Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2790 CWSA 03⧸26⧸25

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00:00:50.720 Well, in media news, Stephen Crowder is leaving YouTube for good.

00:00:55.960 And he's going to be exclusively live on Rumble.

00:01:02.000 Actually, I don't know if it's exclusive.

00:01:04.880 I don't know if he's on X as well.

00:01:07.240 But he won't be on YouTube.

00:01:08.840 He'll be on Rumble.

00:01:11.580 And he's the number one live stream in America, I think.

00:01:17.240 So that's not bad.

00:01:19.320 Not bad.

00:01:20.180 So I guess YouTube was not giving him what he needed.

00:01:23.860 You know, the other day, I got demonetized on YouTube just for one episode.

00:01:29.780 And it happens a lot, usually automatically.

00:01:33.020 But then there's a human reversal.

00:01:35.060 But the reversal happens, you know, after a lot of the traffic's already done.

00:01:41.060 Never did find out why that one episode got demonetized.

00:01:46.180 Don't know.

00:01:46.640 Well, did you know, according to the Daily Star, over at the British Broadcasting Company,

00:01:54.160 I don't like to say BBC because I know some of you will just be sidetracked by that.

00:02:01.540 Apparently, they're offering counseling to the staff to help them cope with the presidency of Donald Trump.

00:02:09.020 Now, does the British Broadcasting Company know that he's not even the president of Great Britain?

00:02:20.020 He's not.

00:02:21.820 So how many of them really need counseling because of a president of another country?

00:02:31.480 That's pretty weird.

00:02:32.960 Pretty weird and pretty weak.

00:02:34.700 But I wish you well, British Broadcasting Company.

00:02:41.180 Anyway, up in Canada, you know Pierre Poilivre?

00:02:45.760 Let me pronounce that correctly.

00:02:48.400 It's Pierre Poilivre.

00:02:51.280 Poilivre.

00:02:53.160 Paulivre.

00:02:54.340 It's, I think it's pronounced Paulivre.

00:02:57.620 Is that even close?

00:02:59.580 It's not even close.

00:03:01.080 It's Poil liver.

00:03:02.940 No?

00:03:05.600 Close?

00:03:06.840 Okay, I can't speak French last names, but you know who he is.

00:03:11.420 He's a very smart and very clever person.

00:03:15.420 On the conservative side, he's running for something.

00:03:18.680 And he says they have a common sense approach for Canada first.

00:03:25.160 So it looks to me like he has cleverly adopted Trump's best phrases and plans.

00:03:34.120 Canada first, common sense, common sense immigration.

00:03:38.160 That's a pretty good idea.

00:03:42.100 You know, normally I would say something like, oh, you're so, such a copycat.

00:03:48.120 You know, come up with your own campaign.

00:03:51.100 But how do you do better than common sense?

00:03:55.060 And how do you, how do you do better than your own country should come first to the politicians

00:04:01.460 running your own country?

00:04:02.680 You can't really top those things.

00:04:05.900 So I suspect there's just going to be a whole bunch of politicians and a whole bunch of places

00:04:11.920 saying, I've got an idea.

00:04:14.380 Hey, hey, I've got an idea.

00:04:16.420 How about common sense?

00:04:19.000 Is anybody up for some common sense?

00:04:22.060 Well, it's hard to say no to that.

00:04:24.300 We'll see how he does.

00:04:25.420 Gateway Pundit is reporting that Adam Carolla correctly called the near impossibility of

00:04:34.520 getting building permits in California for the people who were affected by those L.A. fires.

00:04:41.100 And let me give you a little poll here.

00:04:44.560 So it's been 75 days since the fires.

00:04:49.000 How many building permits do you think have been issued?

00:04:52.120 75 days, and fairly quickly people knew whether their house was going to be, you know, burned

00:05:00.500 down or not.

00:05:02.200 So how many building permits have been issued?

00:05:05.820 Would you say 400, 40, or four?

00:05:13.340 The answer is four.

00:05:15.520 Four building permits for all that, you know, just acres and, I don't know, hundreds and

00:05:23.980 hundreds of homes and only four building permits.

00:05:28.660 And Adam Carolla had warned us in advance that it was going to be nearly impossible to

00:05:33.860 build because of all the California red tape.

00:05:36.940 Now, you are probably optimistic that red tape could be cleared a little faster because it's

00:05:43.540 an emergency and, you know, we're doing the common sense thing now.

00:05:48.160 How many homes?

00:05:49.420 1,500 homes I'm seeing in the comments.

00:05:52.580 1,500.

00:05:53.880 Yeah.

00:05:54.660 Now, I would be a little cautious about this 75-day thing because it could be that you

00:06:03.320 couldn't really get a contractor or a builder or an architect even into the area because

00:06:09.140 it was too toxic.

00:06:10.620 So it might be that the first 75 days, nobody could do anything because the area itself was,

00:06:17.760 you know, not as accessible as it could have been.

00:06:20.380 Not the whole 75 days.

00:06:22.500 But we'll see.

00:06:24.420 There's still some possibility that it will ramp up quickly.

00:06:28.300 Um, once people see whether it makes sense to live there at all.

00:06:34.100 So we'll see.

00:06:35.680 But a related story is that the state forum, the insurance company, is just getting wrecked

00:06:41.260 by the press for, uh, what a lot of its customers say is pretty bad behavior, uh, as in offering

00:06:50.380 incredibly low ball offers, um, well below the cost of rebuilding.

00:06:56.700 And why?

00:06:59.420 Well, the, the theory is that sometimes they can get away with it.

00:07:04.220 So if you don't hire a lawyer and fight them and, you know, just really go after them hard,

00:07:09.700 apparently they'll just try to low ball you because there's so much money involved.

00:07:15.500 So State Farm has a lot of explaining to do.

00:07:18.940 Um, I'm not there personally, but based on the press reports, it looks like something

00:07:24.680 pretty bad's happening.

00:07:25.600 So State Farm, you need to explain yourself.

00:07:31.120 Meanwhile, uh, San Francisco has rolled out this, uh, program in the city where there are

00:07:37.100 cameras that can photograph your car and your license plate and issue you a ticket.

00:07:44.400 And the ticket will depend on your income.

00:07:48.740 Can you believe that?

00:07:50.020 The amount you have to pay for the ticket will be based on your income and it will be automatic.

00:07:57.700 There's no human involved.

00:07:58.860 They'll just take a picture and suddenly you just get a ticket in the mail. 0.97

00:08:02.520 Is that the creepiest damn thing you've ever heard of? 0.91

00:08:07.780 That you would get a ticket based on your income? 0.98

00:08:12.080 I, can they really, can they really determine your income from your license plate?

00:08:19.360 Uh, maybe.

00:08:20.120 Well, what if there are, uh, what if somebody borrows your car?

00:08:25.780 Do they get the ticket based on the income of the person who owns the car?

00:08:31.340 How does that work?

00:08:33.120 This is so damn creepy.

00:08:35.300 Anyway, Blaze Media is reporting on that.

00:08:38.180 Um, you know, that Greenland visit that, uh, J.D. Vance's wife and, and kid were going to go to?

00:08:46.820 Well, it looks like that's not working out.

00:08:48.840 Well, I, I think it worked out great when Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk and, and some of their guys went up there.

00:08:58.560 Um, I don't know if it was because it was early in the process and there hadn't been a lot of thinking about what would happen with Greenland.

00:09:07.300 And, or what, but they're really prickly now.

00:09:11.020 So it looks like that the, the trip that was supposed to be sort of a, you know, a general cultural appreciation sort of thing turned into, well, maybe you shouldn't go where there are a lot of Greenlanders. 0.99

00:09:25.700 So instead, I think they're going to visit military base, some U.S. military base and J.D. Vance is going to join them.

00:09:33.520 Um, so it looks like it might've been a little dangerous or, or at least a little bit offensive to the locals.

00:09:42.220 But here's something that the, uh, the Danish prime minister said.

00:09:48.820 Um, he said that, uh, the scheduled visit puts completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland.

00:09:55.480 Do you think that the vice president's wife and, and child visiting Greenland and going to cultural events was going to put unnecessary pressure on Greenland?

00:10:12.960 Really?

00:10:13.600 Apparently Greenland can't take much pressure.

00:10:18.400 What would it take to conquer the entire country?

00:10:22.200 Like six hobos with butter knives?

00:10:26.200 I mean, if, if they're going to buckle under the pressure of somebody doing a vacation in Greenland,

00:10:33.240 Hey, the vice president's wife and young child will be visiting.

00:10:39.500 Oh no.

00:10:40.920 Oh no.

00:10:41.560 The pressure.

00:10:42.880 Oh, how are we going to survive the visit of the vice president's wife and child?

00:10:48.380 Oh no.

00:10:49.520 What are we going to do?

00:10:50.420 What are we going to do?

00:10:51.780 Uh, hide, hide the, the dogs.

00:10:55.260 Uh, don't let them see our snow.

00:10:57.600 No, they're going to steal our snow.

00:11:00.460 Hide the snow.

00:11:01.400 Oh, so apparently Greenland is, uh, ripe for conquest because they can't even take a visit from a woman and her child.

00:11:13.420 It was just too much pressure, too much pressure.

00:11:19.100 Meanwhile, Harry Enten on CNN continues to be, uh, one of their top two, uh, entertaining people.

00:11:26.840 He does a really great job.

00:11:28.460 I have to say, if I'm just going to give somebody a comment,

00:11:31.400 compliment on how well they do their job, uh, Harry Enten does the, uh, the polls and some of the numbers, puts them on a big screen, but he has got down cold.

00:11:42.480 The presentation style.

00:11:44.480 He can take data and make it seem so exciting with just his body language and he's standing and he's, he's waving his arms around and he's, you know, his voice has all kinds of variety in it.

00:11:58.460 He is great.

00:11:59.320 He's just absolutely flat out great at doing his job.

00:12:03.860 So, uh, compliments to him.

00:12:06.640 But one of the things he was, and one of the, one of the things that I like about him, he's, uh, he's not, you know, in the bag or out of the bag for Trump.

00:12:15.180 He just shows the numbers and he's excited by the numbers if it's something unusual.

00:12:19.980 I love that.

00:12:21.820 He loves his job.

00:12:23.260 Looks like one of the things he pointed out is that, uh, Trump is at his, uh, all time high in popularity.

00:12:32.380 So the more we hear about, you know, everything's bad for Trump and, you know, uh, and all that, uh, in 2017, Trump was minus 10 in popularity and 2024, right around the election, he was minus seven.

00:12:50.780 So he was improving by then, but still minus, uh, but in March, 2025, which is now he's only minus four.

00:12:59.920 So, uh, Arienton said, uh, all we talk about is how unpopular Trump is, but in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he, when he won the election.

00:13:17.260 He's more popular than when he won the election.

00:13:21.200 So what does that do to the, uh, to the strategy of the James Carville strategy?

00:13:28.460 No, no, no, we'll just wait.

00:13:31.400 We'll just hang tight.

00:13:33.260 No, just wait and everything will be better because we'll just wait.

00:13:37.420 Well, it turns out that waiting just makes Trump more popular.

00:13:42.320 If I had to guess what it is that's making him popular, it's that he said he would do things and then he's very conspicuously and with very high energy doing things.

00:13:54.460 Uh, I think it is just shocking to people that somebody involved with government would say, I'm going to do this list of things.

00:14:04.700 And then the moment they're in there, they do the things.

00:14:10.900 Well, why are people continually writing the number four in the comments?

00:14:17.100 What is that about?

00:14:22.940 For some reason, everybody is just putting it right in the digit four.

00:14:27.100 Can you give me some, did something happen?

00:14:29.700 Is there any, is there any meaning to that where you're just all like the number four suddenly?

00:14:37.980 So you're just printing four.

00:14:42.080 Oh, uh, okay.

00:14:43.420 You're still back on four as the number of houses that got permits.

00:14:46.960 Got it.

00:14:47.360 Okay.

00:14:48.400 There's a lag to it.

00:14:49.980 Uh, all right.

00:14:52.020 Um, and then, uh, then Harry Enten also CNN said that, uh, according to the NBC poll, um, people were asked, is the U S on the right track?

00:15:05.740 The NBC poll, it was the highest since 2004, 44% said we're on the right track.

00:15:13.220 That's the highest since 2004.

00:15:15.680 And, uh, Marist poll says that, uh, the same, on the same question is the U S on the right track.

00:15:23.240 It's the second highest since 2009.

00:15:28.800 So just imagine being president.

00:15:31.040 You've been president for a few months now and your popularity is at the highest it's ever been.

00:15:36.980 And you've been president before.

00:15:38.560 And the two polls show that, uh, the public is more optimistic about the direction of the U S than at any time in a really long time.

00:15:51.240 And that's CNN, you know, so I tend to believe that these are probably realistic numbers.

00:16:00.740 Anyway.

00:16:01.420 Um, so that's how the, uh, Republicans are doing really well.

00:16:06.700 Let's check in with, uh, the Democrats.

00:16:10.320 Let's see how their best people are doing.

00:16:12.580 Um, let's see Jasmine Crockett. 0.99

00:16:17.280 Who's been in the news for being provocative.

00:16:20.620 And, uh, she, she seemed to have mocked, um, Texas governor, Greg Abbott for being in a wheelchair.

00:16:29.880 She said something about him being hot wheels.

00:16:34.740 And then people said, you can't, you know, that's terrible.

00:16:38.300 You can't mock him for being in a wheelchair.

00:16:41.080 And, uh, then she tried to walk it back and explain that it really was better.

00:16:47.620 His policies.

00:16:49.380 What part of hot wheels seems like it's related to his policies.

00:16:55.440 And then she had some kind of ridiculous explanation about transportation as wheels or something.

00:17:04.860 So, so it started out bad and she made it worse. 0.51

00:17:08.640 And I know I can speak for all Republicans when I say, I'd like to see more of Jasmine Crockett at the head of the ticket.

00:17:19.400 She's so bad at what she does. 1.00

00:17:22.420 Just so bad that, you know, James Carville must be like turning in his grave.

00:17:28.020 I assume he's been long dead, but, you know, just based on his appearance, um, it just can't get better.

00:17:37.040 So keep going, Jasmine Crockett.

00:17:39.440 We'd like more of that.

00:17:42.600 All right.

00:17:43.460 Let's see.

00:17:44.940 Um, speaker Mike Johnson clarified something that for some reason I didn't know.

00:17:51.800 And I was so surprised that I was just finding this out.

00:17:55.440 It's one of those things where you think, where, where have I been?

00:17:58.780 How in the world did I not know this?

00:18:01.260 But ABC News is reporting that, uh, Mike Johnson said that, uh, Congress has the authority to stop providing funding to federal courts.

00:18:12.540 Um, he says, we do have authority over the federal courts.

00:18:17.300 We can eliminate an entire district court.

00:18:20.500 We have power funding over the courts and all these other things, but desperate times call for desperate measures and Congress is going to act.

00:18:29.140 Is that a real thing?

00:18:31.620 That the Congress can just defund a court if the court is rogue?

00:18:36.560 Because we keep talking about, um, you know, impeaching a judge, which the smart people say that's going to take forever.

00:18:44.680 And, you know, you're going to get too much resistance and it's probably a bad precedent.

00:18:49.620 But what if you just said, how about we'll just get rid of your entire court?

00:18:55.740 I feel like I'm down for that.

00:18:58.900 It, because right now the, you know, the court is completely out of control.

00:19:04.460 I mean, it's just completely politicized. 0.91

00:19:06.560 It's useless. 0.99

00:19:08.080 It's, it's more than useless. 0.98

00:19:09.940 It's, it's just damaging.

00:19:12.600 So that would be fun.

00:19:15.540 Now I do suspect that this is one of those things that could go both ways.

00:19:21.120 You know, you think it's a good idea when your team does it, but what if the other team gets in power and then they could do it too.

00:19:28.100 But why would they ever need to?

00:19:31.400 Because all of the, all the crazy rulings are all coming from the left. 0.99

00:19:36.560 You know, even if you don't agree with the ruling that comes out of right-leaning judges, it's not crazy shit. 0.98

00:19:44.180 But, but the left is just way off the reservation at this point. 0.90

00:19:49.180 So I, I would kind of like to see this, just see what happens.

00:19:55.220 Just pick one of the worst courts.

00:19:57.480 And I would even go so far as to say that if even some of the judges are good on a particular court, is that how it works?

00:20:09.140 There are multiple judges in each of these districts.

00:20:11.800 If one of them is so bad that you, you have to defund the entire district, I'm okay with that.

00:20:22.480 You know, it's not, it's not ideal.

00:20:25.120 It's definitely not a scalpel.

00:20:27.060 It's definitely a chainsaw.

00:20:28.700 But we're definitely, we're in chainsaw territory.

00:20:31.540 Yeah, I'd pick the chainsaw.

00:20:35.000 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:20:43.640 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:20:46.560 Are those from Winners?

00:20:48.100 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:20:50.540 Did she pay full price?

00:20:51.900 Or that leather tote?

00:20:52.920 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:20:54.100 Or those knee-high boots?

00:20:55.540 That dress?

00:20:56.380 That jacket?

00:20:57.040 Those shoes?

00:20:57.720 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:21:00.580 Stop wondering.

00:21:02.320 Start winning.

00:21:03.220 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:21:06.040 Anyway, let's talk about the update on the Signal app drama controversy.

00:21:13.560 Number one, I would say that it's a 2 out of 10 in importance.

00:21:19.560 2 out of 10.

00:21:21.120 Almost everything that we talk about in politics is at least a 7 out of 10, or it's not in the news at all.

00:21:28.940 So this is the most trivial thing that we've ever talked about to pretend it's big, but the dramacrats are sending all their best actors out.

00:21:41.140 And so let me give you two ways that the Signal app story could be told by politicians.

00:21:50.700 Here's one way.

00:21:52.340 Well, it looks like somebody made a mistake on the Signal app and added a journalist.

00:21:59.840 It's very unfortunate, but we learned from our mistakes, so we won't do that again.

00:22:04.500 Luckily, nobody got hurt.

00:22:08.420 And Mike Walz has taken full responsibility, even though he wasn't the one who added the journalist.

00:22:16.700 Apparently, that was some staffer.

00:22:18.700 But it was his staffer, so he's taken full responsibility.

00:22:21.840 And it's a good thing that what we saw was our elected representatives, well, not elected, but the cabinet people, one elected, I guess one elected, having a very fruitful discussion about whether we should be the ones to pay for keeping the shipping lanes open.

00:22:47.520 When J.D. Vance said something on the messages that 3% of the traffic that the Hooties were preventing would be American traffic, just 3%. 0.98

00:23:00.420 And 40% would be European traffic.

00:23:03.840 Now, that would be me talking about it like it's a 2 out of 10.

00:23:10.580 Let me give you the Dramacrat presentation.

00:23:15.560 Oh, my God.

00:23:17.060 Oh, the level of incompetence. 1.00

00:23:20.380 Oh, my fucking God. 1.00

00:23:31.000 It's the same story. 1.00

00:23:33.120 They just add the drama.

00:23:37.320 And apparently they've all agreed that the word incompetence will be the key word. 0.98

00:23:43.960 Oh, they're gross. 0.92

00:23:45.540 And you have to say incompetence in a certain way. 0.95

00:23:50.380 So you can't say, well, it looked like there was some incompetence there,

00:23:53.700 but I'm glad they got that under control.

00:23:56.380 That wouldn't be much of a story.

00:23:58.580 So you have to say, the incompetence.

00:24:01.040 Oh, the incompetence.

00:24:04.640 So much incompetence.

00:24:06.860 And, you know, probably that incompetence is all over the entire administration,

00:24:12.820 just reeking with incompetence.

00:24:15.580 Incompetence all over the place.

00:24:18.200 So that's the dramacrats.

00:24:20.640 But what else do we know about it?

00:24:24.860 And I think the dramacrats are competing to see who gets the lead in the play

00:24:30.080 because they're all trying to be more disgusted than the last person.

00:24:35.900 Then I made the comment that there was no alternative to using the Signal app

00:24:42.800 because the government secure phones and stuff were not efficient.

00:24:50.300 And then a bunch of people corrected me.

00:24:53.740 They said, no, Scott.

00:24:56.540 Each of the top officials have secure phones in their offices.

00:25:00.940 And so they could have done it on the secure phones. 0.98

00:25:05.300 To which I say, do you fucking think Signal is a phone? 0.96

00:25:11.400 How many of you don't know the difference between a phone call 0.99

00:25:14.480 and a text message chat group?

00:25:18.060 The reason they're using the text message chat group

00:25:22.060 is so they can do things in an asynchronous way.

00:25:25.800 Somebody's playing with their kids and answering a message and checking in.

00:25:29.760 Somebody's on the road.

00:25:30.980 Somebody's on a plane.

00:25:32.200 Somebody's on the way to their office.

00:25:34.760 That's not a phone call.

00:25:37.360 If you had to get all these people on their desks

00:25:41.440 with their secret encrypted phones that the government has,

00:25:45.340 first of all, they wouldn't want to do any of this on a phone call.

00:25:49.260 It would just be the biggest waste of time ever.

00:25:52.920 And secondly, they're just not going to be available on fast notice.

00:25:58.180 So, no, there is no government encrypted fully secure chat service.

00:26:06.220 And the Signal app is approved for government use

00:26:09.440 as long as you don't do the top secrets, which we'll talk about.

00:26:15.340 And then I saw Jeffrey Goldberg get dismantled by Tim Miller,

00:26:21.260 who is a notable Democrat.

00:26:25.200 And Tim Miller asked him, I'm paraphrasing, but he said,

00:26:29.280 you know, are you going to release it?

00:26:31.100 And Goldberg goes, oh, no, I take classified information seriously.

00:26:37.260 So, I'm not going to release any more of the messages that I have.

00:26:42.980 And then Tim Miller, without realizing what he was doing, I think,

00:26:47.720 asked him the following question.

00:26:50.320 Well, could you show it to some people who have security clearance,

00:26:55.500 and then they can help us judge whether it was really classified in war plans?

00:27:00.640 And Goldberg's answer was, oh, fa-blah-blah-blah, fa-blah, fa-blah-blah-blah,

00:27:11.040 fa-blah-blah-blah-blah, fa-blah-blah, well-hah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. 0.99

00:27:19.560 And he sort of decomposed.

00:27:21.380 but i'm hearing today but i don't have confirmation that more of the messages were released

00:27:28.180 or was it all of the messages were released so if they were all released that'd be a pretty

00:27:36.880 big change from these are too sensitive to i'll just release them all so i need a little

00:27:43.420 clarification on that i couldn't tell before i went live here uh let's see what else is going

00:27:49.240 on there there's so much going on in that tiny little unimportant story um and then we had a

00:27:57.240 couple of folks weigh in to tell us that jeffrey goldberg is a highly credible and respected

00:28:04.340 journalist uh ian bremer said that on x and also david axelrod now remember i always tell you

00:28:14.640 that what happened doesn't tell you anything you have to know who

00:28:20.300 now jeffrey goldberg is associated with some of the you know more notable hoaxes that we've seen

00:28:29.920 so why would ian bremer and david axelrod want to go public saying that he's so credible

00:28:37.740 what's up with that so i always see these things as ways to know who's you know who's connected to

00:28:46.400 or loyal to or you know on the same team so you can draw your own conclusions about the people who are

00:28:56.360 supporting him um mike waltz took a responsibility for it so you can stop well the critics can stop

00:29:05.740 saying nobody took responsibility yeah he took full responsibility he just wasn't clear how it

00:29:12.340 happened because he doesn't have any contact with he's never texted jeffrey goldberg but it turns out

00:29:18.580 a staffer may have done it but we don't know uh exactly we don't know the details of how or why the

00:29:28.080 staffer did it so more questions there and uh i love the way trump handled it during a nbc news uh interview

00:29:39.140 um what did he say he said uh

00:29:45.500 it's just something that can happen

00:29:48.960 that's such a trumpian way to handle it it's just something that can happen mike waltz is a good man

00:29:57.180 now that's how you treat a story that's a two out of ten

00:30:01.140 if it were a seven out of ten then maybe you would say more you defend it whatever but it's only a two

00:30:08.480 out of ten it's just something that can happen it's just perfect it just minimizes it and sort of

00:30:16.100 brushes it away it's like that's just something that could happen

00:30:18.660 anyway uh nobody got hurt time goes by but it's all the democrats have the democrats don't have much

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00:32:06.380 the uh there's a whole bunch of files 14 terabytes of what alex jones calls nightmarish sexual abuse of

00:32:19.280 children and on the epstein files and as uh it's all been given to the local fbi offices

00:32:26.320 and with orders to take the gloves off so that's alex jones take on that now

00:32:33.060 my take on all the epstein stuff is i will believe anything when i see it i feel every time we get

00:32:42.560 teased about oh we're gonna see the good stuff it hasn't happened yet so whatever it is that's

00:32:50.800 preventing this from coming out i think it's going to be like the the jfk files do you realize we got

00:32:57.440 played in the jfk files right i'm pretty sure we got played because even trump had said if you saw what

00:33:06.260 i saw you wouldn't release them either and then we saw what seemed to be the complete files and

00:33:13.660 everybody said oh it looks like there's nothing new here yeah we we knew the cia you know was involved

00:33:20.300 in a lot of stuff so do you think there's any chance that we saw the good stuff on the jfk files

00:33:27.820 and do you think that anything we saw is something that if trump saw it he would have said oh yeah if

00:33:35.240 you saw what i saw you wouldn't release them either no i think we got played so the epstein files could

00:33:42.880 be the same thing meaning that uh at some point somebody will say all right these are the full

00:33:50.060 and complete files and then you look through them and it's like some people playing ping pong

00:33:56.240 and there's jeffrey epstein playing the piano and uh now he's waving to people on his way to a boat

00:34:03.960 and we're going to be like i really thought there would be all kinds of terrible things

00:34:10.200 no no that's all we have yeah that's all we have so i don't trust anything about the secret files

00:34:20.900 being released and it doesn't matter who's doing it i don't trust anything about it

00:34:25.860 well um you know about the uh anti-tesla anti-elon musk protests um zero hedge is calling it uh part of the

00:34:38.640 ngo color revolution which is how you overthrow a country and um that's my take on it too 0.98

00:34:46.580 that it's basically a coup attempt in this case against uh musk and trump and attacking musk would

00:34:56.820 be very good for the bad guys because he's doing such a good job on doge that if they can take him out

00:35:05.000 they would uh you know partially cripple trump's ability to save the country and they don't care

00:35:11.440 about the country so um but here's what we know so there's this uh ngo called indivisible

00:35:19.020 and apparently they were taking things off their website because it they got caught as one of the

00:35:25.500 entities funding this apparently they were also one of the entities backing the black lives matter movement

00:35:33.080 do you remember that which was also a color revolution so apparently everything that we've learned is true

00:35:43.100 the ngo's um are being funded by the government to run ops against against republicans

00:35:54.920 and and to try to create you know riots in the street and and uh unbelievable so uh natalie winters

00:36:05.180 co-host of steve bannon's war room um wrote an ex so the wife of former u.s attorney matthew graves so he

00:36:15.280 was the uh he led the prosecution of the 1500 january sixers is on the board of that indivisible wait what

00:36:23.760 the guy who prosecuted he led the prosecution of the january sixers is on the board of this group

00:36:34.800 that backed the blm protests and now the tesla stuff and i think his wife 0.87

00:36:43.920 let's say uh yeah matthew graves's wife uh fatima gross graves imagine having your middle name gross 0.88

00:36:57.080 and your last name graves 0.98

00:36:59.140 now i haven't seen a picture of her but i certainly hope she's thin because if your name is fatima gross 0.99

00:37:10.320 graves you you you better not have an extra pound because uh that's just not going to work out uh but

00:37:19.920 she's the director of the of the ngo

00:37:22.360 so everything you thought about how you know every judge has a spouse who's involved in some sketchy ngo

00:37:32.780 thing it's all true um so almost every day there's a new story about a judge rules there's some judge

00:37:41.740 who rules against doge doing one thing or another and it sounds to us because we're not lawyers it

00:37:48.220 sounds like what what why can't they do that and then it you know gets appealed and then the higher

00:37:55.420 court says well they can't do that so whenever i tell you that uh something has been blocked on doge

00:38:04.140 it's almost always going to be you know the lower court and anytime i tell you that they've been uh

00:38:11.340 that the blocking has been reversed it's an appeals court an appeals court so here's a few more uh

00:38:19.420 uh a federal judge so this would be a lower court has ruled against uh carry lake and the trump

00:38:26.140 administration forcing them to uh uh this is nick sorters reporting on this uh to continue funding

00:38:33.660 the deep state propaganda radio stations that's the voice of america and the related entities to voice of

00:38:40.140 america and so carry lake and trump were looking to just close it down because it wasn't really useful

00:38:49.340 and it costs a lot of money so they're just going to close it down and then a judge tells them they

00:38:54.220 can't what so remember every time it's the lower court you know lower court judge their rulings are

00:39:03.260 just baffling to a citizen why can't the people who run it close it down like how is that not allowed

00:39:12.220 like what does a judge have to do with that and but then here's this is also nick sorter is reporting

00:39:19.420 this on x uh but then a fourth circuit just halted an activist judge called uh chuang who had required 0.94

00:39:28.460 uh who was required doge's access to much of usa id be suspended so there there it is again lower courts

00:39:37.740 blocking on a different topic the higher court is reversing the blocking of something about usa id

00:39:45.260 and i would love to know the budget for all the legal actions that trump and musk are involved in

00:39:54.780 what do you think the government is spending on these ridiculous legal challenges to get them reversed

00:40:02.060 are we talking hundreds of millions i'll bet it's hundreds of millions you know maybe not right away

00:40:09.820 but over the course of the uh of trump's term incredible but at least it's a fair fight you know

00:40:18.620 at least if you tell me that trump's lawyers and maybe elon musk's you know resources i don't know

00:40:24.860 if he's involved in any of that or not directly but at least it's a fair fight um trump signed an

00:40:32.620 executive order for election integrity but it's not it's not the things i wanted like some kind of uh

00:40:42.460 you know you must have id and stuff like that but autism capital is reporting on x that the eo would do this

00:40:50.380 cut down on illegal immigrants on voter rolls so i guess we'd purge the voter rolls to get rid of 1.00

00:40:56.300 illegals um ensure that the department of homeland security has fully usable data i didn't know that

00:41:03.020 was problem um a citizenship question on the voting forms for the federal voting forms um cutting federal

00:41:13.100 funding to states that don't take reasonable steps to secure their election now that's a little vague

00:41:19.180 what would be a reasonable step to secure your election voter id right so i don't know if this

00:41:29.260 gets the voter id or not but maybe they could they could use it for that um and then the department of

00:41:37.180 justice they want the eo wants them to vigorously prosecute election crimes which again i thought was

00:41:44.140 already happening um and uh compliance with national election day rules what's that compliance with

00:41:53.740 national election day rules is that is that saying that the election has to be on one day instead of

00:42:01.660 three months of three months of voting i don't know uh prosecuting foreign interference in elections

00:42:08.460 okay if you can catch them and uh revoking some biden executive order that was apparently not productive

00:42:19.660 anyway so all that's happening now what trump really wants

00:42:24.140 is you know in-person voting and voter id and stuff like that so we'll see if he gets all of that

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00:42:46.620 um so trump is now declassifying all the fbi documents related to the russia collusion hoax

00:42:53.740 isn't that interesting years later what are we going to learn about the russia collusion hoax that

00:43:02.060 maybe we don't already know so trump says this gives the media the right to go in and check it you

00:43:08.620 probably won't bother because you're not going to like what you see he always throws an insult into the

00:43:14.060 media you're probably not going to bother because you're not going to like what you see and then he

00:43:18.780 said this was total weaponization it's a disgrace it should have never happened in this country but

00:43:23.820 now you'll be able to see for yourself all declassified now honestly i don't know how hillary clinton

00:43:30.700 avoids going to jail i don't think it'll happen but won't the documents show a clear path

00:43:39.420 from hillary's campaign to the creation of the steel dossier that we know to be fake

00:43:46.940 um i i thought this was the most damning and well-known stuff but imagine if there's more

00:43:55.820 imagine imagine if we find out even more than we already know could happen in other news

00:44:03.580 um it was reported that there's some good news on a ceasefire deal with ukraine and russia but i'm a

00:44:11.980 little uh i'm a little skeptical because the alleged agreement is not writing and it's not signed so

00:44:21.740 that's never a good sign but uh the deal is that there would be a pause on the tax and the black sea

00:44:29.900 shipping and that there would be a pause on going after energy facilities

00:44:35.420 the weird thing is they said it was retroactive how do you stop retroactive attacks

00:44:45.980 well how is there some kind of a time dilation thing um not only will there be a ceasefire starting

00:44:53.900 today but there will be a ceasefire going back in time really i must be missing something in this story

00:45:03.020 because how do you change the past anyway but they don't have details and even what they've agreed

00:45:11.020 on they don't have start dates there's no comprehensive you know truce etc and then

00:45:18.620 hardly any time goes by and russia says that they also want their sanctions on russia lifted

00:45:26.460 before the black sea ceasefire now that's a whole new negotiation so it sounds to me like you know

00:45:35.660 maybe the american team of negotiators went away with some confidence or some belief that there was an

00:45:42.300 agreement and the russians either never meant to agree or they decided that they had such a powerful

00:45:50.140 position that they could just throw in a major thing like the dropping of sanctions um just to try

00:45:58.140 to get that for free so assuming that trump is in control of you know what we're offering and what

00:46:05.580 we're not he's not going to give that for free which means that the whole deal has already fallen apart

00:46:12.220 in my opinion so i don't think it's being reported that way but in my opinion it looks like the whole deal

00:46:18.540 just fell apart now that's not surprising you know at this point in the process you kind of expect there

00:46:26.540 will be a whole bunch of you know false starts and you know we we think we got a deal wait they walked

00:46:32.620 away no now we have a deal okay not the details but okay the details threw up you blew up the deal

00:46:40.460 so i'm going to stick with my three months estimate um i do think both sides want some kind of peace

00:46:49.180 so uh or at least the us and russia do uh but it's not going to be easy and i don't think we're close

00:46:59.420 so i'd be surprised if anything happens um but let's be optimistic

00:47:05.900 um so if we were to look at things from today's perspective trump's at a high in popularity uh

00:47:15.660 the country thinks we're going in the right direction in a bigger numbers than we've seen in a long time

00:47:23.580 and the biggest problem that the democrats could come up with the biggest one is a two and a ten in

00:47:32.060 importance uh i think that uh they may have said some things in that text message now i'm open to

00:47:43.660 to hear that maybe there were some more confidential things in there but so far

00:47:49.500 i'm going to agree with trump it's just a thing that can happen but just think about the fact that's

00:47:55.820 the best thing they have and then i'm hearing mark cuban do the um what's wrong with musk and trump is

00:48:05.260 that they do ready fire aim do you think that anybody can tell from the outside if they're doing the

00:48:13.820 right stuff i don't think so and i and i think that there are situations where firing before you measure

00:48:22.540 is exactly the right thing i remember the the shocking day that i first learned that when

00:48:29.180 you're talking about software you don't want to measure twice and cut once you know that old thing

00:48:35.820 if you're a carpenter you want to measure it twice so that when you cut it once it will be correct

00:48:44.380 and with hardware same thing so there's a whole bunch of domains in which you definitely want to make

00:48:50.860 sure you're doing the right thing before you do anything but not in software in software you try

00:48:57.260 something and it breaks and you try something else and it breaks and you try something else and didn't

00:49:02.220 really cost you anything because it's just software so going fast and seeing what happens can work with

00:49:11.180 startups and it can work with software projects and the question is are there applications within doge

00:49:20.540 where that also makes sense certainly there are applications where the scalpel makes sense

00:49:26.940 but do you think the doge people can't tell the difference between when to use the scalpel and when

00:49:33.420 to use the chainsaw if the bureaucracy is fighting you which tool do you use i'll put this to you those of

00:49:43.820 you who are experienced in management if the bureaucracy is trying to slow you down and slow

00:49:50.300 walk you and avoid you and you you want to make cuts do you use the scalpel you can't because the

00:49:59.340 only way you can use the scalpel is if the bureaucracy was actively helping you oh yeah you don't know our

00:50:06.300 operations but let me tell you you could scalpel this and you could scalpel that

00:50:10.540 and we're here to help but that's not going to happen do you do you think that's what the doge

00:50:15.740 people are running into a bunch of helpful bureaucrats or like wow we can't wait we can't wait to tell

00:50:22.460 you where to scalpel this nope in that case what would be the right tool chainsaw and then as you're

00:50:30.940 chainsawing the bureaucracy starts screaming ah ah ah you don't realize you're cutting this or you cut

00:50:39.820 this and the babies are going to die and you say wait what the babies are going to die okay can you

00:50:46.940 give me some evidence that babies are going to die yes yes see it's yeah it's feeding these babies and

00:50:54.140 then you say oh okay now you're being helpful so you weren't helpful with the scalpel were you

00:51:01.180 but as soon as i put the chainsaw to it you like save the babies and now i have some useful

00:51:05.580 information and now i'll back off on the chainsaw exactly so when i see mark cuban saying you know

00:51:15.340 sort of generic things like yeah they're they're disorganized and they're just chainsawing things

00:51:22.940 without wisely deciding what to do i say to myself i'm not sure he's fully incorporated what the bureaucracy

00:51:31.500 would be doing to stymie them if the bureaucracy is working against doge and you can i think you

00:51:39.580 could just say with certainty that would be the case then that's just chainsaw the scalpel couldn't

00:51:46.380 possibly work in that domain but it might kick up a situation where you say all right we've chainsawed

00:51:54.620 enough but we hit a we hit a little sensitive area here let's let's slow down and scalpel that a little bit 0.72

00:52:02.060 so to say that scalpel always beats chainsaw is just purely dumb or inexperienced to say that

00:52:10.300 sometimes chainsaw is the right answer and sometimes scalpel is the right answer that will always be

00:52:16.220 correct but to imagine that you can look from the outside and determine where the where they went wrong

00:52:23.980 well you can't do that we we don't have any inside information about that to to imagine that the

00:52:32.380 complaints of the bureaucracy are telling you that you should do something differently that's not how

00:52:39.020 anything works because the bureaucracy would be complaining no matter what you were doing if it were

00:52:44.940 a reorg they'd be complaining if it were cuts with a scalpel they'd be complaining if it were anything

00:52:52.220 they would be complaining so if they're all reporting that they have low morale oh we have low morale

00:53:01.020 that's just because there's change all change makes bureaucracies have low morale or at least they'll tell

00:53:06.860 you they have low morale so you can't tell by listening to the people bitching about it and you definitely

00:53:13.500 can't tell what's happening and when the scalpel and when the chainsaw is being used or or if if there's

00:53:19.740 even a sensitivity to know when to move from one to the other i assume they are because it's the smart

00:53:25.020 people doing it so um the best so so now let's look at the best that the democrats have we've got the

00:53:35.020 james carville approach which is basically give up and just roll over and hope that the other side makes

00:53:42.060 a mistake you've got the uh generic complaints well i i don't think that they measured twice and cut

00:53:53.900 once which doesn't really even make sense because like i said they should be using the scalpel sometimes

00:54:01.340 and the chainsaw sometimes and it from the outside you can't tell you just can't tell from the outside

00:54:08.140 what's working and what isn't that's just not a thing then you've got the jasmine crockett approach 1.00

00:54:14.540 which is just be really stupid in public every single day like really stupid and try to sell that 1.00

00:54:21.820 all right all right we've got some stupidity going and then you've got the signal app story 1.00

00:54:28.460 that the dramacrats are trying to sell you with their faces i'm so aghast that incompetence that 0.99

00:54:36.460 massive incompetence rah and those are the best plays you know also yelling at their own their own

00:54:46.220 leadership for being terrible so i've never seen a more disorganized completely broken party than this

00:54:58.940 i don't know if there's any time in my life this has ever happened uh did i coin dramacrats no i did not

00:55:07.260 no i did not so i i stole that um from a dm that i got where somebody dm'd it to me

00:55:17.340 but i love it the dramacrats it puts it in perspective because i really do think that the

00:55:24.300 democrats are largely a theatrical production and i mean that literally in the sense that they're

00:55:32.300 acting about how mad they are they're acting about how much of a difference anything that they're

00:55:40.300 talking about matters and uh that's all they have when i see when i see uh republicans let's take the

00:55:48.940 story earlier about mike johnson when he says um that the congress has control over these courts the

00:55:56.940 funding for these courts was that theatrical not even a little bit that it was just matter of fact

00:56:05.100 that this is something that we might do it's important and he just tells you that's it when trump

00:56:12.380 signs his executive orders even though he's like the greatest showman he's largely just communicating

00:56:19.180 what he's doing in an interesting way it's not a theater because there are real things happening

00:56:25.740 and you can see the reality of it in the executive order so it seems to me that republicans have

00:56:34.220 you know similar opinions because conservatives have similar opinions to each other and that when

00:56:39.660 they describe them they're just talking but when the democrats get involved i think it's because they

00:56:45.980 don't understand policy or they're i don't know they they just seem to be locked into a theatrical mode

00:56:54.620 where they believe that selling the disgust on their faces is all they have to sell look at the disgust

00:57:02.620 in my face oh oh and then i'll say again what do you think would be the reaction of the the typical democrat voter

00:57:15.820 if they read a story about that uh the signal app situation and and the story was just described in

00:57:24.380 just cold dry terms well it looks like this shouldn't happen but luckily nobody got hurt everybody learned

00:57:31.020 something um mike waltz took full responsibility looks like a staff member did it how much do you think

00:57:40.540 an average voter would care if they just heard it that way but i will bet you that for the rest of this year

00:57:49.820 at least if you bring up anything about trump doing good stuff a democrat will say oh but what about

00:57:57.580 that massive disgusting incompetence from that signal app who blew and they will pick up they'll pick up

00:58:08.780 the emotions and the theatrical act that they saw on tv they're going to see the news people do it

00:58:15.820 they'll see the pundits do it and they'll just act like that it's definitely just acting and once you see it

00:58:23.100 you can't unsee it it's just so obvious and so pervasive on one side all right so that's all i got for today

00:58:35.740 um thanks for joining i'm going to say a few words privately to the locals subscribers

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