Episode 2861 CWSA 06⧸07⧸25
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I discuss the stock market, the United Airlines COO, and a recent research study that suggests vegetarians are more rebellious and power hungry than you think. I also talk about how to make money out of being a power hungry.
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stocks and stocks are up all right all right breezing into the weekend with stocks are up
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at the moment could change on a dime all right all it would take is one post from elon
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all right let's get our uh comments working and then oh that was delightful
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oh that's right it's saturday i just realized it's saturday so so it's uh yesterday's stocks are up
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all right so maybe i'm a little tired this morning forgot what day it is but
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i can't believe you let me get that far into looking at the stocks before telling me it's saturday
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you probably told me a hundred times i didn't see it
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all right well today given that it is in fact saturday uh owen gregorian will be hosting right
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after the show uh a spaces so you've got to be on x uh i think you have to be on x to use spaces it's
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audio only and you can find it by looking at my uh x feed or i've retweeted it or owen gregorian
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just look for him and you'll find it so that's right after the show so i i saw a quote um the wall
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street journal had some video of the united airlines ceo somebody named scott kirby an excellent first name
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um somebody asked him for the best career advice
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and his career advice was don't have a plan uh meaning don't have a goal and he said that in his
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career everything good was unexpected and he was ready for it but if you have goals it puts blinders on
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you so when he says he was ready for it i looked at his resume and it looks like he had made sure he
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knew a lot about airplanes so i think he'd been a mechanic and then he'd taken some other more advanced
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uh college courses uh college courses so yeah he was ready for it but he wasn't ready for everything
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he was probably ready for anything within anything within that domain
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uh i'm seeing a meme that putin has offered to negotiate a peace deal between trump and musk
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well we don't need that anyway so the only thing i would add to united airline ceo scott kirby's advice
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is that you make sure your talent stack is nice and solid so otherwise you will not be ready
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all right uh let's see is ready science that they could have uh saved some money on just by asking scott
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oh here's um according to um cme science there's a study that showed that vegetarians are more
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rebellious and power hungry than you think now how many of you would have known that that vegetarians
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are more rebellious and power hungry than you think i would have known that and the reason is that
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you're starting with a group of people who are willing to buck you know one of society's strongest
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cultural norms which is eating meat it is hard to be a vegetarian i'm a pescatarian at the moment
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but when i was a vegetarian it meant that if you got invited to somebody's house
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you had to tell them that you can't eat whatever it is they were planning on serving
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so if you just if you simply started with the people who were willing to buck you know one of the
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most inconvenient things you could ever buck because your friends want to go to this restaurant but there's
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nothing you can eat there you have to be a certain kind of person to be willing to take on the vegetarian
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lifestyle so if you would ask me are vegetarians more rebellious i would have said yeah obviously
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i mean you're starting with a rebellious group you you'd be surprised you know it's not like it's
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limited to that one thing i'm not sure i would have known the power hungry part but it applies to me
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i'm definitely power hungry but i see power as a tool like money if you have power and you have money
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then you can do good things and you can do good things for other people so yeah i'm very power hungry
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according to newsmax mcdonald's has decided it's gonna stick with dei
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but it's gonna change the words so now it's it's only called inclusion uh actually bloomberg was
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reporting that and uh they say they're not going to change anything in the way they operate
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it's also keeping its internal affinity groups where employees with similar backgrounds i guess
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demographics can share ideas um and i wonder how is that legal because they're saying it right out loud
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i mean they're they're not uh hiding it they're saying we're just changing the words but we're going to
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operate exactly the same well i will add one thing that i know from personal experience
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uh well semi-personal one uh one level away from personal is that if you were to apply for a job
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so i don't know how much work they have to put into being diverse because where i work
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or where i live if you were you know 16 or 20 and you wanted a job at mcdonald's if you applied it might
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take a few weeks but there's such a high turnover in fast food that you'd probably get the job and it
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wouldn't matter you know what color you were so this might be the one the one area where dei is not
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such a big deal it's it's neither it's not helping anybody a lot because everybody can get a job and i
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think they're very merit-based so uh mcdonald's is you know might be one of those rare exceptions where
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all they have to do is keep doing what they're doing it is one of the best places you could ever
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have your first first experience as a job well the wall street journal has a big article about
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the redesign of self-driving cars and the idea is that a self-driving vehicle
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in the very near future doesn't need a steering wheel or a dashboard so what if you just started
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from scratch and tried to make a self-driving environment that wasn't you know limited to
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what a car can do and the first thing you'll notice is that all of the interesting ideas
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would not be practical because it wouldn't be safe so it shows a picture of this amazing little
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van sized environment that you say to yourself oh man i wouldn't mind taking a trip if i could just
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hang around in that cool little well-lit room with good windows and seats that those seats look
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comfortable and then you realize they're walking around and you say to yourself oh well they're still
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going to have to wear seat belts it's not like you're going to be walking around in your car while
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it's driving so i suspect everything except having a big screen where you can all watch a the same show
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but by the way none of you want to watch the same show
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so unless you're in it alone the big screen isn't going to help you a bit um but i do think
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that the idea of just walking into your vehicle with a suitcase and saying all right vehicle
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uh i'd like to go visit the grand canyon so make sure you stop for meals and book me some hotels
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and the ai just does all that for you um that would be amazing so that could be your future
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any day happen any day now claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my
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match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her
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backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with the largest network of auto service
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centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental
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car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round but you got there on time
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intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply all right meanwhile the u.s economy
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has added 139 000 jobs in may beating they they beat expectations uh according to steve moran and uh
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that sounds good i i guess i don't have any comment about that except it looks like good news but do any of
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you have the reflex that i've developed which is it doesn't matter how good the economic news is
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it only matters how big our deficit is so when i hear jobs are good blah blah blah jobs are good
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all i really hear is you're driving toward the abyss you do not have a solution for debt it doesn't
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matter how many jobs there are they'll all be out of work soon so uh yeah i'm not really moved by good
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economic news but i suppose it's better than bad barely it's barely better than bad
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um so adam schiff decided to weigh in on this elon musk trump issue and especially about the big beautiful
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bill the spending bill that's not a spending bill according to steve miller and adam schiff said on
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x i can't believe i'm saying this but elon musk is right the big beautiful bill is filled with all
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sorts of hidden and dangerous far-right pork is it is the big beautiful bill full of far-right pork or is it just
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far-right things that the far-right likes like protecting the border and you know building up the
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defense industry i don't know so he's the biggest liar in the world so he can just put it out there and
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his democrat followers will say oh that thing must be full of hidden and dangerous far-right pork
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but we don't have any examples and elon musk saw that post from adam schiff and he said
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he responded to it saying hmm a few things could convince me to reconsider my position more than adam
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schiff agreeing with me and uh yeah yeah that was my first impression too it's like you don't want him on
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your side um so elon bust unfollowed cat turd well it's about time i unfollowed cats heard a long time
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ago blocked him all right um so here here's the uh here's a news item that you didn't need to do any
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research on it looks like ai came up with it so the financial times is reporting that allies of trump
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and musk are urging them to repair the relationship seeking to limit the political and commercial damage
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now what else are they going to do their allies is literally their friends
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did they have any allies who were recommending the opposite that maybe they fight a little harder
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what kind of a headline is that so that was on x and i'm thinking what was there any ally of either
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musk or trump who pulled them aside and said something like you know i think this situation really calls for
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more accusations i think you know things are going well but you should really ramp up the accusations
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you know the personal ones or professional ones the ones that could get somebody in jail
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i don't think so i've got a feeling that the allies are all yeah maybe you should take a day off and
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cool it a little bit on this well trump uh is playing it correctly i think
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and uh so yesterday trump wished elon well and he noted that uh he's been that trump has been
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so busy dealing with russia iran and china that he hadn't had any time to think about their spat
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now i don't know how true that is but it's a perfect uh perfect president answer oh i'm working
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on all these important things can't possibly get involved in that meanwhile do you remember the
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maryland dad so-called maryland dad who was accused of being a ms-13 guy and he got deported wrongly
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wrongly meaning that the uh court order did not support him being deported uh or the court did not
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um now do you remember what i've been saying since very near the beginning of that saga about the
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kilmar abrigo garcio guy i kept telling you that what's funny about it is that it started out being
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he's a maryland dad oh sure he's not here legally but you know that's millions of people are not here
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legally that's not the biggest problem i mean if he's built a life and you know a lot of people
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would be in favor of someday giving him citizenship you know not republicans of course but uh it started
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out with well he's you know a little bit bad and uh he may he may well be in ms-13 and then you say to
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yourself yeah but any specific crimes you know i don't know if anything specific and then you find out
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well he may have beat his wife with his fists twice but then she said something you know to mitigate
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that a little bit and then you say to yourself well i wonder if it's gonna get any worse and then we
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find out that he was pulled over for human trafficking meaning that he was transporting a
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car full of people probably from the border uh presumably illegals and presumably getting paid for it
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so now you've got uh illegal trafficking you've got you know beating your wife you've got maybe you're
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a member of ms-13 and now he's been uh for reasons i don't quite understand he's been brought back to the
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united states which is what all of his supporters wanted but he's being brought back because they're
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like horrible charges that he's he was part of a larger operating ring where he may have transported
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you know who knows how many people so it wasn't just that one carload of people it looks like he was
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pretty active in the human trafficking but now there are additional accusations that are not charges yet
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they're they're they're just claims so a co-conspirator has allegedly accused him of involvement in the
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now there's nothing funny about murdering a rival gang mother gang member's mother but it is worse
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it does show that trend of every time we hear from them things are worse so that's pretty bad but no
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charges have been filed on those claims which makes them i would say less credible but the fact that the
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claim even exists if the police picked you up what are the odds that one of your co-conspirators
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would say that you were involved in the murder of a rival gang member's mother and the answer is low
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low probably nobody would mention that at all but uh apparently this gentleman this maryland dad
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has a co-conspirator who is willing to accuse him of that uh so that's not ideal so i think the
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uh the trump administration although they made mistakes you know for the process i would agree with
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democrats who say you know independent of how bad this guy is there have to be some kind of process
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that makes sense for everybody and it looks like he got deported incorrectly uh there was the claim by
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the trump administration that once he got to el salvador hey what can we do you know it's out of our
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hands but apparently it didn't take much to get him back um all it took was all these uh indictments
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so you might have the worst uh lawyer in the world i heard uh alan dershowitz saying that if he had been
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the lawyer he would have said let me loose in some country where there's no risk but coming back to the
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united states that almost guarantees he'll be in jail for the rest of his life and now now if you ask
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yourself what parts will people remember now the democrats will try to remember
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that the republicans did not use the right process and it resulted in somebody temporarily temporarily
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being deported incorrectly and unlawfully and being in the wrong prison
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so that's what they'll remember republicans will remember that they got a alleged gang member possible
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possible uh uh assistant and a murderer uh wife meter you know off the streets and we'll put him in jail for
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many years so who won i mean obviously the maryland dad lost but who won the the trumpers won so hard
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because while i fully understand the argument on the other side it just shrinks to nothing doesn't it
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like are you gonna remember in 10 years that this guy had some you know some kind of process problem
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that temporarily put him in the wrong prison he's gonna be in prison no matter how you slice it it looks
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like i mean we he's uh innocent until proven guilty but i've got a feeling they've got some goods so to
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me it's kind of hilarious that uh the people trying to help him may have ended up putting him in prison
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forever and they're still going to say yeah but we were right about that process part this is the part that
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the democrats get wrong every time they don't quite understand that being technically right about
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something doesn't help them at all it doesn't help at all what what matters to politics and to the
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country is what uh trump understands perfectly which is how does it make you feel if you feel better
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because this individual is you know captive then republicans win uh if if you feel better because some
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process got followed with this one guy and by the way the mistake was only temporary
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because it's already been corrected well not much of a feeling associated with that so
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for details please play responsibly meanwhile in the uk where freedom of speech is an illusion
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um it is now i think i think i think it means it's illegal they have something called the prevent program
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in the uk government um that if you speak positively about something called cultural nationalism uh i think
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you can be put in jail and uh that would be believing that mass migration threatens western culture
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and it's being called a subcategory of terrorism
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is not allowed to say that if we increase our immigration it will change the culture of our country
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and maybe not in a way that we intended or wanted right to jail
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i think it's too dangerous um i've never i don't think i've ever said anything
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you know that would uh get me put in jail but i also don't know
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wouldn't that be weird imagine you just take a vacation and you're you're over there in london and
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you're just i think i'll send out a little post and you send out a little post and you don't realize
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that you just broke their speech laws the next next thing you know you're in jail in the uk just because
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you posted something that you could have posted anytime you wanted in the united states
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well there's a uh rare i think it's rare nine to nothing supreme court decision
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um i guess she claimed that she was denied a job or a promotion actually and it went to an lgbtq
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colleague instead and the court was trying to decide if somebody who's in a majority category
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because it was a straight white woman uh whether or not she could sue for discrimination
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using the same burden of proof as for those of a minority group
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well it turns out that from by a vote of nine to nothing the supreme court decided that straight
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white women are people too yeah they're also people so they get to play by the same rules as people
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yeah they're not special they're people and so they get to be treated the same good um then kathy griffin
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was on a don lemon podcast and she said quote i do not think trump won in a free and fair election
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i believe there was tampering i don't know if it was the elon connection my god is telling me that
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so now rosie o'donnell and uh kathy griffin have both come out
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saying the exact same thing that a lot of uh republicans were saying about the 2020 election
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election and uh they get to say it without any consequence well i recommend that they storm the
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capitol immediately and uh try to push the way in so i love the fact that it seems like everything is
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going the republicans way you know except the big beautiful bill that may be a little hiccup
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uh but every time i see a democrat doubting a election result i think to myself well if you
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believe that it's possible for trump or his uh allies to have rigged an election without getting caught by
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any court because no court has ruled anything of the type then what would make you think that it was
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impossible for that to have happened the other way in 2020 you know what would be the argument
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that only trump supporters could rig an election it's either rigable or it's not
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now i don't have any evidence that either of those elections were rigged
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but if you think that one of them can rig and the other cannot and the reason that you know that one
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cannot because the court cases didn't support it that's not much of an argument you've kind of lost that
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argument so thank you kathy griffin well if you didn't notice uh or watch cash patel ahead of the fbi
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was on joe rogan just recently and uh broke some news i guess you call it that one one of the pieces of
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news he broke is that um he'd been swatted so the head of the fbi got swatted now i assume that means
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that they actually showed up at the door it seems to be you know far far more likely they would have
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just said oh that's the fbi's director's house so it's obviously not real but maybe they have rules
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that say they they can't pretend anything's not real unless they know not pretend but they can't uh
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they can't act as though something's not real until they get there and they find out for sure
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so that's why the swatting works but if you can't get rid of the swatting when you're the director of
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the fbi um i don't think you and i are going to be able to stop it so that's pretty awful well as you know
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both dan boncino and cash patel have maintained that they've seen the obscene files and it was
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definitely a suicide um now my question would be this if the only thing you've seen are the files
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what would make you think the files are complete and real how would you know that
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well they would know better than i would you know whether a document's real i'm sure that
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you know it's all been looked at but don't you think if someone had the ability to kill epstein
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and make it look like suicide hypothetically would they not also have the access to make
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sure the file didn't show that they killed them it feels like
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a little bit incomplete meaning yeah i hear you and i believe bongino and patel are telling the truth
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meaning in their opinion based on everything they've seen it's a slam dunk you know definitely a suicide
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but would they know do do you think that just their experience
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evidence plus looking at the files would that be enough that you know they have the right answer
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no it's a little bit short for me but um anyway so he made some more news
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um he said that uh that anybody expecting video evidence from epstein's private island might be
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disappointed as no such footage exists to his knowledge
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really what exactly does he mean by that there's no video footage of a celebrity
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or he's saying there's no video footage of anything
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um now suppose he said um epstein definitely killed himself and also there are no videos
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and then nobody has any now i don't i don't know if he's saying that it's a little unclear
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but if he did say that wouldn't you just believe the entire package
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because if he tells me there's no videos and there never have been and nobody's had any i'm not
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going to believe anything he ever says again now my my current opinion is that there are straight
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shooters and they're they're looking out for the american public but i also believe that we live in a
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world where sometimes the security apparatus you know the uh the fate of the country can depend on not
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telling the the public everything so if they had to choose and i'm not saying they are but if they had to
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choose between keeping a secret that was so dark it would destroy the country
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somebody versus telling you the truth because they're truth tellers which would they do which
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would a patriot do because i'll i'll give them the uh the benefit of a doubt i think they've earned that
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they're both patriots so the thing i worry about is not that they're honest because i think they are
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it's just that if you live in a world where keeping secrets is part of the operational expectation of
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what you do i don't know if you can ever trust anybody whose job it is to make sure we don't
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find out things we're not supposed to find out right if somebody is a journalist and they have access to
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all the files and maybe you let a few journalists run free if they all came back and said all right
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we've looked at everything somehow they would know that you know that would be a problem would they know
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and they come back and they say all right we've looked at everything and uh it looks like it was a
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suicide and there's no there's no videotapes well i might believe them because they're journalists
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and they don't have an interest in keeping the secret and they probably would want to get there
00:36:26.720
first and have a scoop and all that but if it's your job to determine what the public hears and what
00:36:35.040
they don't hear that's their jobs does that give them the uh let's say the right or privilege to lie to
00:36:45.680
the american people as long as it's in the interest of the american people and it would be really easy
00:36:54.720
to imagine a set of circumstances where lying would be the right i hate to say it but the right answer
00:37:04.320
so unfortunately they just have jobs where you have to say to yourself uh maybe you know maybe what
00:37:12.160
they're saying is true but you can never know for sure and even even with the journalists you wouldn't
00:37:18.800
know for sure but you'd feel a lot more comfortable that they had no reason to keep it secret from you
00:37:26.880
yeah all right and then also uh cash said that um the u.s is working with india to try to stop some
00:37:37.760
china-backed trafficking network so i guess uh india has some connection to it if they work through india
00:37:46.000
they have a little better chance of stopping it um and he suggested patel did that the chinese
00:37:54.880
communist party is strategically targeting the u.s with fentanyl to weaken its population
00:38:01.840
and he notes that there's an absence of fentanyl uh deaths in other countries now are you convinced
00:38:16.640
you know i don't want to believe that's true but the opioid wars if you've you know if you've looked
00:38:22.960
into the opioid wars you know that the west has targeted uh them but it wasn't the united states that did
00:38:29.760
that wasn't it the uk so why would the united states be targeted if it's revenge for the opioid wars
00:38:39.200
because we weren't involved with that right um and the answer would be it just works you can take out
00:38:46.560
an entire generation of men you can give them cell phones and video games and fentanyl and next thing
00:38:54.000
you know uh an entire generation is taken out i don't know i'm gonna say it seems probable
00:39:04.640
it does seem probable and one of the one of the ways you can know it's probable is do you remember uh
00:39:10.240
uh the uh the uh ex-cia agent john kira kira kira kira kira last time i um mispronounced his name he
00:39:25.280
contacted me to to correct me he'll probably do it again um but he pointed out that when he was in
00:39:34.880
afghanistan with the cia he was asking you know why are these giant poppy farms allowed to operate
00:39:46.400
and the answer was because the heroin is all being sold to rand and it's a way to weaken rand and i
00:39:54.080
thought to myself oh my god we're terrible people but it looks like that's just the kind of world we
00:40:00.480
live in and the and the uh the risk we'll have to take so given that there's at least one source
00:40:08.560
that says we would do it to another country iran is it much of a stretch to say that china would do it to
00:40:16.720
us nope that is not a stretch i don't know that it's true but it's not a stretch meanwhile whiskey
00:40:25.840
sales are down according to one of the executives of jack daniels and uh reasons given are the
00:40:36.240
alternatives of marijuana weight loss drugs and a lackluster demand from generation c so the young
00:40:44.640
people are drinking less but i think there's one other uh variable that's not mentioned which is age
00:40:53.360
i don't know that this is true but wouldn't you expect that alcohol use decreases with age so if
00:41:04.000
the if the new generation is smaller because we've got this demographic problem wouldn't uh alcohol use
00:41:12.640
just drop off just because of age i think there would be some effect there i don't know how big it would
00:41:20.480
be but um we'll talk later about how it affects crime anyway uh remittances to mexico have collapsed
00:41:30.480
john nolte and breitbart is writing about that so if he didn't know what a remittance is to mexico as the
00:41:39.360
the mexican uh undocumented people come into the united states and make money they send some of their
00:41:47.920
money back to mexico and that's called the remittance i don't know why it's just sending money but uh
00:41:55.360
trump plans to tax those remittances but at the moment they're way down it's not entirely clear to me
00:42:03.600
why they're down um would it be because there are fewer people here
00:42:10.320
i i thought they you know i don't think we sent back that many mexicans did we but anyway remittances are
00:42:21.360
down and uh trump's planning to put a 3.5 tax on those remittances so it might make uh 22 billion
00:42:31.520
dollars uh over the next several years if he does that um newsmax is reporting that uh trump's not
00:42:42.480
happy with surprise uh the federal reserve and their their interest rate uh policies um so trump says
00:42:52.000
that uh powell head of the fed is too late and he should go for a full point reduction in interest he
00:43:00.480
goes too late at the fed is a disaster europe has had 10 rate cuts we have had none despite him
00:43:09.520
our country is doing great go for the full point rocket fuel trump posted that on on true social
00:43:19.440
all right um now i i don't have an opinion on what is the right amount of interest rates to be set
00:43:27.280
but it does feel to me that trump is a little bit more right than powell does anybody have that same
00:43:36.400
sort of just instinct i feel like powell might be holding back for political reasons that maybe he
00:43:45.520
doesn't process as political reasons you know you might you might think he has other reasons
00:43:50.160
but i do worry that our interest rates are not being set by economics does anybody else worry about
00:43:59.040
that now you could blame trump and say well if trump had not been so hard on jerome powell
00:44:05.840
powell would admit it maybe just on his own lowered interest rates more but there's no evidence of that
00:44:12.080
that because you know in both cases he would be helping trump and if he didn't think that helping
00:44:19.040
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talking about this alan dershowitz is urging a pardon or commuted census for uh gillain maxwell epstein's
00:45:10.480
accomplice now i've been saying for years so most of you have heard me say this that uh when there's a
00:45:19.200
big legal question i like to wait for uh dershowitz because i'm not quite sure how to help you with that
00:45:27.040
i like to wait for dershowitz because he always has the cleanest and what i consider the most reliable
00:45:35.840
answer and you know if you check back later you'll you'll see he's usually right but uh this one's a
00:45:43.120
weird one so i don't think i can automatically agree with this and the argument is that uh maxwell got a
00:45:53.920
stiffer sentence than people who did similar crimes so i said to myself really is that true you know
00:46:03.840
first of all what kind of crime would be similar to this um so and the second thing is uh you know what
00:46:15.040
it was her sentence so she got 20 years in prison and she's been there how long has she been there
00:46:23.920
four years how long has gillain maxwell been in prison four years five years something like that
00:46:32.960
it's already been a while but she's got a 20 year sentence and dershowitz thinks that it would be
00:46:40.720
uh it would make sense to commute or something or uh her uh sentence now it's been three years
00:46:49.120
so i'm hearing it's three years okay now how many of you think that what she did um fits a three or four
00:47:04.640
because it literally involved trafficking minors
00:47:08.160
uh that's a tough argument so so i went to grok
00:47:18.000
and i asked if her sentence was on a line with comparable comparable court cases and and sentences
00:47:27.360
and grok basically threw up its uh hands yes hands it doesn't show them very often
00:47:34.800
um because there's nobody who did a crime that's quite like that you know it was over a length of
00:47:42.960
time and involved lots of different variables and she may or may not have been coerced by epstein
00:47:49.520
and part of uh dershowitz's argument is that uh maxwell was a victim too so that she was a victim of
00:47:58.880
epstein as well as an accomplice now if if that were true and you could prove it uh it would look like
00:48:10.560
she had no choice with what she did or she got brainwashed or something but i don't think we've seen
00:48:17.120
any evidence that points in that direction have we to me she looked like she was a pretty happy
00:48:25.520
participant yeah we only see pictures but who knows so the question you must ask yourself is
00:48:34.400
is dershowitz being influenced by any outside forces and of course the most obvious thing that you would say
00:48:44.800
is uh since you already suspect that maxwell was part of the you know massad um operation
00:48:56.080
and you also believe that dershowitz quite openly is very pro-israel is it too much to imagine
00:49:06.160
that massad said hey it's time to see if you can get her out because the longer she stays in
00:49:13.280
you know the more risk we have that she talks and the sooner she gets out the better
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now i have zero evidence zero evidence that any kind of influence is happening but i would look and see
00:49:30.240
if any other lawyers have a similar opinion you know if uh if today you see oh five more lawyers who
00:49:40.000
were in this field of law had the same opinion that that sentence was too long then i would say oh well
00:49:48.240
i guess i guess i'm no lawyer so if normal lawyers who are just observing say it's too long well okay
00:49:58.240
maybe there's something there but if alan dershowitz is the only one who is willing to
00:50:04.560
say anything like this and he's uh very public you know there's there's no hidden agenda whatsoever
00:50:12.480
but he's very pro-israel then you have to ask yourself how much of this is about
00:50:19.120
glane maxwell how much of this is about the law and how much of this is about whatever influence alan
00:50:28.880
dershowitz might have or or interests i'll say uh i'll say influence and or interests because he doesn't
00:50:38.560
seem like the kind of guy who could be pushed around so maybe it just makes sense to him on some level that
00:50:45.440
we don't quite understand for whatever reason i i see in the comments somebody saying the cia yeah
00:50:53.840
you can make the same argument about uh the cia being an influence on him if you believe the cia was
00:51:02.160
you know somehow involved in the epstein thing uh i don't i don't see the evidence for that but
00:51:09.360
it's not a crazy hypothesis anyway so uh president trump was asked about iran and he says if they
00:51:23.200
enrich then we're going to have to do it the other way meaning something military and i don't really
00:51:30.160
want to do it the other way but we're going to have no choice there's going to be enrichment now that's
00:51:36.480
just a setup for the next thing i want to talk about so trump has very clearly said we're going
00:51:43.680
to bomb your country unless you give us what we want on giving up your enrichment um related to that
00:51:53.200
i was watching uh a podcast with matt gates and he was talking to the author of a book called future
00:52:01.440
jihad terrorist strategies against the west and this was on newsmax and uh this was a dr ferris i think
00:52:11.840
p-h-a-r-e-s ferris would that be the way you say it anyway so dr ferris recommended that trump
00:52:20.640
give a televised speech directly to the iranian people uh and he compared it to reagan with the soviet union
00:52:30.000
now you know what i'd say whenever i see an analogy as soon as you see the analogy it feels like
00:52:42.480
there's a there's a lack of argument because it's not really like reagan and the soviet union
00:52:50.160
the big difference is that trump is threatening to bomb iran any minute now i don't believe that
00:52:58.560
uh that when reagan gave his speech you know tear down that wall i don't believe we were threatening
00:53:06.480
to bomb the soviet union any minute now so you can't really compare those two situations but
00:53:15.520
i thought about it my first thought was uh that's not going to make any difference you know the iranian
00:53:21.920
people are not going to buy that especially if you have a sword over their head because what would
00:53:27.680
he say i mean he probably would throw in the threat and if he throws him the threat it's going to make
00:53:34.400
things worse because if the iranian public hears uh you need to do this or else you'll get bombed
00:53:42.640
that's not going to make friends you know if the idea is to get the uh get the public on your side that's
00:53:51.600
not going to do it so i don't know how he could do this in the context of threatening to bomb them at any
00:53:58.960
minute um but i do think there might be something to it if he cannot mention the bombing because trump
00:54:12.560
does have a way of communicating that's unlike anybody else and if he did say the right things
00:54:19.360
at the right time he might find a way to connect so i think as long as you don't mention we're going
00:54:26.880
to bomb you if you don't give us what we want just don't mention that at all then you use the
00:54:33.360
documentary effect the documentary effect is where there's one side of an argument presented over a
00:54:40.640
long period of time and there's nobody on the other side that can be very persuasive so if he gave a
00:54:49.040
speech directly to the iranian people and uh he made it persuasive and there wouldn't be any
00:54:56.640
counter-argument it would just be his his speech uh the odds of him having an upside surprisingly good
00:55:05.040
result are pretty good the downside risk probably nearly nothing as long as you don't put a thread in
00:55:15.120
there if he put a thread in there there's no way that's going to turn out well so i guess i would
00:55:24.320
be cautiously in favor of this if it were implemented correctly when i found out my friend got a great
00:55:31.680
deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that
00:55:38.800
woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings
00:55:44.960
did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress
00:55:50.720
that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners
00:55:58.160
find fabulous for less um my next story gets to the concept of what i call how lost are the democrats
00:56:10.480
uh i love hearing their their best and brightest people you know the ones who should be helping them
00:56:17.200
correct the ship uh i love hearing them give advice that really sounds bad
00:56:25.520
uh so cnn's van jones said on air that trump should investigate and prosecute the doge staff
00:56:35.440
quote i don't think what they're doing is legal now he didn't give he didn't give uh examples of what
00:56:41.520
he thinks are illegal um but that might be some of the worst advice i've ever heard
00:56:51.920
because obviously uh trump's not going to do that and all it is is attacking the people who are trying
00:56:58.880
to get something done on behalf of the american people such as get rid of the fat and bloat and
00:57:05.440
and corruption so once again we have the pattern developing where republicans are trying to get
00:57:13.120
something done that would be doge and democrats are trying to use some kind of legal process to prevent
00:57:21.920
them from getting anything done how do you miss the pattern at this point like even if you're a democrat
00:57:29.600
do you not realize that republicans are trying to get things done sometimes you won't like them but
00:57:37.600
they're trying to do things that are good for the country and democrats are almost entirely involved
00:57:43.840
with stopping any progress in any way it's kind of hard to miss the pattern after a while isn't it
00:57:50.960
and you know van jones one of the smartest people who's also a democrat
00:57:55.920
um looks like he's falling into the same trap of just saying that this thing that's probably popular
00:58:04.400
by 80 20 in the united states that they should all be arrested or at least at least investigated
00:58:15.200
well here's my persuasion lesson on trump and uh i've told you before that he's
00:58:21.680
his writing style and his writing ability is never going to get the credit it deserves but my goodness
00:58:32.640
is he a good writer and he did a truth social little write-up about his ballroom you know the ballroom is
00:58:42.160
being built at the white house and i just want to read to you uh trump's words when he talks about it
00:58:50.480
now keep in mind that because we have you know fiscal constraints and we've got a deficit problem
00:58:58.000
that if you're the president and you're bragging about your ballroom uh it doesn't sound good
00:59:05.520
to the public who thinks do you really need a ballroom could we not really cut that budget and
00:59:12.640
you know you can stand on the muddy lawn when we need to do something outdoors so he's got this delicate
00:59:21.120
thing that he's trying to manage where it looks like it might be a vanity project and also we're in the
00:59:29.360
context of you know a fiscal constraint but he's building a ballroom so he's got to navigate all of that
00:59:37.680
that and uh let me just read what what he wrote all right he says quote just inspected the site of the
00:59:48.320
new ballroom that would be built compliments of a man known as donald j trump at the white house
00:59:57.040
for 150 years presidents and many others have wanted to beautify wanted a beautiful ballroom but it never got
01:00:04.880
built because nobody previously had any knowledge or experience in doing such things but i do like
01:00:12.960
maybe nobody else and it will go up quickly and be a wonderful addition very much in keeping with the
01:00:21.360
magnificent white house itself these are the quote fun projects i do while thinking about the world
01:00:29.520
economy the united states china russia and lots of other countries places and events it will all be good
01:00:37.920
maybe even great depending on who is president of the united states
01:00:44.480
now he uh he basically disarms you with this sentence uh compliments of a man known as donald j trump
01:00:54.160
because that's what that's what's called voicey um within the writer's world if somebody is voicey
01:01:05.200
it means you can feel their personality in their writing and you might even say to yourself nobody
01:01:11.120
else would say that nobody else in the world would use those words and i don't think anybody would
01:01:17.440
like you know no other president would ever write like this so this is the most voicey uh optimistic
01:01:28.560
fun way he could ever introduce this thing and then he brags about his ability to build things
01:01:34.560
which most people would agree that he has right i mean you'd have to be a pretty hardcore democrat
01:01:42.080
to say that trump doesn't know anything about construction i mean really of course he knows
01:01:49.760
construction so yes he's probably the uh the ideal president for you know adding a major addition to
01:01:56.640
the white house and then we gets to the end he talks about this being his fun project that's not
01:02:03.280
interfering with all of his other stuff with russia and china that's what you were thinking
01:02:08.480
thinking so one of the things i teach with writing is if you can say something that is exactly what
01:02:17.840
your reader is thinking and and then you take it off the table because they're thinking they've got a
01:02:23.920
question and then you just sort of automatically answer it that's a home run in writing so by the
01:02:31.040
time you got to the end you were you probably would have been thinking you know why are you wasting
01:02:36.960
your time on this when there's so many important things to do and then he gives you the answer
01:02:42.400
now i don't know if the answer is you know adequate or true or covers everything it needs to cover
01:02:49.440
but the fact that he knows when you're going to be wondering and then he supplies the answer to your
01:02:56.400
wonder that's really good technique so it's a voicey as hell and well constructed in a way that i don't think
01:03:06.960
i just don't think the historians are going to fully appreciate that he's the best writer we've ever had
01:03:13.440
in government probably all right uh i've told you before the california government seems to be a
01:03:22.800
criminal racket and almost every day there's another story in the news that kind of bolsters that opinion
01:03:32.560
so according to interesting engineering sujita sinoh is writing that uh there's a new study that reveals
01:03:40.960
the deep corruption in california's clean energy push so apparently the process of getting everybody on
01:03:49.760
solar uh has created uh let's see what kind of corruption uh a sobering array of corruption
01:03:58.960
a sobering array of corruption so uh i guess there are so here are some of the alleged uh corrupt practices
01:04:14.080
so shocking abuses of power in the approval and licensing phases now how many of you are surprised
01:04:22.800
that a very expensive project has a shocking abuse of power in the approval and licensing phase
01:04:30.880
meaning the contracts are going to friends of the people who have the power to allocate the contracts
01:04:38.400
uh let's see it's also as well as the displacement of indigenous groups okay i don't know about that
01:04:46.960
that and also nefarious patterns of tax evasion or the falsification of information about the projects
01:04:55.440
now i don't know how much of this is true but every single time california gets a bunch of money
01:05:05.040
to do something that sounds good on paper somebody just steals the money
01:05:10.800
it's like you might as well just dump it on the ground and let everybody come and grab some so
01:05:20.800
so remember the high speed rail that we didn't build anything sound familiar and then there's all the
01:05:30.080
stuff that's not happening and the rebuild of the fire zones and i mean it's just one thing after
01:05:35.920
another just complete criminal enterprise how could it be worse is it possible for california to be any
01:05:45.440
worse well they're taking a run at it uh so the california senate passed a bill uh that will allow
01:05:54.240
violent convicts with life sentences to get out of jail now they have to have served 25 years
01:06:02.480
and been convicted before 26 so you know it's not everybody but what would happen if you release
01:06:14.320
somebody who has uh spent their entire adult life in prison and the reason that they were there is
01:06:22.080
because they've done something so heinous that you get life in prison there aren't too many things you
01:06:28.640
get life in prison for uh what do they do they get jobs at mcdonald's there there's not really anything
01:06:37.440
they can do right because it's not like they're going to get a job at your local construction place
01:06:44.880
will they so i don't know too much about the rehabbing people but if you spent your entire adult life
01:06:54.160
behind bars i don't know if you're ready so once again dangerous for californians
01:07:04.480
all right ladies and gentlemen that is the completion of my planned comments and as i warned you
01:07:13.360
um owen gregorian will be hosting a spaces event on x uh that will happen in a few minutes after we're done
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here and uh i invite everybody to give a listen i usually listen while i'm making myself some
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breakfast so i'm i'm usually anonymously listening um and uh i hope you enjoy it and that's all i got for
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today so everybody have a good time today i'm going to say uh just a few words to the locals people before
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so there's a lot of information about your client power because they get to have enough