A genetic startup company has managed to clone some dire wolves, and now you can get your own dire wolf. Meanwhile, on the X platform, Elon Musk is allegedly clamping down on parody accounts. And China might be ahead of us in the gene editing game.
00:08:07.060Now, if they were the only one doing that, you'd say to yourself, huh, maybe something should be done about this one college that's doing it.
00:08:17.060But I feel like it might be almost all of them.
00:08:21.760I feel like 8 out of 10 are just going to hide it and keep doing it.
00:10:20.760And apparently this clean coal is overrated, meaning that they can't really get it that clean without excessive expense.
00:10:28.940So the big point of having a coal plant would be that, you know, it's inexpensive and you can get it up and running pretty quickly in this case.
00:10:41.540But, no, the clean coal is still plenty dangerous.
00:11:29.300But one thing I do like is that Trump makes tough choices.
00:11:32.320So it would be so easy for him to, like, kick the can down the road and just say, well, if I approve this plant, everybody will be mad at me, and they won't see the long-term benefits.
00:11:46.480But Trump just says, long-term benefits, done.
00:12:05.100I think that's like $150 billion more than normal.
00:12:09.360Now, here's the other thing I worried about.
00:12:13.140I was worried that Doge would be working hard to reduce expenses, and that the government, in this case, would be Trump,
00:12:24.000would say, oh, all those expenses you reduced, I'm going to use that for extra expenses.
00:12:30.580And it looks like maybe some of that's happening.
00:12:33.820So what does Elon Musk think about the fact that the defense budget is going up, at the same time, he's literally risking his life to decrease expenses?
00:12:46.100I would love to know what that conversation sounds like behind closed doors.
00:12:50.540Because I can't believe that the military doesn't have $150 billion that they could have reduced from the budget to give them room for the extra stuff they do want to do.
00:13:02.720I just have a, I mean, how many tanks do we need, for example?
00:13:07.220So the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Trump being able to use that Alien Enemies Act to get rid of the gang members.
00:13:29.020So remember, Trump tried to use this very old act, the Alien Enemies Act, and he said that the Tren de Ligua, the Venezuelan gangs, whatever they are, that they were terrorists, domestic enemies, and so he could use that act to deport them.
00:13:49.120And then Judge Biasberg, I changed his name.
00:13:55.980It's actually Boesberg, but I'm going to call him Biasberg for all the obvious reasons.
00:14:01.760So Judge Biasberg, he would be a D.C. judge, ruled that even though the people were held in Texas and deported from Texas, he ruled that he as a D.C. judge could block it.
00:14:16.000But then the Supreme Court overruled Biasberg and said, this is not your domain, this is a Texas question, so they would need a Texas judge to even determine if they could do it or not.
00:14:32.280So the fake news is that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump.
00:14:37.960What did happen is that something that wasn't bad for Trump happened, but it wasn't ruling in favor of him.
00:14:45.560It was simply saying that the process that got us to that point was not an appropriate process.
00:14:51.940Now, this seems like a big step forward because it means the Supreme Court is saying the D.C. judge has to stay in his lane.
00:15:01.000Now, I don't know how extendable that is or whether that will be more generalized to the rest of the country, but that problem of being able to shop for a judge and then getting one that will stop something anywhere in the country, no matter where the judge is, that's got to stop.
00:15:20.200So maybe this is the first indication that the Supreme Court is going to be serious about that.
00:15:26.260Now, what was the story I heard about Biasberg?
00:15:31.320He was on vacation and he ended up volunteering for or he got assigned this case.
00:15:39.480But is this the same case or was it a second case?
00:15:42.980But there's a story where he wasn't the emergency judge.
00:15:46.220And I guess the emergency judges are just picked sort of automatically.
00:15:51.080Whoever is the whoever is the emergency judge at the time just gets the case.
00:15:56.780But somehow Judge Biasberg figured out how to get the case to himself, which is not the normal process.
00:16:04.860So he got the case and not the normal process.
00:16:10.120And then he made a judgment that the Supreme Court said wasn't even good judging.
00:16:24.860Well, according to the New York Post, Apple is trying to figure out how to make the iPhone affordable with all these tariffs.
00:16:34.960So one of the things they do, plans to do is, is to assemble more of them in India.
00:16:40.380But the parts are still made in China.
00:16:42.440So, so, so the parts, even if they're assembled in India, now, apparently that would allow them to say it's made in India.
00:16:51.920And then there wouldn't be a, there wouldn't be a tariff or, or it would be whatever tariffs are appropriate to India, not, not the ones on China.
00:17:00.820And that's weird because all the parts are made in China.
00:17:05.820So, but that wouldn't take care of all the problems.
00:17:42.320I think I've seen some smart people say, well, you know, we're not going to have, we're not going to have people, you know, with little screwdrivers putting tiny screws into phones.
00:18:21.320So the skill they need is to be able to create these advanced tools that make stuff like phones.
00:18:27.680And so the real thing that China has an advantage in is that they've trained just a huge, vast number of people to be able to build a factory, build a special tool that will help manufacture in that factory, and then make it all work together.
00:18:44.920It's a very special specialty, and we don't really have much of any of that in the United States.
00:18:53.220So I'd love to see something from the Trump administration that addressed that directly, as in, if you want to go to college to be one of these manufacturing tool making experts, we'll pay for it.
00:19:09.500Just imagine that if you want to go to college for that very special specialty, which the United States desperately needs to bring manufacturing back to this country and implement robots and all that, that the government will just pay for the whole thing.
00:19:26.840Because I can't think of anything that would be a more direct, smart investment.
00:19:33.500Because if we don't have that kind of expertise to build manufacturing, we don't have anything.
00:19:41.500We're not going to bring any manufacturing back to this country unless we hire the Chinese to build it for us.
00:19:48.040So that would be one case where I'd just say, all right, federal government's just going to pay your entire cost to college.
00:19:59.940That would give some action, wouldn't it?
00:20:01.700Seems like that would be a fun job, by the way, designing tools for factories.
00:20:08.740Well, here's something that sounds sketchy, but maybe it isn't.
00:20:11.800According to user Publius, I saw this on X, the Department of Justice filed a sealed motion in that case about that Ryan Ruth.
00:20:22.020He was the attempted assassin at the Trump International Golf Club.
00:20:26.540But what's weird about it is that it's a sealed motion that's marked ex parte in camera and under seal.
00:20:37.140So it's so secret that even Ruth's lawyer can't see all of it.
00:20:42.780So you might say to yourself, what's up with that, that it has to be so secret that even the defendant's lawyers can't know what's happening?
00:20:52.140And the answer, according to the smartest person I know, is that it might involve Trump's security.
00:20:59.980So there might be some things that can't become public because it would give away, you know, the Secret Service method or something about Trump.
00:21:11.920So it doesn't mean that the secret they're covering up is about Ruth, the attempted assassin.
00:21:17.120It could be just something generically government important, but we'll see.
00:21:47.120All right, let's check in with the Democrats who have been trying desperately to come up with a coherent message and an attack against the Republicans.
00:22:39.380Back in Hillary's campaign, when I said, no, whoever came up with that, labeling everything that Trump does as dark, is some kind of persuasion expert.
00:22:51.080Now, I don't know if the chaos came from a persuasion expert.
00:22:57.180But chaos is the last thing that seniors want to hear.
00:23:01.140Seniors do not want to hear there's chaos.
00:23:03.120Young people, not so concerned, which might explain why there's so many old people at the protests, because they don't like chaos, even though they're creating it.
00:23:15.640Whereas young Americans are moving toward Trump, because chaos would not scare a young person.
00:23:21.980But it would definitely scare somebody nearing retirement, because the last thing they need is some chaos.
00:23:26.500All right, so he starts with chaos, which is probably a professional word.
00:24:31.120It could be that if you just adjust your spending to buy more American products, your costs go down.
00:24:37.740If you said, well, I won't buy this foreign car.
00:24:41.220I'll buy a Ford, and then you look at if Ford is offering these employee-level discounts to people, which sounds like a pretty good deal, your costs will go down.
00:24:54.780That's why he's calling your tax hike.
00:26:42.500But since that's been one of the main attack lines, and it seems to work, Schumer's looking for something that's not exactly that, but you could kind of hear it that way.
00:26:55.920So instead of saying that he's going to cut your benefits, which would be debunked, he says that Doge is sabotaging them.
00:27:07.160Now, he's probably making an argument that if you change the systems, the systems might have some hiccups during the changeover.
00:27:16.340But anybody with an ounce of common sense would know that eventually every kind of computer system for every kind of everything has to be upgraded.
00:27:25.900And it's been probably decades overdue for some of these systems.
00:27:30.940So this is a clever little lie that Doge is sabotaging those things.
00:27:39.400Now, do you think that Doge is intentionally sabotaging them?
00:27:42.940Because sabotage is something you do intentionally.
00:27:45.860He's not saying that Doge is wrecking them, because that would suggest it would maybe happen accidentally.
00:27:53.280He's saying that they're sabotaging them.
00:27:56.580Now, here's the other thing that the Democrats do.
00:27:59.180And I'm not going to say that Republicans don't do it, but for some reason, I notice it more when Democrats do it.
00:28:06.560They do this weird mind-reading thing where they'll just look at somebody who's a Republican,
00:28:12.440and the Republican will just be doing normal things like, in this case, trying to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of three vital systems.
00:28:23.240And instead of saying, well, we observe that they say, and they're acting on preserving these systems and making them stronger.
00:28:32.920So instead of that, which would be observable, they come up with their secret thoughts are that they really want to sabotage it for what?
00:28:49.160And what would be, like, how can they imagine that would work out for them?
00:28:52.720Who believes that if you sabotage these vital systems, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, who thinks that would be a good idea?
00:29:02.700Do you think there's even one person at Doge who thinks, you know what?
00:29:07.200I think I'll just sabotage these things.
00:29:09.440It's batshit crazy, but it's something that Democrats are always poised to believe, because they somehow believe that their leaders can read the minds of Republicans.
00:29:22.660And what they see when they pretend to read the minds, it's just crazy stuff.
00:29:27.240Stuff that literally nobody would be thinking, ever, like even once.
00:29:31.360And still the Democrats will be like, uh-huh, uh-huh, I think you have accurately read that mind, and now I see it too.
00:29:41.100And then Schumer says, the market is having its worst three days since COVID.
00:29:47.060Well, maybe not, because do any of you remember my prediction about where the market was heading?
00:29:56.540Now, I'm no market expert, but from the point of view of persuasion, I think I told you on the podcast that I was guessing that around a 20% pullback is where people would say,
00:30:13.360huh, that feels like enough, and there wouldn't be any logic to it.
00:30:18.120It would just be that 20% feels like the right number.
00:30:23.200And sometimes there's no explaining it.
00:30:26.440It's just when I thought about it myself, and I just was sitting in a room by myself, I thought, you know what?
00:30:32.500I wouldn't be surprised if the market goes down 20%, but I would be surprised if it went down 50%.
00:30:39.320So there's just something about some numbers that are sticky.
00:30:44.620And 20% when it comes to the stock market, because it's often, it's a number that people refer to a lot, you know, that's 20% is a recession, 20% is something.
00:31:00.040So I thought, human brains have a snap-to-grid quality, that as soon as our mind gets close to something that it's used to, it snaps to it.
00:31:14.560So if 20% is something that people often think about when they think about markets pulling back, that when it got close to 20%, if there wasn't something beyond the uncertainty, and I'll talk about that next, that you would just snap the grid.
00:31:31.040And you'd say, 20%, huh, that's far enough.
00:32:52.640Tesla is introducing cabin radar for some of their models, the Cybertruck and the Model Ys.
00:33:00.460So the cabin radar will be able to tell who's in what seat, not the personality, but it'll know if a child or an adult is in what seat.
00:33:10.620And then it will be able to detect health problems and do dynamic airbag deployment based on the size of the passenger and maybe the age.
00:33:21.860There will be an assumed age, I think, with the size, and a number of benefits, such as you would know if somebody left a child in a hot car, for example.
00:33:36.160So this would be another case where Elon Musk and his company are trying hard to protect the health and well-being of American citizens.
00:33:46.360So what do you think would be the outcome of Elon Musk spending his full time trying to save humanity by making us interplanetary, trying to bring communications to everywhere on the planet through Skylink, trying to cure people with blindness and serious disabilities through Neuralink,
00:34:12.000and then making Tesla, which, if you believe in climate change, would be a huge step forward.
00:34:19.080And even if you didn't, there are excellent cars, which will be safer than other cars because the self-driving will be way safer than human driving.
00:34:30.600And then he's going even further with his cabin radar to make it safer in a whole new way than other cars I've even thought of.
00:34:40.240So, and then he's also working on Doge to save America because the biggest existential threat to America is the debt, and only he would be brave enough to take that on.
00:34:52.840So how do you think he would be rewarded for this nonstop, high-energy, continuous, pro-human, pro-American, pro-survival point of view?
00:35:05.920Well, you would not be surprised, according to the New York Post, there's a Democrat murder culture.
00:35:13.900So they did a survey and asked who's up for murder, if the people are Trump or Musk, and 38% of respondents said it would be at least, quote, somewhat justified to murder Trump, and 31% said the same about Musk.
00:35:31.560Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, and if you're looking at only the left-leaning respondents, the number thinking that murder might be justified of Trump is 55%, and Musk is 48%.
00:35:46.560So I would argue that Musk is the one American who, by far, by far, is doing the most for the economic and future of humanity and America in particular.
00:36:23.840I mean, it's been happening since the January 6th trials, that as soon as they started getting away with Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, and I blame the media, by the way.
00:36:32.760Imagine you're a host on CNN, and you let one of your hosts say that Trump or Musk or Hitler.
00:37:17.780Now, I blame the media 100% and MSNBC most of all.
00:37:23.120Because if you demonize people as their intention is to steal your money so billionaires can get tax breaks, which is absurd, and everybody is Hitler, what the hell do you think is going to happen?
00:37:38.500Eventually, it's going to look like murder is a good idea.
00:37:43.940Now, there is some thinking, and the article pointed out, that the whole murder of the healthcare executive by that Luigi guy, where it turned into, surprisingly, a lot of young people especially, thought that murdering a CEO of a healthcare company was completely justified.
00:38:08.120But I thought somehow it was maybe a special case where there was something about healthcare in particular that people were always mad about.
00:38:16.020You know, they weren't getting the healthcare they needed or something.
00:38:18.240But apparently, it's an extendable thing.
00:38:22.740And when you look at, like, Norm Eisen trying to put Trump in jail to keep him from running, to put him in jail so that he wouldn't run for office, there's a level of violence and implied violence from the left that I've never seen in my life.
00:38:42.660And it's not even safe to walk outside with a, you know, a Trump sporting hat.
00:38:49.280You would literally be physically attacked.
00:38:52.920And I think it's now gone beyond just the crazies.
00:38:57.340I think we've reached the point where the normal Democrats are like, well, you know, I'm usually opposed to murder.
00:39:04.300But if you've got a good argument, like somebody's creating chaos, and they intend to steal your Social Security money and use it for tax breaks for oligarchs, well, yeah.
00:39:16.440I mean, in that case, I guess a little bit of murder would make some sense.
00:40:11.460If you're wondering how powerful brainwashing is, half of the country, well, half of one side, half of one side has been convinced that murder is acceptable in a political context.
00:40:33.740I mean, the whole trans situation should have been a tip-off that persuasion can get people to almost any opinion.
00:40:41.080But this one really seals it, I think.
00:40:44.280Anyway, I saw a post on X by a small electronics business owner in America who is explaining why it's so hard to sell into the European Union.
00:40:59.080And this is stuff I didn't know before.
00:41:00.800You know how Trump has said that tariffs alone are not the problem because other countries put up all kinds of other barriers?
00:41:10.760And you've heard about, I guess, American agricultural products such as meat.
00:41:16.460So the problem is that we can't sell our beef, I think it is, to Europe because it's got some chemicals that they don't allow in Europe.
00:41:27.220Now, some people say, but, Scott, they're just being wise and healthy, and that's why European food is better than ours, because they don't allow all these chemicals in.
00:41:38.080But then you go to the next level, and somebody says, well, it's because they don't allow chemicals that haven't been tested.
00:41:45.260But I guess in America, you can shoot your beef full of chemicals that haven't been tested, as long as there's no indication it would be a problem.
00:42:32.860Did you know that it's much cheaper to ship goods into the United States than it is to ship them from the United States into the European Union?
00:42:43.380And you might say to me, that doesn't make sense.
00:42:46.540It's the same shipping companies with the same goods.
00:42:49.500Why would it be twice as much to ship into the European Union?
00:42:53.500But apparently they've got landing fees, which we don't have, and green taxes, which we don't have.
00:43:05.360And somehow the price of aircraft fuel is imposed on shipping carriers, I think maybe even if they don't use aircraft.
00:43:14.140So in Europe, they just come up with a bunch of reasons why your shipping costs will be twice as much as the shipping costs in the other direction.
00:43:24.400So those are the things you have to watch out for.
00:43:27.640And those are the things that are perfectly, those are the things you want to negotiate.
00:43:34.260So when you talk about tariffs, remember, you're talking about all these weird little things like green taxes and landing fees and duties and prohibitions against chemicals.
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00:45:20.220Well, here's a communication problem that I think the Trump team needs to solve.
00:45:28.440I saw Bray Hume and some other people saying the following, that they're having trouble understanding what's the point of the tariffs, because there's more than one thing they could be doing.
00:45:41.740One thing it is, it could be raising revenue.
00:45:45.160So, Trump always says, I'm going to raise revenue with all these tariffs.
00:45:50.800But at the same time, they're saying they want to negotiate the tariffs away.
00:45:56.360So, how do you use the tariffs to raise money at the same time you're negotiating for no tariffs?
00:46:05.760Now, when Trump was asked about this in his meeting with, I think he was in the White House with Netanyahu and somebody asked him that question, he said it could be both, which does make sense.
00:46:19.480But I don't know if he's, but I don't know if he can get the dollar amounts from his tariff revenue.
00:46:26.120But it could be both in the sense that if you look at every country individually, there may be some countries that are not going to change their landing fees or duties or green penalties or whatever.
00:46:39.980And if they don't, the easiest thing for America to do would be to put a tariff on them so that the cost of their stuff and the cost of our stuff is the same.
00:46:51.180So, we don't have to necessarily negotiate away all the little things that keep us out of their market.
00:46:56.940We could just say, oh, you're going to put six little things on us.
00:47:02.300So, it does make sense that you would get rid of tariffs everywhere that you're doing it fairly, where there's nothing that's like a fake tariff, you know, like the landing fees and the other stuff.
00:47:14.560So, as long as the country you're dealing with is an ally who wants to treat you right and be treated right, then getting rid of tariffs makes sense.
00:47:25.280But there'll probably be, you know, a fair number of companies or countries, and maybe China will be one, in which there's just no other way to do it.
00:47:35.380You're just going to have to keep the tariff there because they're not going to change their internal rules to, let's say, accept American beef or, you know, lower their transportation costs or any of that stuff.
00:47:47.220So, I do accept that it could do both.
00:47:51.120But it's a good question, you know, is he communicating that right?
00:47:58.260And then there's this third thing that Trump says it's about closing the trade deficit.
00:48:05.740Now, I saw that Israel, through Netanyahu, said that they plan to close the trade deficit and to do it very quickly.
00:48:13.620Now, the only way you could do that is that they could sell fewer things to the United States or they could buy more things.
00:48:20.740Now, I'm guessing that they couldn't have a gigantic trade deficit because we manufacture a lot.
00:48:29.320I think they buy a lot of our weapons, et cetera.
00:48:31.200So, it seems like they probably didn't have far to go and it was just sort of smart for them to, you know, to play nice with the United States because there might be some military action coming up that they need to coordinate with, if you know what I mean.
00:48:47.720Anyway, so that's what I understand about the tariffs.
00:48:50.240There's at least three things he's trying to do, tariff revenue, negotiate tariffs away, or to close the trade deficit, and that might require some tariffs.
00:49:00.380According to Scott Bessent, there are now 70 countries or so that have asked to negotiate, and that might be why the market is tightening up and responding because it feels like there's a little bit more certainty going on.
00:49:21.680But let's run through a couple of the other countries.
00:49:23.960Let's see, there's some news that Vietnam, their currency, which is called the dong, D-O-N-G, according to Zero Edge, the Vietnamese dong is weakened.
00:49:40.880I'll tell you, I'm a professional humorist, so I feel like I shouldn't touch this one.
00:49:56.740So, Vietnam, you're going to have to do something about that.
00:50:00.300The European Union says they're ready to negotiate for a zero tariff deal, so no tariffs either way.
00:50:10.380Now, again, that's probably a trick because they do more than tariffs to keep our products out.
00:50:18.300So, we would have to negotiate the end of tariffs, but probably the end of other stuff as well.
00:50:22.820And now, Mike Benz, I saw him commenting on X, that if they throw in getting rid of the European Union Digital Censorship Act, which threatens to close down X for not censoring the way they want him to censor, there's no deal.
00:50:42.980I just don't think we should be doing trade deals with any entity that's trying to censor free speech in America.
00:50:51.480You know, I've even gone stronger in saying we should reconsider being in NATO if they're attacking our free speech.
00:51:00.740Because that's the, you know, the foundation of all of our freedoms.
00:51:07.320If the people that we're protecting militarily are actively attacking the most basic foundation of our freedom, we should not be protecting them militarily at all.
00:51:20.140But, you know, there are also practical reasons why we might want to do that.
00:51:56.800I wonder if we're going to find out that the country is most dependent on the United States for military assistance are also the ones who are fastest to say they'll negotiate for no tariffs.
00:52:10.300But again, no tariffs doesn't mean you have a deal.
00:52:14.280Well, it's more like the beginning of negotiation because there's probably a lot of other considerations here.
00:52:22.140But I do like the fact that Taiwan is going to invest big in the United States.