 So maybe rethink breaking the law.

00:10:00.560 I've got to look at this comment because it looks interesting.

00:10:05.180 Ron Paul says on X,

00:10:07.480 A look behind the curtain has revealed a horrific truth.

00:10:10.860 Nearly the entire mainstream media worldwide has been funded by the U.S. government under the USAID,

00:10:16.600 from the BBC to the New York Times and Politico.

00:10:20.360 At this point, it might be easier to find out who USAID has not funded.

00:10:26.400 Well, that does seem approximately true.

00:10:29.000 I saw a video online.

00:10:33.820 I couldn't tell if it's a new one or an old one.

00:10:35.780 I think it's an old one.

00:10:37.140 So you tell me.

00:10:38.480 It was Pam Bondi talking about how many times Bill Clinton had been on the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:10:45.560 Apparently, he hadn't been on the plane just a couple of times.

00:10:50.760 He'd been on there multiple times and traveled internationally with Epstein.

00:10:54.000 And that plane had a bed in it.

00:10:59.240 That's all you need to know.

00:11:03.080 And apparently, they stayed friends for years,

00:11:05.480 whereas Trump removed him from his life fairly early on.

00:11:10.660 So is that a new clip?

00:11:14.880 A new one or an old one?

00:11:16.420 What's all the 27s?

00:11:21.220 All right.

00:11:21.820 So that's out there.

00:11:26.060 So Trump has tried to fire the Federal Election Commissioner,

00:11:31.360 Ellen Weintraub.

00:11:33.180 But she says it's illegal and the president can't fire her. 0.98

00:11:36.020 We'll see.

00:11:37.320 But she was appointed by Bush.

00:11:39.980 And apparently, they can only be replaced if they resign or their term expires.

00:11:46.940 What?

00:11:48.460 Let me read that again.

00:11:49.680 According to legal experts,

00:11:53.920 an FEC commissioner can only be replaced if they resign or their term expires.

00:12:01.620 Wait.

00:12:03.400 What? 0.99

00:12:03.920 Who the fuck has a job that they can't be fired from? 1.00

00:12:09.600 Who the fuck has a job that they can't be fired from unless they're elected? 1.00

00:12:15.120 And even if you're elected, you can be fucking fired. 0.99

00:12:18.400 You know, it's got to be an impeachment, but there's a process. 0.99

00:12:21.620 Are you telling me that there's somebody in our government who's in charge of the fucking 0.99

00:12:26.060 elections who can't be fired? 0.99

00:12:28.000 Are you serious?

00:12:30.320 I hope I'm reading this wrong.

00:12:33.040 Do I have this wrong?

00:12:34.820 The most important person, the head of the spear for our entire democracy, can't be fired?

00:12:40.340 Oh, my God.

00:12:45.740 You think that the well of corruption and badness is deep?

00:12:50.800 I've never seen anything like that.

00:12:54.220 Have you?

00:12:55.460 Have you ever heard of somebody who can't be fired for any reason?

00:13:00.820 That can't be right.

00:13:02.560 There must be...

00:13:04.080 Everybody can be fired for cause, right?

00:13:06.700 But apparently not, according to legal experts.

00:13:10.700 Wow.

00:13:10.940 The Daily Mail has a story that looks fake to me.

00:13:18.960 They're saying that there's unconfirmed plans that Trump's trying to end the Ukraine war in 100 days.

00:13:26.780 And that he wants to get a ceasefire by April 20th.

00:13:31.220 And that the deal would freeze Russia's place.

00:13:35.460 They get to keep what they have.

00:13:36.840 Ukraine would not join NATO.

00:13:38.400 And that would be the deal.

00:13:43.360 Now, I guess this comes from a sketchy source.

00:13:46.220 And then the Daily Mail picked it up.

00:13:47.920 So it's two sketchy sources.

00:13:51.780 The Daily Mail is not full propaganda.

00:13:56.700 But it's not right 100% of the time either.

00:13:59.500 You know, like most things.

00:14:00.900 So I don't think this is anything but maybe a test balloon.

00:14:04.000 My best guess is that it's a way for the government to float an idea to see what people think of it.

00:14:12.640 So as an idea, floating test balloon, it's a good one.

00:14:16.420 But I don't think it's a real story.

00:14:19.680 Feels like just testing out the water.

00:14:22.120 We'll see.

00:14:23.900 So Senator Fetterman has weighed in on the RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard nominations.

00:14:34.780 And he will not vote for them.

00:14:37.080 So he will not vote for either Gabbard or Kennedy.

00:14:40.940 Now, we don't absolutely need his vote because the Republicans can get it through if they're all together.

00:14:48.820 But I was amused by Nicole Shanahan's reply to the ex-post about this.

00:14:57.420 I'll just paraphrase.

00:14:59.200 She said it better, but, you know, here's just my summary. 0.91

00:15:03.160 The Fetterman is a slob who wears gym clothes and doesn't go to the gym. 0.97

00:15:06.740 Jim, he's a slob who wears gym clothes all day and doesn't go to the gym. 0.99

00:15:13.320 In other words, health is not high on his list. 0.94

00:15:18.180 All right.

00:15:18.760 So here's somebody who apparently doesn't have any appreciation for good human health.

00:15:25.740 Or he would act like it.

00:15:27.280 He'd go to the gym, he'd lose weight, he'd eat right.

00:15:30.760 He acts like he has no appreciation for the biggest issue in the whole country,

00:15:34.740 which is our kids have chronic diseases and they'll have no good life.

00:15:38.940 That's a pretty big problem.

00:15:41.240 And he's against it.

00:15:43.400 Separately, Fetterman also said that he thought the Democrats don't have much chance of winning men back. 0.84

00:15:50.620 Because he said he's been warning about it and that the Democrats have become sort of the party of whiny women.

00:16:00.820 And that not only were white males leaving the Democrat Party, but black men, Hispanic men.

00:16:08.680 And it's pretty broad and obvious change.

00:16:11.820 But the interesting thing is he thinks they can't get it back.

00:16:16.280 Meaning that Fetterman believes he is in the party that's anti-men.

00:16:23.180 That would be according to all the men who change sides.

00:16:26.260 Because they want to be on the side that's not anti-men.

00:16:29.440 DEI is anti-men.

00:16:31.440 What do we got here?

00:16:41.840 Okay.

00:16:42.920 So Ellen Weintraub, the head of the FEC that Trump is trying to get rid of.

00:16:48.560 She once was in private practice at Perkins Coy.

00:16:52.100 So if you recommend, if you understand Perkins Coy, that's like the heart of the Democrat legal dirty tricks.

00:17:03.460 Well, I won't call them that.

00:17:04.820 I'll just say they're the legal arm of the Democrats.

00:17:09.440 Where much has been done that Republicans don't like.

00:17:14.300 So we can see why Trump's getting rid of her.

00:17:16.560 It makes sense.

00:17:17.980 But let me close on Fetterman.

00:17:20.160 So Fetterman knows that he's on the anti-male team.

00:17:26.420 And he stays there.

00:17:29.220 Now, if he tried to become a Republican, I'm sorry.

00:17:32.820 That door is very closed right now.

00:17:35.080 You're not going to become a Republican. 0.92

00:17:37.340 If you're turning down Kennedy, you're dead.

00:17:42.040 I mean, not physically dead.

00:17:44.380 You're done as a political entity that anybody on the Republican side is going to care about. 1.00

00:17:49.040 So you're you're a piece of shit from my perspective. 0.99

00:17:54.280 And you should expect that Scott Pressler is coming for your job, not to take the job, but to make sure that there are more Republicans registered in Pennsylvania. 1.00

00:18:04.860 And he said so, by the way, I'm not speculating.

00:18:07.640 Scott Pressler, Nicole Shanahan, they're going to take him out.

00:18:11.200 And I don't know if that means he'll be primaried, but that's what Nicole Shanahan promised.

00:18:18.660 She'd be primarying people who go the wrong direction on the Kennedy vote.

00:18:23.320 And Scott Pressler says it directly.

00:18:25.780 You know, we're coming after you, basically.

00:18:28.240 So Fetterman, I think his political fortunes are now over.

00:18:32.860 Because he just made an unrecoverable error.

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00:19:39.360 Allegedly, according to Wired, Elon Musk's Doge is working on a chatbot.

00:19:47.920 So they're going to create a chatbot called GSAI, allegedly.

00:19:51.360 And it would be part of, you know, maybe some of it would be to analyze the complexities that Doge is looking into.

00:20:01.260 But some of it would be maybe a replacement for some of the functions of the government.

00:20:07.160 You know, if you had a really good AI, it could do a lot of stuff.

00:20:11.120 Now, I'm a skeptic because my own experience with trying to create an AI agent, even though it was last summer and a lot has changed, I don't believe AI can do that.

00:20:22.140 I don't believe AI can create an agent that can do general stuff that a human can do.

00:20:27.220 I don't think it's anywhere near it.

00:20:30.380 So the AI is super smart.

00:20:33.340 But when you try to get it to do sort of the job of a person, it's, you know, it hallucinates and it's hard to know when it's going to do it.

00:20:42.160 It can't look up data reliably.

00:20:44.440 So the only way it would work is if it's sort of an interface layer, but all of the real important work is just regular programming.

00:20:54.100 You know, just it initiates something that looks into a database that's not AI.

00:20:58.820 So if it's the interface for things that are not AI, it could be great.

00:21:04.100 So I don't want to judge.

00:21:05.140 Obviously, let me just say the obvious.

00:21:08.240 The people who are working on this know a lot more than I do about AI.

00:21:12.160 So if they think it can work, you know, it'd be kind of dumb for me to bet against it.

00:21:17.140 But I don't, it's not my understanding that it can work unless it's just the interface to regular programming.

00:21:23.820 We'll see.

00:21:25.040 Someday it will work.

00:21:26.520 I don't think it's there yet.

00:21:28.960 All right.

00:21:30.260 You know, we're going to talk about USAID.

00:21:32.300 I got more to say about that.

00:21:34.140 But Thomas Massey says, now, if you're brand new, I'll just give you the quick update.

00:21:40.500 USAID is a $50 billion or whatever funded entity within the government that does things for the State Department, sometimes the CIA, sometimes the Pentagon.

00:21:52.260 This is the Mike Benz explanation of the world.

00:21:55.420 And it's been basically gutted by Doge for all the alleged waste and, you know, fraud.

00:22:04.660 The waste would be funding things that are not good for anybody.

00:22:09.840 That would be the claim.

00:22:11.600 But Thomas Massey says, I'm concerned that the House and Senate will fully fund USAID in March, just like we did in December, although he voted against it.

00:22:20.660 He said the argument from Republican leadership will be that they need Democrat votes to pass the omnibus to avoid a government shutdown.

00:22:29.340 Oh, my God.

00:22:33.940 I hate how right he is.

00:22:36.680 So Massey is pretty good at seeing around corners and telling you what's coming. 0.99

00:22:42.580 How do we beat that?

00:22:44.380 Because the whole omnibus thing is essentially a criminal process.

00:22:51.500 It's a criminal process because it allows the people of Congress to not do their job and get tons of money for things that will help them get reelected.

00:23:01.520 I don't know if it's illegal, but certainly in intention and in, you know, in a de facto way, it's just criminal.

00:23:11.720 Let me say it again.

00:23:14.880 The omnibus is when they put all of the spending in one big thing and you can just say yes or no. 0.99

00:23:20.400 But they put all kinds of crap in there and then they say, well, if you say no to the crap, you're the one who shut down the government and children will die, which is an exaggeration. 0.94

00:23:33.300 So, yeah, we have a system that guarantees that USAID will be fully funded. 0.99

00:23:39.540 Think about that.

00:23:41.720 We just nuked it.

00:23:45.760 And the corrupt government is so advanced at this point.

00:23:51.960 It's evolved almost to its own creature.

00:23:54.780 The corruption is self-healing.

00:23:57.880 We have a self-healing, corruption-designed machine.

00:24:06.000 If you take out the heart of the machine, the USAID, that might be the most important beating organ in the whole machine, completely removed.

00:24:16.000 And in one month, it could be reinstated because it's a self-healing, corrupt system.

00:24:24.280 And they'll just use the omnibus as the argument for why it must be refunded.

00:24:28.760 Now, if it's not done with the omnibus, and I don't know what would stop it, they could do the same thing with onesies and twosies.

00:24:38.140 Well, but this one's important.

00:24:41.180 Well, you cut all the funding, but this one's important.

00:24:44.400 And just try to wear down Marco Rubio and the State Department, which absorbed the USAID function.

00:24:53.700 So, let me tell you, if you think USAID is defeated, not even close.

00:25:01.220 We're not even close to defeating it.

00:25:03.280 It's sort of like the Terminator.

00:25:05.560 You know, okay, good news.

00:25:08.620 We shot the Terminator.

00:25:10.400 Uh-oh, he's reforming.

00:25:12.160 He's self-healing.

00:25:13.640 So, it's coming for you.

00:25:15.020 Did you know, according to Leslie Kazimovitz, I don't know if this is a good source or not, but it's a good example of the kind of news I'm seeing on social media, I'll give you the following warning.

00:25:32.420 There will be claims about USAID funding that are not true.

00:25:40.120 Trump just reversed the Biden decision on plastic straws.

00:25:45.860 We're getting our plastic straws back.

00:25:48.500 Yes.

00:25:49.820 USAID's coming back, but so are plastic straws.

00:25:52.620 So, it's a tie.

00:25:54.680 All right.

00:25:55.600 So, according to Leslie Kazimovitz, and remember, the umbrella for this story and a lot of others is they might not be true.

00:26:06.160 There are going to be a whole bunch of claims about USAID funding that if you looked into it, it might mean not exactly what the claim is, but could be close.

00:26:13.940 But the claim is that USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.

00:26:25.040 Well, now, on the surface, you'd say to yourself, well, if you're going to have a modern country and you're going to develop, you're going to need some cement.

00:26:37.540 So, maybe we funded one of the main things they needed to rebuild is good quality local cement.

00:26:46.340 I wonder where the cement went.

00:26:48.760 Well, maybe some of it went for factories to build some factories.

00:26:54.000 Maybe some housing.

00:26:57.360 But maybe it's how they built their Hamas tunnels. 0.75

00:27:02.420 So, the real concern is that no matter what our intentions were, it may have been just, you know, siphoned off and taken to build.

00:27:14.140 Not siphoned off, but they would have actually built the cement plant.

00:27:17.700 But the cement plant may have been, allegedly, some part of the tunnel building.

00:27:23.620 $310 million.

00:27:25.320 Do you think we got our money's worth there?

00:27:29.560 I don't know.

00:27:30.500 That one feels a little too on the nose, doesn't it?

00:27:34.700 Remember I tell you the one way to spot fake news quickly is it's too perfect?

00:27:39.940 What would be the most perfect story somebody could make up about USAID?

00:27:47.180 The most perfect story would be it built the Hamas tunnels. 1.00

00:27:53.320 Now, it might have.

00:27:55.500 I'm not saying it didn't happen.

00:27:57.600 I'm saying, oh boy, is that one right on the nose.

00:28:01.980 So, if you have to bet on it, I don't know if it's a safe bet.

00:28:07.100 But it's a little too clean.

00:28:09.940 So, just be aware that when you hear these stories that are a little too perfect, there may be a reason they're too perfect.

00:28:16.940 But they also might be true.

00:28:18.440 So, it's hard to say.

00:28:20.460 Yesterday, I posted on X that it seems to me that maybe we could close the entire budget gap, the deficit, the entire thing, just by getting rid of fraud.

00:28:32.920 That's a big claim, right?

00:28:34.300 Because we're talking about $2 trillion.

00:28:37.100 So, I honestly think that if we got rid of all fraud in all forms of the government, from military to Medicare fraud to everything else, we might close the entire gap.

00:28:49.380 And I thought, well, you know, it's just how it feels.

00:28:53.380 It's not really, I haven't done the math.

00:28:55.420 But Elon Musk saw that comment that I made, and he modified it in the comments.

00:29:02.600 He said that maybe getting rid of fraud would close one-third to one-half of the deficit.

00:29:08.980 One-half of the deficit is a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars per year, not a trillion dollars over many years, one year.

00:29:21.120 Now, that's the person who's looked into it the closest.

00:29:26.680 He knows more than any of us now about what he's found and maybe even what he's likely to find.

00:29:32.780 He thinks there might be a trillion dollars of something that we might call waste or fraud.

00:29:40.140 I think that's right.

00:29:42.640 I think it's a trillion.

00:29:45.060 At least.

00:29:46.220 You know, I thought it was two.

00:29:47.220 But I'm going to go with his estimate because he's closer to it.

00:29:54.580 Here are some examples.

00:29:56.020 Jesse Waters had a good rundown on some of the examples of things that USAID was doing.

00:30:01.520 Now, here's the problem.

00:30:04.020 And I'll get into this in more detail.

00:30:05.920 The fake news, the corporate news, is reporting that USAID is a charitable organization doing all kinds of good things all over the world.

00:30:15.680 And that defunding it means that people will die by the millions.

00:30:24.780 So people will die.

00:30:26.700 So when Jesse and other people give the list of the fake-looking wastes of money, and I'm going to list them in a moment,

00:30:35.440 you might say to yourself, oh, if we get rid of the fake ones, then all we'll have left is the real charity,

00:30:43.560 and maybe the real charity makes sense, some people would say.

00:30:47.480 Now, the fake news is covering this like it's a charity being removed story.

00:30:54.440 The real news, the MAGA Republican version of what's happening,

00:30:59.840 is that USAID has always been a fake organization that is designed to overthrow other countries

00:31:06.160 and also control the United States.

00:31:11.620 So those are completely different stories.

00:31:14.340 But here's what's interesting.

00:31:16.540 The fake news is pretending like there's only one version of the narrative.

00:31:21.720 They're not even telling you that the other narrative is wrong.

00:31:26.320 They're just ignoring it.

00:31:28.040 What's that tell you?

00:31:31.180 If they told you that the narrative that it's, you know, a CIA front,

00:31:35.580 if they told you that was not true, and they said why, and they showed their work,

00:31:41.520 well, then maybe you could compare their version with what other sources are saying,

00:31:45.940 and maybe make up your own mind.

00:31:48.160 But they're acting like there's only one narrative.

00:31:50.640 They're actually ignoring the main claim.

00:31:56.800 And the main claim is the biggest scandal in American history,

00:32:04.560 you know, maybe since, I don't know, maybe since slavery.

00:32:08.100 But it's the biggest story I've ever seen since I've been alive.

00:32:13.880 Would you agree?

00:32:15.460 I mean, wars are big in their own way.

00:32:18.040 So, you know, you can't ignore wars.

00:32:19.640 But in terms of a scandal, this is the biggest one I've ever seen by a thousand.

00:32:27.120 This is not even close to anything I've ever seen.

00:32:31.520 This is enormous.

00:32:34.740 That's one narrative.

00:32:37.400 Why can they ignore what half of the country thinks is true

00:32:41.940 and is digging into the details of it and completely coming up to speed?

00:32:47.820 They're just ignoring it.

00:32:50.440 Now, that tells you that they're fake news.

00:32:53.000 So if you're wondering, are they fake news?

00:32:55.180 Yes.

00:32:55.860 Turns out they are.

00:32:57.700 Here's some of the things Jesse Waters says they funded.

00:33:01.040 Six million dollars for tourism in Egypt.

00:33:05.640 Because Egypt certainly couldn't do any tourism without an extra six million dollars.

00:33:12.580 You know, as Jesse points out, they have pyramids.

00:33:17.480 They have pyramids.

00:33:19.520 You'd be lucky if you could stop people from going there.

00:33:23.920 I mean, you'd have to close the border to stop all the people who want to go in there to look at the pyramids.

00:33:28.680 The one thing they don't need is some help with becoming a tourist destination.

00:33:35.500 Because, again, they've got pyramids.

00:33:37.720 They have pyramids.

00:33:39.620 All right.

00:33:39.820 Two million dollars to help the British broadcasting company value the diversity of Libyan society.

00:33:48.260 I didn't make that up.

00:33:51.260 We're paying the BBC, British entity, how to value the diversity of Libyan society.

00:34:01.800 Now, that can't be real.

00:34:03.620 How is that real?

00:34:04.680 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:34:07.200 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:34:09.740 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:34:15.740 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:34:21.440 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:34:25.880 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:34:29.080 But you got there on time.

00:34:31.280 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:34:33.480 Certain conditions apply. 0.97

00:34:35.560 One million dollars for a gay group in Armenia.

00:34:39.340 What? 0.70

00:34:40.880 What?

00:34:42.020 Twenty million for Iraqi Sesame Street. 0.57

00:34:46.380 Okay.

00:34:47.640 Two million for trans surgeries in Guatemala.

00:34:53.300 235 million to the National Democratic Institute.

00:34:57.340 Hmm.

00:34:58.660 Well, that sounds fine, right?

00:35:02.180 We like democracy.

00:35:03.480 Sounds like that's what they're working on.

00:35:06.100 It's right in the name.

00:35:07.920 So 235 million.

00:35:10.260 But a lot of that money went to executive compensation.

00:35:13.900 So the real meaning of all this funding is everything about the government funding seems to be a way for Democrats to get a payday and some anti-Trump Republicans.

00:35:28.580 They all seem to have one foot in some form of either USAID or somebody that USAID funds or something also an NGO.

00:35:38.640 I saw an estimate from Alex Jones that there are 1.5 million NGOs, but 1.1 million of them are left-leaning.

00:35:50.460 Is that possible?

00:35:52.460 Is that possible?

00:35:52.840 Somebody in the comments said 55,000.

00:35:55.740 At the very least, there are thousands, thousands of these entities that get funded by our government, your taxpayers, your tax money.

00:36:05.540 And it seems to be mostly for controlling America, controlling other countries, and for people to get paychecks so that they can get this easy funding from your money.

00:36:21.160 Basically, it's just a transfer of wealth to Democrats, the wealthy Democrats, not even the poor Democrats.

00:36:28.720 That's what it looks like.

00:36:30.600 Well, according to Grok, and I should warn you that all of the AIs are not up to date on this story.

00:36:40.000 They're up to date on what people are saying, but your AIs are going to tell you there's no evidence that the CIA has anything to do with the USAID.

00:36:49.120 That's what your AIs, that's what your AIs will tell you.

00:36:53.940 But Grok tells me that all the spending of USAID is transparent.

00:37:00.040 It's transparent, so everybody could have always seen it.

00:37:03.580 And that the GAO, Government Accounting Office, can audit it.

00:37:10.880 So don't worry about the spending being wrong, because you can see it.

00:37:16.940 It's transparent.

00:37:17.720 You know the names of the places it's going to.

00:37:20.780 And you also know that there's an auditing function, so it can get audited by the government to make sure they're not doing anything wrong.

00:37:27.620 So are you good with that?

00:37:30.000 I hope you're good with it, because I'm starting an NGO.

00:37:33.340 So the name of my NGO is going to be called America Doing Awesome Things for Gay Climate Scientists and Democracy.

00:37:40.560 Now, that sounds like a joke, but it's not very far from the name of the other NGOs.

00:37:47.860 So the first thing you do is put a name on your NGO and a primary purpose that looks like it's good.

00:37:55.380 And then you hide behind that goodness and do all your evil behind it, because you can get your paycheck, you can do your influence peddling.

00:38:04.600 But as long as people come after you, so if you come after me after I get funded for my America Doing Awesome Things for Gay Climate Scientists and Democracy, I'm going to say, whoa, oh, look who's coming after me. 0.98

00:38:18.260 Apparently, you don't like gay people. 1.00

00:38:21.480 You're a bigot. 1.00

00:38:22.800 Uh-huh.

00:38:23.280 And you're anti-science, because why else would you be coming after me for trying to fund climate scientists? 0.76

00:38:30.960 So you're anti-scientist, you're anti-gay, you're opposed to democracy. 0.63

00:38:35.600 I mean, all those things are right in the title of my NGO. 0.99

00:38:38.960 So clearly, I'm doing good work, and you're some kind of a bigoted piece of crap science denier. 0.99

00:38:46.300 Get out of here. 0.99

00:38:46.980 Look, get out of here, and I'm going to tell all the other Democrats to stay away from you. 1.00

00:38:53.140 God, you're such a terrible person. 1.00

00:38:55.460 You're awful. 0.99

00:38:56.760 How could you even come after me when I'm so virtuous? 0.98

00:39:00.740 Just look at the name of my NGO.

00:39:03.460 It's right there in the name.

00:39:08.260 All right.

00:39:09.640 So there's that.

00:39:14.260 Also, according to the Washington Examiner, taxpayers also funded Chinese research.

00:39:24.740 Representative Claudia Tenney, Republican, she's got a bill she's introduced in to stop funding our adversaries. 1.00

00:39:33.040 Now, you would think that's something we weren't doing.

00:39:37.460 Your common sense would say, we're not funding any adversaries.

00:39:43.200 What are you talking about?

00:39:44.720 How could it possibly be true that we're funding adversaries?

00:39:49.340 What?

00:39:49.800 But between 2015 and 2021, the U.S. provided $29 million directly to Chinese entities for research and development.

00:39:59.660 I think that included Wuhan.

00:40:06.580 These are real things, I think.

00:40:08.860 Now, remember.

00:40:09.840 Remember the umbrella caution?

00:40:12.400 There are going to be claims that aren't true.

00:40:14.260 And I'm not sure I'll know which ones are not true.

00:40:18.420 But the general thrust of it is still the same.

00:40:22.180 Directionally, these are largely fake things.

00:40:27.520 Now, is it true that it also does good things, such as helping countries battle AIDS?

00:40:35.020 Yes.

00:40:36.100 That's called a cover.

00:40:37.580 However, the reason that they do good things is so you can't pull their funding.

00:40:43.660 They're doing good things.

00:40:45.560 The government, let's say the foreign government that allows USAID-funded things in,

00:40:51.260 probably can't handle the problems themselves, such as an AIDS epidemic or any other major problem that a smaller country can't handle.

00:41:00.800 We come in and say, we can handle that.

00:41:02.440 And the government says, well, we can't do it ourselves, and it is destroying our country.

00:41:07.140 So, yeah, come on in.

00:41:08.480 And then you can't kill it. 0.99

00:41:10.300 Because if you try to kill the funding, you're going to say that you killed people with AIDS. 0.95

00:41:19.760 Elon Musk just posted, I love Donald Trump as much as a straight man can love another man.

00:41:27.980 Oh, God, he likes causing trouble.

00:41:31.240 All right.

00:41:32.420 So, let's see.

00:41:35.400 So, CNN says the concern about these big government payouts to media organizations, such as Politico, are fake.

00:41:46.560 So, no.

00:41:47.680 The media is telling you that if you think the media is taking money to change their reporting, that's fake, people.

00:41:55.840 That's just fake.

00:41:56.520 And the example they give is that Politico, which has two, I think, two main businesses.

00:42:04.680 One is Politico, the publication.

00:42:07.060 But another one is a very expensive subscription thing that has extra data and things that are not in their public Politico thing.

00:42:16.560 And the claim was that $8 million have flowed into the pro part of the Politico, not the publication, and that it came from not just USAID, but maybe a bunch of entities that are also NGOs and kind of operate the same.

00:42:33.880 So, do you think that $8 million of subscriptions, do you think that was an appropriate expense for all kinds of different parts of the government?

00:42:48.100 They all needed a subscription to this thing?

00:42:50.940 Does that sound real to you?

00:42:54.060 Now, Politico is trying to make the distinction that funding, not funding, but let's say, buying a bunch of subscriptions to one part of their business has no influence on their coverage in the other part of the business. 1.00

00:43:09.700 That's for the fucking stupid people. 1.00

00:43:13.960 Let me tell you how you can bribe people. 1.00

00:43:17.340 Oh, how many lines of business do you have?

00:43:19.580 Two.

00:43:20.940 Well, we'd like to influence one of those lines of business.

00:43:23.880 Okay, great.

00:43:25.420 We'll give you millions of dollars if you'll do with that line of business what we want you to.

00:43:31.320 Excellent.

00:43:32.020 You got a deal.

00:43:33.900 But can you do us a favor?

00:43:36.420 Don't write the checks to something that looks like that line of business that you want us to influence.

00:43:42.380 Instead, could you write it to the other line of business so it looks like you're just buying a regular product like anybody would?

00:43:48.360 So, I'm not saying that's what happened.

00:43:52.140 I'm just saying that's exactly what it looks like happened.

00:43:56.980 There's no such thing as people who are uninfluenced by money.

00:44:01.400 Millions of dollars.

00:44:02.520 Yeah, no influence at all.

00:44:04.940 Millions of dollars.

00:44:06.860 Nobody believes that.

00:44:11.060 And as I read, Ron Paul thinks that basically all of the media is influenced by government spending that's channeled through this and that.

00:44:19.820 So, it gets there.

00:44:21.780 Well, maybe.

00:44:23.580 Brian Stelter called the claim that Politico is receiving government subsidies, quote, rampant right-wing misinformation.

00:44:31.980 Well, technically he's correct.

00:44:35.560 Here's what he didn't say.

00:44:37.200 But the parent company of Politico is making millions of dollars and it doesn't seem like that number could be supported by the fact that people like subscriptions to your pro service.

00:44:46.180 That would be the better frame.

00:44:50.600 All right.

00:44:51.560 If you're getting lost in all this stuff because the Doge thing is getting complicated, I would recommend that you listen to the explainers.

00:45:00.160 One difference from 2016 until now is that the right-leaning part of the world has developed these incredible explainers.

00:45:11.760 People who simply know enough that they can tell you what's really happening that's different from what the news is telling you.

00:45:18.920 So, some of them, of course, Mike Benz is the tip of the spear on this particular topic.

00:45:24.580 But I would listen to Mike Cernovich, who digs into it deeper than most and explains it better, Glenn Greenwald, Brett Weinstein, and look at podcasts, not the news.

00:45:39.040 The podcasts are where you get closest to the truth in this case, and the good explainers are the ones that can help you.

00:45:46.900 So, the bad explainers aren't going to give you anything.

00:45:49.260 You've got to listen to the good explainers that I just explained.

00:45:52.880 So, here's an example.

00:45:55.560 Brett Weinstein on Joe Rogan.

00:45:58.100 I'm going to read the whole thing.

00:45:59.280 I just like the way he said it.

00:46:01.560 He said, quote,

00:46:02.780 As I was watching the confirmation hearings, my sense was that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were dinosaurs who do not understand that the earth has just been hit from outer space and that they don't live in the world that they're used to.

00:46:17.000 That their corruption was immediately apparent, and they're not used to that.

00:46:21.760 They're used to having a whole phony journalistic layer that covers for them, and that layer is gone, and the American public is awake and they're angry, and rightfully so.

00:46:32.520 And now it looks like, and now look at Bernie Sanders, and you can see the same guy going after Bobby Kennedy.

00:46:39.660 Like, dude, I just went through COVID.

00:46:43.580 I see Bernie Sanders, and I see him reading from a script that is no longer relevant to the movie that we're watching.

00:46:51.600 That's a good description.

00:46:53.680 That's a good description.

00:46:55.240 Yes.

00:46:55.580 If you look at the politicians that are prairie-dogging, the ones who've decided that they're going to be really noisy about USAID being cut and about the doge, those are all the corrupt ones. 0.55

00:47:09.680 By accident, this wasn't what anybody was trying to do, but by accident, by poking the right part of the government, it revealed all of the turds.

00:47:20.340 Everybody who's corrupt, everybody who's corrupt, in my opinion, is just an opinion, they're the ones that are the loudest. 0.88

00:47:27.480 If you see Jamie Raskin and Schumer and Warren and Sanders and Adam Schiff, those are all the designated liars. 1.00

00:47:38.460 They're the ones who specifically come out when they're selling bullshit. 0.99

00:47:42.140 They don't bring them out when the truth can handle itself. 0.99

00:47:47.560 If the problem is the truth, then the news can handle it.

00:47:51.600 The news will just say, oh, fact check, this is true.

00:47:55.200 But when the news can't handle it because it's such a big lie that even the news can't go there, they bring out the same cast of characters.

00:48:04.980 Yeah, and Letitia James is obviously part of the corruption. 1.00

00:48:08.520 She's the lawfare queen. 1.00

00:48:09.880 So that's the world we're living in.

00:48:20.240 So this is for Mike Cernovich, who was on Jesse Kelly's show.

00:48:24.940 And he said that USAID funds diversity.

00:48:29.520 The money hits a nonprofit.

00:48:31.760 So diversity, everybody loves that, right?

00:48:33.800 So you fund the diversity so that you've got to cover.

00:48:36.480 And then the money hits the nonprofit that's going to do something for diversity. 0.97

00:48:42.140 And some shit lib in D.C. pays herself, himself or herself, half a million dollars. 1.00

00:48:49.020 Power couples are pulling in millions of dollars per year, stealing from you. 0.99

00:48:54.420 I believe that is a perfect explanation of some large part of what's happening.

00:49:01.600 That Democrats have figured out, wait a minute, if 98% of the people in USAID are Democrats, and I'm a Democrat, and they've got all this money,

00:49:15.140 and they give it out to all kinds of sketchy people all the time for sketchy reasons, all I need is to say I'm going to do something that sounds important, like fix diversity.

00:49:27.580 And then what are they going to do?

00:49:29.620 If you're USAID and somebody says I'm going to work on diversity, don't you say, oh, yeah, good, good, let's do that.

00:49:37.180 So it basically turns out a lot of this is, I think, literally just scam.

00:49:43.080 It's hard to know because there might be some legitimate ones that got in the mix.

00:49:46.900 But it does look like mostly it's designed as a scam.

00:49:51.380 At least that's the way it operates.

00:49:52.720 It's a de facto criminal enterprise.

00:49:56.160 De facto.

00:49:57.020 Might not actually be illegal.

00:50:00.620 Marco Rubio, now head of the State Department, where USAID got rolled in.

00:50:06.840 So after he got gutted, what's left of it got rolled under the State Department.

00:50:10.420 So Rubio is in charge of that, and he's going to reduce the staff of USAID from about 10,000 to 294, which is probably about 200 people too many.

00:50:23.280 But, you know, I'll take what I can get.

00:50:27.400 So this is very Musk-like.

00:50:30.000 It just feels like a lot of what he did with Twitter.

00:50:32.460 You know, your common sense, which wouldn't work in this case, told you, okay, Twitter might have 20% more people than they need.

00:50:42.460 Nope.

00:50:43.320 They had 90% more people than they needed, probably maybe 80% or 75%.

00:50:48.620 And that was the right number because X has apparently turned cash positive.

00:50:56.580 Can you believe that?

00:50:57.720 I think that's true.

00:50:58.480 I'll take a fact check on that.

00:51:00.340 But I saw this morning just in passing, somebody said that X is now beyond break-even, that they're cash positive.

00:51:09.700 Is that still true?

00:51:11.700 I hope so.

00:51:14.080 Anyway, so Mike Benz is now being attacked by the same media that may be benefiting from these corrupt payments from USAID and similar NGOs.

00:51:29.220 So would you be surprised to know that the Washington Post not only went after that Doge guy, but he already did a hit piece on Mike Benz.

00:51:39.900 And he says that a whole bunch of the media has contacted him asking him to comment because they're also working on hit pieces.

00:51:48.940 Apparently, it took him a while.

00:51:51.060 Were you all wondering, why hasn't Mike Benz been taken out by the deep state yet?

00:51:56.500 I hate to say it, but I've been wondering that for a long time.

00:51:59.820 And the only thing I could think of is that he had not penetrated the bubble yet.

00:52:05.760 Meaning that as long as they had a good bubble so that nobody in their base ever heard any Mike Benz argument.

00:52:12.440 And by the way, I tested this with my smartest Democrat friend a while back.

00:52:17.960 I said, all right, just do me a favor.

00:52:20.080 Just listen to one person.

00:52:22.380 Just listen to Mike Benz, figure out what he's saying about things.

00:52:26.400 And then you'll finally maybe catch up to a big part of what the political right knows.

00:52:33.360 And my friend looked at one of his videos, dismissed it as, I don't know, a troll or something,

00:52:41.260 and would never look at another one.

00:52:42.620 So that's probably what happened with any other Democrat who tried looking.

00:52:50.840 The Mike Benz view of reality is so disturbing that if you're not already leaning in that direction,

00:52:59.140 it'll just make your head explode.

00:53:01.080 And your brain won't be able to process how completely wrong your impression of the world you live in has been.

00:53:07.520 Here's the most provocative thing that Benz said just on a podcast, I think, yesterday.

00:53:14.840 He said there's no such thing as domestic policy.

00:53:19.900 Just listen to that.

00:53:21.540 There's no such thing as domestic policy.

00:53:25.280 Everything that you think is domestic policy is fake.

00:53:29.520 Meaning that it's designed to control other countries or to control our own country to keep a populist out of office.

00:53:42.120 Now, when I heard that, my first thought was, well, that's not true.

00:53:46.480 Because, you know, what about our, what about the emphasis the government has on DEI, you know, before Trump?

00:53:53.400 And now we know that DEI is what we introduced to a country we're trying to destabilize.

00:54:01.680 Because if you can get them to really be mad about racial division, which is what DEI gets you,

00:54:07.440 you can weaponize them and put them on the streets and have them rebel against their government.

00:54:13.460 But what about climate change?

00:54:15.700 I mean, that's obviously domestic policy.

00:54:17.860 We want to save our lives and make sure we're doing the right thing, right?

00:54:21.300 Well, except that one of the ways you destabilize another country is to inject climate change into that other country.

00:54:30.080 Say it's the most important thing.

00:54:32.020 And if the leaders aren't working on it, well, they got to be replaced.

00:54:36.400 And so it goes.

00:54:38.680 That everything you think was a domestic policy is really a way to make sure that populists like Trump don't get power.

00:54:48.380 Because the populists will rip into all that stuff. 0.97

00:54:51.880 What about trans rights?

00:54:54.260 Were you all confused about why trans rights suddenly became the only thing we were talking about for a long time?

00:55:00.340 Like, how is that even possible?

00:55:02.420 Like, even if you agree or disagree with, you know, any of the topics under the trans stuff,

00:55:08.880 nobody thought it should have been the top national talking point.

00:55:13.320 That can't be natural.

00:55:15.680 Do you know what we do when we try to destabilize other countries?

00:55:20.960 We fund pro-trans things in those countries.

00:55:24.020 Because the trans people can get the LGBTQs on board and suddenly they all hate their leadership. 1.00

00:55:32.140 Now, doesn't that sound exactly like what's happening in this country?

00:55:35.840 It does.

00:55:37.920 So let's talk more about that.

00:55:40.200 So I spent some time this morning, so that you didn't need to, on Grok.

00:55:47.420 So Grok is the AI I used.

00:55:49.800 And I said to myself, I want to use the most unbiased one,

00:55:53.500 because I'm going to ask some questions that I know will be censored on the other ones.

00:55:58.000 So this is what Grok said.

00:55:59.760 So the first thing I asked it was about this Smith-Munt Act of 1948.

00:56:05.540 I'll bet most of you have heard of that, right?

00:56:07.380 It's something that Democrats have no idea about.

00:56:10.440 So the Smith-Munt Act allowed our CIA or whatever it was at the time

00:56:15.780 to do propaganda broadcasts in other countries.

00:56:19.480 So we could literally try to brainwash other countries.

00:56:22.400 But it was very carefully, you know, walled, so they couldn't do that in America.

00:56:30.680 Now, the conservative story, or the MAGA story, is that when Obama came in office,

00:56:39.240 he changed the part about being able to do it domestically.

00:56:45.560 So the purpose of it, and nobody argues that this is the purpose.

00:56:49.440 So both sides would agree this is the purpose.

00:56:51.820 The purpose of sending media to other countries is to control their minds.

00:56:57.880 It's brainwashing.

00:56:58.700 It's propaganda.

00:56:59.580 And nobody argues that.

00:57:01.840 So that part, nobody argues.

00:57:04.180 Because we're okay propagandizing other countries.

00:57:07.500 You know, they do it to us.

00:57:08.480 We do it to them.

00:57:10.380 But the MAGA people would say, yes, but that all stopped.

00:57:14.440 That all stopped when Obama said you can also use that same material

00:57:19.920 that was used to propagandize other countries. 0.94

00:57:24.940 You can now use it internally.

00:57:27.360 So I asked Grok if that's true.

00:57:30.240 And he said, no, that's not true.

00:57:33.180 Here's what Grok says.

00:57:34.400 The only change that was made was that if you wanted to get some of that external propaganda

00:57:41.840 for research, just for research, you could request it, and it would not be denied to you.

00:57:52.220 That's what Grok says.

00:57:54.540 Grok is the most, I think, the most or the least censored AI. 1.00

00:58:02.120 Grok says that's bullshit. 0.98

00:58:04.660 Grok says that nothing like that happened. 1.00

00:58:06.720 There was no authorization for the CIA to brainwash Americans.

00:58:11.300 That didn't happen.

00:58:12.600 The only thing they did was a little technical change that allowed somebody to request something

00:58:17.200 if they wanted to do some research.

00:58:20.360 Do you believe that?

00:58:23.040 I don't know.

00:58:25.040 I'm going to say, I don't know.

00:58:26.420 I don't think that the Smith-Mundt Act is terribly important to what we're seeing today.

00:58:33.180 In other words, you can see everything we're seeing, whether or not the Smith-Mundt Act

00:58:38.120 did or did not do anything.

00:58:40.640 So I think maybe it's just a distraction, not an intentional distraction, but rather a distraction

00:58:47.760 to spend much time thinking about it.

00:58:49.860 Because we could argue all day whether that act has any difference, but we could also just

00:58:55.580 look at the difference.

00:58:57.120 We could just look at what people are doing.

00:58:59.520 And that's probably all you need.

00:59:01.760 So the CIA specifically would be not allowed to use that stuff.

00:59:08.940 But what about an NGO?

00:59:10.140 Do you think an NGO, a non-government organization that gets funded by the government, do you think

00:59:17.940 it could look at some of the propaganda and then repurpose it for the United States?

00:59:21.860 Because I don't think anything says that a non-CIA entity can't do it.

00:59:29.220 Do you think the CIA could ask somebody else to do it for them?

00:59:32.520 Do you think they could talk to the Washington Post?

00:59:36.400 I'll just use them as an example.

00:59:37.920 It's not an accusation.

00:59:39.380 Just an example.

00:59:41.000 Could the CIA say, hey, you know, I'm having lunch with a journalist.

00:59:44.520 And, you know, there's this interesting story happening over in Europe right now, and it

00:59:51.460 might be some application in the United States.

00:59:54.820 Maybe the U.S. market would like this story too.

00:59:57.480 And then it's not really the CIA that's using it to propagandize.

01:00:01.860 They're just having lunch.

01:00:03.660 It's just a conversation.

01:00:05.280 It's just lunch.

01:00:05.980 So if you have lunch with your favorite journalist and you happen to know about a story that's

01:00:12.260 kind of big in another country, maybe they'd be interested in looking at that story and

01:00:19.040 how it plays out in this country.

01:00:21.440 So I think if we're looking at the technical language of the law and the Smith-Munt Act and

01:00:29.400 what it does do and what it doesn't do and how it was revised, probably we're just going

01:00:34.060 down the rabbit hole for no reason.

01:00:36.320 Because you don't even need to be in that hole.

01:00:38.920 Everything that you care about, know about, everything that matters, it can all be deduced

01:00:43.720 without any reference to the Smith-Munt Act.

01:00:46.860 Because the one thing we can all be sure of is that any entity in the United States could

01:00:53.740 get around that without any effort.

01:00:57.360 It basically has no teeth.

01:00:59.060 Because there's nothing that would stop me from, let's say, looking at some media in

01:01:05.040 another country and saying, oh, I think I'll say that on social media because that look

01:01:10.020 good to me.

01:01:11.180 That's not illegal.

01:01:12.660 I can do it.

01:01:13.560 I'm just a citizen.

01:01:14.520 I just saw some stuff and I thought it'd be a good story.

01:01:17.160 So it couldn't possibly be true that Smith-Munt either caused anything or prevented anything. 0.59

01:01:25.200 It would be far more reasonable to say it doesn't do anything.

01:01:29.360 It's like you can forget that whole story.

01:01:32.160 You know, from the MAGA perspective, it kind of gave some meat to a belief, but you don't

01:01:39.920 need it.

01:01:40.840 You got plenty.

01:01:42.540 All right.

01:01:42.780 So that's the first thing I found.

01:01:43.800 Now, also, you might know that Operation Mockingbird was the CIA literally in the 50s

01:01:50.520 and 60s, they had favored news entities and journalists that they influenced, including

01:01:59.680 the Washington Post and the New York Times.

01:02:01.940 Well, they were implicated.

01:02:04.400 So Grok doesn't say they were guilty.

01:02:07.520 Grok says they were implicated.

01:02:11.300 So, and it remains to be seen, according to Grok, whether they were really guilty of that.

01:02:17.060 But I think most of us believe that Operation Mockingbird was real.

01:02:24.700 And so that means in my lifetime, in my lifetime, the 60s, the CIA was managing our news.

01:02:36.400 And they don't have to manage every news entity, because if you get the Washington Post and

01:02:41.140 the New York Times, everybody else just follows them.

01:02:43.820 They're called the newsmakers, meaning that until it's in one of those entities, at least

01:02:49.440 in the 60s, it wasn't really news.

01:02:52.420 So if a local newspaper had a big story, nobody cared.

01:02:56.920 Didn't go anywhere.

01:02:57.800 It has to be in the New York Times or the Washington Post in those days.

01:03:02.540 That was before, you know, internet.

01:03:04.100 Stop wondering.

01:03:31.720 Start winning.

01:03:32.640 Winners find fabulous for less.

01:03:36.120 So, allegedly, there was this church committee in the 70s that exposed this evil, and then

01:03:45.980 it was ended.

01:03:49.020 Do you think it was ended because it became illegal?

01:03:52.920 Let's go back to lunch, shall we?

01:03:58.020 Hey, favorite journalist who works for the Washington Post, would you like to have lunch?

01:04:02.900 I work for the CIA, and I know lots of things that maybe off the record you'd like to know,

01:04:07.940 too.

01:04:09.140 All right.

01:04:09.600 Well, it's just lunch.

01:04:11.520 So let's have lunch.

01:04:13.240 All right.

01:04:13.580 Here's a scoop.

01:04:14.980 Let me tell you this scoop.

01:04:16.520 And they give him a real scoop, and the journalist says, wow, that was worth it.

01:04:20.500 I'm glad I went to lunch with that guy.

01:04:23.240 And then maybe later, you know, he needs some context on the story, and he contacts

01:04:28.300 that CIA guy and says, hey, you know, I'm doing a story on this.

01:04:31.920 Do you have any context?

01:04:32.900 And the CIA guy adds it, makes his story better.

01:04:36.640 Journalist is now killing it.

01:04:38.180 He's got two great stories thanks to the CIA contact.

01:04:41.760 And then there's another lunch.

01:04:45.460 The CIA contact says, you know what? 0.58

01:04:48.500 God, this terrible Trump guy.

01:04:50.560 Wow. 0.91

01:04:51.720 Yeah, I don't know what the world's going to do with this Trump, Trump, Trump guy trying

01:04:56.680 to break all of our democracy and doing racist things.

01:05:00.640 You know, what's your newspaper doing about Trump?

01:05:03.940 Well, I don't know.

01:05:05.620 I mean, I don't have any stories about that.

01:05:07.880 You know, you really should think about it, because it really is the biggest story, in

01:05:13.360 my opinion.

01:05:14.400 I mean, I'm not telling you any CIA stuff.

01:05:17.000 And of course, the CIA can't tell you to do it.

01:05:19.600 But wow, it's the biggest story.

01:05:22.900 How are you missing that?

01:05:25.380 And the next thing you know, the journalist does not believe that they have been influenced

01:05:30.200 by the CIA.

01:05:31.700 They just think they have a good idea for a story.

01:05:34.260 Now, this is just an example, of course.

01:05:38.740 But if you think that the law, or any kind of law, like the church committee or whatever

01:05:45.120 they found and whatever law changed, if you think the law can prevent somebody from having

01:05:51.020 lunch, what world do you live in?

01:05:54.880 All they need is a conversation.

01:05:57.000 You don't think that the CIA is trained in how to manipulate somebody into doing what they

01:06:02.480 want?

01:06:02.780 That's exactly what they're trained to do.

01:06:05.800 Not just in America, but to anybody.

01:06:08.000 If you sit down with somebody who's trained to persuade you, you're going to leave that

01:06:13.740 meeting a little bit persuaded.

01:06:16.020 So you don't really need to do anything illegal.

01:06:19.520 It's just lunch.

01:06:20.920 Just lunch.

01:06:23.660 What that?

01:06:29.220 Okay, that's bad.

01:06:30.760 All right.

01:06:31.100 So, I would ignore the fact that there were any legal changes about what the CIA can or

01:06:39.840 cannot do.

01:06:40.900 Sometimes it's the CIA.

01:06:42.320 Sometimes it's the State Department.

01:06:43.940 Sometimes it's the Pentagon.

01:06:45.620 So when I say the CIA did this or that, what I mean is any of those entities, because they're

01:06:52.680 sort of joined at the hip for a lot of stuff.

01:06:54.600 So let me tell you what the MAGA belief is, and then we'll see how connected to reality

01:07:03.540 is.

01:07:03.860 So the MAGA belief is that the CIA developed a bunch of tools, allegedly for influencing

01:07:10.260 other countries.

01:07:11.600 But they ended up turning those tools on the populist movement of Trump because stopping

01:07:19.680 populists in other countries was mainly what they did.

01:07:22.440 And stopping a Trump populist movement was apparently, some say, allegedly, what they did next.

01:07:32.960 Now, we know that there was some effort to censor Americans by controlling foreign entities.

01:07:41.100 So if a foreign fake fact checker kept saying that X or something was fake, well, then the European 0.77

01:07:48.040 countries could say, well, according to our fake fact checker that's paid by USAID, just as an example,

01:07:55.280 I don't know if they are, according to the fake fact checkers, this one Elon Musk-owned platform is

01:08:02.500 just full of lies and Nazis. 0.90

01:08:04.460 So I guess we can just ban it, which would put X in a business. 1.00

01:08:09.640 So we do know that our own government intentionally, not by accident, got a whole bunch of fake entities

01:08:20.100 and other countries that we funded to do things that we couldn't do legal in this country.

01:08:26.160 So it might have been technically legal, but certainly a violation of everything we care

01:08:30.960 about constitutionally.

01:08:32.800 So we know that's true.

01:08:34.900 So here are the things we know are true.

01:08:40.420 I'm not going to read that comment, but it's very funny.

01:08:42.660 Uh, the things we know are true are that the, our own government has done a bunch of color 0.98

01:08:49.240 revolutions in other countries.

01:08:51.380 Now, if you don't know what a color revolution is, it's because a lot of these coups that are

01:08:56.500 usually instigated by America, um, they often have a color associated with them.

01:09:02.740 Uh, not always, sometimes there'll be some other, some other label, but let me just give

01:09:08.520 you an example of some, some color revolutions.

01:09:12.640 Now, maybe I should tell you that the way they do the color revolution is they first do

01:09:17.960 capacity building.

01:09:19.480 This is also Mike Ben's narrative.

01:09:22.240 Uh, the capacity building means we, we bribe or somehow get control of various things within

01:09:28.900 the country we're targeting.

01:09:30.580 So if we could, uh, let's say bribe or control their media or any part of it, that'd be a big

01:09:37.060 part of it, if we can control union heads, they could tell the unions what to do.

01:09:42.760 That'd be a big part of it.

01:09:44.240 Uh, if we could control the universities.

01:09:46.700 So we're educating the young people to be against their own government and for us. 0.99

01:09:51.460 And you would try to control minority groups because they're the ones most likely to say,

01:09:56.440 Hey, the government's not serving us.

01:09:58.660 We better overthrow it.

01:09:59.960 So, uh, if you saw USAID going into a country and even if they said, Oh, we're going to help

01:10:08.900 you with your terrible problems, it is, it is verified that in a number of cases, some

01:10:17.180 would say not a hundred percent, Mike Ben's might say a hundred percent, but that the CIA

01:10:21.920 rides on the charity to get into the country and then do its CIA thing.

01:10:26.140 And that all of the charities are basically cover for that activity because we don't do

01:10:31.920 anything for another country unless it has a domestic purpose.

01:10:35.320 And the domestic purpose is controlling other countries.

01:10:39.280 So that's the, that's the claim.

01:10:42.080 So this is the narrative on the right.

01:10:44.740 So if you, if somebody were running a color revolution in the United States, we know what 0.93

01:10:51.760 to look for.

01:10:52.240 And I'll tell you that in a minute, but here are some of the examples.

01:10:54.240 Uh, in 2000, Serbia had a bulldozer revolution, so they didn't have a color yet.

01:11:00.600 The colors came later.

01:11:01.840 There was a rose revolution in Georgia, 2003.

01:11:04.460 There was an orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004.

01:11:06.840 There was a tulip resolution in Kyrgyzstan, 2005.

01:11:09.980 Cedar revolution in Lebanon, 2005.

01:11:12.720 Jeans revolution, Belarus, 2006.

01:11:14.920 Saffron revolution, Myanmar, 2007.

01:11:17.660 Green movement, Iran, 2009.

01:11:19.420 Velvet revolution, Armenia, 2018.

01:11:21.440 Some say that Euromaiden, which is also Ukraine, that came later, the Arab Spring and Hong Kong

01:11:27.540 protests and Belarus protests are sometimes also labeled as color revolutions.

01:11:33.960 That's according to Grok.

01:11:35.780 So, so this comes from Grok.

01:11:39.780 Now, did you know how many there were?

01:11:42.500 That's kind of a lot.

01:11:45.260 And I think this is not a complete list.

01:11:47.660 I think maybe it's just, you know, the bigger countries we've all heard of.

01:11:53.520 So here are the things we know for sure.

01:11:56.440 There have been decades in which the CIA controlled Americans by brainwashing us through the media.

01:12:03.200 That's not questioned by anybody.

01:12:05.020 Left, right, we all agree on that. 1.00

01:12:06.640 Some say it stopped happening, but they are morons. 1.00

01:12:11.240 They are morons. 1.00

01:12:13.100 There's no way to stop that from happening domestically. 1.00

01:12:16.400 There's no way.

01:12:19.000 You know, when I watch a movie like Top Gun, it's all rah-rah, Americans are good at flying planes. 1.00

01:12:26.120 I don't think that happens by itself.

01:12:29.120 You know, I think maybe, you know, Tom Cruise makes amazing movies and he has the power to do any movie he wants.

01:12:35.060 And that was an obvious sequel.

01:12:38.160 But, you know, you think that's totally without any influence by our government?

01:12:43.820 I don't know.

01:12:45.060 I have no evidence that it is, but it's exactly what they do.

01:12:49.340 So, I don't know.

01:12:52.300 Well, now let's go to 2016.

01:12:55.360 Tie it all together.

01:12:56.360 Trump wins unexpectedly.

01:12:58.140 How did Trump win unexpectedly?

01:12:59.860 Because the bad guys failed to believe it was true.

01:13:04.800 There was such a thing as shy Trump supporters.

01:13:07.940 That's right.

01:13:10.500 The smartest people in our government, you know, the spooks and the spies and the FBI and all those smart politicians,

01:13:17.780 they all believed it wasn't real when people like me were saying,

01:13:22.680 you know what's coming, right?

01:13:25.520 You know that you've made it impossible to say out loud who you support.

01:13:30.460 And you know it's so bad, you can't even tell your spouse.

01:13:34.140 And you know it's so bad that if a pollster calls and you do support Trump, you're not going to take the call.

01:13:39.760 And you know it's so bad, you might be lying to your own spouse about who you support.

01:13:45.980 Now, that's what they missed.

01:13:48.020 Now, I didn't miss it.

01:13:49.600 I was saying it almost every day.

01:13:51.560 Almost every day, I said, you got to watch out.

01:13:55.060 Shy Trump supporters.

01:13:56.740 It's way bigger than you think.

01:13:58.500 And there's a logical, obvious reason for it because you've made it impossible to go public with your beliefs.

01:14:05.200 And so, sure enough, Trump wins unexpectedly.

01:14:08.520 And then what do you think happened?

01:14:10.220 And so, one of the tricks that the color revolutions use is to say that Russia or somebody else is behind who is in office now.

01:14:22.320 So, you can get a revolution going if you can say, oh, the current leader is a Russian puppet. 0.63

01:14:30.480 See where this is going?

01:14:32.460 What was the main attack on Trump? 0.96

01:14:34.860 Literally, that he was a Russian puppet. 0.87

01:14:38.780 This is textbook.

01:14:40.700 This is guaranteed every time.

01:14:43.360 If you, if the America tries to overthrow a populist, the first thing they say is, that's not a populist.

01:14:49.840 That's a Russian puppet. 0.94

01:14:51.740 And watch how hard they've pushed on the Russian puppet thing.

01:14:54.500 And now, as I was saying, the prairie dogs, the people who have exposed themselves as being part of the corrupt machine, they were the ones pushing it. 0.56

01:15:04.220 Hillary Clinton, to this day, is pushing the Russia puppet thing about Trump. 1.00

01:15:11.440 It's not an accident.

01:15:13.340 If all they wanted to do was say there's bad things about Trump, you would just say a million different things.

01:15:18.560 But the fact that they converged on a whole made-up Russia puppet thing, that's textbook 100% indication that they turned their external tools internally. 0.67

01:15:33.380 It's not proof, but it would be the biggest fucking coincidence in the world, especially since it wasn't true.

01:15:42.060 If it was true, then you'd just say, well, it was just true. 0.77

01:15:45.120 But they made it up, and we know that.

01:15:47.220 They made it up.

01:15:50.080 And then, let's see.

01:15:52.400 What about the capacity building?

01:15:54.340 If we were doing capacity building in other places, we would fund things like universities.

01:15:59.800 Huh.

01:16:00.360 Look at our universities.

01:16:02.520 Full of leftist anti-populists.

01:16:06.200 Look at our media.

01:16:08.120 Huh.

01:16:09.000 The media seems completely controlled, just like we would do to another country if we wanted to take it over.

01:16:14.120 How about racial groups?

01:16:17.680 Oh, Black Lives Matter. 0.93

01:16:19.300 Well, suddenly, we can make a story out of this George Floyd thing that, if it had been based on the facts, would have been no story at all.

01:16:26.720 But if you control the media, you can turn the George Floyd story into a story about rampant racial problems in the country.

01:16:35.560 That's exactly what we would do to another country. 1.00

01:16:37.920 How about Antifa?

01:16:39.940 And by the way, BLM was funded by USAID.

01:16:42.660 Did you know that?

01:16:44.700 What about Antifa?

01:16:46.240 Well, I don't know where they came from, but they disappeared as soon as Trump was out of office.

01:16:50.200 And given that they're supposed to be anarchists, they should be just as mad as Biden, at Biden, as they would have been at Trump.

01:16:57.900 They're anarchists.

01:16:59.240 Are you telling me they're anarchists like Democrats?

01:17:02.000 Oh, that's Joe Biden?

01:17:03.500 Yeah, that's fine.

01:17:04.220 But you're an anarchist.

01:17:07.240 Yeah, yeah.

01:17:09.360 But only when Trump's in office.

01:17:12.320 Right?

01:17:12.520 None of this ever made sense.

01:17:14.120 It's obviously external.

01:17:16.280 What about the Charlottesville op?

01:17:19.500 To me, I think it's so obvious that the Charlottesville thing was a government op.

01:17:24.240 It's exactly what you would do, exactly what you would do to overthrow another country. 0.96

01:17:31.420 You would have some kind of event that showed the racial minorities that they better act because they're in trouble. 1.00

01:17:40.780 You better act.

01:17:41.760 You better get to the streets.

01:17:42.940 You better vote.

01:17:44.440 Well, that looks suspiciously right on point, doesn't it?

01:17:47.280 Now, what about the district attorneys?

01:17:51.080 Is there any history in which we tried to control the district attorneys in another country for the benefit of overthrowing the government?

01:17:59.540 Have you heard of Joe Biden and his trip to Ukraine, in which he said, if you don't get rid of that prosecutor, you can't have money from, was it from USAID?

01:18:12.180 Somebody said it was, but I don't know if that's true.

01:18:14.160 So we watched.

01:18:17.520 The first thing Biden had to do is get rid of the prosecutor and get one in there that he liked.

01:18:23.440 What did the Democrats and USAID and George Soros fund?

01:18:28.540 They funded friendly DAs and attorney generals so that they could control prosecutions against who they wanted to prosecute.

01:18:38.160 And then they engaged them and then they went after Trump.

01:18:41.920 All the lawfare is the same thing we would do in another country to control their government.

01:18:48.120 We would the same thing.

01:18:49.760 We would just find some fake reason that the DAs and the law has to go after them.

01:18:57.000 And they would be our people.

01:18:58.540 The law would be basically bribed by us. 0.59

01:19:01.780 So that looks like exactly what's happening.

01:19:03.980 Letitia James is still yelling she's going to be suing Trump and trying to put him in jail.

01:19:08.720 She's still saying it.

01:19:10.780 The other thing you'd want to do is if you're taking over another country, you'd want to weaponize their Department of Justice, like I just said.

01:19:18.680 But also if they had an FBI or something like that, you'd want to control them too.

01:19:24.220 These are all the things that happened to us.

01:19:28.620 Now, is it a coincidence that the precise exact tools that are used in other countries, and there's a long list of times we've used them, and they're well-established tools.

01:19:41.160 Nobody's doubting that those are the tools.

01:19:43.280 And also nobody would doubt what I just described.

01:19:47.020 There was a Russia collusion hoax.

01:19:50.160 There was our universities, media, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, are clearly fake.

01:19:56.420 I say the Charlottesville thing was fake because it never happened again.

01:20:00.800 I mean, that's your ultimate signal.

01:20:03.360 If that had been real, even after they all got in trouble, there would have been some second wave, third wave, even if it were smaller.

01:20:11.800 But no, it just disappeared.

01:20:13.780 Okay, it was never real.

01:20:14.880 The racists were real.

01:20:17.020 But obviously it was organized by some dark entity that was trying to mess with the United States.

01:20:25.440 So that's what we got going.

01:20:28.980 And of course, we know that in the United States, DEI and climate change and trans rights became our big weapons to use against who? 0.79

01:20:37.100 Oh, it just turns out that all of those things can be used against the populist.

01:20:45.360 Coincidence, right?

01:20:46.580 That the things that you said to yourself, why are these the top story?

01:20:51.320 They shouldn't be the top story, even if you think they're important.

01:20:56.360 It's all fake.

01:20:57.340 So when Mike Benz says there's no such thing as domestic policy, does that make sense now?

01:21:04.940 Even getting rid of Trump is for the benefit of our international policy.

01:21:12.860 And the things that they use to get rid of them that you think are domestic policy are only to get rid of them.

01:21:21.480 Now, of course, there are people who agree with all these policies, but that's not why they're the big thing.

01:21:26.260 The reason anything that becomes a big thing is because somebody behind the curtain is pushing it.

01:21:32.560 It doesn't become a big, big thing on its own.

01:21:36.400 All right.

01:21:39.200 So did I already talk about Thomas Massey, who says that USAID is gutted, but I can't tell if I thought about talking about it or talked about it.

01:21:51.200 So Thomas Massey was saying that the Omnibus might just put USAID all back together.

01:21:57.200 I think I told you that, but yeah.

01:22:01.200 So that might happen.

01:22:02.220 So we have a self-healing criminal system.

01:22:06.880 There's also something called DRL, according to American thinker John Krandelsky is writing about this.

01:22:15.840 Here's what that is.

01:22:16.980 Something that started under Carter, DRL, and it has some human rights agenda in foreign policy.

01:22:26.640 And central and practically independent element of American foreign policy. 0.95

01:22:32.600 So the thinking is that that's just another one of these, you know, bullshit USAID things. 0.94

01:22:38.780 Like USAID, but different entity. 0.97

01:22:40.520 In other news, Iran has unveiled its first drone carrier.

01:22:47.380 So it's like an aircraft carrier, except for drones only.

01:22:54.840 And it's already launched.

01:22:59.000 So apparently Iran will now have the power to project drone swarms wherever they want. 0.82

01:23:08.540 I'd like to make a prediction about the fate of their new craft.

01:23:15.860 I'm going to give it six months before a catastrophic mechanical problem causes it to blow up in port.

01:23:25.980 Just a guess.

01:23:26.880 I think it might have a terrible, terrible mechanical problem that, hey, if they'd done a better job of building it, it wouldn't have happened.

01:23:37.800 But sadly, probably because of their bad engineering, they're going to make a carrier that just explodes on its own, really.

01:23:45.520 And we weren't even anywhere near it.

01:23:47.560 So don't look at us.

01:23:49.620 It just exploded on its own.

01:23:51.820 Israel? 0.53

01:23:52.200 Well, I don't know what you're talking about.

01:23:53.860 No.

01:23:54.200 Sometimes things just explode on their own.

01:23:56.720 It's very bad.

01:23:57.780 Very bad luck.

01:24:00.060 But Trump is calling for, in terms of Iran, he wants a verified nuclear peace agreement.

01:24:06.720 And he's sort of talking like a president in a good way.

01:24:11.100 He said, I would much prefer a verified nuclear peace agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper.

01:24:17.220 I like how Trump always says, don't you want to prosper?

01:24:23.000 You know, that's his go-to for every adversarial country.

01:24:27.720 How about we just stop fighting each other and you just make a bunch of money?

01:24:33.320 How about that?

01:24:34.840 Because it's a pretty appealing concept to at least the public, if not the leaders.

01:24:39.320 He said, we don't want to be tough on Iran.

01:24:43.460 We don't want to be tough on anybody.

01:24:45.720 But they just can't have a nuclear bomb.

01:24:48.780 Now, I love the clarity of that.

01:24:52.920 I love the clarity.

01:24:55.020 You're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

01:24:57.460 When Israel says it, you know they mean it as well.

01:25:00.640 But you wonder if the United States might prevent them from doing what it might take to get rid of it, you know, such as, you know, bunker busting bombs on nuclear facilities in Iran.

01:25:11.080 So you don't necessarily think that Israel would have the green light to do what needs to be done in Iran.

01:25:19.900 But what if Trump says you do?

01:25:22.880 When Trump says, the one thing I'll guarantee is you're not going to get a nuclear weapon.

01:25:28.400 What that tells me is what Trump always says, which is everything's on the table.

01:25:34.120 So if Israel comes, let's say that nothing good happens with Iran and there's no progress and there's no talks and there's not going to be. 0.79

01:25:42.360 Do you think that Trump is going to stop Israel from taking out their nuclear facilities?

01:25:47.320 I don't.

01:25:48.520 I think they have a green light, but not yet.

01:25:52.340 We're going to see if Iran will, you know, just want to join the peaceful world. 0.79

01:25:58.400 You know, now that their proxies have been decimated, it's a whole different conversation.

01:26:04.460 So it's the best time in the world to be negotiating with Iran. 1.00

01:26:08.420 But I love the fact that we have the capability of bombing to shit all of their nuclear facilities, no matter how underground they are, and that it's green light. 0.97

01:26:19.480 So you can talk to us about stopping it yourself or we'll stop it. 0.96

01:26:25.720 But the question of whether it will be stopped is asked and answered.

01:26:30.300 Yeah.

01:26:30.600 You know, see, this is important.

01:26:32.960 If you act like it's a negotiation, it will be one.

01:26:36.660 So the mistake would be to say, we need to have a negotiation about your nuclear program.

01:26:42.700 Nope, fail.

01:26:43.880 You failed before you started.

01:26:45.680 As soon as you say it's a negotiation, then they just drag it out and they fake it and nothing happens.

01:26:52.540 If you say you're not going to have a nuclear weapon, everybody knows what that means.

01:26:58.360 It means that there's nothing we won't do to stop it, meaning we would nuke you.

01:27:05.180 I don't think that's going to happen, but we'd nuke them before we'd let them have a nuclear weapon.

01:27:09.300 There's no limit to what we'd be willing to do.

01:27:13.040 Now, once you start your negotiations with, all right, this thing's not going to happen.

01:27:18.320 And now here's your decision.

01:27:20.160 So you see it again.

01:27:21.440 He's making him think past the sale.

01:27:23.440 The sale is, do you do nuclear or not?

01:27:26.580 He's saying that's solved.

01:27:28.600 Now that we've solved, you're not going to have nuclear because we have the power.

01:27:32.460 Notice how he does this.

01:27:33.760 Trump always tells people that he has the power so you can stop thinking about it.

01:27:38.140 I've decided.

01:27:42.860 Wow, what's this?

01:27:44.600 Breaking news.

01:27:45.500 Egypt says it will work with partners to reconstruct Gaza without Palestinians leaving the Strip.

01:27:51.680 That sounds like a non-starter.

01:27:54.000 But back to Trump.

01:27:55.380 Look how good the technique is.

01:27:58.380 You could take this with yourself.

01:28:00.300 And I've used this, by the way.

01:28:01.500 I've used this technique a number of times.

01:28:03.200 And when I do, it always works.

01:28:05.280 It works every time.

01:28:06.820 You never let it be a discussion whether they can have the thing that you don't want them to have the thing.

01:28:12.920 You only tell them how they can lose it.

01:28:15.580 All right.

01:28:15.840 We're not talking about whether you can have it.

01:28:18.320 That's already settled.

01:28:20.520 We're going to talk about how you don't have it.

01:28:23.400 Do you not have it because you decided to play nice and then you make money, we make money, and everybody's happy?

01:28:28.280 Or did you decide to do it by losing your control over your own country while we just decimate your nuclear program and good luck picking up the pieces? 0.85

01:28:39.600 So I don't think anybody's ever put it in those terms before, where the question of whether you're going to have it is now taken off the table.

01:28:46.320 Well, that's asked and answered and settled.

01:28:48.600 You are not going to have it because we do have the power.

01:28:52.420 Trump has 100% of the ability to take it away from.

01:28:55.780 So he just said you don't have it.

01:28:57.920 So now you only get to decide what path you take to not have it.

01:29:03.980 With bombs or no bombs.

01:29:06.360 That is good technique.

01:29:08.800 You know, see, sometimes the things that he says are so ordinary looking that you don't realize how deep the technique is.

01:29:18.480 What he said, I don't believe anybody said it quite the way he said it.

01:29:22.600 But also, this is important, because he's Trump, they think he would carry through with a threat.

01:29:28.240 If Biden says, I'd love to see Biden's language.

01:29:33.080 Maybe you can do a fact check on me.

01:29:34.540 Find me some quotes from Biden, and I'll bet you it says things like, we're going to work really hard to make sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.

01:29:44.540 Fail.

01:29:46.040 Fail.

01:29:47.220 Complete failure.

01:29:48.820 We don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

01:29:52.000 Fail.

01:29:52.880 Fail.

01:29:53.520 Fail. 0.99

01:29:55.400 You're already killed yourself before you started.

01:29:58.800 If you say, you're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

01:30:02.500 Now let's talk about how that happens.

01:30:05.440 Whole different narrative.

01:30:07.680 I mean, completely different frame.

01:30:09.320 And that's what Trump does better than anybody.

01:30:12.720 All right.

01:30:15.360 According to Popular Science, there's a company that's building an underwater homes.

01:30:21.660 They could live in for extended times.

01:30:23.780 They're for research.

01:30:25.040 But maybe someday there'll be underwater homes.

01:30:28.020 All right.

01:30:28.220 That's all I have.

01:30:28.860 I ran way too long.

01:30:32.200 I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately.

01:30:34.940 I hope you like this.

01:30:36.300 It's really hard understanding all the various layers of things.

01:30:40.620 But I think we're getting closer.

01:30:42.720 So locals, I'm coming at you privately.

01:30:44.460 If you're on XOR, Rumble, or YouTube, thanks for joining.

01:30:48.180 I'll be here tomorrow.

01:30:49.180 Same time, same place.

01:30:50.080 I'll be here tomorrow.

01:30:51.400 You can find out.

01:30:51.900 Bye.

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01:30:52.760 I'll be here tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 07, 2025

Episode 2743 CWSA 02⧸07⧸25

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