Episode 2919 CWSA 08⧸06⧸25
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Scott Adams is back with a brand new episode of the highlight of human civilization: Coffee with Scott Adams. This week, Scott talks about a poll that shows that young adults are less likely to vote and more interested in the news, Howard Stern is out of a job, and artificial intelligence is taking over the world.
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you are. Hi. Just checking on stocks. Stocks are up a little bit. There you go. It's not
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the end of the world yet. Let me check on your comments, make sure they're working.
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And then we're going to have some fun. Happy Wednesday. We've got lots of room in here.
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Come on in. Doesn't it feel like you're actually going to a real place? And if you close your
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eyes and just listen to me talking to you, you'll be pretty sure you're the only person
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I'm talking to. It'd be like getting a phone call from your boring friend who just wants
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to talk about the news all the time. Okay, that's me.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
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at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous
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One word, exquisite. Well, I wonder if there are any studies that could have been skipped
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just by asking Scott. Hmm. Oh, here's one. The AP is talking about a poll that they did.
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So the AP did a poll, and they discovered, I know this will be a shocker for you, that
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young adults are less likely to follow politics or say voting is important. Huh. How in the
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world would we ever know that young people are less likely to follow politics? Would it be
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if you had ever met even one young person in your life? How many young people do you know who are
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following politics? I don't know any. I literally don't know any in my real life. So yeah, I'm sure
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you got some, you know, a few people who are doing it. But no, just ask me next time you want to know,
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hey, who's paying attention to politics? Is it young people? Or is it older people? I'll tell you.
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Well, I just saw before I went live here that Howard Stern will not be renewed by Sirius. So Howard
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Stern just got canceled. And I shouldn't feel happy about it. I mean, he's probably worth, I don't know,
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500 million dollars or something. So he'll do okay. It's probably time. But does it seem to you that
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everything that's anti-Trump is having a bad year? Does it seem like that to you? It feels like that.
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I feel like Trump has outlasted all of the media entities that were after him. And Howard Stern was
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no friend of his. I also understand that the Republicans in Congress are subpoenaing the
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Clintons to talk about Epstein's Island or Epstein or something. And I don't know what they think will
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come out of that. But obviously, they're just trying to control the summer headlines. Let me tell you,
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this administration has done the best job I've ever seen of managing the headlines across the summer
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so that Trump is always giving us, and the Republicans, they're just continuously giving
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us something to talk about that isn't really very important, but it's something to talk about during
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the summer. All right. Apparently, according to futurism, and Victor Tangerman, he's writing,
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that job seekers now, when they think they're going to an interview with a real-life company,
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find that the interviewer is an AI. So there are people who think they're going for an actual
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human-to-human job interview, and they're either put in front of a computer, or they do it from home,
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I guess, without having to go in. But people are having a tough time getting past the AI.
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To which I ask the following question. How bad would you have to be interviewing for an AI to stop you?
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How many of you could not lie your way past an artificial intelligence at this stage of their
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artificial intelligence? I mean, really? You couldn't figure out how to lie your way past an AI
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until you could get to a real person? Come on. How hard would it be? Because the AI is not programmed
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to distrust you. So it's going to believe anything you tell it. And if you just simply act like the
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most awesome person in the world, do you think the AI would know the difference? Do you think the AI
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could even tell if you were being sarcastic? As soon as you get the AI, just say, oh, it's good to see
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you. I can't wait until I go back to feeding the poor. And I've got a patent I'm working on that will
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give free energy to the world. And I'd sure like to talk to a real-life human. All right. Well,
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I'll give you lessons on how to thwart the AI interview. Well, the New York Times has a story
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that says that there have been 400,000 cases of reported sexual assault and sexual misconduct in Uber
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rides from 2017 to 2022. Now, that's not funny because, you know, these are serious accusations. But
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400,000? Now, I guess that would include, you know, every kind of sexual comment and language and stuff
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like that. But holy cow. It's hard. I can't even imagine being female and getting into an Uber at this
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point. Because the odds are not good. I sometimes forget what it's like to be male.
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And how I'm not really afraid of anything in public. Do any of you have that experience? Even if you go
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someplace where, you know, maybe it's not the safest place. You just have this sort of cone of safety
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around you because you're male. You know, nobody's going to want to, you know, sexually attack me.
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If they thought they wanted to rob me, they'd, you know, better have a good weapon.
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So, it must be terrible. I mean, I'm being serious, by the way. I'm trying to wrap my head around the
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fact that if I just wanted to take a, you know, a ride in a cab-like unit, that I'd be putting my,
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you know, my honor in my life at risk, I'd never feel that way. I've just never had that experience.
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To me, just everything's about the same level of risk. I don't even notice. Wow. So,
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will the driverless cabs have an advantage over Uber? Oh, yes, they will. So, Uber,
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I'm not entirely sure how they survive in the long, long run. In the short run, sure. But
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don't they have to be replaced by driverless cars because the drivers are the big risk?
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Well, Tulsi Gabbard was on a podcast, Pod Force One. And she was being asked about aliens,
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you know, because she's a DNI head. So, she would be the one to know. In theory, by now,
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Tulsi Gabbard would know more, or at least have the authority to know more, about the potential
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that there are aliens that have visited or might visit the Earth than anyone else alive. So,
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wouldn't you like to know what she says about it?
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She still has a lot of questions about the New Jersey drone incidents and believes that there's more to
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that story than what the government has told us, meaning that the government doesn't really know
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what was going on. And that the sightings were a lot more than New Jersey. So, there was something massive
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that was going on, and the government doesn't know what it was. So, that's a little bit scary.
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Doesn't mean it's aliens. Just doesn't mean we're under-informed.
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And she was, by the way, she was talking to Miranda Devine. And she said, she has a lot of questions
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unanswered about the New Jersey drones. And then, in terms of the larger question of, you know, aliens,
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she said, she's, quote, she is, there's nothing that she's prepared to talk about.
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And that her team will be transparent when the time is right. And that they continue to look for the
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truth so that they can share it with the American people. So, doesn't that sort of suggest
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that whatever it is that she knows, which would be, in theory, more than anybody knows,
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she would know more than anybody. And she's not willing to say, there's no such thing as aliens.
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Isn't that interesting? Because if what she knew is that there were no credible alien anythings,
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wouldn't she tell us that? Yes, we've been looking into it for years. That's the first thing
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I looked into when I got the, you know, all the top secret clearances. And I can assure you that
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there's nothing credible that looks like an alien. She was not willing to say that.
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She's still got questions. I don't know what to make of that. Now, personally, I do not believe
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there are any aliens who have visited or will visit. So, I'm not a believer. But,
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not just to make it fun, there is a new UFO whistleblower, just a random looking guy on social
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media, who believes that in his day job, he was made aware by, I guess, an email that went to him
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that wasn't supposed to. This is such a bad story. Don't believe anything I'm about to say.
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It was on social media. So, I'm not making it up. But I would say the credibility is quite low.
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So, allegedly, somebody who worked for the Pentagon got an email that was meant for somebody with a
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similar name, but it wasn't meant for him. And he alleges that he learned that the Pentagon expects
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contact with a sentient alien force on October 29th.
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Now, is it my imagination, or was there not an actual movie that involved aliens visiting the Earth?
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It was E.T., right? Didn't E.T. come to Earth coincidentally on Halloween,
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so they could walk around and nobody would know it was an alien. So, these sentient beings are
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supposed to show up around October 29th. Will they reveal themselves on October 31st?
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On Halloween? I wonder. Well, I know what my costume is going to be. I will be one of those aliens.
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All right. So, we're not even going to notice. We might have aliens walking among us all Halloween
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day, and we'll just say, nice costume. Where'd you get that? Well, here's a story that I don't know if I
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can truly express. Some things you have to see, and you're just listening to me, so you don't get to see it.
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But Google, their AI, Genie, it's now Genie 3, I saw a demo of the worlds it can create for you
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with one prompt. So, you might write one sentence that says, it's the beach, and a perfect beach will
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appear. But it won't be just a static picture of a beach. It'll be a video of a beach. Well,
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it'll seem like a simulated reality. And you can look around in all directions,
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and it would create itself in real time as you were turning to look. So, nothing would be there
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until you wanted to look in that direction and it would create it. So, it would be a complete
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simulated world. And then, you can add stuff to it with just another prompt. So, you could say,
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okay, and there's a unicorn. And then, a unicorn would, you know, gallop by. It would look exactly
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like it's a real unicorn, you know, because I've seen a lot of real unicorns, and you can
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tell the difference from the fake ones. But you might be saying to me, Scott, every day,
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there's another report of a, wow, you can make a little movie scene. But this is the first
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one that can remember changes and make itself on the go. So, it showed a demonstration where
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somebody told it to put some paint on a wall. And then, you can go wander around in other places.
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And when you come back, that paint will still be on the wall right where you put it.
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So, aren't we very close to being able to create a simulated environment with a simulated creature
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that says it's sentient and says it's conscious and acts like it has purpose and reason and, you know,
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curiosity and all the things that humans have? How far away are we from knowing that we are a
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simulation ourself because we created one where the person in the simulation swears they're real
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and has no way to know they're not? And the answer is one year.
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We are one year away from knowing for sure that we are a simulation because we will be able to create
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one. And once we've created one, do you think we'll create another one? Of course, because it'd be easy
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to create another one once you've done it once. And once we had more simulated worlds than we had real
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ones and all the characters within the simulated worlds believe they're real and act like they
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believe it and they seem to have consciousness as far as we can tell. Because remember, I can't tell
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that you're conscious. I just have an impression. I think I'm conscious because of my internal sensation
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of it, but I don't know that you are. I mean, I don't know it. So, if we created these
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artificial worlds where there were characters that, let's say, were not conscious, but it seemed
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like it to us, it would be just like people. So, the whole world will be very different in
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one year, partly because we'll understand our true nature much better.
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Trump administration continues to do smart things when it comes to simplifying regulations.
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So, I guess the Trump administration is going to look at drone approval process. So, if you were
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an entrepreneur and you wanted to start a drone company and you wanted it to do something that
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wasn't strictly approved already, it would be really hard to get approval, even if you were asking
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for something quite, you know, harmless. So, apparently there's a tangle of regulatory things
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that could be simplified and would help the U.S. become dominant in drones. Because if there's one
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thing I know, we've got to be dominant in drones, I think one of the things that Trump is doing a
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great job in is teaching us that everything's a competition and that drones are not just a cool
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new technology. They are something we better be better than everybody else at. AI isn't just a new
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user interface. It's something that the U.S. is going to have to be the best at or we're going to pay
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for that. Same with our economy, same with our, you know, military, etc. We don't really have an
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option of falling behind, you know, or letting other countries be our manufacturing base or stuff
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like that. So, I do love the fact that Trump makes you think everything is a, you know, winner-take-all
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battle because it kind of is. And it feels like that makes you do the right stuff.
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According to Newsmax, Missouri is thinking about doing a little redistricting, you know,
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redrawing the map so that they have more Republicans in that case. But did you know, the, according
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to the Wall Street Apes account I saw on X, that the real reason that the Democrats don't
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like Texas doing the gerrymandering, aside from the obvious, it creates more positions for Republicans
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and in Congress. The reason they don't like it is that even though California could match
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it and they could do their own redistricting and, you know, cancel out what Texas did, that
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if all the states did that, here's what you would discover. You would discover that the only
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Democrat states that haven't completely done it so far are New York and California. But apparently
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there are more states that are Republican-leaning that haven't fully maximized their redistricting
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and gerrymandering, that if both sides went completely wild and just gerrymandered everything
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they could as soon as they could, Republicans would come out way ahead. How many of you knew
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that? Now, I only know it because I read the Wall Street Apes account, so I'm going to take their
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word for it because it showed details, et cetera. But isn't that the most important part of the story?
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The most important part of the story is that the Democrats can't call the Republicans bluff
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because the bluff is, hey, if you do that, we'll do this, and then, you know, it'll be this war
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of redistricting. The Republicans would love a war of redistricting because they have more ammunition
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and they would come out ahead. So the weird thing is that not only are the Democrats, you know,
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just guaranteed to lose when it comes to the Texas politicians who left town so that there wouldn't be
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a quorum so that there wouldn't be a finalized vote, so that they wouldn't redistrict and add some
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Republicans, they don't really have a chance of winning that, right? There's no path to victory.
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All they're doing is, you know, sort of demonstrating in a way that gets some attention. But ultimately,
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they're going to lose. So I did a little micro lesson for my subscribers earlier this
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morning, but I'll give you a summary of it. If you'd like to learn how to be a Democrat consultant
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and give them good advice, here's how you do it. The Democrats' problem, as we all know,
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is that they have terrible policies or none at all and terrible candidates or none at all.
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So what do you do if you have bad policies and bad candidates? Well, as your Democrat consultant,
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let me tell you, number one, you need to curse a lot more. You need to do a lot more cursing. But you
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also have to pretend that you're fighting, which is largely something you do with words and by making
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your eyes really wide like this. Oh, oh, we're going to fight. We're really going to fight.
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Ah, ah, ah, fight. Yeah, yeah. We can't let them push us around anymore. We're going to take a knife
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to a knife fight. Fight. Ah. So, so it doesn't do anything, but you got to make your eyes really
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wide and say a lot of fighting words and that will help. So you get your swearing and your, your fighting
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words. Um, and then it would be good to put on some skits, you know, like, uh, leaving the city
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and, you know, doing some videos of you on the tarmac and stuff like that. Nothing that will make
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the world any different. It's more like a little movie skit, you know, something that you used to
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do for your parents when you were eight, that sort of thing. So do a skit. Um, so you got your
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cursing. You're sauceride, uh, complaining with words that sound like fight. Uh, yeah. Okay.
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And, uh, then you should also do some cringy social media videos. If you do all of those things,
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the cursing, the cringy videos, the skits, if you get it all right, especially the saucerides,
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then you have a pretty good chance that you can get your Democrat approval level up to
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23%. And of course you'll have no power in the government whatsoever. But the important
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thing is that I, as your consultant was well compensated. So that's your micro lesson of
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the day, how to be a Democrat consultant. You're welcome. Well, Stanford University, this
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is going to lay off 360 employees and they cite it's because of Trump's policies. Uh, Newsmax
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is reporting that. Now, my first question was 360 employees. And here I'm only being partly
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serious. When I say, I asked myself, how many employees do you need to run all of Stanford?
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Stanford? Because if you would ask me, how many employees does Stanford have? You know,
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just the total number of employees, I would have said, I don't know. They must have about
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400 employees, but they're laying off 360. So I went to Grok and I said, how many employees
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are there at Stanford? And the answer is, uh, 25,000? They have 25,000 employees. And then I said, oh,
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wait a minute. How many, uh, students do they have? So now this is according to Grok, so who knows?
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But, um, apparently they only have, uh, 18,000 students. Now that sounds worse than it really is.
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So they have 18,000 students and 20, 25,000 staff, but that's because Stanford's not like a regular
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college. They are so important that they also have, uh, um, a whole bunch of, what do they have?
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Uh, research institutions and with extensive operations and they've got a medical school and
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all that. So there's a whole bunch of, there's a big part of the operation. That's not, you know,
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classrooms and teachers. But, uh, did you know that? So 360 people laid off out of 25,000. It's less
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than 2%. Um, but if you can blame it on Trump, it becomes a headline story. So they did.
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Um, let's see. Can you guess who was behind funding the, uh, the tech,
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Texas politicians to get out of town? So there wouldn't be a quorum. So there wouldn't be a vote
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on redistricting. Well, if you guess, huh, that sounds like something that Soros organization
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might've done, you would be right according to some. And then there's also a report that Beto O'Rourke
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has some, uh, some political action committee that also may have paid for it. So Beto and George
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Soros, a couple of winners right there. Um, some say Pritzker. Yeah, I think Pritzker was part of
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that too. Um, so here's some news that I guess is good news. The, there's an AP NORC poll,
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N-O-R-C. I don't know what that stands for. Uh, that was just released. They found a significant
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drop in U.S. adults who perceive there to be racial discrimination against black Americans.
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So a big drop in people who perceive it. And so today, 45% of those polls say there was a
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great deal of discrimination or quite a bit against, uh, black Americans, but this is down.
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45% sounds like a big number, right? If you're talking about discrimination against one group
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of people, but it's down from 61%, uh, when they started the poll in 2021. So that was only a year
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after George Floyd. So, um, do you think that's accurate? Do you think, so 45% says a great deal
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of discrimination against black Americans? How many of you would agree with there's a great deal
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of discrimination against black Americans? Uh, I'll give you the correct answer. The correct
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answer is, it depends where you are. It just depends. There are definitely places in this big
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old country where there would be more discrimination against you if you're not whatever the people
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who already live there are. That definitely exists. But there are also, uh, pockets, big ones,
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like every Fortune 500 company and the entire, in the entire government, in which being a, uh,
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member of a minority group would give you a leg up and the discrimination would be the opposite there.
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So it cannot be said that America on average is biased one way or the other, because it just
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depends where you are. You can find, you can find bias in any direction you want, depending on what
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pocket of America you find yourself in. So here's my advice. If you find yourself in a place
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that's bad for you for any reason whatsoever, and there's a place that that would not be the case,
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you should think about moving to the place where it wouldn't be the case. So if you're black American
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and you're in a place where, uh, there is quote, a great deal of discrimination against you,
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I don't know exactly where that would be, but I, I accept that such places exist, but it's gotta
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be pretty easy to find a place where that's not the case. It can't be that difficult. Uh, most places
00:32:35.280
would not have that as an issue. Hurry. What is the rush? They're only open until September. What?
00:32:43.040
Leguan's. Is that why we're in Coburg beach? Order me the mother cluckers. A chicken sandwich. Not just a
00:32:49.260
chicken sandwich, Arthur. Chicken. Marinated for 24 hours and tossed in their blend of herbs and
00:32:54.960
spices before they become cold and crispy. Slapped between two Guyanese sweet buns that are toasted to
00:33:01.640
buttery perfection. It's the best chicken sandwich in the world. All right. Yeah, that does sound
00:33:07.320
pretty good. You're damn right. Well, allegedly, according to the FBI, uh, violent crime is falling.
00:33:16.720
The rate is falling. Hmm. Dropped, uh, let's see, um, compared 2024 compared to 2023, murder and non-negligent
00:33:27.660
manslaughter dropped 15%. Um, do you believe any crime data? I feel like I'm so jaded and cynical at this
00:33:40.240
point that if you tell me, Hey, I've got some new data on crime. I say, well, is it as accurate as our jobs
00:33:48.840
data? Um, um, is it as accurate as our climate models? Um, is it as accurate as all the smart
00:34:01.060
economists predicting what would happen this summer because of tariffs? Um, I don't know. I don't know
00:34:11.740
what to believe, but I'll tell you one thing I don't believe is crime statistics from one year to
00:34:17.860
the next. There's just too much going on. Uh, and I think I saw some posts from Mike Cernovich yesterday
00:34:25.720
in which he was talking about the, the known ways to game the crime numbers. Um, the, the basic idea
00:34:34.880
is that if you, if you charge people with less than the maximum crime, it might look like crime is
00:34:43.760
falling, but it would be just a reflection that people aren't being charged what they used to be
00:34:48.920
charged. So you can do it that way. Um, and there was some other way that he mentioned that you could game
00:34:55.440
in. Oh, just not taking the calls, you know, just process fewer complaints and it would look like
00:35:02.700
the crime went down when actually you're just being inefficient, something like that. So I don't
00:35:08.520
believe any of those numbers, but it'd be good if it would be good if they're heading in the right
00:35:14.200
direction. Well, Trump was asked, um, whether JD Vance is the heir apparent to MAGA or not. And
00:35:24.040
he gave what started out to be a very direct answer. And then he trumpetized it at the end
00:35:31.420
in his classic way. He said, quote, I think most likely, meaning that JD Vance would be the heir to
00:35:38.660
MAGA. He goes, I think most likely in all fairness, he's the vice president. And I think Marco is also
00:35:45.700
somebody that would get together with JD in some form. See, that's the perfect part. He would get
00:35:51.780
together with JD in some form. Now, are they suggesting that Marco would be the vice presidential
00:36:01.340
candidate or, uh, stay on at secretary of state? That seems less likely. And would Rubio be willing
00:36:10.860
to be second behind, uh, JD Vance, who's, you know, younger and less experienced? Well, I don't know,
00:36:21.780
maybe. Um, so Trump has this way of injecting something that looks like, um, let's see, something that
00:36:34.100
looks like he answered the question. So it doesn't look like he's avoiding the question, but he, he
00:36:40.720
inserts a little mystery into it as to what role Marco would have, Marco Rubio. Um, but I love the
00:36:48.040
fact that there are, you know, two people that you could feel could make things work without Trump.
00:36:54.980
He leaves a little mystery. That's, that's Trump's magic. Um, according to, uh, let's see, it was a
00:37:06.140
recent poll, Rasmussen poll. Um, and one American news is reporting on this. Most voters now, a majority
00:37:14.920
believe that the Obama administration likely committed crimes in Russiagate. So Russiagate being, you know,
00:37:23.400
running the hoax and covering it up and knowing that the steel dossier was fake, um, or, and, uh,
00:37:34.320
essentially running, you know, just as major operation on the public and on, on Trump. Uh, so 54%
00:37:43.120
believe that former members of Barack Obama's national security team probably committed crimes.
00:37:51.380
Now, as you know, um, we don't know the names of the people, but some amount of people have
00:37:58.340
been turned over to the grand jury process by the department of justice. So there will be
00:38:05.820
likely because grand jury is usually indict. So it's likely that there will be indictments
00:38:12.660
for Barack Obama's ex security team. You know, the Brennan's and clappers and whatnot.
00:38:21.380
Now, do you think the country could handle Barack Obama being convicted of a crime and
00:38:30.900
jailed? Do you think they could handle that? The answer is yes and no. The beauty is if
00:38:40.500
they have the option, they should not go after Barack Obama first. They should not go after
00:38:47.080
him first. You want to, you want to break the country in. So you might go after, let's say
00:38:53.400
a John Brennan, where let's say the evidence is stronger. I don't know that that's true, but
00:38:59.920
based on the reports, it sounds like it is. So the Brennan story, if they convicted him,
00:39:07.480
it would be in the headlines and it would get everybody used to the fact that some bad stuff
00:39:14.020
happened in the Obama administration. Now let's say that Brennan got convicted and it educated
00:39:21.740
the public on the whole situation. Then let's say they went after, I don't know, another one,
00:39:28.140
but it wasn't Obama. By the time they decided to go after Obama, assuming they had the goods,
00:39:35.920
and I don't know that they do, the country would be used to it. They would understand
00:39:43.240
that if the people worked for him, you know, if there's an indication that Obama was in on
00:39:51.560
it, people would just say, oh, damn it, we don't like this, but it's not where I'm going
00:39:57.480
to, I'm not going to fight my final fight over this. So I feel like we're actually in a world
00:40:05.640
in which Obama could be convicted and jailed. And here's the main reason why. Because the
00:40:13.640
lawfare against Trump opened the door for jailing ex-presidents. You just had to have the goods.
00:40:23.940
The Democrats didn't get it done, but it allowed us to imagine the unimaginable,
00:40:31.300
that an ex-president could be jailed. So because of that, and because it wasn't Trump who broke the
00:40:38.520
seal, he's not the one who started the idea that you jail him. In fact, he did the opposite.
00:40:43.880
He didn't go after Hillary Clinton. She wasn't, she was never president. But same situation.
00:40:50.540
He had decided not to go after her when he probably could have.
00:40:53.620
Well, I think that may have changed. So yeah, I do believe that as much as people would holler,
00:41:04.100
we are at a point where if the evidence showed, and if it came after Brennan, it may be after others,
00:41:11.560
who knows, the country would very grudgingly, and with a lot of friction, would accept it.
00:41:20.120
And that's a very rare situation. I don't think we've ever been in this situation where that's
00:41:27.900
even something you could voice without sounding like you're crazy. But now it doesn't sound crazy,
00:41:34.480
does it? It sounds very doable. So sure enough, the grand jury is forming. It almost doesn't seem
00:41:44.240
real. At the same time, we hear that Adam Schiff is under criminal investigation for his alleged
00:41:53.020
mortgage fraud violations. Now the charges that he had two homes, one near Washington and one in
00:42:01.800
California where he's a senator from, and that at various times he's claimed both of them as his
00:42:07.700
primary residence, which would be illegal. So that's happening. So I think it was Bill Pulte who kind of
00:42:22.180
pushed forward these allegations, and now they seem to have been reached into the criminal realm.
00:42:31.480
So there's some chance that by the end of the Trump term, let's see, what would today's score be?
00:42:45.100
It would be Howard Stern loses his job, CBS pays him money, Colbert goes out of business, Adam Schiff might be
00:42:56.660
prosecuted. All the Obama people are being indicted. Trump is winning pretty hard. And that's not even
00:43:07.620
counting the colleges and universities that are paying him, et cetera. Well, Matt Taibbi had a comment
00:43:17.380
about AI, and he goes, I'm not sure what he's talking about, but it won't matter for my point. He goes,
00:43:24.600
this is why AI is dangerous. Ultimately, it has no ability to assess and detect incorrect media
00:43:31.300
reports. It overcounts the, quote, authority of certain media brands and undercounts primary sources.
00:43:39.800
And then Elon Musk commented on that, which is why I mentioned it. He goes, Elon says, the actual problem
00:43:45.860
is that AI still thinks the news is real. LMAO, laughing my ass off. Yeah, that would be the way
00:43:54.400
to summarize that. The AI still believes that the news is real. I don't know if the news has ever
00:44:05.520
been real. It doesn't feel like it, but I don't know. Well, even though the news is not real, at least
00:44:14.860
science is real. Am I right? Now, aren't you happy about that? You know, sure, the elected politicians who
00:44:22.880
are supposed to be guarding your money and your safety. Yeah, they're all corrupt, and that's all
00:44:29.240
a mess. But at least the field of science is virginal and perfect, and it's propelling us forward. Oh,
00:44:40.420
wait, maybe not. Did you know that there's a giant, gigantic fraudulent business in selling people
00:44:51.140
papers that they can put their own name on so that it can look like they've published a lot of
00:44:56.220
scientific papers? And did you know that at the moment there are more fake papers that weren't
00:45:04.980
even written by the author? The author just puts their name on it, and they buy a service. There are
00:45:10.220
more fake papers than there are real ones. And that if you were to look at just the real ones,
00:45:17.800
half of them would not be reproducible. All right, let me say it again. Those are two separate
00:45:26.020
problems. But look how big they are when you add them together. Number one, the majority of new papers
00:45:33.800
are from the frauds. It's somebody who just said, well, I'm a bad scientist, but if I had published a lot
00:45:42.380
of things, I could get that prestigious job at the university, so I'll just buy some papers. Now, AI creates
00:45:51.480
them, and sometimes even the data is just entirely made up. So more than half of the new papers are
00:46:02.420
completely fraudulent. But of the ones that are not intentionally fraudulent, half of those will never be
00:46:14.100
reproduced because there was a problem with the methodology or the data was flawed or something. So, you know,
00:46:22.800
you can't come up with an exact number, but something like one in four published papers is not complete
00:46:33.200
bullshit. So, it's something like three to one ratio of bullshit to real science. And how are you going to
00:46:41.680
tell what's real? You know, I was saying the other day that nearly everything I learned about nutrition
00:46:47.440
from the time I was a kid, almost everything was fake. Almost everything. I mean, I went through the
00:46:56.780
period of a little bit of alcohol is probably good for your heart. And then there was the upside down,
00:47:03.860
you know, food pyramid, and, you know, I could go on. But I don't think, you know, the stuff about
00:47:10.620
carbohydrates probably wasn't real. The problem with fat wasn't real. We live in a fake world, people.
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So, Debbie Dingleberry has been in the news, and she says that the Epstein files,
00:48:03.040
she should be a Democrat, anti-Trumper kind of person. Debbie Dingleberry is her name.
00:48:08.600
And she said about the Epstein files, it's very clear that Trump wants it to go away.
00:48:15.140
It's very clear that it's not going to go away. Now, I don't know if I'm unusual because I spend too much time
00:48:23.560
looking at the news, but I'm so tired of the Epstein stuff that as long as there's still something happening,
00:48:32.880
as in the government says, oh yeah, we're still vetting some files and there's more to come.
00:48:39.060
As long as there's something coming, I'm just so bored with it that it just doesn't seem like an impactful story that will affect politics.
00:48:53.360
Like, why would you punish some unrelated Republican in the midterms just because you didn't like what Trump said
00:49:04.280
So, I'm going to go with, I think the Epstein file stuff will have absolutely no impact on the politics of the future.
00:49:14.060
It's boring. It's over. I feel like we know what we need to know, except for the names of the potentially guilty parties.
00:49:33.160
I feel like Trump supporters are losing interest.
00:49:38.480
I mean, think of the things that Trump is doing every day that you like.
00:49:43.740
And then just imagine trying to kneecap him because there's that one thing.
00:49:59.140
I think we're just going to get used to the fact that we don't know everything that can be known.
00:50:24.820
Well, did you see President Trump's response to Elizabeth Warren and her endorsement of Kami Mandami, Zoran Mandami?
00:50:39.680
And I have to say, I was asking myself, is she on drugs?
00:50:44.340
Because her eyes were gigantic and she was jumping around and she looked like she was, looked like there was something going on there.
00:50:51.120
And even Trump commented on it, like, like, I don't know why she was on or something like that.
00:51:02.060
Now, I, of course, mock a lot of Democrats for their terrible approach.
00:51:08.940
But if I watch somebody like, let's say, Randy Weingarten, the head of the teachers' union, big teachers' union, and she, you know, she's very demonstrative.
00:51:21.360
She looks like she learned to be demonstrative because it got the crowds going.
00:51:26.240
But when I looked at Elizabeth Warren, my first impression was that it looked like drugs, good ones, you know, something that was an upper.
00:51:47.060
You know, maybe she was having a bipolar episode or something.
00:51:50.200
But whatever that was, that didn't look normal to me.
00:51:54.160
So, it seems to me that we've got at least three examples of people who, when they're demonstrative, you wonder if they're on drugs.
00:52:09.400
Doesn't Newsom make you wonder, hmm, I don't know.
00:52:13.880
It looks like you might be on drugs right there.
00:52:16.480
And, of course, Kamala Harris would often look like she was drunk in public, right?
00:52:27.440
I don't say every Democrat looks like they're, you know, does Swalwell ever look like he's drunk or on drugs?
00:52:40.320
But Newsom, Harris, and now Elizabeth Warren, I do have my questions.
00:52:47.920
And I wonder, is there any Republican that, just to be fair, you know, because it'd be hard to believe it only works on one party.
00:52:56.340
But do you think there are any Republicans that, when they speak in public, you ever say to yourself, huh, that looks like you might be a little bit on some drugs.
00:53:16.880
And, again, I don't have any evidence that any of them are on drugs.
00:53:24.660
Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants to see what he can do to stop California from redistricting,
00:53:30.980
because he calls it evil to take away the power of the people with the redistricting.
00:53:37.800
But Arnold has no say over anything, so that looks performative, too.
00:53:46.440
So, Trump has threatened Big Pharma up to a 250% tariff.
00:53:54.920
So, what he's trying to do is he's got this tariff structure that will increase every year until the Big Pharma moves their manufacturing to the U.S.,
00:54:08.040
But in one year, in a half years maximum, he says, it's going to go to 150%.
00:54:13.600
Now, obviously, Big Pharma would hate this stuff.
00:54:20.820
So, but I asked this amusing question once again.
00:54:31.400
Wouldn't you think the oligarchs would include the owners of the Big Pharma?
00:54:36.120
I mean, they're like the biggest oligarch of all.
00:54:39.540
But apparently, Trump is going hard against the oligarchs
00:54:44.300
and trying to help the middle class or lower-income people get more affordable stuff.
00:54:52.180
So, is this the oligarch that they're worried about?
00:54:55.720
Or is it the oil companies who wish that the price of oil were higher
00:55:06.460
I don't know who the oligarchs are, but Trump's not making them all happy.
00:55:26.000
Amazingly, have I ever told you that there are some people
00:55:32.040
find themselves at the center of history all the time?
00:55:39.400
I'm one of those people who I can just wake up one day
00:55:43.440
and find myself in the center of some big controversy.
00:55:47.740
Sometimes I break it on myself, but other times I just wake up into it.
00:55:54.860
And other people will avoid any controversy or drama their whole life.
00:56:03.960
Well, I bring that up because remember the Doge employee, Big Balls?
00:56:10.020
Apparently, he was violently beaten in Washington, D.C.
00:56:14.880
I think he was with a woman in a car, and there was a carjacker,
00:56:28.180
And Trump was talking about how things are so bad in Washington, D.C.,
00:56:35.720
In other words, take control from the local government.
00:56:45.760
would Trump feel that federalizing D.C. was necessary?
00:56:50.060
Probably not, because Big Balls just would have been another stat.
00:56:56.700
It wouldn't have even, you know, come to our notice.
00:57:07.580
And wouldn't you love to see what would happen if D.C. got federalized?
00:57:15.480
and the feds cleaned up crime, like, in six months,
00:57:51.480
But here again, Big Balls may have changed the course of history
00:58:00.240
And by the way, if he got in a fight with several carjackers,
00:58:15.700
Would you like to hear the least shocking story in the news?
00:58:24.740
The least shocking story, according to the Brussels signal,
00:58:39.060
where they're skimming money off a drone procurement.
00:58:45.640
Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world
00:58:50.220
with gigantic amounts of money slopping around,
00:58:53.980
especially for the production and procurement of drones.
00:59:08.540
that in the most corrupt country in the entire world,
00:59:12.400
that the people in charge of that were corrupt.
00:59:19.660
I'm going to fall out of my chair with surprise.
00:59:22.540
Yep, there are some corrupt people in Ukraine, people.
00:59:33.020
I'm sure there will be lots more exciting stories
00:59:39.500
Apparently he's not taking a vacation this summer,
00:59:55.660
and I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.
00:59:59.680
But in 30 seconds, I'll be private with Locals.