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00:01:05.180 So good. Well, if you haven't heard, Rosie O'Donnell has moved to Ireland. Yeah, she moved to Ireland

00:01:13.600 because Trump got elected. So that'll serve him right. I guess she showed us.

00:01:22.280 Let's move to Ireland. Speaking of Ireland, Ireland was wondering if Trump is going to put any tariffs

00:01:30.560 on Ireland. And Trump said, tariffs on Ireland? Only on Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah, that's called a callback. 0.92

00:01:40.660 It's called a callback. Well, if you didn't see the news yet on social media,

00:01:45.740 one of the Infowars host, Chase Geyser, got SWAT-ed a couple of times just yesterday.

00:01:53.920 So the SWAT got called by bad people who were pretending to be him. And they showed up. And the

00:02:01.740 most recent time was 2 a.m. this morning. And the police pull up to his place and they put on the

00:02:09.000 bullhorns and they say, get out here with your hands up, with his wife and children in the house. 0.52

00:02:15.840 Second time in one day. Now, I believe this is domestic terrorism. And we're seeing more of it.

00:02:24.240 All the Tesla stuff is domestic terrorism. And, you know, you could argue even some of the news

00:02:30.740 coverage is domestic terrorism. It's so bad. But this is really bad.

00:02:37.180 And I'm going to say, if this were my own police department locally, I would say things like,

00:02:45.100 well, I guess they have to follow their procedures. And I guess they can't know for sure. So they have

00:02:51.900 to deploy. That's what I would say if it were my local police department. So I didn't make them mad.

00:02:57.320 But this is not my local police department. So I'm going to ask the obvious question.

00:03:02.280 What the hell is wrong with you? How do you not figure out that these SWOT calls are fake?

00:03:09.820 After the first one, the same day, and you can't figure out that the second one's fake and maybe

00:03:16.400 figure out a different way to handle it? Now, I've heard people say, well, the law says they have to

00:03:22.480 deploy. Well, what is deploy meaning? How about maybe call them on the phone and say, can you turn

00:03:28.620 on your FaceTime? You know, just show me the room. Everybody's good. It doesn't feel like this should

00:03:34.880 be the hardest thing in the world. So I'm going to blame the police. If you do it once, the police

00:03:41.240 need to respond. I'm totally on board with responding once, even though that's domestic terrorism on behalf 0.51

00:03:48.280 of the person who put in the fake call. But by the second time, the same day, and you can't figure

00:03:56.640 that out. I'm pretty disappointed. Pretty disappointed. So yeah, they need to figure that

00:04:04.900 out. But this is just one of the worst things. Because I feel like, do you remember when under

00:04:14.940 the Biden administration, the Democrats were saying that the biggest problem in the country

00:04:19.520 was right-wing, white supremacist, I don't know, terrorists or something? There's never been anything

00:04:29.080 like this. I mean, we're seeing full-out, you know, color revolution terrorism. It's domestic terrorism.

00:04:38.260 And it really needs to stop. So some people need to be arrested. And I have a real question about

00:04:44.340 people who make anonymous calls. Or they make calls pretending to be the person who's going to get

00:04:52.000 swatted. How in the world does that work? How do you pretend to be the person being swatted

00:04:57.880 where you're calling from a telephone number that's clearly not from that person?

00:05:02.480 Wouldn't the first thing they do is look at their own logs and maybe call back on the number that they

00:05:08.240 have for that person? Because, you know, the police always have, don't they? Can't the police always get

00:05:13.040 a phone number for you if they have your address? I think they can. So I have lots of questions about

00:05:19.700 this. If you want to inform me where I'm wrong and the police are acting responsibly, I'll listen to

00:05:25.220 that argument. But I don't understand it at this point. So they got some explaining to do.

00:05:32.180 Well, speaking of that, Trump has decided that he will label the violence against Tesla dealerships

00:05:39.380 and perhaps Tesla owners as well, because they're examples of just people who own a Tesla getting

00:05:45.720 attacked, their car getting attacked anyway, while they're in it. And what does that mean? If he says

00:05:51.640 he's going to label them, does that make it official? Or does he have to sign an executive order or

00:05:58.320 something? Because it's time to make this domestic terrorism? Like we have to get this fast and it

00:06:07.460 has to be extreme. And it seems to me that just about all of the people who didn't have a mask

00:06:15.040 and did anything around a Tesla, aren't they all caught on camera? The Teslas have cameras all over

00:06:22.840 them. How in the world do we not have their faces? And today the police have facial recognition.

00:06:30.980 So it should be as easy as looking at the video, running it through facial recognition,

00:06:36.660 and then you go arrest them and you put them in jail for a long time because we can't really put up

00:06:43.580 with this. This has to be a very hard response. Anyway, but what about the funding sources for

00:06:54.660 this protest? If you're involved in organizing the protest against the Tesla dealership, and let's say

00:07:02.380 the first time it gets out of hand and there's a little vandalism and I'm going to call it domestic

00:07:07.740 terrorism, maybe the first time you could say, oh, okay, the organizer didn't know that was going to

00:07:14.600 happen. But what happens if you do it multiple times and every time it gets out of hand?

00:07:21.780 Doesn't that mean that the organizer is a domestic terrorist? Shouldn't they be hauled in as some kind

00:07:27.900 of an accessory to domestic terrorism? If they know it's going to happen, you know, if they were

00:07:33.220 surprised by it, then of course, no. But once you're not surprised and you know it's going to

00:07:39.320 happen and you organize it anyway, at what point are you a domestic terrorist? So I think we need to

00:07:47.080 be way harder on this. Meanwhile, Politico and MSNBC and others are reporting that the USAID offices are

00:07:59.040 are madly shredding their documents as USAID is being defunded and shut down and absorbed. What's

00:08:08.100 left to be absorbed into the State Department. But my question is, is this as bad as it looks?

00:08:15.240 Because it looks really bad. Or is it closer to a baseline normal? Let's say at the end of every

00:08:24.200 administration, do people shred a lot of things that weren't that important. Just, you know, maybe

00:08:30.040 it was too important to let people see it, but it wasn't, you know, super dangerous or illegal or

00:08:36.680 anything. So I guess before I have a strong opinion about the shredding, of course, it raises lots of

00:08:43.380 questions. Of course, it looks sketchy when you read about it out of context. But I do wonder how much

00:08:49.420 is normal. You know, if this were a Republican organization, would they be shredding like crazy?

00:08:58.060 I don't know. So I'm going to say that I have serious questions about it. And probably, you know,

00:09:06.980 if I had to bet on it, it's probably covering their asses. Because as far as I can tell, the whole USAID

00:09:14.780 situation was just so sketchy, that there's just probably tons of crimes that they're covering up.

00:09:22.220 That's what it seems like. Meanwhile, Meta, the company, is designing, they've got their own in-house

00:09:30.380 chip, microchip. And it's supposed to cut their costs for AI training. Rowan Chung is writing about it.

00:09:39.100 So I guess it'd be manufactured by TSMC, the big chip company, but it would be their own design.

00:09:45.500 And somehow it would help them cut reliance on NVIDIA for their expensive GPUs. I wonder if this

00:09:53.300 chip's going to be so good that they can really get away with not using NVIDIA. And it does make me

00:10:01.300 wonder what the future of NVIDIA is. Because given the insane amount of profitability NVIDIA has for

00:10:09.580 the AI chips, wouldn't that guarantee that a whole bunch of other rich companies are trying as hard

00:10:15.260 as possible to match it or beat it? So, you know, NVIDIA is kind of a tough one to invest in,

00:10:23.480 because you don't know what the competition can do or how quickly they can do it.

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00:11:25.040 for details. Please play responsibly. Meanwhile, Trump, wanting to show some support for Tesla,

00:11:32.580 did an event in front of the White House in which he bought a Tesla. So he just picked out a nice

00:11:37.960 red one. I think it was a plaid. That would be the high-end one. But Trump joked about how much

00:11:43.720 he likes to drive, but they don't let him drive anymore. He hasn't driven in a long time. And

00:11:49.740 then somebody asked, you know, since he's the great negotiator, they said, you could ask for a

00:11:57.460 discount. Or I think they may have asked Musk if he was going to offer a discount. And before he

00:12:04.400 could answer, Trump being Trump and being, you know, quick on his feet, he said, nope, nope,

00:12:10.800 I'm not going to, I'm paying full price. I'm not going to negotiate this. And, and basically he

00:12:16.740 said, I'm the president of the United States. I'm paying full price, which was the exact right

00:12:22.820 answer. Cause he was there to support, it's to support Tesla. He wasn't there to save a buck.

00:12:27.980 So I love that. It was a good event. Tesla stocks up about 7% when I checked this morning.

00:12:37.080 And what else is good? Did you know that gas prices are lower now than they were when Trump was

00:12:44.940 inaugurated? Did you know that? So gas prices are down. Did you know that egg prices are down

00:12:52.120 since March? So at the beginning of March, this is according to perplexity, they're around $8 a dozen.

00:13:00.280 Now they're down to 551. So gas is down. Eggs are down. And mortgage rates are down.

00:13:12.220 So interest rates are down. Eggs are down. Gas is down. And we got new numbers for inflation.

00:13:23.020 Inflation's down. So the February CPI went to 2.8 and that was less than we expected. So people were

00:13:34.180 thinking 2.9. But the core inflation, because they measure it two different ways, falls to 3.1 and that

00:13:43.240 was better than what they were expecting, which was 3.2. And according to the Kobayesi letter,

00:13:50.680 this is the first decline in both the headline and the core CPI. So those are the two measures of

00:13:58.020 inflation since July of 2024. So how does this make sense?

00:14:10.180 Now, part of the reason is that the roiling of the stock market and all the tariff stuff and the

00:14:15.940 uncertainty is causing people to say, whoa, there's going to be less demand for everything because

00:14:22.020 people won't be doing so well. If there's less demand, prices go down. So we might be seeing just

00:14:29.460 a response to, uh-oh, everybody's going to have to tighten their belts and we're just assuming prices

00:14:35.300 will go down. Or it could be that nothing that's happening with the tariffs is really affecting any

00:14:41.300 real prices yet. Maybe it will? Later? I don't know. But we'll talk about that a little bit more.

00:14:49.420 Meanwhile, Greenland had an election. And one of the things I didn't know is that Greenland,

00:14:57.180 four out of five of their major parties are in favor of independence, not joining the United States,

00:15:04.500 but being independent from Denmark. Four out of five. So the two biggest vote-getting parties were both,

00:15:12.480 hey, we want to be independent. So we'll see if that makes any difference. But certainly there's no

00:15:19.140 problem with the Greenlanders wanting to be not captive by Denmark. So the question would be,

00:15:27.060 is there some way that we can have some kind of a tight association with Greenland

00:15:33.620 that would give them freedom from Denmark while also getting the subsidies or whatever economic

00:15:41.700 benefit they were getting from Denmark? Would it be good for us? Do we need to own them like a state?

00:15:48.500 Or would it be good enough to just have no tariffs and some kind of a security arrangement

00:15:56.580 and maybe some kind of a mining arrangement in case they have some minerals or something we want?

00:16:01.860 So there might be some place to work on that. Anyway, MSNBC, which we talk about as more of a joke than a news source,

00:16:14.420 I was noticing that they always have at least one big lie going. Have you ever noticed that?

00:16:19.860 That there's always like a central big lie that's clearly organized from the top or maybe it's organized

00:16:28.180 accidentally and they just all gather around it. But do you remember when one of the big lies was that

00:16:34.340 the 2020 election was definitely fair because no court found it wasn't? That's a big lie.

00:16:41.460 Now, I'm not saying it wasn't fair and I'm not saying it was. I'm saying that the lie is that the courts could know.

00:16:51.140 The courts only know what was handed to them. They don't know if something was fair overall.

00:16:56.340 It's just not knowable. So that's one of the biggest lies. MSNBC was like just, you know,

00:17:02.020 they were just living off that lie for a long time. Then there was the January 6th was an insurrection

00:17:08.180 as opposed to an attempt to stop one. That's a really big lie. And then there was the Biden's brain

00:17:15.060 is fine. Oh, Biden's brain is fine. I don't know what you're talking about. He's the best Biden we've

00:17:20.260 ever seen, Morning Joe said. But now the new big lie is that Biden left a strong economy.

00:17:28.340 And they even had some economists come on and say, quote, somebody named Edward G. Luce, I guess.

00:17:39.700 He said, quote, Trump inherited pretty much the perfect economy from a macro and economic point

00:17:45.780 of view. This is something that a real person said out loud. Can you imagine saying that out loud?

00:17:54.100 That it was a perfect economy under Biden? He said there had been a soft landing. Inflation was under

00:18:02.180 control. The magnificent seven stocks were booming for a good reason. And that Biden showed us he can

00:18:08.820 create a perfect economy. But do you think he left anything out? Do you know how else you can create a

00:18:19.540 perfect economy? By borrowing? We had this crushing debt with no way around it. Basically, without doge,

00:18:30.180 we would all be dead. And how do you ignore that if you're an economist? So this is their new big lie.

00:18:37.860 The new big lie is that economy was great under Biden. Trump's just ruined in that great economy that

00:18:43.780 he was left. No. He was left a crushing level of debt that was nearly impossible to solve. And we

00:18:51.460 still don't know if it's solvable because we haven't really taken a big bite on it yet, even though doge

00:18:57.380 is doing great. And then the other big lie is that Elon Musk wants to cut entitlements. And of course,

00:19:06.900 every time that it's been talked about, at least from Musk and doge and Trump, they're talking about

00:19:12.580 waste fraud and abuse. And then MSNBC's hosts and pundits and CNNs will say, oh, he wants to cut the

00:19:21.620 entitlements. No. Maybe they do want to, but that's not even being discussed. They're only talking about

00:19:30.180 the waste, fraud and abuse. So again, these are not news programs. These are just pure propaganda

00:19:37.780 entities. And once you learn that they're propaganda, you can just sort of study them for the propaganda

00:19:43.060 to see how they do it. That's sort of why I'm interested. I kind of love to see how big a lie

00:19:48.820 they can tell their audience that their audience won't know the difference. There doesn't seem to be

00:19:53.940 any limit. Because I just mentioned some whoppers. Can you imagine that MSNBC still has any audience at

00:20:02.980 all after telling you that Biden's brain was fine for years? How do they have any audience? I mean,

00:20:10.660 it's so obvious that they're not in the news business, but I don't think their audience knows

00:20:16.500 it. I think the audience thinks it's some kind of legitimate news source. Weird.

00:20:21.140 Weird. Speaking of illegitimate news, the Guardian lost a defamation suit, was ruled against him.

00:20:31.140 Douglas Murray was the victim in this case, so he sued him. I guess the Guardian made some outrageous

00:20:37.700 claim about him. I'm not even going to repeat the claim. Because given that it was a fake claim,

00:20:44.820 I don't even want to associate it with his name. So I'll just tell you that there was an outrageous

00:20:49.620 fake claim. And Douglas Murray took him to court and apparently won. So good for him.

00:20:59.220 So they apologized and had to retract it. But as Douglas Murray was pointing out on X,

00:21:08.260 he said he wanted to remind you that the Guardian left X, so it wasn't doing anything on X anymore.

00:21:16.260 And the reason was because of alleged disinformation on X.

00:21:22.180 So the Guardian, which was too good to be on X, literally the only source of free speech that we

00:21:28.580 have in this country. And then immediately they got sued and lost for fake news. Fake news.

00:21:35.700 Speaking of fake news, this is real news, but it's going to lead to nothing. Apparently the Saudi Arabia 0.96

00:21:44.740 meeting to talk about the ceasefire for Ukraine involved only Ukraine in the US, I guess. But

00:21:52.660 Ukraine in the US and Zelenskyy has now specifically agreed to a ceasefire, 30 day ceasefire,

00:21:59.140 with not many conditions, it looks like. But that's just what Zelenskyy wants. We don't think that Putin

00:22:10.580 wants that so easily, because apparently Putin has lots of demands, you know, like no NATO,

00:22:18.420 no boots on the ground from Europe, a bunch of things. And so I don't think there's really

00:22:26.100 much chance that Putin will say yes to a ceasefire, because what would that buy him?

00:22:32.980 Because at the moment, every day that he keeps fighting looks like a day that he's getting closer

00:22:37.700 to winning just because he could take more losses for a longer period of time. So he doesn't have to

00:22:43.140 gain any territory. He just needs to act like he wants the war. And it's just going to, you know,

00:22:52.980 put him in a better negotiating position. So it feels like that was a waste of time.

00:22:59.700 But I can be surprised. You know, it could be that there's, that Putin has a much bigger

00:23:04.980 set of interests outside of Ukraine. And it could be that Trump said, here's the deal.

00:23:10.980 We're open to talking about all the other interests. You know, we'll make this a wider discussion,

00:23:15.940 which is exactly what Russia wants. But we want that too. But we're not going to do it unless you 0.78

00:23:21.700 give us a ceasefire. Because we need to feel like there's progress. And a ceasefire would feel like,

00:23:27.860 to everybody, like some kind of progress. It would make it look like you'd change the frame

00:23:32.900 from fighting to talking. And that's something. So this will be a good test of Putin's persuasion

00:23:41.300 ability. Because if Trump pushes hard, you know, supporting this idea of the 30 day ceasefire,

00:23:49.300 and, and it's basically 30 days where you would be negotiating other stuff. And if Putin said no to

00:23:57.540 this, it's going to look like it would piss off Trump. Because Trump would be putting his reputation

00:24:04.580 behind it, assuming he backs it. So would Putin be, let's say, dumb enough to piss off Trump on

00:24:14.500 something that's not that important? I feel like if he's going to make Trump mad,

00:24:19.940 it better be on something big. But a 30 day ceasefire? That's kind of small potatoes.

00:24:26.900 So would Putin say no to something so small, knowing that it could derail everything else?

00:24:33.700 This will be a good test. So let me make a prediction. I think I'm going to reverse my opinion.

00:24:39.380 My first thought was, why would Putin say yes? It will just put him in a worse negotiating position

00:24:44.020 that he's in. Because he doesn't care. He doesn't care too much about his losses. He can sustain them

00:24:50.100 for longer. But I'm going to say that if he's as good a negotiator as I think, and Trump says to him,

00:24:58.900 look, nothing else is going to happen until you do this. This, this has got to be step one,

00:25:05.220 because we show, at least this will show that we're more interested in negotiating than not negotiating.

00:25:12.420 I think Putin might say yes. So it depends entirely upon whether Putin thinks he needs to manage Trump

00:25:22.180 versus trying to get the best advantage he can on a minor point. So I'm going to say yes. That'll be

00:25:29.700 my prediction. And it would be almost entirely because of Trump's personality and the way he

00:25:35.380 approaches things. So something that maybe another president couldn't get done. But I think, I think

00:25:43.460 Putin would know that you don't want to waste your, your goodwill that he's developed with Trump. You

00:25:50.180 don't want to waste that on something not terribly important. So I think Trump's going to get that if he

00:25:56.020 pushes it. Here's a little clarification on Thomas Massey. Apparently, the House passed that

00:26:02.260 continuing resolution. Now, background, a continuing resolution is when the Congress gives up on trying

00:26:08.740 to do a proper budget, because they know they can't get it done, or they're not interested, or they wait

00:26:14.340 until it's too close to a holiday or something. And then they just say, okay, we'll just keep the budget

00:26:20.020 where it was for another six months. And that's not good, because the budget is way too big. And it's

00:26:28.900 driving up debt. But this particular situation is a little different. Because my understanding is,

00:26:37.300 even though they're saying the budget would stay the same, inflation would suggest that it's really a

00:26:44.820 cut. Because if inflation is going up, but the budget is not, well, it's sort of like a 3% cut,

00:26:53.220 if you have 3% inflation. So I get that argument. But that's not much. And it doesn't address the

00:27:00.900 doge stuff. But what I think is going to happen is that even if the budget says you have this much to

00:27:08.180 spend for the next six months, if the departments that were going to spend it have been suspended,

00:27:14.660 the people are fired, and it's been closed down or absorbed by the State Department or whatever else,

00:27:20.420 what we should see is that the budget stays the same, because Congress just failed to give us

00:27:26.900 a proper budget and incorporate all the doge stuff. But that the actual spending

00:27:31.700 should be substantially below the budget for the first time. Normally, you expect the government to

00:27:40.900 spend everything it has so they can ask for more next time. Well, we used every penny we had this

00:27:46.980 time. We need 3% more next year. So it could be that this will work out fine. But you know that Trump

00:27:59.380 threatened to primary Thomas Massey for saying that he would be a hard no on this.

00:28:04.900 And there was quite a bit of pushback. So I was one of the ones that pushed back.

00:28:10.180 And my problem with it is not that they disagreed. And my problem with it is not that it was a good

00:28:17.300 or bad idea to do the continuing resolution this time, because this one's not like every other time,

00:28:23.380 because the doge stuff, I do have reason to believe the doge stuff will be incorporated

00:28:28.820 in the spending part, which is the important part, the budget is not as important as the spending.

00:28:34.260 So maybe it was closer to getting it right. And maybe they just needed a little breathing room

00:28:40.500 before they can, you know, do a proper budget. Maybe, you know, I'll give them a little bit of

00:28:46.740 benefit of the doubt. But threatening to primary, the only person who is more MAGA than MAGA,

00:28:56.820 and the person who is wildly popular for being a hard nose on spending, the guy who wears a debt

00:29:03.300 clock around his lapel and gives them to everybody else so they can be reminded that they're not doing

00:29:09.300 their job. You need to get this budget under control. That's the last guy you should be threatening.

00:29:15.060 You should figure out some way to get it done despite him. And I get, I get that, you know,

00:29:22.980 Trump just goes hard at anybody who's on the wrong side of any issue. And he's, you know, loves them if

00:29:29.380 he, if they are on the right side of the issue. So I get that he's being consistent, but I feel like

00:29:35.620 that was just a mistake. If he, if he had simply tried to slap him down with a mean post on truth,

00:29:44.580 I'd say, okay, that's just normal. They disagree. He said what he said. Massey said what he said,

00:29:51.940 but threatening to primary him, that just felt too far. I just can't get behind that at all.

00:30:00.660 Now, and it's not like, it's not like Thomas Massey was a little bit the enemy.

00:30:06.820 The things he wants are what Trump wants. And he wants it even more, which is to get the debt under

00:30:12.500 control. So if somebody agrees with you harder than you agree with yourself,

00:30:18.100 that's not who you threaten the primary. So that just seemed like a mistake to me. And I saw a lot

00:30:24.740 of other smart people say the same, but one of the criticisms that people levied on Massey was,

00:30:30.340 they said, you're being hypocritical and inconsistent because in the past you have signed continuing

00:30:36.660 resolutions. But Massey clarified, he's never voted for a continued resolution that became law.

00:30:45.300 He said he did vote for one under McCarthy that included the 8% cut to all discretionary spending,

00:30:52.340 but it didn't become a law. Now that's a good answer.

00:30:58.500 Because a continuing resolution in its normal form means you spend the same amount as you were spending.

00:31:05.620 If in any way they could have gotten an 8% across the board cut in all the spending and call it a CR,

00:31:12.340 well, yeah, I would expect Thomas Massey to totally vote for that because it's exactly what he's always

00:31:19.700 asking for. Let's be serious about cutting and then figure it out. So I'm going to say that Massey

00:31:26.980 has acquitted himself well. I like him standing on principle. I think I would be seriously disappointed

00:31:34.100 if we didn't have anybody in Congress who said, nope, you're all wrong. We cannot keep spending at this

00:31:42.180 level, period. So I like me some Thomas Massey in the world. And I think this will all work out.

00:31:51.380 Now, let me give you a correction. I'm not sure that's the right word. Maybe it's a clarification.

00:31:59.380 I talked about Tucker Carlson had this claim that Senator Tom Cotton

00:32:05.060 was in favor of blocking the release of the JFK files. And allegedly, according to Tucker,

00:32:12.820 had been not in favor of some nomination, don't know which one, because that person might have

00:32:19.620 wanted to release the JFK files. So what did Tom Cotton say about those accusations? He said on X,

00:32:26.580 this is false. I have no problem releasing the JFK files. Had Tucker Carlson asked me,

00:32:33.060 I would have told him. And he said, he, meaning Tucker, has texted me multiple times in recent weeks,

00:32:40.100 so he knows how to reach me. And then in a follow-up, Tom Cotton said, I would have explained that I've

00:32:46.500 never spoken to President Trump or his associates or administration officials about the files, never

00:32:52.820 objected to the appointment of any person because of the files, and have complete faith that Tulsi

00:32:58.660 Gabber, John Ratcliffe, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and other officials will release the files as appropriate

00:33:04.660 in accordance with President Trump's directive. Now, isn't this interesting? Because you've got

00:33:12.180 Tucker Carlson saying a thing happened, and he was very adamant that he knew the thing happened. And then

00:33:18.740 you've got the person who was allegedly the person who did the thing, who was saying in the clearest

00:33:24.420 possible tone, I mean, this is really clear that nothing like that happened. So here's my take. I

00:33:34.100 don't think Tucker Carlson is a liar. I also don't think Tom Cotton's a liar, as far as I know. So,

00:33:44.580 but they can't both be right, because they're saying literally opposites. But I'm a little unclear

00:33:52.100 about Tucker Carlson's source. Did somebody that Tucker trusted tell him that something happened?

00:34:01.940 And was that communicated properly? Was it possible that the wrong name was in the story?

00:34:09.300 So if I had to pick a winner, I'm going to pick Tom Cotton. And the reason is that I consider myself

00:34:20.100 quite good at detecting BS. And the way Tom Cotton explained his complete lack of involvement in this,

00:34:28.340 and having done nothing even close to it, is the way that honest people talk.

00:34:36.020 If he were lying, what you'd look for is stuff like a very specific answer. I'll make this up. This

00:34:43.140 would not be a good example, but it would be something like, I did not talk to Tucker on Tuesday,

00:34:49.460 or I've never had a conversation with Tucker about this, because that would still leave open that maybe

00:34:56.260 he talked to somebody else. Right? So there's a whole bunch of tells that liars leave. Tom Cotton left no

00:35:05.940 tells. He's speaking like somebody who is absolutely telling the truth. Now, do I know that? No. No.

00:35:16.900 But if I had to call a winner, I would say that Tucker's source is probably less reliable. And maybe it

00:35:23.780 was just a miscommunication. Maybe nobody had any bad intentions. Could be just a miscommunication.

00:35:30.020 But this is one of the cleanest denials you'll ever see. And if you see a denial this clean and this

00:35:36.820 comprehensive, and it looked like he tried to cover every base so that you couldn't say, but

00:35:42.980 did you say it to Kash Patel? Okay. But did you say it to Pam Bondi? But, but did you say it to someone

00:35:51.940 else in the administration? He just, he just completely, you know, ruled out all of that.

00:36:00.820 It looks honest to me. So I'm going to rule Tom Cotton the correct one on facts.

00:36:10.580 Well, meanwhile, RFK Jr. has called for the top executives of some of the big food companies like

00:36:16.420 Raff Heinz and General Mills and some others to remove artificial dyes before the end of his term.

00:36:25.620 Makes, makes me wonder why that would take so long.

00:36:29.060 Why would it take so long to remove artificial dyes? You can't do that in a year.

00:36:36.340 It takes four years to do that.

00:36:38.180 Because if Europe has been removing these artificial dyes forever, can't you just say,

00:36:46.820 ring, ring, hey Europe, what are you doing right that we're doing wrong? Oh, you just don't put them

00:36:53.780 in there. Got it. Isn't there some easy way to do this? Like just don't do it? I don't know. But maybe

00:37:03.140 there's a food replacement that acts as a dye that's more organic. And maybe there's a supply,

00:37:12.980 there might be a supply limitation on whatever it is that Europe uses that we don't. So maybe there's

00:37:17.780 a reason. I mean, it'd be weird to say that he wants it before the end of his term if it were easier

00:37:25.460 to do. So I'm going to trust that RFK Jr. knows what he's talking about there. But also Daily Mail is

00:37:32.660 reporting that five big restaurant chains in the US have decided to follow RFK Jr.'s lead

00:37:42.260 on getting rid of seed oils. And instead of cooking with seed oil, they're going to be cooking with

00:37:50.500 probably beef tallow. So I guess this has already happened at one of the chains, Steak and Shake.

00:37:58.500 You probably saw the news. So the Steak and Shake restaurant chain already moved to beef tallow.

00:38:06.260 And it looks like Popeye's, Outback Steakhouse, Sweet Greens and Buffalo Wild Rings

00:38:13.780 have either already stopped or they're planning to stop using the seed oils.

00:38:17.940 Now, how many of you are convinced that the seed oils are the devil and the beef tallow is the healthy answer?

00:38:30.340 You know, I'm willing to believe it, but I don't trust any science anymore.

00:38:37.540 I just don't trust science anymore. So I don't doubt that there are studies that say that seed oil bad,

00:38:46.020 beef tallow good. But this is the kind of science that's usually a coin flip,

00:38:53.780 meaning that if you took any of these studies and you tried to reproduce it, there's only a 40 or 50%

00:39:00.580 chance you could. And I'm not criticizing just this domain of science. I'm criticizing all domains of

00:39:09.540 science. Because generally speaking, this kind of study is sort of a coin flip. You know, I guarantee

00:39:19.060 you that there are studies that say that the seed oils are fine, even if they're not. And I guarantee

00:39:25.060 that there are studies that say that the seed oils are the devil, even if they're not. So

00:39:37.220 I hope the science is solid on this. But it does make me worry about cooking at home.

00:39:44.900 Because you know what I don't do at home? I don't use any beef tallow. I never even heard of beef

00:39:52.100 tallow until like a month ago. What the hell is beef tallow? I know it's something I'm not going to

00:39:58.500 put in my body. Because I just don't eat. Never mind. You don't need to know. But I don't know.

00:40:10.020 It seems like is olive oil suddenly, did olive oil suddenly go from the healthiest thing you can cook

00:40:15.780 with to the devil? Did it really? So this is the sort of thing where I feel like if you backed up

00:40:23.940 20 years and waited to see how it all shook up, I just don't know if the science holds up. I just

00:40:30.100 really don't trust it. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying I don't know why you'd believe it was

00:40:37.300 right, given what we've seen about every other bit of science.

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00:40:55.700 think. Meanwhile, Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, according to Newsmax, says that Trump told

00:41:04.420 her that her job is to essentially eliminate the Department of Education. So that's the thing she's 1.00

00:41:10.820 in charge of. And according to her, Trump said that to be successful in her job would be to put herself 1.00

00:41:18.980 out of the job. Now, this is one of those perfect situations where I think the person in charge is just

00:41:27.540 ideally suited for the job. Because there's no way that Linda McMahon wants to be the Secretary of 1.00

00:41:33.940 Education forever. And I don't think she's looking to run for higher office. It doesn't look like it's

00:41:40.340 like a step to a higher office or anything. So probably she's just a patriot. And she's a high

00:41:47.380 capability, high functioning executive type person. And putting somebody like that in that job,

00:41:55.220 kind of perfect. Somebody who would view success as getting rid of her own job. That's a rare thing.

00:42:04.740 If you can get that right person in that job, assuming you wanted to get rid of this. So that's

00:42:11.060 looking good. Let's talk about Canada. So Kevin O'Leary, as you know, he's got a connection with Canada and

00:42:19.060 the US. I believe he's, was he Canadian? Is he both Canadian and American? I don't know how that works.

00:42:28.980 But he invests in both places. He was on Jesse Waters' show. And he said something I hadn't heard

00:42:36.260 before, but it's worth talking about. He's suggesting that we don't necessarily need Canada to be a state.

00:42:46.660 All we have to do is remove the economic barriers. So we could treat it like it's this big economic

00:42:53.700 zone without any friction caused by artificial barriers anywhere. So he says that Trump's vision,

00:43:03.460 but I don't know that this is Trump's vision. So this is, this is Kevin O'Leary talking,

00:43:09.220 but he says a US Canada economic union. So it'd be the largest economy on earth and that China would

00:43:15.940 never catch up. And the idea is that Canada has just, is just wildly full of natural resources,

00:43:23.540 you know, the exact kind that the United States needs. And the United States is the biggest market.

00:43:31.300 So if you combine the biggest resource with the biggest market and you get rid of the friction,

00:43:36.020 you know, get rid of tariffs, et cetera, you might have the greatest economic zone

00:43:43.380 of all time. It might be exactly what we need to bring back manufacturing and,

00:43:47.940 you know, have access to all the raw materials and everything. Now, this would not settle Trump's

00:43:54.740 concern that we're the ones paying for the defense of Canada. So I don't know how that works. And then

00:44:02.660 there would be all the wokeness up there that would be hard to deal with. So, I mean, Canada would have 1.00

00:44:07.380 to get rid of its, you know, crazy DEI stuff if we wanted to have a big economic zone, because you

00:44:13.860 could almost imagine it's like, okay, we've got rid of all the tariffs. And then we try to do a deal.

00:44:19.540 And then the Canadians say, all right, we'll be happy to sell you our lumber. So just as long as the board

00:44:25.860 of directors of your company has lots of DEI, and then we'd be like, you can't just sell us the lumber,

00:44:34.420 you know? So I think there would be more friction than it seems like.

00:44:41.460 Just making any two systems compatible is always going to be a challenge. But I like what Kevin O'Leary

00:44:50.660 is adding to the conversation, which is that there might be this entirely reasonable middle ground

00:44:57.620 where both Canada and the US would take a hit with some specific industries, but in the long run,

00:45:04.660 it would be wildly good for both. Maybe. I like that new option or that new way of looking at it,

00:45:13.060 that it doesn't have to be a state. And that would be just a pain in the ass,

00:45:17.140 turning it into a state. And that would be a lot of work for maybe not a lot of gain.

00:45:25.460 And then Lutnick was talking about Trump's tariffs. And he said that the markets will learn,

00:45:33.300 let the deal makers make his deal. So he's not worried about the stock market. He thinks the

00:45:37.540 stock market will catch up with what's happening. And he said that Trump's policy is going to produce

00:45:45.460 revenue. And according to Lutnick, who's a smart guy? Lutnick thinks that the tariffs are not chaotic.

00:45:56.100 It only looks chaotic if you don't understand what's happening. And then Lutnick says that Trump

00:46:03.380 is making sure our trade partners know this is not going away and can't be ignored in its top priority.

00:46:08.820 I would add that it might be the only way to get manufacturing back to the country, to our country,

00:46:16.500 quickly, which is you have to make it wildly expensive to not do it in the United States.

00:46:22.900 That's what a tariff can do. But here's my current take on the tariffs. And this is very much informed

00:46:32.100 by Lutnick's opinion. So I'm going to adopt this. And I saw some other smart opinions about it too.

00:46:39.220 But here's what I think. On day one, if Trump says, I'm going to tariff you, it looks like a bad idea.

00:46:48.740 Just a pain in the ass. So then the other country, whoever it is, says, all right, well, 0.98

00:46:54.740 I guess we get a tariff a few things back with you. And then Trump says, great, I'll give you another

00:47:00.820 25% tariff for doing that. And then the other country says, but wait, that's crazy. Well, we're

00:47:09.380 going to stop giving you electricity. Okay. Here's another 50% tariff. Wait, what?

00:47:15.860 So here's what I think Trump's actually doing. And I realize I'm the, you know, some call me the

00:47:26.980 Trump whisperer because I'm always talking about his persuasion skills, you know, his four-dimensional

00:47:32.260 chess. There is some four-dimensional chess happening here that I had completely missed. And I was in a

00:47:41.300 wait and see mode like, well, I'm not sure I fully understand this whole tariff business and the way

00:47:46.740 it's being handled, but maybe Trump does. Maybe his advisors are really smart. Maybe they they're

00:47:54.500 operating on a different level. Let's just see what happens. Here's my current opinion.

00:48:01.700 You have to get their attention first.

00:48:03.780 Trump is making the, uh, the trade inequities as he would call them the biggest priority for other

00:48:14.260 countries. So nothing happens until you can break through the noise. So any, any country has a million

00:48:23.700 things to worry about domestically and foreign. And if you say, Hey, something about a tariff has

00:48:29.380 something about a trade, you can barely get their attention. If you say we're going to completely

00:48:36.260 turn off your whole industry, suddenly you have their attention. So what Trump is doing with the

00:48:44.100 tariffs, even with the chaos, even with the, you know, what looks like just completely almost suicidal

00:48:51.780 economic policies that are so reckless. Some would say so chaotic. Some would say that it doesn't even

00:49:01.060 look rational, but is he successfully making those other countries say to themselves, uh, we're going

00:49:09.700 to need to clear our calendar because we need to handle this right away because we can't really go a

00:49:17.460 month with a 50% tariff. And if we retaliate, well, we can hurt the United States, but we're going to get

00:49:25.860 our ass kicked for doing it. So how about we treat this like our highest priority? And that is what Trump

00:49:35.780 wants. He wants them to treat it like their highest priority. Has he succeeded? Yes. Yes. I'll bet Mexico 0.99

00:49:46.420 doesn't wake up or Canada. I'll bet they don't wake up one day without saying, Oh God, what am I going

00:49:52.740 to do about all these tariffs? Now, in the end, one hopes that you end up with a negotiated set of

00:50:00.500 agreements in which both sides feel like, you know, it's not the perfect agreement, but that's how

00:50:06.100 agreements work, but it's better than what it was, at least for the United States. So I think that the,

00:50:15.380 I'm going to call it the genius of what Trump is doing is he's making it everybody's top priority

00:50:21.940 because you wouldn't get anything done until you do that. If they knew they could kick the

00:50:27.860 can down the road, it's like, ah, by the time some new president gets in here, you know, we'll just stall.

00:50:34.820 Well, a 50% tariff today, there goes your stalling. Good luck stalling. Good luck making it your second

00:50:44.980 priority assholes. How about it's your top priority now? How about you stop worrying about DEI a little

00:50:51.060 bit and you look at the fact that we just stopped your whole fucking industry from operating and we're 0.99

00:50:56.260 not going to stop doing it. It's got to be your top priority. Trump did that. He just made it

00:51:04.340 everybody's top priority. Now, if nothing else came of it, except he made it everybody's top priority,

00:51:14.820 that was, should allow him to negotiate productively to get some kind of agreement

00:51:19.860 that isn't crushing anybody's industry. Um, although some would do worse than others,

00:51:25.380 but that, uh, we'd end up with a happy situation. Suppose the thing that happened with Canada,

00:51:32.740 um, because you saw that Canada was going to cut off our electricity in the Northeast, but, um, then

00:51:38.820 they said, well, okay, we will talk about it. So we'll pull back on that. We got their attention.

00:51:45.860 We got all their attention. The, whatever they were doing before the tariffs doesn't even seem

00:51:52.580 important. They're all in on trying to figure out how to make this tariff thing work. And it's Trump's

00:51:59.540 frame. He created a world that didn't exist, which is tariffs are your top priority. So he creates that

00:52:07.940 world and then he creates so much, uh, I'm going to say energy, but his critics will say chaos.

00:52:15.060 It's the same. He creates so much energy that everybody has to flow into his frame.

00:52:21.460 Once they're in his frame, that's when the fun begins. That's when the negotiating begins.

00:52:28.820 And he did that. Nobody's ever done that. Nobody's ever done that. And I would argue,

00:52:36.660 I don't think anybody could. I don't think anybody could do what he's done already. Just already. Now,

00:52:43.860 will it all work out? I don't know. I don't know. Will it allow, um, more manufacturing to flow back

00:52:50.900 to this country faster than it would have? I don't know, but it's a hell of a good bet.

00:52:56.260 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering,

00:53:02.580 is every fabulous item I see from winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:53:08.580 Are those from winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that

00:53:14.460 leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket?

00:53:19.220 Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners.

00:53:25.940 Find fabulous for less. I'm going to do something that I normally don't do.

00:53:32.580 I'm going to give some investment advice. But you've got to be really careful with this one,

00:53:38.260 because this one's risky, all right? And it's also not advice I'm going to take,

00:53:43.860 because I'm a certain age, so I'm not gambling too much with my money at the moment.

00:53:48.180 But if I were younger, and I saw that the stock market had just taken a gigantic shit,

00:53:55.380 because it didn't understand what was happening, I'd be buying hard. And here's the philosophy

00:54:02.740 behind it. The philosophy behind it is, invest in once-ever situations. The things that will never

00:54:11.300 happen again. So one of the reasons to own Tesla stock, and again, these are not stock recommendations,

00:54:17.300 I'm simply describing a manner of investing. So don't take it as a recommendation, please.

00:54:24.100 But if you said to yourself, wait a minute, there's only one time in history that Tesla will introduce

00:54:30.740 robots. It's only going to happen once. There's only one time in history that Tesla will introduce

00:54:38.340 self-driving cars. Only once. And you can make an argument for other things like Nvidia. There's only

00:54:46.660 one time that AI will be brand new. Just once. So if you can find those situations, such as the

00:54:54.660 introduction of the smartphone when Apple did it, that's only going to happen once. The introduction.

00:55:00.980 If you had invested in Apple when they introduced the smartphone, well, you'd be pretty happy right

00:55:05.860 now, wouldn't you? So I can't recommend Tesla, especially because there's a lot of political 0.99

00:55:13.300 risk overhanging it. So if you buy it and it doesn't go well, don't blame me. But what I'm saying is,

00:55:21.380 this tariff situation is a once ever change. It's a gigantic sea change if Trump pulls it off.

00:55:29.940 And the reshoring of manufacturing? Once. It's only going to happen once. So whenever you see one of

00:55:39.940 these gigantic changes that could only happen once by their very nature, that's when you should get

00:55:47.300 serious about looking at your investments. Because those are the changes that give you the big hits

00:55:53.220 that are different from, oh, this company makes 14% profit per year. I guess I'll guess some of

00:56:00.100 that. I mean, that could be a great idea too, as long as you diversify. So the only advice I'm going

00:56:04.900 to give you is diversification. Diversification. Make sure that you don't put all too much money in

00:56:12.020 any one thing. And it'd be good to spread it around. But we might be looking at one of the greatest

00:56:21.060 economic revivals in all of history. It might not work. But here's the other part of the advice.

00:56:31.380 If it doesn't work, we're all dead. Because if we don't doge the national debt away,

00:56:39.300 we cannot survive that. So when you have a situation where if things don't go well,

00:56:46.180 none of your money is going to be worth anything. Literally, your money won't be worth anything.

00:56:52.100 The whole thing falls apart if we can't get the 40 trillion of debt under control. If we can,

00:57:00.500 which would be a tremendous accomplishment by Musk and Trump and the doge people, a tremendous

00:57:07.460 accomplishment. And by no means do I think that's guaranteed. But you have one situation where if

00:57:15.860 it doesn't work out, you're going to be dead. If they'd never tried anything, if they'd never tried

00:57:22.420 to doge and they'd never tried to do tariffs, you would be dead. Because the debt will actually end the

00:57:29.140 United States. We're talking about actually starving to death. It's an existential threat.

00:57:37.940 So on one hand, if you bet against it and it doesn't work, well, nobody's money is going to be

00:57:45.540 worth anything. It wouldn't matter if you owned stock. It wouldn't matter if you had cash. It's

00:57:48.980 all going to be worth nothing. But if it does work, stocks are really cheap.

00:57:56.980 So the upside is maybe amazing, maybe just pretty good. And the downside is if we don't do this stuff,

00:58:10.900 you're dead. So this is a very rare investment situation. And just be aware of it. So again,

00:58:22.740 I don't give financial recommendations. Don't buy any stock. Don't buy Tesla because I said so,

00:58:29.060 because I'm not saying so. I'm just saying, when you see a once ever, that's where your eyes should

00:58:36.180 widen. This is a once ever. It's like the greatest once ever you'll ever see, probably. So we'll see.

00:58:44.820 Meanwhile, Trump sent a memo to all the agency heads with this clever little legal advice. It tells

00:58:54.740 them that court filing injunctions against them. So you know, when the agencies try to cut costs,

00:59:02.180 there's always somebody going to do a lawsuit and then they'll find some judge that can say,

00:59:07.060 oh yeah, you better stop doing that. So that would be the injunctions. But apparently,

00:59:13.940 the law says that if there's an injunction against one of the agencies, the plaintiffs,

00:59:21.060 which would be the agencies, can post... No, I'm sorry. The plaintiffs would be the people complaining

00:59:28.100 and the ones who want to stop the agency from cutting or firing people. So the plaintiffs would

00:59:33.540 have to post a security equal to the potential cost of the injunction to the federal government.

00:59:39.220 So in other words, you can't just shop for a friendly judge and get the judge to wave his arms

00:59:45.060 and sign a piece of paper and then all progress stops. That's the current situation. They're going

00:59:51.060 to have to find out how to put up money to cover it in case the, you know, in case things go the other

00:59:59.860 direction. So that's really clever. Unless there's some, you know, some kind of legal judo that can

01:00:08.180 defeat this, this might make a big difference on the number of injunctions that are stopping Doge from

01:00:14.100 doing what it wants to do. Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, according to Semaphore,

01:00:22.260 in their media newsletter, they said that the New York Times is shaking up its editorial board

01:00:29.060 and they're, they're moving some writers and they're firing some writers and they'll have,

01:00:34.340 I think, fewer opinion people. But they're trying to get better opinions. So they're trying to figure

01:00:42.820 out how to do that. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like the Democrats in general.

01:00:49.460 So it sounds like the New York Times is saying our opinions are good, but sometimes the people

01:00:58.260 explaining them and the messaging isn't, isn't right. That's what it reminds me of. I feel like

01:01:04.820 the Democrats just have this one thing, which is if we can fool people into thinking the way we want

01:01:10.900 them to think we win, you know, independent of any reality that they seem to be just completely

01:01:18.100 message and persuasion related without being connected to anything real. But the funny thing

01:01:24.980 was as part of the story was I was reminded that, remember Krugman, their economist, who was sort of

01:01:33.060 famous for having some famously bad opinions about things, but he was also a Nobel Prize, Nobel economics

01:01:39.940 winner. He quit because he was so heavily edited by the editors on his opinion pieces. So he said it was

01:01:50.740 like torture. He'd wake up to see his opinion piece in the New York Times and then see it was rewritten

01:01:57.460 or the important things have been removed or changed. And he'd be like, my God, that's not even

01:02:02.420 my opinion. This is like somebody else's opinion. So apparently at the New York Times, your opinion

01:02:09.380 was not even your own opinion. So it was always some, some weird mashup of what the editors edited

01:02:16.260 after you submitted it. Can you believe that professional writers at the highest level,

01:02:23.140 Krugman being one, would have their, their stuff edited, not just for, not just for clarity and not

01:02:31.380 just for, you know, grammar or something like that, but rather the opinion, that the opinions are not even

01:02:40.660 real. There's some combination of an editor's opinion plus the writer's opinion. And you, as a writer,

01:02:46.500 or as a reader, you wouldn't even know what it was. You'd be thinking, all right, is this

01:02:51.140 one person's opinion or is this a mashup of more than one person's opinion?

01:02:58.020 Anyway, so it feels like New York Times realizes that they produce propaganda, but they want to do it

01:03:03.620 better. That's what it feels like. Now, here's my other first impression. Locally, whenever I see a

01:03:13.220 restaurant that used to offer lunch and dinner, but not breakfast, and then suddenly they offer

01:03:19.860 breakfast too, that restaurant's going out of business because nobody wants to offer breakfast,

01:03:27.860 lunch and dinner. If you own a restaurant, a small restaurant, you don't want to do all three. It's,

01:03:33.700 it's, it would be a crushing workload. It's, you almost can't make money on brunch.

01:03:39.300 Um, you know, lunch, you can barely make money on it. Pretty much you do that because the landlord

01:03:45.700 says you have to be open for lunch and dinner is kind of where you make your money. We're talking

01:03:50.820 about small private restaurants. So whenever I see one say, uh, we're going to try offering breakfast

01:03:57.940 too. That's the last gasp that they're going out of business pretty soon. It means they can't

01:04:02.980 make money on lunch and dinner because nobody who owns a small business would add

01:04:09.460 every morning to their, to their current workload. That would just be crushing.

01:04:15.060 So when I see the New York times radically changing their opinion piece, I think,

01:04:23.140 that's a, that's a dangerous sign for their business.

01:04:25.940 Meanwhile, according to the Post Millennial, uh, a Washington Post opinion writer quit

01:04:33.700 because the opinion writer wrote a opinion that was, uh, negative to, uh, their owner,

01:04:41.860 uh, Jeff Bezos's new direction that their, uh, their opinion pieces should be limited to what,

01:04:48.580 uh, freedom and free markets, I guess, personal freedom and free markets.

01:04:53.940 And so the columnist wrote a opinion piece, um, disagreeing with that as a direction.

01:05:01.620 And then the, uh, I guess it was the editor, uh, killed that piece and said, uh, no, we're not

01:05:06.980 going to run, we're not going to run an opinion piece that says our owner got everything wrong.

01:05:11.700 And so she resigned after 40 years. Um, and this is what she said. It was a editor. Um,

01:05:23.300 she was a columnist named Ruth Marcus. And she said, quote, Jeff's announcement that the opinion

01:05:29.620 section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties

01:05:34.980 and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they

01:05:40.740 believe, not what the owner deems acceptable. Do you see anything wrong with that? Do you think

01:05:48.100 there's ever been a time when the Washington Post, uh, allowed their columnist to write whatever they

01:05:54.660 want? No. Do you think if Phil Bump decided that he was going to become pro-Trump

01:06:02.180 and then decided to write a bunch of, uh, articles in the Washington Post being just

01:06:07.460 unabashedly pro-Trump? You think, you think he would have kept his job? I don't,

01:06:13.300 I don't think that for a second. So no, there's never been a situation where you could write for a major

01:06:19.780 publication, any opinion you wanted. That's never been true. You always know what the boss wants

01:06:27.380 and you make damn sure that you're within that umbrella or you get fired. This is, or,

01:06:33.220 or you don't get published. So no, this is totally fake. It's always, it's always been the case

01:06:39.620 that opinions had to be within a narrow band and you knew exactly what that band was

01:06:44.340 based on who your boss was. So that doesn't look real. Meanwhile, in California, two, uh, Republican

01:06:56.180 lawmakers who are in the minority, of course, in California, they're introducing a ballot measure

01:07:01.940 to mandate voter identification. And I guess, uh, Trump has said that he might want to, uh,

01:07:10.180 have that the law in California in return for helping with the fire relief.

01:07:16.020 Now, I don't know that that's exactly what's happening. Um, did Trump really say that he

01:07:23.460 wouldn't do fire relief unless they had voter ID laws? I don't know, but here's, here's the amazing

01:07:30.340 thing. Apparently a majority of Democrats, independents and Republicans all want voter ID

01:07:38.100 in California. It polls really well. It's another one of these 80, 20 things. Now with Democrats,

01:07:46.580 it's a, you know, it's a smaller majority, but it's over 50%. There's not one group

01:07:53.460 Democrat, Republican or independent that doesn't have a pretty solid majority that want a voter ID.

01:08:02.740 Now, apparently it's the Democrat leadership in California that doesn't want it. Doesn't that feel

01:08:10.260 like a confession? Because obviously it's a practical thing to do because it's done in other states

01:08:19.220 in other countries. Obviously it makes your elections more secure and obviously the public wants it.

01:08:27.620 And obviously the public would feel like the election was more valid if they had it. And this

01:08:34.340 is everybody by majority. And yet the Democratic leadership has been completely against it.

01:08:41.780 Why would you do that unless you thought it allowed cheating that kept you in office? It feels like

01:08:48.820 just, you might as well just confess to a crime at this point, because I don't think there's any chance

01:08:56.580 that the Democratic leadership are in favor of this, no ID, unless they're planning to use it to cheat,

01:09:05.300 or they think it works in their favor, cheating wise. So this is so icky. And to imagine that,

01:09:14.020 you know, I live in a state where the Democrat leadership can just ignore the will of the people

01:09:18.980 and do something that looks so corrupt that even, even if you weren't being corrupt, wouldn't you be

01:09:25.780 smart enough to know that it looks corrupt? It doesn't look like anything but corrupt. If you said,

01:09:33.300 but Scott, there's this other reason. No, there's not. There's no other reason. It's purely in the hope

01:09:40.740 of corruption or in support of corruption. There is no other reason the Democrat leadership would be in

01:09:48.340 favor of no voter ID. Let's be real about that. So we'll see where that goes. Probably no place,

01:09:55.860 because the Democrats are in charge in this state. According to Gizmodo,

01:10:02.420 there are a bunch of tech execs and rich people who want to build freedom cities in the US. You know,

01:10:08.340 Trump had said he wants to make some government land, federal land available for building freedom

01:10:14.100 cities. But there's this group that is building, pushing for these libertarian enclaves in Central

01:10:22.020 America. And I think they've made some progress. They're the Freedom Cities Coalition. So what they're

01:10:28.180 trying to do is build communities where they're just well designed and they've got a big corporate

01:10:37.700 kind of corporate, let's say, presence, so that you got jobs and you got housing and you have more of a

01:10:46.900 libertarian, keep the government out of my business kind of a world. So the idea behind them is to be free

01:10:54.980 of government interference, basically. So you'd have the people who organize these freedom cities be

01:11:02.100 in charge of what the rules and local regulations are. And then you could see if wise, rich, successful

01:11:10.420 people who have a lot in common, meaning they want to build a place that just works, just works really

01:11:17.460 well. Let's see if they can. Maybe it'd work, maybe it wouldn't, but it doesn't look like the government

01:11:25.060 would be spending any money. So as an experiment, I like it. Apparently the Trump administration is

01:11:32.500 showing some positive vibes toward the idea. So this is an existing organization. They've got

01:11:40.740 a good history at this point. I've heard of them before. And they have very specific ideas

01:11:47.380 ideas of how to build a freedom city that would be free of all the red tape and government crap.

01:11:55.460 And so that maybe you can build a nice little manufacturing zone with the right kind of workers.

01:12:02.900 So I love the idea of it. And I would say, you can't know if it's going to work until you try.

01:12:09.940 And if you get a bunch of billionaires who are willing to put their own money into it,

01:12:13.220 I hope they're not asking for government money. That would seem the opposite of what they're up to.

01:12:18.260 But yeah, let's try it. Meanwhile, according to Breitbart News, Lee Zeldin over at the

01:12:29.220 Environmental Production Agency, he's canceled $2 billion worth of diversity, equity, and inclusion

01:12:35.860 environmental justice grants. How in the world was that ever a thing?

01:12:45.540 Over $2 billion of DEI? Oh my God. And so he's canceling over 400 DEI and environmental grants.

01:12:55.940 400? My God, across nine grant programs, actually totaling 1.7 billion.

01:13:04.500 $2 billion, bringing their total savings to $2 billion. And here's the funny part. Apparently,

01:13:11.140 the Biden administration spent millions of dollars on a museum to praise their environmental justice work.

01:13:20.980 And their little douchebag museum was the size of a one-bedroom apartment, just blocks from the White 1.00

01:13:30.900 house. And it was costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

01:13:37.380 What kind of bullshit is that? Environmental justice museum.

01:13:44.900 Doesn't it feel like the Democrats were literally just making up stuff? How about I do the environmental DEI

01:13:59.540 justice museum? And I'll be the director. And you'll only have to pay me half a million dollars a year.

01:14:07.460 And we'll build a tiny little museum.

01:14:16.740 And what exactly would you see in that museum? Did you ever say to yourself, you know,

01:14:23.380 I'm going to go to Washington, DC. So we'll, you know, we'll visit the Lincoln Memorial,

01:14:28.980 and we'll see the Capitol and we'll see the Capitol and take a tour of the White House. But boy,

01:14:34.180 we're really, we're really excited about the environmental justice museum.

01:14:38.900 And the, what did Stacey Abrams get? $2 billion to buy appliances, you know, good appliances for 1.00

01:14:49.140 people. None of this seems real. It just seems so insanely criminal and corrupt that, you know,

01:14:58.180 there was a time when I thought there's no way we're going to balance the budget just by getting

01:15:02.820 rid of waste, fraud and abuse. And it's going to have to cut deeper into the bone. But now I think

01:15:08.580 we could, because it seems to me that Democrats are just a criminal organization. And I mean that

01:15:15.140 literally, it seems like Democrats with all the NGOs and the weird suspicious funding, especially for DEI,

01:15:22.180 and especially for environmental stuff, it looks like it's just a criminal organization. And it's being

01:15:28.500 unwound by the Trump administration if we don't get killed by domestic terrorists.

01:15:38.340 Did I see that Steve Bannon had agreed to go on Gavin Newsom's podcast? Is that really going to happen?

01:15:45.620 I saw just a mention on social media, so I'll need a fact check on that. But that would be interesting.

01:15:53.860 I'm pretty sure I'd watch that. Now, I have to give Gavin Newsom some credit. The whole I'm going to do

01:16:01.540 a podcast thing, it's looking smarter every day. It's just looking smarter. And if he keeps having

01:16:08.500 Republicans on, especially the ones who have the most to say, he might be able to pull this off.

01:16:16.660 Because I think he's correctly identified that it's just a great way to communicate. And if he gets the

01:16:25.300 right guess, people will definitely watch it. I don't know. I would be concerned that if he didn't

01:16:33.300 want him to be in a higher office, he's executing pretty well on at least this part of his plan.

01:16:42.020 So I'd worry about that. But Joel Pollack was writing in Breitbart News. There's this new book

01:16:48.020 that's talking about all the bad things in California. It's called, let's see, the book is

01:16:55.700 called Fool's Gold. That was like a Fool's Gold. The radicals, Connors, the subtitle's too long.

01:17:03.620 It's called Fool's Gold. But anyway, it's about all the bad things happening in California.

01:17:07.540 And one of the stories is that Newsom used some government funding to arrange for a bronze bust

01:17:16.900 of himself to be sculpted and put inside City Hall to commemorate his term as mayor.

01:17:24.260 Now, apparently, when he was asked about it, he'd feigned ignorance of the identity of the private

01:17:30.900 donors who funded it. But apparently, it may have been some funds that he had some control over.

01:17:36.260 So let me be fair. If this book were written to be the real secret bad story of Trump, I would say,

01:17:49.140 I don't believe it. Because books that are about all the bad things that one side does,

01:17:55.860 I don't think they're the most credible things in the world, just by their nature.

01:18:01.060 So I don't know if this story is real. And if you don't hear Newsom's version of it,

01:18:05.620 you haven't heard the whole story. So I don't know if it's true, but it's a fun story. And it's a little

01:18:12.900 too on the nose, because you think of Newsom as, you know, sort of a arrogant, self-promoting kind of

01:18:21.300 a guy. So when you hear that he was behind funding his own bust, it sounds kind of perfect. But I'm sure

01:18:29.300 the book is well researched. So I guess the story is that it's in the book. So what is true would be

01:18:37.540 maybe separate from that. Anyway, Chinese scientists figured out how to use a new kind of amino acids,

01:18:47.220 well, not a new kind, but a weaker kind of asset to extract almost 100% of the lithium from old

01:18:52.980 batteries, according to interesting engineering, Amir Callum is writing. Now, that's a pretty big deal.

01:18:59.940 Imagine if you could extract without much effort, 99.99% of all the lithium in a used battery.

01:19:10.740 That's a pretty big deal. And, you know, every day there are new breakthroughs that

01:19:17.380 will increase your heating efficiency, your battery efficiency by 30%.

01:19:22.260 There's a lot going on in this whole battery situation. So it's pretty exciting. I guess

01:19:29.700 this would work on not just car batteries, but even like little batteries. Anyway, so ladies and gentlemen,

01:19:40.020 that's what I had for today. I'm going to say hi to the local subscribers privately,

01:19:45.700 but for the rest of you, thanks for joining. And I will see you

01:19:48.820 tomorrow, same time, same place, if you're on YouTube or Rumble or X. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 12, 2025

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