Episode 2790 CWSA 03⧸26⧸25
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Scott Adams talks about Stephen Crowder's departure from YouTube, the L.A. fires, common sense immigration, and why Canada should have a "Common Sense" approach to foreign affairs. Scott Adams is a comedian, podcaster, writer, and podcaster. He is the host of the popular podcast, "Coffee with Scott Adams" and is a regular contributor to the radio show, "Scott Adams Radio" on SiriusXM.
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Well, in media news, Stephen Crowder is leaving YouTube for good.
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And he's going to be exclusively live on Rumble.
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And he's the number one live stream in America, I think.
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So I guess YouTube was not giving him what he needed.
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You know, the other day, I got demonetized on YouTube just for one episode.
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But the reversal happens, you know, after a lot of the traffic's already done.
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Never did find out why that one episode got demonetized.
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Well, did you know, according to the Daily Star, over at the British Broadcasting Company,
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I don't like to say BBC because I know some of you will just be sidetracked by that.
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Apparently, they're offering counseling to the staff to help them cope with the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Now, does the British Broadcasting Company know that he's not even the president of Great Britain?
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So how many of them really need counseling because of a president of another country?
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But I wish you well, British Broadcasting Company.
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Anyway, up in Canada, you know Pierre Poilivre?
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Okay, I can't speak French last names, but you know who he is.
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On the conservative side, he's running for something.
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And he says they have a common sense approach for Canada first.
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So it looks to me like he has cleverly adopted Trump's best phrases and plans.
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Canada first, common sense, common sense immigration.
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You know, normally I would say something like, oh, you're so, such a copycat.
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And how do you, how do you do better than your own country should come first to the politicians
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So I suspect there's just going to be a whole bunch of politicians and a whole bunch of places
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Gateway Pundit is reporting that Adam Carolla correctly called the near impossibility of
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getting building permits in California for the people who were affected by those L.A. fires.
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How many building permits do you think have been issued?
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75 days, and fairly quickly people knew whether their house was going to be, you know, burned
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Four building permits for all that, you know, just acres and, I don't know, hundreds and
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hundreds of homes and only four building permits.
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And Adam Carolla had warned us in advance that it was going to be nearly impossible to
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Now, you are probably optimistic that red tape could be cleared a little faster because it's
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an emergency and, you know, we're doing the common sense thing now.
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Now, I would be a little cautious about this 75-day thing because it could be that you
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couldn't really get a contractor or a builder or an architect even into the area because
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So it might be that the first 75 days, nobody could do anything because the area itself was,
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you know, not as accessible as it could have been.
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There's still some possibility that it will ramp up quickly.
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Um, once people see whether it makes sense to live there at all.
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But a related story is that the state forum, the insurance company, is just getting wrecked
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by the press for, uh, what a lot of its customers say is pretty bad behavior, uh, as in offering
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incredibly low ball offers, um, well below the cost of rebuilding.
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Well, the, the theory is that sometimes they can get away with it.
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So if you don't hire a lawyer and fight them and, you know, just really go after them hard,
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apparently they'll just try to low ball you because there's so much money involved.
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Um, I'm not there personally, but based on the press reports, it looks like something
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Meanwhile, uh, San Francisco has rolled out this, uh, program in the city where there are
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cameras that can photograph your car and your license plate and issue you a ticket.
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The amount you have to pay for the ticket will be based on your income and it will be automatic.
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They'll just take a picture and suddenly you just get a ticket in the mail.
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Is that the creepiest damn thing you've ever heard of?
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That you would get a ticket based on your income?
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I, can they really, can they really determine your income from your license plate?
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Well, what if there are, uh, what if somebody borrows your car?
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Do they get the ticket based on the income of the person who owns the car?
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Um, you know, that Greenland visit that, uh, J.D. Vance's wife and, and kid were going to go to?
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Well, I, I think it worked out great when Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk and, and some of their guys went up there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Um, so it looks like it might've been a little dangerous or, or at least a little bit offensive to the locals.
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But here's something that the, uh, the Danish prime minister said.
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Um, he said that, uh, the scheduled visit puts completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland.
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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?
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What would it take to conquer the entire country?
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I mean, if, if they're going to buckle under the pressure of somebody doing a vacation in Greenland,
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Hey, the vice president's wife and young child will be visiting.
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Oh, how are we going to survive the visit of the vice president's wife and child?
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Oh, so apparently Greenland is, uh, ripe for conquest because they can't even take a visit from a woman and her child.
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It was just too much pressure, too much pressure.
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Meanwhile, Harry Enten on CNN continues to be, uh, one of their top two, uh, entertaining people.
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I have to say, if I'm just going to give somebody a comment,
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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.
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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.
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He's just absolutely flat out great at doing his job.
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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.
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He just shows the numbers and he's excited by the numbers if it's something unusual.
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Looks like one of the things he pointed out is that, uh, Trump is at his, uh, all time high in popularity.
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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.
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So he was improving by then, but still minus, uh, but in March, 2025, which is now he's only minus four.
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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.
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He's more popular than when he won the election.
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So what does that do to the, uh, to the strategy of the James Carville strategy?
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No, just wait and everything will be better because we'll just wait.
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Well, it turns out that waiting just makes Trump more popular.
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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.
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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.
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And then the moment they're in there, they do the things.
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Well, why are people continually writing the number four in the comments?
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For some reason, everybody is just putting it right in the digit four.
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Is there any, is there any meaning to that where you're just all like the number four suddenly?
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You're still back on four as the number of houses that got permits.
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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?
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The NBC poll, it was the highest since 2004, 44% said we're on the right track.
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And, uh, Marist poll says that, uh, the same, on the same question is the U S on the right track.
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You've been president for a few months now and your popularity is at the highest it's ever been.
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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.
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And that's CNN, you know, so I tend to believe that these are probably realistic numbers.
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Um, so that's how the, uh, Republicans are doing really well.
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And, uh, she, she seemed to have mocked, um, Texas governor, Greg Abbott for being in a wheelchair.
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And then people said, you can't, you know, that's terrible.
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And, uh, then she tried to walk it back and explain that it really was better.
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What part of hot wheels seems like it's related to his policies.
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And then she had some kind of ridiculous explanation about transportation as wheels or something.
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So, so it started out bad and she made it worse.
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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.
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Just so bad that, you know, James Carville must be like turning in his grave.
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I assume he's been long dead, but, you know, just based on his appearance, um, it just can't get better.
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Um, speaker Mike Johnson clarified something that for some reason I didn't know.
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And I was so surprised that I was just finding this out.
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It's one of those things where you think, where, where have I been?
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But ABC News is reporting that, uh, Mike Johnson said that, uh, Congress has the authority to stop providing funding to federal courts.
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Um, he says, we do have authority over the federal courts.
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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.
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That the Congress can just defund a court if the court is rogue?
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Because we keep talking about, um, you know, impeaching a judge, which the smart people say that's going to take forever.
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And, you know, you're going to get too much resistance and it's probably a bad precedent.
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But what if you just said, how about we'll just get rid of your entire court?
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It, because right now the, you know, the court is completely out of control.
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Now I do suspect that this is one of those things that could go both ways.
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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.
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Because all of the, all the crazy rulings are all coming from the left.
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You know, even if you don't agree with the ruling that comes out of right-leaning judges, it's not crazy shit.
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But, but the left is just way off the reservation at this point.
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So I, I would kind of like to see this, just see what happens.
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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?
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There are multiple judges in each of these districts.
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If one of them is so bad that you, you have to defund the entire district, I'm okay with that.
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But we're definitely, we're in chainsaw territory.
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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?
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Anyway, let's talk about the update on the Signal app drama controversy.
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Number one, I would say that it's a 2 out of 10 in importance.
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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.
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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.
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And so let me give you two ways that the Signal app story could be told by politicians.
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Well, it looks like somebody made a mistake on the Signal app and added a journalist.
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It's very unfortunate, but we learned from our mistakes, so we won't do that again.
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And Mike Walz has taken full responsibility, even though he wasn't the one who added the journalist.
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But it was his staffer, so he's taken full responsibility.
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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.
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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%.
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Now, that would be me talking about it like it's a 2 out of 10.
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And apparently they've all agreed that the word incompetence will be the key word.
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And you have to say incompetence in a certain way.
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So you can't say, well, it looked like there was some incompetence there,
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And, you know, probably that incompetence is all over the entire administration,
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And I think the dramacrats are competing to see who gets the lead in the play
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because they're all trying to be more disgusted than the last person.
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Then I made the comment that there was no alternative to using the Signal app
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because the government secure phones and stuff were not efficient.
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Each of the top officials have secure phones in their offices.
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And so they could have done it on the secure phones.
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To which I say, do you fucking think Signal is a phone?
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How many of you don't know the difference between a phone call
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The reason they're using the text message chat group
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is so they can do things in an asynchronous way.
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Somebody's playing with their kids and answering a message and checking in.
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If you had to get all these people on their desks
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with their secret encrypted phones that the government has,
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first of all, they wouldn't want to do any of this on a phone call.
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It would just be the biggest waste of time ever.
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And secondly, they're just not going to be available on fast notice.
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So, no, there is no government encrypted fully secure chat service.
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And the Signal app is approved for government use
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as long as you don't do the top secrets, which we'll talk about.
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And then I saw Jeffrey Goldberg get dismantled by Tim Miller,
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And Tim Miller asked him, I'm paraphrasing, but he said,
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And Goldberg goes, oh, no, I take classified information seriously.
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So, I'm not going to release any more of the messages that I have.
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And then Tim Miller, without realizing what he was doing, I think,
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Well, could you show it to some people who have security clearance,
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and then they can help us judge whether it was really classified in war plans?
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And Goldberg's answer was, oh, fa-blah-blah-blah, fa-blah, fa-blah-blah-blah,
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fa-blah-blah-blah-blah, fa-blah-blah, well-hah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
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but i'm hearing today but i don't have confirmation that more of the messages were released
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or was it all of the messages were released so if they were all released that'd be a pretty
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big change from these are too sensitive to i'll just release them all so i need a little
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clarification on that i couldn't tell before i went live here uh let's see what else is going
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on there there's so much going on in that tiny little unimportant story um and then we had a
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couple of folks weigh in to tell us that jeffrey goldberg is a highly credible and respected
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journalist uh ian bremer said that on x and also david axelrod now remember i always tell you
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that what happened doesn't tell you anything you have to know who
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now jeffrey goldberg is associated with some of the you know more notable hoaxes that we've seen
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so why would ian bremer and david axelrod want to go public saying that he's so credible
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what's up with that so i always see these things as ways to know who's you know who's connected to
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or loyal to or you know on the same team so you can draw your own conclusions about the people who are
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supporting him um mike waltz took a responsibility for it so you can stop well the critics can stop
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saying nobody took responsibility yeah he took full responsibility he just wasn't clear how it
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happened because he doesn't have any contact with he's never texted jeffrey goldberg but it turns out
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a staffer may have done it but we don't know uh exactly we don't know the details of how or why the
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staffer did it so more questions there and uh i love the way trump handled it during a nbc news uh interview
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that's such a trumpian way to handle it it's just something that can happen mike waltz is a good man
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now that's how you treat a story that's a two out of ten
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if it were a seven out of ten then maybe you would say more you defend it whatever but it's only a two
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out of ten it's just something that can happen it's just perfect it just minimizes it and sort of
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brushes it away it's like that's just something that could happen
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for details please play responsibly well alex jones has a uh scoopish um according to his source
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the uh there's a whole bunch of files 14 terabytes of what alex jones calls nightmarish sexual abuse of
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children and on the epstein files and as uh it's all been given to the local fbi offices
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and with orders to take the gloves off so that's alex jones take on that now
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my take on all the epstein stuff is i will believe anything when i see it i feel every time we get
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teased about oh we're gonna see the good stuff it hasn't happened yet so whatever it is that's
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preventing this from coming out i think it's going to be like the the jfk files do you realize we got
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played in the jfk files right i'm pretty sure we got played because even trump had said if you saw what
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i saw you wouldn't release them either and then we saw what seemed to be the complete files and
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everybody said oh it looks like there's nothing new here yeah we we knew the cia you know was involved
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in a lot of stuff so do you think there's any chance that we saw the good stuff on the jfk files
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and do you think that anything we saw is something that if trump saw it he would have said oh yeah if
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you saw what i saw you wouldn't release them either no i think we got played so the epstein files could
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be the same thing meaning that uh at some point somebody will say all right these are the full
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and complete files and then you look through them and it's like some people playing ping pong
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and there's jeffrey epstein playing the piano and uh now he's waving to people on his way to a boat
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and we're going to be like i really thought there would be all kinds of terrible things
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no no that's all we have yeah that's all we have so i don't trust anything about the secret files
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being released and it doesn't matter who's doing it i don't trust anything about it
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well um you know about the uh anti-tesla anti-elon musk protests um zero hedge is calling it uh part of the
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ngo color revolution which is how you overthrow a country and um that's my take on it too
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that it's basically a coup attempt in this case against uh musk and trump and attacking musk would
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be very good for the bad guys because he's doing such a good job on doge that if they can take him out
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they would uh you know partially cripple trump's ability to save the country and they don't care
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about the country so um but here's what we know so there's this uh ngo called indivisible
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and apparently they were taking things off their website because it they got caught as one of the
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entities funding this apparently they were also one of the entities backing the black lives matter movement
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do you remember that which was also a color revolution so apparently everything that we've learned is true
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the ngo's um are being funded by the government to run ops against against republicans
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and and to try to create you know riots in the street and and uh unbelievable so uh natalie winters
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co-host of steve bannon's war room um wrote an ex so the wife of former u.s attorney matthew graves so he
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was the uh he led the prosecution of the 1500 january sixers is on the board of that indivisible wait what
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the guy who prosecuted he led the prosecution of the january sixers is on the board of this group
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that backed the blm protests and now the tesla stuff and i think his wife
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let's say uh yeah matthew graves's wife uh fatima gross graves imagine having your middle name gross
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now i haven't seen a picture of her but i certainly hope she's thin because if your name is fatima gross
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graves you you you better not have an extra pound because uh that's just not going to work out uh but
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so everything you thought about how you know every judge has a spouse who's involved in some sketchy ngo
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thing it's all true um so almost every day there's a new story about a judge rules there's some judge
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who rules against doge doing one thing or another and it sounds to us because we're not lawyers it
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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
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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
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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
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this on x uh but then a fourth circuit just halted an activist judge called uh chuang who had required
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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
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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
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
00:42:31.660
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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
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
00:54:14.540
which is just be really stupid in public every single day like really stupid and try to sell that
00:54:21.820
all right all right we've got some stupidity going and then you've got the signal app story
00:54:28.460
that the dramacrats are trying to sell you with their faces i'm so aghast that incompetence that
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
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