Episode 2808 CWSA 04⧸13⧸25
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In this episode, Scott Adams talks about the latest in the opioid addiction crisis, and how the government is using the opioid epidemic as a political ploy to get rid of black and brown people in order to get their political enemies to stop voting for Democratic candidates.
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So, I have to confess, I was having a little muscle pain, so I took a prescription muscle
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relaxant, and I'm not really good at following directions, so I didn't realize how loopy
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it would make me. So, at the moment, I'm just whacked out of my mind. I can just barely
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stay awake, and the good news is I don't have any pain. I'm not in pain at all, but oh my
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God, is my brain not functioning. But welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams. I can't even remember
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how I opened the show. I literally forgot the thing that I've done over 2,000 times
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You know, the responsible thing to do would have been to not do a podcast because I'm really
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not capable. Like, I'm not joking. I am absolutely not capable of doing this. But we'll see what
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happens. If you want to see a train wreck, came to the right place. I often tell you it's
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a superpower to not be embarrassed about things. No embarrassment at all. I'm just degraded
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by 80 percent. So I have no idea what's going to happen. Well, what else can coffee do for
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you? According to Norridge, coffee can help protect your liver. That's why I soak my liver
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in coffee every day, and you should too. So is there anything that coffee can't do? No.
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No. No. We can do it all. Here's some news that I can't get enough of from the legal newsline.
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Apparently, the state of Illinois is suspending their DEI scholarships because the Department
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of Justice went after them for being a bunch of racists. I can't get enough of this. Every
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time DEI is banned because the government says it's racist, I just feel like I'm redeemed.
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You know, it feels like 35 years of my life. I've finally been validated. So yes, no DEI scholarships
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at several universities in Illinois. So good for the Department of Justice. Well, it turns
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out that threats work. Something I didn't know until recently, apparently the U.S. and Mexico
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have had this very long-term water agreement where we give them water from one of our sources,
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but they give us water from one of their sources. And it's all from the farmers, I think mostly
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from the farmers. And Mexico is going to reduce the amount of water, and Trump threatened them
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with tariffs. And suddenly they released the water. So how many times has Trump threatened somebody
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and it worked? You know, you don't want to think that threats work, but apparently they
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do. Yeah. Trump's threats work pretty well. So Mexico, we got our water. Thank you.
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So here's something radical and dangerous. There are now several states that are getting together
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to put together what they call a criminal referral for a number of the characters that you remember
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from the pandemic, Fauci, Birx, Walensky, and a bunch of others. And what do you think they're
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being referred for? Now, referred just means somebody's recommending that the Department of Justice
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Justice do something. Or in this case, I guess the states. I think it wasn't a Fauci who has a
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pardon for any federal crimes. So you have to go after them in the states if you want to get any
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traction. So the Viris Law Group and then former Feds Group Freedom Foundation, they've submitted their,
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I guess their evidence and their plan for these guys. But listen to the crimes that they're accusing
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Fauci and Birx of. Murder. So they're accusing of a murder. Negligent homicide. Involuntary manslaughter.
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Medical coercion and abuse. Kidnapping. Human trafficking for forced labor. Racketeering. Operating a corrupt
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organization. And terrorism. I feel like they had a good idea, which is to use the states to go after
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some people who maybe have some things to explain. But once you add, you know, terrorism and kidnapping,
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I feel like you lose a little bit of credibility. You know, murder was bad enough. But, you know,
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you can see where murder would come from. But terrorism? How do you get terrorism out of that?
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All right. RFK Jr. is saying that the deep state is real. And he called his FDA employees. So these
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are employees under him. He called the FDA employees sock puppets of the industry, according to Politico.
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Can you imagine if your boss called you a sock puppet of the industry? The entire point of the FDA is to
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regulate, you know, the pharmaceutical industry. But of course, they get owned because the pharmaceutical
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industry has so much money. And they can do things like saying, you know, you know, you're the kind of
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person that we would hire for an outrageously high salary once you're done with the FDA. But, you know,
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that would sort of depend how you do when you're at the FDA. Because, you know, if you were to rule
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against us, I just wouldn't be able to recommend you for a job here after your FDA stand. So it's
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real easy to capture somebody who's working there. But just imagine your boss calling you out as a
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puppet. Your entire job is to protect the public. But he's calling you out as somebody who is not
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protecting the public and is only protecting the bad guys. That's pretty extreme. So we'll see if RFK Jr. can
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survive any of this. But so far, he's going hard at it. I think he's hitting the deep state and the bureaucracy
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all at the same time. So we'll see. How many of you saw that photo of Governor Gretchen Whitmer?
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So apparently she was invited to the White House because there was some executive order that Trump
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did that even though she's a Democrat, it was good for Michigan. So she was happy that Trump was doing
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something. And when he invited her to the White House, she said, oh, OK. So she goes to the White
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House and then she gets herded into a room with a bunch of other people for what was going to be a
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photo shoot. And she's a Democrat and she wants to run for, I'm guessing, wants to run for president.
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And suddenly she would be photographed with all these Republicans and sort of celebrating Republican
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victories. So how do you think she handled it? What was her professional way of handling the fact
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that she got tricked into a photo shoot but was expecting just to meet the president one-on-one?
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She holds a binder. She holds a binder over her face so that the photographs just show the bottom of her.
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her. So instead of being invisible, she does the opposite. It becomes the biggest story because
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it's so weird. So now there's not a single person in the country who doesn't know that she was in the
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She choked. I don't know what I would have done in that situation. I mean, maybe I would have asked
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to leave or something. But it's hard to leave if the president's invited you in the room. You can't
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really walk out. It'd be an insult. So I guess she figured the best thing she could do is cover her
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face with a binder. Anyway, according to the publication of The Independent, female frogs fake death to avoid
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unwanted advances from males. Now, they weren't specific, but I believe they mean male frogs, not just
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you know, every kind of male. But it sounds like, it sounds a lot like a wife, you know, faking death,
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except when humans do it, they fake a headache. But frogs are more committed. You know, they're more like
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the Democrats of amphibians. So they're more like, they're more into the drama of it. It's like, instead
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of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world, because the boy frog is just
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going to go at it anyway, they have to fake dead. Like, oh. And it makes me wonder, how often does the
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boy frog actually care if they're dead? Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just
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going to go nuts on that female frog, even if she's pretending to be dead. And then once you realize that's their
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trick, and you're the boy frog, and you're like, I've seen this before, you're pretending to be dead.
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All right, I'll just Cosby you. So that's what's happening in the frog world.
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Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow news weekend. Bernie Sanders went to Coachella and gave a
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rousing speech that nobody cares about. But Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big
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event. And, you know, it's great. Now, compare these two approaches. If you were to just stop
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somebody in the street anywhere in America and say, do you know what Coachella is? How many would know
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what it is? I'm not even sure I know what it is. I've been looking at it for years. I always see
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pictures, and people say they're going, and I read accounts of what happened there, and I still don't
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know what it is. Apparently, it's this really big, dusty, inconvenient thing that you go to so that when
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you come back, you have stories of how horrible it was. It was all dusty, and the bathrooms didn't work,
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and then we got stuck, and we couldn't get out. It's music? Somebody says it's music? All right.
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So I don't think Bernie got a home run on that, but Trump, as usual, because he goes to the UFC and
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acts very manly, it's just a perfect fit. So Trump for the win. I guess Meta, the Facebook company,
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is going to go to court on charges being a monopoly, I guess. So they're being brought up on antitrust
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charges, and one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp
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because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have. I don't really understand that.
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So Facebook had a service that showed pictures, and you could share them with your friends,
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and then they bought Instagram when it was still worth only $1 billion, and they built it into
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Behemoth. So why did they have to divest? Is it just because they were too successful? I mean,
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it's not like TikTok doesn't exist. It's not like X doesn't exist. I feel like it just doesn't feel like
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they necessarily should be broken up. So I'm not pro-oligarch. Sorry, Bernie Sanders.
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I'm not all about the oligarchs, but I don't know. Is there any compelling reason why WhatsApp
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can't be part of Meta? That doesn't even make sense to me. Well, speaking of Facebook, they're
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trying to make their AI, Llama 4, more balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it
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more at least conscious of what the right-leaning part of the country thinks and wants. So apparently
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they're quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty, sort of turned it into a
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Democrat. And to Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat. So they're putting effort
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into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grok. So that's cool.
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I saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X talking about Trump's new play. So apparently he went ahead
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and has executed. We've heard of this before, but there's a 60-foot-wide strip of land that runs
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across our southern border. And apparently that's now been designated to be military property.
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And so our military can operate on that 60-foot-wide space, which means that if you come across the
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border illegally, you're going to be on a military base. And then the rules of how the military
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treats things are in effect. So that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military
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anyway, and how to handle it. And there'd be no sanctuary there. So when I see that, I think to
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myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas?
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It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea. But this whole 60-foot strip,
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that just feels like a good idea. So I'm kind of impressed by it.
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You know, Jasmine Crockett, everybody's been watching the Democrats' rising star, Jasmine Crockett.
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She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity.
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No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity. Well, we all saw what happened when Bill Maher
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met Trump in person. His biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy, but he plays a crazy person on
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TV, which he does. So here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far. So the Democrats were not
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able to judge that Biden had a severe mental disability. None of them saw it. They were not
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able to judge that Kamala Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem.
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None of them saw it. Still don't. And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer
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that Bill Morrow tried to straighten him out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice
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guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV.
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So Democrats are 0 for 3, aren't they? I don't like to brag, but I'm 3 for 3. I was calling Biden
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mentally incompetent in 2019, Jack. I've been calling Kamala a public drinker, meaning that she
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appears in public after drinking for years, Jack, of course I'm right about that. And I knew that Trump
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was not crazy. Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015.
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I would be the one who would say, I know it looks crazy. I know what you're saying. I know it looks
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crazy. But if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique. It's what I call the show.
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So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, the private Trump, and the show. And when he's in
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public, he puts on the show. And the show is wild. I mean, I was saying it yesterday when he talked
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about his medical examination. And he said that his soul was healthy, like they check your soul.
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It's something that nobody would say. And I don't think he would say that privately,
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because it's just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding. But boy, does he know how to put on
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the show. He doesn't know how to be boring. You know, just talking about normal things when he's in
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his showman persona, you know, the public persona, he could just make anything sound more interesting
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than it should have been. I got a checkup and my soul is really good. I'll be laughing about that
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for years. Anyway. So the worry from Jasmine Crockett that Trump's mental acuity needs to be tested,
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I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems.
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imaginary concerns. You probably heard that Trump created some tariff exemptions. So if you're
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trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff,
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there will be no extra tariffs on those. So that's good. Every time Trump makes an adjustment,
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the market should get a little bit happier. So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to
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see. So yeah, good job. Did you know that the what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane
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amount of energy that can be tapped. And now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production. So
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale. So you'll get the bid on
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that. You know, I do wonder what is the modern risk of drilling offshore. Because, you know, we had that big spill
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some years ago. But I wonder if they figured out how to avoid that now. I mean, I don't know how you
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could. But it makes me wonder. Time has gone by. So I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment that it used
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to be. So that's good. So now, now Trump has opened up on war. And he's opening up the Gulf of America.
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He's also negotiating with Iran. And if that went well, we'll talk about that. It would release Iran's oil.
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And he's negotiating with Russia. And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil.
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So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency is looking really strong.
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So if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, everything else is going to cost less.
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So I really like the direction of that. Now, apparently his tariffs, I don't know if it's because
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of the tariffs, but probably. A big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion
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into the U.S. So it's not an American company. But because of tariffs, they're going to bring $23
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billion investment here. I think Trump's doing a really good job in at least promoting, you know,
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all these big deals that are coming through. $23 billion is some serious money. I mean,
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it's going to be over time, but still a lot of money.
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for details. Please play responsibly. Let's talk about Doge. So I was confused by Doge,
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and maybe you had the same thing, which is Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to take
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a trillion dollars a year off the budget. And then we'd have some chance of surviving so long as Trump
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did more than a trillion dollars worth of extra growth, which would cause, you know, extra tax
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revenue. So that was a plan for survival, if he could get a trillion. But according to the Daily
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Color News Foundation, Musk has slashed his Doge saving forecast by 85%, and instead of a trillion,
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it looks like he's targeting 150 billion. 150 billion is not close to a trillion. A trillion is what we
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needed to survive. Did this really happen where Doge went in and they had all kinds of, let's say they
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thought they were going to make all kinds of cuts, and then the bureaucracy came online and the cabinet
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heads and the department head said, oh, no, not so fast. Oh, no, we can't cut that. Can't cut that.
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So I get that it's 150 billion so far, but I think that's also the final number.
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So here's the weird thing. I asked Grok how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because
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of all the Tesla stuff, and apparently it's the same number. So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down
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150 billion while Doge saved 150 billion. Now, one of them is once and the other is every year, but
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he could have just written a check. It saved a lot of money. It saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.
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But we're currently, this is my take, we're currently on a doom loop. Is anybody going to admit it?
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Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan? Our current plan is not
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survivable. Let me say that again. Our current explicit plan, our budget, is not survivable.
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It's not just suboptimal. It's not survivable. And I was counting on Doge to get that trillion dollars.
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I thought it was a stretch. I didn't think it would happen. But I was like, well, Elon can do things
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that other people can't do. Now, I get that it's $150 billion a year, but we were looking to save
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a trillion dollars a year. Both of them were for a year. So I don't know, maybe I'm misunderstanding
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something, but it looks like Doge didn't work. Am I wrong? It looks like it didn't work. Because
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working is not just that you saved $150 billion, although that's great. Working is saving the
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entire country. So that was the whole point of it. So I guess I'm confused by that. Maybe there's
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something I'm missing here. Thomas Massey, of course, he's the debt hawk. He's pointing out that
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the current budget is going to be $2.5 trillion deficit every year for as far as you can see.
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We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit for as far as we can see. We're talking about being completely
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out of business in a few years. I don't know what's going on. Because I was pretty sure that
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this is an unsustainable level of spending. And apparently, we're just going to do it.
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We're just going to do an unsustainable thing. What am I missing? Did we really decide that death
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was better than life? Because life would require us doing a bunch of things that the bureaucracy
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doesn't like? I don't know. Well, former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, told Congress that 99% of all
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electricity will be used to power AI. Do you believe that? This is according to Joe Wilkins
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and Futurism. Do you believe that 99% of all electricity will be used to power super intelligent
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AI? What would the rest of us do? Why would you even need super intelligence if it was going to use
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all of your electricity? Like, you wouldn't be able to iron a shirt. But at least you'd have AI.
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I know. I think he's probably just making a point with hyperbole.
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The point being, we need a lot more energy. According to the Washington Times, drug traffickers
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made $1.4 billion from fentanyl trade in 2024. I don't know how they measure that. How in the world
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could you know that number? Anyway. And as you know, China is the main supplier of precursor
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chemicals. But I guess India is coming up fast too as a supplier of these precursors.
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So that's not good. If it's that profitable, nothing's going to stop it. People will do anything
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for $1.4 billion. You might know or maybe you didn't know that the Hollywood writers were
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on strike. How many of you even knew that the Hollywood writers were on strike? I didn't
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even know. But apparently during the strike, the losses of jobs were tremendous. 42% of the
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writing jobs went away between 2023 and 2024. 42% went away. Wow. So I always thought the
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shows had too many writers anyway. Some of my favorite shows had one writer. Do you remember
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the West Wing and the guy who wrote it? Most of those were written by the same guy. Do you
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remember Babylon 5? Most if not all of them were written by one guy. So it seems to me we have
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too many writers. That's what I think. Anyway, there's some negotiations going on between Iran
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and the United States over in Oman. They were there yesterday. And both Iran and the U.S.
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team said that it was a positive and constructive talks. Now, what does that mean? So the one and only
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thing we're really asking of Iran is you can't have a nuke. So what does a meeting sound like?
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All right. The one and only thing we want is you can't have a nuke. Oh, we're definitely going to have
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a nuke. And then what do you talk about? What could you possibly talk about when the one thing
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that you want is the one thing they're never going to give you? Is there nuance there? Is there anything
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else on the table that they need to talk about? Because if they get the no nukes part, probably
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everything else is easy, relatively easy. So I don't think anything happened. I think they went in and
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said, we'd really like to talk you out of having a nuke. And then Iran said, we'd really like to keep
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our nukes because we don't trust you. We're going to need one. I can't possibly imagine that that's
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working out. Meanwhile, also the Ukraine-Russia's negotiations. I don't think anything's happening.
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You know, Trump tried to put a positive spin on it. He goes, I think Ukraine-Russia might be going okay.
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You're going to be finding out pretty soon. I don't think it's going okay. I would place a very large
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bet that literally nothing happened. Because neither side wants peace. Trump wants peace.
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But Ukraine wants to fight. And Russia wants to keep fighting. So I don't see how you solve that.
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So I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal. I don't think there's going to be a
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Ukraine-Russian deal. I think they're just going to keep grinding at each other until something changes.
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All right. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're joining me late, I was confessing early on
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that I unwisely took a muscle relaxant before the show, not realizing the cognitive load that
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would put on me. So my brain, not working at all. Not working at all. And the news is kind of boring,
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so I didn't want to, you know, make it last too long. But I did want to spend some time with you.
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So glad you showed up. This is the conclusion of my short show today. And I'm going to talk to the
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locals people privately, the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for joining.