Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2744 CWSA 02⧸08⧸25

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00:00:48.960 well if you're thinking it's saturday so is owen going to do his spaces um not today um spaces will

00:00:58.780 be on sunday after the show uh there are several stories in the news today about trans and i'm

00:01:08.360 going to ignore all of them because i feel manipulated you know what i mean every time i see a trans story 0.85

00:01:15.660 of any kind i think to myself you know it was only a few years ago there were zero and then suddenly

00:01:22.840 it's like one of the main things in the news there's no way that's organic and there's it's no way that's

00:01:29.220 national news all right there's somebody who's trans and somebody called them the wrong pronoun i don't

00:01:35.880 care no no interest whatsoever in individual trans stories well president trump the ultimate crowd

00:01:44.680 pleaser the man who can read the room better than anybody says plastic straws are back

00:01:50.000 let me tell you how genius that is plastic straws have to be one of the most popular things in the

00:01:59.060 country and everybody tried the you know the regular ones and didn't like them so the beauty of this is not

00:02:07.160 just as popular but it's visceral see this is what trump does that you don't notice when when you think

00:02:15.020 of the plastic straw you can feel it right it's like a feeling you can almost taste it you can you can

00:02:23.500 taste your your beverage you know in your mind so when he does this visual imagery that evokes taste and

00:02:32.360 feeling that's really strong you can never forget that kind of stuff now let's compare trump saying

00:02:40.580 plastic straws are back and you've got this whole visual image and you're happy about it and it's

00:02:46.100 it's not the biggest thing in the world but it's absolutely what you wanted now compare to elizabeth

00:02:51.660 warren who did a post in which she was talking about doge and she's fighting against it now watch this

00:02:59.520 generic terrible communication all right this is from a post on x elizabeth warren senator warren

00:03:05.780 i often talk about righteous fights

00:03:09.400 some kind of concept

00:03:13.760 make no mistake we are in one a what oh a righteous fight okay that's nice and generic i can't taste it

00:03:27.240 feel it see it i won't remember those words tomorrow uh this fight will be long okay you're

00:03:34.320 telling me i'm going to feel bad trump will continue to distract divide and demoralize

00:03:39.060 okay concepts concepts concepts but when things get tough again you're telling me it's going to be hard 0.99

00:03:47.420 there is only one option ahead of us there's never one option ahead of you that's kind of dumb

00:03:52.780 even as a concept nevertheless we must persist

00:03:56.720 you see what i'm saying right let me keep let me give it to you back to back trump i'm bringing

00:04:05.080 black i'm bringing back plastic straws got it elizabeth warren i often talk about righteous fights 0.77

00:04:12.160 and make no mistake we are in one this fight will be long trump will continue to distract divide

00:04:16.760 into moral lessons but when it gets tough when it gets tough there's only one up god learn to

00:04:23.100 communicate will you learn to communicate how in the world is she one of their strongest

00:04:29.780 democrats when she can't put a sentence together that anybody would want to care about 1.00

00:04:36.460 meanwhile ice says i guess arrested 11 000 illegal migrants according to new york post

00:04:44.440 so they're they're putting them in all kinds of different places but so that's just in first 18 days

00:04:52.480 they got 11 000 mostly criminals who mostly would have re-offended because criminals re-offend

00:05:02.300 did they basically get rid of let's say if they re-offended you know twice a year

00:05:09.760 did we get rid of 20 000 crimes that feels like a lot i mean i i get that's a big country and we

00:05:18.260 have a lot of crimes but 20 000 crimes how are you not in favor of that 20 000 criminals especially the

00:05:26.420 gangs you know there's some people who say that the gangs the trend of wagwa or whatever it is are are

00:05:34.940 so uh let's say viral that if they get enough of a foothold in your country they can start controlling

00:05:44.280 your government and we weren't very far away from that it would have only taken uh it would only take

00:05:51.460 it a little bit you know maybe a few more years and they would have control over local governments

00:05:56.940 you know you know through threats and violence anyway so glad we're getting them now um one of

00:06:04.900 the stories that people had the most interest in yesterday was that trump revoked biden's security

00:06:10.480 clearance now you might remember that biden revoked trump's security clearance saying oh he can't be

00:06:17.680 trusted so so trump returned the favor which i'm totally in favor of uh you know i'm not in favor of

00:06:24.780 just revengey stuff but this had no real impact on anything except slap in the face to biden who

00:06:30.940 just deserved to slap in the face uh again not physically we're talking we're talking uh mentally

00:06:38.160 slap in the face and uh but the reason that i think the public was so interested in this story 0.98

00:06:45.320 you know yesterday when i did my man cave program almost everybody who came in said hey have you heard

00:06:51.400 about this one have you heard about this one and i think the main thing is we understand it

00:06:55.420 the doge stories are all just a little complicated have you noticed you have to sort of know what the

00:07:05.380 entity is and then there's a whole bunch of different things they're doing badly and then you

00:07:10.320 confuse that with the other entity and it's just really complicated stuff so when we see a simple

00:07:17.420 one like trump's bringing back plastic straws we're like okay i got that one or uh trump revokes

00:07:26.460 biden's security clearance oh okay got it let's talk about that one easy you know all uh all crime

00:07:33.400 hides in complexity complexity is usually the way that um it's usually intentional to hide crime

00:07:43.420 that that's why almost every domain has something in it that's way too complicated

00:07:48.380 because there's crime in there and you can't spot it because it's too complicated

00:07:52.900 um there's a study uh by a diverse iq who says that dei didn't work so dei has been around for a while

00:08:04.860 and it made basically no real difference i could give you details but the details all say it didn't make

00:08:12.480 any difference so we had years of severe racism against white men mostly because white women were 1.00

00:08:20.780 doing fine under dei but years of discrimination just over discrimination against men no difference

00:08:29.100 the the numbers barely moved a little bit more in management you know which you'd expect

00:08:36.860 so anyway dei was a failure we can say that for sure much like the uh department of education

00:08:46.560 at the federal level the is it the department of education yeah the uh department of education

00:08:54.200 was formed because the the students at the lowest end of accomplishment needed a boost so the whole

00:09:02.180 idea was all right we'll do this federal thing so the states can't just let let people go

00:09:08.820 and it made no difference so years and years of funding the you know the education department

00:09:16.500 no difference so dei no difference uh department of education no difference

00:09:24.740 so getting rid of those things that made no difference it's got to be a good thing

00:09:30.080 all right let's talk about the story about the uh the young man i think he was 25 who got uh canceled 0.73

00:09:38.140 but was brought back so correct me if i'm wrong but i think the story about big balls

00:09:46.040 is not a story about him saying anything wrong he just had a funny name online

00:09:51.740 it's someone else um slightly older 25 i think 24 25 who was the one who said some things under a

00:10:01.320 i think under a pseudonym i don't think it was under his own name but had said several things that

00:10:07.180 uh a normal person would say well that's pretty racist that looks pretty racist i would say that 0.61

00:10:12.760 if you were just looking at what he said yeah yeah i'm not going to repeat them because they're ugly

00:10:18.760 thoughts but yeah if you're only looking at the sentences yeah that that would look racist to me

00:10:25.780 but here's the thing there are real people who say bad things i don't i've told you before i don't put

00:10:34.540 the same standard on somebody young as i put in somebody older but i also don't put the same standard

00:10:40.740 on people acting anonymously if somebody acts anonymously and then somebody outs them i blame

00:10:49.580 the person who outed them that's my standard because if you're saying something anonymously

00:10:55.240 it means it's something closer to a thought it's something that you wouldn't say under your own name

00:11:01.000 all of us have terrible thoughts sometimes i mean on different topics but we all have terrible thoughts

00:11:08.320 thoughts if we if all of us were judged on our thoughts we would all be canceled now some of you

00:11:15.520 might say oh not me i never had any bad thoughts really really i don't believe that so i don't have

00:11:25.120 the same standard for and i don't know if this is the case by the way i don't know if he posted

00:11:30.280 under his own name if he posted that stuff under his own name then i would be a little more harsh

00:11:36.660 but anything that somebody does anonymously it's because they want you to know how they think

00:11:42.760 and i find that valuable so even if you hate it don't you want to know somebody's thinking it

00:11:49.180 isn't isn't that a plus even if you hate that somebody's thinking it i want to know what they're

00:11:54.980 thinking whether it's yeah an insult to somebody else or an insult to me i would definitely want to

00:12:00.980 know so there's that but here's the bigger story so the bigger story is he said things that normally

00:12:09.180 would get anybody canceled but jd vance basically said you know get over it people make mistakes move

00:12:17.420 on and then he got reinstated so elon brought him back he had a little he also had a little survey on

00:12:24.980 x 78 of the people on x now it's of course not a scientific poll but uh 78 said bring him back

00:12:31.700 now here's why i'm in favor of bringing him back because i can't live with a standard that you can

00:12:40.640 be um you can be canceled for something you said that somebody else thinks is racist now in this

00:12:47.600 particular case these were unusually clear so uh they look pretty bad but he's also unlikely to

00:12:56.480 you know take those kind of views into his adult life you know people change so my problem with the

00:13:04.160 whole topic is if you let this guy get canceled what happens next right i don't want to say slippery

00:13:11.940 slope because i hate that term but what happens if you let him get canceled they look for the

00:13:17.480 next one right they look for another one to cancel but the next one might not be so clear maybe the

00:13:24.040 next one said one thing once canceled maybe they said something that wasn't bad but if you took it

00:13:34.240 out of context it is bad canceled so as soon as you let the enemy this would be the democrats as soon

00:13:42.800 as you give them a loaded weapon they're going to start shooting so what jd vance was is not save a

00:13:49.820 racist if that's what you saw you missed the whole show well he didn't save us he saved the rest of us

00:13:57.260 it look the story is he saved one guy you know by having a a well thought out defense of people making

00:14:05.060 mistakes and you know maybe we can not throw out the baby with the bath water kind of thing maybe

00:14:10.640 maybe we should try to reconstitute him because he has value to the country it was a good good

00:14:17.060 academic i guess good argument people liked it but by far the important thing is what it did for the

00:14:25.440 rest of us it made us safer because now i know that even if somebody tried to make something up 0.82

00:14:31.520 that at least the democrats would say get the fuck out of here am i right this is really really big 0.99

00:14:40.780 and to me it's as big as dei being canceled if you can take the you're a racist oh and also your 1.00

00:14:47.760 brother's a racist your sister's a racist and everybody you know is a racist and everybody's a 0.99

00:14:52.420 racist you're racist you're racist you have to disarm that because if you let them have that weapon 1.00

00:14:58.120 they'll just use it all day long like a gatling gun and you saw what the last 10 years have been 0.97

00:15:03.520 like so yes jd vance may have defended you know 50 million people so if you think it's a story about 0.95

00:15:13.220 that one guy who said some shit that i don't like either not really it's a much bigger point

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00:16:22.620 um according to the hill

00:16:26.820 um there's a story oh there's a story about saving dei in the private sector so it's an opinion piece

00:16:34.440 about how they have to work hard to save dei in the private sector and he said uh the title is

00:16:40.420 how can we defend the private sector from trump's war on dei they are literally asking how they can

00:16:47.200 keep racism because dei is canceled because it's racist that's the reason there wasn't any other

00:16:55.340 reason so how can you write an opinion piece in the hill defending racism which is what he's doing

00:17:04.560 well would you be surprised to know there's a lawyer who works on these issues and gets paid

00:17:09.520 the more dei stuff he's doing follow the money that's how you find out what's going on

00:17:16.840 well uh trump uh apparently uh dismissed multiple members of the kennedy center board of trustees

00:17:25.280 so the kennedy center uh i guess the board of trustees are a bunch of political appointees

00:17:32.180 and he decided that they were not on board with the golden age and that he didn't say so but i feel

00:17:38.840 like they were too woke and that wasn't compatible with the golden age so he just got rid of a bunch

00:17:44.500 of trustees and one of the trustees is former press secretary corinne john pierre

00:17:52.360 so corinne john pierre gets this appointment that's sort of a sort of a nice one you know it's kind of

00:18:00.840 a very respectful appointment but as soon as she gets it she gets fired so she's lost two jobs this month 1.00

00:18:09.240 good luck though cnn uh i don't know i think this might be an older one this is an older video but

00:18:18.640 somebody was showing it around because um project veritas now this is after o'keefe left to do his

00:18:27.280 own thing at omg but the people who still run ran the old organization had some undercover video

00:18:33.020 of cnn um it was basically some technical directors and producer types and they actually

00:18:43.120 say out loud in direct words that their goal was to get trump out of office their goal meaning cnn's

00:18:54.020 corporate goal several people said it it wasn't one person several people said oh yeah our goal was to

00:19:01.760 get trump out of office now how could you watch cnn and think that's news once you've seen them

00:19:09.700 undercover say oh yeah yeah we were just trying to get trump out of office how many democrats even

00:19:16.820 know that that video exists and another said quote our focus was to get trump out of office right

00:19:23.260 without saying that's what it was right that's somebody who who works there at a high enough level

00:19:29.300 that they would know exactly what cnn wants as a corporate entity yes so if you thought that cnn was

00:19:36.140 news you were wrong they were they were propaganda let's talk about uh msnbc joy reads being useless

00:19:46.780 again uh so she's attacking musk because he's a private citizen oh we can't have a private citizen 0.98

00:19:53.780 even though he's got top security clearance we can't have private citizens looking at our our records

00:20:01.180 and trying to be productive and and uh you know make the country survive when we have no path to

00:20:08.480 survival unless we cut massively um and it made me think i remember when i thought that msnbc was trying

00:20:17.940 to be a news channel and i also thought cnn was trying to be a news channel but then i would think

00:20:24.800 ah darn it the way you're covering the story you know seems wrong and i would get all mad at them 0.69

00:20:32.400 because i thought don't you know you're a news entity you're a news entity that's not the news you're 0.98

00:20:38.980 it's all biased but once you realize that they're primarily and maybe exclusively a propaganda organ

00:20:46.580 then everything just looks funny like it just completely changes your perspective oh i get it

00:20:53.080 it's a propaganda network so what's the what are the propaganda people saying that uh the big problem

00:20:58.760 is that musk is a private citizen well joy read allow me to ask the following question

00:21:05.520 um if you don't like a private citizen getting in there and auditing and cutting costs what would

00:21:14.040 be the elected person who did it is there an elected position to do this i don't believe there is

00:21:22.080 i believe that even if the government did it it would be somebody who was hired by the president

00:21:29.380 who is not elected you know the russ vote got in the uh is it the gao

00:21:38.000 i'm not sure that it's a really job i don't think it's their job to audit but suppose it was

00:21:43.940 that would be a private citizen who is has a job but was not elected

00:21:50.140 so the most normal thing that happens in our government is people who are not elected

00:21:55.940 do important things us aid entirely run by people who are not elected who is the elected 0.96

00:22:04.360 person at us aid none none so it's beyond stupid to say that musk as a private citizen is a problem 0.98

00:22:15.600 it's way beyond stupid now again if if i thought that they were trying to be a news channel i'd be up 0.98

00:22:23.320 in arms i'd be like oh can't can't you tell that you're you're distorting this story that really 0.99

00:22:29.580 everybody's most of the government is not elected and the people who are elected are not going to be

00:22:35.140 auditors they're not going to be going in there they're going to be senators or whatever but they're

00:22:39.580 not going to be doing this this is a totally specialized kind of work that very few people on the

00:22:44.160 whole planet could do certainly not any elected people that's how i would say before now i just think

00:22:49.880 it's funny it's funny it's funny that they don't have any argument and watching them flail

00:22:56.320 a little little baldy joe joey reid

00:22:59.180 so

00:23:01.400 um so apparently trump's pentagon i guess this would be p hegseth

00:23:07.860 probably gave the order they've removed um from the pentagon

00:23:13.060 cnn nbc news the new york times the washington post politico the hill and npr

00:23:19.700 why did they remove them because they would be considered propaganda and not news

00:23:27.340 i love this they're not they're not being removed for being biased they're being removed for just being

00:23:36.200 propaganda that pretends to be news they've replaced it with and you you can make the

00:23:42.600 argument that you know there's propaganda on both sides i won't argue with you uh it's replaced with

00:23:48.580 newsmax oan new york post washington examiner the daily caller and breitbart

00:23:54.080 so

00:23:58.000 certainly all of these new entities that are going in the right-leaning entities

00:24:03.600 i would say it's fair to say that they have a you know a right-leaning bias

00:24:09.060 but you know what seems different and i could be wrong about this i could be completely wrong about

00:24:16.520 this because it'd be easy to be fooled it seems to me that the actual propaganda

00:24:21.260 only comes from one side bias comes from both sides roughly the same amount but propaganda

00:24:29.960 where you say to yourself they know that's not true but they keep saying it anyway that's different

00:24:37.320 because you don't see that on the right on the right when somebody says something happened and it's

00:24:43.800 wrong they believed it was real they would they were just wrong and being wrong is not really the

00:24:50.680 biggest crime in the news world when everything's moving so fast and there's a fog of war we're all

00:24:55.740 wrong being wrong is pretty ordinary but being wrong and in a biased way is not in the same category of

00:25:05.020 waking up and saying how can i get rid of president trump that's really different one is propaganda

00:25:10.960 because you know you're doing it the other is just it's a messy world people make mistakes

00:25:16.000 people people are biased well here's what david sacks said about us aid you know i'm i try to get

00:25:24.880 you the best explainers and then just quote them because it's so hard to summarize us aid and you

00:25:33.060 know what's right and wrong about that place unless you've got really good communicators so when i found

00:25:40.080 out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i

00:25:46.760 see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners oh are those 1.00

00:25:53.280 beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those

00:25:58.660 knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop

00:26:05.720 wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less here's another really good communicator david

00:26:11.780 sacks he says uh quote we're in debt i think this was on the all in pod uh he said we're in debt almost

00:26:19.560 40 trillion and anytime anyone tries to cut anything in washington the whole city screams bloody murder

00:26:25.300 the question is why well now we know the money is all going to them new york times getting paid

00:26:33.440 politico getting paid bill crystal perennial warmonger getting paid ukraine like 11 out of 12

00:26:40.360 publications getting paid uh victor orban the prime minister of hungary was saying his political

00:26:46.560 opposition is funded by usa and that's an ally um in poland the left-wing political opposition is funded

00:26:55.260 by usa bbc in the uk every every left-wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid

00:27:01.720 by this slush fund the usa which distributes 50 billion a year that's a billion dollars a week

00:27:07.540 which uh sacks tells us is a lot of money that's a lot of money now that is i don't think that

00:27:17.980 describes the entire situation because the you know the the msnbcs are just propaganda networks so

00:27:26.620 they're going to be against whatever trump's doing it doesn't really matter what he's doing

00:27:30.340 they're just going to be way against it uh but i do think that this is a huge part of it that the

00:27:36.400 money is essentially laundered through different ngos these entities until it gets to literally the fake

00:27:45.320 news so the fake news is funded as fake news by the propaganda funding people they're literally the

00:27:55.220 people whose job is to create propaganda the usa all right but it's supposed to be aimed at other

00:28:01.140 countries some of it is but then we also know as mike benz points out that there was a huge effort

00:28:07.980 through usa to create censorship entities in other countries that would have the job of censoring

00:28:14.680 american social networks so they couldn't the government couldn't directly censor american companies

00:28:24.200 but we could create foreign entities that look legitimate but are not that that create this

00:28:31.340 need to censor everywhere and if if the social networks can't operate in europe it's some gigantic part of

00:28:39.700 their their profitability so yes every part of usa seems dirty according to geiger capital let's say

00:28:51.100 account on x here's a little summary of some other usa things did you know that usa took about half a

00:28:58.980 billion dollars in taxes from americans and sent it to an ngo called inter news network have you ever

00:29:05.840 heard of that no you haven't because the way they hide all the bad stuff is in the complexity

00:29:12.540 whenever there's a lot of complexity there is major fraud in every domain every time complexity equals

00:29:22.100 fraud so if you say to yourself scott i i can't follow all these thousands of ngos and how they're

00:29:28.360 connected and all the various things they're doing that's the point that's how they hide it so if you

00:29:35.220 didn't have massive complications and complexity you couldn't get away with this stuff it would just be so

00:29:41.340 obviously wrong anyway um now what does this uh inter news network do with a half billion dollars of

00:29:51.440 your tax money they work with over 4 000 outlets to train journalists that's the actual phrase they

00:29:59.680 use train journalists and quote tackle disinformation i think you all know what that means what does it mean

00:30:07.480 to train a journalist do you think they're teaching them how to write are they improving their grammar

00:30:14.320 no no it's propaganda they're bribing them or they're either bribing them or brainwashing them to do what

00:30:22.600 do what they want this is a total brainwashing bribery operation that has corrupted most of the journalism in

00:30:31.160 the world it looks like and the address for this entity that takes half a billion dollars a year

00:30:37.600 is an abandoned building

00:30:39.260 sometimes things are exactly the way they look it's an abandoned building the the level of corruption 0.61

00:30:50.000 and you know just plain fuckery is just through the roof

00:30:55.420 um i think this is also uh something mike benz tells us that uh usa also rigged the brazil election

00:31:04.080 and of course they called it aid because that's what usa does they they try to control other countries

00:31:12.620 and if you question them they say well we're just curing their aids

00:31:16.100 or oh we're just helping them with their free speech

00:31:19.440 or oh we're just helping them get rid of disinformation i don't know what you're talking

00:31:24.380 about yeah so that's how they do it that's how they do it exactly the way it was done in brazil

00:31:32.040 so usa didn't just send aid to brazil funded censorship back left-wing activists and 0.94

00:31:39.540 um maybe helped rig the election i don't know what rig means in this case

00:31:43.460 um so millions of dollars flowed into the the other team in brazil so brazil was corrupted by

00:31:52.200 the united states and the usa

00:31:53.540 um as fisher king says on the x platform he observes that uh um the doge has forced democrats

00:32:04.500 into the position of defending waste fraud and abuse

00:32:07.640 yes in much of the way um in much of the way

00:32:15.380 uh sorry i saw your something about plastic straws less about plastic straws let's do less about that

00:32:24.560 anyway um in the same way that trump claiming common sense as the republican you know

00:32:34.960 what would you say organizing principle the organizing principle is just common sense

00:32:41.560 once you take the the flag of common sense the people on the other side are going to look a little

00:32:47.860 silly because they're at they're literally arguing against common sense or at least you know on the

00:32:55.420 surface it looks like that but here too when doge is finding all these sketchy expenses that should 0.96

00:33:02.460 easily be cut it forces the democrats to support fraud waste and abuse now they'll say it differently

00:33:13.460 do you know what they'll say so it doesn't sound like they're in favor of fraud they'll say oh why is

00:33:20.220 a why is a private citizen what why a private citizen

00:33:25.560 um that's all they got now of course you're seeing the the most bought off people in the world the

00:33:34.160 people pretty much get direct funding from usa or they're part of the intelligence community or they

00:33:40.560 work with them so they're screaming the usa if you cut it will kill children don't you know these vital

00:33:46.880 services have saved children all over the world children will die well that's what fraudsters say

00:33:53.100 if you don't give me money children will die let me tell you my uh how to if you get a chance to

00:34:01.880 have a conversation with somebody who's saying but they're cutting charity children will die if that's

00:34:07.140 all they know here's what you say they are not a charitable organization we only give charity where

00:34:15.160 we're trying to control the country where that charity is and they use it as a vehicle to move our cia 0.75

00:34:21.760 into the country under the cover of the charity and the charity is selected specifically for

00:34:29.600 countries that we want to control if it were a real charity if it were a real charity the giving would

00:34:37.760 look completely different because the giving would be based on where the biggest problem was do you think

00:34:43.540 that's what you're saying no you're seeing the giving completely directed where we want to control the country it's just a coup

00:34:50.760 just a coup if you can't tell the difference between charity and a coup attempt you shouldn't be in the

00:34:56.780 conversation at all now if you say to yourself well come on okay maybe you know maybe one or two times

00:35:04.140 that's happened within us aid no let me say it again it's the only thing they do they don't do charity

00:35:13.280 and then also separately they do some you know some coups and things that are good for net for america

00:35:20.560 it's not separate it's exactly the same mechanism and it's always the same because that's the whole

00:35:27.540 job of the usa it's not about charity it's about using charity to take over countries and it works

00:35:33.560 really well because the country is going to have a hard time saying no don't help us with our aids

00:35:39.040 epidemic or something like that so now just ask uh what how would the how the charity would look

00:35:46.600 different if simply helping people was what you wanted to do claudia was leaving for her pickleball

00:35:54.460 tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't 0.95

00:35:59.940 see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with 1.00

00:36:06.260 the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one

00:36:10.860 roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the 1.00

00:36:16.320 first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply

00:36:22.560 i talked to my smart democrat friend that i often talk about and he was like most democrats

00:36:31.160 completely unaware of what i just said that usaid is well documented and known to be really in the

00:36:40.020 coup business and the projecting power business and that the the charity part is just artificial

00:36:46.100 now here's the thing i could be wrong i mean it's happened before suppose that's not what usaid is doing

00:36:55.220 but that's not my point right now my point is that's what uh the most let's say the republicans

00:37:04.020 were following things the most that's what we think because we've been educated i think it's educated

00:37:10.200 and the big story here is that his news sources cnn and new york times will never tell him

00:37:18.500 what the other side thinks and why they're motivated what we think is this is stuff we don't want to be

00:37:26.420 paying for and we're motivated to get rid of it what they think is oh you're just trying to get rid

00:37:32.120 of our charities and kill children so if you watch cnn you will never hear what i just said that usaid

00:37:39.580 is basically for projecting power and the charity is a fake thing on top of it now even if you think

00:37:46.500 that's not true keep in mind remember when q was a big thing 2016 or so when q was a big thing

00:37:54.620 uh cnn and msnbc would talk about it because they say those crazy republicans they believe in this

00:38:01.520 thing called q right so they will generally show both sides when both when when the republican side

00:38:10.160 has something embarrassing then you'll hear what the republicans think oh they believe in q

00:38:15.960 well what wing nuts but as soon as we believe in something that makes complete sense and is well

00:38:21.720 documented which is that usaid is this giant money laundering you know power projecting thing

00:38:28.900 masquerading as a charity as soon as we have that they act like it doesn't happen like that's not even

00:38:37.080 the argument they simply pretend the argument is a different argument and then they tell then they

00:38:42.780 argue the argument that's not the argument that's not the argument and you'll and their readers will

00:38:47.480 never hear what mike ben says to say for example they'll never hear it

00:38:53.200 all right meanwhile um the other thing i would say about for the people who think it's a charity

00:39:03.740 um if we wanted to be a charity that's all it would be that's all it would be but it's a lot of other

00:39:15.180 things so anyway the uh national institute of health is it the nih is uh going to reduce their overhead

00:39:25.060 from 27 down to 15 now of course the scientists are squealing we can't possibly do any science

00:39:33.180 with that low and overhead but of course we don't believe anybody anytime you cut anybody's budget

00:39:40.100 they will say you can't cut this budget children will die it's the end of the world science will be

00:39:46.200 destroyed that's what they all say but that's why you don't send an elected person to cut budget

00:39:54.540 if you send an elected person to cut a budget what's going to happen every budget you cut will be a

00:40:01.940 bunch of voters and they'll say hey don't cut my budget i will vote against you don't cut my budget

00:40:08.760 i will vote against you and don't cut my budget because i will vote against you you can't send 0.99

00:40:15.080 an elected person to cut a budget you have to send somebody who doesn't give a fuck what you think 0.99

00:40:21.380 about them in the short term is playing a total long game and can put up with the shame and embarrassment 0.97

00:40:27.620 and and all that now i'm going to go further and say while you're watching with doge you know even

00:40:37.320 though it's a very specific character elon musk and the people he's brought in it it tells a bigger

00:40:44.000 story about america and i've said this in different ways but i'm going to try to pull it all together

00:40:50.060 doge is essentially willing to just shake the box like nobody's business cut things that maybe we'll

00:40:58.880 have to add back if we find it's a problem and just make a big dramatic change do you know what

00:41:06.700 other countries are capable of doing that the answer is none well melee maybe argentina but special case

00:41:14.480 the the advantage that america has is that we can do stuff like this we can destroy everything we have

00:41:22.140 if we've got a good idea how to make it better and we'll do it but more importantly we'll take the shame

00:41:28.760 and the risk of failure like nobody else can so if you were in say europe or japan or something you

00:41:36.740 couldn't do this kind of work because the shame that would come on you and the the accusations and

00:41:43.160 it would follow you for the rest of your life and everybody'd hate you you couldn't handle it you

00:41:48.300 know what we say in america when people are shaming you and it's hard and you know you're working really 0.98

00:41:53.020 hard oh you're a bunch of losers the smart people are working hard taking chances making big changes

00:41:59.160 so we think that the people who make the big change are heroes i do in other countries they think 0.99

00:42:06.140 what's wrong with you you know you should be ashamed you custom you custom charity in america we say 1.00

00:42:13.020 fuck you and your fuck your stupid charity because it's all fake so we're just going to cut it and 1.00

00:42:19.160 you can complain all you want but but but one of your people said some racist things yeah fuck you too 1.00

00:42:25.100 we're just going to use him because he's good we're just going to make it work so you can see that the 0.99

00:42:31.420 the shamers and the blamers and they cry racist all the things that i don't think other countries

00:42:38.980 are have the the same cultural let's say uh suit of armor america is unique in which taking a big swing

00:42:50.840 and missing doesn't feel like a mistake it doesn't feel like a mistake it feels like get back in there

00:42:57.220 take a few more swings you'll hit the third one by the way my favorite comment i saw on x today

00:43:03.960 was uh somebody was complaining about um musk having a 19 year old doing this important work

00:43:11.000 and michael dell uh weighs in he says uh i started a company when i was 19 it's going pretty well

00:43:18.740 he started dell computers when he was when he was 19

00:43:22.260 so yeah that was funny um here's another funny one apparently doge is going to be canceling 168k

00:43:33.400 168 000 that was going to be for a fauci museum or a fauci exhibit in some kind of museum

00:43:40.840 a fauci exhibit 168 000 does that mean that somebody somebody was putting a statue of him

00:43:49.860 i think it's going to be a statue i wonder if it's already built because you might be able to get it for

00:43:56.640 cheap if there's already built a fauci statue and now there's nobody to buy it because they canceled

00:44:03.260 the budget i'd like to maybe look at it to possibly pick it up for cheap

00:44:08.140 i wouldn't mind having a fauci statue in my in my foyer i don't know what i'd use it for but it'd be

00:44:16.900 hilarious anyway so that's funny um so elon musk and his doge are going to get into the pentagon

00:44:27.920 they're going to get into medicare and medicaid and elon says he thinks there's 100 billion wasted

00:44:34.100 in medicare and medicaid gateway pundits reporting so that's still not enough you know if we're trying

00:44:43.160 to solve a two trillion dollar problem how much do you think he's going to find in the pentagon

00:44:48.260 well let me give you a little hint um there's a video of elon at some event that was a few months

00:44:56.600 ago but it just dropped the video did he was talking about the future of war and he said it's

00:45:02.260 all going to be drones basically drones drones drones and is our military optimized for that

00:45:10.160 or do we have gigantic entities that you know want to keep their own thing going it's like oh i'm

00:45:16.660 i'm the tank people so we need lots of tanks and i'm the boat person we need lots of boats ships i guess

00:45:23.940 um we probably need ships no matter what even even if they're just going to carry the drones

00:45:28.860 but uh yeah so the suggestion is that if we were to build a military that was based on

00:45:38.100 how you would actually fight a war today that it might be completely different than what we do

00:45:44.500 normally so i think we just added drones to the things we have if you want to save money without

00:45:51.200 losing too much in terms of your national defense probably there's going to be a lot of other weapon

00:45:58.240 systems that seem redundant if you've got enough drones but then if somebody gets really good at

00:46:05.000 blocking drones or jamming them better than they are now maybe we need the missiles back so it's a

00:46:11.680 pretty complicated situation but if you want to get you want to get a sense of the future

00:46:17.460 in ukraine um here's an orders from ukraine just to tie it all together so in ukraine at the moment

00:46:26.920 russia has a five to one soldier advantage on the front line there are five times as many russians

00:46:33.640 as ukrainians and the ukrainians are often you know old guys who don't want to be there

00:46:38.760 so you know they don't have much left but what they do have is the ability to make 200 000 drones a

00:46:46.620 month so apparently what happens is that the ukrainians are sending out no soldiers

00:46:53.520 they're not doing anything offensive and the soldiers just you know man the drones and man the front

00:47:01.100 lines but the russians are still doing some you know mild offensive maneuvers they're not capturing

00:47:07.460 much you know a mile here a mile there but as soon as they send out their soldiers the drones go up

00:47:14.140 and they just wipe them out so not enough that it would stop you know a full-scale march if they really

00:47:22.200 wanted to take the losses but at the moment it's kind of a stalemate where one side is losing people

00:47:29.100 and the other side is losing drones just think about that one side is losing people and the other

00:47:36.920 side is only losing drones so that's where it's going 200 000 a month one of them according to

00:47:44.420 interesting engineering is a drone that can spread steel ball fragments over 21 000 square feet

00:47:52.500 21 000 square feet that means basically if the infantry of the russian army is coming toward you

00:48:01.720 you can just drop one of these things and the shrapnel will kill everybody within 21 000 square feet

00:48:08.320 you don't need a lot of them so yeah it's going to be drone drone drone warfare no doubt about it

00:48:15.960 so you might see some big recommendations about how to have a military that's different that's

00:48:23.100 going to be scary because we don't want to give up anything we have but we'll have to because we don't

00:48:29.680 have infinite money all right um trump has launched an investigation into california's high-speed rail

00:48:38.340 debacle so 120 billion was sort of set aside for it or budgeted they've already spent about 14 billion

00:48:47.700 and haven't built a single mile of track i think most of the problem is dei and environmentalism

00:48:54.940 there's just always some problem that nobody can do work um so trump's going to look into it now i don't

00:49:03.680 know how that works can the federal government look into anything they want to in the state do that do

00:49:10.260 they have that kind of authority i don't know but here's a question i ask it seems to me that every

00:49:18.320 time we see a criminal organization or a criminal project to me the the whole uh bullet train thing in

00:49:26.720 california looks like there must be just massive fraud and waste and you know corruption i'm sure people

00:49:33.500 got really well paid and that 14 billion to produce literally nothing it seems like every time we see

00:49:40.460 one of these you know organizations that is almost designed for corruption like us aid it's almost always

00:49:50.580 an entirely democrat situation if you look at the uh most corrupt local mayors i feel like most of them

00:50:00.440 would be democrats and i'm wondering are democrats really only criminals because every time we see

00:50:09.280 one there's something criminal happening now republicans also do crimes but can you give me any example

00:50:16.980 of a republican dominated organization that has been found to be one of these wasting billions of 0.96

00:50:24.180 dollars things the only one i know is bill crystal is is uh sucking off the usa teat but even that's not 0.90

00:50:34.880 big scale i don't think that's a terribly big scale so am i wrong that fraud and democrats are so

00:50:43.200 overlapped that all you would have to know is oh here's a big budget and a big organization and it's

00:50:50.060 mostly democrats you would know that it's corrupt wouldn't you and is that the same both ways if

00:50:56.840 it's a big organization with a big budget and it's run mostly by republicans could you also say hey

00:51:02.760 people are people you know if you give them a chance to steal they will and if that's true that it works

00:51:08.760 both ways kind of equally and it's not about democrat or republican if that's true why are all the

00:51:14.920 ones we hear about democrats am i wrong am i missing some obvious examples where oh yeah

00:51:21.740 this republican heavy organization was stealing like crazy and laundering funds i'm not really aware

00:51:29.020 of any of those stories so at what point do we say this doesn't look like a coincidence it looks like 0.65

00:51:34.740 democrats are basically a criminal organization with their fingers on every pie that you could possibly

00:51:41.440 put them in anyway that's what it looks like so so we're at the point where our fake domestic news

00:51:54.800 largely oppose opposes trump and doge while every foreign country envies both of them what do you think

00:52:02.780 other countries like let's say germany what do you think they think when they're watching the united

00:52:08.300 states close down immigration and rip their budget apart looking for waste and fraud 1.00

00:52:14.860 don't you think germany is saying oh god why can't we be like that again this gets back to

00:52:21.660 what makes america different we can just take more risk and and we can live through it uh what

00:52:28.540 what about france or the uk or any of them don't you think all of our allies are looking at trump

00:52:35.580 and doge and saying all right well they're not successful yet but i sure wish we could do that

00:52:41.660 i think that's true but in the united states the fake news which is most of the news uh is treating 0.95

00:52:49.020 it like it's a it's the end of the world so my summary is big balls big balls

00:52:54.700 uh i also think that we might be 12 months away from lapping the field in economics

00:53:02.060 and when i say lapping the field uh the the us economy is already one of the the good ones

00:53:10.460 one of the best right um but i think we're just going to pull away

00:53:15.820 and the only the drag that we have in the economy is all the excess spending

00:53:20.140 if we can get that anchor pulled up you know the anchor of the excess spending

00:53:25.020 we're in really good shape and trump of course is you know pushing the envelope in every way

00:53:31.500 economically so specifically here's another example uh zelensky over in ukraine says he's

00:53:39.260 open to trump's idea that the united states would get some of their rare earth minerals

00:53:47.100 so trump said if we're going to put all this money in ukraine and defend it we should get something

00:53:51.660 in return they've got lots of rare earth minerals that we need so we'll take those

00:53:56.140 now when you first hear that you say to yourself you can't just take the rare earth minerals it's

00:54:02.300 like a whole other country you know aren't they going to have to agree to that and then zelensky says

00:54:07.820 yeah we could talk about that let's make a deal because ukraine can't really exploit those resources on

00:54:15.260 its own and if it's making america happy and also getting you know maybe half of the money or

00:54:21.660 something it's a good idea for both because they're not going to do it on their own they're just too

00:54:26.620 broken down to afford something like that so yeah uh once again trump sees free money and says i'll take

00:54:34.460 that now you also saw the story that uh i i don't know if this is true yet i haven't seen a good source

00:54:41.420 for this can anybody confirm that egypt said it would help the um palestinians from gaza is that

00:54:49.500 real because i don't know if it's real or just something i saw on but the story is the way people

00:54:57.020 are treating it is that it's real and that uh anyway so so that would be a case of trump um stirring the

00:55:08.860 box and saying okay we'll take gaza if nobody wants to help if nobody's going to help the gaza 0.99

00:55:15.420 residents we will now the way we're going to do it is we'll probably have to ship you somewhere else

00:55:21.020 for a long time and it might take 10 years to fix up gaza but then we'll consider bringing back the

00:55:26.940 people who don't look dangerous now that was probably never a practical plan

00:55:32.460 but it certainly made the people in the region sharpen their pencils and say ah

00:55:39.500 maybe we could help maybe we could just to keep that big boot of the united states military out of

00:55:46.620 their the region so it could be that trump's play was exactly what the palestinians needed

00:55:55.580 just to incentivize other you know other countries in the region to help out

00:56:03.100 and that ladies and gentlemen

00:56:06.460 is all i had today i'll remind you again that uh owen's spaces that he usually does on saturday

00:56:11.740 he's going to do on sunday this week so no spaces today tomorrow all right

00:56:19.260 let's see how i did oh i said good i was trying to keep it to an hour i got i got pretty good

00:56:27.260 oh kind of itchy um majority of the rare earth is in the regions that russia controls 0.55

00:56:35.020 well maybe the majority but i'll bet there's still plenty i'm not sure anybody ever knows where all the

00:56:40.060 rare earth is until you start digging around for it because if you're not looking for it how are you

00:56:44.540 going to find it so i i think everybody's got a lot of rare earth what they don't have is the ability

00:56:50.620 to mine it all right that's all i've got for now i'm going to say hi to the uh people and locals

00:57:01.260 and the rest of you i'll see tomorrow thanks for joining have a great saturday locals i'm coming at you

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