Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2747 CWSA 02⧸11⧸25

00:00:00.000 civilization that's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if

00:00:06.380 you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny

00:00:10.720 shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein

00:00:14.760 a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

00:00:19.840 and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine at the end of the day the thing that makes

00:00:25.380 everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now

00:00:31.220 you are now fortified all right if you were subscribing to the dilbert comic

00:00:43.780 which never stopped some of you think it did but it didn't um dilbert is uh being recruited to work

00:00:51.760 on doge so it's uh just gonna be a one-week series you won't be there long because he always has to

00:00:57.740 return to his other life but uh dilbert is selected to work for doge i don't know if you knew this

00:01:03.560 but in the dilbert comic universe although dilbert is a put-upon cubicle employee uh i always try to

00:01:14.380 frame him as the best engineer in the world so of course he'd be asked of course he would

00:01:21.580 all right um let's look and see if there's any science that they could have skipped and maybe

00:01:28.960 save some money let's see uh eric nolan's running for a side post the stronger men have more sex 1.00

00:01:35.260 partners stronger men have more sex partners hmm i wonder how much they spent to find out that women

00:01:45.260 like stronger men because i didn't see it coming no i did see it coming next time just ask me scott

00:01:54.140 we're thinking about doing a study of to see if tall men have more sex don't need to they do well okay

00:02:02.580 well what if we studied to find out if tall rich men have more sex don't need to don't need to they 0.99

00:02:10.380 do okay but we're still curious about tall rich men who have all of their hair yes more sex every

00:02:19.660 time but what about tall rich men who go to the gym and really have a good physique again save your

00:02:27.420 money this is why you come to me first big money saver i'm like i'm like pre-doge you don't even need

00:02:37.680 doge if you just come to me first that's all you need to do i'm just full of answers um there's another

00:02:48.400 study in american psychological association i guess that's a publication uh they found out that satire

00:02:56.460 is more damaging than boring criticism hmm who could they have asked to save some money on that

00:03:06.260 study oh that's right why don't you ask the cartoonist who writes satire all the time like i'm doing 1.00

00:03:13.860 right now mocking their stupid ass study notice how my satire about their stupid ass study 1.00

00:03:19.600 is way more damning than a boring criticism well i i'm not sure that was a high priority study 1.00

00:03:27.180 no see boring as soon as i lay the satire on sing sing right to the heart just ask me next time

00:03:36.100 satire it's good stuff well cnn is uh showing their their numbers data guy harry enton uh he shows

00:03:46.480 the 70 percent of americans say trump is doing exactly what he said he would do if he got elected

00:03:51.660 especially the doge stuff he was pretty clear about that but uh in addition trump set new highs his

00:03:59.660 popularity is at a new all-time high including his entire first term and what could possibly be the

00:04:08.440 reason behind his popularity could it be that he picks the uh i'm going to use the scott jennings

00:04:17.460 frame because this is a good one that trump picks the things that 80 percent of the country likes

00:04:23.580 and of course 20 to 25 percent of the country is wrong about everything so it wouldn't matter what

00:04:29.500 it was it's like should we save the the orphans uh because the orphanage is on fire and there's still

00:04:37.540 plenty of time to get the orphans out should we save them well yeah 80 percent of the country would

00:04:44.700 say you save those orphans what are you talking about of course you would but 20 percent would say

00:04:49.520 what kind of orphans are we talking about are they republicans i don't know not so fast maybe they

00:04:56.480 deserve it now i'm just making that up but the point is 20 percent of the public is wrong about

00:05:02.000 everything so if you get it if you have a topic that 80 of the public is on the same side that's

00:05:08.700 basically everyone because the other 20 are not thinkers or serious or understanding of their

00:05:18.180 environment in any important way so you can ignore the last 20 as not even real no matter what the

00:05:25.720 question is 20 no you're not even you're not even in the right conversation people so as long as trump's

00:05:33.980 doing the things that are super popular you can mix in a few things that are you know maybe 50 50s and

00:05:40.120 a couple of 40 60s and he's going to be golden um but the other reason that he's popular is that people

00:05:47.800 love action and they love energy and they love it even more when it's coming from a dominant male

00:05:55.340 figure why because we're human we're just human if you're a guy are you not impressed by a high

00:06:04.040 energy powerful um alpha male of course you are why do we watch football we watch football because it's

00:06:12.860 just filled with these high powered high energy alpha males it's what we like do women like to uh do they 1.00

00:06:22.540 they feel good about high energy alpha males yeah yeah who doesn't 20 20 don't like that

00:06:32.560 because they don't like anything it's different 20 every time but uh the other the other thing is

00:06:39.520 besides being uh high energy and high action you know just the pace of things is just purely impressive

00:06:44.800 and the fact that we're paying them how much do you love the fact that we're paying trump well

00:06:52.220 actually we're not he i believe he's not taking a salary right i don't remember if he said it this

00:06:57.920 term but i i think it's automatic he's not taking it so we're not paying him per se except for you know

00:07:04.340 it costs a lot for secret service etc but we're getting a really good value because we're getting

00:07:11.240 we're getting elon musk for free i mean how how often does that happen for free and so if you do

00:07:22.080 that much stuff you've got that much energy you got that much action you've got that much alpha male

00:07:27.320 stuff you're working for free we're getting we're getting a bargain we love bargains especially when

00:07:34.380 they're uncovering all the bad things that we're paying for but on top of all of that i think the

00:07:40.900 media brainwashing machine is broken i think trump broke it it took a long time and we all had to

00:07:47.960 help but once you realize that the media is not trying to give you the news that's really the

00:07:54.580 secret if you think well they're trying to give you the straight news but yeah everybody makes a

00:07:59.980 mistake if you're in that model you have no idea what's going on no the news is not trying to give

00:08:07.480 you the news you know there may be some entities that are trying but mostly you know your your big

00:08:16.460 entities we know for sure they're not trying to give you the real news it's always a it's always a

00:08:23.560 narrative anyway so here's something i love i love the fact that calling out the brainwashing techniques

00:08:33.700 that the news is using you know the little propaganda tricks it's become a parlor game

00:08:38.940 now compare this to 2016 in 2016 we simply thought there were two opinions well there's the opinion on

00:08:48.260 the left and there's opinion on the right and they're different yeah we understand that that's why

00:08:54.180 there's a left and the right different opinions but over time we learned that what we were observing

00:09:00.080 wasn't just a different of a difference of opinion what we learned was the news isn't real

00:09:07.300 and once you realize the news isn't real then you can start looking for the technique and have you

00:09:14.580 noticed how delightful it is that um you know i i would say that people like mike cernovich people like

00:09:22.720 me have been pointing out technique for years but somehow collectively and other people of course

00:09:30.300 it's not just us but uh collectively the entire right-leaning part of the world has been educated on

00:09:38.200 the tricks let me give you an example so caitlin collins cnn um she said uh recently quote we are three

00:09:46.000 two weeks into the second trump presidency three weeks and tonight there are warnings that the u.s is

00:09:52.340 dangerously close to a constitutional crisis there are warnings do you know what the warnings are

00:09:58.440 well according to john podritz um who who apparently is up to speed on the propaganda tricks

00:10:08.020 he explains what the quote warnings are about the constitutional crisis so he goes uh so this is

00:10:17.900 how it works the new york times does a story in which leftist professors say there's a constitutional

00:10:23.940 crisis and six hours later cnn does a story saying there are warnings which is technically true

00:10:32.200 because there's there were warnings right there in the new york times but it's simply just an

00:10:37.300 extension of a party ideological line from one media institution through another now that's a

00:10:43.200 standard trick so that first the democrats will plant a story with a friendly reporter and then the

00:10:50.380 rest of the press will treat it like it must be important and substantial because it's in the other

00:10:56.580 press well if it's in the new york times so watching uh john podritz uh call that out was very satisfying

00:11:06.640 to me because the more you learn to spot this stuff the better off we're going to be so it's just a sign

00:11:15.340 of good health that we can call this out and laugh at it it gets better um and i would even go so far as

00:11:23.160 that we've just πraud so what john was doing was just pointing out you know how the propaganda um

00:11:29.800 architecture works but because it's on x and x you know will give you follows and reposts and you know

00:11:40.260 if you wanted to you could even monetize it so there's actually a reward so we've literally gamified

00:11:46.860 gamified the process of calling out the propaganda. And it's fun. And not only is it fun,

00:11:54.760 you might get paid for it if you've monetized your account. So related to this, I saw a story

00:12:02.720 in the Wall Street Journal that Steve Bannon's war room, and so this would include Steve Bannon

00:12:09.120 and one of his co-hosts, I don't know how many co-hosts he has, but his co-host, Natalie Winters,

00:12:14.540 they both keep MSNBC on all day. So MSNBC would be the opposite of their point of view.

00:12:23.800 And they keep it on all day. Do you know why? They don't really watch the conservative media that

00:12:32.540 much. They just keep MSNBC kind of locked on. Because it's hilarious. It's for the jokes.

00:12:40.280 It's so that you can make fun of them. Because they're so ridiculous that I keep it on all day, 0.98

00:12:48.660 too. Now, actually, I usually flip through and I spend a lot of time. I watch MSNBC for the laughs. 0.96

00:12:56.860 And that's not a joke. It's not hyperbole. Once you realize that they're not even trying to be any

00:13:02.320 kind of a news network, once you realize its only intention is propaganda, then it gets fun.

00:13:09.960 And we're going to have a little fun with them in a little bit. So yeah, I watch them for the same

00:13:14.420 reason, just to watch how the propaganda works and see what they're up to. And I do watch MSNBC more

00:13:21.240 than, probably more than I watch conservative media. I mean, I sample everything, but I'll bet I spend more

00:13:28.780 time watching MSNBC because I'm just fascinated by the technique. So Joy Reid on MSNBC, I guess she said

00:13:41.140 today, or it might have been yesterday, that the Doge employee named Big Balls, you know, that was

00:13:47.940 his name online at one point, Big Balls, must be subpoenaed. Now, why does subpoena have to have

00:13:57.060 pina in it? Because it feels like subpoena means whatever's below your pina, and what's below your

00:14:05.280 pina is your big balls. I don't know, is it just me? And then I look at Joy Reid with her short hair, 1.00

00:14:12.720 you know, her shaved head, and I think, why do you have to dress like the thing you're criticizing? 0.97

00:14:19.160 Do you remember when she had Trump hair? She had a Trump haircut when she was criticizing Trump all day?

00:14:24.600 I thought, that's weird. Why would you wear the hair of the thing you're criticizing? Now she's 0.50

00:14:31.100 spending all day criticizing Big Balls, and she's got her hair cut really short, so she looks like, 0.99

00:14:36.820 you know, Big Ball's left testicle. You know, it's just sort of a testicle with a face on it. 0.99

00:14:43.640 And I'll tell you, I call this whole thing scrotum gate, because scrotum is a word you don't get to 0.99

00:14:49.520 use enough. Any chance I get to say scrotum in public, I'm going to take it. I'm like, 0.72

00:14:55.220 can I say scrotum on this podcast? Scrotum. Yeah, it's just a funny word. So scrotum gate gets better. 0.99

00:15:03.420 So here's something I've noticed, and I want to see if you've noticed it too.

00:15:08.940 Do you notice that the people on CNN, I'm going to know just two of them in particular,

00:15:13.680 Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid, have one thing in common that is the strangest thing to have in

00:15:20.560 common. They don't blink their eyes at the same time. In other words, each of them has two eyes,

00:15:27.540 and here would be a normal person blinking, if you're watching. Blink, blink. See both eyes blink?

00:15:36.260 Pretty much a normal person when they blink, both of them blink.

00:15:39.480 But have you ever watched either Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid when they're on camera?

00:15:46.240 Their eyes blink, but one at a time, like they're fighting off something. It's like,

00:15:52.540 and then Trump, Trump is like a dictator. It's like 1939 Hitler.

00:16:01.940 Now, where does that come from? If you find somebody who blinks separately with each eye,

00:16:12.440 I wouldn't believe anything that comes out of their mouth,

00:16:16.060 because I don't even know what causes that. What causes you to reflexively blink separately

00:16:23.880 with each eye? I don't know. I'm not sure that's a tell for mental health or lying or what that is,

00:16:32.620 but I don't see it anywhere else. Have you ever seen that anywhere else? And two of their major

00:16:39.040 hosts do the same thing? What's up with that? Anyway, Ali Velshi, one of the MSNBC hosts,

00:16:48.760 who's Canadian. I didn't know he's Canadian, but he is. He's Canadian.

00:16:57.040 It feels like that comment has more power to it than I meant. If I say he's Canadian,

00:17:04.480 suddenly your brain fills up with all these stereotypes. And you're thinking, oh, he's a

00:17:10.000 crazy communist because, oh, he's like Trudeau. I hate the fact that five years ago, if you said 0.94

00:17:20.560 somebody is Canadian, you would have just automatically thought, oh, excellent. I'd like

00:17:27.640 to invite them over for coffee. I like Canadians. Canadians are the best. But after a few more

00:17:34.440 years of Trudeau, if you hear somebody is a Canadian, you're like, oh, I'm sorry. Sorry

00:17:40.240 about that. How's it feel? Are you OK? Do you need any help? Anyway, so Ali Velshi on MSNBC said

00:17:49.320 that, quote, blacks will be impacted most by Trump's gutting of the bureaucracy. Now, should 1.00

00:17:56.640 we dig into that? No, we don't give a shit. I'm not saying we don't give a shit about black 1.00

00:18:02.260 Americans. I'm saying we don't give a shit about his opinion. And is it true that people 1.00

00:18:09.160 who are at the lowest end of the economic situation will have some greater impact based

00:18:16.940 on what's happening now? Well, I would say that's always the case. If there's a war, people

00:18:24.380 at the low end of the economic ladder almost always get it worse. If there's a depression,

00:18:30.080 who gets it worse? If there's a pandemic, who gets it worse? So it is true, and we can't ignore

00:18:36.580 it, that the people at the low end of the economic ladder are going to get everything worse

00:18:42.320 whenever you make any big change. But to be fair, what Trump promised, maybe without saying it

00:18:50.980 directly, is that we're going to take some pain to cut the government down to a sustainable level

00:18:57.600 because you know what would happen if we just kept doing what we were doing and didn't cut

00:19:02.020 anything? We would be out of business. We would be broke. The country would crumble. Guess who gets

00:19:09.080 hurt the most when the entire country crumbles? The people at the low end of the economic ladder.

00:19:15.340 So it's, to me, just looking at this, it's more MSNBC searching for their old way of business.

00:19:25.060 Hey, I've got an idea. I don't know if anybody's thought of this before, but what if no matter what

00:19:31.860 Republicans do, we brand it as racist? Has anybody tried that yet? Oh, it's the only thing we've ever

00:19:39.200 tried. Well, what if we also make up some stuff? Okay. Okay. But wait, that's also what we've been

00:19:46.820 doing. But what if we have everybody agree that it's true? That's what you've been doing. Okay.

00:19:55.500 Okay. But what if we ignore the bad things that happen on the Democrat side? Okay. That's actually

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00:21:09.040 Meanwhile, there's the story that you're just going to need somebody smarter to explain the next part to

00:21:15.400 you. So how many judges now have ruled against some little thing that Doge is doing or Trump is

00:21:22.840 doing? Is it five or six? I think there was another one today. There were five yesterday.

00:21:30.660 So, you know, the lawfare is just coming wildly. Now, Kyle Cheney was pointing out on X today that

00:21:39.780 Judge Amy Berman Jackson, she's the fifth judge just yesterday, just in one day, just yesterday,

00:21:46.740 five judges to block some aspect of what Trump is trying to get done with executive orders.

00:21:55.660 And here's what they're doing. They're kind of blocking common sense. As long as Trump stays in

00:22:04.520 that 80-20 mode where he's getting rid of the penny and people are saying, yeah, yeah, get rid of the

00:22:10.880 penny. He's bringing back plastic straws and people are like, oh yeah, plastic straws.

00:22:18.960 And he's trying to end the war in Ukraine. Oh yeah, let's end that war. He's trying to

00:22:23.300 cut the waste and fraud out of the government. Oh yeah, we can all agree on that. Let's get rid of

00:22:29.140 the waste and fraud. So as long as he stays in that 80%-ish mode, watching Democrats try to stop

00:22:37.880 him from doing things that we all want, except for the 20% who are just bad shit crazy in every topic. 0.98

00:22:45.320 It's fun. But in this context, Elon Musk just changed his own name on his profile on X to Harry

00:22:53.960 Balls. Balls spelled B-O-L-Z. Why? Why not? Why not? Harry Balls. Okay.

00:23:05.720 And then Musk and others are pointing out that Trump isn't the only one who is considered ignoring

00:23:16.600 a court order if the court order didn't seem like it was on point. So do you remember that Biden said

00:23:24.920 when the Supreme Court blocked his idea to pay off the student loans? He said directly, Biden said,

00:23:32.480 the Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt, but they didn't stop me. Blah,

00:23:37.800 blah, blah. I'm going to keep going. So Biden said it directly. The Supreme Court ruled against me,

00:23:43.480 but I'm going to try to thwart their ruling by finding some clever workaround.

00:23:50.120 All right. I mean, I'm open-minded that maybe it was a workaround. I mean, if it literally doesn't go

00:23:57.740 against the Supreme Court ruling and yet defeats the, you know, let's say the intent of it,

00:24:04.340 that might be legal. So I'm no expert. I don't know. But it's sketchy and it seems inappropriate.

00:24:14.940 I mean, why would you try to get around a Supreme Court ruling? That just feels like the wrong move if

00:24:20.780 you're the leader of the country. But here's a Laura Loomer scoop. Laura Loomer is the best at

00:24:31.020 coming up with, did you know that somebody's daughter is working for somebody else? You know,

00:24:37.620 the connections, the who's involved connections. She's really good at that. So her scoop today is

00:24:43.980 that Judge John McConnell, so that's a federal judge from Rhode Island who ordered Trump and Doge to

00:24:50.700 unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants that, you know, were things that Doge was trying to

00:24:56.980 stop. And did you know that this judge, according to Laura Loomer, as a daughter who currently works at

00:25:04.720 the U.S. Department of Education as a senior policy advisor? So the judge who doesn't want

00:25:13.160 things such as, for example, the Department of Education to be closed, has a daughter who's got a

00:25:23.180 job there. Now, I think Elon Musk mentioned that it might be a fake job. Does this sound like a real

00:25:30.480 job being a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education? Not really. It doesn't

00:25:38.840 really sound like a real job to me, because don't you think you could get pretty good advice just by

00:25:44.780 asking around? Like, why would you even pay for that? How much is the daughter getting paid to give 1.00

00:25:51.820 advice to an entity that's never made a difference in anybody's lives, at least in terms of the test scores

00:25:59.500 hasn't approved the test scores? So kind of good to know, the network of connections. I love the fact

00:26:07.660 that everything that's going on now with Doge is revealing the networks. So now you can see who's

00:26:14.240 connected. You can see all the bad actors, because they all have to come out, because they're the only

00:26:19.600 ones that are going to fight to protect the corruption. Like, who else is going to argue in

00:26:24.300 public? In public? Who else is going to argue in public to keep the corruption? Only the

00:26:30.940 benefactors. Like, nobody else is going to make that argument. That would be crazy, unless they're

00:26:35.820 blackmailers. So here's some more cuts made by Doge. Apparently, there was something called the 0.59

00:26:44.200 Norwegian Refugee Council. There's a Norwegian Refugee Council. And they've announced that they're

00:26:55.580 suspending their activities in almost 20 countries. The Norwegian Refugee Council was working in 20

00:27:01.820 countries due to the USAID freeze imposed by Trump. So USAID was paying the Norwegian Refugee Council

00:27:14.020 to operate in 20 countries. These sound like jokes, don't they? Doesn't it sound like I just made

00:27:22.400 that up? The Norwegian Refugee Council had to close down? Well, it gets worse. You know, now that the

00:27:31.080 Norwegian Refugee Council is closed, I feel like Doge is going to go after next, maybe the Swedish 1.00

00:27:37.500 Dingleberry Freedom Council. Because if the Swedish Dingleberry Freedom Council doesn't get their USAID

00:27:46.240 funding, how can they continue to bring their Dingleberry message to all the other countries?

00:27:52.840 Can you tell which one I made up? Which one's not real? The Norwegian Refugee Council or the Swedish 0.60

00:28:00.460 Dingleberry Freedom Council? Which one did I just make up? It's called satire, folks. Satire. And if you

00:28:08.080 were here at the beginning, you know that satire is far more damaging than regular boring criticisms that

00:28:14.860 you'll see on other podcasts. No. Satire. Boom. Bringing it home. Well, the JFK files may be fun.

00:28:27.620 Apparently, there were 2,400 undisclosed records that have now been disclosed. At least disclosed

00:28:35.900 that they exist. They're not disclosed in terms of their contents. But we expect that it might be

00:28:40.720 coming. So, anybody want to place any bets on what we learned about the JFK assassination? I'm going to

00:28:49.680 put my money on nothing. Nothing. We're not going to learn anything. Do you believe that the

00:28:56.760 government of the United States may have been involved in assassinating a president and they

00:29:03.640 left a memo about it? It was a memo? Oh, let's find the recordings where they were planning it.

00:29:12.600 No. They couldn't. This is just a prediction. Now, I could be wrong, which would be really fun.

00:29:20.940 I would love to be wrong. I'd love to be wrong about this and about UFOs, but I don't think there's

00:29:29.300 any chance we're going to learn some shocking new thing about who killed Kennedy. We might learn some

00:29:35.240 shocking new things about how the government operates, but I don't know if we're going to find

00:29:40.340 out from the files who killed them. And if we did, would you trust it? Suppose deep down in the files,

00:29:48.460 somewhere it said, oh, we found out that it was Russia all along. Would you believe that? I wouldn't.

00:29:56.600 If it said, you know, we didn't want to tell the country, but it was really China. China was behind 0.66

00:30:02.880 it. Would you believe that? I wouldn't. Suppose they said it was Israel. Israel was behind it. 0.93

00:30:12.420 Well, that would be convenient because people would be, you know, sort of primed to believe that

00:30:18.860 because that's one of the conspiracy theories here the most. But would you believe it? I might say to

00:30:25.840 myself, well, that's convenient. Kind of convenient to blame it on another country. If you happen to be

00:30:31.400 the ones that did it, wouldn't it be nice to have some other country to blame? So even if it were

00:30:36.440 true, I wouldn't believe it because I saw it in a memo that's been buried for 60 years or whatever.

00:30:43.840 So how could we possibly learn anything that would be both believable and new? I'm going to say

00:30:53.340 nothing. I think nothing's coming. I really do. Just nothing. But it'll be fun.

00:30:59.420 Meanwhile, there's a report that Trump may have dispatched his special envoy, Steve Whitkoff,

00:31:08.080 to Moscow. That's based on looking at some jet action. I guess there's a jet that he is known to

00:31:18.460 be sometimes on and maybe he's on it and it's heading to Moscow. So we'll wait for that. I would

00:31:25.800 expect that Trump and Putin, maybe through intermediaries, maybe not, probably are well

00:31:34.500 along on negotiating. I'll bet they're halfway there at least. And I think both of them want

00:31:42.800 to find a solution. But we'll talk more about Ukraine in a minute.

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00:32:00.260 you're richer than you think. Meanwhile, apparently the Trump Department of Justice

00:32:07.980 is dropping the charges. We're recommending dropping them, which looks like it's going to work.

00:32:14.980 Dropping charges against Eric Adams, Mayor Adams of New York. No relation.

00:32:19.600 So he was accused of taking illegal campaign contributions from Turkey and accepting $100,000

00:32:27.840 in travel and hotel perks in exchange for official acts. Now, the things we know are that Turkey asked

00:32:35.040 them when their building would be ready. And he asked the fire department, when's that building

00:32:41.320 going to be ready? Now, is that more than he would have done for any other constituent? I hope not.

00:32:50.340 That should be exactly what he would do for every constituent. If somebody has a big, expensive

00:32:56.120 building and they can't move into it in New York City and there's a bureaucratic delay,

00:33:02.760 is that not appropriate to talk to the mayor's office and say, hey, mayor's office, is there somebody

00:33:08.180 you could talk to to get this going? Because we'd like to bring a whole bunch of people in. They're

00:33:12.260 going to eat lunch. They're going to spend money in your city. Of course he should make that phone call.

00:33:17.700 Of course he should. And then later when he's traveling, the accusation is he got some of his

00:33:27.760 travel upgraded. Maybe a better hotel room, maybe a better seat on the plane. Is that a crime?

00:33:39.420 Well, what do you think happens to public dignitaries no matter when they travel?

00:33:46.300 Do you think that somebody like Mayor Adams wouldn't get automatic upgrades no matter what

00:33:51.440 he was doing? And the fact that it happens in the context of somebody being happy with him doing his

00:33:57.220 job as the mayor, exactly the job a mayor should do, make sure the bureaucracy is not stopping the

00:34:02.560 economy. This is pretty weak stuff. It looks like lawfare. And it happened very quickly after Mayor

00:34:11.240 Adams became a critic of Biden's immigration policy. Because he would be a really powerful voice

00:34:18.980 because he's a, you know, he's a Democrat running the biggest city that's the most impacted, it seemed

00:34:24.860 like. And he was dangerous, dangerous to the Biden administration because he was being honest about

00:34:32.720 a real problem. So in, uh, in, I guess, dropping the charges, I think it's official by now that they've

00:34:41.940 dropped him. Um, the Trump administration would be signaling that he was a victim of lawfare.

00:34:49.540 And in their, in their communication, they basically say that it's a little too sketchy

00:34:55.020 that these weak charges came right after he became a critic of immigration. It's a little too

00:35:01.300 coincidental. Now, uh, apparently he could still be charged in the future, but at the moment it looks

00:35:09.760 like he'll at least have freedom to run for reelection if that's what he wants to do. Now, how smart is it

00:35:15.720 for, I mean, I assume that Trump was sort of behind it, you know, even if he didn't say it directly,

00:35:22.680 you know, maybe the department of justice would be able to read the room and do it,

00:35:26.940 but how smart is it from Trump's perspective that this is happening? It's perfect because Trump has

00:35:33.820 made the point that the charges against him were lawfare. What could make that point better

00:35:40.900 than letting a prominent Democrat, a prominent Democrat, uh, escape, help him escape from his

00:35:51.900 lawfare problems too. And both of them being anti-immigration, the way it's being done,

00:35:58.240 or it wasn't being done. It looks like the same play. It looks like lawfare was used against them

00:36:05.360 because immigration was more important to the administration, but it gets better because he

00:36:11.480 also, uh, signed a unconditional pardon for former Illinois governor, uh, Rod Blagovich. Now I don't

00:36:20.180 know too much about the Blagovich story. Some people say he was set up some people, you know, obviously

00:36:26.480 there are going to be two sides to the story, but it also reinforces the idea that lawfare is being

00:36:34.580 used against prominent politicians. So now Trump has created a three point argument. Look what they

00:36:41.880 did to me, look what they did to somebody on their own team, just for disagreeing on one, on just one

00:36:47.780 topic, just one topic, immigration, that's it. And then look what they did in the past to, uh, Blagovich.

00:36:56.580 That really, that really solidifies that lawfare argument when you can show three points

00:37:02.920 and then, and then in the context of it, we're watching all these, um, in my opinion, corrupt

00:37:09.900 judges. They act like they're corrupt. I don't have proof of that. They just act as corrupt people

00:37:16.540 in, in the, if you're just looking at the outcome of what they're doing, you got to just shake your

00:37:22.640 head and say, that doesn't look, that doesn't look appropriate. You don't have to be any kind of

00:37:28.040 lawyer to know that what the judges are doing looks like a form of lawfare, right? So not only

00:37:34.580 is he made his lawfare argument about things that have happened in the past, but it's right in the

00:37:40.880 middle of a whole lawfare campaign against them in office. It's very, very clever that they're making

00:37:49.920 a big deal about these two cases of lawfare. Very well done. I'll tell you, uh, no matter how many

00:37:56.980 times I say this, it's worth saying again, the Trump administration has really good advisors,

00:38:05.520 but I like to tell you in every case, the boss gets all the credit because the boss has to pick

00:38:11.900 the advisors and then the boss has to decide which advice to follow, which is, I would argue the hard

00:38:17.860 part. So Trump gets all the credit, but I would be remiss if I didn't say, my God, he's getting good

00:38:27.000 advice. Um, Musk said today on X that, uh, I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said all the smart people

00:38:36.220 are, you know, are joining the Trump side of things. And I think that's true. I believe everybody's

00:38:43.000 smart is now drifting to his side, everybody's smart. And if you see somebody who has a high IQ,

00:38:52.140 but they're not, they're still resisting. They're either getting paid, you know, it's just part of

00:38:57.760 their work. And I can name lots of people who are clearly getting paid for their resistance

00:39:02.060 or they have TDS and it's literally a mental problem. But of the people who don't have a mental

00:39:09.100 problem and don't have an economic stake in being a critic, they pretty much all the smart ones have

00:39:16.900 come to the same side. You want a good example of that? Sam Altman says that Biden, just, just

00:39:26.140 recently, Sam Altman just said that the Biden administration was sort of anti-business and he

00:39:31.760 was happy to see him go. And that the Trump administration is like a breath of fresh air for

00:39:37.620 business and that everybody in the Valley feels it. Sam Altman, no matter what else, what other

00:39:44.940 problems you have about him, and we'll talk a little more about that, but whatever else you want to

00:39:49.280 say, everybody agrees he's smart and he doesn't seem to be crazy. Right. And nobody's paying him to

00:39:55.720 be a Biden supporter. Everybody smart is on the same side unless they have mental illness or they're 0.89

00:40:03.500 being paid. We really are at that point where I don't think there's an exception. The reflexive

00:40:11.600 people like Larry Summers and like that, I don't take them seriously because they're sort of deeply in

00:40:17.520 the game, but the people who are not in the game, all the smart ones are on the same side. If you can find

00:40:24.160 an exception, let me know. I don't know of any. There are people who are quiet, but that's

00:40:32.500 different. Anyway, as Trump just pointed out, California just finished counting the votes for

00:40:38.660 2024. What? That's right. Remember the 2024 election? It seems like it was years ago because

00:40:49.500 we're moving at Trump's speed at the moment. California just finished counting. Now they had

00:40:59.160 declared the winners before because I guess they were sure it wouldn't change the result,

00:41:04.000 but they were still counting. What? All right. So let me show a contrast between what made sense in

00:41:14.340 2020 and what makes sense today. Do you remember 2020? It was so long ago. In 2020, if you questioned

00:41:22.300 an American election result, you would be considered to be an election denier and possibly an insurrectionist. 0.59

00:41:31.840 So you might've been a Russian stooge or some kind of a traitor, but at the very least, 0.86

00:41:40.120 you're an election denier election deniers. My God, just, just even having that opinion that our 0.89

00:41:49.620 immaculate election systems could be in any way compromised. What kind of a fool, what kind of a 0.99

00:41:57.500 insurrectionist, dangerous Russian puppet fool are you? That's 2020. You want to fast forward to 2025 1.00

00:42:06.360 2025 with me? 2025. Here's what that argument looks like today. So after learning, as we have all

00:42:19.340 learned, because we're following Doge, et cetera. So after learning that nearly every government agency

00:42:25.080 is corrupt, is that fair? Am I going too far so far that we've learned that nearly, and maybe it's

00:42:33.980 everyone, but we can say for sure, nearly every government organization is corrupt. And fundamentally,

00:42:41.080 not just a little bit, fundamentally. I mean, FEMA's sending money for the immigration and then lying

00:42:49.580 about it. Apparently the people involved in that are getting fired today. Thank you. So once you've

00:42:55.140 learned that every major agency in the government from, you know, Congress, and then also outside the

00:43:04.400 government, you got your health cares, God knows what. By the way, did you see the study? There was a

00:43:12.820 study of 52 of the most landmark studies in cancer. Landmark studies, meaning that everybody would look at

00:43:21.760 these group of 52 studies and say, these are the ones that are, you know, credible and they will

00:43:28.420 inform how we treat cancer. 52 of them. So somebody tried to reproduce them. How many of the 52 landmark

00:43:38.080 healthcare studies do you think were reproducible? 11%. 89% were not real in the sense that they couldn't be

00:43:48.900 reproduced. 89%. That was driving our cancer decisions for years, if not decades. It might have

00:44:00.180 been decades. Now that's healthcare. Healthcare is something you would expect would be the most

00:44:07.380 free from that kind of effect. But in fact, it's completely marinating in it. What about our,

00:44:15.340 you know, what about finance? What, you know, I could go on and on, right? Everything looks corrupt.

00:44:21.920 So in 2025, after learning that nearly every agent, government agency, and really every big entity

00:44:28.460 everywhere is mostly corrupt, believing that our elections are the one fair thing in that environment 1.00

00:44:35.560 makes you a fucking idiot. So let me say it again. If you think our elections are not rigged, 1.00

00:44:41.340 you're a fucking idiot. In 2020, maybe it was a jump ball. You know, maybe you had an argument, 1.00

00:44:50.600 but the argument against it was seemingly winning in the public domain. But let me say it again.

00:44:55.980 If you still think that everything in the country is corrupt, except our election systems, 1.00

00:45:03.220 you're a fucking idiot. Now, that doesn't mean it is corrupt. It just means if you believe it like 1.00

00:45:13.580 it's a fact, you're a fucking idiot. Now, do I have proof that it's corrupt? Of course not. 1.00

00:45:22.100 That's not how anything works. Do you know I didn't have proof that USAID was corrupt until

00:45:27.200 five minutes ago? I didn't have proof that FEMA was giving American money to immigrants until five

00:45:37.600 minutes ago, right? So if today, knowing that, in fact, yesterday, yesterday, I didn't know that 89%

00:45:48.020 of cancer studies were fake. Yesterday. I didn't know that yesterday. Well, that's a lie. I didn't know

00:45:54.920 that. Actually, I did know that. But I knew that you didn't know it. I've done a deeper dive than

00:46:01.620 I've talked about so far. Yeah, I knew that they were fake, or most of them. I already knew that. But

00:46:07.880 most people didn't. So today, in this context, when you're watching your president be law-fared by

00:46:16.260 corrupt judges, do you remember when you thought, well, at least the judges, you know, in this country,

00:46:22.160 our judges are usually pretty fair? No, they're not. No, the judges are so corrupt that they're

00:46:28.860 literally shutting down the country over politics and trying to make it look like there's a law. No, 0.80

00:46:34.360 everything is corrupt. The judges, the healthcare, the finance, the government, the Congress,

00:46:41.520 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, USAID, blah, blah, blah, blah, agencies, blah, blah, blah, the Treasury.

00:46:46.400 The Treasury wasn't even looking at the things they were spending money on. The Social Security

00:46:53.840 system didn't check multiple entries using the same Social Security number, the most basic thing you

00:47:00.340 would check if you were trying to check. Our systems are designed so you can be corrupt.

00:47:08.280 They're designed to be corrupt. And it's obvious from the design. Nobody would build an election system

00:47:14.200 like ours from scratch if what they were trying to do is have a credible, accurate system.

00:47:21.260 Nobody would build this one. Not even close. So yeah, if you think that there's no chance that our

00:47:29.000 elections are rigged, you're a fucking idiot. You're just a fucking idiot. There's just no way around 1.00

00:47:35.480 that at this point. Don't get me started on climate models. All right. So if our elections

00:47:43.160 are rigged, somebody who is an NPC is going to say, Scott, Scott, if you say the elections are rigged,

00:47:49.240 watch me use satire here. Satire coming in hard. Oh, Scott. Oh, if you say the elections are rigged,

00:47:57.960 how do you explain that Trump won in 2016? And then how do you explain that he won again in 2024?

00:48:04.260 Scott, explain that. Explain that. Okay. Too big to rig. In 2016, the polls said he was definitely

00:48:13.040 going to lose. No rigging necessary. Surprise. The shy Trump supporters pulled it over the finish line.

00:48:21.540 In 2024, it literally was too big to rig. It was just too big. And we were watching too closely.

00:48:29.680 We knew exactly where to watch. The observers were everywhere. That might've been the closest

00:48:35.960 thing to an accurate election we've had. But of course, I assume there was a little bit of rigging

00:48:42.680 going on. So yes, you can win if you overwhelm the system. So the way Trump overwhelmed the system

00:48:50.180 with votes is the way he's overwhelming the fake media with so many stories that the media can't

00:48:57.120 keep up. So overwhelming is a strategy and it works against corruption because corruption is a little

00:49:04.980 slow and he can just overwhelm the corruption. Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. 0.92

00:49:11.060 I've been visualizing my match all week. She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the

00:49:16.300 column behind her car on her backhand side. Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the 1.00

00:49:22.460 largest network of auto service centers in the country. Everything was taken care of under one

00:49:26.900 roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the 0.99

00:49:32.340 first round. But you got there on time. Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply.

00:49:38.560 All right. In other news, just because Elon Musk apparently isn't busy enough, he's making a bid for

00:49:49.120 open AI. So he put together some investors and together they're making a bid to buy open AI for

00:49:57.140 97.4 billion. Now, this gets a little complicated. You might know that open AI was originally funded

00:50:05.300 by Musk and even named it open AI because his intention was to make it a publicly available

00:50:13.260 open source kind of AI to benefit the world. At some point, Sam Altman and whoever else was aboard

00:50:23.280 decided to turn it into a for-profit and team up with Microsoft and et cetera. But they have not

00:50:34.200 completed the transition from the non-profit to the profit model. And apparently that is being valued

00:50:44.900 at around $40 billion or something. So while they're trying to work out the complexity and getting

00:50:53.420 everybody happy with the fact that they could change from a non-profit to a profit, which again

00:50:58.120 is a little technical and it's hard for me to explain the ins and outs of that. But during

00:51:04.040 that period where they're trying to make that decision, in comes a bid that would value at

00:51:10.400 that way more than $40 billion, like almost, well, more than double. So more than double.

00:51:17.360 Now, if you're on the board of directors of open AI and you've got one offer for $40 billion,

00:51:24.700 and it's that Microsoft Sam Altman idea, and then suddenly there's another one that comes in

00:51:29.940 for more than twice as much. Does the board have an obligation? Well, they do have an obligation to

00:51:37.600 stop what they're doing and consider it. So considering it, I think, is built into being

00:51:44.240 on the board. I don't think they have a chance. I don't think they have a choice of not at least

00:51:49.020 voting on it and internally considering it, because that's what a board's supposed to do.

00:51:53.640 So now, either Altman's deal will have the problem of trying to decide, why doesn't Microsoft have to

00:52:03.620 pay $97 billion? Why would their investors, I don't know if it's all from Microsoft, but why would

00:52:10.240 the investors in one way be paying $40 billion when there's somebody else who's going to pay more than

00:52:17.220 twice that? So it complicates things, and it's not clear what the entire goal is, because Musk has

00:52:25.220 already created a whole competing AI that has the best data centers, at least, which gives you

00:52:31.500 some thought that it might be the best AI at one point. So why would he do this? Well, some of it

00:52:39.520 might be personal. I don't know. But he's got other investors involved, which suggests that it at least

00:52:45.880 makes sense from a business perspective. Otherwise, the others wouldn't be involved, I think.

00:52:52.180 So this got really interesting. Now, some of it looks personal, because the way Altman and Musk

00:52:59.100 talk about each other is clearly personal. And Musk calls Altman a liar, and Altman says that Musk

00:53:07.960 must have some, I don't know, some problems from his childhood he's trying to work through.

00:53:14.200 So they both have this unflattering view of the other. And it makes me wonder how much

00:53:19.360 is personal. But at the very least, it's going to slow down open AI. So Musk is a competitor

00:53:27.220 with his own AI, and he's just threw this big turd in the punch bowl. So now they've got to figure

00:53:33.200 out what to do with the punch bowl, which should slow them down a little bit. And maybe that's the

00:53:40.520 second way to win. Maybe one way to win is to buy it. And the second way to win is to slow it down.

00:53:49.100 And along with slowing it down, it might make it too expensive for their investors to get involved

00:53:55.580 and might cause a whole fight over there. So it could be that he's just causing some trouble

00:54:01.000 for a competitor. But I would think that he wouldn't do that alone. Meaning that it probably

00:54:08.120 makes sense from a business perspective that if they said yes and sold it, he could probably make

00:54:13.840 something of that pretty quickly. All right. Maybe $97 billion is worth it just to get their

00:54:20.660 technical staff. You know, you remember Silicon Valley used to buy companies and then get rid of

00:54:27.300 the product of the company and just keep the engineers because it was the cheapest way to

00:54:31.020 buy engineers that were the best engineers. So maybe the cheapest way to buy the best AI people

00:54:37.240 is that you just overpay for the entire company and then you get the engineers. I don't know.

00:54:45.920 Except I don't know if the engineers are working for the nonprofits. I'm not exactly sure how the

00:54:52.740 structure is right now. So I can't get too much deeper. Anyway, thing I love about Doge, as I

00:54:59.820 mentioned, is it reveals the whole network of the most corrupt people in the government. So here are

00:55:06.580 the names that are fighting the hardest to stop the reduction of waste. Can you imagine being forced

00:55:17.120 to be on the team that's favoring corruption and waste? Because that's, I think the entire public

00:55:24.660 understands that Doge is getting rid of waste and corruption. Now, the other team might have a whole

00:55:33.580 different narrative of, oh, Musk is really trying to get power for himself and he's really trying to make

00:55:42.320 profits. So he's attacking the people who would be a problem for him and the government, blah, blah,

00:55:47.160 blah. But I think most Americans see Doge coming out every day and saying, look, we just saved you

00:55:54.900 another 10 billion. Well, just saved you another 100 billion. Whoops. Do you really want to be funding

00:56:00.000 the Swedish dingleberry team? No, we don't. Well, saved you another billion. So it seems like that's

00:56:07.020 such a strong story and everybody is just normally, we're all against corruption. There's no pro-corruption

00:56:15.340 except the ones who are benefiting from it. So when you see these characters, you know that they're

00:56:22.040 the worst of the worst, the ones who are on the pro-corruption side of things. So here's the people

00:56:28.320 we see the most. Schumer, Adam Schiff, duh. Elizabeth Warren, duh. Jamie Raskin.

00:56:40.480 Now, Goldman and Maxine Waters join, of course. Now, that's really a good indication.

00:56:50.640 If I told you that these same people were on the same side of any topic, what would you say?

00:56:56.160 Why? Why would Schumer, Schiff, Warren, Raskin and Goldman and Waters be on the same side?

00:57:05.520 Only when it's corrupt. You wouldn't be able to bring together this group of people except for

00:57:13.360 corruption to protect it. So this would be a group that would favor, that would argue in favor of,

00:57:19.920 let's say, the 51 intel people and the laptop. This would be the same group that would tell you

00:57:25.760 that Russia collusion was real. It's the same group that tells you that January 6th was an

00:57:31.000 insurrection. It's always the same group. So once you realize that when this group of,

00:57:39.720 to me, it looks like they're obviously corrupt, but you can draw your own conclusions. But when you

00:57:45.420 see this cast, the characters, they're not really trying to be useful and helpful and honest.

00:57:54.420 They don't do that. These are the designated liars. The people who, the worst people who will tell any 0.81

00:58:02.340 lie and they'll tell it in public. Even if they get debunked, they'll just keep telling it. So they're

00:58:08.020 the most shameless people. And when you see them, you can know that whatever they're pushing is BS. 0.92

00:58:15.900 Well, Trump has warned Hamas that the releasing of the prisoners, which had been already agreed,

00:58:22.460 not all of them, but some subset, it looked like Hamas was dragging their feet and they were asking

00:58:29.200 for some more demands or they're complaining about Israel in some way. So that's being slowed down.

00:58:35.900 Trump has warned that unless Hamas frees all the hostages held in Gaza by Saturday,

00:58:43.120 and when he says all the hostages, I think he means not just the ones that we agreed to release.

00:58:48.920 I think he means all the hostages. He says, unless they're all freed by Saturday,

00:58:55.240 that, quote, as far as I'm concerned, if all the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock,

00:59:04.020 I think it's an appropriate time. You know, he just sort of randomly picks it. I would say,

00:59:08.940 cancel it, cancel the deal that they have, and all bets are off and let hell break out. 0.51

00:59:18.020 Now, this is what I love the most about Trump. When he threatens somebody, he's not bluffing.

00:59:29.100 So they have to deal with the fact that it's not a bluff, but he also didn't say exactly what he

00:59:34.740 would do. And I would argue that what he's doing is making it easy for Israel and the United States

00:59:42.900 to never repopulate Gaza. So by not accepting this, you know, weak, trickling little agreement 0.73

00:59:51.860 and just putting the onus back on him completely. It's like, all right, either release them all or

00:59:58.140 all bets are off. All bets are off means you're never going back to Gaza. Now, that's what I think 0.98

01:00:03.980 they want anyway. I think that's what Israel and probably Trump want is that the, you know, the Hamas 0.99

01:00:10.140 part of the Gazans, which you can't really separate from the rest of the Gazans, at least not effectively,

01:00:17.920 it'd be hard to know. They're just not going back. So I think the idea that, that they will ever

01:00:24.280 resettle Gaza is kind of settled. And if Saturday, by Saturday at 12 o'clock, all the hostages are not

01:00:32.640 back, that's the end of any chance that Gaza will be resettled by the original, at least the recent 0.89

01:00:41.420 residents. I think this is his yes, no switch. I think the yes, no switch is, do you want to have

01:00:50.540 any chance, just any chance of going back to Gaza? You have to until Saturday at 12 to decide. If we

01:00:57.620 don't have, if we don't have all the hostages back, that's dead forever. It will never be an option.

01:01:04.280 Forever it will be done. Now, Trump has already said that they're not going back. But the way he

01:01:11.760 says it is, we're, you know, it takes so long to clean it up. You don't want them to wait 10 years

01:01:16.920 to go back. Rather, they should have nice homes, a nice place to live more immediately. And so he's

01:01:23.680 saying if they're already in better homes 10 years from now, why would they leave? Because they'll be in

01:01:29.460 a better place. And they might be there in a year, as opposed to 10 years. So that's a good argument

01:01:35.060 where, you know, it's a carrot and a stick. So the carrot is, hey, how about we put you in nice places

01:01:40.940 fairly quickly? The stick is, if we don't get all the hostages back by noon, you get nothing.

01:01:48.600 And maybe that includes not building nice houses now. So here's what

01:01:56.780 here's what I think is going on.

01:02:02.380 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

01:02:08.260 is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

01:02:14.020 Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather

01:02:19.820 tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those shoes?

01:02:25.160 Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous

01:02:31.940 for less. I think the only way that the Gaza resident situation can be solved is if it gets 1.00

01:02:41.560 reframed as a mental health problem. If you took a whole bunch of people and you put them in Gaza and 0.58

01:02:48.480 you brainwashed them for years that they're victims and they've got to go kill other people to make up 0.92

01:02:56.920 for it, would you not be giving them PTSD and mental health problems? So even if they were born with

01:03:03.740 normal brains, if you just put them in one area and propagandize them and threaten them and you make 0.95

01:03:10.980 them live in this bad situation and you just carpet bomb them with ideas about, it's the Jews, it's the 0.98

01:03:18.620 Jews, Israel's the problem, would they not have mental health PTSD, like genuine mental health problems, 1.00

01:03:26.380 like actual health problems? I say yes. But we're not allowed to say that because that would be 1.00

01:03:32.760 sort of insulting and dismissive of thousands of years of Palestinian history. But it's also true. 1.00

01:03:42.240 It's a mental health problem. And you can't solve a mental health problem with a house, 0.75

01:03:47.400 which is what we're trying to do. How about we give you a house? I have PTSD. But what about a nice

01:03:55.980 house? Still have PTSD. I still have mental health problems. But what if it's a nice house in another

01:04:03.440 country? No. How about a nice house sooner than it could have happened? No. No, the house is not the

01:04:12.020 problem. Your house is not going to fix my brain. My brain is full of hate and PTSD. And it was PTSD

01:04:21.000 before Gaza was attacked. Before October 7th, it was PTSD. Imagine what it is now. So here's the way.

01:04:29.660 I think you have to take a page from, I hate to say it, China. They treat the Uyghurs like they're a 1.00

01:04:37.560 virus. I don't like that part because I don't like treating people like they're just carriers of a virus.

01:04:44.100 But it is the only thing that China thinks they can do, because if they let Islam grow within China, 1.00

01:04:51.760 it's not a compatible system. So I'm not defending it, because I'd love the Uyghurs to have a good 0.85

01:04:58.540 life. I'm just describing it. So China has this, you could say, evil and cruel approach to it. But 0.97

01:05:07.440 they don't have a better idea. That's the problem. What's the better idea? Just let them spread Islam 1.00

01:05:15.900 and have a problem down the road? That's not a good idea. So what could you do to reframe it as a

01:05:23.400 mental health problem? Well, you could start by saying, we'd love to resettle some Palestinians 1.00

01:05:31.420 back in Gaza once it's rebuilt. But it's going to take 10 years. And during that 10 years,

01:05:38.780 if anybody wants free mental health counseling, we'll provide it. And if in the course of that

01:05:46.200 mental health counseling, we determine that we've cured you, and you can see the full picture now,

01:05:53.160 you can see that sometimes Israel did some things you don't like, and maybe they really did. 0.82

01:05:58.040 And maybe everything's broken. And maybe it's not your fault. And maybe you don't need to go fix it.

01:06:09.160 Maybe you're a victim of the brainwashing, etc. So the question would be, if you had hypnotists and

01:06:17.020 therapists, and you said, here's the doorway to resettle where you wanted to live. You've got to

01:06:24.060 get through the therapists and the mental health professionals, and they have to certify that

01:06:30.380 you're mentally healthy enough to live among a diverse group of people. If you can't live in a 1.00

01:06:37.460 diverse group of people, and it's because your just brain won't let you, you're not ready. So you're

01:06:44.580 going to have to stay with all the other people who have the same problem because you're dangerous

01:06:48.020 on the outside. The reason we have mental institutions is because some, well, or we used

01:06:54.000 to, is because some people are just too dangerous to be on the street. Now, do we say that those

01:06:59.620 people are the bad guys? Not really. I mean, if you're fair about it, somebody who has extreme

01:07:06.260 mental illness, if they're acting in a way you don't like, it's hard for me to say it's their fault,

01:07:12.300 except that the legal system has to hold them responsible to some degree. But if we treat

01:07:20.620 the refugees from Gaza as people who have been mentally damaged by their keepers, by Hamas,

01:07:31.860 then you can treat them with compassion, and you can give them a pathway to join the diverse real

01:07:38.960 world. But you also have now a perfectly good system for preventing the worst of them from ever

01:07:46.380 leaving whatever area that they're contained in. And that might be the only way to solve it.

01:07:52.820 Is it fair? And does it show empathy for real human beings? It does if you treat it like a mental

01:08:00.720 problem. It does. Now, the trick would be that you don't want to like convert them to another religion. 0.55

01:08:08.960 A little too far. But you might have to put some dents in what they believe about their current

01:08:15.440 extreme version of their religion. And you might need to bring in, you know, trained persuaders who

01:08:21.740 are Islamic, you know, ones who don't want war with anybody, and have made it work to make peace.

01:08:27.880 And let the Islamic hypnotists and the Islamic therapists, if there are any, I assume there are, 1.00

01:08:35.720 let them do the work. And let them try to save the people that they can save. But as long as you

01:08:43.520 treat it as a military problem or a security problem, nobody's going home, and nobody's going to be happy,

01:08:49.440 and there's no path. But if you treat it as a mental problem, maybe, maybe some of them can be saved.

01:08:57.660 All right. According to Tucker Carlson on his podcast, he says that he knows for sure, and he's not

01:09:08.700 guessing, that this is a fact, that Ukraine's military is selling up to half of US arms to cartels and other

01:09:17.520 bad players. Half. Half. Does that sound real? Tucker says, and he wants us, he wants to be really clear.

01:09:30.800 He's not speculating. He says he knows it. Like he's talked to the people involved. Yeah, I know it.

01:09:38.820 Well, his contacts were a lot better than mine. So if he says that, I don't think he's lying.

01:09:43.000 Now, obviously, anybody could be wrong. But it doesn't sound like he's lying. It sounds like

01:09:49.600 he has some source that he trusts. Doesn't mean you should trust it. But he has a source he trusts

01:09:55.580 that told them maybe more than one. So yeah, that's bad. I'm trying to remember the name of the

01:10:05.860 individual. Can you put it in the comments? I didn't know how to look him up just before I got on.

01:10:10.740 There's a ex-CIA person who has a book out, and he's been on a lot of podcasts. He's all over social

01:10:20.500 media. And he's kind of outing some of the practices of the CIA. Can you put his name in

01:10:28.720 the comments? Because some of you know who he is. So he's got glasses. He's been on a whole bunch of

01:10:35.640 shows. I think he's been on Sean Ryan's show, and he's been on Tucker's show, and a bunch of others.

01:10:41.500 So give me that name. All right. I thought I'd see it by now. If I see it go by, I'll say his name.

01:10:48.380 No, it's not Bucks. No, it's not Mike Benz. No, it's not one of our regular players. It's somebody

01:10:56.600 who's new. So it, no. Really? Are you not watching the same? It's not Bustamente, but that was a good

01:11:08.200 guess, because he's also ex-CIA. Really? How do you not know the name of this guy?

01:11:17.940 Okay. He's all over social media. Not one of you knows the name? Huh. Yeah. All the names you're

01:11:27.920 telling me are names that we all know, right? If it's a name that we all know, it's the wrong name.

01:11:34.280 We know Scott Ritter. We know Mike Benz. It's not him. It's not Ian Carroll. How did none of it?

01:11:42.720 Is it Elizondo? I'm blown away. Huh. Weird. Okay. Well, anyway, if I find that, I'll tweet it or

01:11:59.940 something. But he had a story about going to Afghanistan when he was in the CIA, and he

01:12:06.760 went to an area that used to be, probably used to be a food creation place, but it was all

01:12:11.540 poppy fields. And boy, we don't follow directions too well. I say it's not a name that's one of the

01:12:25.520 common ones, and the suggestion is Dan Bongino. No, it's not Dan Bongino. Stop guessing. Stop it.

01:12:35.760 Stop it. Anyway, so whoever it is, I apologize for not writing down your name, but you went to

01:12:44.400 Afghanistan, saw the fields of poppies, and then they asked, what's going on? They used to be an 0.99

01:12:49.260 exporter of food, but now Afghanistan is just growing these poppies. And he was told, now this is just his 0.51

01:12:57.500 report. That the reason that the U.S. is totally happy that Afghanistan is growing gigantic fields

01:13:06.920 of poppies, which turns into, obviously, opioids, is because almost all of it is shipped to Iran and

01:13:15.540 Russia, and that the reason we do it is to weaken their society. Now, I don't know if that's true, 0.95

01:13:24.040 somebody's saying John Kirakow. Now, that at least fits the description of a name that you're not

01:13:39.580 already all familiar with. Is that right? I'm not sure if it's him. All right, maybe it might be

01:13:48.300 Kirakow, if I'm saying it right. Anyway, do you believe that version of it? Do you believe that

01:13:56.180 the U.S. is encouraging? There he is. What's his name? Yeah. So, here's what he looks like.

01:14:09.360 So, here's the individual I'm talking about. I'm hearing his name is John Kirakow.

01:14:18.300 All right. I think we're getting close. Anyway, I apologize to you, John. I'll get your name right.

01:14:26.640 So, do you believe that? Do you believe that the U.S. is literally trying to destroy the social fabric

01:14:32.560 of Russia and Iran by making sure that Afghanistan is sending unlimited amounts of opioids to them?

01:14:40.460 I don't know. I'm going to put a pin in that one and say, an ex-CIA guy?

01:14:52.980 I'm not going to automatically believe the person whose job was professional liar.

01:15:00.900 If your job has ever been professional liar, that's what CIA is, right? You know, you have to put a pin in

01:15:09.400 and say, I'll need a little more verification. Not quite there. But that's a scary one.

01:15:18.980 Apparently, the NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, right? So, they're the ones who are

01:15:31.060 main agency for climate change and weather and stuff. And I guess Trump wants to cut their budget

01:15:41.040 and maybe reduce their staff from 12,000 to 6,000. Now, you know what I'm going to say.

01:15:50.500 So, if all of our climate change policies are driven by climate models,

01:15:57.260 wouldn't it be weird if we could go years and years and years and I, at least I, who watch the news and

01:16:08.860 podcasts all the time, I've never seen anybody who was involved in making a climate model who was asked

01:16:15.680 questions about how you do it and how reliable is it and is your data good and what assumptions do

01:16:21.420 you put into that? Doesn't that seem weird? Let me say it again. The climate models are driving

01:16:30.380 trillions of dollars of expense and they're very controversial in the sense of, you know, are they

01:16:36.520 real or are they not real? And yet, there's no news entity, no podcast, which has ever had somebody on

01:16:45.420 say, okay, you make models. Yours is one of the famous ones. Tell us what assumptions went into it.

01:16:51.780 How many variables are involved? Have you ever had to update it? If you modified it, why did you think

01:16:58.420 it was right before? If it was right before, but then you added some new assumptions and now you say

01:17:06.180 it's right, well, you were just as confident before, before you adjusted it. So, how can you be sure you're

01:17:14.700 right? Just think about all the questions that I would ask. Yeah, we're getting a confirmation. It's

01:17:21.560 John Kiriakou. Kiriakou. So, sorry, John. Anyway, so as long as the dog is not barking and the dog is

01:17:34.000 no climate model creators are ever on TV or are ever asked the question and they are the most important

01:17:41.800 people behind trillions of dollars of expense. So, instead, we talk to the politicians. Do you know

01:17:48.920 what the politicians say? Why would you ask me that question, you science denier? And we're done here.

01:17:56.600 You tell me, can you come up with any reason that for years the news ignores the people who make the

01:18:04.900 climate models? Like there's not one of them who can talk in public to defend trillions of dollars

01:18:12.520 of policy? That's the biggest dog that's ever not barked. And how many of you didn't notice?

01:18:21.940 We act like whoever makes the models, that must be good and those must be accurate. Now let's talk to

01:18:28.400 the politicians. No, you're making me think past the sale. If I'm talking to the politician,

01:18:35.280 I've already accepted that maybe the science was right. But if you haven't accepted that the science

01:18:42.880 is right, the climate model part, not the science in general, but just the climate models,

01:18:48.400 you need to go back to that. Let's find out if the models are right and then we'll talk to the

01:18:53.860 politicians. But you got to do the models first. Nobody will do that. Well, Trump signed some order

01:19:02.760 according to CNBC that's going to pause enforcement of the foreign bribery ban. So the United States made

01:19:11.520 it illegal to bribe other countries for business reasons, even though the government itself bribes

01:19:17.660 other countries to do coups all the time. But it was illegal for Americans to do it, but not

01:19:23.780 so illegal for other company countries to do it. So what would be the common sense way to handle

01:19:29.840 that? Okay. Common sense. All the other countries we're competing with are bribing. Bribing is how

01:19:37.560 you get anything done in some countries, too many of them really. We will be a weak, bad country if our

01:19:45.880 economy fails. And the only way to compete is by bribe bribing people in other countries.

01:19:52.940 What would be the common sense way to handle that? To allow bribing in other countries.

01:19:59.380 Now, I'm going to add one wrinkle. I think it should be completely legal for big companies to

01:20:07.380 literally bribe. But I would want them to have to reveal it to at least our intelligence

01:20:15.660 operatives. So, you know, you could say, well, there's a chance of leaking, but I don't think

01:20:22.740 it's a big risk because it'd be legal. You know, you'd be leaking that somebody did something that's

01:20:28.380 completely legal. But I don't think we want to publicize it. I just think it needs to be revealed.

01:20:36.240 So there should be some, I'm going to call a half transparency, meaning that we guarantee that

01:20:41.820 somebody who's, you know, important in the government knows what's happening. So maybe it's

01:20:46.840 not the intelligence people. Maybe it's Congress. You know, maybe there needs to be an updated list of

01:20:52.860 all the bribes. So if you're, if you've got the right, let's say security clearance, and you just

01:20:58.740 ask for it, maybe it's in a skiff or something, you can say, oh, this company bribed this thing,

01:21:04.100 this company bribed that. Now, I think we live in a world where, and this is speculation, so I'll take a,

01:21:11.080 I'll take a better opinion on this if somebody has one. I think it was necessary for America to

01:21:16.780 strong arm other countries for the past hundred years, because it was the only way to control them.

01:21:24.840 But we might've reached the point where it just makes more sense to bribe the people we need to

01:21:28.780 bribe and not run a coup because the coups have all kinds of, you know, hidden costs. But what if

01:21:36.780 you just bribe people to get into the country and stay there and make some money? If we're at a point

01:21:42.140 where bribing makes more sense than organizing a coup, then we should get rid of this, this

01:21:48.420 prohibition about bribing. All right. So apparently, according to the Guardian, there was this US

01:22:00.320 funded social network. So meaning a fake social network of people who are attacking the critics

01:22:07.060 of pesticides, which would include RFK Jr. And so apparently they had some kind of a private website

01:22:15.180 where they would give the information of all the critics of pesticides so that you could better attack

01:22:24.120 the critics of pesticides. That's right. Pesticides are quite popular. I don't know what is

01:22:36.920 that or is not healthy about pesticides, but I can tell you that when I stopped eating all processed

01:22:44.440 foods and wheat, sure felt better. All right. So apparently that was at least part of financed

01:22:52.180 by US taxpayer dollars. Did you know that you were financing a fake network of people to go after

01:22:59.740 critics of our poison food supply? You were paying for somebody to criticize RFK Jr. and other people

01:23:10.860 like me, because I'm also a critic of the pesticides. So can I go back to my earlier point?

01:23:18.740 If you believe in 2025 that our elections are not rigged, you're a fucking idiot. Everything's 1.00

01:23:29.060 rigged. Nothing's real. Black Lives Matter, totally artificial. January 6, Charlottesville, fake news, 0.90

01:23:40.260 fake. Yeah, the elections are the only thing that are real. Sure. But at least we're smarter in 2025.

01:23:48.740 And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I want to talk about today. I can feel the heavy equipment

01:23:55.220 outside my window. I hope you can't hear that. But I'm going to say hi to the locals people,

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