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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss transphobia, plastic straws, the transphobic Trump, and why we must persist in the face of overwhelming fear. We are in a moral crisis and we have to press on.
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well if you're thinking it's saturday so is owen going to do his spaces um not today um spaces will
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be on sunday after the show uh there are several stories in the news today about trans and i'm
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going to ignore all of them because i feel manipulated you know what i mean every time i see a trans story
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of any kind i think to myself you know it was only a few years ago there were zero and then suddenly
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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
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national news all right there's somebody who's trans and somebody called them the wrong pronoun i don't
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care no no interest whatsoever in individual trans stories well president trump the ultimate crowd
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pleaser the man who can read the room better than anybody says plastic straws are back
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let me tell you how genius that is plastic straws have to be one of the most popular things in the
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country and everybody tried the you know the regular ones and didn't like them so the beauty of this is not
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just as popular but it's visceral see this is what trump does that you don't notice when when you think
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of the plastic straw you can feel it right it's like a feeling you can almost taste it you can you can
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taste your your beverage you know in your mind so when he does this visual imagery that evokes taste and
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feeling that's really strong you can never forget that kind of stuff now let's compare trump saying
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plastic straws are back and you've got this whole visual image and you're happy about it and it's
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it's not the biggest thing in the world but it's absolutely what you wanted now compare to elizabeth
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warren who did a post in which she was talking about doge and she's fighting against it now watch this
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generic terrible communication all right this is from a post on x elizabeth warren senator warren
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make no mistake we are in one a what oh a righteous fight okay that's nice and generic i can't taste it
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feel it see it i won't remember those words tomorrow uh this fight will be long okay you're
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telling me i'm going to feel bad trump will continue to distract divide and demoralize
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okay concepts concepts concepts but when things get tough again you're telling me it's going to be hard
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there is only one option ahead of us there's never one option ahead of you that's kind of dumb
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you see what i'm saying right let me keep let me give it to you back to back trump i'm bringing
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black i'm bringing back plastic straws got it elizabeth warren i often talk about righteous fights
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and make no mistake we are in one this fight will be long trump will continue to distract divide
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into moral lessons but when it gets tough when it gets tough there's only one up god learn to
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communicate will you learn to communicate how in the world is she one of their strongest
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democrats when she can't put a sentence together that anybody would want to care about
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meanwhile ice says i guess arrested 11 000 illegal migrants according to new york post
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so they're they're putting them in all kinds of different places but so that's just in first 18 days
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they got 11 000 mostly criminals who mostly would have re-offended because criminals re-offend
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did they basically get rid of let's say if they re-offended you know twice a year
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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
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have a lot of crimes but 20 000 crimes how are you not in favor of that 20 000 criminals especially the
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gangs you know there's some people who say that the gangs the trend of wagwa or whatever it is are are
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so uh let's say viral that if they get enough of a foothold in your country they can start controlling
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your government and we weren't very far away from that it would have only taken uh it would only take
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it a little bit you know maybe a few more years and they would have control over local governments
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you know you know through threats and violence anyway so glad we're getting them now um one of
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the stories that people had the most interest in yesterday was that trump revoked biden's security
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clearance now you might remember that biden revoked trump's security clearance saying oh he can't be
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trusted so so trump returned the favor which i'm totally in favor of uh you know i'm not in favor of
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just revengey stuff but this had no real impact on anything except slap in the face to biden who
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just deserved to slap in the face uh again not physically we're talking we're talking uh mentally
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slap in the face and uh but the reason that i think the public was so interested in this story
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you know yesterday when i did my man cave program almost everybody who came in said hey have you heard
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about this one have you heard about this one and i think the main thing is we understand it
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the doge stories are all just a little complicated have you noticed you have to sort of know what the
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entity is and then there's a whole bunch of different things they're doing badly and then you
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confuse that with the other entity and it's just really complicated stuff so when we see a simple
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one like trump's bringing back plastic straws we're like okay i got that one or uh trump revokes
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biden's security clearance oh okay got it let's talk about that one easy you know all uh all crime
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hides in complexity complexity is usually the way that um it's usually intentional to hide crime
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that that's why almost every domain has something in it that's way too complicated
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because there's crime in there and you can't spot it because it's too complicated
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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
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and it made basically no real difference i could give you details but the details all say it didn't make
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any difference so we had years of severe racism against white men mostly because white women were
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doing fine under dei but years of discrimination just over discrimination against men no difference
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the the numbers barely moved a little bit more in management you know which you'd expect
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so anyway dei was a failure we can say that for sure much like the uh department of education
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at the federal level the is it the department of education yeah the uh department of education
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was formed because the the students at the lowest end of accomplishment needed a boost so the whole
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idea was all right we'll do this federal thing so the states can't just let let people go
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and it made no difference so years and years of funding the you know the education department
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no difference so dei no difference uh department of education no difference
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so getting rid of those things that made no difference it's got to be a good thing
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all right let's talk about the story about the uh the young man i think he was 25 who got uh canceled
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but was brought back so correct me if i'm wrong but i think the story about big balls
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is not a story about him saying anything wrong he just had a funny name online
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it's someone else um slightly older 25 i think 24 25 who was the one who said some things under a
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i think under a pseudonym i don't think it was under his own name but had said several things that
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uh a normal person would say well that's pretty racist that looks pretty racist i would say that
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if you were just looking at what he said yeah yeah i'm not going to repeat them because they're ugly
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thoughts but yeah if you're only looking at the sentences yeah that that would look racist to me
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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
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the same standard on somebody young as i put in somebody older but i also don't put the same standard
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on people acting anonymously if somebody acts anonymously and then somebody outs them i blame
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the person who outed them that's my standard because if you're saying something anonymously
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it means it's something closer to a thought it's something that you wouldn't say under your own name
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all of us have terrible thoughts sometimes i mean on different topics but we all have terrible thoughts
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thoughts if we if all of us were judged on our thoughts we would all be canceled now some of you
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might say oh not me i never had any bad thoughts really really i don't believe that so i don't have
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the same standard for and i don't know if this is the case by the way i don't know if he posted
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under his own name if he posted that stuff under his own name then i would be a little more harsh
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but anything that somebody does anonymously it's because they want you to know how they think
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and i find that valuable so even if you hate it don't you want to know somebody's thinking it
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isn't isn't that a plus even if you hate that somebody's thinking it i want to know what they're
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thinking whether it's yeah an insult to somebody else or an insult to me i would definitely want to
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know so there's that but here's the bigger story so the bigger story is he said things that normally
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would get anybody canceled but jd vance basically said you know get over it people make mistakes move
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on and then he got reinstated so elon brought him back he had a little he also had a little survey on
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x 78 of the people on x now it's of course not a scientific poll but uh 78 said bring him back
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now here's why i'm in favor of bringing him back because i can't live with a standard that you can
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be um you can be canceled for something you said that somebody else thinks is racist now in this
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particular case these were unusually clear so uh they look pretty bad but he's also unlikely to
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you know take those kind of views into his adult life you know people change so my problem with the
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whole topic is if you let this guy get canceled what happens next right i don't want to say slippery
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slope because i hate that term but what happens if you let him get canceled they look for the
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next one right they look for another one to cancel but the next one might not be so clear maybe the
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next one said one thing once canceled maybe they said something that wasn't bad but if you took it
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out of context it is bad canceled so as soon as you let the enemy this would be the democrats as soon
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as you give them a loaded weapon they're going to start shooting so what jd vance was is not save a
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racist if that's what you saw you missed the whole show well he didn't save us he saved the rest of us
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it look the story is he saved one guy you know by having a a well thought out defense of people making
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mistakes and you know maybe we can not throw out the baby with the bath water kind of thing maybe
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maybe we should try to reconstitute him because he has value to the country it was a good good
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academic i guess good argument people liked it but by far the important thing is what it did for the
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rest of us it made us safer because now i know that even if somebody tried to make something up
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that at least the democrats would say get the fuck out of here am i right this is really really big
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and to me it's as big as dei being canceled if you can take the you're a racist oh and also your
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brother's a racist your sister's a racist and everybody you know is a racist and everybody's a
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racist you're racist you're racist you have to disarm that because if you let them have that weapon
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they'll just use it all day long like a gatling gun and you saw what the last 10 years have been
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like so yes jd vance may have defended you know 50 million people so if you think it's a story about
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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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um there's a story oh there's a story about saving dei in the private sector so it's an opinion piece
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about how they have to work hard to save dei in the private sector and he said uh the title is
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how can we defend the private sector from trump's war on dei they are literally asking how they can
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keep racism because dei is canceled because it's racist that's the reason there wasn't any other
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reason so how can you write an opinion piece in the hill defending racism which is what he's doing
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well would you be surprised to know there's a lawyer who works on these issues and gets paid
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the more dei stuff he's doing follow the money that's how you find out what's going on
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well uh trump uh apparently uh dismissed multiple members of the kennedy center board of trustees
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so the kennedy center uh i guess the board of trustees are a bunch of political appointees
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and he decided that they were not on board with the golden age and that he didn't say so but i feel
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like they were too woke and that wasn't compatible with the golden age so he just got rid of a bunch
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of trustees and one of the trustees is former press secretary corinne john pierre
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so corinne john pierre gets this appointment that's sort of a sort of a nice one you know it's kind of
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a very respectful appointment but as soon as she gets it she gets fired so she's lost two jobs this month
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good luck though cnn uh i don't know i think this might be an older one this is an older video but
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somebody was showing it around because um project veritas now this is after o'keefe left to do his
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own thing at omg but the people who still run ran the old organization had some undercover video
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of cnn um it was basically some technical directors and producer types and they actually
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say out loud in direct words that their goal was to get trump out of office their goal meaning cnn's
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corporate goal several people said it it wasn't one person several people said oh yeah our goal was to
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get trump out of office now how could you watch cnn and think that's news once you've seen them
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undercover say oh yeah yeah we were just trying to get trump out of office how many democrats even
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know that that video exists and another said quote our focus was to get trump out of office right
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without saying that's what it was right that's somebody who who works there at a high enough level
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that they would know exactly what cnn wants as a corporate entity yes so if you thought that cnn was
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news you were wrong they were they were propaganda let's talk about uh msnbc joy reads being useless
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again uh so she's attacking musk because he's a private citizen oh we can't have a private citizen
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even though he's got top security clearance we can't have private citizens looking at our our records
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and trying to be productive and and uh you know make the country survive when we have no path to
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survival unless we cut massively um and it made me think i remember when i thought that msnbc was trying
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to be a news channel and i also thought cnn was trying to be a news channel but then i would think
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ah darn it the way you're covering the story you know seems wrong and i would get all mad at them
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because i thought don't you know you're a news entity you're a news entity that's not the news you're
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it's all biased but once you realize that they're primarily and maybe exclusively a propaganda organ
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then everything just looks funny like it just completely changes your perspective oh i get it
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it's a propaganda network so what's the what are the propaganda people saying that uh the big problem
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is that musk is a private citizen well joy read allow me to ask the following question
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um if you don't like a private citizen getting in there and auditing and cutting costs what would
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be the elected person who did it is there an elected position to do this i don't believe there is
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i believe that even if the government did it it would be somebody who was hired by the president
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who is not elected you know the russ vote got in the uh is it the gao
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i'm not sure that it's a really job i don't think it's their job to audit but suppose it was
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that would be a private citizen who is has a job but was not elected
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so the most normal thing that happens in our government is people who are not elected
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do important things us aid entirely run by people who are not elected who is the elected
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person at us aid none none so it's beyond stupid to say that musk as a private citizen is a problem
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it's way beyond stupid now again if if i thought that they were trying to be a news channel i'd be up
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in arms i'd be like oh can't can't you tell that you're you're distorting this story that really
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everybody's most of the government is not elected and the people who are elected are not going to be
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auditors they're not going to be going in there they're going to be senators or whatever but they're
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not going to be doing this this is a totally specialized kind of work that very few people on the
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whole planet could do certainly not any elected people that's how i would say before now i just think
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it's funny it's funny it's funny that they don't have any argument and watching them flail
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um so apparently trump's pentagon i guess this would be p hegseth
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probably gave the order they've removed um from the pentagon
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cnn nbc news the new york times the washington post politico the hill and npr
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why did they remove them because they would be considered propaganda and not news
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i love this they're not they're not being removed for being biased they're being removed for just being
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propaganda that pretends to be news they've replaced it with and you you can make the
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argument that you know there's propaganda on both sides i won't argue with you uh it's replaced with
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newsmax oan new york post washington examiner the daily caller and breitbart
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certainly all of these new entities that are going in the right-leaning entities
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i would say it's fair to say that they have a you know a right-leaning bias
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but you know what seems different and i could be wrong about this i could be completely wrong about
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this because it'd be easy to be fooled it seems to me that the actual propaganda
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only comes from one side bias comes from both sides roughly the same amount but propaganda
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where you say to yourself they know that's not true but they keep saying it anyway that's different
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because you don't see that on the right on the right when somebody says something happened and it's
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wrong they believed it was real they would they were just wrong and being wrong is not really the
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biggest crime in the news world when everything's moving so fast and there's a fog of war we're all
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wrong being wrong is pretty ordinary but being wrong and in a biased way is not in the same category of
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waking up and saying how can i get rid of president trump that's really different one is propaganda
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because you know you're doing it the other is just it's a messy world people make mistakes
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people people are biased well here's what david sacks said about us aid you know i'm i try to get
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you the best explainers and then just quote them because it's so hard to summarize us aid and you
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know what's right and wrong about that place unless you've got really good communicators so when i found
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out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i
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see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners oh are those
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beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those
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knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop
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wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less here's another really good communicator david
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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
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40 trillion and anytime anyone tries to cut anything in washington the whole city screams bloody murder
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the question is why well now we know the money is all going to them new york times getting paid
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politico getting paid bill crystal perennial warmonger getting paid ukraine like 11 out of 12
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publications getting paid uh victor orban the prime minister of hungary was saying his political
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opposition is funded by usa and that's an ally um in poland the left-wing political opposition is funded
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by usa bbc in the uk every every left-wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid
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by this slush fund the usa which distributes 50 billion a year that's a billion dollars a week
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which uh sacks tells us is a lot of money that's a lot of money now that is i don't think that
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describes the entire situation because the you know the the msnbcs are just propaganda networks so
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they're going to be against whatever trump's doing it doesn't really matter what he's doing
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they're just going to be way against it uh but i do think that this is a huge part of it that the
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money is essentially laundered through different ngos these entities until it gets to literally the fake
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news so the fake news is funded as fake news by the propaganda funding people they're literally the
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people whose job is to create propaganda the usa all right but it's supposed to be aimed at other
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countries some of it is but then we also know as mike benz points out that there was a huge effort
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through usa to create censorship entities in other countries that would have the job of censoring
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american social networks so they couldn't the government couldn't directly censor american companies
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but we could create foreign entities that look legitimate but are not that that create this
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need to censor everywhere and if if the social networks can't operate in europe it's some gigantic part of
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their their profitability so yes every part of usa seems dirty according to geiger capital let's say
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account on x here's a little summary of some other usa things did you know that usa took about half a
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billion dollars in taxes from americans and sent it to an ngo called inter news network have you ever
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heard of that no you haven't because the way they hide all the bad stuff is in the complexity
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whenever there's a lot of complexity there is major fraud in every domain every time complexity equals
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fraud so if you say to yourself scott i i can't follow all these thousands of ngos and how they're
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connected and all the various things they're doing that's the point that's how they hide it so if you
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didn't have massive complications and complexity you couldn't get away with this stuff it would just be so
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obviously wrong anyway um now what does this uh inter news network do with a half billion dollars of
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your tax money they work with over 4 000 outlets to train journalists that's the actual phrase they
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use train journalists and quote tackle disinformation i think you all know what that means what does it mean
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to train a journalist do you think they're teaching them how to write are they improving their grammar
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no no it's propaganda they're bribing them or they're either bribing them or brainwashing them to do what
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do what they want this is a total brainwashing bribery operation that has corrupted most of the journalism in
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the world it looks like and the address for this entity that takes half a billion dollars a year
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sometimes things are exactly the way they look it's an abandoned building the the level of corruption
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and you know just plain fuckery is just through the roof
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um i think this is also uh something mike benz tells us that uh usa also rigged the brazil election
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and of course they called it aid because that's what usa does they they try to control other countries
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and if you question them they say well we're just curing their aids
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or oh we're just helping them with their free speech
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or oh we're just helping them get rid of disinformation i don't know what you're talking
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about yeah so that's how they do it that's how they do it exactly the way it was done in brazil
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so usa didn't just send aid to brazil funded censorship back left-wing activists and
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
00:31:53.540
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
00:32:15.380
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
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
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
00:35:59.940
see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:42:06.140
what's wrong with you you know you should be ashamed you custom you custom charity in america we say
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:56:06.460
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
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