Episode 2826 CWSA 05⧸01⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams: The Pointy-haired boss, Elon Musk's denial about Tesla, and why identity politics is the worst thing that could ever happen to our country. Plus, why it's never been easier to be in the top 10% of attractive people.
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Well, let's check in with science. See what science can tell us. According to the Pennington Biomedical
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Research Center, the average rate of obesity among Americans has risen by approximately 30% over 20
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years. Now, how many of you have not noticed? Have you noticed that the rate of obesity is
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sort of through the roof? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that it's never
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been easier to be in the top 10% of attractive people. You know, it used to be when I was a kid,
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if you were born attractive, well, you had all the advantages. But given that, you know, in theory,
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everybody can lose weight and everybody can, you know, fix their teeth if they have enough money and
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everybody can get a good haircut and maybe do something about your skin and wear better clothes.
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It has never been easier to be in the top 10%. And if you're in the top 10% of attractive people,
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things will probably go pretty well for you. So it's good news and bad news.
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Well, apparently the Wall Street Journal had a big old fake news story. They were saying that
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Tesla was looking for a new CEO to replace Musk, but they failed to run Tesla's denial. So
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I guess they asked Tesla and Tesla said, absolutely not. That is not happening. Nobody's looking for a
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new CEO. We already have a CEO. It's Musk. And they didn't run the denial.
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It's one thing to be wrong, but being wrong when the only really reliable source of information
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tells you that you're absolutely 100% wrong, that's pretty bad. And Elon Musk wasn't too happy about
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that. I guess you wouldn't be too happy either if the news ran such a fake report about you.
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Here's some news about Tim Walsh, who I call the pointy-haired boss. You know, if I ever do a
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Dilbert movie and I'm looking for live actors to play the Dilbert characters, the pointy-haired boss
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would have to be Tim Walsh. Just imagine him and then imagine the pointy-haired boss.
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It's the same guy, isn't it? There's no difference. He's just the pointy-haired boss.
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So his latest Tim Walsh-ism is explaining to an audience why he was selected as the VP candidate.
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And he said, quote, I could code talk to the white guys watching football, fixing their truck.
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I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this.
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That is the least male thing anybody ever said.
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I could code talk to white guys. Even the way he says it, he doesn't even say it like he is one of
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the guys. He says it like he's a robot who would learn the lingo of men. It's like, oh, I can code
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talk just like a guy. I'm not a guy. I'm not a real man. But I can talk like one. So I was a good choice.
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And I was the permission structure to say, the permission structure, who talks like that?
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But the funny thing about that is that even today, they still think that identity politics is the way
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to go. Because even though he was trying to act like a white guy, because they thought they needed
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to get more support from white guys, that's still just identity politics. It's just a weird one.
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So they just can't get out of that little trap they've set for themselves that everything is
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identity politics. Anyway, they'll never escape that. According to Mark Zuckerberg,
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Meta is going to try to make you an AI friend. So I guess if you have Meta, you'll be able to use
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their AI to create some friends. So finally, finally, my audience could have some friends.
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It's not just me. That's putting a lot of burden on me. I am your invisible friend who's not that
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invisible. But Zuckerberg said that the average American has three friends, but has a demand for
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15. Does that sound right? How many of you have three friends who are local? Because if your friends are not
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local, they're still friends, but it kind of doesn't count if you can't see them in person. How many of you
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have three? Three is a lot for a man. How many men need 15 friends? That's a lot. Maybe that's what
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women need. Women might need 15. All right. A lot of you have three friends. Good. Good. But it looks like
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you'll get some extra ones. Yesterday, I talked about a video I saw from Anduril. That's the new
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defense contractor that does the newest high-tech defense stuff. And they have a man portable,
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they call it, meaning one person could carry it, device called a drone, well, it's a drone killer,
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called the Pulsar L. And they showed a video where one of the people demonstrating the Pulsar L
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was aiming it at a big swarm of drones coming over the hill, and it knocked down all the drones.
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And apparently, I was one of many people who said, that can't be real. Like, it just looks too good.
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It must be CGI. And Palmer Luckey had to tell the public, no, we have a rule against using CGI if
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it's anything that can be seen. So they would use CGI to, you know, maybe show an electric pulse or
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something, which they didn't do. But they would never use CGI to show something in the physical world
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that wasn't real. So it was real. So it worked so well, apparently, that it looked fake.
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Now, if one soldier can carry this gun-shaped object that can take out an entire swarm of
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drones coming over the hill, how many of those would you have to give to Ukraine
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before the Russian military was completely neutered? Because it's a drone war at this point, right?
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It's sort of turned into trench warfare, but the humans are not leaving the trenches, just the drones.
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So, in theory, you could calculate how many of them would completely neuter the Russian drone
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attacks, at least the local ones that were on the front line. So, I don't know, maybe there's
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At the same time, speaking of drones, according to Defense Scoop, the cartels on our southern border,
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the Mexican cartels, are using their own drones to surveil our military that's on the border now.
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And our military is looking for counter-drone capabilities. Now, wouldn't that be the Anduril
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device? I don't know how many options they have, but it does seem like if they can see the drones,
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and they know where the drones are coming from, and they know their cartel drones, don't they just
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have to aim that Anduril device at it and knock it down? It feels like we have the technology to do that.
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Well, Kamala Harris gave her first big speech since she's been, you know, out of the public eye for a
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little while. And I get to say she looked drunk to me. How many of you saw the clips? And how many of
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you thought she looked drunk or acted drunk? She looked pretty drunk. When I see her, I don't even
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think Kamala anymore. I think drunk-a-la. So, of course, she said that there's chaos and blah, blah, blah.
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I thought Carolyn Levitt said that the Republicans are really happy if she does more speaking.
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She is so bad. So bad. She's the only politician at that level that can't give a decent speech.
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Oh, my God. And I assume some of that is because of alcohol, but it is unconfirmed.
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Well, allegedly, according to CNN, President Bukele of El Salvador has rejected the Trump
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administration's request to return that Marilyn dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Does that sound true to you?
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Do you think that the Trump administration asked for him to be returned and Bukele said no?
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Because there was, I saw separately, there was a report that Bukele wasn't comfortable
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putting people who had not been convicted of a crime in his jails. So he was sort of just doing it
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because Trump wanted it. But do you think that this is organic? Or do you think that the Trump
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administration said, hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we pretend that we asked for it?
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We'll pretend that we tried really hard if you just say no, and then everybody wins? Because
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the court, apparently the core order is just that the Trump administration attempts to facilitate
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the return. It doesn't say they have to get him returned if it's impossible. So it kind of looks
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like the fix might be in a little bit. It's like, hey, we're going to ask you publicly to return
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this guy. Just say no. Just say no. So we'll see what this does to the news coverage. Because,
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you know, I don't believe anything in the news. I feel like nearly 100% of the news is not exactly
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what you think. You know, there's always something a little bit missing or there's a hidden story or
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there's a B story that we don't know about. Anyway, apparently NVIDIA announced $500 billion of
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investments it's going to do in the United States to make its NVIDIA technology. I assume that's so for
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10 years or something, I assume. But he's very gung-ho on President Trump and the United States and he
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should be. That's Jensen Wang, the CEO of NVIDIA. So he announced that with Trump. And I believe that
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Trump is saying that there's $8 trillion of money that's moved into the U.S. Now, again, that would
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be over 10 years. So, you know, it's still a lot. But $8 trillion? Do you believe that? I think there's
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something like $5 trillion that's somewhat known and confirmed. But, you know, you have to add the
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Trump or hyperbole to it. $5 trillion becomes $8 trillion. So we'll see how that goes. Well, remember
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I told you yesterday that I doubted that there would really be a Ukraine mineral deal with the
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United States? Because it just seemed to me like we weren't really getting there. Well, was I wrong?
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Because there's an announcement that there is a signed mineral deal with Ukraine and the United
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States. So I guess there is a mineral deal. Oh, wait, did I say there's a mineral deal? Well,
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Well, if you look under the hood a little bit, it's more of a deal to maybe make a deal.
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Was that what you thought you were going to get? Because I was sort of thinking of it as,
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all right, we're going to, you know, have this specific deal and we're going to mine this specific
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stuff. And, you know, this is what we'll do. This is what you'll do. Well, it's not that.
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It's not that. It's more like the agreement grants the U.S., quote, privileged access to investment
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projects for various things like aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas reserves. Includes
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oil. Interesting. What do you think that means? Privileged access. Privileged access. It's kind
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of not defined, is it? Suppose privilege access is just who they ask first. What if Ukraine has
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some minerals that they want to exploit, whether it's oil or anything else, and they say, okay,
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everybody, U.S. has privilege access. So what do you guys offer us? And the U.S. says, well,
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thanks for asking us first, because we have this privileged access. So we will offer you,
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you know, 50% of all the revenue. And then some other country says, we'll offer you 75%.
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Do they still have to do the deal with the United States? Or do you think the agreement would say
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that the U.S. has to match the best deal? What if we don't? What if we don't match the best offer?
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We'd still have privilege access, because if we did match it, we'd get the deal.
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But do you think they're leaving the door open for maybe they're not doing quite the deal you think
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it is? So I'm going to say that it looks like a step in the right direction. So directionally,
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it looks pretty good. And it might send the right message in terms of getting a peace deal.
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So it's probably good. But I'll bet you the details of this deal are not exactly what you
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thought they were. I think it's probably a weaker deal than you imagined would come out of it.
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Anyway, China, according to the Wall Street Journal, China is still trying to tell us that
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they can more easily withstand the tariff trade war. And they can tolerate the pain longer than the
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U.S. But, according to the Wall Street Journal, there are cracks that are beginning to show in the
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Chinese economy. There's plunging trade, and there are factories that are being idled, and there are
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people being laid off in China. And if there's one thing I've learned about assessing China's economy,
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we're never right about it. How long has it been? It's been, like, what, eight years since I've been
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telling you stories about China's economy falling off the cliff, and that basically they can't last
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another year because there are all these, there's a real estate collapse, and they've got a demographic
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collapse, and they've got this and that kind of a problem and that problem. I don't know that any of
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it's real. I don't think we have any real visibility on what's happening in China. So I do not believe
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that we really have any visibility in that at all. We'd just be guessing. So I'm not going to
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predict that China will fold, but I think they want to deal as much as we do. So probably something
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will happen. My guess is that China will be a lot of nothing happening, nothing happening, nothing
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happening, and then something happening quickly. So I don't think it'll be like others. Now, I did see some
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suggestion that we might be seeing some kind of a trade deal announced, not with China, but with some
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other country. Have we heard anything about that this morning? Because it might happen today. Now, if I had to
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guess, since trade deals really take a long time to get the details right, whatever gets announced
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will be sort of like that Ukraine mineral deal. It'll be more like a deal to make a deal. It'll be
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more like something along the lines of South Korea and the US have agreed on an outline of what a trade
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deal would look like. But it would be six months away from actually having it signed. The handshake
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might be enough to drop all the trade barriers. So maybe a handshake is all you need while they work
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out the details. But I would expect maybe South Korea and or possibly Japan will go first. That's what I
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think. And then I think it might be a while before the second one. But when you get to something like
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the fifth announced trade deal, I think Trump's poll numbers are going to look really different
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because then it's going to look like things are working. First one or two, three, maybe people are
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going to say they're exceptions. But if Trump gets five, even though they're maybe 200 that you need
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to get, if he gets five, let's say in a two week period, it's going to look like everything's going
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in the right direction. And that would be a good time to own stock, I would think.
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Well, I don't know if you're following the story of the DNC, the Democrat leadership,
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where David Hogg is getting a lot of heat because he wants to primary some Democrats.
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But even his co-leader in the DNC says, you can't do that if you're the DNC. If you're the DNC,
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you've got to be in favor of Democrats. He can't be primarying any of them. So he's been getting
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some heat from that, but he's getting some extra heat, according to the publication Semaphore,
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because there's some concern that he's a white guy. Now, I remember when he got elected,
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and I realized that there were two white guys in charge of the DNC, the most identity-obsessed
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group in the entire world. Really, the head of the top identity, basically-obsessed group.
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And I thought, how in the world do you get two white guys as the leadership of the identity group?
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And it turns out that was a problem, because there's now a complaint being filed by
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Kaylin Free, a Native American attorney. And she says the DNC's credentials committee
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is going to meet to talk about whether David Hogg was justly elected,
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elected, or there was something wrong with their process, because it didn't give them enough
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diversity. So the complaint, the complaint is they didn't get diversity in their leadership.
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Now, the most predictable thing in the world is that the Democrats will eat themselves from the
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inside, because once you commit to the identity frame, you really can't get away from it,
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because everybody's got an intersectionality or, you know, well, you might be white, but we need you
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to be a little bit gay or trans or something. So it's like this never-ending source of conflict
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within the organization. They're pretty much doomed. Well, RFK Jr. is making some news. I think he's
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made several pieces of news. One is, this is just a wild way to say it. So this is his actual quote.
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He said, we have ended HHS as the role of the principal vector in this country for child trafficking.
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What? Health and Human Services? The organization he's running? He's saying was the principal vector
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for child trafficking in the United States? That is the most damning thing I've ever heard anybody say
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about anything. What? What? Now, I don't exactly know what that means, but it has to do with the fact
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that the Biden administration somehow managed to lose 300,000 children that came in over the border.
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And I think Health and Human Services must have been part of that. And the assumption is that some
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large number of them, or percentage of them, were trafficked for sex and slavery. And RFK Jr. says,
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we've ended that, and we're very aggressively going out and trying to find those lost children, the ones lost
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by the Biden administration. Now, that is one hell of a charge. If there were no other news,
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I'm seeing somebody in the comments say that I'm moving the goalpost, but you don't mention what the
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topic is or what goalpost I moved. You must want to meet one of those Nazi Democrats. Have you noticed
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the Democrats have a full Nazi strategy? Just make up a big lie, and then get everybody to repeat it.
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Here's something else RFK Jr. announced separately, that the new vaccines will have to be tested
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with a placebo-controlled trial. Now, if you're like me, it wasn't that long ago where you said to
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yourself, how can this be news? Because obviously, obviously all vaccines have been tested in a
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placebo-controlled trial. Duh, it wouldn't be very valid if you didn't do a placebo-controlled trial,
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and then you unleashed it on the entire public. That couldn't possibly be happening, right?
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Apparently, that was happening. The vaccines were not historically tested in a placebo-controlled trial,
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but that's going to change. So, I don't know how much that will change things in terms of how long it
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takes. I'm looking at the criticism that's coming in from the dumb people. So, somebody is criticizing me
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for not being an expert in deals. Well, surprise, I'm actually an expert in deals. I used to be a
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contract negotiator for a living. And then when I became a cartoonist, I was deeply involved in
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contract negotiations my entire career, because there were always licensing and publishing deals,
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etc. So, I actually am an expert in deal-making. And I'm also an expert in persuasion, which is
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part of negotiation. So, sorry, I'm kind of an expert in this domain. I hate to disappoint you.
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You're going to have to come up with some new Nazi strategy. That one did work.
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There are lots of things I talk about in which I am not an expert, such as, you know, anti-drone
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technology. But, no, deal-making, that happens to be one of my domains.
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RFK Jr. also made some news, according to the National Pulse. He claims that DARPA
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might be mixing some kind of chemtrail agents into commercial jet fuel. What?
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How could you make that kind of accusation in public without somehow being able to check it if
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you're part of the government? If you thought that the fuel of commercial jets was intentionally
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tampered with to do geoengineering so that the jet exhaust was doing more than just being jet exhaust
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and was changing the environment somehow, and you thought that it was DARPA that was behind it,
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is there not kind of a simple way to confirm that? Can't you say to President Trump,
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can you talk to DARPA and just ask them, because you can declassify anything, just ask them if
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they're doping the jet fuel? I feel like this one's a little premature. Doesn't mean he's wrong.
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I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying, I feel like that one should have been confirmed before it
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became a public accusation. So maybe he's getting a little ahead of himself, unless he's really
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confident that DARPA is doing that. And I'm not saying they're not. I'm not saying they're not doing
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it. But we need to know more about that. Well, as Breitbart and others are reporting, the GDP for America
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was weak in the first quarter. Of course, I think Trump is blaming Biden. And there was a bunch of
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distortions because people ordering things ahead of the potential tariff stuff. So we don't know if that
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GDP number is telling us anything really important. But maybe it is. Maybe it is.
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So how many of you would be surprised if the country goes into a mild recession before it improves?
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Isn't that kind of baked into the process? I'd be surprised if it didn't happen. So I'd expect a
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little bit of a recession at the least. I mean, anything could be worse and anything could be better.
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But I think it was Jamie Dimon who said this, that the best case scenario is a mild recession.
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I think he's probably right. That's probably the best case scenario. But it is a best case scenario.
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Because if we have a mild recession followed by a rapid return, and maybe to a higher point,
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you know, once the trade deals are getting signed, I'd be happy with that.
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According to Frank Luntz, famous pollster, he talked to a bunch of people who voted for Trump,
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and he wondered if they were still backing Trump, given that they were feeling some economic pain,
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and probably we're going to feel some more. And he said that it's unprecedented that Trump voters still
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stand behind Trump, despite the economic pain. Luntz said on CNBC, I've never seen this before,
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because usually, when you're hurt economically, that changes your perspective and your politics.
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Not with these people. They're staying firm. Now, the way he says it makes it sound like the people
00:33:22.340
are stupid. Is that how you hear it? You know, like they don't know what's in their own best interest
00:33:29.580
or something? I don't think he understands Republicans. The defining characteristic of a Republican
00:33:38.000
is that they're long-term thinkers, and they're willing to take some short-term pain to get there.
00:33:45.320
It's probably the most defining characteristic. So here the president has given Republicans the
00:33:53.100
following proposition. There's going to be some short-term disruption, and it's the only way to get
00:33:59.760
to this way better situation. And then Republicans listened to him and said, all right, so we're going to
00:34:07.680
have to suck it up for a while. Yes. And then they say, got it. So we'll suck it up for a while.
00:34:17.400
It's the most defining characteristic, probably more than just about anything. I mean, everything from
00:34:25.280
religion to starting a family to, you know, staying out of trouble and almost everything Republicans do
00:34:34.480
are very obviously and clearly oriented toward the long-term. And when you look at systems over goals,
00:34:43.340
and when you look at Democrats, it seems completely oriented toward some kind of short-term
00:34:50.260
dopamine hit. Like even the story I was telling earlier about the DNC head,
00:34:57.420
how is that any kind of long-term anything? If they're fighting about whether the head of the
00:35:05.380
DNC is diversified enough, there's no long-term anything with that. It's just short-term dopamine
00:35:13.460
pleasure. Oh, we got rid of the white guy. Oh, it is the single thing that defines, I think,
00:35:24.200
Republicans from Democrats. It's the ability to, you know, take some pain to get to a better place.
00:35:30.860
That's it. So I would not have been surprised, Frank Luntz.
00:35:37.800
According to the new Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, he says, quote,
00:35:45.100
we all recognize climate change as an existential threat, which makes me wonder, who is he talking to?
00:35:54.200
I mean, he wasn't addressing America, but is that true? Is it true that everyone in Canada
00:36:01.340
thinks that climate change is an existential threat? Everybody?
00:36:08.000
I mean, even if it is, it's hard to get everybody on the same side about anything.
00:36:16.900
But then he says he's going to punish companies that don't work to end climate change.
00:36:22.680
All right. So which side of the border would you like to be on if you're a company?
00:36:27.840
Would you like to be on the Canada side of the border, where you're going to get punished
00:36:35.820
if you don't do enough to change climate change? Or would you like to be on the American side of
00:36:41.160
the border, where people are just going to be operating in whatever way, you know, doesn't
00:36:47.040
violate any laws, but, you know, is making the most money? And in theory, if the Canadians are right
00:36:55.720
about CO2 and climate change, it doesn't matter what the fuck they do, because the United States
00:37:02.720
isn't doing it. As long as they're our closest neighbor, and we're ignoring all of that bullshit,
00:37:10.420
it doesn't matter what they do. It's sort of like what we say about India and China,
00:37:17.020
that the atmosphere doesn't know where a border is. So if India, China, and the United States
00:37:24.480
are ignoring the climate change risk, do you think it makes any difference to anything
00:37:29.880
if Canada goes balls to the wall and starts punishing companies? They start punishing their
00:37:37.440
own companies for not doing enough to end climate change? It would be so different if the other big
00:37:48.600
countries were on the same page. And then I could say, well, okay, at least everybody's on the same page.
00:37:55.840
But if the biggest companies or biggest countries are not even doing anything about it,
00:38:02.020
it's just the biggest waste of time I've ever seen. Anyway, good luck, Canada.
00:38:11.240
So at the, Trump had another cabinet meeting that he opened up to the cameras, which was kind of
00:38:18.460
awesome. And Marco Rubio said that the State Department that he runs now, the old State Department
00:38:27.020
had a dossier on a current Trump official that he wouldn't name as a purveyor of disinformation.
00:38:36.260
And he said, we had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.
00:38:41.760
And he was referring to the Global Engagement Center, which I think has been closed down now.
00:38:48.120
But in the process of looking into all that stuff, they found a dossier of somebody who I think is a
00:38:54.960
cabinet head, who the Biden administration has identified as a source of disinformation.
00:39:02.680
So I see some guesses that it's Kennedy. Could have been Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard.
00:39:12.080
But Kennedy is a pretty good, that's a pretty good guess.
00:39:17.780
But he's not going to tell us who it is. So, but just imagine that. I mean, just imagine that
00:39:26.160
Biden literally had a well-funded, gigantic agency as part of a network of other censors,
00:39:33.620
both domestic and international, whose job it was to remove your free speech.
00:39:40.460
If you said anything that wasn't part of the mainstream of opinion.
00:39:47.700
Like, there are things that you and I have lived through that the next generation is just going to
00:39:54.620
shake their head and say, oh, my God, I'm so glad I wasn't alive then.
00:39:59.720
When they thought they had a little bit of free speech, but really they didn't,
00:40:03.640
because they were being punished and surveilled and blocked and throttled down if they said the wrong thing.
00:40:17.700
Let's look at the Democrats' attack on Trump and the Trump administration, see how they're doing.
00:40:24.100
Now, as you know, they've taken a, what I'll call the Hitler-Nazi approach to politics.
00:40:32.240
So the Democrats are doing the classic Nazi thing, where you just make up this gigantic lie,
00:40:39.780
and then you get the media to report it endlessly until at least their people believe it.
00:40:46.600
So let's check in on some of the insane lies that are being told as part of their Nazi strategy.
00:40:55.640
So Kamala Harris called Trump's tariffs reckless and his agenda self-serving.
00:41:02.800
You know, in other words, that the point of it was to go get some tax breaks for billionaires.
00:41:09.500
Do you think that the big, beautiful bill that Trump is talking about that's being, you know, now modified by the House,
00:41:19.320
do you think that that's going to have a tax break for billionaires?
00:41:25.140
How many think that that's actually going to happen?
00:41:27.360
Because the Democrats have a little bit of a trap going on that they've set for themselves.
00:41:33.260
Because they've got James Carville saying that Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people.
00:41:40.860
Do you think Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people?
00:41:44.400
Now there is, I looked into it, there is a, some kind of a request that $880 billion is removed from the Medicaid budget.
00:42:02.700
And first of all, that number would be over 10 years.
00:42:05.280
So it would be something like 10%, somewhere in that neighborhood, 10% of the budget.
00:42:12.120
Do you think there's a way to cut the Medicaid budget by 10%?
00:42:19.220
It turns out that health care has a much smaller margin than maybe you knew or I knew.
00:42:27.300
A lot of the, a lot of the big money for health care comes from hospital stuff.
00:42:35.960
And apparently hospitals have a really thin margin.
00:42:41.900
Now, if your margins are only 2% to 4% on the part of health care that's the most expensive part,
00:42:49.580
do you think you could cut 10% of it on any given year?
00:42:56.280
It's basically already operating at, you know, just barely break even.
00:43:04.240
And of course, Trump has said he's, he's not going to touch social security and he's not
00:43:09.140
going to touch health care for ordinary people.
00:43:18.180
So if you see Jamie Raskin or Swalwell, uh, and Carville, Carville's sort of joining too.
00:43:26.980
They're, they're all part of the Nazi strategy of telling the big lie and then just repeating
00:43:36.240
So Swalwell saying all we wanted was cheap eggs, but not deporting kids with cancer.
00:43:41.300
Now, is the kids with cancer being deported a true story?
00:43:46.760
Well, it's technically true, but we're not really deporting them.
00:43:51.120
The mother wanted to take them with her, uh, cause she was deported.
00:43:56.480
So no, it's not exactly true the way they're telling it.
00:44:04.860
Um, Steve Bannon believes that Trump will raise taxes on the highest earners.
00:44:18.440
I feel like Trump, in order to get all the other stuff he wants and to just shut people
00:44:25.000
up, he might need to raise taxes on the highest earners.
00:44:29.580
Now, I don't know what that would be if that's people make over 5 million a year or over 1
00:44:34.780
million a year, but wouldn't that just totally shut up the Democrats if the Republican bill
00:44:41.980
just unambiguously raises taxes for the richest people?
00:44:48.260
Or do you think that they would just act like it didn't happen and just keep saying that he
00:44:52.560
doesn't mean it and he's going to really lower taxes on the rich people?
00:44:59.080
When Kamala Harris says it's self-serving, she kind of means that he's lowering his own
00:45:10.060
And I feel, I feel as if Bannon is well enough connected and he has a good enough track record
00:45:16.340
of predicting, that if he says that Trump's going to raise taxes on the highest earners,
00:45:26.420
Now, maybe the Republican, you know, the Republican Congress can't do it.
00:45:33.220
But I do think maybe there's a good, at least a 50% chance that that's what it's going to
00:45:41.520
look like because it would completely destroy the entire Democrat approach.
00:45:47.040
Everything they're doing is depending on telling people that Trump's really doing it for his
00:45:52.840
own financial benefit and those of his friends.
00:45:55.920
So, I'm going to stop the comments from the bad people here.
00:46:23.920
He said, there's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:46:27.040
There are a lot of illegal aliens who are getting Medicaid.
00:46:31.680
But we are doing absolutely nothing to hurt Medicaid or Social Security.
00:46:42.080
Do you really think that he would say that that directly?
00:46:46.540
And then he would sign something that actually did hurt Medicaid or Social Security?
00:46:55.640
So, I'm not too worried that the Democrats are going to be right.
00:47:01.260
And that's why I call it the Hitler strategy that they're using.
00:47:10.660
They only care that they can say it and that they're at least their own people.
00:47:22.440
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there'll be a $4.7 trillion global annual humanoid robot revenue with a billion units cumulatively deployed.
00:48:16.300
But do you think it'll be just humanoid robots all over the place and $4.7 trillion worth?
00:48:29.260
I think there's a non-zero chance, and maybe it'll be in this budget bill, maybe it'll be in the future,
00:48:42.720
And the reason is because we tax everything that you can tax.
00:48:48.580
If there's something that can be taxed, it'll get taxed.
00:48:52.440
Now, if robots are the thing that are going to put people out of jobs,
00:48:57.120
I think you have to tax them to help pay for the humans who got put out of jobs.
00:49:04.460
So, whether it's Trump who does it or some future Democrat administration,
00:49:12.140
I'm pretty sure that robots are really going to be taxed, more than just sales tax.
00:49:21.940
And if the robots are a big enough deal, it might actually make a difference to our GDP and our debt situation.
00:49:43.820
Well, Chuck Schumer clowned himself again in public.
00:49:47.140
So, he was doing a press conference to mock Trump's falling approval numbers.
00:49:55.980
And now, do you know why Trump's approval numbers are going down?
00:50:00.660
Is it because all of the people in the country did a deep dive and did their own research
00:50:06.740
to find out how the economy is doing and all the details of what Trump is doing to influence it?
00:50:13.840
Or do you think that they turned on TV and they listened to the talking heads that they always listen to
00:50:22.020
and the talking heads said, oh, the tariffs are causing chaos.
00:50:30.680
And do you think that the public's opinion as represented in polls
00:50:36.400
is nothing but how well the media is brainwashing people?
00:50:40.640
So, the thing that the Nazi strategy that Schumer is using and the Democrats are using
00:50:49.160
is that they first must convince you that public opinion polls
00:50:54.580
are driven by people's independent assessment of what's going on.
00:51:02.500
Individual voters are not making any independent assessments based on their research
00:51:23.640
And the Democrats have enough control over, you know, the biggest part of the media
00:51:27.720
that they can sell any chaos-related scalpel, not a chainsaw that they want.
00:51:36.460
So, they've been selling the chaos thing and Trump's in it for his own benefit, for the oligarchs.
00:51:43.440
And they found that some, you know, 5% or 10% of the public is influenced enough by that
00:51:53.900
And so, then Schumer goes out and he holds a press conference
00:51:56.940
to tell you that the public, the public is souring on Trump.
00:52:03.780
Nothing like that's happening in the real world.
00:52:06.240
What's happening is that the media has brainwashed 10% of the public-ish
00:52:13.400
to change their opinion about the optimism they might have had before.
00:52:20.240
But as Schumer is talking about how Trump's numbers are lower than, I don't know,
00:52:27.920
other presidents or something like that at this point, the 100 days, the random 100 days,
00:52:32.700
a reporter notes that Schumer's own, his own approval is at 17%.
00:52:48.620
The primary message is that Trump is doing poorly because the polls say so.
00:52:56.080
And then a reporter points out that Trump is doing way better than Schumer in polls.
00:53:03.520
And do you know what Schumer said when he was challenged by the fact that his own polls
00:53:07.560
are way lower than Trump's and the entire point of the public event is to say that Trump's poll numbers were low?
00:53:16.460
He said, well, you know, poll numbers come and go.
00:53:20.240
So, he spends the first part of his speech saying that the polls are telling the public something deeply important.
00:53:29.920
And then somebody says, your own poll numbers are worse than Trump.
00:53:33.040
And he immediately, with no hesitation, changes to polls are bullshit.
00:53:42.260
And then immediately switches back to those Trump polls look pretty bad, huh?
00:53:55.320
Like, he's one of their more talented politicians.
00:54:01.720
Anyway, at the cabinet meeting that I mentioned, apparently Transportation Secretary Duffy says that the government's not going to give
00:54:16.140
any infrastructure funding from the federal government to states if the states are giving a driver's license to non-citizens, illegal non-citizens.
00:54:34.260
It seems to me that that's a big enough threat that it might work.
00:54:39.880
And it makes me wonder why it took them so long to come up with that, because it sounds like a good idea for what they want to get done.
00:54:46.200
So, do you think any of the states will cave and say, all right, all right, we'll stop giving driver's license to illegal immigrants just to get our infrastructure money?
00:54:59.960
Because I think a lot of the infrastructure money gets stolen by leaders.
00:55:05.060
And if they don't have money coming in in these gigantic amounts so that the leaders can steal it, do the leaders really care that much about giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants?
00:55:19.780
Or do you think they really care about these big checks coming in that they can skim some off?
00:55:25.860
So, here's where corruption works in your favor.
00:55:32.060
But if you assume that the states are completely corrupt when it comes to infrastructure money coming in, which I do.
00:55:41.660
Then the corruption itself might cause them to say, well, I'd rather get that big taste of that money coming in for the infrastructure project.
00:55:54.180
So, maybe we'll soften on the whole giving driver's license to illegal immigrants.
00:56:02.440
I guess we're going to use the same standard for states that are using DEI, which is practically every blue state.
00:56:10.780
So, maybe the blue states are going to have some trouble getting their funding.
00:56:17.000
Well, allegedly, according to CNN, Kash Patel and the FBI are reassigning some agents who were kneeling during the BLM riots.
00:56:40.700
So, when the FBI was sort of cornered, they kind of de-escalated things by kneeling to show that they were in favor of the protesters and in favor of the Black Lives Matter.
00:56:57.900
And, allegedly, according to CNN, that's not good for your career anymore.
00:57:06.300
So, if there's a picture of you kneeling to the crowd, you got reassigned and not promoted.
00:57:14.620
So, I'm not 100% sure this story is real, but I wouldn't be surprised.
00:57:19.740
Meanwhile, James O'Keefe, famous for his OMG undercover videos, apparently, he's made some kind of an enemy.
00:57:36.800
So, I'm going to take him at his word that there's a real risk here.
00:57:40.340
Because, apparently, he said on video he's not suicidal and that in seven days he's going to disappear for a while for his own safety.
00:57:50.020
But, in seven days he will reappear and tell his story.
00:57:57.500
So, he was being a little bit dramatic for effect.
00:58:07.420
He might have a, he might be really seriously worried.
00:58:10.100
Now, he didn't name who it was that he's worried about.
00:58:15.460
But, he teased a bombshell, you know, that there's something about government corruption.
00:58:23.460
And, he's got a video of officials caught breaking the law.
00:58:28.360
So, and he thinks that he has, he has enough evidence that once it's released there will be indictments.
00:58:44.200
Well, you might know that there was yet another judge who yet again ruled against Trump.
00:58:50.740
saying that the Trump administration can't arrest any more illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest.
00:58:58.620
Now, that's sort of not the way the process works for people who are here illegally.
00:59:04.000
You don't really need a warrant for their arrest.
00:59:07.380
You can just determine that they're not here legally and ship them back.
00:59:11.620
But, this judge ruled that you do need a warrant.
00:59:14.560
And, then it took a few days, but that judge got loomered.
00:59:22.480
So, Laura Loomer did the classic thing where she checked on the spouse.
00:59:29.720
This works so often that I love there's a word for it, being loomered.
00:59:35.240
It means if you're a judge or some official and you do something that looks sketchy,
00:59:41.880
it means Laura Loomer is going to ask what your spouse does for a living.
00:59:46.360
And, you're going to find out there's something sketchy going on there with the couple.
00:59:52.540
Sure enough, the husband of that judge is a multifamily real estate broker in California.
01:00:07.900
And, he even makes Instagram videos about how Trump's mass deportation policies are bad
01:00:14.760
for multifamily real estate brokers and investors.
01:00:18.660
And, of course, the judge was appointed by Biden in 2021.
01:00:23.380
Now, it's almost so predictable that you don't even need Laura Loomer to do it anymore.
01:00:33.860
Like, okay, there's a judge that ruled against Trump.
01:00:38.340
I'm going to imagine that the judge has a spouse.
01:00:42.140
And, the spouse is either a gigantic donor to the DNC or somehow makes money with a charity
01:00:49.060
or a business that serves the illegal immigrant community.
01:01:02.520
So, as long as you can shop for a judge, you can find the judge who has just the right spouse.
01:01:09.920
Speaking of RFK Jr. making news, he also said, he was on a Dr. Phil show, and he said that sugar is poison.
01:01:25.820
Now, you know that I always say alcohol is poison.
01:01:30.480
But, when I started saying that, I didn't know that there was already a book that came out long ago
01:01:36.560
before I started saying alcohol is poison that said sugar is poison.
01:01:41.420
So, sugar is poison, you know, is sort of the OG, something is poison.
01:01:49.540
So, I think he probably was familiar with that book.
01:01:52.780
But, when you have the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services say sugar is like crack,
01:02:20.060
Now, he's not going to be right 100% of the time.
01:02:23.280
But, that's not really the standard I'm going to hold him to.
01:02:26.760
I'm going to hold him to the standard of, is he looking in every closet for things that might be hiding in closets?
01:02:36.980
He seems to be willing to open every closet door and see what the hell is in there.
01:02:41.280
So, as long as he's doing that, and he's being completely transparent about it, and he's sharing what he found,
01:02:51.360
So, asking him to be right about everything he's ever said in the past,
01:02:55.260
and right about everything he says in the future,
01:02:58.300
that's not really a standard you could hold anybody to.
01:03:01.100
But, boy, if you see somebody, you know, using a system and transparency and keeping you in the loop,
01:03:14.000
Apparently, the FBI is now searching for leaks among the members of the FBI
01:03:21.640
and using a polygraph test to look for the internal leakers.
01:03:33.200
It's a common thing in the government to use polygraphs to look for leakers.
01:03:37.780
But, I would feel like at least the FBI agents would know how to beat a polygraph.
01:03:44.280
But, probably just refusing to take it would be enough to get you fired.
01:03:49.700
And, since they don't know for sure if they can beat it,
01:03:54.700
you know, maybe it scares them into confessing or something.
01:04:10.420
What happens when the polygraph gets to the next level?
01:04:16.200
Don't you think that we already have the technology that we can put a little hat on people
01:04:27.500
without doing the bodily changes that the polygraph does?
01:04:32.480
Just directly looking at their brain and find out if they're lying?
01:04:43.820
Where your employer can know for sure if you're lying?
01:04:51.200
But, it would be a different world if somebody could know for sure,
01:05:03.540
Visa wants to give AI your credit card to buy groceries.
01:05:12.800
Now, I think what that means is that if you wanted to use AI as like an agent,
01:05:18.700
you know, like a little AI that's your assistant,
01:05:22.300
where you can tell it to go buy some tickets to the show,
01:05:28.500
it really can't do anything unless it can use your credit card.
01:05:39.020
It's just, at some point, your robot and your AI,
01:05:45.680
they kind of had to have access to some part of your finances,
01:05:53.140
So, this is probably something that's inevitable,
01:05:57.500
but it's kind of scary that the AI would have access to any of your funds.
01:06:05.940
I need one AI that's an agent that can go do things like buy things on my behalf.
01:06:12.260
But I need a second AI that watches the first AI,
01:06:23.420
With humans, it's not unusual to have a, you know, a double authorization situation,
01:06:30.300
where two humans have to, I think in banking you see this a lot.
01:06:34.800
If I recall when I was a banker, a teller, if we needed to open the big safe,
01:06:44.580
we didn't leave it open all day, but if we needed to open the big safe,
01:06:48.600
and anybody needed to go in, they could never do it alone.
01:06:53.080
There had to be two people, so that one person would watch the other one
01:07:01.160
because humans are not going to be able to watch AI too well.
01:07:05.040
You're going to need one AI just to watch your other AIs
01:07:14.420
Apparently, the scammers, according to Futurism,
01:07:20.560
scammers are using AI to disguise themselves as attractive people
01:07:28.980
And they're going after the boomers because the boomers are easy to fool.
01:07:35.540
that you could have your natural face doing something like a Zoom call.
01:07:43.460
And I assume that they can do it in real time, not just video,
01:07:47.260
but something like a Zoom call where you look exactly like somebody else,
01:08:12.040
If something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
01:08:22.180
because anytime there's anybody who alleges to be female
01:08:50.240
that the Hooties will be treated as an Iranian attack.
01:08:59.700
that the Hooties are not operating independently,
01:09:07.400
Now, I don't know if that's going to change anything
01:09:13.440
But it feels like it's firing a shot across the bow of Iran
01:09:31.820
Why would that not be part of the negotiations?
01:09:34.780
Like, why would you bother to get a nuclear deal
01:09:40.280
also deal with the, you know, the Hooties situation?
01:09:45.960
So maybe this is part of what Trump's getting ready to do.
01:09:59.640
because oil and gas prices are falling all over the world.
01:10:05.180
But I'm going to say the same thing I said about China.
01:10:15.160
I feel like we just sort of imagine that we know.
01:10:21.400
and maybe that will have something to do with them
01:10:28.600
So I'm going to discount that as being important.
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he's writing about an exclusive report in the UK Times
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So I guess they were depending on the United States