Episode 3028 CWSA 11⧸24⧸25
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Summary
A new theory about why kids are doing poorly in school. The Chicago Teachers Union has been put on notice because they failed to do a financial audit for a half-decade, and nobody can figure out where the money went. And Scott Adams has a tip about how to do that.
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at all. All right. So let me grab my notes, and wait, what's wrong with my notes? Something
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happened in my notes. Oh, it's the 2026 Dilbert calendar that accidentally jumped into my hand
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you'll get it. Apparently. All right. Oh, you're a beast of a man. I'm no beast. You're
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a beast. All right. Let's look at all the interesting stories today. There's a new theory about why
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kids are doing poorly in school, as if they needed another reason. It's the laptops. So apparently,
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as we know, if children are allowed to watch television, their brains will rot. And if
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children are allowed to have smartphones, their brains will rot. And if they're allowed to have
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iPads, you know, their brains will rot. However, here's the good news. If they have laptops, which
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apparently more and more kids do as they go to school, that's very predictive that they will do
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poorly in school, because apparently they spend a lot of time just messing around on the laptop and not
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as much time learning. Did you know that apparently they know that if you write your notes with your
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hand, as in handwritten notes, that you'll remember your notes better than if you typed them? I knew
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that. So one of the things that I used to do is try to activate as many different senses and parts of
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the brain as I could when I studied back in my studying days. So sometimes I'd draw a picture of the
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thing. Sometimes I'd, you know, sometimes I'd write it by hand. Sometimes I'd write it more than once.
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So I'd try to try to just engage every possible, you know, physical and mental sense to wrap it
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around the idea I was trying to remember. And that's your tip for the day. Tell your school-age
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childhood how to do that. All right, here's the most surprising story of the day. I want you to
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see if you can guess the direction this story will take. Hmm, this will be a tough one. According to the
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Gateway Pundit, the Chicago Teachers Union has been put on notice because apparently they failed to do
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a financial audit for half a decade. That would be five years for those of you who went to Chicago
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schools. So let's see. What do you think happened when the Chicago Teachers Union, who took lots of
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money from their members and then for five years didn't tell anybody where it went? Huh. Chicago
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Teachers Union, large bunch of money seems to be missing and nobody can say where it went. What
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happened? Well, it's the world's most predictable outcome. If it's a large organization and they
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haven't done an audit, guess what? They stole it. Is it ever anything else? Do you think they're just
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going to find that, hey, oh wow, this is kind of a surprise. Turns out we just didn't spend the money.
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We have all this money to refund because we just didn't spend it. No, that probably didn't happen.
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I have two ways to look at this. Number one, the opposite of the word audited is what? So they
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were not audited. What is the opposite of audited? Embezzled. If you're not auditing your large pile of
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money, you're embezzling it every time. It's not just sitting there doing what you wanted it to do.
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Somebody's embezzling it. All right. Here's the alternate post. I was going to do this on X.
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So instead of saying the opposite of audited is embezzled, which I thought was pretty clever,
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fairly clever. I had another post that I thought was almost as good. It was just, quote, hey,
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what happened to our unwatched pile of money? Hey, what happened to our unwatched pile of money?
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Well, have I ever taught you anything about unwatched piles of money? Have I taught you nothing?
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If there's an unwatched pile of money and you wait long enough, yeah, it's exactly what you think.
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Meanwhile, I saw a story, Wall Street Apes had this on X, that Democrats apparently laundered,
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that's their word, laundered, $93 billion during the 76 days between when Trump got elected and he took
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office. So the Democrats just very quickly distributed $93 billion. Huh. I wonder where
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this story will go. $93 billion. Was it audited or was it unaudited? Hmm. Hmm. Seems to have been
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unaudited. Unaudited. So there was a $93 billion pile of money. It was unaudited. How could I ever
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predict what would happen here? Oh, I've got an idea. Is a lot of it missing? Well, not all of it, Scott.
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Don't be so cynical. It's not all missing. They did manage to claw back, what, $24 billion.
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So only $69 billion left to be recovered. $69 billion. You know, I don't know if that means that a few
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people got a lot of billions or did they just sort of say, all right, who's a Democrat? You're a Democrat?
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Here's $1,000. How do you even steal $69 billion? That would take a lot of work. In other news,
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you know, we always talk about repeat offenders with crime. The City Journal is reminding us,
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I don't know if these numbers are right or real. They don't even look real. But allegedly,
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in New York City, 327 people account for one-third of all shoplifting arrests. 327.
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What does that imply for how many committed the crimes? This is just the arrests. I mean,
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you have to try pretty hard to get arrested for shoplifting these days. And those 327 people
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have allegedly been arrested 6,000 times. And then in Oakland, there are allegedly 400 people
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were responsible for the majority of homicides. Wait, what? There are 400 people in Oakland who
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are responsible for the majority of the homicides? The majority?
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I was frightened to death that there are 400 murderers in the town next to me. 400 murderers?
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And apparently, they're murdering more than one person. I don't know the average murderer per
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murderer. But it looks like they're pretty busy. You know, I was thinking of becoming a criminal
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early in my career. And then I thought, oh, am I going to be one of those lazy criminals who just does a
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crime or two and then retires or goes to jail? Or am I going to be one of these industrious serial
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criminals who robs 1,000 banks? And I thought, well, I don't want to be a lazy criminal. I'll be one of
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these ones, these repeat offenders. Anyway, I'd like to know how many murders apiece the murderers are
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doing. All right, here's my... I remember in California when we had this three strikes law.
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So when it was first being contemplated, and I would be reading the news, and I wasn't really
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that involved with any politics at all. Wasn't really following politics in any way. And certainly
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not in the state. It wasn't following any state politics. And then I heard people arguing that if
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you locked up all the repeat offenders after their third offense, it wouldn't make any difference to
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the crime rate. And I thought to myself, wait, what? If you put in jail the people who are doing the
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crimes, that will not reduce the crime? Can you explain how that doesn't work? And the only way that
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you could explain how locking up the repeat offenders doesn't work is if the people who were
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not planning to do more crimes compensated by saying, whoa, it looks like they locked up the repeat
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offenders. I'm going to have to increase my crime per person to compensate for the locked up repeat
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offenders. Otherwise, there isn't really any possible way that locking up the people doing the crimes
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ends up with the same amount of crime. That's not really possible. And here again, I feel like
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we devolve into that just ridiculousness. The ridiculousness of imagining that wouldn't work.
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It would work. It would just be really bad for the people getting locked up. They wouldn't like it at
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all. Or maybe they would. I don't know. I can't get in the mind of a serial criminal.
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Rinse. It's time to be great. Well, speaking of bad behavior, there is a hilarious story of a VP at
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Campbell Soup's company. And for some reason, there was an ex, now an ex-employee, who recorded the VP
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over lunch. And here are some of the things that the VP of Campbell Soup. Now, this is a VP of IT,
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I think. So it wasn't the marketing guy. But the VP was caught on audio, I guess, recorded a saying,
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and I quote, we have shit for fucking poor people. Meaning that their product is shit for poor people.
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He goes, who buys our shit? I don't buy Campbell's products, barely anymore. It's not healthy. Now that
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I know what the fuck's in it. Remember, this is a VP at Campbell Soup. It's not healthy. Now that I
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know what the fuck's in it. He goes, bioengineered meat? I don't want to eat a fucking piece of chicken
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that came from a 3D printer. That's the actual VP of Campbell Soup. Bioengineered meat.
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I don't want to eat a fucking piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer. Well, maybe it's just me,
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but I'd like to offer that guy a job. I would love to have an executive who was that honest.
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All right. Apparently, this is all, there's some lawsuit by a former employee, but that's pretty bad.
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I didn't know you could just record people over lunch. Kind of depends what state you're in,
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doesn't it? In my state, you couldn't do that. That would be illegal.
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All right. So we'll see where that goes. That will soon be a Dilbert comic, you know. Yeah,
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it will be. Dilbert comic about the, one of Dilbert's executives being recorded talking honestly
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about the products. Yeah, that's coming. That's coming. Well, I saw just before I went live,
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Eric Doherty was posting about this, that Trump is going to introduce maybe tomorrow,
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some kind of healthcare price cuts act. What do you think that'll be about?
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Well, I don't know the details, but a few other things being mentioned. It would halt Obamacare premium
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spikes. I don't know how. And the plan reportedly includes some kind of deposit mechanism, some kind
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of health savings account. Is that a good idea? I don't know. It seems like something that might
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work in the long run, but in year one, you'd have to get those accounts up. It would also end the
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premium hikes and zero premium subsidies and stop massive fraud known as, quote, ghost beneficiaries.
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Would it? Well, I don't know. It's a big claim. And Trump recently said, I'm calling today for
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insurance companies not to be paid, but for this massive amount of money to be paid directly,
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directly to the people so they can buy their own healthcare. Does anybody understand what that means?
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Because I don't. I have no idea what it means to say you're going to pay the people directly instead
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of the insurance companies. Wouldn't that be the same as single-payer insurance?
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What does that mean? If you ignored the insurance companies and you simply had, I don't know,
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the government? Who is it who's paying? I guess it would be the government paying the people?
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I don't know. So I got lots and lots of questions. I don't know who is going to take the lead on
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this program, but I don't think that would make you self-insured, right? That would make you self-insured
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in a way, but you'd still need something like the government backstopping you. Otherwise,
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it's not really health insurance. It's not insurance. If you're insuring yourself, that's not very much
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insurance. Private health costs or what? Do some of you actually understand this? I'll try to catch up
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on it today because I don't have an opinion on any of it yet because it's a little too hard to figure
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out how it all fits together. But if the Trump administration puts their best people on explaining
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it, we might find out soon. Maybe. Maybe something's going to happen. All right. I'm going to make a bold
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prediction today. Bold prediction for technology. So you know how for the past, I don't know, few years,
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I've been saying too often, oh, there's a news story about some company making a claim that they
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can make a battery for cars that last twice as long and blah, blah, blah. But you never see that
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battery. And it's usually because it's some kind of lab development, not really a real world development
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yet. It would take years for it to reach the real world. Well, speaking of the real world,
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over in China, according to notebook check, some big China automotive group is announcing that they've
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developed an actual manufacturing capability for a battery that would go, they say, about twice as far as
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the current batteries. So about 620 miles. But everybody knows that's an exaggeration because
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it's a Chinese battery estimate, which tends to be about one third higher than reality. However,
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this one, they've completed the first large capacity production line. So now they have the technology,
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but they're just finishing the tweaking of the production line to actually produce the mass
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mass production. So here's my prediction. When it comes to technology, there are some technologies
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and batteries are definitely in that category. That's why they're interesting to me, where a little
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bit improvement is just a little bit of improvement. It's 10% better. I'll save some money. Now it's 20%
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better. Maybe I'll buy an electric car. So when you get these 10 and 20% increases in capacity,
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it's really good. And it helps your industry. And maybe sometimes you can predict that that means
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things will develop faster in the electric car space, whatever. But you're going to reach a point.
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And here's my prediction that 2026 is when we reached the point where if you were to double capacity
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capacity and a lot of the new battery breakthroughs, they make that claim anyway, they claim they double
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capacity, you don't have to predict which one of them ends up being the dominant one, the one that
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works. All you have to know is that there are a whole bunch of technologies that might, if they could
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figure out how to produce them, double your capacity. If we were to double our current capacity,
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it would just change everything. Suddenly robots are not just practical, they're cheap.
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Electric cars would be everywhere. Self-driving cars would be everywhere. It'd be the only way to go
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anywhere. And you'd be able to build networks that capture the sun power. And you still have plenty of
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capacity to make it all the way overnight. So I think 2026 is going to be the year of the battery.
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And I realized that there's a dog not barking in this space, which is I don't believe Tesla
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brags about their new battery technology too far ahead of time. Do they? When would you ever learn
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that Tesla came up with a new battery technology and had already built out a mega factory to produce it
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in mass quantities? You'd probably find out around the time they opened the factory, right?
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I don't know that they would tell you years in advance. It would take a little while to get that
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up and running. So the thing I'm expecting is that Tesla will have a substantial battery upgrade
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announcement that will either be announced or implemented in 2026. So 2026, the year of the
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battery. All right, let's see if you could do what I could do, which is anticipate this science.
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According to the University of Cambridge, and I want you to listen to this carefully so that you can
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see if you're as smart as I am. Apparently, they already knew that improving your diet
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could improve your weight. That's something they already knew. They already knew also
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that exercise could improve your weight. So they knew the diet worked and they knew the exercise worked.
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So what did they give funding to test? Well, they got funding to test if you combined eating right
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with exercise, if the two of them would get you a better result than if you only did one or the other.
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What do you think? I'm not going to tell you the surprising result. Do you think that if you knew
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the diet works and you know the exercise works, if you did both of them right, what would happen?
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Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Did you get it? I think one of you buzzed in. That's right. If you do
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two smart things that definitely work and every single person in the world knows it, you're going
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to get a better result than if you did one thing. No, really, really, I'm not making that up. That's
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So, I guess we're still talking about the six Democrats who did that video urging people
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in the military not to follow any illegal orders. Have you noticed a pattern? There's a pattern.
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And the pattern is that Democrats consistently find things that didn't need to be done and then
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they do them. They're finding new ways to be useless. What would be more useless than creating
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a video to remind people in the military not to do the thing that every one of them already knows not
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to do? And reminding them also that they should talk to their JAG officer if there's some gray area.
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Do you think that short of having that video by the six Democrats in Congress, that if that had not been
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made, do you think our military would be out there doing a bunch of illegal orders? Would they be all
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confused because they wouldn't know how to handle this? Or is it the one thing that you all know,
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whether you're in the military or not in the military, that would cover everybody? Is it the
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one thing that every one of us knows without being told by a special video made by Democrats?
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I'm pretty sure they already know it. Or do you imagine that this is happening all over the military?
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Hey, Bob, I was thinking of shooting, maybe murdering one of our compatriots and then stealing his money
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and then pinning the blame on somebody else. What do you think? I don't know. Would that be illegal?
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Oh, yeah, it would be illegal. It'd be illegal, but is it a good idea? Hmm. I don't remember a boot camp,
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but I'll bet somebody mentioned something about that once. Don't do illegal orders. Yeah, no,
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somebody said that. I'm positive. I'm positive that somewhere in my training, they told me not to
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murder people because it's illegal. It's illegal. And you're not allowed to do illegal things just
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because you're in the military. Well, why did I even join the military if I'm not allowed to do
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illegal things? Well, I don't know. Sounds like a mistake because I joined it just to do illegal
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things. Now, what could be less useful? Seriously, what could be less useful than telling people in
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the military the one thing that every person in the military already knows? I'll bet you couldn't find
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one piece of knowledge or information that had as many people knowing that you can't do it.
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It'd be hard to match it. All right, but here are some funny things coming out of that. Number one,
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apparently they're getting a nickname, the Seditious Six. I saw that on social media. I don't know if
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it's catching on yet, but it's very funny. The Seditious Six. Now, I had to check with AI to figure
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out what seditious means versus, let's see, what are the other words they use around this? You know,
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insurrection, sedition, treason. Those are all the words that they use. And I guess Trump suggested
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that if anybody is involved in sedition, they should be executed. Now, he didn't name them,
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but people kind of connect with the dots and said, hey, I think Trump's saying that maybe they should
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be executed. Now, here's the problem. And you may have spotted this on your own because I've gave you
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some hints before today. Have I ever told you, and yes, I have, that you can predict Trump's reaction
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because he'll always take the strongest path. Now, that doesn't mean he's serious about it,
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and it doesn't mean that that strongest path will ever happen. But if you're just talking,
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as in he's talking about what you do about these seditious six, if you're just talking,
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you can kind of guarantee in advance that if there's one thing to be said that's the strongest thing,
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even if it's the strongest thing, you know Trump's going to say it, right? And so far,
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that's worked out for him. But it does create this set of evidence that the Democrats would use
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that he's a fascist authoritarian. So you can, you see the problem? So the problem is,
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if you were to artificially create a situation as a Democrat in which there was no space left
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for the strongest opinion, except for something that's over the line,
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would you consider it over the line to talk about executing members of Congress for making this
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video that didn't need to be made under the assumption that really the reason for the video
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is to try to turn the military against the sitting government? Well, there's a lot of mind reading
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that would be involved in that. But so here's the problem. If the Democrats get smart enough,
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and I worry that that's what just happened, if they get smart enough, are they not going to realize
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that they can trap Trump into saying what is over the line by going as close to the line as they can
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and sort of leaving him not much space for whatever would be the strongest thing to say?
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Now, did he say the strongest thing you can say when some members of your government make this kind
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of a video? Yeah. Yeah, that's the strongest thing you can say. It's not even the law.
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It's not even the law that you can execute people for what would be, I guess they would say,
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sedition, which is an unproven allegation at this point, right? Sedition is not the death penalty.
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I didn't know what was, so I had to ask ChatGPT. Now, if ChatGPT told me the truth and did not
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hallucinate, then treason could in some cases be the death penalty, but even that would be rare.
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And treason is when you're working with a foreign country to undermine your current country. That's not
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what's being alleged. What's being alleged is sedition, which is people within the country
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trying to change the government outside of the constitutional mechanism. And then there's
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insurrection, which would be some version of trying to do it from the inside, also not necessarily
00:31:17.940
implying there's any foreign country involved. So it's the foreign country involvement that pushes
00:31:24.760
you toward maybe execution. But even then, probably not. It would be a rare, rare occurrence.
00:31:33.920
So here's my open question. Did the Democrats become suddenly smart enough that they knew that
00:31:42.020
if they did this ridiculous thing that didn't need to be done, which is a video telling the people in
00:31:47.320
the military exactly what every one of them already knew, don't do any illegal things, don't follow any
00:31:54.720
illegal orders. Like, I'm not in the military, and even I knew that. Is there even one person who's in
00:32:01.380
the comments, let's say, is there one person in the audience right now, show me in the comments,
00:32:06.320
who didn't know this? Whether you've ever been in the military or know anybody who's in the military
00:32:12.220
or had any contact with the military, didn't you know that they're not allowed to do illegal things?
00:32:18.980
Like, they can't just go murder people because their senior officer told them to.
00:32:25.920
You all knew that, right? So if we acknowledge that it's probable, can't read their minds,
00:32:33.880
but it's probable, that the Democrats who made that video were completely aware that it did nothing
00:32:39.740
useful, but that it would bait Trump into saying the strongest thing you would say in that domain.
00:32:47.440
And the strongest thing you would say is what he said. And then they got their little food for the
00:32:54.580
day. Their food for the day is, can we trick him into saying something that we can determine
00:32:59.960
or we can define as being authoritarian or fascist? Yes. Yes, we tricked him into saying the strongest
00:33:07.880
thing. Now, as I told you, it's almost, I think I've said every time, but maybe that's too strong.
00:33:15.800
When Trump's instinct is to take the strongest position, even if it's not practical or something
00:33:22.920
that could ever happen in the real world, it still makes him look like the strongest person in every
00:33:27.620
conversation. And in the long run, that's going to pay off because sometimes you just need a strong
00:33:33.720
leader. And you're going to look around and go, all right, oh, well, I don't like everything he's
00:33:38.260
ever said, but I have to admit, we need a strong leader right now. And he can't beat that. That's
00:33:43.860
the strongest leader we've ever seen, at least in my lifetime. All right. So here's my question.
00:33:51.060
How do we know that the Democrats did it just because they're stupid and combined with TDS?
00:34:00.720
Did they think this was actually something the country needed? How many of you think that?
00:34:07.520
Because I'm just thinking, what are the possible explanations for why they even made that video?
00:34:13.220
Stupid, right? They'd have to be stupid because they'd have to know, they'd have to realize that
00:34:19.260
there's no point in it. It doesn't change anything. And then, or they just have TDS or they're stupid
00:34:26.340
and they have TDS. Does that explain it? I don't think it does. Honestly, and I don't know the answer,
00:34:35.040
so I'm just speculating too. But if I had to guess, I feel like there's somebody over on that team
00:34:42.420
who is smart enough to know that this would be a way to generate these artificial, he's an
00:34:49.800
authoritarian. He's a fascist. Just look what he did. We'll keep this in the news forever.
00:34:57.880
I feel like it's intentional, like it's some kind of a trap they set up. Now, the real question is this,
00:35:05.120
can you trap Trump? Is he trappable? Well, Megyn Kelly found out he wasn't that trappable the first
00:35:15.440
time he did a debate with the Republicans, remember? The very first debate. You say these
00:35:22.880
terrible things about women. That's a trap. That's a trap. There's no way you're going to get out of
00:35:28.540
that. Only Rosie O'Donnell. Oh, okay. I guess there is one way to get out of it. So, while I am sure
00:35:38.000
it's a trap, whether intentional or not, that's still open, but it functions as a trap. Would you
00:35:46.400
agree? Everybody agrees with that, right? Even if it's not intentional on the part of the Democrats,
00:35:53.660
it functions as a trap. And did Trump walk right into it? We'll see. Because I think once he
00:36:04.460
recognizes that it's a trap, and by now he certainly has, of course he has, he's going to have an
00:36:12.620
unpredictable, which is what he did with the Rosie O'Donnell move. It's just unpredictable. He's
00:36:18.500
probably going to have an unpredictable response. So, what I would look for is what happens next,
00:36:24.860
because to me it looks like the Democrats had a pretty good play. It looks like they couldn't
00:36:31.580
possibly be as dumb as they're acting. So, I'm going to guess that they knew what they were doing,
00:36:37.660
or at least one person over there did, and created this situation where they can generate these new
00:36:44.700
headlines that are based on nothing. They just created a situation that wasn't there. Pretty
00:36:51.920
clever. But watching Democrats find new ways to be useless never gets old. And then, of course,
00:37:00.100
each of the Democrats involved has now been asked multiple times by the media,
00:37:05.860
can you give me an example of one of these illegal orders? And so far they've been smart enough not to
00:37:12.940
give examples. And instead, they say, well, some version of, it's not that it's already happened.
00:37:20.720
It's that we're worried that it will happen. To which I say, isn't that every problem in the world?
00:37:27.960
Every problem in the world is just something that they're worried will happen.
00:37:32.240
Shouldn't you worry about some things that are actually happening? Let me tell you something that's
00:37:36.440
actually happening. We're overspending and running ourselves into debt. Let me tell you something
00:37:44.000
that, as far as I know, hasn't happened and probably won't. The U.S. military obeying, obviously,
00:37:53.500
illegal orders. Doesn't feel like a big problem. It hasn't affected me yet. But their argument would be
00:38:02.720
someday in the future this might happen. Yeah, I see in the comments somebody saying,
00:38:07.960
color revolution. You are correct. So this could be just one move within a larger set of moves that
00:38:17.660
we would call a color revolution. What would that involve? Well, it would involve getting some street
00:38:25.180
muscle check. They did that. They did the anti-Tesla stuff, the no-king stuff, street muscle.
00:38:32.720
It would involve trying to create a narrative that the media can carry forever that says one of
00:38:41.580
them is a bad egg and must be removed. Check. They're now creating the narrative. And now the
00:38:48.760
press is trying to decide if they're going to be duped. So I guess Elisa Slutkin, one of the six,
00:38:58.500
was on this week in ABC and asked some questions and did not have any examples of any illegal orders.
00:39:08.740
I don't think anybody else has. But her defense, her defense of why they did it involved a reference
00:39:17.900
to Nuremberg and the movie A Few Good Men. And somehow she made an argument, which is funnier if you
00:39:27.260
actually hear her say it, that the existence of Nuremberg and the existence of that movie
00:39:34.860
are somehow, somehow support them making that video. I'm not even going to try to try to explain
00:39:44.180
that argument. It's so stupid. It's just funny. All right. That was funny. And when asked if she
00:39:56.960
believed that Trump had issued any illegal orders, she did the, to my knowledge, I'm not aware of things
00:40:03.880
that are illegal. And now, uh, one of the, one of the six, the seditious six, representative Jason
00:40:13.940
Crow, uh, now he's saying that he's got a problem because he's getting, uh, death threats and bomb
00:40:20.340
threats from what I imagine would be people who are on the other side of the political aisle.
00:40:27.040
And he says, it's very disturbing stuff when you have the president of the United States
00:40:30.820
threatening to execute and to hang and arrest using this rhetoric. People listen to it. Well,
00:40:38.500
he's not wrong. Is he? He's not wrong. I mean, I think he had an example that he played and stuff.
00:40:45.440
So yes, if the president of the United States, be it Trump or be it Biden says something like, uh,
00:40:53.380
you know, these other group of people are bad people, whoever it is, you're going to give some
00:40:59.740
nuts who's going to take a shot at them. So did this create a super dangerous situation for these
00:41:07.080
six Democrats? Yes, it did. But was this situation going to create itself? No. Was this situation
00:41:18.280
something that Trump dreamed up? Was Trump sitting, sitting at home and his boxers and, and the, uh,
00:41:26.000
the white house and thinking, I've got an idea. If I could just trick them into making a video that
00:41:32.440
doesn't need to be made, then I can, uh, say there's anybody who would do that should be hung.
00:41:39.660
And then some crazy person will go hurt them. Do you think that happened? Or do you think Democrats
00:41:47.720
created a situation that absolutely did not need to be created by making the video in the first place
00:41:54.600
and accusing the person that maybe some of you voted for of being a fascist dictator authoritarian,
00:42:05.000
which one of those created the situation? Representative Jason Crow? I will give you
00:42:13.000
Trump worsened it. Can we agree on that? I'll give you that. Trump worsened it. But who created it?
00:42:23.920
Who created the situation that just didn't need to exist? Was it the video that six people created
00:42:31.020
that didn't need to be made to tell people what they already knew and offered absolutely nothing
00:42:36.300
except the opportunity for Trump to, all it did was create an opportunity for Trump to say these
00:42:42.920
people should be hung, even though he didn't say that about them specifically, technically people
00:42:48.440
connected the dots and assumed that that's what he was telling. So I'll give you that. I will give
00:42:54.080
you that Democrats. Trump worsened the situation. He didn't create it. You're going to have to own
00:43:02.580
creating it. But as a supporter of the president, I will own worsened it. I will own that. All right.
00:43:13.600
And I don't know. And by the way, I'm not in favor of it. In case I need to say that clearly,
00:43:19.780
not in favor of that level of narrative, but I accept that it happened and it happened on my side.
00:43:28.640
Is that okay? I accept that I'm on the side that where that happened and that I have some
00:43:35.260
responsibility for it, don't I? Wouldn't you agree? As a member of a team, certainly a, you know,
00:43:42.840
longtime supporter of the president, I have some responsibility for that. And I'm going to take
00:43:48.180
my responsibility right now, which is maybe it's time to back off on that a little bit.
00:43:54.640
Yeah. Maybe just a little bit back off on that. Yeah. We don't, we don't want to be killing anybody
00:44:00.280
for their political opinions. Not all of you will agree with this. I get that. And by the way,
00:44:07.400
I accept that too. I accept that some of you are not going to agree that there should be any softening
00:44:13.700
that position. But do you really want, do you really want your elected representatives to be
00:44:18.740
hung over a dumb video that obviously they were just not clever enough to know how this would turn
00:44:25.420
out? I don't know. That feels like I would not be benefited by that in any way, but the country
00:44:33.440
would, would be harmed by it. So no, I don't want to see anybody hung over their political speech,
00:44:40.940
even if it's pretty raw, like that was, that was pretty raw on the, uh, on both of their parts,
00:44:47.220
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Well, Zoran Mamdani was on, uh, one of the weekend shows and he was asked if, uh, he thinks Trump is a
00:45:25.460
fascist. Remember, that's the same question he was asked when, uh, he was in the Oval Office.
00:45:30.720
Um, and, uh, he didn't get to answer it, but he answered it on TV and he said, uh, basically,
00:45:39.420
yes. He said, that's something that I've said in the past and I say it today. All right. So I will
00:45:44.240
give him credit that, uh, Mamdani has not backed off from saying that, uh, Trump is a fascist. He's,
00:45:52.500
he's doubling down. But does that make sense when you also know that they had something like a
00:46:00.040
productive conversation about affordability and they think they could work together to get that
00:46:05.600
done? Does that make sense? Does that compute in your brain that he says he's a fascist,
00:46:15.340
but apparently he can work with him on getting, uh, affordability? Because you know, who's really
00:46:22.300
good on affordability is the fascists. So kind of weird. I feel as though you could criticize Zoran
00:46:32.240
for working with fascists. So the next question I'd ask him is, uh, Zoran, do you think it's okay to
00:46:39.960
work with a fascist? Cause he just said, yes. So is the thing that really happened? Maybe the only
00:46:49.980
thing that really happened is that the word fascist just turned into a non-word because Trump actually
00:46:57.400
joked about it in the Oval Office. He said, you could just say yes, just say yes. It's easier.
00:47:04.320
Like Trump wasn't even denying the fascist thing. It's so harmless now. It's so overused.
00:47:09.960
And, you know, it's overused without real evidence of anything that looks, at least in my opinion,
00:47:17.400
in that category. So it could be that we're watching that word become completely disarmed,
00:47:27.320
partly by Trump saying, ah, you could just say yes, just say I'm a fascist. It doesn't matter.
00:47:33.380
And then again, by Zoran, who agrees that it's a accurate word, but he can work with them.
00:47:39.960
Well, if you can work with them, it can't be that bad. Can it? It just makes the word look
00:47:47.260
ridiculous. So maybe that's a step ahead. Zero Hedge has got an article today that, uh, since 2008,
00:47:56.460
the US gas pipeline pipelines have been booming. Now that's the pipelines, you know, the physical
00:48:04.140
pipelines. And, uh, I didn't know this, but apparently, uh, even long before the Trump
00:48:11.380
administration, even before the first one, uh, the pipeline boom was begun. And now we're seeing a lot
00:48:19.860
of it having been built out. So we're going to see sort of the benefit of it under the second Trump
00:48:25.960
administration. But if you wondered, how's the US doing in the energy business? The answer is really
00:48:32.380
good, really good. So the, the regions, what region? Uh, sort of the Oklahoma Gulf coast region
00:48:41.240
is going to get a big boost in capacity very soon. Good news. Anything that's good for your country's
00:48:49.280
energy situation? Probably good for your country. Um, I didn't know this was happening, but apparently
00:48:57.580
there was some big, uh, I think maybe a 30 nation climate summit, um, that was in the Amazon. I don't
00:49:07.060
know if they found their way out. That's funny. Just to imagine that they all went in there and they
00:49:13.740
couldn't find their way out. No, they could, they could find their way out. But Breitbart is writing
00:49:17.780
about this. And, uh, I didn't know about it probably because the US had not participated. So Trump said,
00:49:26.980
no, no, no, thank you. We don't need, need to be part of this climate summit. But, uh, was that a
00:49:34.320
mistake? Not being part of the climate summit. Let's see what group of political people in this
00:49:41.800
country would have said we should have gone to the climate summit. Well, I think that would be
00:49:49.100
Democrats. Am I right? If Democrats had been in charge, don't you think the US would have gone to
00:49:56.220
the climate summit? Yeah, we would have. And then we would have been part of their amazing
00:50:02.180
accomplishments. You know, I keep saying that Democrats do useless things like doing videos,
00:50:08.860
telling the military things the military already knows. A lot of useless things. But this one,
00:50:14.600
no, this is, this was useful. There's all these countries, they went into the Amazon and then they
00:50:20.940
said important things and it took days and days. But finally, when they gaveled out,
00:50:26.500
they had applause because they had done something useful. Let's see, what was that? What was the
00:50:33.580
useful thing they did? Oh, uh, I guess they agreed to quote, voluntarily accelerate their climate actions.
00:50:41.520
No specific goals. No specific endpoints. And no definition of accelerate. So, that was useful.
00:50:57.160
Wasn't it? You've seen the pattern, right? It's not my imagination. The pattern is pretty clear.
00:51:05.760
This was completely a waste of time because it changed nothing. And Trump was smart enough to say,
00:51:14.220
that looks like a waste of time. I'm not going to go. So, good call by Trump.
00:51:24.740
Rand Paul is warning. He was on the Sunday, at least one of the Sunday shows, I guess.
00:51:30.280
And he said that the, the Trump coalition, if you will, the Trump supporters could be split
00:51:37.980
under two conditions. There are probably more of them, but here are two of them. He says, once
00:51:44.560
there's, this is Rand Paul, he says, once there's an invasion of Venezuela, or if they decide to re-up
00:51:50.760
the subsidies and the gifts to Ukraine, then Rand says, I think you'll see a splintering and a
00:51:57.060
fracturing of the movement that has supported the president. What do you think? Do you think that if
00:52:03.300
Trump invades Venezuela, or he starts to refund Ukraine, that his coalition will split apart?
00:52:15.820
I think so. Yeah, I think that's a reasonable prediction. But what are the odds he's going to do
00:52:22.380
either one of those things? What are the odds that Trump is going to refund Ukraine when he's pulled
00:52:29.040
off one of the smartest things I've ever seen, which is not only is he not funding Ukraine, but he's
00:52:35.260
getting, he's getting our allies to pay our military industrial complex for the weapons that Ukraine is
00:52:42.860
going to use. Don't we sort of win in that situation? I think we do. Do you think Trump's base is going to
00:52:53.880
be mad at him for finding out how to take the free money off the table? I mean, he's basically acting
00:53:00.940
like the Chicago Teachers Union. If you were here in the beginning of the podcast, Trump's just acting
00:53:08.060
like the Chicago Teachers Union. Hey, there's a big pile of money on the table. Doesn't seem to be
00:53:16.600
labeled. Is anybody claiming this money that is just sitting here? No, no, you? No, no, no. Nobody
00:53:26.480
claims this money? Well, what if I just take it? Any complaints? Still no complaints. All right.
00:53:35.180
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Chicago Teachers Union. That's how they do it. Allegedly. Allegedly.
00:53:42.380
I'm just saying allegedly. All right. Meanwhile, the U.S. White House, you know, that White House,
00:53:51.520
not the other White House. The U.S. White House announced it's eliminating the Department of Government
00:53:57.720
Efficiency, DOGE. Here's how I would interpret that. You would interpret that negatively, wouldn't
00:54:05.040
you? As in, hey, DOGE was a good idea. If they eliminate it, I will be unhappy because it's
00:54:11.960
something I liked and I think it worked a little bit and maybe they should have just tried harder,
00:54:16.440
but I like the DOGE idea and eliminating it seems like a bad idea. Well, I'm not sure that's what's
00:54:22.900
happening. I will take a fact check on this later in the day when we learn more, but here's what I
00:54:28.540
think is happening. And this is something I said, what, a year ago, two years ago, a year ago at least,
00:54:37.880
I pointed out that DOGE was simply becoming how the government operated. So instead of needing
00:54:46.180
a separate DOGE department, what made a lot more sense is what you saw Bill Pulte do in the Fannie,
00:54:55.680
Freddie situation, if you're running a big government entity, you know that Trump wants you
00:55:02.740
to cut costs and he wants you to brag about it because he wants to cut the budget and he wants
00:55:09.680
everybody to know it. So if you're running a big entity and you know exactly what the boss wants
00:55:16.420
and unlike prior years, this is the real magic part, unlike prior years, you're not going to get a pat on
00:55:24.620
the back for spending more than your budget, but apparently that used to happen. Otherwise,
00:55:30.520
they wouldn't all be spending more than their budget. So at this point, you saw people almost
00:55:36.320
competing, you know, heads of cabinets, heads of departments. You saw them almost competing
00:55:42.560
to see who could get the most attention for saying, I've cut the budget in the smartest, best,
00:55:50.180
biggest way. So you saw Hag Seth talking about budget cuts, you know, Bill Pulte again. And I think
00:55:59.540
you could name half a dozen others where they literally just bragged about cutting budgets.
00:56:05.640
Once you've created that culture, which apparently Trump has done, then DOGE just becomes how you think
00:56:13.420
about everything. It doesn't become the external department that needs to be bothering you all
00:56:19.420
the time. You should be doing those things before they knock on the door. You shouldn't need DOGE to
00:56:25.720
say you need an audit. Nobody needs DOGE to say they should save me, look where they can cut costs.
00:56:34.220
That should just be part of the operation. So when I see that DOGE first was created, I was excited
00:56:42.920
because obviously that was a thing that wasn't in existence that needed to exist. But once it operated
00:56:49.560
for a while and everybody got the idea and it just became part of our conversation, it became a word.
00:56:57.900
I mean, you don't even need to have the department now. If you're running some big department in the
00:57:02.860
government, don't you think that one of the words you would use is DOGE? And it would be something
00:57:07.840
like this. All right, everybody, we need to come up with some big cost savings so I can tell the boss
00:57:15.540
that we're on board. So somebody come up with some good DOGE ideas. They would literally use the word
00:57:22.220
to describe what they want to do, which is have a responsible budget that you could audit and
00:57:29.100
keep under control. So I'm happy that DOGE went away if the reason is they had successfully just
00:57:38.340
integrated into the thinking of the government. And I think they did. I mean, from the outside,
00:57:43.620
it looks like they did. So I would consider that an enormous win if that's what happened. But I'll
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I guess we've got some video, Zero Hedge says, of some maybe drones hitting a major power station
00:58:30.700
near Moscow. Now, you have to be careful about all the reporting from Moscow and from Ukraine,
00:58:40.100
because it's all subject to the fog of war. But the timing would be interesting if that really
00:58:47.100
happened. And there's good reason to believe it did happen, because it would not be unusual
00:58:52.260
for Ukraine to have done a drone attack on a energy facility in Russia. And this would be timed
00:59:00.140
somewhat coincidentally, or not, by the fact that Marco Rubio just said they had a very
00:59:09.880
productive meeting. Actually, the most productive. He said the most productive and meaningful meeting
00:59:15.600
to date, that is with his Ukrainian partners, trying to come up with some kind of a peace deal
00:59:23.540
that they could present to Putin that would have some chance of being negotiated to completion.
00:59:29.960
So, as of today, the government is talking in a more, let's say, optimistic way about the chances
00:59:38.860
of peace than I've seen in a while. Do you think that's real? Do you think that's real? I don't know.
00:59:49.740
Because, you know, we've been disappointed so many times where we're like, oh, there's going to be a
00:59:54.960
peace deal in Ukraine any minute, and then it gets yanked away. Well, here's what I feel. And this is
01:00:03.040
going to be more feelings than facts. So, if I'm wrong, don't be surprised, because I can't give you
01:00:11.440
an argument for what I'm going to say. I'm going to tell you how it feels. Now, my argument, I guess
01:00:17.600
there is an argument, but it's a bad one. My argument is that sometimes you can feel things
01:00:24.340
or smell them before you can see them and touch them. And this is feeling that way to me.
01:00:33.020
So, I'm just an observer of the news. I don't have any special access to anything in this topic.
01:00:39.680
But I observe patterns. And sometimes I don't know what pattern I'm picking up.
01:00:45.000
Have you ever had that experience? You're like, ah, I feel like I know where this is heading,
01:00:50.420
but I don't know why I know it. And it's because there might be some pattern you're picking up.
01:00:55.260
Might be false. Doesn't mean it's true, but it means we're just pattern recognition machines.
01:01:01.840
When I look at the war, here's the first question I ask. What are the odds that the Ukraine-Russia
01:01:08.040
war will still be raging for the entire term of Trump's time in office? Do you think this could
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run another three years? Because that would put it at seven years, and it probably would be sitting
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at the same place at the end of three more years. So, I'm finding it hard to believe that either
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Putin or Zelensky are thinking to themselves, we can wait this guy out, meaning Trump. We can wait
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him out. I think the days of waiting anybody out are over. And then I would say, what are the odds
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that it would end differently if you wait three more years? And I think the answer is, there's no
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reason to believe it's going to turn out differently. Might be better, might be worse. But the last thing
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that Moscow wants is three more years of Ukraine developing better drones. It's just going to get
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worse. So, if you're in Moscow and you're in something blow up and your lights flickered, which
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may or may not be what happened. Again, fog of war, you can't believe any reporting from that area.
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But if you believe it happened, it's going to be a lot of pressure. Could you imagine just going
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three more years and gaining nothing? And it looks exactly the same at the end of three more years.
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So, my first pattern recognition is that if waiting doesn't seem like it's going to get you a better
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result, and both sides would see that, that seems obvious from both sides, then why would you wait?
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What you would do instead of waiting is you would look for some excuse as to why now would be the
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time. And that excuse is Trump. Trump is the excuse because he won't always be there. And you can't
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count on even, you know, given our politics, you can't guarantee you'll even be there in three years.
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But he's there now. And he's willing to put in maximum effort to get this thing finished. So, because
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there's a Trump, and because it's gone four years, and because he's going to be here another three, and
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because we can kind of predict that things aren't going to get better, and that drones will get more
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powerful, and just more things will explode, you might as well do it now. Now, is that a good argument? Not
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really. Not really. I'm telling you how it feels. And what it feels like, I'm going to give you the
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summary of what I just said. The summary is, it just feels like it's time. Does anybody have that
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feeling? And I'm not sure I would have said that before. Before, I would have said, oh, it's logical,
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you know, both sides could, you know, they'd be better off if they do it. So, I would have given you a
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logical argument before. But now it just sort of feels like even the words that Marco Rubio chose,
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the way that Zelensky is sort of sliding into a new position, the way that Europeans are on the hook
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for the entire bill. It's sort of all those things, the way the technology is improving
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to the point where it's not a, you know, it's mostly robots on robots, etc. So, I think maybe
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something's coming that could be good. And another way to look at it was, it feels like capitulation.
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If you're familiar with investing, there's a word called capitulation. I mean, it's a regular word,
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but when it's used in the context of investing, it means that people just feel like they're done
01:05:01.620
with some investment position, capitulation. And capitulation doesn't always have like a logical
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backing to it. It's just people agree that's how they feel. It's like capitulation. I think that's
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what's happened. I think maybe the way the media will cover it will change. I think that there's also
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a narrative fatigue. Sometimes you just have to have a new narrative. And in this case, the narrative
01:05:32.480
is the story and the story is the reality, the thing that's really happening. I feel like we're tired
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of waking up and saying, is Russia and Ukraine at war still? Is it exactly the same? Are the lines
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about the same as they were? We're just fatigued with that version of reality. So, there's also a,
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we are living in a simulation argument, which is we're just tired with that narrative. So, our collective
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consciousness will change the narrative because we're just bored with it. We'll get something else.
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Then, I would argue also that we already know how the story ends. We already know how the story
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ends. It's a three-act movie. And at the end of the third act, what happens? You all know how the
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movie ends. Let me set it up for you. In scene one, Trump is impeached twice and loses re-election.
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But in scene two, Trump wins re-election against all odds. And then he goes on this series of
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ridiculously successful presidential actions, which is what at least the Republicans would say
01:06:51.840
he's doing right now. And that's a proper second act. So, the first act is something really bad
01:06:58.460
happens to your hero. That's the impeachment. That's the losing re-election. That's all that stuff.
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That's the first act. Second act is usually the hero of the movie has reached, let's say,
01:07:10.040
some kind of plateau of how their life could be. If it's an athlete, the athlete is suddenly winning
01:07:16.560
all the competitions, right? So, that's happening. And then the third act would be something that looks
01:07:24.960
like, oh, no, you could never, you could never get out of this. It would be something like the
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Ukraine-Russia war. Looks like it's unsolvable. At the same time, Trump's popularity numbers are
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plunging. So, he's going to have the lowest popularity numbers in the war that he can't stop.
01:07:43.980
And he's going to be accused of being a fascist, whatever. And it will look like maybe it might
01:07:51.660
even get worse. And it will look like there's no way anybody could get out of this situation.
01:07:56.780
And that's the third act. The third act is when your hero escapes the situation that nobody could
01:08:02.800
escape. It's impossible. And then what happens after he does the escape? What happens after he does
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the impossible? He gets the Nobel Peace Prize. The fact that Trump doesn't have the Nobel Peace Prize
01:08:20.320
and that this is brewing back there, that's a little bit too much of a pattern for me to imagine
01:08:27.200
it's not going to go that way. It looks like it's just going to turn into a three-act movie.
01:08:33.240
It will look like he's doomed pretty soon from some new drama that we don't even see coming.
01:08:39.520
And then he'll find a way out, because that's what he does. And then he'll get the Nobel Peace
01:08:45.760
Prize. And you'll be watching it in awe, saying, why was that so predictable? Because it kind of is.
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Well, Tucker Carlson was quite provocative today on X. He posted this. I'm going to read just what
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Tucker said, because it's a big story if his allegations are true. And it goes like this. So,
01:09:45.920
this is brand new. This just is before I came on. Tucker said that for months, the Wall Street Journal
01:09:52.300
has held a story detailing the personal corruption of somebody named Andrei Yermak,
01:09:59.380
the second most powerful man in Ukraine. Yermak has skimmed hundreds of millions in American tax
01:10:05.900
dollars meant for Ukraine aid. Now, remember, this is allegations made by Tucker. The journal's
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editors can prove that, really. But they're not. Instead, they're protecting Yermak. Why?
01:10:20.420
And then Tucker answers his own question. He says, because Yermak is leading Ukraine's effort to
01:10:27.520
scuttle the Trump peace plan for Eastern Europe. What? The owners of the Wall Street Journal
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don't want peace with Russia. Now, remember, that's a little mind reading going on there,
01:10:40.620
because unless they've said it, I know, you'd be assuming that that's what they're thinking.
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And it might be right. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying just distinguish between things
01:10:53.620
you can prove and things which are allegations. So, the owners of the Wall Street Journal,
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says Tucker, don't want peace with Russia. They want war. At the same time, the journal's editorial
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page has attacked the Trump administration for pushing a peace agreement. And then, says Tucker,
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this is true corruption without informing its readers. The Murdoch family, no, without informing
01:11:18.240
its readers, the Murdoch family, says Tucker, is using both sides of his newspaper to continue the
01:11:23.720
war with Russia. That's not the behavior of a news organization. Wait for it. It's the hallmark of
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an intel agency. Oh, damn. Damn. I don't know how many of you have been watching Tucker's content
01:11:39.100
since he got canceled and canceled again. But he does do a lot of content about, well, you probably
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didn't know this, but some intel agency is behind it, because I think it usually is. What do you think
01:11:55.880
of this? Do you think that Tucker's narrative of this is accurate? I don't have any inside
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information. I've never heard of this, Andrei Yermak. I will say that the Ukraine war has the
01:12:12.880
feeling of something that rich people want to continue, because it feels like if all the rich
01:12:19.520
people wanted it to end, it would have already ended. What's the point of being all these
01:12:25.640
billionaires if you can't control, you know, control civilization too? So there must have been
01:12:31.340
somebody who wanted the war to continue, and maybe it's this guy. I wouldn't know. But that's a heck
01:12:38.180
of an allegation. A heck of an allegation. So let's keep an eye on that one. I think it's too early for me to
01:12:45.140
have an opinion on that one, because I'd have to see if there's any second side to it. But the
01:12:50.940
allegation that the Wall Street Journal is sort of intentionally promoting war for the benefit of
01:13:00.620
some billionaires, and maybe for the benefit of their own company, that's a big allegation.
01:13:06.540
That's a big one. All right. Glenn Beck recently asked RFK Jr. his thoughts on the World Economic
01:13:16.660
Forum, the WEF. And RFK Jr. said, quote, we shouldn't be paying attention to it, meaning the WEF. It's a
01:13:24.700
billionaire's boys club that's arranging for the world to shift wealth upward and to clamp down on
01:13:30.240
totalitarian controls and to clamp down totalitarian controls on everybody else. Now, who does that
01:13:38.100
sound like? There's one other public figure who has talked about the World Economic Forum in almost
01:13:46.120
exactly the same terms, the billionaire's boys club. That was Elon. When Elon Musk was asked about the
01:13:54.960
World Economic Forum, he also just sort of brushed it aside in terms of importance and acted like it
01:14:01.740
was just a social club for rich people. And that if you thought it was more than that, you were kind
01:14:07.720
of giving it too much power. Yeah. So I agree with RFK Jr.'s take. I have not seen the World Economic
01:14:16.900
Forum be anything but a billionaire boys club. It looks exactly like that. And yes, we should ignore
01:14:24.940
them unless they become more powerful and start affecting things. All right. In other news, the Israeli
01:14:32.480
defense forces apparently are dismissing the first wave, what they call the first wave, of people that
01:14:41.620
they say were responsible for allowing the October 7th attack to happen, meaning people who allegedly did not
01:14:49.880
do their jobs well enough to prevent it and should have. Now, apparently quite a few people are involved
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in this, and they're calling it just the first major wave. Newsmax is reporting on this, by the way.
01:15:04.460
It's the first major wave. That would suggest that there are going to be other major waves.
01:15:08.780
How many people were actually literally physically involved and should have done more? I don't know
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how there could be that many people. I can see if it were one or two or a dozen people. But once it
01:15:26.260
gets up to larger numbers, how many people were making mistakes all at the same time in the same way?
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I don't know what that means. But apparently they're not done. So they're going to keep looking and keep
01:15:41.520
firing people who are responsible. Now, Prime Minister Netanyahu is apparently, reportedly, opposed to a state
01:15:53.380
inquiry of the government to find out if members of the government, as opposed to the military,
01:15:59.460
were also responsible and should take some kind of action or responsibility, I guess.
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So you've got the IDF saying, yes, we take responsibility, and these specific people
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are being dismissed. But you've got the government saying, no, let's not get into this any deeper.
01:16:22.440
Maybe we should just leave this with the military.
01:16:25.280
Sorry. Now, if you follow all your conspiracy theories, you know that there's been one that's
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been bugging me from almost day one. Bugging me because I just don't see it as possible in the
01:16:43.000
world that I live in. Anything's possible, and I could be totally surprised. But the conspiracy
01:16:51.180
theory goes, and you've all heard it, that Netanyahu intentionally allowed security to be lax
01:17:00.740
or lax so that the attack would happen because that would help him politically stay in power,
01:17:08.740
but also to do what he wanted to do anyway in Gaza. How many of you believe that that's what
01:17:16.260
really happened? Now, I understand why you would believe it, because it's really hard to look at
01:17:22.720
the size of that security lapse and imagine that was an accident, right? If you're just looking at it
01:17:31.120
from the outside, you say to yourself, how in the world could all of that be accidental, right?
01:17:40.100
And that's a good place to start. It's a good starting place because I'm curious too. But now that the
01:17:49.480
military has taken this much responsibility, does it change your opinion? Because if the military is
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taking responsibility, and they're naming names, and a lot of them, and they're firing them, they must be
01:18:06.000
finding things that these military people did wrong. Now, do you believe that these military people
01:18:13.100
would all take what must be one of the worst consequences you could get in the military other
01:18:19.780
than being wounded, I suppose? One of the worst things would be to have your own military accuse
01:18:27.880
you of being responsible for October 7th. Do you think that there are this many people, I don't know how
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many there are, but let's say dozens. Do you think there are dozens of people in the military who would
01:18:40.600
be willing to take responsibility for October 7th, trying, you know, living among the population that
01:18:46.860
would know that they had taken responsibility, and you would do that, what, to cover up for Netanyahu?
01:18:53.500
Would you? Would you? Do you believe that that's like a possible thing that would happen?
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That dozens of people at the officer level, we're not talking about grunts, talking people in
01:19:07.640
leadership, would they all take the fall for October 7th? The most, maybe the most shameful thing
01:19:17.780
that's ever happened to, you know, any Israeli in decades, I just don't see it happening. So,
01:19:27.200
while I do think that Netanyahu is opportunistically using the situation to his advantage,
01:19:36.480
that's not a big surprise, but it's hard for me to imagine that he planned it, he executed it,
01:19:44.140
dozens and dozens of people in the military, had to sort of stand down from their responsibilities,
01:19:51.280
and then, after it was all over, none of them became whistleblowers. They all just,
01:19:58.220
they all individually took the rap. For October 7th? I mean, there are a lot of things you could take
01:20:05.980
the rap for, but not that. That would be like the worst thing you could ever take the rap for,
01:20:12.240
if he didn't do it, especially. Right? So, this doesn't really add up to me. And I'm going to say
01:20:19.700
that the new revelation that the military is dismissing people and naming names, they're naming
01:20:26.960
names. It does kind of make it look like a military failure, more so than it seems likely to me it would
01:20:36.080
be a government failure. Now, in case you're wondering, Israel is not paying me to do anything.
01:20:44.720
They don't pay me for anything. And it's not my job to support Netanyahu. I'm not a supporter,
01:20:53.200
and I'm not a supporter of Israel or anybody else, except the United States. I'm an America
01:20:59.760
first kind of guy. And when I talk about Israel, I'm not talking about even my preferences. We're just
01:21:07.920
observing and trying to understand it. But it's up to them to defend it.
01:21:17.360
Well, I'm hearing today in the New York Post that that Thomas Crooks guy who tried to
01:21:23.520
assassinate the president and then got shot himself, that he had all kinds of social media presence.
01:21:31.360
Didn't we hear that he didn't have a social media presence, or am I confusing him with somebody else?
01:21:37.120
But it does seem to me that months later, we're learning about this would-be assassin,
01:21:45.600
things that... How did it take so long to hear that? Boy, talk about fog of war.
01:21:52.720
That fog of war lasts apparently a year or more.
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All right. The $7,000 check. Does anybody think I'm being paid by Israel?
01:22:09.520
What does Glenn Greenwald not believe? There was a press on the ground.
01:22:17.520
There was press on the ground. Yeah, you know, I just don't believe any of those.
01:22:22.720
stories. Some of them might turn out to be true, but
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All right, people. I think I've said what I need to say. I'm going to say a few words
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to the local subscribers, the wonderful local subscribers. I hope you got something out of this today. Did you?
01:22:44.480
Did anybody learn anything today that they might not have gotten from the regular news?
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