Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 01, 2025


Episode 2765 CWSA 03⧸01⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

148.64236

Word Count

7,987

Sentence Count

562

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

34


Summary

On today's show, Alex takes a look at the latest in the Trump administration, including the firing of Stephen K.C. Zelensky, the White House egg roll, and the Epstein scandal. Plus, a look back at the first lady's Easter egg roll.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Well, after the show will be a Spaces event with, hosted by Owen Gregorian,
00:00:39.200 if you want to talk some more about whatever happened here or, I suppose,
00:00:43.000 anything else that's on your mind.
00:00:45.160 So right after the show, look for Owen Gregorian and a Spaces event.
00:00:50.460 There will be more fun.
00:00:53.240 All right.
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00:00:56.720 Well, First Lady Melania Trump has announced she's going to be doing an Easter egg roll.
00:01:04.340 You know, they always do that at the White House, an Easter egg roll.
00:01:06.680 But I remember the days when I used to do Easter egg events when I was a kid, and it was always about the money.
00:01:15.560 You know, if you found an egg of a certain type, you'd get a certain amount of money.
00:01:19.240 It wasn't much.
00:01:19.880 It was like 10 cents or 25 cents.
00:01:21.860 But I think if I went to the White House egg roll, I would just, like, grab the eggs and run away, maybe resell them.
00:01:31.240 How can they afford to have an egg roll?
00:01:35.040 I don't know.
00:01:35.460 Maybe Doge found enough money so they can afford eggs now.
00:01:39.840 Meanwhile, core inflation has dropped to a seventh-month low of 2.6.
00:01:45.140 Do you know what core inflation is?
00:01:48.160 Core inflation is the one you don't care about because it doesn't include food or energy,
00:01:54.600 the two things that have gone up the most.
00:01:57.320 No food, no energy.
00:01:58.500 Well, at least the rest of the stuff isn't going up too much.
00:02:03.500 It's still too high.
00:02:04.460 You want your inflation to be around 2%.
00:02:07.440 But, hey, it's the best in seven months.
00:02:11.900 Meanwhile, let's talk about all those Epstein files we've seen.
00:02:17.880 What Epstein files?
00:02:20.840 And I'm going to say again, I realize Cash Patel did some kind of a post the other day,
00:02:26.540 but he's been really quiet.
00:02:29.960 Do you think there's anything going to happen on these Epstein files?
00:02:33.320 I'm going to double down on my prediction and say that no matter how well-intentioned
00:02:38.480 the administration is, no matter how much they really, really mean it,
00:02:43.100 and they're not lying, I don't think there's any chance.
00:02:46.680 I don't think there's any chance we'll see any, you know, good Epstein stuff.
00:02:52.800 Anyway.
00:02:53.140 So, you probably have all seen by now the video of the Zelensky debacle, some say, in the White
00:03:03.480 House.
00:03:04.760 So, but you haven't gotten my take on it yet.
00:03:07.480 So, that's why you're here.
00:03:09.180 You know, I hate it when something happens right after my show, and then I have to wait
00:03:13.620 all day to talk about it, and everybody's already picked it over, so there's not much to say.
00:03:17.140 But I'll just say this, two reality TV stars who both became presidents walked into the White
00:03:26.460 House.
00:03:28.500 What do you think was going to happen?
00:03:33.160 These are two experts at making a spectacle in front of a crowd.
00:03:39.860 Nobody better.
00:03:41.040 I mean, they're the most experienced spectacle making put on the show.
00:03:44.440 And it's funny that when it was over, Trump, you know, looked at the media and said, you
00:03:49.060 know, it's good TV.
00:03:52.240 So, I think a lot of people are confusing the show with anything that matters in the real
00:03:57.840 world.
00:03:58.760 And I think the show is really fun, and probably in the end, none of it will matter in the real
00:04:03.780 world.
00:04:04.240 One way or another, it won't really matter.
00:04:06.600 So, here's what we got.
00:04:08.780 It looks a lot like an episode of The Apprentice, didn't it, where Zelensky was, you know, basically
00:04:17.100 getting fired by Trump and kicked out of the White House.
00:04:21.780 It was just like The Apprentice.
00:04:23.520 You're fired.
00:04:24.500 Get out of here.
00:04:26.660 So, anyway, what Bannon was saying, and some others have said, I don't know the details,
00:04:33.060 but apparently Zelensky was getting some advice from other senators.
00:04:38.860 Some are calling them rhinos.
00:04:41.440 And I guess he had a breakfast that day with some rhinos, and there's an indication that
00:04:46.540 maybe Susan Rice was advising him, which some would say would be a violation of the Logan
00:04:51.220 Act, where you're not supposed to be negotiating for the United States unless you're in the
00:04:55.900 government, and they're not.
00:04:58.400 So, maybe he got bad advice.
00:05:00.700 Yes, it sort of looked like he was a little emboldened, like he could push Trump a little
00:05:05.580 bit, but that didn't work out.
00:05:09.480 So, I guess the big problem is that Zelensky agreed to this mineral deal, which seems like
00:05:16.760 it was, you know, part of a larger package, which we don't know about yet.
00:05:21.600 But then he gets there, and he says he doesn't necessarily want a ceasefire.
00:05:25.860 He wants a security deal, and that wasn't part of the deal.
00:05:29.140 So, he made the mistake of trying to negotiate with Trump and J.D. Vance while indicating to
00:05:37.180 them and to the world, right in front of them, that maybe they didn't understand the risk
00:05:42.220 of Putin.
00:05:44.820 Now, how do you think that went over?
00:05:48.020 It didn't go over well.
00:05:49.140 Well, so J.D. Vance goes first and, you know, starts dressing him down in the public for
00:05:56.180 not being thankful enough and trying to come to the White House and being a little bit
00:06:05.380 of a jerk.
00:06:06.320 He didn't use those words.
00:06:08.100 But once J.D. Vance lit into him, you knew that Trump would have to double it, which he
00:06:13.500 did.
00:06:14.200 And by the way, Trump is the best talkover debater I've ever heard.
00:06:19.660 He can talk over somebody as long as it takes until they just give up.
00:06:24.940 And that's what happened.
00:06:26.180 He and Zelensky tried to talk over each other, and Trump just wasn't going to lose that.
00:06:31.380 Now, I'm going to keep talking until you shut up.
00:06:33.780 And he just talked over him, and you didn't hear anything that Zelensky said for like two
00:06:38.260 minutes in a row.
00:06:39.040 And finally, Zelensky just gave up because he couldn't even hear what he was saying.
00:06:44.200 And then Trump went on, and that's what happened.
00:06:47.960 Anyway, when Zelensky said that, you know, Trump might feel different or feel differently
00:06:55.800 when Putin crosses the ocean someday and comes for them, and Trump says, don't tell me what
00:07:03.620 I'm going to feel.
00:07:04.740 You don't have the right to tell me what I feel.
00:07:06.480 You have no cards.
00:07:07.800 No cards.
00:07:08.400 So, basically, it looked like Zelensky was criticizing Vance and Trump for either not doing enough
00:07:17.020 or not understanding the real threat with Putin that you can't appease him.
00:07:21.160 He's just going to come for you eventually.
00:07:22.640 But, so he kicks Zelensky out, and, you know, I thought there was some chance he might come
00:07:36.820 back that same day, but it didn't happen.
00:07:38.500 He's already going off to Great Britain, Zelensky has.
00:07:41.880 Now, I'm going to judge this whole event on at least two dimensions.
00:07:46.760 Dimension number one, entertainment.
00:07:50.040 Oh, my God, it was entertaining.
00:07:51.340 It was wonderful.
00:07:53.560 I felt proud to be an American and have my president not take shit in the Oval, well,
00:08:01.100 in the White House.
00:08:02.320 I just liked that Vance and Trump weren't putting up with it.
00:08:07.580 That's exactly what I wanted to see.
00:08:09.820 So, entertainment, it was a 10.
00:08:11.640 I replayed it multiple times.
00:08:13.280 It was just fun every time.
00:08:15.880 But here's the thing you need to know.
00:08:17.480 In big deals like this, whether it's a merger or any kind of really big deal, it's pretty
00:08:23.880 common for one of them to walk away.
00:08:26.940 And it's pretty common if they both want the deal, and there's a deal to be had, and it's
00:08:32.420 a good deal, that they'll probably come back.
00:08:34.420 The one thing that people say about Trump that's meant to be an insult is that he's transactional,
00:08:42.540 meaning that he would immediately get over his feelings if there was a deal, because he'd
00:08:48.240 rather have the deal than anything else.
00:08:49.740 So, the funny part, oh, even Lindsey Graham sided with Trump.
00:08:58.320 Now, Lindsey Graham is sort of a famous Ukraine war hawk, has been supporting cranes, getting
00:09:05.140 weapons and everything.
00:09:06.620 But even Lindsey Graham said that he was a strong advocate for Zelensky in Ukraine, but
00:09:12.920 he said he was devastated by Zelensky's behavior and that undoes all the hard work of recent
00:09:18.120 years, and he suggests that Ukrainian people find a new leader, and he praised Trump for
00:09:23.680 standing up to him.
00:09:26.420 So, that's interesting.
00:09:30.400 But remember I told you that, well, James Garville told you, and then I told you what James Garville
00:09:36.020 said, that the Democrat's strategy now is to wait for Trump to make a mistake, because
00:09:42.240 they don't have anything to add.
00:09:43.380 So, literally, they're going to wait for Trump to make mistakes, and then they can attack
00:09:47.980 him.
00:09:48.520 So, that means that they're going to define everything that Trump does as a mistake.
00:09:53.820 Not really different than the past.
00:09:56.280 But they're not going to put up with anything he does at all.
00:10:00.260 They're going to say, well, there it is.
00:10:01.720 That's chaos.
00:10:02.500 That's the end of the world.
00:10:04.180 Every single day.
00:10:04.620 He walked across the lawn.
00:10:06.000 Well, look at how he walked across the lawn with that chaos legs.
00:10:09.540 And, you know, all that.
00:10:13.180 But the funny part is watching the theater kids on the Democrats, because they have to
00:10:18.080 pretend that they don't understand the situation, and that they feel really bad.
00:10:24.400 So, they all put on their disgust face.
00:10:27.940 You need to look at the, there's some copilations of people on MSNBC pretending to be very sad about
00:10:34.700 this event, and they all have the, hmm, oh, oh, oh, face, oh, oh, I'm so sad, oh, my country
00:10:44.560 got embarrassed, oh, oh, and they're competing to see who could do the most theater kid thing.
00:10:52.340 And it's so unserious.
00:10:54.300 That's ridiculous.
00:10:56.280 Let's say, was it David Axelrod?
00:10:58.500 He goes, and opposed to the next, he says, I love my country with all my heart, and I've
00:11:03.800 never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval
00:11:08.740 Office.
00:11:10.100 Really?
00:11:11.880 This is one of the guys who supported Joe Biden through four years of obvious dementia.
00:11:19.420 And then we all found out that they all knew it, and they were all covering it up.
00:11:24.320 And that was not more embarrassing?
00:11:26.340 What is it that makes you embarrassed, David Axelrod?
00:11:31.020 It makes you embarrassed when the president of the United States stands up to some pissant
00:11:36.940 in the White House who's challenging him.
00:11:39.260 That's what embarrasses you.
00:11:41.380 But keeping a mentally deficient president in the office while nobody knew who was in charge,
00:11:48.940 lying to the world, and then getting caught because he does the debate, and it became obvious
00:11:54.840 that he wasn't there, none of that was embarrassing, nothing, but this.
00:12:00.740 Yeah.
00:12:01.100 No, none of this is real, meaning that the Democrats are pretending to be terribly upset.
00:12:07.600 Are they terribly upset?
00:12:09.720 No.
00:12:10.180 No, nobody's terribly upset.
00:12:13.940 Nobody's really embarrassed.
00:12:15.740 Nobody's shamed by it.
00:12:17.740 I think we'll survive the shame.
00:12:20.140 I think we'll survive it.
00:12:22.900 Anyway, in my opinion, Putin probably should not increase his military attacks.
00:12:31.780 He probably doesn't want to do a ceasefire unilaterally, but if Putin is smart, he's already got a little
00:12:42.080 bit of a win, so he should just play it really cool and still look for some way to end the war.
00:12:50.600 I think he will.
00:12:51.460 But as long as this deal ever made sense, and I'm not sure it did because I don't know the deal,
00:12:59.180 but if the deal ever made sense and Zelensky ever liked it, just the mineral part, then it'll get done.
00:13:07.600 I mean, it might take a while or whatever, but if they both want it, the fact that they had a little dust up
00:13:12.720 in the White House, it won't stop anything.
00:13:15.300 Now, let me put this back in the context of the reality TV stars.
00:13:21.600 If this were a reality TV show, how would it end?
00:13:26.680 It would almost certainly end with the two combatants, three if you count J.D. Vance,
00:13:32.880 doing another public event because you would have to tune in.
00:13:38.000 You'd be like, oh, my God, it's going to happen again.
00:13:40.120 It's going to happen again.
00:13:41.080 It would be must-see TV.
00:13:42.240 But this time, maybe they just signed the deal.
00:13:47.520 So I don't think you can discount that you have two individuals who operate at the highest level
00:13:53.340 of understanding the show.
00:13:56.520 The show.
00:13:57.640 It's part of politics.
00:13:59.040 You've got to put on a show.
00:14:00.740 And the fact that they put on a tremendous show, everybody was entertained,
00:14:06.080 even if you were embarrassed.
00:14:07.900 Oh, oh, I'm so embarrassed for my country.
00:14:11.260 Even then, you probably enjoyed it.
00:14:14.420 So, yeah.
00:14:15.200 If I had to predict, I would say if it was ever a good deal, and that's a big if,
00:14:19.800 because I don't know that it was a good deal.
00:14:22.420 But if they both liked it at one point, it'll get done.
00:14:26.820 And it'll be another reality TV biggest ratings for a political event of all time.
00:14:34.220 No, no real lasting problem.
00:14:37.660 If I had to guess, there's no lasting impact on the real world.
00:14:42.820 The deal will be the deal if they like it.
00:14:45.280 There'll be a deal with Russia or not.
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00:15:51.320 One of the things Trump said was that Trump and Putin
00:15:56.920 went through a lot together with the Russia collusion hoax.
00:16:00.880 So people said, my God, do you love Putin or what?
00:16:04.860 Why are you saying that you went through a lot together?
00:16:07.420 Well, let me explain this.
00:16:09.480 Putin is trying to flatter and, let's say, pace Trump,
00:16:18.120 and he's doing a good job.
00:16:19.620 Trump is trying to flatter and pace and tell him he's a friend to Putin,
00:16:25.580 and he's doing a good job.
00:16:27.560 Both of them are operating at the highest level of persuasion.
00:16:31.260 Both of them are right on point.
00:16:32.880 And let me say it again.
00:16:35.780 Trump is the best when it comes to this, but Putin's in the same weight class, right?
00:16:41.740 It's not a completely unfair fight.
00:16:44.760 They both have the skills all the way down.
00:16:47.480 So what we're watching is that there might be some larger deal that Trump wants to do with Russia.
00:16:56.340 We don't know what that is yet.
00:16:58.300 But it's funny that we talk about Russia as our enemy
00:17:01.120 when China, Mexico, and Canada are poisoning us with fentanyl and Russia isn't.
00:17:08.060 Russia is just trying to sell us energy.
00:17:09.800 Now, I get that he has imperial ambitions.
00:17:14.300 He wants to conquer some of those countries and maybe all of Europe
00:17:19.420 for the greater good of, I don't know, who knows what he really wants.
00:17:24.180 We just assume we know what he wants.
00:17:26.980 How about Ukraine?
00:17:29.080 Who's been a bigger pain in the ass to us lately, Ukraine or Russia?
00:17:32.900 Well, our money is going to Ukraine and it's dividing the country.
00:17:39.600 So it's hard to talk about it without being called a Putin lover
00:17:45.680 because that's what all the dumb people do.
00:17:48.440 You know, Democrats, if you say anything they don't like,
00:17:51.000 they call you a racist and a bigot.
00:17:53.380 And it's just automatic.
00:17:54.740 It doesn't matter what you say.
00:17:56.820 If you mention Putin in any context other than
00:18:00.000 we must spend all of our blood and treasure
00:18:02.280 to destroy the evil Russian empire,
00:18:05.380 if you say anything but that.
00:18:08.000 Oh, oh, I see you want to have oral sex with Putin is what you're saying.
00:18:12.660 Oh, oh, you love him?
00:18:15.160 Did you send him a Valentine's card?
00:18:17.920 Oh, well, you seem to be a Putin apologist.
00:18:20.620 Some kind of a Putin puppet-pologist.
00:18:22.720 Oh, oh, oh.
00:18:25.220 So it's just the latest stupid Democrat thing to say.
00:18:28.240 It's so unmoored from any adult anything.
00:18:33.960 So I saw Sean Davis say, wait till Democrats.
00:18:38.460 Wait till Democrats are other people too, I guess.
00:18:41.400 Wait till they find out who we partnered with in World War II.
00:18:46.460 Stalin.
00:18:48.980 So the dumb people, the people who, I don't know,
00:18:54.660 they just don't have good arguments.
00:18:56.040 Their argument is that the only people we should be nice to
00:19:00.680 are other democracies like Europe.
00:19:04.320 And that if somebody is a dictator,
00:19:06.120 we shouldn't be nice to them or work with them or do deals with them.
00:19:10.000 But I live in the real world.
00:19:13.460 Dictators exist.
00:19:15.180 If they didn't exist, well, that would be great advice.
00:19:18.320 But they exist.
00:19:19.980 And they have access to huge amounts of energy, which matters.
00:19:25.340 And they have lots of weapons, which matters.
00:19:28.600 And sometimes we have, you know, things we disagree with and sometimes we agree.
00:19:33.380 So if you can't work with dictators and democracies, you're just a crippled government.
00:19:41.460 You would be a government that just can't do anything because there are so many dictators.
00:19:46.200 If you only were nice to democracies.
00:19:49.900 And by the way, the democracies we're talking about are the ones trying to censor Americans
00:19:56.560 through the social media networks.
00:20:00.180 I don't know that Trump has ever, I don't know that Putin has ever tried to censor me.
00:20:06.300 What problems has Putin caused for me?
00:20:10.600 But Europe has caused some really damn problems.
00:20:14.720 I still blame the UK for whatever happened with that Russia collusion thing,
00:20:19.740 because there were just too many British people involved in that whole deal.
00:20:24.120 So, I don't know.
00:20:26.700 I would say maybe our friends are kind of a problem too.
00:20:31.760 You know, not as big a problem as, you know, maybe Russia, if you want to rank it.
00:20:36.780 But there's nobody here who's innocent at all.
00:20:41.540 All right.
00:20:42.480 So, here's the thing that I wonder about.
00:20:49.780 If the only way that Ukraine were going to be protected from any further onslaught by Russia,
00:20:58.880 if the only thing that would be protecting them is America's contribution and weapons and stuff,
00:21:05.340 and then Europe's,
00:21:07.180 does Trump's idea of just doing a mineral deal with no security guarantees,
00:21:14.480 does that mean that you basically were giving away Ukraine and it's not ours to give away?
00:21:21.700 Although you could argue that we did overthrow Ukraine and install a puppet,
00:21:26.960 and maybe it was ours at one point, and maybe we do kind of own it.
00:21:31.820 We do kind of own it.
00:21:33.760 We're just pretending we don't.
00:21:35.320 So, anyway, how does it work that Putin would not attack Ukraine
00:21:47.780 because we did a mineral deal with Ukraine?
00:21:51.460 If we didn't have military assets there, is it just the risk that we would turn on the flow of money
00:21:59.500 and fund Ukraine with better weapons?
00:22:03.180 See, Trump has made the claim that there wouldn't have been a war if he had been president.
00:22:07.680 But he also makes the claim that if he makes a peace, it will hold, again,
00:22:13.980 because of the force of his personality and whatever relations he's created with Putin.
00:22:20.760 Do you believe that?
00:22:22.400 Do you believe that if Trump is president, he could do an adequate risk assessment and threat
00:22:32.320 so that Putin would say, you know what?
00:22:35.220 This is really not the time to get adventurous.
00:22:38.400 Because we're sort of getting along, and I don't really need to own Poland.
00:22:44.060 And, all right, what happens when Trump leaves?
00:22:48.640 What if Trump leaves office?
00:22:51.700 Is Putin going to be held in check because he either respects the new president
00:22:57.800 or he fears the consequences?
00:23:01.120 I don't know.
00:23:02.200 So, I do think that Trump needs to do a better job
00:23:05.040 of explaining what it looks like
00:23:08.540 and why anything that we're involved in would keep Putin from taking the rest of Ukraine
00:23:15.460 the moment it's underfunded.
00:23:17.400 Now, you might say, Scott, it'll never be underfunded because Europe can just step up.
00:23:23.900 And if they want, it's completely up to them.
00:23:27.200 They can put a massive amount of money in there to replace whatever money we were given.
00:23:31.320 And everybody's good.
00:23:34.580 Now, that would be okay with me.
00:23:37.420 If Europe wants to be paying nearly all of it, and we're just out from the funding perspective,
00:23:44.120 but, you know, maybe we sell weapons to Europe to give to them or something, that would be fine.
00:23:50.580 I wouldn't have any problems with that.
00:23:54.260 Well, a million dead Russians, that is a domestic problem for Putin,
00:24:00.420 but it's not like he's going to, you know, be kicked out of office.
00:24:03.540 He's pretty secure.
00:24:04.340 All right.
00:24:07.880 So, Farid Zakaria on real time.
00:24:11.440 So, let me just finish that point.
00:24:12.860 I think Trump needs to do a better job
00:24:14.560 of describing what the future of Ukraine looks like
00:24:19.760 if the only security guarantees are no security guarantees.
00:24:24.240 We're just doing a big deal with you.
00:24:26.500 And so, Russia wouldn't dare attack your country
00:24:30.180 when we have major assets there.
00:24:34.140 Is that the whole game?
00:24:36.660 Or is there something we don't know about yet,
00:24:40.720 but that part is the important part?
00:24:43.400 Now, I told you before that the real secret of this negotiation
00:24:46.600 is it can't be just about Ukraine and Russia.
00:24:50.380 It's got to be about a more comprehensive,
00:24:54.080 how do we deal with Russia in the future,
00:24:56.000 you know, on all levels, militarily, energy-wise, economically?
00:25:02.080 Are we increasing NATO or not?
00:25:05.680 So, that stuff hasn't been discussed yet.
00:25:09.000 And I've heard people say,
00:25:10.860 oh, Putin's the big winner,
00:25:12.700 to which I say, how do you know that?
00:25:15.640 How do we know anything?
00:25:16.580 We don't know what any kind of a deal would look like.
00:25:18.960 Is Putin the big winner?
00:25:20.120 And then I say, if two countries are at war
00:25:24.760 and they don't want to be at war,
00:25:26.540 and the people who are paying for it
00:25:28.300 don't want to be paying for it,
00:25:30.100 and then somehow Trump can make all that stop,
00:25:33.520 who's not better off?
00:25:36.040 Isn't Ukraine better off not being in a war?
00:25:38.820 Are we better off not paying?
00:25:40.300 Isn't Putin better off consolidating his gains?
00:25:44.040 So, a good agreement would be good for everybody
00:25:49.360 relative to the alternatives, which are ugly.
00:25:54.260 Here's what Fareed Zakaria said on Real Time last night.
00:25:59.380 He basically jokingly said that Zelensky's mistake
00:26:04.200 is that he should have gone in there and said,
00:26:07.580 Mr. President Trump, I'm paraphrasing,
00:26:10.200 you've been such a godsend to Ukraine,
00:26:12.940 you're the greatest, we want to give you
00:26:14.760 the highest Ukrainian civil award,
00:26:17.940 and maybe build a statue to you.
00:26:19.980 I'm paraphrasing a little bit.
00:26:21.140 But the idea was, Fareed said,
00:26:23.400 he didn't play to Trump's ego,
00:26:26.440 and that's what went wrong.
00:26:28.560 To which I say, what kind of an analysis is that?
00:26:32.880 The deal was already done.
00:26:35.500 All Zelensky had to do was sign it.
00:26:40.400 That's it.
00:26:41.120 He didn't need to do any flattering.
00:26:43.720 There was no flattering requested,
00:26:45.820 no flattering given, and they had a deal.
00:26:49.180 So, I would say that maybe he didn't have to offer anything
00:26:53.040 because they already had a deal.
00:26:56.320 So, that's sort of a dumb analysis.
00:27:00.120 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:27:02.320 I've been visualizing my match all week.
00:27:04.740 She was so focused on visualizing
00:27:06.540 that she didn't see the column behind her car
00:27:08.580 on her backhand side.
00:27:10.900 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,
00:27:12.800 the insurer with the largest network
00:27:14.480 of auto service centers in the country.
00:27:16.560 Everything was taken care of under one roof,
00:27:18.560 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:27:20.980 I made it to my tournament
00:27:22.380 and lost in the first round.
00:27:24.220 But you got there on time.
00:27:26.400 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.
00:27:28.960 Certain conditions apply.
00:27:29.860 Speaking of dumb analysis,
00:27:33.360 the Wall Street Journal editorial board,
00:27:35.680 I swear that their editorial board,
00:27:37.820 it read like a high school essay.
00:27:40.300 I just read it and I thought,
00:27:41.760 what?
00:27:43.080 What is wrong with you?
00:27:46.100 So, their headline for their editorial on this is,
00:27:49.740 Putin wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spectacle.
00:27:52.840 Is that really the way to frame this,
00:27:56.620 that Putin won?
00:27:58.540 Now, we know that Putin liked it,
00:28:00.860 and the Russians thought it was great entertainment,
00:28:03.380 but so did I.
00:28:04.820 Why don't they say,
00:28:06.260 and the MAGA people won,
00:28:08.320 because they really enjoyed it.
00:28:10.260 So, Putin enjoyed it,
00:28:11.820 and we enjoyed it.
00:28:13.360 What will be different?
00:28:15.540 I can't think of anything.
00:28:17.540 I don't think it'll really affect the real world.
00:28:19.900 I don't think it'll change what would have been their funding,
00:28:24.040 because Trump wanted to get out of that anyway.
00:28:26.920 And I don't think it'll affect anything.
00:28:31.440 So, but they think somebody won.
00:28:34.060 That's just the worst way to look at a three-way negotiation,
00:28:38.240 four-way if you count Europe,
00:28:39.580 and I guess you should.
00:28:41.860 And they said that Vance,
00:28:45.860 J.D. Vance started the public fight.
00:28:47.940 Okay, how many times do I have to read
00:28:52.800 some dumbass in the news
00:28:54.540 not understanding who starts a fight?
00:28:58.300 If I hear one more person tell me
00:29:00.240 that Russia started the war in Ukraine
00:29:02.880 without any reference to the things that happened
00:29:06.000 before he crossed the border,
00:29:08.080 as in the NATO expansion and blah, blah, blah,
00:29:12.860 if none of that's mentioned,
00:29:15.720 you're not really a serious person.
00:29:18.240 And the Wall Street Journal editorial
00:29:19.960 does the same thing with J.D. Vance.
00:29:24.040 Do you think J.D. Vance should have just sat there
00:29:26.420 and let that little punk in the White House
00:29:30.140 while they're trying to help,
00:29:32.300 do you think they should have let him lecture them
00:29:34.540 on how they don't understand negotiations
00:29:37.640 and they don't understand Putin
00:29:39.160 and he's going to come for them over the ocean
00:29:40.920 and that this deal isn't really good
00:29:43.120 and you haven't really done much for us,
00:29:45.000 you've just weakened us, in effect.
00:29:48.820 So who started the fight?
00:29:51.940 I don't think J.D. Vance started the fight.
00:29:54.740 I think he was quick.
00:29:56.340 He was quick to enter it.
00:29:59.120 But then once he entered it,
00:30:01.200 Trump had to double it.
00:30:02.920 So then Trump did his thing
00:30:04.420 because there's no way that Trump
00:30:06.040 is going to let J.D. Vance
00:30:07.880 be the baddest mofo in the room.
00:30:11.360 That just isn't going to happen.
00:30:13.360 So J.D. Vance goes in as a really bad mofo,
00:30:16.960 like quite impressive, I must say,
00:30:19.240 that he took him on directly
00:30:20.860 and even from a position of number two,
00:30:24.860 number, well, maybe number three
00:30:26.580 if you count Secretary of State.
00:30:28.400 But he wasn't the one in power,
00:30:31.120 but he just defended America,
00:30:34.480 defended the White House,
00:30:35.380 defended his president,
00:30:36.860 defended everything.
00:30:40.080 So that was quite baller.
00:30:42.020 I have to say I really,
00:30:43.600 that was a look from J.D. Vance
00:30:46.760 that will probably go a long way
00:30:48.280 to making him the top candidate after Trump.
00:30:52.920 But like I said,
00:30:54.240 there's no way in any world
00:30:56.260 that Trump is going to let somebody else
00:30:58.580 be the baddest mofo in the room.
00:31:00.700 So he had to take it up a level
00:31:02.020 as he does.
00:31:04.580 And it was brilliant.
00:31:06.380 It was brilliant in the showman way.
00:31:11.900 And that's all it was.
00:31:13.160 It was just a show.
00:31:15.540 All right.
00:31:16.860 So and then also the whole Putin wins
00:31:21.740 just ignores the fact
00:31:23.240 that we have a much bigger set of interests
00:31:25.340 with Russia.
00:31:27.220 And until we know what that looks like,
00:31:29.420 you know, what kind of a deal
00:31:30.500 we would have with Russia,
00:31:31.860 until we know what that looks like,
00:31:34.240 you can't really say anybody won
00:31:35.680 because we don't know what that looks like.
00:31:38.300 But did they imagine that Trump
00:31:39.880 was just going to give Russia
00:31:41.340 everything it wanted?
00:31:43.340 Doesn't sound like Trump.
00:31:44.500 Joy Behar accused Elon Musk
00:31:49.460 of supporting apartheid
00:31:50.820 when Musk grew up in South Africa.
00:31:54.380 Now, he did not.
00:31:55.620 There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
00:31:59.460 But here's what she said,
00:32:00.860 Joy Behar on The View.
00:32:02.620 The guy was not born in this country.
00:32:05.260 Okay.
00:32:06.240 Oh.
00:32:07.280 Oh.
00:32:08.700 Oh.
00:32:10.260 Oh.
00:32:11.260 Oh.
00:32:11.820 Oh.
00:32:12.800 Oh, my God.
00:32:14.560 She abandons the most core Democrat principle
00:32:18.160 that if you decide to live in this country,
00:32:23.880 you call yourself an American,
00:32:25.680 you act like an American,
00:32:26.940 you're an American citizen,
00:32:28.100 and you're doing more for America
00:32:30.960 than just about any other citizen.
00:32:32.660 And she has to start with,
00:32:35.160 you're not an American
00:32:36.040 or you're not born in this country.
00:32:39.260 That's basically throwing away
00:32:40.940 their most basic principle
00:32:42.700 just to get a dig at Elon Musk.
00:32:45.800 And then she goes on.
00:32:47.600 So he has this mentality going on.
00:32:50.180 Does he?
00:32:50.940 Because she's reading his mind, right?
00:32:52.640 He was pro-apartheid.
00:32:54.160 Now, there's no evidence of that.
00:32:55.780 As I understand it, he told her.
00:32:57.940 And then after,
00:33:00.100 then there was a break.
00:33:01.580 And I guess she got her ass kicked
00:33:03.320 by the management
00:33:04.940 because there's no evidence
00:33:07.480 that he's ever been pro-apartheid.
00:33:09.900 And if you call somebody pro-apartheid
00:33:12.480 like it's a fact
00:33:13.640 and you do it on television,
00:33:15.420 in our current environment,
00:33:17.420 that's a $25 million mistake.
00:33:21.080 So they were probably 10 seconds away
00:33:25.120 from losing $25 million
00:33:26.560 to dumb old Joy Behar
00:33:28.720 for just making shit up.
00:33:31.180 Just making shit up.
00:33:34.520 And then here's how she responded to it
00:33:37.340 once she'd been corrected
00:33:39.180 and that they came back.
00:33:41.180 I'm getting some flack
00:33:42.340 because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid.
00:33:44.720 I don't really know for sure if he was.
00:33:47.880 Imagine saying that
00:33:49.000 when you didn't know for sure.
00:33:50.620 God.
00:33:51.040 And then she goes,
00:33:52.980 he grew up at that time
00:33:54.140 when apartheid party was in full bloom
00:33:57.060 before the great Nelson Manzela fixed that.
00:33:59.960 He was around at that time.
00:34:02.980 What?
00:34:05.320 Like she's trying to still be right
00:34:07.340 even though there's no evidence whatsoever.
00:34:10.380 And she's trying to make the,
00:34:11.720 well,
00:34:12.540 he was around during that time.
00:34:14.040 So QED.
00:34:18.020 Oh my God.
00:34:23.120 And then,
00:34:24.060 oh,
00:34:25.060 then she goes on.
00:34:26.160 Maybe he was,
00:34:27.080 maybe he wasn't.
00:34:29.120 Is that how you treat
00:34:30.380 an American citizen?
00:34:32.720 That,
00:34:33.120 well,
00:34:33.680 you know,
00:34:34.000 I don't know if he's a Nazi.
00:34:36.100 Maybe he was,
00:34:37.280 maybe he wasn't.
00:34:38.620 I don't know.
00:34:39.140 It's sort of ambiguous.
00:34:40.900 Seems like he hung around
00:34:42.060 with people who had bad opinions,
00:34:43.780 even,
00:34:44.320 you know,
00:34:44.540 maybe not personally,
00:34:45.460 but he was in the same country
00:34:47.040 with people who had bad opinions.
00:34:48.440 So you can't ignore the fact
00:34:50.700 that he was in the same country
00:34:51.920 with people who had bad opinions.
00:34:54.560 Yeah,
00:34:55.060 you can.
00:34:57.400 So
00:34:57.840 this is terrible.
00:34:59.820 I can't believe she still has a job.
00:35:02.920 Then Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan.
00:35:05.220 You may have seen it.
00:35:06.540 And he was talking about
00:35:07.740 that they were doing to him,
00:35:09.180 meaning the Democrats,
00:35:10.300 doing to Elon Musk
00:35:11.360 what they did to Trump,
00:35:13.040 which is the Hitler play.
00:35:15.920 And he says directly,
00:35:17.840 they're basically trying
00:35:19.260 to get me killed
00:35:20.140 by comparing me to Hitler.
00:35:22.720 And that's exactly
00:35:23.780 what they're trying to do.
00:35:24.960 That's exactly
00:35:25.720 what they're trying to do.
00:35:27.700 So
00:35:28.140 unbelievable.
00:35:31.480 We're so lucky
00:35:32.640 that Musk is still willing
00:35:35.340 to help the United States
00:35:37.020 when the United States
00:35:37.980 is acting like
00:35:38.740 it doesn't deserve it.
00:35:39.780 that takes a lot of character
00:35:43.040 to still be all in
00:35:45.500 on the United States
00:35:46.380 when
00:35:46.840 when half of the United States
00:35:48.580 is calling him a Nazi.
00:35:50.420 That takes character.
00:35:54.100 Well,
00:35:54.680 the Wall Street Journal
00:35:55.400 has an article
00:35:56.160 by Joanne Lipman.
00:35:57.940 Can white men
00:35:59.840 finally stop complaining?
00:36:02.860 And the subtitle
00:36:04.420 of the article,
00:36:05.320 this is the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:07.340 And for 50 years,
00:36:08.680 we've been hearing
00:36:09.280 from white men
00:36:10.080 who feel threatened
00:36:10.900 by the gains
00:36:12.040 of women and minorities.
00:36:14.420 No,
00:36:15.080 you stupid bitch.
00:36:16.500 We're not complaining
00:36:17.680 because we feel threatened.
00:36:19.160 We're being,
00:36:20.260 we're complaining
00:36:20.920 because for 50 years,
00:36:23.240 we've been overtly
00:36:24.660 discriminated against
00:36:25.820 for being straight white men.
00:36:28.000 You can't get a job.
00:36:29.220 You can't get a contract
00:36:30.400 for 50 fucking years.
00:36:32.420 And the reason
00:36:33.320 that you didn't know
00:36:34.160 how bad it was
00:36:34.980 is because white men
00:36:35.940 are not allowed to talk
00:36:37.160 like you saying,
00:36:38.980 can white men
00:36:39.480 finally stop complaining?
00:36:40.880 That's right.
00:36:41.760 We were trained
00:36:42.760 that if we even complained
00:36:44.340 for a minute,
00:36:44.920 it meant we were
00:36:45.640 fucking bigots.
00:36:48.240 Bitch.
00:36:50.120 That's over.
00:36:50.920 People like me
00:36:52.580 gave up everything
00:36:53.520 so that we could say
00:36:55.140 what we were feeling.
00:36:57.520 I gave up everything.
00:36:59.140 I'm going to say
00:36:59.620 what I'm feeling.
00:37:00.400 You're a piece of shit
00:37:01.540 and you're the problem.
00:37:04.180 And this is pure
00:37:05.580 racial discrimination
00:37:06.680 and bigotry
00:37:07.660 against white men
00:37:08.580 and I won't have it.
00:37:10.120 And I think that
00:37:10.840 we've outgrown this.
00:37:12.140 I think that we can just say,
00:37:13.600 fuck you,
00:37:14.520 don't care,
00:37:15.840 move on.
00:37:16.720 Get rid of your stupid DEI.
00:37:19.260 Get rid of your stupid ESG.
00:37:21.620 And let's try to compete
00:37:23.460 on merit for once.
00:37:25.380 How about that?
00:37:27.720 Piece of shit.
00:37:30.000 Anyway,
00:37:31.580 speaking of.
00:37:34.540 So the Hill says
00:37:36.180 that Kamala Harris
00:37:37.080 hasn't decided
00:37:38.640 to run for governor
00:37:39.580 of California.
00:37:41.120 But here's the funny thing.
00:37:42.880 So because she hasn't decided,
00:37:45.080 the other candidates
00:37:46.600 can't really wade in
00:37:48.960 and they can't really
00:37:49.600 get any money
00:37:50.340 because everybody thinks
00:37:51.760 she would be the front runner
00:37:52.780 if she gets in.
00:37:53.800 So she's really frozen
00:37:54.980 the entire
00:37:55.720 California
00:37:57.200 Democrat party.
00:37:59.120 They can't
00:37:59.780 kind of do anything.
00:38:01.060 They're just
00:38:01.480 frozen.
00:38:03.020 Now,
00:38:03.640 here's the funny part.
00:38:05.920 Correct me if I'm wrong,
00:38:07.040 but Kamala Harris
00:38:07.860 destroyed the entire
00:38:09.240 federal,
00:38:11.040 let's say,
00:38:11.520 national
00:38:11.960 Democratic party,
00:38:13.740 didn't she?
00:38:14.120 don't you think
00:38:16.080 it was mostly Kamala Harris
00:38:17.440 that just destroyed
00:38:18.460 Democrats?
00:38:19.580 Because she was
00:38:20.840 the ultimate DEI
00:38:22.080 candidate
00:38:23.500 and they just
00:38:25.820 took DEI
00:38:26.460 to the ultimate
00:38:27.060 conclusion
00:38:27.700 and everything broke,
00:38:30.040 just like you would
00:38:31.760 imagine it would
00:38:32.380 on paper.
00:38:33.080 And now she's
00:38:34.000 taking that same
00:38:35.080 toxic,
00:38:35.900 destructive thing
00:38:37.000 and she's taking it
00:38:38.540 to California.
00:38:39.320 Now she's going to
00:38:40.500 ruin Democrats
00:38:41.480 chance of winning
00:38:42.380 maybe forever
00:38:43.880 by running
00:38:46.040 for governor.
00:38:47.240 Now she might
00:38:48.020 actually even win,
00:38:49.180 which is the
00:38:49.840 weird part
00:38:50.840 because,
00:38:51.620 you know,
00:38:51.720 we're such a blue state.
00:38:53.100 But the fact that
00:38:54.760 she's destroying
00:38:55.580 the Democrat party
00:38:56.600 nationally
00:38:57.180 and then started
00:38:58.100 destroying it
00:38:58.820 in the biggest state,
00:39:01.060 boy,
00:39:01.960 she's got a,
00:39:03.300 she's got something
00:39:03.960 to put on her
00:39:04.620 Wikipedia page
00:39:05.440 right there.
00:39:07.900 Anyway,
00:39:08.420 good for you,
00:39:10.240 Kamala.
00:39:10.640 You're almost done
00:39:11.360 destroying everything
00:39:12.220 about the Democrats.
00:39:13.860 When I found out
00:39:14.880 my friend got a great
00:39:16.040 deal on a wool coat
00:39:17.060 from Winners,
00:39:17.940 I started wondering,
00:39:19.580 is every fabulous
00:39:20.920 item I see
00:39:21.620 from Winners?
00:39:22.700 Like that woman
00:39:23.480 over there
00:39:23.980 with the designer jeans.
00:39:25.440 Are those from Winners?
00:39:26.960 Ooh,
00:39:27.580 or those beautiful
00:39:28.240 gold earrings?
00:39:29.420 Did she pay full price?
00:39:30.760 Or that leather tote?
00:39:31.780 Or that cashmere sweater?
00:39:32.960 Or those knee-high boots?
00:39:34.440 That dress?
00:39:35.220 That jacket?
00:39:35.900 Those shoes?
00:39:36.920 Is anyone paying
00:39:38.140 full price
00:39:38.660 for anything?
00:39:39.880 Stop wondering.
00:39:41.140 Start winning.
00:39:42.080 Winners find fabulous
00:39:43.340 for less.
00:39:45.060 Well,
00:39:45.700 Secretary of Defense
00:39:46.500 Hegseth
00:39:47.100 has confirmed
00:39:48.440 that Trump
00:39:49.520 has lifted restrictions
00:39:50.760 on military raids
00:39:52.140 and airstrikes.
00:39:52.920 Now,
00:39:53.200 that doesn't mean
00:39:53.760 all restrictions.
00:39:55.140 But,
00:39:55.540 they won't have to
00:39:56.980 get approval
00:39:57.920 so much.
00:39:59.440 So,
00:39:59.800 I think this is
00:40:00.480 just taking it back
00:40:01.260 to where it was
00:40:01.780 in the first administration.
00:40:03.080 and I do believe
00:40:05.380 the reporting
00:40:06.020 is that the military
00:40:07.160 became a lot more effective
00:40:08.520 because they didn't
00:40:10.540 have to ask
00:40:11.100 so much for permission
00:40:12.180 and that makes
00:40:13.160 a big difference.
00:40:14.460 So,
00:40:14.880 that's a good move,
00:40:15.900 probably.
00:40:17.300 Speaking of Democrats,
00:40:18.960 in New York City,
00:40:21.420 former Governor
00:40:22.140 Andrew Cuomo
00:40:23.000 is getting ready,
00:40:25.820 people think,
00:40:26.500 to run for
00:40:27.320 mayor of New York City.
00:40:28.980 Now,
00:40:31.200 how bad
00:40:33.080 is the pool
00:40:34.820 of Democrats
00:40:36.020 that Andrew Cuomo
00:40:37.560 who had scandals
00:40:39.640 that involve
00:40:40.260 sexual harassment
00:40:41.520 which he resigned
00:40:42.940 rather than,
00:40:43.940 you know,
00:40:44.260 go through,
00:40:45.280 I suppose it could have
00:40:46.260 gotten worse
00:40:46.680 if he didn't resign.
00:40:48.260 And,
00:40:48.620 and then he
00:40:50.180 also had the scandal
00:40:51.120 of the unreported deaths
00:40:52.480 in the COVID
00:40:53.540 nursing homes.
00:40:55.700 Can he overcome
00:40:56.940 the sexual harassment
00:40:58.000 claims?
00:40:58.980 If you're a Democrat,
00:41:00.180 if you're a Democrat male,
00:41:02.280 can you get elected?
00:41:03.980 If you've got these
00:41:05.180 credible sounding claims,
00:41:07.380 I'll say sounding
00:41:08.380 because I'm not the one
00:41:09.880 who believes claims
00:41:10.740 are real,
00:41:11.660 just automatically.
00:41:12.960 They might be.
00:41:14.140 Anything's possible.
00:41:15.420 But I don't know.
00:41:16.120 I wasn't there.
00:41:16.880 So,
00:41:17.080 I'm just going to say
00:41:18.100 there are claims.
00:41:20.320 That's the only thing
00:41:21.100 I know.
00:41:22.480 So,
00:41:22.860 but do you think
00:41:23.400 that the Democrats
00:41:24.260 can get the,
00:41:26.920 you know,
00:41:27.640 the white guy,
00:41:28.920 the straight white guy
00:41:29.900 who's got claims
00:41:30.860 of sexual harassment,
00:41:32.380 can they really
00:41:33.220 elect him
00:41:34.120 in today's environment?
00:41:36.000 I don't know.
00:41:36.980 But it's hilarious
00:41:37.660 to me that he might
00:41:38.560 be their best shot.
00:41:39.840 I will say that,
00:41:40.960 that Cuomo
00:41:43.100 probably is the best
00:41:45.300 talker they have.
00:41:47.500 We'll talk about
00:41:48.140 Fetterman in a minute.
00:41:49.460 But Andrew Cuomo,
00:41:51.440 he just has that
00:41:52.560 leadership charisma
00:41:54.540 voice
00:41:55.300 thing going on.
00:41:57.240 So,
00:41:57.540 he can act like
00:41:58.320 he's a leader
00:41:58.820 and he can pull that off.
00:42:01.500 So,
00:42:01.940 he does have the chops.
00:42:03.420 I mean,
00:42:03.660 he was governor,
00:42:04.320 right?
00:42:04.960 So,
00:42:05.420 we know he has the chops.
00:42:07.320 I don't know.
00:42:07.740 I don't know
00:42:08.520 if he can get over
00:42:09.160 these scandals.
00:42:11.620 Well,
00:42:11.880 meanwhile,
00:42:12.400 Bill Maher
00:42:12.920 on his show
00:42:13.540 said that
00:42:14.220 the best candidate
00:42:16.040 for president
00:42:16.840 who is a Democrat
00:42:17.700 would be Fetterman.
00:42:19.740 And his argument
00:42:20.420 was that Fetterman
00:42:21.960 talks like a normal guy
00:42:23.240 and even Trump
00:42:24.240 said he's a
00:42:24.800 common sense guy
00:42:25.680 and he has
00:42:27.260 authenticity
00:42:27.900 and charisma
00:42:28.800 and balls.
00:42:30.900 I was trying
00:42:31.340 to imagine
00:42:31.840 a president Fetterman
00:42:33.120 having a meeting
00:42:34.560 with Zelensky
00:42:35.300 on casual Friday.
00:42:41.020 That would be
00:42:41.780 the sloppiest
00:42:43.880 looking meeting
00:42:44.480 you ever saw
00:42:45.000 in your life.
00:42:47.080 Zelensky
00:42:47.540 would be the
00:42:48.200 well-dressed one
00:42:48.940 in that case.
00:42:51.620 Well,
00:42:52.300 I'm going to agree
00:42:53.340 with Bill Maher.
00:42:55.340 The Fetterman
00:42:56.060 is the only one
00:42:57.240 I see on their party
00:42:58.340 who,
00:42:59.240 in my opinion,
00:42:59.880 could make a serious
00:43:01.900 play
00:43:03.140 for the presidency.
00:43:05.980 Now,
00:43:07.120 you know,
00:43:07.400 he may have
00:43:08.100 other problems
00:43:08.960 that we don't know about.
00:43:10.360 You know,
00:43:10.520 maybe if you run
00:43:11.620 for president
00:43:12.140 they bring out
00:43:13.300 the big guns
00:43:13.960 and the reports
00:43:15.560 of things
00:43:16.120 that we haven't
00:43:16.600 heard before.
00:43:17.360 So,
00:43:17.720 anything could happen.
00:43:19.260 But I have to
00:43:20.260 completely agree
00:43:21.060 with Maher on this
00:43:22.800 that if you're
00:43:24.600 just looking at
00:43:25.400 the vibe he puts off
00:43:26.920 and how he connects
00:43:27.760 with ordinary people,
00:43:28.800 on top of having,
00:43:30.780 you know,
00:43:31.080 Ivy League degree
00:43:31.940 and some
00:43:33.240 government experience,
00:43:35.260 he would be
00:43:37.680 one to beat.
00:43:38.700 I think he would
00:43:39.320 be one to beat.
00:43:44.440 There's a public
00:43:45.360 interest law firm,
00:43:46.380 I didn't get the name
00:43:47.040 of it,
00:43:47.420 that's filing a
00:43:48.240 civil rights complaint
00:43:49.620 against New York
00:43:51.760 and Wisconsin
00:43:52.540 on behalf
00:43:53.580 of contractors.
00:43:54.960 So,
00:43:55.220 I guess if you're
00:43:55.980 contracting with
00:43:57.500 the government
00:43:58.000 in those two places,
00:44:00.300 New York
00:44:01.700 and Wisconsin,
00:44:02.480 if you don't
00:44:02.940 get the
00:44:03.760 just right
00:44:05.300 approval
00:44:05.840 of diversity,
00:44:07.360 so if your firm
00:44:08.600 doesn't have,
00:44:10.080 you know,
00:44:10.540 just the ideal
00:44:11.260 diversity,
00:44:12.240 you can't get
00:44:12.960 the job.
00:44:14.580 And one
00:44:15.420 of the contractors
00:44:16.320 said this,
00:44:16.980 multiple times a day
00:44:17.960 we lose orders
00:44:18.940 because we're
00:44:19.560 not a minority
00:44:20.260 business.
00:44:21.900 The source
00:44:22.580 who supplies
00:44:24.080 contractors
00:44:24.720 for the government
00:44:25.240 infrastructure projects
00:44:26.300 requested anonymity
00:44:27.900 because of fear
00:44:28.700 of reprisals.
00:44:30.240 So,
00:44:30.720 there's a white
00:44:31.240 man who can't
00:44:31.940 even talk in
00:44:32.620 public with
00:44:33.540 his own name.
00:44:35.560 Can't even
00:44:36.280 talk in public
00:44:37.180 with his own
00:44:38.860 name when he's
00:44:40.100 complaining about
00:44:40.880 being discriminated
00:44:42.140 against.
00:44:44.040 And the case
00:44:45.340 for him being
00:44:45.940 discriminated against
00:44:47.060 is not even
00:44:47.780 controversial.
00:44:49.480 Well,
00:44:50.000 it's controversial,
00:44:50.900 but it's not
00:44:51.420 in question.
00:44:52.480 There's nobody
00:44:52.980 who says,
00:44:53.460 oh,
00:44:53.660 yes,
00:44:54.060 you must be
00:44:54.580 bad at what
00:44:55.040 you do.
00:44:56.240 You can get
00:44:56.940 as many
00:44:57.280 contracts as
00:44:57.980 you want.
00:44:58.780 Why are you
00:44:59.380 white men
00:44:59.860 complaining?
00:45:00.820 No,
00:45:01.140 everybody knows
00:45:02.140 that you can't
00:45:03.360 get contracts
00:45:04.160 unless you have
00:45:04.920 some,
00:45:05.260 you know,
00:45:06.200 golden ratio
00:45:07.460 of diversity
00:45:08.380 in male
00:45:09.400 and female.
00:45:10.540 So,
00:45:11.360 there's lawsuits
00:45:12.040 coming.
00:45:13.040 Good.
00:45:14.320 I hope the
00:45:15.120 lawsuits are
00:45:15.640 successful.
00:45:17.760 Meanwhile,
00:45:18.440 the White House
00:45:18.900 said that
00:45:19.480 29 Mexican
00:45:20.760 cartel members,
00:45:21.900 and one
00:45:23.500 of them
00:45:23.780 is like
00:45:24.220 described as
00:45:25.180 the most
00:45:25.600 evil cartel
00:45:26.420 boss,
00:45:27.060 one of the
00:45:27.560 evil ones,
00:45:28.460 are being
00:45:28.900 extradited to
00:45:29.700 the United
00:45:30.120 States.
00:45:30.760 29.
00:45:32.200 That's a lot.
00:45:34.200 If they're
00:45:34.780 really bosses,
00:45:36.000 I mean,
00:45:36.400 if they're just
00:45:36.960 people,
00:45:37.880 it's not a lot.
00:45:38.940 But if they're
00:45:39.380 all kind of
00:45:40.000 bosses,
00:45:41.240 no,
00:45:41.680 I guess some
00:45:42.060 of them are
00:45:42.380 just members
00:45:42.960 and there's
00:45:43.960 one,
00:45:44.320 at least one's
00:45:45.020 a boss.
00:45:45.440 But here's
00:45:48.600 my question.
00:45:50.120 We all
00:45:50.840 suspect that
00:45:51.520 the Mexican
00:45:52.000 government has
00:45:52.940 some kind of
00:45:53.520 arrangement with
00:45:54.260 the cartels.
00:45:55.460 But at the
00:45:56.140 same time,
00:45:56.780 they have to
00:45:57.280 pretend that
00:45:57.820 they don't.
00:45:59.440 So,
00:45:59.940 do you think
00:46:00.480 that these
00:46:01.100 29 Mexican
00:46:02.560 cartel
00:46:03.140 members
00:46:03.680 just went
00:46:06.560 through the
00:46:07.140 legal system
00:46:08.360 in Mexico
00:46:08.940 and it's
00:46:10.400 all perfectly
00:46:11.120 copacetic?
00:46:12.120 Or is it
00:46:13.560 slightly more
00:46:14.200 possible
00:46:14.720 that a
00:46:15.900 competing
00:46:16.300 cartel
00:46:16.840 said,
00:46:17.280 you know,
00:46:17.560 you could
00:46:17.840 get rid
00:46:18.200 of 29
00:46:19.480 people for
00:46:20.120 us.
00:46:21.080 You know,
00:46:21.260 they're in
00:46:22.380 our territory
00:46:22.920 and we'd
00:46:23.400 like to get
00:46:23.860 our territory
00:46:24.340 back.
00:46:25.320 So,
00:46:26.320 why don't
00:46:26.820 you pretend
00:46:27.420 you're working
00:46:27.960 with the
00:46:28.280 United States
00:46:29.040 productively,
00:46:30.080 but really
00:46:30.780 just get rid
00:46:31.360 of our
00:46:31.620 competition
00:46:32.160 and we'll
00:46:32.920 bribe you
00:46:33.300 to do
00:46:33.580 that?
00:46:34.540 How would
00:46:35.120 we know
00:46:35.460 if that
00:46:35.760 were happening?
00:46:37.200 See,
00:46:37.700 every time
00:46:38.240 there's a
00:46:39.320 cartel
00:46:39.980 person that
00:46:40.560 Mexico gives
00:46:41.320 up,
00:46:41.900 you know,
00:46:42.060 they capture
00:46:42.520 them and give
00:46:42.940 up,
00:46:43.580 I always
00:46:43.980 wonder if
00:46:44.400 they're just
00:46:44.680 working for
00:46:45.180 the other
00:46:45.500 cartel.
00:46:46.840 You know,
00:46:47.120 they got
00:46:47.380 better bribed
00:46:48.100 by the
00:46:48.400 other cartel.
00:46:49.520 I have a
00:46:50.280 real problem
00:46:50.840 thinking that
00:46:52.320 what's happening
00:46:54.380 is that Mexico
00:46:55.140 is doing its
00:46:55.780 level best to
00:46:57.140 battle the
00:46:57.760 cartels with
00:46:59.260 the United
00:46:59.580 States'
00:47:00.040 help.
00:47:00.780 It doesn't
00:47:01.560 feel like I
00:47:03.280 live in a
00:47:03.800 world where
00:47:04.640 things are
00:47:05.460 that clean.
00:47:06.860 So,
00:47:07.500 I guess I'll
00:47:07.960 be skeptical
00:47:08.500 about these
00:47:09.140 cartel members.
00:47:10.960 Meanwhile,
00:47:12.120 all the
00:47:12.580 boxes from
00:47:13.500 Mar-a-Lago,
00:47:14.220 remember
00:47:14.580 Boxgate and
00:47:16.300 the accusations
00:47:17.200 that Trump
00:47:17.940 had taken
00:47:18.400 with him,
00:47:19.220 nuclear secrets
00:47:20.180 and just
00:47:20.780 stored them
00:47:21.200 in the
00:47:21.520 bathroom
00:47:21.880 at Mar-a-Lago?
00:47:25.660 Well,
00:47:26.380 apparently they
00:47:27.320 weren't that
00:47:27.760 sensitive because
00:47:28.560 they've all
00:47:28.940 been returned.
00:47:30.100 So,
00:47:30.720 the charges
00:47:31.160 dropped and
00:47:32.520 100% of
00:47:34.040 what he had
00:47:34.460 is being
00:47:34.780 returned.
00:47:35.180 Now,
00:47:37.320 to be
00:47:37.560 fair,
00:47:38.920 Trump could
00:47:39.760 have just
00:47:40.180 declassified
00:47:40.880 him because
00:47:41.260 he's the
00:47:41.600 president again.
00:47:42.820 So,
00:47:43.560 he certainly
00:47:44.020 would have
00:47:44.340 the ability
00:47:44.780 to declassify
00:47:45.580 them.
00:47:46.120 But,
00:47:46.460 do you think
00:47:46.800 he would
00:47:47.060 have
00:47:47.200 declassified
00:47:47.960 nuclear
00:47:48.480 secrets?
00:47:50.200 No.
00:47:51.420 No.
00:47:52.080 Do you
00:47:52.340 think he
00:47:52.580 said,
00:47:52.880 I'm
00:47:52.980 president,
00:47:53.520 so I'm
00:47:53.740 going to
00:47:53.900 declassify
00:47:54.540 this how
00:47:55.320 to make
00:47:55.640 a nuclear
00:47:56.080 bomb and
00:47:56.700 I'm just
00:47:56.980 going to
00:47:57.160 keep it
00:47:57.440 in the
00:47:57.620 bathroom
00:47:57.980 at Mar-a-Lago
00:47:58.600 in a
00:47:58.900 box?
00:47:59.740 No.
00:48:01.440 So,
00:48:02.040 do we
00:48:02.380 have,
00:48:02.800 do you
00:48:03.080 feel that
00:48:03.460 we can
00:48:03.820 confirm at
00:48:04.640 this point
00:48:05.200 that that
00:48:07.120 was all
00:48:07.460 fake?
00:48:08.620 I think
00:48:09.220 we can,
00:48:09.620 right?
00:48:10.080 That was
00:48:10.620 pure law
00:48:11.200 fair,
00:48:12.240 pure fake,
00:48:13.320 because otherwise
00:48:13.920 they wouldn't
00:48:14.340 give it all
00:48:14.820 back.
00:48:15.680 If they
00:48:16.220 gave 90%
00:48:17.040 of it
00:48:17.340 back,
00:48:17.980 then I
00:48:18.740 would have
00:48:18.980 said,
00:48:19.420 maybe there
00:48:20.580 was something
00:48:20.920 to it.
00:48:21.840 Maybe they
00:48:22.220 did have
00:48:22.580 some secrets
00:48:23.100 in those
00:48:23.460 boxes.
00:48:24.320 But,
00:48:24.820 if they
00:48:25.100 give it
00:48:25.380 all back,
00:48:27.020 I have a
00:48:28.000 real tough
00:48:28.380 time believing
00:48:28.960 it was ever
00:48:29.460 a problem.
00:48:32.480 Anyway,
00:48:33.180 the,
00:48:33.360 the,
00:48:34.640 according to
00:48:35.820 New Atlas,
00:48:37.340 two beers a
00:48:37.960 day shrinks
00:48:38.420 your brain
00:48:38.860 as much
00:48:39.260 as a
00:48:39.540 decade
00:48:39.800 of aging.
00:48:41.520 So,
00:48:42.480 if you
00:48:42.940 have four
00:48:43.660 beers a
00:48:44.100 day,
00:48:45.320 you'd be
00:48:46.300 aged 20
00:48:47.360 years.
00:48:49.020 Alcohol is
00:48:49.660 poison.
00:48:50.240 I've got lots
00:48:50.720 of stories
00:48:51.080 about this.
00:48:51.600 I don't need
00:48:51.940 to go any
00:48:52.360 deeper.
00:48:54.360 Accordingly,
00:48:55.060 the Trump
00:48:55.560 administration,
00:48:56.380 according to
00:48:56.720 the National
00:48:57.140 Pulse,
00:48:58.200 has removed
00:48:59.780 50,000
00:49:00.620 migrants so
00:49:01.820 far,
00:49:02.920 most of
00:49:03.340 them ones
00:49:04.260 who had
00:49:04.500 legal
00:49:04.840 troubles.
00:49:06.700 Does that
00:49:07.000 sound like
00:49:07.400 a good
00:49:07.660 number?
00:49:08.780 Do you
00:49:09.420 feel like
00:49:10.020 you're getting
00:49:11.060 your money's
00:49:11.500 worth from
00:49:12.060 Tom Homan?
00:49:13.160 50,000 in
00:49:14.520 two months?
00:49:16.120 Well,
00:49:16.440 less,
00:49:17.040 a month and
00:49:17.520 a half,
00:49:17.800 right?
00:49:18.460 50,000?
00:49:19.720 If they're
00:49:20.440 the 50,000
00:49:21.400 worst,
00:49:22.860 or they're
00:49:23.360 among the
00:49:23.960 worst,
00:49:25.620 that's a
00:49:26.400 really big
00:49:26.960 deal.
00:49:28.140 Because this
00:49:29.380 might represent
00:49:30.000 a reduction
00:49:30.940 of violent
00:49:31.780 crime of
00:49:32.480 like 50
00:49:33.800 to 100,000
00:49:34.920 per year.
00:49:36.060 Because these
00:49:36.800 were the
00:49:37.120 worst of
00:49:37.500 the worst.
00:49:39.120 And if you
00:49:39.860 get rid of
00:49:40.200 the worst
00:49:40.560 of the
00:49:40.800 worst,
00:49:41.260 you know,
00:49:41.440 the violent
00:49:41.820 ones and
00:49:42.340 the dangerous
00:49:42.820 ones,
00:49:43.880 it feels like
00:49:44.500 that's a
00:49:44.900 whole lot
00:49:45.520 of crime
00:49:46.100 that's been
00:49:46.580 reduced.
00:49:47.320 That seems
00:49:47.800 like a big
00:49:48.220 number to
00:49:48.640 me.
00:49:50.260 Do you
00:49:50.800 remember the
00:49:51.180 big hoax
00:49:51.780 in Canada
00:49:52.900 where there
00:49:54.320 was some
00:49:54.620 claim that
00:49:55.300 there were
00:49:55.720 over 200
00:49:56.400 I guess,
00:49:59.360 I don't
00:49:59.800 know what
00:50:00.000 you call
00:50:00.380 them in
00:50:00.800 Canada,
00:50:02.400 but is it
00:50:02.980 First Nations?
00:50:04.520 They have a
00:50:05.120 different term
00:50:05.700 for the
00:50:06.300 indigenous
00:50:06.760 population
00:50:07.500 before the
00:50:08.240 other Canadians
00:50:10.500 moved in.
00:50:11.680 So in
00:50:11.980 America,
00:50:12.420 it would be
00:50:12.700 the Native
00:50:13.120 Americans.
00:50:13.800 I don't
00:50:13.960 know what
00:50:14.160 they call
00:50:14.400 them in
00:50:14.600 Canada.
00:50:15.180 But anyway,
00:50:15.540 the thought
00:50:15.860 was that
00:50:16.740 there was
00:50:16.960 some kind
00:50:17.320 of indigenous
00:50:18.940 mass graves
00:50:20.940 that would
00:50:22.000 be suggesting
00:50:23.180 that the
00:50:23.940 Canadians of
00:50:25.520 not too
00:50:26.100 long ago
00:50:26.700 were just
00:50:28.140 murdering
00:50:28.720 them and
00:50:29.120 putting them
00:50:29.600 in a mass
00:50:30.060 grave.
00:50:30.400 So there
00:50:31.080 were big
00:50:31.320 protests,
00:50:32.040 it was a
00:50:32.380 giant thing,
00:50:33.040 it was a
00:50:33.320 big story,
00:50:34.360 and Trudeau
00:50:35.580 put together
00:50:36.140 this committee
00:50:37.460 of experts
00:50:38.580 to go look
00:50:39.240 for any
00:50:39.900 more because
00:50:40.480 they thought,
00:50:40.900 oh man,
00:50:41.580 this might not
00:50:42.540 even be alone,
00:50:43.360 there might be
00:50:43.780 other mass
00:50:44.700 graves.
00:50:45.900 And so they
00:50:46.960 looked and
00:50:47.560 they looked
00:50:47.960 and they
00:50:48.280 looked.
00:50:49.660 Guess how
00:50:50.180 many they
00:50:50.520 found?
00:50:50.860 Well,
00:50:53.420 none,
00:50:53.880 and they
00:50:54.380 just disbanded
00:50:55.260 the entire
00:50:56.020 committee.
00:50:57.220 The entire
00:50:58.120 thing was
00:50:58.780 a hoax.
00:50:59.940 There was
00:51:00.500 never any
00:51:01.220 mass grave
00:51:01.920 in that
00:51:03.540 category.
00:51:04.760 And even
00:51:05.680 after looking
00:51:06.260 for it
00:51:06.680 really hard,
00:51:07.700 didn't find
00:51:08.260 any.
00:51:09.460 So that's
00:51:10.060 Canada's
00:51:11.100 fine people
00:51:11.640 hoax,
00:51:12.020 basically.
00:51:15.980 Apparently,
00:51:17.040 according to
00:51:17.860 a publication
00:51:20.360 called The
00:51:20.960 New Arab,
00:51:22.040 the U.S.
00:51:22.900 is going
00:51:23.200 to pitch
00:51:23.580 to a bunch
00:51:24.040 of Arab
00:51:24.820 real estate
00:51:25.240 developers
00:51:25.780 Trump's
00:51:26.860 Gaza
00:51:27.540 plan.
00:51:29.900 So that's
00:51:31.020 going to
00:51:31.280 come up.
00:51:33.640 So the
00:51:34.320 U.S.
00:51:34.600 will convene
00:51:35.060 a summit
00:51:35.520 with regional
00:51:36.760 real estate
00:51:37.260 developers.
00:51:38.300 That seems
00:51:39.000 like a
00:51:39.520 productive
00:51:39.960 thing.
00:51:41.360 Now,
00:51:41.940 you could
00:51:42.280 disagree
00:51:42.680 whether that
00:51:43.520 should be
00:51:44.000 developed or
00:51:45.400 who should
00:51:46.140 own it and
00:51:46.580 all that,
00:51:47.020 but I
00:51:48.320 kind of
00:51:48.660 like the
00:51:49.080 fact that
00:51:50.220 the conversation
00:51:51.020 is about
00:51:51.600 who's going
00:51:52.260 to develop
00:51:52.760 it because
00:51:54.200 that feels
00:51:54.620 like it's
00:51:55.860 a little
00:51:56.080 optimism,
00:51:57.080 a little
00:51:57.280 potential for
00:51:58.800 the future.
00:52:00.700 I don't
00:52:01.340 know that
00:52:01.660 it'll be
00:52:02.100 optimized and
00:52:05.240 then people
00:52:05.600 will move
00:52:05.940 back, but
00:52:06.720 we'll see.
00:52:08.160 But it's
00:52:08.440 good that
00:52:08.760 they're having
00:52:09.120 that.
00:52:10.880 Did you
00:52:11.300 know,
00:52:11.680 according to
00:52:12.080 SciPost,
00:52:12.980 Eric Nolan's
00:52:13.680 writing,
00:52:14.460 that AI can
00:52:15.300 spot depression
00:52:16.360 of old
00:52:17.040 people through
00:52:17.680 their driving
00:52:18.260 habits.
00:52:20.720 Don't all
00:52:21.420 old people
00:52:22.220 drive exactly
00:52:22.980 the same?
00:52:24.480 I don't
00:52:25.040 know how
00:52:25.300 you can tell
00:52:25.680 which ones
00:52:26.140 are depressed.
00:52:28.880 But,
00:52:30.500 oh, it is
00:52:31.040 called the
00:52:31.320 First Nations.
00:52:32.160 Yes, thank
00:52:32.560 you.
00:52:35.960 All right.
00:52:38.720 So, anyway,
00:52:39.560 that's happening.
00:52:40.040 And that's
00:52:41.860 all I had
00:52:42.180 today.
00:52:44.100 So, after
00:52:44.960 the show,
00:52:45.840 fairly soon
00:52:46.920 now,
00:52:48.300 Owen Gregorian
00:52:49.120 will be
00:52:49.620 hosting a
00:52:50.400 Spaces
00:52:50.940 event on
00:52:53.860 X.
00:52:55.480 And that
00:52:55.880 will be
00:52:56.340 for anybody
00:52:59.120 who wants
00:52:59.520 to talk
00:53:00.500 about this
00:53:00.900 stuff or
00:53:01.320 more.
00:53:01.960 I know
00:53:02.480 you've got
00:53:02.800 lots more
00:53:03.280 to say
00:53:03.720 about
00:53:04.460 Zelensky.
00:53:05.040 By the
00:53:06.020 way, how
00:53:06.380 many ways
00:53:06.840 are there
00:53:07.180 to spell
00:53:07.600 Zelensky?
00:53:09.080 I've seen
00:53:09.680 it with
00:53:09.960 Z-E-L-E,
00:53:11.980 Z-E-L-I,
00:53:14.220 and sometimes
00:53:14.940 with one
00:53:15.460 Y at the
00:53:16.000 end and
00:53:16.340 sometimes
00:53:16.720 with two.
00:53:18.180 And AI
00:53:18.740 doesn't help
00:53:19.280 me because
00:53:19.820 it just
00:53:20.080 goes back
00:53:20.540 and forth.
00:53:22.120 So, I
00:53:23.180 don't know
00:53:23.400 what's going
00:53:23.740 on with
00:53:24.020 that.
00:53:24.800 Anyway, so
00:53:25.440 join Owen
00:53:26.540 Gregorian and
00:53:27.560 Spaces.
00:53:28.360 You can just
00:53:28.840 Google him and
00:53:30.000 you'll find his
00:53:30.620 account and
00:53:31.200 you'll see.
00:53:31.540 I also
00:53:32.300 reposted the
00:53:33.560 announcement so
00:53:35.060 you can find
00:53:35.440 the link
00:53:35.780 there.
00:53:36.920 And thanks
00:53:37.700 for joining
00:53:38.200 everybody.
00:53:38.900 I'm going
00:53:39.140 to say a
00:53:39.460 few words
00:53:39.820 to the
00:53:40.300 locals
00:53:41.240 people
00:53:41.620 privately,
00:53:42.620 but the
00:53:42.900 rest of
00:53:43.180 you, thanks
00:53:43.600 for joining.