Episode 2768 CWSA 03⧸04⧸25
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Summary
30 officers at a juvenile detention facility in California have been charged for holding what they call "gladiator fights" with minors. The FBI has a truckload of Epstein files, and they are in a truck, but what will they do with them?
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According to the AP in Los Angeles, 30 officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility
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have been charged for holding what they call gladiator fights with the minors.
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But apparently they were organizing the, the officers were, not the inmates.
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But the guards were organizing gladiator fights where they would just all meet in a certain
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Now, I know somebody who has had a more interesting life than, than I have and claims that this is
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completely normal for adult detention facilities, that the guards do in fact, organize fights among the, uh, the inmates for the adults.
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I didn't know it was happening at juvenile facilities.
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But if you think this just happened in one place and there were 30 officers who are all in on it, I got to wake you up.
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The guards, if they hate the, uh, the inmates, any particular ones, they organize a fight and they just put the ones they hate in the fight and they just stand back and watch it.
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Well, according to attorney general, Pam Bonte, there's an alleged truckload of Epstein files that were released by, guess what?
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The, uh, Southern district of New York, I guess that's where they, they were all being stored and, uh, not unrelated.
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The, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the head of that FBI, the Southern district in New York was asked to resign partly because he told people to dig in and that was taken.
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That was resisting, you know, the Trump administration, but, uh, also he wasn't really too keen on releasing all the Epstein files.
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So he's gone and the Epstein files are in a truck and, uh, Pam Bonte says that, um, that they're going to be delivered or they've already been delivered and now they have to go through them and, uh, and, uh, then they'll figure out just what they can and cannot show.
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Do you think that they fought so hard to, to not show it that they wouldn't also destroy the good stuff?
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The truckload doesn't mean there's any good stuff.
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So I'm going to guess that when they get in there, they're going to say, huh, according to the evidence records and the document page numbers, it feels like all the good stuff has been removed.
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Or the FBI itself will, again, even, even if it's Kash Patel or somebody else will just block out the things that we're not supposed to see.
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And maybe that's all the stuff that we really wanted to see.
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So I'm going to say just for fun, uh, I don't believe it's real.
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I do believe it's got a lot of Epstein files in it.
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I do not believe this means we're going to find out the good stuff.
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I think it's just going to be more repeats of things we've seen, but with a lot more detail.
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So I don't trust this at all, but it does look like, uh, Pam Bondi is dead serious.
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And it looks like Kash Patel is dead serious about trying.
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So I'm going to give them an A plus for trying, but I feel like the deep state may have already removed any possibility of finding the good stuff.
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Joe Maddow trying to sell the idea that Trump is working with Putin and a Russian puppet, you know, the usual thing.
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Oh, that's exactly what Putin would want him to do.
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So she writes up this super academic list of all the ways that Trump is already, already helping Putin.
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And it's such, it's such an academic and boring and complicated.
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Well, but you know, this could be connected in some way, you know, this stretching the idea of, of the connection.
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Uh, so here's one of the ways that Trump is allegedly helping Putin.
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Um, but he weakened, this is from Rachel Maddow.
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Uh, he weakened the nuclear security by firing key personnel.
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We're reducing personnel and basically everything that doge touches.
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So basically everything that doge touches, you know, ends up in people being, uh, fired.
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And every time, no matter what department it is, somebody says, but those are the best people.
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The nuclear security is probably exactly the same.
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So, no, that's probably had nothing to do with Putin.
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And then she said that, uh, that, uh, Trump has disbanded key U.S. counterintelligence units.
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Um, eliminated the FBI's foreign influence task force, which investigated secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as Russia.
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Uh, okay, so it's something that affects all of our other adversaries and, but also our allies, because they always try to influence us too.
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So it was a general rule, but Rachel's like, hmm, that looks like that's for Putin.
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So almost anything that Trump does, you can make an argument, but indirectly, indirectly, that looks like that's for Putin.
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Um, so it's the most boring and academic and ridiculous list, but it's good enough for our audience who are, as you know, all idiots.
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So here's a, here's one we don't know why yet, but, uh, P. Hegseth has, uh, ordered a pause in the U.S. cyber offensive against Russia, according to the BBC.
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So the U.S. just stopped doing offensive cyber attacks on Russia, to which I say, now that doesn't mean they stopped doing defensive stuff, of course, but why would you stop offensive cyber attacks?
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Well, if I were getting ready to negotiate peace, I would show them that we were capable of doing that.
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You know, we're not going to wait forever for Russia to sign a deal.
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But one of the things that Trump is good at is bringing new variables into a negotiation.
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And then separately, there's a report that, uh, that Russia has been asked to help communicate with Iran to work out a nuclear, um, some kind of a, you know, non-proliferation or something, uh, something about their nuclear program.
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But the idea is that Russia would be a productive partner in negotiating with Iran because they have a better relationship, to which I say, hmm, that doesn't, that's not crazy.
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So we don't know enough about the, uh, the pause in the U.S. cyber offensive, but if it's just a pause and we're just showing that we can do it and we're trying to bring Russia into a more productive conversation about different parts of the world,
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how can you help us and maybe we can work together and maybe we can make some money.
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I think you have to look at the entire universe of things that are happening to figure out whether there's any room for a deal.
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If all you're looking at is ceasefire, ceasefire, yes or no, ceasefire, well, you're not going to know anything.
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You have to look at all of the moving parts and say to yourself, all right, is that enough moving parts where there's stuff we can give
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without costing anything and there's stuff they can give us without costing anything.
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And probably there's going to be a whole bunch of variables that allow us to do that.
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So, yeah, the more variables that Trump puts into the deal, the more successful it'll be, I think.
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Anyway, and we're not going to stop our defensive stuff, so it's not like we're unprotected.
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So Scott Jennings continues to entertain on the panel with Abby Phillip on CNN.
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you mentioned the Europeans, it's interesting to me.
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They spend more money on Russian oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively.
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And then Scott Jennings said that the proposed mineral deal that got turned down by Zelensky,
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he says the mineral deal is effectively a security guarantee.
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I have to do the Democrat idiot face because it doesn't make sense.
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there's a chapter in there which I talk about people who argue by definition.
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And Abby Phillip is one of the definition people.
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no, that would not be called a security guarantee.
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Remember when Kamala Harris and the U.S. and Europe,
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And they were meaning that they would let Ukraine into NATO
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And those were kind of like security guarantees, weren't they?
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that we wouldn't be adding NATO countries on the border of Russia?
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Now, I would agree that if you're a NATO country,
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But to imagine that we wouldn't sell out with somebody
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that having a big financial interest in the country
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probably keeps them a lot safer than if we didn't.
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It's not like there's some court that could make us do it.
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to insist that there's only one definition of a thing
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And then they do the same thing with January 6th.
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first, let's agree that this is an insurrection.
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thought that they might be stopping an insurrection.
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So really, it would be closer to the opposite of an insurrection.
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I know, but it's raining and the car is broken.
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I know, it's just, I can't, because the car is broken, but we'll go tomorrow.
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It's just, it's just a child argument over and over again.
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So Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is joining the group trying to see if they can put together a purchase deal for TikTok.
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I don't know how many groups there are looking at it now, but they're pretty serious people.
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So if the most serious people can't make a deal to buy TikTok, who can?
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And if you didn't know this, I knew this, but it kind of fits into the stories today.
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So this is an old, old story, but he mentions, John Stossel does,
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that the New York Times covered up Stalin's famine when he was starving people, Stalin was,
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Now, why did the New York Times cover up, you know, one of the crimes of the century,
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Well, it turns out that their star reporter, Walter Durante, but also his colleagues,
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And the status he got when his exclusive interviews, he could do exclusive interviews with Stalin.
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So literally, the New York Times was ignoring the biggest story happening,
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And it was because the reporter sort of thought maybe communism is a good deal.
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And, you know, if you get past this, maybe it'll all work out.
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Now, isn't it great that the media used to be completely fake and that's all fixed now?
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You know, I always think that if you don't know anything about history, everything looks different.
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If you knew that for sure, no doubt about it, that our major media platforms historically had all been fake,
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they were either controlled by the CIA or, or in this case, probably wasn't the CIA,
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but just somebody wanted to lie because it was good for him or it worked into his philosophy.
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Can you even imagine what changed enough that this wouldn't still be the case?
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Was there magic, was there some magic after this happened?
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And then the magic would catch it every time it tried to happen again?
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The Russia collusion hoax was just a made-up whole thing.
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Yeah, I think NPR actually pushed the fine people hoax again, I think, yesterday.
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And if you don't know that it's never been real historically,
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it's really hard to understand that, like, it's suddenly turned bad.
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But most people think, well, it was pretty good in the old days.
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You know, maybe it got a little worse, but it's basically okay.
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It has always been completely fake, and there are reasons for it.
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There are structural reasons that guarantee it will be fake, because people have interests,
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Well, meanwhile, the TSMC, the big, gigantic chip company that operates mostly in Taiwan,
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says they're going to put $100 billion into the U.S. to build and support semiconductor manufacturing here.
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Because we've had a few rounds of this company is going to do that, this company.
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So I saw Daniel Baldwin, who works for OANN, and he put together a list.
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So it's $100 billion from TSMC, the chip company.
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Apple promised $500 billion for domestic manufacturing.
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$100 billion from SoftBank, $20 billion from D-A-M-A-C, I don't know what that is.
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$500 billion from Stargate, $600 billion from Saudi Arabia.
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Now, those numbers start adding up, don't they?
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The other thing that's important that Trump understands better than anybody's ever understood it
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is that sometimes you have to BS a little bit about how things are going.
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There's a big list of people putting a lot of money in there?
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So these type of deals are being really well promoted.
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And the promotion is probably as important as the dollar amounts,
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at least in the early stages, because you need a lot more.
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But you want everybody to think everybody's doing it.
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Like you need people to just think, oh, this is the thing now.
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Eric Doherty on X says that HP is looking to move a lot of their operations from China to the U.S.
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The tariffs are working, at least in that limited sense.
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And meanwhile, Trump's telling farmers to get ready to produce more food to sell inside the U.S.
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because he's putting tariffs on external food coming in starting April 2nd.
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Now, the tariffs for Canada and Mexico kicked in today.
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25% on most things, but energy is a little cheaper, 10%.
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And I think Canada has already matched it with 25%.
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I haven't heard from Mexico yet, but one assumes they'll match it.
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But at the same time, we'll talk more about that.
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OPEC announced that it's going to increase oil production, according to the Hill.
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Now, if you increase oil production, that should drive the price of oil down because it increases supply.
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And I don't know if that's net good or bad for the United States, because if prices are high, then we drill a lot more in the United States because everything you do would make money.
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If it goes down, then even some of the wells we already drilled, somebody's going to say, oh, this was a good idea before, but now the price went down.
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So it certainly should help with the price of your eggs and it certainly should help with inflation eventually.
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So OPEC producing more is just about the best thing that could ever happen for Trump.
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You know, it's the one thing that everybody agrees lowers inflation, or at least today.
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Meanwhile, X, the X platform is doing more great work for free speech.
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So California was introduced this censorship law for social media, and the essence of it is they want to require the social media platforms to have their own censorship standards.
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But it's all kind of squishy stuff, like, do you have a definition of hate speech?
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And all these things have that uh-oh thing to them.
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But as soon as you say, it's somebody's job to decide when it happened, then everything looks like hate speech and everything looks like racism.
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Because you could sort of, you know, racial maddow it to make anything sound like one of those two things.
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So it would be just a gross attack on free speech.
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But it looks like X hired some lawyers, and it looks like it's going to be blocked at the moment.
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The court struck down the key censorship provision, according to Reclaim the Net, D.D. Rankovich.
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And if you only think of X in terms of, you know, the more obvious stuff it's doing, you would miss one of its biggest values to the country is this.
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Musk will lawyer up whatever it costs, and he will go after every attack on free speech that affects X.
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And this is huge that, you know, you can't get a win like that.
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Speaking of which, you know that the Europeans are trying to do the same thing that California was doing, which is create these censorship standards so that they can control American companies by controlling what they can do in Europe, which would, you know, trickle into the United States.
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So if they said, for example, you can't post a message like this, whatever this is, in Europe, well, what are the platforms going to do?
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If you're Facebook, you're going to say, all right, well, I guess we have to ban it everywhere, because if it's banned in Europe and they're going to completely kick us out of that market, if we don't do this, we're going to have to censor.
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So the FCC chairman was over at the Mobile World Congress.
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He is very active and chasing down the bad behavior and addressing it.
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So he's giving speeches, basically, and he's mentioning the EU's Digital Services Act, which is the one that would be sort of a backdoor way of censoring Americans.
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And basically, he's warning them that the United States is going to respond, you know, because Trump has already said he wants a directive to figure out how to tariff them or do something to make sure that they can't extort us that way.
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So I love the fact that Trump and his head of the FCC basically are saying, this is war.
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You can try to censor us, but we're not giving up the First Amendment.
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So you tell us how expensive you want to make this, because, you know, there's nothing we're not going to do to make sure that we're not censored.
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You can censor yourself, put yourself out of business as a real country, but you're not going to do it to us.
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And I think that Trump, again, one of the magic parts of Trump is that he doesn't bluff.
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So when Trump says, we're coming for you, if you don't change this, they know he's coming.
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And Brendan Carr is like, you know, chief gladiator.
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So if he's coming for you, he's fully supported by Trump.
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But I love the fact that Trump is completely at war and isn't going to take this.
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Now, today, Arizona universities are quietly deleting their DEI language, according to Cronkite News.
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Now, I don't know if that means they're just hiding it, but it means that they understand there's a risk.
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And so they're operating based on risk, which is what we want.
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Also, the University of Southern California is going to scrub their DEI stuff out of their documents and stuff.
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And again, I don't know if that's just hiding it.
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If they have to hide it, that feels like a little bit of a win.
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And then, apparently, there were some CIA officers who were fired because they were part of the DEI programs for the CIA, according to Natural News.
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But a judge just upheld Trump and Doge's ability to fire them for just being part of the DEI.
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One of my big questions is, how will history treat DEI?
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Because, you know, if you went back in history and, let's say, it was right in the middle of slavery,
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what do you think the news said about slavery in the South, the news in the South?
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It was probably like, yeah, things are working real good.
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Don't you think that while it was happening, it was treated like a positive?
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Because otherwise, it wouldn't have been there.
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But then, you know, a few hundred years later, we quite rightly call it, like, one of the worst things we've ever done.
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But we all understand, okay, that's just, that's right near the top of the worst things we've ever done.
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And what do you think DEI will do in the future?
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That it will be treated by historians as just evil.
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Now, it's not going to be full, you know, slavery evil or Jim Crow evil.
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So it's like 40 years, roughly 40 years, I think, of absolute over-discrimination against one category of people.
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It's just one of the darkest, worst, messed up parts of American history.
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And I just wonder if history will ever record it that way.
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Or if they'll say, well, all the good people tried for decades to make things better.
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But the evil Republicans shut it down after 40 years of being terribly successful.
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Now, it wasn't called DEI for 40 years, but it was, you know, affirmative action.
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So I'm hoping history will get it right and say that this is one of the worst things that the country's ever done.
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We've done worse, but it's one of the bad ones.
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Do you remember when UK and France were meeting to figure out what they could do about Ukraine?
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And then they came out to that meeting and it sounded like, oh, well,
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it looks like there's a little bit of unity there.
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So the UK and France were talking about maybe putting boots on the ground.
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And I thought, well, it starts with, you know, two of the more important countries.
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And then they'll slowly, you know, collect in their allies.
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But instead, apparently what we just learned is that Germany walked out of the meeting, according to Javier Villamor, European conservative.
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So Germany just said, you know, I'm paraphrasing because I wasn't there, but it was something like, wait, what did you just say?
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Well, our idea is we're going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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We hope we can get some German boots over there filled with people, of course, not just the boots.
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Now, if Europe can't get Germany on board, and it's not because it's expensive, it's because Germany just said, ah, how about no?
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So, and then we're not even sure if France and the UK agree on what a ceasefire would look like.
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So the European Union, or let's just call it the European countries, decide that they're going to go it alone.
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And the best they could come up with is two countries that almost agreed, and the rest of them just said, are you fucking crazy?
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But then on top of that, the EU, the head of the EU, says that they're going to unveil an $800 billion plan to rearm Europe.
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And I say to myself, okay, what would have been the most predictable outcome?
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Not the most entertaining, the most predictable outcome.
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But there's a real possibility of the conflict.
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If you were going to predict what was going to happen, the most obvious prediction, it would have been, oh, so what will happen is that the military-industrial complex will get billions of dollars,
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It was completely predictable, the military-industrial complex.
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I've actually thought, huh, how could I get in on this military-industrial complex?
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Because, you know, I like to be on the winning team.
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You'd better spend a trillion dollars on weapons.
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It's like no matter what we do, the answer is always give money to the military-industrial complex.
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So that's why we like Trump, because I don't think he automatically falls for that.
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It's also weird that Europe has nukes, and those are not a deterrent to being invaded.
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Like, what are they actually buying weapons to do?
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Are they buying weapons so that they don't have to use their nukes if Russia tries to roll over Europe and take over the UK?
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Has Russia ever shown interest in conquering any country that wasn't really either Russian-speaking or had some obvious strategic value?
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They're not good guys, so I'm not saying Russia's the good guys.
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But do you think Russia has ever wanted to conquer France?
00:37:22.240
Or at least, let's say, in the last hundred years?
00:37:26.100
So it seems like if you just said, here's the deal.
00:37:32.820
But if you put one Russian boot on our territory, we're going to nuke Poland.
00:37:47.960
You know, the more traditional weapons you have, the more likely you're going to get into a traditional fight.
00:37:54.020
But if you just said, we're going to get rid of all of them.
00:37:57.160
Because you'd be insane to attack us because we only have this one defense.
00:38:03.060
We'll just take out Moscow with a nuclear weapon.
00:38:05.100
So if you were Russia and somebody said, our entire defense is written up in this document, you're free to read it.
00:38:13.520
And the document says, if Russia attacks even one inch of our territory, we're going to nuke them.
00:38:20.280
Would you attack if it was actually in writing?
00:38:28.720
Now, like I said, there's no such thing as a real security guarantee.
00:38:35.840
But it would have to be at least as safe as spending $800 billion for the military-industrial complex.
00:38:44.820
Some of it in our country, I assume, but a lot of it in Europe.
00:38:48.920
Well, Trump's giving a big speech to Congress tonight.
00:38:52.340
Some people were speculating that he might float the idea of leaving NATO.
00:38:58.700
Because I don't think he would announce that in the speech.
00:39:05.620
I can imagine him teasing it just to see what reaction he got.
00:39:12.420
Apparently, according to Election Wizard on X, the congressional Democrats are planning to disrupt his speech.
00:39:19.880
And their plan, allegedly, involves using a variety of tactics, including noisemakers, hand clappers, signs, eggs, and walk-outs.
00:39:35.600
And why are eggs suddenly such a big part of every story?
00:39:42.840
Why did the eggs become the biggest thing to talk about?
00:39:47.300
Anyway, I assume the eggs would be to, what, throw?
00:39:54.340
If somebody threw an egg at the president, wouldn't they be arrested?
00:39:59.320
Would that not be assault or attempted injury of some kind of a sitting president?
00:40:08.840
Wouldn't it be a disruption of an official business?
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I don't know if his speech is official business or not.
00:40:33.280
Well, I got an egg because I did insider trading.
00:40:38.960
Well, according to Laura Loomer and some others,
00:40:41.960
apparently the left is also going to organize or has organized
00:40:45.260
some kind of a massive protest in the Black Lives Matter plaza
00:40:53.360
Now, do you remember when we were more innocent?
00:40:58.180
And if you heard that the left had an organized protest,
00:41:01.780
you'd think, wow, there must be a lot of people,
00:41:07.200
Otherwise, you couldn't pull together that many people.
00:41:12.960
All these protests are just probably Soros-funded
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But this doesn't happen unless it's just a big fake thing
00:41:33.620
So to me, it's just funny because once you realize
00:41:40.460
Like, I can't even get mad at it because, like,
00:41:47.780
Well, if you haven't seen economist Jeffrey Sachs
00:41:51.460
talking about Russia and Ukraine, you really should.
00:42:17.440
When I say pro-Russian, I don't mean more than the United States.
00:42:20.660
It's just that he doesn't want to be at war with Russia.
00:42:24.900
So I guess other people think that's pro-Russian
00:42:27.700
because he doesn't want to be at war with Russia.
00:42:41.860
And it certainly wouldn't make sense for somebody like Trump
00:42:56.580
you know, Winston Churchill and an amazing figure,
00:43:02.980
But it's pretty clear that Trump thinks that Zelensky is a loser.
00:43:07.680
And he doesn't want to hitch his wagon to somebody who's unpredictable
00:43:14.180
And Zelensky predicted that the war would last a long time.
00:43:23.980
I mean, it's only going to last as long as he wants it to.
00:43:26.420
So, yeah, I think I agree with Jeffrey Sachs on this.
00:43:31.980
If the only thing you knew is that Trump isn't the kind of guy
00:43:49.020
to help with negotiating with Iran over their nuclear program,
00:43:55.020
And also maybe talk to them about Iran's support of proxies in the region.
00:44:07.220
is when Trump expands the negotiations, which he's doing,
00:44:12.180
instead of saying, hey, which part of Ukraine do you keep?
00:44:35.440
I'm ready to work under Trump's strong leadership to bring peace.
00:44:45.720
but we need a strong statement that says you want peace.
00:44:59.640
So, it looks like Zelensky's reading the room a little bit better.
00:45:20.200
They've got connections with countries we want to influence.
00:45:38.360
So, I think the conversation is going to go to,
00:45:54.340
It's like, okay, well, you're going to help us with Iran.
00:45:59.980
But, well, maybe we can do a mineral deal with Russia separately
00:46:06.760
And so, suddenly, you've got 20 different things
00:46:18.480
Now, those of you who have been with me a long time,
00:46:28.180
is bending toward Russia and the United States being allies?
00:46:34.660
Now, what I mean by that is that we have more interests in common
00:46:43.580
If we stop pecking at each other and trying to get an advantage
00:46:48.360
which is what we've both been doing for decades.
00:46:53.740
how about instead of trying to destroy each other
00:47:06.520
if you stay out of, you know, our part of the world,
00:47:10.860
there are parts of your world that we'll stay out of.
00:47:14.560
And I just think we have the most natural possibility of being allies.
00:47:26.840
We've got that wonderful ocean between us and more.
00:47:32.860
So I really think my optimism of getting sort of a giant 20 variable Russia deal,
00:47:53.080
And Trump said in one of his announcements that Putin even used his own campaign phrase,
00:48:01.300
common sense, which, of course, was very smart for Putin to do
00:48:05.520
because he's good at sucking up, you know, when he's negotiating.
00:48:09.840
So, yeah, I think something good could come out.
00:48:20.120
I mean, think about how long it would take to figure out 20 variables.
00:48:31.400
Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:48:36.300
She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
00:48:44.240
the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
00:48:47.660
Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:48:52.540
I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
00:49:02.560
So, J.D. Vance was explaining how the mineral deal would have been better than a security guarantee.
00:49:09.940
And he said, the president knows that, look, if you want real security guarantees,
00:49:18.040
if you want to actually ensure that Putin does not invade Ukraine again,
00:49:21.660
the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine.
00:49:28.140
That is a way better security guarantee than, here comes his diss.
00:49:31.340
I love how J.D. just slaps down other entities.
00:49:36.600
He goes, this is way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country
00:49:58.920
The only thing that protects you is that the country that has the big guns has a personal interest.
00:50:07.160
So, if we've got a lot of money on the line, I mean, this could be a trillion dollars, you know, in these mining deals.
00:50:14.700
That would be a good way to guarantee that we're interested.
00:50:18.000
And by the way, if you're Russia, and we said to you, don't attack Ukraine because, you know, we'll go in and protect them.
00:50:29.920
Would that be stronger than saying, you better not go into Ukraine because we've got a trillion dollars riding there,
00:50:37.600
and we're not going to let that just be taken over.
00:50:41.100
So, if you go in, we're going to protect our interests.
00:50:45.660
The one where you say, we're going to protect our own economic interests, that sounds like the more real one because everybody protects their own economic interest.
00:50:55.300
If you said, oh, we're going to go protect this country on the other side of the world that doesn't have a direct impact on us,
00:51:02.440
even if we meant it, it's not terribly persuasive.
00:51:08.120
But if you say, we're not going to give up a trillion dollars in mining operations, which are critical to our most important industries,
00:51:15.400
like AI and self-driving cars and robots, we're not going to give that up.
00:51:19.940
So, if you move your armies in, we have to stop you.
00:51:22.880
And you wouldn't even have to put it in writing because Putin would know that these are critical mineral rights.
00:51:39.120
We need to nail down some sources that we can mine, preferably in other countries.
00:51:46.620
Anyway, Elon Musk was saying this about Zelensky.
00:51:50.640
He says, as distasteful as it is, Zelensky should be offered some kind of amnesty in a neutral country
00:51:59.460
in exchange for a peaceful transition back to democracy in Ukraine.
00:52:03.840
Now, how many years have I been talking about dictator retirement island?
00:52:09.380
We always have the same problem that if there's a dictator we want to depose,
00:52:17.320
They kind of have to fight to the death, including killing all of their own country people
00:52:24.360
by sending them, you know, against your machine guns.
00:52:27.940
So, I don't think there's a practical way to solve this.
00:52:32.220
But if we had just one good island and we said, here's the deal.
00:52:36.260
If you decide to retire at this island, we'll give you an American passport and you can live there.
00:52:49.520
And we'll guarantee that nobody comes over and tries to kill you from anything you did before.
00:52:54.460
You'll just live with your neighbors who are also retired dictators.
00:53:04.140
There needs to be some way that the alleged dictator can make a clean escape
00:53:14.840
Because we don't need to punish them so much as we just need them gone sometimes.
00:53:20.120
All right, here's my idea for what to do to negotiate who owns what land
00:53:25.560
on the eastern part of what used to be Ukraine,
00:53:28.700
but now seems to be totally occupied by Russia, just the eastern part.
00:53:34.420
I saw a map of where Russia was the main language.
00:53:39.280
I didn't realize that something like, is it over half of Ukraine?
00:53:44.640
Russia is the dominant language and people might even call themselves Russian.
00:53:49.520
Not all of them, but a lot of them would call themselves Russian,
00:53:54.920
And so I thought, well, let's say you did a vote and you said,
00:54:02.100
all right, all these little regions that are disputed that Russia controls right now.
00:54:21.940
I'm guessing that most of the people over there still have cell phones, right?
00:54:30.880
And I would get at least three separate pollsters to do it and then compare them
00:54:38.020
Then the three would compare to see if there's any major differences in what they got.
00:54:41.600
And they would just call people and they'd say, all right, do you want to be owned by Russia
00:54:54.180
Now, what if Ukraine said, we don't agree with that?
00:55:03.120
Then you have to wonder, what is their motivation?
00:55:06.120
If what the people who live there want isn't the main thing, then what are you?
00:55:14.940
Shouldn't the people who live there be the primary ones who decide?
00:55:19.220
Now, we also have the problem that some of that area is depopulated.
00:55:25.260
So you might not even be able to get any kind of representative sample
00:55:28.700
because it might be just people who haven't died yet, you know, old people and children and stuff.
00:55:35.920
But I would at least look at the idea of polling them.
00:55:39.760
And you'd have to have at least three polls operating independently
00:55:43.240
to feel like, you know, one of them wasn't totally biased.
00:55:49.220
Meanwhile, Governor Newsom of California, according to Joel Pollack and Breitbart,
00:55:56.080
is ordering state employees back to the office.
00:56:00.700
So Newsom's plan to act more like a Republican seems to be right on point.
00:56:07.820
So he's copying Doge and making the Californians come back to work.
00:56:12.520
Now, he says only four days a week, which would be a lot.
00:56:16.680
But it does remind you that the Democrats just painted themselves into the corner of all corners
00:56:26.580
So whenever they embrace a little bit of common sense, it just looks like they're copying.
00:56:34.120
And then you say, well, why do we need them if they're just copying?
00:56:40.220
And you don't have to wonder if they mean it because Republicans tend to only do things they mean.
00:56:44.720
So the Democrat strategy of saying, let's do more common sense things and emphasize patriotism and get rid of the identity politics.
00:56:59.520
So how does that work from an election strategy perspective?
00:57:09.320
If somebody likes what Republicans do, and they like what Trump does, and they like especially that Trump is emphasizing common sense solutions,
00:57:19.920
is there any scenario in which they vote Democrat because, oh, it's all the same now?
00:57:30.920
So I guess I'll abandon, you know, my love of MAGA and I'll vote for a Democrat.
00:57:38.800
Not many people are going to do that because it looks like one side means it and the other side is just doing the fast copying.
00:57:46.580
And you couldn't even be sure that, you know, if you looked away, they would still do one of the common sense stuff
00:57:53.600
But meaning the party's genes, not any individual's genes.
00:58:01.660
And wouldn't it just make the extreme people in their own party, the Democrats,
00:58:09.460
wouldn't it just make them not show up to vote?
00:58:12.800
So if they copy Republicans and try to be the common sense ones,
00:58:19.200
wouldn't the only net effect be to reduce their own base?
00:58:24.740
Because it's not going to make any difference to a Trump voter.
00:58:27.880
No Trump voter is going to say, oh, look, those Democrats look good today.
00:58:36.160
So it makes me wonder if they've thought anything out.
00:58:39.540
Like even on paper, it doesn't look like it can work,
00:58:42.340
even though obviously backing common sense makes sense.
00:58:49.200
Now, the other thing I've noticed is that when Republicans talk,
00:58:56.340
Like you could probably tell who's a Republican if they're talking on TV.
00:59:00.660
It takes you about 10 seconds to say, ah, probably a Republican.
00:59:04.660
Because they have a, let's say, a buttoned up kind of Republican conservative way of talking about things.
00:59:14.460
Because it's the lifestyle that they've adopted.
00:59:16.900
They are influenced by the people that they like and people that are around.
00:59:24.480
But Republicans talk and act and think like Republicans.
00:59:29.000
But Democrats have this weird thing where the most prominent part of their party are just theater kids.
00:59:36.840
And they try to sell their ideas with their faces.
00:59:41.760
If you listen to a Republican trying to sell a policy, they'll say, well, if we do this and that, we'll get this impact.
00:59:53.580
But if you get any one of these cats, Adam Schiff, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, AOC, Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, or Schumer,
01:00:02.420
they do face persuasion where they just crunch up their face to show how terrible something is that Trump is doing.
01:00:24.540
And they do, you know, definition thinking and analogy thinking.
01:00:29.540
literally analogy because they say oh he's acting like hitler now an analogy which is not
01:00:37.440
anything or oh the definition of an insurrection these are not even attempts to be part of the
01:00:46.920
rational conversation because none of that's rational uh so instead they send actors
01:00:53.760
now it doesn't mean that every democrat is an actor because they have you know normal ones
01:00:59.300
but the normal ones are not on tv the ones that get on tv are the are the ones who do the faces
01:01:05.920
oh oh it's so bad i've got so much empathy oh look at the little things in my forehead
01:01:14.120
look at those lines on my forehead that's that's how serious i am about how bad it is
01:01:19.340
it they're so beyond pathetic at this point that it just seems funny and my new favorite is
01:01:28.980
chris murphy because that guy doesn't look genuine even a little bit he literally just looks like a
01:01:35.640
theater kid who's just so happy he can do his you know he could do his act on tv when i found out my
01:01:42.820
friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see
01:01:49.360
from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners oh are those
01:01:55.660
beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those
01:02:01.020
knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything
01:02:07.200
stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less anyway tariffs tariffs tariffs
01:02:15.100
um trump is doubling his tariffs on china over the fentanyl crisis
01:02:20.940
i'm in favor of that i'm in favor of uh pressing china in every way we can i don't think that a
01:02:28.940
tariff will end um their fentanyl practice because i think their benefit is too big it's a huge burden on
01:02:35.820
the united states they don't care about our deaths and so clearly strategically they're going to keep
01:02:42.380
doing it but there is one thing that they do care about which is being shamed on the public stage and
01:02:50.620
by putting gigantic tariffs on them because they're sending fentanyl to us and we know they can stop it
01:02:56.940
that is a way to shame them without just getting in she's face we just say this is going to stop
01:03:04.700
we're going to press every button and we're going to make a lot of noise forever and it's going to be one
01:03:10.140
of the biggest things that anybody thinks about when they think about china so china if you want
01:03:15.900
your reputation to be that you're drug dealers you win because we're going to make sure that your
01:03:21.500
reputation is drug dealers so if you want that to be your brand uh trump will be happy to make that
01:03:29.260
come true for you now that might have some power um not by itself so again you'd have to add 20 variables
01:03:37.020
to get any kind of a deal that really stopped fentanyl but i don't know if fentanyl can be stopped
01:03:42.780
but i do like the level of effort that trump's putting into it meanwhile china is halting imports
01:03:50.780
of u.s logs and it's suspend the imports of our soybeans no what will happen to our logs and our soybeans
01:04:02.380
now of course these are tragedies for the industries involved i don't want to minimize it but the thing
01:04:08.540
you should probably expect is that prices will go up in the short term and the short term could be a
01:04:18.220
year but it might be more than a year but everything he's doing collectively makes sense in the long term
01:04:26.140
and it's a hard sell if you say to people hey i've got an idea we're going to raise your prices for
01:04:33.020
the next year or two uh in the worst possible way but when we're done we're going to be in a solid
01:04:39.180
ground and prices will drift down and we need to do this it's the only way to survive you can't really
01:04:44.540
sell that because that all the public would hear is what about the price of my eggs okay i just said they'd
01:04:51.740
go up what about the price of my gas well it might go up but the only way we can get to a point where
01:04:58.460
it's domestic manufacturing and all the things we need to reduce costs like creating more energy the
01:05:05.980
only way we get there is through this hard road so we got to do it well you can't really sell that
01:05:18.380
before it gets better so that would be the most natural outcome
01:05:23.180
trump said he's considering a free trade agreement with argentina i guess that means no tariffs and
01:05:28.940
no duties and no vat taxes so that would be a big deal i can't imagine that mule of argentina
01:05:36.460
would say no to that because he's a free market guy so is trump so um i like the fact that trump
01:05:43.580
is saying this part of the world no tariffs i like that a lot that's a really good way to run a continent
01:05:56.300
well here's a seriously disturbing uh note so representative nancy mace who's talked about
01:06:03.820
this in public before so i don't know the details but my understanding is she was a victim of a
01:06:11.100
horrific sex related crime with multiple people and maybe the suggestion that there was a videotape
01:06:18.940
so drugged raped and videotaped now that's what people are saying i don't know the details but she
01:06:25.900
said this in the post on x i understand video or videos may have been released via media outlet tonight
01:06:32.940
i hope this warrants the state to search for certain devices and certain tapes at a certain location
01:06:41.660
what is she suggesting that the crime against her might be on video and that somebody may be releasing
01:06:50.940
it today now i assume it'd be you know censored at least a little bit but i gotta say i certainly admire
01:07:00.300
her guts that the fact that she's taking ownership of what had to be the most horrific thing that ever
01:07:08.220
happened to her i'm guessing um the fact that instead of just avoiding it or not talking about it
01:07:13.900
she's going right at it she wants you to know what happened and it looks like she wants you to know who it
01:07:22.060
was and i i feel like she knows who it was but i don't know if she's for any reason decided not to
01:07:28.540
talk about it yet but if this video comes out there will be faces on the screen and they won't all be
01:07:35.820
hers if it's if it is her at all we're speculating that's what it looks like well this is funny uh according
01:07:43.580
to retro coast um when doge tried to remove the credit cards from government employees
01:07:51.660
i guess it was the department of defense who was running up all kinds of entertainment and bar
01:07:56.780
tabs and travel on their their government credit cards like a lot like just totally under control
01:08:03.980
because nothing's audited it seems like so they tried to just remove the credit cards from
01:08:09.260
the government employees but some kind of federal judge blocked it so instead of removing the credit
01:08:14.620
cards they just reset the limit to one dollar so they can keep their credit cards but it's only one
01:08:22.540
dollar limit per month well maybe just one dollar according to rasmussen 61 believe that an audit of the
01:08:33.180
social security system would reveal the social security system would reveal widespread fraud in the program
01:08:38.140
61 that means there are 39 who don't expect widespread fraud in our social security
01:08:46.620
they are very optimistic in many ways that's the best doge and endorsement you could get the 61
01:08:53.980
think in order to the social security is going to find massive fraud that is quite an endorsement
01:08:59.500
of the why don't you look at everything and find that fraud for us so i like that meanwhile
01:09:08.540
nasa scientists according to a brighter side of news and joseph shavit um reporting on a propellant less
01:09:17.580
propulsion for rockets space rockets and propellant less means it's not based on stuff exploding in the
01:09:25.900
rockets ass to drive it forward rather it generates thrust using electric fields rather than expelling
01:09:34.380
mass so the thinking is if they can perfect this it would be just this enormous leap forward in space
01:09:42.780
travel because you wouldn't need to have fuel that you're burning it probably would be easier to generate
01:09:48.300
electricity which in turn would you know manipulate these electric fields so i think they surprised
01:09:54.620
themselves how well it worked all right ladies and gentlemen that is what i have for today
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thank you for joining another tight hour of fun i'm going to say hi to the people on locals
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