Dilbert's executive team loses a lot of money, and they don't have any good ideas about how to fix it, so they make TikTok videos instead. And Michelle Obama is starting a podcast with her brother, Craig Robinson.
00:04:26.500Well, in other news, One American News is reporting that Michelle Obama, here's the least surprising thing you'll ever hear, is going to do a podcast.
00:04:59.360And you'll see in the, you'll see what in her podcast.
00:05:03.580But if you were, if you were looking at speculation, and it's only speculation, people, that the Obama's marriage was not doing well, what would you look for?
00:05:17.040Well, if the marriage was doing well, I would look for the Obamas to be doing some joint projects, you know, maybe some Netflix stuff, some other stuff.
00:05:27.860But if their marriage was not doing well, I would look for Michelle Obama to do a podcast with her brother.
00:06:42.440Now, the speculation from the actual addicts, who I would consider the experts in this domain, if you're not talking to the actual people who are doing the fentanyl, you probably don't know what's going on.
00:06:54.640You know, the experts are just observing.
00:07:03.020So that's the drug you administer if somebody is having an overdose.
00:07:06.360And it can just bring them back to life.
00:07:08.460One of the addicts, one of the addicts, I shouldn't laugh, but it is kind of funny, said, oh, yeah, I've been Narcan back to life several times.
00:07:22.220But the Narcan has saved his life at least twice, I think.
00:07:25.180But the other thing, and I'd heard this before through just my own contacts, that the addicts were simply learning how to do fentanyl more safely.
00:07:40.700So in other words, it used to be that they thought, well, if I injected this into my arm, if it were heroin, I'd do this much.
00:07:50.800And then they would do the same amount of fentanyl and they'd be dead.
00:07:53.920And so it seems like the addicts have just gotten smarter or the ones that survived so far are smarter, meaning that they smoke it instead of inject it.
00:08:05.600And pill form is probably just as dangerous as injecting it.
00:08:09.880But if they smoke it, and I'm not recommending it, by the way, it's a little bit more of a controlled dose.
00:08:16.980And they've also just learned to do less of it.
00:08:19.700And then there's some indication that it's weaker, that there are weaker forms of fentanyl out there.
00:08:26.480So it might be some combination of all those things.
00:08:32.800Now, it does complicate things for Trump with his tariffs, because he's putting tariffs on Canada and tariffs on Mexico and China, trying to reduce the deaths.
00:08:47.020But what if they're going down by themselves, for completely unrelated reasons?
00:08:54.020Is Trump going to be able to sort that out?
00:08:56.440Or will he just take credit and say, well, thanks to my tariffs, overdoses are down 30%?
00:10:15.760So that means that 5% of the potential vehicles that might have fentanyl in them are ever checked.
00:10:22.160So does that mean that we just do a more serious job on the Mexican border of checking, so you discover more?
00:10:34.480And on the Canadian border, maybe there's less rigor in the checking?
00:10:41.480You know, it still might be 5%, but maybe they're, you know, they're not profiling the same or something like that.
00:10:48.040So I would not assume that just because the amount of fentanyl caught on the Canadian border is very, very low, it's indeed very low, that doesn't mean that it's not getting through in larger amounts.
00:11:02.660I do assume that more is, a lot more is coming through Mexico, but just never by that, there's not much coming because we didn't catch much of it.
00:11:16.260The amount you caught is just not really directly related.
00:11:20.760You know, you could argue, well, statistically, if, you know, both of them are checking 5%, should be, you know, it shouldn't be representative.
00:11:32.140Because you don't know if the checking at the Mexican border, where everybody assumes there's more of it, is more rigorous than at any other place.
00:11:40.500So, but it could be, I do assume that Canada has far lower than Mexico, but it might not be as low as people are saying.
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00:34:49.460They're basically theater kids pretending to care about stuff.
00:34:55.500The anti-Tesla stuff is clearly just actors, paid actors.
00:35:00.860And if you don't understand that, then everything's confusing.
00:35:04.080Likewise, the leadership in the Democrat world, they seem to me just like actors.
00:35:14.160When you watch the fact that they talk about how the messaging is the only thing they got wrong, not the policies, when clearly the policies were unpopular.
00:35:25.700I mean, just clearly, every poll showed that their policies were unpopular.
00:35:31.880And still, they maintain, because they're actors, they're theater kids, they still maintain it's just the way they did it.
00:35:39.720So the response was to create cringe videos, acting, to do a bunch of similar-looking little douchebag videos where they hold tiny microphones for no reason, acting.
00:36:42.440In other news, Representative Eli Crane, and this was a little bit bipartisan, passed a bill, at least in the House, Senate still has to pass it.
00:36:55.340That's aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartel tunnels.
00:36:58.880Now, what is not mentioned in the reporting is, what are they going to do about the tunnels?
00:37:11.660If we discovered a tunnel, didn't we close it up?
00:37:15.820So, I don't know if this means they're getting some kind of new technology, maybe, to monitor tunnels.
00:37:23.340I always wondered if you could put listening devices in the ground, you know, every half mile or so, and that you would just identify somebody digging a tunnel.
00:37:33.560Because it'd have to be kind of loud down there.
00:37:36.620So, maybe it's some kind of high-tech thing for identifying tunnels.
00:40:11.020Now, I suppose there could be a variety of reasons why something like that would happen.
00:40:16.200But in the context of a color revolution, which we're in, seeing a brutal murder of somebody who is clearly on the other side of the color revolution.
00:40:27.780And, yeah, we're not going to talk about murder made.
00:40:42.420It makes you wonder if there will be any other violence against Republican-leaning reporters.
00:40:50.340So, I hope Alex Jones and the rest of them have some good security, or at least they're armed to the teeth and they're watching their backs.
00:45:25.060Tucker said, someone was being discussed for a job in the Intel world.
00:45:29.060And a member of the Senate Intel Committee said, you cannot hire this person, because this person will push for the release of the JFK files.
00:45:39.340And Chris Cuomo said, so why don't you?
00:45:44.760Why would Tom Cotton care so much about not releasing the JFK files that he would try to get somebody who might want to release them not considered for the job?
00:46:13.660So, whatever it is that Tom Cotton knows, who would be on the Senate Intel Committee, meaning that they know more than you and I know, what does he know?
00:46:23.200And as Tucker was speculating, there's probably not a single person involved with, let's say, the CIA, who would still be alive.
00:46:33.900So, what possible reason would an American senator have for not wanting that to be released?
00:46:42.220And apparently Mike Pompeo was pretty dead set on not releasing it, too.
00:46:49.660What could be in those files that are that dangerous?
00:48:38.760Again, people are saying, you know, if it's just something about our government, don't you think we can handle it?
00:48:49.060But there's been much speculation that Epstein worked for Israel.
00:48:53.340Now, again, I don't have any specific information to prove that or not prove it.
00:48:57.540But my theory is that if he was a blackmail operation, which it looks like, that he may have had more than one, let's say, interested country.
00:49:09.500I mean, he might have been freelancing for more than one country.
00:50:19.320I don't think there's any chance for you to see anything that makes a difference.
00:50:24.060What about that January 6th pipe bomb documents?
00:50:27.360Well, according to Fox News, now you know the story that there was a suspicious pipe bomb that looked like it was part of an op to make the protesters look like they were more dangerous than they were.
00:50:41.600But it looks like the pipe bomb was planted by a member of law enforcement, if you look at the videos and you look at the context.
00:50:47.860So, we'd like to know more about who put that fake pipe bomb there.
00:50:53.560And Fox News Digital has learned that the records shared by the FBI on that topic included more than 400 pages on it.
00:52:37.200And does that sound like Ukraine wants to make some peace?
00:52:43.920Now, you could argue that both Russia and Ukraine are just sort of preparing for peace talks by making sure that the alternative looks worse.
00:57:59.000And then secondly, my understanding of how the continuing resolution, which would be the same budget we always have, is related to Doge, is that you can pass the budget to be the same as it was.
00:58:16.080But then you can still claw back the money, you know, a bit at a time based on Doge.
00:58:22.540And also, there are some entire projects and groups that are completely canceled.
00:58:27.200So, when Rubio says, I cut 5,200 USAID projects, that probably means that even if there were funding, they wouldn't be able to spend it.
00:58:41.840Because there's nobody left to spend it.
00:58:44.560There's just nobody to write the check.
00:58:46.260So, it could be that this isn't as bad as it looks, meaning that if Doge is doing what it's supposed to do, and we're not raising the budget, because each of the budget groups, of course, they always want a little bit more.
00:59:01.060It might be that it's just giving time for Doge to do its thing.
00:59:09.140But I'm kind of with Massey in that I don't trust it.
00:59:14.840I feel like, and Massey pointed out that the Supreme Court seems to have ruled against the ability to cut as much in the way that Doge wants to cut it.
00:59:24.660So, what we might see, and I hate to think this, is that some of those things you thought were cut sort of magically reconstitute, based on lawfare, well, just the law, and based on the fact that there's money that just would be allocated.
00:59:44.940Not real money, it would be based on debt, but you know what I mean.
00:59:49.960Now, Trump, not being happy that Thomas Massey would vote against the continuing resolution, which Trump is in favor of, says he wants to primary Thomas Massey.
01:00:03.600Boy, you should see the comments on social media to that.
01:00:06.380Thomas Massey has a pretty good following of people who understand that, even though he's the lone voice, usually, that you need it.
01:00:26.080People like him because he is unflinching about debt and insists that he was hired to do a job, and his job is not to run up the budget unnecessarily.
01:00:38.380And if he's the only one willing to do the job that he was hired for, well, he's just going to stick to his guns, no matter what the consequences are.
01:00:46.720Now, there was a time when I hated that.
01:00:48.500My first exposure to Thomas Massey, I think, was this very thing during the first Trump administration, where I heard there was, like, this one jerk who was keeping Trump from getting what he needed.
01:01:02.800And I thought, man, you know, why can't that one guy, you know, what's wrong with him?
01:01:07.400But then I got to understand that he's just operating on principle.
01:01:47.660So even if you agree that the continuing resolution should be approved and you think that doge would be enough to claw back, you know, from the continuing resolution level so it looks like there's progress, even if you think that, which would be a reasonable thing to think.
01:02:03.000I don't know if it's guaranteed, but it would be reasonable to think you could get away with it.
01:02:11.060I just don't think picking a fight with the most principled person in the Congress is just a good play.
01:02:19.520So I think this is just Trump not reading the room right.
01:02:58.600And I feel like you can't really be credible doing what I'm doing, talking about politics, unless you're willing to say, OK, I like this part, but I don't love this part.
01:03:08.960If you're not willing to do that, you're kind of worthless.
01:03:13.720To me, this looks like a Trump mistake.
01:03:17.820Now, according to Just the News, there are a whole bunch of attorney generals, 38 attorney generals in 38 states want to end Google's search monopoly.
01:03:29.100And they've got some kind of plan to do that that involves divesting Chrome from the rest of Google.
01:03:36.420I don't exactly know how that solves the monopoly on search.
01:03:40.820Correct me if I'm wrong, but any browser you use has the same access to Google, doesn't it?
01:03:51.040Is there something built into Chrome that I've never used that sort of forces me to use Google?
01:04:26.100If you do a Google search, you get all these sponsored results, and you have to wade through them, and you get biased results, and, you know, you don't – you basically have to do a lot of work if you're doing a Google search, unless it's the simplest question in the world.
01:04:42.920But Perplexity, you can just push one button, you can talk to it, and it gives you great results.
01:05:18.960So I think the free market sort of was solving the problem on its own.
01:05:25.920So I just don't think it's the biggest thing in the world to divest Google at this point.
01:05:32.920You know, I understand the impulse, but the free market did a pretty good job here.
01:05:37.600There's a new book out, and it mentions Gavin Newsom, that he, quote, bailed out the biggest utility in the state.
01:05:48.320I think they're talking about PG&E, the electric utility.
01:05:51.700And it says that he bailed out the utility responsible for California wildfires, because the utility lines, if they spark and fall down, it causes fires.
01:06:03.320And apparently it's caused some of our biggest ones.
01:06:05.460And he bailed them out, meaning not holding them responsible, after collecting six figures in donations for his political campaigns, I guess.
01:06:18.280And instead of blaming the utility who directly, and we all understand, were directly involved in causing it with their lines going down, he went after the oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that climate change was, you know, a big driver of the fires.