Episode 2881 CWSA 06⧸28⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the first self-delivered tesla, electric cars and the new fake girlfriend filter. We also have a special guest appearance from our good friend and friend's dad, Owen Grossman.
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so good delicious well after the show um owen gregorian will be hosting a spaces on x
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that's that's the audio only function on x and uh you could find that in my feed as scott m says
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you can see find the link or you can go to owen gregorian's feed and you'll find the link there
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so yesterday according to elon musk was the first ever self-delivered tesla so there was a tesla
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that was produced in a factory drove itself away from the factory and all the way to the end user's
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house and parked in his driveway i guess that's the first time am i impressed yes i'm really really
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impressed that a tesla delivered itself i'm feeling like i i need to do that myself anyway speaking of
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electric cars according to mit technology review which i know you all read um there's a battery recycling
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company that recycles the giant batteries from electric cars who has realized that the the recycled
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batteries before they recycle them they often still have about half of their power ability storage
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which is not good enough to still be in a car but um it would make a lot of sense to string them
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together and make it a uh a uh what do they call it um a uh industrial power center so they're using it to
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help power uh ai data centers so they just put a bunch of old used up batteries that still have half their
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energy storage and they can uh do a little uh micro grid yeah well g appliances is going to move uh
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some over all of its i don't know a lot of its production out of china and moving it to kentucky
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and it's a 490 million dollar investment they're bringing back to the u.s according to uh louis cassiano on fox
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business and uh they want to have a zero distance strategy so they want to manufacture closer to where
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they're going to sell and will create 800 new full-time jobs well every time there's one of these stories
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that makes trump look like a more successful president and i'll i'll say what other people have been
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saying as well this is the best summer any president ever had the the number of things that trump has
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already accomplished um before he's even gotten his big beautiful bill which i guess he'll get i don't
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know they're trying pretty hard we'll talk about that but it looks like uh quite a summer for trump
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so how many of you have seen the quote fake girlfriend filter apparently there's a filter for apps i don't
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know which app but you can uh you can do a little video of yourself and then turn on the filter and a
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a deep fake perfectly realistic looking girlfriend will walk into the frame put her arms around you
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from behind and kiss you on the cheek and not not exactly the same way every time but wow you have to see
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it because normally you would say to yourself well yeah i'm definitely gonna know it's ai nope no based on the
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ones i saw you would not know that that was not a real person so now imagine that you're not doing it just
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for social media imagine that you've got a uh a bot ai bot um girlfriend or boyfriend
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and when you look at the screen and when you look at the screen they're there with you in in your real
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life they're not there but if you look at the screen in the right app it looks like they're there and
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talking to you on the screen now how weird would that be oh that's coming so it's called the fake
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girlfriend filter you have to see it to believe it it's actually amazing well why would uh
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um i i saw an article and uh by tim higgins i think he was writing for the wall street journal
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and he says in a lonely world elon musk and mark zuckerberg and even microsoft are vying for affection
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in the new friend economy the friend being the bots so now you've got the the visual image of that friend
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you know in the fake girlfriend you know in the fake girlfriend filter and now you can give it a
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personality and have an ongoing relationship with the bot um yeah so what do you think of that
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do you do you think uh do you think that the bot friends are going to be a big deal
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i do i think it's going to be a really big deal but one of the things that uh tim higgins was
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speculating about is that the uh different ais might look like um somebody was watching a different
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news source so grok might look like you watch fox news but open ai might look like you watch msnbc all day
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so when you pick your bot friend you might have to pick the one that's that's got the the best news
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knows the same as you anyway um according to ai news the ai called anthropic was tested
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to see if it could run a business and it failed so it didn't make any money and had lots of bugs and
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didn't work out so how long do you think it would be before ai could legitimately run a startup
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uh maybe never right maybe never but how long will it be before it can be your bot girlfriend or boyfriend
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probably pretty soon if it's running a business you can't let it hallucinate because that's a problem
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but if your your bot ai boyfriend or girlfriend hallucinates that's going to feel like real life
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because real people hallucinate all the time they've got cognitive just instead of fake memories
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so yeah i'm pretty sure that the whole uh boyfriend girlfriend best friend thing is going to be huge
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but will ai be running a new startup for you i don't know maybe here's some fake news
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you remember the story that sounded fake to you that meta was going to offer a hundred million
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dollars signing bonus for ai professionals like if they're really good and that was like a big news story
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and you probably looked at it and said really a hundred million dollar just a signing bonus
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it's not even what the salary is it's just a upfront signing bonus and you said to yourself there's no way
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it was fake news um there are some people getting enormous pay packages but it's not up front
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so that that was just never real so there are people who might make a hundred million dollars
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you know over a certain amount of time and there's some people who are definitely making
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over 20 million dollars already per year um so all it would be it would be 25 million per year for four years
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um which is enormous and incredible and your brain can barely hold it but it's not a hundred million dollars up front
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speaking of fake news um governor newsom of california is suing fox news
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for uh claiming that he had not talked to president trump um relative to the the protests about ice
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in california now newsom said he had talked to trump but i think trump himself may have said he didn't
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but in any event uh at least jesse waters reported on fox news um what they believe to be true which is
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that they that they that newsom had lied so newsom is suing because he says he didn't lie and he's
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probably can prove it um and he's suing for 787 million dollars
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now does that seem like a little bit too much apparently that's sort of similar to how much
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um fox news paid to one of the uh one of the voting companies they sued him i forget which one
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so you may have picked that number just because it reminds you that fox news once lost a lawsuit of
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that that that type so but he would take a correction so fox news um just goes out and says whoops
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we got that story wrong he would take that so he's pretty good at getting attention i gotta say
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was it dominion or was it the other one i forget
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well we got some supreme court verdicts yesterday right after i was done with my podcast so everybody's
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talked about it but me now i'm the worst person to get any supreme court news about
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or to get your news about the supreme court from um i would listen to the lawyers because there's always
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these weird nuances you think you understand it if you're a non-lawyer and then you realize you got
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everything wrong but here's what i think happened i think the supreme court ruled that the lower
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court district judges can no longer do nationwide injunctions that would apply to the whole nation
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when they are meant to be judges for their own district and there were about 40 different injunctions
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against trump executive orders mostly i guess and uh but it wasn't from everywhere there were five states
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that were responsible for i think 35 of the 40 injunctions so the problem was that democrats could just
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find whoever was the most liberal judge in a liberal state and they could stop everything in the whole
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country but the supreme court just ruled no you can't uh you cannot overrule the entire country but you can
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still do your rules for your own district um now the big conversation is what happens if you had a democrat
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president would you having now greatly empowered the office of the president uh relative to how much a you know a court could stop him
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um will the next democrat president have the same power yes and would that be making republicans very unhappy if it happens
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the answer is yes so the presidency got a lot more powerful no matter who's in that job um
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trump says that later later in the year the supreme court might take on the question
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of birthright citizenship that's the one where you get to be a citizen if you're born in this country
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even if your parents are not citizens trump says that that's uh that that was intended for the children of slaves
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and therefore he thinks they have a good argument for the supreme court someday overturning it
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the people who know more about the constitution are pretty much unanimous in saying they won't get overturned
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because there's too much precedent and the clear wording of the constitution even if their intention was
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something else i suppose but uh we'll see if that goes the president's way or not
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anyway so what could what could happen is the states could end up with different federal laws
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they'd all have the same law but some states could get a liberal judge to do an injunction that only
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applied to their their state so you might have for example a situation so i saw some people talking
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about this on on the news potentially and i don't know what the odds of this are but potentially
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you could have a situation where if your parents are not citizens but they have you in you know new jersey
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you might be a citizen but if they had you in pennsylvania maybe you wouldn't be
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so it could get really confusing um that's one possibility now one of the stories that
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uh and i guess i guess i guess there's still the option of doing a class action suit against whatever
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the president is up to but i feel like that's less efficient might take longer might be fewer of them
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but it's not like there's no recourse so you still have a legal recourse to try to end a president's
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executive order through a class action suit i guess um so that that's my best uh not a lawyer
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explanation of what happened but i'm enjoying watching uh people dump on justice uh katanji brown jackson
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and apparently she wrote an opinion that uh at least jonathan turley says looks more like
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so her uh her written opinion was uh not well respected by either her colleagues or the experts
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watching it so there's a lot of talk about whether she's even qualified for the job i have to admit
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i don't mind the fact that the way she's writing through opinion is casual so she's using some
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casual language like at one point she put in the in the sentence she put wait for it and then she
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revealed you know the big reveal at the end of the sentence um i don't mind that i don't mind that she
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doesn't do the full legalese but she's also being criticized for her actual opinion being tortured and
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and basically stupid so it's not just that she's using casual language it's more like people are
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some of the top celebrities and i immediately had the following question why does why does jeff bezos
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know so many celebrities like how did that even happen and how well would you have to know a celebrity
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like leonardo dicaprio before he will fly to italy and attend your wedding which he did apparently
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the kardashians did as well don't you wonder what what is jeff bezos world like
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do does he and his and now wife do they sit around and say hey what do you want to do tonight
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i don't know let's fly down and have dinner with leonardo dicaprio well we've never even met him
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yeah but just ask he'll say yes that one of the things i learned as soon as i became a little bit
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famous is that if you're a little bit famous other famous people will take your call
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and if you're very famous everyone will take your call so he might live in a world where you could
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just call somebody who's super famous and just say you want to have dinner and they'll say oh totally
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so maybe that's how he knows all those all those celebrities
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or maybe they all party on his yacht i don't know
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the other supreme court decision is that parents can opt out for their kids if the school lesson is about
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lgbtq content so i guess that makes a lot of conservatives happy
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so if you know that your public school is going to be um uh what would you say uh training your kids
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on lgbtq content you can opt out for at least that lesson um axios is reporting that the so-called mega
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division has ended do you remember the mega division that's when uh people did not agree about
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what to do about iran and whether or not the u.s should get involved and then the president gets involved
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and uh because the military is awesome got a spectacular what looks like a win
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and now everybody's getting back together do you remember my prediction about the division in mega
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i believe i said in public you know you can tell me if i'm imagining this didn't i tell you that success
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would fix everything and that whatever happened and i just certainly didn't know what was going to happen
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i told you that as long as trump gets a good result mega will come back together no matter what he does
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he just has to win so winning fixes almost everything and i also told you that you know once we got past
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this the mega people they're not going to turn into democrats so of course they're going to come back
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together you know there may be some personalities who don't want to go to the same dinner together
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anymore you know some of it got pretty ugly the accusations but no people are going to be pretty
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solidly pro-trump because he's winning and winning fixes everything
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well there's some more fake news that i gave you so i'll correct my own fake news um you know the
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story about the parliamentarian so apparently congress has a parliamentarian who judged the big beautiful bill
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and said there's a bunch of stuff on here that you can't do according to the rules of the senate and the parliamentarian knows the rules
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and um i thought that might be forcing the republicans to change the bill
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but apparently and i i don't understand how this works but politico says um
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that uh they've been working with the parliamentarian and changing some of the language
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so the parliamentarian would accept it now does that make sense to you this is in politico
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how does it make sense that the only thing they're changing is the language
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because she wasn't objecting to the language she was objecting to the fact that the uh the bill was
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trying to change policy and you're not allowed to make big policy changes in this kind of a bill
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unless you get 60 people to vote for instead of 50 and they were trying to avoid that because they know
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they can't get 60 so do they really fix it by rewarding it but i also learned that they could fire the
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parliamentarian or just ignore the parliamentarian now i think they would have to vote to ignore
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um but apparently it's not it's not the end of the bill so i think i i may have misled you into
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thinking that the parliamentarian could just sort of stop a bunch of stuff but it looks like there's
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just so many weasel ways to get around the parliamentarian that maybe the parliamentarian is
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in more trouble than the bill but we'll see so i have a question about how you can
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make it acceptable by changing the language if somebody if somebody knows how that works let me know
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um the uh the treasury has apparently issued some sanctions against three mexican uh financial
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institutions i don't know i guess they're not banks per se but there are three big mexican
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financial institutions they're being blamed for um participating in the fentanyl trafficking business
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so they facilitated money transfer allegedly for the chemical precursors from china that would be used to
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make fentanyl in mexico so that feels promising
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it does seem like if you cut off the uh the money flow that you're going to get less fentanyl but
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still i think it proves that um china is not doing anything to and china is not going to do anything to
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reduce the fentanyl flow so if you thought they were good luck with that apparently the whole fentanyl thing
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seems to be completely missing from the trade talks with china surprise
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all right so you know our favorite uh socialist uh probably new mayor of new york city
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uh his name is mom donnie and can you believe that in the real world he said in public i don't know
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if he said it more than once that uh in order to pay for some of the progressive socialist stuff he
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wants if he wins and it looks like he will win he wants uh he thinks that white neighborhoods should
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pay higher property taxes white neighborhoods should pay higher property taxes in new york city
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now let me give you some advice if you live in a city where people can even have that conversation
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and not be immediately eliminated for running for office or fired you should get out of there as fast as
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you can if you happen to be white because um i'm not even talking about whether they do it
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just think about the fact that he can say this openly he can openly suggest taxing white people more
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in in the area that he would be in control of them as mayor if you can even have that conversation
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and keep your job and you if you're a white person living there you should really think about leaving
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because that is a that is way over the line yeah there's no way that's gonna make you happy so run
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you know one of the uh questions that i have that you're gonna hate because i know i've brought up
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i brought this up before and just makes all of you get really mad at me which makes me even more
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determined to sell it and it goes like this i believe it never works if you try to overlay a
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whole bunch whole bunch of you know too much socialism on top of a capitalist system
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i don't think i've ever seen it work have you so if you've got a capitalist system that's cooking
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along and then you say well we'll add a little bit of socialism a little bit you could probably
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handle a little bit which we do but if you keep piling it on there's a hundred percent chance you
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destroy the whole system and everybody starves to death and you become cannibals right we we pretty
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much all agree on that but here's a question that i have what if you designated some areas to be
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socialist only and you built them from the ground up to be socialist um but still with jobs so people
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would still be able to you know get a job at a market rate and earn their own money and stuff
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but that all the things that socialist leaders want would be there so if you want free transportation
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yes if you want free child care yes um if you want low rent yes but you would have to design it
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to be the socialist only opt-in opt-in stop it if you're an npc you're gonna say that you would never
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live there don't do that because then you're an npc because i'm not suggesting you live there i'm not
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suggesting anybody be forced to live there what i'm suggesting is wouldn't it be good if there was one
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city or county somewhere in the country that was fully socialist from the ground up
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now how could you accomplish some of these free services by designing it right so suppose
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everybody has a job there right so if you can work you have a job and you still you still have to buy your
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food so you have to work it's not so socialist that nobody's working you have to work but imagine if
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they designed underground e-bike um transportation you can bring the cost of public transportation
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down to almost nothing if you designed it from the bottom up to make transportation easy
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right what about um child care if you designed the city properly there would always be some grandmas who
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wanted to watch your kids yeah but they would be vetted and you know wouldn't be too far away
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and all that so you could probably get yourself almost free transportation almost free child care almost free
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dog watching um and you could build the build the uh rental units in the cheapest possible way that
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is also very durable and livable so you could bring the rents way down so my question is this
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even if you thought it would fail wouldn't it be good to have one so that you wouldn't have to worry about
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people trying to overlay the socialism on your capitalist place you'd say hey look if any of that
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shit worked it would be working over in socialism town but look out they're all struggling and and dying
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why not it's only a problem when you try to combine two systems together that are not meant to be
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combined together but if you built it from scratch would people go there would they like it would they
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be happy having a low income but also very low expenses maybe probably the biggest thing you'd have to do is
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make sure that you didn't let everybody in you you would have to make it impossible to move in if you
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had a criminal record or impossible to move in if you had bad credit so if you selected people who were
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good citizens and employable and they just liked the socialist system a little bit better
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maybe maybe make it work somewhere but just don't lay it on to new york city or anywhere where
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the other system is already cooking along um trump is mad at canada again um because canada wanted to
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impose a digital services tax on american tech companies now i don't think that there are too many companies
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from other countries that would even be qualified for a having to pay a digital services tax but i think
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that's sort of aimed at um our social media giants and it just looks like a way for canada to pick our
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pockets so trump is defend defending the big tech companies by telling canada we're going to drop all
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all all of her uh negotiations so there just won't be any negotiations about trade and he's just going
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to send them the bill i i do like this new approach where he says if you don't want to have a new trade
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agreement you don't need one we'll just send you the bill and tell you what your tariff is so he's going
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to try this in canada first i guess we're going to send you the bill sorry you uh you are no longer
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appropriate as a you know as somebody that we want to negotiate with we're just going to send you the bill
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we'll see if that changes anything and at all by the way speaking of bills the big beautiful bill
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that trump is trying to get passed before july 4th it looks like it might be close
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i'm not gonna i won't predict it will get done because there's a lot of resistance but it might
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they're they're pushing pretty hard to see if they could get it done before the fourth
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so maybe but at this point is it fair to say that literally nobody knows what's in the bill
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because you've got the house version that's so big that i don't know how many people even know
00:37:22.800
all the things that are in it then it goes to the senate and they tweak it like crazy
00:37:30.000
and then the parliamentarian says you can't do that and then they have to change the language or
00:37:37.120
i don't know maybe change the policies and by the time it's done and then there's a negotiation
00:37:44.640
within the senate to all right we'll change this if we do this we'll change that if you'll vote for it
00:37:51.680
so do you feel like you know what's in this thing i am very confused i mean i think it still has
00:38:01.200
you know the tax elements that we're expecting but i don't know what else is in there
00:38:10.560
um all right so iran well here's the story that i would not give high credibility to yet
00:38:20.880
so i saw this in the post by mario and i'm awful and he's generally generally i would say
00:38:28.720
um credibility is good because he always shows the sources and you can you know look for yourself
00:38:35.280
um but the sources for this are entities foreign entities that i've never heard of before
00:38:42.480
so uh i would wait to see if any other news sources pick this up but the report which i would give
00:38:51.040
of low credibility to but maybe is that iran's u.s uh u.n ambassador said that iran would be willing to
00:39:01.520
transfer its most enriched uranium which would suggest that they still have it uh to another country in
00:39:10.480
exchange for yellow cake now if i know my nuclear energy yellow cake would be something you could use
00:39:19.360
use for domestic energy production but you wouldn't be able to make a bomb out of it so do you really
00:39:28.000
think that happened do you really think that iran is seriously offering to transfer all of their
00:39:36.800
more enriched uranium to another country if they can get in return uh a non-weaponized material that
00:39:45.440
take a use for energy i'm going to say that sounds a little too good to be true but if it is true
00:39:55.360
um i'm going to say that that would suggest that the supreme leader is no longer in charge
00:40:03.440
so one i'm going to predict that one of two things is true either that story is not true
00:40:11.440
and they're not proposing any kind of a yellow cake anything so it's either not true or if that is
00:40:20.560
true and they really mean it that would suggest that the supreme leader is not making the decisions
00:40:27.200
right now there's some maybe a military you know maybe there's some kind of military control
00:40:38.960
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um harvard is trying to find a workaround for the fact that trump is trying to block foreign students
00:41:02.880
from attending harvard and harvard's university john fk uh yeah john f kennedy school of government so
00:41:12.800
that's not the whole not the whole harvard but the school of government is working on a deal with a
00:41:21.600
canadian um university called toronto's monk school of global affairs and public policy
00:41:31.920
and the idea is if these foreign students who are already harvard students want to complete their
00:41:39.200
education at harvard but they can't do it because they would be blocked by presidential order
00:41:46.800
well then they would say you could go to canada and you can attend the
00:41:53.920
the university of toronto's monk school of global affairs and public policy
00:42:00.240
and they would apparently share some professors with harvard and then they would tell you that
00:42:07.840
you got a harvard degree but you got it at the university of toronto's monk school of global
00:42:15.360
affairs and public policy now uh let me suggest that there's something that harvard might not understand
00:42:25.200
about harvard well why does anybody go to harvard well mainly you go to harvard so that when you're done
00:42:37.120
you can say you went to harvard uh do you think that that will thrill foreigners who want to be able
00:42:44.560
to say they graduated from harvard you say look you can say you graduated from harvard even though really
00:42:53.040
you got half of your degree from the university of toronto's monk school of global affairs and public
00:42:59.200
policy so how about that does that impress you friends are your parents really proud of you
00:43:06.160
oh i don't i don't know about your child but mine went to the i won't say it again uh then the other
00:43:16.640
thing is the the casual contact with the networking of being on the harvard campus so you would lose the
00:43:27.280
networking of being on the harvard campus you would get a little bit in this monk school
00:43:35.920
it's monk as in m-u-n-k not m-o-n-k so it must be named after somebody named monk
00:43:45.520
anyway so that sounds pretty desperate it's not a done deal it depends if there's enough demand for it
00:43:52.800
according to npr and it's weird the npr would be reporting this but uh domenico montanaro is writing
00:44:03.840
for npr that according to pew research if everybody who did not vote in the 2024 election because only about
00:44:16.000
two-thirds of the registered people vote but if all of them had voted trump would have won by even more
00:44:25.680
this is on npr so npr is saying that the more people who voted the bigger the lead that trump
00:44:35.360
would have had in the general election so did i mention that things are going trump's way this summer
00:44:43.520
what were the odds that npr would be confirming his popularity in a feature story i don't know what
00:44:53.680
the odds of that were but you know i certainly didn't predict it but there it is
00:45:01.520
um trump has apparently abandoned plans according to the post-millennial thomas stevenson's reporting
00:45:10.560
that uh trump was talking about lifting sanctions on iran but then the ayatollah said that iran won the war
00:45:21.600
and now trump is saying if you're going to say that you won the war when clearly you did not
00:45:34.240
well one of the odds that iran is going to modify their message and tell their residents okay now
00:45:44.560
really remember when we said we totally slapped america in the face and and beat them at war well
00:45:52.560
okay that was fake news we just made that up we totally lost the war and surrendered
00:45:58.000
and then if they admit that they lost the war and that trump beat them then and only then will trump
00:46:11.280
look into lifting the sanctions on iran's economy so i don't know if any of that story is true
00:46:20.000
but maybe there is a truth social post in which trump is saying directly exactly that he he's saying
00:46:30.720
exactly what i told you that it's because they're claiming victory that he's discontinuing any
00:46:38.000
conversation about getting rid of sanctions so that part is true it's true that he said it
00:46:42.800
i don't know how true it was that he was really looking into lifting the sanctions it could be
00:46:53.040
that when he brought up lifting the sanctions he got so much pushback that he knew it wasn't possible
00:47:00.320
and then it would be easier to blame it on iran and say all right i was totally going to lift these
00:47:06.560
sanctions and it had nothing to do with how much blowback i got from israel and god knows where else
00:47:14.320
it has nothing to do with that it has everything to do with your poorly poorly worded statements about
00:47:21.440
how you won all right so apparently today maybe this has already happened post-millennial
00:47:29.520
is reporting hannah nightingale that uh the trump administration had brokered some kind of historic
00:47:37.600
peace agreement between the republic of congo and rwanda who apparently were having a very major war that
00:47:49.520
most of us were not paying attention to whatsoever but marco rubio's team apparently
00:47:56.000
um brokered um brokered a peace deal it's a big deal and i guess they're signing it today
00:48:03.920
and or have signed it now if you're keeping count that would be two and a half wars that trump has ended
00:48:14.560
so let's give him credit for ending the iran israel conflict we'll give him credit for the congo
00:48:23.040
rwanda thing now remember this is all in one summer and there's a possibility i'm not going to predict it
00:48:33.280
will happen that would be too far but there's a possibility that because of uh trump's you know
00:48:42.080
victory and getting a ceasefire that he might be able to browbeat israel because there's some reporting
00:48:49.680
about this but it's low low credibility reporting so far there's some reporting that trump may have
00:48:59.440
already worked out with israel ahead of time that within two weeks of the ceasefire with iran
00:49:07.600
that they would have to come up with some kind of a gaza i'll call it a peace deal
00:49:13.120
so there's a pretty good chance that'll happen because that would be what opens up the abraham
00:49:21.520
accords for other countries you know the other muslim countries that want to join the join the accords
00:49:28.480
which would give them some you know certain economic advantages so there's a pretty good possibility
00:49:37.840
that trump will end three wars this summer he might you know if if you give him that he ended iran israel
00:49:51.200
if you give him that he did uh congo and rwanda and if he gets and i think he might because israel has to
00:50:01.520
you know do something different um they're going to have to they're going to have to make some kind of
00:50:08.160
um let's say compensation to the rest of the area to get the abraham accords going again so i think he's
00:50:18.960
got a shot the summer of ending naza that would be three right and then putin um is talking about the
00:50:32.880
need to you know have a summit and he says he wouldn't do a summit with zielinski unless they'd sort
00:50:40.640
of agreed on the peace deal so that the summit would come after they decided how to end things
00:50:48.160
so putin isn't really acting like he wants to end the war but he's talking like it and everything
00:50:56.720
does have to end eventually zielinski is definitely talking like he wants to end the war
00:51:06.000
there is a possibility and i wouldn't i wouldn't predict it will happen but there's a solid
00:51:12.960
possibility because the war has to end sometime it has to end for some reason um it might happen this
00:51:28.640
trump has a legitimate chance of ending four wars in one summer and i'm not even counting giving him any
00:51:39.280
credit for the pakistan india flare-up that um i think india is saying that the military
00:51:47.920
brought the ceasefire but i think it was a pakistan who was giving trump a little bit of credit for
00:51:54.640
that i don't remember if it was pakistan or just trump so pakistan india may or may not have been a
00:52:02.320
trump influence so that one's a little bit of a gray area so he has a chance i don't know what the odds are
00:52:12.000
but a chance of ending four and a half wars in one in half a year depending how you score the pakistan india
00:52:24.000
conflict have you ever seen anything like this and then the the stock market is fully recovered
00:52:33.840
interest rates will probably go down in 2026 you know because you'll get a new uh new head of the federal
00:52:42.160
reserve and even even economists who said that trump was crazy and destroying the country with his tariffs
00:52:54.640
the tariff thing apparently worked now not perfectly and maybe not as well as anybody wanted but it looks
00:53:05.040
like he's getting credit for being the only person who knew that the tariff thing could work yeah with his
00:53:11.760
advisors how big is that that is so big it's almost unimaginable then you add on top of it all of his
00:53:22.800
executive orders then you add on top of it the supreme court victories that he's that he seems to be
00:53:29.360
rolling up left and right oh i've never have you ever seen anything like this i don't remember
00:53:38.320
in my lifetime i don't remember any president who was anywhere near this level of effectiveness not
00:53:48.640
anywhere near it so will he get a nobel peace prize so my question is this how many wars does one man need
00:54:00.560
to stop before he gets a nobel peace prize i feel like three won't be enough
00:54:10.240
if he ended up stopping you know congo rwanda iran and then gaza if he got all three of those i don't
00:54:19.920
think he'd win i think he would have to get at least the ukraine russia thing to look like it was solved
00:54:28.960
and then the nobel prize committee would just freaking have to give it to him
00:54:37.280
how many would agree that if he ends three wars in one summer still not enough just because it's trump
00:54:45.680
still not enough but if he ends four i think they just have to they would just have to give it to him
00:54:54.400
at that point they'd probably give it to zelensky or putin but uh it would be hard to resist giving
00:55:02.000
it to him if he gets four wars in one summer anyway um also fox news brooke singman is reporting that uh
00:55:16.400
trump has a record-shattering 1.4 billion dollars in his political war chest you know i kept wondering why
00:55:26.640
i i kept getting all these uh fundraising requests from trump and i would think to myself he's not really running again
00:55:36.240
why does he need you know political donations and the answer is he would use them for the uh midterms
00:55:46.160
so the democrats are broke uh their most famous members are literally socialists who trump calls communists
00:55:56.960
and trump has got a gigantic war chest and some of the biggest victories that you've ever seen in a
00:56:05.920
political context whatsoever is that enough to win the midterms not necessarily because the midterms are
00:56:17.200
weird animals and if trump is not actually on the you know in the election um anything could happen and the
00:56:28.160
the history of the party that's out of power picking up seats it's hard to go against that history but if
00:56:36.000
anybody could if if it were possible trump trump would be the one to do it
00:56:43.600
all right uh there's a university of virginia president who is resigning because of the pressure over dei
00:56:55.600
so they look like a white guy to me james ryan so he's quitting his job as a university of virginia
00:57:04.480
president because it's illegal to do dei and he wants to really really do some dei
00:57:11.600
so he's gonna he quit his posts according to the new york post so good he will not be missed
00:57:25.120
um unbelievable let's talk about uh governor newsom again so believe it or not
00:57:35.760
and i don't know if i believe this story so there's something about the story that doesn't
00:57:41.440
add up yet but i'll tell you what it is um allegedly gavin newsom has figured out how to
00:57:50.560
essentially balance the impossible to balance california budget by he had he had a 12 billion dollar deficit
00:58:00.800
now that's a gigantic number for a state and there's really it looked like there was no way
00:58:07.360
he could close it without you know massively raising taxes on whoever he could raise it on but allegedly
00:58:15.840
he has closed you know with his lawmakers closed the 12 million dollar deficit for the proposed upcoming
00:58:24.240
budget and the way he did it was by denying health care to illegal immigrants
00:58:32.560
the way he closed it was by denying all the progressive stuff that the state wanted to do
00:58:49.760
so at least gavin newsom has figured out that you can't just give away everybody's money
00:58:56.560
and expect to still have a future in politics so i don't even know what to say i mean basically
00:59:07.120
the only things that work in california the only things that work are when the democrats throw up
00:59:13.440
their hands and say all right we'll just do what a republican would have done everything else just looks
00:59:20.000
ridiculous but as soon as as soon as he acts like a republican would because you know in his podcast he said
00:59:28.560
that he would be opposed to uh trans athletes uh competing in women's sports and nobody saw that coming
00:59:39.040
so in order for him to get into the you know the common sense area he just had to
00:59:44.000
sort of do what a republican would do which is exactly this so i don't know if he closed the budget deficit or if this is a done deal
00:59:55.600
but the fact that the fact that it's even being reported they close this giant deficit by not giving away our money
01:00:10.480
well you'll be happy to know that the former doge employee whose nickname was big balls
01:00:18.720
who left doge and you said to yourself oh no wouldn't it be better if big balls was working for the country
01:00:27.040
well he's back but not on doge he's going to be working for the social security administration
01:00:35.600
to modernize their computer network to which i say yes
01:00:43.120
let's uh let's bring big balls back and put him slot him in there at one of the
01:00:48.240
most important and most difficult things you could ever do
01:00:52.400
and uh let him continue serving the country i like him
01:00:59.840
that's all i've got for you uh remember that owen gregorian will be hosting a spaces in just a few
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