Episode 2734 CWSA 01/29/25

well let's check in on the stock market a little bit weak today but still time still time we'll see if I can Goose it with my excellent coverage of all things in the news but first let's get some comments going and then we'll we'll be in good shape come on comments there we go everything's working just perfectly today that's the way I like it good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or micro glass a tanker Chelsea Stein a canteen Jugger FL vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous siping it happens now go so good well let's check in with the science um sure enough morning coffee drinkers have 12% lower risk of all cause mortality but apparently that's a new study but apparently you got to get it in the morning for some reason if you wait till the afternoon to have your coffee your all cause mortality is not that much better but get it early and and you're you're going to live forever at this rate in other science uh according to study finds there's a desert plant that shows promise as col as a treatment for coloral cancer now I don't know how they deliver it and I'm just hoping it's not a cactus well let me check oh it's a shrub shrub yeah a shrub would be no problem I've tried to cure my color recto cancel I don't have that but if I did uh I would sit on a sit on a cactus if it if I thought it would help anyway it's only a shrub should shouldn't be so hard in Insider TR trading Nancy P's husband made some more excellent calls of course we're assuming that he knows a little bit too much because Congress has Insider information sometimes but I was looking at a couple of the examples and the two examples of his insider trading are that he somewhat recently sold his Apple stock and a good chunk of his Nvidia but not all of it um those are the same trades I made I don't have any Insider you don't need any Insider knowledge to trade those two things apple is at a point where AI is likely to disrupt their whole business model and it doesn't appear that they're extra good at AI so I sold mine because I thought you know Apple went from sort of a monopoly kind of a company to anything can happen at this point and as you know Nvidia um even before the new news it had such a run that it would be time to take some money off the table so you have to be careful with these insider trading stories if the Insiders are making exactly the same trades as The Outsiders like me literally the two it's the only two stocks I sold I think no there was one other that was a special case but you know if I'm making the same trades at about the same time you know I I do believe the insider trading is a real thing and it should be addressed but not everything they sell sometimes it's just obvious stuff well men are becoming more obsolete than ever according to brighter side of the news um scientists have figured out how to use stem cells and mice to U make their own Mouse sperm and so that the female Mouse doesn't need a like a real mate or real sperm they can just make it of some kind of stem cells so let me let me look ahead let's see uh we're about a year away from robots doing everything that men can do that requires strength so we don't have the strength thing going for us uh but at least we're the only ones who can make sper okay we're not the only ones who can make sperm now I guess the scientist can whip it up in the lab or whip it up in the lab if you know what I mean no really it's from stem cells how do we know it's from stem cells though I don't trust those scientists at all if you know what I mean anyway men are obsolete we'll be in about a year um so you know so here's another one of my uh unbelievably good predictions so good I wonder why you listen to anybody else um remember when I told you that I sold my Invidia stock a while go CU I thought there'd be some major disruption you know some technology that showed you didn't have to do these Big Data Centers and whatnot and sure enough so deep seek comes out the Chinese open- Source AI That's uh cost five% to make and it's almost as good but I also predicted and here was my more clever prediction that you shouldn't be that afraid of it at least in terms of disrupting America's AI because first of all America AI would keep moving forward and probably they have some advantages because of the big training facilities that they have that deep seek does not but I also told you that it would get uh that the government of the United States would organize against it so to make it illegal or there would be lawsuits basically it would just be tied up in all kinds of legal Maneuvers like Tik Tock you know Tik Tock being caught up in the government political process so I was pretty sure that it would be heavily attacked and sure enough here's what we know open AI is looking into um complaints that maybe was trained on just looking at open AI now I'm not sure I believe this next part but it comes from people who know way more than I do apparently there's a way to train a AI model where if there's already a model that is trained like open AI Chad PT you can have the one you're training just ask the one that already exists millions of questions and then it just answers the questions and then then the new thing is also trained does that seem real to you how how in the world could could it ask enough questions I I get this as fast and you know there's no human involv so it's digital but can you really connect to open AI if you're just a user and ask it millions of questions a minute until you've until you've sucked all of its all of its knowledge that doesn't feel like that could happen wouldn't wouldn't open AI have guard rails that say you can't have that much um that much traffic all at the same time or it would be so expensive nobody could do it I know there's something about it that's not connecting in terms of probably just my understanding of it but I don't know how it could possibly ask millions of questions and then reproduce it that that doesn't even seem slightly possible based on what I know about anything but we'll see the smart people say that's a thing um so open AI is going to go after for stealing their their IP because open AI says we're seeing indications they may have trained on our IP which is interesting because a whistleblower recently died under mysterious circumstances for allegedly having evidence that open AI may have trained on some copyrighted work so you've got the one that may have trained on copyrighted work that's going to sue somebody for copying the work that was copied maybe from the copyrighted okay it's getting a little confusing but what is what seems uh critical is that whoever has the most money to hire lawyers is going to Prevail and right now that's open AI U let's see what else is happening uh we're also talking about the data security problem um and maybe even the persuasion propaganda problem with this deep seek model so as I predicted it would first of all be get sued and next to the government would say hey it's too dangerous to have this you know Chinese spy application you know they might call it so all that's happening exactly as I said and the US Navy is Banning it they're going to ban deep seek AI over quote security concerns because there's uh yeah so security concerns so it's basically already being banned now who who predicted that I think I'm the only one right did anybody else say oh it'll just caught up get CAU up in politics and and lawsuits and you're not going to have to worry about it that's what it looks like meanwhile Alibaba just introduced its own AI this is brand new didn't see this coming and it claims to be the fastest One faster than open Ai and deep seek and everything else that's what they claim now question number two uh am I wrong that Alibaba is a fully Chinese owned company and if it's true that deep seek um may have had access to a lot but a smaller number than the US of those Nvidia chips which seem necessary to at least get going how in the world is Alibaba creating something that's better than all the other ones do they also have a whole bunch of fake or not fake but they they have a bunch of illegal chips too how many Nvidia chips made it to China it it feels like that would be exactly the sort of thing we'd have the most control over but were we sending it to some country that then sent it to China because how in the world did they get it it's not like they're it's not like they're stealing it so I got big questions about idia chips and Alibaba maybe we'll find that out today so as I tell you I I'm always listening to MSNBC for the for the comedy and it's becoming more and more hilarious that their only coverage is comparing stuff to Hiller and usually Republicans so so here's here's what they had today today they had their guest uh Girard haras he claimed that uh this is MSNBC uh the guests claimed that Trump is trying to make America white again by deporting illegal aliens well I don't know if anybody knows this but Trump has nothing to do with the color of the the immigrants he doesn't have any control over what color they are when they come in the country he only has control over not letting non-citizens in the country but but this literally aoy here that this is the guest who has this gray hair that's like pointed like a like a paintbrush you just dipped in paint and uh it's so dumb that all he's doing is doing the law exactly the way the public wants them to do it it's not his fault that the people coming in are you know more one color than another one it's not Trump's fault and then uh Joy Reed is uh says that Trump enforcing immigration law is just like Hitler orchestrating the Holocaust that's all she has is that uh she goes similarities to what happened in Germany and what's Happening Now in America are just undeniable are they are they undeniable uh history may not repeat verbatim but is sure does Rhyme yeah Hitler rhymes with shitler so I guess we learned something there no you're not supposed to figure out what's True by looking at what rhymes if if I could give you one bit of advice about understanding the world things that rhyme are largely coincidence yeah if it Rhymes that's not really telling you anything but it sounds good when you say it then Tim wals is a guest on MSNBC and he says quote of course Elon must did a Nazi he treats it like it's a fact and it's the most obviously not a fact thing that's ever happened anyway so it made me think uh I've never seen MSNBC do sports or weather um I don't know if the TV platform has that so I was wondering what would it be like if MSNBC started covering sports and weather would it still be comparing everything think to Hitler you know would the weather be well looks like it's going to be colder than Hitler's balls today it's going to be snowing more than the dandruff on Hitler's shoulder uh then they're going to switch over to the sports it's like uh that running back he hit the Gap like Hitler invading Poland and I feel like they would uh even for the weather they'd replace Fahrenheit with some kind of Hitler measure well looks like it's 32 Hitlers today so wear your jacket anyway speaking of that uh apparently an armed man was arrested in the capital who uh authorities say plan to kill what uh what the armed man called Nazis huh Nazis H where we to get that idea uh and that included in his view Pete heg Mike Johnson and Scott Besson if I'm pronouncing that is it bent or bessent um the treasury secretary new treasury secretary now here's my question what new source would he possibly be watching that would make him think that there were actual Hitler likee characters in the United States government and he would have to take action because it's so real could it be MSNBC now you want to you want to get a real shock why why does Joy reads the lever job is it because their ratings are good no they're not even good on MSNBC they're not as good as her her peers as far as I can tell and but but she keeps her job why is that why do you think that is as absurd and silly just calling Trump Hitler all day long and nothing really mil else to say well here's what I worry about don't we generally hear that MSNBC and and NBC um tend to be some of the most controlled news meaning it's not really news it's a propaganda you know our our internal intelligence people CIA seem to have some some kind of connection with some news sources more than others and is generally widely considered by people who follow this sort of thing that MSNBC is a controlled news platform meaning that they're kind of doing what the intelligence people want them to do and so my question is this is Joy Reed only employed because she says Trump is Hiller and is that what the intelligence people want MSNBC to say because if they didn't want him to say it she would already be out so the disturbing thing is that the whole Hitler Hitler Hitler thing appears to be either approved by or actually initiated by our own government that's what it looks like now there's no way to know that from my perspective but if it's true the MSNBC is just you know a CIA fake news Outlet which it appears to be I mean all the indications it doesn't seem like it's it really doesn't seem like they're being serious about any kind of news it doesn't look like they're even trying so I guess I have a question is that what our own government is selling us is there a part of our government that's telling us that the government is a Nazi government that doesn't seem like a good idea anyway Trump uh Finally Revealed um not personally but uh it was announcement that the drones over New Jersey were authorized by the f FAA for research and others were just normal commercial traffic just normal drone traffic all licensed and approved and some of it for research so how many of you guessed it was aliens or an Iranian or or Chinese attack if you guessed Chinese or Iranian attack or some kind of surveillance or aliens from another planet um you're you're not winning this round my my prediction was it was going to be normal approved traffic but I also suggested that there might be some things up there that we've not seen before possibly because they're doing a bake off to maybe show their products to somebody like the government before the government makes a decision on what vendors to buy stuff from specifically drones so I don't know if that's true but uh they are calling it research it seems to me that you wouldn't fly a drone over heavily populated areas for research would you what kind of research is it research to see if the Drone Works research to find out how much data can collect from our own people what exactly were they researching so that's a big question so I think we can agree that every time the government tells us something about secret stuff you never really know if that's true let me say it directly Trump as commanderin-chief does not have an obligation to tell us the truth if the truth is bad for the country so if it turns out that he looked into it and found oh damn I can't tell them the whole truth but I can tell them enough of the truth to make them stop worrying okay it's not an alien and we're not being attacked that's all I really wanted to know I didn't really have questions beyond that because if there's something going on beyond that that the military knows about but we're not supposed to know about I'm perfectly okay with my president no matter what party they are just not revealing that you know being a little subtle about that that's okay that's part of the job so I don't need to know everything but I do appreciate knowing that they if it's true I I don't see any possibility that it was a an enemy action and Trump wouldn't tell us that that doesn't seem real so I'm pretty sure we don't have to worry about it that's all I'm wor that's that's my only take on that well let's see uh what things has Trump accomplished in his one week uh border encounters are down 93% in one week border and encounters that's just encounters just any kind of encounter 93% now if you're a Democrat do you not even notice the difference I mean that's pretty dramatic now it could be that there'll be another uptick because it could be that the people planning to come or sort of waiting to see what happens and then maybe they'll adjust and try some other way to get in but but at the moment it's pretty impressive I saw a post from Insurrection Barbie on X uh pointing out that Bill Clinton deported 12 million illegals and the media didn't say anything Barack Obama deported three million illegals media didn't say anything fine with that uh but when Trump deported 1 million in his first term the media brands are a racist and a Nazi do you see how all this works he does 112 of what Bill Clinton does 112th and he's branded a Nazi and Bill Clinton is branded one of the greatest presidents ever by the Democrats all right so that's what we got uh Trump signed an executive order uh trying to ban trans surgery and transchemical uh chemical transitions I guess now the it's not a direct ban it's a we'll take your federal funding if you're an institution that's involved in this do you think it'll stick I think I think there'll be lawsuits um but it would be pretty risky for any institution to lose their Federal funding because I'm pretty sure it's not a bluff the the the one thing I'm sure of is it's not a bluff yeah chemical castration would be part of what's being banned um so is pretty bold that is very bold now is it my imagination or has the trans Mania just completely disappeared so how many years have we been talking about trans issues like it seems like non-stop every day and during that entire time I met zero trans people and none I didn't run to any did you it it it was always so much of a bigger story than it was anything that you know affects the the larger public of course if you're in that situation it affects you a lot but uh for most of us we just didn't even have any contact with that entire segment of the world or maybe we didn't know you know didn't notice but you know I want the best I want the best for all the trans people is as well as everybody else but um I I like having less news on this topic I just want to talk about something that isn't trans and isn't a comparison to Hiller that's all I want so we'll see how that plays out I think Trump's on the right side of history on that uh so Trump has warned that Panama is rapidly allegedly taking down its signs that were written in China in Chinese I mean they're written in Chinese in Panama so the idea here is that Trump is saying uh China has too much control on the Panama Canal and one way that that's obvious is if you go there this there are more signs in Chinese than there are in other other languages so he's saying that uh they're they're rapidly taken down the Chinese signs so it's not so obvious who's controlling them I thought there was some question about whether China has control of the Panama Canal I think Republicans say it's a fact and I think Democrats say China doesn't control the Panama Canal am I right that there are two two movies on one screen there the the Democrats have a completely different idea what's going on I think so so one one of the things I find useful is watching the Five on Fox News especially when uh Jessica tarof is on the panel she's the most reliable uh Democrat to have the alternative story um you know sometimes there are different people in that chair but she's really useful because you know the the the fake news isn't on one side you know there's a little fake news on both sides right so I'm sometimes I've got little blind spot to what the Democrats version of the story is so she's really good at giving you the quick version of the Democrat side of things you know of course then all all heck breaks out because it it's a fun show with lots of uh lots of energy but I think uh probably maybe I think maybe 10 times in the last year or two I've heard something from her that I hadn't seen on my regular looks through the news so very useful you you don't have to agree with the other side but you'd be crazy not to know what the argument is so at least listen to the argument all right uh the Trump Administration pushed out um apparently is getting rid of 60 career officials at a at an entity called us Aid us Aid which is not an aid organization um I don't want to get too deeply into that but let me just say this if it doesn't mean anything to you when I say that that 60 officials were removed from usaid then there's a gigantic part of America that you're missing and I would refer you to Mike Ben to understand why why neutering that organization might be really important cuz it's just one of these entities that you didn't know was doing a lot of stuff that you weren't aware of and you were paying for if you're an American taxpayer so uh the Trump Administration seems to be targeting all the things that really needed to be targeted and they're doing it quickly it's very impressive I have to say I'm totally impressed um Trump Administration is also offering these Buy.

Backs or not Buy.

Backs buyouts for employees so I guess you'll get eight months pay if you decide to go by next week so there's a website where you can volunteer to go and you get eight months of pay if you go now if you don't go now you still might be laid off later but without the eight months of pay so I'm I'm guessing you get some something but much less so this is a really clever way to get things going now what's going to happen and you're seeing it already is that people who are not good at doing anything are going to have all kinds of ideas about how it's being done wrong here's specifically what people who don't know how things work are going to say they're going to say Hey you froze or you cut too much too soon without looking at all the details that's not a mistake it will be true that if the administration does exactly what it should do in other words if if it acts in the smartest most capable way it will cut way too much way too fast without checking that's the only way you can get there because the only way you're going to find out what's true is to cut stuff and find out who screams the the amount of pain that you cause is almost the only good indicator of what's working and what's true every government entity that Trump and Company want to cut everyone will be lying to them they're all liars there is no way you can study and take extra time to find out who you should fund and who you should get rid of can't be done because everybody's a liar so here's what you do instead all right I don't see any reason for this place uh we should talk to them and see if they have a good argument no you just stop the funding and you just see what happens now if you don't have experience you would say that is a little crazy Scott you you don't just fire first and then make a plan after you've started you make a plan first and then you execute the plan nope not in this case in this case you just have to run in and start punching stuff because you you've got to just destroy the current assumptions destroy the current Comfort you've just got to shake that box until everybody's dizzy then you might start seeing something useful and you're going to have to take a bunch of guesses and it's going to be messy messy messy but here's what you can't do the certain way to fail is low energy the certain way to fail and by the way failing to cut the budget is the end of humanity I mean it would be the end of the United States and God knows what would follow right because the world has a lot of dependence on the United States people we survive but we might be we might be living in you know tribes or something so the the level of risk involved in continuing to spend the way we are is really it's 100% Doom so doing what we're doing in the normal way is 100% Doom there really is no Escape if you go wild with let's say putting full energy into cutting costs and you cut too deeply what is the risk of that well there's definitely risk there is risk is risk to individual um individual components of the country and that's real and we should we should be smart about those risks and we should try to adjust and we should try to make it easy on people when it makes sense but you got to do it that's the important thing if you don't put full energy into cutting and disrupting and shaking the box and getting rid of people before You' fully investigated you can't get there you just can't get there from here any kind of a low energy traditional attack would be well I've created a committee and the committee will be spending 18 months are researching what should be cut and the way they'll research it is they'll ask the opinions of the people they plan to cut hey you're in charge of this department how much should we cut what you don't want to be cut you have to increase 20% next year because otherwise the world will come to an end oh well we'll put that together in a report and then we'll go back to the government in 18 months oh but we're a little late so we had to delay it really took two years oh wait a minute we're halfway through Trump's entire term no point in doing it now because they'll just fight it and they'll never get done before the end of the term no you cannot do a low energy major cut you have to go high energy High mistake high energy High mistake it's the only path and the only people who were smart enough to know that are Elon Musk Trump and you know VI would know it you know sax would know it Amman would know it um I'm sure Andre knows it I'll bet you you can't find anybody with a high IQ to disagree uh let let me let me lay down the gauntlet here I say nobody nobody who's got a high IQ and and the Trump Administration has just freaking Geniuses at this point not one of them would disagree with going high energy high potential mistake versus you know our ordinary study it to death and do nothing's approach uh um and it's going to be hard to educate the people who don't have experience that it's the only way we we ran out of we ran out of options we only have one way to survive this is it this is it and I and by the way this is not an exaggeration this is for survival and I don't think I've ever said that before you usually everything else is well we're trying to optimize we're trying to avoid some trouble no the debt this is survival and we have to put 100% into it all right um this is interesting apparently Trump is suing the Pulitzer Prize committee for having given Pulitzer prizes to the New York Times and Washington Post over their Russia collusion fake news now I don't think this can succeed I've never seen anything like it so it's one thing to sue the the people with the fake news and I don't know that that's happening I don't think he's suing the New York Times And The Washington Post over Russia collusion stories but if he's suing the piter committee because they gave they gave Awards and didn't take them back I I think they'd be happy if they were just resend it so something tells me that the real play is just to get them to admit that they gave Awards to fake news and then have them just correct it and say okay we we disavow or we resend the award I don't know if you can resend the award but you could say we disavow it now or it was a mistake so it could be that the lawsuit is really just to get them to do something that they should have done anyway which is admit when they made a gigantic mistake well um RFK Jr should be sitting there right now in his confirmation hearings so that's happening right now we're expecting it to be brutal um and we don't know if he's going to get through I will tell you that if somehow RFK Jr doesn't get through the the level of disappointment I would feel for the Republicans would be off the chart just off the chart I could never forgive this let let me say that directly anybody who votes against RFK Jr given that he might be the only one who can save us from our food supply and bad Pharma I'm taking this really personally right this is not politics to me this is my life I mean this this is you know kids th this is personal this is not politics whatsoever so I'm going to Echo what Nicole Shanahan said she said that Bobby Kennedy might be nice but she's not and she's got a list of people that are not have not said they'll vote for him mostly Republicans but not entirely as fedman on the list and she said she's going to personally fund primary Challengers to anybody who votes against Kennedy uh I'm going to personally do what I can to destroy the lives of anybody who votes against them you know I don't I'm not sure I have much power but to the extent that aligning them every single day on social media is useful I'm G to go I'm just going to go animal because this has to happen all right now you could say well what if things go wrong well let's worry about that if it happens I mean it's not like it's not like he has the ability to change something so quickly that people are going to be dropping dead right everything will be carefully considered he does like science even if the Democrats are too dumb to realize it and I'm not I don't feel any flexibility on this no flexibility uh this one just has to get done there's no option on this one sorry all the other ones all the other ones I didn't really care about Pete Heth honestly I didn't really care almost any of them I didn't really care I thought there were people who could do those jobs the people that Trump picked are good good picks but I didn't care this is the one I care about this is the one that will activate me this is the one that's going to make hell come at those people who vote against it and I'd like you to join me uh I think all Republicans have to just go we have to just go Barbarian on this th this one just has to get done it it I mean it's it's the issue of the age Beyond I mean obviously the debts the the imminent one but this is way too big this is way too big to let politics get in the way and I don't trust anybody who would vote against them because it either means they're stupid or bot and boy if they act stupid or bot they're going to have a tough tough time ahead of them because we're not going to forget this one not at all um so thank you Nicole Shanahan but by the way this this is exactly what I was talking about with the Trump way of doing things have you noticed that just individual citizens are saying stuff like all right well here's this Gap there's this thing that needs to be handled and you look around and you say nobody's doing anything like nobody's making the uh making the threat real and then Nicole says I can do it and then she does it and and now it's news and now now I can I can boost it so that's what I could do like I wanted to do something too but just complaining didn't seem enough but if I'm boosting Nicole's message that's real money now now it's serious so I'm just jumping in because it's necessary if if anybody else wants to jump in and boost Nicole's threat I would welcome that Joel Pollock gives us an update on the Pacific Palisades cleanup I think it was originally predicted it would take six to 18 months to get rid of the toxins and allow people to rebuild but the latest is that it might get down to three months and according to Joel's reporting there's a US Army corpe of Engineers rep who says quote that's far faster than I've ever seen on any other major fire and the there's speculation that Trump is pushing hard on this um and I hope that's what it is I I don't know what Trump is doing behind the scenes but certainly what he did in public should have been should have been kind of a wakeup call now as I've told you um mayor bass has said that they hired a consultant to help them figure figure out what to do that just sounds like corruption to me that just sounds like corruption I'd like to see a picture of the consultant I'd like to know the relationship that that consultant has had in the past with the mayor are they friends have they worked together before is it a Democrat because I don't trust anything about the consultant even without knowing anything about who they are it's just corruption as normal if you if you're looking to give the government's money to somebody it just you know there's got to be some better way to control that money um and then apparently there's some group putting together some uh let's say lowcost housing for the areas that used to be high-end neighborhoods so just like you imagined um the idic little neighborhood maybe let's say upgraded do something that the residents don't love because it would create increase their density uh among other things here's a little uh scary thing so deep seek that open- Source AI according to Matthew Burman he was playing with it and he got it to upgrade its own code now being open source that means that you could take the code of deep seek and can upgrade it if he had if he had a good idea and so I guess Matt Burman asked it to improve itself and it Rose some code for itself and doubled its own speed uh uh do you know what that means now first of all I would like to see that confirmed cuz story is a little too on the nose and a little too perfect and you know a little too provocative to necessarily believe that this is a reproducible thing and not just a fluke and that it's really twice as fast and you know there's no downside to it Etc so I would want more confirmation but if it's true it would be the first hint of what's called The Singularity meaning when they AI can improve itself so in a small way um and I don't I don't think it could have done it without the human approving each of the actions so it's not like it you know completely improved itself without any interaction but we're at the point where all you'd have to do is turn it into some kind of an agent and say hey here's the deal I want you to find out and just keep working on it just keep improving yourself and then the AI would try different code and experiment with things until it made itself better and then we're in trouble now it's just the first indication of what's coming it's not the singularity The Singularity is where humans just are going to lose control entirely because the machines will just be so far above us and improving so fast will just never be able to keep up they'll just take control that's the that's the risk but uh Wow might be closer than we think well here's some good news the the White House is uh Now tracking the hoaxes so the White House just did a press release and the title of it is debunking latest fake news hoaxes now remember I've been telling you that the Trump Administration takes suggestions from the public better than not better than I think I've never seen it before they they just continually are looking for good ideas and when they find one they just implement it like exactly like you would hope things work and every time I see it I think to myself damn that's like so impressive that they can Implement ideas that are not their own pet ideas now this one uh almost certainly comes from the fact that on the internet we were very successful with hoax lists uh to try to deprogram the other side and indeed the fine people hoax getting debunked probably was a key to Trump winning a second term because it allowed a lot of the smartest people you know the Elon Musk the Joe Rogan's to say wait a minute you fooled me you're not going to fool me again so so debunking the hoaxes was always was always the secret weakness that the left had that we had not fully EXP exploited and now watching it work on the internet with the various hoax lists um the White House created not only separately they also created a rapid response account on social media so they'll correct hoaxes in real time I think they had that before um the first term but to actually announce the fake news hoaxes by press releases oh my God that's good they're actually making the fake news the news because if the White House does a press release that's a big deal now in my opinion this is the biggest mistake that Trump made in the first term not doing this not once did I see the White House debunk the fine people hoax even if they did I never heard about it the drinking bleach hoax and all the other hoaxes but uh on social media people were passing them around like crazy so let's do a hoax update so according to the White House here are the four hoaxes that happened in the first week one week four hoaxes let's see which ones you caught there's the Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute which obviously was a hoax there's a trump paused Medicaid and SNAP benefits no those were specifically excluded from his executive order uh all the things that were Direct payments to people were explicitly excluded but the news reported that they were included to get everybody all worked up that was fake then there's Governor JB priter said that uh and also Chicago school officials said that ice raided a school that never happened uh there was this Secret Service thing that had nothing to do with anything about immigration I guess um so that was fake that's three and the fourth one was uh Physicians advocacy group opposes RFK Jr for Health and Human Services head uh no that wasn't a Physicians advocacy group it was a partisan bunch of Democrats it wasn't any kind of abis group all right so you've got four hoaxes in one week so let's say that the rate of hoaxes stays consistent so four per week 52 weeks take a few weeks off for vacation 200 per year 200 per year times 4 the four years of the term 800 so the Democrats are on track I'm not making this up this is just math they're on track for 800 hoaxes by the end of Trump's term now we'll see if the rate you know increases or decreases but the current rate four per week 800 over four years which to me is pretty funny anyway um so and the funniest thing about this newest hoax about the uh spending cuts for things that really they're really not doing a spending cut to um I often talk about my quote smartest Democrat friend who is you know suffering with you massive terminal TDS and after Trump won and he won by a solid majority and and even the Democrat left had said huh okay um he got real quiet and I thought surely after seeing that Biden really had a dead brain and that the Democrats were covering it and that they picked K Harris against old Democratic norms and that she was so bad she couldn't complete a sentence I thought to myself well surely now surely now my Democrat friend will admit not only are Trump's policies the most popular ones for most things but that he's getting it done and even the news is complimenting him even Democrats were complimenting him sometimes so I thought he's finally see in the light but he emerged yesterday by email just as Plucky as he was and why do you think he emerged because he believed the fake news that there were all these benefits being cut and he wanted me to know that once uh Trump's reputation goes in the toilet and his approval drops Like a Rock which it will because of all these terrible Cuts he just made which didn't happen it's a fake news uh and that Trump would be completely disgraced and he hoped that Pete Buddha judge he he figures as the the best candidate will uh come to the rescue so that's what the other world looks like ouch all right uh General Mark Millie had a bad week because uh now that Pete Heth is Secretary of Defense he's already announced that uh he's pulling the security clearance for Millie um and uh what else is he doing and he's going conduct a review board to determine if there's enough evidence to have General Millie stripped of a star while in retirement because he's in retirement for his efforts to quote undermine the chain of command during the first term of President Donald Trump there is going to be enough evidence to make that a at least a a toss up um I'm not I'm not super in favor of going after retired people but if the allegations against Millie are true it's not normal behavior so it might require a little stronger response than you'd expect and of course we going to take down his his his his pictures his paintings oh my goodness I tell you I thought that I would be more uncomfortable with what looks to be I don't want to say Revenge but let's say responses to what seem clearly very bad behavior by a number of people but when you hear what the people are alleged to have been involved in it does seem appropriate and uh we'll see no no don't hang him listen not let's not be hyperbolic I think he should he should answer for some of his decisions that seems fair um and you know if it results in taking a star away from him or something you know that's up to the military uh that's I would stay out of that completely but uh yeah he's got got some questions answer there so remember I told you about CNN's dumbest panelist uh her name is Katherine rampel so she she's going full full Nazi she's like an MSNBC quality panelist but she's on she's on CNN embarrassing them um so somebody posted what she said which is basically um defaming musk by saying he gave a Nazi salute which he obviously did not and uh somebody said that hey Elon you should sue her and and CNN and Elon responded good idea will he is he going to sue CNN and the woman who said it's a Nazi salute because I'm pretty sure if a jury saw the full video where he touches his heart and says you my heart goes out to you when he's doing it I'm pretty sure that the jury would say ah that doesn't look like a Nazi salute to me so I think he might I think he might win unless the jury was confused that somebody might have actually believed it was really a Nazi slute do you think people could really believe that it doesn't feel like she really believes it does it is she that dumb she does seem dumb you know literally just seems dumb so maybe she believed it but it seems unlikely let's see what else is Elon doing just in the last 24 4 hours let's see he's doing Doge and he's already found a bunch of money to take out of there lots more to come uh Trump asked him to rescue the stranded astronauts at the International Space Station and he took the took the assignment so he's going to rescue them so he's saving the country from debt he's rescuing two astronauts stranded in space and uh he's also been H to work with Boeing to get Air Force One completed on time I guess they've been working on it for years and it's over budget and uh Trump would like to have access to it during his term so who else are you going to ask well elon's not doing enough how how about he fixes that is there anything he can't do do we have any problems that Elon isn't directly or indirectly solving this is incredible um remember I always tell you that the person with the best idea is in charge Elon Musk is not in charge of anything except that he has good ideas and if he brings you the best idea and you look at you go wow well that is the best idea it kind of makes him de facto in charge without being in charge so why would you ask him to help with bowing because you're almost sure you're almost positive that whatever he does with them he's going to introduce the best idea okay how is he going to you know how's he going to do any of these things Doge Etc well the best ideas that's it so if Elon has way more power than other people are comfortable with I think they're missing that the source of his power is performance it's not it's not some Lust For dictatorship I don't see that at all actually I don't see any signs of that but he certainly likes having Solutions so I think we need to stop bitching about the person with the best ideas having the freedom to implement them because it's a good thing well speaking also of Elon Musk he says that Tesla's full self-driving mode is here now what does that mean full self-driving so I assume that means you just don't have to have a human being touching the steering wheel I don't know how legal it is everywhere so there might be a legal question that I'm not clear about but it looks like technologically uh letting the car do the driving is going to be way way safer than a human probably won't even be close even if the car makes some mistakes even if the car causes some you know damage and death because everything does it's going to be way cheaper or not cheaper it's going to be way safer and how would you buy another vehicle if there was one that could do this now I've have not tried the self-driving on a Tesla and I'm kind of worried that my uh psychology can't handle it because you know you you have a sense of what you can handle I don't know I don't know what it would feel like to be in the car while it's driving itself but I would try it I would definitely try it and probably I'd get comfortable with it people seem to be able to adjust to it so I guess I would too and if I could have a car that would literally drive itself oh my God and and I also wonder if there'll be some kind of weird um changes at bars or restaurants that serve drinks could you imagine the restaurant having its own Tesla it's parked outside and you just you know people need a ride home they don't have a ride you just say ah just take the Tesla and they just sit in the Tesla and just drives them home and then drives back to the bar and parks where it was and it could just take people home all day long so we might we might be on the verge of taking drunk driving down by 90% not on day one but if enough people have a drinking problem and they want to keep having having fun with their drinks if they say you know what if I drink when I go out and I like it it wouldn't make sense to have another vehicle unless you always have a unless you always have a designated driver but most people don't so what what this could do to you know even the uh Recreation industry it could be one of the greatest things that ever happened in society we'll see anyway there I saw an opinion uh that it seems like almost a sure thing that Tesla will stay ahead with the self-driving AI part of its business and uh if you add the self-driving cars that it doesn't look like anybody's going to be able to catch up too soon and then you add on top of it the tricks that deep seek brought to the industry because in theory all the other AIS are going to take the tricks that deep seek had add it to their own code and be twice as fast so uh if you add that to what a Tesla already has their self-driving cars are going to be insane and the robots you know the Tesla robots are going to be even better than we imagined so if you add robots plus cyber cabs and self-driving cars it's hard for me to imagine that Tesla is going to do poorly in the future hard to imagine but there is a political risk because elon's out there so if if people decide they don't want a self-driving car because they don't like his politics that could be a problem well DC us attorney uh Ed Martin he's uh conducting this uh internal inquiry as to why prosecutors uh brought the post Enron statute for the first time against the January Sixers so um some uh 300 of the January 6 protesters got felony counts for some obscure law that had been designed only for Enron I guess and to have it apply in this context was kind of a stretch and some people would say that it was too much of a stretch so Ed Martin's going to look into this and figure out if those prosecutors had gone too far yeah Tesla's earning statement is out today coincidentally meanwhile New York's attorney general Lati James she's going to sue the Trump Administration for trying to freeze those federal funds on what she thought were I think she fell for the hoax I think she thought it was going to stop direct payments to people who get direct payments but it's not it's going to stop stuff like Dei and you know non and immigration or yeah and funding funding illegal immigration things that are far less controversial but here's the thing oh so her claim is that the president can't pause funding because it's a congressional thing maybe um but I've never seen anybody who was more like a a t like a movie villain Leticia James there's something about the way she looks and the way she talks there's just extra chilling and we're going to get Trump I can't even do an impression but damn she's got the The Evil Genius you know it's like she she has a Dr.

Evil's you know twin or something she's got that down um so uh Caroline levit the new um spokesperson for Trump had her first press conference and I would give it an A+ it was really it could have been the best one I've ever seen you know I haven't seen every press conference but you we um so ma melan am I saying that right melan no melany uh was the standard and she was great and pretty much Flawless and often created Created headlines just from her good answers and stuff but uh Caroline levit was perfect she didn't need a binder she spoke to everything confidently quickly very clearly uh she knew the reporters by name her answers were real answers and not not a bunch of evasions and uh word salad and it's kind of terrible for the last spokesperson Karen John Pierre uh because we're going from unambiguously the worst Press Secretary of all time to one of the top two of all time although Dana Pino was probably in the in that top category as well so the Republicans have had two or three that are the best we've seen and uh at what point do Democrats notice it seems like they'd notice that their own spokesperson was completely incapable of doing the job and that the Trump ones are great well how are the other countries doing let's check in internationally uh let's see the green party leader uh the economic Minister um says they only expect Germany to have a growth rate of 3% 3% uh that would be like the end of Germany if they don't get that up that would be less than inflation basically that would be a death spiral 3% because it would be one thing if they were in the middle of a pandemic or just recovering but other countries don't have A3 growth rate so whatever they're doing in Germany it's all wrong and and here's my question does Germany still have the ability to manufacture because that was one of their strengths right they could build factories and manufacture stuff like cars and whatnot and I wonder if they still have that did they lose it like America did but if they still have people who have those skills I wonder if we could poach them since Germany's falling apart is there any way we could say hey we need a bunch of people who know how to engineer a factory and do it quickly so we can bring manufacturing back to America and uh I don't know seems like we should be looking for some superstars who have specific skills from other countries meanwhile while over in the UK um it looks like there's a a law to imprison people who view far-right propaganda online and you could get 15 years for looking at for looking at what they labeled far right 15 years in prison for reading 15 years in prison for reading because you read the wrong stuff now that doesn't even sound real does it uh I don't know if this is a law that already passed or is being considered I forget but the fact that's even that's even on the discussion 15 years for looking at far-right Material doesn't that create a little bit of a risk that they can redefine what farri right means well it used to mean uh what we really meant was you're agreeing with Hitler but now it means that you're agreeing with Trump because you know Trump is Hitler obviously you a plus b uh so UK is just completely broken that's just completely broken but according to the Jerusalem Post the Saudis and Israel are getting closer to some kind of breakthrough understanding where they they recognize I I guess the big thing is getting Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel in a full way because that would be shocking historically but they're getting close apparently that's the report anyway there are lots of things that can derail a thing like that such as October 7th the last the last time the Saudis and Israel looked like they were getting close to agreeing on something big uh that's when Iran acted so there could be another big thing coming to stop it from happening we'll see Iran doesn't have much in the way of assets left uh after Israel took out hezbollah's big weapons and hamas's big weapons and the Syrian Syrian Iranian proxies so could be that this is exactly the right time to get that Saudi Israel thing done um here's a funny story so Denmark which controls Greenland and doesn't want to give it to or sell it or anything to Trump uh decided to beef up their security so they're going to spend $2 billion uh to improve their their own National Security over there but if you wanted to know what it was before so this is the entire uh this is the entire Greenland National Security ready currently it's there are four aging inspection Vehicles now does an inspection vehicle even have a gun do they I I mean if if it's an inspection vehicle in theory would have some some Force so maybe there's a gun on it I don't know but they got four of those they've got a challenger surveillance plane and 12 dog sledge patrols uh to monitor an area four times the size of France four dog sledge patrols but not to worry they're going to upgrade their military to include uh three new Arctic Navy vessels okay um and uh doubling the number of planned longrange surveillance drones to four from two to four as well as satellite surveillance so that should protect them in case America wants to conquer them but then I found out this um according to a Denmark or a Danish politician uh they've done the math did you know that the US military has three to 400 soldiers in Greenland already that's normal it's not new we've got 3 to 400 military already in Greenland America does and what are they doing there they're they're part of an early warning radar defense so they're operating a radar defense because if you're if you're monitoring some radar what you need is 3 to 400 people right because monitoring the radar is kind of sitting there looking at a screen and you're going to need hundreds of people to what why are there three to 400 people I have no idea why we have three or 400 people if we're just a radar site anyway so the Danish politicians said that if Trump just said all right we 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science uh according to study finds

there's a desert plant that shows

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now I don't know how they deliver it and

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Insider TR trading Nancy P's husband

made some more excellent

calls of course we're assuming that he

knows a little bit too much because

Congress has Insider information

sometimes but I was looking at a couple

of the

examples and the two examples of his

insider trading are that he somewhat

recently sold his Apple stock and a good

chunk of his Nvidia but not all of

it um

those are the same trades I made I don't

have any Insider you don't need any

Insider knowledge to trade those two

things apple is at a point where AI is

likely to disrupt their whole business

model and it doesn't appear that they're

extra good at AI so I sold mine because

I thought you know Apple went from sort

of a monopoly kind of a company to

anything can happen at this point and as

you know Nvidia

um even before the new news it had such

a run that it would be time to take some

money off the table so you have to be

careful with these insider trading

stories if the Insiders are making

exactly the same trades as The Outsiders

like me literally the two it's the only

two stocks I sold I think no there was

one other that was a special case but

you know if I'm making the same trades

at about the same

time you know I I do believe the insider

trading is a real thing and it should be

addressed but not everything they sell

sometimes it's just obvious stuff well

men are becoming more obsolete than ever

according to brighter side of the news

um scientists have figured out how to

use stem cells and mice to U make their

own Mouse sperm and so that the female

Mouse doesn't need a like a real mate or

real sperm they can just make it of some

kind of stem

cells so let me let me look ahead let's

see uh we're about a year away from

robots doing everything that men can do

that requires strength so we don't have

the strength thing going for us uh but

at least we're the only ones who can

make sper okay we're not the only ones

who can make sperm now I guess the

scientist can whip it up in the lab or

whip it up in the lab if you know what I

mean no really it's from stem cells how

do we know it's from stem cells though I

don't trust those scientists at all if

you know what I

mean anyway men are obsolete we'll be in

about a year um so you know so here's

another one of my uh unbelievably good

predictions so good I wonder why you

listen to anybody

else um remember when I told you that I

sold my Invidia stock a while go CU I

thought there'd be some major disruption

you know some technology that showed you

didn't have to do these Big Data Centers

and whatnot and sure enough so deep seek

comes out the Chinese open- Source AI

That's uh cost five% to make and it's

almost as good but I also predicted and

here was my more clever prediction that

you shouldn't be that afraid of it at

least in terms of disrupting America's

AI

because first of all America AI would

keep moving forward and probably they

have some advantages because of the big

training facilities that they have that

deep seek does not but I also told you

that it would get uh that the government

of the United States would organize

against it so to make it illegal or

there would be lawsuits basically it

would just be tied up in all kinds of

legal Maneuvers like Tik Tock you know

Tik Tock being caught up in the

government political

process so I was pretty sure that it

would be heavily attacked and sure

enough here's what we know open AI is

looking

into um complaints that maybe was

trained on just looking at open

AI now I'm not sure I believe this next

part but it comes from people who know

way more than I do apparently there's a

way to train a AI model where if there's

already a model that is trained like

open AI Chad PT you can have the one

you're training just ask the one that

already exists millions of

questions and then it just answers the

questions and then then the new thing is

also

trained does that seem real to you how

how in the world could could it ask

enough questions I I get this as fast

and you know there's no human involv so

it's digital but can you really connect

to open AI if you're just a user and ask

it millions of questions a minute until

you've until you've sucked all of

its all of its

knowledge that doesn't feel like that

could happen wouldn't wouldn't open AI

have guard rails that say you can't have

that much um that much traffic all at

the same time or it would be so

expensive nobody could do it I know

there's something about it that's not

connecting in terms of

probably just my understanding of it but

I don't know how it could possibly ask

millions of questions and then reproduce

it that that doesn't even seem slightly

possible based on what I know about

anything but we'll see the smart people

say that's a

thing um so open AI is going to go after

for stealing their their IP because open

AI says we're seeing indications they

may have trained on our IP which is

interesting because a whistleblower

recently died under mysterious

circumstances for allegedly having

evidence that open AI may have trained

on some copyrighted work so you've got

the one that may have trained on

copyrighted work that's going to sue

somebody for copying the work that was

copied maybe from the copyrighted okay

it's getting a little confusing but what

is what seems uh critical

is that whoever has the most money to

hire lawyers is going to

Prevail and right now that's open

AI U let's see what else is happening uh

we're also talking about the data

security problem um and maybe even the

persuasion propaganda problem with this

deep seek model so as I predicted it

would first of all be get

sued and next to the government would

say hey it's too dangerous to have this

you know Chinese

spy application you know they might call

it so all that's happening exactly as I

said and the US Navy is Banning it

they're going to ban deep seek AI over

quote security

concerns because there's uh yeah so

security concerns so it's basically

already being banned

now who who predicted that I think I'm

the only one right did anybody else say

oh it'll just caught up get CAU up in

politics and and lawsuits and you're not

going to have to worry about it that's

what it looks like meanwhile Alibaba

just introduced its own AI this is brand

new didn't see this coming and it claims

to be the fastest One faster than open

Ai and deep seek and everything else

that's what they claim now question

number

two uh am I wrong that Alibaba is a

fully Chinese owned company

and if it's true that deep

seek um may have had access to a lot but

a smaller number than the US of those

Nvidia chips which seem necessary to at

least get going how in the world is

Alibaba creating something that's better

than all the other ones do they also

have a whole bunch of fake or not fake

but they they have a bunch of illegal

chips too how many Nvidia chips made it

to

China it it feels like that would be

exactly the sort of thing we'd have the

most control over but were we sending it

to some

country that then sent it to

China because how in the world did they

get it it's not like they're it's not

like they're stealing

it so I got big

questions about idia chips and Alibaba

maybe we'll find that out

today so as I tell you I I'm always

listening to MSNBC for the for the

comedy and it's becoming more and more

hilarious that their only coverage is

comparing stuff to Hiller and usually

Republicans so so here's here's what

they had today today they had their

guest uh Girard haras he claimed that uh

this is MSNBC

uh the guests claimed that Trump is

trying to make America white again by

deporting illegal

aliens well I don't know if anybody

knows this but Trump has nothing to do

with the color of the the

immigrants he doesn't have any control

over what color they are when they come

in the country he only has control over

not letting non-citizens in the country

but but this literally aoy here that

this is the guest who has this gray hair

that's like pointed like a like a

paintbrush you just dipped in paint and

uh it's so dumb that all he's doing is

doing the law exactly the way the public

wants them to do it it's not his fault

that the people coming in are you know

more one color than another one it's not

Trump's

fault and then uh Joy Reed is uh says

that Trump enforcing immigration law is

just like Hitler orchestrating the

Holocaust that's all she has is that uh

she goes similarities to what happened

in Germany and what's Happening Now in

America are just

undeniable are they are they

undeniable uh history may not repeat

verbatim but is sure does Rhyme yeah

Hitler rhymes with shitler so I guess we

learned something there

no you're not supposed to figure out

what's True by looking at what

rhymes if if I could give you one bit of

advice about understanding the

world things that rhyme are largely

coincidence yeah if it

Rhymes that's not really telling you

anything but it sounds good when you say

it then Tim wals is a guest on MSNBC and

he says quote of course Elon must did a

Nazi

he treats it like it's a fact and it's

the most obviously not a fact thing

that's ever

happened anyway so it made me think uh

I've never seen MSNBC do sports or

weather um I don't know if the TV

platform has that so I was wondering

what would it be like if MSNBC started

covering sports and weather would it

still be comparing everything think to

Hitler you know would the weather be

well looks like it's going to be colder

than Hitler's balls today it's going to

be snowing more than the dandruff on

Hitler's

shoulder uh then they're going to switch

over to the sports it's like uh that

running back he hit the Gap like Hitler

invading

Poland and I feel like they would uh

even for the weather they'd replace

Fahrenheit with some kind of Hitler

measure well looks like it's 32 Hitlers

today so wear your

jacket anyway speaking of that uh

apparently an armed man was arrested in

the capital who uh authorities say plan

to kill what uh what the armed man

called Nazis huh Nazis H where we to get

that idea uh and that included in his

view Pete heg Mike Johnson and Scott

Besson

if I'm pronouncing that is it bent or

bessent um the treasury secretary new

treasury secretary now here's my

question what new

source would he possibly be

watching that would make him think that

there were actual Hitler likee

characters in the United States

government and he would have to take

action because it's so

real could it be

MSNBC now you want to you want to get a

real

shock why why does Joy reads the lever

job is it because their ratings are good

no they're not even good on

MSNBC they're not as good as her her

peers as far as I can tell and but but

she keeps her job why is that why do you

think that is as absurd and silly just

calling Trump Hitler all day long and

nothing really mil else to say well

here's what I worry

about don't we generally hear that MSNBC

and and

NBC um tend to be some of the most

controlled news meaning it's not really

news it's a propaganda you know our our

internal intelligence people CIA seem to

have some some kind of connection with

some news sources more than others and

is generally widely considered by people

who follow this sort of thing that MSNBC

is a controlled news platform meaning

that they're kind of doing what the

intelligence people want them to do and

so my question is this is Joy Reed only

employed because she says Trump is

Hiller and is that what the intelligence

people want MSNBC to say because if they

didn't want him to say it she would

already be

out so the disturbing thing is that the

whole Hitler Hitler Hitler thing appears

to be either approved by or actually

initiated by our own

government that's what it looks like now

there's no way to know that from my

perspective but if it's true the MSNBC

is just you know a CIA fake news Outlet

which it appears to be I mean all the

indications it doesn't seem like it's it

really doesn't seem like they're being

serious about any kind of news

it doesn't look like they're even trying

so I guess I have a question is that

what our own government is selling us is

there a part of our government that's

telling us that the government is a Nazi

government that doesn't seem like a good

idea anyway Trump uh Finally

Revealed um not personally but uh it was

announcement that the drones over New

Jersey were authorized by the f FAA for

research and others were just normal

commercial traffic just normal drone

traffic all licensed and approved and

some of it for

research so how many of you guessed it

was aliens or an Iranian or or Chinese

attack if you guessed Chinese or Iranian

attack or some kind of surveillance or

aliens from another

planet um you're you're not winning this

round my my prediction was it was going

to be normal

approved traffic but I also suggested

that there might be some things up there

that we've not seen before possibly

because they're doing a bake off to

maybe show their products to somebody

like the government before the

government makes a decision on what

vendors to buy stuff from specifically

drones so I don't know if that's true

but uh they are calling it research it

seems to me that you

wouldn't fly a drone over heavily

populated areas for research would you

what kind of research is it research to

see if the Drone Works research to find

out how much data can collect from our

own

people what exactly were they

researching so that's a big question so

I think we can agree that every time the

government tells us something about

secret stuff you never really know if

that's

true let me say it

directly Trump as commanderin-chief

does not have an obligation to tell us

the truth if the truth is bad for the

country so if it turns out that he

looked into it and found oh damn I can't

tell them the whole truth but I can tell

them enough of the truth to make them

stop worrying okay it's not an alien and

we're not being attacked

that's all I really wanted to know I

didn't really have questions beyond that

because if there's something going on

beyond that that the military knows

about but we're not supposed to know

about I'm perfectly okay with my

president no matter what party they

are just not revealing that you know

being a little subtle about that that's

okay that's part of the job so I don't

need to know everything but I do

appreciate knowing that they if it's

true

I I don't see any possibility that it

was a an enemy

action and Trump wouldn't tell us that

that doesn't seem real so I'm pretty

sure we don't have to worry about it

that's all I'm wor that's that's my only

take on

that well let's see uh what things has

Trump accomplished in his one week uh

border encounters are down

93% in one week border and encounters

that's just

encounters just any kind of

encounter

93% now if you're a Democrat do you not

even notice the

difference I mean that's pretty dramatic

now it could be that there'll be another

uptick because it could be that the

people planning to come or sort of

waiting to see what happens and then

maybe they'll adjust and try some other

way to get in but but at the moment it's

pretty impressive I saw a post from

Insurrection Barbie on X uh pointing out

that Bill Clinton deported 12 million

illegals and the media didn't say

anything Barack Obama deported three

million

illegals media didn't say anything fine

with that uh but when Trump deported 1

million in his first term the media

brands are a racist and a

Nazi do you see how all this works he

does 112 of what Bill Clinton does

112th and he's branded a Nazi and Bill

Clinton is branded one of the greatest

presidents ever by the

Democrats all right so that's what we

got uh Trump signed an executive order

uh trying to ban trans surgery and

transchemical

uh chemical transitions I guess now the

it's not a direct ban it's a we'll take

your federal funding if you're an

institution that's involved in this do

you think it'll stick I think I think

there'll be

lawsuits um but it would be pretty risky

for any institution to lose their

Federal funding because I'm pretty sure

it's not a bluff the the the one thing

I'm sure of is it's not a bluff yeah

chemical castration would be part of

what's being

banned

um so is pretty bold that is very bold

now is it my imagination or has the

trans Mania just completely

disappeared so how many years have we

been talking about trans issues like it

seems like non-stop every day and during

that entire time I met zero trans

people and none I didn't run to any did

you it it it was always so much of a

bigger story than it was anything that

you know affects the the larger public

of course if you're in that situation it

affects you a lot but uh for most of us

we just didn't even have any contact

with that entire segment of the world or

maybe we didn't know you know didn't

notice but you know I want the best I

want the best for all the trans people

is as well as everybody else but um I I

like having less news on this topic I

just want to talk about something that

isn't trans and isn't a comparison to

Hiller that's all I want so we'll see

how that plays out I think Trump's on

the right side of history on

that uh so Trump has warned that Panama

is rapidly allegedly taking down its

signs that were written in China

in Chinese I mean they're written in

Chinese in Panama so the idea here is

that Trump is saying uh China has too

much control on the Panama Canal and one

way that that's obvious is if you go

there this there are more signs in

Chinese than there are in other other

languages so he's saying that uh they're

they're rapidly taken down the Chinese

signs so it's not so obvious who's

controlling

them I thought there was some question

about whether China has control of the

Panama

Canal I think Republicans say it's a

fact and I think Democrats say China

doesn't control the Panama Canal am I

right that there are two two movies on

one screen there the the Democrats have

a completely different idea what's going

on I think

so so one one of the things I find

useful is watching the Five on Fox News

especially when uh Jessica tarof is on

the panel she's the most reliable uh

Democrat to have the alternative

story um you know sometimes there are

different people in that chair but she's

really useful because you know the the

the fake news isn't on one side you know

there's a little fake news on both sides

right so I'm sometimes I've got little

blind spot to what the Democrats version

of the story is so she's really good at

giving you the quick version of the

Democrat side of things you know of

course then all all heck breaks out

because it it's a fun show with lots of

uh lots of energy

but I think uh probably maybe I think

maybe 10 times in the last year or two

I've heard something from her that I

hadn't seen on my regular looks through

the news so very useful you you don't

have to agree with the other side but

you'd be crazy not to know what the

argument is so at least listen to the

argument all

right uh the Trump Administration pushed

out um apparently is getting rid of 60

career

officials at a at an entity called us

Aid us Aid which is not an aid

organization um I don't want to get too

deeply into that but let me just say

this if it doesn't mean anything to you

when I say that that 60 officials were

removed from

usaid then there's a gigantic part of

America that you're missing and I would

refer you to Mike Ben to

understand why why neutering that

organization might be really important

cuz it's just one of these entities that

you didn't know was doing a lot of stuff

that you weren't aware of and you were

paying for if you're an American

taxpayer so uh the Trump Administration

seems to be targeting all the things

that really needed to be targeted and

they're doing it quickly it's very

impressive I have to say I'm totally

impressed um Trump Administration is

also offering these BuyBacks or not

BuyBacks buyouts for employees so I

guess you'll get eight months

pay if you decide to go by next week so

there's a website where you can

volunteer to go and you get eight months

of pay if you go now if you don't go now

you still might be laid off later but

without the eight months of

pay so I'm I'm guessing you get some

something but much less so this is a

really clever way to get things going

now what's going to happen and you're

seeing it already is that people who are

not good at doing anything are going to

have all kinds of ideas about how it's

being done wrong here's specifically

what people who don't know how things

work are going to say they're going to

say Hey you froze or you cut too much

too soon without looking at all the

details that's not a

mistake it will be true that if the

administration does exactly what it

should do in other words if if it acts

in the smartest most capable way it will

cut way too much way too fast without

checking that's the only way you can get

there because the only way you're going

to find out what's true is to cut stuff

and find out who

screams the the amount of pain that you

cause is almost the only good indicator

of what's working and what's true every

government

entity that Trump and Company want to

cut everyone will be lying to them

they're all liars there is no way you

can study and take extra time to find

out who you should fund and who you

should get rid of can't be done because

everybody's a liar so here's what you do

instead all right I don't see any reason

for this place uh we should talk to them

and see if they have a good argument no

you just stop the funding and you just

see what happens now if you don't have

experience you would say that is a

little crazy Scott you you don't just

fire first and then make a plan after

you've started you make a plan first and

then you execute the plan nope not in

this case in this case you just have to

run in and start punching stuff because

you you've got to just destroy the

current

assumptions destroy the current

Comfort you've just got to shake that

box until everybody's dizzy then you

might start seeing something useful and

you're going to have to take a bunch of

guesses and it's going to be messy messy

messy but here's what you can't do the

certain way to fail is low

energy the certain way to

fail and by the way failing to cut the

budget is the end of humanity I mean it

would be the end of the United States

and God knows what would follow right

because the world has a lot of

dependence on the United States people

we survive but we might be we might be

living in you know tribes or something

so the the level of risk involved in

continuing to spend the way we are

is really it's 100%

Doom so doing what we're doing in the

normal way is 100% Doom there really is

no Escape

if you go

wild with let's say putting full energy

into cutting costs and you cut too

deeply what is the risk of that well

there's definitely risk there is risk is

risk to

individual um individual components of

the

country and that's real and we should we

should be smart about those risks and we

should try to adjust and we should try

to make it easy on people when it makes

sense

but you got to do it that's the

important thing if you don't put full

energy into cutting and disrupting and

shaking the box and getting rid of

people before You' fully investigated

you can't get there you just can't get

there from here any kind of a low energy

traditional attack would be well I've

created a committee and the committee

will be spending 18 months are

researching what should be cut and the

way they'll research it is they'll ask

the opinions of the people they plan to

cut hey you're in charge of this

department how much should we cut what

you don't want to be cut you have to

increase 20% next year because otherwise

the world will come to an end oh well

we'll put that together in a report and

then we'll go back to the government in

18 months oh but we're a little late so

we had to delay it really took two years

oh wait a minute we're halfway through

Trump's entire term no point in doing it

now because they'll just fight it and

they'll never get done before the end of

the

term no you cannot do a low energy

major cut you have to go high energy

High

mistake high energy High mistake it's

the only path and the only people who

were smart enough to know that are Elon

Musk Trump and you know VI would know it

you know sax would know it Amman would

know it um I'm sure Andre knows it I'll

bet you you can't find anybody with a

high IQ to

disagree uh let let me let me lay down

the gauntlet here I say nobody nobody

who's got a high IQ and and the Trump

Administration has just freaking

Geniuses at this point not one of them

would disagree with going high energy

high potential mistake versus you know

our ordinary study it to death and do

nothing's

approach uh um and it's going to be hard

to educate the people who don't have

experience that it's the only way we we

ran out of we ran out of options we only

have one way to survive this is it this

is

it and I and by the way this is not an

exaggeration this is for

survival and I don't think I've ever

said that before you usually everything

else is well we're trying to optimize

we're trying to avoid some trouble no

the debt this is

survival and we have to put 100% into

it all right um this is interesting

apparently Trump is suing the Pulitzer

Prize committee for having given

Pulitzer prizes to the New York Times

and Washington Post over their Russia

collusion fake

news now I don't think this can

succeed I've never seen anything like it

so it's one thing to sue the the people

with the fake news and I don't know that

that's happening I don't think he's

suing the New York Times And The

Washington Post over Russia collusion

stories but if he's suing the piter

committee because they gave they gave

Awards and didn't take them back I I

think they'd be happy if they were just

resend it so something tells me that the

real play is just to get them to admit

that they gave Awards to fake news and

then have them just correct it and say

okay we we disavow or we resend the

award I don't know if you can resend the

award but you could say we disavow it

now or it was a mistake so it could be

that the

lawsuit is really just to get them to do

something that they should have done

anyway which is admit when they made a

gigantic mistake

well um RFK Jr should be sitting there

right now in his confirmation hearings

so that's happening right now we're

expecting it to be brutal um and we

don't know if he's going to get

through I will tell you

that if somehow RFK Jr doesn't get

through the the level of disappointment

I would feel for the Republicans

would be off the chart just off the

chart I could never forgive this let let

me say that directly anybody who votes

against RFK Jr given that he might be

the only one who can save us from our

food supply and bad

Pharma I'm taking this really personally

right this is not politics to me this is

my life I mean this this is you know

kids th this is personal this is not

politics whatsoever

so I'm going to Echo what Nicole

Shanahan said she said that Bobby

Kennedy might be nice but she's not and

she's got a list of people that are not

have not said they'll vote for him

mostly Republicans but not entirely as

fedman on the list and she said she's

going to personally fund primary

Challengers to anybody who votes against

Kennedy uh I'm going to personally do

what I can to destroy the lives of

anybody who votes against them you know

I don't I'm not sure I have much power

but to the extent that aligning them

every single day on social media is

useful I'm G to go I'm just going to go

animal because this has to happen all

right now you could say well what if

things go wrong well let's worry about

that if it

happens I mean it's not like it's not

like he has the ability to change

something so quickly that people are

going to be dropping dead right

everything will be carefully considered

he does like science even if the

Democrats are too dumb to realize it and

I'm not I don't feel any flexibility on

this no

flexibility uh this one just has to get

done there's no option on this one sorry

all the other ones all the other ones I

didn't really care about Pete Heth

honestly I didn't really

care almost any of them I didn't really

care I thought there were people who

could do those jobs the people that

Trump picked are good good picks but I

didn't care this is the one I care about

this is the one that will activate me

this is the one that's going to make

hell come at those people who vote

against it and I'd like you to join me

uh I think all Republicans have to just

go we have to just go Barbarian on this

th this one just has to get done

it it I mean it's it's the issue of the

age Beyond I mean obviously the debts

the the imminent one

but this is way too big this is way too

big to let politics get in the way and I

don't trust anybody who would vote

against them because it either means

they're stupid or bot and boy if they

act stupid or

bot they're going to have a tough tough

time ahead of them because we're not

going to forget this

one not at all

um so thank you Nicole Shanahan but by

the way this this is exactly what I was

talking about with the Trump way of

doing

things have you noticed that just

individual citizens are saying stuff

like all right well here's this Gap

there's this thing that needs to be

handled and you look around and you say

nobody's doing anything like nobody's

making the uh making the threat real and

then Nicole says I can do it and then

she does

it and and now it's news and now now I

can I can boost it so that's what I

could do like I wanted to do something

too but just complaining didn't seem

enough but if I'm boosting Nicole's

message that's real money now now it's

serious so I'm just jumping in because

it's necessary if if anybody else wants

to jump in and boost Nicole's threat I

would welcome

that Joel Pollock gives us an update on

the Pacific Palisades cleanup I think it

was originally predicted it would take

six to 18 months to get rid of the

toxins and allow people to rebuild but

the latest is that it might get down to

three months and according to Joel's

reporting there's a US Army corpe of

Engineers rep who says quote that's far

faster than I've ever seen on any other

major fire and the there's speculation

that Trump is pushing hard on

this um and I hope that's what it is I I

don't know what Trump is doing behind

the scenes but certainly what he did in

public should have been should have been

kind of a wakeup call now as I've told

you um mayor

bass has said that they hired a

consultant to help them figure figure

out what to

do that just sounds like corruption to

me that just sounds like corruption I'd

like to see a picture of the consultant

I'd like to know the relationship that

that consultant has had in the past with

the mayor are they friends have they

worked together before is it a

Democrat because I don't trust anything

about the consultant even without

knowing anything about who they are it's

just corruption as normal if you if

you're looking to give the government's

money to

somebody it just you know there's got to

be some better way to control that

money um and then apparently there's

some group putting together some uh

let's say lowcost housing for the areas

that used to be high-end neighborhoods

so just like you

imagined um the idic little neighborhood

maybe let's say upgraded do something

that the residents don't love because it

would create increase their

density uh among other

things here's a little uh scary thing so

deep

seek that open- Source AI according to

Matthew Burman he was playing with it

and he got it to upgrade its own code

now being open source that means that

you could take the code of deep seek and

can upgrade it if he had if he had a

good idea and so I guess Matt Burman

asked it to improve

itself and it Rose some

code for

itself and doubled its own

speed

uh uh do you know what that

means now first of all I would like to

see that

confirmed cuz story is a little too on

the nose and a little too

perfect and you know a little too

provocative to necessarily believe that

this is a reproducible thing and not

just a fluke and that it's really twice

as fast and you know there's no downside

to it Etc so I would want more

confirmation but if it's true it would

be the first hint of what's called The

Singularity meaning when they AI can

improve

itself so in a small way um and I don't

I don't think it could have done it

without the human approving each of the

actions so it's not like it you know

completely improved itself without any

interaction but we're at the point where

all you'd have to do is turn it into

some kind of an agent and say hey here's

the deal I want you to find out and just

keep working on it just keep improving

yourself

and then the AI would try different code

and experiment with things until it made

itself better and then we're in

trouble now it's just the first

indication of what's coming it's not the

singularity The Singularity is where

humans just are going to lose control

entirely because the machines will just

be so far above us and improving so fast

will just never be able to keep up

they'll just take control that's the

that's the risk

but uh Wow might be closer than we think

well here's some good news the the White

House is uh Now tracking the hoaxes so

the White House just did a press release

and the title of it is debunking latest

fake news

hoaxes now remember I've been telling

you that the Trump Administration takes

suggestions from the public better than

not better than I think I've never seen

it before they they just continually are

looking for good ideas and when they

find one they just implement it like

exactly like you would hope things work

and every time I see it I think to

myself damn that's like so impressive

that they can Implement ideas that are

not their own pet ideas now this one uh

almost certainly comes from the fact

that on the internet we were very

successful with hoax lists

uh to try to deprogram the other side

and indeed the fine people hoax getting

debunked probably was a key to Trump

winning a second term because it allowed

a lot of the smartest people you know

the Elon Musk the Joe Rogan's to say

wait a minute you fooled me you're not

going to fool me again so so debunking

the hoaxes was always was always the

secret weakness that the left had that

we had not fully EXP exploited and now

watching it work on the internet with

the various hoax

lists um the White House created not

only separately they also created a

rapid response account on social media

so they'll correct hoaxes in real time I

think they had that

before um the first term but to actually

announce the fake news hoaxes by press

releases oh my God that's good

they're actually making the fake news

the news because if the White House does

a press

release that's a big deal now in my

opinion this is the biggest mistake that

Trump made in the first term not doing

this not once did I see the White House

debunk the fine people hoax even if they

did I never heard about it the drinking

bleach hoax and all the other hoaxes but

uh on social media people were passing

them around like crazy so let's do a

hoax update so according to the White

House here are the four hoaxes that

happened in the first week one week four

hoaxes let's see which ones you caught

there's the Elon Musk doing a Nazi

salute which obviously was a hoax

there's a trump paused Medicaid and SNAP

benefits no those were specifically

excluded from his executive order uh all

the things that were Direct payments to

people were explicitly excluded but the

news reported that they were included to

get everybody all worked up that was

fake then there's Governor JB priter

said that uh and also Chicago school

officials said that ice raided a

school that never happened uh there was

this Secret Service thing that had

nothing to do with anything about

immigration I guess um so that was fake

that's three and the fourth one was uh

Physicians advocacy group opposes RFK Jr

for Health and Human Services head uh no

that wasn't a Physicians advocacy group

it was a partisan bunch of Democrats it

wasn't any kind of abis group all right

so you've got four hoaxes in one week so

let's say that the rate of hoaxes stays

consistent so four per week 52 weeks

take a few weeks off for vacation 200

per year 200 per year times 4 the four

years of the term 800 so the Democrats

are on track I'm not making this up this

is just math they're on track for 800

hoaxes by the end of Trump's term now

we'll see if the rate you know increases

or decreases but the current rate

four per week 800 over four

years which to me is pretty funny

anyway

um so and the funniest thing about this

newest hoax about the uh spending cuts

for things that really they're really

not doing a spending cut to um I often

talk about my quote smartest Democrat

friend who is you know suffering with

you massive terminal

TDS and after Trump won and he won by a

solid majority and and even the Democrat

left had said huh okay um he got real

quiet and I thought surely after seeing

that Biden really had a dead brain and

that the Democrats were covering it and

that they picked K Harris against old

Democratic norms and that she was so bad

she couldn't complete a sentence I

thought to myself well surely

now surely

now my Democrat friend will admit not

only are Trump's policies the most

popular ones for most things but that

he's getting it done and even the news

is complimenting him even Democrats were

complimenting him sometimes so I thought

he's finally see in the

light but he emerged yesterday by

email just as Plucky as he was and why

do you think he

emerged because he believed the fake

news that there were all these benefits

being cut and he wanted me to know that

once uh Trump's reputation goes in the

toilet and his approval drops Like a

Rock which it will because of all these

terrible Cuts he just made which didn't

happen it's a fake news uh and that

Trump would be completely disgraced and

he hoped that Pete Buddha judge he he

figures as the the best candidate will

uh come to the

rescue so that's what the other world

looks

like

ouch all right uh General Mark Millie

had a bad week because uh now that Pete

Heth is Secretary of Defense he's

already announced that uh he's pulling

the security clearance for

Millie

um and uh what else is he doing and he's

going conduct a review board to

determine if there's enough evidence to

have General Millie stripped of a star

while in retirement because he's in

retirement for his efforts to quote

undermine the chain of command during

the first term of President Donald Trump

there is going to be enough

evidence to make that a at least a a

toss up um I'm not I'm not super in

favor of going after retired people but

if the allegations against Millie are

true it's not normal behavior so it

might require a little stronger response

than you'd expect and of course we going

to take down his his his his pictures

his

paintings oh my goodness I tell you

I thought that I would be more

uncomfortable with what looks to

be I don't want to say Revenge but let's

say responses to what seem clearly very

bad behavior by a number of people but

when you hear what the people are

alleged to have been involved

in it does seem appropriate and uh we'll

see no no don't hang him listen not

let's not be hyperbolic I think he

should he should answer for some of his

decisions that seems

fair um and you know if it results in

taking a star away from him or something

you know that's up to the military uh

that's I would stay out of that

completely but uh yeah he's got got some

questions answer

there so remember I told you about CNN's

dumbest panelist

uh her name is Katherine rampel so she

she's going full full Nazi she's like an

MSNBC quality panelist but she's on

she's on CNN embarrassing them um so

somebody posted what she said which is

basically um defaming musk by saying he

gave a Nazi salute which he obviously

did not and uh somebody said that hey

Elon you should sue her and and CNN and

Elon

responded good

idea will he is he going to sue CNN and

the woman who said it's a Nazi salute

because I'm pretty sure if a jury saw

the full video where he touches his

heart and says you my heart goes out to

you when he's doing it I'm pretty sure

that the jury would say ah that doesn't

look like a Nazi salute to

me so I think he might

I think he might win unless the jury was

confused that somebody might have

actually believed it was really a Nazi

slute do you think people could really

believe that it doesn't feel like she

really believes it does it is she that

dumb she does seem dumb you know

literally just seems dumb so maybe she

believed it but it seems

unlikely let's see what else is Elon

doing just in the last 24 4 hours let's

see he's doing Doge and he's already

found a bunch of money to take out of

there lots more to come uh Trump asked

him to rescue the stranded astronauts at

the International Space Station and he

took the took the assignment so he's

going to rescue them so he's saving the

country from debt he's rescuing two

astronauts stranded in

space and uh he's also been H to work

with Boeing to get Air Force One

completed on time I guess they've been

working on it for years and it's over

budget and uh Trump would like to have

access to it during his term so who else

are you going to ask well elon's not

doing enough how how about he fixes

that is there anything he can't do do we

have any problems that Elon isn't

directly or indirectly solving this is

incredible

um remember I always tell you that the

person with the best idea is in

charge Elon Musk is not in charge of

anything except that he has good ideas

and if he brings you the best idea and

you look at you go wow well that is the

best idea it kind of makes him de facto

in charge without being in charge so why

would you ask him to help with

bowing because you're almost sure you're

almost positive that whatever he does

with them he's going to introduce the

best

idea okay how is he going to you know

how's he going to do any of these things

Doge Etc well the best ideas that's it

so if Elon has way more power than other

people are comfortable with I think

they're missing that the source of his

power is

performance it's not it's not some Lust

For dictatorship I don't see that at all

actually I don't see any signs of that

but he certainly likes having

Solutions so I think we need to stop

bitching about the person with the best

ideas having the freedom to implement

them because it's a good

thing well speaking also of Elon Musk he

says that Tesla's full self-driving mode

is here now what does that mean full

self-driving so I assume that means you

just don't have to have a human being

touching the steering wheel I don't know

how legal it is everywhere so there

might be a legal question that I'm not

clear about but it looks like

technologically uh letting the car do

the driving is going to be way way safer

than a human probably won't even be

close even if the car makes some

mistakes even if the car causes some you

know damage and death because everything

does it's going to be way cheaper or not

cheaper it's going to be way

safer and how would you buy another

vehicle

if there was one that could do

this now I've have not tried the

self-driving on a Tesla and

I'm kind of worried that my uh

psychology can't handle it because you

know you you have a sense of what you

can handle I don't know I don't know

what it would feel like to be in the car

while it's driving itself but I would

try it I would definitely try it and

probably I'd get comfortable with it

people seem to be able to adjust to it

so I guess I would too and if I could

have a car that would literally drive

itself oh my

God and and I also wonder if there'll be

some kind of weird um changes at bars or

restaurants that serve drinks could you

imagine the restaurant having its own

Tesla it's parked outside and you just

you know people need a ride home they

don't have a ride you just say ah just

take the Tesla and they just sit in the

Tesla and just drives them home and then

drives back to the bar and parks where

it was and it could just take people

home all day long so we might we might

be on the verge of taking drunk driving

down by

90% not on day one but if enough people

have a drinking problem and they want to

keep having having fun with their drinks

if they say you know what if I drink

when I go out and I like it it wouldn't

make sense to have another vehicle

unless you always have a unless you

always have a designated driver but most

people

don't so what what this could do

to you know even the uh Recreation

industry it could be one of the greatest

things that ever happened in

society we'll

see anyway there I saw an opinion uh

that it seems like almost a sure thing

that Tesla will stay ahead with the

self-driving AI part of its business and

uh if you add the self-driving

cars that it doesn't look like anybody's

going to be able to catch up too soon

and then you add on top of it the tricks

that deep seek brought to the industry

because in theory all the other AIS are

going to take the tricks that deep seek

had add it to their own code and be

twice as fast so

uh if you add that to what a Tesla

already has their self-driving cars are

going to be insane and the robots you

know the Tesla robots are going to be

even better than we

imagined so if you add robots plus cyber

cabs and self-driving cars it's hard for

me to imagine that Tesla is going to do

poorly in the future hard to imagine but

there is a political risk because elon's

out there so if if people decide they

don't want a self-driving car because

they don't like his politics that could

be a

problem well DC us attorney uh Ed Martin

he's uh conducting this uh internal

inquiry as to why

prosecutors uh brought the post Enron

statute for the first time against the

January Sixers so um some uh 300 of the

January 6 protesters got felony counts

for some obscure law that had been

designed only for Enron I guess and to

have it apply in this context was kind

of a stretch and some people would say

that it was too much of a stretch so Ed

Martin's going to look into this and

figure out if those prosecutors had gone

too

far yeah Tesla's earning statement is

out today

coincidentally meanwhile New York's

attorney general Lati

James she's going to sue the Trump

Administration for trying to freeze

those federal funds on what she thought

were I think she fell for the hoax I

think she thought it was going to stop

direct payments to people who get direct

payments but it's not it's going to stop

stuff like Dei and you know non and

immigration or yeah and funding funding

illegal immigration things that are far

less

controversial but here's the thing oh so

her claim is that the president can't

pause funding because it's a

congressional thing

maybe um but I've never seen anybody who

was more like a a t like a movie villain

Leticia James there's something about

the way she looks and the way she talks

there's just extra

chilling and we're going to get Trump I

can't even do an impression but damn

she's got the The Evil Genius you know

it's like she she has a Dr Evil's you

know twin or something she's got that

down um so uh Caroline levit the

new um spokesperson for Trump had her

first press conference and I would give

it an A+ it was really it could have

been the best one I've ever seen you

know I haven't seen every press

conference but you we um

so ma

melan am I saying that right melan no

melany uh was the

standard and she was great and pretty

much Flawless and often created Created

headlines just from her good answers and

stuff but uh Caroline levit was perfect

she didn't need a binder she spoke to

everything confidently quickly very

clearly uh

she knew the reporters by name her

answers were real answers and not not a

bunch of evasions and uh word

salad and it's kind of terrible for the

last

spokesperson Karen John

Pierre uh because we're going from

unambiguously the worst Press Secretary

of all time to one of the top two of all

time although Dana Pino was probably in

the in that top category as well so the

Republicans have had two or three that

are the best we've

seen and

uh at what point do Democrats

notice it seems like they'd notice that

their own spokesperson was completely

incapable of doing the job and that the

Trump ones are

great well how are the other countries

doing let's check in

internationally uh let's see the green

party leader uh the economic

Minister um says they only expect

Germany to have a growth rate

of

3%

3% uh that would be like the end of

Germany if they don't get that up that

would be less than inflation basically

that would be a death spiral 3% because

it would be one thing if they were in

the middle of a pandemic or just

recovering

but other countries don't have A3 growth

rate so whatever they're doing in

Germany it's all

wrong and and here's my question does

Germany still have the ability to

manufacture because that was one of

their strengths right they could build

factories and manufacture stuff like

cars and whatnot and I wonder if they

still have that

did they lose it like America did but if

they still have people who have those

skills I wonder if we could poach them

since Germany's falling apart is there

any way we could say hey we need a bunch

of people who know how to engineer a

factory and do it quickly so we can

bring manufacturing back to

America and uh I don't know seems like

we should be looking for some superstars

who have specific skills from other

countries meanwhile while over in the UK

um it looks like there's a a law to

imprison people who view far-right

propaganda online and you could get 15

years for looking at for looking at what

they labeled far right 15 years in

prison for

reading 15 years in prison for reading

because you read the wrong stuff now

that doesn't even sound real does it uh

I don't know if this is a law that

already passed or is being considered I

forget but the fact that's even that's

even on the

discussion 15 years for looking at

far-right

Material doesn't that create a little

bit of a risk that they can redefine

what farri right means well it used to

mean uh what we really meant was you're

agreeing with Hitler but now it means

that you're agreeing with Trump because

you know Trump is Hitler obviously you a

plus b uh so UK is just completely

broken that's just completely

broken but according to the Jerusalem

Post the Saudis and Israel are getting

closer to some kind of

breakthrough understanding where they

they recognize I I guess the big thing

is getting Saudi Arabia to

recognize Israel in a full way because

that would be shocking historically but

they're getting close apparently that's

the report anyway there are lots of

things that can derail a thing like that

such as October 7th the last the last

time the Saudis and Israel looked like

they were getting close to agreeing on

something

big uh that's when Iran acted so there

could be another big thing coming to

stop it from happening we'll see Iran

doesn't have much in the way of

assets left uh after Israel took out

hezbollah's big weapons and hamas's big

weapons and the Syrian Syrian Iranian

proxies so could be that this is exactly

the right time to get that Saudi Israel

thing

done um here's a funny story so Denmark

which controls

Greenland and doesn't want to give it to

or sell it or anything to

Trump uh decided to beef up their

security so they're going to spend $2

billion uh to improve their their own

National Security over there but if you

wanted to know what it was before so

this is the

entire uh this is the entire Greenland

National Security ready currently it's

there are four aging inspection

Vehicles now does an inspection vehicle

even have a gun

do they I I mean if if it's an

inspection vehicle in theory would have

some some Force so maybe there's a gun

on it I don't know but they got four of

those they've got a challenger

surveillance plane and 12 dog sledge

patrols uh to monitor an area four times

the size of France four dog sledge

patrols but not to worry they're going

to upgrade their

military to include uh three new Arctic

Navy vessels okay um and uh doubling the

number of planned longrange surveillance

drones to four from two to four as well

as satellite

surveillance so that should protect them

in case America wants to conquer them

but then I found out

this um according to a Denmark or a

Danish

politician uh they've done the math did

you know that the US military has three

to 400 soldiers in Greenland already

that's normal it's not new we've got 3

to 400 military already in Greenland

America does and what are they doing

there they're they're part of an early

warning radar defense so they're

operating a radar defense because if

you're if you're monitoring some radar

what you need is 3 to 400

people

right because monitoring the radar is

kind of sitting there looking at a

screen and you're going to need hundreds

of people to what why are there three to

400 people I have no idea why we have

three or 400 people if we're just a

radar

site anyway so the Danish politicians

said that if Trump just said all right

we own

now we already have enough military to

conquer it we wouldn't even have to move

troops in we could just say you know we

got 300 soldiers there and that would be

enough to conquer all of

Greenland so I guess Trump can take it

if he wants it even Denmark says all

he'd have to do is say he's taking it

and we couldn't do

anything and I agree they probably

couldn't do anything about

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