Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2785 CWSA 03⧸21⧸25

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:00:51.000 Oh, that's some good stuff.

00:00:52.560 Well, I have it on good authority that anxiety is high today for a lot of people.

00:01:02.120 I think the news is making people anxious.

00:01:04.400 But I'm here to make that all go away.

00:01:08.140 So all of your anxiety, you can already feel it draining out of your body, can't you?

00:01:12.920 Oh, you can.

00:01:14.080 Do some Huberman breathing while you're listening.

00:01:17.520 That's two long inhales through your nose, one after another, followed by exhaling out

00:01:24.740 your mouth.

00:01:25.580 And you'll have to do it three times.

00:01:28.280 Your whole body will feel different.

00:01:30.560 But speaking of health, did you know that there's a new study?

00:01:37.880 You won't believe it, but it turns out that coffee is good for you.

00:01:41.260 There's a study the Journal of Nutrition is writing about, in which they found out that

00:01:47.120 consuming more than two cups of coffee, as long as it's not sweetened, it was associated

00:01:53.860 with reduced overall cancer incidence and mortality.

00:01:58.420 That's right.

00:01:59.660 Coffee can help you prevent cancer, according to science, which is never wrong.

00:02:06.240 And this is kind of interesting.

00:02:11.160 You know how, for your entire life, you've complained about how, yeah, they can't even

00:02:16.820 predict the weather tomorrow.

00:02:18.960 You know, how are they going to do this or that when they can't even predict tomorrow's

00:02:22.700 weather?

00:02:23.800 Well, apparently there's an AI-driven method, according to The Guardian, that will be able

00:02:30.560 to predict the weather with very little resources.

00:02:33.480 Something like a single researcher with a desktop computer will be able to have more accurate

00:02:41.620 forecasts than all the computers that they're using now to do forecasts.

00:02:46.340 With way less energy, thousands of times less computing power.

00:02:52.720 So you'll be able to sit at your desk and predict what your weather will be tomorrow.

00:02:58.260 How about that?

00:02:59.020 So I guess the job of a news weather person might be a risk when you can just go to your

00:03:08.400 computer and it will have a better idea than all the experts.

00:03:12.000 Well, as you know, Trump signed an executive order to get rid of the Department of Education

00:03:17.960 Education and probably had one of the best, I guess, presentations.

00:03:26.220 So he was surrounded by school-age kids who were all at their own little desks and they

00:03:32.120 all had their own little executive orders.

00:03:35.820 So he signs his executive order while the kids are signing their executive orders.

00:03:40.100 It was impossibly cute.

00:03:43.540 But the funny thing is, you know, the reason that they're getting rid of the Department of

00:03:49.760 Education, the critics say it's bad for the children.

00:03:54.720 So he surrounds himself with all these happy children.

00:03:57.400 And then Trump says that giving the power back to the states might be better for the teachers

00:04:12.780 than what they were getting before.

00:04:15.240 So it's good news for the teachers.

00:04:19.760 But the executive order can't actually get rid of it.

00:04:24.420 You still need Congress to vote on it.

00:04:26.340 I guess he thinks he has the votes.

00:04:28.320 If only the Republicans agree, they can vote it out.

00:04:32.540 But the executive order can kind of gut it.

00:04:35.640 You know, it can stop it from functioning, even though it still exists.

00:04:39.640 So that's happening.

00:04:41.720 But yeah, Trump says teachers will be, quote, better rewarded with the education in the hands

00:04:47.200 of the states.

00:04:48.360 Now, let me give you how the news has treated this.

00:04:53.440 Don't you think the most important question about the Department of Education is what will

00:05:02.180 be different if it doesn't exist?

00:05:06.040 How many of you can answer that question?

00:05:08.000 Most of you, if you're Republican, your answer to the question would be, well, I guess it

00:05:14.980 didn't do anything because, you know, scores of tests never went up.

00:05:20.920 So I guess it never did anything.

00:05:22.720 But that's a little oversimplified.

00:05:25.440 Don't you think?

00:05:26.700 A little oversimplified?

00:05:28.460 And then the Democrats are being told it would be the end of education or something.

00:05:36.640 They think it will cut funding for the disabled and cut funding for low-income people.

00:05:45.520 But it hasn't even been decided if the funding that was once in the Department of Education

00:05:55.940 will be distributed to the states.

00:05:59.220 So we don't even know if it will cut anything.

00:06:04.260 It might just be a, you know, less administrative costs because you just get rid of an entire

00:06:10.040 department, but maybe, maybe the disabled will get the same amount of money. 0.95

00:06:15.840 It'll just be distributed to the states instead.

00:06:18.400 Maybe.

00:06:19.200 So nobody really even knows what this is.

00:06:22.740 This is one of the biggest stories in the country.

00:06:25.880 And how many of you even knew what would be cut or what would be different?

00:06:32.660 I would say almost none of us.

00:06:34.700 I had to actually, you know, do a little research even to get as far as I got, and I don't think

00:06:41.960 I quite understand it.

00:06:43.820 So it's kind of a funny one.

00:06:46.300 I think Trump's doing a good job of just acting like no scores went up, and so I guess we're

00:06:52.260 in good shape.

00:06:53.800 Anyway, so if it can't be defended better than it has been defended, I think that's a pretty

00:07:01.340 good reason to get rid of it, because the arguments for it only make sense if the states don't

00:07:09.380 pick up that slack, and we don't know yet that they won't, because there might be funding

00:07:14.500 given to the states.

00:07:16.020 We'll see.

00:07:18.460 Well, meanwhile, Bernie Sanders and AOC are doing their anti-oligarch tour together.

00:07:25.600 So they're in Las Vegas, I guess, yesterday.

00:07:29.520 It must be just so hard for them to go to Las Vegas and do an anti-oligarch.

00:07:36.740 So the funny thing is, according to journalist Batya Ungar Sargan, who she was on Fox Business,

00:07:45.080 and she says that there are twice as many billionaires backing, who backed Kamala Harris compared to

00:07:51.760 Trump, twice as many, and that 65% of the rich vote Democrat, so rich people are two-thirds voting

00:08:00.440 Democrat, and 75% of hedge fund managers also vote Democrat, and so there you have it.

00:08:11.540 So once again, the Democrats are the living embodiment of the thing that they're accusing

00:08:18.480 Republicans of, do you remember when they accused Republicans of being domestic terrorists, or

00:08:26.660 at least the white supremacists, which they conflate with being Republican, and then we're

00:08:31.820 watching all kinds of domestic terrorism, that's 100% Democrat. 0.55

00:08:39.240 So it's a very consistent pattern.

00:08:42.420 Whatever they're accusing you of, that's probably what they're doing.

00:08:46.300 It's like a confession.

00:08:49.000 I was reading the Amuse account on X that had that take.

00:08:57.560 Now, to me, the best filter on Democrats is the theater kids, because they seem to pick things

00:09:07.380 that can work well in a theatrical setting.

00:09:10.580 So they send theatrical AOC and theatrical Bernie Sanders, and then they make them, you know,

00:09:18.760 sort of like Lewis and Martin.

00:09:24.700 So they turn them into like an entertainment duo.

00:09:30.480 What would be better than Lewis and Martin?

00:09:33.080 That's an old reference.

00:09:35.080 Is there a newer couple?

00:09:36.680 Well, anyway, so it seems to me this anti-oligarch thing is just like a play they took on the road.

00:09:46.760 It's just completely unmoored from reality in any way.

00:09:51.440 So Trump's got like a few billionaires to back him.

00:09:54.480 And, you know, obviously Musk is the biggest one.

00:09:58.560 But it seems completely artificial, as do the Tesla things, as do a lot of things that do.

00:10:06.200 So the theater kids put on a play, take it on the road.

00:10:11.640 All right, let's check in with the other theater kids.

00:10:13.700 We've got Gavin Newsom, who apparently claimed on his podcast that no one in his office ever used the word Latinx, Latinx.

00:10:28.660 Remember for a while we were told that the Latin or the Hispanic community liked to be called Latinx, with an X on the end?

00:10:39.880 And you never heard anybody ever use it in the real world.

00:10:43.680 And it turns out the Hispanic community wasn't really crazy about it at all.

00:10:48.640 Well, here's the fun part.

00:10:50.780 So poor Gavin Newsom is trying to become more of a common sense middle ground guy, so he has some chance of national office.

00:11:00.300 We assume.

00:11:01.380 Can't read his mind.

00:11:02.280 But it looks like he's trying to position himself for running for president.

00:11:07.460 And but Erin Burnett of CNN on her show, she runs a compilation of Newsom actually saying Latinx without being without joking about it.

00:11:20.760 So apparently he's the person in his own office that was using it in public a number of times, and he wasn't using it ironically or as a as a criticism.

00:11:33.340 So now he's trying to sell us that no one in his office ever used the word while while we have video compilation of him using the word typical.

00:11:42.200 So I'd like to give the Democrats another pro tip.

00:11:49.280 I'm good at the pro tips.

00:11:51.540 If you're trying to be the next Joe Rogan, the thing you can't leave out is the authentic part.

00:12:00.660 But the thing that the Democrats get wrong every time is they literally think that authentic means pretending to be authentic.

00:12:15.100 That's what Newsom's doing.

00:12:17.060 He's pretending to be authentic to try to become the next Joe Rogan without quite understanding that the public can see through inauthentic so easily.

00:12:28.840 It's what we can pick up just so easily.

00:12:32.760 And then think about Joe Rogan.

00:12:36.000 So how long has he been in the public eye?

00:12:40.440 Is there anything he's ever done that ever struck you as inauthentic?

00:12:47.840 Nothing, right?

00:12:49.300 Probably literally nothing.

00:12:51.600 Yeah.

00:12:51.860 Yes.

00:12:52.200 He likes to hunt animals and cook them up.

00:12:55.500 Yes.

00:12:55.740 He likes to do hard workouts.

00:12:57.100 Yes, he likes the MMA.

00:13:00.820 Like what part of anything he's ever done strikes you as even a little bit, even a little bit inauthentic?

00:13:09.580 Nothing.

00:13:11.500 And that's the part that they don't get.

00:13:14.280 And it feels like they can't get it.

00:13:16.080 It's completely unavailable because their world, I mean this literally, this is not hyperbole, the Democrat world is completely artificial.

00:13:27.800 So they don't live in a world where connecting to anything in the real part of the world has ever made sense.

00:13:35.640 It's a complete artificial, theatrical, imaginary, we can read minds, we see domestic terrorists under every chair, we can read Trump's mind, and we know he's going to steal your democracy.

00:13:51.500 And it's completely artificial.

00:13:55.160 So I think they've actually lost the ability to even police themselves with authenticity.

00:14:02.600 They just don't have it.

00:14:04.900 And I'm not even sure they know what it feels like or what it looks like or what it would, you know, how you would act authentic.

00:14:11.580 I guess that's the problem.

00:14:13.200 They act authentic.

00:14:16.700 Anyway, the authentic part is not optional if you want to be the next Jill Rogan.

00:14:24.220 Here's another pattern I think I'm detecting.

00:14:28.280 See if you detect any pattern.

00:14:31.520 So I think former Democrat Representative Cori Bush, so I guess she was defeated recently,

00:14:39.600 but she's the member of Cori Bush, she was one of the squad kind of people.

00:14:44.640 Her husband was charged with two counts of wire fraud, something about accepting payments during COVID, I think,

00:14:53.300 and allegedly lied to get those payments.

00:14:58.820 Now, does anybody see a pattern?

00:15:02.360 Has anybody noticed that prominent, I'm going to just say prominent,

00:15:07.820 and has anybody noticed that prominent Democrats are so often married to criminals?

00:15:15.920 Is that my imagination?

00:15:19.060 How many times have we seen prominent Democrat?

00:15:25.380 Husband in trouble.

00:15:26.360 And I think it could go the other way.

00:15:29.880 You know, prominent Democrat.

00:15:31.940 Wife is collecting money from USAID NGO for doing just about nothing. 1.00

00:15:39.760 All their spouses seem like criminals. 1.00

00:15:43.280 Now, I suppose the politicians themselves have some questions to answer to,

00:15:49.000 but it does seem like a pattern.

00:15:51.560 The Democrats either marry criminals or spies.

00:15:56.680 If you see a Democrat that's not married to a criminal,

00:16:00.780 I would suspect that a spouse of being a spy,

00:16:03.920 because they only have two kinds of spouses, criminals and spies. 0.99

00:16:09.200 Anyway, Greta Van Susteren,

00:16:15.880 who has worked for a number of different news outlets,

00:16:19.720 has revealed on a podcast with Tara Palmieri,

00:16:25.240 that MSNBC is the only one who told her what she could and could not say.

00:16:30.920 Are you surprised that MSNBC didn't let her have her own opinions? 0.97

00:16:37.880 She had to agree with sort of the company opinion on stuff.

00:16:43.180 And Greta said, that's why I got fired at MSNBC. 1.00

00:16:47.280 When MSNBC tried to tell me what to do,

00:16:50.300 I thought they were joking.

00:16:52.600 I thought they were joking.

00:16:54.120 Imagine working for a company that's so corrupt

00:17:01.720 that when they tell you honestly what they want from you,

00:17:06.080 you think, well, that can't be true.

00:17:09.940 You actually think it must be a joke,

00:17:12.980 because your brain can't wrap itself around the fact

00:17:15.640 that they were never a real news organization,

00:17:18.840 that they were a propaganda outfit by design.

00:17:24.120 And that's why I got fired,

00:17:26.140 because they said I needed to play ball,

00:17:28.140 and that didn't work.

00:17:30.020 Now, what else do you need to know about MSNBC?

00:17:34.760 The main takeaway from that

00:17:37.440 is if you know somebody who's getting their news primarily from MSNBC,

00:17:43.420 they're not really getting news, are they?

00:17:48.000 You know, obviously,

00:17:49.720 most of our news sources are biased left or biased right.

00:17:54.340 So bias is no big deal.

00:17:56.540 But there's a really big difference

00:17:58.680 between having some bias

00:18:00.940 and being told what you can and cannot say on the air.

00:18:03.940 That's a big difference.

00:18:06.480 So MSNBC, propaganda.

00:18:11.560 All right, here's a story I've been waiting for.

00:18:13.460 So J.D. Vance, Vice President Vance,

00:18:21.760 was talking to a podcast,

00:18:24.480 I guess it was a Daily Color podcast

00:18:28.620 with Vince Coglianese.

00:18:32.740 Coglianese?

00:18:33.640 I think I'm pronouncing that wrong.

00:18:36.040 But so Vance was asked

00:18:38.620 how he's a different Vice President than Kamala Harris was.

00:18:44.360 And Vance said,

00:18:46.200 he said, I swear he said this.

00:18:48.180 This is real.

00:18:48.900 I'm not making this up.

00:18:50.420 Vance said,

00:18:51.300 well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting.

00:18:55.020 And then he laughed.

00:19:01.120 But here's the thing.

00:19:03.220 So the New York Post is reporting it as he joked.

00:19:07.040 That he joked.

00:19:09.600 Was he joking?

00:19:10.860 Does anybody remember 2019?

00:19:15.900 And there were a number of pro-Trump people

00:19:19.880 who joked, we joked,

00:19:23.260 about Biden and his mental incapacity.

00:19:28.760 Do you remember that?

00:19:29.640 And everybody said,

00:19:30.420 oh, you're joking.

00:19:32.220 And people like me would say,

00:19:34.180 no, I mean,

00:19:36.040 I might be saying it in a funny way,

00:19:38.040 but I'm not joking.

00:19:41.280 He quite obviously has some mental decline.

00:19:44.560 And it quite obviously is going to get worse

00:19:47.240 in the next few years if he gets elected.

00:19:49.620 Yeah, we think it's funny on some level.

00:19:53.080 It's funny that they would even run him for office.

00:19:56.180 But we weren't joking, joking,

00:20:00.080 you know, joking in quotes.

00:20:01.760 It was more like that's an actual observation

00:20:04.980 that everybody could see.

00:20:06.540 And the funny part is that people

00:20:08.680 weren't admitting they could see it.

00:20:11.140 Now that's funny.

00:20:13.700 And to me,

00:20:15.060 this feels like 2019 all over again.

00:20:18.680 Oh, yeah, Kamala Harris.

00:20:21.440 That guy, that guy joked.

00:20:24.000 That guy joked about her drinking 1.00

00:20:25.660 before she goes in public.

00:20:28.300 Yeah, well, it was a joke,

00:20:31.380 in quotes.

00:20:33.500 But do you think he didn't mean it?

00:20:36.540 Do you think that the people

00:20:38.140 who really know what's going on,

00:20:39.980 the most insider people,

00:20:42.160 whether they're Republicans or Democrats,

00:20:45.020 you think they don't know

00:20:46.320 that Kamala Harris has a substance problem? 1.00

00:20:50.680 Do you think they really don't know?

00:20:53.820 Is it just us jokers?

00:20:56.880 Well, the jokers keep joking about it.

00:21:00.120 It is a joke.

00:21:03.520 But it's only funny

00:21:04.960 because it's obviously true.

00:21:07.680 If it were not obviously true,

00:21:10.480 do you think I would have brought it up

00:21:11.920 more than once?

00:21:13.420 I mean, maybe I would have floated it more than,

00:21:16.120 you know, I might have floated it once

00:21:17.720 to see if it was funny.

00:21:19.360 But I wouldn't be hammering on it

00:21:21.280 like a million times like I am

00:21:23.400 unless I literally thought

00:21:25.340 the joke is that

00:21:27.600 so many people are pretending

00:21:29.120 they can't see it.

00:21:30.840 Now, that's funny

00:21:31.700 because it's just 2019 all over again.

00:21:35.520 You know, you think to yourself,

00:21:37.140 well, the news will learn

00:21:38.620 from their mistakes.

00:21:40.240 And if so many people

00:21:41.620 could clearly see

00:21:42.680 that Biden was mentally declining,

00:21:45.140 you know, at a fast rate in 2019,

00:21:47.160 if so many of us could see it,

00:21:50.320 well, obviously,

00:21:51.100 we'll make an adjustment.

00:21:52.640 So the next time

00:21:54.360 something like that happens,

00:21:55.980 we won't be caught off guard

00:21:57.440 and we'll say,

00:21:58.480 oh, yeah, we can see it early too.

00:22:01.580 But we're right back

00:22:02.720 in the same situation,

00:22:04.720 pretending that they can't see it.

00:22:07.420 Oh, it's just a joke.

00:22:09.020 J.D. Vance,

00:22:09.780 you're just telling a joke.

00:22:12.220 And then how many outlets

00:22:14.880 on the left carried that story?

00:22:17.020 I didn't see it anywhere.

00:22:21.280 I saw it in the New York Post,

00:22:23.980 which, you know, leans right.

00:22:26.920 Did the entire news enterprise

00:22:30.840 that is mostly left-leaning,

00:22:33.740 did all of them ignore

00:22:35.200 that the vice president

00:22:36.640 of the United States

00:22:37.700 joked that his predecessor

00:22:40.840 was drunk during meetings?

00:22:43.520 Did they think that wasn't newsworthy?

00:22:45.420 No, it's obvious

00:22:47.600 that they can see it.

00:22:49.240 They just can't say it.

00:22:51.840 They would rather,

00:22:53.000 they would rather back

00:22:54.560 somebody who couldn't possibly win

00:22:56.780 as long as it makes

00:22:59.200 other people unhappy, I guess.

00:23:01.660 They seem to be more about destruction

00:23:03.900 and making people unhappy.

00:23:06.100 It doesn't seem to have

00:23:07.260 any kind of like,

00:23:08.380 you know, overall strategy to it.

00:23:11.860 Anyway.

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00:23:26.340 You're richer than you think.

00:23:29.160 Let's talk about tariffs.

00:23:31.680 You know, I keep hearing

00:23:32.840 that the stock market

00:23:34.200 is in turmoil

00:23:35.920 because all the smart people

00:23:37.940 can't forecast

00:23:39.100 what's going to happen

00:23:40.000 with tariffs.

00:23:41.000 And it creates

00:23:41.660 great uncertainty.

00:23:42.620 To which I say,

00:23:44.600 really?

00:23:46.280 I think it only creates

00:23:47.780 great uncertainty

00:23:48.660 to people who are really,

00:23:50.140 really bad

00:23:50.800 at risk management.

00:23:52.560 Let me explain

00:23:53.660 the risk

00:23:54.260 of tariffs.

00:23:57.640 One thing

00:23:58.520 that might happen

00:23:59.300 is that

00:24:01.360 we'll have a little bump

00:24:02.700 in,

00:24:03.380 you know,

00:24:04.760 maybe products

00:24:05.980 coming through,

00:24:06.920 some things will be

00:24:07.580 more expensive,

00:24:08.580 a little bit of bump

00:24:09.560 in inflation.

00:24:10.180 But I guarantee you

00:24:13.220 that when the dust settles,

00:24:16.280 America will have 0.99

00:24:17.240 better trade agreements

00:24:18.820 than we had before.

00:24:21.240 Now,

00:24:22.080 does anybody doubt that?

00:24:25.760 The tariff stuff

00:24:27.220 is the closest thing

00:24:28.600 to a guaranteed outcome

00:24:30.360 that you'll ever see.

00:24:31.840 And I think

00:24:32.320 Lutnik does the best example

00:24:34.260 of basically making that case.

00:24:36.800 Oh,

00:24:37.620 well,

00:24:37.760 actually,

00:24:38.240 Mr.

00:24:38.560 Wonderful

00:24:38.920 probably does the best case

00:24:41.180 to make it.

00:24:42.760 Leary.

00:24:46.800 There's only one way

00:24:47.880 this can go.

00:24:49.500 The other countries

00:24:50.740 will say,

00:24:51.260 okay,

00:24:51.460 we can't take this heat

00:24:52.740 because our economy

00:24:54.000 won't last as long

00:24:55.680 as America's.

00:24:56.500 So we're going to have to,

00:24:57.560 you know,

00:24:57.940 offer them something.

00:24:58.760 So if you knew for sure

00:25:02.160 that the worst thing

00:25:04.220 that could happen

00:25:04.820 is there might be

00:25:05.720 several months

00:25:07.120 of disruption,

00:25:07.840 but when the dust settles,

00:25:11.220 the U.S.

00:25:11.820 is going to have

00:25:12.500 substantially better,

00:25:14.440 maybe not as good

00:25:15.420 as we wanted,

00:25:16.700 but substantially better

00:25:18.380 trade agreements.

00:25:20.140 That should

00:25:21.420 make your stock market

00:25:23.660 go up.

00:25:24.300 What is wrong

00:25:26.600 with the risk management

00:25:28.900 people

00:25:29.380 who are driving

00:25:30.460 the stocks down?

00:25:32.200 Do they really believe

00:25:33.520 that it's chaos?

00:25:35.700 Do they really believe

00:25:37.120 that because Trump

00:25:38.100 seems to be unpredictable

00:25:40.180 and he's changing,

00:25:42.220 you know,

00:25:42.660 changing things

00:25:43.440 based on the situation

00:25:45.000 on the ground,

00:25:45.900 so there's a lot

00:25:46.840 of roiling going on,

00:25:48.960 do they really think

00:25:49.900 that the outcome

00:25:50.540 of that

00:25:50.960 has really

00:25:51.920 much of any chance

00:25:53.600 of being negative

00:25:55.200 in the long run?

00:25:57.260 These are professional

00:25:58.660 risk management people

00:26:00.180 and they think

00:26:01.360 that this won't work out

00:26:02.680 in the long run?

00:26:04.200 This is as close

00:26:05.980 to a guarantee

00:26:06.800 as you could ever get

00:26:08.740 in economics,

00:26:10.000 right?

00:26:10.300 There's no guarantees,

00:26:11.460 but it's as close

00:26:12.660 as you can get.

00:26:14.540 I don't think,

00:26:16.320 you know,

00:26:16.560 if there were

00:26:16.980 a betting market

00:26:17.900 and I could say,

00:26:18.960 okay,

00:26:19.800 make me a bet

00:26:20.700 in the third year

00:26:22.480 of the Trump

00:26:23.320 term.

00:26:26.140 Will our tariff

00:26:27.540 situation be better

00:26:28.980 or worse

00:26:29.700 than it is now?

00:26:32.060 It's close

00:26:33.000 to guaranteed

00:26:33.700 to be better.

00:26:35.580 Now,

00:26:36.440 whether that takes

00:26:37.460 a year

00:26:38.420 or a month

00:26:39.100 or,

00:26:39.780 it's just guaranteed.

00:26:41.940 I mean,

00:26:42.200 I don't know

00:26:42.560 how it could go

00:26:43.080 any other direction,

00:26:43.960 really.

00:26:46.160 So,

00:26:46.840 I'm not sure

00:26:47.580 that we have

00:26:48.420 the smartest people

00:26:49.320 driving the stock market.

00:26:54.200 All right.

00:26:55.100 Then there's a story

00:26:56.100 Blaze Media is covering

00:26:57.820 that apparently,

00:26:59.500 I didn't even know this,

00:27:01.060 but America

00:27:01.700 and Mexico

00:27:02.340 have had some kind

00:27:03.240 of long-running

00:27:04.660 water deal.

00:27:06.820 And part of the deal

00:27:08.300 is Mexico

00:27:09.280 gives us water

00:27:10.260 and part of the deal

00:27:11.860 is we give Mexico 0.53

00:27:13.000 water.

00:27:14.200 Now,

00:27:14.560 I'm assuming

00:27:15.100 that they give us

00:27:17.020 water from places

00:27:18.100 they don't need us

00:27:18.860 so much

00:27:19.400 and we need them

00:27:20.300 more

00:27:20.560 and we give them

00:27:21.960 water from places

00:27:22.780 we've got a little extra

00:27:23.860 and we didn't need it

00:27:25.620 where that water is.

00:27:27.180 So,

00:27:27.480 otherwise,

00:27:27.880 it wouldn't make sense.

00:27:28.700 We would keep our water,

00:27:29.760 they would keep their water.

00:27:31.140 So,

00:27:31.400 there must be

00:27:31.900 some situation

00:27:32.760 where it just makes sense

00:27:34.660 that we use their water

00:27:35.840 and they use it.

00:27:36.480 But apparently,

00:27:37.540 they have not been

00:27:38.580 meeting their deal

00:27:39.640 under this 1944

00:27:41.060 water-sharing treaty.

00:27:42.600 And so,

00:27:44.320 Trump,

00:27:45.300 with I think

00:27:45.840 the backing

00:27:46.340 of Ted Cruz

00:27:47.300 who has been

00:27:47.860 pushing for this,

00:27:49.880 just said,

00:27:50.560 all right,

00:27:50.920 so we're going to

00:27:51.400 cut off your water

00:27:52.240 to Tijuana.

00:27:54.800 Yeah,

00:27:55.400 you either have to

00:27:56.640 fix it on your end

00:27:57.900 or goodbye water.

00:28:01.180 You know,

00:28:01.400 so,

00:28:02.280 so it looks like

00:28:03.280 the U.S.

00:28:04.060 will deny Mexico's 1.00

00:28:05.400 water too.

00:28:06.780 Now,

00:28:07.000 I don't,

00:28:07.400 I don't know

00:28:08.120 if that means

00:28:08.780 Tijuana gets no water.

00:28:10.380 I doubt it.

00:28:13.320 But maybe,

00:28:14.480 maybe not as much

00:28:15.400 as they wanted.

00:28:17.800 This seems

00:28:18.720 exactly right.

00:28:20.580 So,

00:28:21.300 I love it

00:28:22.580 that my country

00:28:23.300 is saying,

00:28:23.940 wait a minute,

00:28:24.640 you have to do

00:28:25.640 your end to this

00:28:26.540 and water is not free.

00:28:28.700 So,

00:28:29.800 if we don't get your water,

00:28:31.020 you don't get our water.

00:28:33.140 Looks right on point to me.

00:28:35.240 Here's another good news.

00:28:37.420 By the way,

00:28:38.200 remember,

00:28:38.880 today is a

00:28:40.360 theme

00:28:40.720 is I'm trying

00:28:41.500 to drive down

00:28:42.280 your anxiety.

00:28:43.620 In my opinion,

00:28:44.960 this is my actual opinion,

00:28:46.920 things are going

00:28:47.860 really well.

00:28:50.480 Like,

00:28:51.080 really well.

00:28:52.240 It just

00:28:52.840 maybe isn't

00:28:53.820 really obvious,

00:28:55.000 you know,

00:28:55.740 from the lens of,

00:28:57.560 you know,

00:28:57.860 everything's on fire

00:28:58.920 and the headlines

00:28:59.860 and we're all fighting

00:29:01.220 about everything.

00:29:02.580 But things in general,

00:29:04.200 the biggest things,

00:29:06.040 are going really well.

00:29:08.240 Here's another one.

00:29:09.780 So,

00:29:10.300 of course,

00:29:10.740 one of our biggest

00:29:11.540 problems in the United States

00:29:13.040 is access to rare earth minerals.

00:29:15.800 Well,

00:29:16.580 according to Financial Times,

00:29:19.100 Trump is evoking,

00:29:20.720 invoking a wartime's power 0.98

00:29:22.500 to increase U.S. mineral production.

00:29:25.300 So,

00:29:26.260 you probably knew this existed.

00:29:27.780 I think we talked about it

00:29:28.920 during the pandemic.

00:29:31.120 There's a thing called

00:29:32.100 the Defense Production Act.

00:29:34.380 And if the country is in trouble

00:29:36.260 and you need to just

00:29:38.520 sort of quickly

00:29:39.500 ramp up production,

00:29:41.100 typically,

00:29:42.120 we're thinking of a war situation,

00:29:44.120 you can invoke

00:29:47.240 this wartime powers thing

00:29:48.760 and then you can

00:29:50.040 cut a lot of corners.

00:29:51.840 So,

00:29:52.440 you can get around

00:29:53.240 a lot of regulations.

00:29:55.660 Here are the things

00:29:56.780 that will be

00:29:58.380 immediately

00:29:58.980 changed by this act.

00:30:03.100 So,

00:30:03.600 it's going to speed up

00:30:04.480 the review of projects.

00:30:06.080 So,

00:30:06.420 if you had a mining project

00:30:08.140 that you wanted to do

00:30:09.120 in the U.S.

00:30:09.740 to get some rare minerals

00:30:11.200 here

00:30:11.780 or even somewhere else,

00:30:12.920 I suppose,

00:30:14.080 then you're going to get

00:30:15.480 a much faster review,

00:30:17.680 which could be

00:30:18.780 the number one thing

00:30:21.140 that makes something

00:30:21.980 uneconomical

00:30:23.300 that it might take you

00:30:24.600 years to get it

00:30:25.460 approved.

00:30:27.120 So,

00:30:27.420 if it goes from years

00:30:28.420 to get it approved

00:30:29.340 to,

00:30:30.340 I think we can get this done

00:30:31.620 in a couple weeks,

00:30:33.460 that should

00:30:34.340 vastly improve

00:30:37.160 our odds

00:30:37.720 of creating

00:30:38.260 our own

00:30:38.780 rare earth minerals.

00:30:40.600 also,

00:30:42.860 Trump says

00:30:43.680 that there will be

00:30:45.020 a mineral deal

00:30:46.040 with Ukraine,

00:30:47.000 despite what the news

00:30:48.520 is reporting,

00:30:50.040 because I thought

00:30:50.960 the news was saying

00:30:51.880 the mineral deal

00:30:52.620 was dead,

00:30:53.680 but Trump is reporting

00:30:55.140 it as very much alive

00:30:56.580 and might be signed soon.

00:30:59.800 So,

00:31:00.400 I don't know

00:31:00.760 which one of those

00:31:01.400 is true,

00:31:02.540 but

00:31:03.100 it does suggest

00:31:05.420 that Trump's looking

00:31:06.340 everywhere

00:31:07.440 and anywhere

00:31:08.020 for rare earth minerals,

00:31:09.740 which I like.

00:31:10.600 you might know

00:31:12.060 that Congo, 0.96

00:31:13.140 the country of Congo,

00:31:15.220 is in such a,

00:31:17.880 let's say,

00:31:18.780 a bad state

00:31:19.860 in terms of war

00:31:20.760 that they've offered

00:31:22.760 that they will

00:31:23.600 share their

00:31:24.840 rare earth mineral wealth

00:31:26.580 with the United States

00:31:27.740 if we could help them

00:31:29.380 militarily

00:31:30.100 essentially survive.

00:31:32.820 And,

00:31:33.440 apparently,

00:31:34.200 that's on the table.

00:31:35.060 I don't think

00:31:36.140 a deal

00:31:36.520 has been made,

00:31:38.080 but

00:31:38.320 Congo

00:31:40.240 is one of the places

00:31:41.360 that the U.S.

00:31:42.240 is looking at

00:31:42.980 as a source,

00:31:44.120 so I don't know

00:31:44.840 what that would look like.

00:31:46.040 And then,

00:31:46.380 part of the reason

00:31:46.920 Trump liked

00:31:47.620 Greenland

00:31:48.380 is because of

00:31:49.140 the mineral,

00:31:49.960 rare earth minerals.

00:31:51.240 So,

00:31:51.820 we're also looking

00:31:52.460 at federal lands

00:31:53.720 for mining,

00:31:55.020 the rare earth minerals.

00:31:56.160 We're looking at

00:31:56.980 loans for,

00:31:58.340 federal loans

00:31:59.140 for companies

00:32:00.400 to,

00:32:01.520 evolved.

00:32:02.800 And,

00:32:03.780 let me summarize that.

00:32:06.060 We have long said

00:32:07.520 one of our biggest

00:32:08.740 vulnerabilities to China

00:32:10.300 and one of our biggest

00:32:12.000 limiting factors

00:32:13.020 to,

00:32:13.840 you know,

00:32:14.420 all kinds of

00:32:15.200 technological progress

00:32:16.460 is our,

00:32:17.520 is our shortage of,

00:32:19.880 or,

00:32:20.520 let's say,

00:32:21.000 the risk

00:32:21.660 to our supply chain

00:32:22.940 of rare earth minerals.

00:32:24.500 This looks like

00:32:25.540 exactly the right response,

00:32:27.880 doesn't it?

00:32:29.800 So,

00:32:30.460 again,

00:32:31.600 you know,

00:32:31.980 I'm just going to

00:32:32.780 give you all the good news.

00:32:35.060 If I were to design

00:32:36.560 the perfect response

00:32:39.120 to,

00:32:39.700 we don't have enough

00:32:40.420 rare earth minerals

00:32:41.360 in our pipeline

00:32:42.300 that are secure,

00:32:43.760 it would look

00:32:44.540 exactly like this.

00:32:46.020 It would be

00:32:46.700 the War Powers Act.

00:32:48.340 It would be

00:32:48.720 federal lands.

00:32:49.740 It would be,

00:32:50.420 we're going to get it anywhere.

00:32:51.560 We're going to increase

00:32:52.400 the rate of approvals.

00:32:54.520 We're going to give loans.

00:32:56.080 This is everything.

00:32:57.980 This is right on point.

00:33:00.420 Excellent.

00:33:00.820 In other good news,

00:33:04.660 Trump is backing

00:33:06.260 every form

00:33:07.360 of efficient energy.

00:33:10.100 So,

00:33:10.380 he's not big on windmills

00:33:11.880 because they haven't

00:33:12.800 really proven themselves.

00:33:14.860 And,

00:33:15.260 he's not anti-solar,

00:33:17.380 but,

00:33:17.680 you know,

00:33:18.040 solar is going to do its thing.

00:33:19.840 But,

00:33:20.360 he is,

00:33:20.680 he is pro-nuclear.

00:33:22.880 He's pro-drilling like crazy.

00:33:24.720 He's pro-getting rid

00:33:26.300 of regulations.

00:33:27.360 He's pro,

00:33:27.860 I think there was something

00:33:29.220 about drilling in the Antarctic.

00:33:31.900 And,

00:33:32.460 he's even pro-coal.

00:33:34.600 Now,

00:33:35.220 if I were going to tell you

00:33:36.640 that you had a president

00:33:38.380 who was just

00:33:39.060 super pro-energy,

00:33:41.320 and he was going to do

00:33:42.380 everything he could

00:33:43.260 to make energy,

00:33:44.700 you know,

00:33:45.380 just bigger

00:33:46.100 in the United States,

00:33:47.480 what would you think

00:33:48.680 is the prospects

00:33:49.860 of the United States

00:33:51.080 for thriving

00:33:52.820 in the future?

00:33:53.900 And,

00:33:54.240 the answer is

00:33:54.900 really,

00:33:56.080 really good.

00:33:56.680 because if you could

00:33:58.300 only use one thing

00:33:59.540 to predict

00:34:00.200 how a country

00:34:01.220 is going to go,

00:34:02.400 it would be

00:34:02.900 their access to energy.

00:34:04.960 It would be

00:34:05.660 the one thing

00:34:06.440 that largely

00:34:08.140 predicts the future

00:34:09.440 of the economy.

00:34:11.320 And,

00:34:11.640 Trump is,

00:34:12.320 you know,

00:34:13.100 seemingly

00:34:13.460 all in

00:34:14.820 on doing

00:34:15.960 exactly the right stuff

00:34:17.440 in exactly

00:34:18.520 the right area

00:34:19.300 of the economy,

00:34:20.120 energy.

00:34:20.700 So,

00:34:20.940 he is right on point

00:34:21.980 on that.

00:34:22.660 So,

00:34:22.820 that looks good.

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00:35:23.920 Here's some probably

00:35:26.920 fake news

00:35:27.900 from the New York Times.

00:35:29.540 So the New York Times

00:35:30.420 got an anonymous

00:35:32.660 American officials.

00:35:35.080 So it's the New York Times.

00:35:37.320 It's a story

00:35:38.400 that's bad for Trump,

00:35:39.740 if it were true.

00:35:41.880 And it comes from

00:35:42.840 anonymous American officials

00:35:45.100 involved in the

00:35:47.160 military-industrial complex.

00:35:51.380 So does that sound like

00:35:55.400 it's going to be true?

00:35:56.220 I haven't even told you

00:35:57.060 what the story is.

00:35:58.480 But without even knowing

00:35:59.760 what the story is,

00:36:01.380 do you think that

00:36:02.720 the New York Times,

00:36:04.580 with a negative story

00:36:05.840 for Trump,

00:36:07.260 from anonymous

00:36:08.440 American officials,

00:36:10.140 probably in the Pentagon

00:36:11.380 or somewhere close to it,

00:36:14.080 does that sound like

00:36:15.500 a real story?

00:36:16.140 Well,

00:36:17.800 according to

00:36:18.860 Musk and Trump,

00:36:21.080 it's not a real story.

00:36:22.240 And also,

00:36:23.060 according to the Pentagon,

00:36:23.960 it's not a real story.

00:36:25.240 But the story was,

00:36:26.800 the story that

00:36:28.340 I'm not going to

00:36:29.380 give any,

00:36:30.580 I give it no respect

00:36:31.920 whatsoever.

00:36:32.800 I guess

00:36:33.560 anything's possible,

00:36:35.120 but this one

00:36:36.500 doesn't even sound

00:36:37.400 like a good try.

00:36:40.220 So the story was that

00:36:41.500 Elon Musk

00:36:43.000 was going to be briefed

00:36:45.000 on the battle plans

00:36:46.820 with China.

00:36:48.520 The battle plans

00:36:50.140 with China.

00:36:52.560 Do you know what

00:36:53.460 the battle plan

00:36:54.200 with China is?

00:36:56.560 We're all dead.

00:36:59.360 Pretty much.

00:37:00.320 Because if we had

00:37:02.360 a real war

00:37:03.060 with China,

00:37:04.760 China's dead, 1.00

00:37:05.760 we're dead,

00:37:06.560 the world's dead,

00:37:07.980 everybody's dead.

00:37:09.280 We're not going to

00:37:10.000 have a war with China,

00:37:11.520 in my opinion.

00:37:13.640 In my opinion,

00:37:14.620 the odds of a war

00:37:15.680 with China

00:37:16.340 are really,

00:37:17.880 really low.

00:37:19.260 Really low.

00:37:20.920 Because China 0.94

00:37:22.000 doesn't want a war,

00:37:23.860 and we don't want

00:37:24.560 a war with China.

00:37:25.760 It would be

00:37:26.360 the most destructive

00:37:27.260 thing that the world

00:37:28.300 has ever seen,

00:37:29.520 and neither

00:37:30.200 the United States

00:37:31.200 nor China,

00:37:31.820 is crazy.

00:37:33.740 So even if it looks

00:37:34.820 like you're getting

00:37:35.360 close to war

00:37:36.200 with China,

00:37:38.520 China doesn't 1.00

00:37:39.480 need a war.

00:37:41.000 China can just wait. 0.95

00:37:43.240 Their strategy

00:37:43.900 of just being

00:37:44.680 bigger than

00:37:45.800 other countries,

00:37:47.160 and having a big

00:37:48.620 manufacturing base,

00:37:49.940 and just keep

00:37:50.900 building things,

00:37:51.880 and getting

00:37:52.200 technologically

00:37:53.080 more capable,

00:37:54.720 and controlling

00:37:55.700 resources,

00:37:56.600 and markets,

00:37:57.280 and building

00:37:57.840 their belt and road

00:37:58.660 thing,

00:37:58.860 that all works.

00:38:01.000 That is a really

00:38:02.080 good plan

00:38:02.860 for future

00:38:04.320 Chinese dominance. 0.76

00:38:06.320 Now,

00:38:06.880 we're not going

00:38:07.880 to attack China 0.72

00:38:08.860 with,

00:38:10.480 you know,

00:38:11.640 the risk that

00:38:12.240 that would be

00:38:12.820 to the,

00:38:13.400 I mean,

00:38:13.820 that would be

00:38:14.160 the existential

00:38:14.700 risk of the

00:38:15.940 highest order.

00:38:19.060 So in my opinion,

00:38:20.840 if you're worried

00:38:21.520 about war

00:38:22.320 with China,

00:38:23.320 it's the last thing

00:38:24.260 you should be worried

00:38:24.920 about.

00:38:25.620 Literally,

00:38:26.060 the last thing.

00:38:28.360 But anyway,

00:38:29.240 so the rumor

00:38:30.120 was from

00:38:31.340 the anonymous

00:38:32.140 American officials

00:38:33.220 that the Pentagon

00:38:34.940 was going to

00:38:35.580 brief Elon Musk

00:38:36.560 on the war plans

00:38:37.740 with China.

00:38:39.300 But Musk says

00:38:40.640 that's not true.

00:38:42.120 The Pentagon

00:38:43.060 says that's not true.

00:38:45.040 Trump says

00:38:45.820 total lie.

00:38:47.120 Not true.

00:38:48.500 Make up your own mind.

00:38:49.720 But let me tell you

00:38:51.760 what does make sense.

00:38:53.600 It does make sense

00:38:55.080 that if Musk

00:38:56.340 is in charge

00:38:57.140 of figuring out

00:38:58.420 how to cut the budget

00:38:59.420 and the military

00:39:01.020 is an enormous

00:39:02.180 part of the budget,

00:39:03.520 at some point,

00:39:05.740 Musk would need 1.00

00:39:07.540 to know

00:39:07.940 the general direction

00:39:09.320 of the Pentagon.

00:39:11.300 Meaning,

00:39:12.320 is the Pentagon

00:39:13.080 going to turn

00:39:13.980 into a

00:39:14.720 drone-only

00:39:16.480 kind of a military?

00:39:18.220 Is it going

00:39:19.760 to

00:39:20.280 double its

00:39:21.980 number of

00:39:22.840 nuclear subs?

00:39:25.080 Is it going

00:39:25.940 to get rid

00:39:26.660 of its tank

00:39:27.620 expenses

00:39:29.820 because

00:39:30.280 who needs

00:39:30.900 a tank?

00:39:32.100 You know,

00:39:32.480 if the United States

00:39:33.820 got into a war

00:39:34.560 with anybody

00:39:35.180 capable,

00:39:36.560 tanks wouldn't 0.74

00:39:37.380 last five minutes.

00:39:39.220 So,

00:39:40.040 at what point

00:39:41.580 does Musk

00:39:43.360 need to know,

00:39:44.320 not the war plan

00:39:45.360 with China,

00:39:46.140 you don't need

00:39:46.700 to know that detail,

00:39:47.720 but you would

00:39:48.440 certainly need

00:39:48.960 to know

00:39:49.400 the budget

00:39:50.400 and direction

00:39:50.920 of the Pentagon

00:39:51.700 so that you

00:39:53.300 can say,

00:39:54.080 you could ask

00:39:54.580 the right questions

00:39:55.260 like,

00:39:56.200 all right,

00:39:57.540 if you have

00:39:58.300 all these drones,

00:40:00.200 why do you

00:40:00.760 need tanks?

00:40:02.020 There might be

00:40:02.420 a reason.

00:40:03.080 I'm not saying

00:40:03.800 there's no reason,

00:40:04.860 but those are

00:40:05.540 the questions

00:40:06.020 you've got to ask.

00:40:06.820 It's like,

00:40:07.300 well,

00:40:07.500 do you really

00:40:07.940 need this?

00:40:09.200 If you got that,

00:40:10.720 can you make

00:40:11.260 a robot army?

00:40:12.360 I mean,

00:40:12.600 there's a lot

00:40:12.940 of questions

00:40:13.540 that need

00:40:15.040 to be answered

00:40:15.660 to handle

00:40:16.680 the budget

00:40:17.400 and the budget

00:40:17.920 cuts.

00:40:20.420 Well,

00:40:20.900 as you know,

00:40:21.560 there's this

00:40:22.000 big Tesla

00:40:23.000 takedown

00:40:23.820 effort,

00:40:25.900 and I guess

00:40:27.080 they're getting

00:40:27.420 really organized

00:40:28.220 and something's

00:40:29.080 going to happen

00:40:29.500 at the end

00:40:29.920 of the month,

00:40:30.780 and they keep

00:40:32.400 planning all

00:40:33.540 these events

00:40:34.520 that turn

00:40:35.460 into domestic

00:40:36.760 terrorism

00:40:37.300 because there's

00:40:37.800 always somebody

00:40:38.280 bad at these

00:40:38.980 events,

00:40:39.300 and they're

00:40:40.760 going after

00:40:41.380 Tesla assets

00:40:43.100 and Tesla

00:40:43.940 dealerships

00:40:44.700 and charging

00:40:45.600 stations,

00:40:46.500 and it's all

00:40:47.300 about Elon

00:40:48.060 Musk.

00:40:49.200 And now

00:40:49.600 actor John

00:40:50.620 Cusack

00:40:51.320 is involved

00:40:53.140 with this,

00:40:54.740 and

00:40:55.140 once again

00:40:58.100 we get back

00:40:58.660 to this

00:40:59.140 theater kids.

00:41:02.060 John Cusack,

00:41:03.700 I don't believe

00:41:04.780 he's appeared

00:41:06.260 in any

00:41:06.840 top-grade

00:41:07.780 movies lately,

00:41:08.660 this is the

00:41:10.720 only acting

00:41:11.360 job he can

00:41:12.080 get,

00:41:13.240 which is

00:41:13.780 pretending to

00:41:14.760 be a leader

00:41:16.940 of this

00:41:17.620 anti-Tesla

00:41:18.600 thing.

00:41:19.980 And he's

00:41:21.500 complaining that

00:41:22.220 the United

00:41:22.600 States is

00:41:23.220 fascist and

00:41:24.040 becoming more

00:41:24.720 fascist every

00:41:25.540 day.

00:41:26.420 Is that

00:41:27.200 because there's

00:41:28.460 somebody who's

00:41:29.000 making cars

00:41:29.740 as somebody

00:41:30.240 wants?

00:41:31.080 Is that the

00:41:31.620 fascist thing?

00:41:32.620 Or is it

00:41:33.580 possibly the

00:41:35.280 people organizing

00:41:36.340 the violence

00:41:39.000 against them?

00:41:39.960 Which one

00:41:40.600 sounds a little

00:41:41.180 more fascist

00:41:42.000 to you?

00:41:43.680 Tough

00:41:44.200 question.

00:41:46.620 Anyway, if

00:41:47.580 it's the only

00:41:48.000 acting job you

00:41:48.860 can get and

00:41:50.060 you look crazy

00:41:51.140 and you look

00:41:52.020 like you might

00:41:52.520 be on some

00:41:53.020 kind of mental

00:41:53.800 health drugs,

00:41:56.840 I guess it's

00:41:59.000 the best you

00:41:59.480 can do.

00:42:00.900 So the Daily

00:42:01.800 Wire is reporting

00:42:02.600 on that.

00:42:04.100 So poor

00:42:04.720 guy.

00:42:06.740 Anyway, so

00:42:08.180 here's my

00:42:08.700 opinion about

00:42:09.300 the Tesla

00:42:10.360 protests.

00:42:13.080 Something like

00:42:14.200 30 to 40%

00:42:15.760 of all

00:42:16.620 Tesla owners

00:42:18.020 are Democrats.

00:42:19.720 If you own

00:42:20.780 a Tesla,

00:42:22.360 do you feel

00:42:23.040 uncomfortable

00:42:23.760 driving it in

00:42:24.780 public?

00:42:26.260 Because all

00:42:27.640 you have to

00:42:27.980 do is stop

00:42:28.680 at some red

00:42:29.520 light and if

00:42:31.100 there's some

00:42:31.960 bad, radical,

00:42:34.060 crazy leftists,

00:42:36.260 you might get

00:42:36.860 keyed.

00:42:38.640 So if 30 to

00:42:40.740 40% of

00:42:41.800 Tesla owners

00:42:42.520 who probably

00:42:43.060 are quite happy

00:42:43.840 with their

00:42:44.180 automobiles,

00:42:44.960 because Tesla

00:42:45.500 has a lot of

00:42:46.400 happy owners,

00:42:47.460 how are they

00:42:48.160 going to feel

00:42:48.720 finding out that

00:42:50.560 their own party

00:42:51.620 made it too

00:42:53.380 dangerous to

00:42:54.200 just drive down

00:42:54.940 the street in

00:42:55.580 the car they

00:42:56.120 already own?

00:42:57.860 That is an

00:42:58.820 unrecoverable

00:42:59.780 error.

00:43:00.140 I don't

00:43:02.300 think the

00:43:02.840 anti-Tesla

00:43:03.700 people thought

00:43:04.360 this through.

00:43:05.960 It's not like

00:43:06.920 all those

00:43:07.400 people can

00:43:07.940 immediately swap

00:43:08.960 out their

00:43:09.380 cars.

00:43:11.200 That's a

00:43:11.880 pretty big

00:43:12.320 expense.

00:43:13.960 So a few

00:43:14.820 will, right?

00:43:16.140 A few

00:43:16.520 politicians will

00:43:17.520 make a big

00:43:18.160 show of it

00:43:18.740 or whatever,

00:43:19.440 but most

00:43:20.160 people are

00:43:20.620 going to keep

00:43:21.060 the car they

00:43:21.660 have no

00:43:22.300 matter what's

00:43:22.860 happening,

00:43:23.520 because changing

00:43:24.200 out your car

00:43:24.780 is sort of a

00:43:25.320 big deal.

00:43:25.800 So if 30

00:43:27.680 to 40% of

00:43:29.480 the Tesla

00:43:30.120 car owners

00:43:31.180 are finding

00:43:32.600 that their

00:43:33.080 own party

00:43:33.940 made it too

00:43:34.820 dangerous to

00:43:35.560 drive to the

00:43:36.140 grocery store

00:43:36.780 to buy a

00:43:37.260 loaf of bread,

00:43:38.420 how are they

00:43:39.240 going to

00:43:39.520 forgive their

00:43:40.080 own party?

00:43:41.380 I wouldn't.

00:43:42.660 I would never

00:43:43.460 forgive that.

00:43:44.780 Because it's one

00:43:45.680 thing to say,

00:43:46.620 blah, blah,

00:43:47.500 some policy is

00:43:48.660 happening that

00:43:49.320 might not affect

00:43:50.260 me, you know,

00:43:51.480 blah, blah,

00:43:52.260 executive order

00:43:53.020 that might not

00:43:53.680 affect me,

00:43:54.260 blah, blah,

00:43:56.100 the Congress

00:43:56.760 is talking about

00:43:57.520 something that

00:43:58.060 will never

00:43:58.420 affect me.

00:43:59.960 That's really

00:44:00.920 different from

00:44:01.720 I can't drive

00:44:02.580 my car without

00:44:03.300 fear, because

00:44:04.860 the Democrats

00:44:05.440 did that to

00:44:06.200 me.

00:44:07.600 That's

00:44:08.120 non-recoverable.

00:44:09.680 It really

00:44:10.440 is.

00:44:11.580 And the

00:44:12.160 fact that the

00:44:12.980 leading Democrats

00:44:14.400 are silent on

00:44:16.980 telling people to

00:44:18.200 cool it against

00:44:20.340 an American

00:44:20.900 company.

00:44:22.120 So forget

00:44:22.560 about even

00:44:23.460 the violent

00:44:24.000 part.

00:44:25.540 Don't you

00:44:26.100 think that

00:44:27.380 Democrats

00:44:27.800 should be

00:44:28.380 saying don't

00:44:30.020 take down

00:44:30.440 American

00:44:30.840 companies,

00:44:32.260 especially ones

00:44:33.240 that they would

00:44:34.660 say are good

00:44:35.260 for climate

00:44:35.760 change?

00:44:36.700 But nobody.

00:44:38.080 It just

00:44:38.640 completely reveals

00:44:39.740 that their

00:44:40.800 views are about

00:44:41.620 power and

00:44:42.900 about destruction.

00:44:44.380 They're not

00:44:44.920 trying to build

00:44:45.600 anything.

00:44:46.760 And when they

00:44:47.180 do, they just

00:44:47.780 take the money

00:44:48.360 and nothing gets

00:44:48.980 built.

00:44:49.240 you know, like

00:44:50.100 the Californians

00:44:52.620 see a classic

00:44:53.300 example of

00:44:53.940 that.

00:44:55.940 So anyway, it

00:44:57.220 seems that the

00:44:58.400 Democrats have

00:44:59.080 decided to

00:44:59.820 define themselves

00:45:00.920 as, to

00:45:04.100 define themselves

00:45:04.980 as domestic

00:45:05.760 terrorists. 0.53

00:45:07.880 The Democrats

00:45:09.100 have tried to

00:45:09.660 kill Trump

00:45:10.220 twice, because

00:45:11.700 we assume that

00:45:12.520 those killers

00:45:14.520 were left-leaning.

00:45:16.060 and now

00:45:17.100 they're trying

00:45:17.440 to take out

00:45:18.000 Musk.

00:45:19.060 So they've

00:45:19.720 literally become

00:45:20.400 a party of

00:45:21.020 anarchy.

00:45:22.380 And I told you

00:45:23.140 before, I think

00:45:23.720 I told you

00:45:24.180 that Mitch

00:45:25.200 McConnell,

00:45:26.000 not Mitch

00:45:26.360 McConnell,

00:45:27.540 Schumer,

00:45:28.200 Chuck Schumer,

00:45:29.200 when he was

00:45:30.460 on one of the

00:45:31.160 news shows,

00:45:32.480 he talked

00:45:33.000 about how

00:45:33.480 the goal

00:45:34.120 was to

00:45:35.980 make Trump

00:45:37.080 less popular.

00:45:39.160 Now,

00:45:39.840 how could

00:45:40.800 you belong

00:45:41.540 to any

00:45:42.420 kind of a

00:45:42.980 group

00:45:43.360 whose leader

00:45:44.780 says,

00:45:45.320 our goal

00:45:46.100 is to

00:45:46.440 make the

00:45:46.760 other side

00:45:47.280 less popular

00:45:48.240 so that

00:45:50.100 we can

00:45:50.400 get power

00:45:50.940 back?

00:45:52.460 No part

00:45:53.280 of that

00:45:53.540 sounds like

00:45:54.160 what's good

00:45:54.640 for the

00:45:55.100 public.

00:45:56.120 How about

00:45:56.580 we plan

00:45:57.160 to lower

00:45:57.560 your taxes?

00:45:58.660 How about

00:45:59.120 we plan

00:45:59.660 to create

00:46:00.360 more jobs?

00:46:01.720 That would

00:46:02.080 be good.

00:46:02.900 How about

00:46:03.280 we plan

00:46:03.780 to find

00:46:04.680 a way

00:46:04.920 to get

00:46:05.280 more

00:46:05.600 rare earth

00:46:06.140 minerals?

00:46:06.840 Oh,

00:46:07.120 that would

00:46:07.400 be good.

00:46:08.020 How about

00:46:08.420 we found

00:46:09.140 a way,

00:46:09.680 we have

00:46:10.140 a plan

00:46:10.700 for getting

00:46:12.040 better trade

00:46:12.700 deals?

00:46:13.780 That would

00:46:14.440 be good.

00:46:15.320 Every one

00:46:16.500 of the

00:46:16.760 productive

00:46:17.200 ideas

00:46:17.760 is coming

00:46:18.220 from

00:46:18.520 Republicans.

00:46:19.740 Now,

00:46:19.980 some of

00:46:20.420 it is

00:46:20.660 because

00:46:20.960 Republicans

00:46:21.480 have

00:46:21.780 power

00:46:22.140 and

00:46:22.920 Democrats

00:46:23.300 don't.

00:46:24.700 But the

00:46:25.280 complete

00:46:26.080 inability

00:46:27.000 to have

00:46:27.660 a positive

00:46:28.240 policy

00:46:28.820 idea

00:46:29.340 combined

00:46:30.440 with

00:46:31.040 the

00:46:31.360 authenticity

00:46:32.040 of saying

00:46:34.500 that what

00:46:34.800 they want

00:46:35.160 to do

00:46:35.400 is destroy

00:46:36.200 two of

00:46:36.860 the most

00:46:37.140 successful

00:46:37.640 people

00:46:38.060 in the

00:46:38.360 country.

00:46:40.180 How do

00:46:41.140 you not

00:46:41.680 understand

00:46:42.980 what's

00:46:43.600 going on?

00:46:45.320 they are

00:46:46.060 the party

00:46:46.540 of anarchy,

00:46:48.100 chaos,

00:46:48.880 and destruction.

00:46:50.860 They're not

00:46:51.580 trying to

00:46:52.000 build anything.

00:46:53.380 They're trying

00:46:54.000 to just

00:46:54.440 completely

00:46:54.900 destroy.

00:46:56.380 And I

00:46:57.000 just don't

00:46:58.080 see how

00:46:59.700 that could 0.68

00:47:00.080 ever be a

00:47:00.820 competitive

00:47:01.300 political party

00:47:02.520 at the

00:47:04.520 national level.

00:47:06.060 Of course,

00:47:06.760 they'll retain

00:47:07.840 power in

00:47:08.380 cities and

00:47:09.080 states.

00:47:09.660 But wow,

00:47:12.240 I've never

00:47:12.860 seen any

00:47:14.620 group

00:47:15.080 self-destruct

00:47:16.400 so thoroughly

00:47:17.220 without

00:47:18.220 understanding

00:47:19.040 that they're

00:47:19.560 self-destructing

00:47:20.520 thoroughly.

00:47:21.380 It's like

00:47:21.900 they don't

00:47:22.240 even

00:47:22.520 understand it.

00:47:26.760 Meanwhile,

00:47:27.560 this is

00:47:27.900 interesting.

00:47:28.520 As you

00:47:28.860 know,

00:47:29.340 Trump was

00:47:29.780 doing executive

00:47:30.500 orders against

00:47:31.440 a few law

00:47:32.120 firms that

00:47:33.320 he thought

00:47:33.780 had acted

00:47:34.480 inappropriately,

00:47:35.700 meaning targeted

00:47:38.700 Republicans or

00:47:39.640 targeted him.

00:47:40.840 But one of

00:47:41.560 them has

00:47:42.220 negotiated with

00:47:43.080 him, the

00:47:43.440 Paul Weiss

00:47:44.340 law firm.

00:47:45.680 They had

00:47:46.060 been one of

00:47:46.540 the targets

00:47:47.160 of Trump's

00:47:48.020 executive orders

00:47:48.880 that would

00:47:49.880 take away

00:47:50.620 their clearances

00:47:51.620 and prevent

00:47:53.020 them from

00:47:53.540 doing work

00:47:54.220 with the

00:47:54.500 government.

00:47:55.400 Apparently,

00:47:55.780 they negotiated

00:47:56.720 and they

00:47:58.700 promised not

00:47:59.600 to deny

00:48:00.120 representation

00:48:00.800 to clients

00:48:01.880 based on

00:48:02.460 political views.

00:48:04.280 So that

00:48:04.600 means they

00:48:05.020 agreed to

00:48:05.620 take on

00:48:06.200 Republicans

00:48:06.900 if it

00:48:08.460 made sense.

00:48:10.640 They

00:48:11.120 promised not

00:48:11.760 to use any

00:48:12.300 diversity,

00:48:13.040 equity,

00:48:13.420 and inclusion

00:48:13.980 policies.

00:48:16.020 Wow.

00:48:17.800 And they

00:48:18.640 said they

00:48:18.960 would dedicate

00:48:19.440 the equivalent

00:48:20.160 of $40

00:48:20.860 million in

00:48:21.740 pro bono

00:48:22.520 legal services

00:48:23.460 to support

00:48:24.720 the Trump

00:48:25.300 administration's

00:48:26.220 initiatives,

00:48:27.140 according to

00:48:28.340 The Hill.

00:48:29.980 Now,

00:48:31.940 that sounds

00:48:33.460 pretty extreme.

00:48:35.620 How in

00:48:36.600 the world?

00:48:38.440 I mean,

00:48:38.740 did they

00:48:39.040 offer that?

00:48:40.440 Or did the

00:48:41.140 Trump administration

00:48:41.980 ask for it?

00:48:43.320 Because it

00:48:44.020 feels different

00:48:44.700 if they

00:48:45.000 offered it

00:48:45.620 versus if

00:48:46.400 they asked

00:48:47.300 for it.

00:48:48.040 If they

00:48:48.620 offered it,

00:48:49.980 well, it just

00:48:50.360 makes sense

00:48:50.820 to say yes.

00:48:52.460 But I hope

00:48:53.820 they didn't

00:48:54.200 ask for it.

00:48:55.640 Because that

00:48:56.260 would look a

00:48:56.760 little extortion-y

00:48:59.940 if they

00:49:01.600 asked for it.

00:49:02.600 But if the

00:49:03.160 law firm

00:49:03.640 said, all

00:49:04.120 right, we're

00:49:04.440 just going

00:49:04.760 to have

00:49:05.340 to throw

00:49:05.700 everything at

00:49:06.340 this deal

00:49:06.820 and we'll

00:49:07.960 just offer

00:49:08.420 this.

00:49:09.060 And it

00:49:09.420 might not

00:49:09.780 be any

00:49:10.200 more than

00:49:10.580 they do

00:49:10.920 for the

00:49:13.800 other side

00:49:14.240 of the

00:49:14.460 political

00:49:14.800 aisle.

00:49:15.340 It's a

00:49:15.620 pretty big

00:49:15.980 firm.

00:49:17.340 But anyway,

00:49:18.720 that's an

00:49:19.760 interesting

00:49:20.200 situation.

00:49:21.840 It also

00:49:22.240 tells me

00:49:22.760 that the

00:49:23.160 law firm

00:49:23.640 is very

00:49:24.180 good at

00:49:24.600 what they

00:49:24.900 do.

00:49:25.160 because if

00:49:26.380 you had

00:49:26.720 told me

00:49:27.080 they could

00:49:27.460 negotiate

00:49:28.120 a way

00:49:28.700 out of

00:49:29.060 this,

00:49:29.840 I would

00:49:30.180 have said,

00:49:30.760 ha, ha,

00:49:31.240 ha, there's

00:49:32.200 no way

00:49:32.540 they're going

00:49:32.820 to negotiate

00:49:33.460 their way

00:49:33.860 out of

00:49:34.100 this.

00:49:34.560 And then

00:49:34.880 they did.

00:49:36.340 So I

00:49:37.140 guess I'm

00:49:37.520 a little

00:49:37.760 impressed.

00:49:40.640 And probably

00:49:41.500 they weren't

00:49:42.280 crazy about

00:49:43.020 the diversity,

00:49:43.820 equity, and

00:49:44.280 inclusion thing.

00:49:45.040 They probably

00:49:45.360 just did it

00:49:45.960 because everybody

00:49:47.040 was doing

00:49:47.520 it.

00:49:48.420 So they

00:49:50.100 might have

00:49:50.420 given away

00:49:50.900 nothing on

00:49:51.520 that.

00:49:52.000 It might

00:49:52.260 have been

00:49:52.500 something they

00:49:53.020 didn't want

00:49:53.360 to deal with

00:49:53.800 in the future

00:49:54.280 anyway.

00:49:55.160 Well, let's

00:49:57.180 talk about

00:49:57.620 LA.

00:49:58.340 LA reportedly

00:50:00.120 has a

00:50:00.840 billion-dollar

00:50:01.760 deficit, just

00:50:03.300 the city of

00:50:03.900 LA.

00:50:05.060 Now, if

00:50:06.060 you heard

00:50:06.440 that, how

00:50:07.780 bad would

00:50:08.320 you think

00:50:08.640 that was?

00:50:10.560 What if I

00:50:11.360 taught you

00:50:11.920 about numbers

00:50:12.740 without

00:50:13.180 percentages, or

00:50:14.940 percentages

00:50:15.560 without numbers?

00:50:17.480 So there's a

00:50:18.380 number without

00:50:18.960 a percentage.

00:50:20.380 So if I

00:50:21.180 didn't tell

00:50:21.660 you what is

00:50:22.180 the total

00:50:22.680 budget of

00:50:23.320 LA, how

00:50:24.420 would you

00:50:24.700 know if

00:50:24.980 that's a

00:50:25.300 big deal

00:50:25.720 or a

00:50:26.000 small deal?

00:50:27.940 So I

00:50:28.620 had to

00:50:28.880 do my

00:50:29.180 own

00:50:29.380 research to

00:50:30.860 find out

00:50:31.300 what the

00:50:31.640 budget of

00:50:32.120 LA is, to

00:50:33.720 find out if

00:50:34.360 a billion

00:50:34.760 dollars even

00:50:35.440 matters.

00:50:37.360 It's around

00:50:38.220 8%.

00:50:39.000 It's about

00:50:39.780 8% of the

00:50:40.500 budget.

00:50:41.500 So if you

00:50:42.040 tell me that

00:50:42.600 they have to

00:50:43.140 cut the

00:50:43.780 budget by

00:50:44.500 8%, the

00:50:45.820 rest of the

00:50:46.260 budget by

00:50:46.840 8%, that

00:50:48.460 seems painful

00:50:49.320 but doable.

00:50:50.080 If you

00:50:52.260 tell me

00:50:52.580 it's just

00:50:52.960 a billion

00:50:53.820 dollars, then

00:50:55.020 I go, I

00:50:55.900 don't know, is

00:50:56.520 it a $2

00:50:57.260 billion budget?

00:50:58.780 Because it

00:50:59.260 wouldn't be

00:50:59.660 possible to

00:51:00.300 cut 50%, but

00:51:02.280 8%?

00:51:03.460 I feel like

00:51:04.540 an 8%

00:51:06.520 cut is

00:51:08.400 something that

00:51:09.300 a big

00:51:11.040 budgeted

00:51:11.780 anything should

00:51:12.480 do once in

00:51:13.020 a while.

00:51:13.340 if you're

00:51:14.160 a big

00:51:14.420 company, big

00:51:15.440 state, big

00:51:16.380 country, big

00:51:18.040 organization,

00:51:19.600 shouldn't you

00:51:20.220 every now and

00:51:20.980 then look to

00:51:21.820 cut 8% to

00:51:22.740 10% of

00:51:23.960 your expenses?

00:51:24.780 That's the

00:51:25.060 most normal

00:51:25.560 thing in the

00:51:26.020 world.

00:51:27.000 So it's

00:51:27.560 doable, but

00:51:28.820 maybe not

00:51:29.420 with the

00:51:30.040 competence of

00:51:31.200 the people

00:51:31.580 who work in

00:51:32.060 LA.

00:51:33.000 By the way,

00:51:33.840 State Farm

00:51:34.400 has a lot

00:51:34.940 to answer

00:51:35.660 for.

00:51:36.640 I'm hearing

00:51:37.360 more stories

00:51:38.260 of people

00:51:39.740 who thought

00:51:41.460 they had

00:51:41.980 insurance for

00:51:43.080 that Pacific

00:51:43.720 Palisades

00:51:44.400 and State

00:51:45.240 Farm was

00:51:45.720 part of

00:51:46.040 that and

00:51:47.160 are learning

00:51:47.660 that the

00:51:49.320 quality of

00:51:49.860 their insurance

00:51:50.440 was not

00:51:50.840 what they

00:51:51.140 hoped it

00:51:51.500 would be.

00:51:52.600 So I

00:51:53.320 think the

00:51:53.660 local news

00:51:54.360 is going

00:51:54.660 to be on

00:51:55.040 that story

00:51:55.700 and I

00:51:57.180 don't know

00:51:57.600 what State

00:51:58.180 Farm does

00:51:58.720 about that.

00:51:59.640 I mean,

00:51:59.800 it could be

00:52:00.220 that they

00:52:00.620 just don't

00:52:00.980 have any

00:52:01.320 money, so

00:52:02.060 even if

00:52:02.400 they wanted

00:52:02.800 to treat

00:52:03.940 people better,

00:52:04.580 they can't.

00:52:06.620 We'll find

00:52:07.360 out.

00:52:08.420 We'll find

00:52:09.100 out.

00:52:09.980 When I

00:52:10.320 found out my

00:52:10.920 friend got a

00:52:11.540 great deal on

00:52:12.360 a wool coat

00:52:12.900 from Winners,

00:52:13.780 I started

00:52:14.520 wondering,

00:52:15.420 is every

00:52:16.260 fabulous item

00:52:17.040 I see from

00:52:17.700 Winners?

00:52:18.560 Like that

00:52:19.040 woman over 0.99

00:52:19.540 there with

00:52:20.000 the designer

00:52:20.440 jeans.

00:52:21.260 Are those

00:52:21.860 from Winners?

00:52:22.780 Ooh,

00:52:23.420 or those

00:52:23.760 beautiful gold

00:52:24.360 earrings?

00:52:25.220 Did she pay 0.97

00:52:25.660 full price?

00:52:26.580 Or that

00:52:26.860 leather tote?

00:52:27.600 Or that

00:52:27.860 cashmere

00:52:28.220 sweater?

00:52:28.800 Or those

00:52:29.140 knee-high

00:52:29.460 boots?

00:52:30.280 That dress?

00:52:31.060 That jacket?

00:52:31.740 Those shoes?

00:52:32.760 Is anyone

00:52:33.540 paying full

00:52:34.180 price for

00:52:34.740 anything?

00:52:35.720 Stop

00:52:36.200 wondering.

00:52:36.980 Start winning.

00:52:37.920 Winners.

00:52:38.500 Find

00:52:38.740 fabulous for

00:52:39.540 less.

00:52:39.900 In other

00:52:41.500 cost-cutting,

00:52:43.220 Pete Hegseth

00:52:44.040 said on

00:52:45.160 Thursday,

00:52:46.660 yesterday,

00:52:47.280 that they're

00:52:47.880 going to

00:52:48.080 cancel more

00:52:48.720 than $580

00:52:49.960 million in

00:52:50.800 grants and

00:52:51.460 contracts that

00:52:53.180 they deemed,

00:52:53.940 quote,

00:52:54.300 wasteful spending.

00:52:55.560 What do you

00:52:58.140 think about

00:52:58.660 the fact that

00:53:00.320 all these

00:53:00.900 big government

00:53:01.580 entities seem

00:53:03.300 to be able to

00:53:04.000 look at the

00:53:04.480 budget and

00:53:05.120 in five

00:53:05.680 minutes they

00:53:06.800 can identify

00:53:07.720 millions of

00:53:09.220 dollars that

00:53:09.860 don't seem to

00:53:10.540 be justified

00:53:11.980 and they're

00:53:13.260 just going to

00:53:13.760 like crazy

00:53:14.480 grants for

00:53:15.140 crazy shit.

00:53:17.200 The fact that

00:53:18.360 this is as

00:53:18.960 easy as it

00:53:20.020 is is really

00:53:22.520 weird.

00:53:23.400 There was,

00:53:24.080 I think it

00:53:24.860 was one of

00:53:25.180 the Doge

00:53:25.660 leaders.

00:53:26.500 It was on

00:53:27.020 the news.

00:53:28.820 I think it

00:53:29.160 was on

00:53:29.560 Laura

00:53:31.360 Engram's

00:53:31.960 show on

00:53:32.440 Fox News.

00:53:34.020 And one

00:53:35.720 of the,

00:53:36.040 Sam Korkis

00:53:37.140 is his name,

00:53:38.540 and he was

00:53:39.780 asked, you

00:53:40.600 know, what

00:53:40.820 is one of

00:53:41.180 the big

00:53:41.420 surprising

00:53:42.060 things about

00:53:43.660 the Doge

00:53:45.160 and the

00:53:45.420 cost-cutting.

00:53:45.980 and Sam

00:53:47.660 said, you

00:53:48.660 can cancel

00:53:49.640 a 50

00:53:50.160 million

00:53:50.440 contract,

00:53:51.760 a 50

00:53:52.200 million

00:53:52.520 dollar

00:53:53.320 contract,

00:53:54.200 and nothing

00:53:54.780 happens.

00:53:55.300 No one

00:53:56.120 even knows

00:53:56.620 why it

00:53:56.960 existed.

00:53:59.580 Just think

00:54:00.480 about that.

00:54:02.100 Just think

00:54:02.580 about the

00:54:03.000 fact that

00:54:04.240 you can

00:54:04.580 cancel a

00:54:05.300 50 million

00:54:06.040 dollar contract,

00:54:07.360 probably in

00:54:08.740 multiple places

00:54:09.640 in the government,

00:54:10.620 this exists,

00:54:11.220 and there

00:54:12.820 won't be

00:54:13.220 much pushback

00:54:14.180 because there's

00:54:15.520 nobody who

00:54:16.040 can defend

00:54:16.620 why it

00:54:17.000 existed in

00:54:17.680 the first

00:54:18.020 place.

00:54:19.520 That's the

00:54:20.340 quality of

00:54:20.940 our government

00:54:21.620 money management.

00:54:24.280 We really

00:54:25.440 have the

00:54:26.080 right to

00:54:26.740 ask for

00:54:27.380 a lot

00:54:28.200 more,

00:54:29.640 let's say,

00:54:31.620 responsibility

00:54:32.420 and auditability

00:54:33.820 and just

00:54:35.780 fiduciary

00:54:36.540 responsibility

00:54:37.180 with our

00:54:37.780 money.

00:54:40.100 We're

00:54:40.740 owed a

00:54:41.220 lot

00:54:41.440 more.

00:54:44.380 Anyway,

00:54:44.980 but even

00:54:45.520 when I

00:54:45.880 read that

00:54:46.960 Hagseth

00:54:49.280 said the

00:54:50.000 Pentagon

00:54:50.580 found 580

00:54:51.760 million to

00:54:52.880 cancel,

00:54:54.280 my first

00:54:55.080 thought was,

00:54:55.720 wow,

00:54:56.240 that's a

00:54:56.680 lot,

00:54:57.020 580

00:54:57.720 million.

00:54:59.040 And then

00:54:59.440 I realized

00:55:00.060 that the

00:55:00.420 number we're

00:55:00.900 looking for

00:55:01.520 would be

00:55:02.700 closer to

00:55:03.380 580

00:55:04.640 billion.

00:55:07.580 In order

00:55:08.380 to get to

00:55:08.980 a sustainable

00:55:09.880 debt level,

00:55:11.980 the defense

00:55:12.700 is probably

00:55:13.280 where a lot

00:55:14.020 of the

00:55:14.220 cuts will

00:55:14.580 happen,

00:55:16.200 580

00:55:17.620 million doesn't

00:55:18.540 get you

00:55:18.820 anywhere close.

00:55:20.580 I mean,

00:55:20.860 it's better

00:55:21.260 than not

00:55:21.760 cutting 580

00:55:22.700 million,

00:55:23.240 obviously.

00:55:24.640 But

00:55:24.940 580

00:55:27.180 billion

00:55:27.780 might close

00:55:30.680 the debt.

00:55:31.640 I see

00:55:34.320 people still

00:55:34.900 dumping on

00:55:35.640 CUSAC in

00:55:38.680 the comments.

00:55:43.040 Well,

00:55:44.060 here's some

00:55:46.180 good news,

00:55:46.920 bad news.

00:55:47.940 You want to

00:55:48.220 hear the good

00:55:48.660 news,

00:55:49.020 bad news?

00:55:50.040 The good

00:55:50.500 news is

00:55:51.180 Germany is

00:55:52.460 going to

00:55:52.780 increase its

00:55:53.460 military spending

00:55:54.340 by a trillion

00:55:55.100 dollars.

00:55:56.940 The bad

00:55:57.860 news is

00:55:58.520 Germany is

00:55:59.700 going to

00:56:00.040 increase its

00:56:00.660 military spending

00:56:01.540 by a trillion

00:56:02.200 dollars.

00:56:05.080 Have any

00:56:05.820 of you seen

00:56:06.320 the Norm

00:56:06.900 MacDonald,

00:56:08.380 you know,

00:56:09.300 the late

00:56:09.700 Norm

00:56:10.080 MacDonald's

00:56:10.780 act when

00:56:12.200 he talked

00:56:12.620 about Germany?

00:56:15.600 And I

00:56:16.560 don't remember

00:56:16.980 the exact

00:56:17.520 wording,

00:56:18.760 but if you

00:56:19.320 can think of

00:56:19.880 it in Norm

00:56:20.360 MacDonald's

00:56:20.900 voice,

00:56:21.760 it's like,

00:56:22.640 I don't

00:56:23.080 know if

00:56:23.380 any of you

00:56:23.860 study history,

00:56:25.760 but Germany,

00:56:28.220 Germany,

00:56:28.440 and then

00:56:30.280 everybody

00:56:30.580 starts laughing

00:56:31.360 because,

00:56:32.720 yeah,

00:56:34.320 Germany does 0.84

00:56:35.720 have a history.

00:56:37.380 So when

00:56:37.940 was the last

00:56:38.620 time it

00:56:39.020 was good

00:56:39.540 for Germany

00:56:40.520 to massively

00:56:41.500 increase its

00:56:42.320 military

00:56:42.860 capabilities?

00:56:43.580 countries.

00:56:47.780 I'm not

00:56:48.460 worried at

00:56:48.980 all.

00:56:51.640 Anyway,

00:56:52.420 so that's

00:56:53.020 happening.

00:56:54.040 But that

00:56:54.500 might be

00:56:54.900 part of

00:56:55.380 what gets

00:56:55.900 the United

00:56:56.460 States out

00:56:57.140 of Europe's

00:56:58.400 business,

00:56:59.600 because it

00:57:00.280 didn't really

00:57:01.060 make a lot

00:57:01.600 of sense

00:57:01.980 that we

00:57:02.340 were all

00:57:02.820 up in

00:57:03.100 their military

00:57:03.920 business in

00:57:04.580 Europe in

00:57:04.980 the first

00:57:05.260 place.

00:57:06.160 But let's

00:57:06.920 talk about

00:57:07.300 some other

00:57:07.660 countries.

00:57:09.900 As you

00:57:10.540 know,

00:57:10.880 Israel is

00:57:11.680 going hard

00:57:12.760 at Gaza

00:57:13.500 and the

00:57:14.140 Hamas 0.96

00:57:15.220 militants

00:57:16.020 who are

00:57:16.260 still there

00:57:16.780 because the

00:57:18.180 hostage deals

00:57:19.120 seemed to

00:57:19.560 fall apart

00:57:20.140 and it

00:57:20.560 looked like

00:57:22.100 Hamas was 0.86

00:57:22.720 just going

00:57:23.480 to stretch

00:57:24.680 it out

00:57:25.280 and they

00:57:25.840 were hoping

00:57:26.280 for some

00:57:27.000 kind of a

00:57:27.440 ceasefire,

00:57:28.860 maybe involving

00:57:29.800 the hostages

00:57:31.720 or not,

00:57:32.520 and then they

00:57:33.220 thought they

00:57:33.600 could reconstitute

00:57:34.580 and take back

00:57:35.320 control.

00:57:36.380 And indeed,

00:57:36.880 during this

00:57:37.300 latest ceasefire,

00:57:38.940 Hamas tried

00:57:40.260 to reconstitute

00:57:41.260 its leadership

00:57:41.980 of the area

00:57:42.740 and reconstituted

00:57:44.440 like a

00:57:44.820 government and

00:57:45.580 a military

00:57:46.760 and stuff.

00:57:48.080 And I guess

00:57:48.700 Israel said,

00:57:49.580 we're not

00:57:50.080 going to have

00:57:50.380 any of that.

00:57:51.340 So now they're

00:57:52.140 just going

00:57:52.640 hard at

00:57:53.740 them.

00:57:54.900 And here's

00:57:56.360 my question.

00:57:58.480 It seems to

00:57:59.440 me that any

00:58:00.100 time one of

00:58:00.800 the grown-ups

00:58:01.520 from another

00:58:02.960 country,

00:58:04.340 be it Saudi

00:58:05.540 Arabia or

00:58:06.540 some other

00:58:07.460 country that's

00:58:09.180 allied with

00:58:09.720 the U.S.

00:58:10.180 or maybe

00:58:10.560 a European

00:58:11.100 country,

00:58:12.280 anything in

00:58:12.800 the European

00:58:13.180 Union,

00:58:14.400 don't they

00:58:15.060 always say,

00:58:16.800 but what we

00:58:17.360 really need

00:58:18.020 is a two-state

00:58:19.040 solution?

00:58:20.800 And here's

00:58:21.580 my question.

00:58:23.260 How do they

00:58:24.060 not know

00:58:24.540 that's not

00:58:25.040 an option?

00:58:27.140 If you just

00:58:28.020 look at a

00:58:28.880 map of all

00:58:29.820 the Israeli

00:58:30.960 settlements in

00:58:31.820 the West

00:58:32.120 Bank,

00:58:32.980 and then you

00:58:33.680 look at

00:58:34.240 Gaza,

00:58:36.400 where exactly

00:58:37.180 would this

00:58:37.700 second country

00:58:41.560 be?

00:58:42.900 That option

00:58:43.860 has been

00:58:44.220 completely taken

00:58:45.040 off the

00:58:45.420 table.

00:58:46.640 And it

00:58:46.940 makes me

00:58:47.380 wonder,

00:58:48.860 the people

00:58:49.620 who say

00:58:50.100 it are

00:58:51.100 generally

00:58:51.560 smart,

00:58:52.760 which makes

00:58:53.700 me think

00:58:54.180 that they

00:58:54.580 know it's

00:58:55.080 not real,

00:58:56.120 but they

00:58:57.060 know that's

00:58:57.540 the thing

00:58:57.880 you have to

00:58:58.280 say in

00:58:58.620 public.

00:58:59.880 Because if

00:59:00.560 you don't

00:59:00.940 say,

00:59:01.240 I want a

00:59:02.600 two-state

00:59:03.040 solution,

00:59:04.480 then you

00:59:05.220 become a

00:59:05.720 target for

00:59:06.620 anybody who

00:59:08.360 thinks that

00:59:09.420 being too

00:59:09.900 pro-Israel

00:59:10.660 is a bad

00:59:11.340 thing.

00:59:13.220 And we

00:59:13.840 live in a

00:59:14.260 world where

00:59:14.700 there's a lot

00:59:15.540 of people

00:59:15.860 who think

00:59:16.160 that.

00:59:17.340 So do

00:59:19.060 you believe

00:59:19.580 that that's

00:59:20.120 just acting?

00:59:21.440 My current

00:59:22.220 opinion is

00:59:22.820 that's acting.

00:59:24.460 That 100%

00:59:25.780 of the people

00:59:26.260 who actually

00:59:26.940 know how the

00:59:27.540 world works

00:59:28.220 and are

00:59:28.720 paying attention,

00:59:29.840 you know,

00:59:30.020 not casual

00:59:31.260 people.

00:59:32.180 I think if

00:59:32.740 you just

00:59:33.060 stop somebody

00:59:33.620 on the

00:59:33.940 street and

00:59:35.300 said,

00:59:35.740 do you

00:59:36.080 prefer the

00:59:37.460 two-state

00:59:37.920 solution?

00:59:38.580 You'd find

00:59:39.200 lots of

00:59:39.700 citizens who

00:59:41.100 are not

00:59:41.480 deeply informed

00:59:42.680 about what's

00:59:43.380 going on.

00:59:44.060 I think the

00:59:44.600 citizens would

00:59:46.220 quite honestly

00:59:46.960 say, yes,

00:59:47.840 two-state

00:59:48.180 solution,

00:59:48.860 good idea,

00:59:49.740 but not the

00:59:50.740 experts.

00:59:52.680 So don't

00:59:53.140 we still have

00:59:53.820 people who

00:59:54.340 are allegedly

00:59:55.880 experts?

00:59:57.820 They have

00:59:59.100 to know

00:59:59.640 that there's

01:00:00.760 no real

01:00:01.300 possibility of a

01:00:02.260 two-state

01:00:02.680 solution.

01:00:04.280 Don't

01:00:04.880 they?

01:00:07.220 So, and

01:00:08.380 that's a real

01:00:08.820 question.

01:00:10.260 Do they

01:00:10.660 actually not

01:00:11.520 know that

01:00:12.820 that option

01:00:13.380 closed?

01:00:14.060 I don't know

01:00:14.440 when, but

01:00:15.040 it certainly

01:00:15.580 closed.

01:00:17.060 So I would

01:00:19.260 also say that

01:00:20.060 the way Hamas 0.99

01:00:21.620 handled the,

01:00:22.980 or didn't

01:00:23.500 handle the

01:00:24.500 hostage situation

01:00:25.680 kind of gave

01:00:27.400 Israel the

01:00:29.140 free pass that

01:00:30.060 they needed to

01:00:31.460 do whatever

01:00:32.180 they need to

01:00:32.760 do.

01:00:33.620 So I

01:00:34.680 think that

01:00:35.240 Israel has 1.00

01:00:37.200 decided that

01:00:37.840 Hamas will 1.00

01:00:38.460 be destroyed

01:00:39.200 completely,

01:00:39.820 and I think

01:00:41.280 Hamas never 0.99

01:00:42.180 thought that

01:00:42.700 was serious.

01:00:44.540 I think their

01:00:45.340 strategic problem

01:00:46.540 was they

01:00:46.900 thought, well,

01:00:47.740 if we just

01:00:48.800 do this and

01:00:49.480 that, they're

01:00:50.660 going to do a

01:00:51.060 ceasefire, we'll

01:00:51.980 reconstitute, we'll

01:00:53.180 claim victory,

01:00:54.620 and we'll do it

01:00:55.600 again.

01:00:55.880 But that's

01:00:58.160 not at all

01:00:58.740 where Israel's

01:00:59.460 head is at.

01:01:00.700 Not at all.

01:01:02.900 Israel is

01:01:03.660 quite clearly

01:01:04.540 decided that

01:01:06.380 they'd like to

01:01:07.500 get the

01:01:07.800 hostages back,

01:01:09.180 but they're

01:01:10.060 not going to

01:01:10.500 let it control

01:01:11.180 them, meaning

01:01:13.000 that they're

01:01:14.000 going to

01:01:14.220 destroy every

01:01:15.720 part of

01:01:16.160 Hamas, no

01:01:17.740 doubt about

01:01:18.300 it, no

01:01:18.960 matter how

01:01:19.420 long it

01:01:19.820 takes.

01:01:20.180 So, for

01:01:23.940 those of you

01:01:24.380 who are new

01:01:24.860 to me, I

01:01:27.260 don't support

01:01:28.040 Israel.

01:01:29.220 It's not my

01:01:29.800 country.

01:01:30.960 I support the

01:01:31.960 United States.

01:01:33.480 But, it's

01:01:35.340 hard for me to

01:01:36.060 criticize a

01:01:36.860 country that's

01:01:37.480 doing something

01:01:38.180 that looks like

01:01:38.880 it's in their

01:01:39.360 best interest,

01:01:40.680 even if it's

01:01:41.420 horrible to

01:01:41.980 other people.

01:01:43.260 Because I see

01:01:44.420 it through the

01:01:44.960 filter of power,

01:01:46.540 and Israel has

01:01:48.040 power, and

01:01:49.400 they're using

01:01:49.820 it.

01:01:50.180 to what

01:01:51.880 looks like

01:01:52.520 their own

01:01:53.620 opinion of

01:01:54.180 what's the

01:01:54.620 betterment of

01:01:55.240 Israel.

01:01:56.240 If the power

01:01:57.180 were reversed,

01:01:58.980 and the

01:01:59.620 Palestinians had 0.99

01:02:00.540 all the

01:02:00.820 power, the

01:02:02.800 Israelis would 1.00

01:02:03.440 not be happy.

01:02:04.880 In other

01:02:05.200 words, whoever

01:02:05.700 has the power

01:02:06.360 is going to

01:02:06.760 be doing

01:02:07.860 things that

01:02:08.560 the people

01:02:08.920 who don't

01:02:09.260 have power

01:02:09.740 are really,

01:02:10.500 really going

01:02:10.800 to hate.

01:02:11.820 And they

01:02:12.180 might even

01:02:12.560 have a good

01:02:13.000 point.

01:02:14.100 But it

01:02:14.440 doesn't matter.

01:02:15.880 It just

01:02:16.240 doesn't matter

01:02:16.720 if they have

01:02:17.120 a good point.

01:02:18.080 Because the

01:02:18.580 ones with the

01:02:19.080 power are going

01:02:19.680 to get what

01:02:20.040 they want.

01:02:20.660 And that's

01:02:21.000 just what that

01:02:21.520 part of the

01:02:21.920 world is

01:02:22.360 about.

01:02:23.320 Now, I

01:02:24.260 don't think

01:02:24.680 our part of

01:02:25.280 the world is

01:02:25.760 better.

01:02:27.080 I think that

01:02:27.860 when the U.S.

01:02:28.500 has power, it

01:02:29.300 uses it.

01:02:30.300 And when

01:02:30.880 somebody else

01:02:31.480 has power,

01:02:32.060 they use it.

01:02:32.640 So, to

01:02:34.700 imagine that if

01:02:36.200 I had a

01:02:36.780 moral or

01:02:37.500 ethical

01:02:37.960 qualms,

01:02:39.460 that somehow

01:02:39.860 that would

01:02:40.300 matter.

01:02:41.400 That would

01:02:41.780 matter.

01:02:42.620 It wouldn't

01:02:43.160 matter to

01:02:43.500 anybody.

01:02:44.580 So, I

01:02:45.540 just shut 0.84

01:02:46.100 up about

01:02:46.740 any moral

01:02:47.480 or ethical

01:02:48.040 qualms,

01:02:49.200 because I

01:02:49.600 don't live

01:02:50.000 in a moral

01:02:50.440 and ethical

01:02:50.960 world.

01:02:51.680 I live in

01:02:52.180 a world

01:02:52.540 where countries,

01:02:54.320 quite

01:02:54.760 understandably,

01:02:56.960 pursue their

01:02:58.120 own best

01:02:58.720 interests as

01:02:59.380 hard as

01:02:59.740 they can.

01:03:00.120 So, what

01:03:02.700 are you

01:03:02.840 going to

01:03:03.000 do about

01:03:03.340 that?

01:03:04.240 Now, you

01:03:04.800 might say,

01:03:05.400 but we

01:03:05.660 don't want

01:03:06.000 to be

01:03:07.260 funding it.

01:03:08.560 And that's

01:03:08.940 a good

01:03:09.180 conversation

01:03:09.760 to have,

01:03:10.220 because that's

01:03:10.720 just economics.

01:03:12.400 But I'm

01:03:13.940 not even

01:03:14.360 entirely sure

01:03:15.380 if we

01:03:17.400 understand the

01:03:18.040 whole funding

01:03:18.700 situation.

01:03:19.980 Because a lot

01:03:20.580 of that money

01:03:21.180 that looks

01:03:22.820 like it's

01:03:23.280 for Israel

01:03:24.140 is really

01:03:24.740 just does a

01:03:25.680 U-turn and

01:03:26.300 comes back

01:03:26.820 to the United

01:03:27.260 States and

01:03:28.560 funds our

01:03:29.040 military

01:03:29.500 industrial

01:03:29.980 complex.

01:03:31.620 But we

01:03:32.500 also have

01:03:32.980 some strategic

01:03:33.800 reasons to

01:03:35.540 be strong

01:03:37.220 partners with

01:03:38.020 Israel,

01:03:39.200 probably economic

01:03:40.460 reasons as

01:03:41.460 well.

01:03:42.060 So it's a

01:03:42.780 more complicated

01:03:43.460 situation, and

01:03:44.500 I don't think

01:03:45.020 that my

01:03:45.420 ethical or

01:03:46.320 moral opinion

01:03:47.060 about anything

01:03:47.880 moves any

01:03:49.240 needles.

01:03:50.000 So I just

01:03:50.800 stay out of

01:03:51.240 the whole

01:03:51.520 conversation.

01:03:52.660 But I

01:03:53.720 don't back

01:03:54.460 Israel.

01:03:55.560 I don't

01:03:56.140 support Israel

01:03:57.080 because they

01:03:57.900 don't need

01:03:58.400 it.

01:03:58.640 and it's

01:03:59.580 none of

01:03:59.800 my business.

01:04:02.360 So I

01:04:03.240 have to say

01:04:03.620 that every

01:04:04.020 time, I

01:04:04.420 think.

01:04:06.900 Meanwhile,

01:04:07.640 let's talk

01:04:08.180 about Ukraine.

01:04:10.300 Zelensky has

01:04:11.320 said that

01:04:12.360 there's no

01:04:12.860 way that the

01:04:13.380 U.S. is 0.80

01:04:13.860 going to take

01:04:14.280 over any of

01:04:14.960 their nuclear

01:04:15.440 power stations.

01:04:16.380 now, there's

01:04:17.380 some, you

01:04:18.060 probably heard

01:04:18.480 the news,

01:04:19.600 that Trump

01:04:20.500 said when

01:04:22.100 dealing with

01:04:22.760 Putin, what

01:04:24.440 if the

01:04:24.740 United States

01:04:25.460 takes over

01:04:26.240 some or

01:04:27.880 all of the

01:04:29.540 nuclear power

01:04:30.220 plants in

01:04:30.980 Ukraine, and

01:04:32.920 that that

01:04:33.360 would be, I

01:04:34.160 guess, the

01:04:34.860 thinking would

01:04:35.820 be good for

01:04:36.740 Ukraine's power

01:04:37.620 structure because

01:04:38.980 of our

01:04:39.320 expertise, but

01:04:40.340 also it

01:04:42.600 would be a

01:04:42.980 reason not to

01:04:43.620 attack Ukraine 0.96

01:04:44.420 because it

01:04:45.040 would be a

01:04:45.500 bigger American

01:04:46.800 presence there.

01:04:48.560 But then

01:04:50.040 some are

01:04:50.420 saying that

01:04:51.000 that only

01:04:51.500 applied to

01:04:52.220 one nuclear

01:04:52.980 power plant

01:04:53.720 that's in

01:04:54.500 an area

01:04:56.020 controlled by

01:04:56.800 Russia at

01:04:57.880 the moment.

01:04:59.220 So I'm not

01:04:59.640 even sure what

01:05:00.160 the details are

01:05:00.860 of that.

01:05:01.680 But Zelensky

01:05:02.500 is defying

01:05:03.360 that, according

01:05:05.940 to the

01:05:06.380 Independent, and

01:05:08.000 he says no

01:05:09.220 way that

01:05:10.260 America is

01:05:10.760 going to have

01:05:11.100 any of our

01:05:11.560 power plants.

01:05:12.420 Now,

01:05:12.560 does it

01:05:15.780 feel like any

01:05:16.520 progress has

01:05:17.280 been made?

01:05:18.920 Because it

01:05:19.660 seems to me

01:05:20.200 there are two

01:05:20.800 situations that

01:05:21.800 will never

01:05:22.260 work.

01:05:23.640 One situation,

01:05:25.080 according to

01:05:25.580 Zelensky, is

01:05:27.420 that if

01:05:28.140 America tries

01:05:28.940 to negotiate

01:05:29.680 a peace

01:05:30.300 plan without

01:05:31.240 Ukraine at

01:05:32.600 the table,

01:05:34.080 that there's

01:05:34.880 no way that

01:05:35.820 will work.

01:05:37.140 Do you

01:05:37.680 agree?

01:05:38.640 Do you

01:05:39.320 agree there's

01:05:39.780 no way that

01:05:41.520 the United

01:05:41.960 States can

01:05:42.780 come up

01:05:43.300 with an

01:05:43.660 agreement that

01:05:45.080 Ukraine will 0.90

01:05:46.460 accept?

01:05:48.200 I agree with

01:05:49.040 that.

01:05:49.940 Because even

01:05:50.680 if we say,

01:05:51.600 oh, but we

01:05:52.680 can twist his

01:05:53.660 arm and we

01:05:54.320 can threaten

01:05:54.880 him and we

01:05:55.900 can just make

01:05:56.560 Zelensky do 0.99

01:05:57.380 what we want,

01:05:58.340 he's going to

01:05:58.900 do every one

01:05:59.760 of these weasel

01:06:00.520 tricks.

01:06:01.480 He's going to

01:06:01.860 have the

01:06:02.200 European Union

01:06:03.040 on his side.

01:06:04.320 He's going to

01:06:04.940 have each of

01:06:05.480 the countries

01:06:05.940 over there on

01:06:06.540 his side.

01:06:07.640 He's going to

01:06:08.020 have a lot of

01:06:08.460 Americans on

01:06:09.240 his side.

01:06:09.840 So as

01:06:11.520 long as

01:06:11.920 Zelensky is

01:06:13.000 a weasel

01:06:13.540 and whoever

01:06:14.900 might replace

01:06:15.780 him would

01:06:16.120 just be

01:06:16.520 weasel

01:06:16.880 number two,

01:06:18.340 I don't

01:06:19.500 think that

01:06:19.980 we can

01:06:20.520 come up

01:06:21.920 with an

01:06:22.260 agreement that

01:06:22.980 he would

01:06:23.340 keep and

01:06:25.700 would end

01:06:26.100 the war.

01:06:27.260 So situation

01:06:28.480 number one

01:06:29.060 that won't

01:06:29.500 work, and I

01:06:30.540 agree with

01:06:31.120 Zelensky on

01:06:31.780 this, is

01:06:32.940 trying to

01:06:34.740 negotiate a

01:06:35.440 peace deal

01:06:35.920 without

01:06:36.540 Ukraine at

01:06:37.260 the table.

01:06:38.400 But there's

01:06:39.060 one other

01:06:39.480 thing that

01:06:39.880 won't work.

01:06:41.480 Trying to

01:06:42.140 negotiate a

01:06:42.840 peace agreement

01:06:43.460 with Ukraine

01:06:45.300 at the table.

01:06:46.800 Because if you

01:06:47.560 put him at

01:06:47.980 the table,

01:06:48.540 they're going

01:06:48.800 to ask for

01:06:49.260 things that

01:06:49.920 nobody's going

01:06:50.620 to give

01:06:50.880 them.

01:06:52.020 If you

01:06:52.580 don't put

01:06:53.000 him at

01:06:53.260 the table,

01:06:54.080 we're going

01:06:54.640 to give

01:06:54.960 away things

01:06:55.640 that they're

01:06:56.060 going to

01:06:57.080 work behind

01:06:57.920 the scenes

01:06:58.440 and in

01:06:58.760 every way

01:06:59.140 to thwart

01:06:59.560 us.

01:07:00.560 So you

01:07:01.740 can't make

01:07:02.280 a deal

01:07:02.580 with him

01:07:02.920 at the

01:07:03.260 table,

01:07:03.960 and you

01:07:04.760 definitely

01:07:05.100 can't make

01:07:05.660 a deal

01:07:06.200 with him

01:07:06.600 not at

01:07:07.160 the table,

01:07:07.960 and those

01:07:09.300 are the

01:07:09.560 only two

01:07:10.060 options.

01:07:11.320 They're either

01:07:11.720 at the

01:07:12.120 table and

01:07:12.560 it doesn't

01:07:12.960 work,

01:07:13.260 or they're

01:07:13.520 not at

01:07:13.880 the table

01:07:14.200 and it

01:07:14.540 doesn't

01:07:14.800 work.

01:07:17.120 In my

01:07:17.760 opinion,

01:07:18.660 I don't

01:07:19.560 see anything

01:07:20.200 that looks

01:07:20.600 like even

01:07:21.040 a little

01:07:21.360 bit of

01:07:21.660 progress.

01:07:23.600 What do

01:07:24.120 you think?

01:07:25.120 Do you

01:07:25.540 see it

01:07:25.820 differently?

01:07:27.280 And to

01:07:27.800 me, it

01:07:28.060 looks like

01:07:28.800 Russia is 0.79

01:07:31.020 just going

01:07:31.360 to keep

01:07:31.700 chewing up

01:07:32.360 whatever they

01:07:33.120 can,

01:07:33.920 because they

01:07:34.280 have such a

01:07:34.800 dominant

01:07:35.120 position at

01:07:35.820 this point,

01:07:36.720 theoretically.

01:07:37.540 I mean, I'm

01:07:38.320 not there,

01:07:39.580 so maybe

01:07:40.880 the drones

01:07:42.120 and robot

01:07:42.800 dogs that

01:07:43.500 the Ukrainians

01:07:44.220 have can

01:07:45.600 turn the

01:07:46.140 tide of

01:07:46.600 the war.

01:07:47.360 I mean,

01:07:47.720 maybe,

01:07:48.920 but I

01:07:49.620 don't see

01:07:50.020 it happening.

01:07:51.540 So I

01:07:53.600 don't see

01:07:54.200 any progress

01:07:55.260 there at

01:07:55.640 all, nor

01:07:57.180 do I see

01:07:57.800 a path.

01:07:59.740 So unless

01:08:00.460 something big

01:08:01.260 happens,

01:08:01.800 I'm not

01:08:04.460 expecting

01:08:04.920 anything to

01:08:05.500 happen except

01:08:06.080 the United

01:08:06.640 States getting

01:08:07.360 out of the

01:08:07.760 game.

01:08:09.140 So let

01:08:10.280 me make a

01:08:10.720 prediction.

01:08:12.500 Given that

01:08:13.320 Zelensky

01:08:13.920 doesn't seem

01:08:15.820 to be serious

01:08:16.600 about peace,

01:08:18.920 because being

01:08:19.820 serious about it

01:08:20.740 would be giving

01:08:21.320 up more than

01:08:21.960 he's willing to

01:08:22.580 give up.

01:08:25.540 But we

01:08:26.200 don't have to

01:08:26.640 pay for it.

01:08:27.300 So I

01:08:28.380 think Trump's

01:08:28.980 next move

01:08:29.660 would be to

01:08:30.460 remove just

01:08:31.440 every bit of

01:08:32.120 support for

01:08:32.700 Ukraine and

01:08:33.880 say,

01:08:34.220 Germany,

01:08:35.500 I'm glad

01:08:35.920 you've increased

01:08:36.800 by a trillion

01:08:37.380 dollars you're 0.95

01:08:38.460 spending.

01:08:39.680 Hey,

01:08:40.060 Great Britain

01:08:41.440 and France,

01:08:42.740 good luck

01:08:43.480 with that.

01:08:43.960 We'll sell you

01:08:44.460 some weapons

01:08:45.020 if you like.

01:08:46.100 Would you like

01:08:46.520 us to sell you

01:08:47.160 some weapons?

01:08:48.520 Because we'll

01:08:48.940 be happy to

01:08:49.720 sell you stuff.

01:08:53.580 So that's

01:08:54.640 my prediction.

01:08:55.620 My prediction

01:08:56.160 is no peace

01:08:57.140 in Ukraine

01:08:57.740 and the

01:08:59.060 United States

01:08:59.700 pulls out

01:09:00.280 entirely and

01:09:01.980 just says,

01:09:02.620 fuck every

01:09:03.220 one of you.

01:09:04.800 And I think

01:09:05.420 we're really

01:09:05.800 close to fuck

01:09:06.560 every one of

01:09:07.140 you, because

01:09:08.540 we're being

01:09:09.440 dragged in.

01:09:10.780 I mean, I

01:09:11.180 guess we

01:09:11.500 dragged ourselves

01:09:12.220 in.

01:09:12.920 You could argue

01:09:13.760 that we're

01:09:14.160 responsible for

01:09:15.060 it.

01:09:15.740 But at this

01:09:16.280 point, we

01:09:17.940 certainly have

01:09:18.660 a fiduciary

01:09:19.740 responsibility to

01:09:21.700 deal with our

01:09:22.280 own budget

01:09:22.780 problems and

01:09:24.020 let them have 0.70

01:09:25.080 whatever faith

01:09:25.720 they decided

01:09:26.300 they wanted.

01:09:27.140 Because if

01:09:28.100 Zelensky wants

01:09:29.200 to fight,

01:09:30.600 why should

01:09:32.420 we stop

01:09:32.820 him?

01:09:35.060 Anyway,

01:09:36.120 according to

01:09:37.420 live science,

01:09:38.580 an octopus

01:09:39.120 has been

01:09:39.680 spotted riding

01:09:40.460 on top of

01:09:41.040 the world's

01:09:41.520 fastest shark.

01:09:44.380 This is my

01:09:45.280 favorite story.

01:09:46.360 There's even

01:09:46.820 video of it.

01:09:47.520 So, somehow

01:09:49.580 an octopus

01:09:50.440 grabbed on

01:09:51.920 the top of

01:09:52.460 a shark,

01:09:53.280 and it

01:09:53.540 happened to

01:09:53.940 be,

01:09:54.280 coincidentally,

01:09:55.300 one of the

01:09:55.760 fastest type

01:09:57.100 of sharks,

01:09:57.860 a short-fin

01:09:58.600 Macau shark.

01:10:02.400 And that

01:10:03.220 shark can go

01:10:03.780 up to 50

01:10:04.360 miles per

01:10:04.920 hour underwater.

01:10:07.360 Can you

01:10:07.720 imagine how

01:10:08.300 much fun that

01:10:08.960 octopus is

01:10:09.680 having right

01:10:10.160 now?

01:10:10.440 unless the

01:10:13.400 moment it

01:10:13.900 lets go,

01:10:14.440 the shark

01:10:14.760 is going

01:10:15.080 to eat

01:10:15.340 it.

01:10:16.220 So, I

01:10:17.060 don't know

01:10:17.640 if sharks

01:10:19.060 eat octopuses.

01:10:21.360 I think they

01:10:22.240 do, right?

01:10:24.000 Are sharks

01:10:24.960 picky about

01:10:26.440 what they

01:10:26.760 eat?

01:10:26.980 So, it

01:10:28.000 could be

01:10:28.360 that the

01:10:28.740 octopus is

01:10:29.520 thinking,

01:10:30.520 okay, if

01:10:31.160 I ever

01:10:31.600 let go,

01:10:33.140 I'm going

01:10:34.100 to be

01:10:34.280 lunch.

01:10:35.220 Or, is

01:10:35.940 the octopus

01:10:36.380 saying, I

01:10:37.260 think I

01:10:37.600 just figured

01:10:38.040 out the

01:10:38.380 greatest

01:10:38.700 thing ever.

01:10:39.940 I've got

01:10:40.500 a pet.

01:10:41.820 I've got a

01:10:42.540 pet that's

01:10:42.940 going to

01:10:43.140 take me

01:10:43.460 places.

01:10:44.460 Man, am

01:10:44.960 I traveling.

01:10:45.700 I'm seeing

01:10:45.980 the world.

01:10:48.260 So, anyway,

01:10:49.180 they're calling

01:10:49.580 it the

01:10:50.020 sharktopus.

01:10:52.140 It's a

01:10:52.700 combination of

01:10:53.360 a shark

01:10:53.760 and an

01:10:54.080 octopus.

01:10:54.860 The

01:10:55.080 sharktopus,

01:10:56.180 there was

01:10:56.820 spotted in

01:10:57.440 the

01:10:57.680 Horaki

01:10:58.360 Gulf off

01:10:59.480 of New

01:10:59.940 Zealand.

01:11:01.560 So, be

01:11:03.260 careful if

01:11:03.880 you go to

01:11:04.260 New Zealand

01:11:04.800 because it

01:11:06.520 might not

01:11:06.920 be the

01:11:07.280 only shark

01:11:07.820 to puss. 0.96

01:11:08.900 There might

01:11:09.180 be lots

01:11:09.520 of them.

01:11:11.940 And that,

01:11:12.660 ladies and 0.98

01:11:12.980 gentlemen, is

01:11:14.340 all I needed

01:11:14.900 to tell you.

01:11:16.060 So, here's

01:11:16.500 what I

01:11:16.800 think.

01:11:17.580 I think the

01:11:18.280 Ukraine war

01:11:19.060 will not

01:11:19.640 turn nuclear,

01:11:21.160 but I think

01:11:22.120 the U.S.

01:11:22.620 will just

01:11:23.600 get out

01:11:24.140 and just

01:11:25.120 say, screw 0.82

01:11:25.620 this, we're

01:11:26.120 out.

01:11:26.820 I think

01:11:29.340 that everything

01:11:30.100 economically

01:11:31.000 looks positive.

01:11:33.760 I think

01:11:34.360 that the

01:11:34.700 Democrats

01:11:35.140 don't realize

01:11:36.400 that their

01:11:36.920 Tesla attack

01:11:38.040 will destroy

01:11:39.300 the entire

01:11:40.140 Democratic

01:11:40.700 Party.

01:11:41.940 Because I

01:11:42.960 just don't

01:11:43.820 know too

01:11:44.260 many normal

01:11:45.000 Democrats

01:11:45.640 with Teslas

01:11:46.440 who are

01:11:47.140 going to put

01:11:47.500 up with

01:11:47.820 this.

01:11:48.680 I just

01:11:49.500 don't think

01:11:49.960 they will.

01:11:50.700 I think

01:11:51.080 they're going

01:11:51.380 to lose

01:11:51.760 the entire

01:11:52.440 Asian-American

01:11:53.700 vote if they

01:11:55.140 haven't already.

01:11:55.760 because of

01:11:58.600 that.

01:11:59.280 I mean,

01:11:59.740 that just

01:12:00.520 looks like

01:12:01.000 complete

01:12:01.380 lawlessness

01:12:01.980 and the

01:12:03.020 Asian-American

01:12:03.720 community

01:12:04.320 likes their

01:12:05.320 law.

01:12:06.280 They like

01:12:06.640 law and

01:12:06.980 order and

01:12:07.520 they like

01:12:07.860 their Teslas.

01:12:09.120 So, I

01:12:09.340 think that's

01:12:09.720 really going

01:12:10.120 to sting

01:12:10.620 in a big

01:12:11.780 part of

01:12:12.100 their party.

01:12:12.540 I think

01:12:15.060 the tariffs

01:12:15.660 are going

01:12:16.080 to be

01:12:16.260 nothing but

01:12:16.800 positive.

01:12:18.000 But it

01:12:18.540 will be

01:12:19.060 a rocky

01:12:20.320 road until

01:12:20.980 it is.

01:12:21.880 I think

01:12:22.320 inflation

01:12:22.840 will get

01:12:23.260 under

01:12:23.500 control.

01:12:24.760 I think

01:12:25.140 interest

01:12:25.560 rates will

01:12:26.040 come down.

01:12:27.200 I think

01:12:27.600 our energy

01:12:28.280 is almost

01:12:29.080 guaranteed

01:12:29.680 to be

01:12:30.340 much higher

01:12:31.260 in a year

01:12:32.300 or two

01:12:32.600 than it

01:12:32.900 is now,

01:12:33.580 which will

01:12:34.180 again bring

01:12:34.780 down prices.

01:12:35.760 I think

01:12:37.120 that almost

01:12:39.320 everything is

01:12:40.480 going in the

01:12:40.980 right direction

01:12:41.620 with Doge.

01:12:43.620 I do worry

01:12:44.440 that they

01:12:44.820 can't find

01:12:45.340 enough.

01:12:47.100 But, boy,

01:12:47.860 does it look

01:12:48.300 like there's

01:12:48.740 plenty of

01:12:49.300 fraud and

01:12:49.920 abuse.

01:12:51.220 It looks

01:12:51.640 like there's

01:12:52.060 plenty to

01:12:52.660 cut.

01:12:53.820 So, I'm

01:12:54.980 going to tell

01:12:55.800 you that the

01:12:56.340 stock market

01:12:57.080 is acting

01:12:58.060 political right

01:12:58.960 now.

01:12:59.320 It's not

01:12:59.720 acting

01:13:00.080 economical.

01:13:01.380 If the

01:13:02.040 stock market

01:13:02.680 has started

01:13:03.140 acting as

01:13:05.100 if economically,

01:13:05.760 we're driving

01:13:06.600 it, I

01:13:07.660 think it

01:13:08.040 would be

01:13:08.380 discounting

01:13:09.080 a lot of

01:13:09.480 the roiling

01:13:10.060 and would

01:13:11.220 be saying,

01:13:11.980 you know,

01:13:13.040 things are

01:13:13.600 definitely

01:13:14.200 starting to

01:13:15.680 shape up.

01:13:16.760 So, we

01:13:17.400 fixed the

01:13:17.980 border problem.

01:13:21.180 I don't

01:13:22.120 think education

01:13:22.900 is fixed.

01:13:23.880 If I had

01:13:24.300 to pick

01:13:24.580 one weak

01:13:25.160 spot, I

01:13:26.860 don't think

01:13:27.260 getting rid

01:13:27.720 of the

01:13:28.020 Department

01:13:28.380 of Education

01:13:29.000 makes much

01:13:30.260 difference.

01:13:31.480 But, I

01:13:32.680 don't trust

01:13:33.280 states to

01:13:34.660 do education

01:13:35.380 because they

01:13:35.900 haven't

01:13:36.220 succeeded

01:13:36.700 yet.

01:13:37.860 You know,

01:13:38.320 the idea

01:13:38.900 that the

01:13:39.360 states would

01:13:39.860 compete with

01:13:40.520 each other

01:13:41.000 to do

01:13:42.140 education

01:13:42.700 better,

01:13:43.780 it hasn't

01:13:44.240 worked yet.

01:13:45.680 What would

01:13:46.320 make that

01:13:46.720 suddenly work?

01:13:47.960 So, I

01:13:48.300 think the

01:13:48.860 only thing

01:13:50.100 the Republicans

01:13:50.660 have there

01:13:51.180 is if they

01:13:51.640 can push

01:13:52.160 school choice.

01:13:54.200 So, school

01:13:55.240 choice might

01:13:55.880 give you

01:13:56.180 something,

01:13:57.160 you know,

01:13:57.340 as long as

01:13:57.740 everybody has

01:13:58.300 the choice.

01:13:58.760 and that

01:14:03.680 ladies and 0.98

01:14:04.180 gentlemen is

01:14:04.560 all I have

01:14:04.960 to say

01:14:05.300 today.

01:14:05.820 Hope it

01:14:06.280 reduced your

01:14:07.340 anxiety a

01:14:08.620 little bit.

01:14:10.040 And if

01:14:11.320 that doesn't

01:14:11.780 work, coffee

01:14:12.800 can cure

01:14:13.400 everything else.

01:14:14.840 So, I'm

01:14:15.440 going to say

01:14:15.860 a few private

01:14:17.260 words to the

01:14:18.000 people on

01:14:18.520 Locals, my

01:14:20.100 subscribers, and

01:14:22.340 the rest of you,

01:14:23.140 thanks for

01:14:23.500 joining.

01:14:23.920 I will see you

01:14:24.620 same time

01:14:25.160 tomorrow on

01:14:26.380 X and Rumble

01:14:27.460 and YouTube.

01:14:29.000 Locals, I'm

01:14:29.760 coming at you

01:14:30.260 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 21, 2025

Episode 2785 CWSA 03⧸21⧸25

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