Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2767 CWSA 03⧸03⧸25

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00:00:22.000 Oh, thanks, Paul.

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00:00:26.780 All right, well, I'm going to start with a quote from Zuby.

00:00:30.000 Those of you on X probably know who Zuby is.

00:00:34.400 And there's some context to his post, but it's funnier without the context.

00:00:40.460 He says, Zuby says, I think the idea of having your own island and inviting people to it has been ruined forever.

00:00:49.020 I've been laughing about that all morning.

00:00:51.280 Yeah, yeah.

00:00:52.380 I think having your own island and inviting people to it, it's not looking like the best idea anymore.

00:00:57.200 It used to be something I wanted to do.

00:01:00.000 Well, how many of you watched the Oscars?

00:01:03.760 Just kidding. 1.00

00:01:04.860 How can anybody watch that crap? 1.00

00:01:06.840 It was just pure garbage. 1.00

00:01:08.760 I tried watching it for 10 seconds. 1.00

00:01:11.120 I was like, what the hell?

00:01:13.240 What am I saying?

00:01:15.020 But apparently, according to End Wokeness on X, the Academy has some kind of Oscar rules

00:01:25.000 that require diversity quotas or else you can't be the best picture.

00:01:30.000 So if you don't have the right mix of people, you can't win Best Picture.

00:01:34.340 So one of the movies that was at least a fan favorite was the movie Reagan, which is about Ronald Reagan.

00:01:41.560 Now, don't you think the Ronald Reagan movie, if it were historically accurate, it's not going to look like Roots?

00:01:49.820 Am I right?

00:01:50.360 I mean, it seems like if you're doing a historically accurate movie, you kind of have to use the people who were actually there, but not in the Oscar rules. 0.93

00:02:05.580 The stupidity of this and the pure absurdity of requiring DEI representation on a Reagan movie is hilarious. 0.65

00:02:15.840 What would they do if they remade Roots? 1.00

00:02:18.700 Would they say, well, you have to put a lot of these sleeves are going to have to be bisexual or something?

00:02:26.100 I don't know. I don't know how they handle that. 1.00

00:02:28.440 That's not my problem.

00:02:30.780 Nobody cared about it.

00:02:32.480 Meanwhile, in Germany, a car attacks some people.

00:02:35.860 Yeah, a car attacks some people. 1.00

00:02:37.440 I read the headlines and it was a car, that damn car. 1.00

00:02:43.760 You know, you can't trust cars in Germany. 1.00

00:02:47.760 In America, you can maybe trust them a little bit more,

00:02:50.820 but even here, it's kind of tough.

00:02:52.620 No, cars will sometimes just turn on people and attack them.

00:02:56.580 Wait, what?

00:02:57.980 Oh, there was a person driving.

00:02:59.820 Well, that wasn't in the headline.

00:03:02.200 I thought it was just a car attack.

00:03:05.320 Well, all right.

00:03:06.420 I'm not interested in that story

00:03:07.820 because that's the whole story.

00:03:13.620 Some terrorist in a car, I assume,

00:03:16.020 I assume it was some terrorist, drove into a crowd of people again. 0.88

00:03:22.020 So maybe a little more border control would be good for Germany. 0.82

00:03:29.300 According to Techspot, Rob Thubron is writing, 0.95

00:03:33.600 that there's a factory that's going to be built that will make humanoid robots,

00:03:39.420 But after a little process, they'll have the robots making other robots.

00:03:47.200 So the holy grail of robots is that the robots make the other robots.

00:03:51.780 And that really does change everything because the cost of robots will go down, etc.

00:03:57.680 And then it doesn't seem obvious to you that the Tesla robot, Optimus, whenever it comes out,

00:04:06.680 It doesn't seem obvious to you that whenever Musk puts a rocket on Mars with a heavy payload, because his rockets can handle a lot of merchandise, don't you think it's going to have multiple robots and the robots are going to set up some kind of a base station and try to figure out how to generate oxygen?

00:04:27.960 you know if they can power themselves and they've got lots of spare parts then if one of the robots

00:04:35.040 breaks the other robots could go fix it with the spare parts and they can be up there like toiling

00:04:40.500 for years so that the next time you land a rocket on mars you've got a whole like colony and it's

00:04:48.360 got oxygen and somehow protected from the elements i don't know how you do that but uh so it does

00:04:54.240 make me wonder if this is the beginning of something big robots making robots

00:04:59.880 so Trump is his usual showman and he's announced that he's gonna have a crypto

00:05:08.800 reserve so he's got some interesting teases today so he's gonna have a

00:05:13.620 crypto reserve in the government and it would include the obvious Bitcoin and

00:05:18.300 Ethernet but also XRP and SOL and ADA and I don't know anything about those

00:05:24.240 But here's the thing you should know.

00:05:27.660 It's probably the only way America can survive.

00:05:31.760 If you think, well, this is sort of unnecessary and, you know, why does he need to be so interested in crypto?

00:05:39.200 It's because you're missing something big.

00:05:42.360 It's unlikely that we'll be able to pay off $35 trillion.

00:05:47.240 But we will be able to inflate it until it's not worth that much.

00:05:52.820 the only thing that'll have value at some point will be crypto so crypto will go up if it's the

00:06:00.120 right kind that this doesn't apply to every crypto but bitcoin is you know artificially limited by

00:06:06.560 i guess the math of it so the value of a bitcoin will just keep going up so i don't make

00:06:14.100 recommendations for your investments that's not my role and i'm bad at it but i do say you should

00:06:22.800 diversify. So diversification is the only financial recommendation I make because that's the one

00:06:28.240 everybody agrees with. There's nobody in the world who disagrees with diversifying. So you should at

00:06:35.760 least do your own research and see if owning some Bitcoin or Ethernet maybe. I don't know as much

00:06:42.300 about Ethernet, but not Ether. What is it? Ethereum, not Ethernet. Ethereum. Sorry, I said Ethernet

00:06:52.840 instead of Ethereum. So I would look into it. So my own strategy is I own some, just in case,

00:07:02.980 but it's not a big part of my portfolio. At some point, it might be all of it,

00:07:06.680 just because it increases in the value so that's going to come then the CEO of

00:07:15.620 Bank of America says that as soon as it's legal to launch a stable coin he's

00:07:21.560 going to do it now a stable coin it would be a crypto that is pegged to the

00:07:27.200 dollar so if you want to buy something your your stable coin whichever one you

00:07:34.000 create would have the same value as the dollar and it would just always stay the same but i'm

00:07:42.320 not sure i'd want one of those i mean maybe it's good for some transactions but if it decreases in

00:07:48.240 value as the dollar deflates you know with inflation i don't know that i'd ever want to

00:07:55.360 hold a stable coin seems like the opposite of good financial management but maybe i'm missing

00:08:02.240 something. Again, don't take my advice for anything financial. I guess tomorrow, is it

00:08:11.240 tomorrow or today, that Doge is going to give the first initial findings about the Department of

00:08:19.160 Defense. Now, remember when Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan, and he said that if anybody really knew

00:08:26.200 the degree of corruption. If he said it, he couldn't even say the source of the corruption,

00:08:33.940 he would be murdered. And he's not joking. I mean, he's not joking. He does mean that.

00:08:40.620 And he would be close enough to reality to know that that's true. So the real dangerous one,

00:08:49.480 the most dangerous, is the Department of Defense. Now, think about this. The Department of Defense

00:08:55.500 has never passed an audit and the the NGOs are like a just a black box when

00:09:05.260 money goes to an NGO nobody knows what happened and it there's no what a thing

00:09:10.800 there's no anything it basically just goes into people's pockets a lot of it

00:09:16.440 and then some of it gets used so they can say oh yeah we we help some poor

00:09:21.180 people but i think maybe sometimes most of it or a lot of it just goes into these fake jobs it's

00:09:30.060 like oh my spouse is a consultant she she earns a million dollars a year so let's put her on this 0.95

00:09:37.660 ngo and you wouldn't know there would be no reporting that somebody put their own wife

00:09:42.940 on an ngo and cashed her out for a million dollars a year so i assume that's happening in a massive

00:09:48.940 way because it'd be such an easy fraud to do and it wouldn't even be fraud because if she really

00:09:56.020 did a little bit of consulting what are you going to do she's just overpaid so it's sort of the

00:10:02.480 perfect crime our fantasy commission says for him it's all about the friendships cute kevin but i

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00:10:32.700 terms and conditions apply um apparently trump is going to make some kind of investment announcement

00:10:39.300 at 1 30 eastern time today what do you think that will be i love how he teases it

00:10:46.240 He doesn't tell you what it's going to be.

00:10:47.640 He just teases it.

00:10:49.040 Do you think it's TikTok?

00:10:51.000 I think TikTok's a good guess. 0.98

00:10:53.840 Maybe it's Greenland.

00:10:55.840 I don't know.

00:10:57.180 Maybe it's the mineral deal with Ukraine.

00:11:00.400 Maybe they've done some talking behind the scenes.

00:11:03.280 I don't know.

00:11:04.320 Maybe it's a Russian mineral deal.

00:11:06.900 I don't know.

00:11:08.540 So I'd love to know.

00:11:09.900 Maybe it's Gaza or something.

00:11:12.280 So there are a lot of things it could be.

00:11:13.780 He's just great.

00:11:15.680 and making us wait he's such a showman i kind of love it and hate it at the same time because i

00:11:22.240 want to know the answer but i love the fact that he teases us it's kind of fun um and then he said

00:11:31.520 i think this is separate he said that tomorrow night will be big i will tell it like it is so

00:11:37.680 i guess that's when he gives his talk to congress is that what that is so he's gonna tell it like

00:11:44.240 it is what do you think that will include it sounds like he's going to break news do you think

00:11:51.040 he's going to say we should pull out of nato and the un because you know he doesn't like to be out

00:11:58.160 done when it comes to bold action and now that elon musk has said publicly we should get out of

00:12:04.480 NATO and also get out of the UN. How will Trump not go further? It's his nature to not be the

00:12:13.400 most timid one in any situation. So it's almost like he has to kind of top that.

00:12:21.640 So I don't know. He might make some decisions about NATO and the UN. We'll see. I'm having

00:12:28.580 trouble forming an opinion about those obviously it's more america first for us not to be

00:12:35.700 defending europe when europe's trying to take away our free speech so there's that

00:12:43.860 but i don't know enough to know if there's any way it helps us be safer

00:12:49.460 it doesn't feel like russia is going to invade one of the you know standard european countries

00:12:55.220 that they've never had an interest in in the past.

00:12:57.880 You know, they might do a little more adventurousness

00:12:59.960 where there are Russian-speaking people,

00:13:02.760 and maybe more than that.

00:13:05.040 But I don't see them going after a NATO country,

00:13:09.400 even if we're not part of it,

00:13:11.320 because Russia wouldn't know that we wouldn't want to get involved.

00:13:15.120 And if there's another president,

00:13:17.540 might want to just sign up again in NATO.

00:13:20.460 So that'll be fun.

00:13:21.620 Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to figure out how to be more like Republicans, and that's

00:13:29.460 their strategy.

00:13:31.000 So according to reports, New York Post is reporting that a group of moderate Democrats

00:13:38.740 had a little gathering in Virginia last month, and they were trying to figure out how to

00:13:44.500 make the Democrats more competitive.

00:13:47.320 Guess what they decided?

00:13:48.540 that the way to make the Democrats more competitive 0.98

00:13:52.140 is to stop saying dumb Democrat stuff 0.89

00:13:55.900 and basically say what the Republicans are saying. 0.71

00:13:59.100 So listen to these actual ideas.

00:14:02.280 Democrats focus too much on America's flaws,

00:14:05.140 like racism, sexism, inequality,

00:14:07.920 without acknowledging the country's progress and potential.

00:14:12.040 What does that sound like?

00:14:13.620 That's a Republican.

00:14:14.560 Embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery. What's that sound like?

00:14:23.480 Republican. Avoid overly moralistic and condescending messaging. Speak plainly and

00:14:29.960 directly. What's that sound like? Republican. And then own the failures of the democratic

00:14:36.140 governance in large cities and commit to improving local government. Well, if all they're doing is

00:14:42.680 acknowledging that those cities are a mess. That's just like Republicans. So here's what

00:14:50.680 the Democrats get wrong. Trump, as far as I can tell, is authentic, meaning I'm not aware of

00:14:59.380 anything Trump has ever suggested or done an executive order on that wasn't right in the

00:15:05.940 middle of his historical opinion about things. So he's never liked regulation, so he's cutting

00:15:13.360 regulation. He's never liked taxes, so he's trying to cut taxes. And he's never liked war,

00:15:19.360 so he's trying to get into war. But when I look at the Democrats, they're literally theater kids,

00:15:25.040 and they're trying to figure out how to pretend to be Republicans so they can win elections.

00:15:32.220 It's so obvious that they don't feel these things

00:15:35.160 because they're not saying be authentic

00:15:38.180 and just say what you mean 1.00

00:15:39.460 because they know that just crazy shit would come out. 0.99

00:15:42.560 It's like, oh, that intersectionality, 1.00

00:15:45.380 we've got more DEI, everybody's a racist.

00:15:48.800 So they can't do that.

00:15:50.780 So they have to literally pretend

00:15:53.580 that the last 20 years didn't happen

00:15:56.860 and they never meant any of that in the first place.

00:16:00.460 Isn't it funny?

00:16:01.500 that their strategy is to reject everything they told you was critical and the most important thing

00:16:07.420 in the world for 20 years because they know they can't win in that and that's the only reason

00:16:12.940 they're gonna they're gonna change now do you think that somebody could run against a republican

00:16:19.340 who's got a track record of believing republican things and always has versus the theater kids

00:16:26.540 pretending to be oh i love america now look at my flag i put a flag on my car oh now that's

00:16:33.020 completely different did you notice the flag on my car i don't think they can pull it off

00:16:38.540 even the theater kids anyway meanwhile on the same topic uh governor newsom is gonna

00:16:47.500 he's starting to clear the flammable brush from california for us um and as you know trump had

00:16:53.980 told them that they should be doing that now he's done it before so it's not like they've never done

00:16:58.380 it but uh new york post is reporting on this so he tapped into his emergency powers and what he had

00:17:05.180 to do in order to clean up the forests is he had to get rid of regulations okay what's that sound

00:17:15.740 like so he uses his emergency powers to get rid of several regulations there are more more than one

00:17:23.980 because they just couldn't do the common sense thing of making the forests, you know, less

00:17:30.400 susceptible. So isn't that just being a Republican? Like, are we not supposed to notice

00:17:38.700 that the only useful things they're doing are directly cribbed from the party that they say

00:17:44.220 are Hitler? Yeah, you guys are all Hitler, but you got a lot of good ideas. So, you know, if you 0.86

00:17:51.820 get rid of the hiller part i like the part about no regulations and cleaning up our forests

00:17:57.260 it's just it's just crazy stuff anyway that's happening

00:18:06.460 there's now there's a so this would be the opposite this this would be california

00:18:11.980 democrats acting like democrats you won't even believe this one if you haven't already heard 0.99

00:18:16.860 this story, you're going to think I made it up because it is so freaking dumb. So there's a bill 0.99

00:18:24.180 being introduced. So it's not passed. It's just a bill that would require homeowners to, quote,

00:18:29.740 exhaust every reasonable means to escape if bad people break into your house while you're there.

00:18:36.360 So you can't confront them, especially with deadly force, or else you'll face homicide charges.

00:18:42.680 the post-millennials writing about this, Hayden Cunningham.

00:18:48.200 Now, can you even believe that's real?

00:18:51.360 Now, it's not real yet because it hasn't been voted on,

00:18:54.340 but it's a Democrat plan in a Democrat state,

00:18:57.360 so I don't know if there's a good chance of it being passed.

00:19:03.040 But can you even imagine what this does?

00:19:08.300 So, again, it's the don't understand human motivation.

00:19:15.180 It's just so consistent.

00:19:17.220 If you say, you know, there's a rich house over there,

00:19:20.460 and even if they have a gun, they can't use it

00:19:22.440 because they'll go to jail for murder.

00:19:25.700 So go ahead and break into that one.

00:19:28.380 And if they try to escape, just let them,

00:19:31.800 and they'll have to run out the door and let you loot it at your leisure.

00:19:36.480 Now, of course, the first thing I think is, how are they going to know you exhausted all

00:19:43.180 your options? If the police arrived and there's three home invaders bleeding to death on the

00:19:51.280 ground and they're already dead, are you going to be able to say, well, are they going to say to

00:19:59.340 you, did you exhaust all your options? Or are you going to say, yeah, they wouldn't let me leave.

00:20:05.060 there was nothing they could do. They threatened to kill me. I've exhausted all my options.

00:20:10.680 So you're kind of forcing homeowners to lie to protect their own home. It's the craziest thing.

00:20:19.880 And every time the Democrats come up with a new idea, it feels like it's designed to drive

00:20:25.140 Californians out of their houses. Let's raise the taxes on your house. What? Okay. I'm not even sure 0.95

00:20:32.960 I'll be able to stay in my house. Let's give you no insurance. You won't be able to buy fire

00:20:37.820 insurance. What? Everybody can buy fire insurance. Nope, not you. Not in California. Well, but what

00:20:44.160 are the odds of a fire? Oh, really high. Really high. We're going to make sure that we haven't

00:20:48.640 taken care of that. Now, maybe that's changing with Newsom. But, and, you know, the stores are

00:20:55.840 going to be available for people to just take anything they want it just all seems like it's

00:21:03.040 the same thing it's like democrats are literally trying to take everything you have and give it to

00:21:08.860 people who have been in the country for a month and it's so consistent it's hard to imagine it's

00:21:14.260 any kind of accident because the theme is just so striking it's so obvious anyway our fantasy

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00:21:51.440 according to the new york post editorial board uh the western countries must soon admit it

00:21:58.400 the paris accord that's the climate change agreement was a disastrous mistake now of course

00:22:04.960 trump is pulling out or has pulled out as he did in the first term but biden put us back in there

00:22:10.420 so here's here's what has been accomplished after trillions of dollars have been sent

00:22:16.560 spent trying to curb greenhouse gases, trillions. Global emissions have increased by 6%

00:22:24.880 since the Paris Accord was signed. And of course, the main reason is that China and India 1.00

00:22:32.960 were just going nuts. And of course, the carbon doesn't respect borders, so everybody's got more. 0.76

00:22:42.560 But here are some of the things that some individual companies did.

00:22:47.840 So Germany, trying to be as green as possible, not only tried to phase out its fossil fuels, but even shut down all its nuclear reactors.

00:22:58.720 Because somehow they were convinced that nuclear reactors were not green.

00:23:03.440 That's the greenest technology there is.

00:23:06.600 Ask France.

00:23:07.380 It's not like France didn't exist, which has a very robust nuclear energy, sort of the envy of other countries, I would say.

00:23:16.960 It's not like Germany didn't notice that France was in a much better situation.

00:23:23.340 So they basically crippled themselves so that energy is hard to get, which means the price will be high, which means the things they manufacture will be a higher price.

00:23:35.260 But it gets worse.

00:23:37.380 Well, actually, the Germans voted for a change in direction.

00:23:41.800 This is also from the New York Post.

00:23:43.820 So they've got a new person there.

00:23:45.360 They elected Friedrich Merz.

00:23:49.000 So he said he's going to prioritize the economy over warring on carbon.

00:23:54.960 So what does that sound like?

00:23:56.640 A Republican.

00:23:59.340 It's just a Republican.

00:24:01.880 But here's the one that blew me away.

00:24:04.440 British economic growth has been anemic for years.

00:24:09.600 One of the biggest reasons is because the industrial and commercial electric rates in the UK are among the highest in the world.

00:24:19.800 It's four times more expensive, just energy-wise, to make something in the UK, just the energy part.

00:24:27.080 Now, of course, that's always a big part.

00:24:28.580 so how can they even be globally competitive if they have crippled

00:24:32.900 themselves so every single thing they make is gonna be wildly overpriced

00:24:37.460 compared to everybody else and they didn't see that coming like nobody could

00:24:41.580 see that coming it was the most obvious thing you could ever imagine that if you

00:24:46.340 use less efficient forms of energy prices go up if you close down other

00:24:53.480 forums you know prices go up and so they call him an economist you know Bjorn

00:25:03.800 Lomborg I wouldn't call him a climate change denier rather he's a you know

00:25:12.100 that even in the worst-case scenario it doesn't look like it'd be that bad so he

00:25:16.460 points out that even if global warming is kind of what you think it is and by

00:25:23.100 way i don't think he calls himself an economist but the new york posted and he said that the

00:25:30.620 difference would be that uh by 2100 your your growth would be 435 instead of 450 basically

00:25:42.540 you wouldn't even notice the effect of climate change on your economy in between now and 2100

00:25:49.900 That's a long time.

00:25:51.660 Long time.

00:25:53.460 Well, in related news, and I'd like to say before I start, you're taking my CO2.

00:26:00.060 It's my plant food.

00:26:01.360 All the plants are going to die.

00:26:03.200 If you try to take the CO2 out of the air, all the plants will die.

00:26:06.800 Don't you understand?

00:26:07.680 It's plant food. 1.00

00:26:08.580 You fool. 0.99

00:26:09.960 Swimming is the best exercise. 1.00

00:26:11.880 Use a French press. 0.99

00:26:13.480 Soil and green is people.

00:26:15.320 So those of you who are NPCs, you need to say the most obvious thing

00:26:18.880 that you could say after I read this story.

00:26:21.840 So Yale announced that it has some kind of super-efficient way

00:26:26.040 to turn carbon dioxide into usable energy with incredible efficiency.

00:26:32.600 Now, I won't read you the details, but it turns it into something

00:26:39.020 called methanol, which could be used as a fuel.

00:26:42.000 But I think it also uses a lot of energy to get it done.

00:26:45.540 So I don't know if it's a net positive or not.

00:26:47.900 But it is interesting that they have a way to turn CO2 into a useful fuel.

00:26:55.380 Right.

00:26:56.460 They're going to kill all the plants.

00:26:58.120 They're going to take all my CO2.

00:27:00.640 I don't know. 0.99

00:27:01.080 They'd have to work pretty hard to suck enough out of the air that they could make up for whatever China and India are going to be doing for the next 100 years. 0.98

00:27:07.920 I think your plants will be okay. 0.85

00:27:11.200 Well, Data Republican, the data analyst who's just making a lot of waves on X, was talking

00:27:20.520 about the NGOs on a podcast, and I think I heard that there are 55,000 NGOs.

00:27:27.560 In other words, 55,000 entities that directly or indirectly take money from the United States

00:27:33.120 government and have no accountability.

00:27:36.000 55,000 of them. If you have any doubt that this is a money laundering operation, in addition to,

00:27:45.360 it might do some good things, but it seems like it's at least half of it is money laundering,

00:27:50.660 but also a sort of a parallel government because they can control so much through the NGOs,

00:27:58.560 everything from censoring people to all kinds of probably some lawfare just all kinds of things

00:28:08.500 so it's a way to control the country but also probably a money laundering thing but data

00:28:15.180 republicans says that 7 000 of them are politically connected and ordering 90 percent of all the

00:28:21.460 taxpayer money meant for non-profits so apparently there's about 300 billion a year

00:28:27.160 that our government puts into these NGOs

00:28:30.100 and with zero transparency,

00:28:33.500 so nobody knows where the money goes after it goes there.

00:28:36.660 Isn't that mind-blowing?

00:28:39.360 That we don't know, like the Department of Defense

00:28:42.980 has never passed an audit

00:28:44.520 and there might be a trillion dollars missing.

00:28:47.720 We don't know.

00:28:49.420 And 300 billion a year go into these NGOs,

00:28:52.640 which have no accountability and just sort of disappears.

00:28:56.380 Now, under those circumstances, do you think there's any chance it's not corruption?

00:29:03.120 But what else could it be?

00:29:05.200 Because the most, you know, everybody would at least have a report of how the money got

00:29:10.240 spent so they could get more next time.

00:29:12.200 But apparently their access to money, the NGOs, is not in any way affected by what they

00:29:20.640 do with the money.

00:29:21.820 That answers all the questions.

00:29:23.480 if their performance with the last money you gave them doesn't make any difference

00:29:28.540 to how much you get next time that's got to be corruption right well what would be the other way

00:29:35.960 to explain that i can't think of anyway that's that's just obvious and uh elon musk said that

00:29:44.220 the he said on joe rogan that the ngos are among the biggest scams ever now the fact that it's only

00:29:50.940 among the biggest scams it's only among them what the hell else does he know

00:29:58.020 about that we haven't heard yet I think has to do with the Department of

00:30:01.300 Defense and maybe also fake Social Security and Medicaid payments or

00:30:06.400 something like that so there's probably at least one thing he knows that's even

00:30:09.720 bigger than that Wow mm-hmm so don't you feel that at least those of us who

00:30:19.800 follow Doge, and we know what's going on, which seems to not include any of the Democrats.

00:30:25.080 By the way, the Democrats are not complaining about any NGOs. Have you heard any Democrats

00:30:30.280 complain about it? They say generic things like, oh, it's good to cut costs. Who would be against

00:30:40.460 waste, fraud, and abuse? But Republicans say, okay, you got to get rid of these NGOs because

00:30:47.000 are not accountable there's no way this is a good idea but the democrats are just oh no they're fine

00:30:52.600 just let's just uh we'll get rid of the waste fraud and abuse how there's no accounting if

00:30:59.640 there's no accounting and no auditing how are you going to get rid of any waste fraud and abuse so

00:31:06.200 i i think we can tell it makes me wonder to what extent all the high level democrats

00:31:13.400 know that the ngos are a scam and and they know that that's largely why it's organized that way

00:31:20.920 i feel like all the top ones know it you know certainly the pelosi schumers you know chris

00:31:26.520 murphy type top democrats they must all know that amazing um so i guess uh keir starmer he hosted

00:31:39.240 20 of his allies to talk about what to do with Ukraine now that the United States had a bad

00:31:45.000 meeting with Zelensky. But here's something that Trump does all the time that I've talked about a

00:31:52.640 number of times, but I don't think I've talked about it once during his second term. I talked

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00:32:28.760 Trump always finds these weird little situations where he has two ways to win and no way to lose.

00:32:37.220 So that's what happened with the dust up with Zelensky. One way to win is that he would slap

00:32:44.260 Zelensky back into line and then the deal would be signed. And at least during his term, probably

00:32:51.280 Putin would pull back. Now, I don't know that that would last forever, but Trump would be able

00:32:57.940 to claim victory if he got a good deal. And then he said, look, four years and Putin, well, I guess

00:33:06.020 it'd be three years and Putin has pulled his military back. Everything's looking good.

00:33:12.820 But if that didn't happen and the deal blew up, then he can say, all right, we're getting out of

00:33:19.780 NATO because you guys are basically worthless and it's not good for America. If the Zelensky 0.93

00:33:26.720 meeting had not gone the way it did, could he have sold getting out of NATO? Now, I don't know

00:33:33.600 if he can or will try, but he can now. Like that opened the door to, all right, maybe we should

00:33:42.080 rethink this whole situation. So he's got two ways to win. Either gets the deal and three years of

00:33:48.180 no Putin invading. He'll look like a hero, at least for three years. And the other way is that

00:33:53.800 he gets to pull out of NATO, save a bunch of money, and let Europe defend itself. Maybe he

00:34:00.980 even gets rid of the UN at the same time. So I don't know if that might be one of the announcements

00:34:06.660 or the hard truths he's planning to give when he gives his speech. But am I wrong that he found a

00:34:14.840 way to have two ways to win. There really wasn't a way to lose. He could either win pretty good

00:34:22.060 or he could win huge. And it looks like he's leaning toward winning huge. But I think Zelensky

00:34:29.160 said, well, we could still make a deal. Now, the people who are really bad at understanding the

00:34:35.640 world probably thought Zelensky is never going to agree to the deal. To which I said, if it was ever

00:34:42.760 a good deal or ever the best deal he could get, he'll agree to it. If it wasn't a good deal,

00:34:48.940 then you won't agree to it. But it has nothing to do with the words they said in the office.

00:34:53.640 If it's a good deal, everybody does it. That's just how deals work. It's just transactional.

00:35:00.420 Well, apparently European leaders, according to Fox News, Michael Ali, they're a little bit

00:35:06.820 on edge because Trump is thinking about what they think. They think Trump might pull 20,000

00:35:13.180 troops out of Europe. The current number, well, the number of U.S. troops in Europe,

00:35:20.400 according to Fox News, fluctuated between 75,000 and 105,000. Now, I think Biden increased it.

00:35:28.460 So losing 20,000 out of 100,000, I feel like that wouldn't leave Europe unprotected, but it would save some money, perhaps.

00:35:42.840 So yeah, I think that'll probably happen.

00:35:44.560 I think it's funny that the UK is calling their idea for having France and the UK and Europe 1.00

00:35:54.180 putting actually military forces, boots on the ground in Ukraine to prevent further Russian

00:36:04.140 attacks. They're calling it the coalition of the willing. The coalition of the willing.

00:36:10.000 So I think that would make America the coalition of the unwilling.

00:36:15.100 Like, maybe not.

00:36:17.540 Maybe you could go do it yourself.

00:36:19.720 How about that?

00:36:20.920 Coalition of the unwilling.

00:36:23.700 Meanwhile, Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee, Republican, is pursuing legislation

00:36:30.180 to amend the Constitution to give Trump a third term.

00:36:33.540 Now, I would say the odds of that, the constitutional amendment passing to give Trump a third term is basically zero.

00:36:42.720 So I don't think it's going to happen.

00:36:44.980 But it makes you wonder, and this is reported by just the news, makes you wonder, does he really think that could happen?

00:36:54.460 Like, that's what he's going to spend his time on?

00:36:56.420 something that has no chance whatsoever of passing, unless something outside of the legal

00:37:03.300 process happened, which I hope not. So let me say unreservedly, I am not in favor of a third

00:37:11.060 Trump term. Not in favor. Now, I might be if we didn't have J.D. Vance and others who are pretty

00:37:18.940 strong. But I feel like Trump has now set the stage. He created the frame. And the Republicans

00:37:27.560 have a pretty good bench. They've got some strong players. So once he's sort of created this idea of

00:37:34.140 what can work and what can be popular, it seems to me that you don't need somebody who's in his

00:37:40.520 mid-80s and everybody's calling him a dictator because he served more than two terms, however

00:37:46.760 happens. So I'm against it. I don't want a president who's that age, you know, what a third

00:37:52.800 term would look like. I don't want that age. Although I must say, Trump currently, he just

00:38:00.120 looks great for his age. He looks great. Anyway, remember I told you this story about Norway?

00:38:08.800 Norway had this big fuel depot that would fuel American warships that were in the area around

00:38:17.420 Norway. And they were mad about the Zelensky meeting. So they decided that they wouldn't

00:38:22.020 sell fuel to the American Navy around Norway. And I said, what kind of idea is that? They've

00:38:29.820 decided to punish themselves by making less money and being less safe? Because it's not like we're

00:38:36.740 going to rush to protect them if they're not going to sell us fuel for our naval ships.

00:38:42.600 Well, it took about one day for the government of Norway to say, this is again Michael Lee from

00:38:47.740 Fox News, the government of Norway to say, no, we don't mean that. No, we're totally going to

00:38:54.120 sell you fuel. Everything's fine. Don't worry about that. So there must have been some crazy

00:39:00.180 person in charge of that big fueling company in Norway. They straightened that out.

00:39:06.740 According to Unusual Whales, an ex, Pete Hegseth, he's the defense secretary,

00:39:16.560 has told Mexican officials that if Mexico didn't deal with what he calls the collusion between the country's government and the drug cartels,

00:39:26.020 the U.S. military was prepared to take unilateral action.

00:39:30.380 Actually, this is per the Wall Street Journal.

00:39:32.220 So, and then the New York Times reported that the cartels were, I don't know how much you

00:39:40.860 can believe.

00:39:42.040 You tell me if this even sounds believable.

00:39:44.500 Do you believe that the cartels are literally afraid already because if they go to sleep,

00:39:51.380 their house might blow up?

00:39:52.880 And it says there are people who are shutting down their fentanyl labs and people are not

00:39:57.960 sleeping in one place and and that they're all worried and that uh and that the government of

00:40:05.080 mexico probably working with the us has already arrested a whole bunch of people and severely

00:40:11.000 weakened the sinaloa cartel do you believe that i don't know it's hard to imagine that it could be

00:40:18.760 true that mexico is making great inroads um weakening the cartels at the same time the

00:40:26.760 hegseth is complaining that the government is working with the cartels now obviously that

00:40:33.160 could be different people you know the leaders maybe not but maybe you know the middle middle

00:40:38.360 people maybe yes um just speculating so i've always imagined it's a hybrid situation where

00:40:46.440 some members of the government are just absolutely on the take you know and support the the cartels

00:40:52.280 one way or another. And maybe some people aren't. And the people who aren't probably get killed.

00:40:59.000 So in the long run, it seems like they would all be supporting the cartels, or they'd be dead.

00:41:03.900 So I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of the Mexican government on that topic.

00:41:11.740 Now, I promised you that this would be a short show.

00:41:16.180 and it is so that that's all i had to talk about today i'll talk to the people on locals for

00:41:23.400 a minute but the rest of you thanks for joining um you know the the news is only funny when

00:41:30.800 trump is directly involved so only only trump related stuff is like worth talking about the

00:41:37.220 rest is like blah blah blah so you you wouldn't be surprised by the rest of the news all right um

00:41:43.740 So I'm going to say bye to Rumble and X and YouTube and locals.

00:41:50.500 I'm going to say hi to you guys.

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