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00:00:37.260 Siptastic. Better than normal. Well, let's check the science news to see if there's anything I can

00:00:46.260 doge. And by that, I mean save them some money. Oh, yes. Let's see. The University of South Australia

00:00:55.240 has determined that exercise of any kind can boost the brain power of people at any age.

00:01:03.180 Huh. How could they have come up with that data without spending all the money? Is there anything

00:01:10.840 they could have done that would save them all that time and effort? Yes. You could just ask Scott next

00:01:18.740 time. Scott, is exercise good for your brain? Well, according to every single study that's ever been

00:01:26.380 done on the topic, yes. Hmm. We were thinking of doing a study on the topic. You don't have to. You

00:01:33.120 don't have to. It's been studied and studied. And it's also really obvious. You can tell by observing

00:01:38.480 people and also in yourself. I don't know. We kind of want to do a study on this. Do you have a grant

00:01:45.060 money? Yes. Well, maybe Doge should cut that grant money, even though you're in Australia.

00:01:54.000 That's how good Doge is. It's going to cut things in Australia.

00:01:57.280 Well, speaking of things related to Elon Musk, according to phys.org, the X platform sales or

00:02:10.860 the advertising revenue is growing. I'm not sure if they really know that, but they say it's growing.

00:02:16.700 And the reason behind the growth in advertising on X, according to this publication, is being driven

00:02:26.200 by fear. Do you think they would cover anybody else's business this way? As if they know why

00:02:37.720 people are doing it. So why are you advertising on X? Is it because it's a really good value for the

00:02:44.240 dollar? Or is it because we imagine that you're afraid? Oh, now that Musk is friends with Trump.

00:02:54.040 Oh, we'd better advertise so we can bribe him with money because that works, right? Yeah. Bribing him

00:03:02.620 with money. No, it doesn't work. But anyway, good to see that the ad sales are up.

00:03:13.160 Now, I promised you if you're on X, I made the promise that I would do some remote viewing today.

00:03:19.020 And it's because there's a document that's been found. It's an older document. But back in 1988,

00:03:25.660 the CIA claimed to have confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant. And the way they did that

00:03:32.560 was they used a remote viewer. Now, that would be a person who has psychic powers, where if they close

00:03:40.520 their eyes, they can view things across the world or even across the galaxy, because time and space

00:03:46.900 don't matter. And so apparently some remote viewer, I did identify the Ark of the Covenant

00:03:55.080 over in the Middle East and said it was in a coffin shaped ornate box. I couldn't be more specific than

00:04:03.960 that somewhere in the Middle East. And it was being guarded by entities. But I feel like that's

00:04:09.600 the sort of thing you shouldn't just trust, right? You know, one remote viewer. Is one remote viewer a

00:04:16.660 good source? No, you need two. You need a second source. So I thought I'd do a little remote viewing

00:04:24.360 for you. If you don't mind preparing. Hold on. Be silent for a moment. I'm getting something. It's ornate.

00:04:41.880 It's the size of a coffin. It's in a hole. It's... I'm sorry. That was... Yeah, that was... Yeah, no, that wasn't it.

00:04:50.860 That was just somebody's casket. Hold on. Let me go. Ark of the Covenant. Where are you?

00:04:59.100 Got it. Got it. There it is. It's an ornate box. It's buried somewhere in the Middle East. I can't be 0.95

00:05:05.860 more specific. I believe there's sand around. And it's being guarded by four entities. Four entities

00:05:15.760 are guarding it. I think one of them, his name is Bob. There's Carl, the entity. And somebody's

00:05:27.520 nickname is Bip Bop. That's weird. And Alex. Alex. So the four entities guarding the Ark of the

00:05:35.260 Covenant. Confirmed. Confirmed.

00:05:38.360 Now, that probably will be national news by the end of the day. Because, you know, if you only have

00:05:45.540 one remote viewer seeing the Ark of the Covenant, that means nothing. But if you have two, that's

00:05:53.520 confirmation. Yeah, that's confirmation. So we got that going for us. Meanwhile, according to Reuters,

00:06:02.500 the Supreme Court said it will not hear a youth-led climate change case. So the Supreme Court said,

00:06:12.720 get out of here. We don't want to hear your 21 young people's case that the government and their 1.00

00:06:18.940 energy policies have violated your right to be protected from climate change. You know, your right

00:06:25.520 to be protected from climate change. Have you even read the Constitution? People, it's right.

00:06:32.500 I believe it's an article of the Constitution. It's one of those amendments or something. I'm pretty

00:06:45.140 sure it's in there, right? No? Okay. Maybe it's not in there. Meanwhile, there's a private Texas school

00:06:55.540 that claims that by using an AI program, an AI tutor, that its students have located to the top

00:07:03.540 2% in the country. Fox News is reporting on this. And the co-founder of the school, it's called Alpha

00:07:11.300 School, says the students are learning better and faster. And they only spend a few hours a day talking

00:07:17.380 to the AI. And then they're done with all their work, and they don't even need to do homework because

00:07:22.320 they're learning so fast. And then they spend the rest of the day doing passion projects.

00:07:28.080 Yeah, passion projects. Now, I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds pretty good.

00:07:34.240 So you do way less work, and you get way more fun, and you get way better grades.

00:07:42.680 Now, the Alpha School is looking to expand. So it's got a few hundred students now, but it's going to

00:07:51.120 expand across the United States. So that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school, right?

00:08:01.480 I mean, I don't see anything that says it's government-funded or anything. So it's a for-profit

00:08:08.800 entity that's telling us that their product works better than other people's product.

00:08:14.480 Well, if you can't trust that, what can you trust? Now, as others have pointed out, if it's a private

00:08:22.800 school and it's a for-profit, there's probably a little healthy tuition going on there. And I would

00:08:31.760 expect that it would only attract the best students. Now, let me ask you this. If you put a top student

00:08:41.040 in front of an AI that's really good at, you know, quizzing them, could they get done with all their

00:08:47.300 necessary work in a few hours? I'd say yes, probably yes. If you take an average student or a not-so-good

00:08:56.380 student and say, sit here alone with this AI until your homework's done in three hours, how's that

00:09:03.880 going to go? I don't think that's going to work at all. So once again, I think we're going to learn

00:09:12.140 that the people who have all the advantages, in this case, it would be the rich and smart people,

00:09:17.820 probably can get like a huge advantage from using AI as part of their process.

00:09:23.500 But I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of student. It might only work for the

00:09:31.540 top students and then everybody else has to figure it out. We'll see. But I have some questions about

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00:10:39.660 Well, Tom Homan gets another win. I guess they captured one of the top three MS-13 leaders in

00:10:49.420 the United States. And this was a 24-year-old. So he was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the

00:10:57.340 country. He was running the entire East Coast operations. Now, the first thing that jumped out

00:11:03.060 to me about this story is, wow, good work Tom Homan capturing a top leader of MS-13. The second

00:11:11.140 thing that jumped out was he's only 24. Wow. You know, the one thing about MS-13 they don't tell you

00:11:18.680 is what a great economic opportunity it is. Because there are not many, there are just not that many

00:11:25.360 jobs where you could be leading a major organization at the age of 24. So good for you, MS-13. They are 0.75

00:11:34.220 not discriminating against young people. Plenty of opportunity. So I'd recommend it as a good career

00:11:40.500 path for all of you. No, I'm just kidding. It's a terrible career path. Don't join MS-13.

00:11:46.320 Meanwhile, Zero Hedge is reporting that there was this gigantic $250 million fraud involving a child

00:11:57.140 nutrition program, federal child nutrition program. And a whole bunch of Somali immigrants

00:12:05.340 stole $250 million in Minnesota. Now, that was between March 2020 and January 2022.

00:12:12.960 Now, how many times have we heard a story about gigantic amounts of money being stolen?

00:12:23.500 I'm starting to, you know, lose sort of the distinction between all the stories. But it does feel to me

00:12:32.460 like quite a few billions of dollars are being stolen from taxpayers. And it's like the government

00:12:42.540 never heard of anything like auditing or accounting or tracking your progress.

00:12:52.500 How in the world did they get away with $250 million of essentially faking that there were children

00:13:00.340 that didn't exist? How in the world? Two years? $250 million?

00:13:07.680 What if there were just like dozens or hundreds of these happening all over the country? You know,

00:13:14.600 in different ways, different people and stuff. I feel like that might be the case.

00:13:19.060 Well, let's see. What else is going on? According to Liberty Nation News, the Associated Press,

00:13:35.700 as a reporter who got caught doing some fake news, and they had to retract it, and the fake news was that

00:13:45.620 a claim that Tulsi Gabbard had said that Trump and Putin were good friends. But it turns out she was

00:13:55.700 talking about Prime Minister Modi and Trump, who are actually good friends. And so the Associated Press had

00:14:03.700 to, you know, correct their story because it was wrong. But the fun part of the story is that the reporter who

00:14:10.900 wrote it is one of his prior jobs, one of his prior jobs was he was part of the AP's first misinformation

00:14:23.780 beat team, focusing on explaining falsehoods, propaganda and conspiracy theories while exposing

00:14:31.060 the creators of the creators of this material and their techniques for dissemination. How many times have

00:14:38.340 the fake news people got on to the, hey, we'll check the fake news of the other people?

00:14:48.500 Sometimes it's exactly what you'd expect. You know, I have this theory that shoe salesmen,

00:14:57.540 if it's men who are selling shoes to women, that eventually it will be men, only men who have

00:15:04.740 foot fetishes, because they would be most drawn to the field. And they would work longer hours cheaper

00:15:11.140 because they were getting, you know, an extra benefit from it. And it just seems to me that

00:15:17.140 the organizations that are trying to fact check other organizations, probably they're filled with

00:15:25.060 fake news people. Because it just feels like that's what would be drawn to those jobs. Oh,

00:15:30.580 so I can just call other people fake news? Yeah, that would be your job. All right, I'm in.

00:15:38.820 Well, Trump is saying on True Social, it's time to defund NPR and PBS immediately. He says that they're

00:15:48.740 both horrible and they're completely biased platforms. And they should be defunded by Congress

00:15:55.460 immediately. He says, Republicans, don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam,

00:16:03.380 both being arms of the radical left Democrat Party. Just say no and make America great again.

00:16:09.060 Well, related to this story, the NPR CEO, her name is Mar, last name is Mar. And she was being

00:16:22.260 grilled by this guy, Brandon Gill. So Gill was doing some grilling. He's grilling Gill. And if you

00:16:31.700 haven't seen the videos of it, it's highly recommended because of the attitude that he brought to it.

00:16:39.860 So he'd ask a question like, do you recall saying this or that? And it'd be some terrible,

00:16:47.060 woke thing that would sound so bad in 2025, but maybe at some point it didn't sound so bad.

00:16:56.740 And then Mar would say, I never said that. And then Representative Gill would say,

00:17:04.180 yes, you did. Here's a tweet of yours from 2020. And then he would read the tweet where she said

00:17:11.060 exactly that. And then she'd say, well, I don't remember that. Or I've completely evolved in my

00:17:17.940 thinking. So I definitely don't think that now. Now, if you only saw it happen once with, let's say,

00:17:25.700 one claim or one tweet, it wouldn't be much, you know, because people say crazy stuff. I say crazy

00:17:32.980 things. You could almost certainly find something in my tweeting history that if you read it to me in a

00:17:40.740 congressional setting and said, do you really believe this? I might say, you know, maybe I thought

00:17:47.780 it at the time, but not really, not now. But if you have a lot of them, it becomes quite a show. And

00:17:58.180 apparently she had quite a few things to say. Almost every one of them would have been disqualifying

00:18:04.340 for any kind of leadership job. And she had to respond to everyone that she had completely changed

00:18:10.340 her views from crazy woke to something more like, you know, a leader perspective. Oh my God,

00:18:18.020 did she get destroyed? Brandon Gill. Good job there, Brandon. All right. Some of you have already seen

00:18:26.980 this story, but I just had to weigh in. I guess on Joe Rogan's show, he had a doctor, Dr. Suzanne

00:18:34.820 Humphries, and they were talking about the real story of polio. Now, before I tell you what, you know,

00:18:42.340 what the claim is, let me say that I don't know how to judge this. There was a time when, if I had read,

00:18:50.180 if I had heard this, somebody saying that the polio vaccine actually doesn't do anything and the polio

00:18:57.540 well, the claim, let me tell you the claim. The claim is that the polio vaccine didn't stop any

00:19:03.380 polio at all. What did stop polio is nothing. Nothing stopped it at all.

00:19:13.540 And that all they did was redefine certain conditions as no longer being polio. So they came up with new

00:19:21.540 names for stuff. So then when somebody had something that used to be called polio,

00:19:27.220 but they had been vaccinated, the doctor would say, well, it can't be polio

00:19:31.380 because you've been vaccinated. So it looks like you got this, uh, Gillian Barr thing, or you've got

00:19:38.580 this coxsackivirus or an echovirus. I don't know what a coxsackivirus is, but that sounds like a bad one.

00:19:50.900 What kind of virus did you get? I got that coxsackivirus. It's spelled C-O-X-S-A-C-K-I-E virus,

00:20:04.100 all one word. It just sounds like a coxsackivirus, which is absolutely the worst kind you can get.

00:20:10.900 Or, or the doctors would chalk it up to, now this is a claim of Dr. Suzanne Humphries. These are not my claims.

00:20:21.220 Um, lead poisoning or mercury poisoning. So they'd always, they'd always have some answer to it.

00:20:29.780 And then, uh, the doctor says the rise of polio, or what seemed to be the rise of polio,

00:20:35.460 was directly mirror the use of toxic pesticides like DDT, she says. And she says the countries

00:20:43.620 that still make DDT today is where we're still seeing the polio happen. So let me say what I

00:20:53.060 think a number of other, others of you have said or thinking right now. Let me see if I can read your

00:20:59.860 mind. All right. I'm going to read your mind. I've already done remote viewing, uh, reading your mind,

00:21:05.380 and you're saying, got it, got it. What you're saying is there was a time you would not have

00:21:12.900 believed this story, right? This is not that time. This is a time where I look at this. I mean,

00:21:23.460 this is a really fantastical claim that the entire medical community didn't know that that polio either

00:21:32.420 was just not what they thought it was. And the vaccine didn't make any difference at all.

00:21:38.820 Ah, that's quite a claim, quite a claim. But in 2025, to, you know, steal a joke from Joe Rogan,

00:21:49.460 um, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real. And by the way, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real.

00:21:56.500 Like, I've actually, I've actually been flipped. Even maybe a month ago, uh, I was holding tough.

00:22:05.460 It's like, come on, of course, the moon landing is real. I mean, you can see the assets up there.

00:22:11.140 You can see, you know, people can still see that the, you know, some of the assets are down there in

00:22:15.780 the moon surface. How could it not be real? And then I thought, well, maybe the pictures aren't real.

00:22:22.340 I mean, maybe they landed something on the moon, but are the pictures real? Maybe they couldn't get

00:22:29.540 good film on the moon or get it quickly. So maybe they filmed it separately, even if they did land on

00:22:38.260 the moon, either with a person or without people. So at the moment, I'm completely open to 100% of

00:22:47.780 everything I've learned in history being fake. That doesn't mean it is, but I'm completely open to it

00:22:55.140 now. There's, there's nothing I'm unwilling to believe no matter how crazy. And I'm going to put

00:23:01.540 this on that list. I'm not going to say this is true because I, how would I know? But is it possible

00:23:10.580 within the realm of possibility that polio could have been completely a fake hysteria?

00:23:19.140 And the answer is, I hate to say it, but it's a little bit possible. It's just a little bit

00:23:27.380 possible. I don't think it's the most likely explanation. To be honest, if I had to place a

00:23:34.660 bet, I would bet that the vaccinations work and polio is real, but man, it's not a hundred percent,

00:23:42.820 is it? You know, I'd love to tell you I'm super confident about that, but nope, nope.

00:23:48.900 It's a little bit closer to a coin flip, a little bit closer to a coin flip.

00:23:53.620 I see your comments and I'm just chuckling to myself. One of you is trying to get me

00:24:03.300 kicked off of all social media platforms forever. I'm not going to take the bait.

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00:24:26.260 Well, according to Kash Patel, Trump has this brilliant plan where he either has or is going

00:24:34.020 to file a lawsuit against all the people involved in the Russia collusion hoax.

00:24:40.420 Now, it would be a lawsuit as opposed to a criminal action. And he would be suing for

00:24:47.780 financial compensation. Now, the financial part probably doesn't matter to him that much,

00:24:55.940 but it's a RICO lawsuit. I didn't know you could RICO in a lawsuit, but maybe it's the essence of RICO as

00:25:05.380 opposed to RICO. And what Kash Patel is pointing out

00:25:13.860 is that it could lead to the possibility of criminal charges. So in other words, if the lawsuit had some

00:25:22.580 discovery involved or some, let's say it tied together a bunch of things that nobody tied together

00:25:28.420 before, it could create the basis for a criminal prosecution on the same grounds, that it was

00:25:37.140 organized, funded. And it was an operation that involved a vast number of people from lawyers and

00:25:47.220 a certain firm to Hillary Clinton's campaign, to the FBI, to the Department of Justice. I don't know who

00:25:54.260 else, the media, maybe the media. So, and then as Kash Patel points out, I guess he was talking to

00:26:03.380 Charlie Kirk on the podcast, that the RICO part of it, the part where everything's connected and it's not

00:26:12.500 one person who just did a thing, it's a whole bunch of people who apparently knew what the other people

00:26:18.340 were doing and seemed to be coordinated. He says that the Durham report and other, I guess, legal actions

00:26:27.300 have essentially proven the main points that the lawsuit would try to establish, which is it was fake,

00:26:36.100 we know who the people involved were, and we know pretty much that they communicated.

00:26:43.540 But maybe that's the extra stuff they have to add to it to, you know, get some testimonies and stuff

00:26:48.900 like that. So, that is really interesting as a legal strategy, and I'm all in for that.

00:26:59.300 We should absolutely know if our government was real or we were just run by a bunch of hoaxes,

00:27:06.420 and RICO and some deep state stuff. I don't know. Well, in other news, Representative Thomas

00:27:15.700 Massey, he's introducing a bill, the Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act. So, if somebody is a candidate

00:27:24.260 for office, for federal offices, they would have to disclose all the countries in which they are

00:27:30.820 citizens. Now, you're probably saying to yourself, that seems unnecessary, because everybody knows

00:27:38.100 who's a dual citizen, right? I mean, it would be easy to check, and if somebody had dual citizenship

00:27:45.700 and they were in Congress, you'd know about it, right? Apparently, there's no reporting requirement,

00:27:52.420 and there's no place you can look it up. So, we could have dozens of people in Congress who are

00:28:01.140 actually citizens of other countries, at the same time they're citizens of the United States,

00:28:06.420 and we wouldn't even know it. Now, I know what you're going to say. Israel, right? Say it. You know 0.55

00:28:15.300 that's what you want to say. You want to say there are members of Congress who are secretly also

00:28:22.100 dual citizens of Israel. Well, according to my limited research, there's no known case of that.

00:28:31.140 So, if you have different information than I do, let me know. But to the best of my, you know,

00:28:37.860 very quick analysis, there's no example of that. There doesn't seem to be, as far as anybody knows,

00:28:46.260 any member of Congress who's a dual citizen. Now, that actually surprised me. I thought there'd be one 1.00

00:28:53.460 or two. And I don't think there's anybody else who hasn't, at this point, renounced their dual 1.00

00:29:02.420 citizenship. So, there were a few that were not related to Israel, where people were challenged. I think

00:29:09.940 Ted Cruz was one. Ted Cruz had Canadian citizenship as well as American. And I believe he renounced

00:29:17.700 the Canadian part as soon as it became an issue. And I think there were a few other candidates or a few

00:29:24.500 other politicians who were in the same situation. They weren't really, you know, they weren't really

00:29:29.940 wed to the other country. So, they just renounced it and fixed it. But I guess I approve of this. 0.99

00:29:37.700 I don't think it'll make much difference in the real world, but it'd be good to know.

00:29:44.660 All right. Let's talk about SignalGate. Believe it or not, I think I can add something to the story.

00:29:51.380 It's a boring story. And that's the biggest part of the story is that it's too boring for the public

00:29:57.540 to get interested in. Imagine if you didn't follow the news like we do, like obsessively

00:30:04.740 trying to figure stuff out all day long. And you heard about, oh, they use the Signal app.

00:30:11.380 Like you wouldn't even know, like, why is that bad or anything like that?

00:30:15.780 Yeah. So, here's something that CIA Director Ratcliffe said in a statement. And he was dumping

00:30:24.100 on the reporter who wrote about it, Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the one who was added to the

00:30:30.420 Signal group. We don't know exactly how he was added yet, but it wasn't by Ratcliffe.

00:30:36.660 And anyway, so CIA Director Ratcliffe said, yesterday, I spent four hours answering questions

00:30:42.900 from senators as a result of that article intimating that I transmitted classified information. Now,

00:30:49.460 I didn't know that. I didn't know that Goldberg suggested that maybe Ratcliffe had transmitted

00:30:55.940 classified information, because we didn't see any example of that. So, I didn't know that was being

00:31:01.140 even suggested. And then Ratcliffe says, those messages were revealed today. I did not transmit

00:31:09.140 classified information. I guess we can now just look at the messages and see he's right.

00:31:14.180 He said, the reporter, Goldberg, who I don't know, intentionally intended it to indicate that.

00:31:21.780 The reporter also indicated I released the name of an undercover CIA operative.

00:31:26.740 In fact, I released the name of my own chief of staff, who is not operating undercover. And that

00:31:34.020 was deliberately false and misleading. Okay, that's pretty bad. That's pretty, imagine being

00:31:40.340 accused, you're the head of the CIA. Imagine being accused of releasing the name of an undercover CIA

00:31:46.740 agent, and then finding out literally nothing like that happened. It was just made up, apparently.

00:31:53.780 But I want to read you this last sentence and see if this sounds familiar to you.

00:31:59.940 So, Ratcliffe's summary sentence was, the mission was a remarkable success, because that's what did

00:32:06.980 happen, not what could have happened. Not what could have happened. Have you noticed the pattern?

00:32:16.180 The pattern that Democrats have imaginary concerns? Yeah, we'll talk about that in a little bit.

00:32:28.820 But I wrote a post on Axe that I thought captured some of the nuance that nobody had captured yet on

00:32:37.300 this signal thing. So, starting with, if Hegseth, and I believe this is true, Secretary Hegseth,

00:32:45.140 he has the power to declassify content. So, all he has to do is say, declassify this, and it's

00:32:52.740 declassified. So, in my opinion, putting that content on signal, which is what he did, is a de facto

00:33:01.140 declassification. Now, it's the same thing I said about Trump and Mar-a-Lago. If the person who's in

00:33:07.700 charge of saying something is classified or not intentionally puts it in a place that they know

00:33:13.940 is not classified, that's a de facto, practical declassification. Now, it should be with paperwork.

00:33:23.140 But is that the problem? Are we mad at Hegseth because he didn't do paperwork?

00:33:31.540 That wouldn't make anybody mad, would it? If he intended it to be in a non-classified setting.

00:33:39.380 And obviously, he knew this signal was not their top secret setting. So, he very consciously

00:33:47.060 put it into a less than completely secure setting. I would call that a de facto declassification.

00:33:56.660 Now, here's the thing that you'll see in the news over and over again, and I think I'm about the only

00:34:03.220 person besides Greg Uffelt, whoever calls this out, which is, I call it the half-pinion.

00:34:09.620 If the only thing you knew about the story is that somebody took some information that you think should

00:34:15.700 be in the most maximized secret setting, and they moved it to a less secret setting,

00:34:23.940 how would you judge that? And there could be potential military implications to it. How would

00:34:29.940 you judge that? Well, I'd say that's a mistake. That's a pretty big one, right? If all you're looking

00:34:37.140 at is the cost of it, you know, what's the downside? What's the worst that could happen? I'd say,

00:34:43.620 that's terrible. But what are we leaving out? We're leaving out why he did it.

00:34:52.340 Why did he put that information in that setting? Well, it's because he had a mission. He'd been asked

00:34:59.380 to keep this very group of people informed right up to the last minute.

00:35:04.100 I mean, the timing of it was important. And it was very important to keep them informed in case

00:35:12.180 somebody had a last minute objection. Because remember, this was big stuff. He was ready to kill

00:35:20.820 a whole bunch of people, which presumably is what happened when the strike happened. So before he 0.97

00:35:27.460 decided to unleash death, death, like people dying, he wanted to make sure that the people most involved

00:35:37.300 got their final say. And I don't think that that was just, you know, check in a box. To me,

00:35:44.980 that seems important. That if you've been asked to keep this group informed, it's because this group

00:35:51.780 might be the ones who say, you know what, hold on, hold on. You know, I have such an objection,

00:35:57.860 or I found out something new, or maybe there's something we haven't considered. Maybe they would

00:36:02.260 have delayed it. And that could have been really important. Right? So if you were to judge it as,

00:36:09.540 did he take something into a less secure platform? Yes. By itself, that would look like a mistake.

00:36:17.460 But if you judge it by what was he trying to accomplish, which was to make sure that the

00:36:22.660 people most important to the decision were still okay with the decision before he killed people,

00:36:29.060 before he killed people, that seems pretty legitimate to me. Claudia was leaving for her 0.99

00:36:36.260 pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week. She was so focused on visualizing

00:36:41.540 that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side. Good thing Claudia's with 0.84

00:36:47.060 Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country. Everything

00:36:51.780 was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time. I made it to my

00:36:56.820 tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time. Intact Insurance,

00:37:02.340 your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply. Now, let me tell you something about every big

00:37:07.780 organization I've ever been involved with. If you followed all of the rules of any big organization,

00:37:15.780 be it a corporation or anywhere else, you would immediately bring that corporation or organization

00:37:21.380 to its knees. Because big organizations have enough rules that you wouldn't be able to get anything done.

00:37:29.220 Let me give you an example. One of my first jobs out of college, I was a bank teller.

00:37:33.940 And one day I cashed a bad check. It was because I didn't check identification properly. Now,

00:37:41.700 the reason I didn't check is because the person who brought the people with the check in and stood

00:37:47.860 right there at the window with them was a friend of mine. So the friend says, well, you know, I can vouch

00:37:54.180 for these two of their friends of mine. And I thought, oh, that's safe enough. I mean, this is my personal

00:37:58.740 friend. Turns out they were criminals. So I just got scammed. So I didn't get fired because it was

00:38:08.100 sort of a first offense and it wasn't that much money. But I did get a talking to. I got a stern

00:38:15.380 talking to. And the stern talking to was, you don't get to decide which of the rules you follow

00:38:22.420 and which ones you don't follow. You will follow all the rules. And I looked at my supervisor and I

00:38:28.820 said, you got it. And within two hours, the line at the for the tellers was out the door. And I was

00:38:38.500 serving very few people. Because almost every encounter required me to call my supervisor over

00:38:49.140 because that was the rule. If there was anything that was above my pay grade to approve, I couldn't

00:38:55.700 do it. So I brought the entire bank to a standstill. I crashed the bank. It couldn't do anything for

00:39:03.220 customers. And they were just lying down at the door. And what was I doing? I was just following all

00:39:08.340 the rules. I was doing it quickly. I wasn't dragging my feet. I was just following their own rules.

00:39:18.820 And one time I called my supervisor over and there's some guy who works for Chevron and

00:39:25.460 and he didn't have ID or he didn't have a, I guess he didn't have an account at our branch or something.

00:39:31.940 And she comes over and she takes one look at him. She goes, approved. I go, hold on, hold on.

00:39:38.500 What did you do that I couldn't do? Like, you just looked at him. You literally just looked at him.

00:39:44.740 Like, why couldn't I do that? She goes, well, I noticed he was wearing this lapel pin

00:39:50.100 that tells me that he's worked for Chevron for, I don't know, at least 10 years or something.

00:39:54.980 And he goes, and she goes, yeah, nobody, nobody would know to wear that little pin 0.75

00:39:59.060 if they were a crook. And I thought, well, I'm pretty sure that's not in the rules.

00:40:05.620 The lapel pin trick. So this is a pattern that you'll see everywhere.

00:40:13.300 Now, do you think this is different in the military? Do you think the military

00:40:19.140 could possibly function if everybody followed all the rules all the time? I doubt it.

00:40:25.700 If it's like every other big organization? No, it's probably a whole bunch of people who are

00:40:30.980 continuously looking for some way to get around the rules and regulation just to get something done.

00:40:40.020 That's probably the most normal situation in the world. So now you've got Pete Hegseth,

00:40:45.060 who's given this job. Your job is to keep this group of people informed right up to date,

00:40:51.620 like not once a month, but like right up to the operational point. How is he going to do that?

00:40:59.460 How? You tell me the other way he was going to do it. It wasn't another way he was going to do it.

00:41:06.340 There was no other mechanism. The government does not have a secure chat group. And if it did,

00:41:12.660 it would require those same people, what, a dozen or 16 or whatever, to all be sitting in

00:41:18.260 an office at the same time. Do you think that ever happens? No, it never happens. So he did not have

00:41:26.260 any tool, any process, any way to do the thing that he had been tasked to do that was important enough

00:41:34.500 that it could save the lives of those people who ended up being killed. It was life and death,

00:41:42.500 and it was his job. It was life and death, and it was his job to keep them informed. There was no other

00:41:51.300 way to do it. So what did he do? I can't read his mind. But what it looks like is he said,

00:41:58.900 this is not ideal. Again, I'm just guessing. This is not ideal to put this on signal,

00:42:06.500 but it's only two hours between now and the time of the attack. And it's important that we've got

00:42:14.660 everybody on board. I mean, that's just critically important. So he took a little bit of a risk,

00:42:20.500 like everybody does in every big organization if they're trying to work within the rules. And he got

00:42:26.420 a little bit of a benefit, which is he did what he was asked to do before he killed people. Before he

00:42:33.460 killed people, I mean, I feel like we're forgetting, we've somehow forgotten the humanity of it.

00:42:42.100 This was life and death. And you do want to make sure everybody's on the right page before the

00:42:48.420 missiles fly. So telling them exactly when the thing was going to happen is very critical,

00:42:55.540 completely appropriate to do you have a final objection. Very important. Because if there's

00:43:02.740 two hours, maybe you say no. If it were a day, maybe you'd say yes. Now, here's a question you're

00:43:10.180 wondering. Just what was the risk level of putting something on a signal? Well, here's your other real

00:43:19.460 world reveal. I don't believe the Hooties have a sophisticated hacking operation. Do you? Do you 1.00

00:43:30.980 think the Hooties had penetrated the phones of the United States government? Do you think the Hooties 1.00

00:43:37.060 had a back door to signal? I'm going to say no. But before you say it, I know what you're thinking.

00:43:43.780 You're thinking, Scott, it doesn't have to be the Hooties. It could have been the Russians, 0.71

00:43:48.500 and then they tipped them off. It could have been China, and then they tipped off the Hooties. 0.84

00:43:53.140 It could have been Iran. Iran has sophisticated hackers. It could have been Iran, and then Iran 0.83

00:43:59.860 is on their side, so they tip off the Hooties. But let me give you a little real world context.

00:44:08.020 If any of those major powers had access to signal and they had penetrated it so that they could listen

00:44:14.660 to our government talking about everything, they would have risked losing that access

00:44:24.260 by tipping off the Hooties, because we probably would have noticed if the Hooties in two hours

00:44:29.700 kind of quickly adjusted their defensive positions, because we'd be watching them by then, right?

00:44:36.980 We'd have the satellites on. We'd have the drones flying over. And if suddenly, two hours before the

00:44:42.100 attack, everything changed and they started rapidly moving their assets, how long would it take us to

00:44:47.860 figure out if it was because of the signal chat? About five minutes. And then we would have stopped

00:44:54.340 using the signal. And then the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians would have lost their access.

00:45:03.140 I think that if they had access to that tool and they were listening to our government conversations

00:45:10.100 at the highest level, I'm pretty sure they would have said, well, we're going to let the Hooties take 0.99

00:45:15.860 the hit. It would have been smarter, certainly for China and Russia, no doubt about it, to let the Hooties 1.00

00:45:23.220 take the hit. Even if they thought they'd like to screw the United States, they wouldn't lose their

00:45:29.540 own access to something that important. Now, what about Iran? I would go so far as to say that even

00:45:37.140 Iran would let the Hooties take a hit before they would give up a source that important. Now, who else 0.74

00:45:45.780 told you that? Nobody, right? So once you see how weak the analysis was of this whole situation, it's shocking.

00:46:00.020 The next thing is that Democrats have conflated what could have happened with what did happen.

00:46:06.260 Now, that's what Ratcliffe said. He said the exact same thing, right? So in my post, I point out that the

00:46:18.420 Democrats, they love the imaginary stuff. Well, it could have been bad. Do you know what else could have

00:46:25.060 been bad? Everything that those people did that day. Everything. How many conversations did all the people who were

00:46:33.620 in that chat? How many conversations did they have on other topics with other people that could have

00:46:40.260 been compromised, but weren't? Probably not, but could have been. If you're worrying about things that

00:46:50.900 could go wrong, that's pretty much everything. And it's pretty much all the time. That is not a valid

00:46:58.420 concern. If somebody takes a risk-reward decision. I need to keep people informed. That's my job.

00:47:05.620 It's life or death. It's a little bit less secure, but it's only two hours before the strike. It's pretty

00:47:11.700 unlikely that any notice is going to get to them in two hours. So life is just one decision after another.

00:47:23.140 But if you were to read the news, it would look like half opinions. A real opinion is you take the

00:47:30.260 positive and the negative risks of everything you do. Okay. It could go this way, but it could go that

00:47:36.420 way. I'll get some benefits, but there might be a cost. But if the only thing you do is look at there

00:47:42.500 might be a cost, you wouldn't do anything. Well, there might be a cost. I'd like you to

00:47:50.900 meet me tomorrow at this building. We'll have the meeting. I don't know. What if I get hit by a car

00:47:57.780 on the way of the meeting? Well, that's certainly more of a risk if you're traveling than if you're

00:48:04.180 staying home. So was that worth the risk? Everything has a risk to it. Everything.

00:48:12.980 If you look at the fact that everything has a risk, including every single conversation that

00:48:18.500 every one of those people had about every topic that was classified all day long,

00:48:25.940 it's just nothing but that risk just all day long. Well, somebody might've heard it.

00:48:30.980 Somebody might be bugging this room. Somebody might be a mole. That's universal.

00:48:40.740 Anyway, so here's the second question. People have been asking me, hey, was this whole signal thing

00:48:50.180 some kind of an op? Was it a setup from the start? My first impression was, well, I don't see how it

00:49:00.180 would be. My current impression is, yeah, it looks like it. I'm not at the point where I'm willing

00:49:07.940 to say it was an op, but it looks like it. So here's what we know. This is according to an

00:49:16.500 ex-account called The Researcher. So something called American Oversight. So this is another one

00:49:24.740 of those, you know how the NGOs all have these generic names. And when you hear one of these

00:49:30.020 generic names, it's some damn Democrat op. So American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, 0.99

00:49:38.260 and Radcliffe, et cetera, saying that their messaging on Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.

00:49:46.020 Huh. Who do you think is on this American Oversight group?

00:49:49.860 Well, apparently it's David Brock and Norm Eisen. Remember I tell you that if you know what happened,

00:49:58.580 you don't know anything. You have to know who. If the only thing you knew was that they were

00:50:04.660 getting sued over a Federal Records Act, you might say to yourself, oh, well, I guess somebody in the

00:50:10.580 government takes that pretty seriously. But it's not that. It's the most devious, weasel-like,

00:50:19.220 despicable, lying pieces of shit that you've ever seen in your life, Norm Eisen and David Brock. 1.00

00:50:27.940 Now, if you don't know about those two guys, do a little research. 1.00

00:50:32.260 They are not associated with good acts whatsoever. They are associated with the

00:50:40.980 the darkest, weasel-ly, just terrible, terrible activities. And so sure enough,

00:50:49.460 they're behind that. And they seem to be ready to go pretty quickly, surprisingly. And then

00:50:55.940 they used to have a, I guess, a subgroup of this American Oversight called CREW, C-R-E-W. 0.96

00:51:05.300 And according to the researcher, that was the lawfare arm or their effort to target Trump originally.

00:51:12.340 So there was a subset of people, probably lawyer-like people who would do the lawfare going after Trump.

00:51:20.580 Now, why is that important? Well, there was a member of that group named Alex Wong,

00:51:31.940 who is being accused of being the staffer for Ratcliffe who added the journalist, who added Jeffrey

00:51:43.620 Goldberg. So, and then on top of that, the judge who's been selected for this, who is randomly selected,

00:51:55.620 totally randomly, is somebody named Judge Boesburg. Have you heard of him?

00:52:01.860 Again, if you knew what was happening, you wouldn't know anything. If you knew who, you might know

00:52:11.300 everything. So Boesburg, he's the activist judge who was blocking Trump from deporting violent gang

00:52:19.380 members. He's the one who delayed the, intentionally delayed the release of Hillary Clinton's email until

00:52:25.860 after the 2016 election. He's considered an activist anti-Trump judge. So, pulling it all together,

00:52:36.740 it does look like an op. Because none of us would really believe that Ratcliffe's chief of staff,

00:52:45.300 if that's what he was, Alex Wong. Now, by the way, this is not confirmed that Alex Wong is the person

00:52:51.620 who did it, that that's just an accusation. But at the moment, since we know that Ratcliffe did not

00:52:58.180 have any contact with, would not have had Goldberg's number on his own phone, and that a staffer was

00:53:05.460 involved and almost certainly was the reason that Goldberg got added. And then you add to it, of all

00:53:11.620 the people in the world, adding Goldberg was the most dangerous thing you could do.

00:53:19.060 So, of all the people in the world, just that one guy gets added. And of all the people in the world,

00:53:27.940 David Brock and Norm Eisen had a lawsuit that seemed like it was practically ready to go.

00:53:33.460 And of all the people in the world who are randomly selected to be the judge, it's this Boesburg guy.

00:53:39.940 That is a lot of coincidences, my friend. Now, again, if you didn't know the players,

00:53:48.260 and you didn't know that the Alex Wong was actually part of the organization that is now suing them,

00:53:56.340 it wouldn't look like it was necessarily a plot. But as soon as you know who the players are,

00:54:02.180 it just screams. It just screams like it's a, yeah, a Ricoh plot. Anyway.

00:54:12.340 So now that we know that the big problem was the imaginary concern of what could have happened,

00:54:17.380 but didn't happen, I've suggested that Trump should create a department of imaginary concerns.

00:54:22.820 And it would be only to handle Democrat complaints. And the new department could have imaginary policies

00:54:33.060 to combat the imaginary concerns. So you place things like climate change in there.

00:54:40.100 Climate change, at least the crisis part of the climate change. You put the Russia collusion thing

00:54:44.900 in there. You put the Hooties could have found out by hacking signal in there. You put Trump might 0.88

00:54:52.980 steal your democracy in the imaginary concerns department. That Musk might steal our social

00:54:58.900 security numbers that you put that right in the department of imaginary concerns. And that there

00:55:03.780 might be a constitutional crisis. Yep. That's the department of imaginary concerns. Now,

00:55:09.940 I'm not completely serious about this, but just think how funny it would be if every time one of

00:55:18.980 these hoaxes comes up and Trump is asked about it, he says, oh, I've delegated that to the Department

00:55:24.980 of Imaginary Concerns. But are you trying to steal our democracy? You know, that's a perfectly good

00:55:32.020 question. So I've delegated that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Did you agree with Putin

00:55:39.700 to have sex with him if he stops the fighting? Well, you know, no. But I'm gonna assign that to the 0.98

00:55:49.220 Department of Imaginary Concerns. And we'll come up with an imaginary policy to make sure it doesn't

00:55:55.380 happen again. So Byron York had some funny comments about Politico. So Politico had a statement and it

00:56:07.780 said, there's no administration in the world beyond this one where a blunder of these proportions.

00:56:15.540 By the way, I've never met any Republican who thinks that this blunder is of great proportion.

00:56:22.260 It's just the news telling you that you should be concerned about it. But I'm not.

00:56:28.260 Where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody resigns. Not in London, not in Moscow,

00:56:34.100 not in Tokyo, not in Pyongyang, nowhere. And then Byron York points out on the signal matter that

00:56:43.460 political playbook makes a statement with great confidence, but maybe not much perspective.

00:56:48.980 And then he includes a photo of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which nobody resigned over.

00:56:57.140 Nope. One of the most embarrassing, incompetent things that ever happened in our country,

00:57:03.140 a stain on our history. Nobody resigned. So Politico, apparently that's something we do in this country.

00:57:12.660 Anyway. But apparently in this case, the dramacrats, in the case of the signal gate,

00:57:21.140 the dramacrats who are trying to train their audience that they should be very, very concerned.

00:57:28.660 And they do it by the emotion that they put into ordinary words. Like, oh my God, the incompetence.

00:57:37.380 I am aghast. I'm simply shocked. There's no country in the world from Moscow to Pyongyang,

00:57:44.580 who would ever make such a mistake. And people who have lived in the real world say, yeah, well,

00:57:53.860 unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two, which is a universal truth.

00:58:03.700 Jonathan Turley was talking about Daniel Goldman, Representative Goldman. And he says that

00:58:11.460 Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla and its facilities is nothing but lawfare

00:58:20.740 and political weaponization. So Goldman thinks that investigating the people who are the terrorists

00:58:30.580 is the problem. It's not the terrorists. It's that if you investigate who the terrorists are, well,

00:58:39.140 that's a case on lawfare and political weaponization right there. Now, as Turley says, Goldman's latest

00:58:48.500 controversy captures how Democrats have now entirely cut the cord of decency and moderation that once

00:58:55.620 tethered their party to the mainstream of our society. I love that sentence. Turley is a great writer.

00:59:01.700 If you just want to see great writing, you know, in addition to, you know, great opinions,

00:59:07.460 he can put a sentence together like nobody's business. He's just a great writer.

00:59:14.500 But then he did something that I was wondering about. Turley was helping us with the definition of what

00:59:20.900 terrorism is. And he points out that he's long criticized the expansion of what terrorism is.

00:59:27.940 And I would agree with that. I don't think you want to trivialize

00:59:32.340 terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism. You don't want to do that.

00:59:36.820 But let's see. Let's see if this Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it.

00:59:42.180 So, Turley points out that the Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as, quote,

00:59:50.900 violent criminal acts committed by individuals and or groups to further ideological goals stemming from

00:59:58.180 domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

01:00:04.660 And that's perfectly captures what's happening to Tesla. So, yes, you don't have to hurt people

01:00:15.460 to be a terrorist. If you're destroying economic assets and you're also doing it in the

01:00:23.220 pursuit of political gain, that's also terrorism because, you know, money is important to people.

01:00:30.340 You know, it's not just physical pain and death and injury. It's destroying economics,

01:00:38.020 because that's its own problem. Anyway, to me, it seems like

01:00:46.820 probably the funniest thing that will happen this year is the Trump administration,

01:00:52.580 without even trying, getting prominent Democrats to support domestic terrorism.

01:00:58.020 How would you like to be running for president in the next election? Can you imagine J.D. Vance

01:01:07.140 running against one of these clowns who is not disowning the terrorism? Imagine if he ran against 0.99

01:01:18.500 Goldman. Well, Dan, it seems to me that you've been supporting domestic terrorism in this country,

01:01:26.580 country. And I think the voters should know that if they vote for you, they're voting for a domestic 0.99

01:01:32.820 terrorist, according to the definition of those terms. It feels like it would be the easiest thing 1.00

01:01:39.300 in the world to be almost any prominent Democrat at this point. They've literally supported terrorism.

01:01:45.700 I think Ro Khanna, and maybe one other person, have said, you know, right up front and write it

01:01:52.420 loudly. And I respect that. Yeah, that the violence that's just got to end, you know, the Tesla stuff.

01:01:59.860 Nope, don't do that. That's bad. So, but only a few, like, is it even more than two at this point

01:02:10.100 in the entire Democrat Party? Was it just two people who are willing to say that domestic terrorism is a

01:02:15.540 bad idea? And the problem is that the Democrats have unleashed domestic terrorism a number of times.

01:02:25.380 You know, if you count Antifa and Black Lives Matter and now this, it's definitely a pattern. 0.93

01:02:35.300 Anyway, if you haven't seen Ezra Klein on Gavin Newsom's podcast, I highly recommend it,

01:02:40.980 because Ezra's book, Abundance, with Derek Thompson, I guess, is getting a lot of attention.

01:02:49.860 And, you know, my first take on it, when I just had AI summarize it for me, was, wait a minute,

01:02:57.140 all they're doing is promoting Republican policy, you know, such as don't waste the money, build things,

01:03:04.580 build things in this country, you know, be practical, get some actual wins, you know,

01:03:10.100 ordinary stuff. And so I wasn't that impressed with it, because it just seemed to be telling

01:03:17.860 Democrats to be Republicans, which was funny in its own way. But the more I hear him, because I've

01:03:24.500 listened, he's very interesting. So the more I've listened to him on various podcasts, he's going hard

01:03:30.820 at the Democrats. He's not taking prisoners. And it's exactly what they needed. So if you're asking

01:03:40.100 yourself, what's the solution? Well, I don't know if it's this, but it's something like this.

01:03:46.820 And so he sat with Gavin Newsom, and I'll just give you the top level summary, it's just worth

01:03:54.020 watching. And he starts describing how Democrats operate, which is getting large funding for things

01:04:02.100 and then building nothing. And he's just making Newsom squirm. And then Newsom has to talk. But one

01:04:10.020 of the things that Newsom does, because he's clever, but weasley at the same time, Newsom will agree with

01:04:17.220 whatever your criticism is. But then he's got lots of reasons why it's not as bad as you think,

01:04:24.100 or everything will be fine. So he's got this pattern where he first agrees, but then he talks

01:04:31.300 for a while, and then he makes his own point, which is disagreeing, basically.

01:04:37.140 You have to watch Newsom being triggered into full word salad that didn't look like it had an end. He was

01:04:44.820 full Kamala Harris. Oh, well, big word, big word, jargon, big word, and big word, big word, big word.

01:04:57.300 And it just went on and on. And he was just dying in front of the camera. And I'm not even sure he knew

01:05:04.260 it. So he had to throw in some weird hand motions like this. I don't know. We don't know why he does

01:05:11.380 that. But he was just destroyed right on camera. And we've seen Bannon, we've seen Charlie Kirk and

01:05:23.220 stuff talking to Gavin. And they would have their own criticisms. And so you've seen Gavin handle

01:05:30.500 criticisms. And I'll give him credit. He does interact with people who are willing to criticize.

01:05:36.500 So I'll give him credit for that. But I've never seen anybody destroy him.

01:05:43.220 Ezra just destroyed him. It's really fun to watch. You're going to have to watch it.

01:05:48.980 Anyway, Laura Loomer apparently has a lawsuit against Bill Maher because Bill Maher on his show 1.00

01:05:58.820 inferred that she was having an affair with Trump because, I don't know, she traveled on the jet or

01:06:04.100 something. And so Laura Loomer is suing him. And apparently, a judge refused to throw it out. 0.98

01:06:13.140 So it's going forward. And now Bill Maher will have to sit and answer questions about why he did that.

01:06:22.580 I don't know if she can win this. You know, I'll defer to the lawyers.

01:06:27.460 He's implied, not inferred. Okay, I'll take that. He implied it, not inferred it.

01:06:38.020 Because you would have to prove that he knew he was lying. So wouldn't a perfect defense be,

01:06:44.740 it sure looked like it to me? Wouldn't that be the entire defense? Or would he go with,

01:06:52.580 it's a humor show? Nobody should take it too seriously? You know, it's meant for comedic value,

01:07:00.420 so it's not as serious? I don't know. I remember seeing it live and saying to myself,

01:07:07.060 whoa, that's too far. Did anybody see it live when Maher made that accusation or implied it?

01:07:14.420 But to me, it looked too far. Because that was definitely not in evidence. And Trump has traveled

01:07:23.620 with, what, thousands and thousands of people on his plane? Some male, some female? Yeah. I mean,

01:07:33.300 to me, it looked too far. And we'll see. We'll see what happens. I don't think she can win,

01:07:41.780 because I think he just has to say his state of mind was that he believed it was true.

01:07:46.820 I think that's all it takes, but I don't know. Meanwhile, Rasmussen said Democratic approval

01:07:53.700 of the party is 26%. That would be a new low. I think it might drop into the teens.

01:07:59.060 Actually, by the end of the year. It's possible that Democrat approval or popularity will be in the

01:08:08.900 high teens. Now, I think Congress's approval, generally speaking, has been in the high teens

01:08:17.460 before. So it's not impossible. And I don't think anybody would have seen it go to 26%.

01:08:22.580 26%. But if it's going to 26%, it's in free fall. Now, I know that last 20% are going to hold tight,

01:08:31.780 but I think it's just going to get worse, right? You know, one more day of Jasmine Crockett

01:08:39.060 should make pretty much all the Democrats change sides at that point. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is trying to ban

01:08:46.660 big pharma ads on TV. And I think most of you know that the reason that big pharma advertises

01:08:58.020 is not so that they can get the patients to ask their doctor for the drug, but rather it's so that

01:09:04.500 the, allegedly, it's so that the news entity will not say bad things about big pharma.

01:09:11.460 So it's essentially a way to bribe the news industry to stay away from their stories.

01:09:18.500 That's the claim. But the other thing that the big pharma ads do, and this is my hypnotist take on it,

01:09:27.060 so you haven't heard this one. If I watch a big pharma commercial on a news program,

01:09:34.420 it'll start with, oh, you got this problem, here's this drug that helps it.

01:09:38.260 But eventually, I guess for legal reasons, they have to tell you all the side effects.

01:09:45.140 And man, when they start with the side effects, it just kills me. If I can't find the remote to

01:09:51.300 turn off the TV, I'll have to put a boot through it, because the damage that it's doing to my brain, 0.99

01:09:58.580 it starts out with, and be careful, your penis will fall off, your hair will catch on fire, 1.00

01:10:03.860 your throat will close, and you'll be bleeding blood from your ass for the rest of your life. 1.00

01:10:09.300 You will probably get amnesia, rheumatoid arthritis, your heart will turn into a lump of coal, 1.00

01:10:15.940 your blood will coagulate into a kind of a mayonnaise. You will be begging for life,

01:10:23.620 and probably rolling around on the floor in pain for the rest of your existence, which might not last

01:10:28.420 very long. And I'm like, where's the remote? Oh, God, oh, God, where's the remote? And I'm running

01:10:34.020 around, I'm moving pillows, like, ah, ah, ah, ah. Because you can't have that much negativity just

01:10:43.380 drilled into your head, even casually. And it is, and by the way, I'm only barely exaggerating

01:10:52.740 how much impact it has on me. I can feel it. I mean, I just feel it. And I'm convinced

01:10:59.780 that big pharma is destroying the business model of the news. Now, because they're the biggest

01:11:07.940 advertiser, of course the news will say yes. But if you run this biggest advertiser over and over again,

01:11:16.580 and the old people just keep hearing all these horrible things that are going to happen to them,

01:11:21.620 if they take this drug, eventually, and this is the hypnotist filter, eventually,

01:11:28.260 it should be like Pavlov's dog, except instead of giving you a treat that will make you salivate the

01:11:34.580 next time the scientist comes in the room, it should make you, if you turn on the TV and you see news, 0.99

01:11:41.780 it should make you think, oh, shit, even before the commercial. Like, if you turn, if you're just 0.99

01:11:47.140 flipping through the channels and Jake Tapper comes on, the first thing you might think is, 1.00

01:11:52.820 my penis will fall off, I'm going to bleed through my ass, no, no, no, and just flip to anything else. 0.99

01:12:00.100 So I think, over time, big pharma destroys the business model of the news. It should. 1.00

01:12:07.300 Oh, Canada. So there's a story, Post Millennial has a story about their conservative, I guess the

01:12:20.260 conservative leader, what's his name, Mark Carney. Is he prime minister now? Or is he just,

01:12:26.580 I'm so confused about the Canadian system. But anyway, so Mark Carney apparently used to be

01:12:34.100 Justin Trudeau's economic advisor. While he was the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau,

01:12:43.700 he went to China and he negotiated to get a $276 million loan for his own business.

01:12:52.900 So it wasn't even for the government. It was for his own business. Now, it's not illegal to, you know,

01:13:04.100 have your own business and be an economic advisor, I guess. But wouldn't you like to know if any strings

01:13:11.700 were attached to that loan? Do you think China was trying to influence Canada? I don't know.

01:13:20.100 That's a tough one to explain. So he's got some explaining to do in that. But wow. Meanwhile,

01:13:27.220 Vladimir Zelensky says that Putin is going to die soon because he's got all kinds of medical problems.

01:13:33.860 And that should change everything. He literally says he'll die soon. I believe we've been hearing that for

01:13:40.500 five years? For how long have we been hearing Putin's going to die any minute?

01:13:50.100 I don't know. Maybe Zelensky knows something we don't. But I wouldn't count on that. I don't think

01:13:56.660 I'd make any policy on it. Now, let me tell you the least surprising news of the day. People, you know,

01:14:04.500 you're never going to believe this. I say jokingly, this is the most predictable news

01:14:10.820 that you've ever heard. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a

01:14:18.900 ceasefire on their energy infrastructure. All right. I told you that's exactly what's going to happen,

01:14:28.340 right? I told you, how could you have a ceasefire on your energy infrastructure when both sides are

01:14:35.060 going to say the other one violated it? And then they're just going to keep shooting. And that's

01:14:39.460 exactly what happened apparently. Now, I don't know if both sides did violate it.

01:14:45.780 The prediction is not that they would violate it, but they would definitely claim the other side 0.98

01:14:50.500 violated it. And then they would act accordingly, which is what's happening. How in the world do you

01:14:56.500 ever reach a peace deal with the two most lyingest countries in the world? I mean,

01:15:03.460 Ukraine is the least, the least reliable, honest country that isn't Russia. So it doesn't feel

01:15:11.460 like you could even make a deal because you need, you need both sides to be at least honorable.

01:15:18.820 You know, like, I feel like we can make a deal with a lot of countries and they'd say,

01:15:25.460 ah, we don't want to be that country that doesn't keep a deal.

01:15:28.180 And the United States has broken some deals too. So we're not, we're not clean on this, but who's

01:15:36.340 going to trust either Russia or Ukraine for anything? So I don't know how they get a deal there.

01:15:45.060 And I was listening in other news. I was listening to Jeffrey Sachs talk about the Middle East and

01:15:53.140 he's sort of a, you know, stay out of the Middle East. It's none of our business. We're just making, 0.98

01:15:58.420 you know, making permanent war. But he says there will never be peace in the Middle East until the

01:16:03.940 Palestinians have their own country, basically. But that's not possible because Israel has so many 1.00

01:16:12.340 settlements now. There's no place that country could even be. And if you said, okay, you can take the

01:16:18.740 entire West Bank and Gaza too. Do you think that would stop the extremists from trying to take

01:16:25.540 Israel proper? Why would it? I don't see why that would stop them. So I don't see any possibility 0.99

01:16:33.620 that you can make peace by giving Palestinians a country, unless that country included Israel and all 1.00

01:16:42.740 the Israelis decided to move somewhere else, which is not going to happen. So there's no actual real

01:16:49.860 world situation in which you could do peace in the Middle East, which means permanent war. And then 0.99

01:16:56.580 Sachs suggests that Israel essentially controls US policy and military and will, at least in terms of

01:17:03.460 the Middle East. And will keep us in a permanent state of war because it's good for Israel. Sachs also 1.00

01:17:13.460 says that the Houthis are no big threat to the United States. And if we just ignored them, because 0.59

01:17:19.300 there's not much, I guess there's not much US shipping that goes through there anyway, which surprised

01:17:25.700 me. I think I need a fact check on that. But how many of you agree with them that we're in a permanent

01:17:33.460 war that can never be solved? Meaning that you can never solve the Palestinian issue. And if we're 0.78

01:17:41.460 being wagged by Israel, then we'll just be in permanent war. 0.86

01:17:48.580 I worry that Trump has gotten himself into at least two permanent wars. Because one of the main

01:17:58.260 things we liked about Trump is that he wouldn't be in war and he would end the ones we have. But I don't

01:18:04.660 see him getting out of the Middle East and I don't see Ukraine wanting to end the war. I think Ukraine 0.91

01:18:11.540 wants to continue. And maybe Russia does a little bit too. So Trump's really got his work cut out for

01:18:22.260 him. Now my own opinion is, I've told you before, my own opinion is that when countries pursue their

01:18:30.100 own best interest and they have the power to do it, of course they're going to do it. So if the

01:18:35.620 Palestinians had all the power, it would be really, really bad for Israel. Right now Israel has most 1.00

01:18:42.500 of the power and the Palestinians don't like it at all. But there's no way that you solve that 1.00

01:18:49.460 because they can't both have all the power. It's going to be somebody has the power. So it's pretty

01:18:55.300 much a win-lose situation over there. Unsolvable in my opinion.

01:19:01.060 So I saw Zion Lights had a post about how France's power grid last year was 95% fossil free.

01:19:13.220 And most of that was thanks to nuclear power, but they had a big surge in solar as well. And

01:19:21.380 so the context was, it was sort of France is sort of the winner. You know, they're the smart ones

01:19:27.380 because they got rid of their fossil fuels and they still powered their nation and they're great

01:19:34.340 on nuclear. So it looks like they're just the big smart winners. And we just look like the dumb ones

01:19:39.860 now, right? And then I went to perplexity AI and I said, who pays more for electricity, France or the US? 0.98

01:19:48.100 It turns out France. So the cost of electricity, if you adjust for different currencies and whatnot,

01:19:58.500 the cost of electricity in France is higher than in the US. So who's the winner? Is France the winner

01:20:06.900 because they got to all this nuclear power before we did? Because that's impressive. I do give them a

01:20:16.020 lot of credit for being so successfully nuclear. But if our energy costs less than in France,

01:20:26.020 and most of the CO2, if that's what you're worried about, if most of the CO2 is still coming out of

01:20:31.780 China and India, did it make any difference whatsoever that France had all these green sources

01:20:38.420 of energy? And the answer is, I don't know. To me, it looks like they didn't win. Winning would be

01:20:46.900 they pay less for electricity and they've done what they can to save the world, but they can't do

01:20:52.820 everything, but at least their own electricity doesn't cost much now. If they were paying less

01:20:58.020 for electricity than the United States, and by the way, I'll take a fact check on this because I got it

01:21:03.220 from perplexing AI and we shouldn't fully trust the AIs to be accurate yet. I'd say the US is the

01:21:11.780 winner, right? Because the CO2 in the world in general would be the same no matter what either

01:21:18.340 the US or France did. Because again, China and India are the big CO2 producers. All that really

01:21:26.580 matters is what's the cost of power. And if ours is cheaper, we won. And that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:21:36.740 is all I have to say today. Thanks for joining. Went a little bit long today, but that's because

01:21:41.700 it was extra awesome. I'm going to say some words to the locals people privately. The rest of you,

01:21:47.780 thanks for joining. And I'll see you on Rumble and X and YouTube tomorrow, same time, same place.

01:21:54.020 Locals, I'm coming at you privately. 1.00

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 27, 2025

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