Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2768 CWSA 03⧸04⧸25

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00:00:46.160 Well, special thanks to Jack Posobiec for your kind words on X.

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00:00:55.620 How about the news, huh?

00:00:59.560 There's a lot of news today.

00:01:01.140 Let's see if we can pound through it.

00:01:04.260 We'll get to the serious stuff in a minute, but while people are streaming in.

00:01:08.940 According to the AP in Los Angeles, 30 officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility

00:01:17.080 have been charged for holding what they call gladiator fights with the minors.

00:01:24.360 So it's a, it's not even an adult facility.

00:01:28.780 It's a juvenile detention.

00:01:31.880 I'm not supposed to laugh at this.

00:01:33.860 It's a juvenile detention center.

00:01:36.240 But apparently they were organizing the, the officers were, not the inmates.

00:01:41.560 But the guards were organizing gladiator fights where they would just all meet in a certain

00:01:49.380 place at a certain time and fight it out.

00:01:52.620 Now, I know somebody who has had a more interesting life than, than I have and claims that this is

00:02:00.760 completely normal for adult detention facilities, that the guards do in fact, organize fights among the, uh, the inmates for the adults.

00:02:11.440 I didn't know it was happening at juvenile facilities.

00:02:14.180 That just, you know, makes it extra bad.

00:02:16.700 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.

00:02:26.720 Well, this is closer to standard procedure.

00:02:30.740 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.

00:02:42.860 That's a real thing.

00:02:45.220 All right.

00:02:45.900 Well, according to attorney general, Pam Bonte, there's an alleged truckload of Epstein files that were released by, guess what?

00:02:57.120 The, uh, Southern district of New York, I guess that's where they, they were all being stored and, uh, not unrelated.

00:03:05.560 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.

00:03:15.820 That was resisting, you know, the Trump administration, but, uh, also he wasn't really too keen on releasing all the Epstein files.

00:03:24.040 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.

00:03:43.900 Do you believe that?

00:03:45.000 I don't believe any of it.

00:03:48.740 Do you think that they fought so hard to, to not show it that they wouldn't also destroy the good stuff?

00:03:57.760 The truckload doesn't mean there's any good stuff.

00:04:00.960 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.

00:04:12.500 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.

00:04:24.840 And maybe that's all the stuff that we really wanted to see.

00:04:27.900 So I'm going to say just for fun, uh, I don't believe it's real.

00:04:33.160 I do believe there's a truck.

00:04:35.020 I do believe it's got a lot of Epstein files in it.

00:04:38.360 I do not believe this means we're going to find out the good stuff.

00:04:43.640 I think it's just going to be more repeats of things we've seen, but with a lot more detail.

00:04:49.180 So I don't trust this at all, but it does look like, uh, Pam Bondi is dead serious.

00:04:55.060 And it looks like Kash Patel is dead serious about trying.

00:04:59.280 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.

00:05:09.080 We'll see.

00:05:09.900 That's just speculation.

00:05:13.320 Joe Maddow trying to sell the idea that Trump is working with Putin and a Russian puppet, you know, the usual thing.

00:05:22.720 It wouldn't matter what Trump did.

00:05:24.580 Trump woke up today. 0.98

00:05:25.600 Oh, he woke up like a Russian puppet. 0.98

00:05:29.000 Trump took a walk on the golf course.

00:05:31.640 Oh, that's exactly what Putin would want him to do.

00:05:34.800 So she writes up this super academic list of all the ways that Trump is already, already helping Putin.

00:05:45.760 And it's such, it's such an academic and boring and complicated.

00:05:50.500 Well, but you know, this could be connected in some way, you know, this stretching the idea of, of the connection.

00:05:58.000 Let me give you some examples.

00:06:00.160 Uh, so here's one of the ways that Trump is allegedly helping Putin.

00:06:05.240 Um, but he weakened, this is from Rachel Maddow.

00:06:09.360 Uh, he weakened the nuclear security by firing key personnel.

00:06:16.800 Okay.

00:06:18.020 We're reducing personnel and basically everything that doge touches.

00:06:22.460 So basically everything that doge touches, you know, ends up in people being, uh, fired.

00:06:31.280 And every time, no matter what department it is, somebody says, but those are the best people.

00:06:36.980 Those are the best.

00:06:38.460 You got rid of all the best people.

00:06:40.020 What are we going to do now?

00:06:41.240 The nuclear security is probably exactly the same.

00:06:44.680 So, no, that's probably had nothing to do with Putin.

00:06:48.440 Probably just was cost cutting.

00:06:51.100 And then she said that, uh, that, uh, Trump has disbanded key U.S. counterintelligence units.

00:06:58.420 Um, eliminated the FBI's foreign influence task force, which investigated secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as Russia.

00:07:08.280 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.

00:07:17.740 So it was a general rule, but Rachel's like, hmm, that looks like that's for Putin. 1.00

00:07:24.820 So almost anything that Trump does, you can make an argument, but indirectly, indirectly, that looks like that's for Putin. 1.00

00:07:32.680 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. 0.98

00:07:41.840 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. 0.97

00:07:53.300 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?

00:08:11.400 Well, if I were getting ready to negotiate peace, I would show them that we were capable of doing that.

00:08:19.420 I wouldn't wait forever.

00:08:21.220 You know, we're not going to wait forever for Russia to sign a deal.

00:08:25.060 But one of the things that Trump is good at is bringing new variables into a negotiation.

00:08:31.440 So suddenly, cyber attacks are on the table.

00:08:37.200 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.

00:08:53.080 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.

00:09:04.680 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,

00:09:21.300 how can you help us and maybe we can work together and maybe we can make some money.

00:09:27.180 I don't know.

00:09:28.280 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.

00:09:34.700 If all you're looking at is ceasefire, ceasefire, yes or no, ceasefire, well, you're not going to know anything.

00:09:42.580 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

00:09:50.400 without costing anything and there's stuff they can give us without costing anything.

00:09:55.560 And probably there's going to be a whole bunch of variables that allow us to do that.

00:09:59.740 So, yeah, the more variables that Trump puts into the deal, the more successful it'll be, I think.

00:10:08.740 Anyway, and we're not going to stop our defensive stuff, so it's not like we're unprotected.

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00:11:14.500 So Scott Jennings continues to entertain on the panel with Abby Phillip on CNN.

00:11:21.960 And he said to his table mates, he goes,

00:11:27.500 you mentioned the Europeans, it's interesting to me.

00:11:30.580 They spend more money on Russian oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively.

00:11:38.100 And then Scott Jennings said that the proposed mineral deal that got turned down by Zelensky,

00:11:45.640 or never got signed,

00:11:47.480 he says the mineral deal is effectively a security guarantee.

00:11:52.720 And what did Abby Phillip say? 1.00

00:11:54.060 I have to do the Democrat idiot face because it doesn't make sense. 1.00

00:12:01.580 Oh, that's not a security guarantee. 1.00

00:12:04.060 That's not a security guarantee. 1.00

00:12:06.380 You know, you have to do a stupid face. 1.00

00:12:09.020 And then Scott Jennings would say, 1.00

00:12:10.960 well, actually, it's the best kind

00:12:12.580 because it puts our own interests,

00:12:15.500 you know, tied to the welfare of the country.

00:12:18.340 So it's actually a really good security thing.

00:12:21.300 But it's not a security guarantee.

00:12:22.760 It's not a security guarantee.

00:12:24.600 Well, you know, my book, Loser Think,

00:12:28.780 there's a chapter in there which I talk about people who argue by definition.

00:12:34.420 You can't win an argument with a definition.

00:12:38.000 That's like not even playing.

00:12:40.160 And Abby Phillip is one of the definition people.

00:12:42.500 Oh, but that's not called a,

00:12:44.220 no, that would not be called a security guarantee.

00:12:47.020 So let me ask you this.

00:12:51.600 Remember when Kamala Harris and the U.S. and Europe,

00:12:55.900 they were all promising Ukraine that,

00:12:58.600 you know, NATO would be helping them?

00:13:02.340 And they were meaning that they would let Ukraine into NATO

00:13:05.580 if certain conditions were met.

00:13:07.540 And those were kind of like security guarantees, weren't they?

00:13:13.020 And what did that cause to happen?

00:13:16.080 Russia invaded the country.

00:13:19.000 So how about the time when Clinton promised,

00:13:24.240 was it Clinton who promised Putin

00:13:25.980 that we wouldn't be adding NATO countries on the border of Russia?

00:13:30.740 And then we did.

00:13:33.080 So how about those security guarantees?

00:13:37.040 Now, I would agree that if you're a NATO country,

00:13:40.200 you're safer than if you're not.

00:13:42.380 But to imagine that we wouldn't sell out with somebody

00:13:45.380 for our own best interest,

00:13:47.100 or anybody really, any country would.

00:13:49.760 Countries only operate in their best interest.

00:13:53.200 So Scott Jennings is completely correct

00:13:55.560 that having a big financial interest in the country

00:13:59.840 probably keeps them a lot safer than if we didn't.

00:14:04.700 But if the only thing we did is said,

00:14:06.520 hey, I promise you,

00:14:08.520 if they attack, we'll be there tomorrow.

00:14:12.060 Can you trust that?

00:14:13.680 Is that enough of a guarantee?

00:14:16.000 What does it take to be a guarantee?

00:14:18.720 It's not like there's some court that could make us do it.

00:14:22.280 What if we say, well, that's a special case.

00:14:24.540 We can't get involved in that.

00:14:25.700 So I think the definition,

00:14:31.380 this is also a very democratic thing to do,

00:14:34.840 to insist that there's only one definition of a thing

00:14:38.060 and just act like it.

00:14:41.280 We don't think that biological men 0.97

00:14:45.160 should compete with women in sports. 0.96

00:14:48.340 They're called women. 1.00

00:14:49.580 The definition of them are called women. 1.00

00:14:52.640 They're women. 1.00

00:14:53.940 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:54.540 But we're not arguing the definition of words.

00:14:56.940 We're just saying that biological men,

00:14:59.800 they're stronger.

00:15:01.140 And so there's a risk

00:15:02.480 and sort of an unfairness to the women. 1.00

00:15:05.140 But they're women. 1.00

00:15:06.280 They're women. 1.00

00:15:07.120 It's a definition.

00:15:08.220 By definition, say it.

00:15:09.620 Say it.

00:15:10.360 Say it.

00:15:10.800 They're women. 1.00

00:15:11.920 And then they do the same thing with January 6th.

00:15:14.580 They start with,

00:15:16.560 first, let's agree that this is an insurrection.

00:15:20.720 Well, actually, almost nobody who was there,

00:15:23.740 or maybe some tiny percent,

00:15:25.680 would have thought of it that way.

00:15:27.660 Almost everybody who protested on January 6th

00:15:30.700 thought that they might be stopping an insurrection.

00:15:33.980 So really, it would be closer to the opposite of an insurrection.

00:15:37.580 A protest, perhaps.

00:15:39.600 Oh, it's an insurrection.

00:15:40.720 It's an insurrection.

00:15:42.020 They're called women. 1.00

00:15:43.140 They're called women. 1.00

00:15:43.760 They're called women. 1.00

00:15:44.580 Oh, security guarantees.

00:15:47.580 So once you see the pattern

00:15:50.760 that Republicans argue about what works,

00:15:55.760 you know, what are the motivations?

00:15:57.600 What are the incentives?

00:15:58.780 What does the system look like?

00:16:00.200 That's how Republicans argue.

00:16:02.180 And then the Democrats argue definitions,

00:16:04.940 which is not even an argument.

00:16:07.500 It's literally what a child would do.

00:16:10.180 What, what, what?

00:16:10.980 You said, you said you take me to ice cream.

00:16:14.580 I know, but it's raining and the car is broken.

00:16:17.760 But you said, you said.

00:16:20.240 I know, it's just, I can't, because the car is broken, but we'll go tomorrow.

00:16:24.320 But you said, you said.

00:16:26.080 It's just, it's just a child argument over and over again.

00:16:32.760 So Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is joining the group trying to see if they can put together a purchase deal for TikTok.

00:16:41.240 I don't know how many groups there are looking at it now, but they're pretty serious people.

00:16:49.460 So if the most serious people can't make a deal to buy TikTok, who can?

00:16:55.840 There's a post by John Stossel.

00:17:01.560 And if you didn't know this, I knew this, but it kind of fits into the stories today.

00:17:07.160 So this is an old, old story, but he mentions, John Stossel does,

00:17:11.220 that the New York Times covered up Stalin's famine when he was starving people, Stalin was, 0.53

00:17:17.920 while millions starved.

00:17:19.280 Now, why did the New York Times cover up, you know, one of the crimes of the century,

00:17:26.860 starving millions of people?

00:17:28.320 Why would they cover that?

00:17:29.800 Well, it turns out that their star reporter, Walter Durante, but also his colleagues,

00:17:35.940 they liked communism's utopian promises.

00:17:39.700 This is John Stossel writing.

00:17:41.620 And the status he got when his exclusive interviews, he could do exclusive interviews with Stalin.

00:17:46.840 So literally, the New York Times was ignoring the biggest story happening,

00:17:53.360 the most horrible, incredible, bad thing.

00:17:56.260 And it was because the reporter sort of thought maybe communism is a good deal.

00:18:01.580 And, you know, if you get past this, maybe it'll all work out.

00:18:05.420 Now, isn't it great that the media used to be completely fake and that's all fixed now?

00:18:13.140 You know, I always think that if you don't know anything about history, everything looks different.

00:18:21.940 If you knew that for sure, no doubt about it, that our major media platforms historically had all been fake,

00:18:33.160 they were either controlled by the CIA or, or in this case, probably wasn't the CIA,

00:18:40.600 but just somebody wanted to lie because it was good for him or it worked into his philosophy.

00:18:47.780 Can you even imagine what changed enough that this wouldn't still be the case?

00:18:53.500 Was there magic, was there some magic after this happened?

00:18:59.560 And then the magic would catch it every time it tried to happen again?

00:19:03.860 No.

00:19:04.720 The Russia collusion hoax was just a made-up whole thing.

00:19:08.860 What about the fine people hoax?

00:19:11.400 Which, by the way, and was it?

00:19:13.580 Yeah, I think NPR actually pushed the fine people hoax again, I think, yesterday.

00:19:19.200 Now, the media has never been real.

00:19:26.020 And if you don't know that it's never been real historically,

00:19:29.060 it's really hard to understand that, like, it's suddenly turned bad.

00:19:33.960 But most people think, well, it was pretty good in the old days.

00:19:38.280 You know, maybe it got a little worse, but it's basically okay.

00:19:41.240 No.

00:19:41.800 It has always been completely fake, and there are reasons for it.

00:19:45.580 There are structural reasons that guarantee it will be fake, because people have interests,

00:19:49.680 and those interests have money.

00:19:51.760 And sometimes they're the writers.

00:19:54.460 But nobody's really interested in the truth.

00:19:57.520 They're interested in what works out for them.

00:20:00.260 Well, meanwhile, the TSMC, the big, gigantic chip company that operates mostly in Taiwan,

00:20:10.820 says they're going to put $100 billion into the U.S. to build and support semiconductor manufacturing here.

00:20:19.260 Now, that sounds familiar, right?

00:20:22.860 Because we've had a few rounds of this company is going to do that, this company.

00:20:26.320 So I saw Daniel Baldwin, who works for OANN, and he put together a list.

00:20:33.380 So it's $100 billion from TSMC, the chip company.

00:20:38.020 Apple promised $500 billion for domestic manufacturing.

00:20:43.280 Something called ZepBound, $27 billion.

00:20:46.200 $100 billion from SoftBank, $20 billion from D-A-M-A-C, I don't know what that is.

00:20:54.320 $500 billion from Stargate, $600 billion from Saudi Arabia.

00:21:01.160 Now, those numbers start adding up, don't they?

00:21:06.500 The other thing that's important that Trump understands better than anybody's ever understood it

00:21:13.800 is that sometimes you have to BS a little bit about how things are going.

00:21:21.820 And then everybody's like, really?

00:21:23.200 Everything's going in that direction?

00:21:25.260 There's a big list of people putting a lot of money in there?

00:21:28.080 I better get on board.

00:21:29.560 It's how I get attention.

00:21:30.820 It's how I make the government like me.

00:21:33.200 It's how I get the public to like me.

00:21:34.740 It looks like it's trend.

00:21:37.140 So these type of deals are being really well promoted.

00:21:43.520 And the promotion is probably as important as the dollar amounts,

00:21:47.700 at least in the early stages, because you need a lot more.

00:21:51.700 But you want everybody to think everybody's doing it.

00:21:54.760 Like you need people to just think, oh, this is the thing now.

00:21:57.620 This is what we do.

00:21:59.340 And we're there.

00:22:00.520 I think he's actually achieved that.

00:22:02.560 Eric Doherty on X says that HP is looking to move a lot of their operations from China to the U.S.

00:22:13.900 in response to Trump's tariffs.

00:22:16.300 So there's another story.

00:22:20.760 The tariffs are working, at least in that limited sense.

00:22:25.100 And meanwhile, Trump's telling farmers to get ready to produce more food to sell inside the U.S.

00:22:30.640 because he's putting tariffs on external food coming in starting April 2nd.

00:22:37.880 Now, the tariffs for Canada and Mexico kicked in today.

00:22:43.220 25% on most things, but energy is a little cheaper, 10%.

00:22:47.980 And I think Canada has already matched it with 25%.

00:22:51.980 I haven't heard from Mexico yet, but one assumes they'll match it. 1.00

00:22:55.560 So the trade war is on.

00:23:00.360 But at the same time, we'll talk more about that.

00:23:05.020 OPEC announced that it's going to increase oil production, according to the Hill.

00:23:10.480 Now, if you increase oil production, that should drive the price of oil down because it increases supply.

00:23:17.100 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.

00:23:30.520 It's like, whoa, oil is so high.

00:23:31.940 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.

00:23:41.020 So they might, you know, just cap it.

00:23:44.180 So it certainly should help with the price of your eggs and it certainly should help with inflation eventually.

00:23:51.820 And I don't think there's anything bigger.

00:23:55.240 So OPEC producing more is just about the best thing that could ever happen for Trump.

00:24:02.700 You know, it's the one thing that everybody agrees lowers inflation, or at least today.

00:24:08.500 So that's good news.

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00:24:42.620 Meanwhile, X, the X platform is doing more great work for free speech.

00:24:49.340 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.

00:25:06.820 But it's all kind of squishy stuff, like, do you have a definition of hate speech?

00:25:13.460 What is your definition of racism?

00:25:16.760 And all these things have that uh-oh thing to them.

00:25:22.060 It's like, okay, we don't want hate speech.

00:25:24.420 We don't want any racism.

00:25:25.660 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.

00:25:35.220 Because you could sort of, you know, racial maddow it to make anything sound like one of those two things.

00:25:41.020 So it would be just a gross attack on free speech.

00:25:45.120 But it looks like X hired some lawyers, and it looks like it's going to be blocked at the moment.

00:25:54.560 The court struck down the key censorship provision, according to Reclaim the Net, D.D. Rankovich.

00:26:00.740 So this is really huge.

00:26:05.720 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.

00:26:17.080 Musk will lawyer up whatever it costs, and he will go after every attack on free speech that affects X.

00:26:24.780 And this is huge that, you know, you can't get a win like that.

00:26:33.240 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.

00:26:50.120 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?

00:26:59.320 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.

00:27:12.140 So the FCC chairman was over at the Mobile World Congress.

00:27:23.700 This is a Brendan Carr.

00:27:26.400 Brendan Carr is one of the good guys.

00:27:28.620 He is very active and chasing down the bad behavior and addressing it.

00:27:33.780 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.

00:27:45.720 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.

00:28:02.660 So I love the fact that Trump and his head of the FCC basically are saying, this is war.

00:28:12.020 You can try to censor us, but we're not giving up the First Amendment.

00:28:16.500 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.

00:28:25.800 You can censor yourself, put yourself out of business as a real country, but you're not going to do it to us.

00:28:31.400 And I think that Trump, again, one of the magic parts of Trump is that he doesn't bluff.

00:28:40.720 So when Trump says, we're coming for you, if you don't change this, they know he's coming.

00:28:46.860 And Brendan Carr is like, you know, chief gladiator.

00:28:50.820 So if he's coming for you, he's fully supported by Trump.

00:28:55.240 So we'll see where this goes.

00:28:58.880 But I love the fact that Trump is completely at war and isn't going to take this.

00:29:04.420 It's just completely unacceptable.

00:29:06.540 We're going to do whatever it takes.

00:29:09.180 Meanwhile, update on the DEI dominoes.

00:29:12.900 So DEI has been falling everywhere.

00:29:15.100 Even BlackRock decided to get out of it.

00:29:16.940 The big banks are getting out of it.

00:29:19.060 Now, today, Arizona universities are quietly deleting their DEI language, according to Cronkite News.

00:29:25.880 Now, I don't know if that means they're just hiding it, but it means that they understand there's a risk.

00:29:31.420 And so they're operating based on risk, which is what we want.

00:29:34.780 Also, the University of Southern California is going to scrub their DEI stuff out of their documents and stuff.

00:29:45.440 And again, I don't know if that's just hiding it.

00:29:47.780 It might be hiding it.

00:29:49.140 But still, step in the right direction.

00:29:51.380 If they have to hide it, that feels like a little bit of a win.

00:29:55.040 It's a half win.

00:29:55.760 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.

00:30:11.040 But a judge just upheld Trump and Doge's ability to fire them for just being part of the DEI.

00:30:19.000 They didn't need a better reason.

00:30:20.800 So that was the reason.

00:30:23.600 And so that's going to stick.

00:30:25.760 One of my big questions is, how will history treat DEI?

00:30:33.160 Because, you know, if you went back in history and, let's say, it was right in the middle of slavery,

00:30:39.760 what do you think the news said about slavery in the South, the news in the South?

00:30:45.680 It was probably like, yeah, things are working real good.

00:30:49.940 Of course, we got a lot of slaves. 0.97

00:30:51.980 So production is up.

00:30:53.880 We had a good ball.

00:30:55.760 Don't you think that while it was happening, it was treated like a positive?

00:31:01.240 Because otherwise, it wouldn't have been there.

00:31:03.460 But then, you know, a few hundred years later, we quite rightly call it, like, one of the worst things we've ever done.

00:31:10.620 And we've done some bad things.

00:31:12.860 But we all understand, okay, that's just, that's right near the top of the worst things we've ever done.

00:31:18.280 And what do you think DEI will do in the future?

00:31:22.880 I have a dream.

00:31:24.840 I have a dream.

00:31:25.920 That it will be treated by historians as just evil.

00:31:30.700 Now, it's not going to be full, you know, slavery evil or Jim Crow evil.

00:31:36.780 But it's right up there with Jim Crow.

00:31:40.240 So it's like 40 years, roughly 40 years, I think, of absolute over-discrimination against one category of people.

00:31:50.840 And lives were ruined.

00:31:53.240 Careers were ruined.

00:31:54.780 The economy was suffering, I think.

00:31:57.240 It's just one of the darkest, worst, messed up parts of American history.

00:32:03.580 And I just wonder if history will ever record it that way.

00:32:07.520 Or if they'll say, well, all the good people tried for decades to make things better.

00:32:14.540 But the evil Republicans shut it down after 40 years of being terribly successful.

00:32:20.400 Now, it wasn't called DEI for 40 years, but it was, you know, affirmative action.

00:32:24.280 Same thing.

00:32:25.740 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.

00:32:32.900 We've done worse, but it's one of the bad ones.

00:32:36.640 All right.

00:32:37.260 This is funny and also predictable.

00:32:41.780 Do you remember when UK and France were meeting to figure out what they could do about Ukraine?

00:32:48.880 And then they came out to that meeting and it sounded like, oh, well,

00:32:52.960 it looks like there's a little bit of unity there.

00:32:55.300 So the UK and France were talking about maybe putting boots on the ground.

00:33:00.220 And I thought, well, it starts with, you know, two of the more important countries.

00:33:04.380 And then they'll slowly, you know, collect in their allies.

00:33:08.260 And, you know, maybe they've got this.

00:33:11.200 Maybe they figured it out.

00:33:12.200 But instead, apparently what we just learned is that Germany walked out of the meeting, according to Javier Villamor, European conservative.

00:33:21.620 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?

00:33:31.340 Well, our idea is we're going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine.

00:33:34.760 Wait, whose boots?

00:33:37.540 You know, European. 0.76

00:33:38.500 So we're going to put some UK boots.

00:33:39.980 We're going to put a little France boots. 0.85

00:33:41.260 We hope we can get some German boots over there filled with people, of course, not just the boots.

00:33:45.640 And then Germany was like, we're done.

00:33:50.640 That's crazy.

00:33:52.080 And they just walked out.

00:33:54.340 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?

00:34:03.920 How about hard, hard no?

00:34:09.040 So, and then we're not even sure if France and the UK agree on what a ceasefire would look like.

00:34:19.240 So the European Union, or let's just call it the European countries, decide that they're going to go it alone. 0.99

00:34:26.480 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? 0.99

00:34:36.220 We're out. 0.98

00:34:37.820 So it looks like they got nothing.

00:34:39.420 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.

00:34:51.340 $800 billion.

00:34:53.140 And I say to myself, okay, what would have been the most predictable outcome?

00:34:59.640 Not the most entertaining, the most predictable outcome.

00:35:03.520 Let's see if you can figure this out.

00:35:05.020 There's a possibility of conflict.

00:35:09.700 People are trying to prevent conflict.

00:35:12.160 But there's a real possibility of the conflict.

00:35:16.460 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,

00:35:27.900 and we'll get us screwed.

00:35:32.440 It was completely predictable, the military-industrial complex. 0.93

00:35:36.520 They just keep winning.

00:35:39.000 I've actually thought, huh, how could I get in on this military-industrial complex?

00:35:44.740 Because, you know, I like to be on the winning team.

00:35:47.000 And I swear to God, they win every round.

00:35:50.260 What's your problem?

00:35:51.560 Russia.

00:35:52.420 You're going to need to buy some weapons.

00:35:54.220 What's your problem?

00:35:55.420 China.

00:35:55.740 Well, I got an idea.

00:35:58.000 You'd better spend a trillion dollars on weapons.

00:36:00.320 It's like no matter what we do, the answer is always give money to the military-industrial complex.

00:36:06.820 So that's why we like Trump, because I don't think he automatically falls for that.

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00:36:28.820 It's also weird that Europe has nukes, and those are not a deterrent to being invaded.

00:36:36.400 Like, what are they actually buying weapons to do?

00:36:41.160 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? 0.69

00:36:48.060 Has Russia ever shown interest in conquering any country that wasn't really either Russian-speaking or had some obvious strategic value?

00:37:06.380 They're not good guys, so I'm not saying Russia's the good guys. 1.00

00:37:11.560 Don't get me wrong.

00:37:12.300 But do you think Russia has ever wanted to conquer France?

00:37:19.440 Have they ever wanted to conquer the UK?

00:37:22.240 Or at least, let's say, in the last hundred years?

00:37:24.280 I don't think so.

00:37:26.100 So it seems like if you just said, here's the deal.

00:37:30.240 We're going to get rid of all of our weapons.

00:37:32.820 But if you put one Russian boot on our territory, we're going to nuke Poland. 0.98

00:37:37.280 Not Poland. 0.99

00:37:38.460 We're going to nuke Moscow. 0.97

00:37:40.780 Sorry.

00:37:41.440 Don't aim the nukes at an ally.

00:37:43.800 Why doesn't that work?

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.

00:38:02.180 So we use it. 0.99

00:38:03.060 We'll just take out Moscow with a nuclear weapon. 0.89

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. 0.86

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? 1.00

00:38:24.080 We're going to put a nuke right up your ass. 1.00

00:38:26.780 I don't think so. 0.99

00:38:28.720 Now, like I said, there's no such thing as a real security guarantee.

00:38:32.980 There's no guarantees.

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.

00:38:57.440 I don't think so.

00:38:58.700 Because I don't think he would announce that in the speech.

00:39:01.180 But, hey, he's full of surprises.

00:39:03.340 Anything could happen.

00:39:04.040 He might tease it.

00:39:05.620 I can imagine him teasing it just to see what reaction he got.

00:39:09.000 But I don't think he's going to announce it.

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.

00:39:31.380 Now, how do the eggs fit into this? 0.73

00:39:35.600 And why are eggs suddenly such a big part of every story?

00:39:39.880 Can we do any story that doesn't involve eggs?

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?

00:40:14.600 I don't know if his speech is official business or not.

00:40:18.360 But we'll see.

00:40:21.520 I'm kind of doubtful that eggs will be thrown.

00:40:26.460 Maybe they'll just bring them to show off.

00:40:28.320 It's like, look, I got an egg.

00:40:30.740 Anybody else have an egg?

00:40:32.060 Can't afford it, can you?

00:40:33.280 Well, I got an egg because I did insider trading.

00:40:36.140 I did enough insider trading to have an egg.

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

00:40:49.500 before Trump does his speech to Congress.

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,

00:41:05.400 like regular people, who are just mad.

00:41:07.200 Otherwise, you couldn't pull together that many people.

00:41:09.800 But then you learn that these are all fake.

00:41:12.960 All these protests are just probably Soros-funded

00:41:17.120 or, you know, Hoffman or something.

00:41:20.760 And that some people might be sincere.

00:41:25.800 But this doesn't happen unless it's just a big fake thing

00:41:30.980 driven by people at the top with money.

00:41:33.620 So to me, it's just funny because once you realize

00:41:36.440 it's just theater and it's fake,

00:41:38.360 it doesn't even look the same anymore.

00:41:40.460 Like, I can't even get mad at it because, like,

00:41:42.640 oh, that's kind of funny.

00:41:43.500 How's your fake protest going?

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.

00:41:55.000 Now, he does have what I would consider a...

00:42:00.020 I don't want to say it...

00:42:03.500 You know, it's hard to describe him.

00:42:06.520 Other people would say he's pro-Russian.

00:42:08.580 Other people would.

00:42:11.260 So I'm not going to say that.

00:42:12.700 But it lets you know how he is received.

00:42:16.160 So one of the things that...

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.

00:42:23.300 It doesn't make any sense.

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.

00:42:30.480 But he says the war is over 0.96

00:42:31.960 because Trump doesn't want to back a loser.

00:42:35.060 And that's all you have to know. 1.00

00:42:36.280 That Zelensky is a loser. 1.00

00:42:38.360 And backing him wouldn't make sense. 0.99

00:42:41.860 And it certainly wouldn't make sense for somebody like Trump 0.98

00:42:44.240 who doesn't want to back a loser. 0.96

00:42:47.060 And I thought to myself, 0.98

00:42:48.400 that is really cleverly summarized.

00:42:52.780 You know, if you could imagine that

00:42:54.160 Trump thought Zelensky was actually,

00:42:56.580 you know, Winston Churchill and an amazing figure,

00:43:01.320 maybe you would treat him that way. 0.99

00:43:02.980 But it's pretty clear that Trump thinks that Zelensky is a loser. 0.92

00:43:07.680 And he doesn't want to hitch his wagon to somebody who's unpredictable 0.92

00:43:11.360 and not going along with the game.

00:43:14.180 And Zelensky predicted that the war would last a long time.

00:43:20.640 Now, isn't that kind of up to Zelensky?

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 0.99

00:43:35.740 who wants to back a loser, an obvious loser. 0.99

00:43:39.780 It's kind of all you need to know. 0.98

00:43:41.960 So, meanwhile, Russia has allegedly agreed,

00:43:47.900 I think I mentioned this,

00:43:49.020 to help with negotiating with Iran over their nuclear program,

00:43:54.000 Iran's nuclear program.

00:43:55.020 And also maybe talk to them about Iran's support of proxies in the region.

00:44:01.840 Bloomberg AI was reporting this.

00:44:04.820 Now, what I like about this, like I said,

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?

00:44:16.060 And what day do you want to do the ceasefire?

00:44:18.200 Total losing approach.

00:44:19.840 Not enough variables.

00:44:20.760 But if Trump goes in and says,

00:44:24.220 according to unusual whales,

00:44:30.280 Ukraine's President Zelensky just said,

00:44:34.560 quote,

00:44:35.440 I'm ready to work under Trump's strong leadership to bring peace.

00:44:39.580 Interesting.

00:44:40.040 Because that's exactly what Trump demanded.

00:44:43.040 He said, we can work with you,

00:44:45.720 but we need a strong statement that says you want peace.

00:44:49.720 Because the last thing you said was,

00:44:51.580 I think the war is going to last a long time.

00:44:54.080 We need security guarantees.

00:44:56.100 We need weapons.

00:44:56.920 That's the opposite of working toward peace.

00:44:59.640 So, it looks like Zelensky's reading the room a little bit better.

00:45:07.140 Obviously, he's getting a lot of advice.

00:45:11.060 But you see the bigger picture, right?

00:45:14.980 It's a really big world.

00:45:17.580 Russia has a lot of energy.

00:45:18.820 They get a big military.

00:45:20.200 They've got connections with countries we want to influence.

00:45:23.640 You know, Syria and Iran.

00:45:28.660 And we have things that they want.

00:45:31.520 Such as maybe not doing cyber attacks.

00:45:35.800 Maybe we're better at it than they are.

00:45:38.360 So, I think the conversation is going to go to,

00:45:42.480 I'm just going to guess.

00:45:44.020 I'll bet you we had 20 variables.

00:45:48.020 Which would be genius.

00:45:50.200 Because if you've got 20 variables,

00:45:52.440 everybody's got something to get out of it.

00:45:54.340 It's like, okay, well, you're going to help us with Iran. 0.57

00:45:56.780 But also, this will settle Ukraine. 0.89

00:45:59.980 But, well, maybe we can do a mineral deal with Russia separately

00:46:03.900 from anything that we do with Ukraine.

00:46:06.760 And so, suddenly, you've got 20 different things

00:46:09.760 that just make sense.

00:46:11.960 Just common sense.

00:46:13.780 You know, you help us.

00:46:14.740 We can help you.

00:46:16.740 There's no reason that we should be enemies.

00:46:18.480 Now, those of you who have been with me a long time,

00:46:23.360 how long have I been saying

00:46:25.020 that the arc of history

00:46:28.180 is bending toward Russia and the United States being allies?

00:46:32.900 We're natural allies.

00:46:34.660 Now, what I mean by that is that we have more interests in common

00:46:40.820 if we think about it right.

00:46:43.580 If we stop pecking at each other and trying to get an advantage

00:46:46.800 and put the other one out of business,

00:46:48.360 which is what we've both been doing for decades.

00:46:50.600 If we just stop doing it and said,

00:46:53.740 how about instead of trying to destroy each other

00:46:56.400 and putting all of our efforts into it,

00:46:59.180 what if we tried to make money?

00:47:01.260 What if we tried to make the world safer?

00:47:05.060 What if we said,

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.

00:47:19.980 Now, part of it is we don't share a border.

00:47:22.220 As soon as you share a border,

00:47:23.600 everything becomes complicated.

00:47:26.020 But we don't.

00:47:26.840 We've got that wonderful ocean between us and more.

00:47:30.840 We've got Europe and an ocean.

00:47:32.860 So I really think my optimism of getting sort of a giant 20 variable Russia deal,

00:47:41.760 very high, very high.

00:47:44.320 And the reason is both sides want it.

00:47:46.700 And it's doable.

00:47:48.260 Both sides have really good negotiators.

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. 0.96

00:48:12.520 I'm 100% positive on this at the moment.

00:48:15.740 100% positive.

00:48:17.060 It won't be right away because 20 variables.

00:48:20.120 I mean, think about how long it would take to figure out 20 variables.

00:48:25.180 But we can do it.

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00:49:00.400 Certain conditions apply.

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

00:49:41.760 that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years.

00:49:45.860 Wow.

00:49:48.480 That's how he talks about our allies.

00:49:51.400 Well, okay.

00:49:52.940 I like it.

00:49:58.080 And I agree.

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.

00:50:13.800 Yeah.

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.

00:50:26.920 We gave them a security guarantee.

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.

00:50:44.620 Doesn't that sound the same?

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.

00:51:31.620 They're not, these are not ordinary things.

00:51:33.380 It's not, it's not mining for fun.

00:51:35.940 It's critical survival depends on it.

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,

00:52:14.460 there's not really any path for the dictator.

00:52:17.320 They kind of have to fight to the death, including killing all of their own country people 1.00

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. 0.97

00:52:44.440 You'll have a mansion.

00:52:45.480 You can keep the billion dollars you stole.

00:52:48.040 You can live in luxury.

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. 0.70

00:52:58.080 Be kind of cool.

00:52:58.700 It's not my best idea, but I agree with Musk.

00:53:04.140 There needs to be some way that the alleged dictator can make a clean escape

00:53:10.960 in a way that would just be good for them.

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,

00:53:52.580 even though they're technically Ukrainians.

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.

00:54:08.100 Russia, would you agree to do a vote?

00:54:11.480 Well, nobody's going to trust the vote.

00:54:13.660 We would just assume that would be rigged.

00:54:15.860 So you can't really have a vote.

00:54:18.080 But could you do a survey?

00:54:21.940 I'm guessing that most of the people over there still have cell phones, right?

00:54:27.260 Could you do a scientific enough?

00:54:30.880 And I would get at least three separate pollsters to do it and then compare them

00:54:35.860 so that they would do their work blind.

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 0.71

00:54:48.680 or owned by Ukraine?

00:54:50.920 And then you just figure out what they want.

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?

00:55:13.100 Are you a dictatorship?

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.

00:55:23.460 So I don't even know what's left.

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.

00:55:33.920 So it may be impossible.

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.

00:55:47.660 Yeah.

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

00:56:24.220 by being opposed to common sense.

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?

00:56:37.740 You know, just Republicans already do it.

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?

00:57:06.780 So follow me on this.

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?

00:57:29.160 Now they're both doing common sense.

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

00:57:51.660 because it's not really in their genes.

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.

00:58:31.940 I'll go over there for a day.

00:58:33.420 I don't think so.

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.

00:58:47.800 But how can that work?

00:58:49.200 Now, the other thing I've noticed is that when Republicans talk,

00:58:53.860 have you noticed the Republicans have a vibe?

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.

00:59:11.740 And I would say that that's authentic.

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.

00:59:20.600 So, you know, nobody is completely natural.

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.

00:59:40.980 Have you noticed that?

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.

00:59:50.420 So that's why we want to do it.

00:59:51.620 It's just policy.

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.

01:00:11.540 And it's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's so bad.

01:00:17.820 Oh, it's so bad.

01:00:20.120 He's Hitler. 0.95

01:00:21.280 He's Hitler. 0.95

01:00:22.540 And none of it makes sense.

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 0.92

01:01:28.980 chris murphy because that guy doesn't look genuine even a little bit he literally just looks like a 0.84

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 0.99

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

01:05:11.900 so um i expect it to get a little worse

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 1.00

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 0.52

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 0.73

01:09:34.380 mass so the thinking is if they can perfect this it would be just this enormous leap forward in space 0.61

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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