Episode 2922 CWSA 08⧸09⧸25
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A 20-year-old woman in China can't stop having orgasms, and doctors don't know why. President Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, and a new study suggests that psychedelics could be helpful in treating eating disorders.
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Boom. Oh, there you are. Come on in. It must be time. Yeah. It's Catterday. Some of you
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call it Saturday, but that's because you don't yet have a cat. But you will.
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All right. Let me get your comments working here on locals. And then we shall begin.
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Mm, yeah, stein. Yep, that was as good as I hoped. Well, I wonder if there's any new science
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that would suggest that drinking coffee is good for your cardiovascular disease. Yes, there
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is, according to SpotterUp. It's a groundbreaking new study. And it turns out that people who
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drink coffee in the morning are way healthier. Boom. Take that. I'll bet you didn't see that
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coming, even though I have a study about that almost every day. Well, how about this? There
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was a study. Let's see if you can guess what happened. There was a study according to Medscape,
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and they want to see if they could treat eating disorders with marijuana and then separately
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with psychedelics. What do you think was the result when they tested to see if you could control
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people's appetites? Obviously, the marijuana would be increasing their appetite. And the psychedelics
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might help them with some other kind of eating disorder. Do you think it worked? The answer is
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yes. Because every time they do a study that gets published in the popular media about psychedelics,
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every time. It's about, well, we tried psychedelics on this particular mental problem, and guess
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what? It worked. So it turns out there may be no mental problems you can't solve with psychedelics.
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One or two doses. Speaking of marijuana, President Trump is allegedly, reportedly,
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considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. I don't know about that. But
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there's some thinking that he talked about that or was willing to consider it. But I feel like he's
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been willing to consider that for a long time. Now, someone is alleging that because the marijuana
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business is big enough is big enough that it can make, you know, very, very large donations to
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campaigns, that maybe it's a different situation. But I will see. I would bet, I don't know. Yeah,
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I feel as though if Trump were going to do this, he would have already done it. I don't know why he would
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wait. So I'll bet against that. Well, New York Post is reporting all the important news this summer
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because remember I told you that the summer has not the most important news. So they still have to
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fill all the space. So New York Post is reporting that doctors in China say they're baffled over the
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case of a young woman who experiences uncontrollable orgasms multiple times per day. She's a 20-year-old
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and she's in a perpetual state of arousal. Now, the article goes on to say that she spends almost her
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entire day, oh wow, just binge watching old episodes of Coffee with Scott Adams. And they can't figure out
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why she's having nonstop orgasms. No, I just made up part of that story, the part about watching my
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show. But allegedly, 20-year-old woman can't stop having orgasms. I know what you're thinking.
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Not the worst problem in the world, but you wouldn't like it. I don't think you'd like it at all
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after the first. Well, if it were me, I don't think I would like it. To have continuous orgasms?
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Oh, sure. The first 10,000, I'd probably like it plenty. But eventually, eventually you just get
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tired of it. Well, in other related news, according to the Logical Indian, I don't know if that's a
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publication. I hope it is. Mobile phone use and laptops on your lap are creating a tenfold rise
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in male infertility. So, men, I don't like to give sexual and or medical advice, but I'm going to
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make an exception. If you forget to bring your condom and your sexual partner is ready to go,
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what I recommend is using your phone in your pocket and putting a laptop on your lap. Probably
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15 minutes. We'll cook whatever you got in there and you'll be good to go. No condom needed. Just
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use that laptop. And I recommend watching Coffee with Scott Adams because it makes women orgasm and it
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makes men infertile. Sorry about that. I apologize for both of those things. Anyway, remember how it's
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such a mystery that the birth rate is dropping? And I keep saying, it's not a mystery. It's every single
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thing. It's making it worse. Everything from economics to health to plastic in your balls to
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whatever fresh health this is. It's everything. You can't find anything. You can't find anything
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from dating apps to, you know, body mass index. You name it. Everything is making sex and reproduction
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less likely. So there's that. Trump administration is trying to get a billion dollar settlement and
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abuse the LA because Trump has, they say he's a weaponized government, but that's not the impressive
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part. The impressive part is he's monetized, he's monetized bad behavior by other people.
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Oh, I get it. You're going to be racist and anti-Semitic. All right. Here's the bill.
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All right. So you want to have bad trade deals? Fine. Here's the bill. You want to have a war in
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Europe and never stop? It's okay with me. Here's the bill. Anyway, we'll see if that works out.
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All right. I saw a post by the Rabbit Hole, an account on X. Good follow, the Rabbit Hole. And the
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Rabbit Hole says, history books should be updated to include affirmative action and DEI as examples of
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21st century institutional racism with the impact that Asian and white victims highlighted.
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Well, do you think that will happen? Do you think your history books will be rewritten? And the
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historians will say, you know, now that you mention it, there was horrific discrimination against a
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couple of groups. And that should be part of history. I don't know. I feel like all history has at least
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two versions, maybe three. You know, one would be the traditional version. Another would be the
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sort of updated version. And then the third one is the one that never gets published, which is the
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real one. You never know the real stuff. You just have some narrative that people agree on.
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Well, maybe that'll happen. Probably not. Well, you might be aware that President Trump
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presided over the signing of a peace agreement, apparently, between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
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who, if you're like me, you did not know they had any warring going on at all. But apparently,
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they want to stop that thing you didn't know was happening. And they did. So they met with
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the president and everything was smiles and happiness. And then one of them, and I'm not
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going to pretend that I, that I, I can't even pretend that I'm interested enough to learn which
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one of those men was ahead of Azerbaijan versus Armenia, because it looks a little bit interchangeable.
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So I'm going to say one of them, I don't know which one, you know, sort of flattered Trump by saying
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that the two of them, you know, the presidents of both countries, should push for the Nobel Prize
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committee to award Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, that's somebody who did their homework
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before coming to the Oval Office. Compare that to Zelensky, who was such a turd in the Oval
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Office, he basically got thrown out of the White House on camera. Compare that to Azerbaijan
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and Armenia, in which they come in, and they were like, okay, what would happen if we say
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we're going to, you know, maybe recommend him for the Nobel Peace Prize? And what if we needed
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a little foreign aid or a little bit of assistance? Don't you think we'd get more of it if we nominated
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him for the Nobel Peace Prize? So good job, Azerbaijan and Armenia, you did your homework.
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So Trump has apparently secretly signed, but not so secretly that we don't know it, a directive
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for the Pentagon to start using military force against cartels. I thought we were sort of
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already there, but I guess there was something official that had to be signed. So from this
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point on, our military can act against the cartels. Now, what did the president of Mexico
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say about that? No way, Jose. You cannot use your military to invade our country. To which
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I say, is it an invasion if our drones bomb a cartel headquarters? Would that be an invasion?
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Number two, question number two, what happens if our military only attacks cartel operations that are
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already in the United States? Don't you think that there are cartel, you know, like armed cartel,
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I don't know, weed farms and armed cartel distribution points and stuff that are in the United States?
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Our military probably doesn't even need to leave our borders. They could fight the cartel all day
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long, you know, just within our borders. So we'll see if there are any big news reports about attacks.
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It might not take a lot of attacks. It might be the sort of thing where the drug cartels are
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businesses, as opposed to being like religious and zealots and stuff. And if you attack a business,
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their first question will be, oh, how do I make money and stay out of jail and don't get killed?
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And that's somebody you can usually negotiate with. So it might be that, that Trump could actually
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make a difference there. You know, bomb maybe a facility or two, just so they know that we're
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serious. And then the next thing you know, hey, how about we make money quietly by not bothering your
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country if you don't bomb us? So maybe, maybe I would bet against it. So if you're betting that the,
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the drug trade will end and, you know, coming out of Mexico because of that, I wouldn't bet on that,
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but it might make a dent. Well, apparently Attorney General Bondi has authorized a special
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prosecutor, Ed Martin. He's going to investigate two alleged mortgage fraud schemes, one by Senator
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Adam Schiff, where he claimed two separate homes as his primary residence, and Letitia James,
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the Attorney General of New York State, who is, according to Bill Pulte, she did some shenanigans
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with claiming her father on one application. And she claimed she had two primary residences,
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which she didn't. And she claimed her five-unit building was four, all for the purpose of,
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you know, monetary advantage. Now, what would you, given that we know what the claims are,
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it's hard to imagine there's any kind of defense against any of that, because it's just documented
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and pretty straightforward. What do you think will happen? I feel like people like that,
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who are high enough in the political world, I feel like they just don't go to jail.
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Now, you might say to me, but Scott, what about that story of that ex-retired senator who recently
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went to jail? It was some Democrat, to which I say, right, retired, retired, and also one you never
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heard of. If they're retired and you never heard of them, yeah, they might go to jail, right? But Adam Schiff
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seems to be right in the middle of whatever the power, I don't know, whatever is the seat of power
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for the Democrats. Schiff is right in the middle of it. And I would imagine that they would also,
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the Democrat power base, would also protect Letitia James, because she was, you know, integral to their
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lawfare against Trump. They want to keep her on their side. The last thing they want is for her to flip
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and say, I'll tell you what, if you let me skate on all this mortgage fraud stuff,
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I will tell you that the White House was behind the lawfare and that they coached me and promised
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me things if I went ahead with it. Oh, that would be awesome. I don't know if that is true,
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but it'd be awesome if she flipped and that's what happened there. I don't know if you saw this
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clip yet of Bill Moore and his show. He had Stephen A. Smith. And Bill Moore asked, why was it that Pete
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Buttigieg had exactly zero black supporters, according to a recent poll? Zero. There were zero black
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Americans who said, oh yeah, we'd back Buttigieg. And Stephen A. Smith, he said, he basically said he
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didn't want to say anything about him being gay, but he goes, let me just say this. He doesn't move
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us. Us meaning black American voters, I guess. And do you think there's any other reason he has zero
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black votes? What else would it be? It's not like Pete Buttigieg has done some horrible thing to
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somebody or he's part of some big scandal that affected black America. Is it literally just
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they're not going to vote for the gay guy? Is that all it is? I don't know. Maybe Stephen A. Smith has
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the exact right characterization. He doesn't move us. He's not promising anything that would be a value
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to anybody. So I get it. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was on Sarah Silverman's podcast. And he admitted that
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what he called repulsive liberal scolds are driving people away from the Democratic Party.
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I feel like maybe there's a self-awareness problem at play here. Is it possible that Jimmy Kimmel might be
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one of those repulsive liberal scolds? Because it might look like that to some people. But no,
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Jimmy Kimmel is sure that it's other people who are the problem. You know, it's probably other people.
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Yeah, yeah. It's not what I'm doing every day. It's those other people. And then apparently Kimmel has obtained
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Italian citizenship just in case he needs to escape the country. But the funniest part was watching
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Silverman and Kimmel agree with each other that as bad as they thought it might be to be under a Trump
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administration, it's much, much worse. And they never mention anything. They just don't mention
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anything. What is the worst part? Are you being rounded up? What exactly is going wrong in your
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celebrity daily life? Did your dog walker not show up on time? What exactly is the nightmare that they're
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living that I don't even know what they're talking about? I live in the same country? I'm in the same
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state, right? I think they're in California. And I don't know what they're talking about. I have no idea.
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Now, I feel like if you push them, they would say something like, well, the authoritarian, authoritarian
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things, the authoritarian oligarch. And then you say, right, right, right. I hear the words, but
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what would be an example? Well, yeah, they're rounding up and sending the hardworking immigrants
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back to the country of their origin, to which I would say, are you talking about the main thing
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he said he would do? That's completely legal. And hadn't been done. And the country by majority wanted
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it done. Is that the authoritarian part? The part where most of the country wanted it. And that includes
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a whole lot of people who are Hispanic, are also supporting the mass deportations, and the black Americans
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also supporting, to a large extent, I don't know if it's a majority, but supporting the
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deportation. Is that the part? That's the hellscape that they're experiencing? Is that? Now, I'm not
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super in favor of law-abiding people who've been here 20 years and paid their taxes and their kids
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are in school. I'm not really in favor of shipping them back. I know you are. I get it. We're not
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going to argue that point. And I would argue that how you feel about that situation, the ones who've
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been here a long time, I really don't care about somebody who came this year. If there's somebody
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who came this year and you want to ship them back, you're fine. Or even anybody who showed up during
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the Biden administration, I'd probably be okay with shipping all of them back. But if somebody's
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been here 20 years, and they're literally a Trump supporter, and their kids are doing great in school
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and everything, I understand the argument for not making exceptions. I get it. I get it. But from a
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human empathy standpoint, if you have enough contact with that part of the world, it's really hard to be
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in favor of shipping them home. Because home doesn't exist. This is their home. So that's where I'm on,
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where I stand. However, even though that's my preference, it is true that Trump promised he
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would do exactly what he's doing. He also said he would do the worst first. And that part clearly
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is just not true. So if it bothers you that there was a very, very firm promise made often and
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prominently and it was a lie, if that bothers you, then that would be perfectly acceptable to be
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bothered by that. But it's not the biggest thing in the world either. You know, you got to put it all
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Well, I keep watching video clips of Mike Benz talking about things like USAD and all the NGOs and
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companies. And now he's been talking a lot about Norm Eisen. Now, I want to make sure that I don't get
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sued. So I'm going to blame Mike Benz for all the characterizations of Norm Eisen. But if I have it
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correctly, the story is this. That Norm Eisen is a, you know, major Democrat operative. And that
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he's always been a nation coup organizer. So that he first did this work for presumably USAID and
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the CIA and applied it to other countries. Because we know we've done this color revolution thing lots
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of times to other countries. And he was part of that. And so he's steeped in all the technique for
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overthrowing a country without a military war. And the accusation is that he simply turned those
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skills against the Republicans and just used it internally. Now, I'm not aware of any laws being
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broken. So let me be clear. He is a lawyer. So probably he is pretty smart about making sure he
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doesn't break any laws. But it would sort of suggest that we don't have a real country with like a real
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system. It's a competition of things like who can push through the best redistricting?
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Who can send Mark Elias out to change the voting laws? Who can get Mark Zuckerberg to give us half
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a billion dollars to, you know, change things that will be good for one side but not the other? Who can
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get voter ID? And who can get rid of or institute more mail-in ballots? That's all the stuff that
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determines the election. It's nothing about policies. You can, you know, pretty much entirely control the
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election with all this external stuff. But Norm Eisen would be part of the world of people who,
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if you asked him, he'd probably say he's saving the country from authoritarianism and a descent into
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chaos. But if you were on the other side of his preferences, you would say, it looks like you run
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coups against legally elected people in the United States. Shouldn't that be sort of illegal, treasonous
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kind of thing? Well, no, there are always two versions of every story. And probably he hasn't done anything
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illegal. Probably. But just knowing he exists, let me put it this way. If you don't know who Norm
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Eisen is, and what USAID is, and how both of them are connected to our intelligence community, and what
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the intelligence community has done to other countries for decades, and if you don't see that
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those same tools were turned inwardly against Trump, you don't really know what's going on.
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That story, that whole USAID, CIA, color revolution, Norm Eisen story, and how it all fits together,
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that's the story of our country. That is the main narrative that if you didn't understand that,
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you would be dealing with all these just fake, fake news narratives, and the Democrats say this,
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and the Republicans say that. But the real stuff, this is all the under the hood stuff that's really
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driving the real world. So, all right, cheers. I'm so afraid to even bring this up, but got to do it.
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So, HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., he's announced that BARDA, I guess that must be a government entity that
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funds a bunch of medical stuff, is canceling 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, saving half a billion
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dollars. And RFK Jr. said that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits for these respiratory
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viruses. And he says the reason that mRNA is no good for respiratory viruses is that it only takes
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one mutation, which you know is going to come. You know, the viruses mutate reliably. It's not like you
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wonder if they'll mutate. They do. And as soon as it mutates by just one thing, the mRNA technology
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just stops working. So, he says that even if you did the best mRNA job you could ever do, it still
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wouldn't work because there's such a thing as, you know, the virus evolving and it just makes it not
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work. And he believes that there are other platforms that are non-mRNA that have more
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potential. Now, here's the part where I'm trying to understand the story. As far as I know, he has not
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banned the giving of the existing COVID shot to adults, right? I feel like they may have pulled the
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recommendation for young people and for pregnant women. I don't know the details of that, but I think
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that's, you know, not recommended anymore. And we've known that for a long time. But is it true that
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RFK Jr. has canceled a bunch of vaccine development contracts, so that would be for stuff that's not
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rolled out, but that he's keeping the mRNA-based current vaccination recommendations? Is that true?
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Because there's more to the story. And it gets really murky. So, Steve Bannon had on the war room
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from HHS Special Advisor, Dr. Stephen Havehill. And he says something RFK Jr. did not say. So,
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it makes me wonder if he has the right narrative on this. But he says that RFK Jr. pulled that mRNA
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funding after the data showed that getting vaccinated was more dangerous than COVID itself.
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Now, I listened to RFK Jr.'s statement, and he didn't say anything like that. Did you hear him say
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anything like that? Now, I'm not saying, let me be careful here, because I know that whenever I talk
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about this topic, many of you will confuse talking about it with promoting it. All right,
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so we're not promoting. And I'll tell you in advance, I don't know what's true and what's not
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true about this story or about the science. I don't know what's true. So, I will neither debunk
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nor recommend anything medical, which is my way. All right, I just don't do that. So, let me go on.
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So, this guest on Steve Bannon's War Room, Dr. Stephen Havehill, he said that there was a
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meta-analysis. Now, what have you learned from me when an expert goes on TV and says there was a
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meta-analysis? What have you learned? What you should have learned is, oh, it's not science.
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A meta-analysis is not science. And they are so susceptible to misuse or, you know, being done
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wrong, a meta-analysis, for reasons I've described many times, that as soon as your so-called expert
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says, we've done a meta-analysis, that's when you should stop believing what they say.
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They could be right. Because the meta-analysis will either say something worked or it didn't
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work. You know, only two possibilities. So, even if it's wrong, it might be wrong in the
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right direction. Because there are only two directions, right? It's a coin flip. So, even
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the wrong analysis could, half of the time, get you the right answer. It's only two possibilities.
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Yes or no. So, do you believe that the meta-analysis concluded, as Dr. Hatfield said,
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that, quote, it was more dangerous to take a vaccine than it was to get COVID and be hospitalized
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with it. And that, yeah. So, the idea was that getting the vaccine made you have worse
00:34:29.600
hospitalization outcomes than if you had not been vaccinated at all. Now, remember, I gave
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you the warning. I'm not saying that's true. I'm just reporting to you what other people say
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is true. Now, I want to do a little test of your reasoning ability. How many of you said
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to yourself, those experts who recommended that vaccine, I don't believe any of those
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experts, you know, they've got their own motivations, et cetera. So, they rejected the experts when
00:35:06.940
they first told you to get the shot. And you said to yourself, well, I'm sure glad I didn't trust those
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experts. And then, you hear this story about the meta-analysis. Do you say, aha, finally, we know
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the truth? How many of you did that? How many of you said, I was sort of just using my instinct
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to resist the shot. But now that this meta-analysis is out and people within RFK Jr.'s domain are
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saying, aha, everything was opposite of what you're told. And the reason we know it's opposite
00:35:45.280
is because we have all these studies. Okay, that would be bad analysis. Here would be the correct
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analysis. You ready? The correct analysis is, on day one, hey, I don't trust all these experts. They
00:36:03.560
haven't tested it enough. And I don't trust their motivations and or their competence. Would that have
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been a reasonable view on day one? Yes. Yes, that would be completely, that was my view. So, it's the reason I
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didn't get my shots until months had gone by and I saw who was dying and who wasn't and all that.
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But that's another topic. So, it would be totally reasonable, totally reasonable, if you said, I don't
00:36:32.320
trust these experts. But would it be reasonable that you trust these latest experts? Why would you
00:36:41.200
trust Dr. Stephen Heffill? I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying that if you don't apply the same
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filter, then you're not being rational. You're just guessing. The correct filter is, you should not
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have trusted it when it was first rolled out. You may remember that I predicted it wouldn't work when
00:37:04.320
it was rolled out. So, that was the correct take. The correct take was not trusting it.
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What is the correct take when you have a whole bunch of new science that says the opposite,
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that was really bad for you and they knew it the whole time? Don't trust it. One of those is
00:37:22.260
probably closer to true, but you don't have any way of knowing. You and I have no way of knowing
00:37:29.300
if anybody did the science correctly. They're just claims. So, to round out the story, I will say that
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at the moment, the CDC and the World Health Organization and other experts are still saying
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that the mRNA technology was a miracle and it saved millions of people's lives and the science on it
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is crystal clear. Is that true? I don't know. It's either true that it worked or it's true that it
00:38:06.180
didn't work. And you have no way, no way of ever knowing which one was true. I'll bet you'll never
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know in your whole lifetime. It will never be credible because there will be studies on both sides
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forever. There will always be studies on both sides. So, I don't know what to believe.
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Do you remember Trump talked about so-called freedom cities, about the federal government just
00:38:40.420
before he was elected? The federal government could make some land available that entrepreneurial
00:38:47.260
developers could build their own little freedom cities and sort of experiment with, you know,
00:38:54.040
low cost, better, you know, better everything. And that idea seems to have sort of died away.
00:39:03.240
Yeah, I don't hear anybody talking about it. Trump doesn't talk about it. But then,
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I started seeing all these stories about gerrymandering.
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And I said to myself, how many places are there in the U.S. where if the federal government said,
00:39:20.100
all right, we'll make this little area a freedom city. And let's say some clever developer said,
00:39:28.660
I'm going to build a freedom city that will really be around Christians who want to go to church.
00:39:35.320
It won't be exclusive. So, we're not going to discriminate against anybody. But it'll really
00:39:41.320
be optimized for Christians who want to go to church. Now, in theory, that would bring in more
00:39:50.140
Republicans than Democrats. You might have a better idea how to do that. But the idea would be
00:39:55.900
that you could build a freedom city in just the right battleground state
00:40:02.380
where it might tip the election. Because if you can bring in, you know, a quarter million people
00:40:09.800
who are reliably Republican voters, and then give them a good experience in these freedom cities,
00:40:17.100
and then make it really easy to vote in the freedom cities.
00:40:22.580
Could you use the freedom cities to rig the election by moving in little pockets of reliably
00:40:31.200
Republican voters into battleground states? I don't know.
00:40:39.260
So, you know, it would take somebody's, because the state effect could also,
00:40:46.200
they could probably just circle it and gerrymander it out of existence.
00:40:51.200
So, it might be that they could gerrymander it away, even if you pulled it off. I don't know.
00:40:56.660
Anyway, the AI industry is still having copyright class action problems from authors.
00:41:08.340
I thought that was kind of settled, but apparently not. Ars Technica is writing about it.
00:41:13.960
Anthropic is being sued by some class action group of authors.
00:41:20.360
And the issue here is that if it turns out that the authors win,
00:41:30.860
and the class action goes well for the authors,
00:41:38.040
Because they don't really have a way to avoid the knowledge from books, I guess.
00:41:48.420
So, it's possible that we will destroy our own AI industry through the courts.
00:41:57.220
But, if I had to bet on it, I would follow the money, and I would say,
00:42:01.740
we would be talking about like $50 trillion of value and the future of the country.
00:42:08.700
So, I would say there's so much money involved that the courts would be, you know,
00:42:19.020
under so much pressure, and there would be counter suits.
00:42:22.360
And I feel like the people who have $50 trillion at risk are going to win that battle every time.
00:42:35.300
Anyway, according to Psy Post, Vladimir Hendry is writing that
00:42:47.500
are very competitive with the brightest kids from rich places
00:42:58.140
And then for reasons that are not clear, but you probably have your own theories,
00:43:02.600
when that bright kid reaches age 11, if they're in a poor situation,
00:43:09.400
their academic results just go to hell between 11 and 14.
00:43:14.260
But, the rich kids, who are just as bright as the poor kids when they were, you know,
00:43:19.840
five and six years old, they apparently have a better support system in every way.
00:43:30.200
So, there is something in the process of poverty that makes a bright kid turn off.
00:43:42.360
It could be that they don't want to look like the nerd,
00:43:46.180
and they don't want to be teased for being the brainiac or stuff like that.
00:43:51.140
Remember, I keep telling you that being immune to embarrassment is the greatest superpower ever.
00:44:04.760
When I was in school, I eventually graduated as a valedictorian of my tiny school.
00:44:11.440
Not very impressive, because the entire school was very small.
00:44:15.440
But, early on, in my grade school, it was obvious I was going to be an A student,
00:44:27.360
And, can you imagine that I got teased for being a brainiac, a nerd, etc.?
00:44:39.740
And, you're probably saying, oh my God, how did you handle all that humiliation and the teasing?
00:44:54.200
Are you telling me I was supposed to feel bad when the dumb people called me smart?
00:44:59.680
Where was the part where I was supposed to feel bad?
00:45:02.020
And, I missed the entire part where their cunning insults were slicing through my psyche and leaving me in tatters.
00:45:13.620
The whole time, I was just thinking, yeah, you got that right.
00:45:35.960
So, I don't know if I was mentally deficient or just some kind of weird narcissist.
00:45:43.400
But, I recall that I was teased, but I don't recall any damage whatsoever.
00:45:53.260
It just felt like I was winning the whole time.
00:45:58.460
Anyway, I don't know if that advice will help your low-income kid survive the brutal situation.
00:46:08.240
But, it's also true that the town I grew up in was a little closer to goodwill hunting than it was to, like, an inner city.
00:46:16.080
I would say that the citizens of my town were rooting for me from the time I was very young.
00:46:33.460
So, I don't know if having a complete immunity to humiliation would help anybody else, but it helped me.
00:46:43.280
Okay, here's a story that I don't know if this is true.
00:46:53.420
So, this is a story about the agreement that Trump and Putin are going to meet in Alaska and talk about maybe ending the war in Ukraine.
00:47:03.480
And, you're probably telling yourself that they wouldn't have the meeting unless they thought there was a pretty good chance of something positive coming out of it.
00:47:15.200
And, then what we hear, somewhat surprisingly, is that Putin would be willing to simply take some of the, but not all, of the territory that he's conquered.
00:47:27.620
And, just say, all right, I'll keep this, and we'll, you know, we'll just part company.
00:47:37.120
Because, it didn't seem like Putin had ever offered that before.
00:47:40.560
And, it didn't seem like he was losing so badly that he'd have to change what his position is.
00:47:48.080
So, why would Putin suddenly go from, nope, there's no real reason to talk, to, oh, yeah, let's talk next week.
00:47:56.400
Now, you may say, well, it's because Trump threatened those sanctions on the Indians buying Russian oil or something else.
00:48:09.940
There is a, there's a report in a German publication, Bild, B-I-L-D.
00:48:16.960
Now, I don't know if it's true, but this is their version of what's going on.
00:48:21.920
That, that Steve Wyckoff, quote, misunderstood Putin, and where Putin said something about those occupied territories, the ones that Putin's already conquered, that Steve Wyckoff misunderstood Putin's willingness to negotiate a deal.
00:48:44.560
And so, that what you're seeing is a whole bunch of people operating under a misunderstanding of how close they are to an agreement.
00:48:57.360
Now, I'm not going to say that's true, because it's just some German publication.
00:49:03.900
You know, it's not being widely reported that way in our press.
00:49:08.300
But, it does explain everything, and it would be a Dilbert world kind of thing, where they just heard each other wrong.
00:49:21.620
What if the reason they're having the meeting is because that Wyckoff, there was a translation problem, and he literally misunderstood Putin?
00:49:30.880
What if that's the only reason they have the meeting?
00:49:32.720
And then, what if having the meeting leads to them actually ending the war?
00:49:40.480
There's a non-zero possibility that the meeting was a complete mistake.
00:49:46.380
But once you get there, you know, they know the war can't last forever.
00:49:50.440
So, maybe Putin will say, well, as long as I'm here, you know, it would be too stupid to come here and then just walk home.
00:49:59.800
So, there's a non-zero possibility that the most Dilbert-y thing in the world happened, which is they accidentally scheduled a meeting that they should not have,
00:50:12.120
and that once they're there, like, well, I might as well end this war.
00:50:19.520
Because I do not see any way that, under normal circumstances, this will lead to any kind of an end to the war.
00:50:32.760
Maybe Russia has a bigger problem in some domain than we're aware.
00:50:40.920
And then, of course, Zelensky is trying to be the turd in the punch bowl, and he's saying that he's ruling out any kind of deal that the U.S. and Russia make for Ukrainian land.
00:50:59.940
But apparently, there's also some Ukrainian legal problem that would make it impossible for Zelensky to agree to give away Ukrainian land.
00:51:12.480
There would have to be some kind of, you know, national referendum or something.
00:51:20.220
He'd just have to do it, and it wouldn't be instant.
00:51:22.720
Anyway, according to Breitbart News, Oliver Lane is writing that there was a poll, I guess it was a Gallup poll, of Ukrainians, and how many of them want to keep fighting and how many of them don't.
00:51:40.400
It turns out that, well, maybe you could tell me.
00:51:44.700
What percentage of Ukrainians want to fight to court the bitter end?
00:51:49.880
What percentage want to fight until they're all dead?
00:52:19.060
So have I demonstrated once again that I have the smartest podcast audience?
00:52:25.940
They knew the answer to the question just intuitively, 24%.
00:52:32.060
According to Radio Liberty, so Ukraine is expected to make 4 million drones this year.
00:52:44.660
Almost all of them will be the low-end, you know, inexpensive drones.
00:52:50.660
Russia is also expected to make millions of similarly low-end drones this year.
00:52:57.660
So between Ukraine and Russia, you know, maybe, I don't know, 7 to 10 million drones will be created just by their own countries.
00:53:09.020
That doesn't even count the number that they'll buy.
00:53:12.260
So the United States, of course, being the powerful superpower that it is, if those countries can make millions of drones, how many do you think the U.S. can make?
00:53:25.540
Because we now have an estimate of that from the New York Times.
00:53:33.980
So while the war-torn, poverty-stricken country of Ukraine is making 4 million per year of drones, we might be able to make 100,000.
00:53:47.300
So we've got a problem, because whoever makes the best and most drones gets to run the world, and apparently that's not us.
00:54:00.380
So we better get going on that, President Trump.
00:54:03.960
Well, Israel is planning to, as you know, take full control of Gaza, and they're going to start by taking full control of Gaza City.
00:54:19.480
But at the same time, the U.S. and Qatar are talking about some kind of grand proposal that they'll have in two weeks.
00:54:28.120
It's a grand proposal for, I assume, the grand part is what makes it more than just Gaza.
00:54:36.140
So maybe the grand part is the Abraham Accords get expanded, but in return, there's a lot of support for the Palestinian people who got relocated, etc.
00:54:49.760
But I would like to offer a reframe for Hamas and all the children who were victims of the war.
00:55:00.960
It seems to me that the right way to frame Hamas is that they're involved in child sacrifice, and it's their own children.
00:55:11.440
So they're literally sacrificing the lives of their children for some larger religious and military victory.
00:55:26.880
But doesn't it seem to you like Hamas is not just fighting a war and hoping the children do well,
00:55:34.380
but rather it's an organized human child sacrifice?
00:55:39.560
And Israel, of course, is part of it, because if Israel decided, oh, you can have everything you want,
00:55:47.360
just come on in and take what you need, well, then there wouldn't be any children being killed.
00:55:54.620
But under the normal conditions of war and national defense, etc., of course, of course, there'll be a response,
00:56:02.020
and it will result in lots of people dying that you wish wouldn't die.
00:56:08.260
But human child sacrifice, that's what it looks like to me.
00:56:18.020
Usually on Saturday, when I'm done, when Gregorian does say spaces, but he's got something to do today,
00:56:34.840
There'll be a spaces after the show, but not today.
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So you can go about your day and get your breakfast and have a wonderful day.
00:56:43.440
I'm going to take a nap with some cats and play some ping pong later,
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I'm going to say some words privately to my beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you.
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You're going to disappear in 30 seconds, and I hope you come back tomorrow.
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